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I generally want to agree with you on separating honorary doctorates from those earned through explicit academic achievement, and I think you're right that one shouldn't go ahead and call themselves a doctor for having received a honorary degree, or fifteen.

The tone I don't agree with, based on my understanding of honorary degrees. I haven't heard of honorary doctorates being handed out to just random people who did nothing but showed up, nor for just being pals with someone. Where I live, honorary degrees seem to be awarded to people with distinctive achievement in the industry, politics, the arts, or in other areas of society. That's not "literally nothing but showing up", and you make it sound like none of those people did anything to be worth a distinction.

Maybe the culture of awarding honorary degrees is different in different countries, but my understanding is that they're valid acknowledgements of contribution, although not for academic work.

As for Stallman, whether you like him or not, and whether you even agree with his ideas of free software or not, it would be silly to say he has done nothing, or that he hasn't achieved and contributed something.

And assuming that a honorary degree is not just "imaginary" but an acknowledgement of achievement or contribution, maybe fifteen actually is more than one or none. Still not a normal academic degree (and certainly not several), but perhaps indicative of higher impact or contribution than one.

So, I agree that honorary degrees should generally not be treated the same as normal academic degrees. I can see how, especially if you've put in the explicit work for a doctorate, seeing someone get the same for "free" (i.e. without putting in the explicit effort for just that) could be frustrating and seem wrong. But the tone you used was IMO way too dismissive in general, so I strongly disagree with the rest of it.
Agree. See Texas for an example.
> I disagree. Parsing is the single most important feature of building a programming language. It influences how the language can be structured and also how it should be structured for performance reasons.

Wirth already settled that question (of both structuring the language and performance) with recursive descent over thirty years ago. The necessary treatment of all things parsing is then covered on twenty pages of his Compiler Construction text.
Have you tried Clion?
> I think what you are describing is the old normal.

Yeah, it's not "collective revenge," it's just equal treatment. Companies have been treating candidates like this for ages; they really shouldn't act so shocked when the candidates return the favor.
Hardware-wise I would say the different screen with a slightly higher resolution could be an issue, but I have neither watches and don’t know how adaptative OSes like infinitime are.
I’ve been both farmer of black angus beef cattle (on 750 acres) right down to castrating steer, and founder/owner of the world’s largest VDN (14 international data centers) right down to pulling drives.

For what it’s worth, meat packers buy dead cattle and don’t ask questions. But this is a well known metaphor, and I’m pointing out by that metaphor, no trips to the vet. As a cattle farmer, I’d argue it holds true if you’re big enough they’ve got tags not names: the vet comes to you and only if you think you’ve got a herd problem instead of an individual problem.

As for the HN angle: these are contrarian and objection-inspiring policies that let us wholesale video delivery to/through other CDNs while making a profit.
neck restraint is standard use of force. noone can be suffocated via back of the neck pressure unless there is significant tissue damage and broken bones or something indicating severely restricted airflow, and no damage whatsoever was found neither in his skin, nor deep tissue, nor bones of his neck.

based on expert testimony and autopsy report he died from cardiac arrhythmia caused by drug overdose and exertion from resisting arrest which his sick heart just couldn't handle.

He might have survived only if he didn't swallow his entire stash of fentanyl & meth to avoid jail and vigorously resist arrest, but unfortunately he did.

This politicized case will be thrown out on appeal, as jury was obviously intimidated by mobs on the streets and politicians like Rep. Waters calling for violence in case of non-guilty verdict. One of the alternate jurors actually admitted it in recent interview, that they were scared to go against the mob "verdict".
Suppose you are a C programmer and someone joins and starts using C in a way that you don't like. So what? Deliberately using a crippled language is a poor substitute for having code review and style standards.
Oh would it be possible to filter for the UK. I guess you see that as a part of the EU, legally speaking this won't be the case for long however.
There is some value in harmonizing C and C++ a bit more, without going full C++.

Personally I don't have a problem with the approach that C++ acts as an experimentation testbed for C to find the few good language features that should eventually trickle into C after they've proven their worth in real-world C++ codebases for at least a decade or so ;)
It seems some of the boards are out-of-order with respect to the captions. See the one on natural language - the referenced scribblings on hom(top) and functor existence are two pictures up
That's not a problem with scooter and bike sharing, but with that specific app.

I've used a whole range of bike and scooter systems, some docked and some dockless, and mostly the apps worked fine. Scan a QR code, unlock and off you go. It can definitely work seamlessly.
> And many other Turks are extremely invested in hating Armenians.

I've never met with any such Turks. My circle of communication may not be globe-scale, but they're not many from my experience.

> even after having lived in Europe for two generations.

