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No actually. There are a lot of aspects that attract me to the field.

I’ve been angling to get back to university for physics to compliment the pursuit as well. (Unfortunately, easier said than done once life starts getting in the way)

So—no, not just as a hobby.
I’m surprised you think it’s so detestable. I love making things work. That runs end-to-end for me.
The mods do a decent job, I commend them. Articles get flagged by users. Users have a wide spectrum and differing opinions on what is relevant to be discussed here.

In my experience, articles directly related to tech, like diversity in tech will stay open to comments for a long time before mods respond to flags and lock it, allowing a decent amount of discourse.

Articles that are science, but not directly related to tech (white supremicist shooting research) tend to be shut down faster if they are flagged. Why do users flag them? Probably because the arguments, potentially from either side make them uncomfortable and they’d rather it not be discussed here. The mods are just responding to user flags.

I have seen threads get uncivil, at which time the mods will lock them down, which I think is also fine.
this goes against every revolution in the history books.
Where has this worked out, historically?
Redux is still a solid choice. Apollo is used more often now because it handles a lot of GraphQL optimization but it's by no means a panacea. And sometimes, despite being an advocate of Apollo, I miss the simplicity of Redux.
That was just propaganda. They took priate property away from everyone that had something. Even if you had two cows, they took that away and made it state property. The process is quite nicely illustrated in the Morometii sequel that came out last year:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt9203168/
> JavaScript tooling is stupid simple if you know what you're doing.

Do you mean simple, or easy? I think the latter. The JS tooling seems well optimized for the novice user, but I think it's hard to argue that it isn't complicated behind that friendly face.

Also, I think most things seem easy once you know what you're doing. Almost tautologically so.
We've implemented a full Asserted Versioning Framework (Johnson and Weis) for Postgres, and use it in production. Using it for about 18 months for both OLPT and OLAP. works beautifully :)
The baffling thing about this is the vast oil wealth the country controls. Its oil reserves are the largest in the word, yet its economy lies in shambles.

That takes some serious mismanagement.
Ironically I opened this is private mode and was turned away. The New York Times is trying to have it both ways. I can log in and be tracked by their advertisers or I can be discreet and open articles from another source. I don't mind paying a small subscription but let me choose to deny your advertisers information on how I consume your content. If being tracked is part and parcel of being a subscriber then these pro-privacy articles look almost unethical.
> Upvoted because it's well-articulated, even though I disagree.

Appreciate it :)

> There is a key distinction: If I have two subsystems that use the same data in different ways, I can keep those concerns separate by putting the functions for each concern into a different module. Binding all the functions to the type mixes the concerns together and creates objects with way too much surface area.

This is where composition helps. Now, historically, indeed OOP programmers have not been the best at using composition. Now, looking at more recent projects, this has got a lot better.

> Also, most OO langs make a big ceremony out of each new type: create the class file, create the test file, blah blah blah. I want types to be cheap so I can make them easily and capture more meaning with less work.

Totally agree with that, the ability to define a type in one line and have it reflected though the entire code base through type inference is the one thing that I miss the most in C/C++.
Not a radio engineer, but it's the shape of the Faraday cage that matters I think, not the size. The required shape most likely depends on the wavelength, as the idea is to distort the waves... Basically if your grid is too tight (ie a sheet of metal) the waves keep their shape, but if the grid is too loose, the waves just pass right through.

That's what I've been told by fellow meshnet hobbyists anyhow ;)
This is completely unfounded speculation not found in that article or in any other writing on the topic(s) (of social credit scores and the study the great nation app). Or possibly it's an attempt at some dark humor through hyperbole. Either way, I see a lot of these sort of extreme claims on HN whenever China comes up, and I think we'd all do better to discuss what's actually happening rather than our wildest fears. This type of speculation really muddies the waters and makes it hard to have a thoughtful discussion about anything China-related on here, and China is a big, complicated, important topic right now that deserves careful consideration. It also risks undermining legitimate criticisms of Chinese policy, or at least making them less believable, which I assume is the exact opposite of the intent of the poster here.
This would go exactly as well as it did in Vietnam and Iraq: The Venezuelan people would slaughter the invading imperialists until they gave up and went home.
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Why not just flag the comments. Why shut down the whole discussion? Seems like a heavy handed approach. I mean of course talking about the rampant racism in tech will make many white males uncomfortable, that the reason we post and talk about it. So that people become more comfortable talking about it. The mods aren't helping the problem they are exacerbating it by coddling.
It's not just Venezuela, look at what is happening in Haiti.
The comment was about code working when you first run it--not exactly where input outside your control comes in. Also, you'd be surprised how much types can catch, but feel free to completely ignore my opinion if that suits you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
everyone has different reasons for flagging,
some people flag because they disagree in some way with the topic others flag because theyve seen the subject before ad nauseum, and it always leads to a degenerate commentary.

