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It's good that we are finally figuring out what Prussian Field Marshal, Helmuth von Moltke (the elder) knew almost 200 years ago. He devised a system to evaluate soldiers, a very simplistic explanation and chart is included with the link below.

Essentially what we define as toxic, he defined as dangerous, and felt those people should be eliminated from the Army at all costs because they cause far more harm than good.

http://soldiersystems.net/2012/05/27/kind-leader/

Von Moltke (the elder) is also considered as the creator of a new, more modern method of directing armies in the field, which is still used today. He also commanded by intention than by direct action, von Molkte felt that strategy needed to be adapted as battle progressed, so rather than having his staff officers be held to rigid direct action orders the had everyone working toward a series of goals, making adjustment along the way, sounds a lot like Agile software development.
If you have RescueTime window titles / details enabled for your terminal app, and have configured your terminal app (if it supports it) to promote active shell command to window title, you get this details, regardless of where you are ssh'd to. Works for me at least on macOS + iTerm2.
The limited, smaller model does not work as well as the large one showcased in the paper.

It does not give good answers to the natural language questions like "Who was the author of The Art Of War?", " State the process that divides one nucleus into two genetically identical nuclei?" etc.
It’s still garbage

Input : in the descending twilight by the woodlands

Output: In the descending twilight by the woodlands of the mightiest rivers, it cannot be said that the pestilence, that long-ecked and sublime humidity of the ground, is long-unfriendlier. Such a climate has been exhausting years of it till now, all in the dark; you see the seams of the sand leaving hands flat, woohoo I doubt that you will fully understand. I must also mention,
No, it doesn't. It means "ask an engineer", and every engineer should know that due to lack of specificity the term does not exclude female engineers. Would you also imply that "ask a doctor" means "ask a male doctor"? What about "ask a nurse" or "ask a teacher"?
Native and lived in Florida most of my life as well. Everything you just said was true. There was a guy in my hometown, very well known surfer who was killed by a speeding car simply while waiting to cross the street. We have ghost bikes everywhere as well.
the cable is cool, but i'm more excited to read about his PCB manufacturing process. he built those tiny boards on a desktop CNC machine!
Any good defence against this for Safari on macOS?

(There is this javascript blocker, JS Blocker, but when I last used it, the Safari memory usage would explode every other day, to the extent of rendering the machine unusable unless you managed to kill the process very quickly.)
> the most dominant hen, that pecked its way to the top of the pecking order at the expense of other hens. Individual selection doesn't necessarily work to the benefit of the group

but wait... our entire economical system is based on this.
Wow! OK so Today I Learned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on_red

Turning right on a red light is prohibited in many countries, unless indicated by a separate, arrow-shaped (green or orange) light. Surprised to learn that it is however allowed in most of the USA.
Someone had mentioned that there was a limited brand/copyright phase before the $11k phase that was cheaper. Pretty sure they would fall into that.

Hopefully someone who knows the details could chime in on that.
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systemd became a standard because Debian adopted it after a lengthy discussion, partially because big Debian users like Spotify expressed an interest in systemd.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/01/msg00287.html
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I found they treated their ad customers rather poorly as well.
One theory is that the waves themselves don’t carry much information, but set the stage for other kinds of transmission or computation.

In the rodent hippocampus, for example, theta oscillations (3-7ish Hz) don’t tell you much about the animals’ spatial position. The spiking rate of place cells contains some information about where the animal is, but it’s fairly coarse. However, combining spiking and the phase of the slow oscillation (e.g., cell is firing at the trough vs peak) provides much more precise information about where the rat is.

A related idea is that oscillations help route information by alternatingly facilitating and suppressing different areas. At one phase of the oscillation, information might preferentially flow from visual areas to higher-level areas. At another, the visual input might be suppressed while memory structures get “their turn to talk.”
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Oil money is a start, though my understanding is the workers go where the work is and take the money home when the work runs out. Those also tend to be in places people don't want to live for long. Most of the oil money is also extracted to major cities like Houston, so it's not a complete solution because it's an extremely leaky bucket.

Some places are doing better than others. But are they building products that solve local problems, or are they trying to primarily sell to a national or global market? Are they funded by local capital? Will the benefits of their production stay local?
> I still think it's insane that the bean counters and value engineers let them include a microphone that wasn't needed.

Having worked on hardware products, the features planned sometimes (even often!) change after the hardware has been prototyped and an initial production order has been placed. It is cheaper to simply not ship the feature than it is to change the board.

