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Al Capone wasn't yet convicted of anything when they started wiretapping his phones.
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This is nearly right - I don't think he's a stock analyst but he clearly gets some work from Intel, Dell etc - so hardly an independent reviewer (not sure Gruber would claim to be either fwiw) although he's also written this on Arm over the last few days.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2020/12/02/30-y...

In any event he could have led with "Why you might want to wait" rather than "Why you might want to pass" given that most of the criticisms are likely to be fixed soon.
I suppose it's still possible that a CDN-hosted file is served faster than a file from your server. And you may need to pay for that traffic.

But, basically, yes.
What are emergency use authorizations?
Amsterdam is now 3rd fastest-growing European city in global tech ecosystem
Rather than pay for early exercise costs and cover the tax burden, I think it makes more sense for early companies to extend the period employees can exercise options to 5-10+ years after they leave. Several places actually do this already, I've been offered it without asking in fact!

Small companies probably can't afford to pay taxes for everyone's 83b elections, nor can they afford the 401k match or the other missing perks. After all, if they could afford to compete on cash comp with big tech cos, surely the founders would rather do that and preserve their own equity stake.

But with exits taking longer and longer, such an exercise scheme lets rank and file employees preserve some small upside that they have earned themselves, and not worry about hurting their career by being forced to wait for an exit.

I think I generally agree that employees get a pretty bad deal. I think it used to look better, but these days you can make so much more money so much faster working at Google than you can at a random startup.
I found someone on the internet who said they prayed for Weimar, a smaller neighbor city of Jena. Luckily you can use the same mechanics of the study to grasp the effects of their prayer. It worked similarly well[1] as masks in Jena[2].

Jena is a single data point supporting the effectivity of masks (there could be indirect effects at work as well, i.e. people better grasping the severity of the situation).
The sophisticated average that they use as comparison makes it appear to carry more confidence than it does.

[1] https://www.corona-in-zahlen.de/landkreise/sk%20weimar/

[2] https://www.corona-in-zahlen.de/landkreise/sk%20jena/
Thanks for this nice detailed memory!

How did you get the word list from Collins? Did they license it in a digital form?
Having actually gone to the trouble of reading all the papers linked in the above article, here's my take:

1. The article attacks a straw man, in that it suggests that masks are supposed to be a cure-all against Covid-transmission. I have not heard this seriously claimed - rather, masks are only one of a range of responses. (Indeed, by far the most important and effective reaction seems to be reducing the number of personal contacts - masks are only intended for those situations where this is not possible.)

2. Masks can only be effective where they are worn. At least in Germany, recent data suggests that most infections are taking place in private settings - where masks are not compulsory (and usually not worn). This could be used to argue both ways: either that the widespread use of masks in public has been successful in reducing infections in the public space, or that the continued widespread infection in private settings means that wearing masks in public is irrelevant. (I do not have the data to meaningfully compare these two claims.)

3. The evidence we have on the effectiveness of masks does seem to be pretty patchy, with many studies showing methodological problems and coming to different conclusions.

4. Generally, the protection effect for the wearer seems to be low or non-existent. However, while not significantly reducing inhalation of virus particles, masks do reduce droplet exhalation (and so protect others in the vicinity of the wearer). I.e., there is an indirect protection effect.

5. It seems to be true that masks are not very effective against aerosol infection (preventing this requires other measures, specifically good ventilation). However, this cannot be used to argue that masks are superfluous, as droplet infection (which masks do help with) is another important transmission vector for Sars-CoV-2.

TL;DR Masks are not a cure-all. They must be used in conjunction with other preventative measures, or they are useless. However, they are probably effective as part of such a larger package.
Looks like Ardour is open source. How do you make money?
This is nothing new. Oracle has been giving away licences to universities for decades to get students familiar with oracle products, so that when they move to workplaces they will lean towards the familiar.
the author wasn't aware of angstrom or other alternatives.

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/ann-reparse-2-0-0/6868/5
>> The purpose of Universities is to uphold, expand and disseminate human culture, not to prepare people for a career in the industry.

Well, speak for yourself. The majority of people in my classes absolutely had in mind going to industry after their studies. There's nothing wrong with that. Those two goals, being prepared for industry AND science aren't mutually exclusive.
I think this deal was more about Visa seeing a not so distant future where the payment rails shift to an API based interaction, not the data that Plaid has. Visa already probably has more data than they know what to do with.
I find the Hobbit and LOTR terribly boring. But these interpretations are fascinating and delightful.
The offline world is the world you are by default, you can't choose to put your house elsewhere. On contrary, when you put information on internet you choose to do it there (at least for website owners...).

If you want to put restrictions on the usage of your data, make people sign a contract before accessing it.

