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> Free will and determinism aren't necessarily incompatible.

Under the standard definitions, they are; if will is strictly determined by other material facts, it is not free. If you adopt unusual definitions for one or the other, they may not be, but then you aren't talking about the same thing other people are when you use the terms.
If curing and saving people has the side effect of some company making money, I think I can live with that.
Azure UI is poo-poo'd compared to ARM templates, Azure Blueprints or PowerShell scripts.
I wish I could find a source for Mister Wizard’s World..
This would be pretty cool if it flys. I was sad when the FAA made rules disallowing supersonic flight over people. As a kid I wanted to fly from New York to LA and arrive before I left. That just seemed really magical that you could do that.
It is a text file. You are just complimenting the web server.
Well, in every other place in the world, the government doesn't wake up one day and ask citizens to prove they are Citizens.

This is what happens if you elect bombastic incapable governments. The government doesn't realize that by their own logic they aren't elected by citizens anymore. By their own logic, they need to hold elections again I guess.
Microsoft definitely didn't forget that sysprep exists, there's a decent sized group in azure that cares just about windows image creation and associated technologies. I think most of sysprep is simply considered "done".
This is very wrong and misleading comment. protestors are protesting due to targeting a minority without naming them, and amending constitution on the basis of religion, in a secular country with a secular constitution.https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/12/indians-protesting-ci...
> "The employee was not correct in doing her legal obligation to inform people of their right to organize..."

The corporation as an entity has the legal obligation to inform people of their right to organize. The corporation has designated specific people with the appropriate expertise and authority as those permitted to do so. Said group does not include this individual. End of story.

> "Which she had the authority to do because it's literally what she was hired to do?"

This individual is a legal or HR specialist with expertise in US labor law and knowledge of approved mechanisms for complying with said laws? No? How odd it is, then, that people are claiming that is what she was "hired to do" despite having no qualifications or permission to to do so.
> So, most protestors are not protesting muslim exclusion, they're protesting anyone's inclusion.

That is not true. Protestors are protesting the problems existing minorities (specifically Muslims) thanks to the combined power NRC and CAB gives to the government.

In short, You can stay in the country if you are non-minority (everyone except muslims) you dont have to product proof like ancestry and stuff.
But if you are a minority, you got to produce proof, show your ancestors, and even after you do, you might be "admitted to camp" and after "investigation" you will be "asked to leave"
That’s fair. I shouldn’t have compared earning potential and said something along the lines of what people pay for services in the marketplace. I was thinking in my head about comparing the cost of a developer to the cost of other things in the physical world. As noted in another comment reply these other jobs have a lot of overhead as well.
I’ve used the apple magic trackpads since they came out. As you say, it’s so much faster to just reach up and engage the touchpad surface, rather than to locate, grasp, and move a mouse. Third party software (BetterTouchTool) opens up virtually unlimited gestures. I’m never going back.
Protests in eastern part of India is against giving citizenship to any illegal immigrants(regardless of religion) in India. In other parts its because, excluding a religion from giving citizenship to Illegal immigrants shouldn't be the nature of India although I think that its constitutionally valid(IANAL) (as they are illegal immigrants and constitution doesn't protect them)
Our benevolent overlords strike again.
Most Americans have had an expectation of American Exceptionalism.

To quote John F Kennedy:

“I have been guided by the standard John Winthrop set before his shipmates on the flagship Arabella (sic) three hundred and thirty-one years ago, as they, too, faced the task of building a new government on a perilous frontier. "We must always consider", he said, "that we shall be as a city upon a hill—the eyes of all people are upon us". Today the eyes of all people are truly upon us—and our governments, in every branch, at every level, national, state and local, must be as a city upon a hill—constructed and inhabited by men aware of their great trust and their great responsibilities.”
True, but that’s a replacement and upgrade to a new service. Do you consider that the same as a shutdown with no alternative?

I’d say the biggest situation that materially affected companies was the Google Maps pricing change, but most seem to be fine with that now.
> It is not the citizen's responsibility to prove he is a citizen, it is the government's responsibility to prove that he isn't.

> Guilty until proven innocent? How is that fair?

By this rationale, couldn't one claim citizenship to any country? When I arrive at a foreign border I don't say, "Allow me entry, I am a citizen, prove otherwise."

I understand that further from the border this encroachment is less justified, but still I don't think citizenship is granted until proven otherwise.
One of the things that google does is basically trade compute and storage (whether its a google search or gmail storage) for advertising revenue.

