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The thing I don't get about Rust package management is that getting CLI tools from cargo means compiling everything from scratch every time.

Why can't there be binaries distributed, once compiled, cache it with something like https://cachix.org

Makes consuming things written in Rust a real pain when in Go, a `go get` takes few seconds at most for any tool.

I know it takes infrastructure cost to setup binary sharing and Rust foundation wants to invest into other things but still, hope it comes one day. So many CPU cycles wasted doing the exact same build every time.
It was a logical extension of regexes, which were a very important part of perl (raku was originally perl 6). It also integrates very well with the rest of the language—even more so than does regex with perl.

However, though I think raku's reimagination of regexes is probably the best one—and the one that feels the least bound to legacy—there are other developments in that area. For instance, oil's egg expressions - http://www.oilshell.org/preview/doc/eggex.html
Boeing Max Declared Safe to Fly by Europe’s Aviation Regulator
Wasn't Vilnius even more Jewish at the time?
None I can think of. What you have is a massively over-engineered and fragile solution for a trivial problem.
The problem with delayed ACKs is that requires controlling the server. If you control the client, you can’t remotely turn off delayed ACKs, so instead you have to disable Nagle’s algorithm.
Yeah so not really a new concept; in NL we've had this for a while with names like "het nieuwe werken" (the new working) or "flexwerken" (flexible working), which in practice means open spaces, no fixed desk, clean desk policy, etc.

I personally prefer having my own fixed workspace, tyvm. I'm just glad I was able to make it work in the various assignments I've had over the year (e.g. a fixed workspace).
Yeah seems like a scam. If the deployment was profitable, why not deploy then antenna incrementally has money from users pour in? It seems the company know it won’t be profitable on the long term.
You're conflating market freedom and individual rights.

There are plenty of places (e.g. Singapore) where you had (still true today btw) very much of the first and precious little of the second and that can bee by many metrics regarded as great "social" successes.
They have DNA.

Also a skilled botanist can turn it into a tissue culture and propagate it.
Rebellion is for the outers, who otherwise are kept well away from the greasy pole. Inners (having received A*'s and been Oxbridge material[1]) may simply jockey for power by playing "party games."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r5rTPB6MCM

[1] NB one of the shockers Huxley gratuitously throws into BNW: in the far future, Eton has a headmistress.
Wow how did I never know about this?
Seeking startup founders who have built a new product in the past 1-2 years
I just got mine, it's great. 1080p30 is currently more than enough for web conferencing, which is what I need it for. Much better quality than the tethering feed that I assume this new Sony tool uses.
I'm getting PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR on this page with latest Firefox on Win7. Google messing up with Firefox users again?
Hey don’t give the SaaS pricing page guys/gals new ideas!
I agree to both that $200k is change for many companies and that it's very well deserved. My point is that companies that use SciterJS for commercial applications already have a commercial license. Therefore releasing Sciter as a FOSS product under GPL license doesn't change anything for both existing and new players in the market.
Cloud gaming will lead to paternalism from providers as the industry has already shown. Facebook VR being the latest example. Now give me some advantages. The price can be good but that comes with the disadvantages. Also community content will have additional difficulties.

I think this article is basically an ad to be honest.
I mean, no: you can do the same stuff with Electron, and you _won't_ be saddled with the issues inherent to WKWebView that Apple still hasn't fixed years later. There are also web features that Safari notoriously does not implement that you'd have access to in Edge.

Webview2 on Windows is also going through a weird period where you can't rely on it "just working" without the end user installing a runtime.

There is a thread, long ago here on HN, where the developer who made the Slack transition from native webviews per platform (which it was, originally, and everyone conveniently forgets) to Electron. He notes it was specifically because cross-platform issues become a pain in the ass to deal with, and Electron avoids that.

There's a disconnect between the average HN commentator who builds a UI in HTML/CSS/JS, and the types of frontends that larger applications build in those languages. Cross platform stuff shows up, and it's not a great use of time when there's one runtime sitting there that does everything and looks the same everywhere.
How about 50MB? (the current smallest possible binary using Electron)
Lest anyone think seed patents are simply a fact of life, there are (or were) countries where they were not valid. For example Iraq, until the US occupying force issued its 100 orders, among them order 81, which prohibits the planting and saving of patented seeds without a license: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Orders
There is no single right way to conduct an interview. Each interviewer has his own style and I think it is fine.

I think giving the candidate a hint has a purpose and that is to keep the process of finding a solution progressing. Otherwise the candidate may get stuck and as an interviewer this is bad because we are now wasting time to let me know the candidate.

