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99% of the time Scala programmers don't have to worry about variance. I've been using Scala for over 5 years and it's never been more than a cursory concern, the defaults usually work fine. You just have the flexibility to work with it how you want if you need to. To compare it to neurosurgery is simply disingenuous
No, that's not the way I remember they did it. I think you'd have a run of instructions for one architecture, and the only thing that interrupted a run of them would be a branch or a jump. So for example, if you had something like:

for (i=0; i<10; i++) {
// body of loop
}

Then you'd have all of the x86 instructions for the loop in contiguous bytes, after that block you'd have the MIPS instructions, then the SPARC instructions and so on.

I could be wrong about this, which is why I am now really adamant that I find the article I remember, so I can figure out what they really did. But I think there are three levels of granularity they could have done:

1. They could have had what was essentially a monolithic code block for each architecture, concatenated those blocks and had the little bit of magic at the beginning of the executable figure out which block to dispatch to, then execution would stay in that block. I don't think they did this.
2. At the other extreme, they could interleave individual instructions, like you just described. I don't think they did this either.
3. They could have runs of architecture specific instructions corresponding to basic blocks [1], which is what I tried to describe above. I think that's what they did, but I could easily be misremembering.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_block
I am a pretty dedicated tea dork, even if I don’t particularly love Japanese tea. I’ll give it a shot.
I miss this guys blog so much. That and 'programming in the 21st century' by James Hague.

Is there anything remotely that good going currently? Usually stuff is on medium so I just avoid clicking it.
Café Coffee Day founder V.G. Siddhartha found dead in riverbank
Ah, but there is no indication they didn't. What happened is that the check was sent, but did not arrive. In other words, the customer and his agent (the postal service, probably) in the exchange did not fulfill their job of getting the money to the business. That is not something the business can control, and if you try to make it their responsibility, they will simply start refusing payment by mail, since it would be a constant and high level source of fraud.
Exactly, we already had a hefty share of extinctions [1], many of those due to introduced pests

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_animals_of_Aus...

(Edited for clarity: obviously not all of those animals in the linked list became extinct exclusively because of introduced species)
Tearing up walls is absolutely not necessary. Structured wiring in the building with an MPOE room for cross connects to the carriers is how it works. This is what usually happens regardless of contractual arrangements.

More accurately, the landlord wants to maximize their revenue while minimizing costs. So they sell out their tenants by signing an agreement with a carrier to build the wiring in exchange for exclusivity.
The problem isn’t credit but the companies issuing loans without doing their due diligence. If they were routinely required to meet the normal levels of legal proof that you signed a contract or were liable for false claims, the entire system would change overnight. The awareness campaigns about identity theft, monitoring, etc. are all a distraction from the companies originating loans trying to shift the cost of their lax practices to everyone else.
Seems odd that their advertising is “with the rise of consumer tasers used for home defense...” who exactly are their intended customers? Home invaders?

Also is it really smart to take away the police’s nonlethal tools in a premeditated fashion? Do you think it’s going to help your family’s wrongful death suit when your body is wrapped up in anti-taser gear?
> Windows has a ton of subsystem specific hacks each with their own drawbacks.

Is this your way of saying "I can't think of any legitimate response, but I insist the Windows API must suck because that's just how I feel about it"?

I literally told you there is a proper solution that turns out to be different than what you're expecting coming from Linux, and instead of either realizing it's a good solution or telling me why it isn't, you just trashed the OS and told me it sucks.
omg like literally everyone? i cant even.

#badheadlines
This is not "default opt-in", like having the "Subscribe to our email newsletter" checked on an online order form. The sharing of credit worthiness information is the cornerstone of your ability to get credit. It's not a hidden extra, it's not something you can choose not to get, there's no "opt out". It's a condition of doing business with the credit grantor. It's like opting out of having a driver's license. If you want to drive, you have to have one.
I'd be interested in getting some of that kind of pressure sensitive ink for a DIY MIDI controller project, or a custom PCB manufactured that uses pressure sensitive ink (I haven't found a PCB maker that does that yet).

Do you have any links or info that could help?
>the entire banking
system promotes systematic moral hazards and has lowered the purchasing power of stagnating wages for most people

"Why are people defaulting on their bills!?"

The whole notion of transfer of majority responsibility to an individual is one of the slimiest things in this society. We get monitored by an array of hidden surveillance measures and algorithimic judgement we have no way to properly counter or defend ourselves against. Meanwhile central credit gets to borrow money and get bailed out.

Give me a fudging break.
Can we just eradicate all foreign comers in the last 200 years from Australia? Perhaps one of the worst losses in Australia has been the near extermination of the native human population by a vigorously violent outside group of humans (who also were the ones that brought along the cats).

