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I appreciate your feedback. I definitely have a very positive feeling about .NET Core (C# and, to lesser degree, F#) platform (though, I think that .NET ecosystem is not as comprehensive / diverse as the Python one). What forces me to contemplate about .NET versus Python is that most of the C# source code I have looked at (especially ABP frameworks) have a feeling of being over-engineered / "heavy" (versus Python's being elegant / "light"). I understand that most of that comes from a "proper" implementation of design patterns, DDD and enterprise-focused features (which, actually, I need, by the way - hence my interest in ABP frameworks). But, still this feeling troubles me a bit. Perhaps, I just need to read and practice more in C# and .NET ... :-)
I like this concept a ton- I tried to sign up and it to me to another page that was blank. Would love to try it whenever you get the initial issues worked out.
Yes, I was referring to the national parliamentary election, which was what seemed to be under discussion (edited to make that clear).

There's also "Optional Preferential" where the formality rule is "number at least one, and as many as you like".
Spanish atrocities in Cuba had been a huge issue in the US for at least a decade. The Maine lit the spark, but there was already plenty of fuel for the fire.
Check out the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact which is kind of what you are describing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUX-frlNBJY
VSCode is pretty amazing but at the rate things are moving I can't imagine betting on anything being defacto for "decades". It's possible, and I even hope so, but with this kind of stuff I also always assume that a shift in perception in our industry can change overnight. Also, products themselves seem to go from "perfect" to "how did this become a joke" so quickly sometimes it's baffling. That all being said, VSCode is impressive and I applaud Microsoft. I still use Vim, but keep eyeing up VSCode.
This Rust/WinRT translation is the key for Windows maturity now. C translation is the everywhere basic but Windows support is achieved with eh WinRT translation.

And right now, that is C++, JS, Rust and .NET. Not more not less.
This is ageism.
Growing up in the Midwest I took a job with a Midwestern tech company that had a LOT of east coast banks as customers. Some folks would warn you that when you talked to them they're "really rude" but others would tell you that they sound harsh, but actually are really nice.

It was a curious mix of warnings, and for the most part I certainly noticed the accent and different patterns, but didn't think twice about it.

Then one day at 3am on a conference call I was frustrated and interrupted "No that's not how it works, let me tell him what to do for a minute!" I didn't try to sound rude about it but I was tired and my voice didn't sound like I expected.

Then from the silence came a voice from the VP who was listening to the chaos "Yo, Mark is that youse!?!?" oddly this VP had a very practiced non accent but in this case he let it out.

"Hey let's give Mark some time here and see what he can do."

So I gave instructions and things were fixed promptly.

Everyone on the call was happy and congratulated me and went on with their night.

What I realized after the call was that me interrupting and sounding like I did wasn't taken as rude anymore than they were rude when they did the same. It sounded like CONFIDENCE (and to a lesser extent it sent a signal I was engaged in the issue form the start) to them.

The verbal tussling involved a lot more than just folks talking over each other, we were establishing who thought what, but also how sure they were, who wanted in on the decision making and etc.

It also became clear that when they would doubt or challenge my ideas in the past, it was more of a 'challenge' to get me to respond and make it clear how confidant I was. If I withdrew verbally ... well then I was sending the signal I wasn't sure. If I changed my voice, interrupted, sounded a little annoyed, or even just made a joke... we would have more to talk about.

The real fun began when those big banks merged with some west coast operations and they'd both appeal to me with help getting through to 'those guies' ;)
> When you go to NYC you kinda hope to run into these old school New Yorkers and have them turn and yell at you, "I'm walkin' here!"

Visiting NYC in 2018 and 2019 made me realize that that phrase is literal. There's nothing like walking down the sidewalk only to have the guy in front of you just stop to gawk at something with no warning, forcing you to stop short or swerve on a dime to avoid bumping into them. Or maybe if you're lucky they didn't just stop short, they'd already been just standing there in the dead center of the sidewalk since they came into view, but you still have to go around them.

After one afternoon of walking around the city, I already felt like shouting "Hey, I'm walkin' here!" several times.

