skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The automotive model is split. The end user pays insurance because he's the least cost avoider for the most obvious types of accidents. And you want him to internalize the cost of such easily avoidable errors.

But the producer is also regulated and required to include certain safety features because individual consumers are poorly equipped to select cars based on complex safety features. And in any event most consumers are very price sensitive; many people (perhaps most, actually) don't have the luxury of choosing a car based on safety features. seat belts, air bags, crumple zones, ABS, and rear-view cameras have all become mandatory thanks to regulation. (In some cases voluntarily with the understanding that they'd be involuntary if industry didn't cooperate). Collision avoidance systems are already scheduled to be mandatory, again by voluntary agreement.

When it comes to tech, consumers just aren't sophisticated enough to know how to choose products. And the insurance industry doesn't know how to solve that problem, either. It's really only the _commercial_ insurance industry where the insurers work with the policy purchasers to help them select the safest products and procedures. Anyone who has worked in tech support knows that it's a lost cause trying to educate individual consumers.
No, you're fine to do whatever you want. But companies will likely want to hire people that reduce their exposure to lawsuits that will stick.

So if your software is going to affect lives and you feel that you can handle the fall-out in case it does not and you are not certified then you're more than welcome to make that combination work.
The 11 had such a pretty instruction set, though it was kinda small for developing a program like Zork.
That's why we need 'ruimte voor de rivier'!

The video on this page is pretty neat: https://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/water/waterbeheer/bescherming...
It took less than a year from Oracle acquiring Sun for OpenOffice to die. It then marched on as a zombie for years.
Thats what I have via my FTTH provider: plain DHCP enabled ethernet - a media converter is all what is needed. After that: the customer gets to decide what equipment to use/own.
The entire foundation of America was formed on individualism and free thinking. Now all the sudden people are trying to spin the original intent as anarco-capitalism like its some new understanding. Too funny.
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I also have a 5268AC (on Uverse) and have been unable to replicate these issues (but, TBH, I haven't tried very hard at all), although I have mine in "almost-bridged-mode" ("real" bridged mode can't be done, but I have it as close to bridged mode as I can get it).
What about in this case? Some areas only have one internet provider. Are the users liable because they chose "have internet" over not?
We don't yet have cybersecurity expertise in government that approaches the environmental science expertise in the EPA (or California's equivalent). And thus far we have a Congress that doesn't recognize the importance, or see a role for the government to regulate these aspects, so they just let the industry write their own rules. And so we've got exactly the system everybody who isn't a consumer wants us to have.

Update: 4 of 535 members of Congress have computer science degrees.
Will you also call them lazy because they didn't care about being thread safe or UTF8-ready?
Having the lowest standards on raising chickens in western Europe? Check.

Far longer allowed caged chicken raising than even Germany? Check.

No control at all over the raising process, leading to over a year of time before the fibronil scandal became public? Check.

They’re good farmers, but they’re not any better than the industry in other parts of western Europe.
How's the customer going to pick when their market, if they're lucky, has only two fixed link ISPs? When most have only one (really crappy cable one) that if they're lucky provides more than 25Mbit down and who knows what up. (Yeah it's nearly 2018 and those speeds would have been 'OK' 15 years ago.)

A lot of the reason Americans are in this mess is the complete lack of competition in 99+% of the country. /That/ lack of competition comes from a broken investment model. Like roads, water/sewer, and other systems regulated as utilities the physical plant is a natural monopoly; it isn't effective for society or companies to build parallel infrastructures. If the base platform (last mile 'wires') were owned by the community and competition occurred on top of it (like with package delivery) then the context of your comment would make more sense.
Except that the WWW didn't come up out of the blue and take over just because there was a problem to solve. It was an evolution of markup languages that had been evolving for along time, melded with newer networking stacks. The timing was also good in that it hit at the same time as telecommunications started to enter the homes, not just schools and business. And it didn't take over in its initial days either -- it had a few updates before it went mainstream, not the least of which was Netscape creating a friendly UX.

So you may be right that something else may be lurking in a garage right now, waiting for that same combination of pieces to fall into place. But it isn't as simple as just finding the problem. Timing and execution mattered for the WWW, and it will matter for everything else.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was a paper that compares traditional methods of raising chicken to modern ones. But for the purposes of Internet discussion I would be satisfied with a convincing anecdote.
For me personally, "being lazy" is awful because I'm stuck in a constant battle between my personality (which wants to mould to the shape of my couch and watch TV forever) and my mind (which desperately wants to leave a mark on the world). Every day I spend couch potatoing feels like a complete and utter failure of the soul, and it seems like most of my effort is actually spent on trying to bend my personality into the shape I want it to be. If you try and fail, at least you're still left with that invaluable experience! Most accomplished people have a repertoire of failures behind them; most don't seem to have years of dicking around.
> It's boundary-stuff, and none of your actual text-processing should depend on it.

