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I am not a US citizen or resident (I am just an interested observer), and I was in college for much of Obama's presidency. I did look up to him at the time, but have since learned more of the reality behind the PR and have completely turned my opinion against him. He was around as bad as all presidents have lately been, on matters of immigration, external politics and so on (going so far as assassinating one of his own citizens for suspicion of terrorism).

And related to breaking the law and separation from your family, the kinds of crimes you need to commit for that to happen are usually much worse than immigration without a permit. Also, I wasn't thinking of the general idea of deporting someone who has children, but specifically to the cases of families who immigrated illegally, had a child in the US, and are now being deported while leaving a small child without care and with little hope of ever reconnecting with their parents. And the solution is not necessarily to let the parents stay, but to allow them to take their child with them.

Otherwise, your immigration policy sounds pretty nice. I am assuming you would also carve out exceptions for asylum seekers, but apart from that, it sounds positively utopian compared to anything like current practices, from what I've read.
I've already heard people I know talking about avoiding the use of the term Master Bedroom.
Most academic papers are still written directly in Latex.
> Statistically speaking

Statistics generally (there are exceptions of course) makes very broad assumptions about independence and random selection of your samples.

For a group of people as correlated as having the same destination at exactly the same time using the same airplane I would be very wary of applying any statistics at all, even ignoring the possibility of a large group.

Hundreds of otherwise independent people can decide to not show up simultaneously due to terrorist attacks, corona, a cheaper alternative, a conference being cancelled, etc.
What I think is that it is useful to use different character sets for different purposes. One character set cannot possibly be useful for everyone in all applications, even though that is what the Unicode Consortium tried to do. Unicode is just really a mess, I think.

PostScript allows characters to have names instead of only numbers (you can change the assignment of numbers to each name), or you can use CID keying which means given a character set name, that decides what each 16-bit number corresponds to. Adobe said you will have to register the character set name, but I think that you can use URIs (or UUIDs, which are a special case of URIs). You could also use UUIDs as XUIDs, by using 36#UUID as the organization number, and then the next four numbers make up the UUID.

I am working on a character set actually, but it isn't really decentralized nor is it meant to replace Unicode in all of its uses; it is meant only for a specific use, which is grid-based displays (such as terminal emulators). There is a 8-bit mapping, which can be used to encode text, and there is a 16-bit mapping, which can be used for fonts and for tables within terminal emulation software to convert character codes from other character sets. Additionally, it has the property that both the 8-bit and 16-bit mappings allow easily figuring out the width of a string, without needing any tables, without having any ambiguity, and without the possibility to be changed in future (you can actually just add together the widths of the bytes, which are determined using a simple rule; control codes have undefined widths). The 8-bit mapping is also compatible with principle of extended ASCII (like UTF-8 is, although the format is different from UTF-8).

I have also seen someone else on IRC also mentioning making up such a character set for grid-based displays, although theirs was simpler than mine, not having any non-ASCII single width characters at all. I consider that drawback unacceptable, so I made one which is almost as simple, but allows non-ASCII single width characters.

One thing that Unicode is good for though is searching collections of documents written in many languages. However, Unicode has many features which are excessive, unnecessary, or problematic, for that purpose, too.

Another alternative I have seen once on IRC is Duocode, where each character code has two halfs, being the language code and the glyph code. For the purpose of searching documents in many languages, this Duocode idea might even be better than Unicode (especially if many of the messy features of Unicode are avoided).

And, for Chinese writing, there is Cangjie encoding. (I think Cangjie is mostly used as a input method, although it could also be used as a character set for Chinese writing.)

I also don't need emoji, I think.
So it's just javascript Math.random.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

> Math.random() does not provide cryptographically secure random numbers. Do not use them for anything related to security. Use the Web Crypto API instead, and more precisely the window.crypto.getRandomValues() method.

Also, even if you had a CSPRNG there, your URL format seems to encode only about 27 bits of data.
I’m confused. How is unethical behavior not cause for termination?

This reads like doublespeak.
There's no such thing as truly unsupervised learning - any machine learning algorithm is defined by some guidelines you've provided (or built-in) for what output it has to generate.

