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Is this for the entirety of Europe? Because I imagine we're not having any issues with this in Finland.
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Just to add another anecdote to yours, I've had none of your 'countless problems'. The W10 machine that I'm typing this on hasn't been rebooted in 8-9 months (bribed IT into putting my box in a no-update GPO :D). Its been nothing but rock stable for me. Heck, until a month ago, I was using a old sony W7 laptop with the original W7 installed from 2011 and it was just as performant as it was on day 1.

I believe you, but I don't know what you're doing that makes it so unstable. Or maybe I'm just a bit more OCD than others. I am extremely selective about kernel-mode components and what I install on my machine.
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Yea I was thinking that there is some sort of parallel to datacenters, where it's lowest latency to route everyone to their closest DC but in practice people usually route a certain percentage of traffic to standby datacenters which are farther away to make sure they're still working.

You lose some efficiency but gain in resilience. Nowadays big internet companies have all sorts of Disaster Recovery plans.
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SQL has hideous security issues with SQL injection using strings, and ActiveRecord avoids that, so SQL is bad and ActiveRecord is good. My statement is just as true and just as disingenuous as Cal’s article.

> in real life there exist real applications using ORMs that have or cause these problems even where the ORMs in question provide modern query facilities that don't suck

And surely you have also seen plenty of equivalent examples of bad code written using SQL?

Cal is attacking an imaginary ActiveRecord pattern, while ignoring the features of the most famous implementation (RoR), and ignoring the benefits of ActiveRecord. Dumb.
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I had to stop reading after the insinuation that Hacker News comment sections are filled with trash. To the contrary, I find that half of the time the comments sections are more thoughtful and enlightening than the article posted. Very regularly I read the comments first to see if the post is worth diving into.
https://dev.to/viveknayyar/fixing-security-vulnerabilities-i...
2048, or 2400?
Does anyone know if something like this graph exists for the US? I tried googling for one but I’m not sure of the right search terms to use.
This question turned up a few hours ago over here [0]. Apparently some ISPs are perversely hostile to peering.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22627764
Thank you for the write-up! It's a little depressing (but not entirely surprising) to hear that you couldn't get folks excited about safety -- I work in the aerospace field, and our day-to-day is all about risk management: how, why, when. It's frustrating that high-reliability systems aren't seen as exciting when really they're what makes the magic run.

Best of luck, and I'm looking forward to your next venture!
Pretty sure they will have a clause in their TOS agreement to the terms of "we cannot control your ISPs network quality, or regulations placed upon us"
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You should not knock Netflix at all. The request came from the European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services. Netflix helped out when they were asked to. If Europeans are upset about this decision they need to take it up with their elected officials not Netflix.
There are too many problems with the AV industry to detail here: the professorial pace at which most teams work, the lack of tangible deployment milestones, the open secret that there isn’t a robotaxi business model, etc.

Just curious, why would there not be a business model for robotaxis?
And easier for Sony to make a cooling system for.
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I would love to see this too. Anecdotally I have certainly been noticing a difference in the general behavior of the internet recently that I can only attribute to the sudden stress on the network.
> Don’t get me wrong, the Switch is great, but it’s very boring on the inside.

That's been their strategy almost every console generation since the NES—that was a 8-bit console when 16-bit processors were common. I think maybe the N64 had some exciting hardware on the inside (at the time), but that's pretty much it. They look for excitement in the controller.
>Legacy "system calls" provided by a VDSO or ntdll.dll-like mechanism are just tiny regular functions with no special security or performance implications.

Are you saying that wrapper code implementing an old interface by wrapping around a new interface is easier to do correctly in userspace than in the kernel itself?

I think I need you to be more concrete in pointing to a specific performance penalty or avoidable maintenance burden.
Europeans seem pretty proud of their Internet, at least relative to the US, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22631036
And for further clarification, you won't see much Netflix traffic there because the big ISPs have Netflix caches within their infrastructure.
Sorry for the crosspost here, and I'll delete it if you think it is inappropriate, dang, but -

To any scientists - an anti-malarial is found to be effective against coronavirus. At the same time, initial reports are suggesting that people with type O blood have a reduced risk of infection and lower infection severity than those with other blood types. The same pattern also holds true for malaria, with type O blood having a protective and suppressive effect. If the coronavirus is getting into cells via the ACE2 receptor, why would we expect any of this other stuff to be effective? Why is an anti-parasitic working to reduce viral load? Why is the same blood type protective of both? What common mechanism of action or attack (perhaps hitching a ride on blood cells to spread through the body?) are we missing?
Seems legit, although that should probably be the OSes job to overlay that
Many people on this and similar threads rightly question whether results received with the help of a closed source software are reproducible. I think it's a fair question, but these discussions often miss a couple of important points.

