skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not totalitarian state or a dictatorship.

Well, they call them themselves a dictatorship. See Article 1 of the CN Constitution:

> Article 1. The People's Republic of China is a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants. The socialist system is the basic system of the People's Republic of China. Sabotage of the socialist system by any organization or individual is prohibited.

* http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/Constitution/2007-11/15/con...

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That is normal advice for the UK even in the part wear heavy snow is rare.
Check eligibility for recall by MBP's serial: https://support.apple.com/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall
> About proving that no sacrifice is too large.

I would posit that this mindset is broadly a disease and not a cure.
Is it really that hard to scroll down?
Yes I know. But Max Hastings is a former editor.
> or more specifically because it's the land of the free...although few people can define what "free" is other than being in America

Like the freedom in the fact that the U.S. government, unlike all other governments I'm aware of, is prevented by superiour law from considering a law that would prosecute you for this criticism you are writing. Lots of other places have "free expression... until it's inconvenient" or "free expression, while the establishment appreciates it", the U.S. has free expression especially when the establishment dislikes it.

> I'm pretty cynical, but it seems pretty easy to draw the connection between playing patriotic songs at sporting events (and grade school, before students are even able to comprehend the words they are saying) and how it instills a sense of zealotry in fans.

The fans of sporting events are zealous everywhere, regardless of national anthems. Participation in the anthem seems low here in southern Ontario, and yet the fans will gladly riot, burn vehicles, etc.
So you want him to succeed?
alias reboot='echo "This is not Windows!"'

Real Linux admins know how to invoke the real 'reboot' command.
They are long retired or dead by now
> But... why?

idk exact reasoning, but it seems like they've decided to maximise design focus on primary user experience from device sacrificing almost nothing.

> Logitech managed to build a significantly more comfortable mouse

Can you please prove it by a link? I had to build a specific PC for a work-related project about a year ago, wasn't a pleasure.

> Aren't you really going out there on a severely stretched limb to defend this mouse design?

I honestly don't understand the popular kind of critics that Apple receives. Those details and choices are what hooked me into their products. When I see somebody complains about no CD-ROM in laptop or that mouse charging thing or that monitor stand, it feels more like trolling.

I mean really, more comfortable mouse? Which one is that?
Nextcloud Introduces Collaborative Markdown Editor
Yeah, but the parent comment attributes the problem to “massive underfunding,” and that claim was not questioned, but seemed to be accepted.

My point was simply to say that throwing more money at the problem is a poor solution. Pardon the pun.
As a both an Android and iOS user those are all good and accurate points. Except perhaps Files.app which is pretty advanced these days handling cloud (first and third party), local and external cards etc. I use it daily to manage all my files and actually I quite like it. The built in support for files of different types is excellent - I especially like the video player despite how basic it is.
Are they going up substantially more than inflation over the same time period?

Housing stock tends to shrink with population since in a renters market there's less incentive for landlords to keep properties in rent-able condition. For example, an apartment remodel that might have been sub'd out for $10k and done in a month instead takes $5k and is done over the course of a year. When some % of all landlords start doing this to some % of properties it takes a chunk out of available supply and rents stay the same-ish.
> Oh, my goodness, there'd be a couple of years of bumps and grinds as people readjusted their schedules.

Except for the literal billions of computers which will need replacing and trillions of lines of code you're going to need to rewrite, sure.

And redeploy the entire GPS system. And the code running on the mainframe in the back room of the basement which no one has touched in literal decades.

Seems.... Risky
I agree with the cheap energy part, electric bike is a very efficient mode of transportation, better than car. However, when you compare impacts to health of the rider and the environment, the ordinary bike wins as the better choice.
Good point, I've never thought of it that way before.

You've heard of the "God-class" anti-patern. Java style classes are a "God-abstraction".
I’d question how much cost savings there is. Maybe in the highest cost areas. But, leaving aside the implications of hiring people in lower cost areas and paying them less, it wouldn’t surprise me if additional travel costs for team meetings etc. balanced out the cost of a desk. A fair number of remote workers also get their companies to pay for coworking spaces.
Yeah, they've completely borked the Desktop side of things, it's true. However the server side is much more conservative.
Even before that in Java with GWT.
A somewhat related thing I've had on my mind:

I remember at my Dutch university we would get intro to programming courses in Java. We would often discuss things in Dutch, but found it awkward to talk about `null` (the "pointer") and `0` (the integer, which in Dutch is "nul").

In fact, I remember a distinct bug that happened from informal communication of an API. The conversation went (in Dutch):

Student 1 - "What does Function A return if the input is invalid?"
Student 2 - "Nul"
Student 1 - "Null?"
Student 2 - "Yes".

And the program went on to crash on a divide-by-zero exception, because it ended up only checking the return value for Null, rather than 0.

