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… and we have $x worth of development time solving problems which you have with your current init system. It's not like distributions have an unlimited pot of money, and this isn't something which really sets them apart from other distributions. Ubuntu had been developing their own but switched to systemd years ago and that's generally been either unnoticeable or noticed only in that you don't have to spend time working around Upstart limitations. It's hard to make the case that they'd have been better off spending that money duplicating effort for something which will have almost no impact.
This is my preference too - mainly feature tests, and unit and integration tests where they provide enough value to be worthwhile. I generally end up with 70-75% test coverage, but I don't pay too much attention to the actual number.

We just released a fairly large system that took this testing approach - despite a large number of tests hitting a database, file system and a blob storage emulator, they still completed in only 5 minutes or so on our CI machine (or 1 minute locally on very beefy laptops).
Ask HN: Where to find vintage VGA adapter manuals?
Studying the evolution of graphics display adapters I stumbled upon the NCR 77C32BLT, of Vesa local bus era, that is defined to have interesting features. All I could find is a vgadoc describing some registers. Just wondering if anyone had a reference on how to get a copy of the original chip data sheet/ manual ?
The last few AirBnBs I've stayed at have all been filled with "stock" goods. The cheapest handsoap, the cheapest paper towels, etc. Basically it looks like they went to the dollar store and filled their house with what's in it, which makes me believe that people don't actually live in there.
Forest Park (my home for less than a year now) voted to prohibit video gambling in November, two years after it had been voted in. I'm not sure what the impact has been, but perhaps it could serve as a model for other municipalities looking to do the same thing.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-vk...
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What would it mean for capital to be distributed evenly? Under such a system, what would be the advantage for someone to save and invest rather than consume? (After all, on "turn 2", the capital is going to all be redistributed so it's even again. Then again on turn 3...)

Could you sketch out your idea a bit more? At the moment, I'm not getting it.
The CPU time and memory bandwidth needed to search a 5000-entry radix tree does not leave you with a lot of budget to beat it by making any sort of network query to a database, not even one on the same machine. Even in the worst case the radix tree is likely to be done with its lookup before you even get memory allocated to start building the query, you might just barely win if the radix tree has to go all the way down and do all of its memory accesses, but you'll still lose overall. Advantageous early bailouts also mean that the radix tree is often done after just three or four pointer hops, with all of those three or four lookups having a decent chance of being in L1 and almost certain to be in L2, if this is the primary thing the CPU is doing on that machine.
Read the question and was about to suggest Austen Allred when I read the rest of your post. :)
This will be a controversial answer for some reasons I think are misplaced. In my opinion Elon Musk seems like he has a potent toxic side to his personality, and he doesn't seem to have a very good grasp of certain things. He also legitimately seems delusional at times.

However in terms of bringing awareness, optimism, and a willingness to actively work on engineering solutions to long-term existential threats to humanity I think his impact on our culture is often understated.
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Would love to hear your definition "impact". On a personal level? On a business level? On a global level even? I think it is really difficult to define what impact even means. Sometimes impact is realized even long after someone has died, think F. Scott Fitzgerald (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby#Legacy_and_mo...)
had the same issue with bedbugs. was staying at a place for 3 months and they refused to relocate me.

they stopped paying the host so he was up in my shit about not being paid, (he said he couldnt afford to get the place treated) and I was already out of all my money paid out to airbnb. it was a very awkward situation
This sounds like a comic book's description of economic structures where everything is black and white and there are no ifs or buts.

Maybe I should write economic tracts for socialists and ancap Libertarians.

Can you give an example of 'central planning' in the modern world

I've seen what happens when huge companies start to mandate that, "All new coding will be in Java. All databases will be on Oracle..." That never works. Everyone figures out a way to drag their feet and bring that to a halt. What does work? Doing something like mandating that all systems will be accessible over Webservices. That opens up resources within the company interacting in new ways as they see fit.
If you have a young school-age child, and are worried about the quality of education, then by definition you're not "retired".

