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Sorry, but for ostensibly 'so many uniformed opinions' - you have provided no facts at all to validate this position.

... and ironically your comment "Sidewalk labs partnered with them to integrate smart city ideas," is effectively not true, it's far beyond that.

"There is substantial infrastructure, and decontamination projects ongoing for many years" comment I think is possibly misrepresentative as well, it implies 'the work has started' - when really it hasn't - moreover, I did not indicate that 'nothing has been done'.

Again:

1) To the OP's point: this is a strategic, highly speculative project for Google, possibly not money making in the direct sense, and it's likely Toronto could come out ahead in some way (though I doubt it). Google is a massively cash flush entity, looking for ways to spend money.

2) Toronto doesn't have a desperate housing problem - it has a housing pricing problem. The Google project is not really relevant anyhow (it's small and will have less housing than zoning permits)

3) The city should zone and regulate the land for 'whatever purposes are suitable' and then that's mostly it, which is an opinion, but not exactly controversial as this is what most cities, including Toronto, do all of the time.

To your points:

A) Google is not gong to 'integrate smart city ideas' - they want to be considerably more than that, they want to effectively be a municipal of entity: they'll plan, subcontract, 'micro zone' etc.. Their plans go far beyond just tech, or just communications, just consultation
- even into the realm of construction materials, architecture, sub-planning, even taxation! See the leaked data [1].

I actually would agree if Google were involved only to 'help with some IT/tech issues' or even 'advising' on developing some aspects of information etc. but this goes way beyond that.

B) The 'Sidewalks Labs' relevant work has not been planned or started, of course some municipal infrastructural activities that have been going on for some time, but that's a general activity. 'Decontamination' is obviously something that would have to be done irrespective of whatever they built (i.e. shops, factories, parks etc.)

Sidewalks Labs hasn't yet even proposed a detailed curriculum of what's going to happen, it's not fair to indicate that 'work has been ongoing for some time' even though some basic municipal activity has been.

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/15/alphabet-sidewalk-labs-t...
I think the best model i have seen for a lean stdlib has been that of Golang. You have the standard lib and then you have the packages under Golang.org/x/ which are experimental packages that sometimes end up being merged into the core language.
The stuff which is not in the stdlib (TOML, yaml etc.) have been supported very well by community packages.
This is a reasonable approach, but means you don’t really ever have any idea how much you’ll have when you retire. Honestly that’s probably the only approach that will ever work longer term, but it’s not an easy thing to sell or plan for.

The US Postal System has essentially this exact problem every year - they aren’t making enough to cover their pension obligations so they keep raising stamp prices (and let’s not get started on the absurdly short-term solution of “forever” stamps). Since they’re a government agency but independent and unable to accept funding from any other method it’s a great example of the problem.
> A poster in an agency describes job qualification for Foxconn workers: age between 16 and 40, ninth-grade diploma, no Tibetan and Uygur ethnicities.

Many damning things in the report but this straight up racism demands a firm response from Apple.
0x$ = 0x100¢ = 2.56$?
What they need is an Apache Commons or Guava of Python. They're both defacto part of the standard java library.
Costco does this and it has worked, at least it seems, really well for them.

Always maintained an above average hourly salary and benefits offering for retail staff. Their turnover is considerably lower than other big box retail (Walmart around 40%, Costco around 17%).

Not to mention the cost reduction of not having to retrain someone who is only going to quit/get fired in six months.

Source: https://hbr.org/2006/12/the-high-cost-of-low-wages
Shutki mach. Mangoes. People having kids and families living together.
Starting in 30s, for developer roles in dotcoms, you're going to start getting age discrimination, and it ramps up from there.

I'm not sure we can even call it an open secret, because we make no secret about some of it.

