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They did revolutionize web development. They do have theoretically heritage that predates them for sure but these are end products they must come from something. There are paradigm shift in web development. They really are not just a little different but they restructure the whole way of doing dev compared to what came before.

Of course Sao is like microservices but it is very different than monoliths.

The biggest issue with scientific revolutions theory, like this discussion, is that you can break it down so that it doesn't seem like change, even when it is.
Yes, for airlines since they are space limited. But the additional space on a train would presumably be cheaper, so the relative costs of luxuries would be more.

The point is just that you want "office class" on a train to be its own product. If I take a high speed train I am still probably just going to go and do some more work from a hotel, office or home.

So just make the slower train nice enough instead and save on the expensive track upgrades. Just don't try to sell me, or include, a 3€ water or a 25€ meal because then the extra time becomes a liability and you ruin the concept.
depends on where you are going to, ideally you would go for 2.6. the vast majority of gems is compatible with 2.6 so it would mostly be fixing internal code.

the main change I remember would be the Fixnum/Bignum disappearing in favor of the Integer parent class [1][2][3] (which isn't hard to fix).

also if you are stuck on 2.3 you might have a lot of other issues too (like outdated gems).

[1]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2016/12/25/ruby-2-4-0-rele...
[2]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2017/12/25/ruby-2-5-0-rele...
[3]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/12/25/ruby-2-6-0-rele...
Do you have a citation for that? The sources I found suggest that’s the starting salary and it goes up considerably.
> Who is going to pay for companies to develop these vehicles?

VCs and other investors who see a company that wants to build these vehicles for cheaper launches? I don't really understand the point you are trying to make. Yes, it's expensive to build X, but usually $Y motivates people/companies to invest in the initial costs to cover building X because the payoff, $Y, will be greater than the cost. The news here is that the initial cost is potentially MUCH lower because now they can use this airplane as a stage 1 and not have to develop their own.
> Do we really need this? Is there some lack of private venture capital that this is overcoming?

- VC funding is a thing only in SV and a few other cities. Most cities do not have a vibrant ecosystem that is accessible to Small Businesses

- VC's only invest in ideas that have both a high likelihood of success and a large payout. SBIR focuses on ideas that have a high likelihood of success without a large payout a.k.a the vast majority of small businesses in America

> I would much rather this money be granted for research that then becomes public domain.

Y not both?

> Why should our taxes be handed out for risky business endeavors with no direct public benefit, when the private sector already has the means to handle this?

- its not risky

- private VC cannot be relied on to fund certain kinds of businesses. American Bank loans are decidedly low-risk too (and can't be swapped for equity)

> "But the government gives tons of handouts to existing companies" isn't a good answer, either. Two wrongs etc.

That is not the answer. If that was, I agree it wouldn't be a good one.

In general, grants of Capital to small ventures that have good foundations is not a "waste of taxpayer money". The success of those businesses creates jobs, that pay taxes, support the local economy etc. They're a waste only if you think giving grants is literally burning a pile of money, which it is not.
That makes sense. maybe you could suggest it to them, if nobody did already.
No job ever goes away entirely. There are still farriers out there.
Two of my very favorites!
Also you have a trillion dollar revenue insurance industry that is going to fight whatever it is tooth and nail cause it doesn't want to just disappear.
> Does it increase the number, or does it just reallocate customers from one company to another?

The advertising is typically done by companies with a patent, where the competition is an existing generic with no real incentive to advertise, and a much smaller profit margin (leaving less for future R&D).

> And I'll repeat my question - how high do drug prices have to get, before further increases can no longer be justified because some scrap of the revenue goes towards R&D?

The premise of the patent system is that the customer decides this. You have a monopoly on the thing that wouldn't exist if you hadn't put in the money to research it, then the customer chooses whether that's worth your price over the alternatives. Without your research your option wouldn't exist, so the customer can't be worse off with it as a (temporarily) expensive alternative than the status quo which they still have the option to choose.

This is completely broken by low deductible insurance, because now the patient wants the insurance company to pay infinity dollars for only a small marginal benefit, and the drug company is happy to charge that much, and the insurance company gets flack for denying coverage.

But how does Medicare fix it, since it's still low/zero deductible insurance? There is no "negotiate prices" with single payer, it's just regulating prices. Which you could do regardless, but the whole point of the patent system is to let the market set prices so that the things most important to people get funded instead of the things most important to lobbyists.

