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This and an old iPod helped me get through rough times in the army.

TY <3
Not sure if you'd be willing, but I'd love a quick rundown of the high level takeaways if you'd be willing to drop them here.

Are you talking about more than one experimental design in terms of comparing the exp/control distributions or something else?
"To fight the censorship cancer, would the western world have to agree to exclude and isolate China?"

I would rather wait the day our beloved western world agrees on a single, objective, independent definition on what censorship is, then I would want to see people like Snowden, Manning, Assange and similar others walk free and unharmed. That day I could concede we would have superior moral grounds to exclude and isolate other countries.
The problem is that "tax rate" is an ambiguous term because different kinds of income at taxed at different rates.

So, for example, if someone makes most of their money on dividends, then they pay capital gains tax, and it appears like they are unfairly paying a lower rate than everyone else. ...but that's not a fair comparison because it's a different sort of income, with a VASTLY riskier risk profile. Taxing it at the income rate wouldn't make sense.

In the past, in the US, capital gains wasn't taxed at all because it was considered double taxation (since the investment was already taxed). ...and in some other countries, there is no tax on capital gains.

I've seen people claim that country XYZ has higher tax rates than the US, but then when you look closed, they have zero capital gains taxes.
Is a desktop screen different than a phone screen? In the physical world, 1/96 inch is 1/96 inch. The notion of HiDPI abstracts for the fact that their pixel pitch is much finer than a typical display, usually by 2-4x. Otherwise, most displays fudge for the fact that they're not quite 96ppi, since 100 or 94 isn't vastly different.

Anyways, this is a good thing. It shouldn't really adjust with screen growth, but it's important to note that it's an abstract dimension (so thinking in terms of PPI/DPI with CSS pixels is unwise). It allows you to be agnostic to devices, and respect the user's preference (if possible) for how close to the physical display they are.
It's worth noting that the ROC flag (== Taiwan flag) was the flag flown all over the mainland before 1949. It's a part of mainland history as well.

I'm not supporting any political stance here, but just saying that it's a bit weird to ban a symbol that was part of the mainland's history as well, and on its own, carries more historical significance than just Taiwan independence.
Well written
Rust on the Sipeed Longan Nano, an Inexpensive RISC-V Development Board
DEFCONconference Video Search Website [non official – fan project]
Telegram Became White Nationalists' Go-To Messaging Platform
I'm building very complex B2B software (link to company is in profile) doing phone call tracking and its a large legacy Rails app with standard `form_for` type forms.

On one page there could be hundreds of records because some customers like to create a thousand objects for one marketing 'campaign' and have customers routed (via IVR or geo or other flags from the source website/ad embedded js) to a thousand different sales agents depending on fine-tuned criteria (like if they press 1 to say they are over 50), and from there it could trigger a hundred different conversion triggers (for ex: to do CPA payouts to the traffic sources) and webhooks to various analytics services.

Anyway I'm slowly redesigning each part of the giant forms one-by-one and instead of AJAXing some parts separately I'm injecting the data into hidden fields which get submitted via traditional HTTP form-data along with the old forms.

I built a Vue component that automatically generates Rails friendly forms from any object. Including nested arrays of objects, with any degree of nesting. I plan on publishing it soon OSS as RailsForm.vue.

It sounds crazy but it was actually really simple to do and is only a temporary transitional thing. The only problem is I'm pushing the limits of browser memory/CPU on some customer accounts so I've made some performance optimizations like only rendering the hidden fields once the submit button is pushed.
Years ago when working in Microsoft SharePoint, I noticed this method: SPUtility.HideTaiwan [1], which would hide the Taiwan calendar option in China, Hong Kong and Macao.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/de...
I mean, you don't need Google Play in China, given that it's blocked. You DO need China-specific services, that consumers in China will not buy your phone without. i.e. all Tencent things...
That GNU is nearly all white men is further proof of Stallman's unfit leadership.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineered_wood
I agree with the sentiment of your post and similarly find it shocking that anyone could defend a gargantuan corporation like Amazon refusing to provide their workers with reasonable wages to support quality lives.

