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Alot of the "liberal suppression of free speech" stuff is ginned up grievance fodder for talk show hosts and attention seekers.

Universities are always little labs for weird behavior and disputes, it's part of their nature. There's always something that puts conservative farmers or whatever in a twist. In the Nixon era it was anti-war protestors. In the 90s it was affirmative action. Today, it's the various gender/sexuality issues.

The politics of universities is such that these movements grow and succeed, then become the power brokers. A family member was a leader in LGBT causes on campus in the 90s -- very much fighting an uphill battle for attention, respect and resources. Today, that org is very powerful and alumni of the 90s version are all middle aged folks in positions of real power.
> It's not that Black lives matter _more_, it's that systemic institutionalized racism dating back to the origins of the US make it so that Black lives matter _less_ than white lives when dealing with organs of power.

This is definitely true, I'm just puzzled as to why you'd focus efforts on solving a subset of the problem rather than the whole problem. Wouldn't that lead to fragmented movements of "<race> lives matter" rather than one single effort?
That’s a movie. You know, fiction.
Alcohol is an energy source just as much as carbs, fat and protein for sure...but the brain can’t run on alcohol, only ketones and glucose.

Your natural state is ketosis (that makes it the primary fuel source). And we are not talking about “prolonged fasting” or “abnormal conditions”, we are talking about natural states. So if you happen to kick yourself out of ketosis and start running primarily on glucose most people will burn through their glucose stores in just a few hours and their body will crash/shutdown to preserve the remaining glucose for the brain (think of marathon runners “hitting the wall” which doesn’t happen in ketosis, you basically have unlimited fat energy stores and your body will internally produce the limited glucose the brain needs)
Got it. While I do have some experience with programming, it is almost exclusively practical in non functional languages.

So, I'll read your book after working through both of the others.
I'm tired of those self improvement hack 2 cents worth. Do what you love people, just focus on life and don't use all the time process. Process is made for stupid repetitive task, not learning.

This society is so individualist, that we talk only about the self.
Kinda want to counterbalance all of the "wow, that's extreme" comments. I do have a new routine when I get groceries, though not quite as careful as yours. I think if I didn't, I'd always feel like my home was contaminated.

Before leaving, I open the washing-machine lid and cupboards and close the blinds. I drive to Target instead of the grocery store because it's less dense with people. Put on my mask as I get out of my car. Feel very contaminated in the store, hands pushing the shopping cart, touching everything, paying attention to my breathing and everyone near me. I do take off my mask in the car, and often just leave it there because it will be days before I use it again. I'm often sweating and feel like virus is dripping down my face and my hands are smearing it over my steering wheel.

When I get back home, I drop the grocery bags on the linoleum in the entry way, and use hand sanitizer. Take off my clothes and put them in the washer. Put bags with non-perishable items into a cupboard for a couple days. Put fridge/freezer bags on a particular counter. Wash my hands in the kitchen sink. Put cold items in fridge/freezer (I used to disinfect them, but stopped out of laziness). Spray counter with disinfectant, wipe and dry it; wipe down any handles/switches I touched. Wash hands again. (Sometimes I've washed them three times by then.) Start washing machine. Take a shower.

If I just go to the park, I don't wear a mask or anything. If I grab some booze at the liquor store, I wear a mask. In either case, I wash my hands when I get back, but don't necessarily shower or wash my clothes because I don't feel like the odds of contamination are very high and I probably won't put the pants on for several days anyway..
You're trying to argue your position based on the 0.018% of the population that is intersex. If a baby is born with a perfectly normal penis, you're saying the doctor has a choice as to whether select male or female?

Unfortunately, I studied engineering at school, not sociology so I have no idea what a "leaking a power level" is unless it has something to do with batteries.
2x 2080ti would be faster than titan rtx, provide the same amount of memory, and would be cheaper.
Derek Lowe's last blog post was about Pfizer/BioNTech. He discussed Pfizer's CEO comments and their Phase I data.
Lowe seems optimistic.
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/07/14/pf...
Time to build a better internet, coronavirus has shown we have a long way to go
Obviously more complicated than I thought :-)
Yes, that's actually possible. Biggest issue might be forking to dump the image and dealing with OS.

