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At the start of shipyard periods, they will have unloaded just about all embarked equipment, the planes would be based elsewhere nearby, fuel stock unloaded to minimum levels, all ammunition stores unloaded, the spaces to be worked on would be cleared in abidance with fire safety procedures.

Nevertheless, there's always a risk... This is just definitely the most dramatic accident in a long time.

In answer to another comment, it won't get to the point of replacing the ship unless by some crazy chance the fire continues so long as to be catastrophic. Each ship of this class costs billions. Repairs will be more effective almost too the point of actual hull compromise.
I know that it would be a bridge too far, but having worked at a business (movie theater) that had prices only ending in 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, or .00, I would love for the whole country to just have quarters and be done with it.

Though, since I rarely handle change at all — if I do use cash, I usually find the first place near my hand to donate whatever metal comes back to me - I suppose I’m not the target audience anyway.
And the related, more general, risk of an additional external dependency: what happens if the service disappears, changes or goes wrong?
Consider the Pooptastrophe (also known as the Poopocalypse): https://cheezburger.com/897029/dogs-roomba-please-consider-t...
Most BitTorrent clients have settings to control whether you are seeding, although they typically default to yes.
This is a strange choice of title because Harvard is easily among the institutions that will be least affected by the pandemic.

While it may be true that for the world's elite that the value prop of Harvard is rubbing elbows with other elites, it's also true that for the rest of us the value prop of Harvard is merely having it on your resume. There's no shortage of talented students who'd love Harvard on their resume even if they have to spend a year remote.

Some of the opinions expressed in this article seem rather naive, such as:

> Use your time to start an online business. Live at home, spend as little money as possible, and find a side job if you need to.

For students in a pandemic, "live at home, spend as little money as possible" is basically implied outside of education expenses. So at this point we return to the standard debate: is a diploma worth the cost of tuition and opportunity cost on time spent? This argument has been played out a million times and is otherwise unchanged by the pandemic.
It's cool but looking at the use case and the app video, I can't help thinking that what one actually wants is a real native app.
When I got it when I was younger, I used to see Ghosts. Terrifying. When I learned what sleep paralysis is, funny enough, the hallucinations changed. Now they are much more realistic things like someone in the room who really could be, more auditory hallucinations, etc. I was getting it a few times a week for a while, now ~1-2x a month. If it wasn't also associated with difficulty breathing (I think the root cause) I think I could enjoy it now, its a bit like a lucid dream.
>Also, it's depressing to think of society sitting behind a screen all day. I think most people feel the same way. We need to stop using technology to tear apart the social fabric of society.

You are witnessing the mere beginning. Wait for despair before a typical job consists of donning a vr gear with some controllers (possibly brain implants) to control a humanoid robot far away. It's hard to think of a job that couldn't be automated this way except for security, as cutting off the signal would be a big failure point + laws that prevent civilians from using robots for violence. The only other real limitation is latency, so Indians in India probably won't cut grass in SF, just Mexicans (in Mexico).

In the longer run, this could kill cities or even states. People could live on ships in international waters, under a flag of some tax haven, but near the place they want to work to ensure low latency. Wages would equalize globally very fast.

Last but not least, versatile enough humanoid robots also mean nearly perfect sexbots - whether ai or remote controlled.
I believe you are thinking of PCB:NG
I just rewatched this out of curiosity and I think you’re seriously misremembering that episode (S4E11), the final conclusions wasn’t “busted”. They asked “busted, plausible or confirmed” and they concluded “all of the above”.

Grant actually was part of the show already at this point, they did actually find 9mm bullets they fired up, but couldn’t find 30-06 rounds. They did conclude that “straight up and down” was safe but said multiple times that bullets on a trajectory are still lethal. They present the medical evidence at the 21 minute mark, and a simulation around the 25 minute mark.

I don’t hold Mythbusters to be a scientific end-all to a discussion but I think they made that episode in good faith and portrayed it ok, even if they bulk of the testing footage was on the very narrow (and filmable) straight up and down terminal velocity aspect.
The nVidia one at least was totally nVidia’s fault (at the time I had a Dell with the same fault that needed two motherboard replacements), and that soured their relationship with Apple to the point that you’ve never since been able to buy an Apple product with nVidia technology in it.
Yes the UK is delaying their technology simply because they are ‘racist’
You may be looking back into the past with some rose color glasses. SD was not that good either. Its moderation system basically enforces first posting being the ones who got to control the conversation. So it encouraged camping so you could yell loudest. They added a 'troll' over on soylent. But that did nothing. It just gave people more ways to abuse each other. They even gave more people more mod points. Thinking that would fix things. But it still has the -1/5 problem SD has. The up/down system that hacker and reddit use has its own issues very similar to SD. Early ideas get the most attention late ones get nothing. Wisdom of the crowd sometimes works. But it also can create a negative feedback loop where bad ideas do pop to the top touted as good ones.

