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You're suggesting that if a driver runs someone over and kills them the police wouldn't do a basic check like looking at the driver's cell phone record? It's no wonder people all over the US want to defund the police if they're that incompetent. That would not happen here in the UK.
It requires a license to use GNAT for commercial projects, it's not free like many C/C++ tools.
I was an early Firefox phone user and for six months happily put up with these types of annoyances with the hope that they would improve. I only stopped using it once it became clear things had stagnated.

If this achieves sufficient penetration to get past the stagnation valley of doom, I'll jump on the bandwagon again with the same hopes. Unfortunately I don't have work as much time as I used to back then though :(
The thing is, most of the deaths from self driving will be seen as preventable, if only a human was driving. That's going to make it look bad, even if the numbers are less.

If you want to reduce deaths, I think you really want to invest in things like automatic emergency braking, monitoring driver attention, and safely stopping the vehicle if the driver is incapacitated. Having the computer supervise the human means the human is engaged in driving and aware of the circumstances for the most part; a computer supervising a human can act with great speed if the situation warrants, but a human supervising a computer is likely not to react so quickly.
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I incorporate like I’m unwrapping candy.

Second nature to me. Not that costly of a “hobby” and I’ve let them go delinquent temporarily if I have a disruption in income.

I’m often sitting down at a local bank branch opening a new account for one.

But I would also say consider Transferwise for business bank accounts. Super easy and you can get Euro SEPA region accounts for your US entities as well. (Without Transferwise update, this is actually hard for American citizens but it might not be something you ever encounter.)

I never do a local/“foreign” llc filing unless the state is fining me to do it.

Can’t really relate to the idea of debating to incorporate. I know the unknowns can be daunting but sole proprietorships are lazy.
I don't know how it worked out on the US market. It worked out well on Polish market, because US Kindle ads were completely irrelevant and thus ignored as visual noise. And also I recall there was a trick to get rid of them and keep the cheaper Kindle.
This post was very amusing! It always bordered on silly meme-style writing, but never doing too much of it at once which I find annoying. The story itself was also very interesting!
Ask HN: Can Freedom Exist Online?
If governments can monitor all internet traffic, can humanity be free online? I finished watching Citizen 4 and I was wondering if anything had changed since 2013.
> How can you 'unintentionally' pull out a phone?

Probably more like "absent mindedly" pull out a phone.
does French legal system have to honor precedents?
The only thing enforcing private property is the threat of violence if you violate someone else's property. This enforcement can come via a socialized system like government and this is preferable. But you are delusional to think the truly rich need to rely on government. Without 'society' you get survival of the richest and most violent instead of just wealth inequality
The underlying issues have been known for quite a while. There was a fantastic talk in CCC at 2016 about the airline booking systems and the various bits of information you can glean from them.[0]

0: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7964-where_in_the_world_is_carme...
Nice Causal Inference book from Hernan and Robins (pdf available for download): https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-...
And you know that LTS in case of Java is meaningless if you don't have a support bundle bought for real money?

The only free of charge LTS is the latest java version, all versions n-1, n-2 are out of free support, you can only buy one.
And the first “is a robot a human” test case will be when a protestor kills a police bot and they charge them with murdering an officer.
> haven’t had one year of profitability

Also, beyond stakeholder investment, the contracts they had were often government contracts, or when in private companies it would be R&D, i.e. all made “at a loss” (until BR finds the right sauce).
Yea, I was quad-booting Linux, Win2k, QNX, and BeOS in 2000-2001. The most impressive thing about both BeOS and QNX were their responsiveness. BeOS was used for editing multiple video streams whereas the same hardware running Mac OS really struggled to edit a single stream at full data rates.

My ethernet driver for BeOS was terrible. If I left BeOS running overnight, most of the time I'd awake to a little popup saying something to the effect of "The ethernet driver for your 3c509 has crashed. Click OK to restart the driver." Thank goodness for userspace drivers.

I'm a bit surprised that the iso9660 and UDF drivers are still in kernelspace on Linux, since I can't think of a modern use case where performance of CD/DVD is relevant. Around 2004, I had a corrupted CD-R backup that would kernel panic OSX, Linux, and Win2k3 x64. Unfortunately, there was sensitive financial data, so I wasn't about to submit the image as a repro.
Supporting the signalling, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23833111 was definitely a product of the VCR era.

See also the expressed scanlines in the "faked" 80's of the first video in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24398456 .

