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> These are not programming languages, they are hardware definition languages.

There's a subtle point in that Verilog/SystemVerilog and VHDL are also just not powerful languages. While parametric, they lack polymorphism, object oriented programming (excluding SV simulation-only constructs), functional programming, etc.

Your point about the abstraction being different is well taken---hardware description languages describe circuits and programming languages describe programs. However, it's exceedingly unfortunate that the industry is stuck in a rut of such weak languages and trying to explain that weakness to hardware engineers, who haven't seen anything else, runs into the "Blub paradox" (e.g., a programmer who only knows assembly can't evaluate the benefits of C++). [^1]

[^1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
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> What happens after we propagate to other planets?

Relativity will become a pain and we'll have significant lag on communications to the tune of several minutes within the Sol star system and years for anywhere else, so you'd end up using asynchronous communication like email, workdays would be based on local conditions (and likely not map to a local day on some planets), etc.
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I think that people underestimate the generational effects of the FHA loans being locked to suburbanized white neighborhoods. The rise of the automobile combined with the post-war FHA loan restrictions allowed one group of people to 'invest' in their homes and land, while excluding (mostly) another group. Check out https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history... for an overview of 'The Color of Law' mentioned above.
". At best: you'll get up-ranked slightly."
" you will never, ever, be above, or in the carousel."

Read what you write please.
This reminded me of my last Civ 6 game with Gathering Storm (an expansion that introduced disasters and global warming that can be extremely destructive...

1) Set disasters to maximum, map to old (flat), and with non-trivial amount of ocean.

2) Rush to flood barriers.

3) Build flood barriers while they are cheap (or ally the city-state that allows buying them with faith).

4) Burn coal until everybody drowns ;)
The suburbs grew because of some legitimate reasons. In the mid-20th century cities were very crowded. It's one thing to live alone in a 1000 sq ft condo in a city now. 70 years ago that equivalent space was housing a family of five. More space for less money was enabled by automobiles, and it was a great improvement for many.

That said many suburbs botched their expansions with tract housing and poor urban design, because that made the most money for developers and appealed to a now diminishing taste for dispersed living.

However there is nothing intrinsically wrong with a sprawling urban area enabled by cars. You just need to take care to design it well enough.
Big surprise genital mutilation at birth because god said so is a bad idea
I live about a mile from the middle of downtown in a mid-sized US city, in what is ostensibly one of that city's most walkable neighborhoods. I don't think there's a single mom and pop store within comfortable walking distance, the closest grocery store is about 3/4 mile away (though there's also a farmer's market about 3/4 mile away in the other direction), closest barbershop is about a mile away, etc. Lots of restaurants, bars, and breweries nearby though.
You're not crazy -- this happened to me too even though I thought I never realized I had actually signed up for the subscription (I just went to the first page of one of their flows) and after I thought I had cancelled. I kept filing chargebacks with my credit card provider and was finally able to cancel my account through the app.

Good luck resolving your case!
The only way this story makes sense to me is if some other business took over the coffee shop space and paid the 5x rent.
The laws are also reflective of the culture --- from what I've seen, they are very pro-copyright, pro-DRM (think of companies like Sony). In contrast, someone attempting to do this in the US would probably lead to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect .
I'm surprised to see no mention in here of the international fixed calendar [0](sometimes called the 'Kodak calendar').

Kodak adopted it in part because Georgia Eastman (founder) was a big proponant, but also because for corporate scheduling the regularity made things like maintenance and long run chemical/manufacturing processes simpler to plan.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
> As a non-profit library the plaintiffs effectively have to show that the Internet Archive acted in bad faith[1] in order to receive statutory damages.

>> The court shall remit statutory damages in any case where an infringer believed and had reasonable grounds for believing that his or her use of the copyrighted work was a fair use under section 107

Specifically, the plaintiffs have to show that uncontrolled digital lending does not constitute fair use.

That doesn't seem very difficult to me.
Some that size in japan have earned 3 Michelin stars, as jiro dreams of sushi famously did, before the stars were withdrawn due to lack of public access.
Alright. Because this personally applies for me, what about creating missions of past decisions made without missions? (This sounds naive, but I could use some insight.)

For ex. I did my undergrad in IT Security. I did an MSDA. I ended up in professional sales. I don't know what to do with all this. I've been good at tackling hard subjects my entire life, but how do you craft a mission from a hodgepodge of difficult and unrelated skillsets?
I had to look up what HBCU stands for:

"Historically black colleges and universities"
Selling on Google has gone through a lot of iterations for them now as nothing seems to end up working out how they want. They are unsure whether they should just advertise products, or if they are selling whether they should handle shipping, customer support, returns, seller reputation/reviews, payment processing and making money from fees or just as a play to keep people on Google and away from Amazon. At various times they have scaled up with real employees to try and drive the service and work with merchants, at others they have stuffed the whole process behind contact forms and Indian first level support.

