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Advice here is to toss the !g bang on when you think you aren’t getting what you need. AFAIK this is still better than using google itself because the search is from DDG’s servers and not your personal IP (I could be wrong here though)
Hi. Much appreciated for your good deed. It's unfortunate that the previous owners put a seemingly permanent black mark on the once-beloved SourceForge brand, but I think you need to not take it personally. Most of us, me included, simply don't know what's going on inside SourceForge, or GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket, our only view in being headlines and rumors.

We can't all be experts, but we all need to make a choice, and "that site that started posting malware" is not a compelling option no matter what happened afterwards. This is super unfortunate, but it's true, and I imagine it's the same reason why web filters and reputation indexes have been unkind.

But I think that's not even the worst problem. SourceForge was definitely on a decline before the adware incident. Like, many of us will feel uneasy about GitHub under MS, and I already don't know how much I trust young venture capitalist funded websites with my important data. Still, GitHub changed the game with their non-advertising-based profit model and now it feels weird to even consider going back. Frankly, I feel a bit dirty when downloading FOSS from a page with ads and a countdown even though SourceForge is not the only one doing that.

Truthfully, I do want to love SourceForge the way we all used to, but I find it challenging. The adware-supported installers just felt like a super evil extension of the profit model SourceForge already had, and the association in my head stuck. I doubt I'm the only one.

None of this is fair to you, the person trying to fix all of this, but of course whether it's fair or not isn't going to matter. Insulting people who aren't giving you a fair shake is probably not going to help your case, though I certainly sympathize with you.
Those already exist in Santa Monica. The “dockless” part is what drives the issue. The docked bikes usually end up where they should. The dockless scooters and bikes are put anywhere and everywhere, even if appropriate parking is available. The solution Bird came up with was to pay people who capture their scooters more for challenging returns.
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For some time the dominant error handling way was 'error-chain' crate and the comment was made in that context.

Now there is a failure crate https://github.com/withoutboats/failure. It is an improvement, but it still feels that one has to type a lot for something basic. Now, this is a matter of taste and many people will be ok with this.
Even with 20% off coupons, Toysrus was often more expensive then Walmart and Amazon...
Some of us don't even agree with the "one of the greatest living artists" part. Wholly subjective opinion.
My recollection is you are not American. America has this romanticized ideal from the 1950s of a nuclear family with a full-time provider (the father), a full-time parent (the mother) and 2 or more children. This has not been reality for quite a long time. Our demographics have diverged from that in recent decades. But that mental model continues to basically poison American life, in part by dictating cultural norms that work for that lifestyle and don't work for any other.

If you come from a different context, maybe that doesn't need to be said. But in America, it very often needs to be said that a lot of Americans can't afford to live that way anymore because, if you don't say it, the assumption is "You neglectful parents, selfishly pursuing careers instead of taking care of your kids." Because America is very neurotic about some things.
Clojure and Datomic.
> performance, Swift is faster than Objective C

No it's not.

> because of the static type checking, which is a good thing

That's a reason why you think it should be faster. Actual performance is measured, not argued.

When you actually measure Swift, it is horribly slow.

UPDATE: details in other posts here. In general, my measurements have found Swift code to be 50% to 50x slower.
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Curious how will this workout with Xi's unlimited terms presidency?
This is what the PLASMA VM does (https://github.com/dschmenk/PLASMA). All opcodes are even numbers so that the dispatch addresses can be stored as two-byte addresses.
> There is no doubt that scooters could be safer if helmet laws were better enforced and basic safety training was provided before riding.

Helmet laws arguably does not work very well for bicycles.[1][2] Don't make the mistake of thinking it will work better for scooters (if you can't back it up).

Still not sure why I'd chose this over a bicycle. A bicycle gives me daily exercise and doesn't need a battery to operate. Also, it runs well on ice and in 20 cm of snow when winter commuting. I guess that's more than you can say about scooters.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWhMEkMtLy0

[2] https://www.vox.com/2014/5/16/5720762/stop-forcing-people-to...
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Please also read the second article. It is from 'The Hindu', one of the most (if not the most) respected news papers in India.
Valuable for who? Open source (at the margin) is more valuable for everyone--except the inventor, for whom it is not as valuable. So the inventor keeps the design proprietary, and keeps more money for themselves.

But, as is often the case, decisions that are optimal at the margin can often lead to suboptimal outcomes in aggregate.

I'm not convinced that's the case in IC fabrication, but its not impossible.
I thought 'scientism' described excessive faith in the scientific method, and/or dogmatic positivism. How does that apply to calling someone out for explicitly invoking scientific findings in a misleading or nonsensical way?
I like "differentiable programming" instead of "neural networks".