(and being a tourist myself, I was actively self-conscious of whenever I wanted to gawk at something, so I always made sure I moved to the innermost part of the sidewalk and put my back to a wall if I ever wanted to stop and look at something or pull my phone out)
Looking younger does correlate with both wealth and health. But while wealth and obesity are only correlated, there's certainly a casual relationship from obesity to health, and therefore from obesity to looking older.
“That whole Xerox PARC thing in the 1970s—the thing that supposedly gave us the Mac, etc.—was actually not about having a mouse and windows; the big core idea was that we'd build models of our world in software and adapt them as we explored. Doctors could simulate new treatments; children could simulate rocket ships. We'd all have highly visual pocket climate models we could explore and manipulate, or the doctors would all be programmers themselves and make better patient-management systems. The idea was for software to become the humble servant of every other discipline; no one anticipated that the tech industry would become a global god-king among the industries, expecting every other field to transform itself in tech's image.”

A different way of interpreting the article is not why we (computer programmers) haven’t made things better for other people and their industries but why we haven’t found better abstractions for computing itself so that they don’t need us to make the software they need.

We no longer have physical human elevator operators pushing buttons for us because we made an friendly abstraction over that anybody could use. So why does the job of a software developer even exist? Why can’t people productively and easily make their own software? It would likely be better: extremely customized to their own needs, highly tuned based on their own in-depth domain knowledge, and continuously updated since they don’t have to ask and wait for someone else to do it for them. Why do we still have human operators pushing buttons for people?
You clearly never lived in Chicago or NYC. These Democrats make Republicans look like angels. They hire their friends as contractors, they do a poor job, then get paid to fix it. You're the ignorant one if you actually think one party is any better.
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They can vote for candidates other than the top 2 without wasting their vote. Because when any candidate is eliminated, their votes flow to each voter’s next preference. That encourages co-operation between coalitions of candidates instead of polarization of only 2.
Unfortunately CGP Grey is wrong. RCV (IRV) has been used in Australia for 100+ years. Ireland uses it. We've already had it in America. We've done enough experimenting. The thing to get excited about is Approval and STAR. Let's interested try cardinal voting systems instead of ordinal. They are also substantially simpler.
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I think the suggestion is that states shouldn’t get to decide how to act depending on whether they would “harm themselves,” but rather that the people should get to decide.
>It appears that you're defending Republicans doing... something? By saying that the Democrats did... something?

I think he's explicitly NOT defending either party. a critique of one is not a defense of the other.
Would VSCode work better in this scenario? I'm not familiar with Java tooling, so my question is whether this is a tooling problem or an IntelliJ problem.
Washington under current system had all 12 EC votes go to Clinton. Except 4 of them were faithless and voted for Colin Powell (and I believe someone else) instead. That being said, Washington is only just over one-third red.
Before all this, almost twenty years ago, there was JPad Pro another editor that I felt as close to as I feel about VSCode now. It didn't have plugins per se, but you could very easily script new behaviors into it. After that, there was a period of vi usage, before I adopted Sublime. The lesson for me is that VSCode too, will be superseded by something different.
Wait a minute!

You have an out of order time machine? That is what I've been looking for all my life.

I already have an in order time machine, and it keeps going the same direction. I want an out of order machine!

Can we trade? Today, tomorrow, or yesterday.

I will give you a Klein bottle for it. And even do your dishes!
The piece describes an incident where a reporter asked YouTube some questions via email and the reply included an on-background section that the reporter chose to publish in full anyway.

Immediately after telling this dick-move story, the author laments, "Silicon Valley wasn't always so hostile to reporters."

The piece's criticisms against tech have a point, but the author has a real blind spot when it comes to looking in the mirror and considering ways that the media isn't entirely blameless for the frayed relations either.
"let the rich kids subsidize it for everyone else."

This is also known as a progressive taxation system.
They still have two at large electoral votes, but it’s definitely more proportional.
In that case, why would you try to develop/compile remotely? Just target a different architecture.
When it comes to learning about voting schemes, I will always link to this: https://ncase.me/ballot/. Interactive simulations comparing different voting methods really tickle the nerd in me.
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Childhood nutrition. Prenatal - 2 years old.

Finland has also come from a lower place than their neighbours so it's more pronounced. But childhood nutrition matters.
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Country who pioneered the practice of forced IP transfers and state-sponsored IP theft reacts with shock and horror when a single one of their own companies is met with similar anti-competitive treatment.

China systematically blocks Western companies from operating in China without handing over IP or source code. Huawei for example, a company with an extensive history of being state sponsored, had a program that rewarded employees with direct cash incentives for delivering stolen IP to the company.
No, it's racism against everyone who is displaced from otherwise being admitted, so that the UC can under-the-table enact a policy designed to increase the number of black and Hispanic admits without saying it's affirmative action.
I know one case in a big and very internationally staffed European company where Indian employees have sort coalesced into a group (hiring amongst themselves, giving out promotions allegedly) that plays out some sort of complicated social structure - including many of them moving into the same apartment building (majorly unusual in this country!) and supposedly some caste-based status system that is rather opaque for anyone else. Within that division, non-Indians also have a difficult standing or at least say they do.

