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> The game can't be played with higher stakes; the whole point is that
the 2X payoff can only be guaranteed in the first place if the
stakes are too low

Also a good point about how contrived the experiment is. Double your
money is always too good to be true.

> That is the basic reason why these games played in academic settings
are useless for understanding the actual world outside academia.

I am always wary of assumed dichotomies between "the real world" and
"academia". Please let me try to explain why I tire of that jaded
trope...

Actually there's three domains of interest here. There is "academia",
which is indeed a cloistered madhouse of egotistical and socially
stunted Luftmensch. And there is the world outside it.. which is often
deflated into something like "Industry" - to which people attach
pompous tags like "the real world". Rot. I've worked in both and
neither encompass the "real world". Neither capture the reality of the
Favela, the terminal cancer ward, the battlefield.... Both are
microcosms with big ideas about their own scope.

Thirdly, separate and distinct there is the abstract mathematical
world of Game Theory, being neither the academy nor the factory
boardroom, but a non-existent and inscrutable world of equations and
theories. It makes few if any claims. One may derive utility from it,
apply it, or not.
What are the practical steps to this outcome. Presume this becomes law. Then do we need a person with standing to bring a case? Is there some other mechanism? Does CJEU rule without a case? How does this happen and more importantly, how long does it take. If the process is weeks or months, we may stand a chance. If it's years, the damage will have been done with a generation of compliant (broken) products and hundreds of millions of people deprived of privacy.
You are incorrect that there's no infra to secure people with clearances. WRT your second point, 'all the data is out there' is an awful argument.

The solution is simple: if you want to do business with or in the United States, you must respect its citizens' rights. There's plenty of other comparable regulatory frameworks; food safety, weapons, etc.
In both those cases you know something happened. If they never pick up - at least you know when you gave up. If they hang up you know and can restart. Both are bad, but better than wondering if you are forgotten.
Except that most of the research part gets done by public universities.
They just do the approval studies
I guess whether Canada or Australia want to be constitutional monarchies or not is up to them, and not my business being neither Canadian nor Australian, but it just seems strange to me for them to allow the monarch anything more than symbolic power.

Then again, I live in Massachusetts, and historically we're...not huge on kings here.
Also if it's of interest, our team building a whole platform-as-a-service around WASM/WebGL/WebGPU to enable game developers to distribute their games and 3D applications directly users online, in the browser. Here's a blog post from last year that we did, which contains links to several more demos:

https://theimmersiveweb.com/blog
Honestly, a really good story well written. Should be read by more people. It's really quite strange how opaque most of these processes are. How they are handled and documented is also quite nuts.
> What do you think?

I'm not convinced the distinction is important enough to warrant anything other than bucketing it under Reverse ETL, and the terms introduced (ELTP and "EL Pairs") I think create less clarity, not more.

> pushes to a location you most likely can't control

Even for internal data hand-offs, this is usually the case. Unless the same team is doing both the ETL work and building the app that's using the output, then the data team is delivering something that was signed-off by the receiving team.

> not prepared to receive raw/unshaped data

So like all Reverse ETL, which requires some sort of integration boundary for data delivery. That could be an API, or a CSV file uploaded to an FTP server, or reading schema'd JSON from Kafka. In every instance, the data team needs to tailor the output specific to the receiver.
What defines a 'glorified blog'? What research did the author do?
Yeah, I'm aware that this is often the arrangement between teacher and student in India or Pakistan. My teacher was Nepali and studied both with his childhood teacher in Kathmandu and also with Suresh Talwalkar in New Delhi. We were actually about exactly the same age when I studied with him (both in our late twenties). So it was a much less formal arrangement because he was not exactly my elder. Also, it was an American setting as he was living around Denver, Colorado in the US.

Regardless, I still felt I owed him a great deal of respect because he took his music very seriously. He was legitimately a virtuoso at Tabla. Truly an amazing player. And I was committed to practicing diligently. Since life in the US didn't permit me to study all day with him, I spent a lot of time finding recordings of performances on Youtube to learn from. As I mentioned, my favorite performer other than my teacher was Anindo Chatterjee. My teacher also knew of Chatterjee and enjoyed his playing as much as I did. Since he was from a younger generation, I don't think he was bothered by my trying to learn from watching other players while I wasn't practicing with him.

Anyhow, nice to see mention of Tabla on Hacker News :).
It is true that games consoles are not on the initial list of gatekeepers.

It is also true that companies don’t need to “integrate”. But they do need to make their services compatible with other third party apps.

