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Ellison was added to the Apple board of directors in 1997. Didntdo them any harm.
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EMP weapons are not a real thing.

If you detonate a nuclear weapon above a city, no matter how far above, you will call upon you a nuclear response. There’s no difference between an EMP attempt and a nuclear strike. So why would you attempt an EMP attack when that means giving up most of the destructive force to maybe burn out powerlines, and guaranteed surface nuclear response on your territory?
With zsh, I can do ~1, ~2 etc to move around a directory stack. Does fish have anything like that?

http://zsh.sourceforge.net/Intro/intro_6.html#SEC6
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People motivated by money will figure out how to get people to give them money. That doesn't necessarily imply making a better product.
When I was in college, I was leaning on the guy wire of a wooden power pole while chatting with a friend. I was rocking a bit, as I tend to do when standing still, and I noticed that the pole was swaying just a little too. So I tried bouncing the wire some more, and got several inches of sway out of the pole. Neat!

Then there was a loud POP and all the lights on the street went out.

Not sure what happened next, as it seemed like a good time to leave. Moral: don't do that.
I think it depends on how the software is used.

A friend of mine got a suspicious tax returns email that had a link to a form asking for credit card information. Being careful and responsible, my friend of course asked me if the site looked legit before actually pressing 'submit'.

Of course it was a scam site, and using session recording, they could very well have gotten my friend's credit card details without per pressing 'submit'.

I think it's always the context that decides whether something is malware. Is a program that erases everything on your disk malware? Perhaps, but if it's a disk formatting tool and you asked it to do so, then it's not.
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At this point, he had already revealed probably-identifying information in an interview with the Mirror newspaper. That same interview respected his accomplice's desire for anonymity, so I don't think we can assume journalists were at fault here.

This was after he was disturbed enough by receiving a video of a burning car to go to the police. He seems to have a complex relationship with anonymity.
I'm going to go on a rant, as I know this is an old piece. But, I feel like it's really sad to see the devolution on journalism quality as it has become digitized. Yes, it's always been easier to do an incendiary, low quality hatchet job on a tough subject that you don't know anything about than to do a well researched long-form think piece. But, it seems that all I see more and more of (exacerbated by social media) is low information fluff pieces that make grand, controversial assertions.

The problem is, there's no cultural penalty for being wrong, so there's no skin in the game from the authors. Right now, there's little stop the market from being saturated with trash. I had a lot of problems with the Gawker media properties, but I liked how cutting they could be, and how their snark could (at their best) act as a natural check against the cancerous growth of smarmy clickbait. Company ending lawsuit aside, they also did a fantastic job at capitalizing on their snark. Of course, even they had their biases and blind spots, but nowadays, I feel as if we really don't have too much.

One of my bosses at a former company used to quip "I love HBR articles. They usually follow the formula of a 2x2 identity matrix of the form of 'You're probably thinking A. Here's why B, which you weren't thinking about, is true while A is wrong.'" But it's really sadly true, and we don't do a great job of exercising the sociolinguistic tools to critique poor choices of A or B. I don't know whether this is a chicken or the egg situation that comes as a result of the factory oriented American education system, but it makes me pretty sad and disappointed.
It's even less of a critique than an observation at that point. Lawnmowers are useful, and if you thought they were friendly, you're using the tool incorrectly.
Sealed decks and drafts. Everyone just pays for a few packs of cards and builds a deck from that and you keep the cards.
The only problem with the near-daily school shootings and other mass shootings is that those are a choice that we, as a society, have decided we want to tolerate and have in our lives. It's not an attack from outsiders, it's something that we've decided we want to put up with from our own people because we refuse to change our gun laws. Other developed nations simply do not have this problem, for the very simple reason that they don't have easy access to such weapons.

As for the Pres, there again, that's a choice that we made as a society. We elected him after all, and we've continued to defend him no matter what.

In short, these are problems of our own making.
I'm no fan of Ellison or Oracle. But a guy worth $60 billion with decades long ties and influence in media and government investing in TSLA and serving on its board is not something that should make shorts happy.
What about formal education is teaching it so well then?

And what do you mean by "it"? Coding, software development, computer science?
add to it that there is a group selling a new standard for 911 call systems (which is today managed by a single politician and a team of contractors!). they demoed the proposed architecture on defcon this year.
I work on medium-sized power electric systems (mostly in the few hundred kW-range), and have a strong aversion to being anywhere near our systems during first power-up.

Hence, I always carry a couple of pushbuttons and some 15m of cable in my toolkit - wiring them in parallel with the buttons normally starting the show, retreating, saying a brief prayer to the patron saint of electricians and starting up.

