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Why do you talk about FAANG? The big 5 tech companies are Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Google.
Forget fancy chefs and foosball – what developers want is balance and growth
The Future Computed: AI and Manufacturing
> I live in central Tokyo and I can go on for days and days without seeing a foreigner!

I’m quite surprised to hear this actually. I visited Japan recently and I consistently saw other foreigners around the center of Tokyo.

I think the only time I _didn’t_ see any other foreigners was when I was out in Ōtsu, but that’s sort of out there for most visitors anyway.

EDIT: I should add that I tried to make a point of walking around a bit, so I don’t think I was just taking the subway to commonly visited spots.
you can check this, https://blog.taxjar.com/saas-sales-tax/

some states do charge sales tax.
Maybe we need to care less about keeping up the pace at which the modern world is changing and more about maintaining a nice culture. I'd be willing to take a reduction in the GDP or a slow down in scientific advancement if it meant that the society I lived in was more coherent.
It does seem like India in particular has gamed the system. I can see the logic in this in the big picture. I don't see why people are calling this evil and cruel, it is just a way to help create jobs for citizens. Most countries make it very difficult for foreign workers. The US is still the most liberal and generous even after this small tweak.
It’s very common for high school kids (in America) to take their switch from class to class and play during free periods. A lot of people take their switch everywhere in their bag and just prop it up when they want to play a quick game of smash with friends.

So yes, I would definitely consider the switch mobile
> decided to concoct wild self-righteous theories to justify his bias rather than change his viewpoint

To what? Is there a "right" answer that would serve someone better? It's always going to appear self-righteous when you justify your own worldview. The utility of JP's views, is why other people adopt it, not some fictional "messianic cult". JP's reasoning has flaws and gaps as with all people. Even the utility is from other historical wisdom, not his own, repackaged into a story. Easily digestable and as rational as any other I have seen.
Agreed. I probably should have qualified that I wasn’t advocating the position.

Our current situation politically certainly encourages caution.
> America has the same business culture; what's saving (most of) us is our better-functioning regulatory culture.

The difference in America is it's not good business practice to hurt your own customers. i.e. reputation matters. You mess up just once, and it takes years for your brand to recover (this includes non-brand brands, like store brands or generics).

In China it seems like there's a never ending supply of new names constantly.
You should handle it in the most immediate context which can do something productive with it- if there's nothing you can do but swallow it, you should probably let it continue to pass up the stack. If you can handle it and log a warning and return something else, you should handle it there.

For example, if you're writing an HTTP handler for an API, you should catch any exceptions at that point in your handler and return a 500 with an appropriate response to the client, since returning 500 is something productive we can do (vs letting it pass and crashing the server).
New Huawei phones off the market in Taiwan
The bigger problem is the classism, hate and othering used to heap upon and smear people who can't or don't want to afford fixed housing. So much for "tolerance" and "liberalism," if many people even remember what these words meant, because it looks a lot like fascism, judgement and discrimination to me.
If you're interested in E and Object Capabilities (ocaps) in general, I highly recommend reading this essay:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190423063056/http://habitatchr...

I found it really enlightening, and it isn't an exaggeration to say that learning about ocaps kind of changed the entire way I look at building or using software.

To my knowledge, E (and similar languages like Monte and Pony), are basically the embodiment of what Object-Oriented Programming was supposed to be.

You may have heard about how the actor model is really OOP in its purest form, because it's really all about passing messages between isolated objects or processes. The creator of Erlang (Joe Armstrong) even said something about how Erlang was at its heart really object-oriented[1].

This is what languages like E, Monte, and Pony are trying to encapsulate and design the entire language around. This idea of isolating everything, and controlling access purely by controlling how references to other pieces of data are shared amongst said isolated processes.

Why is this so important?

Because we're building programs more and more to be distributed. Users expect that they will be able to easily and securely share things with each other, and be able to collaborate in a distributed way. This is exactly what tools like google drive, slack, twitter, and so on are all trying to do, and most of them do it badly in my humble opinion. Nobody wants to spend hours managing permissions and access roles on a whole suite of services.

The model that languages like E are built on solves that problem and makes it trivial to manage access and permissions at a ridiculously fine-grained level.

[1] https://www.infoq.com/interviews/johnson-armstrong-oop/

Salient quote from above

> Then, my thesis supervisor said "But you're wrong, Erlang is extremely object oriented". He said object oriented languages aren't object oriented. I might think, though I'm not quite sure if I believe this or not, but Erlang might be the only object oriented language because the 3 tenets of object oriented programming are that it's based on message passing, that you have isolation between objects and have polymorphism.
Breakthrough expected to aid quantum technology
Deserved if happen for rabid ones
> By the way, "batteries included" is one of the BEST features of python.
> More languages need "batteries included", maybe like Perl.

