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> Maybe its because rates of marriage and church attendance are on the decline.

The importance of both are relative to your culture. Going to church doesn't make for a better society; have you forgotten all the wars started via leadership from religious institutions? Have you ignored how much more statisitically peaceful your atheistic counterparts are?

Plenty of cultures have been just fine and happy for hundreds of years without having marriages weighted as heavily as ours. Hell, male exclusively led marriages used to be a thing that was on the decline that conservatives used to lambast also. Do you think we should return to that?

> Maybe its because of the debasement of our culture

Good; there are plenty of people that were killed and marginalised because of modern western cultures. LGBTQ violence is still a major issue because of certain western cultures.

Frankly it's not too hard to envision a recursive philosophy where you don't worry about what others are doing so long as they are not interfering with the pursuit of happiness of others. It shouldn't be that difficult to realize that western cultures are not the only means to be happiness and that other cultures have been just as happy for hundreds of years with institutions that directly contradict ours.

Your culture is as welcome and significant to outsiders as much as some mormon's religion is to you on a weekend morning. Don't force it on us because you've grown fond of it; if it was such a great idea for us, we would have bought into it at some point during the first 10,000 times it was mentioned during our childhoods.
It would. But it would be harder to change.
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$100k isn’t a high estimate at all. The article says they were costing $1k a day.

> All we knew is they were each being paid about $1,000 every day.
> If you have to upgrade a GUI app, or a tool that depends on some bastardized unholy subsystem designed to "secure desktop sessions", that may very well require relinquishing the session and restarting it. If you have to upgrade a tool used by your desktop (and if you have a complex desktop, that is literally thousands of programs), it's the same story, though you may even need to restart your desktop session manager or even your display server.

Thanks, I'm glad at least one person agrees I'm not hallucinating. The vast majority of people here are telling me I'm basically the only one this happens to.
A witness to Michael Hasting's 2013 'car crash' describes what he saw https://youtu.be/fweyFCFKcp0
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I’d probably create a tex-template for the cards, populate it with data from the json/yml-input and run it through pdf-latex.

You could probably create the entire thing as an bibtex-template and even use that to build the tex.
> Agenda much? Is anybody in this thread doing basic math?
200 ghost workers at $100K per year (probably a bit high, thanks) is $20 million per year.

Did you bother to read the article? Right at the start it says these 200 workers "were each being paid about $1,000 every day".
This is in the hands of the firmware/hardware manufacturers. AFAIK, for instance, the version of Minix that serves as Intel's ME will continue to be operational even if the UEFI is replaced by Linux.

The issue is that 'firmware' actually means many different blobs of software in various ROMs spread throughout the system, from disk controllers to GPUs to memory controllers to NIC and so on.

You will never be able to verify you have full control over your system unless all these firmware have the ability to be reflashed/replaced. LinuxBoot/Coreboot are a step in the direction, but without major concessions from hardware vendors this is an uphill battle.
Um, the article in no way supports the first two as the primary problem.

And, I would also like to point out that the cost per mile drops dramatically as the NUMBER OF MILES goes up.

Note that most of the foreign projects mentioned are 3+ miles. And note that even the US projects which are longer magically cost less.

So, perhaps the issues are:

1) a mayfly has an attention span longer than the average US voter and so getting projects approved and committed to for long durations borders on impossible

2) most contractors understand that their funding could be pulled at any time due to the vicissitudes of said mayflys, so they book as much revenue as possible and do as little work as they can until the pressure becomes overwhelming and the voting public is actually COMMITTED to funding and completing the project
Personas are primarily a mapping tool for providing the team with a library of potential users, their background and needs with relation to your product and to which the team can design up against. They fail (at being useful) because they often have very little to do with the actual user's situations.

A better way IMO is to use customer support to figure out who your users actually are or go and speak with your users and learn what they actually want.

We never recommend doing them unless a project needs a lot of documentation for a lot of switching hands and you are worried that some of the insights might be lost on new team members.

As a design tool they aren't really that helpful for anything.
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I've read your comment several times and can't follow it. I think you're saying that even if the author continued to use Cramer's rule, he would lose to LAPACK on big problems.
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No it's both a server and a desktop OS. The architecture semi-requires the ability to be both cooked in. In my usecase I have my terminals which are desktops that boot off of my main fileserver.
> Typically makes boot 20 times faster

Really? That means my current Fedora boot on an T430 with SSD of 20s would go down to 1s? Seems unbelievable.
Thanks for taking the time to use and your feedback.

I'll ask some other people about the Pointer Indicator and see how others feel about it? But I what you are saying.

