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It's so sad that these mechanisms that were set up to protect people are now preventing people from getting the help they need.
John Cena had to do the same recently. Shameful.
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get enough people to vote and you can change it in your area. simple as that
> I'm reading this as, "Many red boxes are blue circles." If the language allows implicit widening casts, it has implicit casts.

The problem is that people state things like "Java doesn't have implicit casts for correctness." But then it does have implicit casts, so now is there still correctness?

Another case is Haskell, where the wiki tells you:

> Conversion between numerical types in Haskell must be done explicitly. This is unlike many traditional languages (such as C or Java) that automatically coerce between numerical types.

But what this actually means is instead of `a = b` you do `a = fromInteger b`. This is obviously also an implicit cast, because Haskell has type inference. So again, you're not writing a proof that your conversion is correct. You're just writing a different, longer "yes I really mean to assign this" statement.
>I prefer buying a DVD

DVDs are horrible quality though. Compression everywhere and low resolution. The streaming services that I've watched are all better than DVD, at least 720p.
Oddly enough this made me think of the Great Wall of China. A Great Ocean Wall of some sort sounds like it would be effective. Finance it with waterproof apartments in some areas.
270 comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27285700
This is the way.

As a Westerner living in Asia for a while now, masks in public was one of the no-brainers that was very easy to adopt. It's like taking your shoes off in the home, it just makes sense.
Given that the majority of their recent comments are [dead], 'redis_mlc is likely banned. If you see a dead-yet-worthwhile comment, you can vouch for it.

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Brown as in Cherry MX Brown??
I was hoping to find this comment.
For drilling holes in soft materials like drywall and wood, or even softer metals like aluminum. I recently used that drill to drill into a motorcycle engine to remove a stuck rotor cover.

Relevant old article: http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html
> fertile ground for people to accept fiction over truth

The ground was always fertile, the only thing that changed was that such power used to be monopolized.
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No, under the Paris Agreement, countries set voluntary targets for themselves and regularly reassess.
Also the suspicion and mistrust around families and neighbors reporting each other to the authorities.
For me the fundamental story was about class. All of the principles of Ingsoc were intentionally crafted as a way to prevent the middle class from deposing the high class with the assistance of the low class.

The surveillance, propaganda, double think, cult of personality, eternal wars, Newspeak, etc, were all just a means to that end. That's the boot stamping on the face forever.

I think a lot of people skip over Emmanuel Goldstein's "book within a book" in 1984, but I feel like it's one of the most important parts of the entire thing, because of how it lays all of that out.
But isn't that begging the question?

Couldn't we just as easily say "beating China at not starting the zombie apocalypse" requires ensuring China doesn't invest in weird chemical experimentation with death and voodoo?

We're taking as a given that China's end state is a repressive dystopia, just as we would have to take as a given that China would start a zombie apocalypse. The only difference in one is seen as patently absurd by all people, and the other is only seen that way by some.
If that containment involves forcing other countries to do your bidding, all you're doing is beating china at being a repressive dystopia
>I‘m sorely missing AI, humanoid robots

I remember reading somewhere that the authors of the book series intentionally left out AI in the story - as to not take away from the human aspects of the story. AI is there, just in the background with context specific voice activated commands.
Yeah, after two failed Macbooks from 2016 because of their ssds I can just say stay away from apple hardware until they reverse course on storage devices.
People who move into these more expensive units leave other, less-luxury units though that now someone else can move into. Of course, as someone else pointed out, there is actually pent up demand outside of major cities as well by people wanting to move to the city. But still our only realistic, long term solution out of this mess that 40 years of insufficient construction had gotten us into is unprecedented construction. Upzone and remove barriers to get permits.
A 5-pack of reasonable quality micro-USB cables is less than $10, FYI.
"You would build a bigger bomb"
Or, you would make the enemy's bomb ineffective. I understand that history went with build a bigger bomb. But honestly, that's not the only option. It's a disservice to everyone to think that arms race is the only answer.
Well it is apples to oranges. In the late 70s, high-end RAM was maybe 250ns, so you wanted a 5mhz CPU. In order to clock that on the VAX, they implemented numerous smaller micro operations and associated specialized TTL and then used microcode. So this limited the maximum propagation delay possible for any single cycle micro-op at the expense of complexity and power. Then each macro sizsd op took variable cycles. Also, the VAX had 4 priv states, ecc capable dram controller, i/o, fault recovery and the like.
There's a difference between doxxing yourself to random people on a place that is searchable and doxxing yourself to the government.
You do not need an interpreter to evaluate macros. You can compile the code of the macro, same as you would any regular function, and call into it that way.
> If people buy the new houses as investments and leave them empty most of the year

Fortunately, this is already a metric that is tracked, called the vacancy rate. And what we see is, that in in-demand cities, that have high rents, the vacancy rate is pretty low.

