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> I will always judge my society for the bad things it institutionalizes.

... like my comment says Americans do and doesn't oppose?

>There's no reason for entry to be hostile. It's quite hostile, even coming from Canada. The US would be fine if we had the same entry standards as Canada and an open border...

Does my comment say something against this?

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Did you reply to the wrong comment? Or did you think that me saying "Be pragmatic in viewing a country on a global scale instead of just having this self-serving need to constantly insult yourselves" was saying "America did nothing wrong!"

Problems should be solved inwards, not by treating human rights like a pissing contest.

Instead of immediately going "We could do what country X does, look at their outcomes!!!!", realize country X is not your country, and realize, you don't need country X's actions to frame what's wrong with your own country's problems.

The problem with immigration isn't "We're not doing what Canada is doing", the problem with immigration is you're not treating human being like human beings.

It's much easier to justify solutions to the latter than the former because moment you turn this into "look at your sibling do this right!!" you shift the focus from the real problem, mistreating people, to a fake "problem", "other countries are doing better than us", to which it's easy to say "so many others are doing worse".

Other country's actions and outcomes should be a catalyst to examine application in your own country at most, not some kind of goalpost like Americans love to treat them.
Doesn't Amazon have a better deal with Apple than pretty much anyone else?
Ah, I see I'm not quite right there. PyQt _used_ to include a file listing the usual open source licenses (MIT, BSD, Apache, Python and so on) as ok to use with their GPL code base, but they since removed that, because in the meantime it has become clearer that the GPL is already giving people that freedom.

https://riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2014-February/...
Did you consider that Epic gets a deal from Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo?
I really do mean basically every screenshot. But take ECMerge for example. If you switch back and forth between Linux (GTK?) and Win7, you'll see that for example the toolbar is exactly the same color on each. It doesn't integrate with the Windows environment at all. But surely Windows has a native toolbar widget? And possibly even a native icon theme that you could use instead of the GTK icons. And even if not, surely wxWidgets could choose the color of the toolbar based on the desktop theme, and not just fall back to the same default colors?

Or check "Game Develop". The primary interface is a kind of weird rip-off of the MS Office ribbon, but I assume this is a custom widget. There's also a tab interface though, and this doesn't work on either the Windows or GTK versions: it's weird and has a gradient background.

In general, small details like the padding, coloration, and borders drawn around widgets seem to be slightly off on most platforms with just about very wx based GUI I've seen.
Yes, roughly speaking any domain you registered yourself.
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ISIS whenever they launched attacks in Syria or Iraq against some army base or prison structure they filmed it with drones and put it on youtube. Their strategy was multiple suicide trucks or cars filled with explosives (some were decoy vehicles) that had to survive the speeding attack to the walls to blow themselves up for a breach where the foot soldiers could come in and raid, so these were mad max looking vehicles covered in makeshift armor, coming in from all directions hoping to exploit a blind spot in the structure's defenses. So in other words having no blind spots seems like the best defense against that kind of enemy or one that tries and lobs mortars at you while you have clear sight of them doing so.
I would say keep kids away from both. Sex isn't something that needs to be taught, your kids will figure it out when they are ready and old enough.
"We want you to make a simple, mass-producable vaccine, for no profit, in world record time, with many shortcuts taken in the approval process, and oh, if it has any side effects at any point in the future, you're on the hook for them"

Hmm. I'm not one to usually take the side of pharmaceutical companies, but here we are.
Possibly a dumb question, but what are the plusses/minuses of something like this as compared to NTFS-3G?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS-3G
That's not really an Internet issue, and more the idea that moderation of hateful content is "censorship". It would be the same in public if people couldn't be kicked off premises going on disruptive hateful rants.
They had standing yeah. I think it's about showing reduction in consumer welfare - Apple delisted an app that lowered prices for consumers.
Well in the UK, that is starting to happen, the online harms paper is out, and OFCOM will be taking some amount of that work.

Since foreign agencies are able to use platforms to influence elections then governments are going to take action to protect their processes.

At the same time, from the firm's perspective, they have to be arbiters of issues that the public has never discussed or dealt with, the political powers of the polity are involved in it = all of which has to be done at massive scale, across multiple jurisdictions and laws.

This is an unsolvable problem. Right now they get told of for not removing conspiracies and for removing conspiracies, all the while being told off for harming free speech.

Having an outside third party to play referee is just cheaper, so they will fight and lobby for it in some for or the other.
Epic games is campaigning for irrelevance right now.
"Note that this capability is already available to Chrome Apps and Extensions and in no scenario will we be handing it out like candy to any website that asks nicely; [the API] will come with a higher barrier to use."

