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> I hear that near the border, the Germans are even allowed to make wine, and the French are allowed to make bier! ;)

Of course. My point was not that cultures create entirely different species with absolutely no commonalities. I think people have much more in common than different. But there are differences and customizations that are real and not arbitrary. Although I think they might have been triggered and evolved from arbitrary factors (ie weather in one region is kind of arbitrary because it exists whether people are there or not).

So while Germans may make wine and French make bier (these are both done far away from the borders as well btw) that doesn’t make Germany and France the same. It just means they have lots in common.

What I struggle with is how to think about what the right relationship is between different groups that have many things in common but aren’t the same, and don’t necessarily need to be the same.
Chicxulub would be hard to predict, but it was 66M years ago.

Presumably anyone sending probes that last even a few 100k years would be smart enough to have advanced sensors and notice if any adjustments are made. Even a very small of energy would correct a distant probe direction to encompass any possible earth position.

It will be interesting if the new 'Visitor' is shaped similarly to the previous. Maybe there's a robotic factory a 100 light years away and is turning asteroids into mostly passive sensors and lobbing them at likely looking stars at 100,000 mph to check to see if anything interesting is happening. So the launch would have been 600,000 years ago.
And if you look at the US Army's Future Vertical Lift competition, [0] you can see some indications that those techs might make it into our future helicopters.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Vertical_Lift
> So why are innocent black people jailed? Well, to fill prison beds, apparently. That is one of the reasons that people don't like private prisons.

Utter nonsense. Black people are jailed for being black in America because American police are racist and American legislators are racist and American media are racist and American prosecutors are racist and American judges are racist. And then, because of this, black people in America have learnt that police, legislators, media, prosecutors and judges are best avoided.

If private prison operators have an incentive to get more people to serve more time, then they're not going to pick black people because they're just smart business people and black people represent an untapped growth market. If they've actually done anything to encourage oversentencing, they only reason they picked black people is because them and everyone around them are racists.
The generator in my proposal wouldn't deliver enough power to drive the car, only charge the battery. You'd have to wait while it charged.

It could still be used as a supplement while driving to extend the range. If the battery was fully discharged, you'd have to wait.
strlcat and strlcpy are not adopted because they are a really bad design. Using them correctly takes more code than not using them. In practice they are never used correctly, making them, an "attractive nuisance", a feature that causes more trouble than its absence.
Personally, I'm against the bill, because I think California has a very poor regulatory environment for running a business, and it seems to be getting worse all the time. This just adds to that problem, in some cases dramatically.

Note, I didn't write the article.
This is really not going to be charging your battery much. You can barely justify the energy usage in creating the panels. Useless if you park in a garage at home or at the office, or have a tree overhanging the car. The panels themselves have a shelf life too.

I would personally prefer it if you were able to fold out panels (or for extra points, the panels fold out themselves). I think you could quite realistically have a large "sun roof" that folds out panels instead - then you would begin to get some better power returns. Add to that some sun tracking and you can massively improve your efficiency.

But really, just give owners of the car something to install on their garage roof and a plug for the car.
First of all, none of this is actually important for national security. Second, the media does this to help hold government accountable.
Doesn't change the fact that OpenGL was never available in all platforms, regardless how often one spreads that urban myth.

Even on Mac OS it wasn't available, rather Quickdraw 3D was the API to go to.

Had Apple been successful with their in house OS, and surely they wouldn't have cared about OpenGL.
I have a Gen 3 Prius with the "solar roof" option that is used to run ventilation when parked, so you don't come back to a uncomfortably hot car. The solar panels are covered by thick glass (I guess toughened), so there is no more chance of them being damaged than a window.
My point is: if it's a natural phenomenon, it obviously isn't artificial. Animals do it, it wasn't invented by humans for some arbitrary reason. Pretending that it was leads to confused thinking.
To be pedantic, the dirac delta is not a probability density function.
Wow, this is pretty amazing. How did I not know about this!
A Transcript of Ren Zhengfei’s (Huawei Founder) Interview
Every govt agency has their little elite training center. Funding is use it or lose it, so once you have a budget you spend it.
I feel quite certain there is a large conspiracy? Do you have some doubt that he was at the center of a large conspiracy?
I wasn't being sarcastic, it was very simple the way they've done it. https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Reading.html#%28def._...
This is exactly what is happening here. The JIT generates code at runtime based on the target machine's capability.
This seems like the most plausible explanation. Federal agencies / military share these types of facilities everywhere. It's sad you're being downvoted for it.
This argument doesn't hold water. They're absolutely no worse than strcat/cpy and strncat/cpy, which glibc implements. I totally disagree with your premise that truncation is an incorrect use.

