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> FastMail’s business is not directly affected by this legislation

Well, they have declared themselves that after the passing of this asinine law, they've lost customers, potential new customers have decided against signin up, and they are frequently asked to relocate to a different jurisdiction. They seem to be very directly affected by this in a business sense.

Edit ： Extremely satisfied customer myself, by the way. And I take e-mail for what it is, privacy limitations and all. But worried nonetheless with this sort of thing.
If I wanted to see the history of a file I would go to that file for more context. I agree with the author that I don't think it's useful enough to show in the front page.

I personally care about the commit log most of the time I go onto github, or the issues, or pull requests. Not that keen on navigating to files from github.
This isn't the sortest elisp equivalent, no? I'm not a pro, but this should do the same thing for example.

(if cond
(progn
(setq foo 10)
(bar))
(setq foo 20)
(baz))
Byte-compilation isn't disabled. The slowness is due to a couple things. First is the bindgen layer between Rust and C slowing down certain calls. Porting so far has been wide rather than deep, so Rust code ends up having to call C sooner rather than later. In addition most of the ported functions have been rewritten in a pretty naive style that doesn't take full advantage of Rust. There was some discussion in Gitter or issues about this a couple weeks back, but I cannot seem to find it tonight. Apologies.
I'd say that resturant-grade induction stovetops perform as good as or even outperform gas.
It’s not an implementation detail. It’s decades of technical debt, and it’s very strange to see it defended.

When a simple task of making a program not flicker (a solved, well understood and fairly trivial problem) requires quite a sizable effort, it’s no longer just an “implementation detail”.

LOL at people decrying the bloat and inefficiency of Electron apps and calling this a perfect program with just implementation details:

— start quote —

GNU Emacs is an old-school C program emulating a 1980s Symbolics Lisp Machine emulating an old-fashioned Motif-style Xt toolkit emulating a 1970s text terminal emulating a 1960s teletype. Compiling Emacs is a challenge. Adding modern rendering features to the redisplay engine is a miracle.

— end quote —
I don't want this in my life.
I'm no blockchain fanboy but I believe the distinguishing features are "decentralized", "permanent" and "verifiable". If you put that stuff in a database, someone can change the database.
Coal-based generation in Nevada (from coal mined elsewhere) does exist, but the remaining plants are in the I-80 corridor, linked to Southern California only through a circuitous routing that's not commonly used -- that energy goes to Reno and Idaho instead.

Outside-of-California coal plants that significantly and regularly contribute to Southern California's energy mix are Navajo (in Page, AZ) and Intermountain (in Delta, UT). These are Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP)'s share and get mixed in through them. There's even a dedicated HDVC line [1][2] between Intermountain and Victorville.

The coal for Navajo is mined in Kayenta, AZ, and the plant's effects are multifaceted. It came about as a compromise when dams affecting the Grand Canyon were cancelled, and the mine and plant create jobs and lease payments for the Navajo Nation, but it also pollutes land and is used to power cities far away.

The coal for Intermountain is mined in Utah, Colorado, or Wyoming, depending on market forces.

LADWP has set goals to switch off of coal in the coming years, including considering converting Intermountain to natgas. Navajo's prospects are not good -- they're under regulatory and economic pressure, and conversion to natgas is not viable due to the lack of pipelines to the area.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_27 [2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3392214
You leave Dave Mustaine out of this!
How could you think about it negatively? You did amazing things and enjoyed life, that's what life is about, isn't it?
In China, there appears to be a public understanding that personal privacy is not protected while in the U.S. most citizens are not concerned about their own protections. How else could Facebook exist and prosper so mightily? As for me, I don't book Face and neither should anyone else.
i read his comment as “[if i were you] i would consider...”.
>Get your security design working first.

Tbe ahove applies to accessibility too, by the same reasoning.
Good, It looks like economies of scale are starting to work in favor of Tesla; which I find to be unsurprising. Having this car out will shut up a lot of critics as this has been their favorite thing to whine about for the last years. Also it will make them even less likely to suffer an imminent bankruptcy. Another topic that seems to come up regularly, usually just before Tesla manages to move the bar yet again in some meaningful way. Finally, with this box ticked, it frees them up to start planning the model Y, their truck and whatever else they have been talking about for a while.

