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Hawaii is in a unique position because there are still plenty of native Hawaiians around. They arent a native tribe recognized by the U.S. government and some number (most in my mind) dont want to be. Because the overthrow of the last government of the Kingdom of Hawaii was done under shady conditions (basically the sugar barons formed a provisional government and then told the U.S. that they'd like to become a part of the U.S. They did this to join the free trade area that U.S. states enjoy to lower their shipping costs. They had actually tried this once before and then President Grover Cleveland shut them down. He stated that Hawaii had an existing government and seemed to have popular support of the people. But later they tried again and that time the U.S. agreed to annex Hawaii. It was operated essentially as a colony from then on until the 1950's.

So Hawaii is a normal U.S. state. It has state legislation. It obeys federal laws. Except, occasionally native Hawaiians will stand up about some issue. And when that happens, sometimes everyone else will bend toward their perspective. A lot of normal people do so out of respect for native Hawaiians. Politicians do it because it is politically tough to stand in opposition of Hawaiians. As a side note, there are very few republicans in Hawaii. There are none in the state legislature or U.S. representatives. There are a growing number of republicans that grow from the strong military presence.

The thing is, when Hawaiians protest its hard to figure out who or how many they represent. Because there is no official Hawaiian government. (There is the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). But dont even get me started. lol) So no one can say "Hawaiians dont want the thirty meter telescope (TMT)". You can only say, "those people protesting over there dont want the TMT".

My instinct is that a large amount of this particular protest springs forth from the students of the University of Hawaii. When people started talking about the telescope students started to organize, hold meetings, and invite speakers. At one point the students built an ahu which is a an altar built out of stones right in the main field when you come upon the university, next to the president's office.

The University is probably too scared to remove it. Months later the students planted trees around it. It'll be there forever. Some say that native Hawaiians came to some professors at the University and asked them to help organize but that the core of the anti-telescope movement are native Hawaiians. Its impossible to say. There has never been any kind of survey or vote of native Hawaiians- which itself would be impossible as there is no real registry of native Hawaiians.

This was a long way to say, the only reason this went court was because of protest that, at least in part, included some native Hawaiians. No matter what the court decides, nothing is certain. It could still be slowed for years or indefinitely. If Hawaiians block the one road up the mountain, and are willing to get arrested on a daily basis, its hard to imagine that any politician would back the continued construction.
Never disagreed with that. I'm just objecting to the usage of "innocent" in this context.
Why is this the case? No one has bothered to do it? It would break backwards compatibility? Linus thinks it's a bad idea?
Until those disgruntled ex-employees run to the blog outlets of the web and make a viral story about Google being mean.
Marcus Rediker has some interesting scholarship on pirates, and expanding it out a little into the result of mercantile capitalism creating a new proletariat Linebaugh and Rediker's "Many Headed Hydra" is a good read:
http://www.beacon.org/The-Many-Headed-Hydra-P1017.aspx
I believe the number of good software engineers numbers in the thousands. This is completely anecdotal, and I have no studies to back up this claim. The longer I've been in industry, the more I've come to believe that the number of good software engineers seems to remain fairly constant over time. I also contend that more than fifty percent of developers are bad, and shouldn't be programming.

Given those margins, finding someone who actually is impressive is difficult. Most projects are not that interesting, are rehashes of something that's already been done, or are just poorly designed and executed.
My carry-on and camera bags have a pouch for this size laptop, originally the 11” MBA. The bags only cost a hundred each so I am not putting a large dollar value on a laptop that fits.

The smaller laptop is lighter, and when we have airlines aggressively enforcing 4kg limits on carry-on, every gram matters. I put my chargers in checked baggage, while my camera, lenses and laptop live in carry-on.

An extra 200g of laptop means leaving behind part of my camera. Not price sensitive about one-off purchase, but I am price sensitive about more frequent purchases!
For Python I use WatchTower to specify the name of the log group/log stream.

For C#, I use Serilog to specify the log group and stream. Another benefit of using Serilog, is that you get structured JSON logging with name/value pairs that you can use the JSON filters in cloudwatch abd you can send them to a NoSQL data store like Mongo and ElasticSearch and do more advanced queries than just regex expressions.
How a lie about George Soros and the migrant caravan multiplied online
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>>means I don't think that distinction is important (at least not to me).

and you would be in the minority of business users. We had major issues with Lenovo discontinued the Bottom mount connector and moved to a cable based unit, users complained ALOT about having to plug in a single cable.

