skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, first I'll say that it does seem fair to say that when he tells you himself. But, it turns out there's more to the quote.

" I was not going to be an objective historian, because I didn’t really believe objectivity was possible, nor was it desirable—unless objectivity meant telling the truth as you saw it, not lying, not distorting, not omitting information, and not omitting arguments because they don’t conform to some idea that you have. But if objectivity meant not taking a stand, if objectivity meant presenting data without caring about the social effect of the kind of data you present, at that—I didn’t want that kind of objectivity."

So, the beginning of the quote, which was the basis of the comment I answered, was an excerpt which suggested that he didn't believe in truth. The full quote shows that he was attempting to redefine the word 'objectivity' in order to make himself sound like an iconoclast, and in doing so declare that the general group of historians are shills. So, in a sense, his description of the historians of human history is like the one you've mentioned about Carson in your penultimate paragraph: he finds them easy to attack from his convenient position of hindsight.
I agree with you, however it is connected to the original argument because people have demonstrated they won't wear masks, so you need lockdown instead. If people would wear masks, business could go on.

The cost of lockdown is high, I don't think anyone is disputing that. It's a tradeoff, but we don't really know what's going to be best long term. It's hard to measure without all the data, and who gets to choose the metric for success? Is it economic damage, or social damage, or damage to public health that we're aiming to minimize? I think the answer is that they are all competing goals, and everyone is going to be using a different metric to measure success.
The same ones that rather spend one day doing an UI in code than 1h in a RAD GUI tool.
On one hand, it must be a nightmare right now for anyone in the airline industry (from suppliers to operators etc). On the other hand, it's the perfect time to relocate factories and make changes to processes and try new technologies.
I agree with the last point. On the first 2, I don't disagree, but I weight these lower than you in terms of what is driving this effort.

It's hard to know though. The way EU political culture works currently doesn't have "domestic politics" norms... which makes motivations hard to understand. That said, there is far more political attention on corporations spying or manipulating us than foreign countries spying or manipulating us.

In terms of the EU being powerful... I agree on paper. But, political culture isn't there atm. See the EU's handling of border issues: Ukraine and Belarus. There has been exactly zero "great power" MO on these. Imagine either of these if it was the US, China or Russia(1) border.

(1)You need to imagine Russia on both sides.

For good or ill, the EU doesn't have this kind of a political culture in 2020. Maybe it will. The material conditions exist. Currently though, it's a totally different beast to the US or China politically.
It's funny how this is NEVER mentioned in the media.

I guess BLM is "so hot" right now (but to be honest this caste issue was never mention even before BLM also).

Perhaps this is because in the West this concepts of casts within society is completely foreign to us.

So for a Westerner this does not create any acute psychological response if someone says "I'm a Dalit".
A westerner would be like "huh, yeah ok man, I have no idea what that is."

So in the mind of a westerner this "he's a Dalit" doesn't create any associations by which he would judge this person because the concept of "casts" is so foreign to us.

This is also why we ignore it + westerners are not affected by this system as it applies only to Indians.

I did hear stories though that the upper cast Indians in a managerial position onyl hire other upper cast Indiands and keep whites because "they know they perform".
But upper cast indians still severely favourite their own vs whites for example.

I guess you could say that their "you're a Dalit gtfo" is the same as someone in the west says "you're black gtfo".
I had X-COM:enemy unknown [ufo defense] for the PlayStation, the manual for that thing was huge. It had a tutorial in it that walked you through a mission as well as told you how all the buildings worked (even the ones unlocked later in the game like the psylab).

I do miss the days where you'd get a physical manual. Nowadays you just get a slip of paper with an advertisement and a registration page. Saying that though, with live updates a lot of manuals would be out of date after a few years. I dont think the tome that is the world of warcraft manual is relevant to the modern game. Though maybe for classic.
The intake of female students has increased from 15% last year to 30% this year. Prof. Sue Black said on Twitter that they'll discuss why this has happened after the doing more research.
Wasteland 3 is another great tactical game, that I personally enjoyed playing. It has the Fallout 2 feel, that is hard to describe
Yes, that is always the risk with nuturing an OSS community to provide the less-than-core functionality.

