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This wouldn't be a problem if HN migrated to a blockchain written in go for performance
> The Salvadoran president, Najib Bukele, a 39 year old businessman is effectively controlling gang activity.

Some say that this is due to... shady deals with gang leaders: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-54033444

Bukele is also under fire for attacking freedom of the press: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-06/el-salvad...
I despair it will be the opposite. To enhance revenues in the face of recent unexpected expenses due to global pandemic, government will embrace advertising to enhance revenues. Not just government web sites, but all government communications and services. Finding the right line to fill in when completing your tax form will become a game of Where's Waldo among the print ads. Want to see the beauty of a national park... it's right there behind the electronic billboards taking advantage of the proximity detectors in your phone and linked to user tracking.

There is too much lucre at stake for the government to be allowed to regulate. The government is vulnerable and needs to be supported by the advertising lobby. After all, it's what they do.
GOOGLE UPDATE YOUR GCP STATUS PAGE. Stop making us run around trying to figure out what systems are down.

Running: timeout 60 gcloud compute instance-groups list-instances [removed] --zone=us-central1-c | awk '{print $1}' | grep -v NAMEERROR: (gcloud.compute.instance-groups.list-instances) Some requests did not succeed:

- Internal Error
Google still is the best when it comes to search. But its also important to know the alternatives. You will be surprised how many people dont know Google alternatives. lol
I've seen a lot of individuals reporting the same thing. Also, it seems almost every video has ads now. I wonder if those videos you see in landing pages will get them too.

Also, it started showing a "please sign up" to me every hour or so, which is not only disruptive but also buggy, as it forces me to reload the page, losing the position of the video.
I assume if cars where invented today, there would probably be digital speed caps on cars in most countries.
Yeah, last.fm remains significantly better than Spotify for listening reccs. Better yearly stats too.
Because it's not illegal to own or sell a car that can go over the speed limit.

A speed limiter is a feature that prevents a vehicle from doing something that many potential buyers want it to be able to do. There's absolutely no incentive to build in one that can't be disabled. In contrast, ones that can be optionally enabled are common - my car has such a feature, and I often enable it for sections of road with average speed checks.
Ramstein Air Base in Germany Got Incoming Missile Alert
Now we'll have a bit of outrage, talking about how dangerous it is to have the whole world impacted by one company's processes and forget about it in 2 days
As many comments in this thread have mentioned, the crash seems to happen when when logged in; youtube and other services seem to work when don't send the session cookie. This suggests something very fundamental related to user account/sessions is failing...

Did Maria Christensen make a mistake when adding "return true;"?

(This is a joke referencing Tom Scott's 2014 parable[1] about the danger of designing a system with a single point of failure. Tom's tells the fictional tale of a high level employee at Google adding "return true;" to the global "handleLogin()" function.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q (you might need to open this link in a private window...)
The parent did not rely on authority; they posted actual substantive content. Read their comment history.

You can choose to flip off people's qualifications if you want.... but it doesn't make what they say wrong, no matter hooooooowwwww much you don't like it. :)
Services are not restored. Some came up again, some not. My Gsuite business mail is still completely down, while youtube started working again.