It also means you don't have to write blinks of try catch nested in while loop just to be able to retry the operation...
> Why couldn't Apple do this but place requirements on the additional app stores

They wouldn't get the 30% cut.
There is zero chance they will win this on appeal. Vestager should be booted out of her job for this ridiculous waste of taxpayers money. I said at the time on here a few years ago that this was a power grab by the EU commission. The fundamental problem is the US allows its corporations to undercut local competition by 'deferring' their tax payments, then parking their cash offshore and applying political pressure for tax amnesties. One possible solution could be for the EU to apply some minimum tax level against which any US tax payments can be counted, but if there is a shortfall because of deferral tricks the delta gets paid at source.
First advice if you want to be read is to write about something that (many) people are interested in, that's mostly popular and trendy technologies for a tech blog. A good old rant on javascript or kubernetes is likely to do well and take over HN/reddit/twitter, whereas an article on clojure not so much.

I've got some nice articles about obscure tools that are doing really well, or really bad depending on perspective. First google results in their respective keywords. They get a whole 10 viewers a day sometimes! I thought this was disappointing but I came to accept that is everybody on the planet who cared about that subject.
AirBNB are hoping for quick reopening and a "V-shaped recovery". They want things to get back to normal as quickly as possible, because the longer the current situation drags on for, the more their business and billions of invested money is at risk. They won't be able to do a quick reopening if 1/4 or 1/2 of the properties they list are being foreclosed on. That process can take multiple years for a property to be occupied again.
Agree that lumping people into buckets isn't helpful. But I think the idea behind privilege is that if you're poor and white you on average have a different experience than being poor and black (namely not having to deal with as much racism) even though you both still have to deal with poverty and other biases/stereotypes.
Not at all. It is a consequence of language design of other languages.

When you divide by zero in Java, then there is nothing set in stone that prevents the language from winding the stack further and executing some code that will analyze the dynamic environment in which the error happened, calling all error handlers found in the dynamic environment, and only then - if no handler transferred control outside the error side - either entering an interactive debugger of some sorts or giving up and crashing.

But instead Java goes another way and immediately destroys the stack by throwing an exception. That's a design choice made by Java creators. Lisp's homoiconicity has nothing to do with this.

You can also analyze the Python implementation of the condition system posted elsewhere in the comments - that's an example of a condition system in a non-homoiconic language.
Thanks, that link got clicked !
Disagree. I don't think complaining will change apples way but they sure deserve the negative publicity.

If apple wants to be an asshole we should treat apple as one.
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GitHub actions are not being triggered and https://downdetector.com/status/github/ suggests possible problems.
Absolutely agree with you.
Sometimes your unorthodox opinion just sucks.

Also, was anybody else bracing themselves for what "unorthodox" was code for while reading? I think I'm so used to seeing this argument used in an attempt to justify stuff like blatant racism, antisemitism, etc. that I'm sort of conditioned to look for that.

By the way, not saying that's what's going on here, but it was just an interesting reaction I noticed in myself. Ironically, similar to what another commenter posted, the whole article is one of those things which is obviously true, but may completely miss the point depending on context.
Past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17163251
Fraud and abuse prevention really boils down to something like this.

You don't need to be perfect with blocking these folks, but you need to be better than your competitors so that the cost/benefit balance shifts to encourage the user to go elsewhere. Unfortunately trolls don't disappear, they just go somewhere else.

Similar to the saying about the hungry lion. If a hungry lion approaches your group while hiking, you don't need to be faster than the lion, you just have to be faster than at least 1 of the other people in your group.
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>Is any of that even controversial enough to require citation?

I'm sorry, excuse me? Are you saying that non-minority, non-women don't suffer anxiety? Your parent comment certainly seems to suggest that. Which, at a minimum, is flat out wrong. Educate yourself[0]. And then zoom out and ask yourself why it's not only permissible, but often lauded, to so flippantly say what you just said.

[0] - https://www.apa.org/about/policy/boys-men-practice-guideline...
This is a hilariously reductive viewpoint. I would strongly urge you to pick up a sociology / anthropology text book. We aren't animals anymore.
This has been kept secret for years. Landlords that know what they are doing go after those section 8 contracts. Most people wouldn't be able to recognize a section 8 renter if they were standing right in front of them.

