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This is, in part, why I'm generally not in favour of generics in Go.

Go has a common style across most code bases I've seen. Partly that's because Go is opinionated about style, and doesn't really support doing things any other way. I don't see this as a bad thing, though that may well be because Go's style happens to be similar to my own. I have friends who learned to code on Ruby and JS and who don't like Go at all, because it doesn't really support the way they like to write code.

Adding the ability to write functional-ish code to Go is going to fragment the style. There will be code bases written in functional-ish Go that are difficult to understand for people used to a more imperative style. And vice versa (though I suspect imperative is easier to understand). I don't see this as a good thing. It's kinda "if you want to write functional-ish code, why not pick a language that you can do that in, instead of demanding that Go supports it?". But I realise this is probably a lost cause, and we're going to see that wave of "even-more-functional-constructs" become so common that we end up with JS-like library churn.
My take is informed. Which one of those ethnicities do you believe I made up? Those are real people and real ethnic categories.
A null race that doesn't exist
On any forum, meta-posts are sometimes a lightning rod for stupid comments and so you often see meta-posts banned to prevent it!
It's great to have an 'Oversight Board' that does not have to follow any rules and does make decisions arbitrarily.

Definitely in the global trend.
Thanks, I had completely missed that legend. It was folded by default here (?)
Might want to qualify this statement to take those whose ages start with a 4, 5 or even a 6 into consideration. Or are these people already invisible?
Excel is probably the single most used piece of business software in the world. People have been able to make quake. People have done 3d rendering without vba. People have done all kinds of stuff with Excel for a while now.
As someone who isn't visually impaired I have little to go by or background to judge, but HN strikes me as not being particularly inaccessible, given its minimal UI and very little reliance on non-textual elements, in particular compared to most social media sites.

What in particular would you wish to have improved?
War is probably a big factor too. I don't know what the average or minimum age of all those soldiers standing in the lines of medieval battlefields all the way to say, the Civil War era, but I imagine quite a few were virgins and casualties were brutal.

Off topic, but such archaic means of warfare still confound me. Imagine being some 16 year old kid standing in the front line facing charging armored knights in the Middle Ages. Or staring across from another line of musket/riflemen and being expected to eat a volley of musket balls while standing straight and unmoving.
> It's a lousy argument to suggest that Chinese products are bad because Chinese culture does not promote attention to detail because some people sometimes say "chabuduo".

With respect, you have not spent much time in mainland China. "Chabuduo" is pervasive in a way that you are downplaying - either because you have some agenda or you are not knowledgeable. There is absolutely no comparison between the average Chinese manufacturing process and the average US one. Are their outliers in all cases? Of course. But generally speaking the GP is correct.

With regards to Apple and Tesla (and I would also add Volvo) - high quality/high tolerance manufacturing CAN be done in China of course. But it's only because the Western companies who pull it off have imposed their culture, standards and rules, on the process.
Why not just provide a way to script Excel with Python / JS?

Is it technically difficult?
No wonder EU cars are so expensive.
so for digital formats .txt files?
Huh. I didn't even know that Trump was on Facebook, I should get out more.

Looking at this, I don't know what the justification for banning is but like most political decisions I guess you don't want to watch the sausage getting made.

https://m.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/posts/?ref=page_internal&...

Future historians will look back at the brilliance of building near-monopoly platforms by inviting one and all for free, ignoring copyright, doing a build-out at a loss, selling personal information, winner-take-all network effects, and then applying a POV to the whole works. Personally, I'm attracted to this view of the Facebooks of the world:

https://graymirror.substack.com/p/big-tech-has-no-power-at-a...
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It's a subgenre of games that has some combination of roleplaying, ASCII graphics (or low resolution bitmaps without animation), procedural content generation and perma-death. Most well known are NetHack and Dwarf Fortress.

People tend to enjoy them for two very different reasons. First is that focus on things other than graphics tends to improve depth and re-playability. Second is that without graphics, the player's imagination plays large part in building world. It's bit more like reading a book than watching a movie.
People making argument against their inclusion (futilitously) are doing so in bad faith under various reductionist arguments like not wanting to make a complex language more complex when there are aspects to our language that _should_ be changed.

