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> identity politics, where being member of Groups A, B, and C means you must hold Ideas X, Y, and Z

That's not what it means. That sounds like a caricature of it you read in libertarian media. "Politics" in its modern meaning is about getting votes, not telling people what to think.

Identity politics is the recognition that people of similar backgrounds tend to have similar political desires, coupled with the fact that people tend to "trust" politicians who have supported those needs in the past. And that's all it means.

So white christians vote republican because of a long history of opposition to abortion rights, black votes have gone to democrats ever since the Civil Rights Act passed, etc... Not everyone, but enough that it makes sense as political strategy to court specific groups via these affiliations.

And they're mutable over time. We didn't used to think of the divide between college-educated whites and non-college whites until the Trump campaign was able to exploit that divide. Men/women is getting larger now too, etc...
Corporations today provide the platforms for mob rule.
The legality I believe. I don't think the Irish Government or Apple tried to hide anything, so the facts are out there in the public domain (Apple is a public company). More about the EC implying it was illegal, but that has now been overturned so all parties legally (if not morally, depending on your point of view...) vindicated.
For Viaweb, users (ie, e-commerce sellers) paid $100+ per month. So a process per user isn't expensive. Shoppers didn't require so much state (just a shopping cart) so that part of the system kept all the state in a sharded database.

There is some routing infrastructure required by the front end to route requests, time out after inactivity, and reload the process if they come back. But it can give very snappy response to have all the data needed to serve a request all loaded in memory.
Traditional Chinese medicine could help treat Covid-19
Likewise. Mine is years old and was expensive when I bought it. It uses a rotary timer which is much easier and quicker to use. As I've mentioned elsewhere in these posts, ergonomics is important, and in this instance the simplest is also the easiest to use.
When you use a catch-phrase associated with racists, and you are trying to be an effective communicator, and you are not a racist: then you use a different phrase next time.

If you're not trying to communicate effectively, or if you are trying to communicate your sympathy with racism, you keep using that phrase.

Language is a tool.
Even current popular use of the term "dogwhistle" has become a dogwhistle in and of itself.

In current contemporary use, members of the blue tribe use it to communicate to other members of the blue tribe that they believe they have identified a member of the red tribe and want other members of the blue tribe to join them in the tar-and-feathering of the suspected red tribe member.

Both the blue tribe and the red tribe are mirror images of one another in far more ways than members of either are willing (capable?) of acknowledging.
Here's something for you: HN has groupthink (er, I mean PG-branded Orthodox Privilege) in spades. If you agree with the Group (orthodoxy) you get upvotes and lots of kudos. If you don't, you get downvotes and criticism.
I've never heard the exhausting activities warning, but I do get mild flu-like symptoms for a few days (low grade fever, some fatigue, congestion) after the flu shot most years.

I don't know how common it is to experience this, as I would say I have a subpar immune system (frequently sick as a kid, history of food allergies, etc.). But when I've discussed it with doctors they do say my reaction is unsurprising, however the benefits outweigh the "costs".
The App Store generated $15bn in profit last year for Apple. Fortnite alone made them more than $300k per day. They definitely aren't losing money on it.
That's not a similar policy.
I really wonder the same thing. I know I’m at a tail of the distribution, but I could see committing 150/mo of my own funds to sequestering co2.

I’ve heard it posited that for one or another reason climate change could create a dictatorial regime one or another way. I hope humanity figures out a way to pull our collective heads out of the sand and start doing stuff before anything like a dictator kicks up...
This this this. Most Section 8 renters are elderly or disabled, nothing like the stereotypes.

Section 8 is a fantastic program that deserves more credit for avoiding the issues that plague the Projects.
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Trees are great but require quite a bit of landmass. They're also slow :) As part of an "all of the above solution", a way to do what they do artificially would be handy
While they do chew any ram available. It is an over exaggeration.
Also posted this as a child comment elsewhere in the thread, but:

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I don't know about Ubuntu, but while installing Debian the installer makes it very clear what popularity-contest does and asks the user for explicit consent.

It also makes it very clear that this setting can be changed later at any time.

The default option is "I do not wish to participate", so if someone isn't paying attention during the install process and just hits 'Enter', their privacy remains intact.

This, IMO, is the perfect way to do telemetry.
Legal bases aside, How any of these attacks are useful though? It just gives them an excuse to retaliate.

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- Publishing hacking tools (malware) from APT34, an Iranian government hacking unit, on Telegram.

- Doxing Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence agents on Telegram by revealing their full names, home addresses, phone numbers, and social media profiles.

- Dumping details about 15 million payment cards from three Iranian banks linked to Iran's IRGC.

