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> In reality, evolution is the outcome, and there are four evolutionary forces that drive it: mutation, genetic drift, gene ﬂow, and natural selection...

It is interesting that they did not include symbiosis. It should be there, no?
So because no one recycles in your country, everyone else should adopt your standards and not recycle too?
This or a very primitive 4 bit rfid
I could be misunderstanding here, but I'm fairly sure that in the spirit of the paper `goto fail` would be preferable to throwing an exception and unwinding the stack at any arbitrary function call.
Summation and derivatives are used quite broadly outside of neural networks.
Mac has similar issues. Keeps losing bluetooth connections with mouse & keyboard, sometimes have to restart to recognize the display. Still does not have simple way to hide icons on desktop or to dock multiple windows and resize them without using a third party solution.
I don’t know. It’s usually a hallmark of a worthwhile business partner / team member / friend / network connection when someone is willing to just admit candidly that they don’t know something, that they aren’t an expert at XYZ and so their political opinion or design opinion, etc., should be discounted and they don’t have (and don’t need to have) something constantly poignant to say.

Networking with a bunch of people who just constantly regurgitate the same constantly poignant pseudo-intellectualism to each other doesn’t really pay off. You get a big network on LinkedIn and you show up at events and in the end you don’t get any actual job opportunities / leads / VC intros, etc. etc., because the self-reinforcing circular facade doesn’t have any substance with which it can possibly turn out as a payoff to you.

I think even from an expected returns point of view, just simplifying your life, minimizing the shallow chatter, networking sparsely but judiciously, is just way healthier and offers better payoffs.
Doesn’t it rely on llvm internally?
That means that the jit path is slow to start and that your have a huge dependency.
Racket

https://docs.racket-lang.org/
Some combination of the holographic principle and the the information overhead of classically representing a quantum state? (I don't know, I'm not a physicist.)

Surprised that the currently exponential overhead for simulating a quantum system is a distant second in commenter objections here. "Simulating the universe" in the holistic manner that I feel such a phrase entails would require at least clearing that bar (say, with a quantum computer? Or at a longer shot, showing BQP = P?), and that's before thinking about the status of quantum gravity.
Thank you! Glad to hear you saw the same problem and would have benefitted from The Lobby. I was personally surprised by the amount of people we get from "Target" schools using the service because it's also very competitive to get the 5-10 spots every bank allocates for hundreds of applicants at those schools. Feel free to email me at deepak@thelobby.io - would love to get you involved!
France's Macron brings back national service
It should be one of those things that are self-evident, but since YC backed this “thing” I guess it is not. So in the shortest possible form:

There exist an imbalance of power between the people “on the inside” (or “on the couch”) and the people on the outside.

Generally speaking, a business meant to exploit the imbalance is wrong. One that does so at the expanse of the outsiders and for the benefit of the insiders is just plain wrong.

Specifically, job seekers are, while seeking, a “vulnerable” population (just as an example, so are renters and migrants). These are people, who for a certain period of time, and due to certain circumstances, find themselves, on the outside looking in, at that very thing they desperately want or need.

Charging a jobseeker for the job (via commission on future salary for example) is wrong, but debatable. Charging, a jobseeker for the “hope” of getting a job is just plain wrong.
A phrase that often passes through these forums is, "if it's free, you are the product!"

I encounter a lot of clowns when I work with recruiting firms. I'm open to new ideas where I'm treated as a valuable customer instead of a product.

[Edit] This is because I'm finding that recruiting is turning into spamming. Every recruiter gets lucky from the few candidates they place so they make a decent income from their commission.

[Edit] If I pay to work with someone who handles a high volume, would it streamline the process? Avoid the spam? I don't know, but I'm frustrated enough with the process to keep an open mind.
For new installation there is a bsdinstall (default FreeBSD installer) 'hardening' menu with security related settings proposed for a fresh system making use of many long time available security mechanisms. It's been there for quite a while, but those settings aren't imposed on existing users who installed their systems with bsdinstall version from before the menu appeared.
Why can't it be both a supply and a demand problem?

No actor should be immune to criticism, don't you think?
Of course. Why would you think HN is different from any other social media/news aggregator?
It appears I have been given false information. Thanks for the correction.
I'll have to take a look at Spark.

I don't think it's a problem if something needs to be initially deployed and configured by an IT department (or otherwise tech savvy individual or group), as long as its onboarding and primary usage flows are straightforward. An arbitrary non-tech-savvy but internet-familiar employee needs to be able to create an account, browse and join rooms, and search through history without any hand-holding. Slack and its direct competitors pass this test. IRC doesn't. Does Spark?
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Indeed, most companies' HR would ban their employees from monetizing their positions at the company in this fashion.

