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>In modern times, authorities can be just straightforward, well, authoritarian.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves with the current political climate. Everyone forgets the Y axis on the political compass! This is why people who understand that both parties are authoritarian could see past the Russiagate and other bullshits but most of the country couldn't.

If one is still falling for the left/right paradigm one won't be able to understand the bigger picture at play. It's much more about authoritarianism vs libertarianism.
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I like this article, and I also like hand typing HTML and CSS. But coding is not for everyone. What we need is a better Wordpress, so ordinary people can publish their own website. It has to look good, perform well and be secure, but most importantly publishing content should be quick and easy.
Boeing has been run by engineers for decades. I'm tired of us accountants getting the blame for every downturn.
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I would happily purchase all non-produce and non-meat items online. The problem is that produce and meats are not produced with a consistent quality.

A steak that expires tomorrow and an apple with a bruise on it are both commonly found in grocery stores and less valuable than the price would indicate. Normally these would just be left on the shelves to expire. Your strawberries may be nice and firm or they could be turning mushy. A container of strawberries is not a container of strawberries.

In these cases I am not so much selecting an item, but also inspecting the item to see whether I want to purchase it at all.
As a pacifist (in high school, no longer), I took issue with the US war in Iraq and refused to stand during the national anthem in classrooms. I was not arrested, or fined - just teased by fellow students.

One thing being fought over is disrespecting the Chinese national anthem. Sure, I might not be “the average person” but that’s the point, small deviations are criminalized.
Could you expand on what you mean by "conflict resolution"?
A feud in wolf-kink erotica raises a deep legal question
On the other hand, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube et al are undoubtedly massively influential on the public opinion

You could have said the same thing about the press fifty or sixty years ago.
Ah, but I wouldn't argue that he's an objectively reasonable President. I would argue that there are people who believe that he is, and that we all have to be open to the possibility that either (or even both) sides are similarly objective as to their view of that question.
I really don't know if the old behaviors are going to come back. They say that it takes 2 months of doing something regularly before it becomes a habit.

I've been in lockdown for over 2 months now. Cooking instead of ordering in, repairing instead of buying new have now become habitual. I was used to ordering in 3-5 times a week - even though I have above average cooking skills.

2 months of cooking everyday and my brain doesn't think of picking up the phone and ordering food anymore. I just rummage around the kitchen and fix something to eat, even though delivery is now open and I have no hangups about safety.

Maybe the old habits will come back. Maybe they won't. But I sure as hell wouldn't want to build a business that bets on the former.
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> Last I checked, the US was imposing sanctions on Venezuela[2], and supporting an alternate head of state[3].

That is what I was talking about. Supporting an "alternate" unelected head of state to replace the directly elected Maduro. Whatever you may think of Maduro, what the US and many other countries are doing is monstrous. Especially in the context of the even worse US activities against the people of the Americas in the 19th and 20th centuries.

EDIT: regarding China, just to clear things up, I am not denying that China is authoritarian or something like that; rather my point is that the devilization of China that is currently a trend in US can serve neither Americans nor the Chinese people well.
Hey, thank you so much for reading! I will try to post more often now that we're all in a lockdown :)
Just today I muttered 'hunter2' while typing my password in on a screen share. At least two other people got the joke.
I don't know if it's still the same, but when I was running the produce department at a Food Lion in the mid 90s we would just discount the damaged produce and only tossed stuff that was rotting. Bruised apples got wrapped 4 to a tray. I don't remember how much the discount was, it was programmed into the scale.
> Could you elaborate on the trade part?

If an American does business with China, there is one set of rules. If they do business with Hong Kong, there is another. The latter is more favourable than the former. This notice principally rolls back that delineation.

The special status was granted for commercial reasons. China and Hong Kong had different legal systems, and different commercial and policy risks. They merited different treatment.

Now, they’re less different. A business dispute in Hong Kong could end up in a Chinese court because a party functionary feels like it. A company exporting from Hong Kong may be coerced by Party officials, or be benefiting from IP stolen from the mainland. This happened, slowly, over years. But the national security legislation took a big, sudden step.

The special status was granted to protect commercial interests. It is being rescinded on commercial reasoning. Those commercial interests are exercised politically, and there are other factors at play, but that’s sort of like quibbling about whether one’s arm or brain lifts a teacup.
Eh, why bother? Move the consist goods online and have corner grocers with the fruit and meat. They are probably only 15% of the grocery store
Twitter has been increasing the amount of curation / censorship as they have grown.

