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Shouldn't it be proportional to sqrt of that, or something else that's sublinear? In places where people have respect for law and safety of themselves and other human beings, the distance between cars should increase with speed.
I think you are right. Go `big.Mod` should be Euclidean (i.e. `x % y` follows `y`'s sign) so the code is redundant. It doesn't seem to be required to run in constant time (if so we won't have `if` at all), probably the committer wanted a minimal change?
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> I'd be very interested how well dell notebooks last - do they have similar 'design flaws' as the current gen Apple notebooks (keyboard, display cable)

I have 9360, it has pretty annoying coil whine. The touchpad has some play which is extremely annoying, for almost a year I always used a trackball instead. Now I've gotten used to it somewhat, but still it irks me every day when I have to use it. Headset port stopped recognizing dedicated microphones at some point, probably some driver/software problem on the Windows side.

For work it is okay and I chose it basically because the Macbook Pros of the time already had the horrible keyboards and touchbar. In retrospect I should have gone with Lenovo, at least their keyboards are much better and they have actual docks, which are very convenient for work. Touchpads are still crap, though they may have improved since T440s.

Compared to the late 2013 Macbook Pro I have the MBP has better hardware, but I prefer Windows and Linux to OSX.
>In August 2018, Apple enlisted a Tesla engineering vice president and Apple veteran, Doug Field, to lead the Titan team alongside Bob Mansfield. This week’s dismissals from the group were seen, internally, as anticipated restructuring under the relatively new leadership.

>Other employees who were impacted by the restructuring of Project Titan are staying at Apple, but moving to different parts of the company.
When you can't make a laptop with reliable screens or keyboards, or an iMac lineup that has CPU's 2 generations behind.. Maybe it's time to shut down the stupid vanity projects and focus on your core business instead?
Most people I know just lie and add 20+ percent. If you are moving to a different market...they add 50 percent of the real salary.
So this effectively means don't register a .eu domain if there's any discussion in your country about an *EXIT?
Turing completeness is easier to achieve than to avoid. If you have conditional branching and an unbounded store (memory is finite of course, but it's arbitrarily finite) it is Turing complete.

So they may not have cared, but the analysis step would have been really simple. And if you don't want to bother with any formalia you can just implement Brainfuck (or less anachronistically you can go with FRACTAN), if it works you have something Turing complete.
I've got a house on about 8 acres. I can still hear my neighbors ocassionally (power tools and vacuum cleaners mostly), and their headlights shine into my house when they're coming down their driveway. If I had 5x the area, I'd have a lot more buffer. Bigger would be a lot more grounds work though, so I doubt I'd move somewhere bigger.

I don't think universalism necessarily applies to lot sizes. Different people are willing/able to take different trade-offs. In exchange for a large lot, in a tranquil environment, I get few job opportunities without a long commute, poor telecoms coverage, a 30-45 minute drive to big box stores, limited diversity, people complaing about all the new residents moving from where I moved, etc. I don't think most people would make these choices, which is fine -- if more people chose to live here, maybe I'd want to live somewhere else.
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It seems where you are going is forcing a lot of Government to basically run GoFundMe campaigns for their non-essential programs. This might be a good thing and in a lot of cases the chief backers may be philanthropists, public and private trusts and interest groups.

Issues that you will come across are:
- Deciding on what are essential services and the base level of the money they require

- Overfunding (everyone giving a favourite department too much money)

- Selling programs that are not sexy or exciting, hard to grasp and offer more indirect or secondary benefits (bike-shedding problem)

- Funding of base research into technology that could be 20-50 years away.

- Meeting international treaty funding obligations

- Preventative programs

and the big one: Funding (or not funding) the social safety net

If it is cheaper model as far as the bureaucratic cost, and helps with transparency as far as where your money goes, great!
I don't claim that the "Linus's law" is true, I only point out it was used by some open source evangelists. It took decades and a few high-profile bugs to show it's not that simple.

As to the core of your argument, I think your position is too extreme. It depends very much if the software was developed using formal methods and a specialized language. Safety-critical systems are rarely open source, and yet a lot of effort and resources is put to make them secure. That other project choose time-to-market rather than security is their choice, not something inherent to open or closed-source software.
Often, they label culling the bottom 5% as "restructuring" or try to make sure the bottom 5% get included. It's easier to combine layoff events than have a steady stream of them.

A lot of these companies also do layoffs, then pay severance, and possibly some time where you're technically an employee and are free to look around the org for a new job. But honestly, after being told you're laid off, your loyalty to that employers is pretty low, and you're better off looking elsewhere.
I imagine something like Speed Queen, as they seem to be what's stocked in laundromats.
> Maybe it's time to shut down the stupid vanity projects and focus on your core business instead?

