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> I assume airships aren't allowed to touch the ground because it needs to rotate with the wind.

It can touch it, it’s just that because it’s designed to be buoyant, it won’t have a good grip without enforcing it.

> For an LZ, the load could just be slung then released.

The solutions I’ve seen discussed are closer to what you see on ships or airplanes: narrow passerelles for people and a roll-on-roll-off option for heavier equipment.

The issue is to have a system that can handle a literal ton of either extra weight (that’s easy if the nacelle can push on the ground) or less weight (the part that would need anchoring). Most aeronautical mitigations are nowhere fast enough to avoid buckling.
> If your goal is money and you are a manager then in any organization (not just Google) it's likely that income is going to be O(number of reports).

Income linear in the number of reports? Increasing with reports, sure, but way less than linear. Logarithmic is usually a good guess with this sort of thing.
these are in high-crime areas with very specific demographics. make of that what you will.
Without convection or conduction?
I think loose typing helps to prototype faster, while static typing helps you write the correct/safe version faster.

But part of doing the correct version is clarifying spec, and prototyping can help with that - so it is a weakly held opinion.
Sometimes when a detail of Windows isn't documented, the Wine source code can be useful. Have you tried looking at it for details of win64 SEH? For example:

https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/blob/master/dlls/ntdll/e...

https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/blob/master/dlls/msvcrt/...
Microsoft has supported IMAP for decades. And, even today, they're nowhere near the top of the heap in email control.

So what exactly is the goal of their master plan? They stop using IMAP for their Hotmail and Outlook.com accounts? Big whoop. The mass of people on Gmail and icloud.com/me.com services will just download one of a dozen other apps. And then just slowly stop using the outlook required accounts; unless mandated by their companies/corporate offices, wherein they just run two clients.

EEE was a policy Microsoft had when it gained monopolistic position in a field. It's misguided and inaccurate to try to apply it here.
ok to correct myself. Due to lack of much air, heat would only dissipate by Black body radiation.
One would need to calculate if that could cool down the chips efficiently.
You're right, however nearly every single point was also true 50 years ago, when we built many of these things around the globe (and many are still going, pumping out the cleanest energy the world has ever seen).

The real difference between then and now, is willingness to take on risk. Developed countries of today are essentially victims of the innovators dilemma. We're fat and happy and complacent, and that's why we will never have anything new or better. People in developed countries don't even want the inconvenience of having children anymore. Why take risk to make things better for the next generation when we're not even willing to create them?
OK, but I'm not understanding your point. I mean it's all relative. Go back 10-15 years earlier and a very large percentage of uuencoded files uploaded to Usenet were adult content. That doesn't mean NNTP or uuencode were primarily for porn.

On the web, similar situation for DeviantArt and a lot of other sites.
How about the fact that laws of war[0] exist?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_war
Java enterprise tooling is based on Smalltalk for a reason....

Likewise the famous Gang of Four book, target at the enterprise space, also uses Smalltalk alongside C++, for the same reason.

Also Visual Age for Smalltalk was the ".NET" of OS/2.
> doing nothing for 12 months

Here I am reading this wondering "how do I get in!?!" I've never even applied to FAANG but the stupid DS&A questions pretty much kept me out. Maybe I'll reconsider.
>However, the production and distribution of commodities is entirely unorganized so that everybody must live in fear of being eliminated from the economic cycle, in this way suffering for the want of everything.
Not to go into too much detail, since my SO that worked on the project might otherwise get into trouble, but some of their cost saving measures simply turned out for the worse. Several core components of the reactor had to be entirely removed and rebuilt from scratch because they tried to cheapen out.

Similar reactors built after this will not have these growing pains.
Looks like you're not familiar with how these sorts of government databases are usually run.

It is as follows:

1. nothing ever gets deleted for any reasonable reason.

2. bribes and connections will suffice to delete or include anything

3. even so, it's a slow-as-molasses mess that just gets in everyone's way

4. but still it can't be uprooted because budgets won't spend themselves

IDK what UK wants with this shit. As the examples of China and lately Russia show, this just does not work against the savvy, and the rest are adequately blinded with conventional propaganda already, so what's the point?
Free choice… how terrible!

BTW, I’m a Swede with my own company looking for deals like this. Where did you find them? :)
I bought a Sony Dual Sense EDGE controller for playing Steam games under Windows, and it's been AWESOME. Pricey, but AWESOME. I have a PS5, and used it to program a custom profile with the back paddles, but the build quality, weight, and "feel" are all better than the standard controller. Makes it truly feel like an upgrade to the stock model.
This is definitely not supporting that point you wanted to make....
They need to practice more. Ling-Ling is playing 40 hours a day.
As a naive outsider: Does RAM in 2023 encrypt all its contents?

