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Kotlin has its own stdlib which runs on multiple platforms other than JVM.

I've used Java, Python, Ruby, Go and Kotlin. Kotlin is def my favorite and goto. Do you have any specific examples/complaints?
Far be it from me to question the ageless wisdom of sages, Murdoch's withered organs, the Graun, et al
It's not quite as bad as she makes it look like.

France already has laws covering exceptions like caricatures and quotations. That's why it's not detailed in the new article, it already exists.

The most interesting part of the PDF might be the article 17, section 4. In summary, platforms MUST provide a way for both users and copyright holders to handle complaints and -the important part- they MUST be reviewed by a human. This is gonna be fun for Google and co that want to automate everything with machine learning.
You make a compelling case, and at first it's terrifying, but then I know we humans are always terrified of change no matter what it is (e.g. 'music is dead' at the arrival of recorded sound), and also I wonder if we overpraise the 'natural order' of human behaviour as opposed to future potential worlds.

I am a freedom-fighter, yes, and I hate conformity, yes, but the current evolutionary survivalness of humans is also very ugly. (E.g. the selfish drive to steal a bike.) I don't have a solution, just thinking openly.
Perhaps they should be defunded. A period of darkness in the arts might reset it to being innovative and independent.
Agreed. I don't have any secret insider facts, but perhaps Oracle rubbed Google in a way that was not entirely pleasurable with the 10-years-and-still-going-on Java lawsuit..
"Propaganda"?
I disagree with so many points in your list I don't even know if it's productive to start listing them.

From implying that C# lambdas are not infinitely more useful, powerful, and intuitive than "functional interfaces"

To the issues implying Properties are bad compared to the completely and utterly ridiculous situation in Java (which is exactly how they're implemented in Kotlin by the way).

And your "critique" of "dynamic", do you even know what it's for or how it works? Go read up on what the "DLR" is

You seem to have fundamental issues with the fact C# goes for being a useful language for it's users over being Java. Half your reasons are literally "it doesn't do it how Java does" or "it does X but Java doesn't so X is bad". The other half are complaints about insanely powerful features C# has that have minor issues that in no way take away from the fact.. they're incredibly powerful and useful features.

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To me the moment you're trying to defend Java generics and type erasure, vs C# which paid the price early and has reaped the rewards for years, you should already you're on the wrong side of things...
It's not a luxury to live in a van. Lots of very poor people do it in California. It is a luxury to live in a van AND be able to travel.
>I've talked with quite a number of people who have bought VR systems, and I have yet to find one who uses it with the sort of frequency that people use their gaming consoles, PCs, laptops, or phones to play games. Maybe this wave of innovation will eventually take face-mounted VR from "novelty" to "daily driver", but it doesn't sound like it's here yet.

I pretty much fully agree with your assessment, with the caveat that I've seen a lot of folks really getting in to their Oculus Quests in a way that never happened for the tethered unit. I'm certain many would spend even more time using it if there was a larger software library.

(And yes, the success of the Quest genuinely surprised me, too. Having now gotten to play with one, I have to say tetherless with good controllers is the biggest single improvement in VR since the first modern headset.)
I was disappointed that the one I tried, I couldn't even get the UI to respond properly. Maybe it was just that unit but I could swear I recall reading of others have similar issues with the interface.
I'm not surprised at all given the people supposed to verify restaurants' applications are most likely the same monkeys that run their customer service (outsourced of course, what a surprise).
This would be no different from an app, just delivered via web. So not really anything new.
In theory, yes. In practice, startups fail for common reasons. If you want to start a company, talk to every startup founder you can about their experience. It really is a different life path.
https://www.aclu.org/other/text-digital-millennium-copyright...
At age 13, I joined the alt-right, aided by Reddit and Google
Reading the doc, I believe this is supported with these restrictions: (1) value classes may only contain other value classes, and (2) value classes cannot contain instances of themselves (no circularity).
Currently most RV parks are very discriminatory against people in vans or even older RV's. There's definitely a market for new places to appeal to these types of people
Making a GraphQL Micro-Service with QCObjects HTTP2 Built-In Server
So there's no need to start with that is the point.
This thing of learning only from other English speaking countries is so true when looking at buildings in Australia. Streets of red brick terrace houses copied from some northern mining town in England with tiny windows that you cant even fully open in a country were the temperatures rise up to 40 degrees celsius. You would think they will learn anything after all this years but the new apartment blocks seems to get built as heat traps, although at some stage they have figured out that a balcony might be a good idea in such a sunny country.
It's still better than LA, but it might be a stretch to say that LA actually has transit.
Well, if your OEM installed crapware in the system/vender/OEM partition, that's not really Android's problem. All other apps/services are very removable.
Dutch is so similar to German though that you're not having to learn any of the "hard parts".

