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The point isn't so much whether qux() is async or not, it's whether the caller wants it to execute before subsequent statements or not. In the current state of the world:

const a = await qux()
const b = qux()
const c = await qux()
const d = (await b) + 5

But if I had my little way:

const a = qux()
const b = async qux()
const c = qux()
const d = b + 5

The weird one is `d` of course, why would it implicitly await there? Because `+` tries to get the value of `b` in order to add `5`.

How the runtime would optimize this scenario I don't know, it could probably statically determine that qux() may be async and therefore determine it would have to implicitly await its return value even if it's just the number. Obviously this is a contrived scenario, but I'd rather pay a small runtime cost, than pay the cognitive overhead of remembering to await things everywhere. Like most people, I forget things...
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> The poor in India should increase their emissions, because otherwise they'll die. Life expectancy has risen from 40 to 68 years since the 60s.

So, you are saying that CO2 emissions are actually good for the population and the way forward is to actually increase them even more. Interesting turn of events from an environmentalist.

> You want them to die because of the choices their parents made.

Funny thing to say, since you want the West to pay for the choices our grandfathers made and descend into deprivation, so that the rest of the world can go on polluting even more.

Here is the thing, people with your discourse aren't interested in saving the planet but into forcing your ideological agenda - which is got nothing to do with environmentalism but with your personal concepts of morality - upon the rest of us under the threat of environmental catastrophe. And the worst part of it? It does nothing to tackle climate change.

P.S.: > If you excuse me, I'm going to go take a shower. I honestly can't believe I'm having this conversation on HN.

Go easy on that shower, it's a big toll on the environment and, after all, you just spent the last 24h telling us all how those resources actually should belong to be used by people in India and not selfishly by me or by you.
It looks like it is (he opened a UK bank account with my number).
> The GP mentioned this in the context of sexism being a "tractable problem", that means it's a problem that can be solved, as opposed to an intractable problem.

> It can be inferred that they're proposing a mechanism by which sexism can be eradicated, not just marginally improved. Otherwise it wouldn't be a tractable problem.

Once again you're misrepresenting what they said. They said:

"This is one of the big ways in which sexism is a much more tractable problem than racism and less potentially explosive." which contradicts your claim that "they're proposing a mechanism by which sexism can be eradicated"
If you're compiling to ES2016 or lower, it will turn the promises into state machines.
The difference is that you typically have lots of more tapes than readers.

Gmail had an event with data loss in their early days and restoring from tapes took (from memory) many weeks, if not months.
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Figure Eight (formally Crowdflower). They hire people and then lay them off 6 months later, on a regular basis. They have tons of burried negative reviews on glass door, but since they pay Glass Door, it's hard to find them or even get them publishrd. They also have big military contracts doing some of the AI bigger shops won't do because of the bad press.
And I am the opposite of you! I've been wearing an apple watch for 2 years. I decided to try taking a break about a month ago, and it's been liberating. I didn't realize how often the watch was buzzing me over the course of the day, causing an almost constant level of of low anxiety. I never found a phone to be as intrusive. On the plus side, I have never missed a meeting when wearing my apple watch.
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I'm from the UK, so no I wouldn't have to pay (I don't think?) As far as I understand free ambulances are fairly unusual though. I can see either insurance companies not wanting to pay out in these situations, or govts charging in these situations.
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I assume they're testing prayer without the recipient's knowledge, to control for placebo.
> Even though the card was only half the size of a real card

I'm confused by this statement. The card appears to be the same size as a real card in the picture of her holding up the two cards, and for the purposes of showing people that the card would fit in a wallet, it'd have to be regular-card-size.
That was impressive.
I'm up for thinning components if it doesn't make the experience worse, but I rather like my late 2013 MBP and I'd rather they fill the space with battery.

To be fair though, I'm not that bothered about macos and ran linux on it for several years. I bought it because of the screen, typing and the trackpad, and since the MBP is well into compromise land, I might buy a matebook x pro.
To be wildly pedantic, an ultramarathon is anything over 42.2km (26.2mi). It's perfectly possible to do an ultra with an Apple Watch if you're only going 50km (even I can manage 50km within the 8h battery life.)
Wow, that's so amazing. Is there a HTML version of the talk somewhere?
There has been quite a bit of study of intercessory prayer. i.e. for people that don't know they are being prayed for.

No affects have been found.

