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> Bill Gates has come a long way since the days of absolutely ruthless Microsoft. It's not surprising that there are still many people whose lives were made worse by its business practices who really do not like Bill Gates, and are inclined to believe bad things about him.

I don't think there's much of an intersection between some pissed off techies who worked in the industry in the late 90s, and the millions of batshit insane people who think that he is part of the Zionist deep state conducting mass sterilization through COVID vaccine microchips.
> If one thinks taxation is punishment for a decision,

Moral or not it is a deterrent
That would be some garage sale...
This doesn't help if you go to jail for the actions of the self driving car. (Generally. I'm not talking about the specific case linked).

Also, consumers can't be trusted to pick the safest cars. Most consumers choose on price, not safety features.
Wow, I love that. Would you mind posting the full alias?
This article adds some more context to the lighting situation:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/police-chief-said-uber-...
for those curious, here's Vegas data: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LVXRNSA
I feel like community is the biggest factor in making these classes work, and that’s not the same as tweeting or sharing your progress or a leaderboard. Can you do these workouts with people, or is it all on-demand?

If you’re going to nix the entire social / community aspect (having a specific appointment where you’ve committed to train with someone can make a massive difference).... How long until we get procedurally generated photorealistic “studio workout” routines which dynamically analyze both your historical and real-time capabilities and performance in order to provide an “optimal” workout pace and progression?
That is, presumably, something that the grand jury considered.
Exactly this -- it's even in the very same sentence that mentions it:

>As internal video of the Uber car showed, Rafaela Vasquez, a 46-year-old transgender woman still legally known as Rafael Stuart Vasquez,
Complete nonsense.

There should be no publish schools to begin with. And what private schools do is none of GNU's concern.
I had to look up what sk was... I think you're right

> By now you've probably guessed that George isn't exactly a spring chicken, and that he's getting up in years. This is very true and it is one of his great wishes that his collection find a permanent home after he's gone so that future generations can enjoy and appreciate the hobby for many years to come.

I wonder if anyone was able to make that happen.
Total driving liability for a 17-yr old male with a speeding ticket or two (worst case driver) is still insurable for a few hundred dollars a month. There's no material economic difference whether the insurance companies are engaged by the automakers, car owners, or car 'driver/passengers'.
I think the last 80 years have been the most peaceful in recorded human history in spite of, or perhaps because of the constant threat of nuclear Armageddon.

Globalization is a part of it, but I don't think it's sufficient in itself to keep the peace.
It is not a law, it is merely an observation.
I guess I need to dig a little deeper into that Starbucks thing.

But if I was an owner of Starbucks and Bill Gates Sr called the high bidder and scared him off so someone else could buy my business for less, I don’t know if I’d ever forgive that.

It doesn’t strike me as fair or righteous.
I am wondering if the company responsible for self driving software/hardware be liable ? If not 100% , then to what extent?
Yeah, perhaps they can use catgut or something as a replacement for central lines. Waxed paper is well known to have the same antimicrobial attributes as hydrophobic plastics. All but for the greed of Exxon...
> I could never properly measure the time between the original message and the translated message. It was always way way subsecond. Everything we have now: networks, servers, code is very fast.

All of that said, if the time is measured in more than triple digit nanoseconds, relative to the hardware capabilities that we have today, it’s slow.

Please do not take that as a reflection on you personally or your work, but rather a reflection on the layers and layers of abstraction we’ve collectively added, and keep adding. While we’ve made it easier for people (especially developers) to write code, we’ve made everything slower, and just continue to mask that with hardware improvements.
Surprised I had to scroll this far to see TimerCaps, they’re a nice just-enough-technology solution to this problem.
You should give a try to Kotlin then
Are any carriers still subsidizing phones? I have only seen buy one get one free with a new line. ATT just has a payment plan but you still pay full price.
> It's a very blinkered perspective to view this only through the lens of adhering to WTO agreements, and elevate adherence to them to some kind of virtue, regardless of what other countries are doing.

Keeping promises is not some kind of virtue?
You can kinda have Pencil on macOS by using Sidecar with an iPad.
It doesn't matter what she was told. She was in charge of the vehicle. She was the licensed operator. The presence of a broken ML autosteer doesn't abdicate responsibility.

This is part of the general attitude that rights and freedoms don't matter if a machine violates them. When you walk out of a store post purchase and the security alarm goes off you have zero obligation to disclose what is now your property to the loss prevention experts. But somehow it's acceptable to assume you're a criminal because a machine said so.
It doesn't need to say anything about file headers. A source file is a copyrightable work. The copyright notice and license file in that source file provide the copyright notice for that work and it's licensing terms. The MIT license, under which the work is licensed, requires the copyright notice of the work to be preserved. By removing and replacing the notice on the work, and distributing it without preserving the original notice as required by the license on the work, the license is violated.

