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Indeed, functional programming can lead to spaghetti code just as easily as any other paradigm. I’m really growing weary of all these posts around the Internet claiming that some particular style of development is better than another, it’s such a very shallow metric.

In this particular article, I’m with it on inheritance, I haven’t used it in many years. But I don’t at all follow the author’s argument against encapsulation.
My company forked Firefox and man in the middled an entire fleet of edge kiosks so they could run Flash apps over TLS 1.0 on Firefox 17 in 2018. True story
Yes, "Hindu model".

Cows being sacred is a facet of Hinduism. It's not some general feeling of good-will towards cows / animals by Indian nationals. It is literally based on the idea that the cow represents one of the deities in the Hindu pantheon.

The caste system was (is?) inextricably linked with Hinduism.

There is a clear difference between literally valuing animals over people in a direct way (as shown in the article I linked) vs. putting effort to help animals and less into helping humans. The former is zero-sum, in that you are directly disadvantaging humans for the sake of animals. The latter is not, in that you can help both animals and the destitute. Volunteering at an animal shelter does not disadvantage others, even if holier-than-thou types would like to say that world hunger should be solved before helping animals. The perfect is the enemy of the good.
I've never had this issue with youtube for more than 2 days.

My friends send me weird stuff pretty ooften too.

How many channels are you subbed to?

I also have youtube premium, i wonder if that affects it?
Done that, with a Linux VM. Works surprisingly badly. Flash becomes very slow.

Perhaps a Windows VM works better? Although Windows VMs tend to be pretty big, hard to manage with less than 5 GB. Oh, and the licensing...
Is the Mobile Application ID the same as the Advertising ID found on Android and iPhone?
That makes me wonder: why do you spend so many hours badmouthing PHP in multiple threads on here? Why isn't that time spent on something else?
Mobilewalla literally exists for the primary purpose of capitalizing on that data.
Ugh, yeah.

On the other hand, that case is at least a legitimate dilemma -- "ignore every paper when it's published, wait a year for reproductions and meta-analysis" is the right thing to do except for the case where there's a new global pandemic and it's very valuable to be able to stop everyone dying right now if you can.
I work from home. Have for 3 years. Its great.
Literally the only thing I've had to use it for in the past 3 years is the webcam stream for the kennel I board my dog at. And I'm pretty sure they threw their website together in Dreamweaver and have barely touched it since before Obama was President.
It'll be interesting to see what happens when most Best Buys follow suit and we have no stores left to come in and try non-Apple products.

In some sense, this is a big window of opportunity for Dell to get smart and fix their website from looking like a warehouse dump for nerds who want the best deal and give a shit about specs, to actual customers who just to see an intuitive product line-up and extra details if and when they want that.
Not sure whether you're confusing some OS or application performance with the performance of the CPU or are misremembering. A 8MHz ARM2 performed at about 5MIPS. That was impressive in '87, but in '90 my 20MHz 80386 ran at about 6MIPS. The 486DX100 of the mid nineties was much faster.
Which part of that offends you? The string conversion or the floating point math? Because floating point math is evil in almost all languages, because they all follow IEEE and because some numbers can't be represented in binary.
I'd try the 2.0. The 1.x line is really pretty buggy. I spent more time on gitter and trying to work around it than actually using it. I'm glad they're targeting performance, but the ergonomics of the API could use a lot of work. I was implementing an API that was designed without a particular technology in mind--and it was a good design--and Micronaut couldn't conform without significant hoop jumping. It's probably better suited to greenfields development.
People don't start with credibility. Credibility is an excuse for things they already decided.
What exactly does your "query engine"/planner actually do? I understand the role that, for example, the Postgres query planner does.

Is the idea that Prisma might be backing on to multiple databases and therefore needs another planning layer? If so, wouldn't this need to be very specific to the database and schema – knowing that particular fields in one database refer to entities in another? Does Prisma tackle this? How?
Basic poverty/employment metrics and economic inequality are virtually uncorrelated, yet they get shouted from the rooftops by Western elite.

Human rights, socioeconomic liberties are far more complex than an easily manipulated number.

Increasing income of the poor by 100% means nothing if the rich simultaneously benefit from a 1000% increase. Which is largely the story of Western economics in the last century if not longer.
Work for a company that is doing this. There are so many intricacies and security points, it really takes years to get good at this.

Are you also new to backend development, database schema design, and devops?

You might look at something like Prisma or Hasura than helps you build a lot of this out.

If you make it this far, you realize tech is not the real problem. Is actually business, sales, and generally understanding problems and communicating solutions so you are building something people actually want.

