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That plus the unfortunate fact that Rust as a language has no specification, so technically speaking, all of Rust is undefined behavior. It's the only thing that holds me back from taking Rust more seriously. I'm enjoying using it on pet projects for now.
Nice to see they're banning the Flat Earthers.

Because the Flat Earthers need MORE evidence that the TRUTH!!! is being suppressed by Big Corporations.
> Actix-web in used in production at Cloudflare for the image resizing feature.

Oh, that's really interesting. I actually used it for exactly the same purpose, but I was a bit disappointed by the image[1] crate for the image-resizing itself: it was several times slower than imagemagick (it was less the case on my decktop, when compiled with `target-cpu=native`, but on my low-end server many SIMD instructions weren't available and auto-vectorized code wasn't that efficient) and the image quality was also way poorer. Did you use that crate for the image processing ? Or imagemagick ? Or something you wrote internally ?

[1]: https://github.com/image-rs/image
I'd be willing to say both are terrible and have zero value in our society. I think it would be a great move if Youtube put a policy in place that banned content that pushed content that pushed extreme views (including Islamic extremism and white supremacy).
I thought it couldn't have been more than 3-4 years ago, but now you've got me doubting that. I also couldn't say which iphone it was or if it was up to date. I did pull down the what was the current version of itunes at least. Now I kinda wish I hadn't deleted the VM.
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Indeed, the beacon is a landing pad that customers place in their front or backyards (ideally back). See (3) in the following link:

https://www.digitalspy.com/tech/a820748/amazon-prime-air-dro...

As for which house, that's via geocoding (convert postal code to GPS). Reasonably accurate for North America, unclear about other parts of the world.
Yes.

First, the ban on supremacists will remove Nazis and other extremists who advocate segregation or exclusion based on age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
In addition to those categories, YouTube is adding caste, which has significant implications in India, and “well-documented violent events,” such as the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting and 9/11. Users are no longer allowed to post videos saying those events did not happen, YouTube said.
Interesting story (and experiment). I think along our lives we have moments where we can reset our social self (summer holidays far from home) and grow / rewire a lot of our preconceptions.

All in all I wouldn't say it's all in our minds, even though we inherit genes and traits from our family but as you saw yourself, it's also a balancing effort with our surroundings. If you're misjudged you will face an uphill battle, if you get a friendly start it will change our you feel, live and create your persona.
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I had one, and I sold it. The music is abysmal and the video streams are low res. The classes and subscription offer nothing over free YouTube videos.

All the bike’s electronics do is detect the resistance level (you have to set the resistance yourself, mind you) and the RPM. Combined with a bluetooth heart rate monitor, they give you some charts and graphs. You can do this all yourself with an app and a bike that costs a third as much.

It’s mostly just an overpriced android tablet. Kudos to them to following the Dyson and Beats by Dre model of margin-building to the letter.

Their greyhat astroturfing campaigns on social media are second to none, though. I might buy their IPO, although I staunchly advise my friends and associates to avoid their products.
Bigfoot's been found: https://www.youtube.com/user/readyourDogstaff/search?query=b...
Implying that one illegal example in San Francisco by local police, means that it is a common procedure in the US that is being applied "within our own borders," is absurd.

A given unit of police can do any given illegal thing, that doesn't make it common or mean that it's going to become common.
He's a good programmer though, not the kind he wanted to keep out.
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Are you seriously denying that Nazis were motivated by ideology of racial supremacy?
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Try traveling without checked bags sometime. For part of your stay, get an AirBnB that has laundry facilities.

Only having a single small roller bag (or less, I know people who just have a single backpack!) makes travelling a lot easier. I often miss being able to bring stuff home in checked luggage, but I love getting off an airplane and not having to wait for my baggage, or worry if I'll be in the 1% that doesn't get my bag back!

As an example, I landed early morning in London, walked off the airplane, went through customs, and got right on public transit, then right to a tiny cafe and had some breakfast.

Could I do that with a giant checked suitcase? Sure. Maybe. But it'd suck. And the first thing on my mind would be getting to lodging to drop off my bag. Landing at 9am and having a giant bag I need to drag around until 2pm or whenever check-in time is means a large chunk of my first day is ruined, and I get to repeat all that after a 10am checkout dragging a big bag around until it is time to go to the airport and fly back home.

Bonus: in Japan, with only a small roller bag, taking public transit to/from the airport becomes very doable at any time of the day.

tl;dr smaller bags mean simpler logistics for the entirety of a trip.
They have the fish in the barrel, so I am figuring that this is the next step in that process.

