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I'm also not associated with Pingcap.

> You raised the exact same issue 2 years ago on NH, that issue got fully addressed by both PingCap's core team member and other NH users.

Not only was it fully addressed, but it was fully addressed in a polite manner which makes the OP's comment even more bizarre. I've evaluated Pingcap stuff before in the past and I've seen them posting on HN quite a few times as well. I don't think I've ever seen an instance of them being rude. In fact, their comments are usually quite informative and helpful.

Briefly looking into closed TiDB issues, I also see no instances of rudeness or issues being closed without comment.

OP, what is your motive for defaming Pingcap?

Some comments [1]:

"@winkmichael Thanks for your feedback!
Could you send me the log of tidb-server?"

"The sets statements missing a , should be /! instead of /!."

"@winkmichael
Sorry, I misunderstood your issue because the * is eaten by Markdown format.
I clicked edit button, then got the original text.

The error message line 6 is the line of a single statement, not the file.
So the statement that failed to parse is not included, probably it's the CREATE TABLE statement.

Do you still have that dump file?"

"@winkmichael we haven't heard anything from you on this issue in a long time, and we're unable to reproduce it without some more information, so I'm going to close it now. If you run into anything like this again, please open up a new issue and we'll be happy to take a look!"

[1] https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/issues/2742
The real answer to this is to break up AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast while blocking the T-Mobile/Sprint merger.

This will probably help net neutrality slightly since T-Mobile and Sprint gotta duke it out offering more network throughout to customers while AT&T and VZW compete over speed... the four sort of forcing each other to sort of almost make something which appears neutral (it’s not).

Unless there are no gigantic telecoms or there’s way more government intervention in these markets (common carrier status anyone?) there will be no point in things like this against the bottom tier national providers.
IIRC this is how Uber started. They catered for some kind of "bespoke" customer that was more than happy to pay a lot. Another relevant question is what Uber will look like in developing countries where keeping the prices low is necessary even for the middle / upper middle class.
Also from a Western perspective: this looks like a toy, they even include the orange tip. In context, and contrary to that western battle bots TV show, it seems to pretty much focus on education and competition. A goal which they seem to achieve or it wouldn't be viable to put commercial resources into it.

I don't get this finger pointing, can we please solve real gun violence in our midsts before going for educational resources?
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People don't lack leisure time at all. They just spend it fiddling with their phones.

I don't like golf, but I do like the idea of playing a relaxing yet challenging game outdoors which takes 4 hours to complete. Beats the shit out of fiddling with your phone.
Maybe that's because Mozilla is such a poorly run company. They let themselves be overtaken by Chrome because they were busy will all sorts of stupid side projects instead of concentrating on making a good browser.

Still today, they're burning a huge part of their budget copying services found elsewhere and slapping Firefox branding on it.

And meanwhile, they dumped Thunderbird, a truly beloved open source project.

Mozilla is in a unique position to do some good with all the money they get from Google, but much of the time they squander it, that's why so many are frustrated with them.
It's a simplified form of Hungarian notation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
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Here’s some numbers that contradict that.

“According to more than 1,600 participants who responded to the survey, 60% of San Diego Lime riders identify as Hispanic and 54% report an annual household income of $50,000 or less. Additionally, 1 in 4 Lime riders are 36 years old or older, with an average age of 31, and 16.5% of them have previously served or are currently serving in the US military.”

https://www.li.me/second-street/more-diversity-less-car-use-...
Borland C++ came in a fucking chest of something like 40 800 page books. Books on OWL, books on the Win32 API, books on the Win16 API, lots of books.
Oh the day I realized there was more interesting stuff appearing on fidonet faster than I could ever read. That I could read all day and still get further behind...

Now I'm now so sure... sometimes I think the rate of interesting new stuff to _read_ is slowing down again and I may yet catch up again.
While the first complaint is just a reflect of the lack of good tutorials on mypy, the second one is very valid: I too wish for automatic type detection for obvious cases.

What's more, while I found mypy useful myself in several instances, it's still cumbersome to use:

- you must know to use the magic command line arguments to avoid mypy complaining about other libs and imports all the time

- you need to use List[], Dict[], Set[], Iteratble[], Tuple[], etc. instead of list[], dict[], set[], iter[], tuple[], etc., which means an import in almost every file and a very unnatural workflow.

- you need to use Union and instead of |. This is ridiculous. I have to do:

from typing import Union, List

def mask(...) -> List[Union[bool, int]]

Instead of:

def mask(...) -> list[bool|int]

And Guido explicitly rejected the proposal for those on github despite the fact most imports are due to those.

Now, mypy has improved a lot. It's way faster, shows many more things that before, way less false positive, and has support for duck typing and dunder methods (named "protocol").