At the very beginning I tell the candidate some of the things that I feel are fine or not fine. For example, I will tell the candidate that I am happy to give out names of functions and lists of parameters as long as the candidate can describe exactly what the function is doing. So I give these for free because in normal work I would expect he/she can find it in couple of seconds on the internet, anyway, and that's also how I do this. What I don't give for free (ie. mentally deduct points for) is give larger hints that would normally be thought as part of the solution.

Likewise, when I start technical question section I tell candidates that "I give 5 points for not answering the question". Most people are quick enough to figure out this means I penalize bad answers and would prefer the candidate to say they don't know something rather than keep talking nonsense.
Also ex-Cruise here. Yes there have been accidents, and there are accidents every month or so-- just check the public DMV reports. A lot are minor, like other cars knocking the radars off the front of the car back when Cruise cars had radars that stuck out awkwardly. Some were worse though-- I've seen one where airbags deployed in the other car (other car was going very fast and rear-ended the AV). Cruise has not had an UberATG / Elain Herzberg -magnitude accident, though.

The cars have a handbook for safety drivers and the case is handled like almost any other accident. This system was put in place following the first accident that occurred near the SF courthouse years ago (safety drivers were hired following that crash).

What happens if there's no safety driver? Remote assistance is there, and the city is not a large place if you have to recover a wayward robot. I am not a lawyer; there will probably be some regulation eventually.
Unhinged people have a bad habit of seizing power and building authoritarian despotisms that impose the consequences of their psychological defects on others.

Neither Hitler, Stalin, or Pol Pot did what they did out of an overwhelming desire for personal enrichment.

Sociopaths don't have to have reasons that make sense to the rest of us.
... Or could activate you in a way that directs you to shed a lot of conditioning?
The feedback is simply not attributable for outsiders. I don't think there is a legal argument here. And even if the VC was identified, if the writer didn't invent any of those stories (you wanted inaccuracy, right?), there is nothing he is liable for...

Or am I mistaken about US law? I think it is even worse over there, you can basically write what you want, as long as nobody can prove it outright wrong. Just imagine all the New York Post articles somebody would be sued for.

Most outright defamatory articles just end in a "Welp, sorry?"-situation and nothing ever happens, because "It could have been true, right?"
> one of 2 people who built a major airlines checkin system within a couple of months

That doesn't tell me whether you can code; it's entirely possible the other person did all the coding and you did architecture, requirements, user stories, testing, integration, office politics, SnapChat.

You might still be a great asset to the company; my job as a technical interviewer though is to assess whether you can code.
Thanks for letting me know, looks like I didn't extend the domain and somebody else bought it ;)
That’s exactly why tlb is asking that question. The effect could be just from slower eating.
To be fair, far more US boots have been on USSR soil than USSR boots on US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Rus...

(learned when I was wondering why the US had had war propaganda offices devoted to Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok)
Or the cat is out of the bag and people won't be able brush off remote anymore now that it has been demonstrated to work? Companies might be able to push the peons back to the salt mines but it is far from settled at this point.
That makes lots more sense, especially in the context of highly processed food (which is basically mechanically chewed into dust)
Tried it with soundhound [0] (was called midomi when I used it as a flash app many years ago) just for giggles and it found a different version of the same song first try as well.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.melodis.mi...
2nd paragraph:

"There are arguments that HTML5 as a markup language does not have programming interfaces; instead, these APIs are JavaScript APIs with formatted HTML responses."
A downvote for pointing out the obvious, I guess? :D
... Or conditions you
W Richard Stevens wrote some good books on TCP/IP. May I suggest reading them?
Would be cool with moving pictures. Like a digital lava lamp.
This reminds me that I really should read The Rise of the Meritocracy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
OP here. You make some great points that I'd love to address.

- We know from first hand experience that the hype of Jio fiber doesn't reflect on ground reality. We know this because every ISP in Bangalore is a partner of ours. For the last 3 years we have been serving 100s of apartment buildings and tens of thousands of customers using ACT, Hathway, Airtel and Jio's network. We have dozens of instances where none of them can provide connectivity at the edges of the city or dense market areas.

- Our plan doesn't require competing with any of the existing players. Less than 7% of India has broadband access, only 20 million households have broadband access. There's a large open market with room enough for multiple players.

- Our offering to the consumer is also deeply competitive. We're offering gigabit connections with no data caps at one tenth the price of existing providers.

- We're really excited about starlink, but for them to ramp up coverage and then get permission from the Indian government to allow their signals in India and then scale up to being able to provide access to 100s of millions of people is a long way off. Starlink is a great solution, but there are so many people in India that need access that they will be one of many players required in the market.
Almost. Who decides what "almost" is?
This is remarkably creative and very tastefully done.
I love how many of these AI horror thought experiments are so close to realizing the horrors of global capitalism but they're too close to see it.
I used to be tempted to think that our modern generations are extra smart because of the cool gadgets we have.

