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>Please expand on what you find disagreeable here, else the post is just white noise and not really appropriate for HN.

Maybe don't assume what's "appropriate for HN" (unless something is obviously offensive or spam, etc)? Far from white noise, the parent pointed a specifically interesting (and inane) excerpt from the post. Whether you agree or disagree, it doesn't take much imagination to see what one can find appalling in that part.

First, not sure if the author is half-joking, but the notion that tall people are fair game because they "earn substantially more money on average" is especially idiotic. Something true "on average" (and from statistics the poster read for specific cultures/countries) doesn't obviously apply to all members. Besides, rich people, whether short or tall, don't pay more for anything else they buy unless they they want too -- so again this would be just an arbitrary tax on tallness.

Second, the post goes on to say that "the overweight and obese? They receive no such life benefits, and it feels rather cruel, if not illegal, to ask them to pay extra for the same service".

Only it's obviously not about having benefits in other fields of life (!), it's about their weight's cost to the airline (more personal weight amounts to less cargo, more fuel etc).

>But this is also a post from a blog, not an article from The Economist - I think the opinion is shallow and poorly thought out, but it's just an opinion.

So?
I have no idea if it looks behind, or uses that information for anything. Ideally, it would time it such that when it was rearended, it was touching the car in front. It would significantly increase the mass and decrese the risk of whiplash.
Some singular SI units are arbitrary, such as the meter.

Some are less arbitrary, such as the Celcius.

But the most important aspect of SI units is that they form a system which is coherent _together_, and makes it easy to convert/calculate with.
I had to move my mom to another seat on a recent flight because the adjacent passenger spilled into three seats total. Everyone was uncomfortable until the large passenger (American college American football player) occupied two seats after my mom moved to a luckily open seat.

I'm on the side of horizontally/vertically large people need to pay for what they use, because forcing another passenger to stand for a 7 hour is ridiculously short-changing other paying customers. [0] Or throwing off the CG of a plane to where it may be uncontrollable and crash... yeah, I want that because people are too precious about their weighs.

PS: I happen to be so tall as to be at the 0.1% percentile range and barely fit into any coach seat without folding my ankles into my pockets. Sports cars, clothes and shoes all have an PITA tax for being vertically-challenged. And I couldn't fit it an F-16 if I wanted to, fuck my life. LOL.

0. http://abcnews.go.com/US/passenger-forced-stand-obese-flyer-...
Not saying he is wrong or anything,but he seems to have missed how modern machines ship with UEFI which tries to solve this problem on firmware level.

That said: if you're curious and want to learn, I have no objections to digging into stuff, even "obsolete" stuff like BIOS boot :)
How to make your website hack resistant
> Fahrenheit is used for weather, and in fact, even "metric countries" have been known to use it.

Sorry but this is just wishful thinking.
Because this is The Internet, consider the possibility that everything he said is true.
If the requirements are an SSN and a debit card, then that's easy to fake -- both numbers are easily obtainable from a legitimate customer and then you don't need to get them again.

Requiring a verifiable and provable second factor authentication system is the hard part.

Maybe the thing you have needs to be a crypto device with a secure enclave, so that it can't be easily faked? Maybe a Yubikey or an Apple Watch?
Agreed. And, fwiw, I've found cheaper flights booking the same leg through https://www.norwegian.se as opposed to https://www.norwegian.com/en/
> Now in regards to airlines charging them a different price due to weight and fuel consumption, that gets into a very grey area of how we deal with the reasoning behind obesity, choice, human rights and market costs.

Right, and it's also a problem when you consider height and weight to be intertwined. Even among people of a healthy weight, a 5' tall person is going to weigh less than a 6' tall person, on average. If you really wanted to allow for pricing based on the idea that extra weight requires extra fuel consumption, but not for ascribed traits, one would have to normalize weight based on height, or instead by BMI or something that really defines the weight as "extra" and not normal for a person of a particular stature. (Unless you really do want to charge based on ascribed traits.)

Also, thank you for the "ascribed vs. achieved" nomenclature. I'd never heard that before, and I like how it avoids sounding negative and boils down the distinction very clearly.
>since their obesity is almost certainly a choice

Citation needed.

In fact there's a HUGE industry of obese people making the choice to lose weight (diet, gyms, etc) and failing.
Any recommendations on a good keylogger software please? Have anybody tried this one https://www.refog.com/ , I read only positive reviews on it. Thanks in advance.
> Imagine what it would be like fighting similar feelings every second of every day because your satiation part of the brain is a bit off.

