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JavaScript Object Destructuring Tricks
What makes it flawed? It is a legit strategy that occasionally works at the pro level.
A World Without Phosphate
ah, yes, carrier pigeon!
I bought a netbook with an AMD APU, exactly because I wanted to support AMD and their open source efforts.

The pay I got was the downgrade of the available GPGPU features, which now requires the Windows drivers for me to actually make use of the DirectX 11 capabilities and accelerated video decoding, as the radeon driver for the APU only covers a subset of what fxgl was capable of.

So yeah, what is the point of supporting AMD again?
A Big Data Journey While Seeking to Catalog Our Universe
> and the keys are obtained from trusted sources

Isn't that a little hard if the verification keys(from that link) are served over HTTP[1][2]?

[1] http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04/SHA256SUMS.gpg

[2] http://releases.ubuntu.com/?_ga=2.21478331.1690774166.154812...
Show HN: Jobblast.xyz
The downloads are in an HTTPS page leading to HTTPS download links, and HTTP redirects to HTTPS: https://support.apple.com/downloads/quicktime for instance.
That fellow would be Stan, the person who just commented with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18972052
it's not pointless argument. a bunch of important people are getting together to talk about possible solutions for climate change. such solutions will probably involve significant sacrifices in our standard of living. the fact that they took pretty much the most wasteful means of travel should suggest something about who they expect to make these sacrifices.

spoiler: it's not them.
There are parts of any city (including California cities) that are walkable. There are parts of any city that are not walkable (this includes Europe). In some areas the walkable area is pretty large, and others it is tiny.
You mean the proprietary Nvidia driver?

Because( no offense to the nouveau guys, you do great job, all things considered) but the open source one is in pretty bad shape and that is completely the fault of Nvidia.

Having to extra compile their driver (that does not conform to kernel standards) delivers a subpar experience for Linux users and taints the kernel. If they don't care about Linux users and help develop the open source driver, they I don't see any reason for buying their hardware. I rather spend it on hardware manufacturers that try to support me as a customer.
With the latest iPad Pro using USB-C (as well as macbooks) makes me think this will be happening soon (fingers crossed)
I know that with credit cards money lost is the credit card's company, and there's a fair number of protections to keep consumers from paying that bill in the case of fraud, but with a debit card money lost would be directly from a bank account, and there seems to be less. Is there more fraud protection for bank cards in the EU?
The solutions are all out there the issue goes even beyond getting the taxes in place to begin with, they have to be left in place even as they cost people money. CFCs were easier because it's a little esoteric and didn't actually change that much for people in their day to day life (helps that there were good enough replacements available for cheap). Carbon taxes on the other hand to work have to hurt enough to change behavior which will make them very unpopular.
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Roughly almost 600 Billion is spent on the homeless problem. Unfortunately, due to the incredibly high cost of housing, that money doesn't go very far. It'd be interesting to see a breakdown of where exactly all that money goes. Anecdotally, I've read articles of government funded syringes lining some of the streets.

As for why you don't see more high rises going up, that's due to regulations which increase cost. I saw one tech crunch article that said super computers are now required to comply with all the regulations: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/08/why-you-need-a-supercomput...

Ironically, affordability regulations actually drive the cost of building up to the point where no one can afford it anymore and nothing gets built. Why is this allowed? A big chunk of the SF population is deeply conservative ( politically liberal), but actually conservative in that they dont want anything to change. Meanwhile more and more jobs are added every day exacerbating a huge imbalance between housing and jobs, and employers continue to wonder why they can't find "talent".

On the plus side, there's no shortage of fun spots in SF: the fisherman's wharf, the embarcadero, the presidio, etc. Lots of fun restaurants and cafes, etc.
I agree with sentiments of parts of what you say. However, the 3rd world countries have had the largest gains in the last 30 years. Global extreme poverty, child mortality, lifespan in 3rd world countries have had the most improvements BY FAR.
Crippling Cost of 70% Tax Rates
My company uses Backblaze since I think it's a good product, but blogs like this really cemented my choice. I appreciate their attention to detail and publishing data openly.
Boo hoo not your internet points for using bad boy language
'Write with Trees' font
> There are a number of proposed changes to Classes, including field declarations, private methods and fields, and static methods and fields.

So make it look full on like traditional OOP with classes, I guess? I suppose the prototype folks lost this debate.
Just built my new work workstation with 2970WX and RX 590. This is my first AMD workstation since the Thunderbird and everything has worked just great with Arch Linux using the open source drivers.

And my god it is fast...
Agreed, I do the same.

That said, for what it's worth, I've worked at five companies now and 3 out of 5 were great. The fourth is the one discussed in this thread, and the fifth had 3 hours of meetings per day for every engineer.
I would agree with you until i saw the three videos from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18967921, looks like it is more than randomness.
Why We Chose Rails to Build Gitlab
In the "before times", I wouldn't have thought so .. now, who knows ?

