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Our development environments have been azure VMs for ages.

Latency is not really an issue to be honest. I think ping is about 15ms which is much less than the lag in this article. Right now I'm using the horrible, 2012-era work laptop with just Chrome running and there are delays typing this comment into HN which is a super lean site as it is.

The main downsides are actually

* crap single-threaded performance (don't think Azure has VMs over 3ghz except maybe the highly expensive GPU ones)

* Slow IO

* Video and audio over RDP really doesn't work.. no hardware graphics accel either... reduced ability to work on multimedia, we had one webapp where WebGL wound up behaving differently which we didnt
> "SEC filings: The parent company of Dominion Voting Systems received $400 million from an Investment Bank in Switzerland that is 75% owned by the Chinese government. UBS Securities is a Swiss investment bank which owns 24.99% of UBS Securities Co LTD, a Chinese Investment Bank. The remaining 75% of UBS Securities CO LTD is owned by the Chinese government,” states the report."

Instead of making vague insinuations, why not just make the accusation that you're alluding to?
I've published academic research while working at Google. If I got an emergency request to retract a published paper (note that I would have already followed all the necessary steps for publication approval internally), I'd retract it immediately, if there was a legitimate reason (you can see on retractionwatch the sorts of things that lead to retractions). If there wasn't, I'd ask "can we pause the retraction and figure out a better solution based on data", and if the answer was "no", I'd retract it immediately, but follow up with a vigorous protest.

Industrial researchers and non-PIs (IE, research analyst working in a PI's lab) don't have the same freedom and integrity rights as a PI. To me this seems like a reasonable (and probably the only reasonable) policy for industry.

I don't really think it's dystopian- if a paper I wrote reached the point of needing a retraction it means some serious messup occurred or there's a major PR fiasco.

Note that in this case I am not sure if there was a retraction, or an desubmission- the paper hadn't been published yet so it's not really a candidate for retraction. The term for this is 'withdraw submission'
Rattling your sabre about suing your employer is certainly a career-limiting decision.
Mesa has been growing into a powerhouse of an open source project, much along the lines of the Linux Kernel.
My experience is that the best approach to solving a problem is that you need to do a little of everything, with the emphasis on little. But first you have to understand the problem.
Sky's deal with HBO makes that unlikely.
> The woman in question was fired from the security team for violating IT security policies: in her words, "All I did was make a popup to share the labor notice Google has to share with its workers", something that Google seems to have recurrent problems with staff doing. In other words she was rewriting the contents of web pages to meet her own political objectives.

This paragraph that you just wrote is one of those claims that are wrong and/or misleading
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I should have been more clear in that first line. I don’t understand where the concept of a valuation of a company dropping 1:1 proportionally with its dividend payment came from.
I never understood why people stuck with Lost. I stopped watching about 3 episodes into season 3 when it became obvious that the writers where just making shit up with no attempt at an explanation. Season 2 was really good, added a lot of mystery and it started to feel like something was happening, then season 3 went off a whole other tangent. At that point I turned to my wife and said “they’re dead, this is all just made up from one season to another. You can watch it without me in the future.” And guess what, 7 series later it’s revealed that they were all dead. No shit.

I might not have been the target audience though. People often go nuts for JJ Abrams and I’ve honestly hated almost everything of his I’ve watched. So I’m likely just not the kind of person he is targeting.
You could log in to the email account you haven't given your kid yet?
There’s still an option in accessibility to “Reduce Motion”. It does feel slightly quicker. But most animations are changed by a less visually impactful fade
> I would gladly pay $20 to see new movies in my home

I'm not sure many people would. $20 seems astronomically expensive to me to see a single movie. I don't think I could ever justify that.
> The parent company of Dominion Voting Systems received $400 million from an Investment Bank in Switzerland that is 75% owned by the Chinese government.

Can you explain the scenario you have in mind in which this leads to the Chinese government exerting influence over US elections?
> Everything China is being accused of is and has been done by the US as well.

Is that a confession?
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> Gotcha. The H-1B was first created in the 1950s for aliens of "distinguished merit and ability".

No it wasn't (as your own link clearly states), the H-1 was created in the 1950s, but the the H-1B was created in the 1990 INA, along with statutory dual intent for the H-1 category, and along with the creation of the O-1.
This architecture is flawed, your DNS does not seems very resiliant. Also good luck with DB replication across region and the nasty side effects you can get with out of sync data.

My advice is: have a well designed architecture in a single region with multiple AZ and you will cover most problems.
Try checking HN front page on a different IP and account ;-)
Government's argument rests on the fact that Visa shouldn't acquire Plaid because of the potential technology they might create. This is a really dangerous argument.