Yeah, that's how I stay not-obese.
https://youtu.be/AvbuNj37Z8I
Well, the point is not that you use cadadar all the time as such, but that you also use cdddar, caadr, and so on, and that having these shorthand forms available means that you don't have to define a whole bunch of one-off functions.
I wish more people followed at a safe distance.
Yes, they choose because of poor diet choices, nobody is hooking up a tube of big macs to their faces. A quarter of the entire US population didn't suddenly catch a disease and become obese.

Being sedentary and taking in 2500 calories a day is definitely a choice. A very small percentage of obese people have hunger as extreme as your 5 cookie box example. All it takes is not paying attention to caloric intake over a long period like 5 years.
No problem. Anyway, thank you.
Creating a budget and sticking to it.

Although it sounds like a burden, it actually freed me from a lot of stress. I broke out of the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle, allowing me to invest and even set up emergency funds that helped pay off an auto accident I got into.

Most importantly though, I've gained a lot of self-confidence. If I got fired or laid off today, the last thing I'd have to worry about is paying my bills because I'm prepared to handle this scenario. So I've started making more bold decisions at work like saying "no" to overtime or responsibilities I don't want to take on, which has further improved my quality of life.

I can't recommend budgeting enough.
Does anyone care about dependencies as long as they're packaged or can be installed automatically?

It's a real documentation system rather than just an HTML generator, which is what docsgen seems to be. It supports syntax highlighting, search and DevHelp generation. It maintains a database of symbols and lets you refer to them instead of having to manually look up the link.

And there's also an optional component, hotdoc-server, to allow previewing and editing documentation on-line.

Well, and it ships with lots of documentation.
> The best thing here for Rust would be to achieve the best performance on this game and nothing else.

That's absurd. The benchmarks game doesn't measure real-world performance in any sense whatsoever. And many of the implementations are written in ways that you'd never ever put into production code (for example, the laughably bad hashing functions that are mentioned elsewhere in this thread). From what I understand, the Rust implementations tend to not get up to those shenanigans, which makes them appear worse than the implementations from other languages that do.

It's not the goal of a programming language to be the top on a silly benchmarks game. The goal is to be an excellent language for real-world use.
Conventional wisdom is that recycled paper uses less resources than new paper.

https://archive.epa.gov/wastes/conserve/materials/paper/web/...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_recycling
I disagree. Watch the horizon, e.g. by putting your mouse on it. During the beeping, well before the collision, the horizon moves upward suddenly, indicating that the nose of the Tesla is dipping due to sudden deceleration or braking.
Perhaps they should work on their weight then? If this new practice affects the airline's profits, it'll solve the problem or take the losses.
The problem isn't that it's a macro. It's that it's a horrifically bad hash function. It's blazing fast, but completely unsuitable for use in any real code.
Actually I skipped the last few paras after getting the initial tone of the article and this comment made me go back.
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> Maybe don't assume what's "appropriate for HN"

As members of the HN community, that is literally our job to do. Communities are maintained by agreeing on and enforcing norms. You may not agree with someone's assumptions about whether or not something is appropriate, but they are absolutely within their rights to make a value judgment based on that.

> Far from white noise, the parent pointed a specifically interesting (and inane) excerpt from the post.

Yes, but this is a discussion forum. Quoting a section of text and then "annotating" it with "Jesus..." is not discussion, and doesn't foster discussion, at least, no aside from the "yeah, no kidding" variety. Fortunately, in this case, someone has called the poster out on it, and has in the process started discussion about it, but that's in spite of the original, not because of it.
I might pay more for an iPhone. But I know it'll get fixed, without arguments from Apple.

I might pay more for an XBox, but I know Microsoft will fix it.

I might pay more for a laptop, but I know the manufacturer will fix it.

More than that, I know I can just go back to where I bought it, and they'll take care of it for me.

I pay more now... So I won't have to in the future.
I think the consequences of this would be too significant for Tesla to silently implement. Given an unavoidable rear crash, it could cause a multi-car accident and increase the collision's severity relative to braking.
> patient, relentless salesman for death.

Tell that fucker to fuck off. You don't have to listen to him. Focus on here and now. The past is gone. Enjoy your life right here right now.
I'm a bit shocked about the responses to this comment. There is literally nothing you can do to become shorter and even though HN is very American I didn't expect this line to solidarity to be drawn this early. From my European (and maybe more solidarity-orientated) standpoint I can understand a surcharge for very obese passengers but not one for one just being born different than others.
Maybe a naive question, isn't he violating the NDA by talking about it now? Do they expire?
Longer legs than you? I'm 6'1 and my knees already touch the back of the seat in front of me on regular airlines.
You as an individual should pay more because you're an idiot
Just weigh them together with their luggage, so that no one knows how much does the person without the luggage weighs?
I think being obese is as much a choice as being poor is a choice: you're born into it and have obese friends who feedback into an inactive lifestyle. Escaping obesity is possible with hard work, as is escaping poverty, but its also not easy. That said, counting calories isn't that hard, but it does take discipline, and that's not easy.
This has nothing to do with BMI. The problem is exactly the same regardless of the BMI of any of the passengers.

