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> Congress is 535 people and is filled with relatively little expertise.

That's like calling the Executive Branch one person (currently filled by someone with extremely little expertise).

Congress includes bureaucratic organizations staffed by career experts like the Government Accountability Office. They used to have the Office of Technology Assessment until it was killed off by ideologues. They also enjoy ready access to experts from the various agencies.

> Of course Congress has to delegate to executive agencies. This is not abdication.

They've very clearly abdicated their responsibilities to the Executive in things like war powers and surveillance oversight. They are supposed to serve as a co-equal branch of government and as a check on Executive power.
I think it can be simple.

Intolerance is a set of beliefs or behaviors that exclude.

Cake baker would be in the wrong, because he excludes.

It doesn't matter how many people hold an intolerant belief for that belief to be intolerant.
What about when you normalize for the current low interest rate environment?
These people inevitably hide behind companies. The obvious solution is to make executives of companies that commit criminal acts themselves be held criminally liable. After all they've spent decades arguing their grossly disproportionate incomes is due to the "risk" they're taking.

But in the US especially it seems unlikely law makers will ever hold the people who pay them culpable
Nowadays most people can't actually get anything off Piratebay cus they can't operate Tor
There is also the danger that if you keep equating Antifa with the right wing extremists shooting people you create a space on the ultra left for people who would do those things and I’m sure in any large movement those people are there.

It’s not like left wing groups haven’t done horrible things in decades past.

That said at the moment in the US it’s pretty clear that the body count (literal) is piling up on the right wing side.

Honestly if people could just stop shooting people for stupid reasons it would be awesome.

As an external observer it seems like the US is slowly sliding towards a worse state of affairs, the government seems unable to get it in hand, dangerous times.

Not much better over in the UK either, we have the ever present threat of the islamists, the border question in Northern Ireland hanging over everyone’s heads (I’m just old enough to to remember the IRA blowing up town centres on the mainland) and a group of people who are seriously pissed off brexit hasn’t happened yet, We already had a lovely MP shot to death by a right wing nut bag and there is a really ugly mood, people are really pissed off with the present state of affairs and another recession caused by economic fallout of brexit could light the touch paper.

I think there is a significant (though small) chance we’ll see troops on the streets peacekeeping over the next two years.
Code reivews can have other uses.

- Protection against insider threat.

- Protection against leaked credentials.

- Protection against knowledge gaps.

- The psycology of giving a reasonble account of yourself when being judged.

- Assurances that standards are being followed.

Trust is all fine and well, but what happens when one of you're colleagues is having a bad time at home? What happens when their wife is held hostage until they insert some code? What happens when a laptop is hacked?

A cursory glance might just be enough, but you also might want to internalise just why we do these things. Often people won't mind if you set expectations and write the reasons for doing things down.

Also keep in mind all the big breaches that have happened lately. I wouldn't be suprised if they were high trust environments, still got hacked though.
So, what phone plan should I get?
I think you'll be surprised. You should watch some of these videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ - choose any one of his videos. It'll be picked in under a minute.
"A browser is required to load resources whether or not they come from they come from the same domain "

False. A browser could easily be configured to block or prompt before loading 3rd party content (early versions of IE use to do this). It would be very annoying, but it's possible and that's where we're slowly going with all the cookie/gdpr popups. There's always a tradeoff between security and convenience.

People are trying to legislate what should be a technical solution.
There's nothing stopping the same thing happening to HN, except the people that do it have no interest in doing so (and images don't auto-display, I guess).

They're all behind variable IP VPNs. Permanently getting rid of them is nearly impossible.
Locally, unlimited gigabit with taxes and all is ~$100 USD through ATT. The unlimited portion adds $30, but any TV package also makes the connection unlimited so that's what I did.
Or any other physical security issue? There are massive differences in the security of standard physical locks. How much does the average person know about that? How many people are buying locks based on an informed decision about its pick resistance and physical strength, versus buying whatever looks nice?
Or perhaps leaping to the most invasive possible diagnostic isn't ideal.
If you know something the very moment you see it, then that fact is "clear" to you. That is the general meaning of "clearcut".
When users have to migrate, plenty don't bother to. Not every extremist visits sites specifically for extremist content. Many people pick up extremist ideas just because they're popular where they were already browsing, and the reverse can be true. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjbp9d/do-social-media-ba... and https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-inf... have examples of various media personalities (Milo, Alex Jones) that became much less popular once they were de-platformed from their main point of presence. Their fans and popularity could have followed them ... but mostly didn't.
I should clarify that I'm referring specifically to companies developing FDA-regulated prescription medicines, I'm not as familiar with the device / diagnostics / "digital health" markets

There is more capital available in terms of number of dollars invested in biopharma startups. This is true across the board from Series A to IPO stage. 2018 was a record year for VC investment in biopharma. 2019 is down a bit but still shaping up to be the 2nd highest year on record [0]

There is a lot of Series A funding, I referred specifically to "Series B to IPO" because most Series A funding comes from 5-10 VCs who start companies in house. Later stage funding comes from a wider number of investors

The IPO market is also more open now than all but a handful of previous years.

