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I have no problem with it, I just don't consider it a good argument for basic income.
My experience in avoiding C# GC comes from XNA era when Microsoft had this shitty .NET runtime for XBox 360 allowing anyone to develop for it - the GC was so bad you had to be very very careful to avoid it and stuff like using foreach would allocate (AFAIK nowdays it can optimize it away in some cases but not in all and you still need to know when if you want to avoid allocation). People wrote code which avoided GC but it looked nothing like C# and in fact was more verbose than something like Rust or C++ and you were in uncharted territory since no allocation programming is not really C# thing and using high level features would just lead you into invisible traps. So you ended up using preallocated arrays, static functions, globals, etc. etc. in a language with poor generics (you can't even specify an operator as a generic constraint), no top level functions, etc. etc.

I've kept track of .NET progress since then and read about stuff like Span and ValueTask, ASP.NET Core team perf did a good job leveraging those for optimisations (eg. their optimised JSON parser) in such scenarios I agree C# with low level stuff sprinkled in is a good choice

But if your problem domain requires avoiding GC throughout and having better understanding on what the abstractions will compile to pick a language thats designed for that. It's like when I had to review some Java 6 code which tried to work around the fact that Java doesn't have value types with byte arrays - it was just soo bad compared to even C equivalent it was better to rewrite and go trough JNA.
Based on this, they might not even realize they are downloading this stuff ...
Until you try and watch them on a 4k screen. Somehow the same discs come out looking worse than they did on the 1080p I had just couple months ago. I blame the high refresh rate and questionable upscaling.
Yeah, I was wondering who would call me out on that! I'm not aware of any good studies that compare addiction vs. pseudo-addiction.

It's definitely not obvious, because a lot of doctors were convinced to the contrary.

By the way -- I'm not saying those individuals in the article aren't important, but whitewashed "case studies" that are full of snark and biased language and have no sources or timeframes, are not the best sources of evidence. In particular, the "pain management" space is rapidly evolving in the US and without timeframes, many of those anecdotes have negative utility.

I'm not saying "pseudoaddiction" doesn't exist, obviously, but we need statistical arguments that are more nuanced than "does it exist or not."

edit: I'm realizing that my understanding of this debate is out of date. So I'd like to apologize if my stance seems insensitive to what's going on right now w.r.t. opioid prescriptions. My gut feeling is that addiction is a bigger problem, but that varies depending on how freely opioids are prescribed. If opioids are under-prescribed then pseudoaddiction becomes a larger problem, for sure. Being dumb, I just assumed they were still being over-prescribed...
Graduating university does not an intellectual make.
As an Iranian-Canadian, it breaks my heart to hear this.
I wish our country would have welcomed you with open arms.

I know first hand how wonderful Israelis are, I have worked with plenty of talented Israeli software engineers as well as Jewish only owned companies.

I can only hope for a future where our two countries can work hand in hand and collaborate. Perhaps my I am naive in thinking this but what else is there as opposed to strive for a better future?
The show may be set in nyc but is about interpersonal relationships that can apply anywhere.
I'm on Android and bluetooth works fine in my car, with all the limitations that bluetooth has.

I use a headphone jack for headphones because I'm an audio snob and it's much better audio quality with zero latency, I can use quality headphones, and I don't have to charge another thing. Bluetooth is a step backwards.

pros of headphone jack:

much better audio quality, zero latency, lighter headphones, one less thing to charge every day

cons of headphone jack:

a wire

For me it's no contest, and there's no reason we can't have both.

I definitely won't be buying a phone without a headphone jack, and the suggestion that I have to make that compromise is stupid.
I've never worked for a marketing company and I hope never to! I probably work a lot less than I theoretically could as a result.

Re nonprofit work - actually I should probably push harder on that. I reckon I could do some work on the side for free or at a reduced rate, but identifying local businesses that need that help is difficult (I'm not the kind of person to just rock up and be like, 'hey, want some computer stuff guys?') :P

Which brings me to a good point, actually. I personally think that - in the social circles I'm in anyway - the barrier for most people to doing stuff like all of the potential job ideas people have posted here - is not money, but will.

Because it's actually really hard. I have enough savings to not really need to think about immediate profit. But formulating a plan, getting up every morning, working towards it, having enough fun that you don't burn out, eating well, doing all of that stuff at the same time is actually _really difficult_. The structure of a stable career, as stifling and frustrating as it can be, is really helpful to a lot of people.
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The dongle is completely unacceptable to me. First of all, there is a 100% chance that I will at some point forget it at home or lose it altogether, and then be unable to use my headphones altogether. That's a dealbreaker.