So, if the vacancy rate is 5%, that means that if you build 100 houses, then 95 of them are going to be lived in. Yes, it sucks that those other 5 houses are not lived in, but those extra 95 houses, in our example, are still a good thing.

> This is precisely what happens in places like London

It is really not. A quick google search shows that the vacancy rate is as low as any other major in-demand city.
Yup. That was my reaction at first, too. Definitely taught me a lot about informal trust systems in academia.
If I mention a sea lion do you understand what I'm talking about?
Our actual legal system is adversarial, and for good reason. The best way to get to the truth is to have devoted partisans on both sides.
In case others wonder or worry, as I do, that few care about the issues in my parent comment, I'll take the unusual step of reporting that it has more upvotes than much of the front page - far more than I've ever seen.

(I'm trying to respect the HN tradition/guideline of not talking about votes. I don't really care about Internet points; I think the implied interest in the issue is worthwhile and applicable in this case.)
> When 1984 and "Orwellian" are used as a catch-all for any type of oppression or even any type of propaganda, I think it does a great disservice.

I agree, but it's not hard to make a stronger case. Organizations like Google, Facebook and Twitter centrally decide Truth, and then penalize anyone who posts anything in conflict with their version. Google censors the videos of people who dare to disagree with e.g. the WHO. Facebook deboosts "vaccine hesitancy"; Twitter sabotages the engagement of people with a diverse set of "wrong" opinions, degrades the various subnetworks by silently deleting followers, annotates tweets with the Official Truth, etc.

The same thing is done here on HN, a kind of filtering that assumes its own hypothesis. Someone posts something contrary to the prevailing story? Well, if it conflicts with the WHO, it must be conspiracy theory junk. I don't recognize this site, so I'm going to flag this article. People seem sure they know what the truth is, so they feel comfortable squashing anything that conflicts with their current understanding.
Thanks. I could swear like a decade ago it seemed like Belarus and Russia had had a falling out but I guess they patched things up since then (or the falling out didn’t impact cooperation like these passports).
The issue is that AI is going to make it even more economical to bombard your target with coherent information through an extremely effective means of influence (writing). Have you seen some of the posts recently about AIs getting better at writing?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27032828 It’s much more of a threat than a bogus newspaper. I can imagine a future where the signal is even more drowned out by noise. Think Twitter bots x1000.
I once copied a Terraform directory & changed all the confit values to match the new environment I wanted to spin up. Unfortunately I forgot to remove the Terraform state files. So running “terraform apply” did a great job of spinning up the new environment, right after it tore down the old one.
By the way, before I switched over to Kinesis Advantage 2 years ago (due to a severe case of RSI), I used MS natural keyboard for quiet a while and I liked it a lot. It’s probably still the best entry-level ergonomics keyboard out there!
This argument doesn't hold water. Models like DALL-E, that can create cartoons using word phrases are not open sourced. That's probably not because of "AI safety".
People that are complaining about reddit being bad need to know this.

- Join groups centered around a very specific technology / purpose / interest.

- Leave all groups that have a large amount of people in them .

- Leave all groups that are very generic - example: r/programmerhumor, r/politics, r/programming, r/nextfuckinglevel

As a rule of thumb, the more the people and the more generic the group purpose the more political and toxic people will be.

Now my reddit feed has drama turned all the way down, it has interesting things about the things I like. It's not as amusing as before but the people are more chilled out and helpful.
You likely already know about inflatable bouys and/or no longer need them, but just in case: https://www.scuba.com/products/scubapro-marker-buoy-orange?v...
The outcome would be beneficial to the government. The root of the problem is that the government is targeting you.
Privacy is dead.
I thought most of that was implied by the word “practical.”

As a practical matter it may be bad policy. But, right it is not.
I suppose it's nothing surprising, but I've had the opposite experience, hearing Michael Jackson's Thriller from SACD on highend speakers after listening to it from tape in my youth. *chefs kiss*
The article is focused on video, but fwiw (at least several years ago), the browsers do bad stuff with images, too. It is (was?) impossible to get Firefox and I think also Chrome to correctly render PNG, JPEG, and other formats, especially when they provided a color profile.