Unfortunately Turks in Europe is not a good representative sample for Turks living in Turkey, this's also sad and something we've fallen short about as a country.

> "eh, we both said things we shouldn't have, nobody is at fault here".

This is not what have intended to say, even by a huge margin.

> You're a genocide denier, it's pretty simple. And disgusting.

Thanks for your point of view. I'll have no comment about this.
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Yes, there would be issues implementing it in the US in exactly the same way. The current situation here, though, isn't working. Many people are unable to find employment because of the broad availability of not just conviction data, but arrest data too. And not just for felonies, but misdemeanors also. And companies are incented, via "right to work" type laws to just avoid anyone with any kind of record. Perhaps there's some government entity other than the police here that could be trusted with something like this.
Some of those less-cluefull operators include Juniper and Azure[1], Cisco[2][3], and probably many other companies. When Cloudflare put its 1.1.1.1 DNS server into use, it started receiving huge amounts of packets destined to unroutable addresses because the 1.0.0.0/8 space was (mostly?) unused.

If you configure your routers correctly, none of these IP addresses should resolve, anyway. If something in your network is intentionally dialing the department of defence, you probably have some kind of problem at hand. In theory this might become a huge problem, but in practice it probably won't.

[1]: https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/vmx/information-...

[2]: https://www.ciscolive.com/c/dam/r/ciscolive/us/docs/2017/pdf...

[3]: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/157682/why-does...
>> Fingers crossed.

Indeed!
It seems oddly philosophical to suggest that a crime hasn't been committed until its would-be committor has been convicted...

Regardless of what you want to call it in the time between the event later deemed criminal, and the sentencing, surely you see that that's what GP was referring to? That there may be differences in demography of 'who is involved in these events'.
Or the money was spent in buying the factory and what happens after is just extraction.

Speculation being that investments in economy are perceived as a very good thing and the origin of the money is not checked that tightly.
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> In practice, you either you support freedom of speech, or you support billionaires and dictators arbitrarily removing and editing what we say.

I think that this is a false dichotomy, even if preceded by "in practice", because it follows the practice of conflating the freedom to speak with the freedom to be heard.

I support people's right to say what they please. I don't think that people have any inherent right to be heard saying what they please, even if I personally think that the things that they are saying are important and should be heard.

I support anyone's right not to amplify others' disgusting sentiments. When a private business is used to provide the platform for that speech, I support its right not to host speech that it (not I) finds disgusting, or objectionable, for any reason, even if I disagree with that reason. This is nothing new—it's always been the case, for example, that publishers didn't publish books that they determined to be disgusting or objectionable, and that their reasons for so determining could be lofty, or base, or completely counter to my own reasons.

Given the prominence of Facebook and Twitter as global communications platforms, this gives their owners disproportionate influence over whose voices are heard. That's the problem. Requiring Facebook and Twitter to amplify everyone's voices equally won't fix that problem.

(I have no idea what will fix the problem, to be clear, short of "how about everyone stops using Facebook and Twitter and we switch to a forum that somehow combines global reach with democratic moderation", which only requires (1) someone design the perfect such platform free from any possibility of abuse, and then turns its reins over to the masses, and (2) everyone agrees to use it, and so should be easy.)
can you hear capacitors charging and discharging? I found it comforting when i discovered that source of noise, where just knowing what it is helps.

Audio phase isn't discernible to most people; but you might be hearing it if you can perceive dead/bright spots in rooms at various frequencies.

I think many people are more sensitive to these things than they realize, but work out coping strategies without the problem ever becoming something they're conscious of as an actual thing.
More money, I assume. The government does not want to raise all programmers’ pay, so instead of adjusting the pay schedules that apply to everyone, they make a special group that the normal pay schedules don’t apply to.

I wonder if it came about because how much of a dumpster fire the first version of healthcare.gov was for the premier of the Affordable Care Act. That probably embarrassed a lot of people.
>"This is a reasonably common thing - for example the law also assumes letters are delivered after being posted unless there is evidence to the contrary."

They did not invent registered mail for nothing. It is exactly for the reason that mail does not get delivered. I am sick of counting how many times I've received somebody else's mail. And I got $8,000 worth of integrated circuits from Digikey marked as delivered but missing. By sheer accident found that it's been delivered to the house of one of my neighbors.

I even once chased the postman and asked him why are you dropping somebody else's mail in my box? All I could get from him was: "it is ok"
That is the dominant opinion among web developers, yes, in spite of copious evidence that it was a big mistake 20 years ago or so to mix static documents and applications-served-over-HTTPS into a single namespace (namely, the space of HTTPS URLs) and failing to give the average user any practical way to distinguish between the 2 types of "pages".

