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This is a bit longer than I intended, but is my point of view, and not intended to dismiss what you’re saying at all.

I think it’s easy to dismiss conversations like master/slave whitelist/blacklist as overly PC or childish. I certainly don’t appreciate the overly-preachy feeling I sometimes get from people pushing their point of view. And my nature is to find pleasure in giving The Man the proverbial finger. The self righteousness can be intentional on their part, of course, but many times it’s not. I honestly get the similar feelings about the diet-of-the-year fad, too. I have been very lucky in life so far, in that I haven’t struggled with weight or the negative impacts of racism. But I’m discovering that language is an incredibly powerful tool for changing deeply-rooted habits, like which foods you find comfort in, or your default reaction to conflict. When I’ve become an unwilling participant in these changes, I have to ask myself: what is the balance of pros/cons for me and for others? Also, what is my net influence on others who are attempting to do good (no matter my opinion on its effectiveness)? I don’t think I’ve ever changed the default branch for any GitHub repo I’ve worked with. It should theoretically cause no issues at all, I suppose, but I can’t state that with certainty. So there’s a bit of a challenge that I’ll actually enjoy. And I’m not aware of any culture or richness of vocabulary that depends on the dynamic of this set of nomenclature. Besides, I still see words like “serf” and “lord” on a semi-regular basis despite it’s remove from our lifestyles, so these words aren’t disappearing any time soon.
On the other hand, it’s hard to deny that racism has scarred our society very deeply. I remember being shocked when my wife told me how young age was when someone first attempted to take advantage of her for sex. I recently felt the same level of shock when my friend told me that she gets called the n word multiple times every day. If our vocabulary can change our mindset, then maybe removing the master/slave dynamic can be a net positive, like removing the vocabulary of war from our daily interactions. We end up turning to other defaults instead of the old ones. Maybe we end up no better off, and decide to change again. Who knows? But personally I don’t see a lot of downside in the attempt to better our world.
Nothing to do with COVID. Harvard systematically discriminates against Asian applicants by giving them lower "personality scores" than other races. There is a big lawsuit about this going on.
The figures you quote are the percentage of victims by ethnicity. So, for example, the number of black people who have been victims of hate crime. I was referring to the total number of victims by race. I suspect the latter number was in my memory because of how these, and similar, figures have been reported in the past. E.g. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/oct/22/ukcrime.race.

Some back of the envelope calculations suggest that my 'roughly half' is correct given the figures you provide. Of 1000 people in the UK, 920 will be white, and 80 non-white. Given the rate of white hate crime victimisation you gave, .92 white people in that 1000 will be a victim of hate crime. If we lump all the non-white people together and use the highest rate of victimisation (Asian:1.1%) that gives us .88 non-white victims.

The comment I replied to claimed that racism against white people does not exist in the western world. That claim does not appear to be true.
I think it is not logical to take a single argument and ascribe it to a greater movement. I once knew someone who claimed to be a feminist who told me there is no such thing as consenting to penetrative sex (that all penetrative sex is rape). But it would be unreasonable to assume this ascribes to all feminism, or more obviously that all women felt this way because I saw it in one woman.
The presentation he gave on it is lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXoG0WX0r_E
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No one would take away your right not to trust such companies your card details. Unfortunately, you are OK with the fact that some people can't exercise their will to trust said companies and use their software, even if they badly need it.
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Giving money directly to businesses (especially hedge funds and banks) is a mistake which will have terrible consequences. If we need stimulus to stave off a debt deflation spirals we should give money directly to people. It could be structured as a modern debt jubilee, as suggested by Steve Keen, or as UBI, as suggested by many including Andrew Yang.
makes more sense now :)
I heard that rainforest soil is actually pretty poor, which to me sounds weird given how much grows (and dies / falls / decomposes) there.
That's what makes laws like this so silly. Look at how companies split into pieces to avoid corporate tax. They'll simply do the same here. Such a waste of time and effort and it really only affects the small companies which don't have this problem anyway. So dumb.
My hypothesis is that learning chess is such a long path that people tend to forget how they were when they started and think their current level games are not interesting to share or stream. Pogchamps success demonstrates that a lot of people like chess as entertainment in addition to a mind challenge.
If you want to be effective and create change, you need to engage with party politics and push one (or both?) parties in a particular direction.

Voting in party primaries and advocating for change within parties, given the state of affairs in US politics, is a better bet for effective change than maintaining a stance of moral purity.
True, but you do not need to know assembler to have a general idea of what computer memory looks like; but more importantly, C's notion of a pointer is more complex as it is tied to the data type and its 'sizeof' and is further complicated by association with arrays.
Go look at Canadian real estate. Middle of nowhere with services is 300K. Mortgage on that is something like 1000/month.