>if that's what "business device" means

It is not the only factor but it is a factor

>. When I think of "business device" I think of portability and power -- "workstations", not necessarily whether they have docks/port replicators.

No, portable workstations are a class of unit all to their self, most portable workstations are "business class" however

Business or Enterprise vs Consumer is

Dell Latitude Line (Enterprise) vs Dell Precision (Consumer)

ThinkPad branded (Enterprise) vs Lenovo Branded (Consumer)

Generally speaking the consumer products do not have enterprise features including docks, hardware /driver standardization / deployment packs, cheaper in build quality, and a variety of other things that make them enterprise systems
In any scenario the state, meaning the group that hold a monopoly on the use of force, will remain very powerful, however with decentralized platforms the cost of enforcement for several classes of laws increases dramatically and the set of activities that can be done anonymously, which makes then much harder to restrict, becomes much larger.
Hi, I just replied to the original comment but no there is no Hawaiian tribe. Many (most?) Hawaiians dont want to be a recognized tribe because they consider themselves a nation within a nation.
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If an accountant screws up, you're not likely to hire the same accountant again.

You might come back to a restaurant if you enjoyed your experience. The incentive is to give you as good a meal as possible. If you're hungry, you won't come back.

Doctors have a more concrete job to do. There's plenty of malpractice in the medical industry, by the way.

Psychiatry? It's much less concrete what a patient's needs are than other forms of business. It's perfectly reasonable for someone to bring up a potential conflict of interest there.

Equating things at random which don't make logical sense doesn't invalidate the point someone is trying to make.
> The articles says that Sun Yi wrote around 20 letters, does this mean there are ~19 other people who got a letter but said nothing? It makes me wonder who often this kind of thing is tried but gets no response from the recipient of the letter.

Not necessarily: Some of the letters could have been intercepted in China. Others could have made it to people who cared but were less successful in getting media attention. Still more could have been destroyed, unread, with unsold inventory.
+1 definitely know a few people who somehow (total mystery to me) their brains are on fire when using. Similarly have opposite examples... It just seems to work differently for differently people.
It seems interesting to compare/contrast this Tree-Sitter toolkit/approach with the Language Server Protocol [1] work that VSCode has been taking. My gut impression is that the VSCode assumption that a language's own compiler is often the best source of truth regarding that language, and using an information "onion" of fast "traditional" syntax highlighter augmented with the ability to request a more detailed version from a language compiler/interpreter is a better approach for long-term maintenance reasons, if nothing else.

Admittedly, Tree-sitter has the opportunity to centralize some of the work in incremental parsing that LSP pushes to individual language tooling, but arguably in the modern world of watch-based programming most language tooling is going to feel a need to build it regardless.

The maintenance headache, though, is that Tree-sitter has its own custom grammar DSL, which likely won't look anything like or share anything with the native grammars of the languages it is parsing, and which ultimately has to settle for a lowest-common denominator approach to grammar parsing. Even if it is more sophisticated than so-called "crude" RegEx-based syntax highlighters, it can still at best be a separately maintained emulation of a language's grammar versus the LSP encouraging a language to provide its own intelligence presumably from the very same parser it uses to get work done.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/...
When were the Sumerians a rival power to the Egyptians? The civilizations that followed the Sumerians in Mesopotamia (e.g., Assyrians, Babylonians, etc.) were definitely competitors with Egypt, but I don't recall ever reading about the Sumerians competing with Egypt. Do you have a source for that?
And his talks on the origins of the state (vulgarly summarized as "cities were not to keep barbarians OUT, they were to keep the slave classes IN":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ukte-je8k
The Eleventh Hour: If you think WWI began senselessly, consider how it ended
Ah, you're right! I got my traps confused.

I hadn't tried throwing traps, although I know you can throw everything else; I've definitely done the "assault a room with six people and two weapons; shoot person A, throw weapon at person B, wrench person C, throw wrench at person D, grab a weapon that somebody dropped, shoot E, and throw weapon at F" before. Feels great when it all comes together.
Does it apply to any time you go looking for goods or services?

No, of course not. I eat at restaurants all the time. People will be hungry again shortly, even if fed wonderfully well. There are other things to worry about more, like if they are meeting food safety codes, which some don't.

I did therapy with a military chaplain. I had a really positive experience there. He wasn't being paid by me to deal with me. He was on salary. If I got better, that had no bearing on how much he made.

Some of the best hospitals in the US put their doctors on salary a long time ago. How many tests they order has no bearing on their income the way it can for a lot of private practice.

