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The biggest thing we get wrong is assuming we will live forever without taking specific steps to make that more likely to happen. By far the most important open problem to be solved, and not nearly enough attention or resources on it.

I wish we treated the elimination of aging and age-related degeneration the way we do traveling to the Moon, or Mars.
IME there's a fine line to balance between burning out your best people and over-pressuring them, vs being too accommodating of adequate-to-good people more interested in protecting their own turf/stability or playing political games than in getting the product as good as possible. In my ideal world I'd rather be in a pay-for-output-quality (not pure quantity or attention-getting) higher-pressure-but-not-insane-hours environment than in the latter, but sadly that doesn't seem super common.

The most frustrating problem for me is "top performers" who are very technically knowledgeable, so seen as stars by their direct managers, but have zero interest in any solutions that they don't directly design themselves, and little interest in taking feedback or admitting that their internal mental roadmap isn't 100% perfect.
The police are, or absolutely should be, better trained to deal with a swatting situation than civilians. I refuse to absolve the police of all blame here.
By default, LineageOS does NOT include google play services. And it works just fine if you don't expect to use apps which "require" google play services.
Or a shortener that hides the referral link, depending on one’s perspective.
Fault isn't a binary thing. It's the parent's fault for not raising their children better, it's the children's fault for not knowing better, it's the police's fault for shooting, it's everyone else's fault for perpetuating a society in which this happens.
i say daily. If I don't do it only one day, next day I can't really code until I jog for 40 min. Then the mind becomes clear
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Politics is the opiate of the people.
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Thing one: use "learnt" instead of "learned" to sound multinational. ;)
Pretty sure Mel Gibson’s character lived in a trailer because of the stigma: “man, he used to be a good cop, then his wife got killed. Now he lives in a trailer! He’s just given up!”
That is something we could crowdfund. Start with a few.
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Sure, there are exceptions. For example, I do not see a team flying out for a 2 60+ hour week test campaign as a red flag as long as the participation is mostly voluntary and the team gets an ample opportunity to detox after the fact.

The exceptions, for me, have three key properties: (1) they are temporary, (2) overworked people know that it is temporary and have a clear (maybe not 100% realistic) date for return to normalcy and (3) this state of affairs is seen by most of the team as acceptable at the moment: not pleasant, but bearable and probably least bad of all options.

If (1) and (2) hold, (3) is usually easy to achieve with sweeteners: $x bonus, T extra vacation, etc. But break either of the three and you have a clear red flag. Just my 2c.
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I prefer UBports https://ubports.com/

There's a project now to include anbox to run Android apps http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-phones-will-soon-run-a...
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Perhaps police/swat should be able to step back and confirm information before engaging difficult situations.

Even if it wasn’t a prank, imagine them getting the wrong address. Or the caller being in good faith but mistaken.

People killed on false grounds shouldn’t be summarized in “those officers did nothing wrong”
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Anyone remember Wing Commander game that required exactly 640K of conventional RAM?
I've used copperhead OS for months.. and believe me when I went back to my 5x that had it and had to attempt to break into my own phone because I forgot the password.. that thing is secure! It does suck to side-load somethings, but the worst part is a lot of things use google play services more than you think.. which is always weird to me. If anyone has any questions let me know, but I enjoyed it. Without google battery life is pretty awesome.
“A male came to the front door,” Livingston said. “As he came to the front door, one of our officers discharged his weapon.”

Regardless of the information they had their actions seem way beyond reckless. The fact that some people think that nothing is wrong with how this scenario, and I'm sure lots others, played out is mindnumbing.
> It is my belief that those officers did nothing wrong.

I'm sorry to be so direct, but your belief is based on zero facts. We should all withhold judgement until more facts come to light.

Your advice is probably right - I think what chafes us, myself included, is that it's even necessary for us to have to keep that sort of thing in mind; that SWAT teams can be weaponized for personal feuds in this manner.
> It is my belief that those officers did nothing wrong. It was not a trigger happy cop reacting badly to a traffic stop. It was officers that acted on information that were planted by a malicious individual. The prankster is the one that needs to go to jail for this.

[Bad] Information.

But if the 911 system is subject to malicious intent, no authentication, no verification, and incomplete signals then police need to act on that information accordingly.