Personally, I'd rather retire in someplace like Europe, where you get all those nice social services. America might have those things, but they're completely unaffordable if you're in a nice city: even if you own your house, the ever-increasing property taxes will force you to move out at some point, to some low-cost area, but that place will be full of Trumpers and generally not be a very interesting place to live; you'll just be sitting in your house waiting to die.
Just a statistical nit: the article states that there are more non-casino video gaming machines in Illinois than in any other state in the country, including Nevada. While that's true in absolute terms (based on ProPublica's figures from this article) the opposite is true in per-capita terms. There are more machines in Illinois than in Nevada, but there are also more people in Illinois than Nevada by a factor of 4, and, consulting the table in the article, you'll see that there are not 4 times more machines in Illinois. In fact, per-capita, according to this table, Illinois ranks last, not first.

(I agree with I think most of this thread that these things are a blight.)
Bad journalism is par for the course from nypost.
> I'm honestly not sure what you're talking about.

To illustrate my point:
https://dk1xgl0d43mu1.cloudfront.net/user_files/esp/product_...

The majority of Teles I've seen are like this. Hard to say it "stood the test of time" if there's no agreed upon definition of it.
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I’ve added another example to demonstrate how the technique can be used on blurry photographic backgrounds as well: https://peterhrynkow.com/performance/2019/01/13/blowing-up-i...
Ghosn was believed to be a God in the car business. In France, he still is. Dangerous thing to be told you're a God.
Yep, exactly. It seems like something needs to be wrong/corrupted within Alzheimer's research to explain the continued obsession with this approach.

As I said elsewhere in this thread, their behavior is baffling to me. In my experience, that usually means there is an ulterior motive somewhere.
RIP Aaron :(
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I couldn't read the full article since I am not a WSJ subscriber, so forgive the naivete, but what inherently is wrong in Neumann leasing a building that he owns ? I mean, he could have rented that building to someone else, instead he is leasing it out to WeWork.

How did get get the money to buy that building - if he is siphoning money from WeWork revenues and using that, that's illegal I suppose. If he used Wework stock options as collateral to finance the building, that could be some grey area I guess.
If you're lacking a skill, hire an employee, don't invite a second founder. He who manages the accounting controls the company.

If you must have a co-founder, makes sure he works as long/hard as you do.
Others have mentioned this but to reiterate: imagine a WeWork location should move to a larger space, but the CEO doesn't own a sufficiently large space.

At this point the CEO has a conflict of interest: on the one hand, he should move the location, because that's best for WeWork; on the other hand, he should keep it where it is because that's best for his real-estate company.

There are many potential conflicts but that's probably the easiest to use as an illustration.
You're correct - On a high level, our technology is based on pulses that are fully adaptive, and their parameters are adjusted by the AI controlling the charging.
Also, the allowJS compiler switch became the preferred approach for in-place migrations over mass renames. It makes it easier to opt in to strict type checking on a file-by-file basis.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/migrating-from-...
Running on macOS, I have a dozen or so native Cocoa applications written in the last few years.
Who reads all these journals? Let alone pay for them...
Democracy and capitalism are orthogonal at best, and are often in opposition.

Without democracy, capitalism would quickly devolve into feudalism or autocracy.

From a purely capitalistic view, democratic controls are limitations to be overcome through backdoor deals.
Show HN: Fill common PDF forms on the web with Anvil
> A test case at the feature level will likely require several requests if its starting from clean state.

You say request so I guess you are talking about a network service request. When I first got into A/B testing many years ago we found we could use it to simulate traffic through the entirety of the Travelocity web site from homepage to checkout and back. They never used the A/B test system for test automation, but they could have. Back then the checkout pages were rarely tested with valid feature tests because they were at the end of the path. There were plenty of unit tests isolated to small bits of functionality at those pages. We discovered, thanks to session recording with things like Tea Leaf and Clicktale, just a bit later that those unit tests were worthless. The checkout pages failed all the time and cost the company tremendously in lost revenue. Some of those failures would show up in our A/B test experiments though.

My lesson learned from this is that testing things in isolation isn't reliable and provides false confidence. You tend to get back the answer you wanted such that is amounts to a self-fulling prophecy opposed to a criticism.
I worked with a company that conducted some of the research that led to this - a major problem with electric cars at the moment is that pedestrians use the sound of cars to a) register them in the first place and b) judge when the car will arrive (speed).

