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12 years of schooling is more than sufficient. That does not mean that 12 is the magic number exactly. But yes, I believe that <=12 will remain sufficient for public schooling forever. Not to be confused with education. There is no timeframe on education. Education never stops.

Robots and software actually make the world simpler. When we were an agrarian society, farmers had to know how to do basically everything imaginable to be able to be productive. It took a lifetime of training, starting as soon as you were old enough to walk, in order to learn the ropes and take in the deep knowledge passed from generation to generation. Industrialization simplified contributions so that one only had to specialize, negating the need to be there from birth. The information revolution simplified things further still. Now we have teenagers who are starting highly successful software businesses after spending a few months in front of a computer. The next revolution, whatever it may be, will only make contributions even more accessible, just as each time before.
The land theory was popular because it’s easier to prove a lot ice age coast line is deep under water and it’s hard to find the easy evidence but the cultural and linguistic evidence are there
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Well, I don't have an account, but this blew up sufficiently enough that I only needed to click "explore" and stumbled on a repost containing a screenshot of the original post. Here you go: https://gab.ai/PNN/posts/31263515

Wow, what a sad website. I don't quite understand the mindset/vitriol/hate/anger/etc here (the reason for it or need for it) psychologically speaking.

In any case I've taken my own simple screenshots of the repost in case it disappears, which I expect will happen eventually. If anyone absolutely needs them let me know.
The Chinese have cloned a monkey. I am wondering who will be the first to clone human. Maybe the Chinese have already done it but are keeping quiet about it. Its a Brave new world.
The value of that data in the form of advertisements is usually about how much you stand to gain by selling them something, and how likely you think you are to convert them.

https://www.adgooroo.com/the-most-expensive-keywords-in-paid...
> People are better off hearing a bad idea and hearing it refuted then never hearing a bad idea.

We humans have a strong preference for ideas that support our existing beliefs. This feature, when combined with the proliferation of sources of news and other information (who directly profit from this feature), means that the ones who are most in need of hearing the refutation of a bad idea are also the least likely to ever hear it.
France has 1.5x birthrate of that of Italy, because it helps moms to get education and jobs, as opposed to Italy who put the bet on "family values".
> Usually the adult exchanges a roommate for a spouse, who also works to help pay the rent.

and then, a child comes along.
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Motivation has any of the big car companies, if US, German, French or Japanese. Saudi money is in many of them, esp. Daimler.
Killing electric cars happened before, and most likely is the main goal here. They are certainly worried to death.
It is not surprise being expressed here, but disappointment.
Mobike is a lot more user-friendly because the bike unlocks itself when you scan the code or trigger the bluetooth signal, whereas the Ofo app sends you a numeric code which you must punch yourself to unlock the bike. Ofo is like the half-generation of bikeshare between 1st-gen docked bikes and 2nd-gen dockless auto-unlocking ones.
> Can anyone give me an idea of how valuable a person's personal information really is?

Rough lower bound: Alphabet's market cap is around 900 Billion, FB's market cap is around 500 Billion. Both of their businesses are driven by selling ads based on people's personal information. There are around 7 Billion people on the planet. That's about $200/person for everyone on the planet.
> Focus on the people and you will be 100x better equipped to deal with anything than any amount of technical or operational knowledge.

this is only true if what you're doing isn't innovation, but just making business.
Why go after tuners? Well, if you are a giant automobile firm that has been lying about their mileage and emissions and covering it up with software that detunes the car just to pass testing- well, then you don't want people figuring out your algos for covering up lying.
I wouldn't call that strange. That's perfectly rational hedging your investments which gives even more weight to why it is the saudis.
Really surprised there's no discussion here about the ubiquitousness of black-on-bright-white color schemes in apps (including this text box I'm typing into right now, though for the most part, HN uses a soft beige tint for its background; but it's still dark-on-light). It's really quite unnecessary. For code editing I have a light-on-dark Emacs color scheme, which is much easier on the eyes.

Yes, Macs have a setting to invert the color palette, but that's not useful to me — a lot of my windows are dark; I don't want them inverted, and it makes images unintelligible. What I really want is something that doesn't screw with images, but detects dark-on-light text and maps the colors in such a way as to preserve contrast and even hue.
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For any N "See [banana,]* bees." can be longer than N.
> Why shouldn't platforms have the freedom to put a stop to that if they choose?

That's the heart of the question being asked. On the one hand, there's freedom of association. On the other, freedom of speech. Which one trumps the other and to what extent?
An individual person’s data is not worth much to anyone (commercially I mean; personal surveillance is a separate matter).

An aggregation of lot of people’s data could be very valuable in certain circumstances.