Seeing stuff like this, and reading ancient political / philosophical writings, gives me a much-needed reality check.
Daniel Kahneman, Covid-19 and the Cascade of Fear
Kahneman provides us a perfect explanation of what we are witnessing today and how low risk scenarios cascade into oversized ones.
> Who said ISPs and the phones are "unmoderated"?

ISPs have to follow common carrier laws.

If social media platforms were subject to these same common carrier laws, then that is good enough for me.

That is what I mean by unmoderated. I mean, that they are following things such as common carrier laws, which have very significant requirements.
I'm pretty extreme; I see all forms of government 'help' as the precursors for disaster. So I totally accept the argument that they are doing the correct thing by backing away from totalitarianism.

But unfortunately, the twin arguments that 'they aren't pure in their beliefs' and 'they are copying good ideas from elsewhere' and both devastatingly weak arguments if someone challenges them.

I would call on Western governments to copy what China has done that worked, except I don't trust them to identify it. I think they'd just import the surveillance state and ignore the "what about letting the capitalists capitalise?" idea.
One important precision: Roger Yomba N and Dhaxle reference to YC2020 is about YC Startup School.
OP here. It's in-house tech. Our goal is to move the state of the art forward as much as we possibly can.
> Down that path also lies madness.

Ohhhhh so true. I sadly have no such story to tell regarding performance optimization, but figuring out the intricacies of any complex system (for me at least) inevitably leads to you knowing arcane stuff that might come in handy some time. But on the other hand, it also - in my humble experience - leads to you knowing a lot of arcane stuff that might have an impact on a problem, but is absolutely not related in the specific case one is dealing with.

Knowing when to discard arcane knowledge and when to jump onto that train of thought imho is crucial.

But on the other hand debugging arcane stuff in complex systems is just so much fun. One learns so much.
That's exactly how the social justice types operate: they inject themselves into a subculture they know nothing about, but feel like should assert control over and start calling things they don't understand "problematic". That's how you end up with pronoun rules in ATC operations.
These projects employed skilled journey men (level between apprentice and master). At some point they then traveled to work on the next project, spreading the know-how. Once something was working, it was often copied as modifications were risky.
Fahd often doesn't get the credit I think he ought:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24740207
1. That's assuming that the grape skin cannot be dissolved by stomach acids. I highly doubt this.
2. That is also assuming it isn't like corn (maize). Corn appears whole, but it isn't: We extract carbs from it and let the bits we cannot digest pass through. It is the same process when you find "pills" in your poop.
When I try it:
"hey google what's this song"
[no pause]
"sorry I dont know what's playing right now"
Lisp from Nothing
Not to mention wear and deformation. Are the landing gear of that particular UH60 bent in the slightest? Has the throttle lever raceway worn? How much damage did the door slamming on some GI's M4 do to the sheet metal?
I love it. Really cool, but probably way too impractical for mass production.
Yes there is no magic solution and all approaches have downsides. I tend to lean towards the side of more separation at the cost of increased reference complexity.
It's at the top of the article, and also the correct explanation of such:

In an HTML API, the definitions and protocols are in the HTML itself, and the tools look in
HTML for the configuration. HTML APIs usually consist of a certain class and attribute patterns
that can be used on existing HTML.

HTML is just markup. You're familiar with markup if you've ever used a hilighter for instance. To make it an API just have something parse that markup according to some well-defined set of rules and to do _stuff_.

I can write a parser that accepts a single API call as it were:

<p data-do-a-thing>Smith</p>

Now I can feed that into the parser and in this API of mine a `p` tag with attribute `data-do-a-thing` renders the contents of the tag prefixed with `Hello, ` giving `Hello, Smith`. Viola an API via HTML.
Same happened to me. I remember thinking " these 2 interiewers are thinking Im thinking about the solution, but Im not, my mind is blank because of the stress of having to answer a seemingly simple question, but I know if I say the slightest thing in the wrong way Ill be judged harshly for it"

I realise this is a problem with me and stress during long interviews, but it was still a little funny at the time.
It has its own HTML rendering engine
Well, which one is it now:

Are self-driving computers superior to humans and make less mistakes, or is it OK for a computer to be tricked by something some humans would also not detect?

Btw. I think I can tell if there is a real stop-sign or something on a billboard after some 'huh'-moment and without slamming on the brakes. And humans still go circles around AI regarding plausibility-checking very out-of-the-ordinary events.
the internet will never work
I think this is a case where overregulation actually was part of the cause (aside from economic reasons to save certification and training of course).

If the rules for flight characteristics wouldn't have been as rigid, maybe the MCAS wouldn't have been a necessity, which could have resulted in a system not as aggressively trying to get control. As I understand it they build a more stable plane by moving the center of mass forward with the engines, it just pitched the nose upwards under acceleration.

