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> ... the signal:noise ratio of the comments is vastly superior to all but the very best and rarest articles.

<rant>

Not for those of us who RTFA and then come to the comments, only to have to sift through numerous comments asking questions or discussing things that were clearly answered in TFA.

That simply leads to the situation where those who don't bother to RTFA end up wasting the time of everyone who does, lowering the S/N ratio for us, eventually causing some of us to then stop reading the articles and skipping straight to the comments, and the cycle repeats over and over. Eventually, we'll get to the point where nobody reads the articles -- and the entire purpose of the comments is (or, at least, was) to discuss what was in the article!

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Sorry, it's a huge pet peeve and, to me, it's no different than someone asking a large group of people (here, on a mailing list or group chat, etc.) a "simple question" that, with a minute or two's worth of effort they could have easily found the answer to themselves. Sure, they might have saved a minute or two of their time but, when you think about it, what they really did is wasted a minute or two of "n" other's people time.

Or, to put it another way, it shows a complete lack of respect for other people and their time (and basic courtesy in general). I can be fairly impatient, though, so perhaps it's just me.

Anyways, it's 0333 so I should probably just log off HN and go to bed! I'll blame my little rant on exhaustion and lack of sleep. :-)

</rant>
Back to the Amish way of life. That will work out, but people will have to go out of their confort zone.
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I am not sure I follow. Time is certainly an extremely important dimension in any complex biological system. The cells do not think about time, but the timing there is very precise too.
> I talked to many maintainers in the first few years of it's existence who truly benefited from the contributions.

For sure, but the Hacktoberfest promotional website treats this as a second order effect, instead of the primary goal it really should be.

The primary motivation for participants is the free t-shirt, because that's the incentive that's being pushed. What is not promoted - and should be promoted - is the impact of contributing: making a change for the better, the social good, taking a step towards connecting with new people, learning opportunities, making a mark in the world with your name on, etc.

The problem OSS faces is not just finding enough contributors. It's finding contributors who are intrinsically motivated to actively engage with a project.

And so, the current campaign inadvertently targets loads of people who don't really care for the code or the projects themselves: they just want the exclusive t-shirt as a trapping and not much more.

I'm sure the campaign still attracts contributors who genuinely want to submit a good PR (I sure am going to do an effort). But frankly, if the campaign ends up devolving into a frenzy for t-shirts, it's hard not to feel demoralized: that's not the spirit of the campaign, and that's quite likely not what DO originally intended, right?
Well, why try so hard to predict what people think, when you can just ask them and they will gladly tell you? As a bonus, you also get a motivation that can be exploited for much better targeting of, uhm, educational ads?

Data gathered from here is explicit, and this much more reliable than what you can implicitly infer from users' behavior.
True, but how many of them are good programmers? The US is just better at producing them than other places.

https://blogs.worldbank.org/education/who-trains-best-comput...

> The United States trains the best computer graduates ― by far: We find that CS seniors in the United States substantially outperform seniors in China, India, and Russia. The average computer science student in the United States ranks higher than about 80 percent of students tested in China, India, and Russia. Seniors in elite institutions in the United States similarly outperform seniors in elite institutions in China, India, and Russia by approximately 0.85 Standard Deviations (SDs). Importantly, the skills advantage of the United States is not because it has a large proportion of high-scoring international students.
> what is the meaning of "too late"?

I take it to mean for the human race to continue its existence in roughly the same way we've become accustomed over the past century or so (though the time frame will vary according to people, I suppose.

>maybe some amebas will evolve into something more peaceful that the savages we have become.

that could well be the case or we might be in this situation in a few billion years
Self-hosted FreshRSS + Reeder on iOS. I haven't found a decent FOSS Android client that syncs with FreshRSS yet, unfortunately, so I just use local Feeder on there.
With depression, the "why" is never easy to suss out, even when something is stated, is that really the reason?
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Agreed on this one. I was with a company, since the beginning, that ended up blowing up.

In the middle of its growth, I had to move, and ended up becoming a remote engineer.

Since the acquisition, all my colleagues (who all started at the same "level" as me) have greatly surpassed me in terms of title, responsibility, and salary because "they were there".