There is not much people can do about it, it would be risky topic to address. If true, it goes without saying that this is completely unacceptable on many levels. It breeds serious negative sentiments: I have heard other employees talking quite badly about the situation and Indian employees involved. Several people, all I talked to actually, actively try to leave that team.

I know that forming a cohesive subgroup in a foreign culture probably gives comfort, but (to the degree that this is all true) I'd urge Indians working abroad not to do this. It'll eventually have negative consequences for everyone involved. I was seriously surprised by the sort of negative comments I have heard from non-Indian team members.
Good points. Thank you for bringing them up.
This method already looks like it’s been reasonably shrunk to a single unit, unless “prepare values” is a lot of business logic; and, you’re already past all the major conditional checking. Fair enough.
Prior to that you’ve got the massive slave states of the Roman Empire or various Greek poleis, plus the mass killings of various wars causes by different empires in different times and places. Do recall that the Mongols killed 11% of the world’s population. And even with the collapse of some of these slave states and massive empires, the resulting chaos and uncertainty drove the population into the exact same feudal arrangements that I described before.

If you want to go back further, it’s estimated that 40-50% of adult fatalities in hunter gatherer societies were caused by murder, based off of historical evidence and study of modern hunter gatherer population.

There really aren’t that many eras you can point to that are really much better than the present for a typical human being. There are plenty of times that are better for the kind of person who writes history books, but that is a very different proposition.
I tend to look at stuttering behavior such as

Foo foo = new Foo();

as a problem with the language itself. That said, I do agree that writing Java without IntelliJ can be a pain.
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>The first thing that jumps out here is: what purpose does consciousness serve in this system

I dont know, but could throw out a few ideas. One is that consciousness is part of a post processing step for memory storage, abstract analysis, or feedback loops. Another possibility is that is an unnecessary artifact or emergent property, more the laryngeal nerve than the appendix of the brain.

>I assert that your position compels you to hold the very boundary between consciousness and subconsciousness to be "illusory" as well.

I don't think that the boundary is illusory as much as arbitrary, from a functional perspective. The Ego is clearly not aware of processing below a certain level, but where that level lies is meaningless to an outside observer.

The biology of consciousness is a funny thing. Brain imaging has been able to detect what decision a person makes up to seven seconds before they are conscious of it [1]. You can perform a hemispherectomy removing half of the brain and people are still conscious.[2] IF the removed half was put in a second body, could it be conscious as well??

As far as I am aware, there is no scientific evidence for free will, and no plausible mechanism is physics.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2008/04/mind-decision/
[2] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/17092-hemis....
Isn't the self help section one of the largest in the bookstore? I don't see any great mystery - cults of personality, money, power, genius - aspirational culture. As far as we know haven't those things always been part of human nature? You can put a negative spin on it and call it self-loathing or fetishism but for some people it's motivation.

The HN bubble is real and it's easy to be derisive but the OP you replied to doesn't seem to be a troll. Sincere people are easy targets for the cynical but the flawed opinions of real people are more interesting than whatever sanitized death waits by appeasing something like n-gate.
"vow" is too strong of a word considering Facebook.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook...
I'm still maintaining and releasing Dokku though? Last release was less than a month ago, and there have been merges in the past week.
But if you hire "programmers" and train them in F# on the job instead of looking specifically for "F# programmers" you sidestep that problem.

My organisations job ad is looking for people with "several years of programming experience by the way we do things in C# and F# but do not expect you to have".

Then we weed out the huge majority by issuing a tiny take-home code test (think a few fizzbuzz-style questions) that applicants can complete in whatever language or environment they want.

So far, we've received positive feedback on the approach, but also very few truly talented applicants. I think the latter is because we're extremely picky, but I don't know.

What I do know is that we wouldn't get better or more qualified applicants by limiting our search to a few languages. Some of the best so far have come with a language we would never have thought to list.
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Is there any confirmation wether or not to include widevine and/or playready for linux build?
or do neither and use Korean skincare products
WinForms is just a wrapper around Win32 API - which is closed, and so won't run on other platforms. So in many ways very similar to Apple's position on Swift and SwiftUI
> This includes Turkey’s AKP (a regime that is one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists)

Whereas we, on the other hand, are only the second leading jailer of citizens.

