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> we might need to protect the Uber driver who voluntary gets into their car.

By "protect" you seem to suggest "outlaw the thing they want to do".

Can you imagine how outraged you'd feel, to be treated the way you're suggesting treating others?

How would you like for the state to say:

"Hey, /u/slg, for your own protection, you're not allowed to eat sugar anymore. It is now illegal to buy and sell sugar. You'll be fined if you try to purchase sugar, and if you're found with sugar in your house, you'll be taken to jail. These threats are, of course, for your protection, as the harmful effects of sugar are well-established."
‘Cancel our vacation because we aren’t allowed to travel because of the coronavirus pandemic’

Is that different? People believe crazy things, be it lizard people or homeopathy, the choice to let it destroy your relationships is yours.
New functionality means new bugs and breaking changes to old functionality. Sometimes the trade-off is worth it, but don't like being forced to update when it isn't.
This article seems to view “APIs” as a monolithic concept wherein the trade-offs required are the same under all circumstances.

Particularly for public-facing APIs, unless you want to maintain a client library in every language your users could conceivably want — or make them shoulder the burden of dealing with the up-front costs of a far more complex integration that requires a bunch of tooling — plain old JSON over HTTP is going to be very difficult to beat for its familiarity and simplicity.

And that isn’t even to consider the various technical hurdles involved in using something like gRPC in a browser on the other side of a load balancer, for example.
There are a lot more Apple devices in the US than in China.

edit:
Some data:

US: 15 million iPhones in Q2 2020 [0]

China: ~3 million in 2019 total [1]

[0] https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/sales-us-coronavirus-3794157...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/09/apple-stock-hits-new-all-tim...
It's also decades old and positively crap if you try and treat it like you would a modern programming language. It's way too difficult a problem to do on a whim but quite a lot of time in academia is just thrown down the pit of LaTeX (be that due to incompetence or the design being older than various principles e.g. DRY)

LaTeX is certainly the best LaTeX, but it doesn't really have that many competitors.
Journalists and users interpreted their research to be the company’s marketing direction and part of how they created their users’ experience, rather than data revealing mass user behavior. Blame the messenger, reaction. Also, revealing parts of the sauce is perhaps more advantageous to competitors than may have been anticipated. They just don’t benefit much as a company when the reactions to published research becomes yet another thing for PR to manage.
Australia didn't lock down immediately.
Progressives are widely known for things like increasing the minimum wage, expanding access to health care, or legalizing drugs. I've never heard progressives pushing for forced public apologies.
The sense of security is literally the reason why facebook ad hoaxes exist, nothing more.

A claim that "buying Apple makes you safer" makes one less safe, due to perception of extra safety.
Kind of a useless comment. Obviously there's personal preference. You switch from notebook PC to desktop/external monitors at 13". Others go from tablet to notebook to desktop. Etc. Sounds like something for your blog.

Pretty obvious that there's a market for all of these considering that Apple has high-end devices targeting each segment. Pretty obvious there is utility along the spectrum for all individuals.
What Uber did is standard GAAP. Educate yourself on principal vs agent model.

Revenue is a well defined term and you can’t change the term just because you say “non-GAAP”. The SEC would step in because it’s obviously misleading.
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So, when can people say they really use nix? Can you just look in their github repos and call it a day?
I'm far beyond the point of having any shame about the fact that I have about 2500 hours in this game.

This game only starts when you launch your first rocket.

Building huge Megabases is where the real fun lies for me, and that's probably true for most players.

Trying for a target such as consumption of 10K science packs per minute, sustained. The size of that kind of factory is beyond anything, but it is awesome.

Unfortunately, I'm discovering that my DDR3 era PC can't cope with such large bases, I need faster gear...
Australia has always seemed like the ultimate nanny state. Seems like they are one of the frontrunners in the anti-encryption debate. Mail is heavily scrutinized, etc.

But for some measurement, it seems to work. Drugs are insanely expensive in aus.
Not sure what happened with my formatting in my above comment, but they should read 4 x 10^28 etc.
Title should be changed to reflect that this is for _virtual_ machines:

>LazySSH is an SSH server that acts as a jump host only, and dynamically starts temporary virtual machines.

>If you find yourself briefly starting a virtual machine just to SSH into it and try something out, LazySSH is an attempt to automate that flow via just the ssh command. LazySSH starts the machine for you when you connect, and shuts it down (some time after) you disconnect.

