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This might be the stupidest thing I’ve read on the internet this week, congratulations. Have you also considered listening to the local hip hop stations, you might ‘uncover’ the number people illegally smoking weed and stealing all the white women.
I doubt that they even have CDLs, so they've done an end-run around the basic legal process required to ensure safety here. (Though, the private garbage truck drivers do have CDLs and they drive like lunatics and kill people regularly, so just having a CDL is no guarantee, but it's a start).
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It may be a cultural difference. Over the years, I'd had parcels delivered to about 10 different depots, and the experience was always the same.

The google reviews for the places are all the same: 1 star, never open / packages stolen / packages broken.

It's great to hear it works better in some places; on paper it's a great solution.
Modesty and arrogance aren't true opposites. It's quite common, especially with more junior developers, to overestimate one's own skills and underestimate other's.

Not having some sense of modesty and trying to step on others to get to the top will win you more enemies than friends and someone who is unpopular with their colleagues doesn't usually do a very good job at leading.
Not really. There's only so many trucks, and they're already mostly in use anyway. You wouldn't see much more trucks on the road in this case, just them working longer hours and with larger crews per truck. It happens every holiday season.
My understanding is that the fraud claim — if it matches the fraud claim in the New York case, at least – is this. Exxon had an internal figure used to represent one kind of climate change costs for one purpose. Investors never saw this. There was also an external figure shared with investors, to help investors assess risks to Exxon stock. The case for fraud is that these weren't different for a good reason, but because they sought to mislead investors.

The pricier of these figures is the external figure, so they're being charged for being too alarmist with the public. In either case I don't think it has much to do with the previously linked research claims in this thread.

(To this, there is added some consumer fraud by... not labelling gas pumps with warnings about global warnings, among other things, I think it was? This is the weaker claim, and I would not expect it to prevail.)
Good question. If he also decides not to rent to black people, certainly, that’s his business, and I have no right to tell him who to rent to. Correct?
Of course it should. But the landlord's private property is still a part of the country citizen's collective property.
> but for security reasons (something about cross-site foo), you can't use it when testing an HTML file on your disk,

I think you can disable that check as a command line option. I cannot check it right now since I don't have chrome installed however I think it was --allow-file-access-from-files .
Ok, we've added that to the title.
Thanks. On desktop I use Windows High Contrast Black which is excellent. Firefox does a pretty good job of modifying web content to follow that theme. The main issue I haven't solved is mobile browsing. Most mobile browsers don't allow extensions and the OSes don't have anything like Windows High Contrast Mode except invent but that's never been a great solution for me.
Beacon – cloud infrastructure services geared towards finance
Does anyone see any evidence for this website's claims? It literally just says "big companies are investing in this". No sources quoted, no evidence of how many groups, to what extent, or for what actual purposes.

Basically, this looks like a FUD campaign to work the outrage machine to get more followers and donations (and e-mail addresses)
From their website it says "cloud infrastructure services and all the tools developers need to create, collaborate, test, and deploy solutions to production".

Basically, a python cloud-based IDE that includes a batch scheduler and object persistence backed by some no-sql database. Also has a tightly coupled DAG (think pyungo). Built on top of docker it seems.

They're geared towards insurance companies, hedge funds and banks. The system has similarities to systems used in other banks eg SecDB at GS, Athena at JPM and Quartz at BAML.

Any one have any experience with Beacon or have any views? Are there any open source alternatives out there that do something similar? Just curious.
The Duck picture alone makes this page worth checking out
Should I be concerned that upon installing 2.5 on MacOS it requested permission to Screen Recording?
> The vast majority of PHP 7.0 installations don't use FastGCI and don't use nginx

Do you have a source for this?
This strikes me as a particularly mean and grasping attitude I’m afraid. My children aren’t IT engineers, but they still benefit from my savings, life insurance and the proceeds of my investments. The property rights you exercise over the things you own are artificial.

