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> That's very condescending

You're right. I apologize. Often times in tech, the people asking questions like that are uninterested in the answers.

My own view is that I have been blind to the advantages that my background (white, male, straight, upper-middle-class) has given me for my entire life over other friends and colleagues. And I'm trying to learn more, read more, and pay more attention to these things.

Ijeoma Oluo, who I mentioned above, comes from tech. She saw a lot of things that you and I wouldn't notice. Things that matter, and we don't even see it. So she writes, she talks, and she makes a lot of great points. And it's really hard to read and listen to her sometimes because she makes points that part of me does not want to hear.

So that's the ethical reason why it matters.

As to the original question: Diversity of backgrounds can lead to diversity of ideas. Not on every problem. Not every day. But often enough that it can matter. And it can happen in many cases that you and I would not expect or predict. More diversity of ideas leads to better solutions being found. That's the premise- you don't have to believe it and many don't.

In the 1980s, Frito-Lay's CEO, who had never imagined the Latino market, put out a call for ideas. A Latino janitor answered the call with his idea- Flamin' Hot Cheetos. It was a huge hit. Imagine how many markets they (and others) were missing because of a lack of diversity of ideas.
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Is it just me or do those things seem very... obvious? I mean - almost every single one of them makes me question how can you even have a differing opinion that wouldn't immediately make you seem like you're mindlessly repeating hype phrases.
For those lucky to have VGA port, I've recently did a setup with iPad 3 as second display for laptop [0] with VGA and a few resistors to create dummy display.

[0] https://blog.zenlot.xyz/post/ipad_second_display/
Note also that Japanese law implements blood citizenship and not birthright citizenship. Domestically born children of immigrants remain immigrants, in general.
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Yup. The idea that there's a single axis along which Bernie and trump is an incredibly simple-minded view of the world. Unfortunately, most voters are pretty simple-minded, which tells you a lot about why politics is the way it is.
You mean that's the PR you would hear from any organization, whether public or private. A lot of private companies would go one step further and just sue the reporter for damages.
There are challenges with microservices that hints me to build monoliths by default unless not viable.

Things that are trivial in monoliths are hard in microservices like error propagation, profilling, line by line debbugging, log aggregation, orquestration, load balancing, health checking and ACID transactions.

It can be done but requires more complex machinery and larger teams.
I don't think the Intel/GE tool counts as mission critical. There are already radiologists reviewing scans. The tool just flags features they may have missed. Remove the tool, and you're back to business as usual.

I don't know much about ML. Are you saying that we don't know how to interpret any ML models at all?

Regarding your final point, isn't that true with or without ML? Any mission-critical design process should scrutinize the solution to see if it's complete enough and correct enough.
sure, but it'd be less confusing to just make it a new command. you could add features like invoking lsblk with a sensible set of flags.
Necro is going to version 3 and using PyInstaller and DGA
Or, better chocolates have eclipsed Godiva? There's a considerable boutique chocolate industry, and our expertise in what constitutes quality chocolate has moved.
In a global pandemic with lots of people dying a company doesn't want to produce a vaccine they don't own, sounds pretty evil to me and to urge Oxford to sell their research instead of donating it isn't any better.
So it remains, the wealthy can afford their healthcare, the poor dependent on "kind" donors and the rest is fucked.
Seems to me like Gates didn't want to lose his leverage.
If you are not allowed to deploy continuously then don't do continuous deployments.

The tendency to bend words until they lose their meaning just to tick them off is a bit strange. No one can possibly use every trendy idea simultaneously. No trend is a great fit for every situation.
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If I do not calculate wrongly on my back of envelope, to brake from 10m/s (36km/h) in 10cm you need constant 50g acceleration on the driver... he certainly should feel that. Yes, it is a con.
Thanks! In a central database. It does not save your historical data, only the latest updated counter value.
Why should I care, it wasn't my property and it's not like I have to pay anyway. Their property, their decision.
> Covid authoritatively decimated their theses.

I think Covid demonstrated that there's a much lower appetite for living in dense cities during pandemics, not in general. Maybe this will have aftereffects that extend into "in general", but it seems premature to say this.
You is me.
Several benefits.

1. People with different backgrounds and experiences may notice important product features that you missed. The person who uses a screen reader is probably going to notice accessibility problems faster than the rest of the team.

2. There exist a lot of qualified people who aren't white. If your hiring process is failing to hire these qualified people due to internal biases then you are hiring suboptimally.

