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Success in life has more to do with who you know, who your parents know and luck than anything, even hard work or intelligence.

The more you live, the more you realize that much of life is beyond your control. When you were born, where you were born, even the opportunities available are all out of your control.

Not to mention that there are only a few spots for success and even if everyone worked equally hard, most will fail while the few succeed.
I love org mode, but I find emacs word wrapping weird - if I yank it yanks the visual line, but I expect it to do all. I suspect whatever my init is currently is not correct, I’d love to see others’ configs in regards to wrapping
Adding to this, the website of the conference says

"exclusive environment of confidentiality and contacts with the highest government officials and engineers"

https://nkcryptocon.com/

Somehow I doubt the aspirations of this conference were to liberate the North Korean people.

With respect to internet restrictions in North Korea

"Whereas the real Internet is reserved for a select and trusted few, everyone else in North Korea gets access to a national, walled-off intranet, a "pseudo Internet," available for public use called Kwangmyong. "

https://money.cnn.com/2014/12/22/technology/security/north-k...

There is no chance this conference was anything except a tool for the leadership to exploit cryptocoin.
That remains up for debate. More to the point, the claim in OP is the converse of the one you're trivializing.
Two things.

One, there is no excuse for garbage code. Deadlines don't cause people to suddenly forget how to code. Perhaps corners get cut and things need to be refactored but if developers are coming and going and saying the code is bad I doubt that's just because of a deadline. That sounds more like a bad developer using a deadline as his excuse.

Two, do you have code reviews? Are you looking at their code? Are they looking at yours? Why would you expect them to write triple A code when they have to use what you say is a garbage code base? Garbage code breeds garbage code. Maybe their arrogance is a way of venting their frustration with being forced to write bad code? Or maybe they're telling the truth but for some reason you interprit it as arrogance?
Twitter hasn’t reached its full potential. It’s just not intuitive enough to most people. When a new user signs up, they don’t know:

- Who/what to follow, except a handful of celebrities and sports teams

- When to compose tweets vs. passively consume them

- The esoteric grammar of the intimidating Twitterverse

It seems like one must be a celebrity, CEO, or super user to use Twitter at all. Clearly, that’s improving, albeit at a glacial pace. Worst of all was how long it took for Twitter to add Twitter Topics.
Time will march on no matter what, all I'm saying is that we should be thankful that during our finite lives, we have been blessed to live in the US where freedoms are still available to us. When people complain about products being made in another country... It is what it is... its globalism, its capitalism and thats where we are right now as the human race. It sucks but at least for some, who are lucky, who were born into prosperous nations, they get to enjoy comfy lifestyles compared to other unlucky ones who were born into poor circumstances. jesus lol, also see merp's comment
Of course it isn't, that's seriously dangerous.
I have heard from an industry insider that ANCAP has for the last 30 years been pretending to review car's safety records just so that they could short Tesla stock and take down the Cybertruck.

And yes they are indeed part of a global conspiracy to take down Tesla which they see as a threat to the petro world order. Not those other EV makers like Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Kia etc who sell more than Tesla in quite a few countries. Only Tesla.
No, the sim itself is not that impressive compared to Unity or similar. They are, however, impressive relative to legacy React, which, as a development modality, has an enormous amount going for it. React and React-likes are winning in the marketplace because the development style it opens up really is that much better than many competitors. Yes, it's average everyday use cases driving that; no, that is nothing to be ashamed of.

There are many reasons you don't write a shopping cart in Unity, but now you can get a taste of performance nevertheless.

Props to the React team. (Yes that is a joke; I am passing props to the React team ;D)
Thanks - it was hard to understand the need for Fleck on the fleck website. But your post succinctly explains it.
They absolutely can if they choose to. They own the rights, they don't need nations' permission to do things with it. However, their lawyers need lots of time to create all sorts of artificially restrictive terms of service and silly contracts with partners rather than just opening the service worldwide.
Re Curiously, I'm guessing that may be useful for reverse engineering the proprietary firmware on the AR100 OpenRISC coprocessor present in Allwinner ARM SoCs:

https://linux-sunxi.org/AR100
There is currently a difference in business interest for VPNs and ISPs. ISPs sell your data, since people mostly don't have much choice here anyway. A VPN service who becomes known to share data can probably close their business soon, new ones will quickly fill the void. They have less infrastructure requirements than ISPs and a subset of users with different expectations to privacy.

So yes, I do think there is quite a difference, although you should still be critical of your VPN provider.
Performance like this is possible in a web browser, but you wouldn't think so given how popular React and ThreeJS are.