It's worth noting that anyone who cares about this should refrain from purchasing things from the Amazons and the Walmarts of the world. The only thing these trans-human entities care about is money - that's IT. The only language they speak is money, and they will destroy the world, their human employees, and anything else that comes between them and their goal of capturing 100% of all economic power. The only thing to do is to stop feeding the beast. Don't buy shit from mega corps - no matter how convenient it is. It's unnecessary and directly helps propagate a system where sociopathic political-economic agents repress living standards for the vast majority of people so that a shockingly small number can be wealthier than kings.
What on earth are you going to do with a pocket botnet? Without some kind of USB-OTG adaptor to break it out into useful GPIO for interfacing with other machinery, its going to be limited to playing flappy bird and failing to send telemetry over the now-destroyed mobile network.
There has never been a society wherein the most productive do not bear the majority of the costs. This is simply due to necessity; nothing else is possible.

At the least they also have the most say in how society is run, given money is the deciding factor in electoral politics such as ours. Were sortition or some other noncorrupt means of choosing rulers used, this would actually be an unfair arrangement. I suspect this is why oligarchy such as ours is so popular; it recognizes the reality of elites while creating the illusion of popular legitimacy.
I've seen enough written about it, even by Stallman's supporters who say they've had conversations with him about these things before, to indicate his behavior has been more than just a poorly worded conversation.

The existence of some folks who skew those things IMO isn't relevant when it comes to the things that I've seen that seem like believable accounts.
The magnitude of negative impact that NIMBYs have on our economy is mind blowing. So much income is sucked up by insane housing costs, income that could otherwise be utilized on things that aren't rent seeking landlords hoarding money.
I believe some positions get a stipend (particularly if they are expected to entertain dignitaries) but are generally (ha) not allowed to serve outside positions that might be a conflict of interest. I couldn't find details yet of a specific article in the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), but there are some memos out:

https://ogc.osd.mil/defense_ethics/resource_library/deskbook...
There are "official" ways to fill cups that reduce the variance a bit but you are right. Humidity, pressure and temperature also affect volume more than weight and can throw off a recipe. Plus, scales are O(1) while cups are closer to O(n) (maybe O(log n) if you have many different sizes of cups... and are willing to clean them all...)

Cue all the Americans(who have much bigger kitchens on average) explaining why scales are unnecessary and cups are the one true way.
And yet somehow, Linux is arguably the most successful open source project in the world.
South America has always had a brain-drain problem. The best universities in SA are... not globally notable. Widespread suspicion of academia, fostered by both conservative Christian parties and populist socialist ones, makes it difficult for South American universities to thrive and compete internationally. Many people draw comparisons to Southeast Asia and Korea, major recent success stories — there, scholarly professions and institutions are more respected, which, I think, has helped high-tech industries catch up to the OECD more rapidly than their South American counterparts.
Ah, I actually don't think it can do that. I purchase pretty much all my music from the iTunes store since it is DRM free and the only other place I get music from is CDs I win in radio contests, so I haven't needed to do that.
>> We're at an unusual social state in this country where nobody trusts the government and nobody trusts big business. What does that leave?

> Where did we go so wrong?

False premise. Merchants and governments have been widely distrusted as far back as records exist. Merchants in particular are commonly the subject of some kind of official orthodoxy noting how evil they are.
This reminded me of the psychomagic thing by Alejandro Jodoworsky. It's a therapeutic technique to heal psychological traumas via symbolic acts much like the invisible mask. The premise is that through these symbols one can communicate with the unconscious.

