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Same. For a long time, every time I tried VS Code, I’d go running back to Vim.

VS Code has gotten better—it has a higher ceiling than it used to but there are limitations that’ll always be there as long it’s based on Electron.

That ceiling also applies to responsiveness and adherence to the macOS UI/UX guidelines.

I’m waiting on Panic’s editor that’s in private beta. I don’t see an Electron app matching the fit, finish and polish of a native app by a developer team with the experience and track record of Panic: https://panic.com/nova/
You don't know much about animals, right?
The user could certainly dump a type definition, but for users who just want to point to some data in one go, the F# type provider[0] works with just:

CsvProvider<"trades.csv">.Load("trades.csv")

I personally didn't like having to list the file twice, so in Empirical[1] it's just:

load$("trades.csv")

My current version requires the dollar sign to tell the compiler that the parameter will be static (known at compile time). I'm planning on an updated version[2] that will eliminate the dollar from the function call:

load("trades.csv")

Basically, it means that users can just load the file like in a dynamically typed language, except that Empirical is statically typed.

[0] https://fsharp.github.io/FSharp.Data/library/CsvProvider.htm...

[1] https://www.empirical-soft.com

[2] https://github.com/empirical-soft/empirical-lang/issues/23
Mass castration, as done to domestic animals, could solve a problem. Genetic test can help decide today if a male baby is going to be less than 6ft tall in adulthood, and thus warrant castration to prevent future disappointment in life.
I’m not American, and I always wonder why it’s always about Trump. The police in the US reports to the mayor, governor, whatever, but not the president. George Floyd was killed in the city where mayor and governor are democrats. In Seattle where CHAZ is mayor and governor are democrats. In New York where police brutally attacked protestors they are also dems. Why Trump is responsible for anything? What Trump is doing exactly?
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For single processes you’re right, but this article (and a lot of the activity around asyncio in Python) is about backend webdev, where you’re already running multiple app servers. In this context, asyncio is almost always slower.
These were accounts that were holding meetings with large amount of mainland chinese users. Whatsmore they admitted the blocking was a mistake caused by their inability to prevent users from joining a meeting by region, a functionality which they are now developing because of this problem.
Maybe, if HFCS were consumed in equal amounts as honey, it would also be considered healthy. Hormesis is a strange thing - too much of a good thing will turn it into a bad thing.
The Chait article[0] Taibbi cites may be a slightly more effective version of a similar argument, not least because he goes to a good deal of trouble to emphasize how much worse the problem is on the political right.

[0] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/case-for-liberalism-...
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Haiku or cry for help? Lots of people reinvent themselves and it's ok to pivot
Also see the classic Joel on Software article from 2007 - Evidence Based Scheduling

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10/26/evidence-based-sch...

It's still in FogBugz.

https://www.fogbugz.com/Evidence-Based-Scheduling
Not exactly, because if you are based in a certain country, you must follow their laws regardless of where the user is.

Plus obeying local laws in regards to local residents, which don’t apply to this allegation.

So, by this logic, Zoom’s actions only make sense if they are based in China.
While (likely) not using directly deep learning, I found the following talk [1] by Emily Shea on her code dictation setup (based on Talon Voice) both insightful and impressive.

EDIT: Actual demo with coding starts at 18.00: https://youtu.be/YKuRkGkf5HU?t=1076

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKuRkGkf5HU
Actually no, I called him out about it but he's not that interested about going the 8 blocks East to check it out in person.
I think they're trying to get $appname to bid high to ensure they're listed first instead of a competitor. Google Ads does this too on the search engine. I often query and see $companyname advertising for their name even when they are a large brand that is dominating the #1 spot. Problem with App Store adds is, apps don't typically have the ad budget and probably don't lose out too much if they do have name recognition. It really boils down to poor UX.
I would recommend you check. US laws are really f-ed up in many ways.
Doesn't Airbnb already sell this data [1]?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-...
Same with me, I have an old @hotmail.com email address. I changed my password to a random generated one, and I have 2FA. Other than this, I don’t know what else I could do. But I think my account is safe as long as there are no vulnerabilities on the site, which it is highly unlikely there are.
I guess they didn't watch Robocop 3.
High praise and interesting to hear this as well from someone else. I feel like I'm on the right track with my analysis in my main comment.

I saw in a different HN post a few weeks ago that jet.com heavily used F# but obviously that's no more.

If a company were using F# and I were looking to switch and all the other stuff was a good match, the language choice would be a big pull for me.

