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> Lawyers and doctors still have an intelligence test in the form of admissions criteria to universities, programmers don’t.

This is both incredibly rude and pretty much irrefutably true.

As a startup cofounder I've had the experience to hire like 3.5 programmers to do front-end work in the past year. I'm not at a specially "hot" location for developers, but my n=3.5 anecdata is that the few intelligent programmers you can find have terrible work ethics and continually try to spend more time with what they find interesting and avoid drudgery work. The hoi polloi (who might have made damn fine designers, copywriters, etc.) rely on stack overflow for whatever they can, and dither on the slightly more challenging tasks they didn't know existed.

Besides filtering on IQ, one thing a nerdy education teaches you is that challenging problems are often solvable if you will just [wo]man up and try.
I didn't need to click through to know it was an article by Cory Doctorow :D
Aren't corporations just the populace too?
I recieved the email from them a few hours ago, because of the wording of that, and because I spend last night integrating segment's analytics on my project.

I might suspect bc of their wording, segment and not google analytics would be such said 3rd party, and it seems it was one of the team's accounts in such service which got compromised and created a new destination, and no one noticed until 2 months later..

This is just pure speculation, but I would like to know!
Do you have evidence to suggest that it isn’t exactly programs like this that responsible for dropping the infant mortality rate worldwide? Your argument is an odd one.
I'm never going to to discourage people from driving slow, because our monkey brains have shit reaction times and perception, and KE increases with the square of velocity, but if you're traveling well below the normal speed of travel, put your flashers on. In many places this is mandated for a certain amount under the limit.
I don't think success like this can be explained by company slogans. They do indeed have very impressive quality and creating parts with the required precision cannot be achieve with a random deep-drawing plastic process.

But I believe a large part of their success is due to being at the right place at the right time. They also had very good marketing. They keep themselves present with all their branded stuff, even if their standard palette is probably far more successful. And they seem to put a lot of effort in their models.

Curiously, some other hobby markets like miniature trains seem to allow for more competition, even if the market is so much smaller.
Does this mean you can't have merge commits in feature branches?

And what about maintaining a release branch? There are good reasons to be merging in both directions sometimes, even if you never commit directly to master.
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I think this is the real danger, survival of personal data.

Digital media is way more vulnerable if you don't know how to take care of it (taking care of physical photos is pretty straightforward in comparison). There's going to be a lot of people ignorant of the fact that media like CDs or even hard drives degrade, that lose their phones and the pictures in it without a backup, etc. whose memories will be wiped away.

In my country for example, there used to be a fb clone that was all the rage back when I was a teenager (since fb wasn't translated to our local language yet back then). The company pivoted and its social media site went offline after a few years, and many many people lost memories that were exclusively kept there - I met the CEO in a conference a few months ago and he mentioned that he's off social media entirely because of the amount of people constantly contacting him to get their photos back.
Interestingly enough, early automatic transmissions also allowed this, since they had a rear pump that could build up enough hydraulic pressure to power the rest of the transmission without the engine running first:

http://oldcarmanualproject.com/manuals/Buick/1953/Owners/ima...

This feature disappeared in the early 60s for cost reasons.
That looks awesome! I have Realsense d435i and would love to test it out. I'll have an in depth look at it later but I'd love to share it in my mostly open source list: https://github.com/msadowski/awesome-weekly-robotics
If TDD fails quickly enough against real-world challenges, it would leave little evidence in the fossil record.
Yes, these drugs show much promise for mental health. I'd love to see them used not only for those suffering from depression, anxiety, smoking, alcoholism, OCD, and so forth, but I'd be interested to see programmers, engineers, musicians, athletes, and all sorts of groups take these drugs and see how it affects their lives. Based on Michael Pollan's book, there's good reason to argue that neuro-typical individuals can benefit very highly, as well as those with disorders in need of treatment.
The main thing that's maybe interesting about this weird old project (I have learnt a bit more python since back then) is that it can correctly decode compressed UPR-strings as commonly copy-pasted on the UltraFractal email list (a string containing a UPR in a special format, see decodeAndUnzipUPR() in uprMash.py)
You left out the key reason for his arrest and the only reason he couldn’t get it dropped.

He left the airport and stayed in a hotel overnight.

>They argued, among other things, that probable cause existed for the arrest because § 926A was inapplicable, given Revell's overnight stay in New Jersey
A drone would give you control, when you want it.

You could add drone-like control mechanisms to a balloon (or a balloon to a drone -- same difference, I guess), but that adds complications, so doesn't seem worth it.
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Automation exacerbates that asymmetry. Ever tried to over rule an incorrect automated procedure by a govt or pseudo govt organisation? If it goes perfectly smoothly it still takes weeks and there is no one to hold accountable.
Sometimes there is such a thing as the fastest code: http://forwardscattering.org/post/13

Edit: In the black book the 'ain't no such thing as the fastest code' seemed to be a bit of 'folksy' wisdom, illustrated by various anecdotes about fast code being upstaged by yet faster code.

