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I acknowledge the horrific history of colonizing / private exploitation of the African continent. Europeans as a whole are 100% on the hook for this. This is also HN, so any mention of this region / situation is just going to result in the poster being downvoted, flagged and labeled every kind of horrible term other users can come up with.

However, it's painfully evident that the UN is incapable of keeping the peace or trying to stabilize the region. In short, I'm trying to start a discussion here as to how nations with some sense of diplomacy and interest in these minerals could mediate in a meaningful way. There simply must be a better way. Not to be blunt, but we need a similarly over-regulated private offering equivalent to the "public" option of german healthcare. Curious if an impact fund of some kind could cooperate with NGO's and the UN? The formation of some kind of demilitarized zone? There has to be a way to improve this situation and prevent more of their own people being killed?

Mostly in order to prevent China from coming in and clearing house like they have in other regions of Africa.
How likely is it that the people who "purchased the land" would have an interest in anything other than strip mining the resources as fast as possible getting the hell out?

Selling the country or its mineral rights is not how to feed the people.
If I had to stick with technology, I would have forced myself to master either of one of the following programming languages, that is C++ or Java.

After all these years, here I am trying to master my craft (in web development), because this thing was told to me that is the job of the future, but no one told me that it evolves so fast that whatever you learn today, in 3 months time becomes obsolete, let alone ancient!

Now, if I had to choose between technology and anything else, I would choose the latter 100 times!

It would be nice to become 16 to 20 again and give myself the chance to choose a much more traditional job, something that involves hands and creativity.

I know it's never too late, but there are not so many opportunities anymore I'm afraid...
Well, take the store I work at, for example -- we've been told, by our bank that is open, that they're now limiting change orders to one roll of each denomination (for a total of $17.50), as they themselves are limited in what change they can get.

Usually, on a per week basis, we do one change order of at least over $100. Over $100 vs $17.50... The difference adds up rather quick, even if you do a run every other day (not quite sure how frequent change orders can be before they limit that too, though).
Wow, reading through... The Onion can fire half of its staff -- just write a headline, generate the article a few times, and either edit the best one or mine them all for gold.
They are a bit unregulated, and people warned me not to eat there too often. For example, I was told that people have died of rat poison after eating rat meat (for rats apparently captured from the street). Another issue is that the vendors would sometimes reuse their cooking oil (so-called "gutter oil"). That said, I got the impression that it was OK to indulge on the occasion, and it is true that the atmosphere is really great.

Ironically, these night markets are disappearing a bit as prosperity goes up. For example, in Shenzhen, a lot more roads were built to accommodate the huge increase in the number of automobiles, and it seems that many of these markets have succumbed to the concrete jungle.
I'm curious: what would be a per-unit price you would consider too high? Of course it has high R&D costs -- no one is suggesting otherwise. I'm not even sure what your point is -- that it is monopoly pricing, but because they have a competitive advantage and because they can charge a high price for it?
Your point that the French were taking the Realist position re: the German problem makes a whole lot of sense to me.

But what about Keynes idea that Europe as a whole was in economic ruin and it was necessary to rebuild it with economic aid or it would lead to political disaster. He seems to be to have been right about that.
Yep, same in rural North Dakota. All the self serves are card only. Screws up a lot of people here, but we already almost forced a lot of people to get Walmart Money Card or the equivalent because they were required to switch to direct deposit during the stay at home, or have their checks mailed. Welcome to more pain for the unbanked.
The open source community is a vast and non-uniform group, so there’s not going to be any unified reason. There are also plenty of people (both within the “open source community” and unrelated to it) who don’t use GitHub, likewise for a variety of reasons.

But speaking personally, I’m totally okay using closed source services and tools when they are a good fit for what I need. The fact that I work on open source doesn’t imply that I must refuse closed source services.
I guess your refusal to actually answer that straight, simple question says it all.
In fact Ian moved back here (Indiana) to found Progeny, before working at Sun. I was sufficiently shocked to find a genuine Linux company in Indiana I had to apply immediately.
It could be that it was intended to be ironic. The point could be to equate paternalistic concerns about human rights with colonialism.
This doesn't belong in the category, since it's obviously a name. If it were called "Running Shoes" because the company founder was named "Running", then it would belong..
> If you simply scaled it up it would handle that fine. (it's costly to scale up this architecture).

What compelling reason do we have to believe this is true, when this is not how animal or human brains work?

We humans don't get to "scale up" our architecture with billion-fold increases in our training set. We have more sophisticated hardware, sure, but we don't actually have more data.

I think we've just pursued this path because it's the one we can do. We have more compute, we have more data, so we use it. And that's fine. But it still baffles me that the field isn't more interested in trying to move in the direction of less data, more sophistication in structures, when we already know that works at some level because that's how we work.
There's still some interest in fixing it in a future edition, if we can find the right design that won't create a substantial amount of churn or pitfalls.