Did a system on a ship a few years ago, all set, me sitting in the corridor outside the drive suite and pressing the button closing the main contactor, only to be greeted by the tell-tale sound of a door being blown off its hinges and an arc forming. Oh.

Cue incredible light show on the bulkhead opposite the drive suite door; after a second of this, I come to my senses and figure the so-called arc safe contactor -well- isn't.

I push the button jury-rigged to cut power at the generator end, only to have nothing whatsoever happen. Oh oh.

Still arcing. I key my VHF to alert the engine room to kill the generator set and alert them to the fire getting started in the drive suite, only to be told in no uncertain terms to keep quiet as they were busy with an emergency.

Seconds later, ship goes black (and eerily quiet!) before the sound of boots running down the corridor as the emergency lights kick in.

I've never felt as relieved as I did when the firefighting crew later told me that I'd been most unlucky - a pump starter in the drive suite (not our delivery) had opted out of existence and had sooted down all of my precious kit.

It had blown up the very same moment I tried to start my equipment for the first time - and for a few minutes I was certain I had contributed to taking an investment in the several hundred million dollar range off-hire for however long it took to replace the damaged electronics.

Instead, the crew apologised profusely for having me come all the way to the wrong side of the planet only to see my delivery go up in flames not of my own making.

Priceless.

I'll remember the sound, the light and the smell - not to mention that sinking feeling - to the end of my days, though.
My point is: frameworks (when they work) simply unlock the next level of complex problems for general "tackle-ability", and those problems require hard engineering to solve. We certainly haven't run out of complex computing/software engineering problems to tackle yet, and I simply do not see that slowing down.
After his failure, as virtually the only Theranos board member with a high-tech background, to provide any good advice on tech development to Elizabeth Holmes, this seemed incredible to me. Then, I read this in the statement: "Larry is also a big believer in Tesla’s mission, having purchased 3 million shares earlier this year."

So, Musk was required to introduce more outside independence to his board, per agreement with the government. He chose one of the least credible board members he could, and one who owned a lot of shares in Tesla to boot. Aha. I think I understand now.
Automobiles nowadays are more like electronics with more sophisticated ECUs and drive-by-wire technologies on throttle, breaks etc. With self-driving on the horizon, they are going to be more compute intensive and be more powerful in computing than your smartphones and your average personal computers. Btw, electric vehicles are more suitable for self-driving due to the electricity requirements of AI computing.

Are you ever going to be able to fix them yourself if they are broken? Probably not (unless you have a electronic shop with all the equipments and are savvy in electronics like iFixIt guys do, but even then you can't fix a IC chip if it's fried.)

Just like an iPhone, as it's more integrated and smarter and more powers, the repairability is going down. So get used to it.

PS: on the flip side, more IC chips in designs generally provide a more solid and reliable product (probably with exception) and cheaper the cost due to economy of scale in manufacturing and reduced in labor, which is why you can have an EV with 200miles of range with less than $10k price tag.
Labelling law is not that strict in the EU except for meat and fish. The idea of a single country of origin is pretty dubious anyway.
We used to just take lands and write the names of cards we didn’t have on them in marker when playtesting or playing for fun.
The fact that there is a mass(ive) market for fast food is proof alone that people like it (enough to eat it and spend their money on it). I’m with any of the posters above who like fancy burgers as well as fast-food burgers.

Where McD’s really shines, though, is their breakfast offerings. And with that said, I think I will head there now for a quick breakfast (I live ~5 blocks from
McDs).
Tons of people in denial here.

If you put up a job post for a software developer in NYC, you'll get 90% bootcamp graduates with less than 1 year of experience coding and no real passion for it.
Non-nuclear EMP devices are surely real. They can fit in somebody's basement, don't have to be delivered by missile.
> Old transformers are very toxic as mineral oil with aromatic rings is burned,which is carcinogenic.

PCBs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl
"Imagine the ideal food. One that contains all the nutrients necessary to meet, but not exceed, our daily nutrient demands. If such a food existed, consuming it, without eating any other, would provide the optimal nutritional balance for our body.

Such a food does not exist. But we can do the next best thing."

Is this not what Soylent, Huel, et al claim to be?
> If you mean that the alleged "intent" of the OP is political, I don't see how the comment implies that.

It's pretty obviously the intent. They didn't use the very specific identity of her name, or the more general "other appointee" or any other simple generalization. They specifically pointed out "the woman of color", which pretty clearly shows their intent to be suggesting that she was excluded because of her race and sex. It's the difference between saying "John will be at dinner" and saying "A Muslim will be at dinner". It's intentionally highlighting part of their identity rather than just addressing the specific person.
GM was propped up by multiple levels of government investment, not sure that would come for Tesla.
Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18776883
All you have to do is go look at various bridges across the US, and roads in urban areas too. The simple fact is that the US absolutely refuses to maintain or repair infrastructure. So we have bridges rusting apart and even collapsing sometimes with vehicles on them.

