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I believe this aphorism applies to programming languages, "everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler". And at the risk of not answering the question, the reality is that no one language would ever be sufficient because a programming language is a tool, not a solution. And different jobs/goals require different tools. Therefore, to paraphrase from Malcom Gladwell, there is no such thing as the perfect programming language for non-programmers, only the perfect programming languages.

From there I'd imagine the best thing we can do is discuss features/tools that are used today that would be good for non-programmers. As many commenters have suggested, this will probably appear like the existing suite of tools that non-programmers use.

First, maybe an interactive graphical component that allows a users to define the flow of data. Something like Visio to allow users to draw data & input/output, mixed with a component like MSAccess to define the data model. Then a natural language tool that would take normal language and apply rules on the data (Hypercard). Finally, a visual component (like Excel) to validate that the data is correct and potentially generate reports for other non-programmers.
Doing a professional's job or a tradesman's job is different from designing the tools they use to do these jobs.

So it would be asking a non-carpenter to design whatever tool they need to get nails to go into wood. You'd probably end up with some caveman looking rock strapped to a stick and then it would evolve into something very similar to a hammer. The claw on the back to remove nails may or may not be combined with the hammer.
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Sure - but CRT has nothing to do with teaching history.

I don’t support banning it, but even if someone did, that has noting to do with preventing people talking about Tulsa even in schools.

Please stop making this absurd link. There is simply nothing comparable to what the Chinese are doing over Tiananmen.
Hello, US universities, this is reality calling

All those lucrative foreign students you've been padding your tuition income with, they come with strings attached. Just because they choose the US to study does not mean they don't buy their home country's propaganda. The core tenet of it is communist party supremacy. Most 18-year olds who land as undergrad from China plan to go back there upon graduation, and know that their consulates have eyes on campus. They're not going to embrace American values overnight until you are a lot more assertive about your expectations in this regard.
> Same reason gun control wont happen no matter how many people get killed - ultimately its because gun manufacturers would lose money.

Depends on what you mean by gun control though. Many (myself included) are pro 2nd Amendment so it's not just the gun lobby/NRA who oppose some (not all) regulation.

I guess my point is that gun control (whatever that means) won't happen not only because of gun lobbyists but because many Americans support gun ownership.
This is interesting. Clearly _something_ happened in the early 70s (noise in the signal makes it hard to be sure of the precise year - if even there is a single discrete event). I've seen the abrupt change in economic trends attributed to different causes by different people:

- The end of the Bretton Woods monetary system

- The occurrence of peak domestic oil production in the US

- (now) removing the ability of senators to vote privately

...
Hope there is a multi-million dollar pay-off for OBS.
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This logic works on the average. There are plenty of nuances between the two countries. This is my reduced experience from spending lots of time in China from the early 2000's.
Disappearing people who accuse the government/government officials of wrongdoing will never maximize utility.
I can't talk from experience, but whenever I think about the best books to read, Mortimer Adler's list of books always comes to my head.

Mortimer Adler is the author of "How to Read a Book", conincedentally, also a good book, he did a lot to promote quality reading in his age.

At the end of the book, he lists greatest books ever written, in his opinion. This list is called "Greatest Books of the Western World". It was even published as a series once. I'm still hunting for this set.

Here is the link to the list -> https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/120742.Mortimer_J_Adler_...
For those unfamiliar with the story here’s a short summary from his Change petition:

> Zhihao Kong, a student at Purdue University, posted a letter online in 2020 commemorating the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Shortly after he received a call from his parents, back home in China, saying they had been contacted by China's Ministry of State Security—the department responsible for national intelligence and managing domestic dissidents. Kong's parents told him the Ministry officers said he needed to cease his activism or he and his family would face trouble with the Chinese government. Other Chinese students at Purdue then began harassing Kong and threatening to report him to the Chinese government for his activism, which could potentially endanger both his life and the lives of his family.
I think it's a question of incentives. For scammers, 100% of their success is dependent on beating the review system. For Amazon, losing the battle will cost them much less than 100% of their profits.
You don't even need to compare to tech that didn't exist.

How many projects apartments from 1970 would you have to combine to assemble a full suite of working appliances and utilities. Now run that same test for the rural shacks and early mobile homes. How many of those people owned cars, a decent set of seasonally appropriate clothing, got their nails done, ate fresh produce out of season, etc. etc. etc?

Now run that comparison for 2021.

