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Just thought I'd post a supporting post to contrast the posts saying the move is unfair.

Imagine that Facebook wanted to have that functionality. They offer to buy the companies involved, but the companies ask for an unfair price ("1 million dollars!"). Should Facebook be compelled to pay that price? If they do not wish to pay that price, should they be forbidden from entering the market? Should Snap or Foursquare have a monopoly against any competitor that might be able to out compete them?

We can say that Facebook has a monopoly, but does that mean they should be forbidden from entering any new (to them) markets? We can say that they have a lot more money than their competition. Does that mean that they should be forbidden from competing? I don't think any of that makes sense.

I think what people are concerned about is the idea that Facebook will abuse their market position to compete unfairly. I think it's reasonable to fear that, but I don't think you can shut them down a priori. We don't have thought police yet. You can't be punished for something you haven't done yet.

If the argument is that Facebook should be punished for their past actions and forbidden from entering new markets, that's an argument that at least makes sense (I'm not sure I agree with it, though). I just can't understand any argument that says that lacking such a punishment, Facebook has to refrain from entering markets that they didn't create.

If we had such a mechanism in place, I think the potential for serious abuse would far exceed what Facebook has done to this point. In fact, I think we would be encouraging companies that act even more irresponsibly than the bad actors we have now in the market place. I can't really see an upside.
Not they preserve Chinese artifacts. China has been invaded so many times, the collapse of governments had led foreigners to scoop artifacts from China at no cost. Look at British Museum, Lourve. It happened to all countries have suffered from war. Japanese took most books, paintings, because those are not seen as valuable for westerners. British took most vase, china.
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I wonder if the ads are put in there by the local distributor. In my area NPR radio station has no ads except when they run a campaign asking for donations.
Interesting. Did you try MatLab?
If it relies on .NET core then no.
Is that why the stand is $1000?
I'm Chinese and live well in China. Of course, I only represent myself. If you want to know more about China, see some Chinese travel YouTuber or come to China yourself. Instead of believing in a media publish "The Big Hack" without evidence.

I'm curious that HN is full of articles and comments that uglify China. Many Chinese developer read HN to learn and integrate into the world. Now I think Chinese understand the world more than the world understand China.

By the way, isn't this off-topic according to HN guidelines?
More of a personal preference, but to me, typing all these underscores all the time would probably give me carpal tunnel syndrome within just a few years.
Too be honest it was really just a small project to get used with Actix web a rust web frame work and to setup a google cloud build ci/cd that would build a container i could host somewhere. I only used cloud run because i saw a youtube suggestion about it xD
So there was no load except me and some friends pushing f5 a couple of times.

You can create a web service in whatever language and framework you want, all you need to do is read a PORT environment variable for incoming messages.
The freedom was really awesome, instead of being confined to supported languages and frameworks you get in the functions landscape.
Only confinement was that you're pretty much limited to HTTP calls, unless that has changed.

Personally i find the freedom of pick your own language and framework a big positive, and billing is finer on cloud run compared to AWS Fargate(rounded up to next sec) if im not mistaken. I do wish they would make billing even more finer instead of rounding up to the next 100 ms, rounding up to the next 10ms would be nicer when you use non GC or Runtimed languages, like Rust.
That’s essentially any “pre-industrial” bar of soap.
The last hundred years have been a constant churn of new ideas and technology in agriculture, and food in general. Seeing a bunch of clever ways to make food on the horizon isn't some recent change.
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The featuresets of Tmux and mosh conflict directly.

Unfortunately.
Democracy imposed on countries where the demand for it never arose organically usually ends in failure.

The west has a biased perspective on this issue, but the idea of democracy is not innate to vast majority of the world
There was a market for two, maybe three classical computers until they became smaller, cheaper, and more general purpose.
GLF was terrible, but the west shares a shame in throwing away our intellectual and cultural pursuits. There's an argument that a very long time ago, the islamic intellectual tradition preserved enlightenment values whilst we were off doing other things. I don't know the gritty details of the argument, so I'd be the first to say I'm wrong.
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Western NGOs are not even remotely comparable to the propaganda operations the US and Europe are dealing with at the moment. This faulty comparison is itself a common talking point of Russian and Chinese propaganda.

