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> I'd definitely a trust a SWAT department filled with ex-special forces more than I'd trust a small-town cop LARPing in military gear.

I know soldier worship is the national religion or something, but I think that's something you should reconsider: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30281075/

More research needs to be done, but there is evidence that police officers with military backgrounds are more likely to be involved in shootings. Consider also that some of the training soldiers receive today is meant to overcome the natural tendency of soldiers to deliberately miss when shooting at the enemy. Consider also that the mindset of a veteran who seeks out a job with the police is not necessarily representative of the typical veteran mindset. It's a subset of veterans, those who wish to work with guns and have authority over others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um5gMZcZWm0

https://freakonomics.com/2007/01/05/we-are-not-the-only-ones...
Are they more terrifying than humans? We are capable of a lot more, for better or worse.
Stating what others historically thought about, in your example jews, has to be ok. How would educate people about anti-semitism if it wasn't?

Promoting these views as truths should be treated as the hate speech it is. Which should not be covered by free speech, IMHO.
Because housing never was, and never will be, a commodity...at least not for people who can afford it, which is most of us in the 1st world.
To be honest, I was not thinking of the US or UK here, I was thinking of comments I've heard from India and Pakistan by advocates for the poorest members of those nations regarding the impact of covid19 lockdown policies.
This usually isnt the best course though. The U.S. for example after invading iraq squashed any anti west/american speech. It lead to members going underground instead of having discussions in an open civilized way. This lead to a further radicalization of Muslims and an even deeper hate for Americans and lead to the eventual terror attacks across the world. Let these ideas get tackled and shunned in the public and be exposed to what they really are.
People's experiences do seem to be hit or miss, but for me I have the opposite experience. I am far more productive with GNOME 3 than I am with the Windows desktop environment. I do boot into Windows pretty frequently to play some games but every time there is something that annoys me, whether it's adverts in notifications, being told to use Microsoft Edge _again_ or Windows updates that take ages to install.

I much prefer Linux, not just for development but for every day usage.
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"Europe, but only the parts I like"
Put another way:

Their (once) current bread & butter paradigm (Windows, mostly on desktop) wasn't a growing market. They recognized this and adjusted course.

Call it what you want, but such decisions are the difference between sustained success and fading away.
I prefer the Fastbrick Robotics ( https://www.fbr.com.au/ ) company's approach where they just creating building robots. Here is a short video on the robot in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYsWbDA0xlc
I don't mean for this to be flippant - where is Haiku used today? Does anyone use it to get work done? Desktop or server?
https://freakonomics.com/2007/01/05/we-are-not-the-only-ones...
Very annoying, but there is a relatively quick workaround for those that don't know: On Chrome, Inspect the page and go to settings, then click 'Disable JavaScript'. Reload with Inspect open and you should be able to bypass most paywalls.
I have a deep respect for engineers and as a programmer, I think you are absolutely right. I don’t like the term “engineer.” It doesn’t fit, and I hate that we have adopted it, I think mainly because it makes people in the business side take programming more seriously. Like we have to justify to people that our job is actually difficult and requires some level of skill. It doesn’t convey the level of creativity, programmers use on a regular basis.
Luckily as educated adults we are blessed with being able to exercise our judgement to assess what is right, wrong, an honest mistake, a deliberate distortion, a kinda-bad inaccurate claim, or a dangerously-bad inaccurate claim.
While this is fine as the high-level answer, the interesting question seems to be why the as-installed cost would be the same as typical wasteful North American "stick building"? I've spent some time thinking about better ways to build houses, spoken with like-minded architects, etc., and haven't gotten to the bottom of this question.

Intuitively, it seems like there should be quite a bit of room to decrease costs by using engineered, pre-fabricated/panelized construction. There should be less waste, less manual labor, and less re-work. Yet the best case seems to be approximately the same costs, though I would expect at improved quality or improved first-time quality.

Another system for engineered building, though based on wood, is Blueprint Robotics: http://www.blueprint-robotics.com/

I actually started my personal line of inquiry favoring steel construction as well, though some research convinced me that using a home as a carbon sink through wood construction from sustainably-managed forests made significant sense. For something like an airtight, well-insulated (Net Zero or better) home using wood-based sheathing, the coefficient of thermal expansion compatibility with wood structure also makes sense. That being said, it appears the Bone structure folks have their own solutions to prevent thermal shorts between the exterior and the steel structure, as they have apparently used their system for Net Zero and Passivhaus construction.
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I got the cellular version to make tech detoxing easier. I find I can think more creatively when I leave my phone at home when going on walks. With a watch with cellular I could see myself regularly going weekends without my phone.

