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> The fact is, they will all lose money if Trump isn't reelected. Every single FB employee knows this, and does their part to keep the rage machine working.

I don’t understand what you mean here. Why does Trump need to be reelected? There is always outrage to be generated for clicks. There was no shortage of outrage during Obama’s term. Even things that were objective non issues, like the tan suit, was whipped into a viral attention storm. “Obama's tan suit shocks social media”. It seems like social media is just designed to promote outrage, since outrage produces virality, but not that it needs Trump specifically. Is there something I’m not getting relating specifically to Trump and Facebook?
And don't think it stops at the US border, this is a segment from the Dutch TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLoR2Spftwg
Funny thing they just copy/paste the US conspiracies on Dutch politicians.
Only a small percentage of people end up in a skilled nursing facility, of these the typical stay is almost always less than 2 years.

The numbers add up in bulk. It's a safety net that not everyone falls into.
I'm not. Most projects are never going to see any significant traffic. In fact, most projects are never going to get finished and launched at all.
YouTube videos have a Trillions of hours of worth of videos, many of which of which will potentially change your life.
Comparing it to shitty Music Services is seriously underrepresenting it's value
Greenwald has always been incredibly critical of the media, and that is his main point both here and with Russiagate.
Well, glass is still a liquid, which was the most counter intuitive claim to me, whether or not the flow is humanly perceptible. In fact it is even more counter intuitive now, since glass is an even more solid liquid.
Sqlite3 can import and export CSV via the CLI application. Both Ruby and Python provide CSV parsers in their standard library.
The ecosystem between then and now is night and day, though, and that's an extremely important part of a framework.
I would personally avoid Mono, but I would use .NET Core. Core is not built for Windows alone.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37738106/net-core-vs-mon...
Fair enough, someone else made similar point that I had GNU awk in mind wrt all of awk

And yeah, it's possible to start using basic field processing and regexp features (if you already know it) in 2 hours and learn most of it in 2 weeks. But, that quote could've been something like you could get started in 2 hours instead of saying one could know all of awk.
Most YouTube videos are also exclusive
Now give us chess in Vim.
Do you happen still have the list of things your gastrologist said you could eat? I'm having a bit of reflux issue myself, and I would love to solve it purely with diet, but I don't know where to start.
> Yes, you are speculating that pindab0ter would think the enforcement action was related to the CoC

That's not what I said.

You seem to be focused on detailed differences in meaning but missing the thrust of these arguments. You claimed Scotsman fallacy to a perceived specific meaning of the sentence, but it didn't fit in context. In general you seem to be not aware of the contextual meaning of what anybody has said here.
To go even further, here's a breakdown on engine use on indie games on Itch.

- Unity - 25,954 tags

- GameMaker - 6141 tags

- Godot - 4192 tags

- RPGMaker - 3979 tags

- Unreal Engine - 3915 tags

- Pico-8 - 2446 tags

- LÖVE - 1581 tags

- PyGame - 226 tags
One consequence of Google's monorepo is that even small services like this might depend on all sorts of google infrastructure and thus be effectively impossible to spin off.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing: the point of the monorepo is to make it easier and faster to write things like this in the first place.
I'm almost 100% sure those 14 subjects were muslims fasting during ramadan. Which happen to be:

- 4 weeks in length

- from Dawn to sunset

- No food or drinks including water

- Easier to control group, as you cant monitor 14 people through 4 weeks and make sure they don't cheat. So the cheating is kept to the minimum because of the religious reasons.

I also assume, that those are men only. Women are not allowed to fast when on their period which happens to be once a month.
Dropbox does have Dropbox Paper.
So the biggest privacy invader on the planet has launched a VPN --- to make your browing more private???

I can't decide whether to laugh or cry.
Touch and taste? It's all in the tentacles
You are incredibly out of date. No one uses mono any more. It's .net core. The official version which works on multiple platforms.
Writing a for loop every time you need to iterate over a collection is wasting time.
Good luck to you! I feel all of the sentiments that you mentioned in your comment. Here are some tips for you that have really helped me:

- Turn off auto-complete on your desktop browser. The "cmd+t > news.y" or "cmt+t > r" is a real catalyst for mindless browsing sites like Hacker News and Reddit.

- Uninstall apps like Reddit, Facebook, or Instagram on your phone. If you really want to access them, then use the web experience through the mobile browser. It's enough to get the job done, but not good enough to be addicting (no auto-play videos, notifications, and the UX is slightly degraded).

- Turn off all non-pertinent notifications on your phone, especially things like news, email, and social media. The only daily apps which have I notifications enabled for me are Messages, a sports app, and daily habit reminders.

