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> I loved TFA because of the nostalgia, sure it copied many things. But history itself repeats sometimes. I thought it was a good way to reignite the story by having familiar elements.

It's a fun watch, like Abrams' Star Trek reboot, but has the same problem of extremely lazy plotting. Not that the original trilogy never ever has something happen purely because it's convenient for the writer and they can't be bothered to think of something better, but that's the underlying motivation for a lot of the writing in TFA and Abrams' other films, while it's usually rare or absent in a well-plotted film, including the original trilogy.

He'll even, sometimes, write in nonsense because it's convenient, then have to come up with other nonsense to find an excuse to get rid of the first nonsense, without bothering to try to make any of that seem reasonable or natural. Example: Han and Chewie show up in a big ship just because we need them to be here now and can't be bothered to write them into the plot some more natural way that doesn't require introducing a new ship, but we don't need that big ship around past this scene because it only exists in the first place for the writer's convenience in the moment, so we'll just... make up some plot-irrelevant reason for them to abandon it suddenly, at exactly the time we need them to. Boom, problem—which we created due to laziness—solved, by applying more laziness! It's basically a whole movie of that, ground up, from a plot perspective, and it really grates once you notice it.

About the best thing I can say about Abrams is he runs one of the the best casting operations in the business and seems to be a good director of actors. I mean, damn. And he's about 100x better than, say, Michael Bay at creating good, popcorn-dumb but not dumb dumb or hard-to-follow-for-no-reason-but-laziness, action scenes. He's no master of action, but he does entirely serviceable work, which is more than a lot of directors manage. His plot writing is just god awful technically speaking. About as bad as it can be without suffering outright incoherence.
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In my experience the case is exactly the opposite. The term "racism" is so overloaded at this point that you can call someone a racist if they've mentioned anything even tangentially related to race. It's an insult more than a descriptor.
It's going to be fun to see this whole recognition proof clothing turn into a low-key "war" as states demand better recognition systems that can bypass this kind of thing, and privacy activists keep developing new ways of fooling AI.
Read it as patching MCAS would be the grad students over the weekend fix, and the really hard stuff as redesigning avionics logic.
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These people often have PhD's, I doubt they are mediocre statisticians or mediocre analysts.
> There is so much land in the US

The bay area isn't close to capacity. Even SF has 10,000 fewer people per square mile than NYC.
Even if serde does indeed use macros, they run at compile time. The limit on macro recursion depth has an impact on what programs do compile, but it has no impact on the runtime behavior of these programs.
I've considered this as well. They can't fire you but they'll find a way. See what happened to some of the Kickstarter people for example.
Worth noting / just pointing out : one common approach to orchard composting [which influences some backyard operations] is to avoid turning it in an effort to 1) promote fungal development and 2) save labor/money
Here's an article on wind capacity factor across the US region-by-region [0]. The significant conclusion is that winds nationwide are stronger in winter and weaker in summer. California and the Northwest buck this trend with strongest winds in spring, early summer.

[0] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=20112
I might even go further - kiam is not a standard deployment supported by the kubernetes project like the api server or the scheduler or the autoscaler. See https://github.com/uswitch/kiam

That said it is a very common deployment strategy in ec2 to run kiam or kube2iam. I wish the kube core teams took over the development of an aws iam role service since issues like bad defaults would be solved much quicker. Your only other alternative is to use iam access keys and nobody likes that (security wise and it’s a pain to configure).
Perhaps a more useful characterization would be that it's what happens when you take work that would traditionally belong to statisticians and actuaries with only limited programming and IT skills, and give it to someone who's a more of a jack-of-all-trades programmer/statistician.

I don't think that this leads to changes in the traditional ways of handling IT because of any fundamental change in a data analyst's needs. It's more that, historically they were outside the formal tech sphere, and therefore lusers who had to make do with whatever resources they were able to squeeze out of IT. Now, armed with better technical chops, they're able to make a stronger case for their needs, which means that more is being done to meet those needs.

Which is not to say that your skepticism is unwarranted. "Data science" is still a catch-all term for a new and ill-defined way of working, and things are still pretty wild west. Anyone who tells you they're sure they know what the best practices are is probably trying to sell you their product, which happens to be the best practice. Not many people have the benefit of 20 years of hard-won experience from which to draw a set of really strong guidelines.
Great. Is anything else usable too?
> GitHub is Tor-friendly, so you can piggyback off GitHub pages with Tor/proxies and get something out of that at no cost. Occasionally, they may automatically determine you to be a bot account, but support is responsive and reinstates it within at most days if you seem human enough. Censorship remains an issue, but shoving the pages manually into archive.org should help build some resilience at least.

