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Hacker news is one of the places where I often value the comments more than the linked articles themselves. But wow. This thread is full of pseudo-science type reasoning.
Let’s be careful. We have science and the scientific methods to investigate things like this. It’s worked very well for us for a long time, let’s try to have som faith in it.
How is this HN related?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It sounds like a VISA problem for the tier II or smaller companies.

If you focus on the bigger tier I companies, you are getting interviews so your resume works. You are failing the interview/coding test. Do you have insight into which? Are you getting second interviews? Does the process stop after the coding test?
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There is a major factor that kicks in when a browser gets the most market share, particularly >50% of the total, as Win IE did in the 90s and Chrome did a few years ago.
Because web site developers test their site in the "top" browser, and then maybe other browsers too, becoming the top browser gives you a huge boost in compatibility through no virtue of your own. Every website works in that browser now because website developers make sure they work.

This creates a shift among users, who notice that every site works in the top browser, but only 90% work in browser x, and they start shifting to the top browser and often won't even report problems they have with other browsers.
The effect is obviously self-reinforcing, and the top browser continues to gain share.

The counter-measure to this is standards. With rigorous web standards followed by websites and browsers, if the top browser works, so do all the rest.

There isn't much to enforce this though, and there are temptations on all sides not to do the right thing.
so what? Countless other people did the same thing, it's a public market.
That doesn't solve the evergreen packages problem, and I'm tired of people trotting out this flag when people (rightfully in my opinion) complain about brew upgrading literally everything it can get its hands on.
I don't think the paper is paywalled.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1205037
I use LTO to archive my home NAS periodically (see my comment above). I admit the decision to purchase the (rather expensive) drive was influenced by curiosity, not cost or convenience. But now I can keep hard copies of my entire digital life off-site at no additional cost for decades at a time.
Nice, thanks for explaining
My project, hupper [1], isn't hot reloading but it's worth mentioning in this thread alongside other code reloaders. It is a general purpose tool to monitor python code and reload the process when code changes. You can use it with any script that you're working on via `hupper -m foo` and your `foo.py` is then reloaded/re-executed everytime you change it. It's used under the hood in other tools to implement things like `pserve --reload` in Pyramid and is used in Warehouse (the codebase for PyPI) to ease development workflows.

It's an improvement on some previous attempts at the solution that would crash when reloading invalid code. Hupper does not have this problem due to its multi process design.

[1] https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/hupper/en/latest/
The commenter above asked: "But how does one gather a reputation such that whatever I say will be read mindfully and not just dismissed right out when I start to make reasoning leaps all around? the most direct way is to simply repeat what other people with a reputation have said; to preach to the choir."

Yoda challenged Luke by telling him he was too old to begin the training, and that a Jedi "craves not" things like adventure and excitement. People have varying degrees of awareness about how much work it is and how long it takes to gain meaningful knowledge and experience. They are impatient, they want shortcuts, they think "likes" are important, they give up. Luke says: "you want the impossible", but of course it's not impossible, just profoundly abstruse.
Were also using Courier at laserfocus (https://laserfocus.io) for e-mail and it has been fantastic so far.
The thing people get excited about are guarantees you get when compiling your (hopefully well written) Rust code.

A huge chunk of software we have today is built upon other software that is built upon other software that ... but that whole foundation is rather shaky and probably incorrect. Basically, if you want to express it that way: Everything is broken and we have played the wrapping game for far too long as a professional group. There will probably forever remain bugs in that gigantic mountain of code, that we rely on.

People get excited about rewriting things in Rust to avoid a good chunk of the legacy code written in languages that are not memory save and that do have a lot of undefined behavior or allow for race conditions easily once you even as little as touch concurrency. People want to finally have a solid basis, which is proven to be correct in implementation. Rust goes a long way towards this goal, so people like it.

I subscribe to some great projects' repositories and read the issues. These projects sometimes bring me great value and I am not saying they aren't useful. Usually however, non-trivial C++ or C (and other languages) projects have all the same kind of issues. People thinking every noun has to be a class and the standard paradigm of mutating everything everywhere, be it through setter or directly, then forgetting to update state at some point, where it was necessary. People sharing state across multiple threads and forgetting to acquire a lock or releasing it. Or in some other way building race conditions. People thinking they will be able to do manual memory management correctly and then having segfaults, which require long debugging sessions or a lot of experience to fix. Use after free bugs. Security issues resulting from such causes. This and all that kind of stuff, that a good type system should prevent you from doing. And that is where Rust delivers.
Sounds like you had an excellent romp = was scheme taught with SICP?

