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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/oct/07/usa.iraq : transcript of speech by George W Bush.

"Many Americans have raised legitimate questions about the nature of the threat, about the urgency of action. Why be concerned now? About the link between Iraq developing weapons of terror and the wider war on terror.

...

Over the years Iraq has provided safe haven to terrorists such as Abu Nidal, whose terror organization carried out more than 90 terrorist attacks in 20 countries that killed or injured nearly 900 people, including 12 Americans.

Iraq has also provided safe haven to Abu Abbas, who is responsible for seizing the Achille Lauro and killing an American passenger. And we know that Iraq is continuing to finance terror and gives assistance to groups that use terrorism to undermine Middle East peace.

We know that Iraq and the al-Qaida terrorist network share a common enemy: the United States of America. We know that Iraq and al-Qaida have had high-level contacts that go back a decade."

(The question of how much of this was subsequently found to be true or false is a different one, but a key characteristic of the War On Terror is the use of lies or misleading generalisations to maintain the war)
I hope you remember that GPG keys created on a Yubikey are unsafe, due to an overly simply RSAlib implementation there for their Infinion chips.
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Given that Catholicism (like other religions) has wholly retreated to and now lives only in the area of "questions that have no answer", yes, it has no basis in reality. Nothing in Catholic dogma is independently verifiable. For example, the justifications around the eucharist literally being the blood and body of christ require some truly incredible mental gymnastics, and this transubstantiation is a core element of the faith. Yet strangely, the bread and doesn't literally change into the flesh and blood for the Protestants...

So where does the 'useful dialogue' start? I think it starts well before we just give moral authority to a bunch of very old men arguing about rules that only they made up. They should give us a better chain of authority than "since time immemorial".
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I'm also similarly surprised by the neutral response to C, given that it's been trendy to hate it for numerous buffer overruns and CVEs!
Apparently there are already companies that take it a step further. They test sample of their employees with some fancy IQ test that measures them across several dimensions. From those results profile of desirable new hire is build and all candidates get measured by the same test.

On reddit in threads about interviews I've already seen couple people discussing those strange tests where in many questions there are no obvious correct/wrong answers, like for example all presented shapes can in their own way fit in presented pattern.
This is especially common among young YouTubers. To them it's common sense that giving credit for something like this is enough to not get them into trouble. Unfortunately, existing copyright laws are quite unforgiving.
Firebaser here! We don't generally target all use cases, just event prediction from a stream of anslytics events, which is a lot more constrained. Give it a try, it's pretty robust!
As a Catholic this is news to me. I like the Pope, thought he was good. In fact I haven't heard any other Catholics I know criticize him.

I feel this article is trying to "Stir up a storm" with sensational language. There is little behind this in my opinion.
> 177 MB for me, right now. However that's just the windows task manager, so it's properly not accurate.

I don't see why it shouldn't be. Just make sure you're reading the right column. In this case I think you want to look at "Commit Size".
The catholic church has 1.3 billion members (see wikipedia) and 1.7 billion USD cash flow [1], owning some of the most valuable property in the world (e.g. [2]). How fiction is that? While not being catholic myself, I think the difference between believing that there is a Jesus up in the sky watching you masturbate and the believe that Google will conquer the whole world by AI is not that different. Both influences people to spend money respectively which in turn makes the corresponding organization that much more powerful. Not believing in it oneself shouldn't stop one from accepting it's real world influence as important.

[1] https://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2012/08/catholic-ch...

[2] https://www.walksofitaly.com/blog/vatican/catholic-church-re...
The vim emulation plugin has gotten better recently, IMO it's the best I've seen in a GUI editor. The undo history thing sort of persists because the vim plugin maintains a different undo history than vscode. They implement undo branches whereas VSCode's native undo stack does not, and the native stack only sees large chunks of changes instead of individual actions.

I'm actually working on a fork of VSCode that rewrites their native undo stack to support branching and more granular control so the vim plugin can sync to it and not maintain two undo histories. We're hoping to submit a PR for that soonish, as soon as school stops kicking my butt.
Well, the regular Visual Studio is a native app and has terrible performance and memory usage too.

(joking but also serious)
Right now just analytics, but we are considering other inputs too, as we know many devs have data in other sources which can be used to bolster prediction quality.
For me it's just saving me from minor inconveniences. Things like having an app I can easily switch to instead of flicking through many browser windows/tabs to dig it out.
Many companies instruct candidates should study for interviews with specific books or courses (e.g. “Cracking the Code Interview”).

