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Maybe one thing is that people become more afraid of looking stupid. They may not ask for important clarifications.

There was a question here in another thread "if you saw your surgeon reviewing a text book just before he started cutting you up, would you feel more or less safe?". I would feel less safe.

But it's obviously better if those surgeons who don't feel 100% confident do review.
It’s easy to discriminate if you allow proxy’s. Just find something that hurts them more than it hurts you and repeat.

Race is already being used as a proxy for political affiliation. Using a proxy for Race as a proxy for political affiliation is less efficient, but still effective.
Which is why it's so important for restaurants to organize and defend themselves.

https://www.protectourrestaurants.com/
I'm pretty sure most people are not aware of the LTSC builds, which are the only sane way to use Windows. All the regular builds have a ton of garbage included, like who wants to look at politicians' faces and read about their stupid antics when they open the menu?

I don't see why people pay for that stuff.
Collective-action solutions for collective action problems? Nah, let's just wait for everyone to simultaneously sacrifice for the greater good. Any day now... any day...
Absolutely, midi is clearly a device centric protocol, not a musically correct protocol. But with the various XML music formats there are alternatives that can be converted into midi fairly easily. But right now we only support midi, we will add more formats though.
This is fantastic. Shipping goods is one major source of CO2 and other pollutants, as most ship engines are way dirtier than any car engine. If this concept works out, we have an almost magic bullet to cut ship emissions by 90%. And at that level, suddenly other concepts for the remaining motor power required become feasible. Those wings could be covered with solar cells for electric populsion and ships can carry large batteries. Or biofuels, hydrogen etc. Not only the emissions, but the requirement for motor powers have been cut by 90%.

On the other side, as someone who likes sailing boats of all kinds, it is just gorgeous. Imagine the seas populated by those great ships.
Exactly! They’re trying to phrase it as “cut it short” when in reality it’s “not drag it out forever”.
Technically, you can diff 2 XML files, but Alteryx will make slight alterations to the xml literally everytime you open it, even if you make no changes and it's a huge amount of spaghetti XML that is absolutely not meant to be parsed by human eyes.
It makes sense, as it identifies the specific (medium-hosted) blog as the source, rather than just the hosting platform.

I think this is a new feature (at least, I haven't noticed it before), and seems to apply to some other domains as well, such as twitter.com and github.com.
You're going to have to define "most"

I'm pretty sure "no" militaries have 24/7 coverage of any area on the planet.
Super interested in this, could you please contact me via jacques@modularcompany.com? (your profile is not filled out for me so I don't know your email address, note that HN has the option to add a public email address as well in your profile but for you that is still blank).
Training is what the cloud is for.
Counterpoint: iOS will be default reboot at night to install updates. It’s just less noticeable because applications expect that they may get shut down at any time and handle state appropriately. So my take on this is that applications that can not recover state after a restart are broken.
Wild idea: Power the ship with the batteries in the 7000 cars it carries, partially (speed up) or fully.

One cable per car to its charging port - power can be transmitted in that direction too.

Edit: Quick reality check: About 500 MWh from the batteries. An oil-based ocean crossing of a similar sized vessel uses 280 tons oil, corresponding to about 3 GWh.

So, meh. Probably not worth all the hassle - the cabling, recharging the cars after the crossing, dealing with various extra fire risks, etc.
C++ has a serious tooling and discoverability issue. The syntax of c++ can be annoying and there are other oddities, but that isn't going away. C++ isn't about making the easy things easy, it's about making the hard things not intractable (you can't build a self driving car or a game in python).

It's unfortunate that the compilers don't automically turn on -werror, -wall and other useful flags that can help alleviate lots of arcane issues. I also think the tool maintainers do a poor job of promoting the use of UBSAN, ASAN, TSAN, etc. If you watch talks, you'll learn about these tools that solve most headaches, but you have to be so in the know to be aware that these tools exist. You have to dedicate time outside of working hours to really absorb all this information and imo that's unacceptable. Other languages put a larger effort towards making their tooling easy to use and provide amazing documentation (c# is the best at this imo). I'm a c++ dev and I love it in a masochistic way, but if these issues aren't addressed rust will eat c++'s lunch.
> If you don't buy products with these conditions you never once face these problems.

Until they're the only kind of products left. See smart TVs.
Counting all people who live in the United States of America as well as the distribution of people is the mandate of the Census. The status of said people is irrelevant - taxes are still paid, infrastructure decisions must still be made, etc., so whether any one side benefits more than the other by sticking to the letter of the mandate is irrelevant.

