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Microsoft indefinitely postpones return to U.S. offices as Covid cases surge
PV is already driving electricity prices into the ground, the limiting factor right now is that batteries are expensive enough that long-term savings aren’t enough to overcome the sticker-price shock at the point of sale.
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good caps go bad, too. service lifetime is a function of temperature and time. lower the operating temp by 10°C and you double the lifespan of the good name-brand capacitor, and probably quadruple the life of the crappy generic cap.
False advertising is not protected speech, not any more than defamation.
This one seems to have more traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28468434
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I think you can use what you want, as long as it's not a dozen moving parts - meaning several databases. Postgres has the benefit of good caching, good pub/sub, good Json document support, basic but often good enough fulltext search and a good columnar store with TimescaleDB.
I've started my business from an older gen iPad. These devices are underrated. The new ones are so good they might soon replace laptops.
Rule of law and systemic governance will always be more practical to manage this, than dependence on heroic vigilante justice to meet an evil individual with a heroic individual, on the spot and ready to act.

There's a variety of reasons for this, but one of 'em is that in a condition of systemic governance, there's some societal pressure against the kind of sadism you mention. In a world like Sparta, it's hard to tell the heroes from the villains, and anybody might lash out at any time. Even the quotes given, spell out situations where random violence was just a part of everyday, expected life. This causes tensions and grudges.
With marine cloud brightening, which is what this article is about, they spray seawater into the air. They spray it over the ocean. It falls back down pretty quickly, since it's just water, and it doesn't genetically modify anything, because it's just water.
OK, you're offended by the word "standard." I get that. If I said that criminal defendants' "standard" tactic is to stall and hope the witnesses forget about it (I don't know if that's true, actually), you would be offended because really poor ones can't get out on bail? I wouldn't say "too bad for them." The legal system is well-known to be stacked against poor people on almost every level, and even Charles Dickens was not the first to write about it.

This is Hacker News, not Patent Law 101. I'm not obligated to explain every aspect of the system in a comment.

I gather you think there's something new or unique in your comments about poor defendants. There is not. People have been saying it since the 90s. You are preaching to the already-converted.

Finally, if you read my paper on SSRN (which I've cited here many times), you'd see that "programmers' standard toolbox of techniques" is what I called out as something missing from the law.

That paper got cited in the Checkpoint amicus brief to SCOTUS in the CLS Bank case. That's an example of doing "something" but I will admit it's not much.

If you really wanted to do more, you'd start or join a political movement to "abolish software patents." There already are such organizations.
And the joke applies almost exactly to the British rule of their colonies. Or do you think Monty Python wouldn't make an anti-nationalist joke?

(The "let's interrupt our program because the Queen has just started watching" is the best.)
They could use a variety of ways to solve their problem, but want to:

1) Be independent of a peg on a currency controlled by another state
2) Attract investment from the wealthy crypto crowd
3) Appeal to younger voters through a visionary approach

We shall see if they succeed. I suspect we are in for a train wreck, but am hoping it works in their favor.
doesn't google pay do this?
Even tobacco is still going strong after all these years of exposure to the reality (and ads on rehab programs).
Shocked.. They just care about protecting the kids. No slippery slope here.
My question is a lot more general than just sending money to El Salvador, you are right. But if your reply does not satisfy the specific problem constraints of sending money to El Salvador, then it can't be a solution to my more general question of how to send money internationally regardless of whether or not your counter-party has access to the correct kind of banking services (or none at all).
It is no longer sold, as far as I can tell. Hansen's widow was selling it after his death. You are supposed to send an email to order it (now as PDF downloads rather than optical disc). I emailed to order back in March of this year and never got a response.

I more recently discovered that it has been uploaded to Library Genesis so I got it there.

Swords of Armageddon is a history that quotes from primary sources very extensively. That's the bulk of the publication, by word count. It lends itself to more skimming than detailed reading in many sections due to this approach. These documents are more about policy, politics, and planning than about technical details. That may be due to Hansen's relative weakness on the technical side as well as due to source availability; I'm sure that documents about the diplomatic considerations following Operation Castle were more readily declassified than documents about the device data. Hansen's early introductory material contains some odd blunders about e.g. the physical properties of deuterium. Don't let that discourage you. Most of the book is so primary-source-driven that his powers of interpretation take a back seat.

There are surely other histories of the post-war Atomic Energy Commission. This is the first book I have read that makes it clear what a leviathan it was. In 1956, the AEC alone accounted for 3.2% of the federal government's budget (not counting nuclear weapons costs allocated to other departments like Defense). This is comparable to NASA's share in the Apollo era of the following decade, but the AEC operated with much more secrecy. It spent billions of dollars on weapons improvements that were obsoleted in just a few more years by even greater improvements. It was the era of Moore's Law for mass destruction.

