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Thank god. Not to disparage SV, but one thing I love about this city is the diversity of the subcultures here. I'd hate for it to be dominated by any one industry.
> This somewhat reminds me of the Microsoft debugger convention of initializing memory with various tags so that when you crash with a pointer bug, you can tell what kind of memory was trod upon. They even made the hex codes semi-mnemonic so it was easier to remember, e.g., 0xCD=clean, 0xDD=dead, 0xFD=fence, etc.

BSD's malloc.conf framework does something similar. Though they've managed to be incompatible with one another.

On FreeBSD, activating junking (default off) will fill allocated memory with 0xa5 and deallocated memory with 0x5a.

On OpenBSD, allocated memory uses 0xdb, deallocated memory uses 0xdf, junking is default-enabled for "small chunks" & the start of freed pages (which are also checked for write-after-free on a small delay).
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For the benefit of those who haven't read the actual article: "New York will never be Silicon Valley" is meant by the author as a compliment, not an insult.

Relevant quotes:

Investors, founders and employees point to all the things that make New York one-of-a-kind as the reason tech is growing in America’s biggest city: the presence of other industries like finance, media and advertising, much more gender and racial diversity and the metropolis’s centuries-old status as a center of global commerce. New York provides a contrast to Silicon Valley, which has been criticized for tunnel vision, being insular, out of touch with the rest of the country and overly homogeneous–both company employees and the people for whom they create products.

Instead of being dragged down or drowned out by New York’s well-established mega-businesses, startups are feeding off them, hiring their disaffected employees, building products to make them more efficient and partnering with them in ways that help both sides.

“We wouldn't have been able to start our company with this scale anywhere other than New York,’’ says Ryan Williams, the chief executive officer of Cadre, a real estate investment startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz. Being in the center of finance gives the firm access to top Wall Street talent and helped it land $250 million to invest on behalf of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The proximity to major offices of many of the brands Zola sells through its site was a major benefit to being in the city, she says. Having the headquarters of top media and advertising companies a ten-minute subway ride away went a long way too

“New York is a much better place for fostering women entrepreneurs and women in tech,” says Samuels, who worked in the industry on both coasts. Both Ma and Ferreira agree.
Chinese New Year holiday week does indeed bring down traffics on the road just like what Thanksgiving night does on America's road. However, China's transportation electrification has been going on for at least half a decade,
as this Deutsch Bank white paper indicated in 2012[1]. Anecdotally, I think the electrification transition started as far back as a decade ago (disclaimer: I visit China annually since 2007).

[1]: https://www.db.com/cr/en/docs/China_GreenCars_080712.pdf
Thanks for clarifying. I don't have conclusions yet, but I do have ideas and didn't think my questions were leading. So apologize if they seem so. If you don't feel "pressured"--overtly or subvertly--to take a substance but just do it because you think it would be fun, then that's the answer, right? And I'll learn from that.
If forced they will just add API that allows apps to check if any VPN is used.

BTW was there any discussion on how Google could be split? Android doesn't bring enough money to develop it, it would make sense to just drop it. Manufacturers would need to maintain their own OSes, that might be interesting.
It is hard, and once you've defined quality metrics, it's even harder to write a contract that captures them and get parties to agree on them

The latter issues might be resolved somewhat by the Amazon group; the former is still a concern, but I think there are opportunities to do meaningfully better things

This is just an idea, and I've not done much research on it, so take with a grain of salt: I think patient focused quality measures might be better. For example, look at cohorts of patients with similar characteristics (like in case control studies) who are experiencing a similar health event (knee surgery) and compare providers based on the outcomes these types of patients have. This is something the JV could do, is patient focused, and avoids all the challenges you mention with metrics measuring / managing individual providers (which isn't just hard to measure but demoralizing to docs)
They seem similar in intent and application, however Flutter skips the Javascript-to-native bridge and instead appears to compile to native code for the targeted platform directly, making it faster. In practice, React Native still _feels_ native because it is native and most devices are fast enough for most applications, but the Javascript that operates the native components has a performance penalty due to the bridge between javascript and native.

Dart still has a huge hill to climb for mindshare. The staggering amount of community and documentation around react makes it difficult to carve out a competing solution without the same size of community to write documentation, examples, and answer questions on Stack Overflow.
Great idea, following. How much do you charge?
Looks nice, I will check it out. I wonder if running both will block twice the ads? ;)
I'm curious about how AWS handles lambdas written in Go. Go produces statically linked Linux binaries. What is it about Go that is supported? What is it about binaries written in other languages that isn't supported?
Securing Access to Jenkins on AWS Using New Edge
Your comment implies you're either in Germany or the US, and since you said "SFW", I inferred you're in the US.

