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> It's the sort of claim thats fairly meaningless to the average person,

We're talking about it, aren't we? I've also seen this news on Reddit. Propaganda doesn't have to be a one size fits all. Targeting armchair experts and tech enthusiasts can still be useful. The point is that people are talking about how awesome your country is. Real or fake, I'd call this news story a success for China.

I'm not saying this technology is vaporware or not, I don't know. I'm just saying that the argument I'm responding to isn't great. I'd also like to mention that propaganda doesn't even imply that something is fake. Sputnik was real and also a great propaganda machine because it got people talking about it but so were other niche things like Russian Chess players and Russian mathematicians. We have international math competitions, you think those aren't used by propagandists? The average person cares nothing about a math competition.
Given that there’s 20 years of “behind,” and many of those machines are no longer getting updates, what’s the harm? The dev learns something and the community gains knowledge from the project.

I was once critical of ReactOS for similar reasons, but I’ve realized just how beneficial that project has been to OSS as a whole. Even if they fail they will uncover a lot of interesting stuff if the project continues long-term.
if the rewrite was 5 points, added to sprint. if 20 or more almost definitely next sprint. in between, gray area.
You’re being downvoted for flagrant abuse of the precautionary principle.
> You can use a CHECK constraint with typeof() to enforce static typing. If your SQL DDL is being generated somehow (as opposed to manually written), you could even autogenerate the CHECK constraints.

You can't enforce that text values are actually text:

sqlite> create table foo ( a text, check (typeof(a) == 'text') );
sqlite> insert into foo (a) values ( 'a' || x'ff' );
sqlite> select a, typeof(a) from foo;
a typeof(a)
-- ---------
a� text

(The Unicode replacement character in this comment is the output of sqlite/sane terminals, here.) The value in the column purports to be "text", but it's raw binary data. If you retrieve this in, say, Rust, you'll get,

[b'a', 0xffu8]

(This is with PRAGMA encoding set to "UTF-8". Not that this isn't a blob: for those, typeof() is "blob".)

(I believe this to be a bug with SQLite. It's docs state:

> TEXT. The value is a text string, stored using the database encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16BE or UTF-16LE).

The developers do not see it as a bug.)

Realistically, it's not much of a problem. In Rust, I already have to run-time assert that it is a string and not an integer, so also asserting "it's a string that's actually a string" is just another assertion and doesn't change much. Program goes boom if column unexpectedly has the integer 4 in it, program goes boom if it has b"a\xff" in a text column.
Artificial scarcity isn’t really Microsoft’s thing. To your point, their clients are militaries, world governments, etc. They’d never risk their standing on meeting demand whenever/ wherever for a marketing ploy.
I think the biggest difference is that film is a collaborative medium to an extent that music isn't, or at least doesn't have to be. I'm not sure there's an equivalent of the "bedroom techno producer" for film, unless the film they put out has a cast of 1 (who is also the director, editor, cinematographer, producer, etc.).

That said, directors such as Quentin Tarantino and cinematographers such as Roger Deakins have essentially made the same point[1] that technology (for example, shooting digital as opposed to shooting on 35mm film) will allow many more people to become filmmakers. Whether their output will be watchable or not is another story, and is a function of the artist's ability to piece together the shots they capture into an engaging narrative structure.

1. https://www.4kshooters.net/2021/05/01/quentin-tarantino-and-...
Since when has "states rights" become a rallying cry for racism or hatred?

I'm really tired of people saying stuff like this : <insert vaguely conservative stance here> has become a rallying cry for racism and transphobia and bigotry.

Its really obnoxious and disingenuous. Give me one example of someone using states rights as a call for racism and hatred.

My guess is you probably only said what you just said because you've read enough articles by blue-haired liberal arts graduates with a sub 100 IQ.
I used to go down to our local Chinatown for this exact meal as a midnight snack. Congee with salty donut, and some soy milk.
> You similarly won't find me gaming long hours, and I make sure to get plenty of sleep. In other words, taking precautions that avoid injury is generally a good idea.

That's awesome for you, but not what we are discussing here.

What we are discussing here is you mandating that all drivers of cars gets to bed by 10PM and have a good sleep, on the chance that lack of sleep leads to bad driving which leads to higher chances of accidents, including to those who slept well last night, yet were involved in the accident.
I dont believe the China numbers.

But they did go full authoritarian on their own people... I remember reading in the very early days there were accounts of the state police WELDING people into their apartments in Wuhan to stop them going out for food etc.

