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Beautiful book and probably the author's most hopeful. Despite the death and despair everyone in Oran is subject to, the heroic actions and words are unambiguously but unsentimentally those of people that choose to act, not cower, escape, or acquiesce.

To me The Stranger felt like an indictment of the world as arbitrary, with everything that brings. The Plague discovers nobility in defying the arbitrary because we have the power to lessen others' suffering and it is cruel and cowardly not to do so.

I highly recommend the book, I read the Gilbert translation. I wish Matthew Ward had lived to take on La Peste as well.
> the entire world's

Not the entire world, just those currently running it. Education is the great leveler thus access is restricted.
Berlin is a good 5°C colder than London in the winter.

In London I had one jacket, mostly to protect against rain, but it was also an extra layer.

In Copenhagen, which has similar winter temperatures to Berlin, I had to buy a thicker jacket for the winter. I've worn the new jacket on trips to London and felt hot.
I am typing this on M1 Air, and it's noticeably smaller and lighter than our 2013 MB Air. I'd say that in terms of size it's quite close to 12" Mb which we owned previously, and maybe just a tiny bit heavier.
Have any better sites you recommend? I initially joined Reddit because ideas appeared to be valued over individual users (no follow at that time).
Apple deliberately kept the form factors of these the same for this launch. It will be interesting seeing where they go from here form factor wise.

Also... I suspect benchmarking the LG or the 12" MacBook versus the Air would be pretty humiliating.
The reality is there's just a lot of guys who are very undateable. Will any revision of gender roles get a girl to go out with a unfunny, unattractive guy who's grown addicted to pornography and isn't interested in furthering his career? There are females in that position too, but it isn't looked at with the same seriousness.
Russia has a policy where they allow "patriotic hackers" to operate freely while turning a blind eye to their actions. The Kremlin even mentioned this in their disavowal.
A: Let trash pile-up in the streets and remove your sink p-trap. More history here:
http://www.sewerhistory.org/time-lines/tracking-down-the-roo...
My understanding is that copyrighted content on Youtube is often uploaded under the guise of anonymous users, but this is illusory. Unauthorized videos are taken down with vigilance, we see this happening to content creators all the time for no good reason. If these videos get the thumbs up to stay up, they're in cahoots with copyright holders somehow (most likely) or are deliberately ignored for some other reason. One think you'll notice is that not just corporate sponsored content is region-locked; sometimes "anonymous" user videos get region locked. That is not a coincidence.

All of which to say, I expect this to be the same case on PH. There's the usual wackamole game of unauthorized content being taken down, but much of what stays up from unauthorized sources probably does so out of permission that is not apparent on the surface.

I think streaming companies place a premium on the appearance of content coming from users, and this is the result. If I'm right, then changes may not significantly alter the level of traffic to PH, which is what everyone is soothsaying about: that users will just go elsewhere. But I'm curious what's going to happen.

Like you said, PH's model looks to ape youtube's, and the latter does not appear to be entirely reliant on "stolen" content.
When I hear community, I generally think there's some kind of connection or interraction setting a group a part from something like "a set of people that walked into a building at the same time." I don't really think of HN, Reddit, any generalized "forum" type website as a community, in that most of the people never get to know eachother, or worse, never even really try.

Most of the content is closer to set and forget, or set and debate. If you think of your _actual_ living communities, you might know your neighbor, and you might communicate with them about things when you see them. You might feel fondly towards them (of course, you might not). With these online forums, that doesn't really happen (ignoring celebrity accounts). It seems rare to remember someone's username and/or communicate with them frequently or outside of the forum itself.

I think if you are seeking community as I described above, HN and Reddit are fundamentally not about that thing. Maybe I'm in the minority, or maybe that's not how other people think, but it's definitely how I've used and seen others use Reddit/HN over the past decade.
Get serious about green and sustainable policies, get American workers some actual workers' rights, stop imperialist incursions in other countries (i.e. stop bombing brown people), completely reform Social Security so that people can actually retire on it alone and not have to use 401k's or IRAs, general anti-capitalism, etc.
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If they don’t care, ask for their password.
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Having the capacity isn’t an act of war, in the same way that having the much more significant capacity to obliterate major population centers isn’t.

How the capacity is applied may be another story.
Timnit Gebru: Google and big tech are 'institutionally racist'
This, exactly.

Google's primary motivation is that the searcher gets the "best" answer with as few clicks as possible. They've gone so far as to penalize advertisers that are paying THEM if they're not seen as the best answer using all those metrics that Google harvests. If people seem to stop searching after they've hit a Youtube video or Wiki then Google considers those were the satisfactory answers. If an advertiser tends to be the end of a search a lot that advertiser becomes Google's favorite search result for that term.

