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Yes, it means noise/racket everywhere—though it is primarily used in the UK/Ireland/Australia and fairly uncommon in the US.
Can you explain that distinction, possibly with an example?
Also look into the banana industry. It is absurd the price that has been paid to make bananas as cheap as they are in the grocery store.
Startup led by Senegal-born Aicha Evans is being acquired by Amazon
still Rotterdam metro, the least relevant point of my post then
Oh I've been looking for something like this forever. I'm ok with SQL.

My idea is to be able to manage my mail through thunderbird but also have the ability to hook in with python (and SQL is the way)

Do you have a write up or some examples anywhere (I'm trying to learn Godot at the moment so any shortcuts would be so useful!) ?
You can't take the stats of a charter school vs its district peers and extrapolate that to the state level. It's also notable that Massachusetts doesn't have a recent report.

I also took a look at the 2019 Washington (my state) press release with the following bullet point:

o School level findings identified several charter schools with significantly positive impacts, as much as 165
and 189 more days of learning in reading and math, respectively, compared to the learning they would have
realized in traditional public schools. Conversely, some charters significantly underperformed their local
school options by as much as 106 and 83 fewer days of learning in reading and math, respectively

I'm not saying that charter schools aren't useful, what I am willing to say is that charter schools provide a good solution to a particular problem that has more to do school quality being tied to local tax revenue than unions.
I love my Jetsons too!

One has to wonder if at some point Nvidia will produce a PCIe carrier board or something for souped up Jetson modules or some variant. I have no idea how the connectivity (PCIe device?) would work out but it's definitely within the realm of possibility.
What I was aiming for originally beyond speed, was a simple API and an intuitive query language (https://oss.redislabs.com/redisearch/Query_Syntax/) that scales from simple textual queries to structured queries, and a big emphasis on real time incremental indexing as the core features. There is no batch vs. incremental indexing - you feed it a document and it's searchable immediately, which I thought was very important for an in memory database (it comes at the cost of avoiding some nifty index compression techniques, the compression is pretty straightforward).

But TBH it started as a demo dogfooding project for the redis module system - something to demonstrate how powerful the API is, and at the same time test it, find bugs and design problems with it, and gather real developer asks. It became the reference project for the modules API and a lot of the module system's features were designed to accommodate it (most notably async execution of slow commands).

But then a few people started using it (which all of the sudden gave redsiearch itself user asks and testing and all that), requesting features and being happy with it when these features got implemented, and it slowly started to be a thing, with people even contributing code. Then we wrote the distributed version requested by enterprise users, and it became a product, which is now developed by a team. I left it a bit over two years ago.
Perhaps because they're not "rights"; they're legally-granted privileges.

I agree that this sort of law is bonkers, but understand that no one has a "right" to own land[0]. That's a privilege conferred by legal frameworks, and only works because we all more or less agree to abide by them and live in civil society.

[0] The US Constitution does not grant this right, and in fact the Framers were well aware of the divide between those who did and did not own land at the time, and considered landowners to be more deserving of participation in government.
I don't think we are in contradiction either. I think what I'm simply clarifying is why I am making the comparison. One point I am trying to make is that there is a shift in how some people (particularly some influential people) consume information.

I'm not simply criticizing the NYT, I'm saying that it is being replaced (as the authoritative voice on current affairs) by user curated lists of independent writers.
> The story hasn't been published yet, so it's working so far.

How very optimistic of you. In my mind, it just changed the status of the story from "almost ready for publishing" to "Developing" - the action of taking down the blog and the words of the various parties are definitely news-worthy. The story can no longer be about one guy; the NYT will need a bigger canvas, and more time to work on it.
Just my opinion, our dev/admin tools need to be a little friendlier. There are too many people that are turned off from learning Linux, programming, or anything deeper than using an app, because there can be so many headaches. There will also people that dive deep into the kernel, but Ive wasted a lot of my time over the years doing something someone else could have done if there was just a web portal, GUI, or hell even decent documentation.

We need more people that are computer literate, and making the learning curve a little friendlier helps with that. It's not like there's a petition to get rid of SSH.
To ruminate about this a bit, let's assume our Congress critters never change. So Congress passes law "X" during Congress "Y". It is now 50 years in the future. Who do we ask about the intent of the law? Do we ask the initiators, cosigners, committee, do we take a survey of the entire congress? I'm not trying to prove any point -- I'm genuinely interested in understanding how this could play out!
What is this thing Anandtech have started doing with the back button, somehow inserting an extra ad page in between getting back to HN?
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It should simply not be possible to have your video taken down automatically after having undergone a manual appeal for that same video. At the very least YouTube should have somebody look through the video again.
>scaled prototype
Glad to see TUM being represented in this with a couple of papers as well...
There are though.

