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There is one aspect that SpaceX absolutely pioneered: supersonic retropropulsion. NASA was actually planning on testing it as it's needed for landing heavy payloads on Mars, but SpaceX figured it out for "free."
I feel like you are several metaphors removed from me right now. Rowhammer? Spectre? I am just trying to serve a couple of websites here! I'm not going to buy another rack of servers just to isolate the two. Have you seen how expensive those things are?

> Anyone selling you on containers as a security measure is pitching snake oil. They are a resource allocation & workload scheduling tool.

I agree with both of these statements — and I suspect this is where it all falls down. When you put all your applications in containers, you are not done with security, no. Nevertheless, I've found great value in having one file per version per application, being able to upgrade my dependencies one-by-one, automatically rolling back in case of failure, and taking advantage of the tools in the container ecosystem. With all that, the security features such as isolating filesystems and network ports are just the cherry on top. Before containers, I was thinking about how to give my applications limited filesystems to work with, but along came Docker, and I didn't have to think about it anymore, because I'd already done it.

This is why I feel so out-of-touch with many of the commenters here. I'm surrounded by people decrying containers for security reasons, I want to defend them because of the many benefits they have given me, and I think the people preaching some kind of True Security (where everything is 100% perfectly isolated) aren't taking this into account. I feel like I could take your comment — "Trusting the isolation like this is absolutely misguided" — and apply it to any part of the stack. You have to stop somewhere.

I've seen the salespeople. They definitely exist, but I don't think they're here on HN, and they're more likely to be learning than lying.

And developers making flawed assumptions? You know this didn't start happening with containers!
There was an old look & feel for Java UIs that made them look as if they were drawn on the back of a napkin, specifically as a reminder that the code was a work in progress: http://napkinlaf.sourceforge.net/
https://phoenixframework.org/
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Who are some other intersection coders one can follow?
I get sleep paralysis all the time, and have experienced everything described in this thread. One thing for me though is that as the paralysis starts to wane, I get a feeling of euphoria that permeates my muscles and lasts for several minutes.
Doing what you suggest has an immense issue of selection bias. You go into youtube trying to see if it recommends right wing videos, and you're going to be a lot more likely to click on right wing videos. Which then informs the algorithm that you're interested in right wing videos. The correct way to test this is to write a program, not to just watch youtube while logged off.

I used selenium to do exactly this. Start at a video, and do a breadth based search based on recommendations. No such preference for far right videos exist. It's frequently get into a hole of certain topics (e.g. first recommendation is on knitting, subsequent recommendations have a higher chance of being about knitting, and so on), but there was no substantial representation of right wing content. And it's not just me with a selenium driver. Other researchers have examined youtube and reached the same conclusion: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.11211.pdf
I agree with this, and I would further add that "confidence votes", where if the vote fails, the gov't falls, are another valuable safety hatch. Budgetary votes are always confidence votes, but anyone can move for a vote of no-confidence if they have the votes. With a majority gov't, this is hard to do unless the majority is slim and a couple people are sick (or "cross the aisle", switching parties), but with minority gov'ts it's a significant risk--the PM can't afford to alienate a large enough number of MPs to falll to a confidence vote, which is literally a ten-minute affair if it occurs. US politics has nothing of this effectiveness.
Commission Slim pants are quite common in finance.
Unfortunately your assertions don't correlate with my experience at all. I recently swapped my 1080p 60hz 23" monitor for a larger 1440p 144hz 27" one and it makes a substantial difference, not only for gaming but also for computing in general. And yes the high-resolution textures make a difference frequently, for example when your game camera is near any game geometry or model and you see nice sharp details rather than smoothed scaling artifacts. Even in terms of the entire game experience, for instance at 5:29 in this video, this isn't even 4k vs 1080p, these are both 1080p at different graphical quality levels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo5Nh9am3RM The difference in detail is immediately clear.
I've never understood why people use coinstar. I take a jar of coins to the bank and if I have an account with them, they throw it in their big coin counter and do it for free. Is this not a common service banks provide? I've only banked with a couple of banks (I'm in Wisconsin, USA) but they both do this.
I'd like to learn a bit more about your architecture/process and why it creates value over the standard ML toolkit.
It makes sense philosophically to increase capability in the database to handle uncertainty and so forth. Databases were built for transactions not analytics and a rethink would likely be fruitful.

Also, do you have any funding?
> serious or popular

I'm still a little confused. What's not serious or popular coming out of Amazon? What's the different in Microsoft and GCP?
Knowledge should be free.
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What are you talking about?

