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> The correct response to all of this would have been an accepted means for individual departments to submit requests for updates/changes to the standard to be voted on before they are forced to comply

This would result in, what's pejoratively called, "design by committee" which inevitably comes with bike-shedding, tit-for-tat politics and so on.

The NIST is an public institution with a long history which traces back to the origins of the United States. It's a formal part of the state. And it's raison d'être is to ensure that decision making around standardization actually happens. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Standard...

The point of all of this harkens back to fundamental principle:

If you want to travel fast, go alone. If you want to travel far, go with many.

The organization of a state catering to many millions follows the latter part of that principle, for better or worst. Standardization doesn't guarantee the optimal solution to a problem, it guarantees a workable solution for the majority of a given problem space.

And that's exactly what public governance is about. Ensuring the continued existence of the state as a legitimate, legal entity that governs and serves public interests at large.

> The issue at hand is no mechanism for feedback.

Well, it's perfectly feasible to... just e-mail them or give them a call. The NIST ITL CSRC lab can easily be reached via their website. [2]

If you want to know the decision making process that went into a standard, you can submit a FOIA request. [3]

[2] https://csrc.nist.gov/about/contact-us
[3] https://www.nist.gov/foia
Some fanboys are more numerous than others.

Personally I find discussing Toyota on the internet to be far less productive than Tesla.
> Better pizza = more sales. Keeping it around long enough and word gets out that Domino's is good again

That's not how it went down, and that's not how these things work. The Domino's brand value was in the gutter and would've taken forever to recover - management had to greenlight an absolutely massive advertising campaign to let people know about the new improved product, which is the only reason you know about it. They spent a ton of money and there's a chance it might not have worked. The prevailing theory at the time was that people don't give a shit about fast food quality, they just want food that's fast and affordable to shut the kids up for a bit. Cost cutting and squeezing every last penny out of the margins is the logical call in that environment, but management was competent enough to recognize there might be an untapped market for better tasting corporate chain pizza, and they were right.

The article is overvaluing fluff like drones and self driving, but you're undervaluing their investments in streamlining the ordering process online and via the app. Arguably, they were the first major pizza company to really nail it, and it's paid off in spades. It used to be universally horrible everywhere, so everyone would still call in all their orders, and young people loathe picking up the phone.
I always make a copy and then share that when I’m ready. This is the only method I’m aware of to remove history.
And the new strain was first recorded on September 16th. It's laughable to think it hasn't spread further (although hopefully I'm wrong on this).
A lot of those have to be builds in test pipelines, would be interesting to know what percentage, I’d guess > 90%
Spoiler alert: not so much.

It’s probably better to be well organized and a bit of a cleaning maniac to keep your code clean and easy to maintain.
IIRC, North Korea has reported zero cases.
I have a 55" commercial LG "Wallpaper" OLED and it is "dumb" and gorgeous – and mounts flat to the wall at only 4mm thick! No 4K, no HDR, don't miss them a bit. No apps, no ads, no features at all really; one HDMI in, which I have connected to an Apple TV via a Denon HEOS AVR.
The title should probably have (2011) in it.

I enjoy Marcan's work very much. His blog seems to not get a lot of activity, but I enjoy looking at his hacks.
Functional Programming: Enemy of the State
> Heres the thing: It's not about efficiency, it's about convenience. Transferring 2700 megajoules of energy to an f150 via gasoline in a few minutes is very convenient, something that would take a Tesla a few hours. If consumers were concerned with efficiency the same way engineers were, we'd all be driving electric hummers and cybertrucks.

There are 2 types of convenience.

- Being able to fuel up quickly on a long trip

- Having your fuel tank full at the beginning of every single trip.

Hydrogen fuel cells (and combustion engines in general) are better only for the former case. Since most people drive less than 300 miles most of the time, it's hard to argue a car optimized for longer trips is more convenient for most drivers.
> I think this is the younger should accept that a closed latte shop is not a good reason for depression

Easy for you to say - I'm sure you're comfortable from home working some tech job while you dispatch immigrants on Grubhub to feed you, and they cannot afford to stop working.

You're simplifying this into some imaginary trivialized "closed latte shop" when it's in reality condemning an entire country to miserable poverty and human depression.
GTA 5 is better than Cyberpunk 2077
Possibly controller related. I plugged my Xbox controller into a Mac once, and it didn't know what to do with it (unlike Ubuntu, which recognized it as soon as I plugged it in). Same with Safari. Chrome running on the same Mac correctly recognized the controller and made it available via the gamepad API.
>I doubt it is a road safety requirement for a car to learn tire diameters.

If you want to have hair trigger traction control systems then it kind of is.
I keep seeing this mentioned, but no one ever refers to a specific brand that has been observed doing this. It's plausible, but who’s doing it?
Just open the case and disconnect the wifi antenna or, in the case of a PCB etched antenna, apply X-acto blade.

