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> Are any cruise missiles launched and then flown around until you notice something of interest to sink?

Sort of, there are loitering munitions which essentially hang out until they find a target and then engage it. The IAI Harpy from the late 80s is a pretty good example. It's an anti-radiation missile, meaning it locks on to enemy radar signals and uses that to home in and destroy them, degrading enemy air defenses. Usually an aircraft would have to detect an enemy radar signal and then fire the missile. With the Harpy, you simply fire it and it hangs around, potentially for 2 hours, waiting until it detects an radar signal, at which point it engages.

The tomahawk missile in theory could be capable of loitering behavior. It already has a 2-way datalink, allowing it to send information back to a controller and the controller to send commands to the missile. It even has a camera and can transmit images back to the controller, which I believe is used for bomb damage assessment. All you would need to do is add some sort of seeker device to the missile and some software modifications.
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> That guidance wasn't needed

That criticism wasn't needed
Slightly related, but I remember NOAA used to have hydrophones streaming live to the internet and I would listen to them to fall asleep. One day one of the hydrophone lines was cut, and they stopped the stream and never restarted it.

I would love to be able to hear live ocean sounds again.
Vaccines are only paid for by the government in the USA for low-income, uninsured kids. If you're insured, you likely have a copay and if you're not medicaid-eligible and high-income, you likely have to pay out of pocket.
I can't speak for others, but, while we don't pin versions in the Dockerfiles for our build container images, we do version the images themselves.

Reproducibility is a continuum, not a binary. We've chosen a point on that continuum that we believe gives us the best trade-off between reliability and maintenance effort. 100% from-the-ground-up reproducibility would be ideal, of course, but there's a cost-benefit tradeoff, and we're not being paid to be perfectionists.
This is an old one.

What is a four-letter word name for a language that you write once and run anywhere?

Perl.
Not sure if this the case yet. Any examples? But I can see it becoming the case in the future ...
I would love to see escrow expand from the realm of high-value purchases to more modest transactions, because it's a pretty good way to promote good conduct online. (Full disclosure: About 12 years ago I built a startup that would do this, but it never took off.)

Imagine signing up for a social-media account that requires a small amount of money -- say $1 to $10 -- be put down as a type of security deposit. If, during your first X days of activity on the site, you flagrantly violate the terms of use (e.g. by spamming lots of other users) you lose the money; otherwise it's returned to you.

If such a system were to become commonplace, it would introduce only a minor amount of friction for most legitimate users, but it would become a great impediment to spammers and other malicious users.
That fact that we are ignorant doesn't imply FTL is possible- that's optimism on your part. The universe doesn't care about your optimism and has no obligation to contain the physics that can make Star Trek a real thing.
To make it workable I had to just give up on the local host file integration.

I basically used the container like a VM. Configured it with all the tools I normally use (e.g. OhMyZsh, etc) and had it constantly running in the background. I would use VS Code as a front end and work directly inside the container (cloning repos and pushing commits).

It had its quirks but the main benefit was that my local machine was no longer a snowflake. I could easily move to any machine, pull my "development" image, spin up the container and everything was exactly as I liked it.
Thanks for explaining. Though, like xenocratus, I thought you meant Galois/Counter Mode and was similarly puzzled :)
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Not true. I really hoped that Hacker News folks were careful enough not to repeat the Pro-Aryan propaganda. I never understand why people try to change history. We live in the present where we should strive for equality and not change history to push your agenda
Pro-Aryan groups felt threatened that Tamil is a classical language older than Sanskrit and is very much alive unlike Sanskrit. This led them to spread propaganda about Tamil and calling any reference to Tamil before the age of Sanskrit as proto-Dravidian.

Even now, you can see the subjugation of Tamil History by the Indian government refusing to research the very important archeological find of Keezhadi.

Epigraphic research proves that much of the inscriptions from the Indus valley civilization is in Tamil. This threatens the Pro-Aryan groups for some unknown reason.
Suicides are not counted in the murder category though.
After my daughter was born, my parents showed me the booklet containing the results of the routine examinations I had as a child (where I come from, this booklet has been standardized for decades, so it can be compared pretty easily). Interestingly, we both had the exact same Apgar scores 6 / 10 / 10 (scores are measured 1, 5 and 10 minutes after birth).

For the emotional "is my baby ok" aspect, before you are even interested in the Apgar scores, you automatically and instinctively do a quick "is everything there" check, even if you know that to be the case because of the ultrasound examinations.
Well, in reality this is what I present because this is what people usually present.

What I am trying to say that if I was management, I would be only interested to see things that are useful to the business.

