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They weren't exactly pulling a stunt. They were carrying out a test as planned, just off schedule (because of other operational demands) and the key thing is that neither the test planners nor the operators were aware of the design flaw in the reactor (because the government had declared it a state secret).
I generally like it enough for music although it's a bit too dumbed down for me. But for browsing podcasts and seeing which ones have new episodes and getting information I still very much prefer Podcast Addict.

Also I don't want my play queue to mix podcasts and music. When I want to listen to podcasts I continue playing in my podcast app and when I want some background noise I pause it and play my music in Spotify. Spotify's GUI is too simple and dumbed down for me and I prefer an app to do one thing.
The only one of the four the GP listed that I could see as meeting your criteria is 'assassinating foreign agents'. And I would see the requirement to do that (to meet your criteria) as very, very rare.
You unfortunately miss the huge difference in mass and thus impact force. I guess it will make at least some difference.

A 100kg cyclist + bicycle vs a 1500kg car (+ driver)
I think Gates means well and it's commendable how he puts his money where his mouth is. But, blank aid only works as a a temporary fix.

What drives society out of poverty is a mix of reasonably levels of free markets, respect of private property, security, affordable health, low corruption, low marginal economy, and a stable law system.

Aid seems to be counter-productive in the long run because it kills the local markets and makes people dependent on it.
You can printf a null byte just fine, you just need to provide the length, just like with fwrite:

printf("%.*s", (int) nbytes, str);
It's very similar to the US: extremely high tech in some respects and low tech in other respects. Both countries lagged heavily in Chip and Pin which would the most obvious thing to a visitor.
Well, as ridiculous as it sounds, this is bound to trigger some R&D for hydrogen powered ships. And from what I know, maritime transport is in dire need of clean tech, since it's actually a huge pollutant.

Plus, there's many bad things to say about Bill Gates, but he's been the world's richest man for 20+ years. I find it a bit ludicrous that only now we'd be making fun of him for buying a superyacht when he could afford and could have bought one back in 1985 :-)))
I really like the resource but some of the courses I prefer some alternatives.

1. Programming - IntroCS by princeton - available on coursera with videos and graded assignments. If you require a slightly easier course, then you can check out CS61A from Berkeley or MIT's Intro course in python.

2. Algorithms and Data Structures - Princeton 2 courses in algorithms - coursera. Alongwith their book and booksite this was a very good resource for me with their graded assignments. I also would suggest CS61B from berkeley.

3. Databases - I started learning from Stanford Widom's course, but now I actually recommend CMU's course. I have heard good reviews for berkeley's course CS186 as well.

Side Note:

https://bradfieldcs.com/courses/
These are the makers of https://teachyourselfcs.com/. I notice that there are many courses, but at the same time $1800 per course is a bit too much considering USD conversion. So, I am looking for reviews if anyone has taken it, and whether the cost is justified. On the fence of joining it because of the cost.
Manned space flight (especially to the moon) is a stunt. Much easier and less risky to sent robots.

Used to be the goal of the stunt was to stand up to the Soviets. Now it would be for... what? Even less. Definitely not worth lives.
Quite the opposite, LA requires bars to have X amount of car parking for Y seating, which is insane, but there you go.
There are more important observations to make:

- The budget of a democratic nation isn't under direct control of its constituents, so average selfishness of the citizens has nothing to do with it.

- A democratic nation has lots of interests jockeying for the budget, and can easily swallow arbitrary amounts of money.

- Almost all of that money is spent on improving the things for that nation, so a nation state is not the best organization to task with solving a global/international problem.

Most importantly though, the more diffused the money, the less effective it is. Coordinating people costs a lot (think of how much charities spend on advertising!). With his fortune, Gates can just drop $60M on some promising anti-malaria activity; in the alternative reality d-d/you are proposing, it's unlikely that 600 of his employees would suddenly coordinate to drop their $100k on that operation; most likely, no money would be donated at all.

So the argument essentially boils down to focus. Much like with distractions and personal productivity, both the market and a government budget can absorb arbitrary amounts of diffuse money with little of value to show for it; it takes focused, bulk money under control of a person to move the needle on some issue.
It's the same kind of "climate change research" as if I burned a bunch of tires in my backyard. The energy required to manufacture and operate that yacht far exceeds any imaginable reasonable threshold for anyone who truly cares about the environment. And that's something _he doesn't even need_. Same with his 30000sqft house. It's pure hypocrisy.
the problem with official data is that it fits a quadratic curve so well it's hard to believe it's true.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/ez13dv/oc_...
We don't know the death rate of nCov-2019, because we don't know how many people are infected, and we don't know how many people are dying.
App Leaks Israel's Entire Voter Registry
I believe Microsoft has created a huge amount of money for their employees (their IPO created billionaires and order of thousands or tens of thousands of millionaires).

