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Original article: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24032052-900-time-to-...

Submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18523847
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Not just disappeared, troublesome people are recycled for spare parts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...

Another dystopian sci-fi story come to life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organlegging
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Brilliant!
This reminds of the Python I heard not too long ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UsKYsLSGpU
The actual title on the web page is “Understanding Window Functions”, although it might help readers to know that this is about PostgreSQL window functions.
This manner of thinking is why we have issues such as black people being disproportionately affected by Marijuana laws or large fines/punishments for relatively benign things such as jaywalking.

The way we doll out punishment in America ends up being a slap on the wrist for the rich and wealthy and devasting for the poor and minorities.
Judging from screenshots, the person who accepted the change was on the DC City Council.
A very well known CA company uses these details as a method of verification for EV certs.
No PWAs
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The renowned author Michael Pollan said in his book about psychedelics that breathing exercises can get you part the way there without any drugs at all.
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In the case of jaywalking, the answer is simple. You just make it legal. Cars can slow down. For routes that need to be able to move at high speed, you build in grade separation.

Jaywalking was just a "growth hack" that needs to be reverted. Society needed fast transportation, and it was developed at any cost. The cost is now too high, so we just roll it back. No torture required....
> Have you ever met a 12 year old know-it-all? Same thing.

Not at all. Words versus deeds. There are tons of inexperienced people who talk like they know everything; but of those, very few of them actually set out to do the things that "require experience."

Say that there's a person who thinks they have an awesome idea for a game, but knows nothing about game development. It's the difference between them talking about this amazing game they want to make "one day", or maybe them posting on Upwork saying "I have an awesome idea for a game, I just need someone to build it"; and them sitting down and trying to actually build their idea themselves right now.

It's also a question of how they confront obstacles. Most people without this trait of inexhaustible self-confidence, when they realize they don't have the skills to do something, will stop trying to do it, or will shelve the project and set out to first learn those skills. (And maybe never get back to their original dream/passion, instead just using the acquired skills in more mundane ways. All of you here who got into programming because you wanted to be a game developer know what I mean.)

A person with this mindset, meanwhile, will create the best version of the thing they can right now with their limited skillset, and then keep iterating on it, improving their skills in the process of creating the thing.

For an example, there are quite a number of webcomic artists working today, who, when they started, didn't know a thing about drawing (or much of anything, being teenagers), and it shows in their first comics. But they didn't care that they didn't know how to do it well; as long as they could do it at all, they just did it, and kept doing it, drawing and publishing a strip every day. And over the years, doing so has taught them how to draw—such that now, they're great at what they do.
I have very little sympathy for people that expect me to just swap seats with them. Their failure to plan and prepare adequately does not constitute a crisis on my part. Especially if I did go ahead and pay the $15 extra or whatever for that particular seat.
Thanks for the video. I will remain oblivious to the guy, due to the disguise!

So he is an American version of the Scottish F1 driver David Marshall Coulthard, MBE, known to anyone in the paddock as 'DC', still doing stuff for Mercedes and Red Bull. DC does commentary and people know his voice more than his driving nowadays.
The purpose of computers is to enhance the ability of humans who have a job to accomplish, not do their job for them. If we don't figure this out as a society, we're doomed.
8:40

"social media is a pale copy, the less it meets your real needs the more addictive it is, because you need more of it you need to get"

reductionism applied to society, sadly
i love that i can try this out anonymously - how do i set priorities for the 3 parts of the day? right now i can only set the morning priority by clicking on the day
Is there any software that translates a picture or scanned doc into a powerpoint? Seems like that could be useful: quickly churn out lots of boxes/arrows/text by hand, scan them, modify as necessary when translated.
True. Collective responsibility is a much better solution - then it is in bosses' best interest to create such environment that mistakes have as low impact as possible. And it's up to the whole team to make that happen. Similar to how it is done in (properly managed) software development companies.
"Apple said it is acting only as the agent for app developers who sell the apps to consumers through the App Store."

Sure, an agent who just so happens to control the platform, the API's and building blocks, all the rules, the horizontal, the vertical, and unilaterally decides which apps are allowed to exist. But, "we're just an agent".

I'm not familiar enough with the case to form an opinion on the whole thing, but I do hope the court sees through that particular sham of an argument.
From a previous submission I see it's open source (under ISC license) https://github.com/HenryDavidZhu/MazeBattles.com
It isn't. Not in a significant way at least.

