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Have you got any links, or can you explain the optimisations that are possible in RxJava?

I've done some vert.x and creating new Futures all the time is a bit cumbersome, but I understand it. With RxJava it's another layer on top, and you are even more removed.

The whole non-blocking experience in java feels like there is a lot of plumbing. I know it's fast for IO reasons, but it really feels like the JVM/CPU has to jump through a lot of glue code to make it work.
Why would I need a pointer to run a container?
You could make neighborhoods a lot safer with a lot fewer police by using modern methods like facial recognition cameras and unmanned aerial surveillance. Break-ins and robberies suddenly become wildly easy to punish afterwards and a lot of investigative work like tracking gang members to get a sense of their operations morphs into a trivial affair.

Citations would go a long way here.
> Will security vulnerabilities in libraries that have been statically linked cause large or unmanagable updates?

This is maybe not an issue for open source packages which are managed by your distribution package manager, assuming they update all the dependent packages once some library gets updated (which would lead to a lot more updates all the time).

However, the maybe more critical issue is about other independently installed software, or maybe closed source software, where you will not automatically get an update once some library gets updated.
Accepting such a giant restriction ('not allowed' implies no override) would mean you are at the mercy of whoever controls the self-driving cars. They can kidnap you any time you enter a car, or prevent you from using your car to escape, or just subtly make your life very difficult.

Historically, people that allowed themselves to completely fall into someone else's hands have not fared well. The words 'slavery' and 'genocide' tend to come up when describing their fate.
The original reasoning for shared libraries was reducing memory footprint -- back then memory was scarce. We're talking back in the days of SVR2, the mid-80s.

The original reasoning for ELF was that static link semantics suck. ELF's semantics are far superior (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23656173).
Windows 10 will literally auto reboot while you are playing game, ignore the fact it's a game and think of it as high resource usage. People probably don't care if their machine reboots in the middle of the night, they do care when it decides to reboot right in the middle of usage.
Any time I've had that happen, I've ignored prompts to install updates on my schedule, or even to schedule to update to happen some time in the next week. Every time I tell it to schedule the update, it does it when I tell it to.
I have had similar success stories and a few that accidentally came through the process.

It helps if you can be more specific and not use loaded terms like 'intelligence'. If it was a single metric placements would not be so complex.

Here are some things I look for: intrinsic interest/self-starting, logical reasoning, high-level or conceptual thought processes, abstract or mathematical mental models (e.g. non-procedural thinking), open-mindedness/lateral thinking/connecting non-adjacent knowns, algebraic/symbolic representations and manipulation.

That doesn't even make up half though. A larger part is more about how they actually go about working day-to-day. Are they easy to talk/disagree with? Show continued interest in learning or content to apply what they know? Can work on longer projects to completion? Do the necessary boring stuff.

A good team needs mostly the latter qualities and a few members that can sometimes be the 'cooks' in the restaurant.
I once looked up the arrest records in my local area. The number one reason for arrest was "driving without a license." (with no other infractions listed). I'm not saying that this was racial profiling, but I'm not denying that people with Hispanic last names accounted for the vast majority of these arrests. I am at least implying that it is a little suspicious and maybe requires a little more nuance and closer inspection.
Not to mention that fixing a security vulnerability in, say, libm or libc becomes an amount of work equivalent to a distribution upgrade with all the associated risks.

Or am I the only one who has occasional problems when replacing all the binaries on my system?
> It was UberEATS, which launched that week.

He doesn't mention it specifically, but UberEATS was 15-minute delivery at the time, IIRC

Competitor SpoonRocket closed just 1 month later: https://www.inc.com/kenny-kline/how-spoonrocket-blew-135-mil...

Although, Postmates got into the game the month after that, in NYC: https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/19/postmates-launching-15-min...
Amazon’s “losses” have mostly been a tax dodge. They would for example invest in software R&D without presenting it as an investment from profits but rather an operating expense.
To spell it out:

The stock market is anti-inductive by design. Statistical patterns that reflect market inefficiencies are supposed to disappear over time.

Most problems are not anti-inductive.

So yeah, "you can't even predict the stock market with your methods" is a pretty terrible argument against methods that were never meant to predict the stock market.
I finally got pissed off enough at the forced update policy that I made a tool to disable updates for real: https://github.com/wheybags/win10bsfixer

It works by killing and disabling the windows update service every 10 seconds, so it should be resilient to pretty much any aggressive changes ms makes. It does allow manually updating when you want to too. I want to have it handle some other nasty behaviours too eventually, but its enough for me to use for now.
JuliaCon 2020 Talks
Is reality racist or just the data used to describe it? If the latter, I see no issue with your argument. If the former, I think we need be careful about legislating reality ( mostly because it doesn't work ).
He lives in NYC to make matters worse during those earlier months. He's alive and didn't catch it though, so there's that.

