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Remember when LaCie had this huge blue light/button on their drives? (thankfully you could turn it off)
Same. Aloha, OR

I'm not expecting it to mean much.
Of course they're valid criticisms. The US can behave hypocritically and still be correct.
> Of course there are times when a party in the US controls both branches and we still struggle to get things done.

It's the party discipline. In Canada political parties control the fundraising apparatus and you can't be bankrolled by a handful of wealthy donors. Barring unusual circumstance, if you want to be re-elected you are beholden to a party and thus the whips generally have a strong ability to bring votes to the table.

In the states its a lot easier for a Republican or Democrat to tell their party to go fly a kite if they don't see voting for a bill as opportune, in part because of less reliance on the party.
I see, a new NYU campus in Abu-Dhabi, but is it still NYU if it's based in in Abu Dhabi? Wouldn;t that be more like ADU (funded by NYU)?

I wonder how they'll compare tuition wise and whether that would incentivize foreign students to stay home. New York is a very expensive city but it is also a different experience.
> I don't ascribe a right or left bias to them.

My personal experience is a lot of HR departments do have a left-of-center bias to them, especially at the lower-levels (but at times reaching all the way to the top). A few reasons:

1) HR departments tend to skew female, and women on average skew somewhat more left-of-center than men do

2) They often have special teams for "diversity & inclusion", which inevitably tend to be filled with people with left-of-center political views

3) They'll put requirements like "commitment to diversity & inclusion" in job descriptions, which can (ironically) act as a filter to remove political diversity. Those phrases can get copy-and-pasted into job descriptions in other departments too, but while for many in engineering/sales/etc it is just compliance boilerplate with little real significance to the hiring process, HR really means it.

Of course this isn't universally true, I'm sure there are some HR departments out there full of Trump supporters. But most of the people here would not be working for those kinds of companies.
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But they were specifically taunting them and influencing them. They put up posts with negative emotions. If just one post caused someone to commit suicide in the negative study group, and facebook showed it to them one time more than normal, they are culpable. Given the large N value, I find it difficult to believe this didn't happen.
When I was still in university even in the tiniest of student rooms I pretty much always sat at least at 2m distance from my/a TV. No mansions involved.
Take out your measuring tape and extend it 2m from the middle of your couch, or conversely extend 2m from your TV. It is not as big a viewing distance as you think.
What is that comparison meant to show?
I assume menu prices also different from state to state, city to city. Not sure I see the issue.
The one that let us build a library of bit-for-bit regression tests ;-) but for that I have to explain a bit more. There were computational "features" that could be turned on and off to tweak the computation for different problems and for different speed/accuracy trade-offs, and sometimes these features had very slight effects, so regressions could result in very small errors.

An experienced eye could easily see the difference between the tiny x87-related indeterminacy and other kinds of changes, but we were uncomfortable automating this comparison, and it took a while for someone without strong domain knowledge (such as myself or any other software engineer being hired) to become comfortable eyeballing it. With deterministic output, we could use automated tests to verify that, for example, the work we did to add a new computational feature did not change the output when that feature was not enabled, or that small changes intended as performance optimizations did not inject tiny numerical errors.

Our customers were also a lot more comfortable when they could use "diff" to validate that our latest X-times-faster release was really doing the same computation as the last one :-)

EDIT: We also got a noticeable speed-up by enabling the SSE2 instructions. The bulk of the numeric work was done in hardware, so it wasn't dramatic, but it was measurable.
>The issue I have with systemd was mainly related to its heaviness not really fitting in with Arch's simplicity.

Arch is a pragmatic distribution first and foremost. If we can build systemd, and ship it as-is to have a complete init, and more features along with it, that is much more enticing then the alternative.

> I think it (openrc) would have been a good choice for Arch, for me it would have been better than systemd.