Agreed with both points, the lack of batteries makes Lua quite annoying for me personally. Python and Perl are much more comfortable because you don't have to hunt down the most common operations.

Of course, Perl 6 has decided not ship batteries included, replacing batteries with a fusion reactor instead.
The Wolfram Engine Is Now Free... Sort Of
1 joule seems small, until you consider its of LIGHT.
Conspiracy theory much? Jews qua Jews are directing immigration?
Every citizens vote should be worth the same. The POTUS doesn't work for ND, the state government of ND works for ND. The POTUS works for the citizens of the US and shouldn't be biased to the interests of residents of any one place in particular, which is what happens with the electoral college system.

If you want to avoid tyranny of the majority, you don't do it by eliminating equal representation, you do it by dropping first past the post.
I was in Tokyo a few years ago, went back recently and I noticed the changes described in this article too. Every sign and menu are now in Japanese/Chinese/English. Waiters, salesclerks, metro station assistants now speaks English. And every 7-Eleven, Starbucks, etc… seems to employ foreigners instead of Japanese people (mostly from countries like Vietnam, Philippine, Thailand and India tho), who speak English perfectly.
You really want to go in an underground tunnel miles long without emergency escapes.....?
Hospital sets records for youngest liver recipients
Apart from the multiculturalism for its own sake, it's completely unclear why increased (or easier, or whatever) immigration would be necessary or beneficial.

There's no shortage of workers (salaries have been stuck at the same level for 20 years) and I can't think of any reasons the average Japanese would be in favor of this.
I’m not in favor of doing business with the Chinese government. Pretty sure the Chinese are capable of developing the technology themselves, anyway.
> If you were in a minority group would you rather face the risk of police brutality or the risk of being sent off to a job center?

"Be shot" vs "Sent to a re-education camp". Tough choice, but I believe most would opt to suffer but be alive.

> what could you possibly mean by out of sight, out of mind

I'm not the parent, but I do get a similar vibe a lot of the time. Focusing on China because it's far away, provides deflection from the trouble on the home front.
These percentages represent the percent of species currently threatened with extinction. The report makes it clear that the conditions which created our current ecological collapse are accelerating:

"Human actions threaten more species with global extinction now than ever before. An average of around 25 per cent of species in assessed animal and plant groups are threatened(figure SPM.3), suggesting that around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades, unless action is taken to reduce the intensity of drivers of biodiversity loss. Without such action there will be a further acceleration in the global rate of species extinction, which is already at least tens to hundreds of times higher than it has averaged over the past 10 million years."

The report doesn't factor in insect decline and how that will effect the rest of the foodchain (they are the words biggest pollinators). It does bring up the staggering loss of insect biomass:

"Population declines often give warning that a species’ risk of extinction is increasing. The Living Planet Index, which synthesises trends in vertebrate populations, has declined rapidly since 1970, falling by 40% for terrestrial species, 84% for freshwater species and 35% for marine species (established but incomplete){2.2.5.2.4}. Local declines of insect populations such as wild bees and butterflies have often been reported, and insect abundance has declined very rapidly in some places even without large-scale land-use change, but the global extent of such declines is not known (established but incomplete){2.2.5.2.4}. On land, wild species that are endemic (narrowly distributed) have typically seen larger-than-average changes to their habitats and shown faster-than-average declines (established but incomplete)."

Edit: also, in the future, let's refrain from the "not smart enough to understand" style arguments on HN.
You can't really compare living in an apartment with living on a train.

Also, generally for $480 per month there will be somewhere non-moving that you'll be able to stay, such as a hostel or a roomshare apartment (which isn't necessarily legal, but common in larger cities).
UN forecasts suggest that the global population will plateau at between 9 and 11 billion by 2100 to 2150, followed by stasis or a very gradual decline. IMO, those are excellent numbers - more than large enough to launch an interplanetary civilisation, but manageable within the resource constraints of Earth.

I'd be worried if the population was forecast to shrink below a billion, but that's highly unlikely on any reasonable timescale. I'd be worried if the population rose much above 11 billion, because then resources start getting really tight. Anywhere in the middle is fine by me.

