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>>> that is my feeling and I am guilty of the same.

To acknowledge the problem is the first step towards its solution.

Your observation is very similar to what I have felt as well. There is a wide urban-rural gap.

India is primarily an agricultural country. A fairly large part of Indian population resides in villages and is directly or indirectly dependent upon agriculture sector.

The current state of economy also stems from the agrarian crisis that has been brewing for a long time now.

I don't think this government is exclusively to be blamed for the plight of farmers, but given the mandate they got in 2014, they had the means to enable farmer friendly policies - unfortunately they did not.

I was actually traveling in different parts of India when the demonetization move happened. I saw firsthand the immediate aftermath in both the urban and rural India. There were diverse opinions, but given how simple, credulous and sheep-like most of the Indian population is, most people I talked to were ready to bear the brunt because our leader told us it was overall a good move for the country. These people didn't realize how it would come back to haunt them when they start loosing their livelihood in the coming times.

I can't imagine anywhere else in the world, where people wouldn't have protested on a mass scale, if such a sudden, disastrous move would have been made on their lives without consulting them.

If you read about the history of Independent India, we still haven't settled down as a nation yet. Each decade has brought it's fair share of challenges and the churn is always on. I hope the current situation is just one of those and the idea of India, as what our forefathers deemed it to be, shall survive to fight another fight.

Edit: Grammar, Typos
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The entire point of ads is to lower the price and increase circulation. It's not a consumer driven decision.
Why is this something that needs a "study"? You can make corporate-funded user research come to any conclusion you want. It's obvious on the face of it that the more you rely on ads the more ads control the content and eventually become the content. No company funded by ads is going to publish a study saying people don't like ads.
I believe the current generation is stronger.
> The idea of a monastery is to dedicate yourself completely to introspection and philosophy, and serving the monastery with its inhabitants, no matter what religion or philosophy. Why are they having so much trouble to keep up with changes?

Because the core idea is dumb, the change is that more people with more access to knowledge about the world realize that, and monasteries are adapting by dying out.

Monasteries are basically communes. Great for people that have nothing, but more and more people actually have something even if it's "just" a smartphone.
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OT, what plugins? I’m a keen Pro Tools user!
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Some good arguments, but the "main sponsor is blockchain-y" was a bad start for me. That totally killed my interest in RED... Is this as in "biggest patreon donor" or "company that employs main developer(s)"?
In the meantime, Poland is not only building lots of new churches, it even builds new cathedrals adorned in gold[0]. Even the little town I'm from(only 20k population) has 3 churches, and they are all full of gold and it's common knowledge that the local priests are most likely one of the wealthiest people around.

[0]This was only finished in 2004, and is the most disgustingly oppulent building I have ever seen:

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazylika_Naj%C5%9Bwi%C4%99tsze...

You'd think all of this would turn people away from the church, but it doesn't seem that way - each church usually has to hold 4-5 masses every Sunday and for every one the church is full to the brim, with people standing outside because there's no more room in the church itself.
Don't retreats like that already exist. Why does it have to be an old monastery. And anyway I thought the whole point of a monastery was that everybody helped out with the cooking, gardening, chores etc. not that you had servants waiting on you.
This is a very weird criticism. I'm a Ruby dev, but I spent eight years working with C#, and I can't remember any times where a Ruby gem was more readily available than a NuGet package.

If anything, I'd say there's less choice in the Ruby world, especially in the data science and ML fields.
Most of the times, the ones with the fundamental understanding are the most sensible. KISS principle - Keep it simple, stupid!
It's in a public folder so there's no need to scare monger with the whole 'prosecution for pirating' bit. Why not just watch it for yourself instead of making things up to attack him?
I called up an Australian Government agency today, the robot on the phone made me repeat "In Australia, my voice is my identity" three times. There was no skip option, afterwards it said an operator would ask if I consented! I told them no, but it's already gone into the ML engine and they will keep some part of it forever I bet. It didn't even provide any information on who was collecting the audio and what they can do with it outside of the service they are providing to the govt. Australia has become a weird surveillance state for no reason.
Looks like Warp VPN is coming on Wednesday
>why are you happy?

because the happiness of those around oneself is inherently prioritized as more important than others -- it's more involved with personal success than the happiness of those further.

is that appropriate? I don't know. It's totally normal, though.
You're reading a lot into what was a fairly simple scenario with no mention of what the topics were. It came across as being an informal meeting with no agenda, moderator or stated outcomes.

About all we can assume from the scenario are the power dynamics. Alice spoke first which says it's either her meeting or she is the ranking person there - not Carol.