Interesting insight about using archive.org to build resilience against censorship.

Also, is there something like a distributed version of GitHub pages/Netlify that might be less centralized? (e.g. perhaps a blockchain-based publishing platform that anyone can host a frontend for if one is taken out)

> This is a very, very hard problem. Your best bet would probably be compromising a few poorly-secured websites outside the sphere of influence you're trying to hide from, doing this from a public hotspot in a foreign country and then connecting to them only via Tor. Of course, if Tor is enough of a red flag in and of itself, you'll always have to travel to post, which is just as suspicious.

With behavioral patterns, I'm guessing it's nearly impossible to stay anonymous for extended lengths of time. However, it might still be good for releasing one-time long form content such as books.
This is a very simple question to a very complex problem/issue. Simple answer it isn't possible. The current way the internet, law, and society works it is impossible to start a anonymous blog. You can create hurdles and do simple things that would stop the easy to find things. But, if someone or corporation really put any effort into finding you they could.

The internet was not design for people to be anonymous. Our law's weren't made to keep you anonymous. Our society doesn't allow for people to be anonymous.
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How many of you are non developers?
I've always assumed this is an online developer city of sorts. But how many of you are actually "non-technical" professionals on here?
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If you train your security on parallel lines, and I come in with circles, I've just defeated your security. Machine learning only learns how to categorize things into predetermined categories. If I come in with a novel category it's never seen before, the best it can do is guess, and most likely, it will be worse at guessing than random chance.
You won't be anonymous to the VPN company so a specific corporation can identify you though. Something like Tor would be a better choice.
And that's worse than continuing to work in fear? Not judging, a decision everyone has to make for themselves. All jobs are temporary. Good luck, always be creating a paper trail that you can provide to an attorney or regulator, and CYA.
Exactly right. There are prophets, child saviors, required beliefs that are not to be questioned. Of course it looks like a religion from the outside! It's almost like this was done on purpose to become a wedge issue for one political side. Not a healthy way to look at science at all!

God forbid someone should say "I don't agree that we have enough information to establish a global tax policy given the inaccuracy of previous economic models" - they must be a denier!

It takes away from the real hard work people do when a Swedish teenager is paraded around with a scowl and a waving finger that points at everyone but China. I think it's a mistake and sets the whole work back, but what do I know!?

When it's really about science and not taxes/power, I think more people will accept the ideas.
Per the article, most of the sites were landfills, dairy farms, and natural gas facilities. All of those are directly controlled by consumer demand.
Not only will it be more fickle, there is 0 accountability from the public, and the corporation has unilateral control over the programs existence.

Contrast that with entrenched public goods like schools, libraries, police and fire departments. Most politicians don't have the ability to suspend those programs if the quarterly numbers are low.

So yes, private welfare infrastructure is inherently less stable than public.

> If we can construct some system where the profit motive does motivate ongoing maintenance of welfare infrastructure, thats a win.

There are some things that just aren't profitable, and never will be, like rural mail delivery.

Not to be dramatic or anything, but I think if the last 30 years have taught us anything, it is that the more we try to solve problems with profit driven organizations the more anemic our society will become.
You might be right, it's been a long time for me too. But if it can define new classes, then I'd expect that the code for those classes' methods would also be in the pickled format, at which point there's no particular reason you couldn't deserialize it in Haskell too... with some caveats about either needing to know what types those functions should have, or needing to build a run-time representation of those types so that they can be checked when called, or (hopefully!) crashing if you're okay with just unsafeCoercing things around.
There are landfills that capture methane too. Some even turn it into onsite power source (in which case it’s re-emitted as co2 but oh well)
If you have that point of view you are an idiot, because you clearly haven't given the questions even a moment of rational thought. This is precisely the WRONG way to do science
Their wing strut mounting of that sensor pod causes me a lot of concern... I don't think Cessna ever expected crazy torque loads on strut meant for tension.
One other thought: in most companies, you just don't open an office there. Or you lock your data down. But they don't have the technical capability to monitor or restrict access to prod data (their VP said this).

