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There used to be a fantastic spades app on the Palm Pilot (!) which played pretty well, including fairly sensible partner play. There was a URL where you could get the source, but it was a dead URL, alas.

Anyone know a good spades app for iOS? I have "Spades card classic", which features pretty abysmal play, and "Spades Masters", which is online-with-other-people only.
That makes sense at first glance, but it's something I'm in control of. I was even thinking of this before, because the comparison is a little mismatched. I'm 100% likely to be a passenger when I'm in any plane, whereas I'm probably >98% likely to be a driver when I'm in a car.

I'm not sure why I was downvoted, because I'm just stating I'd like to understand (data/studies) instead of people's anecdotes and opinions, including my own.

My intuition is that car travel has a constant level of risk, whereas plane travel has a level of risk much below that when everything is good but (I'm guessing here) that risk goes much higher than the constant risk of car travel when something goes wrong (failure, human mistake, crash, birds, weather, etc.). I've searched for it before and didn't find anything, but it'd be nice to see any studies that confirm or deny this.
As someone who use and like the app, now it will no longer be on Android. This really sucks. Those companies both Apple, Google and Amazon should be heavily regulated.
At an airline training session I attended, a man who survived a famous passenger aircraft crash advised that one should get as low as possible in their seat and put their knees up against the back of the seat in front of you, while still buckled. The passengers that died around him were killed by the heavy luggage exploding out of the overheads and breaking their necks, so it's important to have your head below the seat back. The people who sat upright also tended to break their noses/faces on the seat backs in front of them. The speaker walked away from the crash with only a knee injury by bracing himself in the reclined position.
I feel like one of the things that school has taught me that is most valuable to me is that there are some things you really hate at the start because you're "bad" at them. With consistent effort (and letting go of the initial, instinctual, desire to dismiss "unfamiliar" and "hard" as "useless") these things get easier and one can see some value in them.

Consider using notepad; it takes away alot of the interactive features that can make programming smoother. Because of this one has to think harder about the program, what it does, and the semantics of the language. Obviously the IDE is a tremendous productivity improvement, and therefore you'll see most programmers using one, but in an interview it is interesting to see if a person does know of these techniques.

People claim that these are "not useful in the real world" which I guess is sort of true, in the same way that eigenvectors are not useful in the real world until you want to build a leaderboard system that works and avoid a whole bunch of bugs, or in the same way that statistics is not that useful until you want to reliably profile programs, or queueing theory is not that useful until your server is crashing because a million requests just arrived in the last second.

It's also a good test to check "can this person do things they don't find interesting or don't see the value in" because it turns out this is quite important in organisations. You might say "oh this is a clear example of a disfunctional organisation." The problem is that this isn't a simple case of "we messed up" it's that everybody being free to do exactly what they want to is physically impossible. If you want to run an organisation you generally have to produce something. This involves working together because cooperation is so effective that it's impossible to do most things without it. Now when people get together, of course they will disagree over intractable things. "Do we use Go or Ruby", "Kubernetes" or "Docker Compose", etc. If you love VSCode, but also recongise that at whatever organisation you're interviewing (lets call it Z) people enjoy using Notepad, the fact that you're willing to compromise is an important factor to demonstrating that you're not completely obstinate about technology choices.
The problem space in Africa is quite interesting. For more US/EU style products maybe countries like South Africa are a better bet since they have good infrastructure down there.

Nigeria's infrastructure is not that bad but bad with respect to eurocentric standards. Part of the issue is a lot of capital is spent keeping old infra together. If you have ideas in big, economically innovative infra projects - that's the place to go.

Another bit is Africa keeps skipping stages of development - kinda like products and services don't always come from within, driven by pressing needs, rather just sort of fall from the sky or an American landing in the airport. So while a 22 year old Nigerian kid can say he's never seen a bank cheque because he banks digitally, he may also have no proper sewage and barely any electricity. The juxtaposition may not compute to a silicon valley would-be guru.

So while transplanting tech from industrial nations may work sometimes, it's really the nuanced ideas that solve a real problem that get a lot off support and those are not always super technical projects. For instance, the problem of data costs cuts off a lot of would-be products so you will find tech companies here always have those limitations top of mind when building consumer facing stuff. Mapping just dies in most areas so there goes the geolocation services. Addressing and city planning for route optimization? Good luck.

Just a side note, there are startups in a lot of these problem spaces already - it's just that private funding and venture capital are for practical purposes very tiny to non-existent for consumer facing startups...for very very very obvious reasons. I don't think it's an entirely bad thing but just an FYI.
Maybe "very little use in emergencies" was an overstatement on my part. Clearly there is some important communication in emergencies that doesn't need crypto.

