skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Experimental evidence and logic counters your point.

It is wishful thinking to believe that most people are average but this is not the case. There are more people on the right and left side of a bell curve than in the center.

When you account for all bins most people ARE not average though the "average" represents the biggest bin. (It also depends on how big you make your bins but in general if you make your bins a reasonable resolution more people live to the side of the average than in the center)

What this means is that there are people all over the spectrum, tons of people who are bad, and tons of people who excel and are better.

It is convenient to think otherwise but it does not mesh with reality. There are people who are better than you in all things just through sheer talent and there are people who are worse than you in all things also because of sheer talent.

Your uni anecdotal example also is biased. It also depends on the university you attend. Universities filter off of cognitive ability through grades and testing. Students within the same university are more or less roughly equivalent in ability due to going through the same filtering to attend the same university.

There is, however, a very evident difference in skill between students who go to different universities. If you ever transferred from a lower tier university to a higher one, you can feel this difference anecdotally. The difference in ability between students on average in say Stanford is markedly different then those in a community college.
> If I remember correctly overdosing is 50% over the normal dose.

No, it's closer to 100% over the maximum daily dose. (maximum daily dose is 4g, toxic dose for a single ingestion is 7.5-10g.)

https://www.health.harvard.edu/pain/acetaminophen-safety-be-...

https://www.medscape.com/answers/820200-27208/what-are-the-m...
I know people in large orgs who've kept their IC role for 5-10 years, largely because they definitely provide value. They own their space, but they don't use that in a negative power way. They tend to be very generous with their time and knowledge. They're also net-positive contributors. That's a thing to figure out, for sure. It's sometimes the case that the one getting promoted isn't actually providing greater value, they're just the obvious answer to a painful question.

I think this is also a little easier when you're a little older. I was a ladder climber early on in my career. I'm older now, and in enterprise orgs, there are plenty of seasoned people. It's not obvious that you should be hankering after a title if you've otherwise established yourself.

This may bend differently in startups or hyper-growing orgs.
> What does this even mean?

I hate to be pedantic, but you're misreading the parent post (they didn't say "diameter" nor "perimeter" and neither really makes sense in this context) and then being confrontational based on your misreading. You and the parent post both have good points otherwise, best to keep it a friendly discussion.
> no easy way to change between multiple windows of the same program using keyboard shortcuts

CMD + ` (backtick)
Which is a good thing. Higher property taxes leads to lower, more realistic real estate prices for new buyers. See Prop 13.
If you're targeting Windows, win32 is the stable platform. Microsoft keeps presenting other options that aren't as good, and don't do as much, and keeps walking back to win32. It even works on other platforms easily(ish) through wine/proton/etc.
AFAICT, palm oil was a replacement for trans-fat-containing partially hydrogenated oils, which were causing an unfortunate amount of dying in consumers of the cheap and highly processed foods that contained lots of it.
Am I missing something here? old reddit on iphone is just unusable- need to pinch zoom for everything.
I so much prefer the new one at least on mobile.
It’s an order of magnitude less work to set an IAM policy because that doesn’t require ongoing maintenance commitments. An IAM policy is a one-time setup cost and the limited duration keeps people honest about not accumulating unmanaged local state. It’s also handy for non-administrators to contain a compromise or error - if someone pops a shared system multiple users will be affected.
I don't know many people who care about the hardware except for the camera. How is it? Can it compete with the current phones from Apple and Google? Does it do all the standard things like include filters, portrait mode, night mode, etc...? Can I search for "dog" and get all my dog photos or search for a city and get all the photos taken there?

And how's the app store? When some random game goes viral and I want to play with my friends, am I going to be able to? Are the apps vetted for security and safety?

Does it integrate with my car? One of the primary uses of my phone is for navigation. Being able to plug it into my car and say "navigate to 123 main street" as I drive is pretty key.

Is their store only online? If they don't have their own retailers can I at least see them at a carrier store or BestBuy? Will Verizon activate the phone on their network? A decade ago they wouldn't approve the Nexus 7 tablet, so this is something I think about.
Explains the elaborate backstories folks create about their cats.
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As others have said, TLA+ can be very useful outside distributed systems. For example, I'm currently working on a virtualization-related low-level systems paper (likely to be submitted to VEE) where we use TLA+ to reason about the safety of some new syscalls and their related programming patterns. Reordering and concurrency of interactions between processes and the kernel can lead to many of the same challenges as distributed systems.

