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> But let's not pretend that Twitter and Facebook hold information monopolies with equivalent power to the government's ability to censor.

Those private entities can censor in excess of the government. They are scarier.
Those options are already opening up without Nuclear Thermal.

The problem with NTR is the engines are heavy, and the necessary shielding and heat radiators are very heavy. So the high ISP is mostly lost to higher dead mass requirements.

If (when) Starship proves it can be fully refueled in-orbit, it obviates every potential advantage of Nuclear Thermal rockets. Starship will be able to make 90 day trips to Mars, carry heavy payloads in excess of 100 tons to the Martian or lunar surfaces, and do this all without requiring specialized landers and with zero radiation and other regulatory concerns.
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FTA: "This simple one line change reduced our clone times by 99% and significantly reduced our build times as a result"

Unless their build is 100% git pull time, this did not reduce build time by 99%.
Regardless of what theranos was actually trying to do, saying: you should try to do something hard first because it then becomes easier to do subsequent things, doesn't mean guaranteed success at achieving hard goals.
Looks like Pinterest’s team is confused about Git Branches. These are not real full copy versions of the main branch like in SVN or TFS. A branch in Git world is simply a pointer to a specific commit in the code push history.

Having said that, happy to be proven wrong, and learn about it.
At best I'd agree on something like VSCode remote: performant _local_ client and remote server. All the things like RDP access to powerful machine or even something in-browser (yes, I know that VSCode is also having electron underneath) are just too slow and too inconvenient.

I had desktops for a while. Then I decided to switch to laptop and bought latest Thinkpad X1 Extreme (at a time). It throttles, it struggles to play even relatively easy games. Occasionally it loses connection to the lenovo dock and I need to restart it. It can't have more than 3 monitors.

When the time of next upgrade will come I'm certainly going to desktop + some light laptop like my wife's X1 Carbon. I don't like macs and I strongly believe that Win + WSL / dual boot to linux are much better for development.
I don’t know, I consider myself fairly competent but I’d never even considered that. It’s just not so relevant until your repo is multiple gigabytes big.

Still, I’ll see if it works for our pipelines, and we can get our clone from 20s to 1s
Let's not pretend that stealing a laptop and publishing its content is journalism that is worthy of protection. Yes, it is illegal and unlike baseless conspiracy theories this is a crime that should be prosecuted.
It was really fun to watch half (liberal) Twitter claiming this was disinformation (i.e. false information) and the other half - including Twitter itself - claiming it was hacking (i.e. absolutely true information, albeit one they shouldn't have their hands on).

I feel most people don't care about the facts, they care about their opinions which is now part of their identity. This is not good at all.
This does sound infeasible, how many people would mind grate that distance in the 11th century.

Icelandic Vikings were supposed to have visited Byzantium; I suppose it boils down to how big the colony was.
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To be fair, if their pull took 40 minutes, that’s a very real option :)
Great, but client's not opensource...
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If Twitter must publish all posts then doesn't it mean that New York Post must also publish all the letters that are sent to its "From the Readers" -page (assuming there is such)?

Twitter is like a newspaper whose content comes only from its readers. It does not mean it has to publish everything.

It does have a moral prerogative to not spread misinformation. Misinformation hurts the public. Twitter must make the decision about what it thinks is misinformation and should not be publish it.

This has nothing to do with censorship. Because Fox News does not cover certain stories we are not accusing it of censorship. Free Press means the press is free to publish or not.
I'm looking to set up a new site to compliment my social media lifestyle business. Ideally this will include Dynamically linked Social Media content updates, Email, Affiliate links, Subscription based Audio and Video archive Streaming services and possibly a small Member Forum.

I used to host 3 or 4 page static web sites 20 years ago using centOs based systems but was under the impression that nowadays it makes more sense to rent a hosted server from a Godaddy, Azure, AWS or the like due to the higher bandwidth and better reliability and security.

