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No problem :) One thing I forgot to mention about squash! commits was to use the --allow-empty flag when running git commit, so that we can make a commit without having to actually change any files.

Then, when doing the interactive rebase with the --autosquash and --keep-empty flags, you'll get to a point where your editor opens up with text saying that "this is a combination of X commits". At that point, you can delete the text down to the text of the last squash commit, exit the editor, and it will replace the commit message for the corresponding commit with the text that was in the squash commit message.
Shareholders only care about profits, nothing else.
This is really well done. I find the default "free form" mode is by far the most interesting, and it's more complex than a lot of the comments are implying here. It cycles between different patterns, and the pattern is changed by inserting a space or punctuation. You can easily verify this by typing an extremely long word without spaces: the pattern becomes apparent, even though it's always transposed up or down by 5 semitones when it repeats. This interval is well chosen - it effectively explores all possible transpositions of the pattern, while keeping the transitions harmonious. This also means that the tonality is constantly wandering, there is no overall key but only transient tonalities.

Different punctuation marks provide different collections of more-or-less conclusive chords. This might be the only place where tonality is hinted at, especially if you bash the comma, you can hear it's rooted in one key for the whole session. As far as I can tell those special characters are / ! ? 1 . ,

I haven't figured out if the patterns are generated on-the-fly or chosen from a predefined set, but they tend to have a nice melodic quality.

Someone also mentioned special words rain and wind, but there are more... very fun to explore. The concept is nice but the execution is especially interesting.
https://www.copymethat.com/ is the best tool hands down.
Emotional intelligence (or competence) is highly non-verbal. In my personal path I've tried impro, biodanza, and some variants of therapeutic theater. Biodanza for me was the hardest but also the most rewarding:

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

It's difficult to explain exactly what it is, but during the sessions you don't speak, you communicate with other people through your eyes, touch and your movements. There's too much personal contact to recommend it in these virus-loaded days, but if you're the kind of person who has difficulty reading people and you're kinda stiff, this most definitely helps.
My point was that society/people by and large don't care about unhealthiness and/or the negative effects of addition, they simply want things that they dislike or disagree with (usually from a weird moral or intellectual high horse) to be banned. Else Americans would all be on the streets protesting the continued legality of alcohol consumption or the ridiculous amount of sugars pumped into so much of their food and drink; why the pearl-clutching over teenagers being teenagers and fooling around on a frivolous app compared to the monumental damage to society those two things inflict?
It’s just a search engine... and don’t get me wrong, it’s a really robust and expressive search engine, but all it’s doing is data analysis. As scary as that is (and it is absolutely scary), it’s not anything that someone couldn’t do with tableau, or with a whole lot more patience and data manipulation, straight elasticsearch.

Palantir makes that easier, sure, but at what point is a tool sufficiently generic so as to not be held accountable for what it’s used for? And if there is no amount of generalizability that absolves the author of software from what its used for, how do you square that against open source software?

Should the elasticsearch authors feel guilty if their software is used for something unethical as described here? No money is changing hands is one difference, but for a decision of morality does the payment matter?

To be clear, I don’t think there’s one right answer here. Different people will absolutely have different opinions, and that’s not the type of disagreement that’s likely to be swayed on a forum, I just wanted to provide you a different way to think about it, if you’re open to doing so.
It's definitely overkill, but it does run fast on small datasets. (almost any query would return in a few seconds at this size)

Also, I find it's SQL dialect and UI very nice for simple stuff too.
The only point I've made is that something being addictive and harmful is a reasonable quality to ban something for. This was in response to the user who said "there are plenty of reasons to ban tiktok, but this ain't it" (from memory, but close enough).

This doesn't mean that I think all things which are addictive and harmful should be banned. A total ban on alcohol would probably not be effective, and would lead to more harm than good, so I wouldn't support it.
Well it means if Harvard goes through and is 100% online it won’t be able to have international students attending from the US. So it is essentially forcing universities to have at least a hybrid schedule (universities won’t pass on the nice 100% sticker price tuition paid by internationals).
Considering it's a personal project, one can choose where to stop. Sounds like they've chosen to draw the line at making their own switch mechanism.
I have this dream of an alternate search engine:

* Aggressively prune bad actors (spammy, zero-value, etc.) with ML.

* I am ok with rated-E only content (no porn, etc).

* Zero ads, I am fine with paying premium subscription price / month.

This dream search engine should have a considerably small index size, thus low operational costs.
A good way of avoiding this trap is to require updated comments as a condition of merging a pull request.
It seems like there should be some way to cut out the middle man and build an entire currency based on solving captchas.
It's axis must be parallel with the Earth's axis, otherwise the earth's rotation would generate enormous gyroscopic forces.
> But you allow seemingly nonsense theorems when you forget to condition (x>0).

