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I did not say that, and

I certainly don't think they should be.

Nor do I think the banks should have been bailed in 2008. Some indvidual banks were directly bailed, the entire industry was indirectly bailed.
It's really hard to keep a username distanced from your real identity.... specially if you keep it a long time, or what seems like forever like yourself...
Sorry, I’m not understanding what you’re seeing. The law says “purpose to cause” and then lists two things joined by an OR clause. But you’re arguing that the “purpose to cause” language is irrelevant. I don’t see that in my reading. Can you break it down for me?
Thank-you, throwaway account and OP. It looks like "8" is a magic number--I tell others it takes me that many times of repeating to get around without GPS.

It's inconvenient for some things, like carpooling, and it can annoy close others to "never remember." Even if I try to focus on getting somewhere, attention never lasts for long.

I've tried heuristics and patterns, like "if I exited the highway and turned left, I need to turn right and merge to return home." But none seems to stick. I forget if I needed to turn left or right out of the retail place!

And this is a long way of saying I had to quit games like CounterStrike because of it, unable to really keep up with siblings and so on, so a part of my identity is wrapped up in this disorientation mode. I ask them how they "avoid getting lost," and to them it's second nature. They were already experts in it.

Maybe there is a better algorithm to orient oneself, something like when we need to print and "see all the env vars," to make it _so concrete_ (like Dr. Ng likes to say), that _now_ we can get to the heart of the problem we were working on.
How efficient is this in a multithreaded environment? Can immutable data be accessed from multiple threads without much cost?
That company is a known bad actor. All actions from them are hostile.
When the economic hitmen come to the country with IMF conditionalities they accept them then trickle down all the money thats leftover. If you really want a nation rich they should nationalize their products but thats usually when its time for "democracy" and you get coup'ed, so for the greater good, just do what the economic hitman says. Unfortunately only the corrupt elite get rich. Maybe they industrialize and create a middle class despite the corruption, which does the most to increase a nations wealth.
The argument is made easier by the way we consider the end of human being.
Which is why we tend to not keep former people without higher brain functions alive with technology forever/until end of natural lifespan.

Applying the same rule to beginning of human life arrives at the standard in Roe v Wade of around 12 weeks, which is to the best of our knowledge when higher brain functions can appear in a fetus, becoming potentially sentient human being.
Typical deceptive article. It says “inside the Capitol or outside” and many paragraphs later concludes that none of the guns were actually taken inside.

Also interesting that a handful of bad people carrying guns make everybody else a criminal. Is that the world you want to live in?
Malaysia and Thailand are also not poor anymore.
In which four people taste Nespresso against a single example of the local barista’s product and decide 22 points to 18 that Nespresso won.

And, I had to wade through a mountain of blather to find that out.

So, yeah, artisan coffee is about over.

> The key descriptors for Nespresso were ‘smooth’ and ‘easy to drink’. And from the point of view of restaurateurs who use it, the key word is ‘consistency’. It was far from bland, but it was not challenging or distinctive either. It’s a coffee everyone can really like but few will love: the highest common denominator, if you like. The second-place coffee had more bite, and was the favourite of myself and the 10-cup-a-day connoisseur, but scored a pathetic two points from one person on the panel who took against it.
I cannot lie: the film was an inspiration. There's even an icon for art activities based on George Seurat's painting https://www.ferris.app/assets/images/cards/painting.png
And yet i purchased a number of LEDs with mr16 gu5.3 bulbs just like the photo from TFA, and none of them work well in the minimum dimmer settings, they're all way too bright.

Maybe I've got it all wrong and i should have played doom on them instead.
All of this is right, but I was more referring to Microsoft sticking with the name "amd64" when most other platforms have moved to the name x86_64. The reason, according to my former colleagues at Microsoft who worked with davec, was to be petty against Intel. In most of Intel's documentation at the time, they referred to this architecture as "EM64T" rather than admit it came from a competitor
There are too kinds of automatic: logic automation to replace worker training, and physical automation to replace worker movement.

Self checkout is logic automation, making the checkout job easy enough that customer can be trusted to do it.

