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The Nobel Peace Prize was greatly devalued when it was given to Obama in the midst of bombing other countries.

Does anyone have an explanation of why Obama deserved to receive it?
I assume there are legal implications here, but I'm surprised that Quintillion hasn't tried to make the woman who "invested" $40,000 whole. $40K isn't a huge sum to pay for the positive PR. If the issue is that returning that money could set a precedent for other investors to try to pull their money out, could they issue her $40K in shares? Even at the highest price she could have been subject to, it would at least expose her to upside.
Does the touchpad support gestures and does any driver exist for it? That's the biggest thing keeping me on macOS
Thanks for making this available but if you really want it to get it adopted you really should change from GNU license to much more permissive MIT license.
Pharmaceutical Companies Luring Mexicans Across the U.S. Border for Blood Plasma
Top Non-Tech Remote Roles in Tech Companies
A good rule of thumb is, if you think your <medium-to-large corporation> doesn't need Shadow IT, it means you're not already part of your company's Shadow IT circle.
So are the coordinates, right? I thought the point was that they were easier to remember and communicate?
All stated reasons are valid, however in the software industry, IMHO, the #1 reason is because in many companies, if not most, the people writing the code are not the people making decisions. It's also easy to see that it's the most successful ones that are lead largely by advanced technical people. From my experience it seems there is always a tension between how highly technical people and the business people make decisions. In some cases this gap is a chasm, and the miscommunication across the technical skill gap is so bad there is a lot of wasted time, effort and money, building horrible software and prioritizing the wrong things. And even when a balance is attained, it either doesn't last long or it makes huge compromises in productivity (basically everyone is happy condoning bad software).
Yes, that's usually what enterprises end up doing for their second SAP implementation after the first one crashes and burns.
I've been using HP Omen gaming laptop. I feel you get better specs for the money out of many gaming laptops. The down side is the stupid red keyboard with dumb "gamerz" font.
Anecdotally I have to agree with you. When I worked at Microsoft as a Cloud Solution Architect, my job was to help companies adopt the Microsoft cloud. There were some companies at a fairly famous startup accelerator which everyone here is familiar with who I was already engaged with when a new colleague also started helping companies out of this accelerator. I was quietly doing my job and helping solve problems, he made a big fuss about how he got Microsoft's foot in the door at this accelerator. Naturally he got tons of accolades and even a bonus for his work. This need to constantly be selling yourself internally was ultimately what lead to my departure from Microsoft. I'm here to solve problems, not to talk myself up as the savior of the world. It's also why I much prefer working with startups. Your work is much more evident and you aren't constantly having to tell everyone what you've done.
Musk is the most powerful man in history. Everyone else with the ability to wipe out cities has had some form of government controlling their actions or relied on armies to do the deed, and they couldn't do it anonymously.

Musk can.
Agility+Bed+Savings+$100+Off
I'm confused. You seem to be describing two groups of people disagreeing. How is that mental gymnastics?
Oh, if they got a not-thunderbolt cable then that's a smaller problem.

You are never going to prevent the existence of charge-only or similar cables, since they're a lot cheaper than running four high speed data pairs.

Raising the minimum to 3.0 wouldn't fix the problem, just make it sting slightly less. And you can't require the best speed on everything because that's expensive and 'best' keeps increasing.

In my mind the real crime is that you can lay out a bunch of cables and they can't be sorted from slowest to fastest. There are weird broken gaps, like cables that support TB3 but only TB3. Also that the labeling is awful. There should be a clear max speed icon on every cable.
I think we probably actually agree. I am also opposed to any sort of inquiry-free canned response. I do think that, if you don't have time or desire to investigate, your baseline should still be that results like this are probably false. Even given the bit of investigation i've done into this study, and even though I think it's decently well done and reasonable, if I had to bet money on it, i'd bet that it's false.

However, I would say that if you don't have the time/desire to investigate, your comments in public forums probably aren't worth listening to. So, I do agree that people that simply respond with "correlation != causality" without reading the study probably shouldn't be doing that.

> As an example of how this can be misleading common the average person sees only a tiny fraction of the proposed models that are much more likely to be valid because they've passed far enough along the process of publishing to have received some scrutiny and some credibility in the average case.

Ya, that's definitely true. The base rate of true models in published research is almost tautologically higher than the base rate of true models amongst all possible models. I was going to say that it is tautological...but I suppose it's actually not. All published models could be false. But I certainly agree that the research process is a pretty good filter, and the base rate of true models is almost certainly higher. But i'd be very very surprised if it was higher than 50%, even if you use a fairly high standard for "published research".
The comment should be downvoted for inacurracy.

