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This is really cool. Last I heard are going to be using the Nashua, New Hampshire airport as their maintenance and training airport. Their flight path goes over my house so I'm hoping I'll se one soon.

The article on the other hand lacks a bit of substance. Three paragraphs and a quote?
Yeah, there are strategies for dealing with criticism. I use this a lot when dealing with customers (I love the analogy of the feedback bucket - put the shitty feedback in the bucket and use it to grow roses of insight). It's easier to deal with this kind of criticism, because the customer is always right.

But add the emotional vulnerability to the well-known entitlement stuff ("I used your code in my project and it doesn't work, so you need to fix it"), and the hassle of dealing with other people (ugh), and, well... why bother?

The upside that you describe - or struggle to describe... I've never experienced that. I find myself explaining my code to someone because they criticised it without understanding it, and there's no feelgood there. I wish there was.
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I get incomprehensible bills from the hospital whenever I get a test or see a physical therapist, etc. Sometimes I get bills about a service that happened 2 years ago, don't remember what the service was, and it seems they can't tell me because that would violate my privacy or something.

I've always wondered if I sent an invoice to the hospital for unspecified services if they'd pay it.
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There isn't anything you can do safely with an actually uninitialized value, though.

In the internals of TXR Lisp, I used a null pointer to represent the symbol nil, with all the useful semantics that follows. If an object containing Lisp values is initialized to zero, those values are nil.
Medicine is being hit almost as bad. In general, fields where a lot of studies have low statistical power(usually due to noisy data and/or small sample sizes) are the hardest hit. Statistical power is the chance that a significant result is found if the effect is indeed significant (one minus the chance of a false negative). Counter-intuitively, this increases the chance that a given significant result is invalid.

Combine that with non-reporting of negative results and you basically have a huge pile of bullshit.
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rustup component add rls-preview rust-analysis rust-src --toolchain nightly

then add this to .vim/ftplugin/rust.vim:

let b:ale_linters = {'rust': ['rls','cargo','rustc']}
let g:ale_fixers = {'rust': ['rustfmt']}
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> The solution seems obvious to me. But nobody want to do it because it's political suicide.

I like that this works for both readings.

If you say to yourself "Obviously the solution is to eliminate federally backed student loans" that's political suicide because it means most people can't have a tertiary education (even if at some future date this chance means the institutions charge less than today)

If you say to yourself "Obviously the solution is to make tertiary education free at point of use" that's political suicide because it means a big tax hike to pay for it, plus either an unprecedented interference by the state in the operation of non-state entities offering education OR the state builds loads of extra institutions in competition with those pre-existing non-state establishments.

Of course, never say never, twenty years ago who'd have guessed major US politicians would be saying actually maybe we should just have single payer healthcare?
Do you want privacy conscious or “off the grid”?

For the former, Apple is the way to go; so far they haven’t done anything privacy-hostile and I personally trust them.

However, they do still have a lot of “cloud” services (including some that send data back unexpectedly, like all your email senders & call history even though there is no explicit toggle for it in the settings) so if you’re more for the latter then maybe an Android phone with good support from alternative operating systems (LineageOS with OpenGApps?) is a better option.
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This can be difficult though. For example, there is a frequent phenomenon on HN where certain posts arise for purposes of cheerleading the specific programming languages Nim and Julia.

A ton of the comments, disguising as good natured, that give more or less unqualified praise to these languages are actually mostly bullshit, eapecially two very specific strands of discussion, which are usually about Nim or Julia capabilities compared with Cython, and to a lesser degree sometimes Julia’s multi dispatch templating patterns.

It is so hard to wade through those comments and follow down every link and cultish argument or counter-counter-argument, meanwhile you’ve got people claiming that perfectly reasonable criticisms of those languages are themselves the “real” bullshit.

It turns into such a convoluted mess that everybody is certain that everybody else’s claims are the bullshit and that their own claims (which other people think are the bullshit) are genuinely refuting bullshit.

By the end of it, a strategy like yours becomes very hard because the time complexity of the research task gets intractable even for a small subset of claims.

Like literally once I had to go and read a ~30 page published research article to learn that a certain Julia differential equations library happens to use a particular multi dispatch templating pattern to offer a way to treat uncertainty modeling as a built-in, domain-specific construct, but that this was not some type of advantage of Julia or anything (since you could do literally the same thing at the same level of abstraction in Cython), and nor was it even a required aspect of the differential equation domain problem, it was just a sort of extra feature that worked out in that library, but which could be implemented (arguably more simply) without any of the multi dispatch behavior at all.