Also a contract should not have "the public" as a party or a subset of, you should be able to identify the parties you have contracted with. Else you may end up with warrants targeting everyone or a subset of...
I think it must be limiting what you can see to connections if you're not a subscriber to the LinkedIn service. That's all in there!
These look awesome. Can you change "Social distancing" to say "Physical distancing" though?
I've always thought the same. I see the same web fonts being used time and time again. It just makes sense for browsers to have an intelligent "permanent cache" - not based on your specific history but a common set of frequently sourced fonts, libraries, etc.

This would be especially helpful now that shared caches are going away.

One other option is to actually install the font into your OS. Any correctly-coded website will try a local source first, which should help a lot for poor connections.
My spelling has always been bad. I'm not dyslexic, but I did get extra help as a kid. In theory spellcheckers should be great for me. But in reality I seem to make spelling mistakes that leave some checkers unable to make useful suggestions. I can be just one or two vowel substitutions away from the correct spelling, but they will fail to suggest the right answer.

I should start keeping notes when that happens as I'd really like to understand what I'm doing that causes them issues, it might help me when I'm struggling to spell a word and get stuck.
Hi, eng from the CoScreen team here. Our focus is to allow sharing individual applications not an entire screen. This allows multiple people to concurrently share and have access to all shared apps. In a way it is similar to "Seamless Windows" in Virtualbox - you see and have control over embedded windows from remote machines.
What makes you think that Kotlin should be mentioned? Especially since concurrency in Kotlin is really not great, compared to concurrency in Erlang or Scala.
On multiple projects I've used a tool [1] to closely match a built-in font to a web font in order to present content faster and avoid avoid FOUC (Flash of Unstyled Content/Text). In one case, I replaced webfonts entirely with native platform fonts, purely for speed.

With this approach you can be more practical with your goals. If the design cannot be compromised, you can still get to initial paint quickly and let the WOFF files load in as needed.

Edit: If anyone is looking for more information about this, the post [2] from this tool's author from 2016 does a good job of discussing the tradeoffs.

[1] https://github.com/notwaldorf/font-style-matcher

[2] https://meowni.ca/posts/web-fonts/
The HP is only 208 nits of brightness. 300 nits is considered by many to be the absolute minimum for being outside. The Mac is probably 500 nits.
It lets you interleave pictures. Really useful feature. It also does the URL expansion thing, what's that called?, where they expand a url into a mini snippet of the corresponding website. That's sometimes useful. However, there's no clean way to control it.
It's like saying the article goes out of its way not to mention Scala/Haskell's IO type. Syntactic coroutines, monadic IO, and threads are different constructs, although they are different ways to address a similar problem -- expressing sequential (and, in contrast, parallel) composition. Virtual threads are Java threads; there's nothing "bolted". Syntactic coroutines are a kind of syntactic code-unit similar to subroutines.

Which one you prefer as a coding style is a matter of taste, but threads have some objective advantages over syntactic coroutines that go beyond syntax. For one, they don't require a split API (C# and Kotlin have two copies of their synchronization and IO APIs that do the same thing but are intended for different kinds of units, subroutines or coroutines); for another, they seamlessly integrate with the platform and its tooling, allowing use of exceptions, debuggers and profilers with little or no change to those tools. The Java platform -- the standard library, the VM, and its built-in profiling and debugging mechanisms -- has been designed around threads.

BTW, Java's strategy for targeting platforms like iOS and, later, the browser, is through AOT compilation of Java bytecode using things like Native Image (e.g. https://gluonhq.com/java-on-ios-for-real/). This allows you to employ the standard library as well. Kotlin's approach is different, and requires different libraries when targeting different platforms.
Why am I getting downvoted? Am I not raising a valid point about physical privacy? It’s not like I’m calling anybody here nosy.
Reveal encrypted email address with echo and sed
Think of how the web would be different if Microsoft leaned its monopoly power on XMLHttpRequest. Would it have been the test case for API ownership instead of Java?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest
Faroe Island has never built a roundabout anywhere in the world, and now it has done so underneath the Atlantic Ocean.
Very interesting! I'm a bit confused about the data/graph that shows their main conclusion, anyone know why:

They use a 7-day rolling average and general consensus is that covid has a 3-14 day incubation period. Combining these two would indicate that the mask's effect should be gradually becoming stronger starting ~4days after introducing and reaching peak effect after 21 days in the graph. The graphs show a strong effect after 4 days and remain constant after that. Does that undermine the conclusion or am I seeing this wrong?

They use a linear regression while infection is an exponential process in my understanding, doesn't this undermine the regression?
Yes, I extracted it from that post.

