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I saw one small unknown repo which had four pages full of PRs which just add "awesome" to the README, and more of that noise. The repo's owner hasn't been active on GitHub in a while, so those are four page that likely never get reported. And this is just the first day.
>The points you made about morality are points that other philosophers have already made. You are not avoiding philosophy by declaring morality to be arbitrary and defending your assertion, you are in fact doing the opposite and contributing to the philosophical discourse on the nature of morality.
You can arbitrarily move the boundaries of the definition of a word to encompass whatever you want. That is what philosophy is. If I want to talk about something meta well being meta is part of philosophy because I defined it that way.

How about I redefine irrationality to include logic? Then when someone says I'm being irrational I just tell them they that irrationality is part of logic and that I'm actually being logical.

Philosophers always get into these meta paradoxes. These aren't profound concepts it's just language semantics involving the arbitrary definition of a word. If you define philosophy to be a many arbitrary academic fields including logical paradoxes and logical arguments then trying to logically argue your way out it of course it creates a sort of paradox. But the paradox only exists because of the arbitrary definition and that is exactly my argument.

Philosophy is an arbitrary definition. A hodgepodge of ideas many which have no relation to one another but it happens to include logic and self referential paradoxes that can be used to entrap anyone who attempts to argue against it. Word play has no meaning in the face of actual concepts, if philosophy is a word play then what's the point? It's basically the study of every single thing on the face of the earth.
The brain is still way more efficient and parallel then a GPU (e.g. 12W compared to 280W), so being able to duplicate it closer sounds like a pretty compelling advancement.
If you sell to larger customers, soc2 or other type audits require background checks.

For our business, larger customer MSAs often have requirements about criminal convictions.

We additionally require -- per soc2 as well as MSAs -- to background check our contractors.

As the twitter author said, it's a thing that I could potentially work around, but there's only so many hours in the day. And I would probably have to be able to permanently guarantee that eg an employee with a felony conviction never had access to certain data.
No they won’t this is a low margin market. They will just offer Apps.
I know. This is my fantasy.
I often mistyped master as mater, which wouldn't be a horrible name either: the mother of the branches
I'll never be a Chrome user. I have felt undue pressure to to move to one of those partially-functional forks maintained by a handful of programmers who could be putting god-knows-what on my system. I resent Mozilla making me feel like that's my last option to not give up the web entirely.
You might consider setting up a dead man's switch to do an automatic document dump if the worst happens, but don't tell anyone about it. A notarized affadavid stating the situation and your concerns for your safety might be appropriate to include. Your lawyer could also do the equivalent for you. Publicity might offer some protection. Try to make your demise a poor business proposition for the criminals.

Thank you for doing the right thing. It's heartening to hear that there are still people out there who live with integrity.
Any public or government job will require a background check, most private jobs don't. That doesn't mean you can't get a government job. I will say that the doors are there, you just have to have the courage to knock.
> Although something to consider is liquidity issues.

Right... if you have tens to hundreds of millions of U.S. dollar's worth.
Could you give a few examples of those languages and frameworks just to understand what you are comparing React to?
Good luck, we'd be lucky to have you :)
> Those games can appeal a lot to queer kids and kids who are questioning their identities

And everyone else who doesn't think any more of it than controlling a character they created.

There are a lot of people that have a hard time understanding that. I distinctly remember being on a committee with much older computer scientists and mathmeticians who were "exploring" the concept of using Second Life - instead of just doing it like everyone else - and their primary hangup and fear was that people could use avatars that weren't their same sex or look like them. A complete red herring to the utility of the platform.

