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Don't forget that our climate change denier President was elected due to fake news and extreme right radical content freely spread in Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube.

The companies responsible for these services, who put their profit over everything else, are the main culprit. Our fellow software developers who work there also have their due share.

It isn't a easy subject to talk about, but our profession disregard of Ethics is a serious problem.
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On China, by Kissinger. Slightly outdated but still contextualizes china w/i its history.
I managed software developers for many years at a fairly well known software company, where the first gateway for a hire was an advanced Math or CS degree with an undergraduate gpa of 3.5 or higher from a tough school (undergrade gpa because we felt that was more indicative of raw talent or work ethic than graduate gpa). This was followed by rigorous testing in logic and programming. Even after all that I found there were still between 10-20% of hires who could not code. Many with Masters or PhDs in Computer Science.

My theory is that coding is kind of like carrying a tune in music - either you have it or you don't. It's not an intelligence issue or a matter of education. These were bright folks. There is a mysterious innate ability that you must have to begin with, and some just don't.
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> The problem at the moment in off-peak times is that they dare not reduce the price because there are trains that run during the day which fill up, and there's no good way of differentiating fares between the ones which do and the ones which don't.

Isn't there? Travelling from Leeds to London at 7-9am Monday costs several times as much as at 2pm Sunday, and I assume that's because the operators can differentiate which journeys are popular (and furthermore which ones carry large numbers of business people who can afford/expense higher fares).
> > it just appeals to both vanity and laziness to think "I can wing it."

> Some people are just good at ad lib. What is charisma without improvisation?

Indeed, some people are good at ad lib, and can give a good talk without practice; but I think that it is almost always some combination of vanity and laziness to think that one can give a better talk without practice than with it.
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I have a 4.5kW solar installation and 26kWh of storage. I'm not sure what large or small is, but it didn't cost much and only covers about half of my house's potential solar roof space.

That's enough for our old house to be net zero in the Southern California summer, A/C and everything.

Modern houses with actual insulation in the walls, and windows that don't turn the rooms into solar ovens, would fare an order of magnitude better than even my modest solar setup.
This add on does something similar, visiting sites automatically to add noise to your browsing

https://trackmenot.io/
several millimeters??? wow.
K80 is 2 GPU chips with 12GB, so it's not always as good as one newer/larger GPU. Much more affordable though :)
> If you buy a defective thing from best buy, they are responsible.

Not really. They just assume liability for competition's sake. They could effectively tell you to go pound sand, but that would hurt them competitively, so they offer a return policy instead. Same as if you get a defective product from a Craig's List seller - caveat emptor.
> Guns shouldn't be political

Guns are power, power is political.
1. The existence of people who were protected doesn’t imply that most unindicted predators are being protected.

2. Yes, accusations destroy careers (of the falsely accused). Not believing accusations that haven’t been proven in court also destroys careers (of victims). So that’s not a real argument.

3. I’m not advocating any formation of mobs. I’m advocating individual employers, friends, family members make decisions for themselves and bar the accused from their private spaces at their discretion, not based on the decisions of the courts.

I’m an American though, so maybe I’m overly committed to private autonomy. But I’m not
going to defer to my government about the safety of my people.
Got to love rich westerners who want to remove options that improve that lives of people in the third world.
How about judging us on our performance at our jobs then, and not treating us as children?
LeelaZero struggles with endgames. I'd probably use LeelaZero through the beginning and middle games, but switch to Stockfish whenever I feel like a tactical situation comes up, especially if the position starts to drop down to 10-man or 9-man. 7-man Syzygy Tablebase are less than 10TB, a RAID-array of M.2 drives will access those quickly. If Stockfish evaluates any 8-man trade, it will simplify into a 7-man situation and you have guaranteed perfection after that.

No one knows how to integrate the endgame tablebases into LeelaZero by the way. So if we both play LeelaZero for the first 40 moves, but I switch to Stockfish + 7-man Tablebase for the ending, I'm probably going to beat you. LeelaZero's endgame really is quite weak.

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If you are a programmer, and can figure out how to integrate the Neural-Net evaluation into MCTS to evaluate tablebases, you probably would do great. Its currently unsolved (to my knowledge).

It seems solvable... I don't see any reason why MCTS couldn't have a if(popcnt(bitboard) < 8) doTablebase() statement somewhere. The question is how to do it as quickly as possible, and how to do it asynchronously and integrate the statistics to the rest of the MCTS tree.

BTW: A research team has created the 8-man Tablebase, although it takes probably 100s of TB to store. This means that 8-man Tablebases will remain as Hard-drive only for now.
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How could you possibly think Trump is worse than GWB?

