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It is how people work, as evidenced over and over again by a widening view of compassion for others.

Just look at the past 20 years and the success of the gay rights movement. Views changed because of millions of one-on-one conversations between people who disagreed on gay marriage. No censorship was required for progress. In fact, censorship would have been counterproductive, as I believe it is here.

It's no coincidence that the countries with the least free speech also tend to be the most regressive on civil rights and some of the worst places to be an ethnic minority.
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This is also a perspective I could have much more easily bought into pre-COVID.

We have kids, and live in a rural area, and honestly, many summers, don't get a ton of use out of our property and home because we spend most our free time and income on travel. Generally, we're gone at least 2-weekends a month on car trips, fly away for a few weekends a year, and try to fit in 1-2 international trips as well.

Obviously, all that's changed in the last year.

With COVID, we've felt incredibly lucky to live in a rural area where our kids were able to spend basically all summer just "playing outside." No need to interact with other people on mass-transit. No shared elevators or public spaces.

When we did start socializing a bit, it was very nice to have a nice private, outdoor space to (more) safely entertain our guests in.

COVID is hopefully a very temporary, one-time event. But it has changed my perspective.

Still, while I agree that the article takes optimization to sort of silly lengths, I do see a solid point behind it.

I apply the same philosophy to boats, RVs, vacation-homes and the like. (Though, I admit that COVID has tested my resolve there a bit). Expensive investments that aren't really going to make sense unless you're using them far more than our family would. Plus, with any major purchase like that, you're "locked-in" to doing that one thing if you're trying to maximize the value of your investment.

Buy a vacation home, and you're going to have a mental barrier going on vacation somewhere else. Buy a boat, and you're going to feel like you're wasting money when you spend a week of vacation somewhere besides a lake.

TL;DR: Like most things in life, it's a balance.
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Downlink is the biggest bottleneck at the moment. Your satellite camera or SDR can produce thousand times more data than the amount you can download. You'd definitely benefit from in-space processing.
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> "The Most Intolerant Wins"

Except Taleb's thesis is not supported by history whatsoever. The past three centuries have had ups and downs, but overall there's been a remarkable and consistent global trend towards tolerance, liberalism, and democracy.

This didn't happen because intolerant groups decided to let up on their zealotry. It didn't even happen because intolerant ideas were violently suppressed. (In almost every conflict, it almost always was the anti-liberal faction that initiated hostilities.)

It happened because starting with the Enlightenment, we built a culture around an open marketplace of ideas. In places with liberal cultures and democratic governments, totalitarian ideologies like fascism and Marxism consistently failed to gain traction. They don't need to be forcibly suppressed. Scratch their surface, and virtually everybody realizes that these ideologies are obviously stupid and inconsistent. Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
Sources? I've got a dozen contradictions in mind already and I haven't even hit Wikipedia yet.
I vouched for your comment but it looks like you may be shadow banned. Just an FYI -- you might want to email the mods, they're quite nice people.
Mobile devs are smiling while reading this headline: always assume network loss or unavailability at any time time, especially the worst time possible!
This impacts memory (RAM) usage and has nothing to do with storage (SSD).
Try =A1+C1
NFS isn't stateless since NFSv3 was introduced more than 25 years ago.

There was a remote fs before NFS which closely mimicked Unix file system semantic (AT&T's RFS). There's a reason you don't read much about it.
They're getting hugged to death between Reddit and now HN. I had the same thing happen, just waited a minute then refreshed the page and was able to get in.
For their (and their mission's) sake, I hope they treat it like an endowment, amend their charter now to lock it up, and then only use the proceeds.
It's commonly understood by even a child that an armored military vehicle belongs in a war zone. Having one driving around your home town sends the message that you live in a war zone, and guess what - you, the citizen, are the enemy.

Even if they are reserved for "gang shootouts or riots" you are wasting money in the 95% of US towns that don't have gang shootouts or riots on such a regular basis that police need to engage in military operations to contain them. So I'm outraged as a taxpayer to see my money being wasted.
The Help Page for domain registrations, last updated 3 days ago (as of this moment), still says that only transfers are possible and that direct registrations aren’t possible. [1]

[1]: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/36001991067...
Meta-data isn't count! It isn't really data. It just provides a graph of everyone you interact with. What's the problem?

And anyway, phone companies have to make a buck.. Its not like we're paying them for the service!
Never is a long time, especially with thirty years of hindsight.
My point is not that there is evidence or that we should believe their clams.

My point is that debunking the video is pretty pointless and the video really is almost a side note compared to the real judgment call one has to make which is whether a verbal anecdote about sensor data from a US Navy squadron commander on an aircraft with millions of dollars of sensor R&D working with radar operators in a fleet that is worth billions deserves more weight than the verbal anecdote of an Iowa farmer who saw a light moving in the sky.