When deviating from the mandate, it's important to consider motives. When aligning with the mandate, unless it's clear that the mandate is ill-formed (which it isn't in this case for the reasons I've given above), motives for enforcing the mandate are, as said above, irrelevant.
I disagree, I posted my Show HN thread [0] on a Sunday, got only 1 upvote in 36 hours, but then it started getting traction. I am not sure what happened, but you can still get on the front page even if you don't get upvotes immediately after submission.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24746921
I assure you that book is only worth about $21,000,000
Thank you both! A Friend Link without Paywall :) https://medium.com/swlh/why-you-shouldnt-use-offset-and-limi... Let me know if you have any suggestions on it, would love to know about them!

One of the things I've learned is literally don't "impose" anything to your readers. What I've written is mainly cited by big sources (and I have included the sources in the article!), but people rather prefer to point the finger if they do not agree with you.

I believe the article title is a bit "imposing" on the reader, but so do are all the other "click-baity" titles we see everywhere, and in this case I am able to prove my point of view, being it through an explanation or a PoC that I do provide as well. But people are mean :)
> However its VERY hard to ignore the reality that essentially 100% of the US population has no difficulty, on average, kinda paying electric bills and property tax bills and phone bills.

"essentially 100%" is an overstatement. Federal Reserve data (see e.g. Figure 12 here [1]) consistently shows that quite a few Americans have difficulty paying bills. For example, ~25% of surveyed Americans with a high school degree or less said they couldn't pay that month's bills. That number gets smaller with more education but is always 50-100% larger for black and Hispanic people.

It seems reasonable to me that people juggling various overdue bills might not prioritize responding to a census that has 0 short-term positive impact. It also seems reasonable to me that we make an extra effort to count these people since the point of the census is to count everybody, not just people who are easy to count.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2019-economic-we...
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what a nice price point
Bollocks. European management and screening people will judge negatively both CV gaps and "job hopping" (or whatever they'll judge as disloyalty). Will use both to lowball you or reject you when comparing with other candidates. Have a cozy full time job at major tech/engineering company? Stay where you are. It's dark and windy out there and believe me you don't want to deal with recruitment processes.
But that’s the whole point of the census. I agree Democrats wouldn’t care if it weren’t politically beneficial, but in this case their interest and the law coincide. Everyone, legal resident or not, should be counted. There’s zero legal /constitutional question about it. If you’re going to get angry every time someone does the right thing for the wrong reasons, I am afraid you’re in for a lifetime of disappointment.

Now if Democrats were trying to increase census coverage in Florida, Texas, NY, and IL while playing games to get census takers to skip traversing the vast emptiness of Montana and Wyoming, I’d agree that you have a point. But that’s not the case.
I understood that to mean his paid blog posts for that company that hired him, not medium.
> We have the technical know-how to administer data center versions of their products, but we can’t do shit...

This is a very typical argument CIOs faced when transitioning storage to cloud. The job threat to storage admins created a lot of FUD and slowed many migrations.
Unfortunately, this happened with DB, storage, compute and software.

I wonder if there is a middle ground here where you can have a proxy service that can be run locally to augment and/or customize the product for a specific customer.
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the farming right to repair case is a different case than phones/laptops case imo. farming tractors are much more expensive and much larger. You can't mail a tractor in a bubble-wrapped envelope. I support right to repair for farm equipment because its their job on the line.

the mechanisms are much simpler in a tractor and mechanical in nature.

trying to do the same with other appliances could be dangerous or fatal if mistakes are made.
farmers are literally hacking their machines (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPYy_g8NzmI ) likely voiding warranty.
AD in the core language? Why? Automatic differentiation would be prime candidate to be implemented as a metaprogramming library.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams by Werner Herzog is about absolutely stunning cave art discovered in France and immediately preserved by the government. The cave was immediately sealed off from the public and a team of professionals has studied it ever since. They installed pathways to prevent damage, climate control, special lights, etc. Werner was the first person they let film inside. Absolutely incredible film. We watched it on a lark and we were all mesmerized. It isn’t just about the art but about ancient Stone Age man in general.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_of_Forgotten_Dreams
That makes a $170 board that can also do training look dirt cheap in comparison
They could release transcripts, which would be far less theatrical than video and audio. Sure, transcripts may contain some grandstanding, but it's not as spicy as a 20 second tweeted clip.

The Supreme Court disallows cameras, but release audio, so those who wish to follow the court can still do so.
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Did your unicorn job meet the Accomplishment, Impact, Growth, Challenge, and Community aspects of the article?

While I have some reservations about the article (chiefly that these all have to be evaluated every three months) I think the framework to assess your current position is very different than just changing to start your “own thing”, chase the newest shiny object etc.
Oh look, a both-sides sock puppet. Right where I expect to find one, too.
Show HN: I think I made a 2D Rubik's cube
A while ago, my friend (an avid cuber) and myself tried to perfect a game that captures the feeling and difficulty of solving a Rubik’s cube.

