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I actually think the specific promises are a good thing. They are measurable, concrete actions that are time bound --- "By such and such a date, we will have done thus and so." Like concrete OKR's, you can tell whether or not they will have done what they said they are going to do.

You can also make vague statements such as "there is no place for harassment at $COMPANY"; those statements were made earlier, and they were made today. But concrete steps like "making arbitration optional, instead of mandatory" is one of the things that engineers who participated in the Walkout had demanded. So it's certainly something substantive.

Now, there were some specific requests from the employees that were not honored, such as treating Temps and Contractors the same as Employees; legally that really can't be done except by hiring the Temps and Contractors and making them employees. I personally would invite other companies, such as (for example) Facebook and Apple to lead by hiring all of their cafeteria workers and stop using contracted labor. Maybe Google will lead by example, even if it impacts expenses, and therefore earnings, and therefore the Stock Price. But it's certainly within the power of other companies, like Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, etc. to also lead by example.....

Wait, what? Is that Crickets that I'm hearing? :-)
'we're doing whatever the fuck we want at this point'
It's the neoliberal response to everything. Make cosmetic, progressive changes but don't address underlying structural inequalities between groups.
I used the Sintech ST-NGFF2013-C adapter[0] which I think I ordered from eBay and a Samsung 970 EVO 1TB[1]. I have a MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2015). I used this tool kit[2].

You _must_ upgrade the Mac to High Sierra or Mojave before doing this. The upgrade to High Sierra upgrades the boot firmware adding NVMe support. I made sure my Mac was upgraded and had a time machine backup. I then installed the new SSD, booted from a USB flash drive with the Mojave installer, formatted the drive with Disk Utility, then restored from the Time Machine backup. More details here[3].

I've had it installed a couple weeks and don't have any issues with it. Sleep, hibernate, everything works perfectly. No crashes. It may be a little warmer when in heavy use, but I'm not sure. I can't say if it's affected battery life because I'm not mindful about how long the batter lasts. I also didn't run any performance testing on the old drive or new, but I didn't notice any changes.

[0] http://eshop.sintech.cn/ngff-m2-pcie-ssd-card-as-2013-2014-2...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BN217QG/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0743CK4SF/

[3] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/287644/do-macbooks...
Yes, but let's ignore the fact that Palestinians fly incendiary balloons into Israel which ignite fields and forests and proudly destroy nature and wildlife. I mean, the only important thing here is to hate Jews, right? That's what the anti-semitic author wants us to believe.

And yes, the author is Jewish, but if you've read any Jewish history, you'll learn that there are a LOT of self-hating Jews out there.

The main take-away from this article: Jews are the most evil people in the world and must be destroyed - especially their children. I'm sure the author and the Pittsburg shooter are very good friends! It is a travesty that this article gets to the front page of HN!
How do you upvote from within the app? I may just be missing something obvious?
ya and here I am trying to save this to instapaper and wondering wtf is wrong with this guy.
Looks like Spin used their resources on business development instead of tech and it appears their plan worked.
Yep. Often people mean the narrower big-theta when they express complexity in terms of big-O.
In addition to what others have said there’s one area to consider: the “uncore” performance: memory controllers, PCIE busses, core crosslinks, cache coherency etc.

Both Intel and AMD have demonstrated they can scale these effectively. The A12X isn’t even playing in the same league when it comes to uncore functionality. I’m sure if you created a version of the A12X with the same cache, memory, PCIE, core count, and interconnections the power picture looks a lot different.

This is part of the reason why “datacenter arm” CPUs never get much of a foothold: as soon as you start ramping up your uncore transistor count, your power advantage erodes significantly, to the point where Intel and AMD begin to yield better performance-per-watt in typical server workloads due to a tightly optimized microarch and an “uncore” to feed it.
voting is mandatory for every citizen

Is voting mandatory, or is simply showing up at the polls mandatory?