Gatekeepers will need to open up various APIs.
Or change teams if that is possible.
too cheap
That's the rule that stuck with me. Because I hate it.
Why couldn't they? Schemas can allow you to have that as part of your schema. E.g. JSON Schema lets you define max and min lengths on variable-sized things. You can avoid all dynamic resizing if you're careful enough.

I'll definitely agree that most things won't fully take advantage of that even if you provide that information, but it is definitely possible to do so.
Keep in mind that number comes from companies spending way more money on sales and marketing than actual RnD. E.g: https://www.ahip.org/news/articles/new-study-in-the-midst-of...

And let’s not forget the part where a lot of costs are also subsidized by taxpayer dollars.
>Yeah, and this is exactly the problem with standards like MISRA C and the reason I will never work on projects like this ever again.

I think it's unfair to point the problem as being with MISRA. MISRA doesn't force you to be 100% compliant with everything there, you're free to pick and choose what you think makes sense for your project and use case and to have your own exception. It's just a set of guidelines, that's it..

The real problem is people(mangers) who don't understand it and want 100% compliance at all cost just because it sounds good and they feel it covers their ass ("nobody ever got fired for being 100% MISRA compliant" /s), instead of investing dev brainstorming time in pruning the list and having a sane review and approval process for exceptions.

It's a problem with moving from engineering mentality to bodyshop mentality.
> Buying legally in the US isn't that hard to make it worth it to buy illegally unless you are a broke teenager

Or unless you have a felony, which would make up a much larger share of illegall firearm purchases than teenagers.
Yeah, I've written stuff like this many times -- mostly producing AST then bytecode, etc. I never really wanted to call it a 'compiler' per se though that's what it is. Because I generally stand in awe of serious optimizing compiler engineers, they have deep domain expertise that is admirable.
If you can encrypt or generate queries, then you can decrypt any order preserving encryption scheme in log_2(n) probes, regardless of the underlying data distribution.

n is the number of possible values. If you want to decrypt all caps strings, then you can decrypt the first character with log_2(26) queries, then the second with another log_2(26) queries, and so on.

If you can only observe the query stream or the disk reads, then you end up paying a constant factor more than that, but not a very large one.

Even if the attacker only has access to data at rest, if you have multiple OPE columns in a table, or if the database has foreign key relationships that link OPE data, you end up leaking all sorts of information about the underlying database.

It's hard to say anything polite about these schemes or the vendors that push them.
US is one of the only countries in the world where you still have to pay US taxes no matter where you live or work and what passports you have, as long as you are a US citizen, and you can't give up US citizenship, which is also a paid process, unless you've paid all taxes.
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I hear you, options would be nice for sure. We'll see if making things more generic is in the cards or not, I guess.
Not surprising, right? I don't know what you expected implicitly asking them to do the arithmetic for you, but I would've assumed not much care would be taken.
Looks really cool. Is there a way to download this for MacOS without having to go through Steam?
I appreciate the details, and I'm not an expert on the history of the interstate.

But for the purposes of my argument, it's irrelevant whether the states did the eminent domain or the federal government. My point is this whole thread is that a higher power did, and localities couldn't do whatever they wanted. Your town couldn't veto the interstate passing through it.

And when the federal government is doing the planning and incentivizing with federal funds, the question of whether the eminent domain was "really" done by the federal government or the states is somewhat academic.

Again, my original point still stands completely: as a general democratic principle, when a higher level of government makes policy that conflicts with lower levels, the higher level wins. The US federal system happens to have more limits around this than most other democracies, but it's still a general principle.
Not sure I'm understanding how to match the images here against Euclid's stated purpose "to investigate how dark matter and dark energy have made our Universe look like it does today."

How is the data being presented here helping us investigate dark matter/energy, which is not in the data?
Do you have a source for that? From a quick Google it doesn't seem to prohibit size_t.

Rule 3-9-2 (which is only advisory) says Typedefs that indicate size and signedness should be used in place of the basic numerical types, but this doesn't prohibit use of size_t.

https://forum.misra.org.uk/thread-1130.html
> Makes you wonder. When will someone in Apple finally win a Nobel prize?

Win what specific version of the Nobel?
It actually did. At a wings place I noticed a total that wasn’t my usual last two digits. I called up the place and they confirmed they had an employee who had been altering tip amounts and also skimming cards. They advised me to call my credit card company and ask for a new card. It is now a well defined muscle memory for me. Therefore for very little effort I get a desirable side effect of easy detection. My teen son currently rolls his eyes when I fill out the receipt but I suspect he’ll adopt the habit in some form over time.
Room-Temperature Superconductor Discovery Is Retracted
"Shilled".