If we do start terraforming Mars, I might be inclined to incentivise population growth. Unless we're absolutely certain that we can make it work, further population growth is a huge risk - every extra billion increases the pressure on resources, which increases the risk of conflict, which increases the risk of an extinction-level event.
Chinese environmental and demographic problems are a ticking bomb. I doubt they will be in anywhere like better position than now 10 years down the road.

For all the insane crap happening in the U.S., it has healthiest demography among all (large that is, not counting say Israel) developed countries.
They'll just break the laws and pay the fine.
No zoning and what do you know, supply appeareth.
This rant kind of has it backwards, and Dijkstra's argument against GOTO has been the victim of its own success. The use of GOTO statements he was critiquing doesn't really exist in the wild anymore, so people see the tamed version of GOTO we use to break out of nested loops and so on, and wonder what the big deal was.

It's almost like an anti-vax argument. "This disease doesn't exist anymore, why are we cargo-culting by vaccinating against it?"

The argument in the original rant was about the limits of our ability to reason about code, and remains a deep and useful insight. The fact that we don't really have examples of non-structured codebases to point to in 2019 shows how essential the invention of it was to our work.
It is definitely possible to copy/paste images on the Mac while preserving image metadata. That behavior should be the default. If this is broken when copying between two Apple-provided applications then that is definitely a bug.
As the sibling comment points out, we really just don't know what else is out there and how common or rare the earth situation is.

I think the way one reacts to something like this is an interesting Rorschach test, though.

I had the same gut reaction you do: this probably means that life-bearing planets are even rarer than I already thought. But I think that because it confirms my personal bias - that we don't see evidence of other life in the galaxy because it isn't there.

Other replies to your comment call this hubris and remind you that you're extrapolating - which is true. But in my experience with people who jump that direction, it's because their bias (and/or hope) is that we can't be alone and that we just haven't found other life yet.

I just think that's interesting.
Based on my understanding they were simply better managed and benefited from some cross border stuff that exposed them to other markets that weren't readily available to everyone in Russia.

Similar to other states that had some association with the west where in the end they could sell products and goods outside the planned economy and that helped keep things going.
What ton of people would this be a huge burden for? In other areas in the world this works perfectly fine. You can also make zones where cars have to go very slow if they absolutely have to go to some building. It's a psychological thing.
With video: https://abc7news.com/video-woman-dragged-by-muni-train-after...
Agreed. I've been thinking about a market for small batch or boutique electronics in various markets for a while. There is boutique furniture, small batch alcohol, all sorts of small runs that would never compete with the big guys but still make money and are fun for people to buy. More people should get into it. The biggest barrier to entry may be that you have to self fund for these smaller attempts.
I hope you didn't take my reply to be aggressive in any way! Standard library is always a point of contention in any environment and it's always good to explore all angles. It's kind of the ultimate bikeshed in a lot of ways. Python indeed is a very batteries-included language and there's a lot to like about that. I wonder if there's a way of preserving that by differentiating between a 'lite' and 'core' distribution so we can still meet the goals of the embedded / small system community?
> Western corporations have done as much harm as they could get away with to make a quick buck as well.

I'm in agreement (for the most part)--historically speaking. I never said that this was purely relegated to China, although the topic of the article is indeed China.

I'll also take this opportunity to remind you about HN commenting guidelines [1], specifically when disagreeing to try to "reply to the argument", as opposed to calling names--or in your specific case implying emotional states or assumptions on worship.

I will share that I find it unfortunate that you seem generally opposed to Dr. Peterson's works: his Maps of Meaning (1999)[2], for instance, contains powerful ideas that cannot be easily dismissed.

Finally, humans are complex creatures. We can easily find an argument intrinsically stimulating and academically fascinating whilst simultaneously not feeling disillusionment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Maps-Meaning-Architecture-Jordan-Pete...
Also, "fare", not "fare"
Ah that’s the part I was missing. So people on H4 cannot work until they get their green cards in hand. Thanks for the explanation.
Kids.

The primary reason as I understand it for the lack of kids is simply because it's a trap for women as it is now.

Maternity- and child care leave are too short. There are extreme shortage of daycare for infants and pre-school children, forcing women to stay home and even give up on their career until the child is old enough to go to/from school themselves.

And having 2-3 children pretty much kills any career.
Nope. It's just regulation.
> I do all my development with 128MB of RAM or less, because I enjoy that sort of challenge

I remember being excited that I was able to splurge on a 486 with 4 Mb RAM.
People can’t afford to have kids. Maybe if young people didn’t have to spend a huge portion of their paycheck supporting old people they could afford kids.

