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You are talking about 'dialectical statements' statements that contain an apparent contradiction.

They are not true and false at the same time, they are only commonly understood to be a contradiction, and the point of the koan or statement is to push the practitioner to is to see through the apparent contradictions.

Koans and Zen stories are a training aid, but are not a substitute for common sense.

Usually the contradiction occurs because the opposing statements come from different levels of analysis (the conventional: "I am going to 7/11 to get a drink.) the ultimate (I am just an unfolding process dependent on conditions that changes from one second to another, so in a way there is no I that goes to 7/11 ...).

The thing is, even though 'ultimate' sounds more awesome, buddhists say "I" all the time. Just the same way that engineers use classical mechanics every day for certain classes of problems, because there's no need to bring in disappearing cats and quantum weirdness for that level of analysis.

To every level of suffering, there are appropriate tools, but for some reason in the west, we often prefer to discuss complex subtle metaphysical statements we don't really understand¹, than to just go clean up the mess in the kitchen, which is a more pressing issue.

The only reason I'm even engaging in this kind of talk is to discourage others from approaching buddhism that way.

1: Because they are meant to be experienced, not thought about. Full disclosure, I only know what I don't know, and I don't fully understand them either.
have you rebutted the claim? and if so what was the response?

also we have a whole other thread on the HN front page about this RN
"Reference" is a little conservative. A majority of this post is copied right out of the Electric Power Distribution Handbook by T.A. Short.
Sure, except that in standard (metropolitan) French, "soixante-dix" is already used for 70.
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> neurodiverse individual

What does this mean?
That's not a website aimed at consumers though. All the questions they're asking should be hidden in "Other Platforms" with one giant link saying "Latest Release."

I don't care about the politics or niche between HotSpot Vs. OpenJ9, and reading the descriptions it sounds like 99% of people who don't know better want HotSpot and JDK 12, so why even ask these questions?

That website is a perfect showcase of why OpenJDK isn't popular. Oracle's consumer experienced is ten times better: https://www.java.com/en/
An excellent article you wrote. Great with all the details.
Whats your logic on hurting the authors more. You can either buy the book or buy the audio book, someone is buying the book and having a separate technology read the book they bought with the fact that not every book has an audio version. So this opens up the possibility that authors without an audio book can still sell their digital copies to people with text-2-speech opening new point of sales to people who buy audio books.

That logic is the same as if you bought the digital book and printed it and the publisher suing you because it hurts their physical sales. If you buy a book it should be a license to print, translate, and text-2-speech, or whatever.
Voting irregularities are pretty standard in Russia, lots of international observers and reports have established it. Opposition candidates are regularly jailed, major protests and civil actions are suppressed, and if you really get under the Kremlin's skin, you find yourself assassinated or thrown out of a window.

Putin's Russia is a very blatant authoritarian regime.
What can I say? You definitely make a valid point.

Living in Zurich, I have to admit that such considerations don't really play a role. But yeah, there are other places where even bus drivers get robbed.

As a side note: The famed coffee shops must have quite advanced logistics, since they (at least I assume so) mostly deal in cash and present a juicy target since there must be a lot of it.

It's weird: Nowadays I visit Amsterdam for museums and culture, not for coffee shops. So what do I know? :)
Meta: Where's the manual for administrating Moscow's elections? What portion of election administration was this applied to?

Thru recurring embarrassment, I've learned that you start with the jurisdiction's laws, rules, procedures, manuals.

Update: Julia Krivonosova, cited by this OC paper, appears to be doing excellent work, and does cover some of the context, assumptions. She'd definitely a better election integrity advocate than I ever was.

Internet voting in Russia. How? https://medium.com/@juliakrivonosova/internet-voting-in-russ...

The Dizzying Whimsy of Russia’s Electoral Laws
https://medium.com/@juliakrivonosova/the-dizzying-whimsy-of-... https://www.ridl.io/en/the-dizzying-whimsy-of-russias-electi...

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It's possible (however unlikely) that a voting system built on top of Etherium is perfectly reasonable for Moscow, Russia, where ever.

Even in the USA, where the Australian Ballot (private voting, public counting) is the gold standard, there are many, many exceptions (compromises made). For very good reasons. For instance, postal balloting. Originally implemented to enfranchise soldiers kept away from their homes for long durations.

Further, even in the USA, YMMV. Local variations impact election administration. For instance, how "voter intent" is adjudicated (when a mistake is made by the voter).

If we don't start with the context and assumptions, we end up talking past each other, and getting no where.