GWB: Ignored warning signs for 9/11, Patriot Act, NSA mass spying, Afghanistan mismanagement, got us into Iraq on falsehoods, Iraq mismanagement, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, supported torture, Katrina mismanagement, 2008 financial crisis. I'm sure there are things I'm forgetting, but his presidency did things that are still causing issues today.
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Why do you feel the need to talk about sex at work or guns?
Fun factoid: Joey Hess (Debian developer & creator of git-annex) lives/lived in one: https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/hackerholler/

His blog has occasional experiments with off-grid and low-power living.
Your attempt to argue this is somehow vague or a slippery slope is silly - most workplaces seem to have not a tremendous amount of trouble with this, even though it is not rigorously defined.
Personally, I disliked Pandora because of it’s poor story and gimmicks like farming. Our guild went from doing heroic raids in Cata to 1/2 the guild quitting the game within 3 months of expansion and many people never hitting the new max level.

I assume people that remain generally liked the changes, but from what I can tell the player base tanked.
>If they were to go with embargoes and not tariffs,, things would be dramatically different, especially if they can nuke holiday season sales.

>Just a plain clothing embargo would send all and every American retailer scrambling. There will be not enough merchandise in all India, Bangladesh, and Vietnam combined. And it will be even worse if Chinese factories in those countries would also join the embargo.

>For things like regular household goods will also be no real alternatives as even export oriented economies like Vietnam import god knows how much plasticware from China just because it is often cheaper than manufacturing locally.

I am confused.

No countries that I know of apply tariffs and embargoes on exports of goods, except stuff that's national security sensitive like military tech. They do the opposite, i.e subsidize exports, which is at the core of this mess, i.e Trump thinking that China is subsidizing too much and devaluing their currency.

Are you advocating that China apply tariffs and embargoes on exports to the US? Isn't that what the US exactly wants?

Also embargoes mean that, in the future, after this is resolved, importers will be very vary of trust Chinese exports and will prefer other countries even if somewhat more expensive, just for stability.
Not trolling, just read 1984 or animal farm. It’s just the same story
He’s probably just mad he couldn’t sell surveillance tools to China like Google does.
Ehh, so install some battery storage. It’s not like we’re going to reverse course because of mistakes made along the way.
If you've ever looked at the way the NSA treats exploits, remote access software and such, they're very careful about deploying them against people who may be able to detect and analyze them themselves.

Putting such things in public code like that which would both directly point the finger at them and possibly turning secrets into widespread knowledge in the security community would be... incredibly stupid.
Visa free travel to the US. The situation isn't that desparate yet. But I fully expect this President will toss them back into the jaws of tyranny.
A balloon can be designed with excessive slack for accommodating the dramatic pressure differential between ground level and typical weather balloon altitudes, but neither airships (rigid or semi-rigid) nor blimps could ever hope to come close. Airships would fail to enclose enough volume power structural weight and blimps tailored for high altitude would fail to keep shape at lower altitudes.

Even if the problem was somehow solved for blimps, (perhaps with an internal "diving bladder" filled by compressing some of the carrying gas), their cross section at lower altitudes would be prohibitively big, making them effectively unmaneuverable. A very high altitude blimp would effectively be a one-way vehicle, it could raise as an uncontrolled balloon (then it might even be acceptable to not solve the slack issue at all), then operate as a dirigible at target altitude.
I share the vision of this article. We are working on the same problem at Okteto Inc.

As an ex-docker employee, I love to work with docker-compose and I agree it is usually a good enough abstraction for development.

But it is not only about the tool, I think the future of development is on the cloud and Kubernetes is a perfect fit for ephemeral dev environments:

- You have unlimited hardware and network resources but efficiently shared by all your team.

- You can share endpoints for fast validation and easier integration with external systems and webhooks.

- You reduce k8s integration issues.

- You have access to infra services like service mesh, logs aggregators and metrics from development.

We just need to improve our dev tools to reach a great dev experience on remote Kubernetes clusters. I have been working like this for 2 years now and I can say my dev experience is much better than before. I have replicable dev environments, I can spin a new dev environment on a new namespace for each git branch, switch dev environments with a single command, and deploy my changes instantly.

