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> Anywhere there was cable I could get business class plans.

The one time I tried to get a business-class connection from Time Warner they refused to offer any business-class service to a non-commercial address except for their "Home Office" plan, which was basically just their top residential plan with a better SLA.
I saw a study somewhere that if USA opened its borders, roughly 1 billion people would move in there in a short order. Obviously, no country can handle that, hence the need to have limits.
Sorry, that's my fault, I hadn't published the privacy policy page! I've fixed it now, thanks for flagging that.
A 3x increase in density does approximately nothing to make electric airliners more viable. We need more like a 100x increase before we see an electric 737 or A320.
'Welfare' on a federal level now means a combination of Social Security disability and redeemable income tax credits- basically they have no income, but Child Tax Credit, Earned Income Credit, means they get money back on their taxes anyway. And of course if they have children there are a number of federal and local programs that ostensibly help feed the child, but are easily worked around to turn into money- in the old days you'd spend all day buying individual kool aid packets (pay with a dollar voucher, get 75 cents real money in exchange), now you're more like to buy high end food items and sell them on, or else some sort of item return fraud.
>>Something about more poor Americans would accept those jobs and live crappy conditions if they new how to get them.

I feel you.

Inertia can be hard to overcome, and if you are coming from a context and are used to your current social conditioning, breaking out of a self defeating loop can be hard. And you deserve credit for making it despite all the problems.

But poverty is subject to social conditions where you live, and poverty in the US != poverty in India. In fact the definitions of poverty are not even remotely same.
the US hasn't even been able to match the measures[0] Sweden put in place, though? there's still thousands of people showing up with no masks to breath on each other at rallies etc

[0]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251615-is-swedens-coro...
Was being snarky for no reason.

Thanks for pointing out the use case, it now makes more sense. loom.com is quite nice for this kind of video progress update until this feature lands.
Teardown of IBM 9121 processor module from an ES/9000 [video]
Well, that leaves Europe.
In this thread: lots of grumpy people forgetting that if you’re on HN you are weird and not representative

I email 10,000+ engineers 3x+ per week. Individually they’re all grumpy and ugh about email. En masse, only 0.01% of them unsubscribe and 24%+ read the emails. Many even email back saying how wonderful they are.

And yes adding emojis to both subjects and emails themselves helps. The open and engagement rates improve.

Including your name in the email gets some complaints, but open and engagement rates improve.

Sending lots of [relevant] email gets some complaints, but open and engagement rates improve.

At the end of the day it’s all about brand. Are you trying to look corporate bland or personal and quirky? What works depends on your target market. I wouldn’t send emojis to 50 year old bank execs. But talking to 20 and 30 year old engineers? You bet
Those methodologies don’t proscribe the bests places to hold a piece of glass for optimal adhesion. Just how to structure and operate just-in-time workflows.
I view the plastic straps and faux wood as a positive. The original strap and guard were custom, but deficient. Any other car company would have kept shipping the deficient design until a new component was designed, validated, tooled and produced. That takes most of a year. Tesla will eventually replace their ad-hoc hold downs. But in the meantime they'd rather look unprofessional than ship deficient designs. Kudos.
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In general, anything Tesla related gets more coverage than an equivalent issue for any other car maker. I remember a few years back when Autopilot accidents would make national news while any other generic car wreck doesn't cause anyone to think twice.

Oh yeah this part is for sure true. I remember years ago a Model S got in an accident and had a small battery fire, and it was all over the news. Meanwhile Ford had a major recall going on for cars literally spontaneously catching on fire while driving, and nobody paid any attention.
While on the topic of onboarding emails and how the read focuses around early stage company development, what I would like to also see is a breakdown of lessons learned with SMTP services and how to approach for an early stage company.

Anyone have any advice/recommendations/suggestions?
I highly recommend Jeffrey Winters' book "Oligarchy" to understand tax policy. Though an academic book Oligarchy is very easy to read and surprisingly neutral politically.

Winters basically says that oligarchy is when a particular economic group has asymmetric power in a society, arguing that the main use of the power is wealth defense. He then outlines how this has four major forms:

- Warring oligarchies where warlords fight each other to protect wealth

- Ruling oligarchies similar to Italian city states

- Sultanistic oligarchies were multiple oligarchs align to support a single oligarchical ruler

- Civil oligarchies which are basically like the US and Singapore where oligarchs mostly use tax law and investment strategies for wealth defense.

The main evolution between these oligarchies is how much energy needs to be expended in wealth defense, the earlier stages requires constant violence against both the lower class and competing oligarchs, evolving to more cooperation between oligarchs and finally when the wealth class agree to the civil law so long as it can still defend its wealth.

