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Visiting Dribbble for inspiration is fine, but you're not going to develop your understanding of how design works based on whatever happens to be hot in a given week on Dribbble. You'll probably just train yourself to mindlessly chase design trends.

Which might actually make you worse off because you'll waste your time trying to implement some design concept without understanding whether it's really appropriate for what you're doing.
After 15 years of being a DoD contractor, it is frustrating to see yet another sole source entity getting the contract. Prices will inflate and there is no competition.

HP and Oracle have been reaping the benefits of this for at least two decades now. We put databases on Oracle that should be handled by Postgres or MariaDB since DoD prefers Oracle. We would buy useless HP software because we were a HP shop. I fought to get a non HP solid state array for our data, it was an epic battle (in the end I won, on the extreme we had 6 to 7 hour processes cut down to under an hour, the HP equivalent could not replicate that at the time).

So i can see DoD moving to Azure and then get the vendor lock in and in 10 years if they want to move the cost will be so extreme it will either cause taxpayers a ton of money or not be realistic.

As impossible as it sounds, and somewhat impractical, i would rather see a vendor agnostic approach and DoD spread across multiple gov clouds. i guess years has gotten me jaded with government spending (wait, what, how did we buy 2 extra $50k Cisco chassis and then keep them in storage for 3 years....).
A few examples of what it means: answering questions, listening, offering your help and advice. Men are allowed to ask questions as long as they are contributing to the community. That being said, Women Make is here to promote women, and on a moderation level, I will always make sure women are being put at the forefront.
I'm surprised SNNs don't get more attention. The technology to make efficient hardware for training them exists. The key problem is that current DNNs just take too much power to train. They are fundamentally inefficient and none of the incremental improvements in recent years has changed this.
So, you'd rather we keep spending too much, using too little information, and putting too many innocent people at risk? I mean, it's not like we dropped more ordinance under Obama than every president before him combined, or that the trend didn't decrease by very much after him or anything.

Personally, I do think our foreign deployments and presence should absolutely be dramatically reduced. I also think most federal spending is bureaucratic fluff. That said, I have less problem when there are efforts to stabilize or reduce spending via technology. And I find that people who try to take an ethical stance over companies offering any kind of service to the government is short sighted at best, and dangerous or destructive at worst.

In the end, this will happen, and I'd rather it go to a company that is focused on the problem (technical infrastructure for computing resources) over the government trying to build a bureaucratic mess that costs a significant amount more.

Not that everything should be outsourced. For example, I think privatized prisons are far, far, far worse for society than providing a cloud network for the federal govt.
There's a huge, gigantic difference between not having a military at all and spending 1 trillion a year to be an imperialist superpower. It's almost like... there's a middle ground.
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Yes and no:

Yes that's it's mechanism essentially.

No in that it provides a nice user interface for automatically updating your blocklist, specifying which DNS to point to and how to encrypt your queries, you can temporarily disable the blocking (which you sometimes need to do), etc etc
Is the webpage malfunctioning or is it supposed to take up half the page with headers and footers, leaving barely any space for the single column of text?
A series of ad hominem attacks that don’t address the substance of the parent are superior because...?
> into the trash bin?

They did not implement the winning solution as is, but a lot of good stuff came from the winning teams, including techniques (such as SVD) that are in use as of today (or maybe a few years back).

> just a nonsense engine

No, it is safe to assume the recommendation engine of Netflix is close to the state-of-the-art. A lot of money and talent went into it.
The PDF of the findings is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.07421.pdf

The way the anti-tracking is worked around is to... use the anti-tracking very intentionally. It's pretty clever.

Apparently Apple has addressed a number of the techniques, but I'm sure more will surface.

The incentives for the adtech industry to find workarounds is huge, and always has been, I have a feeling it'll continue to be a game of whack-a-mole.

Also, as a nerdy aside, looking at the resources on the PoC pages, this work looks to have been done in July of last year.
I don't know how you imagine things work but there is a reason many of EU countries have private options.
> Mainly, if I remain with the Pinebook Pro or switch to alternatives such as Purism 13, Galago Pro’s 14 or back to Thinkpad T series laptops

I am currently on my fourth Thinkpad in a row (T480s) and it's been a good streak, but this will be my last.

The Thunderbolt firmware has had severe issues and requires reflashing to be practically usable. Despite Lenovo officially being part of LVFS[0], the only way I could get my laptop operational, after about a full work-day of working with fwupdmgr, digging around the internet for cab files, trying to extract them from the Windows-only releases, running Windows in a VM, etc, the only way I finally got it working was grabbing an old drive from the drawer, installing Windows and downloading their Windows releases just so I could get my controller in a working condition. This is for a laptop released in 2018 with the update shipping in late 2019.

