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Complexity is always the enemy, but only if you have to deal with it. My car engine is very complex and I don't ever think about it.

I don't want to over-state this, but it's a hell of a lot more important than people think, mostly because it attacks you in little bits here and there. It's never a direct assault. We are creating a consumer society in which we're becoming slaves to the tech. It entertains us, it connects us, it remembers for us, it guides us. All of that might be fine if that's your thing. But there are dark sides too. These kinds of hidden bullshit annoyances are one of the dark sides.

The root of the darkness is this: if you steal just a few minutes per day here or there with hung-up text editors and such, how many man-years of productivity are you stealing from mankind?

I really think we need to go back to the metal and start designing systems with separate fault-tolerant systems dedicated to being humane to the users by invisibly handling the kinds of things that keep wasting huge parts of our collective lives.

Or, as you said, we could just keep adding complexity. That's always the answer, right? sigh
I remember back in the Amiga days, the processes for the GUI would be totally separate from the program logic. Add the pre-emptive multitasking and you would have GUI elements that would respond instantly always, even when the rest of your program was hung! Of course, the button callbacks wouldn't fire, but the button would appear to press, you could move windows, etc. Did a lot to reduce the perception of lag, whilst obviously introducing quite a few quirks of its own.
Hey, I am the author. Greetings from Bajawa, Flores! Beautiful country you have! And you are right, Indonesia is massive. I've been back and forth at least 5 times in the past 6 years and still haven't been to Sumatra adn Sulawesi!

But yes, that's what I did as well by starting my journey in Cambodia and worked my way from there :)
The unit economics in the US just don't quite add up. Assuming in a rational market a driver has to make about the equivalent of minimum wage (or else they'd take a less taxing minimum wage job) they need to make say $15 an hour in SF. So if I order a Cheesecake Factory from Union Square to the Marina, they arguably will take 30-40 mins roundtrip, so even at full utilization, the delivery is costing nearly $8. Unless the delivery fee is > $8 then the margin on food subsidizes the delivery which seems like a pretty rotten strategy to lower margins even further. Theoretically I guess they could do point to point delivery where they then pickup in Marina but that seems far more difficult and anecdotally never the case when I ask a driver. In that case you could assume a one way takes say 20-25 mins (waiting on delivery probably adds 5 to each order), then that's still a $7 delivery cost at the margin.

One can make the case this can be made to work in dense cities say 1m or more with a density over X people/p. sq. ft. like in Europe/Asia. But I don't think there are many US cities with this kind of density to support.
I think there's still quite a significant difference between "popularizing something that may save the planet from extinction from global warming which could have been pursued for quite a while by other large companies automotive and otherwise but hasn't been" to "people prefer shopping with them over how they used to shop". But I can see that the net gain of the time saved using Amazon could be argued as a good for society.
The question of the father (I guess) is : "Bobby what were you doing ?". That is an issue to me.

People are not choosing Alexa/siri/whatever, they dream about it.
That is the sole reason why I'm going to the US. National Parks!
As far as I know Revolutionary Catalonia came the closest to that.

That said, I don't really care that dictatorships after dictatorships called themselves socialist and communist, people's this and that, they - as good populists always do - subverted the people and their ideas.

Just as North Korea is a "democratic" "republic".

Mistake not this nitpicking for defense of communism. I don't think it makes any economic sense to strip away savings and investment and everything else connected to those for compulsory ownership of your workplace.

So yes, bait and switch is what populism is. And it worked and continues to work wonderfully independent of political leaning/orientation.
Very far from majority. The right-wing party got 37.58% with the turnout of 50.92%. Their main argument, repeated and nauseam, was "We will gave 125€ a month per child to everyone". It turned out partially false afterwards, but a new tradition of buying votes for money has been born.
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I think it was the black death that effectively killed of feudalism in most of Europe. Wages went up and peasants were in high demand so it became easier to move.
The effects of the Black death (1344) were probably being felt in 1400s Europe to at least the extent that WW2 still impacts on us today.
It's a problem that can't be reliably solved by machines yet, so they end up having to hire moderators. Which is a pretty miserable job and also hard to standardise.
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i really like office 365 but the most productive thing i ever did was get rid of it on my work machine and install office 2010 again. it's just so much snappier there is no comparison. (although i also tried office 2003 for a day and boy it's blazingly fast. on a modern system you don't even see the startup screen, not to mention any input lag.)
>>When you wonder why Hitler built the concentration camps for Jews in Poland, you can find the answer in the article.

