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I built my own Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) hardware dev kit from scratch
> Few replace carts at the store or in the stalls

Self-checkout, bag-your-own groceries, return your cart...

Can't help but think this is simply a means by which the grocery cartel can get rid of jobs that high school kids have traditionally benefited from. I guess I have never seen the "cart return" thing as something you do out of politeness.

But if they're not going to pay the high school kids enough, maybe this is the. future (present) we deserve.
Yes, I bet it would have, and I wish I had heard about it then!

When I refaxed the forms, I just removed the PNG signatures from the PDFs first (leaving all other form fields typed in), printed them, signed them, made sure the two signatures were different in obvious ways (but still the "same"!), and scanned them at deliberately low resolution.

This program sounds like it automates all those steps.
But given how easy it is to foil, I don't understand what it "authenticates".

If you wanted to truly authenticate residency or at the very least prove that someone has access to the mailbox, sending them a one-time auth code per mail would be a better idea rather than relying on third-party services where people may use paperless billing for convenience.
If you don't even have a compiler, it's easier to patch a binary that's already running than make one from scratch. That's a closer analogy to the situation under discussion.
>if we had more domestic chip plants, we probably wouldn't be in the current chip shortage rn

Why? At the end of the day it's a capacity shortage. The only way to prevent that is to have surplus capacity prior to the pandemic. Considering how companies don't like to spend money on expensive fabs that end up getting underutilized, I'm skeptical that having more domestic chip plants would lead to that.
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> They needed to see bills that offered proof of my residence (ie power/water/etc). Turns out they wanted them to be mailed to you,

What state? Certainly, that's neither in the Federal REAL ID requirements (more stringent than most preexisting state requirements) nor most states implementation of REAL ID (which can be narrower than what REAL ID allows.)

E.g., California, for REAL ID, requires documents (not necessarily bills, though those are among the things explicitly on the list of acceptable documents) that are printed (not necessarily mailed) and show the physical address.
Depends on the content. For some: yes, for sure.

For some others I should get money back because I couldn't find what was advertised before (for example recipe sites that contain mostly Blabla with interspersed ads and only a rudimentary recipe that isn't reproducible).
> _Pssst, coming from Hacker News? Add a ".md" to the URL_

This might have been added after your comment.

Link with md: https://write.as/n5r0vjolumdnuk2k.md
> Well, it hasn't played well, has it? The first shipments of weapons landed in Ukraine, and more are to follow, together with training teams. The only thing that Putin gained by his threats is more firepower in Ukraine.

I think it's going to play very well in the hands of Putin in the end. The more equipment lands the more he will capture. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War the "Equipment losses and cost". I remember them making a big spectacle of driving the captured American Humvees. Here one such segment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcH02Z4DYO8

Now don't get me wrong, I am not on Putin's side. I want Ukraine to stay independent and want it to win. I just don't see it easily happening and am starting to see the same thing as with the Georgian war happening again.
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Can one recognize Roosevelt's legacy without defending the most pernicious aspects of the colonization of the americas that occured some 350 years prior? Given you can choose to view literally anything through the labels of oppressor and oppressed, this statue removal has less to do with any actual crimes than hiding examples of leadership and character that would bring shame to current political leaders.

This is a man who literally, and almost single handedly organized a volunteer army, which included a significant number of native americans, and took them to war against the vestiges of a european colonial power (Spain).

Roosevelt was a great and exceptional man, and a leader others followed willingly, often at great risk to themselves, and other than maybe Martin Luther King, or George Patton, he's probably the best political leader America has ever produced. (I recommend his book on the Rough Riders) His original involvemnent in politics was as a crusader against corruption, and he used his wealth for the one thing it should afford, which is to be able to stand by his principles.

People are welcome to do what they want with their cities, but in removing this statue, it will become like all banned art, a symbol of the pettiness and contemptibility of the regime that removed it, and of the individual human greatness they fear most.
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Any chance of getting autobuilder support for Rust? :)

What about same for .NET?
(and I suppose some people would care about Java,Kotlin,Swift ;)

I don’t have to deal with containers with my current infrastructure, and it would be nice if I didn’t just to be able to use Fly—I find containers to be a PITA.

Thanks! I’m super jazzed about Fly :D
I don't fault them for needing to make money, but this is a great lesson in how not to market a new product.
Was his private key recovered?
IBM is selling off Watson Health to a private equity firm
Implying a direct quote, making the claim even more ludicrous.
I had a domain that I let expire, but the associated Google Apps remained valid and I continued to use it
I bought an 8TB hard drive for sole purpose of keeping offsite backups at my parents' house, in case of fire. Been over a year, drive has some backup data on it, but still haven't brought the drive over there.

