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>“what if the primary datacenter just disappeared tomorrow?” We ask this question of ourselves seriously, and make serious plans for what we’d do if this were to pass, and we are executing those plans now – though we had hoped that we would never have to.

Respectfully, if you guys asked this question...how come you don't have a cluster slave as a replica in another data center where the whole thing is synced?

A switch on a wall with an arduino in it where you flip it and DNS is updated to point there & a message is displayed to the users.
I agree that it's not just about talent. That said, having more talented people interested in a field often has the effect of bringing money and political will.
My admittedly naive opinion is that the current generation of CEOs have decided to define a company's growth by headcount rather than revenue or profit.

They don't put enough consideration into whether they need more people. They adopt the Project Manager mindset of thinking 9 women can produce a baby in 1 month if they work together.

Just because 20 engineers produced a product that created a product that produces $100M ARR doesn't mean that 100 engineers will produce a product that produces $500M ARR.
Yeah older pilots distrusted the Airbus design and joystick controls. They preferred Boeing's direct cable-and-pully design. But many of them are retired now, younger pilots probably don't have such strong opinions. They also like airplanes where the doors don't blow out in flight.
"Deaths induced by compassionate use of hydroxychloroquine during the first COVID-19 wave: an estimate", Pradelle et al 2024: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S075333222...
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Yeah it wouldn't be a city but just as a fun fact Las Vegas means "The Meadows" it had a really big aquifer and artesian springs fed by the Spring Mountains. It was sustainable as a town without the dam. Vegas also is allocated a very small portion of the water from Lake Mead, Nevada only gets about 4% of what is taken from it every year, and most of that is for farming still. The city probably needs like 1% to survive.
Why would you ever use a cookies to store a CSRF token? A CSRF token is a per request value and that's not what cookies are designed for. Generally the CSRF token is a hidden value on the login form.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
Uglier than fossil extraction, or the concealed ugliness of nuclear waste? Uglier than climate change?
Also most cities that are small and aren’t college towns have pretty terrible uber experiences. Not enough drivers and the ones that are there will probably reject your ride if they think they won’t get another fare easily wherever you get dropped off.
> We desperately need to focus on conservation efforts instead of attempting to engineer "solutions" that only end up encouraging further consumption.

With respect, why can't we do both?
robot arm is cheaper
AI in the War Room: How Palantir is helping the military make decisions [video]
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Places with the saltwater don't want to build large pipelines to send it to places without.

The places without are so dry they cannot drill, condense or truck in salt water, even though they have plenty of solar.

That's a coordination problem with public rights of way issues which is why it wouldn't happen without specific government policy.
What if I tell you everything around us is actually technology, we just dont understand it enough so we call it natural?
Earlier last year (1st or 2nd quarter) the company had a big problem with low performing sales people. It wound up in the quarterly statements, and caused some anxiety in the markets. They said they would reevaluate/replace many sales positions.

Seems that’s still going on.
X11, Wayland and WDDM only use the bare minimum functionality from those APIs, so they work just fine on old DX9-level GPUs for example. Godot needs much more recent GPUs.
The documentation for this project, especially the design choices, is excellent.
It's how you avoid VR nausea from the disconnect between your eyes and your inner ear.
Where did they not tell the truth? Is zero sales in four months normal performance?
It's incredible the extent to which Gen X/Y/Millenials are not fighting back over being fleeced by Boomers. We’ve paid 12.4 percent of our earnings to Social Security the whole time we've worked — half taken through the “FICA” tax on our paycheck and half through the payroll tax. What is more, the Medicare tax at 3.1%.

In contrast, the Boomers entered the workforce in the late 1960s, paid only 6.5 percent of their earnings to Social Security and nothing to Medicare. For about half of their working years, the Boomers paid 10 percent or less to Social Security and less than 1.25 percent to Medicare. Only from 1990 on, when the Boomers had earned paychecks for a quarter‐ century, did they start paying 12.4 percent to Social Security and 2.9 percent to Medicare — the same percentage we Gen‑X/ Yers have paid our whole lives. Yet, Boomers are reaping the full rewards, rewards we will likely never see.

It's an absolute fucking joke and the final trick played by a generation that took solid foundation built on sweat and sacrifice, partied on them for 30 years, left their trash behind and sold what remained for parts. Every-time my conservative, gubmnt hating father lauds the wonders of Medicare and how wonderful his free healthcare is I want to kick him squarely in the balls.
I noticed this too. People that casually drop "Bayesian priors" into conversation seems to be a strong signal for someone who's up their own arse. Sam Bankman-Fried did it a lot.
My recollection is that there was no crucial piece that was not around the same time also reported in the mass media. Why this was dismissed as apparently not being relevant as a defence was confusing (if I recall correctly, something about media being self-regulating through a professional association and blogs not being so, which doesn’t seem to matter when a reporter in the media did the exact same thing with no consequences that Murray was jailed for)
It's an interesting question.

