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True. You don't always have to talk to a lawyer, this could be something that a person fights themselves. But I think HOAs are something people should not let trample over them.

Hopefully people become friends with their neighbors before something like this happens so it's not homeowner vs neighbors, but instead homeowner vs overreaching entity. Get your friends/neighbors to see that the HOA is wasting their money on such a petty, overreaching thing. Better yet, get yourself and your friends/neighbors on the HOA board to prevent this kind of stuff.
Virtual functions, runtime type information, STL, larger executable code size, etc...

Memory footprint will be smaller on C without using C++ abstractions. Which is important for embedded systems.
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Law and order doesn't apply to the wealthy.
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It is interesting how much traffic on HN Clojure gets, compared to Scala (as two JVM based functional languages), given their standings on various programming language trend surveys (and I do take those with a large crystal of salt).

I'm currently dipping into Scala because of Spark, but that is a necessity for work. Doing the same with Clojure out of _interest_. Perhaps that is one of the reasons?
The Iraq war comes to mind.
As it is my system is so complicated that I can't understand it. To litter a bunch of black boxes throughout removes any hope of really understanding the system. I think maybe we should strive for simpler systems in the first place, rather than try to optimize our already too-complex systems with a bunch of tiny function approximators that we don't even really fully understand at an individual level.
I have not written a check in over 10 years. I do, however, use my bank's online bill pay system. When I was a renter I used this to pay. I don't have to touch any paper, or stamps.
Yes and no. Banks reconcile funds via Fedwire.
I'm just annoyed that my fears of losing the ability to implement and use powerful Firefox extensions, ever since Mozilla instituted the extension walled garden, are slowly but surely coming true.
> Being a client-server application, it allows to run its backend on the remote machine and connect to it from your local Emacs (or Vim, if you must, with SLIMV).

I have used Slimv and found it quite enjoyable on Vim. Has anyone here tried Vlime? Has anyone tried both? Which one of the two do you recommend?
> But if I lend you $250,000 for an arts degree, the power of the state will force you to pay me.

Why would the state not use the power of the state to make sure you pay back money it lent you?
Keep the firefighters out. Let it burn. Evacuate a radius plus the downwind plume. Test for radiation before allowing people back in.

What if the whole facility is broken down and packed into drums, and the truck shipping some of them overturns on the highway?

The known flaw has a simple, well-known workaround. It's "don't do that". Attempting a fix has the potential to introduce additional unknown flaws.

The fact that France is doing a site cleaning now is perhaps a testament to the dwindling size of their low-level nuclear waste site cleaning backlog? AFAIK, their Hague processing facility only uses half its capacity on waste from their ~95 energy reactors, and takes waste from other countries to pick up some of the slack. A cleanup like this can keep it operating without having to mothball excess capacity.
Indeed, I did not want to imply so.
I think it is just there for generating the video signal. This sort of thing is common. The earlier (solder-based) Briel Replica I Apple I clone used a Propeller chip for that. But it still had a 6502 for the actual computing, and I imagine this does too.
> they are fundamentally different.

Perhaps it's good there are some things that are different. Some things are property. Some are not.

In history there always seems to be a trend for those in power to try and enslave those not in power, by putting property laws on people.

This student loan bankruptcy exception is one example. Intellectual slavery laws like copyright and patents are another.
When reading the section on social preference I couldn't help but think of Saaty's Analytic Hierarchy Process and its pairwise comparisons. Would that not satisfy Arrow's three requirements? It satisfies the first, since it functions regardless of the preferences themselves (though the consistency matrix may suffer); it satisfies the second on its face, since if everyone prefers A over B, then A will be ranked higher under AHP; and it satisfies the third, since only pairwise comparisons serve as inputs to the algorithm.
How do you figure? You can’t eat home equity, and someone with a $250k salary paying off a $1.5M mortgage is probably struggling. (Whether that’s a stupid thing to be doing or not isn’t relevant to the example.)
So the Department of Education is a bank?
I think of Firefox containers (and Chrome "people") as providing a little isolation, but not enough. If I browse HN in a container, I'm likely to follow links to a lot of different domains. I'd have to diligently select the right container each time.

I'm suggesting instead the browser never mixes a cookie I was assigned while browsing say nytimes.com with a cookie assigned while browsing washingtonpost.com. Even if I regularly browse these domains in my "news" container.
Yes, it supports plugins, one of which can import Postman Collections. There is also a plugin for exporting Postman Collections in case you work with people who use Postman.

https://paw.cloud/docs/migrate/postman

https://paw.cloud/docs/exporters/postman-exporter
USB device drivers are for sure bullet-proof, just like the baseband controllers are bullet-proof....