Web devs are strongly in favor of changes to web browsers that give web devs greater control over the sites that they work on even when those changes (combined with the fact that any psychopath and any irresponsible person can create a web site) worsen the experience of the average user of the web.

Hijacking of the back button is a crisp example of this trend or phenomenon, which is why I jumped into this thread.
Imperial gets tricky real quick as soon as you need to mix additions/subtractions with multiplication/division which happens surprisingly often in building.

eg: imagine you have a 5 & 1/2 foot cabinet with 4 equal sections framed out with 3/4" boards, what is the height of each section? It's (5 & 1/2' - (5 * 3/4")) / 4 which I guarantee nobody is working out in their head easily.
i agree a lot. most complainers had never used it. most users were happy with it

there’s a stigma to just riding a scooter. it’s not cool. during the rent a scooter craze the lamest thing you could do was buy your own scooter for $500. i don’t know why but they have to get over that barrier before people will accept it without using it. bikes appear to have crossed that barrier, sometimes
I listed a few examples; there are many others that are well known and easy to learn about. If you want to provide evidence, address the issues, and advance our knowledge, please do!

> you suggest that issues of race and crime in America are settled, or that we've "learned" the right answer, suggests that you believe people on the other side of this issue are somehow remedial. Surely you see how this can be an obstacle to convincing them you are correct.

But these strawperson characterizations and this victimhood are more distractions from the issues, as is the ignorance of the GGP post I responded to above - they are well-known ways of halting progress. And yes, there are some things that are well-established (though again, I haven't said the words you put in my mouth); I'm not going to spend time reviewing all human knowledge (also a well-known technique of stopping discussion). I'm here to move forward.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26926445
I don't know Brett super well so I can't speak to the rest of his background, but it's not correct that the Obama admin asked him to take over DDS.

DDS's founding head was Chris Lynch, who served in that role until the middle of the Trump administration, when he left government service and that's when Brett got the job.
Suicide or drugs? I’m betting drugs
You'll find the same sentiments among Russians, Moroccans, Israelis, Japanese, Serbians... The Germans may be almost unique in that they took full responsibility for the crimes their state committed.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0833-x
This is quite interesting — glad I asked!
Any reason the trace module doesn't support using ICMP echo requests for tracing?
or, you know, use NAT to do so :)
I might suggest a few of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Ok, that explains it... I'm on 5:4 screen... they made it for widescreen! :D
It isn't surprising but this is getting to be the last straw. Twitter is poison.
maybe this is sometimes called assert()? or in some debuggers you set a watch on a var and the BP triggers only on the watch-condition so the BP don't trigger each loop, only when x=7
Significant clarifying detail: At the request of the Indian government and in India.
Zuck'd have a shot at running if he had more than three facial expressions.
As others mentioned, source code should be distributed that way, and I think creating a simple VM is easier than a simple language parser. But of course, an optimizing one can be really quite complex in both cases.
Right, but even to endusers, the BBC isn't free, unlike PBC.
For a system of moderate complexity, there are myriad answers to question (1). A skilled programmer has the intuition to guess the most likely causes. This ranges from the mundane (e.g. recompile everything from scratch) to the occasional almost magical lucky guess which immediately leads to a solution.
Can read the whole article, and it is well written and interesting;
Using the HN 'materialistic' app.
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But it’s also a function of how well you protected your elderly
>"but in the UK these people would have been unable to get a public defender and unable to afford their own defence either"

So maybe the UK should spend less time writing horror stories about other "undemocratic" countries and concentrate on their own sorry state of human rights.

What had happen should be impossible in a "democratic western country that respects human rights". Last time I checked they count themselves as one.
Thanks for that informative link. I had no idea.
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A team of researchers led by Andrew Guess of Princeton University tracked the internet use of over 3000 Americans in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election. They found Facebook to be the referrer site for untrustworthy news sources over 15% of the time. By contrast, Facebook referred users to authoritative news sites only 6% of the time.

The authors state, “This pattern of differential Facebook visits immediately prior to untrustworthy website visits is not observed for Google (3.3% untrustworthy news versus 6.2% hard news) or Twitter (1% untrustworthy versus 1.5% hard news).”
Yes, exactly! And it's all over the news. Google goes back to office. Amazon too. Netflix says remote work is a pure negative. So definitely there are smaller companies who follow that lead.

Luckily, there are other big co's who embrace remote, like Twitter who says: work remotely, permanently.

And I'm not saying that hey big co's, close your offices. I'm just saying that please give the option for your employees to decide themselves.

For me, it's about freedom, really.

But where's the freedom when Google says that you'll have to formally apply for up to 12 months of remote work in “the most exceptional circumstances."

