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>Pentagon leaders should challenge the armed services to solve very hard, very specific problems, Work said: Sink 350 Chinese navy and coast guard vessels in the first 72 hours of a war, or destroy 2,400 Russian armored vehicles. Whoever has the best solution gets the most money. Those are hardly easy goals, Work said, but they’re also doable with technology now in development.

I don't know, this seems like the wrong thing to do. I mean, it seems worth considering but it also sounds like "if we don't sink N+1 battleships we lose the war", which doesn't seem any more right today than it was in the 20th century.

IMO a smarter, and probably cheaper, approach would be to force things to operate in a more decentralized fashion. Maybe at scale lots of smaller, distributed infantry and fire/air support units would be just as expensive but it seems more survivable for a longer term grind. My bias though is that, yeah, I was an infantryman and most of us (at least in my circles) expect the next one to be a long grind like WWI than a flash pan mass-extinction event like a lot of planners do today.

>The Chinese call this “system destruction warfare,” Work said: They plan to “attack the American battle network at all levels, relentlessly, and they practice it all the time.”

Okay, then maybe "whoever can figure out how to continue operations during an extended comms blackout gets the most money." I know field craft isn't as "cool" anymore as the newest gadget, but maybe teach the boys how to make those Vietnam era claymore-wire antennas again (half joking). Cutting some massive check for another decades long R&D project is suspect to me.
I have many friends (and family) most of whom are in no way an alcoholic in AA, that hardly ever (or never) drink. Some just don't enjoy the effects, some prefer not to for health reasons, some just honestly prefer to smoke a joint. The fact that you can't think of a single person like that is equally surprising to me.
I have a diesel wagon and love it, enormous boot space, over 1000km range, good handling, I'm keeping it until everything's electric
This problem is so infuriating. There was a thread the other day about it. It's clearly a bug, but it seems to be one that nobody wants to take responsibility for.
That gives you the opposite problem, where someone gets a brand new dual core and is confused by it being slower.
| I don't find it very funny to claim

Sorry, trying to make sure I understand. Am I to read this as saying you do find it somewhat funny but not very funny?
Your random Iranian hacker might not, but states will find ways around it. Even smaller criminal organizations find ways around such limitations.
Well that 25M really paid off. Huge.
Hi! Nice to meet you. There are weeks when I have 0 drinks per week, and then others where I have lots more. It all depends on mood and activities. Specifically if the smoker is running.
Implicit in a range like this one is that you are facing 'maximally exploitative opponents'. Since the game is zero-sum, over enough games the expected value of such a strategy is 0. However, since that expected value is against a maximally exploitative opponent any deviations of the opponent's strategy lead to an increase in your expected value. This is the game theory approach (GTO).

On the other hand, you can try to tailor your strategy to be maximally exploitative of the other players at the table, but doing this can be hard since often it can take a large number of hands to gauge what kind of player somebody is. On the other hand, GTO strategies are naive in the sense that you don't need to know anything about your opponents to guarantee that you Breakeven.
D is easy to pick up, and has three really fast compilers. It feels like a very practical language.

Rust in comparison feels much less practical - glacial compile times and byzantine rules about manging memory. It may be 'safer' but that's a moot point when I find it all so unintuitive that I'm not going to be able to make anything with it anyway.

And I really question what these situations are where you can't have garbage collection in 2021. Hard real time systems, sure, but that's not what 99% of people are using rust for. Maybe people just like the challenge.
It would be very interesting to see a followup report from Nick on what happened with COVID. Did they refund those customers who pre-paid for dinners that couldn't happen? Were they left holding the bag for the dry-aged ribeye that they then couldn't sell? I would love to hear the story.
In Windows, the Desktop folder _is_ the root folder, conceptually (but not really). If you open the My Documents folder and press Up you will be in the User folder. Press Up again and you will be in a "Desktop" folder that also includes such things as the Recycle Bin and Control Panel. Press Up again and you will be in My Computer with a list of storage devices.

