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"The Markup believes [...]" is underselling it. The 9th circuit, for one, agrees with them [1].

In the case at question here the 11th circuit ruled the other way. When circuit courts come to opposite conclusions the Supreme Court will sometimes step in to provide a ruling so that there's unified precedent. Hopefully they'll agree with the 9th circuit.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/web-scraping-doe...
That is a daily limit. We have limits for fraud prevention reasons. Thanks for the feedback on it not being clear you can type in a number. We should make that clearer.
Day of the Triffids?
I know foreign culture and all but no one ever chooses their birthname.
iPhone price in India is one of the highest anywhere in the world because of import duties. For a country obsessed with social status and a large upper middle class with increasing disposable income, a domestically manufactured cheaper iPhone will sell enough to make a real difference in Apple’s revenues.
Lousy title. Not as clickbaity might be sometimes scraping is legal and sometimes it is ethical. Creator of original content here.
Ha, if you spent $30 on cardboard, that would last some kids for years.
There are a couple points I don't think you've considered.

1. From my experience working in the lower class service industry (restaurant worker), Tuesday (federal elections) is usually a pretty easy day to get off. Weekends or government holidays that the middle class gets off, are the days where everyone has to work. My understanding is that this applies to retail as well.

2. You need non-technical people to trust the system. This isn't a technical problem, it's a political problem. Having one person from each party in the room while paper ballots are counted is actually a pretty good solution for this. Showing people who haven't done any advanced math pages and pages of whitepapers and equations that mathematically prove that the system can't be hacked doesn't really give you this. The system will be completely accurate, but rumors will fly and the government is quite likely to lose legitimacy anyway.
Every time I smell plywood dust I'm transported back to the arcades of my youth.
Is Barefoot Running Better?
linear model can be even offloaded to the client (javascript) so no compute will be even needed
its ham
1000% this. Same story - was one of the highest of highlights of my ham youth. The local club’s field day operation happened literally a day after my license arrived in the mail and I vividly remember staying up all night totally immersed in this crazy hobby that I’d only been reading about.

Huge fancy Kenwood and Icon HF rigs (the amazing ones I could only dream about buying as a 12 y/o), tons of people having fun, and CQ Field Day CQ Field Day into the wee hours. Super fun experience and memory.

(Ps - DE K2KD)
Nazi Germany did wipe out almost every last jew in the areas they controlled, in the ~4 years of the Holocaust. 90% of Poland's 3 million jews were killed.

After centuries of supposed genocide, the US Native American population is over 6 million, which is probably similar to what it was before colonization.

The biggest massacre I'm aware of¹ in the US is the 146 killed at Wounded Knee in 1890. The US had complete military superiority, and could have killed everyone at will, but mostly didn't. If this is a genocide, it's a very poorly executed one.

What makes this a bit confusing is that first contact did often result in 90% of the native population dying in both North and South America. But that was an unintentional and unforeseen effect of old world diseases hitting new world populations that had completely unprepared immune systems. Maybe the biggest "random" event in world history!

¹ Interested in learning of any bigger ones!
Liquid crystals create easy-to-read, color-changing sensors
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems the takeaway from the experiment is that someone with blindsight can help their subconscious determine the location of objects inside their 'blind spot' by focusing their attention to that spot. The paper then implies that consciously 'attending to a spot' gives rise to subconscious awareness.

Not going to lie, I skimmed this paper because I thought the idea from Peter Watt's novel was interesting. This paper was a fun read.
A privacy feature on a Huawei laptop...
> When I mention Rust having the marks of a being from the C++ world, I'm referring to a property of the language that it shares with Swift.

But what property is that?

> I saw where Hejlsberg once said that he doesn't get why people draw comparisons between C# and Java [...]

That's very amusing!

> Rust certainly has a C++-style syntax, but aside from curly braces, idiomatic Rust looks alien when compared to C.

For sure. But I'm still not sure why you say it's from C++ land. It's definitely more like C++ than C, but JavaScript is also probably more like C++ than C. That doesn't mean JavaScript is actually anything like C++, really.

One thing that I thought of that Rust definitely does share with C++ (and C) that other languages (Swift) don't is that you don't have to decide at class definition if a type will be heap allocated or used as a reference vs value, etc. That's decided at the use-site.
India is notorious for barriers to entry on top of massive infrastructure deficits. There's promising policy movement in some provinces recently, but historically these initiates have not panned out. There's a reason Superpower2020 is a meme.
You know, it might really help your team if your evidence weren't always the same press release where you managed to find the words "open" and "source" incidentally appearing adjacent to one another, but is otherwise a semantic failure on the "open source" hit test.