OTOH:

1. it encourages the main company to simplify and/or extend the plugin API to make writing plugins v simple, or even possible in the first place.

2. it gives a smoother path for the inclusion of new trending technologies into the IDE.

3. it encourages devs to offer improvements to features that aren't high priority for the large IDE company.

For the latter, I'm thinking of Lombok support which, via a plugin, is much better in VSCode than it is in either Intellij or Eclipse.
I can use the tool I’m already familiar with, that also supports other languages, that has a huge number of extensions and configuration settings, etc. I personally see this as more important than an IDE, that’s why I for example use VSCode instead of Visual Studio (on windows).
Oh you sweet summer child..
Apple Pay is a godsend right now. Contactless payments up to £1000 mean I can pay for basically everything without touching anything.

IMO, pick your battles. I’m happy to pay £0.79 to backup all my photos, and £5/m for decent email.

I’ve self hosted before. It’s too much stress for me.
I would actually welcome the following variant of save-scumming:

You can plan all you like, ie save-scum. But you can't keep it. You can only make forward progress that counts, when you first disable your save-scum ability for a bit.

Of course, that only works for questions of probability, like hitting shots or not. It doesn't address that save-scumming also reveals information you are not supposed to have.

There's a middle ground for X-COM, called bronze-man-mode (in contrast to iron-man-mode). In bronze-man-mode you don't get to save-scum inside of missions. You can at most reload the whole mission to get another randomly generated one.

I used to play the original X-Com as as save-scummer when I was younger. I went back to replay a bit of the game via OpenXCom and stuck to a more 'mature' approach. The game was more fun that way.
Is the glass roof of Tesla EV strong enough to protect the passengers inside?
Though note that it's no mystery which video you're looking at, thus endless scroll still often has the same beneficial one-at-a-time characteristics that the article celebrates.

In fact, imgur's desktop website comes to mind as the rare design pattern where you can (or, could, back when it was only gifs) consume the content in a gallery view where the application doesn't know what holds your attention.
Neither Yahoo nor The Telegraph make an estimate given in some Oxford study more valid. The study has to be evaluated for its own claims. The Telegraph can only be checked if they distorted the claims or introduced an additional bias. Yahoo just made a copy.

But still the Oxford claim it not about California at all, and it's about 0.6% of all reported Covid-19 deaths in the UK, meaning it's under the "noise" level of the real signal. It's about less than 300 deaths, in the country with reported 41000 Covid-19 deaths.

To compare, there are around 15000 reported Covid-19 deaths in California, so it would be about around 100 deaths in California, if it were possible to claim that there are similarities, and nobody can even claim that.
I am not so sure. What about funding? Any move like that is going to cost a huge amount and this is risky proposition at a time when it is not exactly known what the future of the industry is going to be.
Power sockets with built-in usb charging ports also emit a fair bit of RF interference - we had to move the kitchen radio because of it.
This is a story about the ability of human kind to work together to defeat a common enemy.

So far we have failed. The reasons for that failure are many, but it has become clear over this 6+ months that a coordinated top-down plan is what we’re lacking.

The “libertarian” approach like you mentioned has been tried- every relaxation of covid restrictions has been followed by acceleration in the case count. Turns out prayers and positive thinking were unsuccessful in limiting virus transmission.

Be honest Juan, when was the last time you really made your own decision anyhow?
If you loved JA & JA2 make sure to NOT play any of the sequels that came out after it.
It's not surprising. As a software engineer I've seen bugs that took days to track down which were fixed with a single line of code.
The caste system existed long before Europeans ruled India. Caste system has roots in the Vedic society.

