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Im no expert, but from what Ive read, some of the imperialistic ideas and hiarchy of races ideas in Japan do have their roots in a historical period where Japan's Eliets were looking to Europe for a model of how to be a part of the world.
Until they are. Mining equipment for BTC is already effectively monopolized by one vendor and they are likely doing significant mining behind the scenes controlling much of the market.
> Can we discuss if overweight people should pay more for sits in a plane? Can we discuss if a trans male who identifies herself to be a woman should be allowed to take part in female sport competition (box, running)? I am afraid we no longer can discuss such "uncomfortable" topics

You can debate those things on reddit without being censored on a lots of subreddits. However, the reason these are such contentious topics is that 99% of the time they are aired it's either people using them to complain about SJW culture, or people trying to stir up shit.

The last 1% is people who legitimately care about these people and want to discuss their wellbeing and rights. But I'm putting that in to be generous, I don't think I'm ever seen these topics discussed in good faith.

You did not bring them up in good faith, for example, you just used obese and trans people to make a point. I have no reason to think you actually care about them or would ever engage in a conversation about their rights within our society.
I see your point, but I think the person you're responding to is trying to say that he is not saying "if a lot of prominent people believe something then it must be because there's a lot of evidence" but rather "there is a lot of evidence, that is why so many people believe it." The difference there is in actually being able to show you the evidence rather than just telling you to trust a priesthood. I don't think that the person you're responding to is using the consensus in place of the evidence, but rather telling you that if you look into it deeply you'll realize why the consensus exists.
Why FSF Endorsing PureOS Matters
I can confirm this - back in 2017 we asked the owner of a guesthouse in Toyama we stayed in about his favorite anime/manga and what he said was Slamdunk, an older manga series about basketball - not even one of the blockbusters such as One Piece.

My theory is that most in Japan people get exposed to manga and anime at their school period but not many have time for it afterwards, resulting in them only knowing older series and possibly quite a bit of nostalgia.

Actually reminds me a bit of the current resurgence of retro gaming here in the West a bit.
I can well believe that. When I was in my early 20s, I fainted when I was given a tetanus booster in hospital after getting a relatively nasty cut which needed stitches. I'm not in the slightest bit scared of needles/etc, hadn't lost much blood or skipped meals and was a fit and healthy young man. The nurse at the time told me it was very common and why they stayed for 5 minutes or so after giving me the injection. I've had a fair few other injections since then and not had it happen again.
Like diapers, politicians become dirty and need to be changed. I don't think drastically longer terms are a solution.

Systems with proportional representation tend to be much less susceptible to this, as a few seats changing won't tip the balance from one extreme to the other.

I have no idea how such a thing could be enacted though, as legislative power is in the hands of the two parties that would be the major losers in a switch away from FPTP.
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Still better than a forced smile and repetition of harmless trivialities.

Bluntness may not be likeable, but you can often learn something useful from it, even if it feels offensive.
Perhaps, but demon slayer is also already the second highest grossing film in Japan ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films...

Doraemon is a "cultural icon" and has been for decades.

Evangelion is debatable but the 25th anniversary has been present all year with a plethora of tie-ins.

At the very least, people not interested in Anime will recognize these as "oh that thing from [the konbini/I saw the voice actress on a game show/billboard/my child likes/the picture on my candy wrapper/etc]".
Sazae-san ?
Substack's success under Covid-19
Honestly I’m kinda unnerved that this clear clickbait has made it to the front page of HN. 6 out 272k people experienced this reaction.

Given the recent accusations levered against foreign powers for amplifying fake news in the US, I can’t help but wonder if this story has similarly sinister origins.
I agree. This whole discussion prefering long functions seems like advocacy for bad code to me.

It is just ... I have seen both types of code and if written by someone else, coffee that at least attempt to segment things into chunks that clearly don't influence each other (functions with local variablea) is massively easier to read.
I agree. Reading the article, as well as the comments, it is clear to me that people are predisposed to despise "government overreach" even if it isn't really happening.
I think I understand your point, but the system is optimised for 4 actors.

