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Hum, I think both of you provide a good point. Ultimately though, I have to agree with snowwrestler, public policy often needs to make a decision with incomplete information. There's probably a middle ground here, I'd say having 70% of the information, something like that.

Otherwise, it is too slow to act to prevent future problems.

In that regard, I feel it's best paralleled with business. Business decisions are often made with incomplete information, to get a competitive advantage. But you always need to weigh the risk/reward potential.

Feel it's the same for public policy. Depending on the potential risk of a particular policy, pitched against the level of confidence in the information that supports it, and you can arrive at a decision. I don't think it make sense to say, always wait for the confidence level to be approaching 100%. You've got to take calculated risks sometimes.
Well, the following seems fairly harsh to me, and I would recommend rephrasing it:

> IMO few categories of professions have a harder time understanding cutting-edge science than engineers. That is because they think they know science because they use similar mathematical and technical tools, when in fact the professions do the exact opposite of one another.

The wording "few categories" in particular seems hyperbolic. I think many non-STEM folks would have a much harder time understanding science than engineers.
The action that the recent change to Firefox made harder is not any the actions you just described how to do, but placing the cursor at a point _within_ the URL. The recent change made it require a click to select the whole URL, a pause, and another click to place the cursor, instead of just a place to place the cursor.

I used to place the cursor inside the URL a lot and was disappointed when that action got slower. I was all set to give an example of why it’s bad, but right now, I’m actually having trouble thinking of such an example. I used to place the cursor inside a URL and then hit Shift-Command-Right to select the text after that, but I’ve just realized that clicking inside the URL and then dragging the mouse down is even faster. And I used to place the cursor near a section of the URL and use the keyboard to select and delete it, but double-clicking and dragging seems to take a similar amount of time in the examples I can think of.

Hmm… okay, I’ve thought of a good use-case for placing the cursor inside the URL: adding a subdomain. If I’m developing http://example.com/foo and want to go to the staging server http://staging.example.com/foo, I used to be able to click before “example” and type “staging.”. Now that requires two clicks and a pause, and the selection shortcuts above don’t help.
The far left and their rejection of what tradition? America's time-honored tradition of murdering black people?
Then disable it in the Settings => Home.
Justified? No. I agree there's a chance—a very very slim one—that they had information that would make me think their show of force was reasonable. But AFAIK, they didn't supply it. They didn't justify their actions to the general public or to any oversight agency, either ahead of time (understandable) or after the fact (less so), and nothing compels them to do so. They can execute the warrants as they see fit, using basically whatever ex-military hardware they like, without explaining themselves to anyone.

I further believe that this lack of justification is routine. Even if there was a good reason, that do this routinely without being either compelled or persuaded to supply it is by itself evidence our police are militarized.

American police collectively lost a lot of trust and authority. Obviously the most significant aspect is actually murdering people like George Floyd in plain sight while wearing a badge. But dangerous stunts like this are a contributor as well. Do they want to regain our trust?
Because I'm really not THAT smart, nor are most people (IQ standard distribution).

I think there have been studies and books done about successful people (can't remember the authors). The book basically said that luck is the main influence. There are plenty of smart people who aren't rich and certainly some average people who are. I want to say the experts consider luck to be less than 10% of the success formula.
Do you have a reading comprehension disability? I am pretty sure I did not say they should have killed him.
You're right in general, but most nixos modules have an `extraConfig` field where you can put whatever you want.
There was a video on YouTube (in russian) where lead developer from MCST confess that they were unable to use this technology in practice. The entire software stack should be ported to strictly eliminate any usage of pointer magic in every place. They poured years on this and only succeed on porting libc and few small base libraries.
People want a permissionless (like bitcoin) name service, and they also don't want good names / trademarks to be squatted.

However, between these two you can only pick one. You can't solve squatting problem without some kind of authority over issued names.
Would this drive more people towards censorship resistant networks like I2P and see the rise of more piracy?
Yep, that's nixops, although it's a command-line application.
> Debian ssh key vulnerability was among the worst vulnerabilities ever seen in general-purpose computing

interesting, I wasn't aware of the history of this vulnerability. For anyone else curious, here's an analysis of what happened:
https://research.swtch.com/openssl
I admit I'm annoyed by adults who don't finish their plate in self serve situations (like some office cafeterias). If they didn't want that much food, why did they take it? I guess it's not that much food waste, but it seems like a tragedy of the commons waiting to happen when the food is marginally free.
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>No, it's an affirmative choice to not impose a public policy on everyone based on what we think we know right now.

You're either misunderstanding his point or misunderstanding reality.

