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but even HN is a skinner box. It rewards you with points for writing comments that people like. Its exactly the same as reddit in that regard.

Yes, social media is used to shape people's thoughts and opinions, same as advertisements, television, newspapers, books, people you're talking to.

So I can only repeat my question, what makes me better than someone else who has facebook and reddit? I am not invincible to operant conditioning, advertisements and people pushing their own agenda on me either
It's great to see honest reporting from the NY Times.

However, one has to wonder: Are they not playing the same game, i.e. behavioural advertising based on users' data?
One way that a lay person can help is with rooftop site acquisition, negotiation, contracts, marketing and presentation materials. Or as labor to install stuff, if it is a real nonprofit. Own a van that you can tie a 18' extension ladder to the roof? Great, you get to be the guy buying 16" concrete blocks from home Depot for the roof mount ballast.
Very interesting stuff!

Is it possible to see a history of a column, table, schema, etc? Is it possible to tag a certain point in time?

It would be liberating for many schema designs that we could just change stuff and be sure that the database knew what was changed and when with the ability to roll changes back.
Just out of curiosity, have you looked into what data is missing? Is the house (or at least the street) mapped, but missing the street name or the house number (assuming you live somewhere where these are relevant), or is the street completely missing?
Do more megapixels mean a better camera?
I think because it would break backward compatability in v1, and not doing that was the Most Important Thing in all 1.xx releases.

v2 is allowed to Break Stuff. So obviously they're going to consider the thing that people have shouted for most in Go... generics and error handling (and package management but they found a way of doing that earlier).
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That's very cool. I never answer calls from unknown or private numbers and check the unknown phone code at https://areaphonecodes.com/mexico/ to be aware what area the person is calling from. Tracking phone activity would be very useful option.
Yeah, I do flag stuff from time to time, but I wasn't sure when I got the ability to do so.
Focus, long press "n", "g", enter.
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Ask HN: Why does everyone wants to hire only the genius developers?
Everybody wants to hire a ninja developer - the 10x one - the genius programmer.

Who's going to hire the mediocre ones? What are they doing now? Who should hire them? Or should they just drop their profession/passion and do something else? Or should they just keep being rejected and humiliated all the time?

Isn't it just a normal thing - that there are developers of all skill level - and just like in any other profession - they all have their own places to fill in the industry?
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> were built by young men who couldn’t conceive of all the ways things could go wrong

False. They knew exactly what they were doing. I know because Jaron Lanier and Sean Parker were there.
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I wish they actually did... can't open the newspaper anyday now without this twerp popping up all the time.
"Your only comments on HN seem to be to criticize RISC-V."

And in that, he's not alone: have you looked at RISC-V ISA? Compared to MC68000, it's exceptionally retarded, even more so when compared to OpenSPARC. Extremely dumb ISA.
We have tables with 5B rows and don't use partitioning (yet). I do recommend testing and optimising the vacuum settings for large or often updated tables.
My opinion: these drugs are dangerous, and should only be used as an absolute last resort. I had the common reaction of damage to connective tissue - my tendons became painful and weak all over my body, to the point that at one point it was difficult even to walk. I couldn't sit in a chair because the pressure on my hamstrings was so painful. Also my skin thinned all over my body to the point where I was nicking through the skin on my palms every 5 minutes whilst gardening. Thankfully my tendons and skin have recovered somewhat, but are not what they were. I also have chronic reflux issues that came on at the same time, and which I strongly suspect are related to Cipro. I'll repeat my advice to add to all the others: do not take these drugs unless the alternative is horrific!
It's pretty bad for non english content.
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Indeed, I'm aware of those and they are great.
> That's great, are you using these?

Not often. In Common Lisp I don't have to use them.
I think HN does a better job of moderating than most. The times I do see dissenting views getting the boot is when the person can't manage to air those views without being a shithead. If you're a solitary voice for a perspective it can be hard to find the balance of force and civility necessary to get your point across, but it is important.
Socrates already thought of some... and yet here we are, with people being born as ignorant and uneducated as ever.
I've used the GPL3 version of Lamson in the past - nice to see that someone continued development on that version in a fork.

I have since switched over to aiosmtpd [1], a Python 3 based SMTP server using asyncio that was developed by Barry Warsaw and friends.

