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Notably, or notoriously, our previous codemod project just used regexes, which could result in ballooning complexity, especially when needing to modify code that might include type annotations. Bowler was designed specifically to allow refactoring against more complicated subjects, such as function signature changes, where you lose all predictability in formatting at both the definition and call site.
No, the problem is that the collateral backstopping the debt lost value, meaning that if people defaulted on the debt the financial institution could not recoup much of the loaned money.

The original money did change hands though. It just ended up with builders, flippers, and real estate agents.
I’d love to know how many people too!
YouTube launched AV1 in production
This is a gold standard for what a platform should be. An individual sells a product at a one-off price to a entrepreneur who then is able to make a living off of it. There is no 30% take in perpetuity with regulations that slowly chip away at margins. It's just one person selling another an honest opportunity to make money. And as they scale, everyone in the consumption chain benefits -- more sales, more businesses and more places to eat easily for the end customer.
I would actually say that non-React-style code would benefit even more. Suppose the user clicked a different sort tab on a table, and the code is busily removing and re-inserting elements in the dom, which the browser attempts to layout and display at the same time, leading to a lot of wasted calculations and visible "jank".
That was it! Man completely forgot about that game! This is a great take on it, I was able to quickly have fun, especially once I was able to recognize the concept. I love that you can mod via JSON as well. Do you have the code open sourced anywhere?
How do you think China's technology and education improved so drastically just a few decades after the cultural revolution?

It was the US giving its technology, military weaponry, college education, etc. to Chinese nationals. Their entry into the World Bank was supposed to come with freer markets and other reforms. Instead they run over peaceful protestors with tanks and seize all cameras from international reporters.

China doesn't respect our patents and conduct corporate espionage at the state level. They brazenly hack our corporations and governments. They don't allow our companies to compete fairly as theirs are propped up by the state.

They can't have their cake and eat it too and I believe its time for Western powers to come down hard on China and its unfair market practices.
I actually think parent comment to yours was quite measured and appropriate. Did you fully grok it?

> This is false. It is the hallmark of the current economic order that our systems are very efficient, very interconnected, and very fragile.

What evidence do you have to support this? Even in 07 an index-weighted fund only took 3 years to recover. If you were 50% in bonds, 1 year to recover.

OP was encouraging you to separate your fear from the evidence-backed likelihood that while you may lose a bit in deliveraging, there are also gains to be had in the 10-year term.

If you're feeling that things are fragile right now, adjust your allocation to something more conservative, take a two week vacation, listen to some mindfulness podcasts to calm down, and then think through where it might make sense to put 10% of your bets on 10yr+ plays.
I don't see why this would be smart move for Google/Larry Page at all. If He goes, either he will fail, which would be disaster similar to Facebook for Google, or he will come out clean, which wouldn't change anything. The majority are still going to use google products regardless of public image, so not going best maintains that image.
It was not built for the 2 to 3 migration, as there are plenty of great tools already out there for that, like 2to3 itself or futurize. It was built more for cases where we want to make changes to things like function or method signatures, and update both the definition and all call sites, across our entire codebase. It's still a very rudimentary tool at this point, but it was designed in a way that allows us to check in and reuse many components of the codemod, so that we can extract longer term value from these tools.
Thank you, will check it out!
Riders on the Storm (2007)
That bug is over five years old. Are you implying there haven't been similar, or worse, bugs in other operating systems since?

Windows used to suck, but it's somewhat unfair to judge the platform of 2018 because Vista of 2006 was bad for you.
How's the TX link back into the brain supposed to work then?
Yes, for about a century.
Is there a scenario you can envision where the Soviet Union didn't devolve into a mafia state? Or is that the most stable equilibrium given its history?
It was Earth all along...
That bug is from 2002. Do you really think it's a solid reason to not host business-critical things on Windows in 2018?
More people should know about Caddy. A webserver with built-in HTTPS. We've been using it in production and the experience has been great so far: https://caddyserver.com/
My guess is someone's ex-boyfriend/ex-husband had some OChem background and decided to go a bit ted kaczynski. The FBI got involved due to threats of explosives, they went into his apartment and found real evidence of bomb making. Would also be consistent with the Post Office having been shut down if he was planning on mailing anything.

Might also be politically motivated, but I'm going to bet on personal since this observatory was specifically targeted, and not APO (an ex-grad student who feels their academic career was destroyed by someone there would work as well for me).

