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Nukes remain potentially relevant for space systems.

For example, in the cloud tops of Venus, an air turbine may be constructed from a very large, balloon-supported polypropylene fabric tube with an air turbine on top as its only moving part, and a no-moving-parts naked atomic pile suspended near the bottom, heating air directly -- by neutrons colliding with atmospheric CO2 -- that rises to drive the turbine. Some of the air would become radioactive, but so what?

In free-fall, a reactor at the end of a long-enough tether would present no risk of environmental contamination or user safety, and so could dispense with both the containment vessel and shielding. Even there, though, pB seems a more atractive goal than thermal neutrons, because destroying your plasma focus apparatus every few months would get tedious.
i got a toddler and i found out thay saying "ahh-goo-goo" activates Google assistant :D
Oh please, only thing happening was people shot themselves in the foot more often. This reminds of the whole debate "C engineer who never makes security mistakes vs 10 years younger Rust developer who uses a tool which makes sure it doesn't happen". Planes didn't suddenly start falling from the sky because people chose wrong electives. That why we have PROCESS where we make sure dumb things cannot happen because we explicitly check for them. When you add automated checking on top of that you get way further than some galaxy brain old school chip designers. Besides, things are moving way to fast for people to get to know too much about one thing
Does nobody else have a problem with these "lazy loading" webpages?

Each image takes a few seconds to load, and if I scroll too far then the images no longer load. It seems that no image will load until the previous image has loaded, and only images currently at the scroll position will load, so I cannot just scroll to the bottom of the page and let it all load. This is on Firefox 83 / Ubuntu.
It looks like they drain 1/3 of the blood of 500k crabs a year and use 1m crabs as bait a year. Why can't they just take 100% of the blood of 500k/3 crabs a year and then give those crabs to be used as bait?
Naive question: mice don't live very long, humans live a long time. Does this imply that it _should_ be easy to extend a mouse's life, and for the same reason, very difficult to extend a human's?
I don't even have my full calendar on my personal phone, I just share the "busy" status calendar as a public calendar then subscribe to it on my phone. I can see when my first meeting is, but nothing else!
You might be interested in various unikernel approaches such as nanos/ops: https://nanos.org (I'm with the project).

It doesn't run docker images but it sounds very much like what you are interested in doing - one program/machine.
...in mice...
To grab a couple bits of info from that page + google, to give people a good idea of the distances involved at a glance:

Starlink orbit: 550km
Geosynchronous orbit: 35,786km
Earth's circumference: 40,075km

Geosynchronous orbits are quite a way out. Latency at terrestrial distances can be painful already, bouncing through geosynchronous satellites will be multiples worse at a minimum. Meanwhile, Starlink's are at "normal" distances for networking - you probably connect to things further away all the time already.
Because our ethics distinguish us in many other aspects of life. Rape, murder and cannibalism are generally frowned upon, we have international laws governing warfare, we're waking up go the destructive nature of our expanding population, we have medical care that generally exists to remediate the sick and wounded, etc etc etc. But slavery and torture are open questions in this millennium, and who would expect us to draw a line for animals where we're reluctant to do so for humans?
I'd invite you to travel to China and experience their high speed rail system.

Feel free to invite me. But it's not necessary. I've been on China's high speed rail system.

Its a huge accomplishment that our society isn't capable of producing.

I've also been on the one in Japan, Korea, Italy, France, Germany, and Belgium.
Ask HN: Do You Believe Dominions Servers Were Secure and Incapable of Mass Fraud
Hacker News has a truly talented community of computer specialists. After listening to the testimony of Colonel Phil Waldron on the multiple exploits he found, do you think that Dominions' machines were as vulnerable as he (and the State of Texas) claimed that they were?
Google: Tales From Topographics Oceans, got it.
I think the point is, if your version of "work" is focusing on the metrics, and climbing your way to the top rather than real work output, you would be happy to have more metrics which are orthogonal to real work
Ask HN: I am a developer and I want to volunteer as a developer
I am from Europe, I have money, I am a developer, and I want to volunteer. I am pretty good at what I do, and I am tired of the meaningless work at the office, and I just want to do something good. Where do I begin? Web / Software.
Docker did a nice blog post on this a few years ago. Docker uses containerd for running containers. It just does things on top of it that you don't need with Kubernetes. There's a nice diagram in the post, too.

https://www.docker.com/blog/what-is-containerd-runtime/
Same, with ~1900. I don't think I'll use it a lot anyway, but it made me curious about which other features I'm missing.
HP Enterprise Moving from SV to Houston
Would you say you know the intricacies of how VMs work before using them to deploy apps?

