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>Apparently, at some Chinese schools, they give all of the students an English name. Kind of like how American schools give you a Spanish name for Spanish class. His name was Adolf. I asked him if he knew any other famous Adolf's. Of course, he did.

I spent some time teaching English at a Chinese university and this just brought me back.

You see you can't just make up new words in Chinese like you can in Latin based languages. In English I could type "menseratanos" here and even though you have never seen it you can (at least try) to pronounce it based on the individual letters. But Chinese doesn't work this way since you can't make up a new Chinese sign and just expect people to know what it represents.

So to create names Chinese people combine existing words and end up with names native Americans used to have: "Grey wind", "Yellow sun", "Good Fortune" etc... Of course these all have more meaning to them in Chinese but you get the point. And therefor it is common to let Chinese people pick their own name for English class and... it is absolutely hilarious. Since they usually have as little exposure to the Western world as someone in the West has to the Chinese you will be left with a class named, and these are all real examples from my classes:

- Beyonce (for a boy).

- Vladimir

- Putin

- Vladimir Putin (would refuse to be called Vladimir or Putin).

- Fog (as in tiny water droplets)

- Adolf Hitler

- Justin Bieber

- Michael Jackson

- Morning (the time of day)

etc..

The Adolf Hitler kid I actually told to change it. When asked why he picked it he said: "he is great king". (after asking: he meant 'conqueror').

All in all living in China for a while is a fantastic experience.
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I'm in the UK, so can't legally access "raw" cannabis.

But, I recently got a prescription for Sativex, which is essentially a very expensive cannabis tincture.

My biggest issue with it is that you end up swallowing most of it - and eating cannabis is very different to smoking, as THC is metabolised to 11-OH-THC, which is much more psychoactive. I found it made me really anxious, which is not nice at all!

I've been experimenting with it, trying to ensure I don't swallow any of it. It does help with the pain, but only a little... and it impairs me in the process - it's really important to me that I can still function cognitively.

I also find the way it helps is different than opioids - it's kind of similar to alcohol, in that it's more like a distraction from the pain, whereas opioids actually negate some of the pain.

There is a lot of good evidence for cannabis helping with neuropathic pain, so I'd encourage others to try it if they legally and financially can.
There’s also gait analysis, so unless the rioters can disguise how they walk, it will be difficult to hide.
This is not my experience. My experience is that- it's a mixed bag.

I ... don't like to discuss personal medical details online of course. But, I recently had a dry cough that didn't go away after many months and I was obviously shitting bricks (though I don't smoke) so I went to my GP. She prescribed ...antacids. I left frustrated, and incomprehending, but of course she knows I have an ulcer, and it seems that the acid coming up my esophagus is irritating my vocal cords.

Note that she didn't sit down at her computer and google my symptoms or anything like that. Our meeting took all of 5 minutes (stupid NHS guidelines...) which is btw why she had no time to explain and I had to look up things myself. But she got it right. In 5 minutes time and under the pressure of a couple dozen other patients in the waiting room. It reminded me of stories about machine learning systems modelling some complex dataset and coming up with surprising results that initially leave researchers bewildered, until digging a bit reveals the accuracy of the model.

Perhaps teaching medical students rather than practicing yourself is skewing your view a bit (you didn't say you are actually a doctor though)? I have respect for doctors' intuition, but maybe, on my part, I'm just impressed because of my own lack of knowledge.

On the other hand, another doctor I see for a chronic condition I don't want to discuss online is completely useless and has all the intuition and skill of a boiled piece of cabbage. But that's not a tale for HN.
Ive got about 150 pieces of carrot...

because i know that 73 is close to 75 and i know that 2*75 is 150

chunking and rounding likely involved.
I guess we can sum it up as "it can't replace everything (yet)".
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They've already shipped dev kits (like Purism), and they're building on a platform they already understand (previous ARM boards).

They've also made what I think is the sensible decision to focus on producing open hardware, and leave the problem of software to the community.

Why do you say they have different audiences?
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Would be awesome wearing that to a job interview then casually explaining he made it himself
Agreed, but this is something that I suppose will be determined in the future proceedings. So it is incorrect to say "Wright is ordered to hand over $5bn". To be fair, the headline states "up to $5bn" which is technically correct but still misleading because this "up to" part is not something that one notices immediately :)
Leaps and bounds better, or just a much more complicated process? Because I'd put a butcher that I know and trust, and my own judgement in food preparation, ahead of any fast food supply chain process, and the same goes for any well-regarded restaurant with a basically competent chef.

So... do they have a way crazier quality control process? Absolutely. Will the result be better food safety than the Michelin-starred place down the street? Not a chance.
Interesting how one of the main selling points of Brave, the slightly-shady crypto currency thing, is not initialized on first start (unless it's hidden deep inside some JSON or done using a different kind of network protocol).

