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>>You're going to have to compromise somewhere. The question is, how and where do you draw the line?

I think in this particular instance, the line is quite clear. I mean, “does not cut people to pieces alive with a hand saw in their own embassy” is a rather easy one to not compromise on.
Steve Wozniak's story of making the Apple ][ floppy disk is an absolute must read, if you have not yet enjoyed it.

https://paleotronic.com/2018/05/19/steve-wozniak-talks-disk/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17101830

The story was included with many other Woz tales in jl's book "Founders at Work"

http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html
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Your comment is like complaining about an island paradise, because there is a violent storm outside.

It's still an island paradise, and the storm will pass.
That seems uncharitable of you.
Newspaper articles and people that live in the immediate neighborhoods report the same thing - entire neighborhoods empty with the yards growing weeds. Condo towers with dark windows all night every night, year round.
you are completely steering the conversation away from what the original topic is. Its not like the post you replied to came out of no where with "I think milk and cheese is best". Most notably lactose intolerance which is not uncommon.
Could you clarify this comment? It doesn't immediately make sense on the surface. Who's being racist and why?
Ah. Be careful what you wish for.

Fact: More people now die as a result of too much food than not enough.

Add on the related (healthcare) costs and we're over-eating our way to more problems we can't afford.
A code of conduct that can be summarized as "don't be a jerk" isn't "social justice", it's just basic professionalism.

The actual CoC, for context: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/code-of-condu...
Computers are war machines. They arguably won WWII, eh? Code-breaking and modeling physics of nuclear bombs.

And today, of course, WWIII is playing out on the Internet and the screens of our phones.

In the general case, from first principles, we have the automation of human intentions. If those intentions are harmonious and ecological, all is presumably well. If those intentions conflict, however, we have automated war: drones and IEDs, and eventually Skynet and Terminators, and then just vast robot wars.

I don't think there's a a stable equilibrium between these two strange attractors.

(FWIW we have technology for harmonizing human intentions. We just have to use it.)
Do you mean people bringing their own compilers with web pages?
Ok, but what about debt, climate change, pollution in the ocean, loss of biodiversity, me busting my 2000 free minutes of CI in gitlab, etc.
that has been done already
I just took the first number I found in the excerpt of an article in my Google results.

Since I can't find it anymore I'll say that my number is very likely wrong and your's is right.

Sadly can't edit my post anymore though.
Such an interesting concept! I just signed up one minute ago so I can't give much more of a feedback but I wish you a great success with this!
You can't. What's needed is a framework and agreed-upon policy of what is acceptable due diligence in the community when taking investment money. Varying degrees of "organicness" for startups - like what you see in the meat section at Whole Foods.
> Did not know about helm. I just installed it and I think that this alone might solve 75% of the problem, thanks!

Helm has a lot of extensions, here are some popular ones: https://emacs-helm.github.io/helm/#helm-applications

> As an example, let's say I'm new to elisp and I am wondering how to insert a character to a buffer

You can use google as with any other software. If you search for 'elisp insert character' with google the first hit is the insertion section of the manual which tells you the functions:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/In...

As with any other software using google you can find things much more efficiently than with the builtin searching functions.
A lot of solutions focused on building itineraries, and to me that is where they missed the mark. Planning and itinerary building is not a hassle, its part of the experience. People like an itinerary made for them, but they dont follow it, cos it feels like work routine. The hassle part is the struggle in finding the relevant information. All the blogs try to cater to everyone and hence arent that relevant for one person (results and articles arent personalized). Then the information is way too scattered so it takes time finding it. Third, most blogs and articles are written from conversion viewpoint so that decreases the reliability. We can solve all three.
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Can you expand on why you think the storm will safely pass? Because by most estimates, the storm is going to stick around for a long time and destroy or make uninhabitable much of the island.
I switched to fortified vanilla soy milk about 2 weeks ago, (from 1% milk), and holy moly what a difference. I have a big bowl of breakfast cereal and milk for breakfast, and also milk in a morning latte and a mid-day latte. Switching to soy milk:

- in 2 weeks I have lost about 5 lbs (all other food, and exercise routines, stayed the same)
- I feel less bloated after breakfast and after coffee

Maybe I was dealing with a slight lactose intolerance, I dunno (is there such a things as a "slight" lactose intolerance??). Anyway, I'm not switching back.
No, but they definitely help. My rule on this is that slides should make it easier to follow a talk and get back on track if your attention wanders. If the slides require extensive explanation then the information is probably better summarized in the talk and laid out in greater detail in a paper.

