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> Attempt to have a modicum respect for things that exist outside yourself

Personal attacks will get you banned here, regardless of how strongly you feel about cats. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended when posting to it?
> sometimes a ledger is the problem and sometimes it’s the solution.

And sometimes it's the solution in search of a problem cough cough blockchain cough cough
@kartan, are siestas still a thing in Spain? I always imagined workers in Spain roll into work around 10, work till 2, then a 2-hour break, and then go home around 6. I guess that's wrong?
I don't think they're in the similar category at all. Keywords are part of the syntax - if you know what they are in one place, you know what they are in another. (even if they have multiple meanings) Magic numbers are use-specific and you need extra context to understand them. They're part of the code, not the language itself - although the language can help the situation by enforcing naming in some cases.
That was brave. I learned how the box model works from the specification.
Where are the action points?

A list of sustainable hosts would be the very basic level of information surely?
nickel-and-reaming

I like this term.
Sounds really cool! As someone who programs a bit for work to help with automating processes and fun, but is not a computer scientist I'm a little jealous of never having taken a true database, compilers, PLT, or theory of computation course.

It sounds like you and your classmates are top notch and will go on to some pretty freaking cool careers (ex: I'd work at Jane Street if I was not a parent and a lot smarter :)). Out of curiosity, what are the typical places your classmates go upon graduation?
You make a compelling case as to why regulation can be problematic! I can't find any part of your assessment that I disagree with.

What do you think about reforming how we regulate though? You point out that the revolving door problem stems from the fact that attracting the right people is hard when you're not offering them the right salary and career security. Surely there's ways to make that possible in the public sector!

Given that regulatory bodies really ought to be non partisan and focused on a particular field or industry of activity, perhaps the institutional heads could be selected via a more democratic process (rather than just whichever buddy helped out an elected representative win their campaign) and given guaranteed minimum terms?

And as to the problem of turnover throughout changes of political administration, isn't that perhaps also merely a policy problem? Why does the FCC or HUD need to be gutted and repopulated during a transition of political power? Those departments still have to report to the executive and congressional branches of government, so are their staffing choices something the White House should just be able to change on a whim?
Nature vs. nurture hasn't been a thing since the 2000's when second generation sequencing dramatically expanded the breadth of information we had about species' genomes and (along with other discoveries made at the time) made us realize there was indeed a lot more to it than this dichotomy. It's about as relevant in our modern understanding of genomics as the debate between GOTOs vs. structured programming is to our modern understanding of software engineering.
No but it is probably not a great idea to let it go unchecked either.
Here’s a similar post from a fighter pilot on how to drive safer due to side effects from these optical illusions:

https://www.londoncyclist.co.uk/raf-pilot-teach-cyclists/
You're wrong about that. It's a lot more obvious in Hong Kong because they're concentrated in a relatively small geographic area.
I think this article is written with a little too much emotion. I agree with the general point that Apple have left a lot on the table by offering basically nothing for the enthusiast, and arguing that "This is for professionals" isn't an answer to "But this does nothing for the enthusiasts". I don't like the language this article uses to make those points - do not use the term 'beaten housewife' in a tech review ever.

It's true it's an ongoing sore that Apple can continually fuck up and expect people to pretend they haven't. The keyboards were a fuck up, the old Mac Pro was a fuck up. A little bit of candor about that wouldn't go amiss.
Have a look at the tests in scc and tokei. They support nested multiline comments, string escapes and other odd language features. As such both get very close to counting lines the way a full tokeniser used by the compiler or interpreter do making them very accurate.

I see your point. I’d argue however the rules for counting should be language rules not some higher level generic set.
I don't really get the justification for not allowing adults to buy any (legal) drugs they wish. If you have free public healthcare, I can sort of see that there's a right for the state to have control over drugs because the state then has to handle any harm caused by it.

But what's the reasoning for not completely liberalising drugs? Is there a reasoning, or is it just a means to keep control over a population one feels they own?

I'm not necessarily for complete liberalisation, just curious about how/why the system is as it is.

In the UK the only apparent motivation for the original legislation in restricting drug sales, the Pharmacy Act 1868, appears to be that particular groups wanted to be the sole parties legally allowed to distribute those substances. Deaths fell, according to Wikipedia's mixed up statistics. But the motivation appears to have been unrelated to public safety. Meanwhile, of course, anyone with sufficient funds could simply buy the substances they wished. Wartime motivation (WWI) was to keep soldiers battle-ready. Then it seemed to become an international issue.
Super-Kamiokande Neutrino Observatory
I listened to the audio a handful of times. There is so much echo and microphone clipping that I couldn't determine.

I agreed with bump stock at first because it did seem to be erratic timing. It didn't seem like real auto. But after a few more listens, it's hard to tell, the echo gets really confusing.

