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With Burning Man canceled this year, there is talk of online events or experiences that might take place instead. The article specifically talks about the new Fortnite Party Royale island, and the description of it doesn't sound too far off Burning Man in some respects.
Well this is why the judiciary should be independent, not political as in the US
Use a mask and don’t touch their faces?
If there's 3.3 thousand similar disasters, it would cost ~1 trillion to prepare.

How much did covid-19 cost?
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Given https://www.cdc.gov/cpr/zombie/index.htm - nothing surprises me, though I would of thought this would of been something all country air forces would have - procedures in encountering unknown flying craft! Certainly would have a friend or foe identification procedure and with that, the ability to also identify neutral/civilian/..... and other avenues grown into that procedure over time.
I agree that it is easier than most industries, but I still think the degree to which it is easier does not accurately reflect the alleged demand for talent.
The NYTimes did a story on these hornets one day before the Post ran this story: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/us/asian-giant-hornet-was...

There's a second story today about how Japanese honey bees swarm these hornets, raise the temperature, and cook them alive: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/us/murder-hornets-asian-g... There's a cool video to go along: https://youtu.be/awoV5Wj9Iys
> That’s why entrepreneurs, myself included, waste years of their lives on shitty ideas that will never work, following the popular trend of “ideas don’t matter, only execution matters”.

The saying has to do with just having an idea is worthless in itself, you have to do something with that idea.

He interprets it as a shitty idea will be successful if executed well.

Wow.
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For creating a table of dates, what are our thoughts on:

select * from
(select adddate('1970-01-01',t4.i10000 + t3.i1000 + t2.i100 + t1.i10 + t0.i) selected_date from
(select 0 i union select 1 union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9) t0,
(select 0 i union select 1 union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9) t1,
(select 0 i union select 1 union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9) t2,
(select 0 i union select 1 union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9) t3,
(select 0 i union select 1 union select 2 union select 3 union select 4 union select 5 union select 6 union select 7 union select 8 union select 9) t4) v
where selected_date between '2016-01-01' and now()

This works in MySQL / MariaDB.
And of course this comment has no replies and is 1500 pixels below the dozens of others marketing their paid service.
It’s also made obvious if you use the “Move view” button (the four-way arrow) and drag the image around; the image is continously re-rendered, and the pixels shows Moiré-like patterns as the image moves.
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What is your take on their brand new "Party Royale" island that is mentioned in the article?
But the objection is perfectly valid. They are a political organization that sometimes places politics over reality (for example, refusing to recognize Taiwan, repeating Chinese reports unchallenged and praising China's transparency, or as another comment pointed out, appointing Robert Mugabe as goodwill ambassador).

That internal challenge should be added to your excellent list of external challenges the proposed organization would face, and the WHO does face: politically motivated people and powerful nations will capture the organization from the inside and abuse any trust it has built up to serve their own ends.
Yeah, if only Aliens had face masks that filter out bacteria and viruses, would totally of changed the whole War of the Worlds ending.

[EDIT ADD WOTW reference for those who missed out upon that at school] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds
> I wonder if a CPU ISA change couldn't make virtualization more efficient

Without knowing the details I am convinced the architecture has an impact. Until some 15 years ago Intel archtecture had the reputation of being impossible to virtualize. I don't remember whether KVM which requires HW support or Xen which doesn't but requires support by the guest (paravirtualization) was first. I guess it was the latter, but either way they became feasible in rather quick succession.

On the other side IBM /370 architecture was designed for virtualization from the beginning. Already in the early 1980s virtualization was standard (possibly even earlier).

I'm quite sure difficult virtualization does not come for free efficiency-wise either.
The image caption used in this article, and in many similar pieces, is honestly somewhat scary:

> Why Now Is the Time to Be Buying Big Oil Stocks

This is dangerous advice given most investors, never mind casual investors, don't understand how the oil market works. Last I checked, there is no convenient way to invest in the spot price of oil eventually going up. People who buy "oil ETFs" like USO hoping to cash out if the price rises later don't understand how the underlying asset works, and end up losing a lot of money [1].

Using captions like that is simply irresponsible and should be avoided.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/21/retail-investors-who-believe...
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For a junior position, probably. If you have 20 years of industry experience, but no degree, Apple, in my experience at least, couldn't care less. So long as you can do the work. I have several friends without degrees who work there. But they also didn't start there.
Saudis aren’t exactly known for their adherence to austerity.
Yeah, but now we’ve proven that we can supply our own oil without it being a major drag on the economy.

