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On the surface car culture exists because public transport isn't affordable or entirely absent.
A few train routes can relieve thousands of cars off the road. A bus carries the equivalent of dozens of cars.
In almost all situations public transport is safer and more environmentally friendly.

The situation in US is that public transport doesn't reach suburbs/exurbs, because the routes are generally low in passengers due lower population density - thus not profitable. There are of course more reasons why people choose living without public transport.

The psychology of suburbs/exurbs is against public or shared utility like public transport,
because it forces social cohesion and interaction will all of society layers(while private transport is segregated by location and limited to those who have vehicles). Its ingrained in US culture that personal homes, cars and guns are symbols of independent life - a certain brand of lifestyle that diametrically opposite to city life.

People should understand this lifestyle has costs and inefficiencies that exist solely due spreading the population too thin to support services such as public transport.
Any business or organization will naturally form to service large concentrations of users, focusing on cities-first, because this simplifies logistics and transport.

People complain often that their area is only serviced by one company(e.g. internet) or even none. They don't really understand why there isn't competition or diversity of service providers for their needs. Their lifestyle teaches them its normal and everything else must accommodate it.
Yandex Taxi has Youtube videos of their self-driving car. This video of a car navigating a snowy Moscow street is especially impressive [0]. They don't seem to come up in self-driving car discussions on HN.

[0] https://youtu.be/Bx08yRsR9ow
WHY FLIGHTS OFTEN CARRYING MEDICAL RESEARCHERS ARE CLANDESTINELY SHOT DOWN?
The thing is it isn't that we need to stand up for others, but by standing together that we can alleviate society's ills, including our own on a personal scale.
I post it a million times but I will post it again. Please visit decidethefuture.org and/or fightforthefuture.org and see what your local politicians stance on data privacy, surveillance, and privacy/data policy.

The best way to protect your privacy and your constitutional rights is to vote for privacy advocates.
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I gave my intuition. There is no argument here.
These “single-file libraries” share a lot of the same ideals: https://github.com/nothings/single_file_libs
There's this fantasy in America that, in some existential crisis, one can just go somewhere and start a new life. It's like an understood aspect of the Bill of Rights.
No, the implicit contract is far from obvious. Yes, everyone knows Facebook shows you advertisements in return for using their service; that personal information is used for that purpose, the extent of personal information collected, and what else it can be used for and with whom it may be shared, is far from clear even to technically-inclined individuals, much less the average user.

There's a reason Facebook has you agree to a 10,000 words ToS and related documents, and it's not because the contract here is blindingly obvious. It would be another thing if the type and extent of their data collection was clearly spelled out and delineated so you knew exactly what you're giving up; but Facebook explicitly wants the ability to collect anything and everything and use it for whatever. Under those conditions, what kind of information they collect about you and what other data it allows them to infer is completely opaque. ("It's just an indoor photo me and a friend, surely Googlebook can't tell where this was taken?" https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/02/29/google-knows-whe...)
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Jargon are just words, abstractions. I mean, even the term HR is considered a jargon term if you aren’t familiar with the concept.

Nadella isn’t speaking to you, but to a bunch of shareholders, his messaging is extremely optimized for that target audience (I learned this when working for MS). Likewise, Jobs was talking to you, his messaging was similarly optimized to a different audience.
Yes it's comfortable, but super space inefficient - 18 feet of road space times a lane for one human.

By all means cars are great, until our devotion to them makes us build 12 lane freeways rather than civilized mass transit. Nothing screams civilized country like high speed and efficient trains.
But what if "some" is not subject of my program and I want to offload it's complexity away so that I can concentrate on actual subject of my program? In that case wouldn't it be better to have some_alloc, some_foo, some_free rather than to need each user to make their own, probably buggy and slow allocator?

If I'm making image editor, allocating bitmaps myself is fine, if I'm writing crud app, not so much.
Wow! I had no idea he did this. I did something similar, but unlike Steve's interpreter, I used BRK instructions as prefixes to my pseudo-ops. This let me mix straight 6502 assembly with my pseudo-ops without switching between different modes. I wish I could find the code that I wrote for that ... probably in a printout in a box somewhere.
> need each user to make their own, probably buggy and slow allocator

