skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Saying "once Java has caught up" ignores that Kotlin, at that point in time, will be even further ahead of Java most likely.

This assumes that there is much "ahead" to get and that people want more features (well, some do, but the vast majority don't seem to). If the "catching up" terminology applies at all, it certainly doesn't mean feature parity with every other language. That's like a compulsive hoarder seeing a neighbour buying a lawn-chair and saying, "nice to see you finally catching up!" Once you've "caught up" with the expectations of the majority of programmers, there's not much more catching up to do. Neither Scala nor Kotlin have broken past 5% share of the Java platform, even when Java was behind mainstream expectations.

So sure, there will always be some small percentage who like more features than the mainstream fashion, but it's been clearly shown that you can't appeal to that minority and to the mainstream majority at once. Java (the language) tries to appeal to the latter, not the former.
2021 Global Learning Landscape: open-source taxonomy for the future of education
> But what do you expect to happen when you forcibly take all of the British resources?

Very strange how oil underneath the Iranian soil can be considered a "British resource".
Right, many minimum wage opponents focus on the scenario where someone is worth e.g. $14/hr to a business, and rightly point out that this person won't be hired with a $15/hr min wage.

BUT without a minimum wage, someone worth $50/hr can be paid $5/hr if anyone can do the job. It strikes me that this situation is far more common than the first scenario, and minimum wage opponents tend to ignore it in their arguments.

Minimum wage sets a floor for the market. That could theoretically increase unemployment in some industries with razor thin margins, but it's far from a given.
I meant that under Lenin, the philosophy was to export revolution worldwide so that the Soviet Union would integrate into a worldwide, international socialism.

Under Stalin, the policy of "Socialism in one country" was implemented, and foreign intervention was no longer a priority nor a philosophical goal. Which is why, under Stalin, the USSR attempted to ally with capitalist nations.
Yes, I personally am talking only about the US in this thread. From what I have personally seen of Europeans younger than I am, for example, it seems like they are much more likely to smoke cigarettes than an American of the same age.

Since the article is about Mexico... I have spent substantial time in Spanish speaking places. But I am unaware of current trends in Mexico, haven't been there in particular since 2006. Probably lots of smokers. Latin America tends to have more smoking than here too. I suppose they did invent the stuff.
I'm puzzled why we can't phase it in over time. Start with $100/month. The US can handle that. And then ramp it up as we see fit.
That's possible but it would mean unnecessarily changing security-critical code. I'd again have to make sure to use constant-time comparisons of the different output, migrate the existing data or require users to reset their passwords and so on. All to tick a box.

Ultimately we pretty much did that, switched to scrypt which is based on sha2 and pointed to the standard saying it's sha2-based. But that does not change the fact that the policy imposes incorrect requirements on teams. SHA2 is not appropriate for password hashing.
> companies have more power in negotiation, they have more information and, most important of all, they can deal with a job opening not being covered most of the time

This will be the case as long as we have monetary policy based on the idea that "100% employment is the apocalypse".

It seems like it is accepted as fact that 100% employment would lead to hyperinflation, despite the fact that this has never occurred. It is a totally untested theory that is suspiciously convenient for employers and shitty for workers.
> Rust does not have a textual substitution pre-processor

Is that not pretty much what Rust's procedural macros are? [0]

Except for the fact that they do not allow emitting invalid token streams (which is something you don't want anyways), it can do any arbitrary manipulation of source code, but in a way that is integrated with the compiler and less prone to breaking the program.

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/procedural-macros.html
Take it for what it is:
http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturated-oils.shtml
One thing I found was interesting

> The effects of a wage floor can also be felt outside low-pay sectors. A preliminary study in 2019 of the impact of Germany’s minimum wage found it led to more reallocation of workers from smaller, lower-paying firms to larger, higher-paying ones.

Is it possible that although the change in overall employment was muted smaller shops were closed up and their work simply transferred to larger ones better able to expend the capital?
Schrems II Offers an Opportunity–If the U.S. Wants to Take It
We really, really need anti-trust action. No other state other than the american one can effectively do this....
I'm tired of hearing about "the new normal". This is NOT normal, and the weak attempts to make it normal is just disgusting. Like you said, this isn't as deadly as people first thought it was, but it seems that those in charge don't want to admit that they're wrong, and as a result everybody is suffering from this even if they really wouldn't suffer from COVID.
I've read that Safflower oil or Avocado oil are one of the healthiest oils to cook. Safflower oil is supposedly even good for you. As with everything, moderation is a key factor.
Asymptomatic transmission, while possible, is rare.