But I think the vast bulk of communications necessary in an emergency is between people who need to talk to their family members to find out where they are, what condition they're in, and what resources they have. That information often needs to remain private between the people who are communicating. Right now it's not mostly sent over ham radio because it can't be. In fact, it isn't transmitted at all, so people die. Advances like Codec 2 dramatically expand our possibilities for communications in emergencies, but mostly for doing new things like that, things we're not already doing.

As another example, suppose that, instead of one person reporting hurricane-related flooding you had a water-level sensor every 100 meters in a rough hexagonal grid, each transmitting a packet every 6 minutes carrying a 16-bit ID and an 8-bit water level. In theory this is an average of about 8 bits per second per square kilometer, so it wouldn't have to cause much interference or use much average power, but it's hard to get it to work under Part 15 rules because Part 15 doesn't allow you to average your power usage over 6 minutes, so you pretty much have to build a mesh network to get adequate range at the allowed power levels. You probably need to cryptographically sign the packets for the system to be reasonably reliable. (They don't need to be secret, but you need to be able to distinguish legitimate reports from griefers trying to divert emergency resources when there's no emergency.)

Nowadays you might be able to do that with LoRa. But you could have done it 20 years ago on the amateur bands --- except that it's illegal. So again hams are chasing the taillights of commercial radio, the opposite of how it's supposed to be.
The escort ships would know exactly where the sub they are escorting is. They could easy see the bottom or a massive blob passing underneath (an unknown sub) or even an undersea mountain. You don’t need enough resolution to tell if it’s a sub or even a whale you just need enough to say watch out.

My middle of the road Garmin can see 1,100 feet deep in salt and side scan 500 feet in either direction. You can see bottom features and schooling fish. The higher end stuff is so much better.
The first part of the article about describing sphere rotations with a direction and magnitude has some overlap with quaternion rotations, described and visualized nicely here: https://eater.net/quaternions/ ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4EgbgTm0Bg

The second part of the article about untangling strings after a 720° turn is also covered in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaIR-cWk_-o ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nat-EsReXtQ ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7wvWJ3-t44 ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzt_byhgujg
Why not `typedef struct state state_t` in the header file, then have a `state_t state` in the header file with the `struct state { ... }` definition in the source file? This is similar to what I do in C, I don't see why it wouldn't work in C++.
> This is also called the Aloha model

The history of HF packet radio going back almost 40 years now, shows it stomps things pretty bad. RTTY and PSK31 ops simply cannot operate nearby HF packet channels.

Aloha DOES work really well for decades on "toll quality VHF FM" strong high SNR local packet radio LANs.

Everyone's gotta be able to hear everyone or else channel thruput drops to about zero. Easy on a city wide VHF FM packet lan, impossible on HF.

Reminds me of thin net ethernet in the 80s (thicknet also, LOL). One babbling transmitter and the whole LAN is down for everyone.
Yes, I said that within the context of this thread, which is PFOF…

If you’re arguing that there’s a conflict of interest between Robinhood and its customers, then sure. But that’s got nothing to do with PFOF.

> Agree to disagree. We regulate smoking, alcohol, pharmaceuticals, gambling, and other behaviors that have self harm. This is no different.

Sure, I never said no regulation. You gotta stop with the strawman attacks. We regulate these industries, as we ought to do with finance, but we nonetheless allow people to drink/smoke themselves to death or gamble themselves into oblivion.

I’d rather live in a society where a small number people do enormous bad to themselves, over one where the state makes decisions for everyone.
I'm not sure why you getting downvoted. The first one was little short of a war crime from what i can see. Blow up a mountain maybe, to demonstrate the unlimited power of the a-bomb, but why drop it on a populated city? But even if the first one can be justified (we only had 2 bombs and they were fanatical etc.) why the second bomb? At least give them a bit more time to think.

I think maybe this subject gets taught differently in America to the rest of the world.
I'm not sure why you got the hammer, your comment is exactly correct. Overpolice->More crime->Oh No we Need more Policing->More Crime->...->...
"Orwellian"? "Grotesque"? "histrionic"?

How about "hyperbole"?
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Ask HN: I work at a startup and want to leave. What can I do to keep my equity?
I work at a startup. I haven't liked it for a while, and have decided I want to leave. I've been there for about 6 years.

I want to keep my equity. I have NSOs, and would have to execute within 90 days of leaving. I think there's a decent chance it will be worth a decent amount of money in the next few years. I don't plan to execute with my own money, as the cost to do so is ~100k. I also don't think there's any chance I could execute with a loan or anything like that.

