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Yup, Ramsey gave a talk at Clojure/north [1] about Arcadia. I got a chance to briefly chat with him, and it looks like they actually managed to raise funding to develop it further.

And somebody made Arcadia bindings for Godot [2], but the project isn't actively maintained. Would be great if somebody picked it up again.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbS45w_aSCU
[2] https://github.com/arcadia-unity/ArcadiaGodot
Crowded space, but darn few (if any) shared source or community based solutions. Here's a several examples from a market study I did in 2018: Workato, Apiant, Inegromat, Snaplogic, CloudHQ, Boomi, Tibco, Jitterbit, AWS Lambda, Mulesoft, Tray.io, ApacheNiFi, Stringify, Adeptia, Kotive, Cazoomi, Scribesoft and several more.

I really think the community angle is unique.
Being the weaker party in a negotiation is a new role for US, we'll get used to it...
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They do get to it up front: the thesis is "show and tell" is better than "show don't tell". It's clear enough if you're the sort of person who reads lithub and has been exposed to "show don't tell" a lot. It's just another way of saying "actions are louder than words", even in a purely written medium. The idea is that sometimes you do need to tell rather than show, or do both, and there's no reason to throw that tool out of your toolbox.

I believe she's missing the point: pretty much all writers start by telling and need to be cajoled into showing. It's a bit like the advice to "never use passive voice": there are times to use passive voice, but every time you want to, think, "Who is doing this, and why am I not saying that?" If you have a good answer to that, then continue to use the passive. If not, your writing will usually be more interesting as active rather than passive. But since most writers will speak passively by instinct, phrasing a rule as absolute -- before learning how to break it -- is good pedagogy much of the time.

You can read the article and see if maybe the second half provides a good refutation to my take on it -- but otherwise I'd say you got as far as you need to in it.
The only thing that is going to stop this is when these companies start losing money. They would sell their first born if they thought it would increase their stock prices.

I would boycott these companies but to be honest I don't have any accounts with them in the first place and I am actively closing accounts and reducing my presents on the internet.
> The "a little money goes a ridiculously long way" meme needs to stop.

I think people tend to jump straight to debating whether we should pursue charity by cost-effectiveness. That seems unproductive to me unless people have some idea what those costs actually are. Advertising like this seriously undermines any hope of that.

We could imagine, and UNICEF might argue, that these ads just motivate people to give money and don't set their expectations long-term. But when this is actually surveyed[1], we find that the median person thinks you can save a life for <$50. That's concerning on two levels. First, it means any charity that honestly advertises how much it spends to help people will look terrible. Second, the worrying question of what people would do if they knew the real number. Would people slash their donations if they thought the money would go 1% as far? Increase them to do equal good? Or is the amount we give to charity just not meaningfully correlated with how much it helps?

I wish charities in general would stop doing this sort of advertising. But I especially wish the most reputable charities would stop. UNICEF and the Red Cross are highly trusted sources for journalists and the public alike, so it's particularly alarming when they publicize claims like 7¢ to "save" a child, or "up to" 3 lives saved per blood donation[2].

[1] https://80000hours.org/2017/05/most-people-report-believing-...

[2] This stat is common, but extremely dubious. Beyond the obvious "up to" trick, the best case number still appears to be <1. https://medicalsciences.stackexchange.com/questions/1289/how...
Google Translate, Maps work in China, for example. Google Maps in particular, when viewed within the country, follows ruling party line on where to draw the borders[0], though it is not a practice they apply to China exclusively.

[0] https://qz.com/224821/see-how-borders-change-on-google-maps-...
Sure, but then that's an opportunity waiting to be taken, especially in your beauty product case. Someone found that niche, took it and now that problem is solved, don't need regulation for that.

For the latter, how sure are you that the benefit outweighs the cost here. Given the current state of the law as I understand it, if websites would be classified as "public accomodations", they'd all have to provide accessibility options regardless of size. Moreover, I've taken a look at the WCAG guidelines to educate myself on what providing accessibility would be like. It's not exactly small, and while experienced, large organizations might be able to comply, smaller restaurants might have issues there, especially if they're skimping on the webdev side of things.

If I wanted to abuse this, I could crawl restaurant listings, hit them with a scary templated legal document threatening a lawsuit for compliance to some law they've probably never heard of.

From an outsider viewpoint, I don't really trust American regulation that much to improve the situation, especially looking at the bay area housing situation and the state of your public transport. The former is a precise case of regulation causing issues, and attempts to remove that highlight how hard it is to remove poor regulation.
I remember 2011's scissor statement in the online Atheism community: "Guys, don't do that".
Honestly, you've changed my mind right here about the NFL issue by putting it into this perspective.

I always thought Kaepernick had the right to kneel, but that the NFL had the right to bench the player as well.