My old apartment, complete with modern amenities, had section 8 renters. It was targeted towards young professionals. But new construction made it 100% ADA-compliant. Which is perfect for wheelchair bound social security-disability check receivers. According to the property manager, "no problem with section, unlike you, they always pay rent on time!"
In democratic societies the majority decides how resources are distributed. If they can understand where their interests actually lie it shouldn’t be a problem.
> the only outcome is that more candidates would perform very well and that's not an outcome companies actually want unfortunately

Why would this be the case--at places where the number of candidates far exceed positions? This is the exception rather than the common case.
I'm curious, can you give some examples of Chinese conventional wisdom that are unspeakable in the US?
I know folks, including black folks, who disapprove of the Black Lives Matter messaging and try to redirect BLM conversation towards specific issues while promoting the use of 'all lives matter'

Your statement

> Placed in the context of BLM, it denies that anything unfair is happening to people because of their skin color.

simply doesn't reflect the actual beliefs of many people who use the term. I, for one, am absolutely certain that racism exists and gets people arrested or killed. However, I have seen people become fed up with the narrative being promoted by BLM that frames the issue as being a 'black only' problem. To keep those people on the side of progress it's important to make sure we're not excluding them from the discussion.

It's also worth noting that BLM is not just a movement, but there are organized entities operating under the brand. [1]Many people disagree with those organizations for reasons that have nothing to do with racism or police brutality. Nonetheless, those people are called racist and accused of using dog whistles.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdpIIiBe7Wc
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Geese, I’m surprised they were doing it to begin with! This sort of thing is why I won’t touch VScode and fsharp.

How do people building these things become convinced this is ok?
Spending a bunch more time collecting data to convince people who reflexively put their fingers in their ears when presented with evidence seems a decidedly wrong-headed approach.
That's a better argument for the F-22/35 programs. The F-15 is a workhorse, and this is an extremely inexpensive upgrade program relative to building an actual modern replacement, or buying F-35s and calling it "good enough."
Apple has been in Ireland since the 1980's. A large fraction of an entire city (Cork) depend on it. It's not hard to imagine that Apple has contributed far more than $14bn to the community, and country, in that time. And it's not a figure-head office either, it has assembly lines.

Countries aren't all identical. Ireland needs to be allowed tune its economic policies based on what it has to offer. It doesn't have the population of France, or the location of Germany. It has english speakers and a reasonably well educated workforce, two factors that aren't unique to it. A low corporation tax policy counts for a lot.
Fun trivia fact: Rust had conditions at one point. They weren't really used by anyone and so ended up getting dropped.
The reveal wouldn't be by accident typically. It could be a necessary requirement based on the content you're streaming.

If you revealed a Stripe key only to change it 1 minute afterwards, you still need a process to change it in secret, which goes back to my original reply of setting up a dedicated "secret" scene so you can modify things in private.
The way that this is weaponized by hyperinclusionists to further radicalize groups is terrifying.

"If you don't think X, you aren't A."
"Well I don't think X, and I am A."
"If you don't think X you aren't A."
"Well then I guess I'm not A."

"If you don't think Y, you aren't A."

...and so on.

We've seen it with a few specific political groups.
>The municipality of Athens only practiced zoning for heavy industry, leaving people free to set up shop in a polikatoikia.

Really, this should be the article. Zoning is responsible for resiliency and affordability. The actual implementation (Polikatoikias) is just an accident of fate.
A caving breakthrough accidentally inspired one of the first hit video games
I also like BioRender's, which also tracks drug treatments and links to the individual trials: https://biorender.com/covid-vaccine-tracker
I know of several lispers that swear by top-down "programming inside debugger", where they continuously fill in the gaps starting from top level function :-D
Even with another AI winter I can’t see that automation isn’t going to continue for a long time.
These are the APIs they declined to implement: https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-declined-to-implement-16...

Most of them involve access to peripherals (USB, Serial, HID, NFC, Bluetooth, MIDI), sensors (magnetometer, proximity, ambient light), and device state (battery status, memory pressure, network information).

Several of these are not even available to native applications on iOS.

Yes there are categories of apps that require a few of these, but certainly the majority do not require any.
It's so interesting that the rich elites need to be entertained so much. You can have a good life just about anywhere. Only boring people get bored.
The problem with interviews is not whether those companies are actually using algos in practice. The problem is that they ask the data structures and algorithms as ruthless puzzless to detect a candidate's level. That's a very wrong approach.
Or maybe their lawyers told them to write that it's not tax deductible and then a marketing person wrote this.
Why should corporations pay even more tax? They're paying salaries, which are subject to income tax, and stock gains are also taxed when sold. Also, any sales they generate are subject to VAT/sales tax. Not to mention property taxes for their offices, etc.
Thanks. Hope that it turns out insightful for you.

