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I feel I need this so badly.
The last time I wrote something in JavaScript was around 10 years ago and I want to get up to date.
One of the chapters is named "the old 'var'". I didn't know it was old, which proves the need to learn.
There are thousands of places like this[1] on post soviet union territory, goldmines for urban explorers, one guy even got in abandoned nuclear power plant, although someone up top didn't liked it and now he is in prison for disclosing government secrets [2]

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aurban3p.ru+эвм
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er1l0wdl-ZM
This hurts potentially legitimate users for the benefit of one person. Of course it's nothing new, as there have been people doing this with domains and practically every other resource humans have ever needed.

You could say, "Well if I didn't do it, someone else would." Indeed that's probably true, but it doesn't make this any less bad for collective humanity.

There are also fascinating stories of the past of how spammers (legally and sometimes illegally) got around rules and blockers and made bank.
> I like to keep my hobbies cheap and cheerful [...] Just a CSV file, ssh whois, and my old friend sleep() to honor the rate limits.

'Honor' is a funny word for your treatment of the rate limits you wrote a distributed crawler to circumvent.
The links and reasoning you provide are in line with the post article, i.e. that there are multiple reasons for current situation that are grounded in the real world. And that even though we could have better tools, we're constantly hitting local Nash equilibrium where it doesn't make sense to adopt them. Which means that your "cartel" is just the real world itself.

We might not like it, it may suck, but it is what it is - you don't wanna fight things like gravity, you have to build ugly and bulky flying machines until one day you have a teleport which will be so far ahead that you can throw away all your planes and airports on a whim. But until then the planes is your best bet.

> Agriculture is an "anti-productivity cartel"

This is a very good example, and again it's in line with the headline article. Modern agriculture is the product of the same pressure to the system: there is no way you can scrape existing process and rebuild it with better technologies from the ground-up, because you'll starve billions to death in the process. Also in this case nobody is optimizing for the parameters those solutions are better at than existing methods, so there we have it.

> How is it possible that millions of refrigerators have doors rather than drawers

Mine has drawers in the freezer [1] - it's very neat indeed, and it's also an incremental thing because the main fridge area (don't know the English word for it) is still a single door. But again, there are real world reasons it's done this way, most of all being it's just more convenient this way and your regular household doesn't care for extra $5 it'll spend on the extra cooling. Meaning, it lies in the nature of the system consumer - the humans.

[1] https://mcgrp.ru/images/1199961/2329042.jpg
Determinism is already fairly important in fuzzing for 2 major reasons.

One, is that having determinism makes it easier to triage bugs. If I find a crash while fuzzing, but there's no way to reproduce it, it's going to pretty much never get fixed (unless the call stack from the first crash is obvious enough to prepare a fix). For fuzzing systems, this is effectively mandatory. Imagine a memory allocation failure leading to a NULL-deref, the odds of hitting that same bug are so low because it requires going OOM at the same point in a subsequent execution. Snapshot fuzzing (each fuzz case starts from a snapshotted state of memory/registers/whatever) mitigates some of this, but there's still noise from context switches that will affect RNGs, which will affect heap layouts, which will affect everything on the system. That being said, most fuzzing out there publicly is not system's fuzzing, and thus this is typically not something people think about.

But two, is what most people use determinism for. In modern fuzzing, coverage guidance is pretty much mandatory. This means when new code is hit, to save off the input such that it can be built upon. At a very simple level, this means a problem which is 256^4, turns into a 256*4, as all requirements do not need to be satisfied simultaneously, as long as the previous requirements cause new code to get hit they can be built upon. Of course, if the program does not behave the same way every time, the noise can start to erode the value which is provided here, since you're not actually building upon the same thing.

I'm not sure if this answers the question.
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Yeah... I have a lot of that discussion with my team, too.

It seems people (reviewers) need to find something or they think they are not doing good job.

Another irritating practice is treating opinions about style as commands -- basically commanding the author to change the style of the code to conform to the reviewer.

It should be understood that every problem has many potentially correct solutions. The job of the reviewer isn't to assure the best correct solution or the solution they like, it is to verify that the one selected by author is in the set of correct solutions. If this makes sense...
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Waymo has been dealing with construction since day one. If the road is entirely blocked, Google Maps/Waze is already capable of changing routes on the fly.

There will always be corner cases that automation can't deal with, but Waymo will have some human troubleshooters around for that. So do us humans, for that matter: when a car breaks down, most people call the mechanic instead of applying their own general intelligence to fixing it.
Sharepoint has tortured people 17 years and still it sucks. I had unfortunate privilege back in 2003 to be involved to many "intranet" projects to customize the Sharepoint to customers needs. That was horrible from the technical point of view.