It would still entail maintaining some form of initscripts. I don't think most users realize how much of a burden this is, they don't really deal with that part of the system.
My TV confuses me, where a solid red light, indicates the TV is off. But a blinking red light, indicates the TV is on. I’ve had this TV for years, and I still can’t remember how to understand the LED lights.
I'm curious why though?
I don't know if they're valid. I think my point is structured in such a way that it doesn't matter in this context: those concerns, if they are or were ever valid, are not rendered invalid by the points that the above commenter was making. I don't believe I have the background to comment meaningfully on whether TikTok is an actual security threat to US citizens or whether the US government would be hypocritical in banning TikTok for such a reason. The question of hypocrisy also seems like a separate one to me (i.e., should one not do the correct thing because it would be seen as hypocritical by some?).
technically, but only a handful (<5) of vehicles are run without a safety driver, each has a dedicated remote operator and a follower vehicle, and the area covered is much smaller than their regular operation (a small area in the suburbs).
Exactly. It’s “lobbying” when the other side does it, but “standing up for what’s right” when my side does it.
The simple answer could be to charge a fee for support calls. Either a flat fee per minute, or a fee applied to the account that gets refunded if it ends up being an issue on their side that can't be self-solved.

They would reach a "sweet spot" where the fee would still be affordable but dissuasive enough to cut down on the amount of stupid calls, and would actually allow them to hire less, but more skilled support advisors.
They didn't, he's oversimplifying it greatly. The US armed the Mujahadeen throughout the 1980s (through the Pakistani ISI and Pakistani state), leaving behind a vast amount of unused weaponry in Afghanistan. This was during the period prior to the soviet ground forces' withdrawal from Afghanistan and prior to the ending of the Najibullah government, and the killing of Najibullah.

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

It definitely is a fact that during the 1980s the US pursued a policy of "the enemy of my enemy...", in which the hardcore fundamentalist/sharia law politics and religious ideology of some of the mujahadeen they supported (Bin Laden included), were seen as secondary or tertiary to the primary mission of killing soviet soldiers, and bringing about the end of the soviet-backed government.

Some of the former Muj, predominantly the very fundamentalist Pashtun factions, later became the Taliban which seized Kandahar in 1994, and then Kabul in 1996. At that point the US had not been supporting them for at least 4 years. After the Taliban became an actual "thing" the US shifted its support to the northern alliance/northern warlords such as Dostum and Massoud.
I'm not sure if it's a specific policy for HN, but often for popular articles they aren't too upset if a subscriber shares the full article. (Which we can do.)

I think it's worth noting that The Information is an incredible journalism outfit that does incredible work. I subscribe not for access to the content (which other sites reblog within hours), but to support legit journalists doing real, original research.
> The Khmer Rouge believed that parents were tainted with capitalism, so they separated children from their parents, indoctrinated them in communism, and taught them torture methods with animals. Children were a “dictatorial instrument of the party” and were given leadership in torture and executions.

This sounds like it’s taken straight out of Orwells 1984.
Does anyone know if all the Starlink satellites are operational? Did they send up any duds so far? Or have any failures post launch?
Don't the blinking clocks on the oven and microwave bother you? :)
So you're actually opting into your democracy being a plutocracy because it's tiresome?
I will talk about one in particular which hits close to home, since I have people in my extended family which were killed there. The genocide in Timor-Leste, which killed 150,000 to 200,000 people. If that doesn't seem that much at first glance, the population of Timor in 1975 was 688,000. That invasion was: approved or even suggested by the US (Kissinger and Ford met with Suharto on the eve of the invasion to give the OK), financed* by the US, with troops trained by the US and armed by the US.

The reason? The people of that small, freshly liberated country were on the verge of holding their first democratic elections, and dangerously close to choosing a left-wing party to govern them, of their own free will.

That being said perusing his wikipedia page should give you many things to read about.
KSP was originally developed by an advertising agency, so maybe not too surprising.
Yeah, I was almost confused by the measurements for emissions at 7.2 GHz before I realized it was just checking for the third harmonic of 2.4.
They do list employment information elsewhere, and as for biometric, they list that they will gather and sell information about how you look or smell
The modern left, antifa and blm are no different
What have CSS and sprite-sheets go to do with the HTTP protocol?
I can’t like this post enough. We are not accountable by lines of code. Delivering healthy, maintainable software requires thought, experience, and thorough testing. This is why companies have taken so long accepting the idea of unit testing.
Amazon has AWS instances running their own custom ARM silicon. It's not hard to imagine Microsoft and Google doing the same, which will eventually become dominant for cost reasons alone.