I would not be surprised to see them announce more price drops in the next years. They are not done making batteries better and cheaper and they seem to be very creative in figuring out ways to reduce cost in their production processes. I think it is that ability that is going to be key to their future because yes they have competition but the competition seems to have all the problems that Tesla already solved. They are ahead of the pack in terms of production capacity, processes, and battery efficiency with a product that so far seems to be selling such that they can do without the traditional overhead of having to have an industry of middlemen, sales, marketing, licensed dealers, etc. That's very disruptive to an industry trying to emulate what Tesla is doing while preserving all of that.
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Actually induction woks are amazing. You can get them as hot as gas. Here's a really bad Youtube video showing some guys testing one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUuu6nRT29Y

They aren't cheap though. I seriously want one :-) But your general point is well taken.
Yeah and somewhat related is the browser plugin "adnauseam" which doesn't necessarily block adverts, but puts them in a sandbox, then clicks on ALL OF them to generate revenue for the site and muddy your advertisement profile.
> Youtube would, in essence, become the censor of what is and is not okay to post in the comments sections

They can, that's enough reason. It's their lawn, they can do whatever they want. If you invite me into your house and I start yelling like crazy (because I have the right to), if you don't like it you would suggest me to get out (gently or not). You will be right. Who am I to complain about what I can or cannot do in your house?

> freedom of expression

Why people always misinterpret what freedom of expression is? It does not apply to the comments section of Youtube. People are not entitled to be heard or to express whatever they want in Youtube comments.
The march to make the world a safe, sanitised place has so many bumps and slippery slopes on the road that it's hard to gauge whether we're making progress or not. Internet is hard to tame and so is human nature, both in good and bad.

The trigger for this was some big companies pulling ads. I suppose that in the context of "predatory and obscene" comments regarding children it's well understandable. The problem with that is what happens next time when the advertisers pull ads because there is something else they don't like? Eventually, it leads down to political correctness and self-censorship as there is always someone who gets offended, and even the possibility of getting kicked out of Youtube or the service losing ad revenue keeps everyone on their toes.

Further, disabling comments fails to address another issue: pictures and videos of children freely available on the internet. That cat is out of the bag for good. The technical response would be to have a separate (private or public) paedophile forums where they just link to Youtube videos and make comments on the videos. That's outside of Youtube's business and keeps BigCos from having bad PR but would still matter to any underage person shown on an internet video.

So the real enabler to this is the proliferation of user-published content. Especially when people seem to like to share stuff online, inevitably also with strangers, it is even conceptually pretty hard to limit the audience of that sort of material. Fighting that process is like the war on drugs: it will just claim casualties one after another, left and right, whereas nothing really changes. While trying to make things nice and clean for everyone, babies get thrown out with the bath water.

Dirt on internet is like a law of nature. There has always been dirt, sometimes more and sometimes less. While paedophilia is the true hot potato nobody really feels comfortable with, the other dirt is a valuable cross-section into the scale on which people are. Bad (Youtube) comments can be so revealing at times, and they really pull you out of your bubble.

I don't like the general process of eliminating dirt and trying to set a political correct and business-approved bar for quality because what remains after that is shallow reflections of actual persons and human psyche.

I don't know what Youtube should do either. The concept of brand companies disliking that their advertisements are shown next to offensive third-party comments is very much absurd in the first place, so how can you deal with that?

I can understand that companies want to whitelist or blacklist specific categories and channels where they want (or don't want) their ads but getting pissed by comments complete unrelated to the advertisements is where things get hard. That's like pulling ads from a magazine because the magazine happened to have pictures of children and a group of molesters happened to sit in a pub making predatory comments of those pictures next to the advertisement. What has previously been unimaginable apparently turns into reality when you do it on the internet.
Or maybe just leave the desert ecosystem alone?

I am not sure why people think that a desert is bare and empty, I guess most just assume that because you can't see it as easily as you can in a forest that there is nothing there, but desert ecosystems are much more fragile than most other ecosystems and do not adjust easily to random interference.
Don't do exaggerated e.g.'s, because the other name for them is 'lies'. I checked, there is not a single post in this comment section referencing the stability of an internet connection being a purchasing deterrent.
can't you just set the new tab page url to the wikipedia random page link?
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18245296/tesla-stores-clo...
> 2) Most GitHub users put a lot of value in their repo pages,

I think you underestimate how many "Single commit, push and forget" test repositories are out there.
To use reductio ad absurdum on your argument for a minute:

Everyone in the world has an earpiece which they must wear at all times. Everyone has a microphone which automatically broadcasts everything they say to everyone's earpiece. You can't take your earpiece off, as that would reduce someone else's ability to speak freely to you.