Hence sibling comment to get a minimal thing out to validate your market hypothesis. Have you dug into startup literature?
Yes. WebGL, WASM and Canvas can handle anything that Flash is able to do. Unity is just an engine which compiles to WASM.
This is a really good piece of technical writing. I particularly enjoyed the explanation of skip lists.
Do you know whether it was actually influenza?
Yeah. It's very slow to load right now.
I wish anonymous metadata and source code was open! This kind of software has potential to positively impact society but not when it cannot be freely audited and debated by the public empowered to vote for changes to it.

I suspect there is a storm brewing with proprietary government software. Social services like child endangerment checkups, child placements, etc. sentencing recommendations, as mentioned predictive policing, watchdog/oversight departments , and so much more!

These tools can empower us or enslave us and a big step toward empowerment is the open source community to push for open source and open data for software augmented government functions!
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As a climate activist, I'm calling bullshit. This is a straw man argument... climate activists aren't calling for individual change. We're calling for mass action to stop the LARGEST polluters so that everyone can be free to live their lives as they wish.

Regarding how this blog uses Ghandi's quote "Be the change" climate activists ARE doing that: they are banding people together, working in communities to rise up against the LARGEST polluters. Again, this author misses the point ENTIRELY about what climate activists are calling for... it's like saying "to stop police brutality you have to stop being a bad cop"... BUT WE AREN'T COPS. SIMILARLY, WE AREN'T THE PROBLEM. THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY AND THE BIG BANKS THAT BACK FOSSIL FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE ARE THE PROBLEM. That's what we're fighting to stop get. it. right., and that's why this movement needs everyone, regardless of what level of personal eco-conscious "virtue" you embody.
'We've bought the wrong satellites': UK tech gamble baffles experts
Is there any reason why Wikipedia doesn’t assign non-logged-in users a unique user ID instead of exposing their IP address?
Trump to sign order prioritizing job skills over college degree
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Remember that YC prefers to fund "naughty" founders, to use their own term.
Honest question here.

Are these neighborhoods “over policed” because their residents commit more crimes, or do the residents commit more crimes because their neighborhood is “over policed”?
If the hypothesis is: "Normal people aren't convinced by climate intellectuals because the latter are visible hypocrites."

Then it is wrong for two reasons:
1a. Normal Americans on the left, and many on the right, are convinced by climate intellectuals. https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2019/11/25/u-s-public-vi...
1b. Normal Europeans of all stripes are likewise convinced.
2. (This is anecdata, but I'm pretty confident it'd appear in experimentation if anyone cared to debunk this dumb hypothesis.) Climate intellectuals that make significant efforts to avoid hypocrisy (like Greta, or her less-famous counterparts, or me to a lesser degree) do not experience a different reception from skeptics.

Indeed, personal action is rarely a point of interest for anyone in the discussion. Probably because the focus of the climate intellectuals -- renewable electricity, decarbonizing heavy industry, land use practices -- is so obviously outside the scope of direct personal action.
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Being on Hacker News is leisure time. If you work on making PHP suck less purely for leisure, I reserve no judgement. If you are a Laravel author, my question stands.
In practice this usually turns into affirmative action for ideas, where marginal scholarship is promoted for no reason other than the color of the author. Is it too much to simply ask that ideas stand on their own and be judged on their own merits, divorced from the identity of the author? I do not think humanity will be better off going down this path. It seems like in a lot of cases just a cynical way to needlessly inject politics into some arena.
As far as I know, even famous indie artists you listen to and whose concerts you go to often have to work day jobs. Most are working class. There's not a lot of money being a musician.
Its cool that what looks like your hobby generates income. What do you do to pay the bills otherwise?
In my opinion gaming on 30 FPS is extremely horrible. Especially with shooters. This has in part to do with the 33.3 ms response delay that you can get between moving the mouse and the change being processed and shown on the screen. When compared to the reaction speed of ~200 ms, you add a 15% delay. Compare that to 144fps (6,94ms frametime) you loose only 3,5% which makes the perception much smoother
Yeah, the demo unit I was originally allowed to use was Apple only. At some point my parents were able to purchase the "Alphasmart Pro" for me which according to Wikipedia is their second model that added PS/2 support.

And you are right, I totally forgot about that extra ADB port on the apple keyboard!
That would be a great solution. You'll hear no apologies from me for government backwardness about modern technology.
I wonder if this is an example of nominative determinism[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
Vouchers just created another form of regulatory capture. Better would be to decouple schools from zip codes and allow parents to send their kids to whatever schools they wanted.

