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It would be extremely foolish to think that Facebook is an organisation without its own political agenda. Even this article itself contains an extremely politicised statement from the managing director of Google Australia and New Zealand, criticising the Australian government for their intervention in the free market. These companies make decisions like any other to maximise their power and profit. Unlike most companies however, they're in a position to use information to leverage their position. I presume your post is talking about Clinton?

Alphabet Inc. has made almost $27mil in campaign contributions, including contributing $1.6mil to Clinton's campaign in 2016. They've spent almost $89mil in lobbying since 1990. These big tech companies obviously have a stake in our democracy and choose to take an active role. Thinking they're impartial is incredibly naive.

> That the media considers the latter to be the threat to democracy says a lot about who they think should actually control the country.

I think they're both a threat to democracy. I believe that the Australian government should do all it can to limit the influence that multinational corporations have on our local political landscape, categorically. The only thing I fear more than partisan local media organisations, are partisan international media organisations that wield even more power. I don't for one second trust Facebook's own hidden agenda any more than I trust News Corporation's.
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Isn't it both? Phish first user, post to internal tool and xss attack second user.
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Ugh I follow a dutch guy (Master Milo) if he doesn't do the subs then one of his followers will. When watching on a tv or phone I rely on these subtitles as there is no option to auto translate the auto generated subtitles. This will be bad for him as it will no doubt have an affect on his viewing numbers and his revenue.
Perhaps the sun isn't the reason. I believe some plants hide from certain kind of predators by changing their colors or maybe they could draw certain insects or birds for additional pollination. Perhaps that was a more significant advantage.
If you speak multiple languages (which isn't uncommon out of the anglosphere) it becomes very annoying to have YT putting subtitles and translating stuff for you.

If I want subtitles or translation I should be the one deciding, or at least give an option to opt-out, which isn't doing it every video. And that was for subtitles, because that wasn't possible with titles and descriptions.
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> how does a game get ported?

There are many options. A few points:

- Some "ports" are done by running the original game in an emulator.

- If you don't have source code or it can't be compiled for the target platform, you may have to rewrite from scratch (as was done in the case of SNES Doom apparently).

- Depending on how different the programming environments are (e.g. operating system, threading primitives, graphics/sound APIs, memory - consoles often have exotic memory layouts), significant rewriting may be needed in order to get the game running on the target platform at all.

- Once you have something that runs, it may perform like dog crap. In this case the porting job turns into an optimization and re-tuning exercise. This may involve not only optimising code, but also changing the quality of graphical/sound assets (artist work may be needed!), chopping off parts of the game (the SNES Doom does not have all levels, textures or animations for example, as the video says).

- Many bugs may crop up with the rewrite, or bugs in the original game may be exposed by running it on a different platform. General debugging skills are very likely to be required.

All but the simplest ports are likely to be an involved process, unless the two systems are very similar: for example, porting a game from Windows PC to Linux PC is likely to be relatively simple, compared to porting a game from PC to a primitive console.
You can purchase the commercial version of Nginx and not use its specific paid feature subset. Alternatively, "I am familiar with this, and we can do x% of what we need with the OSS version, but we had to pay to get the last part."
Hoo wow that's some sticker shock. I recently bought some cheap boards for some students I'm working with and they're absolute rubbish - about £2 each for a half size board. They're from Elegoo who make a lot of knock off Arduino-ware and are prominent on Amazon. The tracks are incredibly tight and I had trouble fitting their own Arduino Micro board into it.

Nowadays the cost of getting a board spun up is so cheap, that I don't bother breadboarding much, usually it's just as a means to interface a bunch of breakouts using 0.1" headers. It's useful to keep a bunch of SMT adaptors in stock for testing random SOIC or DFN parts.
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The serendipity was GPL getting uptake thanks to Linux and GCC.

Linux via the ongoing lawsuit with BSD back then, and GCC because UNIX vendors started charging for their compilers, with GCC being the only alternative available.

However everyone needs to pay their bills, therefore the push for non-copyleft licenses, thus in a couple of years GPL based software will either be gone, or under dual licenses.