Updating the state of thousands of DOM nodes at a steady 16ms per frame in a browser is hard enough that you have to go beyond "just update them all every frame" like in a simple particle system. To go fast you have to move to working out what needs to update based on what changed in the state.

Most web app developers don't want to have to think too hard about how it gets on the screen. They, very reasonably in my opinion, want to work on the app logic itself instead. Unfortunately that's how we end up with janky UIs. If React's concurrent mode can just be fast by default by spreading out updates if the framerate is falling that's good for everyone.
> If you have a beast of a computer it might update all 2000 every frame.

The point is that you shouldn't need a beast of a computer to update 2,000 boxes. That's way outside of the performance profile I expect from any recent CPU.
The last guy I worked with who often would call people 'idiots' and far, far, worse (Ironically, he was over 60) was fired for his crap attitude.

There is value in correcting bad code. There is only toxicity in insulting those who went before you.
There are multiple issues from over 5 months ago that have no response

https://github.com/keydotcat/keycatd/issues
Theoretically, optical media should be easier to recover than magnetic, because the technology to view their surfaces in detail is readily available --- a light microscope is enough to humanly view the actual recorded data on a CD and even a DVD:

https://3.14.by/en/read/cd-dvd-microscope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8_HCLPdpkI (CD-R)

It would be interesting to see what "disc rot" looks like at that level of detail; and if better reading hardware may be able to read it. In particular, pressed discs actually store data in the varying height of the polycarbonate disc, so as long as those pits and lands haven't been damaged, even if the metallisation is gone, the data remains intact; and if there was a way to strip and re-coat that layer, pressed discs could be recovered. For CD-Rs, perhaps the dye has faded to the point where the typical drive (which can't really spin the disc slower than 1x) won't be able to discern the pits from the lands, but if that data can still be seen somehow, it's recoverable.
When it comes to the key specifications of their vehicles, Tesla have never, ever under delivered on their key promises.

I have no doubt it will do all the things you listed, likely exceeding some of them. I won't be at all surprised if it looks a little different - you can google the original Model S prototype compared to the actual, and the Model 3.

They tweak some things, but overall I strongly believe you'll get what you ordered.
Cars too.
Why exactly should he have known this, especially as an SWE? Google is a gigantic 110k+ people company by now. It's totally possibly to spend years head deep in code specializing on some obscure parts of codebase with near zero understanding how everything else works outside of your narrow area of focus.
All raised vehicles are a danger to other road users. Most have bumpers significantly higher than other vehicles on the road, resulting in trunks and hoods on closer to the ground vehicles (Honda Odysseys, Toyota Camrys, etc) getting severely damaged in low speed impacts.

For pedestrians and cyclists, high stanced vehicles ensure they end up underneath the car rather than on the hood of the vehicle (where survival rates are much higher). A person can get hit at 20mph by a Honda Accord and walk away nearly every time, but try that with a Cybertruck and they are much more likely to die: https://usa.streetsblog.org/2016/05/31/3-graphs-that-explain...
Would you rather sit on a board that has to oversee an actual operation, or one that merely monitors an investment and spends lavishly on board meetings?
The system at Roosevelt Island is a success, and yet that never caught on.
The private insurance system we have in the USA creates such a tightly-packed nightmare-maze of adverse incentives that the only non-government solution is for a company to grow so large it can fully vertically-integrate, from private medical schools all the way to hospitals, labs and clinics, then once it has a total monopoly, convert to a non-profit and slash prices across the board.

Anything else is a half-measure doomed to failure. The AMA limits how many doctors can graduate, medical schools charge enormous prices, limited supply and huge debt means doctors can command incredibly high fees, so hospitals send massive bills to insurance companies and sue the non-payers and yet remain barely solvent. Insurance companies add a profit margin and charge $10,000pp+ annual premiums to employers, who pass on some % to the employees.

Any one part of this is integrated with the whole and can't be easily fixed.

- Hospitals can't just charge less to insurance, because every part of care is so expensive.

- Care is expensive because doctors have debt to pay off, and we can't pay them less or else med-school enrollment will fall of a cliff because why rack up $400k in debt if you won't be earning 6 figures after you graduate? Not when FAANG will pay new grads $120k plus for half the school-time, and most of the students going to med school are smart+motivated enough to get those jobs.

- Insurance companies are making billions, so they aren't going anywhere anytime soon short of massive government policy shift

- Medical device and supply manufacturers make bank for the same reasons, American syringes can cost a fortune because all the prices for everything have been dialed up to 11.

