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We do have them throughout the US in elite restaurants. Shipped in, I assume. If you go to The French Laundry, there is a special guy who comes to your table with a gorgeous long hardwood box. He opens it with a flourish, and set into several indentations in the box are baseball-sized truffles. You get to select one, and then he gets out a microplane and starts shaving huge truffle slices onto your plate. He does this until you can no longer see the dish in question (usually it's The French Laundry's legendary truffle mac and cheese). Then he keeps doing it until you think your eyes might pop out of your head and there is a thick fragrant layer of truffle slices all over your dish.

This costs a lot of extra money on top of an already expensive bill. It's worth it.
That said, i love love love python. So, I mean even a tree shaking capability would be awesome.
Wanted to write a lengthly response to this since I think I have some perspectives that might help, but wife doesn’t like it when I spend the night writing when I should be in bed. :-)

Tell you what though: I’d be happy to do a video chat with you. I might learn something. Drop me a line if you’re interested.
Yeah I think we're on the same page here. I mean its a complicated problem, they're under pressure to solve it. They were backed into a corner by the carriers and suspended my account. Shit happens.

They just need a phone number. I actually called sales hoping I could plead my case and get them to connect me with someone. But I couldn't get connected with sales. If this was due to omicron and sales would have helped me, then this is truly an edge case.
This is speculation from 1 year ago:

> One of the leading theories in the publishing world, which is rife with speculation over the thefts, is that they are the work of someone in the literary scouting community. Scouts arrange for the sale of book rights to international publishers as well as to film and television producers, and what their clients pay for is early access to information — so an unedited manuscript, for example, would have value to them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/books/publishing-manuscri...

So as I interpret it, there is a black market for this stuff because publishers and producers want to find and move on the opportunity before anyone else. It also sounds like it's a bit of an ego thing.
The last response sounds like a reasonable attempt at a joke to me.
Source if this is so definitive?
"I've ordered products like this before, wasted a pretty penny I don't mind telling you. But if this works, I'll order a dozen.

We're not selling penis mightiers

Well you're sitting on a goldmine Trebek"

It's not clear to me this is true. I think there may be some niche market, but I think most men wouldn't even consider something like this.

A few people mentioned viagra, which has made a lot of money, but that's not about size.

I remember reading a long time ago that there is some kind of "enlargement" surgery available, but that the motivation is almost exclusively the "locker room" rather than a sexual issue.

Anyway, I'm sure that an invention as you describe may be interesting to some niche, but I don't believe it's one of the worlds burning problems, which is why it hasn't had any serious study.
That's the exact sentence that made me give up on this... blog entry? Whatever this thing is?
> I look at each issue individually and come up with my own conclusions.

That takes an enormous amount of brainpower. Not in terms of being particularly intelligent, but just in terms of time required to form a position on every single issue.

This isn't a good time investment, considering the duopoly of politics in the United States. At best you'd be able to get a slightly bigger overlap on your issues by going with one party or another, since independents are unlikely to win in the foreseeable future.

That being said, your position is admirable, if only for developing critical thinking skills and exercising them, something that modern politics is in dire need of.
Google explicitly partnered with Sonos in a collaborative project to find out how Sonos' tech worked, then copied it. It's plausible that Sonos feels Google explicitly stole from them, and Apple built something else.

Or, empowered by a win against Google, they file suit against Apple tomorrow. No reason to be in two high cost lawsuits at the same time.
The science of mechanical wear is well-known and has had many more decades to mature.
Your boss's boss didn't do a good job communicating. Your boss didn't do a good job communicating. You didn't do a good job communicating.

The nice thing about it is that if you focus on really good communication, you can almost entirely solve the problem yourself. You can give status updates, you can ask questions, you can set up 1-1's to go through what you are working on and get advice. You can control a lot more than you think by being a really great communicator and being organized. It does take work and organization, but you can do it.
Thanks for the response! I don't know what the MessagePort is, but have dealt with the pains of marshaling/unmarshaling in a browser caching library I wrote that stores app data in localStorage (which is string-only)
Yes, so broken that the original inventors of a product class had to spend $50 million on litigation in not even a court, but rather a quasi court in DC after a trillion dollar company stole their IP, because it's the last place where patent holders in the US get a reasonably fair shake.
Your second point is wrong. Obviously it narrows specificity by half the room on average. I don't know why you'd argue against that obvious fact.
It's basic math: If you have a set C that is the union of two sets A and B where A and B have the same cardinality, referring to "a C" gives you twice the possibilities than referring to either "an A" or "a B." So it's measurably twice as efficient to do the former. Since so many unrelated languages in the world ended up with such a system (or very close), it's reasonable to think that that efficiency was worth it. Since most of those systems are not much more specific, it's reasonable to think that being more specific wasn't worth it (one can always specify further using more words.)
Do you know how many people die not knowing that they were bitten?
This is all actually better nowadays. There was an in between place where CSV/TSV/FTP style systems were being taken over by vendor proprietary XML blobs for ehealth stuff when they were trying to (poorly) push ehealth. So the variety was crazy (and I'm still not sold on the huge XML style documents though I know it's "semantic"). I'm not as close to it anymore, but my big sense is that things have settled down A LOT and become more standardized.

