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Vitalik does indeed value simplicity and it's one of Ethereum's core design principles

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/147740277221558682...
F1, cycling, soccer, NASCAR, cricket, …

They all have their fans and their critics who think it’s a boring sport.

I don’t follow F1, but based on a bunch of people in my Twitter feed, they finished one of the most exciting seasons in years.
Apple wants to make sure that all websites work on their phones out of the box the horror.

Like take the alternative world where the first thing you have to do after setting up your iPhone is installing Chrome because developers found it less effort to just target Chrome. Are we better off?
Parent’s comment stayed neutral, but the homes and area that were destroyed weren’t from some random population. In almost every cases it’s poorer and/or minority neighborhoods that were run over and/or separated from the rest of the town by a huge highway, with redlining making sure they don’t come back the other side.

“connecting communities” only applies to some specific flavor of communities, and the ROI mostly benefited these specific groups as well.
An early pioneer in the scientific study of musical sounds was Hermann von Helmholtz@; his mid-1880s work (short name Sensations of Tone) is a classic. [https://archive.org/details/onsensationston01helmgoog/page/n...]

Short story, he used 'resonators' to pick out the partial tones that are found in complex timbres, more here: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(music)#Partia...] I read parts of it closely to grasp the details of what's meant by 'timbre' ... why a trumpet sounds different from a violin (or, for that matter, one violin from another!) Really useful if you want to get into sound design.
This paper is nonsense. The workloads presented aren't what wear levelling was designed for. You might have files on your hard drive which are written to many times per second. This includes some log files (e.g. a web server access log), some types of database files, as well as sometimes access time on files you just read (unless you set noatime on your file system, which is a really good idea). Wear levelling was implemented because drives *were* failing, quickly (in a few months).

An attacker, if they targetted this, might be able to break your SSD in about 15 minutes, just by writing the same block over and over. That might even be possible with careful engineering of things like browser storage.

With wear levelling, I've *never* had an SSD wear out. Almost no matter the write amplification and access pattern, they *won't* wear out. A typical SLC drive will be able to handle 100,000 writes. Writing 1TB at 300MB/sec is about an hour. 100,000 hours is about 11 years, of writing data at pretty close to peak SATA capacity. That doesn't mean they won't fail, but not like that.

Making an open source SSD, and implementing a sane layer with things like capacity variance and a file system designed for SSDs makes complete sense, but not for crazy reasons like this one. A good reason, which I think was first raised by Alan Cox (or another of the kernel developers), is that some techniques designed to make hard drives reliable to power failures have the opposite effect on SSDs. SSDs write in larger blocks, and an interrupted write can wipe out unrelated data.
What I find remarkable are the discrete logic hardware designs for early Atari games like Pong, Tank, Le Mans, etc. - no microprocessors! Special circuits for game functions like background, sound, score, explosions, etc..

https://archive.org/details/ArcadeGameManualTankii

Apparently Tank (the #1 arcade game of 1974) saved Atari from bankruptcy. It was developed by Kee games, a fake "competitor" that was actually a subsidiary of Atari: https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/20/ign-presents-the-his...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_Games

A compelling feature of these games is that they all had unique and engaging physical controls like paddle dials (Pong), dual sticks (Tank), and steering wheel/pedals/gear shift (Le Mans.)
The places you listed have compulsory license laws. The US does not.

Why would a pharma company collude with insurers in one country and no others?
The one most iconic for me was the Concorde crash.
I have more than a decade of experience in SWE and a resume that boasts big tech names. If you hired me based on my GitHub, I would not have a job.

Truth be told, I haven’t used public git since undergrad (for assignments). I don’t do extra curricular projects. Mostly because I don’t have the time to. I’ve never had it, except maybe the first year of my professional experience. All the free time I have if any, goes towards other projects that I do at work. And honestly, I am okay with that. Building a portfolio takes a lot of time, and it becomes irrelevant real fast. It is also, a waste of time.
I wasn’t talking about GC in general, but the GC in Dlang. With the GC turned off in D you can’t use most of the standard library.

You can certainly use the std without relying on GC in languages like Rust, Swift, etc, but the important thing is that you can’t in D. I’m sure it can be technically done, but nobody has actually put the effort to do it.
I played with both, and was indeed surprised with how good the USDA dataset was. For most scenarios, you can get away with even their "Foundation Foods" database. Users can use the foundation foods to approximate various meals, and it usually has better accuracy
Disclaimer: I have no inside knowledge.

I _suspect_ it's two things:

Firstly, as you suggest, is a lack of economies of scale, startup expenses, high R&D costs, etc. Existing car companies can do a lot of the EV manufacturing with known techniques, existing machinery, etc.