Or something that rhymes with that and is much more mundane than Chinese spies or secret military tests (but of course just exceptional enough to get the FBI involved and not the local cops -- so an actual credible bomb maker and not just someone phoning in a threat).
Everybody can just pay me.
If your service involves public health or safety then you should be regulated.
Because of immaturity, not cognitive or physical capability. Kids start racing go karts as young as five - and that's a far more difficult, requiring fast reflexes, precise car control, and situational awareness. It's a far more challenging task than an average commute.
Yes, 3 billion miles is closer than Pluto.
I got my EEG to run emacs commands a couple years ago. Long story short, the company I worked for was full of people with no faith or imagination -- automatons. Imagining the future and acting in faith is not easy. You'll be ostracised by your friends and collegues. It is the most frustrating feeling seeing someone else invent the thing you imagined a couple years ago. Too many time-burgelars and traffic lights in this world
That’s an I teresting idea I hadn’t thought of before. Thanks for bringing it up.
Andrew Ross Sorkin? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/business/dealbook/financi...
Oh, right, it's Bloomberg. They love interest rates and crap like that. Nothing innovative, just debt and debt servicing.
> Just imagine what the world would be like if positions were reversed, and China or Russia were the unchecked world superpower. I suspect such a reality would make you yearn for the balance we have today.

As a Latino and living in Brazil, I'm hoping for this to happen (and is happening). Brazilian business with Chinese and Russians are a lot more fair to our side than business done with US. And they don't use military force.

Now if I talk as a citizen of the world, I think the US is one of the greatest superpower of all history and brought insurmountable amount of human development (in pair with Egypt). But as a Brazilian, some if not all of our worldly known issues are because or related to the way our economic elite do business with the US.
I mean, to be snarky -

> What's more American than the entrepreneurial spirit which drives self-owned & operated businesses like this?

Clearly, lobbying the government to make your competitors illegal.

/snark

It's super cool that a guy with a basket turned into night lunch wagons turned into diners.

It's also then pretty interesting that it took nearly a century for a comeback. (Not that roach coaches haven't been a thing, but, food trucks took it to another level).

Any indications for the intervening slump?
Isn't it kind of crazy how such a huge company can be so outlandish that it requires the general public and a musician with enough following to question such absurdity to force a human response?
The blog post seems to be pretty much a recreation of examples from the The Algorithmic beauty of Plants, but I didn't notice the author giving any credit to the original source.
I don't think the original cause matters so much. It's the cause that sustains their homelessness which needs to be addressed. People with strong support networks can bounce back from a lot of difficulties. It's the unlucky few who end up on the sidewalk in abject despair.
I don't think I want to live with a legal system that claims that my performance (as a human player) of someone else's sheet music is somehow bound by copyright. I draw that line at recorded performances, wherein, say, the orchestra might have reproduction rights to their recording of a public domain work.

I think if the law is any more strict, things like covers wouldn't be able to exist legally, and looooots of genuinely entertaining small-time youtube entertainers that develop their talents by singing or playing covers would suddenly be under legal fire. Even a complete novice can sing along to something on the radio, so trying to claim that they shouldn't be allowed to do so fails my smell test.
I work for a large consulting firm and I do a lot of work helping large government and private companies perform data migrations away from AS/400 mainframe environments.

Many people will say that there is a shortage of skills when it comes to mainframe environments, that might be true, however the need for such skills is diminishing significantly.
To be fair, the overall context of the conversation isn't (all) "other operating systems" but, specifically, mainframe ones. Additionally, the GP referenced "the past few decades", which certainly includes 5 years ago.

Hopefully a mainframe expert can chime in as to whether the major mainframe OSes have included similar or worse bugs.
We knew light existed long before we understood electricity and magnetic fields, even those had observable effects to us long before we discovered them.
Here on 10.4 :-) Man page: "A calendar command appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX." Last line says "BSD June 13, 2002."
Lessons from the Person Who Scaled Engineering at Dropbox and Facebook
It's astounding how many people in this thread seem to think that a compromised mirror or compromised certificate authority is somehow a comparable risk to plain old MITM.
great tip - but nothing to do with 'holy' .. thx
You might want to look at the comments and threads by Peter Roberts, who's done AMA threads on Hacker News before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=proberts

It's obviously a huge amount of information due to the great variety of kinds of visas and the complicated details about eligibility and practical considerations, but maybe some of the information in those threads will be helpful to you. Also, maybe Peter Roberts will be willing to do another thread at some point -- it's clear that a lot of Hacker News readers were very interested.

It might be somewhat expensive, but you may want to hire an immigration lawyer in the U.S. for a consultation, especially someone with a practice specialized in technology and startups. Some of the immigration lawyers have incredibly detailed and helpful knowledge about what works and doesn't work and can help you understand your options in your specific situation. I'm sure the lawyers would point out that there are many different kinds of immigration paths, and that small details about your situation and plans can affect your eligibility and likelihood of approval for each of them.