I would assume that the current results indicate that their commissions are either loss making after all the value add services they are providing like customer service/ returns, or the amount they bring in is so small that it isn't worth having them there as a roadblock to adoption.
With aggressive reverse mortgage programs, many people use their house as a retirement account. A house is generally the most expensive thing the average person purchases, and is the most obvious source to convert into an income. With a finite amount of land, and lots of increasingly desperate retirees with excellent positions to relax a claim for some temporary relief, someone is always ready to point out their house is their paycheck.
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Yes this is accurate. At my company they've said in the past that they have to count business trips to certain states because once you have employees that have "worked" in those states for more than X days a year, it can be shown that you have a "presence" there and would need to pay state taxes.
If a high school math team has all Asian students in it besides a sprinkle of white males, does the math team have a diversity problem?
> 1,000 people, including contractors outside the company, is not a "limited group of trained and vetted employees." It's news because they misled people about their security, again.

I don't think this is misleading at all. Your bank probably has thousands of people who can get equivalent access to your account, and they serve a lot less people than Twitter, and mostly during business hours, in one language, in one country.

1000 people in total when they have to have some available 24/7 isn't many.

Say 200 of them are individual technical staff with access for specific debugging purposes. Then it's only 200 people per 8 hour shift.

There's probably requirements for specific language support too, which increases the head count. There was a period of time some years ago when Twitter's peak usage was from Japan, in Japanese hours, in Japanese language.
Why do we do mathematics?
I'm not sure how UNC CS can be considered top-tier but NC State CS can be ignored.
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I wrote an unlisted tool too, and I am also a fan of this proposal.

The fact that there are so many of these "embed file in binary" tools suggests that it really is a problem that could be usefully solved once, in a consistent and reliable fashion.
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I don't know about the use-case in work environment. No one I know wants to be that close to each other at work. Small startups, maybe...

However, my wife would totally use this. She does this already, "zooming" with her girlfriends doing arts and crafts.

People who have tendencies to socialize with others will appreciate this.
Already addressed: https://qntm.org/continuous

Suffice to say, we stopped doing that in the 19th century for very good reasons.
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Duke CS is pretty highly ranked.
While I agree that "not everything needs to be in std lib", having worked with other languages that support embedding out of the box, let me tell you it's handy.

It also seems like an area where it'd be nice for there to be a single uniform way to do it.
It made me think about couple years old trend of style transfer using GAN: "make your selfie look like Van Gogh". Generating abstract painting may be reduced to transfering average style of several abstract painters onto random seed image. But then it should be a trivial task, even possible to do client-side, no GPU.
I read it as people who are less depressed have it easier to become non depressed. which isn't saying much.
How would you prefer it phrased, out of curiosity? That seems to be the clearest title I could think of, although I'm not a circumcised male.
Frankly I’m not especially familiar with politics outside of the US, but I think the US has two distinct disadvantages compared to a lot of other countries:

1. Being one of the first lintel democracies implemented, it got some things wrong. The electoral collage and that there’s a local optima in a two party system are the first two problems that come to mind and were avoided by many western democracies.

2. The US is really large - both in population and economy. The large population makes it hard to get enough consensus to make fundamental structural improvements (constitutional amendments), and it reduces the influence of an individual vote for any national office. The large economy means that a special interest can reap large economic rewards by steering policy in their favor, so they try really hard.
At my last job, some of the Supermicro servers I worked with needed their SSD firmware updated. The hosting company's firmware update tool didn't actually update the SSD firmware (ugh) and it took forever, so I started doing the updates with remote ISOs, but some of the hosts had gone through the hosting company's tool which sometimes updated the IPMI firmware even though I didn't tell it to (double ugh). For those, I ended up loading the ISOs via PXELINUX's ISO loader. Kind of gross, but it got the job done -- might be an option for you?
> Unfortunately, font-variation-settings isn't supported by Firefox, Safari, IE, or older versions of Edge

Seems to work fine for me on Safari
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When I worked there, the entire internet for the campus went down. It took down the Garmin website and everything else Garmin. The culprit? Everyone was streaming music and/or videos. Everything shared the same internet pipe and streaming music starved out essential business functions.