I feel like starlink is underappreciated here. It seems to be a game changer in terms of communication about live targets and intelligence in a way that traditional satellites just aren't. Due to that, it seems obvious that SpaceX would make the most money in military contracts related to it. I don't think the military is blind nor is SpaceX to the potential here - so why haven't we heard more about that kind of partnership?

China being a manufacturing superpower in the same way the US was during WWII makes me feel like they are underestimated essentially because industrial production is such a big deal for military capacity. I think other capacity of China is overappreciated. But industrial capacity for every part of the drone/shell production chain seems like how the most recent modern war has been fought.

The US seems to only have grown in the informational space - not production capacity. If those gains are not being realized in military, then the US's position would be slowly receding. It could be that the miliary has not been able to make use of the information space or not. We don't know.

Military position is about capabilities and (hopefully) not hot trial of those capabilities. Great powers each thinking they have vastly stronger capabilities than the other could make hot trial of the capacity more likely. That's not a good thing. Capabilities need to be more obvious to avoid war.

I guess what I am saying is - I'd like to know too. Mostly this topic is a lot of hot takes and chest beating so it's hard to get a more indifferent look.
I like that sub-commands usually have a different --help output

git --help

git add --help

The former returns general information about the whole git executable, while the latter returns specific details about the add command.

It also gives an immediate intuition of entering a whole different flow that can not be composed with other flows, something that you don't have with --args
There is a hierarchy between commands and options that is not expressed when both use the -- syntax
Still cookies though even if essential.
You're right - air's also getting a little too polluted for my taste. Maybe if I could get a hold of some taxed air, I could breath easy! We could put the pollutants back into the untaxed air too!
Nitpick, but with security issues relevance is important. Relevant can be many things, and one of them is time.

If I see a blogpost from 2006 with a security issue it's probably not that relevant anymore.

When was this posted? I don't know. All I see is the CVE date.
I was about to say, I don’t see why one would feel more uncomfortable about selling them a glorified data analytics platform, as opposed to selling them cloud compute resources or Office365 subscription (while keeping in mind that all of those would be used for “war-related missions”).

EDIT: The parent comment has been substantially changed since I posted this reply. Originally, it just said “yes.” Considering what it currently states after the edit (going into a side-tangent about UN’s inaction against Saudi Arabia’s activities in Yemen, as well as their anti-Israel bias), it changes the context of my reply fairly significantly.
This is so dead-on it hurts. The "taming" of the rivers in the American west by the Army Corp of Engineers has been romanticized and the underlying motives have been swept under the rug: we prioritized these massive public works projects to provide cheap water to big ag businesses at the cost of sustainability and residential access.

IMO we should absolute not be exporting anything farmed with subsidized water while the survivability of just living in the US southwest is uncertain due to current water levels and climate patterns. That seems like the lowest of low-hanging fruit.
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Tesla figured out how to do it and implemented it.

Problem is, nobody wanted it. They would rather wait to charge than turn in their personal battery, and later come back for it.

Would you want it? Would you turn over your decent, brand new battery at some charging station?

What's interesting is that they did it differently with the cybertruck. You can buy an additional battery that I believe is swappable.
I guess if I encountered two diametrically opposing arguments of equal validity I would increase my uncertainty, not just stick to my prior. That's super different to just ignoring new arguments, right? Like going from "I think X is the best candidate" to "I don't know who the best candidate is".
Zero-Sum vs. Positive-Sum Product Theory
To continue the dubious analogy, having too many girlfriends isn't a sufficient cause by itself. There's a metric used to determine which girlfriend is dumped, and that's the real reason that specific relationship ends.
In case anyone is confused, the $500 ARIN fee is per transaction, not per IP.

$48 x 1024 (IPv4 /22) = $49,152. For that transaction the ARIN fee is effectively 1%, considerably lower than the commissions charged by the brokers (which also comes out of the seller's proceeds).

The ARIN fee covers their staff time to review the transfer - specifically the history of the legal entities involved, which as anyone who has dealt with ARIN knows is extremely thorough.
it's definitely what it's about. it's insanely strong for its size
Are we entering a world of surge dining?
I agree with you. One part of the article that I cut for brevity but maybe I should have included talks about the kind of immersion that is created by bright colorful moving pictures on a mobile screen. A lot of talent and resources is thrown at the goal of keeping people glued to their phones (TikTok, Candy Crush, etc.). "Engagement" is a form of immersion.
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Not just that, rivers overheating is becoming a real problem now in places that were perfectly fine 40 years ago.
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 5.0
Just yesterday was looking at ESP32 custom board used to open/close gates which has super weak signal even when access point is only few meters apart... I found that there is empty place where external antenna connects - I think I can solder the connector and connect the antenna.