Much like hypnosis or placebos it seems to work on some people.
> I can assure you the number of people who do not contribute to the Linux kernel because they're turned off by it is significantly larger

You can't, actually. This is a deeply false ideological assumption not based on any reality or human psychology.
Z80 doesn't imply a desktop. See e.g. the Cambridge Z88. A Z80-based computer is also significantly easier to repair with rudimentary tools, and to create from scavenged parts, than an Android device. It can also be powered from pretty much anything, making for a great tool in an environment which is at risk of losing reliable widespread power distribution capabilities and which probably cannot create new li-ion batteries.
> Recognition of one side or another in a foreign dispute is a little different than having your own dispute or claim.

I agree. A better list of places to look in the maps are the current disputed areas between USA and Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_disputed_by_Cana... In particular, what do you see in this map? https://www.google.com/maps/place/Machias+Seal+Island/@44.33...
RMS no longer fits your definition?
I meant "gross" , thanks for correcting me.
Submariner here. Same, story. I made custom iPod minis with 64GB CF cards for several guys after they saw mine. (God can’t see through XX##)
Since this post is not a story from Neil Gaiman, I figured I'd post one that is—It's a short anecdote about his experience with Imposter Syndrome that I like:

https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/160603396711/hi-i-read-t...
China also sometimes tries to hold businesses hostage that try to leave.

https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/manufacturing/china-d...
Prepare for the Deepfake Era of Web Video
Nobody is happy to pay taxes, but yes.

Year 1: pay taxes on $10K in savings, $100K house.
Year 2: pay taxes on $10K in stocks, $80K house.
Year 3: pay taxes on $20K in stocks, $120K house.
Year 4: pay taxes on $0 in stocks, $100K house.
Isn't that exactly what most of the commenters on this post are doing?
rustup is your friend. install that, and then rust with rustup.

Edit: forgot link: https://rustup.rs/
This is the important point frequently omitted.

They don't _have_ to do any of this. They _should_, though, as society demands it.

Folks are free to disagree, but this is very much the right move.
The Pedagogical Lessons and Tradeoffs of Online Higher Education
Do go on? Sure!

Read this: https://www.thebigquestions.com/2010/01/27/a-quick-economics...
I'm not even convinced the person is homeless. The story doesn't pass the smell test. I have friends who work dishwasher jobs in Seattle but can still afford to live here, albeit with roommates. Someone who is educated, working full time in their desired career, and has been homeless for 8 months? Bullshit.

And even if that were true, the development isn't what made him homeless, and neither is the high wage growth. Seattle chose to not accommodate new residents with additional housing...the displacement at the hands of high(er) income newcomers is the direct result of that decision. Building more is the solution to this problem, not the cause of it.
Billionaires pay low tax rates because capital gains is taxed at lower rates. That’s true not just in the US, but in most of Europe as well.

So what’s the point? Even confiscatory 100% taxes on billionaires wouldn’t raise much money (about $127 billion per year, compared to the multi-trillion cost of social programs on the table). And getting rid of preferential treatment of capital gains would risk departing from what’s become an international consensus.
Coca-Cola creates bottles using low-grade plastic scooped up from the ocean
Any time these "much faster than Redis" databases come up, the sysadmin in me wonders how many people have had actual performance limitation issues with Redis. I've seen Redis servers handle hundreds of GB of traffic per hour. I've worked at companies where Aerospike and others are proposed as replacements for Redis because "they're faster" - and I point out the 98% idle CPUs on the Redis server, and the near-100%-usage CPUs on the app server fleet and mouth "But... why?"

Replacing Redis with "something faster" is a bit like removing the doors on a car because "lighter means faster!". It might look good on a racetrack, but it's about as pragmatic as climbing through a window every morning before setting off for work.
> it has a lot of global influence

It only has influence if we give it influence, through crushing dissent like this. The NBA is complicit in the destruction of democracy and the ethnic cleansing of a religious minority; don't forget that.
Having a bit of trouble understanding what the potential solution is and what problem it solves. I may very well have missed it in There but figured I’d mention because others may have similar thoughts. So, what problem is this trying to solve?
Ubuntu was the first OS to support Kurdish in 2006[1]. We have to keep pushing for open platforms in the face of state sponsored cultural suppression. Prior to 1991, Turkey banned speaking Kurdish in public and they successfully pressured Microsoft to keep it out of Windows until version 10.