The arguments against are not based on any logical or rational footing (because adding them is trivial and people want them to be added) so the assumption is that they are making arguments on emotion. Why would someone argue against inclusion based emotion? Because they don't want to be inclusive. You don't have to arrive at this conclusion because you believe you have some moral superiority, you can arrive on it based on common sense.
Cloudflare will automatically purge the cache when you update or publish an article. Also from my understanding of APO, the cache will get distributed to all their edge locations without each one needing to hit the origin server. So if you update an article it would only get fetched a few times max until it gets updated again. That seems pretty good. Also as far as MySQL, you could install a Redis cache in front. Personally we use Varnish and Memcached as additional layers in front of Cloudflare (it works out of the box with Cloudways)
I'd like to see the worst-rated comments by anyone with -- say -- over 10k karma.
Let me rephrase — if my company insisted on transparency, I would probably prefer a formula-based approach to a democratic one. Politicking makes me tired.
I mean, the site scales really well with browser size, default font size etc. I'd argue the real inaccessibility is lack of images, and general "boring" vibe that puts off entire demographics who post the type of content that might not be welcome here.
> Same way US law does. Absent specific laws, to have a claim you have to demonstrate tangible harm in some way. Burden of proof is on the claimant. And in 95% of the cases HN complains about, its impossible to find harm.

I don't think you have any idea whether any of these students has even tried to find harm; but, even if you do know that, the inability to prove harm is a legal standard, but it's a far different thing from no harm being done.

(I just recently read Rothstein's The color of law, which makes clear, for example, the situation in which people of colour today find themselves, where I think any reasonable person would agree that they have clearly been harmed by long-term racist policy-making in the US, but where there is no one person who meets the legal standard of having done them harm, and so no-one from whom they can seek legal redress.)
At what point does a mock become acceptable?

Even today there are companies, especially in the tech startup scene, which actively discriminate against "cisgender white males". It is extremely likely that even today, people put on the mask of the currently favoured sexual identity to land a job. Not to mock trans people, just to get ahead in life.
Bribery is against the law, I presume this is simply the result of a criminal investigation.

Also, bribery is insidious. Once some happens, there is considerable pressure for competitors to also engage in bribery to stay in business. So it is important to stop earlier, where you can, because over time it can be very hard to root out. Like murder and theft, it will happen sometimes, but you're trying to discourage it.
not gonna happen, as in modern standards, everyone else are to blame for your faults except you.
Outline is little buggy, but fast https://outline.com/https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/...
I previously commented on this sentiment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27036542.
> breachingtheir duty of care towards the employer and defrauding them

That's the part that sounds a bit strange to me. I mean, breach of duty is one thing, and fraud is a second thing. But I guess that's how fraud is defined in US criminal law.

> 2. "Standard" in-person fraud is prosecuted by the states, but fraud over mail or wires is a federal crime, so if any long-distance communications were involved then the federal justice system can (also) get involved.

Well, the relations between a company and its officer are in-person, aren't they? Or is it the case that if I defraud you and during that time call your phone once, I can be prosecuted for "wire fraud"?
You used the word think assuming you have free will.
Hey can I have more details? How would he also be imprisoned by the US?
Maybe this is my inexperience with front-end design keeping a11y in mind: what about HN is inaccessible for visually impaired people? It is mostly plain-text so it is easy to resize. There is some low-contrast text but that can be adjusted in CSS with user styles. I haven't tried a screen reader but I imagine that it would work reasonably well. All not to mention that there are HN RSS feeds, so the content can be consumed in any way that a person might want.
This can help build interactivity:
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http://vega.github.io/lyra/
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For the record, encouraging reckless driving is likely a crime wherever reckless driving itself is a crime. I am not a lawyer but encouragement is typically a basis for liability as an accomplice.

Here's Texas, for example:

Sec. 7.02. CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONDUCT OF ANOTHER.

(a) A person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the conduct of another if:

...

(2) acting with intent to promote or assist the commission of the offense, he solicits, encourages, directs, aids, or attempts to aid the other person to commit the offense;
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There was a movie about him too: The Hoax, with Richard Gere as Irving.
Is it common in the US to have this kind of "national initiative"?

In Canada, we have various "National {x} strategies" but my perception is that they rarely accomplish anything and are more as favors to Canada's elites and for political gain.

I had always associated this kind of thing more with our kind of political system. How is it percieved in the US?
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Betteridge's' law of headlines.
They have got to be kidding! "Tweet" as a word appeared at least in 1952. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweety
Prions aren’t new, they’re probably as old as proteins- and they haven’t ice-nined the world yet.
Not sure why Microsoft wouldn't just make a better search out of the products _it owns_.. like GitHub, npm and LinkedIn

I'm sure half my Google searches during work end up in a GitHub issue page.

