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> AWS and Google got the code they wanted.

Depends, if he was still working in Big Tech Co, they could have potentially not open sourced it, they could have used his secret sauce to get better system performance compared to competitors.
That looks awesome! I quite like GraphHopper and OSM for directions, however when on the go I mostly use OSMand.

Does OSMand use GraphHopper internally? One of its downsides is the time it takes to compute a route when offline. I read in multiple places that it could use a server for doing so. Is there any documentation for self-hosting it? I didn't find anything on the topic. Is it then possible to leverage a graphhopper instance?

Also, I saw on the README that graphhopper uses djikstra and A*. Wouldn't RRT/ACO be faster to find solutions, to some extent?
Well it's true today as well. I know immediately that something's gone wrong if I'm training an ML model and the GPU fan spools down.
Yes, it is fairly easy to convert the repo, but

1) this afaik couldn't be done inside the BB project, so one would have had to create a new repo and lose bug history etc.

2) It's a trust thing. If BB kills repos once, who doesn't say they won't kill others tomorrow?

3) Comfort: Import to GitHub is a click away
The official infection and death numbers in China appear to be completely fabricated as they followed an almost perfect quadratic progression:
https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ez13dv/oc_...

None of the various measures taken to contain the outbreak have affected those numbers.

This apparently has happened before with organ donation data: https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s129...
I'm on good private insurance in the USA right now and on a 3 month waiting list after calling 35 specialists and taking the only one who was even accepting patients with an under 6 month wait. I'm on Aetna, a huge health insurance company here and when I call a specialist my first question is "Do you accept Aetna?" because I only have a 30% chance that they do.

The only way to speed up the process would have been to pay cash to a specialist who doesn't accept any insurance, which would be a $350 consultation then $250-350/hr each visit after the fact.
"because they wanted to decide whether or not to vote for Trump"

I assume people weren't watching to find out if he would be acquitted, either, although polls might be interesting to know.

Important people have been declaring odd things, like how they're sure he's learned his lesson, so it's hard to tell what people believe or expect.
If we counted in hex, how would it vary? It appears to me to be "not much" because it says most things scale to express as instances of the first non-zero value in the number system plus an arbitrary number of powers of the base. So.. it's Fermi arithmetic 0, 1, 10, 100 ...
In Coronavirus, China Weighs Benefits of Traditional Chinese Medicine
> Organize your own IR tiger team outside of management channels?

This gave me a good laugh, thank you
6. Scrum
What? Are you delusional? I rarely ever get this concerned at HN comments, but to say outright that one should be willing to give up any liberties or rights a corporation deems are dangerous, in order to participate in a group that has no inherent need for their products anyway, is beyond nonsensical. This is more than can be called a "social contract"; Facebook is committing social theft by stealing away any local groups into its servers.
> interfaces and switch statements give you a way to implement enums and pattern matching that has been surprisingly ergonomic for me.

With no exhaustiveness checking (also no destructuring, etc.)

I should also note that you can change the default stack size in Rust to avoid overflows, though there should be a bug filed to get LLVM upstream stack coloring working. It's also possibly worth rerunning the benchmark again, as Rust has upgraded to newer versions of LLVM in the meantime.
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A zero karma two day old account says something. Please. You're trolling.
Then you charge a reasonable price. You don't put a 'free' sticker on it with an unknowable 'ad revenue' cost in the background.

One might argue that the customer should know the price they pay in advertising data-scraping before logging in, these days, but we still convict people of fraud for taking advantage.

Advertising revenue is fraud.
Google may have to hand over info about a negative reviewer to a dentist
Not really that simple, medicine supply can change doctors' behavior. And massive amount of fentanyl are illegally smuggled into the US. You can't simply pick a middle point in the chain of events and claim that point is the cause.
I don't think it's needless. I think the fact that Bitbucket is profoundly second-rate in is quite relevant when discussing their fluffy blog posts about engineering.
Here's a vague attempt to estimate it:

Pick a country with reasonably accurate data. Start with statistics on a country's GDP. Break down the GDP into categories of services, durable goods, non-durable goods, the finer-grain the better. [1] Decide which categories you regard as in-scope (e.g. services consumed? probably out of scope. durable goods like cars, furnishings, houses? electronic stuff? industrial machinery? probably in scope). Do you want to include stuff like food? Oil? Then, for each category in scope, estimate (1) the expected lifespan of the good before it is disposed of, and (2) the residual fraction of the good's original value that remains at disposal time that is lost but could be captured by better recycling/reuse/scrap recovery, etc.

