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While I'm not happy to see people lose their jobs, I hope this and other recent events signal a waning of amateur "disruptive" journalism.

I've been transitioning back to traditional media — physical newspapers, DVRing the evening news, NPR, etc... and only visiting online news sites and Facebook one day a week.

I'm not sad that I'm not bombarded with a constant stream of clickbait stories and headlines that don't reflect the content of the article. Buzzfeed is the poster child for all that is wrong with "new media." If it goes the way of the newspapers it killed, I won't cry.

I feel mentally healthier, less anxious, better informed, and I sleep better. YMWV, but I encourage people to try to do the same to see if it works out for them. If not, there's still plenty of web sites out there peddling "free" news in exchange for peace of mind.
My statement does not imply that there are negotiation strategies for men. It is the same negotiation strategies that men also use. If you can show me a specific study where there is effective negotiation strategies that do not have correlation with gender, then I’d like to see that. Otherwise you’re doing the equivalent of being a new hire at a codebase and complaining it’s shit without taking time to understand any of it. Without appropriate statistical analysis of a situation there is no way to objectively confirm or deny a phenomenon existing. This will be my final response as I don’t believe you are engaging this discussion with a rational mindset.
Intel open sources Nauta: multi-user, distributed environment for DL training
Using an XPS 13 2-1 from 2017 and have 3 external monitors via the Dell TB16 Thunderbolt dock.
You are incorrect on all fronts.
Generally speaking, I oppose new regulations because they are very often overly burdensome and costly. But reversing these 'ancillary' regulations after years of negotiation with the concerned parties and reasonably predictable benefits for worker safety seems pretty fucking stupid.
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Your current correlation with the gender is forced, unless you exhausted any other possibilities. Which I really freaking doubt, because you know, real world complexity and all.

Assuming the one thing that I'd be willing to give at least A BIT OF credence to, that is in the gender-related sphere, that women more commonly have personality traits that make them worse at negotiating, I still don't see why we should try to fix that on the employer's side. Educate the women to negotiate instead, from a young age. Giving rewards to those who don't deserve them will lead to sloppiness and bad quality work, and the outrage of those who deserve them.

Sounds to me like "it has to be correlated to gender" was a quick solution to get some quick stats published.
Yep they own the industry, they've tried buying Warby Parker numerous times because they are hurting their monopoly (so I've heard). WP, won't play ball and be bought up.
I found this essay like a lot of other essays comparing languages. The comparisons were broader. The author studiously avoided any mention of C++, or how it differs from C and other languages. (Or is C++ supposed to have the same answers as C? If so, FAIL.)

Almost all the attention went to superficial details that really don't make much difference. Your fingers and your eyes learn the gestures and signposts, and they fade into the background. (But modules and namespaces matter.)

What is left is whether you can express what you need to, at all. Whether, having expressed it, you can pack it up into a library that anybody can use without knowing all about how it was put there. Whether, finding a library, you can actually use it in your runtime environment without it costing more overhead than if you wrote your own, or demanding runtime concessions different from what you have committed to for your code or for other libraries you want to use. Obligate GC is death for interoperability.

The only languages that excel, there, are C++, Rust, and D. (I include Rust because it is well on its way, and will get there before long if its users can wean themselves off of ARC boxing.) None of the other languages are really even trying. It's tragic. Haskell and the MLs could be good at libraries, were it not for their obligate-GC problem. The other languages with big library ecosystems are slow, so overhead isn't noticed.

There has been more than enough time to come up with something to unseat C++. Part of the problem is that the main incubator for new languages has been academia, and academics won't even discuss a language that is not obligate-GC. We need a language that will be equally good at copying register values to and from ALUs and memory buses, driving vector pipelines, orchestrating legions of GPU cores, and wiring up FPGA subunits. (I have not seen an FPGA compatible with GC.) If we end up programming our FPGAs in C++, it will be the fault of everyone who failed to unseat it by making a better language than it.
Surely the robust solution is for police/swat teams to treat unverified threats differently?