In the bigger EDI space UBL was supposed to be the XML standard that was going to crush the "old" standards - but I haven't seen it take over yet - but not close enough to space, someone else probably knows better if UBL or similar is the clear dominant player these days.
And what you are describing is part of the misery they are condemned to by the regime. They cannot trade normally, everything is treated as trafficking and the hihger layer has privileges, control and are corrupted and live from spoiling the rest.

You want to do something by yourself? Brive me, because it is illegal or you will have trouble. And anyway, if I want, you can have trouble any day, because you did something illegal. Also, the brived people are also in trouble, because receiving a brive is illegal also. Now you have a system where anyone, at any time can be arbitrarily accused of criminal actions. Criminal actions that the government allows to happen depending on their interests.

They do not allow the right to have dignity for the people there. It is really sad. The only truth is that the system imposed there works because of corruption, literally. It is the way it works: I do not let you eat bread, but you need bread. So I give you whatever I want, if there is scarcity you can do nothing, except illegal things to survive, such as trading.
Signals have some wierd properties; a process-directed signal (i.e. the usual one you’d send with kill) chooses an arbitrary thread and invokes the signal handler. You can get in to some weird situations with signals and threads. If you’re using signals as an ipc mechanism, a useful tip is to just block the signal and register a signalfd on poll/epoll to regain control flow control.
God forbid anyone buys a used car.
Totally agree. I've found that the process of interviewing tends to shift my mindset, and I'm not really interested in staying, even if they match my pay.

I just left a role. I wasn't really unhappy, I just hit a tenure that was long enough that it was time to go. 4-5 years if you're senior++ level is about right. I read the employee handbook, which asked for 2 weeks, and that's what I gave. I worked hard to transition and document everything I could. Never said anything bad about the company (I really didn't have anything to say), and I complemented and thanked my bosses.

Keep it classy, respectful, and professional - that's how a true boss quits.
I mean, who cares? Is it really that big of a deal that your date in the car is wrong? Just set the time back to what it should be and go on with your day. On the list of things to pay special attention to, I would much rather they prioritize safety and reliability.
Every car manufacturer has done that for years. This scenario worked with bluetooth before Android Auto/Carplay was a thing, and AA/Carplay have been standard since shortly after the backup camera mandate brought screens to all new vehicles. I haven't had a rental car that required me to mount my phone to see navigation in 3+ years, and I haven't needed that in my personal (non-Tesla) vehicles for considerably longer.

Tesla is strictly inferior to many manufacturers such as Mazda who manage to give you all of that without relying on a touchscreen.
Sam Altman, Jul 19, 2020:

> The GPT-3 hype is way too much. It’s impressive (thanks for the nice compliments!) but it still has serious weaknesses and sometimes makes very silly mistakes. AI is going to change the world, but GPT-3 is just a very early glimpse. We have a lot still to figure out.
"All they'd have to do is come together, agree to seize all mining equipment, and do a 51% attack together"

Think this through for a bit. Governments have holdings in bitcoin. Financial institutions have holdings in bitcoin. Citizens have significant percentages of their savings in bitcoin. Bitcoin is available in various financial instruments now, so this would have knock-on effects in the wider market. A large percentage of crypto hash rate is from unknown parties or distributed on regular computers/phones/botnets, so the governments would have to invest money into mining equipment to run this 51% attack that would end up being totally dead money after the attack. You'd have lobbying from huge money sources to stop this happening. You'd have governments looking to take advantage of this. You'd be trying to destroy the legal tender of some countries which I believe is illegal under international law. By increasing the hash rate you'd be increasing the price of the coin and incentivizing people to defend against it. And, if it all happened, people could do what happened to Ethereum and simply fork Bitcoin from the point of the attack. No more mining equipment? Run PoS.
Both (and boost’s version too) can only address/assign one bit at a time, so it introduces the mirrored problem: how do you splice an n-bit integer into it without fiddling? Of course one can always abstract ops from my snippet away into some library, like setbits(ptr, offset, len, value), that’d be still valid, no need for fancy overloads even. But when batteries aren’t included, nobody cares enough to buy them separately. We know that from the situation with C strings.
I know it's bad form to move so quickly into meta-discussion on here, but I feel a lot of the comments in the thread right now are endemic of a certain closed-mindedness that has, to me, come to define in part the Hacker News zeitgeist, which stands in something of a contrast to the site's supposed founding principle of intellectual curiosity.

