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New comment by thirtyseven in "Why does Mill use Scala?"

thirtyseven — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:47:10 +0000

Bazel splits the build into multiple phases. Starlark only comes into play in the first two, load and analysis. During these phases, Starlark code doesn't have access to the filesystem, except in a few very limited cases like using the glob() function to expand a wildcard to a list of source files. Furthermore, it only generates an abstract graph of build actions. The Bazel engine is responsible for executing this graph in later stages, which might result in non-hermetic things happening but usually not.

Starlark has intentionally limited functionality such as lacking Turing completeness or global variables. This provides guarantees that it can be executed in parallel and will have a finite runtime.

New comment by thirtyseven in "Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected"

thirtyseven — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 08:18:53 +0000

Being a first mover didn't prevent them from adopting standard gauge which already had existed for 100 years.

New comment by thirtyseven in "Normal Operating Sounds"

thirtyseven — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 19:15:23 +0000

I've seen a Model 3 with very similar sounds coming from the passenger side mirror. There was a loose piece sticking out of the bottom, pushing it back in fixed it.

New comment by thirtyseven in "Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from searches in Safari"

thirtyseven — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 03:19:41 +0000

I assume that both parties have market research showing that enough people (maybe even 36%) don't care enough to figure out how to change the search engine or buy a different phone.

New comment by thirtyseven in "Airlines make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes"

thirtyseven — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 00:18:35 +0000

Assuming they don't intentionally make economy worse to increase the perceived value of first class.

New comment by thirtyseven in "Airlines make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes"

thirtyseven — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 20:10:26 +0000

It's price discrimination. Some airline users are not price sensitive (the wealthy, corporate travelers with expense accounts) and they don't care about getting maximum value for their dollar. Economy fliers do.

Kevin Mitnick has died

thirtyseven — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 23:53:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36795173

Points: 3699

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New comment by thirtyseven in "California spent $17B on homelessness – it’s not working"

thirtyseven — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 20:20:04 +0000

> Rent control: A random windfall for whatever tenant snags these coveted apartments when someone dies in a 3 bedroom apartment they haven't needed in 30 years but "can't afford" to downsize from since they have been paying $650 since 1989. Also the illegal subletters who are numerous and shameless, from personal experience.

This is a misrepresentation of SF rent control. Rent increases for pre-1979 apartments are only capped if the same tenant lives there continuously -- when the apartment lease turns over, the rent can be raised to market rates.

That being said, there are some people that abuse the system by keeping a lease for a place they haven't lived in for 20 years and subletting it, sometimes for a profit, but there aren't apartments where the rent is permanently capped at 80s levels like you're suggesting.

New comment by thirtyseven in "The Anatomy of Your Salary"

thirtyseven — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 20:14:46 +0000

That's... not a cartel though? A cartel is a group of firms conspiring to artificially control the supply of some good in order to increase its price, what you described is just several independent firms that have a high demand for workers and are bidding up salaries for them.

It was more cartel-like when Apple and Google were conspiring to keep tech salaries down by setting salary caps.

New comment by thirtyseven in "Is the Living Computer Museum dead?"

thirtyseven — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 08:03:42 +0000

Such a shame, it's hard to believe that Paul Allen didn't put his wishes for how LCM should be run after his death in writing.

New comment by thirtyseven in "Git archive checksums may change"

thirtyseven — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:43:57 +0000

The people that this broke weren't directly depending on the output of git archive being stable, but were assuming that the response data for a particular URL would stay constant. Maybe not a great idea either but not entirely unreasonable IMO.

New comment by thirtyseven in "Git archive checksums may change"

thirtyseven — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 23:06:27 +0000

The setup instructions for almost [1] every [2] major [3] rule set [4] only provide one (GitHub) url in the Starlark blob you're supposed to copy and paste, so hard to blame users here.

[1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external/releases/ta...

[2] https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/releases/tag/0.17...

[3] https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_java/releases/tag/5.4.0

[4] https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_scala

New comment by thirtyseven in "Crypto.com will delist Tether in Canada to comply with Ontario regulator"

thirtyseven — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 01:20:52 +0000

At the limit, the exchange would only redeem it at par if Tether the company can also do so, right? That's the big open question since Tether has never publicly completed an audit.

New comment by thirtyseven in "Invisible Characters"

thirtyseven — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 07:08:33 +0000

So I guess the only future-proof solution to check for this is to render user input off screen and count the number of solid pixels, at least until "falsehoods programmers believe about names" gets updated to include "Names must consist of at least one readable glyph".

New comment by thirtyseven in "Exec who cleaned up Enron calls FTX mess 'unprecedented'"

thirtyseven — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 17:01:00 +0000

There are a wide range of other options here, including negligence and magical thinking.

New comment by thirtyseven in "Ask HN: Is Archive.org Down for Anyone?"

thirtyseven — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 02:07:06 +0000

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1562622023968256001

> A core piece of Internet archive networking equipment has failed and a replacement is being sourced right now.

New comment by thirtyseven in "Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW"

thirtyseven — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 21:12:08 +0000

What’s hard to believe about several thousand sellers all copying each other’s homework?

New comment by thirtyseven in "Google Camera randomly changes some QR code URLs on Android 12"

thirtyseven — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 23:07:31 +0000

By not having test cases for those specific domains, and by passing your input through some general purpose internal URL handling library that does more than you thought it did [1]. Neither is (very) surprising.

[1] https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/12/24/mkdir/

New comment by thirtyseven in "What NPM should do to stop a new colors attack"

thirtyseven — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 09:12:44 +0000

I think the organizations that spend tons of money to run the central repositories we all use are a good candidate for that.

New comment by thirtyseven in "UBC bans non-minority candidates from applying for tenure-track quantum position"

thirtyseven — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 21:26:27 +0000

Because this is in Canada, where they aren't bound by US Supreme Court decisions? Also I don't think straight white cis-male is a protected class in any case.