If it was a meeting to address the potential critical failure of a system that Carol is the most knowledgeable about, then yes, she should speak up. It could be potentially negligent to not do so, but most meetings are not that.
Note also Kalai's comment on this very blog post:

> Scott is correct that inability to achieve quantum supremacy is quite central to my argument (since 2014), so naturally I don’t expect that the recent claims by the Google team will stand. Of course, if these claims (or any other quantum supremacy claim) are correct then this would defeat my theory. It goes without saying that the claims are so fantastic that also responsible believers in quantum computers should examine these specific claims (like an alleged NP=! P proof) carefully and skeptically. Also, it would be nice to hear some details about the precise claims and methodology of the Google team.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4317#comment-1819916
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The political divide in the US is along similar lines. It's not a problem unique to India, it's driven by technology that gives those who can exploit it best a big economic edge.
FSF misses the point entirely.
It operates on the assumptions of the long-gone world where every software uses was also a programmer. It used to be that way, but it will never be that way again. Nor should it.
You misunderstand the case law there-- it establishes no such right, only that such actions must follow from acts of the legislature, rather than allowing municipal authorities to override the legislature.

[And in particular, the case law in California appears to be very liberal in allowing cities to close roads to cars entirely.]
Yes indeed. Even my ~100$ bike has a cover and a basic Shimano gear. However, some parts of the chain are still exposed to the rain, but the oil makes the water slide along.
Our western societies fundamentally value extroversion, exchanging with the world and participate in the group. A monastry is the opposite.

It worked when praying for the world was largely accepted as having some effect. Nowadays thoughts and prayers doesn’t cut it for the general population.

In a way high level research institutes could be seen as the new monastries, with people shutting down in buildings everyday, searching for new truths that could benefit mankind.
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Interestingly, one of the latest contretemps on Twitter etc. Lis the desire by some for open source licenses that restrict usage by purpose or organization. For example, ICE, military, law enforcement, etc.

A much longer discussion obviously but an example where user freedoms more or less are counter to developers being able to restrict what their software gets used for once it’s been released as open source.
Fairly limited, but anonymous pipes might fit your use case:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/io/how-to-u...
I had an issue recently with Virtualbox which caused my iMac Pro to crash and power cycle. That, as well as certain Xcode updates (required by other software), meant I lost my 200+ days of workstation uptime.
I might be the only person who liked WCF.
> predominately a sedentary lifestyle spent between a cube and a couch, interspersed with frenzies of gluttony, consumption and mindless distraction to stave off feeling of emptiness.

> Nothing could make less sense.

Speak for yourself...
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Would be cool if people could comment posts as well, great idea!
Seems your doubts have been put to rest. Pity I got voted down by so many, this is a fact in Australia.
Techcrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/23/messaging-app-kik-shuts-do...
Basically it is a compiled language that feels like a scripting language -- typically compiled languages have so much boilerplate code -- but Nim doesn't. If you just looked at a Nim program, you might even think it is in some scripting language you haven't seen before. I see Nim and Crystal filling a similar niche -- Nim feels more like Python and Crystal more like Ruby.
Thanks. This is good info.
We are not alone. It takes a brave person to put their head above the parapet in the current climate.
Can I use it for my new ruby on rails webapp?
I'm in the same boat, but I use miniconda and install the individual packages I want as I need them, which helps minimize the size. For doing scientific analysis, it is really nice to have (basic) environment which has the basic required packages (matplotlib, numpy, scipy, ipython, etc.) from which I can duplicate and build off of. It works well with VSCode, and unlike other comments, I don't really see any negatives to the CLI. For someone who started not even programming a lot, to doing this in a scientific context (so potentially less rigorous with regards to how things should be perfectly set up, but where it is necessary that they are functional), this was by far the easiest and least complex way to set up all the stuff you need to get started.
> What is going on in HK right now? You think that would happen if they were armed?

No, they'd be dead. Armed conflict with the PLA with no artillery or air power?

(Street protest relies on some unspoken norms that police won't indiscriminately fire on and kill protestors, precisely because the protestors aren't armed. The whole point is to stop short of actual deadly urban combat. This is partly why Tianamen was so shocking; while it's difficult to know what actually happened, it's clear that army units were sent in and simply murdered a large number of people who were carrying out an unarmed protest.)
Didn't consider that the mode can be set from environment variable, then it can just be automatically set from my ssh command, thanks for the tip!

Searching back in the buffer in emacs mode is the one thing I've been keep having to look up
Is there a site(s) where there is specified how to represent more complex data structures while making the borrow checker happy?
Oh, it's not just Avid. Some audio production software such as ReFX Nexus still uses a USB dongle. There is no way to use the software without it plugged in.

