skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"readjusted their schedules" is such a ridiculous hand-waving away of serious problems with the idea.

One of the biggest problems is that weekdays completely cease to make sense. With timezones, the day of the week changes at midnight, when most people are asleep. You wake up in the morning, it's a new weekday, and it's the same weekday for as long as the sun is in the sky.

If we abolish timezones and choose UTC as the one time, the day of the week will change at 5pm in San Francisco. Say that you have an establishment that is normally closed on Sundays. It's 4pm on a Saturday, do you close in an hour because it is then Sunday? Or do you change your "schedule" so that your establishment is closed on SundayMondays instead? Or perhaps you keep it closed on SaturdaySundays? Because the concept of "Sunday" doesn't make sense anymore, "Sunday" is no longer a contiguous period of normal waking hours.

In San Francisco. In London it's business as usual. But in Sydney the day of the week changes at 10am. When is "Sunday morning"? 9am Sunday morning is the day after 10am Sunday morning. Every week has two Sunday mornings now. (And two Monday mornings!) Which one of them did you mean?

Adjusting computer systems is much, much simpler than getting humans to accept this idiotic system.
There is a book that examined this over a century ago, Progress and Poverty (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty), which was hugely influential in it's day.
It seems as though it could have been written today. Yet, it's interesting that the solution proposed is nearly the exact opposite of what was enacted in California.
>Despite this being a "solved problem"(TM), it's not really trivial in any meaningful sense, neither for regular people nor for developers creating a system that should deal with units in both systems.
As a remote worker I really want this to happen. As a parent of two tiny humans it’s hard to even fathom where the time goes most days.

After my new remote job settles down in a few months, attempting to start a low key coworking group in my small but quickly growing community is going to be my new project.
> Backup my Signal history.

That was only because Signal prevented (and continues to prevent) data from being backed up. This was a terrible drawback with Signal, for which it brought out a (better?) solution after several years on Android. It hasn't done that on iOS yet. Since Signal has not addressed this for years, one can only presume that Signal is not geared toward people who change devices.
The convergence of USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 (an Apple standard) isn’t an accident, but I doubt Apple covertly pushed it behind the scenes.
If you follow the link at the top of the second post, you can find this, which defines what they think a 'wizard' is.

https://drawings.jvns.ca/wizard-programmer/
The relatively recent political pushback against building turbines on farmland may encourage more of a push to develop offshore turbines. Development there was stopped early on by political resistance to having the gigantic, ugly, bird-killing machines spoiling the scenery.
> Every other country on the planet plays their national anthem before sports events.

I don't think this is true. For national games, sure, the anthems of both countries are usually played; but for league games in Europe I don't think this is the typical case. At least I can't remember a single european league game I've seen, regardless of sport, where they play the national anthem.

The only time I've seen this happen in Europe is when the NHL does overseas games at the start of the season, when they'll both the US anthem and the anthem of whatever country they're playing in.
Jony Ive ‘dispirited’ by Tim Cook’s lack of interest in product design
DJI is building “government” flying robotic drones with enhanced features
> Isn't the common case that you already have "the thing", you have a rough idea what should be done, and you want to see what operations/transformations are available?

I'm going to (very lightly) push back and say no, I don't think that's the way I want to program. Certainly I've seen functional systems where it's mostly about syntax, but I think there's also a difference here that is more than technicality.

I'm having a hard time thinking more concretely about exactly what it is, but intuitively the statement you made rings a few alarm bells for me.
> attempting to start a low key coworking group in my small but quickly growing community is going to be my new project.

But if you are liberated from an office environment, why try to create a new office environment all over again? Why not seek out special-interest groups or volunteering/philantrophic organizations to provide social interaction?
In my situation we specifically avoided Elm due to the instability of their documentation. v0.18 docs were cleared off of their servers and replaced by v0.19, with unannounced breaking changes.

The (B?)DFL pushes that even though it's not hit a 1.x version that it's production ready and stable, in our experience that isn't the case :(
When I say class, I don't explicitly mean using the class keyword. Also when I say hierarchy, I don't mean only inheritance (composition is also a kind of hierarchy). In my statement, I mean class more like "a kind of structure from which you can create instances", prototypes are similar to classes in that way. Definitely you should still follow some kind of hierarchy when using prototypes... In fact you should be even more careful.
Vertu tried that approach with phones - didn't work out too well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertu

[Only ever saw them on sales at Heathrow Terminal 5 and Courchevel 1850]
In most programming languages the boolean operation 'or' is actually 'xor'.

