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About goddamn time. At least the US is doing something, we Europeans are happy for China financially invading us because we cannot get a functioning funding infrastructure for companies (and startups) done.
Where do you get the idea that the end-goal for use of military force is inevitably genocide?

You win a war when the outcome lets you plausibly declare victory.
As an alternate, try weather.gov

[1] - https://www.weather.gov/
I am not sure where you are getting the Hertz pricing. I went to their site for SF and selected an "Intermediate SUV" and those exact days and it's giving me $184 with all fees included.
It's quoting me $306 for a whole week. Comparing daily rate to daily rate may actually be misleading here.

It probably doesn't matter that much - I suspect that for your target clientele (urbanites who need a car for a weekend trip), this is probably the range you want to be competitive in anyway.
> I've owned 3 Fitbit devices

There's your answer right there. If people keep buying then why would they charge less?
In fact they all use voting machines from the same few vendors and mostly running Windows, so there are plenty of common vulnerabilities.

Also, in the US, hacking a single large state can swing a federal election.
> this is a really hard problem to solve, and maybe there won't be any solution that satisfies the public

I'm not a fan of this argument. It reminds me of people saying that the big US banks are too big to fail during the sub prime mortgage crisis a decade ago. If the banks are too big to fail, then we better fix the regulation of those banks so they are less likely to fail or break the banks up.

If Facebook is too big to effectively moderate what it publishes, then reduce how much they publish (ie your Agency is going to be rate limited) or break up Facebook into pieces that can moderate their traffic.
If Facebook decides which political ads are truthful, then either they reject all political ads (because when was the last time someone ran a political ad that was wholly truthful?), or else they have do decide where to draw the line. Wherever they draw the line, they're going to reject someone's ad, and be exposed to screams of how they're biased for the other side. That's not going to end well for them.

I mean, just running them all is also getting Zuckerberg raked over the coals[1], but I think picking and choosing which ads are "truthful enough" is going to be worse.

And that's if Facebook is actually completely unbiased. If this becomes a vehicle for the biases of those at FB charged with judging the ads, that's even worse.

[1] Zuck was getting raked over the coals in the name of truth, but I suspect it was at least partly because those who did so thought they would benefit politically if FB censored their opponents' ads.
You remember the prefixes (e.g. 1234:5:6:7::/48) you care most about and the hexadecimal nature of the address makes them fairly memorable and compact. You can prefix addresses with a-f to hint at usage and even spell words. Unused octets can be omitted thanks to the nature of the ::.
There's a decent chance it will work well in Wine given the basic WinForms interface it uses.

The Wine Database[1] results are encouraging as well.

[1] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...
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> In support of flohofwoe's point: good implementations of malloc will, on the common path, just bump a pointer without synchronization.

How does this work when the heap address space becomes fragmented, with randomly distributed available space and objects that are still live? You can't just bump when the next piece of memory may still be in use, and when you're not able to move memory.
killer is summer imo, where 2-4 months are swamplike so any professional (attire wise) is bringing a change of clothes and/or showering

but it's nice 7-8 months out of the year!
Step counts as well as the fitbit. Heart rate is simple. How can it mess that up? Blood pressure is relative. You don't expect it to be accurate without a cuff. Same with O2. Those can show whether you're higher or lower "now" than you were an hour ago, a day ago, but they're not intended to be accurate on an absolute scale. Sleep seems to match up pretty well with snorelabs.

Now that I think about it, I wonder how well any of them keep time without syncing to their app.
> is along the lines of CLOS

doesn't look to be particular CLOS-like, given that it is class-oriented and not using multiple-dispatch.
The SQLite author is a big Tcl user. I believe the codebase is primarily Tcl when you include the test suite, though the core implementation is obviously a C library.

D Richard Hipp is his name and he has some nice talks online. He uses his own text editor and chat app he wrote in Tcl to maintain the project and communicate with other developers.
I wonder how technology development would be different if the people designing it lived somewhere with weather
And I wish they also tell us how many accidents do bikers cause themselves as they are notorious for not following any traffic rules - thereby endangering the live of others.
That would only makes sense to me if rigging only one state was near useless. It's very much not. If you rig say, Florida, there's a fairly high chance of deciding the election.
I commuted on foot in NYC for several years. The culture is generally for pedestrians to cross at intersections with no regard to the signal, but generally not to do so if it means oncoming traffic will have to brake.

Right turns at red lights are illegal in NYC, and most of the streets in the city are one-way, so for a pedestrian to cross the street against a signal with no oncoming traffic is reasonably safe.
Ask HN: Do any news outlets support anonymous payment for subscriptions?
A lot of posts on here are for the NYTimes or WSJ. These often require a subscription to read. That's fair, they're a business who should get paid.

