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I mean, the societ union collapsed remarkably quickly. At least in Romania, the collapse was partly motivated by illegal showings of western films in homes across the country which have the Romanians (whose media and travel were tightly restricted) a glimpse into the freedoms and abundance they were missing out on. I’m sure it’s not exactly the same but it gives me pause.
The border between "parroting" and "generating something good" may be very hard to discern at some point.
> I just don’t see a compelling reason to start a [X] project in 2020.

Fill in the [X] with your choice of language. It's not like it was 20 years ago when you chose a language because it was literally the only practical way to do what you needed to do. Unless you have something pretty niche, there's always another language.

I don't see a compelling reason not to start a Perl project in 2020. Granted, I don't use the language much, but I think it still has its place.
I mean they already tried that with Raku (Perl6) and it didn't gain the adoption they wanted.
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In American business, snarkily, CVs are resumes from people who haven't learned how to edit.

US resumes are ideally 1 page with 2 pages (IMHO) being acceptable if one has enough experience.

American CVs spell out everything with a length that scales linearly with experience. Every publication. Every role. Major projects. Awards. Etc. For long-time academics these can run over 10 pages. A recent PhD recipient might use 3-4 pages for a CV.
Sure. But the peak is around green, which is the point of the article and the answer to parent's question.
Doer/implementation vs abstract/big idea thinker.

thanks, can be useful tips for my future staff recruitment.
Your posts defending the CCP are full of false equivalencies and whataboutism. Let's look at the people targeted under the CCP's National Security Law vs. the people targeted under the Magnitsky Acts:

National Security Law:

- Samuel Chu: an American activist and lobbyist working for democracy in HK, and also fighting hunger as the National Organization for MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger.

- Nathan Law: former LegCo rep and student activist, also working for democracy in HK until he fled to the UK.

- Simon Cheng: a former UK consulate staffer and pro-democracy activist, abducted and tortured by the CCP.

- Wayne Chan: founder of the Hong Kong Independence Union

- Ray Wong: an interior designer and founder of Hong Kong Indigenous

- Honcques Laus: a student (like, look at this kid [1]) who founded the Hongkongers Utilitarian Party, a group that works towards HK democracy and independence.

Real bad people, yeah /s

Magnitsky Acts:

These people [2] all of whom were either:

- Heavily involved in the murder of Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky (for whom the acts are named)

- Responsible for the murder of Paul Klebnikov

- Responsible for the murder of Umar Israilov

- Heavily involved in involved with the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi

- Accused by Human Rights Watch of "Crimes against Humanity"

Etc. Etc. Etc.

There is no comparison. This is a false equivalency.

[1]: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/30...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act#Individuals_affe...
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Nothing against what he says. But his ideas are not original or new and have been taught in many various forms of therapy for years and years and years. I get really tired of holding up rich dudes with blogs as gurus. Its kinda sick.
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A large proportion of those masses (Republican voters) fervently support the very policies that have been driving inequality for decades. They don't really understand that, of course, but the worse things get, the more they flock to right-wing populist nonsense, accelerating their own financial ruin.

I'm not sure how to fix it. It's clearly too late to educate them properly about how economies function.
Not advocating for any service in particular (though disclaimer I do work at msft), I’m honestly wondering why someone would choose to ship a website as a server running on a hardware time slot rental with all the setup, cost, inscalability, and management that requires, as opposed to a free cdn that gives you a website with only some markdown.
The reason I reach for Perl rather than bash is it has far more features and far easier to manage.

I don’t bother with python as you get into a horrendous mess with pip breaking and the v2/v3 issue.

Not every piece of code needs to serve a million people, not every piece of code needs to be sold to google, sometimes you just need code to do a simple occasional job and not change every couple of years.
You can implement comparisons using addition and multiplication

(ANDs and XORs are just multiplication and addition over bits, and we build comparisons out of these all the time.)

Re: the ability to do control flow, you can implement your Turing machine automaton as a circuit easily, and can then evaluate that using FHE
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In my experience, it's not possible for (approximately) anyone to "wander into opportunities seemingly without effort" at many of the companies I'd actually work for. There are companies which can be well-aligned to your professional interests, compensation requirements and growth expectations which are also difficult for just about anyone to get a job at. Unfortunately, these tend to be the companies I want to select for.