In reality, the alternative to strlcpy/cat isn't "force programmers to write correct code," it's "programmers will just use the crappier available functions with even worse behavior on overrun."
wget "https://www.piday.org/million/"

Got you beat, js.
Do you mean Sound Transit (inter-city/county bus service) or Metro (king county)? I can’t imagine sound transit buses being that lenient at all, metro buses on the other hand could be.

Downtown Seattle has gone down hill since the 90s/00s. It used to be a nice place to shop and do stuff, but the last time I was downtown there was hardly anything to do beyond tourist traps. I guess a lot of this is amazon destroying in person retail, ironically enough.
A small thread from 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=492233
> Same line of thinking that results in depleted uranium tank shells.

Yeah, since neither was particularly toxic, and both offered significant performance gains over the alternatives. (Uranium is extremely dense, self-sharpens on impact instead of mushrooming, and catches fire after penetration giving you an incendiary payload for free. Supposedly, nothing else comes close for tank rounds)
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Getting rid of payment support is big saving tho.
Never heard of that! I can’t imagine how many weapons one would find at the bottom of the Houston bayous.
Your numbers are off by a lot. A Sprinter roof is around 100ft^2 (not sure why you're saying cubic feet, solar panels are flat and can't overlap).

I live in a 25ft shuttle bus. I have solar that covers the roof end-to-end, 1800W. It's a lot but nowhere near enough to recharge batteries to drive a vehicle of this size any reasonable distance.
I should be more clear. When I say 'management', I'm really referring to 2nd level managers and up. From my experience, line managers are either the member of the technical staff who tells the lords and masters that everything is fine (and are mostly fighting fires or pushing a chunk of hardware through a pipeline) or they have three ring binders full of yearly company-supplied HR stuff. In neither case is there enough power to really 'run' things. Heaven help you if there's a completely separate creature known as the 'project manager'.

OTOH, directors/VPs (and other intermediate levels in larger firms) are not only the people that senior technical staff will run to for various reasons, but also are the folks who love to hear 'no problem' and that 'everything is fine'. Bringing them things to worry about is best done cautiously. In the final analysis, the worker bees are ERUs.

YMMV (very much so) of course. I can speak only for about a dozen companies. The world is a big place.
Yeah I need to find a new team or company. I just did a 12 hour day, while sick. Never ending deadlines and high turnover... to be fair, my team used to be really fun. Things just changed.
Smartphone is where the work app sits. Making the app location aware serves a diff need than vehicle connected telematics. The worlds converge a bit but tandem is more the norm than replacement.
Well sure. I mean, bundling up is possible, just ask anyone in Chicago. My hunch is that places with healthy bike infrastructure are also dense enough to make most trips short, minimizing time spent outside.
As people have said in other comments, no static analysis can read your mind. You can have valid Python that contains logic errors due to indentation mistakes, and you can only catch it at runtime. Period.

That said, everything is a trade-off. Semantic whitespace has downsides, but if the upsides outweigh, then it's a great idea.

At this point, I have no idea what the upsides are, other than saving a few keystrokes (which truly is solvable with a good editor).

It's like removing the ending semicolon in JavaScript. Sure, it almost never causes a problem, but sometimes it does, so why do it?
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And it shows, given the lack of tooling versus what platform APIs offer out of the box.

Instead of a modern API, frameworks, 3D model format, IDE support for debugging shaders, we get plain old C, extensions creep, and go search yourself for basic feature like displaying text or loading textures.

Hardly an improvement on OpenGL status quo.
Apparently the claim that Ito concealed things from MIT was simply false: https://president.mit.edu/speeches-writing/preliminary-fact-... the administration knew of, approved of, and directed keeping the donations anonymous.

> Second, it is now clear that senior members of the administration were aware of gifts the Media Lab received between 2013 and 2017 from Jeffrey Epstein’s foundations. Goodwin Procter has found that in 2013, when members of my senior team learned that the Media Lab had received the first of the Epstein gifts, they reached out to speak with Joi Ito. He asked for permission to retain this initial gift, and members of my senior team allowed it. [...] Joi sought the gifts for general research purposes, such as supporting lab scientists and buying equipment. Because the members of my team involved believed it was important that Epstein not use gifts to MIT for publicity or to enhance his own reputation, they asked Joi to agree to make clear to Epstein that he could not put his name on them publicly. These guidelines were provided to and apparently followed by the Media Lab.
Yes you could use MapTiler or Mapbox or a React component for any other map. Google is most popular and therefore added to sample.

Heroku is the easiest to get up and running with. PaaS over raw store/compute when you are getting started.
Any feedback is welcome guys :)
My critique on all of these remains largely the same since we tried doing WebCL:

-- Path 1: We do need a leap here, and that leap should be essentially unleashing GPGPU primitives (memory barriers, etc.). The web is a ~decade behind, when we have a chance to 10X+ over what regular apps do.

