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This happens everywhere. You just don’t know about it precisely because companies are normally not public and honest about it.
Like how cigarettes have been removed from the market?

I wonder how much this politician is getting paid by tobacco companies.
The term "libertarianism" has shifted in meaning over time, which makes grand-parent's qualification important and even necessary.

Originally, in the sense that people like Noam Chomsky still use it, it's simply a philosophy of deep skepticism towards authority and central power.

More recently, what I like to call "internet libertarianism" has shifted much more in an Ayn Randian direction; those libertarians are still skeptical of state power, but they forgot to be skeptical of economic power. To them, whatever is done by people with a lot of money is Inherently Good, and screw the consequences to others. It's a philosophy of "(economic) might makes right" -- and that is definitely not something anybody on the left would endorse.
Not idiots, but young coders who don't have 10-20 years of experience, who are required to write good code pretty quickly. So you want a language which is not only to quickly pick up but also quickly to learn to a point at which you are writing good programs.
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What would non-confusingly come after 4.19, just out of interest?
Companies are basically emergent artificial intelligences. So yeah, they can be libertarian.
Businesses are not safe either. Look up stories about the steel industry, fake steel, low grade mislabeled steel, last moment change of steel on the train after you've inspected it, etc.

Several bridges and high rises have already collapsed after such issues.
Ask HN: Do people read the commenter's name before reading the comments?
Do people actually read the name of the commenter before proceeding to the comments? I never usually check the commenter's name unless someone mentions something about the commenter in the comment it self. Because of that, I know very few commenters on by their handle name, few like, pg, pc, tender_love and few more like patio11, surely not more than 10. Is that just me or how most everyone else here? Sorry, if this question sound silly, this question has occurred to me few times now, and unfortunately I dont have anyone around me who is a regular on hn to clarify :).
Interesting that Kosovo(fairly new country, with low GDP) have highest Cantril Ladder in Balkan, and higher than some countries in EU
OpenJDK repo migration to GitHub gains steam
> In what kind of situation is being able to look up one's own location history actually useful?

1. Remembering the name of a restaurant you went to two weeks ago.
2. Tracing your steps to look for something you might have lost.
3. Proving you were somewhere at a certain time.
4. Documenting a trip you took in the past.

The more personal information you generate, the more technology can help you. But if that information is tarnished or does not exist, then so too are the insights and benefits.
Sure you can run FreeBSD on AWS, but that’s not the point I’m trying to make. A modern stack orchestrates containers on a higher level, using kubernetes, nomad, or something similar. I’m having a hard time seeing how FreeBSD could fit into this type of architecture.
> The OPs claim that it has been shown that bugs are a function of LoCs is unsubstantiated at best.

But when looking at OP:

> bugs in software has been shown to be a function of LoCs [1,2,3].

He provided three different sources! Maybe it's wrong, or maybe you don't believe it, maybe it doesn't fit with your beliefs, but you can't say the OP claim is unsubstantiated when he provided academic sources on the subject!
It is pretty simple to formalise - if there is a pool of people who routinely accept positive-expected-value gambles where there is a P = 99.999999999% chance of going broke then we expect everyone in that pool will be broke unless the size of the pool is comparable to 1/(1-P). Tighten up the bounds on 'comparable' a bit and that is formalised.

The mistake is accepting uncritically that expected value is the best metric to optimise. Nobody ever proved that expected value is a strategically superior metric. In fact it would be quite hard to prove that since it is not true. It leaves people vulnerable to making very stupid decisions as illustrated in Pascals Mugging.

Optimium strategy involves at a minimum considering your available opportunities and available resources. Opportunity alone is not enough.
First post ever on HN that has made me audibly laugh out loud.

Especially

> The story follows the adventures of an old polar bear cub. I have no idea of the colour scheme of the bear, but I can say it looks amazing in the dark.
I came across this video from the linked Wikipedia article. It’s a good video but lacks much detail IMO. I was hoping for something longer and more in depth (although it did lead me down a rabbit hole of Field of Vision videos which are all excellent). Does anyone know of more detailed vids about the building? The suggested YouTube videos didn’t offer much.
He's probably thinking about decimal numbers, so 4.2 is expected instead of 4.20
Exactly. Another aspect to it is that taxes eliminate the free-rider problem.

If I, as a socially-minded millionaire, make a lot of philantropic donations, but my neighbor, the not-so-socially-minded millionaire doesn't do that and instead uses their money to fund a think tank that lobbies for the abolition of social welfare, then we have a problem.

