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> Hedge funds aren't run like they were in the early 2000s.

It appears that they changed how they were run the instant Trump was elected. Funny how that works!
It would probably be cheaper and easier to test at a terrestrial cyclotron
Remember that SQLite (the obvious choice) was rejected for browser local storage because there was only one implementation.

Would W3C apply the same rule if there was only Chromium?
UN Security Council rejects US proposal to extend Iran arms embargo
Maybe uninhabitable is the wrong. Surely life finds a way, what I’m saying is what will be left is a shitty world where survival is tough and life is crude, short, and brutish.
If I'm understanding you correctly, your argument is that if we don't become a multi-planetary species, extinction is assured. And we don't stand a chance of going multi-planetary if we don't take advantage of cheap fossil fuels within the next several years.

Why do think we need to leverage fossil fuels to build rockets? My impression was that solar and wind are already out-competing coal in terms of electricity production, and are close to beating natural gas too.

I also don't think fossil fuels are required to build rockets. Hydrogen can easily be generated from electrolysis (although a bit more expensive than from methane), Methane can be produced from plants, and while I haven't heard it tried yet I imagine a fuel similar to RP-1 could also be synthesized from plants, similar to how we make ethanol.

Do you think we won't be able to switch to renewables in time, or is my analysis on how effective renewables are off?
I posted an example in another thread, beyond that I am not willing to test how good is my legal insurance.
Django Rest Framework has really slow serialization. After seeing it in action, I wrote my own simple serializer that I have been using quite a bit. Deserialization isn’t event really needed: just feed the submitted JSON into vanilla Django forms. It works better anyways.
There are negative externalities to this too. In crowded big city parks or Multi use trails where safe speed is like 12-13mph you get groups easily going 25mph+ on high end carbon fiber.
You are correct that the “end of world” predicted in initial months didn’t play out... yet. However, I feel even this is mostly luck. We got lucky with something that can be reasonably controlled with masks and hand washing.

Next pandemic will have countries hoarding masks and essentials even more early.

All that said, I was still talking about non-pandemic events.
Well, let’s not get carried away here. The “native population” are bugs and worms and there is no indication in the game that they’re sentient.
Hard for me to separate theses Thiel is partially right about from the great harm his existence has done to our species.
We have the technology to address sea level rise. Yes, it will be expensive, but it's possible. Look at what the Netherlands did almost 100 years ago.

"...It became part of the larger Zuiderzee Works in which four polders totaling 2,500 square kilometres (965 sq mi) were reclaimed from the sea."
Looking at the async view example, at what point can we just drop async/await keywords and just have Python assume that everything is asynchronous?
Russia and China opposed and 11 other countries abstained
FCC streamlined smallsat licensing regulations published
This is a point that we need to think carefully. The melting projections are only as good as our understanding of our planet's systems. Just look at weather, are we really good at predicting it?

We have come a long way but if we are not certain about next week's weather, how do we know what chain reactions are going to start, that can in-turn melt Greenland (Antarctic, etc.) ice way faster?

We are literally scratching the tip of the iceberg (no pun intended). Our scientific models have changed recently and I am sure they will change again, soon. So why are we so sure that the melt will not accelerate to catastrophic levels?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_ice_sheet#Recent_obs...
They're also a wealthy, densely packed, small country that had foresight and has been consistently building forever now.

I think most places will just deny, deny, deny until they're ankle-deep then say there's nothing that can be done. Other places will acknowledge the problem, but not have the materials and people to do much.

New York is one place with the wealth and people to build a sea barrier, but whether it'll be politically viable against the focus-on-the-economy-of-today opponents is another matter.
> Many patterns that rustc refuses aren't inherently wrong. They are because 1) you have to aid lifetime inference and memory management unlike GC languages 2) All safe patterns can't be verified by compiler, especially if threads are involved.

It's not about the patterns being wrong, it's about the patterns being verifiable and having a compiler that's on your side, not on the side of watching the world burn. The difference between C's laissez-faire approach, where no new warnings are added and anything's whatever you want it to be vs. a subset of provably correct things you can opt out of at your discretion.

Yes, it's not going to catch all edge cases, yes it's not perfect, however the idea people are behind is that it represents a fundamental change from "I'm sure the smart engineer knows what they're doing" to "hold on now, let's assume they don't, or will forget in 6 months, or some new person is going to have zero context." That model maps much better to the reality we have vs. the one we wish we had.