Note: this comes from an animal lover (and sure, I have a soft spot for cats) who finds flippant regards like "their complete eradication from the continent".

Nothing should ever be considered for eradication. The lazy solution is to eradicate. The hard solution is to "empathize" (i.e. study the 'problematic' component within a complex system) and figure out how to create a new space for it within the system/reconfigure the system around it.
I know it's a lot less complex, but on the MBTA all of the signs only show next two trains and how long they'll take to arrive. The extra information comes in where each of the displays are.
Yes, the building has excellent structured wiring which is how Wave G was able to install without having to do anything more than bolt a few racks to walls and run fiber through existing conduit.
I agree with many of the ideas with the comparison, however to call “advertising” as a whole is cancer is out of touch. I believe what should be said is “modern-day digital advertising”. I speak with advertisers all the time and they choose us because we display ethical ads (website is codefund.io). We do not track, profile, or collect information. All of our ads are chosen and displayed solely based on the context of the site.

We all need advertising in order to enjoy the free services we all use. Cancer is something that nobody should have to live with. Advertising is something we can all live with if done ethically and responsibly.
Sure, the air hitting the sail would impart a force on the craft, but there is also a force from the fan?

I guess I think of reversers as redirecting the jet blast in a controlled manner, I guess I don't think of the sail as redirecting the wind in a controlled manner.
No it will not.

If you attach a fan to a derby car and point it backwards, the car will move forwards.
If you redirect the fan so it's pointing forward, the car will move backwards. If you put a sail in the way, the car will move backwards less efficiently. If you make a perfect sail that blocks all the air from the fan, it will not move at all.
This is a fallacious argument. Just because banks use credit scores doesn't mean they are accurate (see argumentum ad populum).

What we'd need to demonstrate your claim is for example some data linking credit scores at time of loan to default rate, adjusted for income and loan terms.
Or the linkedin approach of "oh, you opted out of featured posts and featured comments on featured posts but we've just invented a new category of "your three hop connections commented on a featured post" and you're included
It's a recent thing, in the last 30/40 years and I also thought that I read it's efficacy was quite questionable, but could be wrong.
They might not get the visibility, or you might complain that they are using Medium which you hate, etc.
This isn't complicated. You incur a debt, you pay it. If you can't, people aren't going to want to do business with you, and will quite reasonably refuse.

You are trying to make everyone else responsible for my finances and I'd damn well thank you to stop, since they're mine.
Bullschildt
This was a decade or so ago, but we used to get a list of ~2 million email addresses that we'd import into a new database and a single mailing would take anywhere from 2 to 3 days to complete. Sometimes it would take us a few days to get to it though.

The one to two weeks lead time always made a lot of sense to me.

(And yeah, you don't need to tell me how horrible everything about that process is... but it worked and no one's motivated to fix it. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the same process they're using today)
> We had no say. We certinly had no vote.

Why should you? It's the credit grantors who use it. They say "when I grant credit to someone with a score of 800, I'm much less likely to lose money. If they have a score of 600, I'm far more likely to lose money." It's their money, your only say is whether you accept their terms or not.
The trouble, as ever, is that while humans do seem to have ethics, they also seem to have a lot of disagreements about ethics.
There are a few other cities that might manage it in the US. Seattle, Boston, maybe D.C.

Certainly not anything like Kansas City or Tucson, because you have to have enough density pressure around the city to actually require tall buildings. If you can satisfy all the local housing demand with single family homes and still have plenty of empty land within reasonable distance of the city center, there isn't enough reason to compress it into a smaller area just to have taller buildings and put things a little closer together. But those cities also don't have anything near the same traffic problems either.

Where you're really screwed is in places like Los Angeles and Houston, where you have large populations but also so much sprawl and undeveloped land that taller buildings aren't really justified. So they end up in this unhappy medium with enough population density to have bad traffic but not enough to have good mass transit, and weak demand for higher density housing.

But that still doesn't justify the zoning restrictions that exist in a lot of these places. Houston largely doesn't have them while Los Angeles does, and you can check for yourself the difference in rent. Even if without them Los Angeles still wouldn't be New York, because it would at least be better than it is.
Well the concern has more to do with the purchasing of S400 coming with Russian technical advisors for the system, who you might say are backdoored with a network connection to Russia.
Your marketing content has a factual lie in it:

> Dgraph is the fastest growing and most popular OS graph DB

- Slides from https://blog.dgraph.io/post/how-dgraph-labs-raised-series-a/

By your own metrics (GitHub star growth), GUN has grown faster, was started around the same time, and (currently) has more stars than Dgraph. ( https://github.com/amark/gun ).