I wanted to save the reference.
The context might be sometimes added by our peers like pc86.
Some random guy on reddit or 4chan will do some magic with how the sun casts shadows, visible patterns in the soil and cloud and bird formations and will probably have the exact date (and your phone number and address) within a matter of two hours. :^)
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So, 100M degrees, huh?

Absolve me of my ignorance, but how exactly does one shield that? Is there an upper limit to what can be shielded/contained?
They look great.

Just a minor point, but your captions are offset from the illustrations in Firefox.

Edit - I took a couple of screenshots; captions for the last row aren't visible: https://imgur.com/a/kTvfeKn
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I mean I’ve said it before but shipping like 20 (montserrat, raleway, open sans, etc) would cover most websites who use Google Fonts.
"The greatest enemy of a good plan, is the dream of a perfect plan" -- Carl Von Clausewitz, 1780-1831 Prussian general and military theorist
Remainder of how hard is realizing you're witnessing history.
You need positive teaching and negative teaching. Positive teaches how, negative teaches how not to. Without negative teaching people will accumulate a lot of bad or right out wrong beliefs and patterns as they study. A book cannot provide negative teaching, it can only teach you how to do things.
I wouldn’t say _complete_ absence. Greek Hoplites are thought to have fought semi-nude with e.g. linen or leather cuirasses, and were depicted as fighting fully nude in the art of their day.

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/10260/is-it-true...
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6 or 7 years ago my university did a partnership with Samsung.

Students had to work on projects where they develop apps for Tizen OS[0] and even publish it to the samsung store. (And waiving the rights/revenue of their apps to the university)

I still cringe thinking about all those wasted student effort/time..

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen
I guess Google needs to figure out whether it gives services for free in exchange for data collection and ads or it completely kills ads for paying customers. It shouldn't overload paying users with ads. It shouldn't display even one single ads for those who pay. But it's not the case.

The sad truth is that the whole thing is not about storage. Lately Google just decided to start milking users much harder and basically torture users with insane amount of ads along with a forced movement of their data to monthly paid services like YouTube Music.
It’s not a crap fallacy, it just doesn’t always apply. It’s a fallacy only in the case that you are trying to establish a strictly logical argument (in the mathematical sense). “You should do this because that expert said so” is a rational argument, not a logical one.
David Mamet's Masterclass on "Screenwriting". It is about screenwriting, but I transposed so much to programming and writing it's ridiculous.

The way to create characters, plot, or get ideas. The plot is one problem and characters solve it. One thing and one thing only. The job to be done [of a movie] is to entertain an audience, don't get gradiose or too tied to it.

As a programmer, I watched the videos and with every video, there was a clear application to programming and design.

Advice on writing, in general, and observing good products evolutions lead me to increase my effectiveness: not building the wrong thing, better scoping, solving the right problem. This leads to a lot of code not written, and reduces unnecessary complexity.

I have of course read some of the books you mention, but I find that simplifying things delays the need to resort to some patterns. You often find code that does practically nothing but filled with observers and borgs and factories and whatnot. It's useless and doesn't solve a problem. If it were a display of patterns skills, maybe, but that's why I did Judo and not Aikido. I like things that work in real life against actual problems, not imaginary or compliant adversaries.
> Maybe if browsers standardized on shipping, say, 20 carefully chosen fonts (not necessarily the most popular ones, just a good variety of different types of fonts), the smaller websites would follow and use them; but I think any major brand likes to distinguish themselves and have a custom unique font.

It may be not really carefully chosen, but didn't Microsoft have done this already? (Core fonts for the Web, https://web.archive.org/web/20020124085641/http://www.micros...). The reason they have discontinued this programme is that it actually costs them some money (as the fonts are not owned by Microsoft.)

Also, how would you cater to non-LGC (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic) users?
I recall being at a local (Detroit) IT seminar around the time Javascript was announced, and some guy from Sun with an English accent going on and on about how safe javascript would be, since it couldn't access local resources and they had purposefully left out a lot of functions that could compromise the user. It's changed a bit since then, I'd say.
Well yeah the good thing about the internet is that you pull the info you choose to pull. Sometimes HN curation does not align with your interests; it will pass.
> I found someone on the internet who said they prayed for Weimar, a smaller neighbor city of Jena.

And that is why post-hoc hypotheses aren’t valid. It does not, however, invalidate this study.

Incidentally, I found somebody who prayed for all cities except Weimar and Jena, so this neutralises your anonymous friend’s prayer.
I can confirm it's the same in UK and Italy, people with masks don't keep their distance.

