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I always liked the science fictions stories where they'd make people training to be elite fail as part of their learning. So they'd be prepared for the real world.

I guess this is why it's called science fiction

(And one lecturer is not ANU, ANU are of course reversing this. And lecturer's are also humans, unless they have done this year in year out I don't think this mistake is something to judge the entire university system on, or them as a person, and this assignment seems like one of those dumb assignments that don't have to count and are more about forcing students to actually learn the materials earlier than the week before exams)
I don't mind working for less on something I'm passionate about. But, if we do get lucky and the startup goes to the moon, I expect to do well!

And that's why I can't work at startups anymore. It's fundamentally unfair that VC's capture all the upside. I'm can no longer bring myself to donate half my compensation as funding and only get the measliest of common stock options in return.
Pretty sure a ton of people have done this via acquisition.
So basically a senary (base-6) RNG:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senary
"US values" aren't the issue. It's Facebook values, whatever they chose to be.

Here in the US we have battles over whether to cooperate with and enable the US government (military and immigration are two obvious flareup points, as is all the free speech and privacy protections that require a warrant to overcome.)

When an issue is a matter of "US values", the US government can step in and give Facebook an order or engage with the enemy directly.
Odd ligature behavior entering username in Android browsers
If you take on a loan for college then you better hope you get a job out of it. If you want a degree with no economic prospects then you can just pay for it yourself. Remember college used to be an upper class thing where people chose their education freely precisely because they already had the ability to support themselves.

There is the other factor that a worker without a degree in the USA is partially redundant. A lot of jobs that do not require a degree can and have been moved to other countries. You are free to move there and work at your low skilled job there. There is a lot of demand there but not in the USA. You can chalk this up to an incompetent government or central bank but the reality is that as an individual you have no power over this and therefore an economic degree is your best bet.

The alternative to connecting college with the job market is to introduce a job training program inspired by Germany and let people enter a three year job training program in exchange for lower wages. That ship for this has sailed a long time ago. Now that college has been burned into the minds of everyone it will take decades to reverse the trend even if you start today with full force. Germany still has the lowest youth unemployment rate in the EU and is in the top 4 world wide.
I’m able to reproduce this in 5 different browsers on Android 7 and 8.

Has anyone seen anything like it before?

It’s preventing me from logging in because my username includes the st letter combination…

It’s just that field, and just on that site. To add insult to injury, if I paste the text elsewhere, it’s fine…
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What kills me are the wipers. During the dry season I forget about them, and then winter hits and I dread driving my car. Why oh why could Tesla not just use an off-the-shelf IR sensor like every other premium car? FFS, trying to use cameras to detect rain is a disaster.
You are using a welfare system available to under 20% of the population (in the best countries) to argue that the majority have access to a system that is well designed. This is moving the goalposts at best and outright intellectually dishonest at worst.
If I were not a YEC, then I'd think cosmology and physics are different because physics is a laboratory science where depending on our budget we can do anything from roll balls down inclines to produce quarks while with cosmology we have absolutely no control over conditions and can only make believe we do by sampling in a way that necessarily is corrupted by our biases. And the amount of data to sample from is plenty ample for unconscious bias to have a significant effect.

If I weren't a YEC, I would focus more on issues with radiocarbon dating and the assumption and not the observation that carbon isotope ratios are constant over the history of the Earth and ignore cosmology entirely. In fact I'm not clear on what YEC has to do with cosmology at all, it strikes me as being outside the scope of the arguments I've seen on the subject.
I'm not a politician and I will say: I love my insurance. Because it's actually pretty great.
It is important to explain carefully to feminists exactly what measure of feminism they can actually maintain as satisfactory.
Only if you think dialectic can't cope with ambiguity.
I want to feel more of a connection with my coworkers too. This isn't it. This looks like something from 1990.
Typically Nikon has had the best glass. And there's a collector's market for much of the nikon vintage glass out there.

I really would like to have the 13mm Rectilinear lens if only it isn't worth several tens of thousands of dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkor_13mm_f/5.6#:~:text=The%....
Who suggested in this thread that we shouldn't punish them? The grand parent commenter asked for them to be punished the same, the parent commenter for some reason thought that was so outlandish it must've been sarcasm.
GraphHopper is great, especially for Map Matching. The IoT startup I work for in New Zealand was struggling with fuzzy-matching routes with Google Maps and ESRI. When I tried GraphHopper, it gave excellent results, and when I had more questions, email replies were extremely punctual. Another friend in Germany is using GraphHopper for some research on tram lines.

