skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Point out where I said the US was the greatest country in the world, please. Again, you can't actually address the problems people have with China, so you deflect back to the US. Meanwhile, countries other than the US, ones that don't even like us, are running the same stories about the Uighur genocide.

If anyone's acting like a kindergartener with their fingers in their ears here, it's the one who's rejecting every ounce of evidence that's placed in front of them that China does, in fact, have problems. That seems to be a point you're critically unable to accept.
That's what I meant so that some people can not call the holocaust a conspiracy theory.
The point of sealed classes is that you have a known number of possible representations. So you can have `when` blocks that exhaustively check all possibilities. Having an open class hierarchy would not work for that purpose.
Happy user here. Thanks to everyone involved! Blender is getting so much better with every release, the magnitude & quality of new features is unbelievable.
Looking forward to 2.93.
I retried and it now works fine on all my new and old machines. Seems like the bugs are solved.
> Not sure where you're getting your news of a "nationwide ethnic cleansing" from, other than western news sources that intentionally feed propaganda to rile people up for war.

Wikipedia begs to disagree with you. This is a real problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps#Reac...
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Each repo defines its own Nix files; changing them (e.g. to swap github to gitlab) required new git commits; using those new git commits as our source changes the hash, since it's based on the inputs rather than the content. If it were content-based, the tool's hash wouldn't change (since the change to the .nix files in the new source commit wouldn't affect the contents of the resulting binaries).
> Other significant causes of death (including suicide, influenza, road traffic accidents) appear to be down.

Can you source your other claims? At least one seems to be wrong. Traffic deaths seem to be up:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2021/03/05/pandemi...
Here is an screenshot of the IDE and more info https://docs.racket-lang.org/drracket/interface-essentials.h... It includes syntax highlight (that is difficult because you can add your own syntax), online help, debugging, debugging of macros (that are the way to add your own syntax).
While Apple and it's ad business will be the biggest beneficiaries, it will not be a surprise if Google and FB also partially benefit. The clear losers will be all the smaller players.
Please don't name-call, or set up straw-man attacks. Neither of those is appropriate for HN.
How about OVH? They now have data centers in Canada and the US as well as Europe.
Where did that money go to? To the "socialist" stimulus checks?

The majority of money printed was loaned out to banks and other institutions, which promptly put that money back into the stock market and other investments.

Think about it this way. Would you rather have your investments crash and pay the same taxes, or take the tax increase and also have your investments go up? If you would prefer the second, you benefited from the government's actions.

In fact, I feel the lower class were the ones that the government took from, in the form of impending inflation.
No, I don't.

My turn: do you expect more than half of all households in America to be paying no federal income tax at all?
I have a low opinion of it! And I'm not in a tiny minority there. There have been other query languages that seemed better to me, but SQL won. SQL's not nearly as wordy as COBOL though, if you want to calculate tax in SQL you're going to write a formula. I think there's a time and place for different styles of languages, for a general purpose (or even business-oriented) language I think it should have a relatively simple and succinct syntax. I just think a programming language that's more consistent and mechanical is easier for most people to grok, and I know a ton of programmers that like to tell everyone that they "sucked at maths, you don't need to be good at maths to program", the syntax didn't put them off.
Yeah, if you're outside the EU, you can safely ignore this with no consequences. There is absolutely no international debt collection for 30 euros between countries. Honestly even if you were local I highly doubt anyone is going to initiate 'legal proceedings' over such a small amount
Goodwill doesn't want broken toasters
What do you think of this as a starting point: https://datapeek.org/?explorer_view=quest ?
Jolla Bringing Sailfish OS to Sony Xperia 10 II
> YLL is a horrifying metric because it values someone who is 20 over someone who is 60.

Not to my father, who is in his late 60s and the most at-risk member of the family, and who has been more opposed to the lockdowns than any of us.

His calculation is that at some point - for the good of the family, long-term - the economic damage and delayed social development of his grandchildren outweigh his personal safety.

I have encountered very few older people who don't also think this way.
To mitigate the tracking problem, Firefox only defers loading of images when JS is enabled: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/im...

Chrome seemed to behave this way as well when I tested it a while ago. It's covered in the spec: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/urls-and-fetching.htm...
Kotlin's STDLIB collection types are essentially aliases for the Java types. So while the Scala adapters are low-cost, in Kotlin everything's zero-cost.

One other benefit of that is you maintain object identity. I don't think that Scala's wrappers do that.
I just want to point out that Apple is ostensibly doing this in the name of transparency, and yet here we have a whole thread of technologically proficient people debating what the setting actually means.

