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> I don't see any technical reason why you couldn't have automated monitoring of the screenings

Well, I suppose the first question is whether or not your automated monitor contains a Mysterious Hum Detector, and whether or not the case of a Mysterious Hum happens frequently enough to be worth rolling out the Mysterious Hum Detector to every screen in every one of your cinemas.

Also: The Audio Has Accidentally Been Set To French detector, and the Dammit Something Has Fallen In Front Of The Projector detector are equally hard to implement.

Automating uncommon real-world events is significantly harder than you might think.
"Modest single-family homes, owned for generations by families, now are held by corporate vehicles with names that appear to be little more than jumbles of letters and punctuation – such as SC-TUSCA LLC, CNS1975 LLC – registered to law offices and post office boxes miles away. New glittering towers filled with owned but empty condos look down over our cities, as residents below struggle to find any available housing."
Buildings are often owned by an LLC that is created for the purpose of owning that one building. This would be difficult to implement.
Or are they counting on their ability to distribute more pills within 2 days.
But the richest 10% of people are the ones who make far more than half of all flights [1]. They could certainly fly less.

[1] https://www.inequalityintransport.org.uk/book-author/news-bl...
I would like for it to be illegal for apps to ask for address-book permission and similar. Your name, phone number, address, email and other details, perfectly packaged together, should not be free for any random contact to give out. The social contract was for only that contact to have the information. Privacy becomes impossible otherwise.

We need resistance to systems/services/initiatives that enable and encourage people to leak each other's data to third parties.
Since the plastic is breaking down (these patches would disappear without supply) and I guess you yourself also doesn't want to pollute the ocean with new plastic not sure why is this an issue.

Or do you suggest to continue to pollute the ocean?
>I guess I just don't agree with the author of the article that this is a bad thing.

The people working there can't fix the issue so for next days/weeks this bugs can repeat. What kind of complex tech is there you can't train someone to fast forward a movie? It could be some DRM protected computer that plays the movie and you need special keys to do anything more then plug it out and back in.
> new Flash

... but Flash was easy to reverse too, just download the .swf file and use one of many tools to reverse engineer it. It's probably why there are so many "hacked" flash games available if you search for them.
Loved this game. First video game for me.
I'd hope my revision control didn't need a lot of tooling, personally. I have Emacs darcsum and vc-darcs, and Trac integration, with hooks to use on commits etc. I guess darcsden (hub.darcs.net) is similar to pijul nest. There doesn't seem to be any real problem integrating it with things (that don't insist on a CVS-ish model) if people want to do it, it's just that few do, unfortunately. I haven't had time to see how easy it would be to provide darcs support for sourcehut, which might be useful.

I don't know what GHE is, but making me interact with github or bitbucket isn't a good way to encourage me to contribute to projects, especially fixing incidental bugs in things I use. Each to their own, after some decades' experience of effective distributed development.
I think this view could be abstracted as "tech is helping automate customer service into oblivion."

I had a very similar experience this past week:

I wanted a new dryer for the apartment. The goal was to have the installation process be as hands-off as possible, so I googled, ordered online from Home Depot, and signed up for their "free installation" service. Click click click done.

Every part of the process stunk. The delivery company rescheduled (they didn't care - no connection to Home Depot itself), the guys who showed up came up with some excuse as to why they couldn't actually do the installation, and not only did they not care when I told them to cancel the delivery, they seemed happy that they didn't have to do the work ("no problem! we're outta here!").

Home Depot customer service didn't care when I asked for a refund. Nobody cared they lost a sale over something trivial and solvable. Nobody wanted to solve the issue (it would be more work to do that), nobody had a stake in the game, everyone got paid regardless. No humanity, just automatons dutifully processing the commands given to them.

In the end? Ordered from the local appliance shop that's been in business for 100+ years. Single phone call. They cared. Perfect process, no Internet (or, frankly, any tech other than an email confirmation) required.
However it pleases me.
I'd argue that you often only need one of those criteria.

Witness Vinod Khosla and his battles: he has expected fines, understands them (though disagrees), and the net negative is (in his case) so trivial as to be negligible.

"Oh, you want to fine me $10,000/day? Well, go for it. By the end of my life that might amount to 3% of my net worth".
Only if they value hypergrowth at cost of the customer.

Some companies are happy being small and personal. Maybe they won't become a billion dollar unicorn, but maybe they'll treat their customers better and be more in touch with the community instead.

Personal touch doesn't scale well. But that's why there will always be a niche for small and personal companies
Neither of those make much sense as the cause anyway. Both sacrifice database consistency if the hosting process crashes or os crashes or reboots due to power failure, but with something like a coverage database, neither is particularly worrying. Worst case the users nukes the db, and reruns the tests.

