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I don’t think there is much Sublogic code left in the current release.
I didn't say "the next update". Maybe a couple of updates. However, the next update, which is v9 and should be out this month, will be a major one.
IIRC Google claimed something along the lines of "for your own privacy and security".
The medical school is the equivalent, which likely deducts the salary of the professors (if it’s private). Most private schools also pay no taxes.
I feel HP TouchPad could have deserved the final point, being the last webOS device from the Palm lineage, and also gaining bit of a cult following after the firesale. It would make interesting case study in itself.

> On August 18, 2011, 49 days after the TouchPad was launched in the United States, HP announced that it would discontinue all current devices running webOS. Remaining TouchPad stock received substantial price reductions, and quickly sold out
I just want to point out that you are free today, as you have always been, to use the text editor of your choice - and then paste the text into whatever app requires some text. If I'm typing, it's in Emacs. That includes this HN post.
Could this be an mostly american thing? I only ever witness this sentiment online. IRL most people i know dislike samsung because of their shitty android modifcations and mediocre hardware. Even oppo seems way more popular right now here in switzerland
It makes perfectly sense, Android OS is not GNU/Linux, the Linux syscalls never were or will ever be part of the public API.

The public API is based on Java and a couple of NDK APIs, clearly enumerated by Google as stable APIs.

They can either adapt themselves to this reality, make use of those APIs in a mingw like way, creating wrappers, or die in their faith that Android is Linux, alongside countless attempts to GNU/Linux phones.
>It seems like they got lobbied by insurance companies who scam people over the phone (they promise options that turn out to be a lie) and you can't really prove it unless you record them.

Seems like a weird conspiracy theory to me. What leverage do insurance companies have over google? Moreover, isn't it trivial to record with a second phone?
> In addition, Australia is essentially an island. The US is bordered above and below with other countries that also have guns. Not to mention the amount of lost guns due to "boating accidents" that would happen if there's a gun confiscation.

There’s always a reason not to try, right? It’s not like there are no illegal guns in public hands in Europe or Australia. But it’s not possible to walk in to a store and get an AR-15 on a driving license.
Considering that facebook managed to use up 800 MB of ram, and it requires a good 2-3 secs minimum to open a chat head, I honestly have a hard time believing they test by humans that shit of a UI in any shape or form, let alone in multiple ways (or care about the test results)
The appeal and any truthful aspect of Marx’s ideas seem to be inextricable from its exploitation to justify a cornucopia of violent ideologies and disgusting culture wars.

Even a fully-sane intellectual Marxist cannot escape the communities around them that will twist every word to support their preferred derangements. Unfortunately it doesn’t matter what Marx may have thought. His name is now synonymous with anything destructive of civilization by its malcontents.

Consider also, at risk of the above, that this situation, applied to both ‘sides’, is probably the best way to prevent a population from engaging in any meaningful consideration of their condition, and especially any discovery of common ground.
The question of Gregory joining the army is less of "why did he volunteer" but more "did he have a job that would allow him to avoid getting drafted (бронь)". At some point in the war, around 1942, the army drafted anyone who could hold a rifle
That makes no sense. How can you do away with progressive taxation without increasing the tax burden on the lower and middle classes?
PostGIS is loads of fun with sports data. Being able to find similar passages of play just using ST_MakeLine and ST_FrechetDistance feels like magic when you first do it in all of five lines of code.

Spatial tools are a bit like logic programming in that they’re very slightly esoteric. But once you know they’re the right hammer for some nails, they’ll save you lots of time and effort over your life, and let you express some ideas you might otherwise struggle with.
At minimum, 1¼ oz was probably expected to be expressed as 1 oz 2 dr, and so on for the others.

But I understood "2 ounces, 4 drams and 5 grains" to be a single measurement.

An apothecary dram (ʒ) is 60 grains, and an apothecary ounce (℥) is 480 grains, so we have 1205 grains. ⅝ of that is 753⅛ gr, which is 1 ℥ 4 ʒ 33⅛ gr.

I think these measurements would have been in common use by pharmacists ... although [1] says they're still in use some times in the USA, or have only recently fallen out of use.

It's also interesting to see the mixtures of units in common use there. The UK has Imperial units for several daily things (body height and weight, road distance and speed) yet the medical profession actively avoids use of the system -- equipment is only metric. This is to avoid any errors made during conversion, and ensure day-to-day familiarity with the units.

