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>What Latour and others are discussing is not the idea that there isn't an external reality, but that what we know about reality is inevitably filtered by our perception, which includes our social, economic and institutional contexts.

It is extremely annoying when people present this is some kind of new groundbreaking idea, when it fact this is the exact observation that lead to creation of the scientific method.

The basis of the scientific method is the notion that human perception has quirks, therefore to learn about reality as it really is we need to design system that correct for those quirks. Alan Kay and Neil DeGrasse Tyson have good talks on this subject.

Big problems with modern science are not philosophical ones. They stem from institutional structures, incentives and the economy of modern science. Guess what? An institution distorting it own conclusions because of group biases bad economic incentives is not conceptually different from human brain distorting conclusions because of individual biases and instincts. It is something that should and can be handled through better process design.

Most scientists do not deny that these problems exist. There are plenty of them who analyze these issues, criticize the current state of affairs and propose actionable solution. Maybe we should listen to them before listening to post-modernists, eh? I am aware of exactly zero positive changes in science that ever resulted from post-modernist critique. Feel free to provide counter-examples.
The goverment doesn't need to worry about cellular phone calls being encrypted. The black boxes are installed at the switch, where there is no encryption.
> - deep breathing for a minute (should significantly reduce cortisol)

If true, this shows that there is a controllable mental component to stress. First step is recognizing when you are stressed. A mental technique I use is to pretend I'm outside my body watching my response. This helps me put things in perspective and calm down. A technology thing I use is my Apple Watch. It alerts me if my heart rate goes up without also moving like I would for exercise. It's a quick reminder to stop, relax. I rarely get alerts from the AW anymore, because I've become attuned to recognizing when stress is oncoming and I can take measures to calm down.

My final technique is exercise every single day. I tend to workout right when I wake up, but if life gets in the way I sometimes do not get to it until later. But, it is an exceptional day if I miss a workout.
Is there a law that states anytime bash is mentioned or used someone has to say this?
This isn't about a Google office, it's about an incubator for startups.
Having a hard time imagining an economic safe haven that wouldn't be greatly affected by a US economic collapse.
I’m too young (or studied in the wrong time or place) so my CS teachers failed to impress me to such an extent.

However, I very well remember reading the Compilerbau book by N. Wirth and the awe I felt. It’s just a few pages but it was a revelation.
Lisp is basically writing a program as abstract syntax tree, with facilities to modify the abstract syntax tree.
The article spends a significant portion of the first part of the article talking about how it was easier to get hands on the physical machine than it should be.

And in some cases, contrary to the mantra, "security by obscurity" is indeed an important _layer_ of security. But I'm not sure if this is one of them. Of all the domains that one would expect state actors to be trying to exploit, I'd think voting would be near the top. And I don't think trying to only make sure "authorized" people can get their hands on a voting machine is going to be much of a barrier to a state actor. The thing better really be secure no matter how much an attacker knows about it, to defend against state actors, no?

And of course these _weren't_. But I don't think making it harder to buy an old machine on ebay would provide enough barrier to the attackers in the realistic threat model, to even bother doing it. Better to spend the focus on the actual security of the machine. I feel like the "lifecycle management" of machines that the author prioritizes as a solution is a misdirection.

> By simply regulating and monitoring the sale of used voting machines more closely, we would create a huge barrier to bad actors.

A HUGE one? To the intelligence agency of a foreign state? I doubt it. If you think it was a huge one, it's a false sense of security that may lead you to insufficiently prioritize more important fixes. (Which may be _not using digital voting machines_.)
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I think this probably cuts to the core of the reasoning behind Gutenberg more than many other thoughts on it do. It's not about making WordPress better, it's about seeming 'cooler' among other developers by embracing the new shiny thing (React) rather than going with a simpler, more battle tested solution written in PHP and Vanilla JavaScript.

And I suspect this is the case with quite a few recent WordPress changes to be honest. The people behind it don't want to be seen as the folks making the 'beginner' or 'amateur' CMS, they want to be up with the 'cool' kids working for Google/Facebook/Netflix/Airbnb/whatever with React and Vue and Angular and what not. For them, stuff like Gutenberg (and arguably even the REST API) feel like attempts to move WordPress away from the 'CRUD sites for small businesses and non programmers' market to the 'professional' one.

Yet that's exactly where the market is for WordPress, and that ease of use that attracted beginners and lower end agencies is why WordPress got so popular in the first place. You didn't need a lot of experience with frameworks and build processes and MVC structures and what not to get started, you could just copy or hack together some simple code to get things the way you wanted, and use third party themes/plugins to do the rest.

