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Microsoft Employees Say They Don’t Want to Build Tech Training Soldiers to Kill
Sackler Behind OxyContin Fraud Offered Twisted, Mind-Boggling Defense
That hasn't been my experience. On most conservative forums, most people--clearly conservative--describe themselves as "libertarian". Look at elected officials: who's more likely to describe themselves as a "libertarian", Republican politicians or Democratic politicians?
Not a problem, we can afford it.
I would expect them to pursue a dual processor strategy first. The bulk of the OS can run on ARM and power apps can remain on x86.
I have a much easier time convincing people of my ideas on a one on one basis, and honestly a big part of it is then getting to say what scares them and me promising to make allowances or at least not to muck it up too badly.

People talk around their real concerns when others are listening. Especially if there are toxic optimists in the room.
or "past".
I largely browse using the front page. I am not looking to keep up with every article ever, I just look for a few interesting things to read, then close it and move on with my day.

I also find the design and web layout to be very pleasing.

My RSS reading habits never recovered from GR's demise... but maybe one of these days.
Many posts on SSC are tagged with this; Scott Alexander sometimes indulges in writing opinion pieces on controversial Internet topics.
After reading a few of the articles in the new sub, if that is far-right then far-right has a very different definition to the one being popularized.

Take this one that has two relative high voted threads and was at the top for a while: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/at8cuq/the_orches...
Your original comment did not say that you prefer personal interactions. You presented a bunch of your opinions about the effectiveness of in-person communication as if they were facts. Several more times in this thread you've written that it's just a preference then immediately asserted that in person communication is superior. That's what I didn't understand.

Also, you mentioned that you never worked at a remote first company, and I can say from experience that working for a company that has most of its employees in an office and a few remotes is the worst of both worlds. You get left out of all the decisions and social banter and all you get is a few crumbs when someone remembers to check the slack channel and see what you're up to. It's possible that if you worked for a company where everything happens online you would feel differently.
Posting this essay because it's eternally relevant when it comes to discussions like these:
https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
It's an essay by a feminist writer on how movements organize themselves.
New Announcements from the Matryx (MTX) Team
Vuethereum is a collection of Vue.js components for interfacing with Ethereum’s Web3. As a result, it combines the power of working with Web3 smart contracts, with the simplicity of developing with Vue.js.
More info in this post written by Austin (Matryx developer): http://bit.ly/VuethereumANN

Also new video tutorial videos from the Matryx (MTX) team that cover creating a tournament and submitting an entry.

Create a tournament: http://bit.ly/CreateATournament
Enter a tournament: http://bit.ly/EnterATournamentSubmission

The Matryx Team is currently undergoing code audits in preparation to launch on the the Ethereum Mainnet. Keep an eye out for their upcoming release.
The $0.46 figure is deceiving though; at the moment the cost of running the blockchain is being paid for by the 4% inflation rate. That cost is being masked by the high volatility and speculative forces controlling the bitcoin price, so you aren't really paying it.

At some point, miners aren't going to be paying for themselves by inflating the monetary supply, and then the cost of what they are doing is going to rise to be more than a centralised database tracking everything. Because the mining process for bitcoin is so expensive relative to updating a database controlled by trusted entities, ie, banks. And that will manifest in transaction fees.
If the compiler defines a behavior for some UB, then it's no longer UB. It's been defined for your implementation. It might still be undefined for another implementation but that doesn't mean your code is buggy on the first one.
Maybe I'm just really dumb, but can't anyone sued in this court just appeal to a higher court that isn't run by renegade turds?
"If it sounds too good to be true – it ain't"

I like to ask if I'm replacing someone. Why did they leave?

If the interview process to acquire talent takes too long / too short – what's the rhythm of management / hiring. If there's obvious issues in this department, what makes me think their products are any better?

I go through a methodology:

1) Do they offer routine / standard perks? If not, that tells me they're not competitive and out-of-touch. This includes things like a sane salary expectation and PTO.

2) Are they overselling on perks / mission / culture? I'm getting paid GOOD money to do this job, I really don't care if it means I get a "Free Lunch" or I get to "solve hard problems".

3) Do the people I talk to seem like people I'd work with? Would I trust these people with my money, moreover my space/time/privacy?

4) What's their presence look like? Do they open-source popular tools?
Do they publish books / articles / papers?
Do they maintain a healthy social media presence / blog?
Do their employees do publicity?

LAST AND MOST IMPORTANT: Can they even put up a decent website?
I like your way of thinking about it and how you worded it.

Regardless of whether a guarantee is offered upfront, there is going to be a mess if the client isn't satisfied. The way I think about it is: I might as well use it to everyone's advantage and be clear about it upfront.

