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It doesn't have to always be disgusting, to be a disgusting place.

The unabashed use of racial and LGBT slurs is disgusting. So is the gore raids, the frequent suggestions to self harm (regardless of the presence of "white Knights"), general misogyny, frequent jailbait content (moreso in the old days), shit like that.

Not everything there is disgusting. Not everyone is disgusting. But, compared to, say, imgur or something, you are far more likely to come out of 4chan with a terrible taste in your mouth I would say.
That comparison is intentional, for one reason: Go doesn't have any "frameworks", let alone frameworks that are remotely comparable to the productivity offered by Symfony, Django, or Phoenix. The language actively opposes the development of tools like these. At best, we've got libraries that wrap net/http, io/ioutil, etc and moderately increase developer productivity, but there's nothing holistic and opinionated. The closest you can get is something like gRPC, but its not even the whole story, and it also relies on codegen so that's a disqualification in my book.

This isn't just technical; its baked deep into the culture of Go. And that's fine. Its designed for something different.
Agreed. If you're a regular reader of Bloomberg (I am myself), then you see that they almost fetishize abnormal wealth - constantly writing articles in regards to what the "elite", the "1%", the "ultra-wealthy" think/do. As someone who previously liked Bloomberg (about as much as someone can like that type of thing), the constant obsession with wealth is definitely a turn off.
Can Linux itself be compiled/built as a realtime OS? I mean without adding additional software or hacking.
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The latest reports are that Boyan Slat's invention has not worked well in practice. And experts are skeptical it will work as intended.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/01/17/experts-wa...
Payments to artists are based on total listens, not who is paying or who you listen to. So your money goes to the artists listened to by others :(

They are also shockingly bad with snooping on you and sharing data.

Ads that come from third parties are open to exploitation and not properly vetted, not to mention may be jarring to your experience.

I was a paying customer for a long time but i dont like basically anything about how they work. I quit after the privacy policy got repeatedly worse and given that i was paying more than it cost to just buy all the music i listened to (when taken over years assuming youtube is as good when you are just showing someone a song not listening for quality). And they were still insisting on spying on me and keeping the data, wanting to know as much as possible about what i was doing! Even though i was paying for the service :(

And to top it all the money was going to effectively top playing radio artists :( direct purchase of flacs from the artist FTW. If you are going to pay for a service make it dropbox or something else more agnostic / flexible.
Along with the other stated reasons, this is in line with one of my original points: you don't have the sufficient education on fire safety to be making that decision in an informed way.

You, personally, may be a fire inspector, but you in the royal sense are not - the general population. Any given individual. It is far more burdensome to guarantee that everyone has enough knowledge about the risks and functions of fire, to make a fair and reasoned decision about fire safety in their buildings, than it is to just enforce a fire code.
Stealing is a term of art for the legal arena. Just like a million idiots who call their entire tower a cpu doesn't serve to redefine a technical term you "feeling" like not watching ads is stealing food from your mouth doesn't mean that it is.

There are a number of pieces of actual property involved but the user isn't carting off Spotify's servers and spotify isn't breaking into the users home and stealing their laptops.

What you do want to cart of is the users autonomy to manage how their actual property is used in service to an imaginary moral duty to be brainwashed by propoganda based on terms and conditions that we don't agree are a moral obligation.

You have a moral right to the actual money your users have agreed to pay you if you provide the agreed upon service.

The fact that you actually believe that you can buy their thoughts, their autonomy, their attention, and their time with your cheap crap doesn't mean if they opt not to give you those things you have been stolen from because those things were never for sale and you can't own them.

The best you can do is not do business if you feel like the deal isn't mutually beneficial. Take your ball and go home if you like but don't be dumb enough to call your users thieves for claiming unalienable rights to their own brains and machines.
Don't be flippant. Marijuana criminalization and the war on drugs causes a vast amount of harm to the entire country, including millions of lives ruined or cut short. Just recently a completely innocent couple were gunned down in their own home by the police executing a no knock raid based on completely bogus (or at best horribly mistaken) evidence.
The energy density table on Wikipedia [0] says it all really. Sort it by specific energy, and marvel at how animal fat is baaasicaly jet fuel.

Also take a moment to appreciate exactly what nuclear power implies in terms of bang-for-buck mining and transport costs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
> middle management at google

> normal

why am I even trying
Carnivores like lions first eat internal organs like liver & kidney. Apparently these contain a nice mix of fat and protein. Even orcas preying on whales just eat the liver and leave the rest.

Question is why.

My brief research after reading this article showed that cats can't produce their own fat or proteins. And are poor in taking energy from carbohydrates.

