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I have no insider information but I can’t imagine how different it would be from any other programming jobs.

They might have some special infrastructure but that would be abstracted away from most people who interact with it so existing technology can be used without needing to recreate everything.
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I'd like a Lisp with some type declaration and inference; essentially, a more-strongly typed Clojure. Immutable data structures by default. I'd like it to create stand-alone executables (not JVM bytecode), but still have a full REPL. I'd like great error messages and developer affordances (like Elm and Elixir).
They are longer, but in my experience quite tractable and certainly not long.

The information content reflects that. Internal services with IPv4 are tuples of:

(public-ip, proxy-port, rfc1918-ip, actual-port)

That’s about 32 characters to type and memorize (12 + 4 + 12 + 4).

Internal services with IPv6 are tuples of:

(site-prefix, network-suffix, host-id, port)

…which for your /56 is going to be 26 characters to type and memorize (14 + 4 + 4 + 4).

E.g. 2100:db8:4032:12::431 port 123
Interesting that we now have four performance-focused alternative implementations of Python: PyPy, GraalPython, Pyston, and now RustPython.

There are also Jython and IronPython, although I don't know how successful/popular or actively-maintained those implementations are.

Someone recently pointed out on IRC that Python is transitioning away from a language with "one implementation, and the implementation is the spec" to "one preferred implementation with an informal spec, but many alternative implementations".

Now that PyPy v7.3.7 seems to support 3.8 without any issues that I've encountered, I'd strongly consider evaluating it for use in production code. It might be interesting to run some async webserver + data processing benchmarks or something across the various implementations. Maybe a good benchmark would be measuring total throughput on something like "process/sanitize some user-provided text file, then serve a prediction from a PyTorch model".
Can’t speak to Cloudflare, but Google partners with https://www.electricitymap.org for this functionality.

https://api.electricitymap.org/

(no affiliation, just a fan of their work)
Autonomous drone networks are a faster route to sustainable supply chains
The News section of the homepage includes a November 2, 2021 says:

We are releasing both v9.1.1 and v8.1.3 which include security fixes. We recommend everyone to upgrade to one of these versions of ATS.

However, in looking at the changelogs for those releases, the issues related to the releases, and the release announcement just says it is a "bug fix release": https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/trafficserver-dev/...

Not clear what the security issues are or who they might impact.
In the US it's always pre tax and generally annual whereas in Europe it's often post tax and monthly in many cases.

I respect the European model but the US model is not going away since taxes are situation dependent and culturally folks have a different attitude about taxes
How does one add OTP to her/his Google account? Is there a guide/instruction that you could share? Thanks in advance!
The press conferences are most fun thing. Someone comes and cleans the place, just for person to come, remove mask and speak to spread the covid...
Bank cancels account of feminist organisation critical of trans ideology
What's with all the downvotes for the OP?... has this been downvoted for a reason?
Certainly there are thing that formerly had a use but are less useful now. I'd be careful calling something useless, but if there isn't an advantage to getting rid of a feature, I see no reason it would be gotten rid of.
I'll be the brave one to say it: download entire image-based porn sites in one click. Porn has gone almost entirely video now, so the days of galleries have largely disappeared. There were auto-indexers as well that would increment URLs based on patterns.
On what basis do you think that the ECDLP will be solved in polynomial time in a classical context?

I would expect we will more likely have an error-correcting quantum machine sooner than the aforementioned. Given the pace Google et al are making.

We already have a quantum approach to solved ECC over finite fields, Shor's.
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> I assume that nuclear weapon design secrets aren't floating around as encrypted files on the web. One possible idea I had is that adversaries are intercepting and saving HTTPS traffic between "interesting" targets.

They're probably targeting communications, like those diplomatic cables Manning leaked. I'd assume top secret "design secrets" aren't transmitted. My understanding of spying is it's typically focused on gleaning information from sources a laymen would consider boring and/or useless. For instance, the NSA worked until 1980 to decrypt certain Soviet messages sent between 1942 and 1945 that re-used one-time pad pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
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That doesn't make any sense from a scientific perspection, and reality is not a virtual machine that physics executes on.
I believe Python C-API compatibility isn't a really a goal for this implementation anyway. [1] HPy sounds like the best path forward?

1. https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython/issues/1940
Hi, Leonardo here.