It’s in the interests of the public to encourage the production and publication of new ideas and art. The vast majority of authors make very little for their efforts, and the majority of the benefit to society is gained simply by its publication and broad distribution. The additional benefit from derived works IMHO is much lower.
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I think if you’re going to see “films” this is not a problem. If you’re going to the movies that the average person is seeing at the average mega theater, it’s a different story. Where I live it’s extremely common for people to text message during movies and even answer their phone and chat with some friend about the movie they are seeing. If you were going to try to get all these people kicked out you would be spending most of the movie going back and forth complaining to management. Not really worth going in the first place.
Faster than anything in the Wainer hierarchy (which ends at $f_{\epsilon_{0}}(n)$. But it's reasonably easy to define a fast-growing hierarchy that uses the Veblen hierarchy of ordinals for the subscripts. Then TREE is $f_{svo}(n)$ where $svo$ is the limit of the finitary veblen sequence as the number of elements goes to $\omega$ (aka the small veblen ordinal).
Can anyone explain to me what "3nm" means in practice nowadays? My impressions was that the "x nm" was originally meant to mean "minimnum distance between seperate components", but I don't actually know if this is the correct definition. But I also heard that they don't really have a real meaning nowadays, serving more as categorizing and marketing terms instead of actually meaning anything regarding the physical layout of the chips.

So, what is it actually supposed to mean?
And how does 3nm correspond to the real, physical layout of the chips?

EDIT: Thanks for all the answers, I'll be sure to read through the links. Very interesting stuff :)
Which leads to the question: if "because I assume so" is evidence enough for making statements, how do you sort of the conflicting predictions of one theory based on "I assume so" and another based on as much evidence?

To give an example, let's assume that central bankers can make everyone better off by picking the right inflation rate. Therefore it is good to centrally plan the price and quantity of money. The grandparent's comment "let's assume"-based theory concluded that it is bad to centrally plan the price and quantity of money. Which advice should we follow?
Replying to my own comment with a more meta comment:

I'd also like to point out that the Duck Curve is a good example of the class of problem in the energy transition that seem like a major blocker at first and is often pointed to by detractors to using solar energy, but isn't really.

Since these types of problems take years to manifest, it can be being broken down into smaller prioritized problems (such as addressing the slope problem of the "neck") that we, the cleantech sector, can individually figure out and deploy solutions to without stopping progress decarboninzing the grid. If you just keep solving thousands of these smaller problems over time, eventually you'll end up solving the overall problem.

In a time where it's politically infeasible to do big things (e.g. building hundreds of nuclear generators), the cleantech sector has for the most part been making progress through incremental solutions that over time will get us where we need to go. I have no doubt that we'll solve the Duck Curve problem, but it will likely be one step at a time, not large strategic changes, which to outsiders make it seems like the problem is still a "blocker".

Anyway, this is what fighting climate change looks like, and as an engineer, it's tons of fun to know that if you just keep solving problems, you'll wake up one day in a 100% clean energy world that you helped create.
So I am actually speaking from personal experience so this does 100% happen, we could have a discussion about the relative occurrences, but I don’t even know that those numbers exist.

I understand that certain personality types really latch onto this idea of the ladder climbing thing as a battleground where you need to shove people off to move up. Shit, I was that person once upon a time! But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can do what I say, and things will work out more often than not. When they don’t work out you’ll have accumulated good will & tradable skills along the road. And you may even feel like a better person for it.
That's because N-body physics implies unstable orbits.

For the planet scale objects, the game designers would have to make sure that the orbits don't go crazy (over times that can be explored at maximum time warp). But then if the goal is to keep those orbits stable, why not just save all the dev effort and just keep them on Keplerian rails?

For the smaller objects launched by the player, unstable orbits aren't necessarily desirable either. Imagine going on a multi-decade mission and returning home to find your favorite space station missing. Game devs aren't going to spend effort on complicated features that will just piss off most players.
"senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000." https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
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This is really well done. I was wondering if it is open source or if it ever may become open source? I would love to see how it all comes together.
From the other parts, it sounds like you might not have to worry about firmware at all - you won't get a phone.
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I think that is the key design aspect, since as other user stated, it is extremely difficult to get open source firmware unless you are willing to spend a lot of $$.

It is indeed a sad state for Purism 5 to be in.
> I am not sure if you want to make a point or if it is a genuine question.

it's both. i'm almost finished writing an SSR'd e-commerce site that easily surpasses these metrics using a not-the-big-three vdom layer and thinking about documenting the experience in a web-perf article(s) once it's deployed.

i don't want to make the claim that such websites don't currently exist (for a multitude of reasons) without asking for some help in finding at least one counter-example; i've searched for a long time already and have come up empty.
For a while now Google has been rejecting some mail they classify as spam at SMTP delivery time. You don’t see mail they reject that way in your spam folder.
ecopathy, wedged between eco-doomers and those who can't accept the inevitable and inseparable dynamics of humans in relation to nature and how humans (and eventually AI) will be the determinant factors of a planetary system is not surprisingly costing lives. They treat GMO under the either as some alien toxin or as some notion of being an invasive species which is ludicrous.
The dogmas of more well-to-do westerners imposing controls to technology that would further help non-westerners often in poorer environments is ironic.
A couple past threads — 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10625906

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1338957
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I was in your exact same position. No amount of perseverance and high quality work convinced management I would be a much better fit than the current lead, even if it was obvious to everybody in the team.