Either way, freedom of speech doesn't automatically make all allowed speech into SFW speech.
This is true in my experience, but the load is spread a lot by good infrastructure. I rarely charge at home, for example. And many people here with EVs have at least a small solar installation that offsets a lot.
"Capitalism" is such a general term I find it hard to know what exactly you mean. A liberal or free markets based economy doesn't need growth at all. The problem is that a lot of companies and a lot of state-run institutions (pension funds, etc.) have had the default assumption that the economy will always be growing (mostly due to population increase). But that trend is now reversing in a lot of countries, where populations have started to shrink and societies as a whole (not just the economy) will need some time to adjust to this.
We can be a bit more precise than that. In the US, each 1% shift in Vehicle Miles Travelled will increase electricity demand by 0.25%. This is a BFD, but even a 100% conversion to EVs would only increase demand by 25%, not 100% ("double"). I haven't done calculations for other countries.

https://twitter.com/sampenrose/status/909532338647842818
How does Flutter fit in with PWAs? From a high level they both seem to do the same thing: cross-platform mobile application platforms.
You can check your web server access logs and then perform reverse DNS lookup on those IPs. Most of them won't resolve that fast, often taking 200-1000ms+
Any site running third-party JS should get the red "insecure" icon like http sites do now.
I don't understand why everyone's obsessed with using a Bloom Filter for this. The median response size on the API is 12.2KB with 305 entries. A Bloom Filter with 305 entries and a 0.000001 false positive rate would be about 1KB. It seems to me you're introducing a lot of complexity (Bloom Filter vs. simple string match) and possibility of false positives to save 11KB.
Cryptocurrency mining is about to consume more electricity than home usage in Iceland.[1] I assume it's similar in other places that have cheaper electricity.

Seems that power companies should encourage consumers to mine Bitcoin. Problem solved.

[1] https://qz.com/1204840/iceland-will-use-more-electricity-min...
You probably want to solve "the expression problem".
This is one of the biggest appeals NYC has over Silicon Valley in my opinion. It's also why, when I had the choice to intern in Silicon Valley, I chose to intern in Santa Cruz instead. It's close enough to the Valley that I could attend cool tech events (albeit with a not particularly pleasant commute), while Santa Cruz still enjoyed the Bay Area's good weather and is not (yet) a tech monoculture.
You’re thinking about it in terms of pieces of information, but GDPR thinks about it more in terms of the uses of that information. You wouldn’t expect to ask a user “Can we store your email address?“. The granular action for storing the email address is “Can we email you from time to time product offers?”. Once the user consents then that email address (and potentially full name, etc etc) can only be used for that consented action.
I think if there is a large enough penalty for crashes then the car companies would take quality more serious, if the costs are too low I can see them pushing updates with just a few hours of testing,

There is also the issue with adversarial inputs to the AI, you could have someone put stickers everywhere that would crash the AI .
Here’s a method with an unknown height...

http://zerosixthree.se/vertical-align-anything-with-just-3-l...
What "theory" keeps React Native from being ported to desktops?
Advertising is mental malware.
No it's Dart, you'd have to transpile which would turn it into a bit of a clownshow unfortunately
Low hanging fruit, but shouldn't it be the apple being okay with that?

/Recent parent practicing dad humor
I thought dart was dead... like buried way down dead. Has dart improved? Are they eventually going to kill Android only dev?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting - still practical for some TLDs.
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Distribution and power usage are two different line items on a typical electric bill.

Whether those accurately reflect the balance in cost is a different matter.
Thanks! Please email me at hi@greenpine.co for pricing.
If a lender never saw the original document, it's likely that they might not notice a misformatted PDF as evidence of collateral.

Ultimately, for loans like this they shouldn't take evidence of collateral from an individual, or they should require that it be certified by notaries/other auditors/etc.
A long time ago I found some memory problems in a C++ codebase we had inherited and that crashes from time. In Windows you can protect memory blocks with a function call so I overloaded new and malloc and added some protected blocks before and after the actual memory. Then we ran the code for a lot and it would fault right at the point of the memory overwrite instead of some place later. It made the code very slow but we found problems that were incredibly hard to find in any other way.
Where I live the state bird is the mosquito. Which doesn't really narrow down my state of residence LOL. Here I am daydreaming my way to sleep counting sheep and a touch/pressure sensor in my skin spontaneously fires as they sometimes randomly do, and ugh there's a mosquito or fly or whatever on me wake up and swat it. Now wrapping in a blanket means the pressure sensors saturate full on all the time so I don't startle. I suspect its worse for men with body hair. Randomly a leg hair catches airflow and red alert a bug has landed on me! Its the same as the tickle reflex, leaning on me while cuddling on the couch is comfy and sleep inducing, tickling is not even remotely sleep inducing.

