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Its not just a logistics thing. Prefab components are mostly used for faster RoI by building quicker.

A good example of a real estate holdings company using prefab construction is mcdonalds, wawa, etc. These establishments have the same churn and burn formula. From start to finish, some of these stores can be completed in a little under a month from start of construction to open time. It makes sense for them to spend more money on prefab components. Opening sooner means faster revenue streams. Not only that, if you open in a popular area, rent/land is very high. Where I live the average rent for a store is maybe $3000 a month for a 1500 square foot area but a new chipotle in my town opened up an area with a rent of about $8000.

Your traditional real estate development takes much longer than this though. They pay for cheaper raw materials instead, as its easier to work with for each houses need. They dont have a streamlined sysyem setup for needing prefab components.
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"zero-sum jobs" - it sucks that they have to exist, but if any individual firm stopped having them, that firm would be behind.

Perhaps a solution would be to ban them by law. So if corporate lawyers were banned then the executives would settle their disputes personally at a fraction of the cost.
> now I know Apple didn't do it first

It may not be apple's fault, but many apple fans incorrectly think features originated at apple, like mobile fingerprint scanning. My daughter thinks apple invented everything. :-)
If it is ONE thing a free market actually does well, it's setting the right price for commodities based on people's wishes.

And that ONE thing, the politicians think they can do better?

I'm all for a supportive state, but regulatory capture and forced pricing is not supportive.
> Those other countries have developing economies and populations. It won't be long before the other large countries stop seeing the US as significant -- they'll be trading with each other where appropriate.

Which is why the US needs to redevelop its economy to be able to produce more things that those countries might actually want to buy besides agricultural products. The IOU-based trade-deficit policy isn't going to cut it long term.
Yes, cars kill, injure, and create disease, but they also connect people across the world, to relatives, to work, to buy and deliver goods and services.

Without cars, our level of productivity would be a fraction of what it is today as employment is confined to a tiny geography. Many more people would die from fires, disease, and crime as emergency services arrive on horse drawn carriage. Most people would never venture out of their hometowns.

Car companies, for all their faults, for all their fraud and corruption, create products that immeasurably benefit us every day. Before we call them evil, we must look at the impact they have on each of us. That impact is decidedly positive, as evidenced by the widespread ownership of cars.
So a better option would be to use your Comcast / AT&T / Verizon connection to leak data to the press?

Everything on the internet (and really in life) is a chain of trust - there are going to be weak links however far down the rabbit hole you go.
What PIA co-founder proofed in this thread so far:

- ProtonVPN UAB lists Tesonet's CEO as a director

- ProtonVPN UAB is operated from Tesonet HQ in Vilnius, Lithuania

- ProtonVPN UAB uses previous Tesonet's technical employees

- ProtonVPN uses IP address blocks that belong to Tesonet

- ProtonVPN mobile app is signed by Tesonet

It seems, that ProtonVPN is a free VPN service by a data mining company from Lithuania.
Some of the products are decent: the baby wipes, the dishwasher detergent. I’m probably missing a couple. But the majority of honest products are still quite harsh - in that their ingredients aren’t up to par or they are very very drying: hand sanitizers, hand soap, laundry detergent.

It is refreshing to see a company with such a diverse range, with some hitting the mark, get traction. I see Honest stuff almost everywhere now, whereas it used to be more niche.
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Why pick Michigan of all the universities for this stereotype?
I remember a very long time ago, I inadvertently changed a photo album I never deleted from private to public and it contained photos of an ex. I got a call from my then-current girlfriend with a boatload of questions. I started realizing shortly after how damaging this new (at the time) social media stuff could be. In my case, it was something relatively small, but I can't imagine what kind of stuff other people might have that could expose them on so many fronts. For this and other reasons, I slowly weaned myself off social media and never really looked back. I just use various accounts for logins and a few check-ins here and there.
I really don't see what the difference is. Historically, people have gotten off on killing the enemy. People revel in it
> So a better option would be to use your Comcast / AT&T / Verizon connection to leak data to the press?

A better option is to use technology that might be better able to provide some verifiable anonymity guarantees, like Tor.
And unsurprisingly, he failed to deliver on this.
Potential sex partners are sometimes very willing and cooperative. Potential murder victims not so much. In fact, they may attempt to kill you in self defense. Afterwards, the rest of society will want you behind bars for a very long time.

If you are sexually clueless and try anyway, it's embarrassing and you go have a good cry and write about it in your diary. If you have no idea what you are going and try to kill someone, well, there's still that issue that they may fight back and then the cops get called afterwards.