But it's sad to thing TypeScript is actually easier to use. Having a JS tech easier to use than a Python tech is a good sign we can improve things.
Just preparing them to go to the MIT. Toying with guns is very much in line with western culture, not even mentioning video games. The ability to program the toy just makes it more attractive to nerds.
It sure as hell ain't worse.

Anyway, the "high rent" bit makes me reject it wholesale. This was targeted at yuppies, not the people excluded from country clubs. Who gives a shit about yuppies (including us all): they can buy whatever they need.
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I'm not sure I follow... The motivation for Badge is to have methods on VFS that only Device can call, without exposing VFS's internals to Device. Without Badge, what prevents non-Device functions from calling register_device()?
Branding is not the problem. The reason they lost most of their market share to Chrome was that they fell behind on technology. For years, Firefox was much slower than Chrome and that kind of complacency is remembered by consumers.
I saw the stats on how long per day the average instagram user spends on the service and its mind blowing. Pretty much everyone has lots of free time but its just crammed full of social media.
There is no performance penalty in any modern compiler that I am aware of (effectively no code will be emitted).

You can have a look here:
https://godbolt.org/z/DmeYL-
He's always nice when he's dealing with a foreign power. The leader of China, Japan, North Korea... He's always been very respectful and polite to their face, but that doesn't mean he hasn't implemented tough policies against them.

As regards to trusting Putin over the CIA, what was he supposed to do? Call Putin a liar to his face? Not only is that unwise, it goes against his style of negotiation as I mentioned previously.
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the lazy man's way to make something that will last thousands(or more) years: dry stone masonry. I've built a few walls, they're not going anywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_stone
Some do, some don’t. It’s the same with every period and every group born in it. I grew up in the 1940s and can think of some things from that time that I miss, but I wouldn’t go back for quids. Let’s face it, we’ve never had it so good. These are the good old days.

A famous Australian (well, he was born in England but spent his life here) named Paddy Pallin nutshelled it. “The best place to be is here. The best time to be here is now.”
I'm unsure of how accurate our classified knowledge is, but our publicly stated knowledge is not especially accurate. Many countries continue to openly develop nuclear weapons such as India and Pakistan. Other countries' ongoing development is an open-secret, such as Israel. And everything that we publicly know even about those developments tends to be based on a pretty wide range of estimates. This is further compounded since countries tend to stop testing once a certain level of competence is reached.

On top of this there is undoubtedly genuinely secretive developments. I think it's improbable that all nations who signed the nonproliferation treaty have not chosen to develop nukes. This comes in two forms. The first is larger nuclear powers such as USA/Russia/China not expanding or modernizing their arsenals. The second comes in smaller nations not creating their own. For instance South Africa, during its apartheid years, managed to secretly develop nuclear weapons which it subsequently dismantled before handing power over to the new non-apartheid government. Another possible, if not likely scenario, is entrenched nuclear powers aiding in the development of nuclear capability of smaller allied nations as a means of ensuring those nations sovereignty and as a solidification of their relationships. As an example of this, the US has for decades been alleging that China has been helping to enhance and expand Pakistan's nuclear program. In times past it was alleged that Israel had played a role in the development of South Africa's nuclear program.

Tsunami weapons are also a game changer. They don't suffer from the same issues of delivery that land/air based weapons do and may be more able to effectively sidestep missile defense systems, and of course also dependent on absolutely enormous payloads.
Although the Badge pattern makes it flexible to add functions with different badges, this one doesn't have the awkward interface:

https://godbolt.org/z/25k1DG

It just makes use of the non-transitiveness of friend.
That was a reference to the famous quote, "don't underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes"
> In the 1950s and 1960s, in the context of The Cold War, people primarily saw it as a critique of totalitarianism. In the 1970s and 1980s, in the context of increasing use of CCTV, people primarily saw it as a critique of the surveillance society. And nowadays, in the context of "fake news" and "alternative facts", people primarily see it in terms of the malleability of "truth"

I'm curious why you see these as distinct phenomena!

Anyway, the obvious cure is simply to read "Manufacturing Consent" (literally any part will do good) and to act against these forces.
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I always assumed those triangle lines carried all three phases, one in each wire.
Unfortunately, a lot of the problems in this blog post can only be solved by squaring Zooko's Triangle[1]. Most refutations of Zooko's Triangle depend on some form of blockchain.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle
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Who is going to defend the free internet agains Azure, AWS and Google Cloud? They are the very opposite of a free and open internet where everyone can "run a website" on her own machine.

It pains me to see a great idea like the Interplanetary File System still not working. I had similar experiences with IPFS and yes, we do need a project like this, only without the broken incentive structure attached to it. Why a "Filecoin"? We already have a tested and working native internet currency: bitcoin.

