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thanks, thats great to hear! I feel quite unmotivated right now, was expecting a bit more excitement from the more tech-oriented people. Lets see where it goes :) I want to get RSS-bridge to work at least for a couple of major sources (youtube, twitter, IG)
Maybe I misread the parent, but I don't think it was stated that the commented out code is committed.

FWIW, I also sometimes work this way; however I delete the commented out block when I'm finished. This is also a pet peeve of mine, the only time commented out blocks of code are acceptable is if the obvious way to write something introduces a bug or ignores an edge case. In that case, I also leave a note explaining not to refactor this section and explain why.

But especially while refactoring or fixing certain issues, I really find it helpful to have the prior version still present to compare against. If I have to commit while that commented code is still present, invariably my last commit message is along the lines of "removed commented code" or "cleaned comments for function XYZ". Especially since for these cases I also typically end up writing a comment once finished anyway. If there was something tricky enough happening that I was comparing against older code, likely there is something confusing enough happening that whoever is in the file next could also use some additional explanation that can only really be written once finished.
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> Part of the current problem is that we don't have a timetable.

I can understand why people want things to look forward to - and why businesses and people whose jobs will reopen would want dates in advance so they can plan.

But the dumbest thing the government could do is schedule reopenings before we know if it'll be safe to reopen.

That's what they did with the second lockdown - announced upfront that it was from to 31st October to 2nd December. Then they kept to their timetable and reopened things even though every metric on https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ made it clear we hadn't stopped the second wave - and now we have a third lockdown.
It’s pretty simple if you understand the political landscape. The old media have massive power in our politics, especially with the conservative party that is in power federally. They are losing subscribers though and have generally failed to keep up with technology. I’m not sure if it’s a symptom or part of the cause, but the quality of reporting in this country has also massively gone downhill with both companies in the oligopoly (Murdoch’s News Ltd one one side, Nine/Fairfax on the other).

So they see that Google and Facebook have a lot of money, no have lobbied hard to get these laws made. Unfortunately the ACCC (competition watchdog) seems to be complicit, having done a big research study into anticompetitive behaviour in ad tech etc., which is used to justify the law even though the law doesn’t actually go any way towards actually solving any of the problems with any of that, and only serves to try and funnel money from Google and Facebook to a few big media companies.

It’s pretty frustrating, because the waters are being muddied and reporters writing a lot of falsehoods about Facebook and Google apparently using or ‘stealing’ content, but they don’t - we’re literally talking about just links here!
tech is ridiculously easy to get into even if you are patently and demonstrably unskilled

For what definition of "get into tech" is this? Be somewhere in the proximity of a company that calls itself a tech company? Maybe? Be hired as an actual software developer after starting from scratch - this is by no means "ridiculously easy". I've helped people try to break in and they found it extremely hard.
To cite a few examples, the talk about the French football team in 2018 was a clash between the French universalist vision and the anglo-saxon melting pot vision. The veil and French secularist rules is also a classic issue that comes up once every few years. Remnants of protestant ideology, attitudes towards work and food and sex are also themes that come up fairly often.

I think you are actually on to something. Our conversation forced me to critically evaluate things I hadn't really thought of before. It's quite possible we might be among the last generations for whom the word will still be relevant since the current youngest crop of people are already quite heavily influenced by American culture. And to some extent much of the meaning of the word tends to be about what Americans specifically do since they are so completely dominant in the anglosphere. It's true that the UK has quite a bit in common with France.

To be clear, I wasn't implying that every anglosphere person does the same thing all the time. More like a common thread that comes up in certain situations where French culture doesn't coincide. The word is paradoxically dependent on France having failed to create a competing francosphere. There are many regions where French is the main language, but there isn't really such a thing as the Commonwealth. Quebec evolved without much mutual contact for centuries. Francophone countries in Africa have many ties but mostly do their own thing. Belgians and Swiss don't care. There is also an identification of modern consumerism and "late stage capitalism" (a loaded term, but I don't know what else to use) as originating in the anglosphere and being spread by it, which is semi-correct, I suppose. (for instance, McDonald's compared to French traditions regarding food)

There is thus the notion of an overwhelming cultural force bursting out the door, which is not just an abstract concern since the international urban culture is heavily based on the American one. It's not uncommon for younger generations to know and care more about American politics than their own, as evidenced last summer with BLM movements across the world using the exact same tropes even though there are important local differences and histories on how racism manifests in each country (and especially in France compared to the US)
Sounds like you're saying "Don't do distributed work" if possible (considering tradeoffs of course, but I guess people just don't even consider this option is your contention).

And secondly, if you do end up with q distributed systems, remember how many independently failing components there are because thag directly translates to complexity.