With a national attitude like that, random unexplained crashes of other critical systems shouldn't be a surprise.
your theory doesn't hold for most things. more school shootings than days in a year? no problem. politicians selling the country for personal gain? no problem.

Americans are pretty chill, dude.
When Condoleezza Rice was appointed to the board of Dropbox

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/dropbox-rice-controversy/
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All well and good -- solid arguments except when you consider things like:

Apple's Mac Pro (the big tower) had upgradeable RAM and video, and the newer versions (the little black shiny pretty cylinder) were soldered on.

That's less about lawsuits and support costs -- it's memory for God's sake and everyone else lets the consumer physically upgrade it, even many laptops. It's about going through the cartel to get the upgrade, which is marked up 3X, 4X. Apple is recent -- anyone remember Sun?
> "NASA became vindictive, and ensured that none of the crew flew again."

I don't think that's correct. The crew were scheduled as normal for a future Apollo flight (that was then eventually budged canceled.) They then retired out during the wait for the space shuttle.
If nukes are going off in a major US city it probably doesn't matter much where a person is standing.
Even if a lot of programming gets commoditised, I think that would still be a white collar job, not a blue collar one. But, of course, calling it "blue collar" can make for a better title.
What if I actually wanted the ability to get a thing going and quickly working within a few lines, while also being able to spell things out as needed when the use case arises? Crazy I know.
> Isn't the whole premise of capitalism that people motivated by money will build useful things for the world?

I hope not because that seems hopelessly naive.
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+1 for the fact that the "get book" button on linked site just downloads the pdf.
> I mean, for God's sake, it seems reasonable to suspect that our President could actually be a Russian intelligence asset

I don't think so. That is propaganda from the other party. Strongest I've seen in years, honestly.
This predates 9/11. I'm not sure how to best to explain it because it can come off badly because US vs UK discussions aren't very healthy beyond a few jokes.

Americans are just different from other english-speaking countries (the thing people tend to think of as the closest comparison.) It could be a strength or a weakness depending on how you think about it. There are definitely changes that you can attribute to 9/11 such as the Patriot Act, airport security, etc. However, I don't think Americans think much differently that might have done during the Cold War.
I'm not in a US city of any kind, but YMMV.

It might be pointless knowledge, but there it is FWIW: Duck and cover.
I'm still at a complete loss what benefits such speculators provide. They hoard material, cause price increase, possibly con insurance by organizing their own theft or at the very least benefiting from it by getting an early return on cobalt via the insurance payout without affecting the market by selling it.

It seems to happen to any commodity that is scarce enough to be controlled by a few speculators.
All attacks against the Ledger Nano required them to
get access to the device then give it back to you.

Presumably if you were planning to exploit these things, you'd blend in with the 90 third-party Ledger Nano S resellers on Amazon [1], offering a slightly lower price.

Doctor the devices to use predictable private keys, sell at a loss to be the cheapest seller on Amazon, then grab all the bitcoins at a time of your choosing, because you know the private keys.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B01J66NF46/
Driving home in the country when I was a kid, the sky lit up like daytime. Dad drove toward it - it was a power substation. He got out and asked a lineman nearby what was up, reported back to us "A raccoon got stuck across a transformer". Apparently it became the equivalent of a carbon arc searchlight, lasted for quite a while by my recollection.
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I get your point about good code vs. bad code, but in my experience that doesn’t have much to do with legacy vs. modern frameworks. It has to do with the skills and aesthetics of the original developer. I work on framework-based code (Laravel, etc.) that I don’t find very enjoyable, and I work on procedural PHP from ten years ago that I find easy to work on.

Programmers who focus on their own enjoyment or priorities like working with the most recent tools and frameworks will turn up their nose at less appealing legacy work, and that’s why there’s so many companies unable to hire people to work on their business systems and web sites. To some developers an older code base is just a turd, to others it’s an opportunity. After working with a legacy system for a while and incrementally refactoring it, if my client decides to rewrite it they will talk to me rather than sending out RFPs. I have two ground-up rewrites in progress right now that started as legacy support work. Those clients didn’t write RFPs or ask anyone else to bid on the work.

I agree that learning Wordpress, or anything, takes time. Wordpress certainly has some bad design decisions (mainly caused by maintaining compatibility with a huge installed base), and some ugliness to work around, but on the other hand WP has a large and mature developer community, good documentation, and lots of tools and add-ons.
It's hard to think about the wealth of extremely wealthy people intuitively. Just for added perspective, he bought an entire Hawai'ian island called Lanai.
really cool! What do you plan to do with it?
> For comparison, pretty much every other major auto maker will sell you a book telling you how to fix anything on your vehicle

Wow I didn't know this. I have hard time believing this. Where can I find this for my subaru 2019.
As a Brit it's interesting to see how the default American response to anything out of the ordinary seems to be "we must be under attack!"