The fish who have any chance of escaping the barrel will likely be attracting the most attention...and other things.
You're completely right. The "trade war" is something that came out of Trump's sick mind, influenced by Bannon. Not only a trade war is stupid, because it hurts the US economy, it is also morally unjustified: the US has spent the last 100 years or more preaching open markets. The thing that makes me more sick is seeing that the US-based media buys the whole argument and runs with it without critically analyzing what they're doing. In fact the biggest power Trump has is to plant an idea in the minds of journalists and let them run and expand on that idea without ever criticizing what they're doing.
Could someone elaborate on what the use cases would be for something like this? I understand it will carry small items you buy off Amazon prime but that can't be the end of the roadmap for drone based delivery, can it?
The diversity in general in India is mind boggling which most of Indians take for granted. Be it terrain, climate, language, culture, food, etc., And all the above change noticeably every 200KM or so such that you will find more similarities between Delhi and Lahore (different countries) than Delhi and Bangalore.

It's a miracle that India manages to function as one country.
I bought once Supermicro workstation (dual Xeon 2680), and it was LOUD. Even when shut down, the fans were still making noise, so I've had a habit of turning it off from power to make it silent.

While the idea looked appealing at the beginning (dual CPU, 64GB RAM, great cable management), at the end I've decided that it doesn't justify the cost and hassle. Plus sometimes there were very funny issues - for example to run Rocksmith you needed to manually set affinity on windows to run it on only one CPU. After upgrading to last gen Thinkpad extreme it feels that Thinkpad even does 4k rendering faster.
The energy in a person bears zero relevance to how good their idea is, though.

I found remote team code reviews to be much more objective. That way most people aren't worried they'll shame someone in person and they give better and more useful feedback.

The energy you speak of, while very real, is not related to the quality of the work that will follow.
> on the street level, the language is identical

Personal anecdote: when I first went to South Asia, I spent time in southern Pakistan and learned some basic Urdu. Then I spent time in north India, among Hindi speakers. The language I'd learned was immediately usable there, but my local friends could also tell where it came from -- and sometimes would tell me "Aha! yes, we know what you mean, but that's an Urdu word - in Hindi we say ...."

So even on a basic street level, I don't think it's true that they're identical. Both part of the same huge dialect continuum, yes, but they're slightly different points on it.

Whether to call them separate languages is as much a political question as a linguistic one, of course.
My favorite part about thread snips like this is that I can actually use them; standard thread scissors have finger holes that are too small for many men to use.
A corset should still help with that by stabilizing whatever is sloshing around.
Then why does it get the legal benefits of being a "neutral platform"?
“Ghost Proposal” would allow secret govt participation in private calls, chats
A continuous jump means that the system travels coherently through the superposition of |0>+|1> through the jump, and other such a|0>+b|1> states for a^2+b^2=1. It isn't in 0, and then suddenly 1.
What company, exactly, is going to want to invest time and money training a man in his late 60s to do a job that will afford him a reasonable lifestyle in a large metropolitan area?
Then you're lucky and probably have 1 or more degrees, this is most offices across the country for those of us without a stack of degrees and certifications.
Couldn't you just use the server MB in an (e)ATX case, and use a different heatsink/fan?
Well Malthusians are frankly crackpots trying to make a political point which the numbers (especially now) don't support. So that they come with numbers that are found lacking ... is not a fair attack against serious people.

Which specific forecast did you think was so bad ?
The first seasons are rough. It gets way better (and then eventually gets way worse).
I haven't generally seen evidence of this when I've changed the IP address of websites.

After the TTL expires, the only hits left on the old IP are from China (Great Firewall?).
FastUUID is a library which provides CPython bindings to Rust's UUID library
I'm sure the Nazis and Sandy Hook Truthers will be happy to know there are so many other options. Look, we live in a world where, for better or worse, we don't force publishers to publish anything they don't want to. Youtube telling Nazis to go jump in a lake is no different than your local paper declining to run an editorial from one. It just seems different because the scope is so much bigger.
You should check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20105996

And I think it’s a bit more subtle than you’re giving credit for.
> the US has spent the last 100 years or more preaching open markets

Do you think China had an open market before the trade war?
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The falsifying seems to be isolated incidents on two cruise ships. It is relegated to a third bullet among “other conduct” in the DOJ press release: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/princess-cruise-lines-and-its....
I am really curious if you work for an ABC, and get high enough - do you get to learn about some "cool" things, or it's all just tedious politics/cartels.

