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I believe what the parent comment refers to is the condemnation of Eric Zemmour in 2011. The details are a bit different though substantially in the same spirit. Zemmour argued on TV that (a) the majority of drug dealers are either black or arab and therefore that (b) racial profiling by the police was justified. The court rejected the accusation of racial defamation for claiming (a) but argued that since (b) was discriminatory under French law, condoning racial profiling publicly was advocating for discrimination and he was sentenced for that. One of first results on google if you want to dig more:

https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/eric-zemmour-condamne-pour-pr...
It does seem like bitcoin now goes up when Trump spooks the market (the traditional financial markets). Is it pro-traders thinking at least they'll make that day's profits that way?
Yeah, that sentence leapt out at me too. Bizarre life priorities, and undermines otherwise sensible remarks.
/dev/log is probably a symlink to /run/systemd/journal/dev-log on your system. 'systemctl list-sockets' will show you that the socket is part of the systemd-journald-dev-log.socket unit. So when a program calls the syslog(3) function, it ends up sending the message to journald.

If configured to forward messages to syslog, I think systemd does so via the /run/systemd/journal/syslog socket, which is part of syslog.socket. But I believe rsyslog will these days read messages directly out of the journal rather than relying on journald to forward them.
The point of Brook's law isn't that extra people won't aid conclusion but that the overhead isn't free and unless the date is grossly overambitious (like 10% done) adding more people will add more tasks in "creating infastructure".

Lets take say Civilizations for example and say you need to build a spearman in 7 turns to not lose - but it would take 9 right now you already have production maximized without adding new buildings. Technically building a forge could speed it up to 6 turns but it takes 20 to build it. Even if it would help adding it right now would only make an intolerable delay even worse.

To get away from the geeky metaphor bottleneck and chokepoint management are a crucial part of making projects parallelizible across many developers and even then there are expenses to making them interoperate.

Unless you are grossly behind it is unlikely adding more people will help unless you are vastly overambitious and try to do something with one person that requires a team of thousands. In which case you have probably already failed too massively to help.
If anyone want to read an interview with Adriaan van Rossum who made Simple Analytics which was mentioned in Harry's post you can grab it here: https://www.nocsdegree.com/how-this-developer-is-competing-w...
> Because this is what the courts did. They said that blizzard was guilty

That is not what the courts said.
I'm not sure this is something we can assume, as I don't think there is a country with anywhere close to the same levels of gun ownership as the US.
> you don’t think the bank is creating money when it lends out the balance from savings accounts?

Banks don't lend out balances. "Banks lend out balances" is just an analogy. (It was truer under the gold standard.)

Banks create money through lending and destroy money via write-offs. Periodically (in the U.S., at the end of the day) banks count up what they owe and what they're owed and make sure the ratio is legal. If not, they borrow (from each other or from the Fed) to make up the difference.

(For monetary purposes, savings accounts are checking accounts. Banks don't segregate savings from their balance sheets. Balances in savings account can be withdrawn just as easily as those in checking accounts.)
Yeah I never feel that passionate when someone is paying me to work. Motivation is a funny thing.
Pointless clickbait article. None of this is interesting, new, surprising, or unique to the Apple Card.
Why would meeting expectations put people at risk of being terminated? Do they expect one to do more work than one was payed to do?
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> Your first point is why I’m quite skeptical of the narrative around “brilliant assholes”. Are they really an asshole, or do they just not communicate in the manner you’d prefer?

As someone who generally enjoys working with the "brilliant asshole," there are two types to look for.

The first is a brilliant engineer who is an asshole in matters unrelated to the task at-hand. I've seen coworkers physically assaulted by this type.

The second is a brilliant engineer who takes no shit when it comes to the task at-hand, which I think is a bit more of the Torvaldian asshole. If you have someone trying to slip in a below-threshold quality solution into place, this person will not let it slide. One of my favorite engineers had a little comic strip tacked to his cube, the punchline was something along the lines of "You're right, let's do it the stupidest fucking way possible because it is easier for you personally."

Regarding the second, I tend to see their frustrations come out when interacting with the "politician," the kind of person who puts on a polite veneer but uses it as a shield. This is the kind of person who will tell you they aren't doing something because they don't feel like it, but when management gets involved starts acting surprised at the accusation while playing into the "brilliant asshole's" known-quantity.

If you see someone at work getting frustrated with another, don't just buy into the "he's an asshole" narrative. Do a little investigative legwork.
Transit advocates have done a lot of work figuring out why costs are so high. Turns out they don't have to be: Barcelona has significantly lower costs than anyone else doing similar scope projects. However Barcelona is in Spain where they speak Spanish so it is hard to learn from them.

