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ASN is an independent authority. Do you have any proof otherwise? I am yet to see any of these engineers becoming millionaires.

Besides, they don’t make decisions, as the Fessenheim example demonstrates. The people making decisions are politicians who have no clue and just follow gut feeling and electoral arithmetic. Not many of them come from engineering schools, much less universities.
having to charge your headphones in order for them to work is not freedom.
I think the first example is actually not very compelling for C++ programmers, because it's specific to vector. e.g. in C++ this is safe:

deque<int> xs = {1, 2, 3};
int *x = &xs[0];
xs.push_back(92);
cout << *x;

but Rust would still reject this.
"To think is to ignore (or forget) differences, to generalize, to abstract. In the teeming world of Ireneo Funes there was nothing but particulars..."

Funes would never have invented the Turing machine, because for him, instead of an infinite tape with a finite repertoire of symbols, a single square with an infinite repertoire of symbols would have sufficed.
I work in a sector with a requirement to keep data out of the US. It is VERY hard to find providers who can promise not to do this. Even when servers exist in the EU, many provider's contracts have clauses that allow transfer to the US, as they have staff there who may access the data.

I can see company legal departments taking this ruling to prohibit transfers, even with a DPA in place, and causing havoc around the EU.
We also had to take care of the few folks who signed up with wrong password(in the sense that they never intended the password to start with a capital letter.). Changing the field value was a part of it - applicable for all new users. The complication was the people who already went through the flow and would have trouble logging in now.
But the twitter web interface has access to post (since you can post via it), so it would be possible.
Anyone can trade US options from Eastern Europe, with a broker like Interactive Brokers
I came here to say more or less the same thing - my understanding was that system resources (like memory allocations, file descriptors) would be freed when the process exits.

That said, I still see the value of doing graceful shutdowns.
We were not talking about installed capacity, though.

Comparing installed capacity without discussing average load factor is also utterly meaningless.
No, because the plastic gears connected to the drive wheel would snap under the immense torque.
Yep. After the one employee deleted Trumps account. This is why I thought it might have been an internal tool; why wouldn’t they hack “THE” account?
I wasn't expecting an adblocker installed by default.

Makes sense though, for browsing performance.
You probably won't be able to turn it at all with bare hands due to the sheer friction of the first few gear axles at the other end being amplified so much.
Yes, but I'm not sure if that would work for data stored in the US as the problem is that intelligence agencies can request access to the data without the data subjects ever being notified about this. If the clauses cannot be effectively enforced (which I don't think they can in the US) it's not possible to rely on them.
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That’s how it is handled in most universities in finland as far as i know. Lectures are just zoom meetings and everyone already knows how to use it.
> That said, obfuscation per se is not illegal in most jurisdictions.

And it can't be, as long as fiat money exists. There's no tracing involved in passing notes around. The only times fiat transactions become suspicious is if you try and cross a border with a lot of cash or valuables on hand, which is where crypto comes in because it knows no borders. This makes law enforcement nervous.

I'm sure that besides crypto there's many ways to move large amounts of money or valuables across borders though. The rich do it, they just set up shell companies and pay licenses for intellectual property, paying a token amount of corporate taxes.
A lot of developers wont use their personal computer to develop on but as a terminal.

Its actually bad practice in a lot of peoples opinion you should develop and test on an identical system hw/sw to the system you will deploy on.
"few BTC", for US this is no money, but for a scammer in a 3rd world country 13 BTC more money than most people do in their lives.
Can someone give me a TLDR on the OS? (The website isn't great, it's more about hardware specs). Will it run Andorid apps? I bought an Ubuntu phone but it was a bit disappointing, mainly because of the lack of software available.
So, I am specifically talking about the scenario where all your labelling functions are highly correlated and there is little or no ground truth data to come up with empirical weights for each of the labelling functions. An example is the scenario where you have the label functions: x>5, x>4.99, x>5.01 for some feature x. I am really struggling to see how Snorkel can correct for the correlation, especially given the relatively simple generative model in section 2.2 of the paper. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.10160.pdf
You're right that Athens grew a lot and it grew fast. However, the same is true for many European cities- many larger than Athens, and many of them have preserved their older architecture much better and to a greater extent than we have. They have also built a lot of modern stuff, but in pretty much every French or Italian city I've visited in the last 15 years or so (I travel by train a lot) there is always a part of town, usually the town center, where buildings are at least a century old (I'm not an expert in architecture so I wouldn't really be able to say exactly - but for example, when I step out of the station at Gare De Lyon in Paris, the majority of buildings look positively gothic to me).