And there's a substantive difference between all parties knowing things could go wrong versus one boldly stating upfront that one will try to do the right thing. This will close more deals and offers additional value upfront to the client.

Of course, it helps if one addresses other issues like filtering out likely to be problematic prospective clients, but that's another post / series of posts for another day. ;-)
Navy Files for Patent on Room-Temperature Superconductor
You'd be fine in Southern California and any major city in Texas.
I think more people need to have a kernel hacker mindset. We are getting to the point where everyone is working so high level that they just assume you can swap out the Distro/Kernel/Arch and it will not only "just work" but will work exactly the same was as your home system. While your simple applications (not attempting to optimize or really push the limits of your system) you might not run into issues initially but when you try push things you'll inevitably run into the problem.

The fact that we're talking about ARM makes this even more important. You're having to compete against x86, which requires increased core counts, and a lot more optimization and potentially even redesigns of your software to make your higher level environment to be perceived equal to x86. Businesses will need this, your boss will ask if ARM is as fast as x86 and they won't care to quibble about technological differences if you can't just get the same output speeds as their old, trusted hardware. There is only so much your language can do to cover your butt. At some point you'll have to be aware of your environment to compete.
Congress is theoretically supposed to act as a check on the judiciary, at least to the extent they appoint the judges in the first place. It's reasonable to encourage the constituents to provide feedback to their legislators.
Wasn't exactly an idyll, but there was a widespread belief that you abided by some basic standards, just as you might if going to a restaurant compared to sitting at home in your boxers. Or as dang and sctb try to enforce here.

It wasn't that homogeneous, nor always comfortably off. Certainly some groups were hugely over-represented. A lot of the early non-tech groups, and BBS's before them, had a surprisingly wide distribution. You could have a civil discussion on uk.politics with diametrically opposing views. Most didn't degenerate into a flame war, of course some did. Occasionally actual politicians would show up. Or authors in writing groups. Try that today on /r/politics.

The largest change was losing netiquette. Every new join, whether techie, scientist or whatever, was expected to read and abide. Once people started arriving in volume those basic "rules of the club" rapidly became meaningless. No one cared to listen. As people moved through forums, to the social networks the idea of moderation or self accountability at all, died stone dead. Everyone apparently now expects to be just as crass and offensive as they like, because "free speech".

I don't think much of that change could have been avoided. I do think the social networks could have decided to enable moderation far more than they have.
> At the Culver City office, overhead lights bothered one or two colleagues so much that everyone agreed to work without artificial lights, so that often, by the end of the day, they are all working in pitch darkness, rectangles of soft, bright light from their computers illuminating their faces.

Oh crap. I chose the quiet office without windows over the noisy office with windows, then I took all but one of the bulbs out of the overheads and put a lamp on my desk.

The email thing hit a bit too close to home, I always worry about the tone and whether I'm been too blunt, my boss has commented (not disparagingly) that I can be direct, I asked if that meant rude but apparently not, just direct.
Have you considered something like Lambda Co-op?

https://lambdaschool.com/blog/announcing-lambda-co-op-commun...
> How many people actually look at the front page rather than just use the RSS feed?

What do you use for RSS? After Google Reader shut down, I assumed very few people continued using RSS.
Do you mean that we're not all typings news.ycombinator.com ? That's kind of tripping me out. And where is this new 'more' button?
Incidentally, a lot of people do say "no thanks" and run the other way when presented with free (as in freedom) software
You probably don't want to bring up Jews while making this argument, given that their outstandingly high status and wealth in society kind of demonstrates that group social outcomes are more driven by internal characteristics than external circumstances.

They are the people who suffered the worst oppression, literally losing half their people to murder very recently, and who are still the most targeted victims of hate crime. Yet somehow they also ended up comprising >17% of global billionares despite being 0.2% of global population, are massively overrepresented at top schools, in leadership positions at all levels of society, government, and law.

It's hard to argue that outcomes are driven by external circumstances (as opposed to internal characteristics of people) given facts like that.

If trauma had strict generational effects, Jews would be in ghettoes now and Israel would look like Burundi.

Articles like the OP need to make some explanation for the counterexamples like the Jews. Otherwise they're just hammering on their own confirmation bias - seeking examples to confirm the theory, instead of grappling with examples that seem to refute it.
> This isn't that hard of a problem, and if an interview candidate couldn't come up with a basic solution like this, I'd very much like to know that.

def is_balanced_parens(s):
return s.count('(') == s.count(')')

Think I'd fail the interview test...
I'm sorry for you, I know heavy is the age bias in the industry.

