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It distorts the market, leading to suboptimal allocation of resources.
That is why the importance of being terse but following the rule of not going too far with nesting and pointfree is so valuable. I don't share your difficulty to follow the flow of the program as usually the name of the function, type, and documentation say all you need to know about it.

That said, I find it difficult to follow what is happening when using several variables as you're then likely doing something wrong in the complexity of the function. A function should say much with very little and control flow should be clear instantly. The only thing outside of this would be a procedure which do-notation allows one to express.

Imperative programming is already within Haskell with do-notation an it's composition is that of imperative. Mixing functional with something else makes it much harder to make use of combinators and other forms which ends in more messy code (in my experience). If one could go pure functional without do-notation emulating the "C monoid" it would be rather nice.
North America has lost 3B birds in 50 years
IIRC Opera was planning to adopt WebKit – but when Google forked WebKit, Opera went with Blink instead.
The stated goal of Hacker News is "Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Mainstream topics allowed from any source so long as they meet that criteria or presents "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." This site has never been exclusively for technical topics. Flagging stories merely because you don't find them interesting, because they're mainstream or because they come from a mainstream site is an abuse of flagging privileges. You can just ignore such stories, hide them, upvote the content you would rather see or post more of such content.
a "real language" would be any programming language that is primarily designed and presented as a programming language.
> Does this mean the Linux x86_64 kernel could only be built with gcc before this LLVM release?

It was already possible to compile the kernel with clang/llvm. But a few releases ago, the Linux kernel dropped support for being built with older compilers which did not have support for the "asm goto" gcc extension.

The Linux kernel has always targeted gcc exclusively, and makes heavy use of gcc extensions since its very first release. The only reason clang can compile the Linux kernel is that the clang developers implemented support for the many gcc extensions the Linux kernel uses.
Yup. This is my experience. Bought a used Volt for $10k 3-4 years ago and probably have only visited a gas station about a dozen times since then.

And there's significant East Coast charging infrastructure. I bought a used Leaf (first gen, I needed 5 seats for my wife's car since the first gen Volt only has 4) for $10k a year or two ago and have used Chademo charging several times without problem. The low range of the Leafs is a little annoying, but the Chademo charging capability compensates fairly well. With a >200 mile range EV, I wouldn't even need the fast charging.

If you can charge at home, you realize how annoying it was to go to the gas station all the time. When I travel and rent or borrow a gas car, I always find it annoying that I have to go to the gas station regularly. It's just not convenient compared to just habitually plugging it in when I get home. It also smells.
This isn't how this works. Every hack is illegal unless the NSA gets proper authorization beforehand and then does not accidentally acquire any US citizens data. A "giant stash of documents" would only exisy if the NSA had gotten legal clearance for everything beforehand, it hasn't appeared because these were all illegal, and there isn't a need for more evidence to show that they were illegal.
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Just opened it again out of curiosity and the first message I got is that the Bitwarden and Pocket extensions are not supported anymore. Oh, well, as much as I'd like to use it, a desktop browser without extensions is dead to me. There are some extensions that provide me with little quality of life improvements and whatnot. Since, when I'm using my computer, I'm almost always using a browser, these things become important.

I wonder why Apple decided to axe extensions and not support WebExtensions, that at this point have become a standard shared by Firefox and Chrome. Too bad.
Sure dude:

adult lactase persistence in ancient skeletons in Northern Europe, Scandinavia, southern France and elsewhere.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/12/27/168144785/an...
> The ones that can will regardless.

This is really wrong attitude. Success sometimes depends on a small push at a particular time.
How to Adopt a Culture of Continuous Learning
The GDPR only applies to websites / companies that either have offices / legal status in a european country or that specifically target / sell to europeans (e.g. they place ads in Europe, ship merchandise to Europe, etc.). You don't need to block european countries if you have no business or interest there.
Purpose? Ultimately there is none, of course. But short term there's the prolonged existence of our species.
Sed exists everywhere for a reasonably complete definition of everywhere - if it doesn't exist then you probably don't have access to Bash (and definitely not a fully featured one)
"Demoted and sent to Alaska" is shorthand for "some non-specific shitty assignment" in this context. Nobody thinks he was literally sent to Alaska.
Ask HN: Good Go Blogs?
Any blogs you follow related to the Go language?
Better results in my opinion would be coherent gameplay.
I charge at a (pre-Amazon) Whole Foods charging station fairly regularly. I wonder if they'll integrate more charging there.
Predicting the exact timing of a recession is very hard to do. You can say there are troubling signs but I would be extremely skeptical of somebody telling me "Winter/2020" with a high degree of confidence. Meanwhile, there have been people pointing out troubling signs for several years now, and if you acted on their advice you'd have lost money, but nobody could have told you that for sure at the time, either.
There was one that was used for automation but I forgot the domain, and I feel like it was $15 a year for access and was the main indexer I used. Thanks for confirmation, I wasn't sure but NZBGeeks awesome nonetheless.
There's an RSS feed: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...
> Noone in particular. Just let the lack of food do its thing.

