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I think you've forgotten this is HN, a place where operational issues are "easy", till they happen. Then they realize they might actually need to hire someone who has a clue what their doing when it comes operations that don't involve turning it off and on again.
American VC money is distinct from American government money. The same cannot be said for Saudi, Qatar, UAE, Russia, the Central Asian kleptocracies, and to some extent - China, etc.
On a similar note, I'm looking forward to innovations relating to keyboard/mouse input. Without the restriction of a monitor, various advancements could be made to improve how information is entered.
OK, but for whatever reason the powers that be at sqlite sees a need to lampoon codes of conduct even though it doesn't apply to them.

I don't see what they're getting out such an act. If CoC's don't apply to them, then may be they should shut-up about CoC's and focus more other things, like sqlite. Or, speak up about the CoC's in communities in which CoC's actually exist.
None of what you've said explains how a government can offer an annuity more cheaply than a private company.
Sears homes were common up to the 40's as well. More advanced last-mile transportation existed.
I guess what I'm trying to say is by either adding features or moving to a different model, they could reduce the flow of duplicate/bad questions and lackluster/mismatch answers.

One area I wish there were more support in is to aggregate all the knowledge that is split across multiple questions. I think this could be helpful for beginners, but also is extremely specific areas as well.

For example, I imagine that a lot of these bad questions come from beginners. So, aggregating answers about common beginner misunderstandings with a library or system into a wiki page. Or, there could be a "getting started" type page that goes over the basic steps and concepts.

This is obviously getting into the business of writing docs for projects that either don't have them or don't have good ones, but it seems from the existence of stack overflow that this is actually necessary.

Then again, there seems to be tons of questions on projects with really good docs and tutorials. So, maybe you're right and it's just that the people asking bad questions / giving bad answers don't read docs.
I said nothing of how big the split was.

It seems the loud voices about how bad the CoC is aren't actually kernel devs...

But there is atleast one known kernel dev who spoke up about Linus' behaviour, and eventually just quit developing for the kernel.

edit: not to mention those who don't want to touch the kernel because of his behaviour. one guy said the only contributions he makes to the kernel are for his employer. if it wasn't for that, he'd not touch it.
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Mac OS is not Windows :) Apple's never shied away from migrating platforms when they deem it useful, and having things running in a secret lab for years.
> He is basically doing a form of relaxatation similar or equivalent to Lloyd's Algorithm[0], no?

Yes, this is one iteration of Lloyd’s algorithm.

> Would iterating a few times maybe improve results even more?

Yes, it would. Even one more iteration will help, the first steps tend to be the largest, and they usually get smaller and smaller until nearly converged.

One interesting property of Lloyd’s algorithm, though, is that steps don’t get monotonically smaller. If you try to wait for true convergence, sometimes you’ll see large jumps many hundreds of iterations into the simulation. It can be a bit surprising to watch a point jump after all the points have been sitting very still for a while.
Some light category theory is pretty useful (functors, monads, lenses, etc). However, I think it often goes way overboard into premature abstraction territory with many functional programmers. The type tetris required to make some of this stuff compile, and the mental overhead, can easily exceed the abstraction gained.

The category theory should also be viewed as more a close analogy to the programming problem, rather than an exact correspondence. These abstractions sometimes leak, especially in numerical code.

edit: More complex and specialized abstractions are useful on fewer problems than simple, general abstractions. In addition, they have more mental overhead. So you work harder for a less useful abstraction, and you make it harder for others to use and understand your work.
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Overall the idea looks good, but the product looks too cheap, javascript validation? oh perhaps I could do it on my own.

Just hide the details and put some jargons (AI/ML to detect behaviour etc :) and give an enterprise look and feel.
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Pedentically, I don't think the article is talking about a mild (and likely fairly constant) premium on real estate due to the superior weather, more likely it was about the parabolic price increases in the last decade or so. If mainland were Chinese particularly fond of Vancouver style weather it may be important over and above the natural one time premium it provides.

But mainly, I mostly just get irked when people dismiss RE price action in Vancouver because the weather is nice, it is a pretty common technique for those looking for racism.
Wow, what do you do?
> Would I have similar revelations with category theory – maybe write better abstractions?

Maybe, but it's not a given. (Haskell folks might have a different view due to their language being a closer match to the theory)

My sense is Category Theory is one of those things that is useful for explaining things in retrospect, rather than used as a constructive tool. It exposes inconsistencies in your current model, and helps clear up your thinking. John D. Cook wrote a piece on Applied Category Theory which makes the point that theory itself is perhaps less useful than the discipline of thinking categorically [1].