See! It's opt-in.
>Lastly, I've seen "Software Engineering" courses at some places that are almost trade-school-esque discipline (beware of some masters degrees [1]) that's basically what would have been called data processing or IT/Information System.

At my institution, the Software Engineering students take the same courses as the Computer Science students. However, the SE program has less flexibility in electives, as nearly all of their electives have been replaced by mandatory engineering courses.
We have a Sony from maybe 8 years ago and it’s fine. Boot time is only a few seconds. Certainly I hardly notice any wait when I grab the Apple TV or Switch and wake it up. It switches to the appropriate input automatically as it wakes. That’s about all we use it for.

It’s a Smart TV in theory but we have never used its ‘features’. It’s not connected to any network and it doesn’t seem to try to connect to wifi sneakily.

Audio is connected out to an amp and speakers and sounds fine.

If it ever breaks (not sure if LCD has a finite lifespan) we’d probably get something similar but would be checking it has the same ability to just act like a monitor with auto input switching and audio out.
If you go to Tesla's UK page and try to place an order for a brand new Model 3, it uses both "Self-Driving" and "Autopilot" on the same page. How this company hasn't been fined to oblivion yet is beyond me:

https://i.postimg.cc/g0ndzbmL/image.png
I remember a work colleague from Canada asking if it was OK that we were walking across a busy street in Frankfurt Germany. I was a bit confused, but said that, Yes it's OK to walk across the street. In retrospect I might have added, you also don't have to ask anybody if it's OK to go to the bathroom. North America is a strange place.
I make this comment every time some techie complains about another system being down. Unless they also make those comments when they're stuff goes down. Can't hold others to standards you refuse to hold yourself to in my opinion. I'm fed up of seeing co-workers be completely fine about their failures and act like they weren't even failures but pissy at third party failures.
Scarification seems like it might would be worth the trouble. I wonder if any of them tried.
I don't know why karma is relevant.

Windows gets plenty of coverage on HN, but respective coverage isn't an indicator of OS popularity (or language popularity, etc). If that were true then most people on HN would be using raspberry as their primary gone OS.

Most people don't feel the need to talk about using Windows as their home OS of choice. I generally don't talk about it either, except on articles like this where OS preference is part of the discussion, and even then only in response to connects like the one I responded to.
The Open Shortest Past First protocol is used to resolve temporal paradoxes.
And Amazon:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2020/1...
This is why I switched to Infinity, it’s much more organized with old folders structure and it’s never messy.
There's no reason any other form of biometrics is less secure than fingerprints. My read of the article is that either the idea of someone not having fingerprints never came up or if that situation was considered it was filed under "we will handle the exceptions via a process to be developed later" and no process was developed. Worse, a process was developed--since we see in the article that some of these people were able to get ID cards and passports, documents requiring fingerprints--but it imposes a massive time barrier on the people.

For one-offs like obtaining an ID card, a one-time imposition of a bit more time might be reasonable. "We've installed fingerprint readers at every location where you can apply for an ID card but retina readers are more expensive so they are only available at the main government office" may be fine if you're referring to a passport issued every ten years. But requiring a fingerprint for a SIM card yet having no backup for that at point-of-sale is not.

This is the flaw in every single system designed by people who largely have no experience with people who have a difference in physical or mental characteristics than the designers. We see it in facial recognition trained primarily on people of a certain skin pigment. Social systems designed by people who are neurotypical. Transport systems implemented by people assuming a base level of technological or literacy skill. The list goes on.

The people doing the designing aren't being inherently mean or malicious, they're simply not thinking. And not thinking is very easy, but makes systems that are very impenetrable to people not included in that thinking.
Are you talking about Human population? Human population is forecasted to peak mid century and begin to decline as more women have access to education and contraception [0]. Many models are predicting this, however personally I'm not 100% sold on the models yet. I think trying to fight the population growth is just as infeasible as trying to move a mountain. I think we have better chances to fight ecological decline by educating the population on effects of overconsumption of goods, pollution, and energy use.

[0] http://www.healthdata.org/news-release/lancet-world-populati...
I might be remembering this totally wrong but didn't a mobile browser (maybe Opera?) offer this feature as well, like 5 or 10 years ago? I seem to remember trying it out for my Android phone back in the day
To be fair, Alberta is culturally more like Texas than Vancouver.
That's a pretty decent idea - if a manufacturer claims his vehicle is "self-driving" then they should be the one accountable for any accidents in case the vehicle malfunctions. (Ofcourse, this would make the vehicle costlier to own - manufacturers may demand regular check and servicing of the vehicle, driving up the total cost of ownership.)
> My guess is that it's hard to speculate what will happen with COVID-19.

