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Wow, never knew this backstory about Professor Eggers!

It's kinda crazy how often seemingly random events and chance encounters are often the catalyst for major life outcomes. Even more so when they trigger an outcome that hadn't even been considered or "the plan" up to that point.

Playing video games as a kid, and online MUDs as a teen, directly led to my eventual career in software and opportunity to rise out of poverty.

25 years later and my current social circle / work colleagues have no idea I was a poor kid of a single parent living off free school lunches and food stamps.

Still amazes me how little interest there is in CS/tech/software for the average American -- more so for women/minorities. Most kids go through their doctor, vet, firefighter, detective, astronaut, lawyer, ... phases but computers are rarely on the radar.

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On completely different note, as a UW undergrad I fondly remember taking a computer architecture seminar with Prof. Eggers back in 2005.

I was super interested in architecture back then, and had already decided to head to grad school to do research in the area. Even though I had already read most of the papers we covered, it was still great round tabling things and have Eggers chime in with her perspective.

Too bad computer architecture was kinda past it's prime at that point. Took me a few years into grad school + several Intel internships to finally realize that though.

We had a flurry of advancements from CISC, RISC, superscalar, out-of-order execution, SMT/HyperThreading, CMT (eg. Sun's Niagara, later AMD Bulldozer), RAW/Tilera, VLIW/EPIC/Itanium, etc. Then things just sorta stalled. It's 2020 and we're mostly just putting a zillion cores in a die/package each with uarchs that haven't changed much in 10-15 years.

Memory, interconnect, wider SIMD, and (recently) AI focused features are the main topics thesedays. Oh, and low power/mobile...but that's less fun.

Personally pivoted to distributed systems for a few years, and now static analysis/abstract interpretation. All interesting, and a crazy fun career so far. But, kinda miss the alternative timeline where computer architecture was still a rapidly innovating field to build a career in.
The same two-handed scrolling thing works great on MacBooks as well. e.g. dragging while scrolling in Finder.
It's a corner case, but most concretely for me, losing access to the account I had ~30 audible books downloaded on was very annoying. It really hit home the idea that I didn't own the books I'd paid for.
Correct. Neolocal households coupled (no pun intended) with later marriage ages are unique aspects of historical marriage patterns in northwestern Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_patt...

Many more regions besides England have also shown this pattern for centuries, but those are mostly within northwestern Europe to the west and north of the Hajnal line.
> It is not fair use at all, either.

Fair use is a copyright term, so let's be more specific: Even when you're cracking DRM to enable copyright fair use, the act of cracking will typically be illegal.
Literally true, but that isn't very charitable to the point they were making.
The Switch hacking scene is also a good example just because of the sheer amount of effort poured into it - Atmosphere, the primary custom-firmware solution, is aiming to be a _full reimplementation_ of the Switch's firmware, kernel and all.

https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/

https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/hygtnx/mesospher...

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(also, one more particularly cool application made possible through homebrew is game streaming - from a desktop pc or other device.)

https://github.com/rock88/moonlight-nx
The editor in Apple Configurator 2 doesn’t recognize large-size widgets (they appear as blank, normal-size icons) and it fails to save any changes to the device.
If you are curious about the trend of the militarization of the police I'd suggest reading "The Rise of the Warrior Cop" by Radley Balko.

One thing the book points out is that since the first SWAT team was formed in LA back in the 1960s, even law enforcement agencies with as few as 28 officers have SWAT teams. One of the things the author attributes this to is a "me too" attitude where one department hears another local agency has a SWAT team with special equipment and weapons. Somewhat jealously the agency decides they need one too. Even if the population they are serving has no history of the kinds of violent and/or dangerous crimes that normally require SWAT.
Neither method works, you antagonize them, they fight back, you appease them, they ask for more or say its to late. Honestly nuclear option might have been only option for many situations of "mostly peaceful" protests. They ordered dispersal in most of these cases too due to looting and riots.

Just because you say you're "press" doesn't absolve you from the law due to riots and damages from looters; for example.
Generally, the US has been so focused on concentrating wealth and power upwards that I would say give it [the free shoes] to them so long as its a universal program.
I bought two copies of Anno 1404 because I thought I could play with my wife. Big mistake. Uplay is completely busted and I've never been able to get multiplayer working. Wish I could refund that garbage.
It costs 3 times as much and is tethered.