(open (source code model)) ≠ (open source)

This isn't even that nuanced of an issue, let alone so nuanced that it should fail to register with compiler hackers and other programmers.

> Another fact is that the USPTO rejected the OSI's attempt to trademark

Insanely dishonest way to characterize this.
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/28/eaba6728
Is an exodus from high-priced cities looming, as more folks work from home?
How am I supposed to use a password manager if I can't copy paste?
Did I suggest not to help? No, on the contrary.

Of course you should be helpful, but you should also be smart. You want to be seen as valuable AND as difficult to replace. Help your employer succeed and help yourself succeed at the same time.

What would you rather hear in management meetings?

"We can't let Bob go, he's the expert on X, everyone goes to him for help and we need him" or "Sure Bob is an expert on X, but he wrote down all he knew so we'll manage".

See, it's not about not helping, it's about helping while building and retaining leverage.

That's why companies want to encourage "knowledge sharing". It's not to foster a friendly atmosphere, it's to be robust against someone leaving and to prevent someone from having too much leverage. Most experienced engineers know that and tend to be wary when asked to document what they know in details and/or to train others.

As to act in one's own self interest, well sorry to be the one to break it to you, but that's how the world works in general and that is especially how the workplace works. And in fact that's how everyone works when there's a choice to be made. The sooner you realise that the better off you will be.
The most common example of being in two businesses is the toy/cartoon pairing, e.g. Transformers or He Man or My Little Pony or Care Bears. These work well because you can keep selling the cartoons on repeat for years, and they act as ads for the toys.
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Yep I briefly had my 10 year old snagged on Pico-8 last week -- he immediately and intuitively seemed to understand what was going on as we kind of pair programmed together -- until I left the room. Then he just started playing other people's Pico-8 games and described the whole thing as boring.

He's got potential as a programmer. Maybe someday someone will pay him to do it. But you're right, computers now can do everything so easily, there's no glory in doing simple things for the sake of it.
We're surrounded by tiny, meaningless LEDs. I've even tried to avoid them, but right now I can see three of them from where I'm sitting, and if I turn my head away from the corner where my computer desk is positioned, I can see three more (one of them, on an electric toothbrush, is blinking to tell me it's fully charged...).

Sometimes a light being on mean "everything's okay, don't even worry about me" but sometimes LEDs being on means "pay attention, this is important!", and sometimes LEDs being on means "LEDs are so cheap, we threw one on this device for no reason".

Second, there is no shared 'vocabulary' of lighting that tells you consistently what a light being on means (consider how in this case, Apple wants us to consider a green light to be a warning indicator).

Given this, I'm not at all convinced that a light being on would be enough to warn most people that they're being spied on, or that most people would even notice another small LED being on in the first place. Consider changing this UX!
The comparison to Hitler makes my point for me. This sort of hysteria is dangerous, because if you're saying that China is the same as the Third Reich, you're essentially calling for war.

It would be interesting to hear how you compare the actual killing of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Iraq by the United States to the Holocaust, given that you've now compared the 2-3 child policy to the Holocaust.
Normal has myriad uses in mathematics. See [1]. Somewhat annoyingly there is no common thread to their meanings (Or at least not one that I am aware of).

The article intends normal number, not normal distribution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal
Scientists say you can cancel the noise but keep your window open
prices have gone down significantly in Italy. you can get 70GB for 6€/month nowadays.
New genres appear reasonably often. For example the “battle royale” genre, e.g. Fortnite, was only developed in the past few years.
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If anyone fancies having a play with FT8 without any ham equipment, I was surprised to find I could do so using a regular "world band" shortwave receiver. It does need to have SSB (single sideband) mode, I'm not sure how common that is.

Just tune in to 14.074Mhz and listen for the strangely melodic modem-like tones. Download WSJT-X and pipe one into the other.

It was at this point I was annoyed to find my new PC doesn't have a mic socket (what's that all about?), but in fact holding my usb webcam up to the radio's loudspeaker was enough to get reports from all over the continent appearing.
Don’t we split this into user (child) / customer (the one paying) usually?
https://invidio.us/ works great too.
Yeah, binary tree type interview questions are probably a good way to weed out broken employers.
> if you don't live here, then politely leave us alone and let us vote in our preferred style.

I don't live there. However, since Oregon VBM topic was brought up in an international forum, I assumed (incorrectly by your standard) that it was open for discussion.
I hear what you're saying. Though the feeling of helping someone else is wonderful (regardless of whether you later end up with "something to show for it", job wise).