We ended up saying "null" as "naL", with heavy emphasis on the L and kept 0 as "nul", to somewhat mitigate these problems. The awkwardness never really went away.

I wonder if Guido van Rossum when designing Python intentionally bypassed this issue by naming the null pointer "None". This is the only language I know of that uses None, some use "nil" AFAIK, but the language issue (in Dutch) is not avoided in these cases.

I also wonder if other non-native English speakers who wrote English-based programming languages have applied similar considerations to avoid possible confusion between the native language of the speaker and English.
As already somebody wrote earlier, you cannot make decisions with remote workers at water cooler anymore. You must tweak your processes and write everything down. This requires more work from lazy management. Basically, home office from employer side is a bad thing since it requires more work and better processes. This transition is barely doable for crappy shops (I work in such). First issue is to force people write everything down and it’s already impossible for some companies. I would say, home office option strongly correlates to company’s culture. Stay away from employers, where it is forbidden. Such place probably has already very toxic culture.
Maybe those can evolve further too.

I've always appreciated the advantages of code being legible as plain text files. But maybe it is just a little absurd when language design is shaped to fit the desire not to evolve the storage format and editing interface.
OOP is just SOLID and I would argue that classes are unnecessary for that and that those languages do have features of OOP.
> To the point if one of my engineers will ever suggest FP again he will get fired on the spot.

If you are going to react so disproportionately to the mere suggestion of FP, I am sorry, it is difficult to take your anecdote or opinion seriously.
Mozilla's New Tool for Tricking Advertisers into Believing You're Filthy Rich
I’m sure “kids just learning some new skills on their own” is a perfectly cromulent system.

Universal public education is one of America’s greatest achievements and a tremendous equalizer. At school children learn to socialize, and history, and the arts. They play sports, and get in trouble, put on plays and sign yearbooks.

And it’s a tremendous thing we do that should be encouraged and valued.
Sure, but it is one of the most popular way to develop web apps today. So it seems kind of relevant to contrast against it.
If by "the Germans" you mean the German government, he did betray them, at least when it to war crimes and the Holocaust. I don't know if he also sabotaged the war but that would also be consistent with patriotism. A patriot loves his country, that doesn't mean they don't care about others at all. That would be some sort of combination of patriotism and psychopathy.

A patriot could also have decide d to sabotage the war effort to end the war faster, to get rid of Hitler or to somewhat save the reputation of Germany.

He didn't openly defect but that doesn't mean much for a spy.
I don't know the particular situation in Croatia when it comes to how it cross-finances private healthcare but I would assume that this patient was billed for everything they recieved accordingly and not directly subsidized.

Of course there are indirect/externalized cost like the the health worker education system, potentially having hospitals and their equippment set up not to maximize profit but for coverage in the population etc. which this patient now may be freeloading on.

There is another perspective though if you consider free movement of labor in the EU (and to some extent globally for highly educated individuals) and the comparatively low salaries for medical professionals in Croatia and other cost-saving medical travel destinations (Hungary, Poland, Thailand, Mexico and others). If the doctors in the country can make an attractive buck on the side doing private practice then this alleviates the pressure to some extent. Especially if it allows the more senior doctors to stay in country and thus continue to train the next generation in med schools and the facilities.

Now I don't have a source to back it up but my feeling tells me that it is a net-positive activity for the destination countries.
Depending on the scale of business, the foreign money might buy a new machine that other patients can use as well or quality improvements via the international certifications and accreditations.

That is not guarantee against potentially canibalising the local social system and could in worst cases lead to a two-class system so i suppose an adequate system to regulate access and subsidize for social fairness is in place where private and public seem equally "healthy".

Full disclosure: I work in tech at https://www.medigo.com
We help facilitate global medical travel and publish prices to bring the best of capitalism to work in an ethical manner. We also have our own critical illness insurance for global treatment available for employers.
Why is modelling in OOP any more "real life" than with other programming paradigms? I've heard this many times from OOP zealots but I just don't get it. Most examples of this I've seen focus on physical objects such as cars which is just ludicrous as your average piece of software is morel likely to be dealing with a data structure, such as a user profile, than anything physical.
Do you imagine the new email is going to be anything like the old email, in allowing easy composition of substantial, letter-length messages which can be organized in their own right?

I would love to be able to point non-technical users to an email alternative with sane integrity properties, and I've tried to some extent to push correspondence to Riot, but as it is right now, many of those users seem to suffer from Riot's flat design and not adapting well to the room metaphor. And one trigger-happy composition line posted to infinity scroll chat is pretty far from the experience of even a rudmentary email client.

I'll admit I haven't done a thorough search of the clients but if you're aware of good implementations of a letter metaphor for Matrix I'd be very grateful to learn what I've been missing.
There's some research suggesting that yes, it is. It plays nicely with the simulated universe theory. https://www.quora.com/Is-the-space-quantized-If-yes-then-are...
"On the other hand, it could simply lead to spending even more time on social media to fill the gap."