Get a software engineering job at a company thst has hardware engineering as well, it's usually easier to switch as an insider.
I love the model, but $2k/ month seems like it would only work for people who don't live in tech areas, where it's more affordable. Being based in those locations, it seems like it will be harder for them to get a FT tech role afterwards.
Wouldn't the potential counterargument be that ARM desktops/laptops could potentially still come about? Probably more likely in the laptop space. I mean, I think about something like the latest raspberry pi, and yeah, it's slow as heck right now but it seems like something like that could gain a lot more ground if it was higher priced but gave you performance like an iPhone X or latest Galaxy. (And btw: from what I've read the iPhone X costs about $400 in parts, and $110 of that is in the OLED screen, and then there's other costs like sensors that you might not need. So let's say you get the cost of that down to $250 and make the price like $500. That seems like a competitive machine) We already saw Apple (successfully) transition from PowerPC to X86; it seems totally plausible that they could do the same thing with ARM at some point down the line, or someone could be a raspbery-pi style machine with a lot more horsepower.
Credit card fees are 2-3% for a reason -- you can get 2% cash back as a customer with a no-annual-fee card for instance. Then there's the fact that credit cards are loans, and there's a cost to lending. Finally, credit cards come with protections (chargebacks), guarantees, additional warranties and all sort of other customer-friendly services that people want. And obviously are willing to pay 2-3% for.

In the EU where people don't want the system to work like that interchange fees were capped in 2015 at 0.2% for debit and 0.3% for credit [1]. If that's what you want, there's a proven model for establishing it. In Australia it's capped at 0.88% for credit and the greater of 16.5c or 0.22% on debit [2].

Did you know Bitcoin alone ALREADY used 0.5% of world electricity at the end of 2018, even though nobody really uses it? [3] It's like we're all paying a 0.5% surcharge on top of everything we do, which is double the price of EU interchange. Just to support some ancap pyramid scheme that people agree solves largely 1 class of problem: payments for illegal goods and services, while pretending to solve all the worlds problems, just poorly.

[1] https://www.adyen.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-eu...

[2] https://www.adyen.com/blog/card-processing-in-australia-just...

[3] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180516131236.h...
Falls squarely into the 'cute but pointless' category.

Java is intended to be used by optimising JVMs. Java bytecode is rarely optimised -- that's left to the JIT. Using the Jazelle approach, where is the compiler optimisation step supposed to occur? Nowhere, of course! You'd be far better off with a decent conventional ARM JVM.

If you're on a system so lightweight that this isn't an option, well, you probably shouldn't have gone with Java. (Remember Java ME?)

[Not that I've ever actually worked with this stuff, mind.]
I didn't see the claim that there was one. Are you replying to the right comment?
The craft uses ion engines for propulsion. Extremely efficient but also extremely week. As a result it took a long time for the craft to match it's orbit. Had it not done this it would have either flown by or smashed into the asteroid at extraordinary speed.

To return samples to Earth it does not need to match it's orbit since the atmosphere provides a convenient way to slow the samples without powerful engines and large amounts of fuel.
DOS Lotto Program
Hi, I found a little interesting program http://cd.textfiles.com/tigershareware/x15/lotowins.zip but it is only a demonstration version. I don't fully understand how it works but I think it compares all possible lotto 6/49 combinations, one by one, with all the draws in the database in succession and in the end it shows 10 tickets, which supposedly are the best 10 combinations to play. I don't understand the concept %Gap, can you shed some light on it? It would be interesting if I could use it past the 12% limit. What breakpoint is necessary to uncover the location of the counter which limits the search for the best combinations to 12%?

Paulo Barbosa
"is it possible to go to Canada and buy it for $30 CAD (about $20 USD) a bottle. If you need a prescription just see a doctor there. They won't even charge you for a visit at a walk in clinic typically."

Is it legal to bring it back across the border?

If so, or even if it's not, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a black or gray market for insulin in the US, making money off the arbitrage between insulin prices in the US and Canada.
That slavery was horrible, nobody debates. That reparations are the best way to address it is a different story.

Pinker's book Better Angels of Our Nature documents, among other things, how ethnic conflicts have been successfully dismantled around the world. A key part of the successful recipe is a final round of partial justice whereupon only the most egregious crimes get addressed, the aggressors accept the truth of what they did, issue full apologies, and all claims are extinguished. There is no attempt at real justice, but it does end conflict and leaves everyone better off.

By contrast cries for justice have historically resulted in a new round of conflict, which creates a round of retribution, and a continuation of conflict that leaves everyone worse off.

The USA went through this effort after the Civil War. All claims to reparations for slavery should be considered long extinguished. And as much as you don't like it, the US descendants of slavery are massively better off than their ancestors were, and are likewise both better off and happier than most of their relatives in Africa.