Doesn't come from like a super wealthy family, but he'll be fine financially if things never return to normal. We're in our 30s so I do think he's looking for something more structured anyways, this might be a catalyst.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/upshot/why-americans-resi...

“The country has been so traditional in the persistence of the idea that women did not belong in the work force,” Ms. Michel said, “but the idea that poor women, especially black women, should work has persisted.”

https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a27496656/3-wom...
This sounds like fighting with your own computer. No thanks, I go to GNU/Linux.
It's not airborne. It's spread by droplets and fomites.
> From my understanding "abolish the police" means to reorganize it and greatly reduced the funding.

"Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...
I am so angry at this behavior on Firefox.

I type the first letter. Firefox displays 10 options. I think they are bookmarks and recent google searches containing the letter. The ordering kinda corresponds to how recently or how often I used them, but it is not exactly that, for example the link I choose almost always somehow remains at the 2nd place. Whatever.

I type the second letter. Again, Firefox displays 10 options, bookmarks and recent google searches that contain the substring. At that moment, the link I want to click is quite often displayed somewhere. So I move my mouse...

...but a fraction of second later, Firefox loads "things it thinks I might want to search" (probably popular search results by other people that start with those two letters I typed) and inserts them into positions 2 - 5, moving the other search results below them...

...and just as I am pressing my mouse button, the link below my mouse cursor is replaced by google search for something completely irrelevant.

Aaaaargh!

(I wonder whether it is an accident, or on purpose, that the most frequently used link goes to the 2nd place, not the 1st one, so it gets replaced by an irrelevant google search. I suspect it probably increases some metric somewhere, and is probably interpreted as a good thing.)
One is a personalized echo chamber, the other exposes you to the most provocative (by interaction) content. No shit your twitter feed is more aggressive... your personal facebook feed has nothing to do with how toxic facebook or twitter is in sum.
This is a good article in that it acknowledges the several possible causes of a lower daily death rate; patient demographics, standard of care, mutation of the virus to a more moderate form, or something else entirely.

At this point there’s a definite effect but the cause(s) are only speculative.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23656173
There are secondary effects to "tough on crime policies", and more severe punishments do not necessarily increase deterrence effects on crime, and could even cause more crime. There is a very complex relationship between the factors that influence crime which is likely anything but linear.

"Tough on crime" statutes were implemented across much of the US 40 years ago, and the results we've seen are anything but a success story. Sure, crime has dropped, but at the expense of becoming the world's #1 country by incarceration and causing downstream societal effects as we lose economic productivity, rip apart families (and potentially create new criminals), and create public distrust of police.

Some might say that is a reasonable price to pay for a decrease in crime, but that doesn't hold water when we it compare to the rest of the western world who saw the same or even better drop in crime without all of the side-effects of the 'tough-on-crime' policies. Globalization, technology, and a drop in poverty caused this drop in crime, not 'tough-on-crime' policies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_drop
No, it isn’t possible. FTA:

“Unfortunately, it can't be ported completely due to lack of pattern matching in Go.

The only possible way was to use channels and select {}, but it would be too complicated and it would be just an imitation.”

I don’t understand how the solution using channels would work.
> Trust in institutions is absolutely key to the proper functioning of government

There is this fascinating 2011 paper [1][2] showing that this trust is very long lasting: They found more trust in public institutions in those areas that had been part of the (well-run) Habsburg Empire a century earlier.

[1] The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire!
Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy [pdf] http://ftp.iza.org/dp5584.pdf

EDIT to add:

[2] A summary and nice map: https://voxeu.org/article/habsburg-empire-and-long-half-life...
Building AI Trading Systems
"Other ideas he’d considered earlier were more like moonshots—hotels for homeless people, for example."

I'm curious to know whether those moonshots were ideas he decided to not pursue himself, or if he was talked out of those ideas by VCs? I've noticed a trend of some founders I know starting with big ambitious ideas and then, after getting into an incubator or talking to a few investors, somehow coming to the realization that [generic software company] is the idea they're actually really passionate about pursuing. Also happens after they talk to some professors, but professors at wharton are likely not representative of academia in general I think. It seems even within the circle of people that have access to VC and such opportunities, even if they aren't originally representative of your standard software startup, they tend to be pushed towards that, maybe explicitly, maybe implicitly, i really don't know.
The unit is the book. He has concluded several.
Can someone explain the difference with graphviz?
I love buying tour t-shirts. I have amassed a large collection I hope to pass onto my kids at some point.