Best of luck to you!
This occurs today. All the software tools I use are a one-off price for a forever license, and then a subscription to updates.

There's also the argument for renting, where those wagons went unused during the day: if I rent, notionally, what I am renting can be made cheaper by the owners renting to others when I don't need it. But, this does not work well in all markets.
> we aren't intelligent enough to create such systems

Evolution suggests that you can, in fact, create systems that are more intelligent than what came before them.
A quick guide to squashing Git commits
A bit of a late answer, but your idea is pretty cool, definitely something I could see myself using if it were integrated in an ebook reader or something similar. For German (and a few other languages, actually), a very good website to fetch sentences and translations from is Linguee. I might implement something similar on top of epubjs-reader.
Isaac Arthur is my absolute favorite. Every Saturday morning after I make my coffee, I sit down and am enthralled by this week's video.
That's a very good point. When we first started listening for alien signals, we assumed that of course aliens would have TV and radio. In the few decades since then we have mostly switched to digital TV which has much more efficient (looks more like noise) encoding, and a trend of moving away from broadcast to YouTube, Netflix and podcasts is also evident (using both higher efficiency encoding and much lower transmit powers). And developments like 5G are intended to accelerate this development by using even higher coding efficiencies and shorter distances/lower power, as well as beam steering to directly target the receiver.
Perhaps civilisations only typically use broadcast communications for <100 years, a mere blip at galactic scales.
For something that simple, I would agree, but the demo is barely scratching the surface. I'd like to make a more in-depth version showing a more complicated transform, such as changing a function signature and having it update the callers across multiple files.
It's not just in Fintech, it's a problem in most industries, I deal with it in automation most days. It's a skill that is not easily leaned (well).
Thank you for that reply. Makes a lot of sense.
The really meaty space of "cool impactful stuff we can do now" are all organizational problems, not engineering. How do you organize 10k people to build a new city, get them to agree upon a basic design and location, and then get them to actually go do it? There's nothing really stopping you.
Interesting, do they subtract this effect when they calculate the deaths due to smoking?
New Cold Boot Attack Gives Hackers the Keys to PCs, Macs
Wouldn't it be weird if a direct wealth transfer to group A was preferable to group B where group A is the better-off of the two? That's what you are suggesting, as far as I can tell, where group A is people with jobs at Amazon and group B is homeless people.
To repeat: a big "aha" moment for me with node_modules was figuring out that it's an entirely separate system[0] from npm.

Node's module resolution has nothing to do with npm. Npm is a package repository and installer built on top of node_modules. The reason your system broke is because npm cleared out your node_modules folder as part of its install. And from the sound of things on your linked issue, the devs are entirely aware of the problems this behavior causes and are planning to fix it.

An interesting exercise that I highly encourage people to do if they're finding this weird is to take a weekend and build their own version of npm just to demystify what's going on with it. It's not that hard to do, Node gives you all the tools you need - in its simplest form you need to curl whatever packages you want to install, and stick them in a node_modules folder. Then you need some way to track which packages you've downloaded. Node handles all the rest.

That npm occasionally breaks Node behavior is bad - I've been on the wrong end of those regressions as well[1] and it was super frustrating. But that doesn't really have anything to do with Node, it just means the npm team needs to test their releases more.

[0]: https://nodejs.org/api/modules.html#modules_loading_from_nod...

[1]: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/18942
Multiple gas explosions and fires in Massachusetts
Well there are predictions of islands of stability[0] in the 120's (and further) because magic numbers[1]. But no one agrees on how stable those are (milliseconds or MUCH longer). And I do want to mention that I did suggest that these elements would need to be created in labs.

>> Chemistry would suggest we've found all stable naturally occurring elements too.

Because these elements are trans-uranium. IE: Man made.

> So there's almost no possibility that they play any role in alien life.

>> But to be life, they would need to be stable. And it would be EXTREMELY odd for life to be made from non common and non naturally occurring elements. Even more odd to be from unstable ones.

Read "odd" as "highly unlikely and unexpected".

I'm not really sure where we're in disagreement. Except for the island of stability part. But that's why I said

>> most of these are unlikely to be stable, though there are some predictions for stability

We don't know if they are stable or not yet. Because we haven't made them. And I am making ZERO claims that there are. But I am making claims that there are predictions of stability. Which is trivially verifiable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(physics)
AT&T and Verizon want to manage your identity across websites and apps
Using caddy for anything that might be commercial,by compiling, seems like a huge pain:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-host...
But if we can build a replica duck that matches the record-setting duck's performance we can create lots of copies of it
This actually has bad idea written all over it.