In the case of civil oligarchy, Winters argues that nearly all of wealth defense and manipulation of the law is basically around tax codes and loop holes that allow wealth defense. The oligarchs in general are fine surrendering their military power (which is expensive anyway) so long as they can still defend their wealth. They agree to adhere to the rule of law, so long as the rule of law doesn't impact their ability to maintain wealth.

The conclusion of course being that we will always have complex tax law because it is required by the ruling oligarchy.
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Anything World is a fast prototyping platform (in Unity) to create endless 3D worlds with your voice
I did something similar but with Minecraft.
Your k8s resources become animals (pods are pigs, services are chickens etc) and if you kill them they get killed on the cluster.

Check it out here : https://medium.com/@eric.jadi/minecraft-as-a-k8s-admin-tool-...
What I don't understand is how covid affects Mozilla's revenue. I mean nobody stops browsing the web because they have to work from home, or can no longer eat out, or whatever other measures where taken.
DevOps for the Enterprise: RACI Destroys DevOps
> That first night, I operated my AN/TVS 3 on the driveway next to my house for almost an hour before my neighbor called the police.

> This is me setting my neighbor's tree top on fire.

And this is why we can't have nice things. Lighting up this sort of thing in middle of residential area is not cool.
http://www.justbuythisone.com/ and amazon.com/bestsellers are very close
The headline is misleading (click-bait). Reading the headline, I imagined they have simulated the entire economy of the world and have used reinforcement learning to find optimal policies, but they only simulated 4 workers and are making generalization to the entire economy.
The problem is the conscious choice to prioritize quantity over quality. Make no mistake, Tesla's leadership consciously chose to let quality slide in order to meet the delivery volumes because the latter is what pumps stock prices. And they did this knowing it could (and did) very well lead to direct loss of life.

This is what would worry me as a potential customer. That the manufacturer selling me their product considers such disasters acceptable in order to ship a few more units. It's not that often lately than manufacturers are willing to do this (think GM ignition key scandal, rather than VW pollution cheating).
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You missed the point entirely. A bad guy was nailed this time, great. But he wasn't kicked out because he was a bad guy, he was kicked out because he was a liability to the corporation. The mechanisms for outing and booting out this guy works just as well against people you support, like union organizers or whistleblowers or even simply those whose politics doesn't line up with the interests of the business.

The sword doesn't care who wields it or who it cuts.
Ah, right, shutdown but not deleted. DO are upfront about that charge though and its not like its any different on any other cloud provider.
> Definitely unwise in any case.

I think this relates to the specifics of the situation.

If you're on farmland, and you've ensured your family is in a safe place, it's pretty safe. The danger -- as I mentioned in a previous comment -- is that this kind of situational awareness is a perishable skill. If it's not being practiced (ideally by all parties involved), it's easy to make mistakes. It's definitely not like riding a bike.
Has a coin-cell backup battery which is interesting. I wonder what that's for? Making it a bit harder to reset the clock and disconnect internet to work around time limits? Do they do game rentals on PlayStation?

Liquid metal is surprising. I think the only other consumer product that uses it is some Asus gaming laptops. They made a video [0] talking about the difficulty of application in a production environment.

That cooler is impressive. So many heatpipes, complex geometries, lots of copper. Squirrel-cage (blower) fans are usually a bad sign but that thing is so huge it probably doesn't have to spin very fast. That was pretty much the only way they could fit a big quiet-er fan in a traditional console rectangle. Microsoft took the other approach of changing the case to fit a traditional 135mm PC fan.

The dust catchers are a nice attention to detail. Nice to be able to clean the thing without voiding the warranty (in some countries). Wonder how well they work, there's no mesh or anything so I suppose they just designed the airflow to slow down and leave dust behind?

I wouldn't be surprised if they're selling these at a loss at $499.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbCw1FD22Bo
To be fair with Christopher Lee, "to be a descendant of Charlemagne" is not the same thing as "to trace your descendants back to Charlemagne".
These?

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Aqua-Globes-AG011706-Watering-2-Pack/...

I've found them to be extremely annoying. Great for plants such as succulents that need only a little bit of water, so you can set and forget.

But for plants that need more water, I've found them to be less efficient due to the time to fill than hand watering.
They have a chrome extension FYI that shows their data/status on a product page on Amazon.
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It isn't obvious to me why would they be impossible to recycle.
Well, here’s a cozy Titan II missile silo for sale: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/980-N-Sibyl-Rd-Benson-AZ-...

For real though...I’d stay here—lemme know.
Yes, dark matter has mass, this is its defining characteristic: it seems to be a detectable mass, just doesn't interact electromagnetically.