I love how you just dismiss evidence that demonstrates how wrong you are by insulting it.

Go get your 10th booster vaxxie.
Yes, running on a set of heterogenous CPUs presents further challenges, for the program and the thread scheduler. Happily there are no such systems in the cloud, yet.

Most people are running on systems where the CPU capacity varies and they haven't even noticed. For example in EC2 there are 8 victim CPUs that handle all the network interrupts, so if you have an instance type with 32 CPUs, you already have 24 that are faster than the others. Practically nobody even notices this effect.
> Very common, and you can't ever mess up freeing memory.

Except that where misra is applied, there often is no dynamic allocation at all.
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I guess the implied reason is something like "don't make functions which can accidentally leak resources". "It would probably help to ban early returns."

NO. It won't help. At all.
Chopstick robot handle boxes with ease
> If there is no benefit for humans as investors, markets won't exist.

This is so breathtakingly wrong, that 'Earth is flat' is more accurate.

Ten thousand years ago, before investors, central banks, before currency, before the concept of money, primitive people had Markets

Primordial market consists only of two peope - labourer and a customer. I trade my sheep for your fish.

Even in the modern day, many companies have no investors - for example limited partnerships.

The idea that markets would disappear without investment reads like an attempt by the pope to take credit for creating the world in 3 days.
In socialist countries, workers form the ruling class. Taxes thus become a form of distributing surplus as the majority see fit.

There’s less value produced in countries that started our poorer and such countries tend to have successful proletarian revolutions. It shouldn’t be surprising that they can’t instantly be as developed as the countries that exploited them.
And even this story mentions Zurich, Geneva, and Bern that I notices. Switzerland is expensive overall (and home ownership is low overall) but that major thriving metros in countries are expensive hasn't exactly been a surprise for a long time. I suspect it's easier to live in cheaper areas--even relatively nearby some metros--that may just not be a convenient daily commute to those metros. The Bay Area is somewhat unusual in that living 60-90 minutes away from the city mostly doesn't help you much.
OK, but the form of my YIMBYism is that of vanilla libertarianism. Is it fine by me if the owners of private property do what they will with it. Governments should not step in to protect the local outpost of alcoholism.
Incredible that in 2024 the most downloaded software on bittorrent will be Firefox-US-134.1.exe :)
The median range is somewhere around 40%, that is the max is 40% or so above the min. That’s based on my analysis of over 5 million job postings with salary ranges in them. A subset here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j0Xap2Qt1bzY-8OA1Gqk.... Which is around what most salary ranges for a specific job grade have [1]

That’s my data, which you requested, so yes, there are absurd ones, but it’s not the vast majority by far. So don’t throw the baby out with the bath water based on one outlier you just found

[1] https://www.aihr.com/hr-glossary/range-spread/#:~:text=A%20g....
Individual House Representatives usually have high approval ratings from people who voted them in while Congress as a whole has a terrible approval rating. It's not quite as simple as seeing historical election results and saying everybody is necessarily happy with their representation.
Why is this relevant? Is it because of the website?
Article here on Miller and Plame, how Plame was outted by Cheney's Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38183380

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_Libby#Involvement_in_t...
> I've seen this once or twice in the U.S., but only on very large trucks. I wonder if there's some regulatory reason.

In very general terms, pickup trucks in Europe (and other countries outside of North America) are used for hauling things in the bed, whereas pickup trucks in the US are used to tow things. Not to mention that especially in the US, they're very often used as daily drivers, so the flip-down sides, as handy as they are, are less appealing because they look dingy and will rattle.

With modern half-ton and higher pickups in the US, the bed is actually very difficult to use, because the market keeps demanding more and more "aggressive-looking" and "off-road capable" trucks, which means the whole vehicle and the load floor get taller and taller. You basically have to be a giant to actually be able to load and unload things from the bed.
Many sprays and powders are harmful to lungs, including zinc oxide particles of any size. SCCS concluded nanozinc in non-spray sunscreens is safe

https://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/consumer_s...
Just because you are in engineering does not mean politics, culture, psychology stop applying. It's really no different than any job at all. Engineers will often think they're in some kind of meritocracy, when in reality they're just as trapped by social constructions as anyone else.
I did write that in my other comment. I was just abbreviating here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38172108
Does it literally repaint the terminal for the completion suggestions? Dang

You telling me we can make a ReactJS for terminals? ha
Funny you say that, I've had this exact experience. I've never socialized much with coffee shop owner or employees but I stopped at a coffee shop plus bike shop and ended up chatting with the owner the entire time.
Right now I’m very interested in Creativity Software and Machine Learning.
Too bad "io" is already discovered :)
True, but no need to self-gatekeep the terminology here just to appease a rando commenter. :)
From the ones I've seen, they aren't terribly impressed.

https://twitter.com/jens2go/status/1721625889585148297
No doubt these all are difficult to interpret. It's still a great thing to have numbers (even when the methodology for some numbers is very questionable).