Well, it's one of the reasons. The other one is that Oswiecim was(and still is) very well connected to the rest of Europe with train lines - prisoners could be brought there easily from pretty much any part of the occupied territory, from both West and East.
Or how about a switch that implements the two-man rule?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-man_rule

Good for not having to spend the weekend at work alone.
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Yes and for us this world passport holders we can't even fly a flight that has 2 transits in the EU. Since flying from Rome to Paris is considered domestic, I will need a schegen visa for that.

I lost a 1300 USD flight once because of the flight I wanted to take to Bogota, Colombia passes through Rome and Paris. :/
EMH is literally the "P=NP" of economics.
How about being excellent at one thing and knowing a wee bit about a bunch of other things
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My kids know “Siri” as simply a computer they can talk to. They think she’s basically a robot. Mine are 6, 5, 3. Since we use HomePods everywhere they interact with them really just like they would another UI but haven’t associated Siri with a person. It’s generally some variation of playing music or turning on HomeKit stuff. But they aren’t trying to have conversations. To them is just an iPad with no screen.
Interesting concept of separating your identity from the ID used to vote.

There is one problem though. With the QR code you would be able to show someone how you voted. Thus making it possible to coerce or buy votes.
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> All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver.

Wow, this is a ludicrous claim without providing any evidence.
We put the end visualisation on our team shirts. Unfortunately due to printing limitations it didn't end up looking that good, but it's still a neat idea.
According to a study reported in this article in Motherboard, children are easily peer pressured by robots.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3qqep/children-a...

When you add in the idea of their constant childhood pal being a device designed to sell them items from Amazon, it's quite worrying.

If you wanted to take a positive spin on it, you could see it as the possible beginnings of a form of digital post-scarcity centrally controlled economy communism, I suppose.
> This sentiment, which I read repeatedly, really irritates me. Most of us program here. It's not that hard a problem!

What solution do you think would work?
Literally same promise was made by Indian Prime Minister in 2014 elections, to give Rs 15,00,000 to each citizen from all the unaccounted black money stored in foreign countries by Indians. After he got elected, his party said it was just a saying, not an actual promise.
I completely agree that all that behaviour is appalling, but my point is: do you want him to change or do you want him and his companies to not exist?

Because the alternative to him and his companies not existing is not simply that we get all the positive aspects of those companies but just provided by someone nicer.
It will for a bit. The people who build UI frameworks in wasm will either make it a priority or they'll add it later.

It sucks but this is the way we're heading. I'm not sure web devs will even be writing HTML in 5 years beyond adding a canvas tag.
I am german and have some polish friends. They are among the most liberal people I know, sometimes a bit crazy, but always open for new developments and people. This is why I find it so strange, that all the Poles I know seem like a direct contradiction to the current government of Poland.

I always supposed, that the liberals ind Poland are more open towards migration to Germany or the UK, so that the ones that are staying tend to be a bit more conservative. Do you think that has something to do with it, or are other factors more important (despite all the criticism, the PIS does seem to care more about families and general social security)?
over 300MB per open tab is not a windows bug. Opera 12 does "legacy" Gmail just fine in ~5MB of ram.
> under President Trump, who has been willing to build alliances with foreign powers to conspire against his own country.

Say what you want about Trump, but he loves his country
The Linux Documentation Project, not to be confused with The Linux Kernel Documentation (https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/).
This is something I've been struggling with as an African who likes to travel. It seems to me that the thinking now in developed countries is that you don't need to hate the "others," but you don't need to trust them either. I've been wondering whether this is the reasonable middle ground to expect in terms of bias towards "others."
For the record, my submission of the article above doesn't mean that I think Poland is not liberal in any way (I'm Polish by the way). I just found the article pretty in-depth and interesting thus worthy of posting here.
I'm struggling with a similar question myself as I'm in a job I really like, but would like to take some side projects for the added income.
I'm don't want to "stir the boat" with my employer, so I don't know what's the best way to do this without using my real name.
Yes but Ambien doesn't have a side effect of gifting the taker racist views.
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Say what you want about Trump, he loves himself.
They're struggling to meet production goals even with the staff burning the candle at both ends, and using a highly automated assembly line. What could they do to be more efficient? I'm sure Musk would love to hear if you have an idea.
This argument also justifies not hiring women if you consider a female perspective (whatever that is) to be less valuable.

I would rather reject the premise that someone's perspective is a function of their gender. Not least because it would concern me to find myself sharing a premise with sexists.

Furthermore, if you want to hire someone with a particular perspective, using gender as a proxy for it rather than testing if the candidate has that perspective directly looks like poor hiring practice.
Don't think that's the main highlight of the paper but sounds good i guess.

It's about soccer matches played by androids as far as i can see
The main problem is, even though the government is fairly bad, the opposition is just as bad.

