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See previous discussions, e.g. [1, 2].

The Arrow was extremely ambitious and many of the technologies it used didn't exist and wouldn't for decades (e.g. fully active missiles, pulse doppler RADAR). The era of high-and-fast bombers was followed by low-level nap-of-the-earth flying and ICBMs, so the Arrow might have been an incredibly expensive white elephant if it had even been finished.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21989392

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15256068
Here's the Perspective piece on the paper: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6496/1180
Yes, app keeps local track of of IDs that you have been in extended contact with. App only receives IDs of infected people and compares them.

If YOU are infected you will need to consent to your local list of met IDs to be uploaded, so others in your list can be notified.
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The EU and USA have become like those countries that export religious extremism. Sad!
It probably depends on the definition of intelligence, as it mostly does. A human capable of creative and complex problem solving might have still had an advantage in 1292 in the steps of Asia. Maybe not by creating the theory of relativity, but by inventing hunting and warfare strategy, or solving some other problems in their society.
This feels so true! I had a similar experience.. spent 3 years working for big US companies, completely focused on whatever trend would impress investors the most with no one giving any thought to what might actually be _useful_ for people who, you know, actually give us money.

Now I work for a small company doing very niche work and I don't think I could love my work more. I mean people do use our software, but there's no VC funding so no pretense of needing to hop on the latest bandwagon. It's just so much better.
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I don't see how your criticism applies to this app in particular, rather than the playstore in general.

How do you know you can trust instagram/google maps/ any other common app on your phone?

I would trust German government way more than i trust just about any corporate entity I can think of.
My very narrow observation based on being an American living in Scandinavia and trying to explain to my brother who's very red-blooded American why I believe the high taxes are a net benefit is that Americans (speaking very generally, of course) are hung up on money in the bank account over basically every other consideration. So when an American with that mindset looks at a place like Canada or Scandinavia, they'll nope right out of that because there's no way it'll put as much money into their bank account.

I, on the other hand, think that high taxes end up benefitting everyone through greater services for those down on their luck which seems to translate to less desperation, less resentment, less classism, less crime. Basically overall far better peace of mind for all involved even though getting filthy rich isn't as much a thing. It's totally possible there are other circumstances at play here like the relative homogeneity of Scandinavian countries relative to the US so this is just a working hypothesis at the moment.
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>A Single Session of Exercise Alters 9,815 Molecules in Our Blood

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/well/move/a-single-sessio...
That was a graph of cpu time, not network request time, and 20s of the 30s were spent parsing and running js.
I wish that they would install proper display and controls instead of this cheap PC monitor in the middle of the car.
They also load tested it with “two digit millions of users” (https://www.golem.de/news/bundesregierung-entwicklung-von-co...)

Depending on how realistically they did that, that can be costly.

If this system stays up on its first day of use, 20 million might be worth it.
Really cool, thanks for the reply.
Congrats on launching! As a happy Superhuman user, I'd be very tempted to try this out. Tough to commit to the price without testing though.
The signal is very much not that software with no commits is bad, it's just very common to have half-finished projects or very buggy packages which are no longer maintained. I'd say the quantity of those greatly outweighs the quantity without relatively recent commits which are good. This means that, as a very coarse heuristic, it's probably a good idea to be fairly skeptical of projects without somewhat recent commits, if only they're to keep up with the latest npm update or whatever.
And the other browsers are sponsored heavily by said company - either financially or technologically.
Like what? Anyone with a professional-class job in the US (what I assume we’re talking about here) has health insurance paid for by their employer.
... its their culture let them do whatever they want
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We don't build software like a bridge; we grow it like a garden. The industrial revolution was about building machines that dominate its environment. The software revolution is about writing code to resonate with its environment. The software grows in harmony with its user and business needs. Except, of course, for special cases such as this.

"The whole approach to developing software is intentionally designed not to rely on any particular person."

Our programming culture is not ready for this. Any programmer who identifies with their craft will never want to be another cog in the machine. A programmer could have chosen to be a doctor, lawyer, engineer, etc. but they choose to code because it is one of the way they can "express" themselves.
Mind sharing a link to your web-app? I ask this while actively procrastinating from work.
As a non-free procrastinator, this certainly rings true.
If you have someone doing a task manually, you could technically argue that you’re using an incredibly advanced neural network. Just not an artificial one.

I was recently joking that I was training a neural network with a water spray bottle (teaching the cat not to jump on the kitchen counter). And just while I type this, my little neural network came to walk over the keyboard...
> Is there a level cap for fish intelligence where an individual fish won't gain any more benefit from increased intelligence?