Scary stuff. I wonder how those people feel about those actions now, over a year later and 600k+ deaths in the US.
I wonder how Japan could manage their cities so well, even though they also have their own share of homeless people. As for the US, I think the US people brought the problem upon themselves, at least in some degree: it's increasingly rare to see serious discussions on pros and cons of different solutions. Instead, it's all about politics. The moment someone wants to discuss a solution, somewhere some activist or politician will shout out racism or equity or oppression or white supremacy or some other moral slurs. Amazingly, voters, at least those in big cities, love that.
I would assume that >0.1% user accounts on most websites have reused passwords that are already known from other sites’ breaches.
> You are assuming because the mechanism is the same that the effects will be as well

I'm not assuming, the whole field of immunology seems to be on board here. We know pretty well how the immune system work and how immunity develops from exposure to foreign material, it isn't black magic. There's no black box here the immune system has been well studied, and we know the inputs as well.

Vaccines are probably the safest medical intervention we have, the reactions you're describing are typical immune responses that are well studied, well understood, and temporary. No vaccine has every caused some long range reaction in the we you're describing.

> It's relatively easy to do these studies along with long COVID studies

One could, but there's absolutely no reason to bother, because immunology is a well established field and we know what happens after people receive subunit vaccines. The only moderately novel part here is the mRNA which has been tested for 30 years in vitro, in animals, and in people.

There is no mechanism for the vaccine to have some long term effect that wouldn't be apparent within a short time period give the MASSIVE number of people who have received the vaccine. Again, you don't have to take the vaccine, but the thing you are worried about isn't supported by any evidence or research it is amateur conjecture at best.
How does someone know if my fake vaccine card is a fake?

How does someone know that even though I’m vaccinated I’m one of the very very small few who will have a breakthrough infection?

We could probably do things to ensure these as well, but at what point do we just say “yep there is a risk”, and accept that risk as part of living life?

I think there is a part
where the principalities and powers that rule, actually want us to get so angry and divided.

That is why things are forced, and mandated, rather than appealed to. One side gets mad that they ask, the other side doesn’t give a chance for the good natured to help voluntarily.

There is no conspiracy of people plotting in a room coming up with how they can gain more power to take over the world (unless they’re two mice trying to do same thing night after night), but nonetheless there is a spirit of division and hatred that is very much present in our country that is tearing us apart.
People get hacked all the time; how would this be different?
The gay marriage issue is a great example of exactly the opposite of your point. States one by one recognizing gay marriage and proving that it wasn't going to cause the collapse of society is the only reason it was recognized on a national level. The same process is currently happening with marijuana prohibition.
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As someone also on biologics, all I can say is the evidence is overwhelming: There is almost no risk in getting one of the MRNA covid vaccines if you are on a biologic. The efficacy is in doubt, but that is another issue. In short: there appears to be no downside to getting vaccinated, while there is serious possible upside. I don't understand your hesitancy here.
To borrow a turn of phrase, the RDBMS is the best database technology going today, which is to say, it's the marginally acceptable one among the set of complete bagbiting loser database technologies that we have to work with out here in the real world.
Most being the operative word too: 1 in 1000 get encephalitis and brain damage, 1-3 in 1000 die!

Measles R0 is also something absurd like 15, with spread characteristics of "a person with measles goes in an elevator - the next day a person gets in the same elevator and catches it".
For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penumbra_(law)
To be clear, there's nothing wrong with thinking of children (or the immunocompromised or handicapped or any other group). "Think of the children" is an argument where you use children to justify an absurd, overblown, or bad faith argument.

You seem to think it means "I shouldn't have to think about other people's well-being because freedom." I think that's pretty callous.
don't forget comma prime.
You can't become part of some crazy ideological group unless you start believing and spreading their rhetoric -- the crazies on both sides don't "own" the action of getting a vaccine. If you're already willing to get the vaccine, you may as well get both doses (assuming you're talking about a two-dose vaccine). You can keep living normally, instead of just surviving as you say, while affording yourself and others around you the maximum protection possible.
Little did they know that all commerce would be interstate commerce by the 20th century

The Federal government has subjugated all states, and merely tolerates their grasps at 10th amendment autonomy as it derives power from the collection of states. But it is more well funded, controls the currency, and has more land and resources under its title. States don't matter.
I am often surprised how often email and slack chat volume corresponds to how productive an employee is. I’ve often had employees I’ve had to fire or resigned that after the fact I check their activity and they basically aren’t doing anything.

But using this data without the context is pretty foolish.
I'm pretty sure Thunderbolt 3 cables will work: https://www.amazon.com/optical-thunderbolt-cables-Corning/s?...
> What bothers me about this whole ordeal is the fact that the Chinese gov seems to keep a watch on pretty much anyone's social media it seems.

It's more likely that the Chinese government gives social credit for finding and outing such "troublemakers".

Thus the "Chinese student in Canada" sending the complaint.

By doing that, the Chinese government doesn't have to police everywhere. There will always be suckups willing to throw other people under the bus for tiny amounts of gain.