There is also more venture investment in "platform", as opposed to asset-centric companies now than ever before [1]. Of the companies that went public since Jan 2018, ~25% of the programs they are working on are gene and cell therapy. Traditional small molecule programs represent under 50% of programs these companies are working on [2]. Historically essentially all FDA approved drugs are small molecules or biologics, so this shift to gene / cell therapy platforms is pretty significant

That said, a platform is only as valuable as the assets it generates. The value of a drug increases exponentially as it becomes "derisked" through clinical trials, and the value of preclinical or earlier programs is not super high. In many cases later stage VCs won't invest unless there is a fairly derisked asset, or unless there is some really compelling evidence validating the platform (Arvinas is a good example of platform tech that is well validated, they went public at preclinical stage and are worth ~$1B).

This is a function of the structure of risk in drug development and I think that it is rational for more advanced assets to be more valuable than less validated, but potentially more impactful platforms. I wrote an article on the relationships between risk and value in biotech that quantifies some of these ideas: https://www.baybridgebio.com/drug_valuation.html

There is also often a valuation disconnect between tech VCs, who may invest at earlier stages and at higher valuations, and biotech VCs who would ascribe lower valuations and / or require more derisking of clinical risk. The biotech VC market is very hot compared to historical activity, but it is not quite as hot as tech VC in general.

There is def some deep age bias in biotech VC, it sucks and I / my friends experience a lot of it. I think it's an irrational bias and it will get competed away.

[0] https://www.baybridgebio.com/1h2019_report

[1] https://www.svb.com/trends-insights/reports/healthcare-inves...

[2] https://www.baybridgebio.com/blog/ipo_2018_q12019.html
Is he? He leaked a lot of writing samples. Unless he took great care to anonymize his writing style (and I'm not even convinced that it's possible to completely anonymize a writing style without scrambling the ideas themselves), it's possible (perhaps likely) he leaked enough bits for a state actor to track him (or her) down.
> First is it does not account for people who have dropped out of participating in the labour market

There are alternative measures to U3 (the official unemployment rate). The U5 and U6 measures of unemployment are designed to capture discouraged workers.
Et tu, MSNBC?
This is exactly what happens in totalitarian regimes. I know the CCP does this in China, but I assume Hitler, Stalin, Mao, maybe the Saudis, did/do this.
Sweet! Thanks for the answer and accuracy!
constexpr or not are making a huge difference in large scale vectorizable operations for me. In my memcpy it's either two times slower without or two times faster with.

Maintainablity is a bit harder, and compilers suck. You have always check new compiler regressions, esp. with the broken restrict/noalias feature with newer gcc's or clang with -O3.
Doesn't this suggest that the unlock code comes from the "cloud" and not your phone/app?
So if you loose internet access you are not able to unlock? Or maybe it locally caches the key?
It seems amazing that you might not know, but in your case, may I recommend the film Blazing Saddles?

These days, it’s usually called the “N-word”.
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Why wouldn't it be permanent? You permanently reduced the number of outstanding shares in the company. All things being equal, having less outstanding shares would mean each share is worth more.

I guess you could argue that maybe the buyback was a bad decision (ie. sacrificing long term gains for short term gains), but the logic could be applied to dividends as well.
It isn’t that hard to produce smaller equations.

For inspiration on a way to do that, see https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/06/21/how-to-fit-an-elep....
When I was in college I worked part time for a small PC repair and networking company that was occasionally on the brink of insolvency. On payday the employees would race each other to the company's bank to cash their checks because we knew there might not be enough in the account to pay everyone. Fun times.
Agreed. But we are where we are now and have to face reality. The reality is, the political situation with guns is, and has been, stuck between a rock and a hard place. I want to keep those political arguments out of this thread and focus on how tech can help.