I plan to ask for an extension of the 90 days to execute. If it's extended, I would stay at the company for 6 months or so to allow for a smooth transition. If it's not extended, I would leave immediately.

I'm a key employee. If I were to leave abruptly, it would likely serious cause problems for the company.

Am I crazy? Should I be asking for something else in order to keep my equity?
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OCaml is a somewhat old language with algebraic types (so including discriminated unions) yet exceptions were introduced precisely to avoid dealing with propagating errors as a values. I agree with your point, but would argue that even with sum types, propagating errors is tedious and there's a case for using exception.

I wonder if another reason why errors as value are making a come back is because of the asynchronous programming style which is becoming quite pervasive, and doesn't play well with exceptions.
> It's a big double standard to call their flavor of restrictions "authoritarian", while being ok with (or even strongly in favor of) our flavor of restrictions, even though the two are objectively similar in nature.

Our restrictions came about through a democratic process (example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_...), not because our supreme leader decided he knows what's best for us.

Not sure where you're coming from with calling the two situations similar. They're obviously entirely different.

> My advice is to be careful of using loaded terminology such as "authoritarian"

How is that a loaded term? What other word would you use to describe the Chinese government?
> next set of interviews

I really dislike when companies do this. It's very time consuming and psychologically/emotionally draining.
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Re >> "the French Ministry of Defense reported that the submarine had suffered a collision with an “an immersed object (probably a container).”"

and

Re >> "At some point, the two navies compared notes"

I get that ballistic submarines want to stay secret and use passive sonar, instead of active sonar. But I also would have thought - if a submarine mysteriously ran into something under water that they did not expect to be there, that they'd start taking a more "active" approach to figuring out what was going on. It'd be like if I tried to walk blindfolded through a large & empty conference room: if I bumped into a whole wall after walking only 3 or 4 steps, I'd be very confused!
Yes. (International flights, before covid.)
Things “go wrong” fairly “frequently” on airplanes but they are hardened for this with redundant systems and manual (as well as computer) overrides. You don’t hear about most of them but they are all logged and used for improvements.

The main difference is when a car has a catastrophic failure there’s a good chance the people involved survive.
Police in the US are thugs. They were created to protect property of the rich, and have never been legally obligated to 'protect and serve'. They steal more money than criminals in 'asset seizure' which is legalized theft, murder more innocent people, are literally above the law and cannot be punished thanks to nonsense like 'qualified immunity', and yet are worshipped as heroes, are always complaining and demanding more funds while being completely ineffective and dangerous to people, and the media perpetuates the 'risk their lives' myth.
We must've worked with the same architects!
the differences are too many to put succinctly, they're (IMO) way behind in standards on every level as a result of exponential growth in meat consumption that is practically unprecedented. I'd start here: https://sci-hub.se/10.1126/sciadv.aar8534
While driving around Africa and the length of the Americas I really did see guys lying on moving flat decks using paint brushes to paint road lines. The 8 year old in me was pretty excited!
You're just talking about two different areas.

Your data is for the Greater Toronto Area. The commenter above you was referring to the City if Toronto (which is one of several municipalities in the Greater Toronto Area).
"It's not censorship if we can still whisper in the back alleys."

So if Facebook isn't ubiquitous and omnipotent they cannot be considered a censor? You're deliberately applying an impossible requirement that you made up. By this requirement there is nobody that can censor, "China doesn't censor because you can still talk about what you want in America." It's absurd.

FB censors private messages between two people on Facebook Messenger. That's the claim. I'd say it's pretty well backed up with proof and facts in this thread.
"Russian tanks had a significant advantage over US tanks".
This is much debated by WWII historians. When the U.S. tanks finally did square off against the Soviet tanks, U.S. tanks won : https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-Sherman-tank-compare-to-th... . U.S. reliability and logistics made up for any discrepancies in the specifications.
I recently created an account...sorry? damn
Is it just me or has the quality of GPT-3 comments declined recently?
Yeah it really feels like the NYPD has a lot of contempt for the city they operate in, politically, socially, culturally. I saw the same thing at every protest I attended — when there were no cops around, it was extremely peaceful. I only ever saw it get ugly when cops were harassing people, pushing people around, or trying to basically shut down protests by blocking off surrounding streets and trying to close in on protesters.
I saw 5 or 6 cops tackle a drunk guy. He was so drunk, barely able to stand, a 10 year old kid could've taken him down. The amount of force used in the most trivial of cases blew my mind.

During the occupy wall street protests, I saw the cops a few times (I was working in a nearby building). The amount of serious gear they had, it was insane. I bet they are better armed than most militaries.