There are downsides to allowing everyone a global platform.
Anyone that likes Lisp should take a look at Factor. Even simpler syntax (RPN instead of prefix, less parenthesis), Lispy generics, functional, procedural, scripting, arbitrary data literals, full of meta goodness, clean good small understandable library, batteries included, sub-languages, REPL + image + source files, low and high level. Inspired in Lisp, Joy, Smalltalk and Forth (and with some things in common with Rebol).
OnePlus One is a great option for LineageOS. Just a pity you can't buy it new anymore and the later OnePlus model is 1.75x the price.
You can use a trezor and https://github.com/romanz/trezor-agent

The cool thing is that the key is derived from the trezor's seed, so you can have several backup devices. And you need pin+passphrase not just the yubikey.
> with carbon taxes or with the yellow vest movement in France.

I believe the main problem with yellow vests was that they balanced raised diesel tax by eliminating wealth tax. Had they instead reduced income tax in the lowest bracket for example, people might have been much less angry.
Oh please. Everybody I know personally and everybody I know of through these people use scihub. It's such an incredibly useful tool that it's now ubiquitous throughout academia. Of course universities aren't 'officially' advising its use, but informally, it's pretty much accepted.
You may want to not just "minimize bias", but attempt to build a casual model (do-Calculus, causality).

To give an example, recommendation might be due to "attended the same college" or "born in the same country". And this is probably not what you might be interested in.

If you build such model and control for these spurious referrals, you might be able to get better signal. (and hopefully also promote diversity of gender, nationality, age, etc)
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Nobody needs to cite scihub. Download the papers you need off of it, cite them.
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I don't know if you've heard, but the Chevrolet Bolt has been out for years now, and is also all-electric. MSRP has been about $30k after the federal tax credit.

I'd say its more likely we aren't in awe because the Model 3 has been overpromised and the "mass-market EV" feat has already been accomplished by someone else.

Of course, most people are like you in that they don't know that. Because GM is hilariously bad at marketing (and has no cult-of-personality founder promising grand visions).
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In my experience most of what is mentioned is true.

On the other hand it is also true for HR. In our (quite big, international) company HR staff gets more and more reduced. Also, more divisions deny inviting a HR person to job interviews, most of them replacing them by the manager and members of the respective team. So far I could only notice that this didn’t cause a decline in quality.
I use Bitwarden for TOTP generation, this is how I use it for command line TOTP code generation, with NPM's 2FA as an example:

npm publish . --otp $(bw get totp npm)

Note: it requires the Bitwarden vault to be unlocked for the current shell, as such:

export BW_SESSION=$(bw unlock --raw) && echo $BW_SESSION
Because some laws just don't matter. This is a good thing to realize for people. Laws aren't automatically right and moral just because they're laws. There are plenty of reasons why a law can exist, and morality usually isn't the reason.
Let me rephrase my thoughts. I'm not defending this cruft per se. I'll be glad to see it gone iff it doesn't affect the text-orientedness of Emacs UI, as this specific style of text UI is a feature.
The US has almost the highest per capita CO2 emission rate followed closely by Canada. The countries higher on that list are American Middle-Eastern allies and several tiny nations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...
As always, thanks for the well written and thoughtful reply.

>If I would want to use Scheme, I'd use Chez Scheme directly

I came to the same conclusion based off of a fast interpreter, AOT compiler, ability to make executables...etc. I know I've looked at the CISCO GitHub page for it before.
There's a technical report ISO/IEC TR 19075-6:2017 corresponding to the standard, freely available from [1]. It's a much more accessible version of the standard if you're not looking to implement it.

1. https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/
Ask a friend or neighbor who owns one -- Tesla owners always seem excited to share. Viral marketing... viral test drives?
I think they’re doing about 3.5 million cells a day. The final production target is 10 million, from what I remember.
Not long ago, one would just download a template for this. But somehow, there's an inherent advantage in having a webapplication for everything which I don't get (maybe aggregating CVs smells like money?).
Any rules?
Despite the relatively small size of the HN community, there does appear to be organised action against certain topics here. I often find unusually contentious comments in threads on Chinese and American policies (seperately).
Or, you know, it's the law corporations were able to push into existence through money. Law isn't necessarily a reflection of our moral code. It can be. Parts of it are (Grundgesetz or the Constitution, sure), but plenty of laws aren't decided by morality and aren't the arbiters of it either and even if they reflect the morality of some people, it isn't morally justified. Or people wouldn't have ever fought for black rights (Jim Crow laws say hello).
Please dump it to your github right now. I have seen too many projects that never got cleaned up and simply died.
Please do. Highest per capita CO2 emission rates belong to the US, its Middle Eastern allies and Canada.
On the delta people, is the current projected sigmoid good enough or way too slow?
thankfully, ISO C++ is a language that no one actually programs in, everyone use `MSVC C++`, `g++ 8.2.1 -fwhatever`, etc
The amount of ‘America! Fuck yea!’ in that thread is cringe inducing. Is there nobody trying to talk about the issue at hand without invoking any of the crazy emotional appeals to American exceptionalism or Muslim hatred?
Indeed, I’ve also noticed this pattern of negative comments whenever the Erlang/Elixir topic comes up. Thanks for pointing it out.

