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I hope this serves as a reminder to everyone here that THIS is why you should have a physical disconnect switch. I should be able to pull a breaker to disable self driving on my Tesla when I’m not using it.
It represents not going to jail for failing to pay taxes.

As a example of how much the value of fiat currency depends on taxation: https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420

Even if you barter without using any currency, the IRS wants a cut.
I use 'echo $0' to see what shell I'm using.
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I'm a 28 year old web app developer with a career in front-end web development. How can I switch to game development at this point?
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I think you’re forgetting the bit where the business that took the $850,000 loan is left with $850,000 debt and $0 balance after they spend all of it. Every time it passes through the system the amount recirculated simply decreases by the reserve %. It all still adds up to the original amount (plus interest).

In your example though, the bank has a different problem of offering unsecured loans, which could lead to some losses for them.
Maybe, maybe not. What happened to Garmin's share price?
It's called KHTML, but yes. Apple's fork is WebKit/WebCore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit#WebCore

KHTML isn't officially dead, but it's also not very active: https://phabricator.kde.org/source/khtml/history/master/
Yeah, that seems to happen every few years an people call it revolutionary, which half ends up implemented seems to vary.

And then they realize that it's not very useful without the other half and it dies.
It is possible to use Lua hooks to protect against programs that accidentally take too long too run. Lua can be told to stop the script after so many steps.

This technique isn't fool proof against maliciously crafted programs, but it might be sufficient depending on what you are doing.
Indeed. In the US the focus is typically on the drugs that come north, but it’s not just dollars that flow back south, it’s also weapons, which further destabilize the drug producing/transit countries.
Probably just fine.

My mother hated toy guns; my father insisted we be allowed to play with Nerf. Friends of the family weren't allowed toy guns at all, but the mother finally gave up: one morning, she saw her sons chew toast into the shape of pistols and chase each other around the table shouting "pew! pew!"
Especially since it is much easier to protect yourself against gas than it is to defend yourself against high explosives. Gas masks are cheap, explosives requires armored vehicles.
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Citation please? The profit that Colorado and other states are reporting makes it hard to believe the black market is even a shadow of its former self in those states.
Steve Jobs once said that an operating system was obsolete after 7 years. MacOS is now 36. MacOS X is now 19.
I actually work in the drone detection/jamming field.

My only surprise is that this sort of thing doesn't happen more often. We already see drones used for drug smuggling and privacy violations, as well as the use of drones to carry IED payloads.

Drones are an amazing tool but as with any tool, they can be used in nefarious ways.
It comes with the downside of being highly regulated. I have no idea if the weights and balances are correct, but it makes sense at the surface level that if you are risking the government’s money, you have to do it on their terms.
This is absolutely not going to be the case. Assuming both the US and Mexico simultaneous legalized all drugs, what happens to all the illegal jobs the cartels currently have?

Their people, money and weapons don't vanish and what we see when cartels take a hit income is violence increases and the cartels look to other methods of making income using they're existing tools. Protection rackets and kidnappings are already used as supplemental income, these would only increase.

Now a long approach of gradual decriminalization and legalization may work, with the ability to operate legally the need to utilize violence decreases over time as it's generally bad for business.
I’ve had the new MacBook since December, but still using the old one because there’s no smooth upgrade path for me.
To be that old, and not ‘know’ Linux, and insist on using Windows, that is more of an issue to me.

He has been in the industry for over three decades and is afraid of a CLI?
Ah, good to know, I thought it was proscriptive.

Let me rephrase, then: to write portable C, you must keep the first 31 characters of any name distinct, because it's legal for a compiler to ignore everything after that.
Part of the issue is that the cartels have always provided a sort of summer camp for psychopaths.

Charles Bowden wrote a bit about how absolutely terrifying it was to be anywhere in the proximity of these organizations.

By formalizing it, you would be essentially giving a formal role to guys who cut people's limbs off with chainsaws and post videos of it on LiveLeak.

Fighting the cartels leads to unimaginable violence, and leaving them alone just leads to them infiltrating every single level of the Mexican government, and carrying on with the violence anyway.

It is the sorrow of the country to be situated by an accident of geography between the single biggest market for meth and cocaine on the planet (who also happens to sell lots of military-grade weapons to anyone with a pulse), and the largest cocaine producing region on the planet.
Right, and it's not like it's ground breaking thinking here. It's just a matter of some personal restraint on your part to say, "No, I will not turn python into an interpreter for some disgusting yaml-based language."

Everyone agrees we hate this, until one day it's us who is dreaming it up, and we just can't resist! There should be no concept of "flow of execution", except for maybe expansion of previously declared variables just so you can do something like concatenating two lines together. Otherwise, the lack of logical operations will make even that unnecessary.
How is that even remotely similar?
We legalized weed and it didnt make a dent.

