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> The US has had long range missiles and defenses that are effective with stuff from the 80's and 90's

All of our weapons systems have undergone significant modifications and upgrades since then, which make heavy use of modern computing. Missile seekers can take advantage of this increased computing power to better track targets, especially when being jammed. We could probably develop replacements for these that used less high-end chips, but that will take time and would probably still result in worse performance, and there will likely be certain features that would have to be dropped.

> If China somehow got complete control over TSMC to the point they no longer supplied the US, it doesn't take much to sabotage the factories

This is true, but it isn't guaranteed, and the PLA could stockpile a whole bunch of chips pre-war to satisfy their wartime production ordnance needs for a least a little while. While this is viable, it becomes a race to the bottom where neither side has access to advanced chips, and is stuck with whatever the advanced weapons they had stockpiled.

> I'm fairly certain my gaming PC could guide a missile

They need some custom chips, for a couple regions. First is they need to do some digital signal processing stuff that is implemented in hardware. Second is that the chip needs to be rugged: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_computers#MIL_standar...
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> There is growing evidence for this and also that the amount of virus particles you get into your system determines how sick you get (related to your overall health).

Which would be a good argument for variolation.

That is, deliberately infect yourself with a very small virus dose. Small enough that you don't get seriously ill, but big enough that you get immunity.
Posting like this will get you banned here, so please don't do it again.

Edit: We've had to ask you multiple times before. Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Love COD, very nice to see them on the front page :-)

Along similar lines, we maintain an open database of crystal structures ourselves at the Materials Project (materialsproject.org) at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, which includes high-quality calculations of the electronic structure of each crystal structure so that you can do queries for the specific properties you need for your application. We're currently working alongside the Crystallography Open Database and several other databases to develop an API spec so that all similar databases can be queried in a common way: https://github.com/Materials-Consortia/optimade

If it's ok to offer an ad here, we're actually looking for someone to join our team. The calculations we offer at the Materials Project are the results of millions of CPU hours of computation, so it becomes very important that we're able to synthesize this data in a way that's approachable and understandable and then share this data effectively with other researchers, students and members of the public who might want to use it. We need help with this and we're hiring a web developer at the moment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23381358
You can do a test at home using an "Eldon" kit. I did it this past weekend and it was pretty easy (other than getting the blood out). You get these special cards with reagents on that react with type A and type B blood as well as Rh+ and -, then the combination of the reactions tells you the blood type. In my case it was very obvious as the blood on the "anti B" card went very clotted whereas on the "anti A" card it was very smooth, placing me as type A.
I’ve previously read the the number one employee complaint is not pay but feeling under-appreciated. I think the difficulty for managers is knowing an employee’s particular language of appreciation. One may value being lauded in front of the company with an award or snazzy new title while another couldn’t care less and would rather be shown appreciation through a behind-the-scenes bonus.
My first internships were early-stage / startup type businesses, and the last decade+ of my tech career were at similar companies or businesses of my own. They gave me a wider array of experiences and a greater sense of personal control, but there's no doubt I would have made a lot more money elsewhere.

I wish in the early part of my career I would have not been so eager to get into startup / entrepreneurship land and had instead tried to get a few more "name brands" on my resume, for the experiences and contacts. That would have helped down the road.

I would actually spin this question back around on you: Now that you are in a later stage of your career, what's stopping you from starting something now? Don't ask if you will regret not doing it, figure out your plan and do it.
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I don't think OP is saying "I got tenure, why can't you go through the same process" or anything, I think they're saying "I got tenure, and having been tenured I continue to do good work because of intrinsic motivation and not management-driven incentives, I think we should extend this level of autonomy to everyone and get rid of the barriers to having a tenure-style job."
It's a rebranding of Mullvad. I'm happy with Mullvad itself, and while I think Firefox is the most important browser I'm not very happy about Mozilla arguably destroying its brand and seemingly pivoting away from maintaining it. I'd directly pay for the development of FF, but not Mozilla's "btw, we now sell $completely_unrelated_product_without_even_an_ethical_business_model".

They seem to be relatively safe from forking though, because apparently the code base is too much of a mess. Yay.
There is no way this 30% tax will last forever, so might as well make the future happen a little faster by forcing Apple to open up the platform.
I just approved the ether request. Sorry about the delay, we had to switch to manual approval because too many people were stealing ether!
How to run a team focused on crisis prevention
It's really hard to measure the impact of preventing crises from happening. Even harder to prioritize this work against growth

I helped build a team at Lyft focused on this. Wrote up my learnings
Media decoders are the biggest, richest, unexploited, practical and valuable target for developing end user malware and government surveillance. If I wanted to surveil a dissident using Tor for example I would deliver the payload in a protest video they download or whatever.