Is there any article out there that would help me do it? As I understand there needs to be some resistor that should be desoldered or existing link to on-board antenna cut.
Sorry, I’m not that good at making my argument clear.

What I’m rebutting—or rather making a poor attempt to rebut—is your hinting that the international double standard doesn’t exist, or at the very least is understandable. The interviewee in the al-Jazeera interview makes a much better argument for the existence, the importance of recognizing, and the inexcusableness of this international double standard, better than I ever could.
I recently built this simple counter app to get the juices flowing for the new year.

It is at a stage where the core features are implemented.

So I come to you for any additional features as well as general feedback :)

https://www.tallytabby.com/
I think this is a valid objection and through the years I realized what the best use may be for stoicism: a fallback in difficult times when all other philosophies fail.

Sure, if you can resolve conflicts and engage with problems, go for it and do it. Sometimes though the world around you is falling or you suffer terrible loss or you face impossible situations -- then Marcus Aurelius will still be there waiting for you, with advice to offer. Also worth remembering he wrote the thing itself with war and death all around him.
that's outdated info
Dogfights are not happening regularly in Ukraine. They might have been a few in the first ~month, but not at all since then. Air defense being more effective is even more support for stealth, which directly reduces air defense's effectiveness.
If you're not going to bother making the prices easy to find, I'm not going to bother downloading your app.
> I rather missed the point where he explains why immersive games are bad.

The article's title isn't "immersive games are bad".
The "dual mandate" was established by the Federal Reserve Reform Act of 1977, whereas the data shows this phenomenon goes back over 20 years earlier. How then could the dual mandate be the cause of the effect?
Well, Christopher Hohn demanded that the Fortune 50 correct salaries by performing mass general layoffs, and that's what they are doing.
I wonder how you could figure out it was [state]. Was there some clear threat made? A blackmail "do this, or else.."?
Explain how they don't. Realize it is all pretend. There is no actual box of paper anywhere anymore, just the pretending thereof. The fun thing is, when pretending, you can pretend whatever you want. If you want to pretend that a signal is a file, then it can be a file. There is nothing tangible behind it that ensures a signal can't be a file.

There is separate computer abstraction that emerged which you may know of by something along the lines of "files and folders". Funnily enough, that one is, indeed, confused. A file, by definition, is what the folder is trying to abstract in that model. But this parallel use of "file" is no doubt why FreeBSD moved to using "object", to try and avoid using the same word to mean different things. But in the end, words are allowed to have more than one meaning, so "file" is equally usable and it just comes down to arbitrary preference.
> We market to developers who notoriously do not like being marketed to (we should know; we are a developer-led company and Sentry users ourselves), so the idea of removing ad cookies instantly intrigued us.

Ooh, they're going after that anti-marketer market. That's a huge market! Look at our research!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37699022

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-168...
Honestly, after reading SkunkWorks and finding out that stealth bombers were kept secret from 1978 until they were used to essentially win the Gulf War in 1 night in 1992 I have to assume there's a ton of military tech that we know nothing about.
My karma farming is working better than a lot of people's crypto farming these days :D
I think if you want to start down that sort of road, it's important to read lots of them. Read zero, you're probably fine. Read lots of them, you're probably fine. "One or two" is where the danger is maximized.

And I would agree with "likely" wrong. Some of them probably aren't entirely wrong and may even be more correct than the mainstream. Figuring out which is the real trick, though. Related to the original article, I tend to scale my Bayesian updates based on my ability to test a theory. In the case of something like the Breakdown of the Bi-cameral Mind, it ends up taking such a deduction as a result of that heuristic that it is almost indistinguishable from reading a science fiction book for me; fun and entertaining, but doesn't really impact me much except in a very vague "keep the mind loose and limber" sense.

I have done a lot of heterodox thinking in the world of programming and engineering, though, because I can test theories very easily. Some of them work. Some of them don't. And precisely because it is so easy to test, the heterodoxy-ness is often lower than crackpot theories about 10,000 years ago, e.g., "Haskell has some interesting things to say" is made significantly less "crackpot" by the fact that plenty of other people have the ability to test that hypothesis as well, and as such, it is upgraded from "crackpot" to merely a "minority" view.

