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>robust, fast, complete

Yeah, all of this is no longer true for java. I've worked on many jvm projects not long ago, I've never had one that would work just out of the box. You might be able to download the repo and open it, but be prepared to get reamed for a week trying to get intellij, maven/gradle, and all the other dependencies to talk to one another.

The whole point of java was to make large, dependable, and easily refactorable projects that were also highly portable. Yet at least half of the time when working with these project it's wrestling with esoteric configurations. Java cares so little about the developer experience that I don't think they even take it into consideration, unlike Go or Rust. Should I even mention the God-awful debugging? Ugh.

As for intellij, the only real use it gave me was making me hate my mouse. It's practically a running joke at this point that the amount of mouse clicks in intellij is directly proportional to your devness, haha. It's fitting because java makes even the worst, laziest developers look employable because it takes 800 lines to make a REST api, so it looks like they're doing a ton of work when in reality they're just cutting and pasting.

With the rise of containerization and languages like Go and Rust, pretty much any benefit or edge that java had is now basically gone. Java is a maintenance only language at this point and any company doing green-field dev work in java is effectively a boomer company. As long as I live I won't touch another JDBC template or Maven xml. Fuck that whole ecosystem.
Even then, I’ve caught Seamless showing restaurants as being closed or not having delivery when they’re open and they do, just not through Seamless.

I wasn’t sure if this was sloppy or malicious, but it costs restaurants customers in a pandemic.
Yes, isnt it normally called a launcher?
Why not? When you buy ebooks you can download the PDF and even print it for yourself as backup.
"No one expects US soybean farmers to bundle exports with bibles, but somehow expect Google or Facebook to operate in China without complying to censorship laws that domestic companies must adhere to. And the have the audacity to suggest these western platforms are "banned" in China when they chose not to operate there legally. That's peak exceptionalism mindset. It's time to separate trade with imperialism and stop expecting companies to execute foreign policy. US companies are already foreign policy instruments subject to National Security Letters, that's enough. "

The argument is interesting. You may be right about non-western markets. I am not an expert so I won't address it.

"Global market =/= global values and global trade is not trade between peoples but governments"

And not both? It is possible that I am misunderstanding the statements. Could you elaborate?

"CCP wants to import phones, NBA games, blockbuster films not western values and certainly not western propaganda."

We all want things. But NBA, films, and values ARE all part of western propaganda. CCP may think it is cutting all the dangerous thoughts from the movie, but all it does is creating a streisand effects resulting in bans on number 8 and winnie the pooh. On the flip side, why does US have to comply with Chinese propaganda efforts?

"No one expects US soybean farmers to bundle exports with bibles, but somehow expect Google or Facebook to operate in China without complying to censorship laws that domestic companies must adhere to."

I genuinely do not understand the comparison. Could you provide a different example?

"And the have the audacity to suggest these western platforms are "banned" in China when they chose not to operate there legally."

Well, both statements are true are they not? They are banned, because they do not adhere to local laws. Stuff in Turkey is banned too and they are called out on it. It is not audacity to say water is wet.

"That's peak exceptionalism mindset. It's time to separate trade with imperialism and stop expecting companies to execute foreign policy. US companies are already foreign policy instruments subject to National Security Letters, that's enough. "

I am stealing "peak exceptionalism' phrase. I agree with the sentiment, but it is not realistic based just one the comments you made at the very beginning ( "Multinational companies conforming to local laws and customs is status quo.").
Maybe an interesting article to some but I found the number of typos distracting and lean towards agreement with the commenter asking if it is blogspam
Thanks for this. Given the level of ungrounded Bitcoin hype that's always going on, I'm not surprised to hear it. Once again, Bitcoin turns out to be mainly useful for light financial crime.
It's a good thing, and one of the very few things I will happily stand up and commend the Trump administration for. Unfortunately, the impact on private individuals is likely to be very low, because those negotiated rates are extracted from hospitals by insurance companies by sheer weight of the number of policyholders they have. You and I won't be paying those rates, nor will we be able to negotiate anywhere near them. Our starting point as individuals is something called the "chargemaster rate," which is, theoretically, what the hospital might charge Joe Schmoe who's uninsured.

In practice, even chargemaster rates aren't the real rates. Despite not being a huge insurance company, it is possible to negotiate with hospitals if you're either quite rich or quite poor.

On the rich side, oftentimes just saying you're going to pay cash up front will get you a substantial discount. On the other end, hospitals frequently have entire departments theoretically devoted to helping poor and indigent patients afford medical care. What those departments actually do is sign people up for government benefits, or, sometimes, just writing off entire bills.

Anyway, yes, it's a good thing. No, it probably won't make a difference to you.
I was scared away from CS many times before I was forced to do it and it turned out I was good at it.
> 50% of all US currency is printed between now and the end of 2021

I don't see why the Treasury and Mint would start making more paper money and coins.

