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Also not having to debug EC2 lifecycle issues is really nice. And you don't have to deal with all of the garbage of setting up ec2 instances (configuring SSH, process management, configuration management, log exfiltration, monitoring, infra as code, nginx, albs, etc).
“Yes but no”

Municipal governments in China are much more similar and relatable to western systems than the national government.
Author of the post here. There's a lot that one can argue about with my choices. A thing that might help is that I selected the papers that led me to see things in a different way. One could argue that _Reflections on Trusting Trust_ isn't very important wrt modern security concerns but, to me, the most important thing is noticing that trouble can happen upstream in any process, and often it can be hidden. The abstraction of source code is so total for many people that they forget about all of the layers underneath. Things that don't look possible are often possible.
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I think you are remembering incorrectly.
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It’s remarkable that such a mature, sane, and rational perspective has been downvoted at the time of this writing to the point of being dead. Like anyone I am alarmed by over-the-top displays of wealth but that’s not really all this was. There is a lot more going on here. Blue Origin needs a lot more test flights as they ramp up and increase their capabilities. They also need demonstration flights to hep increase confidence about their services. And it totally makes sense to allow some people with the resources to help subsidize the effort, while having some fun and enlarging their perspective. I think this experience was super meaningful for everyone involved, and we shouldn’t try to denigrate it. Sad to see HN not taking a more open minded view here, as evidenced by your post being hn-dead.

And I say all this even not being a fan of the way Bezos has sometimes falsely claimed credit for “firsts” that were not really firsts, like when they landed a rocket (propulsive landing) while pretending that SpaceX had not done so in a much more challenging way already.
I’m confused. Do you support corporations having this kind of unchecked power or do you support the neo-colonial strategies that have left places like the Middle East in turmoil for the past century?
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Same as a Ouija board probably. Hold something very delicate with a awkward grip and tiny muscle spasms will result in exaggerated movement. There's no physical interaction that connects underground water to your hands or to the rods. If it detects anything it would be magnetic deposits or electrical fields, but more likely it's just exploiting the edges of your physical perception. Like an optical illusion but for your motor neurons.
In the switch from "PLT Scheme"/mzscheme to Racket backwards compatibility was almost entirely maintained, you can still use `mzscheme` or `#lang scheme`.

There were some substantial backwards-incompatible changes before that (~10-15 years ago). For example, revamping the exception hierarchy, moving to immutable pairs, and re-doing the class system.
Ask HN: Does classical music have a real future?
I'm interested in classical music as a hobby, and keep up with "the industry". I've been thinking about if/how classical music will continue to make sense economically in the coming decades.

First, recordings. It seems to me like CM recordings have already reached a sort of peak, to the point that further significant improvements aren't really possible. Countless high-quality recordings of all major works are widely available on Spotify/Youtube, so the "need" for a recording of a given Beethoven sonata or Haydn quartet has been filled many times over. New releases tend not to be markedly better than existing recordings (in my opinion)—certainly not so much better as to justify the enormous time and monetary investment that goes into making them. The "newness" element of popular music (popular music is always changing and reflects the zeitgeist/aesthetic of the age in which it is made) obviously doesn't apply to CM.

(Of course there is "modern" CM, but it generally does not catch on in any major way due to inaccessibility, being over-academic, not sounding very "nice", etc.)

Second, live performances. Live performances compete with an overwhelming range of entertainment options: Netflix, social media, Youtubers, Spotify, unlimited movies/documentaries for download, and of course all other "live" entertainment options from Broadway to Sleep No More to art jams. Do people value live classical music performances enough that they will choose them over these other options enough of the time? In my circles, I rarely see live classical music winning out over other options that require a lower activation energy and/or less money. It's easier and cheaper to download a movie to watch with your girlfriend on an average Friday night than to go to a concert. And if it is a good movie, it might provide enjoyment equal to or greater than that of a CM concert.

I don't particularly want to contribute to the doom and gloom narrative of classical music, but these are my genuine observations. If you disagree with them, or if I am missing something important, I would love to hear from you.

My broad question is: does classical music have a real economic future? Do people want this product enough?

Note: I'm not interested in the issue of CM bringing joy/value to the performers/practitioners—for this discussion I am specifically interested in the value of CM to consumers.
That's the dream; affordable space tourism for the masses.

If Starship manages to hit the price and performance targets Musk has set for it (~$2 million/launch[1], max of 1000 passengers[2]) you could get a ticket to orbit for around $2000. Throw in some extra for profit margin, a stay at an orbital space hotel, and a few additional expenses, and it might well be possible to take a vacation in space for less than $10k.