I suppose this is because they put it behind another layer of privacy agreements and terms of service. This is an improvement from the last time I tried it. They also added confirmation that a website is actually open to receiving tokens now, that's nice as well.

If Brave wasn't Chrome-based, I would've tried it. Sadly, the world seems to be converging on Google's One True Browser Engine and I don't want to support that.
> When it comes to resource allocation, it absolutely is. There aren't infinite resources to allocate.

The pro nuclear people want to allocate resources away from fossil fuels. The pro renewables want to allocate away from fossil fuels.

Nobody has run the numbers on how much environmental damage renewables do. Given the sheer orders of magnitude involved in nuclear power, I'd bet it turns out to be more environmentally friendly even after waste is considered. It would certainly be competitive; we actually try to rehabilitate nuclear plants. Solar panels just get dumped afaik.

The pro nuclear types are just more scientific about how to get to the goal than the wind-and-solar-or-coal-before-nuclear types.
Since Facebook doesn't show you which post the users came from, it's mostly useless these days anyways.
Start menu search is garbage regardless of tinkering with those internals. Source: have had unmodified 10 for a couple of years.
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Meh. If you take the average of everybody's nose length, you still have a better estimate than just pulling a number from thin air.

Also, the inhabitants' action is basically what scientists do all the time when they run experiments. Correlation is not causation, but quite often it is a good lead.
Good thing the binary is called wtfutil because of this very reason.
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Are you referring to the behaviour described here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g4oh2GGZOsucZfT1YJ5wjDUS... (for instance using the words "guys", "stupid" and "crazy") or something else?
good pick. it's not quite the flower of life as suggested by the article. this one is a bit simpler, often referred to as the 'egg of life'.

it resembles a bit the first stages of embryonic development which is common between all humans. i think it would be a nice fit due to that as to me it's a good representation of how we all have a common start in life despite human diversity once it develops further. It's a stage from before we have our differences which separate us.

green or blue as backdrop is a good natural colour also non-specific to certain cultures. white would also be good, perhaps better as it represents light / all colours, with then the symbol being green or blue perhaps.
3 of these stories are on HN regularly, but the soviet one was new to me.

Now I wonder: what should the central planners give as metrics? Is there anything that works?
I don't understand anything at all. It seems some dev used an OK HAND emoji in some slides during some talk, and it was misinterpreted as the White Supremacist symbol or whatever.

Someone felt attacked personally, criticized it on Twitter and now everything is going downhill...
Not the U.S., random workers with no oversight.
The BBC has been blocked by the GFW since around mid-2018 when they migrated to HTTPS. The Chinese censors could no longer snoop on or selectively block the traffic.
Facebook to require buyers of political ads to provide more info about who paid
What is funny is that some powers that be really want backdoors in current crypto, because of course terrorists are stupid and will use backdoored crypto just like the rest of us.
Maybe part of that decision is because so many people pirate Windows and are unwilling to pay for it, they’re trying to earn money through advertising instead...
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If you've used Edge for more than a few minutes, it won't prompt you to "try Edge" or whatever it says.

They changed how default programs are set in Windows 10 so that malware can't change default file associations by itself anymore. That required moving away from using the Win32 API for that, and that is kind of the whole purpose of UWP-style apps and The New Settings pages within Windows 10.

MOST of Windows 10 has been thought out.
Maybe I'm missing something but what's wrong with rounding floats this way?
This is asinine, there is no "other hand" here. At +8C, most of humanity is dead. You can be "12 times richer", it won't save you or anyone else.

> and increased wealth can be used to build seawalls, sequester carbon, and implement climate control on a large scale.

This is fantasy. The elites having captured that much wealth will never give it up for free. Populations will have to take it from their dead hands, which is very costly.

Rest assured: if the status quo is not moved, there will be violent uprising from people feeling the heat (figuratively: it will be water wars and famines). The economies will tank then, with or without mitigation in place.
Wright tried to prove that he doesn't control the bitcoins he mined prior to 2013 due to blind trusts, secret sharing schemes and various other excuses. The court ruled that this story is hogwash.
This seems to be the behaviour of AWS 'rate' Cloudwatch events. Eg. rate(1 hour) or rate(10 minutes) don't necessarily run on the hour. Not sure if they're relative to when you set them up or random though.
It makes sense for people who think they can benefit from that racism, therefor serving the racist cause.
Well worth a visit if you're in or around Cambridge.

Huge props to the person in charge when we visited for letting us upstairs to their usually closed storage space with hundreds of old games, magazines, and boxes of old tech.
What's the source of that document?

I found a page[0] with more info and link references to multiple sources that seems to explain everything in detail.

