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I know exactly what you mean. The Colour Maximite 2 [1] is the closest I've found to the concept in modern hardware. An ARM Cortex M7 at 400 MHz so two orders of magnitude faster than 8 bit. I don't own one yet but very tempted!

[1] https://geoffg.net/maximite.html
Sure, but that only works if a critical mass of people rally behind specific leadership. Millions of individuals acting independently is just chaos. So the question is, which web organization should we rally behind? WHATWG? Well, ok, but... ugh.
I'm fairly confident that the Canadian FCC will find a way to outlaw starlink judging by their track record with existing telecom companies & banning international investments.
Huge ammonium nitrate explosions have happened too many times before.[1] Last big one in the US was in 2015 in Texas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ammonium_nitrate_disas...
I will notify friends. Thanks for heads up.
Trades are tough on the body. A job-related injury can leave you unable to work. It seems like a rational choice to make the same amount of money typing on a computer, especially in a country lacking a significant social net.
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How long before we're hearing reports of Model Y unibody cracks?
> The mere fact of that seems to contradict our current understanding of entropy

What part of our understanding does it contradict? The second law of thermodynamics says that entropy increases with time; this seems entirely consistent with a low-entropy past.

One explanation for why the universe began in a low entropy state is that that state has a very low description length. (This is a bit of a truism, since description length is a measure of entropy). But basically, let's just imagine that the universe is a simulation, with an initial state described by an initialization routine that sets up the simulation to run. If the initial state has high entropy, that initialization routine would need to be very long and detailed to describe exactly the location of every electron, neutrino, etc. If the initial state has very low entropy, that initialization routine is very short. If there's a reason to think that a short program is "more probable" than any particular very long program, then that would explain a low-entropy initial condition.

Another explanation is that, if the universe random-walks through all possible configurations, the "past" will still always look lower-entropy than the "future", for any little life-form that occupies that universe, because that life-form's memories will be much more likely to be correlated with the lower-entropy state. (It would have been nice for the article to go into this detail, but it's rarely discussed).

Still another explanation is provided by Many-Worlds interpretation of QM. Again the "big bang" is akin to initializing the wavefunction of the universe to something very simple and compact like a constant function, which as a whole evolves unitarily; the complexity and increasing entropy arises within particular branches of that wavefunction, where an observer requires an ever-longer description length to identify their particular branch.
That would be amazing and terrible all at once: the pandemic could be over sooner, but more people will unnecessarily die before that happens. Although I’m curious as to how permanent the antibodies would be, as I’ve seen that they don’t last long, and even when getting the vaccine, it appears that they’ll have to give it to you multiple times, to maintain its efficacy... so even if antibodies help to stop the pandemic, are they the best, longest-lasting solution?
The community can do an okay job but not a great one. The writing on Wikipedia is shoddy and inconsistent, and there are many many missing sources even if the article is accurate. I'm a huge fan though!

Similarly, many stack overflow questions are out of date, and good luck getting them updated to reflect current best practices. And if you do ask the same question again trying to resurface a newer, better way to do something it will almost certainly be closed as a duplicate. Huge fan of the resource though.

Ultimately, experienced professionals who are paid full time to be both writers and technologists can do a better job, especially over a long period of time.
Trump supporter here. I'll answer any questions you may have about that.
Thank you! You could do it based on geolocation perhaps. Or it could be a toggle in the preferences next to the option to use Monday as the start of the week. The thing I like about the app is the simplicity. I used to have a calendar like this when I was in elementary school. It was nice to quickly see what was due over the rest of the week.
Related idea:

https://www.aestheticodes.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW39Mt5kscQ

But this is probably better because it uses natively supported QR codes.
Sintering is much slower than casting, and unless the state of the art has improved, usually much weaker too. Also, aluminum is already highly recyclable. Tesla buys aluminum from the mill, and ships back tool cast-offs that the mill then recycles back into fresh aluminum.
It depends on the college. In my experience one had a vibrant cultural meetin grounds of myraid intersts and approaches where you see things like a small but visible minority of unicyclists (this is not an absurd example for the generic, a real thing).

While the other was a generic and bland sadness that suck the life out of the room and "binge drinking" is the closest form to a local culture and even things which should be a source of culture like the arts are just another box to be checked on somebody's list for posturing's sake.

Was it religious school which went secular in practice or offically? I know some who suspect that the number one reason for that blandness is former religious school that lost the fundamentalist character which drove out the heterodox and was then left with a despeciated monocultural void.