There is nothing “un abstract” about running applications on VMs or machines. We’re just evolving the abstractions that we work with. Before it was VMs, then containers and now containers + orchestrators. In the future it will be some other abstraction.

Every step of the way, we’ve made this transition for compelling reasons. And it will happen again.
As far as I know, Apple doesn't manufacture anything. All manufacturing is outsourced. So it isn't likely that they will want to build a fab for several 10's of billions of dollars even thought they probably could.
Why Salesforce Bought Slack
Proper thing is bounds checking should be by default and you actually have to turn it off for hot path code. Because 99% of the code people write isn't memory or CPU bound. If a little used code path is sometimes throwing bounds exceptions you want that to get logged in production.
The main alternative runtime that I know of (at the level of containerd) is CRI-O. These runtimes are at the level of fetching images, preparing manifests etc. I'm not really sure what benefits they provide. CRI-O is intended to be kubernetes specific, and thus lacks any features that containerd would have that k8s does not need. This in theory ought to mean smaller, lighter, more easily auditable code.

There is another lower level of runtime, the OCI runtime, of which the main implementation is runc. Alternatives have interesting attributes, like `runv` running containers in VMs with their own kernel to get even grater isolation, `runhcs` which is the OCI runtime for running windows containers, etc. Most if not all of the higher level runtimes allow switching out the OCI runtime, but in general sticking with the default of `runc` is fine.
> If she had used a company printer to print pro-union fliers and then shared them I'm 90% she could be fired for misuse of company resources. At to my intuition this feels like using the company printer without permission.

Until Trump's NLRB overturned the precedent late last year, workers had stronger protections than getting fired for a minor slip-up in the course of organizing. But today, your intuition would be correct.
This is misleading. If you're using Docker to build images and using Kubernetes to manage containers nothing changes. The deprecation mentioned is internal to Kubernetes and does not impact people who use Kubernetes to manage containers built using Docker.
It's real coroutines. I used it in production in 2010 before a worse thing made it into the language and in 2019 after.
Personally I wouldn’t frame yarvin’s advocating for an ethnostate ‘interesting’ in the same way as say templeOS
blockchain-powered AI FTW
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our barbaric car-centric society?

If you consider car-centric society barbaric, you've never experience barbarism, or understand what the word even means. Hyperbole is not helpful.
Given how they killed off Google Play Music and foisted YouTube Music on us, I have to conclude that Google hates music and wants to do everything they can to ruin the listening experience. It's as if no one involved in product design has even a passing interest in music.
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The Americans produced the Interstate system 50 years ago, . The problem is that the American system in 2020 has become stuck due to the rise in partisanship and the elimination of pork-barrel horse trading.

The Chinese state can produce projects, but how valuable they are is often up for question; the Urumqi high speed line doesn't even make enough money to pay for the electricity to run the trains. https://www.ft.com/content/ca28f58a-955d-11e8-b747-fb1e803ee...
La Forge: R&D Lab Behind Assassin's Creed and Far Cry Worlds
Easiest way IMO is nextdns
.op and it works with every app not only the browser. On iOS without jailbreak too.
All software is exploitable and the machines and software aren't running verifiable open-source firmware and hardware so how could they possibly be demonstrably secure?
Freedom is not a binary variable. The First Amendment protects the freedom of speech, but how many people feel comfortable to freely speak their mind at one of the corporate training courses on diversity and inclusion for example? People everywhere are smart and learn that if if you know what's good for you, there are some things you should say and some things you shouldn't. The set of things you should or shouldn't say may be different in China than in the US, but the curtailment of freedom is present in both places and different only in a matter of degree.
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> China moves fast at the expense of the environment, safety, individual rights, etc.

A dire contrast with the west which since the industrial revolution grew up so fast by respecting human rights, the environment, other nations, international law. The lack of self-awareness of people like you genuinely scares me. You vote people who has the power to erase the planet with nukes and you consider yourselves superior to other races/nations. Truly hair-rising stuff.
But developers at Uber and Lyft can spam drivers and riders with "Tap to support Prop 22" every time they want to use their apps with no consequence? I don't see how anyone can get upset with employees notifying fellow employees of their legal rights when the same tech companies will abuse their platforms to literally broadcast their political beliefs.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/4/21549760/uber-lyft-prop-2...
Could Apple acquire TSMC or is it state owned?
Yep, NBD. OpenShift removed Docker a while ago and replaced it with CRI-O. 99% of people never noticed, and the ones that did just like to know how things work on the inside.
Taiwan sees that threat and from my understanding has a scorched-earth policy where all their most valuable industries will be destroyed in the case of an invasion.