If you're only interested in hard data and hard evidence then the entire thing is almost pointless as any UFO videos could just be doctored anyway.
With few exceptions, all commercial use of amateur bands is prohibited, and licensing is by operator rather than by device. So for an IoT provider to run into this issue they'd have to have much larger problems on their hands as well.
I do software eng and at my work we have "meeting days" and "maker days". Maker days are supposed to be no meetings unless it's an emergency, while meeting days are just normal work days.

Personally, I've found meeting days to be pretty much unbearable for working from home, while I love my maker days from home. Anything that requires collaboration of more than 2 or 3 people just sucks to do over Zoom, IMO, but being able to lock myself in a quiet room and turn off notifications is a godsend for writing code.

In my experience, I've found that this seems to match up with the opinions of the people I know. The people who work in jobs that require a lot of meetings are completely burned out on WFH, while the people I know who are mainly individual contributiors absolutely love it. I'm curious if that is the experience others are having, but personally, it seems to me a good explanation why opinions on WFH seem to be all over the place.
So if a guy murders your mom by burning her alive in her stolen car after savagely raping her, your number one concern is that he can see his family and live comfortably before his trial and sentencing? This kind of thinking is the dysfunction you should be worried about. Criminals good. Law enforcement bad. And before bemoaning the plight of some contrived story about a preferred category of citizen being arrested for drugs or whatever, everybody I know whose gone to jail (several) ALL of them did much, much more than they were arrested for. Some were friends. None of them were good people.

Judges aren’t robots, either. Bail is assessed by both means and severity of crime. If you’ve never been in a courtroom, you might not know this.
Indeed. I was using SET PASSWORD in a way that broke between two different versions of MySQL 5.7. (I can't remember what specifically it was. I believe I had to change my statement to no longer use the PASSWORD() function.)

I remember being pretty upset that they broke that with what surely must be only a bug fix release. Now I know better.
I'm not super familiar with the JVM, so correct me if I'm wrong on that front, but I think the distinction is that Python provides those kinds of introspection tools in the same language, not just the runtime platform, so it can be easier on tool writers and _much_ easier for individuals who only need to peek into a few of the internals as a small component of some other project.
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Thanks for calling this out, I definitely fell victim, also hadn't heard of Poe's law which has made my life a little bit better.
Yeah, see, that's kind of the point. You censor a movement calling for genocide (or, more precisely, denying a genocide in the past). But if you're going to do that, do all of them. Censor Turkey denying the Armenian genocide. Censor those who sweep Stalin's crimes under the rug. Censor those who try to minimize the death toll of the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap forward. Censor those who say that the Europeans' conquest of the Americas was anything other than a genocide.

And, if we were 50 years ago, censor the communists calling for global revolution. That's not a call for genocide, exactly, but it's a call for a lot of death, and for destruction of a class of people, which is in the same camp.

But the problem is, once you do that, do you stop there? Or do you say, well, the Soviets are behind this "civil rights" agitation, so we have to censor that, too? And this "gay rights" stuff is corrupting the morals of our youth, so we have to censor that?

And even if you say, no, violence only, don't censor anything else, somebody else is going to push for it to go further. How do you know that your viewpoint (violence only) is going to win? You don't.

So be very careful about calling for censorship, even of things that you are sure are wrong. Soon enough it will be applied to things you're sure are right.
If you haven't already you might want to watch a few seasons of "Shark Tank" or "Dragon's Den" and then look at the attitudes and actions of the entrepreneurs who get two or more of the sharks/dragons bidding over them.
The court docs: https://www.noticeofpleadings.com/trickbot/
Indeed we have to remember that when assessing the likelihood of a coincidence, it’s not the odds of any given event, but the odds that none of the many possible events you might recognize occur
It's arrogance because you think that your current system of science is relevant. Civilization has been around for only 5000 years.

How do you know other planets do not have elements that have anti-matter properties?
I’m always able to tell what a particular cloudflare product does/is in the first paragraph.
However for this one, I’m unable to even after reading the entire blogpost.

(edit) is this like zerotier, tailscale, beyondcorp etc?
Doesn't work on prepaid plans.... Anyone know how to access this and turn it off for these users?
Was any research done on which police departments receive this gear and the rate of crime in their AoR?
except that child seats are mostly safety theater, of course
That led me to https://crates.io/crates/efloat/0.2.0 which sounds even more useful as you can actually track what the error bounds are after you've done all your math. That sounds eminently more useful than just making epsilon math correct, no?
Why hasn't prefab construction taken over?
You do not want to take the fastest paths to financial success.

The fastest path to financial success is going to be dumping all your money into some kind of short term leveraged bet. This will come with a huge risk of losing everything.