It also has a policy where if you damage the dongle, you have to buy again and get a 10% discount off the FULL price of the VST.

In the age of people gigging on laptops, I'm not entirely sure how they think they are gonna sell any more of them. I fancy it myself as it has quite a few 'familiar' sounds on it, but not with all the downsides.
something along with objective c's frontend for gcc.

https://sourceforge.net/p/clisp/clisp/ci/default/tree/doc/Wh...
If you are looking for book collection apps, I started using Libbo not long ago, pretty smooth!

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/libbo-your-books-organized/id1...
I see your 1200 and raise a self-built 300 baud modem with loads of blinkenlights and switches, housed in a wooden enclosure only slightly smaller than the C64. Hey, it worked, I was a poor student. Initially I had to dial the BBS using a rotary phone, later I added a pulse relay to automate dialling - 19th century here I come!
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I don't think that's true in UK. Just that insurance is so expensive that's it's far cheaper to get driving lessons.
> “What else?”

But that's not even a complete sentence! That's a terrible question! What on earth would you want as a response to that? If someone said to me 'what else?' I'd just think 'what else... what?' What else were you planning to do today? What else did I need to tell you? What else did you need to tell me? What else did I want to ask? What are you asking me 'else' about?
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how would they be able to do that? they didn't get all the money at once. you can't order what you can't sell.

they expected to sell 10 times as many laptops as they actually sold. and it wasn't because of the price.
One Twitter thread I followed said something was trashing /var.
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There is quite the gulf between learning how to program and having to look up cosines and so on in mathematical tables (which I once had to do when my calculator stopped working five minutes to the start of an exam), a gulf which handheld calculators occupy very comfortably.

> Learning to fluently navigate a handheld calculator is not an important life skill

It very arguably is. Contrary to what HNers seem to think, not everybody wants or is inclined to picking up Python to tally up a receipt or similar, and that's quite okay. (Sure, the handheld calculator is often now a phone, but that's a difference without much distinction)
Why 1991? Surely such articles predate 1991.

I'm not sure why you think writers at Bloomberg, a Wall Street-oriented outlet, represent average people in the US.

I'm also not sure why you think anyone would want China to collapse in order to "prove democracy correct", as if to win a bet. Democracy is a means to an end. "Average people" think that in China, though many people are doing great under the current system, there are also people not doing great, average people just like them, who are being oppressed, harassed for reading banned books, punished for criticizing party officials, put into re-education labor camps, even having their organs harvested, and they want that to stop. If China stopped all that tomorrow without collapsing, most people would be ecstatic about that. But they won't, and average people believe the best way to permanently stop that kind of thing is for everyone to get a voice and a vote in their government—indeed, for a hundred flowers to bloom, or 百花齐放, if you will.
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You expect a car driving down the road to be private? Like, you don't think anyone can see what you're doing?
all of his images are now the property of google. if for some reason he or anyone else wants to use these images at some point in the future for some sort of project he would have to pay google a fee. that idea seems so bizarre to me especially when there are a few different services that will do the same thing but instead the images would be available to everyone.

how does someone plan out such a huge project like he did without looking around to see what the alternatives are? maybe mapillary need to up their marketing a notch
Thanks for the link, I have definitely learnt something. I didn’t suspect such system to exist outside a Sci-fi book!
If you build it, they won't necessarily come; as you're seeing now.

I think you need to stop development. Don't put another minute into dev work until you've found someone to pay for this.

Sometimes it's helpful and motivating to approach the first few sales in a completely non sustainable way. Don't try to establish a customer acquisition funnel - try to find one single person willing to pay.

It sounds like your December 31 users are a good place to start. Send each one of them an email and give them an incentive to renew before the accounts expire. Offer them a discount or something for every referral they bring in for a trial or as a new customer or a discount that is a bit higher for every trial day they have left so people feel an urgency to move on it now. Try to convert ONE trial customer into a paid customer over the next three or four weeks. If you fail, it's not your software, it's your sales and marketing skills. Take that as a hint that you might need to bring in a new person to do that for you.

It sounds like you're quite adept at building product but it's not a business yet. It's time to stop building and learn to convince people to part with their money. Building a better tool isn't enough. You have to build a better tool, educate them on why its worth it, eliminate their reasons not to buy, and then ask them to take action.

I recommend taking a break and then consider bringing in some outside expertise. Someone who knows how to sell online.

Nobody builds an empire alone. It just can't be done.
> appears to be yet another slightly different take on Rust or Go

Nim is nowhere close to that. Most people describe it as a very fast statically typed Python.
The Concent of Saunt Leibniz.