But in type system the disjunction concept represents 'either', the concepts are more like how people refer to 'or'.
Yep, exactly. LoRa would be a perfect fit, because GNUnet nodes could be become independent from commercial infrastructure for whole towns! The transport layer of GNUnet will be rewritten. The former so called plugins will be called communicators in the new architecture. Anybody who likes to write a LoRa communicator for GNUnet?
The article itself is of course fine; what's "batshit insane" and heartbreaking is the blatant unfairness it describes. Newsflash - exclusionary zoning leads to exclusion, which often has its hardest impact on vulnerable minorities. Who would have guessed? There is a common stereotype that segregation and exclusion can only result from fuzzy "structural" forces or from private action by opportunistic and unethical individuals - but in fact, these things can endure because they're often enforced by a morass of laws and regulations, though sometimes in remarkably devious and opaque ways.
The likelihood of making it past 2-10 years old depends on modern medicine and civilization. So does marking it up to 55-80
Azure and RH are partners already, at least regarding OpenShift. With RHs push of RHEL Atomic and the purchase of CoreOS you also get minimal images of linux there. Another noteworthy thing are the Universal Base Images (UBI) by RedHat.
1. Because in most Apple videos, the product is the most important person in the room. Ive is a great storyteller when it comes to design (probably the best at Apple) so it makes sense that he is the one telling that story. Steve Jobs was by far the best keynote speaker at Apple so he did most of it himself.

2. Because the organisation is now structured with the design team reporting directly to Operations which is unusual as designers at Apple didn't use to report to anyone (except the CEO).
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so it could be worse? i doubt they would have extrapolated in a non-linear fashion
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Maybe. You may get owners who live in one duplex and rent the others out. Or two couple
Buy two and rent the others out. Lots of options. I would do it. In fact seems like a good reason to move to Minneapolis.
I wouldn't bother with SF or Silicon Valley.

SV is really just office buildings. They don't have formal tours for visiting engineers or anything like that. Most of the campuses don't even have a visitor center.

As a tourist SF you get to avoid most of the really bad aspects of SF a bit but I don't really think it's a good tourist city. There's just not a whole lot to see that you can't see anywhere else.

To counter some of the suggestions elsewhere:

- The bridge is just a somewhat visually appealing bridge and it's often difficult to see due to fog.

- Muir Woods is a nice place but it's so heavily trafficked it feels more like a garden than a forest.

- Land's End is mainly special for its' view of the bridge I think.

I'm being a bit negative but these aren't bad sights and I don't regret going there as a bay area resident, I just don't think they're special enough to take a substantial amount of time out of an international trip.

I'd suggest: If you're after cities, head to the bigger ones like LA, New York or Chicago. If you're after culture and/or history go to the east coast (I think DC is probably the best place, it has the Smithsonian after all). If you want food, go south. If you're after natural beauty, the best places are pretty far from major cities (e.g. mountains, grand canyon, yellowstone).
Housing is affordable in large swaths of the country. It’s only a relatively few cities where it isn’t.
One aspect I didn't see mentioned in the article was whether brand name is reflected in final purchase v.s. initial search.

As a consumer, I often am open to one of several common brands but will search generically in order to see all available options. However, I'm unlikely to buy from an extremely generic brand in most cases.

Not sure if this behavior is common, but I expect it is not uncommon.
Is it because you associate methods with statefulness and because you believe statefulness is bad?

If so, I'd point out that methods can just be pure functions and objects can be immutable.

Or, more controversially, partial application is just a lazy person's method definition.
Same laptop, same issue about a year ago. I had it checked out at a local Apple Authorized Service Provider, they ended up replacing the battery (for the usual battery replacement fee).
The future's not looking great for C, in fact it's sliding slowly but unavoidably into irrelevance.

It's stopped evolving and can't really shine in any of today's domains.

It will still be around for decades, but mostly as legacy. I.e: not anything which is required to be learned.
I don't have any children but I live in Glen Park and I see parents with those bike trailers for their kids all the time. Not something I ever personally considered but those people usually look really fit. Pretty neat, honestly.
In Oregon? 60 years if ever. You can't get a building permit to build anything without your lawyers ($$$) spending years getting you through the process. Or so I've heard.

In Minneapolis I expect it will start to make a difference in 5 years. In Minneapolis a building permits for something allowed in code takes an hour from the time you park your car to the time you drive away, and no lawyer needed.

Note that we will never really know that a difference was made: there are any other factors involved in housing prices with no way to control for any of them. Thus no matter what happens you will be able to reasonably argue from data whichever side you want.
It's not elitism, not at least by the people who accurately describe it. It's for absolutely price-insensitive people who feel they need:

1) OSX
2) Top of the line specs

Anyone seriously buying a Mac Pro is either in the above group or just a crazed fanboy happy to pay the ludicrous premium to say they did.
One aspect I haven’t seen much discussion about is that WWII may have acted as a kind of giant social mixer.

