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> The split from JavaFX inside the JDK to OpenJFX outside of the JDK was a bit messy so a new project takes some time to setup with Maven or Gradle...

That's not necessarily true, you can obtain many JDK distributions that still include JavaFX.

For example, here's the Azul distributions with JavaFX: https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu-community/?architecture=...

BellSoft also has a LibericaFX distribution: https://bell-sw.com/pages/supported-configurations/

If you want to easily install and switch between these and other standard JDKs easily from the command line, check out SDKMAN! (https://sdkman.io/). It supports Azul's and BellSoft's distributions with JavaFX, as well as other distributions from GraalVM, java.net, Amazon and AdoptOpenJDK.
I have yet to find a walkable city in Indonesia, let alone South Asia that is actually walkable in comparison to European cities, like Amsterdam or Berlin. There is a major difference in population between those two though.

Istanbul has a similar sized population, and it felt more walkable and just a few good in public transportatiin than Jakarta (having spent a couple months in both cities). It may be due to good tram+marmaray in Istanbul compared to the BRT in Jakarta, and dedicated bus lanes don't cut it to Jakarta's traffic.
Does this apply to U.S. passport holders only? If not, what about taxes? If you spend 12 months in Barbados, will you have to pay your taxes there?
> It is true that they could easily create devices to match the requirements of randoms on Hacker News, but that isn't going to lead to Apple - the once in a decade consumer products behemoth. It leads to the Openmoko. Turns out nearly nobody wants that.

This fallacy seems to be common in discussions of Apple. Apple is very profitable, therefore everything they do is infallible and impossible to improve.

Look at a picture of an Openmoko device. Just look at it. Here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko

Compare this to various modern phones with a replaceable battery:

https://www.androidauthority.com/best-android-phones-removab...

There are obvious reasons to expect the former to fail in the market but not the latter, even though they all have a replaceable battery.

Meanwhile the Apple devices further run iOS and are compatible with iMessage and the complete set of third party iOS apps, which are a large component of their success, but none of which would be any less true if they had a replaceable battery.

Doing a lot of things right can't prove that they're not doing a specific thing wrong.
More specifically he said "employees should not necessarily see their salary cut by the same amount". It's salary negotiation, it's not unusual to go into those with a high initial ask.
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You'd think that, but once I replaced my €5 AliExpress connector cable by a proper one, suddenly I haven't had any issues with projectors any more.

Likewise, if you use an underpowered laptop, or one for which Ubuntu doesn't have proper drivers, you're going to have a hard time using Zoom.

I'm not saying that you'll never have issues (which I'm sure holds for MacOS as well), or even that you might not have slightly more issues than on MacOS (see your last paragraph), but things are definitely not as bad as comments online would have you believe, because many of those can be ascribed to issues like I mentioned above.
That's only if things turn out fine. It seems like he thinks nuclear war is actually possible and the effects of climate change are coming soon and big. If that's so (I'm not saying it is) then what could possibly be comparable?
I cannot believe that we are talking about break-in cryptography and there have already been two XKCD posts but not the one about the reality of "cracking" cryptography:

https://xkcd.com/538/

(apologies for the super obvious cartoon)
>Did we read the same article?

No, I actually didn't fully read the paragraph I linked to, thought it would mention the same numbers I've read before from several sources. I now see that the entry in Wikipedia actually includes some later dispute on those numbers though!

Still, there's a big toll from 4+ invasions, bombings, destabilizing countries stable for decades, etc., even if the 500K number mentioned for Iraq at that period doesn't stand up. For example it's not disputable that we have had millions of regugees from these regions as a result of the invasions...

>If you really want someone to blame, blame France, England, and Russia for arbitrarily drawing up countries after WW1"

Oh, I absolute blame those. But also anyone later who meddled, grabbed resources and exerted influence (strategic, trade, etc.) while paying lip service to "democracy" (the modern "white man's burden").

>without considering that people in the middle east wouldn't overcome their nationalism and racism which would lead to continuous conflict.*

I'd not say it happened "without econsidering". Rather "capitalizing exactly on that this will happen, and making sure with subsequent meddling and stiring that it will". The classic old British Empire "divide and conquer" modus operandi...
If your stated intent is to take advantage of systemic sexism and racism, then yes, you're most clearly being sexist and racist.
Speaking with two business partners (UK and Aus). Retail retail rental prices have not seen a reduction due to Covid in large cities. Granted the businesses here are in retail but I would imagine rental prices to drop.

My Aus partner mentions Westfield often and how arrogant their attitude has been during the crisis. Especially when many stores in these flagship centres are still closed and some even face bankruptcy.
> As long as the fertility rate is less than 2 children/woman, the total population will still converge even if no one dies.