Arguing that Twitter users must prefer said curation / censorship because Gab exists doesn't hold up because Twitter has other obvious advantages, like a massive network effect.
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constitutional law professor with a phd in political theory slowly raises hand

No, it cannot even be considered a free speech issue (except insofar as Trump proposes to censor Twitter). Those of us in the con law/democratic theory community, and everyone else in the universe who is even semi-rational, use them term "counterspeech" to describe what Twitter did.

Traditionally, counterspeech is seen as the virtuous alternative to censorship---as the thing that us snotty free speech people tell those who call for their opponents to be censored to do instead. John Stuart Mill would jump up and down and pop champagne in celebration of what Twitter did.
Really sorry about breaking your old apps. If you ping me on twitter (@pfrazee) or IRC, I can spend some time helping you convert them over. Most of the same capabilities are there (or on the way) so we'll hopefully just need to update the code.

EDIT: for anybody curious, we had to make breaking changes to the p2p protocol and used that as a chance to bundle a lot of improvements -- mainly with performance and reliability. It sucked to break existing content though.
My comment was a direct reply to my parent, who asked a fair question about how media is to deal with Trump. I make no greater claims about this specific situation and I am not derailing a discussion, I am directly answering an interesting question. If anything, you are derailing a discussion about news media bias with the red herring of "but Trump bad".

For you to say that its wrong to discuss media bias because Trump did a bad thing is dishonest at best. Yes, Trump is acting a fool on Twitter as he always is. That does not mean that the news media is beyond reproach and it is wrong to call into question their biases.
I think that it's definitely fragile in the sense that there are a lot of people going through hardship at the moment.
When so many people need to rely on friends and relatives to survive, it means that capitalism has already broken down.
The system has already failed. Now we just have to wait and see the results of this weird socialist system that we just created.
The biggest problem with CLI is discoverability as the article points out. Looking at Docker CLI, there are like a bazillion commands and it takes forever to read through the docs to find out what exactly to use. Furthermore, there are some commands that depend on the others being there - that breaks the composability.

Back to discoverability, is there a way to make CLI "more discoverable"? Reading the man page doesn't count. Like can we combine the advantages of CLI with the discoverability of GUIs? I wanna have the cake and eat the whole thing.
Switch back. lol
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The typical techbro understanding of corporate finance is shockingly shallow
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Well I read that document you've provided as strong evidence that mail in voting is safe. You've sourced a document that is from the "mail voting is unsafe" team, and they've only been able to find a very few number of such cases, spanning thirty years (it goes back to 1990 at least), and almost all of those cases were caught before the votes affected the outcome.

Can you maybe explain your thinking?

Have you done the math? The document you reference is absent of impact analysis, even vague on the numbers. 1,071 incidents but how many actual votes? How many votes were actually cast? How many were caught before they were counted? Let's take Alabama. 14 reports, but actually first four are all the same incident. So 11 reports. Not off to a good start there. Nine of the remaining were single instance voting. Two were a conspiracy. One conspiracy was caught, in 1994 when it occurred, but is labeled as "Disposition: 2005", which I initially assumed meant that they were caught in 2005, and had gotten away with it. But in fact they were caught at the time because they submitted 1,400 votes in a county of 7000 people. The one that got away with it was caught at the time, and earned the role of a city commissioner of a city of 68,000 people. And yet the person was elected anyway, despite the evidence. So you've got "14" incidents, that are really only 11, and only 1 that got away with in a small city election where even they were caught yet allowed to win. So with just this one state, of the 14 claimed, there was only 1. So for 1071 that's 76. Over 30 years. There are 20,000 cities in the usa. So ~600,000 elections of all sizes they found 76 instances of successful fraud, and only in non-state-wide elections. And that's just me spending thirty minutes with your primary document.

What's interesting is that the Heritage Foundation didn't publish that math. Didn't get into detail.
And who decides if you have 20 years worth of understanding of algos? A developer with 5 years worth of experience? What less experienced people don't understand is that development is not necessarily a one way path like at FAANGs where you move from level 1 to 2 to 3 to lead to manager to director within 10 years or you're worthless.

For most of the developers, it's not a video game where you just level up. It involves working on projects small and large. A lot of time doing business analysis or some part of project management or documentation or various other things. Many of us work at small or medium sized businesses that don't have problems of scale, but rather problems of complexity.

