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> the common suggestion that IDing people be stripped altogether just sounds bizarre to me

Works for us in NZ. I can imagine that it wouldn't in the US though; I imagine both Dems and Repubs would immediately start bulk scale cheating, justifying it on the basis that the others would be doing it...

So yeah, making it very easy to obtain and ID seems like a sound compromise.
We wanted to hear what features you like using the most and how do those features help you with setting up your project. However, you wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18384804 which answers a lot of the questions. Thanks!
This is a great help, I'm using it most of the time. After I got used to it, plain gdb feels incomplete (mostly because rr allows you to reverse-step and reverse-continue even with watch/breakpoints).
The short answer, devoid of some interesting nuance, is that C++’s template system is similar to an untyped functional programming language, so the errors you get are the compiler’s attempt to make sense of the large tree of nonsense it couldn’t reduce.

C++ also suffers from years of backwards-compatibility twister creating abundant cases of ambiguity if you do something wrong. The compiler will do it’s best, but if your code suddenly parses wildly differently because your semicolon is missing, oh well. Rust is far simpler in that regard, so there are fewer instances where your code might accidentally make sense to the compiler if you have an error.
^ said in answer to a sensible argument against ID checks at the polls, you can't please some people.
I haven't seen The War Game, but that's the ending from Threads (and Wikipedia lists a different ending for The War Game).

Threads is an interesting film from the 1980s, with a very bleak tone about the prognosis after a full scale nuclear conflict. I have read modern analyses of it that suggest it was perhaps too pessimistic in the long term effects.
Not sure if it's a separate category, but I wouldn't know where to put it in your list:

* Badgeware: A company that wants you to do either free advertising for them or to buy a commercial license. Flowplayer GPLv3
> Few people actually help humanity forward in any significant way and thus you are likely setting yourself up for disappointment.

Few people do, but also few people even try. Do we have any estimate of the ratio between those two groups?

I'm strongly with 'jniedrauer here. I feel the same dissatisfaction. There are well-known open problems the world has at all levels, large and small. I would like to spend time working on those in a meaningful manner. I hate the standard life advice of "work your job, marry, have kids, enjoy yourself". It does not resonate with me, and never did.

> I'd even argue that setting more realistic goals makes you more happy and this simple fact increases your odds of helping humanity significantly forward.

That's a fair point, and I find even Tomminn's words about "not being a special person" right. Something I've been coming to grips with. Being the person that makes a direct, huge and positive impact on the world is mostly a matter of luck. But setting smaller goals should still allow to contribute with effort instead of just luck, and maybe even "create" some of that luck.

> Think about it, when is your energy level highest? When do you wake up with that sense of wonder and awe and motivation?

Not OP, but for myself - it's when I dream of Star Trek-level world. A world of honest & good-faith cooperation, of mastery of the environment through science and technology, a world that expanded to space. Correspondingly, my energy levels are the lowest whenever I have to grind out code for another CRUD app that exists mostly in a large-scale gambling that is startup industry, and that does not address any problem standing between us and the dream utopia.

> I guess the question is: When will you be truly happy? Will you be happy when you have helped humanity forward in any significant way? Or, will you be happy when you have good relations with the people around you and a generally fun existence?

That's a good question, but I think that it's not either-or. Seeing that you helped make a world even a tiny bit better is a long-term satisfaction thing. "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die" is fun in the moment, and definitely makes going through life much more pleasant. But - at least for me - it also seems incredibly empty.
Here are the archived original 4chan posts: https://warosu.org/sci/thread/S3751105#p3751197

There are also a bunch of rather unfortunate new comments at the end of the archive from the last few days, when the link has obviously gained some public attention. However, in the midst of all the new nonsense, the recent one that begins "I think I solved it" is pretty interesting:

--Anonymous Sun Oct 28 14:10:06 2018--

I think I solved it.

First calculate the max string which is the number of permutations multiplied by n.
Then divide the max string by n - 1
Then add to the answer the fibonacci number located at 2(n-3)

int max_string = n! * n;
int answer = max_string / (n - 1);
answer += fib(2(n-3));

Example for n = 5;

max_string = 5! * 5 = 600
answer = 600 / 4 = 150
answer += fib(2(5-3)) = fib(4) = 3
answer = 153

Here is the first 14 using this method:

2 -> 3
3 -> 9
4 -> 33
5 -> 153
6 -> 872
7 -> 5901
8 -> 46135
9 -> 408384
10 -> 4032377
11 -> 43909467
12 -> 522549784
13 -> 6745945965
14 -> 93884331311
There is only one small ppint missing when ypu talk of business not caring if community yells.

What if these upstarts needs the community contribution to go through the first hump to adoption. And this break in trust between community and upstart stop people from contributing?