What is the "vanity project" in this case? I think it's pretty clear that Mac sales won't last forever, and it's not like Apple is strapped for cash and can't afford to pay for both teams.
Apple has 250 billion dollars at their disposal. They can obviously have multiple efforts running in parallel.
Apple makes the products Apple wants to make; that those product choices might not align with everyone's preferences (I'm pretty happy with my 2018 MBP, for instance) doesn't mean the company can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

Particularly when they make $200 billion per year in revenue.
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I picked up an off-lease Lenovo T430 years ago to tinker with. It's been fun trying out various distros on it without having to worry about what's on other disks, or VM nonsense. I paid ~$300 for it probably 4 years ago, and it's definitely worth keeping around for a few more.
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I haven‘t had any other needs since switching to Prometheus / Prometheus AlertManager / Grafana and a Slack binding.

AM looks ugly as hell („designed by engineers“), but it‘s damn rock solid and versatile.

Tried Influx in the first days, but it was slow and buggy and they changed their paradigms every other version. Well, looks like they‘re doing it again...
Ok, you just spent $600 of your "high bay salary". How exactly are you planning to get down to $185k? Or you know, something more normal like $70k.

Americans and their ridiculous concept of what middle-class is, hilarious. You're rich, own it.
Oh, it’s still catering to some industries, they’re just far less blatant about it than in America.
I have a friend who was in tech for many years and purchased a 25 acre property. Half of it is a small homestead with animals and crops, the other half is to be used as a protected woodlands. It's not tight but I could reasonably see wanting something more like 40 or 50 acres.

Having that amount of land allows one to have a ton of different hobbies and activities available that are really not possible in an urban environment. Want to go shoot guns or fireworks? No problem. Want a huge dirt trail with jumps for an ATV or dirt bike? Go ahead! Having that amount of land can also be great if you have a large family with many children as it acts as a safe-place for outdoor play. Although I didn't grow up on that much land, I grew up in a remote area with a ton of forests and being able to freely play tag or go hiking in the woods with my friends were some of greatest times in my entire life. Bow living in the city for work, I dream of the day that I can retire onto a property with a large acreage, I get the rationality.
Absolutely; none of it felt like a drag. Maybe a little in the language/library/framework section, but I skipped most of it as I don't do much webdev. Also 1 or 2 questions I wish used checkboxes instead of radio, but other than that, it was great.
> "The reason why people put up with crazy looking people that are doing their thing in a different way is because we have historically delivered either jobs or national security," Karp told CNBC on Wednesday. "People understood the value of what we're doing."

Has Silicon Valley ever had a particular history of delivering "national security". I would say more than jobs or national security SV has delivered free or cheaper consumer-facing products, which is the real value the entire country has seen.
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Well thats my point - it seems that they can't chew gum and walk at the same time. If they could, we'd have Macs that are updated to the latest gen hardware in a reasonable amount of time, and issues like the faulty keyboard would have been fixed by now after 3 years.
It reminds me of the Apple of the early 1990s. So many stupid vanity projects, some of which were actually pretty cool: Newton, Dylan, Copland, Taligent, OpenDoc, etc. And yet they couldn't succeed at their bread and butter of selling computers. There's no Steve Jobs to bring them back from the brink this time.
In this particular case, however, the police were already in a safe position across the street and behind their vehicles. The decedent was standing in the doorway and posed no obvious, immediate threat to anyone at the time he was shot.

There is indeed a continuum, but this particular case was at the low end of the band.
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They aren't expensive. There are stores like Specsavers that charge USD20 for a pair of affordable glasses.
> Our vision for 2.0 is to collapse the TICK Stack into one cohesive and consistent whole ...

After InfluxDB 2.0, what applications would I have to run to be completely tick-compatible?

I ask this because I would rather not have to run a DB on every server because Telegraf was fully merged into InfluxDB.
Perhaps some kind of Video LAN server and Client
What makes you believe the autonomous car project comes at the expense of Mac improvements, rather than being unrelated?
"Spoilers" that are revealed on the back of the book itself:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/515blU3eIzL...

All those same details are there, other than the word "Moon" which is revealed in the first sentence of the book. FWIW, I would edit or remove my original comment to remove spoilers but HN no longer allows me to edit that comment. :(
The idea of calculating the amount of acreage per person doesn't really make sense to me due to our ability to construct buildings. Manhattan has less than 15,000 acres but a whole lot more people than that live there.

As another poster mentioned, it's about the trade-offs. Cities have a lot of advantages that, for most, make it the ideal place to live.
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I can flag articles, but not comments. I'm not sure if this is just me of course, but given comments appeared marked as [flagged] it seems so. Inflation in kerma required for flagging? The rules are rather opaque.

