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I'm wondering what you think of the idea that the people we call "liberal" in this country aren't really all that "leftist" - they're just more left than our "conservatives". This is especially true for economic beliefs, I find. Like, ask an Italian communist (they still exist!) whether Joe Biden is a leftist and he'll choke from laughter on his ravioli. And after all, Barack Obama's world leader bff wasn't some Green Party guy in Bolivia or something - it was Angela Merkel.

I came around to this some time ago and I'm always curious if it makes sense to others.
That's a good attitude to keep in mind; thanks!
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> Every time you add an abstraction layer to a software stack you can expect a roughly one order of magnitude performance reduction, so intuition would suggest that a WebAssembly framework (based on top of JavaScript running inside a web browser hosted on top of a traditional big-ass operating system) wouldn't be terribly fast;

I realize this isn't the point, but WebAssembly is arguably on the same level as JavaScript, the alternative being that WebAssembly is lower. (WebAssembly still needs to call JavaScript to manipulate the DOM, so doing anything UI with WebAssembly is kind of like an abstraction layer built on JS). There's a reason cryptominers sometimes use WebAssembly. That's not to say that V8/Spidermonkey on top of glibc on top of Linux isn't bloated...
While I agree, the recent Texas power outage is the result of a free-market system for energy. California hasn't done well with energy either, but for different reasons. My point is that funny things happen when markets fail and when empathy-driven policy goes too far.
> What's up with the loaded rhetoric?

How is that rhetoric loaded? What rhetoric?

> if push comes to shove, go to a branch and withdraw your money in person.

When I was starting out in my IT career, the nearest branch of my credit union was more than an hour away by car, and for much of that time I didn't even have a car. If my credit union had restricted my account to "thou must visiteth a branch and speaketh with a representative", I would've been screwed - on a level of "freezing and starving".

> transfer your money out through the mobile app or website;

Assuming this wouldn't be one of the first things shut off alongside the card.
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Why do you draw the line here, at QM, as a boundary of knowledge? This may be the case, and is a common opinion, but why is this special, compared to various other theories we have in physics and other sciences?

Historically, this line of thinking is common in science. You might be right here; science has advanced far in the last century, but I urge you to exercise skepticism that we've really hit the bottom. Nearly all claims of this type historically have been wrong!
Yeah, that's me there as well. I've been working on this for a few years.
>You must then climb down through narrow limestone tunnels coated in an ochre clay, in pitch darkness and temperatures of 25 °C.

A terrrifying 77 degrees fahrenheit?
I like SF where it is. Close enough that I can take the bus there but far enough that I don't have to have a conversation about UFOs with a bum unless I choose to.
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That can easy be explained by their adoption by the rich and famous. Art NFTs were only made by niche artists until recently.

Now that they're somewhat mainstream yet not well understood by the public I would be more suprised if people weren't preaching it as the best thing since sliced bread.
I suppose there are many baseballs with famous signatures on them.. how rare that is changes the value.
They don't follow the rfc if they don't. Email protocol is resilient to servers not being teachable for a few days. Humans forgot that though and came to think that email is like slack
a little peeved I read most of that only to be advertised to about a free course at the end... felt like an MLM pitch
What did Hong Kong do?
San Francisco is lagging cities in Texas because Texas actually has seasons and would rather not have a bunch of rotting corpses under their many overpasses.
Great, now I have to change the combo on my luggage

Is that better or worse than 1234?
> tents are cheap

But that plot of land its pitched on might be worth $200 per month (using FiDi pre-pandemic parking rates).
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Yeah because equal outcomes and partitioning based on race and other irrelevant characteristics is a really great idea.

Sarcasm is on a roll this evening.
I think the negative comments are inversely proportional to the language used to hype the product or project. If you make an app that points out carcinogens in the user's grocery list, and explain that your project's mission is curing cancer then people are going to have a lot of negative things to say about how this approach will never do that, etc. Conversely, if you describe it tightly as what it is there will be less room for people to have negative takes and more for people to appreciate the project for what it is.

I encourage you to share your project. Negative comments, even if they happen, won't diminish your accomplishments.
> there are people who will set their site up so it technically passes the rules but it certainly does not pass the spirit of what was trying to be done by the rules.

Then that's a problem with the rules, which need clarified to better encode the "spirit" thereof. Hiding the rules entirely is a poor substitute for that.
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You mean sysadmins, not developers right? :)
I got the email from Malaysian Airlines March 2nd and the rest trickle down over the past few days.