Or if devs begin to walk away for personal disagreements with their company license.

This is not that far stretch and it is what will cost these companies. The value of open source for business is that the community participate and developers were happy.

If that breaks... then you lose.
> the situation is far more nuanced than "doing it that way is bad and doing it this way is good"

I don't think the author said anything that simplistic. What parts are you specifically referring to?

Also:

> ..the author fundamentally misunderstands the point behind software freedom.

The author is a coder/lawyer and maintainer of a bunch of software licenses, legal documents, and related code (see github/licensezero). He could certainly be wrong about something, but the idea that he just doesn't get the issues involved is pretty hard to buy.
Remember that the resources, scripts and images can be loaded from hosts using different CAs. A page doesn’t even have one CA. The only thing that is even remotely feasible is blocking one or more CAs and that causes so much disruption normal people are never going to do that.
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Doing things for free is something that the Republicans are also ideologically opposed to though...
It was in the first draft of the Holy Grail screenplay. Mr Arthur King finds the grail at the Harrods ant counter.

I am guessing that the Harrods sketch is from the fourth series and is repurposing some of that material.
The original sin of Internet Culture is also the original sin of all nerd/geek culture. Because we generally skew towards introversion and have a hard time making/keeping friends, we are very bad at excluding people. The very thing that makes the world of geeks and nerds welcoming to quirky and odd characters, is also the thing that allows damaging and objectively terrible people to hang around. We're afraid of being confrontational and bad at kicking out the people who damage our cohesion and communities.
Did they row back with 12.0.1?

We used cross domain cookies in a legit way and with 12.0.1 things work again.

Legitimate use: Save a state while moving to another domain for verified SSL and payment. Luckily there are alternative ways to keep a session.
There’s a difference between not being fat and being fit. I’m almost 10kg over my ideal weight but I can run a marathon on the flat no problem and squat 80kg for five sets of five without significant strain. I’m unlikely to ever be as thin as I was on my wedding day again but three hours of exercise a week will keep you fit. Even one hour will pay substantial dividends in terms of how you feel though at that level I’d definitely lift weights rather than run.
I like how the word neither subtly recognizes majority voting leads to mostly 2 party systems.
I'm an outsider, but 1.2% seems quite relevant to me, considering the spread in the last presidential election was just 2.1%.
I was given 20 hours of "community service" (school punishment, total joke) in middle school after discovering the messaging feature in Novell (the admin didn't disable it).

For a couple weeks the school was absolutely convinced my friend and I were responsible for taking a few computer labs in the district offline and claimed we created a virus.
Do you know if there's a plugin for the 'bump' thing, as described in the article?
I've got an option "--rr" on my tests that launches the program under rr. So I can debug a failed test in all directions.
> To what point and purpose?

1) Because you don’t want to feel responsible.

2) To ensure politicians have to work for your vote.

Item 2 would work even better if we moved away from first past the post.

> I'd say the Australian model delivers a better result.

Better in what way?

I don’t think more people voting is automatically better.
The numbers you posted are specific for Driver's Licenses and Passports. The link you posted notes that general photo ids are possessed by white: 95%, black: 87%, hispanic: 90%.
A ray is a vector with a starting point and a direction (a line in 3D space).

Tracing means: "where does this vector intersect an object".

So there is nothing special about ray tracing. But GPUs now can calculate those vectors very fast. And by tracing rays we can simulate how real lights behaves. So today we can have photorealistic images in seconds or even realtime.
> You'd spend all your life miserable because of it?

Isn't this whole thing really about managing your own emotions? I'm reminded of Carnegie's "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living", and the underlying theme that whatever you want to do, worrying more than necessary to inform your actions is definitely not helping your chances of success.
This is great. Seeming that Oracle's policy changes have caused other big player to step in and support Java in a convincing manner. I am not sure if that was Oracle's intent given the company's reputation but I think it actually might be ...
Hah! As a pathologist running a clinical lab, nice to see something from my world on HN besides than Theranos. The ports and protocols to interface a lot of lab instruments is indeed fairly byzantine and I wouldn't be surprised if some middleware upgrade between years was ill-prepared for DST, but I had never thought of it myself.
You are making the assumption that Facebook actually cares about a solution to this - whether it be the curbing of fake news or the real-life consequences from runaway political extremism and divisiveness that it's platform leads to. Facebook cares about making money, and only cares just enough to react to recent bad press because bad press means less money.
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It makes less sense on closer examination than it does at first glance. I want a different person's opinion when I lose in court, regardless of whether I do appeal or whether I can appeal. But wanting it doesn't mean there's a reason I should get it. I can appeal to a higher court because the higher court has authority over the lower one; the basis for an appeal is that the lower court made a mistake, not that I personally feel that I'd be better off with a judgment going the other direction.
Self evaluation of one’s situation is not ideal though.