I strongly disagree. For high performance text search, it's critical that you deal with its in-memory representation explicitly. This violates your maxim that such things are only done at the boundaries.

For example, if you're implementing substring search, the techniques you use will heavily depend on how your string is represented in memory. Is it UTF-16? UTF-8? A sequence of codepoints? A sequence of grapheme clusters, where each cluster is a sequence of codepoints? Each of these choices will require different substring search strategies if you care about squeezing the most juice out of the underlying hardware.
> My vision for an ideal modem is more like a dumb Ethernet to coax/fiber/etc. adapter

You'd like Europe then.

You know where we have competing ISPs and this is the standard.
From the end user point of view, Sun recommitted (and later lessened their commitment) to Solaris x86 support so many times over the years that it's hard to imagine what would convince a user that they were really "throwing their weight behind it." We really mean it this time... wait, where are you going???
You can use any android device to send multi-touch, gestures and sensors events to the emulator: http://tools.android.com/tips/hardware-emulation

Android Emulator also has been supporting "multi touch" via the mouse and keyboard for a while now, IIRC it's alt+click.

Android devices that run stock android and get monthly updates can be bought for under 150 and even 100 EUR e.g. WilleyFox.
This seems like a good option for hiring remote engineers. The reason I like to call people to come in person for fizz buzz tests is to verify that they're not collaborating with someone. With the simultaneous video chat and text editor, you can examine one's thought process while preserving some integrity of the interview process.
Did you just make up the sand castle analogy?
That feels like kicking the can down the road. What is text?
I think that just leaves AIX and HP-UX of the old commercial unicies.
My ISP seems to do the best of both worlds.

The modems, by default, do WiFi, NAT, and have a 4-port switch on the back. The default WLAN name and password is printed on a sticker that's on the modem, they're unique per modem. Same for the admin user. I don't know if they allow SSH and if the SSH password is unique per modem however.

If you ask for the modem to be put into bridge mode, which they will happily do, the WiFi and NAT get disabled and whatever you plug in to the modem gets assigned a real IP address. When I upgraded my service and required a new modem they actually asked if I wanted it in bridge mode. All of this is configured on their side and the modem seems to pull the configuration when you first boot it.
> I wonder if there's a similar overlooked-but-universal problem that someone in a garage is working on now, that'll spark a new wave similar to the dot-com boom.

I've got one for you. I've found a simpler universal grammar for programming languages. All modern programming languages use BNF grammars for syntax, and these have been researched and developed for about 60 years. But sitting unexplored for 60 years, has been another type of grammar, that uses only geometry to notate structure (achieved in practice via whitespace). I believe this new branch of languages will prove far superior to BNF languages in time, once tooling catches up.

I'm self-funding research on this. Like your description of the early web, it's really unimpressive now (http://ohayo.computer, https://github.com/breck7/treeprogram), but think it will catch on and be big. It seems so obvious to me when you improve something so low level that it will have big effects. But it's been hard to convince other research groups, and of course I could be wrong.
>> Homeopathy is largely harmless

Steve Jobs had a curable form of cancer. He chose homeopathy instead.

Let's not pretend this is an isolated case.
This actually isn't true for modern variants of Tetris. A correct implementation of the random number generator requires that the 7 pieces be shuffled into a bag and then drawn randomly, ensuring an even distribution, and disallowing long runs without a desired piece. (Maximum of 12.) The bag is re-shuffled every 7 blocks in the sequence.

https://tetris.wiki/Tetris_Guideline

https://tetris.wiki/Random_Generator

Thus, in a game of Tetris adhering to these official guidelines, the longest sequential run of S and Z pieces would be 4, in the following sequence:

[5 Random Blocks] [Z and S in any order]
[Z and S in any order] [5 Random Blocks]

I'd be very curious to see a proof of an impossible sequence which adheres to the official rules, as that would be quite a feat indeed!
This is the same slope argument I'm skeptical about.

Nazi speech isn't something I merely disagree with. It's not a simple difference of opinion. It's not a perfectly valid alternative viewpoint we should respect. It's an ideology that caused a world war that we should never repeat. It's not something that should ever be protected.
In the whole Dutch food line, shortcuts are being made for saving a cent here and there, at any expense - resulting in inferior products, over the whole line.

Grapes without pits, soft bread that stays good for 2 weeks, chickens that shrink to half after baking, everything is full of sugar, ...