If the former, are you required to vote on every issue and office?
This page might give an idea of what's new in Chicken 5:

https://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-5-roadmap
Additional details in this GTM story: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/pges-recording-...

...four projects, totaling 567.5 megawatts/2,270 megawatt-hours, to go into the transmission-constrained Moss Landing area south of the San Francisco Bay.

The portfolio includes a 300-megawatt/1,200-megawatt-hour system that Vistra Energy would build in an existing power plant owned by its subsidiary Dynegy, as well as a 182.5-megawatt/730-megawatt-hour Tesla system that PG&E would own at a substation nearby.

This is a lot of capacity and storage compared to recent projects. The Hornsdale Power Reserve that Tesla installed in South Australia last year is "only" 100 MW/129 MWh.
I don’t find this argument compelling. We knew for a long time that opiates were addictive, they’ve been in common use forever. We’ve come to learn that much of the information they were pushing shouldn’t have been trusted and that they seriously misrepresented these newfound non-hazardous opioids.
You've taken an informal and sloppy summary of big-O notation, isolated a single English expression, and construed that a similar English expression used in a different context with entirely different meaning is an accurate approximation of the formal meaning. You would be incorrect.
You do not see the difference between conventional warfare between armies and dropping untested new weapons on mass destruction on civilian populations?

This is a deliberate calculated war crime. Hundreds of thousands of people were burned, suffocated and boiled to death in seconds let alone the radiation for no good reason. No educated person is unaware of the horror of launching a nuclear bomb on a civilian population. This is an act of evil.

How many countries have used nuclear weapons? Why do you think nuclear weapons are controlled and treated as a separate class of weapons under strict control?
My Zoom meetings via CenturyLink have become progressively worse since Net Neutrality bit the dust. Anyone else feel the same?
> By referring to “the user” as “he”, you’re already distracting roughly 50% of your potential readership (if you’re writing the documentation for a Do It Yourself Vasectomy Kit, perhaps you get a pass).

Do you have any research/data to back this up? I'm a male and I am not distracted when people use "she" (or "he" for that matter). I have never heard anyone in person complain about not being able to focus on an article because they used "he" instead of "she".

> Anything that might distract your reader is undesirable.

Concision is of utmost importance in any language. Many of the examples in your link sacrifice readability and concision for the purpose of avoiding pronouns. What really distracts me is when people use "(s)he", "s/he", "he or she" (oh no -- which one should be first?), or periodically switch between "he" and "she" absolutely everywhere -- all for the purpose of filling a contrived equality quota.
Sidewalks being too narrow is an issue of prioritization. Cities have optimized for car traffic in many locations, and everyone else has to take the sliver of concrete they were graciously given next to the cars with one or two people in them each. You may think, but we can't make it wider else the cars don't fit. Absolutely. So don't let them there at all. Flank every block with a walking/slow bicycle/scooter/board plaza. City centers are for people doing things, so we should prioritize foot traffic, because if you are in a car you are merely coming to or moving through the city. You are not the primary use case of the city center. It evolved this way over time but that doesn't mean it was the right choice to let cars flow through city centers, and we can change it back.
Sintech makes an adapter that allows you to use a variety of NVMe drives. They have a few versions of the adapter. I used this one:

http://eshop.sintech.cn/ngff-m2-pcie-ssd-card-as-2013-2014-2...
Beyond that, the data is unsourced, and given that it thinks there are 92 (rather than 100) Senators, is suspect.

Also, raw vote counts are meaningless because the most populous states are dual-Democrat states, excluding Texas.
Nobody is arguing against sandboxing.

The problem is sandboxing schemes that put the device manufacturers' needs ahead of the device owners' needs.
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> The platform is not built for you as a free consumer to audit projects and ensure compliance with your own criteria.

