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> In my opinion black-box algorithms have no place in government, and for this reason it's critical for the government to develop the expertise to develop and understand models themselves, so they aren't reliant on the trade secrets of contractors.

We learned from 2000 years of human history - war, disease etc. - to create a transparent system of checks and balances. These days we are trying to pretty much remove all of it (digitally) for "convenience" and "efficiency".

I can not understand how any semi-decent societal system can accept a situation of opaqueness and no accountability.
It's true – at that point, if I had disappeared without providing any transition help, the company would have been in trouble for a few days. But that goes for any employee – we were only 7 people at the time!

Eventually I built out some more infrastructure to run the jobs automatically on a dedicated machine, but last I checked everything still runs on one instance.
Great point about half-baked features. The investment boils down to risk-reward. Can we say that the features that are introduced into Java at this point are features that have stood the test of time in other languages?
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In terms of mailbox space, it was 500x Hotmail. Before Gmail you had to delete your old emails because if your mailbox was full it would stop receiving. The whole approach of "archive" and being able to search your entire email history from any computer in a webmail interface came from Google.

There was POP3 before this of course, to keep all your mail locally and empty out the server box. But that only works if you have a single computer that you check mail from. Even back in 2004 when Gmail launched that was a non-starter for me, I had email at home and at school.
Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?
It's been ~one year since the first lockdowns started. What are you working on now?

I'll start: I'm building PriceUnlock, a tool that will help you find the best pricing for your SaaS product. I'll post more in the comments so as to not hijack the post's description!
Alexei Navalny's persecution is just the tip of the Russian Crackdown
It is not clear to me from the article what in the world these "extremely disruptive tactics" are that cause "serious annoyance" are. A recent protest was mentioned as it relates to the Metro Police, but no details of what the protesters were doing that seemingly sparked this.

Does anyone, perhaps those from the UK, have more knowledge of what could possibly justify this slippery slope that could reduce the freedoms enjoyed by UK citizens?

I think it is self evident, but who is the arbiter of what is "seriously" "annoying" or "disruptive"? Is blocking traffic while remaining silent one of these crimes?
He's mostly dismissed/ignored by the left.
I've been using voip.ms and it is fairly good. I wish the SMS support was a bit better but it does reliable deliver messages to email or SIP. (Large messages are not re-joined though and sending is based off of a code in the subject instead of an email address per-number which could be easily be added to an address book)
> Python has a `multiprocessing` module that sidesteps the GIL.

Yes and distributing work with multiple processes is not the same as distributing it via threads. There is a difference in performance in different implementations and variations of concurrency and parallelism.

> we're in a hypothetical pissing match about code that doesn't exist. Either the parallelism problem is uninteresting, or your benchmark becomes about complex synchronization.

Yes, the code doesn't exist because it's difficult to do, and that's what makes it interesting.
The problem with banning mushrooms is that anyone can pick them off the ground.
Or, using only elementary math:

Let i = ((n % 3) ** 2) + ((n % 5) ** 4) * 2

Or, given any number n of primes p_j, the "fizzbuzz index" i is just

Let i = sum_over_j(((n % p_j) ** (p_j - 1)) * (n ** j))

(This doesn't generalize to non-primes via the totient function for the same reason the post's solution doesn't generalize - (a % k) * phi(k) for prime k is zero if and only if k divides a, but for non-prime k it can also become zero for other a.)
Maybe if you're only counting brain cycles saved, but brain cycles of pure joy and amazement are worth more than ones spent doing pointless tasks.
Every thread I’ve seen on him has a comment such as yours to complement the the fanboy comments.

This is common. Discussions of almost any author here draw the same set of responses.
The general thing about complexity (be it 3SAT or Turing Completeness) is that the underlying rules are extremely simple.

The issue is understanding the implications of those rules. For something like 3SAT, all possible 3SAT puzzles can be solved (aka: either satisfied with an example, or unsatisfied with a "certificate of unsatisfiability").

For problems in the Turing Complete complexity class, the "implications" of the rules you list are semi-decidable.

Ex: Is there an odd-perfect number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number)? Well, all we gotta do is try all numbers. Once we find an odd perfect number, we'll know its possible. But if we never find an odd perfect number, we remain in a state of uncertainty.

Though I guess, a future mathematical proof may prove if an odd perfect number exists or not. So I guess I'm back to the halting theorem as an example. For the halting-theorem: you can "solve" any computer by simply executing the program and waiting for it to end. If it ends, you know its a program that ends.

If it doesn't end... well... semi-decidable. You don't know that it never ends.

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Anyway, if a hypothetical type-system were "only as powerful as 3SAT", then all calculations under that type system would be proven to come to a solution eventually.