Speaking of pressure, I sleep on my side with my legs partially up and if I force myself to sleep otherwise, I wake up in that position, so may as well give in. So... maybe TMI but without squooshing at least a thin blanket between my legs there's kind of a self inflicted thigh-vise on my male parts which as any male will attest is uncomfortable. This is a universal problem for males who lift weights and sleep on their side, unless you guys have invented an interesting hack for this problem...
thanks, I'd like to email you to the address in your profile, ok?
How am I supposed to pronounced 'pwned'?

Can't we find something other than 4chan language to describe this?
I'm hesitant to accept this was intentional because QA process, since this change was clearly made by someone who didn't know what they were doing.

As another user pointed out, the word burgundy triggers the filter. And if you spell something incorrectly the "did you mean" results are unaffected.

I'm imagining a higher level manager with very little technical expertise (just enough to write an if statement) pushing this into prod against Google's wishes, or maybe by accident.
It was tongue-in-cheek, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to see someone do it. It's a pretty obvious way to cash in on cheap power if you can get access to it.
I guess you've never been to LA on a hot, windless summer day.
There isn't a"global" perspective on this, just a country-by-country perspective, because utilities are governed by national law. See Quitting Carbon for what a really aggressive attempt to transform Denmark's electric grid looks like: https://justingerdes.atavist.com/quitting-carbon?promo
I don't run JS. Yesterday some ridiculous page on the frontpage of HN called me an "internet hipster" for having JS disabled.
Why not both? Plus other mobility and cardio work. It's all beneficial in various ways.
Thanks for your advice. I will update it later :)
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Another bad sentence (from the original link):

> What do you do about users who have used plaintext or silly passwords?

I don't even know what to write about that. The whole tone of the page is lecturing – about "fundamental human rights"! – and yet it's suggested that developers handle "plaintext or silly passwords"!
Yes - this is one of Gwern's big points.

There shouldn't be any easy way to improve on what evolution tried to do, because evolution would have done it. But there can certainly be ways to optimize for things evolution didn't try to do, like preparing us to do symbolic logic for 40 hours a week or stay up well past dark. And there can be ways to optimize for goals evolution didn't/couldn't reward, like "never having kids and staying healthy until age 90".

I do think there's risk in blurring the moral point with the practical one, though. I'm not particularly evolved for reading books, but it's something I enjoy and I want 'hacks' to do it better - whether that's reading glasses or a cup of coffee. I don't like commuting while tired or being stationary for hours on end, and if I had free choice I'd stop doing those things instead of hacking myself to be better at them.

But in "enhancement" terms, they both count as "doing a thing I wasn't made to do" regardless of whether I want to keep doing them.
If you don't need a driver in the car, you can test more vehicles with fewer people and ultimately deploy a mobility service cost-effectively.
Termsheets - understand your termsheet
but are they even close to delivering on that promise. Self Driving cars are marketed as a safety feature, safety features compensate for in bad and unpredictable conditions. Think ABS, air bags, traction control, and even seat belts.

Yet how many demonstrations of self driving are anything but well lit and well marked roadways? Self driving won't be a thing until regardless of weather and road conditions are person can have a car take them somewhere. Self driving will have to be smart enough to protect people who are actively driving from making a fatal error.

per that last point, if a self driving becomes a thing cars that can do it will have to intervene or have legislation absolving the system from fault if it does not. even the act of letting a self driving car exceed the speed limit raises legal issues. then comes privacy concerns, if you are not doing the driving then you can bet law enforcement is going to push to do a lot more on the grounds a self driving car has no rights
Possible but if you set the limit too low you're going to have it pop it all the time on heavier websites (especially on less powerful hardware/smartphones). Then you condition the user to dismiss these warnings without thinking about it because of the high rate of false positives.

On the other hand if you set it too high then those websites will aim for that limit to maximize profit without triggering the warning. You'll still waste a ton of resources and you've only mitigated the issue somewhat.

I'm not saying it's impossible, just that "just add a dialog when CPU usage is high" might be a bit naive. There's a subtle balance to these things.
It might seem somewhat ironic for a borderline-autist, but I find it kind of comforting that I am not the only one with this condition.

To me, eye contact gets harder if I have to focus. Greeting people or answering simple tech-support questions is not a big deal, but when I have to explain - or listen to! - something moderately complex, eye contact becomes difficult.

