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> This seems so obvious in hindsight as the "right way". I wonder why we went down that whole async/await craze with so many languages?

My theory on is that it evolved as a consequence of people trying to solve problems on a level they were familiar and comfortable with. E.g. let's say there were C and C++ application programmers who wanted to scale their applications to handle more clients than a OS supported at that point in time. Their solution was to use event-driven OS APIs, and build abstractions on top of that (libuv, boost) that they found comfortable to use. Then we went one level further, and compiler and programming language experts got aware about the problem, which tried to solve it with language extensions (async/await).

I fully confess I'm guilty of this too, by having used/promoted/evolved various async frameworks in the last 10 years. It's a super interesting problem to work on, a bit on the research side, and it feels fulfilling to design some elegant solutions on top of the "i have to async paradigms" problem.

But ultimately the compiler magic on top of callbacks on top of event-driven OS APIs workarounds definitely doesn't seem to be best solution for regular application developers, since the abstractions are very leaky and now application developers need to be aware about how all those things work and work together.

I really like the Loom solution and look forward to it, since it means the application space doesn't have to deal with colored functions anymore. But ultimately I'm wondering in the meantime whether we should rather try to find an OS level fix for those OS level problems instead of trying to work around them on a higher level. There's probably 100x the amount of code written on async runtimes than for the kernel schedulers and IO subsystems themselves, which feels wrong.
Are you talking about pure functions? Like math, same input -> same output, no side effects / other state affected. Most programmers would recognize that term instead.
I have worked on synchronization, and couldn't figure out what the article wants to say. If you're interested in the topic, read Wikipedia articles about NTP [1] or clock signal [2] and articles linked from them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_signal
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>It is kinda like talking about Schrödinger's cat. With a game of telephone people think the cat is both alive and dead and not that our models can't predict definite outcomes, only probabilities.

That is literally the point of the thought experiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function_collapse

It isn't just our models that can't explain it, there are real physical limits which mean that _no_ model can predict what state the cat is in.

The only reason why cats are a more outrageous example than electrons is that we see cats behave classically all the time.

The only vaguely plausible explanation why cat states are impossible in general is that large quantum system become spontaneously self decoherent at large enough numbers of particles.
> I believe it’s a fundamental gap that can’t be closed.

For you, maybe, but not for all. Many/most people believe that there should be _at least_ /some/ restrictions on abortion (abortion/infanticide at 9 months is not supported by the average voter, for example). The gap might not be closeable /in principle/, but for many people who don't think everything through with a first-principles approach there are things they are willing to change on.
Get the printed receipt when you return the vehicle.

Take time-stamped phots and beginning and end of rental.
We've imported a ton of people from third world countries to the point that the demographics have substantially changed. I don't think we should be surprised that the country changed as well.
Stateful services like Postgres cannot be rapidly scaled up/down to adjust to daily loads, even when those loads are very predictably busy at noon, but often sit idle overnight. Scheduling ML jobs while the db is typically wasting resources might be an efficient strategy.
Elite lawyers may be cleverer than the peasants, but that does not make them righteous or just. As I've already written, just because the court had taken a leftward tack in the recent past does not guarantee that it will continue to do so. Left or right, it would be best not to have that much power in so few hands.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/07/4694780...
Yes! The probability of a security vulnerability in the Apache install whose httpd.conf you had to write, running on a VPS you have to patch yourself, versus the probability of a security vulnerability in S3/CloudFront are indeed vastly different.

These are the kinds of trade offs we make.
This sort of leak, likely from a law clerk given that it was a draft opinion, is not a good development. Nobody has any loyalty to their institutions anymore. Every institutional loyalty has been subjected to team red or team blue.
Maybe I misunderstand the legal situation here, but if "they paying someone to develop a few lines to the Linux kernel and every other project", then they would only have standing to sue regarding those specific lines right? Unless they can get other contributors on board.
Zero good discussion will happen here. That's why I flagged it.
No, they fall apart unless you suck down your shake very quickly.
Leaked SCOTUS Draft Opinion Suggests Imminent Overturn of Roe vs. Wade
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I’m hard set on working to prevent/undo the climate crisis, such as with carbon sequestration, clean energy, walking cities, synthetic meat, etc.
The number of straws that ended up in the ocean from countries that have banned it is indistinguishable from zero.

