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By your definition (which I think is overly broad), most police officers are terrorists, and so is anyone that engages in self defense, or even jurors that vote “guilty” in the hope of deferring future crimes.

You either need to narrow the definition or carve out explicit exceptions. If you are carving out exceptions, the definition is just “people we don’t like”.

I guess that is pretty close to the definition prosecutors like to use in the US.
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> Our sons like The Dream, Ansel Elgort, Brian Phillip, all mentioned in the article?

These seem to be people who were already known personalities.

OnlyFans massive creator growth is likely largely going to be from "normies".
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Shocked Twitter has chosen to make their reading experience even worse. Now I get linked to a tweet thread, Twitter knows it's a tweet thread of one user but what does it choose to show?

Just the single tweet, a small "Show this thread" link and then 5 random other tweets from other people not connected or related to this tweet at all.
They show a fictional render of the main chip surrounded by four large gold coated leadless packages. What are those supposed to be?
Love his informal style. This video from him presenting at Stanford about the beginnings of Nvidia is so awesome exactly for that reason: "...You talk about that for about 6 months. The big event for the day would be 'Hey, where do you guys want to go for lunch?'" Beautiful when you pair it with the fact that they built a company worth many billions of dollars.

https://youtu.be/yU3GUHDf0mk
As someone who works with TypeScript extensively, TypeScript patterns are basically Javascript patterns - although perhaps with slightly fewer runtime type checks.
This has happened to me a number of times. I'm currently subscribed to an elementary school parent system for someone else's kid. So I get emails every so often about the child being tardy or absent. There's no way for me to stop these emails or communicate with the school or the parent. I gave up and just archive the emails as they come. They'll graduate eventually right?

Same deal with dating websites and job search sites, I had a guy use my email to sign up for what must have been a job aggregator. I found out about 15 different websites had "10 new opportunities waiting" for me.

It boggles me that there is no double opt-in for something like your children's school attendence.
link to paper please if available online?
> “If you do not feel comfortable coming into work, you can stay home and will be on unpaid leave,” Musk wrote in an email

"unpaid leave" is literally the definition of "Don't Get Paid". The headline itself doesn't say anything about unemployment.

However it does quote from his email a bit further down which says

> Choosing not to report to work may eliminate or reduce your eligibility for unemployment

Whilst it's not directly "you work or no unemployment", I think most people reading it would take that implication, no?
Thank you for the positive feedback!

I've registered this Twitter account: https://twitter.com/DebubbleMe. There is nothing on it for now, but if Debubble takes off in any shape or form, that's where I'll be posting the updates.
Mind sharing this script?
Amazing. Chrome discovered the wheel!!!

Oh wait... no it hasn't!
Firefox already had something similar, only more advanced!!!
I'm sure Nvidia is paying a nice licensing fee to Ampere for the registered trademark. Otherwise it'd be sheer stupidity.
Associated blog post: https://news.developer.nvidia.com/rendering-millions-of-dyna...

Video demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiSexy6eoy8
Isn't that the argument for Node or Python? You can get a damn powerful VM for the same monthly cost as 1 developer day?
Which is one of the reasons for the shift in US politics from treating combatants as combatants. Terrorism is now just a word for anyone who disagrees with us. Whereas acknowledging the organization as a hostile state within an established state means that we have to actually treat it like a war, or treat the combatants like criminals and put them on trial. The term "terrorist" is now just a label that gets applied to anyone who is too inconvenient to treat as a criminal.
No love for the Church of the SubGenious?
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Converting Plastic Waste into 3d printer filament

Project: https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho...

Hopefully, this will reduce the use of virgin plastic for creating art pieces in 3d printing community and you might be able to create beautiful and useful things out of waste plastic while cleaning plastic waste from the environment.

It's a profitable business.

I worked on this in my free time during quarantine.

I want to make the project more accessible so people around the world can develop local recycling unit. There is lots of work which needs to be done including making parts more standardized, demonstrating how parts fight together in a visual way and also have a microcontroller firmware to control diameter of filament.

I need help from someone who can write Arduino code, mostly includes reading diameter from a guage and then change the motor speed of puller roller so that it stretches the filament if filament diameter is more than target and slows down the stretch if filament diameter is less than the target diameter. This needs PID control.