If you're going to regulate prices you might as well get rid of the patent system and replace it with X prizes or something like that. And then you no longer have high drug prices even with private insurance, but you are also effectively having the government choosing what research gets done rather than the market, and suffer the consequences when they decide to divert the money to something else.
> Manufacturing jobs may have become less in numbers but they are no way near gone. So i’m not sure that really counts as a valid answer.

so, a large shrinkage of jobs isn't a decline? if the definition of jobs disappearing is the whole profession being eliminated then you'll never have any jobs "disappear" ... there will always be artisans in any field: look at blacksmiths for instance. so i'm not sure how these wouldn't be valid.

same goes for mechanics, and farmers. the number of jobs have shrunk - those jobs have disappeared. for farmers it's due to an increase in factory farms and labor saving devices, sure there are still farmers (and quite a few where i live, where locally grown food is sought after), but for the most part those jobs have disappeared.

unless we're operating on a different definition of "disappear"? if 100 people have a job that is now being done by 25 people due to either decline of need or mechanization, then those 75 jobs have disappeared.
The costs come from things like the extraordinarily high cost of getting FDA approvals reducing competition between pharma companies, doctors choosing unnecessary tests for liability reasons and patients preferring them when someone else is paying for them and things of that nature.

You missed the biggest one: massively overcompensated specialty physicians. We can expect price controls to reduce that. And since there is currently a massive surplus of qualified applicants to medical schools, we shouldn't expect shortages either.
I'm in one of the other OECD states and I'd pick American healthcare over mine most of the time. You guys have so many more treatment options available.
Maybe not space but a plane even faster then the Concorde without the noise issues.
What is the baseline? Don't a lot of jobs disappear in an average decade since the industrial revolution?
32MB was a lot of memory back then. Typical machines at the time had 8. 16 was extravagant.
We've written a bunch and describe some ups and downs here: http://seliger.com/Should-your-startup-seek-Small-Business-I...
No. That's a breach of the licence. The opposite would mean that copyright wouldn't be useful in software.
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A better example would be one of the BSDs, where the kernel and userland are all developed together in a single source tree.
It'll have to be a lifestyle business /s
"High quality closed loop controllers shipping in volumes helps too."

Yes. Those things used to be way overpriced. I was at an industrial trade show some years ago, and saw that Maxon, a motor manufacturer, had added controllers to their product line. I was chatting with the sales rep, and he said they'd added them because they were tired of selling $100 motors that were used with $1000 controllers, when motor and controller cost about the same to make. Selling both together resulted in a huge improvement in profit margin.

Encoders, too. For a long time, shaft encoders, which are very simple devices, were way overpriced. They were separate from motors, which meant you usually needed a motor with a shaft out each end, plus the parts to attach motor and shaft, plus the alignment problems of keeping two things with separate bearings concentric. With the encoder built into the motor, this all gets much simpler and neater.
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> You could just switch to some other activity while the colleague finishes typing their message.

> With a very basic policy change to how you receive messages, you can totally avoid all inefficiency.

That's nice, but not everybody's attention/focus works the same way.

I can't do this, for instance. If I get a "hello" message, I can try and return to the task at hand, but the anticipation that I'm going to get another notification any random time now completely ruins my concentration. Trying to regain my focus and continue work takes me at least a minute or two of active effort ignoring that nagging feeling until it's quieter. During that time, of course, comes the second notification with the actual question. Replying to that will of course require my full attention anyway. So I don't usually spend the futile effort to regain focus and rather just zone out for a bit until the other person gets to their point, I can answer, and everything is over.

And like everybody says, you can just put your "Hi!" in the same message as the question. I do that always. In fact I would feel I was being purposefully irritating if I sent a "Hello" first, wait for a reply, and only then get to my point.

It's a bit different if they expect it to be a longer chat or complex question. Then asking "Hey, do you have time"[1] is fine, because it's a genuine question that I could answer with either "sure" or "be with you in 10 mins". Then I am in control again and can focus finishing up until I get to them. I think that's the key here, being without control in that limbo zone between "hello" before finding out what the other person actually wants from you.

