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This issue seems overblown, and I'm not surprised. Child porn is a great trigger word for making people approach an issue emotionally. I'd like to challenge everyone to take a few steps back and look at it more rationally instead. Many people who are concerned about their own instances probably does not have to worry [1]. I disagree with anyone taking the moral high road here too - I think it's disingenuous to call this "child porn" and illicit all of the emotional hatred that it implies when no children are being abused and it's legal to create, posess, and distribute in many countries.

The issue at hand is simply that it doesn't make sense for Mastodon to mirror content posted from other instances. It could be CP, or it could be a copyrighted work, doesn't matter. While this is clearly an issue to be resolved, it's been overhyped and a resolution is underway. I think any court would be friendly to a defendant who mirrored illegal content unintentionally through the behavior of their software in the meantime.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_drawn_pornogra...
Adsense. Not very smart, but it was paying the bills nicely and I was lazy enough to don't search others form of income.
In the bottom middle of the screenshot, above the empty timeline, there is a graphical editor for events in the game engine.
>The internet is not broken,” There is no problem for the government to solve.” - FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai

This is sooo true. If internet carriers were preferring some kind of content, or censoring or giving less bandwidth to certain content, or charging for certain content - and this was causing the problems described in the mozilla article - then yes - we could have legislation to solve that problem.

What gets to me about the net neutrality movement is that the legislation they are pushing for is based on vague fears and panic. Caring about net neutrality has become some sort of weird silicon valley techno-virtue signaling.

If ISPs start behaving badly or restricting free speech, I would be happily on board to having legislation to address that. This has not happened and there is no evidence that there is any imminent threat of this happening. Net neutrality legislation is a solution to a vague non-existent speculative problem.
Oh, so it's about the high complexity and many interoperating parts?

I'm just asking because I was born in the 90's, I'm not very aware of the state of email server management then.
Can we use it outside of Meteor?
I haven't been in a few years but Varasano's is the best pizza I've ever had. Antico comes in a close second. If you're a fan of Neapolitan style pizza definitely don't miss this one.
According to the EPA, as of 2015 agriculture is responsible for 9% of American GHG emissions and transportation is 27%.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

Maybe you're thinking of the global level, where agriculture is comparable to transportation and the IPCC grouping "agriculture, forestry, and other land use" (AFOLU) is greater:

https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg3/ipcc_wg3_a...

I would venture that the reason that latter figure doesn't come up much in American policy discussions is because American policies can do a lot more about American transportation emissions than American policies can do about foreign agriculture or deforestation.
So you're saying this most recent regulation does absolutely nothing, even though it was the highest priority for the incoming industry friendly regulator. Seems doubtful that some 1984 law is going to protect our browsing data.
I think the real problem with a decentralized read/write Wikipedia is conflict resolution (conflicting edits). Having a centralized site to handle those is extremely useful.
Not the latest trend. My grandfather went to Univeristy of Toronto School of Dentistry in the 1920's and his opinion was always remove the wisdom teeth. People in their 20s saying they're glad they kept them will probably regret it in their 50s.
no, I expect them to build redundant connections to homes / neighood POPs. Especially for cities that plan well and design for easily pulling new wire through existing conduit.

The first build out of fiber to the curb is expensive. 2-N is cheap if you do it right.
>I've seen burger assembly robots that will make, from raw ingredients (including the ground meat) burgers in a handful of minutes.

Exactly this. A machine could make a far superior product in a fraction of the time for less money (at quantity). I worked at McDonalds through college, and I remember people (including myself) letting the pre-cooked hamburgers sit in the warming bins for hours passed the time they were supposed to. Gross! At a minimum, I can't see why everything in the prep-area wouldn't already be automated. I imagine there'd be far less waste as well with everything being stored in a pre-cooked temperature controlled manner until the customer orders it.

I wonder how long it would be before McDonalds followed suit if someone with the capital built a competing shop that automated to the max and made a superior product for a competitive price.
Linux system internal are ugly, there is little progress on static driver verification, resource management heuristics are poorly tuned, and the kernel network stack is so bad, you can make a living selling your own user space version. Linux has a lot of very real problems.
There was a Mad Men scene (S5E01 I think) where the firm advertises that they're equal opportunity, and when a bunch of black applicants queue up, the hiring manager says to them (paraphrasing), "Yes, you heard right, we're equal opportunity and do hire blacks. But our only openings are for secretaries, so the men can leave."

