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> One side invaded the capital building in a violent attempt to overthrow democracy

Okay so lumping together half the country in with a few extremists would probably be the first step to answering your question. Yes there were probably plenty of people at home cheering them on but if you really believe it was half the country then you need to get outside your bubble.

> the other side wants to make voting for whoever you want as easy as possible

I have a tough time believing this at least from a party perspective. Sure, the democratic party loves to say this, and they even manage to back it up with their actions sometimes when it's convenient for them, but they still only want you voting for their party approved puppets. If that weren't the case then I simply don't see how it is defensible for democrats to not have enacted a better voting system yet in places where they have clear majorities (eg California would be near the top of that list, and yet here we are stuck with a democratic governor who vetoed the legislation which would have allowed general law cities to use alternative voting systems). Note that I find it entirely likely that plenty of democratic voters would like to fix our voting, I'm specifically talking about the party leadership here, although on that note there are also plenty of republicans who would like to fix our voting, so that's another step you could take to meet them in the middle.

First past the post voting is probably the biggest thing preventing people from "voting for whoever they want", but democrats have done very little for that even though it is blindingly obvious how terrible of a system it is. Well, I can see why the democrats (and republicans) would like it, because that's a large part of how they stay in power, but from a "voting for whoever you want" perspective it's just about as bad as it gets and the democrats just don't seem to care about it.

Now that it's becoming clear that more voters care about this reform, many places are turning to RCV/IRV as the solution when there are much better methods out there. It's hard to tell if it's just being ignorant about the problems with IRV (eg doesn't elect condorcet winner, ignores lots of ballot preferences, non-monotonic, etc) or if they are intentionally aiming for a method which appeases the voters while also being one that will help keep them in power. Approval and STAR are significantly better and are gaining momentum in the US and any condorcet method would also be reasonable, but so far support for these other options is pretty grassroots and I'm unaware of any big name republians or democrats actually talking about those other methods.

Fixing the voting would also help people like you distinguish just how much support eg Trump has compared to others. There was a lot of vote splitting happening in the Republican primaries which Trump benefited from and with a proper method I believe it's entirely possible he wouldn't have even been nominated in the first place. There are plenty of Republicans who did not like him but didn't feel they had an alternative in the general election because of how distasteful they found Clinton/Biden to be.
> The western world has stolen enough wealth from us.

That's a feeble victim mentality that you should consider re-evaluating. Not uncommon on the African continent and elsewhere (blaming colonialism etc), but it's obviously not as simple as that, and you know it.
IIS literally has functionality built-in to restart its subprocesses or whatever they're called, if the memory usage goes of X or if the subprocess crashes.

And yes, it is used in production in very big companies.

The main thing that was monitored was actually the restart rate/memory increase rate, i.e. a restart every 6 hours: ok, a restart every 30 minutes, not ok.
Log4j remains vulnerable when using attacker-controlled thread context lookups
The worst thing about this article is that the title suggests he's going to write even more uninformed nonsense.
It is important to note that suddenly, and against all probability, a sperm whale had been called into existence, several miles above the surface of an alien planet. But since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity.
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After a few drinks I'd expect you to say something more controversial, like it failed because it took sides in the culture war.

Bringing discussion to the masses is actually a known problem, and something reddit managed to solve with subreddits. Quite a few others before it fell due to this issue, notably slashdot and digg.
IP law is what it is, but you can make very good arguments that it (esp patents) doesn't actually help society at large, and that it shouldn't exist in its current form. I think you'll find a lot of people on HN who would back that.

Somehow when it comes to China, people grab for any excuse to criticize them and "stealing tech" is one of them. Certainly it is possible to come about knowledge by nefarious means, but that doesn't mean that it isn't legitimate for China to try to learn things from other people.

As for some professor getting paid, tech profs can be a pretty hot commodity, so it's not in itself surprising that a prof is making big bucks teaching people about his subject and perhaps also introducing his network.
The Thousand Talents Plan is a transparent attempt by the CCP to accumulate economic and military power. It isn't bad because "China," it's bad because it increases the power of an authoritarian, imperial-minded, genocidal government.
Depends if it falls under fair use or not.
Maybe, but it's in a context of strong Chinese = Enemy thinking that has been plaguing American academia the last years: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/28/world/asia/china-universi... https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/wrongly-prosecuted-chine...
I only ever saw activation fees for cards that correspond to prepaid credit cards. Gift cards for everything else cost exactly what the face value is.
Thank-you so much! It's been a disease on my browser for too long
Not trying to downplay crime in South Africa, but I'd like to emphasize that not everyone is directly affected by crime in South Africa. The ones who have been (or the ones living in more exposed places) tend however to be more vocal about it.
Extend Python with magic(part-1)
It would be crazy for Firefox not to advance. Yes they haven't done everything in the most communicative way, but the average user now expects password and bookmarks sync and wr all should be grateful they manage to cater to an audience beyond just the IT crowd - else the web would truly be dead.
"Do you know who I am?" there's no woke reading where Julius Caesar can be rehabiliated for modern sensibilities. It's still unbelievably badass.

