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I said the greater freedom in America helped it win the cold war. Of course it is more nuanced than that. But that can literally be applied to everything and anything ever said - if someone said being outside jail is good or not being addicted to heroin is good... well its more nuanced... maybe someone would benefit from being in jail or from being a heroin addict... sure, but at some point you aren't really increasing understanding. You are just pedantically noting things that are obvious in a way that detracts from meaningful conversation.

It seemed to me you were arguing against my freedom point by trying to say America wasn't much more free than USSR. Since such a position seems so utterly disconnected from reality and history, I asked you to clarify your position, maybe I misunderstood.

I also asked what your point was, since I honestly can't see what you are trying to get at in the context of the conversation: should the US have more anti-freedom ML technology applied to mass surveillance and social control? Do you think that will help? Read the FA and opine, I'd be happy to hear a smart analysis. You seem to be able to do that, you seem quite smart. But picking at the edges of arguments without actually participating is kinda... detracting from the goal of conversation and moving towards ego boosting.

Also, even if you are smart, if I understood correctly that you honestly believe the USSR to be more free than the US in any significant manner based on the definition of freedom, then I'm not going to participate in this line of thought.

I've had a conversation once with someone I had just met. He mentioned 'dinosaur bones were placed there by the devil to trick us'. I asked if he meant it. With a straight face he said yes. You could say I laser focused on that, because after it, I never went beyond 'hows the weather' with him. He has every right to see it that way, I and many others have every right to think of him as slightly less 'there' and therefore avoid getting tangled with what we see as incoherent.
Happy Xmas hackernews. :)
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Am I really monolingual when I'm fluent in multiple programming languages and endless niche industry jargon?

Jokes aside, I'd assume the context switching would be psychologically rather similar.
> one should have open mind to listen to all ideas

Maybe you missed my argument then? Why not keep an open mind about Tarot, astrology and the healing power of crystals? At least in the West, these ideas are ridiculed outright and the ideas behind them mocked by the association. Yet the "love is the answer" surface of most Guru philosophy has almost the exact same philosophical centre as the esoteric roots of those practices. For some reason while most feel no compulsion to defend western esotericism they do insist people have an open mind about Indian spiritual ideas.

To be clear - I have no care at all what someone wants to study. My point is that there is a drastic difference in how we treat these ideas within popular culture. Spiritual teachers that peddle Indian ideas are treated significantly differently than spiritual teachers that peddle western ideas. As far as I am aware there is no basis for this. With your attempt to compare Indian spiritual teachers to accountants and professors you just provided an opportunity to highlight this difference. I know of no one who would allow such a comparison for a Tarot card reader.
Windy.com – lots of meteorological data presented well
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I can't seem to find a source, but I've heard that strength training is safer than running. I wouldn't be surprised if it's because people respect 300lbs more than going on a run.
I'm not bilingual, so this is an outsider looking in, but piggybacking off the sibling comment I wonder if you feel you're worse at language because you'll often have thoughts during a conversation that your brain can express easily in one language but not the one currently being spoken? So you often feel like you're having trouble expressing yourself in any given language?

One could argue that such events occur for everyone, but for a monolingual it would speak to the failings of the one language they speak, not of their inability to express thoughts. Or maybe such events occur more often for those who are bilingual because the brain can come up with a greater diversity of thoughts, owing to its mastery of two "modes" of thought.
Anecdotally, I’ve heard the same. Some drivers have even volunteered this information when I don’t ask.
For $10,000 you could easily hire someone to build a cement cinder block building. The high costs come from the other trades: electrical, plumbing, HVAC. Making all of these pieces modular would be revolutionary.

I think a prefab 4' x 8' section of steel frame and foam wall that could be bolted together with channels for interconnecting utilities would make truly plug-and-play style housing.
Occam's razor is just another brand of shaving razors.
I find Berlin to be cheap.
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It's not exactly a service. Of the people that would request to stay with me, I would probably say yes about 10% of the time.

If it was convenient, if they seemed interesting, respectful, etc.
Be careful with that statement.

An "embedded system" can be as simple as "when this button is pressed for 3-5 seconds, turn on this light for 30 seconds." That hardly requires much of a skillset.

And as far as having all the things you mention in "one head," every member of my team can handle that easily and we're not particularly noteworthy!
It sounds like he spent two months extracting data through a flaw that's existed for years and then bragged about it after it got closed to his egregious usage.

Is this considered normal or ethical behavior for a security researcher?
Is that book any more worthwhile to read than the dozens of articles that have been published since 2017? Debating adding it to my audiobook queue...
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The ideas in it were amazing. I can understand people who can't look past the execution to see the underlying ideas.