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Though I am a blockchain skeptic, for voting and tabulation, there are other exciting potential applications. Election administration is a big, complicated problem. While tabulation is the most important step, it's also relatively minor.

Since blockchain is just a shared ledger, it could help with pretty much every other step: candidate filing, political boundaries (GIS), voter registration (eligibility), reporting campaign contributions and expenses, publishing reports (certification), audit of material handling. Etc.
I think it's fascinating how all these fast-food chains are jumping on artificial meat. It makes perfect sense: meat is expensive and difficult to work with, so low-cost chains like these have been serving really disgustingly low-quality meat for quite some time now; in some cases it could barely even be called meat.

Plant-based meat, on the other hand, can be both cheaper and less gross at the same time, and it might help them cut down on calories and improve their health image.

I wonder what impact it'll have on climate change when McDonalds stops buying real beef.
Absolutely none. I'm surprised the controllers at SpaceX would even allow it.
This is everything to do with the DMCA. YouTube claims it is required by law to take down content that receives a takedown notice. That law is the DMCA. Edit: I'm probably wrong. It seems a claimant can also issue a block. They do not have to issue a takedown notice. That seems to be the problem right there!!

(However) I find it really difficult to believe the claimant in this case has no control over what YouTube does, as they have previously claimed. It may have been Content ID that got the identification wrong, but the claimant should not issue a block if it is a false claim.

Anyhow, Rousseau found a way around it by uploading a new version that received a copyright claim from a different company, instead of a block. He'll still have to go through the dispute process, at least we can watch the video because YouTube is not obliged to (and does not) take down the video.
It usually means someone on the autism spectrum. People not on the spectrum are called "neurotypical".
Ask HN: Remote engineer or contractor? A nuanced hiring situation
Joanne is a rockstar SW engineer in Canada, working as a contractor for several years bringing in ~$150k annually. The Boston-based startup Foobai want to hire her as one of the first few engineers. They've agreed to the following comp: $90k salary, 2% equity. The salary isn't quite enough to support herself financially, so Joanne wants to pick-up a side gig. Foobai agrees to this, as long as Joanne fulfills her responsibilities. Some questions:

1. Should Foobai hire Joanne as a contractor or an employee [1]?

2. Are health and other insurance benefits given to independent contractors?

3. How are those benefits given to international employees/contractors?

[1] https://gusto.com/blog/hiring/hire-employee-or-independent-contractor
At least in the US when Ellis island was one of the main processing centers for immigrants we would anglicize names. But over time that changed and now we keep the spelling of the original/source language where possible. Of course things become complicated when we go from non-alphabetic languages to English and vice versa. Ex a last name “Guo” can have multiple transliterations: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo and getting your English (or alphabetic) name rendered in ideographs or characters can be quite challenging. Often it’s easier to just adopt s local name.
You already know that ìn` will return either `true` or `false`. Why use `==` which will convert data instead of `===` which will test for a boolean directly?

Ignore the symbols and use the words. Which makes more sense to you?

"[My test] strictly equals true." or "[My test] loosely equals true."
>You're taking an example from the world of rivalrous goods and trying to apply it to the world of non-rivalrous goods (where supply is no longer a factor).

Read demand as "people wanting the stuff" as opposed to "people wanting the stuff versus available stuff". I'm not talking about the law of supply and demand, but of, let's say, "willingness to pay to get the thing if no other way is available" (even if it's just for legal reasons that no other way is available).

>You then try to reframe copyright, from "Copyright is forcing consumers to overpay for some things" into (paraphrasing) "Anyone complaining about the current state of copyright law[1] is trying to force artists and publishers to live in poverty."

Nope. In fact I wouldn't care if some artists and publishers lived in poverty.

What I argue (and this is not about personal preference) is that the transaction is:

(a) publisher has something another person wants, sets price

(b) said person can buy it or not

We can imagine a setup that's just based on somebody owning the sole ability to sell a thing and its digital copies, and demanding whatever for it.

Scarcity, marginal cost of copy, etc, don't need to come into play.

People who is only authorized to sell gets to set whatever terms, even if those terms are "I want people to pay twice if they want the text version and the audio version" or even crazier.

That's the reality (and, more or less, the law).

We could make it like "Everybody is authorized to make as many digital copies as they want, for free, redistribute them, even put their names on the work" if we wanted.

It's not something set in stone, it's only set in the interests of publishers and in law. And while we can argue that the interests of creators are not the same, most creators tend to just sell their rights to/go along with the publishers, so the point is moot from a legal perspective.

>Which is mostly the result of a century's worth of lobbying by IP holders with little to no effective counter-lobbying by consumers.