Yeah, I reduced the time it takes to spin. I should just get to the point :)

I think I'll add some more gif from giphy.com. Any good ones you guys recommend?

Have a great and thanks again!
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I'm a tabletop game designer. This is useful to me. Other similar tools are garbage.

Therefore, I upvote.
HERE or Here WeGo (formerly Navteq, bought by Nokia, now owned by a consortium of Audi, BMW and Daimler) offers a smartphone navigation app with downloadable maps for regions (for big regions, e.g.Germany it even offers sub-regions, so German states), and all for free.
That's exactly right.

Their coverage is not based on the insurance policy they sold you. It's based on what they can get away with and make the most profit.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the largest medical bill I had to pay for a hospitalization was likewise initially denied and then caught-up in bureaucratic hell for several months before they finally paid. I honestly thought I was going to have to hire a lawyer to fight them. But somehow, probably based on my push-back, their calculation eventually favored paying-up.

They make things difficult and confusing for people on purpose. They deny perfectly legitimate procedures on purpose.
OK, I get that. Unfiltered Facebook would be a very different thing. And maybe not viable as a business. Because public outrage about stuff that offends them. And because laws against hate speech, subversive agitation, and so on. It'd probably need to be a Tor onion service, to protect the provider. Such as Diaspora or whatever.

And yes, I am an idealist. As Crowley defined Thelema, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law", and "Love is the law, love under will." The problem, however, is the haters. Burroughs joked about just killing them where they stand, and I suppose that's consistent with Thelema. But I can't see how it'd work in practice.
In southern California, I've had Google Maps take me along roads that gradually turned from pavement to gravel to dirt and then deep sand. Dirt road navigation isn't unusual where I was, so going forward made sense. But once I ended up in sand before I could find a safe place to turns around and got a "Transmission overheat" warning message on my dashboard. Thanks, Google!
I used to do that as well when I owned a pair of cheaper Koss earbuds. It was ages ago so I might be recalling incorrectly, but didn't they charge a shipping and handling fee for all of that? If so, my hunch was they either came close to breaking even or even turned a small profit in some cases.
We should clarify that. Our example is an OCP Winterfell node, where boot time went from 8 minutes to 20 seconds.
Cars are different though, they aren't general-purpose computers (even if they are based on them). So you can have a chip that checks the checksum of every file, checks if it's all signed with the correct certificate, and shuts down the car even if one bit is off.

That's quite different from your laptop or a smartphone, which can run pretty much any code.

It would be very very very hard to hack something like that. As in, steal the signing keys from Tesla hard without being noticed. I wouldn't be surprised if their signing server is air-gapped.
Not the parent, but I find function vs fat arrow to be similar to:

* def vs lambda in Python

* fn vs closures in Rust

* def vs anonymous functions in Elixir

Honestly, given how often I find myself using small, immediately-consumed functions when performing common filter/map/reduce operations I find fat arrows to be an extremely welcome addition. I feel that it spares a lot of excessive "function" keywords everywhere and gives you just a little more room to have more verbose variable names when you have to deal with things like enforced maximum line lengths...
The "Fallen Astronaut" incident was also Apollo 15 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Astronaut .
Because my phone is used for other things on long drives, so I like having a dedicated devices that's just GPS. It's on a suction cup on the car and stays there - I don't take it in the house with me.

Unlike a phone, you also don't need a data connection to navigate anywhere in North America.

I may have to buy a cheap phone that does nothing except Google maps, and leave it in the car (but fear of thieves means I can't leave it on the windshield all the time, unlike a GPS which no one seems to steal anymore).

Good job killing your market TomTom - why would anyone buy a device from you ever again?

I actually have a built-in device in the car, but I don't use it, and instead use the TomTom device because the car one blocks input if the car is in motion. I guess whoever made it has never driven with a passenger.
>the soviet union was preparing to invade Japan and building up troops in the balkans.

Balkans are in Europe.
Thank you. This was exactly the kind of I-never-would-have-looked-at-it-that-way answer I was looking for.
I'm not buying or selling here, but you need to draw the distinction between a system designed to optimize extremes, and one that optimizes the median. If you don't, then you're basically comparing minimum wage to average housing prices, i.e. incomparables. It's up to you to argue which is the better one to optimize, but if you just assume that everyone is on board with median maximization, you're going to be talking past a lot of people.
What an interesting time to be in intelligence gathering.

Why even bother breaking into an air gapped DoD network to get classified data when you can target all these third party cloud companies that have secondary data that isn't air gapped in classified networks, and most won't have the security resources to really lock things down.

This is somewhere in the awkward middle between what's called "open source intelligence" and traditional intelligence.