It really bugs me when people incorrectly talk about the money supply as 'currency'. Currency is printed by the US Mint/Treasury. Money appears out of thin air when banks make loans.
Yes but if you don’t also punish the companies who did the bad thing then you end up just giving them a moat.

I’m of two minds about our legal system in this regard. It’s nice that you don’t really ever have to be worried about getting punished for things you did in the past suddenly being declared illegal but in doing so it rewards entities who have no conscience. And large groups of people acting together are quite good at silencing individual consciences.
I think they mean that other partnered restaurants get 30%. I could be misreading it though.
Bagger 293 probably is the most expensive machine. It costs $100M to build one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_293
>Today’s TSMC’s monopoly is probably the result of a 40 years relationships with partners, with tight relationship and trust between each others.

From the following link:

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/TSMC-and-Google-...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is working with Google and other U.S. tech giants to develop a new way of making semiconductors more powerful.

It seems they're getting some help (how much?) from companies like Google, AMD, NVIDIA, Apple, etc when it comes to chip packaging.
I'd love if it also showed the output collaboratively
Actually according to the headline the White House did it. Trump only does bad things so something else must be responsible. In this case the house he lives in did it.
Newton-Raphson Method
I wonder what the secondary consequences will be. The gig worker law had some nasty secondary consequences for musicians and such. These regulations really seem to hurt the little guys.

That said, the law is short and doesn't even go to deeply into what an "agreement" is. So maybe it's ok?
there is a long history of such government initiatives laying the starting seed for high tech industry development

However, not in the EU. The EU has been engaging in massive subsidisation for decades and has little to show for it. In some places it seems to have led to a hollowed out society in which companies that are supposedly startups spend all their time chasing grant money instead of building real products.

VC investment is hard work. The EU isn't a well run VC firm even though it deploys more capital than such firms do, and it shows: they don't really care what the money gets spent on as long as there's a paper trail they can use to do ass-covering if it turns out the money was lost to fraud. So it creates this USSR-like culture of zombie firms that can't really survive independent of state funding.
Thanks. I'm sure you're doing clear work, and being precisely truthful about clear topics

My problem is news like: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-55484436

BBC saying 'restore the presidents rule' and 'unity cabinet', but this is the same president whose people said was a dictator and overthrew in the Arab spring

Not following the situation closely, but those five Ws by the BBC look so very strongly in the pocket of arms money and having very little to do with democracy

To the point I would say they are covered in blood, and calling it 'bringing peace.' I wish this was a lone example
Argo Tunnel engineering uses Argo Tunnel
IMO the healthcare market should be restructured into 3 sub markets where a payment scheme that make the most sense for the type of care can be applied:

- Routine/Preventative Care [Self or Employer paid in cash]

- Emergency & Acute Care [Self or Employer paid insurance]

- Chronic/Disabled/Elder Care [Socialized Medicine]

However, that is far too logical and efficient for our current system of crony capitalism.
Show HN: Simulating a Solar Analemma on the Web
TL;DR - if you look up at the sun in an earth engine like CesiumJS and increment time by 1 day each frame you'll see a figure 8 shape being traced.

The shape is the same on any point on Earth, but will be rotated/obscured under the horizon depending on where you are.
Thanks for breaking that down.
> However the bigger problem with Sign in to Apple is that they don’t follow the standard implementation of oauth/oidc as pretty much everyone else does...

The OpenID Foundation seems to disagree:

> Apple Successfully Implements OpenID Connect with Sign In with Apple

— https://openid.net/2019/09/30/apple-successfully-implements-...

> Thank You Too Apple

— https://openid.net/2019/10/22/thank-you-too-apple/
Opt-in doesn't mean the delivery business has to just sit around hoping that restaurants will reach out to opt-in. A delivery business can contact the restaurants to ask them to opt-in.
Yeah, that's true, but the swiss watch industry still sold 20 million + watches last year. So I still can't see how this applies.

It would also probably be fair to say that the swiss watch industry was decimated as carrying a phone became ubiquitous.

I think the comparison is relatively apt though. People have one left wrist, and even though the apple watch and a classic watch are different categories. You don't often see people wearing both. So there is competition there for a limited number of wrist slots.

And apple is selling more units than team swiss watch.

Now, if you wanted to have a conversation about total wrist market share, I'd still guess the swiss watch industry is winning. You don't have to buy a new mechanical watch every other year so units moved isn't as apt a comparison.
Yes, this only matters if you don’t want to leak the time component, eg to thwart people from estimating how many total active users you have.
> Actually according to the headline the White House did it. Trump only does bad things so something else must be responsible. In this case the house he lives in did it.