Meh. Of course it is not built for that, however it did provide a public record of sorts that could be used for that purpose. I don't think gitwhatever should be in the business of helping folks audit projects for personal criteria compliance, but I do see this change as having a negative impact on users' ability to collect information about developers/maintainers to make that decision.
That's the thing that always happens, they might not check carts closely, things may be rung up incorrectly, but every reciept that leaves the building is marked.
And in fact the replication crisis in psychology suggests that the practice goes beyond just clinical trials.
Is that perhaps related to how traditionally, Japan wrote in Classical Chinese, then used a system for “reading” it as Japanese?
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You may be more placid when under the influence, but most people are more volatile, more impulsive, and more likely to make bad decisions. Being sober doesn't make people better, but it does make them less likely to do something harmful to others, statistically speaking.
Every time I deal with IPv6 it just strikes me how little the designers cared about migration from IPv4.

No clear prescriptions for legacy v4 <-> v6 translations, religious hate of NAT, unfortunate separator character (the colon) that is used for domain:port separation. Separate stack prescriptions.

I honestly think it would have been easier to do a rolling upgrade of the internet to support bigger numbers in the four coordinates of IP addresses and increase the number of ports.

I'm obviously not a deep networking expert, but as I've been exposed to IPv6 test conversions it's been painful.
Great question! This is actually a surprisingly deep problem in ML, known as "anomaly detection" or "out-of-distribution" (OoD) detection.

Another way to formulate this question: "given training data that only tells you about digits, how do you know whether something is a digit or not?" Given that the training data never actually defines what isn't a digit, how can we ensure that the model actually sees a digit at test time? If we cannot ensure this (e.g. an adversary or the real world supplies inputs), how can we "filter out" bad inputs?

A quick hack solution that works well in practice is to examine the "predictive distribution" across digit classes. Researchers have empirically found that entropy tends to be higher (i.e. more smooth) when the model sees an OoD input. However, the OoD problem is not fully solved.

Here's a nice survey paper on the topic: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04729

Note that methods that tie OoD to the task at hand (classification) are not actually solving OoD, they are solving "predictive uncertainty" of the task.
his sentiment is a part of what drove literacy tests

No, racism is what originally drove literacy tests as a result of manumission. Whites were generally exempt. See the origins of "Grandfather Clause".
Good. Name one major technological innovation that was not largely or wholly a product of government subsidies. The only ones I can think of were out of Bell Labs and Bell was a government backed monopoly so they don't really count. They were so profitable and protected they could spend like a government.

Nothing new is ever profitable until you get past the early prototype and scaling stages. For big capital intensive stuff only government historically has pockets deep enough to burn enough money to get big stuff off the ground (sometimes literally). Rockets, jet engines, microprocessors, huge scale power grids, the Internet, genomics, supercomputing, nuclear power, solar power, the list goes on and on.

Private investors just have too low a risk tolerance and too short a time horizon.

I actually wish this weren't so, but it is so.

It's also terribly hypocritical to bash Elon for taking government contracts when everyone does it. Why do you think Amazon's HQ2 is going to be in the DC area?
Why do you think they are incompetent?
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> So what would be the benefits in DNA diversity at all?

Well, this is a pretty contrived example, but IIRC a major company (HP?) made facial-recognition software that couldn't handle people with dark skin.

If there had been people like that on the dev or testing team, perhaps it would have been noticed earlier.
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Avon Barksdale:

“You know the difference between me and you? I bleed red and you bleed green.”
I love drinking as much as the next guy, but if you're a "horrible person" when sober, you might be an alcoholic.
Absolutely. The power of the 835 was not the processing power alone, but pairing the 835 with greater than 3 gb of RAM. This helps push it into a desktop capable experience.

I bought a Sentio Superbook, and my pixel is the only non-apple device I have so I can try to use it in this manner.
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Not sure why I was downvoted for the comment... maybe it sounded sarcastic? I meant it in a nice way
> Of course not. I believe that the CIA doesn't care who dies as long as they get their guy, and if they make everyone afraid to help drone strike victims, then it's much more likely that any terrorists who survive the initial attack will bleed out on the ground. (Innocents too, but they don't care about them.)

