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Indeed, and the first example in the article is a little like this. "What is the ticket number" roughly translates to "go search the bug tracker for me, even though I could do that just as easily (or could do with the practice)". Maybe sarcasm wasn't warranted, but at best the answer is "I don't have that to hand, and couldn't find any quicker than you could".

In a real sense, someone acting like this is insulting. Rather than the homeless guy anecdote in the article, it's like someone asking you for money, not because they're desperate, but because they just think you're a sucker.

For the genuinely well meaning and self motivated learners, I agree we should try hard to be sympathetic and respectful.
At a certain point the cycle repeats. Remember, most people believed some form of religion had all the answers at some point. Most of their answers were "accurate enough", in the same sense that anything you read within 30 seconds of searching is "accurate enough". For a lot of people, those answers are still and will continue to be "accurate enough".

Think about the following with "Church" or "Search Engine" as [institution].

"I had a question.

I visited the [institution] and found conflicting or unclear answers.

I decided to explore the question on my own, because the [institution] was just confusing me further"

One is part of human history on a grand scale. I hope the other will be as well.
> Falsehoods are helpful for survival?

Nothing I was discussing can be considered a falsehood. These are unprovable beliefs. They cannot be proved and they cannot be disproved. (or rather: we have yet to discover the means to prove or disprove them)

> Hmm.. strange, how much the value of false things overlaps with the number of wishful things. And how the ones we ought keep are those you like to wish for, and not those terrible wants other people wish for.

I believe you are making mistaken assumptions about what I believe.

The functional utility of wide classes of beliefs has changed rapidly over the last several hundred years. I am not arguing that everything people believe has or continues to have functional utility. In fact, I believe to ideologies to succeed over time, they must repeatedly adapt and evolve to maintain their utility.

My issue is that Mjburgess dismissed an entire category of human cognitive function as a "bug" when it seems much more likely that such a pervasive trait is in fact an adaptive feature of human cognition.

I have great admiration for skeptics who attempt to disprove provably false beliefs. I also have no problem with atheists and many of them are intellectual heroes of mine. However, I take issue with atheists to believe their belief in the 'non-existence of all gods' is somehow epistemologically superior to people who hold religious beliefs despite them being similarly unprovable.
I sadly can't believe anything I read on the internet and I view this with suspicion for some reason...
Yep - this is a major pain. The IRS rests the onus on you to best interpret their cryptic guidance on what taxes you need to pay. My team and I are working very hard at http://zenLedger.io on these problems. We have poured over hundreds of hours reading tax codes, talking with CPAs and tax attorneys about this. And we are implementing our best understandings in a tax prep software. It is more difficult than you think. We are making hard default decisions like is the same token move from one exchange to another taxable and so on. If you have specific questions about how we are implementing these, ask your questions and we will give our opinions. We are software developers, not CPAs or Tax Prep professionals. So we are taking an engineering view of making sure every tiny little rule and exception is coded and accounted for in the software. In our more premium version, we will let you change the tax policy that is then applied to your returns. We will prepare the right tax forms but you will take responsibility for sending it. Sorry, it sounds like an advertisement but I wanted to communicate how much pain and work we are going through to address exactly what you are asking.

We are very close to a public release.
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Yep. Its not a bad idea at all, stuff like this is what made Chrome huge on Android. A lot of users will never change default settings.

I mean I would love to live in a world were people make informed decisions based on research but that's not happening. Meanwhile advanced users retain the freedom to use whatever browser they want so everyone wins.
The Mormons are a great deal more practical about it than these food kits though. Mostly just encouraging canning/home cooking and keeping a rotating inventory of anything that'll keep a few years.

Prepper food isn't really practical unless you've got 100 people to feed and can genuinely use industrial food in industrial quantities.
Random suggestion: how about listening and taking notes?
> You know who else does that?

Who else does what, exactly? I can't follow what "that" is supposed to refer to.
In reality, even that isn't equal. A poor person who has moved out of the city because they can't afford housing inside of it losing their license would probably mean losing their job, as public transportation options may not even be available. A wealthy person could just hire an Uber everywhere and wouldn't even notice the cost.

While the punishment is equal, the impact it would have on different populations is unequal (which is the same issue with a fine of an absolute amount).
US exceeding a billion people? All countries except some in Africa are on a population decline long term.

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate

https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/2c9342e9aa17d2237eade9...

https://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-facts-about-...

https://vimeo.com/79878808
awesome!
do you want hire another engineer?
Please update the page stating such.
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Years ago I worked at UPS while going to community college. This was in a suburban/semi-rural area of NC. At our UPS center, the wait time to become a full-time driver was around 7-8 years (union seniority rules and all). Management never got tired of reminding people that if you were willing to transfer to Charlotte, NC, you could land a driver job in as little as 6 months. For some reason they never had any takers...
Not an excuse at all.

