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Planting Perennials Next to Potholes: Silos, bikesheds, and how to prioritize
I slightly modified the title in order to convey its original meaning and fit within length constraints.
You can install whatever software you want on Windows. It isn't locked down to just the Microsoft Store.

There's a giant gulf between Apple's tyrannical platform and the rest of the world.
That one is bad because "are you busy tomorrow" has equal chance of you asking me to do something distasteful, so I'm usually going to opt for a "no" because I have no desire to move that couch for you, but I may be open to seeing a movie together.
> You know that's not what would happen, right?

No, I don't.

> We would end up with our existing systems plus UBI for a long time, because people would not be willing to abolish the existing systems.

UBI/NIT supporters on the right tend to prefer either of UBI/NIT or abolition without replacement to current welfare programs; some actually prefer UBI/NIT, some prefer abolition but think UBI/NIT is a compromise that can get sufficient support from people more to their left to be viable, whereas straight up abolition without replacement is harder to win. Those people aren't going to want to keep existing means-tested welfare.

Opponents of UBI/NIT on the right tend to oppose means tested welfare to; if they lose and have UBI/NIT thrust upon them, they aren't going to seek retaining means-tested welfare to soften the blow.

UBI/NIT supporters on the left tend to prefer it as a replacement for at least those means-tested programs that it would eliminate eligibility for if counted against the means test, though they may prefer keeping other means-tested programs (though with much smaller caseloads, and caseload is the main driver of administrative expense in such programs.)

Basically, the constituency for retaining most existing means-tested benefit programs is left-wing opponents of UBI/NIT. But the right-wing supporters of UBI, left-wing supporters of UBI, and right-wing opponents of UBI together are almost certainly going to be a bigger block.
I've certainly done something similar, but with some very minor tweaks, this can be done in a respectful way.

I'll usually write up my question and post it in a public channel. Then, depending on the situation, I might `@` one (or more) of the people who's insight I'm primarily seeking, but because it's public, others can take a look.

If my primary person doesn't reach out, I'll copy the URL of the message as a DM to the next best person, and ask if they've got advice/thoughts.

Either I or the person who looked into it will add a comment to the thread like "resolved" or "ok, {so-and-so} helped me figure out the problem, which was..."
> but this kind of bug exists because it’s using React Native

Considering how this issue was from a package that isn't included with React Native, this seems like a bit of a stretch.
For further context, they used to take 30% on the Phone and Desktop store when they launched with Windows/Phone 8. The only reason they take less now is because those were miserable failures.

And no, no one finds the Windows store attractive.
I think it's unlikely that it's been spreading around undetected for 100 days, and suddenly we've noticed it. We've found nearly 100 new cases in the mass testing that has come out of this outbreak, but they all can be traced back to a single source.
Glimpse – A Fork of the Gimp
I was asking why India has a flawed democracy.

I went through the list. India is ranked around 50.

If you ignore all the cute european countries like Finland, Denmark, Liechtenstein etc from the top, which doesn't even qualify as a big city in India, I would say India is doing pretty good for a country where 1/6 population of the world live.
> seen toxicity in some of her patients with doses of over 5000 IU per day.

I believe she said "per day for years".
Well, did you train at commercial gyms or powerlifting/weightlifting gyms? What if the lifters just happened to be on high volume blocks, or tapering for a meet whenever you visited?
> I mean as adults this sounds silly but kids do better with that structure, it's why uniforms "work."

It's true that kids do better with structure, but I've not heard that "structure" is the reason for uniforms.
I'll just add to what others have already provided.

- "Black Hat Go" - https://nostarch.com/blackhatgo
- "Black Hat Python" - https://nostarch.com/blackhatpython
- "Web Security for Developers" - https://nostarch.com /websecurity
- "Cracking Codes with Python" - https://nostarch.com/crackingcodes

Highly recommend those NoStarch books. Of course, depends what you want to pentest, but this is good general information to get started.
I thought they were more known for package registries and hosting (eg conan) than CI.
Respectfully, there is a reason why one must have a license to practice medicine. It's simply too easy to kill people inadvertently. I guess that's fine if the unlicensed doctor is the only patient.

