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If you ask an American expert in punishing and hurting people, here's what they say:

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/424263-tru...

>Trump supporter complains shutdown is 'not hurting the people he needs to be hurting'

>A prison employee in Florida who voted for President Trump argued that Trump is to blame for the current government shutdown.

>“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” Crystal Minton told The New York Times in an article published Monday. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/florida-government-shu...

>Though Mr. Trump said on Twitter over the weekend that “most of the workers not getting paid are Democrats,” that is far from true in places like Jackson County, Fla., where Marianna is the county seat. It is a Republican bastion so deeply conservative that it was illegal to sell liquor by the drink until November 2017. The president and his plan for a wall along the border are popular here, as they are across much of the state, which might explain why Florida Republicans in Congress have done little to pressure party leaders in the Senate to put an end to the shutdown.
This is spot on and a big problem. And although nobody here including me would shed a tear about Facebook in this case, I am worried about the precedent this sets.

Facebook has the deep pockets to either build this through or fight it legally to the bitter end.

But for any startup trying to build a global X, this can put a serious blocker in the way. Global sharding of entities and working with that isn‘t for the faint of heart. I know we‘d stand still for a year or two trying to implement something similar as a small to mid sized startup.

Philosophically and as a user, I actually like the idea, but wearing the systems architect here, this requirement scares me to no end and could throw a literal wrench into the operations of any global effort.
This^^, I’ve seen thousands of cases in federal court in the US. It’s amazing how many people think talking in code through text will make it so they don’t get into trouble. On the contrary, they are knowingly committing a crime and the evidence usually proves it. “Deniability” of leaving your computer open so that anybody can download something is within this realm of absurd. Government isn’t that stupid.
The paper seems to lack a comparison between regular multiplication of large integers and FFT multiplication in base 2.
> being in a perpetual state of "1 step behind" the capabilities of native app development.

For a basic CRUD app with simple data visualizations, this doesn't seem to be a huge issue compared to apps that might need to take advantage of whatever new capabilities arrive on mobile phones, though those have largely plateaued in recent years.
That's a recent law so it shouldn't apply to this timeperiod.
I've seen this argument a lot recently. "If we screw other people in a sufficiently convoluted and Rube-Goldbergian enough way then it's almost like we're not screwing over anyone at all!"
Once again another myopic view of the situation.

Let us not forget all of the Palestinians displaced (and killed) due to the state sponsored settlements...
Vectorized array functions are easier for the compiler to optimize than for loops. Once things get nested the performance comparison isn’t even close.
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It is because the founders of the nation saw themselves as Chinese and the rightful rulers of all of China.

If you are Taiwanese and you trace family back to before 1949, your family is likely to be somewhere in China.

As for the business community, most of Taiwan’s trade is with the mainland. Probably explains why it is more sympathetic.
Medawar effect
The big problem, in my opinion, is that a lot of people think we'd inevitably be beating each other up like animals, if it wasn't for the powers that be, who kindly protect us from ourselves.

And it is already legal to beat up and kill each other over a property dispute. It just has to be a large enough dispute for the parties involved to be able to afford rebranding it as a "war".
FWIW: the metal components of lithium batteries (especially cobalt) tend to be the economically limiting resources, not the lithium itself. But the point is valid: batteries are indeed harder to recycle than bulk steel, but relative to the cost of extracting new materials recycling is far more effective economically.

Also: it's not like EVs don't have steel chassis. It's (very roughly) the engine block and transmission mass that gets replaced by a battery. Once you remove that battery, the vehicles recycle identically. The only question is about how effective battery recycling is or can be (and it's pretty good already!)
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Does anyone know if Flutter was in the consideration set? It's gaining some momentum as a slightly more stable crossplatform ecosystem to React Native. but of course, there is the prospect of Google and Dart.
The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
That is a valid opinion, I agree there are advantages to plain for loops. However, it is not a universal opinion and I would argue against the for-loop, sometimes. Some languages people love do not even have loops.

You never know what structure a for-loop will take, it could break early, skip items, build a new data structure, mutate a data structure, or all the above. If I see a map and a filter, I know exactly what each does.

I don't want to argue over which is better. Pros and cons. I just wanted to say that chaining and nesting array functions is not a reliable sign that someone is a "newbie", maybe they're just someone with different preferences.
I have been using whimsical for diagrams and prototyping prototypes. Some of my colleagues are converted after they have seen it. The ease of use is the best I have seen so far. It is bold and easy to read.

