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> "Before Google Maps we had a few online map services and they were terrible. Google Maps redefined what it means to have free access to web based interactive global maps"

This is not true. MapQuest revolutionized things almost 10 years earlier than Google Maps. Google search is what allowed Google Maps to overtake MapQuest. Also, Android providing real-time traffic data of all their users gave them the winning formula.
Intellisense also outputs multiple suggestions.

Also, TabNine mentions they are using transformers, which is not logistic regression. The context will be inferred using attention.
> sorry, other 49.9% of the population, better luck next time

At least both sides get to take their turn at the helm. Seems to work okay to me.
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Bad example, a SaaS dependency is a single point of failure and it's entirely proper to get rid of it. Of course it would be better to move to a wholly-open alternative, but if none is around an internal system is the next-best alternative.
because when it does it's magic. you connect one cable to a dock and your laptop becomes a desktop.
I think specifically in the case of platform vs publisher, there is federal law that gives some sort of extra legal protection to platforms. In order to get these protections, they have to behave a certain way. I'm not sure about this, but it's an argument I've heard.

> Liable is incredibly hard to prove in court, and usually cases are taken in civil court not criminal court.

Going to court is expensive, even if you win. Thus, the protections for platforms allow an avenue of easy dismissal of cases, preventing from go very far in the court system in the first place.

> Google, etc. (you can't compel us to disseminate what we deem as immoral, anymore than you can make a Christian baker bake a gay wedding cake).

Sure, but I think then they would qualify as a publisher and not a platform according to some. Compare the results from Google to Bing for the query 'Trump is a'. Did Google hand-tune their algorithm for their results? Did they tune their algorithm to weight more heavily organizations that share their political bias? EG, Prefer CNN over Fox News (or vice versa). Do some sites have insider knowledge to better game the system?

I can remember a time when there were no news results in a google search. It was a better internet.
> These seem like very unnecessary distinctions. "In the end", the plane had software that was supposed to do one thing but failed to do that, resulting in the plane crashing. These are very apt and natural comparisons.

What exactly was the software supposed to do in this instance? They were flying at 30 feet, with idle engines and suddenly demanded full power while pitching up. It takes a good 8 seconds to spool up a jet engine, that's a lot of time to continue travelling forward. At the same time, due to their low speed, climbing steeply away from the ground just isn't possible because it would stall the plane.

It's a shitty situation, but physically the software can't do anything here. I guess you could make a case that the software shouldn't have allowed the plane to even get into such a dangerous flight envelope. But there are a lot of aural warnings from the GPWS (ground proximity warning system) to tell the pilots to climb away from the ground. But if you disable those warnings, can you really blame the software?
Right. When you are talking about the compiler and the abstract machine, perhaps some sentences could be clearer about that (e.g. the sentences I latched onto - which I admit is my fault for skim reading).

Responding to whether C is "low-level" I like this comment: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5534#comment-95721 And processors have undefined behaviour so should we say assembly is not "low-level"? e.g. "Grep through the ARM architecture reference manual for 'UNPREDICTABLE' (helpfully typeset in all caps), for example…" - pcwalton

Thanks heaps for your article which was a good read, and it led me to the funnier side of undefined behaviour: https://raphlinus.github.io/programming/rust/2018/08/17/unde... and https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/5/769
But in the other two portions of the district – including parts of West Oak Lane and Chestnut Hill, where only about half of the population is black – some eight out of 10 of all police vehicle stops target black drivers.

They aren’t just disproportionately pulling over Blacks in Black neighborhoods.

But even though 80 percent of police stops involve black drivers, white drivers are 40 percent more likely to be ticketed. Mellon points to that gap as evidence that cars with black occupants are routinely being pulled over for no reason.

Also they are using traffic stops as an excuse to invade user privacy.
I think you make a really good point here by looking at international salaries. Like a lot of other commetors, I think that a good CEO really is worth the salary. We've all had bad managers and seen bad C-suite decisions play out. However, the excessiveness of the increased pay is very concerning. I get it, those people exist in a market as well, and you have to play by market dynamics as a result. But as compared to international C-suites, US pay is very very high.

The issue's core problem is the excessive pay of C-suite people in the US affecting the workforce. This bleeds quickly into charities, of course.
Democracy takes time but I don't see any other way, as someone who are not the one suffering, I'm not going to boycott amazon. I like fast shipping and cheap item.
I believe you are correct, and that's why Azure has a dedicated German cloud with all the data residing in Germany and managed by a German data trustee, which should prevent US government from being able to tell Microsoft to do anything with that data[0]. If Canada happens to have a dedicated cloud region with similar policies, they should be in the clear.

0. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/germ...
cross platform support, maybe?
I find it just as plausible a read of the thread that the root's take-away was "trust the government," as you seem to find "skepticism is good" to be "a defense of ignorant reactionaries."

If there's anything in the world that warrants some extra skepticism, it's the well-meaning-ness of government and its penchant for unintended consequences...
Yes, but I don’t think that was the factor here. Ancient technology was astoundingly precise (see the famous Antikythera mechanism).

I think the problem was roads. If you combine bad (or nonexistent) roads with airless hard tires, the result is much much less useful than any modern bike on any modern road.

The first bikes were indeed wooden with wooden wheels. No ball bearings, no hollow steel tubes etc. But streets.

I could now say something about how engineers are so specialized in their perspective they cannot judge things without bringing current conventions into it but hey, every profession comes with it’s weakness.
Those renders are extremely cool. It looked like he made them without any 3D modeling at all which seems really challenging. The perspective is spot-on.
Where did you see that? USCIS in its bulletins never releases the number of years only the year it is processing. If you extrapolate the EB-1 wait for Indians, it is closer to 9 years, but most people are in EB-2/3 which is 50yrs out.
Yep, it's great - my laptop, headphones, tablet and phone all have the same charging port. Even more, I can use many of the same MacBook dongles on my phone (including HDMI and mouse) to connect it to TVs.
It's difficult to solve an issue like this without steps that can be used to reproduce the issue.

Here is a similar issue where someone provided instructions to reproduce the problem, which allowed me to fix the issue: https://github.com/zxqfl/TabNine/issues/43.
One of the books you're probably thinking of is Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere:

"The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel."
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I got fascinated by this when I saw mention of this elsewhere. I'll agree that getting sturdy casters at a reasonable price was definitely part of the problem. As the linked wikipedia article reminded me, 20-odd years ago you'd still come across wonky casters on very expensive supermarket trolleys.

I think like the bicycle, it was just combination of factors preventing adoption - and once these had all moved, it was an obvious improvement.

e.g.
The luggage you put the wheel on. My distant memories of family suitcases weren't rigid. Deformable cloth over a flexible outer band of some type.
First ones with wheels I saw just had them on one bottom corner and a drag handle on the opposite top corner. Where f'in vile to use, as the whole thing would flex as you pulled (Toppling and attempting to break your wrist).
They only really became 'good' when we got rigid luggage (carry on bag with extendable handle or rigid-shell case like Samsonite).

But another reason is that previously "You didn't have to move it yourself"
In 'the golden age' a porter would put your trunk/case on a wheelbarrow for you. Then these transformed into 'rows of luggage carts in the airport'. Then as the decline continued 'rent-able luggage carts, you didn't have local-change for'... and at this point lack of service for your bag, crossed our ability to make wheeled luggage - and we all bought it.
With a MacBook Pro it’s not so bad, because rather than try to save a few cents Apple wired every USB-C port for everything that it supports, so there’s no real distinction between ports (but you still need to distinguish between very similar looking cables that handle, say USB 3.0 in one case and an active TB3 40 Gbps in another)

It’s at the low end of the market that USB-C is an entire mess. This port on your laptop can connect to the charger, but this one doesn’t. All of them do 3.0, but this one does 3.1. This one does DisplayPort but not that one. None do Thunderbolt 3 but you had to read the specs twice and guess that from the fact it’s just not mentioned. Hard for regular consumers to understand, and remember, when it all looks the same.
Right, now stand on said disk. Turns out the you+disk system doesn’t trivially balance...
Not really: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zHHPCAao4k
It was the owners son. He's been promoted and continues making ill-advised decisions to this day.
seems weird to me too. when I was a kid I certainly didn't like complex flavors, but I loved intensely sweet, "tangy" things (like sunny d).
Maybe I'm just old, but having worked in IT for pretty much my entire working life I've come to the conclusion that "Magic" is not a good thing.
Agreed on all counts. Drive and people skills matter a lot. Also, a lot of nefarious people skills are also rewarded.

If senior people like/trust you and you're willing
to stand your ground/fight for something you can
normally achieve significantly more.

Yes, although in a lot of company cultures this is nearly impossible due to the lack of level playing field.

A "software architect" I once worked under liked to play the following game, and he played it awfully well. We'll call him "B."

1. "B." spends days, weeks, or months researching a solution all by his lonesome.

2. "B." presents this idea to the team. It is effectively an edict, but he presents it as a meritocratic chance for others to offer feedback or alternative ideas.

3. The rest of the team is caught flat-footed, because we... just heard about this problem minutes ago, and obviously aren't as prepared as... well, somebody who has prepared. We are also not allocated time away from our scrums in order to research and test alternatives, whereas that was essentially his entire job. In other words, we bore the burden of proof and yet had no time in which to produce said proof.