If you place no blame on the police reading signals incorrectly, then there is no reason to waste money on hiring a killer to do the bloody work. There is a < 100% chance of going to prison either way and a greater chance of being successful with the police.
You got some recommended links? Here are my old haunts I still visit:

* SlashDot - Like the curated content, hate the recent moderation system

* Mailinator - use the suggest emails address tosee what others are using the service for

* Atari Age Forums for 8 bit developers projects happening now

* Sourcerer.io just I find some of the stuff blog article interesting

* LinuxGizmos.com - Because I love cheap SBC
Yeah, I was a bit sloppy in my wording. The deaths are a fact; I am referring to the idea that "mass killings under communism" / "mass killings under communist regimes" is an appropriate descriptor - as well as the idea that "killings" is an appropriate descriptor for deaths from famine / poverty. (And yes, both of these are debatable ideas.)
> If you buy into the idea that they are just a middle man connecting independent drivers with customers

That is what they legally are. If they aren't that then they don't have any business at all.
But only for cops. Shouldn't cops be treated like anyone else, which would normally mean being fired or maybe, if we are lucky, unpaid leave?
Punishment? Surely your joking.
We've been using Postgres on RDS for years and were considering moving to Aurora. I am very curious to know more about the fix and planned remedy.
this is one of the coolest things I have ever read.
Depends on the country. Sadly.
It's great to go to Youtube and find someone showing you how to fix the problem even for a relatively niche dishwasher. But if the ad money dries up for that content producer, that video won't be there the next time you look for it.

Not everyone who makes YouTube videos is doing it for ad money, especially the sort of content you're referring to. A lot of people just do it to document things for themselves and use YT as a "convenient place to put videos"; the fact that everyone else can see is incidental.
I think there are some misconceptions in this thread (due to the title).

Personally I use CopperheadOS as my daily driver because it stays continually ahead of Google (and groups like AOKP, LineageOS etc) in terms of Android hardening. It goes well beyond just not having Google Play services.

See their details on their approach and design: https://copperhead.co/android/docs/technical_overview

They make continued patches to Android as part of a security and privacy first approach. Many of their patches get upstreamed by google months later (if at all) but CopperheadOS users get them right away.

Google has their engineering efforts focused mostly on new features and compatibility. They are happy to let firms like CopperheadOS be further ahead in security research and take their patches where it does not break compatibility.

It really depends on what you want to optimize for. Security/privacy or being able to run all the latest games and social media apps and the consequences that come with them.
This is yet another proof against the narrative that govt run internet Monopoly would be infinitly superior to private run internet. We just cannot count on govt with our future.
If the SWAT is the unthinking killing machine you're describing, then it can't be allowed to be deployed by an anonymous phone call, any more than the Army can leave armed RPGs on public sidewalks.

Information has to be verified before you can act on it with deadly consequences. Hell, I doubt if some prankster called your boss and said you were sleeping with his SO, and your boss fired you, you'd just say "no hard feeling, you are just acting on information planted by a malicious individual."
I don't know if there is enough information to say that the cops did nothing wrong. An anonymous call shouldn't lead to an innocent man getting killed and cops need to investigate these situations more carefully.

I agree the prankster needs to go to jail but if the cop really did kill an unarmed innocent man there should be some type of punishment.
What do you think about a NLP for spanish language blog?
I'm a software engineer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. We use spanish as our primary language and I've been working on several applications with the help of different NLP features.

I've been thinking about launching a blog with practical examples and code that I use and I'd like to know if you think it'll be interesting to write an english version. To make myself clear, I'm talking about building a NLP for spanish blog written in English, so the question is, for the people here on HN who are on this industry, are you interested on applying NLP for the spanish language or are you mainly interested in the english branch?
> Can someone illuminate me as to what are some of the reasons that would make someone style with CSS Grid with a Fallback to Bootstrap?

Generous interpretation: graceful upgrade when CSS grid has sufficient browser support.

Realistic interpretation: to work with the 'new hot' and not the 'old stodgy'
>It is my belief that those officers did nothing wrong.

And yet I can’t possibly think of something more wrong than trigger happy cops shooting an unarmed person in their own doorway. Swatting isn’t a new thing. It’s one scenario that cops have to consider when they receive a call like this. Unless he had a weapon, the cop that shot him needs to be held accountable. Wearing a badge does not entitle you to execute someone for opening their own door.
Yes, this reporting would make sense for the imaginary company that operates with technology that does not currently exist, but that is not the way that companies typically make financial statements. (also why Uber is not public)
I hope the pranksters are charged with murder.
It is a reasonable _assumption_ that other container runtimes on linux might be affected by the same kernel bug. The article does not explore that and the author has no duty to do so just to avoid using a branded technology name.

How would you reasonably talk about "Linux containers" without having a very exhaustive list of all existing implementations and testing all of them? If one of them is not affected you are now factually wrong.
"We know that Recurrent Neural Networks (LSTM/GRU) based models are good at capturing long term dependencies"

This seems like a bold statement. We know they are good at capturing some structure from sequential data at least, but they seem lacking in some regards [0].

