skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because a supplier wants to have telemetry doesn't suddenly make it ethical to do opt-out (or even forced like MS does with Windows 10!).

If they care about their users and it's not possible to have worthwhile telemetry with opt-in, they simply can't have it.
they indeed have lost their mind
Multiple things can be true at once.

The US can have limited term executive, and could have given too much unilateral power from congress to the executive. A two-term/8 year King is still a King.

The way the US was structured was specifically to spread power amongst a lot of people with competing interests, and congressional legislation in the last hundred years has undermined that ideal.

PS - Plus a lot of people forget that the whole "two term" thing was only a TRADITION until 1951. That's what I mean by "turn-key despot," traditions are fine until someone occupies the office who doesn't care about traditions, then you need a legal backstop. Giving up power before it is a problem is incredibly patriotic because it is an insurance against the worst future.
Unwoke – The job board for conservative and libertarian thinkers
popcon is off by default. You have to explicitly enable it.
“ we identified the full exploit chain that allowed one of the forged products to function: a previously undocumented vulnerability in a security component allowing for the devices Secure Boot restrictions to be bypassed.”

I’m not following. Why wouldn’t a forged device function?
Tech CEO found decapitated and dismembered in his NYC apartment
"One assumes that this has been going on since print media has existed"

For an interesting look in to this, see The Commissar Vanishes: The falsification of images in Stalin's Russia.

https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2017/08/commissar-vanishes...

https://www.amazon.com/Commissar-Vanishes-Falsification-Phot...
Because they want to know what to continue developing or what to deprecate.

The reasoning is simple.
In that case leaders of USSR could use the same line to boast about their country.

In the 60s-70s life in USSR was better than in China, India, virtuall all of Africa and Latin America.
Understanding SaaS detractors (and what to do after)
I’m having a hard time phrasing this, but I also fall in the camp that views it as positive.

The gist is this: there is no app maker that can say “screw that” to Apple’s privacy/security rules and bypass them. As such I will never be in a position to choose between my privacy and using the app. By Apple’s removing the possibility of that choice, I get both.
If anyone from Starlink is reading this thread: Add a Lat/Lon option for addresses in the service address entry form.

Many rural homes have mailing addresses that don't resolve correctly. For example, the input form forced me to use "Anacortes, WA" for my house in the San Juans. The islands are a perfect Starlink test market, whereas Anacortes has plenty of broadband options.
"I agree" adds little to the conversation. "I disagree and here's why" adds more, and is more emotionally satisfying to write.

Though it's not uncommon to see posts of the "I agree, and here's an anecdote as to why" variety getting heavily upvoted, but those are harder to write, and so less frequent.
To be able to help people we also need to attract readers that our writing might be helpful for.
I'm not sure how to solve for that.
Should one try to share our writing mostly in niche communities?

I think feedback is good for improvement, in that sense it feels like a chicken and egg problem.
The status page clearly states (when I look) that:

Incident on 2020-07-15 15:41 UTC
We are investigating reports of degraded performance.
Posted 9 minutes ago. Jul 15, 2020 - 15:41 UTC
Is the game theory in favor of this? It seems like it would be a lose-lose situation for everyone involved, thus unlikely to happen.
>> You really get to see how people think and will work on the job with questions like this.

Interviewing is hard and I applaud you for trying something newer and more realistic but I'd be cautious in thinking "spend 30 minutes designing a system and be prepared to defend your work with massive risk/reward hanging in the balance. Begin... NOW!!!!" is representative of how someone will work on the job. There are an awful lot of people who will solve the crux problems driving home after the interview or the next morning in the shower vs. on-demand.
yes and more generally, we should tightly regulate when hardware vendors are allowed to exclusively bundle their own software

permitting hardware sellers to control what you install on it isn't just an apple issue -- see also john deere, nest, sonos. The right to repair movement includes a surprising number of farmers.
Well, the trials show that is effective in essentially everyone. The use of the Ad5 vector does not require replication, it's therefore unlikely that antibodies will be effective at stopping a significant amount of the vector implantation of a large fraction of the viral particles in cells.