Does it mean that if the users don't know about this option in the settings they will never be prompted to allow tracking, and just implicitly disallow it? If that's the case, the prompt is just transparency theater, Apple has already made the decision; and it's hard not to notice the conflict of interest.

[throwaway because I work in the industry, but not in ads]
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You don’t have to use implicits though, but you’d be super happy they’re there should you ever be in a situation where they’re helpful
"Apple has always had a good reputation in terms of security. But the company has been reluctant to speak publicly and candidly about specific security incidents."

All I get from this is apple probably has absolutely horrid security and just doesn't disclose incidents. A company with nothing to hide doesn't hide things
Engines are one place the Chinese are lacking. The innovations in fly-by-wire we see in the Chinese knockoff of the Blackhawk was out of necessity because they lack an engine powerful enough to support a platform with hydraulic controls that meets operational requirements.
Facebook CEO, wife purchase another 600 acres of land on Kauai for $53M
The IHME has been wildly wrong yet highly cited for over a year now. I've still got screencaps of their models that predict around 90,000 total deaths in the USA by the end of 2020. They were lifting a sigmoid curve off of China's numbers and applying it to the United States entirely blindly. It didn't even predict the shape of the decline off the first peak correctly since it was implicitly assuming the US would take similar steps to China (martial law) and drive the R0 down to 0.4 or so.
I would argue that the Taliban was different - a guerrilla battle (similar to Vietnam - which we also lost) rather than a direct conflict. I believe that the US, while not very good at the former, is still among the best at the latter - although I would rather not find that out through direct experience...
This whole case has been a lot more interesting than I thought it would be.

Judges and lawyers talking about the metaphysics of what a ‘game’ is. Ha
Using immutables doesn’t mean you go full Haskell. Strings are also immutable you know.
> Hard to scale for serious cases, clustering is impossible in the open source edition and the commercial version costs in the 5 figures per cluster node

I'm really tired of these fake open source projects. If you really believe in software freedom, you simply don't build or distribute proprietary software.

Open core is bullshit. It's like a free software kernel distributed with a closed source libc. Nobody would call that project open source.
What about the short term solution of PIP culture?

Sure you get short term results because colleagues are competing against one another to not get into the PIP meat grinder, but inevitably it leads to burnout and people leaving.

Not to mention Amazon’s reputation in tech is pretty low b/c everyone knows about this management by PIP culture
"and my axe"

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=%22...
There are no guarantees that it is the same object you get so it is pointless.
You're right, but the laws create the opportunity. a prohibition creates a black market and cartels or gangs form in order to meet the demand of the market.
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I have the exact symptoms as you - no headache but visual aura.

I think my triggers are a lack of food/hydration and bright lights.
The XY problem is really a collaboration problem... most discussion media are all horribly transient. When you're explaining a problem you did figure out all that context, but you're guessing as to what context the next person needs. That's necessarily going to leave out things you don't know you need to explain.

At work, I have to go from team to team for some issues, and we're special (yay) because we're an acquisition, so we're doing some very odd things by corporate standards. Even the fact that we have a customer facing application is unusual, and I've essentially renamed our API to be "BackendForFrontend" entirely because each new team assumes our API must be entirely developer facing.

What I've found is it's tremendously helpful to always link back to (and quote from) Jira issues so the necessary context is present whenever I'm asking questions. Whether it's Jira or Confluence, you want to treat problem resolution the way you do development: it's a permanent thing you're building. And I mean permanent, if you solve a problem, you do a write-up for future you.
Does it make you a better infantryman? No. Is the type of person that plays games probably better at figuring out different mechanics of the various systems in use by the military? Probably.

You can't generalize "soldier" into one MOS(military occupation). While the main goal of the military is to fight wars and conflicts, that requires many different skill sets and different job requirements.
How is the carbon tax rate derived then?
Well if consumers didn't want to die they would have upgraded to our premium safety module for only a $9.99/mo maintenance fee and $1200 installation (was $1700).
"Re-education camps" which are closer to detainment camps, repeated IP theft from the US, blackmailing US companies into falling in line with CPC policies, and also invading other nations (Hong Kong) with their military.
I was just thinking of this. And came to the conclusion how fragile Facebook really is compared to the rest of FAANMG. Google has search/YouTube/Android. Apple has a thriving iOS and hardware business. Amazon has AWS. Microsoft has Azure abd Office. All of Facebook's business is based on data mining. If Whatsapp starts charging money Signal will laugh all the way to the bank.

