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Politics isn’t all about coercion. Persuasion and consensus can work just fine. Nobody’s about to start a war over other countries growing too much cattle on their own territory, but as the direct and tangible consequences of climate change become increasingly apparent, I expect the imperative for change to become more broadly accepted. The Paris agreements show that there is broad agreement internationally already.

There’s also no need to draconian enforcement. We can start with a ramped increasing environmental tax on meat products, reductions in farm subsidies on the same, etc. 50 years ago smoking was ubiquitous as a core social and recreational activity, now it’s marginalised. The same could happen to meat eating.
Unions are (supposedly) fundamentally democratic organisations also here (Nordics), but they are not obligated by their contracts to defend frivolous cases.

(They still do, sometimes, and then they take the flak in the eyes of the public, deservedly).
> The example relies on using global variables.

It could as well rely on local variables with static lifetime, though.

> If you want multiple threads executing the same function, it is not going to work.

That's true for the example, but in general the solution is to pass the protothreads the thread-local state in a struct.
At my previous job we started out with Angular in 2017. After some time passed benefits of using React was clear to everyone in the team. We wrote new features in React. The old Angular code worked as expected. It made little sense to spend time porting that to React.
I know it's the one you were calling broken, I'm just surprised they picked such a confusing name.

It was very strange to wonder why the fsync function would be broken or why it would prevent syncing files.
There are some kids that are precocious, but not geniuses.

The do things way earlier than anybody else but then they stop developing at a normal adult level. Like the kid Terenci Moix that was deciphering adult Egypt hieroglyphs being six years old or so and doing other extraordinary things for his age, but then it stopped developing.

I believe when we talk about "social skills" what is just genuine interest for other people becomes a set of skills, like mathematics, or physics. It becomes in a way sociopathic by itself, as we are using others as tools for our own development without considering them.

It is more about being emotional and letting yourself go in freedom around others, instead of trying to control everything around you.

I have both sides, I could be highly analytical, but also deeply emotional. For me it is wrong trying to make anything analytical, a "skill" to master.
I suspect the sibling reply is correct, that it’s more about celebrity than genius.

But I also don’t think Feynman was a genius the way Einstein was. AFAIK, his math skills didn’t stand out and his main contributions seemed to be about making physics more accessible and teaching.
> I was actually planning to write my own implementation for $language using unix timestamps as internal representation and requiring a timezone whenever parsing or printing

That does not and can not work when trying to represent future local events, which is the vast majority of them as an event normally happens relative to a specific geodesic location.

Astronomical events are more or less the only ones which actually routinely get planned in TAI / TT, and astronomical software is thus the only one for which this model could actually work. And then you wouldn't be using unix timestamps (because it's UTC).
The artcicle is confusing unix time, which is an integer that increments every second, with it's UTC representation. This representation is an interpretation of that number. In theory it could be decremented. But this has never happened. In practice what happens is that we add leap seconds, which means that we allow the UTC interpretation of the incrementing integer to have an extra second and not that we move the integer forward by two seconds.

The reason that this is not a problem is that most hardware clocks are pretty awful to begin with and need frequent automated corrections (through ntp). This does in fact cause that integer to increment/decrement locally when that happens and far more often than once every few years. This too is mostly a non issue. For practical purposes, time moves forward and when you access time using one of the many high level APIs you get a fresh interpretation of the system clock's integer. A much bigger problem would be the Y2038 problem when that integer overflows. I believe work is underway in the Linux kernel to address that.
But Uber is clearly profitable, in the sense that they charge more for rides than said rides cost

Cool, so if Uber had no employees, infrastructure or marketing costs it would make money?
Ask HN: Is there a histogram of negative comments on HN?
It seems to be that the comments on HN has turned more and more negative in the last few years. I wonder if HN has the data to plot out the number of negative comments vs positive over time. I believe the culture of HN has changed.
Everyone works remotely at Gitlab, even its CEO
I work in energy trading, and understimulated traders over low-season periods like Summer are extremely dangerous.

So dangerous that a lot of events take place in Q2 and Q3 to emphasize networking over mindless bored trading.
'Throwing' your trash out on the street every week is a solution to the trash problem which probably accounts for a lot of smell. I bet if they stopped doing that then it would improve a lot.
If it's just a sync backend then does that matter?
The other photo essays on the site are well worth checking out also. Especially the one on Buran shuttle!
I am really excited by Racket.

Unlike most minimalist LISP languages with a community of individual hackers who each have their own macros and packages, this one is battery included while still being the most flexible with the #lang header.
Seriously, it comes with awesome data structures (actuelly more than Python).