"The varnas originated in Vedic society (c. 1500–500 BCE). The first three groups, Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Vaishya have parallels with other Indo-European societies, while the addition of the Shudras is probably a Brahmanical invention from northern India."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India#Vedic_va...
Maybe don’t write off Scala just yet
I can understand the frustration, but not the tone. We are discussing this here today because it arrived on the front page of HN today. We are not a triage team - we are a bunch of people trying to understand the world better. Kindness goes a long way to understanding - if you want people to see things from your side, I suggest not attacking their questions but instead question their views.
> I assume you mean reflection - this would be very untypical for normal business logic code

No, a lot of java critics complain about it being hard to tell what's calling what at the framework-to-user-code boundary

That means not only reflection, but also most Dependency Injection (Spring autowiring, Guice...), anything that runs on annotations (including @Test and JAX-RS), any code auto-generation (e.g. Protobufs, Jooq), most mock libraries (e.g. Mockito) and most configurable logging, especially the logging libraries that try to auto-detect one another.

Of course, some would say those problem are with Corporate Java Culture choosing to use all those things, rather than the Java language itself.
Why don't they protest against the government that buys and uses Palantir stuff? There wouldn't be a maker without a buyer, and somehow protesting Palantir out of the country won't resolve the actual issue either.
I was checking out Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile, looks promising
Space-X took years to become viable. The US defense industry is maintained under the experience of WW2 when ramp up time was measured in months.

Letting the US defense industry die off and lose capacity would but the US years behind in any total war.

For sure total war is unthinkable now in our globalized world. Yet the past thought so too, right before 2 world wars.
I really wish that book was a little cheaper. It looks really interesting and I've had my eye on it for months, but there aren't really any used copies of it floating around to bring down the price.
Yes. Chimera Squad is a spinoff game set in the (rebooted) X-Com universe.

Nothing wrong with exploring different genres, though.
For initial scaffolding, or long-term maintenance? Because I'd pick the RAD GUI for the former and code for the latter.

You really don't want to add ephemeral designer tools to your list of hard project dependencies.
What a terrible, terrible GDPR popup. No way to disable all cookies, you have to manually go through a list of hundreds of partners.
The example you cited is "with ISP DNS servers". But if you in fact don't trust them, DPRIVE on its own doesn't help you.

Same way upgrading from HTTP to HTTPS doesn't prevent you getting misinformation from Conservapedia. The answers on the site are bad, so ensuring nobody "tampers" with those bad answers doesn't really help you.

DPRIVE is good stuff, and one of the things that great about it is that it unsticks the deployability problem for DNSSEC client validation, but I'm guessing that's not the part you're keen on.
On my street, my house is one of 4 connected directly to the exchange instead of a cabinet, which means I can't get fibre (only FTTC is available here).

BT/Openreach/Whoever aren't interested in changing this, but luckily I can get Virgin Media (overpriced IMO, but better than the 20Mb alternative).
I played Frozen Synapse a bit. I seem to remember there were some local multiplayer options?

Play by email would work ok for this kind of game. (But I don't think that was ever supported. Laser Squad Nemesis might have supported play-by-email, I'm not sure?)
Culture and social structures are very hard to change once they take hold...
It reminds me of a rant by an anime youtuber / analyst, who complained that various video streaming platforms (amazon, netflix, crunchyroll, ...) are not innovative in design, but their only selling point is their closed catalogues. And. It. Drove. Him. Mad.

Okay, so you should subscribe to 5 services to see all the latest anime you should see. You want to support the artists. But, some of them have horrible experiences, and you are locked into it because you want to _legally_ watch this show.

It's that if your platform is exclusive enough, you also become very slow to innovate.

We've seen time and again that most innovation comes from constrained settings. But big corps just want to maximize money, they don't care about improvements. That is IMHO the block stopping us from actually tackling a lot of identified and solveable problems we face this century.
Trucker here. You could work on replacing diesel trucks with electric.
Oppo Reno 4 SE Specs and Prices in Us and India
> The greatest contributor to that feeling is certainly the music.

If you are ever startled by a mobile phone nearby ringing with the menacing gmbigmar.mid buildup, please say hello, it's probably mine.