It took almost a year, and the lead organically destroyed himself: the project became an unmanageable mess, people were uninspired and almost nothing was delivered. One whole year.

Management abruptly decided to fire the lead and gave me the opportunity: with bitterness in my mouth, I did it and the project was a success from every point of view: people were happy, the technical problems were solved with an eye towards scalability and future (unfortunately we had to throw away 90% of what was done earlier and rebuild it based on common building blocks idiomatic within the company), and I went to battle with management whenever unreasonable requests would come through in order to avoid engineers burning out.

It took several months of hard work: eventually, when the project was almost completely on track, they removed me and installed another lead, with the excuse “You have done a really fantastic job recovering the ship and we are really grateful! Now that the project is stable We are putting someone with better management experience so you can focus on what’s important, the code”. I kept asking for feedback, and received nothing but praises for “saving the project and inspiring the team”. It left me baffled. I quit shortly after.

Coworkers later told me that they were quite uninspired by this new guy who introduced a very micro management style without having ever gained trust of the team, and several of them quit or moved to other teams. What a bummer.

I really will never understand why management doesn’t strongly favor promoting from the inside and prefer taking chances with external hires with whom they spent 60 minutes interviewing and will most likely turn out to be bozos with an inflated resume (which is even harder to spot than engineers with technical skills) screwing up the team.
Truth smells like truth to me.
Once the best allocation of currently existing ressources have been implemented, then there would no longer be any growth.
Chrome iOS shows just the domain and subdomain-- which may help fight fishing attacks by focusing users on just that (but annoying to just about everyone else). Safari and Firefox show the whole URL, truncated on the right by the lack of space.
Sorry but an anecdote about your personal experience isn't very convincing.

What would be convincing would be a reference to a source with numbers/data to back up your claim.

The most recent Europe-wide figures are pretty out-of-date but indicate estimates of between 0.3% and 0.7% of people living in Eureope being irregular/undocumented (http://irregular-migration.net). This is much less than the comparable estimates for the US, for example.
But that still doesn't establish an injury to shareholders.
I thought the original meaning was 'minimum design dimension'. IE, of all the dimensions in the spec, whichever is smallest. Which could be the minimum distance between components, or not.

However I understand it's now basically a marketing term, and basically doesn't correspond to anything.
It’s not worth paying for.

VCs and other high-ego executives use this purely as a status symbol.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

America was built on immigration from undesirables (an Irish or Italian Catholic ~100 years ago was treated as suspiciously as a Muslim is now), and it seemed to turn out okay. The key difference back then was there was minimal welfare, so immigrants had to find something productive to do or else they'd starve.

>At best — at best — the 1st world would rapidly equalize economically and politically with the rest of the world. And what would that accomplish?

This is already happening via outsourcing: see for instance the rise of China, hundreds of millions of people lifted out of poverty while working-class Americans get poorer, and China's rising political influence on other countries. Open immigration would encourage more competition between countries: a hellhole like North Korea would have to clean up its act if its citizens were free to get up and leave.

>And after such a grand experiment, the refugees would be hardly any better off than they are now.

Do you think current (legal) refugees would agree that they're hardly any better off than they were back in their original country? Why would illegal refugees be any different? (Often the only difference between an illegal and a legal refugee/immigrant is that the legal one is at the front of some queue, the illegal one is at the back).
It sounds like you are trading time for safety, you are uncomfortable with your choice, and you now wish to make your tradeoffs someone else's problem.
Article conflates digital nomadism with remote working in general.

Remote work allows you to work from a space you control, eliminate commute and allows you to be able to walk around to clear your head without feeling guilty for not being in your seat.

You could use it to travel, but I figure that would be a harder lifestyle and is not synonymous with “remote work”.

The author did try working from home but the damage to his mental health had been done I guess. I have the benefit of using IRC for the majority of my social interaction for the better part of my life. I guess the author is missing face-to-face contact already by that point though.

Also, I did something similar to what the author did, took a one way flight to Helsinki from my home town Coventry in the UK.

