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> Bubba Wallace hoax

No hoax there, just misunderstandings (and probably somebody's old, unnoticed attempt at harassing some other driver or driver's team). See https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nascar/news/bubba-wallace-no... for an outline of what happened: there was genuinely a noose tied on the pull rope of exactly one out of 1,684 garage stalls, but it had been there since at least October 2019. That it was Bubba Wallace's team that noticed it was coincidence, but it seemed targeted to him at the time because of the unlikeliness of it.
It’s a great time to have a private backyard. Lousy time to share an elevator.
There are lots of examples of where personalization results in a worse experience for users but better metrics for the tech company.

Somehow the Instagram ads algorithm has figured out exactly what I’m self conscious about with my own body; all I see are ads for invisible braces, skin cleansers, and hair treatments.

I don’t actually want to buy any of these things, and they make me feel bad to look at. A de-personalized Instagram experience would be far superior to me.
That kind of fits my experience. I used to wake up around 7:15. Now with COVID work from home and no commute or need to go through a morning routine, it's naturally turned into about 8:45. Pop up, grab some food, do a few hours of work, then take a break to shower, change, etc. I'll have a tough time when I have to return to the office.
Lots of laptops and OLED phones flicker in low brightness, using this actually make it worse as your eyes strains quickyly from the combined effect, at least for me.

I'm currently using Iris Pro in max brightness, in which the display doesn't need to flicker, the software still can dim the screen itself.
Limited to 5% plus rental inflation, and I'm not sure concessions count towards the rate, so they could still go up substantially within a few years.
Its no more outside the reach of government than you are.
16+ years of experience and won several awards and designed multiple highly scalable systems in retail. Still cannot get into faang. These coding interviews gate keeping me..
Nice idea -- the main thing needed would be to update the Webpack configuration to support e.g. Vue instead of React, and to make sure to generate a single HTML file for your Vue app that includes all scripts and styles. Might not be so bad!
To get to facts: One of Q's tenets is that Pizzagate [0] was in the right direction. I humbly but firmly suggest that it was in the wrong direction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory
According to Wikipedia, it's not in another country. Unless "Surry Hills, Sydney" is another country.

If Wikipedia is wrong, you should update it for the benefit of the rest of us.
> There are definitely some great spots but not that many and really not that diverse (lacks middle eastern, greek, british, American bbq, spanish)

I've personally had great examples of all of those except Spanish in SF (and that exception may be because I've never sought out Spanish in SF.)
ï isn't an English character though! For an English document, "naïve" is a mispelling, at best. That being said, you don't always have the luxury of doing things the "correct" way, especially if users are trying to cram god-knows what into a text field.
Depends on sexual orientation.
Ok, but does it solve pain?
> i have to ask -you'd enjoy going to bars with mostly men? because that's cool too -once in a rare while.

Personally I only go to bars to socialize with people I know. I have never spoken to a stranger at a bar and I used to go once/twice a month.
It turns out there are two URLs for this, one which only works for Australian IPs, one which works for everybody.

Australia-only URL: https://about.google/google-in-australia/an-open-letter/

Global URL: https://about.google/intl/ALL_au/google-in-australia/an-open...

Alias which redirects to Global URL: http://g.co/australia-letter

However, when I first posted this, Google was showing a message to people using Google Search in Australia, directing them to the Australia-only URL not the global one. It appears since then they've changed the popup to use the global URL.

At first I (and others) worried there may be something intentional and under-handed in this, now I realise it is probably just some sort of Google-internal stupidity. Hanlon's razor strikes again
Create virtual learning games and micro-lessons with points, time, and choices
This is in no way a “both sides” argument. None of the other Presidents actually encouraged the wild conspiracy theories.

When McClain was running for President and one of his supporters started the “birther” bullshit, McCain shut them down. People insist on claiming that what the crazies (the subset not saying all Republicans are crazy) are doing in the modern Republican Party is normal politics. Neither Bush, McCain, Romney or any of the serious Republican candidates for President in 2016 were anywhere near this unhinged.

Edit:

I still don’t understand how it is controversial to say that neither traditional Democrat or Republicans are anything like this. Which side takes this as a negative?
I need maybe 4-5 hours to function and 6 to function well. Anything more than that I feel stressed all day like I missed something. I can typically jump out of bed (literally) at around 6 hours excited for the day and do a full 12 hours of work.

That being said, I have slept 8 hours or so when I am sick or feeling a tad depressed.

My wife in contrast needs 8-10 hours of sleep to feel that way. But with kids she gets 7-8 hours so she’s always a bit groggy.

Ideally We’d sleep without alarms, but our children let us know when it’s time to get up (and there’s some variance there).

I think your body adjusts sleep based on its needs and we should probably listen to it.
Yeah, .com
I feel typing speed is rarely my bottleneck for coding/writing/anything I do on the computer. Not sure who needs to type this fast besides actual stenographers?
You don't even need to boot the machine much less go to a website.