This is what we can appreciate about the South, lots of things are done not so efficiently but quite often with higher quality.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but are you claiming that SS has had no impact on poverty rates?
Yep, obviously there are good ways and bad ways to use any tool. And the shiny shiny lures a lot of people into using new tools poorly when they already know how to use old tools well.
Nope. Vegetables and fruits are tasteless.
If you don't find them tasteless then I'm afraid that you never ate proper ones in your life.
And I tried pretty much all the uk supermarkets: Waitrose, M&S, Tesco, Morrison, Sainsbury's, Ocado, Amazon, Iceland, Asda and probably something else that I'm forgetting.
And let's not start speaking about the tuna.
I have to bring it from Italy.
I spent up to 9 or 10£ for all kind of tinned tuna, even in glass and in olive oil and it was absolutely inedible.
Whenever I let anyone living here to try my tuna they are so shocked and amazed that I have to give them some tins to carry home.
And the tuna fillets in the glass are even better.
And what about porcini mushrooms?
The only place where I can find them frozen is an expensive Italian shop.
In the supermarket you can find only the tasteless dried ones if you are lucky.
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It's because our system is heavily skewed to reward the biggest campaign spenders.
Sorry, it's been many years and I misremembered the term "meta-circular evaluator", i.e. everybody's toy implementation of an interpreter with a REPL and very simplistic (if any) changes to the source language being interpreted.
I criticized Google. It got me fired. That’s how corporate power works
Oh I know, the Wikipedia page describes them as surrealist sci-fi fiction that was about as wacky as live-action '60s television got.

But I like calling random TV shows and movies 'documentaries.' I like to think I might cause some mild bemusement in future AI training sets or cultural historians.
US Gov saying it is unwilling to foot the bill for these non-citizens.

With these responses, and lack of discussion of "backup plans" for said DREAMers, these highly profitable multi-national corporations are saying the same thing.

Where is our collective outrage?
Is it really that hard to get them to remove your account?
Given their latest news of removing accounts with mild content, it seems easy enough to satisfy those requirements, and get exactly what you are asking for.
None from the perspective of the consumer.

The implementation of Promise.all could use one array for results and fill it in any order as soon as any promise resolves while awaits will always proceed in strict order (like a generator). But that's an implementation detail that a JS programmer doesn't need to think about.
In exchange for no more conquests we got never-ending-wars.

Wars that just drag on for years, with no real end possible. This is especially common in the ME.

Sometimes countries need to change in order to relive tension. Make that impossible and it's non-stop war.
I find these chatbots absolutely useless when I need support for something. They don't seem to do anything besides read off solutions to common problems (i.e. "turn it off and turn it back on again").

If I'm going to the trouble to call or email support, I have a question that I couldn't answer with a simple search or with a help article. Wasting my time with frustrating chatbot doesn't get me any closer to a solution.
Survivorship bias, to be precise.
Not too concerned about that volume.

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Cancerous.
Luck is a huge common factor in all of the big success stories I see, but you do still have to make a moonshot to get lucky with one.

I'm sure a lot of garage computer engineers in the '80s have a few boxes of boards that could well have been the Next Big Thing, if only X/Y/Z.
Were we to say things only in broad abstract terms without addressing context, most of what we say would be meaningless.
Why does this get down voted? Even if you don't agree with the idea; it has been proposed in a calm and reasonable manner.

Care to explain?
See Vinge's novel Rainbows End. It's a combo of the AR plus having sensors/effectors/networking embedded in all the stuff around you for computing to work with. The "internet of things" starts to go that way, but what I've heard of hasn't sounded that impressive. Seems like it needs to get way better at security and interoperability, though it's not my field.
It seems strange to point out how well you are treating an animal when you are slaughtering it for consumption in the end. In fact that is the animal's only purpose of existence.
Those who can afford to save do, those who can't don't. There isn't someone out there making $50k/yr raising a family saying "if capital gains rates were just a little lower I would save so much of my paycheck". I on the other hand am going to put my money in the markets whether the capital gains rate is 15% or 30% because I have used up all my tax-advantaged account space and still have extra money.
Postgres backups: Logical vs. Physical an overview
Correct if correct,
portable if portable,
modular if modular,
and future-proof if the future isn't too surprising.
Yes, I look forward to being barred from sharing the wealth that I've accumulated with my children and other loved ones. Why should they have any advantage, right? After all, you probably think I didnt do anything myself, right?

Who are you to make that decision for someone?

And, frankly, you're delusional if you think an estate tax is non distortive. The entire meaning of wealth would change for the elderly.

One cannot treat wealth like a zero sum game. More importantly, we need to rid ourselves of this growing crabs in a bucket mentality, because we all suffer when we hold society's best back. Is it "fair" in the sense of absolute wealth? No, but people shouldn't be so focused on their neighbor's plate then theirs is full enough that they can spend hours complaining online about how much more money the 1% have. Perhaps we should redefine fair wealth distribution to rightfully consider merit, which is shockingly absent from the majority view here.
That's part of the problem. Janitors think we're part of the big wealthy one percent, when we're bringing home far more similar wages than the actually wealthy folks. The problem is that the truth differs so greatly from everyone's perception. And how can anybody expect to solve a problem when we can't identify the constituents properly?
Just a private cartel owning and manipulating media and the political process, funding mines and wars and deforestation, and living large on the backs of others. But those damn techies, watch them!
I agree that UTF-16 is slightly simpler to parse, but compared to everything else you need for Unicode-aware string processing, both are completely trivial.