I've been on ranges that I would swear a guy has a burst trigger pack but it's usually just echo or some effect of the supersonic crack and/or shooter's position under canopy.

The ATF did say there were no sear hole for a real auto trigger sear/group. An R/DIAS or Lightening link should have a fairly stable rate, but not always. There is typically a some tuning that goes into those per lower (shims, machining, glue, etc).

I'd absolutely believe trigger crank over bump stock. That was it ended up sounding like to me. Seemingly increasing ROF then stop.

IDK. If you set me down on a bipod, I bet I could fire as fast as that video with a competition trigger. It would sound similarly sporadic to what was in the video, for what that's worth! I guess that's the larger point, even if it was bump stocks, it didn't make much of a difference.

I'm skeptical of the things not mentioned in that event. But, I just know the photo released showed bipod rifles at the window and bump stocks don't work well with bipods. You need the gun to recoil into your finger which means it can't be supported / attached to ground at the handguard.
If this is something that bodybuilders have known for ages, I have to readjust my ideas about body building.

This paper (https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/6/eaaw0341) is about a 140 day event were runners, on average, run a marathon a day. It also states

”The mechanisms underlying this metabolic compensation are unclear but likely include reduction in nonexercise activity and reduction of physiological activity in other organ systems. Changes in running cost could also contribute, but evidence for training-induced improvement in running efficiency is mixed and the effect, when present, is generally modest, ~3% savings in energy per kilometer”

So, it doesn’t seem more efficient running explains the lower energy expenditure. Instead, it’s just that, as the days went on, they dropped dead in their bed earlier every day, and their bodies postponed doing long-term maintenance (my interpretation)
>There is not too much difference in density from cities like Seattle and San Francisco from European cities.

Not sure I can get on board with that. It's the number of cities.

Switzerland has ONE city with a population over 250k. USA has EIGHTY EIGHT or so over 238 times the area. That matters where you invest, how you build, etc.

As to why we can't have high speed rails, ask California.
Passing on useful knowledge, for example, concerning rare but catastrophic events could be an evolutionary reason for people to live far past child bearing age.
The Libera Manifesto: A Manifesto for Open Source and Free Services
I can see something like this being more developed for the magician doing card tricks and then brought in as a way to fix poker games.
This would also explain why we don't teach fundamentals of epistemology or critical thinking, even though we constantly read in the news how crucially important these skills are, because of fake news and Russian election hackers.
> Democracy

Is it though? Or... Something closer to communism with a democracy wrapper over it.

The part I find most confusing is that Hong Kong believed China's word on separate laws separate courts. That was going to be the case until it wasn't convenient, which I suppose is now.

China didn't keep their word you say!? Whaa!?
iOS browser apps are required to use WebKit, but you can pretty heavily modify things. There is a Tor browser app available, it runs Privoxy internally and proxies all traffic from that WebKit instance. Just one since I'm guessing nobody else could be bothered?

Edit: you also can't control tracking to the same extent the forked Firefox that Tor uses can.
I regularly type in passwords in front of several people who could watch the input on screen.

This should never be the default.
We're killing people in concentration camps and the administration fairly wallows in corruption.
I think your dark age and gold rush theory has some truth to it. The whole industry culture and practices changed during that period, but we're starting to see things like people interested in Rust, even though it's not pitched as a faster way to make slicker generic Web sites and phone apps.

I'm also hoping that Racket (which is is like a secret oasis community) will get more attention, and someone will dust off some old Paul Graham writings about startups and Lisp, and some startups (probably ones who're not just doing another cookie-cutter madlibs startup) will decide to use Racket initially. (Disclosure: I have an interest in promoting Racket, because I'd love to help build startups in Racket, and also recruit top programmers with Racket as a carrot.)
Unfortunately Capitalism is not Democracy. Capitalism serves a set of dictators instead of one dictator.
I feel like I should name drop Cloverly.com for this. It allows you to programmatically allocate renewable energy and carbon offsets for your purposes.

Disclaimer: I work there.
Besides the ethical implications of using torture at all (especially those who do not the criteria for being convicted),

I am deeply skeptical that any organization could simultaneously:

* use torture of prisoners to obtain confessions (true or otherwise)

* still respect the rights of those prisoners enough to refrain from planting evidence in line with those confessions
Harvard's George Church: List of Genetic Upgrades
I've spent enough time travelling to come face to face with post-colonial concerns - Fanon is critical reading to understand that transition. Really enjoyed this article.
You'd have a hard time proving that though. It's incredibly easy for all the grammar to end up the same.
Raytracing is indeed ill suited to GPUs because of the terrible cache coherency you get in a real scene that has a size measured in gigabytes instead of kilobytes that scenes on Shadertoy take up.
funny, just two days ago I was talking about this on IRC and got to see http://informatimago.com/develop/lisp/com/informatimago/lang...
> DNA is not source code

