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> I am surprised you have never heard of Taleb before.

He's just one of today's "Lucky 10.000"[0]

[0] - https://xkcd.com/1053/
Consolidating+Your+API+Gateway+and+Load+Balancer+with+Nginx
Therefore its called x86-64. It is the "same"
Heh heh. I like the way you think. Hackers of Utah unite!
> I am surprised you have never heard of Taleb before. He is quite controversial, but often deeply original and almost never boring.

Yeah, probably fault due to my own ignorance/bubble in which I live. But I like reading controversial but cleverly put together essays. I like it when someone challenges my own views with a well thought through argument, because that is the best way to either learn something new, or at least learn to understand other people better. So either way I feel like I always walk away as a winner whether I agree or disagree in the end. Thanks for the recommendation!
The point of unions is that unlike in tech, where workers are in high demand and paid a silly amount and get company swag and ball pits or whatever so feel happy enough, in most industries and areas people are treated and paid as poorly as companies can get away with because they are expendable commoditised labour.

Unions are historically a way of fighting for more rights (e.g. better wages, sick pay) for workers by collective organisation (i.e. pay us enough so we can eat, or we will all down tools and stop your factory doing anything).

The arguments against unions are that they are too powerful and mean people who are poor at their job cannot be fired, but I would argue that they are very much still necessary because the nature of capitalism and employment hasn't change particularly much, and without them companies would absolutely start taking the piss as much as they possibly can because it is their function to extract capital from workers' labour as efficiently as possible.

I would suggest that perhaps tech workers could join unions en-mass to fight for the rights of less privileged workers - ie if the cleaner can't eat or pay rent, you don't get your PRs merged, but I think that would take a level of altruism that is far beyond most people in this sector.

You have to pay union dues because they will do things like cover people's wages during strikes, provide people legal support when they are being unfairly dismissed, etc.
Haven't we had CLI ads for some time? I mean, this is an ad, right?

% parallel
Academic tradition requires you to cite works you base your article on.
If you use programs that use GNU Parallel to process data for an article in a
scientific publication, please cite:

O. Tange (2018): GNU Parallel 2018, Mar 2018, ISBN 9781387509881,
DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1146014

This helps funding further development; AND IT WON'T COST YOU A CENT.
If you pay 10000 EUR you should feel free to use GNU Parallel without citing.

More about funding GNU Parallel and the citation notice:
https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_design.html#Citation-notice

To silence this citation notice: run 'parallel --citation' once.

And that has been in GNU parallel for years.
I like the suggestion in namespace aliasing in https://stuartsierra.com/2015/05/10/clojure-namespace-aliase...:

As a general first rule, make the alias the same as the namespace name with the leading parts removed.

(ns com.example.application
(:require
[clojure.java.io :as io]
[clojure.string :as string]))

Keep enough trailing parts to make each alias unique. Did you know that namespace aliases can have dots in them?

[clojure.data.xml :as data.xml]
[clojure.xml :as xml]

Eliminate redundant words such as “core” and “clj” in aliases.

[clj-http :as http]
[clj-time.core :as time]
[clj-time.format :as time.format]

Then you can see immediately what `d` is...

Namely:

(require '[dk.ative.docjure.spreadsheet :as spreadsheet])

(You would still not know the library and might have to ask the same question, but it makes more sense.)

About `d`:

There are always exceptions. For example, some namespaces have established conventions for aliases:

[datomic.api :as d]
The USA too has regulations and levies fines, however, the robcallers and scammers are almost always overseas criminal operations.

I suspect the US is much more of a target because there's many, many more overseas criminals that speak English than German.
I had a low opinion of Taleb before, but this essay is actually pretty good.

Edit: but it's not new. The idea that concentrated interests > diffuse interests was formulated by Olson in 1965, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action
Seinfeld effect RE: Black swan. The ideas have become pretty common place (though most uses of the phrase in the mainstream are incorrect) so they don't seem novel ~15 years later.

And his writing has improved.

