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Thanks for sharing hu.ma.ne. It was extremely compelling and creative pre-launch page.
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So yes, I see what you are saying.

Control in China is tenuous on some level - if the CCP fails, it might be total chaos.

Tibet however, doesn't have any power. They are aboriginals crushed under the weight of Han Imperialism. I mean, if China was in economic turmoil for a decade, and Han leadership was weak, or had the self awareness to allow for some autonomy, and there was 'world pressure on them' - possibly Tibet could make a break.

But it's not like Poland under USSR.

Just like every ruler of China in history, whoever gets 'some control' will want 'all of it' and mainland would probably be easy to unite, due to historical facts.

So barring serious collapse and revolution, it looks like HK is just PRC and that's that, and Taiwan will probably remain independent so long as US and EU exist in any material form.

But who can predict the future.
Fantastic article. Superb writing and makes me ponder about our species in general.

I do have a general take on how humans perceive or judge other organisms through a very human lens. We characterize organisms based on their social structure, longevity, 'cleverness' etc. While looking at how humans compare with octopuses at a meta level, octopuses seem to be not waging wars, more peaceful, seem to have survived for more than 600 millions years. I wonder if human beings would have a similar track record: looks like humans are well into destroying their own kind and the environment faster than most other creatures.

At the same time human beings seem ill equipped to judge or characterize 'alien' lives: we often want to 'make contact' or have a communication or social channel with aliens. As if a show of our mental power and social structure is the most important aspect..

Just looking at how octopuses are being measured by humans, it feels rather silly the kind of approaches humans use to evaluate other species let alone aliens.
thanks! really cool
What bugs did you run into with MikroORM? It looks like there are only two open issues that are classified as bugs on their issue tracker (github).
Most of GraalVM is open source.

If anything, their biggest commercial error may be open sourcing too much. GraalVM EE is quite expensive for what it adds over the open source versions.
This is why it seems like it would be good to have explicit fault injection APIs instead of assuming that the normal APIs behave the same as a real failure.
In python without explicit analysis using something like pylint you won’t find out until function call time.
But they do manufacture quite a bit else
This is what chaos monkey does.
To the contrary.

Restaurants create a "source of truth" menu that they print for use on-premises, often daily for seasonal fine dining. That is going to have layout.

Why is the restaurant going to go to the trouble of creating a second HTML version?

I've found that often, when a restaurant has an HTML menu on its site, it's months out of date because it never gets updated.

PDF menus always that are the same as what customers are getting at their tables, please.
That would be wonderful. But it's harder than you think.

For regulations that have low cost and high benefit, the costs are often borne by few people, but the benefits are spread among many. Those who bear the costs scream loudly; those who reap the benefits may be mildly grateful. And those who bear the costs try very hard to make this regulation look like it is high-cost and low-benefit.

And the same is true in reverse for regulations that are high-cost and low-benefit. Those who receive the benefit try very hard (and very loudly) to make it seem that the regulation is low-cost and high-benefit.

This can make it hard to determine which kind of regulation is which, even if you genuinely want to. But regulations are political, and politicians care about votes, not necessarily about costs and benefits. As long as the narrow interests care deeply (and vote accordingly), the politicians are not likely to care about the wider interests.
Good idea!

Some topics are too niche for you to be able to be picky. How do you deal with that?

Also, do you look at the latest books to update your recommendation process?
Anecdotally, I hear the South American regions are the places where the really canary stuff goes out first.
I usually walk or hike an average of one hour a day (we live 100 meters from a trailhead in the mountains). Since COVID-19, I am trying to average 90 minutes a day. I also bought weights in March and started doing more Qi Gong with my wife.

So, I am in much better shape. I also cut almost all sugar (or all types) from my diet and more or less cutting out processed food. If it isn't fresh I don't eat it.

Bil Mahr, on his HBO show, has been ranting about people needing to boost their immune systems and get healthier. I am taking health advice from a comedian :-)
That's an organization problem, not a freezer problem. In my field, we go vertical on the horizontal freezer:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/j3SL_cL0MF9c3ASG-LfR...
Running a marathon was never crazier than during the 1904 St Louis Olympics
I feel like no one is looking at this for what it really is. Trump is anti BLM. I don’t care if you believe he’s a racist or not (despite the many literal cases of racist treatment he has lost) but we all have to agree that he’s anti BLM. BLM protests and evidence of police brutality sprees like wildfire on TikTok, for some reason that sort of content didn’t really grab on as significantly on twitter or Facebook. If you ask me this has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with Trumps re-election campaign.
So why is this article framed as a doom & gloom coronavirus article if the only thing they're trying to communicate is "it's gonna be hard to pick out the corona patients"?
Sure, but if we're in a thread dealing with the real-life repercussions of keeping our heads in the clouds it feels a little gross.
> I do know that when I confronted Cutts about the penalty here on HN he lied about it

That's an extreme thing to say and crosses into personal attack. The thread you seem to be referring to (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5418864) doesn't seem to support what you've said here. At a minimum, you're breaking the site guideline which says: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm not saying your claims about Google and your site are false—I have no idea; it sounds like you have every right to be frustrated. Also, I don't know Matt. But these sorts of accusations ought not to be slung carelessly on HN. Since we're trying to have a site that staves off internet-default outcomes, we all need to be careful about this.