What's wrong with malloc?
Most stock turns out to be worthless. The things articles never mention.
Game developers have to know far more math than web developers. Basic game developers need to know trig and matrix math cold. Advanced game developers need differential equations for physics engines, some topology for mesh handing, and AI for NPCs.
Std::function as a parrameter in delegate constructor
i want to know why control does not goes to AB() if i passed abc(AB) in main() as control goes for initialization of i as 10 when abc(10) is passed

class abc
{
int i;

std::function<void(void)>func = nullptr;

public:
abc(){}

abc(std::function<void(void)>&fb):func(fb){}

abc(int i):i(i){}

};

void AB()
{
cout<< "fun_AB";
}

int main()
{
abc(AB);
abc(10);
}
Yes, the Z80 is a superset of the 8080 (not 8085) ISA.
The important insight it's possible this wasn't by accident or natural, there is a belief that it was intentional[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
It's worth pointing out that his two favorite RNGs (xoroshiro128+/xorshift128+) both fail BigCrush. According to [0] and the associated github [1], for a statistically strong RNG which is still fast, AES-CTR or splitmix64/lehmer64 are probably your best bet, unless you have AVX512, in which case an SIMD-accelerated PCG is the way to go [2]. (The other methods cap out at 1 cycle per byte, while the AVX512 PCG is 1 cycle per 32-bit integer, 4x as fast as the fastest previously tested.) While I don't doubt it could be further accelerated, I've added STL compatibility, templated unrolling, and provided some extra utilities (including random access) in a package based off code from [1] (provided by Samuel Neves) which I now use in most of my projects, and which is available at [3].

[0] https://lemire.me/blog/2017/09/08/the-xorshift128-random-num...

[1] https://github.com/lemire/testingRNG

[2] https://lemire.me/blog/2018/06/07/vectorizing-random-number-...

[3] https://github.com/dnbaker/aesctr
*VAR without TVP
The ninth one was only mostly dead.
What’s the easiest toolchain to build a self-hosted “Netflix”?
There are times when I need to keep my daughter entertained with a screen but I don’t want her to watch garbage. I have about 10TB of documentaries and educational videos and want to create a Netflix-like experience so she can watch what she wants, but only from the catalog I’ve created for her. What are the best tools here?
The whole point of this new feature is to add safety. If you want the old semantics, use null pointers. Adding a feature which creates the illusion of safety without providing it is not helpful.
Jean Claude Juncker is a great leader for us in Europe and I think he will fix this very soon.
Why do people think it makes so much of a difference if a happy new planetary order is initially installed by alphabet agencies or Alphabet companies?
The investors on Dragon's Den always want too much equity - I would imagine that anyone going on the show would know that.

I also think some people go on the show knowing that they're not going to get investment at a sensible equity level, and are really on there as a way of marketing their idea to a wider audience.
Property taxes in California are at most 1% of the assessed value. If your property immediately doubled in value, you'd have to be in it 200 years before being underwater on it from taxes.

If we let that debt accrue interest the timeline becomes much shorter, of course, but presumably the property appreciates at a related interest rate.
Tesla literally never says that autopilot system is self driving and has repeated nags and reminders to keep hands on the wheel and pay attention. This message is repeated during onboarding, training videos, and manual etc. 99% of Tesla owners follow these instructions. There will of course be 1% drivers who will not.
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Sure, but for most purposes, that kind of generality is just not needed. I have hundreds of useful small to large programs that don't need any external input - it's all in the source code.

Besides, even if you want to take in a general function in this case, there's almost certainly no need to write a bespoke parser by hand. In fact, this student was able to handle that requirement just fine (he had this in there first, and we made the program more useful by taking it out):

exec('f = lambda x: ' + input('Enter function: f(x) = '))

Writing parsers is simply not the universal programming requirement you claim.

This will be my last reply in this thread.
I disagree. This is an artificial limitation that severely hampers the library's capabilities. That kind of discipline may be fine for normal linear string-crunching, but it's cumbersome to an asinine degree if your library needs to do any sort of complex ADT manipulation.
That's not what the HCI research and general literature on this says.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(computer_interface)#Asse...

The issue is that novice, elderly, power or otherwise, if you have dialogues popping up all the time asking you if you're sure, and 99% of the time you ARE sure, then pretty soon you will habituate to just hitting OK whatever until the one time you DON'T mean OK, at which point you have an undo.

This isn't controversial, or just my opinion, it's observed, researched HCI stuff (mainly in the context of aircraft cockpit design but also on desktop software and the web).
Can someone tell me how this is different from/improves over pachyderm?
I wrote a FORTRAN IV (subset) compiler for the Apple ][ once. It used fixed-point arithmetic and the compiler output was subroutine threaded. E.g. a=b+c would translate to

jsr load
address of b
jsr load
address of c
jsr add
jsr store
address of a

Like in the method described by the author, subroutines would fetch their arguments (if any) from the code and adjust the return address. I have no idea how fast it was, but it was certainly faster than doing the same computations in Applesoft BASIC.
In the cities, there are buildings with shops and restaurants on the ground level and apartments above. Sometimes even in towns you see buildings like that, where the people who run the business live above it. It's possible, even if a physical presence is needed, to have housing and commerce/industry within walking distance.