My opinion is hardly culty, I write ObjC at my day job at $BIGCO, I've done plenty of Swift, I've written plenty of embedded C, plenty of C++, implemented a ton of stuff in VHDL. Rust is my go-to for personal projects. It's genuinely better. Not perfect, better. And better's what I'm looking for.
The pandemic example was just an argument that our food supply system is robust in the face of some unexpected events. What do you think could happen during non-pandemic events which could topple it?
He's not nearly the first one to make this claim, so I'm not sure why it's even notable... "billionaire believes an oft-feared problem"
Web History: Browsers
Ray Dalio, the investing guru, says he’s been most surprised by events that hadn’t happened before in his lifetime, but have happened repeatedly if you look a century or two back in history. Global warming is not only new in our lifetimes but also in recent recorded history which makes it particularly hard to anticipate and plan for.
That’s why I avoid hospitals. Guy is perfectly alive, taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
Fifteen meters is a bit too much, the lowest point is about 22 feet below (6.7m). Quoting Wikipedia:

The Netherlands is geographically very low relative to sea level and is considered a flat country, with about 26% of its area and 21% of its population located below sea level, and only about 50% of its land exceeding one metre above sea level.

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

I live below sea level myself. Most Dutch don't feel too worried, and think that with rising sea levels we'll just fix things on our shores and dikes. And good chance we will, by throwing huge amounts of money at infrastructure projects.

And here you have the problem with climate change, and destruction of our world in general: the richer you are, the less affected you are.

The poor fall from the map first. It is places like Bangladesh and inhabitants of tropical islands that'll fall victim before us rich folks do.

For the absolute biggest polluters, the big barons, oligarchs and plutocrats, this problem does not exist. There will always be a tropical paradise island to own, bluefin tuna to eat, and elephants and lions to hunt.
Java.util.EnumMap Class
how long can a video be without crashing? I think one of the biggest risks towards something like this is spending two hours maybe recording a video only to have it fail halfway through with no data saved
I've built a few ~10-20 hp equivalent electric boat motors and some smaller brushless pod motors like the ones that efoils use -- It's really satisfying engineering work and you have to master so many disciplines along the way: machining/fabrication, CAD, electronics, software, etc... And as with any project of that complexity, you could spend a lifetime just getting interested in a single part of the project.
Peter Theil is an insulated idiot genius who happens to be right on this
I wonder if even Intel ever had a document this complete.
Total SEC enforcement actions are still dancing around their peak, so a hypothesis that the administration has become more friendly to financial misconduct seems disconfirmed.
The fundamental problem is that music teachers tend to care about music, while administrators tend to care about protecting their own jobs. So any budget cuts tend to cut services, rather than reducing the overhead. This dynamic plays out everywhere with overgrown middle management.
I recently wrote a python api for work and used FastAPI, I want to like it, but it was doing so much magic behind the scenes that it ended up being frustrating to use and just got in my way, ended up dropping it in favour of using Starlette directly
No, I don’t need to. The gas I use doesn’t necessarily come from the energy company I’m contracted with. Say I use 2000 cubic meters of gas a year, then my gas company is obligated to pump that amount of gas into the national gas network somewhere. There is no gas line for each company, instead they are each responsible for providing enough gas into the national network to cover their customers.

In the same way I don’t have 13 fiber lines to my home. There is just 1 fiber from my home to a PoP. The company that owns that fiber is obligated to provide a level playing field, open access to anyone. They don’t actually operate an ISP, they simply rent out the fiber and rack space in the PoPs to the ISPs.

Some smaller ISPs may simply piggy-back on the equipment of larger ISPs and resell part of their capacity. Others install their own equipment and only pay a fixed price for each customers fiber + rent for the rack space they use. Neighborhood PoPs are connected to city PoPs which are then connected to whatever backhaul network your ISP has. Same applies here, you can either rent capacity from someone else or just pay for the dark fiber and run your own network.

You can be a pure ‘paper’ provider and simply resell someone else’s stuff, or you can only rent the dark fibers and PoP space and do everything yourself, or anything in between.

You can also transition from one to the other. My current ISP started out by reselling bandwidth, but after a few years they started converting to using their own network and equipment, one city at a time. That’s how they were able to provide gbit service before anyone else.
Theoretically one family could even get 2 starlink services if they really needed faster link. No physical line is used so I can totally see some people doing that if they really want to and can afford it.
The title is confusing. They found a llama miniature, not a miniature llama. Miniature ponies and miniature schnauzers are animals, but this is a figurine made of shell.
Do you not think you are doing the same, just in reverse? I am at least trying my best to get out of "my" selfish being and ask a question for our entire planet. And what you want to do is kill that very question because you want to go to the grocery store and buy milk, right?

Think, for once, what if this is actually happening like every climate scientist says. What if the oil cos actually wanted to squash all evidence? What if you are their agent? What do they have to lose if we start listening to the scientists - everything.
Greenland is called greenland for a reason. And ice isn't that reason. (Do your own historical research, ok?)
If comments on the same line (or an adjacent line, such that it shows up in `git diff` output and the default code review display) get stale then that is a pretty bad failure of both the programmer and the reviewer(s); in my experience that doesn't happen very often.