In reality, that Desktop view is not the _actual_ folder, which is located in the User folder. It's just a special view of the desktop that probably causes more confusion than it is worth.
> That said I don't think solitary drinking is necessarily as bad as the article makes it out to be all the time

One of my great bugaboos is these cultural definitions of alcoholism that are independent from the actual amount of alcohol consumed. You know “you’re only an alcoholic if you drink alone” or “you’re only an alcoholic if you pour your own drinks” (apparently this is a meme in Japan?). Every culture that consumes alcohol seems to have these, and they’re all laughably naive and easily gamed. Alcoholics can and do drink heavily together, and they can pour each other drinks if that’s what it takes to sidestep some silly taboo. The only definition of this that’s meaningful is how much alcohol you drink and how often, nothing else.
Also Intrinsity.
Yes, I know how the Internet works now. It doesn't have to keep working that way, and if attacks get really bad the result will not be that we just live with them. The Internet will be modified to reduce the threat to a tolerable level. There's already been some pretty serious work put into what this will look like, if/when it happens.
FWIW, there definitely are people who drink 10+ drinks a day every day. The top few percent of drinkers in the country drink an epic shitload.
It's more the fringe offshoots of the congregationalists that shattered off in the Great Awakening as they moved west. There's also a strong current of xenophobia in many of the 19th century abolitionist movements, as the Germans, Irish, Italians, Poles, etc brought their drinking cultures with them.
Consolidation leads to efficiency. Which in the case of commodities, is the only way to ensure low prices. A new slaughter company is not going to innovate a more efficient means of producing a pound of beef. In theory, a perfectly run state monopoly would be the ideal system. But that rarely ends well. In the US we've worked out a sort of half way between the two extremes, where large private corporations are allowed to consolidate in the name of consumer prices, while still maintaining just enough competition for profit motive to keep things well run. It's not perfect but it's the best we've figured out so far.
Alcohol is more dangerous than all other drugs, in my experience (been addicted to alcohol and heroin in the past, and have abused every common drug) and in my opinion.

The addiction rate for cocaine/heroin/meth may be higher, but the negative effects of those drugs mostly stem from the high cost (theft) and insane profit margins (murder). If a heroin addict could get their supply for $5/day (and have it be pure heroin w no fentanyl) then nearly all of the negatives would disappear.
Just How Rigged Is the “Rigged Game”?
well, not really. people would like EC vote outcomes that come as close as possible to the popular vote as possible. In that regard for the past 250~ years a EC winner who didn't win the popular vote only happened 5 times, and it didn't happen at all for 112 years.

A weird halfway proportional reform, if anything, would probably take elections farther away from representing the popular vote outcome. And ultimately, that's what matters, because the entire point of voting is that more votes are supposed to result in greater say.
Is constant folding going to be a bottle neck? In this particular instance, in the kernel, floating point is going to be fairly rare anyway, and integer constant folding is going to be more or less identical on 64-bit x86 and ARM.
Not sure about OniVim1, but just last week I bought the OniVim2 Early Access license, after watching oni 1/2 for a few years. I will say that it seems a bit early, but it does look promising. For example: My main workstation loses syntax highlighting after I do two motion commands ("jj" or "Gk" for example).
Same here: a handful of Markdown files, organized by topics. Work stuff gets its own set of folders.

I've used this "system" for years. I wrote a wrapper app to render the Markdown into HTML, with hot reload, but only occasionally use it - most of the time I'm writing and looking at raw Markdown.

One of the files is a journal, for which I have a few Bash aliases to append the current date, one-line note, edit the file, or show in terminal.
A few tidbits after a quick reading:

* Confluent Platform (on-prem) accounted for 85% of revenue in 2020, whereas Confluent Cloud (managed SaaS) accounted for 15%. The S-1 makes it clear that Cloud is the future for them. This split makes it a bit tough to interpret their Gross Margin numbers though; as there's no breakout of Cost of Revenue between the two.

* Confluent Platform is subscription-based whereas Confluent Cloud is consumption-based, which further complicates modeling the business.

* Fiscal Year 2017 Cohort must have had some whale customers -- it looks larger than both FY18 and FY19 cohorts (p. 86)

* Expanding net loss -- 97% of revenue in 2020 vs 63% of revenue in 2019. This looks primarily driven by $111.9 million worth of stock-based compensation (tender offer, secondary sales) in the lead-up to the IPO. Excluding that (which is questionable, but still tells us something about how company operations are developing), net loss is ~50% of revenue

* Revenue Growth from 2018 to 2019 was ~130%, but they weren't able to maintain that meteoric trajectory in 2020; revenue growth has slowed to ~58% from 2019 to 2020
If this is the USDA we're talking about, they mop it up, and have countless MEETINGS about what should be done. Then a task force is convened. THEN they do nothing.
> So the "attackers" didn't steal anything.

It's always a weird phase. A proper one would be "we have no records of data exfiltration, so we hope it didn't happen". Attackers had the access, otherwise the data wouldn't be encrypted.

> restore from backup, get upset about losing 25 minutes of data and keep going.

