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> The parent's point is that this is still within the guarantees hashmap (the abstract data structure) gives about order: none.

This is not the point from the parent point, at least nothing else in the text suggests so.

> All the rest are details that are based on your particular conditions, which are very very very specific:

They're not "very very specific", they're based on my experience in other programming languages. And when I say this, I am not talking about Python (that has ordered maps by default), but languages like Ruby or Java.

> That's an implementation detail that shouldn't concern the user though. Go just goes out of the way to instill this, whereas other languages/libs do not.

I think this thread is going anywhere, again, I am not saying Go or any other hash map implementation that does the same is wrong here. It is just that it is uncommon, that I had "one case in the past that if Go didn't randomise I wouldn't need to write extra code" (and I didn't say this case was common either), and that I would like ordered maps in the stdlib not just because of this particular case but because they are a really versatile (and would help in this case, but I never said it was the only case either where ordered maps matter).

Keep in mind that I wrote this post on a sleepless night and didn't give much thought. My argument was never "this is the reason why we should have ordered maps in Go", it was mostly "I had this issue once, I think ordered maps are cool and if Go had them I wouldn't had this issue".

I am still surprised how much (good) discussion this post ended up generating considering how little thought I gave at this post.
I spent hundreds of hours hanging out in forfeiture court, it's wild. The court I was in eventually got a new judge and she took the two DAs aside and said to them "This bullshit you have going here, the 90% of cases you win because people don't even know how to fill out the paperwork. That ends today. That will not fly in my courtroom."

I remember that same day a dad came in. The State had his new $60K SUV they were trying to sell. His son had swiped the keys, taken it, got caught drunk-driving. The DAs were like "well, tough shit, it's the law" and that judge said "Did this man know his son took the car? Does he have valid insurance? Give this man his damned car back. And I want you to pay all his towing and storage fees too." "His towing fee too?" "Yes" "We don't even know how to refund that, the city has that money." "Well, you have an hour to find out. See you in an hour." LOL

If you are ever caught up in a civil forfeiture, make sure to stay on top of the paperwork. Most people lose their stuff by not doing the very simple paperwork. If you get to the first court hearing the State often gives up if it's not much value.
To play by the rules is an implicit rule in any political/power system. There are consequences when a ruler practices tyranny.
And everything is so partisan. It does not seem to matter what is up for discussion. If party A is for it then party B is against (or vise versa). I like the notion that cars could have extra safety features but as is noted in other posts there are low hanging, lower cost, existing solutions that are not being implemented.

By all means lets look into some of the tech solutions. But politicians (policy makers and pundits) are not the ones to listen to.
I don't consider myself an expert in this area so I looked up the page on Skepticism on Wikipedia and it says this:

> skeptics normally recommend not disbelief but suspension of belief, i.e. maintaining a neutral attitude that neither affirms nor denies the claim.

This makes a lot more sense to me. Regardless, I believe there is plenty of evidence in the Reddit thread that this is indeed a false story - it's just when I initially read your comment I hadn't considered that evidence since you didn't mention it.
That's new as of the last 48 hours, and threads still don't work. When they restore threading I'll stop flagging Twitter links.
He says ge jacked up the car to give less friction. The wear should be mininimal as no actual cornering forces are involved, which are suprisingly large, ofren exceeding the weight of the car in (momentary) lateral force. While this will still cause some wear, it is negligible. I would imagine the ideal would involve a force feedback module and completely lifting the wheels from contact. Perhaps even utilizing the cars own electric power steering.
"overtake" in the title seems very exaggerated

> There are around 100,000 EVs in Ethiopia so far. [1]

> The Ministry of Transport data indicates approximately two million vehicles in Ethiopia [2]

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/17/climate/ethiopia-evs-gas-car-...

[2] https://ethionegari.com/2024/01/29/ethiopia-to-ban-entry-of-...
Yes. Even placing stents during cardiac catheterization (PCIs or angioplasty) is 'minimally invasive' because typically access is achieved by the femoral artery and snaked up (the femoral comes "direct" from the heart, for all intents).

Yes, you blow up vessels with a balloon and leave a metal sheath in them, but as you say, minimally invasive, because you didn't crack the chest to do it.
Prize seems rather low. I imagine a waterproof robotic dog with a huge snorkel, a magnetometer, and a big grapple to hoist (not drag) munitions to shore. Different sizes for aircraft bombs and grenades (from a picture in the article -- I wouldn't have thought of that case).

SFR 50K would be a rounding error in developing that.
Not being 100% compatible makes it a non-starter. I only use Windows on my gaming machine, and until I can play all the games I play with no performance hit, I am not going to switch.
https://www.vintagestory.at/aboutus.html/

"The Team - The list of currently active game developers, part-time and full-time"

Doesn't say who's full-time, but it's a team of 14 with 3 programmers.
>Many games written for Windows run faster on linux now

Is this really true? I find it _really_ hard to believe.
This is a well-intentioned but largely useless ruling because it fails to define the maximum duration for which property can be held. As such, it's up to the police as to what qualifies as indefinite. If the ruling had capped it to 14 or 30 days, that would be a useful ruling.