Skin in the Game is the example heavy companion/ follow up to the more technical antifragile.
Linux Pressure Stall Information (PSI) by Example
A Reckoning over Hong Kong Is Coming and It Will Take China's Economy with It
Huh?
"We’re partnering with leading call identification apps"

Are that those shady apps which require your address book access just to start, aren't they?
> I wonder if that's due to more relaxed laws surrounding construction back then or another factor.

Relaxed regulations back then will be a factor, both externally enforced and internal rules designed to stop past mistakes repeating.

Another significant consideration is the growing complexity of each individual installation. Also the higher expectations and attention to detail of the modern customer: you don't have the luxury of hiding a few flaws behind the spectacle of novelty, now such theme parks are no longer that novel.
It's utterly false.

The change affects only children born of NON-citizens who later become US citizens, and all it means is that they have to file the appropriate form to claim citizenship for eligible children.

There is no change in who is eligible to claim citizenship. The submitter title is false.
Most UEFI implementations are loaded on Intel Windows devices, which is most likely to use TianoCore, reference implementation of UEFI which includes UEFI NTFS driver by default. I have seen that some low ends from Lenovo and Acer have its UEFI partition (ESP) formatted as NTFS.
Drugs are one of the stomache is not allowed to digest the stomach moments of a free society. If a substance rewrites your free will, should you be allowed to vote on it post rewrite? Or should the old ship of Theseus specify conditions for the i validation of the opinion of its future self?
Google and Facebook not switching to more paid services is an open admission that subscriptions and paid does not work on the web in a sustainable/profitable way for b2c services that don't generate content. OR at least that the payment services are not there, or the fees are prohibitive, or deregulation is needed.
I don't think anybody knows what Schizophrenia is exactly.
Windows Malware Samples Compiling Their Next Stage on Premise
Surefire Ways to Fail at Marketing
Maintaining a sprawling network of massive pipes costs a lot of money, and precludes more efficient forms of plumbing.
I suppose this list must be combined with the following explanation: "To be targeted might mean simply being born in a certain geographic region or being part of a certain ethnic group."[^1]

So the suspects are countries that fight against the autonomy of a region where the population is ethnically different. The most obvious suspect is China: they have gulag camps in Xinjiang where Uygurs are interned, up to 1.1 million according to the UN[^2]. The dominant ethnic in China is Han, and Uygurs have been oppressed for decades.

Of course, other countries could do this, but the probabilty of Birmania/Rohingya, SaudiArabia/Yemen… seems much lower. On a side note, Voxer seems to be quite proeminent in China, according to the popularity of their Android app[^3].

[^1]: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-d...

[^2]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/11/if-you-enter-a...

[^3]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rebelvox.v...
1 Million per hour is only 300 per second. On a 1.5 Ghz 4 core raspberry pi, that gives you 21 million clock cycles to deal with each message.

The architecture seems rather overengineered considering a single raspberry pi could do the job, even after 100x scaling!
Biometrics is fun.

Industry: Multimillion dollar iris scanning development

Hackers: Eye photo

Gangsters: Found his eyeball

Industry: Infrared feature detection

Hackers: Took off the camera's IR filter, eye photo works again

Gangsters: Eyeball

Industry: Surface shape detection

Hackers: Eye photo with a contact lens

Gangsters: Eyeball still works

Industry: Multi image cadaver detection

Hackers: Eye video with a contact lens

Gangsters: Eyeball and a cattle prod

[Govt dept: We've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr Anderson...]
How Paying for College Is Changing Middle-Class Life
How the Amazon Rainforest Could Self-Destruct
Teachers often score by similarly sensible criteria.
Neither lack of critical thinking skills nor disenchantment with the world leading to fantasy prone thinking have anything to do with psychosis.
Citing a source doesn't make your message unbiased.