I'm not upset or anything, and in fact happy we all won in our own ways, but just echoing the idea that being nearby matters for career advancement!
Humanity won't die. Climate change is bad, but it's pretty well established that it's likely not a existential threat.
2050 is mathematically warmer, with climate lag 2050 is already worse then now.
The way things are going if it wasn't for Safari, we would already all be ChromeOS developers anyway.
The electron gun draws through the shadow mask, which is fixed and independent of resolution. It's a debate long enjoyed by nitpickers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_mask

https://youtu.be/Ea6tw-gulnQ
And they have moved their partner and possibly kids to an area with lesser opportunities - and may have lost the ability to go back to a higher COL.
I too have issues with the quality of their matrix server. For example server errors out if you try to change a room's notification settings (and the request fails).
Rest assured, nobody is thinking of the Spanish-Portuguese casta system when they talk about Indian caste. We might use the same word but I don't think anyone is familiar enough with the Spanish usage in the Americas for it to bring about a misunderstanding. But you make a very good point.

For non Spanish speakers or people not familiar with the Spanish casta system, it's synonymous with breed and lineage. Before the "Conquista", the lineage was focused on nobility Vs peasants. During the conquista, it shifted to a racial pecking order. The idea that the Spanish casta (castizo) was at the top of the pyramid, and any mixtures with other races put you at different levels in that pyramid. For instance a white castizo mixed with a black person would be mulato, but a white non-castizo like a Dutch or English white mixed with a black would give you a lower but similar caste. Your caste had implications in social and political life -- access to property, being able to hold certain jobs, etc. It quickly became unworkable because of the ever growing degrees of "mestizaje".

I don't know if India has a similar idea (what caste are you when a dalit mixes with a Brahmin?), but as you've mentioned, it's worth noting that the word we use for the Indian Varna does come a Spanish word (which in turn probably has Nordic roots) for a very different race/lineage based caste system.
Please show any timing at cellular level. Thank you.
> The current JS requirement is a drag

HTML could be so much more useful and time-saving if more functionality could be built without JavaScript.

Thanks to CSS tricks, such as using the `:checked` pseudo-class in invisible form elements (toggled with a visible `<label for="">` I can implement neat show/hide effects in websites without any script - my current server-side-rendered project has a reusable "tab control" that doesn't use any client-script at all. It's great because it will always just-work, even if the user has weird privacy/script settings.

I can distill what I want down to two simple things: I want more CSS pseudo-classes based on the live DOM state (and the ability to add arbitrary wrapper boxes around or inside any element) and more native HTML elements that can mutate the DOM without requiring any scripts.
If things happened out of order, the cell wouldn't work at all. There are a lot of different signal pathways that ensure timing is correct. You can take a look at even the most basic functionalities like DNA replication, or energy exchange. And the cell is not timed only in regards to itself, but based on the system it lives in, too - and that system is timed too, repeat x1000000.

Humans (and other living beings) can work with such low amount of waste heat and intake energy only thanks to atomically precise clocking.
> that's fine, he wrote this app for himself after all. But refusing to make it configurable is just stupid and arrogant

Ad hominem much?

He wrote the app. If you want features, fork the code and add them yourself. Name-calling and demanding that the auther implement your pet feature is ... self-obsessed.

Do you also call your neighbor stupid and arrogant for not mowing your lawn?
If a company / organization is unclear about such important things then communications matter and Mozilla's communication skills around the lay-offs have left more than enough room for interpretation. Thank you for correcting the record on this.

Gian-Carlo is amazing by the way and gets way too little visibility for the important work he is doing.
Well I was replying to

> Anyway, VS Code now doesn’t have any weaknesses that I’m aware of anymore.

For me no support for native GUI designers is a weakness.
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Not trying to be obtuse but I'd be interested in your sources.
> I don't think
What's the TPS rate limit?
I would say he probably should have shown that many repos have a todo or even suggested starter issues that one could look at instead of just making some unnecessary change for no reason.
There are also legal and tax considerations to using a foreign programmer over a local one. Pretty quickly, many companies will discover the pitfalls to outsourcing.

Among the big consequences: you lose R&D tax credits. The language and skill barrier is also pretty big; most companies that outsource end up spending so much money on QC that they barely save anything at all.

It's theoretically possible to find good programmers in the Philippines as opposed to locally. But seeing as how finding local programmers is still not a solved issue, expanding the job pool to include the entire world isn't going to make that task any easier.
With people being so fragile as they are today, highly encourage this humor. People need to grow some skin.

