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What country are you from? The Premier in the video has been anti-lockdown for the entire pandemic. And now you're claiming they are power hungry for more lockdowns? Sorry but you clearly have no context what is going on here.
Yeah, sorry, perhaps indulgent on my part. I enjoy different perspectives, being both why I'd advocate what I did above and why I'm so curious about your comment about smartphones -- which, I imagine, for you was merely a passing comment of little import that it's weird for someone to be so curious about.

Thanks for the responses!
and also weigh more than the MacBook Air
The seemingly handwritten manual was great.
I understand. That's how it works in practice. But catholics have confession, they teach that as long as you believe and are repentant all is forgiven. Perhaps that doesn't apply to priests.
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Yes, generally I don't care and I understand that how a company chooses to spend its money is not my concern. My point is essentially that it's not particularly your concern either.

The only reason the topic came up is because you lead with "low margin buyers are subsidized all the time so they should also be subsidized by high margin buyers in this case". While a company may choose to do that, and I really don't care if they do, in the context of an external discussion about which strategy is better, I do care to respond to that point when presented as part of an argument by an equally outside party.

This is how the specific point comes off to me:

Alice: I'm annoyed Tesla's new subscription requires a $1500 upgrade for my older model, Tesla said it was FSD capable. Make me whole.

Bob: I already paid in full for my FSD subscription and got the hardware included, why should you get it for free?

Alice: Because Tesla could use revenue from people who have already purchased FSD in full to fund my hardware upgrade.

Bob: Sure, they could. But now my "investment" in FSD doesn't go as far as I thought it would and I'm "out" $1500. Make me whole.

...

Anyway that's just why I think some sort of compromise makes tons of sense so that nobody perceives themselves as being out anything and people who want to use the subscription can get the HW for "free" rather than the up front $1500. You've changed my mind on that front (:
This turned out just like mysterious Gatwick drone, mass hysteria in higher places followed by a lot of ass covering.

https://hackaday.com/2021/07/20/the-gatwick-drone-little-by-...
They are still in the game, but not quite the same game.

They have done 8 launches so far, including 4 this year, with another 5 scheduled this year and then more next year. At the moment they have 248 operational satellites in their constellation. Their goal is 648 satellites, which is gong to take them (approximately) 11 more launches.

But 648, is quite small in scale compared to Starlink's plan for an initial constellation of 12,000, with an additional 30,000 currently going through the approval process. Starlink already has more working satellites in orbit than OneWeb's planned full constellation size.

Given that, it is difficult for OneWeb to compete with Starlink head-on, so they are basically ceding to Starlink the B2C space and going after B2B instead. I think with UK government and UK military they are going to have some success, since the UK will likely prefer OneWeb given that it is a UK-headquartered company with partial UK government ownership.
Blizzard's statement is arguing in the alternative. It says both that the claims are false and that they've "changed since then".

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1418017955841982465...
American embassies affected? Microwaves?
This is new communication equipment.
Improperly shielded or malfunctioning.
They can't admit it at this point in time.
> are unwilling to accept that a person might decide that the tradeoff is actually worth it to them?

I'm a privacy advocate, but I totally accept this. In fact, there are many instances where I have made such a tradeoff myself. The problem, though, is that very often people make this decision without fully understanding the tradeoff they're making.

That's part of why I lean heavily on the notion of "informed consent". Giving consent without being fully informed of what you're consenting to is not giving meaningful consent -- and entities that live on collecting data about people tend to avoid actually informing people what the deal really is.
Yes exactly, having the same app and features on android would still have leave to all users churning like they did on iOS.

Think Clubhouse only moving to android when it was working on iOS.
Okay, but what do we do when there is 30 or 40 billion of us?
Do they keep similar incareration statistics for UK, France, Germany, etc? I'd like to see if there is works there.
I am not sure if we will see Biden follow suit. Biden's Homeland Security director said

>Allow me to be clear: if you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States

At a minimum they don't want the refugees from Cuba. It seems quite clear they won't relax the immigration rules for Cubans.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-homeland-security-secretary-...
That's not conforming to the market, that's doing what you want because people are indifferent.

Conforming to the market would be to not add something that nobody wants.
It's not unreasonable to compare them, but that comparrison must be made in context: we're saying that something that makes up a very tiny part of the cost will be more expensive, while something that makes up a huge part of the cost will be dramatically less expensive.

Instead of a $100 million reactor, you're looking at $1 billion in reactor spending, but instead of a $4 billion dollar plant that this reactor goes into, you're looking at a $2 Billion plant.