I should have gone with my original idea, to install a server in their house and transfer over the internet.
I appreciate the honesty and the article, but it would have been just as interesting (and more authentic) if you would simply be honest:

“How we got to $1mm ARR with only a tiny seed round”.

Reading an article and immediately recognizing inconsistencies is an instant turn-off for me, and I assume many other readers. I don’t see what you think you’re gaining by being misleading with the headline.
When we were buying a house back in 2009 (before electronic document signatures, which are the most amazing thing ever compared with the old way) we had to sign zillions of different pieces of paperwork going back and forth while making offers and so on. I was doing most of this during the day from the office, and all the paperwork had to be signed by both me and my wife.

So what I'd do was take the PDF, paste in my wife's signature, print it out, sign it myself, then fax it over. Never had any problems.
At least in compilers like gcc, optimization needs to be enabled to get sane warnings emitted by the compiler, so some people are indeed being forced to pass in -O2 to get sane build warnings for projects.

I would really like it for the C standard to clean up Undefined Behaviour. Back in the 1980s when ANSI C was first specified, a lot of the optimizations that modern compiler writers try to justify via Undefined Behaviour simply weren't part of many compiler's repertoires, so most systems developers didn't need to worry about UD and there was no push for the standard to do so as a result.

If people really want the optimizations afforded by things like assuming an int can't overflow to a negative number in a for loop, my personal position is that the code should be annotated such that the optimization is enabled. At the very least, the compiler should warn that it is making assumptions about potentially UB when applying such optimizations.

There is this false belief that all legacy code should be able to compiled with a new compiler with no changes and expect improved performance. Anyone who works on real world large systems knows that you can't migrate to newer compilers or updated OSes with zero effort (especially if there's any C++ involved). I understand that compiler writers want to improve their performance on SPEC, but the real world suffers from the distortions caused by viewing optimizations through the narrow scope of benchmarks like SPEC.
I might be using the wrong terminology, what I'm talking about is removing e.g. `int x = *ptr` where x is then not used in scope (more realistically, `(*struct_inst).member` shouldn't bother to load the other members of the struct). What you're doing sounds like removing a global it detects is never used, which I agree relies too much on UB and should not be done.
Those ballooning wages are securities, not liquidity.

You can't pay rent or buy food with options. Securities are speculative, no minimum wage worker wants a gamble on if they get paid 5 years in the future.

Please keep the theatrics to a minimum. The goal is to have meaningful discussion, not attack your peers.
Interesting story if true. Why would Elons personal roadster have been promised to an investor?
While this is annoying to many of us, if it diminishes the general public expectation that that online services should be free and subsidised by advertising/marketing/related services, that would be good news.

I'm not particularly optimistic about Google though, as they can charge for their services and continue the whole data-gathering game...
“large segment of the population consists of jerks “

I think it starts at the top. People are realizing that companies are run for the benefit of a few and these few also have an outsized influence on politics. It’s not surprising that people are feeling disenfranchised and mainly out for themselves.

For me the 2008 bailouts were the turning point. A lot of the Wall Street people who had preached “creative destruction” for a long time suddenly demanded government bailouts when the destruction reached them. And unfortunately they were given bailouts. And they were given the bailouts in a way that mainly benefitted the wealthy while homeowners still lost their homes. Same happened with Covid: the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. No wonder a lot do people don’t feel at home in this society anymore.
I think you mean Paxlovid? That's actually approved but apparently it's hard to make and Pfizer is still working on expanding production. Some pharmacies do have it however. As to highly effective, I believe it means that if you take Paxlovid you are very unlikely to need to be hospitalized and the length and severity of the infection will be significantly reduced. See this article for more info about someone's experience getting the drug.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/business/covid-pill-treat...
I’m doing it in Docker now days and it seems even easier than doing it ‘for real’.

A word of warning though, if you run it on a machine with lots of containers, is buggers up internet access for the other containers and it’s a complete pain to solve (and sometimes reverts to broken on reboot).
This sort of genuine caring & optimizing is the real heart of decentralizing / distributed-izing.
That sounds terrifying. Imagine a 5 century reign by one and the same dictator. Can't think of too many positives for this scenario.
So for those of us that got in this a decade ago, and have been running an entire family on it, what should be the chosen migration path?

I've already got nextcloud hosted locally, and could easily add calendar support.

The missing piece of the puzzle is email, and how mad android devices are going to get when their "google" email address no longer points to a google service.
I, too, would rather not die. But "the only real problem" you see being overpopulation speaks to a limited effort in thinking out the consequences.

Let's imagine such a solution was available. Let's remember that insulin today is barely affordable to most people, a mere "stay alive and subsist" drug. So it's probably safe to assume that a literal immortality treatment would be only available to the most wealthy and powerful.