If you read the study, it states that even in recipients with high Ad5 immunity, as long as the dose is sufficient (high-dose or medium dose) long-term seroconversion is high - 84% to 100% in medium or high dose after 28 days for recipients with strong antibodies against Ad5, and for high-dose seroconversion and interferon gamma response was indistinguishable from those without strong Ad5 immunity. [0, fig 1 - Specific T-cell response measured by ELISpot].

So I don't really think it will be an issue. You just need the proper dose.
: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
For the record, other companies are having (early) success with RNA too.

BioNTech https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det...

CureVac https://www.curevac.com/news/curevac-s-optimized-mrna-platfo...
A lot of shallow logistic work requires domain knowledge the juniors don’t have.

Maybe pairing would help here as a way to get more of this knowledge transferred more quickly so the shallow work can be spread out?
GitHub actions downtime is becoming painful for us. Having been lured on there with 10,000 included minutes which they shortly thereafter dropped to 3,000 I feel aggrieved paying for overages incurred from actions regularly shitting the bed.
Yes, of course! I'll edit it shortly. We're live across the United States, and actively working on international expansion to Canada, Europe (via Geneva & London), and the Middle East (via Dubai).
Nobody who argues “Billionaires are bad for society” has an understanding of net worth - or worse, they are acting blatantly disingenuous in order to further their political viewpoints.
Apple accused of censoring pro-democracy app in Hong Kong
For anyone else wondering; apparently prehistoric Nordic people practiced killing of the elderly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ättestupa
Leadership and Innovation with Instacart's VP of Infrastructure
are you seriously asserting a random video by a random person on YouTube in a random geographic location is an accurate summary of 330 million people?
There's a long story here, but here's the short take:

Most of my email accounts are public email provider mapped to domains. But anytime I sign-up for something that's not tied only to one of my work endeavors, I use the non-mapped address. So, newsletters, sign-ups, Amazon account, etc. I don't use any mapped domains for those things, as those kind of come-and-go.

I segregate my personal email and my business emails from the @public-email-provider address, which I want to keep away from my other activities. It also puts all those mailing list emails, legal acknowledgements, etc., in one place as much as possible. I can filter and manage those in one place.

I also don't have a strong sense of personal ownership of that stuff. It's like a PO Box, not my house address. I don't check that account for human- initiated communication. That's my personal address (which gets almost zero traffic these days) and my work/business email addresses.

I have a strong aversion to the company behind public email provider. But I set a calendar reminder for a year out so I don't think about it much until then. I have some endeavors that will let me close up various business activities and centralize to one. If/when that's solid, I'll probably consolidate all my income-oriented business accounts and services [and probably somewhere else], but keep the public... as it's just a PO Box.
Well that's exactly my point. Pick a layout and stick to it. Regardless of what's printed on the keys.
Jeez, that's terrible. Thanks for the context.
> Those are fine. It's the specific confrontational wording: a group of people saying "we matter" confronted with "no, you're not special, stop saying the word Black, it makes us uncomfortable".

but "all lives matter" isn't fine? as for the rest of your sentence, that's not what is happening. What is happening is people specifically telling others that "white people lives don't matter, as white lives" as quoted from the article I linked, which you did not address.

> This is a very bad example, as there's always a "what about male victims of sexual assault" faction that only appears when a women makes an allegation and doesn't actually do anything for male victims of sexual assault.

No, this is a perfect example as to how to come with a slogan that pushes unity instead of strife, when a phenomenon concerns everybody.
Looks interesting but I’ve never paid full price for ABC. Always $80-$90. Gotta wait for that sale.
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Hmm, interesting. I've always oversized by PSU's as a matter of course, since I've always thought working at 60% capacity is better than 90% or whatever.