The 2018 module system was already a substantial redesign, and because of that, we chose to carefully minimize churn to existing programs (which involved two iterations on the design before the 2018 edition released); the vast majority of programs designed for Rust 2015 will Just Work with the 2018 module system.

A future edition could very carefully allow for filesystem-based modules, and focus primarily on that without having to deal with other module system changes at the same time. I can imagine some possibilities that might achieve that, if someone has the bandwidth and diligence to work on it and test it.
The photo doesn't picture the typical Siberian I'd say. Looks like these are natives or Buryatia (which is actually a part of Siberia next to Mongolian border)

Pics of a typical Siberian: https://www.google.com/search?q=%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%...

> Siberian-ism, a regional patriotism distinct from (European) Russia, is growing.

It was always present, I was raised ~60 miles from Moscow. Regional patriotism was present at all times, "The Moscow Person" was always someone from another planet. They had everything, and everyone outside Moscow knew that Moscow lives because of draining resources from the other regions.

Also, translation of "How Siberians are different from Russians": https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=https%3...
I know it's stupid but

Doubling the size of a AA battery seems cheaper than improving the efficiency?
Any Startup Owners Here? Meet, Pitch and Raise
Having some additional charge/busywork helps to throttle demand so people don't hog them as much and make some effort to economize usage. Depending on the people served, that may or may not be necessary.

I think in CA, such charges are limited by the same laws as rent control, so at least they tend to be under-priced. At one I lived at (if SF's Tenderloin), it charged well below what nearby laundromats did per load ($1.25 vs much more for similar size).
What is your proposed solution? The reason war lords control the region is to exploit rare earths. Why not create some kind of mediatory influence to reinforce the UN? I'm not pretending to have all the answers here.

Your comment is abhorrently condescending and shallow. Yes, you have highlighted a historic atrocity and grievance of the region - why is this a reason why the west shouldn't try to help these people? In your mind, are the people of the DRC "beyond" help? That's an awfully charged and deconstructive opinion my friend.
NS Savannah
> Most of my friends back in China, especially devs, use VPN daily

This is such a tired argument. You've got a tiny percent of the population with the ability to proxy out of China. You cannot easily share the information you find with non-VPN friends. Not even with VPN-enabled friends. Sharing any politically sensitive info under your identity is a big no-no.

I once did an experiment on Weibo and posted screenshots of an article about Xinjiang concentration camps. The original English version stayed up for quite a while. Then posted a google translated Chinese version and it was quickly taken down. After posting it again my account was banned.

That individuals can obtain certain information isn't a big threat to the government if you cannot effectively disseminate it in the general population and organize around it.
What extensions for VSCode are you using?

I'm fairly new to this, and so far I've been using Markdown Memo as the main one, with this others as Add-Ons:

- Markdown All in One

- Markdown Paste

- Auto Snippet - for configuring templates by auto-applying VSCode snippets to new markdown files

BTW: Markdown Memo is fairly new, was just released this month
>>It bears mentioning, however, that I have been remote for a good while, but now have _so many more meetings_ that it isn’t even funny anymore.

This ^^^. The girlfriend and I have both worked remote for years. Since her company did wfh company-wide, there has been a huge uptick in meetings. Also, for some reason companies seem to think 'video' calls are better then voice. Given we did business for almost a century with just voice (telephone) I find it rather odd. Maybe its just the novelty factor of playing with 'zoom' backgrounds ??
Many things are not easily googleable.

- things you figured out yourself

- private or proprietary information

- things that are only in books

- things that are online, but as a side-note page 1735 of a large PDF somewhere, not next to what you'd think would be relevant keywords

- things that are online, but on obscure, hard-to-find websites

- things that were online, but the sites have gone by now
Wow that tweening upgrade is beautiful. Huge fan of this game! Thanks so much for maintaining it!
Wholeheartedly agree to everything you’ve said.

I have worked at a lot of places where automated testing is almost non existent. Instead they use staging/testing environments and manual testing.

For all these projects they frequently have downtime or errors in prod where something was uncaught. It takes ages to release a fix because they have to carefully research how a change affects other code instead of running a test suite.

They are convinced that unit tests are unnecessary extra work for their project but they don’t realize they are losing time by having to manually test and research changes. I think a lot of the focus on fancy testing practices has lead some programmers to think testing is a load of extra work when things will fail in prod anyway. We need to push back and say automated tests are a way to codify assumptions about the code and help speed up the prototype-build-test-release loop.

Side-note: self documenting code is a myth but I digress.
Just don't pay them. They'll reach out.
>They were all Han.

dumb question: is it possible to tell?
You're thinking of struct members, not structs
It's both, it's more like a baseline. I think modem-on sleep time can still be better than 24 hours.
>6. Free of Racism: invisible ceiling

maybe if you're chinese.
"you don't seem like the sort to read books".