People open video and images files all the time. The amount of breath I see burned here on obscure or niche security concerns is ridiculous. The implementations aren’t buggy, they are just written by like one person, the sole maintainer you cannot under any circumstances discourage from doing this work, with a criticism-proof godlike level of knowledge, in vast amounts of uncommented code that makes huge numbers of unenforceable assumptions in the pursuit of better performance, targeting vast hardware with closed source binary blobs also seeking performance, on every popular platform. It’s a minefield.
I'm not the archetype you were asking for, but I am later-ish in my career (40 years old). I co-created a startup not all that long ago (little over a year). I don't regret creating a startup, but it is very very hard at times in ways I did not anticipate. So, there are times when I'm very envious of my former self. Where I got to deal with the perils of regular employment rather than the perils of being an employer. Thoughts like, "Ah, I remember the good old days when this kind of thing was somebody else's problem to deal with. Those were good times. Good times. Welp... (rolls up sleeves to try to figure out the least bad decision from a mountain of uncertainty)"

That's despite having previously operated a moderately successful small business and also helping lots of other companies take on difficult technical challenges and get their products to market. So, there are a lot of things that I had my eyes wide open to that sometimes less experienced founders I know end up a bit blindsided by.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I can say for myself that if my motivation for undertaking this were rooted primarily in the possibility of regretting not having done it, said FOMO would probably not provide the sustaining fortitude necessary to keep pushing and pushing and pushing through the numerous challenges in fundraising, development, go-to-market execution, etc. etc.

So, my only real bit of commentary would be to do a startup because you're dead certain that's the thing you want/need/should do to achieve some goal about something you want to change about the world, the marketplace, and/or the state of technology, etc. I'd not suggest doing it on the fear of regret of not doing it. If that makes any sense? That said, if you have a goal or ambition like that, then I'm always supportive of folks who want to go out there and grab ahold of entrepreneurship and ride it either into the dirt or into the sunset.
Did you reply to the wrong person? They were talking about typing speed, not monitors.
Many, maybe most, successful entrepreneurs and creatives had (sometimes unacknowledged) support getting there.
That’s absurd. If I run a shop and I require an ID check at the entrance then it doesn’t mean that I am not allowed to shop myself in stores which don’t require ID checks.
> Wireguard-only

That's great - less features and options are a plus for vpn services.

> requires you to use their custom app.

Sounds odd, if it's just using wireguard.
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But food labeling is pretty well standardized, you can't just make up your own terms and add ten pages of convoluted circumscriptions and then say that's ok because a professional trained in just the right sub-field of biochemistry could deduce what's in there. If privacy policies were like food labeling nobody would object.
>Want to do something illegal? Don't expect a VPN to save you.

I'm not condoning piracy, but VPNs are generally a foolproof way to avoid DMCA letters from your ISP. Privacy means something different to every individual, everyone's threat model is different. And many models can benefit from a VPN; journalists, activists, and many others might find benefit from using a VPN.
Nord locks locks you into an eternal contract and has a pretty bad reputation for multiple reasons.
Magnetic? No thanks. You go through an MRI and your brain turns to scrambled egg.
The whole "HD ready" thing was an utterly sad part of the story of cinema/television that let's hope will never repeat.

As for the 1366x768, for some reason for many, many years the wide majority of monitors stopped there, with "Full HD" coming to the masses (but not all) only a few years ago.

"1366x768" meant "half baked HD" from the day it was introduced, so it's understanding that few quality monitors (and especially laptop screens) were made with that resolution.
Because it's not only a matter of salary, you have to put "all in the balance" when considering a potential move. Personally, I was giving a lot of value to the mobility within the company.

I started as a computer scientist in a bank and became a trader a couple of years later.

Outside of my company, it would not have been possible because I didn't study finance.
> But we should also live in a world without war, poverty, and disease as well. It's a part of the human condition.

As a, er, planet, we've actually done fairly well at easing those over the last century, tho. Sure, they're not gone, and maybe they'll never be gone, but improvements can be made, and it's probably not helpful to treat them, or racism, as laws of nature.

I do think there's a perception problem, though. Basically no-one would claim that disease or poverty aren't problems anymore, but there are a surprisingly large number of (mostly white, obviously) people who claim racism isn't a problem anymore.
> All the users and developers are there by choice.
> I strongly beg to differ.

