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>Why would you think this would ever happen?

oh, i don't think it will happen. but it wasn't remotely on the table before trump, and now it is remotely on the table, as shown by the wall we're building, the deportations, denaturalizations, denials of asylum, anti-immigrant violence, etc.

surely you understand: i'm merely following best practices in reaction to the intensification of trends stoked by the president.

>if you're here legally you have absolutely nothing to worry about

you're thinking of this issue in terms of following the letter of the law as someone who obeys the law without thinking about it.

but you forget that legal matters only self-correct in the long term; you can beat the charge, but you can't beat the ride. and it's the ride -- the not-legitimate exercise of the state's power which is later reversed by due process -- which is the thing that drives immigrants into anxiety.

an immigration goon emboldened by the trump administration can easily cause tremendous damage to a perfectly innocent and fully legal person, and that damage will not ultimately be rectified by the law. it doesn't matter if you are innocent; the act of being falsely or accidentally or maliciously accused is enough to destroy your livelihood.

>"Massive brawls" are also illegal and violence in general is at a historic low point.

and yet before trump there weren't any visible and active white nationalist street gangs in my city, but now there is at least one.

are we at the edge? i don't know. what i do know is that we're closer than we were before.
Part of the study involved decoding images from memory/recall. I did say _limited_.

It depends how tightly you want to define "thought", but being able to think of an object and having a computer display a reasonable representation of it seems like a good start.
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helm was $300 for a time - $100 a year service fee after. I see they are now showing out of stock. And they started to add other services, including hosting some services on it with nextcloud.
Had to fly to Germany for 3 weeks to help with a product launch last year. If we'd been in the US we'd have been working 15 hour days to ensure we hit our launch date. But since we were in Dusseldorf everyone showed up at 9 and left precisely at 5.
I treat it as very base: be glad that we are who we are, that we can ponder these types of questions, and that it's OK that we may never get any hints, let alone answers, to these questions. Feynman has a good answer to something similar to this in one of those interviews from the 80s; he was perfectly okay with not understanding everything about the universe.
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> Google please come back, it will be a net gain for humanity.

I'd rather them wait until they are no longer required to censor their results and track their users on behalf of the state security apparatus.
How do you like buildkite?
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If you think of the perspective of these people wanting to short Tesla they probably have no experience of how much inventory you need to sell stuff. Stuff being anything.

Think of a typical bicycle shop and how many hundreds of bicycles they have given the actual store footfall. They will also have a warehouse or stockroom with a similar or larger quantity of stock. Plus a lot of sales will be special order from the supplier. None of that inventory will be a year old and the product is far simpler than a car. Yet there is a mountain of it. Sure bicycles come in 3-4 sizes and that adds to the inventory requirements but colours, trim levels and options certainly add to the inventory requirements Tesla has.

You could look at your typical bicycle store and decide to 'short' them somehow. If you had no idea of the practicalities of how sales works you could assume the warehouse was full of the broken ones or the ones returned from customers. You could also look around the showroom and find that quite a few were dusty and not setup correctly. There would be no confirmed buyer for any of them.

You could go back a week later and still see pretty much the same. Yet if you didn't work there you would not realise a huge amount had made it to customers. This is the problem of the information these Tesla short people are working with, they don't understand how the business really works and they jump to conclusions.
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I believe most of Mozilla's revenue comes from its deals with search engines to be built-in to the browser. https://www.cnet.com/news/google-firefox-search-deal-gives-m...
The node version is very old. V8 has improved significantly since v6.
A 2005 study observed this behavior in macaques; male monkeys would pay some amount of fruit juice to look at leaders' faces or females' hindquarters ("socially useful information").
https://www.nature.com/news/2005/050131/full/news050131-5.ht...
To me, the biggest feature is https://about.gitlab.com/2019/04/22/gitlab-11-10-released/#s.... I've seen so many repositories imitating custom fields with labels starting with the same prefix, having it enforced by is such a good thing.
Thanks for this - I’d not heard of cefpython. It looks interesting, at the very least.
Google is changing how employees can report harassment and discrimination
You can find lard in Spain pretty easily some stores even have lard from ibérico style pigs with a much deeper flavor. I imagine most Southern Europe and Eastern Europe has easy access.
In order:
There certainly could be. How would we know? What if the universe isn't deterministic? Certainly it's more pragmatic to assume that only what we can experience is real, but that doesn't make it true.

The belief that there could exist parts of reality that the scientific method can't explain does not require having specific examples.

Even if all of reality can be understood by physics, that doesn't mean it can be simulated.

If physical reality can be simulated, then you could simulate the physical reality that makes up a person.

There is no guarantee that your simulation of the physical reality of a person would respond identically to an actual person.