One of them I think was actually a zero day, you could get up on shodan and find piles of machines that would just let you upload an ISO and boot whatever you wanted on them.

It really is that bad.
If they're happy and productive and generally satisfied with their life, I'd call that thriving.

If they're struggling, occasionally (or more) depressed, unproductive or unmotivated, lack meaningful social interactions... Sleep could be an issue. Or it could be the depression that is in turn causing the sleep and other issues. These things are complex.
Thanks. Not sure I understand your question, or if I did a good job explaining the iframe bit. The iframe is needed to load the local development experience, but it is not calling the functionality remotely. It is just passing function calls between the Google Apps Script environment and your app.
See, for example, the whole "Pizzagate" thing, with the claims that a child trafficking ring was being run out of the basement of one particular pizza place in D.C.... a pizza place that has been proven to have never had a basement in the first place.
The best collection I know is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ which has ports for various platforms (in my case using android, but apparently there's an iOS port too, see links at the end).

The games have various difficulty levels to choose from.
> This is powerful because you [can] use Rust or C++ as your scripting language.

Do people really want to use such complex, heavyweight languages for scripting?

> WebAssembly enables predictable and stable performance because it doesn’t require garbage collection like the usual options (LUA/JavaScript).

Do garbage collection pauses cause significant issues when embedding Lua or JavaScript? If so, I would expect implementations of those languages to switch to reference counting, but none of them are doing so.

> Extremely fast programs in environments where you can’t JIT for reasons.

To get good performance, don't WebAssembly implementations need to use JIT-compilation internally?
I’m half southeast Asian, which is different enough people can tell if they get close, but close enough that I can blend in in a crowd. It depends where in Japan you’re moving to as well - but being in Tokyo it’s definitely global and people are generally used to foreigners. Your mileage may vary being more visibly “different”, as well as you motivation to learn Japanese/local customs (I’m pretty conversational, which took a lot of work), and your sensitivity to being treated differently - though for me I mostly don’t take it personally.
A child is not a pet. Please do not refer to a child as “it.”

Being a parent is an major commitment for the rest of your life. Many people think it is an 18 year commitment. That’s just the start. Many of your most important contributions as a parent will take place after your child is already a legal adult. The same is true for many of your most rewarding moments.

The decision to have a child should not be, “Will a child make me happier?” It should be, “Am I ready to put someone else’s needs before my wants for a significant portion of the rest of my life?”
As someone born and raised in the Bay Area, what I feel is the decline of SF (cultural venues, long time restaurants, neighborhoods changing character) some see as progress.

The exodus is interesting ... I don’t see a return of those displaced by tech. But I hope there is some return to balance.
The Babbage Engine – Computer History Museum
"New CSIRO, AEMO study confirms wind, solar and storage beat coal, gas and nuclear"

I've seen stories like that for at least a decade as well. If true, then how is climate change not a solved problem? Build lots of solar and wind, decommission all coal and natural gas (and apparently nuclear), profit! Yet according to the most prominent environmentalists, we need massive new spending and regulations, and we'll have to significantly change our lifestyles and give up on the idea of economic growth.
This is where I disagree with the article. Factorio has absolutely made me a better dev.

- Learning to more heavily prototype, bootstrap, and rewrite, rather than refactor.

- learning to "just ship it" and get by with "ugly" operations that work well enough

- learning to balance the two often-contradictory points above
I don’t see the problem. According to the apologists, “both sides” have Presidents/Presidential candidates that are publicly recorded joking about forcibly “grabbing women by the pussy”.

He called Ted Cruz’s wife “ugly” and Cruz is still supporting him.
american here who's lived in france and still use an azerty keyboard because it lets me type in both languages. how do you get a capital A with an accent on an azerty keyboard?
This post pretty well sums up every opinion I've ever heard about Qanon that didn't come from somebody ranting irrationally about identity politics. This kind of thing is the universal endpoint for people who have a psychological need to be a part of a "side" in a sociopolitical "us vs them", but can not cope with the cognitive dissonance that such a binary demands by nature.
As I understand it, the water situation is all kinds of screwed up, but much of the residential water is sustainable. SF, for example, uses mostly surface water and has access to a lot of surface water. One might argue whether the dam that supplies the water is a good thing or a bad thing and whether the allocation of SF’s water is reasonable, but it appears to be sustainable. In addition, residential water usage just isn’t that much.

Agricultural water in the drier parts of California is an entirely different story.
Write shorter emails. I have yet to meet someone so important that they don't read every short email they get to their daily driver work email.
I mean, the obvious question is how do you know that you’ve only got legitimate items?