Lambda calculus' anonymous functions are fairly simple but massively powerful - try this page? <https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/WS03/alpi/lambda.pdf>
Fair point, but I bet the number of Macs in the wild shared by multiple people who would want to run Homebrew are vanishingly small.
What the hell are the blockchain people doing and why isn't it a dumpster fire?
Holy shit! That’s amazing.
Well, hopefully, the soldiers would not be carrying and using their personal cell phones in a situation with a real opposing force.
Laziness, baroque toolchains, and (most probably): Shipping your org chart.
Nothing. That would be a good way to solve this problem.
I feel like you are not talking about this article anymore. You should be direct, your writing would come off as more sincere.

Do you believe Republicans/Trump attempted a coup?
The Stock market, even the gamestop event, is far better use of money than the various government powered lotteries. it is very difficult to tell people gambling is bad when you see the amount of advertisement that state lotteries are permitted to spend on let alone the national cooperative versions.

at least with the stock market your bets are pretty much not going to leave you broke if you choose wrong but 99.9% of the time a state lottery is a losing bet.
+1 for courier! we at Glimpse (https://www.joinglimpse.com) needed a few new endpoints/features, and the team jumped on to help us launch quickly. great product and even better team behind it.
Denmark wants to build a renewable energy island in the North Sea
Yikes, can you say “white people problems”?

Imagine how one of the millions of Americans who never knew a father at all would feel reading this.
It’s pretty pessimistic to think that maybe an index of BoBs is more of a boon for white supremacists than Black business owners. There are so many regional-scale efforts among Black business owners to “get the word out” on where to support BoBs. I don’t think we are trying to serve ourselves up. We are trying to get on the field (and I suspect a lot of other minority businesses would welcome a similar spotlight).

Perhaps it’s a bad analogy, but I don’t think seed and pre-seed startups avoid Angelist and Crunchbase because maybe the vulture VCs and patent trolls are looking for new targets. Most businesses welcome an edge or advantage, perceived or real. Throttling in the face of potential threats probably means you shouldn’t be a founder or small biz owner.
Why not just use ipython's built-in autoreload? https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config/extensions/a...
Oh. Came here looking for some sweet technological enhancements to the making of beer at home...

I'm sure this is splendid
I'd love to see where this has been explained. I've not seen this anywhere.
If it makes you feel better it's often pig feet, and sometimes various knees.

Also, gelatin is in EVERYTHING. Good luck eating virtually any dessert if you're a strict vegetarian.
Neat! I've been following 6 for a while, glad to hear it's in beta :)
If we’re going to adjust 230, it’s a perfect chance to favor smaller platforms. e.g. if you are under a certain size, you get to keep full 230 protections. The size and power of these companies needs to be addressed.
They should have given it a different name. It's fine if Ford is making a lumbering behemoth of an electric SUV but why name it after their two door sports car? It's just confusing and dilutes the branding.
When you can't use H1Bs to get cheap work, go for the incarcerated. Why bother caring for skilled middle class workers.
What makes you think retribution is the principal component of justice? That seems very wrong to me.

Justice is a deep concept - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice/ is an overview, and it's not short - but on plain sight, I'd say that since it is the public, through the medium of government, that enforces justice, it should do so with a utilitarian view.

Society has a vital interest in reintegrating people who have been punished, so that they don't fall back into a life of crime as the only life available to them. If justice is mostly retribution, then society is not well served. Even further, society can profit from the valuable contributions of people who've learned the error of their ways.
Yes, even the GoT fandom of recent years, seems to lead to enforcing the same boring view of the middle ages.
Subreddits are discussion forums, they aren't business ventures. Obviously the very big ones run into some gray area, but the overwhelmingly common situation is that moderators "put effort into the task" of creating a subreddit so they can simply have a nice place to discuss things and not "to reap benefit".

Trying to monetize a subreddit isn't really the purpose of the site, and if you want to do that there are other tools available.
> Your claim is that the one thing that prevented this from being our reality today was a single man, and that man was Churchill.

Yes, this is a huge leap, and extremely difficult to prove. I was more rebutting the point you made against the "Great Man" theory of history. I made my points on this future reality but would not want to debate it any further because there is too much that could have happened. Could Germany have won the war and controlled Europe for some time period - I think this is a high probability which Churchill prevented.

> I'm suggesting that no single person, even Hitler, determined the outcome of the war once set in motion. Even Hitler did not create out of whole cloth the German resentment that led to the war.

It's a tricky thing to debate really, because it's impossible to know what would have happened, only what did. You can only know for sure people that died under someone's command, never people that were saved by it.

> If we're talking about reduction of human suffering, then perhaps it's instructive to consider the harm that Churchill directly created in the Empire.

