skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"first and second world" describes more or less the same set of countries (perhaps modulo some eastern european countries like you said), but doesn't it have most of the same baggage as "developed nations"? as I understand it, the problem with "developed nations" is that it raises the question "developed compared to what?". in other words, it implicitly sets the west as the standard against which "developed" is measured. doesn't first/second/third world center the western perspective in pretty much the same way?
Eero has been great to me, but yes, it requires an account.
What are you talking about? The malware poses as Microsoft / Windows products, which is a clearcut trademark violation.

In the car case, this would be analogous to a 3rd party selling defective parts under the brand name of a car manufacturer.
I honestly have not, but the aesthetics of log homes don't really appeal to me. I hadn't thought of the potential performance benefits though.
The list of companies announcing permanent remote work policy changes grows by the week. The hope for a quick return to normal continues to fade into 2021. On-site will certainly make a big comeback at some point and the Economist will no doubt write about it breathlessly. But things have changed and the future is not going to look like the past. The economy will redistribute prices and labor and there will eventually be a new normal. I agree with the article that we will eventually be better for it, but in the short term it will hurt many.
I can easily imagine the US "GDPR-lite" being something like an "independent" court that doesn't publish anything publicly except a final verdict, and companies like Facebook magically get a mix of low fines while smaller companies get absolutely fleeced on fines.

And this "independent" court will mostly target Google and Microsoft while taking crumbs from Facebook.

Coincidentally, Mark Zuckerberg will meet with the "independent" court frequently.
> The debug information now has a feature which lets your debugger recover the value of an optimized-out value in certain (common) circumstances. I wish gdb and lldb pick on up this quickly and that it doesn't need you to specify anything explicitly.

It drives me nuts when I compile code with "-ggdb -gdwarf-4 -O0" and gdb still reports some symbols as "optimized away". I hope the bullet point above refers to this.
> I'd argue that they are unreasonable to achieve without a company-wide commitment to changing how we work, and those changes will not happen quickly for most.

Yep, I agree with that 100%. We all got surprised by going remote last spring. And we didn't know how long it would last. But it is time for companies to make that commitment and act on it.
Gives me the chills just hearing about it.
That's true, but for context, there's a pretty big population of people on this forum that are trying to fight the "tech-bro" stereotype and this article plays perfectly into the stereotyped view that SV tech companies are filled with insecure, personalityless men. I'm guessing that's why this comment section is filled with so much hate for the author if anyone wonders.
> That's a chick and egg problem though

Android mobile gaming is a multi-billion dollar industry. Guess what isn't? Linux desktop gaming.

> I know plenty of people who maintain a Windows partition purely for games

Selection bias. I'm guessing you know a lot more Linux users than the average person.

> If Microsoft is actually buying studios intending to remove Linux support

My guess is these games need to be compatible with Xbox and Windows, considering that's Microsoft business. That sounds like a completely practical business move.
look at any country with open policies. attendance at theaters and the like are at record lows. spending is down. broadway in NYC runs on tourism.

you might survive for a few months, but if the science is correct, you will just shut down again or people will be afraid to go. broadway can't afford to gamble like that.
A person can make mistakes, make amends and grow into a better person, or they could start good and turn to the dark side. In either case we expect their character to project a certain amount of consistency. An individual that continuously swings between good and bad is likely to be considered unreliable.

People tend to anthropomorphize companies. But companies are not people, they're organizations. They're driven by a mix of individuals who come and go and whose values, vision, motivation and influence shape the direction and actions of the organization at time T.

Because of this uncertainty, never trust an organization with anything forever and learn to be comfortable with the idea that it will change. The promises of one CEO have no guarantee to be upheld by the next.
I have not seen a single serious critique of the 1619 project yet.

So far it's all just hyperbolic white supremacist right-wing fox news-speak.

I do understand the seriousness of the situation though -- the 1619 project is an absolutely devastating portrait of america and its white supremacy.

It's a welcome corrective to the lies we still tell ourselves and teach to the children of america.
Our goal should be a nice balance that is preferable to me.
Thanks for the info. I didn't know the history of that at all. And yeah, the head in the sand effect of many devs in relation to crypto is frustrating.
It's fairly common to see comment threads every week or two arguing whether CEO compensation is justified and whether they make any overall difference to the performance of the company.
But don't worry you guys! We're going to rush the Zune to the market and win the media player wars that Apple just ended!
How do nursing homes continue to operate in this scenario?

I hear a lot of people talking about this kind of shield the vulnerable approach, but no-one who can answer the question of how nursing homes work in this condition.
I'm sure a shim kit would be included to even out discrepancies. If the tolerance is too high for that then your foundation needs to be fixed.
I can't tell you how many people I've interviewed that were "experienced" developers that were just terrible terrible engineers.