You're very close to my growth, but your claim is only true if you conveniently exclude competitors from your comparisons.

Also, I know your team is very aware of us because your lead investor, Salil at Bain Capital, personally met with me about our graph database right after investing in you.

This means you are knowingly falsifying information.

Dgraph is great, so please don't resort to unethical marketing tactics. Your product stands on its own.
Firevel Is Serverless Laravel Designed for GAE and Firestore
This is decentralized as in peer-to-peer, not in the same category as memcached
In many states in the US, there are no restrictions to buying, owning, and conceal carrying a Taser (the one that shoots barbs). Even felons can own them in most states. Compare that to a pistol that has all kinds of restrictions on ownership and possession. In cities where Taser or stun gun use by criminals is high, cops and regular people may be interested in wearing this kind of stuff. I don't really know if that is a real issue though, you rarely ever hear of someone using a Taser or stungun in a crime.
Bear Stearns? Lehman Brothers? AIG? The hundreds of banks that went under?
I understand that clearly. But clearly there are classes of institutions and people who...

1. Make a mockery of prudent allocation of money and get bailed out when their games get messed up

2. Mess up the purchasing power of any money you possess far more than any individual defaults or even class of individual defaults

3. Impose grave and hidden responsibilities on individual borrowers and mass surveillance...

They are messing up your finances far more than the most reckless individual borrowers ever could. *

PS - How is finance going to deal with the multitrillion dollar pension bomb? With prudence or with a combination of a game of musical chairs and chickens until stuff gets serious? How is your financial discipline, as an individual, going to protect you from manmade tsnumais?
Previously on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20575409
Just to put it in a bit of perspective, ST recently released their very first 90nm variant of their popular STM32 microcontrollers.

Their older designs, which will still be produced in large numbers for some time I assume, are using 180nm.
Equifax was hacked by Chinese state sponsored hackers.

https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2...

Why don't we send the bill to China and make them pay it?
Because the purpose of the 31m USD was to compensate people who had bought credit monitoring, spent time dealing with credit reports, freezes, locks, etc. Out of the 147m people who were potentially affected, what percentage actually incurred any real costs vs. the number that rushed to file a claim after the headlines blared "$125 to everyone!"
Probably smarter than building aircraft carriers.

My interpretation of why the US still builds aircraft carriers is that it's some combination of bureaucratic inertia (so many careers invested in them) and industry lobbying. They are useful for projecting force against third-world countries, but against a country with a modern military, they'd probably be underwater in the first hour of any conflict.
Seems like they could be suggesting that Tasers are going to become the new saturday night special, a cheap tool to incapacitate someone. Conductive clothing is cheaper and I'm sure hurts a lot less than body armor stopping a bullet.
People who are seriously into extreme sports already have pay for extra insurance as related injures aren't covered for such high risk activities.

There's also huge taxes on alcohol and tobacco for instance.

There's also a lot of other stuff that is banned already or strongly regulated or taxed heavily. Recreational drugs, medicine, certain additives that turned out to be harmful. Or rules like having to buckle up in your car. A lot of nanny state stuff that saves people from themselves.
We have generally coalesced into remote offices, which have enough folks in there to help each other. We've also started encouraging pair programming, so engineers can question each other more and review code together.

We still have remote employees, in fact, 4 of them are remote. But, it's considered on a case by case basis. The biggest issue with remote comes down to individual personality, i.e. how communicative and independent are they. Some people make great remote workers. But, I'd say many don't.

When an engineer is at office, they are team-motivated, more likely to get help without asking and avoid getting stuck.
Their intended customers are probably tacticool bros who want to spiff up their LEO LARPing.
But making it the customer’s responsibility is cool?

In any case, I read this as the notice that payment was required is what got lost, not the payment itself.
Committed or were complicit in the fraud and got in too deep to recover from the inevitable crash. This has all been widely and loudly reported on for a decade. There's a reason people are pissed that the executives who ran these institutions into the ground and fucked up the economy were barely prosecuted.
Do React Hooks Replace Higher Order Components (HOCs)?
Uh this is broken. Can someone post a link to a5-rhodes.pdf directly?

I managed to read it by going here: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3327984 and then clicking the PDF link. Apparently it drops a cookie or something.
Rsp – Faster Socks over SSH
Thanks for the feedback! We aren't trying to invent another infrastructure provisioning language, and I agree that Terraform would be the right choice if that was the case. Our YAML is more similar to the configuration of deployment tools like Netlify or CircleCI. We use CloudFormation and Kubernetes under the hood but our goal is to provide a much higher abstraction for data scientists / ML engineers.
Also people who give a shit about latency. G4 is absolute shit for latency, as are all other wireless solutions.
People who are seriously into extreme sports already have pay for extra insurance

No, they don't, unless they are doing something their policies call out explicitly. Which is extremely rare.