We built Pulse because we saw that keeping people inspired, motivated and aligned in any high-growing organization is hard. When you’re a small company and employees fit into a single room (physically or virtually), everyone knows what everyone else is working but at around 50 employees, this stops working and answering simple questions like “What are the company high-level priorities? What does leadership value most? Who are all these people I’m working with around the globe?” becomes super hard.

If you have a system like Pulse, you (and others in your team) get a central location to (1) streamline important comm about priorities, directions and status, (2) share, discuss, review or collaborate asynchronously and (3) hold institutional knowledge and decision history that’s important to keep so that employees, current and future, aren’t lost without context.

With Pulse, you get 3 different systems in one:

1) An internal publishing platform perfect for both small-scale distributed teams or high-growing companies. You may think of it as an “internal Substack for teams” with:
- Follow/unfollow teams, people, and topics
- Personal feed to get caught up with new updates
- Ability to discuss and highlight key decisions taken
- Daily/weekly digests with updates batched in a single email
- Automated Slack notifications when a new update is posted
- Bi-directional linking to create dynamic references between updates

2) A lightweight people directory that helps you better know where your team members are based, what updates they shared, how to get ahold of them for work, and any quick background they’d like to share. Every profile includes:
- Basic info such as name, role, department, bio, etc.
- Contact links: email, phone, twitter, linkedin, etc.
- Location and time zone
- Posts and comments history

3) A lightweight browser extension (Chrome, Brave, Edge, Firefox supported) that makes your default browser “new tab” your new “company home” so that keeping up with new updates is ridiculously fast and easy. Includes:

- Recently shared updates
- Company (or team-wide) bookmarks
- Company (or team-wide) time zones
- Weekly b-days, anniversaries, or new hires

Looking forward to ideas and feedback from the community
All the criticism on Bitcoin would be a lot more reasonable if banks weren't increasingly unbanking dissidents (and central banks weren't printing civilization into poverty).

The window of acceptable speech is only going to narrow until everyone is toeing the party line in order to have access to food, shelter and banking. Until they introduce mandatory internet passports I will happily take the insane volatility of Bitcoin over kowtowing to stern ideologues advancing towards their goal of absolute conformity under the banner of tolerance. It's trans/feminism today and some arbitrary other thing tomorrow but the common denominator will always be exploiting our culture's unassailable values like tolerance, sexual freedom and racial guilt in order to justify any measure. Even if this appears to be a honest intervention for the betterment of society, it should be clear from the nature and trajectory of contemporary social justice activism that no amount of conformity will ever be satisfactory, and everyone will be crushed by this machine.
The biggest problem with standups is that they inevitably balloon into all-encompassing, dragging status meetings where 95% of the stuff discussed is not relevant to more than one or two people present.

The other problem with standup meetings, although this is more of an issue back in the before-times when we actually went to the office, is that they turn into a de facto clock-in time. If the standup is at 10 AM, then over time, nobody bothers showing up until 9:55, because there's not sufficient time to do anything worth doing before being interrupted the standup, and if you had plans for the day, they'll get tipped ass-over-beanbox by some new urgent request from somewhere at the standup.

I'm deeply envious of those fabled software developers of the past, before the Agile Manifesto, who were allowed to go work by themselves in a room for a whole day at a time, sometimes even two or three days. What luxury! Just imagine what you could do without people poking you with a stick every hour or so?
Hi HN!

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When I was recently looking for a new knife, I realized that I was spending countless hours doing product research by reading many reviews from different sources.

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We are building technology that collects and analyzes massive amounts of reviews from sites like Amazon, Reddit, YouTube, and independent review sites to help people gain confidence with their purchasing decisions.

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I wouldn't design a new language, but would use the unlimited money and time to boost Common Lisp as the ultimate language to rule them all...
The basic principle at work is the square-cube law. The mass of an airship enclosure grows 2-dimensionally while the volume and lifting power grow 3-dimensionally. If you use any 3-d structure to support the airship you will have problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law
Assuming you already have a gas furnace (I do, was in the house when I bought it), and the option is to either use resistive heat (space heaters, computers, inefficient lightbulbs) or the natural gas furnace, you would need to look at two main things. The cost of electricity per BTU and the cost of natural gas per BTU.

On a somewhat recent decently high gas usage month that emulated a cold winter (forgot to turn off the pool heater from spa mode on the whole pool circulation mode for a few days...oof) my $/CCF (Centi-Cubic Foot) was 1.22. Converting $/CCF to $/MMBTU, divide by 1.037 to get ~$1.176/MMBTU.