- Hacking two contractors that provide cyber-weapons and surveillance solutions for Russia's FSB intelligence agency and sharing the data online via a hacktivist group called Digital Revolution.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/report-cia-behind-apt34-and-fs...
What evidence is there that it is a "racist dog whistle?" What "action" has the phrase prevented from being taken?

Is it "racist" in the DiAngelo definition, a reflection of white people's innate racism and thus like anything a white person might say or do outside of the anti-racist activity of contemplating one's own racism?

Is it a "dog whistle" because it summons racists like a bat signal, "Hey white supremacists, time to do some racism!" How is it that so many people who can hear a particular phrase immediately denounce it as a "racist dog whistle?" Is the denouncement part of systemic racism whereby white people can pretend to be allies and yet still demonstrate their white supremacy bonafides because they can hear the signal?
This is..

.. satire?

What do you propose as an alternative to github/gitlab/code hosting?

I can break down reasons for github/gitlab as a service being aggressive value, however I would be shot down with "but that's not reality, you should compare competitors!" as it was in this comment chain... So I'd love for you to pontificate on the point you're making.
Have you tried just having a conversation about pointers and recursion? Does that not work as well (or better)?

Kudos for letting candidates know what’s going to happen, it’s just that when I see problems that are clearly just a stand in for “do you know X?” I always wonder why interviewers don’t cut to the chase and just ask directly. “Are you comfortable with recursion? Can you describe it? When does it tend to be applicable?”
Was going to write something. You wrote basically all I had to say. I'm so apathetic at this point :(
> If you don't, you get downvotes and criticism.

Heh, if you're lucky. Often you get just the downvotes.
Can any googlers comment on whether "turning off" activity on your user page actually does anything? My understanding has always been that it just hides that data from the end-user.
Yeah, but there's a big difference between working on a TV show that's meant to be a comedy where people are trying to be funny, and working on a TV show that's meant to be a drama that isn't a parody. Both might have the same "actual goal" of trying to get good ratings, but if you're trying to put jokes in the show that's meant to be dead serious because you mistakenly thought everyone in the writer's room was trying to be funny...

If you want to be working with a team trying to be funny, at some point you have to use the word "funny" and "comedy" to make sure you all are actually trying to do the same thing. And make sure the producers and show runners agree that it's a comedy you're making.

Same with agile.
> and the problem isn't that someone is super-rich

A pie chart has 360 degrees. Give 359 to a small subset and you are left with 1 degree to be fought over. You cannot have super-rich people without having super-poor people. Look at the world, the real one, this one here where the majority of people are dirt-poor.
If we want to fight something so bad, why don't we fight unemployment, ignorance, and homelessness.
Am I allowed to think the described use case less than compelling?

It's especially not compelling that the caller passed the wrong type, the called function would like a different type and somehow a different piece of code would know both end of the situation and fix it instead of the caller or callee.

It all seems like an artificial and convoluted use case.

Software design tend to know if they'd like to abort (throw) or report (callback) statically. Conditions may be general, but they seem to me to mostly allow unnecessary open-ended complex design.

If the supposed gain is that a single system can do it all, I again don't feel it is a convincing argument. In fact, I tend to prefer a one-goal system, where different use case are easily differentiable because they are different. IOW, that throwing an exception, calling a callback, sending a signal or converting a value should look different is a plus.

This is something I've noticed: one starts with a rigid design, then adds abstractions. But one reach a point over over-abstracting where the design becomes uncomprehensible because it is so generic that it becomes meaningless.
Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
That is pretty cool. I have so many questions, but you are not obligated to answer ;). How old are you? Did you experience any side effects from the vaccine? Are you a mask wearer? Do you go out in public as others have?
You're getting a very skewed perspective of the world if you think the HN crowd is right-leaning.
They pay more in the Bay area. Once you get out of the Bay area the pay goes down. Facebook even said if you telecommute they'll take into consideration where you live and pay you based on that.

And if you look at the class disparity we have in the United States, the middle class is almost completely gone now.
Wasn't there talk of using the B-1 or even B-52 as an "arsenal ship" like that?

A F-22/35 goes in to find targets, relays them to the bomber, and the bomber slings missiles from BVR.
Not viable for handling many users at once on a single unix box, no. Context switching between the processes starts to dominate your time. It’s an old-school approach that is really tidy at relatively low concurrency.

In the early 2000s, this area was sometimes called the “C10k problem” - can you handle 10,000 concurrent connections on one machine? See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10k_problem

These days, most servers can blow way past that, even into millions, but none - that I am aware - do that with a process-per-connection model.
A lot of this seems to focus on ideas and worldviews but I think there's a more general truth in Orthodox Privilege: If you're in the majority it's easy to overestimate the quality of life in the minority (and this applies to many kinds of majorities and minorities).