So just to echo what karussell says: GraphHopper seem like a great team, with wonderful tech and friendly people. So if you have an interest in maps, it's worth chatting to them!
“The idea is not a new one, exactly; Bigham mentioned a screen reader, Outspoken, which years ago attempted to use pixel-level data to identify UI elements”

I don’t think that feature, if implemented at all, ever made it into production. Outspoken looked at system calls (sometimes system call sequences), not the resulting pixels.

I think Apple itself, at some time, had an advanced version of the monkey (https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Monkey_Lives.txt) that did look at pixel data (so that, for example, one could script it to click an “OK” button without knowing where that button was, or to shift-click between two letters in a given font/font size combination)
As someone that nearly hit someone that walked out from behind a bush, with a chemically fueled disregard for the world, I don't think the rules are so bad. As unpopular as the opinion appears to be here, I don't like the idea of having to dodge humans randomly entering the road. Should we also take down the signals and barriers that prevent cars from crossing train tracks, since they have the similar goal of preventing a high speed object, with orders of magnitude more weight, from colliding with something relatively squishy?

edit: No need to immediately downvote. I would enjoy some discussion.
I think /dev/shm is available on most(?) Linux systems by default these days. I tend to use it instead of /tmp when I can.
using LINQ in C# is vastly different from going full Haskell
Yes, that slipped my mind. I was thinking the first mass market EV company.

Which you can consider Nissan to be as well.
> Nokia started with GTK and when they went to Qt

Did they ever actually get to this point? I understand it was the long term plan but the only MeeGo phones actually released by nokia were still GTK based.
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I guess that raises a question -- if there was a better version of Amazon Vine, how much would you pay to use it?
Suzuki Jimny. What an awesome little SUV. Not available in the US.
Let's go full FP and demand immutable data too.
Dave at Forever Group (https://www.forever-group.co.uk) here. My brother is on the autistic spectrum (Asperger's Syndrome). I don't know about invention but he has always been musical and loves to play the guitar. Perhaps music composition is deemed invention?
If I catch a quarter, I can often feel the heads or tails side and flip it without most people noticing.

I'm not quite perfect at it, but I'd say I'm at 90% heads / 10% tails, as long as its an old-school quarter and not any of these newer ones with crazy designs on the back. (I can feel the Eagle vs Washington's Head pretty well. But the 50-states and stuff are too much for my fingers to memorize. Give me a few minutes with the coin beforehand, maybe I can learn on the spot... if the back is distinct enough from Washington's head).

Its a fun party trick, to remind people that you need to let the coin bounce on the ground if you want a fair toss. If you let someone "catch" the coin, you're prone to all sorts of shennanigans.
You are the safety issue. Without you there is no safety issue. And you should drive accordingly.
Hi all, I'm Jeremy, and I’m excited to be sharing Tuna. I built this because I wanted to develop scalable web services as quickly as possible. I was tired of cobbling together containers, databases, web servers, build tools, and the what-have-you in order to build scalable applications. In Tuna, you can create a stateful web service in just 4 lines of code with zero application-land dependencies.

For a non trivial application, I would recommend looking at a simple messenger web service written in Tuna: https://github.com/Conder-Systems/tuna-lang/blob/main/tuna/d....

I think Bosque https://github.com/Microsoft/BosqueLanguage is similar in its “Cloud First Development” ambition.

Compared to other programming languages, Tuna is unique because the global state is stored in a database. Under the hood, Tuna compiles to an intermediate representation that I also created called Conder: https://github.com/Conder-Systems/conder. This intermediate representation is decoupled from any specific storage provider. When it is compiled, query optimizations are applied to the IR to improve performance.

My hope with Tuna and Conder is to simplify building scalable, secure, and vendor-agnostic distributed systems.
Fortunately, the price keeps dropping, you can probably replace it for less than you originally paid.
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How could a novice engineer replicate the app that controls the lights atop the Empire State Building? Looking to produce an interactive art exhibit where participants can control how a mural is lit up from home. Thanks!
Hmm, What if it was made such where the president 'line-items' it, but the vetoed version still has to go back to the House and Senate to Re-Approve?

This has advantages over the current practice, where if a president wants a line-item struck they more or less have to veto the whole thing, and that is how the news can/would report it.

Contrast to the optics of an 'item-strike', where it is more natural to report that the Executive branch 'almost' supports it, but it's up to the House and Senate to decide whether %STIMULUS_PACKAGE% really needs a 20 year copyright extension rider.
There's different levels of jaywalking.
There's walking across the streets when there's no car and everyone is doing it. And then there's the crazies who walk across open traffic on a green light where there are cars speeding along causing accidents. A large percent of the homeless and drug addicts in cities are minorities.
This is still very basic car UI desing. Other car manufacturers will catch up with Tesla.
Apple does have a lot of SKUs in most of the world's countries and mobile certifications isn't exactly trivial.
Electric cars is a part of the solution.
I'll second this as a rally fan.
Are there neutron-like particles that are stable?
> this post seems like a graphically appealing way of just making the usual "FP is better" argument

I would rephrase it as "FP is a better default". A big part of my thesis is that dogmas tend to have shortcomings, which contrasts with the stereotypical "FP is better" literature.

