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Physical theories are supposed to work together, and classical mech and electrodynamics mostly do. Electrodynamics is expressed in the language of Newtonian mechanics (e.g. fields represent force per charge), and the experiments that established the laws of electromagnetism used Newtonian mechanics as their framework. There are specific inconsistencies between Newtonian mechanics and electrodynamics, inconsistencies which spurred the development of special relativity.

Physics theories are not supposed to be mutually incommensurable, like the ideas of two philosophers from different schools who don't understand each other. Physics doesn't work that way, and physicists have never been satisfied with that.
I don't really see what it has to do with fight club.

suppose car A and car B have autonomous driving that perform identically across a wide range of conditions. the manufacturer A enables FSD whenever the customer feels like it, but accepts no liability. manufacturer B accepts full liability for FSD use, but restricts it to situations where that's a good bet. car B is safer for the average customer, because it doesn't let them use FSD when it is especially risky. unless I understood a lot more about ML, CV, etc, I would pick car B every time.
Quieter Fans with the Latest Steam Deck Beta
Advancing systems research with open-source Google workload traces
You could join a startup that is working on a problem that's interesting to you. Since everybody is looking for developers right now, you really can choose what you want to work on.
Email address and / or GitHub. No one's saying he needs to show off what a great programmer he is through his contact methods, just don't use a site that's infamously bad for dark patterns and recruiter spam.
Terrible name, but good idea. However, the ecosystem for social media apps is so polluted (just open any app store and see all the "social media app" spam) that gaining any sort of market share is likely not possible.
Can't speak for a male turkey, but roosters cannot be dissuaded with even a fairy robust application of boot.

Source: had an aggressive rooster. He became soup after attacking a friend's visiting 6 year old kid.
This has been known for a bit, I'm glad they finally did a full analysis.

Contrast this to "um, they died of pneumonia!" My half-brother died of pneumonia in May 2020, northern rural Wisconsin, in the middle of this. In his county, the number of "pneumonia" deaths went up astronomically that season.

Huh! I guess it's a dumb coinkydink, cause COVID was fake like birds aren't real
They have bones in their wings that really hurt when they hit you with them.
What are some problems in industry that can be solved with compilers?
Hello,

I am writing a Scheme to C compiler right now and I am loving it. But I want to build a production compiler. what are some problems right now, that badly need a solution, that can be solved with a compiler? Thanks
The GraphQL API works just as well with curl. There's no getting around the fact that you need to pass a query text but assuming you put the query in a file the curl syntax is identical to the REST API:

curl https://api.github.com/graphql -H "Authorization: bearer $TOKEN" --data @query.graphql
I'm certain I've accumulated 100's - if not 1000's - of hours customizing my editor since I started learning it 6 years ago (sorry I'm an Emacs user not Neovim) and I don't regret 1 hour of it.
Or maybe everyone really is the acceptor!
The nice thing with Google OR tools is that it gives you several solvers with common API. In my experience a solver might struggle sometimes with a problem that another one will solve without problem. So it’s useful to allow your users to switch the solver used with a simple drop down.
Same way we’ve done for years, via our CD (circle CI), which uses the Heroku CLI

We’ve been lucky that this entire event has, theoretically, not touched us as we never connected GitHub. That may change as more information comes to light.

We’re still strongly considering moving to AWS, and are in the process of getting quotes from vendors.
I'd say work on an existing project they can't wrestle control over. I am not your lawyer however.
I didn't read the article. My response is addressed to the headline.

I waste so much time on the internet because I'm alone. I'm an atomized worker drone spawned from a pipeline designed to service corporations and governments.

I have very little personal human contact. Sometimes I walk the streets at night. I see a glowing box in almost every window. Almost everyone is extracting parasocial interactions from their TV sets as they mostly lay alone at night.

I crave human interaction. The internet is the only place where I can feel connected to others. That's why I'm here, that's why I waste so much time on the internet: it makes me feel more connected, less alone.
The product I'm working on is in the smart locker space
He's not trained?
The great filter is something with odds around 10^-30 of surviving.