One of the things it did really well was the idea that it takes everyone pulling in the same direction to be effective.
What specifically are the running skills that many people don't learn? Links?
A brine solution and snow clearing equipment with brushes does the trick.
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In large companies, especially large companies that are not technology companies, IT people have very clearly delineated roles, so a "developer" and a "DBA" are different people and when a "developer" needs a database, he or she must ask a "DBA" to make one for them.

In small companies, a "developer" is, by comparison anyway, a jack of all trades, who is probably expected and required to know how to do every possible job, including database management. So when the large company said "no developer" they possibly meant that, internally, their developers could not touch databases and only DBAs were allowed to, and they expected the smaller company to have similar processes in place. Which is quite unrealistic.

At the end of the day, paranoid as that may sound, the big company person was probably getting stuck on the role description of "developer" and would not have freaked out if the smaller company had used the term "DBA".
For the last few training cycles I've hired coaches. They have all stuck to a three-week build followed by a down week. It's greatly increased the results of my training. The only injury I've picked up this year was blowing off steam between coaching sessions after a 100k race. I very much agree with your assertion that suppression of pain signals becomes ingrained. Bouncing these concerns off someone who can leverage numerous people's experiences can be incredibly useful. I'll retain my coach through recovery this time.
I don’t understand your hostility. I wish to study it and I think it will take me 3-5 years to even come up with an opinion. I assumed you had studied astrology and hence debunking it. If you have nothing except internet search results, your opinion that it is a pseudoscience is only as good as any layperson who believes in its validity.

It is still intriguing enough for me to pursue it. It was part of my life as a child in India and I have heard arguments against it just like yours. Now I am old enough and have time/energy/inclination to explore what I find intriguing, I am going to find out for myself.

This thread is for people who have opinions that they can articulate with some background. I thank you for the time you took to engage.
Rarely mentioned, but Russia also tested the security of their (mobile signal networks) SS7 and Diameter systems Dec 16-17.

It never fails to amaze me how little attention is paid to these systems that can track, intercept and hijack the comms of mobile phone users of any country, internationally.
> I can feel as little as 1mg (I'm hypersensitive to the stuff).

What gives you the confidence that this isn't the placebo affect at work?
I imagine some homeless people do, but not many.

It's a system largely based on reputation and feedback. Being unwashed, having a lot of stuff, not ever hosting, or having negative feedback will throw up red flags for hosts.

(Not saying that homeless people are necessarily like my description, but I imagine those would be factors in being rejected).
Found the same thing a few years ago. Was a fun pastime getting the eta up on my desktop environment's status bar without having internet based documentation. From memory I used curl and jq.
I literally just got a call about someone being hit. The avenues used to penetrate are email spam and RDP.
Hopefully you realize then that the solution is to stop punishing "poor black kids" for smoking weed, and not to throw Musk in prison.
Perhaps common law precedent screws us over. But I don't see a problem in principle following the spirit, or even word of the written law:

1) Spying ads absolutely are more than speech: the information flow is bidirectional, and the 1st amendment isn't a right to listen.

2) It could be argued that the state cannot sell advertisements without privileging one message over another; currently "non-political ad" rules already contested, and they are even more of laughing stock beyond that once one considers that all commerce and economic activity is political. Only laws that limit the amount of messaging rather than the content are truly unbiased.

3) For private ads, while the owner of the building owns the surface where the ad is, I don't think it is fair to say they own the sight lines to the building. The problem with ADs is they can literally leave you nowhere to look when you are moving in public spaces the advertiser definitely doesn't own. I think a comparison could be made with EM spectrum law. Just because you own the antenna doesn't mean you can broadcast whatever you like. Electric adds that have their own lighting are certainly broadcasters. And if passive things like giant RFIDs are regulated, We could probably get non-illuminated ads also to be regulated.

So assuming all the above gets through the courts, we can do nothing about urinal ads in private establishments, but we can clean up public spaces completely, or at least limit them to non-illuminated ads. At that point, I hope the remaining indoor ads would be far more annoying in relative terms, and that would create some helpful economic pressure for the owner to tamp them down.
If Russia gets cut off from the rest of the Internet the camgirl site industry may never recover!
Yet another is "bees exposed to X were more vulnerable to parasite Y, but this only revealed itself in regions where parasite Y is present, and the effect could not be detected otherwise". I believe that's how they were able to produce so many studies saying neonicotinoids are safe for bees.
In the long run, having a company dependent on a handful of highly-paid superstars is an incredible risk. Moreover if one team's hiring practices create a "class system" where there are vast disparities in how engineers are paid, there are going to be resentments.