I don't think you can retcon modern thinking on it, he was the actual thing and that was beautiful and terrible.
I was born in the year of the rat with blood type AB and I dislike horses indeed. Donkeys are cool though.
Here's the correct link for the modern stove/generator: https://www.bioliteenergy.com/collections#campstove-family
Arkansas waitress fired after getting $4,400 tip
Never enter into a relationship you're not willing to walk out on. Full stop.

I've worked for a number of agencies over the last 10 to 15 years. The myth is you need to hit grand slams. Big clients. Big budgets. And tolerate anything.

If that works, it's an outlier. What you need is a solid string of singles and doubles. Sure occasional triples and home runs are great. But as the stakes go up, often so do the unreasonable expectations and demands. One bad client can easily cost you more - time, energy, focus, team satisfaction, etc. - than that revenue. So what looks like big gains are in reality a loss.

TL;DR - Success isn't about the clients you get, it's about the ones you avoid (or worst case fire).
Perkbox in the UK does this. You can buy gift cards for less than their face value as an employee perk if your company subscribes to the service.
well the bottleneck is electron. The startup times have consistently increased since I first started using it, now it uses north of 1gig RAM for a decent size project, too much for a text editor :(

Don't get started on the popups though!

And I don't use any extension
> By realizing that the world is always changing, and by stopping to complain, we opt out of seeing the world through cynical glasses, and become part of the change. When we realize that our life can change, we can change it.

The world isn't always changing for the better. And to be dead honest, seeing how covid unfolded and how it was handled, I'm more skeptical than ever. We have control over a lot of things in our lives and to be honest at no point in time in my life would I have imagined I'd be where I am now. It certainly turned out a lot better than my expectations during the first years of my adulthood. But sure enough there are a number of things in my life which are far worse than I would have anticipated and quite frankly I don't see anything I can do about them, yet plenty of them keep me up awake at night. And in those instances being cynical isn't necessarily a bad thing. And here we have the semantics and namely Diogenes who is widely known for his cynicism: he was anything but fond of ancient Greeks and his attitude towards them was exactly that: cynical. However, he was equally eager to change their living conditions. And I admit - I'm extremely cynical very often and in some instances this pushes me to change the things I dislike about me or my surroundings to the best of my abilities. Of course there are the instances which I mentioned earlier which are outside my control in which case... You know... Whatever, might as well shoot a few blanks for the sake of it.
Ask HN: anyone know how to buy bird seed not full of weed seeds: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200320132239.h... ?
Computer History Museum curator picks for holiday reads
They could be referring to iPhone, couldn't they? Which to my knowledge doesn't have Time Machine, a macOS feature.

I think it's best not to say something is a "lie" unless you have a strong basis for it, let alone asserting it is a "outright lie".

A lie is an intentionally false statement. It involves an intention to deceive. It's highly unlikely that someone on Hacker News would set out to intentionally mislead people who are familiar with the subject-matter and who know how to fact check.

At best they are "wrong", "misinformed" or "mistaken". Although, as said in the first paragraph, I suspect you're actually at cross-purposes with each other.
> Many Greek well-to-dos in his place

Well if he had zero money he couldn't retire to a quiet country life... That's why homeless people today do not choose to live in nice places in the countryside but instead sleep on the pavement in cities. It's much less pleasant but you starve less in the city.

Also, maybe he wanted to tell other people they were fools, not just "wanting to be seen not giving a fuck".

Sure, if you want to lecture people about themselves then you give a fuck about at least that, but it's different than simply trying to be the center of attention.

I really think Diogenes was a philosopher (Diogenes the character -- this is true whether he actually existed or not): he had a point of view that he wanted to share.
> precisely because they know the limit of science and how it is manipulated in the public discurse.

Followed by the "high school or less" group at 20%, presumably for the same reasons, then?

Also, you balk at the GP calling antivaxxers "totalitarians", yet you say this in a comment below:

> I therefore propose to use an experimental vaccine using Guillotinine (a molecule related to quinine) and administer it to a selected test subjects such as Pfizer's and Moderna CEOs, CEO of big TV network as well as a few ministers of health and selected parliamentarians. I bet that covid will cease to be a thing in less than two weeks after injection.
> Sure, it isn’t stealing if you’ve built the labour and market system to cater to labour exploitation and wealth extraction.

It is not stealing if it is by definition not stealing, but at least you can say that you never voted for the singular political party that has enjoyed an legislative majority (and sometimes supermajority) for almost 30 years ... right? I mean it is better than chance you did, as the majority of South Africans who can vote have at least once in their lives voted for said party, but not you for sure, and definitely not your parents, that would be ludicrous to suggest.