So the poor then?
> I don't want to believe that is what experts of the paradigm consider object-oriented programming.

Once you get to the scientific literature about the subject (where actual experts reside), it tends to be much more common to see the conclusions of "there isn't any formal difference between OOP and FP languages", or that in Haskell in particular "implements an strict superset of OOP".

The problem is that FP and OOP are ill-defined concepts.
env and sh are both POSIX but AFAIK the path is not specified for either of them. If POSIX has an opinion on how you should start a script I would be happy for a link?

Bash in RHEL is in /usr/bin and /bin as /bin in symlinked to /usr/bin. I think it is equally unlikely that RHEL (Debian, SLES..) will will move either /bin/bash or /usr/bin/env as it would break a million scripts out there.

If we should migrate to FreeBSD while, for some reason, reusing linux oriented bash scripts, changing the path to /usr/local/bin/ would be the least of my headaches.

I agree that 'env' can make good sense if you don't know who/where/when your script is used. For internal projects, I don't really see the advantage.
I know it is similar in nutrition. If it is higher environmental impact, it is simply an economy of scale/new technology problem. It will absolutely get to the point where it is a fraction of the environmental impact as beef.
I've thought as far as congestion is concerned cheap electric and self driving cars could make things worse. Especially if is as expected the price of EV's drops below the price of gasoline powered cars. Probably not that make effect in the US but in countries like India and China on the other hand.
And the Moon is 360,000 - 400,000 km away.
> It's also unlikely that all humans would die out even from severe climate change given our current technology.

Up to a point, you could artificially sustain small populations (climate-controlled greenhouses and habitation). But there's a limit. We are not able to recreate the whole biosphere yet.
People who are experts that is.
I see Amazon shipping vans in my neighborhood fairly regularly.
Artificial meat seems like a pretty exciting workaround. Beef has a feed conversion of something like 10:1. So, if you imagine a post-beef world, we will need only 10% of the field corn & soy to produce similar amounts of artificial meat. Corn, by the way, is the US's largest crop.

This has a lot of open questions around, e.g. what happens to all the corn & soy farmers. But if we're just talking about the planet's carrying capacity at Western standards of living, it seems clinch.
I write Lisp but I have no idea what /x means in the example above for instance.
I don't need to google around, I know the litterature and I know the difference between what can be speculated and what can be demonstrated :) So don't worry about that.

Fusion is theoretically possible that doesn't mean we are even close to it and neither wind nor solar will be able to deliver anything close to the amount of energy (not just electricity) we need.

Again point me to a concrete solution that is currently being developed and I will invest instantly.

With regards to climate change then, first of all, it's not going to be catastrophic not even IPCC thinks that. Second of all the climate has always been changing and giving us challenges with fossil fuel we've managed to combat most of that.

You live in a rich society BECAUSE of its use of fossil fuels not despite of it.

Nature doesn't give us a safe and friendly environment we make unsafe, it gives us a hostile and dangerous environment we then make safe.

Try and give me a single example of a scientifically demonstrated consequence of the climate changing we can't deal with today.
The Case for Encouraging Churn
Carbon Emissions Rising Despite Efforts to Reduce Them
Exactly this: we are divorced from nature.

I remember as a kid that going camping was considered an "escape from reality", which made no sense to me because of course Nature is reality and our cities are the artificial "escape".

Geoff Lawton has a quote, "You can solve all the world's problems in a garden."

It's pretty literal: food, recycling poop and pee, medicine, building materials, not to mention the peace and happiness you have caring for other living things and accepting gratefully their care of you.

It is fun and easy!

- - - -

For practical advice on what to do I recommend Toby Hemenway's videos in re: Permaculture

http://tobyhemenway.com/videos/

Especially "How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Planet – But Not Civilization" and the sequel "Redesigning Civilization with Permaculture".

Permaculture is a school of applied ecology (the word itself is a portmanteau of PERMAnent agriCULTURE) that has adherents and practitioners world-wide. It's not the only form of regenerative agriculture either.

See also https://www.greenwave.org/our-work Oceanic 3D farms! And now they are building reefs?
That's how you need to discuss this in order to get to the true cost otherwise you are making decisions based on incorrect data.

Wind can't deliver enough energy it's relying on other types. So any discussion that includes wind or solar as a solution needs to include what backup are needed and what that cost.