[1] personally I will always write "Hey do you have time to chat about <3-5 word summary of the thing>" because again it's the polite thing to do, not wasting the other person's time. Also it's easy enough, and helps me formulate the point concisely for myself. It allows the other person to decide whether chatting about <the thing> is something they have time for instead of just having time in general.
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That's really fascinating (& thanks for taking the time to comment).
I assume in both cases the dataset was balanced. Otherwise metrics such as accuracy can be meaningless.
> not_hope

This one is a little surprising. Does the NYT think this article dashes any hopes readers might have of winning the Masters?
>I would much rather this money be granted for research that then becomes public domain

That's not how it works though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act

Research from publicly funcded universities gets patented then turned around to fuck you and make you pay for it twice all the time
when i worked at apple they monitored even our private phones. i only found our afterwards that they had been reading the conversations i had with my wife. they way they did it was to ask me to install a certificate or something like that under the pretense that they needed me to participate in testing and providing feedback on the software service they were working on.

apple can go suck it.
I have multi account code pipeline/Cloud Formation setups for deploying lambdas and related resources. Once I got the hang of it (with a lot of help from AWS support admittedly), it’s not that bad.

I probably could have figured it out, but why bother when we are paying for the business support plan?
This is exactly what made me stop using it. I didn't post anything for a few weeks, and I started getting these fake "notifications" that had nothing to do with me. It felt like Facebook was some sort of stalky overly clingly ex, trying way too hard to get me to engage. So creepy.
You're making a lot of random assertions with no basis in research at all. These programs weren't created on a whim. They've been created based on research that funding small businesses ultimately generates more value than the initial investment, which I rely more on your gut feeling (or wherever the fuck you're getting these ridiculous notions from).

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-111hhrg48735/pdf/CH...
> We consider that the agent successfully defeated
the reCAPTCHA if it obtained a score of 0.9
Airbnb could scan new listings for the use of images taken from other people's listings. Not foolproof but one example of the sort of countermeasures in depth that are appropriate to try and combat these villains.
In Vinge's "A Deepness in the Sky" [0] one of the characters is a Programmer-at-Arms, and one of his roles is essentially software archaeology - not for the fun of it, but to keep the deeply layered software of a starship functional.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky
It's easy to rip on US military spending, but it's actually not far out-of-line with other OECD countries. Considering the amount of war-mongering we do, I don't know how anyone expects it to be average or lower. For reference, it's about double the average country: https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0184_ally_defense_spendin...

It's 63% higher than China and ~double France's & the UK's. Russia's is actually 38% higher than ours (not that Russia is a model country for anything): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/ms.mil.xpnd.gd.zs

Maybe if we could stop starting wars constantly, we could lower our military spending. But it doesn't look like that's the direction the voting population is moving toward.
> Some safe, simple, idiomatic C++ code is difficult or impossible to express in Rust.

[citation needed]?

I could definitely believe there are such things, but all the examples I've encountered are things like doubly-linked lists where the complainer flatly ignores the existence of the 'unsafe' keyword.
Your assumption is showing.

Truth be told I'd probably add democracy now to the list as well.
Feeling good is not the point of news. The point is being informed. I cant help but think of the saying, “ignorance is bliss.”
His book, as actually written, is mostly about the history of science.

From memory it's pretty straightforward, short, and not a difficult read. The themes dealt with are timeless IMO, and just as relevant today. I'd encourage anyone who hasn't read it to spend a few hours doing so.
Light pollution and advertisements are two of my least-favorite things, and to combine them is just too much for me to tolerate.

I will be boycotting any company that advertises in this manner.
Not directly related but I like writing a json schema for my json configs. In a pinch I can get an interface for editing and validating it very cheaply with https://github.com/json-editor/json-editor

It's not perfect but a great time saver for me and users.
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Thank you! Javascript is not my bag, I'm glad it was simple!
Wow, I had the exact same experience. Would never bother with it again.
A lot of the benefits' cost are labour (i.e. doctors, fire fighters, etc), hence are more expensive to provide. It's the circle of life.
Since the current world order is a result of those events, I'm not that sure a power shift from an elite to another would solve anything else than just raw hatred towards the privileged few of the day. I'm more inclined to think that a more gradual and evolutionary approach to wellbeing and social justice can be more effective.
The bus, the lights, the hills have nothing to do with your success rate. It's all about using Chrome and being logged into google.
Its a Government agency, so it moves pretty slowly.

I've seen these programs used by existing businesses to secure funding to work on research-y stuff which would be hard to justify for a small business. My impression of it is that its a pretty amazing program for the right audience.
That’s a big effect, certainly, but the payload boost from the additional speed is still significant.