E.g., if you could identify all the people who were close to being ready to purchase a house, that’s highly valuable to realtors and lenders - but they can still only expect to covert a single digit percentage (or <1%) of that group, so the data is only ever valuable in large aggregated sets.

So the answer is, it depends on a lot of factors.
With this you determine whether the error has to be handled or can be safely ignored via a '_'.

In my experience most of the time I want to neither explicitly handle the error nor ignore it. I want it to propagate up to a top-level handler that logs it and either fails the current operation or aborts the entire program.
not just Amsterdam. I had a car accident on Route 128 in Massachusetts during rush hour. I called the state police - they asked if anyone was hurt and when I told them no they said 'just exchange information with the other driver'. The opportunity here is for fraud prevention. Maybe that's what will eventually drive our desire for ubiquitous surveillance.
Since oil is distributed all over the world, I don't think losing access is something that China should worry about any more than the US. Historically, the nations that had to worry about others cutting them off were the ones that set out to conquer the world and got everybody to oppose them together.
The GNU Objective C runtime can be implemented in C.

[object method: args...]

compiles to (more or less)

IMP tmp = objc_msg_lookup(object, @selector(method:))
*tmp(object, @selector(method:), args...)
Yeah it's all "omg full time employees" than you read $15 an hour ... oh yeah that's not that much of a cost there.

I don't care how many bad charts they put up, their employee costs were pretty low either way I think. They just couldn't float the boat through a storm fundamentally.
One thing I find somewhat galling is how the climate change denial rhetoric smoothly shifted from "climate change is a hoax," to "there's no evidence that climate change is caused by humans," once reality was clearly at odds with the former, without ever acknowledging the moving of goalposts. Presumably in a decade or two it will be, "No one could have seen this coming," with no acknowledgement of past discourse.
> ... and embedded in ATMs with a 20 year life span.

Privilege escalation is not a problem on ATMs.

> It pains me terribly every time I power up the Agilent signal analyzer in the lab and it boots Windows XP on its Pentium III chip.

Why? Just treat it as you do most hardware, under full control of whatever you attach it to. Zero security present, zero security needed.
You have 40 minutes to make a slide deck that explains bloomfilters and 5 minutes to present in front of the director of engineering.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but isn't the outsourced CFO company's entire business model based on providing services to CEOs who "won't even hire a CFO"? If so, it would be extremely odd for them to scoff about how it's hard to explain finance stuff to their core target customers.
Yeah i'm a bit lost on that. They didn't hire a CFO.... where where folks funding this? They should have been telling them "Uh naw, CFO important, get one!"
> My real pain point with Signal is that there is no real desktop application for it

Signal is open source, you can write your own -- just kidding. Moxie Marlinspike wants to lock you into his client as Facebook, Google and their ilk lock you into theirs.[1]

[1]https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
So if a new macbook pro has:

"15.4-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology; 2880-by-1800 native resolution at 220 pixels per inch with support for millions of colours"

What possible laptop alternatives are out there that are better for eyes?
Surely there are other variables - increased renting prices caused workers to move further away from work; cycling would no longer be viable?
Actually, as some one who grew up in Ukraine I did see somewhere that there, teenagers had more girls smoking that boys.
Aurora requires a VPC, but you can create public subnets to allow for external access to the database.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/...
I cried the first time I watched that. Futurama has many episodes like Jurassic Bark that hit an emotional nerve, but the incredible thing is that most of them were written by different writers (Eric Kaplan, Ron Weiner, Ken Keeler, Eric Horsted, Michael Rowe, etc).
This. Of all the problems, 1 year is just too short a time.
What I like about HN is that comments are frequently even better than the linked content. This is a fine example.
You don't start the clock anywhere, you should always consider the context that led to things happening.
I'm not going to use OP's package, but I'll definitely copy the idea into a local helper. https://gist.github.com/icholy/fc41b8cfe74506cf93ec6b0fba1fc...
I wonder if they were in fact intending to steal the airbag, but were disturbed in the process. Airbag theft is fairly common and lucrative. You can extract the A-Pillar bag through the window without opening the door. In cars without the radar/pressure sensors you have some chance of doing that without setting off the alarm.
Yep and that list of things you did correct could go on for pages. It’s similar for how I treat my headaches. I don’t just take a triptan. I do the yoga stretch, maybe a cup of tea (full cup of coffee if I’m in 9/10 zone), some Gatorade, ginger powder, tumeric powder, heat on the traps, TENS unit on the traps/neck/temples, ice, etc and nothing. I’ve even fallen asleep while doing half of those in the crocodile position before. It worked that time, too.
> You can’t quit paying an employee if you lose the client he’s working for

Yeah you can. It's called firing them under right-to-work.
That's pretty cool! I never had to much of an issue with the startup time for interactive computing though. It mainly has come up as an issue when I was writing short scripts that could be run a couple dozen times in serial.