-- Path 2: If not, then pure conservative standards work a la webgl2. Useful, and should take care for politicking to not prevent Path 1 from happening in parallel.

It's disconcerting for, ~7 years later, the same problems to keep happening.
I'm surprised how no one commented about the obvious problems here. These are very expensive high output panels. The ROI would be negative. They'd add thousands of dollars to the cost of the car. Until prices drop significantly you won't be seeing 30%+ solar on a car soon, at least not ones with a positive ROI.

It's far more cost effective and practical to install a stationary solar array to recharge from.
> “... training facility that is expected to include "hyper-realistic" simulations of homes, hotels and commercial buildings in Chicago and Arizona.”

Is there something special about Chicago and Arizona?
And now their homelessness problem is over?
But that attitude resulted in much less allowed into the country than desired to enter.

I think it’s weird that the US seems to always have a struggle where there’s lots of racism but still makes some progress. For example, I figured that the current vitriol against immigration meant the US was some sort of racist hellhole limiting immigration but this article [0]states the census estimates 13.7% of the US wasn’t born in the US. And this Pew [1] article shows this as near the historic highs of 14.8% at the end of the 19th century. I think this is pretty cool and refreshing. So despite lots of heated statements, the US is improving in the number and quality of people immigrating.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-data-idUS...
[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/30/immigrant-s...
Please do! It's working for me with STP 91 on a Catalina beta build. Could be a hardware-specific issue. A bug report would be useful. Please Cc mjs at apple dot com and I'll make sure the right people see it. For reference, do the other demos in the gallery work for you? https://webkit.org/demos/webgpu/
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Unions aren't something you need working conditions to be bad to do. It's fine for a union to be generally happy with management, and mainly be there just to represent members in disputes with them.
That shouldn't even be a question. You shouldn't need to have working conditions be "so bad" before you consider a union.
java problems are all about how to make something simple as convoluted as possible for no reason other than job security.
good question, main goal was to get the project up and running quickly. guess for the frontend there's less need for it. the backend project uses localtunnel to consume webhooks while testing locally. ngrok looks great!
Reference: Andúril is the name of Aragorn's sword from Lord of the Rings. Stephen Colbert owns one of the prop swords from the films.

https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/And%C3%BAril
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Why is this downvoted? He has a point to a plausible reason for the name. It’s built at an army base that is also likely used for multiple different types of units. Would it make everyone sleep better at night naming it “Fluffy Bear Facility”? Would everyone prefer that we don’t have the tactical ability when and if needed? I am personally highly against war, but at the same time I feel much more comfortable knowing that we do have the ability and advantage when needed. I think the argument should be “how is this facility used and under what circumstances do these trained units utilize their skills?”
17 is the favorite number of David Kelly, a mathematician and professor of Hampshire College. He loves it for a very large number of reasons. He was instrumental in creating a summer camp at Hampshire which has trained many young brilliant mathematical minds. (Including Vi Hart). Thus it has spread.

http://www.vinc17.net/yp17/index.en.html
When someone says one option is a nonstarter because it's new and immature, I think its fair to look at different signs of maturity to evaluate that statement.

(I personally don't think any option is a "nonstarter" but it's hard to even get agreement on the relevant evaluation criteria.)
Arguably, the yearly flu death are related the the winter month weather. People dying from that every year are about factor 10 more then the summer heat deaths.
Ouch, please don't. We ban accounts that do personal attacks like this, and I don't want to ban you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> most software patent lawyers know as much about software as you or I do.

> I've worked with several

To be fair, that's not a compelling answer. Given the outrageous cases that are publicized, I can understand how there is an incentive to NOT know (or act as if) in an exploitative manner. According to a razor, it's less likely that the competence is a standard or relevant.
S-1/A are extremely common. I can't recall an IPO without one. There were 8 of them filed today alone.

https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?company=&CIK=&type=...
Was this actually an issue?
I accept your criticism. Sorry.
I've been unemployed for four months now. And, ironically, have been overworked preparing for the slew of technical interviews I've had these past two weeks (four just this week). If you had asked me this question a few weeks ago, when I had zero job prospects, I would have said no, but being busy again is giving me a newfound sense of purpose. Let's hope at least one of these interviews pans out! Fingers crossed!
I prefer e^(i * 2pi) = 1 (or any multiple of i 2pi).

2pi (or tau) is simply a more fundamental constant for nearly all formulas related to trigonometry and DSP (excluding the sinc function).
Good luck :) I'm sure the preparation has helped!
Sorry for the slow response. Been a busy couple of days :)

> No, they wouldn't. They don't. See my response to lmm here

I don't think lmm and I disagree.

