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I’m sorry to nitpick on a good article, but this article lost me when it proved that HTML is a programming language by showing that it can be output by a Python program. This seems to be a case of proving too much [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proving_too_much
> I do basically no videoconferencing. Screensharing is great, and critical. But typically I find video distracting.

In our remote work we also do not use video, but use screensharing and audio a lot.
(I am pro-choice and pro-vaccine)

How can you be for bodily agency and also be in favor of forcing people to get vaccines?
Can you elaborate? Curious as to what aspect of online gaming you're referring to.
Not if they can help it. Iirc, that portion of the ACA was just repealed in the courts. Group insurance for a large employer will though.
What? You can buy insurance or go on Medi-Cal, right? Am I missing something? You’re only screwed if you don’t do those things, but at that point it feels more like a medical literacy problem—you’re also screwed if you don’t go to the doctor.
You guys need a good dose of socialism!
Why did that cause problems? It made particular things way slower, I guess?
That’s really not the worst case. The worst case is dying for lack of treatment.
Good point. Is there any place where to get an updated list of trackers?
In a completely hypothetical scenario- if every morning another zero was added to the national debt would there be any downsides? All other variables remain the same, unemployment, GDP, etc, only the debt increase ten-fold.

Does debt not matter because we have experienced relative stability and growth for 70 years? If we had another depression (not the hyped great recession but true depression) or world war, would we be better off with less debt or does it truly not matter?
Because certain people in government convince people that citizens can manage their money better than the government can.

And this is wrong? Look at the absurd high speed rail costs, or the bloated military budget, or SLS vs SpaceX.

Then you have people like Mitch McConnell who calls programs for the less fortunate as "entitlements".

"Entitlements" is a standard term used to distinguish those programs from discretionary spending.
I don’t understand this argument. We comply to every law “under the threat of violence”. Are you advocating for a lawless society ?
Would you post the raw data? Just so I don’t have to clean it myself.
> India is number 2 on this list, the US is 14:

Thats the total number of violence. Divide it by population
and US will became worse than India.
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> Mypy flags this problem through static analysis.

The problem is that there's not really such a thing as static analysis in python. For example, if I wrap it in a function like this, mypy doesn't complain at all.

def blah():
ages = {}
ages['John']: 42
print(ages['John'])
return ages
The person you're responding to is a decade-long HN commenter. Currently, her comment is sitting at [dead].

I myself don't necessarily agree with her chain of implications, but it was her journey. This isn't directly solely at your comment (but I can't respond to the top one directly, as it's dead) - When you latch on to it simply to beat the anti-anti-vax dead horse, you're doing everyone a disservice.

IMHO if you want to know why online discourse has turned into such shite, then examine this. The noble ethos of judging words on their own merit has devolved into a tyranny - when you remove the "inertia" of individual reputation, each comment stands in isolation. Rather than seeing a larger pattern of a person being generally reasonable, giving the benefit of the doubt to a questionable comment, and perhaps extracting something worthwhile from it... we instead quickly judge it as "other" and move on.
Because it's just not comparable. Different settings and different environment.

You cant move around in Europe if you are an average folk like you can in the US. Moving around in Europe means almost a life time commitment to the language and the country and that does not always pay off.
Nothing, i'm just curious [1] about Julia. I never used it.

[1]It's just because i find the science python stack a bit absurd.
Why is it out of touch? The US is a rich country, Switzerland (where the parent now seems to be living) is richer on some measures, this isn't apples and oranges though.
The first-responders received severe and lethal doses. The surrounding population was exposed to large amounts of I-131, this resulted in an increase in thyroid cancer.

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/98/7/3039/2537246

Estimates vary widely and are controversial but somewhere in the range of 4k deaths are believed to be a result of the disaster. That estimate is from esteemed professionals in the respective sciences of Radiobiology and Biostatistics. Other estimates from Green Peace, etc range from 25-250k for the most serious nuclear disaster, ever. Contrast this to WHO estimates of 3M deaths per year due to fossil fuels, seriously bananas.
Agreed; I think it's important to realize that a naive bias for action/productivity is not always the best thing. It's imperative to cultivate a good sense of what is worth doing, otherwise one will just produce a lot that will be irrelevant at best or garbage at worst. There are many "productive" people, but a question worth asking is how many of those actions result in lasting value, however you choose to qualify that. A lot of competent and productive people leave lasting negative value, due to misdirected efforts. For some definitions, spending a weekend building sand castles with kids might have more lasting value than working on a coding project. Don't let more visible metrics of productivity (eg: number of Github projects, HN points, etc.) cloud your judgement. If you want to step back and think about this matter (one productive use of the weekend ;-)), I really like the talk by Evan Czaplicki (Elm creator/designer) on "What is success?" which might provide some food for thought [1].

