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I've been flying my family overseas from the time my children were infants, and you're right that the fees are insignificant when you're paying the current rates to fly 4 people during high travel season.

But I'll just add another casual observation that people travel with way too much shit.

For a family of 4 we've never needed more than 2 suitcases, and maybe only one is packed to the max. If I had 200 pounds of luggage (+ carryons) for 4 people staying 2 weeks in Europe I'd probably be reconsidering a few things.
In the US, one hears of this every now and then, perhaps on decade anniversaries.
>You can't gain empathy when something is temporary. Most of the stress of being poor comes of worry about how to handle long term problems

This was a really insightful comment. I had never thought about it that articulately, but yeah if you are only dealing with stress temporarily, you can't even comprehend what it's like to deal with that FOREVER. It's just an impossible concept to grasp for someone who has that level of a safety net.
The problem with this (very interesting and fun) theory is that Earth would have to somehow be the very last planet to develop such intelligence amongst the large list of planets within detection range, which seems unlikely.
Thank you for the excellent explainer. A minor nitpick:

>A real world fusion power plant ("nuclear")

Certainly you meant to write fission power plant (splitting of heavy nuclei) as the real world nuclear we're presently using.

However, the point will probably also stand for the future fusion (combining light nuclei) power plants. Presuming we'll run them mostly with the cheap hydrogen for fuel (as opposed to the expensive deuterium), and presuming the operations will not require frequent, expensive maintenance.
Thanks for the input! I know you're on a throwaway account, but any stories or context for a Friday morning?
This isn't a defect in the traditional sense. The device is behaving to specifications, but a new method of attacking it has been found.

Rowhammer is arguably more aptly described as a defect; in that case the RAM is not behaving to spec.
It's not, but it might have been smart to read a few of the other comments and notice an identical question with two or three answers (depending on your exact time of writing): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19935443
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I'd pay money to watch Angelo Mozilo go through that.
>Suggestion: Release your book as an EPUB rather than a PDF. PDF has the reputation of being view-able "everywhere", but it's not exactly pleasant to read on anything other than a computer screen or a large tablet.

On the other hand, it respects positioning, fonts, illustrations, and so on -- and is much better printed.
I always found it strange that American English uses “tarmac” almost exclusively for the tarmac at the airport beside the runway while British English uses “pavement” almost exclusively for the pavement on the street beside where the cars go.
As others have said: Europe ;)
Elon needs to turn it down a notch on marketing the autopilot system as a full self-driving option or he risks becoming seen as the Theranos of automobiles
"T" beats it when you search for T0 programming language on google, so I don't think that was a good idea either.

As far as I can tell T0 doesn't exist anywhere online, unless I'm confused and it's actually this Scheme dialect from 1982 and T0 is a specific version number under that?
It is a clear ad hominem attack on Pinhasi. It adds nothing to the story, especially without context. This piece masquerades as a serious discussion about the ethics of ransomware services but goes out of it's way to equate their personal habits with that of their business.
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Define "functioning".
Agreed on the skepticism. Grass is the plant equivalent of cockroaches. There will always be grass. (And specifically, the C4 species are pretty robust)
Literal whataboutism.

Automated systems are held to a higher standard. Telsa's Autopilot apparently has trouble spotting trailers and decapitates the occupants. Cite all the accident figures you want; it won't stop the reporting about Autopilot wrecks.
As the protagonist skated past the cafe she saw what I would assume to be the petri-dish construction occurring on the cafe table.
I already spend too much time on HN, I don't need more ways to spend my time!
I guess it depends how much you trust the playback software.
For me, at the end of the day I might choose a cd or record because its just simple and works and I am tired of dealing with software.
If the guy is going to insane lengths like this, his kids probably have genuine non-economic adversity.
It costs money to check a bag. It costs nothing to carry it on.

If I can spend an extra half hour in the lounge doing a little light work or relaxing before the flight instead of jostling in line, it definitely has value.

Like I said, the value of your time will probably differ from mine. For me, $25 is a bargain.
I've never been to an Aldi, but at this moment in my life I would have a hard time switching from HEB/Central Market. Perhaps I would have liked it as a student.

I'm not really a fan of copycat brand labeling though. If a product is going to be plagiarized, I would hope they would produce original labeling. That takes money though, and would affect their slim margins.
This is dead on arrival in Congress.
That would be compelling if there were planets up to a certain size. However, that's not the case. You have increasingly large planets, a big gap, and then increasingly large planets again. It's a bimodal distribution, which implies some other factor at hand than just the law of averages.
What are you getting at? Are you saying that restaurants won't pay their staff very high wages to entice them to commute for several hours, and that the restaurant will go out of business?

How exactly is this a problem?