4. I don't recall one of the edicts-masquerading-as-RFCs from "B." ever being successfully challenged.

Management (who was non-technical) perceived this as evidence of B's superiority, because after all, it's not like folks had better ideas than "B." Since he structured things in a way such that folks really couldn't have better ideas.

Eventually many folks on the team (like me) tuned out and just stopped participating in the whole charade after a few trips around the block. This, of course, was seen by management as more evidence that "B." was the only one with legit ideas.
I'm not against striking - I'm just undecided on the efficiency of it in this particular case.

It seems to me it would be easier to get people to vote than to boycott Amazon in an impactful way. But as brundolf pointed out, it doesn't have to be either/or.
> So, in today's society (in the west at least) there is no place for the death penalty.

...according to you or the Catholic Church. What other reasons do you have for there not being a death penalty?
I agree but I think this can turn around, we've really only lost the quick-turn PCB manufacturing. The talent is definitely still here.
Haha "person of colour"
One possibly overlooked factor: the nature of travel has changed dramatically in the last 200 years. Right up until World War 1, my ancestors literally had no reason to ever go more than ten miles from home, and even that was rare. The entire extended family lived within a two mile radius. This was because they were all farmers, and farmers didn't need to travel often. Furthermore, if you did travel, well, you already had a horse. Which, to make a point not made in the article, didn't have to do with the cost of the horse; it had to do with the fact that you already needed to have a horse to farm. So the horse was a sunk cost.

If you did travel frequently, this was likely because you were in the business of shipping goods, ie tobacco or cotton or some other agricultural staple from where it was grown to a port, and hence speed wasn't your primary concern; inexpensive transport for bulk goods was. For all that is awesome about bicycles, bulk transports they aren't.

So: at least one factor was economic, but of an indirect sort. We had to have a critical mass of population that needed to travel regularly farther than they could conveniently walk, and for which horses were not sunk costs.
Could you please explain what Blender is not good at animation? What major features are missing?
If you don't already have good roads, then you need a very rugged and durable bike, which wasn't possible at a reasonable price with the materials and tools available at the time. Even with today's technology, a cheap "mountain bike" from Walmart would be unrideable after just a day or two of true off-road use.
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Off topic: I've been seeing Prime Day ad notifications in Brave. Thought that was interesting; about the most 'mainstream' ad I've ever seen in Brave.
I mean so does Amazon, Uber, Airbnb, FedEx, and any other service provider who hasn't 100% eliminated fraud (which is all of them).
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I've ridden many different types of bicycle from fixed gears, single speed mountain bikes and more traditional mountain bikes and racing bikes. Recumbent is horrible to ride in traffic (you are below the height of most traffic) and the handling is atrocious.

Yes they are maybe more efficient but they are not pleasant to ride.

TBH the current design is efficient enough, is well understood both in terms of the technology. Almost all improvements now are iterative.

Also more modern materials (carbon fibre, aluminium) are either expensive, brittle (carbon fibre is easily damaged in a crash) or both. A lot of riders (especially the fixed crowd) have a saying of "Steel is Real", frames are normally cheap, easy to come by and even after crashes easily repaired (you can just bend it back most of the time).

The same can be said about many of the more modern gearing systems. Anything past 2 up front, 8 speed at the back is again typically more expensive to fix, parts are less easy to come by and is prone to failure.

Shimano's hub gears need regular maintenance where traditional derailleur setup will go on for thousands of miles with only basic maintenance. Maintenance on a derailleur system is typically cleaning (fairy liquid is fine) and using cheap lubrication that can be bought for a few pounds/dollars will suffice in most cases.
$7.25.. wow at some point robbery/murder/fraud makes more sense economically.
The search engine basically owns an index of all websites. I assume, that crawling websites and storing an index is a solved problem. Not trivial on that scale and expensive. But conceptually solved.

What google does really well are two things:

1) It ranks those pages according to the well-known PageRank algorithm, although the details are kept secret. They also learned how to punish sites, which try to mislead the algorithm (Duplicate content, excessive SEO, link farms, etc)

2) What they also do well is returning search results in a very short time, based on a relevancy of your search term combined with the precalculated ranking. It also looks at your history in this step and the data it tracks about you.

My preferred search engine would open up both bullet points, giving you the option how pages are ranked and how relevancy is determined. For example: Rank personal blog posts higher or rank news higher or only use an inbound link count. Or you could get fancy and crowd source ranking (similar to hacker news). You could also configure search term relevancy. For example: did you ever search google for something specific and it automatically adjusted your term to something similar, more popular?