The fact that the work is also included in a compilation, which is a separate copyright protected work, and that work has its own copyright notice and is offered under the same license, does not somehow alter the license requirements on the component work within the compilation, so that of the compilation’s copyright is preserved as required by the license of the compilation, there is no obligation to preserve the copyright notice of the component work as required by the license on the component.
> I think that Backslash against Nvidia is due to it's somewhat hostile nature towards OpenSource

I would add also Nvidia's hostility towards standards. They are pretty much the Apple of the GPUs : Optix, RTX, CUDA, etc. they are screwing up the whole ecosystem by making closed APIs that only work on their platform.

If you are a graphic or ML dev you can only hate Nvidia for how they are hurting standards and making our job so much harder while we could just agree on Khronos standards.

Hopefully some standards catch up (raytracing in Vulkan coming) but some other don't (ML is CUDA only)
100% agree. The only free society is a society of 1.
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If you know you knowledge of the situation is limited, why do you feel the need to post about it without even a cursory attempt to verify? Or is this just an attempt to get away with spreading misinformation?

In any case: according to police "[the victim] would have been visible to 85% of motorists at a distance of 143 feet (44 m), 5.7 seconds before the car struck [her]" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg#Distr...)
I may have a solution then,

In the future, let's imagine in 20 years, we may see "cars as a service", so essentially you can summon a Tesla, and the Tesla can bring you anywhere.

In that perspective, isn't it clear that the liability is to the company that organised the trip ?
In similar way to when you get carried by a bus, a taxi or a train ?
There is lots of virtue in giving far more to society (remember that rational free markets are value exchanges, each party thinks they got a good deal).

Someone who has a lot of stored up value has given lots to society without receipt of anything but some electronic digits (yet). Plus if the government's rules were working they'd also have paid at least some taxes on all that stored wealth, leading to additional societal value.

in rational free markets sone does not need to give twice because the contribution to society is in the provision of things people want.

IMO most of the debate is missing that America doesnt have free markets and keeps trying to duct tape around it without fixing the actual bug.
For balance and discussion, Andrew Gelman's critical review of 'The Book of Why': https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/01/08/book-pearl...
This isn't new though, is it? Surely there is a history of cases where the driver could have avoided the accident and changes in the features and manufacture of the automobile could also have avoided the accident.
What does racism have to do with it? The crucial part of section 230 is [1]:

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

Meaning, if someone makes a defamatory comment on foo.com the person who made the comment is liable not the operators of foo.com. And crucially Section 230 makes it so this holds true regardless of whether foo.com moderates comments or not. Foo.com can remove content unrelated to whatever Foo.com is about. Prior to Section 230, Foo.com had to moderate no content, otherwise it might be held liable for the content users submit to the site.

Foo.com can remove racism, but not because racism isn't protected speech. As far as government is concerned, there's no distinction between "hate speech" and any other form of speech [2]. Foo.com can remove it because it's a private company. Protections for speech for the most part only apply to the government curbing speech. Foo.com, Google, Facebook, and so on are private companies they can ban whatever arbitrary content they want - not just hate speech or racist speech. They could suddenly decide that cat photos are forbidden and ban any users and groups that post pictures containing cats. None of this is illegal, nor would it make them liable for users' content.

What's controversial here is that Google is making users curate their own comments in compliance with what Google wants. It's outsourcing its moderation to its own users. But there's really nothing new about this. Reddit has been massively successful in pushing most moderation responsibilities onto its own users. If moderators of a subreddit don't keep their subreddit clean, the whole subreddit gets shut down or has moderators removed. These news here is that Google is starting to emulate this model.

1. https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United_Stat....
Any recs on handheld devices? Looking to buy and would love to get some suggestions!
To add to explain why this is:

* any apartment not facing North is going to be experiencing the sun for a LOT of the day during the summer

* most apartments are only facing a single direction, so you can't get through-air to go from one side of the house to the other to pull the cool air from the "not with sun" side.

* Washington houses love big windows that seem to take up a whole side, so it's just heat from the sun all. day. long.

* many apartments are on the second floor, or higher, so heat naturally rises and there is a real consequence to that.

In the winter, I've had to open my window to keep my old apartment under 80 while on the 4th floor with no heaters running (aside from my desktop computer and other normal electronics).
> I suspect so too, the pricing seems to hint at this - the previous gen Air started at $499 whereas this is $100 more at $599. Now this creates a fair big pricing gap between entry level iPad at $329.