We're a fuckton richer. But proportional increases in the amount of our income sapped by shelter, education and medical care have more or less cancelled out all the gains in material wealth.
For those who wonder about this quote:

> safety features like circuit breakers and wiring insulation to protect against onboard fires

A regular circuit breaker is $5. Aircraft-grade one is $20. "Wiring insulation" has to be present in every coffee maker anyway, to protect from user electric shocks. A very high-quality, fireproof and abrasion resistant wire might be $1/ft, so <$10 total for the coffee-maker.

The "$7,000 to $20,000" price is definitely not due to material cost.
In this latest round of defensive anti-web3 posts from established technologists, I've been looking for mention of Tezos, CleanNFTs, HEN, Cardano, Algorand, Hedera, Harmony, Dragonchain, etc. but instead get tired critiques of BTC, ETH, and OpenSea that have been made over and over for years now.

Yeah, Bitcoin/Dogecoin and Ethereum aren't viable, but what about the newer/better tech?

http://blockchain.cs.ucl.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UC...
Yes, that’s because you defeat transitory inflation by saying negative things like “it’s no longer transitory”, or saying you’ll raise interest rates but not actually doing it. It’s an anti-fulfilling prophecy.

Why do you care about salary anyway? Gotta get more stock compensation.
Well, it wouldn't prevent that one user who requested the feature. But other users would be made aware that their logging facility now does surprising new things.
I don’t get it. Just truncate the name haha.

What I don’t understand is affected versions of youtube-dl/yt-dlp aborts download when the resultant filename just happens to be too long, and there’s no quick and easy way to temporarily work it. Ephemeral URLs could become stale before that is done.
I'd much rather they do this with text and then use something like tree sitter to do the zooming and separation thing because I've always thought that would be useful, too.

Looks neat, not sure how practical it'll be.
Unless a major contributor of OBS sues, nothing will come of it. That's unfortunately very rare, the only one doing that with any frequency seems to be Harald Welte (one of the iptables developers) [1]

1: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Migrated/GPL%20Enforcement%20Cases#Wel...
I would see two rather easy options in this case:
- Client supplies a laptop
- You create a virtual machine/environment on your laptop and grids the client within the environment.
Yea remember Michelle Obama. I heard it from Peter Thiel when he said something like this: "Michele Obama said all colleges are good for children not only elite one. The next thing you hear her children are going to Harvard."

Edit: here is the Peter Thiel reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz4VYFAQGaA
only way to effectively end that would be to have government seize all children upon birth so every child has an identical environment growing up.

The fact is a standardized test is far less biased than the metrics they will use to replace them. That's the reason they were created in the first place
I think what I mean by “freedom” is that “citizens” are a branch of government. Freedom is that we’ve decided the citizens are the ruling class.

To oversimplify quite a bite: As a citizen of the United States, and Arizona, I’m allowed to get together with a group of citizens, draft law, and bring it to vote during the next election.

As long as it’s constitutionally valid, and we get a majority vote, it becomes law.

Several cities have changed their ballot box from First Past The Post to Ranked Choice Voting through citizen lead initiatives. Ending the full prohibition on Marijuana in my state was a citizen initiative.

I’m sure they exist - but I don’t know of other countries that have this kind of freedom.

We’ve gotten it wrong in places (gerrymandering is a big one) - but we’ve been one piece of citizen lead legislation away from improving it for a long time. And that gives me hope.
OBS developer here. It doesn't "install OBS in the background". They ship several executables as part of their software that contain code derived from OBS and there is no offer of source code. They're currently in violation of the GPL, but per our GPL Cooperation Commitment we are trying to work this out with them privately.
In some ways I agree. I believe while there are still huge issues with the manufacturing, cultivation etc of drugs, that there are still a multitude of issues which we need to deal with first. That's why I am an advocate of decriminalization, so we sort those issues first.

I have had first hand experience of dealing with immediate family members and friends who have been addicted to legal drugs like alcohol, and illegal drugs like meth. The impact that addiction can have on others who are not addicts is quite disturbing and I have had a mild experience to say the least. I have even struggled with my own addictions.

I think drugs like marijuana is ok, but a drug like meth oh no that's just not good at all. Even alcohol I question a lot, even a quick google search suggest 40% of murders are committed in the USA while under its influence.

Also there are questions about how drugs can be legally sold, I read an article the other day that San Francisco was stopping tax hikes on marijuana stores because of the rise of the illegal marijuana trade. When governments get involved the outcomes are not always as expected. Would legalizing and taxing cocaine for example really stop the mass murders and gang violence in South and Central Americas.