However it seems to yield some interesting results. The architecture is like an autoencoder, but with RNNs connected at each layer? Have you tried using NTMs?

[0]: https://rylanschaeffer.github.io/content/research/neural_tur... (section on LSTM Copy Performance)
I've read your comment several times and I still can't figure out what you were hoping to accomplish with it.
Is there a more specific quote by Engelbert? I don’t remember reading that in his 1962 paper, but maybe I need to go back and read it again.
Starting and stopping a video is an interactive action. Even a drop down menu is interactive. Arbitrary interactivity may not be possible, but I think that is totally acceptable for what we are talking about: remotly delivered, unaccounted, unreviewed and directly and automatically executed code.

That the local and native programs are not as good as the browser-based abominations is no argument for that technology; there are reasons for the businesses to choose this way despite (or because) how bad it is for users.

Code that comes for example from a distribution is signed and maintained by someone I can easily identify. It is looked at by more than the author. I can track the path of the code backwards, if something nefarious happens. That justifies trust in that code.

The comparison of that code with the JavaScript sandbox is invalid, it's to be compared with the delivered JavaScript. There is no reason why even trustably delivered code shouldn't be sandboxed. The comparison of that sandbox with the JavaScript sandbox would be apt.

I agree that sandboxing is important, even for local programs.
I think there's enough blame to go around: 1) police send an entire SWAT team because of ONE anonymous phone call, even though they should know by now that people abuse that ability 2) the gamer guy who made the phone call.

Kind of reminds me of bomb threats -- how many people who actually place bombs make a phone call first? It's almost like if a bomb threat is called in, you can be sure there's no bomb. I remember my high school years ago kept getting bomb call threats, and eventually started ignoring them, figuring it was a student making the calls.
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Using Just and extremely easy should be where you make a milestone for each statement(s) after that .
And it was supposedly a "hostage situation" that the police knew about.

How common is it for the police to shoot the first person on sight coming out of a "hostage situation"?

Regardless of how reckless the cop was, it's all a matter of how the prosecutor will spin this to the Grand Jury. It's why only 33% of the cops ever get indicted, while the prosecutors otherwise have a indictment success rate of 99% for everyone else and can indict "even a ham sandwich."
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> I've seen Indian IT workers with CVs 3 times the size of mine and glowing recommendations from past employers, and most of them failed fucking fizzbuzz. After you deal with a dozen people like that, you just start to subconsciously dismiss Indian candidates because chances are, they're gonna be another one of those.

A model based on a training set of 12, surely encompasses all biases accurately of a population of 10s of millions.
"“A male came to the front door,” Livingston said. “As he came to the front door, one of our officers discharged his weapon.”"

US cops have to stop this BS. This is just frightening. He opened his f-ing door and got shot, just like that.

I know it's a very unpopular opinion in America but preemptive shooting by the police should be judged as murder. A cop should only shoot when he's 100% sure the other guy is hostile and armed, that is, only after at least one gun shot has been fired by the suspect, period. And yeah, some cops will die, but they signed up for it. This guy didn't. Better to see 10 cops dead than 1 single innocent killed by the police in my book.
Current suspects are GIN index problems, but nothing confirmed yet.
I believe this is a poor response because,

* In the first paragraph, they only apologized after limiting the limiting the scope to "some" customers who "feel" slighted. Like an irrational person on the defensive, giving a non-apology apology.

* They didn't address issues like: the CPU throttling is 24/7, whether the device is running off A/C or not. (!) Completely unnecessary and also — inconsistent with the battery-voltage argument.

* Affected users like me have been stuck with a barely functioning phone for a year. Since it stayed nearly unusable even when plugged in, I assumed it was simply due to Apple bloatware affecting older devices.
Anyone (except cops) suspected of murder would be arrested and jailed... so actually it's worse than you say, for anyone that is not a cop.
Note: I'm front Atlanta. Home of an informant giving bad information and a swat team tossing a flashbang in an airbnb traveling couple's baby's crib.
Moral fault? Possibly, but minor. But I certainly don't think it should be a legal fault - at most, a fine for wasting the police's time.
Ugh, that's bad -- sorry to hear that. We GIN index several JSONB fields as well.
I think the IRA usually warned of a bomb a few minutes before it going off, so that it would cause a lot of inconvenience, a lot of material damage and relatively little human casualties.
I know this sounds weird, but it's almost as if there were some kind of correlation between a populace having a shitload of guns, and more gun deaths.
The poster above comments on 'casual evil'. Can you identify what you think takes swatting out of the 'casual evil' bucket and puts it any other bucket? Because, it definitely stops being a 'prank' when multiple guns are involved.