Obviously a lot depends on your audience. Slides at an academic symposium can be dense enough that you can get the gist of the talk from just looking at the slide deck, slides for an introductory talk on a subject should be more like the list of contents in a book.
Steven pinker wrote about this in 2007. his words still ring true despite an increasingly partisan and negative media and political landscape.
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I mean by paying your taxes you also fund the Pentagon. By publishing research that others can read including military engineer s, you're helping the Pentagon. By supporting things like Veteran Affairs, your easing the pain of those in the military by making it clear to them they'll receive some compensation once they make it out.

And even then, by living in the US, you benefit somewhat from the military defending our borders and being a ward against threats of invasion. I am against most military spending because that ends up inflating contractor salaries, as is our constantly meddling in other countries including other democracies, but so many turn this into a blanket opposition to the idea of the military full stop, which doesn't make sense in our world today, especially when everyone in this country essentially thrives due to it.
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This reminded me of an assignment I had for health class in my senior year of high school to help someone. I chose to encourage another kid in my dorm to go to college after graduation (he wasn't from a family with a tradition of going to college). I would just talk to him about where I was thinking about going and all the different options. By the end of the semester he was talking about going to college too. No idea what became of him, but I like to think I had a positive impact on his life.
isn't this called "transfer learning" and quite common in ML field now?
We were located inside the "Big Art Labs" compound, across the street from the UPS headquarters (next door to The Brewery.) Our specific location was great for not being attractive to the freeloading artists, because there were similar artist intended spaces at Big Art Labs, and they got those freeloaders.

Droplabs started as a web developers space centered around developers using the Drupal CMS. But it soon diversified. I myself was working on my own startup, a animation VFX tech startup. There were periods where the place was packed, but over all not enough to justify the effort. We were not trying to earn a profit, we were trying to create a tech creative community. Simple enough, during the period of Droplabs, the economy overall was not there to grant people that much free time or free income to be active in such a community.
No, it's nationalist. Racism would be assuming all Arabic money is corrupt.
Yes, this is important.

Regenerative Agriculture is ranked #11 in Project Drawdown's list of solutions to climate change, higher than offshore wind turbines (#22), nuclear (#20), or electric cars (#49) [0].

This will be a political battle first and foremost, as so much farming activity depends on subsidy incentives favouring conventional methods.

[0] https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/food/regenerative-agricul...
I tend to agree. I don’t get why people don’t value someone who starts to raise the bar. Even if that’s not high enough, why not see it as something that needs to develop over time?
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As bluntly as you want to state that it doesnt become a better of an argument. What would be your alternative. The above poster seems to have given a pretty clear reason why we would want the military to take on these tasks (variety of skill in personel). Do you have a cheaper better way?

This sound like the most efficient thing that the government has done. Its probably also a good way to instill compassion in our ranks by having them perform civilian tasks. Instead of everyone just being something they shoot or dont shoot in these countries.
As far as I know he was also the last east german to travel to space, or wasn‘t he?
Not really; a ponzi scheme has a very specific definition. A form of fraud in which belief in the success of a nonexistent enterprise is fostered by the payment of quick returns to the first investors from money invested by later investors.

Social Security isn't a ponzi scheme for a number of reasons, first it's not a security. Second there is no nonexistent enterprise. Instead it's structure is entirely that of an government mandated insurance program.
I love that Wilson gives examples of ethical LPs like pension funds and educational endowments. Much of the criticism here is “well if you refuse to take tainted money then the world economy will grind to a halt.” But think of it... if the business community stopped taking tainted money, holding everyone to a high standard, that would be a powerful force to curb human rights abuses in the world. We do have ethical alternatives.
Attitude control is not an example of using quaternions for something else than rotations.
I have a Presto pressure cooker. The blowout disk is a piece of rubber/plastic built into the cap. I have a hard time imagining it getting contaminated in a way that surpasses the strength of the stainless steel lips on the lid/pot.

Its design hasn't changed since 1977.

It's not a tube that a bean could get into. Maybe you're thinking of the vent pipe? When that gets clogged, the overpressure plug is what blows away to release all the pressure.
Not just a speculative theory - a speculative theory that subtly shifts the blame to the young long term unemployed for being unemployed.
I've always avoided Soy as I read a long time ago that it contains plant based estrogen and can be a problem for men like gynecomastia. Of course, I have no idea if that's true or not but I'd rather not worry about it and just pick up Almond milk instead.
Hey HN. While the focus of this driver is not performance as such, a comparison can be found here:

https://github.com/MagicStack/pgbench/pull/2

What's more interesting for fans of type safety is that the driver uses PostgreSQL' extended query protocol to correctly process and encode query parameters to match the required type specification as returned by the database for a given query.

