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The point is : the C# namespaces, default behaviors and general usage, are only half of a good idea. Effectively importing every symbol in a namespace into the local namespace by default is so obviously bad.

Yes you can do `using Whatever = System.Console;`, fantastic, that's not the common idiom and it is harder to do (longer to write) than the usual idiom.
15 people opening the same deck is not the same as 15 people opening 15 different decks that have just one slide in common.
It's widely known that the NHS needs organ doners. That itself is not the issue for me, the new status quo of the state having the right to harvest my organs is.

How are targeted ads and Facebook notifications _opt in_, but this isn't??
I generally do embedded and radio things. :) I'm not gonna lie, I can't follow web stuff with the speed at which it changes.
Trying to patch that fundamental behaviour is hard.

There's prior art for this, though:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121001002815/http://my.opera.c...
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Instagram doesn't have the same network effect as Facebook. Snapchat does have Quick Add, which shows people you might know; it's also a much more communication-driven platform.

TikTok is probably the modern Instagram replacement, not the modern Facebook replacement.
To your first point. I think contraction economics (the study of economics under declining populations) would be a great area to enter right about now.
There is an estimated amount which you can pay optionally.

The implied threat is, if you don't pay the estimate, and thereby claim you already paid your sales tax due on all online purchases, then if you get audited, you lied under penalty of perjury on your return.

Now this is very unlikely, but it's compelling if you're very risk averse.
I think your parent comment was referring to emotional maturity--and I would agree with his/her point.
Organ donation is very much intentionally not allowed to be an economic transaction in most places, so that's a strange comparison to make.
The thread exposes exactly what OP was suggesting: you start by making it automatic with opt-out, instead of explicit opt-in. And the next step is to suggest you don't deserve an organ because you opted out. No one would suggest it before, if you didn't opt in.

I'll save the thread for the first time some politician uses the you're not an organ donor ammunition against another. Which will happen. Which didn't happen before.

It's a subtle but profound change, and the legislators clearly knew and sought that.

> Your family would always be involved before donation takes place

That's nice, what will happen if:

a) you don't have close family

b) they can't be contacted fast enough
If they have to get permission from your family anyway, then why bother with asking the donor at all? Just always ask the family and be done with it.
>And as always, eventually, while the option might be technically available, just like the TSA opt out, you will be basically shamed into compliance.

What is this? In the past five years, I've probably flown 15 times and every time, I've opted out just fine. Just stand there waiting to one side until someone comes to pat you down. The pat down is consistent across airports, and you can usually count on the TSA agent to be courteous and professional. I can't stand the agency or their dictum that they're keeping the skies safe, but individual agents seem to be decent folk.

Never had any feeling of shame from other passengers or TSA agents. Maybe I'm lucky or privileged or something.

But if you don't want to get scanned, tell the agent you want to opt out. You don't have to be a haughty prick about it. Just say, "I want to opt out, please." And when they say, "okay, stand over there," nod and say, "thank you."
It is related to opt out because now you have to opt out to avoid this. Also not sure why you make it seem like 2013 is the middle ages or something.
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> The US Army declined his suggestion to do blood donations from dead soldiers in combat

Well, obviously, yes, because even before any ethical concerns, that's wildly impractical in every possible sense. Soldiers are already carrying around 40-60 pounds of gear and now you want them to transport blood transfusion equipment, too?
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> the DockerFiles themselves can also describe a reproducible process

This is true, but Docker does almost nothing to support reproducibility. As soon as you do an apt-get, reproducibility goes out the window.

> they are certainly "incremental" due to caching

Caching is layer-based. Docker has no awareness of whether or not a particular dependency has changed or what is necessary to rebuild it. Docker only understands layers, which are inherently linear--you can only try in vain to force your dependency graph into that linear layer structure. An incremental build tool only rebuilds things that have changed (or whose dependencies have changed).

> Does nix power merit such a big compromise against simplicity and readability?

This is a good question. First of all, understand that Nix isn't intended to be a build tool, it's a package toolkit. It's intended to replace all of the stuff that the debian and centos people use to build and manage packages in apt and yum repos. That said, I personally think Docker's build system is sooooo bad that under many circumstances, Nix does a better job.

For example, if your whole repo is Go or Rust or some other language with a sane build and deployment story, then they already have incremental, reproducible build tools and it's fine for Docker to call into them (or to invoke them outside of Docker and just have Docker copy in the static artifact). But if you have a heterogeneous tree including C or Python or other languages which lack sane build tooling, then you need something to stitch all of that together in some (somewhat) reproducible, incremental fashion if you hope to be able to build reliably and in some timely fashion.