English speakers have a really hard time with German and Dutch piling up verbs at the end of giant clauses. You've already learned that when you became fluent in German.

I would probably piss a lot of people off if I were to call Dutch a "dialect" of German, but Dutch is definitely the closest language to German.

If you wanted to know whether Duolingo worked for language learning you'd be better off trying a language family that you're not already familiar with, but not one that's renowned for being particularly difficult like Japanese. Maybe Russian?
Not sure why you are being downvoted. The biggest backers of the ridiculous copyright and IP laws are media companies - Disney, News Corp, etc being the most egregious examples. And these companies are only getting bigger as they consolidate and merge and it gives them even greater power and leverage within governments around the world. These media conglomerates are some of the largest ad sellers and buyers and have too much influence over everything. There is so much talk about how bad and powerful social media companies are. Disney, News Corp, etc are even more powerful and in my opinion, more destructive to human beings, than social media.

It's time to break up, not just the biggest social media companies, but all major media conglomerates. Lets get some diversity in the media space - social and traditional.
Have used DO, Linode and Vultr (and some others) for 5+ years but Vultr is the only one that keeps having network problems every now and then.

I run "monit" on all instances that checks for connectivity every minute but maybe every few months or so, I get alerts of network reachability for a slight moment from Vultr instance located in Silicon valley region. It's cool that they accept Bitcoin for payment though.

The page's test of course doesn't test reliability over the years and it seems it's not done 10 times on different instances, and the performance could've randomly fluctuated on the test, so I'd take the results with a grain of salt.

DO has been pretty stable for me. It just keeps running with no interferance.

Linode sometimes (like once a year) makes your instance unavailable for a tiny moment for maintenance but they provide you with clear explanation beforehand and I think it's good that they actively patch security problems that way.

Also good that they pool bandwidth from multiple instances, so even if your small instance takes lots of bandwidth, if you got some other instances, it can consume the limit from those too as a single pool.

Another for Linode is that they release OS images so fast as in they had CentOS 8 image the day I read the news it was released. I checked the others but only Linode had it then.
Food from a restaurant is way more expensive than prepping and cooking yourself at home. Add a doordash markup/delivery fee/tip on top of that, multiply it by a family of four and you’re not too far away from that $100.
Frankly, i think the ONLY thing worse than Android (which you correctly peg as terrible) would be a linux phone OS.
For example:

O: improve the usability of Kotlin

KR: 90% of top 1K Android apps have Kotlin deps

Q4 score: 67% (achieved 60%, goal was 90%)
What are the penalties, and has any business ever been punished by them? (I wasn't asking about Youtube.)
If the EU firewalls itself, it will make it easier for the rest of the world. To many aggressive laws claiming foreign jurisdictions.
Mathematician Finds Easier Way to Solve Quadratic Equations
Aviation uses so much energy, it’s gotta be this or stop flying.
Depends a bit on what your crash response strategy looks like eh...
Kotlin is a palliative that makes android dev nearly tolerable. Flutter is way better, even though Dart is not as good as Kotlin.
Hydrogen is much lighter though. You wind up with big ugly planes that are lighter than the planes we have now. Apparently they’ll be able to use shorter runways as well.
What do you mean by worse? I’ve spent a lot of time on Duolingo as well as in face-to-face language classes, in high school and university. I’ve also spent a smaller amount of time self-studying from books, CDs and software that predated Duolingo. I’m not fluent in any of the languages I’ve studied because of a lack of immersion, but I learned a lot more from Duolingo than any other source because it was so easy to establish a daily habit and stick with it without having to pay anything. I’ve had basic conversations as a tourist in France after learning French exclusively from Duolingo. I’m sure I would have learned more if I spent that time in class instead, but I didn’t because it’s very expensive and inconvenient compared to spending 30 minutes a day on Duolingo while I’m commuting.
I test drove the Kona EV and it's quite a fun car. Hard to find one, though.
Your first point is incorrect, inline classes can have fields that are regular reference types.
I'll plug our own mostly free-to-use project here, I think many will find it useful: http://languagelearningwithnetflix.com
(bilingual subs for Netflix and more)
Prenda law?
> You can't without enabling Location Services. If you could, that would be a huge security hole because users can only disable Location Services and not CoreLocation.

You are right. I was looking in the disassembly of CoreLocation and misread where the controls for this were (and what they were named in the UI)–see below. Sorry about that.

> In order to not send your location to Apple, you have to leave the network off.

There's a bunch of toggles to switch off sending location data to Apple, specifically, in the Location Services settings page. So you can have Location Services on but not send anything to Apple, unless the app does so itself.

> The location will be stored on the device and synced to Apple later if not.

From the code, it seemed like this was for syncing frequent locations (which is end-to-end encrypted).

> They'll get a phone that they are in control of instead.

