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> gun rights outrage, voter ID laws,

What positive changes have there been about gun control since the Brady Bill in 1994?

What positive changes have there been about voter suppression ever?
Ye. How does it work? Does she need to be reelected or is the chair for life?
> ...this part of the license is not valid in several European countries.

Do you have a link maybe? My quick search found nothing...
There are unpopular opinions? It’s pretty shared in the industry.
Not necessarily. You can also sample the subset of people.
The world's biggest "offshore" tax heaven is not any of the Caribbean islands. It's not Switzerland. It's not Hong Kong.

It's South Dakota. [1]

Former hedge fund manager and financial book author Patrick Boyle explains what these Pandora Papers mean in a video [2].

There are rumors and speculations that both the Panama and Pandora Papers leaks were released by the CIA. The leak is so massive and so many entities were hacked that only a nation state could have pulled it off. And given who was and who wasn't implicated in this and given which news orgs received these papers, it's pretty obvious that CIA or NSA or some other part of the US IC community was behind these leaks. And none of the media companies are asking the question of who is behind these leaks for a very good reason.

Just imagine if Wikileaks had released something like this... all these news orgs would immediately blame it on "russians" and claim it's all fake.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/heres-how-states-like-south-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INRs9rnciyI
Yes, those are features you could add to a flashlight app, and you'd likely concentrate on those features instead. I would argue that each of those is very different than a flashlight app which turns the camera light on/off and would be unlikely to be even called a "flashlight app".

There's tons of flashlight apps which only do the on/off switch and the only differentiation is how they try to get money off of you or what data they want to steal.
When there's no oversight by decent people, this can happen. Hence the importance of fair elections, education, and scrutiny, in particular for corruption.
Back in the 1980s in my first reall office job I worked for a government agency that had an office manual, for all of its offices.

The manual was in two black three-ring binders, every page fully under version control. It described everything, including, crucially, how to code things for filing and how and where to file them.

Working there was boring, in the very best way. I didn't know how lucky I was, at the time.
> 8am - 2pm, a few dozen kids in 1 class room, 1 teacher, 1 white board, shuffled from one class to the next, school bells, homework, midterms, final exam.

It's more or less the same pattern in universities. Why do you consider it outdated?
If you steal the Coca Cola recipe and release it, don't you think you'd be acting illegally? These documents were stolen from law firms, trust managers and accounting firms.

Aside from the fact that many of these structures are not illegal, and are often declared to local tax authorities of the resident, these are private matters. Plenty of money is laundered through onshore jurisdictions as well -- this has nothing to do with the entities itself.
Side Channel Attacks on iPhones with the iTimed Toolkit
Lawyer here. I specialise in tech deals and the burgeoning tech regulatory sphere. (Think AI regulation, cryptocurrency, etc.) HN is a great way to keep my finger on the pulse.

I try to contribute to legal threads where I can, but /some/ HN contributors' level of obtuseness towards the nuance of legal issues can be off-putting.

As can the insistence to treat every social and moral issue as newly discovered, merely because there isn't a /computer science/ paper written on it yet. (I am exaggerating for effect, and I say this with genuine affection for the CS-crowd, but I think that there's at least a thread of truth in my last sentence. It's human nature that we approach problems from our own perspective or specialism first).

Still, a fascinating place to hang out, and I have huge respect for the general level of contributions, and individual contributors, here. I hope that us non-techies patronising HN adds to the richness of the debate.
Maximizing autonomy is a well-regarded technique, but I wonder what the downsides are, and whether it's still worth it anyway?
> Relational DBs are Sharks

> OOP is the Roman numerals of paradigms

> C is a PDP assembler that thinks it’s a compiler

Yup, everything popular is evil and bad. Run away to your ivory towers.
CNN is "fundamentally ethical and reliable", but I have my "personal biases" on display ... "Chomsky certainly isn't news"... "Tiny stories", like Donziger and Melzer.

... Wow. Well, enjoy following the news CNN choose to tell you, I guess. Those Kardashian shoe lines are much more news than anything Chomsky has to say for some people, and I guess you're one of them. lol
Dublin is a beautiful city. It is very small though, compared to London.

Imagine moving Wall St from NYC to Austin TX.
Title spelled "won't" wrong.
Ahem...

https://marvelfusion.com/
This motivation doesn't seem to have much to do with the friction that banks introduce.

My bank is not showing me ads (or at least, not paid ads - they advertise their own services). The friction comes from the authentication process. I must produce a username, then a password, then a personal secret (a relative's middle name), then I have to cross the room and get this device, activate it, key in a PIN, and read an access code from the device's display, that I have to type into the browser.

The password and the relative's middle name amount to the same thing; it's just a longer password.

I'm OK with the device - "something you have". It's annoying, but it's the only bit of robust security in this loop.