Imho, it runs afoul of Constitutional issues and "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" .. but nowadays so many things are happening that shouldn't, I'm not sure what "allow" means anymore.
> I hope FAANG, McDonalds, IKEA, Deutsche*, automotive companies, fossil fuels companies, investment funds, and whatnot will get the feel of cold talons of the social justice.

It's not like the people running these corporations are all evil and out to ruin people's lives. People behave based on the incentives laid out in front of them and the current combination of capitalism and laws incentivizes the behavior we are seeing.
> flawed reasoning

Your "reasoning" is actually a false perception. It doesn't make these mistakes and tries strategies that seem improbable to human players.

A 50% win rate against the Insane AI is very good, as at the higher AI levels the computer actually cheats (no fog of war, more resources, etc).
ok, well i asked a question specifically of particular interest to the tech sector. It's not like we can ignore the rules of the world we live in.
Why do you back up drives if you've never had a failure?
Writing a natural language date and time parser
Your interpretation is based on a slice that's 80 miles long, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you don't have a good sense of even that slice. LA is fantastic. There's plenty of suburbia to be sure, but living there is a choice some people make. Others make a different choice.
This would have been prevented

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4371
Asking the questions proposed in the article requires long term thinking and it seems to me that long term thinking isn’t rewarded in the current version of the global capitalist market. I’d be interested if anyone can name any ‘unicorns’ that fit these requirements?

I can’t off the top of my head
Insta: a snapshot testing library for Rust
In Africa that would be m-pesa, started by a Kenyan telecom and Vodafone.

One fun bit is that it uses SIM applications[0], something that's barely used for anything serious except for m-pesa (and its spin-offs) but exists practically across the entire GSM infrastructure.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_Application_Toolkit
I did have an AMD card many (~10?) years ago, but I ended up replacing it with an nVidia because A) it was very noisy and B) Linux support was bad => I always used nVidia since then and never had problems with many types of setups and hardware, therefore I never switched back.

I will reevaluate both brands for the next switch. I would like to use AMD because of its friendliness/efforts towards open-source, but it has to perform (not "top" but at least "good") & be stable & be silent.
in dota there are 10 players, so you have to coordinate. apples to apples this would mean 5 indepdendent bots per team that have to learn that. there are also summons to control and elaborate spell interactions.
at the same time that could be seen as an advantage for the machine, as multitasking is much easier for a massively parallel computer not limited by muscle movement or vision than for us. we'll see. depends on the usual stuff like limited apm ofc
Flat tax.
There are major exceptions to this, usually involving the city's potential expansion zone being bounded by water on multiple sides. Manhattan, San Francisco, and Seattle all have this feature -- and they've all developed into critical mass, where transit becomes required.
I am a layman, but isn't the point that it doesn't ever understand that game, it just wins?
I'm _super_ excited for flat and flatMap. In working with multidimensional arrays, I'm always needing to use my own `flatten` function before returning my value. I love that this is getting native support.
Technically, in Dota you only control 1 unit. That being said, I don't know if OpenAI's algorithm had 5 independent agents controlling 1 unit each, or 1 agent controlling 5 units.
At least 0.2 has been yanked. I started learning futures when 0.2 was already defacto dead (which wasn't documented anywhere, but luckily people at the local Meetup knew), and I kept wondering why no packages were using it, and a lot of compatibility errors cropped up.
Such a review is usually bought from an independent consulting company. Of course it is BS, yet nobody can do anything.
The only thing that still blows my mind are the private fields and methods. I understand there has been plenty of debate about it, but have not followed the conversation. I really hope that syntax does not get finalized.
Downvotes are indeed frustrating. If I am "thinking wrong", I wish to know WHY I am thinking wrong so that I don't do it again. Downvoting rarely gives the necessary feedback to correct faulty thinking. I will "stay broken" without useful feedback.
I was taught about externalities during my econ undergrad and thought it was a sensible idea -- when considering a decision, the full context should be taken into account, including the consequences that aren't borne by the decision maker and we should be explicit that we are trying to maximize human flourishing. Yet I found that discussion of externalities seemed biased to only focus on the negative consequences, instead of taking into account both the positives and negatives.

For example, as a negative externality, the health consequences of managing e-waste are potentially serious. Electronics with shorter useful life might create more e-waste than those with a longer life.

At the same time, a positive externality of less expensive goods is increased demand for other, higher value goods and services - which might allow those managing e-waste to move into other fields of work and create an incentive to increase safety/automation/productivity for the remaining e-waste workers.