Then there's the sheer inconvenience of carrying it around. I only have three things in my pockets: wallet, phone, keys. It takes less than a second to ensure that I have all three of those things on me. If I now have to dig past my wallet to the bottom of my pocket to make sure a little dongle is in there, that is dramatically worse.
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It's not that climate change deniers or anti-vaxxers are themselves improving science, it's that their existence forces scientists to up their game. If you know that someone is going to question your findings, you tend to work harder to ensure that you're actually saying something true and there are no holes in your reasoning. This holds even if those people never actually question your findings - even if you never interact with them at all. The benefit is all because of your own self-criticism.

It's like how competition tends to make companies provide better service, even if the competition never actually steals a single customer away. The fact that it could changes the incentives in a way that makes you do your job more rigorously.
None. Be unemployed and do what I feel like doing at that moment. I think it would mostly be traveling, living in lavish hotels and sleeping with high end hookers.
In Florida, drinking water [0] uses approximately as much water as agriculture [1]. By far the biggest use of water in Florida is "thermoelectric power" (burning things to generate steam, presumably), which is more than domestic and irrigation combined.

[0] There is no distinction between potable water that is ingested as opposed to used for showering and washing dishes, though.

[1] https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2018/3035/fs20183035.pdf
Yes, it is possible to get 600Mbps from LTE, but you need lots of mid-band spectrum - the US operators are quite challenged in that respect, plus CPE capable of carrier aggregation + higher MIMO ('flagship' smartphones generally).

This article provides a good overview of how the Telstra deployment works: https://cellularinsights.com/telstras-gigabit-class-lte-netw...
I agree. My answer needed more qualifiers.
"fed" is the word that is offensive. The notion that Trump supporters repeat lines that are fed to them like an actor on a stage, rather than analyzing different explanations and coming to a conclusion on which one was most accurate. Reinforced by "common sense easily precludes"
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"walk like dicks" is an amusing typo...
I appreciate the response!!
It is wonderful to hear about the evolution of your process, thank you :)
>As written, that seems awfully broad

That's a feature not a bug. It provides cover when "good people" do it and an opportunity to use the courts to get your way when "bad people" do it.
That’d reduce rural voting strength from ridiculously outsized to a bit less outsized making influencing our politicians a lot more expensive.

It’d be great for the vast majority of Americans but is probably unlikely to happen because the people spending the most money will convince the primarily poor and less well educated rural populace that they’ll be giving up their votes and it’ll diminish their power despite an almost universal lack of satisfaction with our Congress among Americans of all shades and stripes.
I doubt OP is referring to the startups from 50+ years ago, and is much more likely referring to startups from the past 15 years.
llvm-go is checked into the (recently unified) llvm repo now, so I think that it's official now. They do lag behind though.
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I don't think that statement makes any sense. Why do honest people need anything to keep them honest?

Probably something more like: locks marginally aid in diverting lazy / opportunistic thieves.
I'm a Rust evangelist too but I think it's going a bit too far to blanket recommend Rust and Go over C++ and Python. Python in particular is still an excellent language and there are many situations where it makes perfect sense to continue using it.

I can see a future where Rust and Go overshadow Python but that future isn't near. Python still has superior libraries for many use cases, a great community, easy to learn syntax, and little training requirement (most people know it or can become proficient in a very short time). Moreover with the type annotations and linting tools it's becoming a lot easier to write a large and maintainable Python codebase.
Airbnb + Uber = All Startups
There is no such thing as a "Jewish Nation".

In Jewish religion, erudition is held in high regard, and in some Jewish communities that carries over to intellectuals as well; but - in some, it's the other way around, i.e. intellectualism is considered straying from focus on religious studies to pursuing Gentile (non-Jewish) thought and life.

... and that's not to speak about the anti-Intellectualism Israel is rife with, these days.
The purple states are much better since all the politicians are on thin ice at all times.
At that time, software engineers were (at least where I live) almost exclusively uni physics and math grads. I would not say 3x (some more some less) but they were well paid.

Anecdotal; I started out with the same freelance rate, in numbers, per hour in the 80s as I have now; so that misses all inflation and the change of our currency to euro. So I make (if I would work as a freelance software engineer, which I usually do not anymore) vastly less than I did then for the same work.
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I... don't want to be negative, I like new languages, but I can't help but feel underwhelmed. I guess I just don't understand how this meets the goals that were talked about in previous posts (or how it allows development "without accidental complexity"). I don't understand how this makes things easier and I guess when they claimed that deployment is super fast, I didn't realize they meant to infrastructure under their control. Besides the problems other people mentioned (vendor lock-in[1], non-open source programming language, few details on security), being limited to deploying on their platform, while not that unexpected and I certainly understand it, is not what I'm looking for in a programming language. I also don't really like the "HTTP is the FFI" aspect.. even in mainstream languages with fantastic library support, I find myself reaching for FFI (or libraries that themselves use FFI to wrap something else) surprisingly often. I guess this will be a hard pass for me.