I think for better or for worse what actually drives the selection of people determines the resulting culture and diversity.
How can two of Elons biggest projects be public transportation oriented while you claim he's against it?
I always loved the whimsy present in Unicode. For nostalgia, here's a HN post from 2010 pointing to the `Unicode Snowman for You` site (which is still up!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2035572

And the site:

http://xn--n3h.net/
Wonderful. It even supports dark mode. If you want to try and install it under macOS, simply type:

$ brew cask install sigil

If you don't have homebrew installed, go to http://brew.sh
That's a far higher bar than we safeguard the rest of our consumer spending. At the end of the day it just sounds like excuse-making to not pay for free stuff.
I'd switch to Starlink JUST to spite Comcast.
In terms of things that scare me as a developer, stale data is WAAAAYYY less concerning then having people try to shotgun fix an issue on a production server after an irreversible update took down the entire system... Especially now that the developer and the entire organization is likely now in a panic state and not thinking clearly.

That bug you describe, maybe stale data is part of the problem, but ... why are you having a new person working on the billing system presumably without any code review? It sounds like you have a lot of process issues.
Voting is unfortunately political in the U.S., but I wonder if it would be any different in France or Germany under similar circumstances. 90% of the German electorate are people who were born German citizens with two German parents: https://www.dw.com/en/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-german.... In the U.S., twice as many voters are first or second generation immigrants, and a further 10-15% are members of politically-distinct minority groups. (And of course, out of the people who are third-generation or higher, and not part of a politically-distinct minority, vast numbers are from groups that haven't been here that much longer, and voting was very political for them when they immigrated.)

Would voting in Germany be so non-political under the same circumstances? Obviously, voting shouldn't be political. We should pick voting rules without discriminating based on race, naturalization status, etc. That's the ideal we should strive to achieve. My point is different: human nature being what it is, it's worth asking whether anyone is really doing better under similar circumstances. And if they are doing things better, what are they doing that we could be copying?
This is already quite an achievement! In just 10 launches, SpaceX is operating the world's largest satellite constellation and can already provide broadband of reasonable quality to some customers. In rural areas, I have struggled to catch weak LTE signals with fixed antennas that often didn't hit these speed and latency numbers. This absolutely seems on track to be an excellent alternative to rural LTE or existing satellite internet providers. If it gets better from here with more launches, it's all gravy as far as I'm concerned.
The reduction in size/complexity at Tesla/Apple scale may actually be an overall benefit.

Thought experiment: Imagine that the overall material required is cut by 10-20% by tons of optimizations and reductions. That means the supply chain and associated energy/costs vanish. If you have a failure rate of less than that (probably much less) scrapping is likely still better.
Interestingly, the word "moral" doesn't appear at all on that page. The "debate" must be elsewhere.
I donate to Mozilla every year. The changes you suggest would it make it less likely for me to continue, because I support Mozilla's overall mission of being a force for good, which is so rare in the technology world. Firefox is a part of that but Mozilla as a whole is a lot more important to me.
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It really doesn't take much.

It really doesn't. You don't even need a grinder. Oily rags can ignite spontaneously. People usually laugh at the phrase "spontaneous combustion" because it's so often associated with "spontaneous human combustion." But actual "spontaneous combustion" does happen in certain (not uncommon) circumstances. See: https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/Public-Education/Resource...

And what makes things even scarier, is realizing that buildings, ships, etc. that are either under construction or undergoing maintenance are more "at risk" because alarm systems, automatic fire suppression systems (eg, sprinklers), etc. are often times not in place yet, or disabled, while work is going on.

This is one reason it's so common to see a building complex that is under construction burn to the dirt if it catches fire, as opposed to a finished building where you might get a "room and contents" fire. No sheetrock, just miles and miles of exposed wood, no sprinklers, no alarm - recipe for disaster.
Thanks - that's a great link. Noticed some 6502 based machines on the list.
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URL bar on the bottom sounds amazing :) I'm all in favor of moving all toolbars, search fields, any sort of interactive controls to the bottom on mobile interfaces. So much easier than having to reach to the top of the screen at random, even if it isn't always thumbable.
Is it a cost thing or a capability thing? i.e. is it possible for Starlink to have what they want without interfering with terrestrial astronomy or are we really choosing one or the other? Quite sympathetic to astronomers if it is cost thing, but undecided (maybe slightly leaning Starlink) if it is capability thing.

Assuming that within 20 years we can have sufficiently cheap space launch systems that there are sufficient geosynchronous telescopes for amateur use would that solve this problem?

