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To me its like watching Star Trek and you say to yourself, “How could the Federation not know about this planet?” and then next week “What a whole OTHER civilization??”

But there really are maybe 2000 weird sub-worlds in tech that are a big deal to people in them and almost unknown outside. So you see a lot of posts that are like “Oh we’ve just dropped version 39 of Gryptorflux, so it the beginning of a new era” and you look and there are 50,000 users of Gryptorflux and Electronic Arts is sponsoring it and you’ve never even heard of it before today.

I don’t have anxiety because I know that my world of Context-Driven Software Testing looks weird and obscure to almost everyone, too. The reason I am here is to pick up clues, not conquer the universe.
Light mode for me, always. I just lower the brightness level in night/dark settings and when in bed.

I actually had to learn advanced config editor in Firefox to stop websites from forcing dark mode without alternative.
Do you have prime? The logged-in version is fulfilled by Amazon and shows a guaranteed prime delivery date for me that's several days in front of the cheaper one (which I can see if I hit the "New & Used" offers button while still logged in).

I think what's happening here is it's defaulting to showing you the cheapest offer that's prime eligible while you're logged in and have prime - but the cheapest overall offer (which isn't prime) when you're not. I see the same behavior on my end.
Do you have some examples of things in here that you think will help you solve current problems?

I'm approaching it from the angle that I don't see how functional programming is at all useful for the kind of gameplay programming that would be done in a "metaverse" or is done in Unreal Engine today. So "it can do functional programming stuff" by itself doesn't cause any excitement. Rather the opposite. There are zero code examples of using it for anything besides abstract math. It executing code out of order seems to serve no purpose besides letting people create undecipherable monstrosities with it.

I'd maybe sum up this presentation as "we took functional programming and tried to make it less unusable by letting you actually mutate state" but I'm still lacking the original motivation of why I'd want to use that in the first place.
Python's standard library includes many modules for specialised applications and yet it's surprisingly lacking in fundamental data structures and algorithms. Personally I think that's the wrong way round. Simple things like building dicts from different data structures or working with optional values that can be something or None just aren't there and you always seem to end up with some kind of utils.py full of hand-written functions to do these things that everyone writes again every time when they would have been either built into the syntax or a one-liner using the standard library in some other languages.

I agree that the C++ example is (one reason) why modern C++ has jumped the shark.
Are there any people left who fully understand Manhattan* from top to bottom?

If not, they already have a short- to longterm problem unless they find something in the OSS community with the same characteristics.

*) https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2014/manhattan-...
I only ever saw an hourly contract once in my entire time in that industry and it took 2-3 weeks to sort out due to the fact that HR had never done one before at a pretty large-sized dev shop.

In all the places I worked there was an informal crunch period and then a very explicit one. Even during one of the formal crunch period I would catch shit for leaving at 10pm even though I was in at 8am. There was definitely a visibility aspect that if you were staying till 1-2am and rolling in at noon that was considered that you were contributing "more". There's a couple shops that do a decent job but large swaths of the industry are completely dysfunctional.

There's also a confirmation bias where if a successful game ships with crunch it is perceived as one of the contributing factor to their success and then further drives crunch across the industry.
You know like in lamps or light fixtures. Get the right color temperature for your surroundings and needs and what not.

For example, for some deranged reason I felt that it was appropriate to have my entire study engulfed in Daylight lightbulbs. The three bulbs in the ceiling fan and the tall lamp next to my desk. Daylight. I must have figured, “Man, I do a lot of reading”, or something like that. Daylight.

This went on for quite sometime. I would often receive comments about how the lamp would serve better for interrogations, but I kept on with this setup until I got a monitor for my laptop. This required a non-impeding alteration to the layout of my desk. The height and bend of the lamp had to be changed, I had to change how I sat to accommodate how I looked at the monitor, or when I was using both the laptop and monitor. Stuff like that.