You already see this happening with BSD/MIT based alternatives to Linux on the IoT space, NuttX, RTOS, Azure RTOS, Zephyr, Google's Fuchsia, ARM's mbed, Arduino, ...
It wasn't for me it's hard, in reverse. I no longer live in Spain, haven't for 10 years. But every time I go to Google News I get the message of it not being available in my country. My primary language in my Google account isn't Spanish, my address isn't in Spain, my Google Wallet has a non Spanish card on it, so on and so forth, yet I can only access Google News when I'm logged out.
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No need to fork; you could install timer using alarm(), setitimer(), or timer_create() and friends.
Why will it again? I suspect survivorship bias here.
I'm glad about the new reddit design, it helped me stop using the website.
I was one of the tech founders of a start-up called Cronycle which made a similar (but more advanced) tool many years ago: https://www.cronycle.com/

I don't know if I can still recommend the product but for the years I used to work there I know we built an amazing product.

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A few years ago I also made a bookmarking tool expanding links which is open source and free to use: https://fragments.me/
I mean, we're talking about a website frontend that was what, 10 years old? At this point all frontend code was probably legacy and noone in the company knew how to maintain it properly, so they started over.
I'm not so sure about that, one the typical characteristics of even mild hypomania, impulsivity, is clearly incompatible with long term endeavors. I've seen papers saying that very mild chronic depression might be associated with professional success, not sure how well they'll hold up.

From the five factor point of view, as far as I understand there is some evidence that high openness to new experience (for new ventures), high conscientiousness, below average agreeableness along with high IQ are strongly correlated with success. Not so much for neuroticism and extraversion, though the latter probably helps in some specific jobs (but surprisingly, not necessarily sales).
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If you want to get a passport the onus is on you to provide sufficient documents to prove citizenship. Because the US has birthright citizenship this is generally as simple as proving that you were born in the US or that either of your parents was a US citizen.

On a case-by-case basis it's generally pretty straightforward to determine whether someone is a citizen, but there isn't a list. The closest thing is probably the social security administration's register of people who have applied for a social security number, but even that doesn't cover everyone.
Yeah, I didn't think the Lemmy project would go very far when I first saw it. But the implementation is very impressive (performance seems comparable to HN), and the self-hosted model seems like it could be quite amenable to communities staying in control.
I don't think that is a fair assessment, there is also free news that is openly ad-supported i.e. there are ads surrounding the news on the page, but the content itself is not advertising anything
As far as I know we still have literally no idea what consciousness is. History has shown that when we have no evidence about something, philosophers like to just make stuff up that they thing sounds compelling and consistent. Nobody can prove them wrong so they can write entire volumes on their idea!

Forgive me for not wasting time familiarising myself with his made up distinction between consciousness and cognition.
If you're on bare metal, then you have access to supervisor mode.

I like the approach of hiding cpuid registers from user-space. It means, for example, the operating system can easily control what hardware features user-space will use. That's useful for debugging, for process migration, for record and replay (I maintain rr), and to "discourage" user-space from using buggy or detrimental features.

Simplifying the hardware features exposed to user-space makes evolution easier. Your OS kernel should be (needs to be) up to date, while you might have old user-space binaries that you want to keep running, so you can live with weaker compatibility guarantees for supervisor-mode-only features.
Thanks to COVID contactless payments in my country are at 60% now.
If you are someone (like me) who's done CSS/Frontend 'a few years ago' do take a look at this video to see the progression. A lot of things (CENTERING!) which were much harder in the past are now complex but possible. The newer style stanzas will look alien to you.
If by "getting used to it", you mean "experiencing the horror", than sure.

I tried it, twice. In both cases, produce was picked by either someone that didn't care, or didn't know how to tell if some food (mellons) were ripe.

Even if only poor produce was available, well, I'd have seen, and just not bought it.

I received substitutions too, and without permission.

Meat was sent with very soon expiry dates. I'd never snag that in person. Same for bread.

Online grocery is a no go for me. My local grocer is 10 minutes away, in store time is maybe 20 minutes, including checkout.

I get what I want, how I want it, and save money by not having unusable stuff delivered to me.

Food isn't like a TV. One orange is not the same as a other.

Even bananas... I prefer them almost green, a friend I know, almost rotten.
Why do you think it's rare to want to watch something in a foreign language?

For the vast majority of people on this planet, English is not their first language (if they speak it al all), and their command of English may often not be good enough to comfortably understand all of the content they might want to enjoy. And it's still the case that most content on such platforms, and certainly often the most viral one, is in English.