Too bad for the restaurant owner, but he can re-open in a place where he can hire staff more easily.

Why does the Bay Area need restaurants? If the wealthy homeowners there don't want any lowly restaurant staff living around them, then why should they have any restaurants?
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This is a good point. I think the their intent here is fine, but it seems like the wrong way to go about opening up more opportunities to people who start with somewhat of a disadvantage.

In any case, I don't think you should have to graduate from a prestigious college to find work that helps you live a good life. Maybe this involves making a place like Harvard accept more students, or maybe it involves improving the quality and our perceptions of middle and lower-tier universities. I don't know.
Same issue in the US, especially with the rise of predatory, unaccredited colleges.
Remember when Sony BGM put the rootkit on their CDs? I guess as long as you're not putting it in a computer, you're good.
I rent cars pretty frequently. Hertz is a disaster. Mean, dishonest, and proud of it.

Once when I had evidence of their mistake on paper the clerk stared at the ceiling and said "I'm not looking at that" like some kind of toddler.

Use National/Enterprise. Same price, 100x better service.
So they can't be seen visually, but can be detected gravitationally? That doesn't sound like very effective cloaking to me.. especially not against some hypothetically advanced intelligence.
This seems like it would set up a situation where immigrants really do compete for US jobs, rather than being a net economic positive.

Right now, unauthorized immigrants are 24% of maids and cleaners, half of ag workers, and a big chunk of construction labor and home aides like nannies.

These jobs are filled by immigrants because they are a big step up for a lot of the people arriving here, while Americans don't want them. In a saner world, work visas for unskilled labor and a pathway up to citizenship would benefit everyone.

Instead, the president seems to want a carve-out for the tech and health industry that makes life more precarious for everyone else.

Source on numbers: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal-immigrants-us-jobs-econ...
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You can get married for any reason, but that doesn't stop certain perfectly true and legally valid marriages from being marriage fraud in immigration.
We are generally at a point where if it's documented, it's guaranteed. This feature is really easy to describe, and so we have a high degree of confidence that when we say "this behavior is defined", we won't run into an edge case where we'd have to break it.

So, in this case, it's a documented part of Option.

I realize this answer isn't fantastic, but it's where we're at now. It's why we're working on the reference this year!
I guess I should've scrolled down more, I made a similar comment. How quickly people forget!
This is unlikely to be passed. It has to be approved by Congress, which is controlled by the opposing party. Even if the Republicans win the next election it is unlikely this specific bill will be passed.
As far as the specifics for this, all the article says is highly educated people would be given preference. I would assume this would mean a person with a master's degree would be given more preference than one with a bachelor's, but not as much as one with a doctorate. I am sure the area study would play a large role in this as well. Job offers are always helpful, as is the ability to speak English
agree, especially for technical books with code snippets, tables, etc PDF is the best

I've yet to see a programming book in epub/mobi format that is even reasonably readable
Ok but you pay them
They certainly still have vice grips on the word processing, OS, and IDE industries. They lost their grip on the browser industry. I'm not sure which one he's referring to.
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The issue is that there's some force or factor at play that we don't understand - which means that it can't be modeled. If the behavior was emergent from the physics that we do understand, researchers would likely have recreated that behavior by now.
> Senior Democrats dismissed his ideas as "dead-on-arrival".

That is the most important line of the article. Without Democrat support, this plan will not pass in this congress. While it is possible it could pass in the next congress (2021), I would characterize it as unlikely. Both parties see the status quo in legal immigration as a good thing, with most changes in the day-to-day policies of USCIS being dictated by court rulings and not congress.
Incorrect. Yes, the jobs are in the cities, but there are many other cities besides the Bay Area. In most other cities, lower-paid people (e.g. service workers) are able to find places to live. What we're talking about here is a problem mostly unique to the Bay Area.

I'm simply advocating that all the service workers relocate to other cities. I live in the DC area; there's tons of restaurants and other businesses here where service people work, and while housing is relatively expensive, we don't seem to have the problems with it for lower-paid people that the Bay Area has.
“Wall Street trader to Australian Aboriginal”

Can’t someone be both?
Sortof Off Topic: If your data is important, back it up to something that automation, daemons and users can't tamper with. i.e. Immutable after ${n} minutes or hours. Replicate that data to multiple places and ensure it is also immutable in that location. I think everyone knows this, but make excuses not to do it. i.e. cost, laziness, indifference, risk takers, etc.
That article didn’t really spell out any details, but coming from Trump I doubt the details are good.

That said, I’ve always thought there was a glaring hole in our immigration policy, which is that people who come and earn a degree in the US should have an easy option to stay and work and become citizens if they would like.