However I don't see a way to pay for an online subscription that protects my information.

If I buy a WSJ paper from a grocery store, I pay in cash and that's the end of it. But why isn't there an online version of 'pay in cash, here's your paper'?
Unfortunately, this is the best option for modeling the world around us that humanity has come up with. Throwing out the only tool we have to evaluate and re-evaluate what we consider to be knowledge is not the best course of action.

Solution is to support proper scientific procedures, support civic organizations carrying out the important tasks of vetting claims, and being an example of someone who values the correct protocols when evaluating data and making conclusions (or not making them).

It's a very slow process, and we're lucky we're in a timeline where the work of various people throughout history has gotten us here. We'll have to work to keep it going further, and literacy in math, statistics, and the scientific process is crucial.
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Just in case you might not be aware (this has caught me out):

Google Calendar repeating events has no way to set up a "repeat every x" (day,week,month,etc..) forever. It will stop after something like 1 year with no warning.

I use it for an important daily email reminder, and did not notice it had stopped until a day or two after.
Companies want loyalty. Beeing good at what you do has almost no importance above a very basic level.
Loyalty is important because they have all kind of internal crap that is not documented, not organized and which you will accumulate if you stay with them 10+ years.

Also, beeing a consultant shows that you are independent, but what they want is conformism, people with no ideas of their own and so, not independent. 99% of companies fit this profile.
Not all ads necessarily contain statements that would force Facebook to take a side on any issue or become an arbiter of truth. They could simply restrict political ads to essentially just "Vote for [candidate]", or something similar.
You remember the Crew Dragon test that exploded? The orangeish smoke cloud? Don't breathe that. That uses NTO + MMH.

"On 24 July 1975, NTO [dinitrogen tetroxide] poisoning affected three U.S. astronauts on the final descent to Earth after the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project flight. This was due to a switch accidentally left in the wrong position, which allowed the attitude control thrusters to fire after the cabin fresh air intake was opened, allowing NTO fumes to enter the cabin. One crew member lost consciousness during descent. Upon landing, the crew was hospitalized for five days for chemical-induced pneumonia and edema."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinitrogen_tetroxide
SwiftUI is not "large portions of the Swift user interface API". SwiftUI is a brand new API, still in beta, released during the last month.

The actual, in-production APIs are documented.
Obligatory: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/weather-channel'

https://downdetector.com/status/the-weather-channel/
It's about time that the US start standing up to China's unrestricted warfare [1]. It's amazing that most Americans don't realize that China views the US as an adversary and has been quietly waging a war against the West. Why there are people who welcome the rise of Chinese/CCP hegemony when they are actively looking to crush [2] "Western values" is beyond me.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Number_Nine
You could answer that example problem just by being someone who reads Hackernews a bunch, since the "replace spark cluster with random unix tools" article appears here regularly. IMO, that doesn't really define being a principal engineer, it's basic.
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You don’t need to corrupt all of the voting processes though, you only need to do it in a few key states. Funnily enough, the states you’d need to do it in would be the poorer ones who’d have no ability to discern a good voting solution from a bad one.

The real solution is to use paper. There’s no way to fuck with a paper ballot system other than to go to every polling station and fuck with their counts - an expensive and highly visible attack.
Well this is technically the fourth one I'm working on. All are available for free online because I want these resources to be accessible first and foremost.

I've got:

Learn You Some Erlang, which has been published with No Starch Press. This was my first one, which I assume is the one you're talking about. Lots of drawings, something I no longer really have the time and energy for these days compared to early in my career. It's the big basics of Erlang. A bit dated now, particularly since the ecosystem evolved around it, but all the basics are still well-covered I think.

Erlang in Anger, only available as a self-published short e-book available for free, meant to teach people to operate Erlang in production.

Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir; my latest published one (with Pragmatic programmers), covering property-based testing both with Erlang and Elixir at once. Pragprog have let me keep the initial website online, which only covered Erlang.

And Adopting Erlang is the latest one. We're still writing it (this time I'm a co-author rather than the sole author), and there's no physical or ISBN'd copy of it available at this point in time.

All of them have to be labours of love, just because it's a lot of work and effort, and at this point in my career, my name's well-known within the Erlang and Elixir communities, so you could say there are diminishing returns. I still enjoy writing though, it's just harder to make time.
It misses a couple of big ones:

1. Offer a great user experience. Many cloud providers are just pumping products out the door with little to no concern for UX.