I think a lot of politics (at least in my country) also work this way. Simply by not addressing real problems, a politician can look like a winner because hey, there are no problems when they're in charge! Addressing problems not only becomes a political liability, it's in fact hardly possible at all because the majority of people wouldn't believe you if you told them about it and would accuse you of making up problems.
Where did you read that pieces of his body were distributed around the building?
"The importance of deep work" seems so fundamental that you'd think everybody would be aware of it by now - yet open offices are nearly universal (or at least were before this corona virus panic started). Is it that the people making the decisions genuinely don't understand "deep work", or that they think everybody can do their "deep work" for four years in college and be done with deep work for the rest of their lives?
The Nokia N9 alarm clock isa nice example of thoughtful functional design
Computers are multi-purpose machines
IIRC the folks who worked on SecDB at GS bounced around Wall St. recreating this abomination in Python.
Probably referring to the fact the majority had fairly noticeable side effects especially with the second dose.

One person taking the highest dose had a 103+ fever with the second...

If this is happening in healthy young people, what will the side effects look like for older or more vulnerable people who actually need it the most?
Oh, yes, I have seen that very often. Symptoms are nearly the same as getting the flu. The type of vaccine, live or inactivated, is relevant though, but it can happen with both. Your immune system is weakened for a time until you have produced. Moderate training is no problem though, perhaps even helpful, but exhausting yourself can lead to problems.
If we keep plowing over farmland to build suburbs where will the farming get done?
When he said training on Google colab took one day and on his computer took 20 mins, did he compare with google colab CPU? The difference seems too large.
Yes, but renting doesn't give you that sense of security when you are thinking of having kids versus owning your own place. When you're renting the thought of the landlord kicking you out if the rental market should suddenly shift is a huge axe to child planning for most couples. Owning you own place offers a more secure feeling and belonging to a community.
Just as in other areas where countries use violence against each other's populations, it will be a question of the state defending its citizens.

Maybe, some day, there will be some sort of international agreement about what can be done and what must not be done. Like with ABC weapons.
IBM mainframe? Does it run COBOL?
It's gotten a lot worse since January.

I've subscribed for over a decade, and for the first time am questioning whether I should keep paying to be misinformed.

It's very strange as FT subscribers often have money at stake and the last thing they want is to be surprised by events.

Maybe their subscription numbers are falling and Nikkei is chasing the mass market and ad revenue. I don't see that working, as divisive clickbait is available everywhere for free... looks like a doom loop to me.
This is Google we're talking about. I'm sure they've run the numbers and come to the conclusion that a lawsuit and a fine costs less than the amount of money that they earn by tracking users even after saying that they won't.

Is anyone surprised at this point?
I couldn't disagree more. In fact, I would say that most unorthodox beliefs are absolutely on the list of things you "can't say." Most people don't have strong egos (i.e. as "sense of self") and most have frail foundations for what they perceive to be "truth."

Nearly everyone, if they wrote out a list of truths, could have that list divided into "universal truths" (e.g. 1+1=2), "group (e.g. cultural) truths" (you flip up on a light switch to turn a light on), and "individual truths" (things only you believe, often wrongly).

It's not that you "can't say" a unorthodox statement (one that runs counter to one of these truths), but since all of these truths are held roughly at the same level, it will be the equivalent of saying "1 + 1 = 3," and you'll be dismissed and seen as crazy. The reaction will be visceral and abrupt. There will be little interest in hearing your side of the story; you're just talking nonsense.

I'm not a fan of Paul but he's right here. If someone says, "humans didn't go to the moon," it's extremely hard for most Americans to hear that. Their reaction isn't, "Why do you think that?" but "When did you lose your mind?" and all willingness to discuss it is off the table. That's not a normal reaction. The person poked an accepted truth, and in doing so, committed heresy.
With this job board, can everyone from other part of world can work for Australian companies? or is it for Australians only?
It depends on how intensive your pre-processing pipeline is. With a really fast accelerator you can quite easily start to be bottlenecked by your CPU.
There have been numerous examples of apps in the App Store that have malicious behavior.

So, with Apple, pick none I guess?
Most of modern society freely says things like "women menstruate", and would be hopelessly confused by the idea that such a banal statement has transphobic implications.
Air cooling is wonderful. I didn't watch this video but I use a giant Noctua heatsink on my system (Intel 6950X, not quite as demanding as Threadripper but hardly a cold-running CPU) and I have zero regrets. I have used all-in-one watercoolers, and ... they just die after a few years. I have owned three and all three of them died in less than 2 years each. Each time, I very sadly woke up in the morning with the realization that I'm not going to be using my computer today. AIOs have not, in my experience, been quieter or yielded better temps than air cooling. So I am not sure it's worth it.