If people actually cared (as opposed to wanting to look like the care) they would help start sanitation services (trash collection, and proper landfills) in Asia.
I think that's an excellent explanation.
I also went to night school to earn a bachelor’s degree in CS. It was hard. And to compound the hardness, I started a PhD program the year I turned 30. Definitely a late bloomer. But I am now a professor of CS, and I am satisfied with the choice to follow this path. Long hours, but no boss and great pay!
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I wonder if there could be a corollary to this. I'm quite introverted and for some reason people seem to think I'm an excellent listener, when actually I'm actively ignoring them and wishing they'd just stop talking already. Come to think of it, I feel like I've seen a webcomic somewhere making this same observation.
Don't you think it was for money? A law clerk would be risking their entire career for this, and I can't imagine they would do that just to get the news out early.

I wonder if politico will acknowledge whether or not they paid for the leak.
TBF, the cops don't know if the driver is an innocent office worker, falsely fingered by Hertz, or really is a criminal who has stolen the car.

The cops at this point ought to be pushing back against Hertz, telling them to get their shit together so that their officer's time & risk aren't being spent on these wild goose chases that just end up making them look bad.

I for one, am not going to be renting from Hertz or their other brands (Dollar, Thrifty). I don't want to get swatted by them.
Look at the discussion that happens in response to a story like this. I don't see any novel or "curious" conversation, not to say there are not a lot of valid arguments, but they are old and don't really bring anything to the site. If HN was just this sort of polarizing topic, it would lose its appeal pretty fast.

I don't actually know what the [flagged] tag adds to the story, though I think it's the right policy to let it play out so people can have their say while "burying" it so it doesn't dominate the front page and attract too much attention.
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This is the bigger problem. There is a process and some people seem to think circumventing it is the right response.

The courts will make a decision and then it's up to Congress to draft new laws if it wants.

Undermining the process of the judicial branch is not going to end well at all.
> If you're a man, you have no right to have an opinion about abortion.

Yeah, no.
The roles of men and women in reproduction are different, but that doesn't exclude either one from the conversation.

The real issue is that before being born, the would-be child is literally feeding on the mother like a parasite. No one should be forced to endure that against their will. That needs to be a voluntary act of sacrifice on the part of the mother. I don't think we'll have a real solution to any part of the abortion debate until we have artificial wombs where we can remove the burden from the unwilling mother entirely. That still won't satisfy the religious extremists who will still rage against miscarriages and birth control and 'women doing things we don't like', but it would solve the problem of fathers who want their child to live while mothers refuse to carry it.
When I was young I heard a saying in reference to kids helping with farm work. "Two boys are worth half a boy. Three boys are worth no boy at all."

I think the key difference is that computers are computers and people are people. Computer workers can be programmed to know what each other are thinking and be able to efficiently divide a task into pieces that will fit together to form a solution. People can't do that as efficiently, and without motivation are just as likely to distract each other from doing their own work.
It's hard to interpret the root comment as anything but trolling here. Better to just ignore it
Farmers have practiced crop rotation for nitrogen fixing for millenia, among many other benefits : less favorable conditions for weeds and pests due to changing conditions, diversification of nutrients, improved soil structure which in turn improves carbon sequestration, ...

Legumes also provide amino-acids that are lacking in cereals, which makes a legume-cereal combination a healthy well-balanced diet.

Crop rotation doesn't prevent mechanization or reduce farm productivity in any way, rather the opposite because it improves soil health.

So, my question: what is the benefit of this? Would that further improve yield in combination with crop rotation?
It is true that trials are imperfect.

They are an imperfect approximation of an ideal truth finding endeavour implemented by imperfect humans. That doesn't mean that the imperfections are a feature, it means that as time goes on society should work towards making more accurate approximations of this truth finding process.

Just as we have done away with things like expert testimony on phrenology, cruentation, or trial by ordeal there may come a time when we do away with witness testimony or restrict the kinds of things we allow witnesses to testify about, like we already do with hearsay.
> You'll have to pry Western farming methods from the cold dead hands of Indian farmers. Even the urban intelligencia has shut up about organic/traditional farming after seeing what's happening across the Palk Strait.