We got great feedback from the cuber community, got featured on the App Store and now we decided to release all three puzzles for free.

(Note for cubers: It’s somewhere between the Pyraminx and the classic cube in terms of difficulty.)

If anyone is willing to give it a try, just search for "Eclidus" on the App store. I would love to get some feedback, especially from twisty puzzle lovers.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/eclidus/id1481842010

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.EruptionGames.eclidus

Thanks!
Fair enough, I misinterpreted the original question because the quoted part of the article did not reference poverty. Thank you.
> if you use it all on your own you don't even see the problems

100x this. If >90% of your serious coding is in one language, you'll become desensitized to its bad parts but you'll be hyper sensitive to anything that seems inconvenient in any alternative. I've seen this over the years with Fortran and C coders. C++ coders do it to C all the time. Lisp coders are notorious for it. It's Selective Perception 101, counting the hits and ignoring the misses. We're all prone to it, and have to correct for it.

If you really want to compare any two languages, you have to give both a more than casual try, and keep an open mind throughout. Otherwise your conclusions are likely to be unhelpful at best.
TBH, I don't think it really matters. I mean, take voting for example. Democrats have a clear ulterior motive to expand voting, Republicans have a clear ulterior motive to make voting as difficult as possible.

But, TBH, I don't really care much about their motives, because in a democracy we should be trying to get the most eligible people as possible to vote. Republicans are trying to prevent people from voting because they believe the more voting is expanded, the harder it is to get a majority of people to vote for them. Well, tough shit.

To see what has happened in Texas, with dropboxes limited to one-per-county, I feel like the previous argument against voter fraud has kind of gone out the window, and now it's just blatant - there is no rational reason the giant county that contains Houston should be limited to the same number of dropboxes as a rural county with orders of magnitude fewer people.
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> But what entitles us to that level of control over HN?

What entitles you to that level of control over email? If any of the emails you sent were modified by Google, you would be outraged, but we should just accept "editorial control" over Twitter, Facebook, HN, etc.?

I think that's the real debate happening here. It's not just about censorship, it's about exercising control over the content. Many feel strongly that this sort of control should be in the hands of the creators of that content, not editors/moderators/site owners/etc.

> This site also allows us to edit our comments, without the explicit consent of every person who responds to them.

I would be ok if the person who originally submitted the article made that change himself and there was a history associated with the submission that showed the change. That's the creator exercising control.

> This isn't a direct democracy, it's a news aggregator.

It's kind of acting like a newspaper though? If content is being edited, that's the job of an editor. I don't think it's such a far stretch to imagine top comments being edited to improve the conversation, etc. at that point, what's the distinction with a newspaper?
That's just survivorship bias though. A lot more ready-coded ideas fail which means a lot more wasted time (if making money is the point). I agree that not all ideas can be tested that way, some ideas just have to be experienced. For the ones that can be tested in their idea phase, it seems like a good way to prevent doing too much when the interest just isn't there. At the same time you'll probably miss out on some ideas that need a bit of a runway first, but you're minimizing for downside risk instead of maximizing for upside potential.
Here is some inside info. I work for the Census.
It is a highly dysfunctional organization. Nothing to do with current administration.

The various software the local offices use actively hinders the job of management and enumerators (the people who come to your door). Hundreds of and hundred of millions of dollars and incalculable time is wasted just due to this. Imagine the worst ERP or CRM that you have ever used, this is worse and approximately 250 offices use it across the country, and this inhibits the jobs of nearly half a million people.

Talk to any Area manager, Lead Census Field Manager/Field manager, Office Operation Supervisor, or Office Clerk. They will tell you how they have to fight the software to get their job done.

Truth is the Census could be done with half the people. There is plain incompetence in middle and higher management. Those making decision on software and marketing seem to have no understanding of the job those in local offices do. It is so bad local offices don't really have an accurate idea who even is still employed in the field working cases.

Why doesn't this change? Nobody wants to lose their job. Middle management wants numbers and to hit goals. It doesn't matter if the numbers are actually accurate. Often they will not be. Notes about cases (organizations we are trying to count their people/or individual housing units) pile up inside systems that nobody has time to read. It is easier to close a case then actually resolve it and accurately count people.

Not only is there no incentive to do the job correctly, it will actually get you in trouble if you do things right.

Yes this is a random throwaway account on HN. But to verify just ask nearly anyone who works for the Census. I hope to post more on this later when I have time. Feel free to ask any questions.
I can imagine neutral, nonpolitical commentary on the census process, but that's not what Santos is offering. He says that the census wouldn't have been fair even if the count had been extended, due to factors such as "the public policy climate" and "toxic immigrant policies".
Racism is a feature not a bug of the carceral system.
That might be an idea, at least for the loaded parts of the travels. Also, for a ship mostly driven by sails, solar-electric propulsion for the rest suddenly becomes more feasible.
> So many of the images that are captivating me have been taken at between 50 and 100 times magnification.