My favorite interviews were when we were trying to hire a senior level engineer, and we were only interviewing people with 10+ years of development experience. We'd ask people to build a priority queue. Items with a higher priority need to be handled before those with a lower priority, but otherwise items should be handled in order.

Can you guess what the most common methodology people chose was?

Did you guess an XML document?

These are people with degrees in comp sci, some claiming 15 years of experience as a developer, trying to get a role at a top 10 bank in New York City.

Of course technical interviews shouldn't be the only test used for hiring, but they absolutely should be included. Maybe it's demeaning that you have to jump through these hoops. Or maybe you're bad at them. Or they're "beneath you" in some sort of way. But don't blame the interviewer, blame the hundreds of other people trying to get a job that they aren't qualified for.
This. If we’ve learned anything at all.
They did not censored racial hate speech, only religious one. Lucky for nazi, their ideology was based on race. The few censored nazi journals issues crossed the line to religious hate. Overwhelming majority of them was hateful against race and thus allowed.

So no, their censorship did not even attempted any meaningful limitation of nazi. Also, in 1933 Hitler gained complete power, was also supported by veterans who worked in civil service and talking about "co-opting" censorship is almost absurd. At that point, first concentration camp was created and political opponents were put in. The censorship machine was not that much important at that point, violence was.

Also, German censorship was quicker against communists then right wing groups, because right wing groups were seen as patriotic.
> it does at least as much harm to "good ideas" as to "bad ideas"

If that's the case, then one is assuming that the public is incapable of discerning good ideas from bad ideas.

Calling that into question calls all of American democracy into question. At that point, why even leave leadership up to the voters? A dictatorship, oligarchy, or plutocracy would be wiser if the public really can't determine for themselves what will secure or endanger their freedom.

One of the cornerstones of American government is self-governance: the ability of the people to discern, in aggregate, good from bad. If we accept the public's ability to vote, we ought to also accept their right to inform a company of someone they perceive to be a bad actor in their midst and boycott said company based on their perception.

The public isn't always right. We assume, as a matter of American self-governance, that they often are.

(We probably shouldn't fork the conversation on the topic of white supremacist rape culture, because I'm guessing from your statement that you don't believe that describes America ;) ).
> It makes sense. If individuals are supposed to quarantine for two weeks when they're exposed, then if everyone quarantined for the same two weeks, it would be gone.

Until the next airplane or ship or whatever arrives from any country in the world and has one infected person on it. Then we start all this madness again.

The cure cannot be worse than the disease.
Exactly. We're already seeing the world of Linux according to Microsoft now. It's one where Linux is ideally on Windows with WSL, uses proprietary stacks like DirectX and of course Edge.

What I loved about Linux was that it was not encumbered by attempts to lock in intellectual property (with the idea of future monetising, of course). Yet all the big players are pushing lots of kernel patches to suit their own cloud-based use and ecosystems. Distributions are trying to lock-in like all the commercial players now. Consider Ubuntu with its snap store that can only be run by Canonical.

I really don't like where Linux is headed now that Microsoft and the other big players love it so much... I'm strongly considering moving back to FreeBSD for a desktop. Yes there's Netflix with some input but that's about it.
In the post you're replying to, most is an adverb modifying terrifying meaning "to a very great degree". It isn't saying they're THE most terrifying. It's another way of saying they're very terrifying.
However you're making the assumption that lives saved by the lockdown < lives lost even with the lockdown. If the lockdown had prevented all deaths from COVID, you'd be using this logic to say it was completely worthless. By this logic, the more effective the lockdown is, the more you argue how unnecessary it is.
huge packets of audio data

Not that it's actually happening, but the best cell network speech codecs use ~6kbits/s, and it's probably possible to go lower with reduced speaker identifiability. You also only need to record when there's speech detected, and can delay and/or batch transmissions.
If this was meant as satire or humor, this will be the first time I've read anything on the internet that was meant as satire or humor and been personally unable to detect it. If it was meant humorously (I don't think it was, even after re-reading), it's a bad attempt at humor.
> Is this the US?

No.
By that logic:

import linuxkernel

if __name__ == "__main__":
linuxkernel.run()

Not saying you're wrong, just that the size and complexity of your runtime is an interesting consideration :)
Even better, there will always be someone who broke the rules to point their fingers at. So if the rules don’t work it’s someone else’s fault.
Note that IPv4 speculation is technically against the rules. Be sure to factor in the cost of "laundering" the IPs into your business plan.
> especially since roads don't have the same habit of ending abruptly that bike lanes do

Nobody wants bad bike lanes. Imagine your bike lane were straight, as wide as a regular road lane and had smooth tarmac. Would you still ride amongst the cars?
I think the other reason that street cars don't use five-point harnesses (and why using them is illegal in most states) is that they immobilize your shoulders and neck too well, which makes rollovers more dangerous without a roll cage. You can't lean forward when the roof collapses, so you can be paralyzed.
Spaces or Tabs? Microsoft developers reveal their preferences
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> How/where does one lock down homeless people?