E.g. in 2019 the US spent 530 billion dollars on motor vehicles and parts. The average lifespan of a motor vehicle is about 12 years. So we could estimate that every year, about (1/12)th of motor values and parts reach end of life. So we could say that (1/12)th of the original value reaches end of life -- so about 44 billion dollars per year. Now, what fraction of the original value is still recoverable at end-of-life? Probably something in the range of 10% -- 1% . So maybe there's residual value of 4.4 - 0.4 billion dollars of motor vehicles and parts that reach end of life every year in the US. Arguably this figure should be net of recovery costs (e.g. labour, energy, capital machinery to recover working parts or shred broken stuff). Some fraction of this will currently be recovered and reused/recycled. The remainder will be lost.

To crudely translate from US GDP to the world GDP, multiply by 4.

So we might estimate that globally there's about 17 -- 2 billion dollars of residual value in motor vehicles and parts reach end of life, some of which is recovered, some of which isn't.

[1] data source for the US: https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gross-domestic-product See https://www.bea.gov/system/files/2020-01/gdp4q19_adv.xlsx ; table 3 "gross domestic product: level and change from preceeding period"
Well I mean, like I say, I'm pretty careful not to let out personal information online (Although I'm sure someone could probably track me down if they really tried). Without being in that situation it's pretty hard to say. People say lots of things on the internet but it very rarely translates into reality, not without some kind of actual reason to do so. It's easy to say while not being in that sitatuation, but unless I believed that there was an actual reason to target me, someone wouldn't bother putting their own life at risk just to follow what some other random person on the internet said. Luckily I live in a pretty safe place, so I'd probably inform the police and let them take it from there.
A man who styles himself an internet visionary while abdicating his responsibility to the future of the internet is likely to have an ulterior motive when talking about the internet.

However I also recognize that our community, like other communities, tend to forgive high status community members, as long as their lies aren’t too obvious.
Shoulder MR scan in Austria: €235 including 10% VAT

You can usually get 80% back from public healthcare insurance. You can do it all via public healthcare, but wait time is usually several weeks.
They do and they have. They already let the genie out. They could reimplemented themselves as a privacy focused dumb pipe but they clearly do not want to do that.
Such annotations exist in all major C/C++/Fortran compilers, although not all will error if it goes poorly. Although most of the ones with an HPC focus have some output where they will tell you how they optimized your loop for you.
There's upsides and downsides to complex and simple games.
Fortnite may be simple in some aspects (basically a war game) but it's more complex than Temple Run.

Both cater to different markets but achieve simplicity within their markets well.
Run a mac emulator to save your screen in your browser: https://archive.org/details/AfterDark2
People who don't want to interact with society or be helped by society can... not interact with society or be helped by society. They can go out in the woods somewhere or develop a religion that gives you excemptions.

You can also organize among your minority group and protest that your rights are being violated, or hire lawyers to sue.
The decisions Google Maps (and competitors) make in the vicinity of my house are baffling and dangerous. It's almost like it's intentionally looking for left turns out across busy roads with blind corners and crests. Usually there's a light a block or two over, but no, let's see if we can get ourselves killed to maybe shave a few dubious seconds off our trip.
This is the Nirvana fallacy. It's not some rare exception to be producing value for someone else while achieving personal fulfillment.
I thought he was arguing "Monthly vs. Transactional" rather than "Monthly vs. Yearly".

I strongly agree with your assessment that Yearly is better than Monthly.
Not long ago there was a company which failed to perform the relatively impossible themselves, and when they ceased operations their message was clearly _we could not automate that which we could not do that well manually_.

I think there's an abundance of drivers that are almost always unsuitable for the most challenging situations, or for whom the roadway or conditions encountered are completely unsuitable themselves.

Collisions are everywhere and are dwarfed by near-misses. Fatalities are statistically limited by hazard mitigation, safety measures, and a seemingly larger portion of miraculous good fortune.

Some drivers are completely out of control and some even like it that way. There is a much smaller amount of mechanical or health failures.

These all can be the riskiest due to unpredictability.

We will have to admit that each out-of-control driver can exhibit perhaps completely unexpected and unique behavior from each other, because that's what they've always done.

That's not a very high bar for different out-of-control AI events by comparison.

Tragedies occurring from individual human driving deficiencies have been largely attributed to social effects, because the underlying mechanical engineering performance has been so overwhelmingly predictable by comparison.

With AI different unforseen tragedies are to be expected, and it will not be due to any recognized or imagined individual human driver deficiency. Attribution will be squarely on the engineering team deficiencies when it comes to the programmable electronics that were overlaid onto the fundamentally predictable 20th-century-proven mechanical platform.

There could be deaths that can not be dealt with using natural human social constructs.