On top of all of that, there's the infinitude of nitpicky soft and technical problems that would require a successful-startup's worth of effort and luck to solve, like HIPAA, coding nonsense, and many others.

Honestly sometimes it feels like the only way to "improve" the USA healthcare system really is just to pass Medicare for All and drop a bomb on the whole thing.
The only thing at play here is your pathetic attempt to slur a safety organisation just because they dared to be critical of the Cybertruck.

Their job is to look after the interests of the general public not any one company.
I would characterize US's 2019 black Friday as:

- 50% off things should not buy

- 10-15% off things you cannot afford.

Ali's 11/11 in 2019 seemed to be more affordable.
Back to the original post, will they have a dedicated "Tank" license?
News flash: The world isn't black or white.

You can have trucks that are safer than others.
We need a major redesign of life
This is a really useful tool, thanks for sharing it.
> Updating the state of thousands of DOM nodes at a steady 16ms per frame in a browser is hard enough

No, it's really not. I've done it before, and profiled it. 16ms is a super long time to a computer. You should easily be able to update tens, if not hundreds of thousands of DOM nodes, assuming you aren't doing anything weird like blocking on layout in one of them.

Let's aim for frameworks that are in the ballpark of peak raw performance, before we look to parallelism and multi-threading as a solution.

That someone possibly had the mistaken belief that this was peak performance for a hand-rolled WebGL codebase shows how low and out-of-touch our expectations for performance really are.
Europe wasn't considered part of Germany during WW2, even though Germany exerted actual control; it's called "occupation".
Looks like a Godot point release today fixed a lot of GLES2 issues, so I’ll see if I can get that working soon. https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-3-...
> I'm just saying that arresting 84% blacks is not necessarily racist _by the cops_, because every one of those 46 arrests may well have a video like this one, and this guy deserved it.

Deserves to be detained for eating a sandwich? Beligerant for expressing how stupid that is? The police department apologized for this so even they don't agree with you. I think we're done here. Good luck.
From religion to letters to numbers to agriculture to civilization itself, these are not the product of the west.

I think you are crediting too much to the west.
offtopic

>hopefully at some point for DragonFlyBSD

What advantage of DragonFlyBSD you see today over other OSs?
I don't think you are using your imagination. Madlibs-style templating is one solution.
Another would be using a context free grammar.
Evolutionary equation generation.
Would you please stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to HN? We've already had to ask you about this, and we ban accounts that keep doing it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Mozilla Developer Network has a much more comprehensive (and useful) tutorial that isn't subject to Medium's paywall.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Introduc...
All of those are:

a) Not driven by the general public.

b) Niche and not as common on the road as the Cybertruck is planned to be.

c) Slow to accelerate meaning it's much harder to drive them dangerously.
I'm surprised it was considered an asset of theirs. How did they acquire it in the first place?
LiquidText on iOS seems to enable pulling out images, snippets, etc. as the author seems to want. Not sure what happens when that app eventually dies thought.
What about individuals like me? I'm not a non-profit. I'm a hobbyist who's been using a .org domain for 25 years, very nearly my entire adult life. My entire digital identity is tied up in it. I have hundreds of accounts and email addresses and subscriptions that I'd have to change if my mail domains suddenly became unaffordable. This is madness.
Its right here on the conference's webpage

"The interest of participants to continue building bridges of friendship and collaboration with the DPR of Korea, as well as the exclusive environment of confidentiality and contacts with the highest government officials and engineers"

What do you suppose that entails? Do you think in a state like North Korea is going to permit anyone North Korean except state officials into a conference like this, triply so with wording like that?

https://nkcryptocon.com/

We already know beyond a shadow of a doubt that North Korea is trading in crypto currency to fund their regime.

https://bitcoinist.com/un-north-korea-accumulating-cryptocur...

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/N-Korea-at-crossroads/Nort...

This conference had absolutely nothing to do with enabling regular North Koreans to access cryptocurrency, they don't even have access to the internet to begin with.
We need to make life worth living.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and/or flamebait to Hacker News? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, and we're trying for a bit better than internet default here.

If you'd please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Please don't post unsubstantive or flamebait comments here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Reacts concurrent mode isn't a magic fix for apps that literally want to do more than the computer can cope with. It's a way of distributing changes across frames so the browser isn't doing a huge update in one frame and then idling in the next 5. That's very useful for 99.9% of web UIs right now. If your app is in that 0.1% then you'll still have some perf work to do yourself.
I think he's way off on the complexity. He might be confusing it with text diffs where you need to find the longest common subsequence for the shortest possible diff but that is still O(N^2). If you are just diffing a list with unique ids (like react child nodes are, with their required key prop), it's just a set intersection which is linear.