What I’m doing in the meantime is popping my sim from my smartphone into an old Nokia.
Indeed, not having a nationally approved and consistent voting process across the country is strange and confusing to me. Here in Canada, Elections Canada is responsible for federal elections across the country. Voting is pretty much the same everywhere, and unofficial polling stations and ballot boxes are prohibited. The only machines involved in the voting process scan and count paper ballots that humans can recount, making electronic tampering much more difficult than having giant blobs of untrusted software accepting votes. As a software developer, having the option of a low tech option for recounts is quite reassuring.
>>It's not obvious which position is the responsible one.

I think the responsible position would be to provide the people with a safe environment where they can work and live. Perhaps also working a bit on the inequality issue.

It's clear to me that with or without the lackdowns the worst affected are the already poor people working in the front line.
" half-finished UIs, random bugs that were never fixed"

Interestingly this matches my experience of Windows 10 rather then Gnome or Plasma although they are all rough around the edges.
They have been attacking the rudders of sailboats.
> Desktop Linux still sucks.

Let's not forget the "for my use case, given my technical prowess" is implicit.
People always say the most polished desktop unix distro is Mac OS. That's why I'm on the platform at least. I'd rather pay the premium to have full time engineers troubleshoot the drivers.
How/where does one lock down homeless people?
They are whales though, since Delphinidae is a family within Cetacea. Certainly also killers.
But who is anybody to say what is or isn't accurate.
How much competition is there at that price point?

To me being able to outlay such a small amount to get some space stuff done creates a situation like early PCs. They look like weak computers but you when you get some capability into so many more hands people start figuring out unexpected uses for it.
As someone who disagrees with Trump almost always, I feel like this is not a good point to harp on because most people realize he wasn't really suggesting people inject disinfectants, just musing. When conservatives see this kind of mischaracterization it just solidifies their beliefs that his critics are always wrong about him.

I am more upset about the fact he still doesn't seem to believe masks are very useful.
Well Chrome OS at least can install any Debian app. They work pretty well too and are the closest thing Chrome OS has to native desktop apps.
"first and second world" does a pretty good job covering it since there's plenty of nations that are formerly in the USSR's sphere of influence that aren't exactly rich but don't have to worry about cartel type violence.

Pretty much nobody likes to think that way though because the majority of the time "developed nations" are brought up it's in the context of how the US should be more like western Europe and it's usually ideologically convenient to leave Eastern Europe out of those kinds of comparisons.
I'm not making the connection. If encoded data is allowed (unencrypted), why isn't it already dominated by general purpose digital comms?
You can't use Sweden as a counterfactual for the US (or any other country aside from their nearest neighbours) because their culture is so different. Most people in Sweden live by themselves, it's a reasonably socially-distant culture by default, etc. Saying that it is what happens if you don't lockdown or close schools isn't comparing apples with apples.
Interestingly this release moves OpenCV to the Apache2 license, budgeted for 1+ manweeks[0], RISC-V optimizations, and Julia bindings.

[0]: https://github.com/opencv/opencv/wiki/OE-32.--Change-OpenCV-...
A few things might help you deal with the anxiety:

* There seems to be basically no fomite risk, at least in a home setting

* A small number of specific spaces are especially prone to spread. The japanese warn of the three c’s: closed spaces, crowds, close contact. So like don’t go to a bar, but do go to a library where everybody has masks. Or do do go a park where everything is ventilated

* Lots of cases may be asymptomatic. But if you get an asymptomatic infection, who cares? People aren’t reporting their smell is a bit diminished. They’re reporting it is temporarily gone. It’ll be pretty bloody obvious.

To be frank, it sounds like you have inaccurately weighed up symptoms and transmission methods. This has led to a lot of behaviours in the physical world which reinforce your anxiety, but give you a reinforced inaccurate view of the state of the world.

I’ve read lots of covid papers. Have not heard of drooping face as a common sign.

I live in a completely locked down area with a surging virus count. And I’m pretty cautious....about a small set of activities which are highly risky. I’m not however worried in general, as the transmission vectors seem pretty known and there’s a whole swath of things I can do that are basically zero risk.