Imagine if Microsoft built a sourcegraph style search for code inside Bing
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> but how can electromagnetic resonances not be considered in the discussion to warrant continual downvotes

Because everyone's been telling you the same thing in a multitude of different ways, but you refuse to get the point. Yes, the operation of the software we write can be affected by the physical realities of the hardware we use to execute them, but any time this causes the software to behave differently than it would in a purely hypothetical computer, this is considered an error and the results invalid. We even have hardware that automatically corrects for when rare events such as freakin' cosmic rays cause the value of a bit to flip (ECC memory).

The domain of software engineering is abstracted from physical reality. There's nothing useful to be gained from such discussions, because the whole job of hardware engineers is to enable us to operate at a higher level where we don't have to concern ourselves with the quantum electrodynamics necessary to make the transistors do their jobs.
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Hello, have been working on a project at https://speaker.app where people can create audio and screensharing rooms and host their own networks using their browser as a proxy.

It is something I have no clue how to market, but one advantage it has over many competing products is it is stable.

It is also open source.
It's not the filter or the speedometer, it's the social incentive. If Twitter created a #highspeedometer hash tag, that would also be encouraging dangerous behavior.
> Abagnale claimed that he never ripped off individuals, only hotels, airlines and banks.

I love how that somehow suddenly makes stealing money on.
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People can make and use 3rd party filters, but snapchat makes their own as well. I am pretty positive the speedometer filter has existed before snapchat even allowed 3rd parties to make their own filters
Probably not. That newspaper LITERALLY makes things up. See this recent story: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/550599-reporter-who-wrote...

It's one thing to get something wrong in a story, it's another to actively make things up and present them as news. NY Post is not worth wiping your shoes on, let alone reading.
It's pretty terrible, but there are gradations of abuse below genocide... also, technically, the Palestinians "didn't pay for it", although of course they are under occupation and would not have been able to pay for it etc.

Anyway, it's pretty bad.
Google used to be good at countering these "SEO optimizations"
In some countries nationality status can only be passed through paternity, not maternity.

There might still be some countries that require that a child be born physically within the country as well, though I don’t track it.
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I too need to add "reddit" to most of my google searches. If I want real content from real people.
The simplest counterpoint to prion cataclysm fear is that it hasn't happened yet. That implies a low chance that it'll happen anytime in the near future.

There's no evidence that any significant human population has ever been wiped out by prions at any point in the history of the species. Heck, we haven't even observed widespread (>10% infected) prion disease in any species.

At least with something like climate change, there's the fact that post-industrial activity is doing something different than pre-industrial history. But this reasoning doesn't hold for prion cataclysm. It's more like asteroid apocalypse. Yes it could happen, but statistically it's not something we have to worry about on a civilizational timeframe.

I don't see any justification for why humanity in 2021 is courting prion disaster to a greater degree than it was in 2000 BC. Animal husbandry has existed for fifteen thousand years. Maybe globalization would spread a prion outbreak faster. But the point is we've never even observed localized prion collapse. If prions were that dangerous, there should already be regional areas that have transformed into total no-go zones.
If it was just the usual deal where there's some sort "goings on" between vendor sales and procurement/execs, and then everyone needs to use the product from the top-down, that's normal, but not great for enterprise software innovation or people who use it, IMO.

Anyway, I think the situation described where former execs become advisors on the contractor side and use their contacts to get contracts, is exactly the deal with K-street and defense contracts. Except in this case, the guy was still on the inside! Not ok! But once you're out, that's cool /S
Context matters as hell. But context can also add layers of discussion. Say I've created a filter showing how many meters underwater I am. Should I be held accountable for people who drown using it? How this is different from the speed filter? If the difference is "because people don't dive with cellphones" then you are putting the intention (and responsability) on users by default. Why not do that in the case for the speed filter as well?
I assume you're not also using AWS? Otherwise even with a prepaid card, on AWS you are granting them blank checks via unlimited invoicing abilities.
Yeah and your original comment wasn't worth much. How do you know your work wouldn't have been better if you hadn't had kids? Maybe your definition of intense changed when you had kids?
So... hypothetically... (these may or may not be actual basecamp things - I don't know)

> 50% off a gym membership

But I already have a home gym. Will the company give me a check to help pay for my next piece of equipment? Why do I have to go into town to the gym to make use of this benefit?