Blerg. I had to wade into all that, ten levels deep in some nested conversation with hard to believe one-sided support of Julia, all just to learn that one single point could be refuted!
>If they go bankrupt the pension obligations disappear.

Not that simple. The PBGC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension_Benefit_Guaranty_Corpo...) has had a lien on several of Sear's properties for a few years now, to cover Sears's unfunded pension liabilities.

Here's an example: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sears-pensions/in-kenmore...

Now a worrisome note: the PBCG falls under the control of the treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, who just happened to be Lampert's college roommate. I can't see any evidence of wrongdoing here yet, but it's something to keep an eye on. The whole deal with Lampert and Sears is a tangled mess that might make for interesting reading when more of this ends up in a courtroom.
I should definitely have specified that I mean Republican elected officials. With them, I will stop generalizing when this stops generally being true. Can you point to Congressional Republicans, House or Senate, who've voted for positive legislation related to climate change and environmental protection? Have you written to your representatives encouraging them to vote as such (and in other pro-science ways)?
The non-approval is due to the app's -content- not being related to iOS-specific devices or that the app doesn't work with the device?

Did they list a specific guideline?
OMG. That's garbage.
1. Low overall population density

2. Newer cities designed when cars were already king

3. Redesign of cities with the car in mind, due to fierce lobbying by car industry.

4. Hidden subsidies for cars, like untaxed carbon, untaxed smog leading to respiratory illnesses in cities, and of course free ubiquitous parking in so many areas.

5. Continuing lack of innovation, policy hold-ups, partisanship leading to gridlock, not to mention a public disinterest in using public transit.
There's a huge variance depending on the complexity of the business and how many different things you do. Most of the variance has little to do with the shadiness/lack thereof of what you were doing with the data or even how well it had been thought through. Most of the variance is in how many different types of things you're doing and how many different data inputs you have.

I've talked to colleagues who do a wide variety of processing for their controllers in a business with just a few employees, which is paralyzing. The company I work in is somewhere in the middle. I've also talked to colleagues at companies who only have a few inputs, and regardless of the volume of input that seems to be pretty easy.
I think you mean that boatloads more men started signing up and drowned out female recruitment which plodded along at the original pace.
There was a company meeting one year at Amazon when they proudly announced that men and women were paid within 1-2% of each other for the same roles. It completely missed the point which you raise.

I want to see reports of average tenure and time between promotions by gender. I suspect that the reason we don't see those published is that the numbers are damning.
£60k is a relatively decent IT salary in the UK.

It's probably a couple of junior security researchers.

But your point is still valid.
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> the lines above and below the letter

Serifs is the word you are looking for.

Hmm, from examining the font style in the stylesheet, and playing around it looks like Verdana is preferred, and then it falls back to Geneva, and then some default sans-serif.[1] Verdana has serifs though, and Geneva either doesn't or I don't have Geneva, so that seems an odd choice of preferences and fall backs.

1: The CSS is "font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"
It's amazing, Sears CEO Lampert has done so much self-dealing -- turning Sears assets into Sears cash + Sears debt, with the debt owned by Lampert's own companies -- that he'd be the only beneficiary in a bankruptcy. There's so little equity, other shareholders would be wiped out. It's hard to see how this doesn't end in a massive lawsuit, and, hopefully, some kind of consequences for rapacious capitalists.

cites: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/03/22/sears-holdin..., https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/23/eddie-lamperts-hedge-fund-es...
We should try shutting down most bus systems outside major dense metro areas and start over. For example, I used to live in Orange County, California. There is no rail there, only buses. But whenever I saw the buses on the road, they were empty. And I rarely saw anyone at bus stops. But they have a huge budget, $290 million per year (https://www.octa.net/News/About/OCTA-Board-Approves-$1-3-Bil...) for bus operations. What a waste of money, empty buses driving around in circles.

Imagine if that money went to this instead:

* Estimate of $15 round trip per day for Lyft Line/Uber Pool for commuting to/from work. That's $300 per month. Create special Lyft/Uber cards and distribute to low income residents. $290 million/$300 = 966k low income residents. Note that the population of OC is 3 million. And this would be free for low income residents. Whatever they spend on commuting now can be spent for other non-commuting transportation.

* These MUST be used with Lyft Line/Uber Pool. Also these rides will be only pickup/drop off at bus stops. These requirements allow for massive routing efficiencies and the bus stop infrastructure is already designed for a lot of pickup/dropoffs.