3. Social injustice is heritable and building a diverse workforce helps the world (in a small way) shift towards being more equitable.
The big benefits are types-as-documentation and automated tooling.
I would say that's perfectly okay, but not for the reason you think. If your status is "still working on the same issue", your team should respond with "how can we help?". If your status doesn't change, that's a sign that something's wrong at some level, whether it's because you're stalled or because the issue was poorly scoped or poorly defined.
I grew up in the suburbs of 2 cities. I went to college and lived in dorms and apartments in the city. Literally 3 weeks after graduation I moved 3 miles away to a suburban apartment complex. 5 years later I bought a house in the suburbs and absolutely love it. The grocery store and shopping centers are 1 and 4 miles away. I can load up my car with tons of stuff.

My wife, kids, and I all have our own rooms and home offices. We have a nice backyard with screened in porch, deck, and patio. 2 car garage and can charge the electric car at home and never have to deal with bringing the groceries in during the rain.

I would never go back to living in a downtown area.

I have a couple of friends that moved downtown. One bought a house for 2X the cost of the suburbs. The other got divorced and moved to an apartment downtown. After a year of trendy restaurants and lack of space he got tired of it and is looking to move back to the suburbs.
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> I've never been in a work environment where everyone is working at 100% all the time. Never. Have you?

Yes, (except mandated breaks) although they were all unskilled labor. Working in shipping/receiving, a warehouse, fast food (less so, there usually are lulls at certain times), a restaurant. Very little time not spent working.

In an office environment, though? Yeah, I've never seen it, except on the rare day when something major breaks and it needs to be resolved asap.
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Holy shit I just spent weeks building a tool ontop of this paper for work and now its on HN this is cool
If you read the linked papers then you'll see that the argument isn't whether it can be genderless. That's not disputed since it's used that way effectively. It's about what the word evokes regardless of which meaning is meant and whether or not that is harmful to women. Connotation vs. denotation and the real world effects of the former.
For coffee you add value by having street venues because coffee takes preparation and serving. Chocolate can be found ready to consume in a variety of different venues including markets. Never been to a godiva store but maybe it was bad strategy from the start. For what I know about Starbucks, the expansion was fast in order to hit small local cafes hard and take them off the business.
As someone who doesn't know much about Japanese culture, I find this really interesting.

Can you elaborate a bit on which details would provide that info?
> You really shouldn't trust articles that use metrics like CO2/tx or that claim to have "proven" Bitcoin's environmental impact.

So instead I should trust a random person on the internet whose account was created a short time ago, frequently shills Bitcoin, and gets easily proven facts wrong about BTC and needs to be corrected by others?
Also, the cost of the vaccine is, for every high-income state, so vastly lower than the lost income in tax / domestic product that all countries can easily subsidize it.

Also, there is COVAX which already purchased nearly 3 billion doses for poorer countries[1].

So until you can show me that this partnership caused direct harm to people, and that the risk of this taking more time than it has is small, I call BS.

[1] https://www.unicef.org/supply/covid-19-vaccine-market-dashbo...
Just check dmesg when you plug in your USB drive, it will tell you what device it created for it.
Gates is so rich that profit isn't important.
But power, control and appreciation are. Would be a shame if countries could vaccinate without the help of the "generous" Foundation, wouldn't it?
"Tokyo public schools will stop forcing students to dye their hair black, official promises" (2019)

https://japantoday.com/category/national/tokyo-public-school...

"According to a new survey published by Tokyo news outlet The Asahi Shimbun, 57% of public high schools in the city require students to prove that their hair color is natural."

https://www.businessinsider.com/japanese-students-hair-color...
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Knew I wasn't going to have to scroll far in the comments section to find discussion about Bell Labs. :)

That's a very cool office structure. I'm glad they repurposed it for a more cooperative use suited to the times.

To me the architect in the article is too quick to dismiss the premise of Bell Labs — giving researchers privacy and pastoral views.

A great discussion point re: Bell Labs that I read in an HN thread long, long ago was that research labs of this type (Bell Labs, Google X, Xerox PARC, etc.) only arise in monopoly conditions. Basic research only becomes supportable from an organizational overhead and ROI standpoint when there is no meaningful competition to the parent organization.

It implies another large and very interesting question: are the net benefits of places like Bell Labs worth the costs that come with tolerating monopolies?

More to the point of the topic at hand: is the monolithic structure of Bell Labs, the building, worth the costs it has imposed on the shape of its surrounding community?
Note that in the article prices for $37 a dose are given for the other vaccines, but no price for the Oxford vaccine is provided - I believe that it's $4 a dose. Why the journalist couldn't provide that information I don't know.
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> Strongtowns and Citylab were both conceived by single, childless white people

You're talking through your rear orifice. Strong Towns was founded and is led by a fairly conservative guy who lives in small town Minnesota and talks all the time about his wife, two kids and dog.
We live in the woods where only well water is available. We have a water softener using NaCL (removes Ca and Mg), an ozone machine to remove Sulfur, Iron, and Manganese, then we have a sediment filter into a UV light to disinfect, since there are some bacteria in the well. Finally, we run it through a carbon filter, then to our fridge and faucets.
I think emacs-ng shows great promise. You should join their chat: https://gitter.im/emacsng/community
TIL they have a trademark application pending https://uspto.report/TM/88746545

what is the implication of such a trademark? can unaffiliated companies not use the term now? this is a little surprising.
See this is exactly it - everyone overthinks everything.