First, there is a question of theoretical vs. practical reproducibility: true, in _theory_, an open-source codebase with many millions of lines of code of highly complex transformation can be checked for accuracy by anyone. In _practice_, only very few insiders will have both technical understanding and time to verify the correctness of this or that algorithm, and everyone else would need to rely on their expertise. That situation is no different from using a proprietary system if we trust their authors.

Second, while it might be shocking for someone, most of the science, outside of maybe math, it's not _practically_ reproducible. Most of the articles are behind paywalls, don't have enough data to replicate their results (even economists much more often than not won't include their raw data or algorithms or both). Also, no one who is trying to build a scientific career would try to replicate someone else's results, especially if it requires some costly equipment, reagents, etc. - the rewards in the scientific community are for novel results. Replication crisis[1] describes this pretty well.

Most of the software that runs LHC at CERN is probably not inspectable by a regular Joe the physicist, yet somehow the physicist community somehow trusts their results, etc.

In summary, while an open-source software of Mathematica quality would be awesome in theory, I highly doubt it would be practical for a long time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
Personally, I find the mixes of class names like with Tailwind really confusing and need to keep looking it up when using it. Doesn't really make things easier imho
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Moving from Sweden to the US (Florida) I can't say I've noticed much of a difference in connectivity. 100, 200, 300 & 1000MBps is readily available in both places but usually around at 3x the price in the US.

Rural America seems to be an entirely different story.
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I'm rather sad that for example Battery API is deprecated... possibly might need a browser-wide toggle, but still...
It can both be cool, and useful....mostly cool, though...
you could have a complete web desktop (there several web desktops, and even more "fake" ones, like windows93) that shows the status, or a webpage that switches to dark mode with minimal javascript and theming, when battery is low, or a low distraction writing environment for example, that still notifies you of low battery, etc...
more and more people are using battery-powered devices ;)
This sucks. If bandwidth were metered, the market would ration is appropriately. Generally speaking, anything "free" or "unlimited" gets misallocated. When you put a price on something, it gets better.
I don't quite understand what the paid version provides over the free version. You need Slack to use Hallway, so why would one want to use Hallway's video chat over Slack's built-in one?
Does it scare anyone that the North / Fast setting for the USA puts the death count at ~1/2 reality for the past few days? Does this indicate that it spread faster than fast?

This is going to be really really bad isn't it?
It matters if userspace and the kernel are developed by separate teams, as is the case with Linux. If you break the kernel interface but have a library with a stable interface then you can't support static linking (which fell out of favor for a decade but is now back in style).
> It's not like netflix 4k looks good anyway

I can definitely see a difference between 1080 and 4K on Netflix. Compared on the same internet connection and streaming device in the same house. One 1080 tv and one 4K tv.
> (modified?)

By now, iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches boot XNU proper (meaning their kernel is no longer compiled from a fork but from the proper XNU code base).
It’s still a modified kernel in a broader sense: platform-and architecture-dependent modules, ifdefs, a different set of kernel modules, exclusive/missing system calls and other extraneous/missing features (e. g. no kext loading infrastructure).
Certificates of Need were something _hospitals_ themselves lobbied for. It's a case of "this is awesome when it protects me, and an aberration when I'm on the losing end".

Certainly politicians enacted such things, but I'm not losing sleep over the hospitals. Only us mortals, stuck with the cost of the system.
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I consider both Andy Grove and Steve Jobs as the greatest CEO ever lived in Silicon Valley. ( Sorry it is hard to pick just one between the two )

Current Generation are Patrick Gelsinger ( VMware ), Jensen Huang ( Nvidia ). Satya Nadella ( Microsoft ) and Lisa Su ( AMD ) are two possible candidate but I think it is still too early to tell.

Sometimes if I think if I did't set the bar so high for Apple, Tim Cook would be on the list as well. But their doing on Mac still leaves a bad taste in my mouth so I am not quite over with it yet.

What other Great CEO are there in Silicon Valley's history?

Edit: Looking at this list just now makes me realise all the CEO I considered as great are product CEO. Which sort of got me thinking as to why I don like Tim Cook as much, he is simply not a product person.
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Thanks for taking the time to respond and add relevant personal experience to the discussion.

