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>Sarah Silverman, Bo Burnham

i don't mean to start a fight but neither of these comedians are even remotely smart or critical (re silverman the episode of louie on fx about marc maron where she describes her own humor as "gee did i do that" and burnham is a meme star).

i'm surprised you appreciate pryor and lump them in with him. in my humble opinion you almost have to be poor and black to be funny these days because really good comedy is about transgression (with a few standout exceptions like mitch hedberg/steven wright) and there's nothing transgressive about people in power either taking pot shots or being purely critical. it's why dennis miller was never funny (and nor is bill mahr). you have to be outside of power for a criticism to be transgressive. this is why chappelle's last two standups were hollow - he's too fat, too rich, too comfortable. go back to first hbo special where he talks about the hypocrisy of the lewinsky scandal, or to his second (post chappelle show) special where he talks about incongruence of how the media treated elizabeth smart and erica pratt. in his most recent special his attempt to contextualize cosby drew eye rolls because it's quite plausible he himself will be eventually accused (this is not a statement about his moral character but simply his relationship to power).

but of course it can't be purely criticism right - there has to be showmanship and surprises and vulnerability.

i think hands down the funniest comic of the last 10 was patrice o neal. i've watched his last special probably 15 times and what i admire about him is that he gets you to be complicit in the transgression (e.g. the value of a white woman bit, gender roles in the office, relationship dynamics) by a sort of socratic dialogue where the you yourself actually (by virtue of acceding) deliver the punchline. he's also incredibly smart and vulnerable in that show in discussing his diabetes and similar challenges most people face with things like work ethic. sadly he died in 2011.

and yes both chappelle and o neal are raucously vulgar but it's directly in the service of punchline, rather than the punchline itself.

louis ck was an exception in that he was white and male and etc and still funny but only because he often identified with power (e.g. the picking white vs black joke). it was in that identification that you grew to trust him over course of the show and warmed up to the more absurd jokes (like fucking a dead kid and bag of dicks). he also was very clever in how he revealed the irrationality of culture (raising my kids gay and cutting grass around gay people on your lawn). but now (after his scandal) he's not relatable anymore. listen to his leaked special where he tries to pretend to be ashamed of not being as politically active as the parkland kids and it's hollow - you end up suspecting that he really doesn't empathize with them.
It is all fun and games until the last drop of water gets sucked up. Then they will (already are in some cases) bitch and complain that other states don't pipeline then hundreds of millions of gallons of water while disparaging those same states for not following the same short-sighted and unsustainable practices.
Talk about burying the lede.

Today, as the state grapples with an unprecedented affordable housing shortage, Article 34 has limited effects on the construction of low-income developments. But it remains an obstacle: Los Angeles officials believe that without a public vote in the coming years, the city will no longer be able to finance such projects — even though it has the money to do so.

I realize that screaming at “NIMBYs” is practically a hobby for some, but I can see their perspective too. For one, the resources exist today to do better, but it’s not done. Rather increased housing leads to billionaires, Russian oligarchs and others buying up expensive real estate and not actually living there. For all that new plans claim to be aimed at housing the poor, it rarely works out that way.

If you want to reduce concerns, use the existing funds responsibly, and prove that future loosening of restrictions wouldn’t just be a bonanza for the wealthy, and lead to even more tech influx. Listen to people who express concerns that leveling smaller structure and building vertically:

A.) Would lead to a predictable boom-bust leaving California at some future date, with a load of ugly, crumbling infrastructure.

B.) That attempts to house the poor will go hand in hand with other efforts to increase economic opportunities for them, expand mental healthcare, and improve policing. Without that it’s just warehousing, and communities do suffer.

C.) Would change what drew people there in the first place, leading to the afformentioned boom-bust.

D.) That this isn’t all about extremely well-paid techies who will move where’ve the money goes.

I see more of a dynamic, in practice, of rich existing interests clashing with rich incoming interests, while the poor are used as little more than a rallying cry or scapegoat. I suspect that I’m one of many unconvincedby arguments of “the character of a community” under threat, as well as facetious arguments from “digital nomads” who are mostly just tired of the commute. I’ll say it again, as the article states the money is there, Article 34 isn’t a significant impediment, yet the poor are still systemically screwed.
That is something I hadn’t thought of before
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I imagine there's quite a lot of utilities that will break.