A core element of finance is that risk and return are not just related to each other, they are sort of like inverse sides of the same underlying thing. Reward is always a premium for risk, because if something had a reward with no risk it would be consumed infinitely until there was none of it left. If something had risk with no reward why would you do it?

So the only real answer to this question is to figure out what risks you are willing to take in life that reach the maximum level of reward. This could be career risk like being an employee in a startup, this could be financial risk like buying a bunch of bitcoin or even just general life risk like saying the whole thing isn't worth it and going to travel.

The only advice I can give you generally is that financial reward comes to those who make themselves valuable to people solving problems with high financial stakes, that could be as an employee or owner themselves. If you figure out the biggest problem you can solve in the area with the most money at stake you are likely to benefit monetarily.

Also I disagree that statistically, shuffling between startups is a good bet and it has a large number of outcomes where you do really poorly.
> Imagine Wine but 10 times better

I have a hard time doing that, Wine is already so good. I can certainly imagine better but even 2x better is kinda hard to picture.
I've been building a similar toolchain which uses the same version of clang / libc++ / etc everywhere for my own software and things are so much more sane than trying to use GCC/libstdc++ on Linux, Clang/libc++ on macOS and MSVC on Windows which all have various behavior and performance divergence & pitfalls.

CI still tests GCC and MSVC (except that MSVC of course has been ICE'ing on my project for the last six months), but all the releases are built with clang and my sleep quality has never been better :-)
> They're likely not even paying taxes to their home country.

They likely are. You meet a few DNs here and there who work entirely through cryptocurrency, but everyone else gets paid through ordinary bank channels that bring tax obligations.
Language evolves, it's not set in stone.

Besides, the car might still be bricked, as far as we know? Perhaps the onboard computer is screwed and needs a replacement?
In other words, it should be opt-in, not opt-out.
Now that PyPy is up to Python 3.6 and has the bugs from the 3.5 series fixed I am using it for real work.

The contextvars polyfill brings in the one thing I really need from Py 3.7.

I have a toolkit that puffs up XML, JSON, whatever files into an RDF graph that has extra blank nodes that let you annotate anything. A year ago I was complaining about how slow it was, with PyPy it is 5 times faster and I am not complaining.

I hear people get similar speed-ups for branchy monte carlo simulations too.
That does not provide an ULP distance function, rather it tests for approximate equality while using both relative and absolute error margins.

Also, a warning: the code behaves as if numbers of opposite sign are never "approximately equal". Also, the documentation sucks: it doesn't even mention the sign issue, nor does it mention how NaN values are handled, but it nevertheless contains irrelevant anecdotes.
When people talk about raising kids right, it always pans back to growing up in a rural area away from most people. Besides the dark skies/wilderness why is growing up in a rural area better than in a city for children?

Given that the majority of people live in a city/metropolitan area, I'll assert that my subjective opinion that growing up in a city would be better for a child than your subjective opinion that rural areas are better.
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$10 says we'll find out in a few years that the content was included... and this was "just the tip" strategy.
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The first time I ever encountered a neo-nazi, I was walking along minding my business during my lunch hour and a complete stranger walked up and punched me in the face.

There's an analogy between real and virtual spaces that often seems to be overlooked. If someone is holding a sign on a street corner saying 'the holocaust didn't happen' then I may find that quite objectionable but I can choose to go and remonstrate with the person or conserve my psychic energy and ignore them. On the other hand, if I'm having a discussion about history and a person comes up tries to force their way into the conversation, my walking away is ceding them the space that I formerly occupied.

In the physical world there's a cost to moving around and and physical constraints on people, so if I hear someone on the other side of town is holding an objectionable sign I have to decide whether I care enough to physically go there. that calculus might change if the objectionable message were on a billboard or an objectionable speaker were holding a rally with amplified sound, in which case I might consider it more worth my while to refute their prominent or loudly-staged opinion.

In the virtual world distance isn't a practical factor so it becomes trivially easy for people in different communities to raid each other and engage in semantic provocations, often with few consequences. Interestingly, there is some evidence that responding to provocation with aggression is more effective in deterring raiding behavior than politely ignoring it: https://snap.stanford.edu/conflict/

It should be borne in mind that the object of raiding (whether for sport as in MMORPGs or for deadly serious reasons as in military conflicts) is to drive people out of territory that they occupy. Getting them to walk away by being sufficiently obnoxious is not directly violent, but is often predicated on an implicit threat of violence.
It may also be that the police departments that seek to purchase military equipment operate in cities/neighborhoods with a higher incident of violent crime.

Los Angeles PD for example was the poster boy for getting military style gear before most departments in the country, but at the time it also dealt with more serious violence than most police departments (such as drive-by shootings).