I think Category Theory can guide the design of certain types of tools that deal with relationships. LINQ (in C#) for instance was guided by category theory. If you wanted to come up with a new kind of SQL, category theory could be helpful in designing abstractions that are orthogonal and clean.

But the design of these types of tools remain a small, specialized domain within programming. It's somewhat analogous in my mind to metaclasses in Python: classes are sufficient for the most part, only framework developers will likely ever need metaclasses (to generate classes).

In most day-to-day programming, it seems unlikely that category theory will have as much an impact on practice as does, say, simple principles derived from functional programming. In fact, there may even be negative consequences from over-abstracting your code.

[1] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/applied-category-theory/
The problem I see is that there are literally zero incentives for a company to do that. A company is a "being" that only has one purpose: profits.

Even if your company does try to stick with a moral compass, because of how capitalism works, every other company will swallow you.

I'm not a finance expert, so I always had this question in my mind. Is there any way to avoid that?
I can't think of a way to do that without changing the fundamental purpose of a company.
still the idea behind may be just that
They are developers and participate in various communities affected by CoCs. It's not up to you to decide whether they should or shouldn't speak up about CoCs.
The same can be accomplished by paying them market wages. In addition, it would provide a transparent accounting of expenditures and prevent politicians and union leaders and others from scamming taxpayers like they currently are.
Great feedback, thanks for that!
true but I appreciate objects that speak a bit instead or planning in advance and being in the blind afterwards
>There are too many areas of interest misalignment. Things that can be abused, will, and public pensions are perfectly designed to facilitate these kinds of shenanigans.

probably hedge funds, banks, loans, short selling, maybe even stock markets in general should also be illegal then for those same reasons?
> sharia law doesnt allow women to go to school or drive a car.

The prophet Mohamed said : "Seeking knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim".

there's another hadith that I wanted to post but I couldn't remember it, where the prophet talks about a time a couple of years after him where there will be peace to the point woman can travel a cross the desert on a camel alone, and this truly happened, if Islam had problem with woman traveling alone, he wouldn't mention this, there's a lot of things that people associate with Islam that has nothing to do with Islam, there's plenty of Muslim countries, and they are all different.
I do not know the answer to this question. It seems reasonable that a "committee of experts" would be designated by the politicians for this purpose, but I don't feel confident that one could be sure of the expertise involved, or whose interests would be served.
Acacia produce several chemical defenses. The dust of many species of fabaceae is poisonous if inhalated. Acacia is probably in that group also. All the plant is poisonous, specially the seeds.

Maybe, and I'm saying maybe, you weren't just tired.
Fun doesn't belong in a window manager for daily use, I'm sorry. Cute UI animations have a very strong "Pepsi taste test" effect: when you are just trying them out they look interesting and cool, but over the long term, over daily use, they are distracting and present other disadvantages: all compositing WMs, including those on macOS and Windows, introduce latency that straightforward tiling or stacking WMs lack.
Anyone who thinks America doesn't have a lot of corruption doesn't understand how the world works.

I've been driving around Africa for 2 years now, and at least here it's always really blatant and clear.
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CoCs on their own solve exactly nothing, they're just a tool that's supposed to enable project leadership to solve certain issues more effectively. Whether they actually serve that function is an open question since the practice is still fairly new. I haven't seen any meaningful evidence one way or the other (feel free to provide some).

While I'm sympathetic to the argument that sufficiently large projects should, on average, benefit from some degree of formalization of behavioral norms (whether you call it a code of conduct or something else), the recent trend of insisting (often abusively) that every open source project, however small, should adopt this practice is silly, annoying and has obviously caused a backlash in some parts of the open source community, hence this thread.
> - sharia law doesnt allow women to go to school or drive a car...

You've been listening to a lot of propaganda to believe that. The only country that bans women from driving is Saudi Arabia, and that is far from the only country that applies sharia. Sure, highly conservative Muslims will seek to deny women those rights, but that's based on the same kind of distorted readings as SCOTUS once claiming that African Americans could not be US citizens.
Windows, and the walls they rest in, are basically 2D at their principle point of consumption (indoors, looking out).

Desks provide much more creative value across the first two dimensions than the 3rd: you want the stuff you're working on within sight, touch and arm's reach. "Piling up" is a "storage" or "attention reducing" strategy because you can't work with the piled items or the content with your hands. You largely don't care what they even are unless you're working on them... so pushing virtual representations of work surfaces deeper down an imaginary z-axis makes little sense.

The demos in the video look fun and exciting, and probably justified the applause at the time. I think the desktop metaphor could be worked over. Tablets and phones dropped it from the get-go. But I'm yet to be convinced that visually arranging data across a projected third dimension except when you want to draw the user through (like in a game) adds much to the experience.