My, admittedly weak, understanding is that the analogy is (much) more apt than not. Sure, the means by which that code is 'compiled' and 'executed' is much different than in the computers we've built, but, for one, DNA, genes, chromosomes, and all of the other various levels of organization of those units of information seem to be remarkably, amazingly stable, for many (most? almost all?) organisms, which seems to strongly imply that 'DNA is source code' is about as true as 'Earth is a sphere'. Sure, they're both only approximately true, but how approximately they're true (or not) is very important. Asimov explained this extremely well:

- [Asimov - The Relativity of Wrong](http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm)

'Epigenetics' itself seems like it might not be a particular thing among different people:

- [The misunderstanding of epigenetics – Insitome](https://blog.insito.me/the-misunderstanding-of-epigenetics-a...)

What epigenetics is not is anything like Lamarckian inheritance, at least not at all to the same degree.

> Rearrangements, microchimerism, epigenetics, chromosome organization etc. are all things that exist and modulate information transfer beyond the standard four letters or the 'environment' (whatever people think it means) and we're still only scratching the surface.

Sure, but that doesn't mean that the central dogma of biology is entirely wrong, just that it's not always and everywhere true exactly. The current best understanding of epigenetics (quoted from my second link above) is that, whatever it is, it is such that:

> very little of [genetic] inheritance is perturbed by epigenetic effects
They’re also notorious for shady SEO practices that got them effectively de-listed a few years back too. The Genius/Google relationship has been rocky, to put it lightly.
Microsoft Evolves Azure Event Grid: New Telemetry Events and Advanced Filters
”Middle-aged runners look like they're in great shape”

That’s not a valid argument. It could be survivor bias, with those still running (and not dead, bound to a wheelchair at 30, etc) looking great.

Even if, taking that into account, runners look better than non-runners, there, a priori, is no guarantee they wouldn’t have looked even better without it.
I doubt Mainland government will allow a “eventually” Taiwan independence because it hurts the legitimacy of CCP(on the MAINLAND!), which will have a cascading effect.
After working a lot with statically typed languages, I’ve been doing some work recently with a dynamic language, and it feels refreshingly fun...

Granted, I’ve been using elixir and erlang, where the use of pattern matching matching and immutability give you a lot of the benefits that modern static languages have, but I wouldn’t mind a new wave of modern dynamic languages, or at least static ones that feel more dynamic (Carp may fit in that spot).
> Metal is C++. Vulkan is C. Yes, that may matter

The Metal API is Obj-C or Swift, only the shading language is a C++ variant.

A C-API (not C++) would actually be nice. While ARC is quite convenient it also adds a significant overhead. Most of this overhead can be prevented with quite a lot of handholding, but this also reduces the benefits of high-level languages like Objective-C or Swift, I'd even argue that this handholding is more hassle than having a more explicit C-API to begin with.
Thanks for that, this is an interesting talk.
Logic App Service Demystified: A Peek Under the Hood – The Designer and Runtime
as an american, i view such quick-fixes as a form of american exceptionalism and magical thinking. my mother had a tendency to reach for medicines whenever i got sick growing up, and i just found that they didn't usually help much (other than the occasional antibiotic for a bacterial infection). as an adult, i tend to avoid medications, especially for pain.

i don't know about superfoods making you feel better. i generally eat what i crave, which tends to be "real" food (fresh meats, dairy, and fruits/veges) more than processed food, although i do still love sweet/salty/fatty treats (but not breads particularly). i don't think we know enough about food and our bodies yet to optimize more than that.
The gangs attack each other's higher level members outside the area, meaning broad daylight shootings at some high end restaurant or Starbucks parking lot. There is already a heavy police presence outside the numerous injection sites here all day long it doesn't seem to matter at all in restricting the organized sale of fentanyl. I think you would need to quadruple the budget of the police department to try any real sustained crackdown, and you would have to build new prisons as the current ones are already to capacity.

Nobody will vote for the city mayor who wants to significantly jack up property taxes to pay for a new drug crackdown when every voter knows it's largely a tried and failed, unsustainable policy. It would be vastly cheaper to just pour money into gang recruitment discouragement, and hand out free heroin undercutting the gang's product which is what they've started to do here.
There might be some trouble ahead, if the the improving technology means the current life expectancy figures are too pessimistic.

So far the growth seems to have been quite steady. Does anybody know how well the old predictions have hold up?
A web page from 2014 summarizing an article not about the safety consequences of removing password masking, but the effect of removing masking on consumer trust. Performed and written by a UI guy. No link to the academic article it's referring to, at least that I found.

Summary: removing masking doesn't erode consumer trust if it's optional, but they get leery of you if it's off by default.
All of that is not a justification for their sick lock-in.