As for exaggerated curvature, surely we've all run across https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term by now?
I'm currently using Arch Linux ARM (Alarm), but most/all of these things should (or should soon) be working on Mobian (Debian Port), PostmarketOS (PmOS), UBPorts (Ubuntu Touch):

- Calls/SMS are working and fairly reliable, although I haven't used them a huge amount

- There is some suspend/power saving stuff implemented, and while I haven't had to take it on the go with me for very long (due to quarantine), I think the battery should at least last a full day now, but I think there's definitely room for improvement

- Camera should be working on all distros, and there's recently been developments to get 1080p photos, and a 30 FPS "preview" (viewfinder?). These improvements should be on all the distros soon, but IIRC they're only on PmOS and UBPorts right now

- Firefox is working pretty well for web browsing. PmOS has a mobile configuration for it [0] (that's also shipped with Alarm now), that fixes/improves some of the UI, adds pinch zoom support, etc. Aside from the occasional crash, I've found it to be pretty fast and reliable (at least compared to when I last tried Gnome Web). The downside is that it's still not fully optimized for touch/mobile compared to other options. Will be interested to see if Mozilla/someone else add some kind of mobile interface to desktop Firefox.

- Tested yesterday and bluetooth headphones are working pretty well. Had some issues pairing in the UI, so I had to use SSH and bluetoothctl, but after that everything was pretty smooth. pavucontrol also seems to be working ok if you need something that's missing from the Phosh settings app.

- Fractal and Nheko work pretty well for Matrix, but I'm going to try compiling Mirage [1] soon, it's been pretty great on desktop, and apparently the UI supports mobile.

This is a rough and very incomplete list, but feel free to ask if there's anything specific I missed.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox

[1]: https://github.com/mirukana/mirage
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It was, before Google. It cost about US$120 million to get Big Dog working. At least those were the reported DARPA contract amounts.
Familial wealth disperses much quicker in the United States than other countries. Comparing modern american economics to the descendants of william the conqueror in feudal pre capitalist society with an entrenched aristocracy is disingenuous. You cannot seriously use that as an example of why wealth will last in american families like that.
> The regulations also only apply to employees, and not independent contractors, problematic considering that by 2020, 40% of the US workforce will be made up of these so-called “contingent workers”.

And that is a big problem. There is enormous financial pressure for an executive or business owner to minimize labor costs, which are the biggest expense. (I know this because I have been there.)

On the one hand, one can stand for employee rights and fair compensation. On the other hand, the global economy has made labor expenses exceptionally painful.
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Please call them by their chosen name “The Peoples Republic of California”
If it is hard to get wrong, is it still dumb? Being able to verify with your own eyes that the redacted parts are indeed redacted is a pretty strong benefit to that process. You'll need to train staff to properly black out stuff (no idea what they do, heavy cardboard cut-outs or cutting out the censored content and using a black background for the scan?), but once that process is in place, it works.

With software you either need vetted and approved, very expensive software, or you have to accept a much higher error rate, because the operator cannot verify the results of the process with certainty.
I can't name names, but if you look at some of the security/exploit dev shops, a lot of them have this structure. Small number of engineers, lots of internal tooling, and good money
I get why this is downvoted but it is solid advice: in C you absolutely have to track ownership and lifetimes of pointers and pointees, but the compiler is free to not help you in any way. Learning rust will make you a better programmer. Thus, the recommendation is very good.
For sure what you said happened however I’d argue it’s not a problem in places with legit coffee culture. Australia, Berlin, London to name a few places I’m intimately familiar with. Singapore on the other hand it most definitely is but that is a good reflection of the city tbh.
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A caveat to this is, what happens when we actually solve aging and involuntary death? Will the world eventually be owned by a single, Bezos like individual simply by the weight of time and compounding interest crowding out everyone else? Would we be ok with a situation where the racist slave owners of 200 years ago are still alive and control the vast majority of the world's wealth and power?

This is the kind of concern that isn't a problem right now, but will be one day. And it will happen in the blink of an eye.
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The book The Son Also Rises makes a fairly compelling (albeit contested) case that extreme wealth continues to have beneficial impact for hundreds of years.

The author shows numerous examples but one of the most striking for English-speakers is that the Norman conquerors of 1086 are still, 31 generations later, over-represented at places like Oxford and Cambridge admissions and upper class probate court records.
As well as an Osprey, or as well as a motorcycle with a sidecar. They are practical, but far from elegant or efficient.
I lived through the early 90s, when Borland's Turbo Pascal and later Delphi, compiled programs in a fraction of a second.

