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Very little of substance happens at these hearings. I watched several hours of the last big tech CEO todo in congress and all I learned was disdain for the interrogators.

I wonder what a Washington insider would say about them. What is their real purpose? It's obviously not information gathering, as letters are a more efficient mechanism. Publicity, sure, but for who? Who watches CSPAN? Is it a signalling mechanism to say, "Tech CEOs, we're really mad now?" Or are the senators following the news rather than driving it? I can't tell.

My best guess is that it's a soundbite generation mechanism. But that seems so cynical. It's a pretty brutish practice if so.
Unfortunately I’m inclined to agree. Has any change ever come from this? It was certainly a nice show, but it seems to be mostly Zuck saying “Senator, yes, ...” for 4 hours. And then nothing else happens.
Fair - I don't own a car myself, but the US DOT reports 24.4 mpg in 2018 for cars, SUVs, vans, and light trucks shorter than 121 inches. (This is an estimate of vehicles on the road, not 2018 model year.)

If we use a 2020 model year for passenger cars of ~40mpg and a more conservative 11,500 miles per year, it comes out to 1.1kW.
Yes. 100% remote new hires are extremely rare at FAANGs, and usually reserved for people who are industry superstars (eg. Lars Bak). Going 100% remote after being a valued contributor for 2-4 years beforehand is open to many ordinary employees.
The source I heard this in was this video at 4:40 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D9ExVc0G10
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It could make publishing more profitable, but will it make enable higher quality content? It feels more like a continuation of the race to the bottom we are already engaged in.
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But it's not a waste of time, because the purpose isn't to have a cogent conversation about the issue.

It's to beat up on a CEO or two for 5 minutes and tweet out the clip to your followers. And for that, it's time well spent.
The historical films also represent the directors' vision, as they had to choose the lens/film/exposure/processing to interpret the image and get their message across. 4K HDR would just gives them more knobs to tweak. A documentary has less control over what happens in front of the camera, but the whole workflow behind the camera is still completely under the directors' control.

With regards to Van Gogh, seeing how he likes to make his paintings three dimensional (if you ever had a chance to see his paintings in person) in additional to his sculptural works, I wouldn't be surprised if he became a 3D graphics or VR artist had he lived in modern times.
I share your concerns in general, but I don’t think it’s a simple issue of phone OSes being “locked down”. If you wanted to, I think it would be possible to make a moddable phone game that can import and export mod packs.

The problems are more things like form factor, lack of editors, difficulty of getting traction in a massively crowded market, etc.
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Wow:

- "The United States holds more people in jails and prisons than any other country by far, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of population."

The numbers are stunning. Around a quarter of all Americans have a criminal record.

- "Almost no one gets a trial"

- "The blue icons are the portion of incarcerated people who got trials, around 2%"

My mind boggles at this. Conviction is without trial in 98% of cases? People avoid trial when they don't think they'll get a fair one or they can't afford a decent lawyer? No wonder it's a hotbed of racism.

No, wait, I was assuming conviction:

- "Unconvicted Americans are the 4th largest incarcerated population in the world"

Now my mind boggles even more. There are more unconvicted Americans incarcerated than convicted people incarcerated in almost all other countries.

- "What if you've spent your whole life believing that you live in the freest country on earth, when the reality is precisely the opposite?"

Good question...
Or what about Obama, or Clinton, or every other ex president with a best selling book after leaving office? Obama is on track to become a Billionaire in the next few years through a mix of capitalizing on clout and the technically-legal process of rewarding politicians after they leave office because it legally isn't bribery, but it sends a message to everyone else currently in office that they'll get their just rewards for serving corporate interests.

I'm not whatabouting Trump here, fyi. I think he ought to be held legally responsible for a ton of stuff, but if selling a book about being a whistleblower crosses a line, why wouldn't selling a book about being the President?
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>I wonder what a Washington insider would say about them. What is their real purpose?