[0]: http://fwupd.org/
Reader mode solves this handily.
The closer we get to midnight, the more the content is squeezed.
> People don't see it worth their time because a single vote really isn't worth anyone's time.

If someone has that worldview I'm OK with them not voting.

I'm not sure that X% more participation would improve our collective decision making. In essence we'd be diluting the vote of those who care the most with those who think voting by mail is too hard.
Either company could have won the project - this isn't about their merit. It's about whether the decision was personally influenced by Trump because he hates Bezos.
It's incredible that you've being down-voted.

(I'm aware of the rules / norms and I'm deliberately breaking them here. Some things need to be called out.)
This structure makes your community far more constructive than most similar sites that actively discriminate against men. The goal should not be to suppress the competition, but to produce an environment where everyone can flourish.

Thank you. I wish you the best of luck with your project.
In other Colchester roundabout news, the one at North Station is fun - it's a normal roundabout, but with a road cutting right through the middle of it too:

https://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2005/QBlog160705A.html

There are lights to make sure nobody crashes - effectively switching it between being a roundabout and being a through road - but it's still pretty weird.
I try to find micro-moments throughout the day at work, either sitting at my desk, alone in an elevator, in the bathroom, etc. Nothing serious, but a bit to regain focus & center during turbulent days.
Beyond the security implications (which are huge and ought to be a deal breaker on their own), this seems to have a huge problem in that it's not private.

Your abusive spouse/boss/dealer could tell you that they want to see you use the app to vote their way, and there's not much to prevent it.

While going to a local precinct is inconvenient, no one knows what you do once you walk in that booth. That's important to avoid coercion.
Considering that abortion is about terminating unwanted pregnancies, I fail to see a problem here.

Nuclear war and climate change are real threats. We came incredibly close to war in 1983 when Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov refused to launch against a false US attack. If you don't believe in the threat of climate change then you're not paying attention or willfully disregarding evidence.
Ima one-up you both on that ass scale now.

No one can arrive to use a memory palace technique proper good without first learning to visualize space-time. That is FOUR dimensions, not a 2-d map, not a 3-d picture, an actual space you can walk around that changes.
Here's a link to the press conference: https://youtu.be/tXf6ygotBZ4?t=950
I have one of these beacons and take it with me most times I'm going out alone into the wilderness. I don't want to be the guy who had to cut his own arm off after it got trapped by a falling boulder.

That being said, this is an interesting spin on the number. I've been hearing from friends on Search and Rescue crews that an increasing number of people are going out hiking being completely unprepared for any possible emergency, thinking that they'll just use their cell phone if anything goes wrong. I wonder if any of these beacon carriers fall closer into that camp than true serious conditions, though I suspect that simply carrying a beacon puts you in a higher preparedness bracket than the cell-phone only crew.
Reading aloud is one of Daniel Pennac's ten "Rights of the Reader":

1. The right not to read
2. The right to skip
3. The right not to finish a book
4. The right to read it again
5. The right to read anything
6. The right to mistake a book for real life
7. The right to read anywhere
8. The right to dip in
9. The right to read out loud
10. The right to be quiet
Is it insufficiently cynical?

It's something a teenager might write, yes, because teenagers often aren't hypocritical enough to ignore the murders just because it's a nation-state doing them. That doesn't make it wrong.
@mariedm awesome community, curious on what tech stack you used? back end and front end. Congrats, looking forward to hear about how it goes with this project.
Yeah this sounds very weird to me. In my family by the time we were able to read without effort we started taking turns reading to each other.
Ironic that it's the white guy that got attacked though, isn't it?
Answer to the first question: in the United States, yes. Whether that is a bad thing is debatable and not suited for the site we're on; try a philosophy subreddit.

The United States military has lost its privilege to play any form of moralism or rational justification after their actions over the past 30-50 years. It's no longer defense in most cases, it's assault. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, the second Iraq, invading Afghanistan for funsies, there's no point to most of it.

We've only had one success in decades, and it still wasn't even related to defense!

There's a difference between defense and imperialistic invasions, and the United States military hasn't defended much of anything at home in quite a while.
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I wonder whether we'll end up in a world where the military will advertise with permanent enhancements for recruitment. Peter Watts presents this concept in a pretty interesting way [1] and it looks like this could become a reality in the next few decades.