I am saying TikTok has to base its engineering entirely in US soil, given its prospect to become main stream.
A smart idea for the individual employee but terribly unfortunate for the company. Building cheap prototypes is a really good way to minimize wasted effort and gathering valuable feedback.
They’ve already have all the big core internet links, call and sms histories, facial recognition logs, license plate camera logs, real time cell locations, and gps logs at (at least) google.

I’m not sure if they bother with the long tail of traffic within smaller ISPs, but the parade of Cisco backdoors suggests they do.
Reminds me of this recent video on recovering Luminary 69, Apollo 10's lunar module code (the only known copy of which is somewhere in solar orbit) by careful reconstruction of the development process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JTa1RQxU04

This exploitation of side-channels is something to pay attention to. Data is rarely fully lost!
It's a combination of resume-driven development and premature optimization.

The former doesn't need explaining but the latter can be explained as developers being concerned about requiring the benefits of GraphQL in some uncertain future and decide to include it from the start, even though in most cases they end up never actually reaping the benefits while still being plagued by the extra overhead of using that technology.
I was really, really confused about what cats had to do with darknet-powered (drug) markets, lol. Glad to know they are not yet smuggling domestic cats there :-P
Papers, Please is my favorite example of how games can teach and inform by putting you in someone else's shoes. Especially because it is so simple and direct.
‘Up to’ is a load-bearing phrase, there, I assume.
Sarcastic jabs aren't a productive way to add to discussion. The rules of HN state that conversation must get more nuanced as it continues, not less.
Another idea aside from living 4-5yrs on savings is to save towards F.I.R.E and get financial independence for a lifetime https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financial-independence-...
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I was on a call and the client said they wanted something added to a UI.

So I very quickly used MS Paint to mock it up... Just so I could clarify that is what they wanted.I shared my screen and someone said "great, you've done it!". Even though I was clearly showing a screen that showed me editing a screenshot of the UI, in MS paint...

MS Paint.

sigh, they don't tell you in University that the biggest skill you will need in this job is patience and learning how to channel your inner zen.

Developers don't need 3 monitors to get through the working day, they need regular sessions with a psychiatrist.
That's pretty cool. They successfully deployed an UPSat into orbit!
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Something roughly similar is possible in the AWS “big data” stack. The Athena SQL engine can reference Sagemaker models for inference. This is effectively exposed via UDFs. I haven’t used it yet personally but it looks super useful.
I had a Nexus 4, with a glass back and I dropped it and chipped it early on. Since then I use a case, but I've never broken a screen for whatever reason.
WSJ? They do a better job at disguising their right-wing biases as reporting facts. I used to resd it daily 10-20 years ago but now I need to read it very carefully.
it's a good point but pretty cringe tbh
The main prepper whose account I read had a great post-mortem on his first prep effort, that basically went "lots of chocolate and DVDs and other small luxury items". Gold jewelry wasn't even the thing he was investing in to exploit the black market: a massive DVD collection was. Accessible luxuries like a movie you haven't seen are gold in those conditions. People can sock away 100 kilos of rice, but after six month's eating only that, they'll kill their own children for a bit of chocolate.
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Does it mean every thread that is downranked by moderator or superuser will have your comment in it that will show up in search results visible to everyone in the community? Or are there threads that are promoted or demoted silently?
The Netflix Open Connect appliances.
Do you not consent to space existing? You have far more exposure to all sorts of interesting radio frequencies from space every day than you'll ever see from a small radio.
Definitely! I had an opportunity to visit their physical measurement labs and get a tour of their facilities as part of my job and the amount of detail poured into every single aspect of the measurement system for primary standards was amazing.

Seeing the kibble balance that is now the primary standard for mass measurement was particularly great!

And the work going into putting primary standards into the hands of thousands of people through the Nist-On-A-Chip project is absolutely amazing.

https://www.nist.gov/pml/productsservices/nist-chip-portal
That may strengthen their stand, but far from a key factor. Khmer Rouge was China's puppet and would not be able to come to power and carry out the genocide without China's support:

> In April 1975, Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia, and in January, 1976, Democratic Kampuchea was established. During the Cambodian genocide, the CPC was the main international patron of the Khmer Rouge, supplying "more than 15,000 military advisers" and most of its external aid. It is estimated that at least 90% of the foreign aid to Khmer Rouge came from China, with 1975 alone seeing US$1 billion in interest-free economics and military aid and US$20 million gift, which was "the biggest aid ever given to any one country by China". In June 1975, Pol Pot and other officials of Khmer Rouge met with Mao Zedong in Beijing, receiving Mao's approval and advice; in addition, Mao also taught Pot his "Theory of Continuing Revolution under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat（无产阶级专政下继续革命理论）". High-ranking CPC officials such as Zhang Chunqiao later visited Cambodia to offer help [0]

Khmer Rouge was also North Vietnam's ally since they both fought against US-backed governments in South Vietnam and Cambodia. They only became enemies after winning their respective wars [1], caused by in no small part the deteriorating China-Vietnam relation.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot
600K euros is like a slap on the wrist for Google. A few people within the org get demoted or fired and life goes on.