But secondly, at least Telsa has an absurdly high profit margin compared with traditional high-volume models. They're taking the luxury route of a smaller sales volume, higher per-unit costs, and making a good profit off each vehicle.

In short .. because they can.
Not to mention actually using this schema ends up being really verbose since you have to do a bunch of joins. Additionally, besides being verbose, these joins can wreak havoc with the optimizer since join optimization is exponential. The optimizer might play nicely and just join all these on the ID column in whatever query you're doing, but that is very dependent on how the optimizer understands the input queries. Having a single table instead of 3 limits the number of ways the optimizer can think about a particular query.
Why are you even asking this question? You come off as someone who is trying to "game" their image to appear more credible to others. If credibility is your sole aspiration, you'll probably never achieve it. Just make something, if it's good you'll gain credibility and if it's not then you'll just have to try again.

In case you're actually just curious, why not ask yourself? Do you respect authors of books you've read more than the authors of apps you use?
My company used to do this as default (pre-wfh and other changes), now no-one really thinks of it as a possibility which is a shame.

I was junior for most of that time and I think "use a totally different approach" or "change these 10 things" can sting a lot less that way. Your mistakes aren't all in black and white for the world to see, people can tell when you get something and don't end up patronising you, but you can also blur the lines a bit between "hey, what do you think of this, not sure" and "I think this code is 100% ready for merge and officially request permission to do so" - like, I know there are going to be comments, pretending otherwise will just make it worse.

Most of the time you'd get a review immediately too, less complicated structure then so one approval was usually enough, and it made sense for that to be high priority in my mind - this task is one step away from being done, I don't mind being interrupted.

The only thing is when I was the reviewer, it maybe went a bit too far one-sided learning experience, sometimes comments would get brushed under the carpet without much explanation/there was an assumption I'd approve.
Leetcode Considered Harmful
Fake excuse to avoid coming under anti-trust fire. No one should fall for it.
https://www.openstreetmap.org
I think, these are all criteria of seamlessness, something, which an artificial composition must manage as well. Images, on the other hand lack the temporal dimension, variations in tempo, musical tones and scale, emotional impact, etc, which are crucial to seamlessness and continuity in music. The problem really arises with framing, composition, readable intent and motivation, i.e., general terms of expression – and image generation doesn't exactly shine here, as well.

(The answer to any motivational questions will probably always be, "strongest signal". An artistic motivation will probably never be to just express the strongest signal in a common cultural context, rather, it will be contrast and interpretation. Otherwise, we should start worrying about that given society.)
I think on the whole America is in decline quite a bit. We don’t see it yet in terms of GDP or economic output, but the politics have changed considerably over the years and that is going to have a lasting impact. Mitch McConnell is singly responsible for this. One party doesn’t vote for the other party’s initiatives, not even one vote. If anyone votes they are targeted and primaried. We don’t realize it but this is what happens on a much worse scale in poor countries as the only objective in those countries for poliiticians is to siphon money for themselves. Getting things done is never on the cards. We are on that same path.
It really depends on the quality of the book / app. Anyone can do either. But doing either with a high quality bar is something else again. I’d probably say it’s a tie.

If I’m hiring, though, a high quality app beats a book hands down. A book doesn’t tell me much about your ability to actually build production software.
Obviously depends on what the book is, or what the app is. But a book is more impressive to me because if I took a random app on the App store, and a random book on Amazon, I would expect the book to represent more of a commitment on the author's part.
> I do not consider a server rendered page that then uses HTMX (or "just" jQuery) to do partial refreshes or given areas of interactivity to be a SPA.

Why not? HTMX is itself a framework right? The distinction between SPA and MPA that the article gives (and that I agree with) is that MPA's delegate routing and page transitions to the browser. This naturally leads to less control (which makes the best case MPA worse than SPA), but also less complexity (which makes the average case MPA better than SPA)
It won't occur immediately after the elided check, that's exactly the problem. It will allow the I/O to occur first. Now imagine if that was a database update.
I’m thrilled to have learned about this. Good, public allergy info is a godsend. Love considering it’s possibilities for diet and cooking apps too.
In my annectdotal experience the same people who tout wanting to support and hire from a diverse pool of applicants to not miss the next Einstein, don't extend that logic into the Unborn.

I think the way we are likely to solve our greatest issues like climate change through having more smart, well-educated, well-raised, and loved children. So if you're privileged enough to have the capacity to raise such children it's probably one of the greatest things you can do for the future health of this planet (and if you still feel torn about the overall population rate you can still apply this logic to adoption).

If all the altruistic people depopulate themselves, then only the least altruistic will remain.
No offense and you shouldn't follow advice of internet strangers, but who gave you any advice in this thread?