Because they're remote they can't just not open an office there so they have to restrict hiring to keep Chinese and Russians living in China and Russia out. Normally what would happen is you'd hire them but then not give them access to prod data (usually by saying it requires some background check or clearance you know they can't get) or when it's illegal not to give access, just lock the data down. The alternative is probably illegal, but it's the only one that GitLab has.
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"If people don't know what you're doing, they don't know what you're doing wrong."

-- Sir Arnold, Yes, Minister
Indeed, I would say most "modern" introductory physics textbooks (including newer editions of old texts like Halliday and Resnick or Sears and Zemansky) are terrible. Of course, the quality of printing, graphics, etc. have improved, but I don't think students ought to pay $300 for just that.
Still waiting on Elon Musk to make "WasteX" which will take vast amounts of garbage from landfills and fly it directly into the Sun.
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Is this supposed to be an AMA?
My friends introduced me to a new term for this site... the orange site.

It’s hard to say if it’s people espousing heartfelt views, trolls, bots, or who knows what other internet monster?
Trade bitcoin locally face-to-face.

I've used https://localbitcoins.com.
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Structure is orthogonal to partiality.

Partiality is what you get when you choose you only accept one branch of a disjunctive structure.
Paul Machle. Paul Machle should resign from Gitlab.
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No, and if they can not be even read by a machine, it's bad.
What relevance does this have? Do you think zinc is scarce?
One day your grandkids will ask you how it happened so that we are now slaves? Well, you can say it was not up to you, kinda.
On the positive side, I think starting a ridiculous business in the US is one of the best ways to waste money.

While a few whales will end up taking and stashing the money away in overseas accounts, lots of it will go for bills to legitimate business and probably mostly to employee salaries.

So at least we get that money distributed among the populace a little bit.
What is the government going to do with the billions collected from wealth taxes?
You have to blend in with the crowd to avoid sticking out. This means not buying a domain name (since domain registrations, even with contact information hiding, require real addresses in many cases for the registrar to process).

Then you use Tor to create a couple of ProtonMail and Tutanota addresses. Use these email addresses to create accounts on sites like GitHub while using Tor (make sure you link multiple addresses so that you have ways to get back in if one of them doesn’t work or you get kicked out).

Mirror all the writings on archive.org and another free site so that you have a backup to point people to (list the address of the other site in each site). Never trust any provider not to kick you out for “violating their terms and conditions” without telling you what you did or how you can fix it. When you get locked out, it’s usually with vague statements and no way to get back in. You’re at the mercy of bots and other people who may make it their mission to shut you down (depending on what you write).

Create multiple throwaway accounts without a lot of history to share the posts elsewhere.

Use Tor for everything related to the blog.

Edit: Building on what zelly said on translating from one language to another and back to reduce the chances of being identified by your writing. Somewhat similar in nature to hashing iterations, use one service to translate from X to Y, another to translate from Y to Z, and then yet another service to translate from Z to X. Then post X after making any necessary corrections. This could be automated with simple scripts.
Using simple and short sentences could also help against any language analysis. Write, then feed it into something like Hemingwayapp, simplify it, then process it further with translation rounds.
>// DO NOT USE - it's illegal and will get you in trouble.

>WARNING: DO NOT use this code to attack a real email list without permission. That's super illegal and can get you in serious trouble.

"Super illegal"?
Right, so if someone takes military action with a non-zero chance of civilian death then they have committed an evil on par with the holocaust, no?
An implementation of green threads-style register saving cannot be as memory-efficient as async/await, because it's more dynamic.

Green threads must save all (callee-save) registers, support arbitrary dynamic stack growth, and work with unsuspecting frames in the middle of the stack.

Async/await has the "thread" itself do all the state saving, so it can save only what's actually live. It computes a fixed stack size up front, so can be done with zero allocation. And because all intermediate stack frames are from async functions, they can also be smaller- transient state can be moved to the actual thread stack, potentially shrinking the persistent task state.

(This also has benefits for cancellation- there is no need to use the exception/stack unwinding ABI to tear down a "stack," because it is instead a normal struct with normal drop glue.)
My guess is the keyword "logo" in their brand name was a big part of their SEO ranking
If you have a service that takes in JSON from unknown sources then it's a pretty easy DDoS vector for abusing memory limits. Send a few hundred k of nested {"a":[{"a":[...]}]} that's easy to generate from a couple different CnC clients and you can kill a server pretty readily.

