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That's not Blizzard's CEO, that's Activision-Blizzard's CEO. Blizzard's CEO is J. Allen Brack. Activision-Blizzard just fired 800 of those 10k employees, including employees who were long-time employee. Why? Because Activision-Blizzard didn't reach its full potential even though they made a record profit, and the CEO stays. Something about captains leaving the sinking ship last. Very bad for morale, except it seems to be regarded as "normal" these days (it is not).
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That is what the article is about
"I often find black-and-white people a bit stupid, truth be told" - Linus Torvalds, 2005

I think maybe Linus T. is getting old, out of touch, and closed-minded, and I think we should be open to change and care less about every random thought he blows off.

Quote source: https://www.linux.com/news/linus-compares-linux-and-bsds
I'm not a blind supporter of blockchains, but your view is a gross simplification. Let's replace your words "the blockchain" with "privacy":

"I've said this several times before on this site but will keep repeating it: there's exactly one use case where privacy is a superior (and, in fact, the only) solution: when you can't use contracts and the legal system to ensure trust between the parties. In other words, anything illegal".

I like to be able to buy stuff from people anonymously. Not because it's an illegal transaction, but because it's nobody's fucking business what I buy. In this age of marketing and surveillance data mining, it's better to be safe than sorry. Also, what's legal now might become illegal in a future administration.

Note that bitcoin or blockchains in general are not fully anonymous perse. Some are pseudo-anonymous (because addresses can still be linked to persons), some are almost 100% anonymous, such as Monero. See it as cash over the internet. Permissionless, tamperproof and private.
https://www.elizabethblog.com.ng/2019/02/maduguri-in-explosi...
Liechtenstein Post Office Starts Selling Bitcoin, Starts Crypto Exchange Service
Lost Potential of Personal Computing
Plenty has been written on the subject, but Bowling Alone is the usual introduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone

It was an explicit policy goal of both Reagan and Thatcher to destroy the power of organised labour, and along the way all sorts of small community activities got swept away. Working mens' clubs, bands, and so on. Providing beautiful flower views for the neighbourhood with no commercial motive is "socialism", or something like that.

Of course, it was never directly stated like that, and conservatives continue to occasionally extol voluntarism. But they don't practice it or celebrate its values among themselves. The people celebrated in the post-80s society are those who can take the most, not those who give the most.

There's also possibly a gendered component to this; the hidden army of little old ladies and stay-at-home mums who overwhelmingly organise "community" activities. The 80s made it a lot harder to be a non working parent, so the mums went out to work and the children were left with the grandmothers.

Let's not forget the famous, defining, Thatcher speech:

"I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand “I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!” or “I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!” “I am homeless, the Government must house me!” and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations, because there is no such thing as an entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation"..."There is no such thing as society." -- https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106689

Given the chaos of the 70s, this argument had a strong point. However, the effect of saying the government no longer had an obligation to house people had the obvious effect:

"“Will the Prime Minister accept,” he demanded, “That, 10 years ago, in 1979, there were 2,750 households in temporary accommodation in London; that the current figure is over 25,000 and that a further 2,000 people are sleeping on the streets?" -- Jeremy Corbyn MP, May 8 1990.
Is this censorship?
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Or just set showdead=Yes in your HN profile.
usually happens in febr. and 0ctober, but jb did a video on this. plus 10th of 10th month. https://youtu.be/I88yluGb9oE
My 90 year old grandmother took a drivers test at the instance of he children last year. She passed both written and driving portions. My other grandmother who is about ten years younger on the other hand is a menace that should of had her license taken away years (and multiple accidents) ago.
I 'd like to suggest the word demonyzes for its double entendre
No, the author hasn't created Racket. The author is the lawyer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Butterick.

Racket was developed by PLT Inc.
> Since the rest is behind a paywall, just for fun let's deconstruct that intro paragraph!

If you're interested in reading past the intro, https://outline.com/bXUSAW should help.
That just moves the locus of disagreement to a different place, to whether the argument is respectful or not. And the risk is it will be less intellectually honest.

For example, what if I argued in favour of racial segregation of schools because it would give a better environment for children to learn in, being around role models they could easily identify with and not get sucked into cultural traps like thinking being academically excellent means you're acting white.

I think this is a racist position. It explicitly discriminates on the basis of race. I also think it could be an honest argument. Is it respectful? I personally think it is.

(To be clear, I'm not in favour of racial segregation of schools. The "acting white" thing is overdone and normalizing a binary division isn't good.)
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Is Google a state?
I don't expect most people to know about it, I just find it odd when news outlets make industry knowledge seem like a secret they're only now revealing.