Our public policy today endorses (and heavily subsidizes) the burning of carbon on a scale never before tested.

Why should the default position be to subsidize this as opposed to alternative means?

Or are you arguing that we should be agnostic about the science and thus stop burning all carbon immediately (i.e., returning to a scientifically validated state in the past where we didn't burn carbon)?

>You have this backwards. Claimed knowledge doesn't get to be assumed to be right until it's shown to be wrong.

I'm guessing you have it backwards but I'll let you explain. Which knowledge do you think we are claiming that we shouldn't assume to be right? Give a concrete example and we can discuss. If you think we can "assume its safe to burn obscene amounts of carbon" without any evidence of that safety, then you are the one who has it backwards.

You can't make a public policy that is agnostic to the science of burning of fossil fuels at current levels. It's clearly unsustainable, but let's set that aside. If you want to argue it's sustainable and should continue, you would still need to rely on (nonexistent) science to make your case. It's not an argument to say "this is how we done things for a long time so this way doesn't need to be supported by science." That's illogical.
Sentry provides local stack traces but not data which is hard to reproduce in dev
Me either, but maybe it's a description from the other side than what you are assuming.
Another vote for Parallel but I also wanted to mention using Redis for its atomic operations. It's very straight forward to push a list of things to do onto a redis queue and then have your scripts run via parallel pop one piece of work and then push the work item to either a success or failure queue.

Unfortunately I no longer have a working example but as I recall it wasn't difficult to keep n number of scripts running and popping entries until the queue emptied.
Simple fast ️ and small (500 bytes) global state management for React
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We were frustrated that the current solutions could often only be used from React or have too complicated APIs. We wanted a lightweight solution with a smart API that can also be used outside React components.
The onus to supply verification is on the person making the claim.

Hitchen's razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Wood floats and so do ducks. So logically if the dord of the duck equals the dord of the girl then the girl must be a witch. `checks dords of both duck and girl`. "She's a witch!" -- excerpt from "A More Scientific Guide to Witch Hunts".
Please explain what the police is doing to curtail police violence.
Aren't a lot of private security guards just off duty officers?
As someone who watches Trudeau every morning, I see this as his normal mannerism. Sometimes when he translates his thoughts (he has to say most things in both French and English) he does the same thing, although for a much shorter duration. This was a bigger question, and one which he had to answer with his usual tact and mindfulness in both languages.

He is always extremely careful with his words, and doesn't really hide it when he is calculating his responses. The benefit of course is that he very seldom speaks out of character or says things he didn't quite mean. Sometimes it backfires if he translates from French to English first, causing him to come up with great phrases like "speaking moistly" when describing ways Covid-19 can spread.

People used to make fun of his continuous "uh," but when you realize he grew up in and around Quebec, that speech pattern makes sense as well. Quebec French has a really specific sort of "errr" (my spelling does it no justice) where English speakers would say "um" or "ah". He uses a sort of anglicized version of that sound because it is the norm where he grew up.

Literally a lot of things in his mannerisms that people joke about or point out as odd in some way come from Quebec. And others are because he does the full translation in his head before speaking.

The 21 second pause is, for him, only unusual because of the duration. It would be interesting to capture the thought process he was going through before breaking trance to speak. It clearly was an answer he had difficulties putting together in both languages while retaining his signature tact.
Why don't you ask the same thing of the person who made the original claim?
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> They said the money gets forfeited to LOC, not recoverable.

That was not explicitly stated, and the more reasonable interpretation is that the money would be considered as part of the legal fees for the action culminating in the lawsuit, and would therefore be eligible for recovery absent specific legal provisions excluding that possibility.

> People would just file lawsuits instead of sending notices at all.

The DMCA notice procedure would continue to serve the original purpose of serving as an expedited way to get infringing content removed, thereby limiting the damage done while waiting for room on the court's docket. And in cases where the infringer knows they're guilty and doesn't want to contest the takedown, a court would still not have to get involved (except perhaps for being part of the escrow system, but that doesn't waste the judge's time).
Both Swift's are different. I was aware of potential confusion which is why I did not use Swift in the title and mention explicitly in the blog that this is not Apple Swift. Fun story: Apple contacted Swift/T team before launching Apple Swift and made a mention of it in their page.
I haven't done the work to sign up at Broadcastify, but if you're in Durham NC and want to listen hit http://home.tinfig.com:9999 with VLC (or mplayer or whatever you like).

It's an HTTP+Ogg+Opus stream from my BCD536HP. It's scanning the local P25 trunked radio system (Durham police, fire, EMS, ops, etc.).