And 5G is just around the corner and it will make the experience even better.
You're in luck, I also lived in London before moving to SF. Daring comparing these two cities public transport is FUD. I've never taken a cab in London, bus and some metro lines are 24/7. Public transportation of SF and the bay is a joke if you've ever been outside the US.
I think there was some hope that capitalism would bring about democracy. It hasn't quite worked out (yet?).
By that standard, most interesting work is political.
Yes. The problem I have experienced from a customer service perspective is that marketplace sellers who ship dangerous or otherwise clearly defective/scam products (eg I had a power wallwart explode on first being plugged in) just respond to any and all complaints by processing an immediate refund. This doesn't seem to get picked up properly by amazon and presumably their margins are good enough that this strategy works for the sellers (at least for a while).
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Many Hong Kong residents already fled for Canada years, and even decades ago before the official handover to China.

This whole situation has been a long time in the making.
I think they meant what makes it a positive `mofo`, if you will.
China created China. The west is an influencer but to say it drives the direction of that country is misplaced and not accounting for how much power china has domestically.
> Connect suburbs to viable public transportation solutions

This is the thing that can't work. Public transit inherently requires density. Otherwise you have a bus that only comes twice a day and is still mostly empty because there aren't enough people per unit area to fill it.

Expecting commuter rail to eliminate cars in Spokane or Colorado Springs is delusional. It only works at all in major cities and even most of the cities in the US don't have enough density to make it really efficient -- and are prohibited by zoning laws from building at the density necessary to make that happen.

More to the point, even if we fixed the zoning today, it would take many years to actually build the density required to make it work, and until then people are still buying cars. And electric cars are better for the climate than gasoline.
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Paywall, but I'd bet this is mostly about forums/Slack/email and not about in person conversations.

I think the problem is that mass communication tools being used at biggish companies and up do not foster productive conversations about controversial topics. Trolling scales too well.
It's worth noting that, like other attempted replications, the perplexities of this model mostly aren't as good as GPT-2. Given that the title of the GPT-2 paper was "Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners," I'd be interested in a lot more metrics before I'd believe GPT-2 has actually been replicated. Especially because every other time someone says this, metrics show otherwise. Until then, this is just a really big model.
> You don't necessairly need power to push back on unrealistic deadlines.

I'm sorry, but you do.

If the entire rest of your team accepts such nonsense, and you are the only one pushing back, you will soon find yourself out of a job.
Don't forget about your local library. I subscribe to Netflix, but I watch more movies and shows that I get on DVD and bluray from my library than I watch stuff on Netflix.
No shit. I guess Google can no longer assume that there is a single correct world view that all good and smart people hold. Who knew.
No debate, just get in line.
This can work for travellers, but seems impractical for crew going back and forth many times each day.
There's still some decent physical shielding of the underside of the pack(which runs whole body). It'd be interesting to see the long term impacts that would have on the frame/etc.
In that case you might enjoy this:

https://ludens.cl/paradise/turbine/turbine.html

Was posted here a while back. Fascinating guy.
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In most professional settings, it’s considered a norm not to talk about sex, politics, and religion unless your business is dealing with one of those areas specifically.
My living depends on selling small-batch, high quality, independently made woodworking items and I've struggled with this. Selling on Amazon feels like you're relinquishing control over your product, much more so than Ebay or Etsy. Just yesterday I've had a third party seller somehow merge my product into their own product listing, taking the small number of 5 star reviews I earned organically with them. They sell a completely unrelated product and in their page you'll notice the reviews refer to a bunch of unrelated products. Meanwhile what the customer sees on the search page is a 4.5 star item. After some research it appears this is a common problem. How something so egregious can happen at all is puzzling.

Well I've decided Amazon isn't for me, for now. I have a dedicated website for my business but I don't know what is the right way to drive traffic.

Could you mind explaining what your approach has been?
Aside from your opinion about that president, this is an interesting take, since the trades are between countries and the markets within those countries -- not between presidents.

> I don't think he makes the greatest trade partner anyway

This seems to imply that the president of Brazil represents the entirety of an economic block, and as such a trade deal should suffer because of just one person?
What I don't understand is why it is such a prevalent issue in the US but not in Europe.

I've had a couple of French phone numbers over the past 15 years and I can't recall a single time I got spam call (though I did get an occasional spam text message with a shady link). I know my parents occasionally get some call but it's a small handful of offenders that keep repeating the same call again and again.

