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Space is like international waters and I predict similar hijinks in coming years unfortunately.

Satellites harassing with close passes, blocking antennas, maybe even poking each other. "Damn ye Russian satellites!" The politicians bellow as they shake their fists at the cosmos.
Admittedly, I need to read deeper into their service mesh proposal, but on the surface I don't understand why they couldn't have worked to integrate with something like Istio?
In 2014 most of the AWS console was written in GWT, and I worked on one of the services. Honestly? I kind of loved it. As a backend Java dev, it made a lot of sense to me, and I almost never had to touch any Javascript.

Every service team at that time chose their own tech stack, and so sometimes I would hunt for ideas of how to implement something in other team's codebases, so I got to see the different tech stacks.

For a brief moment Angular was really popular, and then fizzled out just as fast. For me, it was the worst of all the options by far.
Is COVID going to continuously mutate worse and worse forever? What’s our end-game here?
> with their top edge roughly at eye level

I'd heard that this advice has changed, and that the centre of the screen being roughly at eye level is recommended. Though maybe that was wrong?
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I've never worked anywhere that deadlines were set with enough precision that +/- 20% would be distinguishable from noise. I think it would be lost to more significant factors like differences in employee productivity and unexpected roadblocks
A little lower than Pentium 4 640.
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Let's play picky:

In anatomy, the arm is the part between the elbow and the shoulder.
Below the elbow is the forearm.

With that in mind, 30cm for the arm is definitively a sound measure... and the name of the emoji is wrong. On every phone, keyboard and app.

tl;dr; what is commonly called arm is in fact arm + forearm. Don't blame the author for being correct.
So not the federated/decentralized comms protocol, then.

Shucks.
I would argue it does matter. Not to say that absolute position doesn't matter, it does, and probably even more so, but relative position has some very real effects.

The main one that jumps out for me is power, and influence. As an example, it doesn't really matter if I can donate $100 to the EFF instead of $50 when a billionaire can outspend me 1,000,000:1 without even flinching.
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That second one is exactly why misinformation has so easily taken hold.
Once again the Israeli model of control will be employed against protests and uprisings around the world, having been perfected in their "lab" of the West Bank and Gaza.
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That’s one possibility, but there’s no reason it has to converge to 1 (i.e. linear). R(t) = 100/t is also not exponential.

Of course, the epidemic curve described by that function would indeed bounded below by an exponential function on part of its range, but the same is true of any function with positive derivative, and calling for example f(x) = x^2 exponential for that reason makes the term meaningless.

This is presumably what the OP meant by “as long as R>1, the curve is exponential”. But this is literally equivalent to saying “as long as f’(x) > 0, f is exponential” which is just not a useful concept.
>> Can you describe an environment where this wouldn't occur?

One in which any amount of self-awareness of the negative effects of gluttony (see: Willy Wonka) temper the urge to accumulate and consume more resources above a certain point.

There is only so much French silk pie I can consume after Thanksgiving.
Wow, you’re right. Trolling the entire web would involve an organization that carries considerable authority whose decisions can impact every member of the web.

AMP is the perfect way to troll websites into making shitty versions of their content, for no real reason other than just because you feel like it. And then when you’re satisfied with your trolling you just abandon the standard.
While I don't know the connection between the two, we also need to be realistic and not expect everyone to read 50 papers and be a disease and vaccination expert.

Honestly, I don't know, but it's interesting that when I say I had very bad side effects to the vaccine, some people are convinced that it is because I would also react to covid similarly.

Will those people say to a 70 years old obese smoker who didn't get any reaction after the vaccine? I know many like that. Should I tell them "oh you didn't get a severe reaction to the vaccine, so I guess that's how you would react to covid, too"? Of course not, it's nonsense.
PowerVR is still around and selling designs, some of which are reportedly still used by Apple. Apple is also still paying licensing fees for PowerVR.

MIPS just got long in the tooth and died because the company (Wave Computing) that was licensing MIPS designs just didn't have enough customers. They have now switched to RISC-V.
How is a goat 45 cm?
We expected new developments since ages ago.

I guess the RISC-V will conquer the desktop the same year Linux will.
I use two monitors, but one is my tiny 13" laptop screen which has _only_ my browser on it (which holds my current project, and Slack et al. in various tabs)

Everything else lives on my 32" 4K monitor. This gets me a nice compromise, as I found having two larger monitors leading to distraction as well (or just completely ignoring one of the monitors, so it added little value to me).
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I'm going to offer a lone hope: militarization of space may fund the practical colonization of space. I personally wouldn't mind the entirety of the surface navy fleet budget being redirected to space armaments and developments budgets.