(Also, Common Lisp isn't a functional language. It's a multiparadigm one that often gets the label of being a functional one because Scheme and Clojure are really functionally oriented.)
Me too. I've repeatedly had deliverability problems to Microsoft. Everywhere else has had no problems apart from the initial setup when I didn't know what I was doing.
Yep, definitely. It's why it's colloquial. In my view, the usage of that term today carries the same descriptive weight as terms like "free market". It's more evocative than literal.
Looks like things are driving towards a kind of "cloud escrow" or shared-management model. You grant a managed-serivces/saas company access to your cloud account to spin up resources. They do the day-to-day management, but you could bring it in-house or go to another firm at any time if they are no longer a good partner. In practice you get a SaaS product. But you actually have the assets of self-hosting.
I'm pretty sure you're in a filter bubble.
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With enterprise ios app development, there is already a mechanism built into the apple dev ecosystem to develop and distribute apps that can be installed from any website on any number of devices after the device owner grants permission.

Currently the TOS to join the enterprise development program are extremely restrictive but these could be updated to allow a better (IMO) distribution model.

I don't want to see a 3rd party app store gain popularity on iOS but would love for the current TOS for enterprise program to be expanded. This should also open in-app purchases to happen without Apple being involved. I'd love to drop support for apple/google in-app purchases and just use stripe for our website and inside our apps. One set of billing models and webhooks to worry about.
But they're not! At this point I think we should just scrap the word privilege and call it "shit I don't have to deal with because I'm X" since it's apparently too politically charged to have a discussion about it.

Just one example.

As a white person I have never in my life cared about getting a receipt from any store I shop at, have ever been accused of shoplifting, have never had the self-checkout person have even the slightest suspicion even when I was broke in college and ringing up way too many bananas, and when the sensor things beep the workers apologize and tell me to just go.

This is not the experience of black Americans where children have to be taught to always get and keep their receipts because they get stopped so frequently.
There's also a "grey" subgroup in the red tribe. For instance, a lot of Trump supporters will privately admit that he's a bad guy and an ineffective leader, but preferable to a liberal president.

The problem is that the more extreme factions in both tribes wield the power and tend to punish what they see as heresy within their own camps before going after the other tribe. Most groups treat apostates worse than those who never believed in the first place.
On the Internet, "the grain" his highly localized. Eroding discourse is only hastening that localization.
> Angle brackets require unbounded parser look-ahead or type information in certain situations

So.... they'd rather pull the "it's hard to do" or the NIH card, than make it easier for developers switching between languages? Interesting choice. Someone mentioned "condescending" -- that description fits perfectly.

And there I was thinking that COMPILER WRITING should be hard - as hard as possible - in order to make the code which is to be compiled as easy to write as possible.
As as opposed to... having undeterministic code?
Workflow as code is also the theme of airflow, luigi and prefect.
The book mentions that fact. The commit that removed them (along with the rationale) is available at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/454882dcb7fdb03867d...
That's often the case with HN posts. I think people find an article valuable they simply upvote, but if people don't find an article valuable they leave a comment explaining why.
It's fine for running Kubernetes locally and IntelliJ. Chrome tends to be the HUGE offender in my setup. It can chew through so many Gigs just due to open tabs. The processor rarely is my roadblock. It's always memory.
> I'm the kind of person that would say this to people.

Recognize that this is probably a combination of: (1) your opinions aren't as unorthodox as you think, they're just a little controversial, and (2) you're the kind of person who can just "say this to people" without significant repercussions.

Both of those traits constitute the state described by the linked article: you're "privileged", to use the vernacular. It's not something true of everyone.

In fact, were something you said to produce a real, big reaction from offended people, you'd probably be really upset. You just don't know it. Probably 90% of the "cancel culture" paranoia we're seeing on the right is exactly this: people used to being able to exercise their "Freedom to Offend" suddenly finding it's not so fun when the other side hits back.
QF-4 and QF-16 exists for target practices but they don’t use them for any combat drone-y roles
I've seen a good metaphor to this: imagine if somebody told you the Amazonian forest needs saving and you said "but all forests matter". While an obviously true statement, you just (unwittingly) downplayed the imminence of one over the other and missed on the particularities.
Hey, sometimes it takes two days to REMOVE 2 lines of code!
Regardless, using Pozidrive, JIS, Torx or similar is better for your soul.
Indeed, the internet allows a public figure to simultaneously be a pariah to the mainstream and also have a platform where they reach millions.
Fair. I think that the "sick with Covid == stay at home" link is strong enough in my brain I'm just assuming you'd want to stay home with even the vaccine, but that's not something really based in scientific fact.