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Off topic: if possible, can you please share more details/materials about your course - COSC 493: CPU Emulation?
It's down for me too...
In many parts of the West it can hit 100F during daylight but 60F at night, thanks to ocean breezes or aridity.
I am pretty senior and remote now. I would agree that the potential for promotion has gone down a little due to lack of visibility. My strategy is to carve out a niche for myself where I can produce high value stuff that usually doesn't get done in the rush of the office but can be done because I am out of sight. I think this works for me and fits my work style but I don't see myself moving up a lot.
Learning How to Create CSS Creatures
There was someone working on LaTeX support a few years ago, but iirc it was very difficult to secure it enough to feel comfortable letting it run server-side for rendering. Source: I worked there when they were working on it.
At the moment there's essentially zero debate that having as many people work from home as possible is beneficial to the people, the environment, and the economy.

These articles are introducing FUD so that when companies start recalling employees, the opposition won't be as universal as it would be otherwise.
Sadly, DriverKit doesn't actually address all the reasons why you'd want a kernel extension.
I think I'd miss the President's tweets. But if S230 protections are significantly curtailed, his tendency to tweet off the cuff without having his facts lined up in a row would put him near the top of the chopping block to kick off the service for liability reasons.
Yeah, someone would accidentally puncture a battery and it'll burn them and then the headlines will say "Uber is dumping exploding bikes on Third World people".
I agree, but eating, sleeping, working, these kinds of things don't happen every other sunday. It's every single day. Any "work life balance" you bring to this, assuming you're in the 40+ hour/week rat race, will have to revolve around those three things, and not the other way around.

The mistake people make is thinking they can make their work life revolve around their life life. As George Carlin quipped "The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it."

So you're there, working remotely by yourself, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. It takes a special kind of left-field to equate this to being in an environment where you're surrounded by people of "your tribe", as the OP put it.
It may be unpopular to say here, but I see Node as the best option.

- Runtime comes with a package manager

- Dependencies (not just imports, but tooling) are fully manifested in a project-local file

- Installs dependencies in a project-local directory

- Can specify exact package versions if you want maximum stability

- Left-pad can't happen again due to policy changes: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/unpublish#description

- Doesn't require any build steps or extra hoops if you're fine with skipping static types

In general it just does a really great job isolating from the environment. No messing with environment variables, most things even run fine on Windows out of the box. All you need is node itself installed and you're off to the races, whether you're starting a new project or running one you checked out from github.
Canada is only ~10% of the U.S. population. I'm not sure in terms of developer numbers, but if percentages are comparable, that's a pretty small effect on the overall market.
As a workaround, sounds like you need a deterministic pseudo-random number generator.

Find a value that is unique to each server (e.g. the UUID of the / partition?) to seed your PRNG, and then generate the first pseudo-random number. If you do it right, it will always be the same number.

Modulo this number against the number of (seconds|minutes|hours) of random delay you want applied, and apply a sleep timer to the start of the job based on that result.

It's dirty, but it ensures

* each server gets its own random interval from the start time

* that random interval never changes

* the server runs the job on a regular schedule

There are probably better ways of doing this, but this is the first thing I could think of that doesn't require any crazy libraries and can be done using standard linux utils that are on all machines.

I'd love to hear any better ways that people have!
so much for high availability...

edit: I'm don't understand these swarm of downvotes?

If I was a VP/CXO of a $1.2TN company's website being down for even an hour, I would be in a fit of rage and would request a full investigation of how this happened.
I would be OK with this if Trump was banned from Twitter after this, but you know that won't happen.
> The second is aggregation and discoverability. What good is it to publish if nobody finds you? Matching what people want to read, with the content they'll like (and not turning it into a firehose) is a really hard problem which, again, open standards basically do nothing for.

Relying on a web of trust for signups makes the second problem far worse. If you're only creating a service for your friends and family it works great, if you want to expand it to the general public it is impossible. The encrypted email folks have been trying to get the web of trust to work for almost 30 years without success.
That sounds very plausible. But then, is OOP vs. FP an argument about verbosity in syntax to achive the same thing eventually?
This is really cool, but after looking at your twitter account and ROUGH.JS, so far I've been most impressed by this [0], which only had one retweet since I got to it. I'm a sucker for interesting maps.

0: https://twitter.com/preetster/status/1250862620103438336
Looks to me like the pool is stationary relative to the ship, so I would think that the pool water would slosh around. I'm not sure, though. Modern cruise ships have much fancier systems for that sort of thing.
The lower energy due to lower speeds and vehicle masses make ebike crashes far less severe than motor vehicle crashes. We have 40,000 dead a year in the US in car crashes, plus three million nonfatal injuries. I'm sure someone among your friends & family has been killed by a car crash.