I have a hunch some flaggers may not yet have enough karma to downvote, but enough to flag so they flag in lieu of downvoting but thats just a guess.

another thing to consider, is that HN comments do show up in google searches at times, so cleaning things up quick is a positive thing regarding, profanities, or potential liabilities.
Even the unsuccessful?

Or the successful ones that just lead to another autocracy?
history requires interpretation, easier to be an ideologue
Being homeless in the United States is preferable to having a residence in many parts of the world. Even sleeping on the streets, you're surrounded by a ton of infrastructure that many countries don't have the benefit of.
This is only of interest for the rich. Who can chose low arsenic rice and get government controls put in anyway.

The poor simple cannot spend the time implementing controls that are invisible to them. There's also no way of learning what's really important and what's myth. The rich have enough issues with that.

If anyone wants a list of water wells that have arsenic levels to high that's also easy to get. There exists ways to reduce arsenic in the poor, but it needs work not another academic howto that's just not practical.

Watch Born Sweet it's a good doco on arsenic poisoning from wells - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYhq-dAn3Po
There are so many kind of polymorphism. Many of them do not require objects. Executing a closure is a form of polymorphism. As is manipulating a generic type.
Then you end up with something that has the usability of `wpa_supplicant`: confusing command line arguments _and_ strange, hard to parse input files.
Similar thing happened to Wilko Johnson, guitar player in Dr. Feelgood and actor in Game of Thrones. But in the end he surprisingly ended up surviving his terminal cancer, thanks to his doctors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilko_Johnson#Cancer
At this scale I think is where you must use distributed actors, which in turn implies you should be using economics. Name a price for each tree, establish quality control (inspection, approved list of species, etc) and let the billions of people on the planet figure the rest out.
You cannot possibly compare central planning as a reaction to the free-market (walmart and amazon) to the central planning of an entire nation's economic output / consumption.

That is so intellectually dishonest, I'm actually speechless.
the oil is poor quality and requires constant reinvestment in extraction and refinement infrastructure to remain competitive with other exporters. for various reasons this investment has been neglected for the last decade or two, but it’s not quite a turnkey fix to just decide to sell more oil.
> In my experience, articles directly related to tech, like diversity in tech will stay open to comments for a long time before mods respond to flags and lock it...

Actually, the mods generally don't get involved in this at all. If an article is flagged by enough users it automatically gets killed (marked "[dead]"), at which point you can't add any more comments.

Sometimes the mods will revive a killed article if it's not off-topic and people ask for it to be reopened.

You can reach the moderators at hn@ycombinator.com if you have concerns about moderation issues.
I don't know about Apple watches, but I do something kind of like this on my Android phone using Tasker. I have it toggle airplane mode for 55 minutes at a time, "waking up" for 5 minutes every hour to send and receive messages. Operating in this mode reduces my digital footprint and has a fantastic effect on battery life, but it's kind of a drag for people who want to call me. My dream phone would have a built in one-way pager radio to alert me of incoming calls and would only connect to the cellular network if I chose to accept the call.
Aileron is normally used for crosswind takeoff

Airbus crosswind takeoff recommendation is no lateral stick input. The sidestick is a rate controller, so a lateral deflection commands a roll, not a specific control surface position like on non-fly-by-wire aircraft. And you run the risk of deploying spoilers.
Sockets.cpp Postmortem
I might be wrong but I believe U.S. is the only country has the right to free speech enshrined in the laws. Most countries, including European's, don't have free speech. I'm a firm believer in free speech but it's hard to talk to other countries about it when no one else values it as much as us.
For options? I guess http://www.optionstrading.org/strategies/a-z-list/ is a good place to start. One way people just starting out with options fuck up is that they take out positions with a very large upside but also very high risk to ruin. It's like going to a roulette table basically. If you take out more complex positions you can limit your downside, make money on sideways movements, etc. You can also limit downside by setting up orders to sell above/below certain values too.

I read some finance textbook when I was just starting out, I think it was "introduction to derivatives and risk management". That helped too. It's a good, gentle introduction to derivatives and you can skip most of it unless you want to work for an investment bank.

I think the best way to learn is to just watch stocks overtime, and read up on the news relevant to them. That's really why I play with options, it keeps me plugged into following the movements of a bunch of different stocks, so I learn a lot about what makes them behave in certain ways. Definitely stay away from paid classes on investing or trading, those are almost all scams - if a "successful trader" has to teach paid classes they're not actually successful. And re: my strategy of trying to identify short term movements that make something under/over-valued and hoping it will correct, just realize that sometimes the market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent, and sometimes you just need to take the loss and get out.

