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> Unlike a modern game download, the cartridges could extend the functionality of the base system, allowing console manufacturers to extend the life of their consoles.

This... sounds strictly worse than the modern game download. If I have an SNES and everyone has moved to making cartridges with included GPUs, then to play three new games I have to buy three games and three GPUs.

If I have a computer and everyone has moved to making games that require a new GPU, then to play three games I need to buy three games and one GPU.
I understand the concern, but we don't push YC stories to the top or anything like that. This one set off the flamewar detector, a.k.a. the overheated discussion detector. That triggers an email to moderators, who (assuming they're not all sleeping) review the thread. When it isn't a flamewar, we take the penalty off. It's standard HN moderation, and the overwhelmingly majority of these cases, well over 95% I'm sure, have nothing to do with YC.

The reason we added that review step is that there were lots of complaints about stories getting demoted when they shouldn't. It's hard for software to distinguish between a genuine flamewar and a good vigorous discussion, so we added a human review.
> They could put eye tracking system in place to make sure the operator pays attention! If the driver doesn't pay attention the car should slowly stop.

Except where normally there is a safety driver focusing on driving and an oversight passenger tasked with looking at and checking the automation's feedback, for cost reasons Uber had given both tasks to the "safety driver", forcing the driver to often stop paying attention to the road to check automation warnings & classify events.
Or that you can afford to save for a down payment on top of current rent and other living expenses.
I've never had an issue using a different email for support, I always mention that I own the domain or email suffix and they can verify that if they want to (though nobody has so far).
> it's told in the way an adult might speak to a slow child, which feels condescending. I don't want to be told how a character thinks or feels.

OMG, this. So much this.

> If it had been a satire, then it would have perhaps been able to reach the heights of Vonnegut, Lem or Adams.

Unsurprisingly given my stated preferences, the only book by Lem I truly enjoyed was Solaris. And when I say enjoyed I mean it was a huge, near-mystical experience (well, I was a teenager).

The faux-encyclopedic style, I'm pretty sure he doesn't mean it in an ironic sense, does he? Seems more similar to Borges in a way. I re-read it recently and again it seemed a completely sincere book. He just opened up the floodgates for everything that mattered to him, affairs of the heart and of the mind also.
I've seen a dictionary that defined 120 words using those same 120 words (morphemes really), though some of the definitions were a bit ... weak. Toki Pona also has about 120 words but it's a very different set of words: Toki Pona's vocabulary is concrete and everyday, while the dictionary's was very abstract. So probably it's just a cute coincidence that both numbers were about 120.
None of what you said implies they have ever done any sort of calculation of their maintenance costs and profitability.

They could have reasons (or just stated reasons) beyond considering raw profitability.
A problem with that book is that while it uses the 1000 most common words, it doesn't use the 1000 most common meanings. Many of the 1000 words are used with somewhat uncommon meanings.
Read the person you are replying to. It doesn't matter if it is useless in real world. What matters is if it beats the tests created by govt bureaucrats.

>stop/start is estimated to boost fuel economy by 4 to 5 percent using the EPA test cycle

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a19561461/automakers-incre...
Use secrets.choice instead of random.choice, since only the former is backed by a CSPRNG.
Its not comparable as Uber is running at a loss underwritten by certain Arab interests so the traditional Taxi service system cannot compete

https://www.investors.com/news/uber-loss-q3-revenue-slows-ub...
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Ask HN: How do you document your architecture?
I'm wondering if there are any best practices to document your software architecture design. Related to this, are there are any public examples of a good software architecture documentation?
He was convicted by a jury of his 'peers'.
Here is a weird video with such ADS mounted to a truck: https://youtu.be/kzG4oEutPbA
> I don't think it is because in this case the person was hired by Uber specifically to "drive" this car. They knew that the car is still an incomplete product, they knew that they were testing it, they knew that they were literally getting paid to keep this car from doing something like this.

Sadly, while that is in fact the task of the safety drivers in other automated car trials it wasn't the case here for uber, because the "safety driver" was given both the job of safety driving and of checking, controlling and classifying the automated system's information, ensuring they'd have to split their focus and would need to frequently context-switch between two completely different tasks.

Worse, this decision of Uber all but ensured this would happen: the automation system is more likely to lose its shit and need checking specifically in situations where the safety driver would be most useful.
https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0387.html is more or less trying that, and I think the active developer teams are following it.
Doesn't that just identify you to the databroker as someone with enough money to care? Now you're just on a much shorter list of high-value targets.
Pretty much all of them do. In fact Uber used to do that before they moved to AZ. Having a single person responsible for driving & monitoring was a way to save cost and log more miles.
you seem to think that jobs just exist, and pay a certain wage, and that wage is fixed and this is the law of the universe.

political struggle (higher minimum wage, stronger regulations, unions, etc) drives wages up.
Some party will always be at loss and market will decide which one.

