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There have been a lot of top-down initiatives to get people into STEM fields as well, like presidential speeches by Obama. And ultimately it's something of a zero sum game (total college participation can still grow, but not as easily as shifting existing applicants).
No, not at all, this is just Nestle (and Mondelez) getting greedy (again).

As long as I can remember Rowntree's Kit Kat existing, there have been supermarket and other brands producing similar style and shaped product. Rowntrees kept their sales by being the clearly superior product. Then Nestles bought them and started ruining it.

Nestle and Mondelez have cheapened and worsened their products since respective takeovers yet now want to preserve their dominance by regulation.
You're correct. But look at their PE multiples and their margins. They're not wildly out of line with other companies.
Another option was for Google to buy Macromedia, instead of Adobe. I believe web would have looked completely different today.
You don't need infinite loops, all you need are simple inductive types and reduction rules, it has not to be a turing complete language. You can have simple typelevel functions in haskell, whilst its typechecker is not turing-complete.
Increased revenue among larger companies is usually due to either having a monopoly, or financial engineering. In the case of larger tech companies, it's a maintained monopoly (and maybe financial engineering) combined with a massive increase in the number of online users.
Posting like this will get you banned here. Please post civilly and substantively, or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> The patient would then follow instructions from 1 eye, but provide a justification based on what the other eye saw.

Well, you shouldn't expect broken system to work flawlessly. Splitting the brain makes survived parts of self-model inadequate. It's not reasonable to think that the self-model will not break, but automagically begin to reflect new hardware configuration of the brain. It will take time for parts it broke into to adapt.

As for this PR analogy, I find AlphaZero analogy more correct. One part of AlphaZero does all the heavy lifting, finding good looking moves for the current situation. Other part (Monte-Carlo tree search) selects the best moves (I think about it as conscious attention) and plays them to see where the game will go. The first part then uses the result of this to improve its own good moves heuristics.

Both parts are important, the part which generates allowances and the part which analyze, filter and selects what to really do.

Sequential nature of conscious attention make it impossible to control everything, but it doesn't mean that PR department just makes things up. It generates plausible descriptions of what you might be thinking, if you stopped and really though what to do instead of doing it without conscious control.

Those explanations aren't perfect, but PR department is just that, department. You are more than that, you can, if the need arises, reanalyze those descriptions focusing your attention and resources of all the departments on that task.
You can change what you are doing and PR department will in time learn your new modus operandi to give better explanations.

I think you give too much credit to the PR department. Not all thoughts are after the fact justifications. I would say thoughts are invaluable tool to focus and coordinate all the brain subsystems, which by themselves lack vision of the whole situation and tend to produce fast and shallow automatic responses.
Non-paywall story: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/In-suit-against-...
"I think it's insane that you can trademark a shape."

What exactly do you think a trademark is?
Microsoft's problem for Windows was that they wanted to make money of selling Windows for mobile phones instead of giving it away for free.

Chrome's success could be due to Google having an ad for Chrome at the top of the most visited site of the internet.
Well first of all, you can't buy an Enterprise license (normally, but there are sketchy sellers who will sell you one).

Enterprise licenses give you full control of the OS via group policy in addition to all the things that Pro gives you. You can effectively turn off anything you want in the editor.

You also have full control of updates, so if that's what was keeping you away from W10 then... there you go.
It's "4-10 minutes" per day over 17 months.
'just' is a pejorative. It is explicitly expressing contempt for anything but the suggested directions.

"Could you just" is easily translated as "You're an idiot if you don't"
Although young, I've found this a real problem. Many places have terrible acoustics and I totally disagree that making them better (maybe not great) is expensive - there's many simple things you can do to make a huge difference.

What I struggle with is hearing the conversation with the person across the table from me, what has actually recently helped is running a device with iOS 12 (beta) and using AirPods (https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/05/live-listen-ios-12-apple...) - it actually works pretty damn well, I just feel like a bit of a jerk wearing ear buds while dining / having a wine.
You make a good point here. I think the article should have discussed this a bit, I made the assumption that they were cavalierly trying to copy drugs currently under patent. If that is not the case, I mostly retract my criticism of them. Thanks for pointing this out.
I think the parent is saying that there's just as high a chance of incompetence in the installer of a random third-party app, or the install script of an unvetted third-party package, as there is of a theoretical "post-clone script" of an arbitrary Git repo.

The difference, I would say, is that installers and packages are created by ops people, and Git hooks are written by developers or devops people. Decide for yourself which one is more likely to make a mistake that reformats your system. (It's actually a hard question: developers are usually more precise with syntax in languages [like Bash] where ambiguous syntax can be dangerous; while ops people are better at understanding the system-level implications of the actions they're asking the system to perform.)

