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When my aunt died of cancer[1] at age 55 after fighting it for 20+ years I flew into Chicagoland for the funeral and stayed at her house. The guest bedroom closet was packed with Disney trinkets; just stuffed from floor to ceiling. And that was in addition to the trinkets elsewhere or which she gave away.

Everybody in the family knew she loved taking her grandchildren to Disney World at least once or twice year. Over the years we had several family reunions there. What few of us ever knew was that she would steal trinkets from the gift shops every chance she could. As she lived with both type 1 diabetes and cancer, she always carried around one or two huge bags with food and medicine which she would stuff with her loot.

According to my uncle (her brother) she did it as a way of taking control over her somewhat hard-luck life, which also included getting pregnant at 16 and other hardships. I don't know the extent to which he knew beforehand, or if he had ever spoken with her about it. I think it's mostly a guess of his based on the fact that, apparently, such mischievous habits are a not uncommon stress response behavior. But I have no reason to doubt that the items were indeed stolen; her husband and daughter confirmed it.

[1] AFAIU, over the years she had multiple types of cancer, including breast cancer; not just a metastasis of one type. She was one of the longest survivors of the form that killed her. (Don't know the name.) She kept miraculously responding to various experimental treatments for years until she didn't; and then they stopped admitting her to new programs. I still vividly remember once getting a frantic call in the middle of the night after she was refused entry into an experimental program. She was desperate to find and pull on any string, and she begged me to query any friends who were doctors, scientists, w'ever. The diabetes was both a curse and blessing as it caused her to become exceptionally skillful and consistent at controlling her diet and lifestyle, which presumably helped her respond well to the various cancer treatments. She was also tenacious. She never stopped fighting for a single second. No courageously poetic acquiescence for her. Her last night she tried to stay awake for as long as she could, knowing she'd never wake up.
Then why don't you try it and see if it work for you. Way more productive than endless speculation.

I see the irony that is your attempt to dismiss these labels is just a way to label these people as self-aggrandizing fraud. In absence of evidence isn't it wiser to not assume such a stand?
Oh wow that's a really old machine.
Oh, perfect timing! Some coworkers were starting to consider Bamboo to replace Jenkins, but since our use case demands 100% on-prem, now I don’t have to waste my time evaluating it. We can throw it into the “inherently unfit for purpose” category and move on other products.

If we’d bought Bamboo a month ago, I’d be ready to develop a temper.
Yup. I agree it's translucent. Even without the diffusion layers I added, LCD displays are not really transparent. They block a lot of light due to the pair of polarizes on either side of a panel. I found that the term "transparent LCD" was used in industry wherever people use LCD panels without a blocking backer, so I used this term also.
It is hands down the best implemented e-commerce site. Just ordered some SS stud anchors from there today. Didn't bother checking the hardware store for them.

Another distributor that is super strong on the fulfillment side is Digikey. I had a tour of their operation several years ago and it was amazing. I saw orders picked and moving to the UPS truck 10 minutes after payment. Web site not nearly as good as McMaster though.
This is politics in a nutshell.
I get tunnel vision just watching these damn videos. I don't know how they do it with so much at stake, especially when it's down to the wire and they are passing back and forth on roasted tires. It feels superhuman. Then you hear Guy Martin 'talk' and it all makes sense. :D
That instruction is super overrated. It has next to no architectural cost - all it does is specify a constant set of rounding and overflow flags instead of using the current fpu state. The only real win is a code size reduction.

JavaScriptCore didn’t even use it when it was first made available because that operation is relatively uncommon and the cost is dominated by the fpu logic that precedes rounding - so it essentially does not matter for real world js. It may be possible to make a micro benchmark that it helps, though I doubt it.
Sounds perfect for a Chromebook.
Thanks, I didn't know this happened although apparently KPMG is still not actually headquartered in the UK it is now a UK company.
While an interesting read, it felt a bit manufactured to me, and there was no detail on why she concluded he had a crush. I hate do say this, but it felt like a part truth, part fiction crafted to monetize her medical condition, and not a good one at that because her husband's voice was completely absent (perhaps deliberately so).
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This. I've had two ex-partners who fall somewhere down that spectrum (one diagnosed) and they both really enjoyed MDMA (one having abused it in the past and one bordering on unhealthy regularity).

They just enjoy feeling really good.

My most recent ex also really enjoyed psychedelics, but as far as I could tell she had qualitatively very different experiences from me - not so much of the psychedelic/mystical/connecting aspects and more of recreational enjoyment and to some limited extent self-exploration. Her deepest realization was that she appreciated hanging out with her childhood friend. She never had a bad or dark trip or any of the anxiety.