I would love for a capability like this to be extended to physical machines. I have a dozen SuperMicro servers with IPMI interfaces, an HP server with fully licensed ILO, and a Dell server with a BMC. Being able to control when these go on/off would be very nice.
The blog post describes only the billing advantages of the "single vendor" approach like AWS or Microsoft. But the other half of it is much more important, and that's the security/compliance aspect. You know that anything you buy from AWS or Microsoft is engineered to a common set of security / privacy standards, and that whatever those standards are have been audited by governmental customers etc. Of course they're not perfect, but there is a definite increased security risk in having your corporate data sit inside 20 different companies vs. 1.
people are so strangely pliant about these loyalty programs.
TL;DR

> Client PC products by year-on-year shipment growth, Q3 2020

Desktop -32%, laptop +30%, tablet +42%
The idea than a bird will "grow faster than their limbs can handle" is scientifically inaccurate.

Excess of drama always decreases the strength of the message (in my opinion). I understand that some people has invested so much in building their own identity around a bias bubble that can be really hard to break it and go out, but not all animals are raised as you claim (and living in a bubble is not healthy).
No contest.

I'm just a westerner reading reports from other westerners. I'm relating my perception, as gleaned from western media.

"The characterization of Hong Kong..."

IIRC, I read there's a huge swing in the self identification of HK residents from "Chinese" to "Cantonese". Slim evidence, I know. But maybe directionally correct?

"Xinjiang and Tibet..."

I didn't say that. Western media has related that ethnic Tibetans and traditional Muslims have struggled, since I began reading the news in high school (80s).
> Imagine you're living through the events described in the essay. You know exactly where things are heading and that the situation is dire.

While your question is interesting, isn't this exactly the problem? People didn't know where things were headed.

> How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even now. Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice—‘Resist the beginnings’ and ‘Consider the end.’ But one must foresee the end in order to resist, or even see, the beginnings. One must foresee the end clearly and certainly and how is this to be done, by ordinary men or even by extraordinary men? Things might have. And everyone counts on that might.

We know things can go off the rails but we can't know when that process is occurring. We can only look back and decide that it has already occurred. If we manage to stay on the rails, we'll tell ourselves that we were never close to the edge.
It is completely false that this Passed purely because they spent alot of money

Your belief on that is based on reporting bias, reporters never talk about when an initiative's that went counter to the HUGE amounts of money poured in (for or against), for example the Right to repair in MA which has huge money from all the major auto manufacturers, and an ad campaign claiming that if you voted for right to repair rapists would get your garage codes...

It is click bait to talk about how "company X bought regulation" but it is rarely true, even in CA there were a few ballot measures this year that failed even with massive amounts of money being spent on supporting them.

Money in politics if often used as a scapegoat to explain away why some issue failed, or some issue succeed with out having to accept the fact that majority disagreed with you, as it often hard to admit that the majority rejects your world view
Out of curiosity, which part, the Pool vs. X, or the driver incentives are marketing? Also, always happy to do some more reading especially if you have some references.

To be clear, Uber does use non-GAAP accounting in the form of both EBITDA and "segment-adjusted EBITDA", the latter of which excludes stock comp, platform operating expenses, corporate expenses, accounting, lobbying, etc.

Regarding the SEC, they are actually quite upset about the use of non-GAAP accounting, and have begun taking enforcement action against companies which give prominence to non-GAAP numbers.
> I was quite clearly talking about the ability to run an alternative OS on the platform.

I got it, and explained how it will hurt monetization of their product. Android is a different story with different (I dare say way more scummy) strategies of monetization.

The point is you can't have a convenient platform which doesn't produce revenue allowing to make it convenient and rewarding the investment.
Being a contractor means setting your own contracts. Choosing hours is part of that, but you can offer flexible hours to part-time employees to the extent your business permits, nothing saying you can't.
I liked this. It can be read as a very timely articulation of the age-old human obsession with platonic ideals. The quest for 'the seamless flow of information' is so much like the quest for true democracy, spiritual enlightenment, immortality, a unified scientific theory, artificial consciousness, transcendence before it... In the end we always re-discover that our noble ambitions don't free us from our mortal and earth-bound bodies, and that makes us feel sad. We're not gods after all, we're monkeys who managed to self-evolve the hair off of our bodies and are, for the present moment, transfixed by programmable glowing rectangles ... Importantly, this failure to be anything more is what reconnects us to ourselves. Albert Camus comes to mind:

“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
For reference, the 1050 Ti card is considered the minimum spec at many AAA game studios.
Or stated another way, the US isn't scared of Russia and/or China because it has those carriers.
Out parameter would generally be possibly uninitialised memory in which the function will put the output data, rather than allocated memory which the function will fill.

Out parameter is literally just a workaround for the lack of MRV, the callee still controls the allocation.