A better comparison would be US operations against the communist bloc during the Cold War. However... The US intelligence community has spent the last 25 years focusing on the Middle East. The previous generation of spies and counter-spies have mostly retired, and those who are still active haven't worried about the KGB in a long time. Meanwhile, the KGB has never gone away, and has been obsessed with the US the whole time. And now the former head of the KGB/FSB runs Russia... What we are dealing with is the same KGB playbook, with some 21st century upgrade. Russia knows US citizens better than they know themselves, which is how they managed to brainwash 1/3d of our population through domestic assets like Manafort, Barr, Mcconnell and of course the Trumps. It's no surprise that the are running circles around us at the moment. Hopefully our institutional immune system will kick in and we will adapt before the rot sets in too deep.
As membership declines, just wondering what happens to all the cash the Churches are sitting on, from property, to art, to chuch tax collections. Going to be interesting to see what the next (younger) gen of church leaders do with it...maybe they need an innovation center to modernize the useful aspects of religion.
That’s intriguing but will be awesome to give it a tryout! Medieval have the quality in many things they do.
Not really, when you want to import things from C you simply name them what you like and then you can call them in a case-insensitive fashion. When writing code that should be imported into C code it will either have its name exactly as typed, or you can specify a name for it yourself.
> I am of a boring old school

Like authatorian dictatorships are now super hip? :D
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Exactly! Have you found any decent replacement?
At last, a contender for the title of Twitter-killer.
Thoughtcrime is an apt description for the events that triggered this moral panic.
Admonishing someone for cursing in that situation is just nuts.

I once called 911 for a traffic accident and I also got flustered when they kept asking for my address (I wasn’t involved) instead of telling me that someone is on the way. Ali l wanted to hear is “we have sent somebody”. Then it would have been much easier to answer other questions.
As other have mentioned Nim is style insensitive. This might sound odd at first, but it allows you to use snake_case in your code even though the standard library is camelCase. It also allows me to use your snake_case library in my camelCase code without ending up in mixed_Case hell like you often end up in Python.
Mutually beneficial exchange, e.g. Making money through selling people things they want, is the foundation of society.

If I want to give my money to someone else, in exchange for something I want and enjoy, that doesn’t hurt you - why should you care? You are not an injured party.

You don’t like it, you don’t need to buy it. But outlawing something because you don’t like it is just vicious.

All that said, I don’t vape, but I do enjoy the occasional cigar which has faced similar restrictions on flavors and sales of late.

If you have never had a nicotine buzz, you really don’t know what you are missing. Stress disappears, focus is intensely magnified. It’s great. If you’re not prone to addiction I recommend trying it sometime.

There’s a number of good articles I could list, but despite demonization, it has some fantastic upsides and without the additives isn’t nearly the Faustian bargain it’s made out to be.

http://discovermagazine.com/2014/march/13-nicotine-fix
I think you mean they preserved Greek and Roman knowledge, which was the basis of the Renaissance. The Enlightenment was a few hundred years later, and consisted of new ideas.
No, sorry if you drive into the back of another car that’s your fault for being too close and not being prepared to stop.

If someone drives into a stationary car just because the lights go green they are an incompetent driver because they haven’t checked the road is clear before moving off.

The car in front could have stalled, the driver could have had a heart attack, a child could have run into the road 3 cars down and you can’t see them.

Anything could have happened and if you’re not prepared for that at all times YOU are not in control of your vehicle and hence a bad driver.

Too many drivers have cognitive dissonance of the form “I already know I’m an excellent driver, so it couldn’t possibly be my fault...” for every situation this why we need presumed liability.
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Because the volatility and risk profile of the two investments is not the same.

The index will pay you beta, which is the market return - no more, no less. If you build a portfolio where you combine an investment in the index fund with other, different investments, you can build many different portfolios which all have different risk profiles. This is useful, as people have different needs.

For example, if you're happy for your money to be locked away for a long period of time (say you're running a university endowment fund), you may be better suited to these longer term, illiquid type of in investments.
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The majority of recorded human history China was the #1 economic power though.
There may be minor security problems with some choices of site name. Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20190924064831/https://sdnotes.c...
I never heard of Desmos until now; it looks like an outstanding educational tool with pages and pages of exercises, demos, and aids for teaching math.

But I can't fathom how they make money. Their "about" page lists 29 high-qualification employees, and they're located in a high-cost city (San Francisco). If the loaded cost of each employee is $150K, they'd have to make $4.3 million a year just to pay salaries and overhead.

I can't find a single item on their website that has a price listed: everything is free! They don't even have ads. They talk about partnerships and such, but I can't figure out how they charge money and what they charge for.

Public schools are stingy when it comes to learning aids; teaching math is not in the same category like spending for a football stadium. There are 56 million elementary, middle, and high schools in the U.S.[1]. If they charged $1 per student in some partnership deal, they have to sign up at least 7% of the entire U.S. student body just to meet payroll and overhead. Don't get me wrong, their software looks absolutely wonderful, but I don't understand the business case.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372#PK12_enroll...
In fairness, Python is the first language the Nim team compares itself to in the first paragraph of their homepage.
Amazing stuff! Needs some work on mobile, though.