Advertiser - Ad Network - Publisher - Consumer

In the end it is multiplication of happiness factor for each actor optimised.

It is basically explore/exploit algorithm + trying to predict your behavior with similar segment of people like you.

That's why you are mostly stuck in exploit phase, cause explore part is costly to other actors (even negative ROI)
> why Microsoft with Bing search and ads platform does not vigorously compete with Google worldwide, but keeping a stable position in the US.

They may not necessarily hold a great position in China, but they're cleaning up against Google there. ;D
The question GP answered was whether this was normal procedure for vaccine trials, not what happened during this particular one.
I grew up in a car-centric country with fairly poor public transport, and have since moved to London. Here it’s genuinely faster to take public transport to most places than it is to drive.

I occasionally wish I had a car (say for a weekend getaway) but it’s rare enough that I’m happy to live with rentals for those occasions.
The fixed fare structure I linked runs on a meter - there is no interpretation possible. And the structure rewards drivers for taking a higher number of shorter journeys to avoid the situation you are describing.

Paying a third party cash before a journey is arranged is not the typical use case for a black cab. In a traditional hotel situation, the concierge would either wander out into the street to hail a taxi for you that you pay for yourself (black cab), or act as a booking agent for a taxi (mini cab). It sounds like your family was being ripped off in the second scenario, and possibly tricked into thinking they were taking a black cab.
> Open source. Trello like kanban board. Tasks, to-dos, chat, etc.

Minor, but don't include "etc"
Once self driving cars are a thing it might make sense to have towers like this. You can work while travelling to a new view each day.
The fifth season of The Wire goes this through. The story is more important than the facts...
I wonder if you could do that kind of thing on a large scale. Require a small contribution, say $1 a year, and use the proceeds to hire a moderation team that was deliberately coached to allow controversial arguments but prevent malicious echo chambers from poisoning the entire ecosystem.

It would necessarily be a less profitable site than the competition, but that might not be a problem as long as it wasn't venture-funded.
Sounds like an interesting approach - can you point me towards any open-source code written in this style?
So I'm sure those original people went on to found some awesome new community, and us normies are stuck with some lame site that we're still happy with.

A win-win for everyone involved.
I used old.* but never i.*
Thanks for the tip, the jquery mobile look brings back some memories!
A long time? I feel like they went from "eventually" to "around the corner" pretty recently. Even though there weren't any particular leaps in self-driving technology happening then.
Netflix's biggest problem is not the recommendation engine, but their lack of content. If they allowed you to filter out the junk you don't want to see and what you've already seen, there would be hardly anything left.
They've been losing rights to stream left and right.
That's why there's such a rush to produce their own content in other countries. Some of that is halfway decent, but there's a lot of formulaic, repetitive stuff.

And while saying that, I appreciate their high level technical staff. These decisions are made by bean counters.
Constant dehumanization of people does not eventually lead to physical violence?

someone somewhere must believe that they should do something about these bad people.

your argument at best is in bad faith
I think I really disagree with you there. This is the same concept but applied client-side instead of server-side.

But “client-side peppering” won’t get you to the front page of HN..
> Will this bamboo bike go in a flight case without any disassembly?

Yeah if you want that. BikeBoxAlan have a case you put a bike into and only need to remove the wheels[1].

If you'd discount that because of such minor disassembly you'd have to discount the minor disassembly of putting a flute or Sax in it's box too.

As I said though, you don't have to treat the bike like that but you could easily if you wanted to.

1. https://www.bikeboxalan.com/product/triathlon-easyfit/?v=79c...
Possibly off topic but speaking of Evangelion tie-ins, here's a video about whether or not one one could live entirely off of Evangelion branded merchandise[0].