Seeing the demo page, I have to ask: why do we stay with the traditional black, grey and white colors for diagrams?
I appreciate the effort but 'this' is perfectly confusing
That might be, but as far as I can tell that’s not considered a certain conclusion and I don’t consider myself qualified to judge how likely it is.
A negative income tax would achieve the same goal without giving money to people that dont need it.
Operation Paperclip was a secret US intelligence program in which more than 1,600 Nazi scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from Nazi Germany to the United States for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, primarily between 1945 and 1959.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
I wrote a lot of code for single-pass compilers and I still have a tendency to want to put things in reverse order. Are there any code tools that can arrange functions in a useful order like this, or do they all just manage to order alphabetically?

Oh one other aspect that the author doesn't mention is for OO languages that have public/protected/private or other decorators like static, virtual, default, etc, what's a good order?
Of course it's less convenient for developers not to ship a rendering engine. But should developers' need always come before users' needs, especially for applications that live and run on their own PCs?
I worry about a 15 year old going into an adult system without even understanding his sentence. Prison guards aren’t known for being kind and prisons are full of people who belong in prisons. What did he learn? What did he experience? And how incredibly scared could that man be to raise hell now that he’s out??

I hate to put it so bluntly, but prison takes people who made mistakes and breaks them, sometimes beyond repair. Somehow, I feel like that’s a greater crime than many prisoners are sentenced for.
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> Taking time off during term is not allowed. Taking time off to interview will be deducted from your pay unless you get prior approval, and you have to declare that you are interviewing.

It seems like a systematic solution to this would be do do interviews off-hours, and give the people doing the interviewing equivalent time off during the work day?
The 2021 poll results have not been released yet. I don't think the poll itself has been conducted yet, even.
ISPs in the UK have been doing this for a while now. BT FON and recently Virgin Media.

Virgin's thing never seems to work though.
There are other viable options for dealing with cheaters, such as (but not limited to) community servers with robust moderation controls and modding capabilities to let them experiment with bespoke solutions out of band with the developer's release cycles.
But we spoke about possibility of creation of sustainable income for everyone, not a one-off money grab? Not a growth rate, but yes, dividends rate - because growth in capital itself will go into inflation, population growth, and growth of living standards, so yeah, 2.3% is all we can realistically plan for.

And then the big question is: how is this society different from Soviet Union? Literally, i am not exaggerating: an economy where capital is, by law, owned only by the government, and private ownership of means of production is a felony (or how else you will take all capital away)? Or if you want to literally give shares to individuals, not to some immense state fund which will do the redistribution job, what will prevent these people from drinking and gambling these shares away? If American rich will be robbed off all their money so they won't be able to buy, to the Chinese rich (they will be able to afford as people will be running to sell off - if they were attracted by 2.3% returns they'd be buying stock now as it is, only reason why they don't is that they don't see it as attractive - so they WILL sell - and stock will be dirt cheap)

It all sounds like a way to kill capitalism, or sell it off to foreigners...
> If you are someone who is active on Twitter, your thoughts about how important Twitter is are biased by your engagement with it.

I don't have Twitter.

> Literally none of them ever mention Twitter in daily conversation. (And many of them are software devs.)

Network effects do not cause or force you to acknowledge a source. They merely require you to trust the mental gymnastics of the person who communicated the idea to you.

> That doesn't mean the people consuming the media also have those extremist belief

Generally the people adopting will adopt bits an pieces, this is what I described as "decay".

The rest I agree with.
I remember this. Java was exciting back then. They did numerous things that were either new or that no one outside of fringe/research was using.

The AWT GUI toolkit was very minimal, but I was able to develop nice desktop apps by writing my own widgets.
"All Lives Matter" is not divisive, it's superlatively inclusive. People who say that, myself included, are opposed to unjustified killings by the police regardless of the victim's race. If you think that being opposed to the police using unnecessary force against Hispanics, whites or Asians means I've "disenfranchised blacks", that's just more evidence of your intolerance.
From this classic: https://youtu.be/6tZar4wRP40
The same office shared by Hamas military intelligence.

https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1393565656621137920?s=20
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01I5TJGSE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_...
The Youngstown of 20 years ago: Struggling to deal with a newly disaffected working class, the new realities of a rising crime rate and the glimmer of its former "center of industry for the nation" self. Guess what? That's everywhere else now, too. Those problems didn't go away in Youngstown, but that region has had 40 years to deal with it and adjust and become resilient. Youngstown was a "preview" of what the rest of the US would become: Even down to its own version of Jim Traficant as president.

Is it better than it was? Comparably, it certainly is. Objectively? I think it's gotten better, too. It's not SF and it never will be, but you get a lot of time and space for your money there, comparitively.