It ONLY is about properly distributing weight. It's not a fat tax. It's not "oh, this person is heavy compared to their height, let's charge them more because they're inferior!".

It's only "we need more weight in the front".
I've not seen it mentioned here (unless included under generic "safety"), but prevention of data races in concurrent code seems like a big thing for Rust. Most examples of Rust being "safe" compared to C are usually about buffer overflows use-after-free, but elimination of data races to me seems like a huge win in its own right. I'm primarily a Java developer and a lot of the practices I'm learning from Rust apply to how I think about implementations in regular work, such as aliasing and mutability.
I don't really get the airliner's reasoning. They say they're redistributing the weight, but if on this flight, most people are Samoan anyways, shouldn't the weight distribution be the same as other flights (since it's the same population)? It's a bit confusing....

You cannot talk about discrimination without also talking about disparate impact[0]: Policies which, while not being of discriminatory origins, end up disproportionately hitting a certain class of people.

This happened a lot in housing policy. decades of racist housing and bank policymeans that blacks end up being "stuck" in low-income housing, even when black families in fact make a lot of money[1].

So now if you make any policy based around the land value of housing in many urban areas, this policy ends up disproportionately affecting blacks. Similarly, because of this, ghettos are formed, so any policy based on geography (school funding is a big one) also ends up disproportionately affecting blacks.

You might think it's unfair to claim an action is discriminatory when the motives are not so. But the alternative is to not acknowledge who these policies actually affect. If the effects of an action are discriminatory, does it matter whether the motives were such? At least in the context of removing discrimination?

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact

[1]: "on average, whites earning only $30,000 live in better neighborhoods than blacks earning $100,000" https://jdodgeblog.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/on-coates-and-ne...
While you're checking out the performance of Rust and Go benchmark implementations, you can also check out some SaferCPlusPlus benchmarks[1] (and kind of compare them with other languages (transitively via the C++ benchmaks)). I've already suggested that these days a "memory safe" implementation category for the benchmarks would be of interest. But apparently not to the current maintainer of the benchmarks. Anyone else out there got nothing better to do than maintain a benchmark site for memory safe implementations? :)

[1] https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus-BenchmarksG...
Please expound on that. Garbage collection, no pointer arithmetic, and array bounds checking seems like good safety features.
morbid question but did they survive?
> Once settled, the fully adjustable seat is very comfortable, the plane leaves and arrives on time without a single problem, the in-flight meal is wonderful.

The year is 2016, and every time I upgraded my Linux distro in the past several years, I had to search down several different (and incompatible) input method packages, install them one by one, try several different command-line tools to tell the system what input system the applications should expect (which they may or may not honor, depending on whether they're linked with GNOME or QT or whatever), read several howtos and stackoverflow articles, and finally settle down with the best one that supports Korean input on at least half of the applications, sort of.

I forgot when was the last time Windows didn't support acceptable Korean input out of box. Sometime in the 90s, I think.

> You try to tell customers of the other airlines about the great trip, but all they can say is, "You had to do what with the seat?"

More like, "At first it crashed fifteen times, but when I followed this great article to mine my own titanium ore and replace the fuselage with my custom built one, there was no problem at all! Oh, by the way all the screws must be left-handed, don't ask me why, but I found it works best that way."
...their obesity is almost certainly a choice...

How do you know this? Have you done things like looked at research indicating the causal links between gut bacteria and obesity? There has been a surprising amount of it, for a random example https://www.sciencenews.org/article/obesity%E2%80%99s-weight....

I see no reason to believe that having a struggle to control weight is any more under our control than a desire to have sex with members of our own gender. Our conscious has influence on whether we actually do so. But some people have no problem, some people can struggle and avoid a problem, and some are pretty much doomed.
- I've been working on Laravel for 3 years now. Liked the speed with which new features are introduced.

- Currently freelancing for a client and using CakePHP. Didn't choose it, the existing system was built on it.

- Worked on Codeigniter an Yii in the past. Chose them because they used to be the most popular frameworks back in the day.

- Used Slim and Lumen PHP microframeworks whenever I was working on a tiny project.