Interesting to see that they were the first to send the alert, faster than the US Airlines.
agree 100% this looks awesome for reference datasets.

not so sure how well it would work for live data sources that update with time as it could encourage people to apply more ad-hoc edits as opposed to getting their version controlled jobs to work 100%, but who knows, maybe that would be a net win in some cases?
How dare they exercise their 1st amendment right to petition the government.
Theft under the $950 threshold is still a crime, specifically a misdemeanor, which can result in jail time. The whole idea that theft is going totally unpunished is a false narrative.
Is there some CDC or HHS data on public defecation?

e: remove false info
You should change your tax deduction. There is no penalty for overpaying, and it's much nicer to receive a bunch of money every year than to possibly owe it. You won't miss it on your paycheck.
>What if programming was about ideas, not semicolons?

This is like saying "What if writing was about ideas, not periods?" It already is.
Do you know how many sites would be absolute minefields without google? They incentivise websites to commit to some clean standard so that the 'individual user' doesn't have to run a script every time they visit a website to make sure it's clean. And guess what: whatever script they run will just end up becoming a different google anyway.

Embrace the centralization.
> If people still understand english in some form (a good bet. We still understand latin. English has more reach than latin did at its peak) understanding charsets is pretty easy. Just assume its a shift cipher.

IIRC, Coptic is directly descended from Ancient Egyptian, but the Rosetta Stone was still needed to decipher hieroglyphics.

It won't be as simple as you think. The problem will be more like: here's 10TB of partially corrupted binary data, find the text when you don't know the encoding (oh, and the text may be compressed with an algorithm you also don't know).
All it takes is a mixer with a large enough anonymity set.
As someone who always wanted to explore FFMPEG this can be a great book.

I got to know about FFMPEG when I wanted to generate gifs using videos.

I’ll definitely buy this book
Over-dependency on a single industry, unwillingness to diversify, and an arrogant assumption that the same work could never be done elsewhere. Add in highways, commuting, and an infrastructure maintenance death spiral as domestic car production lost its major advantages. Rising crime added to the death spiral, as people who could moved out and the general deprivation of Detroit grew.

Many of the suburbs developed their own economies, which further encouraged people to move there instead of Detroit proper.

Lots of racism played its part in various ways. Lots of room to debate the precise degree, though the debate is probably not helpful at this point.

These days the high taxes (property and income) and auto insurance rates are big problems.

Only a few of these really apply to SF. Though the arrogance of assuming the good times will roll on forever seems accurate.
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"Barely usable for daily tasks"

Is a pretty strong statement, especially given many tech companies use it exactly for this purpose.

Git might have a learning curve, and sure, it's not the simplest. But "barely usable" is hyperbole in the face of actual evidence.

I'm not defending Git specifically ; other SVNs are just as viable. The quoted statement seems a bit ridiculous.
As another commenter linked to, they should and will. (SF, in contrast, will not - homeless advocacy groups in California generally aren't fans of shelters, so there's not much pressure to ensure there are enough beds to go around.)
Conservative cities? There isn’t a lot of data, just small cities like Fairbanks and Colorado Springs as well as big city suburbs like Mesa (suburb of Phoenix).
I would classify neither as conservative cities.
I'm saying I also dislike the overly leftist culture in San Francisco, which is another reason why I'm leaving. There are many nice people here, but there are also too many people who I consider too far gone.

Stuff like:

– Non-ironically comparing Trump to Hitler. "At least Hitler listened to his generals!" Umm what? Seriously? And it's not even true: Hitler rarely did. Just... I can't even.

– We can't use the words "blacklist" and "whitelist" now even though they have nothing to do with race. I kid you not, I even heard people talking about "black hole" being "problematic". How patronizing can you be to black people, to think they give a shit? To think this shit is actually helping?

– Non-ironically talking about abolishing the police. If you disagree, you're white privileged and subconsciously racist. No? I just want some statistics first. Evidence it might be a good idea? Pros and cons of the police first? Just not viral videos and emotions?

– Non-ironically talking about socialism, white patriarchy this, equal outcomes that. Partitioning based on race.

– Can't mention Joe Rogan without someone wanting to deplatform, talking about how harmful it is to trans people to even mention the name.

You know what sucks the most? I rarely feel able even to discuss these topics in a calm, sensible way with people. Definitely never at work. Many people are just too emotional here. The culture sucks. So I just keep silent most of the time. You have to figure out if it's safe to say moderate things to someone, like you're in the French resistance or something. And I have relatively liberal views on most topics! I'm hardly an unreasonable right wing gun loving Christian, or whatever caricature of "the other" is in their heads. Yet I don't feel welcome here.

Yeah, go ahead and downvote because I have different politics to you, even though I was just answering the question (at least I interpreted it as a question asking me to elaborate).
The problem is for years the platter density increase has been dismal. They were simply getting more platter for HDD capacity increase. I remember seagate talking about HAMR since early 2010s. And it is only now we got it working. It is sort of funny if we look at the tech how ~2014-2020ish seems to be the point where cost reduction in technology stopped or slowed down dramatically.