There are literally no good consequences from a swatting, only bad consequences. I would argue that most actions that have literally no chance of good consequences, and high probably of bad consequences (minimum ruining a persons day and wasting police resources), are pretty good candidates for evil.
Or measure how annoyed they are when you ask them to go into specifics about what they expect.
None of the current business supports this endgame.
Recruiting drivers, trying to match demand and offer, offering insurances, loans to drivers to get vehicles, negotiating with authorities to not have to pass taxi certification for drivers...

All those cost points don't benefit the endgame.
In the US, in tech, it is relatively common for people to sign an offer and then change their mind and choose to not join. It happened a few times in different companies where I worked. It wasn't really a big deal, it is considered part of the game.

Note that the opposite can happen too and it is much more frequent. It can happen especially to students. They get an offer starting in 6 months after they graduate and by then the company has problems, like layoffs or hiring freeze, so they cancel the offer.

If company A is paying you much less than company B, that means they are paying you below your market value. So it is up to them to either match the other offer or lose you.
Oh yeah, good point, I was just thinking about the USA.
That’s a tough situation to be in. Hopefully Amazon is working on a solution for you.

Cloud is definitely not bullet-proof and risks are always there. I think it generally still wins however because as Cloud solutions get better, with better SLAs...companies can get better at what they specialize and offer.

At least that is the goal and how I understand it.
Authority fetish engrained in society. Something bad happen during an interaction with law enforcement? It’s assumed to be the victim’s fault.
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Do what you want to do and don't consider the effect on the company. Your priority should be to make the best decision for yourself and your own interests.
Business never ends though. If you spend all your time making business intensely, you will burn everyone in your business out.
In the "old days", there used to be a big genre separation between PC and consoles. Prior to consoles being powerful enough to drive FPS games, they were generally the best way to play arcade ports, Japanese RPGs and communal multiplayer games.

The lines started to really blur (imo) with the Xbox 360, when people really started playing FPS on TVs in very big numbers.

On the other hand, the types of games that kept me buying consoles (fighting games like Street Fighter and Tekken) are now released day and date with consoles. Thanks to the availability of these games and high frequency of huge discounts on Steam, I no longer foresee any reason for myself to ever buy a new console in the future.

Consoles are still great for fans of certain franchises and genres (like Zelda, Mario Kart and Rock Band) that don't make it to PCs, but for everyone else, I'm not so sure.
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It was on my iPhone though?
My point is that it was the mainstream Left in 20th century. The fact that people insist on calling them "Bolsheviks" instead of "Communists" is, IMHO, an indication that Left still hope to salvage their ideology by implying that "it was not the true Communism!".
There were plenty of them in 1970 (6M or so party members) and, even though, the CPSU was officially disbanded in 1991, a new CPSU has been established in 1993 as its successor and still has enough support to win seats in Duma.
That's helpful insight. Thank you.
Would adding random noise to an image before running it through the classifier mitigate these kinds of attacks?
The most scathing analyses of Bolshevism I have heard have come from the likes of Chomsky and Zinn, who are/were hardly neo-liberals. For all of its faults at least capital aggregation doesn’t have a moral prerogative behind it.
Common sense ways this could have been avoided:

1) Interview neighbors: "Did you hear a gunshot tonight?"

2) Get more info from the caller. "How do you know this detailed information from inside the house?", "Where are you so we can talk to you face-to-face?", "Can you describe the house?"

Anyone can call 911. It is an unreliable source of information by default. I understand that the police want to act quickly in a dangerous situation but there has to be some parallel fact checking happening that can suss out the facts before someone gets killed.
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Not to throw in anecdote after anecdote, especially since it is slightly off topic, but I have to share.

I worked at a textile company 17 years ago and the bought brand new "state of the art" embroidery machines from Germany and they ran Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. At the time I was just "the web and IT guy" so it was my job to set up a token ring network with coaxial cables to network these machines together so the control computer could send embroidery designs remotely. This was cutting edge stuff, prior to that we had 3.5" floppies and a sneaker net.

But even at the time Windows 3.11 was 8 years old. To this day it is the only time I have seen token ring. I have "fond" memories of walking through hundreds of feet of coax checking each connection to find out which one came loose and took the entire network down.
I think being put on paid leave during an investigation is not that uncommon. Especially in adversarial jobs where the people who bring complaints are more likely to be malicious, you don't want to give them the power to disrupt someone's paycheck without an investigation. Otherwise you'd have criminals getting entire police departments fired.
In general, we seem to have a growing problem funding traditional businesses, the ones that need X dollars in working capital, and return a healthy 5-15% on that capital per year.

Banks will not lend you the money, unless you already have the money. VCs will not bother with such paltry ROI.