"This just in: Door locks on most buildings can be easily picked, film at 11"
The robot can stay at home.. the mall or medical center will have its own robots.
If you're using Segment for Mixpanel or other end-to-end analytics providers, that's OK but IMO the real benefit of using Segment is being able to collect all your company data including customer event data, marketing, and CRM into your data-warehouse so that you have the big picture of all your company data.

Our solution basically provides Mixpanel-like interface for your Segment Warehouse Data (See https://segment.com/product/warehouses/) and you have the ability to see all your company data, unlike Mixpanel.

You can always use generic BI solutions to analyze the data collected by Segment but the product data has different semantics and Mixpanel-like solutions help the product teams to be able to ask more ad-hoc questions without any need of help from the data team.
Thanks for posting this - great talk!
How so? They are still free to post their videos, it's just now they can't profit from making videos which will end up killing people, that sounds reasonable to me.
It's down, ironically.
ah the "any" key. I remember that from my helpdesk days.
The Diamond Sutra, the world's first printed book (868 AD) and it was hidden in a secret cave for centuries. It was brought to the West in 1900.

http://diamond-sutra.com/
Actually, the Black Death was caused by a bacteria, not a virus. It could have been cured with antibiotics, not vaccines.
it's probably inversely correlated with the age of the readers ;)
A whole bunch of prominent Democrats - I think possibly even the entire slate of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, but certainly close to it - publicly and loudly stood behind Smollet's claim of being attacked. Most of the news covered it too. Even here in the UK, both his original claims and him calling accusations he faked the attack racist and homophobic made the front page of the BBC and probably a bunch of other sites. If you only saw it on r/news that probably says more about where you get your news from than anything.
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You have identified some problems

- k8s is not fit for your set up, unless you have 1000s of nodes serving an app and tens of such apps.

- Software engineers are not going to show any interest in infrastructure as code, as they can make more on the engineering side than on the infra side. Even at Google, I heard, it is hard to become SWE for an SRE, unless he joins as SRE-SWE. This tells that not many want to become SRE-SWE.

- What else can you teach to your sysadmin, when he can't learn "owing up to mistakes" in a small shop like yours. Im Mega corps, there is a political cost to "owning up to mistakes" right away. If he can't change, he is not going to learn it. You need someone who wants to learn and show some progress.

- Where is your company located?
someone should get-the community leaders from canonical to use this in their-stuff for 20 bucks.
True, but also a myopic understanding of what actually goes on. Who do you think actually serve on the boards? The answer is other executives. And so there's the all too common situation where pay raises and golden parachutes are essentially quid pro quos.
Can you delete this one?
Does it also play a huge part in the advancement of computer graphics in general? As I've often understood it, the demo scene people were usually some of the most talented in their field.
Er, well, yes. I've never used a LinkedIn account to get a job. I've found work via knowing people. (I have one, but almost never update it, rarely check messages and have not obtained any work through it).

How much money is knowing about such scandals worth to a society that isn't willing to pay for it?

I suspect there are models that can pay for deep investigations, but it's probably not daily or weekly newspapers. One problem is that so much investigative journalism is junk that collapses when itself investigated. We focus on the high profile impactful stories and ignore the constant stream of heavily promoted "scandals" that end up being more in the journalists' heads than in reality.
You are actually in agreement with the author.
Making a language "in the heat of the programming battle" is indeed a very bad idea. So is making a lib.

On the other hand I really would like to see a world with 10s or even 100s of little (preferably non Turing complete) languages with extremely good integration(with each other) and very good tooling and visualizations. Because right know the languages we use tend to be way too powerful. This prevents good tooling and optimizations.
You really should not be a CEO if you’re mostly in it for the money. That’s not leadership.
We do something much simpler, we re-distribute based on income. And periodically adjust up or down (via the ordinary democratic process) how much we do this.

Would it be better to set up a separate parallel system to adjudicate precisely who deserves what? If you had a rough childhood because your dad was in prison, he got 10 years when now we'd prefer a sentencing guide which would give him 2, we're going to credit you with tickets for 8 years... and your neighbor whose dad simply died in a car-accident with zero? Create a Department of the Deserving Poor? Maybe we should just try to make things better for anyone who had a rough start, through no fault of their own.
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> "Lofi is light-weight and runs on less than 100MB of RAM."