Am I wrong?
Good teams profile everything. This team's only goal is to support other engineers. Build time is a huge issue for every ops team. Missing this for so long is wasted money that's easy to calculate. We can be nice to people while still having high standards. It's a missed opportunity for a deeper postmortem, and it's bland content at best.
Don't forget the ever lovely Nuclear salt-water rocket [1] which forgoes the throw bomb out the back part and simply has a continuous nuclear explosion inside the ship. Highly efficient in theory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_salt-water_rocket
Can anybody point me to a thorough tutorial and matching impl that will install cleanly on OSX? Or should I do it in a VM? I'd very much like to learn me some ML.
This is neither incompetence nor surprising. Maybe you’ve only worked at large companies who have had time to optimize things for years (and even then, I see grotesque software decisions at my large company quite often). Try accepting that software is often written poorly optimized on the first pass, for good reason, and learn to celebrate the wins without needing to shame someone.
Or SBIR for OSS?

https://www.sbir.gov/
unlike stealing tax returns?!? or wikileaks?!?! which US courts said was treason?!
IIUC the issue here is the depth option - they're telling it to only fetch the last 50 commits, but they were fetching the last 50 commits from EACH branch. In other words, they were fetching all commits that are within 50 commits of any branch head. By restricting the branches, they drastically reduce the set of commits to fetch.
At this point in time I’d almost go as far as saying those working in something as ethically disagreeable as cigarette production would be justified in guffawing at the hypocrisy should some tech worker bring up the morality of their work with them.
DMs don't have their visibility modulated in the same way as the main feed.
We often see two sides of a spectrum in js framework approaches to templating: directive-driven and mental model driven. Vue and Lucia are good examples of directive-driven templates, with things like v-if, and JSX is a good example of mental model driven since you know the JSX markup is just js syntactically sugared to look like html and you then act accordingly. Here's another 3k library from the mental model side of the spectrum that uses a lit-html-like approach, where the template is just a string template literal:
https://andrewfulrich.gitlab.io/barleytea/
I produce music with hardware from Universal Audio, which, if you want true zero-latency monitoring (and yes you do), this is your only valid choice, thus you are stuck with the Apple ecosystem. That means either one of their extremely overpriced and underpowered laptops (like my MacBook Pro), a Mac Mini, an iMac/iMac Pro, or a Mac tower, all with high cost of entry and completely non-upgradable and non-user-servicable. Sure you can try to build a Hackintosh, but I want to spend my time making music, not f-int around with incompatible hardware. So unless I want to shell out $6,000+ for a bare-bones Mac Pro which cannot even be upgraded nor can I repair it myself, desktop is not an option for me.
I tried WRD too, with the same result.
What kind of abuse do you have in mind?
Get back to me when Twitter has the power to round up everyone who read a given story and have them executed in the street, because that's what government censorship can look like. It's not limited to some partisan nerd toggling a flag in a database somewhere. I think you should probably take this opportunity to re-evaluate the relative powers of these entities.
Looking into architecture of VSCode is one of my TODO tasks, that my 8-month daugter is actively preventing of doing.

The extensibility and things that VSCode allows is something. I remember the hearing about pain of developing Visual Studio addons. Eclipse was an anti-example of useful extensibility.

VSCode in relatively short period became de-facto leader IDE due to it's features and extensibility options.
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At least one aggregator of this kind of information has the 60/40 metric as pretty much spot on, going from Sept. 2019 to Sept. 2020.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile-tablet/uni...

Mobile and Mobile/Tablet are pretty much the same, and Tablet only giving Apple a few percentage points advantage further (~65%).
Forget equipment. The only thing that survives that mode of transportation is soup.
I truly appreciate articles like this — it’s warming to see other companies running into the kinds of issues I’ve ran into or had to deal with, and more so that their culture openly discusses and shares these learnings with the broader community.