This would crash a lot of overinflated realistate markets though. God forbid we actually take care of children and have a rational housing market.
Sure but you don't have to be Apple successful for the physical store project to be considered successful.
Agree. Even with video we're spoiled with tech to the point where it takes hundreds of YouTube channels to explain what the heck the tech does and how to best use it. Reminds of a quote - "We are not limited by our tools, just by our imagination". On a related note, I recently re-watched the original Jurassic Park, and the movie quality still blows me away.
looks good but I'm not paying monthly for a book, if it ends up on leanpub or amazon I'll buy a copy though
The fact about lings is correct. Rest is fiction.
Kids these days don’t remember Steve Jobs and his Reality Distortion Field...
How close to cyanide do you want to be when you read it's cyanide?

These things sound quite deadly, and the regulations around them sound very lax / practically not enforced.
Not OP, but this Vox article has some interesting information about race disparities in viewpoints of police.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2020/6/3/21276824/defund-police-divest-e...
This must just be a ban of the technology for government use, right? Can retailers still use facial recognition as part of their in-store analytics? Can Apple still sell FaceID products in Boston?
That's not how language works. You can't freely remove words from a sentence and assets that the meaning remains the same.
It was but at the time the state-of-the-art for migrations was to hire a DBA and have them do it. That's much less common now with migrations and database operations being owned by development teams much more, so the need for migration tooling is much higher now, especially in what I expect Prisma's target market is.
My guess would be that the fraud was reaching last-legs phases where other indications of missing cash were going to become difficult to ignore anyway. He may have thought he could actually stretch things out by stringing KPMG along and promising, "this audit will be done any day now, trust us."
I got into vinyl last year and have been buying up albums. The experience is so different than streaming. There is a physical element to it that's incredibly rewarding. You also notice how tracks flow in a good album so much more when you're essentially forced to listen to the whole thing.
Sorry that happened to you. You never know who people are or where they will end up, and everyone has value and should be treated with respect. I have had similar things happen to me at conferences.

nit: You should edit this and change Zoom to Zoox before the edit window closes.
Not being an investor doesn't preclude me from having an opinion. There is nothing prescient here... just an engineering team burning cycles better spent elsewhere at current stage of the company.
I remember reading about these years ago and I'm surprised that they're still in use. There's definitely a need to control wildlife populations, but doing it with devices that are akin to cyanide landmines seems like a bad idea.

The people in the article were unaware that one of these devices was placed a few hundred feet from their property. The signage on these devices also seem to be very small. I'm wondering if medical services are given any training or a heads up when these devices are placed. Cyanide poisoning is not the most common thing and I'm wondering how quickly medical services would recognize it.

These devices also seem to contain a large amount of sodium cyanide (880 mg). This is definitely enough cyanide to kill a child and even some adults. Though it seems like the release mechanism would make it difficult for a person to actually ingest all of the cyanide.
I'm hoping there will be a market shift where startups stop over hyping the value of stock options. Things like exercise windows and sparse liquidation events make stock options a raw deal.
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Hyperbole.. what are you ten?

Oh no i did it again, somebody stop me.
Well, it could also be about the sort of data the company is collecting. Here in NYC there have been smaller protests in neighborhoods that are predominantly PoC, and this company may be only collecting data on the main large events.

Also, for a place like LA, there are systemic factors of poverty and homelessness in their Black populations that might make something like ownership of a permanent mobile number less likely [1].

Regardless, this practice of data harvesting should be illegal.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-13/column-a...
Windows 7 came out in 2009, at least three years before candy crush.

> they're an OS developer and they can't spend a day figuring out a floating point bug?

Maybe it’s bad to argue by appeal to authority, but I take Raymond Chen’s side that it was a hard problem to debug in the time available over some internet sneering that it must have been easy, any day.
NBA Jam Became a Billion-Dollar Slam Dunk – War Stories
Building your own walls was very exploitable, so I can understand removing the ability.
Yeah! It also gave me an opportunity to do a quick edit/proofread of something I wrote which I probably normally wouldn't do.
It is very difficult to make policing metadata truly anonymous.

Source code makes sense, for sure.
Frankly, the discussion is imprecise. There is no indication that scarring GGOs ever accompany asymptomatic cases.
There's certainly already Unity projects on the web in the space Flash used to occupy.

Also, HTML5's CANVAS tag, and modern web platform tools like WebGL, mean that you can do most of what Flash games did directly in HTML5 and JS. There's a growing number of 2D and 3D game libraries written entirely in JS or TS.

The biggest missing piece that made Flash so ubiquitous for early web games is the authoring experience. Unity is a lot more complicated than the Flash designer was. I've seen several game editors for HTML+JS libraries, but also nothing quite similar to how easy Flash was for early web designers. The codebase that inherits and succeeds the original Flash IDE lives on in a new name (Adobe Animate) and can directly target HTML+JS instead of Flash, but is a part of Adobe Creative Cloud and so too expensive for many of the hobbyist designers that made early web games what they were back when the DRM for the Flash IDE was a lot easier to crack than a cloud subscription.
You’re implying that “common” means “not bad”.
Science and engineering, history and everyday life, are a densely interwoven tapestry of stories. Imagine teaching them like that!

