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Right now, civilisation will be over in a few generations due to climate change. If I cut my emissions to zero, and 1m other people do the same today then... civilisation will be over in a few generations.

This is what no one seems to get. The change we want is not small, we don't actually care about about delaying this a year or two. It's avert disaster or don't.

We cant solve this problem one tonne at a time. We either all get together and solve it. Or we don't solve it at all.
Huh? what?
> Something like speculative side channel attacks would still speculate on the unencrypted memory right?

This wouldn't prevent a Spectre attack or similar cache-based attack, as the memory would be decrypted at that point. However, it would mitigate attacks like Meltdown or Rowhammer.
> Use your time to start an online business

What does that even mean? It make me think that for this guy “starting an online business” means setting up a dropshipping website or something equally scammy
Hello HN friends!

I never thought I'd say this, but - yes - I just published a book!

14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers is now available for everyone.

It's everything I know about productivity, tech career, and side projects into one package. I spent 3 months writing this, 1 month working on the launch, and 10+ years living these ideas.

To be honest, I never wanted to write a book, but I believe that being a developer is more than knowing the hottest tools.

You can learn the most popular frameworks, use the best programming languages, and work at the biggest tech companies, but if you cultivate bad habits, it will be hard for you to become a top developer.

Because of that, I decided to reach out to the best developers I know and ask them tips on how to be more productive.

I went after tech giants such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Powerful startups such as Spotify, GoDaddy, and Shopify. All the way to established organizations such as Citibank and The New York Times.

This book is a collection of valuable learnings not only from me but from experienced programmers from all over the world.

I hope you like it :)

Let me know if you have any questions! I'm here to answer every single one of them.
Sad news.

I remember fondly watching Myth Busters show. RIP.
I found out this was a bad idea to use when I used it with gmail to signup for AirBnB. I had forgotten that I used it.

I created a new account without it, but I could not bring over my past reviews.
Why should you outsource your Mobile App Development
I do not agree with this. Renewables and EV uptake is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, we just haven't hit the tipping point yet.

We're definitely not moving fast enough, but we're still moving pretty fast on the economic proposition of renewables and electrified transportation alone.
So frustrating when you have a coworker who you get along with very well, will take walks/lunch/etc, but refuses to go to happy hour or do anything outside of work.

We’re all people, shouldn’t matter where we met. It’s not like we talk about work outside of work.
cheers, good to know.

to note, TMCx is also a JLabs site, fwiw

https://jlabs.jnjinnovation.com/locations/jlabs-tmc
It shows that cars can never reach the pricepoint of a bike for the same lifetime, because the increased number of failure points require an increased level of quality of each part to yield the same lifetime.
The greenest instruction is the one you don't run in the first place. Remember that the next time your reason to be lazy about perf optimization is "just throw more hardware at it."
I've become the very thing I sought to destroy.
Nobody is saying that improving data center efficiency will save the world. But saying that it achieves nothing at all is another extreme.

> people think they're achieving something by personally cutting their co2 emissions by a few kg per year.

If they reduce their emissions a bit and think that's enough - well, that's bad. If they realise it wasn't enough and more needs to be done - well, that's better than nothing. At least it's a step in the right direction.

I agree with you that global emissions just stubbornly continue to rise. Whatever we do to cut emissions just doesn't seem to matter somehow. And it's very frustrating. Yet, I think, just leaning back and doing nothing is not a solution.
I'm an immigrant in Australia. When millions of citizens and residents are out of jobs, I think asking the govt to provide free money to international students might be asking a bit too much. I don't think any other country is doing it. From a humanitarian point of view I can totally understand, but for policy makers that wouldn't be a high priority especially after the catastrophic bush fires this year.
Is there demand for such a thing? I mean what is the use case where one would want this level of security.
Paper money isn't waterproof in the US.
Good work OP. Any plans to add more variables in the future? e.g. Cost of current equivalent service being used.

P.S. I've added your calculator to my curated list of startup tools[1].

[1]https://startuptoolchain.com/#operations
That’s fine because I am not ok with a robot in the house that can strangle me in my sleep.

Not being able to walk upstairs is a feature.
Whe website has to "know" the torrents you downloaded.

If you are downloading obscure or non-english stuff chances are they don't have the torrent and it won't show up on the list.
I guess that would also entail, surrounding yourself with people who don't embroil your blood pressure. That's something within some level of control.
Contrarian point of view -- (edit) this clever device overall takes too much capital and solves no real problem, meanwhile pressing and urgent problems needing tech, remain unaddressed, year after year.

For centuries, real, physical actions in home life were improved with (mainly mechanical) devices subject to patent. The industrial revolution provides vast flows of consumer goods. Finance prospered (mainly) with loans, interest, and selling inventions like these, on large markets.