Decriminalize, treat the people with addiction rather than locking them up for possession, educate, etc. That's my thinking.
Wow!! This is extremely fast..
I'm not pedantic enough to spell out that there are gazillions of ways to do REST in Flask. And Flask as a microframework for websites seems a lot less useful for me because I'd need to bolt on a lot of stuff to make it more useful.
I like others idea of getting them to spring for a dedicated computer. You just have to make it palatable to their accounting department. Maybe lease a laptop and expense the payments or something. If you have an accountant, I'd consider asking them for suggestions on "good ways" on how to make your client pay for your laptop.

In my case, I just outright said "hey, you guys I really want you to be my client but I'm gonna need a new laptop". So we bought a new laptop as part of the contract.
I'm writing this stuff to try and push back against the whims of that majority, because I think they're ill-founded. Just because a majority of people believe something to be good and true, doesn't automatically make it so. It still has to stand up to empirical evaluation on its own merits.
The administration can’t ban these students because they need the money from these students to keep their jobs.
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Not everything is measured by economic success. Liberal democracy is a value in of itself not just for financial gain.
Could be that the Chinese system is better economically, who knows. But to me it sounds very alien to live there - I wouldn't want to.
They don't align with most of my values.
Now, present America which is fast becoming eaten by radicals may also become not aligned with my values at some point (at that point Europe will be the last standing), but for now it's better for people who appreciate liberal democracy.
It also sounds like they’d need proof they colluded with a foreign entity which is a very high bar.
I try to only buy things with recognizable brand names on Amazon. The premium you pay to an American intermediary for crap that was ultimately produced in China anyway is the cost of quality control.
Bullets fired into the thieves is an effective deterrent.
Omitting something from a curriculum is one thing.

Attempting to scrub it from the internet and all of human consciousness is a whole new level of tyranny.

If I google "Tulsa Race Massacre" I immediately get results and information. Try searching for "Tiananmen square massacre" in China and see what kind of results you get.

One is subjectively more egregious than the other. There isn't even a real comparison here.
It is kind of interesting. At my college, we had large batches of students from (Mexican) migrant workers in our dorms. With very few exceptions the majority of two person dorms were 1:1 matching one of them with a second generation (and onwards) citizen. I thought it was a great way to expose all of us to both integration and diversity. It wasn't smooth for everyone of course, yet I thought it was a good balance of culturally jarring experiences, while still providing close proximity to people from the same background (e.g. several migrant worker kids in same hall still). I haven't really thought much about that since College but kind of assumed most places did something similar. (We also had specific classes that highlighted migrant worker issues / history).
It's hard to find something like this because HN itself is quite cynical/skeptical/critical and the entire crypto space depends on not examining reality all that closely.

On another topic, we've had so so many "HN for $x" threads lately.
That's a fair request. I'll tinker with it the next time I need to spin up a weekend project.
So.. Drive will automatically un-share our files based on their own algorithms.

I've got a feeling this will be mostly an automatic DMCA takedown tool.
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This is an excellent point I hadn't considered. You're probably right.
Streamlabs violated OBS' trademarks, their fork has always complied with the GPL.
43 cases isn't statistically significant. It's unlikely to be representative either.

The 70% figure is readily available. It's in this article somebody else quoted when failing to make an opposing point: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/south-africa...
Computer operators were not very technical--just trained on the various tasks listed. It was often a low wage job. Not like a more familiar sysadmin of more recent years.
True. But very often mommy & daddy - who write the checks for college tuition - expect the college to change his (metaphorical) diapers. And never dish out serious consequences for their failure to potty train him.
When I first learned of Dropbox, I thought that was stupid. A full 2 GB of storage for free online? How would they afford this? Turns out storage is cheap and more importantly it keeps getting cheaper over time. I am very willing to admit I was an idiot. However, that does not mean anything I say is stupid is NOT stupid. I still think NFT is stupid. I don't know how I can support cryptocurrency and not support NFT but I am sure people will laugh at me for not being practical for saying transaction fees should be as close to zero as possible if not zero.
All nice, but now you need managed switches and stuff plus some amount of unbillable time to configure it all and fix it when it breaks. Might be worth it if your bill rate accommodates it though.
$100 per compared to however much you make per year using that tool is nothing if that tool makes you more productive. Personally, I haven’t found a lot of great alternatives. Picking the best text editor is like picking the best mail client: you settle for the least shitty one. I am happy to pay good developers for good tools that make me more productive. Focusing on open source at all costs is a great way to ignore the actual costs of those tools.