I think there are a few holes in your theory. Repeating it to me over and over doesn't fill them in.
> i'm not sure how to avoid this feature

Talk about a bug being called a feature. This drives me crazy.
>Well-known project with 5000 stars? Here, have more stars. Here, have more donations

agree with getting more stars, but donation? not yet :-/ :( https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processi...
Care to expand upon that?
There's no comparison. The previous generations' fights were about the negative effects of video games on the players, which are measurably minimal. The current generation is arguing that certain games are equivalent to hate speech, and that those games should be filtered from the same public spaces that hate speech is filtered from.
Because no cabs were actually available at that price: they were all taken.

When there is scarcity, there are three ways to solve it:
- allocating to those who exchange (pay) most
- allocating based on lottery
- allocating based on nepotism

We now know what the politicians there prefer.
Sure, but you could say that just about any specific rule and regulation. It is the whole system that matters.
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It's definitely a problem worth alleviating. But it is "triggering" because it is an open problem to determine whether a bias is harmful, even for human beings. So it becomes an impossible/unreasonable amount of extra work if you demand it as a prerequisite.

For example, in your translation tool example, even a human translator would have trouble making the least offensive translation possible. She/he/(insert favorite pronoun here) would need to realize the audience is a young impressionable child who is about to base her entire world-view on whether there's statistically more of her gender in that one sentence of translation.

For a machine learning algorithm to understand enough about human nature to not offend the parent of that child, you're better off waiting for AGI that can surpass human tact.
It's becoming a bit hard to keep track of organic possibilities outside of earth. Every day brings new discoveries. I wonder if most might ignore a significant one some day.
Congrats Rand. Great to see you succeeding.
Welcoming ≠ Accepting
No. The keyboard will probably need to be repaired at some point, but it's worth it to have a computer that's generally much better and a couple pounds lighter. Of course the ideal would be to wait three months until the next generation gets released.
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Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences turns out to be a really shitty idea when it happens to people you agree with.
> Zig's errors are actually different and the variants can be statically known. Error type returns are not usually specified since they can usually be inferred. They can be explicitly specified if needed [1].

Yep, as a sibling points out, I was working with a long-ago version of Zig's error handling.
The fact that they only need a subeona for metadata might change very soon, depending on how the SCOTUS case Carpenter is decided:

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2017/16-402
Coming from a different domain (game development) I suspect there will always be a place for both approaches. Games can be quite complex to debug and profile and the complexity increases for networked multiplayer games. Typically many different tools are used each of which has strengths and weaknesses.

It's pretty standard for non final builds of games to have a number of custom debugging and performance tools built in. These may display information in game or capture to a local log but commonly (especially for console games) they connect to an external tool running on another machine over a socket or custom debugging interface. This is both because it can be easier to build UIs on a PC and because, particularly for performance profiling, displaying the information locally can impact what you're trying to measure significantly.

Consoles are normally debugged using a remote debugger running on a PC but that's often useful even for debugging PC games. Often console devkits had special hardware to support this which wouldn't be present in retail hardware which made debugging issues that only showed up on retail hardware challenging.

While engines typically have some graphics debugging and profiling tools built in, it is also common to use external tools, often connecting from another machine. There are many of these: PIX, Visual Studio Graphics Debugger, NVIDIA Nsight, Intel Graphics Performance Analyzer, GPUView, Windows Performance Analyzer... They all have strengths and weaknesses so it's common to use more than one of them.

Prior generation consoles were often unikernel-like as all OS type functionality was statically linked into your executable and you'd boot right into your game. Current generation consoles have something more like a full OS but you still get much more clearly defined guaranteed minimum resources and deal with hardware at a lower level than on a PC.

Overall there's a wide range of both custom and generic but specialized tooling used for debugging and performance analysis and that's been a fairly stable reality for many years. I don't think this is a situation where one particular paradigm has to win out in the long run, more a case of using the right tool for the job.
That's going too far, I think. Sure, you can run your own VPN server, on an anonymously leased and managed VPS. But then, how do you anonymously lease and manage that VPS? As far as I know, your options are pretty much limited to VPN services, Tor and I2P. Also, VPS traffic is readily logged by providers, so your "anonymity" is pretty fragile.

Your best bet is distributing trust among multiple parties, such that no one of them can compromise you. VPN use is common, so start with nested VPN chains. Then Tor. If either the VPN chain or Tor resists compromise, then you're still safe.