Rather than engaging in philantropy, it is more rational for me to fund a think tank that lobbies for the expansion of the social welfare system.
Almost the same level of distraction as holding a conversation then. I can live with that.
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Lombok's @Data (which is probably 90% of why people use it) is essentially equivalent to Ruby's attr_accessor. It's not "magic" so much as small and useful modification to the language.
Might I suggest funding a think tank that lobbies for changes towards a more egalitarian society?
Come on, don't do that! That's like if someone shows you their play compiler and you say:

> If people keep calling random programs 'a compiler', it will quickly lose meaning... A compiler is intended as a new medium of human-machine interaction, capable of transforming arbitrary source programs into machine code...I realize you know about the limitations, but only supporting static assignment, not being able to compile functions, it's what makes it "not even a compiler" for me.

Dynamicland was always Dynamicland, even when it was starting out as a tiny implementation.
The concept of records already exists in other languages, including JVM languages (like Scala and Kotlin). The fact that they're immutable and final is important. If they weren't, there would be subtle bugs caused by that. Scala actively recommends that case classes not be extended precisely due to this fact. Overriding methods for equality and hash code make it such that these classes can be used as keys in maps or entries in sets.
Wow, I always thought of Pascal's Mugging as a satirical illustration of how stupid it is to take enormous (or extremely small) numbers seriously. Turns out people like John Carmack (see other comments in this thread) aren't picking up on the satire. Or am I reading him wrong? I think he's smarter than me, so what am I missing?

Given Bostrom's general love for mixing tiny probabilities with enormous outcomes, what's the point of this article? It seems delightfully self-critical. How can the conclusion be anything other than that we should not be taking the AI/singularity crowd too seriously, as doing so would be akin to voluntarily handig over a wallet to a mugger?
Unfortunate. You should have come away with an understanding of the Central Dogmap, as well as Gödel's and Tarski's theorems. If you have Tarski's Undefinability, then you learned enough.
Maybe we value choice? On Windows and MacOS you have no choice on desktop environment. Where choice is available sometimes people want radically different things from each other.
most people want the “freedom” of being able to download an app and trust the operating system won’t harm their computer. I download all kind of random crap on my iOS devices being relatively sure that I know the limitations of what the app can and can’t do and knowing which permissions it has. On my computer - especially a Windows computer - not so much. I’m not claiming that Mac is more secure, it’s just not as much of a target.

That “freedom” has led to 3 decades of viruses, malware and ransomware on computers. Android/Google didn’t learn from any of those mistakes. The mere fact that you need antivirus for a phone is proof.
If you want an object with a few getters and setters, just make a class.

This proposal is to remove the boiler plate of creating immutable objects with value semantics.
“To make your personal digital assistant as helpful as possible, we’re integrating Cortana into your Microsoft 365 productivity apps,”

Doesn't sound like its farewell at all...

just possibly giving Cortana direct access to everything you type in email, documents, excel.. the list goes on
There's at least one strange thing about it: there's no perfect tuning for evenly-spaced chromatic-tone pitch systems. Whether you pick 12 or any other number of tones, the resulting circle of fifths (combined with analogous octaves) will witness the fact that it's not possible to tune the system perfectly.

As a musician, I found a lot of interesting things in GEB, even if it did not advance my music career.
> How much better would it look to investors

If you’re working with even moderately savvy investors, they’re going to want you to do whatever is right for the business (here, for users) not what they might abstractly prefer.

If you think the choice that’s right for the business is not obvious, explain why you made the choice you did. Design the product for users, not investors.
Honestly not really. At least not until I've read the comment and wonder who wrote it.

With exception for green names because they stand out
>To play devils advocate: If he was as brilliant as you imply perhaps he SHOULD have been the one making the key decisions under his purview anyway

If he should have been. Then he should probably have been lead eng or something.

His authority and actions were mismatched. Management can change either side of the equation.
> If you compare OpenBSD against a modern Linux distro, you'll be surprised.

How does FreeBSD compare vs OpenBSD on that aspect?
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> One company recently released a model, but refused to release the decoder. Apparently they had trained it on some Reddit posts (or something like that) and the results were sometimes so offensive that the company wouldn't risk their reputation by releasing the decoder.

This reminds me of Markov Polov, a markov-chain twitter bot that uses the tweets of its followers as a learning corpus. It was suspended for harassment.

https://twitter.com/markov_polov
That is what I meant, sorry.
Was this Google's entire point of 10% time?

An outlet for unicorns that keeps them away from the company bread & butter and unicorns.
Well no in fact there is no 'shape you are meant to see'. Inflation can be expressed in prices smoothly or in sharp jumps. People probably anticipated more money was going to be printed and priced it in, then when the Fed started tapering traders wound back to current state rather than forward-looking guesses. A sentence of speculation on my part there I know.