Well, in life people don't get what the want/need/deserve. They get what they've managed to negotiate.

If consumers don't counter-lobby/protest/break some heads they'll get the laws ip-holders want.
Germany or Italy did pretty well, though. And Russia never considered itself just some one other country. Comparisons have always been with "Europe".

Not to say that say Mussorgsky (as mentioned somewhere above) isn't a top-notch composer, but if you have, as your comparatives, Dostoyevsky vs. Dickens (for example) or Mussorgsky vs. Wagner, you'd probably pick Dostoyevsky...
That sample size is better than most or all main stream polls.
More like Parse (since bought out by Facebook).
There are alternative JRE/JDK distributions, including Coretto (Amazon), Zulu (Azul), OpenJ9 (IBM), AdoptOpenJDK (jClarity/Microsoft).
Just a hypothetical
Agreed. It's going to take awhile for the search indexes to start offering better OpenJDK sources. As Oracle has moved its version of the JVM to a paid/registration model, the marketing and awareness of other alternatives are somewhat catching up.

So here you go:

AdoptOpenJDK - supported by a number of commercial companies and individuals committed to keeping the OpenJDK environment easy to use and integrate. Get your Mac, Windows and Linux JVMs here. https://adoptopenjdk.net/

Redhat - Maintaining the JVM long term support versions for their distributions, which includes inclusion by CentOS, etc.

Apt/Debian/Ubuntu - I'm not totally sure who is maintaining the Apt version, but Ubuntu and others have the LTS version of the JVM available as well.
There is a huge difference between risky and dumb. If you create different legal entities then you do so for a reason: to ensure that if one tanks it doesn't bring the rest down. Tying them back together in this way risks all of the companies with none of the benefits of having them all under one legal entity. Besides that it opens you up to minority shareholder lawsuits that have a very high probability of sticking. Musk is a genius but more and more of his moves are showing a disconnect that makes no sense to me.
Only managed to find that one, offline page. You can click an arrow pointing up (/abc.htm) on this weird google translate/archive.org contraption to reach index.
It's always kind of interesting to look at a document created by the tool it's describing.
I can't find the article right now, but I remember reading an article many years ago on Wired about the Obama campaign and their use of targeting and "big data". Really interesting stuff about how they were buying TV spots and the Romney campaign couldn't figure out why, and how their use of technology was a massive advantage.
Outsourcing 101
Rabbit holes and their implications aside...

As a software engineer, a part of me has died because of the hardcoded strings (in the pam_motd.c patch). Why aren't these defined as constants in the header file?

Hopefully there's a good reason...
Privilege escalation is the biggest issue I think. Users on modern systems don't actually run as admins by default which makes it much harder for malicious software to compromise the entire system.

Consider the average user. You can remove almost all malware and viruses because they only install and run with user permissions. Without spectre mitigations, it wouldn't be very long before all that malware was installing itself at deeper levels where the only solution is blowing everything away completely.

I'm sure there is also a DRM argument somewhere for people who like that kind of thing.
I don't think it's so much that the algorithms aren't smart enough to tell, it's that Google have had to make the algorithm still match in the case of people altering music with filters/effects, time stretching, pitch shifting etc. - so it's been made deliberately a lot less sensitive to most of the factors that a musician brings into their interpretation.

That's fine - it's probably necessary for Google to not be constantly dragged into the courts by actual infringement slipping through with small alterations. The issue is that there is absolutely no recourse for an incorrect match. There's no option to say 'no, the algorithm is wrong' or 'the claimant has made a false claim' - the nearest option is to claim fair use, and that kicks it back to the claimant to be able to lie again if it was fraudulent, with no fear of consequences.

There needs to be some process where it can be appealed to a human. I think the best way I have seen suggested is to stake a small amount of money on it to have somebody review it - say, $15 from each party, and then you lose it if it's ruled against you, or get a refund if you win. That should easily pay for half an hour of somebody's time, so they could hire staff to do it.

If the claimant lost and still didn't agree, it could be escalated to DMCA, where there are potential penalties for fraudulent claims (even if it doesn't happen much).
TL;DR

"The film gives an inordinate amount of attention to Brittany Kaiser"

True. But still I like the movie, since it gives a great platform to discuss the issues at hand with people who are not 100% into the subject.
I install mine via brew, but IIRC https://sdkman.io should easily solve this too.
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And if the story was made into a movie at some point, they're screwing you by not throwing that in as well? What about other languages?