Also, you never said you are a kidney stone patient. Just to be clear, are you? Is that why you're staying away from potatoes? Because you didn't say you are and I figured you were avoiding potatoes as a precaution against developing kidney stones.
Straight from the horse's mouth! Thank you, I didn't know about this.
> * You posted it during a time of day when the site receives less traffic, and it scrolled too far down or off the New page for people to see it and vote it up. (Looks like you posted during lunch time on the US west coast, so maybe this isn't likely.)

Looks like it's UTC, so early Saturday morning vs after lunch Monday.

> * When you posted, there was other big news or something going on that people were absorbed in, and didn't notice your post.

Roe v Wade
few things impact this

1. Force to sell due to medicare or other end of life expenses (you can not have any assets if you need full time nursing care paid for by medicare)

2. the "Reverse mortgage" people fall for.

3. Baby Boomers, a Single Asset split 5-8 ways does not go far

4. the houses owned really were not that good. My Grandparents owned their home, bought it right after WWII, the house was a small 2 bed 1 bath they raised 4 kids in... It is still in the family but it is out-dated by modern standards.

that is 4, I am sure there are others
NIMBY is the least of the problems. The real problem is the private sector that exists to siphon money off the government spending. They amplify the cost of each initiative many times, making it utterly ineffective to invest in any infrastructure.

There is a reason why China's infrastructure industry is largely state-owned or dominated. It prevents such profiteering.
IIRC they said they had to stop trading to go investors for more cash to avoid being leveraged too far.

To me that implied they were at risk.
You are a monkey brain. It is not the case you should replace your monkey brain value system with some "better" value system.

Or rather, if you choose to replace your monkey brain value system with some better value system, such choice can be made only under your monkey brain value system. Value-system-yet-to-be-adopted is not your value system yet (entire question is about whether it should be your value system) and can't be the basis of your choice. (Yes, humans often make mistakes here, but that's because humans are vulnerable to circular reasoning, not because circular reasoning is valid.)
> on today's systems

BIND still supports critical internet infrastructure on less capable hardware.
The answer depends on where you live. If you're based in California: you could subscribe to a mailbox service to keep your address off the public record and use a California LLC as the operating company for your business. You need to disclose either Members or Managers. Choose the latter and use a New Mexico LLC as a management company (they are often used for this purpose as they are cheap to form and maintain and you can stay anonymous to everyone but the IRS and your registered agent service provider), et voilà, you're in business without any public link between your identity and your company.
It should be noted that such an environment has been extremely common back when C was designed, and for a couple decades thereafter. This isn't something new that has just been sprung up unexpected on C coders.
> And, if you can, please, limit the use of anything that can hold a NULL.

I'm curious: what's the alternative to NULL? I'm struggling to think of a database where NULL wouldn't be super useful. It feels like NULL as a concept is almost required, but I think you're suggesting that's a faulty assumption.

Would love to hear more about this.
That's not really fair. Except for support for color models / spaces, gimp was basically on-par with Photoshop when it came out. Toss in 16 bit color, LAB color, and CMYK, and the two were nearly identical. gimp had better scripting too.

The key difference is Photoshop has continuously improved, in part due to competitive pressure from tools like gimp. In the meantime, gimp development slowed sometime around 2000, and basically stopped by around 2008, at least from a user-facing perspective. Today, gimp is still very competitive with late-nineties Photoshop (even a bit ahead).
A crackpipe or some used needles.

I’d also welcome you to perform the locals’ favorite activity:

Walk into a store and grab $900 worth of items and just walk out with them.
Ask HN: How do I get started on Hacker News?
Hi!

I'm completely new to HN and I have no idea how to get started.

I submitted a couple of posts on a website I'm building, but I'm unable to see them on the "new" section when I'm logged out of my account.

Are there certain requirements before you can post something on the site?

Does anyone know any good resources on how to get started on HN?

Thanks in advance!
Crypto Exchange CoinFlex to Issue Tokens After Withdrawal Freeze
Ghost (~$5M annual revenue).

https://ghost.org/about/
The point was that the GitHub should not be used which he said up front -_-
If preventing covert entry and modification is important to you, consider this unpickable lock to go with your tamper evident glitter

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31880108
iirc, F1 cars today all use brake steering.
Frescoes from the time of Hadrian unveiled at ancient Roman baths
Ooh this is interesting! Which team was this? Care to share any more information on developing Jaguar games?
I don't like them either, but things are a lot more manageable if:

- you require that the submodule always move forward (reverts are not allowed; you must fix the submodule and get something there first)
- the submodule commit must always be reachable from the configured branch (`submodule.NAME.branch` in `.gitmodules`)
- you require that commit be in the first parent history of the branch

This makes conflict resolution trivial (the last prevents MR heads conflicting because the first-parent history linearizes and requires that "A contains B" be true in one pairing).