This is a direct quote from the plaintiff's argument:

"While Plaid’s existing technology does not compete directly with Visa today, Plaid is planning to leverage that technology, combined with its existing relationships with banks and consumers, to facilitate transactions between consumers and merchants in competition with Visa. Like Visa’s online debit services, Plaid’s new debit service would enable consumers to pay for goods and services online with money debited from their bank accounts."

I'm not a lawyer nor an expert in payments but this seems like a stretch to me.
Colleges require MMR and Hepatitis vaccines already. K12 schools require childhood vaccines. Military requires a TON of vaccines. Companies require them for a lot of workers and some offer discounts on medical insurance for getting vaccinations.
Wow, this seems like one of those name and shame cases. A login shouldn't be expected here.
One of these can now generate the rest of them. I have put it three places. At some point it does it's thing.

At spoint I can stop.

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FastMail is probably the best among the bunch but it's still worse than GMail:

- There is no "always display images from this contact" option if you don't want to load images automatically. You have to click on "show images" every time you read an emai, even from a trusted contact.

- There is no "open mailto: links on FastMail" option on desktop.

- Spam filter is too aggressive. I've missed too many legit mails while trying it.

- Contact list manager is too barebones. There isn't even a "find and merge duplicates" option.
Are reviewers of academic papers not typically anonymous anyway? Or is this some kind of internal review system rather than academic peer review?
> The graphs on this article do not appear to show that the U.S. has decarbonized as much as Germany. I guess I’m missing something?

No, I don't think you are. Unless I'm missing something, too.

Here's another curious thing: The article says

> Meanwhile, during the same 20-year period, the United States reduced the share of fossil fuels in its primary energy consumption from 85.7 percent to 80 percent, cutting almost exactly as much as Germany did.

…but looking at the graphs, they didn't actually cut anything. It's only the relative share in the States' primary energy consumption that decreased but it only did that because the total consumption increased. The absolute amount of fossil energy consumption in the US hasn't really changed since 2000.
> 1) Admit Trump was right about the coastal elites, then expound upon what they are.

It's a common critique. So sure he's right (as I said about fake news and drain the swamp), but I don't see how his actions amount to anything more than a battle between different groups of elites.

> 2) Run on draining the swamp.

No idea what you mean by "run on", but there is no draining going on. Trump is criticizing DC while feasting on it with his set of cronies, the same as every other politician has done.

> 3) Relay the genuine message of Christ as anti-plutocrat, anti-empire.

I can get behind this being the original message of Christ, but invoking Christ from 2k years ago as characteristic of what his supposed followers want to do today is fallacious. The basic lifecycle of social movements is that they're revolutionary at the start, and conservative after they've become an ordinary part of society. Modern anti-plutocrats have moved on to modern memes, and most people calling themselves Christian seem to want more government intervention into our private lives.

> 4) Build bridges instead of identity judgements.

To build a bridge requires common ground. As I said, the problem is there can be no common ground while the red team directs their outrage at the grassroots of the blue team. With Republicans in power, it's the responsibility of the Republican grassroots to criticize their own politicians when they go against our country's ideals. But instead they're cheering on authoritarianism because it hurts the other team more. Where are the Republicans seriously condemning this neo-skinhead movement, which is actually manifesting real world violence?

Ultimately if you want there to be any shred of a conservative party left, you're going to have to admit you were conned and repudiate your current radical populist (ie anti-conservative) figurehead and his destructive message. Until then this Libertarian is voting straight ticket blue in national elections. At least Democrats are talking about the problems we're facing (albeit in terms of misguided solutions, identity politics, big government, etc) rather than pretending they don't exist while getting whipped into a frenzy with patently fake news (latest delusion: "stop the steal").
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> The quality of CGI, special effects, resolution, cameras, etc. are constantly improving

Aren't we already at a diminishing returns point though? In fact I think most people would agree there's lots of movies from 10 years ago with better CGI than many movies from last year. Better tools don't make up for rushing CGI through during post-production.

At some point we certainly get to completely photo realistic CGI where things don't become dated unless the viewing experience significantly changes in an incompatible way. Like the majority of movies becoming VR experiences but I wouldn't bet on a shift like that anytime in the next decade or two.
Tenet was incredible. It’s one of the few movies lately that I spent a lot of time reading about and watching breakdowns and explanations after the movie.
Use as many "base" schemas (namespaces) as needed, and only one `api` schema which has only views & functions you want to expose.