How? Which users are being forced to use an iPhone? This is a bizarre statement when fully eighty five percent of smartphone users are not on the iPhone.
How does it compare with other materials from end-of-life and waste / recycling standpoint?
> that you should be an excellent typist

I think it's valuable to be able to type effortlessly without having to think about it too hard. Typing is a distraction that takes brain power away from the important things.
In that case, I'd assume his preference would have been to do absolutely nothing, and let millions die as a way to reduce the costs of the welfare state.

His tendencies and character do a good job of enlightening us as to his lack of principles.

If you think that "lockdown" was to appease the left (who tend to be younger and healthier) rather than the core Conservative vote (the overwhelmingly older, less healthy, more-at-risk-from-COVID group), I don't know what to tell you.
> For data warehousing, create more views!

Agreed, but...
the problem with views are they aren't parameterizable. In effect they are static templates. Fortunately, modern data warehouses often provide user defined table functions that accomplish pretty much the same thing, but allow you to "create input parameters to your view".

Dataform looks interesting (how have I not heard of this before) but I wonder if they support UDTFs?
This is such a defeated mindset. You're welcome to it all you want, but some of us aren't willing to settle.
For crystallography specifically, there's ourselves (Materials Project), OQMD, AFLOW, Materials Cloud, JARVIS, and a number of more specific (but no less important) specialized databases. There are also a number of commercial offerings.

Best practices are incredibly difficult. We're trying to establish a common API currently (https://github.com/Materials-Consortia/optimade) that can be adopted by all database providers. How the data is stored behind the scenes is something that ends up being very specific to how the data is generated and what its applications are. We're definitely better as a community than we were ten years ago, but there's a lot of work to be done here.

In terms of scientific databases outside crystallography/materials science, Nature's Scientific Data is a good open-access journal to peruse: https://www.nature.com/sdata/
What good is a VPN if you have to reveal all of your personally identifiable information to the vendor?

You're better off using Mullvad directly--it looks like they don't require you to fork over personal information to use their service.

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I know this, I only asked because Mozilla, like most other VPN providers, promise not to snoop on your traffic, so OP's concern boils down to "but what if they're lying?", and you could ask that about virtually any service.
But you could still do it, you just get a lot of warnings that you probably shouldn't unless you know what you're doing. AFAIK I can't do that on my iPad at all.

Also, with Fortnite specifically, they proved the worries right immediately: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanwhitwam/2018/08/25/epic-gam...
Bootstrapping is the magic word you are looking for.

Keep your day job, spend your nights and weekends working on your side hustle. Take the money from your day job and pay a developer to work on your side hustle while you work on the sales and marketing. Start making money on your side hustle and turn it into your day job.
This ban is useless.
Telegram keep working without issues.
I haven't hear about any issues about connecting to Telegram servers in RF. Some govn't entites are using Telegram, some high profile people from Ministry using Telegram.
It is a bit pricey compared to the competition (lots of VPNs out there that cost ~$3/month) but apparently Mullvad is the VPN provider for this offering, and they cost $5 a month because they are considered one of the 'best' VPNs in terms of privacy (for example, they will accept cash payments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullvad#Privacy ).
And if Ford says that installing a third party radio without their authorization voids your warranty or otherwise makes it impossible to do so, it’s generally accepted to be OK.

Don't know where you live, but that is not true in the U. S. "It is generally accepted as" against Federal law.
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I worked with a man who had done boring and lucrative government contracting, startups, tech companies, and self employment over a 35 year career. His last “job” is a startup. You always have choices. Especially if your skills are up to date.
Price is in line with Mullvad which they are piggybacking off of. Nord has an iffy past and they advertise a lot(often exaggerated claims) which is a red flag for me.
> if Ford says that installing a third party radio without their authorization voids your warranty or otherwise makes it impossible to do so, it’s generally accepted to be OK

This has been generally illegal in the US since 1975: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/2302 (section c)
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This analysis is missing the appreciation of the grant during vesting, which is material. The 200k of FB stock was granted as 800k over 4 years. So if the stock goes up just 10% a year, by the time the 1st year vests it's actually worth 220k, the 2nd year is 242k, 3rd year is 266k, and 4th 290k in stock comp due to appreciation. If it goes up more than 10%, effect is even more pronounced, plus with refreshers, you get a genuine golden handcuffs type situation.
You don't have linters for C/C++ as far as I know. I guess they could have included code-formatters too, like clang-format.
I understand what you're saying, but that's simply not my experience (either with myself or observing others).

Note Atwood claims you must be an excellent typist, training yourself to become one. I find this fetishization of a mechanical skill bizarre. I'm not advocating clumsily struggling with the keyboard like an elderly person, but past the point of "I'm a decent typist", I find that's enough.

I find there's no correlation between the problem-solving ability needed to be a great software developer and being a fast typist of the sort Atwood et al advocate.