EDIT: And even weaker systems, such as "Horn-clause Logic", (which is the basis for Prolog programming language) can have further proofs of efficiency (not only will all systems come to a solution eventually, but we have strong proofs about the number of steps a computer will take to reach that solution).

These attributes are likely useful to elements of programming language design. Sure, we are making a Turing complete language (aka: machine code). But that doesn't mean that all sub-languages in the language need to also be Turing complete. Imagine if "printf" or "scanf" was Turing complete, it'd be a complexity nightmare!!
This suggests you didn't get a degree in the humanities in the past 20 years and don't understand the Leninist part of Marxist-Leninist.
How You Are Teaching Your Brain to Be Anxious
Salt is so hard to find.
And here we come full circle. Let the s̶y̶s̶a̶d̶m̶i̶n̶ devops handle it.
>I tend to have a good opinion of Apple regarding privacy protection

The Apple privacy push is for Apple protecting your data from 3d parties. Apple still collects plenty of information by itself.

From a consumer standpoint, there should be no difference if you care about privacy.

If you really want control over your data, you need a rooted Android phone running a custom rom with no Google apps, and use something like Firefox Focus for web interfaces to all the apps that you use.
Looks like no type aliases still? Does anyone know if type aliases are anywhere on the road map for Java? Is there some philosophical objection to them?
>And then suddenly, you got a GB of storage. For free. No questions asked. And its UI was simple and easy-to-use. And you could search it.

Also don't forget that Gmail at the time had the most intelligent spam blocking algorithm compared to AOL/Yahoo/Hotmail/etc.

It was a big enough deal that some observers that switched to Gmail considered the email spam problem as "solved" because Gmail seemed so good at it. (On the other hand, many independent people trying to run their own SMTP servers think that Gmail is too aggressive with spam filtering because it also blocks many legitimate senders with low/unknown reputation.)
I presume the snow/ice was just a mixup, don't think there is much point arguing about it.

Yes, when I grew up in Sweden salt was everywhere as well. Then before I moved away the forbid salt in some places and replaced it with sand. If I recall correctly, erosion on cars and the effect on local fauna being the reason. I mostly saw sand being used instead of salt at that point. Now I don't know how it looks, as it was a couple of years ago, but I expect sand to be used even more now than before, as the country is getting more focused on ecology and sustainability.
The commenter is referring to what's called a "secondary strike". These are heavily regulated under current law (https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/se...) and the PRO act would repeal these rules.
How did you figure out the change decreased chronic inflammation? Was there a change in inflammatory markers or something? Or more of a hunch?
It’s John de Lancie, isn’t it.
First: I can't imagine not finishing Zen -- it is among my top ten books.

Second: I agree, no one should be forced to be "powerless" about the hardware they own. But right to repair is exactly that: I don't want a phone with a detachable battery and upgradable memory -- that means the phone isn't waterproof and/or is much thicker and heavier. I don't want to force people to have the phone I prefer, but I also don't want the kind of phone right to repair would force me to have.
I'm announcing PriceUnlock here: https://bychgroup.com/price-unlock/

But the gist of it is:
* We're aiming to make it easier and less risky to try charging more/less
* Aiming to help you stop leaving money on the table (or take too much money from the table?) by enabling you to easily charge different prices in higher/lower-income countries — like Apple, Netflix, etc. do
* Aiming to make A/B testing of prices headache-free

I'm still building PriceUnlock and revealing more bit by bit! Curious to hear your story about your SaaS pricing and how you got there — and whether you ever got to 100% confidence that the prices you set were "right"?

That aside, would love to hear what others are working on now to see if my feedback can be helpful!
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China is my hero! Go China! Why have Just Apple tracking us?
Spring supported each and every java release between 9 and 16.
With one release being supported a month later (don't remember which).

I know because I use Spring (and hibernate) and everything just works.

(If you are on the most recent Spring version)
PayPal Sandbox – So Slow It’s Unusable (2008)
Yes, I think Thomas Sowell and most people on that list use "race" synonymously with "populations with certain phenotypes or ethnicities who are going to be bucketed together as such."

Culture isn't the only thing by which he differentiates people bucketed across "races," but is definitely a primary one. He also very frequently talks about cultures within "races," as you've mentioned here. The drastically different performances between white immigrants to the US, depending on where they came from. Or the stellar performance of black immigrants from Nigeria or Ghana or the West Indies.
I see I'm getting downvoted. Will any downvoters have the balls to say why? Here's the relevant quote:

"Just ask BLM leaders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi.