Fast forward 100+ years. Daily life is unimaginably easy, due to mass market goods for cheap, standardized living and generally, massive energy use. Markets constantly create products designed to be profitable given some game rules. Yet, there are diminishing returns. Vast, serious, ok yes urgent challenges face individuals and society, right now, and have been known for several decades.

An analogy might be the stunning success of mathematics in physics over the last 100+ years, sends multiple other soft sciences scouring math for certain curves or constants, because it worked for physics. Repeatedly, social science for example, is subject to physics-like curves and constants, searching for computable understanding, which is probably not appropriate to the endeavor.

The market is scouring product space, using formulas from long ago, to make the "killer" product. They say it here in the comments. This is to make money for people who are already very wealthy, using formulas that include massive diminishing returns (huge capital, you bet), and basically solve no real problem. Labor is over-abundant in modern times. People are living in isolation in Western Cities, and this is an isolation device. A very modest arrangement with a living person who needs work to earn money in the city, would solve the "problem" here, and requires no capital.

I suggest these talented, funded inventors look more deeply at the real ecosystem we are faced with overall, and get off of the gerbil wheel of get-rich personal consumption devices, because overall, societal survival actually does depend on tech right now.
Periods are ignored in gmail and anything after a + is also ignored, so all of these will go to the same mailbox:

johndoe@gmail.com
john.doe@gmail.com
j.o.h.n.d.o.e@gmail.com
johndoe+spam@gmail.com
john....doe+spam@gmail.com

but johndoe.spam@gmail.com wouldn't go to the same mailbox.
lol i don't understand your point "harvard doesn't have secret math - the proof is all of these publicly available math lectures from world renowned mathematicians"

the value of harvard math profs isn't reaped by the undergrads, it's reaped by the grad students that work closely/directly with these profs. i'm not 100% sure of this but benedict gross probably isn't holding several hours of office hours every week for his undergrad algebra classes (although he might for the grad sections).

now the knock-on effect, obviously, is that the very good math phd students that pursue and are admitted to harvard do provide a lot of value for the undergrads (since they're TAing/holding office hours for those undergrads). but those same harvard phd students then go get tenure track positions at mediocre schools where office hours are held by profs. so it all evens out as far as undergrads go :)
Unless you run a database in the Confidential VM, can run mySQL, postgresql, MariaDB. Google managed db service, say GCP CloudSQL is not supported...
BMG: A Production Ready Relational Algebra in Ruby
My sleep isn't perfect either but if you feel fine you probably slept enough and if you didn't, you won't. I use a sleep tracker but it's not very useful except for that day.

The issue to me is that you never seem to fix your issues from sleep. Did you solve the problems?
It's always a cat and mouse game, user+$RANDOM@example.org would still get through and you'd not be able to block that based on the sender (assuming you do it like most people, blacklist-based, rather than allocating new email addresses when you need them).

Of course, this only becomes an issue when the masses start doing it. I'm very surprised how few spammers remove tge +tag, given that that's semi-mainstream by now.
Because it is false equivalence of the highest order.

- Yes, the US has a police brutality problem. (Though not near as bad)

- Yes, the US has a government corruption problem. (Though not near as bad)

That acknowledged:

* At no point will you disappear in the US for criticizing the government.

* At no point will you be placed into a concentration camp and tortured.

* At no point will you be barred from participating in society because you lost points on a "social score" calculated on things such as following the wrong religion or criticizing the government.

* At no point will you be subject to ethnic cleansing.

* This list could be many times longer.

The US is not a totalitarian police state and it is fundamentally dishonest, to the point of mendacity and/or trolling, to equate the two. There are no countries on this planet with entirely clean hands. All have committed abuses, all have fallen short. With the binary 1 and 0 off the table, that leaves us with a matter of degrees, and some countries objectively have worse human rights records than others.

On top of all that, most of the posts like the one you quoted amount to whataboutism, or the tu quoque fallacy. This is an ancient trope. Soviet-era Russia tried it[1] too. The response to "China puts people that disagree with them into concentration camps" is not "But the US..", or "that's not fair because.. (it's not as if these accusations are unsubstantiated by fact)", the answer is "that is wrong and should be condemned".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
> For some reason carbon tax seems like a lot of extra and complicated steps to just tax fossil fuels way more.