I think the main benefit of OOP isn't really abstraction, like modules, because even function signatures coupled to a struct definition can be a great abstraction. Abstraction is about generalizing something in order to hide its inner workings. Modules can do that just fine.

What OOP "got right" was to make it easy to use indirection to pass function pointers. That way, you can easily create pluggable systems at runtime, so that strategies can be dynamically chosen. Passing function pointers in c can be pretty tedious, if you need to send implicit state with it.

I've started to get really annoyed with indirection though. It's getting abused so thoroughly in order to make bad designs testable through dependency injection. I find that it is much easier to use dependency rejection instead.
I'd expect conviction rates to be pretty high. It means they are only bringing charges when they have strong evidence. If conviction rates were low I'd be asking why that prosecutor was wasting his time on cases he can't win.
I've been told the uk has an unwritten constitution. But they must have limits, like the us. The us Congress can't make a law overriding the Supreme Court. What about in the uk? My point is countries are "soverign" but they often have legal limits on the leader, parliament etc. Parliament can't say sentence someone to death for making fun of them or something surely. In the us you can still plead the 5th amendment even when supoened by the Congress, for example (avoid self-incremenation).
Reinforcement learning has a pretty useful framework for thinking about this called the exploration-exploitation dilemma.

In order for an agent to fully exploit it's environment it first has to explore that environment, and this is where curiosity becomes useful. In fact, last year there was a paper that tried to introduce curiosity to RL-based learning models [1]

I suspect some sort of cross-pollination of these two areas of research would be useful.

[1] https://www.google.com/url?q=https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.0536...
Correct, in GR gravity is not a force between masses but an effect of the warping of space and time in the presence of mass. That said, Using the concept of "Gravity" as a "force" is very useful in the special or limited cases. In fact it may be the only way to model some problems where one can't find an exact solution to the EFEs. The concept is invaluable as a tool for visualization. Most of us cannot visualize the non-euclidean impacts of the Ricci tensor or the Weyl terms.

I should warn than in QM the notion of "force" is based on operators and not variables and the stricter Newtonian definition is going to run into problems.
Yes! The only thing that are needed to add another country is an elevation model, and there are global ones one can use if needed. The satellite data is already there for the whole globe. :)

I have not tried to run an instance with multiple elevation models though. It is possible the code need some modification to determine what area it should search for data in, but it shouldn't be too hard.

I'm actually planning to add Sweden rather soon (I'm from Sweden myself), but for that I will just merge the files from Norway's and Sweden's national geographical surveys into one file and use in the code.
Clarke’s 1955 novel “Earthlight” had suitless spacewalk as a major plot point. I think he had a long-term fascination with the topic.
How about we start with what we currently have, then make incremental improvements?
For anybody trying to understand why the world is the way it is (global politics and who really runs the world), I strongly recommend Yanis Varoufakis "Adults in the Room". It describes the EU and its major players and what really happens behind those closed doors (and it is nothing like what we see in the newspapers.)
Sites like this one (and especially the initial spirit behind them) are the result of programmers and programmer-like minds (“hackers”, if you will) just “winging” it and seeing what will happen if they’ll build them. The reddit’s founders’ decision to initially write it in Lisp or even Paul Graham’s decision to write this website in Arc is almost quintessentially “winging it”, no sane person should have picked the wingy Lisp or Lisp-like Arc over a non-wingy and easily “architecturable” platform like Struts (we’re talking about the years 2005-2006). The same goes for Zuckerberg using PHP to write Facebook as PHP is the most winging-like programming language ever.

What I’m trying to say it’s that winging it is good, it’s good to get lost in a bazaar, we don’t all need cathedrals.
> I wish it was pay by course rather than pay by month.

Udacity is pay by nanodegree. Coursera is pay by month.
And the Burj Khalifa doesn't need an architect?

Sometimes the system doesn't need it sometimes it does. Not all software systems are the same.

I personally think the architect role is to look at the big picture first rather than trying to dictate the minutiae.
It seems to be 129 light years away, not 179.

astrobiology.nasa.gov, the Open Exoplanet Catalogue, space.com, britannica.com all say it's (about) 129 light years away. Wikipedia says 129±4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_8799

http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/planet/HR%208799%20e/

https://www.britannica.com/place/HR-8799

https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/a-four-planet-system-in-o...
In case you didn't see it, I replied above your comment. :-)
I think you've misread/misunderstood my comment. I'm trying to say that carrying around a bluetooth speaker IS impractical (and the initial criticism of it a type of strawman argument because it's obviously impractical). I'm not suggesting in any way that carrying around a speaker everywhere is a good idea (it's not).