In any case, it's important to note the Schwarzchild model is a spherically symmetrical ball. Mass in our Universe seems more or less uniformly dispersed (with some anisotropy). Without a center for mass to collapse, I suspect the black hole dynamics don't apply.
I found it

> The protocol serializes an HTTP request and wraps it inside a Bitcoin OP_RETURN output script. This is then signed with a Bitcoin wallet's identity private key and included as another output script in the transaction. The resulting Bitcoin transaction is sent to a destination Vapor API endpoint over HTTP.

> A Vapor endpoint only accepts HTTP POST requests with a raw bitcoin transaction as payload. The endpoint parses the transaction to extract out authentication information, validates the signature, and then forwards the extracted HTTP request to relevant API endpoints.

I actually think this is probably better suited as a library, then there is no need for any intermediary calls that will inevitably increase latency. Also, would the vapor server somehow send the information about the public key on to the destination server?
They show it pretty clearly in the video at the start of the teardown.
Personally, I can understand Citi, they are now getting associated with a right wing conspiracy theory, which cause violence throughout the world.
When you send your Mac to Apple Support, it is assumed that no technician is able to peep at your data, as T2 provide encrypted storage on SSD. With this loop hole, your data is wide open eg when your Mac die before you can wipe your data. Apple often would replace the whole Mac, including new SSD for you. Those who skip FileVault might want to reconsider.
It's the introduction you give new people. Welcome them "on board".
I am not inferring that their politics or cult like leanings are acceptable, but if he is not bringing it into the workplace then I find the practice reprehensible. At one time this was done to people of other belief systems / political leanings (communist in the US as an example). At some point in the future a different social contract will exist and items like this set a precedents for the same to be done to them. I am against it no matter what their belief system is.
The example from this article is from the Model Y, which just began shipping in March. Tesla is still in a huge rampup growth phase where their manufacturing processes aren't yet stable.

I don't think Tesla deserves a free pass with these issues, but I also think they should be expected.
Amen. It's just marketing bullet points / emotional statements about the product and so on.

I just signed up. I want to use the thing, give me some tips to get started and do something productive quickly, not a link burred under marketing, straight up spell them out in the email.
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>The startup claims its supersonic jets will eventually be able to travel from New York to London — normally a 7-hour flight — in just 3.5 hours, or Los Angeles to Sydney — typically a 15-hour trip — in 6 hours and 45 minutes.

Wow, that would be amazing! I can't wait!

> Tickets will cost $5,000 per seat.

Oh, nevermind; my company will not pay for that. I wish they would though
this won't work. good luck :)
Google does have their own desktop Debian derivative called gLinux, but I haven't heard anything about Amazon having one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLinux
A household could also just spend money hoping to increase next year's income (because you bought a bigger car or a new suit/dress). If that works, you'll also "come out ahead". But it usually doesn't, I guess. For taxation, you might consider stock market investments a similar thing "oh sure, I spend money here, but by doing so I stimulate the economy and I get dividends from my shares". Of course, they can't just declare themselves shareholders of other companies and send in the cops to collect money, that's a state-level privilege.
In fact Smalltalk-76 didn't have overlapping Windows, and the people at Apple had already come up with that before seeing the Smalltalk demo. Bill Atkinson describes that here. https://www.cnet.com/news/tracing-the-origins-of-the-macinto...

The screenshot in the article (which _does_ have overlapping windows) is evidently Smalltalk-80 because Smalltalk-76 used the "hollow colon" character in its message syntax where Smalltalk-80 uses the typographic colon.
So in that case, why does it make sense to split up a compound name?
> but no one will read that abstract unless they are in that field

Which is fine?

What's the point of getting people outside of the field reading a paper by essentially lying about the content? They come expecting A, and if they read it they understand it's actually about B. Loss of time for everyone except the author who wants to make a little buzz.
I have never seen/driven a Tesla either, but I believe the only manual controls are gas, brake, steering, and turn signals.

Everything else is in the touch screen UI.

edit: I bit more than I originally thought, but not much. (gear selector, lights, and cruise control also have manual interfaces)

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/JO/model_s_eu...
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So is the rendering on the patent application correct or incorrect?
Anything World is a fast prototyping platform supported in Unity to create endless 3D worlds with your voice.
Thank you for this very useful summary.
Granted, not to take away from the point of different use cases, however Sienna is a very small medieval-era town that one can walk across at leisure and the Houston interchange is one of the most complex in the US. So it is somewhat of a hyperbolic comparison.

I agree that very common suburban and rural vehicles, respectively, are SUVs and pickup trucks. But I am curious what portion of urban drivers use a vehicle that most of the time far outclasses their average use case. I would like to find data on this but it seems to me like often people own a vehicle for the extreme outlier use case.
> At least AWS SAM supports local debugging and testing.

