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Let's review (from wikipedia)

Apparent Somali assassination order

Guantanamo Bay procedures

Daniel arap Moi

Tibetan Unrest videos

Scientology materials

Sarah Palin Emails

Killings by the Kenyan police

BNP membership

Congressional Research Service reports

Norm Coleman

Climategate 1 and 2 (the forgotten one that outright stated what the first implied)

Barclays Bank tax avoidance

Internet censorship lists

Bilderberg Group meeting reports

2008 Peru oil scandal

Nuclear accident in Iran

Toxic dumping in Africa: The Minton report

Kaupthing Bank

Joint Services Protocol 440

9/11 pager messages

U.S. Intelligence report on WikiLeaks

Baghdad airstrike video

Afghan War Diary

Love Parade documents

Iraq War logs

State Department diplomatic cables release

Guantanamo Bay files

The Spy Files

Stratfor email leak

Syria Files

Prosecution and prison documents for Anakata (the pirate bay guy)

Draft Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement IP Charter and later TPP Investment Chapter

Trade in Services Agreement chapter draft

Australian bribery case suppression order

Sony archives

Trident Nuclear Weapons System

The Saudi Cables

DNC email leak

Podesta emails (DNC and this show bias against Bernie Sanders rather than dealing with trump vs hillary)

Yemen files (US secret involvement in Yemen conflict)

German BND-NSA Inquiry (US spying on Germany)

Turkish AK Party emails

CIA espionage orders

Vault 7 (CIA hacking software info)

Spy Files Russia (Russia spies on it's citizens too)

ICE Patrol (ICE employee LinkedIn profiles)

corrupted broker in France-UAE arms deal (French and German governments selling weapons)

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (Syria/Russia interfering with chemical weapon investigation)

I see no evidence that the releases favor particular countries or ideologies aside from the general anti-war stance. Most are about corruption and spying across a wide set of countries. It also makes sense that the US has the most leaks. The US probably has more continuing wars and "police actions" than any other 10 countries combined. In addition, the culture of the US tends to be more open making leaks a bit easier.

What exactly on this list do you take issue with?
These simple models of free trade work fine when discussing commodities or raw materials, but one thing I never see addressed (I'm far from an expert, just an interested layman) is that modern manufacturing involves far more than the raw inputs - there's complicated logistics and an entire holistic knowledge base of the company or companies which produce a thing. A society can forget how to make things, especially if no one in the society makes those things any more. The classic example is that "no individual knows how to make a #2 pencil from scratch". Or, more recently, the USA can't even produce large numbers of N95 masks. So, there can be a short-term benefit to free-trade, but an unknown cost down the line if your trade partner goes away for some reason and you can no longer make things you were trading for.
> Why not let all people wait and apply once they mature?

Yes that's my point. Let people keep trying.

> Why single out “those” people without an artificial unearned advantage?

Who is singling out anyone? If anything you are the one singling people out.

Your comment makes no sense. What are you arguing? That everyone should wait for everyone else? If so, then that's got to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Think about what you are saying. So if you get a driver's license, you think you should be forced to wait until everyone else pass their driving test before you are allowed to drive?

Just because you couldn't pass some military test, everyone else should wait to until you can pass?

Talk about being selfish and wanting an "artificial unearned advantage".
You can't do that in InDesign?
Well, emitting C is easier than emitting LLIR. Not just in the sense that you know C already and don't know LLIR yet, but if your source language is close enough to C semantics (basically, it's imperative language), you can most of the time generate the code in one straightforward walk over your whole AST. In fact, translating it to some home-made lowered IR and then to C would probably produce less effective binary.
Not when notarization no longer can be worked around.
You can run zerotier and have your services on your own private network accessible from anywhere.
Get the metal detector out?
I'm surprised that pharmaceutical companies don't hawk IoT pill bottles. People would consume more medicine.
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I'm pretty much that way, too.

I think I also just become more irritable if it's been too long since the last time I ate. It definitely doesn't seem to improve mental acuity for me, and any kind of physical activity is just going to feel worse. I've never tried any kind of a formal fast, though, so I don't know if there's something to planned schedules that makes it different.

I can kind of see how I might, under some circumstances, enter some kind of a state of quicker thinking after fasting, but I think it would be something similar to sleep deprivation, where you get perhaps a bit "hyper". That's not really a state I necessarily strive for either.

I've also never been overweight, and have always had more trouble gaining weight than getting rid of it. I wonder if that has something to do with it. I suppose the metabolism might be different if you've got some fat stores vs. if you're rather low-fat.