This is what carbon tax means. Taxing fuels according to their carbon content. Carbon content is easy to determine precisely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax

The imprecise part would be estimating and placing import taxes for products and services from countries that do not take part in the carbon tax system.
Private Voice AI with React
> Music curation was done by actual people before

You can find such thing now as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23717756
What difficulties have you had with Zookeeper and Kafka? Zookeeper can be difficult mostly because developers don't understand it very well. But in the case of Pulsar/BookKeeper/Kafka the usage of Zookeeper is very minimal so it's main problem constraint (performance) is mostly mitigated.
Availability and management wise Zookeeper 3.5+ is actually pretty great. You do need to understand dynamic ensemble management but really it's a small price to pay for it's rock solid nature. Stuff like etcd is getting close these days but it took 3 protocol versions and tons of bugs, performance and scalability problems for it to get close to ZK.
It really depends what job you do. We’re lucky enough in tech that companies don’t necessarily pay based on diploma, but I can guarantee that if you’re in traditional big corporation world, a Harvard grad will be payed a good 20% more than someone who went to an average university
I use the "companyname" part of "companyname@mydomain.tld" to express (often very profane) editorial views about the company when their site won't let me sign-up with "companyname@mydomain.tdl". I'm sure nobody ever sees it, but it makes me feel better.
That's not how risks work.
Corporations getting rich off the CCP's action siding with the CCP is hardly surprising.
That's because the email in fact went to barfoo@gmail.com, not bar@gmail.com

So if you wanted to use it like this you would try something like b.ar@gmail.com
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These are not jobs. Have you never given your time free?

Do you know volunteers help many commercial organisations, from marshalling Formula 1 races to help in running exhibitions, etc?
Living in the area I've had pockets of Harvard grads in my life over the years. It's been eye opening in this regard. The opportunities provided to them for having "Harvard graduate" on their resume and/or the connections they made while they were there gave them a leg up in so many ways. Sometimes profound, sometimes subtle, but always there. As an example, I had an ex-gf who had been an undergrad there but moved to NYC to pursue a career in theatre. Instead of the usual waiter/bartender type side gig she was able to do SAT tutoring through a service which only hired Harvard grads, and as it turned out that was their only required qualification. Turns out rich New Yorkers would pay a huge amount per hour to have their children tutored by "Harvard grads". She was making more money than I was as a software developer while working far fewer hours. Granted, software wasn't the sort of wages we see today but the effect was real.

I've taken classes at Harvard Extension out of convenience, but even in cases where it's "the same class" at no point did I tell myself it was the same experience.
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Yeah, and when I asked, the answer was "oh I don't hang out with coworkers outside work", which I can't understand.
The first time I've read "Harvard announced that it would continue 100% online learning in the Fall but keep tuition prices the same" I thought this means you can watch all the lectures for free and only have to pay if you care to visit them offline, get the assignments and the diploma. Apparently this is not the case although many Harvard courses actually are available online for free.
My airpods pro are rattling as well. Great.
for all those talking about their benches: good job making this about yourselves ! why pass an opportunity, right ?
Existing 4G LTE connections work well enough for those use cases you listed; users will hardly notice any difference on 5G. The real benefit of 5G will be in the new types of applications it enables.
Don't feel sad, you're increasing shareholder value! That's way better than anything nature has to offer.
Do a search for "Jim Williams workbench", you won't be disappointed.
I think this is a very good development. The price of education should be inflated as much as possible so everyone can receive high quality education.

While it is good to have like minded people come together, nepotism is not desirable. Having direct contacts to mentors is worth a lot, but I doubt it can justify the price.

The focus on the best of the best has become focus on the richest of the rich.
Societal survival depends on societies accepting the use of existing technology - nuclear power.
So do you believe that global net co2 emissions are not currently growing? Or that we are making progress despite them growing?
The genomic footprint of coastal earthquake uplift
Then go find that info it’s all easily available
Perhaps it was a whole family:

- games for parent 1

- movies for kids

- tailoring instruction for parent 2
All the data that major tech companies are harvesting from you
Turns out my understanding of what a closure is exactly was almost there, but still wrong. For the longest time I thought closure was just basically another name for a function. Which it kind of is? But it's something more specific. Thanks for the learning!

I really appreciated how concise the language is in here, and how it focuses on the quick definition, gives the reader the heads up that "this is it - you can stop now", and then goes into further detail. This is really well written.
What % of students with family incomes under 65k/yr are admitted to Harvard vs the % of students with family incomes greater than that?

According to: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobilit...

“ The median family income of a student from Harvard is $168,800, and 67% come from the top 20 percent. About 1.8% of students at Harvard came from a poor family but became a rich adult.”
Great, now I can home from work!
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Throwing away the backend: Towards a data delivery network
That's how it works in China and other East Asian countries, if you ever read the history of Korea, government offices were essentially monopolized by Yangban in the late Joseon dynasty. Which was basically an aristocratic class of test takers.