It's coming from traditional big-corporate HR reasons (they want cheap and malleable commodities, with the fewest distractions), lottery-winning founders in echo chambers (with their vocal theories that 20yos have all the brains and vision), and low-level 20yo developers (who don't know what they don't yet know, and some of whom assume that anyone who isn't FI by 30 wasn't any good).
Just think about how much effort and money it took in the past to acquire knowledge and even compute time. Microsoft word ? You can get that similar functionality for free now, as well as spreadsheets, encylopedias, etc.

Let alone cameras, videos. Cheap storage.
RISC-V from scratch 2: Hardware layouts, linker scripts, and C runtimes
How do you cool it down? The only way to cool one thing is to heat another. Evaporative cooling is usually the method if you must cool your water, but it has diminishing returns and isn't practical to cool all the way to inlet temperature (because source water is colder than the air wet-bulb temperature). This results in water above ambient being discharged to the environment, which affects fish and plant life in the water body.
The scenario of someone not knowing Linux at all but then using WSL seems fairly unlikely compared to someone knowing Linux and using it to get a Linux environment on a Windows box.
> There was even talk of "distros" for the interpreter. Where the core bits would be similar to what Linux is, and all the batteries would be provide as collections of add-on packages.

Not a million miles from the modularisation that Java has been going through.
Low unemployment is a huge deal. We should keep in mind that the real wage of an unemployed worker is, well, zero. And a robust labor market means that employees are better positioned to move up the pay scale, to jobs with better productivity, wages and working conditions.
Looks like the app was built with Vue.js. [1]

The design is very "consultant"-y, which means over-engineered and focusing on what looks "cool" over web usability. But looking at the website I believe it was mean't to be deployed via touchscreen kiosks at the actual library/museum. So the form factor makes more sense for that than consumption via web browsers and search engines.

The keyboard controls are less than to be desired, you can't zoom in and go to the next page without it reverting to the previous view and doing a big transition. Which is not how most document viewers or image galleries work...

[1] http://www.codex-atlanticus.it/#/Overview
the problem is it can fall apart quickly. the XML parsing in the standard library is limited and slow, so most people consume lxml instead [0]. so it depends on the case. counterpoint: e.g. pathlib being in included is great. it was at least inspired by 3rd party libraries, but the features are relatively stable and the scope defined, and relatively few dependencies, and so moving it into the standard library is a win IMO. not only for import ease, but for consistency.

[0] https://pypi.org/project/lxml/
OK, we've switched to the HTML doc title above, which isn't Netflix-specific.
American here, I can only agree with u/pushpop. Was taught in school about the various times Rome was sacked, where the term Vandalism comes from, Viking raids, etc. I don't remember anything about peace.
And perl solved that perfectly: just let the OS/distro solve the 100s of packages. And it have been solved, despite you claiming otherwise on your last paragraph.

When did you have to use cpan in a modern system? Compare that to how many times you had to use pip.

Now, if you use a crappy OS or distro (or god forbid, some container built by you have no idea who on top of nobody knows what) then yeah, you are bound to do the leg work yourself, but you will be doing that regardless of the language/subsystem you are trying to use in that case.

Not to mention that it is the only way to do things professionally. For example, if you must have a system that parses XML but for company policy is not allowed to have even the means of performing a network request. With python you either have both xml and an http library and whatever else included and you will either have to do a special package with a striped down python+xml only or get a corporate exception. While on other languages you can install only the xml parser component package and your code will run happily and be compliant with company policy.
In that case the right thing to do is to make it clear that you're not prioritizing number of users, you're not here to solve problems for users other than yourself at least in the short term (because you're interested in pursuing your vision, not implementing feature requests from people without good taste), and that you're not trying to take everyone's feedback into account. Then people stop expecting you to do more than you can, and you can slowly and quietly pursue your vision and perhaps find a small number of collaborators who share your taste.