But then, I do agree that a license doesn't necessarily guarantee competence. A GP being interested in and keeping track of the latest research on nutrition, longevity, etc, would be worth their weight in platinum.
Our armed forces are safeguarding Americans from a worldwide foe that could show up anywhere on the globe.

To beat the world, we have to outspend the rest of the world combined on defense.

Perhaps the greatest danger to American defense is insider threats. If the looming danger from insider threats is stark enough, we will absolutely need to find a way to outspend ourselves on defense.
You can do that on a Mac too… the obsolete Windows Phone would be a better comparison.
"There is no safe level of tanning" is misinformation and such confident-but-wrong statements should never be used. It's completely false to state that people shouldn't expose themselves to the sun when it's part of our biology. Overexposure and getting frequent sunburns will add up and increase chances of skin cancer, but to say that no level of sun exposure is safe is wrong.
While true, this seems completely orthogonal to the financial relationship between the developer and platform owner
> "No one is giving away their tools which make their competitive advantage"

This hits close to home. Back in college, I developed software, for a lab, for a project-based class. I put the code up on GitHub under the GPL license (some code I used was licensed under GPL as well), and when the people from the lab found out, they lost their minds. A while later, they submitted a paper and the journal ended up demanding the code they used for analysis. Their solution? They copied and pasted pieces of my project they used for that paper and submitted it as their own work. Of course, they also completely ignored the license.
Tangential: right to repair laws in some places state that a consumer should be able to buy any tool, part or manual that is available to a dealership.

Tesla manages to get around selling parts to consumers ... because they don't have any dealerships.
All this overlooks one simple principle. A democratic society should be held to a higher standard than an authoritarian one.

As an example, we let the guilty go because of lack of evidence, where authoritarian regimes don't.

After 9/11, there was a lot of reporting about the NYPD and others profiling Muslims without any reason.

As someone from Europe, it seems to me like the U.S. "exports democracy" all around the world, with often terrible results, without ever stopping to examine whether its own is still holding and if it really can be held as an example for the world to emulate.

You don't punish an entity simply for where their founders were born. Not in a democracy anyway. If there's credible evidence to suggest TikTok is doing something nefarious, we can have a discussion, but until then it should not be banned.

You don't start torturing, just because you want someone to be able to blame and fast. You don't block markets to someone because someone else on the same land mass pissed you off.

It may seem "unfair" because the CCP has blocked many Western platforms, but you don't have values unless you're willing to uphold them in the most difficult of situations.
Well, black people constitute ~13% of the population versus white people's 73%. So there should be almost 6x as many white people, or ~1,500, killed by police as black people.

Police brutality is a leading cause of deaths among young men, but especially so for young black men:

> Among men of all races, ages 25 to 29, police killings are the sixth-leading cause of death, according to a study led by Frank Edwards of Rutgers University, with a total annual mortality risk of 1.8 deaths per 100,000 people. Accidental death, a category that includes automotive accidents and drug overdoses, was the biggest cause at 76.6 deaths per 100,000, and followed by suicide (26.7), other homicides (22.0), heart disease (7.0), and cancer (6.3).

> [...]

> For a black man, the risk of being killed by a police officer is about 2.5 times higher than that of a white man. “Our models predict that about 1 in 1,000 black men and boys will be killed by police over the life course,” the authors write.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/08/police-sh...

There are plenty of statistics if you look for them. Which is why, in my mind, the onus is on skeptics to prove that police brutality does not especially affect the black population.
China Expands Its Amphibious Forces in Challenge to U.S. Supremacy Beyond Asia
> It’s the site that we’re preserving

It’s probably not true now as 10+ years have gone by, but when I was there the guides were former Bletchley Park staff from during the war.
I've been doing Ajax practically since Day 1, and in the olden days when I was young and stupid I actually sent DIV IDs back to the server, which the server would then reply with -- in XML -- to tell the client which DIV to replace.