Without these requirements, it is really a wild west of insanity IME. Much better just to use the dependency mechanisms of whatever tools you use (assuming they exist).
CA has a nexus of software engineers, and dot com capital

Not Civil, Mechanical, or other engineers.

Also venture capital has no interest in fighting 1000's environmental lawsuits and 10,000's of pointless regulations designed to stop any construction or development that would improve CA
This was rather a historical joke, in order to provide some cognitive dissonance. (Assuming, the background of this "hate symbol" interpretation is something like Prager U. I really can't think of any other source for this than the developing culture wars and certain talking points by certain institutions, i.e., "we hate them, hence, they must have hated us first, thus, this has to be illegal".)

Historically, the three-arrows symbol emerged in 1932 as a symbol of resistance against the NSDAP and was adopted as the official symbol of the German social-democratic party (SPD) that same year. It symbolises an equidistance from the NSDAP, the communist KPD, and monarchism. In this context, it was decried as a symbol of a "social fascist terror organisation" by the KPD, while conservative parties hedged fears of a people's front at that very same time. It was also adopted by social-democrats in other countries, e.g. by the SPÖ in Austria (also 1932).

Wikipedia cites a slogan "neither Stalin's slaves nor Hitler's henchmen" in the context of this symbol. This is as much "hate" as you may get from this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Arrows

BTW, the social-democrat three-arrows symbol is three parallel arrows pointing downwards left inside a circle, while the Three Arrows Capital logo is three arrows fanning out and pointing to the upper right, intersected by a quadrant of a circle. Where the former is blocky and in uniform color (most often white on red), the latter is multicolored and drawn in fine lines. The two symbols have about nothing in common.
Practically every major city with an Interstate has what is called a bypass, typically at least two. These look like a ring around the city in most cases and are (typically) the even numbered 3 digit interstates.

The bypasses are almost always faster to take if you're just moving on through to the other edge of town. These would have been totally sufficient in almost all cases w/o plowing the Interstate itself through/near the downtown cores in addition to the bypasses.
When you assemble a car, you generally don't put together the engine at the same time. You get the engine as completed unit, and put it where it goes (with a hoist or so) and bolt it down, etc. Sure, there's an assembly line somewhere else putting together engines, but electric vehicle assembly doesn't assemble the electric motor(s) during vehicle assembly either.

EV batteries take up a lot of space and that likely complicates assembly. My plugin hybrid has about 20 miles of EV only range, and loses 5 cubic feet of storage for the extra battery vs the hybrid model; 5 cubic feet is about 37.4 gallons.

I suspect battery costs are higher than you think.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Flurry of Calls Among Saudi Staff and Spy Coincided with 9/11 Hijackers’ Arrival
Coca-Cola definitely isn't the same everywhere.
I was initially agreeing with you until I read this point "Google respects your privacy. We access your private content only when we have your permission or are required to by law."

They specifically spell out themselves.
Improve Docker volume performance on macOS with a RAM disk
This is great, my thanks!
I'm (slightly) involved with a food bank, and they come to grocery stores regularly to pick up food the store can't or prefers not to sell. Much of it is processed to some degree (breads, especially), so this is great.
I'm sorry I wrote it in such a way to give you that idea. I fully agree with "explicitly nurture [growth and expertise] in the environment you create."
I think this is an interesting but my immediate question is how much are the color matrices affected by normal shipping?

If your intention is to be able to detect tampering during shipping but shipping always causes some disturbance then it probably deserves some discussion?
Certainly every syllable he utters needs to be reported on. I hope we get his take on his favorite organic catsup before barbecue season is over.

If he's right, he's not responsible for anything he does, and therefore cannot be criminal. He's smart enough to know that. Therefore this is not a simulation.
> No one knows I do this.

Apple sure does :)
I zeroed in on that comment too.

I've never really considered myself a 'gamer' (despite now working in the industry) but Tempest was my first favorite arcade game back in the day. I'm surprised there hasn't been an evolution of that game in some way/shape/form. Or perhaps there has been and I just haven't seen it.
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It doesn't take much to make a visually interesting image. Even if DALL-E was incapable of recreating human subjects, it would still be pretty interesting to treat as a black-box of interesting images. I don't really feel like music is the same. Even if you can recreate "the sound" of a song or the general style, you're not considering arrangement, listener fatigue, transitions, instrumentation or mixing. It's just making a rough sketch of some music, which sounds strange relative to the deliberately-composed arrangements we hear on a regular basis.

My gut says it's mostly the first bit, though. We probably just have a lower entertainment threshold for randomized images.
At the end of the day, I'm very thankful that other people are working/solving things like this so that I just write whatever high-level code I want to get something I need done now. I have lots of respect for this level of dev'ing effort so I can use the system as a tool like a person driving a car without knowing how internal combustion works. I consider it a version of standing on the shoulders of giants.