> The asymptomatic nature of COVID-19 gives it a big question mark

Also the mass, un-targeted lockdowns have probably screwed with the selective pressure as well.
I don't think I've ever experienced anything worse than how reddit tries to make you install their app. The amount of intentional intrusions it creates to make it impossible for you to actually use anything but the app is ridiculous.
Linux is discussed frequently in this site in development contexts, but almost never in the context of home use.
Surround it in a chicken wire Faraday cage?
Machine Learning – Unsupervised Learning
I guess it depends on how loudly the TVs complain about not having internet connectivity.
I have to wonder if there isn't a market for "boutique" dumb TVs, which cost a little more (due to smaller scale) but have all the expected picture quality features (HDR, etc) and maybe have a nicer case/exterior than typically found on consumer TVs.
This list has been around for a while but I'm sure you'll find some interesting software engineering blogs in here:

https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-blogs
In an OS with virtual memory and swap, it generally makes sense for apps to allocate as much memory as they can usefully use. Unused RAM is wasted. If memory pressure increases the OS will just swap out the less recently used tabs.
Where did you buy it and what did you pay?

Any issues at all? What is your main use case?

Cheers, sounds like a great option!
There may be particulars of Heller that can be disagreed about. But the central question of whether it protects an individual right should be uncontroversial. That part should have been a 9-0 decision.
Perfectly valid solution, and it gets downvoted on Hacker News...
A company is not the people who work for it, or the people that own it. Its its own distinct legal entity.
This [1] was the famous 2016 crash where a Tesla broad-sided a basically stationary semi-truck. Are you suggesting Tesla hasn't solved this type of problem yet?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-crash/tesla-driver-...
If you have previously let your cat outdoors on a regular basis, it will likely be unhappy if you stop letting it go outdoors.

Outdoor cats get in fights with other cats, spread disease via their waste, kill birds and wildlife. Neighbors also can mistake your cat for a feral one and call animal control or trap your cat: https://www.humanesociety.org/sites/default/files/docs/carin...
I think you'll have a hard time finding a computer monitor at TV sizes(say, 50"+) that has modern display features like 4k, OLED, HDR, etc.
> My overriding impression has always been that at the high level, both safety inspectors and the people in the labs want the same thing: a safe working environment and the ability to get science done.

The interests of workers, safety auditors and institutions only partly intersect - like a venn diagram.

All parties can (hopefully) agree they don't want anyone killed or seriously injured.

But only some parties are interested in shielding the institution from liability.

Only some parties are interested in bright-line rules that choose rule simplicity over rule accuracy.

Only some parties are interested in stopping the institution from skimping on safety equipment to save money.

Only some parties are interested in seeing workers respected as masters of their crafts, able to use their own judgement.

Only some parties benefit from producing the portion of compliance documentation that nobody will ever refer to.

And only some parties are interested in work getting done in a timely manner.
> Provincial motor vehicle acts don’t address self-driving vehicles

Right now, in Canada, we have to meet certain criteria and pass multiple tests to get our drivers license without which we cannot legally drive on public roads.

Until there is some kind of similar certification for self driving systems I don't understand why there would be any legal difference between doing this in a Tesla Model S and doing it in a '94 Miata.
Those who made “mistakes” like re-implementing basic data structure or algorithm will learn much more than what compsci degree can teach them.
We can talk about those things without the language of calculus, though: "this graph shows requests per second, and that graph shows cumulative requests." And I think it should be clear how to derive one graph from the other, with or without calculus training.

IMX numerical integration is useful in some areas (like physics simulations), but I haven't encountered any non-trivial applications of the kind of calculus that's taught in most schools, which focuses on continuous functions over the reals.
Probably the hdmi port does not exist in 10 years anymore
I mean, LG makes a 48" OLED TV that works great as a monitor, why not use that if size isn't an issue?
Any commercial signage display would do.
There's a plenty of people using RoR, but feeling equally productive in JS, and they'll benefit significantly less than backend developers who were forced into using it, but never really liked it.
> “They want us to be compliant, not secure.”

Suppose the auditor looked at the output from the author's single test and said, "Oh, ok, you're good to go."

In this version of history, perhaps the author's organization saw a moderate benefit from the more resilient crypto. However, the set of all organization audited would be significantly less secure because the audit becomes nearly meaningless.
The UK also teed-up a super spreader event with its rushed lockdown last week. India did the same thing back in ~April, and it ended up encouraging traveling and dispersed people across the country.
What’s your reason for not just saying what it is? The odds that no one had ever thought of it before, are astronomically small. If you announce it here and it turns out to be something, at least you’d be on the record and get some credit.

Otherwise the suggestion to find a patent attorney is a good one. If it’s not worth investing a few thousand ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ may as well just tell us.
Thanks both for taking the time to acknowledge and explain the subtlety. Helps somebody like me who’s casually following along to better understand both scenarios.
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It sort of is real, and not.

