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I would use it if it was npm compatible, and that does seem to be coming. Remember it's not a new language, more like Python vs IronPython. Although hopefully it will have more success.
i don’t believe this is doable. you would have to observe the state and after that rebuild the state precisely. that’s a pipe dream.

we like to believe we are in state A and transition to state B, but the brain (and our body) is one massive parallel biological computation which for all intents and purposes is irreversible.
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I'm going to take the contrarian position here and say No, there is no place for native desktop apps. If a user has enough resources to run a graphical operating system, then they have enough resources for an extra copy of Chromium.

The exception to this is something either so simple that it only has one button (e.g. some file format converter) or so large (e.g. Photoshop, Bloomberg, AutoCAD, Mathematica, Visual Studio) that it surpasses the capabilities of the web platform.

Most things like chat, music, or word processing absolutely can and should be done with Electron or (imo) a WebView.

The reason Slack etc. is slow is not because of Electron but because the JavaScript is probably very poor, bloated, and not optimized. I used to hate Electron for being slow but after using it have changed my mind. The bottleneck is never on the Electron side; it slow because of your code. VS Code is an Electron app and is snappier than many "native" editors.
When I see stories like this I wish there was some way on Hacker News that I could spend some of my karma points to give this story more than one up vote.
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If there are space aliens hanging around, they likely wouldn't contact us

Just seeing them would give us a huge technological leg up. Right now we don't know that interstellar travel is readily feasible, but if we did know that then it would suddenly make sense to spend 100 times as much on space tech

Considering what a bunch of jerks we are to each other, I don't think aliens would want us roaming around freely
I really enjoyed the Planet Money episode on Toy Biz v United States!
Lets them inflate the order count for the pitch.
I hope it does not, definitely not along this route.

"Some Indian states have stripped away laws that gave labourers basic protections"

I feel really sad that press reports this instead of strongly protesting/criticizing such measures. It does feel like we have not learned our lessons and continue to place corporations ahead of people even after this pandemic.
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You're doing great and I think you should keep doing what you're doing. A non-insigificant number of young people like me are likely going to die at much earlier ages due to financial insecurity and all the problems that come with poverty. Depressed since you can't get a job. Then eventually not being able to afford a roof over your head due to increasing rent and cost of living. Suicide starts to become a serious consideration. No other options. Girls rightfully want guys who can give them financial security, so guys like me are doomed as genetic deadends due to not being born with the right conditions or with the luck to get ahead in life. Back then, they would've sent us to fight some rich fuck's war. Some of us might think that was preferable since they won't hire us to do anything else worthwhile for a living wage.
Yeah, that's the best solution I've found for truly lossless conversions, but for wide compatibility the only real choices seem to be animated image formats like GIF or APNG.

I started looking for lossless because my screen captures looked like absolute garbage even at high bit rates, but in retrospect, I bet the problem was the downscaling done by the 4:2:0 chroma profile. It might be that 4:4:4 would fix the awful appearance.
Some games do this too, for example State of Decay, based on what your Steam application language is. It's silly.
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The automated system should say "weight, that can't be right". Works fairly reliably in supermarkets, especially if you allow a bigger margin of uncertainty on sku weight. Or verify the volume/shape - or both, like volumetric weight that shipping companies use. I'm guessing amazon has some system to automatically assign boxes based on the dimensions of stuff that's being picked.
Sounds like monopsychism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsychism).
I realized FAANGs are not the holy grail of tech, and that it’s possible to get excellent TC while working on interesting projects with more autonomy and possibly better WLB as well at smaller, faster organizations. Granted, a downside is that most equity is unlikely to be meaningful (except for the lucky), but I found a far more exciting path. Though I could certainly see the appeal in the more innovative arms of some companies (like Alphabet’s X) to do bleeding edge work...

I also have ethical issues with spending my existence working for some of them (Facebook is the grimiest offender by far), and the line blurs quite a bit into questionable territory for some of these companies.
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Feel like I've been seeing more examples of small businesses being screwed over by big tech companies.

Besides these stories getting some traction, I feel that much doesn't come out of it, and often the "BigTechCo" doesn't even comment on the matter.

How will change happen? Are there organizations fighting this?
Wow, that was great. And honestly good on them for profit-taking on this arbitrage.

The author likes to pin this on zero-interest rates ("ZIRP") and that certainly explains why the system is awash with cash but I'd say he's missing a key point here.

When I moved to NYC (~10 years ago) I didn't order delivery at all. Honestly it's a huge pain. To call someone up and try and communicate an order to someone who probably doesn't have the best grasp of English (no offense intended here). I just couldn't be bothered.