"Turkey is the country that killed most ISIS fighters."

This is very doubtful and should either be supported by some facts or retracted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey%E2%80%93ISIL_conflict#2...

vs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_military_interve...

Coalition killed ~80,000 vs Turkey killed ~6,000.
Did a lot of research on my last purchase and it came down to a Thinkpad T480s or Thinkpad Carbon X1 and I ended up going with the Carbon because it's so much lighter and thinner while still having an i7, 16 GB of RAM and SSD.

And I bought it from Costco which was a great price and doubled the factory warranty for free, gives free tech support for a year and a ridiculous 90 day return policy.

And the battery lasts 10+ hours which is amazing.
This is exactly right. It doesn't stop espionage or a rogue employee - it is not supposed to; but it does stop inadvertent duplication all over the place in ways the company could be liable for due to inaction or insufficient policy around PII, etc.
I read it as being about the incompetence of reviewers. Considering the dreck that does get published, rejecting Nobel-level work should be an enduring disgrace.

Edit: had forgotten about submission fees. Yes, those were real. $100 was a lot more then, particularly for a grad student. Competion from open-access journals has been so good that people are forgetting how terrible it was. But paywall journals are still very, very bad. IMO it is irresponsible to use one.
> This may sound crazy—until you know a little bit about lightning.

s/a little bit/what every third grader knows/
An IRS employee stole identities and went on a 2-year spending spree
Scaling Up: Analysis of the Economics of Content Production
The IRS will ask taxpayers if they own cryptocurrencies in new 1040 tax form
He's saying that we're too use to kill each other in Europe, and we need some external power as middleman to keep heads cool, which is true.

Just before the Ukranian war started I thought another war in Europe was nearly impossible. And here we are.
A Conversation with NASA Admin Jim Bridenstine Inside SpaceX HQ
Sometimes I read NTSB reports for fun. It's a pleasure to read such well-thought-out analyses that perfectly straddle technical minutia dissection with layman accessibility. In my opinion, it's the pinnacle of technical writing. It's also incredibly important work: these kinds of reports have made air travel magnitudes safer than it was just 50 years ago.
Whataboutism. How are those two things related whatsoever?
would be nice to compare all providers with something like https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ (azure & aws)
I would much rather have a society of equitable Marxist-Leninists (which they are not) than authoritarian far-right Turkey. At least their values would be in line with mine, regardless of their political ideology.

It's pathetic that you're using this red-scare nonsense to justify a borderline genocide.
http://archive.is/g1g6E
This is also why I only click through to comments, and then to the link, if the comments deem it worthwhile/primary source
I'll throw in yet another recommendation for the Dell XPS 13". I'm using the 9380. It's light, thin, and has an excellent keyboard, and good battery life. The higher resolution screen option is beautiful, but it does drive the price up.
That's not usually how it works (WeWork doesn't follow the usual pattern, so they might not have done this). Generally, companies that plan to raise money incorporate, and founders are given options at the strike price at time of founding (generally so small to be effectively free), which vest over time. You also create an option pool that's already reserved for hiring. Founders don't generally hire someone and give away equity they already control, it's almost always from a pool specifically reserved for this.

There are startup school lectures on how this works in practice at YC if you want to learn more.
Problem was in this case it seems the product works fine across different engines, they just decided it was ok to block a competing product to limit comsumer choices and generally make the web a worse place ;-)

Of course it doesn't have to be that black and white but they certainly makes it easy to dislike them at the moment.
I think one person choosing and others using (and/or maintaining) software is a part of the reason, but another part is that "enterprise software" is essentially a single software package used by multiple users, usually incompatible with standard and open protocols/formats: even when the person choosing it is happy to (and does) use it, it still can be (and often is, IME) awful for others, due to differences in preferences and requirements.
It was serious. If it would be minor, no one would call specialists. They cost money and time. The bullying went down and there are no permanent victims now.

It is not rosy, but much better then in classes where teachers opted for punishment only or ignore it methods. There issues only grew. Yes in one case the problem kid had to leave school. Guess what - he is in another school and I don't think he magically stopped.
Office 365 isn't even gdpr compliant.
Not every employer hires folks like you who go out of their way to print confidential emails so they can violate customer privacy.

MANY employers have folks who unless you put a speed bump in their way would have employees inadvertently sync their entire email history onto their kids computer or a random computer while traveling.

The ENTIRE POINT of MANY of google's settings is to allow for those railings to be put in place. This is so employees who aren't out to abuse data can go about their day with reduced risk of inadvertently screwing up.

This is a big risk factor (I'd argue a much bigger risk factor than intentional employee misbehvior).