That is, he's progressive enough to hire non-whites, but still doesn't think men can be secretaries. (In fairness, they probably wouldn't have wanted the role anyway.)
I'm not sure why the author sees the only alternatives to be "run open no-rules server" and "packing my bags and saying goodbye". Running personal server for yourself and possibly few friends&family should sidestep most of the legal/moral issues (I imagine), so why not do that?
I'm in my mid-forties now, and I've been doing it since my mid-twenties, so it is for awhile. I doubt I'll still be doing it in my mid-fifties ;-)
Are people, who are just starting, still building complex chef and puppet systems when Heroku and Elastic Beanstalk exist? .i.e scalability is easy now. It's a click away or even automatic which these types of services. It's also affordable.
People only look at it from the employer's side. The employee, if they can manage themselves and not become anti-social, receives a huge increase in the quality of life.

Making appointments for the doctor, court, etc. don't require a sick day, you have more time in your life from a lack of commute (for a 30 minute commute, that's 5 hours/wk), you can schedule around your most productive hours, (later in the day for me), you can be tasked based such that if you finish all your work in 32 hours, you don't have to put in time just cause, you can exercise or go for a run during the day (many can't because of lack of shower facilities or a strict 1 hr lunch), you can eat home cooked meals without having to cook a huge serving that will last you the week and you can take a nap if you feel sleepy after lunch without worrying about optics, you don't have to be in at some specific time if you've had a hard time sleeping the night before,. I don't ever feel rushed in the morning and always eat breakfast followed by a meditation.

I find mind mapping software superior to whiteboarding when collaboration in my case because my own sketches and handwriting are nearly indecipherable to anyone but me. Also, for work I find tools like slack to be more useful because they are async, not ruining my flow and messages can be very information dense with links, images, etc.

I'm much, much more productive at home. I communicate well via slack/phone/Facetime. Also, junior devs will craft their questions in a coherent manner. In doing so, they've found that when they formally present their questions, they can often solve it on their own, making them better devs. I often only work 32-35 hrs/wk, yet I am more productive. This extra time allows me to do more self-learning. Before, the lat thing I'd want to do after driving home is deal with more code. Even if I have to work 10-15 hours more per week, it's less stressful than dealing with coming home from the office at 8pm, exhausted and not wanting to cook so I would eat unhealthy, expensive takeout food and watch some mind-numbing TV.

Most importantly I have more time and opportunities to see the people who really matter in my life...my significant other, my friends, my niece, etc. (this was the norm before the industrial revolution.)
Reading the comments I have to consider myself very lucky in a way. I work full-remote.

- I never use an alarm, normally waking up around 8:30am

- I often start coding right away when I wake up, in these first 2 hours I am often exceptionally productive

- eat something, coffee, reading, relaxing

- do some more coding till I feel my focus drops

- repeat the last two steps

When I feel tired I try not to code if possible, I consider it being a bad habit.

Relaxing between the focussed coding sessions is of major importance to produce good code IMHO, while relaxing I'm often thinking about the different options of how I can best write the next piece of code.

If I have a bad day, not being really productive, I often do some more coding at night if I can get the right focus.

On a good day I outperform 2 coders that work in the open office of our company, with ease.
Fun fact: if it's ridiculously loud somewhere, just cover your ears (and have your conversation partner cover theirs), and you'll be able to speak to each other at a fairly normal volume. Works great for concerts and clubs especially.
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Yes, if and only if you know exactly what you need to build and how big the scale will be from day 1.

What usually happens is the first thing you build is wrong, and you need to iterate aggressively on not just the software but the entire business concept. Once you have product-market fit, then you are in a position to design an optimal architecture. If you go microservices before that, you are adding unjustifiable overhead, which will inarguably slow you down compared to a monolith when you are in the 1-3 engineer phase, and don't fool yourself about that.
I attended a few meetings in which the city of chicago is attempting to predict the E.coli levels in the water for the next day using data science techniques.

It was a frustrating experience since the current day's E.coli level measurement can vary wildly depending on various factors such as time of day, water depth at site of measurement, month in year, weather, etc...

or maybe sometimes it's just a bunch of birds that all pooped in the same area on a given day.

Plus, each beach has it's own pattern and correlations; some folks started adding rules

the USGS has some method of averaging readings, but I was very tempted to try to find the ideal model that could handle the non-iid beach data. someone on the net suggested multilevel hierarchical modelling, which i don'f fully understand.

i think part of the issue is that data is already semi-structured, as well as time based. one approach is to flatten the structure (assume iid) and make the data stationary (remove the time component).

but i wonder if something like an RNN would handle the multiple time steps better.
Revolutions require organisation - very good organisation. All you'll get from ordinary workers is, possibly, a riot, quickly subdued.

You are also up against an extremely well-organised and well-armed government, but that may not even be the most salient point:

A lot of people for very good reasons do not want to see the government overthrown. They know the result will only be worse. Our societies are far too organised and interconnected over large distances, with all their widely distributed and interconnected creation of everything from basic food to almost all goods except for the most primitive ones.