I usually drop a 750 watt 80+ Gold into most of my builds, even though a 500 watt or even a 450 watt would be sufficient with a single GPU, and have no plans for a second GPU.
The efficiency delta between Gold and Titanium is really small. Optimizing that for heat reasons would be optimizing less than 1% of total heat output. And most cases keep the power supply thermally separate from the rest of the stuff anyway.

This guy has a very oversized Gold power supply, the efficiency would be ~92% with gold vs 94% with platinum. Maybe a smaller titanium one would be a better overall choice I guess.
This too is my assumption. Even if someone says "no it means the data is not collected", I would not be satisfied with an answer here, though. It's something very hard to prove one way or another.
Can confirm Home Depot/Husky did not have a happy ending on one screw. Which Harbor Freight set you pick up?

(was getting ready to mix the epoxy for the one screw/bit)
Yeah, that's pretty common.

I have an Opus BT-C2000 battery charger that does exactly that. Pressing any button causes the backlight to come on for about 30 seconds.

Also a Garmin Forerunner FR220 running watch which has a dedicated button for this (with a light bulb icon). LCD is a good choice for it since it's used outdoors a lot and LED (or AMOLED) wouldn't be readable in direct sun.
How to be a better investor? A thread
EU needs to solve this problem at its roots and put pressure on tax Haven states directly. If that necessitates a reform that gives expanded authority to EU so be it.
This mentality leads to systems that are a mess of callbacks, don't scale, and practically impossible to maintain.

You could make the same argument about SQL databases. Why do you need to understand their architecture, learn arcane SQL syntax, and learn to operate them? Instead, your program could write and read files directly from disk. But you still choose to use the DB as it has hundreds of man-years invested in it and gives you a higher level of abstraction.

Think about SWF and its newest incarnation in the form of temporal.io as a higher-level way to write task orchestrations. It requires some learning but allows you immediately to leverage dozens of man-years invested in the technology.
I was vegetarian for 10 years and tried a beef only diet for my immune problems.

I was told that I would have trouble digesting meat again but to my surprise, it was much easier than usual, and I felt great the whole day (also actually felt full for like 6-8 hours after a meal).

Then gradually reintroducing foods one by one helped me pinpoint the culprits.
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Thats what the French aristocracy said, and eventually they found their head on a pike.
I'm often amazed that the world didn't encounter a nuclear war yet.

What is so effective preventing it?
This doesn't happen in Europe. I assume we have consumer protections against this the same way as with flight prices.
Yes. If there were a better alternative, I think Reddit would've already gone the way of Digg.
There was talk in at least the London tech scene two or three years ago about Lisbon becoming some sort of tech hub. (Personally, I'd love to move there but I'd have to learn Portuguese) But some companies that did try Lisbon out seem to have pulled back. Last I heard it a large reason was because the 'work ethic' of the Portuguese left something to be desired compared to London.
I recently bought a P73 thinkpad specced out like this, and it's great.

However, putting a GPU and lots of RAM into a laptop makes it very, very heavy so it's worth thinking about if that's acceptable for you.
You misunderstand the goal. Both the OP and the responder are engaging in a conversation where they are presenting different sides of understanding so that everyone involved has more total information.

They are not arguing over who is right or wrong, they are cooperating so that everyone is more informed.
The labor from those 4 kids is the greatest form of wealth that person will have.
It's price discrimination. There's no reason why anyone would want a V100 besides that Nvidia doesn't "allow" you to use GeForce cards for ML research on servers, assuming you're big enough.
Indeed, I wouldn't try to find a case for "good telemetry", it basically means snooping, as far as I'm concerned.