To clarify, doing only things that are worth doing doesn't imply holding back from producing/practicing because you're not yet good enough. I was referring more to the direction than the quantum in that direction. See what Ira Glass said about taste and practice [2].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlzRt-FYto

[2]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309485-nobody-tells-this-to...
Try being self employed with a family! $1,400/mo premiums and $8,000 deductible. Certainly not even the worst case.
I want to like Julia but after a decade of Python, every time I try it, it’s a death by a thousand cuts (and outdated Google results). I just can’t afford to have productivity drop to near zero for the learning curve plus reimplement everything.

Also I ha e found multiple dispatch to be harder than regular OO methods to locate (for IDEs but grep also).
What improved in your opinion?
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Berkshire is a CEF that never makes distributions. Change my mind.
As a language, English is probably as good as you are going to get. I has been simplifying for hundreds (thousands?) of years, and is fairly closely related to the languages spoken by most of the developed world, which makes it easier to learn.

The spelling is pretty bad, though. I'm guessing that even if you managed to clean up the spelling, it would be a temporary fix. Pronunciations change over time, and vary between dialects.
No, I dont think Amazon wants those people at all, but that's what you're going to get in "tech hubs" a lot of the time. If they were to choose a more atypical location, and everyone had a bigger investment into their job coming in, then they could improve retention & as a result the quality of their engineering teams.
The worst thing is that the incentives are perverse. Your chronic pain friend can easily cost a society more than they will return in value, but if society will not take care of its feeble and weak than what value does it have?

If your friend emigrates, they may put a burden on the country they go to. Even if they are productive, the cost of their ailment (assuming its not just ridiculously ovepriced medicine in the US that is in reality really cheap everywhere else, in which case the nation he immigrates to should be overjoyed at the opportunity!) can slow economic growth over if someone with no ailment and the same qualifications emigrated instead.

So the US "sheds" a "cost center" and another country takes on the burden. American companies keep turning over record profits and stock valuations while its poor and sick suffer and die, while other nations are burdened with those America should have taken care of itself with its vast wealth if only it had any morality to care about its citizens.
Yeah sorry, very lazy french loan~
Incorrect. It's per capita. From the article:

"Intentional homicide, number and rate per 100,000 population."
> screws up your conversion rates

Well, it is called cLEAVE.
Seems to me like he took the criticism perfectly well and responded in a fair, respectful way.
23% of Switzerland are foreign permanent residents. I'm not sure where you get the idea that Switzerland is restrictive with immigration?
He has a famous blog post somewhere teaching beginners how to do physics on 2D platformers.
> I can't just write 19/2/23 or whatever (explicitly entering the delimiting slashes), I have to follow the prescribed format, 2019/02/23

I think this is exactly the point: to guide users toward inputting data in a standard format.
Very cool. Reminds me also of the N64 dev kit made for the SGI Indy (the video it generated couldn't be handled internally, but because the Indy was designed for video input you could simply loop it back in, and the machine could DMA it directly onto the screen): https://assemblergames.com/threads/my-complete-sgi-ultra64-d...
Its' been over a decade since I've read ANKOS and on your comment I feel I should revisit it. How you see the world in your 20s can be different in your 30s, 40s and so on.
Related: Apple closing physical stores to avoid litigation in the district, thread below.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19226355
I’m amazed this guy is still alive. Can anyone explain what is supposed to happen if you were very close to something this radioactive? Would you get some kind of massive headache or feel any pain? Are radiation hardened organisms a thing?
I am definitely not a constantly productive person, but a productive weekend day for me usually involves waking up on the early side (5-6am) and then hydrating, eating and fitting in some type of home exercise.

Late morning (10:30-11?) go to a cafe with my wife. This time can be social and relaxing, but can easily turn into an opportunity for reading or working on something for a couple hours. I like to bring my laptop to cafes and find it is a very good atmosphere for me to focus.

At this point it might be getting close to dinner time. If I have done everything I described then I probably am already satisfied with my productivity, but if I am behind on household chores I might listen to music and clean the kitchen after dinner. Now I can finish out the night with some Netflix or vydia feeling like I earned it.

There are a few different permutations to this. Some weekends both Saturday and Sunday might look like this, others one day could have a more involved social event planned. I find that if I start off the morning similarly then the rest of the day tends to go well, so my advice is to master your morning so that you transition into the middle of the day with energy and momentum.
Looking at the numbers in the first page of the report, I'm asking myself if it makes more sense to move my index funds to BRK.B? Thoughts?
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What money are the unemployed spending to stay on insurance? COBRA costs quickly exceed anyone’s savings.