I thought the President, being a US citizen, also had the right to be raucous about the issue as many politicians were, as long as it didn't extend into actual executive action.

The reason people in the US might find this action offensive (the reason I do) is because it supports a communist government and I'm sick of US-based MNCs cow-tailing to China instead of taking a principled stand for Western values, but that should include the NFL supporting Kaepernick's right to free expression as well.

Perhaps the same reasoning can extend to so-called "cancel culture" of people getting fired for expressing their private opinions online.
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Thanks! Really great to hear!
It is actually one of my target audiences. Thought n8n has something to offer for kind of everybody. The three groups I had in mind were:
1. Private people and small Startups which care about the price
2. Medium-sized companies for which it is important to integrate their inhouse tools
3. Large companies/banks/government which care about their data
The emoji topic has nothing to do with Unicode standards and everything to do with Apple capitulating to China.
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I have some simple serverless code that has run 500M+ times without issue. It took some extra work to get setup and monitored, but SQS and Lambda are amazing beasts.
That's the point. The scale of China's reaction is obviously not because of the tweet itself but because of the trade war.

The message is that the US have a lot to lose if China starts to also effectively blacklist American companies like the US try to do to Chinese companies...

Edit: Someone should explain why now on HN a comment like this one that simply tries to look beyond the obvious and to discuss current issues with a bit more depth is received so negatively as soon as posted.
The project's documentation gives a better overview of its capabilities:

https://bentoml.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html
Not too many people know what it is!
I'm confused, is it self-hosted or not? The website says that a self-hosted solution is on the way, but here you say it can be self-hosted already, and I can't find pricing on your centrally hosted version.
> A blind person who has lost their voice could avail themselves of the text<->speech service I mentioned

Would they know how? They wouldn't normally be accustomed to using those tools, right? A sighted person with laryngitis doesn't need to bother with learning text-to-speech for the 2 weeks they don't have their voice because they can just use the website. If blind users have to learn the tools, that's adding an extra burden on them. (And yes blind users have to learn how to use screenreaders, which sighted users don't, but that's a permanent requirement associated with their disability)

> because not being able to speak English isn't considered a disability under that law.

That's not what I said. I've added parentheses to my statement so it's easier to parse as a boolean "(blind and (speech impaired or unable to speak the local language))".

> I'm not aware of any legal obligation for private businesses to provide translation services in the US.

But Domino's provides access to their website in multiple languages. So a blind non-English-speaker isn't enjoying the "equal and full enjoyment" of Domino's services that a sighted non-English-speaker would.
I do a little bit. Some affiliate income now and then (look at the first link in the website). But I don't really advertise much at all, just one plaintext link that too only on the home page.

Sometimes I get sponsors for my mailing list. In total I might have made a few thousand dollars.
Never heard of it before.
"So then Magick is taken amongst all men for wisdom, and the perfect knowledge of natural things: and those are called Magicians, whom the Latin's call Wisemen, the Greeks call Philosophers ... The Egyptians call them priests; and the Cabalists call them prophets. And so in diverse countries Magick has diverse names." (From chapter I)

So it seems in this book it is basically knowledge about the world, with no particular distinction been "natural" and "supernatural".
I am not an IP lawyer, but I'm not sure that you can monetize this project either the way it's currently set up? Since you're accepting third-party pull requests without requiring a copyright assignment or more permissive license from the contributors, I believe that you'll only be allowed to use their contributions under the Apache-with-commons-clause license they submitted their work under.
I suspect that few people who dislike Blizzard's response like the NFL's response. They are similar cases, but the first one was punishing an American, only seen by Americans to applease an American audience. The HK issue is punishing someone, seen globally, to appease a foreign audience.
Had any one or any group of people left any impression that they can be consistent across long time frame?

If so, let me know, I'd be very interested in studying their logic thinking and memory, and how they manage to be consistent at all.

That said, there are billions of reasons why things was reacted this way or ignored altogether, and later differently.

That's the norm.
Clearly the US had learned this lesson when Japan surrendered.
oh, hey boss!

I just bought this cherry extraloud MX-blue so you can hear me clickyclacky from your office. And created a deeplearning model to count clicks for our new pay-by-press payroll model. something something democratization :)
Right. I'd love to see something like this done for HN.

https://twitter.com/AirMovingDevice/status/11811206016430735...
How many of you

(1) wipe disk, install new OS, & reinstall apps & documents

(2) let apple try to upgrade in place
No, you can't test for PFAS with consumer kit, it's dangerous at 70 parts-per-trillion levels and is tricky to handle without contamination. The test itself is expensive, too. I'm in the part of Rockford, Michigan contaminated by Wolverine/Hush Puppies/Caterpillar shoe leather tannery scraps, and they've paid Rose & Westra GZA to send techs to my house every 6 months. A friend just outside the supposedly affected area paid $300 to have a test performed, which came back with <5ppt (to my house's 35-45ppt).