I am assuming you're claiming this is an Android device?

> I'm just pointing out how ridiculous your mitigation is using an equally ridiculous description.

You're really not; you're coming in, whether you're serious or not, with the argument that iPhones are "dumb", which is not useful or even related to the point. Countering my "ridiculous mitigation" (which I have not even described as a mitigation, mind you; I was just pointing out that you can get data from GPS without sending anything to Apple; if anything the "mitigation" I will point you to now is the set of switches that I mentioned before) with another one just does not help keep this conversation on track. It's quite literally flamebait.
How is random memory relevant here? Today we can run entire Linux in a web page and we can surely run a simulation of IBM PC.
> Would it blow your mind if I told you that you can create a complex treeview without having to use third-party libraries or reinventing half the wheel yourself? Crazy

QT is a third party library that wraps the underlying OS primitives.

A really fancy tree view in JS is 10KB, maybe 15KB, given desktop+mobile support, proper accessibility, and good support for theming.

And that is if you are getting really fancy. A simple one is just some DIVs and a CSS animation for opening and closing.

That is assuming you even bother with JS, since you can do a treeview in the browser with CSS alone[1].

UI toolkits exist for the web as well, and they tend to be rather small, browsers ship with a lot of UI primitives after all!

The UI portion of code for my B2B web-app with all custom UI elements and with mobile+desktop support is around 100KB unminified.

Now the libraries I pull in to do the real time database streaming and authentication to my back end? Those dwarf the UI code (they are hundreds of KB each), but the native versions of those libraries are far larger (10x)[2], than the JavaScript equivalents.

> Would it blow your mind if I told you that you can create a complex treeview without having to use third-party libraries or reinventing half the wheel yourself?

The browser comes with a lot of wheels included, very few are getting re-invented unless someone wants indulge themself.

> To be clear I'm not saying that it's a bad idea per-se, I personally believe that the web is way too complicated as it is

Get rid of the weird things that happen to make advertising possible and most websites are pretty simple. Even complex web-apps are pretty easy to understand now days, though you'll have to learn whatever data-binding technique the dev team decided to use, but that is the same case for modern desktop applications.

[1]https://codepen.io/kobusvanwykk/pen/NqXVNQ

[2]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41750553/what-is-the-est...
If in 6 months he has found that next growth multiplier, people won't care where he was, but in 6 months if there is no meaningful strategy derived from the exercise, there will be cause to rethink his role and he himself will see it.
U.S. Revamps Process for H-1B Visa Application
<script type="module" src="app.wasm"></script>

Please
Co-simulation is widely used for verifying RTL implementations, see fx. dromajo.org but it's a general useful thing and I've used in many contexts, even for verifying a compiler against an interpreter.
Unfortunately this sets the timezone to UTC which breaks calendar alerts and all timestamps.
>AR has been around since 1990. VR decades before so times ticking on what a fad is and you have to make a case why this decade AR will start?

By that metric, we had smartphones at least since the early 90s. They didn't make any significant impact on the world at all until at least late 00s. And now, look at the world we live in these days.

>Your case why in a decade we want AR which is a overlayed response and a camera that can analyse the world using real technology. What will it do?

Everything a smartphone can do, but in a much more seamless, unobtrusive, and superior way, as well as many many other things that we cannot even think of now. If you think a tech that can completely supplant smartphones (as well as offer many more things that smartphones cannot do) isn't gonna be desired by people in the future, then I think there isn't much one can say to convince you otherwise.
The use of OKRs goes back to Andy Grove at Intel and while, like any tool, they can be misused they're definitely not just for vanity metrics. Some more useful OKRs might be things like:

- Increase number of signups for our app by 10%.

- Decrease the rate of customers churning off our platform by 20%.

- Reduce the median time it takes to ship a product out of our warehouse from 3 to 2 days.
I sometimes dream of an Arch Linux Android OS. If only...
Even so, seems like pricing would work out better with the reactors attached to the grid. Lock in a rate for providing baseline power, and then bid for renewable energy to power the facility when spot prices are low enough at times of peak production, and ramp up synthetic fuel production at the same time.

You can keep using process heat from the reactor since it's already operating anyway, but get much cheaper electricity (sometimes even negative prices!) from peak renewable generation and turn that into synthetic fuels for storage.
There is https://www.serverhunter.com/ but really reviews like this are better because metrics like CPU-core and instantaneous disk speeds won't necessarily tell you about the consistency in network, disk, and CPU performance over a long period, and the supported features. It is not like AWS and Google Cloud where you can expect stable performance.

There is also https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/ which conducts regular tests and may give a more complete picture.
Copyright is not as important to society as Silicon Valley wants everyone to believe. It a property issue and not even a critical one. Most of the problems around it can be solved with money.

The collateral damage caused by this lawyer infused, never ending “copyright war”, though is real.