What changed was Seamless came along and suddenly I could order food and not have to talk to anyone. It was (and is) amazing. In NYC at least the restaurants are still handling deliveries (with Seamless anyway) so there's still that control. Seamless/Grubhub seem to charge exorbitant fees but that's another issue.

As an aside, this is a key factor in my use for Uber/Lyft: the fact that the process is seamless (pardon the pun). You order a car without talking to anyone, it arrives and it drops you off. There's no awkward payment step. No dealing with a machine that's broken. No card skimming. It just reduces friction.

This is the promise of food delivery platforms: they benefit the consumer in terms of discovery, convenience and the seamlessness of ordering and payment. You might point out that people get cold pizza because UberEats drivers don't have the bag and you're right. But that's not an unsolvable problem.

Oh and this is the first I'd heard of Grubhub replacing Yelp phone numbers with their own call center. More evidence that Yelp is a cess pool that needs to be flushed. It's sad Grubhub is engaging in this. We have enough rent-seekers. Thanks anyway.
Would it? I don’t believe that Canonical is anywhere close to dominating the Linux space, and MS is continuing its slow slide from total market dominance.

Under what theory would the justice department interfere?
> It will be impossible for engineering departments to replace many of these lost researchers. That in turn will force many labs to shutter or scale back, making college towns a less attractive investment destination for private companies.

This part made me curious. Is grad school not all that competitive to get into?
In addition to what others are saying, I'll point out that up until the 20th century most of the people lived in extreme poverty.

We are talking 90% of the population living in extreme poverty and suffering from malnutrition.

A number that plummeted in the 20th century, especially since 1960, being less than 10% in 2015.

This was due to technology and the industrial revolution of course, but those went hand in hand with capitalism.

So from what perspective was it better?
What in the world are you talking about? The whole idea of a Type/Class Hierarchy is based on publicly accessible virtual methods or more precisely, on dynamic dispatch.
If they have to cheat to solve the toy academic problems, how are they going to solve real problems?
This. In 2007 and 2008 we saw what having a mortgage meant: it meant being unable to move. Having a mortgage is akin to renting capital, but unlike renting property, moving is made difficult by having a mortgage -- much more difficult if it's under water. Sure, owning outright is nice, but for young people it's neither a realistic possibility (not having accumulated enough capital yet) nor desirable for the same reason as above: young people need to be free to move wherever the opportunities are.
>> it might be cheaper in the long run than more satellites.

Wrong comparison. It is cheaper than the previous military spaceplane: Shuttle.
Selling optimism. Makes it seem as if recovery from this magnitude will be so fast. I don't think so, not with trying to go back to business as usual.
> The rationale (which I still don't agree with) was that many browsers would send "en-US" by default, and so it wasn't a reliable indication of the user's actual language.

Sounds like a potential workaround is to set your language to another flavour of English like "en-CA" or "en-GB".
for a definition of conscious yes. the problem is that we don’t really understand what consciousness is and we tend to anthropomorphize everything.

what if consciousness is the synchronicity of the observations of the outside world with the predictions of our brains?

no more, no less, with and added layer of hierarchies and recursion.
> I don’t think that most western countries can emulate it though

They certainly can't if they don't even... try.
Maybe your native editors just suck.

There are many people who have older hardware. For example I write this on a 2009 Macbook. My parents use older hardware still. And we're relatively well-off in a rich western country. These machines are perfectly fine to use for almost all tasks, but they're not powerful enough to run ten copies of Chrome. We might easily be able to afford that newer 500€ laptop, but for many people that multiple months of income. Not to mention the unnecessary waste the churn produces.
If I'm in Denmark, and I've got an en-US browser setting it can be because I am visiting Denmark, in which case I probably don't know the language, or two because I have made a conscious effort to get an English version of the browser.

In short if your location has a different default language setting than what you are sending, what you are sending is probably what you really prefer.
One selling point is ordering from places that don't offer deliveries, like McDonald's or Burger King. Essentially pay someone else to order and collect for you.

That can backfire, as with the article here...

McDonald's is now partnering with Uber Eats, but in the wild west days there were a few apps which let you order from pretty much anywhere.
You have more in common with them than you think; both you and a portion of the r/childfree community try to validate their own choices by being demeaning and hateful towards people on the other side. It's hard for me to believe that someone genuinely happy and confident about their life choices would exhibit the vitriol that you, and some members of r/childfree, do.
I honestly don't know if I'm living in a different world than everyone else but I've been ordering food and taking cabs all my life and I've never had to deal with any friction. Like, you call the pizzeria, tell them what you want and then some college student delivers your stuff, and if you order for more than 20 bucks it doesn't cost you anything. Not even being facetious, but what problem do these apps solve?