I'm keeping my eye on the housing market around the area a little further out into the country.
Ha! I was a team lead at a company where something similar happened. Management was obsessed with the burn down chart and equated total completed with productivity.

So I told my team to make tasks as atomic as possible. If it can describe two meaningful changes then it should be two tasks.

I actually preferred this outcome. Instead of a large task for a feature, we had hundreds of tiny tasks that culminated in a feature. It was far easier to get a handle on what was getting done and what was the impediments.
Ziggo in the Netherlands has had this for more than a decade as a ‘free’ feature. Yet, I have never run into a public spot that had one of these hotspots provide coverage.
If people didn’t like JavaScript for front end work, it’s not like they could just switch to python
If the wildfires don't get you, the mudslides will.
Yes, it's possible to apply to multiple companies. The tactic in the OP is to get multiple successful interviews AND offers with a short timeframe of each other. How likely is that in most places?

Let's talk about that last point.

Have you gotten an offer and gone back to your manager and said "give me $x or I'm leaving"?

Anecdotally, how did that turn out?
It's too limiting right now. When the Expo team finishes the "Expo Application Services" it will be an option for almost every project. For now, it's limited to just the Expo APIs and for most projects you will ultimately end up ejecting.
FWIW: Sagan was poetic but the intuition turns out to have been wrong. Models are still not super convincing, but supernovae alone aren't enough to explain the abundance of heavy elements. A big chunk of the rare earth nuclei we apply in industry today seem likely to be tiny remnants of neutron stars that were thrown off in a merger event with another neutron star or black hole.
Sure. Good luck with jobs and Internet connectivity (for remote work). Also groceries and such.
Most countries treat organised crime episodes as severe aggravation - this is to deter participation in organized crime and avoid "you can't prove who did the actual stabbing" situations
> This kind of data is far more sensitive than your ad profile.

Yes and no.

certainly people share and post sensitive stuff on Facebook. But Facebook knowing I've visited certain categories of websites because those sites have a Facebook pixel or they're running a third party widget that has a FB pixel is historically a much more opaque form of data collection.
> there is intrinsic value in having a more humane prison system.

Not if you're a believer in "harsh punishment", "law and order!!!", "eye for an eye" and similar Evangelical barbarism like way too many Americans are.
Many see prisons as a way of punishment. Providing any comfort will makes some people upset. Society must be educated to the purpose of prison before any of this is possible.
> It seems pretty silly to get all up in arms about copying other peoples' stuff.

Wasn't it an American who said "good artists copy, great artists steal"?
Ask HN: What database issues have you had, but only realised at a later date?
I have a web crawler which sometimes fails (e.g. the process dies, data comes in weird format, nulls etc). To make sure it's running properly, I'd really like an email when "something doesn't look right". So I'm thinking of building a tool to identify these anomalies / issues and make me aware of them.

So I was wondering...

What database issues have you ran into but only realised there was a problem at a later date? e.g.:

* The data pipeline died and data was no longer getting INSERTed

* The data format changed

* Started getting lots of nulls suddenly

* ...?
Well, that‘s only for drawings and not for modelling. Also it‘s manual/cosmetic.
The Covid IFR is not in the 0.5% range, and a few exceptions notwithstanding, the fatality rate tends to be lower in developing countries than the developed world.
>You have a UBI at the cost of massive wealth destruction in the housing market.

Have you played monopoly? It's literally like that. It's a board game where if you land on a square with a house owned by another player you have to pay "rent" but technically it's a tax because landing on a square that is not owned by a player costs you nothing. In other words, owning the house essentially gives you the right to "rob someone at daylight", you're forcibly taking money from someone else and the money manifests itself as the appreciation of your house.

I'm not talking about rent paid to a landlord here, I'm talking about the value that has been forcibly extracted by sitting on the land, i.e. by denying a more productive use of the land. If you live and work near a neighborhood and that neighborhood's land value goes up then a portion of that rise was taken from your own hard work.

Therefore a correction of land prices via LVT is not wealth destruction, because the wealth was not generated by the land, it was generated by people living near the plot of land (they don't even have to live on that plot). What happens is that people get to keep their existing wealth instead of being forced to give it away to a land owner.

>How does LVT favor dense housing?

A LVT is entirely based on the land value of the plot. If you build a duplex, then the tax burden on each unit is half as much vs a single family home. Suburbs have lower land values, which means building single family homes there is viable. Cities have higher land values, which means building apartments will reduce the high tax burden significantly.