I won't be surprised if Facebook starts shopping for a phone manufacturer and spins their own Facebook mobile distro in the future.
That would happen if you call something a currency. Maybe we should have called it something else, and derived its value from its application. But hindsight, etc. The plan was btc would be insanely liquid and decentralized it would collapse the banking system. So we went 200% with cryptocurrency. Now we’re trying to force the planet to ignore the potential sunk cost of having invested their life savings into it, to instead look at more useful tokens.
What I learned by re-learning HTML
I know that GCC for example is tested on a bunch of wacky old - read: obsolete ;) - hardware, so it's certainly possible that the same is true for Linux.
To be fair, the same goes for javascript.
> When you blast air into their lungs it is really easy to accidentally blast bacteria all over them as well

You might consider yourself lucky if they blast air into your lungs. Italian healthcare was using pure oxygen, which, used at prolonged periods of time basically burns your lungs. Some government officials recently admitted that this caused a lot of "COVID" deaths.
You definitely didn't read the article. It's less than 20%
A lot of Android is on dirt cheap phones - huge user bases in India or Africa.
It hurts, because it is true.
The Philippi Collection
Not to be too offensive, but it _is_ lazy no? This stuff is important! I feel like it's (and has been for a while) going wrong. I know user education it mostly a pipe dream. But it's all I can think of.

The iPhone is probably relatively free compared to the streamlined hassle-free applications and devices of the future. And all the while polarization in all our societies grows, until my government too has no option but to lock it down and forge social cohesion through state-sponsored psy-ops and information-ops. We'll be well on our way to a 1984 dystopia then.
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And please, it's not like there's not time for a normal life. See my comment about my family member below. Maybe if tech people would just refuse to fix the internet, more people would understand how it works.
Hubble Gazes at a Cluster Full of Cosmic Clues
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. This is a noticeable step in the wrong direction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I hard wrap at <=80 columns, and enforce those standards in codebases and in CI. Prettier's default is 80, and I don't change it.

I have three huge monitors, but long lines just makes most of the right-hand side of an editor window wasted.

Text files (source) are documents, and documents are much taller than they are wide: portrait orientation, like letter or A4. My two side monitors and oriented in portrait mode for this reason, and their quadrants (also portrait) are where I put editors.

I made this comment not to show my age, but to overcome the loudness bias of trends. There are plenty of us out here who still do it the old way, because the new way isn't better.
hi, and thanks! I'm the author of this post and I'm a little bit conflicted where I stand in this discussion.

In general, I agree that the world would be a better place if corporations would release documentation.

But my life would be much less fun then. Reverse engineering scratches a certain itch like nothing else does! So I'm kinda happy that mysteries like this exist and gladly spend my time on something like this :-)
Not necessarily agree with private fields, but that is not an option for library writers.
hmmm why hetzner though? 100tb offers massive amount of bandwidth for tube sites I think.

do you know if Amazon S3 allows adult content?
There has been a ton of terrible modeling this year, and the IHME is just one example. This week the CDC published an ensemble of models trained on Covid case data up to March 27.

The models completely mispredict the actual number of cases since that time:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0qZTvVVkAIs484?format=jpg&name=...

This is a total failure of validation that would make any other practitioner question the whole exercise, but it didn't stop the CDC from publishing them. Nor did it stop the news media from trumpeting the results. The Washington Post and CNBC and others wrote headline articles fawning over them.
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Ask HN: Why can't apps send an HTML email to the user's email app?
Sending html emails from apps has always been a pain in the ass. You either have to pay a 3rd party service to do it and implement their API or build your own email server and neither of those are great options for either the developer or the user.

In my case, I have an invoicing app and this issue has been a pain since before we even called a web app a "web app".

We can create an html link to send a plain text email to the user's email app. For my apps and my users it would be much easier and better for them and me if they could click a link and send their html invoices this way.

I get that malicious links could be inserted in a html email by an app this way but you can do that with plain text too so it seems to me that the user could be allowed (required) to approve apps in their email app preferences to allow them to do this as opposed to not allowing it at all.

After all these years, and it's been close to 20 years for me and my app's users, sending html emails from an app should be much easier for both of us and the best way I can think of is allowing them to click a link to send it with their email app, just like they can with plain text email now.

Since we still can't, I expect I'm missing why.
Market-based™ plan:

> V. To maximize the fairness and political viability of a rising carbon tax, all the revenue should be returned directly to U.S. citizens through equal lump-sum rebates. The majority of American families, including the most vulnerable, will benefit financially by receiving more in “carbon dividends” than they pay in increased energy prices.

* https://www.carbonpricingleadership.org/news/2019/1/17/forme...

Co-signers include the then-former Federal Reserve chairs: Greenspan, Bernanke, Volcker, Yellen. Plus a bunch of Nobel laureate economists (Fama, Schiller, Scholes, Sharpe, etc).

