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Luck.

In the short period of time we have had access to nuclear weapons, we have come very close to nuclear war between superpowers:

* Cuban Missile Crisis - Vasili Arkhipov Prevents launching of nuclear torpedo while his Soviet submarine flotilla is being bombarded by depth charges (happened to be signaling depth charges). Turns out the US warships above them just wanted the submarines to surface so they could communicate the end of hostilities.

* Computer Malfunction - Stanislav Petrov Holds off alerting officials of multiple incoming nuclear ICBMs because he "suspected" they were a glitch, preventing a likely nuclear counter-attack.

* Science experiment looks like nuclear attack - Boris Yeltsin correctly decides to wait launching a counter-attack based on an incoming rocket. All the while sitting in front of an activated nuclear briefcase and being pressured by aids to launch within the 12 minute response window. The rocket was meant for atmospheric testing.

There are many, many more.

Proliferation means more and more nation states have access to nuclear weapons. Balancing peace amongst all those nations can be difficult (look at India and Pakistan). Countries with existing nuclear stockpiles can undergo dramatic shifts in leadership and policy (US politics anyone?).

We also have 7.5+ billion people on the planet, consuming more resources than ever, on a planet with a finite amount of things.

Now throw in the further ramifications of climate change like political instability, infrastructure strain, resource scarcity, and refugee migrations into the mix. Or a truly mad guy with a nuke.

There are way too many people out there that are crazy optimistic that we aren't going to have a nuclear war...ever. We have always had warfare, and when the shit hits the fan, armies have always used the biggest weapons they have had.

Nuclear weapons may very well be our great filter.
Valid. The "fashion" point was more about P(adoption worthy tech | successful originator) != P(successful originator | adoption worthy tech)
You could look up Baggers on Youtube for plenty of fun Lisp coding sessions.
They are callbacks, but when they return they don't return to you. Instead they return back up the stack to whoever called the function that signalled the condition.
People giving on the spot coding exams, or worse whiteboard coding exams are just assholes. They're trying to haze interviewees and make themselves feel better. There's zero actual utility to such tasks in an interview.
I promise you, you can't get sick from "droplets getting in my hair and infecting me". Nor can you get sick from touching something infected. Just don't put your hands in your mouth/eyes/ears/nose. Wash your hands when you get home and before you eat, don't let anyone sneeze in your face, and you'll be good.

I'm not trying to be mean, but the above seriously sounds like a kind of mental illness. You should see someone.
The juxtaposition is what's noteworthy, not that the neighborhood is expensive.

Gruesome murders are salacious enough; it happening to a wealthy entrepreneur inside his expensive Manhattan home is especially rare.

For many reasons, people seem to be interested when tragedy strikes the rich or glamorous.
Agreed. Personally I think it depends on whether the projections are being made in good faith. Being wrong about something doesn't make you a liar unless you knew you were wrong when you made the statement in the first place.
I faced the same issue. Had to raise a ticket and GitHub basically reopened it after some duration (can't remember how long). The deactivation was due to an automated script apparently.
I don't think this is unprecedented. It's not releasing until August, so I imagine that Zoom wants people to talk about the fact that they have something in that target category before giving people information that would knock them out of the target funnel early.
It's pretty easy to do Zoom on an ipad, and you can do other things with it. So a dedicated zoom device seems like a complete waste.
I guess we'll agree to disagree! In the meantime I'll keep building the project and the business.
The fact that it's there to begin with implies it was noteworthy enough to include it, and the choice of including something versus not including is a value judgement. If instead the title read, "New York tech entrepreneur found decapitated wearing expensive suit", it would be more likely to strike people as odd, but isn't it essentially the same thing?
>Oh, I didn't know one can install other OS on iPhones.

Why does this matter? By choosing an iPhone you choose iOS.
I think it's more that most people realise "I get in trouble if I say that, so I just won't say it anymore" or "everyone seems to disagree with me on this, so I won't even think about it anymore". Those people might be leading healthier lives (why die on a hill you don't have to die on), but it doesn't mean they're closer to the truth necessarily.

The fact about some debates not being acceptable on public forums as opposed to private discussions would be fine, if it weren't for that fact that it's being applied extremely inconsistently.
afaik Portugal is on par with the EU average on income tax and slightly above corporate tax. Of course because of the low average wage it the high bands of taxing start much earlier than the rest of the countries. But lowering taxes does not increase wages, companies will always adapt to pay the least possible and if the wages are lower they will just pay less.

And in all the countries the middle class pays for the rich and poor... unfortunately.
In what way is black lives matter a straw man?