I also don't know how "not having to talk to someone" is a perk.
You can make all your articles free/unpaywalled if you want. But then if a publication wants to add your article, they can’t. Only paywalled articles can be added to publications.
Your case is more clear cut because that is a glitch in the website. It seems that in this case Doordash is offering a promotion. Calling that fraud would be like calling taking advantage of reward points fraud.
Getting sued because you happened to be in same restaurant as someone who got covid.
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"My second thought: I knew Doordash scraped restaurant websites. After we discussed it more, it was clear that the way his menu was set up on his website, Doordash had mistakenly taken the price for a plain cheese pizza and applied it to a 'specialty' pizza with a bunch of toppings."
And still your order is wrong half the time.
It’s even worse: How can you be sure that you can separate the internal from the external? Both seem to have to be present in order to make sense of anything.
A sleepwalker is not conscious, yet you can converse with them, ask them questions, get answers, you can tell them to do things.

In every external way they appear conscious, yet they are not. They are not aware of their own existence.

So consciousness is clearly more complicated than just "summation of changes that happened in our brain", there is something extra there, that we don't understand.
But what work is this notion of a universal consciousness doing for you? Why not just get rid of it and say that we are all just independent processes with psychological continuity that entails our experience of individuality?
I think covid crisis itself is more of an accelerator than a 'changer'. Much to soon to have a definitive answer on what it will directly change, but where we are is with pressures from about 5 years out starting to stack suddenly on us now, market instability in certain sectors, etc.
The stubbornness to hold onto norms and habits is a real pain as well.
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No.

You might find the book Program Development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design by Barbara Liskov and John Guttag very useful for understanding OOD/OOP.
The key advantage for webapps is distribution. I can create a new version and almost instantly distribute to all my users. Therefore webapps can change much faster than native ones
My wife and I have a two year old business (https://hostelofmaine.com) that will likely go under if stay at home orders & shut downs are not lifted in the near future. That said, I am 100% in favor of continuing to disallow discretionary travel at this time. I would rather go bankrupt and start over (no rich family if you're wondering) than be responsible for an outbreak in our community.

Of course we need to open, but right now (May) is not that time. If I had to guess (which is irrelevant to a data driven approach) I would assume late June or July would be safer.
The U.S. government spends more on healthcare than the UK government does [1], even though the latter insures all citizens and the former doesn't. The cost of universal healthcare isn't really the issue. The U.S. is spending much more and getting much less.

You see the same thing with the U.S. military. The U.S. spends far more than any other nation on the military, yet look at what happened when Yemen fell apart - the Chinese military evacuated Chinese citizens, the Indian military evacuated Indian citizens, the Pakistani military evacuated Pakistani citizens, and the U.S. government told U.S. citizens that they were on their own[2].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42950587
[2] https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/21/washington-to-americans...
> Even before coronavirus, President Donald Trump's administration had been working to decrease the inflow of students from overseas

Sometimes I wonder if the U.S. is purposefully trying to move down in world rankings... I'm not sure why anyone would think it's a good idea to intentionally limit the opportunities to the best and hardest working people in the world; those opportunities will just spring up elsewhere instead. I have a theory that a society cannot maintain leading world standings without also leading in science and technology, and it's not long before the U.S. loses this (if it hasn't already). Most of the greatest recent technological advances are already driven by people born outside the U.S. that work within the country; it wouldn't surprise me if they decide that coming to the U.S. is just no longer worth the hassle.
They may have access to it, but how can they monitize it beyond services directly for the NHS?
Is it wrong to assume that just having access to the data does not mean Planatir can use it to benefit parties other than the NHS?
> should I feel bad about ripping up those pieces of paper?

Do you feel bad every time you have a beer and potentially kill off a few brain cells?
I suspect people are making this more complex than it needs to be. For most of these tests the difference between a good score and a poor one are just a few questions.

So, the first step is just to actually take the test. The cheating bit would be having someone monitoring what your doing via a reasonably hi-res hidden camera/etc pointed at your screen/etc. Then all you need is a channel for that person to communicate with you. Be that a tiny bluetooth hearing aid in one ear, a phone/screen taped hidden on your leg/etc or to your existing screen. Basically somewhere not visible to any camera's monitoring you.

