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> Pollution of almost all forms should eventually be made illegal.

You can’t do anything without generating pollution. None of the things that enable this interaction on HN exist without pollution.

> There is no reason the broader population should have to suffer from the externalities of profit seeking companies.

Sure—the reason is that nearly everyone uses the things that are produced as a byproduct of this pollution. And these industries are highly competitive. Just as rising prices of crude oil quickly get passed along to consumers, so do the rising costs of environments compliance. Rising environmental standards also accelerate the exodus of manufacturing jobs to places like China with less stringent regulations.

> What other countries are doing in this regard is irrelevant. The U.S. is largely considered the leader of the free world. We need to start acting like it and set examples the rest of the world can follow.

Governance isn’t an exercise in moral posturing. It’s about making various trade-odds in a finite world governed by brutal laws of physics and economics. When you increase pollution standards, you save some lives, but increase people’s cost of living, and push more jobs to China. How other countries make these trade-offs is highly relevant.
front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25339510
This is a great example made out of lego on how counter-intuitive this can of structures can be: https://old.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/g2230l/lego_tensegrit...
Why I can't live without review apps
So I guess SpaceX, Tesla, Intel, Apple aren't tech companies.
It's shitty, but just FYI: you can pay Comcast an additional $30/mo for unlimited data. They hide the option, but it was ultimately the least bad option to handle my WFH traffic after Comcast re-instated the caps.
Pretty crappy that it's up to the users to debug this. Why aren't there tests / alarms for this kind of thing?
As I understand it, the warrant for Taylor's house had nothing to do with Taylor herself, but with another person believed to be using her house. Her guilt or innocence were never at issue.
The intuitive answer is - of course! But, as someone pointed out elsewhere, the technology stack really is 150 years old.
Another way to interpret it is, law and order types have been co-opted by Republicans, rather than the other way around. It shouldn't take a Dave Chapelle colorfully telling you it doesn't fucking matter that some Florida data scientist broke a dumb law when she was disclosing information implicating Republicans of incompetence.
I've used both an AMD RX580 (90% of the gaming so far) and just got a 3090. Both of the graphics cards have had no issue, but I also didn't even hesitate to mash the "install proprietary drivers" option to a yes.

Even switching graphics cards was painless... Like it was easier than I could have hoped for. Download drivers, mark weird driver.run file as executable and ./driver.run my way to victory.

My motherboard is being a pain in the ass or I'd let you know how the GPU passthrough was working with the RX580 feeding the host... ugh that's tonight's adventure.
AWS aims to democratize machine learning with cloud services
Could you explain why are AS/400 relatively popular? I don't read much about these mainframes, and am a user of Personal Computers (macbook, thinkpad) and EC2 instances (something that runs Linux?) , so I am not sure what AS/400 servers are, but I'd love to learn more!
Speaking of generalisable solutions – military strategy has a concept called the OODA loop, invented to give a roadmap to survive combat: you observe a situation, orient yourself in it based on past experience and knowledge of what's happening, decide on a plan, and act. All the while, you process what's happening and use that feedback to possibly change your decisions.

It strikes me as a generic but useful way to think about surviving unexpected situations. I've thankfully not been in a position to implement it, but since learning about it I have found myself doing a bit more practice (both mentally and in real life) and trying to be a bit more prepared for dangerous situations.
I'm more curious who the smallest was will be.
I was under the impression there was enough layers of checksums once you get to the level of UDP/TCP that these kind of single bit flips should be detected and dropped before you get to read them. What's going on here? Is networking gear not calculating checksums like it should?
> It too has kill-switches, but these are not easy to access on the side of the phone and instead are inside the case of the phone.

Ha, I can't help but think this is something linux folks won't even think twice about. :)
Reinforcement Learning at Microsoft
As time goes on I find more and more parallels with designers and legal/policy writers.

One just builds a specification of a technical system while the other builds a specification of a societal system.

Societal systems just have much more legacy code and inertia with very little in the way of mechanisms for in house testing at scale. There's no development server, just keeping tabs on competitors (ie other countries) to see how the change in production (ie a new law introduced) had second order effects.
I had a similar giggle reading about the "rideshare opportunities"

> This large deployable envelope allows for the design of novel payloads, rideshare opportunities and entire constellations of satellites on a single launch.

I'm totally looking forward to hailing a Starship in the Uber app. (I actually don't know what they mean by ridesharing)
> Having shared credentials for an account is going to make it very difficult to prove who accessed the system.