I would say off the top of my head that if the US had a well developed moon base, then it could effectively attack most satellites in earth orbit and rockets attempting to reach orbit. No other strategic point in near earth space can provide a base for manufacturing, storage, launch , refuelling, etc of earth orbit superiority.

Right now the military has a rare window: if Starship enables a 10x payload advantage, that is a 10x throughput advantage for getting moon base up and running.

Of course owning the moon would mean even more dominance of the rest of the solar system. You can launch Orion pulse nuclear craft from the Moon pretty easily for practical planetary ships of very very large size (1 million tons)
> Thumb 1 and 2 are well designed instruction sets

I had thought that Thumb 1 had serious shortcomings, which is why they ended up needing Thumb 2.
Basically I understand Marginalia's proposition as a search engine focused on retrieving text-heavy/long form content. Unless I misunderstand it's intent, that can't replace a generalist engine (nor does it have to) as not every search request will lends itself to long form texts. I guess that's the only point I was going for (I do feel the old-Google sentiment has got more to do with the state of the web than the engine, but am out of my league for a proper opinion), and it certainly wasn't a jab at it - I'm thankful for your neat website and will be looking forward to see it get even better over time! Maybe it is somewhat uneven, but it is nonetheless great at finding thoughtful pieces written on subjects XYZ and surfacing more obscure/personal websites.
Well, clearly lots of investors are aware of this...
I had the opposite reaction. The idea of Google employees rewriting a decentralized comms system scared me. Relieved to find out this is some other Matrix.
Doors and windows are designed to open, and frequently they don't lock automatically (or the lock is VERY insecure). There are crawl spaces, attics, mail slots, balconies, garage doors, etc. that frequently connect the outside to the inside.
Is it really though, if it's less lethal?

With covid we need to move beyond infection rates and just focus on deaths and really start getting ready for the long haul as its not going anywhere and we will never beat covid. Every year will see a new variant, as much the same as every flu virus before it.
The entire GCP console is written in Angular, so it's probably got a bit of staying power.
There are a number of issues:
1) https:/<ip-addr>/ requires PKI a certificate type that is currently not in use. It is not clear how hard it is to have those types of certificates at a large scale.
2) https is more costly (in terms of network traffic and latency) than the current UDP-based protocol used for most DNS traffic.
3) There are quite a number of DNS middleboxes. In some sense they are a curse, but they also do useful things. Going to https makes that hard or impossible. Some people will be very unhappy.
4) It is not clear if your proposal will actually be more reliable. The current web has very little caching. DNS very much depends on caching. Once you add a caching layer to those https request, you make get into the same problems as described in the article.
Kayak licensed/used QPX from ITA back when they were an independent company. Google acquired ITA and as part of the regulatory approval had to operate the APIs for at least the next few years. Kayak continued with QPX, but slowly shifted over to using Amadeus whenever they could. I imagine they've completely switched by now, given how bad the Google <-> kayak relationship is.
It's a lie? You literally pointed out that they changed it in 2018. Thank you for proving my point.
> It's a discipline problem, not a technical one,

Sure, agreed.

> and so you should solve it on a personal level and not a technical one.

Why, when a technical one suffices?

I've not personally seen much of a productivity increase over two 24"-ish screens and a single 32" 4K screen myself. I don't have the physical desk space for two of those (nor do I think it would be particularly useful for me)
Judging by how long other viruses have been around, we will not see the end game within our lifetimes assuming no dramatic advances in life extension occur. So don’t worry about it, this is our life now.
I am personally in favor of what you've stated. I don't believe we will ever be rid of covid, it is likely endemic. To add to your list, I would like to see additional measures put in place to provide adequate ventilation and filtering of the air. I am becoming increasingly convinced that promotion of cleaner air would serve well to reduce the impact of airborne diseases.
The SpinLaunch[1] folks are betting on being able to do it.

[1]: https://www.spinlaunch.com/
Wait.. Emacs is an editor?
If the nuclear force becomes unbalanced, anything could happen.
Well it says "to scale" not "to realistic scale" so it could be a made-up scale
It's far from mobile compatible. But I'll try it once I'm on desktop.
"Twitter isn't real life"
I’m not arguing that everyone should be forced to get vaccinated - I’m saying that people who choose not to are selfish. And they shouldn’t be immune to some level of personal impact, lots of people make personal choices that have negative impact. I once turned down an incredibly lucrative opportunity because I disagreed with the products I’d be working on. The father of a friend of mine was a professional pilot who never got above flying for a regional airline because his cigarette addiction meant he struggled to go more than three hours between cigarettes. Personal choices have impacts.