If an API is ever available, I'd gladly plug into it and build an Android app.

I'm a sucker for apps when it comes to something I use every day.
Some of the classes are subcategories of ILSVRC classes in the WordNet hierarchy. So by removing images of persons in categories that are considered inappropriate, the resulting classifier will end up less likely to recognize those as images of people at all. I'm not sure whether that's a better outcome.
> - When merging/changing lanes - Newcastle drivers tend to speed up/close any gap if you put your indicator on, to prevent you from merging ahead of them. Sydney tends to be more permissive.

You get a variation on this in Sydney. No one wants to be behind another car so they will change lanes and speed to over take you just to improve their position by 1 car. Some will continuously do this, switch lanes with no regard of where they need to be, then create a mess for everyone when they try to merge into the lane they need to be in.
I believe GP is referring to Thomas Watson's famous quote from the 1940s: "There is a world market for maybe five computers."
Is there a link that doesn’t require signing in with Facebook, etc?
Leaving aside the reasons mentioned above about why being anonymous is really important, there's another reason: money.

I think it is wildly accepted that major social networks are full of ghost and/or inactive accounts. If companies cracked down on those, everyone would see that their numbers are not accurate and their valuation would take a big hit. Some CEOs would lose their jobs for sure. So it is not in the big networks' self-interest to change that.

You could make a network from scratch, were identity is baked in from the start. But who would sign up? If Google+ thought us anything it's that people really hate giving their real names (and rightfully so, IMHO). Sure, some services managed it, but they are not as influential as the big ones.

So no new service has the network effects to pull it off, no big network wants to lose money on doing it, and users don't want it.
> It was basically a mob-driven decision

nothing else works, people work with the tools they have at their disposition, and if companies don't have any morals when it comes to us (results driven approach no matter the consequences), why should we have any morals when dealing with companies? We're just playing at their own game, and getting good results, and there is nothing wrong with that, so keep on going as long as there are results.
Unchecked IP and currency abuse by China, and unfettered illegal immigration are also "not good for the USA or my fellow American."

> kids being killed by Customs and Border Protection

Are you actually trying to claim that CBP is deliberately killing children?
I prefer https://sdnotes.com/scavenger
That does seem to be the trend.
Yes. Recently they've been corrolating the deaths from bootleg THC cartridges with the banning of flavored nicotine vapes, which is nonsensical but they've parroted it multiple days in a row. There's clearly a propaganda campaign against vaping by big tobacco, with anti-vaping ads everywhere, Trump speaking about it, etc. they are playing along.
Absolute nonsense, are you trying to press C-b with one hand?
And yet people complain about subsidies for renewable generators and electric cars/trucks :-/
Immune system like Joseph McCarthy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy
And also, qubits can't be used as compressed data storage. Despite the fact that it takes two real numbers to specify the state of a qubit, you only get one bit out when you measure it, with the rest of the information being destroyed.
There's plenty of active research into quantum computing meets machine learning. Any real progress here would create quite a market.
>Seems no JavaScript developer really seriously care about the term FP or OO.

Oh no, they care. The reason it doesn't seem like FP is big in the web dev world is because of reactive programming paradigm.

Reactive programming paradigm is designed so when one part of the program is processing it doesn't lock up the UI elements. This defaulting to being thread safe and lock free comes from the FP world.

Reactive programming is a marriage between functional programing and procedural programming paradigms and is incredibly popular. I suspect it is far more popular in the front end world than FP is in the back end world, showing their adoption, despite different, is stronger.

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On the backend side of things, many of the popular languages have been slowly gaining FP toys, not just Python. C++, Java, Scala, and so on..
Directly from ITER page:

https://www.iter.org/proj/inafewlines#2

"ITER will not capture the energy it produces as electricity, but—as first of all fusion experiments in history to produce net energy gain—it will prepare the way for the machine that can."

Let me repeat, the project will not produce any usable electricity. It's still an experiment.

And the start of the experiment is at the moment planned for 2025. The ITER project started in 2007. That's how much the preparations "just" for the experiment take, even if the previous experiments were done for decades.

Also from their FAQ:

https://www.iter.org/FAQ#collapsible_2

"one of the missions for the later stages of ITER operation is to demonstrate the feasibility of one or more concepts of tritium production through the Test Blanket Module (TBM) program."

Namely, it's an experiment that "in the later stages" should manage to give results that would allow the development of the technology for tritium breeding. Without tritium breeding fusion can't be used commercially.

The path for experiments is known, but it's still far from confirmed that the desired results are achievable, as we'll need a lot of new developments which we don't have at the moment for that.

Also DEMO can be fully developed only once ITER succeeds, it needs the results from ITER.