What I wouldn't give for some of the shirts I've seen my dad wearing in old photos of shows he went to. Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones, etc.
Preventing or curing every disease. Carbon-free energy. Self-driving cars with >10x lower accident rate. Many more at https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs

None of them are easy, but many of them will happen soon enough to invest in today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_sex-determination_system
I'm looking forward to this when I move next. I currently have Rogers 1Gbps on a promotional rate, which is pretty good, but 30Mbps upload cap. Also double what you're paying!
>So you want to be able to post ads that say that people of certain races are inferior? I don't understand.

OP clearly laid out their own examples, please don't go out of your way to make one up so you have a strawman to attack.
> Billionaire CEOs might not see it that way, but they're wrong.

Where is that line crossed though? It's a murky one, that is for sure. There is not exact dollar amount. I'd say there is no line at all, everyone is responsible.

Similarly with CC, there is no line. Any effort is a good effort, even if it 'doesn't matter compared to ... '.

We're all hypocrites in the end, not a single one of us is perfect (depends on your religion, though, I guess). With CC, that means that any effort you can put in is 'worth it'. This is not a 0% or 100% thing. Even 1% is good.
A happy Ubuntu users here for the last 15 years, I guess I don't really understand what Microsoft is messing around anymore and I'm just glad that I do not need Microsoft at all for so long.
Absolutely. I’ll note that nobody reposting Beto’s “we’re going to take your AR-15s!” line was blocked, even though I’m pretty sure Beto wasn’t planning on sending social workers to do the confiscation.

I’m not one of those “taxation is theft” people, but the state’s monopoly on violence is a real thing, and violence is implicit in every government law. When Warren proposed to create a wealth tax, implicit in that assertion is that the government would collect it from people by force if necessary.

Facebook’s policy on violence, applied to government speakers, is like people who eat meat being squeamish about hunting. Where do you think your food comes from? Likewise, what do you think is the basis for all these things you think the government should make people do?
Thanks, I did not know that. I wonder why AMD has a license. These licenses are _not cheap_ !!

Fun fact: AMD Zen processors contain at least one ARM cpu but as far as I know they are always 32bit and not modified from original hard macros.
Is it? Working from here. What kind of network error do you get?
1) This part of the policy has not changed.
2) State actors warning about use of state force is likely not going to be taken as incitement of violence (incitement of violence is “someone should go and beat those people up”, not “the police, who are under my command, might go and do something” - the latter isn’t inciting anyone).
> We finally got some progress on margins, but it meant degrading the product: food is fickle.

> Less money in, worse food out.

I tried Sprig a few times and really found the food quality so underwhelming that I never became a repeat customer. Maybe I caught them during this period.
(I work for a blockchain company.) It is still a useful pattern. It was definitely overhyped. There is still a useful core value proposition there and the market will settle out towards where it makes sense.
It can also cut the other way though. Bugs can be introduced, compatibility can be broken, users can not find the library in their package manager, or they may find too new of a version. The danger of this is smaller for popular libraries, but goes up as you move to the long tail.
> I contend that it is possible to have both, it's just that no one is trying to anymore.

Pure OS is truing, according to their website: https://pureos.net/
Super exciting! Fantastic work and cool demo!

I hope this can be 'stabilized' to allow video compression. If you run eg. style transfer networks on video, the artifacts in the outputted frames arent stable, they jump around from frame to frame.

(Not sure if you can decode this at 24 fps on normal hardware, but still...)
I was arguing that it's not "premature" to analyze crime and policing data statistically. If we include and add in your insights--and I think it's foolish to think crime experts haven't thought of them before, but if they haven't:

I would still argue that it's not "premature" to look at crime and policing data; in fact, I'd say it's high time we did it.

tl;dr you are not addressing what I was arguing

(and to everybody else here, I was not advocation Bayes Theorem, I was relying on it as a baseline truth for synecdoche for statistical analysis. If you want to object to Bayes Theorem, that's on you, it wasn't my point...)
When there's a clear revenue source coming out of it, bonds make sense to pay for it.

And yeah, if you're in barely first world conditions where you're struggling to hook sewer up to your residents near a major municipality, you obviously have systemic issues that get in the way of proper utility work of nearly any scale.
Right. Generally, when somebody gets pulled over for a trivial violation and then something bigger is found during the stop, they only write a ticket for the bigger violation. Less paperwork that way and has the end result they were looking for.
From studies I’ve read it is noted that most of those calls could be handled by a social worker or other non-violent responder.

The problem is the police budget has dwarfed and subsumed all non-violent requests as well.
What do you mean by "source-based distribution"?
How is arch Linux a source based distro?
I think this is what you are referring to[1]. I don't think the goal is making everything externizable, I think the goal is just to have good api's everywhere. Easy productization is a side effect.