In $8,000 per month hotel rooms, of course![1]

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-s-hotels-for...
Yeah, TBH I'm more surprised that there hasn't been more prosecution of adware that misrepresents itself with Apple/MS/etc logos.
Thanks for linking to the poll, I had no idea that that was what the distribution of support for same sex marriage across ages looked like. Fascinating that almost two thirds of Catholics and Protestants support same sex marriage, would never have guessed that. Even more surprising to me was that the trend line basically goes up over time no matter which way you slice and dice by demographic or religious affiliation or church attendance.
Curious how much time would pass on acceleration upon leaving and deacceleration upon arriving.

We may not be able to survive long enough in spite of length contraction.
Free speech is tricky, and every nation has to find its own balance, its own limits to what is acceptable and what isn't. Being German, I am pretty sensitive with regards to the Holocaust, anti-semitism, Nazi propaganda and, as a logical extension, anti-muslim and anti-lgbtq propaganda.

Personally, I draw the line where other people's freedoms are limited and other people are actively discriminated against. Basically at hate speech.
Sounds like capitalism. What do we expect? lol
Sure it is not easy, but price-competitive (cheap renewable + some cost to manage intermittence) technologies are ready

Political hurdles... what is easier ?
- Saying let's have reltively cheap 100% renewable energy that create a lot of job
- Let's have super expensive nuclear energy, there are risk but those risk are small
> Apparently Haskell supports overloading on return type

Ada does too.
The idea was they’d keep trying forever which typically is long enough. The downside is if you retire a server all the clients that still have files open will hang.
The Cycle of Life
How is herd immunity viable? The policy literally would translate to "let the careless infect themselves, and with enough of them infected the virus would go away."

So if we were all careful, herd immunity would be delayed. And if the careless are out and about, the vulnerable become especially vulnerable in public, and anyone who might come in contact with someone vulnerable, and anyone who didn't know they were vulnerable. And we'd all suffer from the prolonged effects of the disease which may include breathing issues and even mental health issues.

If herd immunity truly was viable it should be made policy and the answer would be to deliberately infect everyone deemed "safe" and get it over with. Yet the argument is "for mental health" or "for the economy" and never "because it's the right path".

No one is 100% "safe" and deliberate infection is unethical even in a medical academic context. Until these two facts change, herd immunity is out of the picture, and so should be these doctors. I'd be interested to know if these doctors were ever infected and if not willing to infect themselves. Otherwise, they're putting themselves in a special class as non-participating beneficiaries only.
Its an interesting read but the synopsis is a glibc bug[1] in 2.27 that causes pthread_cond_signal to sometimes fail to wake waiting threads. This manifests as various hangs/locks that may seem to happen randomly in different application runtimes, including reports of users of .NET Core, Python, OCaml.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25847
Very simply, most of the value of Open Source is being collected by major tech conglomerates leasing computing that's freely running OSS software without cost or licensing, of which they're the #2 biggest collector & thanks to the multi-billion in Infrastructure costs + natural lock-in their oligopoly business is protected ad infinitum.

So of course they love OSS now that Azure is one of their largest money printers, it's no longer a threat & they've become one of the biggest beneficiaries of it.
I'm not even going to bother pointing out the dramatization here...

Because this is all tangential to the fact that in a world that now moves one financial quarter at a time, six years is a lifetime.

MS's direction has been consistent and it's been good. If you're waiting for another six years to let MS prove themselves, it's on you, but again, plenty of other people will reap the benefits of not doing so
City of SF Spends $8k per Homeless Person, per Hotel Room, per Month
"Optical Illusion" feels strong here -- really the image is just being desaturated. Same effect can be seen by just replacing random pixels with their grayscale equivalent.

Something like:

width, height, _ = bw_img.shape
pixels = int(width * height * .5)
xs = np.random.choice(width, pixels)
ys = np.random.choice(height, pixels)
bw_img[xs,ys,:] = img[xs, ys, :]
It's Battarcharya and a few others, including Ioannidis. However Stanford is completely complicit, and when I search for these people I get results like this that promote bad information and reasoning:

https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/coronavirus-deadly-they-say

Rather than anything from the university that promotes the more accurate statements from the rest of the faculty.

So I would say that Stanford carries a lot of blame for letting their name be used for disinformation, and is not pushing back at all, which is a huge disgrace. If you are an alum, make some noise and refuse to make contributions until they start at least giving equal PR time to the scientifically based viewpoint.

