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> ... people are nice to each other but don't seem to ever actually connect. People will say they've "known" someone for 5 years, when they at most speak once or twice every year (and often never touch on anything substantial, either) ...

What do you mean by 'connect', exactly, and how would you be able to judge about what is substantial to others, when the culture is so different to the Western one ? I have friends from Europe and the States, that after decades here, still don't get the vast differences in thinking and behaviour.

There's an emphasis here in people understanding how others feel ( or making an educated guess ) without actual spoken communication, that is difficult to understand for Westerners even after years in the country. A gesture indicating a feeling is often much more appreciated than a full-blown conversation. 空気を読め。

Most people that have come to visit us and met part of our Japanese family often comment on how cold or distant some family members seem to be despite being siblings, or a couple, and they couldn't be more wrong.

Some of those family members have the closest relationship I've ever known people to have. They just don't walk around making a point about it, or need to express it outwardly.

My wife would talk about the weather with her mother on the phone, once every few days. Just the weather. It was not what she talked about that mattered. It was the fact that she called, no matter what. If we had been living in Namie when Fukushima went nuts, and she had been on the phone, we wouldn't have left the house on the face of a nuclear meltdown before finishing the call. And she would have talked only about the ckufing weather, I assure you.
I call this "academically missing the point." HN encourages bland contrarian word soup that appears sound, but in order to engage in any kind of substantive conversation you must spend an inordinate amount of time deconstructing whatever you're replying to, in order to provide a functional baseline for the conversation moving forward.
Yeah and then you have to travel in November, which sucks. And it's only one week.
Many sites run an LTS release of a Linux distribution until support ends, and then update to either the next or the latest LTS release of that distribution, which they then stay on as long as it is support, and so on.

Debian 8 (Jessie) still has a little over a year left, for example, and is on PHP 5. Ubuntu 14 is just nearing the end of support, and is on PHP 5. Same with OpenSUSE and CentOS.

I'm not sure what the Red Hat situation is, because the pages at Redhat that Google found that would probably tell me are in the knowledge base, and will only show me the question, telling me I have to be a Red Hat subscriber to see the answer.

This is one of the annoyances with some major frameworks. According to both the Symfony and Laravel requirements pages, they need PHP 7.1.3. As far as I can tell that's not included in any LTS release of any major Linux distribution, which top out at 7.0.33 currently, I believe.

PS: interesting oddity somewhere in HN. When on the "reply" screen for your comment, HN says your comment is 1 day old. However, back in the thread, or on a direct link to your comment, it says that it is 6 hours old. It does the same thing for all 6 hour old comments in this thread, but not 5 hour old comments.
JPM coin just seems like someone put some money into some blockchain / coin like projects at JPM and came up with this product as a way to have something to show for it.

I'm not really sure if the resulting product is really the result of some big idea, or just an amalgam of things / ideas put together in a way JPM finds acceptable, even if to show something for their own work.

This is a weird situation where I can't tell if this is just some wonky homognized or otherwise last ditch effort idea that isn't anything, or is super complex and really a big idea....
My point was that it isn't quaint, it's practical and useful. A unique tool for a unique requirement of our modern society. Calling it quaint is showing how out of touch the author is.

Don't get me wrong. I hope she is right. I hope cars go away. But I just don't see how they could for rural citizens. Maybe part of her prediction requires that people move closer to the cities. A real possibility.
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I had a physics professor whose day job was geophysics. We were discussing earthquakes, and he said he really wanted to investigate the possibility of eliminating the threat from the San Andreas fault by intentionally triggering it at some regular interval, before the opposing forces built up to dangerous levels. He was onto something!
But its totally okay to assign attributes to a large group of diverse people you dont actually know based solely on your political beliefs.
I would very much love, love, love to see US zoning regulations (etc) loosened up to allow for smaller spaces with fewer amenities.

But I am loathe to say "Yes" to shanty towns per se as a thing we allow in the US as official policy on city property.

But thanks for chiming in. Have an upvote.
In my wing of a household name financial company, there are 7 directors and 1 engineer at that tier. And the 1 engineer is a lifer, so anyone would have to leave if they want that position within the next 10-15 years.
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But doesn't GoFundMe support many projects that are obviously total scams? This would seem that their ethics are not consistent.
> What's the difference between promoting a scientific falsehood that puts public health at grave risk and yelling "fire" in a crowded theater other than the proximity of damage done?

Clear and present danger. Both yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre and refusing to vaccinate are a clear danger. But only one of them is clear and present. For comparison, yelling "fire" in an empty plaza would not be penalized.
So let's shut it down too then. Maybe when we have literally nothing left, America can finally realize that people committing crimes need help, not vindictive punishment.