For example, you might think of data clustering as an unsupervised problem, but in reality you're still providing supervision in terms of what similarity measure to use and some control over how many clusters it should generate; and, at the end of the day, the output is always going to be a set of clusters, not, say, a stock tip or wry comment on the nature of your data!
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Sure, but the 'homosexual/heterosexual' classification system the other hypothetical employer uses is also intended to ensure that women are ineligible to be hired if they have the same sexual preferences as those men who are eligible to be hired, and vice versa. One could argue that this treats men and women 'separately, but equally' as both have the chance to be hired under different hiring criteria unlike the illustrative example, but 'separate but equal' is so well understood to be unconstitutional it's not really worth raising as a counterargument.
I believe it supported memory protection, but not preemetive multithreading and multiprocessing. It was still cooperative multiprocessing underneath. If the program was written correctly (most were initially, since Win 3.1 was more common for a few years still), it would function on both just swimmingly.
You don't have to be stupid to do stupid things. There have been through history occasional mass delusions. One numbering six individuals whose outcome was conspiracy to harass economic enemies would not be particularly notable among this set.
StaticArrays.jl is just linear algebra operations for tuples, and they have always been stack allocated as they are immutable and have a size known at compile-time, so Julia 1.5 will not bring anything new for it.

The deal with 1.5 is that the GC has improved in that it does not require structs with references to dynamically allocated objects to be heap allocated themselves.
> We don't need laws to see these as a public good.

Yes, actually you do.
Yeah, either only clearly established laws apply to everyone or all laws apply to everyone.
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Depending what is causing the outage 911 may still function. Or it may not. Just spreading to not assume 911 is unavailable because normal calls don't work/your plan expired/whatever else is going on as 911 gets a few special technical perks that make it available more often than normal calls.
The Control Panel vs Settings thing is definitely annoying, and confusingly certain things exist in both; one of which is date and time

I had a machine that refused to sync NTP until I went into Control Panel, even though everything looked fine in the new Settings
> Just four months after closing a $7 million funding round for his first startup RetraceHealth in 2016, Aderinkomi was pushed out of the startup by the new board. This was after he had spent three years and taken on $1 million of his own personal debt to build the company.

Seems like you're doing something wrong if you raise seed and A rounds[1] and have given away enough board seats that they can push you out 4 months later.

Also, why would anyone take out a million dollar personal loan to fund a startup? I have heard of founders spending their own money to get things off the ground, but usually it's $50k or so, and it's never a bank loan.

I'd agree that this guy is rightly wary of going back to VCs, but his experience seems like an edge case (which is perhaps why it's featured in this article).

1: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/retracehealth#sectio...
My Exchange server always finds my friend when I search for "Kivanc" even though the "i" and the "c" are Turkish letters without a dot and with a squiggle respectively.

However, I cannot get it to find my friend Nikolay when I type the whole thing, as it doesn't match the final Cyrillic letter with my "y".

I would say, in general, string matching leaves a lot to be desired, especially when I don't know how to actually type most of the letters of my colleagues's and friends's names. (It's easier on Mac than Windows 10 though - I can't figure out a dang thing for Windows 10 that is not English.)
Can't call from landline to t-mobile iphone, just dead air, not even busy/fast-busy/three-tone call fail.
100k is a rough estimate. It might be higher, but will most likely be lower.

How is this going to happen? We haven't controlled the disease even by shutting lots of stuff down, and the political will does not exist to keep that stuff shut down. After everything reopens the disease will certainly kill more people. There won't be an effective vaccine until a great deal more research is done; that's a decade away at least. Effective treatments such as antibodies will not be scalable for many months. We'll be lucky if we hold USA covid deaths this year to 200k.
Free will is questionably a thing. If you are trapped, hungry, thirsty, threatened, and you see your neighbors beaten for minor infractions, then some kind of "mayhem" is not an unreasonable choice. Or would you rather they quietly took the abuse and had their next-of-kin file a complaint that will be summarily ignored?

BTW these are all things that protesters experience, as the police as trained in "crowd control" techniques which involve kettling and provoking masses of people so they can exert force to teach them a lesson.
The article title was linkbait: "you" and "should" are linkbait tropes, especially when combined. The site guidelines call for rewriting such titles. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

When we change titles, we always try to use representative language from the article. I replaced it with a phrase from the article where it says what it's about in a neutral way. I added a hyphen to "recently minted" because it seems to me that grammar requires it. However, if we worship different grammar gods I am happy to let yours hold sway. The hyphen is now toast.

This is bog-standard HN moderation. I dare say the reason you "really really hate it" is probably because you notice the cases you dislike and weight them much more heavily: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Meanwhile the ones you don't find objectionable pass over relatively unnoticed. That is bog-standard HN perception bias.

If we didn't meticulously try to keep titles linkbait-free and less-misleading (more hyphens, sorry!), HN's front page would be completely different, and since the front page is the most important thing here, the entire forum would soon be completely different. That requires editing titles all the time. petercooper, who posted elsewhere in this thread, has an HN title-change tracker (oops, I hyphened again!) which is quite nifty. It doesn't show all of them, though, and it can't tell the difference between moderator edits and submitter edits.