I know very little about e-waste and am not qualified to take a position. I am simply saying that it would be incredibly valuable if the people who did take positions explained the full context of how they came to their view, including presenting the best arguments against their position with a clear explanation of why those arguments aren't persuasive.
>No one wants to give up their own personal comfort or lifestyle for the sake of "the planet."

Seriously?

Who are you to say that of others?!

I'm French (Parisian, actually) and I keep demonstrating with yellow vests to try and force political action so we can save the biosphere.

I've been giving up on my personal comfort for years to reduce my environment footprint and help others do the same: I don't go skiing anymore, I don't fly, I stopped driving (this morning, like any, I rode a bicycle although it's snowing heavily in Paris), I spend more and more to buy organic food for the environment (not for my health but to support farmers who care), I spend hours every weeks in NGO and various "1901 associations" to better understand how other can save the environment (even though it's extremely difficult for many, especially the poor) and to help others caring about the environment. I've been changing everything in my life just for the environment (I don't want to live on a dying Earth and watch the world burn), and I really don't know what I can do more.

I'm really tired and comments like yours are really adding insult to the injury.

I really want to scream a big F*CK you to your face for saying that "No one wants to give up their own personal comfort or lifestyle for the sake of "the planet."". Can you understand that? You seem to have given up any hope in political change, but please, don't speak for other.

Edit: one might think I can simply afford spending times and money of trying to reduce the environment but when you've reduced consumption to the minimum, work in a company that try its best to develop technologies to trigger an energy revolution and spend as much time and money possible to accelerate the movement, there's little else one can do to not rerupt when hearing comments such as OP's (and go into depression). Go watch First Reformed if you haven't already.
"It would seem ai on a single image is problematic,"

It means that whatever it is that these latest models are doing, it still isn't what we are doing as humans.

What exactly that difference is... well, if you could confidently and even more importantly, correctly tell me, in a way so detailed and correct it was implementable, you'd be able to become very rich.
Smart phone industry will soon enter its adolescent and will show the sign of maturity. Also, smart phones became (or sold as) fashion device compared to computing devices (like computers, laptops etc) in previous decade, which were more like utility. Fashion changes every year, utility does not; may be the market is getting to that maturity too.
> I'm biased as I've contributed a little bit to the esy,

Well, Bryan is responsible for the Windows support in esy, not a bit!
The problem with carbon taxes is that they are regressive.

Carbon taxation plays out as a consumption tax on goods people consume in roughly the same quantities independent of income.

Take fuel as an example. The average american adult consumes about 550 gallons of gas a year for driving. It doesn't matter substantially how wealthy you are - there are only so many hours in the day to drive.

A $20/Metric Ton CO2eq carbon tax means a fuel price increase of 0.18c/gal, or about $100 a year per person. So we'd expect to see consumers either pay this additonal 18c to keep driving on gas, or some close equivalent cost if they find a competitive renewable fuel at this new price point.

So:

- If you are at the 10th income percentile, you make $11/hr and society now expects 9 hours of labor from each adult in your household a year to pay for energy transition

- If you are at the 90th income percentile, you make $29/hr, society expects you to work 3.4hrs a year to pay for transition.

This makes carbon taxation, and related schemes like gas taxes, politically unpopular. See for instance yellow vest protests in France, where gas taxation was a key issue.

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Incomes: https://www.bls.gov/oes/oes_perc.htm

Carbon tax -> fuel cost: http://www.rff.org/blog/2017/calculating-various-fuel-prices...

Fuel consumption: https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/01/14/heres-how-much-gas...
Ultimately building ultra-thing requires design tradeoffs. If you can build a thin machine with a powerful processor, lots of ram, huge SSD, powerful graphics, long battery life, and big beautiful screen you could build a thicker laptop that's even more powerful and has better expansion options.

You can do a lot with good design, but it's asking too much of Apple's engineers to break the laws of thermodynamics.
Yes, it is. He was bare foot. Sure, he was seated in the RR with Queen, but that was a special circumstance, most likely part of politicking, and not his modus operandi. But for Al Gore and Leonardo, it’s their way of life.
What are you smoking? Tesla and Fermi architectures had ~8 years of support.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12624/nvidia-moves-fermi-to-l...
It's 2019, all online reviews are bullshit.
>> Does anyone in the industry use it ? Does anyone knows for sure that Airbus uses it ?

I've heard Xavier Leroy say a year or two ago that Airbus was still evaluating CompCert and was thinking of using it in production for the aircraft generation after the next one, or something like that. And that CompCert sales have been very slow in general.

But here is a paper about an actual industrial user: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01643290

> https://www.absint.com/success.htm More customers listed here.