If my business needs to be compliant with XXX, then a green status for XXX is what I need.

If there is a problem information security cannot handle because (whatever reason: no commitment form another organisation, no budget, ...) I want to know that.

Knowing that there are 7 attacks/sec or that there were 17 incidents would not help me.

This also means that I trust Information Security to provide me the right information and do their job correctly otherwise. This is usually checked by an anual external audits (at least for financial compliance).

What I do not want (this time in my real role in infosec) is to spend time providing meaningless data which management does not use anyway (but since "everyone" shows them, they want to see it too for a reason that escapes me)
It already has
Interesting, I have never thought of it this way.
The defect list is also adaptive: the NAND flash fails over time and the firmware detects and accounts for this with error correction codes and by updating the list of bad blocks. It's not just a fixed datastructure.
“Traditional media”, sure, but the question as posed was about the media.

Craigslist and the New York Times website probably did more to harm the profitability of newspapers around the country than any FAANG company, and there’s no shortage of new websites claiming to report the news.

Tech is the media’s biggest supporter, but maybe not the media that you grew up with. What’s driving down the price of news isn’t tech, but the new forms of competition tech—big, small, medium, XL, etc.— enables.
Thank you! That explanation actually makes the paper make a lot more sense.
Right but at least Impact Factor gives you some kind of objective idea of the importance of a journal. Most researchers know Science and Nature are elite journals and impact factor at least backs that up by showing that their papers are highly cited by other "experts" in the field. But as I said it's still not perfect.
> Super easy for new team members to get started on a project. No need to manually install dependencies.

I see this brought up a lot as an argument. So why do we want this? How often do people switch companies? Once every 3 years on average or something? Getting your development env setup takes what, a few hours max on 3 years?
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Most pirated does not necessarily mean they’re good movies or movies you’d like. They just mean that the movies are good and/or the audience in some countries fell for some marketing and downloaded them. Some people may pirate movies based on such lists without checking the synopsis, reviews and ratings, only to be frustrated later at the thought of having wasted time, data caps, etc.

Some of the above is applicable to movies in theaters or on streaming services as well (Netflix, I’m looking at your movies).
I'm as much of a grammar nazi as anyone, but I think this usage is defensible. 10 is ten times more than 1. So 1 is arguably ten times less than 10.

Certainly there are more important things to fret about, like: "Tim went to the store with he and I.' Arrgghh!!!
It is a pity that later, cheaper editions of The Neverending Story were printed in black ink only. I read the original (well, original English translation) and it really added to the story.

Incidentally, for anyone out there that hasn't read The Neverending Story, I recommend it. The book is very different to the film and starts messing with the reader about halfway in.
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If we are talking about the US, then the taxpayers are liable.

https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html
Didn't WhatsApp do it similar in the beginning? AFAIR they offered the app for free and said after one year you have to pay 1€/$. I paid this once or twice and then it was free again (probably because of FB).

However it was very clever to give a whole year for free, lock everyone in and then start taking a small fee. I like that strategy. Now with FB it's just a plain data grab.
That's why I believe the right payment model for paid apps/services is being able to sponsor another user.
npm / webpack: That's not Docker's fault - that's node/JS's fault. Having to touch thousands and thousands of files is expensive. This is why I've come to loath web frontend development.
Apple’s VR headset will be a pricey, high-end niche standalone
An old laptop locked down to run a BASIC REPL in kiosk mode?
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All of those benefits were solved problems with VM based workflows using something like Vagrant long before Containers started gaining traction (IMO).

Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of containers (in particular LXC), but I wouldn't list those benefits as if they are unique or novel to container based workflows.

Edit: To be clear, there _are_ benefits to containers over VMs, just not the things you listed above from my perspective.
>Personally, probably a solid third of the guys I knew in a college CS program were insufferably close-minded and reductionist about non-"hard stem" fields of study.

Did you read your own comment? There's a reason people dismiss those fields because they are largely anti-scientific and produce results that don't hold up under scrutiny.
This is very much state-by-state, it definitely isn't true here. In fact "Essential Workers" aren't even carved out as their own group here, just general pop/everyone else.
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The behavior I notice with my cats when they have some ‘nip is they get a little active then have a time where they just mellow out. But cats also sleep about 16 hours a day, so it is hard to determine at what point being mellow shifts into their typical nap time.

I don’t think there’s a long-term tolerance that builds up. I get the sense it is short-acting. I’ve read once a cat has catnip, giving them more in a 15-20 minute window is pointless because they’ve already been “activated” by it. They need to come down from the initial dose first.

