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> Politicians are good at getting elected, and OK at being, at least for some limited tenure, broadly receptive to some set of identifiable principles or goals that people vote for. But that doesn't mean they're good at drafting the actual laws, or, for that matter, recruiting and managing the people who are.

I understand that legislators are voted in as a popularity contest, and that new legislators especially may not be good at the craft of writing laws. However, I feel like if we can't even trust these elected officials to be able to recruit and manage capable individuals who can write good laws, how can we expect our elected officials to recruit and manage capable individuals who can critically evaluate proposed model legislation?

If we can, I don't see how the skill set of the legislator is substantially different in these two cases. If we can't, then we are essentially admitting that interest groups should be able to convince legislators to pass laws on merits other than the bill's quality. In that case, I don't know what role the legislators are even performing in this system.

In my view, the point of democracy and its ideals of equality (e.g. one person, one vote) are to protect less powerful classes from more powerful ones. If our solution to the problem of model legislation is to throw our own money in the other direction, we will just end up with rich groups fighting battles with each other with little oversight from the rest of the population.
Also ancient language like Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
Lobbying in general is problematic (though I think it's less clear-cut than I think people assume it is). But I'm clearly meant to be especially aghast at model legislation, which, to my eyes, seems strictly superior to the mode of lobbying where the lobbyists pay to have legislators write their bills for them.
Who’s trying to discredit them? I just asked if their claims can be believed. I thought “can I trust this random Twitter account” would be a completely standard question, attacked on the basis of “duh, of course you can’t, why would you even ask?” rather than because how dare I impugn the reputation of poor whatshisface instead of spending a couple of hours combing through the evidence for myself.
Yes! But not exactly relevant: this deployment technology is supported by Perl/CGI just as well.
Your right. They didn't mention it, probably because it's not indicated on the CVR at what point they decided to try turning it back on.
Who's to say model legislation needs to be funded solely by corporations? SIX has no corporate sponsors.
Additional software problem detected in Boeing 737 Max flight control system
I bought a train ticket the other day from a vending machine. You put in a $20 and it spits out a ticket and your change. Systems that are incapable of doing this are designed poorly. That is not a shortcoming of cash or technology, it is a shortcoming of the transit operator.
They do, but average legs and extreme torso looks more impressive than average torso and extreme legs.
It does now, after a small patch: https://git-send-email.io/#step-2
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Have you ever taken a bus? Every bus I've ever taken doesn't give change, so it's not a matter of just getting a $20 bill from an ATM and being good to go. You have to have exact change (and often it's not an even dollar amount which is that much more of a pain).

Plus, people paying cash slow down the bus as they fumble for their wallets and count out their coins and such. If enough people pay cash, it slows down the bus significantly. We should be trying to get to the point where nobody pays cash when boarding buses for this reason alone.
And if training for this scenario in a MAX-specific simulation was recommended/required then Boeing wouldn’t sell many planes because that would mean buying simulator time and retraining your existing 737 pilots.

For specific training to be reqired I assume it would need to be made a different certification entirely? Is that even a plausible scenario that this could change?
One gripe I have with this thinking- Until you are, and you have failure.

Things that don't scale or be AA Quality will show up.

Go viral and fail to service. 15 minutes of fame squandered on an avoidable tech mishap.

One time a top comment on a thread was about a misspelling.
Buying a smartcard or even magnetic day ticket for cash needs not be hard.
I guess I'm just not seeing how it was ever realistic to think that legislators and their staffs were going to be the best authors of bills (rather than the best arbiters of what bills to pass, where I think there's a clearer case that they're the best option out of a whole untidy mess of worse options), or why competition from outside sources of drafting legislation would be a bad thing.
The common advice and wisdom from what I've been hearing is that it's perfectly acceptable (especially if you are underpaid the market rate), but not to do it frequently or too fast. There was some evidence of within company promotions being poorer than just switching jobs.
Ancient Whale with 4 legs found in Peru
please don't publish your spam here, this is not ProductHunt where everybody shills to everybody for scams and retarded products
Blasphemous is an interesting choice of words - I wouldn't be so certain or dogmatic.
If you had a committee on space exploration with the goal of solving technical challenges in getting to Mars would you staff it with people who believed in a flat Earth? This whole idea that people with ignorant viewpoints belong on a pedestal because they have opposing views is just silly. We can reasonably say that some views are backwards and counterproductive especially in this case with the Heritage Foundation that deals in deception and the falsification of evidence.
Perl6 was a reaction to Perl's loss of mindshare, not its cause.