P.S. As I write this I'm hearing chatter about responding to an airplane crash... no more details yet.
Please see the rules at the top of the thread. Of course companies should answer applicants, but this thread is no place to litigate individual cases about that.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23384719.
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I think you underestimate how far down the road towards totalitarianism you have travelled in the last 20-30 years. There's nothing I can see that suggests you have a threshold which will spur change. Your voting systems are being more actively rigged than ever before to ensure the people most angry about police brutality will be most likely to be disenfranchised in November.
It works for me now. Thanks for a quick reply!
I just love how everyone hates cops and talks about how every single one of them is worthless yet they expects them to save their store from being looted.

You decided you were better off without me, fine, save your own store.
> an idea of a UK/Canada-type cop

It's a pet peeve of mine when people on social media mischaracterize Canada.

We have shootouts in broad daylight in downtown Toronto on a fairly regular basis. All of our cops have guns and are trained to use them. We have 35 legal guns per 100 population and that doesn't account for the illegal handguns from the US which account for almost all of the gun crime.

Canada and the UK are nothing alike in gun crime.
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The looters take advantage of the chaos apparently willingly and knowingly created by the police.

I'd say holding the protestors responsible for it is a bit missleading.
Someone made the explicit decision to break in the middle of words without hyphenation. Very strange. Or, they reused something without any idea what it did.
You end up paying one way or the other. You either pay it upfront, or you pay it through social unrest, heavy militarization, boarded ups stores, 100K dead in 2 months, and society on the brink
Saying UBI is causing the inflation is disingenuous. It's the deficits that cause inflation. If UBI is fully paid for with new taxes, it won't cause inflation.
Oof. Next time you need to renew, check the links from the msft authenticode dev website for ev certs. A couple providers are much less than $1500/yr.

Also, when I got my renewal bill for something like $1500/yr for PhotoStructure, I sent an email to their support asking to continue the low original fee, and they agreed.
Tell that to Rudy and the MTG finance goons.
Last time I used the OS disabling updates just didn't work reliably, at least not with a clear and simple setting(let's be honest, this helping link you posted should not need to exist). Deferring updates will only work for some time, until Windows 10 will just update it without warning the next time you wake it up from suspend, resetting your session with multiple reboots. This behaviour alone is inexcusable, no matter how the settings look.

Automatic updates are unacceptable for me, and that's not because I don't do updates(quite the opposite), it's just that I expect the behaviour to be predictable without nasty surprises, and with Windows 10 that became a gamble. I never knew if an update could suddenly run without my permission and wreck the OS(which happened multiple times to me, leading to some stressful weekends).

Maybe not everyone shares that opinion, but I rarely get annoyed by something more than software that tries to be smarter than the user, and automatic updates are just one part of that.
The US CLOUD Act was designed specifically to enable US gov agencies to access that information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

So, don't use EC2 or stuff hosted by other US companies for things to you want to keep private from the US gov.

Also note the US gov shares intelligence with other countries, as mentioned by a sibling post.
Pusher bumpers are just standard, and have been forever. A friend got accidentally rear-ended by a cop, no damage thanks to the pusher.

The police need to push cars to the side of the road on, I'd venture, a daily basis.
"Slaves, obey your earthly masters" (Ephesians 6:5 and Colossians 3:22) (the easiest one to grep for, since I remember the exact phrasing). Doesn't sound very superseded to me, and Christians continued supporting that right up until the South lost the Civil War (and a fair bit past that in other places) and slavery became politically impractical to defend. So it wasn't a case of a misquotation (by two different sources? really?) being corrected; it was a case of explicitly heretical values being forced on the church at (rather close to literal) gunpoint.

As someone more eloquent than me put it: Christianity had it's chance to rule the world; we call it the Dark Ages for good reason.
Is this really remote?

I clicked apply and saw this (https://matrix-ai.breezy.hr/p/f78418736379-software-engineer...):
Candidates who do not live in Australia and cannot work onsite in Sydney will not be eligible for this application.
Sadly, people misunderstand this basic reasoning and think it applies the other way too: if something offers a low return, then it must be safe. Thousands of retail investors in Italy lost all their money in high-risk bonds sold by their banks which offered a low yield.
https://www.reuters.com/article/italy-banks-bonds-idUSL8N149...
I think functional languages are a good fit for the problem though. Given some input, compute a static build plan. It's very rare that you need to do imperative-style computation for that. What I think Nix really needs is some kind of static typing, because right now if you make a type error the error might appear in a completely random location, making it difficult to debug.
I can’t respond to your earlier comment: but people aren’t saying he’s a saint; they’re making him a martyr of sorts. He died from police brutality, and instead of trying to fix that (over the past few decades), the police and President have waged civil war.
Are you sure? Receipt checking cannot be forced. I'm surprised corporate would allow that, since they know they can't force the issue so they cannot stop shoplifters.
>Look at another recent Tweet of his: "STRENGTH!" in response to someone else's Tweet. That other Tweet was from some QAnon conspiracy theorist referencing a QAnon thing about how Trump and military will soon be arresting and imprisoning or executing Democrats. QAnon follows took Trump's Tweet as confirming that this was going to start soon.