But this is the same America that regularly jokes about men getting raped in prison, and gleefully discuss how convicted pedophiles will likely die if they end up in general population
You are still visiting in the off season transitioning to peak summer season with August being the worst. Go back when schools get out in North America, Europe, and Asia, then let us know how it compares. Try it again when Europe is on Holiday in August.

I went in May when schools were getting out and I could tell the difference by the end of the week. Make appointments to the popular places to avoid the lines.
I just visited Costa Rica last week, but it was more of a mission trip to build a well. We were in a fairly run-down town far out of the way of typical tourists (though surprisingly we still saw a few pass through!). Got to meet many locals and eat with them, probably wouldn't trade that experience for anything. When we inevitably did some more tourist-y things in La Fortuna it felt kind of weird and unsatisfying.

So if you're interested in that sort of unique experience I recommend looking up some nonprofits in need of volunteers.
My preference for Windows SSH moved from PuTTY to MobaXterm https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/.

It's got a load of useful features, like tabbing, embedded X Servers, which makes things easier.
Wipr for Safari https://giorgiocalderolla.com/wipr.html
Sorry about this guys, we were so eager to get this out there! We used a template to generate the website and forgot to remove extraneous links. Will be fixed soon. In the meantime, there's no fees for signing up or hosting ads!
You raise an interesting idea.

One of the issues with concurrency is the assumption that the transaction is between two non trusting parties (obviously it doesn't have to be that way). Most business don't want to / don't do business if they don't trust each other... and if they do trust then there are other ways to do business.

Not sure if this JPM coin addresses that exactly, but it is kind of interesting.
Labeling people you disagree with as terrorists. Great way to make friends, eh? It's always easy to discount the view of an opponent, but much more difficult to appreciate it.
> If a company needs someone focused internally on product for 8-10 hours a day

Then they need two people, not one.
Third world country is bad (although maybe the positive racial discrimination will count them in, I don't know) but the people who get screwed by this sort of thing are also the white working class. Most employers have some (fairly rational as well as irrational) desire to screen by class, alongside the people of the upper classes knowing how to game the system of education/etc. So when you push women and ethnicities in, you push white men out, and the ones who feel the pinch are the ones already onto a loser.
Just a note about your posting format- don't use the `pre` tag or backticks to quote long lines of text. They'll overflow and it's essentially impossible to read on mobile.
I would say "not really". Trying to raise with such terrible optics is not going to be a fast process.
They conveniently don't share a key point: those on public healthcare or food stamps were required to vaccinate. This particularly affected those with special needs, e.g. autism, thus completely skewing the numbers. The vaccines didn't cause autism in these populations; the autism caused vaccines.

Additionally, linking to vaxxed is like linking infowars: https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/vaxx...
It certainly does matter because the question is what did the grandparent mean.
I think there are a lot of reasons RISC-V matters beyond just being open source. Working with MIPS tool chains is positively ghoulish, but they fill a niche.

If another architecture that is reasonably well designed, with reasonable core licensing fees, and had even decent tooling came out I think even that would have broken MIPS's back.

RISC-V hits the mark on all of those by either being open source or by using existing open source tooling effectively. There will be a transition period slowly moving to new hardware and learning barriers (but IMHO they're pretty low), but yes I'd say these kind of details are going to start to matter to the industry.
InVision is a tool for making interactive click-throughs, typically, of software mockups. It provides a very natural feeling to prototypes.

I'd expect security is important because of the pre-release and experimental nature of most product mockups.
Hmm...

If me and 3 designers would start a new project, we would use our original HN accounts to communicate. Put our names on the project and link to our other projects and social media presences.

And we would for sure announce it on our Twitter accounts.

None of this happened here. Why?
Technical aspects aside, this post is in a really bad taste.

Next time you're itching to show off your chops, maybe pick a project that does not involve airbrushing people somehow deemed unworthy of being remembered, based on their looks?

During world war II, the Nazis had the laborious task of detecting Jews among the occupied populations, at scale. Is that also a task worthy of being automated and then writing a post about it?
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A couple more:

1. A hurricane is coming and we need to evacuate!

2. We want to pack a family's worth of luggage and take a sight seeing roadtrip of the US.

3. Sure would be nice to visit my parents who live in rural America where no planes/trains/busses go.

4. There exist bad parts of town that police, cabs, and Uber refuse to go. How will people who live in those areas even go anywhere? Walk 10 blocks so that they can hopefully find a Bird scooter to drive the doctor?

I feel like this author is ignorant about the conditions of many Americans. I don't see at all how owning a car will be considered "quaint" when our modern lives are built around owning a vehicle.

