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I'm not mixing anything up, and you aren't fooling anyone any more.

You are using that "serious caveat" because it's the go to trope for anti-maskers seeking to pollute absolutely every fucking discussion on this subject.

I asked you to explain why you're posting anti-masker arguments if you are, as you claim, "all for masks" and all you've done is repeat the same anti-mask bullshit.

Next time I won't bother assuming possible good faith on the part of anyone spouting textbook anti-masker noise.
I've done it tons of times.

Part of having the stuff wrapped up and insulated is that it isn't sublimating like mad.
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I think a different problem is, that it's not so clear why these weapons are being made or used.

I think the main motivator in almost all of those things is money.

The reason for wars is money, they just get justified by "the greater good".

Same for all the involved technologies.
The parent thread was about possible backdoors; more devices running a piece of software = more surface area for any possible backdoor in that software.
But you can’t get a 10x margin when you need to use that much material... /s
I'm not sure he even said that.

When I look at the medium article, I see this:

And when you have [posts] encrypted, there is no way to know what it is. I personally believe government should not allow those types of lies or fraud or child pornography [to be hidden with encryption like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger].

Note the []? Was this added in by Medium? Gates as an edit after a read-and-OK-to-release? Did Gates have editorial input?

Regardless, I believe [] means 'edited afterwards for clarity'. But by whom?

I Googled, and found this:

https://wccftech.com/bill-gates-hate-encryption/

Yet in this case, there was no hatred of encryption, but picked quotes where he suggested that in one case, if you have the means, the government should be aided .. eg, a murderer.

There was another article on hackernews, where many lamented how much the media just spins, takes quotes out of context, basically does whatever it wants to. I wonder, how much of this are we seeing here?

(Note, Gates could very much be for back-doored encryption, but my point is, I don't think it's a clear position due to this medium article.. where that stances was in [] and added by someone after...)
If you had a shovel would it not have been the more hygienic disposal option, at about day 7/8 once you were sure the power was not coming back soon, to dig a 3.5 foot deep hole, put the fish in it and cover it over?
You would need a software professional body that can ban people from practising professionally
I would calculate what it would bear in terms of recarbonation, get the flat soda very cold (carbon dioxide enters solution preferentially at lower temperatures), weigh, drop, cap, and roll it down a hill. If no explosion, wait a couple of minutes just for safety.
That's the summary for the Boomer & X'ers.
> Nature changes over time. Our laws and regulations however do not get updated to reflect the times. That is the reason why human progress is slow. It's because humans don't change. That is the root cause of all evil. Humans like the comfort of not having to change.

You have put together arguments that make sense individually, but do not make sense when you weave them together. Nature changes over time, but over a long period of time (e.g. evolution is slow). Our laws and regulations do not get updated to reflect the times, yes, but the times that are changing is because of humans, not nature. A manmade part of society is having a tough time catching up with another manmade part of society. Human progress is NOT slow, at least when you are comparing it with nature. Humans do not change on an individual level, but they change a great deal en masse culturally, psychologically, etc. We are actually almost built for adaptation and change intergenerationally.

There is a subtle point here about institutions refusing change, but you cannot make a valid comparison of speed between human institutions and nature.
Google has been gradually becoming useless for anything but the most basic/popular terms, over the last few years.

Just now I had to give up trying to look up "the term for fans that are paid actors" and variations.

Asking on Reddit or Stack Overflow would be faster than Google's search engine for some things now.
I completely agree.

Hot take: If SMT, SAT are too simple to be given the coveted badge of AI, then Machine learning should be called as glorified curve-fitting?

I feel that everyone is amazed by the results provided by the good examples of Machine Learning, as only those get popular. The spectacular failures and completely absurd results which reveal that ML is not having any semantic understanding of the problem are completely glossed over.
The colors are amazing.
> However, I have no fear of speaking publicly about Guantanamo Bay and then traveling to the US.

I think you're too optimistic. If you'd made similar comments during the Red Scare, you would have ended up like Qian Xuesen, the Chinese-American who devoted the best years of his life to developing American technology, but who ended up fired and placed under house arrest for years for his ethnicity. This process of arbitrary arrest of Chinese people has never stopped -- and in recent years it has dramatically accelerated. Obviously, it doesn't make the HN front page. Nobody cares.

Before I joined HN I was quite naive, but now I understand that many Americans are anticipating a second Red Scare with glee, and some even long for World War III. Representation in films and politics and so on is a nice wish, but it will obviously be impossible under those conditions. As will many other things.
https://vapor.io/ might be building out the edge network faster than Amazon. Cloudflare is a customer.
The fact that there have been unfortunate exceptions is proof that they are actually followed. Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp notably was done in secrecy so as to prevent the general populace from objecting. What's needed to fix that case is more transparency and I don't take that as an example of values being forgotten.