Just stop traveling to Madrid after all not everyone is entitled to invade life of locals and make their place crowded.
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I think this is the right approach to the problem. It's a question of meaning and bootstrapping a minimal language that's based heavily on metaphor (specifically, the conduit metaphor). The answer from this perspective, based on semantic metalanguage, is 800 words. Minimal english, but also minimal across all languages. It's a core language system that's translatable, because language is based on concepts, and those are consistent across natural languages (Chomsky - Universal Grammar).

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

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

https://intranet.secure.griffith.edu.au/…/natural-semantic-…
Well, except that with a FR you can shim the bridge in the recess to it's 'null point' and it cuts ages off the tuning process. Sadly pianos don't really have that luxury.
According to juliusmusseau's comment, you can even get it down to $61/year. (I've used KSoftware for signing certs before and would recommend them too.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19330504
Sounds like a good opportunity to retract the tweet too, then
Thanks for sharing this. I am pretty sure it's important boost of support for people who are fighting through shady days.
I read so much news about lower testosterone, bigger depression, etc etc.

I wonder to what extent technology around us is guilty and to what extent food and just quality of what we consume.

Is there any studies on what day to day exposure to waves does to people?
There is some risk with home ownership too though, and with climate change that is likely to increase. The ability to just walk from a property as a renter does have value.
That's still only an s-expression reader, not a programming language parser.
Really appreciated reading your comment. I had a similar realization about the way I consume internet media in the past and your post brought it back into my consciousness.

It really is awe-inspiring what NASA has accomplished. They are still doing amazing work, but I'm not sure anything in my lifetime will have the mystique of the first man walking on the moon.
Hmmm.

For me, "art = networks" looks a lot like "art = bullshit".

That plus speculative bubbles.
Both hard and soft skills are important. When the subject group are above a certain level of hard skills, you can identify real seniority and leadership capabilities by looking into soft skills.
Pretty easy reason why you shouldn't; under GDPR you don't have consent to use this email (though this reasoning is a bit shakier) and scrubbing the suffix runs afoul of spam laws in my country (if you're given an email for contact, you use THAT email, not anything else).
This is literally a discussion about detecting interstellar civilisations using black holes for near light speed travel, and similar technologies we might develop in the future. I am posting in that context.
Sigh. You're right, my mistake. I'm apparently on the wrong site.
If you jaywalk across a road with a 60km/h speed limit and get killed because the driver couldn't possibly have stopped in time, I wouldn't really want to blame the driver
People forget that sharing economy always existed in some form

You ask your friend to drop you off at the work or your sister to babysit your son, it's all sharing.

I can argue such kind of sharing (without cash) puts other people at disadvantages who don't have friends or family maybe due to some disability.

Now even those people can hail a ride on Uber.

What's wrong with it? I don't need to maintain a list of friends which worsens my anexeity/depression, I simply pay and I am happy.

I can see why people who have social circle to maintain such favours will not like this because now a lonely soul can get same level of service from others around him.
That's what I meant by maintenance dose . A nasal spray or lozenge. The maintenance doses are great for the vast majority but if you feel that they don't do it for you and able to get a nasal formulation you can do your own IM injection which I know a few people personally that do it once a month
Could you be more specific, though? What's more complicated? I'm legitimately curious because I know very little about HTTP 2, but at work (not a tiny startup) we recently enabled it and it turned out to be a trivial change. Unless you're implementing the networking layer of your backend yourself, it seems like a change with practically no cost or tradeoff, as long as your server software supports it.
I remember having another type of cartridge - one that let you plug a UK and a US “shape” cart into so you could play the US cart on your UK machine. Like the “Noah’s Ark” cart it’d use the region code from the UK cart to boot up the US cart on your UK (PAL) machine. IIRC the UK cart had to be the SuperFX type for some reason

I used one to play SFII: Turbo months before it came out over here. Unfortunately it wasn’t very well made and knocking the machine while in use would cause the game to cut out & restart, which happened quite a lot during intensive 2p matches!
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Maybe it's because I always go for the cheaper end of the spectrum? It's not that I'm squeamish or a clean freak. For years I'd travel to SE Asia and stay in 5$ beach huts with no hot water. Some Airbnbs I've stayed in were pretty great.
People do crazy shenanigans on motorcycles in 2D already. Source: owned sportbikes, have the titanium implants to show as my "credentials".