> In 1872, the Victorian scientist Francis Galton made the first statistical analysis of third-party prayer. He hypothesized, partly as satire, that if prayer were effective, members of the British Royal Family would live longer than average, given that thousands prayed for their well-being every Sunday, and he prayed over randomized plots of land to see whether the plants would grow any faster, and found no correlation in either case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studies_on_intercessory_prayer
Reminds me of last year, when images emerged of a "long march" rocket crashing a couple of hundrer meters from a village, releasing a decidedly not-healthy-looking red smoke cloud (after the initial fireball).

http://spaceflight101.com/chinese-villagers-capture-falling-...
You hate software with a big more than malware?
How does the data sync work on an Apple Watch if you don't have an iphone?
> Are you sure about that?

Yep, the right to be forgotten (or to oblivion) predates GDPR.

> The implications of what's been said here will on some level impact how EU law will apply to countries outside of the EU.

Not really, each country still decide by itself.

> Remember, GDPR was supposed to apply globally

It is not about GDPR.

The ruling on one side talks about "versions".

Facebook has only one version of its social network, while Google has been known of running different versions of their search engine.

For example: Google China is a subsidiary of Google

The other side of the ruling is that EU court just said that Europe could not impose the right to be forgotten on countries that did not recognize the law, which is fairly obvious.

USA cannot enforce patents on countries that do not recognize them.

They also feared - disproportionally given the status of things - that allowing it globally would mean that if North Korea do the same (which they already do BTW) that could lead to state censorship, as if it wasn't already a reality.

GDPR is more about the ownership of personal data, the right to data portability, for example, still makes perfect sense and it's not put in danger by this ruling.
Where is the evidence that they selected for employed grads?
Yup, thanks for adding that. It's a good process I think, though it is kind of a double edged sword. On the one hand it's nice because it means the standard isn't bloated with a bunch of stuff that no one implements, but on the other hand it also means it's much harder to get rid of stuff that turns out to maybe not be such a great idea after all, leading to bloat anyway.

Still, it's a pretty good process I think.
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You can fire employees for serious medical conditions before they become official.. For other reasons?
Lisp macros are not based on an AST. The macro forms in Lisp need to be valid s-expressions and begin with a macro operator. That's it.
You don't provide much details. Did you engage them in a contract or are they holding customers money? (aka digital bank). You need to understand that they are a commercial company and like all other companies can fail to deliver or go bankrupt if they don't have sufficient funding. Check the terms of your contract with them.

YC, HN has nothing to do with it, though.
very nice write up :D good job!
That's nonsense. 90% of MBAs had jobs at age 24, before MBA school.
Cross-Linguistic Onomatopoeias
I suppose that's how it happened; some code to tamper with `/var` was accidentally (most likely - I doubt this was intentional/malicious) added into the update script. When this was tested and run through QA, everything looked OK because everyone is running Mac OS with SIP enabled

Makes me wonder if other software might be attempting to damage the system (totally by mistake) but SIP is preventing it, making it quite deadly to use said good software if you happen to turn off SIP for stuff like debugging
If you spend >$400 trying to slightly mitigate every random way of death, you would be spending 10s of millions of dollars. Of course, this is why these features exist in the first place: to hijack your mind and convince you that you can live forever.
God forbid that voters have a say!
Operational transformations are not the "only correct" way to update an integer and it comes with a number of performance and memory/storage consumption implications.

>What modern js still has to reinvent is in-client synchronizing storage which naturally resolves who waits on what (if at all)

I don't understand what this means but it makes me curious. What would be an example of this in one of the languages that have already "reinvented" it?
Noob here: this doesn’t actually mean that time was reversed, rather that this phenomenon was effectively created in reverse order no?
Someone should post about how many lives the car safety measures have saved. I bet it will get 800 upvotes too
Of course I want a thinner laptop, and so do you. You just don't want a thinner laptop that compromises on other things.

I've seen the new Galaxy Book S and I want one. Thin is sexy. Apple has to keep up.
Not quite. The information is never removed in either case, just not listed in the search results. The newspaper article is still online but does not show up for Europeans, no matter which engine is used.
And the compiler code that compiled the compiler.
I've noticed that younger people sometimes use english idioms when there is no equivalent substitute to convey the same expression in the native language.
Besides the fact that you cannot estimate the value of a person's life and the fact I don't want to think you're trolling, it can happen to anyone.

We have recently a case of a coworker (middle-age man) falling in his house while wife and kids were away and stayed there for hours until somehow reached his phone with a broken back.
So who is it building the next Unreal Engine?
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I am always irrationally(?) scared of using these sanitizers despite their successful history. As soon as new html/js/css syntax/features are introduced, won't your security model need to be reevaluated? Which seems like a lost cause at the rate new capabilities are introduced to the web. E.g., when CSS Shaders lands, you might be able to execute arbitrary gpu code with just css (hypothetically speaking, I don't actually know how it will work. I am sure it'll be sandboxed pretty well. But the problem remains that there are too many new possibilities to keep up with!).
Title is incorrect: it should say 'ACT' (Australian Capital Territory), not 'Act'.
That it is a very common approach.
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> What's the benefit to a large corporation doing this instead of lots of small companies? (The economies of scale need to outweigh the large corporate overhead.)