This can be improved with lighter cars, lower speeds, and pedestrian safety standards, but it can also be improved by fewer VMTs by getting more road users on intrinsically-safer vehicles.
R package that varies pixel sizes to show uncertainty in geospatial maps
Agreed, but unfortunately legal liabilities create huge wastes like this. It's why grocery stores go through extensive efforts to ensure you can't recover their thrown out good that has reached it's sell by date but is still good.
Same! I knew about duckduckhack, but that it had been put in "maintenance mode" a couple years ago, but wasn't aware that DDG had started operating their own crawler. It's exciting to see--I'm hopeful they'll be able to leverage it to improve their result quality and capabilities while staying privacy-friendly.
Post-Pandemic Recruitment Strategy
https://smile.amazon.com/ is working for me.

I've got a chrome extension that redirects, so I didn't even notice the issue.
Plex launches a co-watching experience for on-demand library and personal media
4 Linux Distributions for Gaming
Even if you don't "claim" copyright, the work is still copyrighted. It is not possible to release work into the public domain prematurely.
I have been working remotely for a decade. The best way to onboard remote workers is to have regular one on ones. Weekly is easiest. Just having an open line of communication does wonders. Often people are afraid to ask for help but once they get to know people those fears dissolve.
Several things don't add up here.

> Code being copied isn't an issue.

I looked at both repos and they share no code at all.

In his article, the author claims that " If I were the patenting type, this would be the thing you would patent. ps. I don't regret not patenting anything."

That's really not how patents work, and looking at the repo, a second year CS student could do the same really. I don't see anything that could remotely be patented. It reads where to find the installer from a config file and determine what to do based on an enum.

Throughout the article the author uses the term acqui-hire but it seems Microsoft was simply considering him for a PM position (and he failed the interview). There's nothing to acquire since there's no patent, no IP and no brand. Only a registered domain and what seems like an anemic userbase, if any.

Being featured in The Verge[0] and on HN's front page will probably bring a lot more eyeballs to the startups he's trying to promote. So congratulation for the free advertising!

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/28/21272964/microsoft-winget...
I lead engineering for some of Google's developer tooling like Lighthouse. You are correct that we currently have a gap in our ability to measure subframes in the lab locally on your machine (doing so cross-origin reliably is complex), but we're looking at how we can improve this. The important bit I want to call out here is that "framehole" is a measurement gap in LH: you can currently game the score but you're only fooling yourself in the process — there is no benefit to the user experience.

Speaking of real world user experience, accounting for iframes has a number of complicated privacy and security challenges at the resolution of an individual page load. However, the good news is that the Chrome User Experience Report* aggregates anonymized data from many opted-in users and, as a result, is able to account for iframes in its measurement. Which is to say, the field data we surface in our tools (powered by CrUX) does not have this problem. We’re working to get our lab tools to align with this behavior as well.

* https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-user-experien...
I don't understand, I only see one religion (Hinduism) being discussed, how is it a discussion site for religious groups?
Indeed.

For anyone still believing a NULL dereference (or any of the other UB that is in the C spec) is just a segfault, "What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior" is still required reading:

http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...

Here's how triggering UB ends up as a vulnerability:

https://lwn.net/Articles/342330/
Product video: https://youtu.be/-JfY880Bu6c

Plex blog post: https://www.plex.tv/blog/coming-in-hot-watch-together-chill/
O(k*N) Multiplication Algorithm Based on Collatz Function
Most serious writing I do will consist of remixing the same ideas over and over again until it its practically unrecognisable. Roam is the perfect tool for making a collage of text while also keeping a reference to the primary sources.

A simple search on youtube will show you how people use block references btw.
aws.amazon.com works here while amazon.com does not, over both my home internet connection and mobile (via my carrier's LTE connection).

Which continent are you on out of curiosity?
Swift has had 3 backwards incompatible versions of larger scope in less time.
Or, worse, to prevent them from being sued for medical malpractice because one of their users tweeted medical advice without a degree, someone took it seriously, and now they're being held partially liable by the victim's estate because the drug they started taking in response to that advice exacerbated an undiagnosed heart condition.
Vehicle-Warning-Indicator-System
A deep learning and computer vision based warning indicator system for the vehicle drivers using live dash-cam footage.
There's three posts about how bad remote work is today:

https://www.wired.com/story/remote-work-perks-until-want-pro...

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/can-remo...

https://marker.medium.com/remote-workers-just-outsourced-the...

Most plausibly just coincidence, but an interesting anomaly none-the-less.
Well in my case, if I write Norwegian words, it's highly likely I want Norwegian results.