Mainly, the PR and political agenda of the opposition just doesn't exist. The recent political ideas of the opposition are just the government's ideas with a small twist.

So yea, we are fighting them, we're protesting, but we don't have seriously viable well organized alternatives, which is why they'll probably win again.

Fortunately, they're becoming less anti-EU as time passes, which gives me hope, that at least we'll be heading in the overall EU-wide direction.
Thanks for the correction !
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Some people take this freedom for granted because they were born with it and can't imagine it was ever different.
Hey, I've been in software forever. All this scrum, agile, new fangled terms is just work. Call it what you want, but it's all just work. Do work and you'll get done, no matter the process. Do great work and you'll never have to look at it again.
It's not amusing at all. It's incredibly spot on. Alexa has very limited knowledge and 0 interpretation skills, but, worse than all, behaves as if it does.

(note that, in a sense, a book has very limited knowledge and 0 interpretation skills, but its behaviour is passive).
Unless you use an Addon like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/always-previe...
48 yo surgeon here - be careful, bc without board certification, you'll limit yourself to who will let you work in their clinic. You're getting paid for residency, just do two more years, get your FP / int med certification.

As an aside, I went to UNC Chapel Hill 1992-1996 and it cost $2k/year tuition. Now it's $20k. We've had a shift in attitude in this country of "why am I paying for something that benefits someone else," but it's going to bite us in the ass down the road as intelligent / hard working people say "why should I accumulate debt to work that hard? I'll just choose something else."

General Surgery and OB/Gyn have gone from being the hardest residencies to get, to now only requiring you graduate from medical school. The hours and the pay are the reason. Orthopedic surgeons get $1000 to put a scope in a knee and scrape a little whereas general surgeons get $400 to take out an appendix in the middle of the night. Ortho is hardest residency to get.

I was top 25% of my class and if I tried to become a surgeon 10 years earlier, I wouldn't have. Most older surgeons were top 1% of their class. My senior partner was, and man is he super smart. Anyway, I still love my job, but the hours suck (80/week). Society benefits from my service (returning sick people to the workforce) and taxes I pay ($200k / year). Not too bad return on investment, imo.
>> People of Jewish faith had strong privileges in Poland

No offense, but are you one of these people for whom "not getting lynched" is a "privilege"? If not, then what actual privilege(s) do you have in mind, that Polish jews would have but no other Poles?
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I think it is important to distinguish between Google, Alexa and Siri. The privacy ramifications are in bold relief. Using Google or Alexa in your home is essentially allowing privacy-invasive tracking into your every conversation while Siri is just another UI that is an extension of your devices. The privacy implications of Alexa and Google can’t be overstated. For the privacy inclined, Siri is the only option.
Or maybe something like the box from Hellraiser? ;)
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Not sure this is true.

For example, from what I have seen for British citizen, the process is exactly mirrored: Russians have to go through the same process to go to UK as Brits have to do to go to Russia.

Still a shame though. I must have gone through the process the author of the post mentioned at least 10 times in my life, it's not fun.
I agree. The system is set to means test in a backwards looking fashion rather than a forward looking one. I don’t think that makes much sense. I don’t especially see why a future-hedge-fund worker ought to get free tuition even if his parents don’t make much money.

That said, insane cost growth is obviously the overwhelming issue in education over everything else. Almost any system that reins that in is going to be superior to one that doesn’t—-even if it is otherwise less fair.
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Translation:

"We'd really really like to go back there, and we are willing to do whatever they ask of us (proven by all the reported ways in which we tried to convince the Chinese leaders to let us back in), but it's still their call whether or not to let us in, so what I'm trying to say is we're just "exploring" the option."
Spoken like someone who has recently learned git but doesn't have extensive experience using it in a production environment. Or perhaps I'm just becoming more cynical with age.
>Polish jews would have but no other Poles?

pretty sure it was meant "privileges compared to other countries" and not privileged compared to Poles
Facebook has about 45,000 employees today. I'm sure they can manage.
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I've been very happy with Cinnamon for a while on Mint 18.x, and since I upgraded to Mint 19 last night, Cinnamon is even better. It's just a bunch of small improvements all over, that just make the overall experience that much better.
Yes it is.

Customers are opting to go where the food is cheaper, and the drinks are more expensive. That's why it is that way.

Restaurants would love to have higher margins on food.
Publicly funded MDs means they aren’t as well paid. It’s no longer a super privileged class who took a great financial risk they must be rewarded for. They are paid well, just like an engineer. But I’m sure if you look at what a Danish doctor earns you’ll see one reason why healthcare is cheaper to produce there.