A fusion plant would be comparable to a very expensive fission reactor in a world where people weren't afraid of fission plants, but in that world a fission plant would be dirt cheap. In the real world, fission is way more expensive than the engineering challenges would imply. It's not the materials or the containment that is expensive, it's having all of your assets sit idle for years on end while yet another environmental impact study is conducted.

Also, some of your assumptions are unreasonable. For example the reason you need a containment building around a nuclear reactor is that you can't just vent to atmosphere, because the water contains large amounts of tritium. It's perfectly fine to just vent helium to atmosphere in case of an emergency as it's not radioactive. While a fusion reactor would use a lot of tritium over time, at any given moment the amount present is rather miniscule, it is being actively generated on site specifically and if anything the major technical issue is not having enough. A reactor the size of ITER would have approximately 0.6 g of Tritium in the reactor at any given time, losing all of that to atmosphere would be equivalent to approximately 2% of the annual tritium release from The Hague Nuclear Reprocessing plant. Decomposition of titanium hydride at the temperature of the molten salt is slow, while obviously undesirable, there is no danger in the magnets decomposing, the real issue is quenching, which is one of the few genuine safety concerns of a fusion reactor.
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>It's not hard to code, children do it.

It is hard to code, and average children don't do it. The fact that exceptional children do it more than they do other adult things is because coding doesn't require a lot of expensive equipment and you can afford to do it as a kid.
I’m not saying semver is a universal standard but this is _wildly_ different to everything else.

Nobody expects defaults to change between patch/minor versions.

This is another example of how MySQL does not give a flying F about the footguns it leaves lying around.

Putting the onus on the user is not reasonable; especially in a world where we’re trying to reduce toil or get rid of ops completely.
If they are able to get Strarship and the Super Heavy Booster working, which at this point in time I think is very probable, those economics will change a good bit as the cost of launch will come down a lot.
> It largely doesn’t matter that the defaults could be configured to be more strict. We live in a world where people are trying to avoid hiring sysadmin and that database was set up by a developer. It should not have been a default.

Everyone agrees with this. That's why they changed the default nearly 6 years ago.

Yes, the old default was terrible. But there's no way to change the past, so why complain about it for years and years?

All versions with this bad default have hit end-of-life, what more can be done?
In many languages, such as python, assignments are statements, not expressions, and so they don’t evaluate to anything at all.
Do you know if they use the Percona toolkit with MySQL? Does it even give any benefits if one is running MySQL 8?
You'd be better served by looking at our introductory content. It can solve optimization problems, and while the hardware graph is still not billions of qubits, our hybrid systems enable you to solve much bigger problems while still heavily involving the QPU in the work.

Formulating problems into the Ising model is still a difficult task, further into the realm of mathematics than the average HN poster usually goes, but it is indeed proving useful for real-world applications, e.g. with logistics and optimizing the order things are done in.
Ask HN: Angel investors in Cloud Infra/ DevTools space
We are building a product to make running cloud native services radically easier.

Does anyone know angel investors in this space to get in touch with?

(Email in profile).
Are you thinking about the naming of COVID variants? That was a decision by the WHO - that's not relevant here, and 'Havana Syndrome' was named before that decision anyway.
Thanks for showing up, nrp!

My question is about how compatible the laptop is with Linux distros?

Any parts in there without Linux drivers? Do you have a recommended distro? What about when you plug things in and out?
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) documentary? Yes, I still remember Randi handing over one $million award to the team proving remote viewing.
Yes, no point in more distribution when users were not retaining. Although, it was hard to even get those first few thousand users to try the product.
There's some things I prefer native apps for, others I prefer web for. But it's a highly personal choice, I think. For instance, for me, all web and social stuff is browser based, but I _loathe_ using chat or email in a browser. And until quite recently, I still used a desktop RSS reader just for headline aggregation, I finally gave up on that as another handful of sites I follow killed their RSS feeds.
Just my reaction take on the Marc Polymeropoulos guy, i watched some videos and i don't trust him. Feels like they made up a story and he is the designated person to tell it. Also maybe unrelated how come he doesn't have a Wikipedia entry?

Why would anyone trust someone who worked for or works for the CIA exactly? Their job is to lie to people and be good at it.
>Lots of people who would better be served in psychiatric units are housed in regular prisons.

You know, people always say this, but they never think of things from the point of view of all the people in mental wards who are not criminals and are defenseless.

Also, modern mental wards do not house anyone for very long. So they just aren't applicable for long term housing.

People who are arrested do sometimes end up in psychiatric units temporarily, and once they are "stabilized" then they get back into the legal system.
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Right I got you, for instance I can't smoke sativas as they may cause me to start panicking as well. I was just saying it may have been the strain and how it affected you particularly. Sativas are more euphoric but can cause paranoia etc. Indicas are nore of a relaxed high good for the end of the day. Had you tried Indicas to see of they had the same effect.