I can understand how fasting could e.g. have differential effects on cancer cells and thus be useful in specific circumstances. I also understand that people have rather different reactions, so I don't doubt that some people achieve some kind of a state that feels good or useful by fasting. But I don't really understand the hype, or calling it a panacea.
If they were actual enhancements, I doubt the Zig Foundation would care. A company making a closed source release doesn't seem to be the point of ire here.

The issue is, another company has forked Zig, made 0, or negative enhancements, and the Zig foundation is making sure to distance itself from the fork incase anyone gets burned by Zen. You don't want the first impression of your new language to be tarnished by some commercial company who dumped everything in marketing and 0 in development.

The GPL wouldn't help in this case at all. It's very clear that the Zig Foundation doesn't care about the changes, it cares about it's reputation. On the contrary having a high quality commercial fork would probably be a good thing for Zig (see MySQL <-> Percona, Cassandra <-> Datastax, Postgres <-> Citus)
Yes, very, thank you.
Yeah, same here - couldn't stay focused reading it but the comment section here is good.
Not sure about justification, but there's evidence that their brains were focused more on vision and movement.

https://www.seeker.com/neanderthals-lacked-social-skills-176...

Although, it appears that Neanderthals were bigger, but shorter than modern humans. I thought they were taller as well, but apparently that's not true
Maybe it is. I just am repulsed by stuff like that and try to get it out of my sight whenever possible. I figure most of HN is the same way. It pretty much never appears on any of my feeds, since I don't hesitate to click the "Not interested" button on the rare occasions it appears.

I'll watch that film, though.
Further nonsense from the author:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tBsrpJAAAAAJ&hl=en

Whenever you see anything that's hosted on RiseUp, you know it's going to be intellectually bankrupt.
If the rivers get sufficiently clogged up with trash, the bubble barriers aren't going to do anything. The pressure from the river on a lot of garbage will easily overcome the bubbles. Eventually, somebody is going to need to incinerate the trash or move it to a landfill.
"given my experience with facebook, twitter and google, big tech is likely to make my renting experience worse"
> "Tenant screening? I want to live with good neighbors."

And there's the other side.

A landlord has an obligation to ensure things are in good working order, pay the mortgage, upkeep common areas, and pay the taxes. Whether your tenant pays or not, those bills are still due. One tenant being late once is irritating but not catastrophic. Tenant(s) not paying for months burns through reserves quickly.

It's in everyone's best interest to ensure tenants can pay the rent.
For the unpredictable part of the input, you can't have the best latency and throughput at the same time. If you want realtime in a variable load scenario, you have to cap the GPU usage.

That's how gamers do it when they want the lowest latency possible, anyway. Something like "find the lowest frame rate your game runs on, and cap it to 80% of that".
Of the big tech companies, I've worked at Facebook, Google, & Apple. I've still not quite cracked what's different about Apple culturally that they seem to be more immune to this problem. The only main difference I can spot is I don't recall ever encountering a PM at Apple. To do planning engineers would propose improvements, new features, etc. These were bubbled up. Then executives would be responsible for building a theme around those developments & how that fit larger company-wide themes for iOS. On the other hand, I don't know if that was an Apple-wide thing or iOS-specific (at the time it was hard to distinguish since the entire company was largely organized around iOS/MacOS).

Another difference is that design is top-down at Apple. Any UI redesign was driven by Johnny's team which was responsible for a holistic and consistent across-the-board implementation. I don't believe you were allowed to deviate from the design language. This one I have less visibility into as I worked on technology pieces rather than things that had a user-facing component.
Exactly!

But, moreover: how can my research be reproducible if someone else can't afford to buy that specific software? Or if the software's version I used is outdated and the updated one does not read the old one's files?
> The lambda notation in C++ is really a thing Java could easily have.

Java has had lambda expressions, with what I would describe as cleaner syntax than C++'s, since JDK 8. Is there something I'm missing that C++'s have over Java's?

This has also lead to a lot of Java becoming much more functional, see especially the Stream API[0] (also added in JDK 8). I would say it's much, much easier to write functional-style code in Java than it is in Go.

[0]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/stream/S...
The point of bringing up Gödel was for analogy rather than as a theory of knowledge. I agree there are many germination points for humility, self-sceptism, and general reflection - we’ve together mentioned a few.
> It's not OK to say: well you didn't make your project GPL, so you don't get to complain.

I kind of agree with you and kind of disagree with you. You should be able to complain all you want. However, if explictly decide to give people certain rights when you complain about them using those rights it shouldn't hold much value. Which is what I think was the original point in the sentence you replied to.
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> Do you reject the idea that there no parallels to the black bloc and the brown shirts behavior?

Yes. It's very clear that organised violence in the US is overwhelmingly from the far right. Anyone denying this either isn't paying attention or is being dishonest.
If being an asshole is something the Zig community does not want people to do with its code, why not just license Zig in such a way to prevent this type of usage of its code?