And that's just one possible issue. You can't feasibly test for every possible exotic contaminant.

In my case, however, a pair of 48"x10" granular activated carbon filters (with auxiliary sediment filters, water softener, and UV light) have proven completely effective at removing PFAS from my water.
>But there is another PEP to keep using roundup to address concerns raised.

Seems to be this one: www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0595/

Please correct if I'm wrong.
The point is that something that became a true AI could be very fast at learning some things, like how to interface with other people or machines, but not very quick at other "life skills" like empathy.

We're not worried about AI on the whole, but the blasted teenager AIs that feel the need to test their limits. Anything that functionally acts in a similar fashion could be dangerous.
"The Most Intolerant Wins"

> Let’s go one step further, “Should a society that has elected to be tolerant be intolerant about intolerance?”

> We can answer these points using the minority rule. Yes, an intolerant minority can control and destroy democracy. Actually, as we saw, it will eventually destroy our world.

> So, we need to be more than intolerant with some intolerant minorities.

[0] https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
I bet you are thinking of https://clojure.org/guides/spec#_instrumentation_and_testing - it was always just one use of spec among many.
Also firing the interviewers
Call your elected leaders.
Isn’t that also a good thing - that a company has a business model that allows them to keep supporting an app for almost two decades?

What alternative would you prefer? That Apple ships the latest MacOS with a 68K emulator, a PPC emulator, all of the 32 bit libraries, classic MacOS in a VM, and all of the Carbon libraries forever?
Great, hopefully one will open for people addicted to the web too.
How to build a homemade Rubik’s cube to help a mathematical school project
There's also South Park being banned in China because of an episode that depicted the way everyone tries to please the Chinese government. Oh the irony.
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If merely hiring people in China is objectionable now, you have a really long list of companies to work through
They got me to watch an episode for the first time in over a decade, so yeah, well done all around.
Tesla is literally opening their Shanghai Gigafactory this year.
The Blizzard story is the top HN story today with 1,700+ upvotes.

Yesterday, HN's top story was about Apple removing the Taiwan flag from the emoji keyboard: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-10-07
This is not true. There are lots of agreed upon standards (in this case the plaintiff wants WCAG 2.0) and dominos needs to meet one of
> But isn't it the very definition of privilege, when through no effort of your own you get to enjoy the benefits for which others have "fought", "struggled", and "sacrificed"? How is it different from the privilege of being born into a rich (or just functional) family?

The reason this framing is despicable is that rights and privileges are not the same.

Being able to afford a Lexus is a privilege. Not everyone has it and that's OK.

Having access to clean water is a right. Not everyone has it and that's not OK.

Free speech is a right. Everyone should have it even if some people currently don't.
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I constantly use

git commit --fixup 6138D3A
git rebase --autosquash --interactive origin/master

to keep a clean history of cohesive commits. Rarely do I change _everything_ required for an objective in one go, I still like to commit as I work, I just like the finished product to _seem_ like I did it in one go, for future maintainers' sake.

And I rebase to catch up with upstream, I can't stand having intermediate merge commits in my history and rebasing lets you resolve conflicts as they're introduced, instead of an all-at-once at the end.
Looks similar to what happens in the UK - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF_rvhsGjBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Xr4nfKsWk

Wonder what she typed.
Barr, Gillis and Hart were fired from one job because they alienated a large enough swath of their employers' customers and advertisers that they thought it would be bad for business. That's capitalism.

Furthermore, they're all still working, so I don't see how cancelled is the right word here.
> ...people are programmable.

This particular cynicism justifies far too much. A liberal (as in liberty) society must trust the super-majority of its population to agree on and uphold its ethical foundations. Policing hate speech weakens one of those foundations no matter how you justify it, but if you justify it by saying "people are programmable and so can't be trusted to hear what hateful people have to say," it weakens it enormously.

A huge percentage of our speech is attempted "programming." Political debate, religious preaching, even mathematical models of the universe are attempts to get others to think about something a certain way. But it would be unethical to ban any of those things, because people aren't "programmable," they're suggestible.
Am I missing something, or is it impossible to, y'know, check out a previous revision using github desktop? Create a branch at a previous revision? Reset the branch to some previous commit? Any of these things?

It seems to have next to zero functionality. What is the point of it? What you you use it for, other than commit, push?
I agree with you that >40 years old dislike China more as they never benefitted from the China's economic take-off that happened after 1990.

