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But this is silly. I was born with what I was born with. Why do I have to think about it? What choice did I have in it? Religion, I can choose. Politics, I can choose. Gender? That's not my choice. To the extent it's my identity, it's forced upon me. Thanks, guys.

In this thread, I'm responding to timeeater's claim that it's censorship, not incivility, that results in banning. As evidence, timeeater says that criticising feminism is 'not allowed' or suppressed. But I would argue that it's not criticism of feminism that gets timeeater in trouble, but instead the tendentious supposition that discussing women at all is "political" (to quote, "But there are political topics on HN all the time (women in tech, worker unions at Amazon, and so on and so on)."). Then timeeater goes on to make some statements about special treatment and special insights. Now that's the rabbithole of wasted pixels that Paul Graham is getting at in his essay -- it's really not germane to the discussion, and it's all bound up in an identity that is indeed chosen.
> They're making their lives actively worse just to "teach a lesson" to those "undeserving" homeless people.

The last US election showed us that there are a LOT of these kind of people.

Most of them call themselves religious, too.
There are third-party native Slack clients, but I'm not sure if anyone has made an attempt at doing the same for Teams?

ability lost when migrating from Skype for Business

...which also used to be native code (like the original Skype).

It's really disappointing to see that Microsoft, of all companies, seems to have no interest in writing a native Win32 client for its own service, and instead effectively strengthens Google's monopoly by using its browser engine.
That is how linux works by default...
Umm yes, yes people do. Thankfully. I like C. Learn string handling and pointers, go through https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/SEI+CERT+C+Cod... and you will write relatively safe programs. Oh, and read the man pages.

I do not know who was against man pages, but God, man pages are a God-send. It must stay. I never liked info though.

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In any case, I write in Forth, Ada, Go, and JavaScript (Vue.js). Not much C these days. If someone asks me a simple program to write to extract data from a format specified by him, C is what I would choose; mainly: structs. I could do it in Forth, but easier in C, he has GCC, I can create a binary easily, etc.
In the article it says the co-author specifically requested the paper not be published because they "didn’t want such an early draft circulating online". Sounds like Timnit might have jumped the gun a bit and it wasn't just google that thought it wasn't ready.
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Try getting a car key replaced sometime. Both my car key and my wife’s were in the same bag when they fell out of a capsized canoe and sunk. Not fun nor cheap.

I don’t like it, but the market wants crap like this.
Why was it OK a few years earlier when the emissions regulations were more permissive? Were the people killed by those emissions not worthy for some reason?

Why were the new emissions targets the "right" ones? Why not make them half again and save even more lives? The answer is that they are numbers pulled out of the ass of some CARB or EPA bureaucrat.

In reality it's impossible to say that "1200 early deaths" were caused by VW emissions. It's statistical smoke and mirrors and doesn't even show up as a blip in the normal variation of total mortality of any given year.

How many early deaths were caused by California's refusal to allow or perform proper forest manangement, resulting in this year's devastating wildfires and the pollution they caused? Sorry for the whataboutism. Deaths are deaths.
Seems like a bummer that the stream interfaces are blocking for C++ and java :/
No, in fact you cannot have device that does radio transmission in a SCIF.
Be careful about providing pharmaceutical advice over the internet. There may be some prescribed medications that people can safely self-ween from, but stopping psychiatric drugs should only be done with close medical guidance. There have been many documented cases of people stopping too quickly with dire results.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-challenge-...
Why would the entire stack be JS? Even in server side React, it can still fetch from APIs, so presumably you have a backend to fetch from, in whatever language and database you want.
> After all, you can hardly buy Word alone and no one complains.

That seems like a very good thing to complain about! Why should I pay for Excel when I only want Word?
Ritalin is one thing. As a shroom microdoser formerly on SSRIs and MAOI style drugs: shrooms do not rob you of humanity.

I’m not buying the holier than thou thing from the west anymore, or it’s Puritanism.

Free market of ideas need not be limited to retail shelves, and stock markets.
Probably will turn out better than project MKUltra. Probably.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra#LSD
At larger companies I've worked at without central hiring committees it was common to get re-interviewed unless you were vouched for by someone pretty senior.
It doesn't even have to be old enough to qualify as "retro"; it gives Apple enough power to basically remotely kill off its products at any time. They are already hostile enough to right-to-repair and third-party replacements as it is.
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I'm still a huge Russell fan myself, but more for his political activism and style of popular writing than for his philosophy.

I've found his actual philosophical writing pretty impenetrable. Have you ever read On Denoting? For me that was every bit as hard to understand as the most difficult of Continental writings.
I think we all know that there is a carbon footprint cost to what we do. Its the reason google has been working on renewable energy datacenters for so long:

https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/renewable/
My father was one of its earliest adopters, even before I was. He paid for it. I joined maybe sometime in 2012 or 2013. WhatsApp kept renewing my subscription for free. Also, fun fact, my first version of WhatsApp was on a Nokia phone... With the Symbian OS.