Theyre literally killing the competition for the avocado you bought yesterday.

Narcos are entrenched and not going anywhere anymore than Russian oligarchs.
Whoever did this would likely select some combination of valuable/soft/flammable targets. Control over a sizable fraction of all vehicles in a country would enable them to create utter pandemonium in tunnels, bridges and underpasses during rush-hour - even larger highways. Aside from fire, I'd imagine that the "disable vehicle on sensing a crash" functionality would end up being hackable as well. Cars on the whole had become less effective as murder weapons up until now, but I suppose that all changes when you can control them remotely via software at scale.
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That doesn't make it an IOU, though.
Just a simple cron job?
> (I will note, I was never barred from disclosing any of this publicly in any way. As a courtesy, I felt it would be the right thing to do to hold off on public disclosure for a while, potentially indefinitely. Years later, it seems worthwhile to disclose this information and highlight just how far things have come and how Tesla's software security has improved dramatically since then.)

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24327485, so no NDA.
Every time you use your credit card you create money as instead of pulling $20 out of your pocket you still have it to spend.

Of course you sterilize (cancel out) that creation when you pay the credit card bill.
A lot of people in the US don't even know how to scan a QR code, and for the longest time (maybe still now?) the most popular mobile phone OSes didn't come with a built-in scanner.
> The Internet creates an experience that feels like politics but involves no actual policy.

I just got a good quote today.
Ok, so first hand experience tells you an observer exists.

Are you sure that observer has your personality, mind and memories? Are you sure that observer is involved in any way with the world, other than observing it?

Or are those other things just part of the machinery, and quite illusory. For example our perception of time, coherent thought and personality aren't all that consistent, as we know from various experiments and observations.

Here is the crux of my point:

If there's an actual observer, let's call it "primal consciousness", but they are observing the world through the lens of a mind, which is a complex, self-referential, reactive process running on a brain and body, we don't need to say that any particular physical process "creates" consciousness. We can settle with physical processes create something complex and interesting, which runs models of itself and the world, which "primal consciousness" observes. The "mind machine" running on the physics does not contain the observer, it's observed by the observer.

That doesn't "solve" the hard problem, but it's a model with different properties and consequences than some of the other models.
This was such an interesting read. As a gay man, I'm pleased some of our culture is being unearthed from the past like this.
I work in this field. There's two components to this.

There is the possibility to track devices from the manufacturer via serial numbers etc. Regulation will help here. This isn't useful until after the fact for evidence gathering.

The second is to track them in the sky. DJI has a product AeroScope that tracks their drones, my company has a competing product (this isn't a plug so won't mention the name). The issue with this is you need hardware to do it, or use existing hardware. This is expensive, so only really feasible for specific assets (pipelines, corrections and sports facilities etc).
I think, if this had been abused, Tesla would be out of business.

But the fact that $50000 is chump change for Tesla does not mean it's chump change to the recipient.
Imagine being in Gitmo and having one of these implanted to both administer pain, and tell your handlers if you're still feeling like hiding something.
I honestly feel really terrible for your kids if this is how you teach them about the world outside your front door.
I did some stuff with WebRTC a year ago and it was so hard to find relevant learning materials. The technology is so cool and I can't wait to dig into this book. Thank you for putting this out!
Why are people using email? Doesn't USPS/Fedex work?
>I definitely don't want people thinking in any way we got money to write the entry

Certainly; archive.org has been singularly beyond reproach in that regard.
> "I am posting this on a throw-away account (so no ‘karma’ motivation)"

Seems weird to anonymously give praise. I would think it would mean much more coming from your real account (just my opinion).

Using a throwaway account is usually for controversial posts/comments that you don't want any backlash from... and I'm not sure anyone would have even noticed the `karma` motivation before you brought it up...

Anyway, I agree with you, thanks to all the moderators that fight to keep this site from bursting into flame-wars, and constantly encourage curious conversation
It's the bloat that is terrible. Chrome pages are 5x the size of the same page on Linux or Windows. You need 8GB minimum nowadays to run Catalina where Tiger it was 256MB.
Your two sentences directly contradict each other.

What do you mean to say?
Money is defined as a commonly accepted medium of exchange. Yes, anyone can create IOUs which satisfy the abstract idealization of money as a "numeraire", but if these IOUs are not commonly accepted for commercial transactions then they aren't money. This is an empirical definition, which is perhaps less useful for theoretical arguments.