- It was explained above, that Apple knew well all along, that there was an effort to make a common low level API. Well before they started Metal. So they purposefully refused to participate.

- C was a proper choice for Vulkan (short of choosing Rust let's say), since it makes it easier to provide bindings from any language than let's say using C++, making bindings to which is way more painful.

- Optimization for hardware happens on low level compilation, so it's a lame excuse not to support Vulkan.

- Faster or not, Apple could observe the result (which was good) once it was ready, and support it. They refused (because Apple).

- Business or not, lock-in is a nasty attitude that's aimed at taxing developers. There is no no need for development tools lock-in, it's a sick anti-competitive methodology, for which Apple is quite infamous.
> irrational

Speaking of rationality, could you provide evidence &/or explain how you came to know the various assertions you made in the first paragraph?
The bleeding edge isn't for everyone.

But then again, neither are monthly releases.
You're assuming we're maximizing the productivity on our debt. I would say the US is spending money on the government equivalent of takeout food and flatscreen TVs.
Addicts aren't born as fully formed heroin junkies, they all have a first time when they used an opiate or opioid. If you're living on the street and stealing handbags to buy heroin, you got there through a series of crises, each one an intervention point. Not being able to steal your dad's oxys from the medicine cabinet, or not being put on opioid painkillers for three months straight, are two of those intervention points.
Seizures (untreated) make one ineligible to drive and even when treated typically get a 90 day ban while medically evaluated.
Enthusiasm should not be dampened! So I say: Mee too!
What do you think are good learning resources for learning racket for an experienced (functional) programmer? Is there a book that isn’t focused on learning to program?
Once you have each image in its own file, not hard to rig up a way to preview them one at a time and press a number key corresponding to the desired category (1–4 in this case) which will bin the image in that category and bring up the next image.
Pointers in Python
It depends ..

China still have a lot of poor people.

Normally you want credit to flow from richer parts of the world to poorer parts of the world - where there is a lot more potential for growth.

NNIT is meaningless metric for larger countries.

China is a net creditor because they have certain national interest, their large credit position provides a buffer in international trade.

US acts a gold vault in international trading, China has certain industries that "generate gold" but their main focus is meeting the demand for their domestic market, just like most other countries in the list.
Yes, tautologically, "no-one should help the police" means "we should not help the police as they are now", but given that's obvious, I suspect that's not what you intend to say.

My previous post was responding to your claim "But an argument that no-one should help the police is basically an argument the police shouldn't exist", which is incorrect. The two are very different arguments.
A centipede robot
He's officially recognized as a CS legend: he received the Turing Award in 1981.[1] (Knuth and Ritchie have also received it.)

He's come up periodically on HN[2], with several submissions of his famous 1970 paper on the relational model.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award#Recipients

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=codd%20relational&sort=byDate&...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18088951
French geographer uses “peripheral France” to explain American political anger
Cloud gaming: Nintendo is playing the waiting game
Hopefully the common folks in mainland China are watching, and is not censored, and take inspiration from HK folks in marching and fighting for their human rights.
Probably because extinctions aren't actually occurring at the rate they're being claimed to, that's why. Population collapse from large numbers down to much smaller numbers is one thing (and is probably what's really happening here), but outright extinction is something else.

I've lost track now of the number of times some species has been declared "extinct", only to have it pop up again later. And IIRC, lately there have even been claims that a species can actually go extinct, only to have a closely related species then morph into that extinct species, almost like nature has a "reboot" button for when a species does go extinct.
My experience is that accessibility to a site is inversely proportional to the amount of JS it contains.

And UI designers love having a lot of JS...
Algorithms as Objects
I think the issue is not so much that there isn't enough land, its that cities are necessary in order to scale access to infrastructure, cultural institutions, ports, etc.
This is what happens when corporations are seen as religions by their customers. You can't fault apple taking advantage of it.
There's a crossing near my place where there's a large bike shed, with a lot of bicycles parked outside. Somehow, if a cyclist passes by the front of this place, they get "masked out" of my view by my brain, and this almost made me run into them at least twice. Of course, now that I'm aware of this effect, I'm more careful.
I think the point here is that if you use semantic elements, you don't need to use classes to differentiate.
What is especially amazing, if you consider, that museums are all about exhibiting other people's work!
Isn't it contradictory to consider yourself an arbiter of which opinions hackers should be allowed to have? The idea that the Internet has gone downhill because of increased participation is inherently elitist.

In any case, this forum is hosted on a website whose primary goal is to help tech minded people become rich and attain the top of the neo-liberal hierarchy. So much for the cyberpunk fantasy...
In Sweden any evidence is admissible, and it's up to the judge(s) to decide if and how to weigh it.
I like the mix of hardware.