It seems crazy to me that we’re investing a ton in the people who come here for higher education and then making it difficult for them to stay here and use the skills and education they acquired.
Both Pokemon Go and Minecraft are lots of fun single-player even though they are primarily thought of as multi-player games. I suspect the collect-build-place mechanic of Minecraft Earth will also be fun single player.
>You’re telling me that this is not negligence, but at the same time this was probably a known problem they did nothing to fix?

You're on a board called Hacker News and you don't understand the difference between a known bug and establishing that bug as the root cause of bad things that are actually happening in production. I think you're being willfully ignorant for the sake of your own argument.

Everyone with a large code base has thousands of known bugs with low priority because they are now known to be negatively affecting the system. There simply are not the resources to fix all these bugs. Nobody knows which ones (if any) are can actually cause bad things to happen until those bad things actually happen and get traced back to one of the known, low priority bugs.

Simply put, they probably knew there was a bug, they didn't know that bug could ever lead to people being falsely imprisoned until it actually happened.

>They’re giant machines for laundering responsibility.

I generally agree with that.

>What’s absurd is that you can falsely imprison people and get away with it clean because “everyone is just doing their job.”

The cops bear some blame here too. Hertz didn't imprison anyone. Part of the cop's job is to act as a filter for BS police reports. When you pull someone over who claims to have legitimately rented the rental that should get you to start asking further questions. Two organizations screwed up here.
I've been using Go since 2012 (I believe). It's a great language, but it doesn't "solve concurrency". It makes concurrency quite a lot easier than in most other languages, and much easier than almost all mainstream languages circa 2012, but there's still lots of room to improve.
repo is gone: https://github.com/jaibalani13/speedify
You’ve never played a game online where you joined a lobby and none of the people playing were your friends? They probably mean a friends list. Restricting it to your actually friends is a good way to choke the game growth.
For me, just his date of birth clinches it.
Right, nor should they. They should go where they can afford to live. If that means the Bay Area has no more restaurants, gas stations, garbage pickup, schools, etc., that's fine.
And how is Tritium, or rather super-heavy water that contains Tritium as one of its two hydrogen atoms, not a chemical?
I'd like more details if you're willing.
Pointedly confusing: a longstanding sizeof() bug in Microsoft C
I got pulled over because someone thought I was a guy who stole gas.

The cop actually (probabbly already doubting it) took me seriously when I said "no man that wasn't me" and I pulled up my credit card app and showed him a charge pending and he was all apologetic and said "yeah sorry about that". It was a quick discussion, no big deal.

One of those crimes I think only a random rural-ish suburb tries to deal with ;)

But at least that was a case where the cop actually decided not to do anything after I showed him something. Normally I wouldn't expect anything serious to go that way as if a cop wants to arrest you... they're probabbly going to do it no matter what you say, and talking (especially if it is serous) is not going to help.

But the car thing ... like any paperwork seems like it should help / make the cop wonder a bit.
I'm not sure that's relevant - the fact that we can detect enough earth-ish sized planets to reveal a consistent bimodal size distribution is compelling on its own.
AMD's Epyc itself is highly competitive, but there's the very slow turn around to get that into actual server offerings from the major companies. And of course just being competitive isn't going to get everyone to start adopting a different platform.
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Not in reference to the aforementioned children, because that's normal behavior for kids, but I think of active listening as not being a conversational sociopath.

I'm convinced some people instead have a mantra of "When do I get to talk again?" looping in their head whenever someone else is speaking.
As the article pointed out, no dreamer compromise so it will never pass the house. It is likely useful for uniting the fractured Republican base, but that's about it.
You have 46 chromosomes. Each chromosome is one massive contiguous molecule of DNA, which can be represented as a string of (up to) 150 million letters ("nucleotides") drawn from {A, C, G, T}. Together, the whole human genome is roughly 3 billion nucleotides. Since you have two copies in each cell, you have 6 billion nucleotides in total.

Each chromosome is either an autosome or sex chromosome. The autosomes are chr1 to chr22. All people (excepting those with chromosomal disorders, like trisomy 21) have two copies of each autosome, with one copy coming from each parent. Then, for the sex chromosomes:

* If you're male, you get an X chromosome from your mom and a Y chromosome from your dad.

* If you're female, you get an X chromosome from your mom and another X chromosome from your dad.

So, yes, "two copies of each chromosome" and "two copies of the genome" are the same concept, since the genome consists of chromosomes.
The things that actual “autopilot” does in aviation are also crude and dangerous: hold this heading forever, change flight level without regard to ground level, etc.
Eh, sounds like these are young kids. It's more important to let them be excited about something and share that with you. Besides, what shared interests do you really have as a parent? It's not like your kids are going to discuss politics or their critique of Avengers: Endgame.
I agree with you. But, I realize that I’m in a position to value time and convenience over money.
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Even Microsoft uses Google's captchas (at https://earth.minecraft.net/)...
Sure, but on the other side, the pay for those jobs would also have a bigger pressure on them to increase.