> Most here live a very simple life in rural africa and would probably be content to do so if it wasn’t for taxation and labour demand.

And you definitely never voted for the political party that set the tax regulations.

> It often feels like other people are pulling the strings.

Must be, can't be the voters, obviously the majority of the voters who voted for singular political party that has enjoyed an legislative majority (and sometimes supermajority) for almost 30 years have no say in how the country is governed, that would just be fucking stupid to suggest.
This is all very nice and for example Apple could share all their IP and give away their iPhone IP to china IF THEY WANT TO. It's a free world (in the US anyway).

But that's not what is going on here. In the current framework we live in, there is IP and there is knowledge and that knowledge is funded and worked on under certain rules. If you break those rules there are consequences.
Since the plural of ouruboros seems relevant, here if almost nowhere else: https://www.ouruboroi.com
Thanks alot, I'll get that looked at!
kindaVim: Vim moves all over macOS. for Text and Non Text Elements.
Medallions clearly don’t represent road space but a specific use. They basically create a taxi cartel with a high price of entry. I could get behind auctioning off all road space to limit traffic and pollution but not that.
> But of course "current developers" only work on webapps ;)

The rule of thumb is that the vast, overwhelming majority of developers are working on business apps, especially Line Of Business (LOB) internal apps nobody ever sees.

It's hard to get exact numbers for this stuff but I wouldn't be surprised if the ratio of base infrastructure developers (kernel, shell, drivers, compilers, runtimes, frameworks, libraries etc.) to app developers is 1:100.
Pixel Patterns
Not OP, but the theory was interesting to me. Allowing the engagement verbs on content like this is how Facebook measures the quality of a piece of content (quality as in, will this make people spend more time on Facebook.) No verbs, no metadata for FB's algo to work with, no way to tell one piece of content from the next.

Facebook users are mistaking engagement counts and Facebook's profit motive as a trust signal. A Nazi comparison post is spliced in between photos of your cousin's kids and a weekend trip your college roommate went on. If this same procession were flashing past your eyes instead of being scrolled, it would look like a scene from A Clockwork Orange.

Second, let's say you already believe something false (false because vaccine mandates are not actually like Nazi Germany) and Facebook is optimized to find posts from people who believe the same false thing and show it to you in the pursuit of time-on-site; Facebook is doing matchmaking to reinforce beliefs that are false. This is the same goal as misinformation. So even if it isn't misinformation, it shares the same harmful outcome as misinformation.

It's interesting that Facebook openly labels this stuff misinformation because there is some truth to your claim. These were just garbage opinions until they came in contact with Facebook's business model. The chemical reaction turned them into something worse. Facebook themselves calls it misinformation but it could only have become that with Facebook's help. A nice own-goal scored by the company.
Here's a couple. This research will help me in a few projects too.

https://docs.jdoodle.com/compiler-api/compiler-api

https://codesandbox.io/docs/api

https://github.com/plnkr/sdk

https://docs.jsfiddle.net/api/display-a-fiddle-from-post

https://jsbin.com/help/api/

https://docs.sphere-engine.com/

https://www.jdoodle.com/compiler-api

https://glitchapi.glitch.me/
>Can you give links to some one-sided conversations? I don't see many of those.

The first and most obvious topics are going to be the more controversial topics.

So look at climate change, covid/vaccines, US politics especially anything pro-trump or election fraud, and well anything touching on religion.

Here is today's climate change article, right on time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29546875

Haven't quite read it yet but I'd bet there's only 1 side talking there.
Go to the RM for the Vermeers, stay for the gigantic-piles-of-fruit-with-a-lobster-in-the-corner paintings.
> I love my country and it’s people. I think we have enough to feed and house everyone. It often feels like other people are pulling the strings.

Well, stop for voting the people pulling the strings...

A quick example: The largest owner of land is the South African Government, and yet laws are pushed through to allow land to be confiscated from people of a particular race and "redistributed" to other people of a selected race[1].

As long as the majority allows things like that they will remain poor and impoverished.

It's been over 25 years that South Africa has had State-mandated and State-enforced affirmative action to benefit the 90% majority at the expense of the 10% minority, and yet the 90% majority is still clamouring for more.

[1] It makes more sense for the South African Government to give out land that they actually own, not land that is held by someone else.
I think you attribute a causality where none necessarily exists. Some of "The Powerful" are indeed absolute bastards "always looking out for n.1", but a lot of them are sincere in their motives - it's just that they often happen to be ideologically misguided or forced into backfiring compromises by circumstances or greater powers.