Speculation of course, but I think this point should be audited.
Gave it the Imperial March, got "dirty by Cristina Aguilara".

Needs work.

It also thinks the tinny reproduction of "Go to sleep little baby" my kids nightlight plays is "Get ur freak on" by Missy Elliott. Which I can definitely hear, but seeing it on my ambient display at 0300 one morning made.me question my sanity.
The lidar saw Herzberg 6 seconds before impact, and there are news stories detailing email evidence that Meyhofer and others at UberATG intentionally made the perception system filter sparse lidar returns at the time (likely because they were having difficulty with trees). Today, Meyhofer and others have vested tens of millions in stock following the Softbank investment. While the safety driver was a factor in the crash, there is a gross amount of greed that was also a factor.

Has Uber improved since then? I attended an UberATG recruiting event where they showed a disengagement where they almost hit a little girl after she got off a school bus. (They were showing this because they re-created the scene on their test track and wanted to show they learned something). But in the perception video of the event they showed, you can clearly see there being lidar returns reflected off the school bus mirror, the system clustering them into an object, and the Uber car slowing down for this ghost object. The girl was saved by this false positive, probably not by the safety driver hitting the brakes. Uber does some interesting SDC research, but I would not feel safe being within 100 meters of any of their cars.
yes, that is the assumption, but I couldn't find anywhere in the paper that they controll for time as suggested by the upthread posts -- I admit to only skimming it though.
My latest book about LISP, metacircular interpretation, self-compilation, and hacking in the age of big iron. Contains many small implementations, including a simple LISP->C compiler. Code is in the public domain! Enjoy!
It's a pretty typical mistake.

We are just as smart as our predecessors. We just have a much higher population, a higher % of them are well educated, and we have an enormous body of historical knowledge (as well as easy ways for anyone to access it).

"On the shoulder of giants" etc.
The materials were not hacked. They were abandoned at the repair shop and therefore lawfully came to be owned by the repair shop.
But you are also eliminating those that "feel" its a question that should not be asked to experienced developers that would otherwise be excellent hires. I seem not to be the only one.

(im not saying Im right in this)
I think it might be more like "fragile efficiency".

It is more efficient to take the best potato strain, grow it everywhere and feed everyone more efficiently. But then the whole population becomes very very dependent on one healthy potato.
There are multiple ways to reference other resources including by state or as a data source. But Hashicorp/Terraform don't do a good job of making this clear.
Great circles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fS9ixfQ_no
I rather wonder what our descendants will marvel at that we are doing.

Will they think that it was ingenious to design machines in different parts, from different materials, then assembled and shipped to where they are needed? With the limited technology and methods of our time? That we used to engineer and create special machines for these different purposes because in their world, everything you can conceive will come out of replicators [0] instead? Fully functional, no matter which materials it consists of? And humans no longer involved in the design process because a solution was computer generated after stating the purpose of the tool?

[0] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Replicator
Of course chacha1-7 is a thing. Just not for cryptography. I used 4 rounds of salsa to create random-looking numbers just for fun (4 rounds is what you need to get good diffusion), and I know for a fact that I am not alone in having the idea.

The reason nobody uses it like that is that it is slower than most other PRNGs
First, I feel something about what is interesting to me! after all; I don't feel any barriers in the way of achieving my Interest,

When I meet a challenge, I quickly continue to practice to overcome my problem. I only start what I want to do. You may claim that this is a kind of initiative for live learning!
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I was upset about it at the time but eventually realised, based some of their longer term plans, that I had dodged a bullet.
It looks similar to the description of the bridge being built in "World without End" by Ken Follett. One bit that is missing from this animation is that there is no rubble placed in the water around the piers. In the book this had the all important function of preventing the foundations from being washed out by the river. Maybe that was fiction or it was too much detail for the animators since the water is not transparent.
The tax returns were obtained from a credible source, meaning that the documents were almost certainly authentic. Meanwhile, the NY Post has made no effort to verify the authenticity of the hacked material, and it is well known that the GRU will mix false documents when they release hacked material to try and amplify the impact.

Also, NYTimes did not disclose any PII in their articles about Trumps taxes. The NY Post couldn't even be bothered to scrub that out.

Furthermore, it has been widely reported that Giuliani was being targeted by the GRU to launder disinformation[1]. This article is from December 2019[2]. Here is a quote from the article:

"Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) suggested over the weekend that any evidence presented by Giuliani should be scrubbed for possible Russian propaganda..."

So there you go. A republican senator, on record. Anyone who has been paying attention was expecting Giuliani to try and stir up an October surprise, and it was widely known that he was probably going to be laundering GRU disinformation.

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/521328-intellig...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/30/giulianis...