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> Several negative articles have been published; complaints that van lifers leave rubbish everywhere, including faeces, that they are disruptive and a social nuisance.

The feces claim, I've noticed, is popular when people are trying to demonize a group of people - usually people without traditional homes, like the author - evoke a disgust response so great that their awfulness is undeniable. "human feces", is the term I hear.

It's so commonly heard that it's a joke to me now. Having spent much time in cities, seeing people who lack housing, seeing where they live, and interacting occasionally, I've never seen it. I'm sure it's there someplace - everything is - but I'm sure it can't be so common.

I always want to ask, how do they know it's human feces? Are they feceologists? Did they collect a sample and study it? How closely did they examine it? If anyone here has identified human feces, please share the process with us!
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on the subject.

You can eventually turn the bike by just leaning over. But it's painfully slow compared to counter steering. California Super Bike school demonstrates[1] how sluggish body lean turning is compared to the speed and precision counter steering offers.

What's more that counter steering is also less effort. Greg Widmar (Motojitsu) demonstrates it perfectly[2] with a 1 finger counter steer demo on a 550lbs motorcycle moving at 80mph; he barely has to push the handle bar to drastically turn the motorcycle. Contrast to all the muscle and energy necessary to move your upper body around and hold it in position as seen in the Calfornia school's demo.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VqXBA-sGHA

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNvdB6pMdx0
I also have immense difficulty doing basic text ops on mobile phones.
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I think it is a mistake for gifted students to think too much of high school education — even if gifted. I'm sure they can find better things to do with their time.
Yeah, and the exact same reason why the lack of unionization in VFX is such a large problem.

Unions work.
After I managed to wrangle the review text from the HTML it still needed this sort of cleanup:

def clean_text(text):
text = re.sub(r"[\x7f-\x9f]", "", text) # remove control chars
text = re.sub(r"[\xa0\r\t]+", " ", text) # replace with spaces
text = re.sub(r"\n+", "\n", text) # squash runs of newlines
text = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text) # squash runs of spaces
# Remove newlines unless they appear to be at the end of a sentence
# or if the sentence is shorter than 80 characters.
text = re.sub(r"([^.?!\"\)])\n", r"\1 ", text)
text = re.sub(r"\n([^\n]{,80})\n", r"\1 ", text)
return text.strip()
I don't know that replaceability (true or not) should have that much of an outsized impact on the expectations of humane treatment

I realize capitalism rewards scarcity here, but imo this is a piece explicitly about the tolls that tends to bring
8 hour charging session? What decade do we live in? How do you think it will be by then? I wait like 20 minutes if I need to use a supercharger. I pretty much never do, because I don’t travel that much. 8 hours is hyperbole.
Because people love 3d real time first person games?
If they were indeed a perfect replica that fact wouldn't matter. They wouldn't know if they were a replica, you wouldn't, and only a 3rd party could ever tell you they weren't the person you love. At that point learning whether or not this person standing in front of you is a replica can only harm either party. Would you really subject yourselves to that information if it could only hurt someone you objectively love? It's not a light choice to be considered selfishly in a vacuum, because even if they are a replica they're still perfect and a person you genuinely do love. Why on earth would you want to learn something that would make you not love them, that would alienate them from their entire sense of self? Even if is the truth, nobody stands to gain from the information. So long as neither of you can tell the difference, the truth doesn't doesn't matter. Pretty sure this exact subject comes up in like 2 or 3 episodes of Rick and Morty.
Hence the term "wishlist".
Sure, no argument here.

But the question "Can a CPU experience qualia?" can not be answered by saying:

"no, because CPU computation exists on some platonic ideas plane".

Computation is physical both in brain and in silica.
Oh, sorry! You're right! Never mind, we don't do any of the things I said we do. I should have read Block Club instead of relying on my own EJ experiences.
Dunno if you know, but two useful things to know about text editing, at least on iPhone:

- press and hold lets you (eventually, give it a sec) move the cursor around

- press and hold space bar on the on-screen keyboard, then move (while still pressing the space bar!) left or right allows finer setting of the cursor
Yeah, that's fair. Maybe I was being overly sensitive.
Funny, though I didn't grow up speaking Marathi (it was extremely frowned upon where I was born) I needed an extensive set of family (and food) words in order to speak with relatives. It's quite common to refer to someone by how you are related to them (mother's brother's wife: मामी, mami); the problem is in a conversation you have to know how you are related to the speaker so that when they say "father's sister" (आत्या, Ātyā) they are referring to the same person.