And even beyond that, people sometimes learn other languages, in which case watching something in the target language with subtitles can be a very helpful step.
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Some of the most interesting part is not even about paying. For example, they must notify the news providers of algorithmic changes 28 days in advance before making them, and enable the news organisation to "filter or remove" comments on their content.

It is oddly self-contradictory as it both states that a digital platform may not discrimminate b/w a "registered news organisation" and non-registered news org, but also mandates a whole raft of areas where it must discrimminate and give special consideration to a "registered news organisastion". This almost seems like a legal trap so they are in violation no matter what they do.

Interestingly, when all else fails, the arbitration panel must make a decision that is "in the public interest" - which seems to open a loophole where Google / Facebook could argue that the value of free / open information is more in the public interest than supporting proprietary news organisation to paywall their content. It would be hilarious if it backfired, though I am sure the arbitration panel will be carefully constructed to ensure it is not sympathetic to tech companies.

See:
https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/Exposure%20Draft%20Bill...
Which is an attitude that i can totally understand, even though when you are at risk both with age and a comorbidity (cancer in the case of Cain), it is not such a great idea.
How do you come to the conclusion to avoid a car ownership? Is renting cheaper? Why not own a cheap reliable car and learn how to fix it?
> How to do account recovery with 2FA in a consumer context is a complicated problem and I'm not aware of any good answers

I've always wondered why there isn't more use of time delays for this sort of thing.

If there was a notification e-mail and a 7-day wait, that would offer a fair chance for the real account holder to cancel the change. Not 100% - the user might be on holiday - but it would catch a lot, and hence decrease attackers' motivation. And while a 7-day wait is inconvenient, for services like Twitter and Steam losing access for a week isn't the end of the world.
The automated video title translation "feature" is really fast turning me off YouTube. It's just confusing as hell to see a German title and then realise the video is actually in English.
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This is the silliest thing I have read in a long while (albeit partly because I don't read Paul Graham anymore).

In 20 years no one will even recognize Kotlin's name.

But C++ will be going stronger than ever. Why? It is absolutely exploding right now, even though it is 40 years old. Attendance at conferences for C++ (until lockdown, of course) was through the roof, with C++ conferences multiplying to try to absorb the overflow. Attendance at each of the ISO Standard C++ conferences in the last four years has exceeded that at all previous meetings.

Essentially all of the highest-paid development in Fintech, CAE, telecom, aerospace, semiconductor simulation, HPC, and neural AI is done exclusively in C++, for reasons.

Java will still be trundling right along, not for any good reason, but just because it is a steady job with light demands.
YouTube runs at a loss. If it was spun off from google it would not be viable.
There should be no mercy for those that spend their free money on addictions. My father spent almost all the money he received for my disability on alcohol and god know swhat. 100k gone down the drain. That money could have kickstarted my life just perfectly. But hey, why safe the money you get for your children for those children? Nah, better spend it on your own live, because.

If UBI ever becomes a thing, I hope that also means that people are on their own if they overspend it.
People may not know that Argos is what the: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Shield_Stamps scheme morphed into:

“To retain business, Green Shield allowed customers to buy gifts from the catalogue with a mix of stamps and cash, but soon the catalogue became cash-only, and the operation was re-branded as Argos.”

Saying that, you probably need to be pretty old to remember Green Shield stamps at all.
Not really, they need to be explicitly defined before use.

Which then thanks to packages, they can be reused across several projects when similar type parameters are required.

So you only generate List(T => Integer) once for the whole project, when project architecture is properly done.

A scenario that eventually might be possible in C++, around C++23 time frame, taking into consideration how long the modules infrastructure might need to mature.
Related discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23998781
Is that Computer Science at tertiary/undergraduate level? Or something else? If it is, is that common?
If UBI is implemented minimum wage could also be removed.

At present we have a situation where there are probably many very non-sucky jobs that could be done, but it’s not commercially viable to employ people for them at minimum wage.

Maybe some of the existing sucky customer service type jobs are only as bad as they are because companies are forced to extract $x/hour. e.g. if McDonalds could maybe they’d hire more people at a lower rate and make the job less stressful, resulting in happier employees and customers. As things are McDonalds must extract $x/hour or they will not be profitable, this ensures it’s a terrible place to work, and usually understaffed.
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I won't bother correcting legal technical errors in what you wrote, since you don't seem to care, and since I don't get paid to educate strangers on the Internet, but I will once again point out your shifting goalposts:

I never said banning wasn't rational. I said Google SMEARING, AND LYING was a dick move, and an evil move.