If you build a special team in a company that has different norms overall, everything that you accomplish is going to be discounted according to how much it makes the rest of the company harder to manage, and how vulnerable the company becomes to a small number of superstars leaving. There's a bigger picture than just what the team gets done.

EDIT: That said, if the results are markedly better than the company's general performance, the company as a whole might need some re-tooling. But a special team isn't going to stay special for long, either way.
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>This is also how HN works: 99% of the time, there’s enough summary and context in the comments that I always just click through to the comments first to find out whether the article/video/whatever is worth the time.

Isn't that also a folly of HN? People not reading the articles and rushing to the comments to make some proclamation or put in their two cents.
The context switching between programming languages bears no subjective similarity to human language.

As someone who knows 2 human languages and 6-8 computer languages, it's just not at all similar. They don't use the same parts of your brain, for starters. You can't describe a dream in Java.
At this point it has to be on purpose, right? There is no way that Twitter has just overlooked this closing of accounts "for suspicious activity" for years right when the account is created.
I would think so. I often find myself cross-germinating the concepts I've learned from new programming languages, paradigms, and mathematics to other problems and discussions. Most recently I learned TLA+ which plays heavily with set theory; in particular the construction of logical "filters" on infinite sets. Ever since, those ways of thinking have become part of my mental toolbox that I interject into other areas.
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Sweden has a bunch of lovely Christmas traditions. My favorite is this huge straw Christmas goat (Gavle bocken: https://www.instagram.com/gavlebocken/)

Interestingly, there is (semi-)traditional vandalism to burn the sucker down every year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4vle_goat#Timeline

Hopefully he survives this year!
Also, I assume this would have been announced in advance, not? Or doesn’t this apply to him as he’s not an executive anymore?
It is absolutely possible to write amazingly performant Java / JVM applications, and absolutely possible to write horrible blobby slow Go applications.

But given most of the standard corporate devs that I've worked with, it is infinitely easier to write crappy Java and not-bad Go than the other way around.

Sadly.
thats nice. They prbly have a good tax base that doesn't need this extra revenue stream. property tax is decent enough revenue where median home is > 1 mil.

> I enjoy living here

Yea its a given that its nice to live where people earn more and live in expensive homes :D
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The comment was relevant, and welcomed. Sorry if my response gave other impression. I just don't agree with that premise of the article.

There is extremely bloated software that can be replaced by a few lines of code but, in general, minimalism is hard to get right and requires a high level of expertise.
You may also like my recent interview with her for the TWIML AI Podcast:

https://twimlai.com/twiml-talk-330-how-to-know-with-celeste-...
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Tastier as well
They literally ruined it for everyone else for the publicity. Typical of PR obsessed white hat script kiddies.
> Why on earth would you try to re-use a network-layer interface in levels several layers higher? That's crazy talk!

It's theoretically ugly but in practice it can be really convenient. Translating large structures between different formats is tedious and error-prone... sometimes it's just a lot faster and easier to leave it as a Protobuf.
Sounds very similar to Yuval Noah Harari's books. A big part of his thesis is that humans became the dominant species of humanoids because of our ability to work collectively in massive social groups by coordinating our behavior with stories that aren't objectively true.
The atop changes are a showstopper, they caused an outage.
That's what GP is referring to. Because people don't expect common sense to be overturned, bad science that supports it tends to survive and reach wider audiences.

So if you're ready about a study that supports common sense, it had unfair advantages to reach you and is less likely to have underlying merit.
I'm not sure that is the primary reason -- many other projects have had their compile times explode over many years, even though the same logic should apply.

Not to mention if you build the kernel regularly, you benefit from incremental compilation. If you change a few non-header files the rebuild time can be as little as 2-3 minutes. Oh, and "make localdefconfig" will reduce your from-scratch compile times to the 5-15 minute mark. I highly doubt most kernel devs are building a distro configuration when testing (especially since they'd be testing either in a VM or on their local machine).
id bet yes
Was going to say approximately the same thing. It's good old equalization of risk. People will persist in bad form, and/or train harder than they should, to the exact extent that their shoes let them. That's true for both maximalist and minimalist approaches. I have to remind myself constantly to pay attention to the minor form breaks and early signs that I'm overtraining, and I only do it because I know that bouncing back is going to be more difficult than when I was younger. I used up all my buffers years ago. ;)
No. In that sense, you can already just give a guy at the Home Depot $500 to “add a new room to your house”. Are you living the revolution?