The crux is that you are programming in such a manner that you can differentiate your function w.r.t. parameters which are then tuned.
> I don't think experience can be subdivided in that way.

So you are adding more epicycles.

> merely experiences vision with all red things having the same qualia as another colour.

Swapped qualia qualia argument. I can answer that, but I think I already know how you will answer.

ETA: Or do you mean you see all greens as greens and all reds as greens? Will it not change your behavior when you'll notice that you are confidently calling very similar colors by very different names and cannot say why are you doing that?

> Can you imagine a non-conscious rock?

I can imagine a rock. I can guess that the rock is not conscious because it doesn't demonstrate any signs of consciousness, unlike you and me. I am pretty sure I can't change whether the rock is conscious or not by the power of my imagination.

Thank you for conversation.
The OP was referring to iCloud vs. Google. Not the features of sync in general.
I’m old enough to have used everything from a ZX81 onwards. The appeal used to be the sheer excirement of having a relatively simple machine do clever thinga in a way that felt open and which promoted imagination - a bit like Lego, but in code.

They encouraged you to get involved, learn, and have a go.

Modern systems can do a lot more, but the cost of entry in money and especially time is so much higher. They’re more like closed appliances optimised for consuming experiences created by others than playpens for creating your own experiences.

The play and imagination element has largely disappeared from modern computing. Most experiences are trying to sell you something, and if you make something new you’re supposed to sell it - and sell it hard - too. Even FOSS projects are measured mostly by stars and forks and not by fun and enjoyment.

IMO the nostalgia for old hardware can’t recreate the culture that surrounded it. It might be more interesting to design new software that has more of that just-for-fun feel to it - although it’s not obvious what that would look like today.
The biggest complaint about these scooters seems to be that they are left in the middle of sidewalks/etc.

This is my biggest complaint about shopping carts too. That they are left all over the parking lot in parking spaces, propped on curbs and so on. You don't even have to walk back to the store! Cart racks are never far away. It's a huge pet peeve.

But I've never blamed shopping carts or thought we shouldn't have them because of it. I blame lazy/inconsiderate people. How do we solve this problem?
> require _more_ work for the compiler writer

Exactly. In Objective-C, the compiler can't do much, which is kind of a bummer if you are a compiler guy. Chris is a compiler guy.

Consider Swift a kind of public works program for your local compiler team.
It’s a 1980’s British computer manufactured into the early 1990’s, was fairly popular in France.
Eh its just a matter of patience I guess. I got mine for $799 in December.
> 20 years writing in object oriented C

C++?
More importantly that they can target desktops, high end desktops, and servers with the same exact silicon. So they can amortize their R&D across more units, and of course the supply line is much simpler. So AMD doesn't have to guess ahead of time what mix of ryzen, threadripper, and epyc chips they will sell.
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At least in the UK, they're more likely to get permission to convert to residential if it's long abandoned.

Housing demand in cities is much higher than the normal available space on the boundaries. Carving a big box into 300 apartments more than justifies a couple of years of doing nothing with the place.
Typing is kind of a pain in the butt, it does buy you I would say 20% but when your paradigm is "code the happy path, let it fail if there's a screwup, you'll find it and fix it in another release, it won't bring down the server, the world will still be there", runtime typing errors aren't horrible. Dialyzer for erlang/elixir is quite nice and brings the delta even lower, if you must need type analysis.

Go's type system is atrocious, try multiplying a time interval by an user-input integer. You can't do it. That aside, Go is a fairly good programming language, and I especially like using it for CLIs since there's cross platform guarantee.
Ugh. I'm sorry to read that.

Your comment reminds me of the limit maintained on the number of slots available for medical doctor education, in the U.S. -- so I've read, repeatedly.

Further, how all the risk and tuition is placed on the student. Which in turn plays a significant role in driving graduates away from fields that are understaffed, such as general and family care.
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Can you go to a bar and leave your bike inside?

I do that all the time with my scooter. (I don't have an electric one, just a normal push scooter).

Portability is a huge advantage that scooters have over bikes. I take my scooter literally everywhere I go, anywhere in San Francisco. It is actually 100% of the time.

