skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, since r > g, you will get wealth concentration if you have lower fertility rates.
Plenty of people (from any point on the spectrum) identify as apolitical because they think their beliefs about the world are the neutral standard. They don't feel the need to discuss politics, but in their mind that doesn't cover things like that crazy story on the news about parents who were letting their daughter pretend to be a boy, or mentioning that their sister's wife is visiting.
One of the main reason there is one party in power is because of the American occupation. While the American wanted to get rid of the the most "rightist" factions of the elite for obvious reasons, they quickly change to fight communism (see the book "embracing defeat"). I don't think it is an especially inherent Japanese thing.

People can be very individualistic in Japan as well, it just expresses itself in a different way than more Western cultures. It is very broad generalization, but in the west we like to show ourselves as more individual than we really are, while it tends to be the opposite in Japan. Open conflict avoidance is certainly more common in e.g. corporations in Japan, at least in my experience. But that's a very narrow definition of collectivism.
When not ISO, it is ECMA.

Many industries won't touch a language if it doesn't come with a standard and multiple implementations.

Even languages like Java, C#, F#, have their standard documents, or foundation with working groups that are hardly any different from either ISO or ECMA, as means to be taken into those industries.
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> > in FORTRAN, GOD is REAL

> but not COMPLEX

Theology concurs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_simplicity
The idea of the race, bikes, and how we measure the whole thing is arbitrary to begin with :-)
Blatant self promotion, but my friend and I just launched an LED cube kit on Kickstarter [1] which you might be interested in (no soldering). It's just the outermost LEDs on three sides, but the idea is similar, you create all sorts of animations in just a few lines of Python, e.g. use 4D noise to create a digital lava lamp effect etc. Also every component exposes a REST endpoint, so you can use other languages too.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1202256831/lumicube-an-...
In Germany there was the Staatstrojaner (Federal Trojan horse) case uncovered by the Chaos Computer Club: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club#Staatstroj...
For example, Chinese goverment? As a former Economist subscriber, I know there's an intended wording bias on their articles.
It has centralized accounts management, but I dont remember that emails and IM was the same app.
But you could use any protocol from the messaging app (xmpp, sms etc)...
> as the government option will offer better quality service at lower cost than is economical for a private company, since the government has no profit mo

FFS that’s not why republicans have problems with the government services. The issue isn’t that government doesn’t have to make a profit, it’s that it doesn’t have to be sustainable at all (i.e. it doesn’t even have to bring in enough money to support itself unlike a non-profit).

Additionally, nobody is afraid the government is going to be “better quality”. That’s not the case in most markets where the government operates.

The concern is that the government can operate a service financially unsustainably and and offer a shitty service for so cheap that it destroys the market for better services.

A government-funded high-speed deployment of 20mbps to the house that goes out for an hour during the night and occasionally disconnects for a few seconds throughout the day that only costs $2.99/mo will destroy the competition, run a deficit, and people will have worse service because of it.
the 2025 station they're talking about is the sino-russian moon base[0], not an earth satellite.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-russ...
You're making it sound like it is my problem that I have to commute. That is as much my problem as it is company's problem.
I highly recommend playing https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/ through - maybe in the background - it's a great way to experience the entire mission and enjoy the interaction between the three astronauts.
> If they take the advice of the consulting firm, and things go sour, then it was just "bad advice", they can pick another consultant and wipe their hands clean.

More commonly they just ignore the problems and pretend it's successful, since anyone involved in making the decisions to use the consultancy is at least 3 level of abstraction away from anyone that has to actually use the product. The staff will do half the work in excel or the old system as a workaround and by the time anyone up the chain of command discovers what a clusterfuck things truly are the people running the project have moved on and been promoted anyway.
If it was only ever about batteries they would have A) been open about it B) consequently not fined for deceptive commercial practices.

I find it astounding how many people believed that the cover story was the unvarnished truth given the lack of transparency exhibited by Apple over the matter, the obvious incentive and the natural proclivity so many similar industries have towards planned obsolescence (lightbulb conspiracy?).

It's a hell of a reality distortion field.

>Replacing the battery returned the handset to full speed.

Ah yes, the battery they sealed into the phone.
US tells citizens to leave India As Covid Crisis Deepens
Do you have a link for the retirement visa process? This is the first time I hear about it.
I'm surprised there's no mention of New Order's Blue Monday in there. I thought it was seen as a key moment in the history of techno? Can anyone with more knowledge than me comment on why it isn't there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYH8DsU2WCk
TIL. But even after insolvency there must be a way to enforce personal liability on whoever was in charge of the company that drilled the well in the first place.
> if you're trying to avoid triggering someone...