> all the tragic events that ignited the BLM movement are just current examples.

A tiny minority of people caused the incidents that ignited the BLM movement. They're not widely held opinions, but happen to be rife in the police force. It's a bad culture in the police that needs to be cleaned out, not that it's in the US culture itself.
GraphicsMagick is a great alternative. It has given me great performance gains on large images as well as being able to perform better on resource-contrained environments such as the RaspberryPi 1.

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/FAQ.html#how-does-graphicsmagi...
People weren’t being deliberately destroyed at the early stages when Kristallnacht occurred either. I believe that’s the reasoning behind why prominent activists and lawmakers (rightly or wrongly) compared federal actions in Portland to the Nazi Gestapo and such a comparison wasn’t seen as offensive and they weren’t cancelled. The idea of recognizing warning signs.

For the record, I’m Jewish and don’t see such comparisons as offensive. It’s good to try to learn from historical similarities, however faint.
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Easy, just like "This Chinese Corporation is Spying on you with 5G Networks"
Anecdote: in the SF bay area in the last two weeks, I've randomly overheard two business owners talk about how they have lots of work but can't hire back any of their workers. One was a roofer, the other the manager of a hair salon who explicitly said that their staff say why would make $1000 / month less if they came back to work than if they stay at home not working. That suggests that as soon as the financial support falls to a more normal level, the unemployment level may drop significantly.
Outperform in terms of startup time and memory footprint.

Starting up a complete Spring MVC + Netty web stack in 0.018 seconds with roughly 60-100Mb of memory is pretty cool for container runtimes like Kubernetes. Can reduce cost A LOT in cloud environments and makes way for proper function/event based architectures where scaling down to 0 or scaling up to hundreds of instances for burst use cases is required.

It does this mostly by doing ahead of time compilation, eliminating dead code and putting all the static code on a stack which gets loaded into memory at startup.

This has some implications:
- reflection is nearly impossible to use in this scenario
- you can't do anything funky in static code blocks like initialize a database or something weird like that
- the JIT compiler of the JVM is not present so it cannot do hot code path optimizations at runtime, meaning the native image performance of SubstrateVM is slower than in the JIT compiler. So if you want performance and throughput, stick to the JIT compiler (GraalVM has a really good one written in Java itself, or use the standard Hotspot one by Oracle, OpenJDK or other vendors)
What part of production, do you know? Because mobile.twitter.com links are slow as hell to load
> So does abortion and euthanasia, and probably plenty of other practices as well.

A less controversial example would be something like chemotherapy. In fact, a lot of treatments for terminal and chronic ailments are pretty harmful.
The same thing would have applied to doctors at some point. Doctors still have line management.
Not accurate for me. Claims I should be able to get 1gig fiber from AT&T but AT&T site says 25mbs max
I had induction for nearly a decade and am now back on gas. I miss the ease of cleaning that induction offers, and the efficiency for things like boiling water. [1]

But if you use woks or other vessels that do not entirely touch the stovetop surface, gas is better. I made fried rice the other day on my gas stove, and it was a completely different experience than induction. The sides of the wok just heat up so much more than with induction.

Of course, it's a huge pain to clean all the tiny grains of rice that drop onto the stovetop. I wish kitchens had dual stovetops, with maybe 2 gas burners and the rest induction. But I've never seen a home like that; even high-end homes have either a nice gas range or an induction ranges.

fun fact: Menlo Park recently outlawed gas for new constructions. I imagine most folks will go to induction, which has previously been relatively rare here.

1: https://www.pcrichard.com/library/blogArticle/induction-vs-g...
doctors can agree on a minimal ethical standard, software engineers can't
> To say it’s on the engineer to do no harm puts them in the tenuous position of doing the job or being replaced by someone who will. That isn’t setting us up for success.

If we were to introduce an oath we would have to take further inspiration from doctors, e.g having a certification required to do the job, or, failing that at least having an industry-wide union/guild protecting the position.
If their stove and oven are electric, and they don't have, or don't have fuel for, a propane or charcoal grill, then a hurricane could really knock out their ability to cook things.
If you leave a pan with oil on the induction stove and then "quickly check the mail in the other room while it heats up" you might come back to an unpleasant surprise of burning oil...
Tech giant up for sale must be saved for Britain (ARM)
It has nothing to do with Glasgow the city other than being named after it.
You would not expect of such big business to behave in a different way. What we consumers can do is to try to use alternative services where we can, e.g. I am happy with using Firefox instead of Chrome
The story by Frederic Brown that the article mentions:

https://www.you-books.com/book/F-Brown/Etaoin-Shrdlu
Different experience here. I live in a touristy town on the south west coast of France, I've never seen so many people. It's very crowded. Granted it's the peak of the peak season right now but I think there's at least 1.2x the affluence of other years.