I have serious health issues and have gotten healthier via alternative approaches. I've thought a lot about what's wrong with modern medicine and I do think the way it gets paid for in the US is part of the problem. That doesn't mean I would never go to a doctor.

I've had lots of medical care and I would have died without it a long time ago, but I also was told at some point "People like you don't get well." When I didn't like that answer, I was scheduled fewer appointments and the rest of the world has since decided to malign me as a nutcase who "refuses" to see a doctor, which isn't the case.

I'm not an anti-intellectual by any stretch of the imagination. Nor do I think you should never seek expert advice. I'm just saying that advice free from conflict of interest is actually very valuable and one of the things offered by things like advice columns.

Example scenario:

If you are crying on the shoulder of some woman friend about your marital problems, you ultimately get divorced and end up with her, you have to wonder if she was really giving you advice designed to enhance your life or designed to enhance hers. You have to wonder if you can really trust her. It's a situation where she probably should have recused herself and told you "I'm not the person to get advice from on this matter. Sorry." But that's often not how it goes.
Syndicate seems very cool! Do you know if it's used by anyone or is it more of a research project at this stage? Am I right that the pattern seems very similar to re-frame [0] in Clojurescript? It seems like it might be an excellent way to develop web apps, especially since I see there's a javascript version as well.

[0] https://github.com/Day8/re-frame
AVs throw these all the time, for all kinds of applications and tools. They're triggered by patterns and signatures in the executable that "may indicate malicious behavior", etc., heuristically. It's in the AV vendor's interest to be overzealous and have lots of false positives rather than to have a single accidental false negative.
You don't need a church to express social disapproval.

There are lots of behaviors that are not illegal and not against religion that we still use social feedback to minimize.
> effort alone is commendable

I think this is where things fall apart for me, and I suspect others. I don't see effort, by itself, as commendable.

Projects like these usually have the goal "can I do this too?"[1] The answer is always an obvious "yes", since it's been done before. The effort to learn something is commendable, but the act of learning is rarely "impressive".

> No matter how successful, reliable, or loved a piece of software is, inevitably other developers will not value the time, effort, and craftsmanship that went into building it.

Come on now. This can only be true if he himself has never been impressed with anyone else work.

HN is filled with professionals who will be quick to give, usually helpful, critical feedback. I would go as far as to claim "wow cool" feedback doesn't contribute to the discussion, especially if the only purpose of the project was to complete a learning exercise. If others are like me, I'll often read in amazement, maybe try out the code, rather than fill the comment section with congratulations, which would rightfully be down voted.

[1] ~20 projects for getting Python in the browser: http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~strombrg/pybrowser/python-bro...
Oceans warming faster than anticipated, study finds
I talking about the original comment I was responding to. You specifically said that it "imputes innocent people as criminals". This implies that they are innocent which they are not.

I never said that it shouldn't be legalized/decriminalized, I'm just objecting to the usage of "innocent" to describe these people.
I was super inspired by this when it first came out. I considered doing one for paintings/painters then realized how much effort it would require. I love sites like this...the passion John has for the woodblocks shines through the site.
If you haven't seen this until now, it's an assemble-it-yourself 8-bit computer made entirely with TTL chips (no microprocessor). Pretty impressive work, and a good way to learn about basic processor architecture.
I don't know if it's an effective tactic, but when a desperate, oppressed person chooses to peacefully martyr themself as an act of protest, dismissing them as a "dangerous lunatic" seems deeply short-sighted.

And it has so little to do with Jim Jones brainwashing and murdering 900-odd people that I'm really not sure why you brought that up.
I currently work for one of the big agencies behind astronomical observing, and my boss was telling me today (an hour before I show him this article) about the unnecessary amount of environmental hurdles this project has gone through. And he mentioned that during the protests that occurred at the construction site, equipment was actually vandalized.
Yeah, don't use the web UI. An alternative to awslogs is saw, https://github.com/TylerBrock/saw. Me likey..
I was just there today! For those that want to see it:

https://instagram.com/p/BpnL2Y1AtlR/
A Natural History of Beauty
Open-source governance without foundations
They didn't need them. If you remove the vowels from your sentence you will find that you will probably still be able to read it. Modern Hebrew and Arabic get along just fine without vowels. Children's books in Hebrew do have the vowels since the kids don't know yet how to pronounce the words, but gradually they kids grow up and the vowels are gradually dropped out until they can read without them just like adults.
There are interesting questions about how bad this is compared to executive shenanigans in other major corporations.