I've seen many analysis of the situation pointing to all kinds of different "reasons". Many of those reasons have been rebutted by someone else. I cannot figure out who is right or what factors cause things, but the bottom line is some places transit costs a lot more than others after you factor in cost of labor and land which seem like the only things that should be different.
Happy to be a slave as long as it makes me feel good.
Really? I hadn't ever known this. If true, this saddens me greatly...This means that even more of the global email traffic than previously thought is under/traverses google's infrastructure umbrella. </sigh>
“White Hispanic” (White “race” and Hispanic “ethnicity”) may be controversial and may be an example of someone stretching to fit an agenda, but if so it's the US government and not CNN, as it is the former which has and invented the two axis race plus ethnicity model in which there are a number of big racial groups with subdivisions, but the only ethnicities available are “Not Hispanic/Latino” and “Hispanic/Latino”. Anyone who has ever dealt with government forms collecting race/ethnicity data, including the census, has seen this.

HuffPost characterizing this as CNN “trying its hand at anthropology” rather than CNN applying the standard government model is evidence of HuffPost distorting facts to suit an agenda, and not even in a way which stands up to casual scrutiny.
I wouldn’t necessarily write this off. Doing UI-related work directly in the main thread has a lot of benefits -- your click listeners can take effect immediately and make all the necessary UI updates before the next event is processed. With event handling in a separate thread, it can be harder to make things robust (filtering out double taps, preventing flashes of unfinished/unstyled content, etc).

Of course you do need to make sure that everything that could be even slightly expensive is shipped out to a background thread. JS is weak in that respect.

Moving everything to a background thread does fix that problem, but I think it’s overkill. A lot of mobile apps would be faster and more responsive if they used the main thread more. You just have to use it right.
Sure you can say that now, but have you ever worked in a recession?
Banks don't lend any specific deposits. The deposit is a liability of the bank. The deposited cash is an asset. When the bank makes a new loan, they create both a new asset (the loan) and a liability (the deposit of the funds lent). The existing savings account isn't part of the new loan.
> And for monetary purposes, savings accounts are checking accounts

There are different definitions of money and saving accounts are included in M2 (“money and close substitutes”) but not in M1.

What about time deposits? For short maturities they are included in M3. And what about longer term depositss? Are banks creating money when they lend those out?
I'd be happy with the leaders of those countries being told to sit in a corner and shut up until they could stop encouraging violence.

That wasn't my point though, and I'm pretty sure you know that.
I love people/street photography, would you mind sharing the poster?
I think most people can see that there's a huge gulf between "everything is lawful" and "the government regulates ideas and risks doing so in their favor".

Most people accept that you cannot say "how unfortunate it would be for him if Jack ate seafood tonight" to your Mafia henchmen. Nor can you say "we will storm parliament at dawn using these weapons" if you are part of a plot to replace the state with a capitalist anarchy.

And in the same manner, it seems that there are plenty of laws in place already against saying "if white people are to defend ourselves and survive as a race, our immune system must go to work" in an 8chan manifesto.

But that's different than saying "Jack has betrayed me", "representative democracy is defective and must be replaced by capitalist anarchy" or "the white race is superior; non-whites are traitors and should be dealt with harshly; vote for me".

(Whether a text advocates violence cannot necessarily be reduced to a few words, as I hope my first example demonstrates. The context in which the words are uttered and the interpretation the speaker can reasonably intend are relevant. Fortunately, no legal system has been replaced by a computer program, but are generally interpreted by intelligent human beings.)

Free speech absolutism was never intended by the Voltaire or the American founding fathers - as can be seen by their other actions. It is a recent populist view without warrant of careful analysis. I support free speech; but I do not support free speech absolutism.
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Ditto from Kentucky.
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Most people who use StockX buy limited release sneakers that you can no longer get via retail. Prices go up and down depending on demand and scarcity (think eBay.) It may seem silly, but certain designs can go for a lot of money ($1,000+).
Plotly has very robust static image export capabilities, meaning you can create an interactive vis for yourself in a notebook, and embed it in an app if you like, and then use the same tools to create publication-ready export in SVG, EPS, PDF, PNG etc.

Here is the relevant documentation: https://plot.ly/python/static-image-export/
I went through yoga teacher training recently. One of my instructors mentioned they think yoga instruction will be difficult to automate because students show up for a personal connection and not just fitness. I think this is an interesting perspective. Especially considering that you can already find instruction on YouTube, yet in-person instruction is still popular.
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I've noticed Amex has already reacted to this.

