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> So why are they not making that architectural change?

Because IT is secondary to their primary mission and they don't have a proper dedicated IT team of sufficient size to enable this or a smooth transition if they tried. This is a repeated problem in the federal government. IT is not their mission, and each entity acts like a small-to-medium sized business, even if they're part of a larger scale organization. The US DOD doesn't even have one email system for all services. Each service has its own, and at least until the early 2010s many (most? all?) military bases had their own email servers with military members (and civilians) having to get new email accounts at each new base they worked at (this isn't the case of having a distributed but mutually coordinated system, it was just that each base literally had their own MS Exchange servers running and each maintained them themselves). And that's pretty much the single largest entity in the executive. Now imagine if it was a struggle for them despite a clear mission benefit how much more challenging this is when the smaller agencies are asked to do the same without being provided sufficient personnel and finances to do it, and no leadership (no real leadership) stepping up to create or establish a cross-service solution.
Same with Islam and Christianity.
That's close, but not quite what I want. The Iterator example starts to break down, but I want to pass in a subclass of Iteratable and get that subclass back.

class SpecialIterator<R> extends Iterator<R>{}

SpecialIterator<String> strings =...;

SpecialIterator<Integer> ints = process(string, magicFunc);

The Iterator example starts to break down, so here's a more concrete example:

I have 3 classes: AbstractTester, StringTester, and ListTester

class AbstractTester<R, T extends AbstractTester<R, ? super T>>

class StringTester<R> extends AbstractTester<R, StringTester<R>>

class ListTester<R, T extends AbstractTester<R, ? super T>>

I want to make a method in AbstractListTest like this:
public <Z> T<Z> convert(Z z)

I have supporting code in my classes to create an return an instance of type T<Z>, but I cannot express the type T<Z> in the type system. The type parameter T can extend something with a type parameter, and be passed a type with a type parameter, but it cannot be defined to have a type parameter itself.

This is for a fluent api framework, where I need the compiler to know the type T<Z> without casting

I can do something like this:
public <Z, Y extends AbstractTester<Z, ? super T>> Y convert(Z z);

but that will return an AbstractTester<Z> which can be cast to a StringTester<Z>, but the compiler does not know it is a StringTester<Z>

A subclass of AbstractTester is not required to have any type parameters itself. Converting a T to a T<Z> would not be legal for a T without a type parameter.
To do what I want, Java would need to add a new type bounds operator to restrict a type parameter to subclasses with a particular type parameter.

Java would need to allow me to define ListTester like this to restrict T to only subclasses with a type parameter:

class ListTester<R, T<_> extends AbstractTester<_, ? super T<_>>

I'd love to be wrong, and would be very grateful to find a way to do this.
Can you really? I remember that announcement and there was a lot of fudged language. You have to be a "member of the public service". You can download the app because it's in the app store, which is not the same thing as hailing a driverless vehicle.

It's not clear that member of the general public can actually sign up for it. Has anyone done that and taken a driverless ride in Phoenix? Happy to get more updated info / be corrected.

(And if this seems like a unreasonable amount of suspicion, I invite others to go back and read their press releases from the last 3 or 4 years, and tell me if that gives you an accurate picture of where the service is today)
What value is added by using a separate VPC? Equivalent restrictions can more easily be done with security groups, including on the outbound networking
Who is Coke presenting constant and widespread visible opposition to when they said “be less white”?

If you want to keep it straight tech... if you want Facebook being the ultimate moderators of what speech is allowed, what is true, and who can say it, that’s like your opinion man. I disagree and think they could focus on a sustainable long term plan that will best suit their investors while not causing harm - but how interested does FB seem on their core product vs legislation, “nudging”, their “outreach” on issues that they want to see changed? I’ve seen a lot more of Zuck and Dorsey in testimony than I have tech talks lately.
> plenty of them neither wanted to support the Soviet regime nor challenge it, so instead they retreated into their own private world, and that was a totally legitimate choice.

So two things:

1. You seem to be conflating the country with the government here. The Soviet regime was not the country. It was one government asserting control over a country (and also some other countries, on that note). That country existed before the Soviet regime, and continues to exist after it.

2. "retreat[ing] into their own private world" is itself a means of challenging the power of a government. It demonstrates one way - indeed, the simplest way - in which the people of a country can abolish a government: by ignoring it entirely.

> Also, you suggest that the people naturally want a free country ruled by the people.

No, I suggest that the people - and the country existing as an abstraction of them - are distinct from whatever rulership is currently in place. The power of that rulership is contingent on its recognition by the people. This is pretty inherent to whether a government is actually functional; if the people refuse to listen to the government, then what power does the government have?