The most effective organizations I’ve worked at built mechanisms and processes to disseminate these kinds of learnings and have regular brown bags on how a particular problem was solved or how others can apply their lessons.

Keep it up Pinterest engineering folks.
The level of abstraction at which the average tinkerer is tinkering continuously increases over time. Certainly makes things harder for those who long to tinker at a lower level, but I don't see it as a tragedy.
tldr can i guess it was doing some extra network roundtrips or something?
It's just added to IzzyOnDroid repo[0]. But that's not a real thing...

...which is work in progress[1]

0: https://android.izzysoft.de/repo/apk/org.stingle.photos

1: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/-/issues/1191
To people claiming Twitter was right:

- was this disinformation (i.e. emails were fake?)

- or, was this hacking (i.e. the emails were real but NY Post shouldn't have them?)

Twitter clearly claimed the latter, in other words they were confident the emails were real as soon as the story broke out (!!!)

Impressive journalism on their behalf, but to put sarcasm aside, this is why it's impossible to censor in real time. There is no time to evaluate a story in minutes so your biases (or, worse, corruption) needs to fill the void.
> they provide enormous value.

My point is that they have incredible computational power that is often wasted on pretty graphics and other nonessentials. Pretty much all communication/text apps (except video) could easily run on a device spec'd far lower. The web is ridiculously bloated and full of ads and crapware. Just rendering pages of decent-looking text shouldn't take so much power. Even manipulating maps for navigation is mostly a 2d graphics scaling problem that can't possibly require that much horsepower.

But yes, my point about development does pretty much rely on having an external keyboard and mouse.

Here's a pic of the logic board of an iPhone 11:
https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/UNjifVHATsvaagZB.f...

The miniaturization of tech is absolutely astounding to me, even today. We're pretty unappreciative and wasteful, IMHO. 20 year old me would have been absolutely astounded that that much power was packed in that tiny space, and yet what it delivers is just marginally prettier and not more usable than back then.
There is already POSIX multiuser support, so you can create non-root users and SSH into them, but unfortunately this is indeed not integrated into the GUI yet.

You can definitely lock the screen, at least, though...?

Not sure what you mean by "integration with today's web services." Our WebKit port could still use some more work, but a lot of the modern web is at least functional.
> Especially with the rise of the Small form factor PC culture.

Small cases have gotten pretty nice but if you have to carry around a separate screen to go with it then you might not end up any better off than if you had an all-in-one luggable computer.
Exactly. The article makes both statements in different places, and they are contradictory. Kind of gives an impression of sloppiness.
People praise my git skills at work (among other things) when they come to me for git help.

My response is always the same: I've just run into these bugs more often than they.
Doesn't rdp feel super laggy/artifacty?

Or are you just doing ssh work?
No torrent link yet, partly because I trust the-eye. They are fearless in a way that I haven't seen elsewhere.

Time will tell if fear would have been wise. But for now, I'm curious to see whether "the link will last for years" is true.

If it goes down, I'll append instructions to the original twitter thread on how to access it elsewhere. I also don't have any experience setting up the alternatives you mention; if you do, please feel free to mention it somewhere (twitter DM is always a reliable way to reach me) and I'll highlight it.

As for a torrent link specifically, I did request that the-eye have a torrent ready to go on day one, for just such an eventuality. I was confused when they didn't seem worried. After spending almost an hour describing in detail the kinds of repercussions that might inevitably follow, he simply said that fear does not control him the way it controls me, and that he will ensure it remains. (Probably via torrent, if such a thing becomes necessary.)

I've thought a lot about what he said, and how he phrased it. I decided to trust them to take care of the data. Mostly, though, I made the decision out of intellectual curiosity to see how true their ambition really is.

In the meantime, joining their community on Discord and/or donating to them would be helpful (though to my surprise, they didn't seem too interested in monetary concerns either). http://the-eye.eu/
Gitlab isn’t originally a US company so there is zero reason for them to comply with US demands.