Additionally, once these controls are in place you can actually drive even better security where needed - it is possible to do a USB / printer / no phone lockout for high security ops - and is done when needed (very rarely). Thin clients are actually popular here - remote desktops another layer making it harder to dump the x million records out of system.
Here’s [1] an article about JPMorgan doing similar employee surveillance starting in 2009.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel...
I think it’s actually spelled Mark Crorigan
The x1 carbon line is very light weight, and the generation 6 has been widely adopted. But for cheap a refurbished x230 x250 seam to be still very popular. check out reddit.com/r/thinkpads
Yea. Very strange perspective in this article.

At the end they are acting like Apple Pay (or ant mobile payment) is a risk of sorts. This type of transit issue is actually quite unique. Their example of someone buying coffee at Starbucks with their phone is completely different. If your phone doesn’t before you pay, boo-hoo, no coffee. If it does after you pay they’re still going to call out your name and you grab your cup.

Almost exactly like you are suggesting (and I agree) the transit system should work. When you pay, they have a record of it.
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Some very valid points in that twitter threads.

Enterprise software sucks because most companies who build them hardly have product designers. The distance between people who build those softwares and end users is quite a lot and no direct communication is usually possible. Most of the people building these software have zero idea of what the end user stories look like.

My wife, an optometrist, spent many a evenings complaining about the severe lack of usability in the software she had to use everyday. It is so bad that when she quit her job she found another firm which used the same software so that she did not have to go through learning yet another crappy software again.
This paper uses differing dates of abortion legalization in Western Europe to find a strong effect of abortion reducing crime: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01448...

Those are dates in the 60's though, so not sure what European countries you're referring to. Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_reproductive_right... the only country with on-demand abortion before 1950s was the Soviet Union for a brief period.
I'd like to let people know about Sublime Zettelkasten[1], which is this really useful module for Sublime that automates searching, linking, and lots of other stuff. There's also a standalone version that is attempting to have the same functionality[2].

[1]: https://github.com/renerocksai/sublime_zk
[2]: https://github.com/renerocksai/sublimeless_zk
It's still a Macbook Pro, by miles!
> What exactly is the evidence behind this?

10.7 is where they removed Expose (replaced it with Mission Control) and it frustrated me to no end not being able to have rows of workspaces. It go so bad that was around the time I started doing everything in a Linux VM in Parallels. Lion was the last version I used, and at other places I worked, I just heard endless frustration about permissions, root access restrictions and other issues that are pretty specific to developers.

> In my experience in most definitely not "just work"

A lot of stuff doesn't when you need commercial integration, sure. Evolution-ews does mostly just work with Exchange though. You can connect to Docker containers without needing a VPN. Package management in most Linux distros is more straight forward and can update almost everything. You can add 3rd party repos and not be tied to an "App Store."

Linux does require some more work sometime, but I know how to fix things on it. I'm not digging through some Mac or Windows weird subsystem bullshit, trying to figure out why I'm getting permissions errors all over the place.
Dell XPS 13 is pretty good and ships with Ubuntu: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/cty/pdp/spd/xps-13-7390...
I guess I'm a little slow, but I was surprised that a plot of latitude and longitude would generate something that looked like a map.

Of course thinking about it, it makes complete sense but I was genuinely surprised at first.
The pilot's did not perform ideally, but to say their actions were outside of what could be reasonably expected is foolish. This is a system for which they received no training, acts in an obscure and intermittent fashion, and is accompanied by a slew of cabin warnings.

Furthermore, with the overspeed and extreme trim, the trim wheel was likely inoperable, or else required so much force that the pilots reasonably thought it was inoperable. Due to the overspeed, the pilots were in an impossible situation where they concluded they needed electronic trim control while also knowing that this system was threatening their demise.

To place blame on the pilots is to plan to fail.
Ask HN: How do you deal with procrastination?
While that sounds like a troll comment, I'm going to say that there's merit to this - at least as a class action lawsuit. When you get sick from second hand smoke and it's been shown to be bad for you, there's a case to be made. If people are being psychologically affected by 'second hand pollution' then there's a case to be made that the local or federal government isn't doing their job (which is to serve the people). A lawsuit can be very real if consistent results are shown in multiple studies.
Lots of recommendations for X/T lenovos in here; does anybody know of a way to navigate the lenovo outlet without screaming into the void? https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/outletus/laptops/c/LAPTOPS

It doesn't seem possible to constrain it to just X and T series, you have to pick on dimensions that are ancillary like screen dimensions and weight, but their data seems to be really dirty because there's only two laptops (out of 600+ right now) with a 'weight' field.

The best I can see is to search by "memory: 16GB" since then you don't have to wade through the ideapads etc.
Follow my sibling comment for examples all the way back to 1958.