By enough marketing power you can sell almost anything.
I'd interpret this as the inherent limitation of emulation and compatibility layers. It's pretty clear that the A1 GPU is pretty good as long as software natively targets it. Obviously it's not going to come close to dedicated GPU hardware, but I dare say it's going to be more impressive than people realise once we start seeing a few native ports.
It seems to me that there is some mixing of the concept of freedom with the perception of freedom,in us and in someone else.

Is freedom something we can measure as an absolute? Can I say I'm free? Can someone in the same circumstances as me say they're free? To me it's a matter of perception. When we are free ("given" the freedom) to do something, we are possibly starting to infringe on the freedom of someone else.

Whose freedom should be valued as the "true" one, or above the other? Can both coexist? If everyone can be free only up to a certain extent, so it doesn't interfere with anyone else's freedom, is anyone actually free?

This brings to mind the discussions happening here regarding centralising the internet so censorship is easier, vs owning our own internet infrastructure.

I don't have an answer, and I just wish people would be excellent towards each other
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I don't know the guy, but we have plenty of high profile individuals in tech (not all of whom started FB), who have a very different or diminished sense of ethics. I guess it's just shocking to see someone stand up and proudly display their activities.
It is the same show, but it has different names:
Air Crash Investigation

Also (according to Wikipedia):
Air Emergency (National Geographic Channel, U.S.)
Air Disasters (Smithsonian Channel, U.S.)
Mayday: Air Disaster (Weather Channel, U.S.)
I can't speak for Apple products, but passing USB devices with libvirt/qemu worked nicely so far for me (devices attach/detach automatically when the VM is powered on/off).

My main experience is with a Logitech g933 headset, which requires windows-only software to control certain parts of the device.
I would surely like to see something like what happens in Rejoice by Steven Erikson.

An alien race, that is so advanced, that it can force us to live in a certain way and change the course of humanity, for every human on Earth, all at once. So there is no doubt whatsoever.

PS: For those who haven't read it, I highly recommend it.
I also doubt people searching for an available domain name for their new business would find his hobby "cheerful".
My only note on this is that this is not a regulation tetris board: it is 13 tiles wide, Tetris boards are 10 tiles wide. Not suitable for tournament play!
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I'm also thankful to Travis for teaching me what CI is and make me set up CI for every new project instinctively; even if it's not always Travis anymore.

Without their free + painless service, I am not sure I would have got that reflex, as I couldn't afford it when I started programming; and I feel like they also created a culture where OSS contributors expect every project to have some kind of CI.
The tricorder can typically do whatever it needs to, but it's normally portrayed as a super-powered radiation (meaning EM, but also Trek's made-up radiations) scanner.

That scanning seems to work down to the molecular level, because IIRC it's often used to check for "DNA degradation/mutation/etc", which is a common enough plot point. That implies the ability to take DNA sequences.

But this is just another case of a company trying to ride the Trek-tech bandwagon. A real "tricorder", or anything close, would be a massive leap forward in technology, even if it came in the bulky TOS-style boxes.
While technically correct, first person shooters might be the most popular multiplayer genre. In practice it's more accurate to says special cases are the games which do no qualify to the categories you outlined above.

As for turn-based games, they work better as board games unless you have a pandemic going on. In theory simultaneous turn games are possible but rarely observed in practice. Dominions games, Laser Squad Nemesis, etc. Sequential turns (A/B/C/D) scale very badly and human face to face contact makes up for that.
I think you're mixing two different concepts up here.

Determinism in the context of fuzzing is related to the reproducibility of a program state. It's deterministic in the sense that all the inputs to the system are known and controlled. This allows us to repeat all inputs and reproduce the exact same behaviour as before, e.g. an error state we stumbled upon or an interesting program state we want to continue exploring.

This in no way precludes sampling the input space stochastically. Brute forcing by sampling all possible inputs sequentially is usually untenable and wasteful. However, once you do encounter a new program state, you'll be able to perfectly recreate it forever.
The first case certainly also happens in China and numerous poorer countries.

Not just breaking safety regulations, but by literally swapping out concrete in structural support pillars for old oil cans.

Or just using a poor concrete mix for everything in the first place.
> The tech is great, but aren’t China and Russia deploying more standard replication deficient viruses as vaccines?

The Sinovac and Sputnik vaccines are both less effective and have had serious adverse events in their trials. Sputnik hadn't even entered phase 3 trials and they rolled it out. The mRNA vaccines will be the first to pass the bar of FDA approval by a wide margin.
> New cases reported Monday exceeded 600 for the second day in a row, bringing the total to more than 38,000, with about 550 deaths.