It's hard to find any convincing argument that climate change will destroy our civilization with anything near 1/2 odds. It's a completely different ballpark.
You are only thinking about payouts and not the change in sales. Imagine you make $100m selling your anti-flood machines. Maybe your machine fails 10% of the time and a failure costs 2x the unit price. Taking on liability in that situation would bring you down to $80m. Bad deal for you. But what if someone in marketing comes and tells you that market research suggests taking on liability leads to an extra $30m in sales. You come out ahead because the $30m in new revenue exceeds the $26m in new liability. That isn’t confidence in your machine. It is marketing and accounting.
> The whole "never break user land/space" axiom that the PHP core used to follow isn't healthy for the language

I would say it's not healthy for most languages.
Being a person who enjoys learning makes it a much nastier addiction. I just wrote this in my post.

>> even about projects I'm excited to work on

This. Let me lay a comparison here to alcoholism. One thing that happens when you're an alcoholic is you plan your time around when you're going to drink. Suppose there's something you really want to do after work, but you're going to get into it for 4 hours and not go to a bar. You get off work, and suddenly it feels like a really heavy lift, when it was something you actually wanted to do. So you make excuses that you'll do it on the weekend, but then you don't do it, and eventually it starts to feel impossible. Time gets chopped up and you never get the long-term focus that comes with settling in and losing yourself in a project that takes hours of concentration. You forget how to concentrate.

All of these things are true for internet addiction as well.
I’ve seen the houses being built and “intergenerational asset” is an almost laughable assumption (not by you, but by the American public). Yes the land is worth $$, but I would be surprised if a currently-priced $300k home lasts more than 20 years without needing a $50-100k injection and who knows what labour and materials will actually cost by then.
To be fair, it's still better than renting. I'm curious how long a mortgage has to be before renting is a better buy for consumers, but I'd bet it's closer to 80 years than 40.

If you're spending $2k/month on rent vs interest, taxes, and equity, with the idea that you'll get at least the value of the equity back when you sell (and probably more, when inflation is higher than a fixed rate mortgage) you'll come out ahead no matter how long you hold the debt.

And frankly 40 year mortgages are probably better than 30 years with debtors that can't afford the monthly rate. It's like 72 month car loans, it's a better deal for everyone.
It blows my mind (in a good way) that people are still posting this to Hacker news. I remember writing code for MenuetOS in both my Operating Systems and Hardware classes in ~2002. Love it!
Python printing flushes the buffer. That’s slow in every language.
My sense of plateau as a colloquialism is that it implies a flattened peak before a descent. Elvis plateau'd in the 50s.
Fair enough, it's more for an international audience who might take it as a totally serious assessment of Australian culture (if they care!). Can't keep the reputation of being too relaxed forever.
He's not saying he wants OpenVMS to go to ARM and RISC-V.

He's commenting on the joke that OpenVMS kills its host architectures, so x86 must be dying...
I have really fond memories of playing with this sometime around 2005.

I would download as many ISOs as I could get my hands on during the week at one parent’s house (where we had the better PC and broadband) and then at the weekend staying with the other parent I would try out all kinds of linux distros and hobby OSes.

Menuet was incredible to me at the time, it was fast as hell. I played with it for hours and probably would have stuck with it over the crappy Win ‘95 install if not for the fact it basically didn’t have any useful software at the time. It was great fun to tinker with and explore though.

I’ve come across it every few years since and I’m always happy to see it still worked on.
No web, no thank you! I'm tired of these mobile-only apps like Snapchap and the likes! I want to be able to move from one device and another without having the phone always in my hand!
> This would guarantee that `reduce` doesn't break any existing experiences, while still providing the option for those with vestibular motion disorders.

I don't have a vestibular motion disorder. I just don't want videos to autoplay. A lot of people don't want videos, or gifs, to autoplay.