Layers and layers and layers of distribution adding huge markups to the next in line, with lots of overhead in idle time, transportation, legal, losses, territory defense, recruiting, etc. etc.

The real value of the labor is what is actually getting paid, and most of that value comes up in distribution.
Just for the record, I draw the line at police unions as long as there isn't significant oversight in both policing and the union itself.

If their track record wasn't abysmal when it comes to abuse of power, I would be less likely to see a problem with police unions. However, that isn't the case, hence my opinion on the matter.
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I've just started using a 2020 MacBook Pro. I was previously very apprehensive about the touchbar (in fact, it was a key reason for me avoiding getting one for some time).

A few days in, I'm super impressed with it, and think it is able to offer subtle but effective workflow improvements within applications. (I think I'd find it frustrating if I had an older version with no hardware escape key though).
I don't know what your reasons against are, but a big one for me is an infringement on one's right to assemble. I know it doesn't sound like much, but for a lot of communities (especially ones that may already be "targets" for law enforcement at all levels [local, state, and federal]), surveillance may keep them from feeling safe protesting.

For example, imagine being undocumented and wanting to protest. You may second guess going to a protest (even if it benefits you to do so), because you learned law enforcement is tracking the communications and movements of protesters.
I'm not saying that I know whether it was or wasn't and yet the warning doesn't prove that Encrochat wasn't a police setup.
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Let me quote perhaps the most important part of the essay and the part that I believe truly defines this ethos.

-- begin quote

When I was young and stupid, I used to believe that transgender was really, really dumb. That they were looking for attention or making it up or something along those lines.

Luckily, since I was a classical liberal, my reaction to this mistake was – to not bother them, and to get very very angry at people who did bother them. I got upset with people trying to fire Phil Robertson for being homophobic even though homophobia is stupid. You better bet I also got upset with people trying to fire transgender people back when I thought transgender was stupid.

And then I grew older and wiser and learned – hey, transgender isn’t stupid at all, they have very important reasons for what they do and go through and I was atrociously wrong. And I said a mea culpa.

But it could have been worse. I didn’t like transgender people, and so I left them alone while still standing up for their rights. My epistemic structure failed gracefully. For anyone who’s not overconfident, and so who expects massive epistemic failure on a variety of important issues all the time, graceful failure modes are a really important feature for an epistemic structure to have.

-- end quote

I read the humility and desire to not to harm even when you're wrong inherent in that passage as the exact opposite of "peacocking intelligence" - and I find your choice to use PUA terminology to describe the behaviour to be either unintentionally gross or deliberately unkind depending on whether or not you were aware that was what you were doing.
Modern medical grade heroin doesn’t not contain a single portion of fentanyl which is already a good example of how safe the progress made the drug.
Stopped reading at "her"

[which is probably not one of the obstacles the article considered]
If their detectives are worth their salt, they will know how the prices at port fluctuate.
They disclose this in the (beautifully done) about page.
I won't disagree that journalists are crap at consistency, sticking to provable facts, and avoiding injecting biased language into reporting.
Probably because they're just posting something that is already in the article, and adding nothing to the discussion.
The "for" argument is outlined by Dataminr in the article. If someone with one of those old-timey "press" hats went down to the protest and started publishing information about where it is, how it's going, how many people there are, most people would consider that to be simple and non-problematic journalism. Dataminr doesn't think their behavior is any different.
Dislaimer: I work at the company that makes Teleport.

Just to clarify, this blog post was about the updates in this release which include a lot of UI changes (particularly in the Web UI).

However, Teleport works with whatever UI you would typically use SSH with[0]. The WebUI is an additional "feature"; it's not the only user interface.

[0] The use of SSO is another feature that does generally require a browser based auth.
Ruler-straight roads make a lot of sense when you're trying to rule a vast empire where the speed of communication is the travel time of your messengers. The roads are basically both transportation and telecom infrastructure.
Just as many Chinese citizens are proud of their country and culture, there are lots of people in the US who are proud of their country and culture. Are there lots of hypocrites in the United States? Yes. Are there lots of naive people? I mean people still love Trump now while the rest of the world laughs at us. The people in both societies are flawed so let's put that aside.