One more thing I forgot. When I refer to "news" I mean real news. A lot of financial news websites are complete bot-written vacuous garbage. Real news is things like deals happening or falling through, large orders, interest rates, lawsuits, recalls, earnings, trade deals, etc.
Yes, there's been an enormous propaganda push to legitimize a future U.S. intervention - either a direct invasion, or igniting a full-blown civil war by arming right-wing paramilitaries, as was the standard operating procedure throughout the 80's.
Well, it sounds like programming is your side project.
A $255B EV Debate Is Raging Among the World’s Biggest Automakers
I agree with you. I don’t know of any other group for which there are epithets where said group embraces the epithet in order to “water it down”, “empower”, etc.

That’s different from the situations in some places where the word for a people in translation is an epithet but it’s the only word for those people, not that it’s embraced. (think “gaijin” thirty years ago, as an accessible example).
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Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM should have been
What are you trying to say? Things would be better if "the population" had guns?
That's still over 50 qualified applicants..
It's treatable, not curable. Treatment lasted about a year, consisting of monthly injections into my eyeball (yeah), and a laser surgery that cauterized about 50 tiny veins. I have a blind spot and some unevenness, but it's usable. My bad eye is better than many people's good eye. It's about 20/40-20/80 now, depending (my good eye is 20/20).

Hooray for modern medicine! It saved my eye. When the occlusion first happened, my vision went from 20/20 to 20/500 in moments.
citing the new york times :/
didnt they push for WMD in iraq?
edit: ah yes, unquestioned reporting pushing the administration's policy of war. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/may/26/pressandpublis...

isnt this what happened with collusion as well? oh yeah
https://taibbi.substack.com/
If it is just a case of one or two people being uncivil, they will just delete the comments. If an article/post gets a bunch of flags they are responding to the community, which is signallng that the post should not be part of the community and the whole thread will be locked.

See comment above, it appears to be automated.
I think you're being downvoted because specific questions about specific countries, like yours, end up being used as broad-sweeping scare tactics to avoid or shut down discussion of universal health care. In the U.S. even just socializing medicine is seen by some as total conversation to socialism, and in some of the more ignorant cases communism.

I think your questions are triggering that emotional response.
Can you elaborate on "improve the state" of the shade trees? What does this entail?

Also do you recommend any resources for a beginner to get started on the fruit trees? Soil prep, watering schedule, etc.
Yeah, what a life, without his family friends.
The oil reserves are in shambles too, due to as you said mismanagement. They are a special type of oil that requires extra investment to produce, and the government has failed to make those investments.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2019/01/29/charting-the...
Yeah, well, a subject wrote that.
i’ve read accounts that say litecoin is nearly as popular as btc there
This is configurable.
Or they seed out (or are replaced by humans). A forest can hold carbon for as long as it is allowed to propagate. There is no permanent carbon sink, see peat bog fires.
Which is worse.
After socialism took over Venezuela in 2007 through Chavez the "eternal president" of Venezuela I wouldnt consider any votes as valid. I still remember back then knowing that things were wrong and bad in Venezuela. He was president till he died. The elections were a joke.
In my case, the poor quality batteries exploded while I was playing it. The best part is that it keep chugging along even with only 3 working batteries until later that day when I took the battery cover off for some reason and found the gruesome remains.
The basic situation is this. We often have a situation in which N operations contain M cases (for M different types).

Without OOP, we have the ugly organization of writing N functions that each dispatch M cases of code by pattern matching or switching on a numeric type field or whatever.

OOP lets us break these pieces of logic into separate methods. And then in the physical organizationof the program, we can group those methods by type. For any given type, we have N methods: each one implements one of those N functions just for that type.

This is a better organization because if we change some aspect of a type, all the changes are done in one place: the implementation file or section of file for that type. Or if a new type is added, we just add N methods in a new file or section; we don't have to change the code of numerous functions to introduce new cases into them.

Those who write articles opposing OOP never seem to constructively propose an attractive alternative for this situation.

It is this attractive program organization which swayed developers toward OOP, or even full blown OOP evangelism. It's not because it was hyped. OOP has concrete benefits that are readily demonstrable and applicable.

OOP is what allows your operating system to support different kinds of file systems, network adapters, network protocols, I/O devices and so on.

It's unimaginable that the read() system call in your kernel would contain a giant switch() on device type leading to device-specific code, which has to be maintained each time a new driver is added.
This one requires to create historical tables for each "regular" table, like in SQL 2011, in AVF you keep everything in one table, this feature provides a unique level of querying flexibility for temporal queries.
You are seriously misinformed. Serious issues (crazy inflation) started years before the sanctions.
When I said "class", I really just meant "type".