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Anecdotally, I see it in lots of places - I was a part of those types of communities when I was younger (I'm better now, and I _think_ I'm reasonably well-adjusted), but I still keep tabs on those corners of the internet so I know what's going on, and can be prepared if/when they bubble over in a meaningful way.

I see lots of hateful activity, from "boogaloo" groups that hide their violence fetish behind euphemisms and jokes about revolution, to "satirical" posts about the value of white identity and culture over other cultures and races.

The other day I came across a website whose purpose was to collect the full names and photographs of (white) women who date outside their race - specifically, women who date black men - and the (white) men who date women like that. Said site has a section dedicated to women who were hurt or killed by their partners, and labels those women those who "paid their toll" for dating outside their race.

I haven't seen any meaningful action by any of these groups except that website I mentioned, but the activity is there if you care to find it. It's something that worries me, specifically for my partner - who is a woman of colour.
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They haven't tried to overtly, aggressively monetize hacker news. Also subjectively the quality of the comments is still pretty high compared to other similar sites.
I love this feature - calling named parameters is (for me) a glaring omission from Javascript (and surprisingly Typescript), I know you can define an object argument, but not many do and that’s not very elegant.
It could be a mix of culture, trust in government, and trust in the media. I wouldn't put it all in the "culture" bucket, because it lets government officials and media outlets completely off the hook.
I always thought that a real time scalable architecture would be beneficial. It's refreshing to see someone working on it, and exciting to see that it's nVidia. I always pictured a CPU with variable bit-width. Like a 256-bit ALU that could partition itself down into 16 or 32 bit ALU's as the workload allowed.
I wish they weren't morally bankrupt as I would have loved to work on their tech stack.
We've had super fun & addicting games for quite a while now, and, though gaming is not a niche interest anymore, a good chunk of the population prefers to do other things, like watch TV. If anything, the fear of alluring entertainment sapping people's will to do other things is borne out with television. The average American watches something like 5 hours of TV a day. That's just incredible. In my mind, switching from that to video games is a lateral move - you gain the sociability of video games, but lose out on the often more complex stories of television. (Great video games get up to the level of prestige TV, but most have narratives only as good as basic cable.)
Why's it so difficult to write a print spooler?

I'm not too familar with what it does exactly. But I presume it's a queue of documents to send to a printer and some level of conversation of the data from a print document format to what the printer driver understands.

This seems like quite a crazy bug.
Also today, a lot of home printers are network printers so it shouldn't even require higher privilages to send the document to the printer, right?

Or is printing in Windows a huge can of worms like its use of UTF-16?
Coercive forces that cause vote buying cannot be stopped by mathematical axioms. Only way out is to adopt a permanent consensus-free self-stabilising social system, but that algorithm becomes the keystone of whole society then.
It's more significant to me. In-your-face consent pop-ups are a multiple times daily annoyance. Targeted ads while creepy don't interrupt your task. After all you will be seeing an ad anyway, whether it is targeted or not hardly makes a difference.

This "cure" is worse than the problem it tries to solve.
I use firefox. The parent comment said they didn't trust firefox or chrome.
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Can people buy Reddit coin with US dollars? If so, it sounds like an alternative to invest in Reddit and share the success of the company.
But here's the thing: this kind of personal data is used daily by many companies. There's a table in a bank/telco/etc where they have your full name, your ID number, your address, your age. Any worker who has access to this (thousands of people who need that kind of access to do their jobs and to provide you with services) could've done something similar.

Recruiters are particularly stalkey sometimes with the way they keep calling your personal number without warning. While I don't understand if Subway really needs to share that much data with the person who makes your sub, the reality is that there's nothing privacy laws can do to stop some creep who works somewhere that deals with data from stalking one of their customers.

Edit: the case might be here that Subway doesn't really need to handle that kind of PII, but that should be on principle I think. The creep using that kind of data is a bit incidental.
So you don’t want to know if you are exposed to the virus?
I wouldn't say they failed. I'd say they gave up on it before product maturity.
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OP here. I lifted the forced CC signup for a few days so you guys can try it out.

Can't wait to hear what you think.
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Wasn't that their main cash cow and essentially the only reason for their business to exist? I've never heard of that company in SFW contexts - that's Patreon's territory.
Wouldn't they be bringing in more income from the $600/week in Federal unemployment + state unemployment than they would at their job?
hey folks, I'm the founder of Earnest Capital and love to hear questions or feedback. The gist here is I think the way we make founders pitch investors is pretty lame and we can do better. Definitely a v0.1 of our thinking here and would love suggestions for how to take it further.
Maybe the NSA showed up at his doorstep and made him an offer he couldn't refuse?
Really I find the large face array more draining than the audio - you usually don't get a clear and in focus view of that many people.
Do you have a citation for this?