If we look at both systems (and not as individuals), the US as a whole makes an attempt to do what's right and the system attempts to correct bad behavior. The original founders tried to prevent any one person from usurping power through checks and balances. As Trump tries to upend the country, the Supreme Court restricts what he can do but also tries to ensure the presidency retains power against the legislative branch. Trump has very little power against the Supreme Court and his Supreme Court appointees have voted against him several times already.

Citizens in United States can take to the street to protest against change. Does it always work? Most of the time no. But occasionally, with George Floyd's case, some changes are happening. When individual citizens has their rights taken away, it is possible to sue the government. When this is taken to the Supreme Court and the citizen wins, change happens.

These things will not necessarily get us to a better place but the mechanism for the people to make the change is enshrined in the constitution. Fortunately, this mechanism does eventually guide us to the right place. So far.

As far as I can tell, this kind of corrective behavior does not work in countries like Russia, China and North Korea. It's citizens cannot demand change. What these countries do have is a level of efficiency that democracies will never match. I am envious of this. I am jealous of China's high speed rails and it's ability to erect large cities and hospitals in a matter of months and days.

No doubt United States is in a bad place right now. It has lost its leadership status in the world, it's citizens are sick and dying with a virus that the rest of the world has controlled, and citizens are demanding to not be murdered by their police. However, Trump will most likely be voted out in the fall. Congress is slowly passing laws for better police reform. Counties and states who do not agree with the President covid policies can work against the President's demands to better protect their citizens. Yes there will be problems. Some bad actors will get away with unethical and immoral behaviors. However, the system will attempt to correct the problem. This is why Western democracy is regarded higher than dictatorships in countries like Russia, China and North Korea. The system in United States will give its citizens a better chance to weather the storm than a country with dictatorship.
I've seen this countless times.

I think a better comparison would be to oxygen: you know when you don't have it. You will be concerned about running out of it.

Having an abundance of oxygen doesn't buy you happiness. It buys you the ability to be happy, or content. An unlimited supply of oxygen has diminishing returns on your ability to do anything additional, but fortunately you have the opportunity to, and you don't even think about it, compared to people wondering if they are about to get triaged out of a ventilator.
Oh, I don't doubt it. I've had them refuse to take my New Mexico driver's licence...
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I only use unit tests as a temporary critic when developing brand new abstractions from scratch. With complex implementations, it is incredibly easy to forget one out of hundreds of constraints and lose track of important capabilities as you go.

That said, the moment the abstraction is in a clean state and consistently passing all tests and has been integrated well with existing logic, the unit tests are deprecated as far as I am concerned. I wont ever explicitly delete them, but I recognize that the unit tests are potentially just as flawed as what they are testing (the same developer wrote them after all), and coming back into that abstraction after 6+ months elapses means I'd probably just have to rewrite tests from scratch as a mental exercise and in order to restore my own sanity.

I can recall at least one occasion where I wasted 2 days chasing down a failing unit test only to find out the test itself was flawed - in the worst way, random pass/fail based on a race condition between multiple threads that were part of the testing code. I think that's the biggest danger with unit testing. Other developers assuming the tests you wrote are foolproof and sending them on pointless errands.
I still just press it randomly and issue commands to applications constantly that I dont want, and that's after disabling half of it because I touched it too much :\
Okay, I'll try to refrain from that where it's unwarranted. That's a fair critique. Though you didn't address my argument here.

You seem to be thinking that that definition means that a character attack at literally any point in an essay or report constitutes an ad hominem. It's not: the 'rather' implies a substitution, where the character attack essentially is the reasoning used.

If I do an investigative report on a campaigning politician, detailing that he once beat his wife, neglected his kids, cheated on his taxes, etc. and then concluded that "his morals appear to be rather severely in question", that's a character attack, but it's not an ad hominem.
The surveillance, including the mass surveillance of the communication, existed even in older times. It is, for example, documented that both British and US secret services went through all the telegrams that passed their commercial infrastructure, often based on a simple "gentleman's agreement" with the companies, even in the 19th century, and certainly in the 20th.

Other countries were somehow aware of that weakness of telegrams, and the practice of attempting to use some code for telegram messages existed even then.
The first obvious point is that protesting is a constitutionally protected activity, as is any political speech on Twitter, and this is interpreted extremely widely - so why are public institutions in the business of surveilling this legal, ney protected activity?