It is of increasing relevancy as imperialist governments around the world put pressure on minority populations. Just yesterday the Trump admin opened the doors to Turkish expansion into a Kurdish region of northern Syria.

1. http://www.unthinkingly.com/2006/12/07/ubuntu-in-kurdish/
So law school? I know in my engineering degree we had courses on the regulatory environment that pertains to us, (FDA). Not sure about other disciplines but I'd expect civil, electrical, mechanical, aerospace, etc. have similar courses. Although, since you can't really make high-level decisions without a P.E. in those fields that might not be necessary since you will get that knowledge working with a P.E.
It depends though, I agree that it sucks to work daily with a jerk but as we see today people get outraged by pronouns, things you maybe said in the past, your private opinion on sexuality, your private opinion on politics.

It would be a pathetic excuse to fire Linus because 25 years ago insulted some BSD guys in an email or some other developer in a different email, the internet was different then and there was no COC to force people to use a specific language.
This is beautiful. I love it, and thank you for sharing it.
if you don't know or doubt how popular VPN is used in China, it indicates that you know little about modern China. everyone I know uses VPN or know how to use VPN if they need. as for exact scale, I'd leave that to you. you could easily figure that out as there are ton of such information online.

If brainwashing really worked greatly like you said, Soviet Union would still exist now. It was their people who overthrew Soviet Union.

exactly because of China going through the disaster like Cultural Revolution, many people just don't believe these propaganda anymore.

my point was not there is no brainwash. it's everywhere including China and US. my point was in the era of Internet and the popular use of VPN in China, i don't think the brainwash really works greatly like you'd think.
They also denied apps which track US bombing and attacks, drone strikes and such
If that's your concern, I recommend reading up further on people's issues with rms. It's not "some accusations that appeared after 20 years," it's 30 years of pattern.

https://medium.com/@selamjie/remove-richard-stallman-appendi...
I’ll go ahead and preface this by saying “I don’t know” but for people at the very top, are there undisclosed tax incentives to encourage them to spend their money?

By undisclosed I mean negotiated. When you are trying to get somebody to spend a ton of money to open a business, donate to charity, bring a bunch of jobs, etc is there a negotiation that happens to provide lower tax options to encourage that spending?
>The US already has a very progressive system.

How can this be the case if the taxes actually paid (which is what the chart shows), is largely flat across income bands, between about 22 and 28%? Sure, between 1950 and 1980, the system was progressive, but the actual percentage paid by the wealthy has come down over the past 30 years, it's now much much less progressive than it was 50-70 years ago.
Let's say you have a transaction that writes data located in different quorums atomically. This is called a "multi-home" transaction in SLOG. Most of the machinery in the paper is dealing with that case. SLOG can do that with half-round trip latency. No idea how long it would take the version of Spanner you described to do that, but presumably at least two full round trips across quorums for two-phase commit.
Apple's "Courage" ends at little technical details like headphone jacks.
JavaScript Trap
For anyone interested in the idea of keeping old computers running, I highly highly recommend the Living Computer Museum in Seattle [0]. It was started by Paul Allen and has some of the coolest stuff I've ever seen. Their goal is to restore old computers to working condition and have them look/feel/smell/work the same as they did when new. I got to see a ton of old computers that I had as a kid. I even got to write a program in BASIC on the original IBM PC like I did when I was a kid! [1]

[0] https://www.livingcomputers.org

[1] https://twitter.com/TeriRadichel/status/1164369796307116033
> The U.S. and others have sold their soul to the devil for $299 flat screen tvs.