You could open up all those decisions and give the user options. Google on the other hand keeps everything secret and uses your personal data in unknown ways. I would love to have a search engine which is configurable. Yeah, not an easy thing to do. But it would be awesome.
> I'm wowed by the fact that the model has learnt to negate words in if-else statements

I know it learned natural languages from using GPT-2, but I am surprised it didn't get "confused" since words are used in such a different way in programming.

For example strong appears as the html tag <strong> with no corresponding <weak> tag. And weak appears in weak_ptr in C++ and there's no such thing as a strong_ptr.
It's absolute garbage. Slow and insanely buggy. old.reddit.com is the only way to use it now.
Another one of those oversensationalized outrage articles that can be boiled down to "I cannot put even a minimal effort in keeping an eye on my children, so I will blame someone else for it and make it their responsibility." There is literally a setting on iOS for that specific specific scenario, which allows to prevent in-app purchases[0]. And it is very easy and intuitive to set up too, so it isn't like it is hidden behind millions of menus and dark patterns.

0. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204396
It's not. In many states it's a 6-month program. A "don't spread disease" course could be done in 8 hours.

It's about making it harder for people to compete with the existing hair dressers. It's about forcing students into schools. It's about extracting rent from the economy.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cosmetology-rules-show-ab_b_5...

https://reason.com/2016/08/03/do-you-have-a-license-to-braid...
I've run my own startups (4), been through startups, ran the corporate race, successfully exited, successfully failed, ran successful projects, ran successful dev teams, ran some projects and dev teams into the ground, and now I'm back to entrepreneurship. I've just assumed this entire time that by comparison to an active entrepreneur you are a corporate drone, but let's stop the name calling.

I don't have to believe in patents; they are real, but a necessary evil. Go ahead and invest your own money into a unique process or product, bring it to market, then let's chat again about if you "believe" in patents.

I think I fit quite nicely here on Hacker News, and you do too because you can improve yourself with the intro to programming posts and tips on team etiquette.
There's a legitimate point to view according to which democracy and the right to vote don't really matter that much. At the end of the day people want to live meaningful, fulfilling lives, and there's little reason to think that living under an authoritarian regime per se has any impact on your life's meaning or affects one's ability to pursue intrinsically rewarding activities (unlike, say, poverty, which does pose a genuine obstacle, because it forces one to become someone else's machine for a big portion of one's life). If anything it may have a salutary effect by discouraging people from pursuing politics or engaging in political conversations (which is the unmeaningful activity par excellence, as additive as video games, while at the same time carrying far more danger because one tends not to feel guilty about wasting one's time on it).
"Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."

I don't have an attribution, but it's an apt quote.
It always feel like grinding in salt in open wounds when discussing US medical and family building. For example when we had our daughter 10 years ago, we had more than 300 days (can't remember exact) to share between us of paid time off work. All medical treatment and dentist is absolutely free up to 20-ish, as are schools. Child care is about 60 eur per month depending on salary of both parents. 70 eur is about max.
It's astonishing that the developers of games like this can sleep at night. Do they lie to themselves and pretend all the kids spending thousands of dollars are the children of Saudi royals or something? They must know that they're exploiting people who can't afford it.

Edit: these developers know damn well if their target demo is children, and they know damn well that the phenomenon of children running up huge debts without the informed consent of their parents is all too common. They know what they're doing; they can't plead ignorance. At best they are self-deluded, but it's more likely they are morally corrupt. Blinded by their love for money, totally indifferent to the suffering their business model causes.

It's absolutely revolting, and so is anybody defending it by implicitly asserting that it's okay for developers to exploit children if their parents happen to be careless or neglectful. "The parents are to blame for allowing it" does not absolve the developers who knowingly profit from it. Should it be legal for me to sell cigarettes to a child if their parents were foolish enough to give the child a credit card? Of course not, fuck off with that shit.
>that is an urban legend.

Well, it's not.

>Outdoor cats kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds a year, study says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/outdo...
1. If you spend $5 on food, and the foodbank could have bought $25 with that same money, but would instead buy $15 worth of food and $10 spent on salary for the person buying food, management, etc... it was still more efficient to give the $5.

2. Margins on food are VERY thin. The local supermarket makes a few percent in profits. Unless you're buying directly from the farmers (most arent), that money isnt staying in your community. It's going to go thousands of miles away where it's being grown.. and then the remainder is going to go to Kroger/Walmart/etc corporate bank account so that they can pay their managers that 100k+/year that you so oppose charity workers making.
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Mobile free to play games now make up the majority of money made in video games today.

It's strange then that most of these games aren't that interesting. Who are the players of these that make up the new class of gamers?

It would seem that the payers are the exploitable - those able to be swindled with casino mechanisms.

As an ex- free-to-play game developer and one who believes regulation often does more harm to consumers than good, I'd like to see something done. I'm just at a loss for what would work.