It wasn’t until my right eye began to feel dry that I decided to make a change. So I spent some time learning how to choose the right lightbulb. I did not need daylight. I was not in a restroom or operating a security camera. I needed something warmer. So I got something warmer and I use Lunar.
Huge fan! Really enjoyed your podcast talking about SQLite with Richard Hipp and Apple 2001 with David Shayer.
I think I often prefer dark mode; but some user interfaces just get it wrong, and I find it harder to "get" the topography of the application windows.
Maxar says it covers "60% of Earth’s surface monthly" [1]. But it's one thing to fly over a place, another to allocate bandwidth, compute and analysts to beam down, process and analyze images of it.

[1] https://www.maxar.com/constellation
I really wish that everyone who was investing this much time into design systems would implement the primitives as Web Components.

It's trivial to wrap Web Components to work with pretty much any framework, and most support them out of the box.

It's hard or impossible to go the other direction though.

Also, you get bound to framework versions and end up in the endless upgrade hamster wheel.
Battle for Wesnoth?
This isn't a dupe of the Oxford castle story: it's a second effective altruism castle. This time near Prague.

Imagine you're walking to work. You see a child drowning in a lake. You're about to jump in and save her when you realize you'd ruin the Effective Altruism castle rug if you returned to HQ wet and muddy.
There seems to be more money in not doing it. Why sell something permanent, when you can sell the treatment again and again to each generation?

So if we want to start getting cynical we could suppose that there are shadowy forces trying to prevent the development of this technology.
Yes, the unprecedented macroeconomic calamity that caused market-wide car prices to appreciate was not sustainable and is no longer happening.
Nothing sticks really well to polypropylene, unfortunately. But the fiberglass cloth lets you spread the adhesive out across a wider area. You can use whatever epoxy might work (somewhat) better with polypropylene with the same cloth.
Sadly, there's more than a few folks working in the gaming industry that consider "crunch time" something to be proud about (it's an annual event for some franchises).
I am aware that genocide is a disputed term in this context. I lean towards it because the famine disproportionately affected Ukrainians (and Kazakhs) and was at least in part not mitigated intentionally to punish minorities with a stronger anti-Soviet sentiment.
Did you really just try to do an SEO boost here...
When you want to make a mainstream language you will have better luck by focusing on bringing value to the users of the language over focusing on creating something novel.
Err, I think I was thinking of mini-leds (edited in). Which are the ones that, for example, Apple uses in their laptops?
> Also, Land Cruiser has apparently been discontinued

For those not from the US like myself, this is only the case in the US. I'm sure we'll still get plenty down under.
Clearly all the people complaining have never made a typo in their lives, and are unable to deal with the horrible inconvenience of having to actually deal with one!
I think somewhere around 2K/XP was the pinnacle, Vista was too much graphical bling and bloaty, while 7 toned it back a bit, but 8 is when the decline really started being noticeable.
Newsom signs bill intended to end discrimination against LGBTQ people
Famously written in Haskell
Most dating apps have a webapp so you could just make a chrome extension.

There is no need to train the aim it's more than capable already. You just need to prompt it to write a romantic note in response to what they said to you
Nope, only Diablo Immortal.
It seems more than likely that multiple of those will occur since we as a species tend not to change our behavior if a large enough profit/cost is involved.
"We will probably go on solving our problems by borrowing from the future until we are forced by the consequences of our own behavior to change." Octavia E. Butler
One major issue is really drug production. MDMA produced just in brabant makes its way all across europe. MDMA is illegal in the netherlands already.

Also prostitution is legal in most of europe, its only notable in the netherlands to tourists because of the red light district in amsterdam. Keeping it legal and socially tolerated helps reduce human trafficing.
This seems like wild speculation.
Assets aren't zero sum because you can produce more cars, etc.

Money is zero sum because almost all money is created through debt. Sum up all money and debt and you get roughly zero excluding central bank money and cash.