It is a fact that there is a big real gap between the pre-QE price and the post-QE price. You can hand-wave and claim that because the chart is the wrong shape it doesn't count - and argument which I obviously am going to reject. But even accepting that, are you really comfortable saying that these commodities are securing real value increases? I'm a mining engineer and it isn't because it is getting 3-6% per annum harder to mine commodities each year in real terms. If you don't like 2005 pick any year prior to the financial crisis; gold is mysteriously outperforming the inflation.

Quacks like a duck. QE probably went in to asset prices.
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How do you deal with the aggressive auto-correct? Many of my notes are code related and I cannot stand the auto-capitalization.
It saves locally and the syncs to the cloud every few seconds. Latency is zero.
What app do you use to monitor your financial balance?
What app do you use to monitor your financial balance?
I've found buildroot much easier to use.
If your millionaire neighbor is genuinely less "socially-minded" than you are, it's not clear whether she would actually be "free riding" on your philanthropy. "Free riding" generally means getting a benefit that you strategically avoid paying for, not just having different preferences.

Now, there might nonetheless be a case for taxing your neighbor millionaire a bit more, but it would have to be somewhat different. (For instance, you might think that having more millionaires around creates negative externalities in the form of way too much corruption, rent-seeking etc. from aspiring millionaires. This would indeed be the kind of thing that taxes could correct.)
I'm actually working on something like that at https://github.com/mariusor/littr.go

It's a link aggregator based on ActivityPub, the federation protocol used by Mastodon and company.

I am closing to a 1.0 release, at which point I want it to be completely integrated in the global ActivityPub network and would be interactable with from most of the other platforms. (Basically if you have another valid fediverse account, you will be able to post/interact with littr instances)

There are also several other projects in various states of compatibility and featurefullness that are working on the same idea. On the top of my head there's:

- Prismo: https://prismo.xyz/

- Lemmy: https://dev.lemmy.ml/
It really doesn't happen everywhere.

Most places with decent devopss hygiene have defense-in-depth around their backups.

I've heard of people dropping production databases in big companies (but saved by backups).

There are some stories around the bitlocker blackmail thing that had similar impact, but that was with a malicious opponent.

The only thing similar I've heard for the notorious self modifying MIT program (for geo-political coding) in the 1990s which destroyed itself without backups.
If terraforming Mars were to be successful, wouldn’t the long-term livability of Mars still be hampered by having about a third of Earth’s gravity?

I imagine it to dramatically affect human physiology, making it perhaps impossible for Martians to ever return to Earth.
Again, I have noticed the green names, but never understood the significance until I saw this comment and decided to look up. Green names are when the account is less than 2 weeks old! Now I know ;)
I had voice control set up for the house lights for a few months, and went back to having a manual remote clicker in most of the house and a PIR switch in the pantry.

For me at least, button pushing has a lower cognitive load than talking at something.
Does turning off "Correct Spelling Automatically" help for your use case? Check it out in the Edit menu.
It is important when exactly they ask that question. If they would ask me in June vs in November I would certainly give different replies. Time of the year with different amount of good weather conditions makes big difference.
> The orbits probably wouldn't look very fancy if you were observing from Saturn (besides the speeding up and slowing down)

Unless you were moving around the thing at precisely the right velocity I suppose. But it being a gas giant I suppose the point is kind of moot. It's not like you or a manmade device can stand touch down anywhere while still observing the sky.
Presumably, watching more television was hot the only thing that changed due to your parents dramatic income change.

Additionally, I don't understand the resulting outcome. Are you saying more tv was a negative or positive?
> I didn't know there was a name for this method

I just made that one up when I started formalizing the method!

> The only bullet you have to bite is occasionally repeating yourself, but as you say, that part of CSS never really worked well anyway.

I find as well that if you write clean, concise CSS that doesn't have to override anything you get away with far less CSS anyway. So repeating yourself isn't so bad. Similarly, in a project of any longevity, especially if clients are involved, chances are pretty high the things you repeated will eventually diverge. So had you made it DRY you would have to de-compose the coupled components and write it again anyway. With the Contexts, you can make most diverging modifications without ever touching the components, and I feel any more levels of inheritance than that leads to CSS that is more complex than it needs to be.
> We bad-movie watchers have our own anticriteria, the sorts of badness we prefer.

As a fellow bad-movie aficionado, I've narrowed my taste to prefer bad movies that the makers are very proud of and defend until their dying days. Passionate low quality movies, especially ripoffs, are uniquely appealing to me which is why I love Italian cinema from the 70s and 80s (not to mention the other, often more exploitative Italian genres of the same era). The other niche I've found enjoyable are those makers who know they are low budget and do the best with what they have (Golan/Globus, Charles Band, Roger Corman, etc). Both of these types of bad movies are so prolific that you'll never watch them all, and they are what keep me using Prime and Tubi much more frequently than Netflix.
Big company evil, let's take ownership of our own data etc. But if Dropbox is supported as a sync conduit - why is Google Drive missing?