Since they can't get their energy from carbs, they eat fat along with proteins.

Say our ancestors couldn't farm. Or were carnivores then it makes sense that they'd seek fat source by instinct just to stay alive.

The argument that fat eating made us human is fiction.
Good talk about xx community’s intention.
> Wasn’t that the motivating factor to remove displaying comment points on HN in the first place?

lobste.rs shows points (and moderation logs and who invited who).

It still feels much "safer" than HN, but I guess the real reason is because they are much stricter about what topics are accepted.

Which means HN is more interesting to me but I also like lobste.rs a lot.
The crucial driver for the emergence of an utterly and uniquely distinct intelligence is a source of nutrition available to countless other predators for hundreds of millions of years? Makes perfect sense... unless you believe in natural selection.

Natural selection tells us the process typically works in the reverse order: environmental pressures create a situation where the emergence of increased intelligence grants the individual an ability to leverage the calorie source to their distinct reproductive advantage; not just relative to lions but relative to those in their group. So the marginally improved intelligence mutation occurs first, and it has to be so advantageous that it can overcome counterveiling selective pressures such as more aggressive individuals simply taking the calorie rich source. Were it otherwise we'd be living in Planet of the Apes, or more likely would never have existed.

Whatever evolutionary strategy our ancestors found themselves pursuing, it almost certainly must have been unique and special. The notion that we developed intelligence because intelligence intrinsically provides a reproductive advantage doesn't make any more sense than the notion that we developed intelligence because we could eat fat. Such simple strategies are immediately, incrementally, and perpetually available to countless species, now, then, and prior. If it were true it would imply that evolution is a simple escalator for traits like intelligence, but we see no such evidence of that.
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> People should be encouraged to trust their intuition

The proliferation of fake news doesn't do that. Fake news just reinforces people's biases as they self-select to read a fake news outlet that they agree with, killing any remainder of sceptisism and critical thinking.

> People should be encouraged to trust their intuition even if it occasionally leads them to make mistakes.

That's how it works with real, good-but-not-perfectly-impartial news. Fake news on the other hand is almost entirely lies that remain unquestioned by its consumers, resulting in many many more "mistakes".
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On modern hardware, computation beats RAM access almost always.

Here's a repo with 2 tests, counting bits, and calculating sine/cosine: https://github.com/Const-me/LookupTables

Neither code is particularly cheap but still faster than RAM.
What the poster is saying is that without the market, perhaps the family member would just die because the drug wouldn't exist.
And that's an inherently underreported stat due to the increase in hit-and-run. When a driver flees the scene,he can't be counted as impaired.
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But without it, you get no household registration as a married couple, which means no birth certificate, which means no household registration and lifelong non-personhood for the child
Writing narratives doesn't preclude pictures, graphs, metrics, visualizations, diagrams etc. It was common to see these included inline or as an appendix in Amazon docs.
Not exactly "Western" Civ, but Native American tribes along the west coast would hunt whales, and the Makah are still allowed to on the grounds that it's a tradition, though that's obviously limited by necessity due to whale populations (I think the can only take one each year).

I think that's a pretty convincing argument that people considered whales to be food for some time.
I'm a big fan of Isaacson's biographies, but Vance's Musk biography highlights the dangers of an author that isn't an expert on the source material: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/895834554245709824?lang=...
I've been at places that do those too. But they weren't the environment that has enabled my best work.

In particular, PRs and design sessions were/are a context switch which add friction. Even when pairing, however, we'd occasionally have team-wide design sessions, depending on the problem.
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Isn't a screen reader generally a third party program? Software like a browser has no idea if the click event comes from a local mouse or other software. Telling the difference between what type of software specifically, like RDP/VNC/TeamViewer, AutoIT/autoclicker, and accessibility software is even more improbable.
Not sure what you are trying to say, but I'm sure most people rejected knowing 4chan as well. It depends on where you are in life though, I guess in a college dorm people would speak more openly about it than in a large enterprise, with start-ups somewhere in between, depending on culture.
This reminds me also of my most productive days. Funny how enough people create their own middle management jobs, and jobs like "scrum master", that literally seek to destroy developer time.
> Not if you are not working. No income (other than basic income) -> no tax.

I think you've completely missed my point here.

> For example me, I will still continue to work even if basic income enough to cover my needs. Why? because I enjoy it and fulfilling or maybe I just simply want to earn more money for luxury or whatever.

You comprise but a single datum — not enough upon which to base societal economic policy.
I live in Bali and occasionally consult for companies back in London. I’m on UTC+8 so if I start early I get most of the day uninterrupted and then an hour or so of overlap.