I can see it being a bit more complex if you need to track how nodes move across different parents. But it seems like react doesn't handle this: https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/3965#
That’s awfully close to the font used by Smalltalk-76 and later.
I never lied to my kids about Santa in the first place, and we don't acknowledge Christmas.
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The default option says that it targets "people in, or show interest in , your targeted location." The author tightened the settings only after he realized the clicks came from outside the US. Also, it's unnatural that multiple clicks from the same location were made in a quick succession.
People with opposite politics have the opposite picture:

HN often aligns with more Libertarian ideologies https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21316611

There is a definite right-libertarian bias on HN, whether you want to acknowledge that or not. Everything not toeing that line is attacked and downvoted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21432833

Hacker News has become a forum for uber nationalistic right-winged libertarians
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21231654

There's a lot of very neoliberal or libertarian politics going on in the comments round here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21186128

hacker news is a bubble of mostly middle class white male libertarians
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20637454

If you go against any kind of socially conservative or libertarian perspective it will get down voted and very likely flagged. It's always been this way. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643695

It's totally expected. This is a heavy technolibertarian site
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19230037

the techno-libertarian norm around here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18671955

Hacker News has a libertarian leaning ideology among both its community and site-runners
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16019694

Because it's HN, where opinions other than "hooray libertarian technocracy" are frowned upon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15307091

this site is a haven for alt-right and libertarian people who believe this stuff
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14205262

There are just as many claims of the opposite; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21449589 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21245485.
In reality, HN is a large pluralistic community, with more than enough material to support any impression of bias that you're primed for. The comments you notice and dislike make a stronger impression than the comments you agree with, building up a feeling that the community is against you. This can't be a function of HN, because HN is the same for everybody. Rather, it's in the eye of the beholder: an afterimage of the things they ran into and disliked here. The phenomenon is so consistent that you can not only predict what someone's opinions are, but also how intensely they hold them, from their image of the community's bias.
Essentially the reactive state model - which imo is 'fast' to code in - currently has a horrendous limitation on how many components can be reactive.

A naive minesweeper implementation (that is state-connected) will get upset at a hundred cells, and terribly laggy at 900 (a standard 30x30 super expert board).

This means devs have to abandon reactive programming for parts of their code with a non trivial component count.

The demo is showing 'smooth' perf on these kinds of "state-connected" workloads.

The graphics side of things is a partial distraction, mainly it will mean web devs won't have to make the current performance vs ease of development tradeoff in webapps (think boring saas stuff).

The way in which it isn't a distraction is it will make it possible to get past CSS limitations inside of react in a very intuitive way.

As this raises the low bar react had for game perf, we will no doubt see more react games.

But have no doubt - this is about what the current state of reactive programming is capable of off the shelf.
Feed sad. It is really one of the few area has long term impact. Sadly my young fellow hkust student cannot have a chance to explore and see it. Even get a funeral house to refuse to burial him. Rip. Just not sure what to say.
I've got a pretty significant collection of PlayStation 1 and 2 games, and every time I see an article on disc rot I look to see when I need to be worried.

Has anyone seen a list of when disc-based systems might start showing signs? Something like game consoles and capacitors.
So they expect to be able recoup that billion dollars. There’s no way that’s going to be done without screwing everyone.
It's not about developed/undeveloped. It's about the possibility of your talents being utilised in the place where you were born.

Let's say you have the potential to be a great cricketer, but you're born in a country where cricket is not even played.

You're SOL.

Or you (the great cricketer) could be born in India and be a millionaire by 20.
I still don't know why long-division works. I don't think I even remember how to do it as an adult.

I've always had a very intuitive grasp of math, which meant I excelled at solving things in my head but struggled with (and resented) having to show my work in the arbitrary algorithms we were taught. I understand division despite my education.

They really should try to come up with algorithms that are more intuitively linked to a spatial comprehension of the numbers. That underlying grasp is really all that sticks with you into the real world (and it's also what makes math engaging). If students aren't getting that, they're wasting their time in my opinion.
The old saw was that 50% of advertising is useless, it's just that nobody knows which 50%.

I guess that's why people are so excited about click tracking, analytics, etc, etc.
> Honestly sometimes it feels like the only way to "improve" the USA healthcare system really is just to pass Medicare for All and drop a bomb on the whole thing.

You mean use the system that has been used for decades in Developed countries and proven to work much better (better outcomes, cheaper, no body without coverage) ?

Yes, that would be a good idea.
It might happen when Steam API requests exceed limits :O