There are going to be men who just like money and power, but there are also going to be stereotypical men who seek out money and power to translate into creating sexual opportunity. Presumably Google is not going to have an unusually skewed executive either way.
I think you are overly worried that a psychiatrist would have a conflict of interest. A psychiatrist is an MD, they practice psychopharmacology. Even a psychologist would have no reason to keep you untreated. There are plenty of patients who need help and a shortage of mental health professionals in general.
>Oftentimes effort alone is commendable, even if it misses the mark

Commendable, yes; Monetarily valuable, ehhh

I think the problem is that "Hey I built this thing isn't it cool" seems to lead to "I spent every waking hour on this for the last 3 years, so this is REALLY cool, see?" which leads to "I spent every waking hour on this for 3 years and now other people use it also!" which leads to "Hey, other people are profiting financially from my work, I should be compensated!"

I think this is why HN commenters tend to jump the gun a bit when they cut out the middle steps and go from "Hey, look at this cool thing" straight to "You could never sell that as a product because X, Y, Z."
This reminds me of a post on HN where someone put a picture of a Duck on a wireless charger, giving it a brand identity and the charger was selling like crazy. Users identified with that brand over a charger that was brandless.
Since this was written a time namespace was proposed: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Ti...
That’s probably due to the use of self modifying code
Can’t effectively stack them.
... except when they aren't.

This reminds me of the famous "why manhole covers are round" question. They aren't, as a quick look at the Wikipedia page can confirm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhole
They don't have a great track of curing people. They tend to help people "manage" their mental health issues.

Color me unimpressed.
MSX? Spectravideo? Which other system used 16x16 sprites? :-)
It seems like Single-level store[1] would be a really good fit for this. I was going to make a crack about bringing back Multics but apparently IBM has an OS using this.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-level_store
ok, if a div is added to the page body, and then another div is removed, what does the render loop do? any pointers to documentation are appreciated :)
Still strange, given the rebus principle of phonetic hieroglyph use mentioned above: why would I use a pictures of a bee and a rock to form the sound baroque? Why not a bar and a rock (or a ba, whatever that would be)?

If you take existing, drawable words you implicitly get the vowels with the consonants, unless explicitly ruled out by convention. Maybe the answer is dialects, that there was much wider consensus over the spoken consonants than over the spoken vowels. Lacking audio recordings we will never find out (it's crazy enough that we can reconstruct those languages to the point where so many translations turn out somewhat plausible)
Eh no one pays per hour here, it's all day rates. But yeah 500-700 is common. You see up to 850 every now and then. 1000 is heard of but .. not so much.
But what the point if your correspondent can’t see your 𓂸 on the sms app?
We use SAP for finance in many countries world wide, many countries require you to use SAP now so they can give you the tax & legal information for each country in a SAP format to make sure you are up to their countries codes.

I suspect they also want information back from you, and most likely in a SAP compatible version.

This was all told to me at our IT quarterly meeting, with our new SAP deployments, as IT does not actually input the data, just run the servers.

Funny how we run the stuff, but sometimes dont even know how its used.
You seem to have linked your entire account instead of a particular comment.
Vape, started off with a strong 18mg or so nicotine...ramped it back to about 6 or so these days. Only use it when I am out drinking now. Took about 3 months to ramp the strength down. and 3 months after I got it to 6mg (during this period I would also alternate vaping same flavour with no nicotine) I stopped regularly using it. Just need to cut nicotine out of my bowl and I'll be sweet. That's a harder process though, mostly just due to difficulty of finding product of quality for long enough that makes straight smoking pleasant.

Edit: I smoked like a 50g pouch in roughly 4 days at my peak....when I started vaping I was back to maybe a 50g pouch every 8 days or so.
Main discussion from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8206038
Yeah, MacBook 13" would have been a better product name. I've read contradictory things online for the projected performance of the i5-8200Y chip. The good news might be it's actually 7W and it has a fan. Maybe we can expect performance closer to the MB pro nTB 13".
It's pretty common for signs to be rearranged or omitted for aesthetic reasons. There was a strong preference for signs to be grouped in boxes. For example, if we were find 𓅨𓂋 wr, it would almost always be written with 𓂋 underneath 𓅨. With the 𓋴 combinations, we're combining with symbols that are mostly horizontal with a vertical symbol. Sure, you could stack them, flip them to be parallel, or put them after each other like I did with 𓅨𓂋 wr. However, some scribes probably thought combining them in crosses looked better than any of the alternatives.
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