[1] https://nursekey.com/u-s-customary-units-and-the-apothecary-...
Do you know of any first world countries where people are denied treatment for HIV depending on some assessment of whether or not it’s their fault that they’ve contracted it? E.g. we’ll pay for treatment if you get it from a blood transfusion but not if you get it sexually.

The proposal that you’re hinting at is very far outside the mainstream. I don’t think you’re likely to find any forum (that you’d want to be a part of) where it doesn’t elicit a strong negative reaction.

HN is probably one of few places that tolerates this kind of extremism enough to at least engage with your argument (such as it is) rather than just telling you to get stuffed.
Samsung S10e has both. Best smartphone I ever owned (once you got rid of all the crapware using ADB).
Getting people to move from something like Whatsapp to Signal is almost impossible. I have no intention of even living in the UK in the next few years to probably one of the overseas territories again (they are starting to tax the hell out of the things I make a living on).
Effective Kubernetes Cost Optimization
Why should there be a cap and income phaseout on student loan interest deductions?
The laws alone don’t have enough information to replay their motion without each planets location, a foci, the orbital period, and an associated timestamp or equivalent information.

So, include that data and it’s lossy compression, exclude it and it’s not.
One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped sexual assault
Oh, I thought someone made an addon for the original Unreal from 1998. I should have known better, but it's still funny to me.
A loan isn’t a loss. A business can’t deduct that either.
A Course on Ray Tracing and Global Illumination
I think the difference is the volume. Previously locally produced content had to be sold into each market, and was limited by the broadcast schedule of relatively small numbers of channels. Sure, I grew up with childrens programming from across Europe - including East Bloc countries - and some shows like Derrick were popular in Norway too, but the limited broadcast schedule meant there was only ever going to be a small number of shows from most countries.

When Netflix produces content itself, or contracts it, the cost of putting it into other markets is reduced to translation, and they have a strong incentive to maximise the value of their investment by making the content available more broadly, and they don't have the same limitation of broadcast schedules limiting what they can make available.

I'm Norwegian. I've lived in the UK 21 years. I've seen more Scandinavian content pop up on my UK Netflix subscription in the last couple of years than on the regular UK TV channels for the last 21.

To what extent people get shown or find content from other European countries is another matter - my Netflix homepage is still very much dominated by US and UK series.
The following is Serge's account of Dyson's account of Fermi's opinion of QED [1]:

'''
“When Dyson met Fermi, he quickly put aside the graphs he was being shown indicating agreement between theory and experiment.

His verdict, as Dyson remembered, was “There are two ways of doing calculations in theoretical physics. One way, and this is the way I prefer, is to have a clear physical picture of the process you are calculating. The other way is to have a precise and self-consistent mathematical formalism. You have neither.”

When a stunned Dyson tried to counter by emphasizing the agreement between experiment and the calculations, Fermi asked him how many free parameters he had used to obtain the fit. Smiling after being told “Four,” Fermi remarked, “I remember my old friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.” There was little to add.”
'''

[1] Segre G., Hoerlin B. The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age. Henry Holt and Co, 2016 ISBN 9781627790055

This quote is from Oliver Consa's 2020 paper: "Something is rotten in the state of QED".
I have the s20+ and tried to disable bixby as much as possible, but it cant be uninstalled (short of adb hacks that can get lost with updates), and even after disabling everything i could it kept popping up asking to update, though that thankfully stopped after a month or so of regular annoying popups. Probably going stock android next time
What's wrong with Ruby but Python is fine?
Oh, OK. There was a misunderstanding.

I was talking about announcements of government policies in various European countries to prohibit or tightly limit sales of new fossil fueled vehicles by 2030 or 2035 or similar year, not about current annual sales of vehicles.

As I said, the conventional wisdom changed from "electric vehicles are not practical" to " we must have only electric vehicles" in the space of a decade in which Tesla showed that EVs could be as practical as fossil fuel vehicles.[1] Other manufacturers (VW, Toyota, Hyundai-Kia, etc., are now scrambling to catch up.

1. Yes, the Nissan Leaf was there too, and a few others, but it/they suffered from short range and/or other compromises, so the "impractical" label remained in the minds of policymakers. And it/they suffered from undermarketing, because the makers didn't want to cannibalise their ICE vehicle sales.
If health care was properly private (not pseudo private) it would be really cheap. I had private health care in Spain / Gibraltar and it was relatively quite cheap.