Even if removing those pragmas fixed things, it feels likely that would just be hiding the issue instead of fixing it.

Disk io errors are not supposed to happen in sqlite except in cases like: accessing a corrupted database, drives failing or running out of disk space, bad permissions on some folder sqlite needs to write to.

So unless the test case involves a python process crashing or getting killed, I question if this is actually a bug in your your code.

I feel like this being some bug in either sqlite, or in the file systems used by docker (specifically by behaving in some manner not anticipated by sqlite).

With those optimizations, the only remaining sqlite disk IO should be the database itself, and the temp store. Since I stronly suspect the error you are getting is coming from sqlite, it would be helpful to know which of those two disk io cases it is.

Perhaps you can try the pragma to force the temp store to be in memory? The results of that might help us know if the disk io error is in reading/writing the database file itself, or if it is in reading/writing temp files.

Knowing that could narrow things down a bit.
Looks like something broke and the page is now a single messy line with a <monodraw> tag in the source.
This makes me the most sense to me. Choose a vacancy period and a reasonable tax rate. It’s simple and easy to implement.
America in 2020: If I use a VPN I have to prove to google I'm not a robot... but using a shell company to buy up real estate? Definitely no picking out all of the buses in a bunch of pictures.
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For this I like to use foam tape as in interface.
> wish I could fully disable these alerts until the government is actually competently using them.

They're LTE only, so I've disabled them by disabling LTE and sticking to 3G.

The speeds are fast enough (15mbps peaks). And with $10/gig data prices, it's not like I'll ever down/upload large files over wireless.

The problem is that I was used to getting a push notification almost immediately from every news source on Amber Alerts, but not this time.

I think news orgs didn't know how to handle it. Especially since the public was directed to listen to them, but they had no messaging.
Dont forget to breathe.
That's just one reason why I don't use smartphones.
Oh, you should go play DCS World too then
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Canada did get involved:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_and_the_Iraq_War
Absolutely not. I'm not arrogant enough to make such a claim, and my observations tell me we all have them in one way or another.

But I can say with confidence that I don't let my own problems negatively affect the people I care about. I've worked hard to get to here, because I know firsthand how it affects people.
The original title made reference to Ned as the "creator of coveragepy", which specifically means the person who created it. The original author was Gareth Rees, according to Contributors.txt [1], and Ned Batchelder took over in 2004.

I don't mean it to suggest that Ned has a lessor role than creator, just that the post's title was changed to add inaccurate information. I figured that if the moderators saw this and decided that the context of the author's role in Coverage was important, they could update the title to reflect his actual role.

[1] https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy/blob/master/CONTRIBUTOR...
Yes, but that's definitely not the main point here. There is a seemingly huge money laundering operation at play.

And either FinCEN is not disclosing so it can get to the point of making charges or it's providing cover for those in power. Probably a combination of both, honestly.
> if i were driving, i would stop the car, call 911 and ask if anything was going on. they would probably say no

They weren't saying "no", they were saying "we have no idea". If everyone called 911, they would be totally swamped, please don't do that.
> if i were driving, i would stop the car, call 911 and ask if anything was going on. they would probably say no, then i would be on my way.

9-1-1 would've said: "We don't know either. We know as much as you do". Which would only be more concerning.
The study of economics is conducted by a large number of people (many thousands), with (apparently, at least) diverse views. I am interested in your answers to these questions:

1. Do you believe that all economists are engaged in distributing propaganda, or just some?

2. To what end is the propaganda distributed (or maybe on whose behalf)?

3. Are other academic fields similarly concerned with distributing propaganda?
I've been following this guide [0] to increase the sulforaphane content of the broccoli sprouts. After heating them up I throw em in a blender with a bit of water and a sprinkling of ground mustard seeds to help further increase the sulforaphane content or its bio-availability. The taste is pretty bad, so I can only stomach around 4oz of broccoli sprouts. I've bought my sprouts at either Whole Foods or Sprouts.

In the video interview with Jed Fahey, he mentions that the supplement Avmacol is being used in numerous trials and it has pretty good bio-availability. I switched over to that at the start of the year because the though of having to drink one of those smoothies every day fills me with sorrow. But prior to that I'd been drinking the smoothies for a few months.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7buU-PK7_I
Silly me I have last week made an infinite loop on Firestore - update to document triggered CloudFunction which updated document and Firestore is fast..

In just minutes I had passed free quota and here I have been lucky because I have checked console.