Especially noticable on Android where Google is obviously omnipresent
Blessed are the cheese makers!
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I guess our lesson here is to invest in mesh networking and services that work over it, before it's too late.
Completely agree. It's a smoke screen, but probably one that holds up in court - for now.
See also One Wilshire Blvd, in downtown LA, which has been widely known as a CIA listening point for the entire Oceania/Pacific region for years ..
I see. I just wanted to point out that semistructured documents have a long history in law in particular, with some of the oldest text database in use. AFAIK, law firms were holding on to WordPerfect for a long time (and many are using it still) even when MS Word became the de-facto mainstream format, and WordPerfect has a rich history of structured, non-WYSIWYG editing, and could be converted to SGML as early as 1992. So I guess if the problem today is overuse of binary-only transport formats such as PDF, a discussion about representation of text in law should start with a look back, with a perspective on what's been lost (not to mention that a paged media format is probably not the way forward in 2019 or even 1999 for that matter).
I don't know man. I feel like there are places I know more than Rob Pike almost certainly. Like, I don't know, most of functional programming. I seriously doubt he knows what indexed monads are better than me.

So, at the point they were creating Go, I think it's perfectly reasonable they had even less exposure to fp, and didn't actually know about these better solutions.
You may say farewell Cortana but will Cortana say farewell back? In a recent update, Microsoft made it impossible to completely disable Cortana/web search within local searches.
Can you do CPU and Memory limiting with this?
I wasn't able to figure it out from the documentation.

I know that jails do support cpu and memory limits (via rctl).
Every time roads or cars got improved people used the extra time to live further from work. Its oddly similar to the way every time computers and networks got faster we used it to make development easier. Perhaps if we design a crappy car (like a phone is a crappy computer) we will see more efficient implementation. The sum of collective desires doesn't always make sense.
Ask HN: Who reads corporate annual reports?
I corporation I contract with requested a short write-up about our project for their annual report, which we provided. In retrospect, who reads these things?
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The manuscript of the first page in the novel “Crash,” by J G Ballard
Original definition of 1st/2nd/3rd world countries was based on sphere of influence, not state of economy.

1st world : US
2nd world : USSR
3rd world : not aligned with either
Even if you don't mind the scalability issues, having to deal with possible conflicts if the same note was modified in different places, and barebone UI with no attachments, consider the importance of metadata:

- info on where the note came from (that's why I like web-clip-ability)

- note history and possibly versions

- tags are really great for categorizing and quick/efficient search, etc.
> Don't want the CPU waiting around for slow I/O? Simples - just add an interrupt line so the I/O peripheral can asynchronously tell the CPU when it's done.

Which we run through a synchronizer to bring back into the primary clock domain.

> Chop up the instruction stream into little pieces, the throw the bits at a set of ALU's execute them as fast as they can, doing it asynchronously, tracking the interdependencies on the fly.

Which are all so strongly wired to the primary clock that you can count the cycles.

> Oh, that causes cache conflicts - then just have all the CPU's snoop each other caches, asynchronously, and try to keep everything sane with the occasional bus lock.

Memory systems generally operate in a clock-forwarded manner, which has a fixed phase and frequency relative to the primary clock of the chip controlling the access. We are not willing to pay the synchronization penalty to cross from an unrelated clock domain under most circumstances.

The only times we are willing to be "asynchronous" are precisely those times when we don't care about performance.
The performance jump blows the mind. If AI is going to evolve like that our expectations will be rather silly compared to reality. Its kinda like [collectively] we haven't a clue what we are doing.
Is 10GB a generous mobile data plan these days? I guess it really depends on where you are. In Taiwan I used to have unlimited one years ago already. Now in England they just start to come out with unlimited plans that are not totally ridiculously overpriced, so I guess things are getting better.

But yeah, while my first thought was "95MB is not that much", it is also 4x the size of the hard drive of my first computer, so yeah, suddenly can relate that it is not totally expected either. (and these views definitely date me).
Wouldn't it be possible to do:
`["margin-4", "padding-3", ...(this.isActive ? ["color-red", "font-size-30", "font-weight-700"] : [])]`
Could people who plan to return to earth live in large centrifuges?
Code is helped by being readable.

Saying your code is going to "look like sh£t anyway" seems rather defeatist, and an _excuse_ to write unreadable code.
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I don't know of any other software where x.10 does not come after x.9, or x.20 does not come after x.19 etc.

Some software increases the x before that though.
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