I know lots of people who think black lives matter some, but who don't think they matter as much as white lives. Like going around and murdering black people is clearly unethical, but overpolicing and imprisoning them for nonviolent crime isn't. Yet they can't imagine doing the same to white people.
> The cost / benefit analysis is so much in favor of mask wearing that I don't understand why they are not made mandatory

They have finally been made mandatory in shops and on public transport in the UK after quite a bit of public pressure. Kind of ridiculous that this wasn't done in March, but better late than never I guess.
https://dev.to/yg/how-i-got-two-letter-username-on-github-i1... possible reason ?
Can you imagine the maladaptive psychology required to wield a knife to calmly dismember, decapitate and butcher another human being?
As a descendant of Polish Jews that got out in time, god damn this is disturbing.

Why was this flagged? Chinese state behavior is absolutely relevant given their involvement in western tech.
> I think we can all agree someone can be a poor software engineer and not have any red flags.

This has been something I find myself musing over every now and then for a couple years now. As we begin to relax barriers of entry, how do we maintain that some people fail/lose?
Here are direct links to the video:

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/OddballFairGerbil-mobile.mp4

https://giant.gfycat.com/OddballFairGerbil.webm

They should work better with the WaybackMachine, as links to the gfycat page result in a 404 in the archived versions.
Having kids took us from “will retire comfortably, probably early, without seriously having to sacrifice for it” to “uh, might retire only a little late, somewhat comfortably, with great effort and luck?” We’re also at much greater risk, financially. On both counts healthcare costs/risks are a big part of why (lost wages and direct costs for childcare are are #1 on the cost side, though). Friggin’ American healthcare system.
I'll keep that in mind on my next build. The pricing steps up quire radically though, it seems.

But, you build enough "rigs", you learn not to skimp on certain components like PSU's, Cases and Motherboards... which is normally where new builders cut corners.
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How could it not be professional? What would it be otherwise?

The other clue is from the articles I've read is that there was no blood. No average person with a bone saw is going to be able to pull that off. Sorry.
Try HFT companies. I live in Amsterdam, we have a bunch of them here and I used to work for couple of them. Their business is extremely low latency so they live and breathe C++ (and also stuff like FPGAs).

But this is somewhat a niche indeed.
It’s useful to contrast “orthodox privilege” with what I like to call “privilege privilege,” which is a condition where one is so fully ensconced in a variety of privileges that they think an opposing minority opinion actually reaching their ears is a sign of a someone else having privilege.
He doesn't refer to that when he writes orthodoxy. He is referring the spiral of purity some topics are subjected to. And to related rules for behavior and expression that actually leads to people getting canceled. Not everyone of those is innocent, but some certainly are.

Just to be clear, canceling people because of social transgressions is not a new phenomenon and people most prominently executing it today are not the first to do so.
> As if those two things are mutually exclusive.

Why would they be mutually exclusive? What exactly is the U.S. doing in Germany, or Japan, or Bahrain?

If the U.S. tries to slow operations of "bombing terrorists", then that necessarily means that there is not much use for those bases.

I'd be fine keeping some bases in Europe and in Asia (Japan, SK, Australia, Philippines, etc.) basically for the purposes of helping to train our allies and for joint maneuver training, but do we really need so many bases around the world? And if we're going to do that, how should the costs be split?

I think people like to pretend these bases are solely for U.S. benefit, but every time we try to leave there's a huge uproar over it. Just like now in Germany when Trump said he was going to withdraw 10,000 U.S. troops. Germany didn't say: "please do, we don't really need them" as I'm sure you certainly noticed.

> Just like the healthcare debate, what if I told you that you can have both a private system and a public system?

The only way that this is even remotely similar to the healthcare debate is the subsidization of drugs for most of the rest of the world (similar to defense). When the US (not if) switches to single-payer drug prices across the world will go up, and availability for new vaccines and therapy will be reduced. The amount of which is to be seen.

Besides that, there is legitimate discussion on the pro and cons of single-payer and I find myself wavering between the two. But the overarching thing that matters here is that it's an internal US matter. Frankly, I don't see why it should be anyone else's business what we decide to do. People spending all this time talking about it should focus more on their own countries and improving them instead.
You can switch to a different scene when handling sensitive details, like the camera feed or the "technical difficulties" scene. This is how I've seen folks deal with secrets in the past
I am disappointed that in HN, posters don’t debate or discuss points anymore, but rather pass judgements and opinions on posters. This is bringing down the quality of discussion and frankly of HN itself.

So you have nothing to say. Ok. Got it. Fine. Have a nice day. I will read what I want when I want in my own sweet time.
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It’s an easy mistake to make. Progressive groups need be be better at saying “that’s a nice campaign, but it’s not my campaign. Good luck with that.”
I don't know if the comment is being deceptive. I'd say the commenter is at least confused. And I did point out why.