I remember the “funny” story of the guy who accidentaly stabbed himself in the chest with a nail gun and drove to the hospital thinking “that’s a pretty f*cked up day”

It makes for a nice tale, but those people are real, and for every drama queen going to ER for a papercut there is people in serious condition waiting for a Lyft that decides to drive a better client first or stays stuck in the trafic.
Google employees walk out over sexual harassment scandals
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If you have access to a good library, it's a good place to try various types of books to see what you like. Ultimately, what you will be reading a few years later is hard to predict from what you start reading now. However, in the beginning, finding something that "hooks" you is the best bet because it gives you the experience of being absorbed in a book. These are the books with which I have introduced some people to the world of books:

- The Lord of The Rings

- The Hobbit

- Dracula

- The Little Prince

- Animal Farm

- Asterix and Obelix comicbooks

- Siddhartha

For the next time, I'm going to try "Necronmicon" (H. P. Lovecraft!)

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> I think we'll see this more and more as people put less and less stock in Amazon reviews.

Not going to happen, bookstores will keep dying.
It is easy to forget nowadays how much fear of nuclear war there used to be always lurking in the background. One anecdote to illustrate: My secondary school was built on top of the region's nuclear bunker. They were short of classrooms so we sometimes had lessons inside the bunker. At the start of these we were grimly advised that if nuclear war broke out during the lesson we would have to evacuate the safety of the bunker to make way for the local dignitaries who had been assigned spaces there, i.e. doctors, the local MP etc. (Not exactly helpful for building a sense of self-worth in the impressionable young.)
Holy shit.

Forget Uber, you better be able to walk to Canada or something.
The argument against is simply to ask: what real problem is being solved?

And more: the argument consists of digging deeper and asking why, in the past decade, such a sudden, incredible, apocalyptically urgent need has arisen for in-person checks at polling places, with no equivalent need for ID checks with absentee/mail-in ballots.

Fraud with mail-in ballots would be orders of magnitude easier to pull off. Why don't states with draconian polling-place ID laws also have draconian ID laws for mailed-in ballots? Why, in those states, don't you need to bring multiple proofs of identity, residence and citizenship to a notary to stamp your ballot in triplicate before mailing it in? If fraud really was what they were worried about, they'd be consistent across these types of ballots. They aren't.

Also it's worth looking into the whole package of policies that usually comes with these rules. It's not just ID rules; it's a particular kind of ID, and a particular set of paperwork requirements, and closing down ID-issuance offices in certain locations, and closing down polling places in certain locations, and reducing hours for voting at the locations that remain open, and... well, let's just say meditate on that and you'll figure out what "problem" is being solved. If you're still not convinced, just go read the defenders of these policies, in their own words, in court filings, explaining why they're doing this.

Voting is fundamental enough that it should only be restricted in the event of pressing, urgent, demonstrated, proven issues, and only the absolute minimum restrictions should be put in place. Voter ID doesn't "solve" any such issue, and is not the minimum necessary restriction in any event (there are already mechanisms for challenging suspected fraudulent voting, if you're truly worried about that).
> If you don't have enough ambulances to cover the interventions then just buy more ambulances

There are enough ambulances to cover legitimate needs. Why then waste money by using ambulances to transport people who would be just fine in a Lyft? That money could be better spent on actual patient care. No matter how much money you're willing to spend on healthcare, using it efficiently is always better than wasting it.

> what kind of ambulances should be used should be up to medical professionals, not yourself

Having medical professionals decide whether an ambulance is appropriate, instead of patients, is one of the main things the article is slamming Tesla for doing.
I think for New-York as an HQ there is quite some better chance for Amazon to build some serious operations. They already have Qusidi in New Jersey, which they might be looking to consolidate.
Different parts of engineering require different skill set.. Someone has to do the data engineering part (be it the data scientist, data engineer, ops, whatever..). This requirement hasn't changed since 2016: 50 to 90 percent of time is spent "Cleaning" Data for Analytics. You just need engineers with the right skills and tools to help reducing this time and get things done.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/xplenty-assets/infographics/raw_dat...
India's tiger killings: A success story gone wrong?
Classic .net deployments are regarded as system components, they will receive security updates as long as the supporting OS is supported(that's at least the sales pitch we received) So 4.6 on Windows 10 will be supported at least till 14th October 2025 and 4.7 on Windows 10 at least until 13th October 2026 (if you are willing to pay Microsoft for that)
The final paragraph of the article explains why they choose to port their existing tools:

<With Linux's growing adoption as the preferred OS for running Azure VMs, it's only natural that Azure engineers are now looking into porting their favorite debugging utilities to Linux, for both themselves but also for the company's customers.