Also maybe react or some other fad like Kafka or microservices won't come at the beginning, but at a later stage of interviews, even for a junior position, if you have 10+ years experience, I bet you'll be expected to know those things, otherwise "what have you been doing for 10 years?" Solving actual business problems and not inventing things to do so I can put them on my resume, thanks.
I've been looking to get into evolutionary algorithms and micro-worlds similar to floatworld. Do you have any advice on good resources to start with?
How do you even get amp on reddit urls? I've never come across such a scenario (I use desktop browsers on linux).
Yikes. We host our binaries via GitHub so that... sucks
Trump sending armed federal/military agents to all the Twitter buildings on US soil in order to shut them down is even more Hollywood than NSA DDOS.
Attaching a disclaimer to the speech of another though is not straightforward. Will they get into the business of fact checking everyone over certain number of followers? Will they do it impartially world-wide? How can they even be impartial world wide given the different contradictory points of view, valid from both sides? Cyprus? What’s the take there?
That's the first amendment, not the concept of free speech. The concept of free speech can apply to private and public spaces, just as it can apply to government regulation of speech.
It depends how much you trust your sources about the cartoon character.
Not really sure what you’re getting at here. Without getting into the boilerplate cooperate “we’re helping the world”, it’s a perfectly coherent sentence.
Maybe so, maybe not, but what's the relevance? We're discussing something generally transportation-related, so let's discuss trains vs. planes too now?

It seems like you're trying to make a connection here, but it's not clear what it would be.
> If so, I'm glad I no longer edit Wikipedia.

You should give it a try. Though, original research is not allowed (and the much maligned bureaucratic processes around frequently vandalized and controversial topics get tiresome), a lot of topics are simply missing or have inadequate or out-of-date information. A lot of content that goes into blogs and other publications can be neatly summarised in a wiki-page, which is really useful to anyone doing a quick research on the topic.
RottenTomatoes Tomatometer or audience scores or both? You really need both to get a feel for the quality.
> okay, those are post-Roman

Despite the spin from post-enlightement historians recasting everything between ~600-1600 into the 'dark ages', 'rome' as in 'the roman empire' didn't end in the east until 1453 (or possibly 1917, depending on how Romanov you go), and didn't end in the west until 1806 (or possibly 1914, depending on how Hapsburg you go).

Not 'ancient rome', but still self-styled as 'rome' with a direct lineage in some form or fashion.

Polemic aside, certainly cappadocian caves would fall under the 'eastern roman empire' category, albeit post-pagan as you point out.
When a bug has been submitted, and the company is trying to figure out how much to reward?

The companies that consistently publish their bugs have a good track record of giving appropriate bounties. I don't see a clear incentive for a company that doesn't allow their bugs to be published, to be anything other than stingy. Computer security is a cost center for a business, and the folks managing the bug bounty program have a clear incentive to minimize their costs, while maximizing the bugs found.

I think a potential solution would be increased bug disclosure on platforms like Hackerone. Currently, a company has to agree to disclose the details, and most never do. Openness allows hackers to vote with their feet, and spend more time on the companies that are easier to work with, both in bounties rewarded, and easiness of the reporting process.
Web performance doesn't need any of that. Browsers are very good at parsing HTML and CDNs are a commodity now. A directory of HTML files is about as fast as it gets, no preloading necessary (and you avoid all that JS payload too).
I live in the US and 10 years ago ate almost entirely out of dumpsters. Grocery stores throw out perfectly good food every day. If you ask in front they'll say they donate it, but in back there's a dumpster full of cartons of eggs with one egg cracked, and packaged food that's a day past its sell-by date. We waste an absurd amount of food.
I have fluorescent tubes in the garage. There are plenty of LED replacement tubes, but all of them emit a lot less lumens. I'm faced with having a dimly lit garage or adding more light circuits.

Since I work in the garage, having it dimly lit is a problem. Also, I have the age problem of my eyes losing the ability to change their focal length. Bright lighting alleviates much of this.
> HN seems to have a bias against web applications which is probably unfair.

It may be unfair, but I think part of it is a pushback against the cultural zeitgeist that the web is meant as a platform to deliver content to passive users. If web authors assume that users are out there to just passively consume content, then yes most of the web will just be elaborately designed applications designed to guide the passive user.

> All they can do is assert preferences. At the end of the day, traffic does the talking.

I think this simplification is part of the problem. Traffic doesn't dictate anything. Just because The Bachelor receives more eyeballs than War and Peace doesn't mean that The Bachelor is a superior product to War and Peace, or conversely that War and Peace is a better product than The Bachelor. Each has its place in our species' cultural milieu. The web has a growing culture of trying to erase media plurality and embrace a single hot, or dominant form of publishing, and I think this specifically leads to the outgrowth of these sorts of big flamewars. Different forms of media can coexist, and traffic isn't the only mark of success.
There is a related discussion for migrating Hong Kong people in another thread right now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23326670
It would probably be easy for any on-device model. But it would be illegal
You're still talking about modernizing a 40 year old design....by a company that fucked up a modernisation spectacularly.