But there is more to it. Courts have long recognized that state activity that can be reasonably construed to chill exercise of ones constitutional freedoms is similarly an infringement on those rights, and certainly take a very dim look on any sort of surveillance of political activity.
I'm not "trying to use" a "different definition" - I used the dictionary definition as a reasonable middle ground, and you keep using dehumanizing language as if I'm not here as well, and repeatedly asserting I'm trying to trick you, when the difference here is fairly simple and clear to you. Be well.
Other people may have a combination of:

- better delivery options

- an aversion to walking, or no walk-able options

- higher risk tolerance for lukewarm food

People differ in more than physical appearance.
1. there is no reason to be pedantic about the language around QI. We are not in court, so you're not impressing anyone with your "actually" non-sense. Any reasonable person can infer that I was talking about cases in which QI would be used as a justification to absolve the officer of responsability.

2. Your first rebuttal point reinforces my point, in practice there are very few cases that result in QI being used w.r.t. teachers.

3. I think most of us can agree that QI shouldn't apply to teachers or officers or any other State actor and is legal non-sense created by junk judicial interpretation.
>>If Caesar has lost, the world would have looked a lot different.

If there are any budding film producers out there, I want to see a movie showing this modern alternative universe:)
Nice job! (Would like to see Ctrl + e focus into the first value box)
Robin Hanson argues [0] that most of politics is not about outcomes; it's about in-group signaling.

[0] http://elephantinthebrain.com/
I did not intend to imply that, just that it may happen somewhere between 2000 kgs and the end customer.
Raping a 4-year-old girl is pretty dehumanizing for the victim. I think of an absurdly long sentence as a way of conveying how abhorrent the justice system finds that behavior.
Same for me as well.
I think it's more about options. Charter schools have the freedom to experiment with new ideas, which means their outcomes are likely to be more variable. Some will be better than traditional schools, some will be worse. But over time, that freedom to experiment should converge to an overall higher standard of education. At least, that's the theory, but the data seem consistent with that so far.
It's still a supersonic jet, just not the one you want. What is essentially a privately-built supersonic fighter jet is still impressive, but how much more investment will they need for the full size passenger version?
I was (naturally) skeptical at first as well, but this looks great.

I saw on another page that audit logs are sent off server, presumably append-only, but can Teleport pause execution until after log replication is verified?

For plain logs this would be straightforward, but for enhanced logging I suppose it'd be a matter of deciding when to pause execution, e.g. after downloading a file.
Chinese universities do have this concept -- certain students are marked VIP, so that professors will know.

But the concept of granting admission based on such status, as opposed to extending special treatment to an admitted student, is very much muted.

There are ways of getting in to a university without passing the gaokao threshold that would ordinarily be required. But those generally involve receiving a point boost that the college has the official discretion to offer, or doing well on an alternative test -- someone scoring 303 out of 750 would obviously not pass a lower discretionary threshold either.

Note that when "officials in Shandong say new processes are now in place to make sure such incidents will not happen again", they are correct -- it's already possible to look up both your gaokao score (this girl's score wasn't falsified; rather, her identity was stolen) and the 分数线 that applied to you when you applied to a school. The problem would be instantly detected[1] by anyone who felt bitter about what happened -- and this is quite likely, since you have a strong idea of what your gaokao score will be before you actually take the test. (You have to, because you apply to colleges before you get your official result.)

[1] Well, detected with probably a one-year lag.
The insurance is given a polarity and connection to the rest of your luck in such a way that it smooths out your risks. On the other hand, playing the lottery makes your good luck spikier. (Though there are more specific ways to say it, we could say that insurance is meant to make your life less impacted by chance -- more predictable -- while insurance is meant to make it more impacted by chance -- more unpredictable.)
Yeah I doubt the CIA has objected because they got all their needs met from congressional funding. They just already had built plenty of dark money reserves.
"Alas, it appears I can no longer read it, got flagged. Must have been even worse than the bit I did read :/ "

Nope, that was the only unfriendly thing I said. Just turn on showdead if you want to read it.
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I spend a lot of time in the summers reading SCOTUS opinions, and I have to flatly disagree with this. Gorsuch peppers in these comments and they distinctly detract from the legal reasoning in the Opinion. It’s cute, but superfluous and further turns justices into “rockstars” to be cheered, which is bad.