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Qr9rztRw4
Also amusing that the HN title omitted the word "rare" from the title of the original article (and is the only change). Can't help but feel there was a specific intent behind that decision.
My only gripe with Apollo is the mod-mail functionality. Other than that, it is the best way to use Reddit. I can’t remember the last time I saw an ad or sponsored post!
Is there a timeline?

Last time I checked it said it would take almost a year to vaccinate the high risk group, let alone the rest of the population, which would mean I might be able to get my shot in 2022 if I'm lucky.
A function is an abstraction as well. In case of a function, a 'client' of the function is the call.
You are missing the point, the SEC is not after Ripple because of centralization. They are going to sue Ripple because of the ICO.

So in this case, Ethereum will probably also be categorized as securities because it sold pre-mined coins on their launch.
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My last 2 clients had both on-call compensation and call-out compensation.

The former is usually a fixed amount for a shift, i.e. 5PM-9AM during the week, weekend could either be all of it or 12h shifts alternating between 2 engineers, bank holidays might also have a separate rate.

The latter is paid on top in the case of a call-out. That can either be per incident or per hour.

In case anyone is thinking this gives engineers the wrong incentive, my experience has been the opposite. Nobody minds being on-call, and not only no one is intentionally sabotaging the systems in order to get called out.

The call-out compensation is widely seen as an extra to compensate for a night of bad/interrupted sleep as opposed to being something you look forward to cashing in, and it serves as an incentive to convince managers that systems are better off being resilient on their own rather than relying on manual intervention.
No wonder, he is a ladies man & has a cool stand that looks like a knight in shining armor!
I'm confused. Google had never hired from a HBCU and she increased it by 300%. Wouldn't that imply that it's still at 0?
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Ask HN: How old were you when 9/11 happened? How do you explain it?
I imagine many of you were quite young and for those who were adults at the time, you were likely intelligent and rational people. How do you make sense of 9/11?
Robber barons would be proud. What's old is new again.
I wonder how do people even manage to get ads published on Facebook. No matter what I do, my ads and accounts are getting banned within hours/days. My coworkers have the same experience. Actually, 80% of the time is devoted to getting around Facebook bans: buying farmed accounts, setting up proxies, etc. For a legitimate business, mind you.
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Taiwan announces first local coronavirus case in 254 days
Would be curious to know if he has changed his view since then.

Also I think that the source code of his projects in Python pretty much validates the point of writing simple code. He has made great user-facing APIs (flask) but as soon you dive into the code base itself it's imo a rather dense and hairy mess of abstractions.
How to Build Chrome Extensions and Website Widgets in Bubble
I’m the founder of Heyhi.io, (and https://replayhero.io, https://pain.land) which I fully built in Bubble!

I’m thinking to write an e-book/guide called "Complete Guide on How to Build Chrome Extensions and Website Widgets in Bubble"

Basically I would explain (step-by-step) how I implemented Heyhi overcoming all the tech limitations that Bubble has when it comes to:

- Loading a Bubble app in an iFrame embedded in a website with a script added in the HTML Header of the website;

- Handling communication between an iFrame and a Bubble App;

- Performing cross-origin REST Api calls from the Bubble app loaded within the iFrame;

- Sending Javascript callbacks data to the Bubble app;

- Managing cookies (cross-origin);

- EXTRA access to a project with Reusable Components like: Payment module (with Stripe), Basic Admin Page, Basic responsive Landing Page;
Are you interested in this guide?

IF YES: what would you love to see in the book?
IF NO: what's the first tech challenge do you face while using Bubble?
Ubuntu Server Home permissions too open
So this shit is gonna make it to the top of all news sites without and statistical qualification. What a surprise.
Can failures in human morality be solved by technology?
I was in 4th grade and I was the 3rd student in my classroom to get pulled out of class/school by my parents. The impression was that the US was now at war, and then I watched the TV and saw the second tower getting struck. I could hear jets getting scrambled over DC since I lived (and now live again) in the DC area. It was wild.