If I have left that version (and I have been sure it is just innocent commit) for a few hours running I would be up for a surprise.
First class support for SQL type checking and domain model mapping: https://github.com/nikita-volkov/hasql-th
Thank you!

We will add a detailed view, alongside a RSS feed for the top list tomorrow.
France's digital minister says tax on big tech is just the start
> The goal isn't a beautiful page so much as "no trust destroying indicators" like weird fonts, bad formatting etc.

Could you give an example of what kind of a font would be a "trust destroying indicator" ? Maybe comic sans I guess, but I have a feeling you mean something more subtle.
It's not centuries old, but comes from Max Weber's surprisingly readable and brilliant book on the topic. But from a moderation perspective we have to look at effects, not intents. If you lead with a comment like that, the odds of somebody getting triggered—for whatever reason—and taking the thread into flamewar go way up. This is not a deep or very interesting point, it's just basic fire prevention.
> want to see who posted to these

Obvious stuff, Greta is a sock puppet for Svante Thunberg, her father. Rich people and politicians use PR agencies. Some Polish troll farms turned out to be run by state-owned broadcaster TV employee in charge of official news portal, the usual.
The very definition of an anecdote.

The cinema in my town in Ede, the Netherlands is fantastic.

Hmm, who would have thought it that 2 businesses could operate... differently?

This has nothing to do with computers or the future...
I don't think that's "making this personal." It's not intended as some kind of personal attack.

Someone other than me noted that this is a phenomenon in some parts of the US. I posted to support that assertion. You have made multiple comments telling me I'm wrong about this when my claim is "I, personally, fit the profile" and you keep citing general usage.

I may be "wrong" by some metric or other to see it as masculine, but I'm living proof some Americans do, in fact, view it that way. You do appear to be having some trouble accepting that assertion, given that you basically are trying to tell me I'm wrong about my testimony about my opinion about the phrase, which really is quite baffling to me that anyone would try to tell me that.
Twenty-First Century corporations either don't offer any public access at all a la FAANG, or build a wall of useless people to interact with the public, to mask the reality that they are just like FAANG.
Automatically learning how to evade nation-state censors
Why are engineers so narrow-minded?
It's very ironical to see the word "privacy" in a thread about "serverless" stuff.
It's not actually a pipe. >, < and | are IO redirection commands; but of those only | is a pipe. Pipes specifically "pipe" the STDOUT of one command as the STDIN of another. The other two instead point a command to the file descriptor of the output of another.

This is explained in more detail here:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/172982/what-is-the-differenc...
What do you bootstrap the python environment with?
It sounded like the reboot worked but people didn't want to sit through the first half hour again.
Alas, it's still related enough to religion to easily lead to religious flamewars on the internet. The burden is on the commenter to pack the point in less flammable packaging. "Protestant mentality" is too generic a phrase not to have religious associations for many readers. If you said "Protestant work ethic" that would have been better, and if you had made it clear that you were referencing Weber, there would be no problem. Far fewer internet users are likely to start a flamewar against Weber.
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They have the ability to geotarget them, but fail at it regularly.

From what I understood from spectrum auctions, Gatineau Quebec is a part of the Ottawa area, so they're probably a part of Ontario side when it comes to cell system back-end.
But aren't stopping plastic production.

So that means we need to be as efficient as possible in fixing this, and cleaning the ocean is much more work compared to filtering the mouths of the 10 or so main polluting rivers in Asia.
They grow instantly. My third son, absolutely flew past the baby stage. It went by almost immediately. He's in toddler mode now and this seems to be taking a little more. Or maybe I'm enjoying it more, I don't know.

Cherish it though, time doesn't go back.
Sorry, I missed the obvious place to look into it.
Companies like GP's get acquired only if GP sells their share. If GP refuses, competition only has the alternative of either lowering their prices so far down and cross-financing this with more profitable other stuff that OP goes out of business or to provide actual human support.

In both cases the consumers win.
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One would hope this will result in universities having to drop there absurdly high fees.

The ability to pay absurd fees is dependent on the loan providers providing huge amounts of debt - but they only do it because they know that that debt can never be escaped. If it becomes established that student debt is dischargeable, then they availability of credit will be reduced. Ideally that would put downwards pressure on university fees.

That said this absurd “pay by semester” model taken by US universities - which further inflates fees, while limiting the ability to work at the same time forces students into debt, so maybe universities will start recognizing that that isn’t tenable in the long term.
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That would just make working with files programmatically harder. The issue isn't that file names contain spaces but that we use programming languages that use spaces to separate fields/entries instead of proper data structures.
Because when you find yourself needing bash-specific features, alarm bells should be going off. POSIX sh is good at reminding you to KISS and delegate to other tools.
It is interesting that bankruptcy does not discharge the debt as in normal cases. Apparently home mortgage is difficult as well[0].