There's so many safety issues that arise from not owning your own transportation. Ignoring those, there will need to be a lifestyle/cultural shift to remove transportation independence from most Americans. And ignoring that, you'll still need to be okay with giving your freedom of movement to a private company. Better hope Uber/Lyft/Bird/etc don't ban you, or you're really screwed.
> But do you really believe this is the only thing they will censor?

This is how free societies work. Everyone has the freedom to assemble--and not assemble--with whomever they choose.

We have protected classes for lines one cannot draw. But an essential part of democracy, going back to the Athenians, is the public's freedom to associate--and transact--with people of their choosing, and being able to associate--or not associate--on the basis of political views.
> I don't disagree that people are complacent, but on a factual level, most kids who don't get vaccinations do not get measles.

This is because other children do not contract measles because they have been vaccinated for Measles, as have their parents. It's not because Measles is hard to contract, it's because Measles is uncommon in the modern Western world. It's uncommon in the modern Western world because people have been vaccinated for it.

> In the years before a measles vaccine, there were about 500 deaths per year from measles (in the US). This was when the population was about half of what it is now, so if we returned fully to that rate, there would be about 1,000 deaths per year from measles today.

1000 easily preventable deaths. Just because 1000 people isn't a large, scary number doesn't mean that it's a small number either. A single person dying of a preventable illness is heartbreaking. Each one of those 1000 people who die are someone's son, daughter, wife, husband, brother, sister, aunt, etc. What value do you place on human life?

> There were no deaths from measles in the years 2016 or 2017, per this document from the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/downloads/measlesdataandstatssli....

Because of Vaccines. It even says right there in the link: "Measles remains a leading cause of vaccine-preventable infant mortality."

> But the amount of actual harm that anti-vaxxers are causing is miniscule, certainly deeply out of proportion with the hate that they're getting.

You say this until your child goes to kindergarten with an un-vaccinated child and contracts a deadly illness.

In addition, anti-vaxxers are doing harm to their own children. A parent's responsibility is to protect their children. I understand that anti-vax parents think hey are protecting their children by refusing vaccines, but it is objectively the opposite. Anti-vax parents are exposing their children to deadly illnesses that used to kill people at an alarming rate before vaccination was common. They are doing this to a child who cannot understand the implications of these decisions.

> And if you do sincerely desire to keep as many people as possible from getting the measles, rather than desire to feel the rush of heaping hate on people, then again, let me suggest that the current tactics are not working, and that de-escalating the rhetoric around this will do much more to let anti-vaxxers relax and start listening to your data.

This I can partially agree with. However, cognitive bias is very real and very powerful. Clearly, hate and spite are not a good way to communicate with anti-vaxxers, but how many children need to die and how may horrible illnesses need to become common before they realize the errors of their ways?
Even wikipedia admits that most people mean tracing GC when they say GC.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish here?
This was pretty much clear to anybody who read the regulation.

Recital 32. [...] Silence, pre-ticked boxes or inactivity should not therefore constitute consent. [...]

It can't be more explicit than that.
The problem is that this sort of move will make anti-vaxxing a bigger problem, not a smaller problem.

A huge part of this sort of thing is driven by distrust of institutions, which has been in long term decline. Can you trust doctors or are they in the pockets of big pharma? Is the government suppressing vital information related to the health of your child because they're afraid to admit they were wrong? Etc etc.

Attempting to suppress/oppress these people to shut them up is a bad idea because it'll simply be taken as evidence that there is in fact some sort of malign pro-vaccination conspiracy, that their arguments can't be rebutted, and they'll become more dedicated to spreading 'the truth' as they see it.

This is a typically short sighted decision by corporates. If GoFundMe don't like anti-vaxxers, they should make a video shooting down common anti-vaxxer ideas and then embed it at the top of every crowdfund related to it, so everyone who wants to contribute money to it is exposed to the counter arguments. Heck, make watching the vid mandatory before you can donate. But shutting down legal discourse is bad bad bad and will only inflame the situation.
I guess it depends on your definition of "really easy". I'm not saying it's the easiest thing in the world, rather it is something that any developer can get if they are willing to bash their head against it for a time (and probably for not as long as they initially fear).

I still don't completely understand what is going on in the route definitions, but I have no problem with setting up a route.

Granted something like this is a gnarly type :

type UserAPI2 = "users" :> "list-all" :> Get '[JSON] [User]
:<|> "list-all" :> "users" :> Get '[JSON] [User]

But really you don't need to think of it as a type, just think of it as setting up a couple of routes. The ':<|>' is the route separator. ':>' represents a '/'. The bit after the final ':>' is what your function needs to return. If you get it wrong the compiler will complain at you.
The government doesn't have to censor anything any more, the corporations do that for them now.