This bug in systemd mentions a few other utilities that have trouble: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3103631

It's likely not an exhaustive list either.
I get your drift but I just feel development of UIs all over the place (in windows) have stagnated and they are too costly to modify
The biggest problem with public housing and low income housing is that they become unsafe (at least in Los Angeles). Many of these places are not safe enough to walk around at night. Is it really any surprise that people don't want areas of high crime in their neighborhoods?
Beautiful damage control on Apple’s part, now people will stop posting their complaints on the forums
Better food distribution systems would also remove, for example, the need for personal motor vehicles, personal grocery trips, spatially inefficient retail spaces, the non-ideal refrigeration and other concerns deriving from food safety concerns in such spaces, and even individual package labeling.
Ask HN: Versioning and Pipeline for ML Research
Being an applied ML PhD student, I often find myself having multiple versions of files and scripts towards the end of each research cycle. When I'm at the point of writing a paper for submission, it gets difficult to back-track and find the earlier results or have difficulty running the earlier experiments as files might have changed. I've been trying to find a way to solve this problem, but the closest I could get to a solution was amie.ai. Due to the product still being in early release, it isn't quite what I'm looking for. The use of Jupyter Notebook does not help much either. I wrote up the requirements as to what might work to solve this problem (https://github.com/fazalul92/ProtoPypelines), but wanted to make sure if there is anything currently available that can solve it.

To be more specific, at the very least the following features would be helpful:
1) A tree structure to organize the different changes or "flows" within the code.
2) Being able to execute from a cell/line of code such that all the preceding lines of code will execute. (only the nodes leading up to that cell/line)
3) Versioning of files so that new child-nodes grow from the point at which the change was made.

So my question is to those who do rapid prototyping and/or ML research (or anyone else who might have found themselves in similar situations), What do you do to keep track of your earlier work?
> When the majority of the population is essentially living extremely efficiently on a vegetarian diet without so much as personal transport, one should expect very little economic shock from issues as remote and abstract as gradual technology change

That does not make sense...
Hope not. I, and most people don't want that thing. Albeit I'd never buy anything apple, but I do love that my pixel has a single usb-c plug, which I've only ever used to charge. In fact, since I have a google-free version of android, I only need to charge once a week. I actually wouldn't mind no physical ports and wireless charging.

here's an idea - if you want to move a piano, get a truck instead of complaining a sports car can't move your piano. there are many phones with a jack, and many without. pick what you want.
Or if they pull you over for something, but then the first thing they ask is to turn your car off so they'd never see it anyway. Usually you pull over, turn your car off and put your hands on the steering wheel so when the police approach they know you don't have a weapon in your hands, or at least that was the etiquette I was taught.

> There are no vehicle inspections, ever. As long as I continue to drive without causing incidents, my vehicle's condition is of little significance to anyone except me.

You don't have DEQ? While it doesn't cover the dashboard, it certainly covers other equipment on the car to know if you're polluting more than the set threshold.

Edit: just saw the reply below mine as it wasn't there when I was typing. I didn't realize that DEQ (Dept. of Environmental Quality) wasn't a national thing. Every 2 years I have to take it in and they hook into the cars OBD2 port to read the cars computer to get the sensor readings. Before computers were in cars, they stuck a sensor up your tailpipe and you had to rev the car up to 6,000 RPM for a few minutes (something like that, it's been a long time). You'll probably remember the big volkswagon scandal over this for falsifying the data.
In that case, the authenticated device could have the ability to show the public key before accepting a request, and match it with the public key generated on the new device. But yes, at some point you'll have to put trust in the server not doing malicious things like that, which is one reason it's open source
There's a fairly detailed curriculum here (three parts) https://www.quantstart.com/articles/How-to-Learn-Advanced-Ma...
... do you know what distilled water is? It's very different from filtered or reverse osmosis water. You can get filtered water in a water bottle that's not distilled water. Dasani, Fiji, Aquafina, Smart, etc... that's filtered water. Distilled water is really really bad to drink. It's acidic, has zero minerals, and has no electrolytes so it will not hydrate you.
> ZID is a secure random number represented as lowercase hex. […] ZID-128 uses 128 bits, same as a UUID, etc.

So… A UUIDv4?
> limiting login attempts based on a particular user account, not an IP address.

How do you do this on account creation?
Man it's great to read good news articles about climate change.
So does China, so did the Soviet Union, but it doesn't really mean they're not “poor”.
> The fact it happens so often suggests that the documentation isn't good enough.

Any library or framework author knows that documentation is never enough. ~ On Windows, though, there's also historical reasons - back in Win9x days, there was no practical reason for apps to bother if they didn't anticipate running on NT, which is why it was so common to just dump configs next to the .exe (and even to this day, Windows uses FS virtualization to make this work for old apps). When 2K and especially XP became popular, and everyone was rapidly porting their stuff, people often didn't bother looking up docs and all, and just used the "least significant change" approach to fixing things. And that kind of set the background for later - why bother being nice, if nobody else does?

> I think this page is more appropriate: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/shell/csidl

This page describes pre-Vista, deprecated APIs. Unless you need to target XP, a desktop app should use the known folder mechanism.
It doesn't matter if you're drinking the "optimal" amount of minerals, distilled water has none so it leeches those minerals out of your body as you drink it. Drinking distilled water leaves you with less calcium and iron and etc than you had before you drank it.
> If people are screaming at you or smoking meth on the bus, that’s indicative of broader social problems which aren’t really solved by changing the transportation system.