Involving Google as a gatekeeper, of course.

Google is trying to establish the level of control on the Web it has on Android.
All your examples already had OSX ports, I'm sure they'll be on ARM Macs as well. The big 'winners' from easy iOS porting are likely be cheap iOS games with matching small technical effort to port [which is different from actually porting the gameplay/interface]. Hopefully Apple will improve discoverability in their store so they're easy to filter.
The ratio of red and blue light controls various functions of a plant. In the context of aquarium plants, more red light makes them get tall and leggy, more blue light makes them be compact and bushy.

https://gpnmag.com/article/effects-of-blue-light-on-plants/ talks a bit about it in the context of greenhouses and tomatoes, the picture in the middle shows 6 plants grown with wildly different red/blue ratios.

If the balance of the light coming through your solar panel was problematic, you could always filter out some of the overabundant light.
The Stirling engine's time has finally come! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EahfGfDdgNY

Not really, but it's a neat alternative for turning solar energy into mechanical power. Achievable (at grossly inefficient power outputs) by the hobbyist without expensive tools or nasty chemicals. Much easier to recycle at the end of a system's useful life.
I am continuously surprised by the response from a lot of the HN community to this. I would never have expected people to be championing the kind of gate keeping Apple (and Google) have been enjoying for years. It hurts consumers by driving prices, forcing awful IAP business models, and holds back innovation due to private APIs or "policy violations".

These app stores are filled with so much shit these days that it's impossible to find quality software, and the app store model gives these companies little opportunity to differentiate and sell their offerings.

Give me the ability to install apps from any store, website, or platform. Give me the ability to use a device whatever way I decide. Incentive developers to create useful, enjoyable software instead of IAP shovelware. Make it the norm and break users from depending on The One App Store.
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And because of it they have a better way to renewables (+fusion). As renewables become better they can replace nuclear but because of their standing they don't have to worry about many of the issues that other countries do: base load, long term energy storage with renewables, etc. Because of this France is starting with an emission level that is lower than most countries goals. If all the major countries had went the way of France we wouldn't be in a climate crisis, though it would still be a worrying event for the future (just not a crisis).

It is also worth mentioning that almost 20% of France's energy is produced from recycled nuclear (not 20% of nuclear energy, 20% of total).
There is an entire branch of geology dedicated to answering that question called stratigraphy [0]. It's hard to pinpoint exact dates but we can get a pretty good estimate (313 million +/- half a million is pretty good).

The authors describe how they determined the date in their paper [1]. In this case they know the relative age of the formation the tracks were found in (Manakacha Formation) because we know the age of the formations around it. The ages of the surrounding formations are estimated by the known ages of the fauna (other fossilized organisms) found in those formations (319 Ma below and 312 Ma above).

[0] https://www.geotech.hr/en/how-to-determine-the-age-of-a-rock...
[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
They might have had standing for some of their claims, but many others would have had a reasonable chance of being dismissed for lack of standing. Better to make it explicit.
Same for me. I only ask questions now if there is no documentation for something or it is a bleeding edge technology.

I haven't asked a python or C++ question in probably 5 years because the existing answers are all excellent and I can glean what I need from one or more of them.

SO really shines once you've cleared the minimum bar in terms of computing knowledge. From what I hear it's not super great for people that haven't cleared the minimum bar yet (students, absolute beginners, etc.), but it's truly a gem of the internet (I didn't use it as a student because I didn't learn about its existence until I already graduated college - plus, it launched when I was a sophomore in college so it really hadn't built up a good answer base until later).
Who cares. The whole point of free market capitalism is to have self interested actors competing to create change that benefits society as a whole. It may not work all the time but right now this is an example of the invisible hand at work.

If it were not for competing business interest what human is altruistic enough to throw this many resources at taking down apples monopolistic iron grip over the app market?

Support Epic not for their moral reasoning, support them because their interests align with yours.
The server binds to the loopback interface, so it's not exposed to the network at all. Then as long as you use CSRF protection and an appropriate Content Security Policy it is safe.
I'm not that aware of incel beliefs, I've only visited the forum a few times out of curiosity (partially borne of my own history with relationships).

But to be clear, I agree that there is a point at which you're basically unable to find sexual relationships - clearly there is such a point. But I'm willing to bet that no one, not one person on the incel Reddit, is unable to find a sexual relationship, at least not because of the so-called "immutable characteristics". There is no one there who is so physically unattractive (or who has whatever other traits are talked about) that they can't find a relationship.