In Athens, there is Plaka, of course- but even under the Acropolis you can find a mix of new and old that I haven't seen, e.g. in Bruges, or in Amsterdam, in Rouen, or certainly Venice and even Paris itself. Even London, that prides itself for its modernism, has large regions covered with older buildings. I live in a town outside of London and the house I stay in is probably from the Georgian era. etc.
For every story of entrepreneurial success, there are countless others of failures. The vast majority of people are not just too dumb to see the opportunities, as you have arrogance to imply. They are well aware of the risks, and can't afford to take them.

Plus, an economy can't run on business founders alone. It requires workers that actually, you know, do the work, and who are willing to be paid for a less than that work is worth (you know, 'profit').

If anyone is living in an echo chamber, I assure you it is not the 99%. It's the smug 1% hoarding wealth and justifying it to themselves by thinking 'anyone could do this if they were as smart/hard working/enlightened as me!' while forgetting the luck and connections and old money that got them where they are.
Unless space-time is quantized.
The EU depends too much on the US in this area.

Hopefully this will force more independence and provide a boost to the European providers.
Fundamentally, yes! But nearly all of our content is user generated; so we can't own the design of experiences, at least not completely.
You cannot rely on these clauses if they can't be effectively enforced, so I'm doubtful whether they will allow you transferring personal data to the US.
Should only large corporations pay for benefits their workers collect? Why should medium, small, and micro businesses be exempted?

Transparently, I ask that question because I’m wary of creating a system where employers have a direct economic incentive to not hire people who would be likely to receive government benefits. Nearly the last thing someone on government support needs is employers not wanting to hire them.

If that means (as I think it does) that corporations are not individually tagged for their specific workers’ benefits, so be it.

I’m also opposed (though less strongly) to creating a taxation system where taxation levels are not reasonably predictable, given enough effort. If I don’t know whether Joe is going to cost me $30K/yr or $50K/yr and I’ve got 500K “Joes”, that’s $10 billion dollars of annual uncertainty. Even if you cap the uncertainty to between 25% and 75% of the range, it’s $5B. For $5B/yr, I can find a bunch of other arrangements that give me less exposure (most obviously using subcontractors who aren’t themselves “large companies”, but even if they are, it becomes “their problem” which is better than “my problem”).
I appreciate Billionaires that take city-size estates out in the country where there is plenty of space.

I feel this is a lot less controversial than urban mega-dwellings which can cause undue hardship for mere millionaires.
I had weird similar-sounding issues with Firefox ESR on Linux. I didn't try to narrow it down to the exact conditions though.
That's the kind of language integrated cross-cutting DI that I always wanted.
Your first point is actually covered in the computerphile video on GPT-3. They discuss a paper that studies the ability of GPT-3 to do arithmetic as it's part of the learned text database

Check a look https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yVOC4ciXc
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The press release seems to suggest that the standard contractual clauses are still good enough - It'd be weird to suggest that if it isn't true in practice. But I'm unsure, and you have some valid points.
How convenient that I also included the current production (at the time of writing) in my comment, right? Btw now it's 4.6 GW wind+solar vs 6.6 GW hydro.
Probably because recruiters work on commissions and they had to work extra hard to get the whatever openings were left filled ASAP to get paid.
- You still don't know who (which individual) is behind the BTC address, because bitcoin is anonymous.

- It is decentralized, but some exchanges process big percentages of conversions. Transferring the coins to other BTC wallets is decentralized. Moving it out of the BTC blockchain is often done through exchanges though, but there's a lot of them, and you can avoid the exchanges as well.

- No, everybody controls it; it's a consensus-based system, so if enough people agree on taking things in one or another direction it will. Look up "hard fork" in the context of BTC.
glassdoor has a very good anonymous feedback system for interview experience
That number stands out more than anything else in that report.

99% availability effectively becomes the weakest link in the chain. Would they still have pushed this report out if they phrased it as "...where GitHub was only down for an hour for every 99 hours of uptime"
I don't find it particularly persuasive. End-exclusive and end-inclusive can both be natural in different scenarios, regardless of the base - the article simply cherry-picks the ones that it needs to "prove" its case. That's why it's best when the language just offers both.
"few BTC" is relative to the value of what they had, not the average income of the average person.

If I sold a 7500 sqft home in San Fransisco for $200,000 you could say the same thing.
Double slit / quantum eraser definitely suggests to me that we don't understand some very fundamental aspects of the universe. If I think about the scale of the universe, points in time before the universe, or why there is something rather than nothing at all, really scrambles my brain.

I can see both your side and the other commenters side. I think it likely your suggestion isn't true - there is no strong evidence for it and I think therefore the default position should be 'it most likely isn't so but the door is open to convince me otherwise'.