Same answer in case of gyms. Your advertising overhead does not scale linearly as you grow. Once you build a brand. Customer acquisition costs go down. For moving workforces - entrepreneurs, sales, executives - it becomes more affordable to use one brand rather than plenty of smaller brands.
Isn't IE marketshare only a few percent if that?
The amount of couples forming at work before starting to work (i.e. while in college) is probably approaching zero.

This is to say that of course the poll at age 40 gives a very different result from the same poll at age 25.
Hinkley Point C nuclear plant to run £2.9bn over budget
The wiki page contradicts your statement about "no effects".

there's been a number of studies showing lots of effects. Most studies seem to show slight positive effects from prayer, some show none and some show negative effects.
You've left ANT+ and cycling specific performance analysis off the list of things that Apple Watch can't do.

If you're not a cyclist then it doesn't matter but there's definitely lots of stuff the Garmin can do that the Apple Watch can't.
> Its also the stock bowser on the dominant os

Which OS? The stock browser of Windows 10 is Edge not IE.
Then those people should get out and train their bodies a little bit. Spoiled sissies. 200 grams. I wonder how people that do hard physical work are alive at the end of the day if some computer guy cries about 200 grams in their MacBook.
> which means that after the parser part of the compiler

Lisp works slightly different. The macro form is an expression (a list) with the macro operator as the first element. The next elements in the expression can be anything as data.
I read an article ~6 months ago speculating exactly this and citing internal rumours
That's essentially what most backup software is doing. Restoring the index database from the tape and matching the physical tapes in the set to their logical names in the index gets complex and time consuming when you have many tapes in a set.

It gets worse when you have to use more than one set because there is too much data to have full backup daily and you also need to index few incremental sets.
Designating the liability like this is why credit cards became useful, despite the ease of stealing them.
So COMEFROM is now a first-class feature of the most popular programming language in the world. Intercal really was ahead of its time.
From the wikipage:

> Meta-studies of the literature in the field have been performed showing evidence only for no effect or a potentially small effect.

I'm an atheist so I take the "no effect" over the "small effect".
But it can change under your feet – someone might change a function to be async, that used to be sync, and now your code is broken. The code does the same thing, it's just that it turned from returning a value to returning the promise of a value, and now your code is broken. Maybe it's not the function you're calling, but a function further down the stack, that you don't even know about.

It may be that the docs are bad and don't even tell you it returns a promise. Heck, maybe it only returns a promise on Tuesdays, or at random like some other commenter wrote – you'd have to then sprinke `await` there to make sure you're ok, even if most of the time you don't need it.
FFS stop spreading this nonsense.
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“Appreciate mundanity: after all, a pencil is high technology.” -Alan Kay
Note that ZeroTier recently switched to the Business Source License 1.1[1] that adds some restrictions. For example you are not allowed to re-sell ZeroTier as a service, and it restricts Government uses. It seems like a good thing, but also is good to know.

[1]: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/master/LICENSE....
It’s in the part of the article I quoted.

“Computer science and engineering majors ... who were working full time earned an average of $61,744 ... higher than the average starting salary of $45,032 earned by people who majored in history or the social sciences...”
If you have a one-dimensional cellular automaton (a single row of cells), and plot its states over time in successive rows, you end up with a two-dimensional picture, eg:

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2017/06/oh-my-gosh-its-c...

So you conceivably could generate mazes with a cellular automaton.

But Entombed doesn't. Figure 6 in the paper shows the geometry of the rule:

c d e
a b X

So it samples bits from the previous row, but also from the current row. In cellular automaton terms, the previous row is the previous timestep, but the current row is the current timestep, and a cellular automaton can't compute cells based on cells in the same timestep.
The bit about damages is weird from a privacy standpoint, did Biancardi also loose a defamation lawsuit or something? Or is it the other way in Italy, and a defamation lawsuit can force you to take down material?

I realize this was mostly a story about a single case that some editor put an overly broad headline on, but given the headline I was expecting more about this "broadened" use.