I don't envy defensive cybersecurity staff and their jobs/responsibilities.
You can't overflow a vector. It's not a fixed size array. It grows automatically as needed.

What your example shows is an attempt to access a vector element that does not exist (std::out of range). And, that is undefined behavior and is documented.

Also, that code is 95% C (not C++). Even the includes and prints are C. Pure, idiomatic C++ would use iostream rather than stdio.h, and a vector iterator to access the elements rather than looping over the vector (in C like fashion) using an integer (which is unrelated to the vector) in an effort to access elements via index.
It makes me wish I had more time, to start a project to reverse engineer the TomTom format. And maybe even generalize it for all sorts of devices, for example car makers also have their proprietary formats (probably they just use their supplier's format, whichever 3rd party that is).
Fundamentally, it is (was?) very simple---the basic rules were in two pocket games. Characters had three basic characteristics, strength (also a proxy for endurance and damage tolerance), dexterity, and intelligence, plus skills and assorted other

The TFT wiki page says, "A revival of TFT and associated MicroQuest adventures is underway at http://www.darkcitygames.com.*" The "Legends" rules (http://www.darkcitygames.com/docs/Legends.pdf) [PDF] there look a lot like the basic mechanics of TFT.

I managed to miss Rolemaster, although I liked the titles, particularly "Claw Law." :-) But I know what you mean about complexity; too much "realism" leads to things like Ben Sergeant's Car Wars cartoon (lower left, here https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/HSYAAOSwTglYlP-b/s-l300.jpg): "My goodness! 08:00:06, already?"
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If IOTA is supposed to be something that regular people will use (either directly or indirectly through interactions with IOT devices), point #2 doesn't seem relevant.

You can use a credit card without ever having to calculate your own Luhn checksum. You can send money to a bank account without having to untangle the rat's nest that is ACH.

It makes the IOTA team's priorities look skewed when they don't have basic wallet functionality, but they have time to implement ternary math and new cryptographic primitives that aren't useful with existing hardware.
Also, FYI, update: apparently I'm not the only person in the world experiencing this [1].

But we are the only 2 people in the world experiencing this, so never mind.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16257935
Years ago I accidentally came across a really good book that explores Schopenhauer's fascinating worldview through the lens of psychiatry and personal development, called "The Schopenhauer Cure", which got me hooked on Schopenhauer (and a lesser extent Nietzsche):
https://www.amazon.com/Schopenhauer-Cure-Novel-Irvin-Yalom/d...

I highly recommend it to people who would consider themselves on the logical/intelligent end of the spectrum and who tend to pursue their work, accomplishments, and gaining knowledge above all else in life.

It's also a great soft introduction to his work, without having to read dense 19th century philosophy.

One of the most useful lessons I learn from Schopenhauer was to look beyond structuring your life around trying to be "happy" and avoiding being "sad", and instead seek some deeper meaning beyond some fleeting emotional chemical reactions in your brain. It makes me laugh now when

I now laugh when I hear people say "money doesn't make you happy", not so much for the money part, but the fallacy of using an emotion like "being happy" as the measure for a quality life.
I've got this bad, I am (or at least was) the stereotypical high achiever. I even have a sports car in the garage (don't do that, btw :).

I've decided to slow down and focus on my family and myself, in pursuits that have no real reward except the enjoyment of the experience itself. "Being present", they say.

Ultimately, I'm planning on getting out of the Bay Area to find something with less stress. I had a good run but the constant battle to climb higher just seems so silly now; I finally recognized the pattern of not having any real lasting happiness upon hitting some big achievement (the raise, the promotion, the qualification, whatever).

My new modus operandi: Work to ensure there is money in the bank so I can retire as I'd like to, and then focus on family, friends, myself.
TFA is slashdot slang: the f'ing article

It really depends on what you want the ranking to mean.

If you want it to mean: "If all the players in the world played in a tournament, what would the expected result be", then a normal Elo-like rating system (e.g. glicko-2) should be fine, because all the data available is from real tournaments, and it's not really feasible for players to strategically dodge bad matchups to pad their ratings.

But one criticism TFA has of this method is matchup discrepancy. I'm not sure that's actually important (players choose their mains freely), but if it is can't you just correct for it?

I think you're right that this correction would create an undesirable result. That just means that the matchup discrepancy criticism isn't good.
True to a point.

The difficulty arises when trying to implement something in ladder that is too complex for simple Boolean operations, and would probably be much clearer if written in a few dozen lines of Structured Text (assuming an IEC 61131-3 PLC). Unfortunately, company policies (especially in North America) mean that engineers are often forced to use ladder, resulting in a ladder logic program which is inscrutable for both the electrician and the engineer.

