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The article mostly discusses LNG shipments.

LNG burns well, but isn't awfully bad for the environment. It's far better than the vinyl chloride that happened in Ohio last week.

Simple safety precautions could be used to avoid accidents with LNG - for example auto-igniter devices to ensure that any LNG leak turns into a fire not an explosion would massively limit damage.

I'm all for stopping the use of fossil fuels, but the dangers involved in shipping them is only a tiny proportion of my reason.
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https://sumi.news shows separate links for comments and the article.
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Nope, nobody can make money consistently out of a company that has the same CEO since 2008 and is still burning money(!!!).

Maybe their business model isn't even viable, and/or needs a big revamp.

Unlike other companies that fired people with 100bi in cash(looking at you, Google), Twilio is literally paying for people to use their services for over a decade.

Are boards and VCs so rich that they can keep such thing going on for so long, without ever the expectation of making a profit?
What is the exact difference between spying and telemetry that user hasn't consented to?
Guests are trusting property owners with their personal data. If these people are ignoring the risk entirely or willingly shifting the fallout onto their guests – because the owners are so busy and no one penalizes them for data breaches anyway! – then maybe it’s time that someone starts doing just that.
I also started building the same thing. Crazy that something that used to be nearly impossible will soon be a "hello world" type project
> Same as how cumulative effects and exponential are unintuitive.

Indeed, I'd argue that cumulative effects are unintuitive because (if done right! … or badly wrong, I suppose) they're exponential.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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OpenSnitch won't help if the dependencies you pull in come through the same server as where the tool uploads the telemetry to. Go works with a Google proxy server for this purpose by default.

You can disable the Go proxy and go for a more direct source fetch with an env variable, but in the same way you can also disable the telemetry.
Well when there are fewer new entrants to the Ponzi when the unsustainable APRs didn’t own out, I imagine revenue is quite low.
Peer comments suggestion that it would make sense if it were kerosene seems right. There was probably plenty of kerosene around for lamps in nyc in 1905 (although piped natural gas lighting was also common), and kerosene would work fine to turn meat into a burning projectile. Or perhaps to intentionally befoul and ruin the meat for sale, as part of the boycott/protest/riot, with the projectile part being secondary.

But yeah, unfortunately the wikipedia source for the burning meat projectile claim is to a web page that makes the same claim without really citing it's source (beyond the name of a historian). We'd have to do some research to see if we could find a cited primary source that this claim came from originally, and how it appeared there.

I really like the image regardless. It does not seem implausible to me, generally, with kerosene. But it's an enjoyable image either way.
Please enumerate. Go on.
I'm not a big fan of restarting the discussion from the big Reddit argument on the same topic[1], but as I understand it: from embedded (or at least some developers') POV, this is a non-concern. Volatile never implied atomic in regards to interrupts, and pretending it should is wrong. On some platforms, single volatile load/store (whether `*ptr = 1234`, or `volatile_store(ptr, 1234)`) already can compile to "two separate operations" that can be interrupted in the middle. With that in mind, you are already supposed to be aware of that and execute such operations in no-interrupt contexts, and having this also apply to compound assignments is no more of a footgun than any other operation on such memory.

(and if you do not need to care about the above for your platform/use-case, then I don't see why you would care about whether compound assignment compiles to one, two or more discrete opcodes)

Not to mention, `REG |= 0x4` is just too entrenched (and seen as idiomatic) on some platforms.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/jswz3z/compound_assign...
I hate fees as much as the next guy, if not more. But this doesn’t seem like it’s in the same ballpark:

> We’ll make cable internet and cellphone companies stop charging you up to $200 or more when you decide to switch to another provider.

If your cell provider gives you a subsidized phone and puts you on a contract that has an early termination fee, that seems fair.

If cable companies are doing this sort of thing, then it would be more of an issue since they don’t provide expensive equipment that the customer keeps. But I mostly hear about cell providers doing this.
>And I don’t mean that last statement facetiously; academic freedom and campus free speech are under attack. But what I want folks to understand is that academic freedom has always been under attack: it has always been so.

This article summarizes a view that can ascribed to Leo Strauss -- the idea that philosophy (which we can use here as a synonym for any rational endeavor) is often disjoint with political and cultural aims of a given moment. This poses a grave problem for philosophers, particularly if they enjoy, ehem, being alive.

Strauss argues that as such, philosophers must practice their craft carefully, and sometimes even surreptitiously. Hence overtly religious philosophers placing their actual, often impious ideas in the mouths of characters in their dialogues, characters that the philosopher appears to be critiquing.
Thank you for that reminder.