The flipping and "piling" you get in Windows and macOS seem like decent uses of 3D. Those effects basically just add+hide 2D surface. It's the vanishing-point stuff that seems gimmicky to me.
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I wonder how they define their SLA though. If only some of the features are down, does it impact the SLA?
this does not change in any way my willingness to take money from softbank. they are an investor in my current company and i will be delighted to take them in the next.

i am really not sure why anyone would consider the interests of their company's fundraising strategy to be less important than that a certain investor has a large LP that is a country that had someone killed.

this will blow over.
Chinese food can be verryyyy oily, but cantonese food tend to be healthier I find. It's possible that he sticks to vegetable dishes or steamed food.
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From my understanding, stunning is still done in the West for producing halal meat- you just have to be careful not to kill the animal, so usually lower-level shocks are used.
It almost certainly excludes any claims at all from any war between major powers - even your car insurance probably says that.
There's also CoCo Fest in Chicago, it's more color computer related but there are model 1-4s there sometimes.
Awesome series!
> If CoC's don't apply to them

From the CoC page: "Having been encouraged by clients to adopt a written code of conduct"

Under my interpretation (not sure if it's the right one - it might as well be satire): "OK, here's a written CoC we abide by", meeting customer demand.

It's interesting that this thing existed for months and only now somebody noticed and created outrage.
That's really nice. I remember having to use Read-Only on a few Raspberry Pi projects because they have a tendency to corrupt SD cards. Getting a free storage performance boost would really improve usability for my past use cases.
There is enough bad to go around: Saudi Arabia and Phillip-Morris have both done things worthy of disrepute.

I don’t know if these banks are public, but maybe it’s possible to find out who their investors are? That information has to be registered with the UK government, and possibly also with the EU.
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Looking over it, I think you may be chasing the wrong market. The only companies I know selling on prem software are large enterprises to other enterprises. It's fine to have a self serve product, but the people who are going to actually want this have a completely different sales pipeline.

Some other notes:

- Name makes sense after you think about it, but is hard to read at first glance.

- Your FAQ's answer on removing the validation code didn't inspire confidence. Give me an out of the box solution to obfuscating the tracking code.
Or it's something using something like cargo (rust's package manager) - and checking if any dependencies have a newer version by checking the package registry (which is stored on github for no apparent reason).
I'm glad dear industry has noticed that Saudi Arabia is an authoritarian country with no respect to rule of law and human rights. I just fear that this awareness might not last for long: big money tend to cause dementia in tech.

By the way, once we're all here: China is an authoritarian country with no respect to human right as well, keep that in mind next time you read (or God forbid write) another fascinated article about Greater Bay etc.
I said I like the idea of ethical banking. I didn't say I agreed that Sharia banking is ethical. My jury is out on that as I haven't looked into it much. Your argument isn't very persuasive anyway: what some countries' interpretation of Sharia law is, is likely to differ a lot from what a bank practices in the UK.
Saying that code of conducts are irrelevant does not imply that the problems supposedly solved by CoCs do not exist or are not problems. This is a point of basic logic. If you feel the need to misstate your case to this extent, it does not help your credibility.
My favorite moments from moderating a small, semi-private video-game related board:

- an administrator completely shutting the board down overnight because of a romantic encounter that went down poorly.

- a prolific troll - who finally finally got enough of his accounts, sub-accounts, and sock puppet accounts banned that he effectively lost access to the site - texting me late at night demanding an explanation for why he was banned.

- people being outraged that we asked them to donate a small amount of money (somewhere around a hundred dollars, collectively) to help run the server, then offering to run it on their spare computer in their basement

- discovering that due to a relatively unknown feature of PhpBB, we had a whole secondary parasite community that didn't show up in user registrations, and that had a whole private forum set up that nobody else on the board was aware of. It was like opening up a basement closet and discovering that it's a secret night club.
I like this blog post, this is the vision of Stack Overflow that I bought into when I started posting. However, it's hard not to read this blog post as a diplomatic pushback to the current efforts of SO leaders to make it more welcoming. Jeff Atwood says that SO is "supposed to involve a healthy kind of minor [...] anxiety".

This section in particular stands out to me:

> This is why I cringe so hard I practically turn myself inside out when people on Twitter mention that they have pointed their students at Stack Overflow. What you'd want for a beginner or a student in the field of programming is almost the exact opposite of what Stack Overflow does at every turn:

> * one on one mentoring * real time collaborative screen sharing * live chat * theory and background courses * starter tasks and exercises

> These are all very fine and good things, but Stack Overflow does NONE of them, by design.

If this were on the official SO blog, I would be very surprised.
I remember when I was about to show off "THE INTERNET" to my mom when I was a kid. Thinking, what can I show, I wanted to show that you can find anything there!