Ah, when I first started programming this would have been tongue in cheek. But times change!
It's very clear that most violence, and the worst violence, is from the right

Chicago alone has ~700 homicides a year. How many of those do you attribute to right-wingers?
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Actually, Linus does not ignore the smartphone space at all. In fact he refers to it by pointing out that people are likely to ONLY use cross compiling if the deployment is to a embedded device (which a smartphone is) because the native development on the embedded device may not be possible.

<quote>End result: cross-development is mainly done for platforms that are so weak as to make it pointless to develop on them. Nobody does native development in the embedded space. But whenever the target is powerful enough to support native development, there's a huge pressure to do it that way, because the cross-development model is so relatively painful.</quote>
My naive version would be

import Control.Monad (foldM)
checkBalanced :: [Char] -> Bool
checkBalanced = isStackEmpty . foldM step mempty
where
step (x:xs) c
| x == c = Just xs
step ls c
| Just r <- inverse c = Just (r : ls)
step _ _ = Nothing
inverse = flip lookup [( '(', ')' )]
isStackEmpty stack = stack == Just []
The problem is not with tech companies, the problem is with sjw's
I'm thinking the number of options just weren't there.
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Reading HN in the dark and burning up my eyes. Can we have darkmode ?
Yep.

Actually the most important example is to own up to one’s mistakes and shortcomings.

And choosing subordinates who are better than you.
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We have a family friend whose young daughter developed serious issues with autistic similarities after a vaccination.

This is not necessarily a topic to be 'stamped out', and free speech has to transcend censorship, search engine companies hiding materials and discouraging the creation of those materials.
Had local newspapers held firm and implemented paywalls, a huge number of them would've gone out of business very quickly.

I don't think that history bears this out. The Wall Street journal was an early paywall adapter, and they have been successful at it. The San Jose Mercury was one of the first newspapers to go online and originally had a paywall. They subsequently removed their paywall and went into a financial tailspin (I'm not suggesting that that's a cause-and-effect relationship, but removing the paywall certainly did not help them in the long-term.)
There was indeed such a slant, in who got out. But whether this explains jewish success in the post-war world... you are in essence proposing a one-generation artificial selection event as the explanation. I haven't worked the numbers but I am pretty sure the effect won't be nearly large enough.
This is SO COOL. But I was expecting it to have maps from HL too!

I am not saying that HL invented "noclip", but it's certainly my first experience with that concept, even though I played many other games before that used that name for that concept, and games that implemented the same concept before that name was coined (like "idclip" in the old Doom)
Child pornography convictions have increasingly relied on the concept of psychic harm to the victim from knowing other people are getting off on the material. It is reiterated that viewing child porn rather than producing or buying it, is not victimless.

It's only a small step from there to get to viewing innocent videos turns children into victims if the interest is sexual; if, one day, the children (possibly now adult) find out about the creepy people on the internet, they will suffer the harm.
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Two Dogmas of Biology (2017) [pdf]
One must put in contrast the eagerness to push epigenetics, inheritable trauma with the unwillingness to accept the heritability of IQ and its consequences.
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I’d take him outside and give him a stick to play with instead :-) That used to bring a smile to my 2yr old’s face who is now 22 and finishing a computing degree. It’s a special time when the kids are that age.

I remember when my son was little having him help me pull ethernet cable through our roofspace ceiling. As the cable kept coming through the hole in the ceiling as he pulled he shouted up to me, “Dad, is this magic?” :-)
Reminded me of this: http://langsec.org/occupy/
This is a valid point.

Another perspective: if you want to do good in lousy states, move there and vote there.
Maybe you got misled by the title, but I don't think this is a good introduction for someone who wants to get started with time series forecasting.
No, I'm saying that mobile development is also a clear example that developers do want to develop for platforms that they actually can test, which was the point that Linus Torvalds made.
x86 Docker containers will not run on ARM, even if you install Docker for ARM. Docker is an entirely useless layer to support cross-architecture deployment.

Heck, even full-blown VMs (the real ones, that docker partially replaced) are mostly useless, for performance reasons.
Eh, I have literally no stake in the US political landscape/culture wars (non-American, largely apolitical, don't actively seek out US current affairs).

I was made aware of the Smollet case via reddit frontpage. I recall the majority of comments from the get-go were very skeptical of the story.