AirBnBs and camp sites are packed. I've established a strategy to go grocery shopping based on the weekly rental patterns to lower exposure. Mask is mandatory in shops which is good and well respected.
Very few software engineers in the US, despite receiving health insurance as compensation, do not have sufficient cash comp to purchase health insurance on their own should they need to.

I believe that this is a red herring.

Yes, the drone operator that pushes the button is a murderer, even if it was the POTUS that gave the order for it to happen.
"require a verified email address to gain the exit or guard relay flag" Getting fresh emails is incredibly easy.
Thanks for replying, if my comment can bring thinking, it will be enough.

Because of the Chinese culture of "national unity", intervention in Hong Kong is like intervention in China.

I don’t think the analogy of Guam is appropriate. As a strategic priority, Guam is occupied by many countries. Now as a US military base, residents have no right to vote.

Hong Kong belonged to China a long time ago. The British captured him through war in 1842 and returned it to China in 1997. Hong Kong currently retains its own administrative system and will fully integrate into China in the future.

I am not very familiar with the history of the United States, and I cannot offer a better analogy. If the Guam helps to understand the situation, I have no objection. After all, what I want to say is what Jimmy Lai did.
Yes, obviously. I am not saying that there is anything bad about structural ambiguities of this sort.
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harping on about ever-increasing inequality is rich coming from the CCP...
That's mostly due to teaching unions. The risk to children from Corona virus is vanishingly small.

https://medium.com/wintoncentre/what-have-been-the-fatal-ris...
> until one realizes that the atomic bomb murdered more civilians that a conventional attack would have killed

The conventional bombings on Tokyo killed more people than any atomic bomb.
36 hours in 19C room or 3/4 (27hrs) in 30C seem about right

worked in insurance company with people claiming broken freezers among other things and you can for sure get through day even in hot weather

of course this won't fly in shops where they have to legally store the products frozen during whole distribution chain
are hdmi cable durable? i have too many bad experience with faulty hdmi cables so i never think of doing this.
Would be nice, but bazillions of lines of SQL at the core of almost every business system make this as likely as “We can do better than five fingers.”

The article does nicely illustrate many of the well-known shortcomings of SQL. Chris Date and Hugh Darwen unsuccessfully tried to fix SQL with Tutorial D. Never heard of it? Exactly.
Here is a few more I have noticed that are missing. There is a common theme here.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200618075053/https://slatestar...

https://web.archive.org/web/20200624052049/https://slatestar...
Show HN: Procedural level generator for my tower defense game
Under the hood that uses eBPF handlers for the sys_enter and sys_exit tracepoints

https://github.com/microsoft/ProcMon-for-Linux/blob/main/src...
> That's completely the wrong comparison and context.

By the rest of your comment, it looks as though it's an excellent comparison. How would engineers taking an oath help the situation?
> I can't understand how 2 nuclear bombs can be considered to be worse than the millions of deaths a land invasion of Japan would have led to.

You should definitely try to understand that. Perhaps if the bombs had been targeted at LA or NY by Germans (who would certainly be as correct as you are that doing that would've saved millions of lives in a potential invasion of the USA by Germany once it was done in Europe) it would be easier for you to understand that the potential for a future, prolongued military battle in no way can be used as a justification for immediately killing hundreds of thousands of civillians.
China was the dominant power in East Asia for the best part of 2 millennia. It expanded aggressively during periods when it was strong, absorbing many native cultures in the periphery, and had many neighbouring states paying tribute and aligning with its values (e.g. Confucianism). It was an Empire, but the difference (compared with European Empires) being it was not a naval power that established colonies across oceans.
> You get custom made clothing cheaper than store clothing?

If you get it made in India or Asia this is the norm.

Long sleeved shirts from a good tailor in Saigon or Bangkok are 15-25 EUR p.P. for the tailoring. Then add 3-20 EUR for fabric – depending on what material you choose.

Once the tailor has your measurements on file you can either send your fabric of choice there and have the shirts be in your mail three weeks later or they send you pictures of fabrics they stock and you choose.

20% of my shirts are off-the-shelf (but all of them have been adjusted to fit me bette). The rest are tailor made.

100% of my trousers are tailor made. I never understood why any sane man would pay for pants that are pants (pun intended). Too tight, too low waist and too short at the ankles.
It makes you look like you are the younger sibling from a poor family who inherited the clothes from the elder, taller brother. And you even paid for that eye-cancer-inducing disaster. ;)

I have a tailor in Berlin who charges 70 EUR for tailoring a pair of trousers. With fabric that means I pay less than 100 EUR usually. Which is totally competitive with off the shelf pricing. He charges 40 EUR for a new cut. Aka: if I show him a picture of a cut or photo he will make it for my measurements. This is a one-time cost though.