My first jobs were all within walking distance of where I lived. After that I got jobs on the bus route. But that didn't always work out great - miss a bus by a couple of minutes, or if they miss each other at the transfer station, and you're an hour or two late from waiting for the next bus.

Eventually I ended up in a place and career where commuting was pretty much necessary - jobs were spread over a wide area across multiple towns/cities. And intercity transit is far far worse than local buses. Carpooling to the rescue. The commute sucked, but we had each other's conversation and the audiobooks.

Now I work from home, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I've gained 2 hours a day. The company gets the best of me, instead of me tired and frazzled from transit. It's cheaper and safer. It's a win-win.

Being on a remote-oriented team, it's been said multiple times by people in the office that we talk more than they do to each other. And that matches my experience from having worked in an office.

Driving is insane, especially for commuting, and doubly-so if the job can be done remotely. Cars are extremely expensive not just to buy but to maintain and operate, and yet they spend almost all of their time just sitting in a parking space doing nothing but wasting space. It's a total waste. We can do better.

Someday we'll be explaining to our descendants how we used to spend half our income for a giant box that you had to drag around everywhere you went and constantly pour money into, and then you would just sit in it for hours wishing that you weren't, because that was the fad back then.
Nothing I was thinking about allocations of more complex structures (that at the end use malloc)
Go talk to your Congressperson or their staff. Get a satisfactory answer. Or, if you don't, go talk to their primary or general election opponent (or their staff). Make it clear what's important to you.
(I live in Japan, anecdata, etc.)

FWIW, my landlord switched from requiring a guarantor to going through an insurance that acts as one. So that moves the risk assessment to the insurance company, which may or may not have less bias. I hear this kind of setup is getting more common.

Anyways, having been on the recipient end of "landlords deny foreigner", I can attest that it's overwhelmingly economics driven, and not racism.
Waymo showed off their tech for driving in snow/rain in Google IO this year.

They've also done a lot of their testing in the SF Bay Area, which is a pretty difficult urban area to drive in.

They're obviously launching in Phoenix because it's the easiest major city to drive in, but they're also obviously going to expand to other places once they get successes in Phoenix.

Honestly, to me, the more interesting question is: As self-driving cars slowly expand to other cities, will other cities intentionally start making their lane markings more obvious and doing other things to make it easier for self-driving cars to drive in?

Sometimes, shuffling around blame can cause things to get fixed. Previously, with bad lane markings, you could blame bad drivers for accidents. But with self-driving cars, you can only blame the software. So if a self-driving car company is willing to serve one city with good lane markings but not another city with bad lane markings, suddenly the city government gets the blame for bad lane markings.
i have my own Domain with an VPS and i use SOGo4 and claws mail
I found working in an agile shop for a few months burned me out as well. Agile takes away the art of programming and daily standups forced me to do only work I can summarize quickly.
Did you mean this?
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/videos/connect-2...
Not everyone is a virtue signaling libtard faggot. That's why some of us donate anonymously.
That may be your opinion. But 30 years of HCI research and recommendations on the subject say otherwise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(computer_interface)#Asse...

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/

https://asktog.com/atc/principles-of-interaction-design/
> The difference is that Chalmers recognizes that information and subjective experience are not equivalent,

"recognizes" seems to assume that he's right.

AFAICT there's absolutely no reason a priori to think that it's true, so I think the burden of proof is on those making the claim that the subjective is somehow not just the result of physical processes -- which is what the claim seems to amount to, at least to me.
> Treating prop 13 tax discounts as debt would further discourage people from selling (never sell, because you have incurred infinite debt).

This is a common reaction to the author's suggestion (one I have made in comments here on HN several times), but it's wrong. The only way the tax debt gets to be large is if property values go up for a long time. If that happens, the gain on the sale is easily sufficient to pay off the lien.

Remember that Prop. 13 allows a property owner's tax bill to increase by 2% annually. In the scenario where there's a sudden jump in property values followed by a long plateau, the payments will eventually catch up to the assessment. If we stipulate that the tax bill may increase by 2% annually as long as there is an outstanding balance (even if a sharp drop in property values reduces the assessment), then I don't think you can come up with a scenario where the lien value is excessive. Try it, with actual numbers; you'll see it's not so easy.

(Oh, we do also have to assume that the interest rate is reasonable. I would be inclined to leave it at zero, given that this proposal is already going to be extremely difficult to sell the public on.)
Gizmodo is still not over with Apple! I noticed this so many times. After the lawsuit between Apple and Gawker media - which is the parent of Gizmodo - they've been acting like this.
seems like your privilege talking; nobody is comparing to field farming here.
> It is very uncommon for people to say that double taxation has occurred when a nominal (but not real) gain due to inflation is taxed.