Unfortunately it seems they’ve somehow transformed it into a US company with all attendant benefits and penalties.

I’m assuming the benefits are in the form of cold hard cash, and the penalties are in the form of freedom.
This is Pinterest. Every org I've worked at has been smaller. There's space between shame and ignoring mistakes.

The purpose of this post is not to educate. There's nothing in here that anyone can use to improve. It's just marketing.
Both is best, but typically a 6" deep wall with offset 2x4 studs, insulation in the wall, resilient channel, 5/8" drywall (which is also fire resistant usually, with fiberglass in the core) and the right caulk and electrical install will stop all but very loud low rumbles.

The key is the installation and design of the system, though. Miss one vent, electrical cutout, or gap (or even using the wrong length of screws) makes all that material useless.
Is disingenuous to claim that people believe and consent something when it's been illegal (violently prohibited) to even discuss that thing for over a generation. That's the same logic that says someone fed a roofie consented to their rape.

Apple doesn't have the ability to imprison and execute me if they blaspheme in their garden. The Chinese Communist Party doesn't deserve it either.

The "social contract" isn't a contract when it's imposed one-sidey by a violent, hypocritical power.
I’d wager that most people tend to look at their own video more the the other person’s. And if that’s true, their layout choice would make it appear more natural for the other party.
14 years ago free speech was one of the most celebrated rights in the hacker community. That's why things like Wikileaks were built. Today, several people in this thread seem to believe that the info on Hunter Biden's laptop should be repressed because it is "stolen info". What have we come to?
The whole point of being an Agile "generalizing specialist" is that one is a mile wide and an inch deep.
When I first joined one of my previous jobs, the build process had a checkout stage where it was blowing away the git folder and checked out from scratch the whole repo every time (!). Since the build machine was reserved for that build job I simply made some changes to do git clean -dfx & git reset --hard & git checkout origin branch. It shaved off like 15 minutes of the build time, which was something like 50% of the total build time.
What they didn’t know is that by breaking the box, they unleashed 6,010 pellets of cobalt-60, a synthetic radioactive isotope of cobalt with the force of 1,003 curies. To put it into perspective, being exposed for a significant amount of time to a single curie could fry some of your organs.

Anyone want to say more about this? This description seems a little frustrating.
Holy clickbait title, Batman!

Spoiler: there was no reactor involved.
Ask HN: Why can't nuclear waste be launched into the sun?
My understanding is that nuclear waste is relatively small in volume, yet storage is problematic. If companies like SpaceX succeed, and the price of launching cargo into space falls by another order of magnitude or two, is is either possible or feasible to launch the waste out of Earth's orbit, either into deep space or at the sun?

I can think of a few reasons this might be risky or impossible:

1. The risk of launching nuclear waste is too high, given the possibility of a failed launch spreading the waste in our atmosphere.
2. Even with an order of magnitude decrease in launch prices, it is still prohibitively expensive.
3. For engineering reasons, it's nearly impossible to launch a rocket at the sun.

If nuclear rockets or reactors are built in space, would this be a possible way of handling nuclear waste from reactors already in space?
Without too many distracting abstractions I find it easier to evolve a codebase over time rather than overengineering at start.
I don’t think it’s that stark. iPhone has captured the market of people who want to pay for things related to their smartphone by offering a slightly higher end smartphone.

Android users made a choice to prioritize their smartphone less in their financial lives by getting a cheaper device (except for the 5-6 HN commenters who got an Android because of a personal vendetta against the Apple App Store policies).

It stands to reason that the people who decided not to spend money on a smartphone also decide not to spend money on smartphone apps.
The only "scandal" here is that Russians and Republicans are once more trying to recreate the "leaked emails" hitjob that worked so well against Hilary Clinton. This is classic F.U.D.[1], just 2 weeks before election.

If the media gives credibility for this kind of cheap hack, what morals do they have to criticize QAnon? If they want to have credibility then they should act responsibly.