But I think for regular Chinese, the younger they are, the more liberal their world views are. This is because the education they received are more westernized each year (You might be surprised). Younger Chinese are generally more proficient in English. And to learn English people have to expose themselves to original English materials. I still remember when I was learning English I got access to things like TED, Open courseware such as Harvard's Justice, shows like the Newsroom, movies like the 12 Angry Men. China's human right records today is not good, but it was much much worse 30 years ago. Back then rural Chinese would kill new born female babies, have no issue buying and selling women (here's a movie about the topic[1]) and toddlers. People from different provinces fought and discriminated each other. And those are not government sponsored, just people being poor and illiterate. Now average Chinese are more literate and many more attended higher education (there's no higher education during the culture revolution)[2]. To this end I need to thank Nixon and people doing business with China. The average Chinese has a better life and can think more rationally thanks to economic and educational improvements.

On the other hand, internet censorship has become more strict after 2010. People do find ways to access VPN, it's just they don't discuss sensitive topics on Chinese internet.

1. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blind_mountain_2007

2. http://uis.unesco.org/en/country/cn (notice the Tertiary education section)
To introduce some humor into this deeply humorless world (this is a South Park comment thread), try hearing the word "Caucasian" as "Cock-Asian."

Ha! Gets me chuckling during every intense race-relation debate. I can't not hear it, now!
The general consensus is that he is loved. I am more ambivalent towards his Govt., but educated Indians absolutely love him.
The numbers speak for themselves: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48366944 .

There is no question that the BJP is simply a better choice (least worst choice?) than what every other national party in India offers today. This is something even my most left wing peers agree to.

While the BJP govt. has a lot of problems, the anger around section 370 in Kashmir is among the least justified. Section 370 was meant to be a temporary provision in the constitution to better integrate Kashmiris. It failed miserably and 370 itself made it really difficult for the federal govt. from fixing it. Kashmiri local politicians have used the provision to hold Kashmir hostage by playing friendly with separatists, and threatening secession whenever convenient. The treatment of Kashmiris itself has not changed much since Modi came in power. It sucked then, it still sucks now. But, for the first time, the federal govt. has some power to change things. If anything, it was absolutely necessary to remove 370 to even start fixing the sorry state of the region. The house arrest of local leaders was seen as necessary by the Govt, because they were the main inciters of separatist violence.

What you need to understand is that every loud mouth in India is a goon. This is basically one group of goons complaining about the other taking power away from them. If either the media or the politicians cared about the common person, then they would step outside Srinagar for once interview a person in the rest of Kashmir.

Indians understand the smoke and mirrors of the system, and know not to trust empty words of the Congress and other left wing parties. This is exactly why people do not like the shallow insights provided by people like Hasan Minhaj or the author of this article, who was born in the 0.0001% of the country (literally the son of the CEO of one of the biggest companies in the country) and never lived any of his adult life there. It is impossible to understand India from the outside.

That being said, there are some red flags with the Modi Govt.

1. The literal red flag (saffron flag) : a pro Hindu agenda. It has not been pushed as hard as the media might imply. But, it is undeniable that it exists.

2. The consolidation of power. Modi is becoming the singular face of the BJP, and such concentration of power is never good

3. A thin cabinet, especially lacking competent statesmen <- The biggest one for me.
SpaceX is now prioritizing Crew Dragon–which is great for NASA
Holy Moly! The author of this paper makes a very scary argument further shifting the burden of proof onto the employers.

The problem with hiring is that there is a hugely disproportionate supply/demand ratio. We might have 1 position to fill and 100+ applicants. How can any company correctly protect themselves against allegations of illegal hiring criteria in this type of environment? Right now the best protection is to say "we hired the most qualified candidate", but even that argument is shaky. What if the most "technically qualified" candidate performed the worst in the interview process?

Hiring is scary enough already without bringing the law into the picture. :/
All the "agencies" I know of in London are just the contracts arm of a traditional recruiting business. They are agencies in terms of how they operate (charging the customer on your behalf and taking a cut), but in terms of the kind of jobs they'll find you it's all onsite 6 months+ gigs that are often also available as a permanent positions.

If there are any agencies specialising in actual consulting gigs (meaning either short term / part time / remote and project-based, like a cloud migration), I'd be interested if someone could give a few pointers.
Parlor Trick: https://www.wired.com/2007/09/super-smart-par/
Recently bought "Self-editing for fiction writers" as it was recommended as a good book about not only editing but also writing itself.

The first chapter is named "Show and tell".

Here the authors also state the "show, don't tell" rule. They also show the difference between the two and give the advice to alternate both styles and in which context which style would be appropriate.

So yea "Show, don't tell" isn't a law you must strictly follow, but a rule, a guideline. As all rules it can be broken.
At some point you should ask yourself "But when?"
And this is how the rule invites to do further research on the "Show and Tell" styles.