As others have said, if she actually used the system, access from her home IP might be enough to convict.

> Makes me wonder if this incident will open Florida to a lawsuit by the vendor.

Possibly, but that'd be civil law. I definitely wouldn't want to be in that agency's shoes right now.
Sure. But if it turns out her allegations are correct, and the state was manipulating the data, I think that more than excuses it, and makes the police action malicious (criminal?) retaliation. If the state wasn't manipulating any data, then it's disorderly and improper (though doesn't call for armed officers still...).

Like most things, you have to sort out the details of the case before you can pronounce judgement.

Call me biased, but for some reason, when people sacrifice their careers and freedoms to send out a warning about corruption, I usually give them a lot more trust than the institution under scrutiny. Time will tell.
Usually managed systems cost less if you factor in salaries. Like everything, it depends on the specifics though.
Who Counts the Votes of the Presidential Electors?
The gun safety rule applies to things you actively intend to destroy, not things you're merely "authorized" to destroy. Furthermore, cops aren't authorized to use deadly force against anyone in the house a priori, only if there's sufficient danger (IANAL).

(Not disagreeing with your overall point, just saying that it would be (IMO) laughable for a cop to try to make those arguments, even considering their training.)
Just because they have a warrant does not mean they should be going in with weapons drawn even if they were made to sit around for 20 minutes while the innocent person decided what do to.

And once they had taken violent charge of that innocent person they had no business lurking in the family dwelling with weapons drawn menacing people that were not even listed on that warrant.

You are making a very thin apologium for appalling behaviour.
Gebru's brand of Twitter woke-scoldery is taken for granted these days. Par for the course. We all know the tired rhetoric that will be trotted out to defend it, so much so that we could write it ourselves.

A member of the corporate elite criticizing, let alone firing, a black woman for race baiting is now beyond the pale. So they got rid of her indirectly, by making her working conditions unappealing enough to induce her to quit. Too bad some Director Karen of Whatever lost her nerve and ended it on her terms rather than Gebru's. No finesse!
Those sound like the kind of things you establish at a trial, right?
I'm not aware of any of it being free. (at least not in TX)

They pay for it and in fact if they dont USE it, it will be confiscated and not refunded.

so not only do they get very big brutal hammers, but for contractual reasons they are FORCED to use them or lose they money they paid for them.
Super cool! Sorry for hitting your computer.
You mean the cynicism that the nations producing the most waste (UK, US, etc) are not part of the effort? Yes, that's very cynical of those nations indeed.
Yeah, I bet if someone came over and beat the shit out of you for only an hour a day, you'd be correcting people that the person is only sometimes an asshole.
Do you know if they have guns in the house or if they are violent? This is standard procedure if they were noncompliant. No harm was done, so I don't see why this is being discussed. If they had thought there was a chance of violence, they would have been much more forceful.
Performance is not an issue.
Sampling of how different games run on M1. Note Macbook Air has a slightly weaker GPU and no fan.

https://youtu.be/qkmSNtzQm-o
Do not point a gun at something you do not intend to shoot.

There is no reason to draw your weapon in this context. Danger should be determined from context clues, not defaulted to the highest priority.

There is no reason in hell you can ever justify pointing a weapon at a child. Period. That goes beyond bad policing and into disrespecting guns and plain stupidity. This is someone’s home not a war zone.
Are there any cryptographic tools that would let you prove that that specific treasure has been found and not by the original hider?

You could store a private key in the treasure and use that to verify a signature, but how do you prove that the original hider no longer has a copy of that private key?
Doesn't the open end of the wifi get a separate external IP?
It is quite explicit in the article that "brevity" is measured in literal characters. From a PG quote in the article:

> It would not be far from the truth to say that a hacker about to write a program decides what language to use, at least subconsciously, based on the total number of characters he’ll have to type.
In this context, ridesharing means piggybacking one or more small satellites on the launch of a larger, primary satellite. It can be close to "free" because the primary is going to launch anyway.
The latest batch of satellites are already much improved in that regard compared to the earlier ones, and it's still early days. I am hopeful that things will continue to improve as the things proceed.
Just to follow this up a bit

Who the fk cares if people cheat in online games? Funnily enough, a hell of a lot of people, but they are generally not talking about online video games, instead they are talking about protocols like DNS, HTTPS, amplication DoS attacks, cryptocurrencies, elections, any number of other things, and it turns out these really hard to impossible to solve, and they definitely don't lend themselves to real time multiplayer games easily.