On both these counts I agree. Microservices is no silver bullet. Network partitions and failure happen almost every day where I work. But most people are not dealing with that level of problems, partly because of cloud providers.

Same kind of problems will be found on a single machine also. Like you'd need some sort of write ahead log, checkpointing, maybe optimize your kernel for faster boot up, heap size and gc rate.

All of these problems do happen, but most people don't need to think about it.
I do both. All to help me in the future as much as possible when I come back scratching my head.
"just generates an object type for a given SQL query's result rows"

For a similar purpose in Python I generally use psycopg with namedtuple resultsets; the namedtuple 'records' do what I need for the returned data and are reasonably efficient.
I guess I don't know what the alternative would be. I miss travel/events and getting together with people socially. But it's not like those would exist if I weren't working either. I almost certainly have more personal contact than if I weren't working. Plus I'm fairly close to retirement so I might as well put some more money away.
> Low yield crops are problematic because they cannot handle variability.

Is this generally the cause for their lower yields? I would assume they just aren’t genetically programmed to grow as much (useful stuff, at least).
It’s a relevant metric when the discussion is about asymmetric supply/demand. The context is that if they are disproportionately high in the demand side, it stresses the grid.

It’s essentially an approximation for normalizing production (supply) based on consumption (demand). It tells us (roughly) how stressed the grid is.
Similar is Sounds of the Bodleian [1], which offers ambient noises from four different reading rooms in the Bodleian library (the main research library at the University of Oxford).

[1] https://www.ox.ac.uk/soundsofthebodleian/#radcam
>or whether we make them actually compete on equal terms with companies that pay well enough for their workers to earn a living wage.

Is this what's actually happening here? Are there delivery/cab companies paying a fair wage that's being out-competed by uber? To my knowledge delivery/cab companies don't pay a fair wage in general.
But you don't have to buy a fabulously expensive medallion
Can you include the scale for context? A board seat for a tiny non-profit is very different than a board seat for a company with $100mm revenue.

You want to understand the legal liability associated with this position. If the thought of being pulled into legal proceedings by mere association gives you anxiety, think long and hard about this.

Also, get to know your future fellow board members as much as possible, including back channel references. Being part of a combative, toxic, or adversarial board is not a good experience.
From the bill itself:

core news content means content that:
(a) is created by a journalist; and
(b) that records, investigates or explains issues that:
(i) are of public significance for Australians; or
(ii) are relevant in engaging Australians in public debate and in informing democratic decision-making; or
(iii) relate to community and local events.

Sounds to me like those COVID-19 websites would be included in that. There is no definition of "journalist" included.

I mean really, could the bill itself be any more vague?

[1] https://www.accc.gov.au/focus-areas/digital-platforms/news-m...
> Without winterization, it doesn't matter if Texas is connected or not. With it, it doesn't matter either, because it produces and uses so much electricity.

Isn't this just more argument for perfection. Sure, if they completely and fully winterized every single plant, it wouldn't be a problem. But what if they did more than nothing to winterize but less than 100%. Then imagine they were connected as well. If they had simply done better at multiple things, they wouldn't have to be perfect at any one thing. And it certainly doesn't excuse them making terrible decisions on multiple things.

Sure, if everything in my house is 100% fireproof, I don't need a fire extinguisher. Sure, if everything in my house is made out of kindling, a fire extinguisher is going to be inadequate protection. But if I build my house out of relatively fire retardant materials and I keep a fire extinguisher, I am likely going to be ok. Perfection is the enemy of good, and is no excuse for just settling for outright bad.
Yip, everyone was paged last night, been in a bad way since. Got grief for commenting as much in thread.
A question to anyone that already made the jump away from Whatsapp:

Do people that used to msg me still see my entry in their own accounts list, after I closed it?

And if they do, do they get notified if still sending msgs there, or are these just shown as forever unread?
Tim's perspective here is disappointingly narrow. The line he's drawing in the sand has already been crossed in all sorts of ways in many different jurisdictions and commercial/legal contexts.

This is a complex (and tiring) debate where all of the key players (largely News Corp and the Australian Commonwealth Government on one side and Facebook and Google on the other) have shown themselves to be untrustworthy, user-hostile and utterly flippant with regard to the public good provided by news. They have all been dishonest to the public through this process and the best outcome would be one where all the major parties to this issue lose out.

There's a strong argument to be made that Google and Facebook should be made to cough something up. They've essentially done an attention economy land grab and the state exists to regulate such disruptive practices in order to preserve certain public goods.

