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> Emulators exist, but nobody actually uses it.

Disagree; I think the strongest example is DOSBox, through which DOS programs, of all things, are actually one of the least common denominators across an astonishingly wide set of platforms. Honestly, if I had to pick a format to use today that needed to hit as many platforms as possible and last as long as possible, I'd probably pick DOSBox, which is portable to Android, GNU/Linux, Darwin, NT, gaming consoles (at least Wii and Nintendo DS).... oh, Wikipedia actually has a better list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSBox#Ports

Anyways, I'll concede that emulators aren't as popular as native apps on most platforms, but they certainly hold their own, especially for archival purposes.
Essentially pretty much most of it.. tax deductions cost you more of your own money to pay for higher profit margins on privatised services and on lost maintenance on public infrastructure, and so you are definitely paying for it..
In rare cases; otherwise, business day convention, right along with a ton of other conventions make local timezones a total win.

Going with one time for everyone would require a lot more information.

I work across zones and continents a lot. This is not hard.

Besides, moot point. One time stamp will never fly politically. I will not support an effort to attempt it either.
I think what they mean is that games have to provide sharding GPU resources or something? I'm interpreting not sure if that's right tho
Its an Elon project?

1 in 10 odds it happens?
Isn't that what factoring does? That's a well established line of business for a very long time.

And because you sell your invoices, the factor now takes the payment default risk.

Does cost a penny though.
I remember this from a little while back on HN! IIRC the creator of Vectordash was a student interested in ML but disenchanted with the prices of other cloud GPU compute services. The idea was so ingeniously simple I was surprised nobody really tried it before. Glad to see they're expanding into other stuff, too.

On a side note, I'd love to see a tech write up on how Vectordash operates.
Are they really training to be astronauts though? I understand training for the physical endurance they'll need but they'll be passengers not pilots.
Firefox has a few million lines of JS code and the coding standard prefers `==` to `===`. I don't think it's linted for though.
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Twenty times the total amount of deuterium currently present in the world's oceans.

Basically, you'd have to completely change the chemistry of the oceans on a global scale.

Also, AFAIK there is no realistic way to synthesize deuterium artificially (please let me know if I'm wrong!) so to get started you'd need to go out and find something like an order of magnitude more deuterium than exists on planet Earth. You'd have to scour a big chunk of the solar system.

So, not something an apocalyptic cult is going to pull off in the forseable future.
> If you had the opportunity to become the first private citizen to go to the moon, you'd be stupid to not cement your legacy like that.

He decided to share the trip, so he won't be "the first private citizen", merely "one of the first private citizens".
Those are good odds in the grander timeline of space travel.
Which Elon project has failed?
Why is being an hour behind Arizona a negative? Pacific Time is already an hour behind AZ/Mountain Time during the winter, when you're off DST. California has always been in a different time zone than AZ.

As an Arizonan, I like that we don't have to change our clocks. DST doesn't make sense for us – we don't need more hours of sunlight.

DST leads to subtle bugs. On Android, Google Calendar changes the times of events/appointments of Arizona users when DST starts. It's insane, and they've been doing it for years. They've screwed up so many schedules that I'm surprised there hasn't been a class action suit.
Whenever this topic comes up, especially developers or engineers transitioning to management, I point to this Hacker News thread from years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407643

There's a lot of overlap with this article but it covers a broader range of experience and also includes some good reading recommendations.

It's been invaluable to my own career.
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‘Anti-Imperialism’ and Apologetics for Murder
As a melanoma survivor, I'm no longer eligible to be an organ donor. In fact, I could even donate blood until the American Red Cross changed their guidelines for eligibility in 2017:

Benign cancer or tumor: Acceptable to donate

Basal cell carcinoma: Deferred for four weeks after date of surgical removal

Squamous cell carcinoma (skin, cervix, or oral cavity): Deferred for four weeks after date of surgical removal

Malignant cancer (e.g., breast, prostate, or colon cancer and melanoma): Deferred for one year after treatment is completed

Leukemia, Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and myeloma: Ineligible to donate permanently

Kaposi’s sarcoma: Ineligible to donate permanently
Thanks! That's the first decent argument I've heard against this.

Then again, people would develop a convention within days. A month, tops.
EV certs are a useful as a barrier-to-entry when you do cert pinning against roots/intermediates.
Legal marijuana business?
The automation is something you can do relatively easily with the IPFS libraries, API, or CLI.

Ideally your approach to pulling the data from its source into IPFS is somewhat deterministic, so that you get de-duplication and generally more efficient updates.
I just wish outcomes like this were stronger motivation for the world to work harder on other solutions. But it never seems to go that direction. Instead, it spurs discussion of finding ways to improve transplants.
A man with a global audience accused another man, in multiple public statements, of pedophilia, sex trafficking, and statutorily raping his wife. When confronted with these statements, he doubled down each time and went further in his attack on the other man's character. Each of those, by itself, could constitute its own act of defamation per se. $10m being too much? On the contrary, $10m seems about right.