But... viably teaching the tapestry, may require a much lower prevalence of misconception, and lack of insight, among teachers and texts. And creating such content, insightful and correct, is hard. Really really hard. As illustrated by the many newspaper-like "err, no, that's not quite right" errata of the OP story.

Which is one reason why sci-hub seems to me so very important (apropos a recent HN discussion). My experience is it's not even close to possible, to write such correct and insightful stories, without extensive use of the primary research literature across multiple fields. Creating such stories is already very poorly incentivized. And an awesome timesink, even by the already daunting standards of writing a book. Open access is increasingly wonderful, but only sci-hub holds at bay, for now, the additional filter of potential authors having to be simultaneously actively affiliated with a research university, and having copious free time. Without sci-hub, we're back to professors emeriti being the primary pool of potential authors.

VR/AR is a wonderful medium for storytelling. Perhaps we can use it as an excuse to begin creating wonderful stories. But it seems a nontrivial societal challenge.
Unwise, but also unintelligent. Either stat would tell you this was a bad idea.
If we had access to granular data like this, wouldn't it lead to further gentrification and a further rift within a society?
I don't use Spotify, but a decade ago my Pandora did the exact same thing. It was like the more I tried to tell it which music I liked, the less it played music I wanted to hear.
Why TikTok Snoofs Clipboard Contents
i dont think peer review is as valid as people make it out to be. regulation should be introduced to have more rigorous reproduce-ability and government funding for research should have quotas meant specially for reproducing findings independently. peer review alone is no longer a valid method of getting consensus about science. the retractions from new england journal of medicine should give a good indication of how rotten academia has gotten.
It seems surprising that she could maintain a positive PCR test for eight weeks. I thought the window was much smaller. Here's a paper that says the false negative rate of an RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 increases from 21% on day 9 to 66% by day 21 of symptom onset (and keeps increasing after that).

https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/journal-scans/2020/...
You get kicked out of the beta pretty fast if you don’t use it. This means you absolutely can’t rely on it.
From my understanding "abolish the police" means to reorganize it and greatly reduced the funding. For example in L.A. the police budget is about $3bn and the next biggest item is public works at $1.5bn. That's kinda a ridiculous amount. I saw a reddit post in /r/dataisbeautiful [0] that broke it down and showed some redistribution.

But of course "abolish the police" means a lot of different things to different people. I'm sure there are people that want literally no police but I'm also sure they are a minority.

That's kinda the problem we have today. We turn complex conversations and topics into their most extreme forms and so we can actually discuss them. And we presume the other person has an extreme view that opposes ours but we ourselves are smarter and now nuanced than the person we're "discussing" with. There's lots of examples. For example here we're discussing "should police exist" instead of "what should police be doing" and often people are even divided on the topic because "police stop bad guys" and "police are to serve the community and uphold the social contract."

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/hflutt/rei...
TikTok and many popular Chinese apps, including Taobao, Baidu, and Alipay, to name a few, snoop clipboard contents, because Tencent censors and forbids almost all kind of links sharing in WeChat and QQ.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23654345
yeah, early on and even now, all Covid19 information was disseminated in a way to maximize emotional response. That guaranteed either news worse than the facts or news that was better than the facts. Everything, and i mean _everything_, was sensationalized in order to get you to click or register your outrage somewhere with a link back to the source.

Reality is reality and as time progressed it became clear what was happening with the information delivery and now no one trusts anything from anyone.

Covid19 is pretty bad but what happened to informing the public is near worst case scenario in my book.
Not disagreeing, but just to counter your point a bit, the Sony A9 has zero cross type sensors, but it has the best on-sensor PDAF system currently on the market. Conceptually, I totally agree with you that cross type sensors are BETTER than non cross type sensors, and dual cross-type are even BETTER, but its rarely as simple as that in the real world.
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> By analogy, people are allowed to own rocket launchers as well (it's true!) but that doesn't mean every beat cop should carry one.

This would only seem relevant if your knowledge of weapons came from movies or video games where "bigger = better".
Well, I'm using an HTC phone from 2014. I haven't had to change or repair any parts and it costs about half an iPhone, I think. To clarify, everything seems to be working just fine.

Unfortunately, Google. But that's the only problem with it. I was actually going to stick with a flip-top but then I started working as a dev and figured that getting a smartphone would give me some extra cred.

Nowadays it's probably the other way around, I should probably dig out my old fliptop and use that, to show how 1337 I am.
During Occupy I remember cops targeted a protester that had driven in on a company vehicle and told the company to get him fired.
Additionally, it was from a 'frozen archival sample' (they tested frozen samples back to 2018 and daily samples from April-May 2020).