JVM yes was initially designed for Java alone, but its research successor, GraalVM, does understand LLVM bitcode thanks to Sulong.

As for "superior" WebAssembly sandboxing, it doesn't protect against internal corruption, due to lack of bounds checking on memory access. Which allows for injected scripts to try to coerce a loaded module to change its behavior. No need to escape the sandbox, sometimes changing the outputs is all that an attack requires.

It remains to be seen how many WebAssembly CVEs will appear when it starts to be more widely targeted by black hats.

And if those WASI modules happen to be written in languages like C and C++, I expect a couple of them to show up.
I've been using my System76 Oryx Pro for a few years, which comes with Pop!_OS or Ubuntu on it (your choice), but works well with other distros. I use Arch with it just fine.

The Oryx may be a bit bigger than you'd like, so you may want one of their lighter models. My laptop mostly sits on my desk all day, so I opted for the better CPU, GPU, and memory (which makes this machine better than the latest Macbook Pro while costing much less).

One nice thing is that System76 laptops ship with IME disabled and, soon, will be shipping with coreboot.
I came down to the same choice, but went with the t480s for the extra RAM and the ethernet port (only used twice, but been a life safer each time).

Both are great options.
Abuse of dominant market position in one market (search) to push into other markets (browsers).
I don’t dispute at all that there is a solid product, but it’s exactly the same as for Lyft & Uber.

The value proposition to the end user is only worthwhile if prices are held at artificially low levels due to VC subsidy that makes the business inherently not profitable.

Once you remove the subsidy and let costs elevate to the required level and/or cut back on amenities, locations, etc., to keep prices down, then the question is whether customers still want the remaining value proposition.

In other words, of course consumers like upscale stuff at VC subsidized prices. That tells you nothing about whether there’s a core business idea or not.
There is a business. Long-term real estate leases that then sublease the space short term is an established business model. It just doesn't trade at the same multiples.
It does support gestures. Gnome and KDE use libinput these days which has support for 3-finger, 4-finger gestures (Both have some gestures enabled by default when using wayland)
A virtual molecular tumor board
If you're doing what? I don't follow
Authors are often not web designers.
Has anybody tried the amd version, the t485? I was considering buying one of the two.
"The complaint says the employee, who works for the tax agency as a software developer, obtained a second fraudulent credit card, which he used to fly to Montego Bay, Jamaica. A third fraudulent card was used to travel to Iceland. In a particularly brazen move, investigators say the suspect linked this card to a phony PayPal account he opened using his official IRS email address."
For your requirements, would 10/10 recommend an older Thinkpad. Checkout r/Thinkpad for more resources than you could ever need to find a steal.
Safari browser sends some user IP addresses to Chinese conglomerate Tencent
They don't ship it though. The Linux subsystem for Windows is a different component. It's an image you download and run (might be community maintained too; not sure).
No it is not. Trade schools are if two kinds. One does not even give the degree necessary for college. Plenty of kids go there. Other has such degree, but it is not gymnasium. Plus most absolvents don't go to college, are limited to easy colleges and have trouble to finish.
You almost lost me at the apocalypse metaphor but I catch your drift. Weeks at a time of no power aren't easy to be prepared for, but I feel like this event should be one more reason we need more distributed power generation in the US. Less single points of failure.
Oil, just like everyone else on the planet for the last century. The Tethys Sea ran from the Persian Gulf across central Europe and the Mediterranean hundreds of millions of years ago, deposited massive oil reserves, and cursed the region and its people.
> sending 9V on a 5V line.

From what I could find after an hour of digging through USB specs is that that line is actually supposed to use 2V signals. (Though it's possible I misread.) So the faulty dock is even worse!

For the switch to tolerate 6V on that wire is already a healthy buffer. How hard is it to keep things 5V or less on the data wires of a USB device?
I second this. Writing custom software for a few users with complex and custom business cases is very hard. UX goes out the window because of the large feature set and the low productivity of each programmer.
Man, I can't imagine working in such an environment. It feels so detached to normal human interaction.

Couple questions as I don't (and largely have no intention to) work in Silicon Valley:

- Shouldn't the bar for transfers be roughly the same as the bar for initial employment? As in, give the candidates a similar interview process as if they were coming outside of the company into that team? Why would a transfer be based on the current manager, who is already disincentivized to allow the employee to switch teams?

- > Mr. Chen tried to push the deadline to be delayed but another bot monitoring the SEV rejected the change

Maybe someone who works at FB can clear this up but how does this work? A bot opens a ticket, dev attempts to change a dropdown field and another bot decides whether to revert or not? Or is there a human involved, and do they have override powers?