In a world where the public cloud is dominated by a handful of providers its likely (if not already the case) that AWS will become by far the biggest buyer (with the best economics) of compute and storage.

Obviously there are many other barriers to competing with google, but if amazon could provision the amount of storage and compute needed for YouTube and search in the headroom of its public cloud (and even worse if AWS customers could do this for a cheaper cost than google itself) this would be a negative thing for google.
I would be surprised if our neighbors don't cooperate in sharing information about border crossings. That seems like a very simple and mutually beneficial thing to do.
Oops, mea culpa, read OP as disputing whether there was any preference for advanced degree, not whether only US ones counted.
It's not at all a new idea.

Cryptohippie has been claiming something like this for over a decade.[0]

> Cryptohippie USA, Inc. provides access to the Cryptohippie network, which is anonymous, thoroughly protected and globally distributed. This network creates anonymity and gives you very private access to standard Internet destinations.

> Cryptohippie is unique: we don't require you to trust a single entity for your privacy. Our sales and network are run by separate companies in different jurisdictions. The sales company never sees network traffic and the network company never sees sales data.

The network provider being Cryptohippie Inc., Panama.[1] And one of their services is "Anonymous Admin".[2]

> System administrators are prime targets for blackmail, corruption and outside force, and are in a central position to undermine your communication and data security.

> Cryptohippie Inc. operates an Anonymous Administrator pool that can be utilized to oversee critical enterprise infrastructure or administer highly sensitive information resources.

> Anonymous Administrators can not be targeted by third parties. Not even Cryptohippie Inc. can give away their personal information or identity which could put them at risk of under force.

> Using auditing and concurrent peer review processes, Anonymous Administrators are under your control and the risk of them becoming insider attackers is greatly reduced.

> Only carefully tested, hand-picked specialists with a long standing relationship with Cryptohippie Inc. are available for client work.

> Please be advised that Cryptohippie Inc. only facilitates the contact to the pool of administrators and helps with setting up processes for communication, auditing and payment escrow. We will not know what specific administrator works for your organization or what tasks you delegate to them. However, in case of conflict, we will mediate/arbitrate upon request.

The argument, I gather, is that substantive acts require consensus of multiple anonymous admins. So rogue admins are not so much an issue.

But still, as you say, how can users trust any of that?

So yes, there is no "verify".

That's why I recommend nested VPN chains. You just need to trust that most of the VPN services in your chain are not working together for an adversary.

0) https://secure.cryptohippie.com/products.php

1) http://www.cryptohippie.net/

2) http://www.cryptohippie.net/AnonAdmin.html

Edit: About that "over a decade" comment, here's a snapshot from 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20081006023454/http://cryptohipp...
You cant just wake up one day and suddenly proclaim everyone a non citizen. In that case this is a non-government having been elected by non-citizens! Right?
Yeah, I'm thinking the same. I just didn't really have the time to put some standard one - was busy with all these comments!
Google not just terrible here, it’s just void in terms of customer service. We had an outage due to GCP glitch , there were no way to report even. Recently I heard about bare metal offering , tried to talk most of sales i talked wasn’t aware of GKE term. I wasn’t able to get pricing eventually after 2-3 calls . It’s probably top secret
It's a pity the most important info is often omitted:

- Can it run mainline Linux kernel? What about a major Linux distribution?

- How good is the documentation?

- Which major peripherals (audio input, audio output, camera, HDMI, USB on headers) are available?

- Are there GPIOs with usable levels (not 1.8V!) and with large pitch (2.54/1.27)?

- Are there embedded low-level peripherals, like I2C, multiple serial ports, PWM generators, ADC, DACs?
Debris from the impact made it all the way to Texas! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bediasite
> Also what meaningful work can you really get done in 3 months?

It really depends on where you are and how seriously they take their interns. I've seen interns accomplish a fair amount in 3 months where I work (Mozilla). As a concrete example, we had an intern propose and implement a new devtools feature that lets you see what your site design looks like to users with various visual impairments.

Still depending on where you are and what you have already done, some things that one can learn from an internship that one might not encounter otherwise during college:

* Working with a large codebase.

* Working with a distributed team.

* Code reviews, both as the recipient and actually doing them yourself.

* Dealing with large existing suites and writing your own tests, then dealing with the intermittent failures.

* Finding out what various people in the industry are working on.

* Finding out what jobs actually look like in practice on a day-to-day basis.

It's possible to pick some of these up via various open-source project involvement, of course, even without doing an internship.

