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I don’t really understand comments like this. US has lots of problems but we do have the semblance of rule of law. We do have the notion of transparency and you do not get sent to a labor camp if you have political views antithetical to the state.

The Chinese can and do simply disappear people without the semblance of due process. Their history also is one of ethnic cleansing as the Han people have pushed out or marginalized most other ethnic groups.

The history of: The Great Leap Forward, The Cultural Revolution, and Tianammen Square is pretty awful.
This is very unrealistic. Real life is, I will be constantly disturbed by slack, email, meetings, people petting on my shoulder. Other than all these, I probably can have 1 or 2 hours a day to concentrate on the actual development
Myself, I frequently refer to the man pages, as well as StackOverflow.
but yeah, working remote could avoid some of that, but only some
No, the mass of the object that has a force applied to it has absolutely nothing to do with the torque.

Here is how Wikipedia defines the torque caused by a force acting on an object with a rotation axis: Torque is the product of the magnitude of the force and the perpendicular distance of the line of action of force from the axis of rotation.
The first group that benefits from large tech company acquisitions is end users. The fastest possible way for a new technology or feature to be diffused to users broadly is for it to be incorporated by one of the large platforms or Aggregators. Suddenly, instead of reaching a few thousand or even a few million people, a new technology can reach billions of people. It’s difficult to overstate how compelling this point is from a consumer welfare perspective: banning acquisitions means denying billions of people access to a particular technology for years, if not forever.

This really seems like a stretch. First, its assumed that the actual features make it into a product again or the company is not simply shutdown and the current less-than-great feature is left in place (NIH). This is the web and great things spread, the whole last line is just really sounds like fear-mongering.
Are there known real-world examples of miscalculations (as opposed to crash or something like "None" printed) that would be prevented by Haskell but not Python 3?

(Why "3"? Because the one thing that has bitten me is the old division operator. They were right to kill it with fire. The new "/", just like Haskell's one, always gives floats, which is good for estimates and consistently and obviously bad for money.)
> It's about challenging more than a century of U.S. wildlife management.

Sounds like maybe said ecologists and biologist were part of the original problem?
I'm not affiliated with Handshake in any way.

But my assumption is that there would still be registrars that can handle this sort of thing for you, in the same way that a service like Netlify can handle setting up a static site server and renewing LetsEncrypt certificates. It's just that if you wanted to do it manually, you could.
i'm so happy for the global pause button in this article
Then it just needs a valid signing key. Every government (local, state, national) in the world has the right to a valid signing key.
Why? To tell the user where there mouse pointer is? Is that a problem?

Or are you forcing people to scrub over every element on the screen to "discover" instead of it being visible to begin with? That's annoying as hell and people are probably missing things because you chose to hide them by default.
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I hate the skinny phone trend. Rather than read a page of text then scroll to the next page, I tend to read the content of the middle third of the vertical space on my screen and then drag the next section up. I'd much prefer a 16:9 or even 16:10 screen.
We've changed the URL from https://www.essential.com/blog/essential-update to an article that says more directly what's happening. The site guidelines call for original sources (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) but corporate press releases increasingly feel like an exception to this rule. Maybe it's because they're as much a mask for information as a source of it.

If anyone can suggest a better URL, we can change it again. I just picked the first item from some search results.
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We've changed the URL from https://www.essential.com/blog/essential-update as explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22311802
MWC 2020 Cancelled for health reasons (GSMA statement on MWC barcelona 2020)
I just hope Cosmo and Henry land on their feet.

https://www.essential.com/about#team
When an airline does need the passenger's weight, they don't ask. They measure, and oblige the hand baggage.

It's common in the Pacific, as there are many small islands connected by planes.
The old GTE payphones up in Georgetown, Tx (suburb of Austin, now) when I was a kid would let you dial with the switchhook - no coins required. Agreed, zeroes were a pain, but this was partially compensated for by the fact that 5-digit dialing worked for any local number, e.g. 3-1234 got you 863-1234. Interestingly, most VoIP adapters support the pulse dialing of an old phone, but very few have the cojones to actually ring one that has a physical bell rather than an electronic ringer...
I saw on a Nova program a while back some scientists doing studies on wildlife just being exposed to the sounds of predators. They recorded predator sounds and setup cameras and speakers to play a predator sound when prey wildlife were near.

It changed all sorts of things, including breeding patterns.

Also I know the San Diego wild animal park put predator animals upwind of prey animals and saw behavioral changes / different sleeping patterns and more "wild like" behavior just from being exposed to the smell.
I just tried that in Quebec from Virgin Mobile (Bell) to Vidéotron using a Samsung S10 and a Samsung A8, it's working fine for me.