You can’t really get into any orbit equally easy when launching from the equator. The higher the inclination, the more delta v you need. For example, the Shuttle lost several thousand pounds of payload capacity when launching to the ISS compared to what it would have been able to carry to the Space Station Freedom, which would have been at an inclination matching KSC’s latitude. It’s just that the penalty is vastly worse for launching into a low-inclination orbit from high latitudes (thus why we didn’t tell the Russians to suck it and deal with an inclination better suited to KSC).
This looks very interesting, some of the application areas sound really useful.

One thing struck me:

"It is written in C++ and comprises about 152,000 SLOC."

OK, so how do I trust the results of this theorem prover? I can't find it right now, but I remember a talk by someone from Google who is/was also on the C++ standards committee saying that they have probably the best C++ programmers in the world, and nobody there can write code that is actually correct according to the standard, IIRC particularly but not limited to UB.

While I am generally fine with testing for most applications, something that says it provides proofs probably needs to be held to a higher standard. Or we call it a "theorem demonstrator"?
This entire issue comes from "poor" (by modern standards, it was great for its time) language design. The compiler writers have to fight with the compiler users because the language that was meant for communication between them does not include all of the information that the compiler needs to know. Instead, it depends on implicit things that "everybody knew" in 1980 but which are not all true today.

In order to know what your C program is going to do, you have to have some idea of how it is compiled. That's bad, because if they go and change how it is compiled your expectations will be wrong. Instead languages should be designed so that you write down what you want to have happen, without having to think about how the compiler will implement it.
Wikileaks has been criticized for primarily leaking information from NATO aligned governments with a noticeable lack of Russian leaks. On top of that, during the 2016 election he supposedly had access to both the DNC emails and a set of RNC emails. Yet only the DNC emails were published.

I don't know if either view is completely correct, it really is a manner of optics. If it is true that Assange has held back information on the Russian government or the RNC, this flaw would make sense from a survival standpoint for him. And even if he was doing it purely out of a survival strategy, would it not make him some sort of Russian asset in a bit of an abstract way?
And, luckily for them, they don‘t need an airport to be able to land in the city.
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Someone--guess who :)?--leaked some emails, business accounts showing corruption and a photo of the President, Lenin, eating a lobster breakfast in his bed. Looks like Ecuador is going through austerity measures so doesn't look good.

http://inapapers.org/index.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6919797/Was-Julian-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/world/europe/ecuador-assa...
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Ours is the one where you end up with one hundred bills from a twenty different providers, fighting insurance & hospital billing departments for a hundred plus hours on the phone, and five-figures of out of pocket expenses for a completely normal pregnancy & birth of a child, if you've got decent insurance. It holds back entrepreneurship, and it threatens to take all the money you've saved up, at any time. Inheritance? The hospitals will get it before you do. Your savings for retirement? You're just holding on to it before the hospitals eventually get it. Maybe your kid gets seriously sick and then you just don't retire ever. Freedom! Choice!

It's a huge source of risk and anxiety even if you have insurance. The extreme budgeting uncertainty and stress are hard to put in dollar terms, but they're expensive, on top of what's already the most expensive system around, and getting more expensive at something like double the inflation rate. It's inhumane and unsustainable. If it blew every other system out of the water it might, might be worth all that, but it doesn't, so it isn't, at all.
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I always assumed it used your IP, tracking history etc. to decide. Am I wrong about that?
Fairly simple: not having CAPTCHAs. By including them you externalise your business costs onto your users.
I’m a panel reviewer for NSF SBIR and the comment about a “preferred vendor already being chosen” is absolutely not true. In fact, firms that have been funded for years by govt grants are at a disadvantage compared to “true” startups.
Presumably you’d only pick it if you had insurance and income to pay for those services. Not if you’re one of 30 or so million without insurance, and I’m not sure how many million more who are underinsured and can’t afford the deductibles. So you can avoid ending up being one of the 40,000 or so Americans that die each year from lack of healthcare access.
For most situations at most scales, there's a lot of simple open source captchas that should work just fine. If you're working on something that has high potential for dedicated abuse, there are some paid ones that will work well too. I can edit this post with links in a moment. But a captcha is just one line of defense, and you can take a lot of other things into account, like threat score of visitor IPs, verification methods like email, phone, etc.
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> So the new version is 19.1 [API 2.2].

The article says they decided to 'rename' 2.2 to 19.1. There is no separate versioning for features and API, only 1 version for everything.
Hahaha you think that people can drink under 21 in the military.
I assure you that nobody under 21 is officially getting served at a base club.
>Who was this person?

...oh it was me.