A hard time cap is essential because one's life too has a cap. The amount of time for which one can go without earning a livelihood also has a cap. Imagine if prison sentences didn't have a time cap.

This illustrates a common problem with our laws. They're very often vaguely defined, needlessly so, in a way that keeps attorneys and judges very rich, and the police abusive, to the detriment of the individual. In a sensible world, the laws would all be rewritten for clarity and consistency, starting with the Constitution.
I dunno what the "wait what" is for to be honest, because you have a good point and / or a sore spot for Microsoft; MacOS users (generally speaking) trust Apple, they have a great track record with gradual OS updates and minimal surprise even when they do major overhauls, with minimal or gradual updates to their visual design over the past 24 years (Aqua with OSX, then slowly dropping the skeuomorphic / Frutiger design language for flat design over time.) They're claiming 2020's Big Sur was their biggest visual overhaul, but it was a smooth transition.

Compare Microsoft that tried various different visual overhauls in the same period, first with Windows XP (2001) leaning into the Fruitiger asthetic, then Windows Vista and 7 (Aero design), Metro (windows 8, windows mobile) and now Fluent (windows 10 and beyond). While trying to add more monetization via ads and office365 integration.

I'm not saying Apple is not guilty of the monetization, they've had three different incarnations of their cloud offerings before iCloud settled things (iirc) and they do promote it within MacOS, but it doesn't come across as cynically as MS's offerings do.
What are the nuances of "jailing individuals without trial"?
Many of us are ashamed. Myself included.
But @oldprogrammer2 claimed it was just "innovation" and not create-a-problem, rent-capture-the-solution.

Now I'm confused. There's a better way, and other 1st world countries have already adopted it?
No, that’s Carson Gross maker of htmx and actual smart legitimate developer :)
Having built a type checker with Z3 in the past, the simple answer to “does type checking happen to have the same complexity as SMT?” is no. That’s because the “T” in SMT, “theories” can be pretty much anything - they’re essentially plugins.

A more nuanced answer is that many problems are reducible to SAT, meaning that the answer can technically be yes, but a type checker that simply prints the message “UNSAT” upon failure isn’t very useful!
The fourth amendment prohibits unreasonable seizure.

Shouldn’t this have been obviously unconstitutional since like 1800?
I don’t think I’ve heard “dApp” since 2021.

It feels weirdly nostalgic, almost like the other frontpage story about writing CP/M programs. The world has moved on but someone is still pushing this rock.
> No, it’s because people approximate the costs badly.

"Why doesn't everyone switch to Linux? They must be stupid" is just as short-sighted now as it was 30 years ago.

Linux is great, but there are and were plenty of good reasons why it's not optimal for the average user. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41283651
1. Because if I don't have an account, I cannot comment and waste my time.
2. Because when I had an account, Twitter aggressively pushed rage-bait and alt-thoeries crap as 'trending' or whatever..
3. Because they effectively hold content hostage after years of capturing companies, non-profits, governments etc.
4. I prefer to stay anonymous, that was no longer allowed.

Luckily after Musk took over it became such a shit show I just don't read you content if you publish it there and I'm pretty sure it is better for everyone that way.
What’s the URL to see tweets on a specific hashtag?
Said another way, they either don’t mind or don’t care about X links.
I would suggest not submitting multiple times with different titles.

I'd also suggest submitting things as a link -like you did a couple of days ago- so that people can just click it, instead of a text with a text url which can't be just clicked.

Take these suggestions as you like, obviously, but being annoying is usually not a good marketing strategy.
I’m wondering what the distraction potential of a Fitbit is? Do they have more features now?
Rippling's Parker Conrad says founders should 'go all the way to the ground'[..]
I am not sure how you can be so certain that it would be an immediate benefit to those users… how are you measuring the cost of having to learn something new and the benefit of knowing how everything works?
And what alternatives do you suggest?

HN rightly complains about proprietary closed platforms, and enshittification.

Here is an open source alternative to Twitter and Facebook: https://github.com/Qbix/Platform
Requires google account, no thanks.
I don't understand the attraction to Twitter especially after Musk took over. If you're not logged in, the site barely works which prevents a lot of people from seeing your post or staying up-to-date.

I thought for sure the rebrand + enshittification would completely kill it but I guess some are still latching on for some reason.
Minecraft already exists and has had over 10 years, hundreds of millions of dollars of development, and a broad modding community. You can't just displace it with a Minecraft clone.