One small interesting thing I learned: AEC had a multitude of reasons for experimenting with uranium 233 bred from thorium. Almost all of these reasons were related to nuclear weapons. U-233 was used in many nuclear weapons test series, though the details of usage (except for the one Operation Teapot test) have yet to be declassified.
That's just early stages of adoption. Until BTC saturates the market, there will be huge rallies, huge drops and otherwise volatility. Right now everyone knows about USD and gold and holds as much USD or gold as they want. But there are still millions of people who don't know about Bitcoin or don't know they want to hold Bitcoin. Once Bitcoin reaches its saturation point (which could be at gold's level or 10x higher - who knows), of course it will be no more volatile than any other established commodity.

In other words, volatility is not an inherent feature of Bitcoin or any commodity whatsoever, but just a state of the markets. The better argument would be to point out some inherent issue with Bitcoin that keeps it niche, the markets thin and value subject to wild swings forever.
> A provincial man has come to Rome, and walking on the streets was drawing everyone's attention, as he was a real double of the emperor Augustus. The emperor, having brought him to the palace, looks at him and then asks: "Tell me, young man, did your mother come to Rome anytime?" The reply was: "She never did. But my father frequently was here."

Solid burn. Being based on the emperor not only sets the joke up (being someone well recognized), but make the comeback sharper/funnier.
0. There seems to be a MikroTik exploit, and all versions are vulnerable. Well, it possible that someone collected the passwords back in 2018, and used them to access updated devices this year, but I guess naaah.

I wonder what should happen to that fine company to make them stop running all the potentially vulnerable system configuration services on all interfaces by default. IP > Services is one of the locations anyone should check ASAP to make sure unneeded ones are disabled, but it's actually misleading. These are just preconfigured wrappers for some components, and others, like DNS or bandwidth test server mentioned in the article, are not shown even if they are running. There isn't even a netstat-like command to check which ports are open.

1. While reaching a record number, the attack against something on the scale of Yandex and Cloudflare is more of a maximum capacity test not limited by target's connectivity, and/or an advertisement for someone's DDoS services.

2. Still, it's an application-level DDoS, so you have to have a swift application-level detection in place if you don't want to just ban IP addresses (and potentially cut legal users from HTTP(S) APIs and other services that might be shared on the server or network).

3. Some skill was demonstrated in finding no-trivial weak points to amplify the server load.
National flags - who doesn't know their own flag or any of the major ones enough that they'll miss a Union Jack, Stars and Stripes or a Hinomaru?
Depending on your requirements build ties in Heroku can be quite long. One app i’ve recently observed take 7 minutes to build because it always had to build both JS and Django parts(buildpacks for both were executed every time). We made it way faster with custom docker file that used caches and often built under 40 seconds. i am not saying that is not doable in Heroku, but would take more effort.
I saw something similar in a Japanese restaurant before covid, but at the time it just seemed like a quirky thing.

The only difference, maybe, is that instead of having a map of the room the robot was following a path marked on the floor, probably via something optical.
Just curious - do you have an ethical stance against selling to ZDI/Zerodium?
CNBC loves to frame Bitcoin as evil. The headline is unbelievably disingenuous. Western union losing business to a better system is not bitcoin damaging western union in any way that anyone should be upset about. Just like when tesla comes out with a new car, the headlines don't read "teslas new car could cost ford $3 billion per year".
What if every paper was on IPFS? Whenever I try to read an obscure paper published before 1990, the paper is usually behind a paywall.
MasterCard Acquires CipherTrace
He also points out that the Spartans fought primarily against much weaker opponents, making their military prowess not so impressive. If I constantly pick fights against children, my win rate would be quite high as well.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28461848
Maybe Cambrian diversification/surge would be a more neutral name?
To paraphrase: you're saying that DSA doesn't support offloads, and most HW NATs don't do QoS, but newer hardware is capable of it, and you expect mainline Linux to make full use of it in the future with DSA.

No, I don't know of any problem in your reasoning. I'll look forward to that happening! I wasn't aware newer hardware was so flexible.
i said it was a fantasy!

But yeah, to have any chance at all, you have to wait until it's really a crisis for them (that can't be blamed on you becuase you aren't there yet), like what might happen in 10 years or so from now, and then show up as a knight in shining armor to rescue them.

but yeah, just a fantasy ha.
> "There is absolutely a place for disruptive technical experiments like cryptocurrency in a small part of the system, and to have good regulation of the rest of the financial system. It seems to me that the current balance is doing exactly that."

Sure, I agree in principle. But the crypto science experiment is out of hand. It's providing negligible actual value to the system while consuming more energy than a mid-size European nation. This is an egregious failure.