Just saying 'marijuana did this to me' without context of the strain or if it was constant across strains isn't super helpful.
Mitchell deserves all the praise and the success he’s had so far. I just want to point out that he is a “gifted” individual so if you’re the kind of person that seeks to emulate his behavior I would advise that you try to understand him more.
> Less glib, this past year has taught me that a lot of companies are led by genuinely unintelligent people.

There's a reason that "meritocracy" was invented as a term to mock the state of things. It's a myth. It was always a myth. A joke.

The people selling the notion that the way things are is the result of a meritocracy is the secular Western equivalent of people using caste as a justification for shabby treatment of have-nots.
Labels can be used innocently. But they can be used maliciously (e.g. "the China virus").

Once a malicious variant has been found, we should stop using it.

It is not distracting to call a variant "Delta" instead of a country. If anything, it removes distractions.
I think proton mail
$50M is the launch cost for SpaceX customers. Musk has said in an interview that the marginal cost of a reused Falcon 9 launch is $15 million. That means even the tiny subscriber base they have at the moment is already paying a significant chunk of the launches.

That would make your numbers $420m every five years, or $84 million a year - slighly more than your average telecom CEO compensation.

But the goal for starship is $2m per launch. Let's assume that is bullshit and go for $10M instead, and only 300 satellites per launch. That's already down to ~$10M/year to maintain the entire constellation. Now you have room for all the other costs you mention. If they reach the stated goals, it will cost peanuts... you can see where this is going. Starship will be a ridiculous leap in launch costs if it comes to fruition.

The max capacity for the network, once at 42k satellites, is estimated to be around 50M people worldwide. Plus, you could have a downlink shared, say, among 50 people and spread the cost - 1-10mbps is still miles beyond 'no internet access'.

You might think the plan is crazy, but the math checks out.
If this whole thing works, they could charge $10/month and be in the green - the satellites themselves will be the cheapest part of the whole system. No rent, no right of way, no construction, no maintenance work, free energy and extremely low material costs.
> cartoonish push that World of Warcraft

wasn't the cartoonish style already present in Warcraft 3?
Plus 100 for pandas. It is a truly amazing library. If I need to do some exploratory data analysis with it I'll often do so in a Jupyter notebook, but always make sure serious coding happens in a real editor like vscode.

But things really are hopeless.

Even Microsoft can't control the monster they unleashed on the world. Execs and managers using Excel instead of Planner for project tracking ("Spreadsheets are for manipulating numbers, not word processing!"). Used in that way, Excel isn't so fragile, but why is it being used at all? For f*cks sake, hasn't anyone ever heard of Word tables?

Honestly, anyone who uses Excel as a database should be exiled to... someplace where they can't do any more damage. Maybe connectivity-poor rural Arkansas. That's technological malpractice. It's indefensible, and an embarrassment to the whole tech sector that anyone is trying to excuse it.
I'm not sure I understand your comment. The Cuban thaw under Obama was largely reversed by Trump, and Biden has not done much of anything to relax the embargo again since his term began (but correct me if that's wrong).

Any press release is a form of PR, and the CIA is no different. Government officials release press statements all the time in order to sway public opinion on a specific issue.

In recent history, the buildup to the Iraq War is a perfect example, in the way that demonstrably false statements to the media and deliberate misdirection were used to gin up public support for the war. There are several great documentaries, books, and podcasts that go over it in great detail. I highly recommend looking into that period of time as an example of what I mean by "sway."
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How about setting up a simple website of your own to do this for your social circle? In this day and age, this is not only cheap but doesn't require any sort of serious expertise.
John Carmack did something kind of similar a billion years ago at Id.
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Starcraft copied a lot more than just that from Warhammer.

Tyranids giant biological hive mind that rapidly adapts to new environments consuming or infecting existing species to plunder their genetic advantages. Also have plenty of units that looks rather similar to their Zerg equivalents.

The basic look of space marines and Starcraft marines are completely different why they toned down the skulls and well that’s about it.