The product isn't the story by itself.
> Literally no one has a problem pronouncing yet another great Czech: Dvořák

I know exactly how I pronounce it, but it wasn't until your comment that I realized that I have no idea whether I'm doing so correctly or not.
A risky move to save the investors in the company. If SolarCity had gone bankrupt, Tesla could have scooped it up for a bargain price. Elon Musk also happened to be the largest investor and chairman of the board of that company. Bad for Tesla, good for Musk.
>A company that was founded based on his suggestion, with his financial and leadership support. He was there from day zero.

And that's part of the huge conflict of interests being discussed here. The process didn't start with Tesla execs saying "hmm, we should acquire a solar company, let's look at a dozen potential targets and see which one is the best fit." It started with SolarCity needing a bailout and Musk finding a way to justify it as supposedly in Tesla's interests. Tesla could have waited for SolarCity to go under and bought the assets and tech for much less, without the broken business model attached, but instead it overpaid in order to let Musk's family save face (and have a payday).
> That's not a website aimed at consumers though.

Java isn't aimed at consumers, either.
Programming Languages of the Future
Yeah, I do the same thing with my Korg Kaossilator. For ~$100 (I have the original, not the updated one), you get a phrase sequencer that just about anyone can learn enough in about an hour to be able to generate their own ambient music.

I feel like music education for children starting with pianos, guitars, and recorders is backwards. Get them playing music first. The interest in instruments will come.
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Well, I'm not a native speaker. All I can say is it was crystal clear to me when I began learning English at age ten.
The physical book example is not a reasonable comparison because you could probably buy a readable, non-waterlogged copy (or alternative physical format) on amazon for less than the retail price. That option is not available for ebooks or audio books, since they're licensed not owned. And licenses for ebooks are unilaterally dictated because of the copyright monopoly.

You want a normal copy of the ebook? Pay $10.

Typeset in Arial? Another $10.

Typeset in Comic Sans? Another $10.

Voiced by a free TTS engine? $20 because our market research indicates people pay more for audio books.

The logical way to approach this is that if a product can be automatically converted from one format to another, getting both formats should cost the same as getting the source format, or at most the set should include a marginal fee for the use of the conversion technology development costs + marginal compute costs).

But of course publishers aren't going to do that. That reality, however, is not a defense of the status quo; rather, it's an argument for copyright reform.

Copyright monopoly forces people to pay again and again for "multiple bites at the apple" for purely-digital products that have no secondary market. They're even more arbitrarily priced than normal IP goods like paper books and CDs and DVDs which at least had secondary markets.
They also appear to budget $0 for a home charging station, which means either you're doing all your charging at Tesla chargers, are lucky enough to have a charger at work that is regularly available, or charging at home via a very slow 1-2kW outlet.
Funny thing that I heard recently. McDonalds is the greats buyer of chicken in the US. Quite surprising, considering they don't even have that much chicken in their menu.
Simply because I like simple and little things (to not call it framework) like Flask.
I did some other projects with, like for example: https://shelter-database.org/ (https://github.com/rodekruis/shelter-database)

Before I was working with CherryPy. I switched to Flask like 6 years ago.
US spies Mossad as well.
Evident huh? Your HN must have features mine doesn't.

"Add an injust healthcare system, that can bankrupt anyone in the lower class."

Nice word salad - full of garnish and color that ultimately provides little nutrition.
From the Wikipedia article:

"According to the CBO, between 1979 and 2011, gross median household income, adjusted for inflation, rose from $59,400 to $75,200, or 26.5%.[18] However, once adjusted for household size and looking at taxes from an after-tax perspective, real median household income grew 46%, representing significant growth."
Spies are needed because humans engage in war. You can't eliminate war without eliminating or subjugating humankind's A) competitive nature and B) very basic, primitive instinct to engage in tribalism and defend ones own tribe against others.

I like what Sun Tzu says about it.

"Sun Tzu said: Raising a host of a hundred thousand men and marching them great distances entails heavy loss on the people and a drain on the resources of the State. The daily expenditure will amount to a thousand ounces of silver. There will be commotion at home and abroad, and men will drop down exhausted on the highways. As many as seven hundred thousand families will be impeded in their labor.

Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity.

One who acts thus is no leader of men, no present help to his sovereign, no master of victory.

Thus, what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.

Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men.

Hence the use of spies..."
She's got you covered:

"Musk’s believers argue that the details of his ventures don’t matter: It’s the grand vision that counts. “The guy has a will to make stuff happen that is extraordinary,” says someone who worked closely with Musk. “He willed Tesla to happen. And in willing a reality into existence, he might not stick to the facts.”"