No friends, no family, no support structure. Only the promise of a job. It was some of the best time in my life. I was able to live as I wanted to live and present myself as me without any baggage holding me back. It was wonderful.

Although, I did make more of an effort to really meet people- I went to pubs in Helsinki and spoke to locals and asked about their history and language and despite what you hear about the Finns; the ones I met were truly very friendly.

All I’m saying is that: “your experience may vary”
>but you've ignored another possibility: lower cost of living such that 17.3k per annum is plenty of money to live on.

No, that's also growth. A lower "cost" of living requires some reconfiguration of "stuff" in the world so that it provides more utility, i.e., more "value", than it does currently, which we understand to be an increase because it is not currently providing that amount of utility -- i.e., providing for living. That would mean that the total amount of "value" has grown, even if we refer to it using smaller amounts of currency.

I think some people interpret "growth" to mean growth in physical things, like energy consumption or the amount of railroads, but growth also includes psychological variables like satisfaction and physiological variables like health. The world absolutely needs growth. You can't get around that by rewording the question.
And how would you feel if AWS sued ElasticCo or Mongo for not allowing it to distribute the full version of their software?
The main difference is that you can't easily substitute one piece of code for another leading to little reuse and huge demand for custom solutions. Songs on the other hand mostly substitute fine within genres, we could stop producing music entirely and people would still have more than enough music to keep them happy.
I have always loved this line of thinking since it was introduced to me on the Tropical MBA podcast but I feel like the advice has limits. Many people, most probably, can spend many years without developing this level of following.
Given that comparing multiple previews, the locations of the pieces doesn't change, I'd guess the animation data is saved or reproducible. Given an input text, the text is turned to an image, overlaid, the pieces are colored matching the image/the colors matched to piece IDs, and then the animation is rendered with the colors applied to the pieces from the start.
Speaking from limited experience, executives are surrounded by people giving them distilled insight and knowledge. They sit at the top of the meritocracy, although not everyone in that position has earned their place through that meritocracy.
I'm actually astonished by the apparent claim that the European way isn't how it's done everywhere for low-risk compliance.

I picked up a random piece of electronics with a bunch of logos that show it's authorised to be imported and sold in important jurisdictions. It happened to be a Netgear switch.

It has a CE logo (from the European Union) and an FCC logo (from the US).

For the CE logo Netgear's people will have verified that it behaves in accordance with the relevant rules, as part of normal procedure for any product, and the sticker with the logo on just affirms to an importer that Netgear says this complies. Nobody outside Netgear will have checked it's compliant unless/ until somebody realises there's a problem.

Only very high risk items in the CE scheme actually need checks by a third party, that's stuff like pacemakers where if it goes wrong you'll literally die.

Is it really true that the FCC and similar US agencies have people at factories and ports across the US checking everything manufactured or imported is complying to their rules?
Agreed, having modems not sharing memory with the CPU would already be a big progress.
Why are stored procs still used? My experience with the black hole (or really I should say not in version control) pushed me away from them.
And then Mattis resigned 10 months ago due to frequent clashes with Trump.
I do wonder if Trump ordered Esper to "screw Amazon", and if so how did/would he react.
Not sure I understand the question correctly, but here goes:

My personal bias is to keep using submodules or at least subtrees where possible, mainly because it's builtin and because it's written by smart people. This is mostly for when repositories are pretty big and you don't want to submodule/subtree the entirety. But that's just me.

I hope the maintainer complexity is as low as any other git solution, all the rebasing tools are just using standard git so there should neither be any advantages or disadvantages. The advantage of using this is to not check in everything into one repository (perhaps avoiding accidental modification of unrelated files that could cause merge conflicts).
Wouldn't it be cheaper just to whip a cable over to Australia?
This happens all the time, and isn't considered fraud. San Fransisco is doing it- claiming one risk of climate change for the purposes of setting regulations and filing lawsuits, and using another for applying for insurance.

And I don't think being punished for using an overly conservative figure is likely, unless the court invents some duty owed to short-sellers. And it's not something we want to encourage.
Browsing WikiChip is advisable here

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/technology_node

The short answer is that Intel is the only foundry that even tries to keep its "technology node" in step with feature size. I give them a lot of credit for it because technology node 'deflation' by their competitors has been very successful in misleading consumers and even tech-savvy people.
Why not put them in version control, and have your deployment process pull them out of the repo and apply them to the database?
If not done with absolute precision that sounds like a recipe for over inflated egos and unrealistic beliefs and expectations. In other words, the problems lots of kids of helicopter parents and modern western culture have.