The only thing that prevents me from using it as much as Python or C++ is the lack of tools for major editors.
DrRacket is NOT ok, I would like a langserver and vscode extension so badly!
When I have a bit of free time and have finished other projects with a higher priority, I'll definitely give it a try.
(yes I'm aware there are some langservers but none of them is really production ready)
Cars are a red herring. Even gasoline and diesel car aren't really contributing that much to world pollution compared to the real culprits, such as ocean liners and huge cargo ships. These ships alone pollute more than all the cars on Earth.

What do you think about going after the things that are actually harmful, instead of following a red herring? I mean, sure, cars should of course be dealt with also, but if you really want to lower carbon emissions fast, then shouldn't we go for the big fish first?
Unlimited PTO is more an American thing in my experience. And is never really unlimited as you will be judged when using it. In Europe it's common with 5+ weeks of vacation, which is also often mandatory by law to take.
It's very hard to summon the focus you need while playing fake busy.
Art history in digital humanities: where an “X marks the spot” in time and space
Services like http://nova.astrometry.net/ provide celestial location data of any image of the night sky. Plug the image into it and check that it is indeed Vega.
> the onus should be on you to prove that there were 6000 kid, paramedic and journalist deaths

Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. I didn't mean that all the people shot by snipers (not killed- just shot, usually in the legs and often causing permanent disabilities) were kids or paramedics or journalists. I was questioning your statement that "all ... were shown to be carrying bombs or other explosives". It's quite a categorical statement, and almost certainly wrong.
Who killed Olof Palme?
Because Gilmore isn't trying to make an argument about specific approaches. She's trying to change the narrative--the way to reduce violence in society is to address the root causes of violence, not react to it after the fact as if both violence and violent people are inevitable.

Does she actually believe that prison would never be necessary for anyone if we could enact the ideal set of societal changes? It's not clear to me that she actually believes that.[1] I'm particularly doubtful that she thinks we can just turn loose existing violent offenders. If you read between the lines what she seems to believe is that the abolition movement as she understands it is more a process than a goal, and it's largely prospective. Note that she's quite critical of the motives of other reformists.

[1] In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if she thought both the question and the answer irrelevant. We see an elephant in the room and she's saying, "there is no elephant". That is, if you presuppose an elephant you're going to end up creating one.
I've heard it said that the monks who wrote these manuscripts and inscribed their snail battles, did so as a means of presenting their piety.

In order to understand this one must realise that a monk had very few real enemies in the world - they were above these worldly pursuits. But, monks still had to eat, and tend their gardens in order to do so - and what likes monks gardens more than the monk does?

Why, snails of course.

So when monks were not bent over, copying ancient secrets for future generations to pore over, they were to be found in their gardens, eradicating their mortal enemy the snail, lest the monk be forced to starve to death. To a monk in a tower, engaged in little other than intellectual pursuits, the mightiest foes indeed were the little creatures who could starve the inhabitants of the mightiest holy towers.

So, that's why there are so many snails in the footnotes and margins of history. Because they were the mightiest foe for such humble folk to imagine...
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> But how does China 'assuming its rightful place' should look in practical terms?

> Allowing East Asia to become China's vassal territory?

Sure, in much the same way that it was in the past, and in much the same way that all of North and South America are vassals to the United States.

It is not realistic for East and even Southeast Asian countries to care more about what the US thinks than what China thinks; I don't understand how people can advocate for this goal with a straight face.
New Theory on Voynich Manuscript
If we follow your analogy, that these 2 things are similar. Then we should also accept the premise that pedophiles are probably born that way.

Which would make identifying them, before they commit a crime, hugely beneficial. Treating it as a disease, might lower the stigma, and allow these people to self identify themselves.
This is a trick question - for whole-day events, the best way to handle them is to record the calendar day you want them to happen on, not the timestamps of the start and end of the day in some particular timezone. See what iCal does with DATE versus DATE-TIME (which must be UTC or include TZ): https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545#section-3.3.4
China is highly unlikely to undermine the U.S.-led global system given it has been one of its biggest beneficiaries, Balakrishnan said.

They undermine it every day they refuse to allow free trade. The US and others spent a lot of resources building the free trade system of the world... and China wants the benefits of selling into that global market, while reserving their own market for themselves.

Every day they are not confronted on this, they send out the message to every other country that free trade with other countries does not require you to open your own markets. They encourage the breakdown of trade and the closure of global markets.