Many in this comment section do not really seem to have much experience with hardware. It is fairly common for products to ship with unused hardware and it much more believable than malicious intent, especially given how disorganized Google is internally.
But diversity is only valuable to the extent that it helps create a better society. Like, ideally noone would even have to work! And there are plenty of examples of segregated (i.e. non-diverse) situations that we support becaues we deem them socially beneficial (e.g. sex-specific gyms and toilets, tall people competing in basketball, smart people are scientists, ...) (to be precise, personally I don't support these, but our society seems to, which would imply that the people on average do).
Sadly, I think you're right. The Penn & Teller: Bullshit! episode on recycling showed some pretty good examples.

I'm an environmentalist, but only with a little e.
Wow, out of all the things I've written on my blog, _this_ makes it onto the front page of HN. How droll.

BTW, just to be clear, I wasn't the one who posted the link here. I don't think it's particular relevant to what HN is for, but shrug apparently somebody did.

This is all I'm going to have to say about the attacks on my character here...

When some stranger on the internet acts like a dick toward me in private emails, I call it out -- in private emails.

When I decide that someone has acted sufficiently like a dick toward me in private emails, I put them in my burn-before-read file, and I tell them so, because I don't believe in ghosting people.

That's usually the end of it.

When someone, having been told that they are now in my burn-before-read file, decides they're going to go out of their way to email me from a different email address and harass me some more, then that's just what it is -- harassment. If they'll do it to me, they'll do it to other people, and I believe that calling out harassers publicly is, in fact, the right thing to do. That's why I posted the reviews.

I disagree with the claim made below that it was "bad faith" to do so, because having interacted with the business owner, I was in fact in a position to know his character and how he treats people, and that is certainly an appropriate thing to tell people about who might be considering whether to patronize a business.

The last letter I got from them, asking me take down the reviews, was not "fair." It was an attempt to intimidate me into taking down my reviews. It was, in fact, a classic example of an attempt at such intimidation. If you don't recognize it as such, try reading @Popehat a bit. It is perfectly appropriate to respond with public shaming to someone trying to intimidate you into taking down content you posted about them that they don't like (again, see @Popehat). Ever heard of the Streisand effect?

Finally, as I believe I made quite clear in the blog posting, I would have taken down all of the reviews and the blog posting itself in a second if they had simply apologized. I still would, if they apologized today. There's no expiration date on that offer.
More information about this can be found in my the accompanying blog.

https://shift.infinite.red/avoid-nightmares-nsfw-js-ab7b1769...
Replying to myself as edit window had passed. This program[1] is actually available to foreigners but can’t own the land unless they stay for five years.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Homestead_Act
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>heh a couple summer's ago in Dallas i got hit by a police officer while crossing the street. Ironically, while he was on his cell phone.

did the officer get disciplined for this?
>Because most people against systemd will keep saying that the old init system was ok, ...

There isn't and wasn't hardly anyone saying that. It is and was well known that there were better things out there than the hacked up sysV style init systems produced by the various Linux distributions.

This is a common strawman that seems to get rolled out any time any discussion involves systemd.
Also, 100% open source

JS: https://github.com/infinitered/nsfwjs
MODEL: https://github.com/gantman/nsfw_model
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I don't think the problem is that the scientists are not heard, but that the reiki-practicioners-heavy-drug-users-no-responsabilty-whatsoever-metaphysical crowd are much louder, effectibily diminishing the seriousness of the scientists' warnings
Thanks for the clarification. I thought Columbia's definition of a pre-image attack was incorrect, due to the vagueness of the verbiage "existing file". Ie, I considered the chosen document created by google as an "existing file".
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The recommendation engine plays a very big role.

Fundamentally the ad companies (FGA) have a problem - their entire value proposition is that the little space at the side of the page and before the content is very valuable and has an influence on people's thoughts and decisions.

So if they then try to claim that the content itself, or the list of recommended "watch next" videos on Youtube, isn't influential, it fails the sniff test.

(Apple are mostly clear on this front. Netflix know the "watch next" is critical to their success, but they don't let people fill it with unvetted garbage.)
Until these self driving cars can navigate a rural Michigan blizzard, they’re not level 5. Right now, they barely function during perfect Phoenix weather.
Our society is so obsessed with the fear of censorship, or the "elite" hoarding all information, that we've now dived right into the opposite deep end. There's always too much of a good thing.

We created tech to usher in an era of new mediums. But we never stopped to ask ourselves what should we keep from the "old" systems. In any system that gets recreated/refactored, there is always a duplication of efforts. And that's what we're seeing right now. We're slowly realizing that editorialization is desperately needed.