- If I feel like I'm using a social media site too much on a laptop, then I change the hosts file to re-direct to localhost. Bam, access revoked for a while. I've found that this works better than browser extensions. With extensions, I used to just right-click > disable, then go to my time-wasting website. With the hosts file method, I need to figure out the path to the hosts file (I never remember it), open it in a text editor, type in my changes, then save the file with sudo permissions. I thought about scripting it, but I think the manual process is more effective at preventing me from constantly enabling/disabling access. There's more intention behind the action.

- Pay for a newspaper subscription. It's so refreshing to consume quality journalism vs trendy click-bait articles. My recommendation would be read one national outlet (NY Times, Wall Street Journal) and your local newspaper. Instead of browsing Reddit/HN in the morning, open up your newspaper app.
When I recently had to make a decision about which Cloud provider to use, Google, although looking fine technically, wasn't even an option because of their killing everything attitude. Reading stuff like [1] I am not assured they will never kill their Cloud offerings.

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...
I think the Rust hype is starting to die. Take a look at D Language. It was created by Walter Bright (the first person to single-handedly make a C++ compiler, Zortech C++) and Andrei Alexandrescu (former C++ committee member and author of Modern C++ Design).

Also, for number crunching- since you're a data scientist– Julia and Numba might be better choices, as they crunch numbers efficiently.
I so sincerely appreciate your reply. I want to assure you that your experience is not what I was referring to. I would totally back you up in this respect. I was referring only to those who are greedy enough to strip their parent of their assets and put them in a home. See the "manufactured scenario" comment shortly after mine.

Your situation sounds 100% warranted. Again, please do not take my comments as being directed toward anyone in your situation. They most definitely were not.
Fair points. I'll accept the F2 interface only working on a standard keyboard with a basic monitor port and a restricted selection of USB devices. Needing to use it at all is an exceptional case that only techies need understand.

Sound, fancy graphics, mouse, disk encryption. These can all be delegated to the OS loaded from the hard disk. You don't need any of these in the BIOS.

The reason for wanting a simple BIOS is so it can be protected from being modified by malware. That's the prize. I'm not saying there won't be costs, but I think the benefits outweigh them significantly.

I've had my desktop machine for something like five years and its worked fine without ever needing a BIOS update. It can boot up a live-USB copy of Linux quite happily, but if I ever add a set of future-USB ports that the BIOS doesn't know about, I'll have to be content to using the old USB ports on the motherboard just to get the alt-OS started.
If any of those happened, wouldn't the entire world see those physiological effects?

Being a bit more realistic is the hawthorne effect, which can be easy to test with follow up experiments.

My biggest takeaway isn't to do IF or cut calories, but rather it seems some phenomena was found. If you asked me if diet, fasting, etc... Would cute cancer, I'd have said NO! but this study has changed that answer to "I don't know".

I suggest that is a huge difference and benefit.
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A billion tiny pendulums could detect the universe's missing mass
There are all sorts of conspiracy theories - some based entirely in fiction like you suggest. However, the most powerful ones are based in mostly truth.

"The earth goes through natural warming and cooling cycles."

"This year has been abnormally cold."

"They said X thing was going to happen years ago, but it still hasn't."

It's hard enough to address these legitimate doubts without creating even more ourselves.
It's not that complicated. The protocol is defined here https://tools.ietf.org/html/std92 but if you don't feel like doing the plumbing yourself, just use CUPS.
... so what's the point? That it's possible to find horror stories everywhere?

The vast majority of people admitted to nursing homes have loving decent families.

I have seen other situations where the family tries to take care of someone that really needs to be in a nursing home and ends up neglecting them. I think neglect is far more common-- and more indicative of greed.
I think the article is both too simplistic and too outside HN's regular ideas regarding space, science and progress, which makes it easy to see how it was received as it was.

As you say, there's a much more nuanced way of explaining the parallels between space colonization and mythology. Another common trope you can read in these discussions is the "myth of limitlessness":

In this way, modern technology conveys an ideology of limitlessness by offering itself as a way of overcoming all manner of limits, chiefly those that arise out of our being situated in the world as embodied creatures. But cultural and moral boundaries also yield to modern technology. At every turn, we tend to choose the tools, devices, and techniques that allow us to act beyond or irrespective of the limitations of place and time that have historically conditioned the texture of human existence. At the far end of this tendency we encounter the transhumanist disdain for the human body, otherwise and unaffectionately designated our meat sacks.