Can we reliably "forget" the contents of what's in RAM by powering-off and letting some encryption key somewhere fade from a smaller, more volatile piece of memory? I'm curious what has been done to mitigate cold-boot attacks in RAM. What has changed in hardware? Are the keys to encrypt contents of RAM kept in the TPM or something?
This 100%. We had "tax day" (release of tax records from last year) yesterday and the public flogging for entrepreneurs "earning too much" was rampant. This society has very heavily turned anti-achievement in the last few years.
Not quite. These floating-point EUs are shared between both threads of the physical core. I would rather say 64 CUDA cores.
A bank freezing your account doesn't mean you've done something illegal. It means you've been caught in a bureaucratic machine that cares nothing for human outcomes.[1] If a bank tells me I can't move my legally-obtained money, and I have the power to say "screw the bureaucratic machine" and transact anyway, that's a win for society.

> An unregulated, distributed transfer of value system is unable to coexist with nation state regulations and desires to control the currency.

You mean cash? Bitcoin is no more or less illegal than cash. In either case, follow the laws, pay your taxes, and you'll be fine. I'd rather deal with the IRS directly than argue over the phone with a customer service representative from Chase.

[1]: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/
Cloud Native, the only type of native that matters these days ;-)
Not to dismiss the entire HN community (theres some good discussion on here and it probably swings a bit older than most places) but the majority of people who even have the time to vote and comment on the internet tend to be younger and pretty naive. This is especially true on places like Reddit.
Oh, Please. Don't put the US on a pedestal. There is a shitload of issues that the US needs to fix and a little humility in accepting that others have better solutions, is one of them.
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You would think so, but that's not as simple as you would think. On Earth that cooling generally happens by conduction and convection to the air.

In space there is mostly no atmosphere, you have to radiate that heat which isn't quite as easy as it sounds:
https://www.space.com/21059-space-station-cooling-system-exp...
You could have used far fewer words to tell us you know nothing about unions other than the FUD anti-union people have spread.
I could say your comment is a classic 2023 HN comment..? There is no reason to be overly optimistic anbout other people’s products. Plus, nobody said “oh wow this will never work”, it’s just currently quite bad.
"Whatever happens, we have got, the Maxim gun, and they have not,"
> I’m interested in fundamental challenges around computing: programming languages, cloud platforms, operating systems

Yeah, for programming languages you should probably have been Danish and for operating systems the Finnish have had quite an impact. Both socially stable countries with dare I say pretty strong unions...
Actually most developed countries only have very small unionised workforces. The OECD average is 9% (rising to 17% if you include public sector).

Moreover, union membership is rapidly falling. Every OECD country except Spain and Belgium are losing union members faster than they are being added.

Unions don’t really make sense for employers, and typically don’t make sense for high skilled workers either.

While I’m sure that many low skilled workers prefer them, it’s the companies and higher skilled workers who decide where businesses operate.
web pages today are an evolution of DHTML, it's not accurate to call them a different thing entirely.
My working memory is garbage and I do prefer working with dynamic langs, however. (I also have ADHD)

I do agree though if I have to work with spaghetti code, I'd much rather work with a language that has a proper type system (I mean a proper one, like OCaml, Standard ML, Rust, Gleam, Etc.) I think static typing in these languages doesn't get in the way, they all have varying degrees of type inference, the type system is sound and uncomplicated. Whereas a Language like Typescript's type system (of Facebook's Flow for JS) had my head spinning, It often felt like playing a mean spirited scavenger hunt with Simon from Simon says.

As far as dynamic langs go, some languages are terrible to work in, (Perl). and other languages because of strong conventions (Ruby and Elixir,) I find very very easy to work in, write tests, create libraries that use DSLs, etc.

So I guess I'm in the middle? leaning in the dynamic langs direction though.
You can radiate it away, but it would be really hard compared to just dumping it to atmosphere / water bodies. Especially as computers need quite low temperatures.

Here is some more analysis on the problem of radiating heat away in space: https://toughsf.blogspot.com/2017/07/all-radiators.html
Remote northern Sweden has quite a few datacenters for that reason!

Luleå, Pitea, and Boden are all way too remote for datacenters to be there for any other reason.

https://www.datacentermap.com/sweden/
While we are at it, can anyone explain to me why so much power is spent on cooling datacenters to ~20C, when you can just run it "hot" at ~40C with all hardware being just fine and cooling costs being many times lower(also capex costs being lower)? Are my assumptions wrong or is there a good reason for this?
Siri/google/alexa generally understand less without repetition, especially as complexity increases, than our fellow human. Making it doubly annoying in public
Not sure about this figure?

> But the crowns can account for up to 80% of the fruit’s volume...

Also instead of just yanking off the crown, which seems to aggravate browning, they could probably just cut it off close(r) to the stem for essentially the same volume savings but less quick browning?
My suggestion is that you provide some value before asking for the email address. Such as, providing the price upfront and requiring the email address for the time estimate - or vice versa.