Any real world system needs to be able to handle faulty inputs. If this particular system wasn't so terrible at that, bad actors would have no reason to make the false reports in the first place.
I don't know if it works with kids.

I'm a programmer, I look at the computer monitor probably about 8 hours per day. What I did was that I wear a glass with weaker prescription so that when I look at the computer monitor, the characters are slightly blurred but I can still read them. I did this for about 6 month and my prescription went from -5.75, -5.25 to -4.75, -4.25. Actually when I started even with the -5.75, -5.25 prescription my vision is about 1.2 or so.

Unfortunately this technique seems to only work at the beginning. In the months following the first 6 months my vision didn't improve anymore so I stopped it. But I consider spending $300 to knock off 1 point prescription from each eye quite worth it.

By the way I never got any headache from wearing weaker prescription glasses (and I did get headache before when wearing stronger prescription glasses). Actually I found it comfortable to wear weaker prescription glasses when reading, because my eyes don't feel stressed. That is actually the optometrist at Costo suggested to me.
The Obama administration did a lot of ostensibly good things in it's waning days. But these are strange to look at since they bring up the question, "how much did they expect this stand? When they saw an administration with a wholly different outlook ready to take over, what were they thinking?"

It's mysterious, frustrating or just "what you'd expect" (in a bad way) to me.
The alternate side of officers using unreasonable force from a scam anonymous call is getting officers or members of the public killed from a real anonymous call.

Police are going to be on high alert regardless, even if they think the call was a hoax
One thing you learn (in middle school) in the US, is prices in capitalism are dictated by supply and demand.

Now, let's take your number. $50 for a pair of glasses. Average income in India is Literally 10 times less vs US. I'll give you some time to do math. Did they teach you multiplication in your school in India?
UK plan to fight antibiotic resistance
I'll give you that, but if you look at the price of Beyond Burgers and a gourmet burger at the grocery store, they are equivalent. Also to your parent, likeability is orthogonal to being a substitute. You may much prefer Ferrari (or even horse for that matter) to your Toyota, that doesn't mean you would replace it.
At a similar lifestyle level, they’re probably close.

Most everything is indeed more expensive. Electricity, for example is nearly twice as expensive. I just looked up gas and Costco vs Costco is $.80/gal more. Insurance is more. Property tax rates are about the same but since the value of properties is so much higher you pay a lot more in real dollars. And since the basics are more expensive, everyone’s rates go up because they have to buy the basics too.
Do you have incremental testing so that only what's changed is tested? If not that would be a better investment than new hardware, IME most shops don't have incremental testing.
"Another type of problem that can appear is memory leakage... This is a memory-related problem, but one that can’t be addressed by programming languages."

https://www.fos.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tanki/papers/memoryleak....

Well, that took about a minute in DuckDuckGo. :) Key words were "memory leaks" and "type system." For those wanting to find CompSci, adding type system in quotes to a property is a reliable way to find language work on that property. The word language can help, too, but the wording in PDF's varies on that more.
I can hear Luxottica laughing in the distance
Trump is not tough at all. He has an extremely fragile ego. This is incredibly obvious to anyone who is paying even the tiniest bit of attention.

The only reason he has lasted all this time is because he's wealthy, and that's mostly because he inherited a couple of hundred million dollars from his father.
I think it's the other way around. Most states don't allow optometrist clinics to be owned/controlled by non-optometrists.

When they do, Walmart/Costco may find it worthwhile to own/operate the clinic themselves.
> How do you the intent was to murder rather than to harass?