If a conventional vehicle is coming around a corner you can hear it, anticipate its imminent arrival and act accordingly (especially important on country roads without a pedestrian sidewalk) whereas with an electric car the pedestrian receives no such audible warning. So yes, the engine noise is a consideration specifically for pedestrians.
I'm just going to ignore all the ad-hominem comments about my "strain of thought" and your perception of my feelings towards cryptocurrency. Lets stick to the topic at hand.

Pulling this quote directly from the page you linked:

> This technology offers unprecedented levels of transparency and trust allowing public records to be searched, verified and audited at a level the world hasn’t seen before.

This is just false. What was not possible before? The page has no details just breathless hype that is typical of cryptocurrency related projects. Please offer up an explanation of how blockchain enables "public records to be searched, verified and audited at a level the world hasn’t seen before"
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It's not as silly as it seems.

I'm not sure I agree. I mean, I see the theory you're getting at, but the Dyson example is built on a few assumptions we'd need more data on -- starting with the notion that Dyson owners are disproportionately more likely than owners of other vacuum cleaners to have second homes. And even if they do, that's, well, one more sale at most, and one that's more likely to be influenced by their experience with the first Dyson rather than ongoing advertising. When you say that you buy repeat items as gifts because they turned out well, you're tacitly confirming that further advertisements for that product aren't necessary to reach you. At best, the ads can sway you if they happen to be running an unusually good deal on the product you've already decided you want to buy.

The big problem targeted ads have now is, as other people have pointed out, that they seem to be targeted with knowledge of what you've recently been looking to buy, but not knowledge of what you've recently bought. If I search for polo shirts, I'm in the market for polo shirts, but once I buy polo shirts, I'm probably not going to be in the market for them for a few months. Once I buy a car, or a television, I'm probably not going to be in the market for another one for years.
Hey! Anvil founder here. Anvil’s goal is to help the world move beyond PDF’s and paper forms. We are building a simple online tool to help anyone convert their existing paperwork into online workflows that can be shared directly with customers / employees.

Imagine being able to create a TurboTax-like experience for any form or set of forms. Then instead of emailing around sensitive information, and manually typing it into other software systems, have the information automatically synced to where it is needed. This is what we are trying to do with Anvil.

As we build out our conversion tool, we have been dog-fooding it by converting a bunch of forms we need into Anvil Flows. Today we are launching a subset of these forms for anyone to experience the joy of filling out an Anvil form when compared to a musty old PDF or even worse, paper form.

If there are forms you hate filling out, post in the comments and we will prioritize getting those converted into Anvil Flows!
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Richard Stallman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stallman
Welcome to the neighborhood. It's unlawful in neighboring Oak Park as well, but unfortunately fully legal in Berwyn.
> Smart, far-seeing capitalists are able to see beyond mere legalities. Too much cronyism makes capitalism less efficient, because it starts to resemble centrally planned economies

A smart, far-seeing capitalist realizes this is a collective action problem, and knows that there is no incentive not to practice cronyism as an individual.

They aren't choosing between having cronyism and not having cronyism... they are choosing between having cronyism and not participating or having cronyism and participating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem
Glad to hear it, you may have saved someone from having a pretty bad time with that.

Basically every line of fire codes were written in response to people burning to death, so I have very little tolerance for landlords messing around.
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> my mental model of causality was limited to the design of the machine - software interfaces and physical connections - and was completely missing the possibility of non-intentional interactions via the physical world.

I love hearing of stories like this. Similar line of thought to my personal favorite interview question: ""What happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter?" (Answer in as much depth as you like.)"

https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when
> on the other, they have an extra Issue in their bug tracker to move to another platform

I presume that in this case such bug reports would be closed immediately.
Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen - His company saved the lives of about 10 million people (my wild ass guess) with approximately one million water purifiers and something like 1 billion mosquito nets distributed in Africa. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestergaard_Frandsen)
Ziggo does not provide 5-10x faster internet at around the same price. That's a huge exaggeration.

https://www.xs4all.nl/pakketten/internet/

58,50 EUR a month for 200/20 mbit (if you can get that speed over VDSL2, that is)

https://www.ziggo.nl/pakketten#internet-online-tv#zonder-bel...