There's a large body of philosophy on this, but basically it comes down to life working out better if we all assume everyone else is conscious.

There probably can be two similar beings demonstrating identical behavior with only one being conscious. Depends on what you define consciousness as I imagine.

I happen to lean towards believing Science can explain reality and that consciousness is a physical phenomenon, but to claim that things categorically must be that way is unfounded.
Is that from beef then? I wonder how the flavor is different from pork fat, which is probably milder tasting.
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It's probably only a matter of time before we have a GauGAN like interface for synthetic music creation...so you could say 'i want a sad song with a soft intro and a buildup of tension here with lyrics covering these emotions and things which lasts 7 minutes'.

ML/DL is coming for a lot of the grunt work. It's coming for us as programmers as well. It's probably a few years away, but ML/DL
Why don't people fight fire with fire? If grievance culture is the name of the game then surely this is where we're headed.
If you’re anywhere near a Mexican meat market/grocery store with a carniceria attached, make sure to try the in house rendered lard (and the chicharrones/crackling!). The white, tubbed, Armour brand lard simply doesn’t compare.

Should be caramel colored with some bits in it, sold in a bag, and very, very cheap!
Charles "Chuck" Scuri at OSU worked on plotter based painting. He was known as one of the very first computer graphics artists. I had the fortune of meeting him in the 1990s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Csuri
Or give it a bit longer and you've got icing sugar (or powdered sugar, as I think it's called in the States).

In virtually everything I've baked, though, it works fine to just use granulated. You may have to work a little harder to make sure it's truly all dissolved, that's all.
The terms used here (SaaS and Open Core) are orthogonal. SaaS is a way to charge for software, Open Core is a way to license one. The comparison between them is of the apples to oranges kind — not very meaningful.

Instead, what it is alluded here seems to be a comparison of hosted-only SaaS versus hosted and on-premises SaaS (SaaS v2?) on the businesses' infrastructure. The fact that the latter appears more often in companies that open source some parts of their stack is probably coincidental.

If anything, this is what my startup is doing, as well, so I'm speaking from personal experience. As a live example, we open source product for public mass communication (Aether, https://getaether.net), and a hosted or on-prem SaaS for professional, private use cases like within-company comms (Aether Pro - still in development).

This is useful, because not only it provides value for the public (open source part), it also is useful for businesses, in that it removes the burden of implementation, while allowing the companies to still retain their own data by hosting it on premises or on their own clouds in an airgapped manner.

Had it been a regular SaaS, this would have been impossible.
You can't copyright clothing designs and fashion designers are still in business.

Actually, you can as of 2017, in a specific set of circumstances:

In a 6–2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Star Athletica, L.L.C. v. Varsity Brands, Inc. in which it held that aspects of Varsity Brands Inc.’s cheerleading uniform designs are protectable under the U.S. Copyright Act.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/supreme-court-copyright...
Perhaps, but I think a lot of the power of an experiment like this would be to see what topics get voted up without the visual indication of karma (aside from the fact that it's on the front page, of course). You can only really get that with a critical mass of people using the plugin, or with buy-in from the site implementer.
Microsoft announced Bosque programming language
Rust is compiled by LLVM, while C compiled by GCC, which is a bit conservative. It's possible to enable same optimizations for gcc and LLVM, so their speed will match.
Google does something similar to push Chrome over Firefox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19669586

I don't get why you are downvoted..
The nurses may be working 12 hour shifts, but they’re unlikely to work more than 4 in a week. Overtime is expensive for employers, so they prefer to hire more or hire contract nurses where necessary.

Even the doctors usually cover 12 clinical 12hr shifts a month. They may do more work after another takes over, academic work, moonlight, or have admin work.

And having a good income allows you to buy your way out of most modern problems/work, like comparison shopping, cleaning, or even having and then raising their children for them.
For those who also were not familiar with 996: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
I asked a related question on StOv, and have been told that either "99.999999%" or "100.1%" of screen-reader users browse with JS enabled :D
I have the opposite opinion. I dislike marketing wankery and investor bullshit, however entertaining it may be. Instead, I tremendously enjoyed Karpathy’s Stanford class and lecture videos.
What makes you think that a computer that can generate music cannot also generate a background for the "creator" of that music? It can give you all the stories that touch our hearts even more so than we can imagine.
The article says that the AI generated 1k candidates which were then reviewed by humans which then selected 3 which seemed most promising and then massaged them into the final rules. Makes the "AI" part of the project look much less impressive if it took so much human input afterwards.
The researchers also tested the physical properties of their “fresh” plastics by remaking them with recycled monomers. The results were good, with no change in their function.