Although I am quite optimistic that we will see $10/TB within this decade.
the noise for the curious https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=54&v=gtv0s1JQ0D4&f...
As chomp pointed out, the limit for felony theft in Texas is $2500.
So it's an 80/20 competitor?
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I lamemt the lack of support for elastic tabs. In a better world the pleasure of these justified variables could be found everywhere.
I think if Google is going to decide to police the web like this, they need to alert people more proactively. The first the OP should have heard of this was Google emailing them through uploader.win's Contact Us email address. It's easy and obvious to find on the site; seems like that should be part of the automated process.
As Portland is in Oregon, and Jeff Bezos is in Washington, could the proposal be to have CA, OR, and WA become their own country?
They are generally written by really smart people/ geniuses who worked years on a particular book.

They also contain thoughts that were once likely mainstream/popular in a particular time/place.

Those with good literary taste could also find modern day classics.
> I genuinely like my Tesla, but I fear that owning one will make others assume I am one of "them".

You seem a bit superficial...
> Instead of providing food and shelter to the poor, perhaps starting an infrastructure program to employ these people and fix the damn roads, they empower the poor to go rampage stores to survive.

We spend over a billion a year on the homeless. It’s an intractable problem, and the weather, social services, and accepting (of panhandling) population drives demand to locate here.
What?! Dodd-Frank had nothing to do with it. The housing price crash allowed institutional buyers to make a new asset class out of SFR. They bought hundreds of thousands of houses. They aggressively increase rents because they’re levered and their returns come from rent increases. This has caused rents in the rest of America to sky rocket. Not only do they vacuum up inventory, they never sell it. This hurts would be homeowners two ways.

It used to be that SFR was all small funds or investors. These investors hold fixed 30 year notes and don’t have to be aggressive with rent increases. A turn is more of a concern than a rent increase.

Dodd- Frank had nothing to do with that. The fix is to require these institutional funds to liquidate to owner-occupants after a decade. Let them cash out the appreciation and wind up the fund.
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Why is it false? All you stated is the letter of the law, but laws aren't magic. They don't enforce themselves. If crime isn't reported, policed, and prosecuted, then it is -effectively- unpunished.
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What people call "homelessness", are different (yet overlapping) problems that can be mitigated separately:

1) Public urination / defecation: There is a need for more public bathrooms. That's cheaper than spending millions of dollars cleaning poop and urine from the streets.

2) Public intoxication and substance abuse: Decriminalizing drugs and letting people get as intoxicated as they want is not a responsible approach. The responsible approach would be to treat drug addiction as a health problem. That means, prescribing medications to help the addicts manage the reasons behind their addiction (anxiety, depression, PTSD and other conditions), their addiction, and making sure they do not overdose.

3) Littering: sentence people to do community service cleaning the litter.

4) Homelessness: Many homeless people do not want to comply with shelter rules, so they live in the streets. The shelters won't allow intoxication, drugs, etc.
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As someone it tech who has spent the last two decades or so thumbing my nose at SF/bay from the East Coast, making bold predictions that the entire house of cards paying 400k for talent you could get for half that or less on the East Coast... Now that it's happened/happening I am not happy about it at all. Having wages collapse there is going to put a drag on the rest of the market across the country. I've spent a lot of time sneering at SF tech-scene from across the country, but I'm cheering for it now.
San Francisco, the city itself is a very different beast from the rest of the Bay Area.
Ridiculous that "diversity" explicitly excludes the people that don't fit that narrative the left wants to push.
Did you submit it as a bug or a security issue? There are indeed no security risk here, but usability wise, your account being bricked is a pretty serious issue.
To say that Vancouver built built built requires an ignorance of historical building rates. Vancouver, like the American west coast cities, severely underbuilt for decades and only recently returned to historical average rate of home building, which does not help address the accumulated deficit. For example in 2009 the whole city only built 9000 new homes, which is 1/3rd the average historical per-capita rate.
OK, I'll bite: what did Goethe write that you consider indispensable to someone's education? I can just about stand one of his plays and a few of his poems, though I think the world would be perfectly fine without them.

His prose, though, I hate with the force of a thousand suns. I've never read a book so infused with insufferable wankery as "Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre".