The SEO guys' favorite tactic any more are shady paid links to their content from other sites. That's Google's 2nd best signal that you're good content, always has been, but it gets less valid every year and they know it. They give much less credibility for external links to your site than they used to. SEO guys killed their own golden goose by overusing that.

How do I know all this? I'm tasked with managing a small company's Google ads, and I've worked on various small organizations' websites (purely white-hat SEO tactics) since the web was young. I despise Internet ads. I've come to respect Google's approach to them. You really have to earn your relevancy score, and even if you're willing to pay a LOT for your ads you struggle if they consider you a "bad" answer for the chosen search terms. My current employer insists on bidding on several overly-generic and/or branded keywords and he pays through the nose for them. I applaud Google for sticking that to him so hard.
Maybe, maybe not.

If your context has a list of things to free, it can also have a list of things to close. Or whatever you want.

Many libraries do stuff like this and call the context creation/deletion lib_init/ lib_shutdown.
If they are doing it right, they will be looking at fatalities and (especially) hospitalizations, and if they are going down then remove restrictions.
Cardio fitness notifications are available today on Apple Watch
Yellow vest started with this, but is not just this. The subject was the tip of an iceberg, this iceberg being that a whole working class barely makes a living.

France is a welfare state, but we still have 10%-15% of people hit by poverty.

How is it acceptable in one of the leading economies of EU, and how is it freaking possible we still have this have this problem in the twenty-first century?

I only skimmed TFA, but it seems that it talk about this. Environment and social issues.

IMHO new statics won't change a thing. Political leaders are already aware of this.
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> I'm also not entirely convinced that DiRT is more niche than for example Madden

I used to work on Madden. Maybe this is non-obvious if you're not in the US, but it is hard to understate what a monumental cash cow that product is. It is like Excel is to Microsoft. It's a veritable firehose of money.

> really only popular in one country.

Sure, but that country has the third largest population in the world, and a greater GDP than the next two countries combined.
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Real-time analytics: Reasons on why Pinot over Druid & others at Confluera
The clouds should start building their own bytes so they can get cheaper bandwidth.
That's interesting, they are using the same engine as lobste.rs. Are the same people behind the two sites? Are there other sites that use the lobste.rs project with a real user base?
Google doesn't fire people who cause outages.
There's javascript's foreach, which also gives an optional index. Indices are important to uniquely identify members in case you want non-uniform behavior: for example, "give 3 kinds of candy alternatingly"; element variables in turn are important for behavior that's a function of the member, say when you want to "give candy in proportion to their age".
Maybe Apple is binning the worse chips in the Mini? It is their cheapest Mac, after all.
redis is _the_ single threaded application
Intel isn't really "on 10nm". The economics of the 10nm process are terrible, yields are still so poor that it is basically only usable for low-power, low-core-count mobile chips, produced in low quantities.
The widespread use of unvalidated automatic updates will go down as one of the biggest security blunders of the last decade.
That's actually what I really appreciate about Goodreads. Yes they stopped innovating, fixing bugs, etc., but at least they didn't changed their design to any if the mobile first, low information density crap.
Yeah I have blinds. But not because I am paranoid of peeping toms but because I like to sleep without the sun in my eyes.
In this case, the heating's coming up from the floor, so that would be counterproductive. :-D
At this point I have to believe you're either a troll or some sort of GPT-3 bot based on how you're almost trying to miss the point and - seemingly intentionally - misconstrue very easy to understand and generally accepted concepts.
While I disagree with the claim that merely having the capacity is an act of war, doing something that would be an act of war through privateers rather than official state forces doesn’t make it any less an act of war than it otherwise would be.
Given how much they were pushing to convert everyone to the new design, and how undiscoverable the old design is to new users, I'm very surprised that the new design has only twice the unique pageviews of the old design.
Ouch. Via a security provider. Thats ugly no matter how you look at it
Yes. And while you're at it, use double line spacing in your IDE too. You can feel the strain lessen.
> gives Apple a bunch of data that folks may not really want to provide to the company, but the OCSP queries are made over unencrypted HTTP. So anyone able to see the traffic (e.g. ISPs, government spy agencies, WiFi hotspot providers) also gets a look at which applications the user is running, when they are running them, and where.

Somehow I feel that in this case it is the intended purpose.
Should I have linked to project gutenberg or some other version? I linked to the mobile version because it doesn't have many sidebars or footers.
There are still tight-knit communities on Freenode IRC and Reddit. For example #lisp, #emacs, ##math, r/lisp, r/emacs, and r/math have great communities with friendly attitude.

Stack Overflow operates at a much larger scale and compared to Stack Overflow, these communities are definitely much smaller but I see that as an advantage. The quality of discussions is often pretty good. Off-topic friendly banter occurs once in a while when the channels are quiet. With a good percentage of the members composed of regulars in these channels, they are still able to maintain a sense of community.
So use C++ already; that’s what it’s for.