And If I don't want to scooter home, I just call an Uber and put it in the back.
"Everyone else does it therefore I should too"? Do you also give into peer pressure?
But then you have no protection against Apple, privacy wise.
I find it a bit disturbing that there is always the general case 'children' in the headline and in the article, but no mention of boys, only girls doing the work and in the pictures.
VR could en a thing here for Amazon. Instead of seeing endless lists, just walk down the isles virtually. Maybe accompanied by some cheerful sounds of kids playing in the background to set the mood and incentive to buy.
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Your read is correct; they want the world to know how smart they are, but are going about it in the wrong way. As it turns out, those who “fetishize” complexity know deep down that they aren’t smart enough to make those things simple, because that is too hard for them. Hence the computer industry and IT and particular have gone to shit.
But, imagine, if the kids fucked up once and burns his face with that coffee, many of use would be blaming the parent for involving him in such a dangersous task for a two-year-old.
This is easily the best thing I have ever read in HN
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Yes, there are people at the extreme ends whose spending vs. saving behavior can't be influenced (much) by the relative favorability of investing. But there are also lots of people who will respond to this incentive, and we should be concerned about what effects that might have.

Your post belies an assumption that the new tax revenue would actually be spent on the people for whom "it's not a fucking choice." But that's orthogonal. Congress is perfectly happy to spend new tax revenue on tax cuts for the very rich, on the military-industrial complex, on seniors of all income brackets, on predominately upper-middle-class students, etc. "What are the right ways to raise revenue" is a different question from "what are the right things to spend it on," and having a compelling reason to spend has no bearing on the virtue of any particular method of raising the funds.
Realistically, it is easy to count cores. Some companies still count MAC addresses.
I was tossing !g in to so many searches that I eventually just switched back to google from duckduckgo and startpage.
I agree. The city feels _designed_ for cars. There are lots of streets that are more or less not crossable in CBD without walking forever into one direction and try and find a pedestrian crossing.

Drivers are aggressive to the point that I nearly got ran over on zebra crossings multiple times.

Sidewalks are okay for pedestrians, but the (nice) "tables outside" culture paired with the (arguably nice as well) "everything is sheltered from sun and rain" attitude leading to lots of pillars/narrow ways it's nearly impossible to ride a bike/scooter.
Hey, maybe she can partner with Martin Shkreli on something!
GPUOpen [1] is AMD's branded Open Source / Open protocol initiative.

[1] https://gpuopen.com/
Just figured I'd mention that AMD significantly closed this gap with the Ryzen 2. The less parallel friendly applications (like many games) now seem to be faster on AMD or Intel depending on the application. Additionally the up to date security patches tend to hurt Intel more than AMD.

As always, if you really care about a single application, then you test it. But I wouldn't say that Intel wins on all single thread or few thread workloads anymore.

Especially if you consider that often a new Intel CPU requires a new Intel motherboard, and AMD often keeps motherboard compatibility across multiple generations, like the Ryzen and Ryzen 2.
Threadripper is lga ;-)
She should start a PR/consulting firm which helps CEOs and executives get away with lies for as long as possible and then helps them to rebuild their career when it all goes belly up.
Vigna starts with a bullshit argument. You can likewise decrypt ssh if you know the secret key.

On the other hand vigna's (and therefore linux) RNG's are easily predictable without knowing the internal state, but just by observing the external output for some short time.
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> True, I REALLY hate camelCase though ...

I do too, and that's exactly why you should use Nim. It is, perhaps, the only language in which the variables "camelCase", "camelcase" and "camel_case" are the same (though CamelCase isn't) -- so you don't have to follow braindead Java principles if you don't like them.
In what sense did the Linux kernel "win"? Microsoft continues to make a lot of money from Windows Server. Nobody but Red Hat makes any money off the Linux kernel.
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Unforeseen consequences is a reason I would not touch this. Something that correlates with one positive thing can also (and often does) have correlations to other negative things that greatly outweigh the positive. And sometimes the latter can be much more difficult to discern than the former.

For instance in the US today childhood injury and fatality rates have plummeted [1]. And this seems like an obviously good thing. And one might reasonably hypothesize that the increase in rules and regulations against letting children play independently, as well as the rise of helicopter parenting has played some substantial role in this. Since it's very easy to see the link there.

Yet at the same time other factors such such as childhood mental illness, obesity, and other major issues have sharply increased. Relative academic results are down and even IQ levels are declining. Are these linked to the behaviors that have driven the decrease in injuries in fatalities? Well that's a lot harder to say, though I think it's a very reasonable hypothesis that at least some of these issues are linked with the same behaviors that have reduced childhood injury/mortality rates.

This is a recurring pattern in many things. Our understanding of the causality of genetics right now is essentially 0 keeping in mind that saying gene A 'causes' effect B is no more a meaningful understanding of the reason for the causality there than saying rain clouds cause rain.

