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> Conspiracy theories like "Murdoch ordered the government to not rollout the NBN, though they did so anyway but more cheaply" doesn't deserve a response.

Thank you for responding.

Did you read Paul Sheehan's 4 Aug 2013 article in The Age?

https://www.theage.com.au/opinion/murdoch-sends-trusted-gene...

How about Rudd's 2019 backgrounder in the Australian Financial Review?

https://www.afr.com/companies/telecommunications/the-myth-ma...
Those aren’t the issue
Unwanted “Idealo” Spam in Mozilla Fennec
When I select text in Firefox on my Android phone (Fennec #861120) The context menu shows the entries: copy, search, select all, share and idealo search. I cannot seem to find an option to disable this, neither in the settings UI, nor in about:config

I'm advocating for Mozilla Products as long as I can think back, but Things like this really get to me.

Same thoughts about compact mode deprecation.

Who is responsible for crap like this? I'm really in the mood to make use of shitforyou.eu

Jokes aside I would really appreciate a "debloated" Fennec build, does anyone know of such a thing or do I have to spend my time getting to know its build process?
I will surely give it $1000 but first i have to figure out on how to predict the stock. thanks
Jim Keller: Most People Don't Think Simple Enough
> I want to leave this on 24/7 and run various cron jobs etc, so I want the low-power ARM chip.

You can find Atoms and Celerons (e.g. N3060) just as low power (5W). Plenty of such low-power mini PCs are available. Ones with 128GB are well within your price range... here's just one for $158: https://amazon.com/dp/B08T71WXL3

Or you can go with one of the few which include M.2 slots... I have a couple, myself.

Amazon and Minisforum are good places to start.
Interesting, wikipedia says these microbes are called thermophiles, and that they can survive for up to 122 degrees celcius. That is still less than what they have on Venus, that is 464 degress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermophile
There's no blood in a UAV, shooting one down is only destruction of property, not bloodlust.

It's intellectual curiosity. Nobody would be harmed by blasting one and figuring out what it is and who it belongs to.
The company I travelled with was actually Evergreen, so I was on one of these "Ever Foo" ships people are talking about upthread. The photos on Twitter look very similar to ones I took at the time.

I booked through a specialized travel agent in the EU that has since gone bust, but if you search the web for freighter cruise or cargo ship cruise you should be able to find some other companies that can help out.
I still have no idea how to use this to predict one day ahead, I have tried ARIMA and LSTM both maps the chart perfectly but other than that i have no idea, any referneces to study ?
The author emphasizes China, but the massive incentive to publish papers based on volume with little/no consideration for reputation of the journal in question, is prevalent in a number of different national systems.

China just has a disproportionate impact because of the size. It's not unique, and the comments talking about this being some aspect of China or the character of the Chinese are, I think, missing the mark. This is just humans responding to clear incentives.
I read it. None of that says anything about how effective the vaccine is at reducing transmission.
All the Navy released are deck logs and memos. We're not seeing data from the ship's Combat Information Center, which controls the sensors. The deck log is just what the people driving the ship did, and naval tradition is to keep that brief. There's no useful data in that FOIA response.
We banned phosphates in laundry and dishwasher powder. That was the largest source.
If you think it's just psychology and not 99% of all publications in all domains including computer science you're quite optimistic
This is one of problems of Atlassian: many home grown libraries that get abandoned eventually. Examples: Active Objects or Atlaskit.

You can later feel that as a user: bugs, poor performance, accessibility issues. As a developer using this library you can't count on good support.

Atlassian should stick to industry standard implementations, for example styled components.
These made me laugh so hard I cried.
If you work on a bigger LHC experiment (ATLAS or CMS) you publish about 100 papers a year. I'm on the "author list" for many hundreds of papers that I contributed nothing to and never read. It's actually very difficult to get yourself taken off the author list.

I'm sure my H-index is great, but it's completely bogus. Some organizations have stopped counting papers with over some number of authors (i.e. 1000) which is progress, but by that metric I'm the author on zero papers a year.
You cant really use distances for orbiting bodies like that. But it is true it's easier to get there.
I work in broadcast news. Specifically in connectivity in the field. I can’t think of any time we’d be without some form of Internet for more than a couple of days, depending how you define China as Internet.

There’s not much point in doing broadcast news of you can’t file, and you can only file if you have an IP connection (we do have some non ip satelite but without IP you wouldn’t be able to do much in the way of production - no production system, no email, no phone)

Covering natural diaaaters is why we have bgans and generators and MREs and water cleaning kits. Internet access is as essential as any other high risk safety equipment, and there’s no point deploying if you can’t file back.
Venus has lost almost all of its atmospheric hydrogen. Teraforming a planet like this to sustain life would be quite a challenge.