- mobile app improvements with effortless freeze/cancellation/card reorder

- great integrations in iOS/macOS

- even the metal credit card that is very similar to how the physical apple card has been described

For now the rewards program I'm works well for me and exceeds what Apple has announced; but Apple's is the next best option. One good thing with Apple Card is that by being in the MasterCard network, it can be good for those places that don't take Amex.
> Coherent UI is a very important point to users IMO. Users can assume that some special feature from App X will also work on App Y.

If you’re talking about macOS, then I agree with you, that’s something I cared about when I was using Apple’s OS. Recently I moved to Windows for my personal machine, on this system you really don’t have coherence between applications, even between things developed by the same company or for applications tightly coupled with the OS! It’s just a big mess where each interface has its own set of rules incompatible with others. I would understand if people more familiar with Windows don’t care at all about the overall coherence given how random things seems to be.
At best those examples are misleading.

The article ignores the R&D which often happened at private institutions and cherry pics the first use or minor refinement that occurred at a government facility.
I don't take the "dancing with Molly" as a blow-by-blow, more like an acknowledgement of a certain activity. But I wouldn't take acknowledging that you had sex to be trashy if relevant to the conversation. But the the interviewer made the dancing response relevant when they asked if they did anything noteworthy over the weekend.
Flawed comparison. Nothing 8Chan did or possibly could do would result in service disruption to other Cloudflare customers.
Gun control is necessary to avoid a lot of the smaller scale problems - accidental gun deaths, suicide, violent revenge, robberies, etc.

But for anything serious like terrorist attacks, it won't make much of a difference. Guns come in through criminal networks anyway (as in Europe). Norway has gun control laws, yet Breivik was still able to kill nearly 80 people regardless. Vehicles have proven to be decent weapons to kill many people with. 9/11 used airplanes and improvised knives to kill thousands.

Gun control will not fix the underlying issues behind mass shootings and while discussing it has to be done, it won't make the problems causing things like this to happen stop.
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Lets drink to its health/resurgence.

I am an more on the applied maths camp rather than the CS camp but I feel a practical and effective merger of logic and probabilistic reasoning is sorely needed to climb out of the rut we are in.

Neural Turing is all nice and dandy but it seems a very heavy handed way of expressing/learning dependencies.
Mass shootings are a meme in the United States, like a sort of cultural epidemic. You fight epidemics with techniques like quarantines to stop the spread, medicine to help those that are already infected, and inoculations for people who haven’t been.

I think the quarantine is for information in this case. Instead of breathless, stop-the-world coverage of these events, treat them like traffic accidents: “22 people were murdered by a white supremacist terrorist in an El Paso Wal-Mart this afternoon. Now here’s Bob with the weather.”

Gun buyback programs are 1 kind of medicine. Some people won’t take it, but we should try. Maybe we can institute some kind of guns-for-Medicare program (only sorta joking).

Gun control legislation is the inoculation. I don’t think we can get to full-on prohibition in the US without repealing the 2nd amendment, but we can implement licensing and registration requirements and longer waiting periods.

We also need to improve the existing systems. The ATF has a “gun registry”, but it’s not a searchable database. See https://www.thetrace.org/2016/08/atf-non-searchable-database...
Mighty matplotlib isn't going away any time soon, but just because Plotly makes interactive plots, it doesn't mean you can't also

a) customize every aspect of the chart, from the fonts to the length of the axis ticks to the legend placement etc (see the full list of thousands of available customization attributes here: https://plot.ly/python/reference/)

b) export to raster or vector formats for publication (https://plot.ly/python/static-image-export/)

c) use high-level grammar-of-graphics-inspired tools like https://plotly.express/ to create complex charts in a single line of code.
is this why bitcoin is mooning?
There is a cardinal difference in the US between speech related to public interest, such as anything that has to do with politics, religion, military actions, and speech that's only about private matters, such as whether or not your neighbor has a perverted sexuality. The second category is not nearly as protected as people usually think it is.
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Well, the official rule says "no". But we can never know if @dang had secretly granted it. It's what makes HN having a bit of mythical fun ;-)
Optimization is an easy trap to step in. You can take it up in other layers aswell, optimizing your choices about the choices to optimize | Ad infinitum.

At some undefined point you may realize that you are trying to solve an undecideable problem. You can spend an infinite amount of time, and not get an answer.

You cannot build an algorithm to determine the amount of time that an arbitrary problem can be solved in, or if it's solvable in the first place. You must make a choice based on imperfect knowledge.
The cost of tariffs is always split between suppliers and consumers, roughly in proportion to the elasticity of demand.
Responding to emails quickly may make the other person happy, but it will create a mechanism that will interrupt you regularly. Peter Drucker - an author who has written many books about management - says that you need large amounts of uninterrupted time to get work done.
This isn't the first post of TS either, but it looks like it is his first successful one.