Arguably, the most visible ones are often very sincere - because otherwise they couldn't sustain the drive necessary to reach certain heights.
It's just how he is a person. I learned it from observing him. Its not that difficult to copy if you can avoid taking part in the emotional stir.
...work?
Trump's "deplatforming" was never about trying to take down Trump. It was merely "growth and engagement" scum trying to virtue-signal and protect their PR since they have no real, paid-for product and are at the whims of advertisers and public opinion.
They're ends in themselves.
When do you really ever get the chance? So satisfying. I'm taking the rest of the day off ;)
Be sure to check out the excellent restaurant in the rijksmuseum while you're there.
I take it you're not a big fan of Swift, but there's little need to veer over into borderline conspiracy theories.

I do think Apple is honestly committed to Swift over the long term, but it takes loads of time and care to replace the foundations of a building that's in daily use.
Among coin collectors, we call the process “toning” instead of tarnishing (a much more benign word, IMHO ;)

It’s the exact same chemical process, most commonly seen in old silver dollars that were stored in sulpher-containing mint/bank bags.

Just the right amount of toning can turn a silver-colored silver coin into a rather magnificent rainbow that can be worth many many times the value of the exact same coin without the coloring.

Exhibit A: Regular silver dollar (still quite beautiful!)

https://images.pcgs.com/CoinFacts/25003275_37921476_2200.jpg

Exhibit B: Rainbow toned silver dollar that can be anywhere from 3-100x the price of a non-toned coin:

https://images.pcgs.com/CoinFacts/35923065_149932537_2200.jp...

As one would expect, values like this have created quite the cottage industry of artificially-toned coins which can be anywhere from trivial to impossible to differentiate from naturally-toned coins. It can be somewhat of a cat and mouse game to detect :)
> You can get half way there with proper diet, sleep and a few years of education.

Who told you this... and why do you believe it?

The literature is pretty clear... you can swing a few points with intense optimization, and that's it - at best.
Actually it will almost always make it worse for a couple of minutes, then everything cools down. In my experience at least.
> and upset at me when I suggest that the current population is not supported by the earth sustainably,

because you are wrong. 100 years ago people said we would all starve when the world population reaches 1 billion people. then we not only not starved but became wealthier as well. Doom predictions are mostly damn wrong.
> Where else would you put your car tech startup in SF? Software engineers aren’t going to work out of a garage, and good luck finding a traditional office space with decent facilities for working on cars.

In…a garage. I’m serious - there are spaces big enough in SOMA and other places that can fit a garage space plus open office space plus some conference rooms (I’ve worked in several of them).
Hi there. Yes, and sorry, that was tactless of me. I like the opening of your response very much; it was a lot more dignified than mine.

Then it goes weird (IMHO) though...

> my suggestion that orgs that have always used Windows can make a significant step toward everyday Linux by first using Linux only for the internet and continue to use Windows for everything else. <

Do you mean now or in ~1998?

Either way it's a bit odd.

Now -- who uses computers without using the Internet?
Then -- well, it was possible -- I built an Internet café around Caldera OpenLinux in about 1999 -- but it was quite hard.

> Linux was not made for Windows people at all. <

I think it was. The influence of Win9x on Linux is very large. Linux desktops after Win9x barely resemble those from before it.

> Which is when plug & play LAN <

The PnP LAN? PnP wasn't really anything to do with LANs.

As far as networking not needing configuration, this was a lot *easier* _before_ TCP/IP than after. Network protocols on the LAN made networking much, MUCH harder.

> They may have a word processor on every desk but networking them for the first time was not going to happen if it required the services of some kind of professional they didn't already have on the staff. <

It totally did, you know. This was my main income source in the late 1990s.

> So they bought a lot of LAN cards, routers and cable and plugged & played. <

You persist with the misguided idea that was the reason I commented to you and then wrote the blog post.

Internet use did not noticeably drive LAN adoption. Internet adoption lagged LAN adoption by a decade or so; several entire billion-dollar companies, such as 3Com and Novell, were entirely built on pre-Internet LANs and the Internet largely destroyed them.

> But we can be fairly old-fashioned and lots of our offices around the world still had a communication room where a DOS PC was in email service before any internet, <

Lots? I have literally never ever seen that.

> I do remember it was the arrival of the 98 version combined with the dominance of TCP/IP <

Maybe for you. Not in general, I guarantee you. Again: whole point of my comment.

I mean, look, I appreciate your graciousness about this, but what mystifies me is that it seems to have had no impact at all on you and you are replying to me, saying "hey that was me, thanks for the info" and then repeating exactly the same misapprehensions I was trying to correct.

I appreciate that you may be merely recounting your own experiences, but what I was trying to get across was that they were not general and the bigger picture actually is the reverse of what you were saying.

And as other commenters here have said: Win98 had almost no significance on this at all.

Windows for Workgroups: big deal.
Windows 95: bigger deal.
NT: huge deal.
Windows 98: a minor point release and nothing more.