Can't imagine the stupid s%%t some are going to do in 3D.
CoCalc is an amazing thing they’ve also built which does real time collaborative Jupyter notebooks,

https://cocalc.com

along with full LaTeX suite, Sage of course, X11 desktops, etc. It can be deployed trivially as a container to boot.
Kraken: P2P docker registry capable of distributing TBs of data in seconds
Sega did release the 32x which was basically a newer console that was inserted into an existing Genesis / Mega Drive. There were a handful of games released for it, including a better version of virtua racing. Also one or two games required the 32x and the CD attachment.
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I mean cars wouldn't be accepted today if they were just invented. The only reason why we think 30k deaths a year is fine is because "that's the way it's always been", and cars come from an age when one out of three children would die before they turned 5.

In a sane world we would have only segregated rail transport in urban areas and cars in rural areas where the population density is less than 10 people a square mile.
Women have always been paid the same as men for the same work. Why on earth would they not be?

This seems completely unremarkable to me. It's almost as if the female author was looking to find evidence of a gender-based imbalance and couldn't, so decided it must have been "trail-blazing" women. Digging dirt for money is trail-blazing. Right.
Flickr, the progenetor of photo tagging, remains a great place to do that.

Desktop in 2019? good luck. Adobe or Apple.
A proposed solution shouldn't be required to complain about something. Just as submitting a patch isn't required when filing a bug report.

A justification for the complaint is necessary to be taken seriously, though. And the OP didn't provide one.
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I agree. If Uber drivers view themselves as individuals acting rationally to maximize their material conditions in an environment they can't alter, then why would they have issues with Uber? If driving for Uber wasn't a net positive over not driving for Uber, they wouldn't be Uber drivers. But they can and should alter the economic environment they exist in, through politics and labor organizing. The median cut Uber takes from drivers is 40%. This is before accounting for vehicle fuel, insurance, and maintenance. Presumably some percentage of the cut is necessary to develop and maintain the application infrastructure, but clearly not that much. I imagine most Americans would be furious if the government instituted a 40% flat tax on their income, but within the individualist mindset it is seen as inevitable and they accept it.
> There are still situations where you need a tree but if you do, try very hard to use a representation like a binary array heap where the child links are implicit. Or if you must use "pointers" consider allocating all the values in a contiguous block and storing the link structure separately as 32-bit or smaller integer indexes into the data array. This at least improves the memory overhead and locality.

There is an ironic side to that advice. If the node in the tree is larger than 8 bytes (ie 2 don't fit into a cache line), then pointers vs vector doesn't get you a win as either way you hit a different cache line when you access the next element. Stroustrup's example is a nice "gotcha", but the reality most of us don't store integers in a vector or tree, we store bigger things. That boils down to two cases: this thing is so big storing a couple of pointers along side them doesn't matter, or you store a pointer to the bigger thing in your tree which means you are using a pointer heavy data structure anyway.

OK, OK, I've cheated. I get what you are saying is using a linked list to store those pointers to the big object is always worse than storing them in an array. But there is a third option which is better than both: embed the pointers into the big object. If that pointer ends in the same cache line as whatever you are using to distinguish the objects the pointer heavy method will be faster than the non-pointer method, and that is an irony.

This pattern has been followed by hoary old C programmers like myself for decades. It's all over the Linux kernel for instance. Granted it ain't so easy to do in languages other than C. (Even rust lacks the necessary "I have a pointer to linked list node that I know is embedded in a object of type T, give me the pointer to the T object" operation because it's so hard to make type safe.) But just because most languages don't support it doesn't mean pointer heavy data structures are bad.
Cool. So I just have to wait till your backend gets compromised and starts sniffing my emails mid-forward? Or is it already set up to do that?
why? (an honest question.) what problem does it solve?
MongoDB listens to localhost by default and provides a few warnings on startup if you don't have authentication enabled. See:

https://blog.shodan.io/its-still-the-data-stupid/

I believe more of the blame should be put onto markets that provide images with insecure settings as MongoDB doesn't bind to the public interface by default and hasn't done so for years.
I don’t use tags or any software.

I have my own folder structure with my own basic rules. I keep a copy of all important files synced in Dropbox, iCloud, and an external drive just to be safe.

Just a little bit discipline to not leave files in temporary places or with random names, and to clean them up when needed.

Path, directory names, and file names are giving me enough context to find them.
All those individuals are doing is picking up jobs without job protections. Further, they are taking on a lot of costs that taxi services would do in the past, that further erode the actual money they are making.