So my particular twist on Scott's point is, if you can safely and cheaply test a bit of a far-out theory, don't be afraid to do so. You can use this to resolve the epistemic learned helplessness in those particular areas. It is good to put a bit down on cheap, low-probability, high-payout events; you can even justify this mathematically via the Kelly Criterion: https://www.techopedia.com/gambling-guides/kelly-criterion-g... If there is one thing that angers me about way science is taught, it is that it is something that other people do, and that it is something special that you do with either the full "scientific method" or it's worthless. In fact it's an incredible tool for every day life, on all sorts of topics, and one must simply adjust for the fact that the lower effort put in, the less one should trust it, but that doesn't mean the total trust must necessarily be uselessly low just because you didn't conduct your experiment on whether or not fertilizer A or B worked better on your tomatos up to science journal standards.
Ask HN: In 2024, is it worth learning Emacs Org Mode? Alternatives?
It blew my mind when I found out you could write a document including text and code in Org Mode, then export only the text parts as a Latex/whatever document.

As a researcher, this could be very useful as I often find myself context-switching between VSCode (with Vim), Microsoft Word / or Markdown. What I like about Word is WYSIWYG and the fact that my figures are not scattered all over the place as files.

Given the learning curve involved with Emacs and then the additional curve of Org Mode, is it worth learning this to replace my current workflow, or do you recommend other toolings?
Seems to me like atmospheric water generators are a good fit here. That gets rid of the brine problem entirely, and from what I've read it's competitive in terms of energy consumption.

https://solarimpulse.com/solutions-explorer/high-efficiency-...
I don't know what the original actually was, but around post-9/11 derivatives finance boom, physicists and electrical engineers started lamenting that all the smartest people of the current generation were wasting all that brainpower on relatively zero-sum arms races between hedge funds trying to win trades against each other.

The one about making people click ads grew out of that after the GFC when software salaries started to boom like finance had earlier in the decade.

I'm sure there was something else earlier that diverted intelligent, talented people into socially unproductive pursuits because it paid better. I recall when I was in college there being huge dilemmas among all the students studying geology whether they should sell out and go work in oil and gas exploration.
Agreed, not to mention the US / Lockheed / Boeing etc. openly provides the weapons and bombs used. Palintir is a drop in the bucket.
I think the firings are pretty limited to white collar jobs, in particular software developers.
A CSRF vulnerability on a login form is a bit of a weird one: doesn't this require that the user has submitted their username and password to a site that isn't yours, in which case the attacker has successfully phished the user and can impersonate them or keep them on a proxy of your site?

(Spitballing: a standard way to implement CSRF protection with no cookies at all is when you generate the form you include a nonce. Then when the form is submitted you check whether it's a nonce you generated, which you do either by having stored it or generated it by hashing information you've stored. Implemented naively on a login form this would allow the attacker to fetch your page, extract the nonce, and include it in a cross-site request. But you could require it to be from the same IP. Alternatively I think you could fix this by having your login form set a custom header, which then browsers won't allow a cross-site POST for without a CORS preflight which you'd reject. But at this point I'm brainstorming and please don't take any of this very seriously!)
> I think there need to be people caring about organizational stuff which you cannot fully formulate as engineering problem: setting deadlines, putting teams together, determining team leads, determining how much budget is spent on which branch or discipline or even which part development.

These are mostly hacks to get around the fact that the engineers haven't been given enough information. If you just say, "we need product X that can be produced at cost Y/unit and we need to start production by date Z", then this is a satisfiability problem that the right set of engineers can evaluate as possible or not possible. It's fine to assign a team lead with the requisite experience and authority to pull in the engineers, equipment and data they need to answer this question, but then you get out of the way.

Answering this question involves laying out a semi-detailed plan for how to achieve the goal. If it turns out to not be possible within the given constraints, then you at least have that plan to inform you where the expected cost or time overruns are (or the unknowns/uncertainty), and whether that means you have to revise the expected selling price, deadline or you can compromise on the scope to achieve the desired selling price.

I will agree that some engineers and programmers really don't care about this stuff, but I'd argue it's because it's typically not part of their job, and sometimes because worrying about costs and schedules is not an "interesting problem". But it is an interesting problem if you frame it as set of optimization and satisfiability problems.
I think that only goes for when Dutch surnames are adopted by people who don't speak Dutch. "van Sabben" just means "from Sabben" and calling someone "From" just sounds weird. ;)
It's already extremely difficult to filter out unwanted content with easy to spot identifiers. Almost all social media websites have this built into their designs.
As a junior dev, sometimes I've been blocked for hours because I want to show that I can solve problems independently. But I've definitely had cases where I should've asked questions early. A question that takes 1 minute to answer could have saved hours.

For instance, I was stuck on figuring out how to send an email through AWS. Turns out we have a lambda function that handles all the authentication and security things that are specific to our company. Once I asked my coworker and found out about this function, it was trivial.
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