As an added plus I have extra pockets for change/coins and invisible pockets under the belt line which are great to stash anything pointy that will distort the shape of your leg if put into the normal pants (I e.g. put my keychain there when I go dancing tango).

And the craftsmanship (seam look/quality/longevity) is superior to anything I can buy off the shelf. Even expensive brands are commonly produced with lower quality nowadays. You pay for the better material and the brand but the seams and button stitching are still sub par.
Possibly https://www.circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/press/compli...

Section 3.2. Why the "etaoin" Keybaord?
What motivates wired.com to put so much of such a controversial statements in brackets? What did he actually say?
but it's clearly not. it's a "call in the troops" brigading.

I said essentially the same things here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24101407 which was outside their thread of interest so it didn't go in the deep negatives. Same message, different parent, radically different results.

So it's not good faith, it's some dumb bad faith psychological game. It's an Ash conformity test. I'm supposed to think "hrmm, maybe 'Chinaman is evil' race-baiting IS correct, look at all the people who think that!" Nope. Not happening. I know the scam.

I know I'm not the crazy one, there's groups of racist internet lunatics that go around and do attacks like this ... that's why I dropped it. They can have their fun. I have other things to do with my time, but I'm retracting absolutely nothing. They can try to move that overton window somewhere else.
I don't know. I just listened to this great podcast [1] about victory gardens during WW1 and WW2. Many of them were set up all across the US, but after the war ended people pretty much abandoned them. Turns out growing food is hard work and most people don't want to do it, even as a supplement.

That said I'm definitely making it a goal to never buy green onions again - it's so easy to regrow them.

[1]: https://gastropod.com/dig-for-victory/
One big family.

But what if you don't want to be in the family? In the west we have that freedom to be different.

We also have the freedom to say the equivalent of Bush did 9/11 : on June 4 1989 the CCP massacred thousands.

Now the point of one big family is that the stability of the family, keeping everything going together peacefully means you don't rock the boat, you have to not speak out about how your uncle is a criminal. One big family ensures family members voluntarily censor themselves and consider those saying June 1989 Tianamen Square as literal existential threats to the stability of the family. Where in the west we can say Trump is part of a global conspiracy to X,y,z in China to do the same means attacking the very identity and stability of your own person, your bio family, your town and your nation. The story that is believed is that this stability was won through so much bloodshed. Anything must be done to stop rocking the boat. Chinese people really cannot be free as they don't know what it is. They see HK as an alcoholic daughter that needs to be treated to get well and join the rest of the family. Same with the Muslims. They are both different and in China difference is a fundamental threat.

It's fascinating.
I see fashion every single day, people aren't under lock and key like what happened in China where they welded apartment doors shut from the outside, on at least one occasion.

Such a non-article that really shows how the media inflamed the whole influenza story.

It's their job to write. Writing stuff literally puts food on their table. Even when it's something as stupid as fashion industry collapsing.

An influenza season with a higher death rate than usual is a gold mine to them. A literal golden age of media.
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My MVP name is SnapFeel , Is it better than TikTok and Reels?
Weird reading this in a country where pants = underwear.
In Greece, we do take an engineering oath to graduate: in summary to nurture and expand science and to improve and protect human welfare.
In a similar fashion, in Canada they have the iron ring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring.

IEEE and almost all of the serious engineering organizations have a code of ethics.

Accountability of the management is what is missing. If a hospital management instructs their doctors to skip costly steps in a procedure, they are going to jail. If any engineering company screws up and lives are hurt, lost or damaged somehow (e.g. privacy), they issue a public apology; rinse and repeat.

Which is ironic, as "a doctor might screw up and kill a few patients, but if you as an engineer screw up you can kill thousands." Because you are not there holding their hands when people get hurt, get their identity stolen, their money or lose their lives due to a bug or critical error, does not make you less responsible.

The problem with our field is that i) it has immaterial direct results, ii) big failures have big money behind them. The first makes it hard to impossible for the public to understand the implications and does not excite terror if you are not directly involved. How many people run in fear hearing about "x credit company got hacked"? The latter reason implies that there is an incentive for no punishment -- similarly to banking institutions in 2007.

I think we are unfortunately a lot of the times swaying between being a statistic (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/21/death-statistic/) or having insignificant or incomprehensible impact for us to gain legal power to push back. Recall that deep learning, distributed ledgers, etc are magic or demonized by the public.

P.S. One could argue that not all software developers are trained engineers etc, but I am not buying that. As a lot have noted even if a person is not academically trained they can take an oath, but nothing is going to change in the responsibility realm.