They already implement a code of conduct to restrict behavior in their community.
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He is a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington, a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, and his resume [0] looks impressive to
me. I realize that this is an appeal to authority, but since I don’t know enough about meteorology to make an informed decision about the specific information that he gives, his qualifications seem to indicate that he is a trustworthy source of meteorological information.

I did a quick internet search and looked him up on Wikipedia. His Wikipedia entry [1] mentions the controversies surrounding his non-professional views, but I didn’t find anything about his meteorological views being in question.

Please correct me if I missed something! It can be hard to determine if someone is trustworthy on the internet.

[0]: https://a.atmos.washington.edu/%7Ecliff/CliffsVitaeLatest090...

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Mass
I haven't done much with the others, but I can't imagine there is much difference. Jenkins has a ton of plugins, but the biggest reason I would choose it over the ones you listed is so that you're not locked in to a specific provider. At work quite a few people were using gitlabCI, but recently corporate signed a deal with microsoft to use GitHub. So now everyone using gitlab ci is going to have to recreate their deployment process.
I know a lot of people who have “accepted” exploding offers but then just keep interviewing and will try to renegotiate or just reneg if they get a better one.
Keep dreaming. :)
What's motivating your hostility in this thread?
Great. To those ringing their hands about the death of capitalism they fear will follow: if capitalism is premised on buying things you don’t need, destroying the planet in the process, maybe we can do better?
I’d love to see some sources on these facts. Interesting enough though.
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Do you have any good links to the machinery / tech that does that kind of sorting? I've search for it in the past and it seems like I was mostly getting hits on European manufacturers.
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At which point the commercial part will continue to be notarization, as it is currently.
Fusion360 is Autodesk. Revit is Autodesk. Autodesk absolutely has a substantial portion of the marketshare, specific product not withstanding.

Youre going to see Fusion360 and Solidworks in fabrication, but people aren't designing building models in Solidworks.

In the context of free vs proprietary software, schools are not going to avoid Autodesk products, or they would be outputting people who arent familiar with the industry standard tools. In a collaborative environment, when firms are sharing drawings, standardization of product is going to arise. Even if AutoCAD isnt the best product, it is entrenched for a while longer, and more than likely Autodesk owns the replacement firms will choose when the time comes. Schools will adapt accordingly.
Aren't "red flags" from the interviewer side pretty obvious? Most interviews are just noise with very little signal.

Some basic red flags:

* Poor ability to self-reflect or demonstrate that they've learned things from their experiences

* Lack of or otherwise poor critical thinking

* Inability to communicate

* Inability to display core competency in the skills required for the job, especially when challenged (I don't do "adversarial" interviewing, but I do throw a lot of spanners into their answers to see if they can vary their approach)

* Inability to demonstrate handling challenges and negative experiences constructively

* Poor decorum - "putting your hands at 10 and 2 on the wheel." There's not always one single thing that becomes a red flag, but things like badmouthing 3rd parties, airing of grievances, extreme arrogance, and so on. The proverbial "Would I like to work with this person?"
As I understand it, macOS uses grayscale antialiasing by default, while Windows and Linux use subpixel hinting. To make up for the artificial thinning that occurs with grayscale antialiasing, it also uses something called "font smoothing" which makes everything look a little bolder.
There’s nothing stopping you from using web technologies to develop iOS apps in exactly the same way.

Quite a few of the ‘cross platform’ toolkits work this way.
What's really wild is that the architects who envision and oversee implementation of systems that make these things possible earn a tiny fraction of what executives make.

They make 5x+ the next highest IC, sure. But if they worked half as much and BS'ed 100x as much they'd make 500x.

Personally, that makes me wonder a lot more than a clever combination of memcache and map-reduce.
In most cases the tech is used as cover for eroding already minimal tenant rights and services. For example, one building I lived in switched to digital locks and the price for a lost key replacement went from $10 to $50. And according to them the digital key replacement process was much more efficient.
You're making yourself sound more like a villain with every comment.
>This is once again the confusion between free (gratis) software and Free (libre) software.

This happens because "free software" is a terrible name. It should be changed to "freedom-respecting software".
Do you use the $5 VPS as like a reverse proxy and you're still self-hosting at home? Or did you move your self-hosted applications to the VPS?

I am setting up a self-hosted lab and looking at (securely) setting up remote access. Was leaning towards OpenVPN as pfSense supported it, but have been considering a locked down VPS remote proxy too (at least for some services) and happy to hear thoughts.
This is not scientific at all, just an observation that lets me hope for a clean 2021. I live outside Seattle, and the 2018 fire season was terrible (I have asthmatics in my family). We had some fire every year since I moved here in 2014. In 2019, we didn't have any smoke days all Summer/Fall. I like to tell myself next year will be better, but the other posters in this thread using, you know, numbers, are probably more right.
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My take is that "the US" as a cohesive entity with a central government did next to nothing. The US has acted as an uncoordinated collection of state and local governments, private businesses, and some other institutions such as universities for both better and worse.