Normally these "instant quote" services do not actually provide you an instant quote even after you have handed over your information.
It’s unlikely that it’ll ever get dramatically better. It’s already been heavily optimized, and the Rust compiler now has more parallelism than pretty much any other mainstream compiler. Language design choices make Rust more challenging to compile than a language (like Go) that is specifically designed for fast compilation.
It's not about Jobs, its about the life of an anonymous person who would have got that organ but died long ago on the transplant list because he didn't have a private jet. There are other people besides Steve Jobs.
"Just use Datadog" is fine for a bigger more established company.

But it's a lot of expense and overhead for someone closer to starting out.

I do not think it's a "home run" kind of win, but it's definitely a "nice to have" that you can just run everything in one place, and worry about splitting it up when (if) you get bigger.
case in point, I suppose.

Ok. Fine. I'm in. Let's discuss it.

Do you think we're better off using ai to decide the arms treaties, or should we hold off for quantum computing?
DDP is a (joke) language that reads like approximately correct German
>Stop using Windows.

Er....no?
Though i do spend an inordinate amount of time closing as many holes as possible.
Unfortunately, windows is ok. The telemetry, ands and other bullshit is embarrassing but the software i run is on windows.
Tried Linux, various ones, but I spent more time messing about that (software didn't cut it, drivers were an arse for audio, graphic setup was strange) it was a relief to go back.
Linux reminds me of w3.1 and all that memory allocation bollocks just to run a game.
I choose my lazy acceptance, combined with 'as much as I can do to protect myself', over beating my head over a whole operating system that doesn't cut it for what i require.
I won't entertain macs as i trust apple even less (for being closed).
Researcher identifies the old man on the iconic cover of Led Zeppelin IV
It won't. There is reason why we use fans. There is two ways to handle high heat loads, convection or evaporation. And you would run out of evaporative material in space pretty quickly.
Real Time Safety Heap Allocator (Rtsha)
Using the RTSHA on bare metal platforms enhances memory management, promotes determinism, ensures memory safety, meets some important safety certification requirements, and optimizes resource utilization. These factors are essential for developing reliable, predictable, and secure systems in safety-critical environments.
Probably not possible because it wasn't thought of when the system was first implemented and introducing such a change would involve getting new hardware with the jump feature and quite probably new hardware both to read the new card format and to produce the cards themselves. And everyone else also having to do so given the dominance of the IBM 12/80 card format.
Deserve's Got Nothing to Do with It
Agree, but then humanity spent a considerble effort since the dawn of time exactly on that: developing ways to kill things faster and safer for oneself.

It is, sadly, part of our nature. And because of that I prefer hypotheticals that actually have some basis in reality.

By the way so, during the time of bow, arrow, sword, spear and shield, we still managed to kill hundreds of thousands of people.
A bit more info present in the press release.

https://aomedia.org/press%20releases/AOMedia-Advances-the-Au...

> IAMF is designed to enable creatives to revolutionize immersive audio experiences across a myriad of applications, from streaming and gaming to augmented reality and virtual reality, as well as traditional broadcasting.

Seems like a focus is placed on spatial audio. I would guess this must be competing with something like Dolby Atmos, but I have no idea. Curious to hear if anyone has additional context to deliver that isn't in the form of PR-speak.
No way to try before forking over a recurring subscription... bye...
Hi Peter! I'm a USC looking to get a India born sibling a green card under the F-4 visa. I've heard the wait times are long for the F-4 visa, does it make sense to consider alternative approaches? What would those look like?
By the same line of logic, doesn't that also implicate full-time work there?

Or do people not think about it that much?
maybe bipolarizing, but the centralization is still ongoing
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38217457

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38212453
Banksy (I'm neither for nor against him) said something similar (or is said to have said something similar):

“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.”

All that is to say, it ain't only in tech! And I take this kind of waste – of vainglorious pursuits via manipulation of image-maintenance and resource-mongering for purposes of self-aggrandizing optics (rather than actual collective advancement and good) – is not unique to just advertising and tech, but is prevalent everywhere, throughout history, etc. And only rarely do we see managers & bosses & leaders & corporations & workers come together for actual good.
> Laser weapons are being developed but they are basically just not there yet.

If lasers were available in WW2 I think they would have been used as blinding weapons against kamikazes. One could make the argument the rules of war against blinding don't apply to someone who is already going to kill themselves to attack you -- he's not planning on having usable eyes anyway.
We are specifically talking manufacturing. I am not surprised less and less people are members of a union. Unions don't always make sense.
> The problem with dynamic typing isn't in the first-write. It's all in your head then. It's in the 2 year later bugfix

The 2 year later bugfix is often easier I agree. But for me by far the biggest difference is speed and effectiveness in writing new code. I'm not just much faster, but also much better with typed code probably because it fits the way my brain works better.