I really hope that happens within my lifetime; it'd be amazing to experience.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/06/elon-musk-says-spacexs-sta...

[2]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1144004310503530496
>> I hate to break it to you but Musk is just as unlikeable.

I had long suspected that he's on the spectrum, and earlier this year he came out and openly talked about his Asperger's diagnosis.

That's not to say that excuses his terrible treatment of other people, but it sure explains it.
Maybe you were just told they counted as going into space because otherwise the first American to orbit earth only did so a full 10 months after Gagarin, which looks worse than saying “oh we launched an American into space less than a month after the Russians did”.
This looks like you’re on a great course. There’s still a lot of work to do on the apps, but the shell is visually taking great shape! What was once a massive eye sore now looks pretty damn nice (especially the nav buttons, finally) and ready!

This is a nice course. Please keep moving in that direction. Hopefully this also signifies a move to greater care for UI in general, i.e. more considerations regarding UX and fixing UI glitches.

Exciting stuff. With KwinFT now using wlroots and this course continuing, Plasma could be a really great DE in a few years.
I see it the other way around: Not being an asshole isn't the default, it's something you need to learn, and not everyone does. I actually have a sneaking suspicion that most people don't learn it, but just learn to fake it while others are watching.
So I worked there for a few months, and the team and team lead were awesome. But the manager and whole management team not so much. It was a very political environment where the team lead and anyone at that or higher level needed to cover their asses with emails etc.

So it was actually good that I didn't raise this issue.

One thing I remember at that place was that the team lead was on holiday, and the manager took over. But some release went wrong because the manager made some fault. He was able to turn this story around that the team lead messed up right before his holiday, and that he, the manager, had to step in to fix the situation. Oh boy.
It is just intentionally esoteric for the sake of being esoteric, not for any technical reason. It exists to make its creator feel smugly superior, not to solve any real problems for actual people.
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I'm clueless about security: where does this fall on the scale of non-issue to critical? It strikes me as tending towards the latter, given that it enables unprivileged users to become root. Any insight into past Linux Kernel vulnerabilities that were severe?
Interesting. I had never even imagined that meditation could be so distressing. I don't know anything about Zen really, do you feel the article gives a good impression of being in a disturbed state from meditation or would you say it's likely inaccurate in general?
Ah, first comment .. sign of the times I guess :-)

Brings back a lot of memories when I was on the road installing comms software for a wide variety of non-tech clients who had believed the advertising of the day and bought a weird and wonderful variety of modems. It was my job to make that connection, whatever happened so an intimate knowledge of the Hayes Command Set was obligatory. Great fun!
Didn't you just say that rent-seeking is bad, and now you're defending someone who did nothing but seek rent?
Fidelity doesn't offer small business banking, which is what this is.
Not OP, but similar workloads, team of 5
We use kops to deplot and manage the clusters. The hardest part is updating, due to the workloads running on it. Other than that, little to no problems with kube itself.
That isn't very useful without 10303-11 and at least one of the model definitions that you want to exchange.
My thumb rule of how many hits a site on HN gets is roughly 100x upvotes. So 100 upvotes = 10k clicks over 8-10 hours. This is from my experience with 3 links that hit the front page with between 150-420 upvotes.

I was serving static HTML off a $5 VPN and later off Cloudflare Pages. The response times were stable in both cases for all users.
Agreed. With a very aggressive caching setup, WP can actually handle it pretty well.

I used to have a 5mil pageviews per month site running on 5$ instance from DigitalOcean
A well configured web server easily scales really well.

Now, application servers and database tiers, that's a different story. Epic novel, really.
Yeah I've been there, being the person who executed the idea. It sucked knowing the person giving the "idea" (which I actually gave most of the directions) had so much leisure time for fun, while I was sitting there coding something I'm not interested in.
I only execute my own ideas now. Even sometimes I can't finish it, I can only blame myself.
Thanks I'll put it on my list of resources. I was aiming for a low-resource UI and things like Sway came into mind. But yeah I'm a JavaScript kid at this time so this kind of development is not easy for me at this time.
This is brilliant, but, in your last line you asked it for an information you gave it previously. Instead try something like

Me: What was the last thing I said?

OR

Me: Can you just quote back my last message?

OR

Me: What did I just ask you in previous message?

I tried this in that GPT powered dungeon game and it didn't work.
As someone who's not a trained computer scientist, this was surprisingly approachable (and didn't seem to dumb anything down, which is the usual problem with pop science).
What has happened to Simple? I have seen their TV ad non-stopped for a while, then it stopped.
Why not though? It's happening. They report things that are happening. The story says about half a dozen times that the technique doesn't work and quotes as many geologists as it does witches. Popular belief in superstition is still newsworthy. As is reporting on religious movements or QAnon.
Seems like you're looking for Montessori schooling. I was actually fortunate enough to attend one for ages 3-5. Although I don't have many memories from then specifically, I do remember repeated bordem when I stopped going and was moved to public school. I always wanted to do more hands on activities as I had before, but the closest it ever got was art.