The reverse mind you is not true.
Evolution in the sense of natural selection is an incredibly brutal, dumb, and silly subtractive process. I urge my fellow hn commenters not to mistake this for some higher purpose or value. Its an easy mistake to make but the selection pressures that would leave some survivors of the Holocene implies no higher, better intelligence. Often it involves greedy local optimization. Roaches and rats for example are well suited to survive and although clever and resourceful they aren't exactly what might be thought of something that might lead to uberintelligence or something better than our evolutionary path.
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>Why is it that the only two people arrested are those who had the least amount of responsibility and ability to check on the authority of the State department?

That outcome is why the word "pawn" is being thrown around.
Rowing the boat got us out this far, it would be foolish to think that rowing the boat could get us back /s
> Right. Only about 1 trillion in proven reserves, a number which often increases over time due to technology and economics and exploration.

I get that, but you are claiming that the unproven reserves of one portion of the US are more than five times the current proven reserves of the entire world. Where is your evidence for that?

> We cannot rely on Peak Oil (or Peak Coal for that matter) to stop our reliance on fossil fuels and the ensuing climate change.

No, we need to stop burning them. That is unrelated to extracting them except for extraction being the first step in the process.
It's more like an international customer calling a US business on the telephone and placing an order. That's not 'serving outside their jurisdiction'.
Yes it is. I could donate the phone to my friend or someone without notice. An account's histories should be only read by their owner, at least by the whatsapp design.

I guess there should be a bug somewhere...
So, out of couriosity, how would your alternative look? Anarcho-capitalism?
BINGO!!!

Hah!
I see a lot of comments deriding this law, can someone explain to me why these are bad things? Quoting from this article - https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/28/landmark-california-privac...

- Businesses must disclose what information they collect, what business purpose they do so for and any third parties they share that data with.

- Businesses would be required to comply with official consumer requests to delete that data.

- Consumers can opt out of their data being sold, and businesses can’t retaliate by changing the price or level of service.

- Businesses can, however, offer “financial incentives” for being allowed to collect data.

- California authorities are empowered to fine companies for violations.

I totally understand that this will impact a lot of tech companies' profits...but that's to be expected if you're making money selling people's data to third parties without their permission.
It's also not technically correct. Externalities are externalities because they don't effect price while subsidies inherently effect price.
It's fair the way it is because it doesn't matter what country the people are from in the first place. I don't know how a monoculture is more diverse in this case.

It's backwards to think this is better for the people who are trying to get in from places like Europe or Canada, or even parts of Africa. They're now at the back of the line behind India and China. Nothing about this bill promotes fair diversity, or even diversity itself. Unless you explicitly measure diversity in quantity of melanin in their skin which is racist itself.
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Around three years back, if you were to ask me to build a website, I would straight up choose WordPress. Not because it was the best at it, but because it was the easiest and the cheapest way to do it.

Now, I'm not so sure.

Blogging itself is in decline and the kind of blogging experience WordPress offers is, frankly, too bloated for the average blogger
So then what’s the difference between “whataboutism” and “perspective?”

To me, OP put things in perspective.
What rare metal is needed for solar? Be specific. I believe your claim is an oft-repeated falsehood, at least about solar.
I just wanted to know what "diversity" had to do with the question, and what was meant by diversity. An overwhelming presence of one type of anything is not "diverse", but that doesn't say anything about health or fairness.

I'm not commenting on my support or opposition of the bill.
I think around 8 hours from 100% to turn off. Bear in mind the battery is 2 years old.

I don't tend to have the screen too bright (live in the UK), Bluetooth disabled etc. Also I spend most of my life in Firefox / SSH / VSCode in that order.
Yep, I came across the Payment Intents stuff - holy crap, it's complicated, and the documentation actually isn't great - it's good for details of API calls and such, but not for explaining what the hell you actually need to do, and why.

I also upgraded our Stripe API version recently, as a result of the new SCA regs - the whole experience was really frustrating! It felt like it should have taken me 4 hours max (test time inclusive), but it ended up taking me 5 days - the docs were just... not good.

This all seems very un-Stripe like, and TBH has me a little worried.
> what you find on disk can be a mess

Is this "can be" determined by the backing filesystem? E.g., would you expect to get a clean result from a log-structured or copy-on-write filesystem?
Because foreign corn is too competitive, too cheap, and pull the rug out from local farmers. It's a short term solution to a long term problem.
A few years back I was mugged in Chicago at a busy intersection very close to a train station. Being the FOIA nerd I am, I submitted a FOIA request for the footage of the spot I was mugged at. It came back saying that no footage exists. Probing the investigator, I was told that the camera rotates randomly, and wasn't pointed in my direction. It's very difficult for me to think of Chicago's surveillance with any sort of charity, when they can't even do a single major intersection.

