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>But at the applied end, the liberal arts run the planet. They don't keep the lights on - engineers do that - but they set the policy goals and define the political, economic, moral, and philosophical orthodoxies that virtually everyone conforms to, whether or not they're consciously aware of it.

In my country most politicians have a liberal background. Also nuclear power is illegal here. Coincidence? I think not.
Nice, but does it have a extension to trigger it on a page? Couldn't find.
Why can’t users choose their default search on installation?
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I think we read it differently. In my view this is as about as nice as one can be:

> We are keeping this version open-source, forever, ...

Here they are committing to keeping their existing Open Source around instead of taking their toys and go home.

> If this repo was full of contributions and other folks pitching in, this would be a different story, but it's not—which is totally fine and accepted.

I think they aren't asking for contributions to v2 but rather for contributions to v1 which they are committed to keeping Open Source. But even then they acknowledge that users are free to use it without contributing in any way.
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Are you talking about systemd the project or systemd the init?
I have heard lots of complaints about journald or this and that other project under the umbrella, but you are the first person I hear complain about the init part.
I'd say the cost of keeping Guantanamo open for decades is way past any settlement figure.

Currently they are treated (relatively) well and have access to lawyers. I think they could sue for damages, but they are probably focused on being released first.
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What the article describes is gopherspace, which believe it or not still exists. And believe it or not, is experiencing a resurgence. It's too bad major browsers gave up on gopher:// because as we are seeing now in this and other laments for the old www, we lost something that we didnt have to lose.
Gopherspace--check it out.
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This is probably true but not an excuse for the perverted behavior and incentives that result. If 90% of the students at Harvard aren’t in the top 10% but feel entitled to be and thus cheating becomes a more attractive solution than taking the medicine of reality - clearly the penalties for cheating aren’t quite high enough.
Trump approved of torture publicly, but even his people don't seem to let him actually do that.
You ISP still sees which IP addresses you eventually connect to.
I'm still waiting to see the sources that show Moro interfering in the elections by suing the workers' party candidate a few weeks before the elections.

A few points:

1. The judge can talk to anyone (freedom of expression here). He would incur in a crime if his ruling favored one side disregarding the evidences

2. Greenwald associated himself with a group that hacked Moro's phone so that they could steal potentially incriminating information. He's being prosecuted because of that act, not because of his political agenda, or because "the government" is trying to cease his freedom of expression

3. The uncovered conversations between Moro and the prosecutors didn't uncover wrongdoing, as far as the law is concerned. Moro was open about his talks with the prosecutors and defense about 4 years ago, so that alleged "coordination" wasn't exactly "hidden"

4. Moro didn't "lead" any groups. All the cases that put many workers' party leaders in jail were judged by many other judges, in different stances of the judiciary, including the supreme court which is highly favorable of the workers party to this day

In essence this whole story is a smoke screen to try to incriminate a Judge and "forget" about the crimes committed by the workers party leaders by stating that "because Moro talked to prosecutors, the rulings were biased", and by stating that "a heroic journalist is having his freedoms of expression persecuted" while that journalist committed a crime exactly on the grounds of stopping other people to communicate by invading and stealing data from their devices.
It might seem like pedantry, but generally breaching a contract is not "breaking the law". Microsoft would have to also go to the effort of trying to enforce this, and for what?
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Really excited to share a product we have been working on.

We launched Boringcodecompany 5 months ago, after successfully running a product development agency for 3 years. A lot of times we would get requests to complete really small tasks (integrate this api, create this report, create this plugin, push the app to the playstores, fix this bug etc) which we would have to turn down, since the entire team was built in a way to handle larger projects.

Boringcodecompany focuses on fulfilling these microstasks - any dev work which would take around 1-5 days, with lesser the time, the better. Initially it was an email only service, but we have now built a full fledged product where users can post these development microtasks on the platform, get estimates, track the status and communicate with our team - all through the portal.
Seesh, even Adobe gives you a McAfee checkbox.
>But now you're asking a liberal arts student to study Calculus and derivatives, which are not easy topics and not something that useful in day to day life.

Calculus is a high school subject where I live, at least single variable calculus, it's not that hard.
If you have your DNS server its trivial to connect to it from anywhere you are.
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Actually at least superficial level yes.

Most developers end up having to give an opinion on answers for RFPs, show to customers that they actually understand their business domain, and support the marketing teams with their market research results.
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Taking rows and columns is still nice in Eigen. For example taking the second column of a matrix is m.col(1) (Eigen, 0-based indexing) and m(:,2) (Fortran, 1-based indexing unless specified something else).