Also, developers are spoiled af. Imagine if you worked in industrial design or something. The standard there is something like solidworks or autocad. You’d get laughed out of the room if you tried to stumble through with some open source alternative. Just the software can be $x000/year and that’s not even considering the hardware that some might need to stay productive. You want to actually prototype something? Pony up another pile of money for a CNC or a laser cutter or whatever + the operator time (if you don’t know how to do it) + the materials.
We also have franchised dealers in the UK. They have show-rooms and help you design the model you want and sort finance if you’ve got limited funds, and then they get it built and shipped.

Same thing - only difference is they don’t have cars in stock. It’s done on demand.
I would say about 75% of projects are like that, they don't want or take external contributions or if they do the rules are often so opaque to doing so properly they often aren't worth the effort. The rest have been a mixed bag of unpleasant but ultimately taking the bug fix to one project where I and the creator had a blast of a time for 6 months after he just gave me commit rights after my second patch and left me to it once I said what I was building towards.

I think the good ones that make this easy and fun are pretty rare, I definitely check the pull requests and bugs for any project before I consider contributing nowadays.
I don't get the implied scorn. Isn't reliable information valuable? Worth paying for?

It sounds like you think this information should be priced in. I'm accustomed to that as well, since it has mostly been the commercial default for most of my life, but maybe unbundling it is worth a shot.

After all, "Consumer Reports" isn't free either, and caveat emptor has forever been the law of the market.
This project came out of Rick's blog post: https://rickcarlino.com/2021/seeking-collaborators-for-proje...
I think you're confusing medians and averages. A median figure is not skewed by high earners at the top.

Second, the OECD adjusts for differences in government transfers like healthcare and education.
> Yes, because "learning from our experience" is yet another form of oppression according to CRT pushers.

I don't understand. Are you saying people who discuss critical race theory are opposed to learning from our experience? Could you characterize what these people are doing? I'm genuinely curious. I don't mean to be aggressive, I just don't understand your point.
good enough for plebs not future ruling elites.
Okay boomer, we heard you, now please put your mask on when riding public transport, thank you :-).
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BtrFS can actually shrink while moving impacted files. I think the target space is just rebalanced.
> for commemorating the victims of the Tiananmen Masacre

You realize the 89' protestors were trying to overthrow the government (thats how you establish the Democracy). No surprise that celebrating failed-revolutionaries is contentious.
No, the claim is just that most Americans have never heard of it, even now after it was featured in some critically-acclaimed (although probably not massively watched) TV shows, and certainly not for the century before those TV shows.
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UK CMA, the competition authority, just published its interim report (Twitter)
I believe they are referring to "rolling coal". Its the practice of modifying a diesel truck to run dirty for the purposes of directing the black cloud at someone.
I think this is an opportunity to raise the prominence of the issue. I wish Purdue had explicitly mentioned the Tiananmen Massacre in this notice. We should talk about it. Our diplomats should be applying pressure around Peng Shuai's status. I'd love to see a debate in Congress about our participation in the Olympics and what that says about our support of this regime.
> VS Code still has proprietary bits, and you'll need to run your own extension store if you don't want to use those (which the VSCodium project does, I think). Of course, that's not even mentioning the forced telemetry in Windows...

VSCodium has just disabled that Microsoft store by default. You can enable it and use all the extensions normally, without proprietary bits.
The KKK wasn’t a part of the state.

And yes, there was state sponsored anti-communism in the 50s, but it is not even close to comparable. Nobody was being intimidated for mentioning communism, or even advocating for it.

People were targeted for group membership. This is still wrong, but please stop trying to make it seem equivalent to what is happening today in China. The fact that you have to go back 50 years to find an example shows how different the two countries are today.
how do you clarify a valid product update? Aeropress changed the plastic used at some point in ~2013 but didn't publicize it widely. Should the Amazon listing start over from scratch for that type of change?
Dont forget the work involved when renting out flats. You will find out that its at least a part time job doing that.
I worked previously at the Lebiniz institute in Dresden. If you haven’t been, it’s one of the most beautiful cities in Europe (esp. at night).

East Germany is still suffering from the economic damage of the cold war. The political challenge of funneling money from the west to the east is the same dynamic in the US that didn’t support the losers of globalization.

This had led to the rise of the far right et al.

Fun trivia: Early in Putin’s career, he was a spy in Dresden trying to learn about technology development.
Nobody really knows; it's not in widespread enough use to have been seriously researched.