[1] "We're in this for the long haul" isn't the only reason to be worried about vendor lock-in. The other reasons might be worry that the pricing changes (for the service or for support) or that their priorities change or simply don't line up with yours (eg you require a feature that they don't plan to add).
I truly believe this is a substantial part of the reason why there's such a shortage of top talent domestically in the USA. https://www.zdnet.com/article/u-s-companies-continue-to-look... . There could be much more talent unlocked if mainstream culture promoted intellectual pursuits.
Hrmph. I had done this search before and nothing came up, but when you know what city I live in you can find my address. That is annoying. Next time I buy a house I'm using a trust.
> This whole thing also sounds a lot like VW’s electric vehicle promises.

How? In 2017 Volkswagen said they'll be delivering the ID.3 in 2020: https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/videos/...

In 2018 they said production of the ID.3 would start in November, 2019: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/volkswagen-id-electric-ca...

Series production will start in November, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB5AyAAytZc

They are delivering the ID.3 in 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ex28SVZXW0

Volkswagen is meeting the targets they set for the ID.3 three years ago.
I've been quite happy with my 6s, going to replace the battery again soon. But eventually iOS updates will cease coming, yet I absolutely cannot live without a headphone jack.

Honest question: how would you even approach the Android? My smartphone is basically a more mobile extension of my laptop: sending document snapshots directly from the phone's camera to my MacOS desktop, starting iMessage conversations with anyone with a phone number on a Mac and continuing on my phone, copy-pasting from my laptop into my phone, etc.

Android seems to be designed to run in "I'm an island" mode, i.e. the phone is one and only computer a user is supposed to use. I understand that my usage pattern isn't what manufacturers (and Google) are optimizing for, but what would be the closest approximation?
I have to say that it's interesting in the way that watching something be destroyed is interesting.

Being stuck inside it is not interesting, it's horrifying and depressing.

I moved into an apartment that was built with NBN Fibre to every apartment. I moved here and paid a premium for it because I wanted to get a head-start on the FTTH rollout we were promised.

Instead of the promised ability to move just about anywhere and get the same connection quality and bandwidth options, we now have a roulette wheel where most of the options are mediocre at best.

Worse still, we paid even more for this bungled mix of copper based tech than the original FTTH rollout.
India is a difficult country for outsiders to gauge its level of intellectual culture. I know India has an ancient tradition of religious learning and philosophy based on the study of texts. It has produced 20th-century novelists that are known the whole world over. And yet when I spent a year traveling all over India, there seemed to be so few bookshops even in upper-class districts, and so little reading in public.

I could only conclude that reading and the intellectual life was the pursuit of only a small minority, but because of India’s huge population, even that small minority was large enough to be self-sustaining and make its impact, even if it was rather hidden away from sight.
Calm down there, Mother Theresa.
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The headphone jack isn't going anywhere. I'm an apple user and I'm still pissed about it.
> San Francisco voters approved Proposition C last November. A month later, Square announced plans to open a large new office across the Bay Bridge in Oakland.

When you increase taxes, you drive away people that pay those taxes.
This is the part that is questionable:

> our far-right government, which loathes and fears any technology more recent than coal & witch burning.
That’s not cost, it’s price. Prices had to be high because of the smaller market and the rampant piracy (partly, IMO, caused by the high prices)
I'm not sure I agree.

I can apply your statement to other celebrity academics: scientists, astromoners, physicists, etc. And for all of those professions I have a hard time believing that any "celebrity" (i.e. Steven Hawking, Brian Cox, Noam Chomsky) that emerges from them produces a "toxic atmosphere of fraud" or undermines the work of other professionals in the field. But it may depend on who you consider a "celebrity".
If you are using a floppy (or a DVD) nowadays, you are either a luddite or a masochist.

>if it can't work as efficiently and as compatibly as a 3.5mm jack, take it back to the drawing board until it does.

100% agree.

The fact this is even a discussion makes me weep for humanity.
"Almost everyone" working on NLP uses one of hugginface's pretrained models at one point or another, sooner or later: https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-transformers

It's so damn convenient, and so nicely done.

And they keep doing neat things like this one: https://github.com/huggingface/swift-coreml-transformers

Kudos to Julien Chaumond et al for their work!
I've been looking into Linux, but it's a nightmare to get running on a (2018) Macbook Pro. (Older years have better support through community effort). With the introduction of new chipsets, it's made it even more challenging for the OSS community to keep up. My next laptop will likely be not a MacBook, so long as I can get a high-res display.
how did YOU find out about this super-secret magical mystery court?
Is that normally freely available? Or is Apple accessing data that is publicly accessible but not meant to be shared?
Though the concept doesn't seem to appear in Markovits's book, in his LSE lecture this past May, he introduces (at about 50 minutes) the distinction between "law takers" and "law makers". This creates an interesting parallel between monopolists and political influence.