One of the underlying issues is the use of text. Text is a terrible way of conveying conversational meaning. Which I personally think is how many people consume the internet. "oh that is a good idea" can have so many shades of meaning from "that is actually a really terrible idea lets never talk about that again" to "yes I 100 percent agree lets do that right now". In conversation depending on which word gets the inference the meaning changes. In my head I hear it one way. But you read it a different way and the next person reads it in a totally different way.
The best code is no code. Better to spend an hour googling than a week coding.
Because it will be obsolete and 6G will be the new hotness in seven years.
As others have said, go try it out with an experienced pilot/instructor! It's very accessible.

You might be more comfortable in a motor glider - they have enough thrust to conduct their own takeoff and get you out of trouble but are still light enough to glide effectively.
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Let's plug in numbers. This says that if a service costs 125$/month/employee and I have 1000 employees ($125000/month) I will save ~5 million a year.

However a service costing 1.5 million at such a company has other costs.

$125/month is the price, not the cost. You need to plug in the full cost.
The first point has an obvious response and the last is speculative.

I find interesting to address the middle one statistically.

A given machine has a number of random events that can kill it. Each possible event type i can be modeled as a Poisson process Xᵢ with, in a given year, probability λᵢ. The machine survives in a given year if no occurrence of event i happens, with probability Pr(Xᵢ = 0) = exp(-λᵢ).

For instance, a device with an average lifetime of 8 years and a single possible cause of death, has λ = -ln(½^⅛) = 0.087.

Given N independent event types (say, if you have on the order of N components), the yearly survival of the overall machine has probability Πᷡᵢ exp(-λᵢ).

Thus the lifetime of the overall machine is ln(½)÷ln(½^(Σᷡᵢ 1÷Lᵢ)) = 1 ÷ Σᷡᵢ (1÷Lᵢ)
if each component has lifetime Lᵢ.

For instance, two components with an average lifetime of 8 years yield a single machine with an average lifetime of 4 years.

The more death-causing event types there are, the smaller the lifetime; and a general-purpose robot inherently has more.

I believe this result is counter-intuitive, and is the reason you might be led to think I am overly pessimistic.
I doubt GCC is, or even could be, using Metal.
Yet another argument to price carbon emissions. It will not only not destroy the economy, it will unleash innovation and propel us into the bright future.

(And create fun, intellectually challenging jobs for us engineers)
It's worth noting that Qihoo 360 owns the Opera Web Browser, which incidentally offers a Free VPN to protect your privacy. The Qihoo 360 Browser, Tencent QQ Browser and Xiaomi smartphone's native browser all reportedly blocks the GitHub "996.icu" repository [1]. It seems likely such client-side censorship also reports the attempted access to the Chinese government authorities for further investigation.

Other than the risks of using Opera (and other software like AirDroid, TikTok, WeChat etc), the main way I currently see users outside China being affected by similar issues is if they use Chinese Android devices, including grocery store smartphones, or those popular HDMI android dongles.

China's export of technological-enabled totalitarianism and surveillance states (especially to developing countries) is accelerating.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3029260/chinese-...
I think it's more that a ring or necklace is more easily scratch tested for hardness, harder to counterfeit, and less valuable individually. If I show up with a gold krugerrand (1oz, approx. $1,800 at today's prices), expecting to get that value or even half, you're not going to give me that value without somehow testing it. A basic density test involves both scales and beaker with water for volume--who's going to carry that around in the black market where others are trading things at DVD scale prices? If I have a bunch of gold and silver wedding bands in a ziploc, though, they're the equivalent of loose change and the risk calculation is different, especially since gold jewelry is almost as common pre-collapse cash.

The lesson I took is that a pure gold economy depends upon a level of infrastructure that just isn't present in economic collapse conditions. At best you're holding something that will retain value after things become normal again.
Only appropriate that this has risen to the top of HN. RIP Grant.
What's the alternative? As an informed civilian you cannot just let it happen imo.
To understand where and why to use inheritance, read about the design patterns first. But anyway it depends on your problem and language you use.
The phrase is up for interpretation; how about a "not overzealous" programmer? Someone who'd rather pick a well-tested off-the-shelf thing over coding it themselves.
Percentagewise, China hasn't done any better than South Korea or Taiwan at lifting their populace out of poverty. So I don't see how that comes anywhere close to excusing China's human rights abuses. And while SK and Taiwan only became democracies relatively recently, their human rights abuses even before then pale in comparison to what China is currently doing to Uighurs, Tibetans, and religious minorities in general. So yes, if anything improper is putting things too lightly.
> there are many companies and service provider which will help them built a highly customized and resilient system

aka "doing a bunch of things that might get them ready to make money at some point in the future" - which is what I originally said.