I don't think Microsofot employees feeling snubbed by their CEOs.

So in this case Bill Gates is doing both. Sharing profit as well as being philanthropic.
Weekly Robotics #77
This idea is actually quite old; Socrates himself said this when a friend offered to break him out of prison. Socrates' argument was that if he didn't like the laws of Athens he could have gone somewhere else, but by staying in Athens he consented to its laws, so it was not his right to break out now, and he should have to face his sentence of death.
Weird that this post came up and I missed it before. My last few comments were on my trials and tribulations with handwriting.

In kindergarten my teacher had the students use these, they helped guide proper form (in the US like 25+ years ago): https://www.amazon.com/Pencil-Grip-Universal-Ergonomic-TPG-1...
Sorry. No. There's no "political correctness" at here

Theo's comments in particular seem to start at

"NFSv4 is a gigantic joke on everyone."

This isn't politically incorrect, it's just noise. Nothing is gained from this comment. Even Linus with his infamous "rants" would have actual commentary laced in, Theo is just being dismissive

After someone reaffirms that they would like to use it, he replies

"Hahahahaha. That's a good one."

"I guess by "all the other protocols" you must be rejecting all the rest
of your network traffic as "not protocols" or "not services"."

Again. Not helpful, just noise
>Yes. In a sane democratic system, I would expect government to finance these projects. And it does.

Have you ever tried to get something funded by a government program ? I would bet 10/10 times that a competent leader (which Gates is beyond a doubt) is going to be more efficient at executing on a goal than a bureaucratic system passed down between governments, parties and agency interpretations.

And that's assuming that money gets allocated towards the said goals, so much stuff gets funded that very few tax payers would support as a result of lobbying (which is always going to happen when you funnel that much money through politicians) and even if it gets allocated to the desired goals it then goes through contractors with connections that add a government markup + the overhead of keeping up with the bureaucracy.

Just having someone as competent and connected as Gates tackling that problem is a huge value add, getting that calibre of a person through a government system is very unlikely.
It's true, but perhaps it's also worth mentioning that Europe has a large number of small and medium sized companies in general and high tech companies in particular.

For instance, the Obama administration blocked the takeover of Aixtron by a Chinese company because Aixtron was so key to national security.

The US Attorney General recommended a few days ago that the US take a share in Ericsson and Nokia, because they are the main 5G equipment suppliers besides Huawei.

A recent takeover of Kuka, an industrial robot maker, has caused a lot of concern as well. Germany has a lot of small to medium sized high tech equipment makers that are mostly privatly owned.

Robert Bosch, the largest car parts manufacturer in the world, is not a publicly listed company and not usually classed as a tech company, but it does make some of the most high tech parts that go in to cars. It's certainly no less of a tech company than, say, Facebook.

Then of course there are companies like ARM, SAP, Siemens, ASML, Amadeus Group, Infineon, Vestas or Airbus. No, they are not the size of Apple and ARM is now owned by SoftBank.

You see the pattern? Europe doesn't have consumer tech. It does have a lot of high tech equipment makers and parts suppliers.

Europe is really bad at selling to consumers (apart from France's and Italy's luxury goods makers and traditionally auto makers that are now suffering as cars become software platforms), and that's exactly where network effects have created those giant tech companies that now dominate US stock indices.

So yes, I think Europe is in a pretty bad place right now when it comes to tech, but it's not quite as bad as what you might think if you're just looking at the biggest components of stock indices.
that and Tencent...
>It's not a staple food like chicken or pigs

You forgot to add "in western culture"
If you're referring to right turns on red, the US decided that it was OK as a means to save a very small amount of fuel in the 1970's, and it's been a menace for pedestrians ever since. Typically a driver sits there, stares left blankly, waits for an opening in traffic and then turns right without ever looking for pedestrians.
Anyone does know why he just purchased a superyacht for 645m $ ? It works on hydrogen and will travels 4000miles before needing to refuel.
Two thoughts the first is that quarantines work and the second is that restricting travel across borders do not.

You are under quarantine firstly. As a consequence of this you are also being restricted with travel. A boat makes it very easy to do both.

Generally closing borders are bad for the sentiments you give: it's unjust, I'm not infected. People will cross a closed border illegally and officials will not be able to know. If you had the opportunity you would leave, right?

Open borders allow officials to track those coming in and if necessary quarantine them. Leaky borders have people actively avoiding quarantine and surveillance which could lead to much worse effects
there's no other way he could get china to cooperate. it was the correct play.
Explain it? It's a silly comparison.