Or both?
Switching to random order from FIFO would increase the chances of breaking the convoy cycle (where a process which initially held a high-contention resource lock comes back at the end of it, to repeat the cycle again and again, since the queue/convoy didn't clear in the time it took for the process to come back)

Edit: message cut off due to fat-finger
ISRO provides and interprets a lot of meteorological data crucial for the agrarian economy of India amongst other things. ISRO is mostly focused on activities that benefit India in the now(launching higher resolution meteorological satellites/cooperating with EU on launch vehicles) vs countries like the US/China that focus on the future(spacelabs/spacex/mars mission etc)
With one stanza, which is generally not included anymore because of the controversy. If you read the top answer on that Quora, you'll also note it's more complicated than that.
and there's plenty of 3rd party apps on the PlayStore that will allow you to that on any other Android.
The story mentioned intel and Qualcomm but quite possibly Broadcom was/is lobbying hard behind the scenes. They have a long history with both ZTE and Huawei and a lot to lose from the blacklisting. Luckily they weren’t allowed to purchase Qualcomm when they tried
I find using React is a strictly better experience from ClojureScript. There's way less code, no JSX, the toolchain is straight forward, you get reliable hot loading for free, and it actually outperforms plain React in some cases.

https://github.com/ClojureTO/JS-Workshop

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-realworld-comparison-of-...
Every time I see a story on mission control I always search for the ground speed check story[0]. Probably one of my favourite pieces of writing and a really cool story. Never fails to lift my mood. I particularly like how he describes how air traffic controllers voices are modeled on the Housten Centre voice.

[0] https://oppositelock.kinja.com/favorite-sr-71-story-10791270...
I think somewhere we mentioned before that gnunet does not require ISPs and IXPs, but using them today is the de-facto default state.
Colin Kaepernick has saved zero lives, encouraged zero people not to get shot. This comic is meant to shut people up, ironically.

In more irony, in the case OP points out, it's likely that the outcome was positive because the people involved were given an opportunity to save face.
San Francisco’s very pretty but the best part of the West Coast is the United States National Park System.

Yosemite, Sequoia, John Muir Woods, Death Valley! All around there is Arches, Glacier, canyons, deserts, forests, and more.
Single family detached homes are meant for isolation. Living next to people sucks. Having your own home was a luxury.

I’m extremely sensitive to sound and absolutely cannot share any walls with anyone.
File under the same category as:

- everyone switches to Dvorak keyboards

- British motorists start driving on the right*

- United States adopts the metric system

- Daily Telegraph admits a hard Brexit may have negative consequences for the population as a whole

* yes, I know, Dagen H, but 2019 UK is very different from 1967 Sweden
I've been a dev for 20+ years now. I don't care about the OSS vs Proprietary argument at all. I care about my productivity and job satisfaction. Microsoft - in every sphere from IDEs to cloud platforms and now machine learning - has done more to make this stuff easier to learn, use and afford than any other organization.
Well, it’s just a click away if you press “Download on the Mac App Store”. But I could add that info too. Thanks!
if external factors didn’t exist you might be right. But they do so you are wrong. It’s impossible to say if the system was sustainable because America meddled and interfered from the very first day out of fear for their own position. Kinda like how they murdered union leaders all around the works, overthrew governments for being not right wing enough and started wars for false reasons.

But sure, the problem was the system because that’s easy to believe, as it requires just accepting the standard American narrative.
Some errors I found:

uintptr addr = (uintptr_t)buf & 0xffffffffffff;
uintptr pack = (sizeof(buf) << 48) | p;

should be “| addr”

#define ARRAYPTR(array) \
ADDROF(array, COUNTOF(array))

should be FATPTR(array, COUNTOF(array))
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It's always a combination of genetic predisposition and external effects working together (except, of course, in very rare cases of lethal-dose exposures to carcinogens). Usually external effects just increase the chances of mutations, and then fate and your genetics role the dice.
That mentality has been at the core of every place I’ve worked. You dial it back when you have more to lose and then pretend like you never did anything wrong.
>We are essentially living past our primitive life expectancy until something fails

I will chime in and say "not really". If a human makes it past say 10 years old (even really makes it past 2 years old), odds are they make it to 55-80 without modern medicine, civilization, etc.

The only reason life expediencies appear lower than 50 (all the way down to the 30s) in places and in eras is due to insane infant mortality driving the numbers down. The life expectancy of those who make it to 2 years old is dramatically higher than that general life expectancy number.
Also known as doing a Novell - if you want an example that didn't turn out so well for the company.
At the point of German-Soviet conflict, the US had about six times the steel production of the USSR, six times the iron production, eight times the oil production, and three to four times the coal production. It definitely wouldn't be surprising if US steel was a large share of Soviet figures.