> handling nuclear reactors and nuclear materials, and the US Navy is the only service that does that

That's not entirely true. I'd be willing to bet the Navy has the most experience in this regard, the Army still runs reactors and the Air Force handles nuclear material. Both investigating implementing reactors in future plans:

"Fast Burst Reactor (FBR) — The FBR is an unmoderated and unreflected cylindrical assembly of uranium and molybdenum alloy. The FBR produces high-yield pulses of microsecond width, as well as long-term, steady state radiation, to closely simulate the neutron radiation environment produced by a fission weapon"[1]

"The Defense Department is looking to develop miniature nuclear reactors to supply power to domestic military bases in an emergency, and later to power expeditionary forces"[2]

The other services are also heavily involved in National Laboratories that do a lot of the nuclear research for the federal government.

>the total harm done by all such incidents involving radioactive materials is orders of magnitude less than the total harm done by releases of materials connected with fossil fuels

Point noted and I don't know enough to disagree. But the issue wasn't which form of energy was the most safe, it was whether the military is inherently better at managing such systems because of their organizational structure. The military may foster accountability but I don't personally think this is attributable to a chain of command, but rather due to the emphasis on leadership principles and mature processes. There's plenty of civilian organizations that have a well-structured chain of command.

>I think the primary factor is simple unwillingness to tolerate any deviation from proper procedures. The existence of a military chain of command might not be essential for that, but it certainly makes it a lot easier.

Agree 100%. Out of curiosity was that officer actually fired (discharged/loss of commission) or reassigned? Reassignment is pretty common on the civilian side when people show themselves incapable of executing duties appropriately.

[1] https://www.wsmr.army.mil/testcenter/dir/Pages/Survivability...

[2] https://www.airforcemag.com/pentagon-working-on-mini-nuclear...
How does this differ from a pigeonhole sort?
The disk distributed with that book was linux universe. For me, it was the first easy to use linux distribution.
It would be pretty easy to prove the absence of other mistakes here by simply providing a public list of all repositories affected by sanctions flags. If the number is, say, thousands, then it's almost certain this is a deeply automated process and there are other errors. If it's, say, 10, then this is probably a human-driven process.
Such a scenario is worth considering. However, it is definitely in the "worst case" category. Maybe the second worst behind a full-on plague killing tens of millions.

That scenario implies no significant advance, except for the suggestion of a vaccine early in the article. But while a vaccine is the ultimate solution, there are may stopgap measures that can allow for reduction in the rate of transmission without extreme social distancing.

As we better understand the disease, we will be able to target its weak points more effectively. It can include faster diagnosis to better isolate contagious people. Antiviral drugs (hydrochloroquine looks promising now), more targeted measures, ramping up production of protective equipment, etc...

The only purpose of today's quarantines are to reduce the rate of infection, hopefully below 1. The more solutions we have to reduce that number, the less drastic we need to be.

South Korea have shown us that widespread testing is effective when you have the technology to do so. And if South Korea have it, why shouldn't the rest of the world be able to do it?
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I'm not sure what those hiring practices have to do with the legally-mandated sanctions being referenced.
FCC is handing out extra radio spectrum as fast as it can. Took a bunch of white space channels gave them to TMobile. Letting some stay on 3.5ghz little longer before selling it off.
Netflix does but it is not that big size wise. It downloads current hot content. With COVID-19 a lot of long tail is now being consumed, not enough to push it onto the cache boxes but enough to strain the interconnects. When Altered Carbon 2 is released, it will be on the Netflix box because a good number of people at the edge would be requesting it. On the other hand some independent flick won't be on it because there are only a few devices requesting it at the same time.

Google used to have some search appliances, which they gave to ISPs. It is not the same thing.

Apple used to use Akamai for distribution of content because of racks that Akamai had in lots of edge networks. I do not know if they are still using it but I expect they do. Akamai has an enormous foot print.
My advice is to find a good book that teaches the fundamentals. I'm currently reading "Power Programming with Mathematica: The Kernel" by David B. Wagner. It was published in 1996 and covers then-new version 3, but boy is it good (and still very relevant!).

A scanned PDF was made available for free with the permission of the publisher: https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/16485/are-yo...
It was not: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-19/trump-tou...
i work on hydro electric power stations and often see drawings showing the 50, 100, 500, 1000 year flood water levels at some structure such as the powerhouse or intake. The civil engineers design the plant to withstand the 500 year flood. I've personally seen the 100 year flood level occur at about 7 different projects, and I only work on site at 1 project per year generally.
It's so weird having one k post a day, like clockwork.
> Consoles don't really make sense as a concept anymore. The only remaining appeal is their DRM capability for publishers.