For example, the graphs for COVID cases in my county reflect the county government working with no coordination at the state or federal level, the predictable effect of having a large public university in town, and private companies that are managing the production and analysis of COVID tests with no public policy guidance.
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An issue with this type of analysis is that "them" is ambiguous.

Even if the candy company folds in 5 years, part of "them" is probably still ahead - the management team "them" experiences gains through short-term incentives for performance while the ownership part of "them" suffers losses.

In some cases, those owners aren't fat-cat capitalists - they're workers' pensions and retirements funds.

In these cases, "we" didn't end up being better off by the company moving to Mexico.

Also, the claim that this type of relocation "frees" local labor from the toil of candybar-making to focus on real value creation is a stretch. More likely, they're now free to compete in a smaller labor market and superficially one would expect that to drive wages down (since the demand for jobs hasn't changed and the supply has of them has gone down).
>a developer IP assignment clause, how.. actually quite common

It is absolutely not normal to demand copyright for code written by a developer in off-hours. It is extremely not normal to write non-compete clauses for software developers and the ban on non-compete clauses in California has been cited as a key policy promoting the growth of the software industry. And it is obviously adversarial to fork a project and then try to get developers on the project to sign non-competes saying they will not work on the project.
It was talked about in the media to scare people into compliance, so it served some use.
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To paraphrase Stallman on the topic of permissive Free Software licences:

Some people prefer permissive Free Software licences, and feel that copyleft licences like the GPL introduce unwelcome restrictions. I don't understand this objection. They're unhappy that the licence doesn't grant the power to deny other people their freedom?
The common prefix is removed:

> Incidental white space surrounding the content, introduced to match the indentation of Java source code, is removed.
> Re branding a MIT license software and selling a commercial version is a good thing if done correctly.

GPL does not prevent you from selling a commercial version, only from closing up the source.

Having no access to the source is to direct user determent.
Huawei. They lead in 5G equipment because they did the necessary R&D investment.

Their phones are pretty good, too (or were pretty good before they got cut off from their suppliers). Their edge was that they built really great cameras into their phones.
>This is so much better than anything we had before.

I haven't really noticed much difference between having a USB-c charger for my latest phone vs an older USB on my previous phone other than a lack of extra charging cords available in my house.

Plugging the cord in upside down, inexplicably changes my phone to slow charging. The plug, after a couple years now, has worn down exactly the same as other USB sockets has. The cord's loose when plugged in, needs to be wiggled to make it charge.

As far as I can tell, besides being able to plug it in both ways, it might as well be no different.
Part of that is because of the expectation at Google that you will just move around. You don't really hire specifically into a given team, and that could be disconcerting, for sure. But you are also given enough respect by the company to assume that as a competent SWE you should be able to move around fairly easily to almost any team in the company.

When I started (9 years ago) it was stated during onboarding that you would be expected to move every two years or so. That's probably softened a bit, but it's still a part of the culture.

So even if you don't love where you're initially slotted, nobody is going to frown excessively when you transfer elsewhere after getting past your noogler phase.

I've found it frustrating to interview at other places and get blank stares when I ask about how team mobility works within the company, what happens when the team is restructured, etc.
I have a utility that automatically sets my desktop picture to a snapshot from the GOES satellite image feed every 20 minutes or so, and this morning I noticed it showing this [0]. I was curious to see if it was what I thought, so I switched to the west-coast feed [1], and indeed, the smoke appears to have crossed the entire continent on the jet stream.

No apparent effects here on the east coast for now, but I'm betting sunsets will be prettier than normal for a while...definitely somewhat concerned for the possibility that it could worsen, though, if the fires continue.

(Images come from here [2], swap the 16 in the URL for 17 for the west coast feed)

[0] https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES16/ABI/FD/GEOCOLOR/2020...

[1] https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES17/ABI/FD/GEOCOLOR/2020...

[2] https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk.php?sat=G16
I do not mean this disrespectfully but isn’t that taking the idea of “personal freedom” to absurdity? I believe in personal freedom as well but I don’t think walking off a cliff or maliciously using someone Else’s labor is freedom.
Would echo your sentiment that the role of project manager, product owner or whatever they're calling it these days needs to be rethought. In my org we literally have a squadron of these individuals which leads to bickering and an in-cohesive product experience.
Fusion has a definite discrete goal, doesn't it?