Note that I agree with not applying to jobs shotgun style - I'm just nitpicking very specifically on the idea that you can generally find someone who reliably walks onto the jobs they want. But maybe I've misunderstood you.
I was listening to the BBC the other day and someone was something they estimate there's 32 Trillion dollars in tax havens the world over.
I've never understood why some small country just doesn't invade a tax haven and seize the money. I know it wouldn't happen but it'd be a great way to disrupt crime in the world.
If this works, see a huge impact on federated learning or training of NNs in general
It's about convenience and freeing up a burner on the cook top. I love the hold warm feature on mine in particular. It'a a zojirushi that's pushing 12 years now, and I've never had a single issue with it. It's far from being plastic waste for me, and I wouldn't be surprised if it lasts another decade.
I'm not saying it can't happen, but every urban society in history has had rich landlords and frustrated renters. It'll become a more critical problem if people start getting booted out onto the street en masse, but I think there's reason to be optimistic that can be avoided, since politicians on all sides have made it clear they don't plan to let it happen.
It's an example for beginners, presumingly to illustrate the range function, so that's probably why it's done that way.

To continue to be nit picky with that example, the range function produces an iterable object, which is different from a list.
Facebook Messenger does the same with some porn links.
I don't see "cunt" or any similar string anywhere in the string "belly". As mentioned at TFA, this is more likely some sort of naive Bayes filtering since "belly" is often seen in "lose belly fat fast!" etc.
I settled in using poetry for developement and dependency management and the publishing stuff to pypi and installing it via pip.

But this approach might be a bit limiting depending on your target audience.
Then Netflix is banned in the relevant sense in my country since I cannot get the same experience an American does. Look, shit on tiktok all you want, hell I installed both tik-tok and wechat and I uninstalled them within 1 day when I noticed how Orwellian they were. I only ask to some westerners commenters to not be disingenuous, because Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and virtually any other big American company has given carte blanche to the NSA to get on their data. Also spare me the tired " this is whataboutism" argument.
Slack is making the conscious decision to not build their product for this use case. And I think they're right to! It's absolutely fine that alternatives exist for developer communities. Making Slack a massive, amorphous application that appeals to all use cases would be a quick way to kill it.
Good, they should do exactly that.
This is a very interesting test. It seems to me that, aside from the prompt bias, it may be detecting "yo be real" category questions by the low statistical probability of the words occurring in sequence. Those would be especially low for gibberish words that had an occurrence of zero in its data, which is why it's so good at spotting those.

One could also try and detect nonsense with quad-grams using the same principle, but in any case this metric would tend to mark unique questions and foreign names or brandnames as nonsense.
That wouldn't be very difficult.
That would be quite a waste of a good thing. It’s a really fun and powerful language.

I don’t use it anymore because of the culture of hating on it from non-users, who have just hounded users so much that they have succeeded in dampening the fun a lot. I mean you can’t even talk about it in HN without encountering some serious negativity, usually uninformed. It’s unpleasant.

On the good side, there are other great languages that don’t have this problem.
"Any government regulation is literally fascism/communism and will inevitably lead to the deaths of millions of people."

Do you see why straw man arguments aren't helpful?
The FCC and other regulatory agencies have carefully considered the impact of these constellations on astronomy and the risk of collisions, and they have (correctly imo) decided that the benefits strongly outweigh the costs, especially with the significant work these companies have done to minimize the adverse effects. If you have a particular issue with the principles the FCC used, or an objection to their computations, then please share that.
The value of the shares is not increased when the buyback is made. The total value of the shares goes down, as they would have if a dividend was paid. The total value of the shares will go up in the future, as it would if a dividend was paid. The value per share will grow more than in the dividends case, as there will be less shares, but of course an investor who kept all their shares won’t have received any cash (unlike in the dividends case).
I am a developer owning a Mac and having never written an iOS application in my life. So yes, that you have to have a Mac to do iOS development did add customers to the Mac platform, but there are many more reasons to own a Mac. For the general consumer it is an attractive platform too, as it is still very easy to use and maintenance is minimal.
Look at what happened to the large majority of bank-owned homes from the previous crash (~17 million of them): they let them rot. Rather than affect the price of real estate, they let these homes rot, so the trade unions of finance and insurance can charge more for mortgages and fees. Now there are about to be ~10-30 million displaced peoples. This is not an ethical society and it deserves and should expect revolt, and it should be no surprise whatsoever when people begin committing property crimes. You were warned. You just didn't listen.
“I don’t need a lot” isn’t mutually exclusive with “I don’t want to pay a lot in taxes”. Besides that, he lives in New Zealand where everything costs twice as much. Sounds like your crediting his success solely on being at the right place at the right time. I got news for you - that’s pretty much all success or a component of it. Not to mention, he did build a sustainable business that gave independent artists an outlet to distribute their music. I’d say the guy is a saint.
Lol $800. This is Apple we're talking about. Just the logo on the front will cost $800 (just joking). But really, this is way below Apple's normal pricing.