Without knowing which images you are referring to it's hard for me to say, but on many of the images I looked at that was only the objective lens magnification, so not the total magnification which includes the eyepiece magnification, typically 10x.
Agreed. There are many axes along which one's career can be wasted. Throwing prime earning years at a low expected yield activity like founding startups can be one of them, depending on your priorities and luck. If one views making money as the primary purpose of a career, that will inform decisions differently than the criteria this article identifies.
Great project!

You gotta be capturing email addresses so people can track the project.
That's a grand idea, but there's good reasons to go to this effort for just C and C++.

There's a whole lot of code written in both; their toolchains are highly portable; for a long time they were seen as the only languages that gave programmers the ability to write high-performing code; and they are both unsafe by default.

Providing seamless bindings with a safe-by-default language like Swift is a way to move the whole systems programming field forward to a safe language, while maintaining compatibility with the enormous existing code base in the world.
A few years ago, they wouldn't have. Now they would, and should. The GOP has escalated and the Democrats need to respond in kind by expanding the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary, to undo the damage caused by years of Republican obstruction which prevented Obama from appointing hundreds of judges.

Please stop pretending that this game of escalating stakes and norm-breaking is somehow on the Democrats. We've been watching Mitch McConnell and we remember what he's done.
Does the english-speaking culture actually have wordplay riddles like the one defined in the article?

The author uses an example in french, and these are extremely common in Italian[0], but I have never seen one in english, and some of them would even work across languages, I think.

[0] as in: there are a few of them in every issue of the most common puzzle magazine, "la settimana enigmistica"
Not American but I think a census should reflect reality. This means: which people (regardless of legal status) are currently living in an given area.

How this then translates into policy is an entirely different question, but essentially misrepresenting what should be objective reality for cheap political points is asking for trouble. A bit like closing your eyes: it doesn't make things go away.
It reminds me of the show Away on Netflix where the astronauts are going to Mars by doing a pit stop to the moon first.

The idea that the could video call NASA with clear picture or even so it with their loved ones felt a contemporary science fiction.

Again, it seems we're getting there :)
The census is used to fairly apportion infrastructure to areas where people actually live. That this is done by representation is an artifact of our political system, not the Constitutional mandate that requires he census. It's not a fair question, as you say.
What's the influence of an item being small or possible to send on whether people should repair it?

The mechanisms in a tractor are different, not necessarily simpler. Replacing a keyboard on a Thinkpad is both mechanical and as siple as it gets.

Messing up a mechanical repair can absolutely be dangerous: it's a few horspower you could suddenly have out of control.
Oh, this is amazing! I don't think I've seen solid sails before, although now that I think about it, it makes perfect sense.

Hopefully this kind of design can be adapted to more ships and maybe even retrofitted to existing vessels.
CNN has a reputation alright, but it's not for depth or accuracy.
There's something called the Living Systems theory that postulates that there are significant parallels between subsystems, workings, failure modes and so on, between different levels of living systems. Where the levels are cells -> organs -> organisms -> groups of organisms -> organizations -> nations -> supra national institutions. The theory is not new actually.

So, it could be viewed as cognition all the way down and up. At least as a tool of analysis.
The price threshold for repairing stuff in the west is simply a bit higher. Would you like to be limited to just the car shop that's certified by your car manufacturer for car repairs?

I had a phone with a user-serviceable battery. It took no special parts to replace it. And so I used a machine that otherwise would've gone to electronic waste for several more years.
Sliding on space bar on the iOS keyboard to reposition the text cursor is also a well kept secret.
That's not an ulterior motive, it's a direct motive for counting everybody.

An ulterior motive would be expressing support for a counting method with a statement about the technical superiority of the method, but really preferring it because of some bias inherent in it. The "ulterior" part comes from the motivation being different than what is publicly expressed.
People like this will never cop to the fact that you can just work a job to make a living. You can just do that. There is no shame in it.

That’s not to say I disagree about things like sunk cost fallacy and misplaced loyalty. And I even have similar experiences to the people shown. But it is ok to not have your job hold such importance in your life. You don’t have to be the kind of person whose regrets in life are around the timing of job changes.
The Living Systems Theory
That's why I mentioned "I, Robot".
I'm not sure yet who manipulated that billboard, evil three letter agency or rogue AI.
But I am sure that this is a detective story and that Will Smith will be either the detective or the unwitting bystander who gets drawn into the whole mess. :P