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> It's not so bad on desktops, and I can restore it there anyway via CSS.

I wouldn't recommend trying to modify DOM elements via CSS or extensions if you can avoid it. You're going to run into some broken web experiences.

Regarding scrollbars, you can set your OS to always show them. As a web dev, I'm out here trying to advocate to never screw with scrollbars.
There's little to no innovation anyway so I don't see why this is an issue.
Interesting. I wonder if 61 and 63 had broken auto-updaters?
Cool. But how is this better than Meteor for building webapps? Meteor would scale better too with Apollo.
Not necessarily. It depends on exactly what "it" is. I have quit jobs before because I was required to implement something that I considered an egregiously terrible idea.
> Anyway, why does the above mean there is no "American Dream" in China, when most the accusations you make can be levelled (in some form) to the US as well

this seems fallacious. it's not clear how the various whataboutisms you're engaging in establishes or relates to "the american dream in china" actually existing or not.
Absolutely agree with you. Many people on HN suffers from Stockholm syndrome when it comes to Google. If Google wanted to be a customer focused company instead if being an ad revenue focused one they could expose the knobs to you to fine tune the spam filter. They do not care about users, Gmail does not even have a customer support line that you can call when you ended up in the wrong side of their automation code. I am in the middle of moving out every email address from Google asap. I just realized how disgusting their way of operating is and I do not want to continue contribute to this problem by using their service.
That's just it -- you can store and compress the air outside the house and pump it in at low pressures.

We do the same thing for electricity, but the "low pressures" we pump it into our houses at can still burn them down or kill us outright.
Seeming as you clicked the down-vote button and not the 'reply' button, I am going to just assume you don't know...

Congratulations. You win the argument, and the internet.

Pointing out the problems without offering solutions isn't a very useful thing to do.
Flipping flip i agree! It's not just scrollbars. I hate the mobilification of everything. I hate that desktop designs are imitating the nonexistent information density of phones. Bring back menubars, and extensive left-hand hierarchies . Even in mobile, it's more practical for me. I like a full page where i can zoom in and out faster between its parts rather than scrolling up and down all the time (I browse reddit in old mode - it's just better)
is it just me or anyone else? As soon as i open a page on desktop i always look at the scrollbar first.
It's an Infinite Improbability Investment Drive, topic of Douglas Adams's next novel.
Ask HN: How to get a reply after no response?
I am trying to get in contact with a middle-level manager at a larger company that I do business with, but my efforts have been unsuccessful.

How do you get someone to respond to you if they go silent? I think it would be unwise to send too many followup emails and voicemails.
Early tetrapods had an eye on the land
You can literally grow food in your backyard. It's a renewable resource.
You can't `create water` in your backyard.
Freshwater is effectively a non-renewable resource.
So the supply is limited but the demand is infinite, which makes capitalistic rules not apply. So if you attempted to apply capitalism, you would get horrible exploitative results.
SV still feels like a party to me. Sure, it’s not 2000 any more, and property prices are high, but there is still a lot of capital and talent sloshing about. Just staying at a top paying big co for 5 years or so, starting as a senior dev, can set you up with a lot of money
This is the definition of whataboutery. 'America is bad to', is not an argument against any critique of China.

Any US or European citizen can travel freely throughout their country or to most countries in the world.

While the US carceral state is indeed abominable and a continuation of the suppression of African Americans, America does not have prison camps holding a million members of an ethnic minority.

The NSA surveillance programme revealed by Snowdon and Manning is awful, as are the continuing attempts to prosecute and silence whistle blowers. Fortunately the US does not regularly send police officers to harass citizens based on their expressed political beliefs. Nor does it scrub political communication and expression from the internet or censor it from public media.

Electoral fraud and gerrymandering are awful. They are in no sense comparable to actual dictatorship however.

Critiques of murderous dictatorships like those in Russia, China and North Korea are always side tracked like this. No one is disputing the many and varied faults of liberal democracies. But to hold them up as equivalent to the imprisonment of Uyghurs, the harvesting of prisoner organs and so on is disingenuous to say the least. Not least because we in the west have the privilege of making these critiques, which Chinese do not.
Is scratch a dead-end language? It's not used for anything production grade, and it can't be modified in vi because it requires a gui of all things!

Yet millions of children (and adults) learn about programming through scratch and create amazing things. It is not a dead-end language.
Do you know of any generalized SQL interpreter that allows push-downs to the underlying engine where possible, but can also arbitrate compute resources to post-push down operations. Eg: such as merging disparate result-sets or make up for the lack of features from the underlying engines.

Closest thing that comes to mind is something like Apache Drill, which coincidentally also uses Apache Calcite as the SQL interpreter.