Price aside, tethered is a different market. I like powering VR with a gaming PC, but a standalone headset with inside-out tracking like the Quest is where the mass market / oasis will be.
The question isn't whether the violence actually happened, but whether it was a reasonable possibility to plan for. It's not good for anyone if riot control tactics can only be discussed once a riot is in full heat - everyone involved will surely overreact if they don't know what the plan is.
The version is refreshed on an annual basis of payments. So your fallback version will always lag, but it won't be significantly out of date if you have a 4 year old account, for instance.
Not a competitor to the Quest, but a compelling product in that category.
> Individual worker median income change is in the report too,

And is still not individual adult median income, and like median household income is a measure whose rise can indicate bad outcomes: where with median household income the factor that causes this is that it increases, cet. par., with more adults/household, with median individual workers it goes up if people who were previously working but at the low end of the distribution just lose their jobs.
Actually broke my own record tonight; for having the audacity to move a single widget, iOS 14 rewarded me by effectively randomly shuffling 5 different pages of icons, and putting my widget on the last page (with no Undo of course). What a piece of trash.

Also, I think I figured out why Apple is hoping everyone uses “App Library” and edits their phones down to one page: it is buggy as hell if you do it any other way.
This is also an issue for planes landing at the South Pole, where the plateau can have a pressure altitude of up to 12500ft. If you arrive in a Hercules (as opposed to a DC3/Basler which is unpressurised) they have to vent the cabin just before landing.
I'm shocked Blogger made any changes at all. Always assumed they were in maintainance mode. I'm really curious how many people are still on the blogger team at Google.
they will let you know you have a month to transfer your blog to YouTube community, and at the end of that period if you haven't transitioned (a process whose ramifications in terms of privacy and how it affects your ability to keep separate identities on different platforms are entirely opaque) your entire blog will be deleted and lost forever.
I’ve studied Afro-Cuban percussion for 28 years now and I can tell you from experience there are some bata rhythms that definitely make the listener enter into a heavy trance state. Haitian vodun drumming is especially designed for generating trance and out of body experiences in its entirety. If you can find an old recording of Haitian voodoo drums give it a listen using good headphones with your eyes closed, and after about twenty minutes you will enter an altered state.
> you might be willing to tell Steve his new hairstyle looks stupid, but wouldn't say the same thing to Shanice.

anecdotally, I have been Shanice and see Steve get told his new hairstyle sucks and they all laugh together but not risk it with me. makes me feel like favoritism when its my coworker and boss, so it certainly has created a lot of tension within the team.
“Solid” does not mean comparable. I have both high end dell and Lenovo laptops for work, and my Mac at home. My girlfriends MacBook Pro is far nicer to use despite being slower. Even for Windows.
I think this announcement is fine. No language on earth would make free users happy, it gets right down to business, and it includes a clear and specific table showing what’s being changed. There isn’t really anything else to be done - an apology would just be decried as throwaway corporate speak or as mocking the helpless.
At some point this sort of response to every post with "Google" in the title became akin to responding "First!!" on every post. That point was, frankly, something like a year ago.
These days, I am thinking that relying heavily on a particular Blog service has a risk. Those services will be eventually gone. Blogger is no exception. Like all the services Google purchased and abandoned in the past. I don't want to risk losing all the writings I intended to publish on the Internet.

But, blogging is not that important enough for me to set up a my very own dedicated web server.

So, these days, I'm simply using GitHub Pages for the blog. I realized all I need is to host static HTML files. I can write locally with my favourite text editor, git commit & git push to publish it. No need to use web browser at all.

Even if GitHub is gone, I have entire data on my multiple storages I owned and rented.

I can do this with other Blog services but I have to automate the web browser operation to copy&paste the writings for each blog services, which is not necessary if I simply use GitHub.
TIL Amtrak is a government agency and not a private company. Sounds simliar to USPS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak
I recall one of the CD 'rootkits' that went around years ago installed itself in the kernel as a HID device.

WebHID seems like a bad idea.
This is so useful, thanks
This survey comes with a chapter-length caveat that says the current data should not be used to compare with the prior year, because the survey response rate was exceptionally low and potentially biased by COVID-19. The survey was conducted in spring of 2020 and asks respondents to report their 2019 income, which is where the estimate of 2019 HH income growth is coming from. But, beginning on page G-9 (353rd page) of [1] the Census itself says:

""" it is likely that the characteristics of people for whom a telephone number was found may be systematically different from the people for whom the Census Bureau was unable to obtain a telephone number. While the Census Bureau creates weights designed to adjust for nonresponse and to control weighted counts to independent population estimates by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, the magnitude of the increase in (and differential nature of) nonresponse related to the pandemic likely reduced their effectiveness. Using administrative data, Census Bureau researchers have documented that there are more (and larger) differences between respondents and nonrespondents in 2020 than in the prior three years. Of particular interest for the estimates in the ASEC reports are the differences in median income and educational attainment, indicating that respondents in 2020 had relatively higher income and were more educated than nonrespondents."""