One can speculate what might have happened if focus had been put on evolving Perl5, or getting Rakudo production-ready as-is instead of going through yet another round of 'tinkering' (eg making the compiler backend-independent, the New Object Model refactor, creation of MoarVM, the Great List Refactor, ...) - however my crystal ball seems to be broken and just continues to display 42 no matter the question...
It accomplished building a market around drm. Which the drm market is happy about.
Alternative solution: Stop charging fares for mass transit. Pay for it with taxes and let the people who don't use mass transit subsidize it anyway.
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Good to know, thanks, I didn't know challenge-response support in sshd was specifically tied to RFC 4256.

With that said, I suspect it could be retrofitted for this purpose.
The problem is that the vowel ` ि` is in a misleading position in the decomposed form. It implies a spelling of kshatrayi instead of kshatriya, unless you happen to know that Unicode requires it to be there and the font engine is supposed to move it to its correct place in the ligature.

(This comment is a good equivalent of the problem in English. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19575942 )
What would be nicer if it was actually secure. But out side of certain alphabet agencies, government-provided security is a pipe-dream.
And Europe as well... (Though I'd be happy if we'd start with at least a unified system within Germany.)
Um, yes. C++ went down that rathole, and it's not pretty.

The functional people have been able to hammer Rust into a functional language, sort of. Now they want a Haskell-like "do" construct so they can get imperative sequentiality back. Is that right?

I'm not a huge fan of extensible languages. I've had to debug LISP code written by others.
> Which society? What glorification?

The high-functioning, wealthy society of working age professionals. I think of the United States - and I assume most countries are the same, but perhaps to a lesser degree - as a cluster of societies that sometimes intermingle and share space with each other but are otherwise distinct. Obesity is a disease of the poor.

In certain circles there is a glorification of extreme forms of exercise. Partially as an indicator of status, to demonstrate that you have the both the personal agency and excess resources to pour into a training program to achieve impressive feats. But also as a sacrifice to the gods of success. All the respected leaders in business are doing ultra endurance sports, so it would stand to reason that there is something, some X-factor it's contributing to their ability to achieve.

It's worth asking whether there's any benefit to this kind of thing past a certain point. Are people their wasting time and causing long term damage to their bodies just to impress their friends?

Your last sentence, by the way, gave me a laugh. It could be the dictionary example for false dichotomy. Not sure whether this was intentional.
Yes, and in my opinion those are both valid assumptions to make.

1. You’re right, congestion pricing forces drivers to reveal the marginal price for time. In a congested road, what makes the marginal driver decide not to drive at a specific time? Because he knows that it will take too much time due to traffic (or because he is simply forced to queue). In a toll road, what makes the marginal driver decide not to drive at a given time? Because he knows it will cost too much money. At the margin, congestion pricing turns a time cost into a monetary cost.

For those individuals whose value of time is lower than the marginal driver (i.e., people who would rather have a traffic jam than pay the toll), congestion pricing itself can make them worse off, but when the proceeds are reinvested in transit I think it’s probable that congestion pricing will generally benefit lower-income people.

2. Congested roads already force people to change their travel time. If you try to cross a congested bridge at a specific time, you will be queued until all the people in front of you have passed. So I suppose you could say the road already is extracting rent and throwing it away. Congestion pricing harnesses the value (of all the drivers whose value of time is above the marginal driver) instead of discarding it.
Boeing should be raked over the coals for even allowing item 1 to be a valid order configuration, and item 2 for being an order option.
That's the great part about funding legislation - whoever has more money to spend, wins. And guess who has the most spending money in the US.
When people retire, they get doubly depressed from age and if they don't have structure and activities to keep them occupied. It's best to never "retire," not because of cognitive "use it or lose it" (which was disproven[1]) but because of the harms of slipping into depression.

For example, my step-father was a copy editor for a large government body who was initially happy/go-lucky on retirement initially but is now extremely self-isolated and depressed.