Also wondering why I would use this over Zeppelin which can support other interpreters like Flink?
My experience has also been it's a not-entirely-Zen experience extending giant if conditions even if they technically work fine for the current use case.
This is a pretty funny sentiment -- Stormfront in fact links to Breitbart all the time.
Identification of strontium in the merger of two neutron stars [pdf]
I want to repair and modify the hardware that I own whether or not I have a warranty.
Herein lies the problem: it doesn't matter how much 'better' or 'smoother' or 'consistent' the change is - or is not, in this case. It's a gross oversight to never inform end users of the change in any way.

How many iPhone users attentively watch WWDC or read each update's (often incomplete) release notes? 1%? 3%? 5% tops? Why roll out a feature when 95% of your users will need to discover it through trial and error? A relatively juvenile UX mistake for such a mature company, but seems to be their MO these days...
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Practically, yes. Basically all phone plans except burner phones have unlimited SMS now. It's the default text based messaging service in the US.

Though I would expect that to change pretty rapidly once gen z is in the ascendant. I don't think they use SMS much, a lot more Instagram messenger than anything it seems like.
So you are saying that there could be aliens that would percieve 1+1 as 3, how would that even make sense?

If our society is built by mathmatics that can be seen as wrong by aliens, how would they percieve our reality and how would they explain the complicated structures we have built using our mathmatics?
Its etymology is: "the people's rule". Its definition is: "a system of government by the whole population".

I think it's pretty fundamental for democracy that as a member of society you have equal power to govern yourself as everyone else does.

What you describe is an Oligarchy. Specifically it seems close to a Geniocracy, Meritocracy, Noocracy or Technocracy. Those are all forms of Oligarchy, where only the "smart", "deserving", "wise", and "experts" get to rule.
Excel needs exactly one thing to blow open the doors on productive programming: a new "function" data type. Since it's just a data type, you put it in a cell just like any other data type. Have some way to call it, like `A1(arg1, arg2)` or something. Now you can leverage the full capabilities of Excel to manage it, name it (named ranges), etc just like other data.

A more sane expression syntax might be nice too, but isn't necessary to make Excel more productive for abstract programming.
>Basically, his mortgage and 4 wheelers are paid off so we must be big enough.

Isn't that the point?

I'm not starting side projects with a hope of growing them beyond what gives me a comfortable lifestyle.
The fact that we can determine what a piece of software will do, doesn't mean we always do that kind of analysis, or that the programmer fully understands his own code. That's why we have type systems, constraints, verification tools, etc.
When companies act unethically and make decisions that limit consumer choice and harm the environment, the government should most definitely get involved.
Android 9/10: Pull from the top to open your "tray" where you can turn on/off things like wifi, flashlight, airplane mode, do not disturb, etc. You can re-order and enable/disable those items too, I forget what it looks like stock but mine is right at the top.
Not if you’re using the same browser along with the same settings.
> I’m a developer with an eye for design, but I’m certainly not a designer. So I don’t know what the solution is to these types of accidental UI bugs.

The solution is right there in his screenshot. The list of contacts and apps indicate that you can scroll along the X axis by showing a partial icon that extends off the screen.

The fact that Apple didn't do this on the Y axis is an issue in this particular UI that should be fixed.
Surprisingly (at least to me) when I had this discussion online in the past the biggest pushback I got against using another language in code was from non-native speakers. They all were highly comfortable, and preferred, that their "work language" was English.

For better or for worse, the world has settled on English as the lingua franca for business.
This is a pretty fluff piece. There isn't really much explored here.

The only interesting idea I can write out is that the author says that knowing the length/size of an article/book is intrinsically good. I do wonder if that is necessarily true.

Maybe one can argue that knowing the length of a written word has resulted in less people engaging?
>2. No flipping way to quickly navigate to the top or bottom of the post.

I don't know what the state of this is on Android, but iOS 13 lets you grab the scrollbar and go immediately to wherever you want in a document.

The scrollbar doesn't show up by default, so it's a 2-step operation. Scroll a bit to make the scroll indicator appear, then grab it and scroll faster.

Works well but I doubt many people are aware of it yet. People just assume you can't grab the scroll indicator in iOS since Apple took that feature away when they first launched the iPhone. Scroll bar has been non-interactable for the last 12 years of their touch devices.
Sometimes I scroll down articles quickly just to make the hidden scrollbar appears so that I can estimate the length. Very annoying.

However I do agree that removing scrollbars on Mobile has one advantage: I simply can't accidentally move to the bottom of the page, which (no idea why) I do it very often...
all the time - to assess how long the text is and decide whether to read it
Uh. No.
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It would be cheaper getting new lawmakers (throw them away).

It is seriously insane viewpoint in an overcommercialized consumer frenzy environment destroying worker exploiting mass industrial insanity that the humanity exhibit nowadays.

What's next? Get a new car if someone scratches it? Get a new home if the window breaks? Get a new lawmaker if it says something dumb?
It indeed doesn't mention EPP.