In any case, the discussion here is the appropriate string API, and the relative difficulty of working with those. Exposing UTF-8 versus UTF-16 changes essentially nothing: in both cases you need to either deal with non-integer indexes or deal with integer indexes where not all values are valid.

Good string APIs are hard. Most Unicode-aware languages pick one particular encoding and then toss the programmer in the deep end with it.

The only language I've seen get it vaguely correct is Swift. (I'm sure there are others, but it's definitely not common.) Swift strings provide multiple views, so you can work with UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, or grapheme clusters, as you need. It doesn't allow using integer indexes directly, so you have to confront the fact that indexing is actually non-trivial. Swift 3 requires using views, and Swift 4 makes the String type itself a sequence of grapheme clusters, which is usually the correct answer to the question of "what unit do you want to work with?"
And the MySQL and Hudson debacles, respectively before and shortly after the acquisition closed...
The single biggest contributor is probably GDP per capita. You don't have the same economic pressures for efficiency and infrastructure if you can replace them with cheap labor, and without a high GDP you won't have the money to invest in all this infrastructure.

Both of those are chicken & egg problems to some extent.
Not 100% sure that I understand your point about silver. Is it that you believe it has retained its buying power? (Setting aside that the silver in a pre-1964 quarter could only buy about 36 ounces of milk in 1970 given the $1.15/gal retail price then.)

Let's say that on Jan 1, 1970, you took your pre-1964 quarter and pulled out the 6.25 grams of silver in at the price of $12.37 a troy ounce. You'd get $2.48.

If you put that $2.48 in a money market earning just half the fed discount rate for the last 47 years, it'd be worth $7.99 today. The silver would be worth $3.37. (The currency would likely be a lot more that $7.99, because the difference between money market rates and fed discount rate historically hasn't been as high as the very conservative 50% markdown I used here.)

There are a lot of moving parts in an economy that affect cost of living. A lot of stuff has changed since 1970 beyond going off the gold standard. Massive productivity changes, energy and raw material price shocks, demographic changes, policies and laws changing behaviors all across the individual and business landscape. It's difficult to isolate one individual factor as the sole cause.
He does say that, that I agree with, I don't like it.

He goes on to further imply those using it have low self esteem, are jackasses, or rich people with complexes. That's an addition to the comment that doesn't contribute to the discussion.
Media keeps telling us Apple is not investing, but hoarding cash overseas to avoid the taxation. Care to elaborate how and what they are investing in?
I see that in medical too. You have plenty of SOPs but management tightens deadlines to the point that it's obvious that you have to take shortcuts to meet them. Management then can point then to the SOP but in reality they created the conditions for non-compliance.
Is there a winning strategy in Tetris? (For modern versions, yes.)
While annoying for you and me, many (most?) support issues are basically "turn it off and on again" since most people don't search or read help articles.
I used to love working with E10k/E15k boxes back in the day. X86 just couldn’t compete with 128 CPU SPARC systems. It was amazing! Sad to see Solaris go.

<3 ZFS
<3 dtrace
Or did the scientific advances happen because there was an incentive compatible system in place to share in the profits of that advancement of knowledge?

The Enlightenment followed the rise of mercantilism, not the other way around.
You're correct in that it's foolish to institute an uncollectable tax, but I don't think inheritance tax necessarily falls into that category any more than, say, capital gains taxes.
The article doesn't even attempt to show a causal connection; it just assumes that because a treaty was signed, and then things changed, the treaty must have caused it. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.

I'd rather point to the massive geopolitical differences that occurred during that time period. The Cold War, decolonization (mostly due to the world wars), the growth of the EU and of the USSR (both of which had no internal wars) all greatly reduced conquests.
That Herenboeren initiative looks to me like feel-good rubbish, while at WUR issues like sustainability, erosion, etc. seem to me to be addressed in a much more thorough way.
I was part of the Hyperion acquisition. A relative of mine was dependent on Micros. I am speaking from experience, at least on the software side.

I’m telling people forcefully because Oracle has been doing the acquisition game for a very long time; they’ve figured out how to string people along to get the maximum value out of the acquisition. I personally lost out on thousands in pay by sticking around for too long.

Oracle as a company does not value engineers. A software engineer is scum compared to sales. If you want to be an engineer and make the real money (and get any respect) work in Sales Engineering. You’ll be away from home for 40 weeks a year but you get decent hardware and a small commission from the deals.

For those with career ambitions or self respect my original advice applies: get out.