Don’t go complaining that C++ is “too complicated” and then be hauling its complexity into C, because all you’ll end up with is a bloated schizophrenic mess that is neither a good C nor a good C++ [alternative].
maybe you will be able to compile everything in the cloud and then it doesn't matter what type of computer you have
That's a great quote, and I've enjoyed PKD's work.

As a skeptic, I would agree that I would not claim to know so much. I have lots of hypotheses though.

And, as a skeptic, you might think that there would not be much to say... but then I find myself swimming, nay drowning, in a world of unfounded opinion and hearsay. So much baseless belief. I think I can see the contradictions and unfounded assumptions in whatever narrative is being presented. In good faith, I try to point out the errors as I see them, to the best of my ability. I think of this as a service - helping to discern belief from knowledge.

But evidently it is not appreciated. I am flagged, people think I am hateful (I don't believe I am). In all, people do not appreciate the genuinely skeptical position, even if they pay lip service to it. They prefer to go along to get along - to do whatever their unprincipled, lightly considered, free-style way - whatever is most expedient at the time.

PS: 'I am posting too fast' so I cannot submit this response. Its not that I don't want to continue the conversation, but HN puts a block on unpopular opinions such as mine. Skeptical voices cannot be heard! But I will try to submit this in a few hours (it was 3 yesterday), even if the conversation has moved on by then. :)

Does it amaze you that freedom of speech to have a different opinion to others, one that I think I can reason and evidence, should prove to be something that requires censure? I'm amazed. Did you think that HN was better than this? I did.
In US, big pharma realized that they can increase their profits a lot by increasing the price of insulin as the patients don;t have much option here. So, insulin is ridiculously expensive, and those on insurance can't afford spare doses in case they break one.

So, with demand, comes supply. Since pharmaceutical companies were the ones who raised prices and used patents laws to curb any legal competition, only illegal competition remains.
I received this email. It is very strange. I had never heard of the company either but found they are sellers of B2B contact info.

There is no option to request my info be deleted, or even to correct the info so people aren't harassing the wrong person (some of the information wasn't right, they are selling my parents and families addresses instead of mine). They ALSO have a free app that allows up to 5 contact a day, so they might even be giving this info out for free and I'm assuming someone is harvesting as much free data as they can.

It's absurd that there is an entire industry based on selling private info that they themselves acquired from other companies. It's disgusting that people have built an industry on buying and selling private information

I ended up moving as much data as It's disgusting that people have built an industry on buying and selling private informationI could to a private server, but this really isn't the solution. Most people don't have IT backgrounds to be able to do this sort of thing. I hope more people become aware and sIt's disgusting that people have built an industry on buying and selling private informationtart pressuring govt. officials to change laws.

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That's obviously true. If you wear cotton, you need to be prepared to add or remove layers of clothes as needed.
we wreck our eyes to that level where computers have no chance to do any harm anymore.

JK. Often a nap helps.
Respectfully, you appear to overlook the main point of the article.

There are very many situations where numbers and details are not helpful, and can even be harmful as they suck away precious attention from your audience. If you're pitching a product to an exec, sometimes they just want to hear you say "this runs faster than anything else!" rather than "this scored 91% on the latest QIRZ-4 benchmark!"

The article asks us to question how we've all been taught that more details == more better.
Ask HN: Are There All-in-One Chromecast, Airplay, and Bluetooth Hardware Devices
I have been looking for a single, all in one device that supports Airplay, Chromecast, and Bluetooth (to play music from a phone).

So far I can find devices that do one or two things but not all three at the same time. I would prefer some type of HDMI dongle so I can connect it to my audio receiver in my living room.

There are software solutions to this (a PC + Reflector 3 by Airsquirrels) but I'm hoping for an all in one hardware solution.

Does anyone know of anything? Thanks.
On balance, I don't think so.
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What would that involve? I'm not a SQLite developer, but I don't think they have a lot of platform-specific optimizations. It's written to be as boring as possible. In particular, unlike some other benchmarks discussed recently, SQLite doesn't have any x86-64-specific SIMD or crypto intrinsics/assembly that needs to be reimplemented for ARM.
Same thing -- used to work at a very large hosting provider. One of our big internal infra management teams wouldn't consider newhires fully "part of the team" until they had caused a significant outage. It was genuinely a right of passage, as one person put it, "to cause a measurable part of the internet to disappear".

I got to see a lot of people pass through this right of passage, and it was always fun to watch. Everyone would take it incredibly seriously, some VP would invariably yell at them, but at the end of the day their managers and all their peers were smiling and clapping them on the back.
I've seen it referred to as the "M1X".
And how many such tools have been employed by CIA? So are all the other countries supposed to wage war against US?
Govt's all over the world do shady shit, constantly. Sometimes they get caught, sometimes they dont. Men in power use tensions to stay in power, waging wars against more powerful/equal, wont help men in power neither of the sides.
yes, I think I hit it at least once and flagged I don't know how many times in code reviews.
Public price was $999[1], which stacked with a discount available through my employer.