And I feel that currently we still have the window open – remote work can come out of the niche into the mainstream as we just had the catalyst as a COVID outbreak.

Opportunity like this may never come again... or at least for a very long time.

/rant over

PS. I actually wrote about this "niche to mainstream" movement here in more detail just a few days ago:
https://remotehunt.com/blog/big-tech-is-killing-remote-work
I often use prints to find the suspect, and then debugger to weed it out. Conditional breakpoints make it easy to stop at the correct place.

About your debugging from the beginning: with Intellij on the jvm one can "drop frame", which is basically to discard the current function and start over with the stack as it was. Since I mostly write kotlin my objects are immutable, so rerunning most stuff actually works fine. And hot-swapping the function while the debugger is paused I can even try multiple implementations without having to rerun everything, just drop frame, hot swap, step into the new and updated function.

I'd say knowing the debugger well and using it is a faster way to iterate than not.
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You don't have to use bike/scooter sharing to see that it's an eyesore, or that people frequently drive at unsafe speeds down sidewalks. That's no more self-centered than thinking that you should be able to drive a scooter down the middle of a sidewalk meant for foot traffic, then leave it sitting wherever you want so other people have to deal with it.
Those probably aren't loans, they're semi-hidden bribes.
There ya go. +/- details.

I saw him present on DDS and his backstory at BSidesLV a few years ago and did a bit of non-profit govt<>tech chatter with the team there.

Correct, it was in the middle of the Trump Admin.
where is your privacy policy?
Isn't there like 30% immediate tax that is required to be withheld by the agent and then later buyer is responsible to file a return to attempt to get that money back? I am sure some do, but for the rest - it looks like it is a price paid to the USA for the privilege of owning real estate there.
Could it be handed to someone more impartial than the police and with more time to spare than a judge? A social worker, maybe?
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and more:

"approximately 57% of Trump supporters read at least one fake news article in the month prior to the 2016 election compared to only 28% of Clinton supporters. Older Americans were also more likely to visit untrustworthy news websites.

Perhaps most alarming is the observed “stickiness” of fake news websites. The researchers estimate that people spend an average of 64 seconds consuming a fake news articles compared to only 42 seconds on verified news stories."
I think the point about seeing the state over time is a great one.

But also I want to nitpick because the title is one of my “favorite” pet peeves: “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of ...” thing is now used (as in this article) by people who are trying to say that something is remarkably or surprisingly effective, but that’s not what the original essay was about at all!

“The unreasonable effectiveness of the mathematics in the natural sciences” was a philosophy of science piece whose thesis was that there is no reasonable (rational, provable) basis for the degree to which our math abstractions and syllogisms happen to correspond to the physical universe.

It is self evident that they do in fact correspond super well, but the original piece was about how weird and spooky that actually is, if you think about it at all. Math is super effective, and there is no reasonable basis that we yet know that it should be so effective. It’s unreasonably effective.

It’s such a perfect title for that piece, and it feels dirty or diluting when it’s just used to mean “remarkably effective.”
It's more complicated than that.

They disbanded the entire department -- breaking the police union in the process, and then hired far _more_ (but somewhat lower-paid) police than before.

The new, larger, but reformed department has done dramatically better than before. So there's really something for everyone -- breaking the union was important, _increasing_ funding was important, but also increased de-escalation training helped.
Violent crime has been on a decade-long decline in Newark[1] so wouldn't at all be surprising if crime as a whole declined in 2020.

[1] https://www.city-data.com/city/Newark-New-Jersey.html
I agree with @omnibrain here and second his request. @dang, can we get a black bar?
To me the disingenuous part would be claiming they’re going to follow the prevailing ethical guidelines (paraphrased) when in fact they disagree with those guidelines and have essentially hatched this whole monkey/human hybrid scheme to sidestep them. (hypothetically)

I’m not necessarily attaching a value judgement to this. I’m just pointing out that their public position is either poorly thought out or not entirely honest.
Java debugger can easily drop frames which helps tremendously in going over a function multiple times.

Hot code replacement, which I have already and still use since 2005 works very well as well.

In php, debugger are half as good but code replacement works immediately.

I would rarely use print debugging and in Java never.
"Largest factor" implies there are others as well.
Wrt cold snaps being a big problem, it seems like we could just massively insulate dwelling and improve our energy use auditing, if it became necessary? Vacuum insulation panels are a bit pricey, but they’re crazy insulative for the thickness. If we’re willing to deal with thicker walls, there are a variety of other options that are downright cheap (shredded newspaper, for example).

We’ve been designing around super cheap on-demand energy for a while now, but we did manage before that.
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