Only if you can fully replace a government with a new one could you have a "revolution". So, elections and parties still are the best option. I think they actually work too, it's just that there is very little successful effort in organizing something better. Yes of course there have been plenty of attempts, but they all fail even more than the current system: None of those attempts manages to get enough people "on board", and they scream and insult everybody they don't like - so they are no improvement at all (not even mentioning the wild and unrealistic ideas they usually have).

For example, I think an alternative new movement would have to start calmly instead of yelling loudly. The latter only attracts the crazies, while the thinking people are pushed away. So, no mass demonstrations against this or that, "being against" is not a good start for the alternative. Instead work on what and how things should/could work instead of working on how to best insult and score points against the "political opponent". Or, if you start talking about revolutions I will assume your main goal is destruction.

By the way, I would posit that many people who are "greedy" are that way because of the environment, not because "that's what they are". Soooo many people, with advancing age, grow disillusioned. In particular, I know quite a few medical doctors who got into the profession with idealism - but now they actually sell "BS" to people who want it. From homeopathy to network marketing stuff like (branded) vitamins or "energy mats". Of course they don't believe in any of it, it's just that they have given up and now go with the flow.
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Also depends on failure mode of your media. E.g. if you can lose data by 4k sectors, then it makes sense to use RS with 4k symbols instead of 8 bit (if there is such a thing...), because you do not need partial sector recovery. If you can flip separate bits, then BCH is kind of optimal. If you plan to stream, maybe some sort of FEC code, et cettera.
For example, in ye olde NAND that had 512 byte pages with 16 byte OOB area per page it made sense to use BCH, because bit errors were kind of independent from each other. Bit errors in TLC NAND are not independant anymore.
I generally don't. I'm lucky to get seven hours of sleep...most of the time it's six or less. If I only get 4-ish, I can feel it, but anything over 5 leaves me feeling normal...or what is normal to me.
I'm not aware of any adult women in a free society choosing to be mutilated, whereas it isn't uncommon for adult men to choose to be circumcised. That would seem to indicate that there is indeed a difference.

FGM is evil, plain and simple. MGM/circumcision has interesting points on both sides, and while there might be a stronger argument against it than for, it's not strong enough to be a hill I'd choose to die on. But to each their own, I suppose.
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AFAIK the picture is only shown if Google is reasonably confident that it is actually you trying to log in.
But what happens is that sql version becomes sqlite and it doesn't provided enough power or flexibility.
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Same thing Apple and Windows gain - you get to call all the shots - feature set, release schedule, programming language/environment...

If you have the resources to do it, I guess - why not do it? Especially for something like a phone/tablet OS.
Those can be handled in a decentralized consensus system such as Ethereum.
> A corporate death sentence is a bit too abstract.

Let's say the company has to be forfeited to the state effectively making it a public company. CEO and board of directors are fired, every dollar over the minimum pension of their pensions are seized and going to a fund to fix the wrong they did and prevention from such a thing to happen again.

Shareholders are part of the problem and to be punished, they've been profiting from the transgressions (looking the other way or not caring enough to look into is not an excuse). They could be made to pay back any profit they got from the shares while, their shares are either willingly sold to state at a low price or seized/invalidated.

The message would be clear: don't invest in companies that are not clean or you risk losing it all.

These may seem drastic propositions but they are effective. They do not require sending people to prison which is something I do not wish upon anyone, not even my worst enemy.
Hey, thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge. I am aware of how common it is.

I mentioned it now mostly because I am sure I have exposed myself to risky situations (that could have gotten me a way worse outcome than HPV) out of trying to "solve" loneliness, as we are discussing here. (And I ended up being one of the unlucky with persistent high risk strain, had a couple of cauterizations done.)
Profession: Another Software "Engineer"

[05:00 - 06:00] Wake up with the sun, and work in bed on side projects on personal laptop;

[06:00] Get myself together, spend the only waking time I have with my infant child during the week.

[06:30] Gym

[07:00] Commute to work

[08:10] arrive at desk, have breakfast at desk while picking up on momentum from yesterday, or fixing what problem I was too mind-numbed to see through the afternoon before

[8:30 - 9:30] Everyone else streams in. Catch up on non-tech business developments in informal chat.

['til 6:30] Work, work, work + mental breaks on HN. Find 20 minutes for lunch. Tea somewhere around 4:00 - 5:30 PM. Occasionally impromptu meeting with my manager for rubber ducking, feature planning, or architecture question.