Genuine questions, not Socratic method.
It's absolutely clear what the commenter meant, since the whole controversy with Brendan Eich was about gay rights issues. It's not a stretch in any way to understand that "degenerate" meant "homosexual" or otherwise "immoral." Downplaying that interpretation really stretches "good faith interpretation" into the realm of "denial." Perhaps the commenter does not have English as their first language, in which case I'd give more leeway, but given the expression in the rest of the comment I doubt it.

As you said elsewhere it was not necessary for the commenter to use the word degenerate. I don't think anybody should be surprised by the reactions to it. It's entirely reasonable to criticize Mozilla's activist focus, or what went down with Eich, without stooping to that kind of language.
They already price discriminate. In Latin America Steam store you can by Factorio spending just US$9,00.

Some people value the product differently. If I'd play it for hours, probably it is money well spent, but I'm a casual gamer. The game looks nice, but I wouldn't spend the price of good books in it.
Interesting. I have been using Sunsama.com for the same use case. They have pretty good integration with calendar, email, github and common task managers. I particularly like their emphasis on daily and weekly planning ritual.
Again, one would have to be braindead or ideologically possessed to not think that people being in close proximity to each other would not spread a highly infectious respiratory illness.

https://slate.com/technology/2020/06/protests-coronavirus-pa...

Here are some examples of public health "experts" that are ideologically possessed. These are the people that you're citing. Hopefully one day you gain the courage to think for yourself.
Frames do fail at or around welds though, especially for even mildly exotic metals beyond plain low-carbon steel. I've had them break before, and it makes for a long walk home.
I'm sorry that you had to go through this.

Is your house damaged? News reports showed several buildings which didn't bore the direct brunt of the blast have become structurally weakened by the shockwaves and that there are less chances that those buildings would be repaired.

If you are living in such a building, it would be wise to move away to a safer building far away if possible.
According to this [1] article:

> At the distance of Betelgeuse, by 960 years this shell would be 14 times the diameter of the full moon! At about 95,000 years after detonation, this slow-moving plasma will finally reach the solar system. From then-on, we will be inside the volume of intense x-rays and high-energy particles.

at least from what I can understand (I'm not an astrophysicist),
we would have 96k years to leave the solar system or adapt ourselfs to living in a plasma cloud.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-betelgeuse-supernova_b_65...
> how easy is it to change what this casting machine produces?

Swapping dies takes a few hours. Making new dies takes many months and costs some fraction of a million dollars.

> I am curious how long they will go without changing the outward design of the 3 or Y.

I really hope they make a car that looks different soon. Branding is just SO deeply engrained in the car industry; I think they're damaged by people considering the S and 3 basically exchangeable. They should really have different styling just to make people feel like they have more than one option in buying a Tesla. It makes the number of competing non-Tesla choices seem twice as large.
That's why whiteboard interviews are sticking around; Someone who knows the fundamentals can constantly grok new frameworks or tech. Even if a new hire has never used Git, if he has ever studied graphs it will be obvious to him. The opposite isn't always true.
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Shills btfo!

Vote by mail is election fraud
The Orville is currently the only Star Trek series in TV.

Discovery was crap and Picard was 'reheated' Jean-Luc completely lack the ideas behind Star Trek world building or the idealism. They just reuse characters and imaginary to do generic TV-shows.
There's a difference between "we won't help you do something" and "we'll actively hinder your efforts at doing something".
Felons don't have their voting rights removed because people don't like how they vote - they have them removed because the idea is that if you don't follow the law, you shouldn't be allowed to take part in making the laws. Voting rights are restricted for the mentally incompetent and non-citizens as well, for different reasons though.

If you look at the map, you see not a very strong correlation with the idea that Republicans remove voting rights from felons because they lean democrats(which I assume is what you were getting at). Literally only two states don't restrict felon voting rights, and that is Maine and and Vermont. If there was some voter suppression operating against Democratic leaning felons, one would assume states like California, New York, and Massachusetts would not restrict felon voting - but they do.
This is a completely useless discussion if you're going to assume that code depends on "very weird edge cases" with no idea of what the code actually does.
We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here, so if you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Beyond that, I'd need to see specific links to give you specific information. Always happy to do that.
> the era of US exceptionalism is over.

Yeah, I agree with that. Much of the world has caught up in living standards and opportunities.

> demise of the US as a worldwide force or leader.

No, the US is still a global player/force and will be for a long time. Its economy alone is enough for that, but they also have ridiculous military capabilities.
>bill the ship owners the cost of the disposal

Would you like to know how I know you have no idea of what occurred up to this point?