And this is not even something that can't be replaced : if you want to know about your users habits, ask them. I would have no problem with seeing once in a while a broadcast message after syncing packages showing me an url of a poll. But automatic data collection is never ok.
This is a really cool post, but I wish the author had profiled his code. He makes several statements like "I think the performance issue is XYZ" but never bothers to check if his guess is correct. As Walter Bright liked to say, Use the profiler, Luke!
Ethiopia Starts Filling Nile Dam at Center of Dispute with Egypt
You’re being downvoted, but as a father I wholeheartedly agree with you.

My daughter is the most precious being in my life, but I can’t shake the feeling that I brought her to this world on purely selfish reasons and now she’ll be faced to suffer in this ever convoluted planet and I won’t be there to help her for most of her life.

I might be wrong, but please consider this before you bring a life to this world.
Open office plans were a reaction to teams that didn't communicate effectively (or at all). The idea was that putting everyone in the same area encouraged communication and cohesion. It also allowed for spaces that were chic and 'creative', because somehow creativity is impossible in offices that have the aesthetic appeal of a solitary confinement cell.

Honestly, I believe most of the value derived from open office plans is that it is harder to fake work and fake productivity. Now, everything that people were doing is out in the open and provides some measure of accountability. Maybe I'm being a bit too cynical, but I think that's a big contributor as to why open office environments are common.

And partially yes, it's because some people making the decisions don't understand the value of 'deep work' and the environments that encourage it.
You can fault the man for many reasons but James K Polk didn't run for a second term because he had a pretty narrow mandate and felt he accomplished it in his first. America's first agile president!
This isn't right. Group behavior should not affect individuals in this way.
> Stock market is reacting very positively to this vaccine.

The stock market should be considered because of why?
>where being member of Groups A, B, and C means you must hold Ideas X, Y, and Z because those must be the views you hold as a member of those groups.

This was never more obvious to me than when I was in college. As an out gay guy who studied Arabic, this seemed to short-circuit the expectations of my peers; being in awe of Islamic art, and wanting deeply to travel to Iran and see the mosques of the world was something that, for some reason, didn't compute to them. "But don't they hate your kind over there?" was not an uncommon reaction. I get it, I really do, but sometimes it felt like I wasn't allowed, in their eyes, to have access to those beautiful things in the world, or else I was considered "brave" for trying to access them. But to me they have been wholly distinct interests from the start, and only incidental that they happen to coexist in me as a individual person.
I don’t know that it is, but it is an alternative.
Ohio is probably doing nothing about it because their state Supreme Court decision contradicts the national Supreme Court decision in San Antonio vs Rodriguez. I'm no legal scholar, but I think this is right up there with Dred Scott and Citizens United for worst-supreme-court-decisions-of-all-time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_Independent_School...
I found that the WSJ is still fairly balanced, but of course a bit light on European news. Which in the heat of the brexit debate was a god-bless. But not ideal still.
It seems weird that they'd see this as a vulnerability. If it's a counterfeit device then the manufacturer controls the hardware and the secure boot process and there is no vulnerability there, the device is working as intended and is trusting the manufacturer of the counterfeit device. This doesn't mean the genuine device is vulnerable.
It is too frequent that I know an app’s name that is either generic or not popular. Sometimes it takes a while to find the app. Apple hasn’t fixed search in over a decade. I can’t see them fixing it any time soon, unfortunately.
Anecdote I was told, shows how quickly cities can grow into metroplexes.

Back when Interstate 285 was built, it was a 2 lane road out in the middle of nowhere for the truckers going from Florida north to be able to bypass Atlanta traffic.

Kids could play hopscotch for multiple minutes to hours before moving off to the let the singular car go by.

285 was the orbit of pluto, separating sleepy suburbs from the great flyover nothingness that people ascribe to the empty swathes of, say, Nevada (?).

Nowadays, 285 is more like going from outer core of earth to inner core. Moving from 285s westernmost terminus further west, the analogy of Pluto's orbit is more like Carrollton GA.

Atlanta the city is small. Atlanta as natives know it is large.