This was purely to prevent a housing collapse.
The likelihood of stopping in an infinite search space depends on the distribution of stop regions. The hypothesis makes an implicit assertion about that distribution. I'd love to see that assertion made explicit, and support provided, if you will.
I don’t believe this is true. If an Icahn-like activist investor shorted FB and successfully triggered a mass sell off tanking FB stock, it would be really hard for Zuckerberg to survive that pressure, and he’d be financially incentivized not to. You’re right in that the board doesn’t have the power to oust him, but collective investor action could. It’s hard to find people who want to rattle one of the most consistently performing tech stocks, though. Unfortunately, I think the chance of something like this happening is nil.
Interesting to find someone using github in an entirely different manner.

Not sure I was ever aware of the ranking mechanics that can be so addictive if you take that sort of thing seriously.

I think I’ve relied on my projects getting stars as KPI for “are people using this?”
> The worst side effect of the new Trending page is that a
> lot project discovery has moved to ... Twitter.

Huh? No. I mean, I don't know what JS people do with their lives; I'm a C++ and CUDA guy (even though I dabble in some JS), and none of my acquaintances discovers projects through Twitter.

GitHub has this side-bar with projects I might find interesting and it often recommends ones that I do.

Regardless - I would move away from GitHub to someplace else if the exposure wasn't so critical. I would really like a cross-site federation mechanism which would let us try other places.
I thought it was because they started bundling adware with software without telling the creators of that software.
US blacklists 'China's MIT' as tech war enters new phase
I keep hearing that, but I don't see any testing numbers there, do you? Aggregates, yes, but not a per day measure.
Proves that there's a lot of low-hanging fruit still that can have a much bigger impact than e.g. buying an electric vehicle.
Facebook? What is that?
Teens in the US are a market unto themselves.

The iPhone has somewhere between 80-90% market share with them.

Even outside of teens, they're at close to 50% and you don't need a strict majority in order to have control over the market. That's why, legally, you don't need a strict majority to be considered a monopoly.

Next.
I rely on people making decisions in their own best interest so they would find an economically sustainable solution. CERB prevents this.
This is it - simple, not easy. You can lie to yourself for a while but not forever. Motivation comes when you do something you like doing.
This sentiment is rightly being called out as elitism.

Reminds me of skateboarding in the 90s when some skateboarders would hate on newbies who got into skateboarding as a result of Tony Hawk, X-Games, THPS, or any other reason that wasn’t deemed pure or authentic. Now they marvel at the fact that skateboarding is an Olympic sport... Yeah, no thanks to you!
> I don't care for the app store, nor does it provide me with any benefit.

I'm guessing it does provide you with some benefit or else you wouldn't be in it.
Shuffling money around is absolutely an important part of the economy. It moves resources from unproductive or low productive companies to higher producing companies. The name for this activity is called "Capitalism".

One could argue that Warren Buffet should pay higher taxes. And he would agree! But unless you find capitalism itself unethical there is nothing wrong or underhanded with searching for undervalued firms and investing in them.
Justice Department will reportedly propose limits to platforms legal protections
> Well, everybody with experience outsources monitoring now

That has not been my experience. Quite the opposite every place I’ve been that outsourced monitoring ended up bringing back significant portions of their observability stack either for needing more control, different feature sets or because the outsourced solution was cost prohibitive.

I think it is true that lots of teams continue to outsource storage of metrics data but the outsourced vendors are not incentivized to make it easy to do retention/filtering/aggregation well.

Source: Have run observability stacks across a variety of domains.
> The single best move Europe could make would be to limit any digital stores to maximum 12% commission.

The App Store is already at 15% for recurring subscriptions, so this isn’t much of a stretch for either party.
The boarding up is not because of Covid, but because of the ongoing rioting. (Not to say that the protests are rioting; but the plywood is for the rioters, not the peaceful protestors.)

But no, it’s not representative. Most of America doesn’t live in New York, DC, Seattle, etc. Nothing is boarded up in suburban Annapolis where I live, and almost nothing was ever completely shut down. Restaurants had a steady stream of takeout orders, etc.
I've been loving this boom for a ton of reasons.

Hikaru does an amazing job of sharing his knowledge and skill without spilling over the top with information about why certain moves are theoretically better than others 30 moves down the line than only a small percentage of people would understand. The skill gap is insane, but he makes it feel approachable.

Its been fun watching the pogchamps series for the most part because himself and Botez (and a few others) can share their knowledge without being affronting or elitist, but instead exploring and explaining why certain good moves are sometimes hard to find or don't feel natural. Simplifying the language and using arrows on the board to show moves, rather than just blasting chess notation at the screen. You can see them holding back when a player makes a certain move, and then openly assess the goods and bads.