– https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-convivial-soc...
I want to caveat this by first saying I’m a fan of Rust in general, but does one not see the irony in the article’s claim to the effect “yes, it’s ready as a Rails replacement”, yet requires you to use an unreleased dev version of a library to even build from a stable release of the language?
The fastest .Net based library scores a 58%, while a framework based on Go scores 52%. The weights are arbitrary, so can't infer a lot from the 6% delta between .Net and Go - except that they compare favorably with each other in terms of performance.
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Chicken and egg. Python wasn't marketable before 2005-ish, either. I hope you didn't bother learning that silly niche language.
Humor on the internet has a weird way of spreading and just destroying any conversation. So often I go to the comments on reddit hoping for further insight or a different point of view, only to find the top three threads are memes and puns.

However, I did enjoy this limited foray into humor, and appreciate that we can seemingly keep it limited to a couple funny comments, and still have intelligent conversation.
Quantum Computing Is Bigger Than Donald Trump
Thanks! Yeah that makes sense; it sounds like it's just the terminology then.
I also subscribe to Taibbi. I have a slightly more positive impression than you.

Yes, it's true that his thing is meta-journalism with dollops of amusingly worded outrage - "the first pebbles from the towering Matterhorn of bullshit that was the Steele dossier" was an enjoyable sentence in a recent article.

But it isn't just opinion. He backs up his statements with references, facts, summaries of what's going on and generally puts what's happening in context, which is exactly what a journalist is meant to do. I can't possibly follow the whirlwind of immediately forgotten "scandals" that typify American political news, nor can I or do I want to spend all my time watching CNN or obsessively following other US news outlets. I'm not even in the US. But the summarisation of what's happening Taibbi does is useful to me because the meta-story of what's happening with the distribution of news is interesting and relevant. For instance, I learned about how the US media were ignoring the Hunter Biden story via Taibbi. I'm not interested in Hunter Biden but I am interested in the descent of the US media landscape into being an arm of the Democrats. That's what Taibbi (and Greenwald) are currently providing, and it's worth paying for.
They'd rather just run the last delivery step and suck up all the profits. Let the sucker restaurant owners assume all the cost of setting up operation and crafting a menu only to run it on no margins.
Rust is great. It's just really hard to outdo Django for the kinds of apps Django was designed for.
Design a great experience for your users on the web and mobile platforms
The Happier You Are, the Less Likely You’re to Experience Memory Decline
BCG vaccination induces enhanced frequencies of memory T and B cells [pdf]
Generally agree, but building product for a wealthy established company can give you an opportunity to reach a wide audience of users with your work.
> The entire purpose of law, is to protect "my stuff" from "that other guy". My life. My belongings. My health.

If someone sees you in public, does the fact that they see you belong to you or them?

This is important. If you see me, does your memory of seeing me belong to me? Can you own memories inside someone else's brain?

Personally, I think not.

To some extent, your appearance in a public place does not constitute "your stuff".

Yes, your health and safety should be protected. Someone seeing you in public is not, in and of itself, a threat to your health or safety.

If you go out in public, you must come to terms with the fact that other people can see you.
Similar, when I have control of the source code then CSS selectors are fine (I can always throw in another ID or Class Name). When I don't have control of the source code then I might have to use XPath if CSS selectors are insufficient.
Sure :-) even then, you have even more fun... imagine if the next item was Sep 1-Dec 1 and the list was known to be sorted! The parser would need to be stateful to be able to disambiguate!!

Even worse (well, maybe similar, but more surprising): imagine if on Feb 28, you parse "Feb 29-Mar 1"... both of those dates could land in an entirely different year than "Feb 28-Mar 1" would, depending on whether the current year is a leap year...

I dare say I have not yet seen a single parser in my life that handles such issues. In fact I don't think I've seen a parser that can parse a date interval, or that can even do "parse this string assuming it is after that date", or anything like that.

And all of these problems are before we even consider time zones, leap seconds, daylight savings, syntactic ambiguities, etc... not just how they affect individual dates, but also ordered dates (/intervals) like above...
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Doesn't it convert everything to strings including numbers? Or can you specify types?
The "peer review" being provided by most media outlets appears to be worse than useless, as Greenwald's experience shows. Typos and spelling errors can be fixed by machines for a very long time already. Editing for space is less necessary when writing for the infinitely long pages of the web - a good writer knows how much detail their audience wants better than an editor does. It's not clear why news has to be filtered through biased editors anymore when technology has eliminated space and distribution constraints.
From outside it looks like you have an media establishment that is keen of pitting people against each other.

I don't think removing information can work. You can however provide more plausible information. If you remove anything you might as well give it up because it will always be seen as paternalism not fitting a democracy.

In 2005 we already had insane conspiracies on the net. Instead of using them to elevate yourself to a mundane level, you better ignore them. People will get bored quickly.

The democrats greatest failure was probably not championing freedom and free speech. You don't give such a precious thing to your political enemies.