At that point, China would have little to gain and lots to lose. Unlike Hong Kong which was handed to them, Taiwan claims to be a sovereign state.
You are being down-voted, but our politicians are saying exactly this. Well, either you vaccinate yourself, or you have to remain at home. How they are going to enforce it? No clue. Perhaps proof of being vaccinated before entering Government buildings, or the workplace.
My wife and I use Google Keep + assistants and they work fabulously. We have different lists: Costco, Amazon, Home Depot, Grocery, Alcohol, and the only time we ever have issues is when one of use says the wrong thing.
Freedom goes both ways. The decision is really about the 'freedom' of millions of commuters vs. the 'freedom' of home/landowners.
Thanks for pointing this out! That limitation is largely a holdover from when the Kafka sink was written and our support for accepting multiple data types was not as good as it is now. As things stand today, it should be a pretty simple change to enable this.

I'll go ahead and open an issue to get that addressed, but in the future please feel free to do so yourself for anything that's tripping you up! We really value this kind of feedback and try to address it as promptly as possible.
What I don’t see talked about enough (in relation to SpaceX) is the one big customer who has been wanting global high bandwidth/low latency since at least the 90’s.

That is the US military. Think drones and all the fancy battle space information management stuff they’ve been talking about forever.

I don’t see how this gets built without the US mil wanting to use it. Furthermore I don’t see how this was designed without their input. It’s entirely possible that the US govt is covertly funding Starlink.
The ony way that would be possible is by them physically taking the device off you and asking for all your pin codes / passwords. The 'work profile' feature uses app-sandbox which in effects means every app runs as a Linux type isolated UID (not to differnt to a container), there is no breach around that unless some zero day attack comes to light, which would bw patched way before acme corps IT department picks it up.

They need you to hand it over. If its your personal device, you just say piss off, no you can't have it.
Didn't Google pull a move like this on Project Dragonfly - publicly state that they were dropping the project after outrage, and then quietly continue developing it in secret? I am extremely skeptical that Microsoft will simply shelve the user-specific monitoring feature. In fact, I outright don't believe them.
Regulators across the globe would flat-out say no.
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If I recall correctly, the entire point of Urbit's design philosophy was to demo the neo-cameralist ideology that Curtis Yarvin came up with. While the poster above is taking flack, I'd argue that, at this point, there's no way to split the ideology behind Yarvin, and the design of Urbit.
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On this site, let's try to avoid the online shaming culture. One of its properties is to link everything anybody ever said or did to the worst thing about them. If all we do is rush along the edges of that directed graph, discussion soon implodes into a high-activation-low-information state. That may be the game on much of the internet, but it's obviously not consistent with curious conversation, which is the mandate of this site, so please let's play a different game here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=online%20shaming%20by%3Adang&s...

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25279168 and marked it off topic.)
If someone intends to leave, they can first revoke the company's access to their phone.

If the company has the software installed to remote wipe a phone, they have the software to stop you from locking them out.
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Hmm, maybe its my browser, I'm still in Windows 11
Homeland Security Watchdog to Probe Department’s Use of Phone Location Data
Ask HN: How do web devs test their web apps on mobile?
Currently, I am trying to figure out how test my web app on my phone but I ran into a few walls. I want to test the API and view the console log, network, debugger, etc. Often times when testing on browser it works as it should then when but on mobile, it doesn't.

How do other developers solve this issue?
Considering many machines run windows I'm going to go with a resounding "no" wrt to "being secure", however saying something is 'insecure' is not the same thing as "this has been hacked". Most computers are horribly insecure - not all computers are hacked.

Having said that, Col Waldron mentioned in that hearing that they have pcaps of traffic going from one or more machines on election night to servers in Germany. That's a very very crazy claim to make so if they can produce that evidence under oath (and how that was obtained is not super clear) then there's going to be problems. I think it'd hinge on that.
https://archive.vn/8QOWI
https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
> that the compiler can't just magically figure out unaided whether to inline stuff or not

Allegro CL does inlining on its own, IIRC.

> majority of users would find this behavior problematic as default

Block compilation or whole program compilation are used for delivery of applications.
When vulnerabilities are found which meltdown (pun intended) those barriers perhaps it's not such a bad idea that the law is oldschool here. It's a sobering reminder that those walls are indeed only imaginary.
> And this isn't a kind of scientific complexity like how biology is and always has been too complex for us to understand. This is the things that you and I use and rely on being too complex to understand.

The same is true for biology and ecosystems; we just don’t think about it even when effecting large scale ecological changes. We might well be depending on un-understood delicate balances that could easily be thrown out of whack by Eg: hunting certain species to extinction, releasing genetically modified mosquitoes, building dams, climate change, etc.
I've done the whole digital nomad thing for the past 5-6 years. Believe me it's possible now with 4G internet access around the globe.