Knowing the proximate cause doesn't help me avoid crazy people on public transportation. The problem of crazy people in the bay area won't be fixed any time soon, so it's still in my best interests to avoid public transportation. Also, it's not clear to me that many of these people can be fixed. The bay area spends enormous amounts of money on mental health and homelessness, but the problem is far worse here than it is in Boston.

> For what it’s worth, I ride buses, trams, the subway, etc. all around San Francisco on a daily basis with my 2-year-old, and haven’t ever felt threatened.

There's no nice way to say this but... I don't believe you. Every single one of my coworkers has a horror story about public transportation in the bay area. Robbery, theft, stalking, threats, harassment, catcalling, etcetera. There is only one woman at my work who commutes via BART, and she's only been doing it for 3 weeks. The rest drive or take Uber/Lyft because they've been robbed or threatened in the past. I think it's much more likely that my friends & coworkers are telling the truth than that you are. Either that or your threshold for feeling unsafe is incredibly high.

If you regularly take public transportation in the bay area, you will encounter mentally ill people, and some of them will engage in violent behavior without provocation.
They are different stages of the build, yes (although in a hermetic system you could in theory run the build process in parallel with the configure step for different targets). The challenge is integration. Things are much simpler when you ship the two programs together since they need to be compatible in terms of folder structures etc. It is also nice to keep things in memory sometimes. In other words, I think they should be different modules of one build system, rather than completely different programs.

To your point, integration will allow the two to be iterated upon faster, since changes can be more easily released together.
How your health information is sold and turned into ‘risk scores’
the part on traditional banking may sound like a clever soundbite, but the safety of personal banking is actually quite high, at least compared to the crypto space.

And a more general note after perusing the website because the edgy tone seemed somewhat off. While it's quite easy to deride the pretentious Davos crowd, a magazine that describes itself as 'exploring the post liberal future' and puts an oddly positive spin on Chinese internment and policing of minorities, is there some ulterior motive in the reporting here?
The bit about water one day being more valuable than land seems to be half truth and half someone who has never lived on the otger side of the US where we have too much water.

Farmers in south central VA work to keep their land dry because it rains here everyday and we average about 4" a month.
This goes through lower division college-level math, but nothing higher than that.
Sure.. but Phone, Tablet, Laptop, Desktop, Office Desktop, etc. I want my chat apps to work on all, be sync'd on all, and be secure.

(Though I'm not convinced the proposal in the article is all that secure - as others have pointed out, it seems trivial for an evil server to obtain the private key..)
Yeah, we will sell them water.... at a nice healthy profit.
if(population.de_linked_from_technology && population.resource_consumption_effectively_trivial) {
assert(is_irrelevant(gradual_technology_change));
}
reCAPTCHA pushed me over to DuckDuckGo. I use a VPN, and a fair number of my Google searches are blocked by a reCAPTCHA with 5 or more challenges.

Now, I use DDG and fall back to Google search with !g if I can't find what I'm looking for.
The benefits of this labor go to the private business, while the economic and social costs (education, healthcare including pregnancies the workers don't earn enough to pay for, so the state pays for it) are borne by others.
Is there a good way to debug CMake build rules (especially in the presence of add_custom_command and friends)? I've got a case which builds differently in Make vs Visual Studio---in VS, dependencies get messed up and some files don't even get built at all (and then the build fails later on because those files are missing). I can't for the life of me figure out how to debug this, it's absolutely infuriating.
The delivery robots in Milton Keynes stuck in the snow this morning
Not really, they are trying to build more cars overseas (cheaper labor + developing markets for their cars) and they are expecting a global economic slowdown in the next couple years.
Making games with JavaScript part 2
This highlights how fuzzy terms like intelligence and understanding are. How exactly is human understanding/reasoning different to that of a dog, a monkey or a computer?

How do you value each one of these? Should an animal be valued higher than than a constructed machine that is otherwise identical? What about humans and machines?
I’ve been using standard notes and the client isn’t great. It makes me choose between editor addons when what I want is just one really good editor.

Example: I want features found in the advanced editor but also in the markdown editor
The last three I find pretty interesting. I don't think we've seen big strides in those areas (finding employees, finding employers & finding work)...We'll at least not from my experience in the tech industry.

Would be interesting to see another 20 years from now if there's been any major developments in those areas.
Where did you get this information from?

This is not true, there is no string conversion. There is even separate syntax for setting props vs attrs.