Then I realized Javascript could do lexical closures which meant the client could keep track of the targets, which also meant the server no longer had to care about things servers shouldn't care about.

The next realization was that DIV IDs are global variables and thus in most cases a bad idea, so now my event handlers automatically search upward (and sometimes sibling-wise) from 'this' for DIVs matching classes or other selectors, to keep the scope local.

This TwinSpark library seems like the next iteration of all the good ideas, plus even more flexibility and proper separation of concerns, without JQuery or other dependencies.

Bravo!
With Helm, there is no need for Artifactory. You get Harbor, Verdaccio, etc. It is silly to pay a company 100k+ when all this stuff is easily managed using official or far more powerful tools.
How do you determine where a particular person is positioned on the spectrum? What is the process for measuring whether one person has a higher or lower level of consciousness than another?
> The printf statement in the header will overwrite the first 64-bytes of the executable, the first time it's invoked

Is this a problem for anti-virus/other security measures? My understanding is, executables that manipulate themselves is something any security software will look for.

Though perhaps the answer is "don't rely upon security software to police your system; do it yourself"
It took a few weeks to go away completely, but got noticeably better just after a couple of days. I'm pretty confident in that diagnosis, as nothing else have changed.
I may be missing the point, but does this imply that no games based on the Unreal engine could be developed for Mac anymore, as Epic themselves will be unable to develop for it / support it?
Yep. A 1:1 transfer from "normal conversation" to "slack conversation" can be really annoying.

If I barged into your office for help and before you'd even made eye contacted started with "hey jbay808 I'm trying to run this database migration but keep getting validation errors..."

and that was the first thing I'd said to you in three days? no good.

Doing this in slack? :chef-kiss:
Nice follow-up to No Hello from a few days ago. This is good but I don't think it goes far enough. Ask? That's weak shit. Demand. Maybe start with "One of you worthless motherfuckers".

Edit: Maybe also threaten violence if your question isn't answered.
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Rust-Style Futures in C
Sure, that would be possible in an abstract tabula rasa sense, if we had no awareness at all of the last seven decades. At this point, we've seen quite enough evidence to conclude that they mostly do wrong, and occasionally we find out about it. Mike Pompeo and James Clapper are typical "intelligence officials", which means that there are much worse actors lurking deep in those organizations.
Yes, the assumption was that this is a daily supplement, meaning an indefinite period of time.
> The best data have found indicates about $50M a year total to App developers

The Shopify Developers homepage https://developers.shopify.com/ (scroll down one screen) claims $90M in 2018, unless you have some reason to doubt their claim?
That's true for games distributed via disc (I'm very glad the PS5 still has a disc option; I do not want to lose the used game market), but that's only for the big titles.

Independent developers don't have used game sales and still dependent on xbox, PS Store, Steam, Humble, GoG, etc.
It used to be that Kali would start a ton of services at boot and open those ports up to the LAN interface. Stuff like Postgresql that you probably don't want to expose any wider than localhost.

It also defaulted to running as a root user for everything, but they recently changed that.
I love asking for help in channels because I feel like it socializes the answer and process for finding it much better than a DM does. It also helps build trust within the team because someone can see a “stupid” question get asked and then answered and then also feel comfortable asking questions like that.

That being said, I have worked for some shitty bosses who have told me not to post questions and information in channels directly because they want them “vetted” first. I’ll never work for someone like that ever again.
I've been accused of being a troll multiple times. It typically happens when I spot vague but powerful claims from somebody who claimed to be highly educated.

For example, somebody may claim that a programming or software technique is "clearly better". I ask for clear-cut objective evidence, and they either cannot provide it, or make unproven assumptions about the thought process of the programmer's mind.