It's like they completely missed that everyone had already played fighting games where you have to beat the game with every character to unlock things. That there was a whole population that wasn't making a statement whatsoever.
But that wasn't your argument!
Is it possible that he would have lost even more without holding the presidency?
I've never been offended by "bad language" and I'm still not. But it seems ridiculous to choose "unfck the internet" as a slogan for a campaign targeted at the general public. Many people will find it offensive. Many people will find it unprofessional. Many people will find it childish. And no one will think it's cool/edgy. It's 2020, saying "fuck" doesn't impress anyone.
Alternatively, people in countries outside the US should be peeved at the US for protecting the US-based companies that gouge everyone, everywhere. ;)
You're pulling out the "tornado in a junkyard" argument to advocate for evolution? There are those who think that exact same argument applies to something like morals arising as the result of a series of accidental mutations.
Yet more election season grandstanding
That just means an FET isn't the right device for analog circuitry. Maybe this memristor device will be more efficient.
Yes, but official LineageOS can be dropped without notice. And even if optimistically a popular device will not drop support until it's too old, the blob is still not updated and the linux kernel is not usually mainlined. Many exploit on that. And let's not talk about the blobs are not open source. That's why there is a demand on Linux phone which the kernel is mainlined and up-to-date.

Again, ignore the fact that iPhone is closed source, it does provide a infinite software update until it's broken, which is better service than most Android phone, even if considering installing ROM.
GOSUB/RETURN may be easier to explain, but of course it also doesn't cover many things that functions with local scope do.

Explaining functions and recursion is tricky in general, but necessary for other things to make sense. There are ways to do so that might be more intuitive for a newbie to grasp. For Python specifically, take a look at https://thonny.org - it's particularly well suited to forming a mental model of a running program, including function calls, in a very visual way.
Interesting article, I wonder how it compares to prior election cycles and would love to see the data.

Anecdotally, the underlying premise rings true to me. I think it comes from a growing rise in cynicism on both sides of the political spectrum.
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After reading your comments, I was curious so watched the two clips as well. Although the 4K version was a bit nicer to watch (which I watched first), I didn't feel a significant difference compared with the original. Perhaps I am biased, as I do enjoy watching old (or new) B&W movies.
>I didn't find any of those tweets unprofessional.

"There was a lot of work done to brainwash African people to believe that the white man had the monopoly on truth & that he was favored by God. We need to understand the way Christianity has been used to dominate African people, land and resources."

Spouting that racist, ahistorical nonsense is absolutely unprofessional.

>I found them to be a genuinely interesting perspective on social issues that I am interested in.

That speaks more about you than anything.

>I am not sure how that's unprofessional of her.

I just highlighted how. Making crazy claims about a race/religion is not acceptable in any professional environment I've ever been in, and I've worked in SV for a long time.

>She is entitled to tweet whatever she wants to from her personal twitter account.

No one said otherwise, you're strawman-ing really hard now. You specifically asked for things that "she [said] that made her come off that way [unprofessional] to you?" I provided examples. The fact that they came from her personal Twitter account is immaterial. She links her Twitter account on her LinkedIn, professional web page, etc., so, it's not specifically a personal account.

>Do you think its reasonable for her to follow your idea of how a Director of Engineering should tweet?

It's not my idea, it's generally accepted that spouting racist, anti-Christian rhetoric on Twitter is unbecoming of any leader. It could be illegal and/or open a company to lawsuits since it's specifically targeting protected classes.

And those tweets listed above are just from September...

EDIT: Why is this being immediately flagged and dead-ed? What in this comment is triggering this?
Plus I totally expect that the same people who were "offended" by master will get "offended" by main very quick.
Yeah it's a shame so many open source projects use it for their chat (like home assistant)
Ideally each analog device that simulates a neuron is equivalent to tens of thousands of digital transistors that simulate a logical neuron (in space-time for GPUs or CPUs and just space for neuromorphic asics) . This makes the trade-off much more feasible. .
It's more like scanning and OCRing the federalist papers. Or maybe translating old documents to modern English.

Is it bad to translate Plato from Greek to modern English? That involves a whole lot more invention than this process.
Prison in the U.S. is traumatic and life-ruining by design and people who are imprisoned become victims themselves. Not only that, but a huge number of offenders have previously been the victim of a crime, or will be after they're released. The world is not made up of attackers and sufferers, it's made up of people. You can waste your time allocating empathy based on your own flawed moral calculus or you can just try to see people as individuals and treat them accordingly. Note that this could also mean treating people worse than the justice system did.