Another note of interest, my senior class at high school consisted of 4 people whom I attended Montessori with, of those four, three took IB classes and participated in clubs / extracurriculars above the average rate for my school. I can't help but wonder if even just those few years at a young age made a lasting impact.
> Althought their entire website is returning 500 errors, including the blog

I've been here in a similar situation, and my guess is they've:

1. Reverse-proxied /blog to a crappy Wordpress instance run without caching.

2. HN traffic killed the blog.

3. Cloudflare, in their infinite wisdom, if they see enough 5xx errors from /blog, will start returning 5xx errors for every uri on the site, with some opaque retry interval.

4. Voila, the entire site appears to be dead.
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Well, a million of us have more money than each of them and instead of exploring space or feeding the poor, I (a member of the million) am going to choose to buy a MacBook Pro. Our collective $2 billion is going to go to consumer devices.
There is a tipping point beyond which type 2 diabetes gets a positive feedback loop, which can make it extremely hard to treat with diet/exercise/drugs. Also, the beta cells in your body that produce insulin can wear out through exhaustion at having to produce so much insulin. Once that has happened, then injecting insulin is necessary.

Some people falsely think this means that your type 2 diabetes has progressed to type 1, but that's not true - it is still type 2, just more severe. Type 1 is a completely different disease, but with some similar symptoms.

I quite understand the "personal failure" part of this. You inject insulin if the diet/exercise/drugs weren't good enough to stop the disease progressing.

However it should also be noted that a decent number of people do actually develop type 1 diabetes late in life. Typically they will be misdiagnosed with type 2 diabetes, because doctors tend to assume that diabetes late in life must be type 2. If this happens, a progression on to insulin injections is nigh-inevitable, regardless of how much diet/exercise/drugs they have. There are a few tests that can help distinguish these patients - firstly they tend to be thin, but secondly the auto-antibodies that caused the destruction of the beta cells can often be detected in their blood.
>(assuming such signals exist.)

They most certainly do.

I've done a decent amount of reading on using ecological cues to infer stuff about what's below ground. For applications such as mining, construction and farming the science is well understood. The dowsers are probably just taking a good guess about the substrate based on what they can see above. Between plant life, evidence of erosion, soil type, climate and everything else you can observe at the surface you can combine things you know about those things and use logic in order to rule things out and make some surprisingly accurate predictions about environmental conditions that you cannot directly observe.

The dowsers can probably "detect" water better than a random guess even if they can't explain how because they're probably observing the ecology on a subconscious level and have a lot of practice. That said, I'd bet money on the scientists being right about the whole rods and gravity thing being pure BS.
I prefer track record over appeals to authority. So far I correctly predicted that SARS-2 originated in a lab before it was acceptable to have that view.

My only other outlandish predictions are climate related: that the earth isn't warming, it's cooling, that CO2 isn't a major driver of climate change (vs. water and the sun), and that oil is mostly a renewable resource.

Let's see if I'm 2/2 in 10 or 20 years.
What you are talking about is what millionaires do.

Billionaires are a completely different type of thing. You do not become a billionaire by employing some people and taking on a bit of risk.
At this point, you can—and probably should—consider C and “C-with-analysers” two different languages. If you use static (and dynamic, if you have tests) code analysis, making software without these issues is way easier, and doing so without these tools is essentially impossible. Both because of the C language itself as well as because of the culture of “bytes go brrr” and “just use a debugger” that a lot of middle-level C programmers have in my experience.
I recall reading somewhere (maybe in "The Straight Dope"?) that experienced dowsers that have worked for a long time in a given area learn to pick up on surface features and on geological formations that are correlated with subsurface water.

Their dowsing rods are not reacting to the water. They are reacting to the dowser's unconscious recognition of those features and formations. The way they hold them makes them very sensitive to very slight movements on the part of the dowser, so that they have no idea that they are the ones moving the rods.

PS: yup, it was in "The Straight Dope" [1].

[1] https://www.straightdope.com/21341336/does-dowsing-for-water...
Coal mining and sex work are hardly representative examples of "all work."

We all lose our youth and our health, it's inevitable whether we work or not.