Here's an excerpt from the wikipedia page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Venus )

Difficulties include the fact that the production of organic molecules from carbon dioxide requires hydrogen, which is very rare on Venus. Because Venus lacks a protective magnetosphere, the upper atmosphere is exposed to direct erosion by the solar wind and has lost most of its original hydrogen to space.
Yes, it's like that story about a pigeon in a test box that whenever he flapped its wings food would come. I would like to learn pidgeonian just to tell him that not everything is what it looks but to not feel bad, because when everything can look like something and be explained easier through that, everything else falls by the side.
TLS 1.3 was designed to be easy to deploy, and the deployment was tested before the standard was finalized.

IPv6 not so much.

Also, TLS 1.3 is an application protocol, so you only need the server and client to support it. You don't need an OS change for either server or client; although if you rely on TLS libraries shipped with the OS, you would. You also don't need network support, although if your network is particularly hostile, it could cause issues.
I doubt they’ve been tested for that, or are typically configured to do so.

I have seen a consumer DJI drone forced into return to home mode with an old satellite TV dish and bits out of a microwave oven. They don’t cope well with 900-ish watts of semi directed 2.4GHz noise. That guy says he eventually got that to work at over 1km range. It never “fried the electronics” though, even at short ranges.

(Yes, I have some strange friends and acquaintances...)
He vastly accelerated the climate crisis and caused a huge amount of damage by pretending it doesn't exist. He also steered us closer towards a nuclear confrontation.
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For now GPU is prohibited, as high performance GPGPU capable of ML is not that widespread.
So evidence pointing towards a common ancestor for all life here on Earth, or at least very similar common ancestors, might imply that of a seeding event, there wasn't much variety.

However, if we assume a seeding event happened, what's to say it couldn't happen on a lot of planets around the same area at the same time? The Fermi paradox is too speculative to say we aren't the only ones.

One thing that's missing is a seeding mechanism. Can an asteroid eject enough debris for some of it to reach escape velocity on a planet like ours? Did these protozoa come from a very different (but chemically compatible) environment?
Good luck, it would be great!

It was interesting seeing WeBull's CEO talk about how bad is DTCC for them, and how strong monopoly it has, but still he wasn't doing anything about it. The opportunity is huge, but I guess that means that the execution is very hard.
It is a damn important one - going with say novrk fertilizer which breaks down from being "too pressurized" like in depths of water as heat bursts would be less bad than red tides won't do any good when the cause is pigshit.

Plus even if we were fighting wars for guano still manure could have still caused blooms.
Huge number? I bet it could be done with a dozen.

The types of military organizations that would be involved in something like this don't have to worry about prosecution. The CIA, for example, runs a global network of torture prisons, and hacked congressional computers to destroy evidence when investigated about it, got caught, lied about it, and nothing happened. (The torture prisons are still operating.)
Joint because Parallel by itself means nothing, if I setup two separate computers with a load balancer they are parallel.

Joint as I said; and it's not rocket science so I'm getting a little annoyed; is when two separate cores work on the same real-time task that shares memory, most software 1) does not do this yet because it's hard 2) most programmers don't learn this because 1).

For example Erlang, Rust and Go are terrible at sharing memory because they have simple memory models, they solve parallelism by synchronizing hard and slow with copying and locks.

And yes games today have 10 frames of motion-to-photon latency, I measured it myself.

Non-blocking there is referring to the IO, synchronized only blocks if there is contention, you have to compare this to the synchronous HTTP APIs to understand why I guess?

wakeup() (and other methods) are synchronized because you don't want two threads to contest the hand-over point (in this case wakeup a HTTP response); all shared memory is done over java.util.concurrent data, which in most cases is atomic.

You have to look at the fuse project to see most joint parallel code, not saying it's pretty; but it works at, just as these quotes imply, around 10x perf:

"While I'm on the topic of concurrency I should mention my far too brief chat with Doug Lea. He commented that multi-threaded Java these days far outperforms C, due to the memory management and a garbage collector. If I recall correctly he said "only 12 times faster than C means you haven't started optimizing"." - Martin Fowler https://martinfowler.com/bliki/OOPSLA2005.html

"Many lock-free structures offer atomic-free read paths, notably concurrent containers in garbage collected languages, such as ConcurrentHashMap in Java. Languages without garbage collection have fewer straightforward options, mostly because safe memory reclamation is a hard problem..." - Travis Downs https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/07/06/concurrency-co...

Until you show me something joint parallel you have done and preferably proven (with say 450 concurrent real-time action users on one machine); I'm calling this settled, your arguments are thin! (also why am I arguing with a user called dildo?!)
When I first started dabbling into trying to do something on my own, Google App Engine (GAE) seemed the easiest to understand and get off the ground. And the fact that everything 'just worked' and didn't require setting up stuff was awesome in my opinion. GAE Launcher was the cherry on the cake which is why it was such a bummer when they deprecated it (and this led to my current side project - https://nocommandline.com - which is a replacement for GAE Launcher).

