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My wife is a primary school teacher in Scotland and she has simply been doing maths and english each day with my kids during lockdown. She thinks focus on the basics - and not worry about the other stuff
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> Are you saying that the identity "genderfluid" is invalid, and one must pick one of the binary genders to identify with?

Not at all. I think you've just misunderstood what gender fluidity is.

Gender fluid is a class of non-binary gender expression. Non-binary is a spectrum of gender identities. Gender fluidity by definition is the ability to fluidly transition between different gender identities.

Gender identity is itself a personal sense and how you sense your gender can change if you are gender fluid.

So I ask again:

> Are gender fluid people considered under this definition?

And now I have a few more questions:

Are you willing to admit your previous statements can marginalize people and strip them of their identity? Are you willing to accept that your previous statements are, in fact, hate speech according to the social morays of our time? Should your innocent mistake be removed from the internet for fear of harming a gender fluid person?
It's less about the specific content, and more about continuing to push something without good science behind it.

For example: I think X is true, I cherry pick data to back up X and publish a book on it. This book gets a lot of attention and is good for my career, but it's based on bad science and misleads people. This is a theory I identify myself with along with my success and my own career, if its ideas are invalidated that reflects negatively on me and my abilities (and potentially the ability to support myself). There's an incentive to rationalize or continue pushing the bad science which slows down figuring out what's really true. This has happened a ton of times throughout history.

In this specific situation the benign case is people sleep more and it doesn't matter (or it helps), in the pathological case people are anxious about their lack of sleep and it negatively effects their life or they sleep more than they personally need and it turns out over-sleeping is co-morbid with depression and causes other issues.

In the general case popularizing bad science has knock on effects that make it harder for people to get funding to study ideas the contradict the popular, but incorrect zeitgeist of what's commonly thought to be 'true'. It can also lead people down rabbit holes that can take a long time to crawl out of and make it take longer for people to understand what is actually true.

You can't just hand wave this away by saying "I know X is true, therefore it doesn't matter if the data is a little problematic. X is true and it's good for people to know that". A lot of times X turns out not to be true, not to be entirely true, etc.
That’s exactly what I wrote.
I've heard that Intels idle at lower power. Ryzens do not go below 18W, but Intels, even ancient Sandy Bridges idle at 5W. Not sure if it is true though.
There isn't much literature on it (Dutch spying activities), but the little there is might convince you.

A fun exercise is applying with the AIVD or NFI (involved in spying on home soil). You may meet someone who can tell you some good war stories. Of course, you'll be bound not to speak of it outside company walls ;)
absolutely -- with everything else for 7.0 that did not make the cut. But would love to work more with your frankly amazing library :)
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who's a super successful normal person then? I nominate Henry Ford, for no particular reason.

I sort of think people will find something abnormal about any super successful person, a great success implies greatness and strangeness beyond the success.
The info about layoffs leaked about 3 weeks ago, which was messed up.

Overall though the severence is healthy, so I'll be plenty ok while I find another gig.
You imply that what makes you happy makes others happy.

A programmer who obsessively programms random side projects in his spare time is completely engaged with them and likes to do that because he enjoys it on some level.

So if you think that this is worse than watching netflix or wasting time with mundant social interactions...well...I guess that doesn't make you bad.

You're just average.
It's too bad browsers don't have an easy way to print to browser-page-sized PDF. Standard 8.5x11/A4 paper sized PDFs of webpages tend to look pretty terrible.

I used to use the Scrapbook plugin for Firefox but I realized for the most part just plaintext might be best. So I'm in the process of setting up a workflow that will save article in markdown in one click and sync between my phone and my computer.
I suppose it could be false advertising to say you support a standard but only in a way that's meaningful to your software? As a 3rd party developer, it's hard to demand another company build something into their API, based on standards or otherwise. The best you can do is throw around your market share and lean on your mutual unhappy customers to make it happen.
I remember when everyone (basically all Nokia fans) was attacking the original iPhone for "only" having a 2MP camera, when the Nokias of the day had 3MP, or even 5MP cameras. Or that it only had 2G support.

That turned out to be a pretty myopic view in the end in terms of declaring a phone a winner or loser.
You'd think so but that's at least not the impression I've gotten. At Google that's certainly going to be the case but at a company like Uber/Lyft/Airbnb the bloat ends up largely arising due to managerial bloat (managers want to grow their org to make themselves seem more important) and low technical standards for higher level ICs (which results in far more resources used to accomplish each project).
Yeah severance is pretty good. I'll try to get a gig quick and then push off the start date a bit.
Even in this market whereby consumers must order food via apps, none of the food delivery companies are profitable from my understanding.

