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We have a lot of experience with floating-point qNaN values since IEEE 488 introduced them in 1985, and more rigorous languages than Ada — such as OCaml, Haskell, and Rust — use a generalized version of the concept for a lot of error handling.

I don't think there's an open-and-shut case that error values are "preferred or beneficial" in general with respect to exception handling through nonlocal control-flow transfers; there are reasonable arguments on both sides, and it seems likely that both are viable options in most circumstances, and which is better depends on those circumstances. (For example, lazy evaluation or catastrophic consequences attached to software crashes would seem to me to weigh heavily on the side of using error values, while interactive REPL-style usage would seem to me to weigh on the side of nonlocal control flow, perhaps with Common-Lisp-style restarts.)

My point was narrower: in this particular case, using error values analogous to NaNs, rather than shutting down the SRI, would have saved the rocket, without posing the risk of using garbage data that C's semantics pose. In this particular case, they would have been better. It's possible that, in other cases, perhaps even in other places in the SRI firmware, using error values would have been worse than unwinding the stack or shutting down the SRI. But in this case they would have been better.

(If you aren't convinced of that narrow point, you should probably read the report from the Lions board of inquiry.)
SIM swapping events are due to phishing attacks which are hard to prevent for multiple reasons so relying on SMS based 2FA for for account security is completely foolish. You're better off disabling SMS 2FA than having it enabled because the attacker can reset your account by having your phone number.
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Newspapers have also covered unambiguously factual stuff such as heads of disciplinary panels writing emails excusing the posting of holocaust denial memes from far right websites as "out of context", whilst Labour's own investigation looked at university kids being bullied - did they all have "links" too?

When your first resort upon hearing people complaining about a particular form of racism is to search for dirt on some of the more prominent members of that minority, I don't think you're in any position to lecture others on endorsing disgusting levels of racism...
It also de facto deanonymizes the reviewer.
If you subscribe to the theory that people have some amount of maximum hardship they're willing to undergo for the environment, then we should focus on maximum impact, minimum hardship actions. Things like "no meat", then, which have significant hardship and insignificant benefits, displace other, more beneficial changes. A similar argument could be made for plastic straw bans.

Basically - if the choice isn't "nothing OR stop eating meat" + "nothing OR switch to more fuel efficient cars" but instead "nothing OR stop eating meat OR switch to more fuel efficient cars", then encouraging "stop eating meat" and not an actually significant change is suboptimal.
Yeah, the experience of time to travel a distance approaches zero as your speed approaches the speed of light. It's really crazy to think about.

It is worth adding for the sake of clarity that light has no perspective or frame of reference because photons are non-inertial.
The way that the majority of these numbers work out is that no, they aren't strictly 'salary', but they are given out in a way such that the employee does get $200k-300k (minus taxes) cash in their bank account if they so choose. FAANG companies don't operate or consider compensation based on your salary, it's all done based on total compensation which includes bonuses, RSUs, etc.

I see a lot of this "well it's not actually money, it's just $150k worth of stocks" reasoning to hand-wave away the absurdity of the high numbers, but it's silly to me. $300k is 300k, even if you have to submit an extra form once a month to convert the stocks to cash.
So a 150lb person will weigh 300lb. Sure that's gonna suck on day one but there's plenty of people who weigh that much who get by. Without all the health complications from high body fat it wouldn't be that bad. You'd probably die young but I don't think that would bother people.
I'm not sure where you're getting that notion? Maybe if you're comparing a $2M home in east bay?

In the peninsula, a $2M home just gets you a decent neighborhood. The home itself is meh. House I'm in has never been updated and is from the 1930's. It's about $1.7m. 1000sqft with 400sqft in-law unit. 4000sqft lot.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2833-Tramanto-Dr-San-Carl... (San Carlos - under the radar suburb in the bay area)

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/811-Longfellow-St-Detroit... (Second most expensive home between 2k-2.7k square feet in detroit)
Do solids settle out of air on a high gravity environment faster? The air would be thicker. Does gravity or buoyancy win than tug of war?

I spent a day once trying to figure out what the Bronze Age would be like for marine creatures. Oxidation is less of a problem but galvanic action is huge. Fire pretty much doesn't work, which blocks a whole bunch of precursors like ceramics.
When the ACA passed, mandating that large employers offer health insurance to all full time employees, there was a massive push by large employers in retail and food service to cap people's hours and make sure very few qualified as full time. This was because health insurance costs employers about $10k per employee per year, and if you are paying someone $10/hr ($20k/yr at 40hrs a week), raising labor costs 50% is a nonstarter.