Thanks, I'll pass. Give me a revenue today and time to iterate over what one I might make 6 months from now any day.

Cashflow wins most debates.
I am the first person to agree with you, without hesitation.

But it’s worth looking at exactly what it means to attempt isolation of programs on shared hardware. SEV is an interesting way of working on it.

It seems pretty clear that your data could never be modified or read, but there’s nothing preventing starvation of resources or side-channel attacks to leak encrypted values.

Of course I also always argue against using the cloud for anything sensitive as “the cloud is really, just someone else’s computers”. Albeit with a fancy provisioning api and some proprietary services adjoining it.
Rubbing elbows with the elites is worth even more if you're not already part of the club
> but you need a lot more gateways, jumphosts and general indirection to deal with the different network segments

That hardware is already there. You don't think they share one giant switch between 16M addresses, do you?
Yea I'm just pointing out it doesn't work in the slightest. I agree with you for the most part. Especially in the case of China which for the most part is self sufficient. While israel relies on american intervention to even run sufficiently. But I also want to point out the groups perpetuating this in america are the republicans who dont actually care and are doing for xenophobic reasons not for the best interest of the people in these camps especially when they run their own.
I remember them talking about this complaint on one of the episodes, or maybe in an interview.

They explained that the episodes definitely don't always show rigour in their tests, and that there probably wasn't the rigour you would want for a paper in every test they did, but they would still do more than was shown to test different theories and add rigour. A lot of that would be left on the cutting floor.
> Is putting other countries citizens in concentration camps somehow morally superior?

No, but since a country usually has jurisdiction over most of its citizens, concentration camps for those is a tool that is readily available. Putting other countries' citizens in concentration camps isn't morally superior, but it's a tool that usually has enormously bigger repercussions in international politics.

Or if you're very bothered with the actual wording, how do you feel about a phrase like "he murdered his own neighbor"? Does it, to you, try to communicate that murdering non-neigbhors is morally superior? I don't think most people read it like that.

> America also has this they just call it a "credit score" or "klout".

Except these aren't systems explicitly constructed by the state that you are not allowed to speak out against. I, too, am worried by the diminishing power of the common worker in capitalist systems, but at least that worker can speak out against the system. And if he says "fuck the president", it doesn't affect his credit score. Nor does jaywalking. Etc.

> Wow all my US expat friends who constantly complain about having to pay US taxes despite living here in the UK must have things totally wrong then.

Indeed, the US system of worldwide taxation is pretty insane. That is, however, uniquely American, and does not apply to the West as a whole. Moreover, you can leave by renouncing the citizenship. Yes, that is a ridiculous demand – trust me, I know – but it's nowhere near needing government permission to leave the country.

> No it's racist to ignore the injustices we commit in the west while condemning Asian countries for doing the same thing with different branding.

Are you conflating "ignoring western injustices" with "not explicitly bringing out western injustices in every piece of writing about Chinese injustices"? I would claim that discourse in the West is pretty good at debating the injustices of Western societies.

> The argument isn't "China is good actually." It's "We do most of the same stuff you are accusing them of."

We do not. Here are some of the worst "stuff" China is being accused of:

* Concentration camps for an ethnic group (do not mix this up with another injustice, like the immigrant detention camps at the US southern border)

* Arbitrary punishment (do not mix this up with another injustice, like police violence).

* No protections of privacy whatsoever (do not mix this up with another injustice, like expansion of surveillance powers)

* No protection of free speech

* The lack of democracy (do not mix this up with another injustice, like the erosion of democracy in some Western countries)
Who has ever used Heatmap web analytics tools like Plerdy vs. Hotjar?
I managed to drop my old Nexus 5X several times (from regular usage height, on a variety of surfaces), and it never even got any obvious scratches.

Screen design are all about tradeoffs, but some people got it right years ago.
The point about water ballast is actually not entirely accurate - it's not to stay up longer, it's to increase speed. Gliders have a certain angle of attack at which they fly most efficiently (optimal glide angle, i.e. trading the least height for every meter forward). If you add water ballast, the speed corresponding to that angle of attack is increased. The downside is that your downward speed also increases - so when the weather gets difficult or thermals get weak, pilots dump the water.
Would you use a single NAT for a whole country? I always assumed ISP network infrastructures were regional. Not the least because if you put 10 millions IPs behind a single public IP, you will quickly run out of your 65000 ports.
For me the ability to do laundry alone is worth $$$. That is 90% of the reason I have maid service (family of 5).
I guess a database as a service instance at Google will still be accessible for Google in a decrypted way?
That’s not grammar, it’s style and convention. And the convention is not the same across all english-speaking countries. Parent comment’s punctuation is “correct” by British standards, for example.
Freshman year is the real deal. Its where you meet new friends and bond. I cannot really see the value of an online only first year.