So, what we'd get is Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Biden, Trump, Putin, Kim Jong-Il, Clarence Thomas, and many others still alive by the year 2250, with no signs of slowing down.

Just imagine how much the world would cease to change if the people running it never experienced turnover. "The unification of humanity" - yeah right! We can't even get a minimum wage increase, and Russia is actively planning an invasion. The only hope for these things is that these people will die, and be replaced by younger generations who grew up with different ideals.

I hope to be cryogenically frozen and one day awake into a world like that of the Culture in the books of Iain Banks, but I know on some level that this isn't just decades or centuries away: it's millennia.
I use this service for my whole family (5 adults) so to continue would cost me $30 per month forever. Sux.

Moving email service is not such a big deal, but we have hundreds of Google Docs files to try to transfer. My research indicates this is a laborious process.
Tipped workers must be paid at least the untipped minimum wage. If the tips plus the base pay don’t add up to the untipped minimum wage, the employer has to make that up. I know some employers steal wages and don’t do that, but that’s a separate issue too. I’m assuming it’s not a factor here, or else it would be bizarre for him to leave out wage theft.
I mean...it kind of depends. As a history buff, I love the French plantation scene in the long version of Apocolypse Now Redux... I totally understand why it was removed from the original theatrical release, though. I think director cuts tend to play to the more 'hardcore' fans of a piece, and sometimes serve to make the work less accessible to more casual viewers.
M1 Pro should be compared to i7 or i9, not i3. The target customer for i3 are average consumers with fairly little need of Performance. The more E core make sense to improve system responsiveness on i3. Not to mention they are smaller in die area.
>, it's really important that the tech community define "bootstrapping" as [...] With TinySeed's round at "$120k for the first founder, $60k for the second, and $40k for the third" (https://tinyseed.com/program#program-faq) this is very much along those lines.

But when YC invested $120k for 7% equity, we typically didn't call all those startups like Dropbox/AirBNB etc "bootstrapped companies". And $180k for 2 founders is more than YC's previous terms.

>If one further gatekeeps the label with

It's unfair to call it "gatekeeping" rather than a case of confusing many readers with a headline that flips the meaning of "bootstrapping".
It's pretty bad messaging that Google didn't spell out that out or anything else with what happens if you don't want to upgrade to paid G Suite on the linked page. The only thing they have is a link to takeout which implies to me that everything will be wiped if you don't upgrade. I'm always shocked at how badly they fumble consumer messaging.
I'm no demographer, but I would hazard a guess that >1% of folks are young
Self-hosting is great, but self-hosting email is generally nothing but a world of hurt. That's the one thing I would always leave to an established company.
Apologies, but "ignoring the situation completely with undpredictable results" is the exact opposite of "assuming the situation cannot occur and acting on that assumption".

If my program attempts to write outside the bounds of declared array, ignoring the situation (that this is UB) is letting that write happen, and letting the chips fall where they might.

How is assuming it cannot/must not happen, and then optimising it away because it did happen "ignoring the situation"??
Apparently being worked on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30025858
or a model method or private method in the class containing this code
Looks nice, I looked through the FAQ and couldn't find anything, can you tell me where the servers are located / hosted?
I'm aware but that wouldn't apply if Google launched a blockchain, which was the origin of this thread, and it wouldn't help with the details I listed where key parts of the system are not stored on the blockchain. If Google introduced, say, oracles which their smart contracts relied on you'd need a way to provide a new service and permission to update those contracts (this is, of course, a massive risk for fraud so that can't be done lightly).

Similarly, even if they used someone else's chain like Ethereum, if the data stored on the chain references something like a CDN endpoint where the real payload is available, the fact that the blockchain itself is still running wouldn't help you much if you didn't have a compatible alternative with a copy of the data.
I'm not looking forward to migrating Google Photos and YouTube playlists.
Sounds like pretty good success criteria to me!
Conspiracies using Signal and similar services often fall apart because someone in the conversation is undercover or has a change of heart: someone thought he was signing up to a protest movement and then finds out that others want to kidnap a politician and hold her hostage (the governor of the state of Michigan, where this happened) and sends the messages to the cops, even though they were set to disappear.

Figuring out a solution for this would enable new kinds of horror, like when in 1984 Winston is shown a photo that implicates the party leader in a crime and his torturer then tosses it in the "memory hole" to burn it up. You can see evidence of something horrific but you cannot share it, cannot prove it and then it disappears.
Note that the atmosphere is more likely to loose 12C over time than 13C. (It's the lighter molecule and will have larger speeds at equal temperatures, making Jeans escape more likely). The paper itself says "the δ13C composition of the atmosphere may have been less 13C enriched when Gale crater sediments were deposited" (compared to now). I am not sure how they exclude that as an explanation why deposits are more 12C rich then the atmosphere is now.
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I'm surprised that no one has suggested Elixir with Phoenix framework. It is a modern re-imagining of Ruby/Rails with the Elixir language created by a former Ruby/Rails developer. It runs on the same BEAM VM as Erlang and has the same concurrency and distributed process supervision capabilities.