Leaders especially in war are responsible for a huge amount of suffering and death. As I said earlier its only certain the deaths caused not the lives saved. Churchill willingly ordered men to fight battles to their death, and also was involved in military decisions that cost many lives. There are many variables at play. In terms of net suffering, in my opinion he comes out way ahead because he defeated Hitler's regime which was one of the most inhumane the world had ever seen. If the concentration camps were left functioning for even months longer...can you imagine what the death told would have been.

> "beastly with a ghastly religion"

Do you know if there is an original source to this quote. I've seen it used to claim Churchill was racist often but there is no context to it. For example he was very critical of the caste system which could be described as "beastly". Was this an off-hand remark in frustration of such things, or did he hold genuine hatred for them in his heart.

I think its a complex and extremely controversial subject as of recent, but I am happy to have learned some new perspectives and researched some more areas - so thank you for the discussion.
I guess I agree with the second claim and not the first.
Thanks for the feedback. We keep track of all the feedback on the pricing.

There are a couple of reasons to price based on the MAU. Unlike services like Sendgrid that route an email and then forget about it, we have to maintain a persistent connection for every active user (while they are in your app) and support an API to fetch and show them their notifications. Second, a lot of people don't know their notification volume. But like I said, definitely listening to all the feedback and open to figuring out better pricing models.
I made more money on some savingss in 2020, by literally doing nothing and just watching it grow, than a lot of people earn in 9-5 jobs. I'm happy about it of course, but it seems wildly unfair. I'm not what you'd call a Marxist, but it's pretty obvious that there is a serious socioeconomic imbalance here and something needs to be different.
> Should the assaulted be happy with the fact that the inmate will get a job?

Um... what? This is borderline advocating for all sentences be for life.

If a sentence is given and served, the convicted deserve a chance at living. The US has a terrifying and awful fetish for punishing lower/middle-class folks who commit some of the pettiest of crimes, many of which struggle to re-integrate with society if/when they're released and therefore continue to serve a sentence long after they're no longer in prison. Compared with, for example, a vast majority of white-collar crime that often has victims an order of magnitude or two greater than most petty crime.
SPAC seems preferable for companies with an inexperienced board or who are trying to hide something from the public before listing their stock.

I imagine SpaceX will eventually go public via more traditional means and there's a good chance it's the first trillion dollar IPO IMHO.
Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient." Censorship can be conducted by governments, private institutions, and other controlling bodies.

Amazon, Apple, Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. are multibillion-dollar corporations that control a colossal share of online communications.

Let's not play pretend here.
They don't have to be fraudulent. It's easier to fill with an H1B candidate with experience than with a fresh engineer with a recent degree.
I took an in-person class at Second City Chicago. It was 3 hours per week for 8 weeks, and the class had to put on a paid show at Second City at the end of term -- pretty hectic, and very hands on. It teaches a genre of storytelling called "personal storytelling" (not the same as business storytelling, but the principles are similar) that is popular at events like The Moth.

https://www.secondcity.com/classes/chicago/storytelling-leve...

Storytelling is also seeing a resurgence as a community activity -- if you google "live storytelling" events in your area, you'll probably find some (there are tons in Chicago) though during COVID they are all online so it doesn't matter where you are. These are essentially open-mics -- you can YouTube "The Moth" to see what they are like.

Storytelling is one of those things where you gotta learn by doing -- reading a book can only help so much. That said, there's also a book called Long Story Short (Margot Leitman), which I found helpful. (again only for the genre of personal storytelling)

https://bookshop.org/books/long-story-short-the-only-storyte...

If you're interested in business storytelling, I've heard that "Building a Story Brand" (Donald Miller) is a good primer.

https://bookshop.org/books/building-a-storybrand-clarify-you...
I’m hesitant to ask, because perhaps it’s my own Linux box or display driver or something... Why does McCLIM seem to flicker a lot while moving the mouse over things?
Haven’t they been punished enough
Wow. Speaking of "embarrassingly disingenuous characterization".

"Court packing" would be breaking a US government norm.

A norm, very similar to, Mitch McConnell not bringing Merrick Garland's nomination to the Senate for 8 months, because "You can't nominate a SCOTUS justice in an election year".

Also breaking a norm very similar to Mitch McConnell shoving through a SCOTUS justice 8 days before an election.

If "Court Packing" happens, it is a direct result of bad faith norm breaking by the Republicans. But you knew that.

Elections have consequences.

https://www.wbtv.com/2020/09/30/trump-filling-supreme-court-...

Winners make policy, losers go home.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/320506-mcconnell-winners...
I hear you, but I still question how long those on UBI could get ahead of the rat traps before the non-rat trap options become their old cost + the cost of UBI, effectively transferring most of the UBI benefit to the landlords and ending us up in a similar place.

In my mind, it's about answering the question of how we lower barriers to moving to ownership and getting people out of the poverty cycles. There are two major hurdles I see:

- The current structure right now, and incentives that exist, are so good at extracting money that they might quickly eat up the additional money handed out - whether it's through financial instruments or increased prices for basic necessities.