South Korea's population is around 50 million. Their total deaths from Covid are similar to the daily death rate during the first peak in the UK, a similarly sized Western country.
Those are great graphics. I really wouldn't mind my contributions being measured in this way - a sense I've never had a out commit metrics before.
I remember that one coming out, and the consensus was that it was fake [0]. The Tetris one seems more realistic.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/hsryyn/windows_ta...
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The post you're replying to literally says "in no way did I feel oppressed"
Freight truck traffic definitely did play a role in spreading Covid within China - it's how they ended up with an outbreak in Beijing, the city they'd most aggressively protected against the spread of the disease. That outbreak in turn appears to have been seeded by another outbreak that went entirely undetected until it spread to Beijing. China's apparent success in keeping Covid under control is one of the biggest mysteries of the entire pandemic; their methods don't seem like they should work, and every so often there's a little sign that something isn't right like that undetected outbreak.
Great list. Only thing I’d add for the other enterprise developers out there is to first default to not building a distributed system at all, but rather build a much smaller monolith. In 25 years I’ve worked for so many orgs that wanted to build The World’s Most Scalable System for what would maybe be a few hundred concurrent users. Not surprisingly, those projects tend to tank.
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Just close your lid to find out! Everytime I open my macbook I'm greeted with a lovely print of my keyboard on my screen! You could call me out on my cheetos fingers but I use an external keyboard... As if the laptop wasn't heavy enough I have to carry a whole cleaning suite to actually see something.
Previously discussed and debunked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23887517
If you need a domain, you can buy it from him. It's better than all unused domains that are being squatted on for decades.

Edit: is there a .socialism TLD already, that is unsquattable, and you only get access if you are deemed worthy by the committee? Seriously, lighten up, people. And if you don't like the system, create a better one.
Fascinating. Some more here: https://addpmp.slamjam.com/index/camouflaged-swiss-bunkers

Would make a great backdrop to a Wes Anderson film
Given the drone ship landings of the Falcon first stages, I wonder: could you land a Starship on a US aircraft carrier?

And the obvious next question: given Musk is happy to take ship names from pop culture and sci-fi, might he name one of the Starship vehicles “Enterprise”, and could the Starship Enterprise land on the USS Enterprise (CVN-80)?
> Buyers love to concoct complicated schemes.

> ...

> They want to discuss the ethics of domaining.

You mean call you out as a scumbag scalper? Because that's what you are. All you do is drive up the price for the actual users. People like you are literally why we can't have nice things. Get a new hobby.
For comparison, here is the Saturn V flight manual: https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap12fj/pdf/a12_sa507-flightmanu...
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But only if you move multiple cells in one turn. If movement is restricted to one cell each turn, your field distorts.

The same happens when you split your movements: For example: player A moves 6 each turn; player B moves 2 thrice in a turn. Conclusion: A outruns player B at speed (4,4)/turn vs (3,3)/turn. (For A d(4,4)=6; B has d(1,1)=1.5)
Sure, but I didn’t mean that the whole world will switch to Apple. The world will mostly switch to commodity ARM chips and Intel's margins will crumble. Might take 5-10 years.

This is Intel’s Nokia moment, when they lost a dominant position to Samsung/Android. Apple was the catalyst there as well, but Apple did not directly kill Nokia. The industry shift Apple sparked killed them.
> OSS projects should not have dependencies on non-OSS infrastructure unless they are prepared for this eventuality.

I don't think that's the issue. Large parts of Travis are open sourc, but no one uses it because they are too complex to set up; and there are better self-hosted solutions than Travis.

Travis was attractive, because it was free hosting, not just software. And worked with just a few clicks
I was curious about the print view, but apparently my Chrome crashes while doing so; I presume it's sent a crash log back to Google, it's not a problem in your excellent webpage / resource (no web page should be able to crash a browser).
well the one issue that should be obvious to all is that self driving cars suffer worse from the problem people suffer from, signage and markings on roads is still either incomplete or in some cases in error.

People screw up every day driving and the lives lost is very high but going by how my Tesla drives I am going to say impede traffic by slowing down. My car does slow down, safely, when it gets confused or contradictory feedback, and I am curious what the in beta FSD software will do. Their new technique looks vastly improved.

Traffic aware cruise control which many cars have along with limited lane keep assist can go a long way to making the drive safer but many don't use TACC except on highways

Look at it this way, its coming. However it is all one sided because again I emphasize, we need better and more consistent signage and road marking.