[1]: https://aiosmtpd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
This is is something I have wondered about when an open source s3 solution would arrive. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing, I'll look into this one as well. And researching these drugs is rather interesting, there has only been very limited papers due to bans on active substances.

Also channels like: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvRQKXtIGcK1yEnQ4Te8hWQ are interesting to see people take these substances, but still everyone can have different effects from the same thing.
What are these so-called "black" companies? It sounds intriguing.
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I've seen some of the 'high profile' people within my tech stack offer code review. You could find someone who has a blog or does talks in your given area and see if this is something they actively advertise (or just ask them).
Less tourists, but also significantly more well-behaved cyclists. Amsterdam is notorious for cyclists and pedestrians alike ignoring traffic lights and road rules. Amsterdam is the exception rather than the rule.
This is a promising sign.

Some children begin to exhibit behaviors resembling that of addiction when separated from their social media accounts, and in my experience, many parents don’t take it seriously.
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But what percent of people actually use these features? I would assume it's in the low single digits.
Being a non-native English speaker (edit: my native language is French) leaving in South-East Asian I can attest to two things:

- peoples accent improves in the first months of them practicing (with you).

- my understanding of non-native English speaker (Thai, Japanese, Indian, Chinese, etc) improved in weeks of exposure.

So I don't think anti-discrimination laws are harmful. The situation may not be as confortable for a few weeks but eventually it does not get on the way of productivity.

edit: added my native language, French
I think it could be pretty cool for concurrency.

Branch off, do some queries, inserts/updates and then merge back in
How would this, in effect, be different from any serious backup service in existence today? I'm sure they do their backups of your backups on tape, and at least rsync.net is willing to ship physical media with your data to you.
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After this Proton/Tesonet/Luminati fiasco, I would stay away from ProtonMail.
Well if it's not good for a corporation then that's that, case closed, pack it in boys, we're done here.
Yes. When submitting an extension on the Firefox Add-Ons store, the extension is validated by a human (you need to provide the source and steps to build the extension if the submitted package contains minified code). It can be frustrating sometimes to wait hours or days for the extension to be published compared to the Chrome Store where it is almost instant. But from a user perspective, I prefer it that way and Mozilla seems to care more.
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Not to mention you can't trust "education" to be true unless you can verify yourself that it is true. So much education is just propaganda.
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Templates can do a lot more than generics can, but come with corresponding downsides.

Templates are basically a form of copy/paste style substitution with fancy bits. When you instantiate std::vector<char> in C++, the compiler creates an entirely new class with "char" substituted in everywhere the type variable appears. This class has nothing in common with std::vector<MyStruct> - there's no common superclass, the compiled code may or may not be shared depending on low level details of your toolchain and the types involved, etc. That in turn means if you want to write a function that works for any std::vector you must also use templates, and your function will also be substituted, and your final binary will also have many similar-but-different copies of the compiled code, etc. However because of how C++ templates work you can achieve some pretty astonishing things with them. In particular you're getting code compiled and tuned to the exact data type it was instantiated with, so you can go pretty fast with certain data layouts.

Java generics seem superficially similar but in fact are different. In (erased) generics, a List<Foo> and List<Bar> are exactly the same class at runtime. They're both just List and both just contain objects. The compiled code is the same, you can cast between them if you know what you're doing, etc. Likewise if you write a generic function that works for any list, there's only one copy of that function. Generics have different tradeoffs: they're less powerful (you can't write a regex library with them for instance), and they don't auto-tune themselves to particular data types ... at least not until Project Valhalla comes along ... but they're backwards compatible with pre-generic libraries at a binary level and they avoid an explosion of compiled code bloat, which is a common problem with templates.
> The Dutch seem so carefree.

I think the helmets are a big part of this.

If you go around telling people, "Body armor required," then they are not going to feel laissez-faire.

The other side is the presumed liability on the part of the car. Cars have almost all the responsibility to ensure they do not collide with a bike in the Netherlands. That makes cycling more pedestrian, you can just go and overall not worry about things around you.
Thanks for the link, I'd not heard of EMI techniques before, they look interesting
Every startup founder or CEO believes his or her company is The Best and should hire only The Best, and they write their job ads accordingly. However, almost all of them are wrong (statistically, this must be true).

Treat listings demanding 10x genius ninjas the same way you treat shampoo commercials that promise a revolutionary transformation of your hair. It's puffery, nothing more.