Many people have also used TLA+ for business logic reasoning, but I haven't yet tried it in that domain (I tend to just do state machine stuff, and sometimes use Alloy).
Do Alibaba and Tencent have a significant number of users in the EU?
sf property tax is 1.2
Most repeals of prop 13 would still include the widowed grandma clause that prop 13 was sold on. It would just get rid of some profits for the landlord class.
There's also the fact that while Bash is common on Linux, it's not generally the default shell for the BSDs or other UNIXes. But most of them will have Python installed. Also it's easier to use Python on Windows than a POSIX shell, though neither is present by default.
The problem was definitely not that someone renamed their personal account on a website.
Nigerian man stabbed to death by An Afghanistan refugee roommate in Portugal
> Sessions cannot currently connect to resources inside of private VPC subnets, but that’s also on the near-term roadmap.

That should probably have been on the launch roadmap.
Ah, maybe I misunderstood the original post. Thanks for clarifying.
gfx.webrender.all

layers.omtp.enabled

layers.acceleration.force-enabled
Depends on the type of coal.

I’m sure the coal we’re burning for heat isn’t the kind good for steelmaking which has a much higher value/ton.
Sir Simon "Tux" Cuddlywhiskers the Third, of the Macon Cuddlywhiskers, has led a very interesting life. That's all.
I've used both AWS and GCP and I personally found GCP easier to use. Also FWIW GCP ended up being cheaper, at least for running GPU instances.
They have said they're working on a Big Sur compatible version (it works currently, but the rendering is a bit broken).

That's fine by me to be honest—I paid for it once and it's done everything I need it to ever since.
What to do about the 'cookie notice' hurting ecommerce conversion rates?
> Why not use profanity in code? We're all adults.

You just answered your own question there.
There aren’t many $1.5M houses in Austin. In Round Rock (home of Dell), the highest price you’ll find is around $800k for a 5600 square ft house with premium upgrades.
That size comparison doesn't actually show a comparison. It only has the footprints for the other factories, and the entirety of the land purchase for the texas factory. What a bizarre thing!

If you look at the planning documents you'll see that the planned footprint for the texas factory is probably a similar size to the plans for the rest of their "giga" factories. https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/09/Tesla...
I agree, 44.1KHz is a commonly available sampling rate and could provide better temporal resolution regardless of time doamin and frequency domain analysis technique you decide to use.
I don't think their revenue per user has really changes, their problem has been the regular drop in usership. Your money can't offset millions fewer users, which is why they aren't screaming for donations.
I have exactly the same experience on both FB and Twitter. And the same reflection for a while regarding recent articles. Most on my FB feed are sharing moments of their life. Twitter is a chaos of retweets etc.
Palm oils advantage is it doesn't separate. It replaced partially hydrogenated oils as the way to make peanut butter that doesn't separate for example, but doesn't kill you like partially hydrogenated oils do, as far as I know.
Almost no one was being taxed out of their homes. A real estate tycoon was the reason the bill passed.
> I can't imagine using a browser without Tree Style Tab, or all the things that I can do in about:config

Vivaldi is a configuration juggernaut in my experience. Reminds me of the glory days of Opera.

It has a wonderful vertical tab bar too - built-in.
A pack a day smoker would reach that amount in 6 years yet a lot of people smoke way more than 50k doses.
Paypal existed because they allow disputes. Until a cryptocurrency or some broker on it can handle fraud other than "haha you're screwed" its a non starter.
> To play Devil's advocate, how many of those would exist if they had been separate.

Suppose Chrome couldn't be a part of Google. They would have just contributed to Firefox, wouldn't you say?

Or if they were worried about Apple, donated startup capital to a non-profit Android Foundation to get it off the ground, where it could subsequently operate under a business model similar to Mozilla.

The difference is that the independent entities wouldn't have the same conflicts of interest as they do as part of the mothership. Firefox can care more about privacy than Chrome, so if it was the dominant browser, all the better. An Android Foundation operated by people in the spirit of Debian would probably care more about continuing to support older phone hardware, and care less about monopolizing app distribution to their operating system.
Exactly. What's nice about this approach is it factors in the "behavioural economics" of developers. As the author puts it...

> At the end of the day, everyone needs to get work done, and if they see a code-path already being used from 10 places in the code-base despite these soft warnings–it doesn’t seem crazy to introduce another.

Even the best person with the best intentions will take a short cut under some circumstances, meaning to fix it later then getting distracted before that happens.
Which is exactly why I'm glad Adobe is being so aggressive.

The death of Flash isn't news. If enterprises haven't reacted to that, frankly, they never will short of killing it as is being done here. Letting is linger on just ensures it's a source of ongoing security breaches, and I think we've all seen how dangerous those can be (thanks Experian!)