There's also huge taxes on alcohol and tobacco for instance.

Because unlike soda, the damage done by those products is unequivocally identifiable.
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Why isn't email verification enough for these services? I don't think they really need to worry about automated services signing up for accounts, so I wonder why they put anything there at all...
The entire model of consumer loans is predicated on everyone else paying extra money to cover defaulters.
So in addition to the info being valid or the organization evaluating it being too stupid to evaluate it correctly, we also have the possibility that these organizations are involved or complicit in the fraud.

Why am I supposed to take it as a given that if these organizations use the info it must be useful, then?
Go to AWS. Generally a more values brand in the job market.
Weeding the body: Trichotillomania and the unconscious desire to pull
Same here. I can't imagine complaining about Sonic. If I had issues, I could call a freaking human in Mountain View (or whatever), and he'd fix it rather than asking me to cycle the power on my computer.
Doesn't almost anyone with a credit card have credit monitoring now?
You still have to dissipate all of that energy. All a kevlar suit jacket is going to do is allow you to easily pull the bullet out of your chest. Getting shot while wearing a vest still causes immense bruising and can still break bones. Kevlar clothing would be more stab and slash resistant.
I don't recall $125 requiring actual previously lost time.
I'm not sure what's going on with the original link, but this shortened link seems to actually work:

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3327984

The concept seems clever (rapidly alternate between illuminating the front-panel, and illuminating the contents of the enclosure while displaying a transparency negative on the front panel) but the requirement for an enclosure and controllable backlight limits the scope of the approach. Still, those results look pretty good for mostly off the shelf hardware.
Angry at Equifax or the Chinese state hackers who breached them? I think the idea here is YC China wants you angry at Equifax. I hope you see through the propaganda.

China steals your data. Low budget.

Enraging Americans to the point of taking out American blue chip company? Priceless.
Good comment. I agree but I feel even an AI can't deal with it. The system is chaotic so it's like predicting the weather. If we can solve the problem of predicting the weather to 99% accuracy with AI then we can do the same with the economy, if we can't then we can never manage the economy with AI.
> Sailing is not air pushing on a sail, it's air rebounding away from the sail.

To add just a tiny amount of nuance - sailing is redirecting airflow with a sail.

Surface and flow effects mean that very little air should be bouncing off the sail. If there is you probably have a lot of turbulence, and a 'bubble' will form around the sail around which most of the wind will simply divert, rather than redirect.

Or to put it another way, think of an entire parcel of air rebounding away from the sail, not individual air molecules.
> So they might even engage in activities we cannot grasp or identify

I don't think that's what they mean when they say imagination: imagining things we can not imagine. And science starts with real imagination, then move on to practical, measurable applications.
Is this true about tiny pebbles as well as asteroids? I would think a tiny rock would cause immense damage at high speeds.
Nobody said it would go away 100%. But it may become a niche product, like foie gras.
Update this post if you ever default on a loan. Otherwise, you are a good credit risk.
Plastics are typically made from oil, but they can also be manufactured from corn, or other plant matter.
Are there any meetups in your area that are relevant to your tech interests? That might be a good way to connect to the community in person and get your foot in the door.
Climate change is class war
If you need this, can't you just run a layer of tinfoil under your shirt?
Thanks, that's it.
I'm not really sure what you mean. Variance just changes what is and is not a subtype/supertype. If List is covariant then List<T> is a subtype of List<U> if T is a subtype of U. So then, by induction, List<List<T>> is a subtype of List<List<U>> if T is a subtype of U. I'm not sure what's hilariously hard to follow here...
Lyft pulls electric bike fleet from San Francisco streets after some catch fire
> my tram lines with dedicated lanes don't have those problems

Dedicated lanes is the biggest factor. Plenty of trams don't have dedicated lanes, in which case the significant cost premium is a complete waste.

Buses can also have dedicated lanes with right-of-way. The ones I've been on in Mexico and Ecuador were quite nice. While I personally find rail more comfortable and also appreciate how route permanence effects property values, as a taxpayer even dedicated lanes and right-of-way don't justify the costs.

Historic lines are a different matter as the initial capital costs are already spent, and even if they cost more to operate it can still make sense. So it does suck that old lines were destroyed. But if you're gonna build new, I just can't abide paying the ridiculous premium for rail unless they're going underground or otherwise grade separated for a significant portion of the line. But if they're grade separated then by definition they're not really trams.