Can anyone explain how this works/how this came to be?
A unicorn with wings is an Alicorn, thank you very much.
I only speak for myself and my own observations - both morale and productivity have been low the past 2 weeks.
That... doesn't work. The games which were released for the N64 were all designed to run within the limits of the hardware. Adding more memory later wouldn't give existing games higher resolution textures.

Plus, adding more texture memory would have meant respinning the RCP silicon. That would have been a significant expense for marginal returns.

Besides, Nintendo had already sold a memory upgrade in the form of the Expansion Pak. A second memory upgrade which couldn't even be installed into existing consoles would have been a very difficult sell, and could have soured customers on their future consoles. ("Why buy a Game Cube when they'll just release a Game Cube Plus next year?")
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Focusing in a small area is a good idea. I currently would like my area of expertise to be Python and the tools/frameworks related to it (e.g. Django).

Part of me has an unrealistic notion of what true expertise is, I think. Because I want to have expert-level knowledge in so many different technologies, but I know there’s not enough time to do that.

I will figure out how to prioritize my learning so I can figure out what’s worth the time and what else is simply grok-worthy. Thanks for your advice!
What in the world did Uber ever need that many people for?
If I understand correctly, they are killing exec in app homedir. I assume they would block exec in the sdcard too then. If that's the case, what's the workaround for installing and running things through termux's apt get?
I have a Grafana dashboard set up for all of my power/hvac/internet infrastructure (I live off grid) and it's an amazing tool. I'm excited to try out some of the new features. Without Grafana I wouldn't have been able to diagnose a charge issue my solar controller has on partially cloudy days. Very grateful to the devs, thank you all for the hard work.
There are other schedules on that site that are far tamer, such as Everyman 1: sleep 6 hours at night, one 20-min nap during the day, which you could do on a lunch break. The fact that many think polyphasic sleep is only Uberman or other nap-based schedules is disappointing to see. There are whole gradations from 9 hours (two 4.5 hour sleeps, not necessarily reduction of total sleep time, but it gives better sleep for some) to Uberman or Tesla (~2 hour total sleep time), which by the way is not known to be stable over a longer time period, a fact that the polyphasic community willingly accepts.

It is particularly disappointing to see because, just as you say, I'd also like to see more research on sleep and perhaps synthesizing its effects into a compound, but if people dismiss these alternate sleep schedules, we may not fully understand what the brain is doing during sleep, as fewer researchers are incentivized to study it, thinking it's just BS, which hurts the field overall.
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It will be impossible to distribute the app targeting 28 in the near future.

Targeting 29, the only replacement for apt get that they could come up with is to stuff Linux binaries into 100s of apps and upload those apps to the play store. I am not sure this is usable anymore. You might want to read this:

https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/1072#issuecommen...
Makes you wonder how these companies ever planned to last during the "next" economic downturn. I don't think anyone bet on a global pandemic causing this shock but the point still stands: These kind of companies were still burning cash at incredible rates 10+ years in. How were they ever going to survive?
Don't overgeneralize: The page you linked explicitly lays it out. Corruption Perceptions Index. Each word is important. In addition, think tanks have biases and TI is no exception. Do you think that the "experts and business people" they interview to calculate CPI have interests which may align more or less with different nations?

In any case, I opened by admitting my perception of the United States is as a more transparent actor than China. Still doesn't make a dichotomy.
Is it now possible to create a horizontal lined based on a single value (either a fixed or a computed number)?

For example when I'm tracking the power grid frequency, I would like to add two lines at 50.05 and 49.95 Hz, as well as one at 50 Hz (with different color).

Others have voiced their desire to display a horizontal line at the 95th percentile in a bandwidth usage graph.
That's more of a failure for the ux and product vision than it is a failure of project management. The trick isn't to just roll out new changes slowly, but to involve the users and figure out what needs to change and how.
Maybe so, but a better comment would explain why. Otherwise it just reads as a sort of "nuh-uh", which goes against the HN guideline against shallow dismissals:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I remember hearing Drew on some podcast talking about this. It's great to actually see the original post. Thank you for your submission!
All manufacturers do this indeed. The “good” data is in the private fields that can only be read by the manufacturer’s proprietary software. The fields that are open for everyone usually have a lower quality version of the actual data. The latter is usually good enough for a small preview, but not good enough for proper diagnostic usage.
Which part of that statement are you referring to? The rules are the First Amendment, stated here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23224929

The fact that hate speech is subjective is evidenced by my questions which examine just how loose and vague the definitions are. There still is no clear answer on what hate speech is, beyond the 1st Amendment which I think is good enough.