This cut now sounds very deep indeed. It seems not at all the same as trimming against "overhiring" nor about mispredictions of growth, but instead perhaps a more fundamental concern about the health of the company.
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This is a common misconception. IP addresses are only considered PII if you are in the position of being able to decode them to an identity. An anonymous version checking service obviously does not count.
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I do not know. I just say that if one demeans their opponents in such way, then it makes those statements less trustworthy (it increases estimation of being a strawman). That is obviously a heuristic - in principle one can make demeaning but fair argument, and also tone-correct but strawmanny argument.
I agree, so much hate for innocent mega-corps in these threads. It has to be the evil workers at fault. If you think using objectivism, it makes perfect sense.
The data can obviously be used for things or google wouldn't pay for servers to collect it?
There's actually a non trivial amount of air in low earth orbit. For example the ISS or Starlink satellites would experienced drag and reenter in only a few years without periodic thrusting. At Starlink launch dispense they are even lower and reenter in days.
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No that is not how the GDPR works.

It would be illegal specifically if you _collected and stored_ the IP address information from the phone home requests to process in some form later.

If you simply process the web request, and don't store the IP address then there it no issue.

If you do end up storing IP address in a log somewhere, then simply having the logs deleted in a documented and reasonable timeframe will be enough.

"Documented and reasonable timeframe" is intentionally vague since business requirements are varied, but if you can justify whatever you come up with, then there is no issue.

Simply do not hold onto user data for longer that what is required for the purposes of the user request. That's it.
Pension funds and many other xyz funds have these companies in their portfolio. Crypto markets with their scammy tokens are a good simulation of US stock market of today. Unprofitable companies posting 1 less cent loss as compared to forecast and seeing their stock jump 20%.
I thought that too but it turns out the axles were glowing hot and the signals from detectors built to prevent this thing were either malfunctioning or ignored. Keywords: ohio derailment hot box detector
I believe dang has explained there's an additional nuance to ranking where something that gets a lot of engagement quickly is actually penalized. I assume to try and tamp down on flame wars.
I am just sick of no accountability in all this.

The people who are responsible for having made these decisions are going to have nothing happen to them, and continue to push for things like this while more and more innocent people suffer.

I am as capitalist and libertarian as they come, but it seems like no one anywhe is being held accountable.
Their main objective in the war is to seize control of Ukrainian energy and agricultural resources

I do not believe that is their primary objective. Should any resources survive their onslaught they are just bonus material. They have already destroyed most of the factories train tracks and a good deal of the power generation. Russia have no ability currently to replace these things or to rebuild Ukraine which would be necessary in order to make use of the lands resources.

What would they target?

The remaining power, hospitals, the remaining agricultural factories to starve everyone. That alone would drive out most of the remaining people. I believe the primary objective is to secure Russia. That requires conquering all neighboring former Soviet countries and Ukraine is just in the way and has a nice bonus water port. Should they succeed in taking Ukraine this spring then I would expect Poland and/or Finland to be attacked at some point later on.
A wake up call, you say? As in, no one could have seen this coming? Not even all the railroad workers and unions who said this was bound to happen due to the absurdity of the schedules and requirements forced on them by their employers?

This is the most obvious outcome of the US government stepping in to break the railroad worker's strike, it was just a matter of when - not if. We're lucky it didn't happen in downtown Pittsburgh.

The worst part is that the costs of these entirely foreseeable and preventable catastrophes will be nationalized. Meanwhile the railroads will forgo necessary maintenance and infrastructure investments, continue to blame individual employees for the events, and reap record profits year over year. Mission accomplished.
How do you prevent a strike in a way that doesn't force people to work?
It's not "outright illegal", AFAIK. If you can point me to a place that definitely says it is illegal (or not) I'd really appreciate it!

From what I've learned about EU regulations, ANY time you have technology that serves an EU citizen there is the potential for you to be sued over potential violations of the intentionally overreaching and vague privacy laws. The EU is so incredibly hostile to small business and FOSS.
General public: We think you should ask for consent before gathering data on user's device and sending it to Google.

Google/Golang devs: You're objecting in bad faith and violating our Code of Conduct.
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> Alexander II wasn't done after Crimean War

That war started in 1853, Alexander II's reign began in 1855, obviously he wasn't done since this wasn't even a war he had started...