However it rubs me a little the wrong way, considering that it's not actually a true statement as demonstrated in my link above.
Cryptos.

Neither controlled by govts nor by corporations.

I thought this was self-evident, my bad, I guess.
1) this is awesome

2) the bulbs are big, and the cords are clumsy. solution: get three high-lumen LED flashlights for $10. If color is necessary to distinguish identity, cover with a filter.
That's very different from saying "to restrict a right it must be effective". Many effective laws have been struck down as not narrowly tailored. And very often narrow tailoring will hamper the effectiveness.
we have identified what could be automated but we haven’t taken any real steps to implement it. there is a lot of resistance when it comes to automation in the workplace.
*Just don't count on our advertised TDP to be anywhere close to real.
Seems like most of the predators that are dangerous to birds are also dangerous to squirrels but not to humans. Cats, falcons, foxes...
Siddhartha came to a similar insight some 500 years earlier (without bringing gods into it).
> We’re now in a post-individual human world. We’re now in a world that is controlled by these emergent goals of the corporations. I don’t think there’s any turning back the clock on that. We are now in that world.

One of the things that worries me about this is that there are some things that corporations and governments aren't good at yet.

Lets call the root of the problem, adopting a new world view. Why is this important? Adopting new world views is very important for scientific advancement and for adapting to problems (climate change denial can be seen as a failure to adopt a world view).

If we accept organisations are the future, we need to create new organisational types that can adopt new world views more quickly, so that we can have more reactive and innovative organisations. New organisations tend to require new legislation, as what is a legal organisations is defined in law.

However our current organisations can chose to stop this legislation. So we might be left in a position where individuals are squeezed out of having any influence but not so much innovation is coming from the organisations either. It might be worth looking to see if this view is historically consistent with things like the stagnation in China.
I accept that this reply is basically saying "Turn it off", but look at umatrix. You can allow/block JS by default but then add certain hosts or domains to the allow list.

I browse with JS disabled, but when I hit a site which doesn't work properly (and which I want to use still), I can allow only the domains which it needs to work.

It's quite surprising how quickly many sites now load!
Cloudflare-sync – Tool for using Cloudflare as a dynamic DNS provider
Online Retail Will Be the Preferred Form of Car Purchasing for Private Buyers
NLP and Machine Learning in Health– Designing a Chatbot for PTSD Assessment
This is more invasive but may detect and also prevent seizures for some epileptics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_neurostimulation_...
There are no ATM fees, but that's also the case in other countries where a bank account is free.
I'm also interested in how to RUN a remote company as i've found myself in that position without previous experience. I've found most material online to be related to how to work remotely as a person but not how to actually run the comapny.
I didn't mean to imply the EU as a body enforces this, but the limits are real:

https://www.europe-consommateurs.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/eu...
The US has medical & food programs for impoverished families and children. You might have to find a different non-nanny state.
V6 Peering and US Issues: 2019 National Internet Segments Reliability Report
Sorry, no link. Just personal experience when we lost the account info for an employees phone.
Whenever I used Zipcar, I only used the car at pickup, and then always take the key out for any stops during my rental. Would that have prevented this?
Apple Working on In-Display Fingerprint ID for Future iPhones
>"State universities located in towns of any size frequently looked upon dormitories as an extravagance and students entirely capable of renting lodging elsewhere. The first dormitory at Rutgers was only built in 1890."

Rutgers was not the state university until 1945.
Physiologically speaking, the symptoms of data deluge probably most closely resemble that of sensory overload. Think of tourists visiting NYC, London or Paris for the first time. The mind attempts to "shut down". Or triggers a full blown panic attack including hyperventilation.

It's a spill over in your cognitive load balancer. That section of the brain that exists to mediate and filter incoming requests has become congested. I'd look into the literature of traumatic brain injury that results in increased sensitivity. For example, in patients with acute photophobia, one remedy is replacing fluorescent indoor lights, with outdoor sunlight and adopting a more natural circadian rhythm with the rising and the setting of the sun.
The real usefulness that I’ve found has been in having a pointer during screen share, and being able to more fluidly hop in an out of voice calls (think discord).
"How terrible of them to spread the insidious ideology of gun safety by training RSOs and gun safety instructors"

This is the comment I replied to. Clearly they espouse different ideologies to simply gun safety.

You're the one putting words into my mouth.

Of course if anyone tries to bring up the topic of radicalisation I'm sure you'd deflect in a similar way.
Thanks. TIL.
I really like how the lines wiggle a bit, makes it seem so much more alive. Is it because the drawing algorithm is unstable, or is it an intentional addition?