The NHS is a massive money sink that always requires more money to keep on operating. I've heard the chant of "Save the NHS" since I was a child. As someone who parents are Labour voters (my ancestors used to work in the mines) even they are starting to think it might not be worth it.
Parent has a point. Even if it's difficult, teach her to mute and ignore them. Seriously, my parents taught me some disgust against ads, and it's one thing they did right.
Dang. In all this time, I've always wondered why it was worth the money to pursue this litigation. I knew that the execs at SCO were making money through the whole thing, but I never paid attention to the stock price, and insider trading. That makes a lot of sense. It's probably too hard to go back and research that angle now. Do you have any links to such information?
Can you deduct the interest paid on student loans in subsequent years? I think this is possible in some countries (iirc Belgium always deducting certain interest payments for personal taxes)
The world will always face problems and we will always be the victim of these if we don't have the knowledge to combat them. The more people we are the more we are likely to produce the wealth, knowledge and solutions for those problems.

The idea that the worlds population is a problem is in my world an antihuman stance which keeps popping up even tough it keeps being proven wrong. Wether Maltahus, Erlich or the UN.
afaik that is a design decision by nintendo.

i think it did support roaming in the past and they disabled it in an OS update.
I'm a college student trying to get into software development. I was recently hired to build a dashboard around some data stuck in an archaic platform.

I went with Phoenix and Elixir, and I really liked the combination of a focus on development enjoyment (inspired by Ruby on Rails) combined with an anti-magic attitude, so you can trace through what actually executes pretty easily. I haven't had much other experience though, so that that with a large grain of salt.

My client was very happy with the speed of development and quality of the final product, so I consider it a successful choice by the main metric that matters here.

Edit: The main pain point has been deployment. I spent an afternoon on some shell scripts that scp to a virtual server that mostly work fine, but I don't understand sysadmining very well and I I'm pretty sure they'll blow up on me at some point. It would be really nice if there was a tool that took care of the actual servers part for me.
Actually, the title of the post specifically says "novel tools". That apparently didn't make it into the body of the post, but almost everyone is primed by the title to expect novel solutions in the answers.

That said, I don't think there's any harm in reminding people that there are plenty of non-novel solutions already that they might not have fully considered.
In practise, how do you know if SDG has converged to a global optimum, and do you let it run long enough in practise until covergence?
They do sell such devices yeah, yet what most people buy make use of MIUI, likewise for the other vendors.
We're story tellers with lives, perhaps it allows a person to feel like they're more than a cog in a wheel existing just to please some impatient internet stranger?
As an expert in CRUD - is security a financially viable field for someone who knows nothing about it past SQL and JavaScript injections?
Does that not depend upon the process in which the creator of such an AI goes through?
A post on HN yesterday said Local Storage is not secure from XSS attacks.
I don't like the execution but I like the idea

If your candidate mentions a certain technology that is awful it is hard to not think it's an awful candidate. Especially if this is not central to the problem at hand.

Yes, CVs mentioning ClearCase go to the bottom of my pile

Mentioning CMMI, SAFe, ITIL or other acronym made to take money out of clueless managers also are heavy clues that you'd be not a good fit.
They lose software updates by then anyways
Wow, how does he make that ball and coin levitate. Is this a CGI prank?
My main issue with Elixir (and maybe this has changed in the last 3 years since I looked at it), is that there isn't a strong open source package libraries available like you see in Rails. People complained that you end up writing boiler plate code for things that in Node or Ruby would just be a package.

I've heard great things about the language and framework though.
Can a cliche be a fad?
In my opinion, there should not be caps on anything productive that we allow deductions for.

When you want to tax high-income people at a higher rate, have the courage and forthrightness to simply raise their rate; don't do it via the backdoor complexity of phaseouts.
There was a run on HOTAS controllers when Star Wars: Squadrons was due for release. Star Wars "space" combat is basically WW2 style dogfighting, so it's not far removed from flight simulator territory.
Robert Boyle’s To-Do List
The six figure per seat cost of cadence is a lot to the point of being unobtainable for even early stage of what would become unicorns.

It's not like giant checks are generally being written to these startups that have no users and no engineering done yet.
Predictability is one of the biggest determining factors in economic stability. Places with a weak rule of law are typically not places that people consider well run.
Space Aces: Terminal Edition – A Tool to Play Space Aces from Terminal
Communication is about co: sharing information that is wanted to be sent and wanted to be received. Readers aren't meant to be a captive audience for shaggy dog tales. The article is on the review of Journalism website, not a storytelling website.