Everything has to be "Real friendship" What does that even mean? You're just talking to others to be a decent human being. Not everyone has to be your wife/husband/BFF for ever.

I've seen plenty of people after commercial transactions. In fact, many times I remember people and they remember me for pleasant interactions - they aren't my best man but it's still really satisfying to me.
I think it's more of Nvidia wants to get into ARM's sales channels. CPU side of things is additional benefit.
In that case you wouldn't need a compatible interpreter, you'd just specify the interpreter you want in the shebang. Python does not usually use shebangs because you're supposed to run in a virtualenv, not shebang your files to your system python.
So it takes a single statement by a person you don't know about another person you don't know, reported by a third person you don't know, and whose veracity is unknown (it's a statement about the inner mental state of a person, FFS!), to make you hate someone?
From Middle English woman, from earlier wimman, wifman. The Middle English forms are from Old English wiman, wimman, from wīfmann m (“woman; female servant”, literally “female person”), a compound of wīf (“woman”, whence English wife) +‎ mann (“person”, whence English man). For details on the pronunciation and spelling history, see the usage notes below.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/woman#Etymology
The NLRB says, “A mail ballot election will enfranchise employees who cannot enter the voting location for health reasons or due to positive COVID tests.” Fearing an unfavorable outcome, however, Amazon now insists that current COVID outbreaks aren’t dangerous enough to warrant this NLRB decision.

If only irony could be harnessed as a power source this would light a large city for a year.
Cool hack, but is that seriously the easiest way to ask Windows for a second display? That is nuts!
No, it is just for display.
It's not neccissarily "their best interest" for one as there is no objective "best."

A key difference is that in Norway and Switzerland the "political elite" is pro-European and often wants closer ties up to joining, in UK however the brexit is the culmination of a decades long "RU/Europe/Brussels is evil" campaign and the British government gives little reason for the EU to believe in good reason for their negotiations.
I don't really use Python much any more, and haven't for a couple of years. I may have some Python projects coming up later this year though. What's the current recommended way to deal with Python versions and isolating dependencies? Are there any good tools that simplify virtual environments &c or am I best off just installing my required Python and packages in a Docker container?
> Not attending class doesn't mean you have no human interaction, there are tons of other options for human interaction like sport clubs.

Sure, but the key is like-minded individuals, and it's fun (at least for many people) to be thrown together with hundreds or thousands of other people who are at the same life stage as you.

Sports clubs, and many similar clubs and societies, amongst university students only really work when those students are substantially located in roughly the same geographical location.

You're conflating being in a lecture hall with attending university. Being in lectures is a small part of the whole experience. Much of the rest of that experience relies heavily on being mostly colocated for the academic year.

A really small example: Cambridge University will not be able to continue fielding a top quality rowing squad unless the squad members are all able to train together as a team. It will not be able to recruit new members to its rowing teams to build that top quality squad unless it can bring all those people together.

On the teaching front it's pretty difficult to do a substantial proportion of, e.g., practical physics, chemistry, and biology labs from home or your hall of residence. It's also going to be impossible to meaningfully participate in practical engineering labs, or many of the activities that medical students need to do in order to qualify as doctors.

Even the more practical aspects of the arts and music present serious challenges, and nobody can make me believe that a remote experience in these disciplines will be anything more than second rate.

For some people I'm sure it's fine (Open University and its associated remote learning have after all been available in the UK for decades) but for most people remote university is going to be an extremely impoverished experience. If I were university age now I'd seriously consider deferring until the pandemic is in the past.
I'm assuming you're the guy in this article? https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21121594/crossies-murfie-m...
I'm not following your point on finance, surely people paying a premium (either cash or inconvenience) for London shows London is either the only supplier or a very high quality one? Otherwise why not buy local?
Thing is, it's not straightforward, especially with UK jumping head first with little warning into moving VAT payments from logical place (customs) to illogical place (foreign seller).

And the guidance on HMRC page is so convoluted that it's hard to figure out if there's an exemption or not (hint: there's none, you're fucked, and welcome to trying to figure the declaration differences between sub-135 GBP and above it)
> those chance encounter they say sparks something interesting

Don't underestimate how many of those start from overhearing interesting conversations between other people.