> Is that not how everyone writes static typed code?

For me the process is a bit opposite. I tend to write the interfaces first, usually until the entire routine of whatever I am writing is complete. So e.g. only the types accepted and returned by functions, but not the actual function itself. Then I go back and add the code itself usually at the very end.
Spouting fallacy names without understanding them isn't a get-out-of-jail card you think it is.

Not ad hominem: "Your statement is stupid" because it goes against what is said (however poor the statement may otherwise be).

Ad hominem: "You are stupid" because it goes against who says the statement.

GP's comment is an example of the former.
$299 Inspirons these days come with NVMe storage and 6 core Intel CPUs
> We're considering switching to dolladollabills

I thought this was a joke. That has to be one of the best library names I've ever seen.
If they create their own SoC with their own IP having their own system will make it easier to move forward, as they won’t need to share development concerns with a larger group (e.g. they want feature X to go into one direction, and Android takes it in a different one, meaning they would end up with a fork).

This is not a huge issue with smaller/trivial features, but can get really cumbersome with bigger ones, and even more so if the forks start diverging more. As for control, see Apple & getting a modern GPU API that works on mobile and desktop and can be iterated quickly.

For a large number of industries Android makes more sense because they depend on certain development processes (security, hardware support, regulated environment certification, etc), but for multimedia consumption a lot of those are not needed.

Last, but not least, vanity can be a big part of such decisions, too. Engineers love to build stuff, even if it means reinventing the wheel for the Nth time.
Substantial amount of various systemic reforms would be required to reach this. Election reform, voting reform, constitutional reforms (to the point a new one would probably be necessary), and so much more. All while, like you point out, dozens if not hundreds of thousands of people, politicians, legal frameworks, and corporate interests would work to undermine, delay, or prevent these reforms.

They are possible. But it isn’t easy. I just feel, that what cryptocurrency advocates want is really a right to privacy. That the current systems do not have. A currency using a hardcoded hyper deflationary monetary policy and is barely able to make a fraction of the current rate of fiat transactions is hopefully not what they are actually after.
Which unfortunately get ignored all the time by everyone.
Category systems programming.

Cedar, Ada, Modula-2, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Oberon, Oberon-2, Component Pascal, Object Pascal, Turbo Pascal, Delphi, Active Oberon, OCaml, Objective-C, Oberon-07
You also should hope that your children and grandchildren will also be hardworking, talented, and ambitious.
I did read that online when I was doing some research alongside getting it set up however it was not immediately obvious how to achieve this (including by trying to boot it without giving it the option of connecting to a network). It seemed to me at the time of setup that it would only let me proceed once it had a network connection
> But even so, they very early on faced the same kind of criticism as Omegle, shifted to registration-required and adults-only very early on

Over the years, the handful of times I’ve gone on CR, I’ve never seen any form of required registration or age verification beyond maybe an “I’m 18+” checkbox or something.
Facebook built a datacenter in Luleå, near the arctic circle.
I've seen block/allow used. Same number of letters as black/white.
No, but points for a solid attempt. Senses are input (to the body), not output. Glove controllers are just output via movement, just like keyboards and touchscreens.

True, part of what makes them cool is that your proprioception more or less agrees with the virtual hand that you see in your headset, but that's just window dressing. The computer has no way to control that.
No need to wait for more adoption - this list already exists. It's illegal to transact with anyone on OFAC's "Specially Designated Nationals And Blocked Persons List": https://ofac.treasury.gov/specially-designated-nationals-and...

This list contains (among other types of identifiers) a bunch of cryptocurrency addresses, and exchanges/hosted wallets/etc in the United States will refuse to do business with you if there's any association with one of these addresses.
> When you refactor, make a change, or try to add new functionality, and end up fighting the type checker. That's friction to change you are experiencing and that experience is optional.

I don't really see that as "fighting the type checker", I see it as the type checker doing its job and warning me of the places where my refactor broke things. The alternative isn't usually that my refactored code magically works, it's that I have to manually grep through the codebase looking for all the places where I might have broken something, and get runtime errors if I don't catch them all.

In that sense the experience of struggling to make a refactor work isn't optional—the choice you get is whether you want the compiler to assist you with it or not.

I realize there are exceptions for certain types of refactors to certain types of functions, but the vast majority of patterns I've ever seen in any codebase—static or dynamic—are patterns that are difficult to refactor without a type checker and trivial to do with one.

To be clear, there are other reasons to prefer dynamic typing, and I'm not trying to say you're wrong to prefer it, but you're not going to get very far trying to persuade a static types fan that refactoring of all things is better in the dynamic world.
You didn't read the argument did you. The problem is that the welfare state is becoming impossible to run because there's not enough money in the economy.