I'm pretty sure there will be some internal conferences at Google after this to make sure infrastructure problems can't propagate across the entire company and world at this rate even in the event of a sysop fatfingering a console...
Astronauts' Dirty Laundry (2003)
Google Search seemed to be also down: https://serpapi.com/status
...Google Reader still exists?
A lot of these were advocated for and often implemented by (originally) socialist democratic parties so I can see where you're coming from, but I think that a 'real' socialist democracy would be going a good step further.
Scent plays a central role in our everyday life, even acting as a powerful time machine into our own past with its ability to spark long-forgotten memories. But it's also a key tool in telling the stories of others.
A good explainer video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p8wTOr8AbU
If you put in real books about history written by historians, it recommends "restauration agriculture" and "gospel according to harry potter" and "magic school bus" and I think I am fine to stay in my bubble.
You learn something completely different in a comp sci course. Regardless why mortgage your future earnings when you can learn everything for free?
Yeah I noticed this pyramid scheme as well. I am sure some enterprising product manager suggested "let's have the students teach as part of their education, and we can tell them that teaching enhances learning!"
... staffed by MBAs. :)
The way apprenticeships traditionally worked is that the apprentice was bound to the master for a certain number of years, and his parents also often had to pay to have him taken on. The tension between needing trained labour, but not wanting your trained labour to walk out the door and seek employment elsewhere (literal meaning of 'journeyman') was resolved firstly by extremely severe constraints on the apprentice and his freedom, and secondly by pretty severe regulation of the master, to ensure quality of training, and prevent exploitation. In practice there still was a lot of exploitation.

Today neither employers not bootcamps would be able to take on risk/exert control over the apprentice's career to the extent optimal from a strictly economic point of view. You can look at the service-for-education deals offered by the military (for both low-skilled and highly skilled people) to get an example - no other organizations would be allowed to restrict a trainee's liberty to the same extent.

While I don't agree with the moral spin that is sometimes put on this of 'greedy juniors' getting trained up and then abandoning their benefactors for higher salaries, this is a real collective action problem, not just shortsightedness in behalf of employers.
I am not sure the general public is aware of how pervasive this is.

Microplastics have contaminated the _whole_ Earths' water cycle, including mountain glaciers. [1]

The only difference between water supplies is just how big the concentration of these particles is. In practical terms you can assume all water sources are affected, water treatment facilities do not filter this.

You can reverse osmosis the water you drink but all the vegetables, fish, animals in your food chain are equally contaminated.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02697...
But much higher than the chances of both of them getting borked.
It has become regional news in local regional newspapers in South India. It's that big.
Hahahahaha this is gold
World GDP was ~$90B last year (https://databank.worldbank.org/data/download/GDP.pdf), which averages to ~$150M/minute
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Disclaimer: IANAL, but also asked that question once in my youth, and went digging for the answer.

They technically don't in a meaningful sense.

What they do is make a car that has high torque and can accelerate 0-60 mph as quickly as possible. This has the unwanted side effect of also being able to still continue accelerating quickly past the target zone (<= 85mph). Some street legal cars have governors because of how exceptional their acceleration is.

The acceleration in cars are designed around pretty much one extra horrible edge case: accelerating up to freeway speeds, up an onramp that is entirely too steep (yet legally designed), from a standstill (ie, gridlock conditions), while also carrying max cargo capacity. Cars must be able to do this to be considered safe by any meaningful definition.

Also, there are no laws against going fast. The laws are purely against the law on public roads, as per the posted limit; there are many private racetracks that are completely legal. Not all countries even have limits comparable to America's, so being able to safely go 100+ mph is worth it if you were to, say, drive on the German Autobahn.
Simple math says:

World GDP (via Google) $80,934,771,028,340

Minutes per year 365 * 24 * 60 = 525,600

Divide and you get 153,985,485
You can go anywhere safely.

You can also go anywhere recklessly, or what reckless people call "having some fun".

Does that clear up your misunderstanding?
Hey, are you updating newpipe from F-Droid?
I do, and it stopped working for me weeks ago.
I agree completely that Firefox is only maintained as an anti-trust foil by Google.

When Google worked out that Microsoft owning the browser might cost them in the long run, they started working on Chrome.

I don't see anyone doing anything similar at the moment. Microsoft's adoption of Chrome is a tacit admission that they lost the browser wars and are not interested in continuing that fight. Apple isn't trying to get Safari adopted en masse on any other OS, it just seems to want to have a browser that it controls on its platform, which I guess makes sense. But it's not a play for "controlling the browser" - they don't even stop you from installing other browsers on their platform.