Checkout used to have two jobs: a checker and a customer standing around waiting. Self-checkout merged those two jobs into one.
So too are AdWords.
> there are beggars on the streets of Riyadh

I have no idea how rich Saudi Arabia actually is but where are there no beggars?
We’ve had billboards about keeping high-vis jackets in cars and wearing them in dangerous situations. It never made them, or having car accidents, cool in any way. The “speculation in this thread” is just that, baseless speculation and unfounded gut feelings.
Completely related, I strongly encourage you to read this article about Victor Vescovo and how he did this. The man is a true explorer and has not earned nearly enough public attention or credit.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/thirty-six-tho...
I have read that Brazil's main problem is geography - major population centres are the coast, and separated from each other by difficult-to-pass terrain. Part of what Bolsonaro is trying to do is solve this, through sacrificing the Amazon
No, that won't work, because the pins cannot be bumped once the lock is partly turned.
> my real point was about the much bigger left-wing protest movement that peaked in 2016.

I'm not sure why you keep mentioning 2016? The Wisconsin protests were also in 2011.

Anyway, in Wisconsin they were protesting a proposed bill. It wasn't a coup attempt.

I'm actually a Wisconsinite, so I'm very familiar with this.

If you read the linked Wisconsin State Journal article, you'll see that the protests were peaceful. "Police and protesters continued to get along, with no incidents reported and no arrests." It wasn't actually a "break-in". What happened was that there were already some protesters who had been inside the Capitol for some time, and then a much larger crowd showed up that night and wanted to get in, because there was a vote on the bill scheduled soon. The police were initially reluctant to allow the larger crowd to enter but decided to allow them. There was no violence.

https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/article...

Again, the issue isn't really protesting legislation in Capitol buildings. In general, that's a legitimate democratic activity. The issue is the safety of the members of Congress and the VP from a crowd on January 6 who wanted to overturn the results of the election that was about to be legally certified.
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My suburb experience is more social than my downtown one. My neighbours all talk to us for starters. That just about never happened in the condo buildings downtown. Kids play in the not busy streets. There is a lot of joy in even just watching a road hockey game for a few moments.
That only works because of the previous success in semi automating checkout, and scaling up the efficiency of security via CCTV.
My point is that every single lock (or password) is susceptible to trying every key combination: the only protection against that is to increase the number of combinations available.

Sure, if a particular lock is more prone to brute-forcing due to its design than an average lock (eg. side channel attacks like timing attacks with passwords), one could surely qualify that as a pickable lock (or a "weak" password scheme).

So I am not saying that a brute-forceable lock is not pickable, but that those are independent since every lock is brute-forceable. Sure, devil is in the details, and what seems like brute forcing is sometimes something smarter, but only when you are able to reduce the problem space from the full set of combinations would I say you are picking a lock.

Again, maybe I am totally off base with regards to terminology as used in lock picking circles, but this is how I would differentiate between different approaches.
Especially if the lock is mounted in a door.
Where do you live that you can have such a mix of uses in a suburb - and what suburbs are old enough to contain historical sites? I can't imagine you are describing anywhere in the USA... from my California-raised perspective, suburbs are a largely post-WWII creation: sprawling miles of relatively recent construction, with residential, retail, and commercial purposes all so strictly separated that there is virtually no reason to leave one's house by foot.

There were coffee shops, bars, restaurants, and the occasional movie theater among the suburbs I grew up in, sure, but they were all spread out and far away, tucked into little strip malls along the main roads - not really part of the neighborhoods people lived in.
The long tail has never been stronger, the paradox is the head has also never been stronger in terms of attracting advertising dollars + cultural head space BECAUSE the long tail has never been stronger. Basically NFL/NBA and Disney properties are the only things with massive cultural foot prints anymore, and are more valuable for that reason (see: the movie investment portion of the piece). So many conversations now with my friends about pop culture and we'll mention TV shows, music, games, books, or movies we're consuming, and none of us have even heard of what we're talking about. That wasn't the case 20 years ago and cultural fragmentation will just continue.

The author is basically lamenting how long tail properties used to have larger cultural footprints in part because there were so few of them. So the long tail has never been larger or more important, but each individual member of the long tail is growing weaker as the tail is growing in size.
Thanks, might as well spread the word right?
Disregarding the question as to why humans are inclined to behave in ways that benefit themselves at the expense of others and the environment—writing this off as “natural” or blaming it on a devil and an angel on our shoulders—is, in my opinion, key to ensuring the ongoing tragedy of the commons at planet scale.

Yes, in a free society with capitalism people have more opportunities to behave this way. Yes, that’s why regulation is needed (as a stop-gap measure, not root cause treatment).

While you don’t seem to be suggesting an alternative to capitalism for some reason, I’m reasonably sure that in any of them the society would suffer from the same issues, just less visible or more localised to ruling elites (which, by the way, doesn’t mean the scale of exploitation itself would be smaller).