They could probably write it off and somehow earn money on getting fined.
I own a Tesla, and it’s really nice to never worry about “filling up” except on long distance trips. Gas stations are such an annoyance that some day will be a thing of the past.
I think a large problem is open source projects actively marketing themselves, and seeking large user bases. This leads to a wasteland of zombie frameworks, and developers selling out (so to speak) in exchange for the reputation.

It is important to note, too, that etcd is permissively licensed and anyone can run the old version in whatever way they please.

The final, and biggest, takeaway? Hackernews apparently has drank the koolaid and will reach for any convenient justification to write off an opinion they disagree with. Stockholm syndrome all through the comments. Conservatism and pragmatism apparently are no longer current in the cloud economy.
You are of course correct until Exters pyramid collapses which becomes more and more a distinct possibility as the currency is debased.
A fun example of this is gas prices. It’s actually $1.999 a gallon instead of $1.99 a gallon.
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Glad to see my technical debt has gone full circle, and become the bleeding edge (joking-not-joking). Hierarchical linear models implemented as aggregation queries are surprisingly powerful and easy to scale. We use them in production to do time series forecasting, among other things.
I tend to agree with you but I don't think your argument contradicts my statement. You are basically arguing that the health emergency still exists and the exemption should remain. I think that is a defensible argument, but that doesn't mean that the underlying logic (you don't need a visa to take an online course load) is invalid. If the health argument went away you would still be left with that underlying logic.
Thank you for pointing this out you are correct and I should have been more precise in my language.
It depends on the audience. A customer demo is different than an internal demo, and I assume you are referring to an internal demo.

You must demo the product in a form that leaves the right impression of the current state. If you are painting a picture of a polished product, expect polished expectations. Instead, show the bugs and say "we are still working through this section" Show missing pages, show your work in progress. Show wrong colors. Show potential, wave your hands and tell them to imagine this part working. Don't fake it. If that feels wrong, then a demo isn't right.

If you show it in a form that looks complete and polished, even if you say it is not, how can you expect any other conclusion from the viewer other than "it's practically ready!"?
I grew up in a town that received many Cambodian people displaced by this from Thai refugee camps. It's hard to imagine what my friends parents went through to keep their children alive. I have fond memories of their temple festivals and foods. I'm so grateful for societies that can include refugees and let people live a peaceful life.
lol I was wondering the same thing... I wonder if having Silk Road in the title of this post is the reason it made the front page with only 1 comment too.
Every night is Watergate now. We don’t even have a vocabulary for the volume and magnitude of corruption.

It’s like a Sherlock Holmes novel where the killer just murders people in front of Sherlock one after another, then he painstakingly examines the bodies for clues.

https://twitter.com/JesseCharlesLee/status/96867546382772224...

I've also heard it compared to a Denial-of-Service attack on functional government or democracy or common decency. Whatever. Actually, this Metafilter comment from a couple years ago seems to sum up the present state of the union pretty well:

Unfortunately, the 21st century is proving to be the era of asymmetry, where individual bad actors can wreak greater havoc than ever before and are making use of that ability. Previous eras had bad actors of course, but they were either constrained by limitations of unamplified individual action or had power so the violations were built into the system as an expected function. That was terrible in many cases, but much more predictable. Now we have both the bad systems and less predictability for having individuals with such disproportionate ability to inflict harm on a massive scale. The commensurate ability to do good has also changed, but it can't easily get past the asymmetrical advantage bad actors have.

https://www.metafilter.com/176876/This-post-is-not-a-hoax#75...
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> Each satellite only has 20gbit/sec per beam of capacity

Can this be upgraded in future versions of the sats? Is it a major undertaking requiring new ground station hardware, or something relatively easy that will increase with each "new" version of the sats?
> There are people attacking the author for a statement made about CoreOS, and for some hate towards Kubernetes.

That's not really surprising, and maybe should be a lesson to the author. If you want to make a particular point, you shouldn't make inflammatory/controversial statements about other, only-tangentially-related things. It distracts from and dilutes your point.

For my part, I know one of the CoreOS founders, and while I have no opinion on CoreOS itself, it's really off-putting to see some random armchair quarterback on the internet shitting on the work of someone you know. While I more or less agree with the actual real point of the article, the unnecessary attacks really divided my attention.