There is a saying "even the devil can quote scripture."
Sigma Shell
The author's "presentations" page includes links to video versions (I haven't checked them out yet): http://momjian.us/main/presentations/internals.html
European here, too, lived in several EU countries, received very few robocalls in my life.
Do not think this is due to regulation. Exactly, caller IDs can be spoofed, and who gets the fine then? Should be something else: the way how we are used to purchase services, goods, etc... Or the markets here are too small compared to US that blanket dialing does not justify call termination fees... But not 100% sure.
APKMirror is a great resource but there's no way they 'manually' review each APK that hits the site.
The telcos are part of the problem. I work for a company that deals with incoming robocalls -- thousands a day. I have a very long email conversation in my inbox between us (company) and Verizon. The general theme in this conversation thread is

COMPANY: we're getting thousands of these robocalls into our various numbers, will you please help to stop it?

VERIZON: We don't see a problem, everything is fine. Your bill will be there soon.

COMPANY: attached is a log showing 4,000 calls in the last two hours sent through your network and terminating at our location. Will you please help to stop it?

VERIZON: we have investigated the provided calls and we see nothing showing these calls originated from us. Please contact the upstream telco and ask them. Your bill should have arrived by now, pay it.

COMPANY: but Verizon does not provide us with information on the upstream telcos, we need your assistance in stopping the robocallers. This bill is considerably larger than usual because of all these robocalls. Will you please help up stop them?

VERIZON: we recommend your legal team contact our legal team if you feel we are actually allowing robocalls to pass through our network to yours. Pay your bill immediately.
> * SMS - You can't just interface directly with some cell company (which is proprietary anyways).

Wut? People don't even know anymore that you can use cellphones to send SMS?! (And no, that's not the only option, SS7 works just fine as well.)

> * EMAIL - Have you tried to send your own emails in the past decade? Just use a provider.

Have you? Talking nonsense does not make expertise ...
With ‘Talking to Strangers,’ Malcolm Gladwell Goes Dark
You also have ClojureCLJ, although the tooling and libraries around aren't as nice as on the JVM (many libraries and even clojure.core functions directly interoperate with Java).
Crowdsourced archaeology shows human influence on Earth for thousands of years
World’s largest permafrost river dries to a record low
>But I like reading controversial but cleverly put together essays. I like it when someone challenges my own views with a well thought through argument,

Try Chesterton then. A little old but still relevant. E.g. could try Heretics.
And what about the business owner making on average from statistics $40K a year in gross profits after working 60+ hours a week. Does he deserve to make s livable wage and still be able to work 40 hours a week?

Are we better off if he can’t be in business and has to work for someone else?
Pangrammatic Autograms
Uber, Lyft warn they’ll take the fight over drivers’ status to California voters
Browsers need to get their s##t together, webrtc / video-audio is still a mess to work with and they hog the cpu in a way that flash doesn't (anymore). There is not even a standard stack to replace the adobe flash/media server stack.
I wrote this after some manic bar discussions with non-techie friends, so the target audience is not really a HN crowd, but you may find it interesting anyway, in particular check out the stuff that it links to.

Oh, also - I reached out to Chris Patuzzo to ask if I could share my extension to his Sentient program, but he hasn't got back to me yet. Anyway, it's quite a simple extension.
The problem is also very easily solved by not answering numbers you don't recognise. If they don't leave a message it can't have been important.
> ...was done in London, so you can't argue that the researchers are biased by American government attitudes toward drugs

Ah, my naive little cultural hegemonist. Sounds like you've live all your life in America. Have a Coke, turn on some Hip Hop, and watch your Mickey Mouse.
YT link (in case you want to avoid FB): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ5w11Cm3gM
I think this is good as a way to filter people out, but not as a way to rank people to find the best.

I would want to see a short script to clean and predict a dataset, plus a small description of why choices were made.

Wouldn’t care much about the performance of the model.
Ding Liren Beats Magnus Carlsen in Playoff to Win Sinquefield Chess Cup
ISS HDEV web stream has shut down
It would be great if slack would also work at bad connections. I always feel like I just want to see the text someone just sent me and text should be available reasonably fast even when the network reception is bad. Particularly if the text has already been pushed via a push notification. I would just like to view it without loading a lot of things around when I click on it.
Fitbit customers angry company ignored complaints after update ruined devices
> dqlite is/was WAL frame-based...maybe this isn't the case any more

According to https://github.com/canonical/dqlite/blob/master/doc/faq.md this is still the case.
Raise prices or cut other costs. If that doesn't do it, well, perhaps they should listen to you and develop more marketable skills, right?