Do we actually need anything other than the existing "Never Auto-Play" preference?
Wouldn’t this logic suggest that the economic value of taking on this liability is minimal considering insurers haven’t made cars with competing tech unaffordable for buyers to insure?
Anybody can write anything as a legal opinion. Just writing it does not make it valid. That it was written with specific intention to enable a statutorily disallowed action makes it less persuasive, not more.
Additionally there are legal concerns, for both regulatory compliance and for prepping for inevitable litigation. Those concerns aren’t necessarily a blocker for service restoration, but it really depends on the systems involved. If service could be restored by rebooting a system, for example, but that system also has data related to customers’ (and their customers’) PII and it might have been accessed by the attacker, then you need to make sure it’s all properly preserved forensically first, so that you can comply with regulations regarding breach notifications. The forensic analysis could then happen, but it’s definitely a “measure twice, cut once” situation with lots of lawyers involved (they won’t understand the systems, but they’ll make you explain everything so they can make decisions about risk; and they are in charge).

Also, generally, it’s a “fog of war” scenario, where you can have so many unknowns to work through in a compressed time period, and sometimes there’s an active attacker and they get a vote, too.
Reproducible Builds in April 2022
It hadn't really clicked until your comment that both Github and LinkedIn are owned by the same company.
Sorry, but if the language cant even get errors right, I'm certainly not going to download a package to do it.
Except, it is not. Somebody could use the arguments presented to advocate changing the law to permit wasting whoever the hell the President designates, but the law has not, in fact, been so changed.
IMO, focusing on better UX is the wrong approach.

This should be handled at the browser level. There's no reason for most users to ever be burdened with even a fantastically designed cookie consent window.
As a parent of young children, I have had sustained exposure to a diverse medley of fecal specimens varying in color, odor, consistency, and texture. Is there a particular stripe I should be targeting for transplanting from my children’s into my own microbiome?
Can spread spectrum be easily detected?
Be that as it may, I was at peace with my existentialist void before the modern internet came along. I had companionship in smokey cafes with other people who saw the same lack of meaning in the universe, but were engaged in the making and building of things. All I see in this new paradigm is the desire of everyone to tear everything down, to destroy.

Existentialism leaves room for humans to give meaning to their own lives, through acts of creation and bonhomie. It also leaves room for the Holocaust, for evil.

Humans don't necessarily need a new religion. We need to learn to recognize evil when we see it without relying on dogma.
The amount of Salesforce fluff in the post is quite palpable. There is a clear lack of control with the leaders in Heroku judging off this post because of the salesforce transition.

This project Periwinkle sounds awful. Basically thats the end of using Heroku for us. If it remains like this its something to judge from.
Be it your way.

Still, I think we should sometimes be bold enough to call out when we think that the Emperor has no clothes. In this case, Chesterton's fence is much less deep than it's made out to be.

The guy who wants to take it down, that's at least a valuable proposition. He's trying to decrease entropy. He's at least trying to put up a fight with the natural state of affairs that things become more disordered, more cluttered, more messy.

The guy who shuts him down, he's lazy. He's not willing to put in the work himself to see why the fence is useful. He's putting the burden of proof on the guy who at least is trying to do the good thing.

And many times guy nb 1 will just say, "well then, I tried, but there's opposition, and I don't have the time and energy to fight this battle".

And the fence will stay there.

And for each 1 useful fence that should stay there, there are 100 rotten ones that shouldn't.

The thing is, this is so entrenched, that people don't even try anymore. Maybe it's Pavlovian.

I'm saying this: we should at least admire those who even contemplate taking down a fence. And those who take the risk to speak out that the fence should be taken down.

Instead, we admire Chesterton. Which happens to be quite convenient too. Because we are lazy.

Oh, don't worry, I'm lazy too. How many times in my life didn't I say "this is a need to have thing and this is a nice to have thing. Considering the urgency, I'll deliver the need to have one, and leave the nice to have for another day".