US wise, the HOV and Express lanes are probably the most perfect use case for self driving cars. Get into the lane and it should be hands off until exit.
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> When the captain tried to bank the plane to turn left, his ADI showed it not banking, but the comparator alarm sounded repeatedly. The first officer did not say anything regarding the alarm and told the captain that the aircraft should turn at 1.5 miles according to the distance measuring equipment. The older and more experienced flight engineer did call out "bank" four times in 19 seconds, but the captain ignored his warnings, continued to ignore the chiming alarm, made no verbal response, and actually continued to increase the left bank angle. At 18:38, 55 seconds after take-off, Flight 8509's left wing dragged along the ground, then the aircraft plunged into the ground at a speed of between 250 and 300 knots, in a 40° pitch down and 90° left bank attitude. The aircraft exploded on impact.

ouch
Some people think that if something isn't illegal then it must be morally good.

I am not sure if that coping mechanism or limited perspective on how life works.

Amazon et al. don't steel money, they legally offshores them to tax havens. Illegal? no. Immoral, yeah I'd say so. But at least they don't publicly gloat about it.
I live in India. I am already hearing companies offering planned month long vacation tours to UK/US where you could get yourself vaccinated with vaccines that aren't available in India.
Hello @sirk390 - I think this article raises some important issues with Blockchain. I wonder, how else can the #HackerNews community get behind this and make Associate.com more visible as a potential solution to these issues?
As a frequent traveler between AU/NZ/US/CA, I find the residents of Commonwealth countries tend to be compliant with the law in ways Americans simply aren't. I can't speak for Canada on this, but at least for AU/NZ, there's also zero gun culture. I'm still not sure how much of an impact that has on the public's psyche, but lack of gun culture does seem to point to trusting more in social institutions. As an outsider, my perspective is that Aussies/Kiwis understand viscerally at levels unseen in American culture — and possibly Canadian culture — that nature can kill you, and that the authorities really are a good resource to draw upon when your life is on the line, which it was during the Covid pandemic.
This reminds me of my own million dollar hobby where I sell a portfolio of old dishrags which are, by my own estimation, worth a couple millions altogether. No, I haven’t sold any yet, why do you ask?
A 90 year old woman in a nursing home is not spreading COVID. Wouldn't it make more sense to give this to people who are most at risk of spreading it, not dying from it? Why wouldn't we go at the root cause of the pandemic; young healthy asymptomatic spreaders?
"universal" + "vaccine" = oxymoron
I remember the first time I was shown a SharePoint

"This is what we use to keep track all purchase orders! It's GRRREEEAT!"

Neat, so it's a big Excel spreadsheet we all use at the same time? I can get into—hang on, some of this stuff doesn't have a da—should I worry about—are 'Michel' and 'Michell' the same—what about 'Msh', and why are her rows purple?

"Old, all old. If someone from lab needs something, they will tell you."

But I still gotta—

"Everything in the SharePoint."
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Doordash Financial Model?
Does any body have idea about how doordash charge amount to restaurant and dasher?
Also, regarding payment gateway charges, do they put on restaurant or dasher?
I am working on a startup of my own that is similar to this. Insight into doordash operation might be helpful.
Yes, that is generally/approximately correct. I'm not sure precisely how it's implemented on the public side, but you're placed into a seperate VLAN that enforces the captive portal. Traffic from the public WiFi network is isolated from the subscriber's traffic.
Do they need a landing pad? They have to be capable of landing on unimproved martian or lunar rock, with enough spare capacity for either the fuel for a return flight (from the moon) or a local fuel generator (from Mars).
> Should we allow a factory in Indiana to avoid environmental regulation if they just pay a 30% tariff? Is it ok to have a 5% mortality rate at a factory in Alabama if they pay a 60% tariff? Should U.S. companies be allowed to just pay fees to become exempt from FDA/EPA/OSHA/etc. rules?

People keep talking about environmental regulation, but I'd say that they alone do not account even for a few percents of all problems hampering US manufacturing.

Same is for labour rates, US labour rates in non-flyover states are already lower than in South China...

Seeing people keep talking about that, and fail to see way bigger elephants in the room.
Actually, now I wonder how big the difference between the official and her numbers is. I looks like someone really want to silence her.
I think you meant Muwekma Ohlone.

If we are trying to be precise it was the Spanish who stole their land.

Not all Europeans are made equal.
Why the rule against yelling?
For sure but there's a common misconception bundling South Korea together with countries that have actually beaten it, like New Zealand and Vietnam. South Korea is doing great by any Western standard but they haven't beaten it, yet.
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I was in many of them, one of the most impressive was "the 5-star hotel" with a hall so big that you could calibrate tank-cannons and in another "bunker/fortress" you could "throw" out f-18 fighter-jets.

Edit: BTW that the entrance of the 5-Star:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Me...

The plate is for making fun of new recruits because it's the opposite of a "5-Star" and for sure not a "Hotel"
And if you don’t even have a database, nothing is realistically possible.
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