An outcome like that may be possible here as an unintended consequence, with Uber and Lyft capping most drivers at 20hrs a week, and full time drivers splitting their time between the two (20hrs for each).
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I've already given a literal life-or-death example above, which didn't involve guns.

Strategems in which individuals are denied the very fundamentals of life, food, shelter, work, engagement in civic, social, commercial, or cultural practices, access to courts, institutions, and the like, without overt threats of violence, are far more effective than guns.

to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting

https://suntzusaid.com/book/3
Vintage Computing: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum.php

Very pure community around all things vintage computing; has stayed mostly the same for 12 years (and still very helpful).
You can look at different measures of US unemployment, the top line number I think is normally "those looking for jobs but unable to find them" but there are a number of other metrics as well.
Irregardless?
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This is load of crap. Just Google what they kept writing about cannabis. Independent... all press feeds off big pharma.
My starting salary was $110k, and I couldn't sell any stock for my first 3 years. Living in SF was not very hard, I opted to live alone in a studio costing $1.8-1.9k. I could still save about half my post tax income.
If you're talking about using DNA to solve NP hard problems the reason is that it just kicked the problem to DNA quantity. While the computation was theoretically constant time, the DNA required would be exponential. If you make it suboptimal then may as well using an Ising computer.

If you're talking about DNA storage, then cost, durability, speed, energy, reliability, size, etc. Are all issues.
>There are vastly superior work and educational opportunities but many choose not to take them and instead prefer the advantages of driving for Uber (mainly flexible hours)

Many are not able to choose those "vastly superior work and educational opportunities".
Depending on how far back you want to go you could add

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/the-small-woman...

Which is the story of Gladys Aylward, a missionary in China mostly in the first half of the century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Aylward

It was made into a film "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" featuring Ingrid Bergman. It of course took liberties with the story but I remember it being a good movie.
But that's not what's going on here, is it? Instead the government is stepping in and trying to force the companies involved to take over that responsibility.
>but from light's perspective it takes an instant.

And for that reason they don't experience distance either. So the term 'sun-kissed' isn't actually that far off...from the photon's perspective the sun IS giving you a kiss.
In those cases you would have the physical possession of the old SIM, so I guess no one can just claim to be you.

Example form for others reading till here - https://discover.vodafone.in/documents/pdfs/simreplacement/s...
For those interested in understanding the underlying case law that AB5 codifies (a decision called Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court), my company, Judicata, published a visual (and tech-enabled) explanation of the decision when it was first published: https://blog.judicata.com/understanding-dynamex-the-californ...

Whether or not Uber drivers are employees or contractors under Dynamex and the ABC test is an open question, but the Uber explanation of the bill's impact is more or less correct.
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> I really don't understand the "you need to go to the office" mentality anymore, especially with how easy it is to have a video meeting.

You're assuming everybody speaks and breathe with the same wavelength as yours over the internet.

You be you. No need to judge other people as weird.
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Trump has undone the Volcker rule portion of Dodd-Frank [1], for what it's worth

Goldman Sachs, et al, would not lobby the government to get rid of a law that prevents them from doing something unprofitable.

[1]: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/20/volcker-rule-josep...
They already lost in the California Supreme Court.
I wonder why Google is being chosen as the first target. Why not Amazon or Apple? Those companies operate marketplaces where they compete with their own vendors directly. Does Google do the same to anywhere near the same degree?
"The attackers claimed to be Belgians originally from Morocco. According to Le Monde they transited through the municipality of Molenbeek.[122] Their passports turned out to be stolen and their nationality was later determined to be Tunisian. Waiting for almost three weeks (during which they also interviewed Burhanuddin Rabbani and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf) for an interview opportunity, on September 8, 2001, an aide to Massoud recalls the would-be suicide attackers "were so worried" and threatened to leave if the interview did not happen in the next 24 hours (until September 10, 2001). They were finally granted an interview. During the interview, they set off a bomb composed of explosives hidden in the camera and in a battery-pack belt. Commander Massoud died in a helicopter that was taking him to an Indian military field hospital at Farkhor in nearby Tajikistan.[115] The explosion also killed Mohammed Asim Suhail, a United Front official, while Mohammad Fahim Dashty and Massoud Khalili were injured. One of the suicide attackers, Bouraoui, was killed by the explosion, while Dahmane Abd al-Sattar was captured and shot while trying to escape." wikipedia
I would be interested in hearing a principled defense of the exception that was granted to other industries. Would anyone care to try?
Well if you know the pains and struggles of rideshare drivers don't whitewash their issues, you have other sources of income and do not rely on making an average rate to pay the rent, you don't weigh buying gasoline against food. I think you are a shill, Uber is very active in this regard.
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Oh and memristors have too little endurance, are too slow and consume too much power. Like, we're talking 10^5 worse than DRAM.