While I use and am learning F# for a side project, there's no substitute for working with one professionally and shipping production code with it. I wish it'd be possible to convince my engineering group to use it.
And that's really what the hype is about in terms of better game experiences on these new systems — we should be able to have larger working sets because you don't need to waste RAM as storage.

To get specific about what this enables, I think we will see many more indie games with great looking graphics. The combination of high res asset scans, automatic resolution scaling, automatic texture compression, generally less tight performance budgets that don't need teams to do optimization work (next gen consoles), and a financial model around tools to take advantage of all of this (Unreal + Quixel as the leader here) should make this next generation of games pretty awesome.
> Legality should be the bare minimum standard - and in countries with bad laws (Middle East, China) it shouldn’t even be that.

Honestly an app only needs to operate out of one country. To have users in other countries, all that is needed is an open TCP/IP connection and a cross-border payment system (e.g. PayPal, bitcoin); it is not necessary for them to operate a local business entity, which would mean that they should not be subject to local laws.

Although this may be an unpopular opinion, and given the HN climate it's likely I'm going to get downvoted to hell for saying this, but I personally think the same should be true of GDPR. GDPR is an EU law and the EU has no right to impose its EU laws on the US or anywhere else. Neither does China. It doesn't matter if the laws are good or bad laws -- laws should stay within their jurisdiction. Letting the EU have their way is a slippery slope of a precedent for other countries who may have less-noble laws they want imposed on the US.

(That said, the US can implement its own version of GDPR for US businesses, but US businesses shouldn't be subject to EU laws).
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>>Novel coronavirus was detected on a chopping board for imported salmon at Xinfadi market, and nine related people have been put into quarantine even though their test results were negative, Zhang Yuxi, head of the Xinfadi market, told the Beijing News on Friday.

Does anyone knows how this sort of surface test/detection works ?
> You could have spent that time on building software.

When people ask "how long will it take" and "I need status" a lot of things bump around in my mind:

- I read a pretty common mistake for new military officers is to spend too much time trying to get perfect strategic information

- I think if I hadn't had to spend so much time, agonizing time, trying to get accurate status, I would have had it for you by now.

- status is not fun, it's like doing your taxes

- there's also a great annoyance: if I am actually good at breaking things down and listing all the pieces to get from A to B, it makes micromanagement of the worst kind possible.

You know, when someone looks at all your line items and CANNOT HELP but cleverly rearrange everything like chess pieces on a chessboard, without being overly concerned for the consequences.
US companies may enforce US law but they're not hiding the fact that they're US companies. Zoom claimed not to be a Chinese company while enforcing Chinese law for US users.
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Title is clickbait.

> Brandon Dail, a user interface engineer in Seattle, wrote on Twitter that he was dismissed for publicly scolding a colleague who had refused to include a statement of support for the Black Lives Matter movement on developer documents he was publishing.

> ...

> Facebook confirmed Dail’s characterization of his dismissal, but declined to provide additional information. The company said during the walkout that participating employees would not face retaliation.
As posted in the original post, I was posting a tangent about US laws. Specifically the charges listed in the original post are about misrepresentation on some stupid form.
Yeah, I remember. I also have no wish to go back to those days. If I want to, emulators are easily available, but I don't. Games have moved forward in a lot of ways. Patches are a worthwhile trade-off for what I see as more interesting games.
That’s creeping up on moral relativism and there is a huge corpus of relevant work decrying that position.
Perhaps the US needs a law that states that a company cannot discriminate against users based in the US at the request of foreign governments or to abide by foreign laws.
I saw a Chinese copy of a Nazi pistol (mauser broomhandle) and at distance it is a 1-1 copy but on closer inspection you realize instead of being machined every single part was filed by hand by someone. It must have taken an incredible amount of time to make a pistol that way. Also they tried to copy the stamped lettering but most of it is jibberish. Very interesting.
> I'm not necessarily saying that US and Chinese laws are equivalent in this sense, but it does seem like something of a double standard.

And that’s perfectly fine.
Two words: Fuck china.
I'd love to help! If anyone's working on this in this thread, lemme know :)
Yeah I didn't say any of that in my comment. Thank you for inferring that and downvoting it.

You made the assumption that the people that dislike him are people I dislike. And I doubt you read the article.

Basically if I don't write a full paragraph describing in essay like detail, I have to deal with people like you sitting there inferring way too much from a single statement. Awesome.