Jumping from one exploit target to another in a chain is pretty much how all modern exploits work. To say that because they would need to find an exploit in the USB driver (or some other hardware or software interface), not only states the obvious, but more importantly misses the point: it's far more plausible than most engineers intuitively believe.

The depth of modern exploit chains is incredible, and while the conceptual difficulty has gone up the pace hasn't seemed to abate, which is clear evidence that our intuition about "too difficult" and about the elasticity of the exploit supply and demand curves is woefully inadequate to accurately gauge risk.

Part of the problem is that the complexity of the systems grows at the same time as improvements in security and correctness. Sometimes it grows faster, sometimes slower, but it's dynamic.
I can only assume you are buying your meat pre-boned and sliced or diced, chicken breast already removed from carcass etc, probably in some lovely single use plastic. In which case someone else did the prep for you, not sign there's less prep required.

Veggies are less effort: peel some, chop into suitably sized bits. To compare like with like compare with pre-sliced and peeled veggies, or animal carcass before skinning and butchering. :)

Something like a rosti with cheese or added spinach or cabbage is cooked meat speed fast and tasty, as are a whole host of the traditional leftovers recipes that grew up to use up spuds, carrots, cabbage etc next day.
Having worked on user data before, I think the issue is that for complex software, it’s hard to get value/insight from this data. Imagine if you are Microsoft and had every action every Excel user makes with office365. Where would you even start to be able to get value out of this data?
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Here's a screenshot for you: https://imgur.com/a/vMwBhLV
The author is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Baez who:

> He is known for his work on spin foams in loop quantum gravity.[3][4] For some time, his research had focused on applications of higher categories to physics and other things.

So he probably has _some_ understanding of physics, no?
The Department of Education isn't a business.
Am I wrong to think that Thunderbird development still seems so slow? As far as I understand, they put a new team in charge. But since January this is the first new release and it doesn't look like much has been added/changed:

- New app menu

- Preferences in a tab

- "Full color support"

- Better dark theme

- Attachment management

- "Filelink improved"

I've been using Thunderbird for a few years now and I still feel like it's just not as good intuitive as for example Apple Mail. You need addons to have proper threading support, it looks so ugly on anything but Linux (as it's a GTK app so you can change it), Exchange support is lackluster (I get constant disconnect messages even though it's fine just minutes later), and just generally using it is not convenient which I cannot even begin to describe.

I'd love to pay for Thunderbird if it makes for a proper development cycle with fresh updates that are actually useful.
Having read the article I fail to see how she was "Punished" by Tufts. She made an accusation of alleged wrongdoing. Tufts investigated and while the investigation was ongoing they briefly delayed awarding her Ph.D. Seems appropriate under the circumstances and they did ultimately award her two Ph.D.'s. An accusation was leveled against her of wrongdoing. Tufts investigated and she was cleared by Tufts of the allegation.

The professor still works there but we have no idea if the professor was censored in some means other than firing or if the investigation failed to produce the hard proof the university felt was needed to fire the professor without facing a wrongful termination suit or other legal ramifications. If the university continued to employee the professor with proof that they had falsified data this would speak poorly of Tufts but isn't something the complainant should somehow be financial compensated for.

The article reveals no evidence that the complainant not getting a position following has been the result of any defamation or effort by either Tufts or the accused professor. Whether right or wrong knowing that you have previously filed such a complaint will make most employers avoid hiring you. Why take on the slightest risk when there other candidates which don't present such risk.

Maybe there is more that has not been revealed but what is int the article doesn't seem to support a financial payout to the complainant.
I had this random thought, I wonder if it holds water:

The EU states are (fairly) confident in their status as independent countries, and thus dare subject themselves to and implement such things as SEPA.

While the U.S. is a single country, the states within are not independent countries and, very aware of that, try to defend their independence within the union at every turn.
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Sure, but that's not the way the smart money would bet.

It might make sense to adjust how the wealth test is applied (I don't know how it works), but it's just silly to suggest that the average family with a $250k/yr income can't afford to send a kid or two to college.
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Only if they give/receive more than 11.1 million over the course of their lifetime.
Assuming they're not legally separated and the kid is under 24, yes. Happens a lot actually.
Yes, that exactly what I said.
Because it's a dumb predatory loan that should never have been made in the first place. There is a type of business for making dumb loans and using force to ensure they are paid back: the mafia.

The mafias of old are nothing in size when compared to the student loan industry.
I would never dream of thinking Ryanair skimps one aircraft maintenance. I’d be concerned by their cabin crew performance given the conditions they work in though.
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I'm really curious how they're doing video. That was the big roadblock I hit when making a Z80 computer a while ago (and what led me to FPGAs).
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In terms of testing out new gear is:

Iran:USA::Ukraine:Russia ?
Snarky answer - there's no real motivation to change it and from an institutional perspective it's not broken.