I have experience with these dynamics in the HN context and can tell you that people jump to conclusions all the time about why they were penalized or banned. Their conclusions are almost always wrong and overly dramatized. Frequently they take to the forum to declaim about how badly they were treated, and they always put it in strikingly specific and factual-sounding terms, as if they know for sure. But they don't know for sure; in fact they don't know at all. They've just completely made it up.

The HN context is simpler and has lower stakes than Google. (At least here, people can get factual answers to specific questions if they ask.) But that only strengthens the point: these domains are complicated and the dramatic explanations that people come up with out of frustration are almost always wrong. Of course it's frustrating is Google has penalized your site, but please don't let that boil over into accusations against specific people unless you can strictly demonstrate what you're saying.
> What I find so crazy about America's response is that it's been totally all over the place with half-measures

There also appear to be profound misunderstandings of how the world works among large swaths of people, from the idea that people will voluntarily do as they are told en masse (downright hilarious to anyone who has any understanding of compliance in healthcare at least in this country); to the notion that falling case rates ~= we have beaten the virus and can resume normal behavior (this all started from a handful of cases); to the notion that messaging doesn't matter (why parrot "masks protect other people from you" when you can truthfully say "masks protect you and others", and why say "young people should be concerned about putting old people at risk" when you can truthfully say "everyone is at risk of life altering complications"?); to the notion that it's acceptable to flip flop on facts for political expendiency without losing credibility; to the idea that concealing data about risk makes people more risk tolerant (it's the opposite); to the idea that John Doe consumer is somehow responsible for global supply chain management instead of governments, manufacturers, vendors, militaries, et al (how is it my responsibility to not buy masks through consumer channels instead of politicians' responsibility to order masks redirected to hospitals?); etc
Robert C. Martin is thrilled.
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> preserving all the ligatures, kerning

Far as I can tell, most of the time (all of the time?) PDFs just seem to throw out this information, and manually select and place glyphs.
I could give you a couple theories based on history, but the moderators could give you a better answer than our opinions. Email them at: hn [ at ] ycombinator dot com
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And how do they pay for childcare, or actually enjoy their lives.
Gig companies should be required to fund paid time off and healthcare programs for gig workers...? How are we so desperate to avoid public healthcare and social safety programs in the US that the CEO of a multi-billion dollar company thinks this is a reasonable article to write?

This is the definition of an over-engineered solution. Just cut the damn link between employment and basic benefits like healthcare and this manufactured “problem” goes away.
This is how my grandparents did it too. Eastern europeans, so it was more like two basement fridges and a freezer full of frozen meat and herbs.
That's much less of a problem for laptops whose batteries are just 6-8 18650 cells in a plastic enclosure.
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What do you think of PFAS and other "forever chemicals" contaminating many watersheds?
At the same time, though, a world where everyone's going around trying to avenge their ancestors is a world full of conflict and strife. There are obvious reasons it's problematic to tell people they have to forgive and forget, but I think it's a quite similar problem to tell people they shouldn't.
Not necessarily true for this case.

I had a problem with a [very well known US-based bank] credit card where a re-curring monthly charge that I wanted stopped.. wouldn't be stopped by the bank because I had authorized the recurring charge at the outset.

Bank told me to contact the entity charging me, and when I said I couldn't reach them (which was true) and they didn't respond via their support channels, bank said I was SOL.

When I said I no longer authorized these charges, bank said I was SOL.

For a $10/monthly recurring charge, the bank wouldn't help me. So I used the same call to close all my bank accounts & credit card and moved my savings account funds to another bank account.

Bank still wouldn't do anything about that recurring charge.
What does Google expect customers to do here?

As much as I enjoy bashing Google, I have to admit that Google is far from the only offender in this. I've seen it a number of time.

Even Saint Digital Ocean has a similar problem. If you're not logged in, the only ticket you can submit is that you can't log in.

I ran into this recently because it turns out that that DO's help system UI is completely borked in Safari. Type in a topic and click one of the suggestions, and instead of taking you to that topic, if just closes the suggestion list.