Note that this was not any part of the model I described; assuming inflation of 0%, capital gains taxes are still double taxation because the value of $100,000 (real, inflation-adjusted, or your favorite equivalent term) today is greater than the value of $100,000 inflation-adjusted dollars 20 years from now.

Believing that "the double taxation argument that justifies the capital gains rate" has to do with the corporate income tax is a significant mistake that will cause you disappointment should you manage to eliminate the corporate income tax -- the arguments for a lower capital gains rate will not go away, because eliminating the corporate income tax will not address them.

Here's a professional economist making the same point in far-off 2017: ( http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2017/07/do_you_really_w.... )

> I always find that some people are confused by the claim that investment income should not be included with wage income. I like to explain this with a thought experiment of two equally well off twin brothers. Assume that both earn identical lifetime wage incomes, and neither inherits money from their parents. Then both are equally well off. If one chose to buy two Hondas and the other chooses to but one BMW, you would not say the guy with two cars is better off. If one chooses to buy a BMW at age 25 and the other saves and buys two BMWs at age 55, you would not say the more patient brother is better off. (Unless you were the US government). Future goods have less value than present goods.
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I'm not sure what you're proposing, but my own preference (as a California voter) would be for initiative constitutional amendments to require a 60% supermajority. Initiative statutes, which can be modified after passage by the legislature, I'm still fine with passing on a bare majority.
I remember going through the border at Houston airport several years ago, travelling with some work colleagues, one of which was an 18 year old girl who had never been on a plane before. The border guy was one of the 'little Hitler' types, and gave her a series of rapid fire personal questions about her relationship with her boyfriend back home - his overbearing demeanour and personal nature of the question were completely inappropriate, and my colleague ended up confused, scared and in tears.

I travelled to the US several times afterwards, landing in either Houston or Atlanta, and the border crossing was always a horrible experience. Thankfully I haven't had to go for years now. Worth noting that I've travelled to many countries, spread over every continent, and never experienced border guards as nasty and vicious as they are in the US - if anything, they are generally friendly elsewhere!
V8 switched to an interpreter last year. It's a really interesting project: https://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/05/launching-ignition-an...
I don't live in the Bay Area, or in the US for that matter, but visited multiple times and the reason for this behavior is that people in the Bay Area are usually more relaxed than in other regions I've been to, like New York or other big and crowded cities, like Bucharest where I live.

IMO it's also "fucking rude" to "shoulder check or pass aggressively close".

I should be able to walk at my own pace and I don't freaking care that you're late somewhere. What can I say, leave earlier, take some other route or get a scooter. Not my problem and whenever I get "shoulder checked" I do get aggressive and I punched somebody once.
> rent control increases the cost of rentals on the market by reducing supply (since it allows people that pay way below market to stay in housing that would otherwise be available for someone else)

More importantly (when it comes to increasing the cost of rentals), rent control discourages new construction by reducing it's profitability (easy to see with a discounted cash flow[0] analysis).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discounted_cash_flow
Indeed,

The one example is simply securitizing a work of art, "with the blockchain", where naturally a blockchain is no more useful than a simple contract since blockchains don't guarantee action in the real world.

Which is to say blockchains could never do what the article claims, as you'd expect. It reminds me of people selling digital paper-clips in the 1980's.
The title is kind of misleading considering that the article clearly states that GDPR doesn't apply to European institutions. (Apparently European institutions are "'separate' from GDPR for 'legal reasons'" and "subject to a new law that 'mirrors' GDPR which will come into effect in the autumn".)
A typical big-city transit system is standing-room-only and heavily subsidized (fares are way too low to cover costs). More riders would just make all their problems worse.
And thanks to the guardian, we (the consumers) can choose companies that pick factories that treat their workers ethically. Lest we lose our moral high ground.
Evolution does not require consciousness, so I have no idea why you think the hypothesis that bacteria are conscious has any "explanatory power".
No, non-cached whitebox macros are.
Here, all the numbers on tesla safety debunked https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2016/1014/How-saf...

They stopped giving mile driven statistics after that.
The taxes themselves have to go down. Currently it's difficult to find a decent house in the Bay Area for less than $1m. That means you pay $1k/mo in taxes. With out prop 13 that can go up arbitrarily. Soon only tech employees will be able to afford to live here. Maybe that's just what the Silicon Valley companies who are so adamant about repealing prop 13 want but even they will find it difficult when the service industry people are gone or living in ghetto block flats. I don't buy the argument that property values will drop of prop 13 is repealed.
That "framework" would be CGI. You have to call a program to get its standard output.