I'm fine with bias, it is as you point out, expected and unavoidable. It is more obvious who likes/dislikes what on twitter, though they keep making that harder to determine analytically. I guess the problem boils down to there being no sense of who is voting one way or the other, and would you respect those people? Like, I'm not going to care if Jacob Wohl downvotes something, or if a bunch of Wohlites (or Chomskyists for that matter) are angry, but how can you tell?

As to articles specifically related to gender and women, I would say HN has a problem. It is up to HN owners to decide whether to damp down the jerk responses, the flagging, etc.

I prefer HN posts because they don't have to be absurdley short, and there are no memes. How I hate memes. Though the lack of respect for humour and wit really diminishes discourse.
I will second that as someone who has been vegetarian their whole life. I do feel like vegetarian (and especially vegan) food has steadily become more popular, and "coming out of the food ghetto" is a great way to describe it.

Based on my taste in food, I think if I wasn't vegetarian, I would probably eat a lot of meat -- so all the meat substitutes which have exploded in variety and availability has been a boon for me. It feels very "parallel universe" for me to hear that Carl's Jr and Whitecastle are selling premium veggie burgers now, I definitely had classified them as places I would never even consider eating at.
Funny that you're asking on HN of all places. My wife has it after she had a stroke a few years back. The neurologist doesn't know what she's talking about. For her exercising helps and is the only cure. During the summer some time ont the trampoline will do too but that's basically exercise when done right. So she spends time at the gym like five days a week. It's time consuming and extremely annoying to her but it works. Skipping the gym is a waste of time for her because then she can't get things done. I'm glad you asked. Apparently 'brain fog' is a common term.
He advises to use more copy by value, fine, but C++ is not the right language to do that. It is even by far the worst language to that.

Better functional languages do have the optimizations needed to work in such a style, such as a generational GC, safe stack allocation, an optimizing compiler (for that problem, not C++ problems) and a proper type system. Good functional languages outperform C++ with OpenMP in performance, readability, maintainability and safety. And they explicitly disallow all the problems which do come with C++.
That would have been a possible explanation except that Grant was subdued and still by that point; there was no justifiable use for the Taser, either.
Back in the 70s, Peugeot, Renault, and Volvo collaborated on an engine design (used in the DeLorean among other cars). It's got some utterly bizarre design features but attracted its own relatively dedicated following called… PRVerts.
Nice. (Why foreign?)
My impression (as a Norwegian):
- For computer parts, the price without VAT is quite similar to US prices. But our VAT is 25%, so it makes a huge difference.
- For whole computers, you can save a lot buying in the US, but once you add extra warranties such as Apple Care the price difference is not worth it any more.

We are one of the countries where people have the most disposable income in the world, so that makes it bearable for those cases where the prices are notably higher.
For those wondering, this guy's reply came first. He called it!
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Could you imagine what hell Steve would raise about 3 years of faulty keyboards?
That doesn't make much sense because adult vision doesn't change much. It should be perfectly valid to use an old prescription unless you want to re-check your vision. I've never seen this law in Asia or Europe and people are living just fine.
Fake news is news that is fake -- aka entirely fabricated with no basis in reality. "13 Obama supporters arrested for terrorist plot"-- boom, just made that up. That's fake news. Anything with a basis in reality is not.
> we should be able to implement tools which can detect naughty packages

We can! It's one thing to know that there's no major technical obstacle to having a security-oriented static analysis suite for your language of choice. It's quite another for one to actually have already been written.

The primary wrinkle tends to be around justifying the cost of building one. For companies that use small languages, that means a non-trivial cost in engineer time just to get a research-grade scanner. For companies whose products are security scanners, it means waiting until there's a commercial market for supporting a language.

This is a problem I've been struggling with. I sympathize a great deal with developers who want to use the newest, most interesting, and above all most productive tools available to them. This stacks up awkwardly against the relatively immature tooling ecosystem common in more cutting-edge languages with smaller communities and less corporate support.
> Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Hmm…
I am no army general or special forces specialist but one has to wonder why is throwing a grenade or any other aggressive action is the first line of action for any highly tactical large team with arguably the world's most advanced tech?

The consequences of the situation is perhaps up-to-debate but that is missing the point, the SWAT teams shouldn't be acting reactionary and out of fear, they should be, well, tactical about the situation and not burst into homes and hotels like they're in war-zone doing a Search and Destroy.
I think this is a good move, they need to make money to exist after all.