So, when the person monitoring you detects you have answered something incorrectly they send you something to the effect "question #5's correct answer is Y because A,B,C". Then later you get a moment of insight and go back and fix the problem. In theory, unless your completely clueless the difference between a 2 and a 4 is just a couple questions so this would only have to happen a couple times during the whole test. Again, unless your completely clueless, if the proctor notices you fixing an incorrect answer and asks "why did you just change your answer" you give them something reasonable sounding. Heck for some of them, it might not even have to be the right answer, its completely possible for someone to get the right answer the wrong way in a multiple choice section. AKA, "I guessed on that one the first time and A & B seemed far fetched so I just picked C over D, but then later I questioned my assumption and decided it was B & C that seemed far fetched so I picked the remaining answer which was D rather than A".

Anyway, I'm not sure the screen is needed. For a test that is 100% multiple choice, a buzzer in your shoe would be enough if it went off whenever you selected a wrong answer, and then pulsed a code to indicate the right answer.
If that's where the dividing line is, then bitcoin should be subject to the tax (since it's finite - only a finite amount can ever be created). Ditto collectibles - the finiteness of the supply is the point of collectibles. And ditto stuff like art created by now-dead artists.

So either you need to say that LVT applies to those kinds of assets, or you need a different explanation for why land and not other assets.
Surprised no one has (at least so far) in this long thread mentioned Feynman's books. Those were the real mind-benders for me. Absolutely made me think differently about myself and my place in the world.
It's a loss-leader for the owners.
Yeah the key here is you have a graphics card, even an old low-end one. With these "dual-GPU" laptops, the default is whatever integrated nonsense is, and you have to specifically activate the fancy NVidia card for specific programs (the Windows drivers do this automatically).

I can't easily figure out from the ASUS page what the other card is. If it's the APU it might theoretically be able to do OK on DOTA2, with the right drivers, but without setup I'd give decent odds the author is running the fallback VESA driver, meaning it's basically doing the whole thing in software.
So anecdote time. This is my one experience talking to management all the way up to the core "founding" members of a company I worked at once. They were trying to hire rapidly during a heavy scaling period of the company. However, the skill set they needed (actually required in this case) to run their new locations was indeed looking for unicorns. These people existed (I was one of them), but the ones they managed to find who also passed their interview process declined offers. I understood why - the market had shifted a lot and even with a subset of the required skills, these people could find higher paying, less stressful work. The value prop of the potential options also had significantly fallen.

I had multiple conversations where I brought this up, yet for some reason, those in the founding group simply did not believe me. Who would turn down the chance to work at a hot startup? They had joined for far less and during far more stressful conditions. What's being offered now should be more than enough, right?

I came away from those meetings and that company learning that some founders don't realize that unicorns, like themselves, are often the type to do exactly what you said rather than join them.
Sometimes I'm annoying is that It seems that some cloud services (I imagine Firebase) only provides endgame solution for datastore.
>> What do think happens if you're wrong and doing this would cause a feedback loop of more and more benefits, spending, and money printing?

> People concerned about that ought to support implementing it with the relatively trivial-to-implement negative feedback controls which prevent that.

I just don't see how that's trivial to implement at at all. What "negative feedback controls" are you referring to?
I prefer desktop apps and I pay license fees for those, which I use as standard for the task or daily. Nothing beats them. I especially like it if they are made scriptable, preferably by using a scripting host provided by the OS (if available).
The community is already coming together to rebuild. The CS meetup in Auckland is rebranding as BeWelcome. Kaohsiung is discussing it.

I'm sad that all those good memories will be tinged with pain by this betrayal, but it's given me a good reason to get back in touch with old friends, and invite them to BW. I wholeheartedly agree with your descriptions of CS and trusting strangers; you've had some great stories!
There is a similar storage facility in a mountain east of Salt Lake City where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints keeps geneological and church records.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite_Mountain_%28Salt_Lake_...
One day I was visiting Austria when I used my mobile browser to find something on Google. The results came back in German.

Ok fine whatever, don’t really speak German but did enough in high school to muddle through. Proba localization, will turn back when I go home.

2 years later and Google on my phone remains German. This is my life now ... at least I get to practice a little german I guess
For most networked applications, there are two classes of permissions control - inbound and outbound.

The inbound is a run-time decision and dynamic at that - Firewalls, WAFs etc. are used for control. These are not (and probably should not) be set by the application author, but by the application operator.

The outbound however, is typically something that is designed into the application - it should be specified by the author, be available for auditing - both on first install and all subsequent changes. IMHO, this is where these whitelists shine.

For the server example you mention, whitelists don't prevent a malicious dependency from using your CPU for mining. With deno, by default, there is no way to dial-home the proof-of-work and collect the reward. Eventually, as the operator of the service, you'll notice a performance/cost problem and detect the malicious activity.
It gets dicier when the restaurant starts shipping out plain pizza dough.