I can't verify it is send over SMS or MMS though. In theory there's no reason for my cellphone to send it over MMS.

The exact word used: secure communication
We're bad for several reasons:

-- Outside FAANG type companies, most businesses are not willing to actually put in the investment it takes to do engineer software. They want a "solution" as cheap and fast as they can get it. I'm not even passing judgment here, as in some cases that approach is entirely justified.

-- Software is a world of eternal September, where the industry memory is only about five years long. Lots of us move on to other fields or roles and the memory is forgotten, and here comes another generation to reinvent the wheel all over again.

-- Education: Computer science is not software engineering. Code schools are teaching programming more than software engineering. Thus, software engineering is something learned through doing rather than something studied as a discipline.
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Very true. I estimate you need 15-20 floors above ground floor shopping to fill all the spaces. This based on observations that in Paris (4-5 stories) there is a block of ground floor shopping and then 3-5 without. Since I'm not an expert on Paris (never been there only seen picture and read reports) take that with some salt...

Also most apartment developers don't know how to rent commercial spaces. So some ground floor spaces are vacant because it was only put in to allow the apartments above and so it isn't actually possible to get a commercial lease. (commercial leases allow a lot of remodeling and have other terms different from the standard residential lease, so anyone looking that a commercial lease will refuse the space)
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Exactly. Ten years ago, Android was a GNU/Linux computer, you could do a lot with it. Now Android is a set of APIs.
Welcome to any large company that's been around for a while. Especially successful ones.
iMessage is so riddled with problems from using weak RSA key sizes (1280 bits), to using RSA in the first place (thus no forward secrecy), to apple essentially managing the public keys for the user (which allows transparent MITM due to lack of public key fingerprints).

Also, both iMessage and WhatsApp are proprietary, thus it's almost impossible to verify the code you're running is safe. You're right in that E2EE has become more common, but seeing how the intelligence agencies have targeted major vendors like Crypto AG and RSA, we should be extra careful with popular, proprietary systems.
Is raising cattle the only topic here?

Have they even raised cattle around wolves recently?
I think that the only role the mass of a lever would play in contributing to torque is through inertia.
Schizophrenia diagnoses are generally applied to individuals with a mix of behavioral problems and "abnormal or undesirable" thought patterns. It's a broad brush that isn't applied based on hard biological data like an MRI of the brain, but on observed and reported behavior at the discretion of the psychiatrist and rough adherence to DSM guidelines.

Typical treatments like Haldol, Thorazine, and Depakote have a blunting and depressive effect on the entire central nervous system. Treatments like shock therapy, cause severe memory loss and permanent brain damage.

These "treatments" are often paired with coercion, involuntary injections, confinement in psych wards, and court orders.

Many times LE will bring a civilian to a psych ward as a secondary or additional option to charging them with a crime. It's often seen as an additional tool in creating orderly communities, disciplining individuals that get out of line, and overall exerting control on society and free thought and action. Once a patient is admitted or diagnosed, they are strongly incentivized to align themselves and their behaviors to the values and expectations of the institutions and people that brought them there and control their release and treatment plans.

Even if schizophrenia had a biological signature it wouldn't be used in practice because they WANT the ambiguity and discretion to classify and medicate patients as they see fit.
a-DOIIIII!! of course
My understanding about the article, which makes it interesting to me, is that (according to TFA) a lot of what is generally understood about The Art of War as general strategic concerns applied in very large scales or long timeframes was actually way more literal than people think. Always according to TFA, when Sun Tzu recommends "attacking allies" he literally means attacking them on the battlefield, because they are more likely to flee -- not undermining alliances prior to a war, as many people understand it. Likewise, when he means "attacking the enemy's strategy" he didn't mean "undermining the long term grand strategy of the enemy" but actually "acting to neutralize the immediate battlefield plan" (as in "if the enemy tries to lay a siege, provoke him into attacking"). Here strategy means "immediate battlefield plan", not "long term nation-wide strategy".

Overall, always according to TFA, Sun Tzu's Art of Way is way more practical and literal, and less "hand-wavey overall strategy" than generally understood. I think I actually like this because it more or less destroys its appropriation by self-help/business gurus. After all, if Sun Tzu is literally talking about killing your enemies while they are crossing the river, it's less useful as a metaphor for startups -- a welcome side-effect.
Have you used Airbnb's apps? They're the worst example of "design" over actual usability.
This is about saving you money, so that's not the right fine print.