1: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/techdocs/cpsmar...
Someone mentioned elsewhere in the thread, it was updated because it depended on obsolete libraries. Presumably the new libraries made the new design more straightforward to implement than attempting to reproduce the existing one.
Very interesting editor. I would love an editor like this on Windows! Please please port it :)
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Some employees may hold materially prejudiced/discriminatory views. It isn't the companies role to morally educate people/employees in general nor may it be possible for it to do so, and any attempt to do so might itself be morally and legally fraught. ("Accept our position on right vs wrong or lose your job" can become awfully close to "become $religion or get fired").

Rather, the companies obligation is to provide a safe environment for workers and customers and to uphold basic standards for non-discriminatory professional conduct in the at-work activities of its employees and the orginization as a whole. It doesn't matter if people think some harmful stuff, so long as they leave that thinking outside of the office and conduct themselves in an appropriate manner.

Inviting debate might help set some people's moral thinking straight, but it has the much larger risk of inviting into the office stuff that doesn't belong there, invoking avoidable bad conduct, and turning the company into dystopian thought police.

We very much shouldn't want corporate HR forcibly imposing their concept of right and wrong onto people outside of the extremely narrow confines of work interactions: A millennia of debate by philosophers and religious leaders world wide have failed to settle innumerable moral questions. FooCorp HR-- which has almost every ethical incentive set in the wrong direction (e.g. maximize profits for FooCorp), and wields more power over people's lives than all but the most abusive cults-- simply isn't qualified or appropriate for the task of controlling people's personal moral compasses.
I know it's ancillary to the excellent twitter thread, but I was surprised to learn 1970's computing pioneer Bill Godbout was killed in the Camp fire.
Even more so that they did something to fix the hole but apparently not the hook.
I have no idea what you're talking about. Unless you count "power lines active during dry conditions" which is unavoidable, the only meaningful failure here is repeated lack of maintenance. The design was fine, and it was installed fine; it lasted a hundred years! Lack of maintenance will kill anything eventually, all by itself.
When they launched the last Gmail redesign in 2018 I used an extension to check what they had used and it showed up Vue:

https://twitter.com/PierB/status/989630991051476992

It doesn't show up anymore so they probably obfuscated it.
Its a shame congress still hasn’t done an infrastructure bill. The country is overdue for trillions in upgrades.
> and the lines cannot be shut down.

Of course they can. A failure is an unplanned shutdown, and I doubt that leads to better outcomes than a planned shutdown. Also this thread demonstrates that PG&E replaced _other_ parts of the same tower.

> I'm of the opinion that humans should not be living in areas that burn regularly.

I'm of the opinion that climate change makes this a moving target, and this is simply one of the obvious repercussions.

> is it PG&E's fault that tons of people moved into this fire prone area?

No, it's their fault that even though they made $550 million in profits in 2018, and made other improvements to these towers, they still failed to keep them in proper repair. Also, it's not always "fire-prone." California experienced a bit of drought in 2018.

> and cities should have paid to make them safer

Shouldn't the company making $550 million in profits pay to make them safer?
Not yet, but plug-ins are on the roadmap[1] and it's my understanding that the plug-in system will be powerful enough to add support for things like backlinks.

[1]: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/3723
The point where hypoxia can set in varies from person to person, esp. when accounting for people with respiratory disorders. 10,000 feet is often considered a rough line where the altitude is no longer safe for everyone (that is, particularly susceptible people may begin to show symptoms), but the FAA progressively requires pressurization or supplemental oxygen from 12,500 to 15,000 feet. Altitude sickness (different from hypoxia but sometimes also quite severe) will occur below 10k in some people if there has been a rapid change in altitude, but fortunately it is much more survivable than hypoxia.
I would love to see Obsidian add WYSIWYG support, especially since my documents contain a ton of math that is otherwise unreadable at a glance. I'm normally writing and reading my documents at the same time, so when I use a split-pane editor like Obsidian/VS Code/foambubble most of the time I end up staring at the source pane the whole time.
The interesting thing about this argument is it's independent from whether or not the protests are justified. If there's riots, well, only option is to start moving in and dispersing the crowd. If you appease them, they'll just ask for more.

In light of this, would you say the same thing about the treatment of protestors in Hong Kong? If not, why not?
I write recursive descent parsers (despite their issues)
The term is "less lethal", not "less than lethal". Meaning they kill fewer people per use, not that they never kill people.
Window could be open.
This is an unnecessarily pessimistic view.

Yes, Apple wants us to spend all of our time interacting with / committed to their users. No, that aren’t maliciously trying to steal our time from other platforms. The thought chain ends with their platform, never considering that we even have other platforms to support.

A self-obsessed outlook is different from a deliberately sabotaging business plan, even when they present the same outward behaviors. Occam’s razor.
Observed connection between IMF and Earthquakes/Shake (2018 amateur scientist))
I own a pair and they don’t stay in my ears even if I’m sat perfectly still for more than 15 minutes at a time. I really hope they fix this somehow.
I have a 7 and cannot see this option.
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If you want to be in control, the solution has always been the same: own your own domain, and post there.