Confronting China on this today is the US asking China not to undermine the global system that has helped enrich China. Not to burn the bridge after they're finished with it (that many countries have used to pull themselves out of poverty: vietnam, korea, taiwan, japan, and even singapore).
> Cultural time is fine and dandy for human level stuff. Keep that simple. Scientific time for business, engineering

Business and engineering are chock-full of human-level stuff. And scientific stuff which isn't either doesn't use UTC (astronomy) or is not impacted (because it deals pretty much only with sub-day durations and everything works based on the SI second only).
Looks nice, very easy to setup/run and the documentation is clean and detailed.
Tweek (https://git.io/tweek), our own open source feature manager shares many of the concepts and architecture.
Admit! You are jealous of China's growing economy!
Build an electroluminescent glass panel display – an Apollo DSKY [video]
Got positively angry when reading a story about this on a major Italian newspaper, which of course claimed that the solution had been found, offering little detail.

A bit more information on this article, but it seems as sketchy as past claims.
Everyone I have known who has bragged about their IQ has been a knob.
well, what can I say, this company had a real problem following the union agreements and EU laws: no paid extra hours (on-call), no notice, no paternity leave according to local laws, etc. On the other hand, was really adamant to keep the 9:30 stand-up meeting for the sake of face time.
You might be interested in Proton Native (https://proton-native.js.org/#/) which should produce a much more lightweight output and has native controls. I have not used it though so I cannot vouch for whether it is sufficient for your needs.
I agree with you, if there was any mention of free storage for referrals, it should be honored. There should be no legal binding agreement. We are not savages to need contracts for everything. A person's (or corporation's) word should have some value.
I don’t believe there is any evidence suggesting successful treatment for these kinds of offenders. Known recidivism is quite high, and combined with the underreporting of sexual crimes, meaning the reoffending rate is almost certainly way higher. We’re taking a massive risk releasing them.

I’m comfortable making the moral call that the freedom of a convicted child molester is worth less than the 25-99% risk that they will molest another child.
For power to emerge there has to be fire. You can't make steam with refined poisonous dirt. 2000 year recorded wisdom told us this much.

Any straw to explain away that my attitude could be a problem for society. Only way to progress is shift the nay sayers out of gear in emergencies.
East Asia is vassal to the US at the moment...

I think countries like Singapore, Korea, etc do not want the US, Korea, to leave. They are between a rock and a hard place and want to balance the US and China in order not to become too dependent on one and to benefit from both.

Singapore, which is quite "China-friendly" is saying exactly that.

What I find interesting is that the West in general, and obviously the US in particular, indeed cannot seem to imagine or accept that their complete dominance of the world is coming to an end. This is a rude awakening.

Singapore, which has an history of promoting "Asian values" and is a former British colony with 70%+ ethnic Chinese is very well place to tell us things as they are.
Oh don't be a doomer! Greta Thunberg is more optimistic than you! xD Oh wait, no she isn't. The end is nigh!
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In Germany the field trips like this are typical even for kids under 5, though the control types vary. Sometimes it's one teacher, sometimes one in front and one in back. Sometimes they just make the kids pair up and hold hands, and sometimes they give them a rope that they have to hold onto.

This facilitates school age kids in all grades who are capable of riding city buses and trains on their own to and from school. Obviously the lack of child abduction in the news plays a role in parents allowing this.
The case you cite [1] should only strengthen the argument for free speech.

The first amendment is likely what saved the lady from a frivolous lawsuit/censorship from those who abuse the power to regulate other's speech.

What you want is that power to reside with a cabal that aligns with your politics, you want a thought-police you approve of, all while citing a case where someone was literally sued for a thought-crime. I hope you see the irony, and that power often shifts with wild swings. Someday, you might find yourself at the wrong end of a thought-policing policy you shilled for, because those in power aren't aligned. Hence the case for constitutional free speech protections.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/08/562823691...
How are crime statistics relevant? If anything, you should look at recidivism. Crime statistics have more to do with other things in society than the 'philosophy' of prisons.
That was the sense I was getting. I’ve been grappling with the implications. The whole concept of prison and policing in the US — I’ve just experienced as state sponsored violence against the communities that I’ve lived in. Releasing a violent predator just seems wrong, but US isn’t even trying to rehabilitate, there has to be an alternative.
For transparency I want to start by saying I'm a GitLab employee, but working for an all-remote company has changed my life. More time with family has been the most important, and I'm an expat so being able to travel and visit family overseas has been amazing.

It's hard to describe, but when the entire company is remote it's such a different experience than being one remote person or part of a remote sub-group. The whole company knows how to operate remotely and be effective in that way. I've never seen anything like it, but now I can't imagine working in any other way. If I started a company in the future, I am 100% confident it would be all-remote from day one.