It is not censorship because it is not imposed by government. It is called editorializing and that is exactly the job of a newspaper editor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt
If you do a lot of video work, daily!
The Federal Reserve manages both the money supply and unemployment, generally against GDP growth targets.

Real estate --- residential, commercial, and industrial --- is among the largest asset classes in the financial system, and it acts as collateral and backing of loans and other financial instruments. Those in turn affect banks and their own ability to generate loans, themselves much of the total money supply.

When market value of these assets falls dramatically, it has ramifications across the financial system. The 2007--2008 global financial crisis was the result of a prior crash in real estate valuations. Japan's Lost Decade (1991--2001) was the result of its own real estate-inflated asset bubble collapse. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decade_(Japan)). Money available for business investment (already constraind) will further contract.

Additionally, for many people, lacking a defined benefit pension, real estate is a major component of household asset portfolios.

Whilst real estate asset inflation is highly problematic, and is not a contributor to economic growth, sudden collapse is tremendously disruptive. And very much a concern of the Fed.

Of course, special interest intervention may be another factor in decisionmaking, though there's ample reason for interest without any such.
or our trash. always wondered this. its probably cost prohibitive is the general answer.
I'd be interested to know how they came to realize what was missing. Did they read the Jenkins docs more thoroughly? Post on a mailing list? See something on StackOverflow? Hire a consultant?
Nah, I'm running a cheap N5000 (1.10 GHz) with 4 GB of RAM at home and VScode runs well. At the end of the day, it's the extensions that might slow the editor down as they greatly vary in quality.

With only some Typescript/LESS/Node/Linting/Live Reload extensions, VSCode is sitting at 70 Mo right now. I think Microsoft did a great job with it. My machine can barely run Android Studio or Webstorm on the other hand, unless I turn off code inspection.
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It's happened more than once. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident is one famous case
Sometimes I just want to move the plug from this socket to that socket. Sometimes just to make room for another wallwart.
Check out Ubirch.com. They use firmware for IoT sensors writing to the blockchain to make data tamper proof, for example.
One possible application could be the signing and blockchain anchoring (Bitcoin or Ethereum) of video from body cams, making manipulations impossible.
> The most important parameter of an engine like that is velocity of particles emitted as reaction mass (translate to specific impulse).

Hum... That's true for simple designs. Once you start transforming one kind of energy into another, you have to deal with a more complex form that is how much total momentum you can eject from a fixed amount of fuel (and weight it by the mass of the engines that stays on the rocket).
Now, if only you would let the rest of us know before you buy or sell stock ;-)
My understanding is that it wasn't stolen. The repair bill was never paid and after 90 days under Delaware law it became legal property of the repair shop owner.
The New York Post is also not a human being, for that matter. But I wasn’t implying that.

People want to use Twitter’s property to spread a message, and Twitter said no. That’s not “persecution”, it just means they have to find some other way to do it. If I get kicked out of a bar because I say something the owners don’t like, I’m not being persecuted — even if I think it’s unfair.
Ask HN: Where are you? Do you plan on staying?
I assume neither design is going to lift off Earth's surface. Most likely any nuclear engine is going to be lifted cold and disassembled and we'll packaged in case of mishap.
Since you are going to have months to run the engine, thrust to weight is less important than ISP. Small accelerations do wonders if you can run them continuously.
Fully agree, and the mindless HN downvote sheep bandwagon is in full effect.

Working at Pinterest and acting humbled by learning basic stuff on the job?

I play the world's smallest violin for how hard and stressful your work is. Poor babies.

Somebody give this engineering team a participation trophy.
Are any reverse engineers that stupid?
This, I think:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06pnd71
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Like the habit of reading bullshit like this?
Does anyone know when the Acer Enduro start to sell? I can't find any products on the store, but the product news already come out for several months.
SF Bay Area, staying here for the foreseeable future as my kids live in Santa Cruz with their mother.