The per capita incidence of police shootings in the US compared to other developed nations seems high until you normalize it by the per capita rate of violent crimes committed by citizens.
You’re not wrong (and I’ve upvoted you too) - but given the importance of complying with the spirit of the GDPR and other consumer-first regs - especially given that Spotify is HQ in the EU they should be doing more. You do set-out a reasonable explanation for non-immediate data-dumps, but from the evidence I believe companies like Spotify and many others intentionally drag their feet and do the bare minimum, at least in-part, to discourage requests. Of course that also makes it bloody obvious too. More telling is the fact that they aren’t being transparent about it either. If they posted a simple statement explaining in-not-too-much-technical-detail why it takes so long that would be a start.
Anyone was able to use test Zig in Windows? last time i tried it, it compiled but i was not able to print a hello world. Thank you.
Yup.

I rented a mini van once for a road trip over a national holiday. I got to the rental office, was in line for an hour, and then they told me it was no longer available. Not even a sorry. Drove our two cars instead.

It takes 15 minutes each way to the nearest Home Depot to rent gardening tools and another 20 minutes in line. Then factor the drive back, and the return trip and it adds up to to 100
minutes of my time. Also, if you are using the tool more than a couple of times, it’s probably cheaper to buy. The only things that make sense to rent are specialized, expensive tools.

Guest bedrooms can be used for many things. If you are sick, you can isolate yourself to prevent other people in the household from getting sick. You can have actual guests over and you don’t have to drive them to/from and get to spend more time with them.

Whenever CalTrain breaks down, Uber prices surge. You either wait 30 minutes or pay quadruple prices. SamTrans will make you wait for the bus that comes every half an hour.

So the pluses are availability, reliability, optionality, and lowered transactional cost.
> Again, that’s not how people work.

I agree with you that this is not exactly how people work, but I believe the parent comment was going in the right direction, they just went just a bit off the mark. To quote what they said.

>> If you don't like the way other people are thinking, you have to have a conversation with them and try to change their views the hard way.

So yes, while having a conversation with someone who is strongly holding onto some insane beliefs is unlikely to help that specific person, however, it definitely helps with steering other people (who observed that exchange and who are a bit more on the fence) in the right direction and away from those insane views.

You don't even need to go far to find examples of that working, just look at HN. While the views here won't normally be as insane as an average "hot take" on FB, there were definitely some heated arguments (about higher-level fundamental ideas, not technical matters) that swayed my opinion one way or the other, despite those arguments clearly not really changing the minds of people actually involved in those arguments.

Yes, this is just anecdata and not a peer-reviewed study, but I have a belief that this experience is not that uncommon at all.
Given how much conspiracy shit happens on Telegram, I wouldn't advise using that.

That being said, as long as the discussion is based facts, primary sources as much as possible and doesn't cherry pick and stake up the Holocaust against other war crimes, I agree that we need these discussions.
Well if you have credit cards and you opted out of them selling/"sharing" your data with 3rd parties, you should keep a lookout for whenever they send you a new card or an "upgraded" card or any large packet that contains a change of terms. Each time they do that, you have to call them or send them a form asking to opt-out again. That's right. Once is not enough. You have to constantly opt-out each time they send you new card agreement. If I remember correctly, you have 30 days to opt-out again or you'll be automatically part of their data "sharing" program.
Something I've long thought on is what types of people are attracted to the US police force. If you look at it economically, by what incentives are offered, it's a bit disturbing:
1) Power over others
2) Chance to stop violence
3) Little educational requirements
4) Access to cool gear
5) Immunity from law
6) Ability to help or hurt weaker people
7) Access to drugs, guns, etc...

The list goes on, but I really see two types of people drawn to these: those that seek to help, and those that seek power. The defenders, and the bullies. The saviors, and the criminals.

It's naive to expect that one type makes it through much more often than the other (the "a few bad apples" analogy). If I were in organized crime, or a gang, or a neo-nazi, or just someone who was a sociopath, what better possible job is there than being a cop? Would it be that hard to fake it through whatever screenings they use (which can be NONE in some PDs) to weed out the bad actors? No. We must expect some large minority or even a majority of cops to fall into the class of bad actors.
We would have to deal with violent cops who want to hurt civilians, but at least they'd have less efficient tools to do so. And maybe the violent people would be less drawn to a career in law enforcement if it wasn't associated with a militarised image.

If it's both effects at the same time, in a feedback loop, it's actually ok - you can stop the loop by cutting either effect.
We must not rule out the possibility that rogue apps are siphoning data for ad targeting, especially given AT&Ts Privacy Policy: "We do not use the content of your texts, emails or calls for marketing or advertising".

AT&T _could_ choose to violate this policy but I imagine it would open them up to legal risk that they would not want.