AbsInt has been selling timing analysis tools for decades, and Airbus and the other customers are probably almost exclusively customers for those tools. That doesn't mean that those customers also buy CompCert. It seems like they don't.
"checks" being a clearly inferior option. While they are convenient they are fraught with fraud / bank balance issues, and add risk to the merchant and to the customer. They also take longer than any of the other options to create as well.
I recently found a font named "NSimSun" when customizing the windows console, and I am currently using it for programming. It looks like a serif font but it has finer details like a non-monospace font. I think it is because it was made for asian text, and each latin character does half the width of an eastern character.

Here is the docs for the font:	https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/simsun...

It feels unsupported overall, but I set it up in the terminal and text editors and I am happy with it, It looks like a proper font, and not a dumbed-down-to-align-to-pixels font.Also there are some missing glyphs like áéíóú, but maybe if more people use it, MS will improve the font =)
The rule is to not trust any online entity ever. That's just common sense. So everything you write online anonymously should be filtered by the 'What would I feel if this text will appear next to my name and my company name in the New York Times tomorrow morning' filter.
> but has other advantages, like reduced resource consumption

Could you expand on that? I've never heard that mentioned about async before.
There are more reasons:

- For pre-tank times, makes it a lot harder for strangers (e.g. intruding enemies) to get oriented.

- For more modern neighborhoods, make the roads confusing so cars won't take a shortcut through and bypass the main road. (--> keep unnecessary cars out of living areas since they are dangerous to kids on the street and the noise and air pollution is bad)
Paywall. No thanks.

Am I surprised that the Wallstreet Journal would have a complaint-piece about potential higher taxes though?

Nope.
They are surviving due to exported social programs and technologies, along with some capitalist altruism.

The improvements are only pulling up the 3rd world to below 1st world poverty standards. The winners keep winning and the winners from the 3rd world ONLY succeed on the world stage, after having migrated to a 1st world country.
Not the OP, but so much about javascript rubs me the wrong way.

1) Mandatory javascript is making the internet a hostile place.
Basically every site you visit asks you to run untrusted code to view it now. What could possibly go wrong?

2) It's a hastily thrown together language that was rushed out the door by a Netscape engineer long ago, and it shows.

3) The 'ecosystem' is like swamp right now, at least to me. Frameworks and approaches change almost monthly. To me the whole thing looks like totally unstable set of immature code that I'd hesitate to build on.
What proportion of Americans now have the ability to study topics of less directly monetary connections as compared to those of Adams' day?

I imagine the answer to that question would be interesting and nuanced.
OpenAI Five had a separate agent per unit, no explicit coordination.
Is that true? The U.S. doesn't have a particularly high percentage of home ownership (64.5%) compared to other countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owne...
And the great grand children don't get to study because they have to get a job right away. After a few generations they finally save up enough that some kid can can study "Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture" and the cycle repeats.

Nothing wrong with the arts, but the fact is very few can support a reasonable lifestyle on it. By burning the inheritance you can produce art but nothing remains for your children. Study art by all means, but make sure you have something to support yourself on without burning up the hard work of your ancestors first.
Yes, it really was a post in jest. I guess the downvotes show just how funny it wasn't.
You're kind of talking around the parent comment's point. Global corporations don't make that profit in a vacuum, they do it by selling people things they want. Barring huge technological progress, our current way of life has to change to sufficiently lower climate emissions. Regardless of what kind of government system controls industries, for carbon emissions to be sufficiently low, a lot of our current luxuries must become too expensive for most people. The scale of production/consumption itself is part of the problem.
Dual N-back is currently the premiere brain-training task, by which I mean it's the only one that's ever looked at all promising for general benefit. Unfortunately, the newest and best studies suggest that even n-back performance is basically just a training effect on a single test, plus possibly improvement in visual processing. (In layman's terms, your memory doesn't improve, but you do get better at carefully watching for a dot.)

This isn't being advertised as more substantive than dual n-back, just more gamified and playable. Given that n-back doesn't seem to work even if you're absolutely diligent about doing it, my expectation for "less rigorous but more playable" is that it will have no value whatsoever.

https://www.gwern.net/docs/dnb/2013-colom.pdf
And this is how we end up with classes like AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean
The following sentence:

> After feeding the agent replays from real players, it started to execute standard macro-focused strategies, as well as defend against aggressive tactics such as cannon rushes.
"Cheesing" as it's called, is classic SC2 strategy. People absolutely hate it, but it occasionally works, even though it feels cheap. It's kinda like Blitzkreig in chess...
.. but I thought the yellow vest protests directly lead to rolling back legislation meant to increase prices of CO2-polluting fuel, so that renewable fuels would be able to compete?
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/12/fr...
This one was weird but for someone who only does Javascript it might not. # is not a comment in Javascript but is in many other languages I use which really threw me for a loop.
As though StarCraft multiplayer wasn't difficult enough!

In all seriousness, this is pretty neat. Does anyone know if it already knows everything on the map, or if it has to discover units like the rest of us?