The bottom line is that programming productivity is largely something that happens inside the human mind; it's not about machines nor pure logic. They didn't seem to understand this, trying to turn it into a "purist" argument about math and logic alone. Sorry, it's not, you have to consider the poorly-mapped human mind in the end.

Also, high-end academics tend not to understand business. They may say parsimony (least code) is the best, for example. I'll then point out that many coders find highly compact code hard to read or debug. They may reply "then get better programmers". That's usually not practical from a business standpoint for various reason I don't have room for. Their alternatives usually have a lot of holes, not knowing how business works.

I admit I took pleasure in rubbing their nose in these facts and gaps because they made smug claims. There's a certain wonderful satisfaction in making smug people trip on their own logic, reminding me of a show where a corporate polluter ultimately dies by falling into their own pollution pile. Maybe I'm a bit narcissistic, I don't know. But it's worthy criticism that hopefully wakes them up regardless. Being logically whipped by a "troll" can be fruitful education.

I also rip into interpretations of terminology like "best practices", definition of OOP, "types", "intent", and many others. Somebody will claim it clear cut and settled, but it's not, and I poke holes in all their defenses.

There are different kinds of trolls. Some just want to agitate for agitation alone. But I instead beat people up with their own logic, rather than use tricks and personal digs. I have been accused of "word play", but vague words are fair game for word play in order to demonstrate they are vague. They wouldn't be "playable" if they weren't vague. People tend to assume their own interpretation of words is universal. It's usually not; but they are reluctant to admit it.

Being in dozens of vocab debates, I'm pretty skilled at picking apart vagueness, and the other side realizes they are out-gunned and go bonkers on the way down, smoking. I don't claim to be smarter, I just selected a few areas where I perfect the art of "trolling" via experience alone.

And sometimes I am actually wrong and learn something along the way. Good debates do that.
A few years ago this saved my bacon when we had a piece of lab equipment that booted DOS (5.0-ish, I think) from a CF card. There was some problem with it and I fixed it by remembering how to copy console input into a file. Input was terminated with ^Z, which I also managed to remember.
> I would say India is doing pretty good for a country where 1/6 population of the world live.

Sure, India is by far the most democratic country of its own size or larger.

But that literally just means “not as bad as China”. It's kind of like if the Republic of Korea (which could support stronger claims, to be sure) was said to be “pretty good for a country located on the Korean peninsula”—it is true, but doesn't say a lot.
On the contrary: If I'm (in industry) doing a code review and see simple, obvious mistakes like infinite loops, obvious null pointer exceptions, ignored compiler warnings, etc., in my mind it casts a good deal of doubt over the entire code. If the author is so careless with these obvious errors, what else is he/she being careless about?

Same with grammatical or spelling errors. I don't review research but I do review resumes, and I've seen atrocious spelling on resumes. Here's the candidate's first chance to make an impression. They have all the time in the world to proofread, hone, and have other eyes edit it. Yet, they still miss obvious mistakes. If hired, will their work product also be sloppy?
LinkedIn censors #chinavirus tag
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That isn't true at all, Microsoft absolutely takes a cut from physical game sales, and also places arbitrary restrictions on what can be sold and requires pre approval for everything. That's literally the business model of the Xbox.

It's no different to the iPhone at all. It's just less controversial because people think of their phone like a mini computer but always expected consoles to be closed.
It is better to be efficient than polite. Better to be predictable than "nice".
It's all about how you ask. Simply saying:

"Good morning everyone, would anybody be available to answer a question? I am running into [describe your problem]. Thank you.".

Easy, polite and to the point.
Though Artifactory is currently still listed as being OSS on their site ( https://jfrog.com/open-source/ ) they stopped publishing the source code after the 7.0 release of Artifactory (somewhere beginning this year). I guess this could be the reason. Having an OSS product is not something investors get thrilled about...