- The people that consistently don't have money are bad at earning money, bad at keeping money, or some combination of the two. UBI only helps the people who can't earn money, but doesn't solve the financial literacy problem or the root cause that a group of people is bad at keeping money.
Dear Homebrew maintainers,

one simple effing thing: thank you! For all the hard work and the sheer pleasure Homebrew adds to the experience of developing software on a Mac.
I'm not sure rate limiting is really an option to still make it useful. Most people are at the same place from more or less 9pm to 5-6am occasionally shifted for people doing late shift work but most people have a steady home so you could gather that data over many nights.
I can empathize with how you feel (even how a victim could feel) but a public good will come from teaching prisoners a skill so they don't have to victimize someone else when they get out.
Seems no different than Bogleheads shilling index funds in the 00’s
As a parent who has been feeding her 9 month old son various baby food products for the past few months, I'm not sure how to respond to this news. Here are my thoughts:

1. If the baby food companies are correct and the contamination is coming from the soil, isn't it safer to buy baby food that's at least tested than feeding my son homemade food when I don't know which farms it comes from?

2. Is this heavy metal soil contamination new? Babies have been fed manufactured purees for several generations already, so you would think we'd be able to observe results of heavy metal consumption in the older population.

3. The report's only recommendation to parents is that they stop feeding foods with heavy metals to babies, but they don't provide a complete list of products to avoid, which any recall would. Why?

I definitely wanted to throw away all my baby food when I read this, but now I feel like it's pointless. Unless I fed my baby a vegan diet from fruits and vegetables I grew on soil I personally tested, I don't think it's possible to avoid these heavy metals entirely. Am I wrong?
Depends on the SPAC and the target company.
When you're poor and inexperienced, you probably don't have much of a basis of estimating the risk versus reward of all the potential options you could put that money into. There are a lot of influencers selling courses saying that trading forex, crypto, and meme stocks will make you rich in 10 easy steps, and it's very easy to get mixed up in an echo chamber that's trying to extract money from you instead of helping you grow your money.
> I think that retribution, which is of course the principal component of justice

That ain't necessarily so, and not every penal system has that philosophy. If prisons turn out people who are unemployable, they will simply keep doing whatever they can do to make a living. If lawful society doesn't take them, someone else will. Justice has to work at the societal level.
If you can touch type, they're faster to use because you spend less time moving your hands about between keypresses.
I think often 'it just works' and 'opinionated' goes hand in hand. Without choosing what to say no to, you create infinite workload with finite amounts of people and thus something breaks, somewhere.
What Di Angelo peddles is the same thing: racism.

No. Anti-semitism still inspires mass shootings right here in the US, beside being the direct cause of industrial-scale genocide. There were literal Nazis at the Capitol a couple of weeks ago. Even if we stipulate what Di Angelo sells is some form of anti-white racism, these are not the same thing, they don't have the same reach, consequences or history.

I am genuinely shocked to see you argue this stuff is 'the same thing'.
> Apple's 30% cut is a pretty obvious harm once you do the economic calculation.

Not really. You have to compare it to a counter-factual, and those are generally made up to support whatever position you already hold.

Also, it’s not 30%. It’s 15% for almost all developers.
MacPorts does also still drop to compiling from source more often than Homebrew. But that’s mostly because they take a more conservative legal approach towards the GPL—for instance, they won't distribute binaries of any GPL software that links with OpenSSL.

Also, ports for older/ancient versions of OS X are frequently source-only, but since Homebrew doesn’t support such systems at all, it's not really a fair comparison.

(As an aside, MacPorts must have the most incredible legacy support of any Mac project, ever. They had ARM working within a week of the M1’s release, largely because all of the infrastructure for multi-arch was already in place—to support users on PowerPC!)
> You seem hard to convince

I'm not hard to convince. All that's necessary is good arguments. There weren't any here.
"Malign India's image" is a typical response when someone outside says what wrong is going on. Whatever that toolkit and organisation is doing is creating awareness among people about farmer's protest. Where is the malign India part?

Anybody can spread awareness like this. John Oliver did like this many times e.g. during net neutrality, he asked all trolls to write complain to FCC.

This is how less powerful can organise online. Meanwhile Indian govt and it's cyber gang is the one who is making sportsperson and celebrities to post some copy paste tweet to counter this. This is what gov propaganda looks like.
Friend of mine does data analytics for off track betting. The spike in wagers from the stimulus checks was staggering.
This really isn’t what Unity does. Unity is mostly just the engine and level editor. The thing that made Flash special was that it was a complete vector animation authoring tool first, before you get to all the scripting etc.