My cats’ vet has suggested to use catnip to encourage activity (they’re a big chunky and need some exercise).
I see that now. I wouldn't disagree, but if you're a CTO for example you might have interest in the services more than joining the team.
Float planes... that could work. Land on the water next to the submarine, then get towed back into the sub by a winch.
This begs the question whether it's also OK to use "beg the question" in this manner.
The chip is made in Japan, according to the comments on the post. However, most of their products sold in the west are made in Wales.
I did find it for UK Biobank (one of several sources) earlier, quite easily, by clicking on the relevant link. I suspect that you could not find it (and did not know) only because you don't have relevant training/expertise in science/genetic research - in line with your first question in this thread.

They asked people in the UK in a digitally supported questionnaire/interview, for their ethnicity.

(Wikipedia also mentions that UK Biobank is criticised for sampling bias towards wealthy white Brits)
Social distancing?
> Threema run & operate all their own servers - that’s good & bad in my eyes (do they know what they doing? Has any of their infrastructure been security audited?)

Afaik that's not different to Signal.
I agree with you. In fact I would say understanding compilers is really pretty easy. They are some of the most well researched and documented subjects (in CS) out there. Almost all compilers are going to follow a similar structure of lex -> parse -> pass0 -> passN -> generation.

The challenge these days seems to be in the passes which can become numerous and complex.
What about requiring exercise or fluorinated water? Those neither invade privacy and improve things for people and the company.
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I am reading HN several times a day and, just out of pure curiosity, I was wondering what are the professions that most people that read HN have.
I am a product guy, btw.
> Fermi’s paradox is pretentious in that it assumes we humans have some sort of cosmic significance.

Our significance as a species is actually irrelevant to the question of why we might or might not be visited. Even if we turn out to be somehow extraordinary, the aliens would have to visit first before they could know that.
In some places, it is still 70+. The original CDC guidelines put workers in firefighters, grocery store workers, postal workers, and other essential jobs in front of more elderly workers. Most states aren't strictly abiding by this guidance, but it does mean that these workers are eligible in some states.
Could change it like that:

A mathematician, a physicist and a biologist are flying in a air balloon and are lost.

They encounter a man walking below:

The biologist asks him: "do you know, where we are?"

"..." the man looks up and says nothing

The physicist ask him: "can you please tell us, where we are!"

"..." after a while the man says: "yes".

The mathematician remarks, ah, he must be a logician. The others: "how do you know?"

"Well, for once he needed a lot of time to answer. Then his answer is logically correct. And lastly, his answer is completely useless to us."
IIRC he does all of his original art in Paint too.
We don’t seem likely to leave the solar system any time soon, so that could easily be the case. Especially if there is any lag between detecting say radio waves or whatever they find interesting and a ship showing up.

The other consideration is visiting other stars may be possible and extremely expensive. Colonizing at say 0.001c is possible, but very slow and likely requires generation ships. Hardly worth it so your descendent can visit some primitive culture who might not be around when they get there.
Certain advocacy groups just report gun-involved deaths as a single statistic. Not if they are homicides or suicides.

This should be plainly obvious.

What point are you making? Other than perhaps unintentionally backing the pro-gun lobby idea that guns are just tools.
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Did you hear the one about a programmer losing all of her hair? She bought a bottle of shampoo and the instructions said "Lather. Rinse. Repeat."
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One slight problem I had with .devcontainer in VS Code was running the devcontainer on a remote ssh server.

Remote SSH works. Local devcontainer works. But mixing the two requires configuring the docker engine settings to point to the remote. This forces other projects to also run on the remote machine.

This was a problem as of 2 months ago.
Skip coffee for two days and buy both! I have an Arduino nano, a Pi Zero, a Pi Zero W, but this looks neat too
> Intensely focused on demonstrating technical feasibility, he and his co-founders found $75K in grant money and hired a postdoc at Cornell to do the first proof-of-principle study.

That's still quite a budget. Not the sort of thing accessible to many people. What if you're a grad student that just finished their phd (coming off of making 40k a year for half a decade), and not, say, a professor that has connections? Where do you get this initial seed?
Has she ever written a paper or made a comment about cryptocurrency that evidences any significant depth of understanding?

Her eminence in the traditional field could actually be detracting from her willingness to explore and accept disruptive new developments.
This "early modern Italy" is early 1600.
> According to observation capable at the time, it seemed to make sense, with a few little oddities.

As bluGill says, according to observation right now it _still_ makes sense. With a few little oddities.

Your view appears to be one of relativity refuting, rather than further confirming (as far as the scales studied at that time) classical physics.