I say this with having known many people who in their late teeanager/adult years, were unattractive, "undateable", etc, who believed that they wouldn't ever find a relationship, and who grew up to be in great relationships.

It's like those old commercials for closeted homosexual teenagers - "it gets better". That's a message that is really the same - it does get better, and it's super easy to confirm, because so many older people in happy relationships were once young incels.
I think that is the point they are making though. PV is still harmful to the environment in its current form but it isn't as bad as Coal is in its current form.

Both can be clean and zero-impact however in practice neither are.

PV is still "cleaner" than coal in its current form but neither are truly clean. It's the significant lesser of two evils until we make the effort to go net-zero.
Sugar is the crack that's killing us. Cheese is fats and proteins, which we handle very well. But the occasional fruit was our biggest source of sugar. Its rarity makes our bodies crave it like a drug, and today it's so cheap it's basically free.
You know, that would be a very serious design flaw of they just broke like that. Hence the reason they are weatherproof...

The solar cells themselves are usually quite delicate, but the surrounding material keeps them safe in the case of weatherproof ones.
Multiple papers (including one in Nature[1]) have reported T-cell immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in something between a third and half the samples collected before the pandemic. That doesn't mean the virus won't replicate in people with that pre-existing immunity, and there's evidence from homeless shelters and such of almost everyone testing positive (both by PCR and later for IgG in their blood); but people with that T cell immunity very likely get less sick, and might be less infectious (though near-certainly still infectious, and that's more speculative).

And it seems from the hostility of your response ("delete the comment as misinformation") that you find it incredible that herd immunity could exist with less than 1 - 1/R0 of the population infected? But even ignoring any pre-existing immunity, that calculation assumes a homogeneous and well-mixed population. That's clearly not the case, since some people (a nurse in a crowded ER, a police officer, a store clerk, a nightlife enthusiast, etc.) have far more contacts than others (a remote worker who gets stuff delivered). People with more contacts will get infected first, with disproportionate harm, and then become immune first, with disproportionate benefit. Many papers have modeled[2] this; though no one's found a great way to measure that heterogeneity yet, so for now, it's hard to say much beyond that the effect exists, and is potentially big.

And finally, herd immunity isn't a binary threshold, especially in a heterogeneous population. As others have noted, even places without enough immunity for R < 1 will still have slower spread than in a naive population, or may get to R < 1 from the immunity plus slightly more cautious behavior. Conversely, places that do have R < 1 overall may still have pockets of spread in sub-populations with unusually high R0. In any case, it's no conspiracy theory to believe that NYC developed significant amounts of immunity along the way to its ~24k (about 0.3% of the population!) deaths.

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2550-z

2. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.10.20021725v...
The problem is often not the purchase price but the ongoing maintenance, insurance and parking fees. In a big city, the problem isn't to buy the car but to find a place for it; even if parking near your home is solved the car is still very much a burden when you go in the city centre as you now need to figure out where to park it.
That's a heliostat system, not a solar panel system. Both involve the sun but they do so very differently.

It's also a company which wants to sell heliostats, they're not going to tell you it sucks.
I’ve been playing with xonsh lately and really liking it so far! From what I can tell it’s pretty close to feature parity with fish shell which has a lot of nice things like command auto completion but you don’t have to learn yet another shell syntax it’s just python. Wrote up a quick trip report at https://blog.jamesolds.me/post/xonsh-aws-example/
>Chromium is the best UI toolkit ever created. What exactly are the arguments against Electron?

Because it looks ugly (i.e. non-native) on pretty much every platform. Qt has different levels of success at that, having most problems with macOS and Android.

Also, there's Qt Quick, which lies somewhere in the middle between classic Qt and Electron.

>It's slow to render? Wrong, Electron (Chromium) renders faster than Qt. The Skia engine is optimized to an extent that these other toolkits cannot compete with. It even has a Vulkan backend now

The reason why classic single-threaded GUI toolkit are the way they are is because you can perform a custom reactive drawing or just reactive UI update in a blink of the eye, so user won't notice any delay. I know there are some bad examples like java-based IDE bloatware, but there are good examples like... Chromium! However, you cannot develop Chromium with Chromium, but you can develop something similar to Chromium with Qt.

>Memory? It's 70MB

Haven't seen Electron application using less than 200 Mb of memory. For example, launching Skype plus chromium SPA takes 550 Mb of RAM on my system. JavaFX has similar problems.