If this works, how about vendors paying IT personnel for inside dope on how to sell to the company, or paying them directly to come in and make a pitch? Where do you draw the line?

There are gray areas, how different is it to pay for a fancy night out to 'pick your brain' about networking? Or use 'expert networks' for research. Internships are another area that can be useful, or abused in the sense that people have to be able to work for free to even be considered.

You'd have to make a very good case that it will improve hiring. But if it improves hiring, maybe the company should be paying, to improve their internal outreach and give their people proper incentive to spend time on the recruiting process.
Wait, why isn't it falsifiable?

Edit, oh, duh.

Yeah, my main take is that there should be evidence for it being a simulation, and in lieu of said evidence it should be assumed untrue
This is the result of corporate greed combined with the tragedy of the commons. Corporate greed makes the waste, consumers act primary in self-interest and select for short-term cheapness, and politicians don't want to reign or regulate that greed or consumer selfishness.
To be fair, they didn't shut down so much as the founder sold out.
agreed!!!
Sure, but your motor-sensor feedback loop doesn't have a multi-minute delay built into it, so I'd say slightly less of a challenge.
While I see your point about product mentality, and agree to a large extent, I am not sure it applies to ActivityPub. Its like saying email needed to be productized; it didn't, we just needed productized implementations of email servers and clients to get the network going.
Yes and isn't the same true for all things you do?
Thanks for finding those links. Good to know more about the publication.
> There's no easy way to do that

Leading consumer market governments have been using progressive import controls for many decades to do exactly that. It may not be trivial and it may not be free, but this task is no different in principle from how California's CARB forced carmakers worldwide to adopt more stringent NOx emissions standards, or European regulators forced safer food additives to be used worldwide, or the US FDA forced more stringent drug safety standards worldwide.

Even private companies can be pretty good at this, when someone has to pay for the damage: the IIHS is private (it was formed because NHTSA was not doing as good of a job as insurance companies wanted) and effectively dictates car safety standards on a global scale.
I don't recall saying that, but it does give us reason to not have a talismanic faith in whatever scientists recommend.
> (“A” brings up “abc” but typing “ab” makes “abc” go away!?)

To be fair, this one happens to me with Spotlight all the time.
On the other hand, ActivityPub is a just a standard, it wouldn’t be meaningful to complain about the product mentality of HTTP or JSON. The people building the websites or applications that use ActivityPub are the ones who need the product mentality, and they could use any business model they like.
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Ok. With China not taking in trash anymore, I imagine these kind of stories will continue to be on the front page for awhile. I think it is worth while for people to be exposed to this possible alternative to the current recycling system. I guess a custom response to someone else's comment is more what you are hoping for?
This has long driven me crazy. I have a version of this argument with my wife every few weeks. I live in a city that has three bins: compost, landfill, and recycling, and overall the city (SF) does a really good job apparently of sorting trash.

But if you want a system that doesn't break down if someone throws a handful of batteries in the compost bin, then someone or something somewhere still has to sort the trash stream.

So, at best, you've used all the labor of everyone in SF to reduce the number of people/things/processes downstream to sort the trash properly.

So, yes, the ball is ultimately in the manufacturer's court for a lot of this, but home recycling is at best a terrible use of labor/time/money. Raise taxes to hire more sorting capability, because if it requires 100 more trained humans sorting somewhere downstream that's surely less than all-the-people-in-SF-a-few-minutes-everyday to do a less-than-perfect job.

Also, I think a lot of these laws also do another disservice in that they make people feel like they're doing something to help the situation which keeps them from actually solving the problem.

Like the new plastic straws ban to keep plastic out of the ocean. If the problem is "keep plastic out of the ocean", then solve "why does plastic get in the ocean" problem. Banning plastic straws might be part of the solution, but what seems to happen so often is that we make one of these "feel-good" laws that keeps a negligible amount of plastic out of the ocean, and I have to drink out of a shitty straw, and people think that someone we've made substantive progress to a real solution.
Until the issue is fixed, what’s wrong with landfills? What’s wrong with something taking a long time to decompose? My understanding is landfills done right are ok.
Agreed, but I find it draining to have to attend a bunch of social events that are "work" (in the sense you can't be your authentic self) which in turn leave less time for a personal life.
Japan (Sapporo) has a similar system- recycling was placed directly in bins (I don't think there were 13, but there were several).
It may or may not be a dreamy internet theory, but "Universe is NOT a simulation" is just as strong and difficult to prove of a statement, perhaps even harder as it's a negative.
The problem is, these groups grew up naturally. Then many of the groups became staging grounds for petitions and various actions at company meetings to force management to make decisions that pleased the group.

In this environment, employees that don't form affinity groups end up living under the boot of those who do. Since those who do often broadcast their messages publicly, not just privately, and work to actively change company policy on an almost weekly basis.