I think politically, you can get every side to agree that if technology could alert authorities that somebody is holding a gun in hand and walking up to the entrance of a retail store, it would be an improvement and can potentially save lives.

but yes, I agree with each of your bullet points. All three of those will have benefits far beyond solving gun violence as well.
> it seems like employees waste a lot of time on ... all the internal social justice stuff

The nerve.
Anyone who has watched "Minority Report" or "Neon Genesis Evangelion" knows you need 3 computers.
Something relevant here is that I believe that there is a significant amount of illegal speech on 8chan (or also twitter for that matter). Moving the discourse over to better enforcing current laws looks like an underestimated approach.
”8channers” is no more a defining term than “CNN watchers”. A website is not an identity. Many of the people who read HN also read the n-chans.

Be extremely careful about drawing conclusions about people based on the books they read or the websites they visit.

This wasn’t a blow against 8chan or 8channers, this was a blow against everyone who reads things on the internet.
> I'm gathering from your example that you're trying to preserve the rights of a bunch of middle easterners to say things like "kill the jews"

You seem to have extracted the wrong conclusion from the post made because you are thinking in identitarian terms.

> The point is that some opinions are just wrong. This is like morality 101. You aren't entitled to kill folks, no matter how much you want to. And you aren't entitled to egg other folks on to kill folks either.

You are 100% right, some opinions are wrong. But the point is: who´s to judge which ones are right and which one are wrong? I assume that you, in your infinite wisdom, find yourself to be of such a high caliber that all of humanity should use what is obvious to you as the "gold standard"? You took your inherited moral values from your culture, and projected them as the natural and obvious conclusion we should all reach. Now if that isn´t arrogance, I don´t know what is. And I am not trying to be offensive here, this is what your comment indicates. And that is what you should have gathered from the previous comment.

The funny thing is, I agree with you completely here. Again, you and I would probably agree on 99% in terms of what we deem "moral" because both you and I have inherited the those values from our cultures. However, you are in a sense dictating that the moral values you inherited are infinitely more superior than all the others. I mean you are making deterministic statements about subjective issues while calling those who dare not agree "unreasonable" without considering for a second that other people that live in other parts of the world might have different views.

Let me put it in a different way: I am not defending group X´s right to say or do Y. No matter the group. I hate identity politics beyond belief. I am merely rejecting the notion that YOU are reasonable enough to make claim as to what people should or shouldn´t be able to say. Because just as you think yourself to be the wise and saintly moral crusader that you are, others think the same about themselves. Soon enough HN user "bjross" will be writing the exact opposite of what you are writing while claiming that he/she is the moral authority on the subject.

It isn´t that I am defending the evil doers; it´s that I am opposing your (proposed) evil which I think is far worse as it leads down a slippery slope like which the world have seen many times before.
But the goodwill muliplier effect when you tell your mom and she brags to her friends who then apply pressure on there kids to apply there because they pay well. Friends, social groups, churches.. now those people are more likely to buy.
Not necessarily the cloud, it can also be your own server.

That's my problem as a Dutchman in Germany. Server still in NL, hosted at my parents', because it would be impossible here to host at home without registering a company (volatile IP, forced to change very 24 hours, only business connections get a static IP). Right now I'm attempting an off-site backup a second time, which will take a week or so, just like last time. Due to the interrupts and resumptions every 24h, there are lots of unused pack files, which you can prune, but then the system ran out of RAM during pruning and the backup doesn't appear recoverable.

The 4.5MiB/s upload I'm getting is the fastest possible connection in the centre of a city of about 50k people. I checked what it would cost to have fiber installed, and I'm not even sure it would be worth it for a company, let alone for a private person. It's cheaper to hire a moving company and go somewhere else. In the village of 1k people that my parents live in, I can get symmetric 500mbps since 2012 or something, they give a static IP, a /48 IPv6 range, reverse DNS...
Because I like being portable, which is why I have a gaming laptop.
Berkshire Hathaway is one of the most successful stocks of all time and they have never paid dividends.
I usually set the override for the browser... it's annoying, at least allow a range up to 2x, it also irks me when apps don't listen to the accessibility settings for larger sized text.
It's code for anything that is unrelated to straight white males.

Edit: Tell me I'm wrong lol.
What if suddenly you have 30 times the number of people at every single internet cafe? Also people with less housing availability use their phones more on average not less, because making ideal housing arrangements on a daily to subdaily basis takes time. Willing to be wrong here but last time I looked, DSL was also driven by an oversubscription sales model, meaning they oversell the product and then try to keep ahead of the curve. Perhaps you've never been homeless so you don't realize these things.
You can optimize for time, or you can optimize for money. It's very rare to be able to do both.