This is not unique to China.
Agree. I find it super easy to write my own libraries in C++/Java/Haskell/… but it is silly to do that when somebody else have already spent years creating a great library you can just drop in and use in a few minutes.
right, so in reality, the vaccine is little more than an invisible, permanent but intrusive mask that protects yourself, and not necessarily others...
So the vaccine is for people who want to protect themselves against a serious reaction. Makes the case for vaccination far less compelling than what most people believe.
Slavery was never really abolished, it's still allowed as punishment for a crime. The bias of police and the criminal justice system against people of certain races takes on a new meaning in this light.
They probably let go some valuable employees, given that things like this lack nuance entirely. All of the services listed could be considered distractions from work in several
situations depending on the engineer.
The U.S. history with slavery and Jim Crow laws tell me that it's not always perfectly viable, and is sometimes very difficult.
You're not being asked to give up your basic human rights though. What you are being asked to do is to get a free, readily available vaccine that will protect you and others from current and future harm.
Working with a Mac for the first time this year, excel on Mac is actually worse than excel 2010 :(
Seems to have generally aged well, though I don't think much said here will be controversial.
If you're so concerned, don't get the vaccine. But I'm begging you to please stop spreading baseless FUD about long term side effects. There is 0 evidence or any theory at all that could account for that.
> Your unvaccinated fist is right in my face.

Then get vaccinated and your risk goes down to a regular flu season.
"Urban area" doesn't mean people don't need car for living. Maybe threshold of "urban" is too low than we think.

You're just a tourist so you may can't see everything, but didn't you saw many small/family cars run on Miyagi at trip? Sendai city in Miyagi, maybe ranked TOP 10 city for great public transport in Japan, 75% of family still buy at least a one car. Rest of the place is far worse than Miyagi for transport. Of course they buy cars becaues it makes sense.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1027885/japan-share-car-...

https://www.eidaihouse.com/support/column/334/
Mozilla does sell ads. Google ads. They just do it by proxy.
Neither can governments, apparently.
"You received this email because my big data team analyzed your activities in Jira, Confluence, Gmail, chats, documents, dashboards and tagged you as unengaged and unproductive employees. In other words, you were not always present at the workplace when you worked remotely."

Sweet.

Maybe we are hitting the day when all of your code commits, all communication, location in the building, telecommute meetings, etc. etc. could be run through the Big Machine and give you a grade. All automated.

A parrot could be trained to fire people in a special HR chamber.
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I'm skeptical of using different types in a dynamically typed language (or db) as a tagged union where each type has a different meaning. IMHO youre better off with two columns with a constraint that exactly one of them must be Null. The issue is someone at some point is going to write code reasonably assuming the value must be an integer, not a string, and when the value turns out to be a string you'll get unpredictable behavior.
Small objects tend to start out as large objects. If you can get rid of a large object before it becomes a thousand small objects, that's a win.
Thanks, I wanted that and just used it.

I then realized you could also manually calculate XIRR using Goal Seek. Suppose your dates are in D2:D100 and values in V2:V100. Add a cell, let's say I1, to hold an interest rate value, and another column W with formulas defined as follows (filled downward from W2):

=$V2*(1+$I$1)^(($D$100-$D2)/365)

Then make a cell J1 with formula =SUM(W2:W100).

Run Goal Seek to find the value of I1 which sets J1 to the value 0. This will give you XIRR. (At least for non-leap years. I'm not sure how leap year logic works.)
Reminds me of a story I heard from a friend.

Some consulting firm came in to the company and decided, based on number of commits (or some such metric), that one particular engineer was the lowest performing engineer on the team. So, management fired them.

Turns out that engineer was the one who everyone side-channeled with to get help when blocked. They were the one who knew the system best and were enabling everyone's productivity, it just didn't show up in the metrics.

I wonder how many false positives they got here.
The only thing surprising about this is it happened in a tight labor market. Perhaps it isn’t tight for this industry/market?

I was in the room one time when HR decided to let go of 250 people based on the sq footage rate of the office they worked in. It’s not at all odd that in the post office world they are looking at other dumb metrics for these decisions.
>States one by one recognizing gay marriage and proving that it wasn't going to cause the collapse of society is the only reason it was recognized on a national level.

You're leaving out the massive fights from states that did not want to recognize gay marriage, which could have easily gone the other way. The same process will repeat with marijuana prohibition and the states fighting it may succeed this time. What would have happened if gay marriage stayed as a patchwork of legal statuses? What will happen in the long run when marijuana is legal in many states but continues to send you to prison for decades in others? This is not a stable situation and the exact reason we need the federal government to do things instead of leaving it up to the states.
I'm assuming android/google must do this already?
Interesting... some good food for thought there, because I'm usually vehemently opposed to the precautionary principle. It's good to see HN'ers agreeing with me on that for once.