They've shown behind the scene training sessions on pogchamps too, showing a little into the world (again at a much lower level) how you would begin to prep and build your chess opening repertoire that is approachable for someone who is learning.

And then at the end of the day, its also just fun to watch someone who has an insane amount of talent be a complete boss in their field. Honestly feels like the top players are scanning a QR code and know what to do without a second thought [1]

...

To pin onto this for those who enjoy chess but perhaps don't like the stress of online play, I've found the puzzles on lichess [2] to be a great way to learn and be challenged by the game.

- [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-pePy_1_Ts&t=50

- [2] https://lichess.org/training/
Hello,

What a great initiative, i could’t agree more. We hear very little about these kinds of products in the DevOps community.

Our product is called Microtica - a DevOps tool that enables end-to-end automation of the whole software delivery process.

Our process began about 2 years ago, when we were still working as a servicing company and struggling with broken deployments every day and spending hours on production releases. So as we are a purely technological team, decided to find a solution for our problems and automate the software integration and delivery. We started working and saw great potential in the solution, so it became an actual product that can help many more developers.

Our mission is to Power Up Developers To Work In The Cloud and bring DevOps closer to developers.

Be my guest and check it out at https://microtica.com.
So, before social media, this wasn't regulated by law, but it was to a large extent regulated by the media. Politicians didn't have a good way to lie directly to the public; their main avenue for lying to the public was via the media, which would tend to fact check them.

There's a big difference between "candidate X says that pigs can fly and this is why that's wrong", and "The flying pigs above your house are bigly bad", as far as public messaging goes. Social media has enabled the latter, and it's kind of an unsolved problem. Social media has also caused a major blurring between advertisement and content, which doesn't help.

EDIT: An interesting/worrying byproduct of this seems to be that parts of the media are going further and further off-piste, and letting complete _nonsense_ go by without the "and here's why that's wrong" bit. A glaring recent example was parts of the US right-wing media absolutely tying itself in knots to explain why Trump's rambling about disinfectants for treatment of COVID in humans made sense. It's just really hard to imagine this happening 20 years ago.
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There's a strong correlation between wealth, education, quality of life, and child birth rate. Tl;dr, improve people's lives and birth rate drops.

Which may cause its own problems (e.g. in Japan), but there's a lot of countries that aren't there yet.
I love this. webrings were one of the best features of the pre-monetized internet
> The fact that there is only one, very well guarded and fenced AppStore IS a great feature for consumers.

The old good WAR IS PEACE / FREEDOM IS SLAVERY / IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH logic.

I grew up in the Soviet Union, so trust me: having just ONE WELL GUARDED AND FENCED store with no competition is NOT a great feature for customers. I literally was a customer of exactly such store.
Yeah all those dumb secretaries, presidents, senators and the people who work for them, they really ought to be reading more HN to learn about how things work.

Unless of course any company whose viability materially depends on Section 230 protections would have been dead in the water pretty much in any other jurisdiction on earth in the first place, the threat of moving out of the US was a naked bluff and the powers that be realized it.
>When you explain floating point numbers you also put them into boxes?

That makes no sense. If I was explaining floating point numbers with boxes, for whatever reason, I'd put the values inside the boxes, yes. The analogy just doesn't work here, but the analogy for memory makes perfect sense.

>This is an unnecessary recursivity.

No, it's not. Think of a linked list for example. Traversing it makes perfect sense with my analogy: You open the first box, look at the number that's inside, open the box corresponding to that number, look at what number is inside that box, open the next corresponding box, etc. - it all makes immediate and intuitive sense.

If you just start with "open box x" (because x you somehow already know magically because it's already in a register), you haven't really explained much.

Or think of pointers to pointers. With my analogy: Easy! It's just another box which contains the value of the next box. If this concept isn't explained, a pointer to a pointer makes no sense because the pointer value has no corresponding box, hence no address.
Only anecdotal but Amazon has to deliver most goods, Walmart and other physical retailers can provide pickup services for online purchases (which I prefer for some goods).
Question: how many rubles were used to pay for US political ads in the 2016 election?
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You can't fix that in Toronto. You have to build more but the population of Toronto is growing significantly so even if you do it won't fix the issue. If you save $100k the monthly $5500 mortgage won't get paid with the salaries. Two big things that are being discussed by citizen's are restrictions for purchasing by a non citizen and limits on Airbnb renting.
Here it is: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1272968382329942017
UBI requires a country to be pretty wealthy though, have a steady, reliable source of income such as natural resources or healthy trade.
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This is actually coming online already. I don't remember what languages support it, but it's not very many.

This blog post seems to indicate Python, Ruby, and Go: https://github.blog/changelog/2019-11-13-code-navigation-is-...