The scale of resources delivered to prop up the Soviets was extraordinary, including what the British sent them.

In just 3 1/2 years the British sent them[1]:

3,000+ Hurricanes aircraft, 4,000+ other aircraft, 27 naval vessels, 5,218 tanks, 5,000+ anti-tank guns, 4,020 ambulances and trucks, 323 machinery trucks, 1,212 Universal Carriers and Loyd Carriers, 1,721 motorcycles, £1.15bn worth of aircraft engines, 1,474 radar sets, 4,338 radio sets, 600 naval radar and sonar sets

And the US sent them:

427,284 trucks, 13,303 combat vehicles, 35,170 motorcycles, 2,328 ordnance service vehicles, 2,670,371 tons of petroleum products (gasoline and oil) or 57.8 percent of the High-octane aviation fuel,[32] 4,478,116 tons of foodstuffs (canned meats, sugar, flour, salt, etc.), 1,911 steam locomotives, 66 Diesel locomotives, 9,920 flat cars, 1,000 dump cars, 120 tank cars, and 35 heavy machinery cars. Provided ordnance goods (ammunition, artillery shells, mines, assorted explosives) amounted to 53 percent of total domestic production

Beyond Russia also notes:

"The USSR received a total of 44,000 American jeeps, 375,883 cargo trucks, 8,071 tractors and 12,700 tanks. Additionally, 1,541,590 blankets, 331,066 liters of alcohol, 15,417,000 pairs of army boots, 106,893 tons of cotton, 2,670,000 tons of petroleum products and 4,478,000 tons of food supplies"

The notion of sending a country 375,000 trucks and 1,900 locomotives in just three years, is incredible to think of today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease
She sacrficed the well-being of her own children for the well-being of complete strangers. There is enough attorneys that can do her job but there is only one person that can be a mother to these two kids - and that's her.
The other way is to create a "De-Militarized Zone", e.g. Korea and Cyprus.
TL;DR

After being jettisoned, the Service Module remained dangerously close to the Command Module during re-entry, so there was a risk that the two could have collided
It is in a way, it supposed to be a crossplatform declarative ui that feels native, isn't slow and etc
Obligatory: https://qntm.org/abolish
As someone who lives in NYC but visits San Francisco for work, the homeless there are a lot more visible. I see homeless people in NYC for sure, but the numbers in San Francisco are staggering.

I can’t name a neighborhood like the tenderloin.

That being said, I don’t feel particularly threatened generally (although I am a tall man), but it is depressing.

In NYC I don’t mind tossing out a buck here or there, but in San Francisco it just feels too innumerable to even start.
I work remote and this is kind of happening. I worked locally for five years and most of my relationships were my colleagues. But now my colleagues are just people I work with. I'd consider them acquaintances and I like them. But I'm not seeking a friendship. For that I'm looking elsewhere and it has its own pros and cons.

As a parent with not much me time, coworkers make for very convenient friendships.
Sometimes, the simple means of doing a complex task will

1) Bbscure the logic of solving the task.
2) Layer on extra logic of the tool.
3) Warp your thinking around the tool, causing you to miss easy optimizations.

These are some reasons to not use a ready-made tool.
The original context is Iran. So you want more from somebody than agreed and if you won't get it you start to use sanctions? Risky game, you can sometimes win, but if you go for it too far for too long, this will blow in your face.
As a Dvorak user as well, I've found that as of Windows 10 (and perhaps 8 but I've not used that extensively), they've finally fixed their multiple layouts issue. You can disable the nonsense that is "different layouts for different windows" and get rid of the awful alt-shift abd ctrl-shift shortcuts and just switch layouts with win-space. I keep qwerty as a layout for when others need to use my laptop but the OS never unexpectedly switches me anymore. They finally caught up with classic MacOS lol
> Wow. As someone who is used to a room temperature of 20C, 28C is above the point of idle sweating and becoming lethargic.

How are you usually dressed?
I think the Apple II GS didn't work out mainly for political reasons. Apple (or rather the Mac parts of Apple) didn't want it to. They artificially crippled its hardware so as not to compete against the higher-margins Macs.
I traveled a ton. Went to Algarve, Sicily, and Porto. Flights there and back, rent. It adds up pretty quick.
>But we (the tech community) never seem to get bored with the "Microsoft is eating humble pie on OSS" story. Maybe that's exactly what Microsoft deserves after so many years of big-bad-wolf behavior.

And Microsoft absolutely relishes it. The tech community provides priceless support for Microsoft's key marketing message, which is that Azure runs everything and you don't have to go to AWS for first class Linux hosting.

The humble pie they are eating is worth billions per bite.
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