Eventually Lyft/Uber will notice that certain stops are very popular. They may start asking drivers of minivans to cover these. As demand increases more, they may run shuttles. And some extremely popular bus stops may even have high capacity buses. But this will be a natural growth that reacts to demand. Ironically, the end result is a functioning bus system for some popular stops. But the key is that we get there by growing the system and the demand, instead of just throwing buses out there and hoping someone will use them.
Really? Palantir is a real time geoanalytics platform. Among their customers are police departments, municipal governments, emergency response agencies, and, well, intelligence agencies. None of these are intrinsically bad.
I don’t. Only ever used it once when my previous employer was using them and I had to have one so I could try out our product. Deleted the account as soon as that job ended.
I don't understand why the benefits have to be so terrible when we spend 600 billion a year on military
Are there no-cost courses that cover the same material and have already completed?
Right, well, apart from "a (nice) text editor, releases a Linux subsystem, partially open sources .NET, releases an open source JavaScript framework, has an active GitHub account (filled mostly with nonsense by the way)" -- what have the Romans done for us?!
This entire article is a strong hint that the AI system simply picked the better resumes, where better = more likely to get hired, exactly as it was designed to do. The fact that more men than women satisfy these requirements should come as a surprise to precisely nobody.

Fact is, there are more men than women working in tech, especially seriously hard-core stuff like these big companies need. This is most likely out of their own personal volition, and no matter how much outreach we do, this is likely to stay the case for generations.

Of course, that's also an egregiously wrongthink position to take. Double plus ungood.
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Producing fraudulent blocks (ie, containing double-spends) is the same as "discarding all the hashes" because the consensus mechanism (the fork choice rule) will ensure that the block is rejected, unless the attacker can also provide 51% of the current network hashrate to force this bad block into the canonical chain.

I defend PoW as the most secure consensus protocol for the major public blockchains precisely because the cost of an attack is so high right now. The wastefulness of PoW guarantees that there won't be reason to get involved in the mining business unless one intends to produce valid blocks and get paid for it.

edit: I would argue that producing fraudulent blocks is a "strictly dominated strategy" in game-theory terms, because its outcome is always worse than following the protocol rules and producing a valid block. From that perspective I believe it is the same as "discarding all the hashes".
> I would not be against a mandatory mental health check up for our highest officials which includes some sort of mechanism to remove them from office if they are determined mentally unfit to serve

Think about how much more awareness there is now in terms of mental illness, anxiety, stress, mental degradation, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, dementia.

Every country in the world should have these sorts of checks and balances. It isn't a matter of ageism either, it is a matter of sane policy and checks & balances.
The liquidity you get from using the Ethereum-based ERC20 standard for your token is vastly greater than using a runner-up like Stellar. ERC20 is used in something like 95 of the top 100 tokens by market cap, while Stellar doesn't even have 1 token in the top 100.

That means it's much easier to get your token listed on an exchange if it's ERC20, and there are dozens of wallets, with combined millions of installations, that users can use to hold it.

It also means numerous decentralized exchanges (e.g. 0x, Kyber) and other value-adding applications that are compatible with it, like the smart-contract based loaning Dapps that can use ERC20 tokens as collateral (e.g. the Dharma protocol) and relatively soon, second layer solutions for low-cost instantaneous transactions, like Raiden, Liquidity Network, Celer Network etc.

I just don't see why anyone would want to move from Ethereum, which has seen its market share in the token market grow steadily over the last two years, to something that's barely used like Stellar.

Is liquidity secondary to transaction throughput for the use-case of your token? If so, couldn't you use a traditional MySQL server, or a permissioned sidechain, or even a more centralized ledger like Stellar, for the high-throughput uses of the token, and use Ethereum for trading it? Going the dual-blockchain route is what Kik ended up doing with its token, Kin, based on the reasoning that having its token convertible to the ERC20 standard gave it access to a much larger pool of liquidity.
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There's a place called lobste.rs but it's unfortunately invite only. Seems relatively active.
I think they meant it's enough space for 1800 students simultaneously, which is actually quite a large number.
> But there are fewer women in software now than there were 30 years ago.

That's not true. Firstly, it's more like 40-50 years ago.

Secondly, there are far more women doing software development, but the gender ratio is dramatically different.

Thirdly, that's because male interest exploded with the advent of personal computing the 80s.

Lastly, "programming" as a profession used to be regarded as an offshot of secretarial work, which was dominated by women.