Overpacking a story with junk (how ironic!) makes it harder to spread the important ideas of the article, which hurts the author's goal.
Could also be because recording calls without telling is highly illegal in a lot if not all of europe. There are still apps that can do that afaik
> Human beings cannot do the equivalent

Please do not spread disinformation. This is some Qanon level bs.

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc409
I use Cloudbackend [1] to create my projects serverless sql database and APIs with the API builder, it's generating the node.js code and publish it to aws lambda.
For the frontend I use either Vanilla js (no framework) or Vue.js
[1] https://cloudbackend.appdrag.com/
Ucode: Tiny Scripting and Templating Language
Marx was right about the way that a population stratifies into classes being a useful lens to study history through. His conclusion that communism/socialism was both inevitable and desirable has been thoroughly disproven of course, but that doesn't mean that you can't use class conflict to understand things that happen. Brexit for example didn't fit neatly into a left-vs-right model but it does fit into working-class-vs-bourgeoisie.
Many European countries have a high health insurance tax rate, but capped to a certain income.

Eg. Germany has a 14.6% rate for health insurance[1], but capped at 56,250 EUR of income, thus making it capped at 8,212.50 EUR annually, or 684.38 EUR monthly. Still a lot more than your $92 a month :)

[1]https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/germany/individual/other-taxes
That sounds about right - expecting predictably unnoticeable latency from typing and predictable interface without updates being forced on you, is a kind of "deliberately cultivated form of eccentricity" :)

Merely using vim does not shield you from occassional bowel movements of the modern OS which introduce sudden infuriating spikes of latency.
In SU young women had essentially the same de facto 'opportunities' as young men, not withstanding certain society stereotypes.
Actually it was illegal to be a 'housewife' (with some legal exclusions). That means - you have to work. After the birth of child and the period of state-mandated maternity leave (3 years in later period) you have to go back to workforce.
So the motivation to study was to escape the grueling realities of kolkhoz or factory and achieve a better standard of living.

In fact the expectation was the both parents would be working and the child would be in childcare or kindergarten. Which of course put a lot of pressure on women due to reality of being a housewife and a full-time working woman at the same time.

There was also a lot of collective pressure - if you do not have a child by certain age you would be considered a failure, which is hard to attribute to communism per se but to certain backwardness and lack of education.

But I still think that big difference in fertility is the change from peasant family with 5-8 children to the urban family of 1-2.
When has Paris not been in lockdown in the last 2 years? March 2019 France mass arrested boatloads of people. Tons of journalists and activists fled the country.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/09/france-thousa...

covid only gave them an excuse to go even further.
Bought a Model Y last month. I did not opt for FSD.

If the rumors come true and they offer it as a monthly subscription service, I might buy it for a few months at a time for summer road trips. Navigate on Autopilot would make a long drive like that more comfortable.

But otherwise I made the decision on the feature set it has now, and I can’t justify spending 20% of the car’s price on that.

If they brought out the “enhanced autopilot” feature they offered in the EU for roughly equivalent to USD $4000 I’d jump on that in an instant.
When I was 6 years old, I started reading my family's collection of Jules Verne in Russian translation (I chose the books whose covers looked interesting). I was a reasonably smart kid, but certainly not a genius, not exceptionally talented.

If you find it unreasonable to expect a smart first grader to be able to read Harry Potter, then my reaction is that either written English is unexpectedly much more difficult to learn for a child compared to written Russian, or American parents and teachers are doing an unexpectedly bad job of teaching it.
We live in a much cleaner, safer and richer world today than we did 100 years ago.

Resources is something we invent and use not something we deplete. We use these resources to make the world even safer, richers, to pull more people out of poverty all based on producing things of value that humans appreciate.

You are more than welcome to not use the computer you are likely to be using for writing your comments.

But you won't because it's valuable to you, more valuable than the "depletion" of the resources that was used to make it.

So now take you and multiply by 7 billion people and you will see why we are choosing to keep creating and coming up with new resources.
> Can a cliche be a dad?

This particular cliche has grandkids by now.
I love Star Trek TNG but it was about as “ludicrous” in a lot of ways.

I also grew up on Soviet movies and cartoons so this doesn’t look as out of place to me as I guess it might to someone who’s never seen this genre of film.
Your intuition is correct. This site [1] includes graphs covering political values of Americans from 1994 to 2017, and it's very clear that politics is much more polarized than in the past.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/interactives/political-...