There is plenty of prior art in Western (and other traditions of) philosophy in the spirit of this essay. Nietzsche and Bataille talked about work in a similar way. Cioran pretty explicitly embraced failure (or the risk of failure) as virtue, as this work does. This essay seems to be saying something like: take a big risk, quite possibly fail, live your principles even if it means being an "outcast", commit to it, and who cares what other people think, because in doing so you will find your people. The response in here seems to be "look at this guy taking big risks and failing, what an outcast." Of course, that is surely the point.

I have, as I'm sure many on here have, found success in grinding away at boring problems, suppressing any kind of "call of God" or desire to do something larger, so we could build a nest egg and stable future for ourselves with MAGMA money. This essay is sort of a direct assault on the aesthetics of that approach. As for me, I have grown quite tired of it, so this piece does resonate with me.
nobody is trying to scale the communal model with more communalism though - it scales with delegates and democracy and whatnot. My town sends a delegate to your town's delegate to discuss where we can mutually support each other. Maybe our elected delegates form regional councils for more regular or coordinated cooperation. It's all good stuff and is basically how democracy /should/ work. In reality, your local rep doesn't mean anything because all the power is top-down.
I was a hard-boiled quantitative thinker but now I do art projects and I look to heroes like Walt Disney and Jim Henson for the seductive engineering of theme parks, animatronics and Muppets, etc.
the craziest thing about this whole saga is that a skilled politician might have been able to nip this in the bud and improve america by guiding people on both sides to a solution that works for both.

The cops are not systematically murdering blacks, BUT this does not mean that there are not significant problems with the policing system that can be worked on. I think both sides would be able to accept that huge benefits could be reaped from police reform such as better training, better support for non-police based interventins etc. stuff that has been shown to work elsewhere. some of it might work in the USA and some might not, but BLM should appreciate that something would be being done and the cops should appreciate that they are getting extra support and aren't getting blamed for something they aren't doing.

maybe I am naive. I am not an expert here; in fact I am Australian so I don't even have first hand knowledge, but the solution looks worth a try from the outside, just needs the right leadership and commitment.
Dupe, main discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29831929#29832293
Not for the carrier twilio is sending out these message to.
company doctor?
How would you notice an increase in call centers closing? Is there a place to view that data?
> only flying mammals

A bit misleading to use the term "only" here, as there are over 1000 species of bats and they make up almost one quarter of all identified mammal species.
I don't see this 'new technology' working for the intended purpose it was created for:

Paying someone in instantly with less fees in a decentralised P2P manner with an energy efficient and stable blockchain.

I see no cryptocurrency that can do this above legitimately. Most of them are owned by questionable foundations, crypto scammers and power hungry VCs.
Yes. Your statement is correct. It's "basically harmless" once it enters your body until it bumps into nerve cells. At which point you're almost certainly going to die unpleasantly.

My grandfather worked with rabies and I interviewed him for a school project. I remember being rather uncomfortable with his description of the disease. Perhaps a bit much to chew for a 4th grader. Anyway, the "once you show symptoms, you're dead" part really stuck with me.
Hahahaa, gotta grant it to the author, he has the rare talent to induce in me uncontrollable laughs with every single paragraph. The other "author" who comes to my mind now with that exquisite skill is Eliezer Yudkowsky, hell, I would pay some amount of money to watch a conversation between that pair. Not even 20 seasons of South Park would be that hilarious.
I would consider looking for a new job on the side and start interviewing. Your boss's boss showed you disrespect and personally I would have a hard time trusting that person if I were in your shoes. Don't start any drama at work on anything... just keep working doing what is expected but don't go above and beyond killing yourself, and start practicing for interviews and start applying at other places if you can.
What is a serverless db?
Smart Shoji Lamp
twilio might not care but the carriers the messages get send to will.
Exactly, it's just call forwarding but for messages instead of voice calls. Completely legitimate business use case.
I visited Cuba with a doctor and we took a couple of drunk tourists to the hospital. I also met another doctor who went to a medical conference there. Overall, their conclusion was that Cuban doctors are legit, but their medical system is very primitive.
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To be fair, people disregard the prior experience with other people too, so they're not necessarily treating bots that differently here. I had this in the supermarket the other day: went through an issue with the first person, they explained it to the more senior person who I heard listening, she then ignored what was said and repeated the exact same steps (whilst I was trying to talk her out of it because I could see it was a waste of even more time!)