I wouldn't support somebody who is a crank. this guy isn't a crank he just points out the fact that a bunch of journalists have abandoned their professionalism in favor of in group approval. He's done it for years starting with the weapons of mass destruction argument for invading Iraq. Not that you are aware of that at all. Let's be honest you don't like this article do you?
People use this to rationalize continued involvement (often when it also happens to be profitable).

People can basically rationalize any bad behavior - it really seems like a skill that has no limits up to and including genocide.

In practice, I think the negative impact of helping to enable censorship for an authoritarian country outweighs whatever (likely zero) influence you’d believe you’d have.

Sometimes to be on the right side of history the right thing to do is to walk away.
When you see a maximum sentence and fine mentioned in a Department of Justice press release it is simply the maximum that it is possible for a hypothetical defendant whose case hits every one of the factors that can increase a sentence. There is no attempt in the press release to actually consider the relevant sentencing factors that would apply in the actual case and calculate what a real sentence might be.

See "Crime: Whale Sushi. Sentence: ELEVENTY MILLION YEARS" [1] for more detail on press release sentences.

[1] https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc...
I look back and see that there were some managers I've had who were masterful, but shamefully I can only appreciate their talents from here in the deep future.
Yea, bringing Apple into the picture dilutes what Zoom does. Not to mention things they do that we don’t even know.

Why is that US gets muddled up with a truly authoritarian regime like the CCP. Shit is broken in America, but millions of people marched in last couple of weeks. I don’t think there is a possibility of any kind of anti-gov protests in China.

Apple is an extremely privacy centric company to the point where it’s become it’s primary selling point. It’s advertising it proudly and backing up with real actionable steps - T2 chip, iMessage, Face ID, localized ML, etc.
If you read the zoom blog post they admit they made mistakes as they did not have the ability to block meetings by region. They have absolutely no desire to enforce chinese laws globally.

From their blog post

"We strive to limit actions taken to only those necessary to comply with local laws. Our response should not have impacted users outside of mainland China. We made two mistakes:

We suspended or terminated the host accounts, one in Hong Kong SAR and two in the U.S. We have reinstated these three host accounts.

We shut down the meetings instead of blocking the participants by country. We currently do not have the capability to block participants by country. We could have anticipated this need. While there would have been significant repercussions, we also could have kept the meetings running."
> And make no mistake, silence is complicity.

This is needlessly reductive and unhelpful. One can work to end racism and police brutality without supporting groups like BLM and/or making public declarations about the issues.

So, no. Silence is not complicity.
Relationships are hard enough as it is, imagine stacking the deck further against you by going for someone that's psychologically unstable. Definitely neither smart nor wise, at least for the rational type given the massive time & effort investments required.
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Dang that's is really well said. Did you see that video on YouTube by this Australian guy talking about why China will not take over the world? I can't remember exactly what it's called.
An author can define a fictional society's language and thought processes any way they please. I read The Dispossessed over 20 years ago and can't recall the quote you meant. If it wasn't about the nature of real reality, but about the relationship of the author to a constructed world, then referring to it was inconsistent with my expectation of relevance, and I did misunderstand.

The only clarification I can think of for my response is to reiterate that the context I was assuming was the belief that controlling language allows one to control thoughts of real people. My reaction isn't that it should or shouldn't, just that it obviously doesn't.

Maybe "control" would be a better word than "shape", after further contemplation. I agree that words shape thought, because in general, actions shape thought. But nobody can control thought by controlling language. It's futile. Unless you are privileged to be designing the universe.
> The PS5's SSD can supply data at 5.5 GB/s. The RAM runs at 448 GB/s, 81 times faster. https://www.anandtech.com/show/15848/storage-matters-xbox-ps...

SSD is compressed (by "Kraken"), giving 8-9GB/s typical.

You could compress RAM too, but not worth the latency penalty.
Hi! I am part of the team trying to build these tools. Have you checked out https://last.fm. I think its possible to associate musicbrainz data with last.fm data. Can you share more details on how you plan to use this data?
Taibi has fought against the right wing for decades. some of us are old enough to remember when he was a voice of reason trying to counter the New York times supporting the invasion of Iraq on a phony weapons of mass destruction theory.

This article is nothing like Rush Limbaugh and there's tons of substance and supporting links behind it. Just because he's attacking his own side doesn't mean he's wrong.