I think it's a mistake to believe that these things affect different psyches similarly.
I'm in north centralish Mass and my property taxes are about $4K on a $300K-$400K property so that seems very high.
I guess if it's a man you might have tampons on hand, or some slightly more embarrassing feminine necessity.

But I can't really imagine caring on the other side of that.
i am sorry. you are right.
> "Pippi and the Moomins remind us that madcap humour and imaginative storytelling can convey humanistic ideas at least as powerfully as a more literal approach. "

"Moominpappa at Sea" is one of my favorte books of all time. All of the moomin books feel important and significant even that the characters are inocuous or even silly. It is easy to understand how many people missed the more adult messages of the books. But, that same style allowed children to enjoy the stories without overwhelming them.

It is a shame that in places like Japan, the characters are very well known, but the books are shadowed by the animated version. The characters are fantastic, thou.

For Pipi, everybody loves the 1969 TV show. I have read a couple of books, and I like them, but I do not have them in such regard as the Moomins books.
A proper philosophy (as contrasted to abstract bullshit) is a systematic attempt to answer just one question: what is?

Philosophy predates sciences and science is just a methodology.
I wonder how much that depended on the population density of a particular place vs its "carrying capacity". I imagine that our hunter gatherer ancestors who lived with more competing groups fighting over diminishing herds probably spent more time/risk defending their turf.
Would it change your opinion if I already have done exactly that and I have been professionally diagnosed as a sociopath? I'm also not accusing anyone of anything. I'm very specifically asking a question and revealing my opinions and reasoning for my opinoin on the matter as a non-expert on the subject.

edit: it should also be noted that the article says she was diagnosed with sociopathy which isn't even in the DSM-5. In fact the word sociopathy appears once in the entire DSM-5 as an incorrect term to describe antisocial personality disorder. Which to me is a red-flag for self-diagnosis.
Before the pandemic, the local pawn shop always had 10-20 used laptops for sale. After, zero.
> But, the big difference in California is that if you inherited property or bought it a long time ago you pay much less property taxes than people who bought homes recently, due to Proposition 13. This means property taxes are not as strong a source of revenue in California compared to other states;

Well, the assessment rule is part of it, but prop 13 also limits the property tax rate as well as the assessments. Even with full-value assessment, California property taxes would be in the bottom half of states due to Prop 13 rate limits alone.
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You don’t speak for we.

I enjoy Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. You don’t have to use them. Why can’t you respect that not everyone likes or wants to use the same websites that you do?
Definitely. If 230 gets repealed, and somebody who had a forum wants to keep running it, they might consult a lawyer for advice. And that lawyer would say, "Don't allow user-created content. It's not worth the risk."

It only makes sense if the user content is the profit-generator and the forum owner ran the numbers and expects to still be profitable even after lawsuits.

So no more hobby forums, YouTube comments (some are good), or internet access in libraries:

>Kathleen R. v. City of Livermore, 87 Cal. App. 4th 684, 692 (2001).[136]
The California Court of Appeal upheld the immunity of a city from claims of waste of public funds, nuisance, premises liability, and denial of substantive due process. The plaintiff's child downloaded pornography from a public library's computers, which did not restrict access to minors. The court found the library was not responsible for the content of the internet and explicitly found that section 230(c)(1) immunity covers governmental entities and taxpayer causes of action.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
Implications of it aside i think this is a wonderful investigation.
No, they mean the Kung Flu.
How the hell is a high-speed rail that's not even as fast or as long as ones already in existence in many other countries around the world a moonshot?
Probably not worth it to add dedicated cores for web processing, but iPhone already takes advantage of special ARM instructions for faster JavaScript execution [0]. That will almost certain be used on the new ARM Macs.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18163433
Thank you sir for your generosity! My wife teaches second grade in a lower income bay area school district, she's rocking a 2012 macbook pro :-( Let's put it this way, the fan is always on what with Zoom, multiple chrome tabs with google classroom and other apps, and an old ipad mini feeding quicktime to serve as a poor man's document camera.
This is a really good question, so I don't know why there are downvotes. There are 2 scenarios: 1) you're trying to learn the notes and 2) you're trying to get it in shape for a performance. It sounds like this software is geared towards scenario 1 where you don't yet know the piece and want to learn it. Generally when learning the piece it's best to fix mistakes as they happen, otherwise your brain sort of subconsciously assumes that was what you intended. Once you have the piece down, then when you make a mistake you want to keep going and pretend it never happened because otherwise the rest of the band will leave you behind. (And for soloists, nobody wants to hear you go back and correct a mistake.)
My employer (large Fortune 500) recently "soft banned" Confluence and Jira, meaning groups already utilizing it can stay on it until our enterprise license runs out at the end of the yearly support contract. At first I thought it was really stupid decision as Confluence, at least, is fantastic product and Sharepoint/Notes (the enterprise replacement solution) is a horrid alternative. One of the admins said there were licensing issues that drove the decision. I figured someone was just being cheap but I bet this was the reason.
I disagree. You say voting equals government by the people. I say voting does not equal government by the people.
People said the same thing about AWS: "Hardware is a commodity, how can they possibly turn a profit renting out hardware?"
I believe you are mistaken to assume (or believe the author's word) that theirs is a functional relationship. Sociopaths are incapable of functional relationships. Every relationship is based on manipulation and exploitation.