Such as what? I’ve only spent a few hours with lean, but I’m fairly sure that any attempt to prove something silly would fail because it would catch the weird behavior of 0.

For example. If you tried to use a/a = 1 as the article mentions, you’d be unable to prove it without adding the condition that a != 0, and you’d be unable to use it further on without that condition in place.
> So had they been complying with govt data requests from Hong Kong up until 5 days ago? I have no idea what China's policies on ex post facto laws are but does this mean there are political dissenters in Hong Kong who will likely be punished for this new security law based on info given to them from these companies just 2 weeks ago?

Probably.

> Don't get me wrong, I'm extremely grateful these companies are taking this stand.

I'm not, their business model revolves on data aggregation, it may no longer openly do so for the CCP but the 5 Eyes Nations still has a massive trove of data on each and every one of us. What should be held in poor regard is the business model, and the apparatus that supports it; getting elated at this news undermines that the US wants Assange and Snowden, and held Chelsea in jail that drove her to near-suicide several times.

> I wish these companies would have been more proactive about doing something to support the people of Hong Kong because this is literally the first news I think I've seen, in the entire 1.5 years of the ongoing protests, where a major US company actually did something to help them.

That was never going to happen, short of over-hauling its leaky, and meta-data dragnet apparatus, HKers have moved to Telegram/Signal and DDG where ever possible. Which is why they've done this recently [1].

What we really need is to build a New Internet that doesn't deviate from its true decentralized nature.

Also, the protests have been ongoing since since 2014, arguably 2013 when Suffrage was being denied in unfair elections as they were hand-picked by the CCP; just like Carrie Lam and her cabinet is. They may have paused the massive street demos, but lots of things were happening in other aspects preparing for the inevitable. Hong Kong isn't that city, although I'm partial to Kowloon Walled City and what it represented in the period between British occupation and Chinese handover, it's the People. I just wish their transition to Taiwan and UK are reasonable one's as many are highly educated English speakers and would be a strong asset to their Economy. The US is considering giving them priority as refugee status, too [2].

The CCP needs to tried for not just illegal annexation and violating the Handover terms, it was supposed to remain autonomous for 50 years, but also for Crimes Against Humanity for the way they strong armed their way into Hong Kong with COVID. Now that Swine Flu and the cases of the Bubonic Plague are being discovered in Mongolia we have no time to screw around with another pandemic.

1: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4k95/hong-kong-resident...

2: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senators-propose-giv...
> The statement that defense is the largest discretionary part of the federal government is an indisputable fact.

Your position appears to boil down to "if the author had said something different, they'd be right!" - yes, I'll agree with that. It doesn't make the original statement true.
Lehman Brothers Moment in China – Shadow Bank Sichuan Trust Missed Payments
Bullet points from article:

Sichuan Trust last week apologised to investors for missing payments on its financial products due in part to the coronavirus outbreak and global economic downturn

The firms troubles indicate growing risks in the trust industry, which is often linked to China’s shadow banking system

Any additional links related to this story would be appreciated.
I mean, I think the personal sharing of any story implies that someone else's views or experiences may vary, no? The fact that it concerned you to the extent that you called it out is certainly notable.

Other people may have had different experiences. But that is absolutely not what I saw, not from my colleagues, not from my friends at other firms, and not from the general consensus around DC at the time.
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I wonder why apple is abandoning bootcamp if windows on ARM is fine?
That's a weird comment. From what the OP described, the software is a data visualization tool. Palantir the company doesn't hold the data based on what the OP said. The govt or whoever gathered the data would be the owner of the data. It doesn't appear the Palantir software itself does the original data gather.
It only gets worse when you actually find out what they do.
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The same reason people build and fly model airplanes even though it would be impossible to transport a financially viable amount of cargo on them. It's fun.
Wow, you must be confused with Venezuela. While Argentina has oil, its production is very low and it never was a driver of the economy.

And about the comment of “its professional class gradually became an entrenched bureaucracy”, I don’t know where you get that conclusion, but is far from the historical facts.

Argentina had a good economic situation at the beginning of the 20 century. But it also had a lot of inequality. That inequality created a lot of political instability. That instability led to violence: when the people that was “out” of the elite took the power, people at the elite did strike back... it continued for years in cycles of stability and violence, and a cruel dictatorship (google for Dirty War).

Related to the Malvinas/Falklands war... that war was the last resort from the military dictatorship to gain popularity, but they were very stupid and blind... and sent many young unprepared soldiers to die.