Yes ultimately your employer feels that they are getting more value from your work than it is costing them, otherwise there would be no point in employing you. It's a real stretch to argue that is exploitative even in most cases (to say nothing of all work).
I must admit, that's the usage scenario for Starship that I don't particularly see much benefit in. I may well be short-sighted, but given how far away from cities the launch centres for these things would need to be, it strikes me that traditional travel infrastructure suffices.

Now, the US military, on the other hand? Starship as a somewhat-disposable space truck makes a lot of sense. Then it comes down to how cheaply SpaceX can manufacture the things.
No, that's probably not a good description. I'm not saying you will appreciate the language, but it is basically C.

- "Failables" (which is somewhat like Result) offers an alternative to error handling which mostly mirrors how one commonly does it in C, but with conveniences. Since it works a bit different from all other error systems, I'd have to point to the docs for a summary. :(

- Semantic macros where the big win is that they are easier to read and write. (This is heavily inspired by the ASTEC macro system for C)

- Generic modules, which works similar to macro-based generics in C, but easier to read and work with.

- Subarrays (slices), yes they make a huge difference even though they're an obvious addition.

- A bunch of GCC extensions

- Optional design by contract

There are no objects, and certainly no dynamic OO system. There are no constructors and destructors or similar explicit code.

Calling C is straightforward, you just need to declare that it exists, like you would in C.

So `extern func int printf(char*, ...)` -> now you can do `printf("Hello %s\n", "World");` the opposite also works, so if you define a function `func void foo() @extname("c3_foo")` you can then call it from C as `c3_foo()` (or skip the `@extname` but you would have to call `my_module_foo()` instead due to namespacing.
I think you're importing context from somewhere else here. I gave the article another read-over to be sure, and I didn't see anything about desperation or cost differentials. The dowsers and vineyard managers seem to me to be making a direct claim that dowsing is the most effective way to find water and geologists don't know what they're talking about.
Sorry to intrude with an ignorant question, but I know next to nothing about this and it sparked my curiosity. These thousands of dollars in documents are the text descriptions/instructions of various ISO standards? Do they really cost that much or am I misinterpreting? Wouldn't their content have been pirated by now if they were so expensive? (assuming i'm correctly imagining what you said)
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> These can get mui hairy

For that, we have Mickens, The Night Watch: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf

I too have spent a lot of time in the direct access mines. Everything has been just a bit too specific to write papers about, it's mostly a question of digging registers out of reluctantly provided datasheets. Fortunately I get to do it in C# now.
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My roommate, 2004: "The course management platform we use at the university is really cool. I like that you can add people as friends and send them little messages to their profiles. You know PHP don't you? Let's make a clone without all the course bullshit, open it to the public, and sell the data to marketers." Of course I told him to go away.
Eating is inherently primal, bestial, even brutal in nature.

You're expected to not abuse the meat counter clerk.
I rented a warehouse in Millbrae near the SFO international airport for a year. The noise pollution is obnoxious, but the air pollution is way more of an issue.

Commercial jets starting, idling, and taxiing are incredibly dirty machines - it's nowhere near their optimal operating conditions and it's not like they have catalytic converters cleaning up their exhaust.

Furthermore, even though they're not supposed to jettison fuel before landing anymore, I'd find what were clearly oily droplet stains on my convertible's rag-top disturbingly often. Busy international airports are environmental disasters.

HSR seems like a complete no-brainer for domestic travel from where I'm sitting, if only we could get the lines built in the US.
> rich folk would gladly pay millions, which makes the business case a lot more compelling.

I would say some would but keep in mind that a few other things have to come together.

a) Willing to take the risk (non trivial example I would not do this no chance)

b) Your family/spouse/girlfriend/boyfriend has to buy into the risk even if it's just you going into the orbit.

c) Potential negative publicity as in 'look how they are spending their money' since early adopters would most likely be publicized in some way.

d) Guilt maybe spending millions for a trivial short ride vs. other things you can spend money on.

Keep in mind with 'd' other things are considered more acceptable and have social proof. This seems (to me anyway) the ultimate extravagance and I am wondering if there is the classic difference between what people say they would do if given the chance and what they would actually do.
Agreed. I worked on a team that built out a solution like Ably described and we would run into lots of weird issues with ec2 lifecycle (often init script / configuration management issues) and deploys would take a long time (had to drain ec2 instances and bring new instances up) and there's just a lot more to manage (autoscaling groups, instance profiles, AMIs, configuration management, process management, log exfiltration, SSH keys, infra as code, etc). If you really don't want to use Kubernetes, you can get a lot of the benefits by using ECS/Fargate, but I really don't know why you wouldn't just go all-in on EKS at that point.
Nice way to avoid the whole pointer + lenght issue.
Yikes that sounds bleak.
“Scale up”, a software term that has almost zero value when translated to aerospace engineering.