Yes you have to teether with your phone, but when 10GB only cost like $6 USD, you can make it work.
Correction after checking: It appears to be there only for posts that are marked as 'dead'. I was able to 'vouch' for the upper 'OP' although honestly I don't remember noticing if it was marked as 'dead' at that time or not.

Note: I may be incorrect even in this correction.

I think it will only be there for posts that are downvoted sufficiently.

edit: correction and note added at top.
The search in Tracker Software's PDF X-Change Viewer/Editor is really great. Effective and easy to use
It’s almost as if I put a disclaimer at the top of my post about how these two concepts were related, but not the same....
Should amateurs be allowed to do animal testing? The answer seems no, almost by definition.
You pretty much nailed it. This is a super useful "elevator description" to give to people. Mind if I share it (with attribution)? Even better if you slap it into a blog post or something (except a tweet thread :-D), but HN is perfectly fine :-)
Except when it doesn't, at which point you're lost.
I’m not attempting to compare apples and oranges. I’m ranting about how almost every time someone posts something about tiny programs (like 100 line JS programs or wherever), someone has to chime in about how they’re able to do something so small because they’re using all these abstractions (code) below them and, as such, it’s not an achievement.

Again: it was just a rant.
The best time to break up Google was 15 years ago, the second best time is now.
This isn't a legal argument as much as a technical one. Work profiles prevent employers from accessing non-work-profile information
Well, I have a Sonos One SL, so I know why you like the HomePod form factor. but I explicitly got the SL version because I really dont see any use for a voice assistant. I think the success rate of playing specific artists or tracks might be related to how mainstream your choice of music is. In my experience, the success rate is very bad, actually beyond useable.

The only use case I see which has an acceptable failure rate is asking for the time and setting a timer. And even asking for the time fails about 1/10 times with the Alexa system my gf has in her flat...

And if asking for the time is the only thing which works decently, well, that is really telling about the state of the art...
They made it a priority, unlike the US. Whether it should be a priority of the US is separate from whether it's possible to accomplish or not.
Didn't Google spend billions to buy Waze in order to route people around traffic problems?
That's very.. one dimensional point of view. You can't just call something a success when you made other people worse off in the process and simply ignored it.
Aggregate data can still provide rough ideas for individuals in small organizations. Splitting up a deployment within a single larger organization can yield similar insights.
> we all know that is not the real reason

No, that is not true. Some of us take security seriously.
Why? It's a really fantastic feature in my opinion that turns a noisy chat room into more of a focused forum.
And the US was also able to do some impressive projects in the past. Does that say anything about previous governments?
That is an opaque point and adds nothing to our discussion.
Siri likes to split your item into two entries. (e.g. "red salsa" ends up as an entry for "red" and an entry for "salsa")

Yep. When it works, I get entries for both "ginger" and "ale."
I don't think that my tech stack is really changing size if I decide to avoid software founded by far-right extremists and Nazi sympathizers with choice quotes like "If Americans want to change their government they're going to have to get over their dictator phobia." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
Nope, plenty of literature refers to them as linked lists.

Here is an article about them in Modula-2, to use a language of similar age as C.

https://www.modula2.org/tutor/chapter11.php
Please stop, and please don't do this in HN threads generally.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>> They need you to hand it over. If its your personal device, you just say piss off, no you can't have it.

That's not how a subpoena works if it's on the same physical device. Good luck finding a judge who understands the concept of a "software wall."
So then why throw numbers around and compare things to 9/11. There's no point. The pandemic is something we have to deal with but it doesn't change the fact that we are more at peace than ever before.

Why do you have to turn everything up to 11 and call red alert, there's no need.
this was fascinating to read. a tale of utter manipulation. i've read startup failures with grandiose dreams and insane founders, but this one really tops the charts for me.
Likely a translation error. In Chinese, you ask for a 发票, which would be a “receipt”.

However, I just tried Google translate, and it gave me “invoice”. Well, I think we’ve found the culprit.
As a parent I have experienced that people always try to guilt you into spending too much on your kid. Too much for education, too much for health, too much for entertainment and enrichment. Because you love them, and it isn't you, it is hard to know where the line is. So people exploit you ruthlessly.
You bring the whiteboard to the grocery store with you? How do you keep it from getting erased?
I just tried on Google home and it wasn’t confused.

I had to say “Ok Google play okay Google play music”
Do you believe those messages were done by developers, on their own initiative? Or by company PR people whose profession is to manage public messaging? The point is, somebody used checked in code to further personal political aims. I highly doubt that is what occurred at Lyft and Uber.
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