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Huh, I assumed it would be clear I dislike cars, but I guess I need to work on my writing style.

Those things you listed are the costs; the freedom is to be able to spontaneously decide to go somewhere new.

I’m lucky enough to have been able to move to Berlin, which has excellent public transport links both internally, nationally, and internationally.

Before Berlin, I lived in a small village a 40 minute bus ride from Cambridge, itself an hour by public transport from most nearby interesting places. I cycled to work (in Cambridge) because it was faster than the bus, and also because (accounting for parking) the bike commute was about the same duration as going by car, and because of the health benefits of cycling.

Cycling also represents the same freedom that the car represents. I’ve cycled from Hoek van Holland to Brugg in Switzerland. There are cycle paths for the entire route, although I ended up in Brugg because of a wrong turn in Stein-Säckingen.

Public transport[1] also represents this freedom, at least when it’s set up properly. The point of my Cambridge anecdote is that it isn’t always done well enough.

[1] I include air travel in that. Planes are clearly flying busses.
Well, you can, but it's not cheap.
Either requires a lot of water for a swamp cooler, dry air and preferably a bit of wind or AC, which takes electricity.

This also makes simple walking outside more of a problem, meaning you should adopt Arab or likewise fashion. Airy and reflects sunlight, prevents sun rays from striking most of the skin. You could make it shiny as well.
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I’ve never had anything beyond a bag search going into China - zero interest in my phone or online accounts.
Actually in Europe for example, most prepaid sim cards also offer setting details through a web portal, and it just automatically takes money off your card on a set date in a month to recharge the SIM.
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The feeling of regret about a past decision is an odd one to me.

It's based on the premise that you know with some certainty what would have happened had you taken the opposite choice. That premise is false, you have no idea what would have happened if you had done things differently. Your life could be terrible, your life could be better. You have no way of knowing.

I believe the best treatment for it is to make sure you find satisfaction in your current situation. If you have that, then you never regret previous decisions. At least that's how it works for me!
This is certainly a valid way to protect your social network data from direct US inspection during your own border crossings, but if you leave your account visible to others or public, you may be inspected and/or used to inspect anyone you link to that crosses the US border.

Do you intend to only friend people on Facebook that will not cross the US border?
It's rare that I hear an EV described as 'fossil-fuel free'. What may be said about them is that they are - or can be - carbon-neutral ... usually with the qualifier 'to operate'.

Manufacturing releases a lot of carbon, I agree. That's changing, but I expect the pragmatic view is that the change is best described as an asymptote.
While obviously I don't agree with the comment you're responding to (cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20813149), I wanted to ask you if there's a way I could have phrased the comment it was responding to to be less inflammatory. I didn't anticipate that it would provoke such responses, and I wonder if there's a way to avoid it other than just silence.
This is just the standard go-to excuse now for public officials refusing to comment on a controversial or embarrassing decision.

They use it even if the subject whose privacy rights they are supposedly and suddenly so interested in protecting explicitly waives it.

Every time you see that comment, just read it as "I am not prepared to offer a defence of our actions".
I imagine they would consider a HN account “social media”.
I think this anxiety comes from deep inside of me reminding that I've lost myself in that moment. It helps to just stop doing whatever I am doing, shut off my mind, turn to myself, and re-establish the connection with my inner self, which I tend to loose sometimes in the everyday hectic.

And what also helps me to retain and to strengthen this connection is simply love. Basically, to replace the negative thoughts, ambitions, etc. with truly positive values and things, to start caring about the people around, doing something good for the others without expecting anything in exchange and many other good things, which I'd never thought of before.

The books here have helped me to make the first step back then and are still helping me to stay on this way:

https://allatra-book.org/

Hope they help someone else as well.
Depends on your employer as always. But with a modicum of respect for work-hours and office climate, most programming jobs should be less stressful than teaching high school.

I'm not totally familiar with US coding/teaching jobs, and it also depends on how you deal with "stress" and the managing styles etc.

But teachers are on the front lines dealing with teenagers who are (at times) unruly, mean, sometimes outright violent, and parents will blame you for all those problems. Maybe 99% of your students are nice or well behaving, but it doesn't take a lot. I've heard quite a few stories of classes driving teachers mad. A lot of fresh teachers even drop out...
Looking for someone to retaliate against? You know that just revealing that much is already poking the beast?