As abolition of slavery showed, ethical standards are evolving—and freedom is necessary for this evolution. Without freedom you are treated as an ignorant child, with decisions made for you. Made by humans who are just as fallible, with imperfect ethics, power-hungry and insecure, happy to use their positions of authority to benefit themselves, whom you’d be deemed not wise enough to elect.
I would be very interested to know of Finland's economic progress. I suspect the end of the Cold War was a delta, though this is just my intuition. Would love to be educated on this!
Markov chains look like absolute gibberish almost all the time whereas GPT-2/3 (especially 3) generate natural sounding sentences. If you think they’re equivalent in capability, you haven’t spend any time using GPT-3.
Just search for "Underground" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in...

or go directly here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_the_London_Undergro...
Castor-software/pankti: Generating tests from production workloads
Google also has projects like this: https://github.com/google/breakpad

It supports 5 platforms, but uses 4 completely different build systems, including 2 custom ones (3 if you count depot_tools). There is very little overlap between the platform versions, meaning it's effectively 5 different projects smashed together into a single folder, and pretty much no way to use them in a cross platform project without some serious work. There isn't even a basic abstraction over the similar callback APIs between the platforms, although that's not a huge deal because the effort to write a basic abstraction layer is nothing compared to the effort of getting to a point where you can actually use it in a cross-platform project.

It's also funny that one of the build systems is GYP, which is basically a reinvention of CMake, except it's only used for the Windows build even though it can generate projects for the other platforms. Also, the VS project generator for GYP has been broken for a while (simple typo, trying to import OrderedDict from the wrong module. There's a PR to fix it, hasn't been merged for some reason), so it doesn't even work. Beyond that, it's also broken because GYP forces treating all warnings as errors, with a whitelist of warnings, yet the latest version (since yesterday at least) fails to build (tested on VS2019) because there's a warning that isn't in the whitelist.

You could try to fork it and fix these issues, but depot_tools doesn't provide a way to change the clone URL for repos, meaning you need to dig through the source code and wrap it in your own script that interacts with the internal APIs to do a simple clone (hint: fetch.py has a 'run' method that you can call with a custom constructed 'spec' object, which is a dictionary where you can inject your own url; just look at the hard-coded spec object for breakpad as a starting point). If you don't use depot_tools, then you need to manually clone all of the dependencies in the project since they're not even set up as git submodules.

There's also no versioning scheme whatsoever. Depot_tools seems to automatically checkout the latest version of everything (including itself).

I spent the past week wrestling with this monstrosity. Ended up successfully writing a Conan package for it that builds for Windows and Linux (there's one on Conan center, but it only supports Linux). I have 3 more platforms to go, but I think it'll be a better idea to just scrap everything and refactor into something more reasonable using CMake.

Instead of Breakpad, they also have a newer one called Crashpad, which is meant to improve reliability on Mac OS. Unfortunately, it depends on Chromium, so it won't work for my purposes.

...so all I'm saying is, maybe don't use Google as a role model for your project infrastructure.

/end rant
Yes, the complexity of the 6502 is low. In 1979 I took an "Introduction to Microprocessors" course (which had a bunch of digital design prerequisites). During one session, the instructor handed out 3x5 cards to the (25-30 or so) students. (Not all students got a card.) Each card represented some function or register of the 6502 that the student would emulate. The student who got the "bus" was the busiest and had to walk around moving data between the other students. The "clock" would send fetch/execute triggers, the instructions would come across the "bus" from memory into the "instruction decoder" and execution would commence.

Obviously execution was slow, but it was a great exercise to show the class just how simple the 6502 was.
You want your "smart" lamp to respond quickly to reduce power consumption and air time. Just a short sprint once is a while instead of a slower 8 bit cpu crunching on algorithms designed around 32 bit operations. The wider ALU and registers are cheap. The fetch and decode logic is almost identical in area and uses less power because you can implement your application executing fewer instructions. Have a look at the code size produced by common C compilers for something like AES128 targeting a Cortex M0+ (or M33 in this case) and a ATmega. You'll see lots of short helper functions that depending on compiler settings are either called very often, inlined or even inlined and unrolled.
This is the second time I’ve seen you emphasize the “Hacker” in HN and imply that its association with you would cause problems with employers.

Surely you can come up with a better example than that. Anyone who thinks HN is somehow related to criminal activity could be corrected by merely viewing the site once (or any number of third-party articles written about the site).