After that, you can use any PM or email that you like. Because it's not connected to your meatspace identity. If content is end-to-end encrypted, the provider has nothing useful to share with adversaries. You and correspondents must, of course, avoid leaking metadata through account names and subject lines.
While it may be true that Manafort incidentally backed up WhatsApp or Signal messages to iCloud, the FBI supporting statement in the motion to revoke parole indicates that the messages cited were preserved by the receiving party and voluntarily turned over to the FBI.
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The other poster was speaking of entrapment
What's that old saying... usually misattributed to Einstein... you can't solve a problem using the same frame of mind that created it? We have a problem of too much CO2 caused by massive deployment of complex, energy-intensive industrial facilities and processes, and they want to fix it using a fairly complex and energy-intensive industrial facility/process (with giant air blowers and all), that itself is dependent on other complex industrial processes for its manufacture, transport, construction and operation. And perpetual energy use to run the fans... I mean? Are we sure it's a net positive CO2 capture after all that? And if so, is it still a net positive after the CO2 they've captured is turned (by means of even more energy input) into "low carbon fuels" that are then burned, releasing CO2 back into the atmosphere?

I mean it's great if it works and all. I just feel like the real solution doesn't look like this.
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C# just has such fucking awesome tooling that I can't leave it.

I want to take F# for a spin, but I haven't broken the bond yet.

Javascript is like the complete opposite of this, for languages I have to deal with. Just painful and slow and error-prone.
I've asked people that question and it seems the trade off is that feeling of connection. The validation that comes from sharing moments and the happy feelings it brings you when you can brag about something. In exchange for this, people are relatively lax about their privacy. I'm sure there's also a bunch of people that want to get famous so they will absorb all the followers, likes, shares and comments they can get.

I once overheard two girls talking about guys they liked at school and I shit you not, they were rating them based on how many Instagram followers they had...
From the article:

Shortly before she began working at The Times, Ms. Watkins was approached by the F.B.I. agents, who asserted that Mr. Wolfe had helped her with articles while they were dating. She did not answer their questions.
That's a good point. I do have the suspicion though that this is more emotion/outrage based legislation. I guess a nice person would give them the benefit of the doubt...
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fdareview.org - the fda kills more people in late/non approvals than it saves through denials. this is why compassionate use has been on the rise
They could have just revoked his security clearance, forcing him to resign. Think about the resources being expended on criminal prosecution of lying to the FBI.
Number 4 is ambiguous - assuming you’re competent nepotism gets you way closer to getting a job than almost anything else. Basically nepotism is a very effective shortcut to an interview for a position, alongside an initial bias in your favor (people trust their competent coworkers), and for large high profile companies your biggest problem is likely to be getting through the initial resume filtering.

Obviously this only gets you so far - I don’t want to say that 4 is /wrong/ as generally for large companies you can’t just get your friend (for instance) a job, but you do get a huge leg up on any potential competition.
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I'm involved in a project using the LMS5xx.. but on a PLC, so I envy your Java microcontroller! Have you seen SICK's new MRS 6000? Range of 200 m, and 15 degrees vertical (15 degrees)! Pricing is similar to LMS5xx.
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True. But Tor has pwned people too. Most recently, there was the bug that CMU researchers exploited, and then shared with the FBI. Also, many users of Tor browser have been pwned by phone-home malware, which leaked their ISP-assigned IP addresses. Hitting Tor through nested VPN chains would have protected them.
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For sure, though my comment referred more to analysing code for things like automatic transformations at scale (like codemods) than during development. Like, figuring out that a stateless function component is a component is hard.

You can do almost everything with jsdoc comments in flow and TS, of course. It's awesome.
ProtonVPN is run by a data mining company from Lithuania, PIA co-founder claims
No, just during, when you're unconscious, and not safe in your new car miles away.
That's because Obama was generally careful about what he said in public.
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I was going to say "this won't end well". but on the other hand I came out okay and I was raised in a cult that sought guidance from a bunch of old men who lived the most unnatural cloistered lives ever. Apparently I was supposed to gain insight from men without families who couldn't come to terms with their own (homo)sexuality. I was even an altar boy for awhile.
I'm thinking that the OS-level diskcopy tool doesn't expect to see such a wacky layout, and would just fail to track along what it expects to be concentric circles. Only the software that's aware of the custom layout would be able to read the disk, by taking direct low level control of it. And if the data is laid out in a true spiral, mimicking that with 1/4 shifts every 90 deg. might be close enough to never lose track of the, erm, track.
Well the point was the leakers did it for him!
Dracula looks supercool! Thanks for making this.
That's my biggest problem with AI and neural networks. You can't really measure progress here. If you wanted the same safety standards as for every other automotive software you'd have to test drive for hundreds of thousands of kilometres after every change of parameters, because there's no way to know what has changed about the AI's behavior except for testing it thoroughly.