>And why would people be building more now that they don't expect the price of homes to ever increase?

If you overpay for land, then you have less money available for building a house. If you want more rental income, you must build more units.

Compare this to classical land value extraction, where you can sit on the land and let it go up in value without building anything. You should rather ask how the latter encourages construction since it offers a secondary income stream that has nothing to do with building housing.

>Yeah I'm not quite seeing how the pie gets bigger.

Land prices are often high because of proximity to employers. If someone builds a single family home on that plot, then that person is essentially denying other people the ability to live near those employers. As mentioned above, the LVT would allocate the land in a way that increases the number of people that get access to these employers, which means more people can have higher incomes.
I've usually seen more complexity with single for loops and having complex logic mixed with imperative approach also makes it a lot harder to read.

Array methods convey meaning a lot better. There are some cases where performance matters, but usually the performence cost is negligible.
You can record (clientside and server side) the inputs from multiple players and play them back deterministically; if the suspected cheater's ones don't line up with how the game played out for the majority of the server then that's a pretty clear smoking gun.

I think it is ok to be judicious with timeouts, kicks and even bans, so long as you provide a reasonable, accessible and well-scaled dispute mechanism.
Hah! I stopped reading at the sentence immediately prior to the one you cite:

> At the heart of the njahi wars is the question of who gets to determine which foods are tasty.

No actual real person argues about this. Everyone past six years of age gets that different people like different things.
> FIDO aims to also support enterprise usage

It seems to me that this use case is completely at odds with the general use cases we expect when people browse the web.

In the enterprise, society accepts the idea that someone's employer knows their name, their address, their bank details, and even everything they browse on their company-issued computer. Whether that's good or bad, it's not a model that FIDO should be trying to support.

This reminds me of the controversy around TLS 1.3 allowing forward secrecy.[0] If companies want to make their own alternative to FIDO which has DRM and user tracking, to control access to their intranets, that's fine, but we shouldn't have allowed FIDO to become a Trojan Horse (or Trojan Dog?) to sneak this anti-feature into the general web.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/ets-isnt-tls-and-you-s...
@dang would you please indulge me once and reply why this thread is flagged? in a moment where earth needs to stand still and witness? this is something straight out of manifacturing-consent.

in exchange, i promise i will no longer participate this medium again.
While I was interested in the article, the mistakes in the code examples are so frequent that, by the end, I was wondering if the array example had an error. I couldn't really make sense of the suggestion there.

These issues would easily be captured in a first draft or with a simple review of the examples.
There are also cities where the majority of the people there at any given moment aren’t actually employed by the local economy of the place: the estate communities of the northeast US, where everyone is the owner of some corporation who moved there to get away from people; tourist towns where the tourists outnumber the locals, with roughly all the locals employed in hospitality.

And there are cities where most everyone you’ll run into is employed by the local community, but doesn’t live there: agricultural towns where most people there at any given moment are temporary workers bussed in; “global” cities like Dubai which have roughly no local population, where most of the population at any time are there on temporary business visas; mining/oil-and-gas boom towns (though this last one tends to change, with the workers often settling into the area.)

It’d be interesting to see cities measured on what proportion of the people who you’d have as neighbours, are actually “attached” to the local economy. How much the city exists as an autonomous, self-sustaining entity; vs. being some state government or corporation’s loss leader for some project.
Yeah I guess if someone wanted to do that they'd have to work out some logistics, but it seems like a pretty good investment opportunity especially since the arctic is getting warmer.
Unsafe Code isn't allowed to have Undefined Behaviour either.

What unsafe does, is it says to the compiler:

"Hey, I know you're just a dumb machine, and you couldn't prove this code obeys all the rules that keep Rust safe, but I am very smart and I promise it actually is safe". You're also encouraged to explain yourself (to other humans, not the compiler, this isn't Wuffs) so that anybody else maintaining the code can see why exactly you believed this was OK.

Over the years, some code which was once unsafe in Rust no longer needed an unsafe block, because Rust's compiler got smarter, "Oh, I see why this is OK".

But if your unsafe code has Undefined Behaviour that's actually a serious bug, it's not what unsafe is for at all.
Hockney derived a new theory of art and optics: around 1430, centuries before anyone suspected it, artists began secretly using cameralike devices, including the lens, the concave mirror and the camera obscura, to help them make realistic-looking paintings. ... Hockney suggests, knew the magic of photographic projection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/04/arts/paintings-too-perfec...

T. S. Eliot’s dictum: “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.”

https://www.uvu.edu/arts/applause/posts/stealing.html