So the independent pizza shop owner doesn’t deserve to be in business since they have to actually be profitable but the startup founder who can lose money for a decade supported by granddaddy VC backer does?

And by the way, up until the current administration, every Republican and Democratic administration as well as most conservative and liberal economists has said that the best and least disruptive way to support a “livable wage” for heads of household is to increase the earned income tax credit. I would add make that a reverse payroll tax to make it easier for employers to distribute it to workers during the year. Yes, I’m okay with increased taxes if necessary.
I only use Safari on my personal computer. And at work I use Firefox for development, and Safari for personal stuff. I used to use Chrome but nowadays it's very rare (testing something specific).

The thing is, Chrome actually feels snappier than both Firefox and Safari when I am using it, probably because it's profile is empty (almost no extensions, no history, etc.).

I rarely see broken websites, with any browser. And usually it's because of my ad-blocking extensions. Google websites are slower on Firefox, but rumours are saying that it's almost on purpose… (one more reason to not use Google products like Chrome).
The ustream link was : http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload/pop-out
I mean subtilities like going with a GPLv2 (+ commercial license), LGPLv2/3, GPLv3, BSD-like, CC0 or WTFPL... Or a combination! There you are already cross into politics IMHO. You made a statement, to a greater of lesser degree by choosing one (or more) of the mentioned licenses.
I have Rust on a long backlist of things to check out, but the idea of writing kernel drivers in something other than C is interesting to say the least.
Meritocracy Is Killing High-School Sports
Filling Seats at the FEC Won't Fix Corrupt Elections in the USA
I keep reading about people saying this but it hasn't happen once for me or my coworkers (500 employees). Are we too small or what's the difference?

EDIT: My coworkers as in my team, didn't ask all 500. :P
There have been occasional limp "Buy British" campaigns, but the UK car industry's reputation for poor quality kind of sank it in the 80s. I'm not sure how many buyers could tell you which Nissan/Ford/Vauxhall (Opel) models are made in the UK any more.
Supporting 3 platforms (Linux, Mac and Windows) basically means triple the development effort. Off course slack would love to have native apps for all platforms, but apparently it's just not cost effective. 90% of the users probably don't even know what electron is, and even for those that do, it's probably safe to say that the performance benefits of a native application don't outweigh the the negatives of using something else then 90% of the company/community
>"There should be one — and preferably only one — obvious way to do it."

Which Python manages to break all the time. How many ways are there to format a string again?
Small business VoIP phone system setup tutorial
truly a thing of beaty
Logic spread out as different code parts that consumes events and then creates new events can be very hard to follow. A simple loop might be obvious but when part A creates event B and part C reads event B and then creats a new event that part A will read it is harder to find. It may be many steps and also some logic that makes it only happen for specific payloads.

Great explanations by the way but I try to avoid having too much logic spread out over different events.
Ahhhh thank you -- that information just got pushed into the FAQ -- I was thinking "surely they didn't just remove this information" but didn't look hard enough at all. Direct link:

https://github.com/canonical/dqlite/blob/master/doc/faq.md#h...
Apple will unveil the next iPhone September 10
FYI, already in 2015, I have proposed exactly the same idea as improvement to HdrHistogram. See https://github.com/HdrHistogram/HdrHistogram/issues/54 and corresponding code https://github.com/oertl/HdrHistogram/blob/memory_efficiency.... Unfortuantely, the author of HdrHistogram did not pick up my proposal as that would have lead to major changes and problems regarding compatibility. The mapping to histogram bins is the same as in your code https://github.com/DataDog/sketches-java/blob/master/src/mai.... I am curious, have you been inspired by that?
Metal Spinning
Crispr now cuts and splices whole chromosomes
By "program directly from the framebuffer" do you mean that you can't use X11 key remapping facilities?