People need to temper their hot takes on history.
They are one angry person, from quantum mechanics to politics, not one comment that barely even tries to be friendly. Just bashing.
I hope software packagers for the various Linux distributions will disable this behavior, one or way or another, with or without the assistance of the Go developers. The official Go documentation can say whatever it wants, but in my experience the installation on Linux mostly happens via the distribution's package manager. The result would be that the software running for the majority of users will not send information to Google. It's not perfect, and won't do for some people (like me; I will remove Go and not write Go code in the future), but I think that'll remove the need for a fork for many people.
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> There's a law allowing Congress to prevent that to avoid a catastrophic disruption to the economy - and it would be catastrophic. They voted to prevent a strike and Biden signed it. This was IMO a smart move, deliberately tanking the economy would have been good for nobody

Except that's exactly the point of a strike. And I think catastrophic is an overestimation if we were to shut down the rails for a week, maybe it would've instead gone towards equalizing the disconnect of wealth.
I've been building with electric for several months now and it's hands down incredible! Why? I think most importantly because it allows for functional composition across the network (client/server–distributed systems more generally) while also ensuring payloads are as small as possible (only what functions in each env access) which translates to FAST.

IMO this is a paradigm shift similar to GC. No one wants to manage their garbage. No one wants to manage the network. It's grunt work. Let the compiler take care of it.

I've naively rewritten a re-frame (react/redux in js) app that started getting prohibitively slow due to a bunch of deserialization on the client in electric and the performance is outstanding! TBH I'm taking a break from additional UI work on the app to do research because I realized that with electric I can build something much more amazing than I thought possible before.

Caveat: the future will not be served on a silver platter. it's early days and there are some quirks
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I think the video's thesis is overstated; in this video Hossenfelder makes it sound like there are no (real) problems with the Standard Model and therefore no necessary reason to postulate any new particles. While I agree completely with Hossenfelder about "pseudo-problems" such as the hierarchy problem not being real problems in need of a solution, my understanding is that there is at least one real problem and the solution may require new particles.

Specifically, neutrino oscillation is experimentally confirmed, but my understanding is that you can't just bolt it on to the Standard Model without getting inconsistencies unless you make one of the following two changes: Either make neutrinos their own antiparticles, or introduce sterile neutrinos. That seems like a pretty good reason to look for sterile neutrinos!

Also, I have to disagree with what she says about dark matter (or modified gravity, the distinction is irrelevant here -- both presumably introduce new particles); to say "All we need to know is the distribution of it so we can make predictions, who cares what it actually consists of?"... to my mind the point of fundamental physics should be to build a complete model of the laws of physics, and that sort of instrumentalism is just giving up.

(We can also generalize from this to other cases where problems from cosmology or other areas of physics would seem to require explanations from particle physics, e.g., baryogenesis, since the Standard Model doesn't seem to produce enough CP-violation to explain that. I don't think it makes sense to exclude such indirect evidence from other fields when we speak of tests of the standard model.)

None of this is to disagree that there's a lot of work on what Hossenfelder calls "pseudo-problems", which I agree seems to have produce a lot of failed predictions for little reason.
Useful doesn't mean it should be done. There are a ton of useful things for me I don't do because it's not right to do them.

Apparently as soon as a company becomes big enough, the line between convenience and ethical becomes very blurry.
If done, booking.com would be accused of hiding customer identities as a way to lock in customers to their platform. I don’t have a reference right away, but similar concerns were raised with the “Sign in with Apple” scheme.
We have seen some old equipment, but we have also seen HIMARS, Starstreak, NASAMS, Patriot, HARM, M777 (with Excalibur smart rounds), several types of drones, and bunch more stuff that is pretty much state of the art. Now there's 300 Bradleys and bunch of tanks on the way.

Yes, no F-35, which would be fun to watch, but I understand NATO has to keep some aces up its sleeves.

ETA: there were also some ... mysterious happenings. Like we still don't know exactly what blew up the airbase on Crimea. We don't know exactly what blew up the bridge. We don't know exactly what is hitting airbases many hundreds of kilometers behind the borders - some of them further from Ukraine than Moscow.
I can't see how this differs from any other article about a large, dominant employer in an area. It could be a coal-mine, theme park, or university, and there'd be a very similar comments.
I fail to see the nuance.

I don't really think it's supposed to be "good for anyone". It's not supposed to be comfortable and civilized and concessionary. It's not supposed to preserve the status quo because the position of the striker is that the status quo is bad and un-preservable.