What I'm trying to say is that if really good audio quality is important to you, then having a couple of sets of bluetooth speakers in your house strategically placed in the places where you'd regularly watch movies or consume other high-quality audio is a reasonable workaround for a lot of people. OF COURSE having better speakers (equivalent in sound quality to the bluetooth workaround) in your laptop would be better if you care a lot about audio quality. But that would add to the cost of the laptop for every user, even the ones that don't care about having really high-quality audio on their laptop. I'm saying that it's not unreasonable for a manufacturer to make some tradeoffs like that when there are workarounds that work fairly well.

Over time the costs of adding higher-end features like this drop, and things like audio quality improve to the point that the workarounds aren't needed (the audio quality of my phone speaker is actually pretty amazing).
The process’ address space includes more than just malloc zones: it includes the code of the running process, the stacks for all of the running threads, linked libraries and their imported functions, etc.
In 2014 Bryan Seely wiretapped FBI and Secret Service exploiting the Google maps (lack of) verification process.

According to his tedtalk, Google was not to eager to fix the problem and it seems things didn't change much since then.

https://youtu.be/5c6AADI7Pb4
brk does grow linearly (a holdover from the days of segmentation). But malloc may well allocate chunks of virtual memory for large allocations. Windows doesn't have a brk equivalent and the underlying heap is fully implemented via VirtualAlloc.
Here's another nice video about Shinkansen origin story from a video series I enjoy ("Begin Japanology"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHCl8z47bL0
Also good to verify the phone number on the company website.
Yes, pretty much. Except vacuum cleaner manufacturers don't actually have that monopoly. You can easily buy substitute bags from another manufacturer for most popular vacuum cleaners.
I wonder if you can train a classifier to detect noise vs avalanche, just to help clean up the map from the blue noise. That would be a nice later addition.
End of Space – Creating a Prison for Humanity [video]
Why is that more apt? Why shouldn’t I expect it? Apple didn’t even invent the walled-garden digital software store; Microsoft was using it on the X-Box in 2005. If you go back to before digital distribution, Sony and Nintendo had total authority over third-party software releases for their platforms since the 90s and 80s respectively.

I understand the free-software arguments for why I should be able to run arbitrary code on any computer I own. What I don’t get is the monopoly argument.
(No.)
I have no particular insight to add, but simply wanted to say this is an absolutely wonderful story. A person with poor economic prospects took control and changed their life. Beautiful.
Fines could be proportional to income and/or wealth. Court fees could be waived for those who paying is a hardship.
Bail is already often scaled based on wealth, so this isn't unheard of.
It used to be part by the month. I took the data science nano degree and I finished a lot of it in a month and a half or so. The course wasn't complete and I felt like I couldn't do the reinforcement learning section based on the class so I dropped it.

It was a great deal then.
respectfully, no. There are dozens of techniques under the name of Pranayama.. what you are describing (at length) is not the whole picture.. for example, a pattern of "out 8 steps; in 1 long step" is calming and also "pranayama"
When I did this a long time ago, I received a postcard to the address on the website, contain a PIN code that I needed to input on line. Don't they do that any more?
FLODAC: a pure fluid digital computer [pdf]
I tried doing a nanodegree but quit after a month. The two main reasons:

- the videos are not lectures; they're short, scripted segments. While the production is polished, I found the format irritating. I much prefer actual recorded lectures like the many wonderful (and free) ones available from MIT

- the programming assignments were not challenging. I didn't really feel like I gained anything from them.
How are these more useful/interesting/performant than paypal, which I already use ?

Genuinely interested ...
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It's interesting that none of your examples has anything to do with ATMs, nor with the workers that ATMs replaced (as far as I know, tellers never gave out loans). Are you confident the introduction of ATMs was the reason that led to this reduction in quality of service?
Zuckerberg's mom's a psychiatrist and his dad's a dentist. His dad taught him BASIC programming as a kid and then hired a software engineer as his tutor.

Gates' dad's a prominent lawyer and his mom was a prominent businesswoman on the board of directors on several different organizations. Not only did Gates learn programming as a kid, but Microsoft only got on IBM computers because his mom knew IBM executives.

When you come from privilege, it's much easier to have confidence that things will work out.
You missed the author's point by miles.

C only has access to its process space as does WASM. WASM's only improvement is it makes stack smashing bugs harder (which ironically makes real security worse as it means you can't use retpoline, but let's ignore that for now)

HOWEVER it gives up on using guard pages and address randomization (systemic preventions against common bugs like buffer overflows), making WASM in practice less safe than C.