For games it much easier, you just let people host their own servers, you let them own the compute, you let them manage and mod the servers, you let them build communities of people they want to play with. See Minecraft. Pretty sure that made a bit of money without worrying about losing revenue to some inventive kids who priate/mod/whatever the game. -_oo_-
US military.

Besides cost and risk there's nothing preventing this from being used on earth, in fact I've already seen the use case mentioned here on HN.
This is a very naive understanding of police work. Pulling over does not mean a thing. If a small number of cases go violent, and you don’t know which ones, you cannot just ignore them. If 99.9% of contacts are non-violent, a cop who makes 1000 contacts is dead.

Violence has never gone down from defunding. Although this should be obvious, an alarming number of people don’t seem to be thinking rationally on that topic. It has certainly gone up after defunding, however.
San Mateo County Health Officer Statement on Bay Area Stay-at-Home Orders
I don't see what you'd meaningfully gain from a new laptop every year, their performance doesn't increase that much year-in-year.

For other hardware its IMHO more an an issue (e.g. giving developers only laptops or standard desktop PCs when they could make use of properly fast workstations, skimping on screens, ...), and probably in most places just a case of "that's we do for everyone, and doing it differently for you sounds like effort" and structures that make it overly complicated to approve such requests.

(FWIW I work for a small company that only does software and haven't seen a reasonable hardware request rejected yet - if someone can articulate why what they have isn't enough, they get a reasonable upgrade)
Much of the advice can be.

Those around you contribute directly to your own survival, both positively and negatively. The case of the Sewol involved both poor response by crew and possibly excess complaisance by passengers (as reported in media).

Footage from onboard. Those shown and recording would be among the 304 souls lost.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MkyFbcnIQV4

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3Qq4jVt-U0U

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Sewol
Something extraordinary. Say, intelligent signals arriving often and unquestionably from outside the Solar system that anyone can listen to directly, now, at will, -could- qualify as evidence.

What any human has to say about it has no evidentiary value at all. Speculation, reports of personal experience, interpretations of strange infrared events in the sky, interdimensional transmogrification - no value.

The intelligence found in the processes in mammalian genomes, how complex they are - to understand, let alone invent - tells me that we ourselves are just beginning to understand what 'intelligent' is. Until we are, we might not see it right in front of us.
I guess I'm one of the lucky 10,000 today; thanks for posting this!
>>> You can’t do anything without generating pollution. None of the things that enable this interaction on HN exist without pollution.

Uh, you can absolutely be pollution neutral. You can be carbon neutral, and I don't buy for one microsecond that there are 0 technologies that could filter soot from smokestacks. In fact, we could recapture all of it.

If you read about the history of pollution, you'll see that the "informed tradeoffs" is a complete fairy-tale. It's mostly ignorance and abuse of the poor by the wealthy (who put polluting factories in poor areas like West Virginia).

Some reading: https://www.ehn.org/dupont-c8-parkersburg-2644262065.html
This is the correct answer, except it won’t be rolled out next year in any meaningful way.

The FCC created a broad exemption for providers that have taken other “reasonable steps” to reduce robocalls, which is self-certified. Providers and device manufacturers are complying with this requirement by allowing users to block known bad phone numbers and showing some special UI when an incoming call is authenticated.
Huh, I had Sonic fiber over AT&T and loved it. In May I moved out of the bay area and now have Comcast cable. I'd do pretty much anything to get Sonic's level of quality out here.
DOD is already talking to SpaceX for rapid cargo transport applications.

“A military team is working with SpaceX to flesh out the prospect of shipping routes that pass through space, the head of U.S. Transportation Command said Oct. 7.”

“That group could demonstrate as early as 2021 whether quickly sending cargo around the globe via space is feasible, Army Gen. Stephen R. Lyons said.”

“Think about moving the equivalent of a C-17 payload anywhere on the globe in less than an hour,” Lyons said at a National Defense Transportation Association event. “Think about that speed associated with the movement of transportation of cargo and people. There is a lot of potential here.”

https://www.airforcemag.com/dod-spacex-may-soon-prove-the-mi...
Did they change the number? The comment says one pedestrian death per 200 million miles right now, which is in the right ballpark and gives you a chance of 0.25%
What situation can't you say that about? Should the cop handing you a city sticker ticket also have a gun drawn on you?
I mean only counting the 5000 pedestrian deaths ignores the 137000 emergency room visits by pedestrians due to cars. Many of which probably involve massive suffering and lifelong disability. It also ignores the 38000 car occupants that die every year due to accidents. And the 3,000,000 injuries to car occupants each year of which 2,000,000 include permanent injuries.