The argument that you make is odd, though, which seems to be that people have been so pushed around by these horrible, unreasonable asks that they have a “visceral fight-or-flight” response and hence have a “mental condition” that prevents them from adapting - and not accepting that demonstrates a lack of compassion.

That argument, for what it’s worth, has been trotted out to justify everything from segregation, to fighting gay rights, to objecting to seat belts. Just because people don’t like something they find objectionable doesn’t make them irrational. Saying they are robs them of their agency as humans, and also conveniently obviates them of their responsibility to their community.

“But what is the end game?”

To get to where almost everyone is vaccinated, which is where we are with measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, typhoid, etc. It’s not that complicated.

“ I always thought the society's capacity for compassion was bigger than my own.”

Man, me too. If you had asked me in 2019 if there would be a controversy about adding one more vaccination to the roster of vaccines we give almost everyone (and invest billions in encouraging and distributing), I would have said, “no way - in most of the world, most people see vaccines as something that’s important to help themselves and their community “. In 1947 there was a smallpox outbreak in NYC and millions of people showed up to get vaccinated because it was the right thing to do to protect their community. Their compassion was for others.

To be clear, I don’t think people who don’t want to get vaccinated are monsters or evil. They don’t need to be vilified. No, they’re more in the realm of the person in the community who once in a while has a drink too many and drives home when they shouldnt - probably nothing bad will happen, but it shows a real lack of personal responsibility for their impact on others.
That's a very thoughtful take and I am glad to see other people putting a lot of thoughts into this. The only thing I would question is are there really any evergreen open markets. Sure, they might be open today, but will they stay open 5-10 years from now? I mean, just look at home care - could have anyone envisioned back in 2014 that this is going to turn into a VC battlefield? Between Honor and Papa, it will be hard for any independent agency to stay competitive for many more years.
If you took Moderna or J&J, it's possible the initial high dosage (100mg for Moderna) is the main cause. Their booster is now 50mg and Pfizer's is 30mg. If you did take the lower dosage, there's still hope that newer ones from Novavax or Inovio coming out later which is very different from MRNA vaccines won't produce so much side effects on you.
Google+ actually seemed kind of good to me? Like maybe the problem with Google+ was that not that it existed but that they didn't invest enough in it.
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May I voice an opinion?

Possibly yes, in principle.
If it is non-punitive, like most of the licenses in existence. For this a few points will need to be satisfied though, which, in my opinion are not, at present.

- It needs to be shown that significant difference exists in the degree of risk/harm reduction between "licensed" and "unlicensed". That reduction must be measured and quantified or qualified beyond reasonable doubt. The threshold of significance also must be socially agreed upon.

- Likewise, the very risk/harm to be reduced needs to be shown as being worth an essentially society-divisive measure. Again, the agreement needs to be reached on where exactly the the tolerance threshold is. Such that it is clear why the same mechanism is/was not applied to other things. Like, why we don't enforce it for seasonal flu, why we don't have blanket 10km/hr speed limit, and why when throwing a BBQ for friends one must not apply for permission and provide proof of recent "food handling safety" certificate.

- At the same time the requirement must be universal, no exception on any grounds, medical or not. Just like blind or mentally deficient person is unable to get PPL or DL, under any circumstances, even though the disability is not due to their choice.

- The latter must be recognized and "unlicensed" people must not be shamed or vilified. Conversely, creation of the alternative infrastructure must be encouraged, in order to bring these people back into society. Just like we do for people with other disabilities.

Otherwise it is just petty punitive crap. Like in Victoria, where "unlicensed" aren't allowed into KMart, but can run wild in Coles across the floor. Or not allowed into restaurant but happy to mingle in the food court. And honestly, so many measures for the last two years were just hostile and punitive and useless otherwise, it is not surprising that they tend to be rejected as a package, even when you can, arguably, sift one or two reasonable things from it.
Get a single 43” 4K monitor.

Then use a window manager that allows to automatically arrange windows. I build my own using Hammerspoon on macOS.

Great productivity upgrade.
Being overweight or mentally ill is cause for disqualification. All the kiddies with autism can't go.
In past HN conversations about this topic, there have always been some who deny or downplay the relationship between NSO and the Israeli government. This article paints a convincing story to the contrary: NSO and the rest of Israel's cyberoffense industry were/are used as a negotiating chip by Israeli diplomats. NSO only exported their technology/services with the approval of the Israeli government, and Israeli courts have cleared the Israeli government of any negligence in that approval process.
I'm curious what you mean by "OSX-like fit-size maximization". do you mean what happens when you double click on the title bar and the window fills the vertical space, but not necessarily the horizontal space?
It varies. As sibling comments, some of it is so (depressingly) old that patents don't matter, and a surprising amount was released as FOSS (the best thing Sun ever did for its legacy was OpenSolaris). Other could probably be safely recreated independently; things like Pebble where it wasn't even novel tech, just a well polished combination of parts that nobody seems to want to bother with, or things like capability-based security where the idea is in the open and all that's needed is for people to put in the work and for it to actually catch on.