OTOH, if this was just one guy in a small town saying those same things about another guy, I'd be surprised if you even got into the six digits. Unfortunately for Elon, scope matters.
Model 3 still a bit rocky, eh?
"It plays too well into some large companies "Embrace, extend, extinguish" strategies for dealing with open technologies."

No companies have that strategy. Get over the slashdot meme from 20 years ago.
Had the same situation and thankfully had a lawyer that was able to get back 90% of what was owed in about 90 days. Big companies dont recognize that there are people at the end of their invoices sometimes. Sucks.
> mine (i.e., the taxpayer)

Allow people to vote on government budgets and you'd get your answer.

I'd far prefer to decide what carve up of sectors tax is spent on than choose between politicians.
> Perhaps the best is to work with your developers code - write integration tests, evaluate checkins, research new tools.

Without really planning it, that's where I ended up. Also: establishing best practices and ceaselessly promoting them.
I would take those odds for sure. Longbet?
Exactly this. And if all of society moves forward an hour, then that's just the same as having DST.
I strongly encourage her to contact the EEOC. https://www.eeoc.gov/employees/charge.cfm
Indeed, the noise of panicking managers and engineers when our companies badly designed Java apps seize up due to excessive GC induced thrashing is really annoying. Luckily I don't have to deal with the smell of burning silicon since all our genius code is hosted on the cloud.

What are we talking about again?
It's not just about the odds of this project. Missions like these make the public interested again. We might very well be in the beginning stages of a public-private space race, with "space startups" popping up in multiple countries (SpaceX, Blueorigin, [sic] ULA, Onespace[0]). These things can snowball, especially if somebody finds a way to extract resources from the Moon and asteroids.

[0]https://www.space.com/40662-china-first-private-spaceflight-...
Is there a federal mandate that forces us to be in pacific time instead of mountain time?
Apparently it was an actual policy that the current United States administration wanted to implement, but I think it got shot down by the Supreme Court or Congress for being unconstitutional. So I guess the point is that it is a genuine example of a thing that governments might want to do...
https://osf.io/8pc9x/

As per the large amount of links in the article, the author seems to have passed the test themselves, then talked about what heuristics they used to get their result (that matched the studies linked). Did you read the article?

One can argue with their heuristics, of course, but dismissing them because they're open about their background is a classic middlebrow dismissal. This isn't presented as rigorous science.
Sure. Not a failure, though. I see them on the road almost daily. And I’m in a nondescript suburban town far from the Bay Area.
>> I'd be interested to hear your counterargument.

Not the OP, but like you say, the article is about a company who claims to have developed a technology that will solve self-driving cars' problems with rain.

People in industry make claims all the time. People in the sciences do, too. Just because someone makes a claim, doesn't mean it's true. It's only a claim.
Apple and Firefox want to prevent Google and Facebook from tracking users
ChaseOnTwoWheels

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCidMMQafCAomjuD_a3DcdHw
MZ said he wished it was (only) 5%, perhaps indicating the desire to see more billionaires stepping up to the plate.
> you have a responsibility to do the right thing

Exactly. Which is why I call out unsubstantiated claims (or "slogans", as you put it)
whenever and wherever I see them. The most common places I've observed them happen to be with blanket leftist allegations of sexism/racism/ageism in the tech industry.
As if in today's job market, keeping any engineer provides any sort of guarantee that the engineer will stay with the company "for the future".

Most likely he'll stay until he gets a better offer (if he's a good performer) or gets laid off in a couple of years (if he's a poor performer).
Yeah, every company in the world wants employees that they can trust, are team players, and so on. At least, I've never seen a job spec for 'Untrustworthy, slightly shifty, loner required. Must be antisocial and lazy. Must have a University degree in science or mathematics and a current drivers license.'
It's not a question of morality. The act doesn't cover people under 40 because there was no finding of age discrimination. Just like there is no discrimination against white people or men ;). Don't like it, run for Congress or Supreme court.
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I meant hiring managers in tech companies like IBM.
Missing deadlines by a year or two on something otherwise believed to be impossible is a great way to consistently “fail”, I think.
Tensorflow and stock price prediction in Python
Not a new language, maybe not even a new idea but Unity's new Entity Component System.is designed around making cache friendly parallelizable coding easy

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/EntityComponentSystemS...
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And of course, things like this only erode language semantics over time by making more and more words and phrases seem sarcastic; we have "/s" but there is no reliable marker of non-sarcasm (cf Poe's Law).
Successes as an individual contributor are a great feeling, but not to the level of the amazing feeling you get when you successfully execute a strategy that requires coordination of a large number of people to perform a complex task.