- it costs a lot to fix or redesign a money system moving billions of dollars in volume per day

- change is risky

- any impacts on reliability would be unacceptable and have significant economic impact [both direct and indirect]

- stakeholders that fully understand the existing system and have the knowledge to redesign it are part of that system and benefit from it

- as an insider, it's hard not to make money within the system

- it's a closed ecosystem - access to the system is controlled by the established players (like Wells Fargo, BoA, Visa, Mastercard, etc.) and they will revoke access if you threaten their position.

- Insiders are making so much money at this game that end consumers have little leverage at this scale.

Paypal, stripe, venmo, zelle, square, name-your-favorite-fintech-start-up are all working within the existing system by exposing easy to use integrations and interfaces. They aren't really fixing anything, just wrapping it up, putting a bow on it and making a handful of basis points on your transactions.

The RTP system is a chance to fix it but I suspect it will take years for that to replace the existing systems. I've heard it discussed as an additional feature not a replacement.

[I know HN likes proof but any real numbers I can't disclosed due to NDAs. I'm basing my opinion on the margins I saw and heard referenced while working at a smaller financial institution]
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In academia it's slightly different: "I just discovered that the brand on which my livelihood currently depends, is engaged in fraudulent/immoral/illegal/unethical activities."

If it transpires that your advisor has fabricated data your own achievements immediately become suspect and funding agencies, journal reviewers and future employers may treat you as collateral damage.
The story that the OP is referring to is not the story (if any) portrayed by the art, but the story of the work itself. So it is bound up in the story of the artist, the history of a particular work, and the path from the artist's conception to the the most current owner. You might call that provenance, but it's a wider net than just that.
>But one happens much more often than the other.

Probably, but we have no legitimate way of knowing which one it is.
I am definitely a Lisp noob, but portacle has been a pretty great "intro to lisp programming" environment. (I'm in a Windows environment, as the context to this comment.) Portacle is basically emacs with SLIME and a Common Lisp REPL integrated. What I just wrote might actually be nonsense because, again, I am noob af.
100% agree. Just to add, as well as being difficult to perform, some experiments are highly sensitive to noise. In my experience, it's not uncommon in biology to sometimes have difficulty replicating your own experiments. There are always more variables than can be controlled, e.g. environmental conditions, different batches of reagents, how you handle samples, how animals are housed, electrostatic effects from different glassware / plastics, small changes in the genetic background, etc.
A story of people who view art as a trophy, or as an ultimate symbol of wealth?
I do both, all the time. I always have at least two different browsers open and several productivity apps. And an iTerm window with several tabs, or if I'm doing sysadmin-y stuff then several such windows.

For me the terminal is mostly used for these things:

1) A stable/reproducible Linux environment in which to test and run code.

2) A place to use UNIX tools to quickly do things that would take a long time, or maybe not be possible, in my (fairly large) collection of GUI apps. In particular one-off searching and manipulation of text files, log streams, etc.

Plus if I want to make small edits to a file, I can do this faster in vim than in TextMate or Sublime. And I sometimes run apps like "calc" in my terminal out of habit. YMMV on that kind of stuff, but for the two reasons above, if you are a developer of server software then this is much of your life.

I prefer to use GUI apps for some things, but I totally get it that others don't. Once you're at home in the terminal, it's tempting to want everything to live there. But if you're like me and prefer a GUI client for source control, you can easily have both!
Yeah, I was just surprised since I specifically found Rust tools to generally both fun and comfortable due to having (what I consider) excellent UX.
The problem with dischargeable student loans isn't that the students won't profit from them; it's that, having obtained a dischargeable loan whose direct utility ends in their 21st year of life, the rational move for student borrowers would be to ruthlessly default. You can't repossess an education.
Tank chassis robot with lead foil casing around the electronics then?
I've seen figures for 1gb of data transfer ranging from 200-600g of CO2 or thereabouts.

If you look at email and think that you might have a tab open at home on a computer that it pops up in, that it might also push to your tablet and your phone and that if it is Gmail it might be mirrored on multiple servers, then add in a several kilobytes (or more) of images... I can definitely see it starting to add up to 3-4 grams.

Now factor in that excel sheet or word doc, some photos or a pdf that you're sending to a few (or hundreds) of coworkers...
Most times, the financial institution will eat the ACH fee, so to the customer it looks like it's free.