It's simply very hard, and achievable as an experiment. The still open question is if its really commercially viable, in the sense, if the "hard" stuff can become manageable enough to be useful.
Am I the only one using screen? Couldn't switch to tmux since most of what i need is in screen.
No. Not at all like Joseph McCarthy.
To better understand China, you will have to understand that the CCP was nothing but peasant rebels not too long ago, the notion of "the country was built by us" so that anything is our rewards and have to be governed by our progeny, is deep-rooted. And think of the core governning clique as a criminal gang.
Of course, I'm not saying we should ignore all doomsayers, just that we should weight their prophecies with a reasonable estimate of trust. Saying "if it's right then we need to pay attention" isn't a good argument in and of itself. It would imply that we have to pay attention to thousands of additional crazy prophecies, like those of the Westboro Baptist Church or that lizard people are taking control of the earth.

Whether Boston is a genuine trusted authority on this is a much more interesting discussion.
Was popular, a lot of protests happening this year.
I think sending double prefix actually sends the prefix to active window.
Awesome concept! Any plans to make it come in an api flavor?
> Yes that assumes you have use for the camera. Anyone who doesn’t really has no reason to read new phone launch press releases

There are plenty of reasons to do so e.g. new IME or security systems, hardware upgrades (e.g. computational engines or dedicated hardware), etc…
I've also mainly used screen for over a decade and it's good enough for one-off sessions, especially if your terminal supports tiling and panes by default, but I feel that tmux is more robust and easier to configure and you get tiling and panes out of the box that work in any terminal emulator. I think it's worth the switch, and I should set up a tmux again for myself too.
I just use pyenv everywhere (Mac, Linux, Windows/WSL) and install Anaconda through that. Simplest and most uniform setup possible.
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3.5 GB takes a long time on the current connection. What am I downloading?
Annotations in general do work for local variables, although this is specified on a per-annotation basis.

If I remember correctly, for example, the @NotNull annotation in javax.validation.constraints cannot be used for a local variable, but the one provided by the checkerframework can.
The problem in China is that they're likely to get old before they get rich. China's GDP per capita is still only a quarter (or less) of Japan, Singapore or South Korea:

https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/china/japan
I fascinated by the hinted-at backstory here. Would you mind sharing how you came to program in prison? Was it before, or during your time that you learned?
Backtick is a bit far away, isn't it? I literally have to stretch my left ring finger to hit it, so doing this for each tmux key command does add up I suppose?

I've been using C-z for the prefix for ages. It's conveniently nearly under the default position where my fingers lay and it also masks the mostly useless suspend signal which I seemed to accidentally hit every now and then. (If I really want to suspend my program 'C-z z' will do just fine.)

Switching around using, for example, C-z C-n/C-p is pretty fast to key in. You can keep ctrl down for support and then it reduces down to typing 'zn' / 'zp'. YMMV.
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When Gizmodo tried, the Dell they built cost $8000:

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/06/is-the-new-mac-pro-hands-...

If I were to guess the reason for the difference, I'd notice:

- Your Dell has a SATA SSD, the Mac Pro has an NVMe SSD

- Your Dell has no wifi/bluetooth, the Mac Pro has WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0

- Your Dell has 1 gigabit Ethernet, the Mac Pro has 2x10 gigabit Ethernet

- Your Dell has no Thunderbolt 3 ports, the Mac Pro has 8

- Your Dell doesn't come with a keyboard and mouse, the Mac Pro does

- Your Dell doesn't have any equivalent for Apple's T2 chip or Afterburner card

Although the Gizmodo one doesn't have a lot of these, either. Most of the price difference seems to have to do with yours being a Precision 5820 and Gizmodo's being a Precision 7920. I'm not sure exactly what the difference is here, but it might have something to do with expandability?

If you're not concerned with expandability, the iMac Pro seems to have better specs for a lower price, and may be a fairer comparison.
Also rain. LIDARs don't work in the rain, and driving in rain is quite challenging in urban areas.
Wow must have been tough for you. Sometimes the chemistry just works the other way I guess. Good on you for trying though. Have you noticed what were the others doing differently?
RMS has no children. RMS is not trained/educated in child development or child care. RMS is entitled to his own opinion, however he has no basis for an informed opinion. RMS shit the bed more than one time on the subject of children. RMS has had the protection of others for too long. His backward opinions on children over many years caught up with him. RMS has done great things for free software but that does not give him a free pass to be a terrible human in other aspects of life. If RMS stuck to his area of expertise we would not be having this conversation.
So it should map out a considerable number of ship wrecks
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The board needs to be removed first for this devaluation of pre IPO valuations of WeWork! Too bad
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If we made deliberate or negligent defamation a criminal offence it might restore some sanity to society.