2. Have great personality. That could be through offering outstanding support, or through being the kind of company that people root for. (Honeycomb.io is a good example of this.)
Unlike a general, Jobs didn't enter into a series of battles with binary outcomes. He built a company - Apple - from scratch which changed the shape of the world.

I'm not saying that Jobs was the only person with that vision and that he was rewarded accordingly, but that his vision and insight were obvious to anyone who cared to listen, and that he followed through on that vision with incredible success.

Imagine instead of a general a tank designer whose tanks went on to change the face of warefare. That's Steve Jobs.
Hahaha yeah that was the icing in the cake. I 'm sorry but you hear that argument so often it 's worthy of making fun of.
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The more formal way to say that is that cryptocurrency payments are "payments without the requirement of multilateral fiat recognition."

Fiat money works and has value internationally, because governments extend treaty relationships with one-another to offer the same sorts of protections against fraud committed by citizens of treaty partner nations, that they do for fraud committed by domestic citizens.

But when this breaks down, so does the value of fiat money:

• Countries can do things like creating export controls on their fiat currency, to prevent capital flight; or declaring a particular denomination of their currency valueless.

• And, when two nations are at war, their governments lose the ability to prosecute one-another's citizens by treaty, and so fraud by citizens of an enemy nation goes unresolved.

Cryptocurrency payments aren't inherently anonymous, but cryptocurrencies do inherently allow two parties to continue to trade productively, even when domestic laws or international treaties would otherwise prevent one or both sides of a fiat-facilitated trade between those same two parties.
Pretty much the case every single time. It's how cycling infrastructure finally got taken seriously in the Netherlands too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o
FYI sleeping with earbuds could damage your ears long-term; not certain on that but very much worth investigating / confirming.
The UK has a regulatory requirement for advertising honesty. Magazines and TV would refuse ads they judged made too outrageous claims. Not perfect, but until those regs became mostly powerless in the face of web ads, it worked pretty much OK.

Computer Shopper - the UK version lasted about as long, Autotrader and Exchange and Mart are exactly the sort of thing I had in mind. Advertising as a positive, and nicely self-contained - you bought Autotrader when you needed a new car or van. Sure beats retargeting chasing you with the same ad for days because you briefly read a page on some silly product.
Nest may not have gone the direction some people wanted, but it's a healthy ecosystem (within the brand) and line of business.
I edited my comment to clarify.
Really makes you feel humble about anything you might say about emerging tech today.
If you are outside running or even in a gym, having a cellular Apple Watch + Bluetooth speakers is a godsend. You don't have to lug your phone around. Many women have clothes without pockets or a convenient place to hold a phone.
Fair enough, you mentioned the speed of adding a package and I assume it was the build time after the download (which is mostly git). I have to confess that I don't consider the speed of the initial build essential since it's a one time thing (correctly and efficiently building and handling dependencies is, which it does very well in my opinion). Also, I think they are testing now a way to deliver binary libraries within the deps which can improve the situation with the external dependencies.

Visual Studio Code is definitely fast enough in my machine (especially with a Revise.jl workflow), which is why I also assumed it was stuff like running part of the code or using the Language Server Protocol, which will hit the same compilation lag. I agree that Atom is slow, and it's one of the reason I don't use it.

Though I'm clearly biased since my experience is entirely in Linux, it's possible that the Windows experience is just worse.
ld.so on Linux does show you which library is missing.

In this case, it was ld.so itself that was missing, so it didn't have a chance to tell you what's wrong.
Make sure you read the article not just the headline - this person actually NAILED it (not ironically):

> Instead of simply letting people order a pizza, why not let them design it as well? Instead of showing an ordinary menu with a list of toppings, show a picture of a pizza with the toppings clustered on the side. Let teen-agers and college students build their own pizzas on-screen. Present a palette of toppings and let people place their mushrooms and green peppers and pepperoni anywhere on the pizza they want. The real pizza is customized accordingly. In other words, computer-aided pizza engineering.

> This is precisely the sort of interactivity that computers and networks are good at.

> [...]

> Of course, this network designability concept easily extends to bouquets of flowers, boxes of chocolates, fruit baskets and the $6.85-billion annual market in mail-order clothes shopping. It would be perfect for all kinds of gift giving.
I know, right?! It’s sooo much nicer that way. That’s a good demonstration of how bikes are really just slightly faster pedestrians and not slow cars.
> “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky

https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-shirky-prin/
Its more like having someone buy a firearm that has a bumpstock and then also giving them a free stay at a hotel that looks out on a popular concert.