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-2671
Still, skeptics like might have 1000 reasons why it won't work, such small studies could reduce the 1000 to a smaller number. If the study would have failed you would probably be happy and not argue that it was not correct and we should do it on a full country. If the study fails we give up, then if it does not fail we can try new larger studies.
Lol the shutdowns will fuck us up for a decade.
Why don't we index the minimum wage to inflation?

The 1968 minimum, in todays dollars, is over a third higher than our federal minimum wage today. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_Sta...
I actually edited out a /sarcasm because I thought it was that obvious. Oh boy.
> one-fifth of Americans thought FF was good for health

I wonder what portion of Americans have a troll mentality and will say stupid shit to pollers just for fun. Probably not far off one in five...
Then lets lockdown and force people who are less healthy to take all the steps to protect themselves, and leave alone the healty ones ?
Because a barbell, olympic weight set, squat rack takes up half a room and costs $10k vs. a <$30 monthly gym membership.
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> So after that we all got

laughed at and told to stay later and work weekends.

At far too many companies.
I think you're very right that this is policy best done locally, because cost of living varies wildly even in the same state.
Intel NUC?
the problem is the lack of understanding of CICO in the CULTUREof the country.

Any other explanation is hiding the truth for some half-reasoning which mich the real point
are you really arguing there would be a higher chance of compliance if instead of making it law we resorted to politely asking?
> The drug, BromAc – which is made with an enzyme found in pineapples -was found to dissolve the spike proteins that Covid-19 uses to infect human cells.

So not pineapples themselves but a derivative.

> It has been repurposed into a nasal spray that researchers hope will stop the virus' spread from the nose and throat to the lungs. A trial on patients at the Royal Melbourne Hospital could start next month.

So not an injection or anything, just sort of a nasal barrier.
To amplify this, while I appreciate the passion some people have for community health, there has been a pattern of bald-faced lying that is unsustainable and potentially counterproductive. I can see somebody going to the gym and not feeling bad about it for that reason alone.
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I guess that the point of the article is also that "money doesn't buy you happiness", but the author only says it between the lines. He does state that success in business will also not bring you happiness if you don't take the time and care for other aspects of your life.

The view may be a bit skewed since he is a coach and will mostly deal with people who have a problem. It is still a good reminder to try to have a balanced life, regardless of where on the ladder you are :)
As a person with a 10+ year chronic injury, thanks for saying this. It was nice even just to read it on the internet from a total stranger and know that somebody is aware that people are dealing with things like this.
You are suggesting that these are quotes from the article. They are not.
Also in the linked interview one of the scientists leading the study openly admits these points: “We cannot simulate a world of UBI. [...] We will not find out anything about these economic consequences, not even about possible power shifts between employers and employees, the amount of net costs or the effects on migration.”
This study is meant to add data to the picture and improve the discourse.
Yes – although even “microservice” might be slightly skewing that. I generally like to refer to it as “easily replaced” — i.e. if you have a monolith but it's well organized without broad cross-dependencies, you can swap things out pretty quickly without otherwise changing your deployment model. Maybe that's getting somewhere on the microservice spectrum, maybe not but the key part is really just that you have a well-understood contract for what a component provides and what it depends on.
Not if you are in the USA, maybe if you are in Mexico, although in Mexico the typical breakfast for kids is more like coffee with milk and chilaquiles (tortilla with tomato sauce) which might not be that healthy.
AFAIK global capitalism has been in an over production crisis since at least 2008. So it's not a depression due to covid-19, but a worsening of the existing depression due to covid-19.

Still, those on top are still raking in profit - arguably the crisis isn't that we suddenly are running out of energy, food or housing - just that we're distributing it so badly that we've created poor living conditions for a lot of people.
A free market does not mean that both sides want something with equal desire. I need food to survive much more than Krogers needs my business to survive. This does not mean that grocery sales are not a free market.

A free market means that the supply and demand of goods rely on price signals rather than a centralized planner. Labour is absolutely a free market. As wages in one particular area increase, people respond to that price signal by learning the relevant skills and working in that field and getting greater salaries. It's also why Amazon (and essentially no business) pay $7.25 an hour, even though they legally could.
I guess the UX is better if you're mostly using reddit to scroll through memes. Like you look at a meme, chuckle, read the top reply, chuckle again, on to the next meme.

It's absolutely garbage for comment-heavy subs, but the vast majority of reddit users doesn't visit those.
I’m sure the price of your coffee will rise soon. Better buy now while prices are low and HODL until they’re crazy high, and dump all.