I see this also as an opportunity to improve the online aspect of education. I remember one of my electrical engineering classes had all the lectures recorded and available at the library. This was before YouTube. But it was great that you could re-watch them for points you missed.
Better online material could be a boon for primary education. Imagine a public school with a low budget. What happens to the very talented students?
> When a fifteen year old can be put into prison for years in some U.S. states for some weed it hardly makes makes the U.S. look like it values human rights.

Would like to see some examples of this, and numbers of this. I really doubt this is widespread.

And further, if it does happen, it would have to get through prosecutors, jury, governors, etc - all of who will completely eaten alive by the press if the kid could even be misinterpreted to be a minority in the USA and the whole world would know about it. Where if someone mentions China is not exactly a good actor we get a whataboutism shitstorm.
You can also use this with a "." (email.spam@gmail.com) in Gmail.
I have no clue why would anyone give out their spare time for free to a company without getting any returns. It's not that it's charity so one could feel better about the world, it's just another tech startup. This is nuts.
I wonder how much a keyboard replacement is.
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The indicator light for the macbook pro camera is an example of an led used correctly. Off when the camera is off and on to show that the camera is on.
PSA: The 80k price tag is the sticker price. The actual average cost of Harvard is < 15k when you account for aid and parents bargaining down the price. So please try to negotiate the price if you are actually considering paying 80k.
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It doesn't tell us anything one way or the other. That's survivorship bias talking.
A few thoughts:

1. This has been possible for a while. GPT-3 is impressive, but I don't see it enabling too many fundamentally new things because many interesting applications are in the tails of the distribution where you don't have data. You can spam social media using simpler techniques based on smaller generative models (well before GPT, but still recent as in ~5 years ago), paraphrasing, and crowdsourcing. Running GPT-3 inference is quite expensive right now, but of course costs will go down over time. I'm not sure how much the lower budget will matter though - politics and large companies have had a big enough budget to do this anyway and it probably has been happening. The costs for this have been low enough for a while.

2. What makes an argument made by a machine less valid than an argument made by a human? If the machine can make a valid argument by pattern-matching your text to historical data and responses, why is that bad? That's what humans do as well, just more unconsciously.

3. I believe the culture around this will and has been changing. There are already bots everywhere, and people are slowly getting used to it. I believe there will be places where you can interact with verified humans, but not to argue or get facts (why would you want to talk to humans for that? They're bad at it.), but rather to foster relationships and get emotional support.
It's somewhat ironic that this is how many universities worked a hundred years ago.
Does anyone know what mode of AES that SEV (or SME) uses?

I have been reading though all of AMD's documents, and I cannot find what mode of AES that SEV (or SME) uses. I find it extremely odd that this is not called out in any of AMD's documents, and frankly a bit worrisome.

For the record, "A Comparison Study of Intel SGX and AMD Memory Encryption" [1] claims a modified version of AES-ECB is what SEV uses, BUT their reference links to AMD's whitepaper [2], which does NOT say anything about their mode, so I do not consider [1] to be a trustworty resouce.

[1] https://caslab.csl.yale.edu/workshops/hasp2018/HASP18_a9-mof...

[2] https://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2013/12/AMD_Memory...
Virtually everyone gets a large discount on that bill in one way or another. Few actually pay the sticker price.
Here is the government website that says so and its translation (with a really long url, but the translation is better than that of Google Translate).

Appearantly every shop should have stickers telling customers that they round cash payments. I've never noticed that anywhere.

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/geldzaken/vraag-en-...

https://www.deepl.com/translator#nl/en/%20Mogen%20winkeliers....
It's not like the UK is a paragon of freedom of expression.
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For one political party in the US, the fact that other countries have done it is considered proof that it is an anti-American idea.
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SEV is atm considered 'secure' SGX is not:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/hacke...
None of what you’re saying changes what I said.
I do not know if the outcome changes much, most people don't research stuff because they want to form an opinion, they are looking for others confirming their already made-up opinion.

It is the same with politicians, both sides show evidence why they are right and the others are wrong. Who can I believe? I have no clue. If I'm interested in a topic I'm gonna research it myself, otherwise, I just listen to my gut feeling.
> "Proper civil society and human rights" - like the ones afforded to Julian Assange? Or the treatment of the Grenfell tower victims' families?

Now imagine a society where every dissident is treated like Assange, and every poor nobody is treated like the Grenfell tower residents. And with no recourse. And no free media to spread the outrage. And no reasonable expectation of privacy to even discuss the matter privately as a third party with other third parties. And no way to even talk about voting out those responsible.

That's China. Take your false equivalence elsewhere.
Let me guess. 17.?