The form of whatever government the people do fashion for themselves (if they fashion one for themselves at all) is an entirely separate question. Doesn't matter if it's a direct democracy or a dictator for life; if it has power, it is because the people of a country enable it to have power.
I certainly hope not!
I have a laptop charger with one that I taped over with kapton tape: the orange kapton is almost the exact opposite of the blue LED so you're left with a dim white indicator, no blinding brightness.
Several are mentioned in comments of this thread. Search results show too many old ones.

As a short-list sampling, a Micronaut SQL guide[0] lists the following:

JDBC
Hibernate
JAsync SQL
jOOQ
Jdbi
Reactive MySQL Client
Reactive Postgres Client

I myself chose JDBI for more recent projects using Java/Kotlin.

[0] https://micronaut-projects.github.io/micronaut-sql/latest/gu...
Asian in the US is mostly used as a short form of "East Asian."
Ah yes, disrupting the historically peaceful coexistence of the middle east.
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Agreed. I think the parent is confusing it with the case where you buy an item for your business, depreciate it to zero (thus deducting its full value as an expense), and then later find out you can salvage some value on resale. In that case, you would have reportable/taxable income from that resale, which you can think of as “correcting the overdeduction for depreciation.”
Brain requires a lot of energy to work, so better nutrition will certainly not hurt. However, I believe that if there is some improvement to intelligence due to better nutrition, its effect is negligible compared to improvements due to education, better teaching techniques and near-universal literacy.
No one goes to jail for underreporting a small amount of income, like a weekend garage sale.

When the IRS figures out that you underreported something, they assume it's a minor mistake and send you a bill for the difference, plus minor interests.

And, as far as out-of-state sales tax... Who actually keeps a list around of all the trinkets that they bought out of state so they can pay the extra $10 of tax at the end of the year? There is a reason why big-box stores are located immediately on the tax-free side of a state line.
Word/Google Docs/Pages/Writer are what-you-see-is-what-you-get editors (WYSIWYG). Overleaf abstracts away the content from the presentation somewhat due to the nature of LaTeX, but it still effectively provides a real time view of your document as you make changes similar to the WYSIWYGs.

Creodocs explicitly does not allow you to make any changes to the document design or layout as a user. Want to increase the font size? You can't. Want to make something red? Unless it's already red, you can't. Of course that's a major limitation if you want to make changes, but it leads to highly consistent documents. Of course any given option can be exposed in the template if it's important, but the point is that templates are static by default.

Further, the document types that are best for the platforms differ. Creodocs should not be used to write an article, book or any document where there is a lot of text and custom elements (figures/tables). What it's designed for is documents like invoices, recipes, signs; all documents where there are relatively few changes between multiple instances of the document type and text is the main dynamic content.

Hope that makes sense and helps!
I am curious. Most of the monitoring stacks include something like telegram/Prometheus to collect metrics and send to influxdb. How would you do this via email?
That is really old news. read the current situation between Turkey and Egypt, which is actually getting better https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-egypt-diplomacy-id...
always reminds me, is the TSA's liquid carrying exemption for saline solution, or bottles that say saline solution?
Ah, thanks. I wasn't certain that the C-64 or any other computer at the time that could make sounds didn't have the same little demo program. I guess the choice of music paired with the visual explains the flashbacks. As far as I know the C-64 had the same program first, Amiga did it better, and this part of the video was an homage to some old C-64 demo that I wouldn't know about.

The visual effect was common on any computer that had pixels instead of just 80x24 blocks. The music (however generated) was always some bit of very classical recognizable by almost anybody so especially church music. The same sort of little demo program was on everything that could pull it off.

I was looking for a logo or a window or something else not so tenuous.
There is another comment in the thread where someone suggests that maybe its time we do away with april fools. Personally, I think most of the jokes are dumb (and honestly mostly closer to the kind of inoffensive-to-all anodyne crap that can still be distributed as a "joke"). But I find it horrific that people think doing away with it is the answer (it's also possible that person is trolling I suppose)

Anyway, I've said before, this reminds me of "The name of the rose" where the inquisition era zealot couldn't accept that religious men should laugh, because if they can laugh, they could laugh at God and the whole power of the church would fall apart. There is an echo of this in the current lack of tolerance for any humor that derives from making fun of something, grounded in the misunderstanding that finding humor in something means disrespecting it.
ECC prevents bit flips in the file integrity checking itself.
For every example of a VC saving a company (other than the actual investment), there are a dozen about a VC destroying one.