The next day all streaming services were blocked, and it was made clear we were being monitored for excess internet usage. Thus began the great brain drain to Apple, Amazon, and Samsung.

Well that, and the fact that they took away the nice toilet paper and replaced it with one—ply right around the same time.
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Both UNC and Duke are ranked ~25, but NC State is ranked ~40. You would think that would be enough? It's not ECU or Appalachian.
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(2013)

Previous discussion (the only substantial one at any rate): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11193152

The main problem with calendar reform as I see it is that network effects and lock-in mean that unless everyone changes at once it'll never stick. I've long felt that the optimal time for calendar reform was several decades ago -- with increasing computerisation the cost of switching has gone up over time, much faster than any potential benefits.
Lol why downvote ? Are you anticipating a different outcome ?
It's funny that you mention that actually, the study mentions that they don't have many (or any?) men who were circumcised for religious reasons, they were all circumcised at a "doctor's estimate" which imo is weird language but I assume means it was for medical reasons.

Looks like they try to control for a lot of other factors, but I feel a bit weird about an article studying circumcision but not featuring those circumcised for the predominant reason that men are circumcised worldwide.

A different way to frame this would be "men who were circumcised specifically for medical reasons tend to have bad sex lives" which imo is a lot less surprising?
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This would be great to see, even if they were pop up spaces that could cycle through providing what a neighbourhood might need at any given time.
In case people didn't read this story carefully before commenting (we all do that sometimes), it's worth calling the nut graf of this story out:

The firm this engineer is talking about did a recruiting trip to Duke (and UNC), like every big tech firm does. An hour away from Duke is the country's largest HBCU, NC A&T, which is included on the trip, ostensibly for inclusivity's sake.

The firm serves a catered dinner at the Duke/UNC session, which is held after class hours to ensure attendance. The next day, highly-ranked prospects from Duke/UNC are invited to a private dinner at a fine dining restaurant.

That same day, the firm holds an abbreviated meeting during class hours at A&T, where they serve (wait for it) the leftovers from the catered dinner at the Duke/UNC session.
What did you end up moving to?
Your description reminds me a lot of the restaurant in Midnight Diner.
It's also a variation of the classic tech thought experiment/game 'If you only had X and how would you do Y?'. Like 'If all you had was telnet and had to send an email how would you do it?' or some variation of it, was a common one.
This reminds me of a question I asked before on Wikipedia [1].

Some of their pictures on Commons, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Belgium_-_Location_Map_(2... , are from UNOCHA (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs).

UNOCHA specifically asks their work to be 'Credit as follows: "Credit: OCHA"', but obviously Wikipedia don't do it on their article page if you just embed the picture, you have to click on the picture to see the credit.

Actually, they even went further and removed the "OCHA" watermark from the original image (see File History).

To be honest, I wasn't super satisfied with the answers I got there (see ref), but then again I'm not familiar with this topic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy...
Of all things C is missing the ability to import binary assets. Which is kinda deranged when you think about it.
As someone still using RDF in research / work, always nice to see it pop up on HN. Even if it is nothing particularly substantial.
So I've lived in a number of cities and seen many variations on this.

In Perth, Western Australia, there are pockets of this but the extraordinarily high cost of real estate (true across all of Australia since the early 2000s), which existing property owners are keen to protect, slowly kills local businesses. Particularly in popular cafe strips where all the businesses that made the area popular get priced out and commercial property owners would rather sit on empty property for years than notionally devalue that property by taking less rent.

Anecdotally I've heard all the WFH with Covid-19 has been a boon to local businesses.

London as a general rule was (it's been 10+ years since I've lived in London at this point) good for this. It never seemed like no matter where I was (within Zones 1-5 anyway), I was ever that far away from a Tesco and a high street.

NYC is of course excellent for this, at least the more central areas. The more outlying areas tend to resemble more typical Northeast suburbia with 2 car households and the like.

Northeast commuter towns tends to be good for this around the actual train stations although some stations weirdly have nothing around them at all (eg Manhasset).

Most US cities tend to be terrible for this to the point of not even having sidewalks and you might be 10 miles from the nearest shop, even in a large city (eg Las Vegas seems to be like this).

It does seem like public transportation really helps here because it seems like the northern suburbs of Dallas, for example (at least those on DART), have recognizable downtowns such that they more closely resemble tri-state commuter towns.

Large lots really seem to kill any of this. Like there are parts of the Greater Atlanta area where a "normal" lot is 1 or even 2 acres. This is an amount of space that is simply incomprehensible to any European. Even an Australian.