Think of it this way: intelligence has costs (metabolic, anatomical, etc) as well as benefits. At some point, costs outweigh benefits. That point is highly dependant on environment.
But also rare ;)
I made a sourdough starter for the first time recently. It's really hard to find a short guide on e.g. what ingredients to use, what amounts to use, what to do about discarding, how often to feed.

Worked fine for me first time. I feed the starter every 1 to 3 days (it's not important), throw in 1/3 of a cup of water and 1/3 of a cup of flour each time then mix (just by eye, don't bother measuring, white or brown flour is fine, cold or warm water is fine), don't discard anything (no need to waste it, or collect it in another container). When the container starts getting full I either make bread or pancakes.

It's probably from being a developer, but I was frustrated by the number of guides I had to read to settle on the above because a lot are dauntingly complex.

Some guides will say feed once, twice or three times a day, some will say to only use a specific kind of flour at first then change, some say measuring by weight is vital, some say discarding each feed is important to keep the ratios exact etc.

I just went with the simplest advice for each variable and it worked (along with several friends who followed their own method) so my feelings are many guides that say "you need to do this for it to work" aren't based on fact and yeast isn't delicate at all to cultivate (makes sense given it survives freezing, not being fed a while, sitting idle in bags of flour for months, being saturated in water, high room temperatures).

In terms of verifying sourdough advice scientifically, it would be super cheap to do with minimal equipment so it bothers me there isn't a definitive easy guide by now to dispel common myths. The one about how you're cultivating yeast from the air is a myth as far as I know (the yeast is coming from the flour) but you hear it everywhere still.

Maybe I just got lucky first time or the method is non-optimal, but I'm happy that I've cultivated laid-back yeast that isn't picky about how it's fed.
Even so, wouldn't running Tails on a VPN have only exposed the IP address of the VPN connection?
They do. Corresponding 2-6TB Blue drives are also SMR and that are shipped inside external drives. Only Reds got the attention because of ZFS issues.

I suspect Blue and Red drive have a lot of common in manufacturing they switched all drives in same capacity together.
That is an exaggerated fear to have, school shootings are not the norm there.

That would be like saying you're afraid of the Islamic terrorism amok on the streets of Europe.
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Russia's nuclear strategy still relies upon flying Bear bombers to the launch box and deploying cruise missiles. NORAD still sorties fighter aircraft to intercept these bombers somewhat regularly. Obviously not bombers actually launching cruise missiles, but ones doing test runs of the same.

It would have had a critical role for decades.
I am having to work on Visual Basic app right now.

We actually have Visual Basic that generates Javascript...

I hate it.
Not to be a snob but I have a problem with the quality of this paper. Take the following passage:

"Actually, even the simplest prototype of our proposal, i.e. the neutrino factory of GeV range needs substantial R & D work. We also note that a 1000 TeV machine requires the accelerator circumference of the order of 1000 km with the magnets of ≃ 10 Tesla which is totally ridiculous."

Assigning such value-laden language as 'totally ridiculous' could be explained away as simply an artefact of translation, but it continues...

"Even if it becomes the reality, the cost of the construction is of the order of or more than 100 billion US$."

According to whom?

"Also we note that the power required for the operation of the machine may exceed 50 GW"

Again - reference?

"... taking the eﬃciency into account. This is above the total power of Great Britain. This implies that no single country will be able to aﬀord the construction of this machine..."

Does it? How does GB power production imply that one of the superpowers could not build such a device? Might as well say that the power required is 100x the power output of the DRC, or that it is equivalent to the acoustic energy of 40 million duck quacks, or 1/5 the energy emitted by the Sun in 200 milliseconds. These comparisons add nothing to the paper.

"... and also the operation time must be strictly restricted. We believe the only way this machine may be built is when all the countries on earth agree to do it by creating an organization which may be called the “World Government” for which this device becomes the means of enforcement."

World government??? Since when was this a political paper? We already have many multinational organisations - NATO, WHO, some for atomic energy.

I've no doubt the paper was written in good faith but this really, really needed an editor and some peer review. Something that arxiv.org, as much as I support its core aims, sorely lacks.
I know fears are irrational, but the probability of your kids being killed by a mass shooter at school in the US is extremely low. Logically, if you’re worried about that level of risk, you should never leave the house, even in Europe.

The sibling commentator mentioned Islamic terrorism which I think is a good analogy. You would probably think it was ludicrous (and I’d agree with you) if someone said they didn’t want to move to Europe because they have to worry about being run down by someone in a truck.
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I ran the tests 7 times and then took the median. I'll look into quantifying variance more, but for now here's a boxplot for total on-page CPU time. https://gist.github.com/mattzeunert/de3c8aedd2936a34eeb88b62...