An alternative market-based™ approach would be cap-and-trade, which was done under Bush41 for acid rain (and which California is doing for its carbon emissions IIRC).
My latest project was: Get some emails using IMAP, login to my site, find and scrap some data related to the sender of the email, and send a reply using SMTP. The logic is not very complicated, it uses 4 or 5 of the standard libraries and I avoid writing a hundred emails per day.
Totally agree. I love having a team lead to worry about the arbitrary deadlines and difficult conversations so I don't have to. Not worth the extra money to me.
American military hardware is known to regularly popup in scrapyards in China.

You also will not believe how much US military hardware have major parts made in China.
Yeah I was struck by how fucking insane people got on the roads shortly after the pandemic struck.

You'd think people would chill out because the roads were practically empty, but I guess pandemic stress combined with the immediate rage of "the roads are empty and this asshole camper is only doing 75 mph in left lane" leading to absolute lunacy at very high speeds.

Normal levels of rush hour traffic around here mean nobody can do more than 50 mph at best with an average speed closer to 35, which probably keeps the deaths down.
Many companies pay for it because they have spent an inordinate amount of time learning the ecosystem and know of nothing else.
Is very small compared to the lives saved by those measures. Traffic safety laws saves about 20k young people per year in USA. Assume each had 40 years left to live, that is 0.8 million years, or about 0.002 years per person per year. That is about half a day of life saved per year per person, meaning 12 hours. Putting on a seatbelt takes a few seconds and you do it a few times per day, say 20 seconds per day. Add that up over a year and you get 100 minutes or about 2 hours spent seatbelting to save 12 hours of life.

Traffic lights takes more time, but they also allows for more dense traffic so I don't think that removing them would help at all. I doubt San Francisco traffic would get any better if you removed most traffic lights, likely it would get worse in all the chaos, so unless you prove to me that they actually hurt commute time rather than help I put those savings on the seatbelts.
I have the opposite problem. I know what to build but I don't know how.
I want it because seeing something physical being created live would be more motivating and help me write more.
"...Amazon...significant teams trying to work on it...but it's a bona fide hard problem."

Random internet individuals: "But they could just..."

Like so many things/problems - they all seem easy/obvious until you actually TRY TO DO IT, at which point you realize why all of the other very smart people haven't solved it yet.
That’s reminded me to check back in to see what the story is with Apple Silicon support and it’s in Alpha! Just given it a go and it seems to work really well.

I’m totally novice but being able to tinker with Blender on my laptop without it burning up is going to be amazing!
Post hoc ergo propter hoc?
Or it's basic misdirection.
5 years ago self-driving cars looked like technologists were letting their imagination run away.

There's always "something" that technologist think is right around the corner, until they realize that the hard problems are harder than they anticipated.
And where does a branch go? It leaves the stem of consecutive memory numbers into nowhere and mysteriously comes back to the stem at an arbitrary number.
Are you really asking why the line is drawn between "just making harmless jokes" and "making jokes at the expense of another group"? You don't have to agree, but I think the difference and why someone would suggest that's where the line should be drawn is obvious.
My Lawyer who wasn't a Lawyer, or why Due Diligence matters
You say that, and they said it (only 90s kids will remember "fifteen days to slow the spread") but as of right now, it's a truism. Maybe the lockdown worked to ease the stress on the medical system. Maybe only the first 15 days of lockdown did that, or 30. I highly doubt that the entire year of lockdowns saved the medical system, and I would be willing to bet the effectiveness of the lockdowns in preventing a collapse of the medical system ended within the first 3 months. So suppose that's true, 3/4ths of the lockdown and all the mental health and depression related deaths associated with it were unnecessary. I don't know when the lockdowns stopped being effective in protecting the medical system, but I know it wasn't this morning. Some amount of those deaths are attributed to lockdowns that were unnecessary.

Also, you can't quantify the hypothetical death toll in that scenario in any real numbers, to say "would have skyrocketed" is unfounded. I could understand "would've been higher" that sounds reasonable.
I bought the first edition when it came out, read it straight through like a novel.
This is what ignited my change in career direction from a photographer who dabbled with his dad's Mac SE to programmer. I eventually learned many languages beyond HyperTalk and moved to Silicon Valley. I may have written part of this web browser.
the current China is like the late Ming dynasty
Well - for one thing there is the pedal is not itself binary but in degrees - and there are three pedals, one of which if you depress, will silence only some of the strings. I don't think MIDI itself is capable I guess, some other format might be. There are a lot of factors, and pianos sound different from each other, I think that would be lost.