I'm OK with the username/password ("something you know"), although I question the value of the password - it amounts to just an extension of the username. The middle-name business is just silly. And of course, the password I use is 12 characters long, and I have to look it up in a password safe, because it's not memorable.

I can't see what possible benefit there could be to this bank (a very large international bank) from increasing the friction of authentication. They are not showing me ads during the 3-minute authentication process; if they make it hard for me to authenticate, then they increase the chance that I'll just give up and phone them, -> increased call-centre costs.
On Ubuntu Desktop as well. Both in Firefox and Chromium.
This research https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264262v... only confirms previous findings. That is, on average the PCR test Ct values are similar when tested for infection.

What is also known from other research is that Ct values for vaccinated decrease faster.

It is also known that probability that the samples grow in the cell culture is lower for vaccinated tested Ct values.
Apparently, she's elected to an 8-year term and makes a whopping $176,000 a year. I've been told that if you fail the bar 3 times as a lawyer, you kind of become untouchable in some respects. The judge failed the bar 4-times, and is still allowed destroy lives.
Would you still think taxation is theft if the government was acting as a responsible steward of tax money, and spending it in ways that improve the lives of the citizenry without running up a huge debt?
How to Be an Infopreneur and Its Benefit
Big discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28801908
It does not have to be a cure though, it just has to be better, right? Not that some (actually, quite many) consumers have a choice in the matter (availability, law, so forth).

Maybe they ALL know that a cure could cut off profit, so they go with good enough boosters.
> let them discuss how black lives matter at work.

That is not how it works. In practice, there is a bigoted, mostly fresh from college activist group that considers themselves morally superior. Some Gen-X and Boomers join for their careers.

The group looks down on everyone else, treats them with suspicion. Gen-X, who wore Greenpeace and anti war buttons and helped introduce women quotas in the workplace is lectured by brats with $250,000 salaries (which for some reason the little angels don't give away to Black people).

The whole movement is deeply hypocritical and self-serving. It is NOT merely discussion!
I couldn't find anything of substance here, just FUD
It is Slovenia, as others have guessed. It's just one way people find to express their predjudice, I'm sure others exist in any other part of the world. My last name ends with a C and it sometimes gets written with a Ć and I don't lose my mind because I'm not a bigot. Also, I'm happy to see more and more people standing up for their identity - as in, please put Ć on the form because that's how it's properly spelled; yes, my ancestors come from the south and no, I don't care what you think about that, just do your job properly!
Are Latvians still learning Russian these days as well? In Georgia I noticed a big difference between the older (Russian) and younger (English) in their second language skills.
Yeah but they can't do that fast enough, as we've seen. One of the many points where pure captialism fails.
It did not win this year. So what? If it is important, it can wait.
> I made no claim that every OS has a heap.

> Billions of embedded devices reserve and manage heap memory without difficulty. Indeed, every OS kernel is running in just such an embedded environment.

You claim every OS kernel is "running in just such an embedded environment" and you describe that environment by saying it does "reserve and manage heap memory without difficulty". (My emphasis). Would you like to explain how this is different from the claim you now say you didn't make?
> Eg they could tax land value. It's very hard to move land out of the country or hide it.

Remote work would be their solution.
You were right. I asked him. Thanks!
Bit by bit, freedoms and rights will be taken from you...if you fail to comply, the boot will soon be on your neck...

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> That is the situation already.

No it isn’t. Please stop spreading misinformation.

You can donate to the Mozilla foundation, which wastes copious amounts of money. It is NOT possible to donate towards Firefox development directly.
FB is not the only large company that pays well. They might pay better than others, but when you're in that income bracket, we're not talking about making ends meet either way. So when you introduce ethics into consideration, it does affect their ability to attract talent.

FWIW their recruiters seem to be getting desperate in the past couple of years. Until then, I'd see a FB recruiter ping me about once every year. But from 2019 on, it's much more frequent, and I know it's not just me - there's many other people I know who have observed that, and you can find more testimonies along those lines in these comments. Furthermore, I have explicitly told them to GFTS in no uncertain terms, and I still got recruiters contacting me after. This tells me that they are feeling the crunch.
I feel like this is a use-case which sounds a lot better on paper than it actually is. Mobile apps in my experience tend to be shaped quite heavily by the system API and UI frameworks they are built on top of. When you talk about the "common part", usually this is like the networking layer and models maybe, which tends to be very simple and takes like a half hour to write in the first place.

Even if there is a little duplicate work, it's still better to have the whole app implemented in the native language and frameworks, rather than having some odd bits which don't work with the same tooling for example and are harder to debug.
> cryptocurrencies are almost all illegal transactions.