Meritocracy over a period of time warps into its own form of elitism.
Open a new window somewhere in the world
And no newspapers write about your mysterious disappearance, and your best friends and family can't even discuss it quietly among themselves without fear.
Is it the job scheduler?
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong but wouldn’t this also allow for caching across sites? Meaning that once one site requests react@16.13.1 the browser should cache it so that once the user goes to another site that asks for the same version then the browser should serve the cached version. This would be an acceptable trade off for me as far as the lack of code splitting and tree shaking goes.
"Tech Twitter TLDR".

As if there is only one "tech Twitter" that you can concisely summarize in a "TLDR".

For another, why would I care what users on Twitter say? Is there some proven law that sentiment of Twitter users (mostly bots? I don't know) is now the sentiment of the masses?

I'm not denying that there are many students that are angered by Harvard not agreeing to lower tuition costs for online learning, but what does "Tech Twitter" have anything to do with that?

Has any one of these prospective Harvard students written something expressing their disdain at Harvard and the extremely overpriced American higher education industry?

"Twitter is where all the action happens in the tech industry".

Absolutely not. It's where a lot of people mumble garbage about random things. Are there some people on Twitter who don't do this? Of course. However, the large majority of Twitter is a cesspool and it should not be taken as a first-tier source of information.

There's just so much wrong with this post.

Emoji's everywhere, before practically every sentence and in every section. Tip to the writer - if you want to be taken seriously, do as serious journalists do, and let your prose convey the emotions you want them to convey to the reader. Emojis simply have no place in any journalism of any kind, unless you're a "Twitter power user" I guess.
Not sure if you are being sarcastic, but assuming you aren't. No consumer is asking for 5g, and I don't think any consumer will realise the difference. And not sure that 5g can do much good on a train, unless the train circles around inside a big city and never goes in the countryside where what matters is antenna with long range.
Any article that mentions unbundling, disruption, bubble and tipping point in less then a thousand words deserves mention in the Malcolm Gladwell hall of fame.

Here's the opposite argument: universities will eat bootcamps for lunch because in the post-COVID era they will be hungry for the same dollar and I would much prefer getting a Harvard Online degree than from Fullstack Camp TM.

There's no doubt that higher education will be transformed by the COVID19 crisis but it's extremely unlikely (in my view) that the shifts will go along the lines predicted by Silicon Valley 'product thinkers.' There's a reason why Universities have lasted longer than civilizations.
This blog post is self-contradictory. On one hand it says "people aren't going to pay full price for just online college", and then in the other "people will be able to learn from 'influencers' just as well as they do from colleges."

The reason people don't want to pay full price for online learning is because they know it has much lower value than in-person instruction.
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> GCP does not have root access to the customers VMs

I mean, they have physical access to the hypervisor host machines, where they could do anything they like to them, e.g. tap the JTAG pins of the CPU.

Insofar as you assume that the attack here is “the NSA compels Google to gather evidence against you”, the lack of just being able to log into the VM doesn’t really change much.
No one is suggesting it be solved one ton at a time. A billion different solutions all working together is how it is solved. This is one of those billion.
The US condemned BDS by the way. Look it up.
It goes something like this:

1. Tether was announced as a "USD equivalent" - i.e. 1 tether == 1 USD which would be deposited somewhere in a bank accouont

2. Billions of dollars worth of tether were created with no USD backing, injecting fake value into the system

3 These tethers were used to buy BTC, thereby giving an artificial value to BTC since it was assumed thes BTC/Tether transactions could be treated as BTC/USD transactions.

Essentially a lot of fake demand was created for BTC, thereby inflating the price massively, and luring retail investors to spend real money for BTC since they saw it as a rapidly appreciating asset.
I'm wondering how much worst it is since we already can track people pretty well with cellular data now. Sorry if I didn't make that clear, seems like they can already do all those things. How much worst can it be?
Show HN: FriendlyCaptcha – a privacy friendly proof-of-work based CAPTCHA
Not a lot of genuine people in the entertainment business for sure. Its tragic that such a great thinker is lost, especially for our generation 50 feels so young, who knows what he could have done with more years.
They had to. This was the only reason why people would refuse to migrate from GSuite to Office365.
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I use these all the time with my outlook.com account (and Gmail before that). You are right that they don't help with spam. However, they add an extra layer of security because now my logins have both a unique email address and password. Of course, a password manager is mandatory.
Are you saying that all you need to get accepted to Harvard is to have a B highschool GPA? That ... doesn't sound right.
Since when do we define the value of something by the infinite list of things it can't do?

I could make a list a mile long of all the things my dishwasher cannot do... does that mean no HNs have dishwashers?
SEV is targeted to the VM instances, with a single key per VM.
SME is applicable to the entire server, similar to total memory encryption with a single key for all host kernel/machine. SME is not super applicable to the cloud, more suitable for a single server environments.
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