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> Look at the talk on M4A since the virus started and I think we've gotten more accomplished for civil rights in 3 weeks than 40 years after the George Floyd murder.

All I see is a couple states passing some laws about police needing to use cameras and not choking people. In the last 40 years, civil rights has progressed to legalizing gay marriage and laws against discrimination for sexual orientation. I would also count marijuana legalization in some states as a civil rights matter since I believe it was used to target the black population.
I'm not so sure. Just looking at all the dongles they ship, it seems they are more interested on what is better for Apple rather than what is better for the end user.
That’s a pretty rich comment coming from the New York Times, controlled by different, equally troubling oligarchs, with both known and whispered-about baggage of its own.

The fact of the matter is, all of these jobs where others pay you to write can be a bummer if you end up deciding something/someone connected to your workplace is a juicy target for a story. Hence the long-standing tradition of outsiders becoming insiders, and so on, as it has been for all of eternity.
What gives you anxiety at work?
Hi everyone,

I’m a software developer trying to better understand the causes of anxiety in the workplace. It's research for a side project.

I've been talking to different people (engineers and product managers mostly) and it's been fascinating.

So much of the anxiety people experience is hidden or unknown. Just talking about it openly has been helpful. For example, being asked for status updates on dev tasks throughout the day makes me anxious. I didn't realize this was a trigger until I spent time thinking about why these seemingly benign questions bother me so much.

I put together this three question anonymous survey so I can learn from the community. I'd love to hear from you.

https://airtable.com/shrVmaCcoog9Nd4L7

Thank you,
Bryan
> A tiny minority of people still buy mp3s or CDs*

My comment doesn't have anything to do with buying. I haven't bought a CD in some 25 years myself.

People still play content stored in their device.
“Hey, stop there for a bit, lets have a chat so I can ascertain your skill level.” Not every problem is a nail and requires a hammer (stopping someone).
Out of curiosity: what 'ancient' technical reports are you looking for (plus who knows someone here might know something)?
Thank you! Glad to hear it!
I think this comment exhibits a few problems as part of the conversation on systemic racism.

"Information bubbles on all sides" is vague, but it seems to imply people trying to fight racism are either fighting for the wrong reasons or misunderstand the problem they're facing. Without more detail, it doesn't contribute anything meaningful for people to take away.

And what is there to compromise on racism? The comment doesn't say any more, so it's again hard to know what it's referring to.

Commenting on the "refusal to take small steps" or "making bogeymen" also detracts from the issue by shifting the conversation to the methods and approach the movement is taking. You may earnestly believe that the protesters and the movement could benefit from changing their approach. Unfortunately, on a wider scale, this sort of rhetoric is consistently used to delegitimize dissenting voices by refusing to cooperate or acknowledge a problem unless dissenters behave themselves. It also implies that doing things in a "respectable" manner is more important than hearing and addressing the problems people are protesting.
Yes, utilities seemingly will be all industrial. Their poles in residential neighborhoods could be put to good use offering other high value services.

I wonder if Tesla should buy some of these large publicly traded utilities, like APS.
Man that is expensive and totally not worth it. I think they are offering special launch pricing for India? (1)

(1) https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+premium+india+price
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The article posted the other day had benchmarks for the Apple chips vs some Intel chips, they seem to be much more competitive than I'd have ever guessed: https://stratechery.com/2020/apple-arm-and-intel/?href=
It's a shame they didn't switch back to PowerPC, more momentum behind OpenPOWER would have being nice to see and allow more freedom to the end user.
The damages they made by forcing to install that crap that is Windows, are still here and ongoing. I don’t think the costs of that monopoly is even calculable.

Don’t forget “developing countries” too: a brasilian friend was running a copy of windows “licensed” for poor people. Wtf.

The glorification of Gates nowadays still worries me.

(To not talk about their server and enterprise monopoly)
His genetics ideas are bad science. They are poorly thought out papers and overstate conclusions based on data that don’t properly account for the population and environmental effects. Hsu has been doing this for many many years. Then he goes around alt-right circles and acts like there is controversy; and starts companies offering embryo selection based on polygenic scores; again terrible science and he didn’t even state his conflict of interests on that. I disagree with all of those ideas and actions... and he still should be a professor. He just shouldn’t be a VP of research at MSU. He’s had several bad ethical lapses. The COI alone is grounds for firing... see the similar types of controversies surrounding the Harvard chemist who failed to disclose Chinese funding; that guy wasn’t even vp of research. Finally, all of this controversy makes it nearly impossible to do the work of vp of research effectively. He gets to go back now to maybe making his research and papers better (in a fully tenured job).
How would you guys use it? What're the use cases for this website?
For servers, a number of data centers I have been in do use DC power within each rack or group of racks. It removes the double conversion, and AC basically is a battery charger (this is over simplified). It simplifies the entire system removing a number of components that would otherwise be in traditional UPS systems.