The indian itelligencia? I'd like to hear more about the commonalities here between equivalent folks in the uhmmm "west"
I'd venture it was deemed "worth it" just like the absurd amount of leaks just after Jan 20, 2017. In this case, it's possible that an intentional leak of a draft is aimed to encourage politicians and activists alike to ~~threaten~~encourage various Justices to change their minds before the final decision, ala ACA/Roberts
I’ve tried my kids snippy cups before, but the flow rate is way too low for an adult.
In this case I think the state owes him a comfortable retirement. They took the entirety of his prime earning years and released him just in time to retire. So cough up a nice pension and make sure he's got a comfortable place to live and access to whatever social workers and psychological help it takes to reintegrate him into society. And a great big public apology, if he's okay with it, admitting that the fact he was sent to prison for life based on nothing but a single eyewitness is an obvious miscarriage of justice.
Wow, that was some reading. I suppose that the conservative judges will be going after Marbury next, just for the humor value. The hell.

I can see why that got leaked.
No one does anything relating to Roe purely for the money. Whatever the reason for this leak, it was (at least in part) motivated by principle.
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Recycling sucks, but you could replace "biodegradable" with "industrially compostable" or even "ecologically safer". I'm not convinced that getting newspaper out of landfills is on the same order of importance as not littering plastics into the environment. Paper seems like a huge win over plastic and even if you have to use a "biodegradable" plastic, at least it's actually feasible to compost it.
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> “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision....” - Justice Samuel Alito in an initial draft majority opinion

This is gonna be fun.
Yea you're right. My PA state car registration was like $35. Insurance is a lot more too but more is covered by CA state law. Quality of the roads is better though and there are no tolls.

I also saved money buying my car in Hawaii and shipping it over. But that's only possible if you can live there for a year to avoid the California penalty. Hawaii car sales tax is only 4% and Cali is 10%. If you buy a car from out of state and try to register it in less than 1 year from purchase Cali will ding you on the difference.

But there are ton of other ways I'm saving money. Weed is so much less expensive that I've already saved hundreds on that alone. I used to travel to escape the cold in the winter and now I no longer do that. Heating and cooling a home on the east coast uses a lot more energy year round than what my bill has been here thus far here in Ventura county.

When I lived in Philadelphia no matter how hard I tried to avoid it every once in a while I'd still get dinged by a parking ticket or even once got towed just cause the sign that was up didn't make sense. Although I know that's an LA problem too. Being able to not live in a city anymore is also saving me some cash over all.
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I’m doubtful of that; politico lives and dies on having friends in government willing to break things (whether by leaks or just telling their reporters public facts first). Looking like a tabloid has only downside for politico — either people will start to want money for scoops, or they’ll get cut off.
wish this was true
The leak could have been done by someone who favors the draft.
I wonder how long this technology will take to become affordable; it would be very useful for historical RE projects like what the Visual6502 team does. Combine it with automated netlist extraction and it'd make quick work of creating a transistor-level model. Of course, there's still plenty of effort that needs human labour to analyse and understand the circuit, but speeding up the first steps of getting to a circuit would definitely be great.

you could make a fly-through tour through its inner workings to make sure everything is really in its proper place

That reminds me of one of the ideas I've had in the back of my mind for a while but never had a chance to do anything with --- turn a chip layout into a VR map.
This could just as likely to be to distract from something petty but embarrassing about to drop.
I'd guess too-lean combustion in idle is bad, and throttling the intake so that it starts out with reduced pressure and at the fixed compression ratio, won't reach as-high pressures (which waste power by some of the adiabatic heating coupling to the cylinder walls).
Might only work on individual cylinders, as it seems like it'd easily prevent ignition, but still...
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> There's a third possibility, which might be most plausible: Roberts is doing his institutionalist best to court Kavanaugh and/or Barrett away from a full overrule of Roe and someone wants to deter that defection by documenting that they both initially voted to end it.

https://twitter.com/stevenmazie/status/1521298950011207680
The judicial branch already disregarded the process. See the current court's use of the shadow docket, and hell, _this decision_ itself.
Where is this innovation happening? We’ve had crypto for 13 years now, and just yesterday we had people flat out losing 10k into the ether because their transaction “ran out of gas” without completing. Isn’t that plenty of time to develop systems that avoid basic issues like suddenly burning all your money?
I have a friend that owns a cafe. They tried metal straws for exactly the reasons you outline.