EDIT: 1. https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4925
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Ouch that's unfortunate and I can imagine the impossibility of a refund if the wrong card in a wallet of compatible cards is charged... I had a good experience with London's tube tracking my contactless CC usage properly though (full price fare, transfers, up to a daily max after x pounds).
C# is great. It's a high level programming language and it's also super-fast handling ~7.000.000 requests per second on a single server according to the following benchmark:

https://www.ageofascent.com/2019/02/04/asp-net-core-saturati...
How many accounts do you have? Who would you want and trust to consolidate every one of them for you?
That's not the only issue. Cash also slows down the system. If I shove my crumpled dollar bill into the machine it will slow down the whole route, adding cost for the agency. The agency then has to have staff to count the cash, then hire an armored car to take it to a bank. It's not that simple.
It's worse that that. First, all of the money comes from the buyer; that's why they're called the buyer. It goes to the seller who pays the closing costs. So the entire BPP = Buyer's Price of House is (Seller's Price of House + Closing Costs). The buyer will then pay sales tax on BPP. Yes, you are paying sales tax on the closing cost. It's worse still. You then pay property taxes on the BPP which means that you pay property taxes on the closing costs.

You can and I did negotiate the BPP and then tell the seller that you will be paying the closing costs yourself and deducting them from the BPP. Then you avoid paying sales tax on the closing cost service and paying property tax on the closing cost service.

Oh, and don't even get me started on the financial services industry scam of mortgage interest deductions.
PHP won because you just wrote the code and it worked. With Perl you had to deal with the cgi interface which was a pain. Mod_perl came later. PHP was just extremely easy to get started with — you did t need to really understand Perl modules, the cgi spec, or anything to get started with it.
Greatly looking forward to how beat twists himself in knots to interpret this one as "factually accurate".
They are also pulling with all their might on the yoke and have been for several minutes. At this point probably fighting fatigue or even getting close to muscle failure (how many pounds of force for how long?) and starting to question their sanity.

Yeah, from my computer screen I can wonder why they didn’t sit on that ANU switch hard and long. But in that cockpit Boeing had already sealed their fate.
Interesting work, YazIAm. Conceptually this reminds me a little bit of the idea behind Kialo. Down the road, there might be some interesting synergy potential between fact attestation and debate.

I've had a few related thoughts, on the off chance you find them useful:

1. It would be interesting, variously for journalists and the reading public, if it was possible for journalists to generate, disclose, and research cryptographic sourcing identifiers that enable them to figure out when they share a source. This could, critically, help journalists identify sources with a record of feeding other journalists bad information.

It'd be nice if the same work could help the rest of us unravel citation chains based on a small number of unique sources, but I'm not sure there's a way to achieve that without it being fairly simple to re-identify sources via brute-force.

2. If we can drill enough to find some bedrock, I think it might be useful to have virtuous-cycle user tools, like browser extensions that warn users when visiting an article by writers/publications (and potentially even sources, per above) with repeated sourcing/attestation problems. I don't think of this as purely a journalistic thing. In the sciences it could apply to methodology, data-collection/statistical integrity. With some bedrock, tooling in place, and established trust/community practice in place here, it might also be possible to expand the scope a little and address things like headlines that aren't at all moored to evidence.
No problem! What kind of prosthetics are you working on?
This is the standard academic philosophy viewpoint, but it makes no sense. What you need are principled people with a vested interest in intellectual honesty and making a real difference. Progress simply isn't made by optimizing for disagreements, in any field.

Heck, there are theorems that prove rational people always end up agreeing about probabilities assigned to (non-normative) statements; if you hire people who don't agree as a matter of course, you've also proven them to be poor at thinking.

There are good, working systems to copy and steal from. Hire people from the Effective Altruism community if you want an easy solution with a very high chance of success.

Remember that Democracy is about consensus in spite of disagreement, not in search of it.
We are at the 'accident investigation' stage. Accident investigators do not hand out punishments. That comes later, during civil or criminal procedures in the various courts of jurisdiction, and by the regulators.

It is certainly within the realm of possibility that there will be severe consequences, up to and including criminal charges.
I use managed services a lot. And fortunately my data size is big enough for it to actually make sense to be using these big data tools.

The issue is the quirks. Every managed service has at least a dozen quirks that you're not going to know about when you visit the flashy sales page on the cloud provider's website. And for the vast majority of users, they're not going to have access to the source code to understand how these quirks work on the backend. So you end up in a situation where yes, it does take way less time to get 95% of the functionality done, but getting that last 5% can still take a considerable amount of work.