I mean this in the sense that people who might hardly meet each today were thrown together often more or less as equals. At least within the (ok, very limited) bounds of the race and gender norms of the day.

Today a programmer, middle manager or radiographer say can get to middle age without ever really “meeting” a labourer, truck driver or meat packer. I think that has pretty deep implications for labour solidarity.
ICANN Removes Prices Caps on .ORG Domain Names
You should go visit and see. It'll probably adjust your world view. Lots of no-helmet riding and somehow they have better stats than us on death and injury.
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And all the other stuff?
This works for small companies that are scaling up, but fails when larger orgs need to scale down / reduce expenses. Particularly:

> Inform the teams affected that the new objectives create an opportunity for them to re-organize to be more effective at achieving these objectives.

In the US, reduction in force requires companies to file a WARN statement with that companies state. There's a few other legal requirements as well: almost all of them require c-level staff to absolutely say nothing to all employees until the day they announce it.

If an employee catches wind of a layoff early, there could be a leak to investors, which leads to insider trading and a whole host of other legal battles. As a result, CEO's and other decision makers typically cannot "inform the teams affected" until all the details have been set in stone.
While, you were responding to nsajko, your example is useful for others (such as myself) who don’t know anything about the issue — other than this discussion. That example strikes me as being overly emotive. Its intent is to strongly disagree with the Arbitration Committee but the language and tone have the result of distracting from the substance of the disagreement – a classic case of “more heat than light”.
In the UK you can sign up for a Gmail account without any other contact info - just an unverified name and date of birth. Is this different elsewhere?
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JSX is an external DSL implemented in and interoperable with JavaScript.

SwiftUI is an internal DSL implemented in Swift and thus allowing the full power of Swift’s rich type system to tag along.

See https://martinfowler.com/books/dsl.html for more discourse on the difference between internal and external DSLs.
The imperial system has shortcomings for small units, which means that regular people will encounter grams/millimeters/milliliters in their daily lives, so they are effectively using a hybrid system already, which is just the worst of both worlds.

Yes, converting is technically trivial, but you still have to reach for a calculator to do it.
If you adjust on a power consumption basis it is actually further off. US uses approx 3x the kWh per capita of the EU.
We know from experience that one lane roads are enough to support a city of all two story buildings. There are plenty of examples of such cities more than 500 years old that are still going strong.
Does Erik Naggum go lick the armrests in the local clinic if he hasn’t had a cold in a while?
In the meantime, it's one of the most used languages in the world and embedded in every device you use.
America, and the world, should see everyone's tax returns.

What's the big secret? If you're proud of what you earn and the taxes that flow from that then show it. If you're not proud, then that should be exposed too.
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Interesting, that we gravitated towards a similar pronunciation due to a conflict in the beforementioned terms. It's unfortunate that proper English pronunciation does not always cross the North Sea :P. There are actually plenty of words in English that I have only written and read, and have never heard or spoken out loud... and I consider myself a decent speaker of English.
GMT is used in ham radio too. Gives me an excuse for s 24 hour watch.
> In most programming languages the boolean operation 'or' is actually 'xor'.

I can't think of any where that's true; logical “and” and “or” are usually exactly what they claim to be, and many languages implement both as short-circuiting operators, whereas XOR can't short circuit because you can never know the result without considering both arguments.
HM style type inference is nice, but the root problem is that the static type system restricts you to a set of statements that it is able to verify at compile time. This necessarily leads to code that prioritizes the needs of the compiler over those of the human reader. The more things you try to encode using the type system, the more complex your code becomes because proving something correct for all cases is typically significantly more difficult than just stating it and testing for the set of cases you care about. Furthermore, there is no way to verify that your type definitions themselves are correct. When you start moving program logic into types, the compiler cannot help you ensure that it's correct.

Here's a fully typed insertion sort [1] written in Idris. It's over 260 lines long, and it takes non trivial amount of effort to understand it fully, and know that what it specifies is indeed what was intended. Meanwhile, I can trivially read and understand a 10 line Python version in its entirety.

Of course, you could argue that it's an extreme case, and that in practice you probably wouldn't have such an exhaustive type specification. At that point you'd be agreeing that relaxing type constraints does provide a benefit, and we'd just be arguing about our respective levels of comfort.

[1] https://github.com/davidfstr/idris-insertion-sort/blob/maste...
Well, I wouldn't say it's evil or anything (it's just a game) but it is a bit frustrating in a game calling itself a simulation.