If you mean something else, then please state what it is that's unsubstantiated.
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More details:

https://community.worldbrain.io/t/data-sovereignty-and-priva...

https://medium.com/bettersharing/steward-ownership-is-capita...

edit: corrected 1st link
Yeah, this sounds like a slightly more demented, self help-ey version of Outliers. The actual bullet points here are less weird than than "be abnormal", they're more pretty standard entrepreneur-oriented self help fare.
The demo is nice and clean. How does this compare to Kurento, or Janus?

Edit : I see Kurento is now assumed dead thanks to Twilio buying them, and I understand Janus doesn't provide any client libraries.
I didn't get around to checking out your product yet, but from your comment and the guide you linked it doesn't sound like you've actually solved any of these pain points in a meaningful way.

It would be REALLY COOL to have a one- (or even few-) click IDE integration to attach-debugger-to-instance-deployed-in-Okteto. If you had that, I would already be pitching your product to our head of engineering and asking our head of security to expedite due diligence.

edit: put another way, the pain points you DO currently solve for are ones I don't currently have, because I'm already mostly avoiding them by not running my dev instances in Kubernetes unless I really need to.
... that doesn't work in Safari or iOS, or non-Chrome Android browsers yet.
With a cherry picked sample of one, you can prove anything.
I certainly know about some developers that would increase software quality by exploding...
There's no requirement to disclose during an interview, but most people I know depended on their time in the reserves/active duty pretty heavily on their resume, so I'd guess it was pretty rare for an employer to not know or at least suspect.

Also they have have leave to train for 2 weeks per year, so the employer would need to know at some point.

As for chances of being deployed, in the last decade it was probably a good bit higher than the chance that a reproductive age woman gets pregnant for a given time period.

They can also end up deployed for longer than most countries paid maternity leave lasts.
Wouldn't be the first app that runs into issues with Google's benevolent inclusion of their code in the Google store. I'm sure F-Droid will continue to deliver Termux, especially for the specific Termux audience.
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I see there’s a lot of court cases listed in that Wikipedia entry so it seems like it'll have to be decided by a judge on what is considered free speech or not, because language by nature is vague and can interpreted in many different ways.

So there is no such thing completely “free” speech if there are constraints.
When I was an intern at Google maaaany years ago, a mentor of mine described what it is Google does with all these engineers:

"Well see, we discovered a hose that money pours out of. It's called 'online advertising'. Now what we do is spend half our effort trying to make the hose pour faster, and the other half trying to find another hose."

Uber figured out the 'Uber for X' pattern. Now they're trying to optimize it, and figure out something else that makes money.
Reader View is the solution to the A4- problem, imho. But I honestly don't mind the rendering issue - this is just a reference repository, after all. If I really need the cleaner page, I either Reader-View it beforehand, or just open it up on the Web again - links are preserved in PDF.
The PSX only had D-pad style controls at release in 1995 -- no joysticks! The Dual Analog controller wasn't released until 1997.

(I think you're getting distracted by the terms "digital" and "analog". It may help to think about this in terms of discrete and continuous inputs instead.)
I don't want to sound racist, but your last sentence is something that struck me as something oddly european/american. At least in Asia it is just normal to take a nap somewhere for 30 minutes or so. Just imagine what you could've achieved if napping wasn't a problem :-)

I'm european but I really like the asian culture where napping is in general socially acceptable.
Oof, might want to have your eyes check. 4K is perfect to that crispy text.
So... On a thread that is about monopoly power, you are arguing that all of media publishing transition to a payments monopoly?

Interesting...
All: please don't miss that there are multiple pages of comments. Unfortunately the two top subthreads have become so large that they fill out the first page entirely. You have to click 'More' at the bottom to see the rest (there are almost 1000 at this point).
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"While reading a post on hacker news, a Softbank earnings call presentation caused me to google the difference between a unicorn and a Pegasus" is just one of those sentences that sounds Insane in prior to 2020.
Someone should tell the MMT people that
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> It's just a rephrasing of the theory that Google is acting like a publisher (information content provider) not a platform (interactive computer service),

You are creating a test for platform vs. publisher that is not in the law. The law as linked does not even prohibit the censorship of political opinions, and in fact states that internet service providers may block constitutionally protected speech. It may be intended to free the Internet up for political discourse, but that doesn’t mean we get to totally ignore the text of the law and make up what we think it should be doing.

> The law was not intended to protect a near monopoly throwing its weight around

It wasn’t intended to do that, but that’s what it does. You don’t get to ignore the text of the law because you think it’s not acting the way you want it to. Legal systems work off the text of the laws, not what you think they should be doing.

Also, there are damn good reasons why I advise caution in these areas; unintended consequences are the norm and not the exception here. Section 230 wasn’t designed to protect monopolies, why do you think that trying to make Google “fair” wouldn’t have other unintended consequences?