> Reimbursement of 25% off of Community Supported Agriculture

I've got an orchard with more apples and pears than I know what to do with each year. I consider rhubarb to almost be a weed at this point. I get free eggs from my neighbor (and honey too - helps with the aforementioned apples and pears). Could I get 25% off my next fruit tree purchase instead?

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Such benefits are entirely missed on me. I wouldn't take advantage of them and so they're not serving the purpose of the company to entice me to stay. They also are a little bit disdainful in that other people (yea, I know... the "someone else is getting something I'm not" is a hard thing to excise from the mind) are getting extra benefits/bonuses/perks that I'm not able to take advantage of.

A 10% profit sharing? Even if its worth "less" than those are previously offered - it's worth more to me.
> it's become a meme to dislike tracking

Good.

> what's the problem with a URL tracking which advertiser you came from?

It's additional bits of information used to identify me.

> We really need to draw the line somewhere and decide what the heck means "privacy" at this point, because everything can be interpreted as violation of privacy.

Okay. If I explicitly give you information and you use it for my benefit alone, it's not a violation of privacy. Everything else is.

Concrete example: people provide their addresses to companies so they can have packages delivered. This is obviously legitimate. Selling my address to marketers so they can spam my inbox with unwanted ads is obviously unacceptable.

Placing identifying information in URLs is unacceptable simply because I didn't explicitly choose to reveal that information. I don't even care if it's harmless, the sheer audacity of these people is offensive.

> This tool is removing URL parameters some of which are absolutely harmless and not violating anyone's "privacy".

Yeah, I'm not risking it. They'll probably find a way to abuse this information if they haven't already. Marketers are not supposed to get any data whatsoever. I'm increasingly convinced marketing shouldn't even exist to begin with.

> should they just offer content at a loss, and pay millions of ads, and have no even clue which ads worked and which didn't?

Don't pay for ads in the first place.

> And when there's a paywall of course everyone is SUPER ANNOYED by the paywall.

That's okay.

> the public wants absolutely everything, for free, and they want to disrupt as much as possible from the site's mechanism to understand what the other side of this communication is and what they want.

I guess. Just return 402 Payment Required if people are expected to pay. We refuse to be the product.
If there is no X for which you can say "X is too hard" without getting PIP'ed, then your work environment is dysfunctional.
As an English speaker I don't gender my speech about myself.

But to use some emoji (e.g. facepalming) I must gender that speech, and therefore myself. I'd prefer not to have to do this, especially to relative strangers on the Internet, so I appreciate that "person-facepalming" is becoming available on more platforms.

It'd be nice if the gendered variants were collapsed a bit (like the skin color variants) to reduce clutter.
In the USA, many technologies come out of government research labs, but almost exclusively from the defense space. As far as I know this type of thing hasn’t really produced anything of note, but sometimes it does affect policy.
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A lot of the big safety wins (seat belts, airbags, side airbags, backup cams, crumple zones) came before the start of the electronics takeover. You can easily find a decently safe car that doesn't spy on you. And for a few hundred bucks you can easily install a new stereo in them that'll work with Carplay and Android Auto.
Same story with my grandfather and two world wars, communism, dictatorship, repressions. Unfortunately however a couldn't find yet a correctly working OCR that recognize his handwriting. Anyway, I scanned all the pages because the notebooks are rapidly degrading.
Oh absolutely! My partner studied jewellery, and had an interest in picking the exact stone for the ring, so in this case that wasn't a viable option. I think in a lot of cases, when you're buying gifts for people etc. defaulting to a lab diamond is a great choice. Big companies (Pandora etc.) moving to lab diamonds will help make that choice the norm and push back against the stigma that lab diamonds aren't "the real thing".
>people would much rather believe an exciting romantic story than a mundane and disappointing one.

The central premise of The Life of Pi
I should have worded this a little differently. I don’t know how accessible it is to someone who is actually blind or uses a screen reader. For all I know it’s great for them.

I do know the tiny text and low contrast make it hard to use for someone like me with older eyes. This is especially true on mobile, where the text refuses to resize in accordance to my phone’s large font settings.
It's still used only for tracking only, so I'd say it's the right time to block them by default before they start being used for something else.
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