Aim to be competent and responsible as a developer, but don't be afraid to talk yourself up if that's what an employer wants to hear.
Smartphones and tablets replaced laptops and PCs entirely for many people and partially for the rest. You have a limited amount of time and budget, that's why it has to replace a current device(smartphone, laptop, tv). These devices already got all our time.
Any openings left?

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/MpA2HVftSFntl9HhmhlQA3MEjIU=...
No one does a stupid tweet on weed like they might on alcohol,” he said. “The most that happens is that you get lazy and eat badly.”

Is just one sentence illustrating the general lack of depth in this article. Already starting with the reporter, seemingly never having tried any of the mentioned drugs, rejecting the possible effects they could have on beforehand and without first-hand experience. Erm, is this reporting?

Also, just cherry-picking here as other commenters are already pointing out other mistakes, but with respect to weed: saying the most that happens is 'get lazy and eat badly' is so extremely misguided I can hardly believe anyone says that. The most that happens to me is close to a full trip on mushrooms for instance, thoughts going everywhere, creativity all over the place, extremely detailed self-reflection, sometimes profound dissociation, including visual and auditory hallucinations. Granted that depends on dosage, circumstances, tolerance, way of administration, but it does show that the 'just weed' sentiment needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
Why is it linked to an affiliate website and not coursera itself?

EDIT: here the original coursera link: https://www.coursera.org/learn/model-thinking
If you have modern energy-efficient lighting, it uses very little power.
I think what the person is coming at is the question whether people in Victorian times had read and revered books as much, had alternatives like television and the internet existed back then etc.

And I personally agree with his sentiment, that they would obviously not do that, it's just a form of romanticism and cultural pessimism.

Most average people read books in the past because it was an average thing to do back then. It being the most accessible medium etc

The remaining question should then be if our new media are lacking something compared to old media and if it's a ~bad~ for them to be lacking.
There's been a few high profile cases of e.g. the van luring kids with puppies or the abduction and rape from the street, but those are edge cases - most cases of pedophiles are from e.g. teachers and family. People you trust and drop your guard around. Not "stranger danger".
You probably know already, but it's worth mentioning that drinking too much water can be deadly. There have been deaths in water drinking contests too.
Adjust the loss rate and the point stands, though.
> Ringing your bell is rare and mostly used to notify other cyclists.

And tourists, who wander onto the bike lanes without realizing it. Mind you there's a lot of cramped and busy areas where it's far too easy to do so.

If you visit Amsterdam, look at the ground, stay off the red pavement unless you intend to cross it, in which case you look both ways and do a firm walk across it.
This looks great. Thank you for creating it and sharing it
> part of the traffic codex that seems to be unknown to literally all British drivers is the one that says "pedestrians have priority over cars making a turn"

They have a very efficient system for reminding fellow road users, though. Two fingers in the air slightly apart, a pedestrian’s walking legs upside down, indicating the priority reversal.

People are generally very receptive to this, because it is quintessentially British to understand you have to live together harmoniously to get ahead in life.
Against treats to that identity.

Through most of the history, the threats were imaginary, and it was conservative majority who oppressed other people.

Recently however, in places like Bay Area, the conservatives are no longer a majority, and consequently the treats became quite real, see e.g. https://www.scribd.com/document/368692388/James-Damore-Lawsu...

I don’t think the right way to solve this is oppress, stamp out, or discriminate people positively or negatively. The right way is promoting tolerance (the good one i.e. civilized behavior towards people despite different positions, not the bad one that says everyone must express the only true position), and most importantly following the laws.

Democracy + judicial system worked OK for centuries. IMO it’s the only working mechanism invented so far how a society can function despite different people have different identities and beliefs.
> The UK has many sharia courts which act as marriage and divorce authorities, where women often have far fewer rights than men. (This sounds hysterical and far-right-ish, but it’s true)

Point out one of these Sharia courts on Google maps please.
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Ok. So I spent a while on https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ and in particular on https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/ trying to find documentation on deleting your app. Wasn't very successful, and the search-box on the site wasn't very helpful either. In fact, the most useful documentation I could find on deleting a facebook app as a developer was on stackoverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9962072/how-can-i-delete...).

Perhaps someone who is a facebook app developer can chip in to say if this info is in their docs somewhere...
Sorry about the toes, but identifying with a programming language will always get you into trouble. My gut is fine, thank you very much.