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Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem
Sold to whom and used for what?

If the answer is "to target advertising" then what is the danger?

If the answer is something else, I'm all ears...
How do you determine “in use”?
I run this on a 1060 w/ patch as well as a 2070 natively and it works amazingly. It's a must-have.
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Basically better node by creator of node?
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I agree there too. I have long criticized Medium as a magazine with unpaid writers. I was specifically speaking to the quality question, not to the other aspects of the platform and its economics and ethics.
You used the 2022 number for your calculation. The estimated number for 2020 is 257 million and we can assume that is an EOY number so the actual number would be somewhere between 248M and 257M. If we assume absolute linear growth from 2019 the number as of today would be around 251 million.

That's out of ~330 million US citizens for a rate of ~76%. Toddlers, children, and poor teenagers are people that also exist and can be in a grocery store as asymptomatic carriers of coronavirus. I was generous and went with 80%.

Your second link is just a study that suggests contact tracing COULD work. But the fact that something could work in theory doesn't mean it will work in practice. I don't know where you got your 60% number from because that number isn't mentioned in that study. I don't think it matters anyway because we won't get anywhere near 60%.

Singapore tried this idea and they made it voluntary just like it is being made voluntary in the US. 20-25% of people used it. Now they are trying to make it involuntary by forcing businesses to scan phones at entrances to businesses, schools, and healthcare facilities. Do you really think Americans will accept this? No way. I doubt the legality of this approach in the first place.

It would take Donald Trump signing a law to get to 60%. People want this to work because it makes them feel better. Reality has other ideas.
He is saying that as Dr Birx on the coronavirus task force says [1] the government classify all coronavirus patient deaths as ‘COVID-19’ deaths, regardless of cause.

This is due to a highly unusual CDC guideline that stipulates this, and it may mask collateral deaths due to lockdown measures that could be avoided if we like normal looked for the true cause.

The reason why this is relevant is that an overwhelming percentage of coronavirus deaths also had other serious health conditions.

[1] https://nypost.com/2020/04/07/feds-classify-all-coronavirus-...
I stopped paying my mortgage 14 days ago for the first time in my life. I was lucky enough to get a deferral, and I now have the massive triple payment due date looming in August with no idea of how to pay it.

Best job currently seems to be delivery driver at $16/hr. There is absolutely no way I will avoid homelessness unless things change significantly, and soon.

I have an engineering degree from a good school, I played by the rules, I worked hard. Doesn't seem to matter much. The joke around here is that the $1200 check is enough money to buy a really nice shotgun to kill yourself with.
NVidia is not to blame if the competition is stuck using C, printf debugging for computing shaders, cannot make their minds about which bytecode to support for heterogenous GPGPU programming.

The situation is so bad that OpenCL 1.2 got promoted to OpenCL 3.0 and SYSCL is now backend independent, while hip only works on Linux.

As for Python, guess who is on the forefront of GPU Programming with Python,

https://www.nvidia.cn/gtc/session-catalog/?search=python

41 results, including CUDA based JIT improvements.

Meanwhile, at IWOCL & SYCLcon 2020,

https://www.iwocl.org/iwocl-2020/conference-program

2 sessions, where it is mentioned that PyFR might need OpenCL 3.0 extensions going forward.

So if competition is not able to provide, most just get to buy NVidia.
I'd posit it's the business owners who feel like they want to earn a living, not a small number of them by forcing their employees to come to work and create value for them. The vast majority of people in the US don't own a business, they work for a wage, or are living off retirement. I'd be interested to see the breakdown of people who don't support the lockdown vs the people who own a business that's been closed. I'd imagine there would be a strong corollary.
I've been on the receiving end of a similar thing (but with a gaming website), and there's a flaw with your logic: How would you contact them? The email address they used is yours, it's not like you can just send them an email, you don't have their address.
Conex ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/conex/ ) works with horizontal tabs strip but has the advantage that it can hide all tabs that don't belong to the current container.

Now, if only Firefox would improve the speed of hiding and showing tabs used for container switch.................

