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> This proposal makes the same mistake as various stream implementations (including RxJS in the past) of making operators methods on the observable.

I don't think they are making a mistake. I am sure Ben knows what he is doing, given how it was he who refactored rxjs 5 with all operators being methods on the Observable, to rxjs 6 with pipeable operators.

But, their objective is not to bring rxjs into the browser, but rather to bring the Observable primitive into the browser. And, like Array prototype, which has methods, Observable, in order to be even minimally useful, needs some methods, which they modelled after TC39 iterators, for the sake of consistency.

They say:

> We expect userland libraries to provide more niche operators that integrate with the Observable API central to this proposal, potentially shipping natively if they get enough momentum to graduate to the platform. But for this initial proposal, we'd like to restrict the set of operators to those that follow the precedent stated above, similar to how web platform APIs that are declared Setlike and Maplike have native properties inspired by TC39's Map and Set objects. Therefore we'd consider most discussion of expanding this set as out-of-scope for the initial proposal, suitable for discussion in an appendix. Any long tail of operators could conceivably follow along if there is support for the native Observable API presented in this explainer.

As to

> We really need a `pipe` operator, at minimum

Maybe we don't. Note that in RxJS version 8, they have introduced a new way of piping observables, which is the rx function [0]. Maybe they are thinking of something similar for the browser. Or maybe they are thinking of using the native pipeline operator if it ever gets approved.

In the meantime, for any complex manipulations on observables, users will probably still import relevant functions from libraries.

0 - https://github.com/ReactiveX/rxjs/issues/7203
History. I see history.
The guy wrote the article is a right wing libertarian, who went to George Mason University. You don’t succeeded in those universities being against the elite.
Heh, when he starts quoting reports on COVID “misinformation“, you know where this report is going…
There's indeed a big difference of objective between YouTube and their users because of that.

However, that's also an opportunity that YouTube hasn't realized yet, they could become a primary platform for content if they had a better algorithm and a better search, it would help them to monetize better those subscriptions.

Youtube has one of the lowest per viewer revenue and the poor discovery isn't an accident in that.
This does make a certain sense, but be careful of:

* Police incentives are set by wealthy elites might be "Higher policed areas are wealthier" or just "Weathier areas are full of people who commit less petty crime / visible violent crime that would be deterred by patrols"

* "Criminals are evenly sprinkled across income distributions" might actually be that Conscientiousness is highly correlated with lifetime earnings AND Conscientiousness is negatively correlated with lifetime convictions

There's tons of conflicting arrows, nothing is settled, but there sure are lots of political reasons to assume it's a clear case.
One is clearly the true form of the art, and the other is mere drivel. Not sure which though!
Big tech and geopolitics are reshaping the internet's plumbing
The second one feels like a major part of the puzzle here. Poorer criminals tend towards more 'blatant' crimes, the kind that usually bring the police down on them hard (burglary/robbery, assault/murder, dealing drugs and controlled substances, etc). A wealthier criminal seems like someone more likely to be doing things that are harder to convict for, like fraud or tax evasion or something.

It takes more work to arrest and convict a Bernie Madoff/Sam Bankman Fried style than a street mugger, and the latter type of criminal is probably more likely to be from a low income background.
I’m sure billionaires commit 1000 crimes a day (or do the unethical things that don’t qualify as crimes due to loopholes), they are just not prosecuted. What we often see is the criminalization of poverty.
autopilot is a level 2 system technically, so you are right, they don’t use a system incorrectly
This is common knowledge among AV researchers too (who generally wouldn't be considered part of the automotive industry).

Tesla's self driving was always neat, but it made a joke of itself by announcing "fully self driving" capabilities when it was clear nobody had the tech there. (Even when generously assuming their camera-only sensor kit could be sufficient. It would be counterintuitive but not unthinkable.)
What about those of us who are actually allowed access to the network as a result of owning Apple hardware? Discord and Signal don't charge money so it's much harder for me to feel a sense of entitlement to use a third party client with them, but I paid Apple for the privilege to use their service. These devices cost serious money. Why do I see my friends getting kicked off of iMessage, with their Apple IDs getting locked, for attempting to use the network with different hardware or OSes?

Apple knows the advantage they have as a result of iMessage. They know that this drives people to buy their products and not switch away. This is beyond some sort of kindness to network operators (I'm sure the marginal cost of iMessage is tiny), it's monopolistic behavior.
Skin-integrated haptic interface to produce immersive tactile experiences
It is well known that the crimes committed by poor people are prosecuted more consistently and more frequently than the complicated white-collar crimes committed by wealthier people.
Because successful criminals are both more likely to become rich and to not get caught.

There’s also the likelihood that both poverty and (street) criminality are caused by a propensity for poor decision making, high time preference, or most likely some kind of cluster of personality and behavioral patterns.