In that case, loadkeys(1) will help (on linux).
It saved the life of woman I know during pregnancy, quite literally. She has recurrent hyperemesis gravidarum. Which is nausea and vomiting in pregnancy so persistent and strong that some mothers resort to abortion due to the pain and suffering. She was in the hospital begging for her life while the doctors were unable to help. None of the standard treatments worked for her. She had lost over 20% of her pre pregnancy weight and hadn't eaten in weeks, surviving off her own dwindling body fat and a banana bag. (I can't overstate how agonizing it is. If you're skeptical, there are plenty of mothers accounts to read) She was discharged for the fourth time, where every previous time she became so dehydrated from the lack of IV fluids that she was re admitted within a day. Finally, encouraged by other mothers success with it, she tried medical cannabis. Slowly she could actually drink water, then a day later sip some juice, another day tiny bites of crackers. She still vomited, and was still nauseous, but less intensely and could push through it more easily. She could finally eat. The baby was born vaginally, no complications and no health issues (and still so, years later).

It's just one data point, but worth looking into further.
> When on earth have we had a conversation about regulating drugs?

A few lines above, when you put as example "would be like trying to make laws against sky diving without experiencing sky diving". Making laws = regulating

I never talked about banning sex, or cars, I said that even people that do not drive can (and will) have a word about regulating car use, in their own interest, and also for the public interest. Same for drug use.

Regulating is not the same as banning, so please don't put words in my mouth trying to reduce the conversation to absurd. Is a cheap trick.
Elroy Air completes first test flight
Builders Are Swapping Cement for Weed to Reduce Pollution
Hang on. When I saw the headline, I assumed that he was referring to the software "in" the car. Ie, the software controlling the Engine, or the ABS, or Transmission, or the in-cabin lights, or headlines, seat controllers, or ... I could go on.

He is complaining about the software in his central console that he interacts with each day. It is only a portion of all the software used in the car.

I guess the big lesson learn here is nothing drives a customer satisfaction other what they directly interacts with.
In my experience, exFAT gets corrupted constantly, and then on linux you don't have a proper fsck for it.
Another medium article that we cannot fully read. But I read an statement that made me flash an alert:

> The secret to good stylesheets is that nobody ever really gets good at them, at not in…

Well, I state the main problem here http://minid.net/2019/04/07/the-css-utilitarian-methodology/ and basically it is because we've been using OO way to build Stylesheets due the lack of frontend options, leveraging the job of the architecture to the CSS instead of the frontend framework we use. This in the end makes anyone inflate CSS to the point of unmaintainability and need to refactor. And then people say: "just name your classes properly and no…" but is not enough that's why i also explain in this other article why not http://minid.net/2019/08/12/in-defense-of-functional-css/.

The only solution for CSS today is going functional. It is not perfect, but is far better (both in speed to code and understand as in rendering performance) than OO approach.
Worth noting: the rc Tx module and antenna used there are a team blacksheep 915MHz FHSS system, popular for long range fpv and freestyle quadcopter and wing flights.
>You can tell that by looking at it with the naked eye and no scientific instruments?

How is that relevant?

We didn't ask if someone can consider or see with naked eye something that looks like a circle, but whether circles do exist in nature.

And we have the "scientific instruments" to check up on the sun (which has a very small, but existing, buldge in the equator, and which also has an uneven exterior with flares and all kinds of motion).

>Wherever did we get the idea of 'circle' from then?

From objects resembling circles, like cut tree trunks, the moon at night, and so on.

Same place we got the idea of line, while there are no lines in nature (for one, because everything we see line-like, is just a line segment: lines extend to infinity).
Parental burnout can lead to harmful outcomes for parent and child
It's arguably more fair. At least purely random scoring doesn't incentivize cheating.
With what? There'no more analog out on smartphones. Also, you're wearing out the plugs over time.
Do you have a source to back that claim?

Why would he need a source to back an opinion?
Cybersecurity: DNC to Recommend Rejecting Virtual Caucus Plan in Iowa