Are you serious? If I want to harass someone I'll ring the doorbell and run, order 40 pizzas, throw toilet paper all over their house, etc. Police armed to the teeth is pretty obvious this isn't about harassment. If it is, you need help.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/29/16830626/call-of-duty-sw...
Russia just visited and purchased most if not all of Venezuela’s oil production futures for pennies. It not gonna turn out good.
A similar project is Uno. It lets you run UWP apps on iOS, Android and WebAssembly.

https://github.com/nventive/Uno
For us it completely around income and time. Live in the bay area, have a long commute, can't afford to have a second kid even if I really want to. I'm very well paid.
If the company servicing these cash machines charges 0%, sure. I'd bet they end up charging fees close to what credit cards charge, though.
What happens when an unverified threat isn't considered quick enough, and the hostages are killed while the police are standing around outside taking a wait and see approach?
Even though IPv6 quickly established itself as a robust industry there are countless users who prefer the old IPv4 protocol.Even if we compare IPv6 with IPV4 there are many such positive features which makes people still choose IPv4
Ref: https://ipv4mall.com/blogs/ipv4-vs-ipv6-pros-cons/
The dossier has been almost entirely corroborated across the board. No parts of it have been proven incorrect so far. Do you have any evidence that any parts of it have been shot down as not factual?

Calling it the 'uncorroborated Steele dossier' is a talking point that has been proven to be a lie over and over. It seems that Buzzfeed New's publishing about the dossier is literally the type of 'real journalism' and 'legitimate news' that you're talking about because it has led to multiple investigations of some of the most influential people in the United States and has led to multiple indictments and guilty pleas, including the former National Security Advisor to the President of the United States. I haven't seen many '10 surprise diet secrets' articles doing the same. Have you?
Engineered improvements to photosynthesis increase crop production significantly
Unfortunately, that does not completely prevent memory corruption bugs in C. But it's a step in the right direction. For example BearSSL is a C TLS library that does not use malloc.
Ivo Karlovic’s Survival and the Key to Aging in Men’s Tennis
Although not many Thais are vegetarians, many do participate in the annual vegetarian festival which comes from Chinese Buddhist tradition. And it is all meat substitutes. There doesn't seem to be much awareness of how to get high quality protein by combining vegetables that contain complementing amino acids. So it's all tofu.

Note that vegetarianism is not a Buddist concept or precept. It is a cultural adaptation in the Chinese version of Buddhism. In fact, vegetarianism was a red herring that the Buddha's jealous cousin used to try to split the sangha.
I'm not 100% sure that this buys you a ton since the multinode training is still done with tensorflow clusters or horovod, so there's nothing new I can see (after all of 10 minutes of looking, so take that with a grain of salt) with the actual distributed pieces. That said, workflow management is still an important piece of the training puzzle. I've seen a lot of good quantitative work put to poor use for lack of a good workflow tool.
Unfortunately the defaults are insecure, and so are most of the programs written in C.
I don't disagree that money is still money, as I do like my high bay area salary. It makes traveling, and my universally set priced items feel like pennies on the dollar.

However, I feel like you're are underestimating "some personal services". I don't have the time cook all my meals, I need to commute to get affordable housing, and I don't plan on just hanging out in the park everyday. So alas I find myself paying:

$15 for a simple saled

$11 roundtrip commute on caltrain

$100 for nosebleed seats to a band that was barely even considered famous during their heyday

These things really add up quick, and if you're not constantly careful about budgeting, you'll find yourself with less money than your counterpart in Boise.
You will note that I did not say "scam" anonymous call. I said "anonymous call" which includes both real and anonymous calls. Police officers should respond with force dictated by the circumstances of their situation, trained in such analysis, and held accountable to their decisions - both as individual officers and as departments. The source of the initial investigation should have little if any impact on the level of force used in the encounter.
Traffic Controllers, Pilots, Flight Attendants Detail Serious Safety Concerns
Do you work for Buzzfeed by any chance or have some financial interest in it? Because otherwise I don't see how you could in good faith defend this wretched hive of scum and villainy. I mean just go to their website. Do you seriously call them a proper, trustworthy news source?
The fact that this only happens in America indicates that their approach is the wrong one. They could ask any other developed nation for advice.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18978661
Trump will sell his country to enrich himself, so not really surprised that he doesn’t give two hoots about factory workers
Java is the worst language ever invented. Go and Erlang both have annihilated it.