I don't think it's a technical difference as you can make call using IPBX/VOIP without too much trouble here.
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Density is a bad metric because it will always be low in the US due to how cities are built.
I guess the issue is people no longer act as adults (having rational discussions over differences) when confronted with differing or worse opposing views?
A small but large enough group (on many issues) get enraged and genuinely feel threatened by alternate opinions.
I was told many times to go with a slightly undersized AC, precisely for this reason - they're better dehumidifiers because they run for longer periods of time.
Thanks, I've read those and they're great, but I'm looking for something that's less of an analogy. Something that puts China in the context of modern geopolitics. Preferably helping me understand their development in the last century.
I really don't understand how that tool is useful. So AdBlock blocks an ad, then this tool sweeps in and undoes any privacy benefit you get from not loading the tracker, AND wastes your bandwidth at the same time.

Edit: Yes, I understand that it is annoying for the ad networks to have to register lots of wasted clicks, but that doesn't benefit me at all. It just makes my own browsing slower. I figure at least 20% of the people browsing the web would have to use the extension for it to make any difference to the ad networks, and it's probably higher than 20%. That's never going to happen.
Wallets specifically exist to solve this problem, and if you’re not using one then you will see those obvious effects.

The issue here is that Apple is telling you not to use the things that are specifically designed to protect cards and such from these kinds of problems.
> If I close windows in the morning and open around 7pm,

I have explained the same things to my friends who come over to visit me. Some of them think I am crazy, others get it.

I have the benefit of a giant open loft, 2 story ceilings coming off the living room right into the master bedroom, with a giant ceiling fan sucking air in from outside and a large window open upstairs so the air has someplace to go.

If it gets to 90 it can be a bit uncomfortable, but the mid 80s is fine, it only gets a bit hot around 5pm or so.

I have friends who keep all their doors / windows open and use a fan throughout the entire day. Great job sucking the hot air into the house!

Although for older houses with lower ceiling that is pretty much the only way.
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In the early 90s many countries started opening up pathways for HK citizens fearing this - there was a lot of talk of "Brain Drain" in HK.

Canada in particular did a great job of encouraging emigration.

These days it's a little harder. The classic "HK passport" is the BNO - British Nationality Overseas which doesn't give you right of abode in the UK because racism.

Asylum is also extremely difficult to achieve - you'd have to have been already targeted and by that point there's already a risk of being disappeared extra-judicially.
I highly recommend discussion of the development of the ansible in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Disposessed as well, although she makes it pretty clear that there's a different theoretical basis for it ("simultaneity theory") than the one Card uses.
> With this design, there have been 3 icky-hot days so far this year, when there was no wind and the night did not get very cool.

As you noted, this used to be a fairly standard design for homes in some areas.

Perhaps a "whole house attic fan" could help on those marginal days?

The same thing happens here in Arizona; the proper way they should be building houses here would probably be a monolithic dome with most of the home set below grade - although caliche would make that difficult in some areas (and it would be expensive regardless). The next best thing would probably be rammed earth with 2-3 foot thick walls.
Compare that to asian/european cities and you understand why even in large cities in the US people prefer to use uber.
That sounds like a really fun one, and isn't dependent on people knowing about the modulus operator (which is rarely used)
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Everything is political. So Google is obviously banning a subset of politic.
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Even white glossy paint gets the job done. My parents recently had the roof of their house painted white and the indoor temperature has dropped by what feels like at least 5 degrees Celsius. This is in super hot North Indian summer.
As with most foods, salt content varies with intended shelf life and processing method for storage, because salt remains humanity's oldest and most commonly used preservative.

https://caspianmonarque.com/caviar-processing-methods/
Really? Hanlons Razor would indicate that the US president doesn't have an A-Plan to start with.
Ideally, at this point, working for Facebook should have become a badge of shame.
1911 was not that long ago, not was 1638. Going beyond that is dubious. It's like if Italy claimed to be 2,839 years old because of Rome or the modern Turkish state claiming continuity with Byzantium.
Why shouldn’t employees of the company with the goal of organizing all the worlds information debate politics? Everything is political. Especially information.
And a potential prion problem as well. Plants grown in prion-contaminated soil can absorb prions, and animals who subsequently eat the plants can become infected. [1] And while composting might be enough to destroy most infectious diseases, it certainly isn't enough to denature prions.

[1] Sandra Pritzkow et al. "Grass plants bind, retain, uptake, and transport infectious prions." Cell Reports (2015). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4449294/
Did you make it clear that they were encourage to email / communicate if they had any questions? Because I could definitely see myself not emailing back unless that was specified
Doesnt dns rebinding trick your browser into thinking this is indeed your host?
Ah yes of course. Not deleting my comment because I think my misunderstanding is funny.
The pollution from the production of the battery, the steel and the aluminium can occur well away from major population centres. They are centralised and immobile so there is a much better chance that in the future they can utilise more efficient methods or at least capture some of their emissions.