Converge to what? How?
My understanding is that such tricky side-channel free code ideally should not be directly written by humans. I know of at least one project that has made a lot of progress on this idea, although they say the crypto primitives are still at research level:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/project-everes...
Do you provide an API? If yes, you should add this information to your website. What are the max and min durations that you support? Do you charge per second/minute?
On the eve of World War 2, I am certain that people couldn't possibly imagine what was in front of them.
An open-source DAW in the browser for geeks/hackers – WeAreTheMusicMakers
Veritasium has a good, relatively recent video on this topic: https://youtu.be/QRt7LjqJ45k
I disagree. Covid is a catalyst, instant communication and misinformation is out of control and as someone who has boots on the ground, I’ve never seen such worry and lack of hope in my life.
This article is so true. I really have trouble reading white on black, or differentiating different shades of black and gray, it all blends together, further exacerbated by using a low blue light setting on my monitor.

This is something that worries me about the trend towards dark modes and often complete lack of light mode alternatives (Steam). And as others have mentioned, the complaint about light modes being too bright is often a brightness setting issue and not a design issue.

There was a trend a few years back of using really light text colours on white, that's awful too. We need to respect the rules of contrast before what may "look" appeasing to the designer.
I got the TiDB coffee mug, it looks better than the MongoDB mug
Economists (Keynes and others) in at the beginning of the 20th century projected that based on increasing productivity we would only be working about 15h a week by now. They actually did predict that this could become a significant problem, because many people need work for their personal fulfillment.

Now the productivity gains actually did happen, however what the economists didn't predict is that all the gains went to only benefit very few (essentially the holders of capital) and inequality would increase significantly preventing most people to reduce their work hours even if they wanted.
Latest release is 2.15.1 (stable). Current development (3.x) is still in flux with big internal changes hence the breakages. I decided to post the changes to let people know what's coming even if that meant breaking builds from time to time.
I think he understands that a large swath of working class Americans (particularly, but not only, white men) have had the wind knocked out of their sails by the social changes of the last approximately thirty years, and the economic changes due to offshoring their jobs to the developing world over the same period.

> Do you understand the working class?

I'm not sure, man. Like, do you?
Isn't that just because the U.S. has strategic and economic interests to put pressure on China (and otherwise could not give less ducks about democracy, morals, or Hong Kongers for that matter.

Especially since they don't have and historically didn't also have any problem with all kinds of dictators, right wing governments, etc. (from Suharto and Pinochet to UAE), as long as they were allies.
NB. I also believe we should be careful with our terms, but on the specific claim that:

> Nobody claimed that they'd buy slaves and made them do hard labor in the plantations for the slaves' benefits.

here's a counterexample (prolix, but presumably it's easier to get slaves to do one's fieldwork than to edit one's rants):

https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/hundley/hundley.html#hund2...

> "For, although we might compare the present condition of the Southern slaves with the condition of other laborers elsewhere, we yet fancy such would hardly be the proper method by which to arrive at any just knowledge of the benefits or evils resulting from African servitude. Certainly we believe the comparison, if made, would show that the negroes of the South are happier as a class than the peasants of other countries. We know from actual observation that they fare better than the poor of any of our cities--are more warmly clad, work less, and are a thousand-fold more cheerful and contented. We know, too, that they are infinitely better off than the peons of Mexico, who are bought by the year for any nominal sum which they are presumed
to owe the purchaser, and are liable in their old age to be turned adrift without a home, and with not a living soul to take an interest in their welfare. We also believe, and so must every thoughtful honest man, that their lot is even enviable compared to that of the poor Coolies and other free apprentices, those new-fangled slaves whom Cant and Hypocrisy are engaged in selling for a term of years to our tropical neighbors. But we repeat, there is no necessity to make the comparison. To arrive at any rational conclusion as to what has been the result of African slavery in the United States, we must consider what was the character of the negroes when first landed on our shores, and what is their character now. Have they improved in speech, in morals, in personal appearance, and in usefulness; or have the "degrading effects" of a century of slavery rendered them more savage than they were when they wandered about in the jungles of Congo and Guinea, feasting on human flesh, and worshipping dogs and monkeys, stocks and stones? or have they cursed the soil by their presence, rendering it as barren and unfruitful as their original desert wastes, whereon their kindred still roam, rejoicing in the rude comforts of an untutored barbarism, and in all the wealth and simplicity of Adam's fig-leaf? This is the question, and the only question."
Evolving a Clean, Pragmatic Architecture – A Software Crafter’s Guide
I could entirely scrape by without power at night for some time. Would it be inconvenient? Absolutely. Threatening? No. The little infrastructure I’d really need to run over night includes probably my fridge and my freezer and those could be powered by a battery backup for that time. There’s ready made modules for available for that (camping equipment level ready).