The older generation doesn’t want immigrants. The older generation votes against tax increases. The older generation does everything they can to keep home prices high. Then they demand no one cut their entitlements. All take, no give. It’s not surprising people aren’t having as many kids.
English spelling can be so delightfully confusing. Fare/fair also came up in this thread.

For anyone who mixed them up, no harm, no foul! (And certainly no fowl play.)

Of course everyone knows what you meant, and that's what really counts. If you do want to remember the "correct" spelling, I wonder if this will help?

"It's only fair to pay your fare. And please don't pull the emergency brake, so your fellow passengers' bones don't break."
> In an emailed statement, Amazon outlined its sustainability initiatives and said, "Amazon’s sustainability team is using a science-based approach to develop data and strategies to ensure a rigorous approach to our sustainability work." The company also said, "We have a long term commitment to powering our global infrastructure using 100% renewable energy."

In my experience, "using a science-based approach" translates to "maximizing shareholder value" with plausible deniability.
Not necessarily. The demands of everyday life are sufficient to keep you strong enough for those activities.

Strength training helps with you meet the demands of the things that happen irregularly like moving furniture, clearing snow, having to take care of an injured spouse or parent, or even just playing the odd game of [sport-of-your-own-choosing].

It counters the atrophy associated with a sedentary lifestyle and delays the physical decay associated with old age and adds life to your years. It strengthens bones and improves body composition.

It makes everyday life easier and would be worth of billions of dollars if its benefits could be captured in a pill.
I agree with this. I have the 2018 and the killer feature is it can use the pencil. Being able to do basic sketching and notes means it goes from just a media consummation device to something you can be productive with. The battery life is great as well.
Rewild a quarter of UK to fight climate crisis, campaigners urge
> 4. some way to actually code natively on the ipad

Why did you choose an iOS device instead of a computer with the same form factor that runs a full operating system? e.g. Surface Pro.
I'm really excited about this. I've always kind of wanted Teenage Engineering tech because low-fi, tactile, single purpose devices always appeal to me, but I seem to have anti-musical ability so couldn't justify one. This is something I could actually use and enjoy, and I would love to take a crack at developing for it.
Reminds me on moreutils parallel (C), hijacking GNU parallel (perl), and changing the command line options. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597050
Thanks for referring. Will post there too.
That's because greater cleveland has lost population almost every decade since the 1970s, so there is plenty of supply to meet demand and keep housing costs low.
I find the video super interesting to watch. It's not like previous Mario bots I've seen that were programmed with path-finding and a go-right goal which race through the level perfectly. Instead, this makes me think of a very young kid playing the game who isn't entirely sure what they should do, and is more interested in figuring out what the controls do and usually goes right because that's where more stuff is, not because they know they're "supposed" to do that.

The idea of curiosity (seeking out states that lead to unpredictable stuff) being a good scoring function for an AI seems really compelling to me. I'm really curious about what other places this idea can be applied to.
I find the working visa concept ridiculous. Why would a nationality be a topic in the hiring process? It's ridiculous to have the government involved in the hiring process and the first vetting step towards employment being the immigration office.

Yes, I understand the problems that limitless free movement might create but it's still unpleasant to see that people claiming to be egalitarian or people who say that want meritocracy to discuss only the implementation details of the visa system in the context of exceptions(i.e. you cannot work in this country except if you personally meet the following criteria).

Why not create a system that is fair at the core, something like "your passport countries' democracy score, worker rights, environmental protection standards and human rights need to be in the same range as the country you want to work at". The visa-free travel and visa-free working right essentially boil down to this anyway, why not remove all the exceptions and let people optimize their countries towards these metrics if they want to work in some other country?

In the current form, immigration is painful for the immigrants and doesn't do any good for the countries that send those immigrants.
We also assumed as countries became more rich/industrialized/advanced they would become more democratic, and more concerned with human rights, and less zero-sum adversarial in dealing with the United States.

I think those hopes are no longer mainstream thinking in regards to China.

How confident should we be about the prediction that China will adopt similar policies to the US in regards to the things you are mentioning?
They are still two persons. https://twitter.com/sehurlburt/status/1131371251790835712
Hopefully it’s OK to mention competitor iOS clients - but Octal does grey out read items.
Shouldn't those emergency exits trigger some sort of alarm??
Where did the water on Mars come from? Any correlation?
Security Issues in Cloud Computing
So, I don't really get what stories like these are supposed to be... Are they supposed to be inspiring? Because I don't think "I had to live as a homeless person in one of the richest areas of the world and got into disastrous financial trouble as soon as the tiniest thing went wrong" is an inspiring anecdote, I think it's just depressing.