Being not as popular as Ruby/Rails I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who isn't comfortable researching some answers that aren't immediately found in search results.
Should watch "Altered Carbon" if you haven't already...
Unfortunately current society rewards sociopathic behavior and selects them for leadership positions.
Am I reading the article wrong, or did the main character of this story, quit his job as a former labor secretary, because when his department was accidentally too generous with benefits, he received death threats?
The hormonal medication HCG is also a potential source as it’s made from human urine. I took it for years.
No, I don't assume people are against register allocation, but any concrete proposal I have seen kind of implies such conclusion. I am trying to understand what people actually want, since they seem clearly different from what people say they want.

Okay let's discuss a concrete example.

*x = 12345678;
f();
return *x; // can you copy propagate 12345678 to here?

f() does this:

for (int *p = 0; p++; p < MEMSIZE)
if (*p == 12345678)
*p = 12345679.

That is, f scans the memory for 12345678 and replace all instances with 12345679. There is no doubt this actually works that way in assembly. Things like cheat engines do this! C compilers assume this doesn't happen, because it is UB.

Hence, portable assembly C compiler can't omit any load. Now I understand there are minority of people who will answer "that's what I want!", but like register allocation, I think people generally want this to optimize. But that necessarily implies memory search-and-replace can't compile in portable assembly manner.
Ask HN: Backlink lookup tool for community discovery purposes?
Any free tools out there to perform backlink lookup for non-site-owners? i.e. given a page, show me a listing of pages that link to that page?

I'm thinking like a hackernews comments button, but generalized to the entire internet.

Reasoning:

I'd like a discovery tool that, given a blog post, reveals the community of other blog posts as responses. There are tools that show you comments given a page, but if I want to observe slow, considered discussion, blog posts are probably a better medium.

Feels like something google would be able to provide, given the basics of how pagerank is supposed to work. But searching around it seems this is only exposed through webmaster tools for the site owner, and even then I'm not sure it would give me quite the search functionality I seek.
The solution to that conundrum is you tell the lawyer "come talk with us". It's Administrative Law. It is what the regulator says it is. And no, an attorney cannot with old that information. That is what they call, "bad faith".

The tough part is actually sitting down, combing through the paperwork, and coming up with questions. Regulation is as much a descriptive as a prescriptive exercise.
Bootstrapping means you funded the entire thing out of pocket without any outside investment.

There's nothing bad/wrong about how you did it, but it's not bootstrapping. Saying it is makes it confusing for newbies which means they're more likely to be taken advantage of by VCs that realize they can market themselves as a "bootstrapper fund."
in Scotland, it's not a "foot warmer". it's a piggy.
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To try to fill in the blanks and steelman your position a little, I think that the most significant difference (and potential grounds for criticism) is that a wealth tax means the same money is taxed multiple times.

I'm not sure what essential philosophical or ethical objection there is to that, though, since money is constantly changing hands and being taxed (e.g. on the way in as income, and on the way out as consumption/sales tax). Moreover, as taxation changes incentives, it should be targeted to reduce socially negative actions, and arguably "wealth hoarding" is worse for society than "income", which is currently an accepted target for taxation.

I think the biggest "fairness" argument for a wealth tax, though, is that the average US household has a net worth of $120k, and pays $10k in total taxes per year, which is equivalent to an 8% wealth tax. (Of course it's true that if the household decided to not earn any money, it could greatly reduce its tax burden, but that's not really an option for most tax payers, whereas billionaires never have to work a day in their life).

So I would tie the wealth tax to be equivalent to the effective rate that the median household pays, but allow deductions for any other payments the wealthy person paid to the government or to charities. Also, for simplicity, the wealth tax should only apply to households above a certain wealth threshold, perhaps 10x or 100x of the median.
"...use where one would use a hot-water bottle, but without the danger of a leak."

Very interesting. Did you find any noticeable difference between the longevity of its heating as compared with water? The reason I ask is that the specific heat of water is higher than that of wheat so water should retain the heat longer.

BTW, I'm familiar with hot water bottles, they were all the rage when I was a kid before electric blankets became commonplace.

P.S.: I can't say I ever had one leak but I reckon I'd have come close. After some use, they'd start to perish around the filling point/screw stopper. The idea was to always keep an eye on it and once one noticed the first signs of perishing then not to gamble too long before replacing it.
> Not only that but with universal healthcare meaning that I'm subsidizing someone else's poor health habits

Fyi you're doing that with your insurance too