That said, there are a few other tools that are purpose-built for this problem; however, they all tend to be poorly designed, buggy, and hard to extend. I'm thinking of Bazel, Pants, Buck, etc--all of which are clones of Google's internal build system, Blaze. So far, Nix seems to be the best in class, even though it doesn't aspire to be in the class at all.
Looking at object getter/setters in any OOP is likely to be pretty uninspiring :)

There's no logic there, this is basically just boilerplate for some other code to set properties on an object. Something that actually has some business logic will be much more interesting to read, eg.

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/15c2245af97486...
I agree.

Having (or finding) a natural state of solace without having to think about it is relaxation at its finest.
Thanks much for the response.

So to sum up, what did customers care about the most from your point of view? (maybe top 3)
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I often feel like this is frowned upon in the US, while in many countries it’s completely normal. Of course in the US the famous and the rich get a pass.

I’m pushing 50 and haven’t had kids. I want to and expect to, probably in a couple years. I tell myself I’ll be starting my first family at the age where many people start their second.

Any healthy child raised with love is a huge plus in the universe.
As long as these places are close to home, I could certainly use it for nature retreats
Several:

First, there are documented studies showing that known organ donors have a slightly lower survival rate in hospitals than non-donors do. Draw what conclusions from that you will, but some people choose not to be a donor for precisely that reason.

And second, if you have any plans or hopes for cryogenic preservation, that's not particularly compatible with organ donation.
Well, he used it with memory limits command line switches, so it could never be exploited. So he was technically correct. One should not use so much memory for a mail server, way too risky.

Problem is, these switches were not default, people didnt use it because they are dumb, and DJB never cared to properly maintain it. like limiting memory per default, 32bit only builds or such.
Yes, just like China's prison programs, save a lot of lives...
The default attitude of treating people like lab rats is a sign of profound disrespect and will inevitably backfire.
How are those two things in any way the same?
Hmm. What do you think about systems where you personally can't get those sort of organs (for yourself, from someone else) unless you opt into donation yourself? Would you find that adequate compensation, or would the possibility of not getting organs you need sway your decision?
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Ha!, I drank my coffee out of a "Cahokia cup" that I bought the second time I visited.

If you are in Central Illinois, definitely visit Cahokia (and the Lincoln memorial, of course).

When I was in high school my older brother and I took a 3000 mile train ride from the California border, through Mexico to near the Guatemala border to see Mayan ruin complexes. The vibe is different at Cahokia, more peaceful.

A few years ago I visited a ruin site in Northern Mexico that was a major trading center, goods from Central and South America, and virtually all of North America flowed through there.

I think that life was mostly very good (except for medical problems/life expectancy) until the population grew to strain natural resources and incentivised violence.
> some diary site

LiveJournal?
That would be very inefficient, and I also doubt that the build-in 12V DC-DC converter is capable providing the current required to run the inverter.

So, since it requires retrofitting anyway, it would make much more sense to have an inverter running directly of the high voltage battery.

I guess this all comes back to my original statement: Currently available EVs certainly do not have suitable electronics for 115V or 230V output. It will require hardware retrofit, not just a magical software update to make it work.
Fedora stays close to upstream: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Staying_close_to_upstream_pro...

Ubuntu is a Debian derivative, they patch things heavily, just like Debian.

SUSE, I don't know about their policy. I assume they're like RHEL, which starts from Fedora, which is close to upstream, and then backports bugfixes from later versions on to stable branches.

Many distros maintain stable branches and just update the packages on that branch when they have security issues. Backporting security fixes has (somewhat) gone out of favor, because backports executed by package maintainers that weren't familiar with the code have caused serious security issues in the past. Of course, distros like RHEL and (I guess) SUSE still do backport security fixes to their stable branches. But they start from a base which is close to upstream - it just diverges more and more as their stable branch gets older and older.
I'd love to, genuinely, but I don't think it will be possible. https://github.com/dotmesh-io/dotmesh is already open source though which is one key component of Dotscience.
Cool, thank you!! I've not heard of this before and it looks pretty interesting (also because it doesn't require kernel extensions)
Maybe Presto/Athena
> Some brains are neurologically misconfigured and prone to chemical depletion or lack receptors for it.