At the time (again, like a decade ago) at least, it was roughly: Firefox thinks every JPEG is sRGB and every PNG is “huh?”, Chrome got JPEG right (treat as sRGB when no profile is present) but couldn’t do Adobe RGB (and wouldn’t even open a TIFF), and Safari used Apple’s long-standing color code to basically get this right (though I don’t recall if it went with “assume sRGB if no profile”).

I’d be curious to reproduce those old results, especially given the cool “oh yeah, Chrome doesn’t show the same colors in software mode” shown here!
If you build more prices will come down and these "investments" will become nonviable.
I did clarify my suspicion that any sort of concern for the "what happens later" question is fundamentally in opposition to the entire mindset, the premise of a business based on people constantly upgrading to the latest devices.

There's some fundamental cognitive dissonance in being part of a business that thrives specifically (not incidentally) on externalizing the costs of the constant turnover of devices and somehow also keeping in mind concern for this. As soon as you take on the tiniest slice of care about the issue, the cognitive dissonance comes on board. If e-waste or longer life-cycle of products is a PROBLEM, then how can we justify X Y Z A B C… the entire business model being questioned is the logical conclusion.

Far easier to belittle and minimize the whole issue, pretend it's nothing, make minor half-assed programs like the one they are actually doing. The business model does not permit of actual responsibility around these things.
You assume transiently homeless people become chronically homeless faster than chronically homeless people find homes or die.
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I guess it means the test passed.
> Let’s say you and I were going to race each other by walking. You start on the east side of Los Angeles and I’m in Santa Monica. Does your lead mean you’re in a much better position than me? What if the finish line is in Amsterdam?

I can't figure out how to parse this. You refer to my starting location as a "lead", but they ask if it means I am in a better position - that is the definition of "lead". I think your point is that we are so far from what is needed that it is hard to know if we are even moving in the right direction.

Which is a weird argument. My brother drove me in his Nissan Rogue today, which does automatic lane following. You don't have to steer your car, or use the gas or brake for many driving conditions. That is unambiguously an improvement over full manual control.
Yes, everything you say, indeed. Market failure is a real phenomenon. We need effective regulation here. To get there, we need consciousness-raising first. Politicians act mostly only when there's already massive public demand for it.
Unless the 1/3 group doesn’t have a terribly long life expectancy.
>People don’t make better decisions when given more data, so why do we assume A.I. will?

How much of this is just because it says something they do not want to hear or because there are incentives to not consider it?
I’m curious why one would wanna use them instead of a keyboard such as, say, Advantage 2.
So is there any point at which you would say it matters whether an accusation is true or not? Is it only if there’s a criminal investigation?

> People who’ve been hurt by others don’t need to be legally scrutinized for saying so.

The point is that not every person who makes an accusation is someone who has been hurt by others. If there is no scrutiny allowed, how are we supposed to tell which is which? You're looking at this from the perspective of the person making the accusation, where you can know with certainty that is true. Someone on the outside doesn't have that ability.
i personally love going to the office and interacting with coworkers but i find it off putting that most of the good in person tech jobs are clustered in like 2-3 major cities. It is nice to spread the wealth so that tech workers can have more options in where they live and work. I'm not totally convinced on 100% remote but i am liking this trend of tech having bases in more cities around the USA.
I can't figure out why 2024? I can't find anything specific about that year in the article. My two guesses are that this is a weird political thing, I can't forget the Bush antitrust settlement, or just that it also ends in four.
Heh. That’s true. I wouldn’t have been at all surprised if we had to ask about race. I guess each country/culture has to address its particular fault lines. Like I said, I don’t envy folks drafting laws to try to rebuild civil society.
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Especially since, with his history in the party and his Jewish name, he's clearly supposed to be a reference to Trotsky. Orwell fought in a Trotskyist militia in Spain and hence is likely to use a Trotsky stand-in to express his own views.
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Magit is not just a user interface. It's also a number of emacs-lisp packages useful on their own. It's Transient that's gaining popularity for building modal key UIs in Emacs. It's Forge that paved the road for nice packages like github.com/anticomputer/gh-notify. It is Org-mode integration and many other things.
What you're using is a ported subset of them.
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This would be cool to extract out and use within regexr[0]