> in my experience I've seen codebases that are entirely object oriented where we are writing methods, not functions, or codebases that use methods or functions as appropriate

Using X "as appropriate" is one of the things I was hoping to encourage :)

As for "most codebases have a pure functional subset", perhaps what I should have said is "most projects' domains have a pure functional subset". The idea being that some slice of the business logic is naturally just deriving values from other values, and that if you isolate that substrate you get many of the benefits people talk about FP having (lack of sprawling side-effects, composability, easy parallelization, etc), without the more extreme costs like having to learn what an IO-Monad is
As I get older my code gets a little more verbose and a little less idiomatic to the language I am writing. I’ve been writing code, starting with C, since 95. Mostly Python these days, but I try to make it clear and easy read. Mostly for myself. Future me is always happy when I take the time to comment my overarching goals for a piece of code and make it clean and well composed with enough, but not too many, functions.
The West simply has not demonstrated the ability to enact an actual lockdown. So we're stuck with these half-measures, that rely on minimum-wage store greeters for enforcement, and even those get protested.
I was using the template as-is from the article. Personally I like the brevity of your version much better. If you don't mind, I would love to use it.
> What other pieces of personal property does Western society openly embrace everyone owning but that can be used to murder people?

Knives. Belts. Ropes. Electrical cords. Hammers. Chairs. Frying pans. Scissors. Etc., Etc., Etc., as nauseum, ad infinitum.
Agreed 100%. Though even Sandy's conclusions are that they're saving at the margins here. It is revolutionary in the sense that they're design and manufacturing techniques are unique, but they don't lead to orders of magnitude reduction in complexity/cost.
The article is about brigading public content, not tracking.
I don't expect my life will be improved by a brave new world of misinformation- if hacker news was unmoderated for example, there would be nothing on this site than a bunch of nazis high fiving each other all day, it would be worthless to normal people engaged in normal conversations and tech people wouldn't find it worth visiting.
Some level of price transparency becomes law in under 2 weeks on 1/1/2021.

https://www.foley.com/en/insights/publications/2019/12/price...

I believe this was fought out in court this past summer and upheld.
Even a lot of mathematical assumptions were wrong before Godel and Tarski.
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Without their knowledge or consent? You can’t tell whether people are wearing masks and make a decision about whether to be around them? I suspect that even a blind person could do so the moment somebody started talking.

I’m sure there are still better comparisons than drunk driving. If you are under 55, the risk is about the same as dying from a car accident.
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How many of those suicides are from people who are broke for pandemic-related reasons, and could've been prevented had we controlled the pandemic early (i.e, with a strict lockdown)?
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She may have learned that template from someone at Google, but it's definitely Geoffrey Moore's Elevator Pitch template: http://elevatorpitchessentials.com/essays/CrossingTheChasmEl...

Everyone: Go read Crossing the Chasm. Fantastic book.
Fucking stupid. I used to live in a college town where no one obeyed traffic laws. I can't tell you how many car on car, car in bike, car on people accidents were caused by dumbasses walking into open traffic.
He's an inspiration to us all. I pray he's never captured, attempted murdered, or tortured or anything like that ever again.
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Perhaps that's where we are in making sure the overton window doesn't cede ground to vested interests; only the extreme alternative as a starting point if negotiations of whats possible are being made.
I say unfortunately because in our case the use is legitimate and we're working hard to get everything optimized outside of the main thread time (we've even built our own image service that we can use to dynamically change image resolution and quality based on the device form factor.) But I agree they are overused in general.
I presumed that "this millennium" meant "since 2000". That removes Germany.
> Shady and incompetent then, same now I guess.

I received a warning from my university over a complaint that was (apparently) filed against me. The complaint accurately identified a song that was part of a massive torrent from which I had downloaded a single song. If memory serves, I downloaded "Leader of the Pack" and was accused of downloading "Hotel California".

I concluded that they were happy to make accusations without even having any evidence that I had done anything wrong. (Technically, I had... but they didn't appear to have a clue what it was.)
now you're thinking rationally.

research "tired light". There are many competing theories.