People who have been in the emergency meeting at one of the affected universities.
It’s important to point out that IP addresses are considered PII, therefore storing them in log files requires to have a data privacy policy for all affected persons.
Financial stability doesn't mean much to the end-user if the product ends up getting killed off regardless.
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Hey Justin & Nick,

Recently I have been experimenting a lot with optimization strategies and their performance/results. I have tried to code some, including mixed integer LP, and applied them to multiple problems. I did this such that I could get a deeper understanding which sort of optimization algorithm is suited and well-performing for which kind of problem.

So far my results have been very inconsistent: sometimes genetic algorithms produce surprisingly good results, other times simulated annealing proves to be the clear winner, sometimes a plain old depth-first search, with a custom scoring heuristic produces greatest results... Since my results seem quite random to me so far, I get the impression that the only way to find out the best match for a problem is to try them all. Is this correct?

Since you're using mixed integer programming, could I ask you why you chose this optimization strategy? Also, if you would happen to have some more information about the specifics of choosing a correct algorithm for an optimization problem, could you provide me some insights?

Anyways, good luck with Coursedog!
Really?

"the US is a goat"

Could reasonably be an insult or a compliment, an automated tool wouldn't be able to say which.

Or by translation service, do you mean a person.
Hypothesis: most users on social media wouldn't publish or share content, let alone leverage RSS, if those platforms didn't exist.

Social media emerged alongside existing technologies. And they attracted a whole new audience. Of course, there's been a migration from former self hosted users towards those social media.

An apt comparison is IRC. It existed for decades now, but the concept of an office group chat never quite got successfully poured into a business model until Slack came around. Organisations using Slack didn't necessarily shift away from IRC or other options. They simply didn't use chat until they jumped on the Slack bandwagon.

I do recall criticisms when GR was unveiled: why use a centralised online service in order to consume a distributed network of content? At that point, GR did overtake the market of RSS clients.

Axing GR was the exact turning point for RSS as that happened exactly during the meteoric rise of social media, leaving many with little alternative to turn towards social media. Remember that at that point, Big Tech was perceived as the "Good Guys" and many touted that this was just the natural state of affairs.

I used to be a heavy RSS user, but when GR got axed, that pretty much fell away overnight. I never quite got back to using RSS via an alternative.
Maybe we can find a way to do this in a less economically violent way?

If you accept that we need to lower carbon emissions then that means we will need to stop doing some things. Yes some people will be worse off, others better off. Given that change is coming anyway we might as well be on top of it rather than dragged along screaming and kicking.
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If you're outraged, great!

I ask that you remember that new powers advocated by the party you trust - such as warrantless border searches - can also be used by the party you do not trust.

Please, please think carefully when the party you like arrogates powers to the government, and punish them with your vote and advocacy, even though you like them.

Examples!

-- The border patrol powers cited in the article actually extend 100 miles from the US border. Do you live within 100 miles of the US border, or do you ever visit places that are? If so, then you may be stopped without probable cause by border patrol. https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

-- The President of the United States can put even US citizens on a secret assassination list and have them executed. This was a power not authorized by Congress. Even the legal basis for this - the very law that pasted a veneer of legality on this - is secret. The media kept focusing on "drone attacks", but the method of assassination was not the controversial part of all of that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix

-- Secret trials, in which the defendant is not even allowed to know they are under trial, and witnesses have gag orders not to reveal this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...

-- Mass, warrantless surveillance.

-- The US requires US citizens living abroad to pay taxes to the US government. By itself, this is arguably a patriotic duty of every citizen, even though the US and the dictatorship of Eritrea are the only countries that require this. Unlike Eritrea, however, the US can enforce this on foreign banks, which are required to report your personal economic activity to the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...

There is more. A lot more.

It makes me nervous when people focus on Trump as a particularly evil anomaly that must be removed at all costs, and then everything can go back to normal. "Normal" is terrifying to me. The virtue of Trump is that people are paying attention, at least: it's difficult for the government to arrogate more powers when people are paying attention. I hope that the outrage against Trump continues when the next Democrat gets in, and all of this creeping authoritarianism will get rolled back. But, I also suspect that's a delusional fantasy.
I guess that's more due to those two being in the media more often due to potential abuses. The UK, Canada, and Australia all have similar processes in place, with various degrees of restrictions. I'm sure there's others I'm not familiar with.
I was a naysayer about smartphones/iPhones -- why would I want all these things globbed into one thing instead of my beautiful modular setup now?

Here, too, I thought -- it's an Android tablet bolted to an exercise bike.