I believe the negative sentiment towards the NSA, Facebook, Amazon and Google have to do with the fact that activities like collecting and storing sensitive information on individuals brings Western society one step closer to the situation in China. The capability now exists and a historic record about an individuals behaviour can be summoned easily.

What scares me is the idea of laws you're breaking which don't even exist yet, scary stuff.
You've identified a major reason the Amiga failed. The chipset was originally great, but Commodore should have spent the money to keep up with Moore's Law. Something like AGA should have arrived in 1988, not 1992, and with a blitter four times the power as OCS, not just twice.
That is preventing you to trust a system where "a gaming streamer is rewarding his most loyal viewers with tokens they store in their own database and you can redeem for shoutouts or merchandise."?

I would somehow think that the database technology is quite secondary to the creditworthiness of the gaming streamer when people decide whether to trust or not a token system of a gaming streamer.
I suspect that the fundamental underlying phenomenon - the population's age distribution - will outweigh all other factors.

Fewer people = lower real estate prices.
As ocdtrekkie mentions, the CommaAI is an option that offers a little hand holding in the sense that instructions are available. I actually went through the process of building one and hooking it up to my car and deciphering my cars CAN bus messages. It's pretty interesting and would definitely recommend it.

As for making your own, it depends on how good you want it to be. For example, the CommaAI is simple to do even from scratch but not super cutting edge. On the other hand theres companys out there using additional radars and Lidar which increases the cost and complexity. But in theory you'd just need to mount a machine in the trunk of your car, hook it up to your cars computer (have a car capable of being controlled solely via computer), hook up any additional sensors. Then write the software that can fuse all of the incoming data and use it to send messages to the car.

If this is something you're interested in learning about you can check out Udacity's SDC Nanodegree
If you're talking about Quicklisp, to reload it after closing the REPL, you just need to run:

(load "~/quicklisp/setup.lisp")

and then you'll have the quicklisp functions available. Running:

(ql:add-to-init-file)

will add something like that to your REPL's init file, so you'll have quicklisp available from the get-go. After that, to load a package like "cl-opengl", whether it's installed or not, you just need to do:

(ql:quickload "cl-opengl")

This is in the homepage, under a section titled "Loading After Installation"[1].

[1] https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/#loading
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And it was a staple of Escape Velocity plugin editing too. Very fun program for a child with an old mac at that time.
Not to mention that every time the app updates, it will prompt you to use Chrome, even if you've already changed that setting.
Oh shit, this might be perfect for a fun idea I had for something I wanted to do for my friends but without charging them money.

But if it’s an ERC20 token, don’t we need to pay gas to use it? Or does the token run on a chain that you guys control instead of on the Ethereum blockchain?
Have your extensive comments about the CCP on HN caused you any hassles?

The fact that comments cannot be deleted is increasingly unethical as ML makes privacy easier and easier to pierce. People who made rational decisions about the risks of sharing various opinions on a small site in 2010 are now locked into the consequences a decade later when both technology and political landscapes have changed.

It would be truly surprising if HN history doesn't eventually play a key role in someone being imprisoned or executed due to having expressed views that a country, religion or other organization finds objectionable.
1) I'm pretty sure this is how various levels of public service work. Pay below market rate, but offer extremely good job security. As a result, many people stick around and form long-term relationships. Where I can see this going poorly is when personal disputes bleed into work situations. I've worked with people whom I have disliked working with, but loved hanging out with, and vice-versa. As long as there is respect for the reason you are there (i.e. to work), it's not so bad.

2) I've never worked anywhere with free food, so I don't know if that would change things, but have worked at places with a full-service cafeteria, a lunch/break room, and no break/lunch room. The place that only had the lunch room seemed to have the most socialization, with all levels/types of staff bringing their lunch and chatting as a group. Even people who didn't bring a lunch would still pop in. Surprisingly, no real cliques ever formed (even people who came, sat and never said a word seemed very welcome).

The cafeteria workplace seemed to only attract those who needed to purchase food. Though, it did seem like more of a social place around morning coffee break (again, mostly people purchasing coffee).

The place without a lunchroom pretty much had everyone either eating at their desks or leaving for lunch. I found this pretty abysmal and I'd classify myself as an introvert. Compared to the lunchroom situation, I certainly knew less about what everyone actually did in their jobs, so it really was a net loss even in terms of productivity.