So I just searched for the first thing that sprung to mind and went there.

A page dedicated to the sounds guinea pigs do. Very impressive demo, I would say.
Perhaps. But that's not within the scope of the stat I referenced.

Furthermore, childhood obesity __is__ on the rise. The related illnesses (e.g., type 2 diabetes) consume resources __unnecessarily__. Considering the infant mortality rate in the USA, I'd venture to say, obesity killing children. Please also factor in the dangers associated with obesity and pregnancy.
Some people know more about what is going on, like SA war in Yemen.
I created a new repository at about 9 UTC, and it started to work some of the time at 12 UTC — I've pushed the code from my computer, and pulled it from elsewhere.

However, it's still intermittently failing as of 14 UTC, so I haven't managed a Maven release build yet.
Yeah I used regular as a shorthand but nostly I meant that it would flip edges to avoid thin triangles.
He has a new documentary out soon all about Dieter Rams, called "Rams". https://www.hustwit.com/rams/
That one was a doozy, but this was the final straw for me:

> Lessig walks a fine line between academic and activist

Society doesn't need (and can't afford) more people conflating activism and academy.
I feel like Stack Overflow has gotten less useful to me as a programmer over the years, and these days I more often find the answers I need on a forum geared toward whatever technology I have a question about.

I have a hard time telling whether this reflects a change in developer culture online over the years, or a change in the types of questions I tend to ask as I have become a more experienced programmer.
Density is not really an important metric to end users though. What matters is power consumption and achievable clock speeds but these are very difficult to directly compare between processes unless someone has made the same design on both (as has happened with several phone SoCs dual sourcing from TSMC/Samsung).
This is my take:

Interest is just another term for the time value of money. The time value of money is a fact of life as long as there are opportunities in the world to invest in something that is productive.

Therein lies the problem: you can't explicitly charge interest, but you are still subject to the time value of money.

The only option is to describe/disguise the time value of money in terms that don't bring up interest. That is a juggling act because interest is really the simplest (imho) way of understanding it.

So you get a lot of obfuscation.
It's pretty amazing what you can put them through too.

As a MacBook owner Lenovo's dust tests have me wincing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hazDhYq8YOo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO5LGICeOuk

And the waterproofing is kind of incredible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3xI8dUdm0&t=1650s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmdcutSxmn0

Now that they make a solid, thin, repairable, upgradeable 15" laptop for creative types (ThinkPad X1 Extreme), it's becoming increasingly tempting to switch as a MacBook owner, even if I have to ditch macOS.
How would that work with Wikipedia?

You're looking for a solution that aligns with your thesis. You're not going to find one.
> Is it ok for the government to take 30% but not Apple? Or are you saying the EU should look into EU’s app fees as well? Apple at least provides some value add directly to the transaction and ecosystem.

I'm pretty sure the EU provides a lot of "value add directly to the transaction and ecosystem." They certainly provide more of that than Apple. Good, comprehensive laws and regulations that are consistently enforced are a lot more important to sustaining modern society than producing a smartphone with a mildly curated app store.
I don't think it will be, unfortunately. I think it's important to distinguish between explaining "how the brain works" and "understanding the brain, the mind, and their relationship". There are hundreds of studies every year elucidating correlations between certain kinds of brain activity and certain states of conscious experience. There are also many valiant attempts at modeling various aspects of human cognition and brain function. Unfortunately, none of this research says anything at all about the nature of the actual feelings and experiences we have.

People are taught in school that a sufficient response to the question "how do we hear things?" is to talk about sound waves, the shape of the outer ear, the tympanic membrane, malleus, incus, stapes, cochlea, etc. At some point you arrive at: "and then the brain processes the signal in the auditory cortex and stuff." We have become accustomed to this sort of answer, but it really doesn't even begin to answer the real (and interesting) question: why does all that processing result in the felt experience of hearing, rather than the nervous system just bubbling up and causing a behavior with no feelings? Why does it "feel" that way and not some other way? Is there a different kind of hearing that "feels" fundamentally different from our experience?

My point is that, we are closer to explaining some functional aspects of the brain, but when it comes to explaining the nature and character of our qualitative experience, we are at the same place as the ancient Eastern philosophers - we've really gotten nowhere.
> It is why brands are sold. Someone buying a trusted brand wants to give their product starting levels of trust that it doesn't deserve. It's an effective way of cheating customers.

This seems excessively strong. Another way to view it is as a way of signalling intent (and proving skin in the game). Buying a brand is similar to those expensive and structurally pointless columns on old bank buildings: it proves the company has a put a lot of money on the line and doesn't intend to close up shop a week later.