We're in the information age where information is starting to be used as a weapon and we need to have ways in which we are protecting individual people's right to not get undue influence by corporations or people in power.

The parties that are in control of the media need to take responsibility to protect the public's rights and if they wont, the government should regulate them.
The register is liberal trash from a bunch of 70's labour marxists.
Sorry, none pizza left beef is not in uncle enzo's three ring binder. La cosa nostra pizza regrets the inconvenience, but your order cannot be completed at this time.
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You can run a pro-vax platform - if the populace is not too dumb and uneducated. Anyone with a slice of a brain understands that anti-vaxx is a deadly game.

The problem is that (not only in the US!) education funding has gone way downhill and the "free speech!!!" absolutist crowd does not realize that truly free speech depends on an audience intelligent enough to separate facts from quackery (such as homeopathy, antivaxx and bleach enemas) or fascism - in a totally free-speech society with a dumb populace the profiteers will exploit whatever they can.

And yes, I am of the opinion that antivaxxers and other quackers should be jailed, for they are a danger to public health.
In Oakland, California and some parts of SF, these lanes are being used as pickup drop and cruising lanes
>Obviously if a guy sells a gun to someone without doing the proper checks they will be liable.

It has nothing to do with "proper checks", the background checks were all completed properly and the buyer passed them, but there was additional facts having nothing to do with background checks that created liability.
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It's insane that a large part of our public infrastructure is reserved for free private car storage. It's important that these lanes are protected because without barriers the bike lanes would become obstructed by parked cars.
> how can you avoid tech debt when you're in an exploratory phase?

The tech debt becomes welfare if its whole purpose is to be a temporary benefit until eventually getting off of it. Abandon the old one and don't pay back the debt. But don't let zombie pets follow you to the next one... Legacy can be incredibly difficult to kill.
Don't get your hopes up, Uber drivers will still find a way to block the bike lanes.
It's the dirty road, though. In capitalism the market is supposed to correct for bad acting like poor customer service.

Instead it's a public haranguing like putting someone in the stocks, except in exponentially less response time.
Hasn't this always been the case?

Without a verifiable paper trail, why would anyone trust a voting machine?
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Does anyone know of a good group for tech workers to join to counter these issues? As an individual I don’t feel like I can do anything about this.
One of the biggest reasons Section 230 is being threatened by Republicans in the senate is because they believe Facebook has a bias against conservative content and viewpoints on their platform. If it's up to Facebook to moderate content as they see fit, I find it very unlikely they would find a way to do so without appearing to be biased against someone or something.
For larger projects there is a danger of blowing out the memory on older machines when you combine everything into one monstrous C/CPP file.

It's already impossible to compile Firefox on a machine with 1GB of RAM because some of the files are just too big. Even with swapping enabled the build process crapped out for me last time I tried it. While 1GB machines are pretty rare these days outside of SBCs, you could easily blow out a 4GB machine if you tried to compile the whole damn thing at once, and 4GB machines are still commonly found.
The quote, "using statistics like a drunk uses a lamppost, for support and not for illumination" comes to mind.

Data is great for illuminating things, but for arguments, it's usually cherry picked. I do think that writers for the guardian vastly underestimate the intelligence of people who don't agree with them. I generally mistrust statistical arguments because someone forearmed with statistical talking points has usually already signalled their intransigence. Data is nice, but alignment of interests and incentives is better.

It reduces to, "according to criteria and data I have selected, your argument does not bear out." It is a passive appeal to the authority of whoever provided the number, and not meaningful or logical information in itself.

Logical arguments tend not to persuade anyway, but to say someones argument is illogical because it does not resist a coded illogical premise (appeal to authority fallacy), is certainly a way to make them give up on arguing with you.
A lot of biking isn't for your commute but rather a quick way to run an errand 5 avenues over using Citibike -- it's a 6 min ride instead of a 20 min walk.

For that, super common to bike even in the winter. After all, you're already bundled up and will probably stay warmer just because you'll be outside for less time.
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If it gets linked to your other data, it's already breached.
My point is that perhaps you might have that impression, but what does the data say?

Even higher income people I know don't swap out their phones and laptops every year. It's a pain in the ass to reconfigure everything, and even when the devices get replaced, the old ones get passed down to the kids or elders.

http://www.asymco.com/2018/02/27/the-number/

Perhaps low end devices are getting replaced more and more often, but I would bet high end devices get used for much longer. Especially with a widening wealth/income gap, how would people even afford to replace working electronics for no reason?
I am rapidly developing the opinion that there is no such thing as fintech, just corporate and criminal entities using the slow pace and poor understanding of regulators to skirt laws.