You can you use your hard drive as memory.

As a kid I found this fascinating, and spent a day getting it working.

Then you learn about thrashing. Oh wait, disk drive is a million times slower than ram.
I disagree. Domino’s is actually throwing quite a lot of money and effort at their tech strategy. This is reflected in their app, (amazing) website, and a (still nascent, but still improving) tech culture that didn’t exist before.

NOTE: I don’t work at Domino’s, and I haven’t used their services in over a year.

Understand that quick-serve restaurants are typically as conservative as retail when it comes to anything not core product because of their low margins.

I do agree that Domino’s has done quite a lot to cost-optimize their product, including significant investments in line automation and process improvements.

If you need proof, tell me another pizza quick-serve that has a Terraform provider for ordering pizza: https://github.com/ndmckinley/terraform-provider-dominos

And they’re running AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/dominos/case-s...

And from what I can tell Kubernetes based off of some headers from their store locator service.

Now, other, not-Dominos, companies are making some/all of these moves. Using the tech is easy. It’s Domino’s commitment to reduce delivery times to 10 minutes from first order that makes them different. Management realized that they would need a massive investment in tech to make this happen. So they microserviced their API and worked on the delivery process. That is worth giving them some credit.
What's the exact model number of your tv? Searching around it looks like many LG Wallpaper oled TVs are smart ones.
Please keep us/me updated! I'm interested in something like that, but don't currently have the disposable income to purchase one as a test.
It's just super interesting that the granular record is persistent and can be replayed years later. Pretty non-obvious to me, and something I usually pay attention to!
I wonder, do you drive on highways? Because I suspect you don't often. I can't think of a time, sans traffic, that I was cruising under 72 on our local highways (speed limit 65). And I'm usually being passed.
I recognize this, but I suppose there are many young people in the UK who viewed the entire EU as where their prospects and lives would lie. That is no longer true, unfortunately.
Your comment speculates that they intentionally chose to withhold information. The article tells a different story of someone who had enough people who knew and cared about him, but who also knew him as someone who lived in such a way that due to it not being unusual to go long stretches without contact with others, his disappearance and death could easily go unnoticed. And of course, when people did realize the dead hiker was theirs, they came forward. It's the whole reason this article was able to be written in the first place. These are two different pictures that aren't especially compatible. (It's bad enough to participate in those types of speculation fests, but even worse that at the moment the fog lifts and it should be approached with a newly sober attitude, you instead show up to pimp out your (wrong) theory.)
channels and dj_database_url, for example.
Well, some do, sure. I got a new LG CX last month and it's incredibly fast - switches on like my CRT TV used to, it's almost instant. And all the apps work very quickly, menus don't stutter at all......huge change from a Bravia TV I had before, that was like "press a button and wait 10 seconds for something to happen" and you couldn't change the input for at least 30 seconds after switching it on.
Excellent question! Types can provide very strong security

for messages by having the type system do crypto so that

applications can benefit without requiring application

programmers to manage keys and crypto code.
The article really should have mentioned

https://djangopackages.org/

Most popular Django packages can be found there.
We have 3 cats, and only one has any interest in prowling the yard, and we watch her like a hawk, only let her outside with us.

The other two (one born feral, one in a shelter) have zero interest in stalking birds. They're not lazy, just don't care about stalking birds, are more "dog-like" perhaps.

Point is, it's a proper subset of cats wreaking mayhem, and they have very varied personalities, which I offer as another datapoint.
It's like we are right back to waiting for the CRT to warm up. Why do all consumer electronics have such latency these days? Buy a $20k car and the software lags turning on the FM radio. This is the world we've built.
Did you read the comment you replied to ? There are no mentions of using the smart features at all, he's talking about useless menus and slow boot time.
> By current accounts the vaccines will still work against this variant

This isn't surprising because the variant hasn't really encountered the vaccines yet, so it's not an adaptation to them.
Yeah opera did this, I remember being amazed at the results in my Nokia e71 - and viewing the desktop site rather than the terrible 201) mobile offerings, but getting great speeds due to the compressed sizes.
Apple, please bring the XDR line to full size TVs and end this bullshit. Making users do deep research on hostile software implementations so they know which features to forego so their privacy is protected... somebody needs to blow this industry up.
Saw one on Craiglist recently. One bleeping HDMI port, haha!
That would mean almost nobody uses Java these days...
No, but I could’ve been more specific. I’ve updated my comment.
If it doesn't have at least 3 HDMI ports, dealbreaker.
Same! Can't remember what it was called, but there was a Java application I used 15 years ago that proxied HTTP and compressed assets, which was useful in New Zealand at the time because bandwidth was limited and not as fast(I'm sure that's changed by now).