>hack that necessitated MCAS and doomed the MAX.

The issue is not that the airframe required it but that the corporate culture looked at this issue and concluded lets do it. Lets do it DESPITE the problems...that's the company you've got leading the modernization of the 757 you propose.

Boeing will pull through with flying colours though. US won't allow their only commercial plane maker to fail even if they need to build planes out of freshly printed Papier-mâché dollars
"If you like your health care plan, you can keep it" is up there as well.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2013/dec/12/lie-year-if-y...
I'm a little worried about the guy's scrotum in the pic at that page.
I think you are a bit too optimistic on what employers are willing to expense. A note-taking app falls far outside what most workplaces that I know of in IT would accept. In reality, I am afraid that you are excluding a large group of users.

Personally, I would pay 25$ out of my own pocket for this app, but not if I have to ensure that the notes are not related to my work, only to my personal life. And with my personal projects I use similar technologies as I do at work. Should I then not look at the notes when at work? It is just to complicated to live up to the terms of the license.
This is the crux:

> No one will interview someone young to a senior position and vice versa.

Actually grad tech roles pay 200k and lots of senior people would like that. If you think that "No one will interview" someone like that you're right and that is blatant age discrimination.
Counterpoint, I found it really easy to control, but I've also played a lot of KSP and am terrible at building balanced rockets, so my docking maneuvers always have imbalanced RCS thrusters (so correcting one axis knocks another one off).

Plus they start you at 200m out with no relative movement, so it's pretty easy to just zero out one axis at a time and go from there
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I find CLIs to be more discoverable -- tab completion, help text, etc. represents a (relatively) standardized form of discovery. GUIs on the other hand may have cryptic icons, be arranged differently from each other, and have various hidden functionalities.

I'm not saying we can't make CLIs more discoverable, but I simply hold the opposite opinion: They already win out over GUIs on discoverability.

I think they lose out on /accessibility/ to most users, unfortunately.
As someone that just spent over 10K on a botched marble floor job. This just pissed me off more at my installer. The guy didn't level the floor. Told me he had 10 years of experience laying tiles. He had 1 by 2 foot tiles, took over a month to lay down 1000 sqft. Not even mosaic.
I feel drunk walking on the floor, since it goes up and down so much.
Or enough people willing to do the actual delivering for the usual shit pay.
> given that the only land they really need is cheap rural land for data centers?

Lots of tech companies are located in Silicon Valley, some of the most expensive land around...
> They also had nuclear families and all the benefits that go with them.

There's a competing line of thought that considers the nuclear family to be one of the worst things that's happened to our society. It's created isolated household units, disconnected truly multigenerational households, and created distance and lack of necessity for extended family. By reducing the amount of direct family connections you can rely on for support, it's caused a massive increase in people depending on the government or charity for their emergency needs and arguably further exacerbated the loneliness epidemic.
There can be an option --interactive. So if you type "ls --interactive", you get a fuzzy search prompt, where you can enter free form text, which can be matched against the main page description of each option, and the options can be surfaces in a scored manner. This will be similar to the search bar under the help menu in macos, which is something I use a lot to find out location of options. Might work for a lot of apps.
> You created goods, or provided services, or arranged for goods to be created or services provided,

or drank with someone on a regular basis, or married one of their relatives,
Innovative CEO, a sales centric MBA who's never written a line of code, now overseeing acquired software company, imposes the golf buddy's investor pleasing "blended shore" model, the outsourcing of core knowledge work to noobs coupled with shipping the actual skilled labor to lowest cost locales, against the advice of everyone who's ever successfully shipped software, who are all now branded "seditious", and managed out of the company they built up from zero.

Been there, been done like that.
An expressed opinion considered hateful can be “hate speech” (depending the legal/accepted definition), yes.
Considering their stated purpose, the fruit and veg in their marketing are remarkably photogenic
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LED bulbs don't last if they are in an enclosed fixture, because the heat buildup fries them. Most incandescent fixtures are enclosed.
That's essentially a coup; it's how democracies die. I think it's highly unlikely that the security and military services would go along with a coup over _Twitter_.

In this bizarre hypothetical, Twitter would presumably just fail over to servers outside the US, as would all other significant tech companies. Or, y'know, California might secede. It's such a weird proposition that it's hard to speculate about.
Huh. I don't think any of the guys on there look like "douchebags" because of their outfits.
It's great for Earth observation, but the polar orbit makes it a lot less useful for deep space. Although it's nice having a microgravity laboratory.
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