[1]: https://www.rifters.com/echopraxia/recruiter.htm
it is like a person in a police choke hold would naturally/instinctively start to convulse trying to grasp for air, and that is naturally "resisting arrest" which, beside the benefit of being an additional charge (or even the only charge that would stick), allows to immediately escalate the application of force to any level the police feels like.
That "clock" is more like a thermometer or a melting snowman
Medium comes to mind, who quickly gained popularity but then introduced user-hostile features when they realized they needed to tighten their business model. Evernote is a similar example. Even Facebook/Instagram/Google before they had advertising.

Having a finite VC-funded runway means eventually having to convert market share to profitability, such as by raising prices, and that’s not always a great result for customers.
It is a common (though illegal) use case, so definitely worth considering as a worst case scenario.
My personal opinion is that the "midnight clock" is a pointless relic of the cold war, extremely obsolete by now, and doesn't have any practical purpose other than releasing a scary press release once a year.

The "measurement" aspect feels especially wrong. Might as well say "this year things are very bad", or "terrible", or "very really extremely bad".

Edit: so much wrong with the clock metaphor to begin with. A clock is only supposed to move forward, so they're either using it wrong, or the concept itself is extremely biased towards OMG DOOM! If you want a less silly analogy, use a thermometer. Also it was started at 7 minutes to midnight [0], and the farthest it's ever been is 17 minutes, so the domain of the "function" is also heavily biased towards OMG DOOM!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock
>a LOT of profit for corporations for whom war is a business.

This is one major reason for the wars - they aren't pointless to certain highly influential wealthy people.
you'd never guess this stuff is going to be used to and to enable murder.

DoD uses a lot of linux and other open source software. Should we stop working on that too since, according to you, it's "enabling murder"?
You can even do differential bundles if you want to go to the effort of setting it up. So IE11 users get one legacy build of your JS client, and modern browsers (with module support) get the simpler modern code.
If you were "treated (relatively) well" for just 24 hours, I bet you would change your mind. Now consider 17 years.
So you mean zero, right? There's no evidence benchmark for a party taking legal action in a civil matter. Saying "you'll be hearing from my lawyer" doesn't strengthen an argument.
Some words and ideas are objectively, universally bad.

Other words and ideas may not be universally bad, but I don't want to host them on my platform. My platform, my rules.

Still other words and ideas are not universally bad, and I don't have a problem with them on my platform, but some of my users will. So my users need the ability to define their own rules and control who they interact with.
Exactly. We need to talk, to listen to each other, and more importantly to understand each other. I think it is very important. Women cannot “fix” this issue alone on their side, we need everyone involved.
I'm nearly speechless. Those are amongst the most moving words I've heard in my 40+ years. Thank you for posting that.

Those words are also quite a challenge. They make so much of my own life sound... trivial.
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Most things that could be done suffer from the problem that they require the people who currently have power to disadvantage themselves.

Proportional allocation of electoral votes might be a useful reform (though it could easily be gamed, if states were to follow Congressional District boundaries you could gerrymander the Presidency) but if Texas and Florida enact it while California or New York do not (or vice versa) it's a massive gift to the Democrats (or Republicans).

Both the UK and Canada have recently failed to deliver proportional representation despite explicit campaign promises because of this.
Is there a place I can donate to support an amendment?

I see this from a quick search:
https://www.fairvote.org/donate
> “Say not ‘This is the truth’ but ‘So it seems to me to be as I now see the things I think I see.’ “

When someone tells me "this is the truth", my brain already converts it to the longer, less certain phrase; no need to be explicit about it ...
Penalties don't work when only a few cheats are found.

In this case, the cheat was obvious, but how do you detection enrollment cheats or totally bought research projects? It's not even funny how little you can do here.

Even plain and obvious plagiarism is being missed.
Can game theory not be of use here? There are 3 scenarios:

1. No countries should own WMD.

2. Some countries can and others can't.

3. All countries should own WMD.

Only agreement 1 can be guaranteed to save humanity. The next best choice is surely 3 - not 2!

Thoughts?
I would be careful with that one. 'Dark Energy' has been in this weird grey area for a while now, where we have this observation that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, but we have no explanation. There have been a lot of hypothetical explanations. Seems like Quintessence is just one of them.

Recently there has been growing doubt that expansion of the universe is accelerating at all, favoring that it's constant. That would completely undermine this Quintessence thing.

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-evidence-key-assumption-discov...
Does an actual, real, problem exist for which the soluton may be to "translate contents of FAQs (actually FGAs [1]) into a conversation-like interface"?