Electricity is usually billed at kWh pricing. 1MMBTU = ~293kWh. I pay ~$0.086/kWh, so 293 * .086 = $25.198/MMBTU.

Obviously, you're not getting 100% efficiency with the natural gas furnace. I think the one I have in my attic which is almost a decade old is rated at like 85% efficient. 90% efficient furnaces are available, some of them don't even require a metal chimney as the resulting air isn't even that hot.

But even at only 85% efficiency, you're still taking more than 10x less dollars per heat.

This math changes when thinking about buying new equipment and other factors. I haven't looked at equipment pricing so it would be hard for me to say how expensive it would be compared to alternatives. This can also vary a good bit from your local market. Energy is stupid cheap in my area, natural gas is a good bit cheaper here than a good chunk of the US while electricity prices are about median, maybe a bit lower.
See episodes 99 and 100 on the Darknet Diaries [1] for background on NSO and Pegasus.

[1] https://darknetdiaries.com/
At this point I'm starting to suspect this is basically people on a power trip, disguised.
To China's credit, they've just announced a ton of nuclear investment as well, something the United States no longer has the balls to do. This is (currently) _the only_ real solution to CO2 emissions that we have as a species, short of throwing billions of people back into poverty. The US prefers to pretend that solar is "it". But it's not, and it's never going to be, although its share will grow, of course.

All I'm saying is I don't think the world leaders perceive this as a problem at all. They perceive it as a money making opportunity, for themselves and their donors (maybe with the exception of Xi Jinping who doesn't need the money since he's not replaceable, and he can just take whatever he wants). Otherwise they wouldn't have flown to Glasgow in _four hundred_ private jets and wouldn't have driven around around in hundred car armored motorcades. A videoconference would more than suffice for what they "accomplished" there.

President of the EU, Ursula von der Leyen once took a plane to travel 31 miles [1]. That is not the behavior of a person who believes climate change to be a "problem".

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/02/revealed-a...
In short, healthcare is very complex and there is no incentive structure that prevents the software from managing that complexity poorly, primarily because the users of the software are often not the ones making the purchasing decisions. Many are optimized for billing, and others are optimized for health systems who want lots of data points and jam the software with data collection forms.

There's lots of _better_ healthcare software out there. It's still complex, while remaining fairly user-friendly, but it tends to live inside healthcare startups and healthcare tech, and not deployed as broadly as the big EMRs like Epic, Cerner, eClinicalWorks, etc. These established players tend to be the only ones with the feature sets that big hospitals and health systems want/need.

Aside:

A lot of people in this thread are complaining about "regulations" making things difficult, but HIPAA, HITRUST, Meaningful Use/Promoting Interoperability, SCRIPT, etc. are not _why_ EMRs suck. They make it harder to start from scratch, but they do not prevent you from building easy-to-use software. The software sucks because there's generally no incentive to make it not suck and a whole lot of legacy suckage with a lot of momentum, money, and influence.
Lest we forget drone strikes.
Oh cool, then maybe you can explain why someone said that the it was due to a "dangerous grounds miniplate"? I thought the contention was the bed of the SCS was a thin plate that formed mountains quicker because it moved faster because it was smaller? So maybe the seamount moved?

I'll admit I'm pretty ignorant here, and could have been mislead. Or maybe it's all true and the answer is still "yeah, it only takes 100 millennia, not the usual much longer"
Can you not do that with CPython or PyPy?
The US government has been after post-quantum-computing encryption for a while:

https://csrc.nist.gov/news/2016/public-key-post-quantum-cryp...

That's from 2016. It's wise to impute shady motives to US government encryption efforts in light of probable DES skulduggery, the Clipper chip, Dual_EC_DRBG, and all the Snowden-era revelations about "implants" and NSA intercepting and modifying hardware.
Energy is not fungible. Just because you have electricity in place A doesn't mean you can get it to place B in a cost-effective way, so mining next to, say, a hydro station with spare capacity (where electricity is cheap) doesn't necessarily have any impact at all elsewhere.
FWIW I've been using Authy for all my 2FA for years, including Google's, without any issues
Presumably there is a cost to carrying the DNA, if it gets removed by chance and the cost was high enough the useless part will disappear.

That however hinges on the cost being high enough, if the cost is negligible then there is no real pressure either way.
This may very well be the case, which would only strengthen the need for posting such a warning so that other people are aware that they can have their data wiped due to minor trivialities.
For the record, Rossman cannot get the specific parts that he wants, you're saying that he could pay $600 for a first-party logic board replacement when the only thing wrong is a blown capacitor that costs a nickle.
Trying to get a job in a labor shortage is harder than you think
But it works great for us

And that's the key: Do what works for your group.