Anyhow we have absolutely tons of solid data on this now due to Raj Chetty’s superlative work. Naturally he presents his findings in a way that keeps the midwits at Wapo and NYT from accurately presenting them. That this coincidentally keeps him from getting cancelled is no surprise.
Imagine how much more complex things are now :)
Also, self-risk broadening!

If you want to play in the big pool and own/run things, why not spread your personal risk over multiple ventures?

* Note: this for types constitutionally incapable of being happy retiring early with millions
I'd even argue that security is a general concept, and for communication, includes the concepts of confidentiality (privacy), authenticity, and integrity.
This actually highlights a negative aspect of remote work. When you work from home, it is easy to lose track of time and ending up working the whole night. Here GP had a clear motivation, solve the problem in time to get back home and presumably disconnect.

That's why I actually like to work on site on Fridays. Because I know that when I leave the office, I am done for the weekend. And if I stay for too long, security will kindly remind me that the office is closing and I should leave. So laptop turned off, in the bag, and it stays there for the weekend. Even better if Monday is also on site, since I can just leave the laptop in the office, locked away.

It is a psychological trick, but it works for me. Your mileage may varry.

On a more technical note, don't assume the database can be administered over the internet/VPN. Real private networks still exist.
I've been an amateur programmer for a long, long time. I've never had the time to really get fluent in coding. (I'm the type of coder who can lose an hour to stupid typos and similar bugs that should be easy to spot.)

I use ChatGPT to help with projects, generate code, point out problems with my code, etc.

It usually gets more "edge cases" figured out than I would without it, especially for implementing common functions. I also ask it to plug security holes in my code, and again, it does better than I would without it.

Just yesterday, it gave me seven different strategies for dealing with bots filling out forms. I implemented a couple in just a few minutes, and the bot problem immediately stopped.

Will mistakes happen? Of course -- but AI tools can help prevent them, especially when combined with one's own critical thinking. (I often correct the AI, ask for assistance in terms of preventing specific types of problems, or use prompts based on my own pre-existing knowledge, which then gets better answers than I would get otherwise.)
Asking because I have no idea - What companies were the big wins from Sam's YC time?
Do poor people actually commit more crime, or do they just get caught and prosecuted more? (The usual example is wage theft vs shoplifting).

(Also note that the comments in that post are pretty repulsive)
I read it implicitly as "violent" and "petty" crime. I'm fairly certain there's a bias against "breaking the rules" vs "exploiting the rules" in this discussion.
I’ve dealt with enshittification by buying Apple products. Enshittification is a property of two-sided marketplaces. Meanwhile, Apple mostly just sells to customers. Thus my phones and laptops have gotten better over the years. I’m perfectly fine with them not selling services and exporting my data to other messaging providers.
Believe it or not, people used to put quality content online for free, for the betterment of all people (not just the paying ones), and still do their day jobs.
The "getting lucky once" hypothesis would suggest it's a poor idea to let oligarchs run a country, under the assumption that most oligarchs, like Rockefeller, made their pile by making poor bets that thereupon paid out big.
It depends on whether you measure it by frequency or quantity.

We lock people up for stealing a few pounds worth of food but people who make millions from corrupt business dealings, like Baroness Mone, will probably get a slap on the wrist.
Interesting that different society’s have such different levels of female participation in stem. I’d view that as evidence that society heavily influences these gender participation rates.
Yeah some people never do that for some reason. I have a simple little tampermonkey script set up to automatically just redirect me to my subscriptions when I go to the home page on accident.
I work on an ETL service that interacts with a good few, semi diverse third party systems. We organize these by individual jobs that get run and a job will process certain types of data and spawn different sub jobs in specific situations.

We wanted to have a compile time map of this data and a graph of the sub jobs. To do this, I tossed together a thirty minute script that took the source of our job functions and then ran a few regular expressions on them to extract the data we needed. It was filthy. Regex on source files just feels wrong. Problem is, it's worked great for the last six months and it's still going strong, so we can't justify changing it. The generated data has been extremely valuable for optimizing data fetching paths for customers.
When the insurance company totals the car, the insurance company is buying it from the driver. It very well may turn around and sell it to a salvage company, but they don’t have to.

The most likely outcome in this situation is that the insurance company uses this car for parts, either in partnership with a salvage company or on their own. It happened to us a few years ago. When we went to sign the paperwork we commented on how strange it all felt and the insurance rep said not to worry - the car was worth more for parts than as a repaired vehicle.
But you aren't overcompensating. Instead you are driving safely. If sudden braking is so rare that you feel comfortable riding right behind a car in front of you then when they do suddenly brake (which will happen eventually), you are now in a very dangerous situation.
It barely makes a difference in reality. I've done final online conform tests for major distributors and the differences in savings vs perceptual cost (if delivering to a targeted bitrate) are negligible. It's also entirely moot for blu-ray delivery.
Another comparison is a scratch DJ tapping the crossfader with 3 fingers in quick succession - the 'crab scratch': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUQ7MviIaL8&t=34
> The issue you raise of containing metal is a historic problem, but has been solved for many years through RAIN RFID tags

Yes I know it’s solved. But it’s not as simple as barcodes. Each product needs to be evaluated to decide if you’re gonna put a tag on it that works well on metal surfaces, because those tags tend to be marginally more expensive than the alternatives.