If Bitcoin and Ethereum mining were shut down today, nobody would lose access to any necessary financial service, and we (mankind) would be at least 1% closer to the fossil fuel reduction goals we absolutely must meet. Seems like a no-brainer in the current state of emergency. There are many other things we need to do, but it's distressing that we're not even able to stop this novel waste that didn't exist ten years ago.
"Morpheus : We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky."
If you aren't personally responsible for your data, does it really exist? Is it really yours? What if your professional organization says "we've installed some big data analytics", or "whoops we lost all your data"?
As the quotes come via Plutarch, I'd like to recommend Plutarch's Parallel Lives - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Lives

He gives a biography of one famous Roman and one famous Greek and compares them.
There are already other ways to do this. im confused.
That's the complexity. The Roman invasion did enrich their society (as did the Greek before), yet all none of the dead people got any of it and many individual lives were completely destroyed even if not literally terminated.
Bitcoin is terrible for remittances. It just costs too much.

There are way better alternatives, including stablecoins which don't have any volatility.
Thanks for the explanation.

Maybe 101 level jargon for you, but not everyone; especially who are not familiar with this particular domain.
> another business trick is in McDonalds -- the company that supplies the beef in Ireland is called "100% Irish Beef"

This is definitely not true. And it's a common myth in Canada as well.
Most of them use decimal fixed point. Sometimes exponent (decimal, not binary one!) is fixed per-protocol, sometimes per-instrument and sometimes per-message, it depends on exchange.
"has no bearing on anyone but her."

Isn't the baby also affected by that choice?
Well, yeah. There's no system that will defeat rubber hose exploits.
> Don't worry, there's a lot of progress being made if you keep up with the industry news.

Sorry to nitpick your comment specifically, but I always hear this in the crypto community "we're making progress!". But no one ever cares to provide specifics. Why is that?
I am a person who did that swap on my T480s with the glass trackpad. It is glorious. Easy to do and cannot recommend enough. Also very much satisfied with the T480s and I am a notorious laptop hopper. Although the System76's with Coreboot are starting to creep into my mind, but I know the quality will not be near that of the Lenovo.
Using paypal to send internationally for $50-100 has a $3 fee + 3% + fee associated with exchange rates (PayPal’s exchange rate for personal payments includes a 2.5% to 4.5% margin subtracted from the interbank rate and depending on the receiving currency.) Also there is a few day lag between when you can retrieve the money

So it's pretty expensive.

On top of that, the person has to have a bank account that can be connected with PayPal. The benefit of WesternUnion (and why its a lot more expensive) is that you can just show up somewhere, show them an ID and get cash that was transferred to you. Crypto is closer to that, where you can download an app, go to an ATM and exchange for fiat in a short timeframe

https://transumo.com/paypal-international-fees/#USA
They use the lightning network. Look up the Strike app. They are sending bitcoin at no cost to them.
Should probably say [Video]
Don’t forget long distance transmission in that mix: HVDC can be done with losses of only 3.5%/1000km, which makes it a cost/geopolitics issue for your night to be someone else’s day, your winter someone else’s summer.
Guess this is saying that the one kilogram of uranium is converted to fission products which are slightly lighter--one kilogram minus a butterfly--and the amount of energy released from this difference is e=(mass of butterfly)*c^2
How do you reconcile the two seemingly contradictory statements “it would be equivalent of getting hit by three lightnings at the same time” and “it would destroy the planet”

Lightning happens all the time without affecting the planet, I doubt a triple lightning would do more than 10x the damage of a single lightning.

To me this kind of contradiction is a sign that the initial assumption is impossible as lmilcin suggests here, and as the original author concludes at the end of the article.

EDIT: 3 million, not 3. My mistake. Thanks for pointing that out.
Wait a minute. As a non-physicist who only knows QM from popular science texts, I always thought that wave function collapse does not require any human intervention and that this can be shown. Isn't "measurement" just an interaction of one physical system with another? If so, why would anyone include subjective degrees of belief in a formulation of QM?

Could a physicist please clarify this?
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This... is some weirdness in Arch's clang package.

It depends on gcc, for some reason, and that depends on binutils?

(and I have no idea if anything here uses libbfd, since it's just a part of the binutils package and not split out)
Tell me more about Caddy vs Nginx. What are the biggest benefits?
I honestly not exactly happy with nginx in some corner cases.
Why Australia's 'Covid Zero' Is No Match for Delta
Developers try turning their GitHub commits into NFTs
Obj-C and Swift allow comments to go along with translation strings, so you would add

let buttonStr = NSLocalizedString("Open ticket", comment: "For user to open a ticket")

And the comment would make its way into the eventual xliff file sent to translators
Are you praising or complaining that Python returns an object rather than a plain string?
What if climate change gives humanity the incentive/drive to create new technologies that end up not only overcoming it but also advancing civilization in ways that we otherwise never would have even dreamed possible?