All I can say is they are super scary.
This may be true if you restrict yourself to English-speaking communities, but there's no shortage of survivalist talk in other countries. E.g. Russia has plenty.
Some people just cannot thrive in online communities
Yeah! I worked with Robert Smith on porting it to modern CL implementations.

Not a fun codebase.
The stat is doubly misleading because it is skewed by the proliferation of long direct flights as turbofan widebody jets proliferated and air travel became more affordable which both happened in the same time period as that chart.

I don't think flying is particularly dangerous but the person you're replying to is being highly naive or misleading by taking that chart at face value.
As people have done analysis of what percent of the time police spend on various types of calls, it becomes clear that we only need armed police for around 5%.

investigation, forensics, traffic control, etc etc dont need weapons and tactical training. Let the armed police be like fire fighters and be specifically called in when needed.
Most exports of industrial goods went to other developed countries. Also as I pointed out, many developed countries didn't have colonies at all to export to and did fine.

As for Japan, they did do well out of the war, but they were already rapidly industrialising at a much faster pace than their neighbours. That's why the won the war in the first place. The scale of the reparations might optimistically have paid for a few years of industrialisation and investment, but over the 4 decades between then and the next Sino-Japanese war that's basically a marginal difference. The second Sino-Japanese war merged right into WW2 so was too late to have any major effects on overall national development.
Would be great if Windows Task Scheduler supported the Crontab format.
I've listened to several police radios with my SDR - "old male with [medical condition] at [person's address]" isn't uncommon.

Some research - paramedics are likely covered under HIPAA (if they work for a healthcare entity that provides ambulance services), I don't believe police or the fire department would be covered.
For me, it was one local shop that had an abandoned website. (I actually drove to their old location, trusting the address on the site).

When I talked to the owner, she said something like, "Oh. Yeah, I post everything on Instagram now."

So I followed that business on my IG and looked at other shops she follows. They're mostly local, so I did as well. After a few of those, Instagram took over and started recommending me more and more places. About 10% of the recommendations are more local shops, so I keep adding them.

I don't search by hashtags (yet?), but looking through some of the posts in my feed, these seem to be the common ones: [#furniturerestoration #midcenturymodern #midcenturyfurniture #midcenturydesign]

This whole experience has made me feel what my parents must have in 1996, when I was teaching them about e-mail and the difference between "slash" and "backslash" :)
You can want to live in that world all you like. But it's not anywhere close to a reflection of reality.
So... 2021?
I’ve been an Extra since 1977. My pants are not scared off.
Ok, we've changed the title above to use representative language from the article itself.
That was my first thought too, but after looking around a bit, I doubt it.
"The survey found that young people would be more likely to trust a system run by artificial intelligence than humans."

Not sure I like this. There are tons of issues in the current system. I think many of them would carry over when you look at how the current issues happen. We would likely end up with parties and politicians manipulating algorithms, gaming the system, providing misinformation, etc. Not too far off from the current situation.
Imagine the thundering herd problems you experience when all of your users have the same three hour time slots.
Yeah I’m sorry that’s really tough. Fingers crossed for ya things will get better.
It's not the support that I find appalling, this is fine in a free-speech society, but the issue i have with modern HN is that any sort criticism of censorship as an act regardless of the content or who's the person on the receiving end gets a tremendous amount of downvotes (almost instantly), which makes me think that the majority of people here (or those who read comments) believe that censorship is OK depending on the topic. For example: censoring Alex Jones is OK no matter what the context is, but censoring criticism of North Korea is not ok. So they clearly understand the concept, they just choose to apply it selectively and think that's fine. This varies depending on the person and the circles the go in.

Almost every single comment I make with that sentiment gets instant downvoted or flagged.
A Google Calendar / Google Keep combo works pretty well for me. Cross platform compatibility is decent too.
I'm a bit confused... Everyone is assuming that the police wouldn't respond to calls during this period, but the article doesn't suggest that this was the case.

Even looking through articles in 2014 and 2015 doesn't provide me with any evidence that police weren't showing up to crime scenes... just that they weren't doing the "proactive policing" thing.

Am I missing something here?
Raw milk forgoes one of humanity's most important inventions: pasteurization.

Raw dairy products are 150-times more likely to cause disease than pasteurized products [0].

Pasteurization has prevented much suffering and death. It is among the most important technologies of human progress: farming, animal domestication, writing, crop rotation, democracy, pasteurization, vaccines, refrigeration, antibiotics, internal combustion engines, electronics, and the Internet.

[0] https://doi.org/10.3201%2Feid1803.111370
That’s wild. “What the government does” is the definition of politics.