(btw, does anyone know of a bug report related to this improvement???)
Glad our post sparked some pretty deep discussions on the future of spark-on-k8s ! The OS community is working on several projects to help this problem. You've mentioned NFS (by Google) but there's also the possibility to use object storage. Mappers would first write to local disks, and then the shuffle data would be async moved to the cloud.

Sources:
- end of presentation https://www.slideshare.net/databricks/reliable-performance-a...
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-25299
So build your own npm?
I think we are on the same page here in many way. But the only reason that those higher end homes are still viable to build is because there aren't enough of them. Just as there aren't enough of the affordable homes.

I'd be wary of lionizing home ownership as capitalism done right, as it has led to many of California's problems. For example, rental versus condos is a weird issue here. Million-dollar home owners here deride owned-condos, at half the cost of their detached homes, as "luxury condos" only for the super wealthy as they try to block them. They see themselves as working class, but because of the incredible appreciation of property values, and their regulatory capture which has prevented building any more housing, they have become the capitalists just like the multifamily rental building owners. (And in fact many are owners of both, because buying real estate in the 60s-70s in California has been the easiest form of capitalistic gains that I know of... protected tax status, regulatory driven shortages, etc...)

We place all sorts of restrictions on new housing, but I think we should transfer all of those to existing housing as well. If somebody is against luxury condos in their neighborhood, then all remodels should have to go through just as rigorous a process. Perhaps income caps on those purchasing existing property, just as are demanded in newly built property. Otherwise, by restricting just new property in this way, we are systematically locking our younger people and immigrants from the system that provided so much wealth to the Boomers.
We need some startups in the proof of skill space as vast amounts of time and energy are used by developers providing public proof of their skills rather than actually doing work or improving their own skills.

Sure, talks and blogs can be useful, but in the same way that companies are harmed by resume driven development, there are community downsides to resume driven blogging if just that things trend towards whatever is new at the time rather than a diverse range of topics. It also is not helpful if a lot of them are geared towards impressing recruiters rather than informing.

We want tutorials by people who actually enjoy creating good tutorials.

I say this as someone who spent a couple weeks on Stack Overflow answering trivial questions after graduating so that I had more of a public profile. I would answer anything and everything easy as I wanted to get over 200 rep points (so I could say I was "ranked"). Anything challenging was skipped simply because if it took more than half an hour to answer, I might not get 200 points that day.

I knew nobody would see me as an expert due to inexperience (so nobody would really read by Stack Overflow answers), so I was trying to generate proof of enthusiasm.

That isn't desirable for the programming community as a whole as it meant that niche questions I had the answer to never got answered as I had points to earn.

EDIT: Leetcode is for passing the interview. Resumes. blogs, and tutorial writing are about getting the interview. Leetcode doesn't attempt to solve this problem.
This. It's very easy to forget about the political processes involved in making projects like this happen. Also, getting a job at a company as big as Uber in no way guarantees you'll be able to work on tech like this. You'd need to make sure you're joining a team close to this project, and if the culture of team turns out to be toxic, the fun of working on "cool" tech fades really, really fast.
Hyperdrive is part of the peer-to-peer networking stack that Beaker Browser uses for websites. Today is release day and this tech update is the first announcement.
Seems like this is their first attempt at commoditising engagement. By using ethereum, the tokens are trade-able inside an already liquid system. It also removes trust from the equation.
I've been part of r/EthTrader that is one of the subreddits that has this feature and had it for about 2 years now.

Dynamics within subreddit members got so bad that the subreddit split, and now almost all the action happens in r/EthFinance that does not have any community currency. The main deterioration was actually corruption. Because "karma" had monetary values and "karma monetary policy" could be set by admins, there was massive concentration of wealth for mods, with no incentive to change the rules.
Ha ha - I'm such a slacker. It's getting IPv6 working the way I want it at home. Currently I'm playing around with getting the DHCP server to add a AAAA record. I'm actually still using Unique Local Addresses (ULAs) addresses while I figure out how this all works.

Once I've got that I'll play around with the firewall. And then get an actual external working address. But I think I want to keep that ULA.

It's super simple stuff and I move amazingly slowly.

It's also sad compared to other people in this thread who are starting businesses and creating software that will save the world.
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My hopes exactly! I use Twitter a lot and its toxicity has been the main driver behind Debubble. Thank you for your support!