Does that ever happen in WFH companies?
Who are the people that are creating a fragile world here? The ones who didn’t rewrite their code to be compatible with the existing software called python, or the ones who didn’t rewrite their code to be compatible with the existing software that uses python?

I don’t have any rights to python. If I chose not to rewrite my code for python3, I am increasing the fragility of the world.

However the same is true for the python maintainers. If the maintainers were interested in maximum anti-fragility, Python3 should have been a fork.

I’m not making any sort of moral judgement here. But I think it’s obvious both from the actions of devs not rewriting their software, and python being willing to make breaking changes, and that everybody seems to be blaming each other (and have been for a decade), that the goal here wasn’t really to create long lasting tools.
Winning how? It's one of worst places out there.
I find it difficult to complain about “the way things are” when this system has allowed us to develop and manufacture multiple effective vaccines in record time. Where is the problem?

Without government funding to spur research quickly then fewer companies would risk it and those that did find an effective vaccine would sell them for whatever the market would pay - which is a lot more than what they are going for now. By funding the research the governments at least have a claim of hoarding the vaccine rather than letting market participants bid on it. And this would mean millions of not-rich people wouldn’t get it for a long time. At least now it’s based on need and not ability to pay to protect your life and is actually available.
I've been a professional software developer for ten years, and I'm on a hiatus right now. One thing I've been doing with my time is reinvent a bunch of wheels, implementing broken clones of this library or that algorithm, and I've gained a tremendous amount of understanding of what's going on behind the scenes of tools I'd been using for years. So yeah, it's a valuable learning tool to build with your own hands.

Also, a valuable guide when deciding whether to write code yourself or introduce yet another library to your dependencies.
How about Broadcom (assuming they'd be big enough)?
Common sense isn’t common, and sometimes it helps to write down the obvious.

Obviously planes should only land with the gear down, yet not all planes have. Hence the use of checklists stating the obvious: lower the gear.
This conversation is feeding my suspicion that a lot of the problems people have with Wordpress come from not knowing how to work with Wordpress.

The professional approach is a local copy for development, a staging copy on hosting for QA, and then production. Code goes up in deployments; DB and files come down in regular synchronization. If there are multiple devs you might also have an integration copy on hosting.

This is not specific to WP; I’ve seen the same workflow work for other DB-backed CMSs like Drupal.
As cool as Common lisp is, python fans are probably python syntax fans, or at least syntax fans.
Nearly nobody thinks of himself of being evil, it's always the others that are wrong.
Wasn't it the free market that led to situation that only few companies produce and research vaccines because of the low profit? Wasn't it the free market that no SARS vaccine or drug was developed?
Isn't it governments spending billions to research the corona vaccine and helping the people losing their income because of lockdowns?
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> Next it talks about how businesses profit from this. While true it's also totally misses the point. The economist wrote an article on how the world is vastly underspending on solving this problem.

Is it supposed to make me feel better that not only are we not spending enough on the problem, but what little we are spending is going to line the pockets of Big Pharma instead?
The web browsers inspector is my main use at the moment. The M1 MBP display is simply too small to have the inspector and the browser comfortably on screen simultaneously, and its not possible to flick between virtual desktops (or application windows) without losing the context (some targeting stuff is hover-based, for example). Plus its annoying tweaking a css style, flicking back and forth all the time instead of seeing your change reflected as you change it.
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> revenge bedtime procrastination: a phenomenon in which people who don't have much control over their daytime life refuse to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours.
Maybe it would be fruitful to understand why there were 20 companies making vaccines for the US in the 1970s and only 4 now.
>audio CDs which I've found don't use checksums or other mechanisms to prevent small defects from mangling the bitstream

Redbook audio CDs does use CIRC error correction, by storing 8 bytes of parity data inside each 33 byte F3 frame. It is not enough to correct all errors though, and Yellowbook data CDs stores extra correction codes on top of it. (276 bytes for each 2352 byte sector).

(and there's also issue below F3 frame level about EFM modulation, whether merging codes are generated properly to keep DSV low enough)

See: https://byuu.net/compact-discs/structure/ https://john-millikin.com/%F0%9F%A4%94/why-i-ripped-the-same... https://john-millikin.com/%F0%9F%A4%94/error-beneath-the-wav...
There needs to be a better way to correct a government agency that isn't doing what it's supposed to besides waiting for the next election, because that doesn't seem to work.
Let's not pretend that py3's string changes weren't fundamentally wrong and didn't create years of issues trying to decode things that could properly be arbitrary byte sacks as utf-8.

So my answer is that it was a deeply misconceived change that shouldn't have been made at all, let alone been taken as the cornerstone of a "necessary" break in backward compatibility.