It’s not a sharing economy. It’s a temp economy. And highly underpaid and unprotected temp economy.
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Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here, and especially not dismissive ones.

If you know more than someone else, share some of your knowledge so we call learn. Or, if you don't have time or don't want to, simply don't post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> a photo that captures the same emotions...

Your comment hits on something many people miss. We have photos today. We didn’t in the very recent past. I showed my grandma (96) photos on an iPad and her response was “there’s no reason to paint anymore”. She’s painted her entire life. Artists used to struggle to invent techniques for representing reality, now photos have made that less compelling and artists are looking for other challenges.
I have been saying this since forever but so many people think they can beat the market. Cue some gurus with some arcane maths on some youtube channel.
I agree with you. Remember that this was a time of rapid improvement in computing hardware, and these were devices marketed to kids in family rooms.

That hardware cost inefficiency is a big reason cartridges lost to discs. (and, later, downloads)

Interestingly, modern GPUs are also sold bundled with the games that run best on them!

https://www.amd.com/en/gaming/raise-the-game
https://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/destiny-2-geforce...
“Somehow”

:)
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You can't post like this, no matter how wrong another comment is. This is a bannable offense, but your comment is so over the top that I'm going to assume you went on tilt (it happens to all of us) and not ban you this time. Please don't do it again though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And let's have Facebook moderators be shown a small percentage of images known to be of rape or beheadings just to test if they're flagging images correctly. You see how that might be a bad idea?
yikes. are we going to see a lot of bootleg elon musk in the future? I don't like these vanity project with 0 utility, spending money just because "muh science fiction". They completely miss the point of doing something useful.
>Of course, "current annualized population growth" is a hilariously bad assumption to make for the next 9,000 years. I would expect population controls long before having our "second home" prepared that would limit the rate of our population growth to the speed we can realistically expand.

Funny I would have expected that to happen when we started consuming more than the primary production of the planet: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/08/09/opinion/heres-ho...

We didn't.
Could FB do it? Yes. Are people stupid enough to buy it? Probably. Are they going to actually deliver what they are claiming? Hell no. Zuck will suck up any communications in his platforms and store it forever and make it available to various governments to spy on people and for corporations to exploit for profit. Nutters will continue to rile up other nutters privately but it will be more difficult to point your finger at FB.
"Should not be" and "is not, ever" are, unfortunately, two wildly different world states.

The fact is that email is often the keys to the kingdom, if compromised, or the baited hook to be used in phishing. With consequences which have had globally-significant consequences, to date.
They reinvested their profits in themselves. That's not really avoiding profit (and I think there is a definition of profit that includes the company gaining value)
Politics is power and power does corrupt. I am sorta glad that CS and the pure sciences remain largely free from this sort of perverse influence, although it does make me wonder how much more progress we could make as a species to fully explore and understand economic behaviors of societies.
I don't think its patronising, some (many?) people just aren't good at maths.

I know a couple of intelligent people that have a real blind spot when it comes to dealing with figures. So this isn't a 'stupid people' thing.

Have you never had a conversation with someone about their new car/phone. They say it's cheap because it only costs them X per month. You ask them what the total cost is, and they have no idea? Because I seem to have that kind of conversation with a wide variety of people.

It's not about choosing what works for them, its about making sure that choice is informed.
If you're earning $10/hr great, if you spend $5 of that on other costs, you should really be deciding if $5/hr is worth it.
I think you make a good point, but got flagged for snark. It's not a totally bad thing that people try to enforce politeness here.
> The Arizona Republic has reported that the driver, 44-year-old Rafaela Vasquez, was streaming the television show The Voice in the vehicle in the minutes before the crash.

I guess we shouldn't be surprised any more as even the drivers of the non-self-driving cars do the same sometimes. It's scary how often, when I look in the rear-view mirror, I see drives behind me looking down at their phones. This is one of the reasons I almost stopped driving.
It was a well lit section of road (the dashcam video Uber released makes it look much darker than it really is, there is other video out there of the same section of road, you can find it on youtube) and it was a natural crossing point but a very poorly designed road/walk way. Almost any human driver who was paying attention would have spotted her from a big distance and avoided hitting her.

Video of the section in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XOVxSCG8u0
I went the other way. I did a moonshot, made great connections, had a few years of fun, learned tons, but also had horrible years and had no financial security after a decade of unceasing work.

I managed to get a mid level leadership role for a huge tech company. I no longer think about mortgages or tuition, I’m a million times less stressed out, and I enjoy my life.

It’s common but it’s not “sexy” to say fuck it, I want a sure thing for a while.