Trying to make things more complicated or move the core of the system over to a JavaScript framework basis (as some suspect Automattic may be trying to do) will just kill a large part of the WordPress community, and remove the ease of use aspect that makes it so popular at all.
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Connecting today’s or even 1970s counter-culture with that of the 1920s is really far fetched as most counter-culturalists where driven out shortly after (see 1930s) and never came back.

Following your logic, that it shouldn’t matter where new tenants come from - isn’t that what anti-gentrification activism effectively is about? Prohibiting new tenants to move in?
> It’s not done from malice, just good-natured ribbing about our differences.

I'm Québécois. My family has been Québécois for hundreds of years. My first language was French but I spoke English from a very young age, and went to a mixture of English and French schools. I watch Québécois movies and tv shows, listen to Québécois music and radio, and cook traditional Québécois food for myself and friends every chance I get.

I can't vouch for any of the other Canadian subcultures you've named, but I can assure you that I never enjoyed the taunting, the name calling, the literal physical violence (I got beat up many times as kid because I was "one of those fucking French frogs"), and not to mention the inevitable eye rolling and pointed questions about why my particular cultural heritage was even allowed to exist in Canada.

Some people view us as some sort of blight that needs to be eradicated because we don't fit the mould of what a "Canadian" is. I've had people tell me to my face that they "can't wait for the French to just die off in this country", and then laugh because they think it's a funny joke.

I'm not saying everyone is like that, and things seem to have softened in the past few decades, but please don't believe that we enjoy being marginalized.
Haven't done any research yet, but it wouldn't surprise me if a 2 year old high-end Xeon outperforms a low-end threadripper on my typical workload.

Also: a 2 year old server can be bought for about 1k, you can't get the core count and amount of RAM new for that price.
Next time I see the junky tattooed white garbage that passes for "counter-cultural creative types" I am going to make them feel very unwelcome. Why do these so called artists(heroin addicts) think they can dictate anything to anyone? Tear down the squats and build a parking lot, it would be an improvement.
> ...what's the coolest part of Berlin, where we'd make engineers happy to be in?

but i also wonder: does Google consider itself to be one of the "cool kids?" i mean, when it tries to create a new campus like this, does Google think it will be welcomed with open arms?
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No, just the opposite. The idea that cortisol levels are a direct indicator of stress levels is a myth. Stress is just one modulator of cortisol levels.

Measuring cortisol is extremely imprecise. Cortisol also has huge variability from one patient to another and depends heavily on time of day relative to a person's circadian rhythm, among other variables.

Cortisol measurements aren't even used clinically outside of conditions which cause extreme excesses or shortages of cortisol. For example, Cushing's syndrome or Addison's disease.

Consider that the reference range for morning plasma free cortisol has a lower limit of 5 ug/dL and an upper limit of 25 ug/dL. Obviously, you can't draw any conclusions about one's workplace stress if the morning reference range in normal, healthy volunteers already spans a 5X range.

Finally, the idea that cortisol == bad is just wrong. Cortisol is just one marker of a complex system. If you're in a stressful situation, you want your body to react with an appropriate amount of cortisol to help you deal with it. Cortisol only becomes problematic when stress is chronic day and night, or when your natural cortisol feedback mechanisms are degraded as might be the case in major depressive disorder.
What are the advantages of using the Plan9 compiler versus TinyCC?

https://bellard.org/tcc/

https://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git
Serious question: what is it about the "beauty" of Lisp that the HN community seems to like so much? To me, how Lisp looks is its worst quality--the number of parentheses is just mind boggling. I want to understand why it is so loved.
No I'm not blaming you, I'm recognizing that InfoSec has more important fish to fry, than unblocking my pet projects that were a casualty of this garbage policy.

Maybe it's appropriate for your company, but it is not appropriate for a college campus or other larger organization with many salaried employees.

I understand not giving users rope to hang themselves with, but now I can only do this work at home. I don't like policies that cause tech workers to need to bring some of their work home with them.

It's a personal project (with some work-related applications, but putting that aside) — that shouldn't mean I can only work on it at home. But because of the overhead of making these requests, the only effective way for me to work on this stuff is now at home.

I don't like policies that result in people needing to bring more work home. I'd rather stay an hour late to get the thing some attention that it needs, and leave my computer in the desk drawer overnight. Policies like this sometimes make this impossible.
Probably nothing, just that it wasn't interesting to the devs (e.g. they don't feel that is a paper cut) and/or was not pushed/promoted by management, leading to nobody working on it.