Erlang/Elixir are fine languages, running on top of an advanced and optimized VM, designed for fault tolerance and superb concurrency. And if need be, one can always integrate it with other languages, including commenter's favorite language, Rust.
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I once spoke with the director of one of the largest research data centers in Germany, and I asked him exactly that. He said that most of the hardware would get scrapped as there is no market for it since the required infrastructure (racks, cooling units and power supplies as far as I understood) is so specific that there’s very little use for the devices outside their original environment. That was for pretty specialized hardware of course, so it might be different for data centers that are built using more off-the-shelf components.
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> But it's not Chinese companies that go around making these threats -- it's the Chinese government with their ability to control those companies or cut off access to them

In China, there's not much difference between the big companies and the government anyway.
Nexus 6 is listed as supported, but the builds page only has 15.1
IMO the choice is between choosing to reduce consumption or being forced to by megadeaths, probably we only have a little choice in the degree in which either happens. Technology may help a little with the first.
As far as I'm aware, Chinese food is cooked in pans, not over open flame.

But, you've banned the kebab shop instead. They will have to use the slower heated stone frying. ;)
So, where does the data actually stored?
We only lose the expensive stuff when we no longer are willing to pay for the expensive stuff.

And compared tonbuilding roads in places no one wants its cheap.

What is needed is better accountability to the "public" for such civil engineering decisions - which means generally better more engaged local politics (this being a virtuous circle since more local people will get engaged when they realise they have influence over such decisions

If part of the decision making process was a documentary on youtube of whommakes the local decisions, what the impact of crossing X would be then I could see more people getting involved

one called call it the nightly news
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I just learned they are raising money, I am no way connected to them and don't know much about this, so I wondered what you all think?
Does anyone know the best way to run assembly code on Windows?

As usual, I seem to recall this is one of the many things that is easy in Linux and almost impossible on Windows.
The problem has more to do with validation and echo chamber.

It wouldn't be a huge issue if these kind of comments would stay constrained in the digital realm.

But as people see that the tone and hardline position is shared by a lot of other people, they feel empowered and validated, so that that behavior starts rippling in the "real" world.
Great point, we should also discourage immigration to the USA and Canada to keep the population in those countries down.
The builds are running (and some are failing) right now. https://builds.lineageos.org
On real world where code portability actually matters, many do program against ISO C++, and have to deal with workarounds for lack of compliance.

Not doing so means ending up with situations like the Linux kernel, Windows or console games, which might be ok, when code portability doesn't matter to start with.
Interesting. My experience is that if I want some idea of how I'll feel about the car in a year, a test drive of less than a week gives me almost no data.

Personally? yeah, I think renting a car is the way to go, if you want to evaluate how you will feel about the car later. A 20 minute test drive, to me, is like laying on a mattress for 20 minutes in a store and expecting to know what it will feel like to sleep on.
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Don't focus in the mechanism. People aren't defending the mechanism. They are defending the benefit, which is currently a side effect of the mechanism: feature invariance with respect to render target, whether GUI or terminal.

My own use is about 50:50 of each. Only a few things don't work the same way in the terminal and that's extremely valuable.
> Just wait for the vim guy who will be like "but muh java plugins make it more efficient then IntelliJ"...

I think you described the base of most arguments in that direction right there. The problem to either side isn't so much what the other side's doing (who cares, really? To each their own…).

Usually, those discussions are fueled by people asserting how obviously the respective other side is inferior without having even had a proper look at it. My bias tells me there's much more of those on the IDE side, but I expect that's due to the way people are introduced to programming (if one "population" tends to be much bigger than the other, I suppose there's a higher chance of someone belonging to it starting a flamewar. And, of course, if it's also prone to have more newbies in it, the probability of… unaware statements also rises).
Triplebyte is clean. I work at a non-YC and they don't share candidates who failed tests. We literally don't see them. And I prefer it this way. The other one would be a waste of time.
I would personally expand it to this:
Steak before sizzle, but don't get everyone sick by serving it raw...
Couldn’t you use a regular car rental company for that?
Can someone explain how they can detect if you are in incognito mode? I didn't understand the article's explanation. From what I understand, it checks if you can store cookies. But doesn't incognito store cookies until you close the window? When I just opened YouTube in incognito, I get generic recommendations. But after watching several videos, I get recommendations based on what I watched, which I presume, are stored as cookies.