SEPA also doesn't mean that the transactions are free, either. According to a third party transfer service (https://transferwise.com/help/15/paying-for-your-transfer/29...) there might still be some fees from banks.
No, none of that will work. Great students taking majors with high earning potential can still declare bankruptcy the day they graduate and discharge the debt with few consequences.
A lot of modern hobby computer projects use a FPGA, micro-controller, or dedicated modern CPU to bit-bang the video signal.

How did the original 8-bit computers do it? Did they have access to chips that are no longer produced?
80/20 rule probably applies to every job.
This sort of utilitarian argument is missing the point, which is that well-paid in-demand workers want to feel good about their work, and the business of war isn't going to invoke those feelings.

This is like the wayfair walkouts earlier this year. It's not that wayfair employees wanted children in border camps to go without beds, but the employees personally did not want their workplace to be in the business of furnishing border camps.

edit:

> For me, it’s hard to understand why tech employees would not want to help their fellow Americans survive on the battlefield and accomplish their missions in the safest and least damaging way possible. Not because our wars are a good or bad idea, but because, although not everyone does the fighting, these wars belong to all of us.

> While I did choose to dedicate my life to our common defense, I did not and do not choose when and where to go to war. Each time I went to war, it was because my fellow Americans — including engineers in Silicon Valley — chose, through our democratic institutions, to send me there.

Honestly this whole thing is a bit tone deaf. Trust in our democratic institutions is (from my understanding) at an all time low. For your average engineer I think your choice of workplace is the greatest leverage to making the world a better place, and it certainly becomes part of your identity. In a nation of "not my president", who wants to be told that "these wars belong to all of us"?
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> Otherwise there is no incentive for banks and colleges to not charge infinity for college.

Almost all student loans are government initiated with (very low) rates set by formulas in law that there are strong political reasons not to make higher, and even when private lenders could participate in the government-guaranteed loan program, the rates were set by the same law.

Market incentives are irrelevant, because rates aren't set in the market, but by fiat.

Your argument might apply to the miniscule private student loan market (which is pretty much entirely for nonaccredited schools that don't qualify for government loan programs), but that's a small part of the student loan universe.
I think I am already not alone in saying this on this thread, but that was a very fast investigation and bug fix. I am impressed.

Not at all the expectation I would have for facing a compiler bug. I guess it also helps that the report seemed clear and high quality. (Even had a revision where it was introduced.)
Then, again, what do banks have to do with this if a business that loans money is a bank, but the Department of Education is not a business and so not a bank?
> Given the apparent complexity of the universe, it still amazes me that that number of symbols is so small.

Yeah, except, maybe the number of symbols isn't so small. The number of symbols needed to model very simple relationships is small, like the relationship between two gravitational bodies.

Now add a third body, and yes, in some sense this system is still described by the simultaneous relationship between pairs of bodies, but it's not really usable in that form. You've got to explode it, and you've got to do a lot more calculation.

I'm not totally confident here. I do have some intuition that the Navier–Stokes equations, for example, fully describe the motion of a very complex phenomenon in a very small number of symbols. But then if they require so much computation to actually apply, is my intuition wrong that this really counts as a full description of the system?

Is there a distinction between running the equations and running a simulation? And what exactly is the distinction between running a simulation and setting up the system and just seeing what happens?

It's definitely different, but I'm not so sure it's this amazing compression that it's made out to be.
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Maybe, but there are other considerations in play, making it not a simple trade off.
yeah, obtaining data, and correctly contextualizing it are different skill sets

you need both
It will be in the "real" kernel soon, here is a patch I submitted adding it:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190828160817.6250-1-gregkh@li...

And yes, this is _much_ better than using a FUSE interface to the filesystem.
This is great !! You should target the expats from each country in US and that will help you a lot in understanding how to market. There are some sites which are popular in certain expat communities, like sulekha.com for Indian expats, where you could advertise. This is a common problem for many people and this could certainly become a must tool before every transfer. I have bookmarked it for further transfers :)
See, I would have said that the "rabid mob" on HN is biased towards free-market libertarianism. The Silicon Valley crowd loves it.
Joseph Kennedy made his fortune off securities fraud, and was appointed by FDR as the first SEC Chairman, saying "set a thief to catch a thief".

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That's kind of how we built our system that we operate. It's a "smart persons' benefit" type of system. We could have a flat percentage based system. However, we/Americans, hate the idea of non-fairness. (it's built in our dna) So we end up taking a simple system and keep making exceptions to it. It's great, but it's gotten really complex.

For example:

If you put a simple tax system in (everyone pays 7%) the claim is that "Poorer people are negatively affected". (Their value of the money is higher than a much richer person) However, when you have a progressive tax system, you have people concerned about being in higher tax brackets. (Really isn't that big of a concern in a progressive system, but it's harder to do the math).