Plus I'm guessing many/most GH employees aren't looking at this, this kind of listings is generally a bummer/PITA, and fixing them is a thankless job: once you've done so, all you get is "finally, took you long enough".
The thing that really concerns me with WordPress and Gutenberg is performance. Gutenberg is great but there is never much concern to making the front-end less top heavy. Gutenberg is likely to make this worse. Each block will add it's own CSS and JS...and the bloat will be immense. Instead of users adding a single page builder plugin, they'll add a whole bunch of individual blocks and each one will load more and more external scripts. PageSpeed scores will be dismal.
I believe a cycle is considered a cumulative discharge/charge of 100%, so discharging to 50% twice and back to 100% is one cycle.
I wouldn't say the culture deck isn't followed. Just that it doesn't say what people in this thread seem to think it says. Have you looked at it? I wouldn't call it "scary". There's one section that's a little bit intimidating for a humble person who doesn't think of him/herself as a "rock star". I think that can cause impostor syndrome in many new hires. But it passes (at least for me), and the ability to trust any given colleague to do great work (and for them to trust you to do the same) is extraordinarily refreshing.
Meta: It's interesting to see which postings on HN get lots of upvotes but no comments. This one currently has over 100 points, but zero comments. Occasionally I see this happening with extremely technical articles, where it would be hard for anyone who is not already an expert to add anything to the content. I'm surprised to see it happen on a "softer" topic like this one, though. While there probably aren't that many scientific illustrators on HN, commenters here aren't usually known for there reticence in discussing non-technical matters outside their primary field. Is there something about this particular article that makes people reluctant to comment?
No. This will give the visual effect of HDR (which many think is something to be avoided - HDR should be a tool, not a style), but does not increase the actual dynamic range.
I'm bitter and ignorant?

I've lived in these communities of 'creatives'. For years. I know its a lot of drugs, idealism and not a lot of action.

Except for complaining about how wronged they've been by the system. Is that your 'another world is possible'? So maybe I am bitter...

Don't get me wrong, the system is fucked up in many ways. And I agree with your distinction of a grey blandness that permeates the tech culture.

I'm more interested in how all the enlightened 'creatives' can engage with this boring grey techbro community. Because frankly, they're the ones paying for most of their free shit.
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I would also assume that people interested in broader narrative of women's lives and personalities will not expect to find such narrative by googling for images of women in bikinis.
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So what the 8 devs really need is a cloud architect?
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Tu Quoque

You avoided having to engage with criticism by turning it back on the accuser - you answered criticism with criticism.

Pronounced too-kwo-kwee. Literally translating as 'you too' this fallacy is also known as the appeal to hypocrisy. It is commonly employed as an effective red herring because it takes the heat off someone having to defend their argument, and instead shifts the focus back on to the person making the criticism.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque
> The people who are usually forced to do all the grunt work to allow the top lawyers to focus on their strengths

And all of those top lawyers were once clerks and junior staff, who learned their craft by doing the grunt work.

This is going to be a problem.
I wonder, with some amusement, how much the current state of multimedia ripping, editing, encoding, MUXing, etc. owes to the underground community of internet nerds that just wanted to watch their anime.
I don't know about Dell, but my Lenovo laptop has a tray icon where you can set a "Battery Miser" mode where it only charges the laptop to 80%.

I know some Dells have a function key that will tell the laptop to stop charging the battery, but that's pretty crude and manual. However, if you figure out what exactly that function key is doing you might be able to replicate it with a custom tray icon/system service.
I'm a little puzzled as to why he's so set on having a physical disc as output. If this is for personal use, wouldn't it be easier to just rip the episodes to mp4 using Handbrake, which can also add subtitles? And once you've got eps as separate files, no need for menus.

I buy a fair few Blu-Rays, but I've never watched one directly. It's just a distribution format for me.
There should be a lot of people going to jail over this. There doesn't have to be just one person to take the fall.
Lisp is a fun language to program in. I learned Lisp after already being familiar with Java / Python and some other languages, which maybe made it even more beautiful.

One of my favourite pieces of code is a Lisp REPL in Lisp:

(defun repl()
(loop (print (eval (read)))))
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"But why is this happening? Why are my laptop batteries always dying in a year or two, while the batteries of space probes and satellites keep working year after year. If we are to believe Battery University, the cause is me charging the battery whenever I have a chance, and the fix is to not charge the Lithium-ion batteries to 100% all the time, but to stay below 90% of full charge most of the time."

https://batteryuniversity.com/index.php/learn/article/how_to...
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District Attorney Marc Bennett said the Wichita police officer who fired the shot that killed Andrew Finch after a swatting call will not face charges.
You need to be able to change only shutter speed or ISO, while holding aperture constant. That's not a problem for phones, because they're almost always fixed aperture anyway. And of course any DSLR or mirrorless camera can do it. But some point-and-shoot cameras won't have this capability, they'll want to be fully automatic, not giving the photographer that specific control.
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Travelling there next week, anything you would recommend?
Ugh. Dark themes. Can't get used to them. Fine for general terminal use, but impossible for me for larger amounts of text. Can't really articulate why, but it's uncomfortable for me.
The OP __is__ actual. It says (in short) "stress not only effects the body, it effects the mind." That's enough.