I'm sure that will increase over time.
...AFAIK would be more than 30M users.

I would presume these are more technical users --- with a strong preference for open source.

Does this sound like who your product is for?

It is all about identifying your target market/audience.
...using Lisp's parentheses as a bow.

(Hint: look up 1980 Olympics)
You can target Facebook ads with surgical precision to manipulate people exactly the way you want. This is exactly what Cambridge Analytica did.

You cannot target people with such precision in traditional advertising.

I don’t think it’s unfair to say social media advertising and data collection is the biggest risk to democracy that we have ever faced.
Can that be done? The issue with politics is that the end result in enforce, often metaphorically but sometimes literally, at gunpoint. The real world implications are something that cannot be ignored, unlike a discussion of favorites teams or tv shows. Even coding standards discussions always have the realization that you can do what you want regardless of the standard and the worst case scenarios involve no longer contributing to a project or finding a different employer. Not always the nicest outcomes but still a world's away from being on the losing side of a political debate that makes it into law.
Completely agree with this!
One thing I like to do is break any task to smaller pieces and then achieve those goals.
There are some times when I'm really excited about something and can work days without any distraction (both work and personal projects) and it doesn't feel exhausting at all.
On the other hand, when it is something uninteresting, writing even 10 lines of code takes half a day to me. These are the times when I need the micro-goals the most. Just achieving these small milestones itself gets me on a roll to complete the bigger tasks.

One other big thing is making it a schedule. I used to hate working out and cut corners sometimes. But then I decided to go everyday for 1 week, then 2 weeks and checked that day off on the calendar. Looking at all checkmarks made me slightly uncomfortable when I felt like not going one day. Now it just doesn't feel like work waking up at 5am to work out. Its just become a habit. I've kind of removed the emotion of passion or excitement and do it because I have to do it. As dull as it sounds, looking occasionally in the mirror makes me happy to see what I've achieved, but I never think about that when I have to wake up.
There could be a lot of solutions to your problem, depending on what personally motivates you.

I personally develop internal motivation by putting myself in situations where I structurally do the correct thing. When I was living by myself, I'd cook a ton of healthy food on Sundays. That meant that it was always easier for me to eat healthy than it was to order out. I've also spent a lot of time asking myself what type of work I like to do. I like working on things that help people, and I managed to work at a company where working on the core business feels like the work I want to do.

But I'm not you. You need to look inside first and ask yourself what causes you to act and when you avoid it. Going through this kind of list might help: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/questions-to-ask-yourself-...

It sounds like you might be extrinsically motivated, based on your cooking example. You would need to find ways to continually hold yourself accountable. For instance, joining a Mastermind group (where you meet once a week and give your updates on your progress on something) would give you a reason to try to make progress every week. People who have gone to grad school can comment on any extrinsic motivation you might get from the program - I imagine your advisor would have some thoughts about that, but I don't know how involved advisors are.

Maybe you prefer having a sense of progress. You could split your work into smaller milestones, and then work to achieve each of the milestones.

You could also try the Jerry Seinfeld "Don't break the chain" method - https://www.writersstore.com/dont-break-the-chain-jerry-sein... has more info.
Still waiting for someone to open source an observability db that uses distributions as the core storage abstraction instead of just single values.

I thought Circonus’ IronDB was open source but they’ve either brought it back closed source or I was mistaken.

In any case it seems weird that everyone is just rehashing the same space with metrics dbs and not moving to where Google/Circonus have been for a while.
I’ve been using GH for over a about a decade. I didn’t even know that trending feature existed.

Maybe the author is evaluating the tool by a wrong metric?
Arguably, no we haven’t been doing that for more than half a century now. There was a backlash after the initial push in the 1970s that clawed back a lot of gains and several places (Eg New York City) are still highly segregated in its schooling (and gotten more segregated over time).
The top i7 generally open around $1000 a piece and can stand there for years. Noting this might change a bit with Ryzen entering the competition on the high end.

Even if Apple is getting some bulk discount for buying 10000 CPU, I have troubles imagining 50% off. Intel is known for enjoying their margin, not for giving steep discount.
I would recommend working with https://godbolt.org instead of gdb. It abstracts away the unnecessary stuff and highlights lines corresponding to asm from source and vice versa quite conveniently
Either it happened or it didn't. If it did, it constitutes important differential information, and publication is important. Saying that it is not medicine or science implies that medicine and science disregard facts, which is an implication I reject.
This is really inspiring! Thanks for sharing and making it open source so we can all learn.
They consume more because they have more money to consume with; that's not the focal point of the article though, it focused on deforestation specifically. CO2 emissions is a different challenge, albeit related to CO2 emissions and sequestration.