As an example, I am using Azure Event Hubs lately. It is supposed to provide something like a simple consumer api like Kafka does, but with consumer group load balancing across partitions. Awesome, there is a system that automatically handles leasing across partitions in a way that abstracts this all away from the client! Except, well actually the load balancing is accomplished via "stealing leases" (meaning, they are not true leases) so if you use the api you are meant to use, you will get double reads - potentially very many if you want to commit reads after doing more-than-light processing which can take time. So you need to use the much more poorly documented, barebones low level api and probably still end up writing a bunch of logic to dedupe.

Except, you use this kind of tool to begin with because you want to set up a distributed consumer group to read from a stream... so now you have a non-trivial engineering problem figuring out a way to get a distributed system to manage deduping in a light-weight way across hundreds of processes and machines...
> just, think for yourself. Is it the best solution to your problem? What is your problem exactly, and what are other ways you could solve it?

This is the crux of the issue, psychologically. When making an important decision in the face of uncertainty, having someone else with a lot of clout (or a group of people whose collective wisdom you trust) simply tell what you do feels amazing. That feeling is hard to ignore in favor of constructing your own cost-benefit analysis.
> You can make an egg into an omelet, but you can’t turn an omelet back into an egg.

The 2015 IgNobel was awarded for uncooking an egg!

http://www.news.uwa.edu.au/201509258005/awards-and-prizes/eg...
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Great pictures! As a remote developer for SaaS company, and as someone who does both commercialized-work and commercialized-play on his laptop, I now see that I enjoy looking at people contributing to research by working on computers, back when computers were a subject of research.
> will get you a lot more bang for your buck

And it _really_ is a lot. A company I work with switched from running two servers with failover to AWS, bills went from ~€120/m to ~€2.2k/m for a similar work load. Granted, nobody has to manage those servers any more, but if that price tag continues to rise that way, it's going to be much cheaper to have somebody dedicated to manage those servers vs use AWS.

Also, maybe that's just me, but I prefer to have the knowledge in my team. If everything runs on AWS, I'm at the mercy of Amazon.
Imagine being the one who was forced to develop this. Regardless of whether one did see something like this coming and raised objections or missed it, I would be unable to continue to function. Do we know how teams cope with this?
Or an even more relevant recent hire: https://www.apple.com/leadership/john-giannandrea/
The ebook no longer exists. That's the point. Whether or not the item is available in print is irrelevant as the person who paid for it did not pay for a physical copy.
John Adams (2nd president of the US) famously represented the British soldiers who were tried for the Boston Massacre. He argued that everyone deserved a legal defense, regardless of how heinous their alleged crimes may be. A good test for a legal system is whether it fairly doles out justice to those accused of the most terrible crimes.
False, the fraud filters on our account (ACH Positive Pay) pick up all direct withdraws for approval handling (we can add rules with limits for recurring withdrawals).

For folks with reasonable transaction volumes per year I highly recommend both this, electronic payment systems and positive pay.
No...whoever has money to spend just gets model legislation written. It still has to be passed.
Except we are talking about journalism which is prone to things like censorship, shadow banning and the like which would defeat the purpose of it being open. The source code would reveal if there were such a functionality.
It's the only way to do it. (source, i do 3d tissue reconstructions sometimes)
The Brave Browser Ecosystem Could Be Worth Billions
That's true, but I'm not sure how to interpret your response into the context of mine.
Ancient Humans Might Have Had a Marrow Advantage
Sounds like a FOIA request should fix that "open source" problem. If its software developed by or for a governmental agency in the US, we as citizens have the right to access it as the public domain work it is. The recent ORCA fare enforcement app shenanigans with Sound Transit is a great example, even with a contracting company as a layer of indirection for developing said software doesn't escape said code's FOIAbility.
xBrowserSync, I use it everywhere in chrome at home and office, and on my mobile
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The paper is part of the SIGBOVIK "conference" that takes intentionally funny computer science papers (of varying degrees of rigor) every year. This paper is in good company alongside "Aumann agreement by combat", "Survival in chessland" (an investigation of what chess piece you want to be to minimize your chance of being captured in a game), "NaN gates and flip FLOPS" (re-representing binary operations as valid floating-point logic on NaN and inf, then building a hardware implementation of a machine that computes on that logic using standards-compatible floating-point representations of those values), and "Need more RAM? Just invent time travel!"

Full proceedings document for this year: http://sigbovik.org/2019/proceedings.pdf
Did they just copy the article exactly and then put "- The Olympian" at the end of the title. Horrible.

Original source: https://www.theolympian.com/news/nation-world/national/artic...