I've long believed that a browser itself should evolve to be both viewing visited websites but also to host said website for an x number of minutes/hour/days. A bit like webTorrent aims to work. This way a website that gets visitors gets decentralised hosters as well :-)
I can't say I'm a cup expert, but I'm quite sure that paper cups (or straws) can be made waterproof if impregnated with wax.
It's perhaps notable that Anki went out of business.

Given the popularity of games like Fortnite, the shooting dynamic seems somewhat inevitable. They may as well shoot at other toy robots and learn to program in the process.
You just gave them the ability to control other apps, ch age the ui if other apps, and do whatever you could with keyboard and mouse. Personally I don’t trust a third part with that kind of insecure unconstrained capability.

Dropbox used to surreptitiously stick itself on that list without asking, but Apple forced them to request explicitly. I think that was underhanded of DB and I don’t trust them.
I guess the inline function would require a Badge and the private member function would not. So an inline constructed but never used Badge is even more likely to be completely optimized away
> Who are the champions of censorship in the west? The news industry

What 1984 is talking about is state-wide censorship, where news organizations are punished for reporting on topics that make the state look bad. That is Russia, China, North Korea, and other repressive regimes.

In the west, some media might choose not to cover a topic, but you still have other news organizations, and now blogs and social media.

So, yes, censorship does happen within bubbles, but if you live in a free country you can simply look into another bubble to get the other perspective.
I am hard pressed to see Athens from a few thousand years ago as a real case study, its simply to far out of our frame of reference. Switzerland in more recent history is a rather ugly counterexample to your theory. They had a referendum on women suffrage in 1959 which was declined by a 2 to 1 ratio. You assume a well meaning population, which doesnt have to be the case. Direct democracy is still the dictatorship of the majority over the minority. There is just the hope to have better chances on get the equivalent of a benevolent dictator instead of mad tyrants. And if that fails we put our hope in the bdfl in form of the constitution.

But back to the point i dont think you can compare business with societal structures. We are not doing democracy because its more efficient. Its extra effort we spend in hopes to achieve a better society. People have an entirely different stake in their job as in society. For your job the hassle is likely not worth the trade off (if there are any for an employee).

And back to OP

>A lot of people who advocate flat or structureless organizations actually have philosophical problems with even direct democracy for decision making.

I have to agree with the statement. The "real" democracy as a solution to the problem of organizations falls short. Crimethinc had an interesting article on the topic (which got turned into a book later) https://crimethinc.com/2016/04/29/feature-from-democracy-to-... . Its their usual over the top approach but an interesting line of thought.

Although, you lost me here

>Smaller objections to things like elected positions and parliamentary procedure, which are seen as too hierarchical.

I wouldnt say proponents of non hierarchical forms of organization have less of a problem with the representative approach.
I kind of agree that it's not clear why a VFS needs to register devices that only register themselves, however, if you suspend disbelief on that one it's a clever trick that is easy to imagine being useful.
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The rhs is exp(ix), the numerator of the lhs is 2pi^2, and the lhs is some constant C. so the solution should look like x = i*log(C), not exp(-i)
>11. I have another guide on how to get intimate relationships :P

Hey man I need the part 2 for this. Just got out of a rejection (I always thought she was into me but it was all in my head).
Requiring to solve ReCapcha after may be more sensible than the usual use case where ReCapcha is required before any interaction.

Let the user create account, let the user create first comment/post, save it somewhere but hide it, then require ReCapcha to make the post visible and activate the account.

The issue with requiring ReCapcha before is that the website owner will never know whether a legitimate user was turned away or whether it was spam.
Just to give an example of a blockchain approach to this: Ethereum Name Service [1].

1. https://ens.domains/
Apparently this is a supposed email written by Bill Gates. A quick search turned up questionable sources for me, so I'm not sure, but whoever wrote it definitely knew what the torture was like back then...
Right you are. Belatedly fixed.
Exactly.

https://godbolt.org/z/j-THTX
The Human Spiderman
US detention camp
https://time.com/5605120/trump-migrant-children-fort-still/
US genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19...
It would be even better to rethink the entire grocery store model with a more heavy focus on delivery than to try to change human behavior with incentives. Plastic bags are what the market has currently chosen as the lowest cost, highest value method of getting goods from the store to your home. Trying to force people to use a different bag will not work.

Where I live the city banned single use plastic bags, now they just use the thicker ones instead and give out just as many, which are honestly worse for the environment. If single use bags are the current easiest solution to the problem then we need to find an even easier, more environmentally friendly way to help people transfer their goods. Delivery services might be the best.
Orwell is so relevant today even more so. The man must have seen the future in some way because just the tv monitors in the rooms that are always on and monitor you is such a similar concept to all of our home assistants and smartTVs that collect data about us.
IPFS is providing some value already for blockchain dapps to deploy UIs, albeit currently with a dependency on centralized ipfs gateways.