WASM is only safer for the host embedding untrusted code. For trusted code, though, it's across the board worse in every way - including security. Which shouldn't be all that contentious of a statement since WASM had no goals or intentions to ever replace trusted native code execution. That's not a thing it tries to do, and it shouldn't be a surprise that it didn't do it.
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I’m just impressed you still have the receipt from six years ago. Good job!
Yes I'm also confused by this article (opinion piece?) and the comments here (also mostly opinions). I'm pretty sure I'm not just winging it when I do my job. But I guess we don't really have a formal definition of "winging it" to have a meaningful conversation about what that is exactly.
It's dystopian China. It's already basically several Black Mirror episodes put together. It doesn't generalize.
30% is a lot to take away from the developers. It's good to have some pressure on Apple to lower their percentage.
I think scenario A is plausible ... but I live in a bubble. I frequently lament the completely broken insurance system I'm participating in now, where I have a high deductible plan that expects me to pay for everything up to $6K, while at the same time completely depriving me of the price information I need for that to work out in my favor.

The bubble I live in is that I've actually got enough money to pay the out-of-pocket costs if the insurance company screws me. It won't bankrupt me, at least not in the near term. But looking outside my reality, there are a huge number of Americans without anything even approaching that luxury. Especially younger generations. When I look at the numbers, I think your scenario B looks a bunch more realistic. Right now I just have political ideology, but I see a lot of people who have real skin in the game and I wonder how long we can maintain the status quo before those folks collectively realize just how numerous they are and how much change they can effect if they try.
No, I don't think the two should be conflated.
This article reminds me of a clip from an interview with Obama recently. https://youtu.be/N7ZHDoNhScY?t=716

He states that he expected people in charge would be more informed or smarter as he progressed up the chain from community organizer to world leader. But in his experience they did not. In his words, "It was all the same people."

Another person that touches on this idea is Adam Corolla. His often states his observation that he thought everyone was good at their job when he was a child. But when he grew up and worked with people he realized that there are so many people that are bad at their jobs.
Read it again - it's about the monopoly on App Store.

It's like buying a car and only able to use gas sold by that company.
Fines should be some percentage of income.

Here in Finland the record speeding ticked is over 100,000 euros.

One guy in Switzerland received $1 million speeding ticket for driving his Mercedes SLS AMG over 280 km/h. That's how hit should be.
> In the case of jaywalking, the answer is simple. You just make it legal. Cars can slow down.

Mmmm I dunno about that. Drivers have minimum reaction times and cars have stopping distances. Giving pedestrians the right-of-way in every situation seems like a recipe for a lot of collisions.

It could work, but I think it would involve re-designing countless intersections to provide higher visibility of pedestrians for drivers--not a bad goal, but I think a pretty unfeasible one.
> Why shouldn’t I expect it?

Why should I, as a consumer? I don't understand this argument from Apple apologists.

> Apple didn’t even invent the walled-garden digital software store; Microsoft was using it on the X-Box in 2005.

So if it wasn't called out then, it should never be called out ever?
I bought a two year subscription to NordVPN a while back simply to use for -

1) Slightly better security/privacy using airport, cafe, etc. wifi

2) So I can watch iPlayer, YouTube etc. in different countries.

Do Nord keep logs? Are they based in a five eyes country? I don't care to be honest. I don't use it to protect myself from that. I use it to get around stupid geo-retrictions and to make it hard for an attacker to intercept my data when I have to send an email at the airport.

While on the subject I haven't had any issues with Nord, they are not the cheapest but no way near the most expensive either. Their iOS, Android, macOS and Windows apps are all very nice to use as well or you can do it manually with OpenVPN or whatever but that is more hassle that it is worth for me personally.
Or, at least they could accompany the non-verified details with labels that clearly marked them as such ("Unverified phone number: ...").
Alice, an all-electric, nine-person aircraft
The is a consumer choice - look at literally every new product announcement that comes with a >4.99 price tag. Basically you get people saying it’s unreasonable because making a copy of an app costs nothing. Because heaven forbid they give any value to the time required to design and create a piece of software.

It’s often followed up by claims that they could do it thenselves for much less in much less time, ignoring the realization that that is only possible because the original developer has done all the hard engineering and design work, and worked out how to make things fun, etc. (my most obvious memory of this was when Threes came out and it was instantly cloned by people who had full access to the game design)