I take this further by having an `api` schema per major version (e.g. `api_v2`). The downside is it becomes impossible to maintain more than 2 major versions at once, so you have to get everyone from v1->v2 before you can make much progress on v3, but the upside is that you should really try to avoid hard breaking changes in the DB very often.
"Discard these votes or we'll defund you."
I've been using it as my only terminal for ~6mo on linux/x11, linux/wayland, and macOS. I picked it because it was fast, simple, and cross-platform. By those criteria I'm very happy with it, never experienced a bug or crash either.
It's also important to note that password rotations are not recommended by NIST as long as the other guidance is also being followed, i.e. password length requirements. I've seen people quote small sections of NIST recommendations while missing out on the context.
So why does Microsoft go the translation route instead of emulation?
It's a bit presumptuous to dismiss all of HN as having the same opinion, when you yourself are voicing a contrary opinion on HN itself.
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It made sense when I listened to the “How I built it” podcast with Steve Case and AOL which discusses how truly terrible Time Warner is. So many fiefdoms. Rife Design by committee...
Wow. If I understood its capabilities right, minisketch seems indistinguishable from magic.

Would you please clear a bunch of things:

0. Is my understanding that total elements in a set doesn't matter (afa reconcilation is concerned), right? See #1.

1. If Alice knows for sure there have been, say, 50 new additions (or rather, updates to existing elements) of elements of size 10 bits each (to a set of say 100M total other unchanged elements) since the last sync with Bob, does a sketch(10, 0, 50) by Alice cover all changes Bob needs to see or sketch(10, 0, 100) is needed?

2. A sketch(10, 0, 100) would occupy atmost 10x100 bits? Or, atleast 10x100 bits?

3. What's state of the art in set-reconciliation research right now apart from Pin Sketches?

4. Do implementations in other languages exist?

An ask:

1. A WASM executable would be great.

Thanks!
I don't have much to say about her research or Google, really. I don't know much about AI or this group she's in, or her for that matter. But I'm all for diversity in tech and women's rights, etc.

What strikes me is how out of touch she seems to be. We're in the middle of pandemic and millions of people are out of work. The worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. However, due to luck, her credentials and research, she has been able to continue working for one of the top companies in the world and is even able to take a vacation. Good for her.

And yet, while on vacation, she makes demands of her employer that perhaps she was aware they wouldn't/couldn't meet.

I'm stunned by the if you don't accept my conditions, I'll deal with you, when I'm good and ready, when I get back from vacation. Like, how out of touch and tone deaf is this?

Anyway, the first thing she does, after rage quitting, is to run to Twitter to complain. She even said on Twitter that she didn't have a lawyer and wanted to find one ASAP. Honestly, everything Google did seems perfectly reasonable. Is her behavior unbecoming of a manager? Based on what I saw on Twitter, I'd say 'Yes'.

I had been following her on Twitter and saw this pop-up last night. It was kind of confusing and seemed like it was going to become very annoying, so I unfollowed. Then today, it kept showing up in other people's feeds, so I blocked her and muted people who retweeted her.

There is such a thing as a "brilliant jerk" and usually companies keep such people around too long. Seems like Google decided this headache wasn't worth it, and cut her loose. But now we see a "brilliant jerk" who is female and a minority/POC.
Everyone here is confusing two completely separate things as is the norm since immigration procedures are very complicated, an actual job opening vs. the PERM job advertisement. The latter is usually for an existing H1B employee who was already hired during a "real" job opening ad has been working for a while.

In order to start the green card process for a H1B employee, the PERM is the first step. The H1B employee's job is advertised as an open position(even though it is not) and candidates are interviewed and the objective is to show that no qualified candidates exist in order for the other stages of the GC process to continue.

GP poster is referring to the original H1B hiring process which is almost always a legit job opening and candidates are found in the open job market. The DoJ is not alleging that Facebook only tried to hire H1B employees for certain positions. They are alleging that FB cooked the PERM job advertisements so that they could continue employing a temporary H1B employee who already is working for FB and has institutional knowledge that FB does not want to lose.
Looks like a fairly classic case of a person who injects race and gender into every topic... injecting race and gender into a topic.
>I not jumping on any bandwagons without at least that or equivalent.

Which is exactly why she has refrained from releasing it throughout this whole drama: plausible deniability.
Personally I do think that very access to inside information makes him at least partially an Apple-controlled outlet. He's released some serious scoops about upcoming products, and his verification of a rumour is basically taken as a confirmation in the Mac rumours scene.

It's of course possible he has some kind of access that Apple don't control (like an employee leaking information), but given their extreme focus on secrecy, I'm sure that this would have long been shut down if it wasn't fully authorised.

That kind of access does not come without ties, IMO. Though I agree I was coming on too strong when I said shill.
I used to know somebody who would take stuff from old abandoned neopets accounts that way. They would often have their email address in their neopets profile, it would be expired, he would make it and reset the password.
How do your flutter and Android apps compare by the way?
There are not anywhere near enough American-born skilled software engineers to supply the US tech industry. Take foreign-born software engineers out of the picture and the majority of software engineers in Silicon Valley are gone.