Also as mentioned, if I search for "thai restaurant" (which is written exactly the same in Norwegian as in English), the chances are very high I want a local thai restaurant in my city and not one on the other side of the planet.

Even if I enable location in DDG the search results includes a bunch of thai restaurants in Asia and the US. The map insert however is pretty spot on however, so all is not lost.
It's fine to suggest it if you have evidence, but fearmongering baseless claims is extremely dangerous. I believe they already have terms to avoid lots of dangerous language that incites hate/violence, do you disagree with those too?

I think when these platforms become mouthpieces for one way communications, like this case, they deserve criticism for what is said.
Antibody Tests Point to Lower Death Rate for the Coronavirus Than First Thought
That might change. Google are changing their search ranking metrics to include the new Core Web Vitals metrics[1]. One of those is "Cumulative Layout Shift", or how much the page changes the layout over time. Using a font that isn't performant will cause the page to render, and then to move around once the page loads, which could push your site down on Google's search results page.

[1] https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/05/evaluating-page-ex...
Yes, security/privacy. Banks are heavily regulated, and "I can't avoid them to store my data" anyway. (I do mostly use cash, much to the irritation of shops these days.) I have multiple accounts, which I manage offline without giving any third-party service access to them. The transaction data for my bank accounts is not very interesting thanks to me doing most things in cash. I don't need banks (or credit card companies), tax authorities or tax advisors to know how I spend my money, where I eat, what kind of services I enjoy.

I would however have an interest in some of what these fancy new "let us have access to your account" companies are offering. If it was simply software to use 'offline'.
The military sponsors departments of civilian universities there[1], or even whole universities, rather than individual research grants like we do here.

"Military Schools" is misleading. These 5,000 kids aren't out of Chinese West Point. If they were, China probably wouldn't let them leave.

[1]: https://www.aspi.org.au/report/china-defence-universities-tr...
This whole situation feels messy and gross but I think they’re absolutely right that Twitter has massively overstepped what would reasonably be considered moderation.

I’m reasonably mad at Twitter for this because they’ve punched a hornets nest and opened the door to making the lives of every site massively more painful and complicated because the pendulum feels like it’s about to swing the other way where any form of moderation is going to be rebranded as editorial and make the web worse overall.
I mean, if this legislation were actually to go through (which seems doubtful) Twitter would pretty much have to immediately remove Trump's account, given the libel exposure.
This is really neat. It looks like you're using google cloud's text to speech -- are you footing the bill for this, or do you have a plan to monetize?

I run ListenLater.fm, which does something similar (You add articles to a podcast feed via a bookmarklet or browser extension, then listen to them with a personalized podcast feed.) Your implementation is incredibly clean, but I'm curious what's to stop people from using it a lot and you ending up with a huge bill. One thing I'd immediately recommend you look out for is people using it to turn free online books into audio versions. This is the use case for a few of my customers, and because google charges per character, it can be difficult to make money even when charging a few dollars a month.

Good luck, and please consider shooting me a message on Twitter or via email (in my profile.)
On one hand side, provided rationale is right and I agree. If Twitter wants to play the policing game, they'd better bring out big guns and introduce a mechanism to police and fact-check entire platform.

On the other hand, and maybe its due to my lack of knowledge on the 230, how's report-and-remove of posts different? Twitter already has mechanisms to remove flagged content so how's this incident different (apart from being blatantly political).

Lastly, does anyone know if Facebook and YouTube are also protected under 230? I imagine that GOP wants to make an example of Twitter but for the sake of consistency Facebook and Youtube should get the same treatment.
My current thinking is to schedule daily 1:1s at first. As they get their feet under them, scale it back to a few times a week, then once a week.

If the onus is on the new team member to ask for help when they need it, they'll have to figure out what difficulty and quantity of questions are considered appropriate. That's pretty stressful to try to figure out remotely. Much easier for them to have a senior person looking them in the face and asking "How'd it go yesterday? What questions can I answer for you this morning?"
You always have to look at the facts and not align with a party. Maybe one party does more stuff you like but if the other party does something you want, you should support it.
Okay, but if somebody send me a death threat via FedEx, it's not FedEx's fault. How did we end up in the situation where there's even a legal precedent for companies to be liable for the things their users do? Is there a legal precedent? Does CDA 230 solve a problem that doesn't exist?
Slicing in Python always create a new object. You can test it with a list of integers..
I'm curious: What internet freedom advocates? Because the EFF seems to believes in section 230 being a generally good thing.

And back during the Christchurch shootings when there were proposed limitations to section 230 to make companies liable for hate speech on their platform, there was an uproar from the internet freedom advocates that this would result in censorship and less free speech.
Any relatively cheap (like $300) laptop is going to kick any RPi to the curb. And that gets you the display, the keyboard, the touchpad, and storage, all in the base price.