Look at it this way: This is for the person that's already going to get enough ram sticks to fit the entire data set or multiple of it, across many machines, and deal with the enormous overhead from doing queries across many machines. The revelation is that you can fit that much ram inside a single machine for a much cheaper and faster experience.
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current iPhones and iPads are quite powerful

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/01/2018-ipad-pro-benchmark...
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And especially ones who bid on US government contracts
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As has been the pattern with all these decentralized DNS schemes, the FAQ doesn't cover the most utterly basic question: "I currently have one or more domains that I use extensively for my own life/work. How do I transfer those to try this new scheme? How much actual dollars/euros/yen/yuan/... does it cost, not mystery blockchain-whatevers but predictable real money? Does this new scheme harm me?"

Shouldn't an experimental system in particular want regular tech people with personal domains trying it out? We'd probably be more willing to give it a whirl (with fallbacks) since it's more for our own private use. But instead it's all about trademark holders and the Alexa 100k and so on, which is important too but it seems like most such domain holders would be a lot more conservative. And I've had a growing suspicion that the last part of the question doesn't get answered clearly because the answer is "you may get screwed, we are ideologues who think that people should be able to take your domain if you're not rich enough to defend it."

I mean, right now I don't in fact see the current DNS system as horrible. Cloudflare and others are pretty reliable registrars and companies to deal with. A .com is about $8, .net and .org both about $10. A known amount of $200 or so and I'm set for 10 years, and I consider that a good thing. I've had my domains for nearly 20 years now, they're core to my online identity and personal infrastructure. Same for most businesses, DNS sits at the center of everything. My concerns are about ICANN allowed price increases due to monopoly, and whether bad actors could somehow try to claim my domain and how I'd fight that as an individual. But I don't see answers in the FAQ to how this would help answer those. My personal domains aren't in Alexa top-whatever so it sounds like handshake will auction them off. There is a "renewal fee" after that but it's handwave-y:

>Renewals for names are annual and cost a standard network fee

A standard network fee of what? $1? $10? $100? It can vary by thousands of percent at random like so many cryptocurrencies? How long is the renewal window? Can it be paid upfront? What happens if it gets missed? Is any of this predictable?

I simply don't see any brass tacks implementation stuff here. It's a bunch of high level hoohah about the evils of centralization without any acknowledgement of how centralization can be useful and efficient too and how they deal with that. The word "federation" does not appear at all, which is another important approach/aspect. It sounds worryingly like a common "religious" approach where people take a tool (like decentralization) and turn it into a goal in and of itself.
Actually the exact opposite is true. By picking the right places to build your dams and dikes out to see, you can reduce the total length of [all the dams and dikes], thus total risk is reduced.

An example is eg. dutch Delta Works:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works ,
which (among other things) reduced the total length of sea defenses in Zeeland by 700 km.
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hey braindongle,

what is your soundcloud handle? I'd like to check out your work and add to those 8k listens! :)

(incidentally, I am patientfrog on soundcloud)
Nope, thanks for letting me know. Will fix!
Not just new, but always new:

> There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself. https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
Was it "formal" debt though, or more like "I'll give you some of my extra grain, because you seem kinda friendly, and you might repay me the favor if I happen to be in trouble in the future"?
Absolutely. More specifically, the Internet itself can be thought of as an extended network of neurons. To extend cognition with it, you need to integrate its knowledge without yours (for example by reaching information as quickly as via in-body cognition, eg via Google or a notes app), and you need applications that can deliver this knowledge (usually SAAS). If you have such a system in place, it's functionally the same as having a bespoke work stack that complements your cognition.
I love this video. It's such a great visualization, simple and clear, and gets the point across while being entertaining.

And it's from 1937! We have so many video editing and effects tools today, but sometimes simpler is best.
Most of it is economic and political espionage, not spying on each others' military secrets. That happens too, sure, but none of the other stuff is necessary to protect us from nuclear war.
As a power user of no code apps like zapier. This is really amazing, for some of the more complex work flows I've had to write python code and initiate via lambda functions. This seems like it would alleviate that need completely. Would love to see the ide support python as well as js
Speak for yourself. It drives me absolutely insane that I simply cannot buy a recent phone today which is smaller than the largest phablets sold in 2014. This is bonkers.
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Heh, TravisCI got acquired and laid off a bunch of staff but at least externally appear to have increased their velocity.

CircleCI has raised 115M, hire the best people, and are struggling to release a half-baked UI remake that has been in progress for seemingly ever(that is now being forced on everyone this quarter supposedly).

Not sure what the take away is.. Hard to make sense of it externally; interesting things going on under the surface perhaps.
For remote workers: is there a good alternative to "water-cooler" talk, or side conversations right outside after a meeting?