I sincerely hope that isn't our reality because we would then find ourselves in a weird recursive situation where we can never understand the total system.

Gnu's not Unix.
Administration undercuts CDC, seizes control of national Covid-19 data
https://archive.is/0Vyx0

And this article is the bias'ed BS why we will all dump journalists and go to blogs since journalists clearly can't do their jobs and not lie.

> After Mr Trump told four non-white congresswomen to “go back” to the “crime-infested places from which they came”

Here's the actual tweet -
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/11503813950780006...

This tweet is not accurately represented by the above quote as far as I'm concerned.

And it annoys me since they could also have linked it, but didn't, because they still think they are the gatekeepers to information.
WSJ: Surprise ruling is a victory for privacy activists

This wasn't a surprise at all. It was very predictable from the beginning for one simple reason: the US doesn't have strong privacy laws and the US government's surveillance apparatus doesn't account for whatever privacy laws exist either. All the gag orders (up to half of all total order requests according to Microsoft 2 years ago), all the tapping of internet cables and "partnerships" with the carriers, all the "fusion centers" with all agencies getting people's data, and so on.

Oh, and best of all, the Privacy Shield said that it was up to the US DOJ to ensure US companies followed EU law. What a joke.

The EU Charter of Fundamental rights prohibits data from being stored in countries that don't provide equivalent privacy protections as in the EU. If you follow this logic, it's obvious Privacy Shield was bound to fail.

An article from 2018: https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/07/26/us-surveillance-makes-pr...
Also this is like South Africa Post Office. 99.9% of packages delivered! = you lost 0.01% of them which totalled millions.
Yes relying on standard contractual clauses is a valid approach in general, but not necessarily for transferring data to the US. You can use them e.g. when transferring data to countries that provide effective and enforceable privacy guarantees, as e.g. Switzerland, South Korea or Singapore do.
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Taken to logical extreme, that would make any black PR or reputational attack a security vulnerability.

Infosec is certainly a hefty part of business continuity, but business continuity itself is a much wider topic.
Perhaps they meant "Sub Saharan Africa" rather than "South Africa"?
Back in the day, the whole idea of public stock markets was considered socialist. Marx was a big fan!
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It may also be a bit confusing to many people as Indians tend to gently wobble their head when someone is talking to show that they're listening. I believe it's a sign of respect.
Working from home productively is objectively hard. It took me close to a decade to figure it out. I know people that gave up a freelancing career because it was too frustrating.

Good news is that there's so much more information about this nowadays. Start with a google of "deep work" and go from there. It'll be time well invested. You may not get to prefer WFH, but you can definitely improve things.
If your code is crashing more often than it is gracefully shutting down, you have a problem.

Yes, you need to engineer for the crash scenario, but you shouldn't be relying on that in the same way you shouldn't tell users the only way to stop your software is to `kill -9 [PID]`.

In a normal deployment it might be useful to use shutdown parts of code to signal to orchestrators that the operation has been completed successfully so they can take further steps, for example.

Everybody's circumstance is different, but I definitely recommend thinking more about shutdown workflows.
I learned this lesson a few years back when I interviewed for the CTO role of a educational software company - the main part of the interview was preparing a presentation on how to launch a new product which I had to prepare and present to the management team.

That went very well and I was feeling pretty good.

Then the CEO had a quick chat and happened to ask me a very simple technical question and my brain would not work - I completely failed to do it even though it was trivial.

I think that's how I discovered that mental context switching is a real thing - I had spent a few hours preparing and giving a presentation and then when asked a simple technical question those parts of my brain were completely offline. I think the shock of not being able to do it had a big effect on me and I went to bits (possibly the first time I've ever done that).
Absolutely.

I found myself wondering while reading the article what the guys notes look like. Does he screenshot everything and bullet point as he goes along? Or does he hit a logical stopping point and write up what worked from A-B, B-C etc.?

It's massively inspiring though.
I find it interesting that this kind of protection isn't the default.
I wonder what the ultimate lasting results of the pandemic will be?

Less people smoking?

More people working from home?

Masks are commonly worn (will they become an outward marker of a person's inward beliefs?)

More online schooling?

More home cooking?

More bread from starter baking?

More at home exercising instead of going to a gym?
explanation is important but its unreasonable to expect someone to do it on the spot in a time-pressured environment. Often you have to go away and think about it alone in order to come up with a good way of explaining things to others.
You're allowed to, but if you intentionally get yourself scammed knowing full well, you don't get to demand your money back.

In the traditional banking and commerce system, if you get scammed on, say, ebay, they will refund you. If someone hacks into your online banking, the warranties set by your bank will refund you (to a point). If your bank goes tits up, the national bank will compensate you.

Yes you pay a fee, but it's insurance.