Direct the heat in public, pass the hat in private. Campaigns are expensive.
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This is really good to hear. I hadn't heard this follow up and besides joysticks (going back to the n64 era) Nintendo's traditionally had an insanely good hardware QA so I was surprised to hear about the issues initially.
Or the CEO of Facebook explaining that Facebook runs ads. Or the CEO of Google offering tech support for a senator's iPhone.
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Even if the Senate apportionment is not fixed, the electoral college needs to be made more representative of the population, it was apportioned based on the number of slaves owned ffs. And either let DC get a senate seat or merge parts of it into MD/VA so they can vote there. Feelings of disenfranchisement among the population is not good.
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It is kiiinda hilarious, you are right. You know, the funniest thing is that in a divided government, there is no possibility of movement on this subject. The Republicans want one type of change to section 230, which would prevent the suppression of conservative-adjacent voices. On the other hand, the Democrats would like the opposite: greater responsibility of the platform to limit racist, sexist, and violent content. It seems like compromise on this subject is extremely difficult when the two sides want directionally opposite changes, and each controls one half of the legislative apparatus.

What kind of bargain could they strike? "Well, we're going to have YouTube ban sexists but allow unlimited racist content. Ok, deal?" It's hard for me to picture any amendment of section 230 that would be both material and palatable to both sides. Not to mention that there's the whole constitutionality question, where corporations have enhanced rights of political speech post Citizen's United, and any legislative infringement on that can probably be challenged all the way to the top.
I have friends and acquaintances that have worked jobs like this and it absolutely destroys your health in the long term.

It’s a shame that the both the government and industry have not pursued a better path forward.
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From their last major newsletter they are planning cable service rollout eventually, probably on Rogers. It's active in some low-income housing already I think.

The stopper for Bell Fiber FTTH is Bell blocking resale of service on their pure fiber lines to 3rd parties. I don't remember any specific dates but the CRTC is bound to hopefully force their hand one day.

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FYI you have to enable the network tab in the extension settings for it to show up, it is not enabled by default.

They kind of mention this in the article but it wasn't super clear.
Why is this being downvoted? Murray is scum. For decades he tried to discredit black lung as a valid disease. His claim for black lung disease benefits should be denied on principle, for all the pain and suffering he has caused to date.
I've spoken to Congressional representatives about possible paths for coal miners to bridge them from coal mining to social security or the pension benefit guarantee corp (essentially buyouts, very inexpensive for the number of folks we're talking about), and quite literally have been laughed at. I have no sympathy anymore for anyone in the coal industry except front line workers who are being hung out to dry. It's Bob's turn to be hung out to dry. He's a terrible person (based on his actions, not just in the case of trying to prevent worker health claims but also wiping out pensioners of his company), and the evidence is very public.

I’m sorry for your friends and acquaintances. People care, it’s just always an uphill battle.
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This never gets enough visibility among freelancers / contractors / consultants - it can be really hard to get paid and for smaller amounts of money it often would take too much in legal fees to actually get paid.
old? seems to be the case with current tycoons, too!
In those earlier examples, didn't conservatives make up the majority?
my (aussie) hobbies include sabotage (mostly trespass and refuse to obey, but also a bit of criminal damage) - never been an issue finding the kind of (software) work I prefer. Corporate employers say they do a check: maybe they don't. I assume they google, so I guess they don't care.

obviously I don't pursue jobs that require a clearance level. I once got in an exchange with a recruiter:

"do you have [clearance]?"

"I wouldn't want to work anywhere that requires it"

"Oh, you wouldn't be able to work here without it"

"No, I wouldn't want to work with you if you require it"

"No, you wouldn't be able to work here without it"

...