I said "[The underlying principle of Many Worlds] is that there is a singular wave function, which is the true reality". lmm says: "The only thing that MWI demands we take as metaphysically real is the wavefunction".

I think this is expressing the same thing in different terms.

I said: "The things we refer to as "worlds" are massively-complicated entanglements and superpositions within that wave function". lmm says: "Given a wavefunction like 1/sqrt2(|experimenter who observed a live cat> + |experimenter who observed a dead cat>) ...". Again, I think our descriptions are in fairly close agreement.

I think lmm's description is a good summary of how the "worlds" in Many Worlds are viewed by Many Worlds advocates: "in the same way that people who hear a particular pattern of sound might find it convenient to think of it as a chord of two or three notes". The "worlds" aren't actually fundamental to the theory, but rather an emergent phenomena from them.

The reason for the label "Many Worlds" is not because they are the fundamental concept. It's because it's the most... interesting element from a pop-sci marketing angle.
Interesting, this doesn’t get anywhere close to the 1000 upvotes and 800 comments the Joi resignation story did.
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1.1.1.1 operates on edges of CloudFlare CDN - EU users will be handled by EU DNS server. And there’s no logging.
Oh, I was also speaking of "live" socializing instead of online, and agree completely with you. I was just voicing my encouraging experience that even small-to-mid sized cities seem to have a surprising amount of enthusiasts for almost any given interest.
I just bought this! It’s fantastic and definitely still more than relevant for understanding the subject.
Charing for a browser brings back memories: "For now, though, note this fact: Microsoft is giving away Internet Explorer, while Netscape's retail price for Navigator is $49.Oct 31, 1996" https://www.fastcompany.com/27743/nothing-netscape
Two points, in reverse order:

> why do the media broadcast it for the rest of the world to see?

ICE broadcasted it, didn't they? It's in nobody's best interest to pretend that the information was successfully redacted.

> this seems to be of uttermost importance pertaining to national security

Are we talking about the same ICE? ICE is a joke; everyone was better off before it was created in 2002 and it should be abolished and prevented from wasting any more of my money on "URBAN WARFARE!1!" facilities. Give me a break.
The moment we start taking derivatives we leave the world of countable sets and move to limits and epsilon neighborhoods. Evaluating a derivative at a single point by definition tells us something about the neighborhood of that point. Mentally expanding the series terms to their limit forms helps see that it's not just a random polynomial. I guess the real "miracle" is that for a large class of useful functions those ugly limits evaluate to simple forms.
Could this be an alternative to Google Maps?
1) We have one point of the function.

2) We know one point of its derivative. This means we know 2 more points of the function (one step in either direction).

3) We know one point of its second derivative. This means we know 2 more points of the derivative, which in turn gives us 2 more points of the function.

etc.

Or at least, that's the impression I get from this thread, since I wasn't familiar with the series before that.
I thought the imprisonment was to make society safer? Forcefully removing criminals and using deterrent punishment is one way to try to do this, but it's not the only way.

Crime rates in the U.S. vs other developed countries, where rehabilitation is the focus, suggests rehabilitation is a much more efficient solution. See for example the crime rates in the Nordic countries.
+1 for the idea of putting solar panels on the pets. Pretty sure of the same marketing people who think putting solar cells on a car roof will be cost effective would love that idea.
Because you managed to get under my skin, I'll give you some freebies:

2004: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-sep-03-na-spypr...

2008: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-spy-who...

Notice the thread: Israel is uniquely aggressive, especially as an ally.

This article is full of innuendo and conjecture (they say this up front), but provides insight into the complex web of business and intelligence relationships that make it easy for Israel to accomplish electronic surveillance in the U.S.: https://www.wired.com/2012/04/shady-companies-nsa/

A specific case of spying intended to undermine U.S. policymaking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Franklin_espionage_sc...

And the same thing 10 years later, except now patently partisan: https://theintercept.com/2015/03/25/netanyahus-spying-denial...

Another thread: Allies typically spy on each other to understand their motivations and to predict their next moves. But Israel is increasingly doing it to enable them to directly interfere in domestic American politics. Some might excuse it as Israel being justifiably paranoid about Iran; others won't excuse it. But you can't deny that it stands apart.

The reported examples are just the tip of the iceberg. As people readily report, it's widely known/believed that the above is just the tip of the iceberg. Sometimes this results in misleading and false accusations, but this is a consequence of consistent, significant, long-term espionage activity, as well as the fact that their intelligence activities run the gambit of methodologies (legal and illegal), much of which doesn't fit the Hollywood definition of espionage.