I was initially worried GAE wouldn't survive but finding out that Khan Academy is hosted on GAE [1] gave me confidence of its longevity.

I once tried looking at AWS and it took me awhile to figure out they had a PaaS and trying to set it up essentially gave me a headache (keep in mind that I'm not a 9-5 programmer).

1. https://cloud.google.com/customers/khan-academy
Well it might even have been in another language, or with totally different words... It's just an envelope, as the saying goes, it takes one to recognise one. The envelopes for the messages that is.
In a similar vein, 2021 is the first time that I've been able to update TurboTax without having to resort to re-enabling TLS 1.0 and 1.1
Just completely stop visiting toxic dumpster fire websites like boingboing and its ilk for any reason whatsoever, and problem solved on a personal level. They'll still be there screwing other readers, but you can at least know you dodged revolting nonsense. The web still has good content from sites that are at least semi-reasonable about creating their own value without desperately tracking everything you do.
Pricing should be easy to understand for your target customer. I am surprised the article does not make mention of it. Startups who focus on value metrics too much may lose sight of it.
CloudBuild, CloudDeploy, CloudPipelines

guess it should be CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline
I'm sympathetic as well, but cool cars with no drag race is a bit like sex with no climax. When I was a teen, we would gather in a shopping center to show off our cars and talk shit, and then drive out to a rural area to run quarter miles for fun. Good times!
FINALLY. Kept having to re-disable this cursed anti-feature after updates turned it back on
Is it beneficial in anyway to use wood that burned in wildfires (very hot fires that burned most trees and shrubs down through the roots, but also left a lot of nearly fully burned trees and shrubs above ground) as part of the mix or is only pyrolyzed material useful?
Interestingly and off topic, the same lock that is intended to prevent take over of a plane, was used by a pilot to crash the plane and kill all 150 people [1]:

> The crash was caused deliberately by the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, who had previously been treated for suicidal tendencies and declared "unfit to work" by his doctor. Lubitz kept this information from his employer and instead reported for duty. Shortly after reaching cruise altitude and while the captain was out of the cockpit, he locked the cockpit door and initiated a controlled descent that continued until the aircraft impacted a mountainside.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525
I live in a fairly small country, where most population is in the capitol. I was just thinking the other day how you could probably take over the whole place with 1-2 million drones that probably cost <1B total. I don't think we're in any way prepared to handle that
The lack of this being seriously addressed and remedied hurts the reputation of science in general. It also undermines the argument in areas of public policy around say Covid, where "listen to the science" has to overcome the perception that a lot of what passes for science... isn't.
While I agree that we need better metrics (and, more in general, a better academic system) I think that publishing fake research (committing fraud) is still way more severe than committing H-index hacking. The latter mostly translates into publishing lots of papers that present small advancements and does encourage scientists to work on topics where there is very little risk of failing (rather than chase challenging topics). These are have long-term negative implications for the systems and for our society as a whole, but, at the end of the day, it's still real research.
When the canals expand, the ships get bigger too.
Californians fleeing the the things they voted for, then voting for the very same things again. Is there a legal way Texas residents can block them coming?
> The result is surprisingly good

"The result" as in "the first one"? The rest is almost Markov chain level...
In Praise of the Flâneur (2013)
Engineering for Performance: Ghost Queries
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Stadia is the best streaming game service there is. People just don't want that product.
Well, the law will be two years old soon. There's one local news article about it where the county's PIO clarified the county's intention [1]. Aside from that, alllllll of these homeowners innocently working on their cars in their own garages and yards around the county and getting hit with hundreds and hundreds of dollars in fines have resulted in... exactly zero other local news coverage that I can find.

Every other search result about this thing is some motoring site where the internet commenters are absolutely certain that this is yet another example of draconian liberal legislative overreach and just nobody can really do anything on their own property anymore and it's all just so unfair...

Again, I'm expressly not defending the law as it's written, but if the letter of every bad law was to be applied equally to everyone in the same instant, there would not be a single free person anywhere in the country. Like all the others, this one is being applied selectively.

[1]: Warning: really obnoxious autoplay videos, because every local news site is on a headlong rush to the bottom of the pit of asshole design. https://www.abc10.com/article/entertainment/television/progr...
What would be the motivation to publish such a page on the Google side ?
In some ways this is OpenSSL's fault. So the first answer is, your tooling decided to make you answer this question instead of picking its own answer based on the expertise of the authors. A 1990s TV could have a UI where you need to explicitly configure which pins of a SCART connector have what signals on them, but that would be crazy so the TV just worked with the usual SCART pins as defined and if your pin-out is weird it won't work. The TLS 1.2 standard itself doesn't say "Make the user or administrator pick from this huge list". You can make cipher suite decisions like this in SSH too, but you probably mostly don't because the defaults are fine.