> which has threatened dissenting judges with criminal punishment

Our current President repeatedly threatens journalists and the media with criminal punishment, tying your two points together.
I’m Australian and I consciously vote very differently. My first votes are for small parties that are very unlikely to get elected but who’s campaign largely rests on an issue I support.

This encourages the other, more popular parties to adopt that issue if they see these parties are popular.

Otherwise I’d just vote for the “best” and most popular.
it's not really about money or resources, although they played an important part here

its about the fact that the police, the public prosecutor, and the district judge all somehow failed to notice that the claims made by the upper-class family were so outlandish and nonsensical that there must have been hundreds of other cases that weren't so unreasonable and where justice must have been grossly misapplied, and that the typical migrant worker would just take the injustice on the chin and move on for a lack of resources and persistence. the severity of the bias, and the possibility that the system has not worked for a long time, all contributed to this embarrassment.

as a side note, two years ago when the initial sentence was handed down the defendant was pilloried online for being one of many hundreds of "thieving maids" that pitiful singaporean families had to endure. facebook groups commiserated with each other with horror stories. the bias extends across the country. a case of the emperor's new clothes, perhaps.
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Washington and California are already signatories. Naturally, it's the red states that are dragging their heels, as they feel like they have the most to lose.

If Texas manages to finally flip during this presidential election, though, I'd say all bets are off and the NPVIC might finally become law of the land.
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This is great news!

If you’re interested in the consequences of First Past the Post voting and why we need change so bad, I strongly recommend this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44244963-breaking-the-tw...
This comment reminds me of "All Lives Matter".
The unencapsulated thing is exactly the feeling I got. I am most confused with others' code when there is implicit imports or declarations of any sort. "Where did this come from??? Why is this working???"

I had the same thoughts about React hooks although perhaps I don't correctly understand the motivations. Class components have extremely clear, compartmentalized lifecycle functions, and now the advice is... make everything a function-scoped closure? Let redux do some opaque context sorcery to update your components?

React (and others) hit the paradigm right on the head the first time, IMO. It's change for change at this point, which is fine I suppose.
I think one of the biggest pain points that developers hit that hasn't been mentioned here is content extraction.

A lot of the time developers want access to the text inside PDFs. Unlike HTML or formats like MS Word (XML or old binary format) getting "text" isn't really possible.

Most "document" formats have the concept of words or strings: a set of characters separated by whitespace. PDF isn't a "document" format in that sense - it's a page description language. Instead of strings of text you have character glyphs positioned at a particular location.

If you want to "read" the text, you have to work out the orientation (which can change throughout the page - think of table header alignment), and use some kind of heuristic to guess the word spacing based on the font and character spacing.

There's also this whole thing with clipping, where some text can be hidden behind other objects (or off page) so you have to try to deal with that.

There's lots of libraries that try to do this for you, but there are lots because none get it right 100% of the time...
Hold an comedian accountable? How much anger does the population have when people, that makes others laugh for a living, have to be accountable for others?
Whenever I read about Joe Rogan on HN I wonder how many people have actually listened to one of his podcasts or are just mad/concerned he had X crackpot on his show.

You should check it out one day. It's not nearly as controversial or dangerous to society as apparently some people want you to believe. I found a coffee I really like from a guest he had on once.
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I disagree, especially for the constraints. The best thing for writer's block is a few random generations of GPT2 until you like it. It lacks the feeback of Twitter but maybe that's a good thing.
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Metformin is mentioned 30% of the way through.

Are you taking it?

The actionable stuff will be 3 dot points as with all books.
Yes, there is ‘Copy next day’ option to move branches. You can see how it works on the first demo video.
This approach (without auto carry over) helps the user to start a new day with a fresh interface. Because usually, task managers get messy with old tasks after some time.
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Yeah, just like how every company is just a struggle to make money on all sides. Every corporation is ethically the same. Just because some companies knowingly launder money for cartels doesn't make them any worse than any other company. Starting the opioid epidemic for money? You would've too if you were smart and savvy enough.

In fact, every person is simply motivated to maximize comfort, minimize pain and procreate. It's a rat race through and through. All people are the same. Child killers and doctors. No difference.

Any simple extension of your miserable idea seems foolish. I'd hate to have to live in your mind.
+1 you must move him out, for his sake and for the sake of your business.
GP uses the phrases "losslessly convert to text" and "fill in the forms". I think you've misunderstood them, they're clearly talking about the display text, and not the code that comprises it.