Fun fact: Chicago's city hall has a retention period of zero days on its cameras. Go figure.
> Nobody said your movie has to be viewable in China.

You will of course forgive me if I do not find economic favoritism that benefits politically connected industrialists, the restriction of freedom of thought by oppressive governments, and the general Balkanization of the Internet, to be things that we ought to celebrate.

Once upon a time the memes of Internet culture would suggest that "information wants to be free!" Oh, sweet halcyon days of yore!
My point about how do we define "benefit of UI and UX"? If the criteria is conversion/revenue/profit - as arguably it should be for a publicly trading business - Booking and Expedia are no slouches.
Who said anything about WWII? I certainly did not. All I'm saying is that we would be a lot better off with less than 4billion people on the planet than 9billion. How we get there I didn't say anything about.
HN will become the next Reddit with vote manipulation. Even when it's absolutely clear this has major flaws.
I think there is actually a quite simple, coherent framework for such a thing: probability theory. You could say highly improbable is a more scientific synonym for miraculous.

I don't think the problem is that people are unaware per se of the miraculousness/improbability of life, but rather that said awareness is deeply frightening and most people would prefer to sublimate it. The fact that we've all already cheated the infinite oblivion of never existing is incredibly lucky (to non-pessimists), but deeply meditating on this fact is psychologically similar to having a near death experience. So we narrativize to reassure ourselves that our existence isn't just dumb luck, in any manner of ways, both mystical and pseudo scientific: our lives are preordained by God, or by a purely deterministic set of physical laws, or by the operators of our universal simulation, or by the anthropic principle.

All of these belief systems are roughly analogous to saying "Everything happens for a reason", which is something you hear even intelligent people parrot in times of distress. But as Quentin Meillassoux argues in "After Finitude", the only truly universal law of metaphysics is in fact the negation of that platitude: "Things could be as they are, or they could be otherwise."
Well that was before they were shipping devices with a stylus.
Rollover crashes are generally pretty safe assuming the roof doesn't collapse and squish you to death, and you are wearing your seatbelt. The energy dissipates without you suddenly coming to a stop like if you hit a tree. Most of the damage will be from broken windows/debris causing cuts/scratches.

If you are not wearing a seatbelt, you run the risk of being ejected from the vehicle, and the higher risk of being 'partially ejected' from the vehicle, which is often worse.

I personally observed only 1 vehicle where the roof caved in on rollover (I believe it was a mid 2000s mustang). If the driver had been a few inches taller, I imagine he would've been hurt pretty badly.

The only other time I saw a roof collapse in wasn't from a roll over, but striking a tree roof first at a high rate of speed.

The only rollover crash I ever observed that the driver couldn't walk away from was a rather fortunate partial ejection. The vehicle only rolled onto its side, pinning the drivers arm between the road and the door as it slid for a few dozen yards.

The durability of the laminated safety glass should not be understated. A fire department's extraction team's approach is likely to be "cut through the glass with a circular saw".

Granted, all of this is anecdotal, with a very small sample size. Either way, wear your seat belt.
Sorry for not providing the citation right away. Here's the evidence (with discussion and links to source studies) for trillions of tons of coal in Alaska:
http://www.groundtruthtrekking.org/Issues/AlaskaCoal/HowMuch...

In particular, it links to this 2005 USGS study: https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-077/

> "The combined measured, indicated, inferred, and hypothetical coal resources in the three areas are estimated to be 5,526 billion short tons (5,012 billion metric tons), which constitutes about 87 percent of Alaska’s coal"

The amount of fossil fuel energy in the ground (if we're very clever about extracting it) is absolutely vast. Enough to provide current needs for hundreds or even thousands of years, but to cook the climate and chemically change the atmosphere to that of a stuffy room long before that.
That's why I prefaced it with "I like to think" to indicate a sense of wistfulness
When has something like this worked in the past?
Nuclear waste isn't what's killing nuclear power; cost is (and the cost is not caused by the existence of nuclear waste.)
That doesn’t follow. Take Dr. Ambedkars neo-Buddhist movement for instance. By calling themselves Buddhist, upwardly mobile untouchables could identify with a socially prestigious “world religion” that was still identifiably Indian. Never mind that there was no connection to actual historical Indian Buddhism which had gone extinct centuries earlier. But it could be recovered (or reimagined) from books. Read his works and you will see that he appeals to and rebels against colonialist notions just like any other contemporary Indian thinker. To assume it was all about upper castes and the British is more trendy academic bullshit IMO.
Eugenics implies reducing the gene frequency of genes bad for society either through sterilization or mass killings. Reducing the population proportionately through evenly reduced fertility rates like the one child policy wouldn't change gene frequency.