This just isn't an area anyone is fighting for any more. Building a standards-complient fully-featured browser is a huge project, but not so huge that a large corporate couldn't afford it. Persuading people to use it is a larger problem, but again, nothing that hasn't been done before and can't be done again. But no-one at this scale is even trying.

There are a few attempts from the other direction, dedicated companies like Brave trying to make this happen, and I hope they succeed.
Yes! It takes some work to switch, but it's worth it. Buy your own domain name, and link it to an existing service if you don't want to host yourself. You'll always be able to switch your mail alias when having issues with your email host.
Disclaimer: I've grown tomatoes, strawberries and weed indoors with artificial lighting.

As long as there is no shocking event like global drought or famine I do not think vertical farming or indoor farming will be a norm anytime soon as it takes massive, massive amount of energy/capital.

That being said, the moment we figure out using fusion energy, conventional farming will most probably vanish.

Also R&D on agriculture robots is a nice side perk, there is only so much to automate in agriculture & horticulture.
It's impressive how fast they are at fixing outages, barely a coffee break required. I'm almost starting to believe in this DevOps thing...
Before the dirty laundry can be ejected into space, it has a tendency to pile up. According to NASA, all of these dirty garments can cause storage and weight problems, and lint from cotton fibres can clog filters. Then, there's the smell.
That's not the model. Lambda is function oriented and handles the concurrency on your behalf. The new container support is really just about providing another delivery mechanism for functions - the underlying model remains the same. If you want something more Cloud Run-esque on AWS, you could use Fargate to rig it up.
>the apparent feminization of human societies

Wow, could you elaborate or backup this claim? Do you mean that it explains that there are more female born than male? Probably not since you say it can't be talked about so you're hinting at a more ideological and thus controversial claim : That masculine values are on the down or something of that kind.
If that's your opinion, well it is a classic overheard reactionary argument about the pacification of social relationships and how war forge "real" men and you just disappointed me.
There are other sites that can check for you
Hilarious remix of the Pride and Prejudice review that went something like: "1 star: Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses."
Seems like the incident lasted from 04:00 AM PST to 04:30 AM PST, at least for BigQuery (sorry, image timestamps are in JST, since I'm in Japan): https://imgur.com/a/kiHED6v
Definitely i agree with you. Although the statuses are updated later, it may cause many problems if it is not instantaneous.
That's trillion not billion
Conversely, we could try not fiddling with it: https://youtu.be/6txA3pI0xJI

And playing minesweeper.
Elon Musk is leaving Silicon Valley for Texas. These companies are joining him
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Doing research of my own on the subject. Just google "20/20/20/ rule". I just did, and found the following article. An eye care professional tracked it down and attributed to... another eye care professional.

https://www.optometrytimes.com/view/deconstructing-20-20-20-...
I agree. But, in a molten-salt reactor, the vessel and heat exchangers are equivalent to fuel assemblies. Dispose the vessel and heat exchangers similar to Zr-clad million dollar fuel assemblies.(PWR/BWR reload costs $60-100 million per 12-18 months.)

Material wise Zr clad is way more expensive than stainless 3XX & graphite combined. Even if Ni-alloy is used in disposable MSRs Ni-alloy+graphite will be slightly cheaper. (Base metal costs:
Zr metal: ~$22,700/ton
Ni metal: ~$13,100/ton)

Many actinides have volatile fluorides. Fluoride volatility is a proven process used to enrich uranium for LWRs. Fuel salt can be disposed after recovering U & Pu. Vacuum distillation is physical separation, which can also be used to further recover expensive base salt FLi7Be. No vacuum distillation is necessary if inexpensive salt is used.
In Minnesota at least we “unlawful acceleration” / “unreasonable acceleration” statute. I have a couple friends who have received tickets for it.
People would probably argue a “multi cloud” solution. Have your infrastructure be “cloud agnostic” and this sort of problem would be avoided.

There was actually a project called “spinnaker” that was supposed to solve this problem.