Being killed by an out-of-control robot is always going to be something that's supposed to be nearly impossible to occur, compared to being killed by an out-of-control human.

Anyway, with emerging programming technologies sometimes actually achieving highly suitable goals which were only reachable when combined with ideal support, and a sales/advertising mentality that can make up the difference when the incredible engineering effort has done all it can and the goal is not quite met nor suitable, everything's looking better than ever so what could go wrong?
BeOS seemed really nice at the time. I'm not sure if it would have worked out better in the long run, but it sounded great.

I always had the sense that consumer focused computers should be engineered with real-time capabilities, and instead, they ended up being based on time-sharing systems which seems like it hampers UI and media processing. For decades, and especially presently, I get so frustrated with lags and hiccups no matter how fast the CPU and storage are.
Not only that, but the US heavily subsidises fossil fuels.
Super surprised about this decision. I'm Asian American so my family was super sure I was going to get sick at a conference I had to fly to last week if I didn't wear a face mask. I didn't see any particular worry at the conference itself. Definitely more hand sanitizer than before but overall, no one wore any face masks besides a handful of Asian participants. Besides the media, I haven't seen much concern for the coronavirus besides practicing the same habits you always should during flu season.
> Do you disagree with any of that? Do you believe that China's massive and uncontrolled supply had no effect on the opioid epidemic?

There isn't a fentanyl epidemic in japan, sweden, etc. So can't blame the "supply" here. "China" isn't making and sending these drugs for the hell of it. Somebody is ordering it and someone is distributing it. And it ain't the chinese.
Radicalization is not about opinions, it is about convincing the radicalized to undertake acts of violence and threats thereof for a political purpose. You get, yeah, that these are also places where these little shitheads gather and decide who to brigade (the aforementioned "oh, hmm, that lady has opinions about video games, let's try real hard to destroy her life" dreck that the various chans indulge in when they're bored), that geek each other up to the point where somebody thinks sending a SWAT team at somebody is a great idea? And that the management is shockingly hands-off about letting them do it and have been for years now?
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ActivityPub is important. We need it to be more widely appreciated. I'm glad to see it on Hacker News.

Chris Webber, one of ActivityPub's creators, suggests next steps in
"OcapPub: Towards networks of consent"
https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org

Chris and I gave keynotes at ActivityPub 2019:

"ActivityPub: past, present, future" by Chris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgq0lqZ1Mvw

"Architectures of Open Robustness" by me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAfjEnu6R2g&list=PLzDw4TTug5...
It's ridiculous anyone should have to think about this at all. I'm happy to be European right about now.
> although not all will error if it goes poorly

So... these annotations don't actually exist? ;)

The whole point of such a feature is that the compiler will fail if it can't do what you want.
That is too bad, everyone has their price though so not unexpected.

When Startpage got bought I noticed they immediately changed to doing all the scummy things that click jackers do (tracking, fingerprinting, affilitizing, Etc.)
Interesting. I go to school in a very foreign-rich asian community (I'm asian, but born in the US) and I feel like the coronavirus has gone out of control. Given there's only been 1 case in my area, I have no concern.

However, I could see why conferences where people from all over the world in one place could be a problem.
Ever heard of https://genode.org/ ?
Benford's law works in any base.
This is /very/ old news. Maybe not even news. It's the norm since maps depicting administrative areas of some sort exist.

And there is no difference even. In the past you could take a paper map drawn by A and showing a disputed border between A & B to B and show them.

Nowadays you can spoof your GPS and/or IP to purport you are at A (although your are at B) and see the map people at A are commonly shown.
... and github support doesn't take requests by e-mail anymore, so I resubmitted through the github support web page...
You give the control arm the current best standard of care until and unless it becomes statistically obvious that your test arm is better and then ethically you're supposed to switch everyone to the drug at that point. It's not like the control group is denied the best care we know how to provide, just to accommodate experimentation.
Expressing opinions vs making specific threats is a very clear thick line for me, and yet somehow whenever I read about takedowns and such it seems many people have trouble making the distinction.

“I hate x and wish they had never been born”

Is not

“I am coming to your house tomorrow with a weapon”

Yet people treat them similarly.

From there it just becomes “anything that scares me is a threat.”

Then, it becomes obvious that people are in general scared of cultures and attitudes very different from their own.

And so there’s no tolerant chaos anymore.

It’s a Motte and Bailey argument.

Very few people support doxxing and/or incitements to violence.