I'm all about the feels.
> on a once in a lifetime trip

AFAIR, Burt Rutan said he wasn't that keen to watch Apollo-11 landing because he assumed it's soon going to be routine.

So far it wasn't. But why do you think it will not become more routine - perhaps a lot more routine - this time? Surely one can't count on that - but we do can dream and we do can bring some of our dreams to reality, even though we aren't always good with predicting when it'll happen.
I can assure that most college grads can't code shit, the good ones will be making more than an average 40 years old in no time.
Never start a business offering/selling to rational customers.

I know for most that's obvious for most but apparently not me. :<

Randy's law 248: At the heart of most successful businesses is an irrational consumer.
> Imagine yourself washing your hands. Do you feel any impact whatsoever on your desire to rationalize decisions? Now imagine explaining this study to Nassim Taleb’s grandma.

What's the joke with invoking Nassim here? That he is some kind of anti-pretentious truth-teller whose grandma is even further on that spectrum?
An X-prize for autonomous racing on lubed up figure 8 tracks would solve this real quick.
Our startup failed because my business partner wanted to just be the "idea guy" who designed the screens, while having me code it and do all the heavy work. Initially, this was going to be a 50/50 split, but after working on it almost full time for about 6 months, I ran out of money.

He had a pretty big savings account and came from a well-off family, so he agreed to front me basically just enough to cover my rent while I worked on the app. We agreed that since he wasn't really contributing much as far as manpower or hours logged, he could help justify his stake in the ownership by contributing monetarily.

After a couple of more months, we had a working, functioning app that was about 80% finished, but we started to butt heads on some ideas and he claimed he was frustrated by the fact that the app wasn't completely finished (even though we had changed scope and redesigned the entire app no less than three times).

He used this as an excuse to renege on our initial 50/50 split idea. Instead of honoring our deal, he opted to claim complete ownership and write me out of the picture.

Another way someone could look at it: He saw the app was starting to come along and was getting actual beta users, and he got $dollar$ signs in his eyes and decided to be greedy.

Both he and I were young and naive at the time, and the whole project had essentially been built on a handshake deal, because we didn't want to spend 10 grand on lawyers and paperwork before we even had a product worth anything.

I had spent a year working on an app, barely making ends meet and living off of credit cards, but because I was trusting and naive, he was basically able to screw me over and walk away with everything. His name was on more of the paperwork and he was the primary signer on the bank account. I could have fought it, but at that point I didn't have the energy or the desire to even work with him any more.

The joke is on him, though. Without me around to actually write the code, he never did manage to finish the last 20% of the app, and here we are almost 10 years later. After all that, he never managed to get the app out of beta, and he never made a penny off it.

The end lesson I learned: Don't invest time and energy in an idea or a partnership if you aren't willing to spend the money up front to lock down the legal aspect, because by the time you have enough traction and money to lock it down, it will be too late!

Money and greed corrupts people. Period. When someone has the possibility of millions of dollars suddenly seem like a real possibility to them, you might be surprised by just how quickly they turn on you!
Another great alternative is React Static. I moved to React Static after having the same issues with fighting with Gatsby plugins, the superfluous graphql environment for simple content handling, and finding that at the time Gatsby didn't scale well with larger websites.

https://github.com/nozzle/react-static
Please don't do promotional comments on HN.
I agree with your comment. I use my curiosity as a compass for what I should be working on. I find that I'm much happier and learn a lot faster if I follow my natural inclinations towards certain things, rather than force myself down a single, potentially-lucrative path in the hopes that I will eventually become passionate about it.
It's worth noting that the makers of Tsar Bomba [1] also considered the possibilities of igniting the atmosphere, though it had "mere" 50 Mt of yield.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
LOL, yes, the meatbags. Waymo exists to serve Waymo's purpose, it is a higher entity beholden only to its funding source not to petty meatbag concerns.
This went away in the EU already. Interchange is capped at 0.3% (0.2% for debit), so there’s no way to provide rewards for cardholders.

Sure it’s sad that we no longer get air miles etc. But the reality is that we never should have in the first place - was a symptom of a nonsensical system.
Perhaps most safety problems. But if you need to outrun an erupting volcano, a tsunami, or the police, slowing down won't really help you.
Wow. That's a great reason to advocate for universal health care in the US, because it lets people work for a more risky startup without having to worry about that particular risk!
Post-scarcity is, at best, a distant fantasy.

Ergo, sufficient resources to forgive everyone, do not exist.

Ergo, it is best for any person to not expect forgiveness.

It's not a perspective; it logically follows from reality.
Right, so to be clear by "filename" I did mean something like "filename the user actually cares about".