>Slack is a slow monster, but it's a giant codebase that does things that would be simply impossible in Qt, GTK, Swing and others

Like what? I'm not aware of any special Slack's features that could be hard to implement using classic GUI toolkits.
The linux kernel is successful partly because by and large what's in the kernel works and doesn't generally break on new revisions.

Accepting a new driver which may in fact not work, breaks in ambiguous ways, interacts with other components poorly, or otherwise generates headaches for the kernel could be more trouble than it's worth. Ultimately this driver will eventually need to be modified by others, and ensuing it doesn't get a reputation as a nightmare right out of the gate is also worthwhile.
In this case they are estimating the ages based upon the known ages of the geologic formations surrounding the layers of sand the tracks were found in [0][1].

[0] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
[1] https://www.geotech.hr/en/how-to-determine-the-age-of-a-rock...
Two large evil corporations is better than one large evil corporation. It at least encourages consumer-friendly practices as a means of competition.
At some point in time we decided that email addresses control the keys to the kingdom. If you lose access to your email, there goes your social media accounts, your bank accounts, your gaming accounts, and potentially many of your commercial accounts as well.

And then we decided that custom domains are the most professional. Which does make sense, there can only be one 'robert@gmail.com'. But, this is coupled with the idea that domains can expire, and that expiry does not appear to kill the identity that's potentially associated with the domain.

We should not be using email addresses as our primary source of identity verification in the first place. And we definitely _should_ have some way to globally declare that an identity has been compromised. Especially given our society's track record of keeping database safe from breach.

I more or less assume it is inevitable that one of my major accounts will be compromised, and that this will be able to cascade into most of my major accounts being compromised. I do what I can to protect myself, but gmail as a single source of failure makes me nervous. Using any email provider besides gmail makes me even more nervous, because they don't have the full power and knowledge of Google protecting their databases.
That is a bully move. The country should retract from this, open the bid, and see if AstraZeneca still wants to participate with fair rules in place.
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Especially no larger free lunch that you'll get paid to eat.
No problem. Not sure if you noticed, but I mentioned they use Rainloop for their webmail, which I provided a link to a demo of if you're just interested in checking out the webmail UI.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24253613.
Everyone who doesn't really read, doesn't reserve a response anyway.
It could be a cover up for something that is wrong, but maybe they do this to compensate on the shortened testing. Because longer testing on patients reduce the risk on unknown side effects. They obviously do not want to carry that risk and thus we here see the result.
Prefacing this with that I'm just a layman so this is just an interesting discussion for me.

Looking at the Wikipedia page and the requirements for standing the way Epic is doing this looks at least for me much more in line with the given requirements.

Though I guess the Wikipedia page is a simplification of the reality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_(law)
Apple is not opposed to payment systems that load money from a website into a platform like Spotify or Amazon. They are opposed to payment systems that bypass their Apple payment system from an app.
Not sure what you mean there. Everything I've read about "clean" coal seemed like greenwashing to me.

Is there a working example of any of these perceived waste capture mechanisms? How much more expensive are they to operate?
The word toxic has become a great indicator for bullshit.
Short answer: They don't

Longer answer: They don't but they are so important to users in those markets that they would not purchase iphones if they could not use those applications there
Wind turbines also suffer from a similar problem. After some number of years, they just get landfilled. See https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turb... or https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-02-06/wind-turbi... for more on that.

Similar concerns were raised around solar panels by Michael Moore in a recent documentary, which claimed that the total lifetime cost of a solar-powered society makes these alternative green technologies not really green. See https://medium.com/@tejasgole67/is-michael-moore-right-8603f... and https://medium.com/@tejasgole67/is-michael-moore-right-part-... for a discussion around that.

Ultimately there may be no getting around the fact that we simply need to reduce demand. And reducing demand, if we want to preserve our quality of life, likely means population control.
"U.S. cops have a lot more of the "Ha-ha, now you're mine, bastard" attitude."
I am not sure how this helps your argument. You are saying that right off the bat the cops were aggressive for no reason and you were polite. How is that situation any ones fault except the cops?
You have that ability: buy any android phone!
Hardware in the loop CI/CD pipeline
They could radically slash costs by purchasing Russian vaccine, then )
There aren't 6 billion permits, licenses, and regulations to comply with when setting up a solar farm. On top of this, you don't assume much liability when installing a solar panel. You do when creating a nuclear reaction. Pouring the concrete and building the core of a nuclear plant is not inherently more expensive than plenty of other projects that private industry funds.

The cost overruns in nuclear come from necessary but burdensome regulatory requirements.