It is clear that injustice is not done. I fully support an end to the Drug War, a reduction of prison sentences and a similar round to end the ongoing and current conflict over the same. Not based on long past claims to victimhood based on the slave trade, but based on current injustice.

However we have a lot more examples today of how to successfully end ethnic problems in countries as diverse as Northern Ireland, Timor and Liberia. There is clearly a right way to do it, and that is what I would want us to do now.

Very notably it requires a focus on closing the books on past history, a final round of forgiveness/redemption, followed by a better path forward. Which is the exact opposite of the kind of justice that the reparations crowd is asking for.
What's the difference between?

https://news.ycombinator.com/

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/front

I didn't know the latter existed until right now.
There is no way to enforce it, though. Seems like the “organic” label
No need. It really says a lot about the linked article in question where the best arguments he had for debate were allowing Nazi view points and pedophiles.

He seemed kind of angry at other people for bringing it up as a way to demonstrate what he was doing was wrong but then turned around used those topics as an example of why his moderation and general platform were so great. Guess he can just have it both ways because.

It's nothing but pseudo-intellectual masturbation. The idea of meaningful debate is apparently more important than actually meaningfully debating something to people like the author of the article being linked. Anyone who apparently brings attention to the absurdity and uselessness (or sometimes harmfulness) of what he's doing is "just against him" or is just too morally disgusted to actually think about the topics. Which is actually kind of a funny view point when you think about it; he truly believes other people just don't "get it" which is the summary of the entire article.

It's arrogance and foolishness masquerading as an enterprise in advancing knowledge.
When I left C++ for managed languages, it was when the OS became irrelevant to me, with FFI being the only occasions where it still matters.

As you mention lambdas take it to the next level, and in such future Linux might not even matter anymore, hence his point of view.
It's self-evident. To the extent a court is biased, it's corrupt. And if they weren't biased, they wouldn't be a nationally recognized haven for patent trolls, would they?
I was always wondering what about the hangovers. We all know he was a famous drinker and we all know drinking comes with hangover.

He must have had serious nightmares. Kudos, and strength, this doesn’t shows in his writings. However I would be very interested in the darker side of his life, too.
I saw it happen on the thread posted yesterday about companies pulling their advertisements from YouTube over pedophilia concerns. The user made a comment that as disgusting as it was, the people sharing timestamps and playlists of public videos of underage girls shouldn't be punished, since they aren't harming anybody and they didn't choose to be attracted to children. The post seemed like it was made in good faith, but because it was against the "ban them and report them to the police" mentality, it was immediately heavily downvoted.
It wasn't too long ago that Paul Ryan was considered a libertarian, and a positive direction for the Republican party.
Umm...can we? If you rip out the existing middlemen where does the “centralized ledger” come from but another middle man.
I wouldn't imagine you'd get a lot of performance boost from the change. You'll see battery life but that assumes they aren't looking to run a crazy number of cores to make it compete with the x86. And they only way that massive core counts help is if the software is designed to utilize them correctly.

Its not that all users are devs. Its that all devs might not be able to make their software work well under that environment.
>I'd like to be able to live somewhere that I might hear people discussing open borders at the gun range, or misogyny at the gym, or military budgets at the coffee shop.

There's a gun range in the Santa Cruz mountains that's about a 20 minute drive from downtown Mountain View where I've had just those types of conversations. I had a discussion on military budgets, with sailors, in a bar in SF months back during Fleet Week. I literally had a conversation about misogyny at the gym with my friend today, because for once we were outnumbered by women there.

I think SF is an ideological monoculture in that you aren't really allowed to be racist or misogynistic or homophobic here, sure. But you're certainly allowed to be conservative in the "old" sense of the word. Tons of the new rich here are.
Just want to point out that these are two different things:

1. detrimental effects of too much CO2

2. detrimental effects of too little O2

The short and long-term effects of both may be very different. The human body can adapt to the low O2 at high altitudes given enough time[0], but I don't know if the same applies to high levels of CO2.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitude_sickness#Prevention
Yep - we think client projects are a big part of the learning process. We haven't designed it to be like their program but it's in the same ethos.
This would accomplish none of Apple's objectives, since they would remain subject to the jurisdiction of that federal district and the local politicians have no say over a federal judiciary appointment.
Well.. the Great Depression comes to mind.

Going out is expensive. The middle class has less disposable income now. I am not middle class (because I am a web developer) but though I can afford to go out, I don't go out that often.

I prefer to cook at home, for cost and health.
I have a great tv, the movie theatre is expensive, so it has to be a movie I really want to see.
Working from home is awesome. I do it as much I can.
My cat misses me when I am away.

People spend a lot of their time "virtually socializing" with their phones. So, being at home alone.. isn't as alone as it used to be,