Certainly, you're not suggesting we need a study on whether poverty is stressful or not.

The arc of my original comment is: Some well say, "Well, poverty is a decision. Those in poverty need to make better decisions." Unfortunately, that's naive. It does not consider the fact that stress has a negative impact on the brain, on decision making.
1. You write everything as a List. So there is syntax, but not exactly.

2. The data is also list, and your program is also a list.

3. Algorithm are basically List Manipulation(Stacks, Queues, Trees, Adjacency lists). So its easy to write complex algorithms in Lisp.

4. Tail call recursion. This part amplifies 3. further.

5. Functional programming features.

6. REPL. I mean like a real REPL.

7. Macros.

1 - 7 helps you to express problems and their solutions with code which represents exactly that. The boiler plate and other assisting code is largely non existent.

Another reason is if a thing has been there around for the longest, more people have thought about it. Both quality and quantity of literature of it are higher than others.
If we're going to continue to have "governments" and "laws" as such, then I'd propose that all (or most) laws should have an expiration date, and should require renewal on some periodic basis. This would limit the impact of bad laws, by making it easier to get them off the books (since now there are two options: explicit repeal, or quiet expiration).
More like circus family. :) There were like 8 people with the same surname on the ballot for the party.
I think because it is a powerfull language - and once you learn to look past the parentheses it actually has some pretty cool features.

For example, it is a homoiconic language, so any piece of data can be evaluated as if it is code.

The only way to really understand it is probably to learn it :)
Man, so many red-flags in what you posted.

So, full-disclosure: I come from Ops. These days I'm more an orchestrator/developer than a hardware/bios/cable monkey though. For context my last deploy was 2,500~ physical machines. So I'm not the kind of ops that the parent is talking about.

Now, if you don't have the money to do cloud, and you don't have the headcount/experience to do self-hosted properly; then you're _done_. You will accrue technical debt at an exponential rate. At my last job Ops on the production environment was done exclusively by developers.

When I arrived it was an absolute shit-show nightmare. Silent data corruption, weird dependencies on services which were not highly available, hand-built machines, next to "cattle" but which had multiple deployment scenarios (capistrano, chef, bash, PHP kludge) none of which were documented.

But the worst thing was definitely the silent data corruption.

I agree in part with the parent, Ops is a dirty word. In my current company there's a separate "Ops" entity which is a true horror show exactly as he describes. However having people trained on ops in your team is -absolutely essential- to doing devops correctly. Developers and Operations think differently. It's a gross generalisation and there are exceptions but by-in-large developers are focused on "how can I make this work" (even robustly), where operations are focused on "how can this break and what are the implications if it does" and those methodologies are intrinsically opposite to each other. A defensive programmer is a great thing but they are not only rare they are not a panacea.

--

Pick a side; do cloud or hire an ops.

Cloud is basically "ops as a service", giving you all the tools you need to get by efficiently without classically trained sysadmins. I really promise that you will not get very far without someone handling this side of things for you, whether it be the SRE's at google/AWS or someone you hire.
You don't learn anything through menial document searching and reading other than menial document searching and reading.

Junior lawyers will still have plenty to do.
If this presentation of Lisp and model of computation clicks with you, you owe it to yourself to read Structures and Interpretations of Computer Programs (SICP).

The Abelson from the OP's lecture is the co-author, and the presentation described exactly follows the structure of the book (including the derivative example).

It opened my eyes to a new way of thinking about coding when I first read it (and worked through the exercises) many years ago.
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The beauty of lisp-like languages isn't in the visual appearance of the code as text (the parenthesis and layout), but in the structure of the code as trees, the uniformity, and the homoiconicity.
I just joined a company last year that works in this space almost exactly - due diligence contract review - and we are hearing this pretty constantly from people who evaluate our software. Not only is it much faster, but frequently it finds clauses that they had missed themselves.

It's a pretty exciting time to be working in this space.
It doesn't yet work on fennec (regular Firefox for Android, which is non-e10s). Instead we're working on it for geckoview.
I’ve never tried self hosting it but commento (https://gitlab.com/commento/commento-ce) might work for you.