It does seem to me that the number of conspiracy theories went way down lately (which is surprising, giving the proliferation of tech), whereas there is clearly stuff that's being kept a secret well, e.g. we never heard about the stealth Blackhawks until the raid in Pakistan, and only because it failed badly. Or nobody talks about plasma weapons, yet they got an effective prototype a decade ago iirc, and the project stopped reporting any news (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARAUDER).
One of the simplest but more important conclusions that affects me all the time... it’s easy to search for things, but hard to know whether you’ve got all the answers you want and hard to know if all the answers you got are answers you want.

Smalltalk was wonderful in this regard. If you wanted to search for how something was used, you just right-click search for "senders." If you wanted to find implementors, the same.

This big difference occurred with chains of senders. In other languages, where there's 2 or 3 ways to get to something or call something, you have this O(2^n) or O(2.5^n) blowup in the work you have to do to properly follow chains of senders. With Smalltalk, it's just O(n).

On top of that, there were tools that could let you compose really sophisticated SQL like queries of the code base, dynamically, then pop that up in a browser.
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Would this be any different if the employee actually lived there?

Say they own a house in a rural town that has been handed down from their parents, yet they decide to live in an apartment in some big city. They receive an interesting job offer and start working remote at Gitlab but haven't changed their legal address.

Suddenly, they paycheck is reduced unless they disclose their secondary address and somehow make it their main address.

Should that employee be required to sell their house? I would say no.

Well, it's no different if you live in a big apartment out of town and decide to rent a cheap broken down apartment in the city.

What if the employee does not have a fixed address? Are they fired on the spot? Perhaps never hired out of discrimination? Is their pay adjusted for each city they drive their van to? Do the employer require them to stop travelling? What if that person's fixed address is already registered at some organisation or mail center in a "high pay area"? Should they be required to change it to a "low pay area" to be ethical?
Previous years I've done running in the summer, but I hate it in the winter. Motivation to work out has been a hard enough barrier, so once the air gets too cold to breathe comfortably I'd pretty much stop.

Exercise bike was a game changer last winter in terms of getting me to stick with regular workouts.
The main thing going for it is that it's not Ada. Most C and C++ developers don't want to use Ada. Some of them are adopting Rust. It also has a strong community and ecosystem. That was its key advantage. Finally, it has temporal safety that Ada doesn't with its borrow checker.

What Ada has on it are its IDE's, MDD, and testing tools that industry is currently using. With stuff like RV-Match and Astree Analyzer, MISRA-C is probably safer than Rust. Rust needs more tooling to be competitive.
Sure, but you pay for those per session it's not an automatic charge, so they aren't just wasting $100 repeatedly, they're getting (what they feel like) is their moneys worth per session. I'd be willing to bet there's a small amount of people (probably ~5% or less) that sign up for a class during the week and then eschew it in favor of laziness.
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The earliest episodes are hit-and-miss; the writers got it figured out around halfway through the first season, and most of s2-s3 is good.

I think The X-Files also really only worked because of it's context and time in history -- there was a right-wing fringe that was terrifyingly paranoid of a Democrat in office after more than a decade of Reagan & Bush (the first movie aped some of that imagery, in a somewhat tone-deaf manner), and the idea of conspiracy hadn't yet morphed from Soviets and aliens into birthers and truthers.
Yeah, though I think people have an uncanny ability to pick up on how you portray yourself and then reflect that back at you. Even 30 seconds of initial interaction gone poorly is enough to guide the rest of the relationship, maybe even for years.
I bought the X-Files mythology collection (main storyline episodes only). The monster of the week episodes are quite average, but if you watch the mythology episodes in order it's a pretty good show IMO, especially if you're into the aliens and government conspiracy theme.
This isn't at all discoverable, but... https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-or-re-enable-po...
> because of the verbosity and the directory structure and all the layers of abstractions and all the factories and all the singletons and all the

Fair, but a lot of those abstractions make life more difficult for new programmers (Why do I have to look through 12 classes to find out what this button does?), but make life much easier when you know the code base and have to maintain and extend it.

Or, legit question - is Java more prone to these types of issues due to its design?
>Every reasonable scientist working in CRISPR is against editing the human germline.

I don't understand precisely how "reasonable" is defined here. It's a subjectively loaded notion as it is, and I feel compelled to express a lot of skepticism toward any claim of "every reasonable person is of the position I'm currently taking".
> ...it's well made and I want it to stick around.

Fully agree. And for me personally I think €15.99 is cheap - I use it way more than any of the video games I keep buying.
Hacker News should follow YouTube's lead by nuking this thread. Flagged.
Your maxim is already in common parlance as Karlton’s principle. “There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.”