A much bigger issue is comments that are a few lines (or a few tens of lines) away from some piece of what they're talking about. Then, they suffer from exactly the same issue as documentation anywhere, inside the repo or out: something drew the developers attention to the code that needed to be changed, but then there was no reason they should have known to look in this particular other location for text talking about what they changed. That's not the programmer's fault, unless we want our programmers to take the time to review every piece of documentation for anything that might need to be changed. I'd guess there are some contexts where that's appropriate, but I haven't ever worked in one.

Alternatively, we could have it be someone's job to own the docs, continually run over them and make sure they still apply, and stay abreast of PRs as they merge. I haven't seen that tried - it might be valuable if it was a role someone wanted.

What I've been trying is adding cross-references to my code, so that something can always be visible on the line or a neighboring line that notes that there's something relevant in another place. This is then checked in CI for integrity, and references that appear in the diff have their referents surfaced on the PR for the benefit of the reviewer. So far the links are pretty sparse, but have already been somewhat valuable. I intend to piggyback on the same system as I introduce ADRs.

I'd like to release the above tooling as F/OSS but really the trickiest parts are CI integration. The check is literally piping git diff to grep, looking for things of the form ^^{some label} and finding the associated @@{some label}. I decorate the PR on github with annotations through the Git Checks API.
> Interesting that the recent Apple drama is making its way into the update as well

Where? I didn't see it. (Is it possible that the blog post was edited after the fact?)
Could you expand?

If it’s “will lead to flames and reddit is happy with that, HN, not so much”, sure.

If there’s another possibility I’d like to learn it. These days I think my flame barrier drops down before I can think of other things :-(
Interview with August Cole, Author of Ghost Fleet and Burn-In
USPS removes mailboxes in Portland and Eugene, cites ‘declining mail volume’
The internals of Chrome and Safari have diverged dramatically since the fork (which was 7 years ago).

Chrome has done multiple huge projects that changed how things work at a fundamental level like Oilpan (using a C++ garbage collector), LayoutNG (a full rewrite of the layout part of the engine from the ground up), Slimming Paint (a full rewrite of the compositing and painting system), and Site Isolation.

Blink and WebKit are pretty different engines with very different behavior, bugs, and performance characteristics.
Facebook begins merging Instagram and Messenger chats in new update
I find that discoverability is the problem. Out of all the classes I took, 2 without a doubt made the whole experience worth it and is still paying dividends: (discrete math and advanced algorithms) -- but I had no idea at the time that they would be the ones that would provide so much value. They were the classes that convinced me that I wanted to write software and not do electrical engineering. I wonder how you can solve this without simply going through the four years and hoping for the best.
How is this down voted? It’s exactly how things have changed
I hear you. I agree. But I also see the concerning potential for ignorance and parallel to new world problems.

They look different. They’re inferior. I don’t see any sign of high intelligence.
If the organisation you're trusting can't secure a single OS reliably, why on earth would you have confidence that it could vet every single app on its store and detect all possible abuses reliably? The latter is likely to be a much harder problem.
Thanks for the tip.
I actually memorized C4, not C1, mistake on my side.
That's a repeated wrong assumption. In general there is no unified rollout plan within AWS. Each service can use a different method.
> It'll still suck for amateur astronomers and photographers

spaceX could just sell time on satellites as a service, and anyone (amateur or professional) can just buy and use that time to photograph anything in super high fidelity and with no atmospheric interference.
It's always a good idea to thoroughly examine every detail of a used car before trusting it at high speeds on a highway. Sounds like it might have been quite difficult to detect this particular problem though if it was a barely visible hairline crack that just got worse over time. scary.
His supporters are glad he’s doing this because (warning: generalization), they consider “the other side’s opinions too dangerous to take the risk they might win.

Needless to say some percentage of ”the other side” feel at least that trumps’s supporters’ ideas are too dangerous, though I don’t many feel that the election should be subverted because of it.

Source for first point: the polemics of various relatives who moved to the US and became US citizens. Source for the second point: two relatives who did the same, but adopted different politics.
All monarchs are unelected
https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive
I'm not aware of any credible predictions that climate change might cause the near extinction of humanity.
Probably worse. Raw steam has an ISP of around 100s. There was an experimental ion thruster from U Michigan a few years ago that got that up to nearly 700s. Some of the more efficient ion thrusters are like 20,000s (although they're operating at a different scale so idk if that's an apples to apples comparison)

Edit- I looked at the Momentus paper linked above and apparently their ISP is 800s
I'd been on the web 5-6 years before the Mosaic browser came along and the experience went from OK to terrific. I had to change ISP's because my current one said that the web was 'a fad' and 'a waste of bandwidth'. I think they were out of business in under a year. I knew some of this early history but learned an awful lot from this piece.