That's why when I read the article, all I see is attempted manipulation and exploitation of the reader.
> Ask the single most important question as the first sentence

Exactly. And also, NEVER ask the questions you'd like answers for on Friday afternoon. Or any afternoon in general.

If it doesn't say what it wants in the first sentence or two, I'm hitting delete, unless the email is from my boss. And I currently do not have a boss.
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Firefox aside, I think anyone who took that joke as a serious product idea needs to brush-up on how computers work, how software works, and wha good engineering looks like.
I'm sorry but you are suffering from serious myopia by getting hung up on big sites like Facebook or YouTube. Removing protections for sites hosting content will have a deleterious effect on the entire Internet.

As I said and you conveniently ignore, user generated content would have to be scrubbed from the Internet except from the big players like Facebook that can afford an army of moderators. So first order problem is big sites like Facebook would be the only venues of user generated content.

It also creates a slippery slope for ISPs/hosting companies. It could easily be interpreted that an ISP or hosting company is hosting user generated content, they literally are, so they're liable for that content. They would not carry any content that might make them liable for anything so they'll either shut down or moderate their services such individuals have no means to post their own content. ISPs already restrict or block hosting content, they would only get more draconian if they faved legal liability for someone hosting a site.

You can't suggest a course of action that would consolidate power in big sites like Facebook and then opine about people posting content outside of those sites. There would no longer be an "outside" of Facebook because no small player could ever afford the moderation or insurance against liability.

You might dislike Facebook or YouTube and they might be filled with dreck. They might need their own types of regulation but dooming all user generated content because Facebook's management are assholes is not a fix.

Instead of getting offended when people point out your myopia maybe take a step back and apply some critical thought to your suggestions.
It, uh, helps that I make sure it's visible to others first. Sorry about that. Please check my profile again.
I mean, sure, don't do it if you need the laptop tomorrow.

But if there's a laptop shortage, and you need one for school, and have all summer to sort it out, it's really not that bad.

What we have is really a new laptop shortage, because supply chains got all screwed up. But few people will notice the difference between Intel's 8th and 10th gen CPUs.

We have mountains of "old" laptops that are perfectly usable... They're mostly just a little dirty.
The message it's sending is distinct from the torque sensor reading. There is a dedicated message ID for automated steering inputs, usually used for lane keeping assist and for jiggling the wheel as a departure warning.
Yeah. It took I think a couple days to compile the base system, and several more days compiling desktop stuff and utilities.

It was usable though, albeit very slow.
The way you wrote that, doesn't make sense. The idea behind ANC is that you have some signal, sin(wt+p) from ambient noise, and to it you add -sin(wt+p). The sum of these is zero. You perceive it as silence because it is: you have added the exact opposite of some signal to cancel it out, and the result is zero, no signal whatsoever.

It would be easy to test and demonstrate that the ANC system is properly band-limited and doesn't cause any short term (perhaps imperceptible) noise spikes. I would think any engineer designing this kind of gear would be wary of causing hearing damage by making a design that works the way you suggest.
Not surprised. I modeled company finances in my first internship. We would check the numbers for plausibility, but I'm certain most were still wrong.

For anything serious, I'd probably choose Python/Pandas/Jupyter these days for better reproducibility.
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A company I worked for a few years ago will file for an IPO within the next year. The shares are trading on the secondary markets at a level that would put me over the low to mid seven figure net worth.

I haven't needed a professional financial advisor before but for those who have received an IPO windfall in the past, how did you prepare from a tax and financial planning perspective?
I would presume that the (not unreasonable) assumption is that "verification that a company's books are drawn up according to prevailing requirements." makes it harder to hide fraud.
You are so obviously full of shit. This doesn't work. You do not now, nor have you ever, had a long term partner.
-21, -18, -15, -12, -9, -6, -3, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21 is 14 prefixes.

I think the number of people who could (correctly!) name even half of those is much smaller than you think.
I have literally never seen this. Do you have any links?
Ideally there would be compassion as a driving factor, rather than guilt.
Look out for security compliance, early stage workshops, all kinds of overheads a large org may impose.

Good luck
You need to pay NY taxes, you worked for NY office. If you don't want to pay NY taxes then ask Google to change your office location to NJ.