The problem is that we have middle managers and project managers and middle project managers who go to conferences and watch lectures online and hang out in social media echo chambers talking about the latest, greatest innovation in managing projects without thinking about the people or the tasks involved.

Too often development teams are forced to work for the process, rather than the process working for them.

I've been in places where the PM would say things like, "We'll do it this way because it's what Google does." Well, Google has seventy brazillian people, and we have six on our team. What makes PMs think that one size fits all? It doesn't.

I currently have a guy who's trying to impose a project management method he learned from a video game company on us. We work in healthcare. But he refuses to deviate from what worked for the video game company, and thinks it's OK for the users to "discover" features on their own, rather than letting us spend time documenting how the system works. Again... in healthcare.
I don't understand this thinking at all. Most prostate cancers are a non-issue if caught and treated early. As my father's doctor told him - prostate cancer, if caught early, is largely a disease you die with, not a disease you die from. The PSA is the best tool we have for early diagnosis and treatment. I have the test done as part of my annual checkup and have done so for the past 15 years. Let me put it this way - it's a heckuva lot less invasive than a colonoscopy!
I am getting the feeling that there is a whole set of these cargo-cult "best practices" like standups, "1-1's", retrospectives and so on. They're not stupid ideas, but they often seem implemented in a way where... "that's the done thing", rather than something evolved organically.

I'm not a 'process guy' though so I have no idea what to replace these things with, if anything.
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Serves them right. I wonder how Israel would react here, and how the US squares blacklisting the company, but saying nothing of the Israeli MoD that had to authorise every sale due to export restrictions. If the company sold to bad actors, surely the MoD is at least partly to blame for allowing it?
Because my email account is that's linked to every other account and I can't afford to lose everything just because I've lost my phone (which has happened twice in the last two years, but recovered it both times).
Ramen is fast food and ramen shops aren't the type of place you socialize. An Izakaya or bar would be considered more social places.
The slow descent of Houston McTear, the greatest natural sprinter ever (2016)
I do not recommend that organizations conduct drone strikes against attackers that are bamboozled by deception environments. There are a variety of constructive courses of action once an intrusion is detected (as we discuss in the paper) and violent revenge is not one of them.
> The fact that an aerogel-filled blimp might still conceivably be neutrally buoyant is actually testament to how incredibly light aerogel is.

True!

I've always had a soft spot for aerogel. I discovered it as a kid back around 2000 when Disneyland had this NASA/JPL Mars rover exhibit and they had a piece of aerogel on display. When I got home I researched it and was really impressed by all its properties. My mom got me some broken pieces of it off eBay (at the time this was way cheaper than buying an intact slab). My parents were pretty cool in nurturing my nerdiness. hah

The more I think about it, the more it seems like aerogel in a hydrogen balloon isn't the best idea for other reasons. If any moisture makes its way into the balloon, I bet it wouldn't take long for the density to suddenly drop catastrophically.
Are they sometimes useless? sure. Are they hurting anything? no. As long as you keep them brief, as intended, they are a good way to quickly spread lots of info. And you have to live with the fact that they mostly aren't for the developers.
It's a matter of perspective. And of self fulfilling prophecy to some extent. If one's abilities are declining in one department and they think of themselves as less capable it stops them from pursuing other things, things which they may excel at even at older age.
You can always use SMS 2FA
This is interesting. I’m building something that is similar. What do you think it didn’t succeed? Not enough marketing? Difficult implementation?
I think you might be mixing up trade imbargo with a sanction.
"Git" actually "Github"
People would be surprised how many people they know have an invisible condition that they get through life with relatively ok, but that is absolutely a risk due to covid.
The point isn’t stopping the spread now, it’s preventing hospitals from filling up. Past that I see no reason to increase lockdown measures.
That sounds freaking awesome. Do you know how to find it? I found a company called Qarnot that's offering products along those lines but they're probably extremely expensive. A home project would be ideal.
Yes, but I thought we were talking about the push to vaccinate children, which is under say 14 years old. The younger you are, the less likely you are to have symptoms from COVID, so of the numbers listed in that article it's not clear what proportion of those complications from COVID came from the upper age brackets rather than the 12-15 year olds.

And how stupid is it that these articles talk about studies but still don't actually link to them?
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