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amen. everything seems to be getting more Orwellian by the week. Even the graphic and sub-headline of this post screams Ministry of Truth.
Type safety, overloading, doesn’t play well with arrays (T[]), and other baggage related to the lack of value types, (e.g. <Integer> is ok but not <int>).

C++ also does not rely on type erasure.
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What headless browser streaming have you seen?
I think the parent's point is valid - enterprise has generally been less likely to commit those acts. I mean, just look at Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. They killed tens of millions of people.

Even in the examples of the companies that you listed, their acts were generally state sanctioned, making government a party to that, and sometimes supplying state resources to commit them. And of course demanding their share of the spoils.

I do agree that there doesn't seem to be too much difference between large corporations and government. Also they tend to do a good bit of cross pollination of corruption.
> It would drive an exodus of any entrepreneurial talent.

Why?
In Aus there are basically 2 media companies that control the majority of distibutions (News Corp and Nine Entertainment/Fairfax) and with that, they exert a worrying high level of influence on local politics. So this isn't really a fight between our government and google, our government is just being used as a tool. I think there's probably a middle ground that would make both sides happy but unfortunately the media here are able to push the government much harder than they should.
Sure but the private enterprises of the time that you mention still didn't hold a candle to the monarchy or the church.
Thanks for clarifying. May I ask, where do you stand on prop 13?
If you had a headline "Bob Smith accused of arson in the Big Factory fire, but later all charges are dropped" - how exactly is it rewriting history to say "A man charged of arson in the Big Factory fire, but later all charges are dropped"?
Basically all of it was paying contractors. My dev experience at that time was pretty limited.
for Nassim's example to work the minority has to be exclusionary. Everything is nut-free because you don't want to kill allergic people and you can't have both nuts and no nuts in your food, so the minority in the group can force to change the behaviour of the rest.

With messaging apps you can use both Whatsapp and Signal, so even if you convince a few people to convert, Whatsapp is unlikely to decline.

The important word in Taleb's thesis is 'stubborn', not minority. The change isn't gradual but 'fractal' with one person in the group being able to flip everyone else, and they going on an doing the same thing.
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You're describing an artificial minority maintained through means-testing. That's not UBI.
https://www.vinesse.com/afc/collection.cfm?lv=ctall&cri=All%...

People who want some pretty decent reasonable wines at a 30% discount?
When has someone died while sleeping in an autopiloted Tesla? I've kept a close eye on this space and never heard of this.
None of your links contradict what the person you're replying to noted about orders of magnitude. Stalin, Mao and Hitler alone killed over a hundred million people in the 20th century.
these and other current issues like mental issues are due to current quarantine and lockdowns, office life is inherently sedentary anyway.
US and Canada.
They do, it’s a standard part of many screening packages.
Same situation in my circles two weeks ago, but the hype has died. Folks are back on WhatsApp. Some even moved to Telegram, which is a downgrade from WhatsApp, in terms of privacy. Signal's ranking on the app charts has fallen as well, that it's below the top 10 list.
You just described China with it's Social Credit System, pervasive internet monitoring and central control of public discourse.
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We have lost a sense of liberalism in American politics. Conservatism has drifted towards nativism and quasi white supremacy. A "liberal" in American parlance is really what would be considered a weak social democrat in Europe. I don't claim classical liberalism has all of the answers, but we've clearly driven our current illiberal housing policies off the cliff: housing markets in large American cities do not work to make housing more affordable for the general public.
give them an inch.

edit: Ok let me try and be clearer. I'm sure Bob Smith is a great guy who didn't deserve to be wrongly accused. But what about Rich Jackson who used his political clout to have his story reversed through this same process? And what if Rich Jackson then runs for office? What if he has all stories about him just harmlessly modified? What if you know the truth about Rich Jackson but nobody listens to you because there's literally no history of him? What if Rich comes after you next?
There's already numerous cases of censorship cheerleaders getting de-platformed themselves for some minute infraction, so at least while the world witch hunts itself we can enjoy watching these people get a taste of the politics they preach.
> Airplane wine has always been pretty terrible to me and only purchased

If you're having to pay for the wine, you're not flying in the cabin where they have the good wines.
I’m the same and I think it comes from the personality trait ‘Conscientiousness’ from the Big-5 personality test (an extension of Myers Briggs).
I score high on that trait and I assume parent author does too.