It would cannibalise the iPad Pro very much too, considering the price of those + keyboard stand is much higher.

Unless they deliberately give up some of their huge margins in order to get these in circulation ASAP, I don't see this happening. The first ARM will be a premium product for them. I don't think it will carry a budget price. No MacBook has been this cheap since the MB Air 11" which was a really underpowered 1.4Ghz / 2GB RAM model.
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I have an idea and want to move it forward. Details below. Any advice?

(Given HN's technical inclination, I am aware that most will frown on this from the start. Yet another "ideas man".. ;-))

Background: I have never developed an app or website. I come from a non-tech project management and statistics background. I've dabbled in Python and R for statistics and academic-type research. So nothing really useful for app/web development. I also don't have any entrepreneurial credentials.

Current inclination: learn the necessary tools myself to code/develop my own product. My rationale is that the more I know the ins-and-outs of my product, the better I can sell it. Plus, this path may even help me attract technical talent, or a technical co-founder. But truth be told, part of this inclination is also to ease (at least partially) my imposter syndrome. I know outsourcing the product would save me time in the short-run, but I would feel like a total poser doing so. Also, worst case, the project fails but the technical skills I acquired make me more marketable for tech-type jobs.
Oh LoL. Hit this and got presented with a blank page that simply says "U.S. Only".

F.U.
Because "muh free market".

Even in 2020, both conservatives and liberals (the non-radicals on both sides) still cling to the idea of lack of regulation being a good thing, despite decades of evidence to the contrary.

The liberals are softening on this because they don't counter-signal the radicals on their side, while the conservatives actively demonize the radicals on theirs.

As a result, only one radical fraction of one half of the political duopoly actually has both the desire and energy to enact this kind of legislation, and that isn't enough.
...and

3) if a teen can do it, then so can every intelligence service in the world. Just that they would probably stay quiet for years and years and gather data of "interesting" people.
python3. Seriously.
> ‘Digital platform’ is not defined in the Bill

This part says that who the bill applies to will be defined later, by the Executive power.
It's like monolith and micro services.

From the programming standpoint, a monolith can be splitted in components, but compiled/bundled/linked to a single executable.
This doesn't violate the seperation of concern. It's bad taste/marketing/whatever.

I checked on my Windows and they did separate Cortana and the Search/Start menu recently.
Trump's grudge on Tiktok users apart, could this be a plot of hostile take over?

With all the public threats ByteDance is receiving from president of USA, Msft or any other company which acquires, gets one of the biggest social networking site of the decade at give away price.
Hear hear! Even Apple's own Catalyst apps are no good. They're turning the Mac into an iPad Plus :(
The real output of the manufacturing sector in the US looks pretty robust. See https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS

You are right that Chinese manufacturing has grown a lot. But what's the evidence that this growth has anything to do with a hypothetical decline of the US? More than a century ago the US and German industrial output growing didn't diminish British output, either.

> Naively, yes. In pratcite, this is equivalent to letting a 3 year old choose whether they'll get chocolate or broccoli for dinner. Customers almost universally prefer cheaper products above almost anything else - including economy, environment, and their own safety. Which is why a good chunk of business-related laws in every country exists solely to remove options from which customers can choose.

Perhaps we should remove their opportunity to vote. When they make the 'wrong' decision when buying that mostly hurts themselves. But at the ballot box they can hurt the rest of the country and the rest of the world.
Of course I don't mean clipper. I mean the backdoors in US telco equipment - some uncovered by Snowden, some discovered by independent researchers. If your theory were true, Chinese network equipment would be full of government backdoors, and US manufactured equipment would be free of them. In the real world, however, the reverse is true.
With some minor interaction between client and server, you can use ORAM in conjunction with FHE to enable sub linear database scans. It’s not practical for deployments, but is probably feasible for implementations
Maybe because they think the company is doing something really interesting? It's not just about making the most money.
> if yes why do you choose not to

Because there's more work in caching your dynamic server/CMS to static files and often isn't trivial. And the dynamic-rendered CMS is enough 99% of the time. You act like it's just a button you press, and you're wondering why people don't just press it.