I suspect they're trying to clear stock of the Gen 8, which faces tough competition from the M1 MacBook Air, the new Dell XPS 13 (with 11th gen Tiger Lake chips), and the upcoming X1 Carbon Gen 9 (also presumably with Tiger Lake chips).

[1] https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x1/X1..., specific model I ordered is "Temporarily Unavailable" on the far right.
That's what I was thinking, SQLLite probably did a lot of optimization for x86. Once they tune it for M1 I bet we'll see some phenomenal performance.
It definitely uses x86 emulation, if that's what you mean. But based on the these M1 threads I would expect M1 x86 emulation to work like magic, not be 5 times slower than some dual core 2016 model.
they should have sent a poet
I believe the situation is the same in C++, that is, if you have a shared_ptr cycle, the destructor will never be called, no?

It is more deterministic in C++, but you can still call exit(). (which is even more straightforward than the refcount cycle)
Agreed that the jacket is great. Point is, as a Canadian I consider it a layering piece, not a winter jacket. :)
Software filters are tuned more strictly for new accounts and kill some comments based on past behavior by spammers and/or trolls. We review the comments that have been killed that way (most of them, at least) and unkill the good ones and mark the accounts legit. But it takes us time to do that, which is one reason why user vouches are helpful.

(No one flagged it.)
What revolution? I-280 still has traffic jams at 3 PM, people are still buying stuff, just through Amazon and DoorDash rather than going to their neighborhood store. Sure, people staying in helps a bit, but given that the changes we made were to keep people away from each other and not actually specifically reduce their emissions (in many cases we are being more "wasteful") it's not surprising that the drop is only 7%.
> The government would tax it and then redistribute the revenue to the communities of those affected, if that’s what we decided was most important.

That's also problematic because CO2 acts globally - and you don't really want to give dictatorships of poor countries who are affected the most (e.g. Africa) a steady supply of money.
What do you mean by somewhat compatible? Why fragmentation when Arm sets the ISA standard?
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None of these are asked in G interviews. The commenters are asinine.
In Denmark 62% of all land is used for agriculture. That's not only the habitable but all of Denmark's area. Any area that is able to produce is already in use.

https://lbst.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/NaturErhverv/Filer/Lan...
“What we are trying to accomplish…”

See also: silk purse, sow’s ear.
Though Apple's marketing chops are always strong, I suspect what really won this Apple skeptic over wasn't Apple's own copy but the chorus of external expert confirmations that the M1 was a giant price/performance/power-consumption leap over prior expectations. (And what enabled that was Apple's chip- and systems- engineering.)
A couple of quick notes:

1) The OPM hack and now this all illustrate - if govt gives itself the big backdoors into everything, it's likely they will give it to russia, criminals, ex-boyfriends stalking ex-girlfriends etc.

2) My own impression of govt IT is largely security theatre in the area I was involved. In particular such massive complexity that agency staff think going around the rules is normal, because it's the only way to actually get work done. And then such glaring weaknesses that no one cares to fix. With google I've had one password for 20 years (my google account) which allows a hardware key for 2FA or google authenticator with what I imagine is sensible monitoring, new device authentication etc (I find this pretty secure).

Govt you are forced to write down these insanely long passwords with super complexity that cannot be cut and pasted that change very 30 or 60 days.

Because lost passwords are so common in these settings, the password reset process is usually a MASSIVE weakspot. I've seen it just be a phone call to a third party, you give them your username, they give you a new temp password - that's literally it. And the passwords end up everywhere. In lots of documents that float around, emailed around etc etc. And lots of password sharing when you get locked out of a tool and it will take a long time to get a new account setup (months). Pretty soon the procedures manual also gets you root access to everything.
This looks really clean for generated code, great job!
This is my experience as well (going to mild places in Europe and many houses without central heating being at almost the same ~ 10C - 15C temperature as outside on the streets.)

Unrelated (I think) https://www.aceee.org/portal/national-policy/international-s...
Any widespread fraud (and it would need to be widespread indeed, without the benefit of hindsight) would leave ample evidence. The conspiracy required to pull it off is mind-boggling, and keeping that a secret essentially impossible.

Ironically, Biden supporters have a better argument for believing in fraud conspiracies, given that Trump over-performed significantly compared to expectations in both of the last two elections. One man's "oh the polls must all have been wrong" is another man's "there were millions of illegal votes."

This is a scary time for the country. I sincerely hope this is just a personality cult and will fade along with Trump. Garden variety issue politics are at least halfway rational.
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