I ran tests on example.com, apple.com, and a WCPO news article (for the ad blocker tests).

The biggest performance issue is that extensions just dump large scripts into pages indiscriminately. Most of the time extensions don't do anything differently based on the content of the page.

I also tested a WCPO news article to see the impact of ad blockers. I picked a local news website specifically because they contain a lot of ads. If a page doesn't have any ads the performance impact of an ad blocker will be slightly negative.

What my tests don't pick up is extensions that only run a certain domains. For example, if you run Honey on a shop they support I expect the CPU consumption to increase a lot more.

I wrote a similar article last year, which tests a few other pages as well: https://www.debugbear.com/blog/measuring-the-performance-imp...
> what I assume we’re talking about here

Why?
Does that work, though? Afaik the app needs Google's or Apple's blessing to use the API.
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The CEO could very well be the ultimate target of this investigation, and could end up in prison.

In cases like this, the prosecutors frequently offer the lower-level suspects leniency if they cooperate with the prosecution of the high-level suspect. What we're seeing here could just be the beginning of a case that could last for a long time, with evidence against the CEO accumulating at each step.

The CEO is probably getting very nervous right now. Maybe his nervousness will make him commit some more crimes, like lying to the FBI or trying to destroy evidence.
If they're making that kind of money, they can not only afford to leave, but have plenty of time to figure out what to do afterwards. Unless, of course, their current lifestyle is beyond their means (one would hope not in that situation).
Being the smartest person in the room almost always has advantages.

Da Vinci was offered several times the opportunity to procreate (I think even his brother's wife) just to grab some of that DNA.

Probably Ramanujan is the most famous example we can point to - whilst not 13th C steppes, rural Victorian India is not a hotbed of education, yet people around him recognized his genius (at least relative to them) and gave him what opportunity they could. (No idea about the offers of sex however)

Genius usually will out. For a fair society we need to worry about the rest of us. For a technologically prosperous society we need to ensure the few geniuses get a good education.

Luckily for us, we don't know where the geniuses will be born, so we need to build a fair society, and then we will get the technological advances for free - so glad that's solved.
The article is about foreign investors doing whatever they want. Not investing.

If Japanese companies want foreign investments, whatever they want is adding women in the mix.
My solution is similar (breaking down the problem), the cause is - at least partially - different.

If I am procrastinating in software development or research it is

(1) for complexity reasons,
(2) for foreseeable vast grunt work I have already done and solved in the past.

Example (1): I have to choose between at least two fundamental different ways to get ahead in writing software. I know that implications come late, wasted time can be a lot. I will often pause until it comes to me.

Example (2): Writing a new library in Julia, when I covered the topic in Python or C++ years ago, but cannot directly reuse it, the whole thing intensifies when it has already been done in several incarnations. Becomes more and more difficult ("been there, done that") with age, especially if the occasion is determined from outside. The same applies to research which requires a larger amount of knowledge from the past that needs to be reactivated.

(2) could be attributed to negative emotions (boredom, and yes, even laziness), but (1) is different, more a search for an optimal strategy prior to the start, because the cost for doing otherwise could be prohibitive. It is simply unwillingness in decision-making (too early).
It must be very important to them. I wonder if they knew that before they said it in public?
My understanding is they weren't actually destroyed, the order was given but not obeyed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saved-avro-arrow-bl...
Recursive pearl-clutching. Hopefully we'll overflow the stack soon.
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I will let the dishes sit because the thought of doing them feels overwhelming.
An absolutely amazing film.

Hot metal typesetting is fantastic stuff.
An investor in a Japanese firm, that has a vote in that firm's board elections is unambiguously a participant in that culture. They have responsibility for the way they cast their vote, and have a shared interest in and responsibility for the actions and behaviour of that company and it's management.

If the owners of a company aren't responsible for how a company is run, who is?
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The comment is a general one. Also it is not a criticism, it was a question because lot of govt are making their tracing app open source.

However, since this is a tracing app and being open source would imply "look, our app is clean, check our code if you do not trust us". Off-course making it open source has other benefits too.

> How do you know you can trust instagram/google maps/ any other common app on your phone?

I don't. If I am using it I know that I have no way to validate or enforce what happens with my data.
"Customer involved every day" doesn't necessarily mean that you let the architecture or product be designed strictly for the customers need. Point is to have as much user feedback as possible, to take into consideration (or purposefully say "we're not considering that").