Not to forget that Goethe himself considered his most important work his contributions to Physics, where he tried to argue that Isaac Newton was all wrong about Optics. Needless to say that Physics esteemed him less highly than Literature did.
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So your solution is not to kick the wealthy out of the union, but to kick California out of the union, simply because it has a large population of wealthy people?
Also prices are going way up in the Bay Area, I’m not sure what this proves yet.
I took an iPhone X into a 3 foot deep swimming pool to take an underwater selfie (don’t ask, not the proudest moment) and it promptly died - apparently if you drop the phone, the water tight seal has a tendency to fail “silently”. Caveat Emptor :)

Thankfully, AppleCare was in effect and it got replaced for a small deductible.

Great to see gadgets standing up to being used as opposed to needing to be cradled and soothed all the time!
> Er.. I think you're missing the point of citing sources. If an otherwise unverified claim could cite as its source another unverified claim, it would make citing sources meaningless. If a wikipedia article wanted to cite a verified claim from another wikipedia article that did have a verified source, they may as well just use that original source as their source too.

1) The Wikipedia guideline doesn't mention that logic, 2) quite a lot of Wikipedia doesn't cite anything, and 3) it not unusual for a passage in Wikipedia to not actually be supported by the citation given (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinks...).

In any case, this is getting off topic. My point was that, if you're looking for an ark of cultural knowledge to survive some apocalypse, Wikipedia's a bad choice. IMHO, something like Project Gutenberg plus a newspaper archive would be about 1000% better, and take up far less space. If you got space to spare, throw in Libgen. Wikipedia's not a replacement for its sources, and I pity the future scholar that would have to rely on it without being able to check them.

But unless your data storage is orders of magnitude more reliable than any current technology and you package your archive with an equally reliable computer to read it, the concept of a digital ark fails. If you don't to that, your archive will be unreadable, and and unreadable archive is useless.
I’ve seen it in Vietnam, India, and heard about seeing it in Brazil from friends. I’m sure it’s more common than you think, we just have a very embolden and large homeless population with not enough public toilets and way too many substance abuse / mental health issues.
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I just want to chime in, because I collect (good) Wikipedia articles and their respective discussions posted on HN:

https://www.mostdiscussed.com/
California still was at positive population increase before the pandemic because of foreign immigration. Also, Texas had more people than California just back in 1940, it isn’t weird that it’s huge growth over the last 80 years has come to an end.
Its like passing a law prohibiting farting in an elevator or wearing too much perfume. Fundamentally who is going to enforce it? Do we want to have police out there chasing people with blowers and wearing so much perfume you can smell them from half a block away?

Yet people do these things which are infuriating and intrude on those around them without a thought.
It’s because people don’t so much like their party as they have visceral hatred for the other one.
If not done very carefully, that's just sprawl and bad in its own way. What we need IMO is not to move to the country so much, but back to smaller towns and cities. Some centralization of infrastructure - schools, hospitals, police and fire departments, roads and sewers etc. to connect them - still makes sense economically and ecologically. Somewhere between 50-100K or so new scaling problems always seem to appear - traffic, crime, the waste and corruption that comes with a larger bureaucracy, and so on. Big cities have historically had some advantages to outweigh those costs, but in the world of the last year or so I think more people are starting to reconsider whether that's still true.

After the city of Detroit had lost most of its population, there was a real problem with the cost of providing infrastructure and services to a single home in each multi-block area. There were proposals to concentrate those things into multiple "villages" with the space in between (other than roads) reverting to nature. Unfortunately they never got to try it because too many of those isolated-home owners refused to move. I'm not saying who was right or wrong, but it prevented the experiment from happening and I think we might all regret that some day.
I've been using ifp and ofp and ths/nxt for some time. stdin and stdout are a shame in this regard
Picked up an HP calculator to take the FE exam. The other approved calculators were simple 4 functions calcs. I assumed everyone would be on the HP but I was the only one who had one at the testing center.
Some counterpoints: Paintings largely done by assistants are nothing new. Bronze statues are cast by foundries, not the artist themselves. And the artwork connected to an NFT can very well be as directly created by the artist as a digital "object" can be. (obviously with selling NFTs for tweets there isn't exactly a quality artwork attached...)

It also doesn't really appeal to me personally, but I can see how the logic works.
Everybody thinks that RPN is about the inverted order when it's really about having an explicit stack instead of an implicit one.

If you're using "algebraic", you sometimes have to put a "(" into your expression a long way ahead of when you need it. Think of how many times you have to go and fix up your left parens when writing C code conditionals. On a calculator, if you screw up, go back to start. Also, old calculators had parentheses limits.

"Modern" algebraic calculators mitigate this somewhat because they can enter the expression in text form on a dot matrix LCD so you can go back and add/delete parentheses as required.

An explicit stack means that I can start and stop subexpression calculations at various points and cache the results. It also means that I can rearrange precedence at my convenience--of course, the flip side is that precedence is my problem instead of the calculator's.