In all these social graphs that's been created, we assume all "nodes" are rational actors, or are likely to be rational actors and that the information if just let free would steadily sort itself out. But that's not what we're seeing. Old diseases are new again and entire republics have fallen victim to misinformation.

It's well past time to address these issues. I thought 2008 was bad. I could have never imagine 2016. And now I'm severely worried about what non-sense we'll see in 2020.

Tech companies, and the employees in these companies, need to continually ask themselves what they're empowering.

EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMotykw0SIk&feature=youtu.be...
Are names quantities?
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Sadly, with our irreproducability crisis in research, p-hacking, and agenda driven media I’ve stopped taking articles like this seriously. Sad because you don’t need a lot of bad apples to spoil the well and I’m sure more research is legit and intellectually honest.
A Heavily Commented Old Linux Kernel Source Code (v0.12) [pdf]
Would not that be just a question of missing improvements?

If I recall correctly, OpenJDK can use FMA thanks to Intel contributions.
You can refresh the fixed budget via a siesta power nap
Trading one jerk for another doesn't accomplish much unless you know one of them personally.
Right, so did I, and people were using it in production in 2015, but the first release was in late 2016 so you were using a testing version or used it late in the year. So this site rounded down from a little over 2 years from the first release. I imagine many of these dates would change depending on how you're defining when the technology first existed. And I remember how there was a sentiment that Google should just officially release the thing and there were worries about how the project might just be limping along and that could discourage one from adopting it if the project was going to be abandoned. But if the original commenter was just saying you could get an early version of it more than 2 years ago then it doesn't seem like that interesting of a comment and it doesn't justify the tone.
Short answer: it depends.

Long answer: Intel and AMD loooove length prefixes that basically move the base instruction into a new space. Because x86/x86-64 is a variable length ISA they can get away with this. When people like to talk ISA opcode bloat they deliberately include all the prefixes as 'separate opcodes'. Whereas most users would see them as the same opcode, but with modifiers that are not actually 'instructions' per se as the core opcode didn't change. Historically however there are some quirky op codes because of how things were implemented as mentioned elsewhere. So some instructions may have one memnonic but multiple core opcodes due to things like r/m vs reg/reg. This was because traditionally x86 didn't support three operand op-codes, and still doesn't for many general non-vector instructions.
Well, that certainly was not the common perception in the philosophy of mathematics in the first half of the 20th century. Sure, they believed mathematics is an exploration of the axioms, but also that the axioms must be true in some deep philosophical sense. Brouwer wrote: [A]n incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect,[1] and Russell believed that all of mathematics could be deduced from laws of logic that are true in the most absolute sense.

It is also doubtful that this is the perception today. If we want to use mathematics to derive any result about the physical world -- and we most certainly do -- our axioms must be consistent with it. How do you ensure that that is the case?

But such questions are not part of mathematics itself, just as the scientific method is not part of physics, but rather belong in a more fundamental discipline, called foundations of mathematics, or the philosophy of mathematics, which is usually studied by philosophers/logicians.[2]

[1]: On the Significance of the Principle of Excluded Middle in Mathematics, 1923

[2]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/
I can't help but wonder if there's some evolutionary adaptation going on: the bugs that avoided cars all survived, so their offspring are less likey to go near cars?
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> We can be pretty confident that if 50% of the population are women then 50% of the best candidates for a given job, by natural aptitude, are women

You shouldn't be as confident as you're probably wrong. Women have on average better verbal intelligence, and men have on average better spacial intelligence. So we can be confident there are jobs where either men or women are more likely to be best candidates.
It is easy to put this on politicians, but you must remember that politicians are largely a reflection of the people they represent. We are all to blame for finding the truth too inconvenient to handle.
> Oh, sure, he mentioned the Debian developer resignations, but outright failed to point out the reason why they resigned: systemd was being railroaded into the system as a political move rather than being judged on its technical merits.

No. Ian resigned because he tried to ignore systemd's technical merits and tried to used political moves (GR process) to to kill it. As a result, most of Debian's community told him to top messing around with politics. Ian's resignation letter [1] explicitly says that:

> I should step aside to try to reduce the extent to which conversations about the project's governance are personalised.
[...]

> The majority of the project have voted to say that it was wrong of me to bring this GR at this time.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/621895/

Please stop saying systemd was being railroaded. I have no idea what was going on in Redhat (I do not follow their mailing lists), but at least in Debian, it got on its own technical merits, and Poettering had no special influence there.