Maybe read "Seeing Red" by Halton Arp, or anything by Tom Van Flandern. Or the book "Pushing Gravity". Or the electric universe guys, or subquantum kinetics, or modern mechanics, or plasma cosmology, or weber dynamics, or infinite universe, pretty much anything but the standard model actually.

be careful though, you might find yourself exposed to ideas that establishment status quo "science" tries hard to ignore.
When you consider that there is no limit to the size of a company it is pretty obvious why monopolies form. A lot of markets only really need one company that provides a service or product for the entire economy. With healthcare it is extremely obvious that having one provider is beneficial because you want everyone to be on the same health insurance plan. The problems are that monopolies usually abuse their power so you need put it in control of an accountable entity such as the government.

Consider it from a different perspective: CEOs don't become billionaires because they are multiple times more productive or competent than other people but rather because there is no need for a second equally competent CEO. One CEO is enough to serve an entire market and so all the market power concentrates in the hand of the CEO who can then abuse it for his benefit.
"Health care and education have gotten more expensive. "

I apologize because I don't mean to only present disagreements but I don't think this is true, either.

I think that like-for-like health care has largely fallen in cost. The catch with health care is that we've developed better (and much more expensive) methods. Spending has increased dramatically. My grandparents grew up on a farm and when they broke a bone they set it at home. They saw a doctor on very rare occasions and when they did, treatment was limited. Their health care spending was very small, but so was the scope of their treatment. When my grandparents got cancer, they died. There were not nearly so many expensive options available for end of life ailments.

It's possible to live with the same kind of spartan health care today, but almost no one would because we are fantastically more wealthy than past generations.

Willingness to buy more is exactly what we would expect to see if wealth has risen over time, as I am arguing. The status quo rises dramatically as overall wealth increases.

Education is tricky as it's largely a fashion product at this point. Knowledge itself is often freely available in ways impossible to imagine decades ago. It's the prestige and pedigree that cost money. Fashionable limited-quantity things get wildly expensive as wealth increases.
Yes but I'm saying this is kind of moot when you're writing a struct that needs to store the iterators, because it can't get away with just storing the 'begin' -- you can't guarantee the second iterator you're storing will actually be the end. Meaning this iteration model isn't efficiently composable.
My impression of the Putin's press conference from last week was that he genuinely considers Navalny a traitor. He didn't even bother to deny any allegations about those FSB officers, all he spoke about was how Navalny is connected to the CIA.
> As Americans our priority has been individual convenience, over collective safety of our neighbors.

Wouldn't walking across the road into traffic, rather than the crosswalk, be individual convenience rather than collective safety?
This is starting to get off topic, but the "holding it wrong" issue It was definitely not overblown; if anything it was understated by the media still infatuated with Apple's latest shiny new thing.

The issue affected nearly every iPhone owner I knew at the time, including a number of individuals who worked for Apple, and almost all of these people got their phones replaced by Apple under warranty as a result.
It's hard to stay simple when the number of users grow. Go will probably not stay simple for much longer (with generics and whatnot).

One thing that I don't understand about the ecosystem is the hate towards GOPATH. Why introduce a complex dependency system for a package manager when you can just pin submodules with git and reap the same benefits? :)
The places with the strictest mask orders are having surges in cases just the same. E.g. California hospitalizations per capita are now far outpacing Florida. Masks work, kind of, I’m sure, under very particular conditions. But the net effect seems to be minimal.
If you check out the text of the link at the top of the page, it has some helpful context. Specifically, that the linked website is for "video calls, in 3D"
Prius took 20+ years to reach that. I’m slightly miffed you compared model 3 with a soul sucking and arguably ugly car.
Interact enough to drop a noticeable shadow? Iirc, a neutron is 50e3 times smaller than a hydrogen atom.
wiring pure functions decouples processing from data. I find this encourages developing well defined models naturally as well as making the model much more agile and malleable
Did Google tell people in a landing page what it was back 20 years ago like we expect startups to do?

This is not some universal rule that cannot be broken. For most startups, landing page is useful. But not always.

I like the simplicity of Pop's page.
Facebook only really cares about the big profitable countries/languages, and whatever gets them access to a small country. They don't invest in cultural engagement to be good stewards of small/poor language communities
Have they? The Apple Watch is selling well now after a few iterations. Have any other products launched that have sold well?

M1 looks good, but it's on the back of several years of lackluster laptops and things nobody wants like the touchbar. The pro video and audio community is increasingly alienated by $700 wheels and are switching to Windows or Linux. Earpods have been a success but has the Homepod? Iphones have been iterating but not really revolutionizing.

I'd say his record is pretty spotty.
Well, tech advances have both upsides and downsides there. It's harder to get away with killing people when it gets videoed and uploaded to the world in minutes. I'm optimistic overall but we'll see.
Ah, now I see. I'm just stuck in the 20th century. I suppose I should be glad I still don't accidentally write "19" for the century on my checks.