54 EUR EUR a month for 200/20 mbit (provided they deliver at your premises)

Where Xs4all is more expensive, is TV, which is actually KPN's.

Previously I had the choice between good quality VDSL2 from Xs4all (or KPN etc) and slightly cheaper Ziggo. That's before they merged with UPC. I consciously picked Xs4all because they deliver a far better service.
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You have to have a hat to be able to throw it in.
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One of the reasons that I didn't sign up for a WeWork space was that it seemed to noisy. WeWork plans social events in the office every day.

I guess it's good if you like to meet people. Not so much if you need a quiet space to work.
Just like a narcissist to write a post about himself. <grin>
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Excellent point - a disclosure of the why of GMO would be really useful. Agreed re: weedkiller.
I never understood appeal of AirBnB. We used to travel a lot and thought AirBnB would be cheaper to equivalent hotels but it usually is about same or more expensive but with less amenities.

For example:

* There is no room service. You can order delivery but room service has certain charms especially at 2AM.

* In hotels, you come back to a clean room at the day's end.

* There is cleaning fee for many AirBnB. With hotels, you just leave a tip but no need to leave the place in perfect condition to avoid cleaning fee.

* If you have any issues with your room, hotel will relocate you to new room quickly.

* Concierge services, shuttle services, pools, etc are really nice to haves even if we don't use them.

* You are with other travellers in hotel. Very easy to meet new people and share some experience or tips.

Some of my friends get AirBnB in suburbs to save money but then they are renting cars or taking Uber everywhere which probably adds up to same price. Also when traveling I don't want to feel like I am back in 'burbs.

Then, of course, we have privacy issues.
One of the major issues with Electron is that it encourages users to rely on very specific versions that their Electron/Node runtime supports, which prevents the "solution" of wrapping a website in a web view and calling it an app, which, while still not great, is much better than bundling the same resource hog with each individual app.
To be fair, there isn't really anything the leadership can do. The profit margins they are able to attain now are artificial, and anything those in the technology team can think of doing will be very unlikely to achieve those margins. All Elsevier can do is postpone the inevitable for as long as possible, and prepare for the period after that.

(Which they're doing somewhat, btw, but probably not in the way those in that team would envision. They're transforming into an analytics company, primarily by buying up others in that space. The best asset Elsevier has, currently, is money, not its technologists.)
I was made more likely to invest in Facebook and Google because of the multi-share structures. I believe that having control and financial ownership separate concepts can be a good thing, provided those with control have a stronger/better vision than the aggregate of the investors.

This is not some underhanded, secret dealing. It's very much publicized. That makes it "not a scam" IMO.
I didn't deny there was a conflict. I'm just saying it's not a conflict that automatically benefits him at the expense of the company.
You’re probably right that it’s a car culture difference. The final Pontiac “GTO” was a huge flop in the US because it was a Holden and everyone knew it.
The clue's in the name

No, let me give you a clue.

My grandfather was doing microlending in the early part of the 20th century, even when Korea was still occupied by Japan. Even people who are dirt poor can get their hands on enough capital to get the ball rolling. In many cases, Chinese immigrants start off poorer than the poor segments of the societies they move to, and yet have climbed into the middle and upper classes in a few generations. Often, this is done by pooling resources.

Look at history. The key ingredient isn't capital. Those who believe it is are precisely the ones who fail at capitalism. (Often they are the ones who take capital away from others by force, then see those industries fail and fade away.)
Keep in mind that restaurant is on the outskirts of Urbana and footsteps away from I-74 in a very rural part of Illinois. It's a college town, but that's a couple miles away from the campus.

Most Illinoisans live in or around Chicago. Chicago has big streets too, but does not look like Urbana:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.970376,-87.7207679,3a,75y,6....
I'm on the fence about it. It seems unethical initially but the CEO is taking a personal financial risk using their own funds. I would say it's definitely a gray area but wouldn't call it flat out unethical. As with most things, it is very dependent on the situation.
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So when gambling has failed to produce enough revenue, maybe, as a fallback, they might consider raising taxes to, you know, pay for all the things they need.
Just don't pay it. Red light cameras are a scam.