[0] https://regexr.com/
Powerful electric drills will often come with an extra handle on the side (or a mounting point for one) so that you can brace them with both hands. It's up to the user to set an appropriate torque limit if they're only using one hand.
It sounds like most "engineers" these days just put a brickwall limiter on the master and call it a day.
Now it is through text, message apps and twitter chatter.
In addition to the relation between luxury housing market and affordable housing market that others are calling out, regulations and other hurdles to build are a reason expensive units are built rather than cheap ones. If you need 15 permits to build in SoMa and changes requested by one council can require going through the process for another permit again, your fixed cost gets so high that you really have no choice but to build expensive units. I'm sure housing cost would quickly get under control of SF for example were to eliminate any height and other zoning constraints and have as the only requirement that you are able to get insurance for your building.
Its probably nicer being homeless in California than living poor in Minnesota or some other place thats cold (not an American, and never been to Minnesota). I've just always thought if I was homeless I'd move to the beach where its warm.
One factor in vacancy rates at least in SF / NY - rent control. You really CANNOT rent to someone without a big risk - so if you have an elderly parent who might want to move in in the future, you have kids who might want a place - and are wealthy - you really need to keep place empty.

So yes, the rich do leave I think more places empty in some places because they can afford to and because the economic calculation is not simple. If you rent and want to end the rental later you end up in a bad spot.
Sounds kinda homophobic to me.

There are plenty of good things you can be doing that you'd want to keep private, or control the release of information for.
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I believe the confusion is over the term "buy." In San Francisco/US terminology, a 25 y/o is likely to rent or lease an apartment. Buying would more likely be of a condo (or a house, as you mentioned.)
I’ve heard of it too, apparently foreign money (mostly China) needs a legit way to pull the money out of their country and real estate is a good way to do it that doesn’t alarm regulators. Can’t say why it doesn’t make sense to rent it out. But I do know that Vancouver passed laws to limit this type of purchase.
The answer is, anyone who can. If you’re a random statistics professor but if you’ve somehow managed to build the capability to speak coherently about physics and mostly know what you’re talking about, you should be commenting on physics papers, regardless of the fact you’re “not a physicist,” because of your pedigree. You might find a serious mathematical error. The thing is, we tend to call people who do that in a way that’s good, “physicists,” so it’s a chicken-and-egg situation.
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Yep. It was called the Soviet Union, and it fell in 1991.

The fear is: if something like it happens again, we now have the technology to make it a hundred times more oppressive.
It says my lawn is 5230km from the Gulf of Mexico. Not quite the furthest you can go though -- that's 200km east of here, I think.
It is more than that, they have gotten together, that may be a natural right, but they also have gotten limited liability.

An almost definitional characteristic of company v. group as you describe.
Its because HN is the silicon valley town crier whose readers are either transient, foreigners, or people coming from privilege already in the area. Groups so far removed from the problem that they have no idea what's going on.

They'll latch on to any contrived empathic half-solution and then leave the area.
>> I'm not familiar with local laws in the US but in Australia you'd get fined a few thousand dollars trying to sell groceries from a house in suburbia, many have to get in their cars and travel a few km to the designated "commercial" area simply to buy some bread.

This would definitely play out the exact same way in America.
I was reading some Arduino docs for Bluetooth LE and it might do some of what you want.

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/ArduinoBLE
i'm under 40 and have been a member for over a decade.

I frequent all of the technology related conferences.

I am sure that you're right that the crowd skews older, but no hard proof.

Great quality of discourse, and great people.

I had someone ship me a big box full of CDs because they were trimming down their collection for simply the cost of shipping, it was a treasure trove of artists i'd never otherwise listen to, and it was an overall great experience; every person-to-person experience I've had that originated from The Well has been great, actually.
That sounds like an argument to add housing at an extremely high rate. Of course places like the Bay Area have huge pent up demand that requires huge supply to satisfy, the housing in these cities have been constricted for decades and needs substantial resources to correct. This is like saying that more money generally doesn't help debt if you accumulate more debt than you earn. Somehow, the point is missed.

The existence of SRO hotels and similarly "special" dwellings are symptoms of severe housing deficit yet they're portrayed as necessary. There's no reason that the bottom of the housing market needs to be specially gimped, especially when LA is paying $2600 per month for a tent. In a less starved & dysfunctional market, old and adequate housing stock can satisfy that role.
The state has mostly learned that allowing a measure of dissent and criticism is fine, and even strengthens its claims to legitimacy, as long as it's of a mostly non-revolutionary character. This is why Noam Chomsky is allowed to inveigh impotently against American imperialism while keeping his university sinecure and book deals.

On the other hand, if you start something like the Black Panthers, or MLK's planned march on DC, or the Ferguson protests, then something much more final than prison may be used to get rid of you.