Not saying that either the Peloton or the iPhone were epoch-shattering brilliances. Just noting that, as you suggest, sometimes putting together things that used to be separate is, well, a good and useful thing.
I don’t really know it exactly, but AFAIK there is a cost benefit involved for the developers. So it isn’t only additional work, but helps them tax wise.

Was a few years a go since I head to deal with this. However I want to emphasize the positive effects this kind of mixed living has on the social climate. The most mixed up city I ever lived in was Vienna (also due to their munipicial flats called “Gemeindebauwohnung”) and it really creates a better climate. People seem to be less afraid of each other and more in contact across culture and class barriers, it is harder to be in a bubble.

A negative example in Europe would be Paris — there you have strong segregation between different parts of the society. I have met Parisienne art students who never have been out of the city center and have no idea how it is there (except for what they heard about it).
These prints are lovely. Does anybody know why some of them are painted inside an annulus sector? Are they supposed to be inside some other structure, or do they work standalone?
This argument has absolutely no basis in economics. There is currently a particular demand for air travel. If you want to reduce that demand, you can only do one of the following things:

1. Create a competing product that people prefer over air travel.

2. Artificially increase the price through taxation.

3. Artificially decrease supply through regulation.

There’s nothing on the horizon for option 1, and since we live in a democracy, democratic mechanisms are the only means you have for 2 or 3, unless you wanted to resort to something like terrorism.

Your presupposition that we can’t have cheap air travel while avoiding catastrophic man-made climate change is in no way obviously true, and your suggested solution is a utopian fantasy.
They’ll do that for many varied and capricious reasons that include racism, sexism, and spite.

Deleting your accounts may well spite them. Locking yourself out may well spite them. Granting them access may well spite them.

Either you knowingly accept that your social network data may be viewed by the US government at any time, or you take steps to wind down your use of social media and hope that it somehow removes an avenue of capriciousness someday that they might wield against you.
They may. If you continue using them, given that belief, then you knowingly accept that your data is already shared to the US government every time you post. These steps thus do not apply to you.
When I was a student, I had no concept of time anxiety and would spend endless hours creating games on my Mac or playing with musical instruments. I ignored my school work and my grades suffered, but not my hobbies.

In adulthood, with a full time job and no desire to derail my possible retirement with dignity, I find that the time has really passed on many endeavors. I won't be a full time musician and I am mentally exhausted after work so I won't be a part time musician either. My employers, even ones which are kind and flexible, get the lions share of my productive value. What I do have is some disposable income and so I end up becoming a mindless consumer for the rest of my time after work.

I have hope for change in the future, but it's not looking better after changing employers several times and growing ten years older.
You don't seem to have a very good understanding of the comment you're responding to. Your summary of it is incorrect.
Facebook/Youtube/Twitter et al uses mass surveillance to place ads. Netflix uses it to decide what movies and shows to make. Google uses it to rank info. Insurance companies use it to decide prices. The more data we have the more everything is going to look like mass surveillance. Agree with your first para. Let it play out. Allow people/orgs to fuck up as they will and then regulate.
Technically climate change will make both sides more extreme. Nights potentially very cold, days very hot, and turn winters into monsoon season.
> Does your neighbor have a Ring camera? Well, that watches the whole street

I was burgled recently and looking for cameras and alarm systems. I was asking the police who came to check the burglary and they explained that here (Spain) it is illegal to point cameras to anywhere ‘public’, so the situation you describe would be removed and fined here. My feeling at the time was that now I cannot protect my property adequately because I cannot detect people at my gate as that would also cover the street so I would only get to them when they are already in after they disabled the power. But after thinking about it, I do think it is a good thing.

Ofcourse law enforcement here can do more, however they seem quite limited as well compared to UK/US/CN.
It sure helps, though.
I imagine there would have to be some kind of GDPR exception for that to happen in Europe.
I wonder if they take into account the idea that you have some prior reference for expected object counts.

I felt like this is an important mechanism at play when I read the classroom example. If I saw a picture of a classroom for 2 seconds and am then asked to estimate the chair count, in my head it goes something like: mean #chairs in classrooms in my experience * fullness of the classroom in picture (e.g. .5-2 range) = count estimate.
Averaging N images should (roughly?) make the noise go down by sqrt(N), so long as you don't introduce more sources of noise during collection. So the camera would have to be still, or the images registered to a common perspective.
Then sadly they probably know who you are already.
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One of the biggest drivers for me picking google hire over Lever or Workable or one of the alternatives was the pricing model. By charging based on the size of the company and not the number of job slots it removed one of the biggest pains we had which was the constant juggling of putting specs live and archiving some as the priorities changed. £300 p/month for essentially unlimited slots was unbeatable.