You can't make up for that by just offering higher wages. Maybe a few top companies would be able to manage it, but only by poaching all the engineers from other companies. Ultimately, the industry will move elsewhere if US companies can't hire foreign engineers. The US only supplies a fraction of the world's software engineers. There's no inherent reason why the world's tech sector has to be so concentrated in the US.
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I agree with you on the principles & morals, but frankly this reads as scolding - all he did was explain how this can be avoided, which is good context to provide to the public. There isn't some hidden message there where he's "dismissing concerns people have with AI" or he's facilitating "outcomes that could be used for evil or with racist intents"

His tweet doesn't rule out the possibility that he secretly has a malicious set of incentives, just like your handle doesn't rule out that you're a Communist spy sent to fracture the American psyche. Yet, its ridiculous. I feel like a lot of the world in 2020 is for some reason a hostile filter is applied ~99% of the time on the internet, and you _rarely_ see that in personal interactions in real life.
Apple took this leap because their CPUs are sufficiently fast. No one else has managed that.
I just wanted to say I love that idea. It's adorable. I hope you find a way to keep the account intact for him to open.
It's posts like this that make HN great (again). Thank you.

I want to add that your talent pool will also influence where to create a hardened boundary: inside the database server (if you have lots of SQL people), or inside the application server (if you have lots of C#/Java/Python people).
Ok, I read her Wikipedia entry and apparently she has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford. Those are probably fairly standardized, so I'll concede that she does have some technical knowledge.

I have however seen way to many doctorates that seem technical while they're not. There's a common theme in her career, and it's not necessarily technical knowledge.

She worked at Microsoft research, sounds really impressive. But it was in the "Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in AI lab". which sounds like a PR stunt. Her research was supported by Stanford DARE fellowship, which is mainly concerned with increasing diversity. She was an AI researcher at Google, but it consisted in pointing out bias in datasets. Her PhD research[1] was using street view images to find pick up trucks and finding a correlation with republican voters, which sounds more like a sociological application of computer vision than a hard technical problem.

[1]https://www.pnas.org/content/114/50/13108
"Stomp on the Mystery Box" is a good post going into the design of these shows, and why they are such traps for audiences.

https://qntm.org/mystery
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If I ran the numbers right, only about 15% of the energy consumed in the US is produced in the form of electricity (4,127 billion kWh vs 100.2 quadrillion Btu consumed, 1kWh ~ 3400 Btu).

So going 100% renewable or nuclear for electricity production wouldnt' even make more than 15% difference.

I wonder what causes all that additional energy consumption from fossil fuel sources then? I always blindly assumed ~50% of our energy consumption is in the form of electricity. Cars and transportation, heating are obvious but I wouldn't expect that to account for such a large share. Does industry use so much fossil fuel for energy?
You thought the iteration was over there didn't you. No the iteration started here and goes to make it's point. Which It should have since you know the pattern. You just did it.
If you read something like the Financial Times, it’s actually far less propagandistic than most “business news.” It mostly just reports the raw, unfiltered reality of Capitalist exchange. There are actually quite a few Marxists who like the paper for this reason.

When contrasted with something like Marketplace, which ceaselessly and glibly spins the darker realities of our economy to somehow be “upbeat” or “positive,” the difference becomes more obvious. And this is an editorial and ideological choice made by NPR, pursuing this framing.
How can you not find the fact that China owns the company directly involved in USA voting problematic? I truly fail to see how you cannot see that is an issue?
Sure, as I said, I think there are many reasons that AMD has largely not been able to make a dent in the laptop market.

I do find it amusing the continual retorts to M1 performance of "but wait until the Ryzen 4800/4900 laptops are out in force!" as if that were something that is realistic at all in the next year. AMD can't even keep up w/ demand for its graphics cards and console chips right now, unfortunately.
This board, along with the SoundBlaster-compatible MCA board I saw on Hackaday recently makes me think there's a sizable community for retro PCs from the 8088-486 era, like there is for the Amiga.

A smaller form-factor would be more appealing. It's been a long time since I've seen one, but the card looks a bit larger than the original. More recent PCI network cards had gotten down to one main chip, plus just enough board to plug it in and fit the riser slot.

I do wonder a bit about the utility of cloning something made in the millions or at hundreds of thousands. Is there more to this project than a drop-in replacement?
You must have some kind of spam filter. Of the 6 (six!) postings to comp.lang.lisp over the last week, half of them were some political anti-cryptocurrency campaing in Italian. But yes, a few years ago it was much worse.