So, your supposition is that the CIA is purposely killing civilians to deter them from giving aid to possible terrorists?

> This is hardly an unusual claim. You can't be unaware that the CIA is infamous for decades of murder and abuse.

The CIA has certainly assassinated people over the years. They've certainly fomented revolutions and meddled in geopolitics in myriad ways. I'm unaware of any explicit campaign to target civilians, though. Are you?
Which is more the fault of the Kindle than the authors. It's Docbook, a standard that was invented for the purpose of writing books.
Wouldn't it have been nice for IPv6 to provide a basic translation protocol or mapping for seamless migration and backwards compatibility? Where your IPv4 address is also an IPv6 address?

I'd welcome someone showing me how that was basically impossible, but I don't see why the entire IPv4 space isn't in a special prefix / address space of ipv6 since they allegedly have so many atoms of mappings.
Let's say we wanted to turn it into a gradient where we instead shifted five minutes per night, so we need 12 days to transition an hour.

You could just add a transition countdown field "-" to the "S" and "D" timezones being transitioned to, dropping it once the transition is finished.

e.g. for Pacific time:

PST -> PD-12T -> PD-11T -> PD-10T ... PD-1T -> PDT
and in reverse:
PDT -> PS-12T -> PS-11T -> PS-10T ... PS-1T -> PST

If you already have the indirection of the table, it doesn't increase implementation complexity to put some more rows in it.

I don't see where you got 365 zones per time zone, unless you thought I was proposing we change the time a little bit every single day of the year. That's entirely unnecessary to eliminate the practical nuisance of the sudden 1-hour jump.
Or it could mean that the average maintenance cost is so high the customers are opting not to repair but to buy a new device.
While I agree with you for a primary device, this is still a major step up to be able to have a nice-ish environment available when you for whatever reason don't have another device with you.
This is the dozenth post of its type. The truth is that there isn’t some secret sauce when it comes to marketing and conversion. What makes an effective landing page is pretty well documented at this point.
I've tried disabling the Search Index Service a few times only to find that it's restarted itself.
excitingly, when I read the Bird terms of service (while they were still allowed in SF), they stipulated that you could not ride their scooters down hills. The scooter struggled to go up a (not particularly steep) hill, and I was breaking the rules going back down. I only rode the scooter the one time, after that, I just walked the two blocks to Judah to ride transit.
I have explicitly mentioned this:

> [...] some have converged to base 85 (because 85^5 / 2^32 ~= 1.03, i.e. just enough to represent 4 octets in 5 units).

Base 85 does not use bigint, it is just a clever approximation of optimal encoding with 85 symbols.
> Originally a file named HOSTS.TXT was manually maintained and made available via file sharing by Stanford Research Institute for the ARPANET membership, containing the hostnames and address of hosts as contributed for inclusion by member organizations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)
> Network: 3.2.0.0 Netmask: 255.255.254.0 (/23) Broadcast: 3.2.1.255

In classful addressing it is a network 3.0.0.0 with a netmask 255.0.0.0 (/8). In a classless, it is whatever has been advertised to me.

> Public BGP requires /24 or wider, and /24 cannot contain .0 or .255 as a valid IP, so the next widest is /23, which can contain even-numbered .x.255 and .x+1.0. If you're doing this on an internal network that permits narrower subnets, the narrowest available would be a /30, based (irregularly) on either .1.254 or .1.255:

It does not. You can advertise whatever the hell you want. What matters is what the other side would accept. It used to be that no one would accept anything less specific than /24 in a class C address space, /16 in a class B address space and /8 in a class A address space because the internet ran on AGS and maybe AGS+ which just did not have enough memory to do real classless. That stopped around the time GlobalCrossing showed up (or maybe around the time Mr V did terrible things while running AS7007). But anyway, ten years ago /27s are definitely accepted routes by those that comprised over 80% of the gloabal internet by the single origin prefixes.
Suppose we took the money being invested into nuclear research and put it into power storage research instead.