C and C++ are definitely being replaced by Rust now.
Costco is fantastic at everything...except the checkout process.
Unfortunately most people can't write decent C. Actually nobody understands what decent C is.
Microsoft says Bing search engine blocked in China
I totally missed that Python has this. This seems like the saner sibling of C#'s using/IDisposable construct.

You can do a kind of RAII in D when you use structs instead of classes because these are stack allocated and have a suitable lifetime.
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>Hours after OSHA announced the beryllium rule delay on March 21, 2017, Byrne sent another letter to the agency...The letter thanked OSHA for the delay but urged it to issue a new beryllium rule that did not include the ancillary safety provisions for the shipyard and construction industries.

>That same day, Byrne’s re-election campaign received $5,000 in contributions from the Associated Builders & Contractors

Coincidence?
A fabulist who changed journalism (2016)
"I make less than peers I objectively outperform"

From my experience you can go to management and tell them that you think you should be paid X. If that's within the normal range you often get the raise.

At my first company in the US I was told that everybody is making as much as I was offered so I said yes. After half a year I found out that most people made 30% more. I talked to my CTO and told him that I want more and I got more than 30% without much hesitation. I wouldn't worry about asking for more. They won't fire you.
Don't know about TCP. In the 90s, I hand implemented a data/file transfer protocol over trunking radio - a very data unfriendly medium with pretty bad loss rates.

I thought about "I lost a packet" message, but if it got lost in transmission, sender would never know to resend the packet. Instead, the sender had the responsibility of keeping track of which packets it received an ACK for. If it didn't receive the ACK, it would resend the packet within a certain interval and wait for another ACK.
The main perpetrator whom gave up his friends Tyler Rai Barriss actually did cause the death of someone in Kansas by "Swatting" them. He then was completely unapologetic. These new indictments are after he accepted a plea deal for 20-25 years in federal prison.

Here is his twitter: https://twitter.com/goredtutor36?lang=en. He boasted about swatting people and somehow got internet access in prison and posted his latest post.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-tyler-barriss-swat...
True. You'd need to see transactions per customer-in-store or some other leveling metric...not just customer ready to pay.
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They were at a point where they had honestly gotten quite good at it and then they decided to put an inexperienced finance bro in charge of pretty much everything (I think he was promoted 4 times in 6 months for no objectively demonstrable reason) and gave the La Boulange guy a blank check to go do whatever the hell he wanted (and what he wanted was to siphon as much money as he could to all his buddies' companies). At that point the quality tanked, retention evaporated and the waste went through the roof because the chefs no longer had any real voice in anything. There was nothing a good marketing executive could possibly do to pull out of that tailspin and they had never gotten anywhere near a good marketing executive at any point, so the investors installed a new CEO who installed a bunch more recently unemployed Yahoo cronies who demanded around $300K/head
to sit around writing reports no one ever read or did anything with and it's mostly been shocking that they survived beyond that point.
Why had complex IDE's with drag'n'drop tools, syntax highlighting and intellisense that were happy to run on hardware not much better than a 486.

Developer tools are only resource hungry today because their developers aren't dogfooding.
The man is definitely not in the running for a 'tough son-of-a-bitch.' He has previously circled photos of his hands and sent them to people to prove how big his hands are. He bragged about his penis size at a debate. Just recently it came out that he has people photoshopping his body to make him look better and his fingers to make them longer. He has thrown many a tantrum when faced with reality and has cabinet meetings where people go around the room and praise him. None of these screams thick skin or toughness.

I'm curious what 'establishment' means to you and which part of the 'establishment' and the 'right' you think are still against him. He and the republicans have literally been in control of the entire federal government for 2 years up until a couple of weeks ago and it seems that the republicans are completely behind him.
I'd love to see that bill!