And NY will demand their taxes 100%.
I assume that so long as you're officially working out of an office in a location and the company won't change your payroll status, that's where you're working out of as far as taxing authorities are concerned no matter what the "public information" is. I'm guessing it's not even especially legit but very few entities are pushing on it at this point--except in cases like this one where there's a big advantage to employees pushing to switch their work location.
Hot-take prediction: this will end up to be one of those situations where other rich countries with a federal system have battle-worn solutions (Germany? Switzerland?) while America wrings its collective hands and says “it could never work?!”
Please send me a mail at hackernews@lamb-chop.co.uk and I'll hook your wife up with something more powerful. I've still got 20 laptops or so to distribute.
> They may do it while being completely ignorant of the movement, but still being a rationalist for all intents and purposes.

If you consider “rationalism” (in the sense of the subject of this thread) to be equivalent to “following a scientific or rational thought process”, then the main question asked in the article becomes nonsensical. “Where are all the successful people who followed rational thought processes?” is a genuinely foolish question, because you can find countless notable examples with no effort at all.

But of course that’s not what the post was asking, and it’s why the poster has a harder time answering the question. The post refers to the very specific Internet phenomenon of “rationalism” which, while cleverly incorporating the notion of rational thought into its name, actually refers to a specific group of people who follow a specific set of teachings.

And those people are massively concentrated in US tech and tech-adjacent areas, largely because that’s where this specific set of beliefs took off first. That’s the causal arrow here.
They also wrap up open source software presto as some aws service.... What's one substantial thing Amazon open sourced ?
Chargen isn't that popular now.

The big things these days are:

spoofers who generate a ton of syns to legit destinations which result in a lot of syn+ack to the victim. Bcp38 would help here.

Botnets generating a ton of UDP to destinations. Hosters, cloud providers (especially those with vulnerable/open EMR clusters) and broadband ISPs with easily compromised customers are the problem here. Kudos to those who take down the botnet command and controls.

Memached/ntp/cldap amplifiers. Still out there, still a problem. Thankfully a few of these services are policed at large peering interconnection points.
For any soon-to-be-ex Atlassian Server (self-hosted) customers, I've set up a Zulip server for discussing alternatives:

https://chat.goodbyeserver.org/

It's an difficult position Atlassian are inflicting on tens of thousands of customers. Atlassian's self-hosted products are uniquely flexible, being built on a plugin architecture, and many orgs have indeed customized Jira extensively with plugins, notably ScriptRunner [1]. Atlassian's Cloud plugins have their APIs, but have nothing like the same flexibility. A lot of functionality just isn't possible in the Cloud architecture. It's a bit like Firefox moving from XUL to an extension API.

In my opinion, the most customer-respecting way forward would be for Atlassian to open-source their discontinued Server product line. Go to the "open core" model with the clustered Data Center product as the upsell. This avoids screwing over their customers, and if their Cloud product really is as good as they say, customers will migrate to it naturally over time. It's the kind of damn-the-torpedoes move I think Mike CB would like.

But over the next 3 years, lots of painful migrating or evaluating-of-alternatives will need to happen, and perhaps a non-Atlassian forum for sharing experiences will help.

[1] https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/6820/scriptrunner-for...
Apparently the shortage of laptops could be because of a shortage of LCD panels [1]:

> As I mentioned in last month’s update, back-to-school

> programs run by large companies created a severe LCD

> shortage on the market. The market, which already suffered

> from low panel volumes (caused by the COVID-19 pandemic),

> has now been practically drained of grade-A LCD panels

> within the target price-range. As I explained last month,

> purchasing from the open market isn’t an option. Open

> market LCD panels come without warranty or reliable

> quality assurance that vendors always offer.

> According to some projections LCD panels ought to be

> available again in December. Granted this projection is

> accurate, we may see new batches available prior to the

> Chinese New Year (February 2021).

[1] https://www.pine64.org/2020/10/15/update-new-hacktober-gear/
> What I am pondering is: would this ruin the Internet?

It would break most of how the internet works today. It would prevent most forms of real time, one to many, communication since a human would first have to moderate it.

Best example is public audio/video conferencing. I watched a conference presentation in real time today, which had real time comments in IRC and an audio/video conference question and answer. Neither of which would have been possible if real time moderation was required.

How would moderation even work for audio/video conferences? As far as I can tell it would not work since no moderation could happen in real time and allow for smooth audio/video conferencing. What if we act as a platform though and claim no responsibility for the content that happens? Then there is no ability to set topics or restrict offensive material etc so any random person(or bot since how would you tell the difference) could streaming in offensive videos or loud noise

Loosing most, one to many, real time communication would be throwing out a considerable amount of value.

Do you have solutions for issues like that?

edit clarifying that I am taling about one to many real time communication.