Also, it's humantransit, which specifically promotes walking, cycling, etc. so they're going to be understandably annoyed when the cited inspiration for plenty of city planners understates the negative impact of car dependence.
AD isn't just for Windows, which would be weird since it is mostly a fancy key value store (with associated functions and services of course). SSSD for example can use AD. The problem is that Linux itself doesn't support the same functionality client side, which using a configuration manager doesn't really solve. And question wasn't if you have used AD, but if you have managed Linux desktop deployments without it. Since your claim is that it is better.
To be fair, 200km - which is quite a distance for a small country like Germany - around Berlin includes a LOT of nice nature areas, e.g.:
Baltic Sea, Mecklenburg Lake Plateau, Saxon Switzerland, Harz, and many more.
It really is trivial for "regular" people as everyone has a device in their pocket that can quickly convert to any unit you want (which is an infrequent thing to need in daily life). As for developers, there's lots of changes we could impose on the world to make our (developers) lives easier but easing the burden on developers should rarely be a consideration when considering such changes IMO.
Also to add to this, it's kinda hard to detect if someone was indoctrinated and trained in their home country and then sent here with crystal clear, mid to long-term, instructions on what to do and how to report back.

To report back they don't even necessarily need to transmit data or meet someone in front of 37 security cameras with a big envelope that says "secret stolen plans" in screaming red letters. They can slowly lift data over the course of weeks, months or years from whatever they are here to learn about and use a dead drop... go to the Goodwill a mile from their apartment and leave an SD card behind the third row of records between 2 and 2:05pm, or upload encrypted fragments via a different public WiFi once a week, or mail an SD card to a series of memorized addresses disguised as eBay purchases.

Old school tradecraft makes you effectively invisible in a digital world as long as you are cautious in how you collect data and get around any security measures at the school/employer you are attempting to steal data from. If you're in a position to be accessing the data as a student/researcher/employee, especially if you are in a position to actively manipulate that data as part of your role, unless you are being stripped searched and all USB ports have been rendered inert, if you're patient you can take all the data you want and unless you go telling people, you're probably not going to get caught, especially by some federal agency that can't read your mind.
Windows’ complexity was designed to create jobs for MSCE and the like.
It might not be seen as a problem, but it is a problem. It makes forms of transportation other than cars non-viable, which is awful for the environment. Cheap electric cars will happen eventually, but we don't exactly have time to waste.
Serious science experiments like the resoundingly successful controlled descent into martian terrain.

IMHO this is just the tip of the iceberg. I can’t even begin to fathom the inordinate amount of conversion mistakes there might be but we never hear about or even detect because this is not NASA yet have possibly damaging consequences.
How does morph compare to nixops?
People exaggerate. Portland's already been transformed by row houses, lots of apartment and condo structures, and dense building. Unsurprisingly, a lot of old-timers hate it, and their complaints all boil down to "it's different from when I was a child/raising a family here".

The dense building is already taking place, in every neighborhood in the city. Getting a permit is no problem; my little brother, an engineer with no background in building, got a permit to build a four-unit building on one of the sites where they were already allowed (before this law was passed) in 8 weeks; the normal time for any permit approval for construction, he says, and in his engineering work he did a lot of work with permitting for customer projects, too, so I'd guess he knows.

Portland's already been changing and it's made the city so much more pleasant to walk through. Neighborhood after neighborhood of single-family detached housing is boring, tiresome to drive or bike through, and an environmental disaster (as the ODOT study recently confirmed).

If the rest of Oregon can now follow suit, this is only a good thing.

The funny thing is, driving through old towns in Oregon or anywhere, where most of the building was done before these zoning laws made everything into the same boring city planning style, architecture and construction used to be a lot more interesting and visually pleasing. It's neat to drive through places with variety of structure. These laws are one of the most pointless things, that's done a great deal of damage, the US has done.
Any programming language can be used to produce HTML, but here – with Scala, Kotlin and Swift – we're talking about something more specific: using an internal DSL to write concise, simple and somewhat declarative code that describes the HTML tree.

Java definitely can't (reasonably, sensibly, practically) do that. GWT seems to be using XML from what I can tell:
http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/polymer-tutorial/widget...
Where someone should be a C pro, not the local JS guy that dabbles in C and can "read" it.

Doesn't hurt to know the internals, but one's time's limited and better spent on other endeavors. If I wouldn't be doing embedded I wouldn't touch C with a 3m pole, nor would I need to :)
In fact my life's mostly C free nowadays and I'm quite pleased with that.
I'm still not making the connection. If processes enter the queue every N cycles on average, and hold the lock for M cycles, then you'll hit a steady queue state anytime you have N/M runnable processes. If a waiting process becomes unblocked every M cycles how does it matter whether it came from the front, back, or middle of the queue? Isn't the rate of enqueueing and dequeueing processes the same in any case?
I'm curious what severe rate limiting looks like. I have a Sprint unlimited plan and I routinely use about 20-30GB of data/mo and I don't think I've ever been throttled, and if I have I haven't noticed it.