I love the hacker spirit shown and the detailed writeup of the process.

I know of a couple renting out photo boots for weddings, this could actually be a product sold. What they do for consistent lighting is that the booth is big enough to have walls and ceiling, giving them full control.
For an analogy, you've got two surgeons, one who only takes cases where he is extremely confident he can operate successfully, and one who takes the cases no one else will. The first loses 1% of his patients on the table, the second 20%. Which person is the better surgeon?
> You can buy a clone brand X-wing for 50% of the cost of the genuine set, but the quality is significantly lower in my experience.

Often the knockoff sets are around 25% of the Lego price—I bought a Lepin Porsche for >$80 instead of $300. And the quality was 85%-90% of Lego. So slightly lower, but at a quarter of the price—and price is a feature.
I do agree it is not his fault.

But the ban also prevents that particular customer from receiving bad service. Some things are not meant to be.
Why should anyone buy a feature for $6k that basically gets them nothing until a future point when they could buy it anyways?
Have they solved the performance issue in any way?
The evidence is that almost all other countries don't have the boxes while infant mortality dropped nearly everywhere. Your attack is an odd one.
People will still do illegal/subversive/socially unacceptable things and be paid for them. So a "cashless" society would generate a massive demand for alternative forms of currency. There are already plenty of those, including digital ones, so this might in the long run be disastrous for national currencies. Which would be interesting but also disastrous for a lot of people in the meantime.
Facebook used to have a feature that allowed users to find a profile if they have a phone number. I found it useful when I received a text from an unknown number. Especially to protect myself from being catfished.

If I understand correctly, someone collected all the queries and all the results and made a phonebook.

I think Facebook cares, but at the same time they always benefited from these measures where they let their users see as much as possible.
>Sure. But of course, the Second Amendment was a thing when the government from rounding up the Japanese, with popular support.

I guess, maybe the people didn't exercise their rights.

>Hell, after 9/11 much of the gun-owning community would have supported rounding up all of the Muslims into camps. Currently, they don't seem to be too upset about the government aggressively rounding up immigrants.

You can absolutely be on the left and believe in the right to bear arms. Fighting for our constitutional rights is not a partisan issue.

>I don't agree with the premise that government can never be trusted, but an armed mob always can. The world has plenty of democratic states which seem to function without an armed populace keeping them in check.

Another name for an armed mob is called a militia. They were formed when we fought against 'taxation without representation'.

>It wouldn't stop them, though.

Maybe, the only time I can think off of the top of my head of a government subjugating a well armed people was the english/american civil war.

Regardless, I would absolutely exercise my right to bear arms if mao/stalin/hitler gov't came knocking on my door.
which is worse over time - developing automation to take over certain jobs or staffing certain jobs with offshore contractors?
News is welcomed by humans and software alike. But a bit more so by humans, since they enjoy a nice round number.
Foster parents have used these for quite some time to help with anxiety in children. Also used frequently are lycra sleeves they can wrap around themselves to kinda of hug themselves tight. These don't work for all children; some have tactile anxieties and these make that worse.
I'm being blocked by a paywall ! :-(

... added the following rules to uBlock Origin:

||subscribe.washingtonpost.com/
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-stat/

and that seems to have solved the problem.
Read the article, first paragraph says "... but will feature a higher all-core Turbo frequency when it has sufficient cooling".

So at least they've added the caveat, though "sufficient" could mean liquid cooling only available to 5% of enthusiasts.
Intel hasn't disclosed the TDP, so the skeptical reader would think it's not impressive enough to disclose in marketing material.
We have done something similar at home. We live in an apartment with a small shared central courtyard, which is lit up (though not extremely bright) when someone walks through it. Our bedroom has those crappy Ikea Venetian blinds, which are terrible at blocking light and it's a rental so we can't change them. Instead we cover the blinds with a dark bedsheet and that does a great job of keeping the light out.
Yep. One of the earliest examples of this I can recall is the VoxSci voicemail to text message fiasco that unfolded over ten years ago.

They fraudulently claimed that they had some kind of machine learning system that enabled them to quickly, accurately and privately convert voice mail to text. The reality was that they had a call centre in India manually transcribing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8163511.stm
This sounds like a pretty common scenario for zipcar and certainly cell phone coverage coming in and out is something that they should be planning and designing for! Maybe a series of one-use pass codes or something like that could help. I always make sure there is a failsafe when I have two microcontrollers talking on the same circuit board! Never fully trust anything external.
Sun dogs play a small role in the excellent alternative history / horror series “The Terror”, starring two of my favorite character actors Jared Harris and Ciarán Hinds, about the loss of the 1845 Franklin expedition to the Arctic. Thoroughly recommended!
But functionally, the "well-regulated militia" of today is the US Armed Forces.