It uses binary mode only which also makes the codebase smaller and provides a significant increase in performance.
I dated a girl who went to MIT at the end of high school, myself as a drop out. If not for her I’d probably not have considered education seriously. “Why would anyone go to more school?” was my attitude. She never pushed me to do anything, but imagining her trajectory was inspiring. She’d had immigrant parents who got educated in the US. 8 years later I finished a bachelor’s degree, full time during my major courses. My path gets no love from the outside, but I am happy with it when compared to outcomes of others sofar from similar backgrounds.
> No, insurance is categorically different.

No.

> It protects you against a loss of some kind,

Social security protects you against outliving your savings when you can no longer work.

> and only provides that protection while you are paying for it.

This is an argument from ignorance. And it's incorrect.
> why would anyone new want to invest in Perl

There's lots of discussion on HN of languages that see less use than Perl. Often the reason people invest in them is that they think learning the lesser-known/used language might offer them a novel view of development or provide extra capabilities in some niche. It isn't particularly different with Perl, although there is the difference that many devs think they already know what they need to know about Perl even if they've never done anything serious with recent 5.x or 6 (or at all).

> Imho they should just fork Perl 6 and continue developing Perl 5.

[insert "what if I told you" meme here]
sf is known for being in the top 5 most expensive cities in occident. sorry to ask, are you really they ignorant of the world outside of the bubble 1 meter around you.
While drought and the water requirements for livestock could have had an impact it is strange that pork was singled out when it uses 1/2 to 1/3 of the water per kilo of dressed weight of lamb or beef respectively.
To latch onto your example: child mortality is at an all-time low but the birth rates are quite low as well so it seems that both things cancel each other out.

One has to wonder if for any positive 1% of such average global improvements there aren't many 5% localized worsenings that aren't shown in the global percentage changes.

> Yes, median would be better than mean.

That's my main complaint about this article.
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I'm sure I will get down voted for this but....

In times past, most parents would have kicked them out of the house and told them to get a job. Now we regularly have parents that let their kids live at home, even when they have high paying jobs (which used to be frowned upon).

There are two issues here:

First supply and demand in the economy. Many jobs that young men used to do have either been exported to other countries or are being done by cheap undocumented labor.

Second, parents that have enabled this behavior. As much as it isn't pleasant, the fear of not having a roof over your head, or being able to eat is a powerful motivator for people to get off the game console and to find a job, even if it is cleaning toilets with a toothbrush. But when you have parents you can coast and play video games, while living relatively stress free life.

The problem is that a leisure economy is not sustainable long term. If the current generation has less wealth, they won't have the luxury of letting their kids stay at home to play video games. As much as technology will eliminate some jobs, it creates others, and the issue is not really a lowered demand for labor. It's that people looking for a larger profit are trying juice the labor markets in the US by increasing the supply of labor to lower the price by exporting production to places with cheaper labor and bringing in more labor competition......and we are seeing the effects of it.

Explanations like this article are akin to being on a ship with a large hole in the front. It is causing it to lean forward but instead of fixing the hole they are re-arranging the furniture on the deck to try to fix the tilt.
That's interesting, thanks for the detailed reply.My point was that their operating expenses are covered by fees for postage and not directly paid through taxes. But now I realize that this is more of a grey area than I had though.
" there is virtually no way to avoid tainted money or unethical markets."

What is an 'unethical market'?

Oil?

Investors who vote for Trump? Or Clinton?

Who support guns? Or who don't?

Are citizens of Saudi Arabia punished because of the actions of their government?

If missiles come raining down on Ridyahd, and Saudi's destroy the locale/group that did it, is this unethical?

It's such a pandora's box.

But I agree it'd be nice to have some transparency.
Neither that article nor this one seem to even mention existing policies?

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/animal-products/dairy/policy...
Minimum wage paid for human capital, inflating the cost of collecting attention/info sold by media companies. Reminds me a bit of brave and attention tokens. It feels like a comparison between libertarian policy and state policy.

Interesting idea, but who would pay a 12% tax for writing a blog post, or leaving a review. I think it would pass the costs onto the consumers, raising the barrier of entry to information liquidity.
I had Chris as an instructor when I was an undergrad. Great guy, super smart.
I live in Seattle, and no it wouldn't.
Yes, also reminds me of wall-e.
What do you mean by "what is happening"? I definitely agree that there's a type of person or group of people further from having attention sold to advertisers, but I don't know what they would be like.