Whether the cost of paying 2 or more cloud providers is worth it for most companies is up in the air.
After the original post, several people pointed out some pretty significant, breaking mistakes. For instance the claim that the Apple chip has "nothing of the sort" compared to the SIMD on the Intel chip, making it "far inferior [in some respects]".

It seems dubious that someone cognizant of the 128-bit NEON instructions would say such a thing.

The follow-up post then defensively used pejorative language to describe those people, such as that they were "rubbed the wrong way", among other dismissive lines, pointing to some prior entry to prove that surely he isn't unaware of such a thing, then going into the demonstration with the intention of proving his original point.

That's...not useful. He made an enormous error because he was certain that his original wrong claims must be true. I'm not surprised that he recanted given that it was a pretty embarrassing, egregious error seen by thousands.
> Organized crime can make money in other ways.

None of these has the absurd profit spans of drugs, though. You need about ~600-800 US$ worth of raw coca leafs to produce 1kg base cocaine (https://www.businessinsider.com/from-colombia-to-new-york-ci...) - and make ~25-27k US$ once it's on US streets. A vertical cartel that controls everything from the leaves to the sellers can capture all that 41.000% profit margin for themselves!

When the biggest markets US and EU "dry up" for illegal sales of cocaine, the gangs literally don't have anyone any more to extort for money - the population of South America is dirt poor. And also, they can't afford running militia that are more capable than some nations' armies or bribing the utter majority of the political class any more once these tasty US dollars vanish.
It featured almost absurd routines of "yes, yes, no", "no, yes, no" etc

My foreign friends all pointed at the screen and shouted! Anyone know what that means? Searching for yes no doesn't turn up appropriate results.
I've heard similar from a Honduran girl who moved to my country. She says she's never going back.
In theory the ISA should incentivize the bootcamp to work hard on the student's behalf. If they don't get high-paying jobs, the bootcamp doesn't get paid back.

From what I've read though, they actually bundle the ISAs and sell them off to investors--just like the mortgage-backed securities that led to the 2008 financial crisis. So the bootcamp's real incentive would be to generate as many ISAs to sell as possible, not to make sure the ISAs are any good.
What happened to good ol’ 4-year college educations?? Lmao what even is this
It makes me wonder if there is a bias that says day trading and risky investments aren't risky when one is a billionaire? Magical thinking abounds when one crosses a threshold?
Would never work without a powerful AI engine in the middle.
Show HN: An ORM framework for changing the programming pattern
Yeah, it's a terrible feeling and it bodes poorly for our future.
"I didn't claim they were."

I know you didn't, but (without wanting to put words into your mouth), the more abstract claim was that there is some sort of technology path from growing salads to growing other crops, which (I'm claiming) there isn't, or at least not to a significant degree. The things you mention are already solved, have been for many years; it has been a specialty and major export product of our country for decades (as you indubitably know).

"Bulk foods (more properly called staple foods)"

I didn't use that word on purpose. What I roughly wanted to say was "root crops, grains, tree crops, basically anything that isn't herbs or salads", but that wouldn't be accurate either (carrots are root crops but not a staple and can to some degree be grown in substrates). But probably it's a distinction without a difference, in this context. I think it's fair, for the sake of the discussion, to talk about "leafy greens" vs "non leafy greens", even though "but tomatoes" etc.

"Bulk foods do just fine in regular soil where ever they are being grown, and do so reasonably efficiently."

No they do not, at least under other circumstances than precisely the ones we want to get away from, with indiscriminate use of nitrates and pesticides. I happen to have a yield model for various crops in the EU here open on my other monitor, that I've been working with for several months now. Agriculture as we do it today in the western EU cannot be done efficiently without intensive farming methods. Without fertilizer, yields are a factor of 2 to 4 lower. That is an absolutely game changing difference.

"A vertical farm does not compete with in soil agriculture in open air, it competes with greenhouses."