The reasoning is if it is hard to get rid of the debt, then it keeps investment money flowing in because the loans are 'secured'.

Clearly the whole system is inflated and needs to find a new 'norm' on the student side. Loans for school are too easy, so schools charge more, faculty charge more, etc etc. Vicious loop.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephendash/2015/10/25/why-stud...
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What I've read and heard is that things like KYC/AML laws made real estate the preferred vehicle for money laundering. This coincides with the first housing bubble quite nicely and also explains why housing reinflated to bubble values after the financial crash.

Politically it's very hard to address this problem because it benefits existing homeowners (especially those who bought long ago) and developers. Those are two extremely powerful constituencies.
Let's not also ignore the fact that most of the (Western European) states have explicitly _not_ ratified Article 4 of the EuCHR, despite having been signatories to the Convention.
E-bikes are wildly popular in the Bay Area. Can they replace cars?
hey, are you using docker on mac?
I can't find the details off-hand, but doesn't Darcs actually have the facility to define different types of patches as well as normal ones and "replace"? I don't know whether that's ever been done, but it could be useful, whether or not it's a worthwhile trade-off.
The problem was that there existed humans to complain to. Imagine if there were no people at all. No ushers to track down. No staff. The box office an automated kiosk. Nobody to actually complain to. The only option available to submit a ticket online, where it could be properly triaged and a technical fix dispatched according to optimal scheduling. The author would have requested a refund from Fandango, and may or may not have received it, but we would have saved the time of at least five people who otherwise would have worked at a movie theatre.
Please don't take HN threads further in generic ideological directions. It leads to generic ideological flamewar, which is tedious and which we don't want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Anonymity in meatspace is arguably a dead issue.

...until surveillance capitalism hurts democracy enough that people start rioting.
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Presumably you have evacuated by then.

There is more info available here:

https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/emerg-preparedness/about-emerg...

and here, about dosing: (pdf warning)

https://www.fda.gov/media/72510/download
For me it's got to be the podcast "On The Metal" by the guys over at Oxide Computer Company. I was a big fan of a lot of the talks by Bryan Cantrill and Jess Frazelle, but hearing these two talk to people who worked on such interesting problems at some amazing points in history makes me so happy.

It was also such a good reminder of why i wanted to do software, and re-ignited my love of working closer to the metal.

In terms of a single episode though, I would have to go with the interview with Jeff Rothschild. The guy had such an interesting career with some hilarious problems. Also, the most recent one with Kenneth Finnegan, while from 2020 not 2019 is honestly an amazing listen.

Link for those interested:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4GDUravTUbvTrdJ2oWnzJp
Seems like a strange situation to hope for the best and cut costs.

Maybe I underestimate the cost of iodine.

I suspect they were worried about people getting free iodine for their meth labs and nuclear safety somehow lost to that battle...
I have recently started using Office 365 at work, and it seems like a similar setup. Our in-house tech support are fine when stuff works, but if something’s wrong they have no idea. No word from Microsoft. Maybe if there’s a major outage, they’ll know something. A file disappears from OneDrive, there’s no help.

Overall, it’s a net positive, I think. But I feel bad for the humans in these non-jobs. Once roombas can clean movie theaters and show people how to set up Word on their phone, then it’s game over.
Another one:

"Design a [programming] language that even idiots can use it and only idiots will use it".
To be clear, there wasn't _only_ restitution (center) punishment. She was placed on probation for 5 years of a 7 year sentence. Except she was also being "held" at the restitution center while that part of her sentence was being carried out.
You're right. While practical implications are a concern, the biggest issue I see is a profound ideological difference: a society in which everything is produced by machines and the average citizen receives everything he needs to survive from the government sounds like a dystopia to me. I don't trust the state to administer this prospective neo-Oceania. Citizens who are abstracted from adversity will become disinterested in politics and apathetic towards the inevitable tyrannical government that will ensue.
It reads like the guy had the ability to pay off the debt, but left a job he didn't like. I feel like he made a mistake going into a field he didn't like or just started at a bad company and could have used those skilled he borrowed to get to pay it off and made a decision not to.

The student loan situation isn't great, but this doesn't seem better.

If this becomes common, so will having to secure loans against likely the assets of your family, which a lot of people don't have that as an option.

The current situation of 70k a year college is predatory, but a student accepting that cost should be smart enough to know what that means.