That being said, there's always Ruffle:

https://ruffle.rs/
LOL - what is an example of an elaborate backstory about a cat? I'm not familiar with this, but it sounds hilarious.
Those companies are going to do it anyway, not without reason. If you have high security requirements something like this is important if you don’t want to have two laptops so your development work is isolated (think what keys someone could get with a bad npm/Python package install).
Lockdowns (government actions), not the pandemic.
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The download thing killed me and almost forced me to switch. Very frustrating and it shows how much mobile Firefox is a second class citizen.
What's the drama on Android? It's been working great for me for years now.
How does performance compare to bare bones JDBC code? Specifically “select * from” a table with hundreds of rows.
>>We can just elect another diplomat in their place.

Wow, I wonder how would you ever attract anyone to that job then, if it basically comes with a "disposable" label, and if the government basically says "go and represent us, but if things go tits up we'll just replace you".

>>No matter how you put it, diplomatic immunity disproves the idea that everyone is equal under the law.

Well, that idea was never true, going back thousands of years. Diplomats are effectively guests and get special treatment, like any guests do. If they abuse our hospitality then they get kicked out, simple.

>>You can't have diplomatic immunity and also have everyone equal under the law.

Of course you can - after all this isn't a loophole, it's specifically agreed upon and allowed in the law of our democratic societies.

>> You have to choose one or the other or else it's impossible to know where to draw the line.

Why would it be impossible? It's pretty easy in fact - diplomats have immunity in order to carry on their jobs. Just like the American president(and most presidents and leaders in fact) is immune from prosecution while in the office - that's also not "equal under law".
Or like police officers are immune from certain prosecution, how journalists are, private investigators etc. The rules are equal - but the rules also say that certain people are exempt. I just don't see the issue here.
A $300K house in 1993 is only $2M now. :)
Not if your app extracts some info out of the domain, e.g., tenant slug.
"Means testing property taxes..."

It sounds like income and capital gains taxes would be a better type of system if one wants to charge people based on their means.
> taxes give linear returns which is why they can be ignored for years

This isn't true at all. The effect of taxes compound just like anything else. E.g. if Warren Buffet had originally incorporated Berkshire as a Bermuda-based reinsurer, he'd be worth over $400 billion today. If he didn't structure it as an insurer at all he'd only be worth $20 billion.

Tax savings compound at whatever the long-term ROE of the corporate entity. Therefore tax arbitrage is most important for hyper growth companies.
The parent comment is a bit flip and sarcastic, but he's not wrong. $550k isn't even a speed bump for Twitter. SV tech companies aren't going to take EU regulatory bodies seriously unless they pass out meaningful fines.

Hopefully, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission intends this to be a "shot across the bow" hinting at more severe fines if Twitter continues to do this kind of thing. Otherwise, Twitter is unlikely to change their behavior.
Absolutely my favorite Python resource, highly recommended.
Google's crawler gets preferential treatment on many sites. Not necessarily because of private deals, but because it drives traffic from search results.

Quote via [2]

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When Mr. Maril started researching how sites treated Google’s crawler, he downloaded 17 million so-called robots.txt files — essentially rules of the road posted by nearly every website laying out where crawlers can go — and found many examples where Google had greater access than competitors.

ScienceDirect, a site for peer-reviewed papers, permits only Google’s crawler to have access to links containing PDF documents. Only Google’s computers get access to listings on PBS Kids. On Alibaba.com, the U.S. site of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, only Google’s crawler is given access to pages that list products.

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[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/technology/how-google-dom...

[2] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/12/14/wakabayashi-goo...
For big companies having a completely non-local dev environment actually works pretty amazingly. It's something that I've been trying to set up at home with Eclipse Che. The workflow is great. I can switch between laptops, desktops, etc with no changes. I can run really large jobs from my phone and come back to my desk an hour or two later to see if my code worked right. I can do all of this without installing anything on my local system.
Dont see anything for iMessage. If its supposed to be on the privacy page, then that is nowhere like what they are asking devs on the store.
It explains the footprints in the article. They're largely not usable, whereas the Austin one is.

These are manufacturing jobs. It is not exactly like California has a better environment for that than Texas.
I agree, the current iteration of Firefox on Android feels half baked, and it makes me sad. I wish they'd make it a first class citizen
5 - Work at a company that gets acquired by Google.
Why limit access to an already valuable product?
Had to get feature parity with GCP, huh. Is this similar to SSH via SSM in that it could be a security improvement? Can I disable port 22 and remove the SSH client altogether and still use AWS CloudShell on an instance?
> They're companies trying to avoid taxes or regulation. Only companies on the downslide really consider that as an relevant option.

Which is why continental Europe has so many fast-growing tech companies.
Bruh you woke up and chose violence
I knew a relatively lonely man who likewise named all of his cars
Really curious what you mean by this.
Not GP, but I think what they find disturbing is that Adobe could block a plugin running on their computer, either by the plugin being timebombed, or by it checking in with a mothership.
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This sort of thing is one of the big factors that keeps me on Apple's platform in spite of other things I don't like about it.
I’m the opposite.