(Also, unlike installers or packages, there's no reason for a Git repo's hooks to be privileged to do anything outside of the Git repo's cloned .git dir + worktree. If Git wanted synced scriptability, it would be a perfect case for application-level sandboxing, using system calls like OpenBSD's pledge(2).
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I recently learnt the Chinese name for San Francisco: Old Gold Mountain. From the gold rush days.

Similarly, New Gold Mountain is Melbourne Australia near where the Australian gold rush started soon after.
> When the vehicle is parked, businesses can display advertisements on the plate, even targeting a vehicle’s particular location because the plate is connected to GPS.
http://archive.is/YkN7d
The product in question is Rekognition, which matches photos. It would be more verifiable by naked human eye than bite marks?

As long as the results are not taken as judgements, but only auxiliary tool, it would not be a concern.

The article indeed argues that any positive match should be vetted by a human.
The biggest issue to me will be toll gates and manipulation of the plates to avoid them.
Your frappuccino is gonna get a bit more expensive.
The construct your describing is similar to and maybe roughly the same as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_identity, which is supported by a "strong empirical basis", a.k.a., evidence, not ivory tower, wishful thinking.

The most radical summation that I've heard is that human beings are, for large parts of our lives, just animals pretending to be people.

A scary thought.
There’s reason to hope this might get better on the App Store: part of the app review guidelines updates this year addressed this specific issue. From http://www.appstorereviewguidelineshistory.com/articles/2018...:

> Apps now must clearly describe new features and changes in the “What’s New” section of the App Store. Several of the large social network companies have been using a practice where they reuse a generic update text for every release and then enable new features remotely on a per-user basis. This appears to no longer be permitted.
Wasn't too serious

But ...

For distributed companies: email for async communications, phone for sync. If you need to bother someone immediately you might as well have a high bandwidth audio (or even video) call.
I also caught the school bus and sometimes walked home if I missed the bus. The driver a kindly but no-nonsense type of man used to kick you off the bus if you were being naughty (imagine doing that today). That meant you had a long walk home but taught one not to throw things on a bus :-).

I digress, in South Africa catching the bus to school is closely related to financial standing. The poorer folk who do not own cars really have no choice but to put their children on the bus. There is no judgement and all the kids catch the bus. The middle and upper-class folk drop their kids off. I can't help but wonder if the kids catching the bus will grow up to be more independent and more balanced. Not only do they catch the bus, often their parents cannot afford aftercare so they begin to cook and look after themselves at scandalously young ages. I use the word scandalous sarcastically because in my day there was no aftercare and we could make ourselves a sandwich from a pretty young age.
> I love the Germanic way of nouncompounding.

Sadly auto-correct makes people write very Un-German these days, because "the computer says its wrong". The computer is stupid and doesn't understand compounds. Smartphone keyboards similarly can't complete compounds. Either developers don't care about non-English-but-latin languages, or leaving the dashes out in compounds makes parsing them for computers way more difficult (for humans, not so much).
Cry me a goddamned river. The evils of GoogleFaceTube are nothing but the logical conclusion of advertising. This is like someone being sad at a faster car than theirs being invented, only both cars annoy the shit out of everyone.
From the article: And an included RFID tag, for the radio frequency identification used to pay automated tolls, means there’s no need for a separate E-ZPass transponder

You would have to figure out how to disable that first.
This is true these days but incredibly ahistorical; not sure where you got this impression.
Many of us don't believe abortion is murder, so we think that it should be left to the woman involved to decide whether her life circumstances are appropriate for raising a(nother) child. If anti-choicers want to insert their own beliefs into someone else's very personal decision, it seems only reasonable to expect them to take some responsibility for the effects of that insertion.
It really depends where your techs live. 185k is enough money to pay a 4 person team of highly skilled techs in south-eastern Europe for over one year, for example.
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Ops is probably more reasonably called engineering than
most so-called “software engineering”.
> will cost $699, plus $99 for the first year and $75 a year after that

Oh hell no. We don't have enough auto taxes?

How long are these things going to last compared to the life of a car and traditional number plate?

> Once advertisers come on board, drivers could get a rebate

Could, but very probably won't. Excellent another way to erode privacy.
> PKI and PGP are too complex for end users

They are also the only possibilities to provide proper end-to-end encryption. The last thing we need is another proprietary “standard”
(remember how those same companies pushed for drm in the w3c spec).