The real question is how long does `using Plots` take in v1.0?
When I got my first job after I got my CS degree in 2007, my rent was under $400 without a roommate and my base pay was about $18/hr. I thought that was pretty good, because it was a real hourly rate, with a significant bonus for overtime.
By that rationale, obesity is easy since it causes straightforward issues. Notice how you didn’t discuss the reasons people smoke but you waved away obesity due to complexities in which people become obese.
While I quit daily smoking years ago I will never give up cigars. Even my doctor has zero issues with that. According to the CDC there is essentially no risk even smoking up to five a day. I am definitely substantially lower than that though.
And why full time? Why not part time? Were they paying out benefits?
If you're aware and smart enough to be asking that question, it's totally understandable that you'd doubt it's value.

But most people are neither aware, nor smart. Most people are slaves to their televisions, including phones and internet browsers. Most people have not evolved enough to realize they should not tolerate commercials _at all_. Many of those people actually enjoy watching commercials.

Advertisers have enjoyed a death-grip on the public consciousness for decades. They literally make people sick through suggestion so they can sell them pills that do nothing.

In that system, the data is priceless. It's the keys to people's brains. It's an instruction manual for manipulating people to trick them into giving you their lifeblood (money).

But to people like me and you, who are aware, and smart, it's worthless. Because we'd throw those advertisers under the bus to protect ourselves before we'd ever buy their garbage. amirite?
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I think it's the other way around.

Multinationals would prefer to get rid of all nationality, ethnicity, religion, culture, political ideology etc - it stands in the way of their bottom line.

Strong nations can stand up to big corps.

Strong cultures make it difficult to 'define consumer behaviour' - example: in Europe, American companies have a difficult time selling some consumer products because Europeans 'have their own way' of doing things. Why do you think Starbucks doesn't have a lot of stores in Italy? Because Italians don't care for it - they do their own thing.

This is kind of ugly - but there is a kind of 'culturally secular left' and a 'big / globalist business right' that actually get a long quite well - they both want to get rid of what they view as 'outdated norms'. The left wants to re-write social structure, the right wants to re-write consumption, consumerism and define our aspirations.

I'm not being conspiratorial, it's not like there's a cabal of evil globalists pulling strings, it's just overall in the best interest of these groups. BigCos tend to promote policies which benefit them - not the local population. Shareholders just don't think or care that much about people or culture.
Well this is hardly the fault of white board interviews. That’s just interviews. Any interview (regardless of the style) is going to be in front of “coworkers” and “under pressure of being fired.”
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While it is (a bit disappointingly) a known instruction, it seems that Domas has came up with this by his own (via sandsifter [1]). Also, it is really unexpected that there is a documented userland instruction that goes to ring 0 anyway, so it is a "documented" "backdoor". In any case I still think that this study is interesting, mainly because it shows that we can inspect such instructions seemingly out of nowhere.

[1] https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter
My concern is exactly that the offsets from externalities would go to special use funds attempting very naively to rectify them.

For one thing, governments are inefficient, and externalities aren't always easy to reverse. So probably after the Department of Externality Taxation is established, either the funds raised by the tax aren't enough to compensate the people damaged, or something bureaucratic and symbolic is done that doesn't really help. After all, if there isn't really anything the department can do to address the problem, the last thing they're going to do is put themselves out of a job and return the money. They'll start wasteful moonshot projects instead.

For another, the government is now heavily incentivized to tax the Bad Thing as much as they can, both to show voters that they're Tough On Bad Thing and also to raise money. That's not what we want- we want to disincentivize externalities by exactly their true cost, and preferably return that true cost to the people damaged by it.

Finally, assuming we can't perfectly tell what the externalities cost individual people, directly giving them a return equal to average damages is efficient. It drives people who suffer the externality disproportionately away, and it attracts people who can bear the externality at minimum cost.
> The business model can't afford employee overhead at even poverty salary levels.

And on 1099 too. You've managed to play so much financial hop scotch that you've gotten out of paying FICA taxes and labor premiums, and you still can't sustain your business?

Just wow.
>That's not a Supported Configuration(tm).

Depends on what you modify but it's to my knowledge supported if your patches didn't cause the bug or behaviour problem. Plus there is plenty of ways to configure systemd at compile time, you can toggle a lot of switches in systemd.
Spam is a form of speech.

For years, most providers and platforms have banned it, and people have organized to boycott providers who didn't.