But yes, some gems are lost to copyright and patents, or at least much impeded by them.
> https is more costly (in terms of network traffic and latency) than the current UDP-based protocol

That's what I used to think. But somehow in practice, at least for me, using DoH seems to return responses much faster (DoH response takes about ~1/10th the time). Don't know why... Maybe UDP packets are being dropped in bursty traffic by the ISP?
They’d see the X-37 sneak up. But maybe it could deploy a small, stealth drone to push a satellite down?
As someone who just went through a dozen interviews, this line of questioning is by far my most favorite one to receive.
Huh? Apple doesn't own ARM either, and have a GPU with an ARM CPU, Nvidia has an architectural license just like Apple does.
Tilt turn windows are very popular in Alaska where there are a lot of mosquitoes. The windows can be screened and the screen can be removed from inside the building. The screen is attached by spring clips or metal pins to the frame of the window. When the window is opened fully inward the screen can be removed. See https://greatlandwindow.com/images/300/tiltturnCleaning.jpg
There's already Conduit.
What if the virus was man-made from a lab? Big Pharma, the ones who have the most to gain from selling vaccines, are also the ones most capable of genetically engineering modified viruses. This is just a thought that I've had in the back of my head, and I'm not saying that this is the case, since the ethical implications of this would be severe. But I do often hear in media that tech companies prioritize profits over people...
Well that was thouroughly disappointing.
Some words have definitely lost their weight. Or maybe your address was truly awe inspiring.
> That you can't visit some parks' is not material

Disagree. Being in California I was grateful to comfortably meet with friends to go for a hike. The risk was trivial and I value social interaction. The fact that I cannot go to work or gather with people made things that you regard as immaterial in this context a lot more important to me.

> Given a state of emergency in the early stages of COVID, the close downs were within reason

Certainly, but it was clear within a few months (Jul 2020) that being outdoors was reasonably safe, especially if you are decently distanced. But you still had places restricting people from laying on a beach, or swimming in a beach. There was no scientific support for either of these stupid policies.

> "Hey, I didn't wear a seatbelt, and I have never been hurt in an accident!"

this is a silly analogy because health policies have multivariate outcomes, it's just about deaths, etc. and it's not something you can readily experiment on scientifically; these are people's livelihood, wellbeing, and prosperity. Optimizing for a single variable is foolish.
Perhaps it's indeed time for serious companies (these are definitely not MVPs) to have security insurance and they'd mandate some standard.
I would imagine that a lot of the 20% projects end up being incorporated in, or part of something profitable. Adsense, for example, was a side project.

From what I understand the rule is that you get to choose what you work on, but it has to align with the company.

So what you end up with is that your most talented/intelligent staff end up working on, and learning about things that they think are interesting and will help the company.
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Ooof I was worried for a moment that this was about the Matrix chat network.

I definitely don't want google messing around with that. It should stay unbiased and decentralised.
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40 billion isn't much to sabotage the vast majority of your competitors
The next natural step would be write down all theorems from kindergarten to undergrad and make them reproduciable with http://leanprover.github.io/
Well, we had rumours of Google shutting down GCP not that long ago.
I've heard that in the last ten years or so 20% time is on top of the 100% time for normal work. So no, deadlines aren't padded to account for it.
Yes same here.. No good could come of that. Perhaps at the start they'll contribute some valuable code, but then they will gain influence and steer the project away from this pesky decentralisation.

Though I doubt it's on Google's radar so far as a serious competitor.
The challenge with that is avoiding companies manipulating results. IMDB works reasonably well with thousands of people going on and rating any given movie - it's harder for a company to mess with those ratings because they'd need a lot of accounts. Plus there's no real incentive to - people don't just go and watch the highest rated movie, they watch multiple movies and often don't even care about the ratings if it has an actor they like or is in their favourite genre or whatever.

With something like exercise bikes, the calculus changes. You're going to have much fewer ratings, and people tend to only buy one bike every 10+ years, and they'll want to buy the best one they can afford. Now there's a real incentive for a company to manipulate the ratings, and it's also much easier to do so.

I totally agree though that the current inability to answer the question isn't new. And I don't think that will change - I don't really see a viable alternative to the current situation. But if someone comes up with one then I'll be very excited to see it, as the current approach of using lists from big sites to go find higher-quality reviews from smaller sites is not the most efficient. But maybe that's not the worst thing - I like that there's still value to small independent reviewers.