...then you probably won't succeed anyway, as triggers tend to be random associations.
It is a "mojibake" of 三個和尚沒水喝[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Monks
Switzerland also has a wealth tax. So parked money are taxed this way as well.
Heatpumps are a pretty good way to heat.
Histories of techno always leave out some of my favorites from the early 2000s Adam Beyer / Drumcode era of fast maximalist techno—Zenit records for instance

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPN0gicPJTTUJVhVMzCne...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOfuXwU6GoQ

And I was surprised they mentioned Surgeon and Regis, but not their Downwards Records

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBilbhSIIhgKbRezA7RoO...
I'm sorry but I have to disagree here.

You want your speech to be free from consequences -- i.e if you were to call someone a liar / cheat, they can't change their opinion of you based on what you've said? How is that compatible with their freedom of thought?

To me, freedom of speech means I shouldn't worry about legal repercussions for expressing wrongthink.

There is perhaps a separate discussion to be had about the sort of society we want to live in - do we want to promote open discussion, even if it can be divisive? But I don't think it's really a rights issue unless the consequences progress from social / economic to legal.
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> They try to be as concise as possible.

Calling it the "definitive history of techno" and then trying to be as concise as possible seems a bit presumptuous to me, though...
Purchase Sharing is at the bottom of the Family Sharing preferences.
I have used Plant UML a lot and I love it. Anything that can help me draw less figures is a bonus and the markup language they use is pretty flexible and ergonomic.

However, I have one major gripe with Plant UML. About 3-4 years ago, my local install started showing memorial plaques for people who died in a terrorist attack in Paris [1]. While this attack was undoubtedly a horrible event, I still feel it is deeply unprofessional to include stuff like that in a program, and it makes me lose all trust in the developers. If they had just added a memorial section in the program, it would have been fine. However, for every error generating a diagram, Plant UML would show a popup window with a picture and a text in memory of that person.

This is similar to what the Notepad++ developer(s) did back in 2013-ish where they had a memorial build into a new release of the program. On startup, Notepad++ would write (literally type it out) some message into the default empty document [2].

It might be a bit harsh. But in my mind, if the developers of these programs can be so influenced as to push this onto their unsuspecting users, I feel they have misused my trust. It makes me think: "What are they going to put into it next? Malware? Perhaps watermark the output with a statement?"

Since these events, I have avoided Notepad++ entirely and been reluctant to use Plant UML, but used it out of necessity.

[1] https://github.com/plantuml/plantuml/issues/25
[2] https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/v6.7.4/
Yeah not surprising at all. Give any sandboxy tool for free to a bunch of anonymous internet users and you can be sure it'll mostly be used for these things.

I mean, even reddit is full of nsfw, explicit, borderline subs with millions of active users
Trains are better than driving since you can work and read.

But after I've done the whole day on the train thing a few times I'll typically pick flying, also because it's much cheaper.

Overnight trains are great though.
Scientific journals do not perform medical tests.
Techno finds its roots in tribal music. Its repetitive patterns allow deep self-reflection and strong connection to inner feelings.

disclaimer: I love techno
I read a paper on tunneling costs. One of their explanations why costs were higher in the US was the government shifts the risk onto the contractor. And then tries to save money by not employing enough oversight.

The result low numbers of heavily padded bids on contracts. And then execution tends to be inflexible and prone to bogging down.
This comment is downvoted but nonetheless true: US congress essentially excluded China from cooperating with NASA in 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_exclusion_policy_of_NASA
No, the current declining has nothing to do with the one child policy which has been removed for years. But the editors of the Economists obviously have more love for one-child-policy-topic than any real reasons.
You lost me at "Blackberry got it right..."

I remember being issued a Blackberry at work and thinking what a terrible idea it was (both the corporate decision and the device). We were doing a software integration with Blackberry servers, and testing that integration was the only reason any of us actually used our newly issued phones. When the iPhone came out two years later, we recognized true innovation and never looked back.
That story is a dramatized version of events designed to be a Facebook meme: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/15/afl-cio/wi...
It seems like there's a fundamental lack of differentiation between the OOA and OOD parts of the UML in the recent discussions.
> Only 1000 editions of Private Views were published

For context this is towards the higher end of a standard print run in the photobook world. Most niche art/photo books will be printed in runs of only 50, 100, perhaps a few hundred, or at most 1,000 so "Only 1000 editions" is actually at the upper end and this is in no way "limited-edition". Unless the project goes viral it's unlikely the book itself will ever be sold out, such is the nature of the [lack of] demand for printed photobooks.

So getting the project featured on various sites helps sell a few dozen here and there and works towards clawing back the initial investment. Clearly this was an expensive book to produce as single copies are in the range of €70, which is almost double what most niche photobooks sell for. I'm sure some of the subjects included in the project will be interested in copies, so there's a meta aspect there.