Coffee is here to stay and will he THE truly anonymous and untraceable currency of the future.
The mask wearing is some type of AB test by the CIA mind control team.
Never attribute to intelligence what can be sufficiently explained by stupidity.
I try to do some activity to signal the end of the work day. Recently I've been attacking a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle while listening to a podcast. Amazing how quickly I can forget about work this way.
Yes of course there are limits, nothing should be held as an absolute. I also don't think it's a very complicated ethic, you follow it until it's no longer the right thing to do. As another commenter noted, rape and murder etc. obviously don't apply.

Most people can come to decisions like this without the mediation of a legal system. In this particular case, I don't think that ratting on gym owners who are trying to salvage their livelihoods by serving willing customers is worthy of reporting to the authorities.

Never thought I'd see the day where Americans turn in their neighbors to the state.
Not strange at all when you consider the Iranians had absolutely no means of extracting it themselves.

They gave willing access to their natural resources in exchange for a relatively massive revenue windfall then seized the sizable British capital investments with no compensation.
Particularly since this is a dynamically linked executable that does exactly one job.
OK, but, what's the problem with GitHub? I want to understand. Like, is this a political thing, or is this a usability thing?
They're doing that in Minnesota too. But that's it. Just removing the emergency declaration. No other solutions to what to do are being proposed, just removing the declaration.
>it makes sense to have an account to keep track of what games you own no?

Not in the least
This seems like a nice extension to Emacs for folks that want to use it but are stymied by the steep learning curve.

Personally I think the learning curve is worth it... especially with an aid like Spacemacs. It gives you the context and quick access without requiring a mouse and thus results in faster and more efficient interaction in the long run.

https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
The higher, the fewer.
Monetary policy is to benefit the owners; not the workers. 100% employment will drive wage growth as demand exceeds supply. That’s not good for the stock market.
> It's pretty rational for someone to understand that and make personal choices...

No, it's not; it's arrogant.

All of the epidemiologists and experts seem to think otherwise. What do you know that they don't?

So far 172,000 people have died in the US due to Coronavirus, directly[1]. The actual number of people who have died, if you factor in the effect of the virus on infrastructure and missed diagnoses is about double that[2].

We're approaching the total death toll of World War II[3].

Your claim that it's comparable to lightning, which kills about 50 people per year in the USA, is completely inaccurate and displays a grandiose arrogance. An arrogance that, nationwide, has resulted in a staggering number of tragedies this year.

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Total_...
Yeah I have Used Gogs before, Although Gitlab is heavy but it brings more feature.

Also every piece of code or software comes with their own advantages and disadvantages.

My perception is like use those things which works for you.
I think there are good examples, where the press operating in a free market can give good results. But the more important question is, if it is equal or better at its worst (which is exactly, when this is important).

Having a mix between private free press and publicly funded broadcasting probably creates some balance between the two worlds. I would expect the quality of the private press to decline (further), if we wouldn't have public broadcasting anymore.
That doesn't mean that we have to agree with the rules or the way they are enforced. However if you are not in agreement with the majority your options are war or not reporting others for their rule breaking. In general war is not a good option.
Here's a 1hr talk by the author of the book. Knock yourself out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcUKP1sAto8
That's interesting. Of all the years of making fun of the apartment lease addendum pages about lead paint, I had always just written it off to "dumb things people do". I had no idea there was any kind of rewarding behavior at all.
One thing I've been thinking about recently, is the difference between "asking for help" and "being offered help". It's difficult to ask for help in a socially acceptable way: deferential, but not ingratiating; vulnerable, but not needy; bounded, but not transactional. Whereas these tensions are largely circumvented when someone sees you struggling and offers to help in some way. This leads better results also, as often when I need help, I don't even know what kind of help to ask for. But someone who has gone through something similar, can help simply by knowing what it is I might need, even if they can't provide it. It's very difficult to get that kind of help by asking for it.
We could direct the subsidies more toward ethanol or whatever other corn product, and still be able to get to the raw corn in an emergency.
> someone worth $50/hr can be paid $5/hr if anyone can do the job

What business sectors enjoy consistent 90% gross margins?
> Two robotic hands that can work in co-ordination just as human hands do. Extremely difficult to solve, but money is there.

You will find the most automated Mc Donalds in the world in Switzerland. Mc Donalds over there has a lot more automation there than it does in the US, both in the cooking and in the order taking.

Either this is because the automation is extremely difficult to do, but is simpler in Switzerland. Or alternatively, this is because in most countries in the world humans are cheaper than the automated system, even after it has already been developed.