Yet the only real change can come when end users understand the implications of using the free email providers. I think this is harder for most than using a pgp email client plugin.
You might want to take a look at the tech stacks, where they've been and where they're going, of the world's most lucrative and innovative companies before you decry that Rails really did do it right instead of js.
The opposite of innovation. The ordinary license plate works fine and we do not need anything like these.
Right, but a legion is actually made up of structures that were at their highest around 80 people. Not only that but you have to take away freedom and decision making rights from almost everyone at the threat of severe penalties if you’re not doing what you’re told, at the same time visibly displaying the hierarchical status of everyone at all times.

Interestingly army structure haven’t really changed that much since then.
Yea sure, these are the two choices ONLY...
I think that it is good thing that they talk openly with students who are deciding about their future. It was way more respectable then pretending everything is cool in order to sell you some unlikely dream.
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You are right about there not being opportunities for work in some of these fields, but I just don't think the humanities foster creativity or critical thinking more than CS and I didn't see much interest from the students at a same tier school. If the interest was there it was not reflected in the effort exerted.
> a 10 active user Synapse should use about 1GB max, so unsure what’s up with the earlier post

It's actually not as bad as I remember (time made me think it's worse than it really is) - it's really only large rooms that feel slow. Oops.

I just guess the whole thing doesn't feel responsive. Messages sent take a while to sync between different clients, etc.
The Seven Liberal Arts were literally the trivium and quadrivium.

The first were the humanities: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. They were followed by the scientific arts: mathematics, trigonometry, music, and astronomy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education

The evolution of higher education is itself fairly fascinating. The United States produced fewer high school graduates in 1900 than it doees PhDs today, as a fraction of the population.
This sort of submarine article for Reviver Auto has come up often in the past couple of months, but does anyone see a market for a $700 license plate with a yearly subscription model, which also requires you to carry a backup non-digital license plate? What's the benefit to the driver?

Also the title, Ordinary License Plate's Days May be Numbered seems inconsistent with No more than half a percent of the registered vehicles in the state, about 170,000, will be allowed to use a digital rear plate ... and the driver must carry a regular rear plate in the vehicle in case the digital version malfunctions
I like all time favorite T-Shirts and Coffee Mugs.
Assuming "competently" means "not using them when the grammar is not regular".
It's not a standard, but it's there: autocrypt (https://autocrypt.org) aims to make end to end encryption as easy as possible. It's using PGP underneath but the whole idea is to hide key management (the real pain point) from the user. It's a long term initiative, divided in multiple levels of "compliance" that gradually break compatibility with existing systems more and more. Level 1 is there already, with some implementations.
Does the NYT run paid advertorials?
Much of the US electric grid could go the way of the landline phone
I'm pretty sure it's spam.

I found a link, but it only has a README

https://github.com/Nayego/Nayego-client
If people don't give precise feedback why they are leaving, nothing will change.

Start by asking the staff to turn down the music. Then ask the manager. When it is still too loud, tell the manager why on the way out. And then leave negative reviews about the noise on Trip Advisor and Yelp...
There is another thing the article doesn't mention: open kitchen design.

And loud machines like blenders and coffee machines.
Hey Joshua, just a note: Five hours ago, I confirmed you were right, the ad was gone. But it looks like the same site is back in business: https://www.google.com/search?q=mapquest
They did a good job on it. I'm just not a big fan of the "zero-cost abstractions" approach for typical programming tasks. In those cases, it's just over-complicating things for premature optimization. And the compiler is slow as molasses--which really takes a lot of fun out of the workflow for me.

Also think a lot the popularity comes from social factors rather than practical considerations. It's like an "I fought the borrow-checker, and won!" t-shirt for your resume. The guys writing Redox--yeah, that's a practical use for Rust. The guys writing web frameworks in it... no comment.
"Every imp[ortant] University campus" is a tiny subset of "all people". The total population of 4-year college students in the U.S. is 13.4M, roughly the same as the number of Coinbase users. In 2005 Facebook was in every important university campus worldwide, and yet people (including myself) continued to call it a fad until they started making billions in 2012.
Ah, $700 and a monthly subscription fee for consolidating an RFID. I now see the benefits....
Is it? They already charge the amount they think meets the perfect balance of "as much as possible" and "not so much that less people buy".
This story again.
On the bright side (and I am saying this genuinely) if you enjoy wordplay, puns, and double-meanings, Mandarin is hilariously awesome at it, even compared to English, which is no slouch itself.
If you want that I recommend to look at semiwiki [0] and wikichip [1][2]

[0] https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/7343-leading-edge-log...