Every time a python script throws an exception at me (pretty much every time I invoke a python script for the first time), my first debugging step is to read it and attempt to rewrite it in bash.

9 times out of 10, the result is 10-100x times shorter, with zero external dependencies, and is also easier to debug.

In the other case, the python thing is some non-trivial monstrosity that should have been implemented in a compiled language with static type checking.
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Thanks for the thoughtful response! Appreciate it.

I initially missed the distinction between affirming speech and speech designed to make the recipient feel good. Jokes can make people feel good, but don't affirm that they are enough, as they are.

The Manifesto page explains it well; the badges page doesn't have as much depth.

That's on me for not reading enough.
This comment feels weasel-y, its like saying "be careful returning stolen property to the rightful owner's descendants, they may not be as 'good' with it as the thief"
I noticed this as well: the 'exodus' is comprised (so far) of companies which haven't innovated in a long time.

At least according to the linked article, three companies so far have moved to Texas. The word 'exodus' seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting.

The bigger 'exodus' might be the glut of folks who temporarily moved away from the Bay Area at the start of the pandemic and have made those moves permanent. I don't have hard data to back up whether that would qualify as an exodus (and not sure what number is required for that classification either - just that it's greater than three), other than anecdotal evidence and personally knowing a few folks who moved back to their hometowns permanently from that area.
Bandwidth costs have been continually declining for decades since competition started. The utility model of Ma Bell kept bandwidth costs up.
Out of curiosity, what do you like better about the Bash version?
I agree. Comparing your ability to do X vs your peers can be helpful when looking for ways to improve yourself. A lot of people on this forum probably think of themselves as above average at some technical skill like programming or business development. It is useful for them to know that fact because it can help with guiding things like career opportunities. It is equally important to figure out what you’re below average at so you can take steps to improve that skill.
I've lived there years ago. It is a tech hub, but it's considerably smaller in most areas and has a less innovative business culture. A tell for this is the pejorative use of the word "cowboy" for someone that doesn't do things by the book. It's something you never hear elsewhere, not even in the Midwest or Texas.

It's also way too classist and aristocratic in its thinking. Where you went to school basically informs a caste system.

Climate aside though, it is a nicer city. It has more usable (though quite old) transit, is very walkable, clean, low crime, and is much more affordable than the Bay Area (though still pricey).
I think it is safe to assume that when Apple complies with a FISA demand for user data from the US military intelligence community, they are expected to produce 100% of the data that they have for the requested user.

I made no such claim about Apple not being compelled.

I did strongly imply, however, that being aware of this gaping privacy issue that is pointed at them, gun to the head style, that it is massively irresponsible for them to collect as much user data as they do, pretending it will be safe, when in reality they function as a repository of a tremendous amount user data that is available to the government at any time without a warrant.

It is fair to say that as a result of these laws they are part of the vertically integrated surveillance state.

They know this, and the fact that they continue to collect and store as much data about their users and their users activity and travel as they do makes them complicit in the surveillance.

If Apple cared about the privacy of their users, they wouldn't have failed to fix their encryption backdoor (iCloud Backup), and they wouldn't be building a giant trove of activity history for every single Apple user that can be accessed on demand without a warrant. They also wouldn't have put special iCloud servers where the CCP can easily spy on them.

"Compelled by law" is a dodge. They didn't have to create the circumstance where they had the data in the first place.

On a side note: would you please stop cross-examining so many of my comments? It feels like you've singled me out for harassment. Your comment history doesn't indicate you do this to anyone else. In this instance you seem to be arguing against something I didn't even say. Please stop.
Isn't that just straight up copyright infringement? I understand that it's common in developer tooling to pick a character and use them as a logo, but it seems like a bold move to do that with some sort of external tooling at Mozilla's scale.
I don't have a horse in the Flash race -- it had a ton of issues but also enabled many content creators to deliver over the web in a way straight HTML/JS was incapable of -- and yes, Flash had its time and that time is now over, but yeah. Agree. Disturbing.

Flash games and animations were a treat of the early/mid-2000s web, and many folks got their start as creators there. Adobe hasn't just stopped distributing a player/plugin for Flash content, they're blocking the existing players from playing existing content. Even if you were an archivist there's nothing to do.

So yeah, this is disturbing. I can go to my city's library and browse microfiche if I want. I can install a Gopher or a Usenet client and connect to those widely-unused protocols that still serve content. But Adobe's reaching back and making all Flash content completely unplayable, even with players that should support it.

Wow.
Maybe but as of yet there doesn't appear to be any clearly net positive solutions (IMO) that can both curb emotional appeal and cognitive biases without introducing harms themselves.
Possibly. I believe God is a programmer and systems architect who wrote algorithms that control the bits (quarks/muons/atoms) to run the Universe.