The facts around women in STEM are polluted with a lot of bizarre narratives.
Life being a zero sum game is not a fundamental part of Marxism.
Isnt there a middle ground? Like having tertiary education free for state/city/public universities to ensure the poor arent left without choice. And also eliminating federally backed student loans so eventually all schools normalize price and all schools become increasingly affordable?
But then again, where are all the early search engine companies now? Alta Vista, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Inktomi, Lycos... Just because you are early in a market doesn't mean you will succeed.
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As per the article:
>$11.8 million is equal to one-eighth of the total amount the university took in through tuition and fees during the 2016-2017 academic year.
So they are spending 2 approx twice of there tuition revenue on one building. I guess this kind of money could have been put to better use.
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Over the short term. Over the human term.

Over the long term, facts win out because facts tend not to change. People will moan and complain and twist and excuse and blame, but facts just don't give up being facts. Facts don't get tired or change their mind. It might take 10 years or a hundred or a thousand. Truth is patient like that.

Unfortunately, that doesn't really solve any problems in the short term before people start dying.
I'm still not following. Is it harder to mishandle food in a commercial kitchen? Why is the regulation against non-commercial kitchens, and not just against mishandling of food, if that's the issue?
I think you should talk to the artists before pirating their music and see what they think. Just deciding for yourself when it's OK has nothing to do with respect.
I wasn't actually speaking about you specifically, but where did Damore "go beyond claiming that there are differences between the sexes in aggregate" and specifically "women are less capable of [Damore's] job"? And how do you square that with the memo's disclaimers that he's speaking about population level differences? I think I've read that thing a dozen times now to try to find anything that resembles the claims Damore is accused of making, and I can never seem to find them...
Oh, nice. We use RBush quite extensively in Upverter, and there are a few places where we build static trees to query. I'll have to try using this and see if it improves performance.
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How did you control for these things? Wondering what patterns there are that people use to prevent social discrimination.

Seems challenging since much of AI, especially classification, is essentially a discrimination algorithm.
Ok, so station a police officer or two in the vicinity of the stations. No need to block transportation for everyone for a few bad apples.
>I don't really buy "restricted speech is worth letting people die over".

Only one of our positions is hypothetical.

>What slippery slope? Censoring climate scientists is the first thing politicians in the pocket of oil companies would do with censorship powers.

Says you. You're running under the (faulty) assumption that such censorship would be unregulated. I also wouldn't support such a system, but thankfully that's not what I'd propose either.

Yes, the actual harms of unrestricted censorship are widespread and well documented. But most of the EU censors things that are free to say in the US (antisemitism, as an example), and yet somehow manage to rate higher on independent ratings of press freedom[0].

You're argument reduces to "unregulated power is bad". Yes. Agreed, completely. Unregulated power is bad.

>Much of the scale and inhumanity of the holocaust wasn't discovered until the end of the war as a result of Nazi censorship, and keeping it quiet allowed it to continue for longer with less opposition both domestically and internationally. For example, the US could have entered the war earlier.

This is some strong historical revisionism. No, the US just took a strong turn toward isolationism post WWI and the great depression. The atrocities of the holocaust were not some perfectly kept secret. I'd encourage you to read up on US foreign policy in the 30s, as well as general sentiment among the population [1]. Among other things, antisemitism, worry about another economic downturn, and a strong isolationist ideal underlined by the opinion that "We shouldn't send American boys to die solving a European problem"[2] were the main reasons the US didn't enter the war.

Even when they did, it wasn't out of a sense of civic duty to save the Jews, it was because "oh crap, Germany could actually threaten the US and the world".

Allied governments absolutely knew about the crimes the Nazis were committing, they just didn't care. The population didn't really care either.

Immediately jumping to "the Nazis and Stalin censored people, so censorship is bad" isn't an argument, its fearmongering, especially when the claimed impacts of censorship aren't really true.

[0]: https://rsf.org/en/ranking#
[1]: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-united...
[2]: And honestly, given the horrors of WWI and trench warfare, I can understand this attitude.
I am not a perfect human being. I can react in ways that are not ideal when situations trigger my flaws. That's OK, as long as I accept responsibility for that.

I am responsible for my emotions, but that doesn't mean I have to apologise for them. If I think someone is acting like a dick, and my reaction to that is stress and anger, I'm OK with accepting responsibility for my anger and showing it anyway. I am human, I have inappropriate emotions at times.

However, blaming the other person because "they made me feel angry" is not helpful. They acted like a dick, and they have to accept responsibility for that. I got angry, and that's my responsibility. I could have chosen not to get angry, and I refuse to give the power to make that choice to someone who acts like a dick.

Responsibility and authority go together. Accepting authority over my emotions means I have to accept responsibility for them. Refusing to accept responsibility for my emotions also means I'm refusing my authority over my emotions. Giving others control over my emotions is not going to lead to good things.
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