Also it's not only smart people who don't get infected. Think about anyone with kids , anyone doing a job in which they face more people.
Yes enslave. It might come sooner as you think with developers so busy to take their trivial apps and dev workflows into "the cloud", where they soon find they're being monitored and otherwise taken advantage off by the likes of Atlassian and github, to at best result in their replacement by a much cheaper workforce or robots. As compared to traditional F/OSS or commercial software seeking to empower users, use workflows based on open formats and principles of site autonomy. For end users addicted to their smartphones, it's game over already.
And meanwhile, the law governing the good, state-funded and controlled university system in Bavaria, Germany is modernized: "removing all the shackles from universities in their way of expenditure and earning money" (state guarantees any debt though).

Some bon-mots:
- Universities can change themselves to be governed like a foundation
- no limit on pay of professors and administrator
- no limit on fees, though they have to take in EU-students for free (but I guess, a suitable "test" can change that easily)
- no more political student bodies allowed. If you want to have a say, please be apolitical or shut up and be happy that corporations and corruptions need you educated.

Nice, how politicians are selling out this public good, while every press outlet covers people's stupidity in handling the coronavirus.
How is charging for a font rent seeking?
I think the issue is also with Martin's statement that "The Dothraki were actually fashioned as an amalgam of a number of steppe and plains cultures". By that statement, the comparison to other real-world cultures was already baked in the Dothraki.
loading arbitrary fonts... such autism... :Ð
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If you make the implicit network conditional on an instance ID then you get instance embeddings and you can interpolate between them to create unlimited variations.
I haven't used Hackerrank specifically, but some other similar tools, and yeah, those were my exact feelings. Self-taught, been doing software professionally for more than 25 years, and have rarely ever needed anything close to the types of math/compsci problems these services test you on.

The 'sit with someone for an hour' are far more indicative of how you'd work with someone because... you're working with them. 2 years ago I did a "remote pair code test" with the team lead for about 30 minutes. I think I got most of the 'test' done in half the expected time, and we talked about where/why I cut corners, how you'd test it, what sorts of things you need to keep in mind to address edge cases, etc. I got to see what working with the team lead was like in that case, and... ultimately, it wasn't much different after I got the gig.

Good luck to you in your hunting!
The reason being people you trust in curating things upvoted it. Not the guy’s fault!
As an assistant prof in CS:

- books can partially teach you the "how" and also partially the "why".

- at university, you are being taught how to teach yourself, not necessarily how to perform practical things. Age of the exercise is therefore less relevant.

- ideally, teaching a room full of 50 students is easy better than an online class with 50, which easily should beat a video. Not all classes are like this which is a shame.
If you had a generic rule like "this hash must be seen on 10 domains before you start using it for lookups" wouldn't it potentially disincentivize most tracking?

It would take a while for the cache to warm up, but with typical usage that would not take very long. Your performance becomes a bit of a lottery for a few users, but on the whole you should see gains.
i just started using ksuid[0] as my postgres (and in general) primary keys

[0] https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid
Respectfully, you can't tell universities what their purpose is unless you're prepared to fund it. When these places got the majority of their funding from the state, the state could expect high minded ideals and social outcomes. But now their not, universities need to cater to their customers. Their customers are students, they expect a degree, an "experience" and a job at the end. Universities either need to provide that, or close.
I agree with some other posters here that I don't need it to be 4k, but 1080p is bad enough to be a deal killer for me. The only reason I don't buy System76 laptops is their terrible displays — I love PopOS (so much that I donate monthly to it) and would buy their hardware in a heartbeat otherwise.
That is your opinion, not a fact. Meanwhile in NL we have to import carpenter/plumber/drywall laborers, because ... we discourage choosing such a career for our own population and don't provide the education anymore. In the not so distant past, we did.

What a lot of software 'engineers' in NL rather don't see is that you can make a very very healthy living as a 'drywaller' ( not a native speaker, can't find the word ). You can easily make more than as a software dev.

The general population just is not as malleable ( Dutch: maakbaar? ) as boomers would like to believe. So at the bottom we have an entire cohort who used to work in factories or the building industry, who rely on financial support.

The first 'food bank' in NL was started in 2000. Why?
It is not enough for the authority to be knowledgeable, their incentives must also be aligned. If people appeal to the authority to do something, then it may do whatever is expedient regardless of merit.

With limited knowledge, I'm inclined to go along with measures that are low cost and have a plausible explanation wrt. effectiveness. That being said, if the mask situation has shown us anything, it's that the authorities are neither trustworthy nor competent.
I got a bit confused by the statements in the thread. If the issue is downloading wheels to check dependencies, mamba should be a better alternative, as not only it is downloading packages in parallel but it uses a different dependency solver.
Bad argument: "Eth" is mostly a reference to Ethernet. I'm not sure why a relevant number of people from within the target audience should get confused by it.