Money being backed by debt makes sense because it solves the "acceptance problem", that is, how do you make sure the money you have can actually buy things?

Of course that means there is no limit to how much money there is in the system.
Soviet products might not have been very pretty, but they were made with durability and, indeed, quality in mind. The electrical components from the Soviet era are still working. Any mechanical/metallic stuff is very solid.

Yeah, designs were utilitarian. And they had to make a million of everything. But there was no good reason to aim for low quality.

Counter that with any product of capitalism, huh: buy a shiny thing and wait for it to break in 2 years.

Not trying to glorify communism, but what you said in your comment is complete bullshit mixed with questionable sentiment.
Surprised about the syntax. Curlies still hold a lot of power :)
I guess it's because metaverse funds it? So it has to tie to metaverse in some angle.
Your own eyes uses many neurons to transport the images to your brain where it is processed.

Neurons may be hacked so blind persons can see through a device.

The abstraction is more easily done by placing a screen in front of the eye so no invasive surgery is needed while images from far away cameras can be presented to the brain.

Disclaimer: I don't believe in metaverse and do not work for meta.
The 12.9” iPad is basically a 13” Macbook Air. Frankly I rather use the 12.9” screen and portability over my 14” Macbook Pro. The iPads are also more rugged when you pair it with a case.
A cool thing about this in Erlang (which I think is the same in Prolog) is that the = operator works almost exactly how you would have expected: it binds the value but then it asserts the binding’s equality. So once you’ve established x = 7, x = 8 is actually an error! Because you’re right, it doesn’t make sense that at one point x = 7 and later the same x = 8!
Holodomor was not genocide.

Communists were internationalists and judged people based on their social class, not nationality. Many areas of the USSR, including in Russia proper, did experience precisely the same level of suffering and death from hunger.

Also, food requisitions in Ukraine which led to Holodomor were organised and conducted by native Ukrainians. It is easy to look up that most senior party and NKVD posts in 1932-33 in Ukrainian SSR were held by Ukrainians - how many posts in Gestapo were held by Jews? For some reason Hitler didn't put Jews in charge of the Holocaust.

It was not a systemic attempt also: if the USSR leaders wanted to kill of all Ukrainians, for some reason they didn't do it systematically at all, year after year. Maybe they didn't want to kill all Ukrainians, after all?

Holodomor, hunger in all other parts of the USSR, Stalin's terror were all the result of the Soviet rule, deeply rooted in class struggle ideology and complete disregard for human life. A lot of people died of hunger simply because Stalin needed to export food taken from them to pay for his Industrialization. No, nationality did not play a role in choosing whom to plunder. Food requisitioners took food from whoever they could find.

If you want a real genocide example perpetrated by the USSR, it is the Chechen expulsion. Systematic, not led by Chechens, ban on settlement remained for many decades. Holodomor was neither targeted only at Ukrainians, was led in Ukraine by Ukrainians, was not systemic, was never a policy of any kind.
I disagree. Unless there’s some smarter way to do this, I use the commit messages to find the kinds of historical changes I’m curious about. I want to know what changed. I’m not sure how one would do this unless they’re looking at every commit.

The “why” goes into the PR and more importantly, engineering documentation and inline comments.

Plus, a commit message seems woefully plain and too short to properly communicate these things.

The beauty is that this isn’t prescribed. We can all do what makes sense for our contexts.
This was certainly true in CRT times, but since the advent of LCD I prefer light mode, and it is easier on my eyes (as long as the brightness matches the ambient light). Only with OLED do I prefer dark mode, at night, at least on mobile devices (haven’t used an OLED desktop yet).
Isn't the "weak guy becomes tough guy" power fantasy make the majority of the manga market, at least in the west?