3) That's a hard one. I think it's okay for people to be left out if they choose to, but I think if your culture relies on cliques, then it will eventually drive out anyone who doesn't fit (and I'm sure at some places, that's seen as a positive).
I don't get it - looking at the example at https://github.com/fossas/fossa-cli?top#quick-start - that's hardly more telling than looking at the original dependency file?

Maybe there should be a (more prominent?) link to that rich, hosted example report :)
Stratum is a full-featured framework, it is not a stand-alone templating engine; it can be used to build websites without ever using WordPress APIs (which are supported if you require them).

For example, a great use case is to use WordPress as a backend for saving content to the database and Stratum for displaying that content without having to load the whole WordPress app. But as I said earlier, you can write "regular" WordPress themes as well.

As for the templating engine comparing to Twig, you cannot call procedural functions because it doesn't support PHP or expressions other than object and array member access because I designed the templating engine so that the logic is performed on PHP rather than on the views. The syntax of the views has been designed to resemble the original HTML/XML syntax. Twig filters in Stratum are Formatters. Twig/PHP includes are somehow similar to Components.

You can read the syntax here (unfinished): https://neblabs.com/documentation/views
I mostly work on audio and video codec projects. You would not believe the number of people in this domain who come to us trying to do something insane that shouldn't be done in the first place. Of course, telling them that and dismissing them isn't helpful. But pretty much all you can do is ask, "Why are you trying to do that?" and work backwards. With luck you can set them back on the path towards success.

But a lot of people don't want to explain themselves or their reasoning, or get defensive when you imply that the time they just sunk into the approach they were taking was wasted.

It's helpful to remember that the people who have been working on a project for years might (but not always!) have a better perspective than someone who picked it up this week. If we're asking you "why", it's because we really are trying to help.

We're especially interested in figuring out how we can avoid leading other people down the path you went down (whether it's better documentation, or something else that would help). Because for every one who comes to us trying to do something insane, there's probably a hundred who are doing insane things and not telling us.
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Woah!

Just the other day I've had a discussion with my companion about how one would determine they live on a toroidal[1] planet (assuming the atmosphere is too cloudy, and one can only see a small neighborhood).

She suggested measuring circumferences of circles at various points, as a means of getting curvature; the torus is negatively curved at some places.

"But what if we are on a flat torus?", I asked. "We are talking about a potentially realistic scenario here, not a topological abstraction", she objected. I didn't have anything to say.

But now I do.

On page 66, they even show a 3D-printed model!

I knew of Whitney embedding theorem, but somehow, not of the Nash embedding theorem which proves this is possible - and certainly not of this result, which is delightfully amazing.

[1]...which, according to articles like this one, are possible: https://io9.gizmodo.com/what-would-the-earth-be-like-if-it-w...
exactly.

or remote start, remote diagnostics, tire pressure monitoring systems, maintenance reminders, electronically controlled suspensions, many traction control systems, etc.

Not arguing those features should/need to exist but they are heavily dependent on UI/control system data exchange.
That's not true, but I bet it takes a little more to install a new OS in your computer than to install a new browser.
It'll only raise real-estate prices in that domestic currency, and only insofar as the broader program consequences don't result in a collapse of confidence in your economy, with a spiral of damage from there (otherwise Venezuela would currently be the richest nation in world history).

You can get away with light QE. Once you go full QE, to the extent you do it and depending on how long you do it, you'll start to see it destroy the nation's standard of living, eventually collapsing asset prices in real terms.
> Are you suggesting running red lights shouldn't be enforced 100% of the time??

The majority of red light tickets are for people not coming to a complete stop before turning right on red. Quite often, the non-turn lanes aren't even instrumented because it's not profitable.

There's also the issue that red light camera vendors encourage shortening the yellow light, which increases revenue and harms safety.
Hmmm. I think you are right. Thanks for clarifying.
The directors cut of his documentary voiced by Kevin Spacey, and featuring Woz and Kevin Rose is available on public Bittorrent sites:

https://thepiratebay.org/search/Hackers%20Wanted

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Hackers_Wanted
I'd be interested to find better explanations of this.
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Does Gusto plan to expand their business outside of the US? In Europe every country has its own actors in this market, mostly small companies with a few hundred customers. I wonder why there is still no company providing a solution working (almost) everywhere. Stripe but for HR.
Quite.

Beware creating a cohort with nothing left to lose.

https://suntzusaid.com/book/8/2
Ask HN: To what books/articles/tweets/videos/etc are you regularly coming back?
I would imagine the best you can do here is a quorum of centralized authentication services.
Cool, I hadn't seen this kind of usage of the bitwise operator before.

for (let bitMask = 0; bitMask < 1 << scanWindowLength + 1; bitMask++) {
FORTH is probably the classic "easy to compile" language, and is quite a decent language in and of itself.
I must say that this approach works. At least for me. I try to read at least 30 pages each day. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are great occasions for this.
Does anyone actually use "Mail"? I think most people either use the email webclient, e.g. GMail, or they are corporate users and use Outlook.
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> Sesame Credit is run by Alibaba, a private company, and there's no way China wants them to have that much power.