Eg. https://augur.net/ipfs-redirect.html
I suspect lawyers could figure out the ToS so that it is.
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I can only conclude they've actually met a child, unlike the Anki designers then. :)
Oh puh-leeze. 1970s called, they want their flying cars back. And the Moon colonies and strong AI. (Spoiler: jam yesterday and jam tomorrow, but never any jam today)
> The rule of law means that you don't get to change contracts you've signed.

Actually, contracts get broken all the time, and the only recourse you can get for that sort of thing is a lawsuit.

This is by design.
The middle ground might be to use a local hosting company that has it's own servers and racks. Pay a bit more, but boycott the big clouds for personal websites. You could probably host a few dozen static blogs on a physical machine for say $100/m. If 100 people do that it's affordable.
Great app to find ideas.!!
Zero anti-chinese sentiment from my part.

I was wondering if the culture there makes it more acceptable. I understand it is a poor question to ask, as it immediately sets the tone that China is doing something wrong. Perhaps I should have worded it better.

Bare with me for a second though. I grew up watching western spaghetti films, playing with bb guns and thinking of cowboys as heroes. I was born and raised in Europe, not in the US (just to see how much things changed in a few decades).
And I would not want my kids to grow up like that. Back then, that was normal. Today, luckily is not.

In the past, having robots that fight each other was cool, because it was in the realm of fantasy. Now that drones and unmanned vehicles are a reality, and the next step is to make them AI and metadata fully powered. Having robots fight each other begins to feel poor in taste, because the jump from toy to war machine becomes blurry.

I was just wondering what the general sentiment and how the culture in China is in regards to the above. Zero anti-sentiment, except honest questions.
I don't understand why you have been downvoted for asking "why m_?". Is everybody on here supposed to know everything about everything, else you get downvoted into grey unreadability?

Personally, I think that bashing/penalizing ignorance (and I mean the word ignorance literally, as being uninformed about a topic, no offense here whatsoever) is one of the lowest forms of abuse. It says much more about the downvoter than it does about the downvoted. And this not even considering the fact that searching online for "m_" isn't going to help you answer your own question.

If everybody just downvoted the questions they deem unworthy of an answer because "you are supposed to know this", there would be no questions answered.

Sorry for the OT.
How are they going to invest? They make barely any money and are saddled with massive amounts of debt and no way to raise
Wild speculation, but I could see Apple acquiring DJI.
Backblaze use hard drives, and there system seems to be incredibly fault tolerant and long lasting.
In this case, it should absolutely do it.

Take a look:
https://godbolt.org/z/DmeYL-
>The rule of law means that you don't get to change contracts you've signed.

Technically you can if you wrote a clause allowing it or other conditionals. But we don't know the full contract and it's up to a judge to interpret it seems.
My kids went through Sphero, Mindstorms and a couple of other robots where you can program them in Scratch and similar.
To me such a toy would have been a godsend.
They got bored pretty quickly.

Another issue is that gimbal adds to video quality but also to cost.

Finally with the hype, I was expecting a nice ready to fly FPV drone.

So I'm a bit meh about this toy.
Thanks brother. I'm happy you like the app.
Did you try to configure it to the same specs as the base Mac Pro? I tried and it is 9000usd vs 6000usd
Depends on whether the majority of views are on static blog posts, as they can be cached and served from nginx. But if you’ve got a lot of dynamic views - comments, admin, personalised - it’s much harder.

Still impressive you managed to get that level of performance out of a $20 DO box.
Sadly a lot of the mechanisms behind bitcoin make for it to be difficult to use in a vast transaction setting (millions/sec, similar to credit cards), which would be required for using its blockchain for proof of work purposes.

That’s why alternatives exist in order to solve these “problems” that the BTC community either choose not to fix or simply won’t. It’ll be interesting to see what crypto people would intend to use for something like IPFS.
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Yes! universe are trailblazers! They’ve taken a different paradigm approach, but a pretty neat one :)
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> The fact that DJI releases a [toy] for kids that has a working cannon feels super icky from my western perspective.

I don't think that's a western perspective, I think that's your perspective. The actual western perspective likes robots, toys, toy weapons, robotic toys, and robotic toy weapons, and all the various combinations thereof. Nerf and Transformers have been cultural staples for decades.

This isn't even the first commercial toy robot with a toy gun on it: https://www.amazon.com/Nerf-Creatures-TerraDrone-Discontinue...

Or the second: https://www.amazon.com/TerraScout-Nerf-N-Strike-Official-Rec...

Or the third: https://www.amazon.com/Unknown-782-USB-Missile-Launcher/dp/B...

Or the hundredth: https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Imports-Control-Military-Airs...

I guess you could argue the programmable nature of this somehow sets it apart, but I don't see how.

> Is the culture gap that big, or is there another reason?

I don't think the culture gap is where you imagine.