The suggestion to leave a stable healthcare situation for a hard to secure position at one of the top employers in the world in the most expensive to live place in the world is downright bad.
They do now
> Lack of support for OOP.

Please. No. Languages that try to do everything are crap. If you want to do something OOP, why don't you grab a language built for it?
Wise words here.

In my humble opinion, applying S's syntactic sugar on top of Scheme-forged core did more bad than good to R. Most of R's quirks stem from the authors' desire to keep it as compatible with S as possible.

As for the two approaches to solving problems (TIMTOWTDI vs Python's "one true way") I think that's a matter of personal preference; I, personally, appreciate the freedom that R gives me.
Also, it might be anectodal, but I believe that - to some extent - it promotes thinking "outside the box", especially when you work in a team and review others' code on a daily basis.
Ok, we've made the title above less 'lightweight'.
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Suggesting you have to be a good enough SW engineer working for FAANG (a relatively high bar) to afford to be sick in the US really doesn't paint the system in a good light.

Such high earners can cover their healthcare in any country. It's the rest of the people you have to worry about. And if your illness endangers your employment status you definitely don't want to be in the US.
Your repeated comments here can be best summarized as "but but but what about...."

Your whataboutism is just simple intellectual dishonesty.

Do you have an actual argument to make here?

If not, save us all some reading and just type "BWA" or something and it will have the same persuasive effect as anything else you've written here.
> I'm not aware of a Mesa driver in a condition of usability one would consider practical not using Gallium

uhhhhhh i965 (which is replaced by Iris but unfortunately only for >=Broadwell, at least for now)
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My Google-foo is failing me: isn't there a site that catalogs UX/UI anti-patterns? This library edits what the user types in real time, which is a serious anti-pattern because it causes users to compound mistakes. I would call it the "overzealous autocorrect" antipattern.

For example, if I want to type in the date "2017-03-30", but I accidentally type "2017-02-30", this library silently changes the day in addition to the month, leaving me with "2017-02-28". I suppose you could use this to illustrate how fallible humans are, but if your goal is to minimize errors, you simply can't autocorrect number fields. You must show error messages.
Would you rather be in the room with decision makers, trying to make sure it doesn't go over the line, or go in the wrong direction? Or just don't participate, not know what's going on, and have less competent "yes-man" in your seat. This is my daily struggle, it keeps me up.
Bash (4 at least) has proper arrays and hash maps, but granted, the syntax is hideous. The arrays are also limited, but hash maps are somewhat sane.

> declare -a ARRAY
> declare -A MAP
Hold on how long is MATLAB boot ?
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And don't forget about Leslie Lamport, who created LaTeX and won the Turing Award for his work on distributed computing systems (as part of which he designed the TLA+ language).
Yup. Cataracts are the best example of a deterministic radiation effect; i.e. receive X dose and you _will_ receive Y result. While cancer induction is stochastic; probabilistic effect of exposure.
Define "Productive"
Define "Success"

Assuming I qualify, no two weekends are the same, I don't have a routine.

This particular weekend? I slept in. I sent an email that I've been drafting all week. I had dinner with my parents, wife and kids for my daughter's birthday, and spent some time by the pool at the hotel drinking beer (it's rare I catch up with my parents, they drove up specifically for the day). I deleted a post I'd spent an hour writing because I realised I had to go back and rethink the entire premise of my reply. I spent a few hours catching up on a legal drama between two game developers. I intended to play some apex legends but now I wasted too much time in the evening watching youtube and drinking. I watched a tutorial video or two. I wrote this reply and almost deleted it too...

Overall my weekends boil down to: Family stuff, personal projects, sleep and recreation.

(I should add, I invested hugely in building my career profile, lots of weekends and late nights involved so the story is very different now that people are chasing me for my skills instead of the other way around).
Nope. It shows totals by default. Click on per capita to show the per capita rate. India is at 107 and US is at 99.

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Violen...
Are US military bases overseas doing the same to other countries?
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Interesting that Facebook is a left as an aside in the discussion. I think the data-localization is likely to hit them the hardest.

How would data localization apply across specific parts of a data graph without pulling in the entire graph?
USA Today carried an opinion piece by a different author with a similar title:

Hate crime hoaxes, like Jussie Smollett's alleged attack, are more common than you think https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/02/22/jussie-smo...

Doing research for a book, Hate Crime Hoax https://www.amazon.com/dp/161577783 , I was able to easily put together a data set of 409 confirmed hate hoaxes. An overlapping but substantially different list of 348 hoaxes exists at fakehatecrimes.org, and researcher Laird Wilcox put together another list of at least 300 in his still-contemporary book Crying Wolf https://www.amazon.com/dp/0922915180 . To put these numbers in context, a little over 7,000 hate crimes were reported by the FBI in 2017 and perhaps 8-10% of these are widely reported enough to catch the eye of a national researcher.