What might work is NRAM or correlated electron RAM.
The initial state contains as much information as the current state if the evolution is unitary (only Schroedinger’s equation matters according to the MWI, right?).

And surely the wavefunction of a system of 10^80 particles (or whatever) does contain some information about what happens... or do you think that “every book would get written” independently of the form of the universal wavefunction?
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And how much time will it take a person to reach that speed at human-safe acceleration? And how much energy would it take?
The markets watch the BLS numbers like crazy and compare them to estimates from private sources that come from a wide range of methodologies. Frequently the big moves in the markets are not triggered by the bare numbers but from the difference between the expectation and the numbers.

If there was a systematic fudging of those numbers lots and lots of people would notice.
Can you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've done it a lot and we ban accounts that do that repeatedly. We're trying for a bit better than internet default here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Since when is it alarming to complement another country's progress, especially when you're not enemies? I'm no fan of the CCP (and no Kiwi) but this sounds ridiculous.
"Supposed to be" but the data shows most rideshare drivers drive full time.
Few "desires to share things" require 200+ hours per item, more than a work-month's worth of time. And, the authors did that amount of work for free for some time.
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At 5nm transistor thickness there's an entire Moore's law left.
Do you think that fingerprinting is quantitatively different from port scanning? My main point was just that a port scan can immediately identify the 0.1% (or whatever) of the Internet that you're interested in and then try more "invasive" probing.

(I should add that I forgot to mention that IpV6 does make the whole "PortScan the Internet" business a tad more complicated, so that's than argument against me.)
Thanks, I'm new to commenting here, I don't see a delete but so I just edited my comment away.
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>Valerie Plame would like to have a word with you.

I probably shouldn't have used the word "never", but the fact that the Valieria Plame reveal was such a big deal is basically the exception that proves the rule that it is highly unusual for a journalist to reveal this information.

Assange is certainly an outlier in the number of people who he exposed and the reason for exposing them. He reportedly said on the issue that "they're informants. So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it." [1] Maybe you think that is a No True Scotsman argument, but I really can't imagine a well respected journalist showing such a complete lack of concern for human life. A traditional journalist would generally required some reason of tremendous value to justify putting those people's lives at risk. Assange's reasoning instead appears to be "They deserve it."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_War_documents_leak#Info...
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I do not have any real numbers, and this is just anecdotal, but in Slovenia (small EU country), a lot of our larger retailers have replaced some posters (basically ads) in their stores with "workers needed" posters, and some have literally advertised that they're looking for workers in their paper ads we get in the mail. Also a car repair shop literally had an radio ad that they're looking for repairmen.

It might be just a coincidence, but it's easy to get/change jobs at the moment, if you're actually willing to work.
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It's still not the same thing. I worked at a company whose stock price dropped by 40% in the span of a year. If someone is making $100k/$100k stock and equity, then that can easily become $100k/50k. It's even worse than that because you paid taxes on the stock at the vesting price and not the sell price (you can deduct this as a capital gains loss, but it's still money you're not getting).

That poster is definitely has good compensation, but TC needs to be broken into salary and equity.
Lots of discussion on the possibility of going or communicating, but for me the excitement is the narrowing of uncertainties in the Drake equation and the focusing of discovery of alien life, intelligent or otherwise.

Discoveries like this improve our understanding of likelihood of extraterrestrial life, which has direct Earthly implications. It also enables better estimates and searches for planets that are closer, say ~4 to 20 lightyears away, for those super interested in the traveling & communicating possibilities.
I get the point of this service, but what does it offer a user can't achieve with a secondary gmail account and using "plus scheme" addresses like "joe.smith.secondary+hackernews@gmail.com"? Not to mention the cynical view that it's Yet Another Breach Target with potentially lots and lots of email addresses...
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Uber in India offers autorickshaws. And I've got a vague memory of seeing rickshaws/pedicabs in Seattle (but this could be a false memory).
I disagree, at least in my situation.

My DNS requests traverse my ISP's network to my ISP's DNS server (or my employer's ISP's DNS server if I'm at work).