Early builds of Deep Rock Galactic look extremely Minecraft-like. There are plenty of others depending on what you consider Minecraft features.
With an issue like this? Roll the dice, honestly.

I lose track of whether the conservative members of the court are pro-constitution, pro-defendant or pro-police in criminal justice issues like this.

Over the last decade (realizing the court has changed a lot) they've made some pretty decent pro-rights decisions in criminal cases where people thought they would be pro-police.

Their recent decisions are garbage fires, though.
I am brazilian. I don't celebrate this guy's actions. And I'm not alone.
Can you come up with a better reason? I don't want normal people who just don't want to make 200 accounts with phone verification to read text to be associated with this.
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No it doesn't, try xcancel.com instead, works most of the time
>I do wish the cases would actually involve harm to people who are “gold star”

I'm really struggling to understand what you're saying here. What do you mean by "people who are 'gold star'"? Which cases are you hoping will harm those people?
I feel that access to my phone number (and in turn, my privacy and viewing habits) is worth more than the fraction of a cent it costs to host that text snippet. In fact, signing up is not even worth my time. Contradictorily, I will still happily spend my time complaining about it.
You’re confusing 100% compatible with all the games you play. All the games I play are 100% compatible, I’ve already switched. If the ones you play aren’t, of course you won’t switch. The question is whether you checked or just assumed they don’t work.
Windows 10 LTSC for my testing machine, MacOS for me and ChromeOS Flex for the friends and family Thinkpads. This pretty much solves our personal computing needs. Throw in a few vintage Brother laser printers where needed.
CP/M was FCB/Extents not FAT
Their census workers run really fast?
> It’s amazing that CSS finally has a single property to control vertical align

It's amazing that this happens in 2024, CSS, you have one job!
> I don’t see anything mechanistically unique about property seizure that would make this tricky to solve.

One of the mechanics at play is suing the property itself, which can’t defend itself for rather obvious reasons. That side steps any property rights
with jurisdiction in rem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._%24124,700_...

IANAL but it’s as stupid as it sounds and it’s been controversial (i.e. United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins)
Time to first paint is paintful. Ba-Dum Tiss
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I think I can install windows 7 these days and marvel at the amazing upgrade it is from win 11. It’d be like they completely corrected course and fixed all their mistakes.
Polit OS – an open-source Ukrainian multitasking shell for DOS in Pascal (2005)
Exactly. Otherwise what value has been added if the subscriber could simply ask ChatGPT the same questions and get similar articles for themselves? Might just as well provide the prompt instead of aggravating people with poorly written "articles."
> citing them being less secure when running on Linux
> nearly every cheat chooses to attack the Linux version now despite the vast majority of Apex players in general being Windows users.

Did they give any more details as to why? It could come from cheaters preferring developing for one platform than the other. I would like to know which features windows has that makes cheats harder that they miss on linux.
> it's high time we in the tech world led out in refusing to participate in a platform that deliberately locks its content up behind an auth wall.

Maybe the tech world should stop using bots to rape and pillage user-generated content without payment to feed their AI models no one asked for.

Which is what caused X to install the auth wall in the first place.
> I wonder if grandparent was thinking of a different country

Nope! I was speaking of offshoring mostly in the services industry, not the manufacturing industry[1]. Things like call centers (as you linked.) Chinese companies like BBK use Philippines call centres to serve customers in English-language markets. Which isn't at-all uncommon—the US does the same thing—but China hadn't been doing much offshoring of any kind until the last decade, and the little they have done has focused almost solely onto the Philippines.

There's also something that you might not exactly call "offshoring", but it's a related idea. It's a combination of "exclave-building" and "foreign investment": Chinese companies responding to increasing levels of Chinese tourism in the Philippines by buying up Filipino companies (most visibly in the hospitality industry, but also everywhere from construction to finance) and modifying those companies to cater more to Chinese-audience interests; then, within China, promoting tourism to the Philippines — and specifically to those cities they've built up a presence within — to increase ROI on those investments. From a Filipino perspective, this was kind of a virtuous cycle, as it resulted in a lot of money being pumped into their economy. But this too has now sharply declined.

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[1] But why hasn't China begun to outsource manufacturing yet?

AFAIK, it's because the Chinese manufacturing sector has so much inertia — so much built up talent, so much invested CapEx, so many local partner relationships, so many achieved efficiencies of scale — that even if domestic labor prices seriously rise within China, it'll take a long time before companies are willing to bite the bullet and invest in moving any of that.

And it's also a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem: if you first offshore some middle step of manufacturing, the rest of the manufacturing process would still be cheapest for you [with your existing China-based processes] to continue to do in China; so now you'll have to ship raw goods out to the offshoring country, and then bring processed goods back into China for finishing. And during that, you'll be in competition with "full-pipeline Chinese" companies that aren't bothering to do that.