What makes this interesting is that (as somebody pointed out to me years ago) I carried this habit into my main language, English. Not that I say anything as specific as "mother's brother's wife" -- I just say "my aunt" but apparently I frequently refer to people by connection (your sister) rather than by their name.
I think you can find exceptions in any discussion, but that's not exactly helpful.

Here's the thing: If I don't answer the user's query accurately, another website will. Then they will get all the traffic. So my long term incentive is to satisfy the query.

Within that there is a certain tolerance and understanding among search users that websites can't publish information for free. See Wikipedia constantly begging for money.

So companies (my clients) can justifiably get away with a small amount of self promotion. But if you take that too far you'll just get punished in the SERPs too.
localhost isn't solely the property of whatever is serving that site at that time though. You're at the mercy of one app doing it then breaking everything else for you.
Good question, but maybe due to Java's stability and portability.
If it's static analysis, then the browser can always execute it and throw it out after execution, that's the nature of static analysis.

There would absolutely have to be an escape hatch, or configuring one's browser in this way would make most of the web fail to work (and unfortunately, the golden rule for features in browsers is "if it breaks most existing sites, you can't add it because most users aren't savvy enough to understand what is happening and will uninstall your browser in response"). But I can't actually see anything stopping a given user agent from choosing to offer that as a development feature for a specific domain, which would be pretty swell.
France has FPTP, and it works for a lot more than two parties. Admittedly, France has a second round run off in case no candidate has more than 50% of votes in the first round so.
Longevity doesn’t matter for that, reproductive rate does (in addition to conversions), and it’s the opposite.
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> One because they didn’t want to update their JS engine and the other had just released v8.

ECMAScript 4 was canceled for a whole host of reasons. Trying to blame browser vendors is just bonkers. The standard made too many changes all at once and existing work on implementations had progressed too far.

https://auth0.com/blog/the-real-story-behind-es4/
Yes and please build 10 of these instead:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965261...
I had a similar experience with a family member. When I asked them how their keyboard strokes appeared on the screen, all I got was confused looks. When I showed them that the first thing that happens is a hardware interrupt, her mind was blown.

Seriously, it's okay that people don't know the ins and outs of every little detail. Abstractions are useful, until they're not. And then when they're not, you go figure out the level below.

Even the most advanced, most skilled front-end devs spend 99.99% of their time not caring that the browser loads an HTML page.
Connections and sale of assets. Look at VRchat.
It's a good observation that out-of-orderness and asynchrony contribute a lot to the challenge.

> the inconsistency between your cache nodes is a consequence of the underlying design of your system

I disagree with this. First of all, imposing order and synchrony is expensive, slow and unreliable. Even if we do that, cache fill and invalidation will never be externally coordinated; and will collide on the cache host.
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My parents always warned me, based on their own experience, that you need a healthy family member watching doctors and nurses like a hawk at all times, looking into the drugs and dosages they're prescribing, and even doing work on diagnoses, to make sure they don't kill you, and that it was extremely risky not to have a competent, dedicated advocate of this sort around. I was always a little skeptical of this.

Now that I've had a little more experience with doctors and hospitals, I'd say they were spot-on.
Yeah, I'm always highly suspicious of that "fact" thrown around, since urban areas always seem to be exceptionally expensive compared to actual rural towns (now suburbs may be a different deal) - said towns which pay for their own police, etc.
There was an article on HN recently talking about how Americans spend less per capita on groceries than almost anywhere else. However, this is not the good news it seems to be on the surface. The race to the bottom in groceries and produce (ahem, Walmart) has lowered the nutrient density of produce while at the same time pushing cheap processed foods that provide cheap sugar, fat, and salt. I’d be interested in seeing how many Trump-voting counties also predominantly shop at Wal-Mart and the effect this has on health outcomes.
Ugh, I know right. You're tired of owning your house :-(

That's what people did in the past. Eww. Leave the past behind! The past is bad!

Instead, live in the cloud!

Sign this easy form and transfer the property rights to me, and for a monthly bill, you will be entitled to visit the building. Need to use more than one room, need to turn on the lights or use the stove? No worry, you will be billed separately for abnormal usage.
Thank you everyone for your advice - I didn't expect so many comments, much appreciated.

I ended up doing the challenge because I thought it would be a good learning experience and a way to ask questions and learn (even) more about the company.

I was offered the job straight away but turned it down because I felt the company was dysfunctional as many of you suggested, slow to make decisions and slightly chaotic. There were some nice people and unfortunately some (potentially/seemingly) toxic ones.

Can't justify accepting it when the market is so good right now and there so many good options out there. I will keep looking. Thanks once again all of you for your help. I read your comments with great interest.
>Are you claiming cache invalidation is simple in that case?

No.

>I believe it's a solved problem

It's not.