We'll have three platforms that control most non-Chinese computing. It's hard for smaller players to compete with that kind of inertia.
TikTok could have had hosting for cheaper from Alibaba, but now Google has an $800M incentive to keep TikTok alive in the U.S. Smart.
I assume in order to be able to decide to serve those 1Ghz frequencies, all the phones are going to ping the local towers regardless, so it doesn't matter.
Accountants != Economists

Many ERP systems do use the convention that debits are positive numbers and credits negative and so only have a single column for amount. This is possibly more confusing for non accountants as they have to understand that a negative income balance means they made money.
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Self hosting is no longer realistic because all the data you actually want to compute on is now in the cloud. The egress costs of that data into your self hosted environment would destroy you.

Imagine a world where the cloud produces more data at a rate that exceeds the pipes leaving the cloud. You are quite literally locked into computing within that same cloud.
Ditto^
Ruby toolbox has a wonderfully simple way of crowdsourcing it -- categorizing a package is as simple as submitting a small yaml PR, e.g. https://github.com/rubytoolbox/catalog/pull/417/files
Indians in California (and it sounds like many other places in the US too) burned annually for a plethora of reasons. I'm learning about this in https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520280434/tending-the-wild which explains how native Californians actively maintained the landscape.

From what I remember from reading, burning

- increased growth of grasses in spring to feed native grazers

- encouraged fresh shoots from plants to grow long and straight which made them useful for basket material and arrows

- kept meadows open and barren of trees which encouraged grazing and made hunting easier

- captured and cooked insects such as grasshoppers for food

As California has suffered so much recently from wild fires, we're learning how seasonal burning was also import for preventing catastrophic fires.

Places like Yosemite were described by early white settlers as resembling a park, with large, spaced trees and grass beneath. You could see from one end of the valley floor to the other. With modern fire suppression, this is impossible, and many of the once vast meadows are now filling with encroaching pines.

This barely scratches the surface of how fire was used to manage land resources by California Indians. I highly recommend this book if you're interested in Native American practices, California history, land management, and native plants.
Well, those folks don’t really count. /s
It is and it isn't. I remember the first time I thought "this software is just X that everybody forgot about, reinvented again". That was 2005. Not coincidentally that was a decade after I started working as a sysadmin.

Venkatesh Rao says that there comes a point in your life when you realize things you thought were permanent are temporary, and things you thought were temporary are permanent; he uses "40" as a good rubric for that developmental stage. IT goes through many pendula, whether it be containerization vs. amalgamation, or thin clients vs. thick. What, over time, you learn to hold on to is the tools that have lasted decades and will probably continue to. Right now the pendulum is starting to swing back towards amalgamation, and it will probably swing back towards containerization again in another decade. Whatever the tech is at the time, it can be good to reconsider whether your views will have changed not on the technology, but on the larger pendulum it's riding.
I'm not sure why they don't market it as an Epyc. (I suspect the TDP requirements exceed the limits of Epyc's SP3 socket.) Otherwise, it's essentially a single-socket Epyc with higher clock speeds and a higher TDP.
You're probably thinking of universities submitting the number of students registered for each course. Attendance, how many students physically attend each class on a given day and which students do, is never tracked except by the occasional oddball professor who base grades on attendance.
So your counterpoint is that the call to genocide was one he relayed directly from the president of the USA?

The "I was only following orders" defense did not fly at the Nuremberg trials.
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What was the purpose of your original question? Was it to further your understanding or to open an opportunity to be fastidious?