We have really come a long way since then.
I worked in a VAX shop early on. We had an intern who was pushing Linux on us. He said to me, "Sure, VMS is great, but the downside is you need a wall of manuals." My reply was, "Downside? That's the UPSIDE! You can get an entire wall of manuals for it!"

I still feel that way.
“Just how many people do we want to sacrifice to keep restaurants open?”

Just how many lives do we save by keeping restaurants open? Healthier food, portion control, emotional health? People sacrifice their lives to eat in restaurants...implicitly, when they drive a car to/from and risk an auto accident. It is probably small numbers against small numbers...and erring on the side of choice and economic activity is a standard US thing.

The poster didn’t propose to ignore effects on the 70+...where did you read this?

It would have been wiser had the government health communicators introduced the notion of QALY to the US public at the start of this COVID event.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16877455/

Anyone dealing with aging parents is painfully aware of the need to balance remaining length of patient life with quality of life, including caregivers. The rest of the US needs to grow up about this. Politicians avoid talking about this...too much like leaving Grandma on the ice floe. It’s the medical/public health professionals role to do that.
The fact you can't hardly buy a copy of word without having a copy of teams thrown in is what's the issue. You can't get excel with powerBI without also having to buy teams. It's more how Microsoft sells Teams than the fact that Teams exists at all that raises my eyebrow. Teams doesn't sell Teams, Word and Excel sell Teams.

Really saying that Microsoft won't let you buy their most popular products alone is just another way to phrase this situation.
Oh I should have known it was from DHH. Really talented and smart guy.
If you have a Mac, Disk Inventory X displays data in the same way. I find it invaluable.
Is that a Heathkit H-11 ? (with an LSI-11 processor) With 8 inch floppy disks? Does it still work?
For example, if you are teaching grammar. You want to highlight all verbs in red, all nouns in blue, and all adjectives in green. You cannot do this unless you resort to CSS. But in my opinion, the ability to highlight words and set font color with couple clicks is much more simpler.
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Look for New Crypto Regulations by Next Month, Says OCC
Wouldn't it be more reasonable to assume that they're not trying to profit from their real estate side business and are instead legitimately interested in slowing the spread of COVID-19? They probably did some risk analysis and that guided how many on-campus students they could accept. They then accepted that many students. If other students show up on campus after agreeing not to, then their risk assessment is wrong, and the entire program is jeopardized.

The language in the letter triggers my "the lawyers are panicking" detector more than my "you're screwing us out of a few bucks" detector.
The LSI-11s I used came in slimline pizza box form. Very compact. I used to do A/D conversion on them for pathology lab equipment.
I’m not disagreeing with your general point, but this is definitively not a site where anyone can pretty much say what they like. Individuals flag posts and comments, which can keep them from showing up. The mods here are very active, responding to user reports and dealing with content that breaks the site guidelines. IMO that moderation is what makes this site generally tolerable, as compared to other discussion forums on the internet.

It’s possible I misinterpreted you and you meant “anything they like” in the sense of being able to hold (almost) any opinion and be able to express it, provided it’s expressed politely and in good faith. In that case, I would still argue that it’s only the selective moderation of impoliteness and poor faith arguments that keeps this site bearable.
I’ve seen my school’s firewall logs and the experience scared me. Something really clicked when I saw a log with my name on it. It showed everything I’d been doing and it was right in front of me and also someone else: the IT tech with whom I was working.

I was getting help debugging something (package manager barfing on the org’s wildcard MITM SSL cert) and the inanity of the tech scrolling through everything I’d done that day in such detail was spine chilling.

Deep packet inspection put everything from command line args to Google search terms at their fingertips. It felt grubby.

My org requires that I install their SSL cert which made the logs more detailed than Brown’s. That’s certainly a pretty high level of creepiness. But even without SSL DPI when the org has control over the network and at least one website using your identity then it’s trivial to correlate the application layer userid all the way down to your network access, including AP location.

If they outsource to Gmail or Outlook there’s usually still an org controlled single sign on that captures your identity.

I love the accessible way in which this report is written.
While it’s specific to Brown it summarizes the generic surveillance patterns of many employers and education orgs. We all know these programs exist but it’s not until one experiences them first hand that one realizes how desperately creepy they are.
Because Microsoft promised to eliminate the perceived risks of remote storage while slack couldn’t make that promise (if they even tried) to the kids of people who care.

Slack was more focused on the end user while Microsoft focuses on the customer (which for most of their cash cows, Windows and Office) is IT.