What is the feedback and calendaring integrations like with Lever and gSuite?
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Which brandname startups do you think will not survive the next downturn?

My prediction:
1) Bird
2) WeWork
History is full of examples when people who weren't a threat to anybody were conquered in subjugated at best.
Happened to a friend of mine way back in 2005, a Canadian citizen of Indian descent. He had a valid TN visa and was working full time in the US, regularly crossing the border between Canada and the US to visit family. One day he was simply barred by a CBP agent, and furthermore, permanently banned from entering the US, so he can’t even take a Canadian flight that goes over US airspace. He had a house, car, and job in the US for years. Reason given? Because he had once flown to Syria for an Arabic language education. Keep in mind this was before any war was going on in Syria.
I think there's no way to get the report to tell me, which Referers led to which page?

The "official" answer seems to be to filter the log file with grep for your condition (page /foo) and generate a separate report. Which is unwieldy, I would love to be able to click through.

Does AWstats handle this?
But if you wind it down too much it will seem suspicious to them too. You must be a normal drone.
Aren't all fines 'punitive'? Isn't that the point?
Inbox was just a different skin/front end for gmail though, they aren't really comparable. I was annoyed about Inbox coming and going too, but that was a totally different thing than if gmail itself were to go away.
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40B will not be enough to clean up the mess left behind by nuclear planets AND take care of radioactive waste for 100.000+ years.
This was Boston, where nothing is "crypto" (hidden) about the racism. It's a badge of honor.

Source: attended high school in city of Boston; university in city of Cambridge. Got outa dodge immediately after that but my friends who still live there tell me it's as bad, or worse, than it was in the 80s.
So, like websites? A surprising number of the apps I’ve worked on had websites with similar features.

Don’t get me wrong, some things may be well suited to the current model: a hiking GPS needs good maps, good maps are expensive to make, that expense is currently recovered with copyright licenses… but even then the best maps seem to be from the government, e.g. Ordinance Survey in the UK, and that app development could easily be nationalised and funded from taxation the way all NASA’s output is.
Appreciate all the feedback, the code is certainly pretty hacky right now and I intend to clean it up in future. Glad you like the project!
Yes, it does. At least in my experience. The cities I lived in which had more mixup were certainly the ones with a better social climate, people talking with each other, helping each other, taking note of each other’s sorrows and doing sth. about it. On the other hand in a segregated city you have districts who get estranged of each other, or outright hate each other. The rich ones never leave their part of town because they are afraid and heard all kind of stories about these districts. And the poor ones go to work in a distric were people don’t even know they exists.
They're cutting off the limb that they're sitting on if they're turning away smart kids. Idiots.
But what if ruining the future is not the outcome?
If the therapy is beneficial, or even more so, required for the child to survive?

Not editing in this case could be construed as future child abuse or even murder.

As a note, chances of a child given the therapy, if it's randomly working, are no different than general population, most likely.
And if they're better, there goes this argument.

Fearing known unknowns more than unknown unknowns is not logical. Of course people do it all the time.
Why does nature get to play the dice but we cannot?
Ah yeah I didn't notice that coming from the Netherlands where everything is expensive, both transport and meals. That is a shame as I think salaries in Germany aren't exactly mind blowing.
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I can't help but notice that these kind of blogs should be recommended reading for CS/engineering students as well and not just to people who are already working.

The way an issue is to be analyzed (this post is a great example of Systems thinking IMO), what happens at scale and why not to blindly Google your way out of problems are valuable skills any engineer should have and which are unfortunately not taught in many schools.
Anyone else see the 80s as the real turning point? Eyeballing the graphs ‘71 seems a stretch.

Friedman, Reagan, Thatcher, were surely much more impactful. In the UK, Thatcher was the first PM to have a major impact on the country since the 1940s.

Regressive moves in taxation, privatisation, deregulation, etc are also more appealing to me as an explanation for rocketing inequality etc.
Or, rather, the automated systems that store and process the data will increasingly do analysis as well, with humans only viewing the data when prompted to by the system. Technically "the police" can be said not to access the data. In reality it's even worse than if they did, because the automated system , if it works as intended, is much more efficient than humans.

IOW: If it's a violation of civil rights for humans to process some data, then leaving that job to software is just automating civil rights violations.