Usually JFrog is pretty responsive on StackOverflow though for this particular question they seem a bit evasive ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43481238/where-is-the-ar... ).
2) Who is releasing content for Win8?
> In my state and I think in much of the US, we're not allowed to buy directly from the car manufacturer.

Huh, what, in what way is that law a good thing?
That applies to many devices, but try using any of those games in your brand new Xbox One S All-Digital Edition.
Full support for Msft and Epic! Time to bring the dictator (Apple) down.
And when that day arrives, it will be a tragedy on HN since tears will be shed by Apple fanboys. Hint: You cannot support anti-competitive practices because you like your Mac :)
You have completely and totally missed my point while simultaneously sort of making it for me, which I imagine you will fail to see.
Have you look at mypyc?

https://github.com/python/mypy

Its a compiler that support subset of python and mypy's team including Guido work on it. It would be great if this kind of efforts have been done on more realistic project.
I'm very early in my career, but I've noticed that being able to sense, reflect on, and grapple with one's emotions to be so lacking at work.

It's also been one of the biggest invisible skills in my own career:

it helps me navigate disagreements with colleagues by "getting us on the same side of the problem, rather than on opposite sides";
it helps me avoid self-sabotage by creating narratives in my head and falling into the cognitive distortions of mind reading and fortune telling that I know I'm particularly prone to;
it helps me interface with customers and graciously accept feedback, even if it's not delivered in the kindest way

But nobody teaches it. It was never in a training. I never learned it in school. It's almost like nobody knows it exists!

Anyway, btw, thanks for your work. I recently signed up for your newsletter and it's been really wonderful. I really enjoy the kindness you bring to your writing.
It means they cannot fix breakages before a new version of iOS/macOS is generally available, and they won't have access to the new ARM CPU devkit that's critical to port their engine to ARM based macOS.
Yeah this is mostly at commercial gyms and there are a lot more at powerlifting/weightlifting gyms for sure. But even there there aren't as many as you would expect. It's probably more common to bench 300, but never seen anyone do a 405 lbs squat atg even at a powerlifting gym.
What about 'order' attribute?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/order

Also if css can't do it why go you need react when you can do it in few lines of css? Not not difficult to rearrange elements based on viewport size.
Muse.ai – Empower Your Vision
How do we move around in a zero-carbon world?
Ask HN: Who/What is best UK immigration attorney for an American startup?
I've seen this asked the other way but not in this direction of travel...

Pre-launch, 3-person (all American citizens) US-based travel startup ideally needs to put one of the 3 of us in the UK and open a subsidiary.

Anyone have any recommendations for a UK immigration attorney used to dealing with startups and visas?
> Please don’t assume taxi services are as bad outside the US as they are in the US.

You're the only person assuming anything - you're assuming everyone you reply to is in the US.
> To make strong movies, the document claims, the number one priority is to "thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping Thought."

Words fail me. (At least, words that are not profanity.)

The point of sci-fi is not to show us how perfect the current ideology is, and how it's going to lead us to this golden future. (That's advertising.) The point of sci-fi is to show how things could be different, not how they should just keep going in the same direction.
Show HN: Automated lead qualification process using no code
Lack of benefits, job security/confidence you will find 6 out of 12 months of contracts on a regular schedule. You'd need to be pretty sure you could average out 50% of your pay (more like 60-70% to cover benefits and the extra taxes) over 12 month periods and have enough buffer to cover unexpected gaps. You also have to account for the unpaid time 'working' to find those contracts and the contracts may not be the same pay rate each time. Its doable, but its certainly not as straightforward as it seems on paper.
I mean there is quite a number of countries where regular police are prohibited from carrying firearms, or at least don't carry them anywhere so casually.
Alan: An almost Turing-Complete language with predictable execution
I think it's more that Epic wouldn't be able to make changes to Unreal Related applications they've published on their Apple developer account