As someone who prefers console gaming to computer gaming (for the most part), I have to disagree. I like that the console is hooked up to my gigantic TV instead of my less gigantic computer monitor. I like that it uses controllers instead of mouse and keyboard (the same things I'm using all day at work). I like that my console is in a different room from my computer. I like that it's more conducive to playing a game with (local) friends, since they can just sit down on the couch and turn on another controller. I like that I don't have to worry about what graphics card my console has, or worry about a game not working well with that graphics card. I like that it's simply not my computer.

Yes, I know that you can hook a computer up to a TV, and you can use controllers with your computer, and not all of these apply to everyone, and so on and so on. There's still a difference, and I like that difference.
It’s extremely expensive to grow bananas’s in Canada, so the correct response is to import them not add a huge subsidy. The point is to encourage domestic production, but not to the point of stupidity.

Further, unlike a direct subsidy it’s adding tax revenue.
Makes you think, how much further we could stretch things if we were all using the Nims/C/C++ of the world instead of the Ruby's.

Please don't immediately flame, I'm just saying objectively, we could stretch hardware out much further. What do you guys think about this?
You can build a gaming PC in the same form factor as the new xbox using nothing but off the shelf components and have a separate device that can play a larger gamut of games on higher settings.

I'm not sure how anyone can dispute that the new xbox and play station are anything other than slightly customised branded PC builds that offer no physical advantages over the real thing, only marketing ones like DRM and exclusive releases.
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My stash of BluRay rips are still working at full quality as well.
Yea, there's a real lack of information in Github's response. I hope we get something more complete.

But really, if your project is mature enough and you have the bandwidth, just host it yourself. Gogs, Gitlab, cgit .. lots of FOSS implementations to choose from.
15M down / 768k up checking in from rural america. I have to stop my camera on video conferences if i want to talk.
It got fixed quickly because of the very high profile nature of the project. What happens when it's one of our projects, and we aren't some bigwig at Github's parent company to complain?
Thanks! We are excited about all the cool applications people will think of for this
For point 1, it can if you want it to. https://wiki.qt.io/SUBDIRS_-_handling_dependencies#Defining_...

I have qt kits to build for 4 different platforms and 3 different build toolchains. It was very easy to set up, and flipping between kits either in creator or in a terminal takes mere seconds.

I have never experienced your 3rd point.
That algo is fast as hell, that much is true.

I have not made SIMD optimizations, which djbsort includes, and skylinesort does not require pre-computing the merging network, or padding the array to that size. This works great for crypto where array sizes are known ahead of time and generally always the same, but not all use cases are like this.
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Why would they? Do they pay you back when your ISP can't provide enough bandwidth for 4K? How much is 4K on top of regular Netflix service? Is it worth worrying about?
I can't test right now, but there's a torrent at https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdams-Hyperland

Maybe it's quality is better.
It's almost like we shouldn't have tortured a document transfer system until it was able to run full-on applications.
It is expressly prohibited by the Standard, as well.
They are incentivized to attempt to charge for paid peering. It’s not that perverse, unless you like the internet going fast more than you like money.
For everyone asking about a "microvm orchestrator" - the implication here is that the public cloud (where the vast majority of people reading this will be deploying too) is the orchestrator.

Public cloud like AWS and GCP does all the networking, volume management and everything else for you - for free. That's arguably one of the reasons for using it in the first place. There is no need to put something on top. That's kinda the whole point here.
One problem is that some string theorists think this situation means that this type of physics should simply abandon empirical testability as a criterion for evaluating the truthfulness of theory.
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I wonder what Elon is going to do when _his_ "full self driving" fails to materialize. Which it will. Not only you can't do this with just cameras and radar, I doubt you can do it _period_ without modifying the roads specifically for such cars, and segregating them from human drivers. And even then it will be difficult psychologically and legally to convince the public that this is "better" than a (possibly inebriated) human, for reasons that have been discussed to death already.
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They reinstated the account 1hr after official appeal.

You comment is only relevant to those posts who are used as a last resort, usually after waiting days or weeks without any human response. AFAICT the tweet was done pretty much simultaneously, perhaps in an attempt to hasten response time.
It is a type of pigeonhole sort. The benefit is you can use a much greater number of pigeonholes because you don't have to check them all when collecting your entries.

That's the benefit of skylinesort: you can skip huge ranges of empty pigeonholes.
> Microsoft causes them to be significantly more strict with the types of content that they are comfortable hosting

The law as written doesn't allow subjective decision based on what they're comfortable with.
I had the exact same thought. I was under the impression that Europe had much more robust broadband infrastructure and a surplus of capacity, compared to the US.
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