Some counterfeiters are of course, shit, so it’s pretty easy for most of us to notice when we order a board game and all the text on the cards is 20% off of centre. But you have to figure that somebody out there is capable of taking a high resolution scan of the materials and printing it without making obvious mistakes like that.

And like... in Apple’s testing over 90% of Apple accessories (chargers, cables, etc) were fake. Obviously they’re outwardly convincing enough that 90% of people aren’t returning them despite dropping $35 on a USB cable that’s worth about $4 from a third party. A lot of the counterfeit chargers are outwardly identical — unless you tear them apart to see where they’ve cut corners and risked burning your house down you’re never going to know.
I admire the way that you have reinterpreted the issue, but I don’t buy it.

For one thing, I can imagine a knowledgeable human working through ten thousand alternatives and picking the best, (if, objectively, there is one) - it would just take a long time. On the other hand, It does not seem obvious to me that current NLP systems would do better than humans on such a task, and nor is it obvious to me that one can conclude that from the fact that the machine sometimes ignores adversarial examples (if the assumption is that most of the ten thousand would be de-facto adversarial, that is a lot to not make one mistake on; that’s not so much a problem for a human with an understanding of the issue, and who might well come up with the right answer unprompted.)

This is probably all moot, however, as the most obvious way to compare the machine results to those of humans is to give both the actual tests in question, rather than substitute a dubious “equivalent” test.
There's an IBM shop there?

Anyway, if any HN folks are planning road trips across America, you wouldn't regret passing through that part of the country. Dubuque is in the Driftless Area, a tiny sliver of North America that wasn't covered by glaciers during the last ice age and therefore wasn't scoured flat when they receded. There are lots of steep hills and deep ravines, exposed rock and springs that pop out of the ground for a while and then go back underground. Dubuque sits on a fairly picturesque part of the Mississippi River and has many hills and valleys in town. It even has a funicular!
I wouldn't say he was wrong, it's just that the quality/quantity balance doesn't balance the same way in every circumstance. And Stalin wasn't making a universal proclamation.

Of course he was a brutal dictator who caused the deaths of millions, so it's still probably a good idea to take his "wisdom" with a critical eye.
Microsoft's Surface Duo – 35min Demo by Panos Panay
Still building ... mostly MEAN stack for the app with analytics layer using Python
Thank you for your guide. I do apologize in advance, but this tutorial, like others, simply goes into the _what_ to do and doesn't explain the _why_.

Forever math will be about memorizing these "tricks" and not understanding it intuitively - can someone please help offer some suggestions to me?
My assessment is that if you have a large, complex micro service environment with several applications, docker may be a good route to take as an interim to cloud native.

If you have a relatively simple deployment structure (one big application with 10-20 services), maybe you don't need to add the docker skill to what you're already doing.

If you're in the process of rebuilding your applications and you've decided cloud native is the way to go, then containers are pointless.

I'd argue if you don't have the skills and you don't want to pay someone to do this work full-time, you might put your developers in a position to fail.

Based on my 30+ years of building software, I see containers as a dead end. It may help you out in the short term, prove to your CTO that you're using "well-known" technology, but in the end, cloud native is going to replace everything. And before you say "but we can't be in the cloud," then you should know that cloud-native development like Lambdas can be done on-prem as well.

I'm positive this post will get negative votes. That's fine. I like tilting at windmills.
This is not a new concept: Braille users type out Braille (mechanically or digitally) with Perkins-style 6 or 8-key (in reference to the Braille dots being encoded) keyboards, only using chords, which are known as Braille chords.

These Perkins-style keyboards, which are also colloquially referred to as Braille keyboards, are often integrated into refreshable Braille displays (and are sometimes standalone devices that are known as Braille notetakers, which also allow one to utilize various Braille codes better), which is how one reads digital material. Not only can these keyboards (and chords) be used to type, they are used to navigate, via screen reader, mobile and physical computer terminals, along with other interfaces.

When it comes to typing out something in math code, for example, Braille users have the ultimate advantage over anyone who uses LaTeX/MathML, if they know which Braille code to learn. Right now, that Braille code is currently Lambda. They can type out, for example, infty, with a single Braille chord, if they know what they are doing. Such codes also allow for the spatial encoding of the integral sign and its components, in a linear manner, along with the back-translating of that into how it should be displayed visually to a sighted person.

But, if one learned Braille as an adult, they tend to prefer to at least keep a standard Bluetooth keyboard around to type in QWERTY/QWERTZ. They cannot help falling back on it from time to time.

The people who learned Braille in school as a young child tend to prefer Braille chords over standard keyboards, even for standard typing. It can help prevent typing errors too, so it is a very useful skill to have.

One can practice these chords on the vast majority of standard keyboards, including on laptops.

But, there are also a couple of Braille Bluetooth keyboards that are being sold, but they are typically overpriced for what they are.
Extraterrestrials could be using laser instead of radio to contact us
Conspiracies are a means to an ends for agendas, so at the voter level it only matters what the agenda is.