(Some add “and off-by-one errors” but arguably that is the same problem of some ‘cache’ being ‘invalid’ and never suitably repopulated…)

With that said downstream caches are often solid, if one treats them as the source of truth. “We just pretend this has not happened until we see it.” Same thing with denormalized data in a database, sometimes that's the only way to build the appropriate index which speeds things up.
I guess the real question is how to reduce the price of developing new drugs.
> It looks like the feature of "less censorship" will never be enough to mount a challenge to YouTube.

s/censorship/moderation/. And no, "we host everything" is a fast way to kill a potential competitor to YouTube. The first and fastest adopters of such a platform will be the people rejected from other platforms, which rapidly turns any "we host everything" platform into a cesspool that nobody else wants to use.
The other response to this is...wow, 'all they have is your email address'

snowden: 'all i needed was your email address to pull pull up all your entire surveillance record'

hackernews: propaganda shilling? never heard of it.
Although any hateful speech is terrible of course, I think censoring like this is a bad idea. Like other conversations about freedom of speech on HN it will eventually lead to talking about banning non hateful but extreme ideas like flat earth and anti vax. While ridiculous as they are, I think it would be equally ridiculous to ban them. What's the line you draw when you decide what gets to be promoted. Maybe certain religious ideas or ideas criticising religions?

I do disagree with your private business comment though. It is a private business and they can do what they want to an extent. You don't tell a news paper who they have to let write articles. But I think the problem is that youtube is so large and the service so imporant that it might as well be a government deciding rights. It's not just youtube there are a lot of tech giants that powerful. I think when it's obvious they are that powerful and important it's time to break them up. I mean hell the bread company my step dad works at even had to go through a process to see if they would be too big with a recent purchase. But yet tech companies have been getting away with this sort of unchecked growth. They are global powers with dwindling competition. Break them up. Reintroduce competition.
(((nazis))) lmao
For sure you are right about it having a lot of challenges and the total weight vs battery weight vs payload weight is a huge one.

But remember the wing design is competing against "no wing" so it is easy to be a huge improvement. Normal drones don't really get to throttle down and they have to do all their flight controls through engine speed adjustments. Normal flight controls use almost no power & when this thing builds up a head of steam it will be able to throttle back to cruise.

It looks like a closed edge biplane when it transitions.. the closed edges help efficiency. It can probably be optimized for a very narrow speed range as well so I bet they can come up with a very nice airfoil design.
Power consumption is somewhat irrelevant if you live in a place where there is hydro or solar power - eWaste recycling is a huge environmental problem [1], and manufacturing has its own environmental footprint [2].

Buying used hardware is great, but really we should also be probably optimizing for performance-per-watt even with older hardware.

IMO the real issue is that most people just don't need more grunt than a 5-year-old machine is giving them at this point. What they really need is a solid state disk in the old hardware, and for Office and Chromium you'd never notice a difference. I still use a SATA SSD daily and while I've had NVMe in my work-supplied machines, for 99% of my workload it's just not even necessary.

[1] https://eridirect.com/blog/2015/06/how-does-e-waste-affect-t...

[2] http://www.electronicstakeback.com/toxics-in-electronics/whe...
> Especially since spreading rumors of a monster in the woods would be a great way to scare people away from your illegal drug operation

Straight out of Scooby Doo, wonder if there are any real occurrences of this kind of thing.
The reason you want a barrier there is to make sure the memcpy and the pointer update don't get reordered so the other thread doesn't have a chance to access that block before it's ready.

You don't actually need any synchronization with the other thread, which is why I think this can work instead of atomic_thread_fence. But you could be right, anyone using this should check this carefully.

Edit: I think you're right. If it is needed, it should be a thread fence. I'm not 100% clear on whether the pointer update takes care of this, so it may not actually be needed.
I imagine there's boiler room full of guys somewhere tagging videos as "Borderline content", creating data which then feeds into a machine learning algorithm which decides which videos get promoted. All videos are metricized by the similarity to borderline content, and are increasingly likely to be promoted in proportion to increasing graph distance from the borderline content. Youtube management gets nice plausible deniability that they don't actively surpress political adversaries, because the whole process is stochastic, and who knows how machine learning works anyway?
> any new ones are really solutions in search of a problem rather than an actual user need

Not at all. App platforms aren't standing still, and one of the goals of web browsers is to make them as capable as app platforms while retaining the safety of the web sandbox.

That includes things like VR/AR, WebAssembly and extensions to it, Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), adjusting pages to match the system theming, better video formats, better authentication (Web Authentication), and a hundred other things people actually want.