That's a singular business (in an article from 2012), not hundreds of dangerous, wet markets that presently exist all across China serving tens of millions of people.

Show me the figures on the number of people in the US eating bats, versus China. Bat is not considered a common delicacy in the US. It's considered an extremely bizarre thing to eat bat in the US.

In fact bats are so rarely consumed in the US, it's difficult to find information on it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_as_food
There’s no such thing as “trickle down economics”, the phrase “trickle down” was a joke created by a comedian named Will Rogers. So if you’re waiting for a satirical critique of politics to start shaping the economy, then I don’t know what to tell you.

What growth does do is increase competition for labor, so if your economic life plan resolves around earning income from labour, then you benefit from growth. You can see the effect our most recent growth trend has had in the fact that the unemployment rate is the lowest it’s been since the 60s [0], wage growth is double CPI [1], and workforce participation is starting to creep back up after a rather long downward trend [2].

[0] https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2020/mobile/median-weekly-earni...

[2] https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-lab...
Microsoft employees are already pretty well off. At least much better off than the people he's helping with malaria.
That’s a pretty grim outlook there.

Humanity will survive this outbreak. China will survive it too.

But, you and I, individually, may not. It will depend on how healthy you are, or how strong your immune system is.

If you want to identify global warming as the culprit, then one of the biggest polluters are civilian airplanes, and the US Military.

There is no technology now, or on the near horizon, that will replace this.

And those that fly on civilian planes the most, are those who can afford the tickets, which are normally the First World western countries. Would you like to tell them that they can no longer take their distant tropical vacations anymore? Maybe that’s what we need to do to save humanity?
no no no no. I've seen this a hundred times[0].

That service becomes the source for a management report.

That management report contains useful data that the CEO looks at weekly and uses to build his board report.

The original Aussie guy leaves, but leaves the laptop behind because it's not his. He also doesn't document it (because that would get him in trouble for running a server on a laptop).

...Years pass...

The laptop finally dies. The CEO is furious because he can't create his report. He leans on the IT manager. The IT manager has no freaking idea where this report is coming from or who makes it. They lean on the Support team to find out which server produces this report. The Support team drop everything to work out wtf is going on, because this suddenly became their #1 priority.

Eventually, someone finds the decaying husk of the laptop, and works out what's going on. They put together a plan for creating a supported server to do the same thing. It'll take weeks, because they have to provision a server properly through the usual channels. CEO has a rant at the entire IT department for not supporting critical business processes, and not being agile enough to support the business. IT manager takes a beating in the next management reviews. No-one is happy.

[0]usually a rogue spreadsheet rather than server. The worst case I saw was an Excel spreadsheet in a business-critical department running on a user machine with a post-it note on it saying "don't turn this machine off". If the logged-in user name wasn't the same as the temp who had originally built it, the spreadsheet refused to work and the department ground to a halt.
+1 for Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann. A fantastic book, one of the best computer science books I have read! Summary of it and why I like it here:

https://henrikwarne.com/2019/07/27/book-review-designing-dat...
The "ahead of schedule" refers to its conventional ETA, not the previous record.

Which also ties in nicely with your quoted 6:10 average.
Part of it is pure luck - being at the right place at the right time. An on site internship gave me a foot in the door for my first remote job. After that, I had experience in a certain niche and a couple of open source contributions under my belt.

Another part is just having the guts to ask for a remote job straight away and accept getting turned down dozens of times.
Amazon didn't want it back, they said she could keep it, but she didn't want it and didn't want to dispose of it:

“Ok. hold on please…” Comes back 2 min later… “It sounds like it was sent in error. But no problem- you do not have to return it to us. You can keep it, or donate it to charity or just dispose of it yourself”
"When considering the average length of hospital stay, the majority of pedestrians involved in collisions with cyclists were admitted for fewer than two days (53.1%), while only 7.7% required a hospital stay greater than 7 days. Compared to pedestrian collisions with motor vehicles, the duration of hospital stays were significantly shorter (χ2(1)=27.5, p < 0.01, φc=0.06), furthermore the severity of collisions were also significantly lower compared to collisions involving motor vehicles (χ2(1)=9.85, p < 0.01, φc=0.04)."