We may go back to importing one the short term, but losing access to Saudi crude is now a 100% solvable problem, because all we need to do is ramp up fracking again.
I think it's a Trojan Horse that is run by establishment -- not Russians (google, facebook etc). I've caught the wayback machine removing pages several times recently, so I suspect they are providing this fake alternative. It was banned on wikipedia for a long time, and many suspected that there could be hacking issues.

Sort of like a Crypto A.G. situation
I know this is three years old, but my question remains the same (for lack of data) – Is this localized to non-Pro or Enterprise editions of Windiws 10?

I haven't seen this behavior anywhere on my machine. Then again, I don't use any of the default applications, and I've spent many an hour going through every tiny setting wrt privacy/analytics settings.

The only place I've seen this crop up is a relative's computer which is the Home edition.
Two recent discussions of articles about those hornets:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23057159

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22826773
Yes, in a well run organization it should be difficult for any one person to cause too much damage. Thats one of the benefits of bureaucracy! But at many startups, especially in the early stages, developers have a lot of autonomy (and rightly so). In a small environment like that, you need folks you can trust, and a mis-hire could be devastating.
That's a fair criticism if clumsily put. For the record, I'm Canadian, British and Polish. I called out America as by far the biggest perpetrator at the moment.

So to address the second half of your post, I have indeed heard of "other countries" (just ask USCIS) although being a US resident at the moment I want to speak to what I know, not for anyone else.

Though if we're being super pedantic, there's only one human species on this planet -- species of course being defined as animals who can mate and produce viable offspring.
I think it's arguable that either of those countries survived.
> Getting from there to here was a long path of letting my current needs determine what I needed to learn.

Or you could have followed the syllabus and worked there immediately after finishing university?
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"yes we are config" is not something I would directly associate with something like a homebrewserver. But the point can probably made the other way around that the average Jo does not know what a homebrewserver is.
Shortcut to template: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nj0LtyG6Q9HhXk-iaj9-...
I'm suddenly tempted to write a not-quite-serious novel about a time period up to and including a post-apocalyptic dystopia that occurred simply because almost all emergency measures in the world were replaced by insurance policies.

In the end people subsist on irradiated rats and mutant vegetables but they're doing great because each of them are owed millions of pounds by Lloyd's of London which may or may not exist anymore.
A lot of the children's stories I heard growing up included violence of sorts. Not saying it was necessarily good, but it is very common, hence perhaps is either harmless or maybe beneficial in a convoluted way. fwiw, the stories kept me from wandering into abandoned old houses, tall thick bushes, or too far away from home; we were pretty much on our own when I was a kid.
Safety is the whole idea behind Rust, and if you draw the line here, that's neither in line with the Rust ethos, nor particularly valuable. After all, code that "expects to handle" null was pretty rare too ;)
suppose you have a bunch of logic in a particular domain that’s noisy to write and read because of a lot of boiler plate. The ability to execute arbitrary code at compile time enables you to easily create pretty much arbitrary abstractions/DSLs to make this more readable and writable. This certainly comes at a cost though, and if you abuse it too much it becomes very hard to reason about programs.
Startup could be BIGGER than Peloton
Do you have a practical example where that matters? Because I've never seen anyone link to a page with a trailing . in the domain.
Same question -- I've been using Kicad on personal and light-duty professional projects for about 5 years (yeah, Altium is the real deal, but when you're making a small run of prototypes for a university lab, sometimes you use the tools you have). It definitely has some rough edges, but it's also got a very established ecosystem, so I feel like Horizon will have to be a massive improvement to compete.
> Is there hope for me?

Yes, but you might have to adjust your expectations.

It is not quite clear from your question whether your gripe is with having to apply for a junior role or that the pay is bad?

If it is the former: Why do you expect to enter a field above an entry level? From your self-description it does sound like you are in fact at junior/entry level (not meant negatively). I would expect you to grow out of that level faster since you do have prior working experience in a different field and maybe already in the interview process I'd put you higher. But I'm not going to take your word or cv for it.

If it's about salary. Depending on the area, I don't think there is much if any shortage of developers looking for their first jobs unlike at the more experienced levels. It can be that you face quite the competition for the jobs you are applying, many of which will look better on paper(especially from the perspective of automated resume scanners). So I think the options are:

- Keep going with the grind, finding the first job is probably the hardest. It gets a lot easier after that.

- Consider just taking any job to get the foot into the door, even if it is not sexy and not well paid. Having say 6 months industry experience as a developer can already easily outweigh all your github projects.

- Try to find a job, where your specific background gives you an edge over others. For example instead of going straight into a developer job, you could find a role as a mechanical engineer that can code and from there slowly transition into software engineer. Or a developer job in a company that deals with mechanical engineering one way or another. Domain knowledge can be a huge bump in hiring considerations.