...

In this context, what hate hoaxers actually do is worsen generally good race relations, and distract attention from real problems. As Chicago’s disgusted top cop, Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, pointed out yesterday, skilled police officers spent four weeks tracking down Smollett’s imaginary attackers — in a city that has seen 28 murders as of Feb. 9th, according to The Chicago Tribune https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicag... . We all, media and citizens alike, would be better served to focus on real issues like gun violence and the opiate epidemic than on fairy tales like Jussie’s.
That’s weird, considering the countries that are better off have even more government
At least 91 per Northeastern University - https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2017_pfa/

Here's a different one:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-3M-groundwater-pollu...

All public landfills can be added to those maps.
Pixelbook is not ARM. There are lesser-powered, arm-based, crostini-enabled chromebooks. But nothing a developer would want to use yet.
that does make some sense
Because you cant replicate the questionable success of Switzerland in a country like the US of A.

You could try to converge and force others to foot the bill but sooner or later it would damage the industries that make you money.

Switzerland is an anomaly not the norm in Europe and other countries are paying dearly for Switzerland's success.
It's the seventh amendment to the constitution.

Amendment 7 - Rights in Civil Cases
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States than according to the rules of the common law.
I have come to a different conclusion on the last part: I live in Germany, a relatively peaceful country that is reluctant to use its military. Yet, there big weapon manufacturers here and they sell what they develop for the German government also abroad. So countries like Saudi Arabia get access to our stuff. Thus, I am fairly certain that almost every weapon system that has been developed in Germany since the second world war has been used to shoot at people in situations that Germany has no control over. Weapon exports from the US and other countries are much the same. When it is built, it will be used. And it won't generally be used by the power that you entrusted with that tech.
What's being referred to here is the premise of the monopoly on violence[0]. Essentially that a state can be defined as an entity which claims for itself a monopoly on the legitimate use of force, often violent force, denying the same right to the public. That legitimacy, in free societies is granted by the people, while in nonfree societies, it's often simply taken though further violence. The enforcement of laws and collecting of taxes are backed up by the threat of the state executing on its monopoly on violence against its citizens.

The opposite of the monopoly on violence would be anarchy, which could be interpreted as a free market of violence.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
The overwhelming majority of homeless San Franciscans became homeless as California residents; the notion that they're "deported" from other states (or somehow migratory) is mostly a myth.
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The analogy with tencent and alibaba seems instructive, but not necessarily in a good way. They are both massive bloated platforms that do lots of different disconnected things not very well. e.g. the wechat messaging app contains subprograms for games, payment, flight bookings, etc you can't turn off. They only continue to exist because of network effects, and because they play nice with the Chinese government.

If Recruit works on the same model then they will have the same problem moving abroad that there is no one thing they are better at than an existing company
I don't think we should conflate bitcoin with gold
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? We eventually ban accounts that keep doing this, and have had to ask you before.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19230951 and marked it off-topic.
I don't think you've accurately represented the libertarian pitch, which is that government bureaucrats, even if they are well meaning and better planners than you are, are not likely to understand your needs, wants, and preferences nearly as well as you are and, further, are likely to have incentives other than your welfare – careerism, political winds, and the pleadings of special interests, to name a few.
For AI- and CS-related papers, I've long used CiteSeerX[1]. I never use ArXiv, and would be interested to hear a comparison.

[1] - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
> VA has a terrible track record of actually helping

Is this a fact? Would private industry do it better?

I ask because the VA is the closest thing we have to a single-payer experience in the US. Active or inactive, the VA is willing to treat you the only requirement being that you served.

Yet, when people bring up the failing VA they always pass along the Walter Reed VA hospital horror stories. I looked into it and you know what, Walter Reed is a huge military hospital base. It's so big there are multiple hospitals on site. And that site has government run VA hospitals and contractor run VA hospitals. And they are all called Walter Reed. But guess what? All the VA horror stories from Walter Reed come from the same contractor ran hospitals.
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And then another time my statistical mechanics prof informed me that "physics is just drawing cartoons of reality with math." That came as a huge existential relief by the way.

One of the most formative and sublimely influential 'aha' remarks I've ever encountered was a line in a Willam Goldman book about screenwriting which simply read, in the manner of a final summation to a chapter: "POETRY IS COMPRESSION." Caps in the original. I had the same sense of instant resolution, like wearing glasses for the first time, that you seem to have had with your prof's insight.