Unless you want to be owned again in 30min, you need to first analyse how did it happen the first time and how to mitigate it, before getting everything back online. That takes time.

> Why is any of the software that controlls meat-cutting/oil pipeline hardware not air-gapped

None of those were affected. The pipeline hack took their billing system down, not the operations. I haven't seen the details here, but it's not like the meat saws and trucks just stopped - more likely the stock/communication/billing system was stopped as well.
Neural network loss landscape explorer
You can outsource while retaining ownership so that you can opensource it later if you want. Just need to pay for it and add it to the contract.
12px on my Windows 7 computer.

https://i.imgur.com/yb6t2tX.png
Security does not have to be perfect to be effective. If it did, we'd have no security, because none of it is both useful /practical and perfectly effective.
It works for me in practice. YouTube definitely are capable of linking separate accounts in the back end, but in my experience they don't do so for recommendations. I have a separate account specifically for watching a given type of content and I don't receive any of its recommendations on my main account. Now, whether or not they use linking to give advertisements or sell data I'm not sure, but at that point they can link based on IP anyway and we're talking about a separate issue.
Kennedy had been in WWII, too. At a low level. Look up "PT-109".

There was much misreading of enemy intention. The US people had aerial photographs of the missile installations in Cuba, and noticed that they were laid out just like other USSR installations in colder climates. This was taken to mean that the USSR wanted the US to recognize them. That was more of a direct threat than putting them in secretly.

In the 1990s, some of the high-level participants from both sides had a get-together.[1] This subject came up. The Russian officer who'd been in charge of the base construction said "Oh, no, we just did it that way because that was what it said to do in the field manual".

Of course. They had a prefab missile base and assembly instructions.

[1] https://robertmcnamara.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Rabe-1...
Best is to give them a number that approximately maps to performance.

The "pro" version might be an i8, while the budget version is i3. In a few years time, the pro version will be up to i12 while the budget version is now i8.

You have model numbers for when someone needs to look up some super specific detail.
FWIW, I'm not saying it couldn't have some other motivation, I am saying that it is unlikely.

And now Bloomberg is reporting it was a ransomware attack -- "It’s unclear exactly how many plants globally have been affected by the ransomware attack as Sao Paulo-based JBS has yet to release those details."
It’s kind of amusing when you think about it like a philosopher. I’m a bit older than the average HNer, probably, at 41 this year. It’s all the same fears and doubts. The human condition. Finding love, acceptance, belonging. Not facing down the human condition alone. That is what “big talk” is about to me.
I had thought that there wouldn't be any labeling requirements for Sidewalk-enabled devices, but you bring up FCC IDs. I've never given them much thought, but that's at least one thing to look out for in the future.

I'm now kind of interested to go look at the boxes for some of the devices I already own to get a feel for what's there. I expect it would probably all come down to a few BT / BLE / wifi chip manufacturers.
I have long discovered HN isn't the place for discussions about Ads, Retail, Supply Chain and Business Model. Which is strange because every single one of them are important to Startup.

There is the angle of Apple's hypocrisy in terms of Ads and Data Collection, which is of course out of scope of this article. All while they are expanding their own Ad network [1].

And just want to say Thank You, for your newsletter and blog post.

[1] https://twitter.com/eric_seufert/status/1399833956082761728?...

Edit: You may be interested in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27344667
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Amazon owns them. If you knew that, apologies, it wasn’t clear to me.

Regardless, Sidewalk doesn’t make much sense for Eero since it provides the traditional Internet access points for the IoT devices that make up the Sidewalk mesh.
In a sane world it would have expired, but not here.

cf. The Mickey Mouse Protection Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act...
America needs alcohol control and a ban on high-capacity assault beverages.
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I don't optimize for cost, I optimize for quality of life. I'm a semi-nomad and try to be in places that offer family, friends, walkability, and nature.
Well for starters you've got all the Muslims and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints sometimes know as Mormons. That's two big ole' swathes of people who probably don't drink at all.
Previously posted on HN back in 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18459055

A clickbaity title, but for me, a really interesting read that may have renewed relevance in the wake of the post-COVID fungal infections.

https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/covid-fungal.html
I've definitely got M. Septendecim https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeTCje3h/
I wonder how much of the increase is due to ridesharing.

The US basically requires that you drive everywhere. The penalties for DUI are incredibly stiff. So, you are forced to choose and most people had to choose driving over drinking.