For instance `pthread_create` uses an out parameter:

pthread_t threadId;
int err = pthread_create(&threadId, NULL, &threadFunc, NULL);

the first parameter is uninitialised memory, it's only written to by the function. If C had tuples / MRV you'd say

(int err, pthread_t threadId) = pthread_create(NULL, &threadFunc, NULL);

instead.

But might still use a "destination passing" function, because the point of destination-passing is to make the caller control the allocation, and allow amortisation. "Destination passing" is pretty common in low-ish level Rust APIs for instance, while "out" parameters is largely forbidden (you'd need a function taking a reference to a MaybeUninit or such nonsense).
Can you say more? Is there a thermodynamic interpretation of, say, the Halting problem? (Or P vs. NP?)
> if you're actually dealing with a genuine person or group who you've genuinely wronged then a real apology is warranted

A pitfall of this mentality, at least in my experience, is that people I hurt are usually much better judges of whether I hurt them than I am.

Something I learned that helped is: you can hurt someone without being wrong. "I regret that my actions had this effect on you," is a good place to start a conversation when I'm not (yet?) convinced I would have done anything differently in hindsight.

Often, simply acknowledging that someone has been hurt by my actions, and trying to understand why, has yielded far better outcomes than sticking with my judgment. Both in that they affected party feels better, and in that I get to add a new dimension to my understanding of social dynamics.

It often doesn't matter how legitimate someones' complaint is according to my personal worldview; what matters is how the affected feel.
1) Any serious company won’t want to talk mxmpawn the person, but rather mxmpawn the company. Make sure this is in place before starting out.

2) Don’t make the mistake of charging $MONTHLY_SALARY/168. You need to cover taxes, sick days, vacation, equipment, insurance and other business costs (look up the term “fully loaded cost”). Where I’m at (Sweden), a good rule of thumb is to take your fully loaded hourly cost and multiply it by 2.

3) Unless you’re in a shaky market, devs are always in demand and you’ll be able to find work if your contracting doesn’t pan out.

Good luck! It’s a helluva ride and I recommend it to everyone!
Remember that Acosta stated that the US intelligence community approached and pressured him to limit charges to Epstein because Epstein was one of their agents. The implication here is that the sex trafficking to people in power was being used by US intelligence to get compromising material and leverage of leaders - which would not only be a significant scandal for US intelligence but also sufficient motivation for Epstein assassination/disappearing.
"LaTeX-2030" is shadowed in search engine results by hits for rubber gloves. Can you share a project link, if there is one?
Yeah, it's a both/and, I think.

The Q. was about changes to norms, and the Imperial President norm is just bad, not new.

But no one wants to limit it, in case they win next time.
I had the honor of being a student of his. I was a high school student while attending college there thanks to a Texas program for gifted kids. As a professor he’s quite the character with his beard and his rat tail and his funny mannerisms. If you think his online notes are good, well, his lectures were an order of magnitude better those of than any other calculus class I’ve been part of. I wish he would make them available online.
Hi dang -- I appreciate what you're trying to do, but please understand it was neither my intent to start one or perpetuate a flame war, nor was my comment inflammatory in any reasonable sense of the word. Seems unfair to single me out here, given how perfectly bland my comment was, especially when compared to other comments made in this thread.
Apple ProRAW will capture 12-bit Raw DNG with up to 14 stops of dynamic range
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> Do you think that all people are born with the innate ability to master computers, programming, and other technical tasks?

No. That is besides the point.

There is a big difference in knowing how to repair a computer, how to program a computer and how to do technical tasks with a computer.

Repairing a computer normally involves identifying the part that is faulty and replacing it. On a desktop PC that is relatively because the components go together like Lego pieces tbh. My father managed to replace the memory in his ageing desktop computer by just looking for what the parts were in the machine and just replacing them. He barely understands how to use a keyboard (he highlights each letter with the mouse and presses delete)

I am good at programming computers but I don't understand how Excel works past very basics. My friend who can't "program" with something like a text editor or IDE, she will quite happily do all sorts of complicated tasks with sheets and cells in it all day.

> Just as not all people are born with innate ability to write a good novel, paint a masterpiece, write a symphony, or lead a nation, I'd say no.

I never claimed the opposite.

However there are plenty of people while they can't write a symphony can start up their own metal tribute band and make quite a lot of money.

You are painting it as a binary of people that can't do something and people that have mastered something. There are plenty room inbetween.

This place is called hackernews and I have explain this point sooo verbosely. This must be satire.

> But all people are born with the ability to live their own life and learn how best to do it in the direction that seems natural for themselves.

Some aren't actually. I have a friend that looks after seriously mentally ill people. They must be cared for almost 24/7. There is one lad he told me about that will masturbate in public because he has no concept of it being socially unacceptable due to having somethign similar to asbergers IIRC.

> You are confusing the spirit of this discourse.