I've spent lots of time on medical support lists. There is nothing worse than getting a bunch of cranky, miserable, doped to the gills sick people together who all want to demand that they be the person being accommodated because they are so fucking miserable, as if no one else's misery counts.

On some shitty, shitty forum I used to spend time, they liked to promote this concept of "comfort in, dump out" which posits that one person gets to play the victim card and everyone else must cater to their needs. It's a popular but totally broken mental model and it goes utterly kablooie when everyone in the group has a serious health issue.

In practice, you can't have useful, meaningful discussion about what works because everyone is walking on eggshells to avoid setting off the most incompetent and histrionic members who absolutely don't want to hear that if they did X, they might not be so sick because that's "blaming the victim."

Furthermore, there can be germ control issues with bringing your tech into a hospital setting. It introduces challenges to sterilizing everything while there and it can mean you carry hospital infections with you when you leave. Some wards will not allow you to bring in tech because it can interfere with their tech, like heart monitors.

People in the hospital having surgery or under quarantine for infections can be given a long list of restrictions for purposes of germ control while there.

Furthermore, the tech already exists. From Twitter to Facebook to email lists and more, there are plenty of online social spaces and I have done my share of virtual handholding for an internet friend stuck in the hospital with a direly ill child. You don't need a special space for this. In fact, a special space for this tends to be a worst case scenario. It's better to chat with your knitting buddies online or whatever than to impose on other sick people exclusively.

/2cents
Thanks. Corrected.
Don't care, have no interest in getting a professorship at Stanford.

Getting a spot on Stanford's gymnastics team is way harder than getting a professorship at Stanford. After all, there are 39 spots for the former, and 2219 spots for the latter. The denominators are of roughly the same size, 4.8 million kids who do gymnastics vs. roughly 5M Ph.Ds.

I have no interest in being a Stanford gymnast either (and in any case that ship sailed 20 years ago), but I'm making a point about prestige. The numbers would be even more stark if I'd picked another sport like basketball.
Companies follow laws and regulations, and optimize for profit and sustainability within those rules. Why would they ever pay MORE than they have to? There are no ethics or morals here. Taxes are not charity.

If you want to change the tax laws then you can do so, via the government that you take part in.
I had a look at his predictions re: self-driving cars. He clearly invested quite a lot of thought went into these because he makes a lot of subtle distinctions. However, one of his predictions (probably the one that you're referring to) is this:

> A driverless "taxi" service in a major US city with arbitrary pick and drop off locations, even in a restricted geographical area.

> Not Earlier Than 2032

This is odd because isn't Waymo doing just that in Phoenix with a general release date of 2019? I checked the source because I wanted to verify that it says "a city" and not "any city".
Could always study the reflection of solar light: the gegenschein
Fundamentally, if a human can drive a car with nothing but two relatively poor eyes with a pretty small field of vision set in a single location inside the vehicle, an AI can be trained to drive using the same inputs - any more sensors are a bonus.

The other thing people forget is the bar isn't that high: self driving vehicles don't have to be perfect, they just have to be better than humans are. All of the "whatabout" edge cases people proffer as examples of areas an AI would have trouble with, people have trouble with too. The difference is that once an AI learns to solve that edge case, it doesn't have to relearn going forward.
Official NES controllers coming to Nintendo Switch alongside paid online service
If mainframe reliability is what it is purported to be, then, for someone making this choice as an alternative to a mainframe, especially if they've been on it for decades already, it's a very solid reason.

It is, of course, only a proxy for the real reason, which is the engineering culture that led to the bug and/or reliability. If there's better evidence that Microsoft has drastically changed its engineering culture in favor of reliability and/or IBM has done the converse [1], it could easily trump this proxy evidence.

[1] for example, if they've included the OS developers in the layoffs they've been in the news for
We don't know if the cause is hacking, but it's likely that gas main pressure is controlled by a computer. It'd be shocking if a software failure could cause dozens of fires.
> highways in non-severe weather are already pretty much solved

And yet all the automated driving driver fatalities have been on the highway, with the Mountain View crash in particular having been caused by weathered / confusing road markings.

I wouldn't consider that solved at all.

But to the larger point, self driving lanes would only be a first step. Eventually it would develop into a standard set of markings and signage for automated driving friendly roads so that you could safely have self driving cars in things like snow storms.

There's no need to limit it to highways only, although there I think there is some benefit in the near term to segregating automated driving cars from human driving ones.
Portrait of Terence Tao [video]
This is a shock. In modern times, this sort of enforcement is normally only done for other religions.

Try it in the UK, and also an equivalently offensive statement for the most popular alternative religion. The results will make clear who has power and who doesn't.