A good outcome from the war, was the debilitation of the dictatorship and the return of democracy in 82.

So what this has to do with the economy?
After these cycles the country ended with tons of debt. Also our economy relies a lot in the agricultural export. During the turmoil of the 60s/70s many industries (and scientific research) died and the recovery took years.

Since the return of the democracy we went through two big crises (89 and 2001). Our economy still relies in agricultural exports. The professional and worker class pays the debt every day in the form of high inflation, high interest rates, and low credit availability.
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Resume is generated server-side using a headless browser. This allows to create fancy-looking resumes pretty easily - anything that can be done with CSS can be part of the template.
After resume is designed it's pretty easy to add it to the system (about an hour).
Currently I only have 4 templates, but if there is enough interest can add more.
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An absolutely insane amount of research, testing, and polishing went into Windows 3.11 and Windows 95, and I think the ratio of polish to code reached its peak for Microsoft.

Edit: Just to clarify, I am talking mainly of the UI here, not the underlying OS, which was, of course, very basic.

Although with virtualized hardware, my experience of running both Windows 95 and Windows ME have been quite good.
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Usually people who say things like this have made zero effort to discover contemporary art that they like. You list examples of old European art that can be found in a 7th grade textbook.
The word "tech" itself changes every decade or so. Agriculture was considered "tech" at one point of time. The companies you listed are all "electronics tech" while Microsoft is purely "software tech" which is the prevalent definition of tech today.
No, I have become freegan, which means I have abandoned the currency system and live largely without touching it.
I don't think you need to go as far as standardizing the equipment, capturing the control settings as well as the output data in a standard form would do.

I'm currently trying to push the use of an existing standard [1] for capturing engineering experimental results.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_10303
I don't think you're right. The majority owner of onlyfans also owns MyFreeCams which has existed for almost 20 years making money off pornography. OnlyFans started as a creator website but pivoted to porn in part because of Radvinsky. This is a site built around decades of sex work financial knowledge.
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Clearly you are one of those people who takes gifting very seriously, some dont. Its brilliant because its the right product for people who want to give something but dont have time or dont feel comfortable asking probing questions about what the recipient likes.

Giving cheque/cash feels tacky to me.
If you really cook there's no way to separate the market shopping from the cooking. If I need tomatoes for sauce or I need them for slicing, that's two completely different criteria for tomatoes. Would I pay some rando to bring me a pound of peaches? Definitely not. I wouldn't even ask my wife to go get the peaches. Honestly, do not understand how produce shopping can happen online. Obviously you can order Rice Krispies or whatever.
The loans aren’t supposed to be need-based charity. They’re an economic measure intended to preserve the status quo during the shut down—to keep the economy’s web of obligations from unraveling. If you saw your revenue fall, you were supposed to get a loan so you didn’t fall behind on your payroll, etc.

American Airlines got the loans and should have gotten the loans. Airlines are low-margin businesses. Last year, AA had $45.8 billion in revenues and $42.7 billion in expenses. Airlines are always living in the edge of a small shift in one of those numbers pushing them into the red. During the first quarter of this year it had $8.5 billion in revenue and $11.8 billion in expenses—almost completely wiping out all of last’s year’s profits. And that was just through March! If AA didn’t get the loans, it would have to lay everyone off, suppliers would stop getting paid, etc., and that would trigger exactly the unwinding of the economy that would make recovery protracted and painful.
Ah thank you. Not noticing a major imbalance.
exactly. FB and google collect data. Palantir doesn't. Just because a company runs warm and fuzzy super bowl commercials doesn't mean it's more ethical.
People in India do that, I guess it depends on the culture, some dont like getting direct cash.
My opinion is that Apple needed bootcamp to reassure users they could still use their windows software even if they were switching to Mac back when bootcamp was released. Now Apple and its ecosystem don't need windows anymore, in fact they would not like you to use anything other than ios and macos...
Well, first, some schools are going online only for the latter half of the semester. But my understanding of the current guidance is that this is not enough to meet the in-person requirements, and so students may have to leave anyway and miss that half. Second, intl. travel is highly disrupted already and will continue being so. Some countries will fare worse under covid than others, and so students may get stuck, even after their school states are doing better. No guidance was given on students from travel ban countries, who were already here after the travel bans. Third, student visas expire. Visa politics are very volatile lately. Summing up, many people are now subject to gratuitous uncertainty about whether they'll be able to come back in at all over the next 12 months. Suppose you have to leave, a lot of people have already signed leases, etc.