In other words, how many fences didn't I leave the fence in the road? I'm guilty. But at least, I don't feel proud and wise about it.
Trying to integrate with SFDC was a mistake. The product never fit inside of the company. Of course their investment made Heroku successful over the first few years (and eventually highly profitable as I understand) but they should've just spun it off and let it succeed without trying to figure out how to "enterprise" it.

What we knew how to do at Heroku was build a great platform for developers to launch apps. We never claimed to know how to make that model work for enterprise. In fact we were awful at trying.
Waste of time.

Cookie consent is dumb.

Cookies are not bad, and in fact are required for basically any website. What is the point of agreeing to them over and over again, when your only alternative is to not use the internet, or at least not to use that site?

Some companies might do bad things with cookies, but how does it help to condition us to agree to cookies on every website we visit.

The fix is to repeal this dumb law.
This is actually written in C++ and I compile it to a native executable during development, and yet it crawls to a stop exactly the same, so I'm afraid that that one's on me. :D
(It's an inefficiency related to the breakage particles and waits patiently on a big pile of other code TODOs at the moment.)

Nevertheless, I don't disagree with you on your general sentiment towards browser games, I like fast native executables as well.
If you don’t mind sharing: what was the “bug”?
I don’t think solved is the right word. You can build apps using ionic/electron but native apps are objectively better
GraphQL uses HTTP like the REST API and speaks JSON. There's no need for a library if you're comfortable sending a POST request.

It seems to me like the main friction that you and others are getting at is that GraphQL is more work to use than REST because you have to write a query. That's a fair point! Perhaps we could publish "canned" queries that are the equivalent of the most commonly used REST endpoints, or make them available for use in the API with a special param.
Turkeys are right up there with swans, geese and deer as nuisance animals I can do without. The birds'll chase you for no reason, and they'll all fly right into your car and leave a nice-sized dent or smash your window.

It would make quite the banquet stuffed and cooked up for homeless in DC. Just sayin'.
Older versions of z/OS and OS/390 are easy to come by online [0], and from what I've heard run well under Hercules–although I myself have never tried (I have run the public domain MVS 3.8J in the past, in particular the TK4- distribution of it.) Of course, downloading and running those online versions violates IBM's license agreements and quite likely violates copyright laws – but you can make your own judgement about the legal risk and ethics of that.

I think getting your hands on the most recent versions – such as the latest z/OS 2.5 – is a lot harder, unless you work for IBM or an IBM customer, or you know someone who does (and who is willing to help you out, an action which may involve some risk for them). In recent years IBM has added hurdles to make unauthorised distribution harder (such as encrypting the ADCD distributions), although those hurdles are not insurmountable, they just add more work (usual story with DRM). And I think you'll find Hercules will barf on the latest versions of z/OS anyway.

If you want to latest versions from IBM totally legitimately – IBM will sell you a development environment (zPDT) for US$5,540 a year. If you need it for work, could be a totally reasonable investment. If you are just doing it to muck around – well, that's an expensive hobby, although certainly there are people out there who spend more than US$5,000 a year on their hobby, and many people here earn enough they can afford it – but you'd have to really enjoy it for it to be worth it. I doubt there are many people out there who enjoy z/OS that much – although there is one retired IBM guy in Orkney, Scotland (Colin Paice), who does, and he's actually blogged about how he forked the money out and bought it [1].

[0] I think it is better not to say where publicly, in part because doing so draws attention to those places and attention might result in IBM issuing takedown notices. If you know the right search terms it is easy to find.

[1] https://colinpaice.blog/2020/06/29/getting-z-os-installed-on...
From what I've been told, the Google Bot absolutely tries to respect the robots.txt. The advice I got was to double check that my syntax and expressions were really correct. A lot of people screw it up so it has to be basically perfect otherwise it won't be parsed correctly. Are you willing to share your robots.txt file?
There are a lot of interesting algorithms, but as the author points out, he had to move the data to a RAM drive to avoid the disk access being the limiting factor. For a lot of use cases, it's not the CPU that is going to limit you.