Anyway, your statement + the actual scam in question just reminds me of eve online, where the money doubling scam is old as balls. The funny thing is that the operators of the game allow it - nobody stole money from you, you gave it away. Some scams there are long hauls, people slowly working their way up in the ranks of a corporation before liquidating the assets and taking the money. Again, the company behind the game will do nothing because their systems have not been compromised - YOU gave the person access to the company wallet. It's funny.

Bitcoin is the same, you're responsible for your own actions, you don't pay an insurance fee, you bear all the risk yourself. If you give your BTC to an exchange and they get hacked, that's on you because you moved your money out of your own wallet. They may compensate you (or print their own money to do so), but they may not have to.
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the actual lines themselves tend to not really have any repair - nobody sees one strand of a 50 strand cable looking a bit frayed and replaces it...

You just replace the whole cable at its end-of-life.
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For what I understand about OAuth, I don't see how it solve the privacy problems. The Authorisation Server is aware of all client requests made on behalves of the user, therefore giving a rich profile of user interests.

Am I missing something?
I worked on fintech projects in Europe, with German banks as our main clients. Their requirements went as far as refusing any service that would have their support teams (or part of it) located in the US. It was quite challenging to fulfill their demands, and increased the development and maintenance cost by A LOT, but definitely possible.

And once you have a working system and solutions in place that becomes a quite good sale argument.

And yes, the EU is really lacking providers that can follow those requirements. At some point Microsoft had a German cloud completely distinct from their other offering and managed by Telekom, but they stopped a few years ago (and it wasn't really in a production ready state IMHO...).
Reminds me of a thing years ago where a virus used a Twitter account's messages as its command & control system. Said twitter account encoded the commands in base64 I believe.
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> for simple stuff, but in more complicated applications

Media engine part of the library has 45k lines of code, this is mostly due to the complexity of V4L2 API, and of the MKV and Mpeg4 containers. I wouldn’t call that “simple stuff”.

> you really do need to dynamically allocate and free memory

Memory allocation in .NET ain’t limited to GC.

First of all there’s stack. I use Spans + stackalloc in quite a few places there. Modern .NET even has these `ref structs` where the compiler guarantees they are never accidentally boxed into the heap.

Another thing, no one stops you from using malloc/free, like I did in that class: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/master/VrmacVideo/Aud...

Finally, the mere presence of GC doesn’t affect performance in any way, only usage of GC does. Even for latency-sensitive applications like that media engine it’s OK to allocate stuff on managed heap, as long as it only happens on startup, or otherwise rarely. I allocate quite a lot of stuff on the heap, megabytes, when opening a media file.
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Jesus. That's gruesome. And trust that the initial comments on HN are about how to most efficiently kill someone, rather than any visceral reaction.
devices like this probably have low-level battery management software running while charging. this would be to protect the batteries and prevent overcharging.
You can probably calculate the entropy / randomness of a string via a fairly simple algorithm.
Agreed. I recommend this video to every new dev joining our team.
Worth noting that the Go team are currently considering a square-bracket syntax for type parameters, instead of the parentheses shown in this tutorial.
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Is there any good alternative for Dell U2412M monitor?
Looking for well performed monitor for daily use.
> no objective measure

Any "objective measure" that a regular company uses is mostly a way for management to pose and bluster about what they actually want. Corporations are fundamentally all the same.
There's shade in Athens- the balconies provide plenty of it and also protection from the (sparse) rain. But from my experience, concrete buildings -probably because of their high thermal mass, as you say- trap the heat during the day an then slowly release it at night, keeping the ambient temperature higher than it would be outside the city (the lack of air flow, as you say, makes matters worse as there's not enough of it to take the heat away).

The thermal resistance is true, also. Like I say in another comment, it's common in Athens (and in Greece in general) to keep one's windows closed during the day, to keep out the heat, then open them in the night so cool air comes back in. Especially older houses with thicker walls are very good at that.

The bottom line though is that Athens in the summer is hell, at least during the day. That is the one thing I don't miss now that I've moved in colder climes.

(I miss all the stuff I moan about, above. Stockholm syndrom- or Athens syndrome, I guess)
$110k for the rest of your life? $500/month for 18 years? That wouldn’t cover health insurance plus rent (even though I’m sharing rent with a partner) here in Berlin, and Berlin is cheap compared to the UK or the bits of the USA I’ve visited.
> It wouldn't even be illegal

Yes, it would be ... but it would also be hard to prove.
It's easy to do, just don't do business with the US at all. Any company that touches it is tainted and should therefore not be trusted. I work in a sector with a similar requirement and it really hasn't been difficult to comply with this requirement, given that you keep this in mind.