You can do one yourself on understandmyself.com
Does one really need to read this to get the message, which is “keep risky technology to a minimum”?
Yeah, that's absolutely not true. Ambient air cooling for batteries is not enough when you're talking about ridiculously fast charging. Tesla's implementation has the AC running full blast (with radiator fans going full tilt) when supercharging even at the 140kW rate.

Getting the heat out of batteries is the hard part. And if you can, then keeping up with the heat generated is hard too.
It's substituting one walled garden for another. 5 years from now Signal will be Evil Corp and everyone will have this problem all over again.

Protocol solutions that are provider-independent like Matrix or even Delta Chat are the obvious long term solutions. How long before ISPs finally realize they need to pick up the ball here?
At what number can we stop wearing masks, stop social distancing, start dining in, etc.? That's the number I care about. Because until somebody influential picks that number, we'll just keep masking and social distancing until the end of time.
Depends on the situation. If you're trying to get a job in a bank, or for a larger organization with a standard battery of checks for all new hires, this isn't going to make much of a difference for you.

But let's say you're an independent plumber. There's a good chance that someone is going to google your name to see if you pop up on a review site or something similar as part of their standard, low-level vetting process. If the third hit is an article about you being involved in an out-of-character drunken bar fight years ago, it could really affect your business.

How many run-of-the-mill established professionals are subject to a CORI check? I'd guess less than half. How many are the subject of pre-hire, out-of-curiosity google searches? I'd guess most.

Also, old cases can be expunged or sealed by the court, if found appropriate. Your local newspaper, without a deliberate initiative like this, is unlikely update their archives even if you were completely cleared of involvement in a grisly crime for which you were a "person of interest."

Hell, even dating could be an issue.

Their initiative said it wasn't fair that well-heeled white professionals who could enlist the help of lawyers were far more likely to get that article about some drunk driving incident taken down while it was impossible for poorer people to do the same.
I think there is still quite a bit to diet - especially in relation to gut bacteria. There are plenty of studies showing Mediterranean diets improving gut bacteria diversity and also people on it tending to be more likely to have better sleep, so I think it might be more to do with the gut bacteria that than the specific ‘anti-inflammatory’ properties of foods (which probably aren’t much of an issue unless you are specifically trying to help manage something like an existing autoimmune disease).

A book I just read (Fast Asleep by Michael Mosely) recommended that kind of diet, but said apparently some studies showed that being even a bit overweight can reduce or even eliminate the improvement, so that is one thing to tackle first if that’s an issue. Other ones were a big emphasis on managing stress, and suggestion to try intermittent fasting (even just limiting all eating to 12 hours apparently can help, but some people limit all food to 8 hours and then fast for 16).

Trying to ensure that you get a bit of outdoor light exposure, and as early as possible is apparently good too, and I think it’s helping me. I just wake up and sit by the window for 20 minutes.

I’m also interested in trying doing a 72 hour fast (just drinking plenty of water taking a bit of electrolyte supplement) three or four times a year which apparently is good for gut bacteria, immune moderation etc. but people should have a chat to a doctor about doing it safely. I’m specifically interested in autoimmune disease because I have psoriatic arthritis, which is almost 100% managed by immunosuppressant but I’m interested in seeing if I can reduce my dose (working with the rheumatologist, not by myself!) but I’ve always been terrible at sleep and am trying to improve that as well (since that can help manage my condition too).
"Real talk" means skipping the niceties and getting to the point. e.g. If an elite hires someone to clean their house: they quickly agree on a cleaning price, no chit-chat is expected in either direction if they cross paths, when cleaning is finished they leave immediately, if they don't do a good job they'll be replaced, if they do a good job they'll be retained.

Elites don't do this (as much) to the middle class because: 1) they (members of middle class) aren't as easily interchangeable 2) they're workhorses that produce a good ROI 3) the elites clearly see the delusional reality most of the middle class lives in, and are happy to egg it on to keep the machine churning.
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wow, getting downvoted for stating this fact. I can't believe the anti-Musk bias here on HN. You would think HN would actually appreciate one of the more innovative entrepreneurs on the planet.
How to do this on wayland in sway?
Hundreds of millions of people are stuck at home due to lockdowns and the only practical way they have of doing their jobs, keeping in touch with loved one and accessing public services and information is through the Internet.