This assumes that the FAQs/FGAs are actually already about what the customer wants to know, which is something that - at least in my experience - never happens.

Or, if you prefer, the assumption is that the content is there but that the customer cannot find it, while it seems to me that what - generically speaking - is missing is the actual content.

[1] https://jdebp.eu/FGA/fga-not-faq.html
That’s, to my knowledge, a pretty big misrepresentation of the case, that from my understanding has quite a few facets.

> Microsoft would terminate Compaq's licence if it removed IE and substituted Netscape, or even if it put the Netscape icon alongside the Explorer one.
Support https://www.fairvote.org. They are making good progress on incremental but substantive reform.
Reality is such that militaries are necessary both for self defense and defense of the weak and vulnerable.

The US military has ensured peace and prosperity for billions around the world for decades given its formidable global presence.

Imagine the chaos and crime that would descends on a community without police or law enforcement. The world operates the exact same way. There will always be a most powerful country enforcing stability and global compliance, and I would much rather it be the US than Russia or China.
I have ADD, and I can speak to the GTD framework being an extremely useful tool. In my case I use Trello to run what I call my "Digital Brain".

I use a typical kanban wip system (Backlog, Today, Blocked, Done) to organize pretty much all task-related things in my life and it works extremely well. Once I know its on the trello board, I know I don't have to worry about keeping it in my head anymore, and that gives me a lot more space to relax and not worry things are being missed/forgotten.
Considering how ubiquitous SystemD is, I think a drop in replacement might just be a better idea.
How is Obama relevant, here? I don't believe I mentioned him. HN has always leaned libertarian, and just because Ron Paul isn't running right now doesn't mean suddenly every argument that's against authoritarianism is liberal.
They some track record before I can start trusting them.

That's why I wish the Signal foundation started building
1. Password managers
2. DNS providers
I like the site, it's quite fast. Seems to be similar to dev.to in speed and functionality.
"Design" is a big word. And I agree that many developers need to improve their design sensibilities a bit. That said, this is a frustratingly superficial take on visual design (icons, colors, fonts) and doesn't touch at all on the tougher and (I think) more important point of user experience design and simply understanding what design is and how it fits into the software development process.

An example of a key UX design concept: Visual hierarchy. It doesn't require any special tools, just a little understanding of what it is and why it's important. And it's fundamental to good interface design
Imagine that they aren't suing simply because they lost.
Imagine that there was actual evidence for corruption, and Amazon lost a $10-billion contract because Trump put his finger on the scale. How would the whole story look different from our perspective and on what basis did you decide that it's one and not the other?
Hasn't releasing a scary press release once a year basically been its raison d'etre since it began? It's a metaphor, its not meant to be some mega-accurate measure.
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I don't understand why a bank's website is secure enough to transfer hundreds of thousands of dollars, but I can't cast a single vote online.
You don't need 20 before it's more likely than not that you get a success. And I'm doubtful that the majority of angel investors actual have a net positive return.
There's not, because it maintains a world order that would be happily taken up by someone else if the US didn't do it.
I grew up in Swindon and took my driving test there. The only complication usually is drivers who don't know ho to use it / are timid.

Also the football ground on the corner doesn't help when 1000s of people all arrive at those lights at the same time it can cause chaos.
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Welcome to the world of servers. There are these bots/scripts running all over the internet that are scanning for stuff like this and always trying to brute force into servers they can find and get in. The good news is that this is not only targeted at you. The bad news is that you cannot do much about them except ensuring that your servers are hardened and have the right security setup. There are tools like fail2ban etc. that can block those IP addresses but again, you cannot really stop them as you will get these hits from random IPs all over the world.
Exactly, it's just a very small gyratory system.
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I don't know what evidence they have. Not sure why you decided that it's zero.
The chromatic scale is when you play all 12 semitones. You're thinking of a C major scale.

The wiki article gives the following etymology:

> The word chromatic comes from the Greek chroma, color; and the traditional function of the chromatic scale is to color or embellish the tones of the major and minor scales.

But this feels a bit weak to me. Would be nice to have a more authoritative source.
The thing is, we spend that much and we're not even good imperialists. When was the last time we annexed any territory? Declared a lesser state a protectorate? Or established a new colony? We spend trillions/year to be the world police so our "allies" don't have to while they mock us on twitter.
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Do you have any tips or sources for learning about how design works?
IANL, anyone feels this is an invitation to another antitrust investigation?