It’s incredibly productive for me but I’m lucky that I enjoy programming enough to rarely get distracted by my picturesque surroundings during the day.
The are a lot of things that people eat whole, such as sardines, anchovies, and other small fish. Some cultures even use bile as a flavoring (see Papaitan from the Philippines), and others eat bugs (crickets and grasshoppers are very popular).
And yes, Chinese made Toyotas are terrible
There are patchsets out there that add realtime capabilities to the kernel. But as far as I know none of them is in the mainline. I am also not confident that the kernel can be made truly hard realtime capable without major rewrites. The best bet is probably RTLinux which runs the entire Linux kernel as one of the processes managed by a hard realtime kernel.
Why does the author assume that this isn't a norm among researchers? The sheer number of irreproducible studies we have should indicate that this behavior is way more common than people would like to admit.
> If it's not the company who develops your product screwing you, it's the people pwning them: just look at what happened to the bastion of privacy, Apple (the iCloud leak).

People pwning you. The iCloud leak was spear phishing.
It "just worked" thanks to huge amounts of work by folk from WDC, SiFive, Microsemi, Fedora, and Debian.
Antimatter specific energy: 24,965,421,631,578 Wh/kg!

Twenty four thousand nine hundred and sixty five billion watt-hours per kilogram.

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Or just try plugging it in, and if it doesn't work, flip it over. It's not a big deal.
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All of this talk about decieptful advertising; this only applies if you are a stupid person, or a young child that hasn't been taught differrently. A person who believes what they see on TV is real.

Most rational people 10 years old or above know enough to know that you should research a product before you buy it. What is the commercial/ad actually claiming? What does the fine print say? warranty? If a person is buying a product based on advertisement claims alone, that person has an issue, not the advertiser.

To be honest, I like that these companies are spending so much time trying to identify products that I might be interested in, but haven't had the time to research enough about it to make an educated choice. Google turns my searches into ads embedded into email, or searches themselves. I ask Alexa about something or the Alexa wikiHow app, and the next time I'm shopping on Amazon, I have targeted ads for those same items I had begun research on.

It's a beautiful time saver in my opinion. Once you've narrowed your search down to a specific item, you can read reviews, compare it to similar items, do a search on that same item.

That's the same tactic with selling data; the company purchasing the data is trying to connect consumers with product. If the consumer doesn't do their research and buys a shitty product, there are still several layers of consumer protection where the customer can be reimbursed.

As far as predatory gaming ads and games geared towards kids... don't give your kid access to your credit card, buy them a gift card. It's not that difficult. There are too many stupid people on this planet because technology has broken survival of the fittest; allowing stupid people to live long enough to breed more stupid people.
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I have two of these boards which are part of the Fedora build system (see http://fedora.riscv.rocks/koji/). The performance is fine for light development, but they're not blazingly fast -- and we don't expect that, it's the first development board available only in small quantities. The chip itself is an in-order design, something like the A53.
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The mob wants to think it's self-critical when asked directly.

But I dare the mob to be self-critical of some popularly held belief without the pretext of this meta commentary. HN can be very one sided, and it shows in lots of discussions, from ads to piracy to language choices.
Yea I agree. I included “high bandwidth” very deliberately. Could you give an account of what went on at SA?
It's a small run developer kit. It's not designed for your use case.
IIRC you can directly download a blob from the blob internals page; I think you can also see them somewhere in the developer console, and I've got a bookmarklet that allows feeding a blob URI into it for download.
Without any changes, you have SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR [1] schedulers, but despite the name, they are not really suitable for proper real-time tasks. Closest to real time on vanilla Linux is SCHED_FIFO task - as long as there is no other task with same or greater priority, your task don't yield, call syscalls or cause page fault, it won't be preempted. When it does yield (one way or the other), there are no guarantees when it's going to be rescheduled, which is severely limiting for considering it as RT.

[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/sched.7.html
It's also about friction. You can download the RISC-V design straight off github (https://github.com/freechipsproject/rocket-chip) and start using it immediately. You don't have to phone up ARM or bring in lawyers to negotiate a license.
And that's why I stick with my crappy municipal fiber. I pay more for less bandwidth vs competitors, but my internet is very consistent (speed tests show that I'm getting exactly the advertised speed) and my city is small enough that I doubt they're competent enough to care about my data. I mean, they're a fiber service, yet their residential speeds max out at 30mbit/sec or something, so mistakes were made in building out the infrastructure (they _must_ be using a ton of base 100 cables/switches for the last mile).
Wow, that is clever. Not doing more than you need to - for the same effect - kind of thing. Thanks for sharing.