Is there any proof that EPP is significant?

What about the other parts of the report?

For example:

>"It is extremely likely that human activities caused more than half of the
observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to
2010. This assessment is supported by robust evidence from multiple
studies using different methods. In particular, the temperature trend
attributable to all anthropogenic forcings combined can be more closely constrained in multi-signal detection and attribution analyses. "

In order for climate change to be primarily driven by EPP or particle forcing instead of anthroprogenic forcing, it would have to be the case that either:

A. Somehow, anthroprogenic forcing is much less than the multiple avenues of evidence show.
Here:

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_Chapt...

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/07/WGI_AR5.Chap...

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_TS_FI...

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WG1AR5_Chapt...

or

B. There is something unknown that offsets the impact of anthroprogenic forcing, but would not have offset the impact of particle forcing in the absence of anthroprogenic forcing.

In the absence of evidence, it is a big claim to make that either of these things are the case.
When I pointed out the design flaw to the girlfriend she said the same thing, then literally 1 minute later used it flat on the table.
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> they still turn it into SIMD or do other very drastic rewrites to it that are hard to reason about

Maybe it's just me, but I haven't seen this being a major problem in C. Most optimizations are local and fairly easy to reason about. C++ is a whole different story.
Luckily in free areas of the world you don't get imprisoned based on process of elimination.
There's a market for people who need a car to match their short term housing. (<1yr, or even a 3-yr lease on a used car). This is Rent-a-Wreck's market. Not a huge market, though.
Even without higher-level coordination, independent autonomous agents on the road could still do a lot better than human drivers in at least two ways: a) the jam-busting behaviour described elsewhere on this thread could be built in, avoiding the counterproductive and unnecessary stop-and-go pattern that most human drivers seem to fall into, and b) even when traffic unavoidably comes to a standstill, a self-driving car could have near-instant reaction time on stopping and starting, meaning that the wave propagation would be much faster.

This second point is basically saying that if there's a pileup, yes the whole roadway will stop while it's cleared, but the moment a lane opens up, autonomous cars will be able to more efficiently and immediately use it to get the whole jam moving forward.
Fossil fuels are used for thousands of products everything from medicine to concrete to asphalt to pesticides, to solar cells, to windmills and machinery and manufacturing, etc.

We are not even close to having the battery technology that will work with most things we use fossil fuels for today let alone replace the other products that come from fossil fuels.

Fuel Cells are not even on the drawing board let alone at scale.

With regard to nuclear, it's expensive because it's being demonized which creates all sorts of extra requirements which is part of what make it more expensive. Furhtermore nuclear is calculated at actual cost neither wind or solar is.
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Since Futhark has sum types, I wonder whether we could transpile Elm syntax to Futhark. I'll have to dig into what's possible with Futhark and how well it would map...
Having no scrollbar could be descrbied as a broken web experience in my opinion.

And I actually think that begin able to modify webpage to your liking is important, even if it means breaking the page in the process (I'm kind of used to it with umatrix)

I do agree that in an ideal world, every webpage would be an amazing web experience, but unfortunately that's not the case, even with big websites with amazing UX desginer
NWT apologists often fail to mention that the Byington translation was published exclusively by Watch Tower until the copyright expired. I personally suspect they published it for the sole reason of justifying translation errors in the NWT.

> The same constructs elsewhere are assumed in most translations based on context, but modern context is based on doctrine, and doctrine is uninteresting for literary science.

Context determines meaning. If you discard context you cannot translate documents accurately, in any language. The NWT has the worst of both worlds. It discards the context of the original document in order to support doctrine. This can be seen in John 1:1. The language is not particularly ambiguous.
https://carm.org/john-1-1-word-was-god
> By all accounts construction of homes in China is so haphazard buildings frequently become uninhabitable, and occasionally literally collapse within a few years.

Well, I'm not convinced that this effect is necessarily widespread. Certainly more common than in the west where we have strict building regulations and such, but this is the flip side of getting a lot of housing built cheaply, which is necessary for China. An analogue might be construction in the states during our industrial revolution - we had all sorts of horrid issues, from barely-livable tenements with no ventilation to massive fires that killed tons of poor workers. Most of the stuff we built back then doesn't come close to conforming with modern building code.

In any case, it's not a big problem I saw personally in China, but I'm n=1 here. I stayed in a relatives' apartment building from the 90s that was holding up fine, as well as perfectly nice newer apartments that relatives enjoyed in tier3 cities and older houses and townhouses that aged well.

I imagine this is the kind of thing that western media likes to play up, but isn't as visible for people on the ground (another example is the social credit system - I couldn't find any evidence the social credit system even exists yet during my time in China, much less the horrifying things we see reported regularly.)