But it is amazing how much censorship happens in the pursuit of curbing such threats.
0-day? 677-day? Linux security in a nutshell
The Cold War was essentially about trade. And it's not that Iran would stop all oil shipments forever. They'd stop some shipments that are related to certain countries that they don't like as a political move.
Depends. In many b2b custom software contexts, the client does really know exactly what they need (e.g. when you’re implementing integration between two products they are already experts of).
Your argument for why Sweden is no paradise makes sense, but your argument for American system being better just because of your personal experience alone is not sound.
Watch as virtual reality helps mom meet her deceased daughter
And the UK can do that because the UK is willing to rely on the US. Now that relations with the US are straining in the West other western countries are increasing their military spending/cooperation. (Eg EU army.)
Yes, the company I work for in particular sells software that runs on hardware for datacenter traffic management.
For all you know, this is the best-case outcome with countermeasures.
David Friedman has an interesting book Legal Systems Very Different From Our Own. It's basically what it sounds like, a survey of legal systems from distant past and foreign civilization that evolved in very separate conditions from what we know.

I think, it'd be interesting if a technically minded person wrote an equivalent work Computer Systems Very Different From Our Own. By necessity most of it would probably be confined to retro-computing. But I think it'd be a pretty worthwhile endeavor.

Not because those computers are likely to be better designed than our current systems. If anything quite the opposite. Like Friedman's legal systems, most of them probably have glaring pitfalls relative to modern state of the art. But it's a useful exercise to think about very distant points in the design space, and how and why those decisions were made.

Even if the comparison point is clearly inferior, by virtue of being very exotic it helps us better understand the tradeoffs we make in our everyday incremental designs.
No, it's not a "no true scotsman" problem. The US is fundamentally not a market based system. Painting it as such is just wrong.
So it is, thanks for the link. Does anyone know how to access this[1] page that is referenced towards the end of that, it comes up as "Access Denied" with no hint as to what access is needed but it's referenced all over the place in these documentation pages.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/Sysinternals/MoreThan6...
That's what adversarial negotiation is yes.

But cooperative negotiation is when both parties have the same information and the same goals but different constraints. Or they have the same information but different goals.

Then you work together to come up with a plan that meets both needs, but most likely each side must compromise a bit.

That is the negotiation skill that is most important in business, and that is not the skill used when negotiating salaries in most cases.

Although as it turns out my last salary negotiation was in fact a cooperative negotiation, where I made an offer and was then told I asked too low and they offered me more than I asked for.
On the other hand according to the Foreign Service Institute(Department of State) it takes about 1k hours for a native English speaker to reach "proficiency" at speaking and reading "Languages with significant linguistic and/or cultural differences from English": Level 4.

If your full-time job for seven years were learning spoken languages, you could become proficient in 14 of them. Or maybe you want want to learn 7 of them and leave room for nearly all level 1-3 languages. Maybe you just want to spend 2 hours a day M-F(you slacker!), you'll only be able to learn Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, and.. Dutch.
Two things:

A) The person you're replying to is simply quite wrong about the amount of Pascal libraries available. There is no "domain of interest" I can think of that does not have at least one "defacto" library for it.

More commonly though there's four, five, six or more libraries for any given thing to choose from, which often turn out to each have specific strengths such that you may very well end up using more than one of them in your project.

B) They would almost certainly probably not like Go. Object Pascal as implemented by Free Pascal is a language that effectively embraces with open arms almost all of the things that Go actively avoids: for example, traditional (single) inheritance, operator overloading, both function overloading and generics, and so on and so forth.

As far as inheritance specifically, the general indifferent attitudes towards it of "there are definitely times and places where it makes more sense than anything else to use" amongst Pascal programmers are in my opinion basically a direct result of the fact that "bad experiences the compiler developers personally had with inheritance as specifically implemented by C++" are NOT something that actively factors into their decision making process or something that they really think about or care about at all (or more broadly, something that users of the compiler generally think about or care about at all).

This sets it quite far apart from other languages such as Rust, where "things C and C++ arguably did wrong" are in fact heavily influential and both thought about and discussed regularly.
The parallel would be US = Britain and China = China. US is running a trade deficit with china like britain was running a trade deficit with china in the 1800s.

If the US invaded china and forced china to buy opium to offset the trade imbalance, then the parallel would apply.

I don't remember china invading the US. And china isn't forcing drugs on the US, no more than mexico or south america is forcing drugs on the US. There is demand for drugs in the US. That is the problem.

And the slow but recent drug legalization around the country and the glamorization of drugs in the media isn't going to help.
It's mainly economic. There are plenty of JavaScript web developers. Now management can take them off the web silo and put them to work anywhere.
You can get private insurance in Europe if you want.
One could wonder why it isn’t automated.
On reddit the developer has stated multiple times that this is a search partnership and not a buyout. The blog indicates that it is a buyout and so does the change in company director. That makes me confused as to what is happening here.