Almost any database (including a filesystem) has a primary key, which can be thought of as a file-name. Filesystems are unusual in that ordinary users sometimes want to explicitly deal with the records (files) and their keys (names).
Luckily, nothing too exciting happened. We were operating in the financial tech space in Mexico, trying to make lending less comically predatory (a standard small business loan in Mexico can have close to the same interest rate as a payday loan in the US).

With that goal in mind, we were targeting areas in Mexico that needed the most help. Cities with a decent small business sector, looking to grow, and having difficulty doing so. Juarez was a perfect fit, especially given that a lot of citizens have been across the border and can see how much better things can be. My parents were not amused. Then the movie Sicario came out soon after, and they were somehow less amused. But I got to ride around in armored vehicles with a security detail, so that was fun.

Really my "learned not to fuck with the cartels" lesson came from our market research. This may surprise you, but the banks in Mexico are... sketchy. Well, not all of them, but definitely a few. In particular, we were in a competing market as Banco Azteca. It appears to have since been removed, but at the time, the Banco Azteca wikipedia page described it as having "a uniquely effective debt collection system" or something like that.

Yeah, what they actually have is a motorcycle gang. They give you a loan with massive, often times impossible to pay off interest rates, and if you don't pay them back, motorcycle dudes with bats show up to collect, or take enough of your property to make up the difference.
>> On the other hand, I'm sure people in India or China will be happy to build and deploy them with much higher failure rates.

You might have seen this internet classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM [India Driving]

Driving in India is notoriously chaotic and if self-driving cars are ever deployed there in our lifetime, they will come with a safety guarantee about equal to a car driven by a blind dog with a missing paw. It would be impossible to safely navigate the streets there with anything less situationaly aware than a fully developed adult human brain.

The article above makes it sound like weather is the big problem for self-driving cars and once that's solved- wooohoo, we're on our way! It's far from that. Self-driving car AI is still incapable of reasoning about its environment, neither does it have any "undersanding" of it in any way, shape or form. Consequently it only works in very limited environments, in very limited conditions - of traffic, visibility, road quality etc.
That's important for security, as we have seen with meltdown and spectre.

The problem is that general-purpose architectures don't expose the cache hierarchy very well.
The temp doesn't rise above freezing in Minneapolis for 3 straight months of the year. There is snow on the roadways for at least 1/3 of the year. Your solution is that no one in Minneapolis should drive from November through March.
For what it's worth I did not read notacoward's post as abrasive or hostile. I understand the relevancy comment, but my goal in commenting was not to be morally opposed to ageism. I am, but being so is not a career strategy, which is more the direction I was going. My personal feeling is that if I have to care whether someone passed me over because of the dates on my resume I've already lost the game. Maybe there are people out there who will toss a resume despite it being replete with all the necessary skills and experience, simply because of the suspected age of the applicant. Honestly I think they're only harming themselves, and likely doing the applicant a favor. As for layoffs like the ones at IBM, I have no idea what motivated them. In my experience engineers who are doing relevant work on needed projects, who would have to be quickly replaced to keep things on track, don't get let go while there is a going business to pay them. IBM is facing some major challenges so the reasons for these reductions are probably not buried so deeply.
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The federal government did extend the dates of daylight saving time for no particular reason just a few years back. Congress has the power to change it for everyone, there's no reason to blame the federal model.
Thanks much. I really was trying to learn, downvotes to the contrary.
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These are daily occurrences in parts of TX and FL in the summer, and people generally do drive through them.
Props to Ron Baalke for compiling the items in the calendar.
https://twitter.com/RonBaalke
Actually for Apollo 17 it was found to be easier to train a geologist to be an astronaut than the other way around.
This is amazing and as a moon lover, I cannot wait to see the output.

Odd that Picasso is mentioned in their hypothetical, it seems he didn't care much for the moon (at least humans landing on it anyhow). See lesson 8. https://www.complex.com/style/2012/10/10-life-lessons-we-can...
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Chill, Boop, Roll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnPgmSYlrwU

And search YT for motorcycle crash compilations and study what not to do;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZZJdr7wiLA

Also search YT for "survival reactions"
Extended validation isn't very useful, for exactly the reasons the article explained. Most users don't take advantage of its benefits no matter how technically sound the concept is. Providing users with anti-phishing and phishing-detection tools doesn't mitigate phishing. The way to mitigate phishing isn't to empower the user with sophisticated awareness, it's to eliminate the need for that awareness.
This very much. Also Kickstarter: there's a whole ecosystem built around parasites trying to make money off of other people's broken dreams.
Sturgeon's law: 90% of everything is crap.

Ironically, or fittingly, I've been reading a comprehensive collection of his short stories, because it was impressed on me early in my life that he was a great author, and I have recently been horrified at how terrible many of his more obscure ones are.

The interesting thing is that the quality does not simply improve with time and experience. There are extreme outliers.
https://archive.st/3mp8