EDIT: Later, I worked at Goldman Sachs and when I did a project in Asset Management, my working station was on the 33th floor overlooking where the Freedom Tower now stands, and I could see the outlines of the Twin Towers. Super eerie.
Odd that such a seemingly progressive company is apparently so racist.
THAT was your takeaway? That when she said she took it from 0 HCBU students to 300 students she also incorrectly said 300%?
Studying. Improving human knowledge. Honest inquiry dispensed from the peacocking and fighting over breadcrumbs of academia.
If you lay it on any thicker, it'll be all frosting and no cake.
Mostly playground for the rich, duh.
Counterpoint - code like that is OK if the project is small and tidy, but over a certain size, changes become horrible refactoring efforts and adding multiple developers to the mix compounds the problem. The 'enterprisey' rework that you describe sounds badly architected, rather than an example of why architecture is bad. Good architecture is hard to do but I don't agree that means we're better off not bothering.
As far as I can tell Char refueks only at Eneos, Gundams use only a one well known blue antiperspirant and all Gundam pilots only eat ramen in that one place in Akiba.

But I'm sure I missed many more adds, tie ins and colabs. :)
Are there any functioning Cray-1s left?
> That someone screws up the dosing when trying to use it as a targeted weapon is easily plausible.

Twice? What kind of first class spy agency would miss a target, let alone 2 (Skripal and Navalny)?

Murdering someone is not a hard feat especially when you are a government agency with all the resources necessary to do so.

In the case of Navalny, it was even easier as they were "playing" at home.

What's the point of re-using a super duper chemical nerve agent that already demonstrated that it was not a sure deal?

Now it's possible the Russians lost all the KGB experience (remember the Bulgarian umbrella?) and are subpar spies. Why do we need to be afraid of them then?

I believe that when a spy story ends up in the press, it's because we are the targets for propaganda. Else it stays in the shadows.

My theory (which is just that, a theory) is that the US is trying hard to block the Russian gas pipeline to Europe, and this kind of stories allow them to impose sanctions.
This should come with a disclaimer that one shouldn't try this when alone. I wish I hadn't tried this, not sure what to do with all this pent up testosterone now.
Where to Start with Design Tokens
Last year high school. I saw it on the TV in the living room at home, in my school uniform. Whole family was there. I had an exam that morning. I had no conception of what this was about, but I just felt so sad, and scared, and I felt that the world had shifted. I could see the skyline of my own city from outside the exam room. I wondered if we would get hit too.
Interesting. Do you have any links to some of the new IOU market maker projects? Cheers
You typically need to sit in an area where you are under constant monitoring and can receive immediate medical intervention if symptoms of anaphylactic shock start to surface. My GP doesn’t have such a place in their office, so you sit in the room with a nurse in the hallway monitoring 2-3 rooms.

Just try coughing lightly in this scenario and watch every nurse within earshot reflexively spin their head in your direction.
I thought that perhaps she was the first one.
Android has enabled millions of people to access the Internet who wouldn't have been able to otherwise, so I'd say the tradeoff was worth making. The tradeoff just happens to be not so great from a developer perspective.
Yeah. One thing I've noticed is that people are really bad at working towards high-level, nebulous goals like "code quality, right abstractions, decoupling, cohesion". Keeping these goals in mind requires constant thought, analysis and decision making as each case is different and there's no universal solution.

So people jump at simple, single-faceted goals like "normalise the database", "spin out microservices", "don't use HTML tables", "rewrite using Rust" etc. These involve no further thought, no continuous evaluation of nebulous targets like quality, no keeping up with moving goals.

It explains quite a lot of problems with politics too. Choose from red or blue. No further thinking required. If even that's too difficult, just pick the one your parents/friends picked. Easy!
Convert My Units – Natural Language Unit Converter
I agree with the former, but disagree with the latter. Keep learning, become proficient (not fluent) with many things, but don't specialize.
Five Trends for the 2020s
About the last time I saw it, too -- I had no idea that it even existed anymore and especially didn't know that they could write lengthy articles.
> Can we discuss if a trans male who identifies herself to be a woman should be allowed to take part in female sport competition (box, running)?