Do you think the data scientist who tweeted work by a black statistician about violent riots hurting election chances for the Democratic party deserve to be fired? If you do then you won't like this article, because you are part of the problem.
Ask HN: How can we improve software engineering interviews?
Alot of people complain about how engineers are interviewed as they are mostly tested on leetcode/DS algo questions. This type of interview process is hectic since interview prep takes a-lot of time especially when you are looking to switch roles but what can we do to improve the process and was it same back then ?
The idea that your country knows best and that your countries companies can feel free to ignore other countries laws while operating in them is -- imperialism.
> extremly shocked

I’m a little disappointed how words loose meaning over time. People are extremely shocked watching video games. And there are no words to express their feelings when, for example, their dog hit by a car? Because barely anything can be more shocking than extremely shocking.
Usually the hard choices are what you have to cut. It'll be clear what needs to be done, you just won't have the resources to get there.

Then there are the "researchy" type projects, where you have a demo system and maybe some expert help from corporate research, and your job is to take some flighty technology held together with an unholy mashup of F#, MatLab and a depth camera and turn it into a consumer product, something people will want to buy for a hundred bucks. The first half of the project is figuring out if it's possible, the second half of the project is getting it working, the third half is polishing and shipping.

("Every project can be divided into three equal efforts, each consisting of ninety percent of the work.")
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Well on his visa application he didn't disclose that his real that his purpose was to collect IP as a member of the Chinese military, in fact he explicitly stated this wasn't the case. So by showing he is a spy they show he committed fraud on the application.
Yeah, but this is the mistake they’re acknowledging with a promise to build out the system to only suppress the mainland China citizens specifically.

My point is that this is not acceptable either.
Sorry, too busy writing down everyone who doesn’t think “silence is complicity” just in case their resume comes by my desk someday.
That is OK: leaves more of it for us old U.S. guys!8-))

BTW I'm seeing a lot about marriage and sex in these postings. But it is quite possible to be married and not have much, or any, sex. In fact IIRC there was an older study that said only a small percentage of married people had what both partners termed a good sex life.

The facts that men (in their youth) usually desire sex more than women and that women mostly acquire a desire for sex usually in their later years ensures that there is only a brief period where both "agree" on how much sex is satisfactory.
They do not stand for any of those things and the fact that you believe it is just another win for their brainwashing machine.

They've been known to lick China's boot any time they throw a tantrum (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21210678). That alone proves they only stand for their own greed.
>The Go crowd knows when to stop.

Considering Go is removing "blacklist" from it's code because deranged individuals can delusionally construe it as racist, I'd say they don't know when to stop.
I came across Serenade (https://serenade.ai/) recently. It's still beta but I was very impressed. In the past I've used vocola, and a few other open-source options. Serenade felt much more natural and powerful. The founders are also super hands-on and genuinely seem to care about the problem.
>You guys really don't like us do you?

I won't speak for other men, only for myself.

Growing up my idea of what a normal relationship look like was 60% not telling the truth, and 40% of bracing yourself for a fight of some kind if you did tell the truth. Sometimes it ended with just angry words but sometimes it escalated. Thing was, if that was what having a partner looks like, to be more terrified about coming home then hiding at school or work where you were treated with far more respect, then what was the point?

So it's not about disliking women or expecting sex. It's the idea of intimacy with anyone that's horrific to me.

Being older now I realize that perhaps what I saw growing up probably isn't what it's supposed to be. But what is it supposed to look like if not that? How am I supposed to act as a partner? What should I be expecting? And neither answers the question of what the point is. Or whether it is worth the risk of dropping your guard.

At this point in my life I don't think I'll ever find the answer, I'm far too old now. And with today's availability of baubles wanting attention, even if it's an unfulfilling or unhappy life, there's enough distraction to keep one's mind off of any of that. I don't know if there's anyone else out there that's like this, but I'd be very surprised if my life's story was the only one like this in the world.

Hope this helps gives a little perspective for you.
I'm also curious about this.

The best project I've seen for voice coding is Talon Voice, but I doubt anything novel is being done with it and deep learning. I'd suggest trying it out if you haven't. They also have a pretty active slack channel, you might have some luck asking them if they know about anything on the horizon.

https://talonvoice.com/
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Maybe you misread something? If I think something obviously looks like something else, that's not something you can disprove with a citation. There's no assumption involved.
It's possible that someone obtained a password dump and are trying to see if it works on your email account.

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Steven Pinker coined the term "Euphemism Treadmill".

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We used iPad, Apple Pencil and Paper app :)
My grandparents ate Oscar Meyer hot dogs on bleached buns for lunch so not sure it's the best choice
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