I found TFTD a bit too much work-like in some missions (finding that last panicked Gray on a freighter...), but they sure earned an entire spot in gaming history only for their audio.
> It may seem bizarre that the caste system, a centuries-old system that organises and stratifies human society, continues to play a heavy role in deciding which Indians prosper and which don't within a space many consider to be an uber-meritocracy -- the US tech landscape.

Well for I'm not surprised, and further I doubt anybody in it considers it an "uber-meritocracy", it really is much more perverse.
It might be better estimated by the binomial coefficient 7,2=21, since each patch has to be backported to every other version. Still kind of exponential.
The article contains no examples of the "sound of thought". Epic fail.
You mean quality journalism like this: https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/jmkbm7/getting-wasted-on-...

"This story is over 5 years old."

I wonder when this infantile news outlet finally bites the dust.
I do think that a certain level of scrutiny is invited by using a term like "for the truly paranoid".
You'd be surprised how hard it is to identify SHINE. In places like this, you'll probably find the fastest broadband available is actually ADSL2+ - which is highly susceptible to noise, and in some places in the UK the lines which run to peoples houses aren't even copper, they're ALU - which is obviously not ideal. Even the tiniest of things can have an enormous impact on line performance.

I worked at a UK ISP a couple years back and lets just say the 'monitoring' that ISPS have is extremely limited. Openreach (the company that manages the phone lines, which ISPs lease) almost certainly has more monitoring but the problem is the customer calls the ISP, and the ISP then tells Openreach - which means there's a fairly huge disconnect between the customer and the engineers fixing the line.
Exactly: this is the warrantless mass-surveillance approach to combatting crime. But add a few buzz words about big banks, CEOs with hefty salaries not being held accountable, and drug cartels, and suddenly everyone's for it.

And it's overt surveillance, where privacy is blatantly criminalized, rather than the type of covert mass-surveillance we're accustomed to hearing about, where a 3 letter agency secretly deprives you of your privacy, showing you enough respect to not demand that you knowingly give it up.

So-called anti-money laundering laws are a complete and utter violation of democratic principles, namely privacy and due process, and create the kind of surveillance apparatus that puts the populace under the complete control of the state.
I am sure this moron went around and asked every single Indian their caste. Its a shitpost.
Isn't that perjury? Shouldn't he be in jail?
> IMO, pick your battles. I’m happy to pay £0.79 to backup all my photos, and £5/m for decent email.

I agree. There's so much peace of mind in having my photos uploaded to the cloud every so often, and my phone automatically backed up every night.

It's possible to go further: iCloud on Windows is able to automatically download the actual files, so those get backed up somewhere else.
There is definately that. I wonder if it helps though: if you're raising/borrowing/getting given 10bn to stay open, how hard is it to get another 1bn for plant re-arrangement or new software? It's all part of your efficiency savings, return to profitability plan right?
What you don't see in this article is that HSBC has tons of false positives and the scrutinization of transactions slows everyone down. The more strict they need to be with money flow, the more regular people suffer from crippling KYC and financial reporting.

Do we want every transaction we send out to require an accompanying invoice and paper trail? Payment reviews, account freezing, in-depth explanations for every transaction?

Moving money has become tedious and a bureaucratic nightmare. I doubt HSBC is doing this on purpose, they just have so many obligations already from their transaction volume that it's nearly impossible to comply with regulations.
So basically Mastodon is moderated in exactly the same way as Twitter, with the same set of rules. How is Mastodon more interesting than Twitter then?
Cisco HR said "caste discrimination was not unlawful".

Doesn't California's Unruh Civil Rights Act prohibit employment discrimination in a businesses based on ancestry, especially given the CA Supreme Court's repeated determination that the list of protected classes should be interpreted broadly? So why wouldn't caste discrimination be illegal under that law?
I started off with 16:8, but my body shifted to longer intervals (20:4, 21:3) on its own. Only rarely did I try longer than 24 hours fasts.

My blood pressure definitely responds to fasting. I went from 150/100 to 115/75 within months. IDK if this can happen in other people, we are a fairly diverse lot.