Lastly regarding github profile. What recruiters will do varies a lot. Some really like looking at them, others never do it out of principle. Personally, I never look at profiles, I only look at specific projects if they are mentioned in the cv / cover letter with a description of what it is and what the candidates contributions are.
Small generators to allow low-power systems to run on a temperature gradient
But poor people also have unequal access to educational resources for learning technical skills.
Space station 13 has that mechanic in certain game modes, and has a lot of things to do for the non traitor players.

It's pretty interesting, even though the BYOND engine is really janky.
From the page you linked to:

> For inventory tracked with the manufacturer barcode, each seller’s sourced inventory of the same ASIN is stored separately in our fulfillment centers. We can also track the original seller of each unit.
Just FYI, the https cert on the linked page for the feminist server is expired
I actually have two econ systems cameras that I've been testing on my desktop/laptop, and it does all right but even then struggles at 4k resolutions.
Events like the Carrington & Covid seem to fit: high profile, hard to predict and rare. IMO, both qualify as Black swan.

At some point, you have to pick a threshold on the probabilities involved... These events are likely independent & identically distributed (i.e. hard to predict for any year), and I'd call sub-1% annual chance pretty rare.

But I'm receptive to a different threshold... But you can't just say "Black swan only counts for previously-inconceivable events".

Edit: I'm assuming covid-19 is structurally different than Sars, mers, Ebola, & H1N1 purely based on the global effect it has had to date. If you found those others as pandemics (not according to WHO though), then you can remove it as Black swan.
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Keep going. More side projects, more interviews (with startups). If you get a "resident" offer to work your way into fulltime, take it. Maybe the pay isn't ideal for 6-12 months, but the gratification of building yourself into a legit software engineer should make it worthwhile.

My path: undergrad and masters in MechE, learned a little machine learning with matlab in grad school, taught myself python and hacked at AI/ML side projects while working at a startup doing FEA for about a year, eventually got an internship with an ML startup... eight years later I'm Chief Scientist at a near-unicorn AI startup.
Is anyone working on solving this problem?
> In fact I just used support yesterday (a Sunday in Fiji, the weekend everywhere) to help migrate a client from Google to a local Google Reseller (so they could get invoiced in the local currency).

Haha, I last used it for the same reason :) What a dumb system that is…

But overall I've had success with GSuite support yes. I mean, I've not often needed it, but part of it is knowing that it is there in case my account does get fucked with. Huge reassurance.
Oh yeah that’s super readable
While price drops can hurt US oil companies, the US is now immune to price spikes, since it can spool up oil production quickly.

Maybe Congress needs to bail out oil producers during a glut, but that’s a lot cheaper than Saudi having to run most of their economy on credit.
Did a quick benchmark: https://gist.github.com/matklad/ebc1acd2fab884f3ff9d96d4175f....

Seems like hypothesis is not wrong, but also is not interesting: the difference is pretty small, and it can be easily dwarfed by the big wins for utf32 if something like auto-vectorization or bounds-check elision kicks in. Also I am not entirely sure that the diff I observe is not due to something completely irrelevant, like one loop ending up on a lucky cacheline or what not.
Many of these oil countries and companies are lacking in vision. They could survive and even thrive in a post-fossil fuel world if they would invest now and see oil as not just fossil fuel, but a means of storage and transport.

The key weakness of renewables (wind and solar) is a mismatch between production and use. It's intermittent, you can't control when the wind blows or sun shines. The solution many think of is giant batteries like those produced by Tesla.

But there are technologies that can take a CO2 source+water+electricity and create synthetic oil. The Middle East is a giant desert, perfect for covering with solar. Texas is known to be a great place for wind. Imagine if these economies went all in on solar/wind + synthetic oil generation. They already have the full oil infrastructure in place to process/refine/transport throughout the world. Just switch the source from the ground (fossil fuel) to solar/wind+synthetic oil generation. If they're smart, they would push hard for carbon tax at the same time. Because solar/wind+synthetic oil is carbon neutral (take CO2 from the air, burn later during combustion). It would put out of business their competitors still stuck on old fossil sources.
Well US troops are there to be a check on Iran, China and Russia. Terrorism is a rare side effect.
IMO it's not as clear-cut as you make it out to be. It's a pretty arbitrary line to exclude full Unicode support from the standard library. There's a ton of stuff in libstd that could be supported as third-party crates. I don't disagree with what the Rust team has done, and I think there could be a world in which the compiler team also releases first-party crates with "enhanced" functionality beyond just libstd. I consider proper Unicode support to be a "first party" thing, but I also don't think it has to be in libstd per se, necessarily.