The best choice for Google leadership was to clamp down on the whole business. So that things can normalize.
When I read things like this, it makes appreciate OpenBSD (and the rest of projects under the OpenBSD Foundation) even more, considering how it is still actively and fearlessly maintained by few individuals (less than 40), motivated mainly by their own enthusiast and passion, investing their own time and money on it, just for the purpose of producing a bloat-free OS focused on security and correctness, that can rival GNU/Linux in terms of performance.
Yes, 60 was giving me some performance troubles on iMac. Excited to see if 61 resolves them.
I have tried both the Surface Book 1 and Surface Book 2 in order to switch from a MacBook Pro due to hardware and software quality issues.

In both SB1 and SB2 Microsoft had to swap out each version 3 times before they asked me to just return it and perhaps look for another model. Why? It would shutdown randomly, I could not enable developer mode, Windows update would just throw errors and Microsoft could not solve it. Office would reinstall itself every 2-3 reboots. All issues were reproduced at a Microsoft Retail store location.

I do feel Microsoft is headed in the right direction, but they are not quite there yet. This being said Microsoft had regained my respect over the last few years after losing it in the late 90's, early 2000's.
If someone posted an editorial called "Amazon is great for society and we should do nothing to trammel its growth," would you think it was irrelevant if it were written by Jeff Bezos?
I can't help but think the two options (we're in a simulation vs. we're not in a simulation) are equally likely without any information from outside our own universe. That said, it doesn't matter either way - we're not going to escape the simulation (certainly not anytime soon, probably not ever); knowing whether we're in a simulation has little bearing on individual lives (as far as we can tell, attempting to interact with the being running our simulation has no effect - or there is none, and this is indeed "reality.")

The fidelity of the simulation is not an argument for or against: assume we're simulated and it seems likely to me that perceptions by beings within simply wouldn't have the ability to notice a lack of fidelity; or whomever owns this simulation has the computational power to simulate sufficient fidelity to convince inhabitants that their universe is "real."

Because we don't yet have evidence either way, I'd go with 50/50 odds.
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wait...recruiters do take x% of your salary if you take the job, that's what pays for all the spam.
I haven't observed the media portrayal you describe. Different channels promote different views, but claiming more "genuine" isn't something I've seen.
Dart seemed to be designed with the idea of learning from other dynamic JITed language's mistakes.
> try to get people to "bring their whole selves to work".

Ugh, that's messed up. In grade school I was forced to spend significant amounts of time interacting with classmates who I detested. They brought their "whole selves" and it was torture. I assume most people had this experience?

As an adult I appreciate being able to choose who I associate with in my free time. Since I'm forced to interact with certain people at work, at least give me the mercy of bland "professional" personas!
Golang's defer statement gives some of that power, (and some extra guarantees) but doesn't as far as I know allow return statements.

You can however give named return values and reference those names, and I believe it will work.

I've not seen any other constructs in any language that would come close, and I still maintain `goto fail` is a reasonable construct.
> Why are there even discussions about this on a work forum?

Thank you. It's strange how everyone from the CEOs to the journalists to ordinary people missed this. Why are any employees wasting time and resources on such unproductive thing during company time?

> Is it a side effect of the company being so large it's impossible to know everyone?

More importantly, why hasn't the board or CEO come down hard on these people wasting company resources and time? Last I checked, these people have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to make sure the company isn't wasting money on nonsense.

> I go out of my way to not discuss anything that comes within a whiff of a controversial topic with the people I work with.

I think that's 99.99% of all employees. How companies have been turned into a political turf war and a tool of their employees to actualize their political objectives is shocking to me. Either work or leave. Worry about politics and sexual expression on your own time.
Being reasonable person is one thing, understanding licensing issues is something completely different.

The whole thing boils down to one thing: whether something becomes a "derivative work" just due to being linked with code licensed under GPL. FSF says it does - and one could assume they know what they are talking about; after all it's their own license, right?

Except that the GPL license doesn't really say that; it's just FSF's interpretation. While e.g. the Mozilla license states very clearly what is and what is not covered by the license, thus avoiding the problem, the GPL is unclear.

There is, however, one very simple way to win any lawsuit that would claim that your binary blob violates the GPL: just make sure it's possible for you to demonstrate in court that your code can run with something else instead of the GPL thingie. If someone sued, say, NVidia, for putting their binary drivers into people's GNU kernels, they can point at the FreeBSD version of their driver: if it works without Linux, it clearly doesn't constitute a derived code; Linux is just one of the platforms it works with.
I agree that if not controlled properly - it can take all sorts of shapes and forms. The best we can do is work with good intentions, put measures in place to avoid bad behavior, and focus on driving more of the positive kinds of interactions.