Citation needed.
Similar to C-dièse, the way some French are saying C# based on how it's written.
From the article: promotional video for the center, which is expanding as a business and contracting with other counties in neighboring states.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igoy0sq4noQ

The judge (Davenport) and facility manager (Duke) are still being paid well for their work in jailing children on dubious legal basis.
Same here on Firefox on a Desktop. Even after I enable the JavaScript, the CPU fan spins up and that's it.

Looking at the source, that actually seems to be all there is? A canvas and a couple JS files that do fancy path rendering?
> I've lived in dwellings in developing countries better capable of managing summer heat than most Bay Area apartments.

Developing recently has its advantages. They’ll install reversible AC mini-split systems primarily for cheaper heating than gas/oil/LP, but with the side-benefit of AC.

Then again, a lot of Western Europe (hello France!) won’t use AC because “air conditioning makes you sick”. I’ve even seen it unused in a car during a heatwave for this reason, and it wasn’t an economic issue.
Building SQL queries by gluing strings together is tedious and error prone. So you write a lot of helper functions to build queries for you and pretty soon you've invented your own crappy ORM.

Why not save a lot of time and bugs and use a battle tested ORM and drill down to SQL for the queries that really matter instead?
I am really surprised by the HN community. I wasn't expecting people to downvote an user who politely expressed his point of view just because theirs is the opposite.
Interesting how IF50 posts always manage to get some recognition here in HN.
I find it very cool. I was thinking recently of something similar, and it's interesting to see it in practice.

I can imagine there might be some serious tradeoffs in terms of making something which has to be interoperable with all these different target languages.
That's why their management is so highly paid. They're true DISRUPTORS.
Even that's not the case. AOO has approximately no paid developers, after IBM left in late 2013.
The quote comes from the article but, yeah, I get your point. It just seems to me that "useful, usable and attractive" is more complete than "minimum viable". I've seen a number of posts about the meaning of "minimum" recently (MVT)[1] and this article suggests that you need to go beyond an MVP to get people talking about your product. Maybe I'm over-thinking this?

The full quote I'm referring to is:

> The main advertisement channel is of course people who are in love with your product. Their sharing activities is the best advertisement. Thus, the main idea is to create the product that is useful, usable and attractive to the end users. And only after that it does make sense to spread the word about something you've done.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550454
Yes do what you are hired for. How does this not compute in the minds of many is baffling to me.
How can developers be "100x more invested in their work"? Assuming the average lazy developer spent 2 years in college learning their craft and 20 hours a week actually working, you're saying the 100x-invested programmer spent 200 years learning about software and 2000 hours a week working?

That's an insane claim. How far must people go to be politically correct and to avoid "insulting"(?!) the average person?
We can argue over whether Rust is a better low-level systems programming language than Zig; but that's not what I meant. C didn't shove you into a straightjacket, and neither does Zig - that's why the latter can meaningfully claim to be the true spiritual successor of the former. Rust is something else entirely (again, whether that "something else" is preferable is a different argument!).
Because the wealth of Jeff Bezos according to Forbes is just the amount of Amazon shares he owns, multiplied by the price of the stock on whatever day it was that somebody at Forbes decided to work out how much he was worth. Bezos, just like you and I, pays tax on his income. He only gets taxable income from the value of his Amazon shares when he sells them, which like most founders, he doesn’t do very frequently.

You’re literally just getting upset at him for not liquidating his entire position of Amazon shares (or options) every year. If he ever wants to turn the theoretical number some Forbes intern came up with for his net worth into income, then he’ll have to pay tax on it. He could theoretically live the rest of his life without selling his shares if he wanted to, just like you or I never have to sell any shares, or property, or any other type of asset we own. However if he did that, the IRS is going to come and take the tax he owes from his estate.

There is no tax evasion taking place here, this isn’t even a loophole. It’s the same treatment everybody gets.

You don’t have to sell your assets if you don’t want to, and you don’t make a taxable profit from selling your assets… unless you sell them. The propublica article you’re quoting is designed entirely to rage-bait people who don’t want to think about the topic long enough to figure that very basic fact out.
There are some workers that would relocate with the whole family. This means the significant other has to find a job and fit it, kids have to go to school.

Like e.g. Berlin, the large Dutch cities are very much internationally-oriented and usually it's not problem to get a job and integrate if you don't speak Dutch. Sometimes the issue is quite the opposite -- my wife wanted to learn Dutch, but people would just switch to English or German and she would have to ask them explicitly to speak Dutch.

This means the significant other has to find a job and fit it, kids have to go to school.

Kids pick up other languages in no time. A lot of friends/colleagues moved between countries (academia) and the kids would usually pick up a language in 2-3 months. I have lived in Australia for six months when I was four. When we returned, I spoke English with an aussie accent (though that's gone now ;)).
India in the 50th place? My company has Indian workers and they speak English very well.
Sure, "agreed upon". Since it's very beneficial for a country to grant immunity to a large corpus of foreigners with guns.
Plenty of people and organisations put more effort into avoiding blame for things than the thing itself.