Banks which participate in a central banking scheme (such as the Federal Reserve System) have a license to create IOUs which are authenticated by the government which sponsors that central bank. In other words, such banks can create IOUs that are backed by the full trust and credit of the government, not merely their own trust and credit as a business enterprise. I'm not sure I would characterize this as "impressive", but it is most certainly a privileged and unique position over the rest of us.
> The employees and the manufacturer can all withdraw the money at any time

This isn't quite correct. If all parties go to withdraw their money at the same time, the bank will not be able to give it, because they only actually have $1M in reserve.

In practice, if there are more withdrawals than than the bank has in reserve, it is usually able to get short term loans from the central bank which than ACTUALLY creates the money and loans it to the bank.

However, over the long-term if too many of the bank's loans default, they won't have enough assets to cover the deposits, which is how banks usually fail.
Unless, of course, the same tokens were used to conduct the drug transactions.

Then all the token holders have an interest in preventing non-tokenized transactions.

This is all ridiculous (and evil of course) but it has a certain internally consistent logic to it.

Why would they adopt a new system given they've got such a good grip on current one?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-20/californ...
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Internet Explorer 3 was even more blatant — its desktop icon label was "The Internet"! https://i.imgur.com/uq1AW2I.png
Yes, I think there is a fair number of people who don’t know that some nouns should be capitalized.
Maybe someone accidentally checked in the PSDs
You make a good point !

The thing I would put on communism is reduction of wealth and standards, so when the west rebuilt and went forward we got stuck with concrete slabs.

It's just shocking to me how the architecture and aesthetics regressed and never really recovered.

Here's an example of a building from 30s that I would consider built for common folk but inspired : http://www.lokalpatrioti-rijeka.com/forum/download/file.php?...

It's not grandiose - but it follows the hill line and the corner perfectly, it has distinctive visual elements. Compare it to that concrete slab you see in the background which the city is full off.
I'm not sure this is an age thing, but a personality thing. I've worked with several people in their 20s and 30s who have had one or more of these traits, as well as older folks who had few or none.

I'm stopping short of making any generalizations, because in my experience the evidence (for me at least) isn't there to make any. Perhaps things are different elsewhere, though. I'm only speaking from my experience, as I suppose we all are.
Yeah, basic research is also important if you have the spare capacity to do it.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22790728

https://rootshirechess.glitch.me/ (https://glitch.com/edit/#!/rootshirechess)
You could have said the same thing about WeWork or Theranos not so long ago.
I don't think you can compare the addictiveness of sites today to those of a decade ago. The algorithms are very different. It should be unsurprising that in the last decade that they have gotten better at engineering ~~addiction~~engagement.
> You have to consider situations like this when discuss banning remote updating.

Isn't that exactly what we're doing? If someone pushes out a malicious change, do you know how long it would take for that change to propagate to the entire Toyota fleet?

It wouldn't.
> like a MD

A doctor 'invented' calculus in 1994. You don't know whether to admire or regret - the lack of exposure to maths.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8137688/
I found this video very informative - an effective eli5 about how the economy works with an emphasis on debt: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
> despite marketing to the contrary autopilot only really works on the easiest part of driving

Is that not what Autopilot is sold as? Does it not make you read and accept a disclaimer stating exactly this?
Wow, your response is literally "let them hold us hostage, it's safer than upsetting the status quo."
I was skeptical at first, but now I am quite pleased with bookshop.org. It would be great if they had a subscription based thing similar to Prime so that I wouldn't have to pay so much for shipping each time (and if you don't go with UPS, then it tends to be very slow).
> In 2016, Russian Twitter bots spread divisive messages designed to discourage some Americans from voting and encourage others to vote for Russia’s preferred presidential candidate, Donald Trump.

After 4 years after the election I still can't get why people buying that. Not the American citizen, though, but why people who support this myth not questioned if we need democracy that can be hacked by twitter?

Yeah, I know about the research that can reinforce the evidence of Russian bots activity.
If their main source of income is cut off they will have to immediately downsize or it would all eat into the boss’s accumulated wealth. Reestablishing the cartel on kidnapping and other violent crime is not as lucrative as selling sniffy gold. If they start kidnapping in America is a different thing all together but doing it in Mexico would not yield enough money to keep the current operations - unless they kidnap every Mexican citizen or something like that... Closest move is to get involved directly into politics
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> They're selling dossiers on you to groups literally trying to gaslight and manipulate you, to subconsciously influence you to do things, or to just make you generally feel like shit.

Where can I find one of these dossiers? Or at least a screenshot example of a dossier that someone bought from Facebook?