That's obnoxious, and you know it. I have hundreds of books that I have read in my home, although they probably overlap little with your collection.
There are more people playing basketball in China (300 millions) than people in the USA.

Think about that for a moment. How many friends of you, American citizen, don’t play basketball but like to watch it?

This is why China is more important to NBA than America.
I use a wash-and-fold service[1] at a laundromat that serves a mainly Hispanic neighborhood, and they recently started rounding my charges to the nearest dollar.

[1] Pay someone to do your laundry by the pound.
I didn’t read the article. Is it because OKRs don’t work anywhere at all, and are only successful when they are ignored? At Google that’s certainly the case; the better a group is at paying lip service to OKR planning, the more work they actually get done.
> Perhaps we should not abandon them any sooner than we must.

Who said anything about the NBA abandoning China? Their government is free to permit watching it or not.

> The NBA should stick to 'we are ambassadors for the USA to the world' and leave any politics at that.

Silence can also be a political viewpoint. If you don't stand up for what you believe in you may lose it. The NBA has done a balancing act for the Chinese government, and neither moneyed interests nor government politics dictates what will happen next.
> The Algorithm Design Manual and Algorithms: Fourth Edition are both books I picked up back in the day to refresh some of the my university algorithm class studies. I gave up midway, and found them pretty dry, and not applicable to my day-to-day work.

These are both good books that I actually like! They aren't quite as massive or comprehensive as CLRS but are easier to read as a textbook. I also like Steven Skiena's course videos. But I agree completely that they are unlikely to be something you'll use day-to-day unless you work as an algorithms specialist.

> Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Bhargava... I am convinced that you don't need to know more about algorithms than this book covers.

This is a nice and compact book, and I think he's right for most jobs that involve writing software. Won't be enough to get you past the idiotic algorithm puzzle interviews though. ;-(
My favorite is Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease. I had this as a child and it wasn't until filling out a medical form as an adult that I learned it was a name and not "leg calf perthes"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legg%E2%80%93Calv%C3%A9%E2%80%...
Cheap to play and doesn't take up as much space as soccer, so good for urban environments. Same reason why basketball is so popular in US inner cities.
Does it though? StackOverflow's predecessor was created one year after this was written, meaning it was likely written in an environment without SO. Easily finding the solution to your every problem is the ultimate programming language feature.
I just tried that but the movement feels markedly worse than Worms, and the game feels much less polished overall. Is it still fun despite that?
At work, we've all basically agreed that if we run out of change and can't get any more, that we'll bring in our own jars, count it out, and exchange it for cash.

It's a last resort, for sure, but we've already discussed it. As of right now, we're limited to one roll of each denomination ($17.50) by our bank, so the need may very well eventually arise, and that means that some of my collection might just end up as someone else's change.
> They're examples of someone being nicknamed off of their last name instead of their first name?

McDonald's, Hardee's.

> Caesar isn't even a last name.

Worked out fine for Julius.
You're going to have to give us more information than this. Sure, lots of business models "prey on poor people", but which ones of those are threatened by electronic wallets?
Is this a famous quote?

BTW it reads "you can't buy the wind, sun, rain, ..."
Yeah and we know they'll be misused for morally questionable jobs too.
Let's not forget china has 1.4 billion people and a median income less than Mexico. As a westerner visiting China, one tends to stick to the places most similar and accessible to people from the west.
I'm constantly annoyed that there are no decent stylus apps on Android. The only one with an infinite canvas has more annoyances and issues than I can count (beginning with how scheduled backups can only be pointed at cloud storage, and manual local backups can only be made to a proprietary format) and I just absolutely hate it.
I like this quote from Kent Beck:

“ It is impossible to test absolutely everything, without the tests being as complicated and error-prone as the code. It is suicide to test nothing (in this sense of isolated, automatic tests). So, of all the things you can imagine testing, what should you test?

You should test things that might break. If code is so simple that it can't possibly break, and you measure that the code in question doesn't actually break in practice, then you shouldn't write a test for it...

Testing is a bet. The bet pays off when your expectations are violated [when a test that you expect to pass fails, or when a test that you expect to fail passes]... So, if you could, you would only write those tests that pay off. Since you can't know which tests would pay off (if you did, then you would already know and you wouldn't be learning anything), you write tests that might pay off. As you test, you reflect on which kinds of tests tend to pay off and which don't, and you write more of the ones that do pay off, and fewer of the ones that don't.”

Source: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/244709
weight weight weight size size size. It's that important.