Stove, oven, kettle not being available would be seriously annoying, but not threatening either. Intermittent power would be a massive improvement over no power at all.
https://www.wired.com/1997/02/the-doomslayer-2/
There may be few tweets but development still continues, on the road to version 3.0.0. The source repository continues to have activity.

Changes include:
- support of Java's modular system (JPMS) which requires elimination of split packages, besides providing module descriptors.
- take advantage of lambdas where possible.
>This is way way more prominent today than 2k years ago since in single day you are exposed to more information then for entire life back then.

Most of that information is irrelevant to your everyday life, and so the net actionable average is about the same as then.

>Lets get serious: Seneca, Buddha, Jesus, whoever, are irrelevant. Context changed dramatically.

LOL, not even close.
And though his ideas were innovative for the time, if fewer working hours were really beneficial for factory work, I suspect we’d see it reflected in competitie industries. People now are more aware of how to optimize.
> A good and expensive side-gain would be repairing and/or upgrading some infrastructure (roads/bridges for the transportation, which is extra cost).

Without electricity I find it difficult to see how anything gets done

+ No mobile phones (handsets rapidly run out, base stations (is this the right term?) are fried, and if they weren't they'd be without power

+ No landline phones

+ No internet - how are you going to co-ordinate anything including crop gathering, packing, distribution, and sales? How are people going to buy anything without money, or a job to earn money if that money hadn't disappeared in a puff of no-bank-account-because the banks... see below.

+ Pumps for fuel are electric aren't they. Cash registers are electric. Banks are effectively electric these days - no electricity no action so no movement of money.

Plus if we keep using fossil fuels and don't transfer to electrical power throughout, what w ill climate change throw at us.
Even more so.
Honestly, that end section with illustrations and links (I presume to her blog posts) is some of the prettiest web desin I've seen. Glad to see the creator of Sci-Hub is so skilled, her service has helped me out many times.
GMail prompting you to unsubscribe is because the email carries a standard [1] header (List-Unsubscribe) and GMail detects it. They may also be using some smarts to detect unsubscribable emails that don't have the header, but in general it's because of the header. It doesn't have anything to do with distinguishing between spam and legitimate subscriptions.

So if you mark a legitimate subscription as spam and don't unsubscribe when gmail prompts you to, it's likely that it'll get sent to your spam in the future, and perhaps contribute to the sender's spam score which affects other people's inboxes too.

[1]: de-facto standard? I can't find any RFC for it.
The fact that you're already getting downvoted for a completely unsided viewpoint is pretty much proof in the pudding for what time pool calls trump derangement syndrome.

People have actually lost the plot, I think trump is a horrible person but the way people react to anyone even remotely suggesting a viewpoint inline with his and you're a scumbag racist that needs to be cancelled.
Their FAQ says you don’t pay Barbados income tax

It doesn’t mention being only for US citizens, it appears in principle citizens of any country are eligible. (In practice, I imagine some countries’ citizens will find it easier to get approved than others, due to differences in national security risk, likelihood of submitting refugee claims, etc.)

https://www.barbadoswelcomestamp.bb/faqs/
Well, most of PHP is calling into C functions (all the standard libs), and as for the rest a JIT can absolutely be as fast (or faster, due to micro-optimizations, profiling, knowledge of non-aliasing, etc) than C.

So there's nothing really funny about it....
The Netherlands had a similar law and I’ve done it - done to 3 days a week. It was easy but I had to give it up to get a promotion.

Lots of people I know do 4 days a week - there isn’t much social pressure to work 5.
I use webpack, awesome typescript in watch mode
>Well, the problem is that Python and PHP are actually bad languages for expressing code like that. For expressing C. For one, they're not statically typed.

Well, C hardly is, either...
To my knowledge there have been no official efforts to support Clojure so far. Griffon 2.x requires the use of specific class types (Controller, Model, View, etc) plus the use of annotation processors make life easier (although not strictly required). These could make your Clojure code look less idiomatic and more Java-ish.

However there was an experimental branch of 2.x with Frege support, which means Clojure is certainly doable.
Also by this author:

https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns

cjdns was one of the early adopters of NaCl

https://nacl.cr.yp.to

https://ianix.com/pub/curve25519-deployment.html
At 47 I like dining table chairs almost more than office chairs.
Office chairs only help with positioning myself to the desk as those roll and twist, otherwise a simple dining table chair provides the same comfort while sitting.
I also have a standing desk and use it often, it is good for my legs and posture. But I also do work laying down on sofa or bed from time to time when the activity and mental state asks for it.

As for ergonomic gadgets those never helped, simply trying to keep myself strain free - like instead of having split keyboards holding my hands in angle over the keyboard without bending my wrist -, relaxed, but trying also holding myself not flowing down of furniture. In some kind of balance.
Ask HN: How to do independent research in machine learning?
I worked as a freelancer for a while until I couldn't stand working on someone else's project. Having saved up, I have now been studying machine learning full time for a few months, and can keep doing so until the end of the year.