They're C heads, trying to build a simplified C; at least they were, they sort of messed that up with garbage collection, wild west threading and using reflection for all the wrong reasons.

Sure, now the tone is different. But back in the days when the language was first released, they would make fun of anyone mentioning generics or exceptions.
could you share some info about the vacuum settings ? especially for tables that have bulk updates
you may think your not invincible, but you can see the box and you live outside of it...
thats what is better...
there was an old ben wicks comic that comes to mind, two rats are in a cage one rat says to the other, hey look every time i push this lever they get really excited and come running with food [Re: 2 scientists inlabcoats]

...when you see the box for what it is, you can manipulate the manipulators..
If you look back at the reviews and award listings of the 40s to 60s you'll see all kinds of critically acclaimed best-selling novels by feted authors.

All of which have been completely forgotten now.

Fiction has always been faddy and ephemeral. The idea that it has to be immortal to be worth anything is rather Victorian.
I had to maintain one, would not recommend it as a general pattern. Most of the problems might as easy have to do with the original author and his experience in writing such an application (and hence choice of PHP for this task). But this post also springs to mind: https://software-gunslinger.tumblr.com/post/47131406821/php-...
> If you instead could add an interface constraint on T (like for example C#/Java/Typescript allows) it would be clear from the contract that this interface defines all the required functions on

Then you just have a 4th possible spot for an error. I don‘t see an essential difference between considering the function definition as the reference and having a contract (where typos are possible as well), just the latter being cumbersome and superfluous.
I'm about halfway through this now, but great read. Thank you for the link.
I'm currently employed by a company to make custom add-ons for Sage 200 (the accounting software).

Sage 200 is written in C#, but has SDKs for both VB.NET and C#. My boss has only really used VB.NET, so that's what we're using.
I'd say that the line is getting a bit blurred. Does literature specifically have to be something written? If yes, then is a screenplay literature? A blog post?

Jonathan Franzen is turning his books into TV series. And the writing on long-form TV shows follows a similar sort of depth and narrative fashioning as conventional literature.

But I'm not really the expert on this topic. I should get my wife to comment here.
Interesting! I actually wrote https://github.com/SjonHortensius/LRTEditor to replace CM, but the many subtle browser bugs eventually forced me to abandon it. Do you expect to use shims and possibly let browser-vendors fix bugs/inconsistencies you find?
Giving kids the choice to seamlessly switch classroom should be enough for most of them. Anyway, classrooms as they are right now, are in themselves a rather flawed concept. And we’re already at a deep level here. At an higher level, parents should have vouchers equal to their tax spending that it’s directed toward to schooo to spend at the school of choice. See Steve jobs’ interview on education for more on that.
There are good and bad abstractions. In my experience good ones are usually grounded in math. Used the way they are intended generics/parametric polymorphism should reduce your cognitive burden. Eg. having a single, well defined and tested abstraction like Set that is type safe and its operators can work on any type it can contain is surely a good and worthwhile abstraction. The same goes for parametrically polymorphic functions that need not know about the concrete types they operate on and with the proposed contracts they can optionally require that its argument types possess a given constraint/capability like equality.
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And V8 isn't a realistic implementation of JavaScript for production work?
Luckily, you would have a hard time to mark something as off limits on the net.

You can censor the prevalence of something on a specific platform, but users will always be able to link to any content, if they choose to do so.

You would also fail to make the internet safe for children. I know, children do stink, but they are probably better at locating information they are looking for than their parents. Only direct parenting can help here because there is no feasible technical solution.

So we could draw lines all day and it wouldn't really matter anyway.
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DDG users sound an awful lot like evangelists.

You could do both privacy and good search results without using DDG: startpage.com

You can also have at least as good privacy (better in my opinion) and better search results (again, in my opinion) with other search engines: qwant.com

What is it those two examples doesn't have that DDG does have? The evangelist feel of DDG really turns me off and I'm sure it scares many off from ever looking at it. It is a bit like listening to Apple fans talking about Steve 'The Juice' Jobs.
> The video game world is disconnected from reality, involves long story lines, planning, strategy, skills that you can learn.

Maybe your video game world. The vast majority of games sold out there, across the years, were games like PacMan, Super Mario, FPS shooters and flash games similar to Candy Crush.
All you've done here is create an outrageous caricature in your head to argue against.
Most/all of these issues are immediately solvable if your family can afford private education.