Surely you wouldn't make a claim without seeing proof of this behavior happening. That would misinform people and your not trying to do that, right?
I think the key here, and unfortunately most companies don't give a sh*t, is to allow the user to gain control over his device and/or take it offline if it pleases him. For example, a Tesla car should come with an option to disable any remote control features, or a way to control it over short distance only when it's offline (I don't know if its already the case, I don't have a tesla).
> You need to know what to do when copying data from one filesystem to another when the names can't be stored on the destination.

You already need to know that, because filesystems are a jungle. This covers everything from special characters, to non-Unicode encodings, to different Unicode-like encodings, to special names, to file name length limits, and path length limits.

Consider that on Linux a filename is just an arbitrary sequence of bytes with some limitations, and on Windows it's an arbitrary sequence of 16-bit integers. You can put unpaired surrogate characters in a Windows path, and you can put 0xff in a Linux path.

> I feel it's often better to train the user on how to use a simple system effectively, than to build a complex system. You have to put the complexity somewhere, and humans are easier to change than software and hardware.

Filenames are something that affects everyone who uses computers for more than just browsing the web. By and large, these people have been using case-insensitive filesystems for the past 40 years, except the people using Unix-derivatives other than macOS--a small slice of people with a high percentage of experts.

So if you have an idea of how to train a billion people to deal with case sensitivity problems that they didn't have to do with before, I'm all ears.

And yes... the case folding and locale problems exist. I think we're already on the way to the right solution there... hide the filesystem completely from most people who use computers. The filesystem is a terrible way to organize data, so we are building more complicated filesystems and more complicated stacks on top of filesystems to make it easier for humans to work with, and rightly so.
I know this will get downvoted into oblivion on HN - but I just can’t resist. Another way to write unmaintainable code - write it the Ruby/Rails way! No comments, no flowerboxes, no docstrings! Your method and variable names ARE your documentation!

In all seriousness though, I have found that even with carefully and thoughtfully named variables, classes, methods, etc., code with no comments and no human-readable explanation is very difficult to maintain. I’ve been doing it for years and it never gets easier, especially with large code bases. Yes, the ROI for adding useful comments may seem low now, but it does pay off for the unlucky newb, intern, or junior engineer who’ll be stuck fixing that tricky bug or integrating that odd feature request in the future.
There was an absolutely trivial solution: send a few fighter planes to blow up the haciendas and spray herbicide on the plantations. But the US government prefers to profit and make political hay from the drug war.
> The evil forces haven't even managed to get an encryption-backdoor law passed

They've managed to do a few other pretty evil things recently, though. And they're going to keep trying until they get it through. They only have to win once, and then no government is going to voluntarily give up the extra power and control.
They probably aren't explicitly homophobic, but it's disrespectful and a tiny bit homophobic to not adjust your language a tiny bit, because it's obviously negatively impactful to gay people (not everyone, but I know it is to me).
I wonder if at some level of bounty payment, you run into the problem of encouraging people to introduce bugs to get a bounty. Probably no one with commit access in a major tech company would risk their career for a few months salary. But for ten years' salary...
next time we run into each other :)
Perhaps due to knowing quite a few people whose careers were spent working with Siemens and Bosch machines in heavy industry, it seems unfathomable and mildly alarming to me that one can

- know of the existence of Bosch,

- be completely ignorant of the company being an absolute giant in the engineering space, and

- be confident enough that they're some tiny power drill manufacturer to mock them publicly without pausing to look them up

It's like hearing someone say "the guys who make the Xbox are providing cloud services for the Pentagon? Who is running that ship lol".
They're not fucking nerds, no.
It used to be a long running joke as well as practical wisdom on the Windows side to always wait for SP1 (Service Pack 1) for better stability and never to install the X.0 version.

For all the “doubling down on Mac” that Apple’s senior employees harp about in interviews, macOS itself has been focusing more on eye candy and iOS parity than on stability. For my machines, I switch to Linux once macOS updates are no longer available, even though the user experience isn’t as great with older hardware and support for external peripherals like the Trackpad. For machines that can run the latest macOS, I upgrade every two whole releases on macOS (and that after it’s way beyond a X.0 release) since security updates are made available to past releases for a few years.

Right now I’m on the latest Mojave release, and skipped Catalina completely. I’ll consider Big Sur a few minor releases after 11.0 is released. This also makes some practical sense because Apple works on features with a multi-year plan but releases them partially done in a “brand new version” (you’ll notice this pattern if you look at it).

I’m thankful to all the brave souls who venture sooner (intentionally or because they bought new hardware that will refuse to run an older OS) and pave the way for me to avoid potholes and land mines.

My days of tinkering with the computer and “yak shaving” are long over. Even though my comment may sound hostile to macOS, there’s no other OS I’d rather start using my personal computer with unless I really, really have to.
They get around that by saying that autopilot is not meant to pilot the car automatically.