> I agree, the cost is higher than a barcode, but when the barcode was introduced the same argument was valid. What is the benefit to the manufacturer to get involved in stock management, when the shop was previously responsible for "pricing-up" the item themselves.

Simple, there’s an obvious cost reduction for shops, no more need for labels or hours of pricing up, makes it easier for a store to eat the costs for their manufacturers. For manufacturers, the improved stock management at stores would allow this store to carry a large variety of brands, which makes it easier for manufacturers to get their products onto shelves.

> With more adoption, the price will decrease, and this will become standard. Or, what is the alternative? That we use barcodes for the next 100 years?

The price of RFID tags isn’t expected to get any lower. General consensus is that there’s already enough demand for RFID tags that they’ve more or less hit their lower possible price, and any further reduction are not going to be meaningful.

What’s wrong with using barcodes? It’s a well proven technology, you could update them to 2D barcodes if you want more encoded data. There’s no reason to get rid of technology that works perfectly well just for the sake of using a “newer” technology. Most retailers are looking at Amazon fresh stores and wondering if that can be made to scale to grocery stores.

> Further, loss prevention is reduced as accidental scanning errors, and ease of intentional theft is reduced.

The types of thefts you’re referring to aren’t meaningful compared to theft carried out by organised crime, and by the staff themselves. RFID tags aren’t going to stop people walking into stores and simply picking up and entire rack of clothes, or sweeping all stakes in the meat section, and walking out. That kind of theft is a real problem, and store staff deliberately don’t stop those thieves because the risk of violence is far too high.

> Regarding chip-and-pin, I was responsible for writing some of the middleware in ~2004 that interfaced between chip-and-pin machines and terminals (& other devices), for what was then the largest provider in this space.

I’m very aware of the complexities involved in any kind of change to the EMV standards, or simple changes in payment network rules. I’ve been involved in both the negotiations and technical implementation of those changes. The difference is the number of parties and teams involved. A single grocer will have hundreds of suppliers each, and likely thousands of manufacturers. The number of parties involved is substantially greater than the number of issuers and acquirers in the world. So yes, I do think stuff like Chip-and-PIN was simpler to implement than RFID. It’s all relative.
So, What Happened to Project Breakthrough Starshot? Here's What We Know [video]
Curation and curation tooling both add value, similar to how purifying chemicals or making food adds value. And that isn't the only dimension either
The headline pushes the myth that losing sleep over the death of civilians is pro-Palestine and not anti-genocide and pro-human.
Along with a lot of the other excellent skeptical commentary here, I'd add that intergenerational time-frames are probably necessary, or at the very least, a great deal of time. Just because you won the lottery doesn't mean you aren't still addicted to crack, or don't have to deal with that idiot relative of yours who is. Just because you won the lottery doesn't mean that your brain has re-trained itself to respond to minor provocations as if they were not existential threats.

Caveat: I haven't read the paper.

But still.
I can't speak to any production systems, but the ideal is to use a "sensor fusion" approach which can safely degrade or alert the driver when a sensor is lost.

Lidar, cameras, wireless communication with other vehicles and infrastructure, and with the internal sensors in the car.

More concerning would be adversarially-crafted signals. (Think a Wil-E-Coyote style fake-tunnel, but for lidar and and whatnot too.)
I’m not surprised in the least. Mercedes is a company that actually knows how to make cars!
I think the idea that relatively rich people have more to lose is important.

Age is also a factor.
I worked retail in high school and then office jobs the rest of my life.
When I worked retail, half the teen males I worked with were stealing merchandise from the store we worked at.
In my 20 years of office work, with all the electronic surveillance of our behavior, I have encountered maybe 2 person I worked with that was crime adjacent.

If you are a 17 year old male making $5/hr hourly in precarious employment, then stealing a $500 electronic device is an interesting proposition, it's also an 80x return.

If you are a married adult supporting your family making $200k in steady employment, then stealing some office equipment or falsifying invoices is a lot riskier of a proposition, and for what?
Bayesians moving from defense to offense
That exists. Just tie the write-protect pin on most NAND after you're done writing to it.
This doesn't seem to be welcome, since this submission at 1 hours old, 37 points and 7 comments just completely disappeared from the first 10 pages of HN without even having flagged status.

While that's fair, since this likely to devolve into an emotional political debate, in the context of this story it leaves a bad aftertaste.