FWIW, had a few failed "Show HN's" myself. You certainly need a certain amount of luck in order to get enough upvotes to be noticed.
Unless any of the people who were killed in El Paso were Cloudflare customers
I can't speak for Europe, but rising fascism movements in the US are entirely riding a wave of anti-PC, fake news, and grassroots social networks, all under the guise of free-speech. I won't argue that these mean free speech must be restricted necessarily, but its absolutely clear that free-speech is enabling these particular movements.
If there's a 'suggestion box', I suggest to make part 2 about greediness
I’d be more interested in reading the privacy policy, as that is where I think this card may have a true edge vs the competition.
> What about long-term deposits? Are banks creating money when they lend those out?

You're hanging on to the "banks lend out deposits" mental model. Stop that. The Bank of England has an accessible write-up on this: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-....

Loans create deposits. Whether those deposits then end up in a checking account through a payroll service or a vendor's savings account through a payment for goods and then transfer is irrelevant.
"battery life down from two weeks to two days on standby. People assure me it's not just my choice of model"

It's your choice of phone. I have a cheap Samsung phone for work and I don't touch it for a week at a time and it's still charged. I suspect I could get it to last longer if I disabled some of the google syncing (assistant type stuff, checking for updates etc) but it's not my phone and i'm only on support for a week at a time.
Is this the pyrethrine family? There are various wall-plug mosquito repellants that contain pyrethrines, I didn't want to use tablets/liquids etc but if they're safe they would be a lifesaver.

My flat doesn't have mesh screens and I would much rather open a window than turn the AC on at night, but I then get lots of mosquitos.
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Yeah that's a junior mistake. In this case, a person can have a solid 20+ years of great career and still do this basic mistake. World is full of people rich and poor, smart and not so much, who end up regretting their life choices when getting old.

I would say it differently though - do I have +-guaranteed massive return that over-compensates my extra effort and loss? If I get something meaningful, ie paid next 5 amazing vacations, can retire 1 year earlier, pay off massive part of mortgage or something on similar level, then I can at least consider it.
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> In the end, white supremacists and other kinds of supremacists existed before the internet. By supporting China-style censorship you're not actually eliminating those ideas, or even stopping their spread.

They existed before the internet, but the internet has given them a tool to organize that they didn't have before. And by censoring them online effectively, you take this tool away from them.

Which is exactly what happens in China. I am sure Chinese officials know ideas and philosophies spread on the mainland, but as long as the people who believe in those ideas and philosophies can't organize effectively then they can be controlled.
Flutter is not that bad. It is a step in the right direction but there are some paradigms that makes simple things hard. Animations are harder than necessary and building non default layouts requires a bit of thinking to get right.

My biggest issue is that there is still this "uncanny valley" feeling when using a flutter app. It feels much better than a react native or Cordova app, but something still feels off.

Right now it seems great for prototyping. For iOS however, I've been playing around a bit with SwiftUI which currently (even in its beta state) provides an astronomically better dev experience and user experience.
While balloons are great for experiments, I would personally advise against hot air ballooning for recreation. I (and a few other friends) all had bad experiences riding on one. We were basically transported to the emergency after "hard landing" which is actually very common in ballooning (I read a lot about it after the fact). Some serious red flags about ballooning:

- There is no set landing zone, which means they can land anywhere and it can get dangerous if you couldn't find a suitable spot (we landed in someone's backyard)

- Wind can take you anywhere, also it changes pretty fast when in an altitude and you can't control the direction, only the altitude of the balloon.

- There is no emergency equipment required on the balloon and the only thing you have is a harness to hold on to

- You need a license but the bar is pretty low

- FAA doesn't investigate the accidents, but NTSB does
Always been interested in the technical background of developers who make things I use, like Simple Analytics in this case. So it was fun to talk to Adriaan about how he learned to code without a degree.
My argument was about electric cars displacing gas. I'm curious why you think I'm talking about today, when they are 2% of the current market.

As far as the long-term prospect goes, it's very hard to say yet whether electric cars will replace enough of the gas infrastructure to drive down total oil demand.

On balance, I think not. If users were especially price conscious about their fuel usage, high-efficiency vehicles would be a bigger share of the market. They aren't. And beyond fuel efficiency, electric vehicles offer consumers very little that gas vehicles do not, and have very serious drawbacks that are unlikely to go away.

Given the current state of electric vehicle performance, vanishing tax incentives, and incomplete infrastructure. I think that the American consumer is going to pull back from this 2% dalliance with electric vehicles with its hands badly burned. It might be another generation before they make another attempt at a comeback.