I've been playing around with various simple algorithms for different tasks, over a period, and been noticing that there is a lot of scope for improving efficiency, even if by small amounts, sometimes by a bit more, by making various tweaks to the logic, often including early termination techniques.

A well-known example of early termination is: to find if a number n is prime, instead of checking whether it is divisible by all the integers from 2 to n - 1, you can just check for those up to the square root of n. (There are more optimizations on those lines possible, of course.)

I've found that there can be many quick wins in this area, often in various algorithms that process arrays. For example, problems involving arrays on Rosetta Code.
Kind of, yeah... Your work doesn't have to be forced open but you can't monopolize the findings of the research your product is based on. In other words, if the research says elements X and Y seem to have some affect on cancer. You shouldn't get to use X and Y in your own patent.
> Back then, memes were exclusive to 4chan.

naaaah

fark and somethingawful had them in, idk, 2002 or so.
I think back to the recent group of academics that wanted to prove how most Grievance Studies journals don't property review submissions. One of the papers they got accepted had chapters from Mein Kampf rewritten with terminology from modern social cause rhetoric.

Instead of accepting the issues, with the entire process, these professors are now facing disciplinary hearings for submitting false research. In a way I can understand this; they did after all submit papers they knew weren't academic (in bad faith?) in order to prove a greater point. But does that justify what they did?
Out of curiosity, is it a requirement to read the memo during the meeting itself? Just wondering if it wouldn't save some time for people to have read the memo before the meeting?
I'm very surprised you could have no managers. Personally I always thought it wad good to have a management level person to filter out content from customers or Product.
Now wait a minute. Serveillance technology is definitely sold as more than just tools for building a house. They are tools of war and authoritarianism. Sure you have your run of the mill equipment for securing your building. But then you have massive networks of Spyware to catalog an entire nation's activity embedded without notice into the products you use without your consent. Your politician will sell you it for homeland security but the companies that sell the tech to the government sell in the same way arms dealers do. A Tomohawk missile is also a tool. And if home depot was selling that, especially if they were selling it under the pretence of a 'self defence tool' you but your shiny behind I'd have a problem with it. Wouldn't you?

Now consider home depot and Amazon are both warehouse businesses. Only one of them is helping the US government extend its digital spy network and increase its cyberwar capabilities.
Not at all, at it does not meet the realtime certifications for deployment into production, like for example ISO 26262.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_26262

https://www.highintegritysystems.com/
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> marvel at how animal fat is baaasicaly jet fuel

Fat seems to be with the rest of the hydrocarbons in this regard, which is not surprising since it's one of them.
Then let's not use backup codes. If you loose your auth device then you should recover it using an office of authentication (i.e https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-lega...)
I wouldn't be surprised if some people had already thought of it while coming up with a fast quotient method, but didn't bother to do anything with it because they did not need a remainder.
Like otterley said, you put the data in the appendix, and refer to it like a citation. This is standard practice in any technical document already.
Liver is generally high in vitamins (notable A) and minerals.
Amazon also has a heavy non native English speaking population. Both of my team's managers and over half of my team are second language English speakers. People can still write docs.
Where in the world are you getting your ideas? You can't (legally) prevent a child from being registered for a birth certificate even if you want to, as you would expect from the fact that birth certificates are meant to benefit the government, not you. It is literally the first element of Texas HSC §192 ("Birth Records"):

> Sec. 192.001. REGISTRATION REQUIRED. The birth of each child born in this state shall be registered.

Children receive birth certificates regardless of whether their parents are married, or are citizens, or any other consideration. There is no requirement for a marriage certificate, or for anything else.

It's also not true that you can't be registered as a married couple without a marriage certificate. You can, and it's easy.

Edit: You're probably talking about China, not Texas.
Rust + WebAssembly may be a little more difficult but they're both languages that are growing very fast and being able to take advantage of that now before they get bigger then they already are is a great idea long-term. It may take a while but is it better to learn something fast or well?
They get around that by substituting the a for another glyph, giving them a unique hashtag to use on twitter #ORCΛ
I thing lots of wrong people go into science for the wrong reasons. This is why you'll never really be able to do anything about this problem, unless you have a way to screen them out.
I’ve recently started a job where my time isn’t measured. My time was measure 2012 until 2018. 3 different jobs. Utter misery. Now I’m having a lot more fun and feel very productive in the true sense of the word. There is still stand ups and slack etc. but I don’t mind that so much. Having a stopwatch constantly ticking against you is the main hell I hate in modern tech culture.