Don't you think that trying to teach someone something ends up helping you solidify your understanding, maybe even making you question what you took for granted?
Because it would undermine trust in their system.
Healthy self-skepticism might be more accurate, but it's clunky.
I saw a talk on consumer wearables in sleep at the Sleep Trends conference this spring. There was a great presentation comparing consumer sleep trackers, and how their advertised reporting of "accuracy" can be misleading.

If you do a thought experiment: let's say I make a "sleep tracker" that is just a piece of plastic, no sensor, and write an algorithm that always presumes the wearer is in stage N2 sleep. Since we spend around 50% of our night in N2 sleep, this algorithm would start with a fairly high baseline accuracy of 50%.

Sensitivity and specificity are much better measurements of accuracy, because they measure the false positive and false negative rates. A comparison of Oura against a medical polysomnogram showed that while it's very good at detecting sleep, it's very bad at detecting not sleep:

From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6095823/:
"ŌURA ring had a 96% sensitivity to detect sleep, and agreement of 65%, 51%, and 61%, in detecting “light sleep” (N1+N2), “deep sleep” (N3),and REM sleep, respectively. Specificity in detecting wake was 48%"

The current state of the art in sleep measurement really requires some sort of EEG measurement beyond just PPG and HR, what Oura uses. The Dreem headband is a good example (https://dreem.com/), but it's definitely more cumbersome than a ring. It's tailored more like a medical service for insomnia than for the average consumer interested in quantified self.
The only toys my siblings and I ever needed in our childhood was Lego. The incomplete sets my parents bought in a garage sale when I was 3 were still in decent condition when I left home for college. Every additional set we bought (or were given) in the meantime blended flawlessly with existing sets, so none of it ever went to waste. Forward & backward compatibility at their finest!
Phrase it as you might. The adult is the one making the decisions. The children's excitement and desire is only one of the things the adult takes into consideration when buying a toy. That's a big deal for the parents, but much less so for the grandparents, uncles, aunts, etc. Obviously they want to make the kid happy, but they are distanced enough that they will probably not know what the kid actually considers the hot things. That's why when you were young you had many toys, but not always the ones you really wanted to have.
I had started on a project like this, which I was calling "Retro V" (retro 5... is alive! for the 80s movie reference...)

It's a PicoRV32 core + a simple 'retro' style video display processor (sprites, character generator, and 640x480 8 bit palette indexed bitmap graphics) that outputs on HDMI/DVI, plus 512KB of SRAM that runs on the CMod A35t board (Artix 7 35t FPGA + SRAM on DIP friendly package), which I intended on making a simple daughterboard for (to hook up PS/2 keyboard & mouse, add some extra RAM etc.)

The "OS" was to be mid-80s style -- boot to a REPL, either a BASIC or something like Lua, with simple DOS commands and an assembly language monitor.

I got pretty far but stalled out around Christmas when things got a bit busy personally for me, and I ran into the complications of getting the QSPI flash chip interfaced for storing programs.

I might pick this project back up again. I think it has potential.

BTW I don't actually think RISC-V assembly is all that great for beginners. It's a bit awkward to write directly. For example, to set a 32-bit register with an immediate value requires setting the upper 20 bits followed by the lower 12. Similar with PC jumps, etc.

In general RISC architecture assembly language is meant to be written by C compilers, not humans.

I actually think beginners might be better off with a CISC instruction set (like the 68k or similar).

EDIT: Thinking more about this, out of all the architectures that GCC currently supports, 68k seems to be the most "retro" and easiest/most enjoyable to write by hand.
But this discussion is mostly about the kernel, isn't it? I'm not sure why throwing out rust weaknesses in general is appropriate when we're talking about a specific use case such as kernel drivers and other modules which do tend to be quite a bit more shallow than most large c/c++ projects I've been on.
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I don't see them discussing what I view as the biggest question of such conversion: is the converted code safer than C, or is it a direct translation with all the issues that we were trying to fix by using Rust? (This came up, IIRC, with automatic C to Go; it worked, but was only useful as a first step because it gave you unsafe unidiomatic Go code)
> Outside China, India is one of the largest single market

Having a large population (without purchasing power) isn't enough to call a region one of the largest single market in the world.

China and India have growing middle class but 95% of their population still have no savings, these people only spend on food and household.

The largest single market in the world is the European Economic Area, the second largest is the United States (+ Canada and Mexico), all other markets are incomparable from these two developed markets because the difference is so large.
Exactly. It also provides a bandaid for their self image, and provides an excuse for being ignorant or mediocre.