Can you explain to me how a dishwasher makes knives dull, because I had not heard of this before now.
I have one colleague who used to constantly name-drop the pareto-principle, as an argument to stop working on something.
It depends. If these are spherical rationalists in a vacuum, they’ll know what you know about how to detect it’s use and set their usage to the highest undetectable level. Having a time machine might make this trivial to achieve, depending only on if it’s possible to change the past in this model of time travel.
Greg Egan gets into that in at least one of his novels, Diaspora.
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They're not disproving your approach: they're admitting tacitly that they have no moral compass in these matters apart from "evening up the score".
This is a bad analogy because that's not how free speech havens tend to work out in practice. What happens is you probably have a fairly normal crowd at first, then the racists, anti-semites, etc start stumbling in. Gradually, normal/moderate people leave, especially those who are members of the minority groups the newcomers hate. The local Overton window shifts as moderate voices disappear and dissent becomes more scarce, making the site even less appealing to normal people who stumble across it.

>Lots of people are afraid of blood and spiders

These are inevitable in life. But you can choose to use a forum that is full of flat-earthers, racists, etc or you can choose to go elsewhere and not have to deal with people harassing you for what you were born as or what you believe in.
Consider an alternative hypothesis: that sites like those are containment zones. If those sorts of people don't have any peaceful outlet for their feelings, what then?
What would a disruptive bank look like? (2014)
Haha can confirm, am happy to lose money on TSLA, given what they've already done.
This story makes no sense:

- How could a single baby born with health problems bankrupt a big aerospace company?

- A man is just as likely to have a child with severe health problems as a woman even though he'll never be the pregnant one.
Sounds like a different anime to me. El Psy Kongroo.
so benevolent
So pretty much 0% security success in every smart lock I've seen attacked. (I think I've seen 5 so far, every one had nuclear dumpster fire issues.)
That's what any insurer worth their salt at least tries to do, isn't it?

They try to sue and prove negligence of the party creating the damage. The damaging party then tries to prove that they were not negligent and/or try to prove that someone else was (e.g. the supplier producing the struts in that one SpaceX launch failure).
Are there any online regex testers for ICU regexes?
The idea isn't to curtail people's freedom to assembly. It's to stop mass shootings. As much as you dislike it, people are free to organize and discuss whatever they want. They just aren't allowed to commit violence.
And what about Alphabet?
Time machines can be used as computers to reduce PSPACE (which includes NP) problems to constant time.
> I once had an engineer keep interrupting me while I was explaining how sockets work because I wasn't covering small minutia details.

I'm going to be in trouble when it comes time to interview again someday. I am not nearly as accepting of muscle flexing (anti-social behavior) as I was 10 years ago.
Assuming it's a reasonably high-bandwidth channel, very careful and guarded use seems much more boring than bootstrapping the singularity. So, hopefully you can find them and supplant them.
If allowed to send a message back in time any mistakes made by such a person could be fixed presumably. It would seem to me that you would have to detect that someone is playing with time, find out who that is and then capture them before they learn that you know and send a message back to kill you.
> The root problem is Americans. And I'm honestly not sure of how to fix the problem with a whole population that has become so irrational, polarized, ignorant and sensitive to hate speech.

That's an incredibly offensive and hateful comment. Fortunately for you, in America the first amendment protects your right to say it. Maybe you can see where allowing the government to decide what is and isn't acceptable speech might be problematic.
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Rather than be annoyed, you'd probably get bonus marks if you could show him the group-by query (sounds like you could have done that easily), then explain why your way is better. The interviewer would have been impressed at your maturity and skill.
Fair enough and I don't disagree at all on your last point, but I was really addressing the delegation to executive agencies to write regulations as part of executing the laws passed by congress. I do not consider that abdication.
I think "capable" also takes into account knowledge they have.

It's been a while since I watched Death Note, but isn't this brought up as a reason why Kira can't do, "writes down L's real name, then dies of a heart attack."?

It would be theoretically possible for someone to be lucky enough to guess L's real name, but apparently the note has a bullcrap detector or something where it eventually just says, "no, they wouldn't really know to do that."
Stylometry only works too an extent with helping to identify what's what. I could just stylometry to show that this document was written by a professional screenwriter, but it writing style isn't unique enough to identify one person out of billions. Gwern has an excellent post about this.
It's not: you are planning direct violence in a clear, present, and imminent context.
I agree. It’s odd that an article this technical goes on to recommend (or at least enumerate popular) password managers, but doesn’t mention Apple’s own KeyChain. It’s built into all iPhones and MacOS computers for god’s sake.

I personally don’t use any 3rd party password managers. I find KeyChain to work amazingly. There’s even a FireFox plugin that supports it.