[1] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/10_nm_lithography_process

[2] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/7_nm_lithography_process
I think, if it were feasible, OSM could use a really sharp CEO. I think it has incredible potential, but it needs strong leadership to determine strategy for differentiation, product positioning, and marketing. Microsoft or Facebook could make an investment in this direction and things could really take off. Just a thought.
Wasn't the over policing they wanted stopped policies like Stop and Frisk which were targeting people based on race? That's a far cry from policing people based on actually breaking the law
I wonder about journalism like this. I mean I get the story the author is trying to sell, but where is the questions about who would buy this nonsense? Especially to the company which plans to only use part of the plate with e-ink, to “let states keep their colourful design”? Wasn’t the point of these things that it would be easier to re-register when you moved to a different state?

Anyway, I see a wide range of fraudulent usage for an e-ink plate that can be hacked to display whatever the hell you want.
What easy-to-reckon category do you assign the vast swathes of youths who might occasionally be easily convinced to take or buy drugs from strangers in the street?
In my opinion, Munich's Linux project could have been saved if they invested a little in the UI part. It was horrible out of date, a pain to use and looked like something out of a 90's geocities web page.

The work flows were slow and had too many unnecessary clicks.
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I believe Elon Musk has a trademark for that.
In German it's Wochenende (Woche = week, Ende = end), which is literally the literal translation. ... de.wiktionary.org tells me it was adopted from English, too, after World War I.

Huh. I did not know it was such a young word. :)
Should society allow these people to set zoning policy?

If I moved here ten years ago and rented, and now the community is changing around me and rent is getting expensive and the thought of buying seems remote - then you think I should fuck off and move away. But if I bought a house ten years ago and I don't want mid-rises popping up around me, then I should somehow get more of a say because the mid-rises weren't what I signed up for?

I'm lucky enough to own a house in the south bay, but I know plenty of people who rent, some of whom have been here longer than me, and believe me, $3000/mo with five housemates isn't what they signed up for either. I can deal with the fucking mid-rises.

Owning property gives you a right to do what you want with that property, within reason. It shouldn't give you the right to be an obstinate neighbor.
As hinted by atarashi this is not "journalism" but a PR piece fed to a useful idiot.
There are even rumors that Intel delayed the much more important Xeons to 2020, which could give AMD a 1 year head start with Zen2 on 7nm in the server space (comparable to Intels 10 nm).

Copy paste from my posting yesterday:

EDIT: it seems the twitter post got deleted.

EDIT2: anandtech still has the pictures: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13119/intels-xeon-scalable-ro...

> If the rumor [0] that Intel's first 10nm server chip will only release mid 2020 is true, then AMD's shares will probably skyrocket again if they truly can release their Zen 2 server CPU mid 2019 (on 7nm which is comparable to Intel's 10nm).

[0] https://twitter.com/david_schor/status/1022142835989118977
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Its interesting that if you watch Mad Men, this was actually discussed in a show set even in the 70s - that precise targeting and media would outpace any creative work.
Without the symbols you have a big somewhat structured blob of experiences. It's apparently enough for hunting, mating and the like. It is apparently not enough for being the most technologically advanced species. [0] is of interest here. Ildefonso didn't like to talk about his life without language and called it dark.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_Without_Words
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Providing liveable acoustics isn't a lot less important than providing enough light. But few would argue that such honesty compels the architect to install 70s strip lighting.
> núcleo

I really like that word. I thought it was only used in IBM mainframe parlance.
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Land value tax.

Prop 13 is destroying California.
I love this projects because they aim to enforce best practices. I particular like pre-commit.com. Fairly easy to set up and a large variety of plugins already.
> you're running a mailserver without spamassasin? What is this, the 1990s?

More like, relying on SpamAssassin to reliably and correctly classify spam is the anachronism here.

Even if SpamAssassin could do a good job of filtering spam today (which it can't), the set of messages that SpamAssassin classifies as spam will inevitably differ from the set of messages that Gmail classifies as spam, so the only thing this achieves is another point where you have to worry about false positives and training the classifiers.

Furthermore, the problem is exacerbated by poor support of forwarding in modern MTAs. They will queue all received messages first, and when Gmail rejects certain messages during the IMAP session (spam with high confidence, or messages it considers invalid), they result in a bounce, and the thus ensuing backscatter further degrades your mail server's reputation.

The closest thing to correct behavior is Exim's cutthrough delivery feature, which has been implemented "relatively" recently, and even so it is not complete and I've run into issues with it with non-textbook setups.
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My sentiment exactly. I hope this does a fiery death.

I will do everything in my power to resist this “innovation.”

Who exactly in the state of California thinks this is worth trialing anyways? I would like to have our representatives pass along a few choice points of feedback...
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