As a personal anecdote, during the one internship I did I learned a lot about the concept of "just because it's a spec doesn't mean you should implement it", ended up fixing a ship-stopping bug for the product I was working on, made some friendships that continue until today (nearly 20 years later), learned some hard lessons about the failures of corporate IT provisioning in a large corporation, plus some of the things I listed above.
I think his take on databases is moronic with a dash of common sense:

He rails against a strawman where people put SQL everywhere, into views, into application logic ("mail merge" is one he mentions), and DBAs gatekeep everything.

The common sense part: no, your views shouldn't be composing SQL with string interpolation.

The moronic parts:

- He venerates application logic and regards the data model as a detail, but data models aren't details — they tend to outlive application logic.

- He holds up in-memory data structures as a platonic ideal, but doesn't address the things databases provide for you: schemas, constraints, transactional semantics and error recovery, a clear concurrency story.
Spidernetics

Spiderterrorism

Spider-espionage

Spiderspace

Spidercrime

Yep, terrifying.
Have you tried viewing it on mobile? It looks awful.
Would you trade places with Kim Jong-un? I sure wouldn't.
Small aside about memory in humans: I am reminded of a story told during a lecture of a transplant recipient receiving a heart transplant and was interviewed after the successful surgery about what they would like to eat now that they had a new heart (previously, was on a really restricted diet due to heart condition).

The person responded with "Kentucky fried chicken" on a whim.

It was later explained that they don't know why they felt compelled to say KFC since they never been to one in their life. Later on, they find information about the donor and how they died (motorcycle accident -- be safe on your bikes please kids). The donor was a pretty husky guy, and loved Kentucky fried chicken.

Now could have this just been sheer coincidence or chance? Most likely. Is this scientifically verifiable? Of course not, not with current means. But for some reason I've always had a strange suspicion that there was more to memory than just storage in our brains, but that they are also somehow part of us as well.
It the kernel and interpreter typically single threaded? I'm curious how it handles UARTs, IRQs and atomics.
I saw you did a Kickstarter so you may have this info already... anyway.

I’d check out crowd supply for a maybe more “on target” audience and also the beaglebone, open and perhaps easier to tweak.

If the target is travelers, raid/camera sd seems a pretty good idea. Battery seems just a logistical nightmare to handle, I’d make it work with one of the various phone external batteries (assuming powerful enough).
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This is not a recent thing. Read about Assam Accord of 1985 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assam_Accord
The protests in eastern part of India is to uphold this accord. The current government has diluted the accord to give citizenship to these illegal immigrants(excluding Muslims, LTTE, etc) with the CAB bill.
This article is written by vested interest promoting anti indian sentiments. Either way, I sympathize with the poor laborers who are only trying to earn a living. It is always the poor who bear the brunt of it all (e.g. Trump bans Muslims but buddies up with Saudi Arabia)
From a prior generation, I think we served you a shit sandwich. I prefer to be optimistic, and believe you guys can work it out, overcome it, and move on. I also tend to be mildly pessimistic and I think tumbrils await my cohort, for the wrongs done to future history: we really did crap in the swimming pool and expect you to learn to swim in it, and then clean it up.

We were not kind. We might get what we deserve.
I think the point here is that if we are looking at the economy as the ultimate end and treating people as the means to that end, then we’re doing it wrong [1]. I get annoyed every single time I hear people justify the suffering of others as “good for the economy.”

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

— Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative#The_sec...
Yes, the `stripped of citizenship` parts come in later with the NRC (National Register of Citizens).

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/et-explains/is-a-p...

Anyone who is not able to prove their citizenship will naturally be declared illegal immigrant and then have an option to apply for citizenship depending on their religion. This applies to anyone who IS NOT a Muslim.

Millions of poor and illiterate people in India have no documentation proving their citizenship, let alone documents going back decades proving that their ancestors were Indians. We all know how the route of detention camps go when the number of detainees goes up to millions.
> This is not a case of `stripped of citizenship`. India just built detention camps for illegal immigrants in the country.

That's a really disingenuous way of putting it, as I think you know.

Several million people who have lived in India for generations in some cases, who have never been offered or asked for citizenship papers, have suddenly been declared illegal. To prove their citizenship they need to provide documents that were rarely ever created in rural India. This is hardly just sweeping up random migrants.

> The protests that are happening in the eastern part of India is against giving citizenship to illegal immigrants.

That may be true in the east, but the largest and most vocal protests are in the opposite direction.
I don't think I've ever heard AWS-specific terms applied to GCP or Azure infrastructure.
As admin you must then document the communications and escalate until you're heard. If even CEO won't listen you're either wrong or need to report to authority outside org through established means.
> I raised a number of concerns with the study, but wasn't able to find anyone who would seriously and objectively address them.