Besides, if your problem with Google is that they’re a monopoly, why not use anti-monopoly laws? You can target Google specifically with those without the risk of putting all internet speech under the jurisdiction of the courts.

> And if that interpretation did somehow give the government the power to decide what is and what is not protected, that would still be an improvement

It might feel cathartic to use the power of government to force Google to do what you feel is expedient right now, but it’s something we’ll all come to regret. Understand that the nature of democracies is that people you disagree with will one day wield power, giving them the ability to control speech on the Internet is not a wise long term strategy.
You can diff Unix configs with... diff

I don't think it's ever advisible to tar -xf- -C / to fix a minor config issue. Just extract in tmp and diff -aru etc /etc
> EDIT: Seeing the command-line you're using, the search you do is over the files' names, correct? The PDF/(original web page) text content is not indexed, right? Just to make sure I understand correctly.

pdftotext gets the actual text from the PDF. I don't do this, but I'm sure that you could automate the process of generating a text file for each PDF in a directory with pdftotext and then ripgrep the text files when it's time to search the contents. That would be doable with a makefile or a couple of shell scripts.
no.
just because soldered on ram is bad doesn't mean that bad code is ok.
Food is a business with skinny skinny margins (source, worked on a startup which provided services to food businesses, family members own food businesses).

Delivery companies are fighting for a piece of that market which isn't full of margin, so they're having to fight for it. Plus they're in a landgrab, so choosing growth over profits.
There were economists in the middle ages. Ibn Khaldun, Maimonides.... Even before then. I believe Rome hanged (or crucified maybe) a whole generation of them during the crisis of the third century.
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> In most fields, our society relies on private industry to generate quality work ...

This is just not true. Military, police, courts? What does "most fields" even mean?
I just built it from sources because of the same reason. What are the issues on your side?
What is it with Go's love of code generation? Everything from protocol implementations to database connections seems to generate a large wad of Go code. Is it just to workaround the lack of Generics?
Have you tried lucid dreaming? I’ve been a lucid dreamer since I was a kid but I didn’t know what it was called and I thought that’s how everyone’s dreams work. Somewhere along the way in law school I started using my dreams to study. I’d slow-walk through hypothetical fact patterns or anticipate getting cold-called to recite a case we’d read. It’s been incredibly helpful and once I realized my classmates had no idea wtf I meant by “I literally study in my dreams” I found all sorts of groups online who have different techniques you can try.

I still use lucid dreaming for all sorts of things like practicing for presentations or running through meetings that I know will be difficult. I’ve found its most useful (for me at least) when prepping for interactive or adversarial situations because it forces some part of the brain to “be” both sides: the question asker and answerer.
I follow some Brazilian YouTubers who are referring to the covid-19 as "Voldemort".
Someone already replied but I should add that most if not all config parameters can be passed to the container through env variables.
From what I can read, the use of Sailfish is only allowed in certain EU countries. Why is that? Their site does not address this.
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> find terrifying stories to be interesting lead otherwise boring and risk-free lives

Or maybe our lives are not as boring and risk-free as we would like to think and our collective unconciouses draw us to these stories in order to process the dangers our egos pefer to avoid.

I mean, even if no external danger existed, there are the perennial existential dangers of living a meaningless and empty life. Zombies come up a lot as the symbol of mindless mass action, looking for brains (wisdom?) in life. I don’t want this to come across as criticism of the lifestyle you painted but merely as a thought experiment to entertain; when you drive a safe car everyday between home and work, and write code for purposes that other people scoped out for you, and you know there are many others doing the same, maybe there is already a bit of zombie action going on to begin with and that is why the zombie flick is interesting?

Which is not to say these are the only dangers. I mean right now we are in the middle of a pandemic, which doesn’t get much more biblical than that. I believe those terrifying stories has helped us do serious information processing and in turn created an adaptive evolutionary advantage in preparing for these eventualities.
I don't know if you can call it an agenda but I think there's something like a 'wellness' or moderation bias in these fields. The idea that you need to balance out hard work, slow down, and so on.

For example, as it turns out there is little evidence that stretching actually does anything, yet a lot of experts used to recommend it for decades. Same with nutrition, 'balanced diets', workouts at low heart rates and so on.
Of course there’s no “perfect information” (why quote something I didn’t say?), just available information.

The sentiment is that arbitrage opportunities are rare and typically disappear before they can be exploited. Again, no one would claim that they don’t exist period — that’s the whole reason the joke is funny.

Honestly, if you look around and see “unexploited arbitrage” then you should be wealthy. I don’t personally see many $100 bills as I walk around, to use the metaphor from the joke.