Trans woman; trans men would be competing in the male competitions, and seem to be invisible in the whole trans debate anyway. The problem with this is that it's almost entirely based on prejudice and people saying things that turn out not to be true, along with vague biological determinism. Hence the Caster Semenya debacle (not trans, intersex AFAB, but high natural testosterone).
I would suggest taking your own advice here and reading the comment that you are replying to.

I am baffled that anybody could observe what has happened and come to the conclusion that the prime minister has “clearly been prepared to upend his own ideological leanings”, because it has to me been clearly demonstrated that the prime minister and government will push forward with policies in line with their “ideological leanings”, even though they are likely harmful, until the very last moment when they are forced by circumstance to change direction.
I had a similar takeaway.

The overall poor wording - odd number(s), bad words and grandeur - support the impression that it's a rage post, rather than a (at least attempted) faithful, balanced, report of the fact.
in case it helps anyone I went thru and timestamped the talk video and extracted some bits i figured worth emphasizing: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1341124408060985345?s=20
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This is akin to how Starcraft used to be portrayed as the national sport of South Korea. As to how popular it actually is, I've heard a good analogy: It's similar to pro wrestling in the US, in that most people are aware that it exists, but only a niche group actually follows it.
I make way more than average - $500k/year. It used to bother me but it bothers me less nowadays. My late teens through my mid thirties were spent being relatively very generous to worthy causes and people I would meet who were down on their luck. I gave a close family member doing charity work in Africa $80,000 so they could stay there and give their kids a good education.

Looking back - I don't think any of it made much difference - though I have no regrets.

Now that I'm in my early 40s I've sort of lost the energy to care so much. I empathize with people struggling but sort of throw my hands up in the air.

I've shifted my focus toward my family and I feel pretty good about that.

It feels like I'm having A LOT more impact by investing time and money into my family than I was able to by investing in others and their families.
If her take is accurate -- and Google is free to tell their side, too -- why shouldn't she feel rage?
How did they take the election loss?
I always found this to be one of C's (and it's descendants) more ridiculous aspects.

You should not need an entire algorithm just to mentally parse a declaration. The rules should be sufficiently straight forward so that the advanced pattern matching in our brains should suffice.

It is excusable since C is old, but ridiculous nonetheless.
Could be correct, technically she says before her role existed Google had hired zero from HBCU and that she hired 300 increasing the number by 300%.

In other words timeline is: Google hires nobody from HBCU, she joins, Google hires 100 apart from and she hires 300. Now, both statements are true. Google hired none before her and she tripled Google's HBCU hiring.

Odd that she both hired 300 and increased by 300% so maybe she misstated something, but it's not logically impossible.
something doesn't add up! :D
For those who want a walkthru of the demo, I did a 2hr livestream with Dan and Lauren's help going thru all the assignments in the README. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La4agIEgoNg

the video is timestamped so you can skip around to the part you want to focus on
We were actually very surprised many times how certain stuff we encountered in Japan was 100% as seen in anime - for example matsuri, maid cafes, onsen towns, shrines, small countryside seaside towns, arcades or Hanabi.
> The reason Google never hired an HBCU student straight out of undergrad into one of their key engineering roles is because they didn’t believe talent existed at these institutions- until I showed up.

I pity white working class American males: no classic class privilege and no modern victim privilege.
Show HN: Jetson – Self-Driving Toy Car (Part: 2)
> It takes <2 minutes of research

That may be true today-- years into it, due to a lot of people exposing themselves to enormous amounts of harassment just to get the message out.

It certainly hasn't always been the case.
Add the 500,000 in the UK that have had the pfizer vaccine in the last 3 weeks.

8/750,000 = 0.00106%