I find that to be a perfectly valid reason.
Ferry transportation is also becoming mainstream
All the US intervention are based on pure self interest, nothing to do with policing the world. If anything most of the world would have been better off without US interventions, particularly latin america and middle east!

Now let's say you don't have conventional weapons.

China invades all South East Asia progressively. Would you nuke them? Russia invades Eastern Europe. Would you nuke them? If yes why hasn't the US nuked Russia yet?

Then all your allies suddenly switch side after being overthrown by dictators who are in favor of your enemies. Would you nuke them?

Another one: you are terrorists associations preparing attacks against you in camps all across middle east. Who do you nuke to defend yourself?

Conventional weapons are actually the only useful tools nowadays, because war is much more sneaky than it used to be, and it is much more about fighting for influence than really invading countries or defending you territory.
That's interesting. So effectively, laser fusion shifts the problem domain into making a better laser, rather than all the tedious mucking about with plasma confinement.

Will be interesting to see which problem is more tractable in the long run. Efficient lasers presumably have many more commercial applications than good plasma confinement does, though I could be very wrong about that. Given that the universe appears to have a sense of humour, efficient lasers will probably require progress in good plasma confinement.
Maybe you're just speaking theoretically, but if you're talking about practical reading, you certainly don't need all the details. Just like English (where you can basically read with no more than a rough outline of words), you can read hanzi with full fluency even with many strokes abbreviated, illegible, etc.
love this article. kind of cool and good proof of what you are trying to show in it.
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Michael Moore discussed TV news in Bowling for Columbine: scary news glues eyeballs to TV sets, and glued eyeballs are better for ads. So probably by accident Facebook ended up with the same system. Not just scary, I'd wager emotional stuff drives up engagement (imagine a political argument of people screaming "YOU'RE WRONG!") , and Mark and Jack could probably hear the kaching of those ad views.

Also how screwed up is the media landscape in the USA. Political news, and then ads for political candidates. In 2008 the media kept blaring about the "tight race" between Obama and Clinton, and then later on between Obama and McCain. Hmm, were they being honest or did they want to keep eyeballs glued to sell ads? Also political ads?
So I've been reading this wrong the entire time?
Some would argue VSCode can be lighter because these 33 things aren't baked in for those who don't want them.
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As well as templates, C++ has function overloading, so when a function is named in an error message it has to show all the arguments as well. And if it can't find a function variant that matches a call, it'll print out a "did you mean this one?" message for all of them.
if you put it like this then it could mean a lot of things.
Voter registration rolls are public records, and in many states selection of partisan affiliation is part of registering as a voter (in order to determine which ballot you received in primary elections).
You can disable most of the plugins in the jetbrain suite, too.
If there's a CAA record for example.com that doesn't allow Let's Encrypt (CAA tag "letsencrypt.org") then this won't work. Let's Encrypt will check CAA (they will use DNSSEC if your domain has that) and verify that their tag is present before issuing if you have a CAA record.

If you're a larger outfit you should pick a trustworthy CA vendor or (two independent vendors according to your risk management profile), and lock CAA to those trusted vendors. You can then agree whatever terms suit your business on top of the Ten Blessed Methods, so as to avoid bad guys stealing your names. For example Facebook has an agreement with their chosen CA that all facebook.com and fb.com issuances get signed off by Facebook's network security people. No "But I'm the head of Asian marketing! I need this immediately" bullshit, it gets a sign off from netsec or it doesn't get issued.
I'm not in the U.S but when I took my emergency medical lifesaving class here in Denmark (too long ago to really be useful anymore) the guy doing the class said that there are a limited number of ambulances in Copenhagen and they will refuse to do some things if they are in use (at the time I think it was 10 ambulances) I would expect it is the same everywhere - if you are not in immediate danger don't use an ambulance because the number of ambulances and medical technicians are calculated to handle the number of emergencies expected.

then again one time I helped an old lady when she biked home drunk, fell over and got a concussion and they sent an ambulance.

However in my experience the incentive of the hospital in the U.S is to bill you as much as possible.
> Which is why we have, at least in France (and AFAIK, in most of Europe), different kind of ambulances depending on the gravity of the case.

In France firemen do a very big chunk of that work with their ambulances.
Randomly came across your comment during some late night procrastination. As others have noted, Reveal asserts that OSHA’s investigation did not address the reported incidents because of the statute of limitations:

> Reveal had documented many other cases of injuries that Tesla had failed to record. But the agency had only about six months from the date of an injury to fine a company. By the time Cal/OSHA concluded its four-month investigation, the statute of limitations had run out.

Of course, it could both be the case that the time limit ran out and Tesla books happen to be fine. But if OSHA doesn’t consider the contrary examples reported on by Reveal, then it’s to be expected they won’t find Tesla at fault.