Dallas-Forth Worth TX is a twin sister in terms of growth rate but also bigger on an absolute scale.
Also a native English speaker, also had no idea it was supposed to be a pun until right now. I just thought it was another silly name from an Asian company.
yes, there's some truth to that, but the latter group isn't aligned with power, even if the discussion serves the powerful's aims.
Exactly! (See my comment above.)
can you please explain the science behind it? how can a boy with a penis not be sex=male ?

And I explicitly ask about sex. Not gender

/edit: if you downvote fine. let it pamper your ego. but please answer my question.
Do y'all anticipate any FDA scrutiny over the testing/analysis part?
> Python has had multiple ways of doing many things for a very long time ... the more you realise there are often many solutions to a problem

But "solution" and "ways of doing things" from a language perspective are different. You can one way of doing something in a language, yet provide different implementations of the same solution. The difference is how different a "way" is at some level of abstract (vs "syntactic sugar).

Inventing new sentences is needed everyday, inventing new words much rarely so. "programmable program languages" or those highly dependant on custom frameworks fall prey to this: where code becomes a personal space that is hard to break into. You have to "terminate-thought" at some level, if else everyone "creatively" reinvents the low level (e.g. built-ins) then no collaboration is practical; accept the standard building block, and implement your solution with those.

> there is no one "best" approach

but there are "better" approaches
“ I’m guessing that FORTRAN is faster on small inputs due to the threading overheads, but faster on large inputs because of contention between threads for cache lines and memory bandwidth"

I think the author meant FORTRAN was slower on small inputs?
IQ is a measure of mental flexibility independent of context. Being able to solve tricky algorithm problems is a measure of mental flexibility in the context of programming. The two are strongly correlated. Of course, the test is confounded by a baseline of programming and CS knowledge.
While the paper and analysts are certainly good signs, can we say the same for the stock market? I thought the last little while was proof that it's fairly detached from real world conditions. As of late it seems to be responding to optimism more than anything concrete.
People talk a lot about apples, but AFAIK there's no other time the singular word "apple" comes up in the English language without an article, other than in reference to the company.
my experience (as us-born/bred) is that this exists, but is more a personality trait than anything else. And some personality traits can co-exist among others with the same trait more easily, and that 'so excited' outward expression can often get amplified in a group, but even individuals can be like that. I don't see it as uniquely American, but... it may be somewhat here. By comparison, traveling in Russia, public displays of enthusiasm/positivity/emotion were far less common at all (although in small groups of friends they came out).
People who believe people in group X must hold belief Y don't realize that they have a good falsifiable statement that they can test, but sadly they either never bother seeking out counter-examples or they actively dismiss or even fight against counter examples they encounter due to cognitive dissonance.
Polygon Crest in some way is 3D CAD-like polygonal editor, oriented for airplanes & other vehicle models creation.[0,1,2,3]

But if you never tried to create addons for YSFlight, then, off course, its look not suitable for your needs.

As for me, Polygon Crest is nice part of 3D modeling software and I keep it in my toolbox side-by-side with Blender, Maverick Model 3D & Wings3D polygonal/mesh editors.

[0] https://twitter.com/StarGear_TII/status/606719540068646912

[1] https://twitter.com/StarGear_TII/status/606719540068646912

[2] https://twitter.com/K2W_ys/status/1251784312992616448

[3] https://twitter.com/K2W_ys/status/1236651821474516994
Comic map of "every European city": https://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/2018/10/omnimappus-europeus.h...

And for equal representation, the corresponding map of "every American city": https://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/2018/10/omnimappus-americanus...
I agree with this to a certain extent, but any side of a large debate is going to have a handful of people who make death threats. I wouldn’t want anyone to think, for example, that criticism of antifa is invalidated or lessened because one or two critics issued threats. If there is evidence that the volume of threats is higher among cancellers than other movements, then that would be good cause for additional criticism IMO.

But everyone should condemn violence and harassment from their own ideological cohort.