FFS it's always been common practice to refer to the current administration as the White House.
On the other hand, the US gets The Great Gatsby today
This is exactly my point. To you it seems so easy, you have no idea why others don’t do it. Yet the fact that others aren’t doing it enough implies that it isn’t easy for everyone else, which is why the repeated advice given to non-techies isn’t working.
forgive me if this is a dumb question, but at some point of proliferation, won't wind turbines have an impact on wind flow?
the SURE are bonds, not grants, idk why are you putting these on the table, from the tax payer pov bonds are just temporary transfers, it's the grants that will 'disappear'
> it is possible to negotiate with hospitals if you're either quite rich or quite poor.

It is possible to negotiate, no matter who you are. I can literally be described as both quite rich and quite poor using your criteria. Simply saying you don’t have insurance at one major hospital near us immediately reduces the bill by 49% (from the charge master rate, presumably).
This is a genuine question (and a very tangential one that will hopefully not generate discontent): Has Microsoft ever explored the idea of open sourcing Windows? I don't know much about the propritary side of software but it seems like Microsoft has been pivoting toward SaaS, Azure, etc and with the inclusion of WSL it seems like Microsoft is less concerned about competition from other OS's in the traditional sense, or am I grossly underestimating how much licensing Windows earns Microsoft. Not advocating, I am just curious.
“Partner” implies agreed upon consent. The assumption from the grub hub text is that all restaurants on their platform are “partners” and have therefore consented.

The two possible omissions are:
1) “partners” does not actually mean consent.
2) They have other restaurants on their platform who are not “partners”, but they have the largest “partner” network even without those unconsenting restaurants.

Both are deceitful of the common reading of the language which implies both consent and that their platform serves only the group mentioned.

It’s leveraging omission and ambiguity to communicate a false hood. 90% of people read it they way grub hub is not using the phrasing.
Probably not as powerful as TabFS, but there's also https://github.com/balta2ar/brotab:

> bt (brotab = Browser Tabs) is a command-line tool that helps you manage browser tabs. It can help you list, close, reorder, open and activate your tabs.

It supports both Chrome and Firefox. I use it to get titles of tabs that make some sound in Firefox.
Hijack C library functions in D
Intel had the manufacturing edge for a long time. Things change. Just because one company is up now doesn't mean it will be up forever.

I think one thing TSMC does better than intel is they have a more long term view. They aren't as concerned about hitting next quarters earnings. Their single biggest shareholder is the government of Taiwan. One of their board members a is Taiwanese minister, So I think the government wants to make sure TSMC is around for the long term. They also provide a lot of jobs in Taiwan. If have ever been to Hsinchu you could see how many jobs the semi industry provides. Everything from engineers to more blue color workers.
Also worthy of mention in this context: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/libunifex

"The 'libunifex' project is a prototype implementation of the C++ sender/receiver async programming model that is currently being considered for standardisation."
> some consumers will still tend to blame Sally's Piping Hot Burgers when their burger arrives soggy and cold

A friend who manages an excellent restaurant says that this is indeed a problem. One of their signature dishes is fried chicken, and it is glorious. They optimize everything about the meal with the understanding that it's 15-30 seconds from the kitchen to the table. But those are the wrong choices for 15-30 minutes of travel time. You'd be better off just getting Popeye's. But who gets the negative review on Yelp? Not the delivery company.
Well not always, some of it is written by very sophisticated people. Like Q is probably a disinformation campaign. Mixes truth with fact, with the sole purpose to put people off the right track.
People aren’t psychologically equipped to handle this kind of dishonesty. We evolved to deal with small groups. People would either be forced into honesty by socialization or reputational fears, or they’d be exiled or executed.

Now, you just go on Twitter and virtue signal about some nonsense idpol stuff while robbing everyone blind, and the people will love you.
this is a very neat tools thanks
Why newspaper hacks are switching to Substack
Sure they do, of course ebay hosts used items but they also promote direct manufacturer-to-customer sales for many products. Stubhub actually does sell plenty of seats that were never otherwise available to the public, further, with their stadium maps and use of team names, etc, plenty of people might assume they are buying tickets via an official or authorized channel. StockX you likely have a point -- but it still doesn't mean that Nike approves of it and wouldn't try to shut it down if given some statutory assistance meant to target restaurants but written a bit too broadly.
No, you don't have a moral obligation for it to run in any future tech stack. But it should be able to run in the same tech stack it was running before, or provide some way to interoperate. The game shouldn't be designed in a way that makes it possible for someone else to unilaterally shut down the game with no recourse.

To illustrate, if FarmVille were an offline game that costed $1000, I could still set up a Windows XP computer, install Flash, and play it. It's not trivial, but it's very doable and legal.