But more generic array slicing with strides seems to get nasty in Eigen. For example if

v2 = v(1:2:20)

is

Map<RowVectorXf,0,InnerStride<2> > v2(v.data(), v.size()/2);

in Eigen, I don't want to read the docs for how to do the same for 2- or 3-dimensional arrays.

https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/group__TutorialReshapeSlicin...
This guy actually educates children?
I don't know the details, but I could imagine they would prefer to not know that he is a Pakistani citizen.

In that part of the world, citizenship and identity can be a messy subject. None of those countries is ethnically or linguistically homogeneous, not all of them can reliably track all citizens if they lost their papers.

And I can imagine he wouldn't be a "gift" for the Pakistani government itself, considering political implications.
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> That's a sloppy statement. You haven't defined what standard.

Actually, I think I established a basis of discussion then later illustrated this basis with the way HN has grown and tends to enforce its standard.

> A "rhetor" is a teacher of rhetoric. This is not the correct word in this case.

A rhetor is a person practicing rhetoric, or a person delivering persuasive or effective communication. Teachers are indeed a subset of that, but also public speakers, negotiators, and e.g. authors who write to influence their audiences' understanding or perception.

I think you may also misunderstand the function of ethos in rhetoric.

> A knowledgeable audience can decide whether to trust something based on the actual content.

Perhaps we're in agreement? If the content reflects reflects clear understanding it can improve the efficacy of a rhetorical artifact, while sloppiness can reduce its persuasiveness.

Errors can diminish ethos. Correcting errors can amplify it: https://jacobbuckman.com/2020-01-17-a-sober-look-at-bayesian...
Go with Laravel framework. Great documentation, community, ecosystem, tutorials such as laracasts.com and tooling like forge for deployment. You can setup a CRUD application super fast. It also comes built in with vuejs frontend even though you can easily swap with another one like react etc. Go for it.
I agree. I’ve been able to do it one time. And I promoted it on HN with a public facing account (this account is pseudo anonymous + my super hero name, if I’d be one).
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> It's important to remember that US authorities never used torture in general

Certainly not how I remember the Iraq War...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_priso...
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Believing someone's claims out of thin air does not make it trustworthy either.
> By what right does google set the search engine to begin with? They use their browser's popularity for a competitive advantage and that's legal.

I'd say it's customer expectation. The slogan in the Chrome website is: Now more simple, secure, and faster than ever - with help from Google built‑in [0]

So, if I install Chrome I expect Google search to be built-in, and I am okay with that because it was clearly stated on the product page.

Now, when I install Office, which is not a browser to begin with, I don't expect it to change my default search provider.

[0] https://www.google.com/chrome/
well, the details are an IEEE standard, after all. most people should be fine knowing why 9.999999999 is equal to 10 without having to go to infinity.
> about to become obsoleted by innovators who actually understand and give a shit about their target audience.

A caring innovator is very easily crushed by a platform monopolist. And building your own platform and securing mass adoption is incredibly hard. Microsoft didn't manage it in phones.
So you're conflating legality with good practice I think. In general I agree touching other publishers software is a bad idea but far from illegal. MS is not forcing people to use their installer, they're not blocking you from using the default chrome installer. You picked their platform's installer so they configure it for their platform ,that's it. They have every right to do that just like for example a privacy friendly website (or distro) can provide a package/installer with defaults that are privacy friendly for example. You're trying to infringe upon packaging rights, I hope some foss package maintainers chime in on this. Would suck if it was illegal to change upstream's defaults.
I agree with you and think you're well-intentioned. One thing I'd point out is that if you're a project maintainer, who would you rather mentor:

- the inexperienced person who uses the software themselves, has an issue with it, and wants to fix it, or

- the inexperienced person who wants to boost their CV and picked a bug off a "starter task" list.

Assuming they are otherwise equal, I'd certainly prefer the first one, because chances are much higher that they'll stick around. Motivations matter.

Now if a patch just appears out of nowhere, obviously I don't apply a litmus test where I try to divine what the person's motivation is.

However, this logic has turned me off initiatives like GSoC. GSoC is great when there's a student who's already working on a project anyway, and it enables them to up their contributions during summer as an alternative to working a more boring job. However, my impression of GSoC with randoms who specifically scan GSoC for a project to work on has been disappointing.
I live in a town that has seen an explosive influx of people that past 30 or so years, and RE prices have doubled in just 10 years.

A lot of developers want to build high-rises and blocks, because it makes more sense - but it's a constant fight. I've heard projects that have taken as much as 15 years, from start to first shovel in ground.