Problem was: they're expensive and people steal them!
What you seem to want is pro bono representation, which is just not what they're offering. It's apples to oranges. Achieving something that approaches your idea of fairness would require negotiation and the maintenance of an ongoing legally significant relationship. I don't know much about the politics of the SF Conservancy, but the language in the contract they're offering does not jump out as especially unfair or extreme. Accounting for details like successors in interest is how lawyers write tight contracts.
> This was the first console controller with any analog stick at all.

Atari 5200 beat them there.
> Yes. You pay the price for portability. You have argued "but I don't port my software why should I pay the price? That only helps other people and there's nothing in it for me". OK, fair enough.

Portability to what, though?

It's 2022, not 1982. Most of the commercial UNIXes that autotools was written to handle are long dead now. When was the last time anyone saw a (non-embedded) system with CHAR_BITS ≠ 8, for example?
> Regarding if somebody can accumulate ads to derive user data. I mean anything is technically possible but an ad provider doesn't want user data to leak because it lowers the value proposition of their ad exchange

Is that true? Being able to deanonymize targeted individuals or small groups doesn't really cut into a platform business, it's only a concern if you can do it at scale to meaningfully reconstruct their dataset. Sure, they'll work prevent the latter, but does it justify the costs of ensuring the former can't be done? Better targeting sells ads, privacy/security is a cost center.
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good idea. I will post Cirru there.

I have several more articles/videos posted in Chinese, not ready to push all that forward yet... there are too many repos under Cirru and Calcit, many of them are not well maintained I'm afraid. :D
I don't know if it's for emissions reasons, and I doubt it does anything for emissions, but Volkswagen diesels have a throttle that's there to make engine shutoff much less shaky. It's called the anti-shudder valve, and it activates every time the engine is stopped, and it would stop a runaway diesel.
It could also have been leaked by a sitting Justice in which case the source would have risked nothing at all.
If you don't recognize the term as having a specific meaning in programming, it may be worth reading up. This[1] blog post has a great walkthrough of invariants.

https://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/writing-correct-code...
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Cain and Abel didn’t have DNA evidence, security cameras, digital forensics, etc. It’s right to reevaluate in light of the modern world.

Some eyewitness testimony is acceptable. People can be reliably expected to recognize people who they know. If a woman’s mother said that she saw the boyfriend hit her daughter, that’s an acceptable form of eyewitness testimony.

The kind of eyewitness testimony that should not be accepted, is when the person in question was not previously known to the witness. This kind of evidence has been proven time and time again to be entirely unreliable and should be considered no more compelling than lie detectors.
> No one is making any statement about your integrity.

That is not correct; in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31231494 luckydata said, "I think you're purposefully misrepresenting...", and in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31241664 they said, "I'm even more convinced now than before that you're in bad faith." Decent people considering commenting on here should not have to worry that they'll be subjected to such character assassination.

(And neither should I.)

Thank you for clarifying your comment. I think the Spencer et al. paper shows that it wasn't made up to stop Adderall from getting banned entirely; rather, it was a belief that was common among researchers in the field until 40 years ago, based on clinical observation. Also, Adderall is not banned entirely in Asia; for example, last I heard, it's legal in Thailand.
> Yes, he doesn't offer evidence the DHS visited him, but I don't see which evidence he could have on that, if you know please share with us.

Give the names and phone numbers of the DHS agents that he claims contacted him (and he claims he got a name + number). Provide any sort of previous communication he had about the event, even privately (obviously with the other party's permission). He tweets several times a day, but you're telling me he decided not to share any info about this story until some mostly-unrelated incident months later???

> As it stands I don't see any reason to call BS from the start, it seems to fit the DHS's MO, I don't see what's unbelievable about it.

No this is not the DHS's MO. No other person documenting police violence in the US (of which there are many) have claimed to receive a DHS visit. Why only the author?

> On his video on the CIA, I've never seen another case of a YouTube video showing three content warnings (on Android) before letting you watch it. How directly involved the American government is on it is anyone's guess, it's probably a more systematic action from YouTube, but I wouldn't doubt the government directly requested to not promote it in any way.

I only get 2 content warnings, and really? We seem to have hardcore walked back the claim YouTube is shadowbanning his video to "YouTube added an extra content warning!" - That's the best evidence of shadowbanning you have?
> How could you not notice your password being changed?

I noticed that a horrifying number of services don't inform the old email address that an account's email was changed. I trust very few services to keep me fully informed about my accounts these days.