I think our model is worth trying because the alternative is the status quo, where the only ones with access to this information are family members, top school alums, or people in the elite circles. If you have ideas for how we could do this differently or put measures in place to avoid all the negative examples you gave - I'd love to hear them. deepak@thelobby.io.

I don't think there's a black & white answer here - it will be nuanced and require good execution. Think of all the ways something like Airbnb could go wrong without security checks, going against landlord laws, etc. It still seems to be an overwhelmingly positive addition to the world - we think this can be the same.
In haskell passing a bool is still considered an anti pattern, it's called boolean blindness. This is mostly because bool's don't carry semantic information.

Same goes for `Optional<T>` in an argument position, though https://github.com/quchen/articles/blob/master/algebraic-bli...
Sure, right tool for the right job, etc.
Animations are almost always better when they can be hinted to the GPU (will-change), can be transitioned with translate2d changes, and do not cause reflow by being used on absolute/fixed positioned elements. For example.

My point is that not using JS will not make browsing experience into something "pure". It will remain an incredibly compplex stuff in itself, which JS is only a part of. And when it comes to firing off XHR's, setting some data or providing interactivity (with real states, etc), then JS is a good tool for the job.
So the restrictions needed for performance also eliminate many causes of unmaintainable messy code and runtime errors?

This is an easy decision.
> FWIW, it doesn't need to say so. Maybe that's what you meant? If the site gives no explicit permission, copying is not allowed.

Yeah, the parent commenter was saying you CAN print it for personal use, so me asking "Does it actually say that on the site?", the 'that' is "printing for personal use is okay". Either way I think we're in agreement, just because it's for personal use doesn't automatically make it "fair use".
That's the regular RN documentation - which is of ZERO help here. Please check the topic of this sub-conversation - you missed it.

Hint: The parent mentions the "JSC C API". You point to Java and Objective-C - that alone should give you a hint that something is wrong with your links, that they don't quite fit into the conversation. That's the equivalent of a physics question where you want Watts and get Newtons - a unit mismatch as an indicator that you solved the wrong problem or the problem wrong.

And just to say that too, I'm the co-maintainer of a popular native package for RN, so I'm already quite familiar with the RN native API for both Android and iOS.
> I thought Damore's memo was an insane level of workplace inappropriate if just from a topic standpoint

I feel like the idea "our hiring policies are getting us a lower quality of incoming employees than we should be getting" seems OK in the workplace from a topic standpoint...
> Other makers have had 7" or larger phones.

There's also the movement toward 2:1 aspect ratios which limits some of the advantages of a larger screen, especially in landscape.

I would love a 7" phone with a 16:10 aspect ratio - this is what I consider big. This size will still comfortably fit in a back pocket.

Huawei had a pretty decent, 7", 16:10 mid-ranger, a few years back. I settled for their 6.3" offering at the time (Ascend Mate 2 with 3 day battery life) and bright/clear screen even in direct sunlight.

> This reeks of blogspam

I think there are quite a few fans of large phones. The title says biggest ever (with a bait and switch caveat: for a flagship...). I was very excited when I saw the headline. Disappointed when I saw it was "only" 6.44" and will probably have the trendy 2:1 aspect ratio.
There is a essentially a proof by induction that if several properties hold (such as the 2nd half of this headline) then our odds of being in the unsimulated universe are approaching 0, making the first half of the sentence a remarkable finding given the 2nd half. I.e. that one of the other prerequisites has been proved false.
"The company plans to leave much of that interpretation up to its volunteer army of intranet moderators, who have day jobs at Google but in their spare time oversee discussion groups..."

It sounds like these employees are not also paid for their extra time spent on moderating.
Linux on SFB1 user here. Echo that it works ok but wifi drop out and no suspend sucks. Would you share your work setup at some point? Am curious.
This also reminds me, in a way, of the argument I always make about water waste.

Yes, it is great to keep your faucet off if you aren't using it. And yes, if enough people keep theirs off, it will make a big impact on water waste.

But as an individual, or a neighborhood, you will never waste as much as factory farms, chemical processing, and many other industries.

Add to it the fact that these companies produce these products, with these wasteful systems, to maintain profit margins so that they can enrich themselves.

If they were making them and breaking even, not paying themselves much. Like if it was a government run industry, and the demand was just so high for this shitty wasteful thing, maybe then you could blame the consumer.

But those who take the most profit accept responsibility.
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i agree with everything written here. The culture articles on the wsj are bizzare. I think they can be chalked up to good old journalism selective sources (happy employees aren’t running to tell all), combined with a “where there’s smoke there’s fire” belief. And that’s me being as charitable as possible.

The internal experience just doesn’t match what they’re writing.
If you use http://hckrnews.com/ you won't miss anything. Since you've turned the site into a bad habit, moderate your consumption with a rule like 'I only read it on the weekends'