It's also not a money-making venture. So you have very poor ROI on making your charity site endure the rare hug of death. It goes down? Oh well. It'll come back up. It's also the reason you're using some cheap CPanel setup, not deploying to a $5 VPS.
That reads like “If a small number of families could forfeit several lifetimes’ of fortunes accumulated via serving the needs/wants of vast swaths of population, let’s take their money and do it!”

This seems like something that is much more properly paid via broad-based taxation, not by seizing wealth from a small number of families.
> Someone says to use http://mirror.centos.org/centos-8/8.2.2004/BaseOS/x86_64/os/... but that seems to have the very latest packages

At least for me, that page seems to have both shim-x64-15-13.el8.x86_64.rpm from 2020-07-29 22:10 and the older shim-x64-15-11.el8.x86_64.rpm from 2020-05-07 19:53; the older one should work. Worst case, you could manually copy the shim executables from a working server to the EFI partition of the broken server (from what I have read at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1861977, in the RHEL/CentOS case it's the shim executable which is broken, so you don't have to do anything to the grub executables).
In France they use lying DNS.

Most of the users have their default DNS set up: the ISP ones, and the french ISP dns' must comply to the law.

If you want to access SciHub for exemple, you need to change your DNS config to something else.
Data that appears "good enough" under the purely economic lens can leave an awful lot of people unfairly out of service.

In a low margin business a single bad customer can easily cost more than what is earned from ten good customers. In that situation, an oracle that rejects eight good customers per rejected bad customer would already be good enough.
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Copying another comment that was downvoted out, because it is 100% accurate:

> why hasn't Congress enacted legislation to put a ceiling on out-of-network charges

Because they are bought and paid by the same people profiting off the system.
This seems to be non-standard, but I make a serious effort to never teach the wrong way to do something. Primacy is just so strong.

It makes teaching harder. You really have to work to come up with great examples. But it makes learning easier and there's less correcting to do later.
Can you buy gas or even use a standard charger for your Tesla?
Not that I agree with the content. You don't have to be an industry insider to have an opinion on the tech industry. Especially an opinion about how it relates to society as a whole. It's also a podcast show, the page shows a 68 minute podcast which is where the the actual content is. As for partisan, I'm not even sure how you decided that.
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They really need a serious billionaire tax. Something fun like: If your a billionaire and at your death your collective wealth was greater than 2 Billion. You get a public statue with a plaque that overlooks all slimy stuff you did to make that money. Also you can give your kids 1 Billion and the rest is returned to the government.

Maybe even throw in a street name or something.
No question the mere implication of that made this decision easier for him.

Don’t worry teens: theres always Reels(tm) your government-sanctioned viral video feature!
When I first bought a split keyboard, I found that I was stretching far too much to reach the "Y" key with my left hand. I'm grateful for the strict layout so that I type more ergonomically.

Also keycap set makers generally just include one of every key.
I'd give the author of this clickbait of a link about a 0
This is a great reminder to switch from SMS to something that is e2e encrypted.
Korea here. Brown rice is fairly common, and every rice cooker I've seen (except the very cheapest) has a setting for brown and/or mixed rice.

If the salesperson wasn't lying, he was probably referring to other cultivars of rice, not just brown rice. For example, long grain rice obviously requires different settings than short grain rice. Southeast and South Asia have much more diversity of rice than Northeast Asia.
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The "newer" packages in other Debian based distros are pretty much the same as in Debian testing /unstable / experimental. I have been running Debian unstable on business laptop for more then a decade now. If I had issues, I would stop, but I haven't. Hopefully this gives you some confidence.
... and this inevitable pedantry is why I thought twice about replying to OP.
Perhaps you have some undiagnosed shellfish allergy?

FWIW, I've noticed iHerb has started selling shellfish-free glucosamine.
I strongly disagree. Apple needs real hardware in stores in order to get Apple Silicon into the hands of the long tail of Mac developer community and to light a fire under developers to get their stuff released.

As for most "normal" customers, these first Apple Silicon devices are going to be perfectly usable on day one—whether they're spending 99% of their time in a web browser or running some outdated finance software through Rosetta. And natively compiled software is going to come thick and fast over the next few months.

As for timing, with the pandemic flattening demand for semiconductors, Apple will have no trouble getting their supply chains running. I'll be shocked if we don't see Apple Silicon Macs in stores by December.
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