- I guess we were both rite.
I did this once for Clojure and named it car-cdr-construction-set! with an argument for how many levels deep to define in the current namespace.
I also have a felony on my record and struggled immensely because of a long wrap sheet of misdemeanor crimes that seemed to cascade from that single mistake. My record has caused me to be fired from and denied several jobs, and at my lowest point I was kicked out of an education program despite succeeding otherwise. "None of my charges are violent or sexual. There's no reason to conclude I'd be a danger to children. Look at them. Failure to appear. Disorderly conduct. Criminal mischief..." "It doesn't matter, look how many there are. Parents will find this, you, the school, and our program will be held accountable."

Bottom line is people are absolutely horrible to each other if they're given even the slightest pretense. It's just a disgusting facet of our psyche, I guess. Those convicted of a crime are condemned to continued punishment by anybody who cares to look at their record, long after they've repaid any debts. I remember asking a police officer when I was in my early 20's why every time I handed my Id to an officer I was searched, arrested, or charged with something. She replied simply, "Because you have a yellow stripe painted down your back."

The fact I had an outstanding warrant for a speeding ticket in another state and doing stupid and illegal things aside, once you have a record it is very hard to escape it. Most are relegated to menial minimum wage jobs. I was lucky, I have a social safety net, confidence, I knew I could get around it. Decided to focus my studies on something so specialized an employer wouldn't try looking for reasons not to hire me. I don't think anybody has actually checked my record since I graduated. The only applications I've been handed were basically a token for HR and I simply mark, "No" under the, "Have you ever been convicted of a crime?" question. Because it doesn't matter. It should be illegal for anybody to access resolved criminal records if they don't have a direct reason pertaining to the safety or security of others. It's not your job as an employer or hiring manager to judge someone's mistakes, only their aptitude to perform a job.
I think you're referring to the Cognito team. As far as I know, IAM has never had managing user identities outside AWS among its goals.

People rarely think about the true purpose and power of IAM and its equivalent services in other platforms. Its real function is to decouple teams from each other, which is what enables the platform to grow. IAM is the glue that federates services together. What developers see is a powerful, relatively low level RBAC/PBAC API for that, but through that API you can get a glimpse of just how agnostic IAM is to the information that it's managing - and how central it is to the rest of AWS. (Fun fact - you can actually use IAM to evaluate completely made up policies/principals/resources, because it's agnostic to what it's evaluating and the PDP API is available to everyone.)

Comparing this to Google or Azure, AWS IAM is architecturally superior - at least in terms of extensibility.
I kinda feel like the Department of Labor should respond to Bob's request by telling him to eat something.

The people who endangered miners really shouldn't be entitled to benefits for miners, especially when that person, via bankruptcy, has guaranteed that the government is going to end up on the hook for providing that.
People have the right to use their money how they want without any outside interference.

If people want to play with their money on BitMex they should be able to instead of using VPN's to disguise themselves and do it illegally.

But apparently you are only permitted to spend your USD in the manner approved by the U.S. Gov and once the US goes to a digital currency, this whole law enforcement will be 1000x easier as every single transaction can be traced and immediately frozen.
>What crimes are applicable to software engineers, then?

Ever see office Space? ;-)
Building software is like building a road through a thick, uncharted jungle. You know where you are, and you know (approximately) where you're going, but there are many many problems to be solved along the way. Do you need to hack through thick underbrush? Is there a hill that needs to be flattened? A river to be bridged? No way to know until you get there.

This is also why traditional delivery planning fails. "How long is it going to take to build this road?" "Well, we know roughly how long, be we don't yet know the exact route we will take or the obstacles we will encounter, so we'll report on our progress and let you know when we arrive."
Sacrificing oneself for a chance at exposing a story may not be worth the risk? We hear of anonymous sources all the time that make it, don't we? Perhaps there are other ways to bring on change.

I hope whomever you denounced doesn't consider you a threat anymore.

I hope you manage to overcome the PTSD. Seek help if you can, if you haven't already.
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Ben Sasse (senator) wrote an interesting opinion piece a month ago: https://www.wsj.com/articles/make-the-senate-great-again-115...