When it costs us virtually nothing to do the right thing, though, I don't see how the precautionary principle applies. Usually we see that principle come up in arguments over nuclear power, large-scale environmental projects, major technological paradigm shifts, or medical therapies with a real potential for harm. It just doesn't seem to be in play here. Wear a mask in public, exercise reasonable social distancing practices when possible, and get vaccinated with something that has already been used successfully over a billion times. Is that really asking so much?
The rant about "Hacking is Cool" is really dumb. Hacking is cool because it encourages thinking adversarially and learning a lot about how the target system works. You learn things and you get better at security. The author seems to think this is purely talking about learning about known vulns that will be obsolete, but it's also about discovering vulns and developing a natural defensive attitude for your own software. This actually comes off as someone who's bitter about other people having skills the industry considers "cool."
> "With the Vimium extension installed, pressing f will make every visible link on the page get a one-to-three letter shortcut."

This is a UX which happens quite often, but doesn't seem to get discussed much. I want to say it's more of a hybrid between keyboard and mouse even though it's all keyboard driven. I mean popping up numbers temporarily over things you might act on, then they vanish and might not be the same number on the same thing next time. e.g. a meta key in a web browser which overlays the tabs with numbers, you press a number to switch to the tab, then the numbers vanish.

The point would be that you don't have to read through them to work out which one you want, you don't have to manually count "how many things from the left" or "what's a unique substring to search for", you are already looking at the one you want so the number which appears on it is pseudo-eyeball-tracking, look at the thing you want, press the meta key, type the number which appears, ignore the other numbers. Like line numbers and Vim "49G" to jump to line 49, Win+Digit to run taskbar items, Windows menu underlined accelerators.
>Easily half the states demonstrated that they could not be trusted to run their own affairs and protect the rights of the citizens enshrined in the Constitution.

So instead we have a more centralized federal government that cannot be trusted to protect the rights of the citizens enshrined in the Constitution ( that same post civil war government interned the Japanese, allows police to search any vehicle with the "signal" of a dog, and instead of enslaving blacks just disproportionately tosses them to wither away in prison instead. Instead of enslaving brown people here, now our kinder gentler federal government just blow them up in foreign countries instead. )

>The reinterpretation of the Constitution that occurred during the Great Depression granted the federal government the authority to regulate commerce within States under the interstate commerce clause. This authority drives everything from farm subsidies to drug regulation.

That's the first time I've seen the war on drugs used to justify the centralization of power. I suppose we need a new civil war against the "untrustworthy" states that have legalized marijuana so affairs can be run the right way.

It's pretty "reasonable" to believe the federal government DOESN't need the authority they currently have.
DING! There are several good arguments against cops as traffic law enforcers. But being able to stop anyone on a pretext of forgetting to signal or having a tail light out is a significant part law enforcement's ability to target and control so-called "undesirables".
Does the Tuskegee experiment explain black vaccination rates?
That sounds like a nightmare to deal with. You can't use any aggregate as it's either not well defined (e.g. sum) or will be wrong (e.g. count). Kust put the reason in another column if it's needed.
This seems like a misdiagnosis. To my mind, the obvious problem is the wailing and gnashing of teeth whenever someone suggests building an apartment complex, let alone a homeless shelter. Impossible to take a step to address the problem if every proposal is shut down by concerned homeowners making a scene at every town meeting.
That's an easy one. To answer your question you need to do to things.

- Try to export your photos from Google Photos

- Try to export you photos from Apple Photos

Let us compare those two, shall we?

Google Photos:

- stored in cloud

- no _synchronisation option_

- export exists but you loose metadata unless if you do it through API so third-party sync is not possible as well

Options to get your data back:

- Manually select all the photos in web ui and click download.

- Use google takeout option.

Apple Photos:

- Synchronisation. Go to settings and click checkbox "download everything to this Mac". Same for iPhone. Offline ready, your data is on your device.

- Export - just go menu and click "Export originals". It will conveniently organise your photos into files and folders. No internet connection required because the data _is already on your computer under your control_.

So, to answer your question. If Apple stops being on fire, I export my data in a single click and move it somewhere else if there's any option. But it will be sad day because I'm afraid that there will be no option, besides Apple the market is filled with liquid shit that treats users as cattle.

P.S.
The example of photos works for everything else - my music library is synchronised and downloaded locally on multiple machines. If you've got Apple Music subscription you can drop anything in there and it'll upload it. Basically dropbox with UI of iTunes and Spotify on a side.

Same for iCloud Drive - it is downloaded locally.
Heck, everything is downloaded locally, stored on my Macs and backed up with time machine. My data is under _my_ control when I go with Apple.