Edit: and how could I forget Michael Levitt, who is now following in Kary Mullis' footsteps as a Nobel winning biochemist that promotes for crazy viral theories that damage public health

https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/05/04/qa-nobel-laureate-s...
At the risk of being presumptuous, they're likely not scary to people who don't belong to the groups these events target.
I have stopped going there, I was just explaining what I think the argument is.
> write a program that plays every possible tic-tac-toe game

Last time I interviewed in the Valley, some mofo actually asked me how many TicTacToe games end in 5 moves ? 9.5%. Here's my MonteCarlo solution if you can't be bothered with this garbage. Sorry that repo is 7 years old. Never got a chance to use it again.

https://github.com/krishnanraman/TicTacToe

Makes me so glad I quit the field & went into stats. My classmate just graduated with his stats phd & I asked him how the job interview went. Apparently they asked him if he was a frequentist or a Bayesian. So he said he was a Fisherian, and they had a good laugh. After a few preliminaries on p-values, credible intervals vs confidence intervals, 2 way anova, standard proofs on Cochran's theorem, Cramer-Rao & how to simulate multi-variate gaussian, everybody went for lunch. He was out the door under an hour with a job offer.
How much of this is coming from https://www.hoover.org/?
It's perfectly legal to transmit noise-like signals such as digital voice, DVB-S2 and OFDM. You just can't encrypt the content.
I looked at MicroTik, and its prices are between half and 10x less than the other brands. How is this possible? It makes me worry about the quality.
But there is also the 2nd world, you know? Say, here's an example from Czechia: [0]. Here is an example from (East) Germany: [1]. And from the USSR, too: [2], [3]. Not the prettiest, not the roomiest, but... cheap, somewhat cheap, and therefore, pretty abundant.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel%C3%A1k

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plattenbau

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchyovka

[3] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BB...
Your conversations aren't just not encrypted, they're totally public. That's unacceptable for most communications.

Take everything you do on a phone call, over SMS, and over the Internet. Subtract anything personal, anything business related, anything involving copyright (e.g. watching a movie or listening to a song, even if you own it), and anything you don't want associated with your identity (anonymous blogging). Also, I forgot to mention that broadcasting is also disallowed. You couldn't just start telling poetry on a frequency without regard to anybody who may or may not be listening. You also can't use the bands for any commercial purpose.

Anyway, after subtracting all that, what your left with is what people use the band for today. Which, I suppose, could still be considered "general purpose." But when I said "general purpose digital communications," what I had in mind were the sorts of things you use email or the web for. By volume, mostly music, videos, porn, ads, and private business operations.
Depending on what you are considering the defining features of an AR-15 type there was for example a 20 round repeating airgun that was around during the period [0]. Lewis and Clark are believed to have used one.

Although using a fixed magazine, I don't think it would have been too much of a stretch to imagine a detachable one - especially as the air reservoir was.

Energy-wise it's about 10% of a standard 5.56x45mm round, but still apparently quiet effective.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girardoni_air_rifle
> The solution here was probably simple: bring the car outside

They did. Because the car did not have connectivity at the time it detected the issue, it went into full lockdown (judging by the comments, it kept trying for a while, couldn't connect, assumed the worst).

The car performed exactly the way it was programmed to perform. Tampering was detected. No connectivity was found. Lockdown. It will now have to be serviced by Ferrari, a local tech is not enough.

It is difficult to imagine a system that's just as secure but less inconvenient. If you open the door for local 'patches', then you open avenues of attack. Better to do a `rm -rf *` and blow up a firmware chip or two for good measure. Threat vectors are potentially more sophisticated for these cars, if there's a way to locally bypass the lockdown, it will be found.

The target demographic for these cars will not be inconvenienced much. As per the post, the owner went and got his Maserati.

So the takeaway for any Ferrari owners is: make sure there's connectivity if you are trying to perform any changes to the vehicle.
This is not a ban of these ideas at a societal level. You are free to post on your blog as much as you want, you are free to make a newsletter, you are free to speak as much as you want about the holocaust.

You just can't use facebook to do so.
AFAIK a whole lot of cat herding at the level of ISPs and peering administrators and an upgrade of things like BGP. Very hard to do coordinated updates to a federated network, as IPv6 shows... we are 20+ years in and the IPv6 transition is still only crawling along.
Manifest Miracle Now with This Attracting Abundance Guide
Not sure what you'll think of this, but in my jurisdiction, there isn't one centrally located drop box (although there also are not thousands). Here's a PDF with the drop box locations, as a citizen of Baltimore I can use any one of these (not just the one closest to me): https://boe.baltimorecity.gov/sites/default/files/2020-10-01...