I did love the anecdote about adding gzip moving the bottleneck to the cpu from the network, and actually slowing down the whole system.
Thank you! I agree that there is more we could do to reach parity here.

Is paginating across multiple dimensions possible via the REST API?
I'm currently using [Focus Reader](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=allen.town.foc...), which seems pretty great, so far.
I tried to hide one of my handguns under your stairs and, yeah, no room at all
They're not sufficiently good for my theorem!
> How is it

You get a degree from Oxford at the end, which definitely opens doors. Of the ten modules I did, 2-3 were exceptional and stay with me today. 2-3 were trash. There rest were OK. It's an excellent excuse to get familiar with the subject, and the one-week onsite format followed by the six weeks of coursework is excellent.

> would you recommend it for an American? Is it even possible for an American to fly in for the week-long intensives like the other comment on here says?

Yes, we had quite a few Americans in my cohort doing this

> What was your background when you applied and how tough is entry?

I essentially flunked out of high-school, but I had ten years of solid commercial experience under my belt, and some interesting open-source contributions and tech talks at conferences, and they let me in. I suspect I had the potential to interview well as I also was awarded an academic prize at the end for highest overall marks...

However they also had this really interesting system when I was there where you could essentially earn your way in: they'd let you come and do the SEM module (challenging, but not nuts), and if you passed, they'd let you in as a real student.

> And how much is the cost?

£41,080 over four years for a non-UK resident
It doesn't even have to be likely for it to be a worry.

Imagine there are 1% chances that an encounter with an alien civilization spells the end of humanity.

Or 0.1%, or 0.01%

Now roll that dice for millions and millions of years. It's probably a good idea to switch to communication technologies that don't broadcast your location (and your technological unsophistication). Just in case.
Roll it the fuck back immediately. The biggest blight on the internet.
The Netherlands has NaWas non-profit service that filters out DDOS attacks, in Q1’22 7,4 times per days with DDOS traffic up to 300Gbps. It’s a few man shop, costs of membership are low. From their FAQ https://www.nbip.nl/en/nawas/faq/ :

The NaWas infrastructure is designed as an on-demand service. After detecting an attack, the traffic is routed via BGP to the NaWas hardware and then the mitigation process starts. All traffic is then rerouted and the own connections can thus manage with less capacity and thus remain cheaper.

To connect to the NaWas, a port must be available from one of the following parties: AMS-IX, NL-IX, LINX, NET-IX, Top-IX, M-IX, V-IX or one of these cloud interconnects DCSPine, Epsilon, Megaport.
Edgar SEC filings search using NLP
It's the same state of mind. Some one unwares trying to be helpful.
Example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31287142
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While that may very well be true, it's also wildly impractical. I would imagine the outcome of that stance will be the skeleton meme "still waiting and google still DDoSes my site."
I assume it’s so that they can mine your LinkenIn connection data and make it available to their sales teams to upsell you and people you know. I’d imagine they would end up storing all that data in some kind of web-based CRM, possibly sold as a SAAS product.
> And this happens regularly

Do you have an example to demonstrate regularity that's not nearly 60 years old?
Your efforts to sidetrack discussion of murders committed under unlawful orders of public officials, by quibbling over wording, have been noted.
I think most proportional fonts work this way by default? At any rate, enabling tabular figures is a step I expect to need to take when I want rows of numbers to align when using an otherwise proportional font.
I sometimes feel that it's because I'm not hanging out with the right kind of people. People with whom if I hang out I will be fun and they will be fun and I will be myself. But then I think when was the last time I was comfortably myself with someone. It was always either professional, or an acquaintance type friend, or a hiking group, or guitarist. Everywhere I'm a persona and not me and on internet I'm me and it's not bad. Don't know, something simpler perhaps.
Try a smaller company.
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