Edit: And now it's [flagged] too.
I think people just respond to incentives.

Engineers get promoted for creating complex architecture. I explicitly remember my manager asking me in my yearly review for promotion "what is so hard about that" .

Managers get promoted for hiring more people to support the said complex systems.
See: Russia
I never really stopped to think about it, but ASP was indeed quite performant, considering it was all interpreted, running in late 90s shared-hosting hardware with very little RAM and super slow hard disks. The site got a few thousand active users and worked quite well, apart from the DB size limits.

Fast forward 10, 20, almost 30 years and I frequently encounter websites that struggle to work under the same load, even with expensive AWS bills, especially when working with Rails.

Perhaps ASP was performant because the site was a few orders of magnitudes smaller than anything you'd see today, even though it was full featured. Probably 1000x or 10000x smaller if I also include third-party libraries in the count. It was quite comparable to serverless/edge computing actually.
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Here is a video about the rolling technique, I remember watching it when the technique was first pioneered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BZ5-Q48lE

In short, you hold the controller so that you have a finger resting on top of the d-pad, and then with your other hand, you drum your 4 fingers in sequence against the back of the controller, causing the d-pad to press into your finger in extremely rapid succession.

Tangentially to this, I'm part of the speedrun community, where controller legality can be a hot topic on a per-game basis. I think it's equally cool to maximize skill within the restrictions of the original controller as it is to use new hardware to break that barrier. Different communities decide upon what mods or alternate hardware is acceptable based on what they feel is appropriate for getting the most enjoyment out of their game.
The regex is a compressed representation which saves memory, and it's also likely to be quite a bit faster which saves cycles. I consider it a clever bit of optimisation.
I would bet still better than how teslas fail to recognize cyclists or motorcycles still, even in 2023

And most systems use an array of sensors like radar, laser, and vision too. It’s only musk who is hell bent on lying to his customers about machine vision and also lying about his intentions where the goal is cost savings and not because machine vision is better.
>The fact that employees closed ranks around him tell you which kind of CEO he is

I can only conclude that the guys were afraid for their big bag of cash, I would expect them would allow anything that would ensure they get an obscene amount of money.
The way in which it was treated internationally, politically and in the media, is a fairly good indicator of the control the USA has over NATO countries.
But it is in France that it is the most blatant and disturbing, many people do not yet realize to what extent France is now a colony. Fifty, or maybe even Thirty years ago, France would have defended and sheltered Julian Assange, as it did with others before.
Instead most people pretend not to know, they almost claim the right not to know.
> In the startup world, there infinite compute, but finite money. It’s cost savings.

If you're using cloud stuff like EC2 on AWS for cost savings, you're in for a bad time. It makes sense for stuff that you need to be able to dynamically scale on a whim, but once you know what kind of setup you need, it's almost always cheaper to go dedicated.
Have you tried changing the graphics settings? I usually turn them down and have great performance.
> The light/dark toggle has three states. Light/Dark/Whatever the system is set to (default). If it's set to the third mode, it should respect the system mode. Otherwise it's a bug!

Ah ha! That's it. I must have toggled this to forced-light inadvertently when testing. I think it could be clearer.

Thanks for the explanation of the persistence. This sounds absolutely fine for where the app is at right now, but would be great to explain it (in less detail perhaps?) somewhere. In the future, being able to set a custom path for it might be a quick way to enable hacky syncing. I realise symlinks could probably achieve this, but I think that's less discoverable.

Thanks for the reply and best of luck with the app!
This sounds like snark but it’s not intended to be: do you really need sources to learn narrative control? Perceiving how narratives work seems to be a skill that almost all humans are very good at naturally. I acknowledge that shaping narratives is a different skill set (especially the parts that require putting yourself in a position to shape narratives effectively), but in my opinion if you’re already asking the question you already have all the foundational knowledge and awareness you need to start exercising those muscles as well.
> In other words, since randomly increasing a person’s income does not reduce their crime rate, the first set of theories are falsified.

Too strong a conclusion. Crime is complex and there are no easy black & white answers that definitively establish “the” cause. It is much more likely that there are many factors that interact in ways that are difficult to disentangle.

At best, this study is suggestive that simply giving people money is not the whole answer (some may say, “duh”).
Windows 12: Savior of PC makers, or just an apology for Windows 11?
Cashiers are measured on their scan speed, and get bonus based on performance. So yeah, they’re highly incentivised to scan as fast as they physically can.
I’m always skeptical of naming collisions and potential intent. It reminds me of the western conceptions of agrarian ritual.
"Nobody is laughing now."

—SamA from early 2023 interview, when asked about being the laughing-stock of AI circa 2018.
I stopped reading at "It’s well known that people with lower incomes commit more crime."

I suspect the article is neoconservative garbage.
Nothing will happen.