If you can't laugh off nonsense like this, you might be part of the problem (which is not restricted to boomers).
If people can live in Florida, I think humanity can make it through climate change.
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Counterclaims:

https://twitter.com/trbrtc/status/1311930485959004161

> There's a lot of chatter about those “airborne nuclear command centers”, but these two Boeing E6A Mercury aircraft were indeed flying almost daily since over the past month, publicly available flight data shows: the AE0414 flew at least on 20 days, and the AE0415 at least 14.

https://twitter.com/marcambinder/status/1311921340354564096

> And again, these planes fly daily and there’s a squadron at PAX. This is noise. Attend to your thought patterns and cognitive biases here. I will try do the same. Reality is unsettling enough!
Typo fixes are useful. Adding '- an Amazing Project' to a title is not.

There's a lot that the guy could have done differently to demonstrate what a legitimate pull request looks like. Because this wasn't it.
It's amazing that it can get this messy. A president-elect dying in 4 months is not that unlikely: 65+ has a probability of dying about 1.5%/year [1], so 0.5% that they die between November and January. For a 74 year old it's even 3.6% and 1.2% respectively, for a 77 year old 4.5% and 1.5% [2]. And that's not even considering that there is a lot more stress in that time.

[1]
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Excerpt_...

[2]
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/United-States-life-tab...
Is "I request every one of my followers to make 20 spam PRs so at least 4 sit for more than a week"

The same translation of:

"Send PR to repo with little activity, it'll increase the chances that it'll sit for 7 days. The lesser known a repo is the better, 4 out 20 is doable"

It is times like this that a third translation would be nice, preferable with a bit more context around the "4 out 20" quote.
It's not really bare-metal, given that a ThreadX OS controls booting of the raspberry pi and continues to run afterwards

https://ownyourbits.com/2019/02/02/whats-wrong-with-the-rasp...

Side note: Microsoft bought ThreadX in 2019.
Couldn't some brighter coder than me make an action/bot for github that automatically closes/dismisses/marks as invalid such trivial and spam PR's?
> humanity will die so what

Good news is that this is extremely unlikely. Bad news is that survival of humanity isn't equivalent to survival of everyone.
They could've done an analysis on the variance of returns categorized by # of investments per fund. That would illuminate if # of investments is a big correlational/causative factor as they claim.

A simulation alone isn't going to cut it as it involves too many assumptions though it can give rise to reasonable hypothesis (not conclusions).
So instead look at this number I just pulled out of my fucking ass
You forget about the culture, work culture, mentality and education in those countries. I don't see a reason why should I make less for the same job just because I'm from a different country. What if you are a digital nomad? In the end it should be more about who YOU are, not what country you are from. I see a big difference between people from different countries even if the education level and years of experience seem to be the same. You will see difference in education even between cities.

Knowing that the market is getting even more global it only encourages me to ask for more money, not less.
It took me a second to realize you just meant California State taxes....
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/6/13/18660548/climat... links to some sources.

But from a common sense angle: the world can get a hell of a lot hotter before siberia is less habitable than arizona is now.
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>okay, but unless you know which pins are missing, how do you know you're not looking at a data-only cable?

You know it's a different cable and that's enough.

>this sounds like more of a huawei issue than a USB-C issue. if a manufacturer is just going to refuse to support a standards-compliant cable, you're out of luck either way. color coding would be nice though, they could have made that mandatory rather than recommended. I'm sure companies like apple wouldn't give a fuck either way and would just go with whatever looked aesthetically pleasing, USB-IF cert be damned.

That is made possible by USB-C standard. USB-A and USB-B cables were too dumb to support that.

>you seem to already consider it reasonable to look at pins

The pinouts are the same for all different types of cables. It is literally impossible to differentiate cables based on visual inspection. The USB-C standard is a unified charger and a bunch of different cables in with the same connector.
no... you are just trying to be pedanting. Web, the metaphor coming from a spider web and commonly understood as the interconnection formed by networks, could be perfectly understood as inter+net as well. And web+page as what the HTTP was purposed. And all that text brings nothing to the conversation.
Interesting.
The ordering here is when the event was generated or when the event entered the queue ?
I think the later and so I think the examples here don’t apply without something on top and a trade off
I didn't mean to critisize the Danish system, and I don't think the GP did either. It was simply an observation, and as said; if Denmark can manage to maintain their system during a time like this, then it's good news for the rest of us.
«Kolonial» means something like «grocery store» in Norwegian ️
But when does the delete enter the queue and when does the Create enter the queue ;)
Let's not forget the other Gen Z classic:

"No, dad, it doesn't work like that!"