Now, the technical answer as to why there's something to pick from at all goes like this:

TLS is a negotiated protocol. Some HN regulars are convinced negotiation is a bad idea, and indeed they will point to TLS as an example. But the idea is that with a vast population of servers and clients on the Internet it isn't actually practical to hold a flag day (replacing all software on clients and servers immediately) to upgrade TLS. Different clients and servers may have different priorities, so we'd like them to be able to agree each time on something they're both content with. For example on your general purpose laptop there is hardware AES, so AES ciphers are fast and secure, but some cheap devices don't have that, so for them AES is annoyingly slow/ power hungry. As a result they'd prefer ChaCha20 if possible.

How did the list get so long? There's a point around the turn of the century when countries realise oh, this Internet thing is important, and you get a rash of "cryptographic nationalism" where a government that likes to think of itself as important notices the US government made things like DES and it decides it can do that too, resulting in vanity ciphers which are less analysed, less popular, and basically have no reason to exist. TLS 1.2 doesn't explicitly discourage you from supporting these, and OpenSSL is a stamp collector's library, if a cipher exists and you can implement it, why not? So you get this unwieldy list nobody actually needs, and then apps present it to non-experts like "Pick from this list or be doomed".

You can get advice on how to configure web servers from Mozilla, https://ssl-config.mozilla.org/

For other types of TLS server you should seek advice from experts in the appropriate protocol.

In TLS 1.3 they learned from this mistake and discourage cryptographic nationalism, you have a literal handful of choices, all of them are currently believed to be safe, some are likely poor (slow, power hungry) choices on simple hardware, some would be weak if large quantum computers were actually cheap and readily available, rather than horribly expensive and non-existent. So "I don't care, whatever" is thus safe in TLS 1.3 although presumably OpenSSL still expects you to actually pick anyway.
If we were capable of planetary-scale transportation of materials, we wouldn't really need to live on planets anyway - it'd be a rather moot point.
You're making an unfounded assumption about the rate of time discounting.
C.S is not concerned with the fastest speed that off the shelf hardware can multiply two matrixes measured in seconds. You must be thinking of Linus Tech Tips.
> most population is in the capitol

Half of the US population wished it was in the capitol, too. /s
Switches don't typically block DHCP packets. You can literally just spin up your own DHCP server and plug it in to a switch port - if your fake server responds to a DHCP request faster than the legit DHCP server the client will get your lease instead of the right one. It's this way by design - it's not at all uncommon for the DHCP server to not run on the router itself, but on some other device elsewhere in the network, or even outside the layer 2 network using a DHCP Relay.
Oh just get your Google account shut down with zero warning and loose everything forever.
For the Suez Canal a huge bomb is just going to make it bigger and easier to navigate in one spot.

A huge bomb to one side of the canal would displace rock and mud in to the channel and make it shallower. That would be enough to close it to large ships until it could be dredged again.

Although, if terrorists really wanted to wreak havoc in the canal they could scuttle a large ship while it's sailing in it. That would necessitate dismantling and removing the entire thing.

I'm surprised no one has made a movie of that.
They are encouraging switching?
Like this one time these hackers by the handles Acid Burn and Zero Cool breached a local television station and were using the tape robot to fight for control over what was being broadcast. That tape robot was never the same.
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In Covid it was far more visibly clear this was and continues to happen. Everyone knows in their hearts that temp check is bullshit but that’s something everyone does even today. The about face on mask policy initially probably still plays a role in people’s perception and inability to follow rules today.
Something's missing. Earth isn't able to retain atmospheric hydrogen either. (And, obviously, therefore doesn't have any.)
I remember, when I first read this story, thinking how quaint this notion was:

"In his father's youth, the only computers had been tremendous machines taking up a hundred square miles of land. There was only one to a planet. Planetary ACs they were called."

Yet here we are, consolidating our planet's computing power to a handful of cloud computing providers.
Light pollution drives increased risk of West Nile virus
Compromise is a 2-way thing. What's coming from the other side?
Japanese typography: Kilograms of sinograms
Maybe we should try to detangle public policy from science for a while, it hurts both public policy and science.
Ask HN: What is the most efficient way to minimalize livestream piracy?
I am aware that it's impossible to 100% take care of this.

We don't think our type of materials are the ones that's on the top list to be pirated (but it's still happening through replays, ouch)

For the tool, we use Vimeo and WordPress.

We've listed some ways internally but we need more insights
I recently learned about the estimated age of the universe. It’s only 13.8 billion years.

So when it says Venus was hospitable for billions of years, let’s say 2 billion years, that amounts already to 14% of all there was and will ever be.

What marvel did happen in this time?
Wouldn't modern laser technology be suitable for destroying small drones? I know there are research prototypes being developed against jets and missiles - drones have far smaller mass and move more slowly.
That would be a very long extension cord