Suppose you have source-of-truth A (doesn't really matter if it's a key-value store or whatever, it could even be a function for all intents) and a few clients B1, B2, B3, ... that rely on the data from A. You have to keep them in sync. When should B* check if A has changed? Every time they need it? Every minute? Every hour? Every day? This is the cache invalidation problem; which IMO is not even a problem but a tradeoff, but whatever.

Epilogue: With all due respect, you have an unbelievable career, IBM, Autodesk, Google, Box and now Meta. None of those companies would give me five minutes of their time because I am self-taught, yet here we are :)
> What I find striking about it was a time from 1979 to 1986 when home computers seemed frozen in midair.

It seems like that era was quite vibrant for home computers though. My impression is that many people learned a lot from their Vic-20's/C-64's. I was a bit left out of that scene because we had chosen a TI-99/4A instead, which was less easy to hack around with (no poke statements, for example).

There was also a huge price difference between the home computers which you could get for a few hundred dollars and an IBM PC which was thousands. There were a lot of people who could afford the former but not the later.
You could just, you know, vote on or reply to those comments.
VScode offers workspace settings that you can check into git that will get picked up by anyone else using vscode on that repo.
Yeah I was also intrigued by the title and couldn't find what I expected tbh.
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Do you think kids should have recess? If so, for what purpose?

Or, what do you think of Montessori education?
In addition to the other response, elections where there are razor thin margins like this garner a TON of attention, making the likelyhood of getting away with fraud much less likely.
Manderin has non-gendered pronouns referring to a person (something missing in English), and a wealth of words referring to family relations relative to the person speaking. It's rude for someone to refer to an older relation by name, and so it's always done by the relational words. There are special terms for extended relations on the father's side of the family. It is particularly rude to refer to a family member by the generic, non-gendered pronoun, because that indicates the speaker does not have any relation with that person at all.

These words encourages a more collectivist rather than an individual mindset with biases based on the person's seniority. That can be good and bad. For example, there's less room for identity politics in day-to-day speech, and in turn, you're reminded in detail of relations and roles. Korean has something similar. South Korea had to retrain their airline pilots to speak in English during flight operations because those very same relational words do not allow for flow of critical information and contributed towards crashes.
The majority of people I've personally met who didn't like cities didn't like them because they didn't feel like they were safe. They're literally scared of people
Really?

It's hard to find anyone who'd say they overall like Microsoft as a company. VS Code is one of the very few things Microsoft has made that people actually like.

I recall reading a comment here recently that they've actually create an entirely new generation of children who hate them by recent changes to Minecraft. Supposedly they forced everyone to migrate their accounts to Microsoft accounts, and in the process wiped a bunch of save files.

Microsoft happens to every generation at some point!
Theoretically, can this scheme be turned into a generic O(N) key-value retrieval for non-static content (in this example — supporting adding, removing and replacing articles without re-encrypting the whole database and re-sending the client setup data)?
This analysis wasn't from team blue, and it wasn't made to score political brownie points. It was paid for by struggling american cities in states like Louisiana to help stabilize finances & avoid bankruptcy. It measures the budgetary balance in each area of providing infrastructure & services compared to tax revenue recieved. Lafayette used the analysis to shift zoning laws towards higher density zoning across the city core and the city's finances improved.

The uniquely north american model of cities oriented around sparse car centric growth is just not sustainable in the long run. Every metre of asphalt paved & pipes placed is a metre of commitment to eternal maintenance, and when that metre connects to a tiny suburb of 15 people that can't remotely afford the bill for the infrastructure that supports them then you have a cities that grow over the long run towards massively subsidized development, soaring property taxes, & growing debt.
Really, Garry Tan is a right wing billionaire? And Ben Ling?
> do Black Americans have worse outcomes […]

Black Americans do not have worse outcomes.

Specifically, given the distribution of individuals in the group "Black Americans" across all socially relevant dimensions—including culture—individual Black Americans have identical* outcomes to similarly-situated individuals of every other group in America including Whites, Asians, etc.

As you would expect in a country with equal opportunity for all, both legally and culturally.

*Black Americans actually do better than expected because there's an enormous cultural push to promote Black Americans whenever possible—college admissions, management, etc. not to mention Black Americans being so over-represented in media that most Americans think the country is around 40% Black whereas the actual number is ~13%, i.e. they're off by a factor of 3.
I’ve faced this at multiple jobs at orgs of different size. My solution was to always have more than one thing available to work on so when one task bogs down in the mud due to organizational processes, I can go work on something else until the blocked task makes progress.