But of course the actual facts of this law are that it's a blatant opportunistic maneuver to get wads of cash out of one set of corrupt peoples' pockets into those of another group who happen to be mates with the people who hold legislative power.
Really? I don't know if I'm representative, but I pretty much only use the front brakes. I only use the rear ones if I'm trying to avoid an accident because I'm not slowing fast enough on the front. I don't even know if it helps much, it's just a reflex.
> what i hear and see in my region let me believe the mood is slowly turning into some sort of "Torches and Pitchforks" way...

In several countries with lockdowns there is definitely collusion between ruling parties and mainstream media on which the ruling party has a close relationship or outright tight grip. In Poland, independent media across the ideological spectrum have been reporting that the majority of the population opposes lockdown, and support for business owners opening their restaurants regardless has risen. Yet you won't hear a word about this in state-controlled media. The ruling party is, however, aware of sentiment turning against them, because party functionaries have privately expressed to independent media that they fear that lockdown might cost them the next election.

The problem, however, is that when mainstream media refuses to report common sentiment, the average person feels that he or she is all alone in feeling that way. This prevents people from organizing and pushing together for change (which is just the way that many ruling parties like it).
PCE is another indicator that tracks consumer prices and although its not identical the price moves are highly correlated.

I've seen many comments dismiss the CPI as if it was somehow broken. The real problem is that the CPI is correct and that there is no inflation. Stock gains are either driven by a bubble or simply through unfair government policies or both at the same time.
Now that you mention it, I do remember being given free extensions to the WhatsApp service. But at some point I recall the extension had run out and I had to pay for it.
What backlash? If they'd seen any noticeable backlash they wouldn't be going ahead.
Not the OP but I read it as “much harder to scrape” than making it Secure. Which has some value.
> In vim, only stuff that changes the buffer is added to the undo tree.

There is also a command history, and jumplist (movement cursor position history) for things that don't go in the diff tree.
Scala and TypeScript have (partial) answers to this.

In your example, Scala 2 would let Int32 and Int64 inherit a trait that Str doesn't. TypeScript would let you write a union type Int32 | Int64 that doesn't include Str (or add ExtraValue), and I think Scala 3 will have something very similar.
My framing of this issue partly inspired by this piece: https://www.eigenmagic.com/2020/09/07/a-deep-dive-into-googl...
Lets analyze the following statement:

> RTX 3060 software drivers are designed to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm, and limit the hash rate, or cryptocurrency mining efficiency, by around 50 percent.

Why just Ethereum? This cannot possibly limit the sales of 3060 alone because there are a zillion cryptocurrencies.
People will just use it to mine for other crypto currencies right?.
Also 50% reduction. They wouldn't hardcode this percentage. The number obviously needs to be able to go up to 100% (no limit) and down to 0 - ie block it completely.

This effectively means 2 things:

1. Their detection algorithm is "upgradable". They wouldn't do that just for Ethereum.
2. That they can block any kind of workload they can detect.

Should we allow them to have the power to do that?
That’s a fair response. You’re absolutely correct that the personal mortgage analogy is used to argue that governments can’t (or shouldn’t) take on certain debt loads.

On the flip side, I’d argue that mortgages and personal finance in general doesn’t tell us much about how governments should treat debt. The nature of government debt, how it’s financed, and what it’s used for is just so different from personal debt that any analogy between the two gives us very little information.
Theverge.com

HN

News.google.com

Linkedin.com

youtube.com

highscalability.com (weekly)

https://finshots.in/archive/ (mostly indian news though)

gmail., live.com (duh)

dev.to

stackoverflow (not that i have to , but i end up visiting anyways)

medium (i have cut down my usage a lot)

http://aws.amazon.com/new

and many many more!!!

and many many more!
And you're genuinely wondering why they are imposing limits? Sure, the new limits are <40GB/student, but most students are probably only using like 1GB of storage anyway.

They write some essays, store some PDF's, share some Google Docs documents, use a music streaming service, and don't download YouTube videos.
Interesting, I've only ever used it on Ubuntu, both with the system Debian packages and with versions built from source (via Opam, the OCaml package manager). Both were rock solid for me. If anything, my understanding is that it's Windows where things are sketchy (for OCaml in general, not Coq specifically). Anyway. I'm sorry to hear you had a bad time. It's probably no consolation that it doesn't seem to be as bad for most others.
How do you comment things out in the "English fiction/non-fiction" programming language?
Undoubtedly this mistake and the media coverage has ruined this employee’s life, for something that’s surely a very poorly run operation. Anyone who has ever worked in operations knows this type of error happens daily and repeatedly.
In London there are only a few specific circumstances when a taxi driver (in their taxi) can reject a ride. E.g.