To give an analogy, it’s like you’re worried about a frame crushing car crash while driving in a school zone. Or fiddling with your seatbelt tightness and worried it may not be optimal for safety, when the main determinants of car safety are actually personal alertness, time of day, etc. But if you adopted a whole bunch of wrong behaviours while driving a car it would absolutely reinforce anxiety!

To some extent anxiety is an irrational process. But I do think it has some basis in the physical world and by really going over what risks are and what risks aren’t you can tame it and reason with it somewhat. Good luck!
This has to be satire or finely tuned cynicism. I regret that it not being tagged as such may mean someone takes it seriously.

But I quite like the writing style.
I don't read any humor in it at all. What's supposed to be funny about it?

I can imagine someone wanting to hire an engineer more talented than they are and so asking questions that they themselves wouldn't be able to answer. That just seems logical rather than ironic.

I feel like it would bias your selection towards a fast moving hacker rather than a more methodical person, but that may be exactly what you're looking for in this context.
If Desktop Linux was as influential as server Linux, you bet (post Ballmer) Microsoft would be on board. Look at how quickly Microsoft moved on Office for the iPad and Android after Ballmer left the company.

Ballmer era Microsoft was dogmatic "Microsoft Everywhere". Post Ballmer Microsoft is pragmatic. It's a huge contrast. Desktop Windows is no longer the center of Microsoft's strategy, they are now much more cloud focused. Office and Azure, are their big profit centers. Ballmer would be rolling over in his grave[1] if he knew how far down the pecking order Windows had fallen.

[1] I know
It also disables the ability to view weather on my phone at a glance or button press. I have to Google "city name weather"
> The rule of law doesn't exclude an employer deciding an employee is more trouble than they're worth outside of some very specific situations (class protection, etc.).

"Rule of law" refers to "judgment in a court on the basis of a codified law" as opposed to "mob rule" where the mob takes it upon itself to determine who is guilty. My point is that I hope we can agree that the mob is bad at determining who is guilty and what an appropriate sentence ought to be, and this is why we have rule of law.

> a group of people can organize to petition an employer to remove an employee for behavior A, and the employer can evaluate A and decide whether the group's claims are untrue, A should be removed for the behavior, or it's not worth the time to decide and A should be removed to quiet the group. Good employers won't do 3...

The problem, of course, is that employers have a fiduciary responsibility that reliably overrides their moral responsibility in practice. And naturally, cancel culture depends on this basic fact, or else it would be ineffective. If employers were able to resist the mob, then the mob wouldn't get its way. If the mob and the employer were really righteous then the employer would terminate the errant employee without pressure from a mob (there would be no point).

Personally I think we should make it harder for employers to terminate their employees for their private free speech, such that mobs can "protest" employee behavior but they can't even implicitly threaten the employee's livelihood and access to health care. If you remove the mob's ability to control one's employment, then they can shout into the Twitter void to their heart's content with my full blessing.
>That does not, however mean that I want Facebook to have the power to decide what ideas get traction.

I know this is part of the point you're making, but that ship has sailed long ago.
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Yes I wonder that me too, and also, what does "considered them windfall" mean? Not a native speaker, sorry

It means the politicians looked at the profits they could get from the taxes, as apples and fruit that had fallen from the trees (because of a wind), and they could pick it up with no effort?
The question isn't whether it's technically plausible to do this, the question is whether there's a compelling reason to do it. Is there really any indication that Microsoft feels like Windows is approaching the same kind of dead end that the original Mac OS was at in the late 90s which led them to "rebase" it onto NeXTStep?
The fetishization of speed in SV culture is too much. It's not IOI.
Well, I'm guessing that what's happening isn't "the car doesn't have a mobile connection so Ferrari can't talk to it " - it has literally broken down in some way. Maybe there's even a second side to this story - they severed a wire when installing the seats or something like that.
I don't think this is satire. It just delights in being realistic. This is how FAANG (and Stripe) interviews work. You play the game to get paid (and contribute to the company). Some people might disagree with the IQ comments (but former presidents of Harvard and many in SV like to thwart people's assumptions here as a form of loose, survivorship bias, imho).

IMHO, he's being honest. Interviewing and capitalism is super imperfect currently (life isn't clean like logic). It's part of the game. One goal is to change the game.