[1] https://medium.com/slingr/what-year-did-bezos-issue-the-api-...
Facebook is crawling with Nazis, angry cops, angry Nazi cops, and every other kind of filth. What makes you think they proactively remove it?

https://www.revealnews.org/article/inside-hate-groups-on-fac...
From the title I was expecting a more general purpose algorithm visualizer. I think this is more accurately described as "Graph Traversal Algorithm Visualizer".
very telling that this is the response to a post that only tangentially touches on hate speech and mostly focusses on voter supression, but you don't need to worry on the behalf of the Fins, because in Finland hate speech is already penalized by law.

", it is prohibited in Finland and defined in the section 11 of the penal code, War crimes and crimes against humanity, as published information or as an opinion or other statement that threatens or insults a group because of race, nationality, ethnicity, religion or conviction, sexual orientation, disability, or a comparable basis. Ethnic agitation is punishable with a fine or up to 2 years in prison, or 4 months to 4 years if aggravated (such as incitement to genocide)"

So from my perspective as a European user Facebook by changing its behaviour will finally be in accordance with what is already the law across most of the continent.
A camera-based self-driving autopilot is also capable of driving without hesitation straight into an overturned truck on a sunny day less than a month ago:

https://www.autoblog.com/2020/06/01/video-tesla-model-3-cras...
Grinding does make it harder for true, raw creativity.

I would say being in a good mood, and being carefree - completely non-judgemental of one's own thoughts. So being in an environment were 'nothing matters'. Even going to an office, there are 100 little things we are doing to be professionally conformist. So avoiding that. Sometimes it's hard for organised people to feel comfortable with disorganisation. So trying to get in a state of mind where it doesn't matter.

Doing something that is 'not serious' can help with this. So if the project has literally no purpose this may help creatively though it can really hurt the impetus to 'get it done'.

It seems like a trope, but getting to the place of the 'inner child' is certainly real. Remember when you had zero responsibilities and didn't plan ahead even 10 minutes? Totally care free. That space is hard for a lot of people because I think we feel it will make us fully 'child like' or that we lose our 'adult' demeanour. Or will be construed by others to be 'irresponsible'.

Doing something that's closer to raw creativity. Having fun in photoshop, experimenting with filters etc. - this has nothing to do with anything but a weird lesson I learned long ago there was to just 'let go' of whatever you're trying to do, and just 'go where it takes you', i.e. to be open to whatever your subconscious or a bit of randomness is happening, as opposed to the construct you might have in your head.

In improv they have this notion of 'yes, and' - which is to say whatever the other actor says, you have to go along with. It's really amazing to see how that works, and how minds can form coherency out of that.

The more proficient one is with the tools: code, frameworks, audio eng. DAW, photoshop, words, paint, musical instrument - the less mind space they occupy and the more you can do what you want.

And of course 'just doing'. Sometimes literally putting pen to paper, trying something even if you have no clue what you are doing, is a neat place to start.

Also looking at other people's work. In design, going to Behance to see other people's work is really inspiring. It's neat to see how creative frontiers are ever expanding.
Huh, you're right. It could also be that the publication changed the headline or is showing different headlines to different audiences (I've seen the latter happen), but as of now only the HN headline is editorialized that way.
Nice, good for him.
I changed it for reasons I explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655803. The article title is misleading.

However, since now it's triggering the Betteridge reflex, and people are reacting purely to the title, I've reverted the edit. If anyone reads the article thoughtfully they will see that the answer to the question can only be "yes and no", but we can't expect that.
ugh, that bill is horrible. 0 talk of deregulating things which allow the ISP monopolies(which are responsible for the terrible service) to exist. Literally just another tax-payer handout to private companies.
State actors warning about use of state force is likely not going to be taken as incitement of violence

How do you know Facebook will not do that, when Twitter has already done exactly that?
Oh give me a break; no one is saying that we shouldn’t innovate.

And I don’t think people are hating on VC as a whole, this site is run by VCs after all.

Do you really want to live in a society where people go after businesses to make a quick buck no matter the consequences? I know that I self censor some of my ideas on the basis that I wouldn’t want to live with the results if they were wildly successful.

We all have an obligation to create a world that we (not the royal we) would like to live in. And that means constructing things with real, broad societal value. Think renewable energy rather than uber for liquor.
is there anything a resident can do? is the city run by the democrat or republican? is the pd or mayor a democrat? Is the police chief an electable position? (im in the UK and have been there for a day or 2, it seems pretty left wing)

how can a normal person living in the city use democracy to make real change?
McDonalds/Taco Bell do not have ghost kitchens. If all of their meals were completely and totally made off site and were delivered to the customer to order from an off-site then those would be examples of ghost kitchens.
Likely because a lot of people disagree with your stance for substantive reasons.

But you won't be the only voice saying it. HN and the tech industry in general has a consistent presence of people espousing the laissez faire view on free speech. It might not be the popular view, but it has plenty of mindshare.