If the book does sell out then the price of [secondhand] copies will increase above the original price, and you can find the value can double, or even increase by an order of magnitude. So a project about views you can't see unless you can afford them, becomes a book about views you can't see unless you can afford them which itself you can't afford. Another meta aspect.
OpenNebula CE Patch Release 6.0.0.1 is available for download
Palm’s webOS did a unified inbox the best way. BlackBerry had a few implementations in the 2000s but the one this article refers to wasn’t really a true unified inbox, in part because the applet support for many of the services was weak (you had to go through weird protocols to send IM messages through BIS/BES whatever). The latter implementations with BlackBerry 10 were OK, but this was something Palm really nailed.
I'm a complete layman but reading about the replication prevention I wonder:

Could it be that they left E1 intact deliberately? I suppose (naively) that a virus that replicates should cause a stronger immune system response and therefore increase efficacy. Being an adenovirus the worst thing that could happen is that you get a common cold.

Common cold once vs potential death is not the worst trade-off imaginable, if you ask me.
Yea now most content is blog spam.
An open source TTRPG town generator that outputs text ready to read out
> “They all talked about having a golf simulator room—I’ve never heard of this thing before, but they all had it,”

Why are wealthy people so much into golf? It seems like the dullest of activities. Is it just because other rich people say they like golf, and they're all such conformists?
Live by ideology, die by ideology.

I am not trying to defend the Indian PM, whom I barely know by name, but it is not as if the West does not have similar weaknesses. Mass BLM rallies were allowed to go forward because the political price for banning them and enforcing the ban through use of force would have been too high. Even though it was already known that going to rallies is a risky behavior.

Fortunately for the U.S. at that moment, no extra infectious variant was in circulation. AFAIK India has a nasty variant that makes things worse.
No fucking way
You completely ignored the point of the article, which is that Blackberry created a unified inbox and no app has since been able to do that. Even on iPhone.
It’s a valid point that some political issues are workplace-oriented, but in my organization they manifest as HR policies and are not up for personal debate round the water cooler.
The managers building railways and deciding on schedules hire firms to build these models.

I shared a co-working space with a guy who did this for a few years.
My prediction was RIGHT. Photoshop
It's different. I think if you are interested in the subject, then you retain it. Also because you can do other things at the same time, you can listen to say three different books on one subject rather than read one book on that subject - that way you get differing viewpoints, which also aid retention.

When I first started listening to audiobooks I did find that my mind would wander, but I've discovered that if I play the audiobooks at a slightly faster speed, I have to pay attention more and so my mind doesn't wander so easily.
could just be different cultural background.
I haven't used a BlackBerry but I think the reason that's possible is because BlackBerry has some kind of rich notification api where all the app can hook into it? or it's a pull based where the app has a local api where BlackBerry OS can pull the messge via local app and show in there.

Either way, I think to achieve this, we need an open platform. I'm not saying open source, but I think we have to have an easy way to access to our data. Can I curl gmail to get my email. nope. Can I curl facebook to get my message. nope. I like Telegram because I can literally just curl it to fetch my message.

I think about this a lot and apparently go and build my own email platform[1] which you can literally just do this:

curl https://api.hanami.run/v1/mails and get a nice JSON mail.

Once all the platform has an easy API like that, I imagined we will see many 3rd client to create a unification UI for all kind of content.

https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ is a client that unify slack+discord.

We're far from perfect but I think first steps for anyone building a chat service or an email platform is to have a very easy and user-friendly API to access their own data.

Similarly the https://matrix.org/ protocol is very promising and if enopugh people adopt that protocol we may have that dream come true, as long as anything speak that protocol, we can hook it up to our chat app.

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https://hanami.run
> when a natural monopoly exists by way of the last mile.

Given how many people actually have multiple options in the last mile, it’s not a natural monopoly.
Salty, but not wrong!
Just remember that what is politics is also politics. Ideology can be found in everything, including what you consider "being professional".
Uh, the Valley of the Kings was only actively used for a comparatively short period throughout Egypt's entire history. What does it have to do with this? What do you think Egyptians did with their kings before the Valley of the Kings was established and after it ceased to be used?

> First of all, nobody knows who built them, how they were built, nor why they were built.

> and despite the Egyptians documenting everything, there are no claims by them that Khufu or anyone else in their documented history built the Pyramids.

https://www.livescience.com/55439-ancient-logbook-on-great-p...

> Over a period of several months, [the logbook] reports — in [the] form of a timetable with two columns per day — many operations related to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza and the work at the limestone quarries on the opposite bank of the Nile

I guess this Merer guy is one of those you were looking for.
> Also, there are better diagrams for protocols than message sequence UML, but those don't have good tooling.