That indicates the idea is not that someone who is a competent professional should pass without studying. The passively hostile whiteboard coding exams are more like a hazing ritual than an actual job performance test.
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Ah, you're right, word2vec assigns one vector to each word, as opposed to one vector to each meaning. Then the problem remains: we can't differentiate between homonyms.

But it seems it's been solved, too: https://github.com/sbos/AdaGram.jl
>it promotes faith as an epistemology, thus explicitly encouraging people to engage in more irrationality.

Catholicism probably puts less emphasis on faith than pretty much any other theistic religion. Its main doctrines are supported by volumes of dense (and rather tedious) rational argumentation.
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> This is a primary difference between us and animals, we can collectively agree that the paper in a file or the bits in a computer mean that something exists.

I think that is a very confusing way to look at things. It's not that we collectively agree that the document means that something exists, but rather this is the category of things for which existence is by definition caused by the existence of those documents. A corporation is not some ethereal thing that exists, and we agree that we are justified in believing it exists because there is a document, but rather the document is effectively the corporation. The thing we as a society agree about is merely linguistic in nature: We agree on the definition of the terms, i.e., we have a common language.
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Firebaser here! We've been investing pretty heavily in the platform so I think we will be around for a while. Worth noting that YouTube, Double click and Android were all Google acquisitions too!
My Grandma, back in Italy, despises him too, but still respects him. She has his picture on her bedside table, nonetheless, because of course he's still the Pope. Her rationale is simple: the Pope should be a detached quasi-divine figure: from her old Italian woman point of view he's pope-ing wrong. But again, he's still the Pope, so "he must be right".
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Why do people consistently get convinced by two or three news paper articles that someone is good because the report is good? You cannot become leader of a corrupt organisation without being corrupt yourself. There's simply not enough wiggle room at the top, where everybody wants to get to. He is probably not the least corrupt but the best at being corrupt without being discovered.

And if you see how he leads this "war" that the article is about you can see he has the skills. The reason he's not living in luxury may be something like that he loves power more than money.
It's sometimes called organizational scar tissue. But what about making it an organizational scab instead? Have the damage-control rules in an organization be time-limited? Those freedoms people keep abusing would get repeated temporary restrictions and eventually a permanent ruling, but one-time problems would not weigh down the organization forever.
There's no good way to short BTC today. Real financial institutions hardly touch it, and if you make a bet on a crypto exchange, there's no guarantee you'd ever get paid. If BTC tanks, likely the exchange will go away too, and you won't be able to cash out.
Use cases vary with your app need, but the Halfbrick (fruit ninja etc) case study might help: https://firebase.google.com/downloads/Halfbrick_Case_Study.p... - we worked with them during the alpha testing and I think their approach will work for a lot of apps.
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So, catholicism doesn't hold that a god exists, then?
You can literally dump frames out of a headless copy of a game into FFMPEG and transcode it into an adaptive stream.

I haven't tried this specific thing with video games needing live input, but you can run headless on AWS GPUs and dump those frames to an AWS Lambda process[1] to do the conversion and only have to manage the input. In this situation the only thing you are running is the game and not all the other bullshit that an operating system has to deal with in a remote desktop situation. All you would have to manage is the sync from the controller over a socket.

Another nice feature would be being able to save your gameplay and maybe edit it later for broadcast if you wanted.

[1] https://github.com/binoculars/aws-lambda-ffmpeg
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> Fanclubs, fandoms, convent attendees - those are literally communities built around fairy tales.

Thinking about it, the fandom that I'm part of shows quite some resemblance to a religious organization.
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> I don't know if it was the same guy, but some people got upset because they thought solar panels were super ugly.

This is a sad aspect of living in a high-density society. A lot of people are not only boring themselves, but they excessively want everyone else to be boring too.
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If there is no obvious right/wrong answer, I wonder if they are limiting their pool taking people who all think alike (kinda like in-breeding) or are they using it diversify the ideas and knowledge etc. (like diversifying gene pool).
I think it's the wrong time to use the phrase 'you don't need to take any action'. You can say that when it's a new version being released without any breaking changes but not when you're shutting down a service! You must look for an alternative and implement a migration, that is action.
Howdy, glad to hear it’s less for you, that’s a much more reasonable amount of memory to use but are you sure you’re including all active memory from each of its processes / worker threads?
It holds that God's existence can be established by rational argument.
Testing the change is one thing, but if the original people were hired and asked something very similar, you have an existing group selected based on that characteristic and so will likely do well.

e.g. if you have always done a whiteboard interview, then you've selected for people that do well in that type of scenario. Changing the question but keeping the format will likely just prove that those people are still suited to that type of task, but not that an otherwise good hire will be filtered out.