Compare this to classic engineering where you know the changes you've made, so you can rerun your unit tests, rerun your integration tests, check your change in the vehicle and be reasonably sure that what you changed is actually what you wanted.

The other approach to autonomous driving is to slowly and progressively engineer more and more autonomous systems where you can be reasonably sure to not have regressions. Or at least to contain your neural networks to very very specific tasks (object recognition, which they're good at), where you can always add more to your test data to be reasonably sure you don't have a regression.

I don't think we'll see too many cars being controlled by neural networks entirely, unless there's some huge advancement here. Most of the reason we see more neural networks now is that our computing power has reached the ability to train sufficiently complex NNs for useful tasks. Not because the math behind it advanced that much since the 60s.
Depends on the temperature.
In that case, maybe it would be beneficial to add that functionality and to encourage users to downvote instead of flagging. Currently, spam, malware and warez are treated the same as submissions some people consider uninteresting, and while that does eliminate many controversial topics that could've led to debates, it also removes an entire class of content that many people do find relevant and interesting.

I have no doubt that dang knows what he is talking about, and arguably flagging on Hacker News is very effective at combating spam. However, no system is perfect, and neither is Hacker News[1]. I believe that the majority of HN users is mature enough to have sensible discussions even about controversial issues, and that showing submissions that most people like won't lead to an unhealthy community, even if a small number of people do not find the submission interesting.

[1]: https://drewdevault.com/2017/09/13/Analyzing-HN.html
It's meant to act as a deterrent. Nail one leaker to the wall, and others will be more reticent to leak.
I understand that sentiment but a technological work around (that probably also has captured data points) that would entirely alleviate whatever hypothetical issue the OP is referring to seems at best naive to this layman.
I think the point is to run the two models on the same data, either simultaneously in everyone's cars, or using recorded sensor data from the past (maybe in the car while parked after a drive for privacy reasons). Initially, only the old version gets to take any action in the real world. Any difference in lane choice would then have to be justified before making the new version "live".

You can do this sort of stuff when replacing a web service too, by the way. For example running two versions of Django and checking if the new version produces any difference for a week before making it the version the client actually sees.
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Popular for good reason. Certainly read about it outside of Wikipedia
I don't think I have the right link but I do have a footage of a TPE extrusion line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCTookefgnk
Somebody's cloud is engineered the wrong way if somebody can wreck the entirety of it when only having access to a single server
Thank you M$oft, people have been dumping unmercifully lately, but I love you, warts and all.
Most likely being posted on Product Hunt and being visible in the list of posted things for that day.
Why is GNU grep so fast?
Thanks so much for the praise (I created `xstate`)! I'm working hard on making it fully SCXML-compatible.
It moves the Kilroy object around all the active nodes in the cluster, and then back to the origin node at the end.
Many people conflate marketing and advertising. They’re not the same thing.
So basically The Witcher.
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Tesla Autopilot should be recalled via the next OTA update.

The “Autopilot” branding implies that users need not pay attention, when in reality, the system needs interventions at infrequent but hard-to-predict times. If an engineer at Apple can’t figure it out, then the average person has no chance. Their software sets users up to fail. (Where failure means permanent disability or death.)

Inevitably, Musk fans will claim that recalling Autopilot actually makes Tesla drivers less safe. But here's the problem with Musk’s framing of Autopilot.

Sure, maybe it fails less often than humans. (We don't know whether we can trust his numbers.) But we do know that when it fails, it fails in different ways — Autopilot crashes are noteworthy because they happen in situations where human drivers would have no problem. That’s what people can’t get over. And it is why Autopilot is such a dangerous feature.

An automaker with more humility would’ve disabled this feature years ago. (Even Uber suspended testing after the Arizona crash!) With Musk, my fear is that more people will have to die before there is enough pressure from regulators / the public to pull the plug.
Sort of. But I think it’s important to note how many people were applauding the seizure of communications when the target was Trump’s lawyer...
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I did see that. But she must have said something to them. Just "no comment"? Or maybe she referred them to her attorney? And then her attorney asserts her right to keep sources confidential?
OT, but I feel like this is the HN equivalent of an "evergreen tweet"
These are called financial derivatives.
Even though this was just a fluff PR piece, there is a hint of the kind of entrepreneurial creativity story that first drew me to HN.