IIRC, Google does this for their racks and I know they have published a number of papers on it.

For home PC's it doesn't make sense given what consumers are used to with AC power. So the current methodology makes sense, but server farms is quite different.
People seem to be buying them anyway. If we consider Form over function could also be playing a role here, Apple's obsession with making their notebooks thinner ditching intel will help a lot with that cause they can at least keep the same battery life with a smaller battery.
The problem in a framework like GoDot is, that it is meant for Games. A game renders screens in 30/60 fps. A Desktop application like a Gtk application does exactly nothing if you dont interact with the application. If you click a button only the button gets re-rendered. This is more efficient then using something like a game engine which has no concept about damaged regions and so on.

Also, people like to have something like "native" look and feel. This would be possible with Java-SWT as it abstracts away the toolkit. This is possible but in the case of SWT it is just broken (think about margins, text, scroll behaviour).

The other option is to use electron as it is just plain simple, works even in the web (you can basically make a webapp and repackage that as an electron app)

Or you package a toolkit with your application and avoid native libraries. This happens in the world of Qt for example. Gtk is cross-platform too but not statically linkable.
Not just iPods, but cheap off-brand MP3 players, and support for MP3 in low-end consumer audio like "ghetto blasters" and automotive tuners.
I couldn’t see in the article, but why settle on SHA2-256? Why not something bigger or newer such as SHA2-512 or SHA3-256? Or why not a variable length hash like SHAKE256?
To be fair every company does whats best for itself, if that also happens to be good for the user so much the better.
Why is it wrong to want to remove disabilities from the genetic corpus of the human species? This is no different then wanting to cure any debilitating genetic condition [1] using gene therapy.

You treat existing humans with the utmost of respect, but you also target maladies so future humans have better quality of life (including a lack of disabilities).

[1] https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/browse-by-first-l...
The half energy width (angle over which half the energy is deposited) is around 16 arcsec on the axis of the telescopes (3600 arcsec=1 deg). Due to the Wolter geometry, it gets worse as you go off-axis. In the survey sources scan over the field of view. The average survey performance is around 28 arcsec.
Any idea on why the address is not provided?

I just find this practice really annoying and I don't see how it helps sell a property.
It can be quite useful when replying to each point though, you can quote each one independently since they're not merged into one big blob of text.

Not saying it's impossible otherwise of course, just slightly more convenient.
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Glenmark in India receives regulatory approval for oral antiviral Favipiravir [pdf]
>> It's important to make it 100% crystal clear your fun analysis isn't about the person.

>> If this comment seems personal, that wasn't intended.

That wasn't an edit, it was in my first commit. 100% Crystal clear?

I appreciate you're trying to help but, in doing so please don't belittle my comment as "fun analysis". Though it mightn't have come over perfectly, I meant it. And it's important. To me at least.
> We know the safest communities in America are places that don’t center the police.

Worth thinking about: https://www.wsj.com/articles/good-policing-saves-black-lives...
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They actually had a winner with windows phone in 2010 . If they had put out unlocked device on which recompiled windows apps to run, with easy updates and hals, bypassed carries about updates, they would have pushed android out and taken a nice chunk out of apple share.

The main android problem is the hal and the updates - and google for various reasons hadn't tackled this problem properly. For a decade.
It's not like Google is coming into my desktops and servers and blocking my incoming and outgoing TCP connections.
Samsung and Xiaomi don't offer stores as distribution channels to 3rd parties. They offer an app on both Google and Apple's app stores to facilitate installing their own software.

I'm not as familiar with Huawei, so I'll go look. But basically - I don't find this a compelling counterpoint. They have a helper app to install their own content, still regulated by Apple and Google's distribution channel - That does not an app store make.

And yes - My stance since the beginning has been that both Apple and Google are actively working to keep the status quo around software distribution and app monetization.

Further, they both pretty clearly have divided the content space.

Google - Focused on free apps as a channel to push ads, with less care on quality

Apple - Focused on higher quality apps with a higher price tag.

They've managed to capture an incredibly large market (70 billion in 2018) of which they simply get to suck 30% with no chance of competition.

They also happen to charge exactly the same rate for their services (30%) which I'm sure you'll also take as a clear sign they aren't cooperating in this market...
I am disappointed in the use of the killers name. Most media here in Canada did not display his name nor picture during broadcast. If you celebritize their actions you incentivise the other unstable people.
Anyone ever did something like this for Facebook?