The article claims that this process makes these plastics infinitely reusable with no degradation in quality. It can also create plastics of different types from the same recycled materials. The process also requires less energy than traditional heat methods
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If this is the video I'm thinking of (can't open it at work), the elephant is chained to a post while painting. These types of "sanctuaries" are nothing of the sort, they exploit animals for tourist $.

There are tourist-friendly elephant sanctuaries that are built on respecting the animals' personal space; Elephant Nature Park in Thailand is one. Tourists are basically only allowed to observe the elephants in a forest/jungle habitat. At other places, tourists are allowed to hug and play with baby elephants, and the animals are trained to put up with it, while the mothers are chained and kept apart from the babies during "tourist time".
I remember going to my great-grandmothers house in Indiana. They had a farm, and they had lots of pigs. My mother brought one home as a kid, it was a runt and they kept it in the house and named it peanut butter.

Back to the topic at hand. There were pots full of lard in the basement, and they stored pork chops and sausages in the lard! You'd just go down an pull some out like it was a refridgerator.

Sliced potatoes, fried in lard, with pork sausages. One of my favorite meals to this day. And I have the cast iron pan my great grandmother used to make the exact same meal.

The lard went in the pie crusts as well. And I imagine in countless other things I never knew about.
Smaller stores with local ownership offer benefits, as well. Of course, either option is preferable to no options at all.
I have been thinking about that too. I go to work to do interesting technical stuff and deal with political stuff only as necessary. That's what motivates me. But I think it would be much better to go there for the purpose of self-advancement and only do stuff that serves that purpose.
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They certainly do produce something. Performing a service is production. This service could be and often is provided by a private enterprise, and in that case, it's not socialism. When it's paid for by taxes and controlled by elected representatives, it's socialism. Just like schools, libraries and roads.
I've worked in that environment, but without anyone goofing off. Fortunately, as a contractor, I did not have to come in on the weekends.

My coworkers were no more productive than me: IMNSHO, they would end up dragging as much busywork out of every problem as they could, simply because they were too overworked to think more than one step ahead.

To wit: we were running 10 AWS servers - to serve a mostly static website and handle a few hundred REST API calls each day.
With unsafe, you can do anything that C can.

Without unsafe, there’s significantly more aliasing information, which helps optimizations.
> can't do the gymnastics with pointers that C can

It can if you write the "unsafe" keyword, but there's a pretty strong community norm around not doing that sort of thing, unless you can encapsulate it inside some sort of safe API. And to be fair to C, I think C can close the gap with Rust/Fortran if you use the "restrict" keyword a lot?
I have a colleague who works 14 hour days.

This includes an hour nap in his car, lunch for 2 hours, and running errands/personal things outside the office for a few more hours.

If he sat down and worked straight, we figured he would only need to be in the office no more than 8 hours
It's eventually going to be something that happens when the car is parked, rather than a specific stop for charging/gassing up. I've already seen parking garages and street side meters equipped with EV chargers (although rarely an EV parked there). Ideally all batteries would be standardized, so you'd just pull up to a place and swap like you would a propane tank, but open standards aren't as inticing to investors as trying to dominate market share with proprietary tech and licensing it to everyone. Probably going to take a law standardizing swappable EV batteries to nip that bad behavior in the bud.

The valet game should get interesting. Pay extra to guarantee charging would be a quick and easy way to gouge a few more pennies.

As far as gas stations goes, I don't see a route where most of them aren't folding. Franchises don't have the resources to retool like a big corporation that can light money on fire every month and still increase in value.
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Ask HN: How hard is it for blind people to code?
I've read some stories about blind people who code successfully, but can't really imagine debugging using screen reader. Well, even reading, and navigating through a code sounds frightening.

Can anybody here share their experience first-hand?
He speaks about the 60 FPS when he tried NanoVG... I think he did not realize he could do that trick with IMGUI.
For text rendering with Nuklear, you make a font atlas from a true type font, rasterizing the font is built in Nuklear with stb_truetype. That gives you a lot of freedom. You can load as many fonts as you need. There is also support to load a binary resource such as the TTF file from a base85 string; it's very handy.
For layout it's immediate mode, so you describe it with code such as

nk_layout_row_dynamic(ctx, (float) row_height, 3); // a row of 3 buttons
if (nk_button_label(ctx, "Previous"))
...
if (nk_button_label(ctx, "Next"))
...

Here is small app I made with Nuklear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MycIYcutlMA
That's a better point, but the student still couldn't be expelled, which is the workplace equivalent.
Having shopped at family markets, I also don't miss their prices.
When I lived in Texas, lard was stocked by every HEB.
No. Model Y looks more like a crossover or a fastback. These types of cars are getting slightly more common here (for example BMW X4, Mercedes GLE, ...) but they are not mass market cars. These are fancy cars for people with too much money.