If construction is labor-intensive and expensive, stick framing is the cheapest and easiest part. If you come up with an automated solution that replaces the need for expensive interior finishing processes, you’ll have a huge market... finishing out existing stick-framed construction. No one selling houses wants this.

If you want to use modern technology to mass-produce homes with less labor, that’s called prefabricated construction and it’s a process that’s only about a thousand years old. Someday robots will do it all automatically on-site but we’re no where near doing that in the foreseeable future, in part because the demands on houses are predictably rising at pace with the capabilities of robots.

I don’t mean to be snide, but this is a little like dropping by a homebuilding forum and they’re all talking about how some day soon desktop PCB fabrication is going to replace all of Silicon Valley, because they don’t quite know the difference between a chip and a circuit board. It’s just embarrassing, y’all.
Exactly. Had they done all the proper testing, they would have likely discovered all these issues, it's not a stretch to think that the management that allowed the project to get to the state it was in would have also pushed forward with the go-live despite the bugs that were discovered in testing. And just because they allocated time to testing doesn't mean they would have allocated sufficient time to remediation and re-testing. I've seen it happen where bugs were found late stage in a big-bang style migration, they were remediated, but there wasn't enough time left to conduct another massive mock go-live to make sure it worked. So you hope and pray...
Loads fine on mobile.
The Art of Code (Talk+performance)
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A job search today is like having to arrange a lot of blind dates, with your focus at each being on trying to convince them you’re the best thing for them on the spot — that they should pick you. And if they agree, you then commit to a "long-term relationship" with them right away. But if you leave before a year is up, people will often think less of you, and it may harm your ability to date after.

You’re never really taught how to pick the right “date,” nor provided adequate resources to help you figure out who might be a good fit for you.

And yet, if your best friend told you they were going to jump into a serious relationship with someone (this time in the real sense) — or heaven forbid marrying them — right after meeting them, you'd probably caution them otherwise.

We want to help people pick a job (and career) that fits them, one they may actually get to know better (and like) before having to go all-in on date three. Interviews are often a bad environment to fully learn about a job because the interviewee is primarily there to sell themselves, they may not want to ask too probing of questions about the job as that may turn off the interviewer, the interviewer may not have all the answers to your questions (perhaps they've never done the job you're interviewing for), and interviews are usually too short to really understand a role.

We want to improve that process. We're going to do that by providing people with an opportunity to learn directly from those who've done the jobs, who've worked in the careers, in a more neutral way, outside of interviews. These are detailed, first-hand accounts (reviews) that will better educate them on what a job truly entails. Our hope is that it allows people to ride shotgun as if they're on a job shadow, without actually having to get in the car.
I have not had any cert issues, but I also have a pretty normal network. Maybe it’s better now!
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What about getting a house with conduits for hvac, electric, and plumbing, and still get it cheaper than 3d?

Construction technologies to make lowrise housing super duper cheap are already here: panels, lgsf, large prefabs, light concretes

And for really tall highrises, they are already coming within 50-40% of their materials costs in Asian countries. So for them, it will make no difference even in the most optimistic case.

You can't do much physically about price of steel and cement, other than finding ways to use less of them.
If you have short-lived tasks popping off at that rate, the JVM looks some orders of magnitude better if you don't spin up a fresh process for every task.
I also recommend his doco "The War on Democracy"

http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-on-democracy
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Thank you for this, I hadn't thought about it from this point of view. One thought is that growers have to disclose all additives? In the wine industry, it's common during particularly bad grape years to sugar dose the wine as it ferments. In France they require vintners to disclose this, and other major modifications. Could we use something similar with growers? It would be AMAZING for a number of data driven sciences, having access to all additives used to grow different items
These comments highlight why I never feel like I fit in with other engineers.
The coloured background gives me a cozy 90s internet feel.
Overnight trains are pretty common in India. There are also a few trains with quite amazing service (at least back when I took them): the Rajadhani Express between Delhi to Mumbai was fast, comfortable and had some excellent food options. I would often gaze outside at the verdant countryside as we zipped by... Incidentally, being bored in trains was what got me into reading a lot. At first, it would be comic books. Later, I graduated to books without pictures.

I guess I didn't realize until just now how much being bored on trains influenced my life. If I didn't pick up a habit of reading for pleasure then, I don't think I would have made as much progress in life as I have.
Is it their fault that code doesn't lay out well on mobile? Or hn? Is a forum poster responsible for the responsive design of their post on a site they don't control? Do you test your posts so they work well on my Nokia?
> The science of rocks, soil and weather will lead the study of planets.

Sounds great to me :)