Presumabably you think this concern is somewhere between overblown and absurd. I do. But if you’re State Farm* you have to either find a solution or get air cover for your decision by offloading it on your long term, trusted vendor. (This is basically half of the thesis of the article).

The need to have a story for all these special cases is why Microsoft’s messaging is so confusing and their products frequently (but not always) unwieldy. But it lets them hoover up the cash for all those special cases...and since others can’t afford to deal with every one, they can charge more.
you can use integer arithmetic if you're dealing with integer values - or rational ones, since quotients are just (equivalence classes of) pairs of integers.

It doesn't really work when you're dealing with transcendental functions such as the trigonometric ones. There is simply no way to get "accurate" results for such calculations in general, unless of course, you deal with everything symbolically.
Open source doesn’t solve that problem. I would hope that critical crypto functions aren’t using OpenSSL for example.
The similarity of CP/M's behavior to DEC's operating system is pretty obvious, which is why I was a bit bemused by claims that DOS copied CP/M. You'll still see it in the Windows command prompt.
I try to find handicaps to help nudge me in the right direction. I used to have a bad habit of working for hours without a break, causing pretty severe eye pain. A few months ago, I installed an app called "time out" on mac that forces me to take a break after 20 minutes of working. It was hard at the beginning, but now I've pretty much completely eliminated the bad habit.
Windows apps don't even look correct on an SDR display!

I have a wide-gamut display and I can notice the difference between applications that incorrectly "stretch" sRGB to the display gamut versus apps that actually colour manage and map the colours correctly.

No app on Windows colour manages the UI widgets such as the icons, toolbars, etc... This is because the WDDM shell doesn't do any kind of colour management, it leaves that up to the application developers.

The sad thing is that Vista introduced an extremely wide scRGB gamut and WDDM had a number of internal features built around it. Unfortunately, it was only ever enabled for full-screen games, video overlays, and for internal use by apps that do colour management. They should have converted the entire desktop manager to use it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScRGB
This is dead serious.

Do you find the idea of funding Common Lisp Open Source abhorrent? Because that is the primary focus of my work and my life.

Do you think this would have more intrinsic value if someone else promoted it for me? And I have never understood the hate against relevant self-promotion. Why don't you want value creators to promote their work themselves?
It's not a US vs. Europe thing. I went to a school in the US where the vast majority of students commute. I think at the time, it was something like 700 people living on-campus vs. 30,000 living off-campus.
I was at downtown Woodside CA last week and outdoor dining area was packed. And this is one of the most conscious places. I believe with a limited number of people and distance rules outdoor activity is okay, but dense outdoor dining is suspicious.

Same with beach. beach is okay, a packed beach (try a popular one in half moon bay) might not be.
Vultr has $2.50/mo USD VPS if you're okay with ipv6-only... that's the lowest I've ever come across.
This works for cargo because much of the point of cargo is to sell it. The point of a house is to reduce the buyer's risk against e.g. rent going up. Except now there's the risk of my house being bought out from under me unless I'm willing to pay above-market tax. Money is fungible, housing really isn't.
Yea I agree, retro is a subjective term. Just meant in the context of computer collectors. A lot of apples latest computers lack the “collectibility” factor, they feel like total junk scrap in 10 years. Which is especially interesting because they usually do such a good job of making their new computers seem like holy grail immaculate gems. I distinctly remember the first intel MacBooks looking very high end and high tech, now they look like total garbage.
I agree about Racket. While various lisps occupy specific niches, I feel like Racket is the lisp that checks the most boxes—especially for someone getting started and shopping around for the “right” lisp.
But one of the founders of Cisco did end up doing a PDP-10 clone called the TOAD-1 at his next company:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKL
The De-democratization of AI [pdf]
In 2005, the VC scene was very different. YC was doing its first year. Cloud computing wasn't really a thing yet. You had to have own your own metal if you were at any serious scale.

What I left out of my original story was that a third engineer chimed in (from Yahoo!) that asked if the real enemy to innovation here wasn't the map-data companies whose terms made it impossible to leverage for innovation. The cost was prohibitively high to get started. It's really what kept innovation back in maps and affording it was what google's real advantage was.

But that's a big reason why OpenStreetMaps exists today.
Most of the volume of the dishwasher-sized 11/23 was the two 14" removable hard disk packs - much higher capacity than the floppy disks of the day.

I recall the circuit board with the LSI-11 on it was quite a bit smaller than an IBM PC motherboard. Most of the volume of the packaged LSI-11 systems was I/O and disk storage - there were several models of different sizes, I recall the 11/23 was the largest.