I'm still new to SAM but coming from a more regular style of web development it still feels brutally inefficient.

Changing 1 line of code requires waiting multiple seconds to build + run your new lambda so you can see the changes even with a local invoke of it.

That and if you really want to keep things local you need to mock out all calls to other AWS resources that you might be using in the lambda. Although you'd run into this same problem with a regular style app too.

I'm so glad I don't have to do serverless development full time. Just so happens I'm doing a small service for contract work but yeah, it's like taking 100 steps backwards for development friendliness IMO.
Not that Michael is biased at all, either...

Anyway, I'm happy Jennifer and Emmanuelle won over others and thinks this was the right call. The discovery of the idea was the most important part here, bs showing it in human cells (which wasn't that hard afterwards).
"The Double Helix" by Watson delves into the highly competitive nature of this level of research. It is a candid and entertaining portrayal.
Given the sheer scale of it all, statistically there must be uncountable ants, and human-likes, and gods, and gods OF gods. Do we understand 'em? Of course not. So we make up human-scaled stories about 'em. What would ants say about us?
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A phone with a wide screen is hard to hold. I'll begin having issue with thickness only if it starts cutting fingers.
GPT-3 bot went undetected on Reddit for a week
Quite a few of these issues too strike me as Celery problems rather than RabbitMQ. I’ve run into many of these similar issues and in every case it was due to Celery’s implementation not using RabbitMQ properly and was fixed with an internal patch to Celery.

The most blatant example is the countdown tasks. Celery has a very strange implementation of these (meant to be broker agnostic) where it consumes the task from queue, sees in the task custom headers (which is meaningless to RabbitMQ) that it should be delayed and then sits on the task and takes a new task. That results in heavy memory load on your celery client holding all these tasks in memory, and if you have acks_late set, RabbitMQ will be sitting on many tasks that are claimed by a client but not acked and _also_ have to sit in memory. But that is 100% a celery problem, not Rabbit, and we solved it by overriding countdowns to use DLX queues instead so that we could use Rabbit-native features. Not surprisingly, Rabbit performs a lot better when you’re using native built-in features.
Use a service with an API instead of SMTP directly. I like AWS SES (even if you don't use their hosting) as it is easy to integrate, fast and extremely cheap (10ct for 1k mails).
Why would this deter international students from studying in the US?
The Myth of the Boiling Point, Hasok Chang
I have just started using Google Apps as an employee which uses it for everything

Me: "oooh! Google Currents! That sounds cool. Is it some workflow designer tool?"

Me: "oh, it's Google Plus."
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You can plug your headset into the PS4 controller.
It's a good example of the Nostradamus effect. Just make more and more vague predictions until one of them ends up true. Confirmation bias leads people to only remember the ones that came true, even if the rate of successful predictions is low.
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Union organizers and whistleblowers should and in many cases already do have protections specifically encoded into law. Far-out political cults that routinely slander and threaten violence against their opponents do not serve a particular purpose in the workplace and thus have no similar protections. This guy’s employer correctly pegged him as an embarrassment that had the potential to harm their bottom line and showed him the door. That’s how the labor market under capitalism works.
The Wirecutter and The Sweethome used to be this for me, though at this point I think they've mostly succumbed to paid placement. But I'm very pleased with the Bosch dishwasher I bought some years ago on their recommendation, and my Archer C7 wireless router (now on OpenWRT) that I bought in 2015 has been a beast.
So you believe that the advertising companies which run these companies should be the ones to decide what discourse is allowed online. At the end of the day Facebook isn't deplatforming people out of the kindness of their hearts. They take action because it benefits them.
Nope. Religion is thinking you can SPECIFY god, and interpret it. Godel had some thoughts about that ;)
There are additional factors that are application dependent. I'm not sure how much if affects road vehicles, but for aircraft that fact that fuel burns off, making the aircraft lighter as the tanks empty is a huge contributor to total range, so you would need to subtract some factor to account for the fact that batteries have a constant mass.
Labor Department probes Microsoft's diversity policy
I disagree that "the whole roof flew off while driving" is an issue that should be expected, no matter the age of the product line.
Honestly, I was really hoping to learn how to make better small talk.
You seem to be using HTTP but removing the "web" and TCP part of this. If this is meant as an API framework for making signed, replicable requests & responses, why involve HTTP at all?

In particular, you probably do NOT want to be serving GET requests over this slow, inefficient transport at all, it would be much more appropriate for the state to be published to the chain (that's what blockchains are for...) and have clients read from there rather than issue duplicate idempotent requests.
So they laid off a guy who worked there for 20years, and is crazy passionate about the company?
Good job, mozilla.