Make of that what you will.
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That explains why people wouldn't trust MDs in the US where a medical license practically comes with a half million dollar loan that hangs over the doctor's head for decades and they're doing things that are bad for patients like the opiate crisis. But what about other developed countries? Do they have similar trust issues? Why do these Western Europe countries have antivac problems?
Where do fb recruit engineering talent ?

are we (engineers) really that indifferent to what organizations we support do ?
You can still watch videos. They are not censored. There is just less incentive making them.
uh..What is? (what you like about them)
> Ok, we get it. If someone offers you something of value for free, politely say "no thanks" and run the other way.

The problem starts when half of your colleagues accept that "something", and start discussing it on HN. (For example: "React", or any other FB open source project).
That’s hogwash. You can take someone without professional experience but aptitude, put them in a professional environment and they will be cranking out decent production ready code and features faster than you’d think. Yes, even at Amazon level.

They won’t usually be FAANG level senior engineers in 5 years, but actual training when your organizations already knows the right way to do things already can take you really far.
My favorite near miss not documented in the article comes from the golden ratio 1.618033988749895…

Repeated powers of the golden ratio are remarkably close to integers. By the time we raise the golden ratio to about the 72nd power, IEEE 754 double-precision floats cannot tell that it is not an integer.

On one hand, every power of the golden ratio is irrational. However, on the other hand, the golden ratio's powers encode the Fibonacci sequence as a recurrence relation, so that the powers tend to be integers. This tension is what creates the near misses.
> Surely this would be the same for server software: If prod was running on ARM, then you'd probably have your CI server running ARM too.

CI/CD is already too far ahead in the pipeline to be useful. CI is only a stage where you ensure that whatever you've developed will pass the tests that you already devised, but it's already a stage where you already tested and are convinced that nothing breaks.

The type of testing that Linus Torvalds referred to is much back in the pipeline. He is referring to the ability to ramp up a debugger and check if/when something is not working as expected. Developers do not want to deal with bugs that are only triggered somewhere in a CI/CD pipeline, and can't reproduce in their target machines.
What's so sad about someone who doesn't really like to spend time outside? Personally I like going outside, but I'm a bit jealous of people who love their work environment that much.
> It is kind of slow

It’s not though. You just need to make sure you aren’t computing with exact precision (the default) but use numeric precision and it’s as fast or faster than maple, matlab, R or python. Which are the obvious comparisons.
I think it definitely is. Creators depend on Ad-Revenue so taking that away when they publish something you don't agree with is censorship. Also Google doesn't have to be a state to engage in censorship, anyone can be a censor i.e a parent who prevents their children watching shows with a gay character.

I think the Anti-Vaccination movement is misleading and eventually harmful to public health.

That said I think censorship should be something that should take place (if it has to) in a public office, not in a corporate boardroom.

Here is what Google should have done. If you google anything related to depression google suggests suicide prevention hotlines. If facebook notices a popular article in your timeline it follows it with a snopes link to check if it is real. In other words Google should place a banner/ad/link that educates people on the real facts concerning Anti-Vaccination.

At the end of the day, Google own their platform and can do whatever they want, but is it the right thing to do? Or better yet is there a better way.
I think an AI bot similar to the one described in the book The Diamond Age is a moonshot. I have made some tangible progress on that one. We can have a bot that is able to help learners learn on their own. Checkout www.primerlabs.io
John Baez is always thinking about something super interesting, I never see his name and then something dull.
I wonder if they psychologically test for and target these traits during recruitment.
No, because you get what you measure. If there are concrete rewards attached, people will immediately try to game the system. You can ameliorate this somewhat by being careful what you measure, but you'll still wind up with a metrics-driven tick-the-boxes response rather than an organic result driven by individual human motivations.
Censorship is not about the right to make a profit, it's about the right to publish.
All meds have side effects. Things do not work for 100% cases, but that doesn't make it invalid.

Leaving that aside, usually don't even understand why they choose to not vaccinate their child, they just believed someone that said it is bad. Look at the "flatearthers", some arguments are even funny because they are based in nothing. You can only just "believe" them.

Of course the government should do something about it. Don't forget the government is the society.
2001 was at an inflection point where it was very rapidly becoming clear that argument was archaic. In any case, the fact that everyone else was giving away browsers for free is hardly a great argument that Microsoft should be prevented distributing it for free also, and if they can why not let them bundle it?

The world of 2001 was very rapidly becoming the connected world we're in now, and imposing a restriction on anyone like that now would just seem ludicrous and in fact user hostile, as it was. To me and I think anyone else paying attention back then, that was very obvious.
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Antivaxxers tend to do their proselyting for free. What this may discourage is that professional trolls meddle with it because they promote any "oppressed" outlandish claim to optimize for clicks (and therefore ad revenue).