Meanwhile you had your full CV linked on your pseudonymous website, Streisanded yourself, and are disparaging the HN community repeatedly in your comments.
> What's the word for when something (humans) is like a version of something else (other primates) that hasn't fully grown up?

I think that the word you're looking for is neoteny: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny
Greenland sharks live up to 500 years
Personally, Uber doesn't come off to me as an engineering culture that values simplicity.

And in fact, in this very article, the last paragraph actually states that they are aiming to increase the complexity of the change validation process?!?

> Additionally, it helped our team focus on increasing the complexity and features of our change validation process.

Personally, I haven't been super impressed with any of the engineering projects I've heard come out of Uber, but what they're doing obviously works to some degree so I can't be one to judge.
I understand your point and it's a valid one, but you're not actually engaging with (part of) parent's argument.

If I'm a parent of a small child, and I decide to completely stop feeding it, and they die, did I do something morally and/or legally wrong? I think most would answer yes on both fronts. So the question is, is there an inherent difference between these two situation?
If we can automate away further jobs, we will need a UBI in some form.

We pretend to be able to keep up with technological progress and most people do. Unfortunately not everyone has access to good schooling or the mental / physical capability.

If enough low to mid level jobs are automated away without securing people from getting lost in society, we could be facing anti-technological groups rising.

It seems like science fiction now, but will it?

Politics need to grow with our capabilities.
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The article backs its theories up with historical examples. You're attacking it for seemingly not being interested in your pet theory.
I’d say that this is just internal platform / infrastructure support, aimed at making the whole organisation be more effective. It’s absolutely adding a lot of value to the organisation, it’s just not visible from the outside.

But saying that “it’s too many steps removed from the value” appears to be a misrepresentation of the value it adds.
It isn't some "AI", it's a concrete product implemented by real people and released by several big companies in order to make more money. Of course they'll play "it's not us, it's AI" card and it is up to us if we can let them get away with it.
I don't believe the VCs have such lofty or noble goals as decentralising the internet. If it were possible I believe they'd want to corner the emerging market as it grows.

But I think you're right that the upside is so attractive given how little they need to invest to realise significant gains.
Even small villages in southern European countries offer a better life than American suburbia.

The point is exactly that: nice things (especially in the public arena) don't have to cost much - and this cost doesn't have to privatized.
Is crypto correcting or crashing? Because I profited a bit when I bought btc right under $20k a week later it seems to be rebounding. My speculation is people want it to fall so they can buy low like I did.

The panic just isn't there, yes it has and will go down dramatically but the people that buy crypto still have expendible liquidity. This is crypto being naturally unstable, it isn't an index fund you expect to remain stable.

Investing aside illicit use of crypto alone will ensure significant cashflow in my opinion. It isn't just speculative investors that are in the game. As an investment, it has a lot if vaue similar to derivatives, inherent value is not as significant as consumer/investor demand.
Yeah, take the time to get lost, self-powered in your locality. You can then try and find where you are on a map. Staying local means it is easy to get back home.
The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country;

The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country;

The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country;

The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country;

The Financial Times is read by people who own the country;

The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country, and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
I carefully mentioned that the issues (with the exception of a type intersection bug which is in the language, but was characterized as a control flow bug) are not core language issues. Julia ships with a very large standard library, and people often lump all issues in base Julia as "language issues".

I know you have yourself filed dozens of issues, many of which have been fixed. I feel it is unfair to characterize years of work by a community of people as: "Julia does not care about correctness". There's an open triage meeting that happens every other week, where all new issues are discussed and triaged. There is a fairly detailed and well-defined release process. I don't believe people are holding back on filing bugs, because they are waiting for us to solicit.
Switzerland is dense enough that if you go underground "only where needed"... you end up underground.
ETH has crashed from $4800 to $1200. That's a pretty terrible crash unless you consider that the current price is still a roughly 10X gain from March 2020.

Volatility works both ways and the press often doesn't consider that, especially in bear markets. The reason companies are still involved is because they do consider it.
There is a legitimate question here. A lot of comments are trashing this post because his/her name is already all over the internet. But European laws have the 'right to be forgotten'. Aka you can write to Google and have your personal information removed, should you so wish. How might we address this with a GPT3 like model?
I believe there was a long period (decade) of economic depression, entry into the EU then opened up a huge new market for former Warsaw Pact countries. It is worth noting that East / Central Europe economic development remains very uneven - Romania, Bulgaria both pretty much economic basket cases