(That is not to say it is without problems; there are plenty of them. Still, the lesser of evils...)
> do we really need a study to tell us that bad personality
> people who rush half done jobs to get that KPI are not
> what you want as employees?

I suspect this is a rhetorical question, and what you may be saying is, "It's ridiculous that large swathes of business needs to be told this thing over, and over, and over again, and yet they will not learn."

That is my slant on this, because I observe that often times, the incentives in organizations are to do the wrong thing that leads to the local optimum, where we define "local" as, a particular manager's well-being.

If a manager is rated by the measured productivity of their teams, the will hire for the ability to make the number and manage to the number, regardless of whether the number reflects the overall good of the team or organization.

As they say, "You show me a metric, and I'll show you a game."

In a dysfunction organization, everyone can be individually aware that the organization's management is dysfunctional, but it can't be changed without an overwhelming majority of managers simultaneously cooperating.

<insert citation to game theory and cooperating vs. defecting>

Not only that, but some managers actually do better by "quelling rebellion" and enforcing the dysfunction. They will actively undermine any effort to organize change.

You don't need people to be ignorant of things like this, you just need people to be attached to their individual incentives, and you need a culture where those who try to make change are rejected by the host culture.
The actual speaker is great, but the vast majority of people who have a problem with systemd get there philosophically.

In a "I never actually had to write any code which had significant interaction with existing solutions (openrc, upstart, sysv, bsd, whatever), but I know they exist, so I'll talk about them like they solve the same problems as systemd" way. Which they do not. Want socket activation, double forking, namespaced children, sane scripts/unit files that can build a good dependency tree? You have one option.

Additionally, people see other tools like systemd-network and say "but systemd is doing everything!" Which it isn't. Almost no distros package those as part of the default.

Even if they did, many of the anti-systemd crowd would rather live with a different, slower system (NetworkManager, for example) which is vastly most complicated than what they need. Ditto for systemd-resolved and local caching dnsmasq.

Systemd is not trying to replace NM or BIND or anything. It's basically saying "it's 2019. If you want to be able to work with a system without knowing the ins and outs of 30 different configuration files, and speed up boot time/auditability of your system significantly, you can use these services"

Some things are bad for the community in general. The dependence on dbus (and kdbus), systemd-logind, and other tools aren't very friendly to BSDs to anti-systemd distros. Frankly, from my POV, this isn't systemd's problem. The anti-distros are free to do what they want, knowing the limitations. The BSD guys have written compatibility layers, which you can do, because they're open standards.

Broadly, I'd say that the anti-systemd crowd holds to an idea of "UNIX" purity, as if HP-UX, Tru64, AIX, Solaris, IRIX, and others were uniform. The reality is that they were more different than they were alike, in terms of administrative tools, filesystem layout (is this /sbin/init.d, /etc/rc.d, /sbin/rc.d, etc?) and even software portability. A large reason that GNU autoconf exists is to detect all of the quirks on all of these platforms.

Additionally, anti-systemd people either never used X11R6/OSS/lilo and other old tools, or don't remember how terrible they were. Any large change in the community (X.org fork, ALSA->PulseAudio, grub) draws ire. From the same people who are trying to use syslinux and efibootmgr instead of just using grub2.

Some people would rather debate philosophy than get actual work done, and that's great for open source, even if it's frustrating. But those people never dug into the guts of upstart to make something work, or had 250 lines of sysvinit boilerplate+supervisord saved off somewhere to speed up a process that you can do in 4 lines in a systemd unit file.
Agreed. SIMDs true competitor is ironically the super-scalar architecture itself and its relative the VLIW.
The user's suggestion wouldn't actually solve the problem the user wanted solved.

If there are scheduled messages queued to be sent when Thunderbird starts up, then Send Later sends them immediately, before the user has a chance to click any "Stop" button. The only way to prevent that is to delete the message when you no longer want it sent, which is what I explained to the user.

There's also a preference the user could have enabled in the Send Later preferences to tell it not to send messages that are past due by more than x minutes when Thunderbird starts up. So there are actually _two_ different ways already in the extension for solving the problem the user wanted solved.

It's FOSS, I don't have unlimited time to work on it, there are a lot of other more important features I'd be working on if I had time rather than adding a third solution to a problem for which there are already two other solutions.
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Clearly you haven't visited the Netherlands.

Distracted pedestrians (and cyclists!) is a significant problem.
This is how you fight to change systems when you're ultimately powerless to do so directly, by subverting the system. The only real power we have is to collectively agree to make the data/system useless.
I believe in the talk he goes into why this (in his opinion) isn’t the case.