I had a similar thought listening to the radio yesterday: there are some lyrics and themes on public airwaves (like lauding adultery, cooking crack cocaine, etc.) that would have at least generated a little outrage even 15 years ago. But my guess is that many of the people who normally would have gotten on Parents Television Council and written angry letters to the FTC have now just stopped consuming mainstream media broadcasting altogether.

Anything with a non-transparent recommender system (including most digital stores) is still vulnerable to tracking, attention harvesting and paid placements, even if you aren't seeing straight up soap ads. For example, how do you know that the TV producer isn't paying Vudu or whoever to put shows on your front page because you watched show X?
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> Imho they should just fork Perl 6 and continue developing Perl 5.

[insert "what if I told you" meme here]

I meant rename Perl 6 into something else and develop Perl 5.xxxx into Perl 6....
The SF homelessness problem has been in the news for decades. It was made worse by the tech boom, but not caused by it.

Housing costs are largely the fault of the city government, which has pursued rent control and restrictive building policies. As a result of those policies, and the city’s tolerance of homeless encampments all over the place, SF has a significantly worse homelessness problem than its neighboring cities do.
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I applaud Fred’s efforts here. And I hope other firms follow his lead.
To read a file into a string you actually do this:

(with-temp-buffer
(insert-file-contents filePath)
(buffer-string))

but if you work with file contents as strings in Emacs Lisp, you are going to have a bad time, because performance of this is terrible enough for it to easily turn into a problem. So instead you insert-file-contents into the temporary buffer and then do a ton of low-level, error-prone imperative processing on the buffer contents itself using things like goto-char, search-forward, using markers etc. Most of the major emacs packages are littered with code like this, here is one random example:

https://github.com/magit/magit/blob/master/lisp/magit-git.el...

It reads like fortran77 to me.
I said the increase in homelessness was caused by the tech boom. Glad we agree on that.

But it’s weird how you think “tolerance” for camps causes homelessness. Last I checked SF was short on shelter beds.
> Apple autocorrect has gotten worse over the past few years

At least then you can blame it for replacing "become" with "gotten"!
Yes, but crucially, they choose to eat too much. They could stop.

Those who starve never do so of their own will, and would absolutely take the alternative if it was available to them.

As for the healthcare costs, I expect we will see something very similar to what happened with tobacco. A combination of economic disincentives and regulatory measures (no sugary drinks and snacks in schools, smaller portions etc), which will ultimately curb the problem.
> Milk and cheese would be a good candidate for a basic income sort of scheme. Where everyone would be issued milk and cheese vouchers every month that could be exchanged for milk and cheese at the local package milk store. People who didn't want their coupons could give them to people who did. That would create a 'base layer' of milk production and consumption that would keep dairies around but take milk and cheese out of the cost of living equation. I'm sure there are other reasons why this is impractical but the whole problem is fairly intractable as it is without putting farms out of business.

Been there, done that? Government Cheese!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/31/643486297/epis...
Relatively recently it was fairly common to see 3+ generations living in the same house. The norm of young people moving out really had more to do with selling more homes and urbanization than any long term cultural norm.

Lower male participation in the workforce is a separate though 60+ year trend and has a wide range of causes. More education, more stay at home dads, automation, etc. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300001
no, apparently it's 'the blah story' https://theblahstory.wordpress.com/
Spending less SHARE OF INCOME in food means that on average the food is cheaper and/or people are earning more. If you can empathize with people outside the US or Europe, that means that those people that earn $1 or $2 dollars per day all of their income was obviously spent on food. When those people earn $20 per day, they start to buy other goods.

If you reduce the World to the USA, then the problem is indeed worst food. That is currently expressed in the lower life expectancy in the US, compared with the richest countries. But almost any US resident that spends the 10-12% of their wage (world average) in food is going to be correctly feed.

Taller means that your genetics can express to their full potential. It's a very good index from when a country can feed the 100% of the needs of the youngest population. Poor countries malnourishes their youth (not on quantity but on quality) so they don't grow to their full potential height. Their people tend to be smaller. As soon as they become richer their youth starts to be taller. Are you saying that is better to starve the youth to save on future feed or clothings?
I'm personally afflicted by both parties.
This ball was set in motion long ago when we decided it was appropriate to trade our money with these nations for their oil.

If we ever wanted to see that money again, we were going to be doing business with them in the future.

It's not as if we were ignorant of their dismal records on human rights and lack of democracy.

We've been throwing money at oil-rich nations for a very long time, and now they have leverage in terms of buying power. What do we have to offer in return? They can buy our startups, our land, and our weapons.
If you host the page using Apache and ModPerl does the entire thing become isomorphic?
How would you apply this advice to a drug addict or a person who just got evicted?