Bullshit pure bullshit. This has never been shown and its disgusting that its re-iterated by people purported to be well-meaning.
According to http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/ (not sure how legit it is), twitter.com is blocked and snapchat.com is allowed.
There's some good historical data on SimFin (simfin.com), but it's missing the most recent data unless you pay. I suppose you could work on training your models with the free data dump, do some back-testing, and then pay for the latest stuff if you have a viable model. SimFin is nice because they offer fundamental data (quarterly reports) and not just price data.
As discussed in TFA, he didn't pay out for Georgi Guninski's original discovery in 2005 nor Qualys' rediscovery + working RCE in 2020.
As a fellow Be the Match donor, I don't understand your philosophy. As you know, going through the donation process is, aside from scheduling appts & actual donation, not that much work on your end. I spent probably 20 hrs total to donate and save someone's life. Most of that time was me lying in a bed to donate or having samples taken (with all costs covered by BTM). Compare that to the paid case manager or doctors//nurses that had to coordinate tons of resources to let me be able to donate. If anything, maybe you should reflect on why you were ok with that donation (and it being freely given) but you're not ok with doing even less as a tissue donor yet not being paid.
If living in England would you also refuse an organ if you had just hours to live? Be honest.
Even in non-economic transactions, it seems like opt-out is generally frowned upon as a tactic. This is a very classic example of 'the ends justify the means' overriding that opinion.
There are about a million other things done to dead bodies that will kill a mistakenly-identified-as-dead person as stone dead as removing an organ, so organ donation specifically doesn't really have a special status here outside of it being potentially the first item on the long checklist.
Thank you. Is there a way we can help accelerate the reclassification of MDMA or Psilocybin?
As someone who has been working primarily with JS since the "First Age" of this article, I can say that from my perspective things have improved by orders of magnitude.

New language features are obvious improvements. The paradigm shift from imperative UI management like jQuery to declarative UI management like React has eliminated entire categories of concerns.

Almost everything you see mentioned in the "Second Age" might be easy to take for granted if you've recently arrived, but they have not always been there. While they are not perfect, to say things haven't improved is shortsighted. From the high-level view we are making major strides.

It's an iterative process, where some things win out, new ideas and "flavors of the month" gain footing or wither and die. jQuery for example had competition from mootools, prototype.js, and others, but jQuery established dominance for a variety of reasons. It won mind-share by being the best implementation to solve a class of problems the community was tackling at the time.
Why is that called an "operating system" ?
Oh I totally understand Linux not being polished on various pieces of hardware. This is acceptable given that the OEM may not be directly supporting Linux on that piece of hardware.

What is not acceptable is the "checkerboard" issue I talked about in my original comment: The idea that one version of a distro like Ubuntu or Ubuntu MATE working perfectly on a piece of hardware and the next version being completely broken and then going back and forth with this dance each year.

This shows two fundamental flaws with the OS: The subcomponents are not architected well and that there is poor QA practices leading to constant regressions.

In my case, in the second to most recent version of Ubuntu, the issue was after a clean install, the desktop loaded correctly but after the first reboot of the clean install, the desktop would begin crashing when attempting to login. As a result, you would be permanently stuck at the login screen unless you dropped to a lower tty and logged in that way. I had no clue what was happening until spending some time researching. Apparently my 5 year old NVIDIA card had some bug that broke some component used when initializing the desktop.

This leads to the second issue which is poor QA. Maybe these issues are better on certified hardware? I haven't made the decision to drop a lot of money on specific hardware to find out and from my experience, "certified" hardware is crippled in some way. Whether it is poor keyboard, low quality display, or just lousy config options. While I praise Windows, officially I have three different OS machines under my desk but only really use the Mac for 99% of my work. Every year I go back to try the latest Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE just to stay recent but these days I usually hit an annoying/serious issue and walk away super quickly. I just haven't the stomach to spend as much times on this as I used to even though I really want open source and GNU/Linux to succeed.
And of course Windows Subsystem for Linux
If you are putting off having a child on account of money you are doing life wrong. Plenty of large families have non-software incomes and do just fine. They may not be able to eat out but it's a sacrifice worth making.
> No one would suggest it before, if you didn't opt in.

Because in an opt-in system it's possible to not be an organ donor through oversight, laziness, lack of awareness, or carelessness. In an opt-out system, you have to actively want to not be an organ donor and take steps to ensure that.

I agree that making people who opt-out completely ineligible to receive donations is not right - you should always save a life if it's possible. I also don't see the problem with putting people who opt-out in the back of the line.