The below is from the article which applies specifically to your point:

> Cut the cameras. Most of what happens in committee hearings isn’t oversight, it’s showmanship. Senators make speeches that get chopped up, shipped to home-state TV stations, and blasted across social media. They aren’t trying to learn from witnesses, uncover details, or improve legislation. They’re competing for sound bites.

> There’s one notable exception: The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the majority of whose work is done in secret. Without posturing for cameras, Republicans and Democrats cooperate on some of America’s most complicated and urgent problems. Other committees could follow their example, while keeping transparency by making transcripts and real-time audio available to the public.
If historians want this to stop, they should first reduce history to a chronologically sorted collection of bare facts, free of opinion and interpretation.

Fact is that if you watch the original footage, you mind "upscales" it anyway. You recognize objects in the scene and forms a description. That description consists of idealized objects. If you see someone's face, you remember that you saw a face, not that you saw a blurry 64x80 grid of pixels with specific defects in resolution and noise.
What you've said sounds more likely. The original code can be seen here: http://www.ionpool.net/arcade/astcode/asteroids_code_project...

The rotation code apparently starts at 0x7086, which adds or subtracts 3 from a one byte variable. If that 8 bit variable maps to a full 360 degrees of rotation, that would result in steps of about 4.2 degrees, but I don't know because I couldn't follow the code after that
Don't check the felony checkbox. Seriously.
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In this case, I call it “dependency bound”. Anything not in your direct control is a dependency, and if that’s your limiting factor, call it such.
One theory is that recent presidential debate performance made a negative dent against Donald Trump, and the GOP needs fresh wind in the news cycle to shake things up.
Interesting table, the one you linked. I'm thinking people have traits from both contexts, and I suppose that for some, one context is more dominant

I'd want to split the table into more dimensions than just one
To put it in perspective, the content of one of her tweets is so unprofessional, that copying and pasting it here on HN is causing the comment to be auto-flagged and killed.

Thats how unprofessional it is.
But there are private schools specifically for autistic children where the entire staff, and programme is focused on them.
> it had never occurred to me that, you know, people of that time did live in color too just like we do.

I think this is an important (and common) note. Especially when you look at the time-frame of most of the images and video we have being only ~100 years old (20th century). That sounds like a long time ago. B&W photos make that feel like a long time ago. But in reality, that's when your great grandma was born. That's not many people ago. In one respect it is accurate to say 100 years was a long time ago but saying it wasn't is also equally valid. While tech has changed a lot in that time, it is hard to say people have. By upscaling and colorizing these photos it makes it feel much more recent. If we accept that long and not long ago are equally valid takes, then we'd have to accept that both these ways of presenting historical information (a picture is information) are valid too. But they do tell different stories, and it is important to remember that.
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Yeah, at moderate volumes (or low depending on your perspective) there's no problem putting it straight into a table in the DB.

If it ever causes a problem, you can move it.

You shouldn't need to order by timestamp, it should already be ordered by the very nature of logs.
If he attested in October 2019 that his disease was unrelated to working in coal mines, it's curious that he's a black lung claimant under a statute that requires the miner to have or have had pneuomoconiosis and for some causal link to exist between that and their work as a miner.

Seems he wants to have it both ways. Jeopardizing the safety of his employees with his opposition to regulations is justified - except when it affects him personally. Then, he should be entitled to benefits and remedies under the law.
IAM is probably decentralized using trusted CA certificates to allow other AWS services to validate tokens previously created by IAM when it wasn't down. Yeah if you want new tokens you are just out of luck, but existing ones will keep working.
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'Determined that it's appropriate' is rather strong language for something the system simply does not universally address. In fact, EEOC guidance, and recent court cases, seem to indicate that were it brought in front of the courts, they would likely rule in favor of the plaintiffs (obviously with recent court packing by GOP that's more in question than it was a few years ago though). It's just that oftentimes, ex-criminals searching for jobs don't have the money to take such cases to court.