Most hotel laundry services I've encountered seem to be priced for one or two critical items. Cleaning a week's worth of items would be prohibitively expensive for most people, and I would be surprised if big productions would be interested in burning several hundred, if not thousands of dollars a week per person just for laundry.

On the flip side, it would be rather amusing to see the entire support cast for Madonna or U2 huddled about grumpily in a coin laundry waiting for other people to finish.
Has sampling bias been ruled out? With people more open to discussing public mental health in recent years, certainly more people have been seeking treatment and diagnoses have probably improved. I would assume historical data strongly under sampled people with mental health issues due to the great stigma and misunderstandings about these diseases.
I've wanted to switch to magazines for my news for a while now but haven't found a specific one that I love yet. Any recommendations?
+1 for Costco's pharmacy. In the rare occasion I need a prescription filled, its usually considerably cheaper than CVS or Walgreens. Plus, I'm prone to sinus infections and they have generic sudafed (real pseudoephedrine, not OTC) for just under $2 a box. Every other place in town is 5-10x that for the same thing.
There is one hitch and it’s a doozy. This invasive targeting may be neutralized by market forces when it comes to buying dish soap but it’s proven frighteningly effective in swaying voters even before the internet. Politicians conduct expensive in depth polling and it’s because it works. The move to using data collected online isn’t going anywhere and the normalization of this in advertising helps them.
It's possible but it's not a life worth living.
As far as driving goes roos are a scourge, especially when dealing with the reds which are the size of a large adult. Poor dumb things sit on the road to warm up, get mesmerised by headlights, and get hit. To date I probably see 50 dead roos on the side of the road for every live one. At least those you can deal with if you drive carefully and semi-slowly during dusk/night.

That being said I've heard far too many stories of roos hopping alongside the car and inexplicably deciding to cross through you car effectively kamikazing themselves.

Unfortunately 2000km-long tall fences along major highways aren't financially viable and at the end of the day we are driving through their habitat
How many different places have you had a portobello burger at? When done right (marinated and cooked thoroughly with a little char) they are delicious. But a LOT of places just throw a raw portobello on the grill and give you something rubbery and bland. You bite it and the entire thing tries to slide out of the bun, it tastes like nothing, and has the texture of gristle.

I stopped ordering them unless I’m somewhere very classy, because there’s a 50% of the cook screwing it up. Same for eggplant sandwiches. One too many slabs of raw eggplant.

There’s also no protein to speak of in a portobello. Half a gram, versus 20 grams in an impossible burger.
> An example: in grade six he and his friends found a bottle of vodka in the schoolyard (urban school). As any 12 year olds would, they took one of their gym sneakers, filled it with vodka, and set it on fire. The maths teacher passed by and said "boys, school starts in a few minutes; don't be late" and kept going. He told me he'd be expelled from his US school if he had matches or a lighter. In Germany that didn't even rate a letter home from the school.

I'm all for letting kids be kids, but I do wonder if this is a bit too far in the other direction. Playing with fire can in fact cause buildings to burn down, and, y'know, maybe there's a reason we have fewer of those incidents today than we once did.

But maybe that's my American viewpoint showing...
>I'm a little surprised you didn't mention anything about police being held accountable when responding with unreasonable force to anonymous tips

I think the logic behind this is that if the tip was correct then trying to talk it out/etc could end much worse for everyone involved. You have to remember that, to the best of the officer's knowledge, there is a live hostage in a building somewhere that needs to be saved by them
How do you think they are going to verify a threat?

By showing up, right?

I'm not sure "verified" vs "unverified" is the important thing.

I do think U.S. police's approach in general is far too violent and it makes these things more dangerous.

That also means that anyone 'swatting' ought to know they are doing something dangerous and with high potential for violence, far from just a joke, it's an extremely immoral act.