What would be sensible is using the right tool for the job: ladder for simple Boolean operations, and ST for more complicated stuff. Tech schools should also teach electricians and technologists the basics of how to read structured text - they do this in Europe, but I don't think it's common in North America yet.
"This depends on the state. Some states still consider that to be unauthorized practice of law, even in arbitration."

This is almost certain to be challenged eventually, and those states will lose.
Netflix developed new software architectures to support its products. It's more rocket science than most of what people work on in the industry.
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It is a subsidy under our legal system if the industry / plant / miner causes a tort and it's not remedied. That's money going out of one persons pockets into another.
I was being sarcastic, because the optimal packing of a "trit-based number" into binary is just binary.

It is possible to sit down and work it all out on paper, and you can work out how many trits using logarithms you can pack into a given number of bits, etc etc., but all the terms will cancel and the math will tell you that you just end up with binary again. You can end up with quite the table explaining how to add "binary-encoded base-3" numbers together if you insist on holding on to the idea that base-3 numbers somehow exist separately from base-2 numbers, but in the end it'll all just cancel out. You can get some idea of what it would look like, and how silly it would be, if we trained people to add numbers together by first converting them into binary, adding them in binary, and then converting back to decimal, since that would be the same thing, just with different bases, but does capture how inconvenient it is to do math that way when your bases can't be translated via lookup table (i.e., hexadecimal <-> binary can be done mechanically on a string basis for the number, unlike 2 <-> 3 or 2 <-> 10 (thanks to the factor of 5 in the 10)). And then imagine that as we are teaching people that maneuver that we are telling them that the binary-encoded representation is the real number, and the base-10 encoding is a fake number that can't be trusted or used the same way.
I'd say that it's both. Laws against hate speech are intended to protect people against seeing what might hurt them. But yes, many governments censor subversive speech, and force Facebook etc to follow their lead.
I will be the anti-ladder logic person here. It is a good language for simple systems. But it breaks down as the system gets more complex. Its really only good as a glue layer between modules.

Also the inherently binary and visual nature of ladder (and HMIs) makes version control impossible or expensive. Many PLC workflows I have seen are basically just a directory of files that you hope someone has been keeping up to date. Maybe there are previous versions. You will also have a hard time getting a code change history. Orchestration and configuration are also pretty primitive.

Mostly I have dealt with Rockwell, maybe Siemens is different.
The statement about rising IQ is the Flynn Effect[1]. The fact that IQ has risen over the past 80 years or so is well accepted. Exactly why this is happening is open to debate.

The fourmilab link you mentioned seem to be based on the book "IQ and the Wealth of Nations"[2]. They explicitly normalized all IQ data to have Briton as 100. The author then assumes that IQ hasn't changed any in the past 50 years. The author mentions the Flynn effect and then ignores it. Once you do that, you really can't say anything about how IQ is changing over time. Instead he basically ends up measuring the relative growth rates of countries.

The Daily Mail link has a whole bunch of things, the graph they have of lowering world IQ looks pretty much like the one in the fourmilab article, so I suspect it's based on the same data.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations
That's still only $73mil/year. A small fraction of the billions.
Here! Here! Personally, I'm getting tired of refactoring NoSQL back the standard SQL and merging multiple "Microservices" apps into one manageable app. And figuring out the JS Single-page framework Dijour when standard Ajax-based pages would have cost far less to create and maintain yet provide the same functionality.
No question about it. Nukes accomplish something that no other deterrent can: they make world leaders personally afraid to go to war with each other.

Those who advocate nuclear disarmament are basically advocating a return to increasingly-bloody world wars every few years.

Of course, it's also true that the leaders who are afraid to confront each other directly are more likely to resort to proxy wars that cause massive pain and suffering in their own right. But that's a different problem that will have to be solved by different means.
Could you please don't use uppercase for emphasis? The site guidelines ask you not to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I'll mark your comment editable for a while if you want to correct this, and can delete this comment if you do.
The US probably has the best, most efficient private sector of any developed country.

And the worst, most inefficient public sector of any developed country.

It chooses to prioritize the private sector over the public sector. Other countries choose otherwise. Each model has its advantages and disadvantages.

This (efficiency of building public transit) is the outcome of the US model.
Oh wow. Now that you mention this I totally remember this project from like 2015 when some people, including Come-From-Beyond, were raising money for some sort of ternary computing hardware project.

Totally forgot about it, and never put two and two together(three and three? :P) to link it to IOTA. Now that they are quite wealthy, I wonder if it will become a reality. I'm highly skeptical, but I really don't know enough to form a real opinion. Definitely one of those things that make you go 'huh?' though.