It proved empirically, that compilation does not need to be slow, if the language is simple and carefully designed. Go is also a good example.

Computers are now several orders of magnitude more powerful.

We do NOT have to wait for compilation of simple programs in 2020. In my opinion, waiting is more of a symptom of the current obsession with optimization, and disregard for ergonomics, than a fundamental CS result that is set in stone. Compare for example compiling a program with gcc and tcc (without optimizations, so that they are on equal grounds, because tcc does not strive to do optimizations, but strives to be fast and tiny) .

tcc is usually 4-5 times faster.
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I honestly wish HackerNews would just eliminate certain sources of links. Medium and YouTube would be a great start.

Or at least make it that if someone on HN doesn’t have a karma score of 100 or something, then they can’t submit links from those two sites and a handful of others. There has to be a cutoff that aligns with some measure of common sense. Or maybe the operators of HN are just thrilled to get as much UGC as possible, even if they are crappy links that detract from otherwise healthy use of the site.

I don’t click on any article posted at Medium no matter how “important” it might seem.

FWIW, the reference to BaseCamp being worth $100 billion is from a 2015 post by Friedman mocking the whole “valuation” concept by allowing a few people to invest a $1 in Basecamp at some micro percentage of shares.

It is here: https://m.signalvnoise.com/press-release-basecamp-valuation-...

Hopefully no one would actually scan that headline and believe it without reading it. That would be rather ignorant of money. Basecamp is a tiny company and only a few companies in the world are “worth” $100 billion.

The fun of Medium and YouTube. Links to Twitter and Reddit ought to be excluded too. If we wanted to follow the fluff on those services, we can sign up there and do so. HN ought to be reserved for independent blogs, tech announcements, company dev blogs, funding and innovation news from reliable sources, and random oddball stuff.
Legitimate organizations are not always a safe bet either. For instance, today I received a phone call supposedly from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation soliciting donations. The organization itself is legit, and the number they appear to be calling from could also be legit, but the number they're calling from could be spoofed.

Personally, I prefer to follow the OP's advice, and only provide information if I initiate the call. Or, more specifically, I'm willing to provide only the information you could find in a phone book, such as name, phone number, and address, and if they truly want my donation, they can mail me something for the request. Still, it could result in mail fraud, but the likelihood is pretty low at that point.
It doesn't matter if you live in another country. US citizens are still taxed by the US government regardless of where in the world they live. Moving to another country accomplishes nothing.

They would have to give up their US citizenship. Financial implications aside, few are willing to go that far. The financial implications are also large. You have to pay an exit tax, which would be substantial. And giving up US citizenship to avoid taxes is illegal, so there's that too...
I take it you've never used npm for a large project that's spanned multiple years of different developers while supporting multiple versions of your application while also staying up to date with dependencies.
Curb your enthusiasm — the anonymous donor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_causes

Aristotle holds that there are four kinds of answers to "why" questions:

Matter (the material cause of a change or movement): The aspect of the change or movement that is determined by the material that composes the moving or changing things. For a table, such might be wood; for a statue, such might be bronze or marble.

Form (the formal cause of a change or movement): A change or movement caused by the arrangement, shape, or appearance of the thing changing or moving. Aristotle says, for example, that the ratio 2:1, and number in general, is the cause of the octave.

Agent (the efficient or moving cause of a change or movement): Consists of things apart from the thing being changed or moved, which interact so as to be an agency of the change or movement. For example, the efficient cause of a table is a carpenter, or a person working as one, and according to Aristotle the efficient cause of a boy is a father.

End or purpose (the final cause of a change or movement): A change or movement for the sake of a thing to be what it is. For a seed, it might be an adult plant; for a sailboat, it might be sailing; for a ball at the top of a ramp, it might be coming to rest at the bottom.
I'm not sure it's just an education issue; it should be an end to end solution.

If people aren't using it, it's weird.

That smells of trouble to me... either it should be good enough people want to use it, or painful enough not using it that people grit their teeth and do the right thing because its less effort in the long term (eg. you cannot use module at all unless you do it right).

If there is no obvious downside to doing the 'wrong' thing, and it's less effort, and people are doing the 'wrong thing', in practice, in the wild...

...well, I'm not sure this has really worked out ideally.

Certainly, "great" is not how I would describe it.
> but giving money to effective charities is also a great way to use your money

Those charities aren't going to help you when you're retired and subsiding on a meagre state pension. Or if there's a resurgent global pandemic and you lose your job and home.