We can try turning old monasteries into concents à la Neal Stephenson's Anathem. People can go for a year in a unarian math to just study. Maybe a four consecutive years in such a math get equivalent recognition to a university degree. Whether it is the traditional monastic discipline or the Cartasian discipline, the required basic infrastructure is probably similar. Jeejahs stay outside, of course.

Particularly determined professors can populate a decennarian, maybe even a centenarian. Also, isn't there only about 9 years before our scheduled visit by the Icosahedron?
Developer on gRPC for .NET here.

gRPC client requires HTTP/2, and HttpClient (the .NET library for making HTTP requests) didn't previously support HTTP/2. The gRPC client actually supports netstandard2.1. Any .NET implementation that supports HTTP/2 should support running the gRPC client.

Kestrel (the .NET web server) already supported HTTP/2 but it required some new features in .NET 3.0 to fully support hosting gRPC services.
Yes, I am comfortable with the state legislature making law like this because that reflects the will of the people of the entire state. It's only when locals decide they can segregate their streets that I'm annoyed because they violate the social contract we agreed upon.

I'm also super comfortable with closing roads to cars entirely.
China proved the Washington Consensus to be utter garbage.
I've sort of had the opposite experience. I made a 999 (UK) call for a traffic accident - head on collision, one person dead at the scene, another died later, devastating scene on a winter's night with just what car lights were left, a horn stuck blaring and quite a bit of smoke in the air.

I was at my home and heard it. Ran to a few hundred metres away and as I got there a nurse arrived too who by chance was driving that way. I made the call because I was pretty certain she'd handle the carnage better than I could.

They answered and I explained there had been a head on car crash, the next question was Police, Fire or Ambulance? Which threw me a bit, I don't care who you send that can deal with this! I think I said Ambulance and then they sent all three anyway.

They then asked what road I was on, it was a minor road and I couldn't remember the road name so I was trying to describe where it went from and to and how far along it was. The person answering the call seemed not to know the place names I was giving, my brain was working overtime trying to find references.

It wasn't until the next day that I realised I should've just given my home address and they'd have found us easily.
> meant I lost my 200+ days of workstation uptime.

So nothing was lost except a world record?
That's needlessly confrontational.
> a country wide citizenship register

Ignoring the fantastical claims about "detention camps" (What on earth is the relation to citizenship registry?)

> These experiments have never worked anywhere in the world

What experiments? A citizenship register? What is the problem with a country having a registry of the people who live in the country? In most functioninig countries there are multiple such registries (tax authority, social security, ...).
Thanks, this is a measured response that's made me think a little deeper and refine my opinions.
> Maybe this is a quirk of my meeting culture, but the success rate here is approximately zero.

Is this a power dynamic, time limitation or an adherence to not backtrack?
> To make money?

Not at all.

Nim aims to achieve the expressiveness of Python , the speed of C, the programmability of LISP.
That makes sense. Here in Germany, if you go to a church on easter, christmas, etc. you'd be surprised that most of the people in church are Polish immigrants and their German children.

I don't know why, but Polish people are the most religious community I know here.
Hopeless to monetize and nobody will use the other services leading to just doing it on the service with less egalitarian rights

And thats okay.
Why does this read like an ad?
I found Netflix content to be of really poor quality. It is a huge datamining machine that creates content based on the data gathered by it's user. I.e. if a lot of people watch TV series including cats and bank robbery thrilled. They will make a show mixing the two.
No risk, no originality. Pure mindless entertainment based on algorithm productivism.
You mean interval speed cameras?

I'd be fine with that if we first can have a conversation on speed limits. It seems on the road network places put in interval cameras and drop the speed limit by 10+mph. On motorways we get a de facto 80mph road going down to 50, regardless of conditions and traffic flow. That seems way to extreme a limitation IMO.

Though if the trains were cheaper it wouldn't bother me!
Trump: "Apple will not be given Tariff waiver, or relief, for Mac Pro parts that are made in China" https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1154774656...

Is this a win or loss for Trump? (probably a win because he always wins)
Leibniz's Gap
A company owner who doesn't see the points of unions... unsurprising.
Regarding Lukin’s experiment - which is very interesting and high quality - in most instances it can be simulated by existing classical methods (matrix product states / DMRG being a key example). This does not detract from the importance of realizing the same system experimentally at all. But it does prevent it from realizing a gap between classical and quantum computing.
Would you say the socialist policies of the government have had a negative effect or a positive effect on the country's economy? In your opinion as a resident, does this play at all into why things are the way they are economically?
Not using something like ublock is simply bad hygiene.