If the empathy-allocating thing appeals to you, you can think about it in terms of externalities. If you can prevent recidivism, you can proactively "help the victims" by preventing their victimization in the first place. What drives recidivism? Primarily, poverty, unemployment, social marginalization, untreated mental health issues. People with no options will act as if they don't have options.
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It seems the 20K workers is in total since March 1st, and these are 20K workers who had/have COVID but did not necessarily catch it at Amazon. That seems lower than I would expect, and that's what the below quotes also say.

> In a blog post, the company said it did a "thorough analysis of data on all 1,372,000 Amazon and Whole Foods Market front-line employees across the US employed at any time from March 1 to September 19, 2020."

> Amazon said it then compared its case rates to the general population during the same period, using reporting from Johns Hopkins University. It claimed that the number of its employees that tested, or were presumed to be, positive was 42% lower than expected based by that comparison.

Amazon had previously mentioned that they made numerous process changes in warehouses to respond to COVID-19 (https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/amazons-actions-to...) but what I thought was really cool was the ML camera system they built to help workers maintain distance from each other (https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/06/16/amazon-is-using-an-...).
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Europeans do underspend on their own security, and Russia is a threat, but not quite in the 'all out invasion' sense.

But 'military spending' is a pretty small part of the 'difference between wealth creation' factors on either side of the Atlantic.
> In September 2019, the United States filed a lawsuit against Snowden, who published a book entitled Permanent Record in violation of the non-disclosure agreements he signed with both CIA and NSA. The lawsuit alleged that Snowden published his book without submitting it to the agencies for pre-publication review, in violation of his express obligations under the agreements he signed.

> The United States’ lawsuit did not seek to stop or restrict the publication or distribution of Permanent Record. Rather, ... the government sought to recover all proceeds earned by Snowden ...

Even if you ignore all context regarding Snowden, how does this make any sense? The crime is to make classified information available to the public. Therefore, the government ... does not actually care to retract that information but will instead take your money.
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As long as you want to live in an open office plan and share bathrooms. Modern buildings are optimized one way, redoing plumbing and all is possible but will be very expensive and still result in a $1000 sqft.

Why even bother if everyone wants to move away?
more detail here: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/01/facebook-google-and-twitter-...
We don't need to go fully analogue though, going asynchronous might already be a step up. In neural networks some groups do research into so-called spiking neural networks, which you could think of as electronic circuits operating asynchronously on binary signals. They are very energy efficient, but nobody really knows how to use them yet.
Importantly, all of those have a discernible pronunciation that is not simply stating the letters in order.
Even the "fake" colors are a lot more representative of reality than black and white.
Amazon says 19,000 employees tested positive for Covid-19
Hey Static, thanks for the thought-provoking dicussion the other day!

Let me ask you this: let's say you're downstream of a very slow server that is outside of your control. You need to access it, and there's nothing you can do to speed it up. Are you IO bound in this case?
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"Acts like a neuron" is BS. Neurons are more like individual computers themselves, with all sorts of activity at the subcellular level.
This is a fun game to implement. You get a lot of varied gameplay for a small amount of code.

You need an event loop, and a basic object-oriented model where all game objects have movement operations, shape vector lists, hit boxes, and object transitions upon death. Typical object state is position and velocity, and possibly an age counter. So, the player, each asteroid, the bullets, and the attacking aliens all have the same prototype. Very clean.

I did it in assembler on a PDP-11 with bitmap graphics a long time ago. 100% fun.
AWS Identity is truly awful. It is not extensible and it lacks critical features. AWS has an opportunity to put companies like Okta out of business but their Identity team doesn't have the vision.
I agree. But letting someone who is dangerous live free in the community isn’t ideal either. The line is thin and blurry and has a ton of examples of being managed poorly.
> When I learned how to design an ALU to say, add, and wait for the propagation of carry bits that’s like O(n) where n is the number of bits in the number