I don't think so.
What is tempting about this? This benchmark shows that the M1 performs marginally worse than the low-end sku from 3 generations ago.
Did you even read the wording of the prop?

What you are describing is completely wrong. It's incredible how short sighted people get when they want to go all out and lash at the "evil" gig economy companies. Like really, the wording is publicly available for you to read.

Engaged time is time from accepting the gig, to the time the gig ends. Waiting is included. That's it.
Does anyone here work in an environment where every mistake warrants public shaming? Sounds like a hostile environment to me. What am I missing?
The industry has the choice of changing or ever racing ahead of AWS, who can take their potential customers merely by already being in the purchasing database.
That could be a part of the contract between driver and uber. You cannot sell to our (uber) clients while offering a service for us.

The driver can set his/her own prices. When they decide which rideshare to use many use price to determine who they want to work for. If they decide Uber they get a scaling scale / surge pricing.

The driver doesn't set the customer price. They can only control the price Uber pays them.. some have asked for more and some have walked over it.
It's time to stop using ES5
Just a couple of weeks ago people were worrying about Ant being a "national security threat", and you ask why they'd rather IPO in Shanghai than in a country that sees them as a threat?
> I thought copyrights on numbers were deemed invalid?

They are invalid. It's interesting since it implies copyright itself must be invalid.

All intellectual property is data, information, a collection of bits... Also known as a number. Copyrighted works are actually just numbers. Really big numbers. Creators are just trying to discover those numbers through their labor.
Covid is also airborne, but Measles is almost absurdly infections. We quantify this stuff with the basic reproduction number.

Measles Aerosol R0 12–18 vs COVID-19 Respiratory droplets and aerosol R0 2–6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number
To some extent, the circulation of natural flu cases, of routine non-severe varieties, serves as a natural 'booster' refreshing immunity against related strains.

For example, every once in a while, a new flu strain hits a certain younger or middle-aged cohort much harder than usual, because some other strain decades ago left lingering immunity in yet-older people. Examples:

2014 flu season: https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2014/10/flu-hi...

1977-78 Russian flu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H1N1...

As a result, this season of abnormally-low flu infections may not be unvarnished good news. When normal interaction levels recur, we may see a rebound of flu cases – in numbers & severity – from all the people who didn't get a typical mild seasonal re-exposure. Decades from now, people may suffer for having missed a survivable-exposure-while-young. Time will tell.
Kinda, Lee Kuan Yew was prime minister from 1959 to 1990 (and died in 2015, RIP). Goh Chok Tong took over in from 1990 to 2004, and Lee Hsien Loong has been in power since. It's been 30 years since Lee Kwan Yew left office.
I would start with LittleSnitch [1] Don't block things by default. Let it learn traffic and show you what is talking to what. Then sort out what things you want to block. I suggest this method because some of the flows won't be obvious if you start selectively blocking things from the start. Make notes of the IP's, CIDR blocks and domains that are problematic and block them on the edge of your network on a monthly basis using data derived from LittleSnitch.

You can also find some blogs and forums that discuss what applications are not critical and that you can "launchctl unload -wF" safely to minimize chatter and improve battery life. Ensure the sites specifically call out the version of MacOS you are on, as these things change with each release.

[1] - https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
Show me studies where static typing is shown to be superior to any of the other options. I'm not saying it's bad, but I'm irritated by the tone which assumes it knows things which it does not.
Amazing read, thanks for the link!
Google Tour Builder will be shut down in July 2021
It sends a hash of every executable you launch to Apple, how would that not be considered telemetry?
is the idea here that my browsing state is synced, but I switch browsers? No, not what I want.
> When I studied CS and electrical engineering we started with 120 students... 15 students made it in regular time

That sounds like a shockingly badly organised course with many barriers to success. Such barriers to success are likely to fall harder on women and minorities (who are more likely to have caring duties, less support in their social network, and will face general discrimination).

With even the facts you have given, it would be unsurprising to me that disproportionately few women bother to apply: even ridiculously fewer women start than on a typical course.

I would be embarrassed if I were an educator or organiser for that course.

> Would you also think that nurses discriminate against men?

No. Although this is not directly analogous to anything I have said, I am giving a good faith answer. I think that nursing is an underpaid profession because it is seen as women's work - just as caring work is often unpaid. I'm not aware that men face significant barriers when they choose to enter nursing.

The careers in which men are over-represented and women are under-represented tend to be highly-paid and/or prestige jobs. So, that's quite a different situation and points to societal discrimination by gender against women.

Computer Science as an industry is relevant here in that: women were initially over-represented, until it came to be seen as a prestige career and started garnering higher pay, and now they are increasingly under-represented.