In economics, in a competitive market, both buyers and sellers are price takers. That is, the market sets the price, and buyers and sellers simply determine their spending (or selling) decisions based on this. In a monopoly market (or monopsony), the monopolist is a price maker. Total quantity is still determined by the market, but the monopoly seller or monopsony buyer can choose the price which maximises their profits. (Basic market theory, BTW, but probably not widely known outside econ majors.) There is a specific dynamic to this, and the power isn't unlimited, but it's a fundamental difference between competitive, and monopolistic / ologopolistic markets.

On to law:

The poor, the proletariat, the masses, all but the non-elites and major corporations, are law takers. The law, the rule of law, is a given. It may be contested in court, but that's about the limit of it. The wealthy, the elite, are law makers. Elite interests can, and do, specifically influence law, legislators, executives, even courts and law enforcement, to an extent. Rather than accepting law as a given, it becomes fungible. Also to an extent within courts, where the wealthy can bring to bear vastly more legal talent (much of it aimed at process complication, that is, increasing costs of prosecution or civil suits), but very much in the case of policy and legislation.

As mentioned, the idea turnes up 50 minutes into Daniel Markovits's LSE lecture. This is based on The Meritocracy Gap, though that doesn't seem to include the concept itself.

As Markovits says, the wealthy can change the rules which make it easier for them to both gain and hold wealth, in ways the non-wealthy cannot.

The Meritocracy Trap [Audio]. LSE: Public lectures and events

Duration: 1:31:17

Published: Wed, 8 May 2019 18:30:00 GMT

Episode: http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/pub...

Media: https://media.rawvoice.com/lse_publiclecturesandevents/richm... (MP3)

There's a book with a similar title, though I've yet to look at it in depth. Based on related web searches, the term seems to come into currency about 2010-2011, so timing seems about right.

Non-State Actor Dynamics in International Law: From Law-Takers to Law-Makers, by Cedric Ryngaert (2010)

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315598475
2. The touchbar is very customizeable. GoldenChaos-BTT is the best one:

https://community.folivora.ai/t/goldenchaos-btt-the-complete...
Yes, we're in agreement, I'm not saying it's a waste of time, I'm saying I'd be wasting time and fearful of touching anything without it!
The personal data of almost everyone in Ecuador has been leaked
Maybe Richard will think twice about supporting such bats*!t insane social justice warriors having now become victim to their bigotry and demonizing of his character.
A brief reminder: Whenever you publish code or documentation that might be used/scraped by the outside world, ALWAYS use a domain you own. If you're on Cloudflare you can instantly (and for free) create Page Rules to use Cloudflare as a CDN, redirect to another CDN, or black-hole or reroute traffic anywhere you want.
At this point, instead of repeatedly and cryptically referring to some secret court process that you're privy to, it would be great if you could cite a reputable source.
My point is limiting access to opioids isn't effective at treating addiction. Yet that's how our society has chosen to respond to drug addiction across the board, from opioids to alcohol.

The war on drugs doesn't work. And we've had 50 years now to see that. It's sad that the extent of our national conversation about the opioid epidemic is a soap opera about the Sackler family. There will be no front page articles on HN about actually treating addiction.
I wrote this five years ago on reddit on the same topic and it's too long to embed:

http://txti.es/ocean-acidification

TL;DR: [T]his isn’t a train that stops for anyone, regardless of all the radical idealism, all of the futurist woo, the green colored packaging or compact fluorescent light bulbs, or all of the liberal sentimentality and conservative denialism.

This is not a movie. There is not a plot line. There is no salvation at the end of the hour. You are not a survivor in the zombie apocalypse. This is real. There are no adults secretly or overtly in control waiting to step in. Superman isn’t coming to save us from ourselves. You are in the middle of an extinction event that just so happens to include you.
And yet they had a successful space program - after Stalin died in 1953 that is.
Curious if anyone else has put any thought in comparing companies like Square and Stripe to the early goals of American Express (AMEX)?

Opinion (don't read on if you are looking for hard facts):

The way I look at it, AMEX designed a closed loop payment system to easily ensure payments between customers and merchants.

Square and Stripe seem to be trying to accomplish the same goal, but in the 21st century.

Strictly calling Square a tech company, would be like calling 20th century AMEX a paper processing company--or maybe I am misinterpreting the founder's point.
And a follow-up question: Would it help? Many of the examples given were for non-addictive drugs, the deciding factor seems purely to be whether you’re adamant that you need the drug. Especially awful are the examples involving diabetics being denied insulin.
There are no Bluetooth headphones that are as good as even moderately priced analog ones, e.g. the Sennheiser/Massdrop 6xx ($200 new).
I don't remember (other than being up and to the right) and it seems not to be published.
It costs $65,000 to get a college degree in the US, how much does it cost in Germany?
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