- they aren’t working (eg they’re going home, this isn’t a general excuse that can always be used)

- they’re going to pick up a prearranged passenger

- they’re eating their lunch (this exemption was introduced by Churchill, hence ‘Churchill’ is cabbie slang for one’s lunch break)
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The laws might be bizarre or poorly thought-out but the concern isn't. A news landscape controlled by American tech companies doesn't sound like a rosy future.
They do want to show up on google, they just don't want the small page summary, as in a lot of cases, most people are happy with the title and a 2 line summary, never actually visiting the article.
How do you deal with TLS?
Yes it's an 5-apples vs 1-orange comparison, especially the dynamic json fields where keys are repeated.
I'm the shadow banned commenter, due to comments that fall in the right half of the plane; disagreeable to HN mods.

But not to digress, it's likely 120 degree BPSK (i.e. QPSK with a DC level for the Q). I'm not in the deep space field (but do RF/Microwave professionally), but the DSN (deep space network) on Earth sends out a carrier with 120 BPSK modulation with PN (pseudo noise) code. The spacecraft transverts and sends that back (a bent pipe). Velocity is determined via Doppler shift of the carrier. Range from the delay in the PN code. So knowing velocity and range (and bearing using antenna pointing or interferometry), you can track the spacecraft with great precision.

Even without a bent pipe, you need carrier recovery first, before you can demodulate, and the leakage helps with that. You can also do geolocation with carrier leakage (e.g. ARGOS satellites) and via isodops (contours of constant Doppler shift) like a reverse GPS uses isochrones (contours of constant time delay).

So in short, there are benefits of wasting carrier energy. The ham guy can detect it as he can do lots and lots of coherent averaging (i.e. long FFTs or very narrow resolution bandwidths) to find that carrier. Though to recover any modulation will take a much bigger (or lower noise temp) antenna.
I don't think you can complain about this while using your school-supplied account for that much private data.

Seems acceptable for schools to start enforcing acceptable-use policies that exclude using these accounts for anything but schoolwork if it saves money and resources to spend on other things.
This is astute. Employment law in England and Wales has a long history of regulation taking a while to catch up with 'new' ways of operating, but effectively covers everything at issue here.

Flexible hours? Absolutely fine. Flexible hours at the employer's sole discretion (zero-hour contracts)? Also absolutely fine; although there is some political pushback, it's fully legal.

Temporary employment, from one day upwards? Absolutely fine. If it consists of a series of 'temporary' contracts which in reality make up a multi-year contract, it might get deemed as permanent - but if it's genuinely temporary no problem at all.

Not actually employment, but some kind of dependent contractor status? We even have that, which was the case at issue here: some provisions (e.g. minimum wage laws) apply, but others (particularly unfair dismissal rights) don't.

We've also got caselaw covering piecework (work in my factory and get paid £1/widget), home working, working for a business you also own, and a bunch of other unusual cases.

What you can't reliably do is say 'I've found a magic form of contract wording that means that workers' rights don't apply to me'. People have tried to do that for hundreds of years and the loopholes get closed for the obvious reason.
> the monolith team is too large and it's becoming difficult to build, test, and deploy everyone's potentially conflicting changes at a regular cadence, with bugs in one part of the code blocking deploying changes to other parts of the code.

This is the only argument I'm ever really sold on for an SOA. I wonder if service:engineer is a ratio that could serve as a heuristic for a technical organization's health? I know that there are obvious counter-examples (shopify looks like they're doing just fine), but in other orgs having that ratio be too high or too low could be a warning sign that change is needed.
I installed Signal recently, but was flabbergasted when it advised me to connect with someone they found in my phone contacts who has recently joined Signal. WTF? If I knew that my contacts were being shared with a 3rd party (Signal), I would never have signed up.

Still, better Signal than Facebook, I guess. :-/

P.S.: if I'm missing something and the check was done in privacy-conscious way, I would love to be corrected.
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While quote "we must fix climate change" is true, you and I know that will never be "fixed". Luckily wind/solar in some regions is getting quite cheap.

But how about fixing the electric grid, we can all be on 100% renewals tomorrow, but if this event happens, no electricity anyway so it does not matter what the power source is.

Forcing companies to shield and get ready for massive failures for this and CMEs is rather doable, just costs money and is really not political. More likely a very large CME will occur before the flip, but both will end modern society rather quickly.
The state politicians basically torpedoed that by making a big fuss about being anti-gay around that time. Hard to justify moving knowledge workers to Atlanta given a political climate openly hostile to X% of employees.
The first programming course at Edinburgh is the Haskell course, taught in the first year in the first semester.
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If Facebook complied with this law, wouldn't they be incentivized to suppress viral sharing of news articles since the more viral a news story being shared is, the more they have to pay out? And would that mean news companies would be doing everything they can to "go viral" since it means a big payday? These incentives are all misaligned.
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Jetbrains IDEs have a local history which helps for that.