Clojure sort of had this moment recently, where various people in the community were unhappy with the language direction and Rich Hickey (who is a person who cares about vision and taste in a language) made it quite clear that addressing their problems directly wasn't his definition of success. He was building a language for himself / his company to use, and if it worked for other people, great, and if they wanted to contribute to his vision, great, but if it didn't work for them, they should not expect Clojure to change. https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95... That, at least, is clear, and it means that authors of significant third-party libraries that are clashing with the vision of the language (and its community) can make an informed decision to spend time elsewhere, avoiding frustration on all sides. https://twitter.com/cemerick/status/1067111260611850240

I don't think Guido is/was actually trying to do this, and I think it's unfair to say that was his goal. If it was, then he was deliberately tricking people by having a core team, BDFL-Delegates, a language summit, etc. If it was, then he was being rude by asking her to come to the language summit instead of saying "Amber, Twisted is very good but your vision for Python is not my vision for Python." Guido, as far as I can tell, built Python to be a widely-used language, not a language following any sort of vision he started with. Guido does want Twisted and other Twisted-scale projects around, and does want Python to be a useful language for them. That's why I say that if he's burned out, the right way to execute his vision (which is exactly what he's doing, in fact) is to step aside graciously.
>> This seems unlikely to have escaped the author? Of course a hybrid diet would be in between, I'm just saying that the diet breakdowns they chose to present are almost certainly model diets from literature rather than arbitrarily chosen to make meat eaters look bad. It's a thesis, not PETA marketing material, there are some standards for rigor and they would have needed to cite and justify why they chose what they chose.

Why assume so much? The thesis is in the link you provided. You can easily check whether what you suppose in this comment is true or not.

>> That said, I honestly do not think that your diet suggestion is common for Americans, I rarely see people go a meal without meat.

So this "meat-based" diet is only relevant to Americans? That makes sense- but in that case, the comparison with vegetarian and vegan diets is also only relevant to Americans. i.e. it's American "meat-based" diets that are more environmentally wasteful compared to American "vegetarian" diets etc.
> Were Soviet universities at the time closed over Christmas

No, Christmas was not an official holiday. Also, it's on the 7th of January.
> My aunt and uncle are archaeologists. I hear this claptrap about Native Americans living in harmony every family reunion.

Have you considered this might not be completely representative of the state of archeological research?
On this side of the world it's 5.18.19 and yet $19 bucks for the book. Also did not ask for an email, so in essence, I have no words.
I'm talking from a language maintainer perspective. From a user perspective, sure, you can upgrade. But that doesn't mean everybody will upgrade. In general, people don't like upgrading. That's why browsers all automatically update these days.
> I don't see any point at all in growing into a massive, vertical city with tons of traffic and density is positive in any way, for anyone frankly.

You need a certain density of people to support a unique local arts & culture. The more people you have supporting amenities, the more you can support.

Any city that depends heavily on cars for transportation has a natural limit on the number of people that can support an amenity, because transportation costs (like traffic) rise non-linearly with population.

So IMO "world-class" and car-centric transportation infrastructure are incompatible.
> * I may look annoyed, or even pull out my phone and start browsing news*

If I, as an interviewer, ever did that I would:

a) expect the candidate to walk out, and

b) get told off by pretty much everyone in the company. Deservedly.

I really cannot think of a ruder way to express "you do not matter" sentiment than completely ignoring the candidate and flip through random stuff on my phone - while conducting an interview.
You comment has nothing to do with the article. Also I believe there’s a pep working on that, but again that has nothing to do with what does and does not go in the standard libs.
Cloudways Promo Codes [Updated 2019]
Then it should be easy to replicate. Citation needed, as the Wikipedians like to say.
I would think "without dependencies" would mean that this was an original implementation of an algorithm. In fact, this is a wrapper around a C library that someone else did, so I think the title is misleading.
Walker was then Speaker of the House, and his fortunes were closely hitched to Trump (Wisconsin having unexpectedly flipped Repub in 2016, and being critical to Trump’s re-election chances). The Verge, I think, summarized the situation best:

> But the most plausible explanation I heard is that Foxconn’s secret is that it has no idea what it’s doing in Wisconsin.