IMHO I'd mostly only expect China to offshore steps that either exist at the beginning or end of a manufacturing process. Especially origination of raw goods, e.g. mining. Which would seemingly be the long-term goal of China's infrastructure investments in various African countries.
Ask HN: What was your biggest startup fail?
Let's get real. We all screw up. What's the dumbest thing you did in your first startup? Share your epic fails so others can learn from your mistakes. Let's help each other avoid disaster!
I've been using nitter.poast.org for the last 3-4 months at least.

It works fine 90% of the time, but sometimes there are too many people trying to use it and the connection gets timed out. If you refresh 5-6 times, it usually becomes fine.
Wow I can imagine those people couldn't make that deal public but why wasn't the prosecution of their case simply blackholed? Weird.
Do you have personal experience with this or something? Seems like a rather specific fear.
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It's not useless because indefinite means never. At least this will require police departments to define the time and therefore make it less likely the stuff walks off, which will encourage keeping it for shorter periods of time.
because good folks are still on that app
I saw a local piece about Power Company taking land from black owned Funeral Home for onshore windfarm transmission towers.

I thought to myself why would one business be able to seize anothers property?

How does a private company deserve Eminent Domain powers?

Is a Funeral Home not a Public Good too?

Why would we allow emminent domain for a monolopy company.

https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/mycity/virginia...
Certainly my anecdata from spending time with a lot of detainees in Chicago is that it was impressively common for the police to find something incriminating on you, and also find some cash, and just take everything and send you on your way.

The last couple of years has made the police a lot more honest due to prevalence of bodycams.
Have you asked your utility to post status updates on Mastodon? Explain the challenges of consuming their updates on X, and why their customer base would be better served elsewhere. If not, you should do so. If they need someone to manage the instance for them, we can find them a commercial provider. Failing that, have them create a Threads account with federation enabled. Default to action, be the change.

The eyeballs go where the content is; tell the content where to go.

Edit: @edflsafoiewq Why are we ignoring their uses cases? If they feel the need (outages, relevant customer information) and have the desire to have the mechanism in addition to or in lieu of email, paper mail, and/or SMS, enable them. The cost is very low to do so.
I don't have a Twitter account and I have also been holding out on creating one but this made me want to create one.

Seriously.
Mastodon links still work just fine.
Sometimes vagueness is a necessary lubricant to get enough agreement on something, but I take your point.

My personal "fun idea" is that laws should have two parts, an "intent" part and an "implementation" part and if a court decides at some future time that the law fails to accomplish the intent it should be struck down.
How about thirty years (but only if the person is still alive)? It's not indefinite, and it complies with the ruling.
> 90 days of payables that you haven't paid anybody yet could be equivalent to tens or hundreds of millions of interest-free loans

... for the first 90 days, it seems to me. Then you're back to paying them, they're only time shifted. So it strikes me as a way to take a 90 day loan, once. What am I missing?
The anti-cheats run in kernel-mode on Windows and user-mode on Linux, so it is significantly easier to hide a cheat on Linux. The Linux ACs can't see anything outside of the standard process isolation sandbox.
To add more

* if a senator commits a crime it can rest assured that the process will moth in a drawer until prescription as long as the senator doesn't go against the supreme court or its ministers personal interests.

* the supreme court (STF) also controls the electoral tribunal (TSE).
I doubt it. N26, which is granted a "new bank", doesn't have that, even though it now has an actual French subsidiary, complete with French account numbers. My password with them is way above 6 characters, and contains numbers, letters and symbols. The login page has a regular password field.

I think the others are just copycats. Someone must have come up with this first, and the others figured "yeah, that looks so secure, let's do that, too". If I had a penny for every CSO who justified some stupid "security" idea with "everybody does it, why shouldn't we?" I'd be so rich I wouldn't care about this crap anymore.
Presumably it has some accounts it is rotating through and they are being rate limited in some capacity.
I'm describing an economic calculation. The political decision is irrelevant and simply a cost of doing business. The higher the total cost of employees in a country without an offsetting benefit, the more likely companies will be to avoid the country.
I once had to have a Heart MRI, which was fascinating because movement normally messes up an MRI. For the heart, they attach a pulse monitor and the MRI machine pauses its movement for a split second each time the heart beats.
I always conceded that Google would have this data, I always told myself you have to trust someone eventually. There was an implicit agreement that they would go to bat if the government came knocking for it. I see now that was a naive perspective on my part. They spent years just handing it over.
Confidential employees are prohibited by the NLRA from joining a union, same as managers and supervisors.

Plenty of senior technologists acting as team leads would fall under one of those categories.
Normies don't understand Mastodon, which incidentally make up 99.999% of a utility company's customers.
That’s not what I see lol
The implementation based on the datalog engine was also found to be generally too slow and was replaced with an ad-hoc dataflow algorithm.