Yeah, I had a base iPad, before moving to a 2019 iPad Air, but with the price increase for the Air, I'll probably skip at least this year and move back to the base iPad series.
They are permitted. My girlfriend and I are often long distance and we share an album. I didn’t know Microsoft had such bogus restrictions.
All you really, really need is to run magit-status (bind it to a key for convenience) from any `cwd` in your project, and you get a snazzy overview of your outstanding commit. Then hit ?. Should be reasonably clear from there, at least to get started.

If you get confused just go back to the CLI: it's easy to go back and forth, no magic.
"Vote No on Question 1. Keep your data safe".

I guess every idea can be turned into BS by a proper hyperbolization.
But you've got to aggregate a) over all the billionaires, not just the ones giving. We're not comparing Bill Gates to the US Govt for impact per dollar, we're comparing all US billionaires vs the US Govt.
I considered it not an issue to post about it because the server was down and confirmed to not come back up (I think someone ace'd it and installed a rootkit then rebooted).
> Nope, I think lots of people perform 'low skill' in a whiteboard scenario that are not. And the arrogance of their interviewers gets them on HN making very bold claims about other people's skill levels without consideration for the scenarios involved.

This is it, in a nutshell.

In all my years of interviewing candidates, I've never run into the mythical experienced developer who doesn't know anything about programming. Yet according to HN lore, there are hordes of them out there.

My theory is that the only thing there are indeed hordes of, is experienced developers who can be made to look dumb by subjecting them to whiteboard puzzles, algorithm trivia and other such questions which are completely unrelated to the job performance.
Every parent I know (and I'm 28) has photos of their kids running around doing generic kid things while nude, or making weird faces while playing in the bathtub.

The practice finding its way into the modern cloud is completely unsurprising.
Is there a resource online one can use to figure out what the cost per kWh will be for their power usage in a particular area?

I am fascinated by how people know these figures seemingly off the top of their heads. :)
When I moved to SF and saw signs for Zuckerberg SF General Hospital, I thought to myself "Surely, that must be just a coincidence and it's not named after Mark Zuckerberg."

I was wrong.
A thread from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19749130
The car was speeding before it hit the woman, and the driver was most probably watching TV before/as it happened. I can see how this would be bad press for self-driving cars, but this really seems like the error is on the driver. Maybe Uber failed to adequately communicate to her what her role was in the car, but otherwise it seems like pretty open and shut negligence.
I would guess a loan is extended mostly so the one taking it can save face. Some people would choose to live on the streets rather than take a handout and a loan makes it palatable. There’s a (possibly apocryphal) story about George Clooney offering 15 friends $1,000,000 but only if they all take it, so that the friends who would say no out of pride could justify it.
> But housing is an investment, not necessarily an expense.

This attitude is exactly why HCOL cities are HCOL cities, and why said cities have been pushing their low-income residents further and further into the suburbs (or into entirely different metropolitan areas!).

The sooner we can do away with this attitude of land being something to hoard instead of something to be used, the sooner we can start actually addressing things like income inequality. And in the process, doing away with this attitude will almost certainly put a massive dent in the NIMBYism that plagues a lot of these same HCOL cities.
That sounds like a pretty standard and rational process. I've seen headcount handled other, less rational ways.

In any environment with constrained budget (most environments), Eng managers will not have carte blanche to hire. Each person represents a long-term expense for the business and every team always wants more people.

As you roll up the reporting chain, the first person with both budget responsibility and output responsibility is usually at the VP or C-level. That person is responsible for weighing the requests of Engineering / Product / Sales / Support against each other and aligning these bets with the broader strategic priorities and available resources.

Once the CEO allocates budget, why not just hand it off to the teams? When budget is only determined 1x/yr then team sizes and charters are locked for very long periods of time. A truly agile company holds its budget at a higher level and shifts whenever business needs change, maybe many times per year. Maybe everyone thought that Team A needed to hire 3 more people, but then a major customer arrived which required shifting one of those open positions to Team B. Or maybe the opportunity shrunk, and the company is best served by hiring nobody and shifting that budget to a short-term outside vendor as pay-for-services.

If the company is public, then it's more complicated. Are these operational costs or capitalized costs? You probably don't care, but Wall Street definitely does. Weighing these tradeoffs is the job of the VP / CTO / CEO. Underinvestment in support + operations is either a marker of a short-sighted leader, or it's a leader explicitly making a "bad" decision to focus investment elsewhere with a higher ROI.
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Great book that clearly explains the perils or inferring causation and now you can deal with them constructively.

For those who want more he has a more technical book "Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference" which is also excellent.