Finally, the guidance so far is quite ambiguous. It is not clear who is able to remain and who won't, and my department sent an email basically saying they are waiting for extra information to know what's going on. That already is bad in itself.
Here's a book on the topic: https://smile.amazon.com/How-Emotions-Made-Lisa-Barrett/dp/1.... It's one of the better books I've found on cognition and emotional intelligence. The author's interview with Ezra Klein is also very good and gives an overview of the book if you're hesitant about buying it: https://lisafeldmanbarrett.com/podcasts/.

The pieces of the puzzle fell into place after I read the book because she gives a computational perspective on emotions and how they're related to regulating homeostasis.
They have to leave within 10 days of a college going online only.
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I don't think that's what's being requested. It's ok if resources are dumped and left "as is". We just need more than we are getting, and it's not like they don't have that, it's just not as expected for them to publish it.
you almost did, why stop there?
> advice like this can lead to exactly the brittle comments that disillusion people from commenting as a whole

As I turn this over in my head, it doesn't sound that convincing because the whole "code should be self-explanatory" ethos seems to me just as susceptible to encouraging bad behavior. Saying something is clear allows you to elevate yourself and blame others if they don't follow. Expecting people to judge their own communication is a definite conflict of interest. Exaggerated commenting requirements as I described are at least a reminder that you should try to err on the other side.

Also, for context, the agency I work for is responsible for an accounting system that affects a lot of people and is very much not a "move fast and break things" place. The most exciting thing that happens year after year is reducing the scheduled downtime window(s). Even that obviously must have diminishing returns.

The other thing is that in my particular case, the code I wrote is not directly applicable to the accounting system and is written in a different language, so anyone trying to modify it will probably be relatively inexperienced and there is zero chance of anyone being hired to work on it.
Also, until 1993 if I recall correctly, Apple was more valuable and had a larger profit than MS.
I'm a big fan of HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence: https://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Intelligence-featured-Leade...
> Any action that cannot sustainably be extended to everyone else in the world…

This rules out lots of things that society accepts as fine. Although perhaps that's your intent.
One can only hope Microsoft would do a good thing. The saddest thing would be if it was all just lost. I hadn't heard of Allegiance; that's interesting.

[Aside: I do wonder where all the relevant artifacts would be kept. Do they have a vault with floor to ceiling shelving with all sorts of old stuff? Or is it all in the "cloud"?]
Palantir is not being misused. LAPD is using Palantir for its intended purpose.

> A major theme of palantír usage is that while the stones show real objects or events, they are an unreliable guide to action, and it is often unclear whether events are past or future: what is not shown may be more important than what is selectively presented. Further, users with sufficient power can choose what to show and what to conceal: in The Lord of the Rings, all uses of palantíri influence the action through deception or misreading of what is shown. Commentators such as Paul Kocher note the hand of providence in their usage, while Joseph Pearce compares Sauron's use of the stones to broadcast wartime propaganda.

This doesn't sound like the kind of device that should be sold to law enforcement, or anyone.

The entire point of this literary device is to show that the user does not actually understand what they are seeing leading to an incorrect assumption which ends in disaster. It's a cautionary tale, not something to be aspired to.
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At Ambra Health we help the health care system solve complex problems with storing and sharing medical imaging data (X-rays, CT's, MRI's etc), at locations around the world - including many renowned health centers. This involves processing, transcoding, optimizing a lot of medical images, for the Internet and other formats - some very challenging and interesting engineering problems.

We are looking for an imaging bit-wrangler with a mix of C++, Java and Linux experience to join our remote-only image processing team. This team works on the image-transforming services of our platform, which handle 8 billion (4PB) medical images in data centers and cloud environments around the world. The ideal candidate would be able to work independently with minimal supervision, seasoned to make good productivity/coding/architecture decisions.

Requirements:

- Experience generating, debugging or hacking image formats (such as PNG, JPEG, TIFF)

- Java and/or C++

- Basic Linux system administration skills

- Must live in USA

Big plus if you've got any of these skills:

- Building server software with multi-threading and concurrency, in a distributed network environment

- Experience with DICOM medical file format

- Diagnosing application problems in a Linux environment

- Experience with other systems or JVM languages (C, Go, C#, Scala, etc)

Our hiring process is pretty painless - short introduction call, 1-hour phone call with the team to get to know each other, then (if it works for you) a paid part-time trial period to see if we like working together.

Send me an email with your resume: pete+jobs@ambrahealth.com
It behaves exactly as an un-powered (but spinning) generator.

In the industry these are known as a "Synchronous Condenser" or Syncom. They have been in use for a long time.

https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2019/04/06/long-read-b...

One problem with the switch to renewable energy is that the mechanical momentum in steam turbines is lost.

This leaves the grid vulnerable to rapid changes in loading.
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