Food eaten during the eating window matters. Fats (avocado, olive oil, bone broth) will carry you longer than carbs. But one of the things I enjoy about IF is that I no longer have to watch my food intake too strictly. An occasional treat is OK.

As for resources, I believe that Jason Fung, a Canadian doctor, is a good start. He has a lot of videos on YouTube and a few books out. His main idea is that you need to keep your insulin level fairly low in order to avoid metabolic disease, and that IF helps with that a lot.

Also, the r/intermittentfasting subreddit has a lot of veterans.
> I would also be interested to write & monetise extensions except that I anticipate usage may be limited due to the above.

For what it's worth you can create a new user profile in Chrome (click your profile picture in the top left then click "add"), and it'll open a new window which is completely isolated from all your regular browsing. It's a decent approach if you want to install a ton of dev extensions.

Also, I run a paid Chrome extension and have good conversion rates from the website -> downloading the free version, so I don't think a lot of users are that bothered by this anyway. People recommend Lastpass, uBlock and Grammarly all the time, which ask for wide permissions.
the Vice Guide to Travel episodes were pretty good, especially Liberia & North Korea.
> Some annotations work like higher-order functions, except that my advanced Java IDE is unable to find what function is wrapping the annotated function.

Intellij can show you which aspects have been applied for e.g. AspectJ or Spring AOP.

I mean if you or your company really insist on writing your own metaprogramming library then yes, IDE can't do much to help you, but that hardly represents industry practice.
That is a very large sum of money, I hope he was a Troll, if not, they ruined a guy's life over a misunderstanding...
Dynamic Ftrace Filtering
This guy is running python in the kernel, which is super cool. Great idea using it to dynamically change filters in ftrace.
Yes. If you want to have a quicker tactics game that's a tiny bit like some aspects of X-Com, then 'Into the Breach' is probably a better use of your time than Chimera Squad.

Chimera Squad is an OK game, and good if you like the (rebooted) X-Com universe.
IDK about that. I did say "somewhat common." It emerges in some circumstances.

GDPR is a decent example. The minimum level of privacy required by GDPR is now the standard required whenever standards are required. EG banks, regulators and such now expect you to have as little privacy as GDPR allows. Everything allowable under GDPR is now semi-mandatory for KYC.

Privacy/data related regs really have this kind of tendency. If you must destroy records after X years, this often develops into a mandate to keep records for x years.
Unfortunately, owners of the real estate benefit more from continuous asset price inflation than from rent income. They're in it for the long run. If Fortune-500 companies can stay unprofitable for a decade, why can't real estate?

It's not like NY wasn't already a shitty deal from a tenant's perspective before COVID. It just got a lot more shitty. From an investor's perspective, it doesn't look that bad. The selling pressure just isn't there.

For instance, if you're from China and you already own high-rise apartments in a Chinese ghost town, might as well scoop up something in not-quite-dead-yet NYC.
Or this wonderful gem from the german VICE division: https://www.vice.com/de/article/mg7yv4/fruehstueck-aus-der-s...
The last time I used a Java IDE was in university in 2012, and I've never really touched it since.

I've been recently using VSCode with TypeScript (and Prettier/ESLint). TS is pretty neatly integrated with VSCode, and I've been wondering how similar the VSCode + TS combo is to writing Java on an IDE like IntelliJ?
Cable TV? Coax?

Most of the UK, especially outside of large towns, is

1) Twisted pair to the cabinet then Twisted pair to the exchange ("Normal DSL", ADSL)

2) Twisted pair to the cabinet then Fibre to the exchange ("Fibre broadband", FTTC)

3) Fibre to the cabinet then Fibre to the exchange (FTTP)

Cable TV is a minority thing in the UK, maybe 20% of TV owning households, compared with 50% on satelite of some sort, and 95% on terrestial.
I loved Vice for doing ridiculous fringe shit like that though. Nobody else would do it. It only went downhill when they suddenly started to pretend they’re serious now.