If you don’t have alternative things to do while things block, you might see about getting other things to do. Or, adapt your work style to minimize the number of times you run into these obstacles. The people I see get most frustrated are those that don’t adapt to the system and get frustrated when it doesn’t work the way they want it to. Adapting may be annoying and may break some comfortable habits, but in the long run I find it to be the route of least angst.
"Move fast and don't pay taxes" or something. I think that's how the startup mantra goes.

Maybe it was "Break laws and avoid jail".. no hm...
Coming from today's world, sure. But in 1966, a language with a built-in database was a godsend and there were no standard language conventions to adopt (C was still several years away and only COBOL and Fortran were in wide use).
I‘ve had Siri set to German for forever (my native language). It regularly has problems recognizing me saying things in English mid-sentence, like when I request it to play a song. I do this a lot (car commuter).

For fun, I set Siri to English for a day and I was blown away at how much better it is. Both in recognizing requests, despite my accent, and in the quality of the voice synthesizer. Song requests became trivial and everything felt much more fluent. English Siri is even able to express emotions (happiness), which is something I’ve never heard in the German version.
That optimism still largely existed in the 90s, too, when grade school math textbooks had BASIC listings in them. Pretty sure that all disappeared by the time I graduated at the end of that decade, except in districts that couldn't afford new textbooks.
My favorite is VS Code by far. I use it daily. They recently also added a bunch of sound cues to help figure out if code is folded or a line contains an error. It's pretty great.
Auto completion reads well, the parameter hints read, even the built-in terminal works. So overall I'm really happy with it.
With respect to the 2020 election, I have wondered about the chain of custody of the ballots once separated from their envelope. In some regions boxes of ballots were transported to counting locations. Could someone swap out the entire contents of a truck. The boxes were then unloaded and brought in through back doors late at night. Could the boxes get swapped out during unload. Some boxes were left sitting under tables for later retrieval and not securely locked up. Some boxes were forgotten about in back rooms. There were reports of mail-in ballots that appeared stamped by machine, but I never saw any finished investigation of the reports.
And what are you going to do about it? Cops aren't coming out to do anything. You don't have the authority to tow them.
My Dad brought home an Osborne portable from work. Twin disc drives, a tiny monochrome screen and built-in BASIC.

I spent the next 3 days building a football game simulator, only to have my baby sister trash the floppy disc by spilling a drink on it. I wasn't a happy camper.
That quoted bit seems more like, IMO, that they're just unifying their HIG since the design across macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS are converging, partly due to the unified developer process for all of these platforms. It doesn't seem any more generalized than it has in the recent past. It's just that each platform previously had their own distinct design languages, which have been gradually reaching a shared state.

One can certainly argue against the merits of said convergence though. However, I don't see how this is any indication of them hoarding their design language for themselves.
The population density of the moon will probably be higher than rural America at that point.
Java, like .NET, are just solid application platforms which are statically typed and their performance is good.

Java has a history in big systems for soon 30 years.

Rust, Python and Go are just not there yet. Rust is too low level, Python is not statically typed and will always suffer performance wise and Go ... I
is a youngster :). And .NET is always not everyone's free choice.

And Apache, well they just liked Java for their applications. They started with some C/C++ code but then quickly aggregated a lot of Java tech.
Be grateful that they don't print tongues or taste buds in your ass lol
Learning Turkish for my SO has caused me a lot of pain. Forget the fact that she has ~20 aunties and uncles trying to remember their names and "role" is a hell of a job!
Why stop there? Doom on the Analytical Engine!
Writing DSLs is not uncommon among Lisp developers.
You have that backwards. Parent was stating internal domain names can resolve to 127 to enable HSTS. Specifically using "localhost" should be the exception, not the resolution of 127. you could shove securehost in /etc/hosts as 127.0.0.1 to turn on HSTS for example.
That's a year and seven months since M1 was released, so M3 is expected ? Jan. 2024? It'd be pretty rare for a January release, expect instead probably November 2023 or March 2024.

There's a joke here somewhere... all those poor M2 suckers when M3 is about to be released. Something like that.
This article is on the hn front page but disappears for this account "E2EEd".
Can they explicitly define what they mean by “a woman” ?

If a 40% of a board’s males identify as women, does that solve this quota?
I’m not intimately familiar with all of the details of what is being advocated in California. All I can speak to is my perspective on what equity is and how I think it should be applied.

People who disagree with the basic concepts around equity tend to view the entire discourse as a monolith, but people are actually allowed to have different opinions on what is actually equitable and what isn’t.

Personally I wouldn’t support doing away with advanced math courses either. But just because someone does that in the name of equity, doesn’t mean I think equity itself is bad. I’m able to separate the two.
I tried rubbing a database on a robot