- When I'm not freelancing, I'm learning Elixir and Phoenix.
That is a relatively new thing. In the past you had to get a hold of their support, which was hit or miss, and hope they would do you a favor.
That doesn't necessarily solve the weight distribution problem if the luggage and the passenger are not positioned together on the airplane.
> no landfills at all, everything is burned

Only combustible waste is burned. Landfills are still needed.
I can also pay more to get that protection if I want to. It's called insurance and you can buy it for just about anything. Indeed, for all of the devices you listed, the manufacturer either sells an extended warranty, or aftermarket (e.g. SquareTrade) insurance is available in the US. I'm not sure why the government should effectively mandate that one buy it, though. Particularly to the lengths that Australia does.

But anyhow, my original point wasn't about whether this is a good policy or not, just that it's annoying to hear the same people who cherish these "protections" then complain about being "ripped-off" when they have to pay for them. It's especially annoying when Australian politicians play dumb and try to paint the American companies as the bad guys.
It's not only about cost of the fuel, it's about putting the appropriate amount of fuel on the plane for the weight the plane needs to carry.

Right now airlines have to overcompensate for potentially fat passengers and fly with extra fuel that costs efficiency and what could have been more cargo room.
I think you are confusing two different issues. It is more expensive to lend money to black people because race is a predictor of poverty. Wealth can be measured directly, so discriminating based on race isn't really an effective strategy (ethics not withstanding). In the cost of fuel argument the root cause of the increase in cost is the weight of the passenger (it isn't just a predictor). The gender discrimination case is more complicated, but if companies want to modify wages based on expected medical leave required, I don't really see a problem with that.
Does a Tesla continuously record all conversations within the vehicle? The sound recording is clearly from before the warning beep of the impending crash.
The real question is...How can I watch all of netflix?
Maybe they have hundreds of secret wake words triggering recording and covert upload of audio. It's not hard to implement - they already have 3 wake words, and ability to record audio locally. A list of national security words and marketing words would be the first choices that pop into my mind.

Do you trust them not to waste this opportunity to get more user info? What about future software updates and especially user targeted software updates? They could avoid detection by only doing surveillance on selected targets. When they are caught, they can justify it with some "improving services" or "software bug" bullshit excuse.
I am no expert, but you should compile barebone executable for comparing executable size! not "hello world", because hello world does use shitload of library (for printing and loading and stuff), and those ones in C is compiled in dynamic, but in rust those compiled inot executable itself.

if I remember correctly you should compile with --nostd flag and provide _start function for loader to load your executable!

you can do same with rust too (But I think you should provide a special flag for compiler). You can find all of it on documentation.
The video is from a third party dash cam.
Should we charge more for people in wheelchairs, or the blind? After all it costs the airlines more to install accessible access.
The biggest issue I have with most car and airline seats is the back curvature is completely wrong for my height. So even in a section or vehicle with ample leg room, there's a hump on the top of the seatback that does terrible things to my shoulders and neck.
As a shorter person, that sounds like flamebait indeed.

Taller people have issues while flying that never really bother me, from having their knees bashed by seat reclines to having minimal elbow space.
I also heard that during lunch people would be placed randomly and randomly have someone who would make sure no NDA-breaking topics were discussed.
I'm not expressing an opinion about the causes of the current obesity problem, but your comment had the opposite effect on me than the effect you wanted.

"A quarter of the entire US population didn't suddenly catch a disease and become obese."

Why not? When you put it that way, it strikes me as pretty implausible that 'a quarter of the entire US population suddenly became lazy and started stuffing their faces for no good reason'. Epidemics have happened frequently before; bouts of mass overeating are historically rare.
I tend to agree, even if I'm born tall. However, I'd like to point out that most of the time in sales of goods and services, the pricing is not directly connected to cost. It's very much connected to what people are prepared to pay.

(A prime example is housing; where there is a housing shortage, the construction cost is much lower than the price at the point of sale).
Those Google lidar numbers are not reflective of anything that would ship. Much of what Google is doing is capturing all of the ambient data so each subsequent car knows more about the environment than the one that preceded it. You can buy simple solid state lidar units for under $1,000 and there are several in the pipeline targeting $100/unit. It's much more likely to see those on any mass market product.

Delphi is probably the largest auto supplier in the world and they recently invested a significant amount of money into a silicon valley company producing a solid state lidar who are targeting a $250 price point:

https://www.google.com/amp/www.forbes.com/sites/lianeyvkoff/...

If lidar makes self driving safer, there is no reason at all not to use it.

It's worth noting that in the aftermath of the death of a Tesla driver whose autopilot system couldn't see a white semi trailer, Tesla's sensor supplier reiterated the need for lidar and redundant sensors:

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2016/07/1...
That's interesting because it is based on the same principles of not letting developers do harmful thing as a way to guarantee security.