Similar for password login systems that don't restrict bad attempts by IP/Username. If you know a user exists you can send many requests for username:passphrase, and the hashing time has a cost... good passphrase hashing has a pretty high cost usually 1/10 of a second on a single core, or more. If you aren't tracking attempts, then you can easily topple a server with a few hundred simultaneous requests usually.

Anything that is an unguarded memory or compute hog can be used as a pretty easy DDoS vector unless otherwise mitigated somehow. I usually restrict 5-10k regardless, and chunk file uploads into separate requests. Restricting recursion for JSON predictable is a pretty great option as well.
Human-readable as in "not binary". Other than that, it doesn't offer a lot that helps in that regard.
Many data scientists are STEM PhDs with research under their belts. This shows they can figure out complex, technical challenges and then translate it into written, persuasive materials. I'd be surprised if most of these highly learned, gritty individuals (1/2 of grad students develop mental health illnesses) could not learn SQL, even if it is tricky/ugly/less user friendly.

I use SQL daily and while it's not ideal, it provides a very reliable foundation upon which R and STATA scripts build.
There is no way to solve the climate crisis. We should have listen to the Club of Rome in 1972. Now, it is much too late.
Like the scene in "Firefly", graveyard with moving pictures to remember loved ones by.

Interesting idea. I am not sure I want that level of detail preserved. I also am pretty sure those to come would want it.

Lots to think about with this.
One of Haskell's virtues is that it is concise enough to make pleasant reading in a blog post.

Come learn Haskell! It's fun and edificational.
In my opinion, those who’ve went through life being very safe and not doing anything risky that would warrant going to prison should have an advantage compared to those who were convicted.

Prison records should never be hidden. Let those in charge of the decision weigh the pros and cons.
"Joyless January"

"Yeah I'm doing JJ to really reset those D-P receptors, you know?"
There were valid reasons to reject the change:

> Us maintainers tend to reject tiny doc changes because they're often more trouble than they're worth.

> You have to collect and check the CLA, it makes git blame less effective, etc.

Even if you don't agree, nothing in there even comes close to justifying the abuse leveled against the developer. A small documentation change led to the departure of a core developer. Was it worth it?
There are numerous avenues of social mobility today and chronic structural issues with each and every one of them today

I wasn’t going to write a dissertation to make my point
Many European countries (Germany, Sweden, Norway, etc) don't allow landfills for common household trash. The solution obviously has many facets. Mostly it breaks down to waste separation (e.g. different bins for plastics, compost and paper that are emptied for free, with high fees for the rest to encourage people to separate), recycling what you can and burning the rest. Burning trash produces energy and you can deal with produced gases at one central location, what's left after burning is easy to landfill because it's much less volume and basically doesn't decompose.
That's true, but perhaps the emissions can be mitigated in a targeted way beyond just reducing demand.
I mean that's just one choice of framing right? I could equally say that women gravitate toward professions that require kindness and compassion and relieve immediate suffering, while men gravitate toward more capitalist straightforward work-into-money jobs. That for me ties back to a culture where boys are raised to exploit women and thus becoming alienated from people in general. It's kind of a wildcard, how you connect your perception and big statistics to nature, nurture, and culture
I've built IoT platforms where data from any device must be accepted. This is largely where my preference for NoSQL comes from. A device created tomorrow will not have a schema I can predict or control. NoSQL allows the easy integration of that device while a traditional database will at worst require a migration for each new device you want to support.
Naive person here. Isn’t the call stack a lot heavier than pushing data structures on a std::stack?
It is as if some people have money and time to burn because some people have money and time to burn. There are also people who operate at lower levels of abstraction than "original disruptive ideas and the passion." I'm probably not either. But my experience is only my experience.
I don't know what the purpose is. I can't speak to the intentions of anybody involved, but the data are pretty clear. PoC are disproportionately stopped-and-frisked, they're disproportionately brought to court for minor offenses, disproportionately killed by police, and disproportionately sentenced, relative to white defendants.

The why is an interesting thing to pursue, but I haven't seen a satisfactory explanation of why. The what and how are more clear, though.
You make it sound as if even if not intentional, misunderstanding someones point in this way is as a result of negligence ("vice").

If you express yourself in metaphor, it is reasonable for someone to ask you to expand upon or specify your views, so they can build a more accurate model of what you're trying to express. This could be because of simply not understanding fully what's being said, or being unwilling to assume that what they mean is what you think they mean.