> “In China, people announce projects like this all the time, and some of them get built, and some of them don’t,” said Willy Shih, a Harvard business school professor who consulted in the screen industry for several years. They’re called “state visit projects,” he said. Politicians get a photo op, and companies to get some political goodwill, but everyone knows the announcement is extremely preliminary. Ultimately, the company will do whatever makes economic sense, and sometimes, that turns out to be nothing.

> Foxconn has done this in the past, announcing large factories in Pennsylvania, Brazil, and elsewhere that never materialize. But unlike Pennsylvania, which offered Foxconn no incentives and built no infrastructure, Wisconsin politicians threw a tremendous amount of money at the company and rushed to acquire land and start building.

> Further complicating matters, the trade war with China still looms, and Trump has personally called Foxconn CEO Terry Gou when the company wavers. This time, Foxconn can’t simply vanish without risking a backlash, but it also makes no sense for it to build what it initially promised.

tl;dr Foxconn made a bunch of empty promises in Wisconsin to curry goodwill with a US administration whose trade wars threaten Foxconn, probably expecting the hot air would be understood as such by the politicians, as they would be in China. Wisconsin, under Walker, grossly overcomitted to Foxconn’s silly promises, and now both the State and Foxconn are trapped in a deal that makes no real sense for either party.
>> If you’re reading this looking for advice, you’re probably a go-getter. You consider yourself a responsible person, who cares deeply about doing things right.

In many environments, the tough part about resolving to pick your battles and leave problems to other people is maintaining the image of a responsible go-getter in order to protect your career. "Tending your own garden" translated to the language of your manager may be "limited vision", "not a team player", "does not display leadership qualities" and "not engaged". Regardless of whether or not you or anyone on your team actually has broad influence on anything, you have to act like you think you do to appear engaged.
There's an airworthiness rule requiring monotonically increasing yoke backpressure as the plane approaches a stall. It appears that the MAX violates this rule aerodynamically due to extra lift at high power generated by the high and forward nacelles, combined with the yoke being mechanically coupled. It can get easier to induce a stall as the plane approaches critical AoA.

This isn't directly the same thing as saying the MAX will stall itself: if you aren't pulling back on the yoke near critical AoA then you don't stall. It's just easier to stall with the yoke than regulations say it must be. MCAS "fixes" that handling issue.

I don't think an audible warning would be sufficient to turn unairworthy behavior into airworthy, so if all the assumptions above are correct, that's why it has to use trim -- or a stick pusher, but perhaps that wouldn't have enough control authority and also I'm not sure the MAX has a stick pusher, as opposed to just a stick shaker. It's a very mechanical cockpit, in general the forces you feel are coupled to aerodynamics, in stark contrast to an Airbus (or even more modern Boeing airframes).
"There is the allegation that you as former head of the department of economy have made a deal with Microsoft to move its headquarter to Munich and in exchange you now deliver the return to their products. Does this connection exist?" - "No, definitely not."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBRh2G29NNE
The problem with third-party libraries is that it's impossible to know which ones are "standard" and which ones are copycat hobby projects in various states of disrepair. And in the worst case you can pick a library, get a day or two into using it, and discover it has a show-stopper limitation.

I recently hacked together some Python to process MIDI files. Should I have used this:

https://pypi.org/project/MIDIUtil/

or this:

https://pypi.org/project/mxm.midifile/

or this:

https://mido.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

or this?