As someone who does research on robotics for a living. The problem is not the former, but the latter.
No, but real-life-karma (people you've fucked over will get back on you 10 times as much once they get the chance) often is...
Can we stop perpetuating this idea that poverty is going to make people work super hard to escape? It’s a debilitating state that traps people. It’s not a blessing of motivation. Studies have show poverty lowers IQ and overall health in almost every way. Happy, financially secure workers are productive ones. Hard to focus on your job when you’re wondering where your next meal is coming from and which bills you can push off until your next paycheck.
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63% of gym memberships go completely unused (Statistic Brain survey of 5,313 American gym members). I don't see this as a big thing.
This confused me for a bit. The point of the system is to prevent energy from being reflected or radiated from a surface. Systems like this have been around for a while (https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/home-cooling-systems/radi...), the news here is that this works with temperatures below the dew point because they have solved the condensation issues.
Are they really that bad? I mean Froot Loops are weird but you don't really eat them often?
Don't talk about politics, religion or text editors at work, son.

They used to ban people for starting rWars on USENET (that is, outside of the forums specifically for rWars) back in the day.
what's an ipod?
>What happens if you were banned from Facebook

Your social credit goes down, of course
Personally I find one of the biggest things that keeps my relationship going is that we have ways to express discontent with each other that unambiguously frames it as not necessarily a big thing.

Mostly this way is pretending to be a goofy cartoon version of George and Martha from “Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe”. Or, rather, of what we imagine would be their online role-play avatars - how a rotting lich and a hyena lady ended up together in a stable orbit of mutual loathing is an open question, but it gives us a great way to express exaggerated versions of the things causing friction between us, and amuse each other with trying to turn them into comedy. It makes checking in on the actual issue afterwards a lot easier, as we’ve already burnt off a lot of whatever anger may have wanted to make us snap at each other in these exaggerated personas in the first place.
By speaking in terms of "time-duration for an emergency action within the social contract" compared to "time-duration of the virus" dfee means: You need powers that bypass democratically elected representatives in week 1 of an emergency - but when you get to week 10, there's been plenty of time to get a urgent bill passed by the legislature, so shouldn't the emergency powers have been replaced by an explicit bill?

And if such a bill can't be passed - i.e. the person holding emergency powers is using them to do things our elected representatives aren't willing to sign off on - surely that proves how important it is that the powers be limited.

(Of course, if you believe our elected representatives would risk killing people to make the other side look bad, or would stuff unrelated pork into the must-pass bill, you might not follow this line of reasoning)
Companies do free work for large potential customers all of the time, in lots of industries. The idea is that you do something small to demonstrate your capability to take on a larger paid opportunity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_concept
And also to the NSA.
I used Org for about 8 months last year, while I was testing out Spacemacs and Doom Emacs.

My experience was that the Org-mode in Emacs was great. Especially how you could capture notes with backlinks from any Emacs context, and the Agenda view it generates. I went all-in on the ecosystem and wrote my mail in mu4e, for instance, which can integrate with Org-mode for writing HTML mail. Being able to add inline LaTeX equations and syntax-highlighted code snippets to such emails was gold. Having easily executable script snippets embedded in sysadmin notes was useful as well.

As for other implementations of it — including vim-orgmode and every mobile app I tried — too many features were lacking or broken for it to be useful to me. In the end, I ended up going back to MarkDown when I left Emacs. The transition was quite painful; Pandoc helped a lot, but many things in my notes just broke during conversion, so I ended up just trashing most of my notes and spending an evening manually fixing the important ones.

While Org is free and open source software, and it’s often repeated that “it’s just plain text”... I’d like to caution others that if you really use the features it has to offer, you’ll be locked into it just like with most proprietary formats. If you’re not completely sure you’ll use Emacs for the rest of your days, MarkDown is a safer option for a knowledge base you wish to keep over time.
>The smartest country of all, is Sweden, never locked down, explained to citizen the situation. Managed to get the situation under control without any lockdown, and probably will reach herd immunity before anyone else. Time will tell this is too soon to judge, but they seem well positioned for winning

I keep seeing this narrative but I can never find the data to support it. When you look at the data, Sweden has the worst of both worlds.

1. Among their neighbors, only Germany has more deaths than Sweden. Norway, Denmark and Finland have fewer almost an order of magnitude less cases and deaths.

2. Despite not being government sanctioned, people still chose to self isolate meaning that the still suffered the economic fallout of that decision. Turns out, a global pandemic is bad for business whether or not your government decides to shut everything down.

There is no metric by which Sweden is doing any better than anyone else, and is doing a lot worse than their neighbors.
lol, I find myself doing this sometimes when looking through pages in regular magazines. It's almost like it's just become hardwired as an instinct.
The draft was simply integrated into a larger-scope document, still actively maintained (last draft published 12th of July):

https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-semantics-10.html...

Note the description doesn’t say ‘I’m A Teapot’.
You probably know this but the opponents of raising the minimum wage fear that it will lead to inflation. The old adage "labor is 2/3rds the cost of everything."