P.S. To make a more consistent policy, Google should ban employees from having .dll or .so files on their company laptops, and make public page about how libraries are DANGEROUS. :)
What stops them buying commercial licenses for Nginx and then using the OSS version? They're not obligated to, certainly, but I hardly think Nginx would say "you must use only the commercial version".
The problem is that they all have their own account management. I'd be ok with paying a subscription service that gave access to several sites and took care of distributing revenue per usage, but managing dozens of subscriptions is a hassle.
Well, they already have the yellow star icon next to black owned, women-led icons, for the next step in their journey.
TCX sounds cool, and apparently it's going to be supported in the next release of openrouteservice [1]. Looking forward to that, since the route itself was pretty solid.

[1] https://github.com/GIScience/openrouteservice-app/pull/323
Yes. But they are also good writers, no? After the premise that good writers have something to say, it should be clear I am referring to the "just rapper" rapper.
You could also argue the Tearing test was a nice initial thought-experiment that should be re-evaluated given the context that GPT-3 presents today.
No idea what you are talking about. Sadly, there weren’t any follow up movies to The Matrix.
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For a less extreme position, consider "Study finds learning to say 'please' and 'thank you' won’t make children smart."
Maybe we should all accept that nobody has to be a journalist (or content creator) and that most of journalism is actually pretty useless trash.

Nobody promised you to “this single mother had been making money from her living room for the past 10 years - click here to learn how to do that, too”

For example, you don’t need a human being dramatising the situation is a third-world country, you just need to learn a few new pieces of news from there. This is why I read newspapers - not for their opinion pieces.
It's got multiple personalities, which are at battle with each other.

The party was founded as a party of social liberals (with conservative economics), but for the last 3 decades has been eaten from the inside by a socially conservative wing resulting in a misnomer. The conservatives could have their own party, but the Liberal name and the remaining perception of liberalism attracts votes, as shown by the "Australian Conservatives" party which broke away from the Liberals and couldn't attract enough votes to survive.
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What a stupid argument. Again buy a phone from a different company. Flash your own bits. "Hacker" needs can't dilute a consumer product.
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I agree. Taking more than the requisite ~6 hours to do a full on-site for interview is a non-starter. I can do a take-home over the weekend, but my job has deadlines, and I don't want to be noticed.

Especially if I'm in full-on hunt-mode, I might be doing a couple interviews a week. This is totally infeasible.

I'm all for ditching the canned CTCI rigamarole, but please point to something that respects the candidate.
What's missing here is a netflix style model where your donations are distributed among people you want to support instead of having to micromanage donations.

I pay about ~30 euro per month for netflix, spotify, and amazon prime. So, it's not a stretch of the imagination that I would be willing to pay for (some) of the free content I enjoy on e.g. Youtube.

However, I follow dozens of youtubers asking for donations and while I like most of them, it's not going to add up to me handing out multiple dollars to each of them on a monthly basis because it would add up to vastly more than I spend on commercial content. And it's kind of unfair to single out just a few of them.

But, I'd be willing to put in 10 a month if I did not have to worry about allocating that to each of them or micromanaging who gets what. IMHO a simple distribution based on views/listens/clicks, could work.

It would probably add up to just a few cents per personn I donate to; but if lots of people do that, it adds up. The deal with patreon is that you rely on a handful of people supporting you while you give away most of your content for free. IMHO most of that is unrealized potential for monetization.

Several youtubers I follow have numbers of followers and views that would put some tv channels to shame and they also get revenue from sponsorships. Several others are a bit more modest but still rake in tens to hundreds of thousands of views easily.

I'd love a platform that gives me a simple predictable cost per month combined with a fair, no hassle way to ensure that money gets funneled to artists, writers, coders, and other content creators I care about. Donating 10cents per month is not a thing and donating 1-10$ per month means I have to cherry pick people out of group of dozens to hundreds I might consider donating to but currently don't.
You can modify AOSP how you like. If you want hacker friendly behavior, be ready to hack.
One of the simplest tasks for example is decoding addresses to route data to and from specific chips. Say 0xFF00 goes to the sound chip, 0xE045 goes to the serial port or whatever, others go to RAM or ROM.

On the ZX Spectrum iirc it implemented the entire display.