https://github.com/vishnubob/python-midi

A well-maintained and thoughtfully curated stdlib makes these choices for you - which is one less thing to worry about, and can be a significant time saver.
This typically means 5 paid days off per year. The rest is maybe paid holiday that other people get like Christmas. All other days taken off are unpaid and subject to approval. This was what I got at my first office job in the US.
Why would it? Tim supports Saudi Arabia and their oppressive apps in the app store.
They've been even more aggressive than you suggest. They promised 64-bit Carbon in 10.5, and included it in developer seeds, before finally yanking it from the final release. Adobe found out it was cancelled at the same time as everyone else: when Apple announced it at WWDC.
Yes, that is true, this is well known and fairly established. I was using ‘adds a lot of credence’ in a colloquial sense.
Would you please not take HN threads further into the weeds like this?
You have an idea of the minimum you will get. Your pension will never go down, just that you don't know whether your pension will go up.
Maybe all the staff at the various pay-walled outlets use it to avoid having to subscribe to competitors?
Diversity Doesn't Have to Come with Productivity Trade-Offs
It's well known that mortality rates spike when new residents enter hospitals:
https://www.nber.org/digest/sep05/w11182.html
wait, our urine doesn't contain ammonia, we convert nitrogen to urea as it is far less toxic than ammonia.
Do you know the market rate for this kind of labor in the area? Is Foxconn competitive with other manufacturers? Feel free to cite any numbers if you've got em.

From what I've heard, Foxconn is a highly desirable place to work with top of market pay and benefits. A lot of people move just to work for Foxconn.

So clearly there's a dynamic going on here that'll take more nuance to understand than can be painted with a broad brush stroke from a Western perspective.
> They'll page them to consult on something, usually waking them up.

IME they're usually not asleep.
Or, you know, never worked an hourly job.
Why do you consider the idea that police officers risk their lives to be statistically inaccurate? According to the United States Department of Justice, there are approximately 1,100,000 police officers in the entire country[1]. If 144 police officers died last year, a given police officer has (assuming uniformity) slightly greater than a 0.01% chance of dying each year. In other words one out of every 10,000 officers is killed.

Assuming surviving one year does not impact the likelihood of dying the next year, over a 20 year career a police officer then has a 0.26% chance of dying in the line of duty. We can expect that slightly greater than two out of every 1,000 officers will die prior to retirement.

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1. https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/nsleed.pdf
So You Want to Abolish Time Zones (2015)
Where did you read this and how does greater herbicide use enable that?

I’d question, is it a net win for the environment and workers?
My cat climbs vertical ladders and has clawed its way vertically up a bed propped against the wall. They are unbelievable climbers.

It's just they can't get down sometimes!
On-prem doesn’t exclusively mean “in your data center” anymore. It’s about security and control, not where it’s hosted. They offer GitHub Enterprise AMIs for a reason.
Arrowheads are included in v1.7, it's in beta but freely available. The current general release is v1.6.5, I think this beta will turn into a general release in July. Hope this helps...
> Having run up against limits of the Python standard library several times in years of writing production software in it and not just learning it, I find the batteries-not-includes-but-easy-to-install approach better on the whole.

Obviously it doesn't apply to everyone, and it certainly doesn't apply to most startups or open source developers, but I spent most of the last 20 years working in environments where you have to get permission for every third party library you bring on to the network. Many networks were essentially "airgapped", so it's not like you could just ignore the rules. The bureaucratic process alone meant that we preferred large bundles like Anaconda or Qt. Trying to use Cargo as it is typically used and documented would be a complete non-starter.
The Pivot
> To given an example - Toronto doesn't even have a single Michelin starred restaurant. Not one. Ever. Chicago has about 20. Seoul has about 20. Not that Chicago and Seoul are 'better overall' - but they have enough identity, character, soul, character, productivity (i.e. money) to do notable things.

For anyone curious, this is because Michelin doesn't publish a restaurant guide for Canada. No restaurant in Canada has a Michelin star.
I dunno, it jives with horse-hockey I see on Twitter all the time and what my professors tried to proclaim in the handful of archaeology courses I took in college.
It's a combination of (a) Switzerland having a high proportion of renters, and apartments being much more common than town houses or detached housing (b) Outdoor cats still being the norm in Switzerland.
https://gumroad.com/l/the_cyber_plumbers_handbook/hackernews...