The captain and shiphands were arrested and put in jail. They were eventually released because the Russian owner of this ship abandoned them and had little to do with the actual problem that was occurring.

They were never going to get any money from the owner.

At this point they should have auctioned off the material to recuperate costs. No need for hazardous waste disposal, it is a useful economic product. Instead it was stored for six years, this was totally on the local government.
This is very important to remember. I think there's a tendency when these events happen, to pull out circumstantial details without realizing how routine they may actually be, and treat them like they 'add up' to a b-movie narrative. Hopefully one of many lessons to come from this is for people to have discipline not to transform it into a conspiracy.
Obviously people might not like it, but can you summarize the moral arguments against it?
Thank you for those! Side question:

I don't have a formal education in CS, but I really enjoy reading papers on programming (languages), architecture, data-engineering and web related things among others, especially when they have a practical focus/impact.

Is there a good way for me to find or rather discover resources like these?
I know a number of students attending virtually in the fall who are renting near campus with their friends.
Still not enough to beat Darktable, though. Plus, it does not work on Linux, which is what I use.

While I did keep a Windows VM for Lightroom for a while when I switch back to Linux from macOS (and could do the same for Capture One), it is just not worth the hassle, and loss of privacy with Darktable being so good.
> As a discrete set of alternatives start to emerge, I strongly suggest quantitatively modeling out the impact of each one and revisit your Setting — specifically the why, the optimization function. It can be very hard with ambiguous decisions to get down into the numbers, but it’s very valuable to do so. Figure out your value metric, your success criteria.

In software engineering decisions, estimating the superiority of an alternative (eg: some performance measure) can be a long process depending in the level of detail required. Napkin calculations can be done in minutes but building a prototype can take as long as delivering a working product.

When the assessment of alternatives is abridged, confidence in the decision is compromised. This may be one reason (not including changing requirements) why agile methods are popular — they absolve stakeholders of committing to an alternative up front.

Douglas Hubbard’s “How to Measure Anything” discusses some ways to assess the information-value of improving estimates. His approach can help strike a compromise between doing napkin calculations and building fully-functional systems.
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> Personally I think that the US should go the route of a national voting holiday.

Agree. Voting is important, and a voting holiday calls that out.
The YouTube front page also regularly misses stuff, especially from smaller channels.

Changes to the level of service to delivering subscribed content are probably what is driving it. My "subscribed" feed has been flakey for the past month. Videos come and go and on mobile, there's no longer infinite scroll. Stuff has been falling off the end after about two weeks.

I suspect Google would rather have everyone turn on device notifications for each of their channels.

In fairness people are probably hammering Youtube due to the Pandemic and something besides adding infrastructure probably needed doing.
> The real question is, why were the explosives there?

In a highly structured and rule driven entity (government) what happens when a problem falls outside the set up structure?

It tends to be ignored as nobody is responsible for dealing with it.
> I find hard to believe that no one has thought about this before

These kinds of castings are relatively new, and car companies are surprisingly unwilling to spende more than low millions on moonshot tech. It was not an insignificant gamble by Tesla.
> Don't say thay's a genuine question because it's not, it just feels like a bait.

Well, I guess you can believe what you like. It wasn't intended as bait, but if you read it that way and refuse to believe me when I say I had no ill intent, I certainly can't change your mind at this point.
Ah, the language of science in our times, a universe described as "violent" and "traumatic".
I’m probably on a very similar drug to OP. I take it monday-friday.

Common side effects of ADHD drugs are loss of appetite, difficulty sleeping, and increased heart rate. It basically puts you into fight or flight mode for 6 hours a day. More blood to your brain + muscles, less to everything else (digestion, immune system for example).

One weird thing about it is the first few times you take it you’ll get a feeling of euphoria, like you’re on cocaine. This is _not_ the way the drug is supposed to feel, it goes away if you stick with the same dose for a while. Some people keep going up because they think the euphoria is part of it, and that’s really dangerous.

It really does work incredibly well for me. Especially for programming, where you’re most productive when you’re not pulled out of a flow state. I went from a B average to straight A’s when I started taking it in college. It made it so easy to oranize my schedule, I just worked/studied from 8-6 every day. No late nights, no procrastination.

Personally, I have no feeling of withdrawal when I go off of it for weeks at a time. Though I have developed a bit of a psychological dependency around work, where I kind of tell myself I won’t work well without it, which becomes self-fulfilling.

It’s not all good, not all bad. Hopefully this helps!