I've only ever observed mediocre people talk about imposter syndrome. Seems like the author is trying, politely, to express a similar idea.
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I meant something like - if you have a hiring manager in a company who likes a product X, they can just go in and buy it from the store at pre-negotiated terms rather than getting lawyers and other purchasing teams involved.
Serious question - what is sleep tracking useful for? While I can see the benefit of tracing activity, I have no idea why would I want to track my sleep. I fall asleep, I wake up, what is there to track? Or rather, even if it tells me that I had a period of less/more movement during the night, what kind of actionable information can you possibly get out of it?
xadoc's last point is really important. The missing documentation is clearly impacting your productivity: you absolutely should raise this as in issue with more senior devs or management. There are a number of ways to respond, and they should be pleased that you have flagged the issue early.
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Compared to Google Drive and OneDrive, Dropbox is like a zen masterpiece. I just install the Dropbox helper and I rarely if ever need to use the website or use any funky app integrations.

Slack used to be simple, now it’s a mess of different teams, with a thousand channels, each with threads and document tools and integrations and slash commands to remember.
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I think this is no longer true. If Musk decided to sell his shares to get cash for another venture what investors would see is that even without Musk Tesla is still a well functioning company that delivers.

Elisabeth did not have a product or well functioning company and if she decided to sell (even if she could) large portion of her shares this would likely cause investors to panic
If you're going to nitpick, use the mathematical definition where averages are measures of central tendency. The median is one of those measures.
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Why spend? Just start ordering large and/or strangely shaped stuff online. With free shipping you can always order a single piece and your kids will grow up thinking that cardboard is in free unlimited supply /s
Elm (Programming Language)
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Lignite/brown coal plants - not what the world needs more of.
Arcade 1up has a table based street fighter console. It’s a ¾ sized version of a real arcade table. I bought some 7” furniture legs which made it a comfortable sitting height. Has 12 games installed from all the classic street fighter to 1942 to commando. It’s a lot of fun and I had a lot of fun showing my son how some concepts of the games he loves now(terraria) started in these games.
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45-year-old gymnast is set to compete in her 8th Olympics
Be shameless or go home ..

That is actually an interesting test case to see if these things work (profiting by slightly augmenting an open-source)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23479435

YouTube fixed this a week later

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23581118
That really depends doesn't it. How many people are so settled in their house they don't care about resale value, even for their eventual heirs?would you buy a house you knew would fall in value?
If your computational load is spikey, I would suggest looking at fargate and the spot market. Also for storage, I would suggest leveraging S3 whenever possible.
Tangentially related, John Carmack on the value of feeling ashamed of your work:

https://www.wanzafran.com/posts/2020/shame-and-code/
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> The earth has been hotter than where we're headed with global warming. It was heavily forested at that time.

When Earth was that hot, it didn't get that hot so quickly, giving ecosystems time to adapt.

This is the same reason coral reefs around the world have bleached and died.

> No, in fact the extra C02 in the atmosphere, and warmer climate is beneficial for tree growth

The paper discusses the impact of CO2. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6488/261/tab-pdf
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That would certainly help with some concerns around Rust; compiler diversity and target platform support would both benefit.
"Different concepts of average are used in different contexts. Often "average" refers to the arithmetic mean, the sum of the numbers divided by how many numbers are being averaged. In statistics, mean, median, and mode are all known as measures of central tendency, and in colloquial usage any of these might be called an average value."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average
Ah that makes a lot of sense. Would first name alone be fine? Is it the combo that is problematic?
Yes, but only after they got the term "liberal" stolen away from them. Herbert Spencer complained about that as early as 1884.
How many people drive around without insurance right now though and even people who don't have driver's license. It just isn't practical to think people will do it, especially when times get tough. If I'm choosing which bill to pay, I'll take the water bill over the insurance bill
I had delirium to the point I could not construct a thought, together with severe body pain and a dry cough back on January 19, 20 in a hotel room in Minnesota. Finally was able to get an antibodies test in July, which came back negative - antibody levels probably dropped too low by then? https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/06/chinese-...
Unfortunately right now we are preventing fraud risk by only allowing one connected account at a time. You'd be surprised how often people try to commit fraud in banking apps.
It's more likely to be the board (which probably includes the CEO) that sets dividend policy--and they're elected by the shareholders. Now, in practice, they're effectively selected by some large shareholders and that probably doesn't include you. But that's just saying that, if you have a small ownership stake you don't have a lot of say in how a business manages its cash. It doesn't change the fact that a businesses' valuation should in principle be a function of future cash flows whether those come in the form of dividends, spinoffs, or an eventual purchase.

You may think one majority shareholder (including yourself) is better and/or will optimize cash flows closer to what you desire than another. But otherwise it's still the cash flows that ultimately determine the value.
We only just got to a point where 2 C compilers could build Linux; adding rustc brings us back to a monoculture.
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