The 11/23 was not a consumer-grade product. I don't think it was intended to compete with PCs.
Have you checked out GPT-3? Given all the mind blowing applications from code summarization, code generation, tabular data inference, etc, etc (https://twitter.com/search?q=gpt-3&src=typed_query), I think it's very possible for an AI to be a top karma HNer.
Are you sure it's static typing that you want? I find people often conflate having a powerful type system with static typing. Julia has a very powerful and expressive dynamic type system and I really appreciate it.

Static typing is significantly more restrictive, which I think is harmful for the interactive workflows which are so prevalent in exploratory data oriented applications.

> Furthemore, some statically typed languages do have typing features that are advantageous for data analysis. Think F# type providers or type systems where e.g. the shape of arrays is guaranteed to match at compile time.

For instance, julia can do this with it's type system too. There's nothing here requiring static typing. See StaticArrays.jl[1] which has a SArray type (static size, static contents), a MArray type (static size, mutable contents) and a SizedArray type (is a statically sized wrapper for a regular array (rather than Tuple) making it more appropriate for large arrays)

[1] https://github.com/JuliaArrays/StaticArrays.jl
> Make no mistake, this is simply Apple's attempt to gain complete control over its users.

This is unfair and just not true.

It is known that apple products can be rendered useless after being stolen easily by the original owner. Yes, they still get stolen, but it is a really nice feature that you can wipe the data remotely and mark the device as lost / stolen. You also know the thief will mostly be stuck with a low-value device that is all but useless without some sort of jailbreak or scam to resell it.

Of course, this feature has tradeoffs, and some of them are negative for some people (like the OP sneak). Maybe it helps Apple "gain complete control" over users, but you are gonna need more evidence to support that claim.

To completely ignore the positive aspects is not contributing anything at all w/ these sorts of discussion.
it's easy when you have a monopoly
I use a Google Pixel. You can definitely say I don't care about data collection/privacy because I don't. You can also say I care less about usability than I do about walled gardens / software limitations because that's true.

Of course it's rare to prioritize walled gardens, that's the point. That's why the industry is like this. No one really cares about walled gardens, they don't care about it enough for them to make any real decisions about it.

People don't go "I really want a walled garden", they just say "I really want a phone that does and chooses everything for me" and proceed to buy a locked down device that applies restrictions that are only possible in a locked down platform.

By the way, Android already does put in a power user setting to allow third party apps. They're still being sued by Epic, and Google believes that allowing third party stores are needed to resolve potential antitrust issues (Google has started working on this). I'd be very surprised if antitrust action doesn't tread similar ground with Apple, and you can bet that all the people who liked & supported Apple's iron fist are going to start complaining if a bunch of popular apps move to their own app stores to keep their revenue cut.
One of the critical mistakes DEC made when they produced the Rainbow microcomputer.

You couldn't format diskettes yourself. You had to buy pre-formatted diskettes from DEC.

And the only OS they supported was CP/M. They did not support DOS on the Rainbow.

Ironically, IBM made the same mistake with the PS/2 and a machine with proprietary parts that could not be copied like the parts of a traditional 8088/8088 based PC.
I just went to double check my self quickly. It never was an official medicine, therapy with it was still experimental for alcoholism. It was having success but turned into a recreational drug that scared people so it all got banned. The same thing happened with mdma and crack later on. The penalties were excessive and reactionary to recreational use.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2014/sep...

This was the end of 50s early 60s, seems we still did stuff like lobotomies. Idk if I can blame law makers for not taking psychiatry seriously at the time.
Time to disable auto-updates for whatsapp.
You don’t have to speculate about this stuff. The OECD tracks out of pocket healthcare spending: https://www.oecd.org/health/health-systems/OECD-Focus-on-Out...

It’s a couple of hundred dollars a year more than Finland or Sweden, but nothing dramatic.

And the fees/co-pays are of course not the end of the road. People in Sweden and Finland pay a lot more taxes. They pay thousands of dollars more every year, even when they don’t get sick. Median after-tax disposable income, according to the OECD, is $14,000-16,000/year more in the US than Finland or Sweden.

Now, of course, Americans spend a significant part of that difference on deductibles, premiums, etc. But in most states it’s a few thousand dollars a year on average. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...
Good architects know a thing or two about material science, good electricians know a thing or two about physics, why programmers programmers be averse to understanding algorithms (i.e. the nature of computation)?
Wikimedia commons has many pictures, including the wooden pathway: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maior_cajueiro_d...
Julia (runner up R) feel like the lispyest non-lisps to do serious numerical work in. Julia’s at the point where it has some best-in-class libraries as well as some frustrating blind spots.

With Julia I can almost pretend I’m using a straight-up lisp. The multiple dispatch in Julia is quite nice and is sort of “the big idea” that Julia uses to be so magical.
Pretty sure the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_704 was the first Lisp machine (as CAR, CDR come from register names on the 704...)

But DEC did rule academic computing well into the 80s.