So cherrypicking the smallest number seems very disingenuous to me.
The issue is: the evidence they gathered was that her home was specifically NOT part of any drug rings. The judge went ahead and issued a warrant even though all actual evidence said her house was not involved. Cops lied and said it totally was, and the judge just said "sure thing bros, we're all such buds."

My point is just because a judge issues a warrant doesn't actually mean anything at all. It has the same factual basis as me saying the sky is actually made of M&M's and judge granting a decree that it must be true because I said it.
Media outlets...

"Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built COVID-19 dashboard"

That implies it was raided because she was working on the dashboard, but it was raided because she allegedly accessed an emergency messaging system she should have no longer had access to.

That headline primes you to be outraged.

Could this have been revenge from the agency for what happened earlier this year? Maybe, but the article doesn't actually suggest that, and there's no evidence of it.
When I was younger the only other place in the country besides NYC I thought I could see myself living in was SF, for all of these same points, but especially having a walkable landscape plus access to nature. I landed in Brooklyn, but always felt affinity for SF and traveled out there a lot from about 2008 onward. I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but at one point I realized SF had turned into a place I actually wasn't excited to get to go to anymore.

If sf can transform back to a place where the people that are living there actually are in love with their city and not just there for a work I'd be very happy. It's a beautiful city.
> In the US however? Decades, sometimes centuries behind bars. Given that perspective, it does make sense for a criminal to shoot that traffic cop - the chance to get away and escape a death in prison is non-zero.

Three-strikes sentencing can also exacerbate this - escalating minor drug possession to potentially life-ending prison sentence.
Eh... There's a little more to it than that. https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/starlink-satellit... has more details.

My personal opinion is that access to the global internet is important enough to justify the light pollution in the night sky. But I understand that not everyone thinks so, and regardless, steps to limit the constellations' impact are important to take.
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We aren't denying or even objecting to the state's monopoly on violence. The problem is the word "punitive" there. State violence should be a means to stop other violence. It shouldn't be used as a punishment by itself (beyond more indirect forms of violence such as denying someone's freedom by putting them in prison).
how is this a sale, exactly? uber seems to be giving away their self driving division and $400 for the right to be a privileged Aurora customer in the future.
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Easy... simply provide a solution to 3 of the 6 remaining problems in mathematics... and I would believe the answers have been provided by a superior intelligence to ours.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems
Is your last paragraph intended as sarcasm? It might be helpful to make that more clear...
Our CI ran out on November 20th and hasn't run since. :(

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I agree that good cops do exist. Show me a cop that, for example, wants justice for Breonna Taylor, and I'll agree they're one of the good ones. But without being able to clear what is actually a very low bar for belief in American ideals and the rule of law, most of them are part of a criminal conspiracy.
This guide was incredibly helpful a few years ago for one of the Advent of Code challenges.
Unfortunately TCP checksums are hot garbage given switch ASIC design. They are a 16 bit one's complement sum over a packet. If you get two bit flips in the same offset % 16, you can pass a checksum.

The problem is routers slow down the high speed serial signals from fiber to by splitting the bits over a large number of slower speed signals internally. Often those wider busses are a multiple of 16 bits. For example, one ASIC I know of moves things around in 204 byte chunks. (Might have been 208, been a while.) Anyway, the problem is that if there is a defect in one of those parallel elements it will always flip bits in the same offset position mod 204 bytes, which is the same position mod 16 bits. If the hardware is degraded enough, it can end up flipping two bits in the same position, and that has a fairly good chance of passing the checksum.

Ethernet has proper CRCs on packets, which is a lot less vulnerable to shenanigans like this, but unfortunately those can end up being checked on the way in, discarded, and then re-generated on the way out of a router. If anything is corrupted in the middle of the switch ASIC, nothing notices and it passes along. I once helped troubleshoot an issue in our network where a BGP packet was corrupted in this way. The flipped bits ended up causing a more specific route to be generated, and we had the world weirdest BGP route hijack within the bounds of our own data center.
Aren't magistrate judges supposed to take the police's word for this? You can't have an adversarial process for getting a search warrant. The remedy for broken warrants happens at trial, with motions to exclude evidence.

There was grave misconduct in the Taylor case! Police shouldn't routinely be assaulting homes with weapons drawn. My issue is just the process you're describing here.