But if you are trying to drive or merely gauge your investment performance, or your voting strategy, this is hard to read. For example, it's fair that people were able to spend much less during Covid. Bad for vendors, great for people's overall savings which had been often too low for a while. And so, fair that there was a rebound in spending. Which is a problem when it leads to high interest rates and a major step in inflation (which some people deny exists altogether). Meanwhile there was giant increases in money supply. Most of which is not going to be re-absorbed anytime soon if ever. And is bound to have a commensurable effect. Etc, etc, etc.

And so in the end how do I interpret my current investment performance? (And equally interesting question is how should our country spend / invest / repay / drive this or that). Just pick a question, any question. Is most of my investment performance purely driven by increased money supply? (meaning that even if I over-performed indexes, I may have grossly underperformed inflation - i.e. be much poorer). Hard to tell actually. Of course one way is simply to spend conservatively (i.e. too little) and invest "more than needed". But obviously that's grossly sub-optimal. For example if your objective is to spend more than comfortably so as to die pennyless <- it's an exageration but not a bad strategy depending on family or donation objectives. Anyway. Tough job.
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FTA > It’s hard to predict whether eSIMs will continue to work in Gaza, and specifically, whether they will work during future blackouts, since the technical details of Israel’s efforts to deny internet and phone access aren’t well documented.

I'm surprised by a lot of things. This paragraph makes it sound like the cell antennas in Gaza still have power but are controlled by the Israeli Government, and their blocking seem to be only against Palestinian SIM cards. SIM cards have home country IDs that remain the same even when you're roaming, and this[1] says Israel and Palestine share theirs. Well then it makes sense that the IG would just block SIMs of Palestinian networks. Although if they were intent on it they can check which foreign SIM cards have started showing up the past few weeks and block them too.

As for the antennas still working, I guess there are good reasons, e.g. what if a hostage has managed to take an Israeli phone and has a chance to make a phone call, or what if the soldiers need the phone as a fallback.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_network_codes_in_ITU_re...
C is a very powerful but very primitive language. Too easy to do all sorts of things you didn't intend.

But C was all we had (we didn't even have C++), and we had to use it, and use it effectively to deliver production firmware that couldn't change after it was shipped. We used it, and we got good at it, and we loved it. And we hated it because we used it and loved it, and that gave us the right to hate it.

Like my above example, when looking at tight (production, performant) C code, you always ask "did the programmer mean to do that?" or "was the programmer aware of the side effect" etc.

Once I groked LINT, I understood that the comments which appeased LINT were also messages to us humans that the programmer had considered the side effects, etc. and that this was intended behavior.

Made it easier to look at other people's code, heck even my old code, because it told me that "yeah, this was considered". Saved a lot of guess work, and allowed me to look at the meat of the code and not be distracted by the simple error stuff.

Also, as much as I love C, my biggest complaint is that it should have been strongly typed from the very start. C# gets this right. You have to be very explicit about mangling things in C#. In straight C it's just too easy to mix types and mess simple stuff up. The compilers attitude is, "sure.. I'll compile that". I prefer it asking questions and complaining.
That's a completely different thing from constantly rating each other in public with more senior people's ratings being given more weight.
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Might I suggest better alternatives as more pleasant alternatives to the stuffy MISRA C book:

- "Embedded C Coding Standard" by Michael Barr [1], CTO and co-founder of Barr Group, the guy who inspected the ECU code and testified in Toyota's unintended acceleration lawsuit [2]. Good stuff.

- "Embedded System development Coding Reference guide" written by the Software Reliability Enhancement Center of Japan [3], which covers and expands on MISRA C and more. It's a joy in examples, explanations and eye-pleasing aesthetic. I love it.

[1] https://barrgroup.com/sites/default/files/barr_c_coding_stan...

[2] https://www.safetyresearch.net/Library/BarrSlides_FINAL_SCRU...

[3] https://www.ipa.go.jp/publish/qv6pgp00000011mh-att/000065271...
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