If you post on someone else's domain, then it's their content, and they're in control of it, not you. No matter what is claimed otherwise.

Yes, it's harder. Getting visibility is also harder. It's still the only solution if you want to be in control.

It's okay to pay someone to run the blogging platform, etc., as long as you own the domain name & can decide what it points to. You can then switch providers, switch systems you use, or whatever you want to do. But if you don't control the domain name, someone else is in control.
Scribd, sort of. Smaller selection, and they limit the number of books you can listen to (Charles proxy can get around this) and it's $8.99/m
> The app now has a special licensing setup that restricts your installs to two machines.

That's the one thing that pushed me to Figma.

It was bad enough that it's MacOS only. Now I can only have it on 2 machines?
PG&E pled guilty to the charges brought against them, in part because there was clear evidence of their leadership intentionally neglecting their infrastructure for decades until it fell into such disrepair as to start a forest fire. They chose to remain quiet about their neglect until it became impossible to do so, sealing their fate. If they had demonstrated a history of decades of campaigning to get the problem solved, rather than silently neglecting it, they might not have been found guilty at all.

(This is from memory, so if I got any specifics wrong, see replies for corrections.)
Have you used it? I tried it for awhile during beta and I found it triggering far too frequently by accident.
I think graph/network based notes are really interesting and I'm keen to see how Athens develops.

I've created my own open source approach called Very Nested [1] that uses GitHub repos for storage. It also supports files and images.

So far, I've enjoyed organising my recipes [2] with it.

Feedback welcome, it's new.

[1] https://verynested.cadell.dev/

[2] https://cooking.cadell.dev/
This is not correct. The 2019 income data is collected in a survey conducted in 2020.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24499924
This is interesting but not really surprising. Most folks don't realize, because we don't stop and think about it, but the US has unbelievable amounts of infrastructure in this sort of condition.

When things can last 40-100 years with little to no maintenance before catastrophic failure, there is _extraordinary_ incentive to defer maintenance until catastrophic failure occurs.

For every mayor / governor / utility director etc. who experiences the eventual failure, there are dozens of predecessors who benefitted from deferring preventative action. Every previous leader who punted on maintenance and saved money or increased profits and reaped immediate tangible rewards. The company stock went up. Or the town paid it's firefighters pensions, which turned out to be more expensive than planned.

"We ought to do more maintenance, but waiting another year or two will be okay," says everyone. "Next year, when we're not in such a bind, we'll catch up."
I'd be quite surprised if it was illegal anywhere. Dashcams are perfectly legal and even mandatory in some situations. Getting data from that footage is legal.

I guess the uploading of images done here might be murky, but again there's millions of dashcam vids and youtube and other video sites.
A good starting point before all such wondering begins is always Herbert Simon and his work on Administrative Behavior.
"That worked great"- what's "that", here? It sounds like you're implying that he tried to listen to protestors and address their grievances, and so was driven out of his home- is that roughly what you meant?

If so, what are some of the ways he tried to address those grievances?

This is not the same thing as me saying "that is good and I'm glad it happened", to be clear! Just ... if he didn't actually do what the parent post suggested, I don't see how that response is relevant.
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You'd also want BiDi for general-purpose "text" documents like markdown. There are many aspects of text rendering that aren't necessarily relevant here (think: word- and line-breaking) but directionality strikes me as a major feature.
When learning to scuba dive, they caution you not to ever hold your breath - not when at a stable depth, not when descending, and most certainly not when ascending - because the pressure differential can cause serious injuries. (This goes to the point of "if you run out of air at the bottom and need to make an emergency ascent, hum for the entire trip up to make sure you're breathing out slowly")

Now, you have larger pressure differentials when scuba diving - every 10m of depth is an atmosphere of pressure - but the half atmosphere that you get from 10k vs 40k feet is probably still enough to cause some serious issues. (10k feet is ~0.69 atm, while 40k is ~0.19)
I know you’re trolling, but even your troll argument is flawed. WayFair sold furniture (ahem, cages) to ICE. Facebook monetizes murderers with ads. People suck. Engineers in general are trying to make a better world. Sure “better” might mean “my missile is better than my enemy’s missile”. Or “my ads are more engaging than my competitor”. But engineers are building things. Through and through, engineers build. Not too many professions can honestly say they create.
I remember when this was known as ‘prejudice’, in the strict sense of pre-judging aspects of a person (such as their perspective) based on e.g. their race.

It was considered to be a bad thing, so it’s been very strange to see it used as a premise by diversity advocates.
Doesn't literally every optimisation and ML class teaches it nowadays?
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