My father was an early antique car collector and by heading the first group of collectors in Detroit he met a lot of retired employees of the car company's, guys who invented a great many of the stuff that seems like it's always been there. Somebody had to be first. If it wasn't for the collectors a lot of this information would have been lost to history.

You think Ford Motor cares to publicize who invented the Ford script, once called the most famous logo in the world. He's the first employee at Ford and the chief designer of the Model T and his name was C. Harold Wills.

Now people are going to learn who first thought up bookmarks or cookies. Henry Ford is famous for saying 'history is bunk'. But I believe knowing this early web history is important if only for the fact that it will convince future engineers they can invent something meaningful.
infinity is an interesting thing. Every combination of thing that can be, will be and has been. The probability of not existing is zero.
And they’re unemployable, unfortunately.
This story stinks because;

-1- When you try to "weld" AN, it deflagrates at best.

-2- There where 2 explosions to be heard and seen. First subsonic, followed by a supersonic one relatively much later.
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-3-In order to detonate, not deflagrate AN, it needs to build up pressure.

-4- When either a fireworks or AN storage facility is on fire; the first thing you do did not happen.

-5- The explosion radius does not correspond to the presented narrative.

-6- The measured earthquake does not correspond to the presented narrative.

I can't tell you what did happen, but I can say we're all eating bullshit.
It's related, but I think it's not quite the same thing. It sounds like you are describing the intended design of the feature you're implementing. As I understand it, an ADR may also set policy regarding future features, where they touch an architectural concern.
From the HackerNews Guidelines:

What not to post: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

and a little further down:
"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for."
> It's gang shootings, and murders that dominate gun violence. Two things that will not stop if you magically removed all guns.

Even though it's obviously nonsense, I have no doubt Alupis sincerely believes that if there aren't guns people will use guns anyway, somehow. Sure the facts might disagree but Alupis has no time for facts. Sure logic might disagree but Alupis has no time for logic. Alupis knows a truth and so nothing else matters, and this truth must be fiercely defended because, to their disappointment somehow facts and logic keep contradicting it. Stupid facts and logic, why aren't they subservient to Alupis' truth?

Mostly I can't help you on gun control, people like Alupis aren't your main obstacle there although they don't help. But I do have a more general piece of advice. You shouldn't hire these people in any technical role that's going to involve debugging of any sort. Because they so easily believe in a truth which they have settled upon independent of the facts, they are useless in these roles and they don't know it.

A defiant belief in truths that are belied by the facts might be an admirable trait in like, a preacher, or maybe marketing. But in debugging it's a massive impediment.
I can't quit it because I haven't found an alternative for Skype numbers, and calls to landlines.
The Kodak Affair was barely two weeks ago so maybe getting caught is a thing of the past but the practice is right in front of our noses.
>It's not like everyone at the hedge fund worked together to insider trade, that'd be too risky.

If the Libor scandal can happen, it's not difficult to imagine a hedge fund working together for this purpose.
What a shame, especially that the dome reflector was damaged too. I remember visiting in person and being awestruck by the sheer size and engineering skill needed to make this. Plus it provides needed tourism revenue for PR; I hope it's not abandoned.
Yes, but softer.
The picture that the Oregonian ran with this article is of the characteristic red-and-white outgoing ballot envelopes used in Oregon; I think that we all are thinking not just of mail but of ballots when reading this news.

Don't tell the fascists, but Oregonians have a system of ballot dropoff locations at libraries and other popular locations. [0] contains a listing for Multnomah County (Portland), and there's a bunch of locations for Lane County (Eugene) as well, although they don't have an official website listing. Combined with the generous voting window of several weeks, we should have no problem voting even if we can't use USPS blue boxes for dropoff.

[0] https://multco.us/dropsites
Ask HN: Do you believe President Trump is a Russian agent?
If so, why? Keep it civil please.
Ya, I'm tinkering on some collaborative apps of my own, so I'd love to hear about this... I'm _assuming_ CRDT with json types?
Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995) [pdf]
> I also see that the global media is very reluctant to discuss Vietnam's success in handling Covid.

Do you have data to confirm that? I disagree with your assessment, and have seen Vietnam frequently mentioned
> The answer is simple, protection from them taking it by force.

No force can stand against an infinite amount of drones, to name just one thing. Those who own the means of production that no longer require workers will also own all means of warfare. Few people own more and more, faster and faster. This will not magically wrap around to the opposite.
If we let Seattle’s chop run for 30 years, there is no doubt in my heart that the same thing would happen Here.
Rationalization or reasoning? I'm not sure which you're talking about, and the meaning of your text winds up being pretty different in each case. I'm not sure I disagree with either.