Save first, always.
> "teaching language" (easy to learn)

I think that worked against it as well.
I love Alex's stuff.
Which is the best market model? Covid tests different modes of capitalism
Imho the problem lies with our constant breaking of natural laws through technology. Before modern medicine, nobody wondered when dead is dead.

While I don't believe in God, I think we shouldn't fuck with the way nature works.
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I don't know what the post here does, my pastebin has a script that removes content.
What a transphobic article omg, why to highlight the person's transgenderness? Why her deadname? So rude. (These are rhetoric questions, please don't answer this)
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>to answer correctly that the coronavirus originated in nature rather than a laboratory

>answer correctly

No bias at all here. /s

So parroting a MSNBC talking point means being correct now?
Will these people eat their hat in case the virus is shown to be a leak from a laboratory?
It is in this context. The first step in moving away from something like Netlify is to have your own server with a free CDN backing it. After that I guess you can buy your own hardware and internet connection. But nobody here is suggesting we all create our own CDNs.
Chapter S election (which an LLC can do, by the way, it's not a particular type of entity) does pass through taxing, and has a thing where the "profit distribution" of the corp, after paying shareholders "a reasonable salary", can be distributed without self-employment taxes, just regular income taxes. So you can save some 15% on some portion of your income--if you have an income larger than whatever you may be able to justify to the IRS as a reasonable salary. Other options may make sense based on how much money is kept in the company, if you have passive investors, how much money you're making, how much work the shareholders do, etc.
Few question comes into mind reading this:

- what is the plan to tackle Go's GC?

It seems to me that above a certain scale people run into GC problems with Go.[1]

- have they considered WickedDB?[2]

It appears to be a good candidate for their need.

https://github.com/Fullstop000/wickdb

https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
What did they think was going to happen when Google bought the largest mobile ad network by far for both Android and iOS a decade ago? (AdMob)

Antitrust agencies and governments in general need to set more pro-active ground rules that attempt to prevent monopolies from even happening in the first place.

Punishing them after the fact is both ineffective and too disruptive. I'd rather they didn't allow Google to buy AdMob instead of forcing them to spin it off now. I mean, sure, I'll take it. Still better than nothing. But this shouldn't have been needed because AdMob should have remained a competitor to Google in the mobile ads space, not a division of it.

If large corporations think they have made so much money from their core market that now it's time to spread to new markets, then they must also have the money to start their own competitor in that market from scratch. They shouldn't be allowed to just buy everyone up from that new market.

I think we'd have WAY healthier "free markets" - and more importantly, high competition - if this one thing was implemented.
I'm fairly sure the instructor is at least partly liable.
All of the articles on gatesnotes are so well written- I wonder if Bill Gates writes these completely by himself or if he gets help?
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>When both sides are engaging civically yes. If one side is acting partisanly or in bad faith, using demagoguery & deceit, civics is to call out the dis-ingenuousness & descent from reason.

One side is threatening violence in case Trump isn't voted out. I wouldn't call that "civically".
For one moment I thought it was "FizBuzz As A Service"...
Is it because it’s the keys your forefingers touch - and they are what you use when eating food with your hands?
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> The one criticism that seems valid to me is that the tooling should tell you if there is a new major version available (while not updating for you)

Only if the older major version is deprecated. I do not want to be annoyed with the existence of new major versions unless I have to. My code already works with the older version.
Yes, it was about the activities that led to bank runs, in particular:

> Banks had a habit of losing money on the investment side, which was commingled with deposits side

Not the bank runs themselves.
Of course you're getting down voted on HN for pointing out transphobia. :(
Since hired as a UK trade advisor:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54027762
Sadly there are no good alternative to PyS60 (Python for Symbian S60) for Android yet.
And if you need it, static typing is one annotation away... This is such an underestimated feature. While prototyping it might be easier to use dynamic typing, but once a project becomes complex and has more people working on it etc, - you might want to switch it to statically-typed. Groovy simplifies this immensely and minimizes the amount of code that needs to rewritten.
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What exactly is the “ceiling” one hits if one capitalizes on opportunities, succeeds in career and family, and makes a pile of money? That the 6th Earl Postlethwaite won’t invite them to tea at Shrumsbury Hall?
I'm writing a series on compiling Lisp to x86-64 and I would appreciate any and all feedback.

Find the first post at https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiling-a-lisp-0/
> Convenience implies a reduction in cost.

No, why would it? Convenience and cost are two completely separate things.
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