Manga and anime is very diverse, and yet, only the "shounen" style seems to represented, and that's not even the full spectrum of what shounen has to offer. I don't know much about manhwa, maybe there is more depth to what we are served, or maybe it is just that they just focused on what is commercially successful.
I am somewhat familiar with that project - it's close but it isn't the true emulator we've been trying to achieve for a long time.
科挙 was somewhat imported but it seems that now there are just less competition compared to China/Korea (except richer parents in metropolis). Perhaps that's part of a reason why their birth rate is lower.
> Is there even anyone out there who thought the site would just stop working

Yes, there were many authoritatively claiming this on here and Twitter.

The goalposts for failure will continue to move, though, and we’ll just pretend no one ever claimed those things.
True, but one of the things I loved of Solo Leveling (it's finished, right?) is that some times the colors are AMAZING, like there were some panels where I would just stop and get lost in the art for a bit, while that rarely happened to me with black and white manga. Even when it DID happen with manga, it's literally missing an order of magnitude, so IMHO peak manga B&W can barely compare with peak full-color art (and I'm not even saying Solo Leveling is top-level color art, what I'm saying is that it's "very good" and with that it beats "top level" B&W any day IMHO).
Nuclear power plant in a box. They’re already being commercialized.
A couple of caveats about the IRA. Firstly, an Act does nothing in itself. Everything depends on execution, and whether or not forecasts of the Acts effects were good. I know I'm stating the obvious there, but it gets papered over frequently when Congressional victories are declared. Secondly, the US is only one nation. The most influential in terms of global ethos-and-markets-setting, yes, but there's a whole world out here.

I don't personally believe much will improve globally without stronger global governance. I also think the latter is possible, but unlikely within the next couple of centuries. And we probably will be well and truly fucked by then.
Yes, I refer to this as cognitive dissonance. You know that something isn't right, and you can't readily think of an innocent explanation that really holds up, but it's possible to ignore in the short term because you can work around it or it's not a complete show stopper. Those things almost always seem to eventually come back to bite you!
> Just 1% of all investments go to black, latino or women.

This isn't even close to true. Do some research and update it. You lost all credibility when I saw that.

Also, have a link to the source code.

And publish your real name!

We always need more competition, so I applaud you for going for it, but you have to go for it. And be honest.
Sure it is. Suing gun manufacturers set a precedent for the misuse of their products.
Every swing tutorial out there starts with a good old:

c = new Container()
w = new Widget()
c.add(w)
w.addActionListener(
…200 bytes of a functor boilerplate…
)

Also I don’t know java well, but variable/keyed arguments and closures like in python do not exist there, to my knowledge.

Am I missing something, or maybe you meant something else?
The car vending machines are such a monument to failure, at least here in the Chicago area where all the ones I see are totally empty.
ZIRP gonna ZIRP
> I guess at least if they go bankrupt they can finally assume no one is coming for the cash...

My expectation would be that the liquidator is immediately going to start chasing those people, hard. Carvana may not be competent to organise collecting monies owed, but the folks managing bankruptcy? Hell no.
As an aside, amazon absolutely sucks for ordering shoes in my experience. Even when there is a "store" from a shoe company, it seems like there is always very limited selection. YMMV, my experience is mostly with running shoes. I now don't even bother looking at amazon and go right to the manufacturer's site. Though I expect this is happening with more and more products.
I know this Nigerian Prince...
The key point in that thread is the UI/UX designers don't use Windows and use Macs.

...which explains the disturbing similarity between macOS 13's System Settings and the same in Windows 11.
> The problem seems to be that they sold too many cars with a negative margin. I've heard stories of people selling their cars sight unseen to Carvana for above market value and it seems they were left holding too many cars as the second hand car market normalized and prices decreased.

How did a bunch of paid professionals in their leadership not see this coming/account for this happening?
So the solution is to axe a large portion of the staff, burn established advertisers and alienate a large portion of the user base? Seems more like a playbook to torpedo the company.
Is that only ICE or could it include hybrids?
Doubling your money -- three years in a row -- would get you to $800,000. That's asking a lot. I think the only way to do it is make a lot of high-risk investments, and hope some of them pay off.