It is refreshing to see conservatives arguing for it. You shouldn't believe them, but liberals arguing for speech codes should reorient themselves. Best start would be yesterday.
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My understanding is that Google tends to have internal metrics around all of this stuff, if the data is coming back that usage is declining enough - they usually re-prioritize their efforts. Not necessarily saying I would do the same, but I believe that's how it's supposed to work
We do offer higher than market rates; people just don't want to do the work. CNAs and nurses are very well compensated at my hospital -- however, we are a regional hospital for a fairly rural area, so it's hard to attract talent. The majority of our staff has a 30 minute drive to get to work - if it's any further than that, they'll tend to go to the large city in the opposite direction and get a job there for less money but more amenities. Finding nurses and CNAs that are passionate about geriatric and particularly dementia care is difficult in the best of circumstances.
Would the pygame team be interested in presenting a talk at the Debian gaming mini-conf?

https://mdco2.mini.debconf.org/
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/internet/2020/MiniDebCo...
Global circulation of influenza viruses in 2020
Just as I thought. We all live in America.
It's not 40 day fasting, it's based on the moon calendar and can be between 29 and max 30 days.
Almost makes me wonder how long until they kill GMail.
> Or do you think it is the awkward ones who are sitting on the CoC tribunal?

Would it be fair to say that you believe the majority of CoC reports are due to a misunderstanding of a well-intentioned behavior on the part of an awkward individual? If so, where does this idea come from?

> It is absolutely worth considering such things, which is why we (at least were I live) have laws against such things, and also why I am in favour of those laws.

To pursue something legally requires a formal legal process, evidence, lawyers, etc., and has strict penal consequences. Would you consider there is a need for a more informal process where the consequences is being kicked out of an event?

> I'm absolutely fine with women feeling safe.

But you aren't fine with an organization creating rules to help women feel safe. Why is it an abuse of power, acting as "judge, jury and executioner," to remove someone from an event or organization who causes women to feel uncomfortable?
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People are running and have run the numbers, just not people who are trying to convince other people that space mining will be profitable.
I hope this will lead into part two of "King of Kong" documentary. One of the best documentaries I have seen in a long-long time.
Many people (even on this board, in other threads over the past couple of years) made similar observations. So no, it is not "just me".
I never claimed it would be "over" in a year, and there is no reason to expect that.
The real estate market in Canada needs better regulation too. My wife and were trying to buy a home in Toronto. We bid on a home that had no movement all summer and made an offer. Later that evening the selling agent found a mysterious second bidder, who they were also representing and that buyer kept overbidding us. Our agent wasn't privy to the bids we were making but I am sure that agent was sharing them with their buyer. They tried to get us to bid almost 20% over asking but but we walked away after 1%. I don't see how it is ethical for an agent to represent the buyer and seller in a home selling situation but I suppose if they ban it those agents will just get someone else in their company or some sort of friend to do the same thing.
> peddle conspiracy

I think that's a very uncharitable way of framing his questions. He's not passing any judgement (that I saw) that the documents are true or not, he wants an official position from the Biden campaign relating to them.
Ruby's proposed software transaction memory (STM) is Clojure.
Some people are willing to take a principled stance. I have personally turned down significant offers at a cost to myself, including:

1. Building an HTTP proxy that inject ads into open WiFi networks, e.g. hotel lobby WiFi.
2. Forking a browser project for a gambling company that would hide their competitors' ads in return for providing free data to East African gambling addicts.
3. Building a website for a health quack with completely made up medical claims.
Funny how a lot of old religions have some components of fasting in their teaching.

For myself i go 5 days without food every season of the year, seem to be enough to keep my weight quiet stable.
Without anything socially going on i have a daily 90 min eating window.
And i allow myself some guilty pleasures on Fridays and Saturdays.
Like going out and drinking beers with friends
good thing he didnt think of phps, ruby nor swifts typing system then.

he made a specific example and it holds true. languages like c# and java are just better at it and typescript is kinda in between. not great, but maybe good enough for a lot of people.
Ask HN: Bold Digital Strategy
I work in a resource sector that’s been evolved through a hundred years of M&A, inheriting all kinds of legacy systems, processes, racking up technical debt. It’s 2020 and we haven’t even begun a digital transformation. Our IT operations are constantly asked to cut costs while requiring to support the growth of our business. Everyone treats us like second class citizens, etc. So much of our work is manual that doesn’t get recognize. Last week a task that I thought would take 30 mins took 1.5 hours. Staff is burnt out, etc etc.

Instead of being “proactive” about needing a transformation, is it bad to have a reactive one? Which you just mandate employees to work their 8 hours and don’t respond so the company can feel the pain? I feel like this is the best and fastest way to convince change. Am I just being negative?