No, it's O(1). The bit size of how you represent a single datum does not grow with size of your model.
I have to admit about 50% of my time is spent on Gaming. Battery life is of little concern to me right now because I work from home and 15 mins to 50% fast charge on the pixels nullifies most battery low scenarios. I don't even bother plugging in my phone at night now.
Same reason Trump does anything. To own the libs and get some press.
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The message, including a 10000 EUR price, which is not mentioned on the page:

> Academic tradition requires you to cite works you base your article on. If you use programs that use GNU Parallel to process data for an article in a scientific publication, please cite:

> Tange, O. (2020, July 22). GNU Parallel 20200722 ('Privacy Shield'). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3956817

> This helps funding further development; AND IT WON'T COST YOU A CENT. If you pay 10000 EUR you should feel free to use GNU Parallel without citing.

This is strictly against the GPL [1] but somehow a chat with Richard Stallman made it ok.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#RequireCitation
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I did think about it when writing the idea, and in the end it still looks to me that it would be worth it.

This rule would mean contributors would actually care to initiate a conversation about their intented work, and would probably drive them towards projects where there is some activity and positive feedback from the maintainer, instead of projects which didn't want or ask for any contribution, like it happens now.

Also, I think such constructive environment could drive a reasonable maintainer to help the contributors by fast-tracking the PR in case the end of October was approaching. And by taking into account the PR merge date, not the PR creation date, it would mean you as participant could start working on some PR even before October.
What is your non-tech dream job?
What would you be doing for work if you weren't working in tech? I'm a mediocre web developer and while I enjoy writing code and helping small businesses and organizations get web sites and develop an online presence I've started to think that maybe this business isn't for me.

I still want to code and work on some personal projects but a recent thread on here lead me to a book on making simple furniture. I've made some crappy pieces in the past but am looking forward to making some less crappy pieces in my basement during the upcoming NH winter.

I'm sure there are a ton of reasons for many of you to not leave tech, but given the opportunity what would you like to do?
Use Brave instead of Chrome.

There's plenty of other options to use instead of Chrome or FF.
Where do you live that it is a felony to have a hunting knife in your car, and also where felony's have degrees?
it also operates at (less than) the speed of sound.
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> the global system we are complicit in has created this tremendous waste of human potential?

Thanks for writing -- I like that way of thinking about spammers etc -- that they could have been doing something meaningful instead, if the world and society made more sense
When I was in consulting, it was part of our regular contact language that we had verified backgrounds and that we wouldn't place a felon on site with a client. A surprising number of clients even outside banking, finance, government, etc made a point of enforcing this language, even conducting their own background checks.

Freelancing was the approach I saw some people do successfully, but there were lots of projects we couldn't put them on.

We even saw clients that refused anyone who had even a misdemeanor, at which point I discovered how many of our consultants had misdemeanor DUIs or arrests for various non-violent reasons.
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My point is that 100% civil forfeiture for violating the agreement doesn't sit well with me considering the information was already "out there". I would have much rather preferred this action be an outcome of a criminal trial ie. Son of Sam law.
You are totally right about furniture, though if you enjoy it; it can certainly be worth while. With practice you can save money over higher end places like Crate and Barrel or Pottery Barn that might have more interesting design than Ikea. Any furniture you build should be because you enjoy the process, saving money can be elusive.

For things like the railing the original poster mentioned, that really falls under home improvement. For those things which are generally site built by a carpenter, you can absolutely save money even factoring in a few tools.
It's not exactly world policing. They are enforcing alleged violations of their own securities laws.
Google just has to drop them from the index and they will die.
Perhaps they don't want to say in the court that Snowden was right. This might matter if things turn around in the future and the key people involved in the surveillance will be tried in a court for "crimes against humanity".
I find this very interesting because if true, this might be a better test sample than mismatched data we get from the news.

Amazon workers would've been required to test frequently and mandatory and without exceptions, very different from test data from the public population, people going to test in fears of having the virus or already exhibiting symptoms.

Amazon also probably doesn't have a ton of really old people working for them, which would have excluded the most sensitive population out of the their tests.

Would be curious to know what their internal data shows beyond the basics!
He really doesn't come off as a good guy here.