I know it'd have to be subjective per user (security ACLs ⇒ different accounts seeing differing subsets of other accounts' posts); but I'd be fine with just getting my own account's subjective view, by logging into such a service using Facebook OAuth (or, if that isn't enough, then I'd be fine with handing over my Facebook creds themselves, ala XAuth, provided the service is a FOSS one I'm running a copy of myself in e.g. an ownCloud instance.)

I also know that it'd likely require heavyweight scraping using e.g. Puppeteer, to fool Facebook into thinking it's real traffic. But that's not really that much of an impediment, as long as you don't need to scale it to more than a dozen-or-so scrapes per second. (Which you'd automatically be safe from if it was a host-it-yourself solution, since there'd only be one concurrent user of your instance.)

Anyone done this?
AdoptOpenJDK Joins Eclipse Foundation
I've experienced Google disregarding quotes lately. It's been quite frustrating.
Well with journalism these days, you either don't know what it is or don't like it.

May the news be entirely subscriber funded in a post-UBI world where everyone can afford to subscribe.
You’re right, but we’re talking about hacks here, right?

Technically you can compile iOS stuff on Linux or jailbreaked iOS, all you need is clang and apple toolchain. Examples: https://github.com/theos/theos/wiki or https://github.com/tpoechtrager/cctools-port/
I have a waterproof kindle and a portable solar panel for charging. That's more what I had in mind with an ebook version. It can store more content, easier/lighter for travelling, read at night, and waterproof.
Also, with a break-in you're likely to know - with a computer file you're less likely to know it's compromised.
Sometime in 1990, a group of young persons launched a "signal balloon" (smaller than a weather balloon) filled with helium and tied to a 2 mile spool of package tying twine. No reason other than to watch the string fly, really.

I doubt this incident is really any more newsworthy.
An even better plan would be to learn the skills that you would put in that book. The amount of information you can put in a book is only enough for a rough starting point (and that's if the book only has one subject). The practical experience necessary to do these things correctly and efficiently is only really gained by doing them repeatedly.

A further improvement would be to build a small community that practices these skills and tries to be as independent as possible from the current grid. These are all orders of magnitude more complex and difficult than the last but just imagine how much more difficult it would be to bootstrap society in a real SHTF scenario.
> I wonder what would be the police reaction if this were happening and made public.

Probably not much. A vast, vast majority of cops are just normal people doing a difficult and dangerous job. A vanishingly small number are power hungry psychopaths.

We really only see the bad stuff in the news, while the insane amount of great things they do go generally unnoticed, with a few exceptions every now and again.
I helped build and calibrate XMM, earning my PhD https://www.researchgate.net/publication/252418991_The_X-ray... in the 90s, before leaving academia to start my first company.

I haven't kept track of the field. Has eROSITA reproduced most of XMM's data? I expect XMM will keep collecting data, but how useful/obsolete has it become?
Why would they switch back after spending so much developing their own ARM CPUs?
The World Doesn't Need a New, Gigantic Particle Collider
> more often than not I encounter much simpler interpretations of meditation and its goals that (to me) sound more like instructions to wall off rather than to find peace with yourself.

I've notice this at several occasions.

It is not specific to meditation though.

Agile software development, as practiced behind corporate walls, is very different what Beck and Schwaber talked about in the 90'.

Thanks to MMA, we know now that many modern martial art teachings are not practical from a self-defense perspective.

Many may claim they follow the ideal of the same famous religious figure, and confronted with each others, will end up with opposite opinions on how to live one life.

As soon as something become mainstream, it is bound to be adapted into different variations of what it was initially intended. Yet we keep the same name for it.

For what I know, what I'm practicing is also a variation of a variation of a variation of something.
Nobel laureate Honjo sues Ono Pharmaceutical over patent royalties
I have that same question, "Why and who does this benefit?" It seems like everything runs in the cloud these days and is fronted by huge CDN's. The performance on 80%+ of websites should be really fast already due to local proximity wins (speed of light/bits). It looks like there's a megacloud provider location just about everywhere these days with more on the way.

This seems like a lot of energy spent to make already fast things just a tiny bit faster. Are there any real world estimates or projections for improvement? Like, how quickly will that Facebook page load or show those Google (ad) search results?

Things feel largely fine, yet here are more "improvements".