But I also think we're undervaluing the possibility of just hanging on to $100,000.
Is the Tundra Hybrid even available yet? I love my 2007 but that thirsty V8 gets awful gas mileage.
It's pretty obvious that you're using ChatGPT to make this post. The writing style and phrasing are too perfect and don't sound like a normal human writing. It's disappointing to see people resort to using language models to pass off their content as their own. Let's keep the conversation on HackerNews authentic and not resort to using AI to cheat the system.

Not only is it unethical to use AI to make posts on HackerNews, but it also undermines the quality of the content on the platform. By using ChatGPT to generate posts, you're not contributing anything valuable to the conversation. Instead, you're just cluttering up the site with generic and unoriginal content. I encourage you to put in the effort to write your own posts and contribute to the community in a meaningful way.

Using AI to generate posts also goes against the spirit of HackerNews. This platform is meant to be a place for technologists and entrepreneurs to share their knowledge and experiences, not for machines to take over. If we continue to allow the use of language models like ChatGPT to generate content, it could eventually lead to a majority of the posts on the site being fake. This would not only ruin the experience for users, but it could also harm the reputation of HackerNews as a whole. I urge the moderators to take action and enforce strict policies against the use of AI to generate posts. Let's keep HackerNews a human-powered platform.
> For better or worse, usually it’s a licence or contract that exists to artificially limit your ability to copy.

I can assure you I didn't have to issue manual licenses or make manual copies for the millions of downloads that my open source software had this year. When someone downloaded it, no one found it missing from their project.

> once it’s sold you’ll need to paint a new one

Hence is not zero-sum, I can keep making them and the amount of assets keep increasing (non-zero sum). Zero-sum means that "whatever is gained by one side is lost by the other." By creating a new painting nothing is lost.
> It should be a lot easier now with modern tech.

The engine design is 41 years old. Older than many people reading this.
Now here comes a completely unreasonable (maybe not) idea: Democratized budget.

Every year tax payers specify where their tax money goes. 50% of their taxes will go directly where they decreed it be. The other 50% and any debt can be allocated by the congress.

There should also be options of "Let congress handle it" and "whatever the previous years makeup was" and options to adjust from there.

NASA will probably be better funded, by a huge margin.
Buybacks and dividends both return capital to shareholders. In each case, the board and management are making the conscious choice to return capital rather than reinvest in the business. Mostly because they don't have a good internal investment to make that will generate returns. Investors can diversify and risk allocate for themselves.

Dividends are nothing like bond coupons. Coupons are guaranteed, tax treatment for both payor and payee is quite different.
This is the kind of thing people who see cars as appliances go 55 in the left lane in a Prius (or maybe if you're a homeowner you've traded up to a Tacoma) say.

People buying "100k+ rich man's toy" cars don't care about value for money the way you or I do.

Edit: appeasing nit pickers
But, through amazing coincidence, all the bad things the Russian Empire/USSR did were done by Russians while everything good by Ukrainians. It was some kind of magic. E.g. invasions in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Afghanistan - 100% Russians, not a single Ukrainian, even Brezhnev was Russian. Russian mathematicians? 100% Ukrainians, even Euler. Pushkin? He is the grand-grand-father of Bendera himself. Chikatilo? He is actually a cousin of Putin.
I've given up on Activision/Blizzard. The company's creative talent is held hostage by a combination of former cow milkers who have discovered the largely unregulated business of online teen casinos together with a legion of political correctness zealots who render the creative work devoid of any trace of identity so that it can be marketed to every possible type of audience without offending a single peanut.

On an unrelated note, didn't the FTC seek to block the acquisition? https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/12/... The WP article says that it's "set to close" rather ambiguously. Sounds like it won't actually close?
Also a fan of Carmax.

I likely don’t have the skills / patience necessary to get a better deal from a dealership anyway so just buying a car in my price range without the games works pretty well.