To end up with a useful product in the end, it's better to err on the side of involving the user too much, than too little.
still don't get it :D for dummies explanation?
Why is European healthcare an advantage for people in professional software engineering jobs? All such people have health insurance in the US.
Better diversity "brings economic as well as cultural benefits," Legal & General Investment said when announcing the new policy. The company described the goal as "moving the needle on diversity in Japan.

Citation needed. Better diversity lowers the salaries so that Goldman Sachs (mentioned further down in the article) can get even richer. Speaking of which, isn't a certain ethnic group over-represented in finance?
How is outsourcing the development of an app the "definition of soft corruption"?! Would you prefer the government spent a few years to train up their own app developers before they build the app?

FWIW, the German app was largely built by SAP too.
I'd quite like to see a three-way partition between "dumb document" (DOM frozen after load, possibly no processing at all), "smart document" (DOM APIs only, possibly plus classical HTML form submission), and "actual application". Ideally with a way of telling which is which before loading it. I don't realistically expect this to happen.

The stupid thing about AMP is that it's trying to push sites back into the "document" box, but only so that they can be monetized more effectively by Google...
Well, Facebook actively campaigns against privacy, and the FBI actively campaigns against encryption.

This is great PR for themm to say that both privacy and encryption are bad and should be outlawed.

Wouldn't be surprising at all if that's how they spin it.
I know this is tangential, but as lay person regarding physics I am stuck on the following thought experiment regarding gravity:

We know about gravitational potential energy. We harness it all the time with dams and whatnot. Generally speaking, when we lift matter high above, we get some of the used energy back when it falls back down.

But when we talk about sending say, a spaceship into space, it may fall on a different planet, with a different gravity (a function of the planet's mass), changing the amount of energy yielded by the fall.

The question is: Where is the energy stored in the meantime? Where does the extra energy, if the ship falls into a heavier planet, come from?

It seems that the energy is being stored somewhere, and that matter itself allows us to tap into that, but is not the place where it is stored. Is there anything I can read to better understand what we know about this?
And don't forget the Avro Jetliner. Interestingly, in terms of missed opportunities, this may well have been bigger than the Arrow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_C102_Jetliner
Given that they're rewriting something that was 40 years old 20 years ago tells me that it might be an impossible task given the current attitude of software development as a whole.
As in most things in the U.S it probably depends on jurisdiction, and also of course what you are doing.

Here for example is something pertaining to New York, and also some federal statutes
https://law.jrank.org/pages/7503/Impersonation.html

Also of course the rules for getting drivers licenses depend on the state (however there are probably federal regulations around drivers licenses as well), and probably the laws of those states say you cannot use a fake name to get a drivers license. This is different than having a law regarding fake names.

As an example of how this might work -

Law 1: The law regarding usage of fake names same you cannot legally use a fake name if you commit fraud with it.

Law 2: The law regarding getting a drivers license says you must provide your true name to get a drivers license.
Depressing but not unlikely
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You not only need to trust the German government but any intermediate all the way to the store. I doubt that Apple or Google build the app from the repo.

To add, there are currently discussions underway in the German parliament to give our secret services (namely the notorious Verfassungsschutz) the power to compromise IT systems (Bundestrojaner). I'd trust even the government not that much these times.
Bahrain, Kuwait and Norway contact tracing apps among most dangerous for privacy
You can totally use uuid4 as password reset tokens, and they could be slightly nicer than random urlsafe strings for your database, provided they’re generated securely, not from givemeguid.com.
One thing to note is that it's a film version of a much longer story; the manga is a lot longer (and disturbing) and is (arguably) less vague because it has more room to tell a story.
Sure, it's here: https://www.feelhappy.win/app.html#/dashboard

It's not just this TIC-TOC thing but I've kinda converted all his CBT exercises like Cost Benefit Analysis, Daily mood log, Acceptance paradox, tec into my web app.

Small disclaimer: I made this site only for myself so it is buggy and unpolished as hell. Get's the work done for me though, but ymmv.
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So I wanted to offer my view on this - I know that the risk of actual shooting is so low that it's not worth worrying about. But what I'd definitely have an issue with is the entire security theatre that American kids are subject to - the fact that many American schools have metal detectors at the doors, the fact that their bags are searched when entering, the fact that many schools have armed security or even policemen on campus - that's crazy to me and I wouldn't want to subject my kids to any of that. It normalizes something that's very very wrong in my opinion.
Really? Maybe I'm just too jaded but I feel like 20 million is not a particularly crazy amount for a government project, especially one that is this important and had to be developed under this much time pressure.
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