The article starts off with a cheap potshot at CoreOS, followed by a screed about Kubernetes, and then finally, more than half-way through, we get an admission that the author has "digressed", and we get to the actual point. Certainly the point required some background about Kubernetes, but I can understand why people focus on the negative CoreOS and Kubernetes aspects of the post, since they consist of more than half of the content.
Truthfully, the brand specific magazines (e.g. Antic for Atari) were the best resources to learn to program. I learned 6502 out of a magazine then got some real manuals.
Reminds me of ETH smart contracts.
Rural Washington is a smart move; it’s mainly desert. Clouds aren’t great for satellite signals.
I never tried satellite TV, but have a few relatives who had nothing good to say about it, mostly due to poor reception issues. I think if you live in a dry region it might not be so bad, but unlike with internet, you can't as easily drop a connection and try again when watching a scheduled or live broadcast.
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There is also a free (except for iOS) version of BASIC (https://www.b4x.com/) that compiles to executables that run on Android, iOS, Windows, OSX, Linux, etc.

It's very much like Visual Basic, including a visual UI editor, and has a very strong community. The developer (one guy!) often answers questions in the forums.
You already can buy farmland and get decent ISP coverage. In fact, there is often more competition and better service in rural areas than in places dominated by the cable and telco monopolies.

I spot checked a county I’m familiar with. Population density: < 10 per square mile. Median income: 25-30K. They have fiber to the home, and offer up to 1GBit symmetric, even outside of town (where the houses are a ~mile apart).

They don’t have to trench to run the fiber underground anymore. Instead, they have a roto-rooter style boring machine that installs the fiber as it builds a tunnel. They use a metal detector to figure out where to steer it.
"Shippable" is not equivalent to "done", in any way.
In 3-5 years each location may be covered by 10+ satellites, but that still won't be enough.

I think I saw a photo of a 5 Tbps Netflix POP recently.
Yep. buy vs build was a big change for our company, VP made the decision to stop building but the culture is ingrained and difficult to change.
Can you point to the open dataset that shows which users upvote which content, and which threads are promoted or demoted by moderators or superusers?
lol I was wondering the same thing. Are you trying to suggest that people upvote based only on headlines without reading the actual source? ¬‿¬
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None of those things have a fixed nominal value. They're not health indicators.
There can be danger in improperly storing LN if it comes into contact with air, since it will liquefy oxygen. Liquid O2 is a very dangerous thing to have in your garage.
It is time to fix broken tech interviews
I’m as tired as many of you of the broken tech interviews. So, I decided to do something about it.

Here’s a v0.0.1 of a proposal to improve tech interviews: https://github.com/FixTechInterviews/proposal/blob/master/fix-tech-interviews-proposal.md

Please help me improve this by submitting a PR with your feedback.
Yes, but then I'd have to go to the bank just for that. The Coinstar machines are conveniently located in grocery stores and big box stores. And as dlhavema said, if you get your money as a gift card, it's free. Different Coinstar machines have different cards, but they all seem to have Amazon or Walmart.
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Superchargers have basically eliminated range anxiety.

They are absolutely everywhere and barely add time to any long trip that isn't completely cross country.
Who knows, maybe, maybe not, but it doesn't necessarily follow that those ideals are being taken seriously, and more importantly that they also follow through in confirming the allegations (they often seem not to), and just are worried about their branding when a perceived 'toxic' person is associated with their brand. Companies generally worry about revenue more than they worry about ideals, no matter what is claimed. I'm not saying that cynically, either, I think that's what investors and boardmembers care about and for obvious reason.
It's funny that you consider that complex; I consider that a pretty normal, expressive type signature that gives the compiler critical information about how I expect to use that function, which in turn allows it to completely squash several classes of bugs I might write.

But I love strong type systems; people who prefer weak type systems would likely consider things like this to get in their way.
I think this is a new program set up in the aftermath of those widely publicized scandals during (or shortly previous) to the financial crisis in the late 2000s
bug bounties

s/bug/fraud/
> Ironically enough, Google is one of the few major tech companies that can't be compelled to hand over information to China.

Interestingly enough, Google gets bashed most on HN than all the other companies in this list combined.
I think what I read from what was posted was that in your mind a decision had been made that Grant Imahara didn't warrant a black bar; and, I'm not sure if that decision was one that had been made, just that no decision had been made.
To do that, you'd really need the entire 2.11BSD distribution in source control. So the real problem would be that you'd need to start with...patch...level...zero. :whoa:

Seriously, that would be a beautiful thing from a historic standpoint. But there is no git client for 2.11BSD, so you'd also end up having to build a git->something (probably shell archive and b64 compressed tar) that could allow the 2.11BSD system to update itself (and we're talking a 16/22 bit system here). There are also changes that require kernel recompiles and/or reboots so it turns out to be an extremely difficult problem. Which is why there are these human readable patches.
good news, huawei just got bunch of 4G LTE Advanced++ gears to sell
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