And of course the US has Walmart, which has been a pretty effective way of killing all the small businesses in local neighbourhoods.
oh man, Wheatley. I read "The Devil Rides Out" on a bus when i ran away from home at fourteen. Brings back some memories. Probably would find it pretty hokey today.
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You can get them used much cheaper. A used Leaf, e-Golf, whatever, can be had for as little as $10k. Teslas don't lose value like that. I'd definitely consider a used cheap EV as a second city car.
I think some religious beliefs or bans may have a certain contemporaneous reason for them, but the original reason might have been lost after a few generations. For example, maybe at the time of birth of Islam, pigs spread disease(say like swine flu) in that region and to make people stop growing and eating them, perhaps a ban was codified into the religion that persists to this day.

Cows being worshipped and protected from being killed for meat in Hinduism might have been a reaction to famines where cows could eat grass, weeds, plants that humans cannot eat and provide valuable protein to people in the form of milk for a long time vs. being instantly killed for meat. Which also explains why a significant fraction of Hindus are non-vegetarians but only eat chicken, fish and some goat/lamb, since those are not normal sources of milk.

On similar lines, I wonder if circumcision was thought to have some utility in those times before it turned into a religious edict. May be to reduce pleasure to decrease teen pregnancies which put a strain on families to raise a baby, or maybe slow down the spread of some widespread venereal disease.
It's also possible the new landlords internally drove out the tenant to not have to deal with the hassle of having a tenant. This could make sense if they wanted the building as a store of value and didn't care about the rental income. If nobody is there nobody will accidentally start a fire while cooking.

It would probably make sense for the city/whatever to incentivise against that.
I mean the problem is corruption begets corruption. They WANT do to these things because you're going to get a massive bonus when the product you 'invented' does well because you stole the idea from an Amazon customer.

Amazon needs to be properly taxed so that this crap doesn't happen anymore.

The idea that they shouldn't pay taxes simply because they're large should absolutely enrage everyone.
You make a reasonable point, so let's accept it for the sake of this discussion. Shouldn't the response then be to update copyright law, taking into account modern trends in technology and society? Surely the answer can't be to let one private organisation decide it's above the law and infringe with impunity.
After 5 years or so working remote I noticed a few of the same things:

* Lunches got shorter, I eat then quickly go to the home "office" to read something or respond to someone.

* Time I spend working went up on average. It's somewhat hard to stop working in the evening.

* The home "office" is right there so sometimes it's too easy to not go in and finished a few things. Two or three hours later, I am still there finishing a few things.

* Not as much small banter with the coworkers.

All that said, it is still a lot better than working in the office. I can focus better, I can turn off the messages and notifications if I need to force interactions to be asynchronous. Not need to burn gas and time and nerves commuting. I don't see myself going back to working in an office environment.

To fight the temptation to do a "little bit more work", I shut everything down, turn the laptop and the displays off. Shut the door to the office closed and that's it. It's a small thing but it helps.

To build rapport with coworkers, find one or two coworkers who you enjoy talking to and engage in some small talk. See if they want to chat a bit about a pull request but then ask about their day. If they are not interested or busy you should be able to tell, but if they want to tell you about a crazy thing that happened the other day or share something, it might be easier if it is initiated as a work call then build on that.

> I expect a year from now we'll all be complaining about how nasty everybody is when everybody is working remotely.

There is more coldness, no doubt, however, if the company is already all remote it just becomes the new baseline. And being kind and assume the best from people is something to work on and put a bit of extra effort into. Sometimes inserting silly "ah"s, "hmms", and emojies here and there in the conversation might seem unprofessional but it helps make things more informal and it substitutes for non-verbal communication to some extent.
I posted to a similar question a few days ago. There is one book I would recommend.

Read Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting. The chapter on sleep cycles is important.
There are other options to stark neighborhood socioeconomic divisions. Imagine if everything was averaged out a bit more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-15/the-desig...
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Everyone having access but James the Janitor is technically limited access too.
Is that really a problem though? I'm imagining a mixed-use development surrounded by many blocks of single family homes and a large parking garage nearby, like a mall, that makes it easy for homeowners to access the development. (I think this is what you mean by born again shopping mall)

I live nearby one such development, and it's awesome (when there isn't a pandemic). There's a great variety of retail because they can rely on both local residents and homeowners who drive in, and it's thriving (when there isn't a pandemic).

More apartments have been built up around the development as it's grown, and while it's very detached from the urban center there is a bus route that connects it and the other apartments throughout the suburb to the light rail system.
Wow, congratulations!

I wonder, would this lead to open source Datomic in one day?