[0]: https://dev.to/aryanjnyc/ken-wheeler-and-dan-abramov-deactiv...
> we have as much corruption as you

That's bullshit. There is corruption in Western countries too, but not at the same level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
"React" and "white supremacist" words in a single blog post won't deliver any good kind of discussion imho)
No, the bill is not dead. It's in stasis, but can be revived any moment. Your own link even says so explicitly: She stopped short of saying it had been withdrawn completely

Because of both the bill and the initial response to the protests, the protesters are now asking for the government (governor?) to step down. I can't say I disagree.
You have a horribly under-specced PC or something. Edge tabs load for me in around 1 second when I launch the browser cold, and I don't have a particularly powerful PC or anything.

1 second is still too much time, and 30 seconds is indicative of either an exaggeration or a somewhat severe problem.
I agree with you, but on the other hand all tech jobs appear to have a hard requirement for <x> years experience in particular languages or technologies.

I have never seen a job advert that says "we don't care what skills you already have so long as you're good at learning".

Without the right keywords on your CV there's a good chance no-one will even see your CV because it gets automatically filtered.
Chiang Kai Shek was no saint, he wasn’t pro democracy. USA pressure on Taiwan had a lot to do with how the island evolved after Chiang’s death (and his son happened to be a bit better than dad). Korea had a similar evolution, actually.

The soviets were involved in fueling both the CPC and KMT, actually, in the early days anyways. The KMT even got lots of help from Germany before they made an alliance with Japan.

While China would definitely be different, it’s not clear it would have been better.
Not trying to defend the US. Just noting that in those decades, other countries were usually even worse.
Only takes x11 color names and not hex? wtf.
Nasty history is quite often the difference between a racist value judgement and a relatively innocent statement about people.

Racists can often behind ignoring that distinction. It's called a dog-whistle.
Actually, it's not, the NPT Article IV explicitly grants access to nuclear power technology for any country that is willing to rescind any interest in nuclear weapons.

Most countries signed it.
If nothing else another player in the market is a good idea. To get government contracts, they would have had meet stringent security standards, it would interesting to know what level they are compliant to.
Obviously, number or weight of standard-compliant nails.
> In addition, foreign adversaries also hide messages in seemingly random but innocuous comments on forums and blogs made to look like real user communication but makes no sense to anyone but their intended target.

Sounds like the digital version of Number Stations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
The effects of electric battry density is cumulative. A lot of the requirements come from hauling the battery. If the battery gets smaller, you also need a lot less energy
>> Not a doctor, sorry :)

No matter. Sorry if my comment comes across as a bit stand-offish.
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In a conversation I would interpret a mention of military grade encryption as meant to defend against nation state actor adversaries who have theoretically unlimited resources to mount an attack.

In that sense, I would expect it to be much more stronger than financial grade or consumer grade encryption system where adversaries are less stronger.

Certain attacks like supply chain attacks (factory, transport etc of hardware components) or special access attacks (Certificate authorities, BGP, DNS, ISPs etc) or social attacks (patsy or spy with MICE/RASCLS) that nation state actors can pull off which others cannot (without prohibitively significant effort or negative consequences).

So, usually if someone says military grade, I would look at it as being resistant to even these threats.

Of course, it is always about the system holistically and not just the AES, RSA, SHA-2 etc algorithms.
> I use a low-end PC and can't possibly afford to run another Electron app

> That's why I created my own API request builder with pure JavaScript (I used Vue.js) + HTML + CSS

So... the only differences are not running this as a separate process and NIH?
Denpasar does flood regularly during storms. It always has.

But that aside, all aviation accounts for about 2% of global emissions, with tourism only being a portions of that. What is your basis for claiming that the only way to avoid catastrophic man-made climate change is to significantly reduce air travel? There are so many more ways to reduce emissions, with much higher ROIs, and much less economic impact. Electricity generation and land transport are so much easier to make renewable. The idea that the future of the world depends on reducing air travel is simply laughable.
Compare Hong Kong to Macau.

They are in the same position,
- Colonized by a European country and then returned to China,
- Under one country, two systems
- Speak Cantonese

but Macau’s GDP per person is almost double that of Hong Kong.

There are no protests in Macau.
I thought it offered some valid technical criticisms of React: specifically that it's over engineered and it results in a bad user experience, especially on mobile.

I thought the article offered an interesting argument that front end development has suffered from increasing over-engineering in the last decade, and this over-engineering can be explained by cultural factors and the influence of large corporations like Facebook.
Apples libc used to shell-out to perl in a function: https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libc/blob/2ca2ae7464771...
Another reason why they moved to Electron may be that Google announced [0] in 2016 that they will discontinue Chrome Apps (outside of Chrome OS).