Well I'm not sure any more what we're arguing here. The OP's point was "Vertical farms don't feed people. They are basically a solution to just in time delivery for restaurants and nothing else." Which, to some degree, holds for greenhouses (depending on definitions). The food production problems we have is not that we don't have enough area for greenhouses, or that we can't grow enough leafy greens; greenhouses are so efficient that we're not constrained by land for the demand we have for food that can be grown in them. What we need is more space efficient production of high calorie foods, in ways that don't degrade the environment in the ways and to the extent current methods do. Neither vertical farms nor greenhouses (I mean, 'vertical farm' is just a marketing word for 'multi story greenhouse') will be of any use for that.

But maybe your point is something entirely different and relates to the OP in a different way, in which case our whole discussion is moot.
Not really since now it's up, and the status page still says it's down.
Does this site also use Firebase, or do they only feed Firebase's Database so that other developers can build upon it?
>So I agree I guess, but don't at the same time.

I suppose I do too.

While a lack of designed-in security is often the (sometimes disastrous) result, I posit that it's more about a lack of knowledge/education around good software security design/implementation than spec changes or scope creep.

If good security design practices were stressed when teaching software development (and/or included in resources for autodidacts) and given the same value as other development concepts, developers would incorporate those concepts from the start, rather than having to bolt them on (or not) later on.

As such, it's more about lack of knowledge/focus/value placed on security in software design/development.

Given the value of data that being secured with software, good security practices should be, if not just as integral, to software development as performance or UX design, it should at least be a consideration before prototyping.
I think you should take into account that plants can differ enormously. Small plants that don't grow in tight grids get some fancy 14x multiplier but once you actually try to grow a space efficient plant like wheat it just doesn't work out. The crop is already maximizing exposure to the sun to an incredible degree. Vertical farming can't increase this "efficiency" other than by adding more layers which will always involve uneconomical artificial lighting.

Growing easy plants... is easy. Not every plant is easy to grow in a vertical farm.
The "one page for every book" goal seems to position Open Library as a rival to OCLC (Worldcat), as well as the almost perfectly useless Hathi Trust.
I think that's normal. ;)
This sounds like the good old 1970-80s "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" argument.
Especially Autobahn in Germany is interesting. Generally there is no speed limit, but something called "Richtgeschwindigkeit" (the advised speed you should go, which is 130km/h). But there ARE speed limits on most parts of the Autobahn (construction sites are generally limited to 60 or 80km/h, dangerous sections, etc. so it's often limited to 100-140 km/h). Sections without speed limit are a lot of fun and created a whole industry around them. There are car rentals with sports cars you can get for a few hundred/thousand Euro a day, depending on the car (and they have almost everything, from Porsche and Mercedes AMG to Ferraris and Lamborghinis).
Fast cars are expensive. Germany wants to sell A LOT of expensive cars. But there is a problem: in most countries fast cars are illegal. So how to solve this problem? German carmakers tells about this problem to the German government. German government finds a solution: allow unlimited speed on German highways so we can make fast cars legal - at least in Germany. Now "they make cars go so fast" and they are legal - in Germany. Now rich people order fast, expensive cars - from Germany. Officially they will not drive them too fast in their countries. Buy everybody can imagine, what happens inofficially... they have enough money to pay for the penalties (with the exception of Finland and maybe some other countries, where penalties are percentage of your income).
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Right? Home automation is perfectly fine and mught even expose a secure authenticated API to the internet so you can say check and adjust the temperature remotely, but it shoukd never ever go down for lical use if the Internet connectivity or the remote service backend goes down.
Hard to find though. You basically can't shop on mainstreet (which you can't right now anyway, but you get the point).
Ada is often overlooked. Very short summary: It's like C in that it's plain imperative code that compiles down to efficient machine-code pretty naturally. It's unlike C in that it's much safer, with excellent support for strong optional runtime checks. Ada has excellent interoperability with C. Syntactically it's pretty different from C.