That’s fine at least they didn’t copy the ancient psionic technology using Eldar who, wait never mind.
Using media statements to sway public opinion is… a totally normal thing for organizations to do.
The person named in the suit was at Blizzard since 2004. This is nonsense.
Looks neat. Would you consider putting an open source license on it, such as for example the ISC license?

https://choosealicense.com/licenses/isc/
There are some unintended consequences of shutting off the power preventively though. Two seasons ago someone had switched on the three generators they had installed because of these "high-winds" shutoffs, one of which caught fire and ended up causing a medium-sized brushfire here, I think on the order of a few thousand acres IIRC. It was in one of the canyons around here, fairly rural, but very near lots of suburbia.
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While externalizing repeated constants can be useful (e.g. defining PI_4 for a math routine that uses pi / 4 a dozen times), taken to an extreme like that it leads to more bugs, not fewer.
He even pronounces Moog correctly, /moʊg/!
Literally the only non-actual native app I use that I don't mind it with is VS code, but from what I gather code is actually mostly native code, just the actual UI is web, and even then I gather they do a lot in native to make the UI as fast as it is. But yeah, I'm so tired of having to have a billion chat clients that are all using 1.4gb of ram each for some stupid reason.
Attacks targeting U.S. intelligence personnel were reported, beginning in late 2017, in locations around the world, including in Moscow, Russia; Poland; Tbilisi, Georgia; Taiwan and Australia;[82] other reports came from Colombia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Austria, among other countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome

Look, I don't agree with US policy towards Cuba but arguing that the whole thing is a PR campaign isn't very persuasive either. It might be a case of psychological contagion among a relatively small and insular community (ie the diplomatic corps) or it might have some factual basis. There's some evidence (detailed elsewhere in this thread) to suggest the latter.

Skepticism is good, but I think your argument here is mere contrarianism.
I’ve seen this happen a lot in larger companies where people that got promoted to managerial posts revert back to ICs after a while. But definitely not at this magnitude; stepping down from executive team is probably unheard of.
> but DWave, IBM, Google, and every other company that currently or formerly over-promises or outright lies has drawn people out of academia into frequently senseless industrial positions.

In those industrial positions, these people are afforded a place to do scientific research that is outside the university proper, but where they can still publish papers, collaborate, release the results of their research to the world, etc.

I think it's valuable, as not every researcher wants to work in the confines of academia. I worked in academia myself, albeit doing far more HN-poster typical things than a researcher would do, and while it can be an amazing experience, it's also a much lower salary, and you're not at all surrounded by the same energy, sense of purpose, and rapid pace of change. You're also dealing with lower budgets and lower expectations when the goal is purely to publish papers instead of creating actual, functioning devices that are not only workable, but eventually useful (which is a pre-requisite to being profitable in the long term).
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Due to historical reasons phone tapping in the US requires warrants, a protection not extended to the internet unfortunately.
Cartels are weak because every individual member and every non-member is motivated to break them. That particular one was broken by Facebook.
Reddit down (at least in parts of Canada)
I have heard people make that argument quite a few times. It's less common now than it used to be, but it still happens.
True, but you have access to whatever Python libraries are installed, and your output is web-based. So you can potentially output anything a browser can display, including interactive 3D graphics and widgets. You also have access to the command line in Jupyter, so you can run whatever shell commands you like.
I was referring more to "the state of California" being the plaintiff, for which giantg2 gave me the minutiae I was interested in. I hope it's obvious that I didn't think this was the first sexual harassment/pay discrimination case in recorded history. Thanks for pointing out DFEH's existence and involvement with the Riot Games hubbub; that was useful information that served as a good jumping off point for my skim research.
Is it Jessica Chastain?
In areas with separated bike lanes traffic mixing usually happens in slower speed areas. This greatly reduces the chance that a small vehicle like a bicycle gets lost in the saccades.
prefer native.

my number one reason is that most native apps care about accessibility (and my other preferences, fonts, UI, etc.)

the idea that modern web-based apps (mobile or desktop) provide a modicum of accessibility is laughable at best. it is something that makes me depressed everyday.
I don't believe any kind of microwave theory.

It's a US embassy. It's full of spy equipment. If it was microwaves, they'd have a full recording of the spectrum and would have probably triangulated it by now.

If I had to guess, my guess would be on the countermeasures deployed there. Critical enough to keep secret even if they knew what was the cause.
John Carmack and Dave Cutler have always been individual code contributors, regardless of their titles and management responsibilities.

They never cut out management/executive duties completely (as in Mitchell's case), but they came somewhat close.
> it was shown it was real

Curious where it was shown. A search didn’t turn up anything convincing.
This sounds interesting.
Although this use case is very infrequent. If this had a wider use case, like something used daily, that just might be be a viable product!
Speaking of doxxing (on a tangent of course, nothing bad going on here I quite like the idea of a customized webcrawler feed as-a-service) , there is some great coverage over on Motherboard about MAID data brokers and PII matching [1] and it's ability to fall in to the wrong hands [2] :

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnmvz/industry-unmasks-at-s...

[2] https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbxp8/grindr-location-data-...