CRDTs are relatively new so there may not be many classes yet that teach them. If you want to learn about them, I recommend you first watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOlnp2bZVRs&list=WL&index=56... and then read this paper: https://pages.lip6.fr/Marc.Shapiro/papers/RR-7687.pdf . The video explains a lot of the math in a very easy to digest way and will make the paper much easier to understand.
I think the quote is actually, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun," per Google and Wikipedia. Is this part of Marxist theory, or Maoist? I genuinely don't know. I had always thought that Marx viewed the revolution as at least potentially peaceful, but I confess I have never read him.
It probably is the same as programmer / computer field MALE and FEMALE ratio. I doubt anyone here would reject the idea having 50% of females typing every day as much as males do.

I am doing IT and programming at the same time, I don't see a single girl doing IT or programming at the companies I work with (SMBs) doing anything close to hackernews material things other than graphic design or social marketing.
I had my bank cancel all amazon music subscription charges after paying for it for almost a year after I stopped using it. Turns out they cancelled ALL charges from amazon. Am I a bad person?
In the article about parboiled rice, it says that it's often called "easy-cook rice". Does this mean minute rice is better for you than regular rice?
I would like to know from those who down voted my comment: why down vote?

My intent was to add an extra dimension to the conversation.
And they changed their privacy policy to allow collection of more data for advertising:
https://thewirecutter.com/blog/your-privacy-your-devices-and...
I've had ocular migraines my whole life, as long as I can remember (I clearly remember them happening before kindergarten, and was seeing doctors when I was six). Luckily, they've gotten far less common and intense as I've gotten older... they were completely debilitating during my early teens.
Untrue. Read (for example) Erica Chenoweth's detailed empirical work on civil resistance. Nonviolent resistance has a considerably higher real-world chance of success than armed uprising. It also has the huge advantage of leaving behind less collective trauma, giving post-revolutionary society a better chance of sustaining peace.
There was a lot of research that was done, but we were able to get into cans with a few key components.

We use a piece of home brewing equipment right now to fill our cans and bottles, the beer gun [1]. The beer gun allows us to purge our cans/bottles with CO2 (oxygen is bad for alcohol), and then fill them from the bottom to reduce foam.

I was able to find a local supplier, that wraps cans in plastic. So rather than printing them, they shrink wrap our label on to them. They're a bit more expensive than printed cans (if I recall 34¢ sleeved vs 19¢ printed). This allows us to order a single pallet at a time, decreasing our storage needs

The last key was the can seamer[2]. I found this early on, and it's been a great little work horse for us. We've put over 6,000 cans through it, and it's been one of the best purchases we've made.

Bottles are the easy one, we just use the beer gun [1] and then a manual capper to seal them.

Happy to answer any other questions! It's been a fun ride trying to figure out how to "mass produce" something on a smaller scale :)

[1] https://www.morebeer.com/products/blichmann-beergun-v2.html
[2] https://oktoberdesign.com/shop/canseamers/mk16/
You really believe:

1) laws are never applied selectively

2) there are no secret laws and secret interpretations

3) parallel construction does not happen

?
I realized I was always looking for the best pen and I was geeking out about writing instruments so I started a website about pens: https://unsharpen.com/. There is some light programming, but it's mostly data entry.
A brief bit of googling suggested suggests that rice from Asian countries is substantially lower in arsenic; I have no idea why though.
Moving Star Field on STM32/Windows/Linux
I'm not surprised. I'm betting on Bitcoin Cash, which has recently overtaken Litecoin in tx volume, and has most of the big early adopters in the Bitcoin space (e.g. Bitpay, Coinbase) backing it, and of course, Ethereum. It doesn't really matter what it is, as long as it can gain a sufficient amount of liquidity and number of users.
Dr. Who: The First Doctor (William Hartnell) Deepfake
how are those corporations the result of centralized planning?

Every instance of centralized planning by an authoritarian gov't has ended in disaster. And yet, every time, different excuses have been brought up about why it failed.

> The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Friedrich_Hayek#The_curio...
Dont forget that Venezuela is now a narco state. As long as this goes on they will keep feeding the rich military heads and screw everybody else over. Nobody will do anything till Forbes magazine makes an article about it though (seems to be a weird meme portayed by Netflix's Narcos series, it wasnt till they wound up on Forbes magazine that the biggest of drug lords were taken down by the DEA for whatever reason).
The links never go bad because you should never delete data. Also old versions are kept forever.
I am familiar with libc (I will have to look up Foundation). My opinions were based on cursory browsing at best.

To be clear, coming from mostly python/c++, I was looking for something like `import pathlib` or `#include <filesystem>`. Lot of modeling work I do involves boring things like moving files around, plotting them etc.

Again, its likely that I did not look around enough.