I would like to do research, with a short term goal of solving the ARC challenge by François Chollet (https://www.kaggle.com/c/abstraction-and-reasoning-challenge). I see most professional researchers being guided by imperfect incentives and believe that leaves a lot of opportunity for people like me. Besides, I don't find anything else nearly as important so I have no other choice than to carve my way there!

I have seen John Carmack posting about old machine learning papers, and that got me thinking - what are the places academia isn't paying attention to where one could draw inspiration for alternative approaches?

I know a big part of independent research is that you have a lot of people doing different things so you can increase the odds of one of them finding something worthwhile. This means disagreement in this thread is strongly encouraged. Thank you all!
Actually a lot of string stuff is just calling into C, and can be as fast a C (and often is).
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Thinking clearly has been effected ever since a Like count showed up next to every human thought.

Misguided people are surrounded by misguided people. And Like count made sure they all upvoted each other. Reinforcing Beliefs and Behavior.

Its not a coincidence the Tea Party grew along with social medias rise. Similar groups have emerged all over the planet.

Remove/Hide/Delay the Like Count and Behavior will change.
That will be the calming force. Social medias current control rods to stop chain reactions are too ineffective.
> It seems like he thinks nuclear war is actually possible and the effects of climate change are coming soon and big. If that's so (I'm not saying it is) then what could possibly be comparable?

That is a tautology kinda.

If we assume something that's bigger than anything else happens, what was bigger.

Nuclear war is silly, because The Cuban Missile crisis was scarier and probably would have been worse if it had of kicked off.

If climate change all happens in a year instead of 100 years, it's big, but not that big. You'd notice it less that the coronavirus.
We didn’t but you could of course get a nanny.
Well, the idea being that CPython is 99% of what people use, and the other are nearly irrelevant projects...
When creating a city in a developing place its not enough to think of it as what looks good. Its important to consider things like migration. What are the provisions for migration provided here? The green buffer zone won't remain a buffer zone if people keep moving in.
Well, I think a major factor is that with less friction for workers to move between countries / industries / companies, it no longer pays for companies to cultivate their talent from within.

Either the talent will leave, or it is easy to find some talent by hiring from elsewhere -- by the way, where the work to cultivate and support the talent has already been done for you. And all you're doing is applying the filter / cutting the top candidates to choose from.

Back when there was much more friction and lack of info for people to move about between good opportunities, you were tied to your employer and a better bet to invest R&D money in. Not now. Except for a few select industries where there are artificial barriers put in place to prevent this. (Certification, unions, national security, etc)
Ah yes, good point! I also forgot to mention that the Tea Party had "Obama Derangement Syndrome". It was obvious that they took everything Obama said or did in the worst possible light. Sometimes they even made things up! Now almost the entire Democratic party and left wing in the US (and indeed around the world) has Trump Derangement Syndrome. He can't say anything without it being misinterpreted and broadcast all around the world within five minutes.
We've put situations in the title.
Half way through Covid I switched from a high quality office chair to a high quality dining chair (because the office chair was borrowed)

I feel a major change in comfort and that I need to “offset” the discomfort prolonged hours in the dining chair gives through standing and exercising.

Basically, if I am more conscious about standing and exercising I too have no problems with the dining chair - but it does require more exercise than the office chair for the same level of comfort I feel by the end of the working day.

It sounds like your routine is already good enough to offset it.

Regardless of what I just said, I still have a nagging feeling about long term consequences.
>Unfortunately a lot of people seem to like speaking in absolutes.

People like speaking in the general case. It saves time from enumeating any inconsequential / statistically not relevant exception.

The real problem is people misunderstanding casual discussion absolutes (which mean "for the large majority/for the ones people care about") with mathematical absolutes (i.e. "X is Y for each and every X")
Nobody really thinks they are storm-borne or extraterrestrial. They are just weird enough to make you wonder.
> If climate change all happens in a year instead of 100 years, it's big, but not that big. You'd notice it less that the coronavirus.

That's interesting. Can you say more about that? It's very much counter to the conventional wisdom (mass death, mass migration, mass starvation, destruction of coastal civilisation, etc..)
You don't have to remember something perpetually for it to be worthwhile. I've got a young dog, and I've spent 1-2 hours (shared with partner) every single day for the last 18 months outside walking. I don't remember all of those walks, even some of the ones that were very enjoyable at the time. But I enjoyed them at the time, (or maybe I didn't, it was pouring rain etc).

Video games are an easy target, but you can make the same argument about any lesiure activity. Something doesn't have to have an output to be worth spending time on.