This is how the future of censorship will work. And there won't be a legal protection against censorship because of this.

But I agree, GoFundMe can legally block anything they want.
Car-sharing continues to increase (Uber and Lyft are set to go public this year)

I don't see how these two fit the definition of "sharing".

To me they were always just "taxis but with a tax-dodgy flavour".
If you want to draw a distinction, ~194 dB is probably the place to do it (in Earth atmosphere). That's where the sound pressure oscillates between 0 and 2 atm and any louder would necessarily distort.
I've wondered this as well. Are there equivalents in other industries? Some human trait that shows up in some circumstance?
Why haven't ycombinator fixed this problem yet?

It's bizarre that a programmer focused discussion board doesn't support code or quote formatting. And even worse, doesn't strip out formatting that breaks!?
I think the author was fairly careful in drawing a distinction between functional programming and programming in the functional style. You can get a lot of mileage from writing pure functions and using immutable state regardless of what language you're in. It doesn't make your language a functional programming language, nor does it make you a functional programmer, but does that matter?

If every pure function we write prevents another headache, why not seek out opportunities to write in that style, regardless of language?
I think we're too far down the double meaning rabbit hole for me to really know what that means ;)
I got here via the front page, which would seem to discredit your theory.

Anyway VC funding doesn't necessarily equate to being interesting.
People search to "cure" everything they don't like about themselves. In the case of baldness, it only seems frantic because it's elusive. The ED cure use to be frantic until a little blue pill was developed. A lot of people embrace their baldness, so it cannot be objectively negative or unattractive.
They're not like terrorists, they are terrorists. Some of these diseases we have vaccines for are vicious and could kill more than any suicide bomber could dream of.
Please don’t forget that it is her private money (I don’t know about tax benefits). So it’s like paying for the education of your children.
I'm seeing this as well and it isn't in any way positive experience. There is not much we can do without being labeled.
> All of the planes you ride on are going to fly anyway, get out there and get it!

This is just plain bad reasoning, for obvious reasons.

It is not “hypersensitive” to care about the CO2 impact of air travel. In fact it is a large blind spot for many otherwise progressive-minded people. These travel shows genuinely espouse progressive principles of learning from other cultures and yet almost never is there any mention of the significant CO2 impact. All the little things you might do throughout the year to lower your impact and get to where we need to be in 12 years are easily wiped out by just one plane trip. It’s good to talk about it.
Sorry about this, we were so eager to get this out there! This will be fixed soon.
> yelling "fire" in a crowded theater

Can we stop invoking unsupported non-binding dicta offered to illustrate the decision in a case which has since been overturned and is widely regarded as a travesty infringing on core political speech as if it were some kind of firm legal principal useful as a yardstick against which speech can be measured to determine if it is unprotected?
sigh ... yeah, it's Microsoft a big company with lots of money. But it's not unlimited and not every case can be handled. It was decided that there wasn't time to move comments and put in controls to be able to migrate accounts and self delete, there likely also wasn't time for the effort it would take to put other controls in place AND actually do the migration of comments.

In the end, they project is probably like any other, short on time, and not enough people to cover all the cases needed. As it is, it seems like it wasn't smooth, and comments would be a much larger complication. That doesn't mean it could never happen, just that it hasn't happened.

GDPR is the reason for deciding it's easier to dump them than to migrate them AND provide the controls they would likely need in place. It may be a small number of requests, relatively speaking, but judging from what YouTube, twitter and the like receive, I can't blame MS for taking the easy route.
I'm pleased you took the time to send this little targeted advert my way. I will be glad to check out that repo.
As predicted by Invader Zim: https://zim.fandom.com/wiki/Almighty_Tallest
I have to agree with you. I would really really love to use workers, but I'm having a hard time finding a use case. Sure it's closer to the user, but we're only saving 100ms? I get that certain applications benefit from this, but like you said if I still have to make calls to other API's that aren't at the edge then what does it matter?
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Without doxing myself...

It’s not apparently obvious what ethnicity I am based on looks. I had already been told there was a focus on diversity at the company I ended up getting an offer at and they “really want to build a diverse team from the ground up”. The conversation had been dragging for months and I resisted bringing up my background out of principle. I saw the hiring manager tweeting about a Latinx conference (I hate that term) and bit the bullet and told them I’m Latinx. I had an offer by the end of the week. This was after months of similar discussions with other companies where I stuck to my ideal of being hired for what I’ve accomplished and the skills I can prove I have. Ultimately I was running out of money and got desperate. I still feel terrible and angry but I have to put food on the table.
I assume that's different characters? How could you even tell?