In a revealing 2015 interview, Cullors said, “Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers. We are trained Marxists.” That same year, Tometi was hobnobbing with Venezuela’s Marxist dictator Nicolás Maduro, of whose regime she wrote: “In these last 17 years, we have witnessed the Bolivarian Revolution champion participatory democracy and construct a fair, transparent election system recognized as among the best in the world.”"
I believe that's what your parent post is saying.
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Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
What's the state of tail call optimization on JVM nowadays?
A hypothetical route map is already available:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_super_grid

Pretty sure it’s very much a concept only at this stage
I wasn't even using a db at the time, it was 100% pandas. We did eventually set up more infrastructure, when I left the data was loaded into the company's SQL Server db, then pulled into pandas, then uploaded back into a different table.
13 years - still the same
> On a cross day, an impatient day, I will kill you with fire.

So... are you working on that? Calling yourself "foible" doesn't forgive you of your shortcomings.
"Two autopsies — one by a county medical examiner and another by a private medical examiner hired by Floyd’s family — as well as a review by military experts conducted for the federal government, reached the conclusion that Floyd died of cardiopulmonary arrest as the officers subduing him compressed his neck and chest."[1]

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/george-floyd-fentanyl/...
If having solar panels on your car roof means you can avoid charging much in summer

Some variation of this comes up every time: “but even a little bit helps” without knowing how little it is. I’ve got a Nissan Leaf. I’ve also got an RV with 400W of solar on top. That’s enough solar to keep things running all day on a reasonably sunny day. Unless you want to run the 1100W microwave, which you can run for fifteen or twenty minutes before you get to start over. Or you could drive an electric car for five minutes.

All this “doing the math” assumes perfect efficiency, blah, blah, to barely come out making it maybe kinda worth it. In the real world of cloudy days and off-angle sunlight, you’re better off having a sun roof put in and charging off your home’s solar panel. Or to put it more bluntly, until solar panel efficiency goes way up, panels on top of the vehicle is just dumb.
The availability of the "mpris" dbus interface[1] for controlling media players. I've used joysticks, & midi mixers, & command line tools, & my phone to control whatever media player is playing. I can keep an "audioscrobbler" program running that will record whatever I'm playing on whatever app I'm using, without needing to configure each app.

It's so nice being able to have programs that extend programs. Rather than needing to build a big robust program with all the features built in, I can have tools that access & enhance whatever other program is running. This is such a better model for software, so much more creative & extensible, & having this modular software environment for media playing has absolutely has been a 10x experience over monolithic applications.

[1] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/
> The United States is a vast, sprawling area with nearly every conceivable type of geography. The road conditions and residential density covers all possible ranges. The truck is designed for the worst case scenario allowable while minimizing drivers danger.

I'm pretty sure most of the geography in the US can be found in either Spain or Sweden as well. Except jungle I guess, but don't think you have much of that over there either. Besides the point anyway.

Yeah, the cars here do drive through a lot of different geographies as well. In the denser areas like cities, the postal workers are most often on motobikes or just walking though, depending on the density of the city.
Amazon's version or the for a while now EOL Oracle version? Maybe push to upgrade to something supported :)
>You're misrepresenting the current argument.

It's not talking about the current argument. It's saying the current argument shares the property of arguing against the use-cases of people outside the target demographic.

People who argue "electric cars will never be viable" (and not anyone in this thread) commonly complain about lack of supercharging speed, despite that being a feature that most people (and all initial adopters) will only use once or twice a year, if ever. This will not be a problem for a long time, as right now only ~1% of car users have an EV and that won't be a major problem until we start running out of ICE car-owning EV buyers who don't need that, which is at least at the 50% mark.
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Studded tires destroy roads and are serious overkill, even for northern MI. (Not sure about CA).

Honestly, newer winter tires are amazing. I DD a newer Camaro with proper extreme weather tires. It's not fabulous in the handling department, but it will stop and go mostly straight.

But put those same tires on any modern family vehicle and you'll be all set. Even roads covered with a solid sheet of ice would be no problem in a FWD Camry.
Faster tire abrasion causes

a) more particulate pollution from tire residual (which can be massively worse than pollution from exhaust in cities)

b) more exhaust pollution from worse car mileage
Where AI does (and doesn't) fit into healthcare
From what I understand, this CAID will be an effective replacement of Apple's IDFA. It will allow partner advertising groups to tag iPhone users directly without relying on any of Apple's identifiers.
and there are no checks and bounds on their side??? no regulations?
It is better in the US as generally all plays are country-wide but as a Canadian my number has changed many times.

- First number.
- Moved to a different city for Uni. Switched number so that people didn't have to pay long-distance to call.
- Moved back.
- Move to Europe for a job.
- Moved back.

I would never consider an identifier that is (loosely) tied to your location stable.
Doesn't services like Spotify make that easier?

AFAIK while you need a distributor and can't just upload your stuff like you can on Youtube, there's a bunch of them that seem to give the artists everything.