Now, with ridesharing, you can choose drinking over driving.
Or, you know, not living in the most expensive place in the US if you can't afford it?
Yes, the Internet as currently structured is resistant to this. The Internet is not guaranteed to continue to have that structure. I'm saying that if our choices are "constant attacks such that the Internet is horribly dangerous" and "don't have the Internet", the popular (at the state level) solution will be "I choose neither—instead, we're changing the Internet".
… and those three angles will be discontinuous at the poles.
A rope is a data structure for big strings. Its a string where instead of storing the characters in an array, the characters are stored in a different data structure to make common operations faster. Ropey stores a string where the characters are kept in a b-tree. This allows log(n) time complexity for inserts or deletes anywhere in the string.

So you can have a string with millions of characters (a loaded document) and you can edit it efficiently.
> A Google engineer was a bit irritated by that, she expected that it was turn based and pointed it out as a flaw.

Aaah! The old STEM education in full effect. Beautiful example. No creative thinking on their part whatsoever.
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> If you enjoy what you're drinking ...

That's the thing: I hate the taste of wine.
Thanks for submitting this interesting issue. Out of interest, what system are you on, and did jq come from a package manager? If you build it from source, it should work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27362060
> everything outside the actual text file has completely different controls

Not sure what you mean by this

> lose most of the seamless interoperability with other terminal tools

It's not like VIM is more or less interoperable than Emacs is with other shell tools. They live in their own space, you don't (often) pipe stuff in or out of it.

Though there's not much to read into my comment, it was an attempt of being witty, but evil mode is the best VIM implementation found in any editor and just for the fact that Elisp >> Vimscript, makes evil mode a better environment than VIM itself.
You don't need to restore over your existing production. (Since it's literally a "will it work" test) You do that on a temporary environment.
Corvettes like all cars are identified by their model year. Hence there is no confusion that a 2021 Corvette is "better" than a 2011 Corvette.
This is actually a topic I love to talk about because I spent a lot of my time on S3A and the cloud FileSystem implementations. Fast metadata queries were actually a huge deal for query planning, and of course with performance there were a lot of potential surprises on S3. HBase was (unsurprisingly) heavily dependent on semantics that HDFS has but that are hard to get right on object storage, and required a couple of layers to be able to work properly on S3 (and even then - write-ahead logs were still on a small HDFS cluster last I heard). My biggest complaint about S3 was always eventual consistency (for which Hadoop developed a work-around - it originally employed a lot of worst-practices on S3 and suffered from eventual consistent A LOT) but now that S3 has much better consistency guarantees, I agree: it's incredibly hard to beat something that cheap.
This is a terrific idea for a short story.
"we also have a very painful past and present"

I don't see why that is more true of the U.S. than say Germany, Japan, Russia, China etc.
That is the problem with JSON. XML worked much better for integers. And if it is typed with XML schema or XPath, XML has an xs:unsignedLong integer type.

I wrote my own command line XPath JSON-query tool and used bigdecimals for JSON numbers. If you do not do much math, bigdecimals are probably even faster than using floats, and much easier to implement. Converting a string to a double float is extraordinary complex. I think it is one of the most difficult tasks in computing.

Unfortunately, now the W3C made a new XPath standard that requires JSON parsers to use double for numbers, so I changed my tool to use doubles as well. Now I am struggling with the string<->float conversion. The conversion in the standard library does not work properly. I just looked at another conversion library. 4000 lines of code, and after a 2 hour investigation, it turns out, it also does not work properly.
My life didn't really change due to the pandemic. I'm not super social. I hang out with the people I like when I like.

But yesterday, for example, I was at the gas station buying a pop and two kids were right up next to me while their mom waited behind me in line. If I had lifted my elbow, I would have caught one of them in the face. I don't hate kids, but I have a personal bubble and that was respected over the last year. I'm really not excited to go back to having strangers brushing up against my hips and sides again. It's not the end of the world, but it unsettles me and I don't feel like a foot or two of space in a store is really that much to ask.
Compared to classical music certainly, but between the 60s and the 90s the average song length did increase again:
https://www.vox.com/2014/8/18/6003271/why-are-songs-3-minute...
Forbidding citizens to leave their homes quite clearly violates the right to free expression and free assembly in the First Amendment. I assume you're familiar with it.

Thankfully, we haven't had to test these yet in a court of law over covid. That's the beauty of having these rights enumerated explicitly. Would-be tyrants are afraid to challenge them.
I hope this attack aims to destroy the infrastructure of an environmentally disastrous industry and isn’t just a ransomware attack.
I'd never heard that Puritans had any obsession with body health. What is the connection?
Covid deaths plunge after 75% of town's adults vaccinated