We have a nice page up on our site with people's experiences with remote work. If you're interested in the topic it might be worth reading: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/stories/
I think the real question is whether there are more effective ways than prisons to deal with criminals. Perhaps you can prevent people from becoming hardened violent criminals in the first place. It doesn't seem like prisons are very good at that job.
What Is Customer Analytics and Why Does IT Matter?
Well, yes, this is exactly how the type checkers of
statically-typed languages work: as linters, during compilation.
The largest difference is that typing in Python is gradual, so not
everything needs to be typed as you say.

I agree that statically typed languages are preferable. I don't consider static
typing optional so I'm glad Python is growing a solution that supports it,
though.

In my experience, mypy works surprisingly well. It doesn't hurt my
coding speed at all but enhances it to levels that were not
previously possible in Python, due to a lack of typing. False
positives are rather rare.
I don't see how it's observably not the case when my mother is working in a hospital where people are kept alive for decades just for the slight chance that medicine might evolve enough to cure them or they just wake up one day; when they are spending extraordinary amounts of money and time of dozens of researchers and doctors on experimental treatments, etc.

I don't understand how vehicles or pollution change anything. I never said there are no bad actors, there are in every civilization, and there are compromises you need to make but that doesn't mean you would not do anything to save someone. Awareness about pollution and its effects is just starting to exist. We didn't think it's bad a few decades ago.
> The website is slow because it is served by a MyCPU

I would imagine now that it's on the front page of HN, that poor MyCPU is now on fire
I am not an expert (my biology degree is 30 years old) but generally the idea is that, if you create an artificial genome, you pop it it into a similar cell, which has previously had its native DNA removed) giving it the necessary machinery to express itself etc. Obviously, you're creating a hybrid, but over time the effect of the original host cell's makeup will diminish.
> Unix time is the humber of seconds since 1970.

It's not, and it has never been. The original unix time was "the time since 00:00:00, 1 January 1971, measured in sixtieths of a second", this got modified multiple times until it settled upon the number of UTC seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z, meaning it's non-monotonic, non-continuous, and not based on "physical" seconds.
As Milton Friedman has pointed out, the loser of protectionist policies are the countries that practice them. If China wants to subsidize its industries and sell Americans cheap goods then that is primarily an issue for the Chinese people, not for American consumers.

Absorbing global manufacturing has made Americans the richest people with the highest purchasing power on the planet, has subjected American companies to competition that no other country has experienced, and has made them more productive as a result. Why would any American want their government to give in to the same mercantilism that China practises, at the expense of their own people? To maintain jobs that pollute the local environment and are largely going to be automated away anyway?

The central issue which makes this call for retaliation so intuitive (but mistaken) is that the plight of people who lose their jobs to trade is tangible. The steel worker is a person we can picture. But the collective welfare we all gain by the cheap imports from a country like China is invisible. Industries have lobbies, consumers don't.
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South America is not a US vassals. Some of the tiny countries that were invaded have strong dependency on the US. But Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Venezuela

I struggle to believe they are. Where ever did you get that idea from
Font looks like shit in Firefox on macOS X.
Inspired by Protothreads, I implemented a similar framework 5 years ago, well, not exactly a framework, just several lines of macros, which could be used in general purpose not just embedded system (I am not sure if Protothreads can be used in general purpose).
I used it in product environment with libuv, here is the github link:
https://github.com/huxingyi/c-block
I rolled my eyes, but then thought "ok, that's fair".
Isn't the ball in China's court here? I am not sure what is the expectation of US in this. China has a completely closed market while at the same time they are reaping the benefits of selling in markets of other countries with no penalties. How is that fair? Also, they force companies to share their technologies/IP if they are interested in coming into Chinese markets - and then they just steal it to undercut the foreign companies. This honestly needs to change. When China was smaller, these tactics were ok - but to expect the world will close their eyes on their practices at the current scale is fooling oneself.
Traditionally, what is on the records and what happens in real life are two very different things. In each case I've seen in private companies, public offices, or universities, the timesheets are duly filled with what is expected and then the work and life continue as before.
Very much depends what one would consider a "100% artificially engineered sequence". You could possibly swap out GATC for a different set of bases. You could also replace DNA with XNA. There are a whole lot exotic avenues for "artificially engineered", with each of them coming with its own mountain of challenges.
Michaelangelo's "creation of Adam" depicts God as a human brain. Apparently nobody noticed untill the 90s. It's hard not to see it when you see it. A lot of fun interesting possibilities for deep metaphor.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CA4SF_GUkAAiJ5S.jpg?format=jpg&n...

PS: reason for the downvotes? just curious.
They aren't stopping other countries doing the same.

The world might be a better place if everyone stole and remixed IP