I'm not against whiteboard interviews or similar, but just pointing out that selection bias is an important factor here if you're judging effectiveness by comparing it to results for existing employees.
If by developpers you mean bootcamp graduates...
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> The Node.js APIs bundled with Electron expose considerably more functionality to JavaScript

Which happen to be written in native OS languages.
Not 100% false, but you could put that argument under any HN discussion, which makes it rather pointless in itself. If that's a strong opinion of yours consider not reading HN. ;-)
To me, the domain looks a bit like it could be an airline's: Air Bornos
Interesting, in my circles he is regarded almost as a hero.
the stimulus they claim is not wanton spending by the Federal government but transfer payments. Those include extensions of unemployment, food stamps, and other assistance programs. It also includes, contrary to how we think but government thinks, tax rate cuts and tax holidays.

the real threat isn't the US still, it is that Europe still is more likely to tip and negative interest rates over there are a serious drag. Just ask Japan how long the malaise was because of bad fiscal policy and attempts to prop up on government money was
Oh my gosh, this looks like months of work, even if the editors are OS, the beautiful homepage, the billing, replying to emails and keeping everything up...
Pretty much. The 'optics' of a situation are the appearances, the visuals, the perceptions. So when someone says a thing has "bad optics" they mean that it looks bad to observers.
Ask HN: What to do as a back-end dev and with many app ideas but can't do UX?
As a backend deveveloper, I often have many webapp ideas, but I can't do design/UX to save my life, so I never finish things because I get discouraged of how bad it looks in the beginning.

Does this happen to anyone else? This is so frustrating and discouraging. I often get unmotivated to finish things because of this issue. How do you guys deal with it?

I'm talking strictly about side/weekend projects.
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I use Ruby everyday and while I definitely don't hate it, there are many things I dislike. For example, functions are not first class citizens (despite the "functional" slant to the standard library). You have to jump through hoops to do any real functional programming (and it's ugly).

The syntax has waaaay too many options. This leads to a language where 3rd party tools are really hard to write. Even at this late date, refactoring tools are mostly absent (or awful). Not only that, but it leads to serious religious wars about how to format your code (I'm sick to death of it, even though I try to stay out of it).

Modules are slightly strange. You can't really use them for namespacing without writing pretty non-standard code. They are really only useful for mixins -- which normally isn't a great plan.

And as popular as meta programming is, it's incredibly awkward. The underlying design seems completely arbitrary and is hard to reason about. Despite the many syntactic options for frivolous things, there are very few syntactic tools for meta programming -- just super long function names.

People are going to laugh, but I actually prefer Javascript to Ruby because the design is much more logical and flexible (despite the poor syntax and really terrible standard library). There are lots more things that bug me about Ruby, but I think those are the main ones. I still enjoy writing code in it, but it wouldn't be my first choice these days.
Im not sure how you would prove that

I worked on an old Java system for a few years. They have attempted to replace the system a few times - but each time these projects have failed at great expense, while maintaining the old system is costing a fraction of the cost of replacement

You also see this with the old cobol systems. One thing you find with cobol developers is that they roll their eyes at the next attempt to replace the system as they know it will ultimately fail. Thats why these systems are still around
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> Religions are all about community

No, communities are all about community. There are religious communities. But there is also religion and even religious institutions that are not about community. And there are communities that are not religious. The thing that distinguishes religion, be it a community or otherwise, from non-religion is the promotion of faith as an epistemology.

> The question of whether it's really true or false is - to most Catholics - just about as relevant as the question whether Star Trek is true or false is relevant to Trekkies.

How relevant it is to them is not the question. The question is how epistemologyically sound their position is. The average Trekkie will, if asked, correctly accept the proposition that the universe they are a fan of is fictional. The average Catholic on the other hand will, if asked, incorrectly accept the proposition that the universe they are a fan of is real. Also, the latter is consistently a part of the indoctrination, so it's kindof dishonest to claim that they don't consider it relevant.
> But the "permissionless innovation" theory probably concludes the reason we are not driving around in flying cars just yet is precisely due to government hamstringing the great inventor.