That's true, but I see no reason for the government system to take a more moderate approach.

I don't really buy that Alibaba would have too much power, either. I'm pretty sure the CCP could swat it down pretty easily if it gets too uppity.

> China's social credit system (which doesn't exist yet)

My understanding is that things like Sesame credit are much like pilot projects -- if their ideas work to the CCP's liking, they'll make it into the government system.
This is awesome work, and a great example of the kinds of civic analysis and action developers can take to make their cities and communities better, or at least more informed of the reality they operate within.

Also, wanted to applaud and state that I wholeheartedly agree with your recommendations for both installing cameras everywhere for this purpose, but also for advocating for the faces to be blurred and for the data to be available to the public. As I see it, the surveillance state is here to stay, and thus our efforts are better geared towards pushing for equiveillance rather than fighting against inevitable surveillance: https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/isdyahoofellow/david-br...
80% of the world lives on ~$2.50/day

Meanwhile, we've chewed through trillions of tons of resources, expropriated worker effort for extravagant gain of a minority, likely instigated collapse of stable environmental conditions for later generations.

All for what, really? iPhones that help us manage the danglies of the problem: financial economic growth or bust? Did an iPhone cure a disease? Did it literally grow food or invent something new?

No, people do those things. And we got them focused on inventing apps inside a walled garden instead of working on the other things.

We haven't even gotten basic services accessible to everyone. Look at the PA special election: Healthcare was the reason people switched their vote from R to D.

But it sure is great Google/Apple/Facebook and the ones that get through their purity competitions are having a great go of it.

There is some serious deflection going on that comment.
Wow, Reading your comment made me wonder how bad it was, 1 in 6 will be over 80 and by 2025 they will need an additional 130,000 caregivers.
My thought exactly! None of them were violent, and for most the total value of items stolen were less than £30-40. These women just needed to be taken care of.

A solution like the one you suggest would be more practical. Save from the costs of a proper prison and provide proper care for their needs.

Sometimes I am wondering how we will age, with the loneliness creeping in to all modern societies (I don't think this is just a Europe problem), we have to find better solutions to stealing and imprisoning 70+ yo people for a soft drink and some rice.

Japan needs a root-cause-analysis asap, and act on it without burrying their head in the sand.
While I respect that this sucks for bikers, I gotta side with the Mayor on this one.

There is a limited budget for enforcement, and it makes sense to focus that enforcement on crimes that cause loss of life or serious harm first.

And frankly, the economy of NYC would come to a screeching halt if people couldn't double park to make quick stops. The cost of delivering anything would go up significantly to account for the cost of parking and time spent circling for legal parking at every drop-off, or the cost of all the fines.

Also, you probably should have started with, "And I understand some of this is a state issue, but can you clarify which parts are a state issue and which parts are things NYC could do?". That would have been a lot better than "And don't tell me it's a state issue!!"
Take a look at Grassroots for Hire, https://www.amazon.com/Grassroots-Hire-Consultants-American-...
You don't need to casually read it. Reading it side by side with the translation, however, definitely gives you a much deeper comprehension of the original and its subtleties. I read bilingual texts (particularly latin, or poetry) as much as possible for languages I can't read casually.
> One of the interesting insights I got while building my own compiler was that despite what every compiler book says, there are languages that can be compiled on the fly without building an AST.

PL (but not compiler) researcher here. What you're saying sounds to me like "One of the interesting insights I got while programming my own game was that despite what every game programming book says, there are games that can be programmed without defining any functions." I mean, yes, you can do that, and it may in fact be more efficient, but it's going to cause trouble down the line if you ever want to do something more complex.
Do you have any sources on these claims you can share?

Adding in the problems of private vendors commercializing law enforcement wasn't on my mind, but is a very good point. I would hope that, despite any pressure to shorten the yellow light, laws and safety advocates would prevent that from getting out of hand.

What is currently most out of hand between unsafe driving and unreasonable enforcement revenue, is clearly unsafe driving. So even if enforcement isn't perfect, I still think a correction towards enforcement is a good thing on the whole. I hate driving because of how crazy unsafe large numbers of people will be for really marginal benefits. The wish more more enforcement crosses my mind almost every day.

And, again, we can easily defeat any evil government revenue enforcement schemes by simply following the laws we should have been following all along.