The suggestions list has a bunch of carriage return icons, suggesting that you can keyboard through it, but that doesn't work, either. And the system doesn't work on a MacBook Air because it can't deal with anything but massive monitors.

At the bottom of the suggestion list is the suggestion to submit a trouble ticket. But that doesn't work, either.

But what do I expect for $5/month? The last actual Digital Ocean support ticket I put in (a couple of years ago, when the system worked) came back with a very polite reply to the effect of, "You get what you pay for."
Wait. I thought this was ap-southeast-2
Not so much. This is one of those questions AskHistorians does a better job with than HN:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/758v1g/how_d...
Without Hacker News I would never even know that such insane authors exist:

"This expectation underestimates the human desire to feel strong, the powerful psychological appeal for many, not just in Britain, in taking pride in the conquests of their ancestors. It offers a sense of collective strength they can tap into as individuals. If they, of whom I am one, could be so triumphant in the past, surely I too possess triumph in me?

The morality of taking pride in ancestral conquests involving the killing and subjugation of other human beings is questionable, but its psychological appeal is undeniable."

why yes, it sure is a RUSH to conquer other people and take all their stuff, especially for the huge number of masses that never had to actually, you know, kill anyone, they just get to have all this awesome land and stuff and kind of a curious way that all the streets seem to be named after native americans even though I've never met any here at all, shrugs.... conquest is awesome! teach the controversy, people!
Something I'm trying to do on my own team is to make the wiki more of a browsable "table of contents", a glorified list of all the salient things. Searching to find the answers on Slack/Email/Jira/etc is fine and dandy when you KNOW what to look for but otherwise a gateway glossary gives the visibility necessary for a starting point.

For longer prose and procedures (particularly troubleshooting a very specific problem) I am encouraging blog posts with tags that link back to the parent page. These degrade more obviously due to their chronological nature and feel less jarring to prune (which can be done simply by changing the tags).
Correct. In my case I was pretty worried that I'll end in a downwards spiral due to gyms being shutdown and whatnot and I did everything I can to make up for it. Before the lockdown, I was at ~10% body fat. In an attempt to not go to 24-25% as I was a few years back, I started exercising daily and with 0 intentions, I dropped down to ~6.2% body fat. I went back to the gym as soon as they re-opened and still carried on working out at home. Well... These last few days have been a struggle cause I got a dog and... He gets excited easily to put it mildly...

But that's me. There are a few people from work that live near me and one of them looks 15 years older in every way imaginable.
Walmart pays enough to survive without government benefits, it's just a terrible life. If an employee dies because they don't have healthcare Walmart would hire someone else.
My grandfather grew up on a farm and, late in life, retired to a farm. Well, a large portion of the property was a swamp, and if he had his way, he would have tiled that swamp, drained it, and grown corn. But the EPA wouldn't let him, since it was destroying wetlands. So he fulminated against the EPA for not letting him do what he wanted with his land.

And that's why there's a lot of people who hate regulations, especially environmental regulations. They have a very concrete harm from the regulations that they can see (they can't do certain actions), and the benefits are not so easily noticed. Labor regulations, where the benefits are much more easily visible and relatable are likely to have higher support, although I suspect that a large rural constituency wouldn't mind seeing child labor laws repealed.
A pension plan isn’t magic, it is just a fixed-income security. You can buy them on the private market. A pension can thus be converted to a dollar value and compared to a private sector job.

Total compensation is decent in the military, but imo it’s definitely not work the risks to life and limb if deployed. Any good soldier could probably make a lot more in the private sector for the same amount of work hours and stress.

I don’t know that this is true for all government jobs... I know that California and especially San Francisco have (or had) lavish compensation programs.
See I guess that’s the exact reason I’m not a sanders supporter. I care about outcomes and couldn’t care less about the strategies used to get there. I see a public option as feasible, cost effective, minimally disruptive, and effective. I don’t fantasize about a 40 trillion dollar plan that would upend the largest American industry with uncertain effects. I’m especially not fantasizing about this effort being led by a man who spent his entire career in politics yet couldn’t manage to get a single large piece of legislation passed, and who actively burned his ties to the party he emigrated to because their politics weren’t radical enough.
> Virtually every PDF out there is designed to be a printable document first , that is then made available on the web.

Tell that to Arxiv. Most papers never get printed. Everything is consumed on screen. Yet the layout is completely wrong for screens.

I think browsers should offer PDF reflow as HTML, to adapt to any screen width with optimal font size.
> herd-immunity level of the population. Sweden is there already.

The claim that Sweden has reached herd immunity is far too strong to be taken at face value without any supporting evidence ... evidence that simply doesn't exist at this time.