I just hope they price their subscription reasonably.
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I wonder if this autonomous driving thing has gone off the boil across the industry. Years ago fully autonomous was only just around the corner - as in five years away - but now nobody is talking of much more than improved lane keeping assist grade safety features, stopping if someone walks in front of the car rather than navigating a whole city including small streets.

The scale of autonomous has been misleading. Either something is autonomous or it isn't. 'Level x' autonomy is marketing speak.

I am quite happy with incremental improvements in driving aids, e.g. how Intel MobilEye is advertised. Spaceboy Elon sold it all to us as an impossible future. I reckon that Apple probably got on board the electric autonomous driving bandwagon but can't perform the required magic. You can hire all the engineers you want to build magic things but after a while there is no point paying them if the magic is not going to happen. They may well have pivoted to a car type of thing that has great UX instead of 'magic'.
I know that too, but if I(or the community) have access to it I can prove the algorithms is flawed. Say i change a bit the input and notice a huge output, like I change my non enlgish name to an english name and by magic my score triples then I prove the algorithm is discriminating me(same if I change my birth place or address).

I don't think that opening the algorithms is a sufficient condition but I think is necessary.
Academia is a small subset of the population, so your sample size there is suspect. As for Trump, I would be happy to summarize the reasons he is not loved by my tribe, to put it mildly.

I can point out my perceived flaws in Obama and Clinton without pause. Do you have any issues with the current President or his policies or administration?

Do you want to talk to this liberal and see if you can "reach across the aisle"?
As opposed to Palantir, which sells out the American people.
I remember high CPU alarms waking me up, just to see that Azure OMS Monitoring agents were consuming %99 CPU on every node of our client's database cluster. I'm not sure why that happened, yet the immediate reaction was to uninstall it and never use it again.

OP's story about build agents turning unresponsive makes me think of this. MS is the best cloud vendor to deal as a consulting partner, yet the overall suffering caused by Azure almost makes me feel like it is not worth it.
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And third time I’ve heard about this show and first I’ve seen it mentioned on HN in a few days span... that show is blowing up fast. (I have not had Netflix the past few months, Netflix sabbatical but failed experiment since I got hooked on Hulu).
Laugh.... reading the comments, I feel like the guy in the star wars trench run that needs to keep saying "stay on target"....

The real problem here is business model: expected average revenue per content piece vs. expected cost of production.

There's a winner-take-most dynamic in publishing revenue and audience development; top X stories get Y% of total revenue (with a huge power law effect). If you don't win top 5, you probably get almost nothing.

The cost of a newsroom scales linearly with articles; very hard to get productivity as you drive scale. Your odds of finding good topics drops according to a power law.

Very hard to drive pageviews of additional content with a digital audience vs. print... print would pick up the paper and read an extra couple of pages, since they already have paid for the headline article. Most digital visitors clicks out after a page.

Most of the sensationalism and wading into politics / drama is an effort to stretch that business model... find content which is stickier than objective reporting. The advertising model really does drive editorial strategy:

- In traditional print, I need to build a publication brand to drive subscriptions => subscriber revenue & ad pageviews. Generally points to credibility-building as the best strategy.

- In free digital, emotional crazy talk actually does better than responsible journalism...
A bowl of hot water will usually work to bend acetate frames, but not plastic frames (which cannot be adjusted). Be sure to keep heat away from the lens/coating to avoid crazing.
I think the reason these types of proposals come up is that the rich and powerful already control where the money goes in order to best benefit themselves.

And most of it is buried in laws, subsidies and tax breaks that are not as obvious as running a social services program.
Scrum works if you abstract your tooling and infrastructure to nearly beyond the reach of security bros, crusty system administrators and dev ops dudes, such that you can take your application to new places, as freely as sketching plans on a napkin or envelope, and still get results.

If those guys are still in the mix, they basically want undying praise, accolades and adulation for every twiddle of their fingers. If they open /etc/hosts with vi, they have it in their mind that they just saved the company $15,000 and that a cut of that belongs in their pockets, and also that they’re handsome and clever too.

So, yes. But... you have other problems.
Or his yardstick just points in a drastically different direction than yours or mine.
First responders need to be hardened against these simple redirection calls that don't come through 911 -- spoofing Caller ID is easy, but spoofing ANI is not.
He's a billionaire real estate magnate, who had a very successful television show, and became the President of the United States despite extreme opposition from both major parties and the media.

It's obvious from your other comments that you viscerally hate this man, it might good for you to see things with a bit more objectivity.
Wow. Is that a VM or an actual PC?
I have a Braun MX32 my mother gave me. Older than me, and I am old.
This thing is so loud you want to use hearing protection.
But it can knead 1kg heavy dough for e.g. pizza. Or whip the whites of 12 eggs.
(Yes, I know the article is about audio mixers).
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