Someone will always have to do those jobs (at least for a long time until when/if machines do them), we shouldn't expect them to be fulfilled only by immigrants willing to take jobs that nobody else wants.

In Scandinavia - up to a degree - those kind of jobs carry a big pay and a set of perks that makes people actually wanting to take them, instead of being a last resort activity. It also helps create a positive view in society about those jobs instead of being a motive for social discrimination.
Depends on who you ask. But really, "fair" isn't the question.

The real question is: Will companies do it and will (some) employees accept it? Yes.

If you're a remote employee should you negotiate hard with a company that tries to do this? Yes.
Your claim is common, but wrong. Approximately none of the major technology companies do more than rudimentary call-center service for bug reports from consumers.

If anything, the entitlement you express is counterproductive, because sometimes people like you convince open-source developers that their time is better spent catering to your sense of entitlement instead of their software.
I'm going to hazard the classic "this is an issue with the implementation rather than the idea" defense. In my experience, creating a goroutine is almost inevitably followed by setting up chans for error handling and clean shutdown as well as for the actual message passing (I know I'm not the first person to notice this and I wish I could find the great article I am thinking of about it). If I'm using multiple chans for these purposes, I then have to compose them together in the correct way, and that often turns out to be non-trivial. I find myself wishing that Go had built in support for supervisors and a mailbox for every process the way that Erlang does. These are things that can be added to the language, and it is my belief that they will reduce the bugs associated with goroutines and chans.
Scratching the surface of some VERY interesting points of view.

Look at this list of participants: Daniel Hillis, Neil Gershenfeld, Frank Wilczek, David Chalmers, Robert Axelrod, Tom Griffiths, Caroline Jones, Peter Galison, Alison Gopnik, George Dyson, Freeman Dyson, Seth Lloyd, Rod Brooks, Stephen Wolfram, Ian McEwan.
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> Maybe computation isn’t the right principle metaphor to be thinking about in explaining this. It’s some sort of adaptation, and our computation is not locally adaptive, rather, our computation is only globally adaptive.

So perhaps much of the problem is that we're too often using a metaphor of non-adaptive computation. If instead we analogize to forms like simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, neural networks and so forth, the computational metaphor becomes less cul-de-sac and more throughway.
Unfortunately the rule of law always says you're innocent until proven guilty. Sometimes it's inconvenient but it's also a fundamental right.
People talking about this not passing Congress, they know. This is a play for the next election. He made promises in his last election that he can’t keep. Now this will let him blame someone while saying look I tried.
I really wish Mozilla would add a way to disable CORS for local development.
I've had issues playing CDs on older players. I think newer models have better error correction.
Recognizing the medical industry as what it is can be really difficult. It's not just there is a bell curve of knowledge and ability, but something with more dimensions that accounts for a world as a big as ours.

Just like I'm sure there are software shops out there doing what I would call impossible, not all doctors know the full extent of the practice or where those particularly skilled practitioners might be.
As a freelance dev I've worked with a ngo where they paid me to get their junior to create an application. Then another. Then later just to help him with some new concept.
I'm not freelance any more (yet) but if you just wanna chat about it, I'd be happy to relay my experience.
It's a bit harder than that. We don't understand the effect, so we don't have a good _high level_ model of it. That does not mean we can not model it using more fundamental physics. But of course that leads to much more expensive simulations. And you have to work much harder to understand the output.
"while Americans don't want them"

Former construction worker here.

Americans don't want these jobs at the below-market wages they pay. The wages would be higher if not for the supply being inflated by laborers willing to work for below minimum wage.

The most dangerous job in the world (Alaskan crab fisherman) is brutal, dirty, and high paying. Therefore there are always American citizens waiting on the docks to learn the trade.

Not saying I don't want more immigration in the US. I want WAY more of it, but only if it's not reducing pay in entry level vocations.
I was inspired by Da Vinci in my younger days to become a modern Renaissance Man. Then I discovered that the depth of knowledge in any given field had become far too deep to ever hope at becoming expert in more than one. Sure you can still make art, and study mathematics and astronomy, and so forth, but it's almost impossible to reach the level of mastery that Da Vinci reached in his day. No one hires Renaissance Men anymore :(
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-Atheistic churches (social, life events, service)

These already exist. I think Unitarian Universalist churches are the most common ones, but at least where I live we also have Sunday Assembly.
I have no expectation of privacy when I use windows. You shouldn't, either.

It simply got this bad.