It's supposed to hurt. That's the only lever workers have in these systems.
Dot-bomb is something of an exception to that. I made it through myself but a lot of people ended up long-term unemployed and changing careers.
Exactly. Here's an excellent instance of it being confidently and ridiculously wrong: https://www.reddit.com/r/AnarchyChess/comments/10ydnbb/i_pla...

If it can't handle the relatively simple rules of chess, it sure can't handle coding.
> Do i really have to treat every program as spyware and restrict its internet access ?

If you're using an application from Google or Microsoft or any big tech company for that matter: yes.

> And anyway, why would a compiler need internet access ?

The go build tool will fetch dependencies for you. If you don't use dependencies or use a local network proxy instead of the Google one you can safely disable WAN access, but otherwise you'll end up with a broken tool.
Do you know the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth? Time.
Do people use compression on logs? I come across a log processor algorithm that compresses logs and retain their searchability. So it is not generalize compression.
Playing devils advocate here, but one interpretation of the law is that if any script that obtains the IP addresses could reverse it to an identity, then you are in violation.
They were quoting "The Matrix". But you're probably correct, even in the movies the existence of "The One" was a pretty serious security bug, and the entire need for "agents" was a workaround for other bugs.
Or it's clickbait.

Journalist: "Can you prove beyond all doubt the moon isn't made of cheese? Have you confirmed it firsthand? Have you stood on the moon and tried to take a bite of it yourself?"

General: "What??? Uh, I haven't been to the moon, so I guess I'd have to answer no."

Journalist: "Moon made of cheese? Senior U.S. general says not ruling out anything yet"
That's exactly what it is. I didn't intend to sugar coat it.

There are certain functions that are so critical that people who work there are not allowed to strike and disrupt the economy. Railroads are one of them. Democrats tried to get them the best deal possible while also preventing an enormous economic recession which would have been the inevitable result of a freight shutdown.

I personally think those critical functions should be nationalized under government control, rather than having private companies reap the benefits of their special control, but that's a conversation for another time.
There's no defined altitude. The laws are too generic and basically say "spacecraft in orbit". Satellites are covered by that in general.

The US military doesn't consider aircraft or missiles flying over their borders to be in space and outside of their airspace regardless of altitude.
That and the obvious narrative pushing of whataboutism and Russian apologism.
The US itself is in the state of being always a few years away from taken over by a crowd very sympathetic to the Putin's cause and Putin personally. Prolonging this conflict is therefore also quite risky to the current establishment or whatever you want to call the adherents of the post-WW2 world order.
Low Earth satellites can indeed shoot missiles or drop bombs. It's what the DoD chief called for,
https://breakingdefense.com/2018/08/space-based-missile-defe... and almost happens decades ago with Brilliant Pebbles.
Posts that rise quickly and generate many comments in a short period of time on HN tend to fall quickly as well, as posts that follow such a pattern are typically inflammatory in nature.
Record profits: The link provides a 7% increase in profits, 14% raise for employees, and a 68% increase in fuel cost.

I'm by no means defending anything that occurred, quite the opposite. I just wish we could start using values that are adjusted for actual inflation for the relevant industry, with a percentage in brackets, such as: Record profits(0.5% above inflation)
If you think that separating the two wasn't an intentional move to allow for one to pass but not the other, I've got a bridge to sell you. Congress combines unrelated items all the time, if they had to vote to prevent the strike, the compliance with some of their demands should have been rolled into the same vote if they cared about it being passed.
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I've been building with this for 2+ months. Debugging is fine (not great but when is it great? Especially in Clojure). It prints stacktraces in each env. Haven't found debugging harder than traditional client/server dev. But complexity has decreased thanks to it so less bugs.
The worst part of this disaster in particular is the entirely local effects including cancer, pain, suffering, and death caused by the release of these chemicals. But yes, the worst part of this pattern of behavior from the US leadership is that catastrophes like this will continue to happen all over.
> What type of shadowy agenda are entities like Jared Leto or Fidelity Investments trying to advance? Or should we assume that they're acting altruistically because they're not Chinese?

None, they might just really believe that Reddit might be profitable one day and they want a share of the pie. Snoop Dogg also invested in Klarna, for example.

On the other hand I have lots of reservations about the motivation of the likes of Sam Altman and Peter Thiel in this, Marc Andreesen is not such a wildcard, might be just stupid with money as the latest plays of a16z seems to making them be.
Yes, the strike is supposed to hurt the company.

Unfortunately, a rail strike would have put something like an estimated 3 million people out of work immediately, and would have cut off food and water supplies to millions of people. That's why there's a law preventing strikes that extend beyond the industry to have negative effects on the whole nation.