If the artist choose to go with a label that takes their royalties, that's on them. If they do it because they want the visibility and services, that has a cost.

Music is a field where a lot of people do it just for fun, and it's quite saturated. Supply (as in diversity of products) way outweigh demand.
Couldn't it make the cost of shipping cheaper if the the load is able to contribute some energy to the truck?

You'd need some sort of standard for the trailer to provide electricity to a hybrid/electric truck but ignoring that (major) issue it seems like a pretty great idea.
Kotlins data class is functionally basically the same as a lombok @Data class used in Java. Why Java didn't keep the name "Data class" I don't know.
I get that it's frustrating and pisses people off. But "not being able to afford things you really want" is not really an economic harm in any serious sense of the concept, especially when it comes to the kinds of things are generally scalped in America.

In general, the way our society has chosen to distribute limited goods is through an auction, and poorer people generally lose auctions. The reason we do it this way is because the auction price signal then tells the whole world that more of X is needed.

This works really well for things where:
1. Buyer and seller have alternatives
2. There is sufficient legally allowed competitions
3. And supply CAN respond to price signals

And it always involves pricing some people out of the market (for at least some period of time) to direct the resources to those that can pay the most while supply responds to the price signal. To complain about "harm" in this setting, you also have to say that people who can't afford 4karat diamond rings are "harmed" or that people who can't afford penthouse NYC apartments are "harmed".

If the vendor and customer want to engage in a different, non-auction based method of choosing who gets to buy things, they're totally free to do it. Modern technology actually makes that incredibly easy now.

Again, I'm not arguing FOR scalping. It's just so strange that people demonize scalpers for doing something every business in America does. If anything, the vendors are being lazy about thinking the problems through and scapegoating scalpers for taking advantage of the inefficiencies that arise.
I can live at my current spending level in the Bay Area for 3-ish years on $125k. In my small, Midwest hometown, I’m sure I could stretch that to 6-8 years. The disadvantage, of course, would be living in a podunk town in the middle of nowhere.
> I suspect Sweden and Spain are like the UK, and not the US, in this respect.

Not really. The country side in Sweden at least have mailboxes on the kerb for everyone, it's really common. And the mail workers still seem to manage dumping the mail into there without leaving the car, without having a specialty designed car for it.
I grew up in a mostly black county in Virginia, and at one point lived temporarily in the household of a family of socially prominent black Christians. The father was a police officer, the mother a public defender in a neighboring county. The father was not quick to anger, but the angriest I ever saw him was when a bunch of white anchors in NYC on MSNBC brought on Al Sharpton, and asked him questions about what "black America" felt about an issue. He pointed out to me that they would never bring a white person from NYC on to a channel and ask him what white people in Virginia thought about an issue.

He made a good point.
Using camel case means I'm a hater?
In a few more months everyone will be vaccinated, significantly limiting the spread, slowing mutation.

To be clear, we’re talking about the risk of the AZ vaccine specifically. It seems like there might be something specifically wrong with it. Ceding approval authority to bodies like the FDA is how medicine is regulated all over the world. That’s how literal snake oil is blocked from sale. Among other things, it prevents desperate patients from making uninformed, dangerous, and expensive treatment decisions. The average person really isn’t equipped to read a medical study and adequately interpret the results. This information isn’t even at the maturity level of a study, and the risk is that people hurt themselves and undermine the confidence in this vaccine and others.
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They're referring to protest by Extinction Rebellion. Some people superglued themselves, or climbed on tube trains.

https://www.ft.com/content/0f1bbf6e-1baa-11ea-97df-cc63de1d7...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-50079716

These forms of protest were deeply unpopular with many people.

Banning it is clearly the wrong thing to do.
Exactly this. People who want phones like this should be able to have them, but not at the cost of me being forced to have one too.
"there is always an opportunity cost in terms of money not spent on loved ones" seems to me that by that logic you don't "love" yourself and you put very little value to yourself and that you only serve your loved ones. Everything that I purchase and that brings me happiness in term usually makes the people around me that love me also happy. Either by improving my mood and so improving my social interaction with them or simply because they care about me. And most of the things that I can and will buy for myself are transiently valuable to them as well. I buy an Omega watch -> someday I will leave that watch to my kid hopefully with a good story and a loving memory. I get a gaming PC/console -> I get to spend time with my kid playing a game. I build a utility room into my garage -> I get to teach my kid how to build/fix something. I buy a telescope -> I can spend time showing them the stars/galaxies etc. I do not buy something like that when there are more pressing matters at hand. However if we are meeting our common goals the money that we earned are for us to spend in whatever way we want, including giving presents for each other(even in the form of money). The freedom to care for ourselves improves our care for each other.