I live in a country where I have very strong privacy protections and what my ISP can and can't do with my DNS requests is extremely limited.

If my DNS requests are sent to CloudFlare or Google instead, my DNS requests are under American jurisdiction, where I have no rights and both American businesses and the American government can do whatever they please with no real recourse.
I think the law will be bad for the people it affects, so this is good news for Uber drivers. Uber isn't operating at a profit, so they don't have extra margin to pass on in the form of extra driver pay or employee benefits. Extra restrictions will just hurt the workers.

It reminds me of before my software engineering career, when I was working at The Gap. The job wasn't great, but a lot of people really needed more hours. Unfortunately, there was a rule that nobody could work more than 29 hours a week. Everyone hated it. Employees hated it the most because if they needed extra money they couldn't take an extra shift. The managers hated it too because it was just more rules for them to deal with.

Apparently, this rule existed because there was a law saying that past 30 hours a week, employees had to get some extra benefits. Gap corporate just changed the rules to avoid that law. As a result, that job got worse, and nobody got more benefits. Just unintended consequences.
But rent is just part of the picture, and 2k is a low estimate to match actual quality of life. What about the much higher taxes, much higher prices for other aspects of living?
I realize a university is not going to pay in-line with a FAANG company, but I am surprised somewhere like Columbia which is definitely not hurting for money doesn't pay at least a little bit more than this, like 110-130.
Yes, that needs to prorate based on hours worked, rather than being a threshold.
That impacts whether you're eligible for overtime pay. Given that contractors are never mandated to receive overtime pay, a contractor position can never be superior in this regard.
> The scientific method suggests that both A and B do nothing. It takes a bit more clever work to recognize that both are required, but the scientific method insists on simplifying the model.

Huh? No it doesn't. This is complete nonsense.

The scientific method would deal with this by hypothesizing that A combined with B might do something, then testing the hypothesis, and discovering that it does. Generating that hypothesis might be difficult--nobody said science was easy. But there's nothing about the scientific method that can't handle the situation you propose.

There are hundreds of examples of this. Try, for example, hydrochloric acid and baking soda as your A and B--I've never mixed these two and don't know what they produce, but based on my knowledge of acids and baking soda, I hypothesize they will result in CO2, even though neither of these decomposes into that gas by itself.
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> And just as a tip, claiming that accusations of anti-semitism are a Zionist conspiracy is somewhat self-defeating.

"Israel is a country that lobbies loudly for its own benefit, as many countries do." is pretty far from a conspiracy theory. And they use the most effective tools available.

I beg you, do not conflate the existence of Israel with the current government of Israel.
There is nothing about providing benefits to people who meet the criteria for employment that prevents Uber from allowing drivers choice.

They will not be able to keep as many drivers or allow infinite drivers to sign up, and they will not be able to pay benefits to people who only work a very small amount per week (I assume this is in the law). But beyond that, there is absolutely no reason they cannot or should not continue to let drivers sign in and out when they want.
Compound/interval null hypotheses basically solve this effect-size problem and probably should be used more.
Well if you're going to take your headlines from the comment section of the Telegraph, but the news section of the Guardian, then of course they look partial. How about these other headlines from the current Guardian? "Tom Watson is wrong. We need an election first – and then a second referendum" "'People's PMQs': just more trolling from PM Smirky McSmirkface" "Boris Johnson and the crown: a clear abuse of power"

And anyway, my point was that you get a greater range of opinion in the Telegraph than the Guardian. Plus, just because you disagree with something - i.e. Brexit in this case - doesn't mean that the people you disagree with are hard-right or hard anything.
I once implemented infinite scroll that 1) didn't auto-scroll from the first page, you had to click to continue and then it would infinite scroll. This way, people could see the footer and didn't have auto-loading content unnecessarily and 2) the infinite scroll worked bi-directionally. 5 "pages" would be loaded at any given point, with the goal that the user would be on page 3, in the middle of the stack of pages. This way, memory was kept low, and we even implemented the History API so you could link to the pages by post ID.
This is a bit of a tangent, but sometimes I get confused by the US definition of "conservative."

It seems to me that someone who is conservative would be against something like the prohibition both because it changes the status quo and because it results in regulation and a bigger government.

Has this always been the case in the US or has the word conservative changed meaning at some point in history? Did the people who vote for the Prohibition back at the turn of the 20th century identify themselves as conservative? Were they identified as conservative by others around them?
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