Not worth one good man.

Edit: I’m a “creator”. Never been “corporate”. I had my work “cloned”.
Interesting, I thought Yann was still the head of AI at Facebook. Did they just need someone who would tell them that achieving human-level intelligence is coming soon?
For what it's worth, the JVM defaults to 10,000 times for a method being called before deciding it is hot, so that threshold is not without precedent (but can be adjusted via XX:CompileThreshold)
You can't really compare costs and ignore the level of corruption. In e.g. Russia the only reason why subway costs $500M/km is because at least two thirds of that money immediately vanishes into the various off-shore companies owned by the various oligarchs, government officials, and cronies thereof. Same with highway construction. Someone once jokingly "calculated" that it's cheaper to pave the roads with foie gras there.
"Synthetic fuels" means jet fuel. There are various ways to make synthetic kerosene with atmospheric CO2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_fuel#Synthetic_jet_fuel
Every potentially unpleasant Brave feature is easy to disable (and often by-default disabled). Is is very good at ad-filtering, snappy and responsive, stable, can be audited (opensource)... and the underlying ways to provide for creators/publishers (and also people liking/needing advertising) are clever and disruptive.

Brave is worth a try.

I'm not paid for this (and there is no 'conflict of interest').
I’ve studied French (easy for an English speaker), Japanese (hard but I already knew the basics from school) and Russian (hard and I didn’t know the alphabet when I started) on Duolingo. I assure you I have learned some things about those languages, even if I would have learned more if I spent the same amount of time in class. Of course, some of the courses are better than others, and languages that are less like your own are harder to learn, but that doesn’t mean you can dismiss the experiences of those who have used the app to build their knowledge of easy languages.
Maybe, but the alternative of trying to start a pop-up in a 'food hall' may be just as problematic, as landlords for those take a ~30% cut - see https://heated.medium.com/the-troubling-economics-of-food-ha... :

"On prepared foods — which quickly became the bulk of the food hall’s business — Donaldson’s company was raking in as much as 30 percent. (The current structure, according to Donaldson, is a flat rate of around 30 percent of sales for all vendors.) Even if they made no sales, stalls paid at minimum $4,500 each month "
You can probably also rent these tapes from your local library!
It's not just them. AS4837 (China Unicom) and a few others who have intl permission to route in and out of China. That said, you're going to hurt a lot of non-china multinationals who operate there.
Nice video explaining No Man Sky’s evolution: https://youtu.be/uzvxn6l50co

Anyone who has worked in software knows the difference between expectations/projections and real life. Everything takes 10x longer once you dig into the details. So it’s great to see a gaming company able to adapt and continually release through those down moments and eventually produce something great.

It makes you wonder how much better other games could be if they took an incremental approach and continually expanded the world available to users.
Two related questions not answered in this article:

- Where can I find good low-cost KVM with decent monthly bandwidth in Australia? Primarily want a remote fast Linux/VNC desktop (which will chew a lot of bandwidth), and want bandwidth left over to actually do things with.

- There's no mention of Oracle's always-free cloud offerings (100GB disk, 1GB RAM, 10TB bandwidth). Interested to hear what people think of this.
Copyright is pretty important to the artists, academic publishing, and the entertainment industry, no?
It's actually kind of small compared to terrestrial and sea transport believe it or not. In absolute terms, not per person. I think I read it was 1% of greenhouse gas emissions. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
“a web site Lihkg.com” is really an understatement as its title indicated. Given the “be water” and no leader, lihkg is really the only way to try to have some sort of info among possible noise (which popo is likely also post their confused Messages). There were discussion to cut off access by hksarg and a rush to install vpn is promoted. Guess they cannot firewall hk given its financial centre status.

The evil empire and culture will try and try to harm liberty and human rights. If it is not so important you would not see many of hkers like me instead of posting in here and other places, but in concentration camp as northern Turks up north.
I believe the idea is that you can use hydrogen to synthesize kerosene, which assuming you use clean energy inputs, is carbon neutral. There was a similar sort of startup that showed up on HN a few months ago.
>> This is basically whataboutism.

And this ^ is hypocrisy.
It is more reasonable to compare this with stealing parking. For example over-staying the time on a meter, skipping paying at all for a "quick" stop or parking in a no-parking zone is about the same as skipping a fare. Now if one wants to argue parking meter violations should result in jail time, that would be different...
At this stage, I honestly think it would be easier to get pre-modeled tea mugs that your VR headset can track than to have a good experience replacing your desktop with AR. Even just modeling it yourself and gluing a vive puck to the bottom seems pretty easy. I understand that the mug is really just one example, but for almost any given problem VR seems like it's ready to be adjusted to deal with it far better than AR is ready to even create the fundamental experience of being a desktop monitor replacement.