Interesting. What would those be? TIA
Gamaleya themselves says they removed E1. There is no reason to doubt it.
I think it's the Cool Japan strategy at work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Japan
This is such a simple but poorly-appreciated idea. Why is this absurd myth about the origins of money still taught in schools?
Were your TV shows, video games, etc really lacking in politics before? Or was it just a different kind of politics? (Honest question.)
Limiting it to legal consequences is not enough. There are also physical and psychological safety consequences that are relevant. You're not, for example, free to speak your mind if expressing wrongthink will result in a punch to the face.

In the context of a workplace (being the topic of this post, after all), one such consequence is the loss of your job. Something that is very real these days, with so-called activists doxing people and trying to get them fired just because they dared to express a dissenting opinion.
No, the expectation of being able to say anything and not be responsible for it, is what's wrong.

Say what you want, but be prepared to stand by it and take responsibility for it, in a court of law if necessary.

Free speech is a right, and thus it requires the person exercising that right to understand that it does not absolve them from being held responsible for what they say or express.

Just like the 2nd amendment doesn't shield you from all possible consequences of exercising that right to bear arms.

Rights are not "get out of jail free" cards.
Ask HN: What if C, Java, Go, Python, C#, Swift, Ruby are in a boxing ring?
> so email search still sucks

Email is a standard set of protocols and wire formats. So it doesn't make sense to say email search sucks.

If your email client doesn't support satisfactory search, switch clients. Which you can do because it's a standard, not a proprietary app.
I still use mine and must say, despite being a die hard Linux person, it's one of my favorite computers ever. Silent and tiny, yet fully featured. It's great for the couch, the bed, planes, traveling, etc.

The thinness trade offs with the butterfly keyboard and USB C actually make sense for an ultraportable (as opposed to a desktop replacement like the pro).

> I had some issues with dust in the keyboard
I use a keyboard cover to get around this.

> Biggest downside is that it got very hot during video calls, which wasn't as big of an issue in 2016 as it is now.
Agreed, it's not great for video, esp. since the camera also kind of sucks.

I'd totally buy an updated version.
I agree but if 100,000 homes became available tomorrow in London they’d sell in an instant. I don’t think any number will solve it - the problem is existing homes not being lived in and being used as income.
This is addressed in the article:

Now, there have been debates over the years about whether you’d get a more effective vaccine that way, with a “replication-competent” adenovirus, but generally it’s believed that you can do fine with the “replication-incompetent” ones, which let you *not* give your patients a new viral infection at the same time.
Why would a country with an aging population want more retirees?
Tbone: Remotely attacking the Tesla infotainment system via wi-fi
> Public and private will always be on unequal footing, due to the difference in the their objectives.

No they won’t. Public projects can be setup to require that they are revenue neutral or positive.
> This is useful for trade and military operations.

This has been an unfortunate truth for the US and USSR before it (and other empires before that).
For a depressing insight into how little we have learned, Boys in Zinc
by Svetlana Alexievich is a good read.
The amount of "please close gates" signs you see, and complaints about people not doing so, leads me to believe that generally speaking the land owners want the gates closed.

If I see a gate propped open on the other hand, then yes this is almost certainly deliberate, quite likely by someone working the area rather than by some random, and I'd leave it as is after passing through.
And for astronomers an order of magnitude can sometimes be 100^(1/5) =~ 2.512.

I hate it, too, when people call a quadratic curve "exponential".
No.

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/super.abril.com.br/blog/bruno-ga...

“Nível de RCAs, principal argumento usado para vetar o imunizante russo, não foi medido pela agência - que afirma ter se baseado em documento do próprio Instituto Gamaleya”
> I feel like I’ve tried every email client out there, but is there some solution I haven’t thought of of where I get a friendly GUI but can configure mail filtering in code (i.e something I can keep in git) rather than clicking around?

A couple jobs ago, before I gave up on processing all my mail, I had a perl script that grabbed headers from IMAP (with caching, because Exchange is slooooow), and filtered with code (basically a list of pairs of code refs that took a message => what folder to move the message if the code returned something truthy (or maybe the code returned a folder... not sure anymore). This let me do things that are hard in server side filters like moving things only when it's read.
It's unfortunate that the customization of UML is not more accessible. This could cover exactly the use case "a reduced, specialized subset" with full editor support.
I think a lot of people have never heard of the lightbulb conspiracy.
I think you're generally right but bizarrely I'm dreading the day when I have to replace my stuff. I love my phone's TouchID, size and headphone jack. And my Macbook was peak touchpad/keyboard (I actually bought a 2019 and resold it within days). Here's to hoping good stuff lasts 10 years.