Some discussion about if the right to be forgotten law has a larger impact than the DMCA trolling would have been nice too.
> America has a long history of employers providing healthcare. Kaiser started out as a shipbuilding company with in-house medical clinic

That however makes sense. An industry complex with a tendency for grave, life-threatening injuries such as a shipyard is well advised to host an on-site clinic so that people injured get faster access to proper care instead of the basic stuff that EMTs can provide.
It's not that, my problem is it's an article which is basically an advert which at the time of writing is top of the front page with +800 upvotes and full of comments talking about how great the product is. Talk about "Hacker" "News".
If you overshoot demand on one performance metric, buyers shift to another as yet unsatisfied criterion.

e.g. 8" HDDs are also cheaper per byte than 5.25", than 3.5", than SSD's.
One of the reasons I back into parking spots. Back in, watch your mirrors, line up the lines using your mirrors or backup camera and continue going back. You will park perfectly in the middle every time.
Actually, nothing changed

Some Laws was created.

Some revelations was made.

But even manipulations with elections did not kill any company
Time-reversal symmetry means reversing the order of the inputs results in appearance the same output regardless of input order. The attempt was to break the symmetry in order to provide evidence the intended input sequencing was achieved.

"Time Reversal" would be better written as "Time-reversal" in title.
You're right of course, and I have zero data to back this up other than anecdotes from my own experience, but still I posit the most common case is that the caller wants to await the return value, not run the function asynchronously. This is why I think it'd make more sense to flip the semantics so you'd have implicit await, and have to explicitly mark the things you want to run asynchronously.
I'd imagine that this is a good way to pique their interest. Then, when they succeed with solving the puzzle, they are less likely to forego the "prize" of working with the agency.
I’d like to guess that it isn’t a well-thought decision to park closer. It’s just basic instinct of choosing a convenient place. While in reality that causes crowdedness and might cost more time, the drivers aren’t doing a rational computation in their head about optimization. If you ask them the question, “Is that few steps so important to you?”, they will answer no and park a bit further.
Interesting question. While in principle it seems like a terrible idea to force someone to delete such "important" information, I also kinda understand how the person in question wouldn't want this information floating around forever.

If I understand the situation correctly, it should probably be enough if this journalist would anonymize the names in the article, so it can no longer be traced back to any individual. After so many years, that does seem reasonable.

Also consider that journalists were never allowed to just publish anything. There always had to be a public interest for them to be allowed to publish certain details about peoples lives, so it only makes sense that they'd have to remove it as this public interest fades with time, yet the impact on peoples lives remains the same.

Just imagine having to apply for a job when the first thing that comes up when googling your name is a news story like that. On the other hand, who really cares about that story enough that it's worth possibly destroying someones life over it?

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EDIT:

From the text
> “My only duty is to write and verify information,” Mr. Biancardi said from the apartment where he and Ms. Lotti worked 12-hour days at side-by-side desks. “Everything else comes after.”

Interesting that the privacy of the subjects he writes about doesn't seem to be a part of his thought process at all. If his defense was "There's still (and always will be) a public interest in this case", then I might have agreed, but with that attitude, I won't even call this guy a journalist.
How would that work? How could I set up, for instance, my iPhone to port knock to allow port 53 access to the server from an unknown remote ip?

Edit: found this guide https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/ssh/how-to-u...

Looks like I could just create some bookmarks for the ports and open them sequentially.

I think overall this is a much better solution than messing with php/bash - good idea and thanks!
Regression to the mean may be part of it. Even for a master of their craft success and quality will depend on random factors beyond skill, so pieces of work following a great one are more likely to be worse than better, assuming skill remains constant.
Oxford doesn't have legacy admissions. Oxford still offers people access to a network of eye-wateringly well-connected people.
I've never been called 'meek' before! But then I think I'm looking at the problem differently. I don't consider the walking time wasted, I don't mind the walk. I want to get the car parked as quickly as possible, not spend the least amount of time between entering the lot and getting to my destination. In fact, I will often park further away even when I can directly see that close up spots are free.
Internet never forgets
Electric vehicle development has a large hysteresis, every time it’s pushed forward battery and component costs will fall, bringing new classes of vehicle below cost parity with combustion vehicles, that will only be reversed in part if the oil price returns to the same point as before.
Curve-ball: the mall I visit most often has separate entrance and exits. The best spot equidistant from both. I've spent way too much time on this problem in my head.
Bats use private and social information as they hunt
People in other countries are already shocked that they exist.
Not sure if it's the first time, we still seem to have a lot to learn about how time and causality works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ORLN_KwAgs
People like free stuff, and after some time, it becomes expected.

Moreover, think of it in the opposite direction. Imagine a getting hit with a 10% tax increase even if a richer guy gets 15%. Him being taxed more doesn't necessarily make that 10 feel much better.
Ya, this is an odd article. It seems aimed at the consumer. Maybe it's a lack of imagination on my part, but I can't think of a consumer use case that calls for tape. I think the article could have benefited from spelling one out.
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