I file this under "weird things some programmers believe without evidence" ;)
Or Google should just remove the app. No reason, no comment, nothing. Just remove the app and say too bad.
This is 100% correct
> Exactly as you said, because I have already had some exposure to physics and to kind of modular systems (I am mathematician working as a developer) this was perfect resource for me.

So you're saying they're correct that it's not a good book for a learner without some exposure to the fundamentals. But what's the disparagement you're referring to?
You can donate blood, ask your doctor (insurance may not cover it), or use a simple at home test like this (Eldoncard Blood Type Test (Complete Kit) - Air Sealed Envelope, Safety Lancet, Micropipette, Cleansing Swab https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00JFTSPMW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_...).

I used one of the card tests and got an O- result, then when I had annual bloodwork done I asked my doctor to test it just because an O- result on the cards looks the same as a possibly defective card (card wasn’t defective, I did in fact beat the 25% odds and inherited the negative Rh factor from both my O+ parents).
So the website is pretty crappy at giving a simple summary. Nature's video is better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBMB4FNoYz4

TL;DW: they sell glass powder that's mixed with a polymer binder. You can buy it as a liquid or solid. It can be cut/machined as a solid, cast or 3d printed as a liquid, and there's versions that set from liquid to solid with UV exposure. Final processing in a kiln burns away the binder and melds the glass powder together, forming the final object.
I'd always wanted to take that risk and work on my own startup and I figured this was what was most likely to hold me back at some point.

Then I found myself in a situation where I had no girlfriend, my high paying finance job started to really suck cause my manager was a total idiot, and I was located in China which has an extremely vibrant entrepreneurial environment. I had quite a lot of savings by that time and living expenses are generally quite low in China. Also I was just a touch above 25 and young so I made the leap.

I guess I was luckier and can definitely appreciate it being harder the older you get and have no good answer to that. I can only imagine it'll get worse the longer you wait though. I think Musk said something along the lines of if you see yourself regretting it a few years down the line for not trying then just go for it
Being able to stay or move whenever you want is the opposite of property ownership.

If someone won’t buy your home for the price you need to break even, you can’t move. That’s what happens in “the bad times.” Just when you might need some job mobility (like if you’re laid off) you’re stuck in your home that could take months to sell, and you’ll eat closing costs and fees. Or you have to eat a long commute, where a renter can just move within a year with essentially no financial hit.

I didn’t really point out overall economic outlooks for this very reason. If you can’t pay your bills whether you rent or buy you’re screwed either way.

Rents can go up but so can property taxes, especially when your home value increases due to a hot market. I don’t think price movement alone is a good reason to choose renting or buying. There are certainly exceptional markets but for most people it doesn’t play in.

As far as upgrading, it’s all about your tolerance. I’m not saying to install a $10,000 kitchen renovation in a rental. For some people it might be installing a paper towel holder or under-cabinet lighting. Maybe even replacing cheap boob light fixtures with a nicer fixture (and you can easily revert that when you leave and take your nice fixture with you).

There’s a huge rent friendly decorating trend going on often involving landlord friendly things like stick-on backsplashes and stick-on accent walls and murals. Paint of course is another one.

If you find the perfect apartment and the only thing wrong with it is that the stove is a 20 year old Hotpoint piece of trash a renter could even consider risking that $800 investment to get a new stove. Ultimately even if you completely lose the stove at the end of your lease that’s only $66 a month. If your nice stove saves you one restaurant trip a month it pays itself off.
I might be a bit dense, but I don't see what's p2p about Flatend. You have a service that connects to an API gateway by hardcoding its address, then the client queries the gateway directly, and the service replies. Where is Kademlia used here ?

Not trying to be negative, I'm just trying to understand
I've been reading a ton of geopolitical and military experts over the last few weeks, and there is a unanimous consensus that China never makes moves on the border without explicit instructions from the top.

Their reaction here has been paired with new movement in the South China Sea, changed messaging through proxy Government (Oli in Nepal and Pakistan at large) and claims over new land that has never been claimed by them before.

Xi is using the fallout from Corona as a way to impose China on countries that are distracted by the pandemic as of this time.

> If this was an actual calculated move to take significant amounts of territory the big guns would be firing by now.

That isn't how China works. They are well know for their salami slicing (https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/08/03/salami-slicing-in-the-s...) approach to expansionism. Their current actions are perfectly in line with previous attempts at expanding borders and signaling intent for armed invasion.
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For anyone interested in symmetry specifically, there's also the ISOTROPY Software Suite (https://stokes.byu.edu/iso/isotropy.php) which offers some nice tools.
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