However, their daily death rate is much higher then their neighbors:

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...

The jury is far from being out on Sweden's approach, and unless they lock down their borders in perpetuity (unlikely for a country so dependent on international trade and commerce), they will still have incoming cases from elsewhere in the world.
Looking at the syntax (as a Go beginner), I'm not really sure whether that's less or more to learn. Seems like one of those arbitrary language design decisions that don't make a huge difference either way.
I wonder are demographics a factor, here. While I'm not sure about the US, in this part of the world the worst visible impacts of pollution peaked in the 50s to early 60s (the Great Smog of London, which killed 4,000 people at the very least and likely over 10,000, was in 1952, for instance). Most voters today probably haven't seen significant personal impact from pollution, so it might not be as frightening.

That said, it also does seem like this narrative of "regulation is ruining everything", as a sort of objection to regulation as a concept without reference to what the regulation is regulation, has seen an uptick recently, between Trumpism and Brexit.
I'm sorry, none of that is correct. Did you read my link? The aircraft doesn't meet FAA regulations without the MCAS.

>The Boeing 737 MAX MCAS system is there ONLY to meet the FAA longitudinal stability requirements as specified in FAR Section 25.173, and in particular part (c) which mandates "stick force vs speed curve:, and also FAR Section 25.203 — "Stall characteristics".
No compiler in Python. In combination with features like varargs, kwargs, unpacking dictionary into args, argument forwarding Python allows you to turn this into bugs.
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For us it’s AP-SE-2 with us-east-1 as a close second
"The reform failed because of much resistance from expatriate companies, a new conservative and mistrustful governor, and London's fears of Hong Kong becoming a political battleground between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China (CPC)."
That seems a sensible position for 1946. But things changed till 1960 and the UK were far more pliable to allow democratic self governance then.
To begin let me caveat that I'm a huge proponent of environmental regulation. That said, most of the regulations Trump is rolling back aren't longstanding ones that produced the cleanups you observed. They're ones the Obama administration rushed through in the last year or two of his presidency, which often had quite sweeping effects or federalized things that had previously been regulated at the state level.

These methane regulations are a good example. Every state that has oil & gas drilling already regulates methane emissions as part of the necessary permits. The Obama EPA enacted a rule to federalize those standards that took effect in March of 2016. It's a duplicative rule that's been operative for about five minutes.

I like Obama a lot, but on the environmental front, he was willing to spend zero political capital to achieve consensus on environmental reforms. To the contrary, he won reelection on a pro-coal and pro-fracking platform! Here is Obama criticizing Romney for standing in front of a coal plant (as Governor) and saying "this plant kills": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXRmlxBDjfE. Here is Obama talking about the how great fracking is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uVGY3sIBsA. He somehow found environmental Jesus around 2015 and rushed through a bunch of regulations at the last minute. But, as such, his successor is perfectly entitled to reverse them just as quickly and easily.
> Possibly 400-500 views

Hah, the front page of HN will generally drive upwards of 10k uniques to a page.
Couldn't agree more! I've yet to see a PDF that has animated ads, pops up a subscribe-to-our-newsletter modal halfway through, or even autoplays video a few seconds after you've started reading it.

I mean I suppose you could do all that with embedded JS, in theory, but one of the nice things about PDF is it mostly works absolutely fine with scripts turned off.
yes, federal reserve monetary policy is much more focused on the supply side of money (m2,m3,m4) - making sure banks are well capitalized and can lend to one another smoothly in order to make loans and keep liquidity high - but this doesn't get directly translated into inflation because a lot of the "printed" liquidity isn't directly circulating in the economy (low velocity)

government fiscal policy has a much more direct effect on m0, m1 through stimulus and other direct lending and spending efforts, which have a high velocity and directly impact inflation

now...what happens if the assets on the feds balance sheet start to default?
This has more or less existed in Iran since forever. As far as I can tell everything has been chokepointed through TIC/ITC ASNs for connectivity.
I'm not a nutritionist but 1100 calories a day is very, very low for most adults. As a comparison, the Minnesota starvation study fed participants a little over 1500 calories a day.
Interestingly, macOS doesn't provide a crt0.o: execution begins in dyld for most programs, which calls the normal program entrypoint (usually main). Linux will do this too if you are dynamically linked.
I read the first half and it seems very weak to me. The only actual climate point is unspecified executive orders and a plan to get carbon neutral by 2050 (about 40 years too late and we'll after the end of his 5th term assuming he does that well).

After that, it's road and bridge building and protecting communities of colour.

What will Democrats (this needs to come from Congress, the presidency is basically powerless to make real change here) actually do?

(edit, finished reading, just more about unspecified investment, workers rights, and unmatched American innovation).