Check out the readme here.

https://github.com/Polymer/lit-element

I also normally use redux in my WC applications.
public housing
The author had some... memorable quotes. It was a reference to his most infamous post. I assumed the OP knew about the author's past and wasn't asking for a genuine comparison. Tho looking back I'm not so sure.

For the brave of heart (NSFW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCgoxQCf5Jg&t=3295

Won't make much sense out of context. The video does a pretty good job of explaining the whole story if you have time.
For actual file management, and generally working in the terminal, I'm firmly in the "two blue panes" club, so it's Far Manager on Windows (and Midnight Commander on Linux). Far is probably the most advanced text-mode file manager in general right now.

https://www.farmanager.com/screenshots.php?l=en
Streak (YC S11) Is Looking for Engineers in Vancouver, BC
Quake 2 Path Tracing/ Ray Tracing Analysis: Retro Meets Nvidia RTX
Account creation is different from a login attempt.
The usual trick to use strace in that kind of situation is to write a script named "curl" that runs curl under strace, and stick the script in your path.

If the author is familiar with DTrace, though, sounds like that's a great solution for them.
idk about bait traps. a long time ago I used the boric acid that is sold in a big squeeze bottle and i just put lines of the stuff near cupboard doors and on the floor. looking back now, i don't think that was a great idea. i wouldn't want to ingest any of it.
And they scapegoat the workers who are powerless, instead of the employers, like Trump.
For a (much!) longer read about this stuff, the intercept has a 21-part series here: https://theintercept.com/series/the-teflon-toxin/
My only experience using Bazel involved discovering that build instructions from August have already been broken by deprecations. It was not a good first impression.
You’re not gonna ship that water to California.
The unexcerpted article is at https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-du...
Then I suggest a simple change away from Google:

Make some text asking a question "What is five plus 2?" And there's an empty text field next to it that on the backend looks for the trivial right answer.

That should reasonably stop spam, and still allow a field based html mail sender. And eliminates a dependency on Google.
UILD is pretty much lying though:

> UUID v1/v2 is impractical in many environments, as it requires access to a unique, stable MAC address

RFC 4122 Section 4.1.6 "Node"

> For systems with no IEEE address, a randomly or pseudo-randomly generated value may be used; see Section 4.5. The multicast bit must be set in such addresses, in order that they will never conflict with addresses obtained from network cards.

There is no requirement of "a unique, stable MAC address" in UUIDv1, and most UUID API should allow overriding the node (and probably clock_seq) fields.

> Canonically encoded as a 26 character string, as opposed to the 36 character UUID

> Uses Crockford's base32 for better efficiency and readability (5 bits per character)

> Case insensitive

> No special characters (URL safe)

You could just encode your UUID in base32…

> correctly detects and handles the same millisecond

I mean, that's worse than UUIDv1 by 3 orders of magnitude.

The lexical ordering is not a lie at least, so there's that.
Definetely recognize this. But there are tons of articles describing the "get your first users" get your "first prototype" like the sam altmans ... something playbook. Read that?
They're real differences in how the car is designed, but barring some outliers, they're not differences that are objectively better in one or the other. I consider those kinds of design choices to be things that fall under "brand" as a whole.
It's whether there's a story line or not; playing Mass Effect is going to give you a book-like experience while DotA is just a time filler.
I'd argue that it is an interesting element to the story. To add a little hyperbole, the wealth cascaded down two generations and helped enable a lifetime of serious scientific work that fundamentally changed the world.
21 Savage Arrested by ICE, May Be Deported
Indeed. In a lot of practical cases with humans we have people who talk a good talk but are unable to put the ideas they verbalise into practice. We don't say "this person doesn't understand [the language]", we say "this person doesn't understand [the thing they are talking about]". It seems reasonable to say the Chinese room has a perfect grasp of Chinese, it just happens to be pretty stupid and probably not reliable.

It would be interesting to do a study of a group like judges or politicians and compare them to a hypothetical Chinese Room. It seems likely that they would often need to speak briefly on subjects outside their actual understanding, but they clearly have a deep understanding of the language.
Code on Github: https://github.com/esoco/coroutines
What's wrong with calling IsWindowsVistaOrGreater[0]?

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/version...
Progressive web app. They're kind of like JavaScript-driven websites that think they're native apps. They tend to be characterised by their use of modern web standards to do some useful things, like being available offline, and caching everything heavily to cut down load time. It's like a website you can install, basically.
You don't need electronics for softskills to matter. You need people to achieve things through other people. That always mattered great deal.

There are whole books of past leaders speeches. Generals trained the speeches. In ancient Rome, rhetorics was the most important things a citizen boy had to learn.
Help me out here. Why is using such vast quantities of water necessarily a bad thing? It evaporates right back into the atmosphere and then condenses and finds its way to the rivers again and again. It doesn't disappear. It doesn't get irretrievably ruined with industrial chemicals. Is this mostly about limited capacity?