In last iteration, it’s not clear that there is an agenda on the right other than staying in power and tweaking the left. The left does appear to have a strategy and if we believe what the right says, they would agree there is.

Health care is a really hard problem with huge vested interests and what we got is not some weird outlier from those points. But one party did something and another just said NO.
My university had a student club doing that and it's probably my fondest memory of engineering. It was so inspiring and almost addicting to work on projects that actual people would use or have their lives improved by. And you got to have a hand in writing firmware, machining parts/enclosures, meeting the customer (mostly doctors, which was super cool), and researching the market fit for if it were a real project. It was so much fun.

I really wish my post-college engineering experience could be anything like that. I miss making useful things.
I guess there's a few parts to it, for me.

There's "the itch" - the desire to program, to build something. Which I do find coding-style games tend to satisfy (so there's the fear I will have lessened motivation to work on my side project).

Then there's the "focus" side - I still love programming (and consider myself blessed for that). By "only have so much programming in me" I meant more "I have a limited ability to deeply focus within a given day/week". So I don't want to be thinking too hard when I game - I want to lose myself in the flow specifically without having to concentrate too hard (I find books/movies and playing hockey are great for this too).

Please note, I'm not arguing with anyone here - I guess I'm just talking out loud. It's not my intention to denigrate Factorio-style games in any way.
> If anything, it’s the humans in the household that could benefit from preventative de-worming

If you have a habit of nibbling on the bugs and the flies that wander into your house like cats do, I think indeed you could benefit from deworming.

Besides, if yellow fever is carried as frequently as worms in your neighborhood, you should definitely get vaccinated.

Finally, your cost-benefit analysis is a strawman argument. OP thinks their cat is completely isolated, I posited that it is not. I am not saying they have to get treatment nor I am moralizing them not doing it. It is perfectly fine to take an educated risk, but that hinges on the education of what vectors are still available to your indoor cat.
Our interviews are what we can get away with
> sf is definitely not known for tasty food.

Yes, it is.

It's mostly orthogonal to the trendy food scene, and if you follow the latter hoping to find the former you’ll likely be disappointed, but SF is known for excellent examples of both a wide variety of authentic ethnic cuisines and a wide variety of excellent unique creative/fusion offerings apart from the trendy scene.
Thanks - appreciate the reply (and the other helpful replies here too). I've done a fair bit of threaded / async stuff in Python / C / JS - sounds like BEAM processes are more baked into the language & runtime and encouraged as an architectural style, rather than an added complexity you bargain with when you hit a single-threaded performance wall. Interested to do a deeper dive on it sometime.
The week old Hollywood finally died
It’s not meaningful to compare SHRDLU with today’s verbal search interfaces. The world SHRDLU manipulated were only stackable blocks and the only relations it knew were ‘above’ and ‘below’. The entire scope of its endeavor was describing the state of block stacks and basic ways to reorder stacks to satisfy the single relation of above-ness and below-ness.

Time and causality and even basic probability were all absent from SHRDLU’s model. Not surprisingly the work was a dead end that even Winograd was quick to abandon, as he subsequently exited the field of experimental AI for the more conceptual models of cognitive science and HCI.
You've described a system where, if an exceptional kid comes from a lower-performing school, there is nothing they can do to gain entrance to the top universities.

I wonder if the effects are visible when comparing allocation of spots vs past years. Or is that what they are optimizing for? To achieve the same allocation across feeder schools as the year before?
This is quite an unsubstantiated area to go off on and on the same path as conspiracies like QAon.
Are there screenshots or demos of what it's like to play? Their website is down and their docs don't really have any cool pics.
This is a misunderstanding of the concept of "trusted third parties".

Incredibly, yes, you have to rely on the software that you use to perform tasks to perform them. But this is not the same as placing another person in a mediating position where they can choose to betray you.

Confusing these two senses of "trust" results in an intuitively appealing but entirely mistaken family of arguments that aren't the gotchas people think they are.

The Very Short Introduction book on Trust covers different senses of the concept of "trust", including the ones I mention here, in a readable and compact way that I highly recommend.
Not the original poster, but I've disabled all personalisation that it's possible to disable since forever, and my biggest problem with it is that it still doesn't seem to disable it entirely.

So yes, I definitely prefer it. And looking at the other replies to your message suggests that I'm not alone here.
Many large enterprise customers want complete segmentation between them and other customers. It is not uncommon for critical apps to not actually be multi tenant but a single deployment.

When you talk about consumer apps or low cost business apps your point is well taken.

edit: Sometimes SSO ties it together so single tenants appear to be a multi tenant environment.
See also the recent usage of "#savethechildren" to promote nonsense like Pizzagate, while drowning out the efforts of actual child aid organizations.