I thought his sections on Judgement and Personality were pretty good / show experience. Though for some of this there are more targeted ways that FAANG does this (Amazon leadership principles, Googleyness, Netflix freedom and responsibility etc.) - but I agree with him the signal is mostly around those who prepare for it (as it is with just about all tests; the SAT, etc.).
FWIW, I didn't read the the comment this way, and it doesn't seem like "the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says".

From the HN guidelines: Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
I'm no authority, but as far as it goes the author probably encountered plenty of actual upper class americans at ivy league schools. I was inspired to watch a few episodes of the West Wing to see if I could sus out what he was talking about. I could pretty easily tell that Aaron Sorkin wrote it from a middle class perspective that fetishized and idealized wealth, education and power that he did not himself possess. I can see why ivy leaguers would like it, since it flatters them at every chance.
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Who do you give more leeway to, your friend who was great for a long time and has been kind of a dick lately, or the asshole who made your sister cry, punched your best friend, and lied to your fiancee causing her to break up with you, but now says they've changed?

Usually you try to stay as far away from that person as you can. If they want redemption they should find it with a new set of people. They set that bridge on fire while we asked them not to. They watched it burn. They gloated the entire time. The ashes have washed away but many of us remember.
> Views changed because of millions of one-on-one conversations between people who disagreed on gay marriage.

That is not actually how it happened.
Are neck gaiters worse than no mask at all?
Oops – my apologies!

I would say the only time I've been surprised by media's portrayal of people in the US is when I've visited Florida – turns out Florida man isn't just a stereotype after all!

Joking aside, I think I've traveled enough and met enough people from all over the world that if I ever did let my opinion of people be (overly) prejudiced by what I saw in various media it was probably so long ago that I can't recall. I try to keep as open a mind as I can.

So, no, I don't really recall any time stateside that I've been surprised that people were different from their media portrayal. But I will say this, as a European I often hear people say that Americans are ignorant gun toting maniacs, and it makes me sad. The US is vast, incredibly diverse, and while I certainly have met an ignorant person or two along the way I'd say the majority of people I've met are fine people just trying to go about their business – pretty much like it is everywhere else. Maybe it helps that I don't follow the news very much.

We may speak different languages, eat different foods and watch different shows, but my firm belief is that at the end of the day if we're all pretty similar after all.
Because even if the post office wasn't deliberately crippled by management (in my area, 40% of sorting machines were disabled in August, I don't know how many were able to be put back into service), this election will likely have much
higher than normal mail-in ballet counts, so by delivering mine by hand, that's one less piece of election mail the USPS needs to handle.

Oh, and though this is probably obvious, I'm dropping at the box at City Hall, because I know that one's legit.
Th O.C. Register has featured, now, two of the most bananas news stories I’ve heard this year—and that’s saying a lot!

“Grand jury transcripts give peek into minds of OC deputies who lied about booking evidence” (10-3-2020)

https://www.ocregister.com/grand-jury-transcripts-give-peek-...
> There are many worse scenarios than that.

Then why aren't they the "here's why we need an APC" argument? Or are they largely theoretical?
Well I just quickly tested, and NoScript doesn't seem to block that, whereas it would if it were externally loaded or inline JS on a web page.

So that's one difference. Not that the type of person to use NoScript would likely paste obvious javascript into the address bar...

Edit: Doesn't look like you can create a valid URL with that format, but it can be launched via pasting in (obviously), a bookmark (which the contents of which could be obfuscated by telling a user to drag an image to the bookmark bar and click it), and can be launched via command line, e.g.

start firefox "data:text/html,<script>alert('');</script>"
What a great OS, its low latency make the mouse motion almost instantaneous. I can only imagine what feels like to use it paired with a crt monitor.
I get that this is putatively "satirical," but the section about IQ is really inexcusable: look at the citations. Two wikipedia articles, one seemingly reputable blog, and.... gwern.net, the ravings of a racist crank whose shtick involves routinely cites racist psychologists to make false arguments about whether IQ is "impossible to improve."

In general idea that IQ has biological significance, and linking to anyone who approvingly cites The Bell Curve's most controversial parts, are both dangerous. More to the point - it's not dangerous because it's "taboo facts," it's dangerous because it's misinformation which has been discredited by decades of science.

If Slava is being "ironic" or "satirical" with this garbage then he needs to make it more clear, or just delete the entire section.