Are you still incapable of seeing that broadcasting is a specific action?
Dude, you have no idea what happens behind closed doors. It’s absolutely a common political move to fight for something you don’t really care about and then use it as a bargaining chip to get what you do want.
Would love to get perspectives from HN community - did you decide between Snowflake and Spark for data engineering? Which one did you pick, and why?
I am not sure how many Americans are even aware of how extensively the USA supported Suharto militarily, no matter what he did, because he was supposedly anti communist.
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Wait until you read about the forced confession extraction in S-21 / Tuol Sleng...
Netflix was a commitment. Redbox was a whim.

In the years before streaming netflix, I often did Redbox. Pick up a DVD on the way home form work on Friday. Return is Saturday when I go out shopping.

Do it twice a month, spend $2 (or $3 when they raised the price).

Netflix was 9.99 or more, and you basically had to watch 5 or 6 DVDs a month to "get your monies worth". So I often found myself watching a DVD when I didn't want to because I had already paid it, so I could send it back and get the DVD I actually wanted but didn't get because it was out of stock.
No chance they have 1B DAU. That doesn’t pass the sniff test.

That’s like 1.5B MAU, which is even more ridiculous. But let’s look.. 7 billion people, 4.5B have internet access. So more than over 15% of humans with internet access are using tiktok every day.

3.5B humans have a smart phone, so 1 in 3 are on tiktok every day? Nah.

And honestly, I’m fairly even on china but I don’t really believe numbers the put out for most things.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/617136/digital-populatio...

https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/how-many-phones-are-in-the-w...
It's enlightening to contemplate the impact of such a thing, all the way out to the song "Holiday in Cambodia." Imagine seeing a tree with a plaque on it stating that this was the place where they used to smash infants' heads against the trunk. They were always just one murder away from achieving perfection, and in light of such a goal, what is a single life?

I was recently remarking to someone on their Year Zero, their willful destruction of all that had gone before. Certainly we have seen it with ISIS and Mao encouraged it for that revolution, but this was much more thorough. Pagodas were turned into warehouses and statues were of course destroyed. It certainly seem to be a common thread in communist revolutions: all that has gone before must be destroyed.

Now I am going to see if I cannot find Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia.
Thanks for feedback, I thought the article left fully unnoticed here:) Go also has a small disadvantage for writing WebSocket apps – you don't have full control on read buffer reuse (since its got allocated for entire lifetime of connection) thus memory consumption per connection is more than it could be. Otherwise I am pretty happy with Go for this task.
I admit the C++ ramp up could be discouraging, but in the case of Chromium, it's a quite well documented project and its code review process is very helpful and friendly.

Other open source engines, like Gecko/Servo or WebKit offer similar incentives to start contributing to those projects, but perhaps Chromium has a bigger community and capacity to provide documentation or assist in the code reviews. In any case, all of them are built on top of an open and receptive communities.
I know it is a joke, but 64bit fixed-point representation with nanosecond resolution has just ~585 years of range. With 1e100 years of range needed to measure out to the heat-death of the universe, you end up with resolution of ~5e80 years, which is 60 orders of magnitude longer than the current age of the universe.

It is easy to run out of bits when trying to use a single number as both an absolute date/time, and to compute relative durations between timestamps with reasonable precision. I've lost track of the number of bugs I've fixed where someone assumed a double would be big enough without doing the math.
"In Washington, then-Representative Christopher Dodd of Connecticut averred: ``The greatest gift our country can give to the Cambodian people is peace, not guns. And the best way to accomplish that goal is by ending military aid now.''"

"In the news columns of The New York Times, the celebrated Sydney Schanberg wrote of Cambodians that ``it is difficult to imagine how their lives could be anything but better with the Americans gone.'' He dismissed predictions of mass executions in the wake of a Khmer Rouge victory: ``It would be tendentious to forecast such abnormal behavior as national policy under a Communist government once the war is over.'' On April 13, 1975, Schanberg's dispatch from Phnom Penh was headlined, ``Indochina without Americans: for most, a better life.''"

http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/...
No, it isn't. But it doesn't remotely relate to what I said either. Aircraft "autopilot" wouldn't be considered Level 2 either.

That's the point, there is a vast difference in the publics perception of what autopilots do in aircraft versus what they actually do.
I’m curious as well, what did Kissinger do that puts in the same category as Milosevic?