What if we discover that everyone really can "just get along" because we coddled 300 million people into believing it, and it actually becomes a reality in the US and spreads throughout the globe? Even the Taliban ends up being nice and people don't even get picked on in school anymore. I mean...its possible right?
Thanks. Oh that is confusing. I think I actually became more confused after I read the announcement of their name change :)

Wasn't Teleport the original name for the product?

I'd be curious to hear what's your plan going forward now that gravity is no longer under active development.
Interesting to see that Amazon has a large focus on UX Design, which Grow.google also emphasizes. I interpret that as a signal that both of these companies see a gap there, although a hard one to train (or, harder to train than basic IT skills...)

Can anybody comment on what the hiring needs and career path looks like at Google/Amazon at the moment?
Yes everything except the floor. The tower is above the floor. For widows I used the film and a metal bug screen on top of that. I did three coats of the YSheild HSF54 paint. The before and after ratings on my meter prove to me that it worked. I register less than background now in that room.I used the copper grounding strips that wire into my outlets and attach to the house ground circuit.
Excellent read, I'd recommend anyone that likes this to check out 'What If' by Randall Munroe (XKCD)
sox filters are generally high quality, they weren't designed to run in real time.
That "47% can't sustain an unexpected $400 expense" conclusion does not follow from the actual survey data involved, as far as I can tell. See https://www.cato.org/blog/it-true-40-americans-cant-handle-4... for some details (yes, you may not trust the source), or the actual response data at https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2018-appendix-b-... questions EF3, EF5B, EF6B if you want to do your own analysis. The only way to get numbers in the range "47%" out of that data is to add up _all_ the choices other than "put it on my credit card, which I pay off in full" and "just pay cash" in the EF3 responses. But that's an odd thing to do, given that respondents were instructed to select all the methods they would use, not just one method.
I've got several broken electronics that I'd love to try to repair someday, but they don't have any screws and they are obscure enough to not have any tear-down guides to tell me if a heat gun would help. Cutting them open could just leave them unappealing to use, and thus I wasted my time.
Not sure why you were downvoted. I also wondered about that when I started with Rust. I'd love to see this at some point but I just started cloning ranges everywhere. As most of my ranges are simple (e.g. just a Range<usize>) the main downside I see is the additional clone calls.
Great question. This obviously isn't exposed through the playground right now as that's just a single file demo.

Our backend software does integrate with larger build systems. So the way you would handle third party deps is to link them during the build and then analyse the whole built module. We plan to make it easier to integrate with toolchains for specific languages in the future.
Yes, it takes over 70kg of "mass-energy" (e.g. mass converted to energy in nuclear fission) to remove 1% of all electrons in a person weighing 70 kg. That is not, in itself, contradictory.

Depending on how relativistically inclined you are, this may affect what you consider the weight of the person. But this doesn't really matter for the thought experiment.
AsyncAPI is about specifying push-based APIs (which are still far less standardized imho), and not about if a HTTP endpoint processes requests asynchronously (if that's what you meant). For example, if you let clients connect to your system via WebSocket - how do you specify the format of the push messages sent over the WebSocket channel?
Sorry, that was perhaps unclear, that 'they' referred to the banks, in the case of bank-bank.

Bank-bank requires that the bank at both ends supports sending/receiving to/from (as applicable) IBAN or similar yes. In the UK in practice that means 'mainstream' banks do and 'challenger' banks don't. (Monzo for example prefers to solve the problem by integrating Wise a bit into its own app.)

Wise avoids it by charging you (like paying for any other product/service) or having you transfer to its account in your country, and then sending the payment to the destination bank from its account in the same country as that, so it becomes two local transfers, one in each country.
Sometimes this doesn't work like what happens on the desktop with Google, for example. English is my default language, and in country where English is also the official language but Google in its wisdom, decided that the default for google.com is Swahili. Yet, I don't know of anyone that uses Swahili as his default langauge on digital devices. Microsoft too. Every once in a while they would send me text messages in cryptic Swahili that I have never bothered to find out what it means.
> A device’s location/IP address isn’t indicative of the language preference of the person using it

I really don't understand why this is so popular (google being a major offender). The browser already sends the preferred language(s) as a http header.
Check again- it says three MILLION lightning bolts.
Washing them increases their impact.

Might be better overall still, but that's the direction it goes in.
Matrix too
>because competition doesn't really exist.

It does exist, just hasn't reached some corners of the world. Neobanks are a great example. I had great experience with TransferWise (renamed recently to Wise). Transfers, checking accounts, wire transfers are several times less expensive than with traditional banks. Works like a charm.
OP edited their post to answer your question
Three million lightning bolts, not just three.