I don't think the "permissionless innovation" theory is something to be applied in isolation. It only covers some aspects of human endeavour.

The reason we're not all in flying cars right now are twofold:

1. Flying is much less energy-efficient than driving on a solid surface, since you need to expend additional energy to maintain altitude.

2. Humanity as a whole has proven beyond doubt that regular people are nowhere near responsible enough to safely operate regular cars, and the kind of accidents that happen on the roads every day would have much more disastrous consequences if they happened in the air.

Self-driving tech might eventually solve 2., but we're not there yet today, so one can't blame governments for not allowing things that can not be done safely with today's technology. And even with 2. solved, the market still likely won't accept flying cars due to 1. A better/cheaper solution for vertical stacking of transport is the boring one[0].

> Particularly with strong AI the proposal comes up often: why not create a sandbox? Let the risk takers run their experiments and insulate the general public from their consequences.

With strong AI this proposal is particularly dumb for all the reasons covered under the search terms of "AI alignment problem", "AI control problem" and "unfriendly AI".

> Allocate a few abandoned oil rigs off the coast of Venezuela and let anyone with a rocket design attempt a launch ;)

See: Copenhagen Suborbitals. If you want to experiment with aerospace, it's generally doable, though expensive due to the nature of the task (and the fact that the difference between an orbital rocket and an ICBM is only in payload).

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Yes there is a point of diminishing return. But all too often these days it feels like projects are not ever trying.
You have it backwards. Jewels are valuable because they are made of gold, not the other way around.
I prefer that over being ambushed by unexpected topics. Here, you measure ability to learn, at minimum. Unfortunately, you measure also how much free time candidate has. Which is still better then having candidate to guess what is popular now or which if competing preferences your company has.
No one has every believed that the eucharist literally turns to blood and flesh. Your taste buds would tell you otherwise.

I also would not quite agree that religion has retreated to "questions that have no answer". They have more perhaps retreated to "god of the gaps", i.e. the creation, consciousness etc. These are very large gaps in scientific understanding, but of course this does not mean we need supernatural explanations for them, and it would be reasonable to expect science to fill these gaps eventually. But then again there might be limits to what can explain.
I always interview for "culture fit". In my experience, that's almost always the bottleneck, and the technical part is rarely a problem. Learning a new skill is not an earth-shattering problem if you have a good attitude towards work, and good interpersonal skills are a must in teams
My main wish for VS Code is 'proper' multiple cursors (where by 'proper' I mean 'works the way I expect' which is the Sublime Text way).

I fully understand that if you come from a world of 2D blocks (or regions) where you can select rectangles then VS Code's way of doing things makes sense but I am so used to having multiple identical cursors and being able to swipe vertical lines through tables of text or more often down the ragged right hand side that I find VS Code frustrating for hard-core text editing.

I seem to start every new project using it and I love its language-specific coding tools (and how it handles extensions) but as soon as I need to do a large edit on a nasty piece of text I find myself switching back to Sublime.

(I will of course give it another go as soon as I start another new project)
Never lived in SF but it definitely happens in NYC all the time. Not some deep conversation perhaps but people exchange small talk with strangers on the subway, in parks, cafes etc.
What browser and OS are you using? It works for me.
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What's always missing from these discussions is that that patronising mockery and outright dismissal is how atheists and agnostics have always been treated by the religious - it wasn't until atheists started really kicking and screaming about the injustice that people started to take note. One the one hand you have folks like this complaining of atheists merely being (gasp) rude!, and on the other hand you have things like some states in the US still not allowing atheists to hold office, by articles in their consitutions[1].

It's exactly the same with women's rights and minority civil rights: "Really, people would listen to them more if they just toned down and spoke politely". We already know that that doesn't work and just gets you ignored.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/07/08/t...
having spent considerable time in the Los Angeles datacenter market I am insanely curious where they're putting these 3 zones. I am guessing El Segundo/Hawthorne area, Wilshire Annex in downtown LA, and something in the Orange County area.
It's all riding on the faith of the rest of the world in the US. Watch the USD. Once it plunges, it's over. Won't be able to print money anymore. Until then they can print away a lot of problems.