I believe it's more appropriate to say that they sold their souls at 230 dollars per share.
I believe there to be a different reason than the ones you mentioned. I believe what might happen is the end of "the Internet" as we know it. Russia is ready to detach their networks from the rest of the world. China has the GFW. Hackers from around the world are targeting each other for their governments and getting a get out of jail for free card (scratch that: a carte blanche). I like FOSS, but it is also easier pirated by a country who don't adhere to the licenses. There is a country who pirate en masse, who steal trade secrets. That country is called China. Worse, the USA does it as well, via NSA etc.

Either way, I don't think such is a good premise to start this/an OS. There are much better argument to be made to prefer a lightweight OS. Intellectual curiosity, for one.
Are questions against Hacker News guidelines!?!?!?!?!?
> Just as most sports are 90% mental and only 10% physical, managing a large software project is 90% people skills, and only 10% technical.

Some evidence for these figures? Or did you just make them up?
Interesting metaphor.

Any links you can share on taming the elephant?
The extremely simple answer is I'm more productive when there's other people around me being productive. It's a weird social thing, but when I'm at my house it's a lot easier to open up a new tab and go to some distracting site without realizing it, whereas at a coffee shop I catch myself and tend to focus a lot more.

You could argue "develop self-discipline" and, sure, you're right. But for me I just enjoy working more in those kinds of spaces.
You’ve got it exactly backward. Taxes on the top 1% aren’t dramatically different in the US than in say Germany or the Netherlands. It’s taxes in the middle class that are dramatically lower.
The most frequent case for me, even on the purely technical sites, is talking about the question author in third person (because writing "question author" or their username [which they might choose to change later!] repeatedly is not really an option).

But even ignoring that, there are several other avenues of communication on SO/SE beyond QA. Comments, different chat rooms, flags, mod messages... And a few of those can be intrinsically personal, so avoiding pronouns may be difficult there too.
> How can someone (perhaps yourself?) be in favor of expanding choice and also opposed to to the existence of this choice?

The issue isn't that an iPhone on which you can't install apps not approved by Apple exists, it's that an iPhone (i.e. Apple hardware running iOS) on which you can install apps not approved by Apple doesn't exist, so that choice is missing from the market. In order for it to be a choice it is necessary for both alternatives to be available.
Facts are rarely black and white. Look at USA reporting about Venezuela or Cuba. It's factual, yet it also implicitly takes sides.

Which facts? How are they presented?
You missed that the noise function is given n-dimensional coordinates as an argument. Rather than picturing an RNG, you can think of it as a texture unit that samples from an n-dimensional image of some noise with certain characteristics.

The order in which sample values are retrieved doesn't matter — of course it doesn't! It's important that fragments (think 'pixels' in case you're wondering what fragments are) can be evaluated independently and in any order, as computing fragments is supposed to be a massively parallel operation.

It this context, you have to throw out the concept of 'previous' sample values and replace it with 'nearby' values.
Yes; for example, the Noto font family is so named as an abbr for ‘no tofu’.

(Taiwan should change their flag to �. Checkmate, CCP!)
There is a substantial benefit though:

The artificial blood can be stored at normal temperatures for more than a year.
And one should not overlook that a lot of cutting edge chip design is done in China. Just think of all the chips by Huawei. On top of that, the direct layout information is more relevant for reengineering than copying.
The problem is that if you put a lot of work into OSAG and it becomes very successful in, say 5 years, it becomes the next trough that the unproductive equality mob can put their snouts in.

This is a fundamental flaw of free software.
Pai is too corrupt to do the proper job. He only serves his ISP masters. Wheeler was doing the right thing for a change.
Most things in life require some sort of technique or procedure which can be done poorly or can be done more well (less wastefully?)

These can be objective metrics. They can be measuring pretty much anything you want, and you usually find a way to get better at it.

I think finding the right things to measure is the most challenging part, almost because of the fact that you can usually 'game the system'.

But to deny merit completely or find it in contempt is in my unearned opinion, a fear response in denial of the massive amount of skill a small but influential number of people develop in all sorts of endeavors.
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