The sloping roof means there's not a lot of space in the back. The Model Y might be an improvement compared to Model 3, but it looks like it is still way too long for the amount of space it offers.

Lots of people drive station wagons around here. Cars like the VW Golf Variant, Passat Variant, Audi A4 Avant, BMW 5 series Touring...

People with kids buy family cars like the Citroen C4 Picasso, Opel Zafira, Touran. The Model Y doesn't look like it can compete with those on space.

Smaller SUVs (Tiguan, Peugeot 3008, Nissan Qashqai) are also very popular here, but Model Y doesn't really look like an SUV either.
I agree that algo questions are useful for recent grads. I find it more frustrating when I see those questions given to candidates for senior positions with 10 or more years of experience. Keeping fresh on the big-O of a bubble sort and rebalancing a binary tree ends up being in addition to building enterprise software solving real-world problems day to day.
> There's a reason OO and UI have been married together for decades.

People repeat this a lot, that OO goes with UI, but I don't think it's actually true, and I think e.g. React Hooks and immediate mode GUI in general demonstrate that it's not true. OO has been coupled with UI out of inertia, not because OO has unique strengths when applied to UI.

Sum types are a primitive language feature, akin to product types, which absolutely no one rejects the value of. The sum/product analogy to arithmetic is compelling to me: they are the building blocks of complex types and deserve recognition. I think that "zen koan" you mentioned earlier is being very generous to subclassing. You want ADTs most of the time!
Yes, you have to use if let, not let. That code would be a compiler error. (Specifically, a “non-exhaustive pattern” error.)
Most of the time I run into Matrox cards today it's a cut down G200 in a rackmount server designed to run only a primitive text console. Sometimes a poor soul will attempt to get X up on those things only to discover that the hardware is so crippled that it can't do better than 800x600 without artifacts and crashing. It's really kind of impressive that OEMs have managed to source a part that is so much worse than the card you could buy off of the shelf for $50 in 1997.
Sure. But that's a political price rather than a social one. (You'd better be prepared to pay it, though.)

I have, in my career, "spoken for the room" maybe three to five times. In two of them, I was already on my way out the door, so I wasn't very worried about the consequences. In no case was I ostracized or belittled by the non-management in the room. I received a few, very quiet, thanks.
Yes, I've heard that argument before. I've asked before if the research shows the problem is handoffs per se, or the protocol around them, but haven't had a good answer. There also doesn't seem to be good research into the longer term impact of these negative consequences on the practitioners.

I've worked around clinicians and clinical staff, and several times been surprised how much is left to personal memory and scheduling, including some inherently risky protocols/procedures that are at all functional only because the people doing them are careful ... some of these obviously easily improvable.
The best lard is Armor brand. You can usually find it in the Mexican isle at walmart. Sure it is hydrogenated but pie isn't exactly health food to begin with. And strangely, lard crusts are better than butter.

The only problem is I make pie a couple times a year when the tub is big enough to have a pie making factory. Then again it is so cheap its not a big deal.
I agree. My point is that the bundling balanced the ROI equation in a way that unbundled things don't. Theoretically this isn't an issue if the market has some sense of value for the unbundled thing...think HBO which is a mid-flight experiment.
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Saying Gitea is better because it's lighter weight is like saying a moped is better then an SUV because it's lighter weight. Gitea / Gogs is great for personal projects and small teams that don't need all the CI/devops/scrum/etc features that GitLab provides, but they're not really in the same ballpark.

GitLab is definitely resource hungry, but we self-host it for under $100/mo on AWS. This includes the cost of the CI infrastructure as well - EC2 instances being spawned by the multi-runner with docker+executor for each unique pipeline running.

Management of the server has been as easy as logging into the GitLab server periodically and running a yum update... It's never gone down.
(not op here) I have found that if lard has a flavor it is usually rancid.
Google also publicly released a PDF document titled "Policy on harassment, discrimination, retaliation, standards of conduct, and workplace concerns (US)" as part of this blog post [0].

[0] http://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/policy_workplace_c...
I ship a Qt app. The installer is 135MB. 90MB of that is a demo video that comes with it. Nobody has ever complained.
And I was a Gitea fan until I tried Fossil!

Very different development style than Git, but for my personal projects I really like it.
> Among health conscious people, butter was looked on with suspicion as recently as 20 years or so ago

Sense must be prevailing in the US much faster than in the UK then - many people here still think butter is bad for them.
Same here, full detection. Our customers are the theoretical targets of this method, and I can verify it is not effective.
Given how easy it is to train a Transformer on any sequence data, and given how plentiful open source code is, I'd say "CodeNet" is probably less than a year away. OpenAI will probably do it first given they already have the setup.