It's a fight because you're getting bombarded with complaints and protests, from the people that already own houses in the area. Usually it's something in the lines of:

- People will lose sunlight. Could be 5 mins of sunlight in the morning, but they don't care - they'll protest.

- New buildings don't match the aesthetics of the neighborhood

- Visual pollution (a bit more harsh than the above complaint)

- More traffic

etc.

These homeowners are 50-60 year olds that want to keep their suburb feel in the middle of a city. They want their large gardens.

Of course, because of these actions, their homes are now worth 10-20x of what they paid, 30 years ago.
Of course he’s not free.

He’s a “bad guy”.

“Bad guys” pay forever, right?

Nothing more need be said.

That’s the American way, a country divided into good guys and bad guys who are doing time.

It’s easy to understand.

Politicians aren’t bad guys, that’s important to understand. Nor police. Or armed forces.

Bad guys pay forever.
Ahh my first website was a GeoCities page. They had a pretty awesome (for the time) HTML editing web app (CGI-BIN) and it was an amazing feeling.

Looks like my page at Tokyo/Towers isn't in the list. Looking at some of the content I think this archive is from after one of the buyouts that happened later.

So much Sailor Moon, Robotech and Dragon Ball Z... :D
https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html
It's an odd way to cheat too, if they realised they had data from the validation set, couldn't they have over-trained a model with the validation set in the training data?
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Teaching students non-STEM stuff isn’t indoctrination by teachers into those teachers personal political and philosophical views. Do you seriously think that’s what goes on?

I did music, foreign languages, philosophy, art, business studies in a public high school in Australia. These subjects, obviously, had a state wide curriculum. I was not indoctrinated by my teachers.
No, I thoroughly enjoy playing Guitar, once I get started I play until my fingertips are hurting. I still have days where I just dont want to pick up the damn thing and put it off.
Not at all--https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintessence_(physics)
The difference here is that Microsoft is bypassing existing user consent mechanisms of their own making, and repeatedly disrespecting user choice.

If as a user, you change back to DuckDuckGo, your next Office patch cycle will “re-Bing” you in a month.

Google Chrome does not do that. If you express your intent to use another search provider, it sticks. Likewise, there is a clear and reliable way to make that choice via policy. This Bing thing has a convoluted and unreliable workaround.
And that short burst of traffic from a tech savvy group with probably >90% adblock might earn you, like what.. $1.50?
It's not, the consumer advocate in Norway has already released one report on the subject [1, PDF]

Pushing all this through the legal system will take some time but the watchdogs in different countries are not sitting idle.

[1] https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/201...
..do they not just do RSS?

That's genius though, and I love it. You're clearly very dedicated to both the NYT and privacy.
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> the whole point of an installation is to modify the user's system

Well, the point is to make an application available to the user; the changes are required by how the OS is designed. It's an accident of history that things like PATH in Windows are world-writable. Things like Metro apps have far less ability to modify the wider system.

The tech company response to this kind of application infighting is likely to be more sandboxing and lockdowns. Everything will move in the direction of an iOS like model where the platform owner can just veto apps and ban developers, as that's the only way to deal with "abuse".
I used to organize a lot of small events (under 50 people; $10 tickets). We used a bunch of different tools to help enhance the event like Sarahah for live Q&A, Google Forms to collect feedback, Eventbrite to sell tickets, FB event page to relay information.

It worked okay but the problem with having a bunch of different tools was trying to convince our attendees to hop on all these platforms to participate. Waiting for people to load up Sarahah, enter the code,and start to ask questions added friction to our event.

The solution is to have a centralized platform with all the tools built in so there's no problem with onboarding. Currently that exists in the form of event apps but event apps are really expensive (thousands of dollars) so we couldn't afford them for our small events.

That's why I'm creating Chapsule - a self-serve platform to create your own event app. The goal is to eventually get it to a state where the platform is robust & customizable enough to service ALL types of events (conference, meetups, parties)
Yeah, it’s quite a bit smaller in every other dimension than the NC model.
My uBlock and uMatrix setup is pretty thorough and doesn't block these, much to my surprise
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You should keep using uBlock, but Pi-hole will also block traffic from sources other than your uBlock enabled browser. Your mobile, for instance.

Where did the setup lose you? I would say you just got unlucky with a specific term or concept you aren't aware of.
Good insight, I share your problem. Producing instead of consuming, in my free time, is what I like to do. But nothing seems worth it or I lack the skills and resources to do so. And so I remain where I am. Quit comfortably, all in all, but couldn't it be better?
> Surely when you look at grass and the sky you feel you need different terms to describe them?