[1] - https://www.childtrends.org/?indicators=unintentional-injuri...
Yes, but number of bikes is limited by space and not by dock places.
If you mean stolen chip designs, no we're likely not to want to use them ... but there are lots of smart Chinese chip designers doing great stuff - some using on licensed US IP (the ESP chips), others based on licensed Arm IP (I've lost track of who owns that), some home built.

Remember China is not just 1/4 of the world's population, it also has 1/4 of the world's smart people
The argument against tariffs is that they are a tax and therefore coercive and immoral. Further to that, tariffs reduce the overall volume of trade, which negatively impacts overall economic activity. Another angle is that tariffs reduce specialisation, which means that overall productivity falls. The final point is that trade tariffs can create animositiy between countries, which can escalate “When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will” .

The correct way to address trade imbalances is by addressing the root cause, which is the expansion of money supply in the trade deficit country.

If you have a fixed quantity of money, then you cannot run indefinite current account deficits. This is because you sell your money to buy the goods and when the money runs out you can't buy any more goods, unless you sell some goods to obtain money.

Hard money is a natural inhibitor against trade imbalances. It creates self-balancing trade where, mathematically, one country cannot take more than they give.

The USA has had an exponentially increasing money supply for decades, then in 2008 it climbed rapidly, more than quadrupling within 5 years. Trade deficits simply wouldn't be possible without this. But the USA government needs the expanding money supply to support its fiscal deficit, otherwise it wouldn't be able to finance its warface/welfare state.
> Mayans and I are by now part of the greater western world

"Western" is used as short-hand for the cultures "that have some origin or association with Europe. The term also applies beyond Europe to countries and cultures whose histories are strongly connected to Europe by immigration, colonization, or influence."

Modern Mexican culture could be argued to be "Western". It would be difficult, on the other hand, to argue Maya culture is Western.

> I feel much more like a Canadian or a USian

Linguistically, the use of "USian" strikes back at your argument. There is no ambiguity when someone says "I am American," as people from only one country identify themselves as such. Using the term "USian" thus explicitly rejects one's affiliation with the United States.
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I'm sorry, I have trouble understanding your question but if you mean how we ship from Amazon to Pakistan, and how we got people to use our service: we worked out a pipeline to get products from the US to Amazon, and advertising + word-of-mouth. Also:

+ There's no direct way to buy 90% of products from Amazon since they don't ship to Pakistan

+ Our service is the only in the country that gives a fixed price at checkout in PKR

+ Our customer service is excellent

+ We're one of the cheapest options available, as long as the competition imports products legally.
While there couldn't be a better case than ZTE for the Chinese government to muster domestic support for its "Made in China 2025" policy, the Sputnik analogy is actually wrong for China. Sputnik was a national security matter and ZTE is a case about commerce.

China can actually supply most what ZTE needs to build functional telecom products (for example when the Obama administration cut off Intel sales to Chinese supercomputer projects, China went ahead and built the world's then fastest supercomputer with domestic chips anyway), it is just that they won't be competitive enough commercially. If both Huawei and ZTE were denied access to US products the pair could probably survive nicely in a closed Chinese market with somewhat inferior but perfectly functional offerings to Chinese telecoms. As it currently stands ZTE can't survive when its competitors don't suffer the same disadvantage.

This being a commercial matter means the Chinese effort may very well be commercially wasteful even if their defense ministry might appreciate the enhanced capability. Indeed if they could make commercially competitive products in the area there is no reason why they would not have made them already.

The right way to deal with this really is to just treat it as a commercial matter. ZTE would have failed with its resources transferred to a more capable firm. This still could be the effective outcome -- it is hard to imagine how telecoms world around can have confidence in ZTE when the supply could be turned off again over any minor infractions in the next ten years. The fine may be just the price to pay to buy time for a more orderly re-org.
35% of all financial assets in the US are precisely the consequence of investing wage income: retirement savings.

[0] https://www.ici.org/research/stats/retirement/ret_17_q4
So I'm one of those who doesn't care if Google tracks me or sells me as a product. [ * ]

Is there actually some real, tangible harm that can come to me from using Google products? Not theoretical stuff, not stuff that is less likely than dying in a plane crash. Something that is actually likely to happen, that will affect me in measurable, negative ways?

I'm really trying to come up with something, and I'm really trying to care.

* actually I don't agree with that last one: ads are a product of Google, and various things like Gmail are products of Google. The latter is paid for with ad viewings rather than currency.

Really, there is no need to redefine "product" to include humans being advertised to and tracked. There was (and I guess is) a thing called "slavery," where humans were bought and sold....my voluntary use of Gmail is not comparable.
The LEGO stores have this exact experience, and they seem to be doing well.
I don't think this pricing is active per https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/member.html

I signed up and I only see the same plans as on the pricing page