Blame is pointless (particularly directed at humans), learning from mistakes is invaluable. What I'm saying is it is a terrible mistake to put more effort into avoiding blame than avoiding mistakes.

Blame-free culture is great, but it has to be actively maintained.

I agree.
“ I’m here on a mission. It’s not a job. It’s God’s mission”

So much for the separation of church and state. It’s like something from the Taliban
I think that is a more recent backronym and was not the original, so it is wrong to say that what the above post said is incorrect.
> I can't say that I know how every person means the things they say, but "my existence is political" is a relatively common statement…

This is in fact not a common statement, and is only found in select coastal cities with high populations of people who have elite educations. More than half of the country has no idea what you’re talking about.
What do people care? Look at how many people have already gotten the vaccine before they knew about their effectiveness or anything really. Many people got it just so they will not be trashtalked (to be part of the group, peer pressure, yadda yadda), to be able to visit cinemas, to be able to keep their job, and in some places because it was mandatory.

Hear this rather funny story: someone wanted to visit their family member who was staying at the psychiatric hospital. They could only do that once vaccinated. What happened? The woman walked 100 meters, got the vaccine, and immediately went to visit the family member. Yes, no waiting required, which is the funny bit. The vaccine obviously was not mandated for what you and I would think it was, otherwise they would have given a crap about the time after vaccination.
Advice to anyone who wants to start using XMonad, READ the docs..
Didn't expect, but domain age checks out: 2016-09-26 20:02:45
And yet on this thread no one seems to have taken a look at some of the... interesting things in the extension in question.
You nailed it. My attraction to retro-computing is a mixture of nostalgia and a desire to unplug and go "off the grid". Early computers (DOS, Mac, C64, Apple II, BBC Micro, etc.) had a much more intimate feel than today's omni-connected communications devices. It's kind of like reading a book vs watching a live stream (with busy chat scrolling by).

Another aspect to it is the low latency you get when using a machine with very few layers of abstraction between the software and the (usually CRT) display. Using something like WordPerfect for DOS is a dramatically different experience than modern MS Word or Google Docs. Vastly fewer visual distractions as well.
> Those videos lead to deaths

Smoking and Drinking also directly cause deaths, yet as a society we are fine with taking such levels of risks and let people in videos show that they are smoking and drinking too. And don't get me started on opoids prescriptions which kill way more people that COVID all things considered (in years of life cost) and for which nobody seems to lift any finger to stop the carnage.

Which is why it's wrong on so many levels to censor stuff, because orgs that do that have no clue and no principles and just follow a certain political agenda instead of any rational motive.
Making the Billion Dollar Code – Netflix Series
You say it like it's a worse option. I'd argue it is actually better to burn money since then government won't have so much money which will make it an unimportant target for big corp contractors. And it is currently and there is vast amounts of corruption going on because of it.

Just think about the kind of profits corps that are on the CIA's short list get.
Than can be done with less taxes than the average europeans one. It is also debatable which of the estates attributed roles can't be done better by private companies.
Wow, this seems like the missing piece for making SQLite a viable option for using it as a production database for low scale environments.

Given that it's using S3 for storage which AFAIK doesn't have compare-and-swap operations, I wonder how it deals with multiple processes trying to backup to the same directory. Is there a risk of two processes clobbering data?
Lies. Resistance is futile.

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i'm exactly in this situation : have an ios swift app and wonder what's the best way to get it to android.

Swift and kotlin are so similar i wonder if there isn't a possibility to generate at least the type definitions from one to the other. That would let me ensure that the code design at least stays in sync (at least for the model layer)
In the off chance this is not a joke: in colloquial English this means they are pissing on you (golden being the color of urine).
TypeScript is a different language from JavaScript, and C is a different language from Python, so I don't think those are good examples. Similarly, various macro languages that sit on top of something else are also languages in their own right.

And sure, you can always "fix" a language by designing a derivative higher-level language that transpiles into the old one. In fact, this is a time-honored tradition - C++ was originally just such a transpiler (to C). But the very fact that you have to do this points at the original design deficiencies.
> Every video leads to death.

your comment has led to death too, by that kind of logic?
Are there any reported cases of water tables dropping because of residential water use? I always see agricultural and out-of-home use blamed (e.g. large lawns/gardens).
I mean, any draw has impact, but I imagine water tables being so full of water when you hit them that you 100L/day draw for showers/cooking/washing/flushing has insignificant impact in any non-urban area.
> What happens if we make an unpronounceable language and it takes off? Would it just be given a de facto name by the community?

Yes. Nobody calls ECMAScript by it’s official name. We just call it JavaScript.