And no screwing around.
They consume less gasoline and other transportation costs which can easily add up to $4000-5000 per year.
I wonder how much design choice goes into the actual layout and controls being used on these, i.e. is it mostly physical hardware constraints that dictate the look or user interaction.

Wondering because I see a lot of symmetry in the panels, but others seem very hodgepodge
I don't think Twitter will survive without platform protection, so they'll need to change their actions.

I am curious if the courts will agree if annotating tweets with a fact check is editorializing.
PHP which tried to address unicode in version 6, but then abandoned it and went straight to 7. Perl, which amusingly also at version 6 decided on a huge re-write, but then just decided to rename the version as an actual new language "Raku".
Dirty secret...theguardian.com is located in the U.K
And subsidized is a harsh word for something that should be normal.
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This is the part I don't get. Don't these people realize that losing this protection would actually force Twitter's hand to "censor" people?
Oh my god, I had the same thought and forgot how readily this features actually exists.

I suppose I still like the idea of persisting those changes for websites I control but that's going to be way less straightforward.
This seems like the complete opposite of what "internet freedom advocates" would want, unless I'm missing some subtlety?
But the PITA is that they’re right and Twitter did a massively stupid thing and just painted a huge target on the back of every site with user generated content and moderation.
Yes, those are completely different because I do not release small functions that I compose to bigger functions as separate libraries to be pulled in by the hundreds.
I know the AWS status page is known for delayed updates but AWS itself is up. Amazon.com (retail) is what is down.
Friendly reminder that any member of Congress can write and introduce whatever bill they want to.

My reading of the prospects for actual passage of this bill are approximately a butterfly fart in a tornado.

This is most likely what is sometimes called a "message bill": legislation that is not actually expected to pass but is introduced anyway in an attempt to score political points.
The more significant question is how these online friends compare in your priority to in person life friends.

I’ve had some great online friendships as well but they always fade when in person life friends start using more of my time.

The key question for work is less whether you boss will value you and more whether if you can effectively compete with Joe Office who goes in every day for space in his mind.
Nothing wrong with foreign interests if they're not business or imperialist. We don't need new nationalist parties.
Exactly. So you aren't proposing any improvements if by your own admission, it's no more tedious.

Except that it's actually more tedious implementing your own bootleg object. Then managing the scope, namespace and pointers. When they could all be contained inside a language construct guaranteed to follow the rules.
What makes you say Twitter “massively overstepped what would reasonably be considered moderation”?
These are people who signed up to use your app and most likely gave you permission to email them.
Except unlike a REPL, all your code is still there so that you eventually find yourself in an unreproducible state that on the surface looks reproducible. Referencing variables that don't exist in the notebook (only to be caught when run by someone else), cells that need to be executed out of order, etc. The problems go on and on. People sometimes go days or weeks without restarting their notebook and the amount of "shadow" state is remarkable.

I think notebooks are useful (though only for exploratory analysis), but there has to be a better way.
I worry that what Trump wants is something far more "Godfather": for Jack Dorsey to sit down and be given an offer he can't refuse.

Dorsey gets told "We'll call this all off, say that we've decided not to interfere with free speech, but from now on you never contradict the president, you never contradict any Republican leader, and you start posting fact-checks more often on Democrats". That's the Trump strategy, typically. Deals. Always making deals.

And Dorsey knows he has to play the game, because his major shareholders will all be quietly informed that the deal was out there, and he didn't take it. He'd lose his job if he didn't agree. And if he goes public, Trump can say "I sat down with the man and tried to work out a fair deal, but he refused!", playing the victim.

Donald Trump is not a brilliant man, but he is very, very good at this game because he does not let ethics, norms, or laws get in his way.
So what would you call this style? Relaypunk?
Twitter would have to immediately remove just about every account on the platform other than disney.
For what it’s worth, here’s a very simplistic/comparatively incomplete attempt at something like that from Cognitect (the Clojure/Datomic folks) a while back:

https://github.com/cognitect-labs/transcriptor
> Use a good fallback list so each platform gets a good option. Specifying custom fonts is largely a waste of bandwidth for a very marginal improvement in aesthetic.

If you're content with mediocrity, sure. But if you value your brand you will want the fonts to send the message that you want to be associated with your brand. Also, you'll probably want them to be in line with the rest of the design.
> Get Twitter to ban Trump and now you have a lot of red meat for his fervent fanbase.

I don't think Trump has completely thought this through. Twitter is how he communicates with his base. What would he use instead?
So long as these things are allowed to be left out of proper stands then destruction is the best thing for them. Does seem a terrible waste though.