That probably depends on how frequently do you need to describe something as "sky-colored" vs "grass-colored". I can't really think of many things in nature that are blue (some people's eyes, the occasional flower or gemstone) so if you don't need that word to describe anything else you might just leave it at "the sky is a weird shade of green" rather than having a color that only describes one thing in the universe.
I didn't think I'd find this post this useful. All my dev machines are underpowered, which is pretty much a lifestyle choice by now. Meaning they are ram-constrained, cpu-constrained and have slow disk IO. I'm not writing this to discuss why I do this, but I feel like that's weird enough to warrant a few words, so one of the upsides is that I am intimately aware of resource efficiency around me.

This post introduced me to zram (in-ram compressed swap), which sacrifices CPU cycles for evading in-disk swap usage longer. I've also not considered playing with cpu governors, which I was able to do while reading the post. And, the post provided some swap settings for use with zram, which is great. Again, very helpful post.
The fusion tractor's control system needs far more EM signal processing and optics than we understood util recently.
> you get nowhere in politics without studying and understanding foundational liberal arts skills such as rhetoric, persuasion, and public debate

I’m skeptical that attainment of political power is easily attributed to a good liberal arts education. I think desire for power, some intelligence, and a relaxed relationship with principles go a long way. Well-crafted rhetoric...eh.
>have a significant chunk of land that is unlivable now

It's not that significant (you won't be able to name a single settlement that's currently "unlivable" without looking it up) and it's shrinking all the time. In fact in the March of this year an entire railway line through this "unlivable" zone will be reopened, completely with all three stations that were in the zone and their surroundings.
No mention about how good the screen is?
> If you think humans as AI systems

Humans are not "AI" systems but infinitely more complex. Which is why, among other things, humans are capable of driving a car safely while "AI" is not.

I for one would feel disgusted with myself if I were to discover that I'm nothing more than the output of a reward function. YMMV.
Looks like these ads show even through my adblocker and pi-hole, mostly because they're advertisements for himself, using locally hosted images linking to other pages on his blog.
I was finding your code [1] very compact, reminded me of Forth or those old array languages. This comment kinda explains it :)

[1] https://github.com/altocodenl/acpic/blob/master/server.js
So, even with my permission, a program shouldn't be allowed to manipulate other programs? So debuggers that modify a program's memory should be disallowed? security products shouldn't scan for insecure/bad settings/bugs and fix them? Adblockers shouldn't mess with ads in a different application?

I can tell you, the last thing I want is android/ios like app sandboxing if that means I can't interfere with what apps are doing/configuring. I prefer to have control or finao say about inter-app interaction since it is my device
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Local ads probably.
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> In doubt, go to 2K resistors.

I find handwaving recommendations like this rather pervasive and annoying, especially in a professional setting.

If you're serious about I2C after gratifying yourself with this bootcamp-style smashbang intro, I highly recommend reading the actual spec[1] (which is more like a casual app note IMHO); the blog apparently doesn't link to it. It's free, relatively short, and oh by the way, there's an entire section which properly addresses pull-up resistor sizing and then some. You'll also be able to spot inaccuracies like:

> It has transfer rates up to 400Kbps

[1] https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/user-guide/UM10204.pdf
While the other commentators are right that it's a lot more prevalent than people believe, there was also a big scandal in the 80s when "recovered memories" turned out to be fabrications. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22830423-400-we-cant-...
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Microsoft App-V has been a thing since 2006.
Depends on what you're looking for. Demographic data can be really important for a business and Matomo couldn't possibly provide that.
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The 5% number isn't an ironclad rule, it's an arbitrary example. There's nothing bad that suddenly happens if your 5% position later becomes larger.

If you short a company valued at $50B, with 5% of your portfolio, it would have to become a trillion dollar company before you go insolvent.

If that's still too scary for you, you can short it with 1% of your portfolio. Now the company needs to become a $5T company, before you go insolvent.

If you honestly think that Tesla will surge into a $5T company, before crashing back down to <<$50B, then you're the one living in a reality distortion field.

If you claim to be extremely confident about Tesla's stock crashing, but aren't willing to take even a 1% short position, then your actions don't match up to your words.
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Add to that: I'm allergic to dogs. Depending on the dog it may be hardly a problem or maybe a minor inconvenience, but other times it can turn into hours of misery.

And all because of an asshole who's too cheap to cough up 100$ for the proper transportation of his "support" animal.
This is awesome, I use Semantic UI a lot and it's annoying how there's no date and/or time picker component. I'll probably use this for dates but as others have mentioned please please consider building a time picker as well :):)
Awesome :D

We've published the third notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1XYNef9zcHhTjt6kM6yd...

We would gladly have your feedback on our approach
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