Is the Internet contributing to the good in their lives? A report recently that found children who play social online games and connect with friends online while locked down have better mental health than those that don't.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/23/video-...
I think the average tech worker is very pro-housing, pro-solving homelessness, but (correctly, IMO) thinks that the existing homeless programs are wasteful and don't solve the problem with the money they already have, and (understandably) doesn't want to be constantly harassed and assaulted while they walk to the corner store. Or have their kid stab themselves with a used heroin needle while they're taking a walk outside. Or have gibberish screamed at them by someone with drug-induced psychosis while spending fifteen minutes waiting for the bus, etc. These are very unpleasant experiences and it's normal for people to not want them.
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I wold say that being Euclidean requires very plain topology, an equivalent of a plane. Else you can't get Euclidian distance, for example.

By this token, classic Doom is already non-Euclidean because of teleports.

What people often want when they ask for non-Euclidean is a curved space, like, well, the surface of a globe. Or maybe a torus. Or space being infinitely repeated while looking flat (also much like a torus). Some kind of hyperbolic geometry could be fun but likely too mind-boggling.

(The ultimate in non-Euclidean worlds I've seen so far in games is the paradoxical space of Monument Valley.)
This is nowhere close to the worlds most famous teapot; it's not even in the top 10 of the most expensive ever sold and its price estimate of "six figures" wouldn't put it in the top 50 sold or the top 100 of known private collections.

For example, any Gu Jingzhou Yixing teapot is _easily_ worth ~$1MM USD, and certain pots have sold for $2M.
> The Linux developers don't want Linux's internal APIs to be stable documented interfaces

It also has the "benefit" of making it extremely difficult to actually distribute stable device drivers that are closed source, or are simply not part of the actively-maintained kernel source tree.
> I don't care how much "good reason" you think you have, it doesn't make censorship not censorship

Agreed. The problem isn't censorship, it's that people have this idea that censorship is inherently evil. I guess this stems from gross ignorance about how fucking stupid people in general are, and how they're taken advantage of by charlatans, to the detriment of society as a whole.

Watch these two (short, 2min) clips showing an interview of the darling of the GOP:

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1353144128188542977
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1353147167523782657

This is a video of a man who lied to get into office (about being a small businessman, about his accident derailing a Naval career, about being a constitutional expert, etc) and then used that platform to spread lies that led to insurrection and deaths.

It's simply irresponsible to let such filth continue to mislead people, and censoring him would be better for USA, and better for the planet.
Or help fund early stage companies, and otherwise make it feasible to take small risks which improve capital fluidity and transaction/innovation velocity. Not every entrepreneur is a petulant nomad.
I don't know, I don't get that feeling. What makes you think that? I don't know much about Elon, but I listened to one of his interviews with Rogan, and he struck me as extremely optimistic, but also grounded and not arrogant.

(I do agree partial-self-driving just seems like a terrible idea. I guess crash stats can reveal if this is true or not, but are perhaps not available.)
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Because depending on what level the software is operating at, it may not even be aware of the correct data, and the file format used to store the image might not be capable of representing it accurately.

I'm simplifying here somewhat for space, but the CD-ROM specifications allow for at least two ways of storing the data on the disc.

A 100% vanilla data CD-ROM with no copy protection uses 2048 bytes per sector for the data that's visible to you as a user, and the remaining 304 bytes in that sector are used for data that helps recover the user-level data if any of it is unreadable (kind of like a RAID5 setup).[1]

Mode 2/XA discs (or mode 2/XA sections on mixed-mode discs) use those 304 bytes per sector to store user-level data instead. i.e. they are trading more space for less reliability. PlayStation games are the most common example. If you've ever tried to copy XA audio or STR video files off of a PlayStation disc in Windows and wondered why you got an error, or why the files copied but were corrupted, that's why. Your PC was only copying 2048 out of every 2352 bytes in each sector.

The ISO file format for discs can ONLY support 2048 bytes per sector. This is why groups like Redump use bin/cue for anything that comes off of a CD. If you convert a bin/cue to ISO, you are throwing away a little over 10% of the data in every sector.

If you want to learn more about this, read the specs for different types of CDs and CD-ROMs. It's a big mess, and I think everyone is happier that the industry standardized down to fewer options in the DVD era.

[1] This is in addition to the physical-level redundant data encoded in the pits on the disc itself, but AFAIK almost nothing can read discs at that level.
Some people already did - it is not that hard, really.

As a kid, I spent countless hours in the underground trains staring out of the window into the moving darkness. Today, if I am on the train, I read interesting stories I like.

As an another example, apparently area about my birth town had all sorts of unique and interesting places to hike. I had no idea that those places even existed before internet - blogs and forums.

And the more unusual hobbies (think aluminum casting for example) - did you know how had was it to find good information before internet?