You cannot compare it to something allowing FTL. There's a major difference between "we don't know everything" and "everything we know is wrong".
No, though religion sometimes justifies inequality, by claiming that those at the bottom of society were put there before birth as part of God's grand design. Calvinism's tenet of Predestination claims exactly that.

AFAIK, Calvinism is alone among Christian denominations in making that prejudgement.
My favorite current series is "The stormlight archive". The world building is very good.
I give computation and consistency a special place once you assume you are in a simulation.

If a computer inside the universe runs some proof of work computation like in BlockChain, (aka finding a mathematical one-way function that when iterated is terminated by a big enough trail of zeros), this computation has to be done in the higher plane universe, or a witness from inside the universe could deem the universe not consistent.

The alternative are time-travel explanations where you substitute questions, by replacing questions for which you can have already an answer.

You can approximate a star or any collection of particle by while preserving its observable statistics aka effective-super-particle and get huge computational speed-up. Life are run-away processes for which you can't define statistics.
so you want management without metrics? the problem isn't the metrics (a fundamental attribution error to think so), it's that middle managers are incentivized to appease upper managers (and ultimately owners), and metrics are the most visible available tool. the system is set up this way intentionally by owners and their executive surrogates to insulate them from the callous, negative conqeuences of management that explicitly aims to dehumanize work (this kind of indirection abstraction in human systems is an extremely common source of distorted incentives and unintended consequences; like poor customer service at most companies, google being a preeminent example).

metrics that are reported to individual contributors (e.g., toyota production system, agile done appropriately), on the other hand, are fantastic, for managers and workers, as long as it's well-understood that the metrics are not the product, they're simple signposts (indirect/incomplete measures of holistic qualitative desires like efficiency and quality).

by the way, (bad) bureaucracies are created by the drive to regiment and order messy human processes that leads to over-reliance on metrics, not people trying to justify their existence.

bullshit jobs is a bullshit book written to appeal to our fears and frustrations, not to elucidate us with actionable information.
> Have you tried docker on Windows? It's even worse.

I've been running Docker on Windows since Windows 10 17.09 or roughly the time WSL 1 came around. That's since October 2017.

It's been really fast and stable here and now with WSL 2 it's even better.

There hasn't been a single Flask, Rails, Phoenix or Webpack related project I've developed in the last 3+ years where I felt like Docker was slowing me down[0]. I'm using a desktop workstation with parts from 2014 too (i5 3.2ghz, 16gb of memory and a 1st gen SSD). About a month ago I made a video showing what the dev experience is like with this hardware while using Docker[1].

Code changes happen nearly instantly, live reloading works and even Webpack happily compiles down 100s of KBs of CSS and JS in ~200ms (which could further be improved by using Webpack cache).

[0]: The only exception to this is invalidating cached Docker layers when you install new dependencies. This experience kind of sucks, but fortunately this doesn't happen often since most changes are related to code changes not dependency changes.

[1]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/for-the-time-being-16gb-of-ra...
Just out of curiosity, did you actually read the story about how Google didn't "get away with it"? The patent wasn't issued.
Read only time travel would still be immensely useful as there are so many situations where having a clear answer to what happened is interesting - history, solving crimes, analyzing accidents (or bugs as we are on HN), re-measuring experiments, ...
Hence it being demonized by one half of Christianity, I imagine. Accusations of syncretism and heresy and magic and mysticism and other things that make/made the Catholic (and Catholic off-shoots e.g. protestantism) side of Christianity uneasy.
Maker here. Happy to answer any questions or take any feedback.

I've submitted it to HN avoiding to mention the "71 javascript lines of code" as I thought the community might find this title version clearer.
I use vscode to connect to a a cloud vm. VSCode is surprisingly good at this.
Client is local and connects to an vscode server over ssh.

Granted I work on Azure and the cost of the vm is not something I have to worry about.
It's no different than a newspaper opting not to print a letter to the editor. It's not state censorship. It's an exercise of editorial discretion.
So, speaking as a data scientist, the dependencies run deeper than Python kernels and libraries. For something like TensorFlow, you need to account for specific versions of Nvidia drivers and CUDA/CUDnn. Using something like the Nvidia container runtime for model development allows me to essentially version my entire development environment.
If you're in the US, a recommendation is to look up your local CERT[0] organization - they usually have free or low cost classes and other learning opportunities. Triage is an important part, as is preparing for disasters that are relevant for your community. Going further, a basic first aid and/or CPR class is good to get hands-on.

[0] https://www.ready.gov/cert
If needed, you could probably containerize that workflow as well. Conversely, if someone shared their containerized environment with you, you don't necessarily need to use VSCode. You can still just attach to the container directly using Docker.