> But to what extent it is merely attempting to outrun a construction bubble, and ensnare developing world countries in debt; versus building a sustainable economic model, is questionable.

Strongly agreed, hence my comments that the next 2-6 decades of slowing growth will be very telling on the "Chinese dream".

I don't think Chinese success is guaranteed - I think the CCP has made a lot of frightful financial gambles. My big fear is that it does, somehow, pay off, and the world turns to China as a model of how to run a country as a result.
If someone has never taken a calculus course, and many formulas are presented in other types of technical books which were developed using calculus, then those formulas will seem somewhat mysterious/foreign.

Doing delta–epsilon proofs isn’t necessary to clear that up though. Just a regular introductory calculus curriculum is likely sufficient.
I found the 3D touch on the keyboard to be flakey compared to the spacebar -- if you moved your finger before 3D touch activated, then it lost context and wouldn't activate 3D touch, and then you'd have to delete the stupid 'j' that just got dropped in your email.
Because it's Friday night, here's some additional, off-topic, trivia: http://superset.eu/abraj.jpg

That's the Daily Mail's windmill size picture, set beside the Abraj Al-Bait. My hobby is pointing out the existence of this building to people. Please forgive the jpg artifacts and the horrible photoshopping, but the point is, this is to scale. (give or take a few %)

Now, it's not the worlds tallest building per say, but certainly the most collosal thing ever made by mankind. Of course (where else) in Saudi Arabia. As shown schematically in the image, its dimensions are insane x nuts x wtf.

EDIT: fix image link
The blog for the game Children of a Dead Earth had some excellent posts on railguns as weapons.

https://childrenofadeadearth.wordpress.com/tag/railguns/
But you can be extradited to countries that do.
And now compare that to the $0.40/kwh they could charge for a rapid charge session versus the $0.15/kwh retail rate.

Eventually of course that margin will decline as the stations become more common, but stations could also reduce their costs and peak dependence on the grid by using solar plus storage.
Perhaps we should try asking someone who actually speaks, reads, and writes Arabic how big of a barrier this is before we jump to conclusions...
It's China so they must be cooking their books to keep their Chinese Communist Party partners happy.
OSX hiding scroll bars can be surprising for devs. You try your app on another OS and realize you’ve got several unintended scroll bars. I always turn them back on when working on OSX.
China is not in any sense socialist or even communist. It lacks free health care, public housing, and state service provision. It is neither internationalist nor collectivist. It's a hybrid single party ethno-nationalist capitalist state, or if you prefer a fascist oligarchy.

The Chinese economy is overvalued, and economic growth is grinding to a halt despite massive government spending.
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3033564/c...

Every western country is a counter example.
I actually think he's making a big deal out of nothing on this one. If you have a site that gets long, it would be smart to create some kind of system for jumping between sections, or scrolling up a great deal. Like Google Docs does when editing a long document. I can jump between bookmarks and pages with the "knob" on the right. But most websites don't need anything like this. It should be the job of the developer of the site to realize their site DOES need this, and implement some kind of smart solution.
How convenient this comes one day after Zuckerberg's show trial
I'm born in the 80s so it's not totally objective, but I know there's something wrong when I boot up a win95 box and I don't miss 99% of so called innovation regarding UI.
I wouldn't call Australia, New Zealand, and Russia "western countries".
There are many programming channels on Freenode (IRC server)
Have you seen voltage rating on that thing?

You can't reliably handle 1500V+ voltages in solid state electronics without purpose made IGBTs, or exotic semiconductor materials.

Your EE knowledge doesn't seem to be more than cursory.
I actually prefer the current scollbar situation. I HATE when people hijack it but I prefer it to disappear when I don't need it. I can always scroll a tiny amount (magic mouse) to see my progress. I really do like the clearer look to UI's without the bar.

> No flipping clue how long the flipping post flipping is.

> No flipping way to quickly navigate to the top or bottom of the post.

I've literally never had either one of these issues with a disappearing scrollbar. OCCASIONALLY I have to try to grab it a second time but I'm more than happy with that state of affairs.

Also calling out Ello at the end is rather weak IMHO. If you really hate the lack of scrollbars so much then host your own blog...
I don't have experience with SIMD, and for the things I do I couldn't care less. I like C as a super-productive language that doesn't get in my way. The output from unoptimized code is magnitudes faster than what I get from higher level scripting languages. And much more efficient than with GC languages for any non-trivial stuff. And I can write that code almost as quick as Python or Java code, and with very little debugging time (after some years of experience).

I might be in the minority, but to me, C is as high-level as we should go, for many many problems. If you really care about registers and SIMD stuff, then your concerns are architecture specific, and that's not really what C does well. What C does is mostly abstracting registers. Why blame it for that? The few places where you need SIMD, well, just insert architecture specific code there.

Is there a way to write portable code that can be better optimized?