I suspect the phenomenon is related to the Clippy-disaster with MS Office; recognizing faces takes a lot of brain power, and the human brain allocates a significant chunk to that specific task (at least that is what a neurologist once told me).
Somebody wrote a Master's thesis or Ph.D. thesis in psychology about why Clippy was hated so much, and it was basically because face-like things at the margin of our field of vision take up a lot of "bandwidth" in the brain and thus distract from other things.
Here's one with 7 hops and not using The Lion Express. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Zevenhoven&tar...

Like I said I spent too much time on this yesterday.
no one sane is going to call indianapolis a tech mecca
No, lay on your right side.
This is exactly what has happened in Ontario. But a lot of that has come from boneheaded contracts that the government signed, which guaranteed payment for capacity, not usage. So the more demand falls, the more we pay per kWh, because the hydro companies are getting paid whether they actually generate power or not. The excess power is then exported for much less than what they're charging residents for it.

Edit: Better in-depth look: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/why-does-elect...
And don't forget dead lifts and pull ups. I see a lot of people at the gym focusing on chest and upper body (biceps, arms, torso) but you need to focus more on centre of your body and lower back (dead lift), legs (squats, leg press) and upper back (pull ups).

Bench press is also good but that's it for chest, I wouldn't do more. Squats, bench press and dead lift as a core of your routine is a good idea. You can add some other minor components but you should keep focus on the big three.
I'm going to reach out now, thanks.
Use of HTTPS among top sites is growing so is deprecated HTTP public key pinning
Facebook turned on face recognition silently
I added this to the article, thanks!
Mugabe was a dictator for decades. Xi is perhaps about to become a dictator.

Where's the confusion? There are maybe a dozen particularly infamous dictatorships of the last 20-30 years. Mugabe is one of those. Having ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years, he was also one of the longest tenured political figures of the last century. Who would make for a better example? One could certainly use Franco, Chavez, Hussein, or Pinochet. Mugabe is just as legitimate to use as an example.
I use uBO and uMatrix which work well together. uMatrix has "block third party resources by default" behavior that can be precisely customized per domain and resource type (eg, allow images and css but not scripts or XHRs).
There's an article that answers your question -- https://hackernoon.com/whats-revolutionary-about-flutter-946...
> I'd argue a more subtle point: JS is fine, it's phoning home with all sorts of personal info siphoned off my PC that is the problem.

No, I think that this case demonstrates that it's JavaScript which is the ultimate problem: cryptomining is a code-execution problem (although there is a network-access component to it, since the mining code needs to get block information & submit block results somehow).

I like to imagine that in a few decades we'll wonder how we ever thought it was a good idea to grant frictionless full-execute privileges to all the code everywhere, but honestly I'm far too pessimistic to believe that we'll ever wake up.
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Does anybody want to buy a computer collection I have been gathering since 1993?
Look beyond the crypto hype
"interfaces don't have a runtime representation" I was looking for a good way to say that while writing the article, this is a very good way ! Thanks
Also I like that you think about the use of instanceof, I didn't really think of that, but some devs use this condition intensively.
I keep hoping but year after year these videos are still here.
React Native is already ported to desktops but you need to write N times for N platforms. In flutter, you can write just once after choosing a widget set, assuming you don't mind the same widgets everywhere.
Red Hat tend to hide bug reports on their commercial (free software) compilers in bugzilla, unfortunately; I don't know what Adacore, for instance, or other commercial providers do, and such bug reports will be only a small part of it. You could obviously study the defects in released versions of GCC on which commercialized versions are based, though, to the extent they have PRs.

A great benefit of GCC was always enabling learning and research, though there are more opportunities these days.
You also "need" to have growth because the population grows. Simply, if GDP or energy use is flat, that implies lower GDP or energy consumption per capita. The latter may be explained by efficiency, but the former would imply reduced standard of living.
The delivery, regulatory and other charges on my monthly bill are typically higher than the actual electricity charges ...
The USA. He's saying the USA already has enough tech cities.
I've seen this "argument from big numbers" lots of times and it's unconvincing. The large number of planets in the universe means nothing if none of them have Earth-quality conditions, or if it's purposefully kept empty, or if the probability of life arising is too small even given the large number of planets.
It’s very clever. Except for Dart. It has an image problem among developpers. I don’t know why but everyone I know seems to hate Dart (the only things worse than coding in Dart for my friends would be something like « writing amp pages in php using Atom »), so unless they can change that or support something like Typescript I’m not sure they’ll attract a lot of developpers.
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