Once higher education is a public service and not a personal investment, there is much lower returns expected.
I never use the true HN site other than for comments now, the hckrnews.com interface is just so good!
We're going to need a lot of buttons for all this functionality. Perhaps we could group them all together on some kind of hardware device that we could keep on our desk and use the interact with our computers. Maybe laptops could have them built in?
> Aramco IPO going nowhere fast

Why? Could you elaborate on this please?
I would be more radical and add them as a part of the language, the way map is now. AFAIK, Wirthian languages like Pascal and Oberon all have sets as built-ins, with +, -, and * operators defined on them, and Go is heavily inspired by them.
Honestly, everyone loves themselves, Trump is just "a little bit" more vocal about it than the most of us.
Strangely, Poland was left largely unafected by the Black Death so the cause of this social arrngement wasn't there.

The high regard for peasants in Poland contrasted with the neighboring East Slavic countries like Russia probably because of the influence of their Mongol rulers, but in the origin Slavic cultures were quite egalitarian and benevolent.
PHP is very much like Java, only being dynamically interpreted.
Symfony is a very high quality framework, with which can build serious applications.

Python is surely nice looking, but as it allows redefinition of everything at runtime, it is impossible to optimize at compile time. I think PHP, with the recent type strictness functionality, is better positioned for making way to new developments like meaningfull code analysis, (compile time) optimizations and performant JIT compilers.
Python is too dynamic for that, unfortunately. The same holds for JavaScript.

I don't know Ruby well, but I know it is also slow.

The biggest problem with PHP is that it standards library has inconsistent naming. The syntax is very much Java-like.
If PHP would shove the standard library into `LegacyPrelude` (and have it automatically loaded like Haskell) it could improve on that as well. This problem is not as fundamental as the other problems in my opinion, although still requiring a major effort to slowly turn to a new `Prelude`.
New CSS framework
I meant growth wrt to the original purpose of the Web as a self-service publishing platform.
I owned two QSR franchises (Domino's pizza) for many years and our food cost hovered around 33%. Labor cost was about 22% leaving 45% for fixed cost. Once we got the business going (tripled sales after I took over), our profit was 10% on a good week. That meant a slump in sales, leading to overstating and food being just a bit higher than average and we lost money. It's really hard.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Poland#...

Autonomy with regards to administration and official recognition, where in other parts of Europe they were chased away?

When referring to medieval times "privilege" in context of laws has bit different meaning than today.
Well, being able to travel to another country is the real privilege
Please explain, in detail.
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You probably ment until the rise of Nazism and the indifference of the Western powers that be to what was going on in Germany.
> Our proof applies directly to the C code of a network function, and it demonstrates the absence of implementation bugs.

Isn’t this just like a type system? You specify what you want in types, and the type checker complains if there are implementation bugs (the inferred type doesn’t match the specified type).

Of course, this just means that the hard part is now correctly expressing all the invariants (and combinations hereof) of your program as a type/proposition.
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RedHat's business is servers' support: it's quite logical that the desktop they provide is as much as possible similar to the server's configuration because developers will test on their workstation..
So no, I don't expect that RedHat will do this.
That's only the postfix version of unless though, and you could use if the same way. And inversely, you can use unless is its own block, like if.
Ok I get that part. Still, Microsoft is in the same business doing the same things, so to me it would have been natural if it would have been brought up in this context. Just like when there's a post about a new Chrome feature, people start comparing it to Firefox, or when an article about a political decision of country X is posted, people start comparing it to the situation in countries Y and Z.
You are in touch with extreme part of their society, i.e. people adventurous enough to move abroad taking much higher risks; the comfortable ones likely stay at home and vote as their low-risk strategy leads them to. You probably also aren't interfacing with people that were literally pushed out of the country for survival reasons, forced to take menial jobs abroad and experience "2nd class citizen" at full scale either; those might vote against liberal values as well and would prefer stronger state to take care of them.
webauthn is the in-browser API that allows using existing U2F keys, new "FIDO2" keys, built-in "secure elements" / TPMs, and whatnot.

FIDO2, according to https://fidoalliance.org/fido2/ , is the overall project that includes both WebAuthn and CTAP — the latter being the new protocol for talking to the keys.
A hierarchy is not sufficient.

As mentioned in the issue, only a subset of requests made by the component extension should be possible to intercept.
Two words: loop invariant. Implement a system that figures out the right loop invariant given a problem description (expressed however you want), and you will have made a lot of progress.
Summary: massively asymmetrical economic situations of different countries (resulting in massively asymmetrical impetus for citizens to illegally migrate across borders) leads to asymmetrical passport experiences for their citizens.
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