Let's also actually analyze the economics of this success case to show how it's still silly. Let's say the VC got a 15% discount for being smart(1). Let's say the VC owns 20% of the company. At a $200M valuation, the founders paid $6M to get smart investors as opposed to dumb money. For this $6M, they got an introduction at a pivotal point in the company. The salary of the COO of Yelp is $3.3M year (2) and most of that was stock compensation. For $6M, you could have your choice of COOs from top tech companies. IMO, that $6M could've been spent much more efficiently.

(1) This is a big assumption and you can play around with the numbers but if "smart" money doesn't get a better valuation than dumb money, there's no value to being a smart investor and the extra effort wouldn't make it worth it. 15% is also pretty conservative as you can feel free to look at the difference in VC valued companies vs how Sovereign Wealth Funds valued them.

(2) https://www1.salary.com/Jed-Nachman-Salary-Bonus-Stock-Optio...
This is the replication of results of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries experiments.
Somewhat related discussion from 25 days ago: ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them (about the Tim Sweeney tweet).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26390040
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the New Betteridge's Law: any article posted to Hacker News whose headline is phrased as a yes/no question will eventually get a comment like this.
I have a hard drive enclosure in the bedroom that was too bright to my taste. So much so that I opened it to remove it (which, incidentally, was really easy, it was plugged in the board via a connector, I didn't even need to cut wires or anything)
Isn’t this a copycat crime of the similar incident in Florida roughly a month ago?
I can't help but think that if we all had that mindset, we'd still be programming in assembly. People who don't care enough to criticize the status quo don't put forth the effort needed to change it.
This sounds like a good approach because it removes the possibility for consumer credit. In my opinion, you should only borrow money to make a profit on it.
This is good. Might use this soon
Designing Windows 95’s User Interface (2018)
Do Children Inherit Their Parents’ Personalities?
The ecosystem is extremely up-to-date and in many areas, among the most advanced languages. No one is leaving Python for a new backwards compatible language. The syntax, while technically old, is quite "modern" because a lot of other newer languages look similar (presumably because of cross-language influence).
What does the many firings say about their ability to dissent and protest? I'm don't think your now unemployed colleagues would agree with that assessment. What is incredible about Google is not how much better they are than every other company but how good they are at selling employees their internal propaganda.[0]

>No company is perfect. Look inside yours before always finding flaws in one.

I don't owe Google and any trillion dollar company anything, especially not the benefit of the doubt. All these companies are evil but only Googlers seems insistent on convincing themselves about how good and moral they are.

[0] https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1344932160331866112
Are retrofits and new construction equally possible in today's regulatory and media environments?
We do know that "far" mutations are more rare just by simple mathematics. The higher the number of mutated genes, the lower the probability for that mutation.
I encourage you to watch a video of a current Waymo ride in Phoenix. In one ride I watched, the very first turn it made out of a parking lot should have been a left turn, but it turned right instead and went through residential streets to get back in the right direction.

It is nice that they have deployed to the public, but I doubt anyone capable of driving themselves will use it any time soon if it can't even make left turns.
> they're just trying to get rich.

Aren't you too rich or too poor... Developing really something for getting rich is a reason worth enough. The real problem is long-term courage.
> It demonstrates one way - indeed, the simplest way - in which the people of a country can abolish a government: by ignoring it entirely.

No, not entirely. The USSR and Eastern European dissidents' approach was often to publicly acquiesce to the demands of the regime, perform the rituals expected of them, while in private revealing to one another their true opinions and tastes in art, music, literature, etc.

You stated above that people have a duty to "bring the government to heel, or else establish a new government obedient to the will of the people", but clearly people have often not been willing to take action like that, and that is perfectly alright.
Agreed, see my second paragraph above. Organizations suck at maintaining the infrastructure that they don't see as their core mission or their profit centers (and even then...). IT is one such thing for most businesses and governments. They don't appreciate how integral it is until it fails, then there's a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth and Congressional hearings.
>They are islands though

This reads like Covid arrived in the US through uncontrolled land crossings from Canada or Mexico? I'm pretty sure like Australia and NZ, it came by land and sea mainly.

> Also US has different states with different rules, but no ability to restrict travel between the states

Also Australia never had seen states close borders before. Yet somehow each of the 6 states and 2 territories managed to get legislation passed to do this, get police mobilised, and just got community buy-in that was going to work.
I wasn't teasing, I actually called them. I was curious if it was a deepfake ML video so I wanted to find out. I got passed around quite a bit till I spoke with a guy in news room archives who had been there "a long time and would know", that's why I specifically got passed to him I believe.
Iodine deficiency and leaded gasoline are other examples.
You launder it.....