The confusing thing is Elon and Tesla both share a lot of information about timelines for prototype technology. "In six months it will do x" kind of statements.

The two faces you are confused by have names. The first face is prototype technology. The second face is shipping cars that we regular consumers can drive.

All the confusion can be cleared up by simply asking yourself, for each statement, which of these are they talking about in the current context?

Keeping in mind that both prototypes and current shipping cars can appear sometimes in the same context, such as that web page. It takes a bit of discernment and careful reading.

If you (general you, not you in particular) are predisposed to assume Elon is a massively deceptive fraudster who is constantly lying and hyping, then it's convenient to overlook that these two faces have a perfectly logical division that fits reality and makes everything consistent.

That is what a lot of people do. They overlook the fact that both Elon and Tesla need to lay out their vision for what is coming in the future. When Elon and Tesla talk about this stuff, they often need to talk about prototype technology. They often make it clear when they are doing this. I mean, look at the web page. The words are there. It does say "future" and "current cars don't have this blah blah" (although Elon in his interviews doesn't do as good of a job, it's often obvious with a moment's thought that he's talking about prototypes, to those of us who are familiar with the fact that there will be a multi-year regulatory process before whatever feature he mentions will come out).

I guess the problem is that technology is complex. Self driving cars are another level of complex because of the context in which they are situated, amongst other cars and drivers who need to learn to deal with the new robo drivers. Socially complex. Legally complex. Complex environments. Complex timelines. Complex rollouts. Complex technology evolution. You don't just flip a switch with this stuff and turn it on one day, because of the education aspects where other drivers are going to be in the picture. People aren't used to this level of complexity. Elon can't spell all this stuff out in every answer to every interview question. It's up to you to understand this.

Average drivers of a Tesla don't need to understand all the complexity. They just need to understand that the current system requires them to be attentive and ready to take over at any time. Tesla makes this abundantly clear in many ways, including on the web site, during the sales process, during delivery, and with active messaging and interventions while driving if the driver does not get it.
> 1950's levels of CO2 would be great

In absolute terms, but we have a lot more people now. It looks like the US is already back at 1950's levels (per-capita).

https://eidclimate.org/u-s-per-capita-carbon-emissions-at-lo...
Any sources regarding Credit Karma being a data collection scheme?
Some parts of the US have culture such that a working class utility worker can get fired for unintentionally making the OK symbol, because a Twitter mob decided it's racist and harassed his employer [0].

It's McCarthy 2.0 (although not the entire US), driven by employers worried about their brand. Talk of "understand[ing] why things could be construed as problematic, and mak[ing] efforts to better themselves" is detached from this realty.

[0] https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/502975-cal...
This example doesn't seem to illustrate blindness as much as difference in priorities.

X% of surveyed economists probably don't disagree that rent controls will have the effect that rent control proponents claim. They likely believe it will have other effects in addition, and that these other effects are, in aggregate, worse than what benefits might also be offered.

By contrast, advocates for rent control probably don't believe that the economists are just making stuff up - they just believe that the downsides of the stuff the economists are talking about are less than the upsides of rent control.

Neither side is blind: they just don't agree on how to weight difference aspects of the results of a policy decision.
This seems like an extreme stretch and the motive doesn't check out. Oride was shut down two weeks ago for reasons unrelated to competition.

https://www.pymnts.com/news/ridesharing/2020/softbank-backed...
Wow, great service. Hope to see it operative in Europe soon.
You can see for yourself how much housing in the area costs.

https://streeteasy.com/for-sale/greenwich-village
Really, the Spanish Army? Harvard's endowment is like 3 times it's budget. The Spanish Army is ~120,000 people, There are 2-3 times as many Harvard alumni. After Harvard those alumni have become presidents, founders, etc. Soldiers who leave the Spanish Army get... a pension, I guess?
That is perfectly fine too.

But you will have to be fair and treat all those doing the same as asshole. Which is pretty much ALL MNC.
To me the name "legacy" is a huge turnoff, big enough that I probably won't use your service. Maybe it's just me though!
Scale, interactivity, and durability are certainly part of this discussion. You can use Cadence/Temporal for purposes you just really couldn't use Airflow for. For instance, you could implement this entire actor-based auction example from Akka with Cadence/Temporal https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-enhancements/current/persisten... There is absolutely no way you could do that with Airflow.

To understand why Cadence is so useful, you have to go a bit beyond the traditional ETL scheduling usages IMO.
> It doesn't seem to conventional-minded people that they're conventional-minded. It just seems to them that they're right. Indeed, they tend to be particularly sure of it.