Can you clarify what you mean? Are you saying Trump retweeted a call to imprison and execute democrats, because I looked into this and it looks to me like that was not at all the case.

On the face of it, it looks to be an inspirational Ronald Regan quote.

https://twitter.com/joep1776/status/1267222813334663169/phot...
Been working on a VR dataviz application at work that can run on the Quest. Started in Jan. Got a few weird looks from top management. Covid-19 happened, WFH a thing, top management now interested in new methods of collaboration and wanta demo.
I do not agree at least not where I am. I am in Reno Nevada and I witnessed a kid with a skateboard break out the back window of a police car that had 2 police inside the car at the time and the police did nothing, the kid (i say kid but early 20's) walked away after without being arrested, pepper-sprayed, or anything. What I witnessed was a peaceful protest that started mid-morning and did not turn violent until 6 pm when some non-local possibly Antifa idiots ran up to city hall with a baseball bat and started breaking out windows of the building, then a follow the herd mentality took over and people cheering them on and before you know it its a full-blown riot. They even spray painted up the police station and the police did nothing. It was not until the destruction of property at city hall that the heavy police presence showed up but even then most of them were just standing around city hall. They fired some tear gas to push people back and out of the downtown area. I was disappointed at our police and their lackadaisical approach to handling the unrest. So, its neither the protesters nor the police inciting the violence it is these non-local wannabe thugs like Antifa starting it. Someone needs to investigate George Soros for having these people on his payroll to go out and do this very thing.
Privacy issues as in "I'm in the middle of my shift and need to use the restroom, but can't shut off the always-on recording" is a common example.
Agreed, working for Facebook and Zuckerberg are now morally unjustifiable, I urge employees there to consider quitting.

Please follow in the footsteps of this brave soul who recently quit [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/OwenResistor/status/1267568422327447552

EDIT: HNers flagging this post are complicit in this injustice. Your silence and inaction makes Facebook carry
on as usual.

This is the reason why JWZ hates this site.
Who makes any salary on 50 year old software licenses? I expect most people's salary comes from software that was written in the last 10 years max.
The journalists are clipping context out of video that they are broadcasting.

The pink umbrella bit was clipped out of the riot started by police in Seattle on Monday - instead the news agencies started showing footage after pepper spray was deployed.

In Canada, the CBC cut a video right before a police van physically drove its way through a crowd. [1] Anyone else doing that would be described as vehicular assault, possibly attempted manslaughter.

The press isn't holding the police accountable for any of this. It's pushing a narrative that "The appropriate amount of force was used against rioters", without showing the inappropriate use of force that started the riot.

[1] https://twitter.com/_llebrun/status/1267209166545981445?s=20...
This can't be generalised but in many cases it did help me for CPU-bound tasks.

Obviously there are cases where parallelisation is very superfluous. F.ex. if you have 1000 records of something, splitting the work of processing those (and we're talking really light processing like JSON encoding) among 4-8 threads is actually detrimental to performance.
> The issue is "are the recipients spending the money well"? Are they saving, and using the money to advance themselves, and budgeting? Or is it all going to "waste" and doing nothing productive?

Even just spending it on better food, better clothes, or going to the movies is spending it well. It's UBI, intended to be used as a tool to put a floor on standard of living, not a scholarship or a 401k match.
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Then why does it matter whether he is a "saint" or not? I could see your argument if he was angrily brandishing a gun and they had to make a quick decision to act, but that's very obviously not the case.
So basically Acorns, but the money goes to charity instead of your own investments
thanks :) agreed that we need to find a better way of managing config upgrades though. YAML is great, but preserving customisations over config upgrades is impossible(?)
I would not call every employee at Facebook a white supremacist. But I don't think that working there is justifiable any longer. "Changing the system from the inside" ceased to be a realistic strategy long ago.

Change my view.
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Oops. My mistake!
It makes one wonder the conservative to liberal ratio of Facebook's user base.
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