And once we have these gains, they will probably be lost in bloated javascript or app layer inefficiencies.
Good points. Other players' predictions won't be revealed until deadline has passed. And the ranking system will take into account the number of predictions made.
Nor are they getting paid [fairly] if you don't :)
Because on windows you are close enough to free. Raging twitter mob cannot force microsoft to prevent windows from working on your PC, you can install any app without microsoft approval etc etc ...
Of course the sleuths on twitter think they can identify people from clues in photos and often get it wrong with dangerous or disastrous results.

See: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52978880

And: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/12/spike-lee-sued-...

And, of course, reddit and the boston bomber.

Do this for fun, but don't get your pitchforks out
Using past data to predict whether 2020 will be the warmest on record
Doesn't really make sense given their large existing investment in ARM and there being (afaik) no current work on POWER for mobile applications.
Good read, glad to hear that mindfulness is being introduced to humans at an earlier age.

Apparently that's not enough for the author though?

Like anything, it will never be useful for 100% of everyone regardless of age or place in time.
The history that James Baldwin wanted America to see
I don't know, I can't even think of any examples of (good for for-profit company) = (good for users)
And without a profit motive, people will begin the true work of their lives and dreams! (Except that they still need to survive.) What is ethical about paying a plumber but not an artist?
Google's Former Advertising Chief Developing Ads Free Search Engine
I just checked and the referrer from the 'Website' button on business listings only sends the google.com top domain with no tracking parameters.
I do think they actually invest significantly into laptop/desktop development. If you look at the teardowns at iFixit, they are pieces engineering art. No other manufacturer offers that nicely designed devices. Just think of the new Mac Pro having no internal cabeling, everything, including the extra power supply for the graphics cards, is on the motherboard.

But of course, one can (and I do) disagree with some of their design choices, like non-exchangeable SSD and using far too much glue in the designs.
How Shopify Could Revitalize Malls
Give it to me for free and sell merch on your store like everybody else, Goog
I have mentioned this before and mentioning again hoping someone from google will read. Google support literally sucks or they don't know how to do business at all. People are willing to pay for support, so someone at google can listen. But that option is also not available. These days hacker news is only way to get attention from Google.

Another example, recently I tried to connect my blog with google ad-sense ( I bought domain from google and also using g-suite). THis is the response I got,

Some of our services are temporarily experiencing delays during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This means that we’re unable to review your site at this time.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience.

Ok I got it. I can understand current situation. But com'n guys at least have courtesy to update me when your services are up. Do you wanna apply me again and again ? If I do, you will mark me as spam. These guys never return a single note on any feedback. What do you want me to do ?
> Shouldn't they be very interested in the information?

Yes, public servants should be interested in doing their job properly.

In Germany at least, they are un-fireable, so it isn't unusual for many of them to just being counting the days until retirement. Some "harder" task arrives? Sorry can't do that - what are you going to do about it? I can't be fired.
The service https://feed43.com will enable you you to build a RSS feed out of pretty much anything with a URL. I use it to build RSS out of sha256 release files, vendor client download release pages, changelogs, etc.
Nice one. As much as I approve of services I'd rather self-host. Tired of people pulling the rug out under my feet
Yeah, and if you want to listen to music on the go, you just have to leave your screen on the entire time, or pay this ransom you speak of.
Nice idea but it won’t work. Traffic from google maps shows up as direct traffic with no referrer.
Some of the structure can be seen in the old ROSAT maps from the 90s: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/rosat/survey/sxrb/12/ass.html

Recently XMM looked at the centre of the galaxy, finding chimney-like structures which may link to the bubbles. This is on a much smaller region, however: http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Giant_c...

Nothing since ROSAT has had the ability to map large areas like eROSITA/SRG. ABRIXAS was supposed to be the successor to ROSAT, but it failed shortly after launch.
Whenever I read about EMP it reminds me of an interesting device called an explosively pumped flux compression generator (EPFCG). It generates an EMP using explosives but the blast is not the goal it's generating a massive electrical current (millions f amps in a microsecond).

From what I can understand an EPFCG needs an explosive-driven ferromagnetic generator (EDFMG). I imagine the EDFMG is used like a fuse or blasting cap for the EPFCG.

I'm not sure of the size of the devices.

https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1996/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive-driven_ferromagnetic...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compre...
Well if one async cycle takes 1 day due to timezones, that 11 vs 14 cycles becomes not negligible.
Why does it need to be novel? Simply being able to put boring but practical things together in hours vs weeks/months is more than enough imho. There are enough people who have to build a little crud tool and end up spending weeks/months adding features that these low/no code tools simply have standard. That + no deployment, no maintenance (besides the data models and business logic) etc. Sure it is far more expensive, especially when you get many users, but there is a sweetspot for these things, again, imho.