It seems to me like remote work lacks low-impact ways to grab someone's attention effectively for a short period of time, but correct me if I'm wrong.
So all the engineers who experience a BSOD, they discontinue using Windows immediately after?
It's not about forgiving him for being an idiot. It's more about recognizing that there's more than just the one idiot on the road. To an approximation, pretty much everyone who has ever had a driver's license has been guilty of making an idiotic decision or two while behind the wheel.

And, Autopilot being a technology that, among other things, enables (or even encourages) idiotic behavior, there's real risk that placing too much blame on the driver's choices lulls us into an attitude that enables the next idiot to kill themselves and/or someone else.
This is an absolutely phenomenal 'explorable explanation'. It methodically layers concepts to foster understanding, deploys interactivity to build intuition, and on top of all that provides crisp, clear narrative on top of all of the amazing visualizations.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mass-shootings-2019-more-than-d...

So this is normal?
Looks like a hug of death “service is unavailable” with an on-screen JS stack trace.
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Thanks! And that's pretty frustrating, I was completely blind in my search for lack of a single phrase. Text spinner, who would have thought. Anyway--you're right on and I appreciate the help. A bit amusing that it's known as a spam tool too, but I can see why.
I'd love to work from home but can't seem to find any remote gigs. I've applied to quiet a few with little to no response. I get tons of responses from non-remote / relocation opportunities. Any secrets? this article doesn't mention how to find one effectively.
Another poster already replied with a decent refutation of this claim, but a single pass over a TB of data is often not enough for 'big data' use cases and at tens of minutes per pass, it may very well be infeasible to operate on such at dataset with only 64GB of memory.

In the machine learning world, some of the algorithms that are industrial workhorses will require you to have your dataset in memory (ie: all the common GBM libraries), and will walk over it lots of times.

You may be able to perform some gymnastics and allow the OS to swap your terabyte+ dataset around inside your 64GB of RAM, but the algorithms are now going to take forever to complete as you thrash your swap constantly while the training algorithm is running.

tl;dr - a terabyte dataset in the machine learning context may very well need that much RAM plus some overhead in terms of memory available to be able to train a model on the dataset.
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> the chinese can and do simply disappear people without the semblance of due process

Hum you could use a chat with one or more guantanamo bay inmates
https://la.curbed.com/2017/9/20/16340038/los-angeles-streetc... << Worth a read.
My first thoughts were similar to Thompson's- investigating small acquisitions will chill the market (a market each of us dreams of being in :-)

But then, I started thinking like an entrepreneur- "Hey, Zuckerberg, I know you are only offering 7M for my awesome iphone app, but if you buy at this price it might look to the FTC you are hiding something.

Now if you upped your price to 94.1M and reported the deal, everyone will be happy!

I remain hopeful.

More seriously, pretty much everything certain "systemically important"'companies do (Utilities, banks etc) in the M&A space is reviewed and regulated - Big Tech is just going to face more and more of that in more and more countries.

I should think they could get ahead of the curve - start embracing things like GDPR and lobby for it. Get (bribe? lobby?) regulators in different jurisdictions to choose similar compatible rules - forget about trying to keep regulators off your backs while making money, if Thompson is right and these companies are in place for the next century their strategic goals should be sane, coherent and transparent regulation globally - that global regulation is coming is inevitable - that it is sane and coherent and transparent is far from not.
The F3 series includes support for "analog peripherals," so maybe they decided on that line so they could support the speaker? If that's correct, then that's a pretty niche feature for them to focus on. There are forks of qmk and the pro-micro that support the nRF52, but as far as I can tell nothing has been merged into the main qmk yet.
You are correct in that Handshake is trying to decentralize DNS more so than solve the scarcity nature of naming. That said, Handshake will increase the supply of TLDs by multiple orders of magnitude so the names do become less scarce overall.
Watching the video a little further, it describes a time in the early 90s when the Caucasian sheepdogs were nearly extinct, "poorly bred," and "food for wolves." It looks like there was a breeding project to make them fit for purpose again.

It also looks like the dogs have to stick to the right tactics and have limitations. The dogs stay put in defensive positions and defend the flock as a pack. They'll kill a wolf that gets too close, but they usually just chase them away. They can't chase too far or go out individually or they risk being killed by wolves. They're also more effective when the weather is such that they can use their sense of smell.

Edit: I posted this upthread, but apparently guardian dog is the term for dogs defend against predators (but they do not control its movement), herding dogs control the movement of a herd (but do not typically defend it well).

Edit this is interesting: https://www.facebook.com/notes/cinco-deseos-ranch-livestock-...
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I suppose the value exchange didn't have to be exactly balanced. It probably was more like perpetually exchanging favours. You would automatically try to repay the favour in an appropriate way, because you wanted the relationship to continue.