looks it up on Google

tries it himself

fails
That also blows my mind but then again there also craftsmen who can make beautiful timepieces all by themselves so I guess making fun games in assembly is not that different than making a beautiful timepiece if you have the love and passion for it with the paciente to boot.
I have seen some repos with 3 pages of spam PRs. It's drowning out legitimate PRs.
That's not really addressing the questions posed. What is the point in time at which the government had ever been "small enough"? What is the size that's "small enough" for you?
I'm excited about this. It's great to see Facebook still innovating and engaging users. I can see huge potential here.
It's going to cause a lot of confusion with users who are not aware of the backstory. Whatever your stance on the subject doing this without a transition mode is just plain wrong.
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It’s a very real possibility that these rules will directly impact the course of the world in the immediate future. We live in the world, too. Not everything is code and venture capital.
Would you be willing to share what you'd recommend? I don't work at DigitalOcean but I know a few of the folks working on hacktoberfesst and I'm happy to forward our suggestions. je at h4x dot club.
I've found the same thing. It's a good way of keeping kids thinking while having fun. Furthermore I think it builds confidence in their own way of thinking and a natural scepticism to new information. Is the world playing tricks with me again or is it valid information?
EDIT: ever been used to refer to anything other than a slave owner?
You have a 0.1% device.

Meanwhile, billions of Linux-based Android devices have locked down bootloaders like the parent comment said.
Theoretically? probably not.

In reality? Absolutely.

People have clearly decided, with their wallets and at the ballot box, that climate change is less important than the economy.
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Not just IL, also NY, CA, MA, FL, TX, PA, OH and a dozen more. ~35,000 nationwide, simultaneously!, next Monday and Tuesday, two sessions per day for two days. It all has to work perfectly 150,000 times!
Yeah, I'm just saying for the target group it's not a major one :-)

Same way it's not a good COBOL environment either
<style scoped> was a very interesting idea, in practice it had a number of issues though like poor fallback (the styles become global in browsers without support which breaks pages) and implementation complexity because the root of a tree no longer defines the styles.

There were other reasons at the time as well, as mentioned in the linked email: the feature wasn't owned, wasn't shipping in any browser, and was making it difficult to improve the Shadow DOM styling system which was shipped already.

That was also a long time ago, and I think browsers and standards groups have learned a lot about designing features to be backwards compatible and how to avoid certain implementation complexities.
I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. There's nothing preventing a universal healthcare system, partially funded by higher taxes on "unhealthier" behaviours that cause a disproportionate burden on the system.

Obviously there will always be some proportion of people who draw from the system without ever paying anything in taxes (i.e. long-term unemployed). That's the case with any form of welfare, though. If you're philosophically opposed to non-net-taxpayers deriving any form of government benefit, then I'm assuming you're a priori opposed to universal healthcare.
If you truly think you are being unfairly treated you should provide examples of that and “expose” the Julia stewards.

Otherwise I think you should reach out to them and see what changes you can make to get unbanned so that you can participate in the community again.
I've been using Tiny Tiny RSS since Google shut down their reader. https://tt-rss.org/

Certainly not perfect, but it fits my needs and doesn't cost anything. Also has an Android app, so I can easily check my feeds whenever I want.
With a single producer and consumer, yes - but of course that's seldom the case.

With multiple producers and consumers, clock skew would be an issue, with the time on different machines being off from each other slightly.

One option is to use a single source for generating IDs, but that introduces another failure point, and comes at a hefty performance cost.
Iran subsidises gender reassignment surgeries because homosexuality in Iran is a capital crime. Transitioning is that country's form of conversion therapy; hardly progressive.
No. You are confusing race to caste, they don't intermix. There are brahmins in all shades of colours, and dalits in all shades of colours too.
Another interesting historical font I stumbled upon recently is Simplex Roman, designed in 1967 by Dr. A. V. Hershey for vector-based rendering on early CRTs. It still looks remarkably pleasant today: http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/hershey/

OpenType conversions: https://github.com/scruss/AVHershey-OTF/tree/master/otf
There are some scenes in the movie The Day After showing the mission I believe these plans flyes: https://youtu.be/jlPEBROvR9w?list=FLrpVP7xy6WjESfTl1-XV-hw&t... The US used to have one or two airborne at all times during the cold war.

Quits scary.
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Only if "the world" ends at the border to Mexico :P
Perhaps the above commenter is talking about the perceived scale or speed of time? Order of events certainly seems to matter.

At the same time, order of events is also a certain way of modelling something. There may be alternative models which can be meaningful without the order of time. But most (probably all) models are designed with the way we perceive time in mind.
I disagree. VCs are great; they are the backbone of our economy and are responsible for creating millions of jobs. A good VC is a huge value-add to any startup and provides valuable advice to aid the value-creation process and streamline the value chain.