There is a power shortage in my neighborhood and my laptop battery is about to expire, so if you don't see a link momentarily, or if I don't respond anywhere on the site for a few hours, it's because shelter-in-place (uh-oh!) prevents me from finding somewhere else to plug in.

Edit: here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21617016. Note how we edited out the bloody pig mask.
Some are, yes.

As I said in another comment, merely "avoiding offending black developers" isn't reason alone. It's about what actions an individual and a company can take to explicitly work against the normalization of racism, while acknowledging the implicit bias against, and lack of input from, minority people during the creation of these technologies.

If you'd like an interesting example I heard from a POC photography friend - she wondered if default camera settings tended to dramatically underexpose when working with black people subjects, if more black people had been involved in early photographic technology development.
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Hey, I think you need to learn a little more about what the different distros to be able to pick which one is a good fit for you.

Centos follows Red Hat Enterprise Linux as closely as they possibly can.

Fedora is more of an unstable distro where new things are tried out that may get into RHEL when they stabilize.

I don't think either of them have a goal of working on a very broad range of modern workstations. If you know you specifically want Centos or Fedora to do your work, you should build a workstation (or select a laptop) that you know will work with that distro.

Anyway you should rarely be seriously considering both of these at the same time. Either you want stability and you choose between Centos, Debian, or maybe older Ubuntu LTS, or you want to be on the edge and you choose Fedora, or the latest Ubuntu, etc.

Also there are other options besides Fedora, Centos, and Windows. Maybe Ubuntu would be a better fit for you.
Personally, I don't think open borders are unthinkable, but I am not necessarily for them either.

However, the deportation process must be humane. You can detain people who are to be deported in conditions that respect their human rights. You can allow parents of small children with US citizenship to take their children with them (assuming both parents are deported), or to make other arrangements.

The two alternatives are not (1) open borders or (2) concentration camps for illegal immigrants.
1. Driver issues plagued Vista.

2. Xp capable systems weren't powerful enough to run the new generation of operating systems.

Vista was the scapegoat to force hardware upgrade.

Samething happened with windows 8 forcing upgrade to touch screen.
Have you ever improved an overfunded team by giving them more resources?
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Let me start by saying I also find WD's actions ridiculous and misleading.

Has WD ever said Reds would work with ZFS? The Red spec sheet says performance isn't guaranteed on setups not listed as compatible. The compatibility list is a nightmare [1] to use, but I can't find ZFS and only Gold drives are listed for FreeBSD. None of the roughly ten ransom products I checked listed Red.

https://www.westerndigital.com/support/partner-product-compa...

https://www.westerndigital.com/support/partner-product-compa...
TMO down in IL for voice but data is working.
Call me cynical, but Win2k was probably developed by a small and tight-knit group of engineers, PMs and designers. It felt focused and ran most software well.

I think if I remember correctly, Win2k was meant to replace the Windows 98/DOS kernel but they couldn't get it to work in time. That's when WinXP came out instead. WinXP felt like the result of a much bigger org. Am I correct to speculate that in Microsoft, the NT teams and the DOS teams merged to create WinXP?

If so, that would explain XP and that probably created all kind of tonal and structural shifts, a result that was a massive eyesore of an OS. Plus their attempt to come up with a cute theme-able UI like OS X's Aqua was seriously half baked.
Linux has been much worse for margins in UIs, FWIW.
I prefer it. Too many clickbait titles otherwise.
> I thought they’d be all over Boost and Mindstorms. Nope. Lego is just us old guys doing skeumorphism.

LEGO is awesome. My kids liked building big LEGO stuff, love Minecraft, etc. But we never had success with Mindstorms at home.

Now I'm becoming an educator and I run some robotics teams built around LEGO -- FIRST LEGO League, etc. With -structure- and -team identity- and -competition-, Mindstorms, WeDo, etc, are terrifically interesting. Enrollment maxes every year and the level of engagement from the kids in the program is very high. I hear stories from parents about kids evangelizing robotics to the cashier at the grocery market during checkout. :P

Mindstorms suffers from being too open ended and too hard: you have to have a very high level of motivation to follow a project through to where you have something to be proud of. Without outside guidance and clear reasons to chase a goal for a long time (like doing well in competition), it all falls apart.

edit: One thing I like about the FIRST stuff is that it's a bit of a trojan horse. It teaches some kids who are not very much into STEM to begin with a lot of STEM; but it also teaches a lot of kids who are deeply into STEM better collaboration and project management skills, how to speak well, and how to master subjective evaluations. Your best STEM kids tend to only learn a little about engineering and math from it, but they learn plenty of other things.
Magnetic disks are generally valued on capacity, but at least as I heard the talk, he was talking about it growing to a 50% difference as they pushed the limits.