(But I don't know what the figures mean.)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2018.10.018 at https://s23705.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Pedestrian...
Clang takes up to 90GB of disk space [0]

[0] https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-April/132028....
They are not being 'deprived' of anything. They agreed to exchange their labor for a fixed price, and they received that price. There was no 'deprivation' anywhere in the system.
Any good hashing function would already be uniformly distributed, right? In that case, using this algorithm over traditional ones makes little sense.
"Philanthropy is tax advantaged" just means that you don't have to pay tax on the money you donate. You don't keep any extra money for yourself.
See techcrunch, the site with one of the most anti-consumer cookie preference practices yet a site that is very often linked on the first page of HN. This is proof that even informed people will get over any reservations if the content piques their curiosity.
Amazon is normally happy to do this for a return -- they'll send UPS to pick it up. But in this case, since she didn't order it, it was hard to get a correct shipping label. (which normally probably wouldn't matter -- if UPS has a shipping later for a 1 pound package of coffee and you hand them a box of shoes, the UPS driver isn't likely to know or care.

But for something as large as a balance beam it's more of a problem.
I am not sure we have enough tow trucks for this, and it seems unnecessary if the public transportation is robust enough. Even if you leave your car at the pub, it should be a minimal hassle to use public transportation the next day to get it back - or to simply use it in the first place. I do think we should disallow booting/towing for cars in those situations, so perhaps having a "safe" parking lot to keep one's car would be prudent.
Well, it's obviously very funny in retrospect, but you have to put yourself in his shoes. Hardware is under-powered from what it seems, to make a general computing device that is small enough, has long enough battery life and doesn't cost a ton of money. Also people are very price sensitive about devices they only use for limited communication (phone calls, SMS, maybe some emails). They are far less price sensitive when that device becomes a general purpose computer and media machine and does basically everything they need related to getting information and entertainment, on the go at that!

He didn't know about the software keyboard innovations that Apple had created (for example the predictive keyboards, the haptic feedback, etc.) and Microsoft wasn't making the whole product so they couldn't optimize the experience as much in order to have reasonable performance and battery life with a small device.

Though I'll grant you that Ballmer was the king of over the top reactions ("Developers!" :-D ).
Progress implies moving in a direction or towards a specific destination. Maybe the reasoning is that with a couple of billionaire philanthropists there is a smaller number of directions or destinations so the odds of hitting them is more likely. With government deciding and ordinary people contributing taxes, there is a multitude of officials and citizens all pulling in different directions. So, basically the same argument you would make in favor of dictatorship.
> Stopping to lecture an adult in public is rarely well received.

Yup. On the other hand, I did some foolish things on the road myself when I was younger, and got an angry lecture from a stranger. I didn't take it well at first, but eventually realized he was right and I changed my ways.

> your chances

Maybe. Or maybe offering her a lift would have raised her suspicion that I had something other than her welfare in mind, and my point would have been lost. As it happened, when I said that suing me wouldn't have helped if she was dead, her look of surprise at that indicated I had made a point.
> Intel MPX support is completely removed.

A bit sad about this one, Intel should talk to Oracle, ARM and Cambridge Computer Laboratory on how to implement this kind of feature properly.
That doesn't stop them from sharing the profits if they want to.
That is probably an excellent thing to do if the aim is to end traffic deaths.
> Coordinating people costs a lot

Does it really? Even before social media and the internet, what put humans apart was our ability to co-ordinate efficiently
That's why we would all be sleeping easier in our bed if the Chinese would just accept externla help from the USA/WHO/anyone. So far as I understand, there are currently no external observers. There are no reliable sources. Daily Mail is currently no more or less reliable than any other source currently.
Global smartphone production set to drop to five-year low in Q1, report says
True, but does any mega corp do that? I wish it did...
> You are under quarantine.

No, we're not. But even if we were, it would be a moot point. Taiwan, Philippines and Guam are closed to all cruise ships. But the airports are still open.
Hanlon's razor becomes more credible once you understand how mismanaged Nokia already was at the point Elop took in the reins. He may have been in the boat when it sunk, but it already had lot of holes in it.

Both Jorma Ollila (the Chair) and Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, the CEO preceding Elop, were financial experts, not tech visionaries. The organization that had created the rise of Nokia was split to pieces before Elop took control with no understanding that you can't run an technology corporation like an investment bank.

There are two pretty good books exploring this topic:
https://www.amazon.com/Ringtone-Exploring-Nokia-Mobile-Phone...

https://www.amazon.com/Transforming-NOKIA-Paranoid-Optimism-...

"rendering all NOKIA employees sacrificial lambs for MS"

'Sacrificial lamb' is quite hyperbolic. The laid of people enjoyed quite good benefits. You don't become an instant destitute in Finland just because you are temporarily out of a job.

The way the handset business was going, Microsoft basically paid 8 billion for the privilege of a dead-in-the water platform and the nicety of laying off the staff .

If there ever was an evil plot to steal value from Nokia's shareholders then it was thoroughly botched.