What I find odd about the online time wasting approach is that I just get the money back from the bank eventually, so they lose in the short-term (as the bank is sure to pass this cost back to the company) plus next time/long term I take my business elsewhere because I then know they aren't an honest participant.
If it was actually a severe issue, I'm sure there are ways to deploy a fix. But the cost-benefit is clearly not there for this kind of meh issue. Bad PR is the main downside here.
Why? is it working?
My guess is every report by the CDC follows a standard embargo timeline unless it's time critical. You want to give journalists time to write a good article and not race each other to publish something first.
Its a goddamn name. What are we cancelling Heidegger next? Burn copies of Being and Time?
it gets better. if you ever leave somewhere and HR dont update employment status and dates accurately with theworknumber, future employers background checks may fail, and cause hiring problems for you (it may look like you are working two jobs or lied about your history)
> "Wait 8 months and your car will start working again" has never been an acceptable answer for the mechanical side

The same side that routinely totals the entire car for minor fender benders? Yeah, all software would be great if we could just tell our clients to fuck off whenever they bring in some garbage for us to fix! You want a fixed car? Go buy a new one lol!

But we don't have that privilege, so this is what happens.
Unrelated:

Beej, so nice to see you on this site, such a fan of your work. Used your guide a decade ago to implement socket select() on a system-critical app. Mad props for doing some awesome work!
Google will probably have to get the patents themselves removed, by proving prior work or such. Those patents are way too broad.

I wonder what Bose does, they have their own multiroom system. Do they license the patents from Sonos?
Definitely - I think anyone who has ever touched the EDI space is familiar with Sterling. My time hands-on in that world was pretty short, but it was good background to have for the projects that came later.
I agree.

Although this particular thing may have happened because they got backed into a corner by the carriers. They might have been forced to scramble and suspend a bunch of accounts in order to protect themselves from being suspended. It's possible this might not have been a gambit to save money, but something they were almost forced to do without time to properly prepare. I'm just speculating, guessing.
What was the added value?
Why Steam Games Are Getting Mysterious Sale Spikes in Argentina
radiation... of... sunlight? They're satellite dishes, covered in mirrors, making them solar ovens just like the ones you can buy at any random camping store. Just better, because they're (a lot) bigger.
What would be the point of making companies post salaries if they're not required to adhere to the number posted?
> absent a compelling demo

I think the progress was the result of competitions that kept everyone blindfolded to test datasets. No one could exaggerate the performance of their methods, allowing deep learning to emerge as a winning solution. I think deep learning has fallen short of the hype because researchers are exaggerating their results, and what is needed to propel progress is a renewed focus (with funding) for competitions.
If you somehow haven’t gotten enough of the Paxos variants in this article:

https://vadosware.io/post/paxosmon-gotta-concensus-them-all/
>> Imagine you have bought two non-refundable tickets to different trips, one much more costly. You are then told that you must cancel one of them. In this case, many people will cancel the cheaper trip regardless of which one they would prefer to go on – and even though they will have spent the same amount of money either way. Autistic individuals appear to be more likely to make a choice based on their personal preference rather than on an irrelevant cost.

This is missing a hige piece of context. What about the possibility that you may later decide to repurchase whichever trip you decline now? My future cost is reduced by canceling the cheaper trip now. If both are in the realm of "I'd like to go there someday" and close in appeal, it is more rational to take the more expensive one. If we don't consider that larger (possible) context then obviously take the one you prefer the most.
Worth pointing out that activitypub, the fediverse etc are the actual 'web3' decentralized systems people seem to be so hyped about, with the added advantage that they run on normal, fast computers and not on the equivalent of a car driving with the breaks pulled so someone can mine coins.
Any source to back up this claim?

This sounds unusually stupid, even for Goggle - because they could've just poached a few engineers and it would be less risky than public, high-profile corporate espionage.
https://frazerjames.co.uk/rsus-a-tech-employees-guide/ seems to suggest that it works the same way in the UK. Are you perhaps confusing RSUs with options?
Why was it a terrible time for them? The only thing that comes to mind is that there's an "open slot on the team," but it can't be filled because they're still there.
Holy crap, I grew up reading that comic and never realized it had such a wide audience

If there is one thing that really educated me about kink, it's that comic

Cool!