This is an inaccurate summary of that thread, in which you raised a simple accusation that the article cherry-picked the models, were swatted down with a citation from the article referenced in the OP, and then retreated into a maze of long, twisty replies that failed to raise any other specific points.

Your comments in this thread have had the same flavor. Consider brevity and specificity.
This is extremely bad but also completely expected. Concrete promises of economic growth are hard to deliver on, so the Politicians will focus on inciting religious differences instead.
Do you know of any good code repositories for DSSP?
> One such property is the use of reverse polish notation
and the lack or eschewal of local variables.

What do you gain by eschewing local variables in favor of reverse polish notation that throws values onto a stack?
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Here is the top selling list of VR games on Steam.

Boneworks - Unity

Westworld Awakening - Unreal

Beat Saber - Unity

Blade & Sorcery - Unity

Pavlov VR - Unreal

Pistol Whip - Unity

Skyrim VR - Internal

Fallout 4 VR - Internal

Superhot VR - Unity

Layers of Fear VR - Unreal

Zero Caliber VR - Unreal

Moss - Unreal

5 - Unity, 5 - Unreal, 2 - Internal. Depends on a game type you wanna build and perks of each engine.(grants etc)
Regarding 1 - the government now wants to repeat Assam NRC exercise all over the country. Why? Why do we need to prove our citizenship now all of a sudden?

Regarding 2 - the government handpicked only those countries which have Islam as state religion, and ignored others like Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan and China.

The largest refugee population in India are Sri Lankan Hindu Tamils living for more than 30 years who were not included. Since including Sri Lanka would force them to include Myanmar which means Rohingyas will have to be accepted too.

The CAA is just a new political tool since Ram temple is now settled.

Politics like fire needs its fuel.
Even setting aside the obvious "Two wrongs do not make a right" response, if you have to cite history from 3/4 of a century ago, well...good luck persuading people with that. On the other hand, the public can easily find news stories of major corruption and criminal involvement by unions for each of the past few decades.

(Oh, and by the way, the Teamsters, whose site you linked to, figure prominently in quite a number of those news stories. There really isn't a better example I can think of of why "Workers need to be willing to break the law in order to win victories against the people that make the laws..." goes down a bad path than them. The Wikipedia article for them contains the word "corrupt" 31 times.)
The risk side was, when a Lambo got totalled by a drunk kid and somebody says "ok, the valet company insurance will pick it up"
We (in the US) are taught that we deserve our financial situations. And we really do believe it.
> I don’t have kids of my own yet, so I’m out of touch with how the show is being run these days, but if Elmo is the lead now, this definitely sounds like a step back in quality level.

My (at the time 2 year old) referred to Seasame Street as "Elmo."

The shift in content aligns with the shift that has happened in Early Learning Education in the US--mainly less emphasis in academic subjects, and more emphasis on social and emotional skills.

Modern Seasame Street broaches social topics, with a small amount of academics (mainly letter and number of the day).
The block watch captains already do this and are way nosier. Sure maybe only 12 hours per day rather than 24, but busy bodies are nothing new and even worse if you ask me.
Disclaimer: Apple employee, but not working on anything related to this.

You can achieve a privacy focused solution by doing the processing localy. I am looking forward to more HomeKit Secure Video compatible hardware becoming available. The idea is to process the video feed locally on an Apple TV or iPad, and then send notifications to your iPhone. An encrypted video can be uploaded to iCloud upon detecting some motion.

Also... with the photo library available on the Apple TV, I guess face detection in the video feed might be possible in the future.
Screw them
Somewhat ironically books are the only area in which I have personally been dissatisfied with Amazon so far. (Since my first order from them, in 1998.)

A book I ordered recently arrived in a flimsy envelope instead of a box. Needless to say it was damaged. Nothing major but having paid $30 for a 150-page paperback, I thought it was reasonable to complain. No problem.

The replacement book came in the same envelope, with slightly different but still obvious damage.

To my shame, I kept the second book. But next time I want to buy a physical book, I'll certainly look elsewhere.
Gmail makes money from enterprises that use Gsuite.
What Chromecast devices did they drop support for? I have a Gen 1 Chromecast and it still works just fine.
Of course it's more useful, it's more useful to team members and to malicious users alike, but it's not useful for passing security audits and certifications.
HBONow/Go/Max has a lot of Classic Seasame Street.

Not all but many episodes.
I think HN used to regularly traffic in more technical stories and then it slowly became just another Reddit.