But instead, actual FarmVille is designed so that it needs an online infrastructure (so far so good, it's a core part of the game after all), but by design this infrastructure can only be provided by Zynga. You can't replicate it even if you want to.
There was this infamous communicate from the WHO: https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN1ZX1H3
Don't know what John Mayer's political views are.
In your example, what happens if changes need to be made to the protocol? It is less frequent than business/application changes, but definitely can happen.
We Came All This Way to Let Vaccines Go Bad in the Freezer?
You can’t do it server-side because you don’t know the client-side time. The closest you could do would be to choose Swiss time for the sake of it (or UTC if you prefer).

Remember also that the clock will be out of sync if you set it server-side, because of latency between the server and client. This inaccuracy would doubtless besmirch the name of Swiss timepieces. Could be fun hooking into TCP and TLS negotiation to estimate latency in order to compensate in the animation-delay and make it probabilistically more accurate. Now that would be a fun article to read. I’m almost tempted to devise a way to do this myself. I suspect I couldn’t get the necessary information through my standard nginx reverse proxying arrangement and would need to serve the CSS from a different port so that I could handle the negotiation in a process of my own and observe the timings.
Git Email Flow versus GitHub Flow
Now that I think about it, I think this law could also hurt competition even amongst established players, allowing them to squeeze restaurants even harder.

Imagine platforms A, B, and C. Platform A approaches Daisy's Cafe offering an amazing deal on a delivery partnership, as long as the Cafe agrees not to use any other delivery companies. Daisy asks around and hears great things about Platform A, so she says yes – what a win!

Months later, the quality of Platform A starts going way down – food is delivered to the wrong addresses, delivered cold, etc. All of the restaurants in Daisy's area also deliver with Platform A, so the local customers don't use other platforms – she's stuck. If she switches, she'll lose almost all her delivery traffic overnight.

Now imagine if Platform C did delivery for her without an agreement signed. Daisy isn't breaking the agreement with Platform A when customers order through Platform C! She'll still lose business when she stops working with Platform A, but not as much, so it's an easier choice to make.

In this scenario, predatory platforms are more likely to squeeze restaurants if agreements must be signed, because exclusivity can be enforced.

Of course, the simple patch here is to disallow exclusive delivery platform contracts, but I don't see that in this bill.
Richard Feynman and the Feynman Technique
A Ridiculous Swagger
Research of most important technological inventions of the past century was funded by beaurocrats

Important defined how?

The car wasn't. The mobile phone wasn't. Computers in their post-WW2 form basically weren't, for the last half decade if not more it's all been private sector. Yes, DARPA did some very early work on packet switching networks and their work became widely adopted mostly because it was free: nice. But the moment these inventions started to matter, all R&D was taken over by the private sector.

Governments spray so much money at things that I'm sure for almost any broad category of thing, you can find something they funded. But that's no evidence that stuff would never have been researched anyway, given the enormous and long term R&D efforts routinely mounted by non governmental entities. Look at AI: government funded institutions are constantly lagging behind.

It sucks a bit that it's this way but if you are profit driven, you can't gamble 140 billion of your own money in hopes of developing new tech.

Alphabet alone spends something like $21 billion on R&D per year. It doesn't take many years of that to reach $140 billion, and Alphabet is not the only company doing basic research.

Having spent many years reading research papers coming out of both academia and industry, my conclusion has been that the best papers are always those with corporate funding - some academic teams receive partly corporate funding and these tend to be in the middle, pure corporate labs tend to do the most exciting work. The bureaucrat-distributed money often gets allocated for decades to intellectual dead ends nobody cares about, purely through inertia and lack of institutional incentives to maximise ROI.
For me, the dreams I remember seem indeed more like experiences. I'm often aware that I dream, and can sometimes steer it. While it feels like a movie most of the time, it's not really visual in the same sense.

Like just yesterday I became aware that I was dreaming. In the dream I had somehow ended up in jail. The majority of the dream was me trying to escape in various ways, a bit like a reverse Ocean 11 thing.

As I was dreaming I could picture the places around me, I particularly recall the gate in the main corridor.

However even though my dreams are usually very visual in some sense, it's much closer to how I picture things in my mind when reading novels, rather than explicit images like when watching a movie.

I've always had a hard time with visualizations when reading novels. Like I'll read the page or two the author uses to describe some location, but most of the time the details don't really "sink in". Instead my mind seems to quickly grab hold of the high-level things, like it's an old apartment building, and the details are just generated based on that. Whatever detailed description the author makes usually doesn't affect the mental image I've already built.

I guess it's not that weird that the dream visuals feels more like that out of a book, both cases being generated by the imagination.
Oh. Why not offer non DRM formats to begin with because I am paying equal to or more than the paperback price of a book and not some bullshit license and shit. OP is saying he/she refuses to accept the whole renting/licensing shenanigans in ebooks. If Apple can sell you a non DRM mp3 for $.99 a pop, why the fuck does it need DRM for an eBook. ?

Your only option is to either buy a paperback or pirate and downloading on kindle and then finding a PDF and then printing it should not happen to a paying customer.