I honestly think you are mistaken. It certainly crosses some peoples' minds, and I imagine that any issue will make someone consider it might be terrorism.

But I bet if a bunch of smoke came pouring out of your tube, somebody would wonder if a bombing was attempted. I don't think we're that different that way.
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Here is a quick repo that has all the directions and hazel rules. I only spent all of 5 minutes pulling it together, so feel free to open an issue if you run into any problems.

https://github.com/ptoomey3/family-photo-library/blob/master...
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I usually am hampered by frameworks, too limiting, I work better with free to form code and as self contained as possible libraries with flexible "do one thing well" responsabilities

Frameworks probably only make some specific things easier? But given the choice between spending an hour fighting against a framework, or an hour solving the same problem with more elegant tools, the latter is so much more useful in both result and what you learn from it.

Where does the above style fit in?
The by-instituion ranking is particularly interesting: https://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html#institutions

Some of those are obvious if you've been in the field a while, but I think it's notable that big names like Intel, Harvard and NASA are so lowly ranked when compared to others on the list.

Also Notable, none of the big names in the field won any of these: Jeff Dean, Geoff Hinton, Yann Lecun, Andrew Ng, Yoshua Bengio, Jurgen Schmidhuber etc...
Fish does not include tons of syntactic shortcuts. We try to keep the syntax fairly free of opaque symbols.

You can use `prevd` and `nextd`, or you can use key bindings, like the default alt-left and alt-right bindings.
Man pages can be great and people should always read them first. That said, I find that man pages often lack a wide sample of configuration examples, implementation examples and useful tips. This is where blogs and vlogs fill in the gaps. Man pages often leave many things to interpretation that varies wildly from person to person. Man pages sometimes also leave out best practices and caveats.
You know how when you give an AI shallow directives in machine learning, it'll start doing weird things? Like that Roomba that got stuck permanently driving backwards, or the game AIs that figure out that standing still is the best way not to die.

Well it works like that for capitalism too. People optimize for the goal (money), not necessarily the hopeful outcome (useful things).
Playing around on a Unix box that someone else can administer? An alternative social network? Or even just retrocomputing.
> eventually you get into some factory or port with a connecting exit.

Or another train? Seems very risky!
Encryption does not help BGP hijacks at all. You need to filter the accepted upstream routes. But filtering ultimatively defeats the purpose of BGP - route learning is no longer fully dynamic and need some manual approvals.
Its the beginning of the end.
Agreed! And awesome progress!
Is there a standard capitalist solution to lock-in? (Or is it too new of a problem to have been researched?) This seems like a fatal flaw if your goal is even merely free markets and vibrant competition, not even improving society.

Perhaps one option is to remove government protection from trade secrets and intellectual property. Were it not for the threat of government interference, a competitor could easily arrange to get Oracle's source code leaked, and then the two of them would actually compete on quality of their support/service contracts.
The accuracy isn't as great as existing systems, but it also can't be turned off by "the west."

For consumers, if a device supports all the systems, (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and Beidou), would we be able to get greater accuracy, or if not greater accuracy, get our location faster than before?
a language that is drastically unsuited to some particular thing is probably not worth using at all

SQL and grep. Prolog and sed. Ruby and Rust. Yacc and Coq.

These are not small advantages. They are great yawning chasms of usability and functionality.
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I agree. I mean, in some vague sense he's an asset because he's been useful- and I imagine that happens from time to time to people with power when the other side has a strategy or a goal you haven't caught on to yet, but I don't think he's aware of it.
I'm not a huge fan of the chart as it looks pretty 2014 dated. SVMs are rarely used anymore, so perhaps if you replaced all of them (including in the regression part) with gbm. Didn't notice any mention of logistic regression, which I still heavily use as well.

dimentionality reduction is part of any step, which depends on number of observations, features, and model. my favorite is l1 or pca, but I am not afraid to use stepwise regression or some tree method.
Vespa 150cc scooters were commonly sold in India and were a very popular commuter vehicle for many years, earlier. Later Bajaj Auto manufactured the Chetak model which was similar, probably under license or know-how transfer.

I rode a Vespa for some time. Never thought of it as big. But you could be right. Depends what you compare it with, I guess.

You did need a license for it. IIRC, only mopeds like 50cc or below did not need a license.
Y not tho?
The peak in 1999 has never been matched at any time since the metric has been recorded. A few years with abnormally high levels of employment does not indicate a labor shortage now.