Phone batteries, car batteries, drone batteries. Maybe commercial airline batteries one day.
I feel like this is half a solution to me. I use Git too, but it does nothing about how notes are structured or linked, for which I lean on sublime, Obsidian and Zettelkasten.
More here:

https://cruwys.blogspot.com/2020/07/major-privacy-breach-at-...
As you can see by the reply, and the downvotes, it was a genuine statement.
A list of transcription errors that changed the names of people and places would be interesting.

There was a local manufacturing company in Indianapolis that seemingly couldn’t keep its own name consistent: a buggy maker founded by two brothers named Parry also used the name “Perry” at times.
> If someone has a fuzzy logic that definitively answers questions such as "what is the boundary between an individual and a system?"

Ah, I see. That was our disconnect. That's the opposite of the idea. The logic is just to abandon a discrete boundary (physics does this in many cases). I think my use of 'fuzzy' might have sparked a different debate.

Not one I find convincing (if Science then Philosophy, not Philosophy ∴ not Science ? um...) but I don't much rate 'fuzzy logic' for mathematical reasons. That's another rabbit hole! Thanks for clarifying.
And if you don't care about weight and size, there are better and cheaper options than lithium anyway.
Erlang: Cobol/Telecom: Banks/Internet: Money
The obvious solution is to make everything digital, but that impacts people who aren't digital. Never mind the anonymity aspect.

The other solution could be to get rid of cents all together.

This is what Vietnam has done and it is fantastic not having to deal with small metal change. Although, this created a new problem, they need to lose a few 0's. Being a dong millionaire (largest bill is 500k) means you've got about $45 in your pocket. Heh.
Enter the mind of Bruce Lee (2016)
I don’t understand why stories like this get thru, but other extremely relevent/interesting stories like medical data related to COVID get absolutely no coverage. Is “China Censorship” so relevant to HN that even an NBA-related story is okay?
Aren't transistor count and performance very positively correlated?
I have 2. They are great. Buy them used. If you do the the math they are pennies a day.

I got bigger wheels to make them easier to roll on carpet.
Marx, Adam Smith, Ricardo, pretty much every early economist wrote about this...I think Aristole even wrote about this (very briefly: the statement that some industries are extractive is saying that the price they charge isn't related to production costs, asking where value came from was economics until the late 19th century).

And if you go back further, any period in which there was economic turmoil saw attempts to make this distinction. If you look at the late 16th century, when population pressure is starting to build up after the Black Death, you had engrossing laws. Some of these were regulations for product quality (i.e. the wheat content of bread iirc) but some of this was just plain, old: oh, these traders are evil. The most obvious historical example would be the regularity of genocides against certain groups (Jewish people, Chinese, Armenians...all were accused, very successfully I might add, of predatory behaviour).

Gambling isn't unproductive...that makes no sense. That is like saying restaurants or making films is unproductive. Advertising isn't unproductive either...that is an even worse mistake than gambling.

HFT is difficult because...is sub-second liquidity actually valuable? Probably not. Definitely, we need liquidity providers, definitely we need someone looking at prices and trying to react to information faster...but a lot of HFT is just mindless nonsense where you work out the price of X based on the price of everything else. In bad times, these relationships break down, liquidity dissolves, and you are seeing real fragility in markets even with information that moves globally (tbf, that isn't only HFT but bad regulation...ironically, these were intended to stop traders making too much money...classic). But has it lowered costs? Yes. Massively (investing two decades was nothing like today, even over the last five years the amount costs have fallen is staggering). Has it made trading easier? Yes. Massively. And do we need liquidity providers regardless? Yes (ppl forget, if you aren't paying HFT guys a fraction of a penny/share, you are paying the broker a few dollars/share).

Btw, everyone says these are unproductive because they don't see the hard work that goes into them. It is easy to throw stones when you think only the things you do has value.
I think a lot of us turn to computers because at a young age The Social (tm) was hard. Some are very lucky to have a group of friends or coworkers they feel comfortable programming with.
Robinhood and How to Lose Money
You are suggesting a form of corporate neo-colonialism, which is an abhorrent position for anyone to have in good faith in the year 2020.

That other people agree with you with downvoting my comment makes me extremely disappointed in the level of discourse here on HN.
R2R, or Roach 2 Roach would be more apt. Jokes aside, this tech later applied to other animals, say that pesky 2 legged kind could make for a rather interesting future.
Lots of poor people do not have bank accounts, so there's no way they can use electronic only systems.
Many pay-to-use(coin or card) laundry rooms in apartment complexes are entirely contracted out to a third party company that handles everything; payment collection, machine leasing, service/repairs, etc. On the whole I think it's easier for them this way.

https://www.wash.com/360-laundry-room-solution/

https://www.coinomatic.com/multi-housing-coin-laundry-soluti...
China has always had access to state of the art chips though, as has the UK, Japan, Germany etc.

When I say chip superiority, I'm implying China will move to starve the US of modern chip fab capacity. That's huge. The US needs them for military, intelligence and productivity purposes.