For the record, I also disagree with your assertion that "easily done in rust" should be extended to include "...by importing a third-party framework." In that sense anything is easy to do in any language where a third-party framework exists. I'm confident it's just as easy in go.
> Each of your virtualized/containerized systems are going to have their own distinct instances of the shared libraries,

Certainly not mine, my memory deduplication is doing just fine.
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There’s definitely something sketchy about it, but I wouldn’t take it too seriously. If anything I’d be more worried about tracking (since it’s very specific groups who use those sites, and can be further targeted by misinformation), or perhaps altering of content.
This only works for some game types and with that, they become their own social eco-system. To limit and curtail that to the realms of social network first would only see a raft of disparious networks being game developer driven. With respective and their own flavour of what is and what isn't allowed in their social world, laying down the law.

But then the whole social network model is still not perfect, so to enforce an imperfect model and way of interacting upon games would be an api too far for many games and curtail creativity.

Also look at what games people play on social networks - #1 trolling - enough said.
This an article about retail stores needing an online presence, from a company that sells a product (service?) to move retailers online. It is literally an ad in the form of a completely contentless, and utterly unsubstantiated “article”. Can the mods remove this submission? Perhaps it might even behoove them to look into the connection between ‘fhirzall’ and ‘alif-alif’.
We've found you can actually do a lot with dumb servos and orientation feedback and get visually similar results to Spot. For instance, we get hopping, trotting, strafing, turning + strafing, walking. What it can't do is prancing or a flying trot. But we think it's totally worth it since a good-enough servo is around $20, while similarly sized torque-controllable servo (excluding dynamixels, which don't actually have torque control), runs about $400 each. DJI did actually come out recently with their M3508 and M2006 which we're starting to play with, and we think we can build a torque-controllable pupper for about $1.5k.

The main limitation I think for servo robots with kinematic (position-control) controllers is speed. We're moving around 0.8m/s max, while the new Unitree A1 is something like 3.5m/s.
From the other comments here this seems like a common sentiment. I do indeed do things which are not enjoyable in the strictest sense, as you phrase it. However I do still think my original comment is true, so perhaps there is some finessing to be done here. I'm not sure I have the answer though.

Perhaps there are different kinds of 'enjoyment'. And perhaps I'm personally willing to accept some immediate suffering because I know I'm pursuing a greater enjoyment.

I'm certainly not advocating for (constantly) pursuing in-the-moment unbridled hedonism.

Something which may be related to this is the idea of type 1 fun and type 2 fun. I'm not sure where I heard this, but few people I talk to have heard of it.

Type 1 fun is the kind of fun which is enjoyable in the moment. For example, computer games and watching youtube videos.

Type 2 fun is the kind of fun which is enjoyable upon reflection but not necessarily in the moment. For example, running a marathon, certain moments of trial/despair when working on a big project.

When I first played Factorio I played it for about a week solid. I loved it. After that I could put it down and do other things. I now play it for a couple of days every couple of months when the mood takes me. This is type 1 fun for me.

I'm certainly glad a ran a marathon, and it is a very happy memory, but no way in hell am I going to do that again. Very much type 2 fun.

Some comments (not necessarily the one I'm replying to) seem to inversely correlate enjoyment with how hard a task is. The harder a task is the less likely it is to be enjoyable. Is this true? It certainly isn't my experience, but maybe I'm odd as I originally suggested.

Something which has also driven me is boredom. Being a freelance developer has given me a lot of free time. Certainly for me, type 1 fun only goes so far in conquering that boredom. Sure, play computer games for 6 months, but then that gets boring too. At least it did for me. Then what?

Then, for me, type 2 fun starts to look more appealing. Perhaps I should build a house? Sure its going to be hard, but I'm practical and I like leaning new stuff. Plus I'll be outdoors, and at the end of it I'll have a house. (FWIW, I actually did this)

Perhaps that's just being an "up" kind of person. I think it is also believing in one's abilities.

I don't think this is a cohesive point with a strong conclusion, but perhaps this series of paragraphs is useful in furthering a discussion.
I'm an Iranian who moved to the U.S. only a few years ago.

Something most people here in the U.S. don't understand is that countries like Iran have a far different threshold of pain.

Iran, as a result of sanctions had already entered starvation-levels of economic collapse. There are people who are sleeping in open graves. Yet, the regime is not backing down in any way. It hasn't change course at all.
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There's blackbird, but not sure of its current status. https://hackaday.io/project/160882-blackbird-bipedal-robot
Yes! I found that once I started putting my achievements and goals on paper, it really motivated me to achieve my goals, and be proud of what I had done so far. Just write down what you did everyday, and what you hope to accomplish tomorrow. It's kinda stupid, but was scary effective for me.