Exactly! Like for instance, the vast majority of people, who believe they can objectively identify mindless orthodoxies, while somehow remaining immune to them.
Yea it failed spectacularly with Indian independence from the british and Gandhi's way of peaceful protests prevailed to the point where he became a role model for many others (Mandela, MLK, etc). There was an alternative violent mob in India seeking independence from the British which was unsuccessful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagat_Singh
So why do you think these subjects keep popping up on HN? Maybe because there is a unsatisfied need and these articles are addressing the demand. I'm sincerely curious, because I actually like to read these kinds of articles that you are dismissing as pseudo-scientific garbage.
The first job I see when I click on this is "Ass Haver" offering a base salary of $200000 a year. Along with an incessant menu flashing whenI scroll.
battery life and weight >> Any other feature on a laptop.

I'm waiting for that ARM mac.
It'll be interesting to see how long it will be until the policies are made available as per these regulations. These companies are not going to do this without a fight, so someone will have to take them to court first.

Sadly, I think we're several years away from actually getting this information.
Every time I see news about Riot I immediately think about Riot Games and League of Legends. I guess most people who don't know Element will assume Riot in the context of a messaging app is some client they have done to work alongside LoL. Riot Games is too big for anything else computer-related to manage to succeed, especially if males between 15 and 35 years are a significant part of their target customer base.
> if his previous business was gutted by regulatory changes?

There are some people you just don't want to owe money to. I'm not speculating on if that was the case here, just that in the US, that sort of thing is the realm of movies. Elsewhere in the world (and also parts of the US) that still the reality of borrowing large sums of money.
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The a priori to all of this current hubbub is a large number of people who are not of an upper class or upper middle class white American background, who are not even heard at all.

One example would be Tulsi Gabbard. We do not hear what she says. We hear from a New York Times columnist who went to exclusive prep schools and then to an Ivy League college (where she tried to "cancel" Arab professors by testifying against them that they were antisemitic) before landing her plum role, that Gabbard is an "Assad toadie". After years of throwing mud from her aerie, she herself finally feels some criticism come in, and quits her job in a huff, with ramblings about the end of freedom.

Hillary Clinton not so indirectly implied Gabbard was some sort of stalking horse of Putin's as well. Saturday Night Live joins in. This is all not considering canceling though. It's not, in a sense, the notion that the US should not have military bases all over the world was never out there on the corporate controlled media channels . There's nothing to cancel - that show was never allowed on to start with.

Pushback against this mudslinging is considered canceling though. This is the threat to freedom we hear Sturm and Drang about.

The channels of media out there all blast forth establishment views, benefiting a minority of privileged people. They are born upper and upper middle class, white, and are American if not by birth then by coming to the US. Other voices are excluded. All that is left and that can finally be faintly heard is some criticism of these establishment narratives. That this pushback is causing demonstrations around the country and criticism of the establishment narrative is very distressing for these people.

(A tangential example - in the days after 9/11, the New York Times published excerpts of an Osama bin Laden statement. As the whole world seemed to be pivoting on this dialectic, I tried to find the full statement somewhere. I was unable to. I could not even find it on the net. Perhaps it has surfaced in the past 20 years. It reminds me of the old Irish republican cartoon of an Irishman with a British gag over his mouth representing BBC voice bans etc. When the gag is removed a dove of peace comes out. NATO bombing Serbian press is not considered censorship. Satellite installers jailed for installing al-Manar is not censorship. Privileged people who tried to cancel Arab professors getting criticism is considered censorship.)

In the current dialectic, we have to-the-manor born, white, more or less American establishment types suddenly having to contend with voices who are not necessarily white or American, who went to public schools and grew up middle class or working class or poor, who are finally having their voices heard and who are challenging the establishment hegemony. I know which side I am on.
I'd hate working alongside a young anxiety free conformist who doesn't have external commitments.
Not sure about this claim:

"More secure than E-Mail or SMS, because the codes are end-to-end-encrypted (Not in this demo, but supported by Matrix)"

Assuming encryption is turned on for a room, it's opportunistic unless both sides have verified each other out of band.

Maybe as a second factor, or as a user identifier (instead of email), it would be useful. But I wouldn't use it as the sole token for logging in.
The fact that the set of people complaining about this includes people famous for openly discussing controversial ideas that they have received pushback and worse for in the past sort of refutes that.

Do you really think this is the first time anyone has pushed back against Noam Chomsky? Salman Rushdie had a fatwa declared on his life over a book he wrote. I think these people are very well accustomed to being pushed back upon publicly.
Most people have their phones on the table. And on iOS (not sure about Android) you can swipe from the top-right corner to get to the calculator.
Graham's acknowledgement of cancel culture does not imply that he believes he himself is at risk of being fired, swatted, harassed, or required to apologize. But it seems hard for him to pretend it isn't happening to others.