Can't complain. Tiny start-ups are great when the personalities fit.
The home heating thing is interesting, since burning gas for that is roughly 100% efficient. Burning gas for electricity maxes out in the best possible case at 60%, and then there's some tranmission loss (though I suppose gas leaks from pipes need to be counted as well then).

But, electric heat pumps don't generate heat but, as the name suggests, "pump" it from one place to another, so they can be more than 100% efficient, generating something like 2-3x the input energy for air source, or up to 5 for ground source pumps. Which puts electrity ahead again (especially as some of that electricty can come from low carbon sources rather than gas).
whilst contemplating an entire career change

To anything in particular?
Try planning a wedding, conference, bus trip, or dinner party where an exact head count helps, if it's not completely mandatory.

You could be an ass and say "sorry, no RSVP, no entry", but most people will try to show a modicum of etiquette more than the guests and accommodate the fools somehow.
Wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the time is spent loading and unloading Inkscape.

That said, I can't imagine even a moderate batch conversion/export job only taking a few hundred milliseconds unless it's somehow barely doing any work, or the total file size of all exports/renders is pretty small.
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I found it immensely easy. We developers are in short supply, so it's an employees market.

Don't hide it on your resume, be proud of it "I learned Spanish, I learned self-reliance, I had this and that side project, etc. etc."

I always say one of my greatest skills is my ability to self-educate (proven by learning Spanish, and now French) so you say to them "Sure, I'm a little rusty on x,y,z. Less than 2 weeks I guarantee I'll be up to speed."

So I don't have the salary of someone that stayed through (i.e. a buddy from university is now a Senior VP, and I was still low-level developer) but who cares - I made this choice because I prioritize life, not money/work. My buddy also works WAAAY longer hours than I did, and had a boat-load of stress to boot. As a lowly developer, I get good money, and walk out free and clear at 5:30. I didn't even have to be on call, because I was "junior". Perfect!
Right, I just mean that the way you phrased it sounded like you were picturing a super vanilla, middle-school-dance-esque box-stepping couple (in 3/4 time).

All's I meant is I can see how waltz was considered risque; as a sheltered guy, I was caught really off-guard when our instructor positioned my partner and I in the way I described.
> I usually get this after-disco/cinema low when the amount of people in office starts to slow down

When the office slows down and things get quieter is when I find myself finally able to get completely focused in on things that require all of my attention.

I enjoy meetings, business talk, planning and miscellaneous conversations with coworkers more than (I think) most software developers, but to get any sizable software project done I do best with chunks of a few hours at a time to get into a focused state, get all of the moving parts loaded into my head, then actually write the code/fix the bug etc.

My solution to this–in an office that I share with people who talk on the phone–is to show up in the late morning after they've made their morning calls, and leave in the evening a few hours after they leave. This way we overlap in the afternoon, but I get some time with a quiet office where I can really think.

Just while writing this comment several conversations happened around me that drew my attention away from what I was writing. When I focused my attention back to the comment, I had to skim what I'd just written to 'reload' my thoughts. At least for me, this 'reloading' process takes a long time when it comes to writing software, despite various tricks I've come up with over the years to help speed it up.
I think it is important here to draw a distinction between equivalence without type conversion (eg, ===) vs. equivalence with type conversion (==).

While it may be the case that a robonanny can change a diaper or administer a bottle with a precision greater than or equal to a human human nanny (==), it is not the case that the robonanny understands viscerally what its connection to its charge is (===). Humans are a product of biological evolution and as such, there are certain features of our cognition that are very, very difficult to overcome, not least of which is our collective hangup on our own internal categories (ie, types). This is precisely the reason many people experience possiveness, nostalgia, a fear of the "other", etc., and I believe it also goes a long way toward explaining why so many folks speak of interacting with robots as if they were human as 'icky' or otherwise suboptimal.

That said, I personally believe that we are doing ourselves a disservice by dismissing the humanistic value of providing, on a cultural/societal level, a means for most of us to keep ourselves occupied, fed, and sheltered, regardless of whatever impact such activity may or may not have on the finances of giant corporations.

To quote Daft Punk, "We are human after all".
Indeed. Robots aren't intrinsically different from, say, combines. That doesn't mean that it isn't worth looking at disruptions caused by productivity growth, but I think we'd be better off looking at what kinds of disruptions were seen in the past. This not only gets us away from the robots narrative (which seems to muddle things a bit as it feeds into present day hype), but it also allows us to look at the impact of much higher productivity growth (current productivity growth is fairly low).
This seems to be a popular concern right now. But consider that right now we have:

1. Employment very near record highs.

2. More automation than ever before.

Automation has been increasing monotonically since the Industrial Revolution. Employment levels go up and down, but have been very low, particularly in the US, for the last hundred years.

Maybe something very new is happening. But it usually isn't.