Wouldn't that be better all round?
Storage is fine, but it doesn't replace the lost supply. Do they just plan to recharge off the grid during off-peak hours?
Great article!. While reading it I see some similarities with "Plan Stitching" from MSR as shown here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0.... It is interesting to see what the performance differences between the two. Also, I am curious of why build a query optimizer from scratch when you can adopt or port something like Orca?
I found that its pretty much any link in Chrome for me on Windows 10. Regularly have to click twice to get Chrome to move.
I read this book a few years ago and was really disappointed by the content. Apparently the version I read was the "revised and expanded edition", so maybe it just got worse with the update...
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My dad had liver cancer which was detected early. We went with liver transplant and 3 months later, cancer reoccurred in lymph nodes in his lungs.
Now, he's on immunosuppressants (tacrolimus and everolimus) for organ rejection.
Can immunotherapy still be tried on him?
Well, almost all of them except Netflix are pretty much on-board. The same app is on iPhones as well, and I use Netflix a lot less as a result of their lack of integration.

That said, it doesn't aggregate the actual subscription charges, the parent is thinking of something more like VRV, or I don't know, the free Netflix subscription you get with some T-Mobile plans.
Dan, I have to tell you, Baby Shark is almost at 2 billion youtube views: https://youtu.be/XqZsoesa55w?t=14

There's also a remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IPtYTO0Vb4

Two, in fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4yYU4r1NgA

Would you be interested in collaborating on a metal remix of Baby Shark? I think it could do well. I'm looking for a vocalist. I can't pay you yet, but you'd get exposure.

EDIT: His teeth still bared in a grin, the Procurator glanced at the prisoner, then at the sun rising inexorably over the equestrian statues of the hippodrome far below to his left, and suddenly in a moment of agonising nausea it occurred to him that the simplest thing would be to dismiss this curious rascal from his balcony with no more than two words : ' Hang him. ' Dismiss the body-guard too, leave the arcade and go indoors, order the room to be darkened, fall on to his couch, send for cold water, call for his dog Banga in a pitiful voice and complain to the dog about his hemicrania. Suddenly the tempting thought of poison flashed through the Procurator's mind.

He stared dully at the prisoner for a while, trying painfully to recall why this man with the bruised face was standing in front of him in the pitiless Jerusalem morning sunshine and what further useless questions he should put to him.
No. The MacBook(12”) took the place of the old 11”(11.6”) MacBook Air, which did not have as many ports as the 13” model so nothing’s really changed other than the name.
I love this animation, although it may need to be slightly revised with this new FCC application.
Where on this page does it say that LMDB was run with MDB_NOSYNC? Tests were run with the DB on a tempfs and then again (lower down on the page) on ext4.
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I'm not sure the distinction that you're making between "distributed" and "decentralized" is commonly accepted in the research community (or broader technology community). In this context, the authors appear to be using "decentralized" to contrast with the "centralized" nature of leader-based state machine replication protocols.
I mean no disrespect, but I am horrified by your first case. If I don't know what a product does and the basics of how it works in the first 15 seconds, I move on. I never give personal info in order to proceed into the web site. Not ever!
Before there was YouTube, there was MBone, a way to syndicate multicast content across the web. With multicast, in theory millions of subscribers can watch a video streamed from a single laptop (as long as they all watch in sync).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbone
The way to get bright young minds thinking about nuclear power again is to start building the nuclear plants that we know we'll need to get out of this mess. This will signal to every student that there's a steady career in nuclear engineering. Random grants and Bill Gates' hobby investments aren't going to cut it. Job security will. And once we start investing in this again, of course we'll have new ideas, and the next generation of plants will be even better.