Please do not equate internet to facebook and twitter. It is so much more than that - you just have to invest a bit of effort instead of blaming it.
As I recall, (it has been awhile!) it was "El Burrito Real" as a play on El Camino Real but yes, it was a loss. Fortunately we've still got Super Taqueria which makes a decent burrito, but I don't think they have any franchises up where you are :-).
Depends how much the transfer is. It sound like the implication is a lot. In which case entrepreneurs will move to where their potential returns aren’t dampened. Same reason people have moved TO silicone valley, ambitions of outsized rewards..
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La Costeña is pretty good, but my favorite was a place called Carambas in a strip mall on the corner of Mary and Washington in Sunnyvale. They had a jalapeño burrito that would make your face sweat.

That strip mall is long gone now. Even when we used to go to Carambas in the 80's, it looked ancient.
Paulo Matos is working on a RISC-V backend.

Wasm would be very nice to have; I think compile-to-web is a big missing piece although there are potentially other ways to do it.

For Graal I think a direct implementation would be nice.

Compiling to other Schemes would be great, and I think we're in a good position to make that happen now.

I think the contract isn't that interesting in a sense -- it's just most of Chez. But the paper does talk about that sort of thing.
In case of time travel to the future (or the past) what you should be worried about are all the other aspects: the social landscape, language, ...
Neither?

I think development should be guided by a regional plan.

At this point, we know that suburban development is reaching it's end of and many people want to live in dense, culturally diverse cities. The problem is that developers, left to themselves, only build super-high units and the sum-total of those won't meet needs. The solution requiring high density in development. Essentially, impose "vancouverism".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouverism
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Ah thank you -- WP2Static is something I didn't know about.

Do some cache plugins actively walk your site and generate the pages? How do they handle when user login plugins are present? I'd expect a naive/basic caching plugin to add to the cache when a page was visited, not necessarily ahead of time.
Here’s the thing, every car system will fail at some point and potentially cause a death. There is no such thing as perfect safety. It’s really important to quantify things like fatalities per million miles driven. At some point, you push your system into production because, even though at some point the system will fail and kill someone, it will in the mean time save dozens or hundreds of people from dying in preventable accidents. What is critically important is being confident that your system is safer than the alternatives that your customers would use if your product doesn’t ship.
> Edit: Windows can maintain backward compatibility with its ecosystem if they did it well, like Apple has done.

Backwards compatibility with the ecosystem, especially the enormous ecosystem of software that doesn't have active maintainers chomping at the bit to test/patch/update with every single OS change, is a HUGE part of why people use Windows.

Apple really doesn't have this. Instead, they have a critical mass of software that is inside their RDF and actively updates to every breaking change they roll out. They have the "luxury" of not having to care if they break random bits of old software* in the process.

(* software that may be niche, may not have large individual user bases, but which might actually not have modern up-to-date drop-in replacements)
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Anyone wanna bet me that Tesla will be first to full level 5 self driving? Seems to be a lot of anti-Tesla folks here, put your money where your mouth is.
According to this yahoo article about 65 - 70% of the population needs to be vaccinated until we can get back to normal. That said there still may be mutations or other complicating factors that could throw a wrench in things.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/around-65-75-of-the-populatio...
Surely you use power steering, drive-by-wire pedals, and anti-lock breaks though, right? Or even an automatic transmission? Is it so different to use lane assist or cruise control?
I made the Amiga 500 papercraft model from this site but had stuck the print-out to some card to give the model a bit of heft, and made my very own Amiga 500 Christmas ornament. I couldn't find a way to include the mouse nicely (without it just dangling there) so I left it off. I enjoyed making the model and it looked great on my tree!
> Either I am in control or I am not. Anything in between is a recipe for distraction, and by proxy, disaster.

That's why I disable the anti-locking brake system and only drive a car with a manual transmission.
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So random nobody Bob Smith who got railroaded by the system needs to keep getting railroaded, just in case someone powerful entirely unrelated to Bob tries to pull a fast one. Doesn't seem like a great system.
Both of those companies were extensions of the state.
I agree with your assessment and honestly, it's refreshing to see. A lot of writers/podcasters have made their name by diminishing issues as being purely about signaling alone. It's not possible for some to imagine someone has certain beliefs for their own value. For example, they believe people support issues, not because they believe in them, but purely to show people in their social circles that they are a part of the club. While this may be true in some cases, I find it hard to believe it''s large enough to be of any particular concern. Also, it's a pretty boring non-issue to make ones name on.
Agreed. The only company with actual autonomous driving hardware at a scale of a Million+ cars on the road right now.