I get that the reds are more performance oriented, but capacity is still a key factor (if not, you just go SSD and be done with it).
Add-on question: what do we have today? Has anything filled this void?
This is awesome. We are big fans of WeDo and First Lego League. We might need to ask Santa to bring this early. For the kids, of course.
Definitely screenshot worthy for posterity.
Google Fi from iPhone to Android worked after a long delay. Failed the other direction :|
Very interesting, thanks for explaining.
Finance: the art of trading money now vs more money later

Insurance: the art of spending money now to avoid spending more money later

Seems like an open and shut thing -- insurance is a form of finance, whether consumer cooperatives, for-profit companies, or the government itself.

Unless we're debating the "instrument" part.
Every iOS app is currently tested in x86 on the Mac simulator and then ARM on the device.

If you ship a Catalyst app that runs on iPad and Mac you are shipping and testing on x86 and ARM.

Apple already splits binaries in the app store and only downloads what is needed for your device (including resources for different device resolutions), so the end user would likely not see an increase in app size.
If they didn't have an opinion, why are they leaving GitHub over the change?

I am not arguing in favor of harassment - my argument is, either it's a change that you acknowledge is to be more inclusive to POC developers, and you reject that that is acceptable and thus leave GitHub, or you don't believe it's important / don't care / it's just a branch name, in which case you wouldn't leave GitHub.

The action of leaving GitHub over this change makes a statement. Saying "I'm not making a statement" while doing so changes nothing about that.
eBay execs sent roaches and “bloody pig mask” to harass journalists, feds say
Piggybacking on my own comment to add one last link, to the actual affidavit. Still working my way through all 51 pages, but it's pretty obvious who "Executive 1" is.

https://www.scribd.com/document/465728291/FBI-Affidavit-agai...
As we are about to see in minneapolis, just like defund the police doesn’t mean no law enforcement, abolish ice doesn’t mean an open border. It means ICE is a structure that is harming american values (liberty, justice, due process).

And the idea here is to apply pressure any way possible. Maybe losing github doesn’t practically change much, but if I was working somewhere and companies started cancelling contracts due to the unethical actions of my workplace... i would start looking for another job.
This is a good description, except that TileDB (the open source client) is not transactional but eventually consistent at least for S3 and other object stores.

I like your point about consuming S3 cleverly, it's often difficult to get good out of the box performance from S3 so abstracting that to the degree possible is good for end-users. The cloud vendors though are always one or two steps ahead of companies that build upon their services. AWS Redshift for instance already can pre-index objects stored on S3 to accelerate queries at the storage layer. It's difficult as a third party vendor to compete with that.
Based on how it has unfolded, I'm betting it's a cascading failure. Data seems to be unaffected, it is only voice.
Please hear me out before voting/replying....

I think this is actually a good thing, despite the headline, for two reasons:

1 - It forces Congress to do this (and it's their job to write the rules, not SCOTUS)

2 - By forcing Congress to write the law, they will have to address all of the issues around it, which might allow for some interesting things that would never have come from a SCOTUS decision.

For instance, maybe Qualified Immunity automatically goes away if you don't have your chest camera on.

Maybe you keep Qualified Immunity if your chest camera is on, and your actions have been confirmed by an independent board as lawful.

There are lots of variants, and I only illustrated two of them. Of course, it's Congress, so they can mess this up as much as anything, but at least they will get the input of 535 members (and from constituents) when crafting the approach.
I think that there is a good midway solution to this.

For example in many countries you need to "register" political advertising[1]. One could say that it is perfectly reasonable not to help political opponents, but then it would be reasonable to declare your business as politically oriented.

Similarly to how even private universities in the US must uphold free-speech rights is they declare free-speech friendly.

This is not a complete solution, but it does not need to be all or nothing.

[1] in the Uk there was some conversation about Ryanair's showing pro-stay slogan on a plane behind a press conference during the Brexit campaing
It's a backwards compatibility issue with an older character set where the symbol is used in latin transcription of Macedonian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dz_(digraph)#Unicode
Interesting. We don't have tooling for this yet but extending the Piranha static analysis may help detect the issue.
My guess is it's some technical issue related to the Sprint merger. I have no data to back this up.
60 times per second.

/Sorry, I couldn't help it.
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I'm sure many people who believe in $IDEOLOGY, and the duties which follow from this, do not see "belief" as a choice they are making.