The money laundering conviction requires that the state has proven that the source of money was illicit, successful money laundering only has an indistinguishably licit source. Basically the stigma on simply having a lot of money moving around isn't based in any legal reality. The state has to prove what the source is, that the source was illegal, and then that you are obfuscating the source, in order to prove money laundering, but not a tax evasion conviction. An obfuscated but legal source would not be money laundering, it would be business expenses and compliantly paid taxes.

You don't file taxes on stuff you steal or earn from illegal means, if you do that means you missed a step and incriminated your criminal activities that earn you the funds all to avoid a tax evasion conviction. You pay taxes on the converted money that looks no different from employment or tech sales.

(or like the other person said, not paying taxes at all and keeping a low profile, but I don't agree with that, the goal is to mitigate all technical liability)
This sounds bonkers to me. We don't even understand fully what it would take to emulate a brain right now. I don't believe this for one second.
Nuclear definitely should be paired with energy sources like wind and photovoltaics. These sources are aren't consistent, so you need something to balance the load at night or when the wind isn't blowing. I find it hard to imagine another non-carbon energy source that could fill that role aside from nuclear energy.

Disposing of nuclear waste is certainly a difficult problem, since it requires designing structures to last longer than recorded history up to this point. There is at least one good answer to this problem that's under construction now in Finland, called Onkalo. The issue of nuclear waste disposal seems to be as much a political as an engineering problem. People don't want to have a nuclear waste dump anywhere near them, because they justifiably don't trust the government or industry to build it so that it works.
You know why piano's are free? Because they are heavy, and though are great to use, are limited in their functionality... Much like foss projects
Interesting article, the whole landlord part was out of place but it does seem like he was unmotivated because those faults are not even tricky.
Well, at least with socialism you can argue that it's not actually possible to do it right. You could argue that here too but it would be provably false instead of just obviously so.
It was never actually funny or amusing on Slashdot. I would usually block the domain for a few months after to make sure I didn't go back.
10 GbE cards and adapters are still quite expensive (at least compared to cheap $10-20 1 Gbps gear); one of the cheapest ASUS 10G PCIe cards is $99, and the cheapest Thunderbolt 3 10G adapter (both with RJ45 connections) is $149.

If you want to graduate to SFP+ those adapters usually cost a little more (plus the cost of a transceiver for fiber or copper).

Cabling also means many existing installations (like my house) with 50+ ft runs need to be re-cabled if they actually want stable 10G speeds. My home network works great at 2.5G but there are a few Cat5e runs that don't give me 10 Gbps.
> Is it possible that better nutrition has also led to people getting smarter?

If you count lead paint "wall candy" chips, nutrition definitely has improved intelligence.
It contains bitmap (Type3) fonts. Some older documents produced by TeX have this issue (back in the day you'd have metafont generate bitmaps designed for your specific printer, taking into account ink fill-in, etc).

Modern outline versions of these fonts have since become available and this typically isn't a problem with newly generated files. (You can make this happen, but by default everything uses outline postscript fonts these days.)

There exists a utility called pkfix that can fix this if you happen to have the original ps file, and it has the right comments from dvips.

There is a second utility called pkfix-helper that will try to guess and inject those comments based on the metrics (character sizes) of the fonts. But it can't really match a lot of the symbol fonts that only pull a couple of characters.
Factory automation usually has fail-stop behaviour (in process automation like chemical plants, things get more interesting).

And resumption of operation after an emergency stop happens only after a human check and intentional operator acknowledge.

So you're technically right, but the circumstances are vastly different. Nobody will buy a car that does a full emergency brake whenever a leaf falls off a tree. The environment is so much more difficult on the street than in a factory.
Hi HN,

I'm really excited to introduce this little SaaS that's been on the market for some time now, but we finally polished the UI enough to advertise it to the general public.

Use case: Instantly add forms to any website or process existing HTML forms client-side.

I personally use it for all my AWS S3 static websites.

It's built 100% on NodeJS.

Happy to answer any questions.
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"Two things keep the IRS’ hands out of most people's candy dish: the $15,000 annual exclusion in 2020 and 2021, and the $11.58 million lifetime exclusion in 2020 ($11.7 million in 2021). Stay below those and you can be generous under the radar. Go above, and you'll have to fill out a gift tax form when filing returns — but you still might avoid having to pay any gift tax."