None of that fits the definition of "shaming" though, which is what the original poster was concerned about.
I get pretty nasty headaches and my eyes start hurting after looking at monitors with PWM backlights. Some of my screens are fine, some begin to hurt my eyes after an hour or so.
Once `mix release` was added natively to Elixir in 1.9, I haven't found the need to use distillery anymore. Is there still a use case?
> Everyone else in the chain is getting paid

There's real money floating about at every step except for the one where they acquire the organ from the deceased's estate. It's a fair point.
Dotmesh will remain open source and as the original author I'm happy to help maintain it. Are you using it or interested in using it?
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> opt-out is generally frowned upon as a tactic

Actually, it's quite encouraged in many cases. See 'motor voter' laws that automatically register citizens to vote when they get an ID, for example.
Tiktok is also MORE popular than instagram worldwide
Top tip, thanks
The opt-out form [0] asks only for the name, phone number, DOB, address, email, etc. How do they ensure that someone else did not opt-out or opt-in on someone else’s behalf without their permission? And how are they deduplicating people with the same name and DOB? By a fuzzy match against their address? How do these things usually work in UK?

[0]: https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/register-your-decision/refu...?
I would happily support the privilege of people to opt out of organ donations, as long as they are willing to irrevocably forego being the beneficiaries of an organ transplant.

Or hell, at that point, I'd happily make it opt-in.
I like to deploy using Releases as detailed here (https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/releases.html).

This gives you folder packaged with everything you need to run the application on the architecture you compiled it on. Very straight forward.

If you want to set it up to be a systemd service I guess it would be like any other binary command for systemd. I usually run things under something like Supervisor (http://supervisord.org/)
Can you provide some specifics? I am not refuting your claim.

GCP is my favorite cloud platform to develop on, but obviously the needs of the US government are different from the needs of an individual software consultant.
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I have always wanted to try Nix, but not sure how installing software from source outside the package system works. With Arch Linux, it's pretty easy to create an AUR package if it doesn't exist, or simply install it outside the package system. Is it easy to create Nix packages (based on the features of Nix, I'm guessing no)? What about if you don't feel like creating a package?
I'm not sure that I would put Snapchat and TikTok in the same bucket. Snapchat has very strong network effects among a certain significant demographic. It has a feature that suggests people you may know and a variety of techniques (Streaks, BFFs, Snap Score) intended to keep people using it daily. Think of Snapchat more like a messaging app than like a social network.
I haven't used a visual programming language, but it's likely a lot harder to build a good visual programming language than a nonvisual one at a given level of expressiveness.

I suspect visual programming is more common than we realize though. I had an acquaintance at Workday who claimed a lot of work was done there in a visual programming language.

Also, arguably website/app builders are a visual programming "language" and they are extremely common.
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So remove "port scanning" since the only difference between port scanning and "legitimate" connection attempts is rate.

Should websockets be able to connect to the local machine?

In some cases that could be useful (even if something the kinds of people visiting this site might be uncomfortable with). E.g., a local daemon that listens for a websocket connection and a public web page that's used for managing it.

I don't think it was implemented this way, but think something like Battlefield 3's matchmaking: the user visits the online service and finds a match to join, and when they want to join it passes the relevant information to the game via websocket.

I imagine stuff like this has been implemented in at least a couple cases that you'd break just wholesale blocking connections to 127/8.
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> It's amazing how many people e stumble across the Ask HN and manage to navigate the sign-up-and-post procedure but fail to grasp how Google works.

That's 100% unhelpful, unkind snark. I see from your recent comment history you've a habit of responding meanly to questions you don't think are good. Please stop doing that.
Ok, so the 100% fascist view is also here now. Sorry, I forgot: We can still leave the country like the Jews in 1933.
Directly, less so. I imagine it will come because other addictive behaviors have been linked to dopamine depletion.

"Another metabolic parameter strongly supporting a neurobiological basis for natural addiction is found in studies examining dopamine receptor depletion. Wang et al., demonstrated dopamine (D2) receptor downgrading with obesity similar to that seen in drug addiction, and the levels correlated with BMI.[31] An animal study recently published by Johnson and Kenny found that rats exposed to “palatable, energy-dense food develop a profound state of reward hyposensitivity and compulsive-like eating. The maladaptive behavioral responses in obese rats probably arise from diet-induced deficits in striatal D2R signaling. Overconsumption of drugs of abuse similarly decreases striatal D2 receptor density, induces a profound state of reward hypofunction, and triggers the emergence of compulsive-like drug taking behaviors. " -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3115160/
That's not right. If there's an organ available and a recipient in need, it should be used rather than wasted. Regardless of the recipient's donor status. But donor status can be used as a tie-breaker.
Amazing tool! And of course by the same person who did urlpages! Just this weekend I was exploring embedding a whole deterministic password gen into urlpages so I could have a syncable password manager with little infrastructure but obviously I'd be trusting whoever syncs my bookmarks... Now I don't need to worry anymore!
The reason for that is to remove the financial incentive to donate any one specific organ, so that poor people don't end up as a one-kidney one-lung underclass.
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