I challenge you to show any way in which hundreds of millions of random citizens with handguns and zero training to fight together qualifies as well-regulated, or meaningfully as a militia to defend our country against an invasion.
People take for granted that an app responds in milliseconds. Engineers at Google, et al, of course immediately recognized that performance was tied to adoption in the early days and left no stone unturned in their quest for optimizations. The analogy today in portable devices is maybe with battery life drain during game play.
> will feature a higher all-core Turbo frequency when it has sufficient cooling

Real world performance needs to be seen, but this feels like a stunt to grab headlines and direct some attention away from AMD hammering them relentlessly.
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That's an extra class slot available at the parent's election. I took zero hour classes for civics and communication state requirements in the winter of my junior and senior years so I could take AP Physics and AP Chemistry, which were year-long classes that exceeded the science requirements and got me some college credit. In winter, it didn't interfere with sports, and you were going to be up 2 hours before the sun anyways, so why not 3?

And no, there's no bussing for zero hour. You have to drive yourself to school, ride with a parent, or find a carpool setup for either of those.
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When I read these articles, I always begin to question if I am a passive or active investor. I strongly believe in keeping a diverse portfolio, mainly because I am keenly aware of my own ignorance as it relates to understanding complex stock moves and changes.

Warren Buffet encourages novices to invest in index funds, since they outperform individual picks.

Understanding asset value and free cash flow changed my life and my entire investment thesis about 10 years ago. Developing my own version of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" I now seek to buy or build assets that make a return to me. Some return cash, others good feelings or emotions.

I find that my financial situation is far more stable this way, I am semi-insulated from group-think (markets); and I look at re-applying net proceeds on a regular basis. That is a fun activity, using cash from one investment to build a new investment that will hopefully also return cash and build an asset.

It takes precious little to do this, and the most fun of all has been teaching my daughter how to make money. At 8 she looks at apartments, hot dog stands, and many small businesses as an opportunity to "make cash". We now have interesting conversations in the car about what it would take to start "X" business.
Maybe because the privacy policy is “differential”?
What do you mean "Knuth's approach is getting a bit long in the tooth"? Do you mean his toolset?
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They actually do this in some states in the US. I live in Ohio and I received a box when my son was born. It's very nice and I hope everyone, especially the people who need it are aware of the program.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/26/5213993...
I bet the company is selling them, otherwise it would be a charity, no?
> I know people who think automatic transmissions makes people worse drivers.

Well, it's certainly a bit trickier to to respond to texts or browse instagram when you need two hands to operate the vehicle.
BB Gun might also have solved the problem. Of course, I jest.
I think it's quite reasonable to make a distinction between Xs that are "kill people" and Xs that are not.
Claude Shannon (of the information theory fame) did a similar research with his 1951 paper "Prediction and Entropy of Printed English". He used a particularly clever idea, leaving out words or letters from English text, he then measured how accurately people could predict the missing text. And then used those numbers for statistical information-theoretical analysis to estimate the information density at about 9-11 bits (IIRC) per letter.
They use L4 in the Secure Enclave. Perhaps they do the same for other embedded devices
I personally would have phrased the start of that sentence: "It is disingenuous to lump them in with..."

You're saying the same thing, but with language that focuses on the argument rather than the person. Not only is the former what you really intended to criticize anyway, but it tends to make people respond better, because they don't feel personally attacked. That elevates discussion and is good for everyone.
Exactly - so they shouldn't be able to buy themselves more rights by hiring "registered/official" security. Sure it's technically available to everyone, but they can choose their clients, they have to jump through regulatory hoops (and, realistically, political connections), and are unaffordable to most. The end result is a widened power gap.
I love that idea, but I am not sure if my neighbors would! Too bad it isn't an engineer-only neighborhood.
A hierarchy of software engineering discourse
Bluetooth? Holy shit, it can barely keep an audio connection, why would anyone use it for something important?
Ask HN: Are Coding Bootcamps Worth It?
$11,000 for 12 weeks; promise of a booming industry; no experience required; etc.

Are coding bootcamps worth it? Why or why not?
They go through a judge at some point after they are executed. There is no due process before the person's rights are stripped away.
Also, be taller than average, good looking, well spoken, and well dressed.
I have absolutely turned down coding assessments without even the guarantee of a phone call.
How big pharma is targeting India's booming opioid market
I think with search results you're right, and with things like GMail it seems performance is at the bottom of the priority list. Perhaps even off of the priority list entirely.
>any decent online bachelors programs for fields like CS

Are you looking for a degree or a job?

If looking for a job, take a look at:
https://lambdaschool.com/