[0]: https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...
Nothing in there can be worth being treated like a criminal, possibly detained for hours, and then being told by someone on a power trip that they don't like your social media so you're going to be sent back and potentially banned forever. Yes I'd love to visit American national parks, but I think I'll manage, there's pleny of beautiful nature in other places too.
Easily. If it is an improvement with low chances of failure and even lower of catastrophic failure, why leave all the failures to nature?

Not having, say, HIV resistance could be considered a failure of nature, a deficit.

We're not talking about frivolous modifications for no reason here.
The last Tweet in the article you link
The Party has over 90 million members.
> Happy people don't make great art.

This is kinda just a myth as far as I can tell. There is a often romanticized relationship between art and suffering, because sure, some art is created as a way to relieve suffering. But it's by no means mandatory, and at one point I've even been in the spot (like many many others) of being afraid to get help for mental health issues because of what it might do to the work I was creating. This is how the myth does harm. The longer people "trade" health for art, the more they put themselves at risk in service of this misguided idea. It's no exaggeration to say that people have died as a result of believing that treating their depression would diminish their art. A person in that situation has to win every day of their lives, while depression only has to win once.
And why is modifying a human unethical, or more so than modifying any other animal which we do all the time?

Technically, there should've been phase 1 trials. How do you propose to do that otherwise with genetic modification of germline cells otherwise?

Someone will have to be risked, like with any unproven treatments.

Either you can ban human modification on shaky grounds (not really ethics), or you will have to take that risk to just see if modification can take. There is no third way, no amount of animal studies proves the technique works in humans.

You could test it on embryos, but then you have to either kill them or are back in the same place. And it does not provide complete information - only about relatively early development.
I think Romania is a better one as an example of a dictatorship rapidly changing.
I used external services such as Sentry[0] and NewRelic[1], which allow one to access detailed debugging and performance checks on specific errors and API endpoints.

Aside from the classic print statements and grepping log files manually.

[0]: https://sentry.io

[1]: https://newrelic.com/
Why DevOps feel lonely sometimes?
liability is assumed. I speak to criminal prosecution like an impaired human driver would face in addition to financial liability. The automated vehicle would face no criminal exposure.

The company responsible would also have a clear incentive to alter/destroy any damning evidence gathered in telemetry.
Presumably lower memory usage due to not running in a separate process. On a low-end PC this is a completely valid concern. Chrome is memory hungry. Running one instance might be viable. Running 2, 3 or 6 probably isn't (and you can always choose a less memory-hungry browser).
How (not) to implement DevOps culture?
What do they see when they travel abroad though?

A large portion (if not a majority?) of those 140 million travelers go through organized tour groups, where they jump from attraction to attraction, staying half an hour or so to take pictures before rushing back to the bus to head to the next stop.

This French photographer was allowed to join such a group and it's fascinating:

http://www.slate.fr/grand-format/touristes-chinois-europe-je...

Choice quotes from the photographer (translated):

"Costs are cut on everything. For 10 days, we ate Chinese food for lunch and dinner. Before I started this project, I thought that tourists always ate Chinese food because they weren't curious. But cheap backroom cafeterias are imposed on them, where the meal (often inedible) costs 5 euros per person. We only took 10 minutes to eat, and I'd always be the last to finish. After Paris, we were supposed to sleep in the "French village" of Dijon [original is in quote because Dijon is a large city]. But the hotel was situated along the highway, at Sauvigny-sous-Bois [about an hour away from Dijon]. That night, with Lan, we decided to take two people to Relais Fleuri, a nice restaurant next to the hotel, without the guide, so they could discover French gastronomy. When we got back, the guide was really upset. The next day, I got an email from the agency saying that if it happened again, I'd be kicked out from the group."

"The majority of guides are not there to teach. When Chinese tourists go back home, they haven't learned much; in fact, stereotypes tend to be reinforced [...] a few of them complained about the [Chinese meals], and that they wouldn't visit markets, for instance, but those criticisms were very limited. It's a shame, because the only contact they have with French people is at the register, when they buy something."

"I was shocked by how resigned people were. You're not supposed to disagree with anything. The guide was considered like a boss whose orders had to be followed, and who should never be contradicted. Ours was 34 years old, and went into tourism for money. But he didn't know anything about Europe, and spent the whole time telling cliché anecdotes about cities. He even got monument names wrong! His only goal was to sell additional options, such as gondola rides, to get a bonus."
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That would be fair critic points. Unfortunately the post gets overshadowed by the authors personal opinions
Uhm, it's interesting, I see a little contradiction in your two points...
Ruby was under the delusion that the world would forgive him for it because everyone hated Oswald so much for having offed JFK. And, that he would be labeled a national hero.