Pearl is a legend in the field, who wrote the seminal "Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference".

There is a school of thought that there is nothing new here. Pearl is very honest and open about who invented what and of the mistakes in his earlier work. While no one finding is entirely new here, the overall package adds up to a lot IMHO. And this after having intensively studied statistics and probability over many years. It really changed my approach to and understanding of causality. And most importantly it gave me reliable intuitions on the subject. After his books, things seem obvious to me that others struggle with.
I'm not so sure. While Epstein committed heinous crimes, he certainly must have had other legitimate interests when he wasn't doing them. People aren't one dimensional.
mmm yeah with their expert witness that can make up stuff on the spot

lets just acknowledge inefficiencies in the system
The law certainly makes a distinction, and bigger-pocketed defendants, in practice, are forced to pay more per wrongful death than 17-year-old Johnny with just an auto liability policy.

Not saying it's right, but that's how the law currently works.
16:10 isn't a great aspect ratio for reading with the Fire HD though.
Now imagine Zuckerberg, leaving Facebook and telling you to get vaccine in your own interest.

Think twice about that.
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> but we must remind ourselves that this is unimpressive compared to the poor person who donates $25 to others while starving herself. The value of money is nonlinear.

There are other perspectives on this. Often, the very poor person does not hope he will ever get out of poverty, and that makes it much easier to have a sharing/charitable mindset. Keeping the $25 will help him for a few days, after which he'll be broke again and no better off. Giving it away will have the same end result, albeit a few days earlier - but it will be a charitable act he'll feel good about for life, and may also make a friend.

The person for whom it is most difficult to give is usually the one at the edge of poverty. If he keeps the money, he has a chance he'll escape the cycle of poverty. If he gives it away, he'll never change his station in life. For this somewhat wealthier person, that $25 has a lot more value (As an aside, I'm not sure I would respect him much if he gave it away).

To paraphrase from a popular movie: Put people in a pit with no hope of escape and what you get is fairly boring. But give them a glimmer of hope that they can escape, and then watch how they will destroy one another in their attempts to get out. Charity is generally cheap for those who have nothing: They know they are not losing much when they give it away.
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Pointing out that someone is white is about race and I don’t see why we should bring race into this.

Are Nike basketball sponsorship deals targeted at black people or are they targeted at the most successful and famous basketball players regardless of their skin pigmentation?
People paid on commission do. That said, I'm not going to advocate that we all get paid on commission.
F*%k the Lean Startup
The Lean Startup sucks, here's why.
My apartment hit a high of 91 on Friday. The current temperature of 84 feels absolutely livable in comparison.

At least I have an air purifier...
Could you give a summary of how Bill Gates is viewed by "the average American"?

As a Brit, I think he's just viewed as "the rich computer guy". It's hard to fathom that people think he's involved with political topics.
On Mac or Linux, I run "tput bel" to the end of expextedly long-running commands. On Mac, the icon bounces and system makes a beep sound. On linux (i3/urxvt), the window and workspace turns red until I focus it.

You can usually also type it after the command has started and it’ll still work
Hi,

I am 38 and started simple 5min meditation sessions through controlled breathing around 6 months ago just to "see what comes out of it".

I can't say it solved anything and I didn't start this in the middle of some personal crisis, in my opinion.

Still, I kept doing it and after a few sessions, I started reaching a state of mind that I enjoyed enough to keep repeating the exercise. Now I enjoy longer sessions (~10 minutes), either in the morning, or sometimes in the middle of the day while hidden somewhere secret at my office.

I wouldn't tell you to do it because "it will be awesome". Still, I thought it as a life experiences worth giving it a try, and I might actually enjoy it while not losing much.

I started simply: I put any device around me into silent mode, I set up a timer for 5 minutes on my wristwatch, then sit on the floor comfortably. I close my eyes and begin breathing just a little bit slower and deeper than I'd usually do. Here comes the challenge: I try to focus my attention on my respiration and to keep anything else out. You would be amazed at how many times your brain literally, and relentlessly, tries to focus your attention on anything else but your respiration. At the beginning, 5 minutes felt so long that I would even open my eyes to check whether I had actually started the timer...
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> I don't agree that each file on its own is a separate work subject to copyright.

Each is an individual work of authorship meeting the requirements for protection under copyright law and as such is automatically protected on creation as an individual work. Each is distributed with an individual copyright notice and individual statement of the license terms, so the recipient also has notice that the protection which is automatic under copyright law is claimed by the author, and the licensing terms applicable to the work. Redistribution without preservation of the copyright notice that appears in the work as required by the license is a clear, willful violation of the license.