Why is that apparently OK but other forms of organized boycott, or disassociation based on the content of speech, are not?
Small minded businesses then I guess.
Wouldn't people be able to traverse the continent in a few months? Why are they giving estimated ranges that span thousands of years?
Great catch. You're right, I completely missed that and probably wouldn't have made the distinction even if I had seen it. I will now, and in the future, though.
There is a subtle but important difference between blocking speech because children encountering it will supposedly be harmed, and blocking speech because the adults that encounter it will then be more likely to harm children.

A similar difference exists between preventing children from gambling, and preventing adults from gambling away the money required to feed their children.

Even though the harm in the latter examples is actually easier to substantiate, curtailing spreech because of the harm adults might do (even to children) is rather difficult, so demagogues tend to focus on the former for their bombast.
> Conservatives generally want the bakery to be able to refuse to bake the cake. Why aren't they also in favor of the ISP refusing to offer service, or the host refusing to offer use of their servers?

It’s a very different scenario.

It’s more like people are hiring private investigators to follow gay people around and get a list of businesses they frequent and then organising harassment of those businesses until they refuse to do business with the homosexuals.

It’s orders of magnitude more creepy.
No, again, sorry I think this is wrong.

Multinationals are almost all in favour of open borders.

They want a) cheap labour and some, good companies need b) high end talent. The later is more rare though.

Every big company I know is 'pro migration' I can't think of a single one that's against it.

Google is more in favour of getting 'highly skilled' people, while most others are in favour of 'bodies' for cheap labour. Companies that are allowed to think long term, like large banks, want migration because 'adding bodies' is the only way most Western economies actually grow. So in Canada, CIBC, BMO, RBC (i.e. big banks) make their $ from mortgages and small business lending - there's no real way for them to grow other than 'more mortgages'. So they push for more bodies as part of national strategy.

Because most political entities, most big business, and a lot of social activists are globalist in nature, it creates a friction with other groups.

This friction is actually a big deal and is reshaping the political landscape in the entire Western world.

It's getting to be less about left/right than it is those with a globalist view and those with a more localist view. 'Nationalists' tend to fall in the later camp.
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You just have to convince the patent examiner that it's not obvious. There's bound to be prior art (radar), so it could probably be invalidated if you want to spend the money on it, and you don't have some alternative ready to hand.
The parallels are striking.

I just finished reading Neil Sheehan's A Bright Shining Lie, which is a story of Vietnam told through the lens of the experience of one particular American officer, and later civilian consultant: John Paul Vann. I heartily recommend the book - winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and authored by someone who was on the ground in Vietnam on and off during the war.

The book was published in 1988, so any parallels that are evident to Afghanistan and Iraq are not the backseat driving of the author.

One parallel, out of many, is that Vann many times lamented the lack of devotion the South Vietnamese Army had to the cause of Vietnamese independence. They largely wanted to avoid actual combat and profit off the American military machine by selling services, re-selling war materiel, accepting bribes for the other side, etc. And Vann said many times in the book that if he himself was a young Vietnamese, he would join the NVA (the North Vietnamese Army). And further, that he admired the grit and devotion the NVA had to the cause of independence.

Indeed, one could fill a page of further comments on the parallels: asymmetric tactics, politically powerful generals who lied about prospects for winning, presidents who kicked the can down the road, inability to win "hearts and minds", blaming the press when bad news gets out, ease of bombing versus difficulty of holding territory, "nation-building", installation of American-backed Vietnamese leaders (often emigres) who have no credibility in the country...

It is actually quite humbling. We should have known better.
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Your witty little strawmen with snappy names aren't helping your argument...
I'm an almost-graduated computer engineering student. I had a relatively pleasant interview last week with a whiteboard component which I thought was fair. The interviewer asked for a Fibonacci function, an easy problem that still allowed me to show that I understood some more advanced concepts. I gave a basic recursive solution, was asked to critique it, explained how it was inefficient in time and space, and would blow up the stack (without tail call optimization). Then I thought I'd mention dynamic programming as a possible solution to the time complexity, but one that would still cost a ton of stack space. Finally, I gave the iterative solution, and explained how it was more efficient, and how you could use it to pre-compute a lookup table.

The interviewer propmpted me along the way, it felt like a friendly conversation. The fact that it was an easy problem prevented me from stressing out, but I still felt like I was able to demonstrate some academic ideas.

I was always pretty decent at standardized tests as a kid, and this argument over whiteboarding reminds me a bit of that. I don't think it's useful for gauging general software engineering skills, but it might have some value for evaluating communication. It also feels like the sort of thing that software engineers with a strong academic background tend to enjoy more than those with more practical/industry experience, but that's just anecdotal.