Obviously a homebuilt watercooling rig is going to be way better than AIOs, but it requires extensive maintenance. It's water. Stuff will grow in there. It evaporates. Joints loosen over time and could end up shooting water all over your $6000 workstation.

To me, it's not worth it. Threadripper requires a big heatsink. So be it.
I doubt it, but the nano is over 20% lighter, it's in a different class, a class that amd hasn't competed in until now.

I'm guessing amd will be in these kinds of ultra portables soon. Their cpus are flying off shelves, they're probably focused on the more lucrative server market for now.
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Please fix title Tiitan typo.
Interesting. Between this and the Incognito Mode lawsuit, it seems some lawyers are trying to make a case that companies have the burden of making their systems plain-language understandable to the consumer, not technically understandable. "Incognito mode" has never meant "Third party sites can't track you," but one could argue its plain-language understanding should be that. Similarly, disabling "Web & App Activity" actually means Android's built-in tracking is disabled, but does nothing about third-party site tracking (which is what Firebase is; it's a framework for third parties building usage tracking into apps that happens to be owned by Google but doesn't drop its data into the same hopper as the Android project's tracking). One can clearly see how turning off Web & App Activity tracking could cause a person to assume systems like Firebase are also disabled, but it doesn't.

I don't know what the right answer is yet. Manufacturer responsibility v. personal responsibility is an old question, and it's why we have court systems.
> beyond a reasonable doubt

This might be true for things like the conventional laws of physics. But there are many things scientists do not agree or argue over. Quantum physics and string theory are two examples. The 1994 book The Bell Curve is another example from social sciences.

And today, we have grave reproducibility crises in science. We have people trying to apply rules about the psychological and metaphysical worlds into the doctrine of hard science. In the current crisis, we have conflicting papers published almost every week, and there is a deep political climate that cannot be denied behind much of the current research.

Even for thing that we can agree on work under experiment, like a certain class of drug, we can't explain WHY it works. We can say drug x will stop a heart attack 99% of the time and is generally considered safe in 99% of human beings, but often we're guess at the very specific interactions, based on what we see in labs, because we have no real introspection into all the complex things happening at the micro-level within the incredible complex cell systems inside of us.

Maybe one day we'll be able to see what happens at that microlevel in human bodies, and that could lead us to discover the drug isn't working at all the way we thought it was.

Science is iterative.
Do all servers share a file system, or is there some sort of copying done in the background?
And this is the measure of a good engineer -- recognizing that it's most likely that battle tested libraries will have superior implementations of algorithms than whatever one can draw up oneself.

I use the STL daily. I know fairly well the complexity guarantees behind each data structure. That's one of the things I like about it versus other collections libraries. It forces you to be somewhat literate on data structures in order to make the right choices.

But no, I could not write you up a red-black tree from scratch without going away for a few days with my Knuth books and a few pots of coffee. Sorry.
Popcon (the software that collects such metric) has existed at least for 20 years, via Debian, just for the record for people freaking out for how long this has been a thing without them reading the installation dialogs.
That seems fair, but still, it seems like you should still be required to be in a rural area to get those bandwidths. I can also imagine a scenario where dads in the city decide to buy this so that they can take the internet with them during weekend RV trips. So even if they are paying double what they pay Comcast, it's worth it for the internet everywhere factor. So perhaps, the satellites can give them that high bandwidth in remote regions, but only when the device is truly remote. When it returns to the city, perhaps the bandwidth should not compete with cable.
My point is that reality gets in the way of everything we think. It's all made up.
If you ask politely, I will often say yes to opting in! People don’t seem to understand this and think that somehow I’ll feel exactly the same if it’s opt-out because “it’s the same data…”
An upvote of a comment, too.
> Identity politics is the recognition that people of similar backgrounds tend to have similar political desires

I'd call it an assumption more than a recognition, and take it from there.
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I'm original tech lead of SWF and later of the Cadence Workflow (cadenceworkflow.io) and Temporal Workflow (temporal.io) open source projects.

AMA.
I agree that countries should be free to set their corporate tax rate to whatever they want to attract investment. But corporations should not be able to just shift their profits to any country, but sadly, using loopholes in international tax law, they can currently do so freely [1]. This means Ireland is not just taxing companies for the economic activity that goes on within its borders, it is also preventing taxation of economic activities in all other European countries.

Furthermore, in the case at hand, while Ireland is free to set their tax rate to something low, like 12.5%, it needs to apply this to all companies, not allow any of them to fiddle their way to only paying 0.005% like Apple did. The commission considers this illegal state aid to a company, and I'd tend to agree. It's unfair competion when a company only operating in Ireland needs to pay 12.5% in corporate tax, while an international company with a creative ownership structure involving the Cayman Islands can pay effectively 0%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_erosion_and_profit_shifti...