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Sorry, the Soviet Union explicitly advocated for science based on ideology instead of the other way around under Stalin. Wikipedia has numerous examples of this [0]. And no, one person getting applause at one conference in the US does not make a scientific hypothesis valid. Your also either fundamentally misunderstanding what the current research on epigenetics says or what Lysenko was advocating. Lysenko claimed to do things well beyond anything current studies of epigenetics would allow, and the SU went all in on these claims to disastrous effects. (Because they preferred Lamarckism instead of Darwinism for purely ideological reasons.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressed_research_in_the_Sov...
I can only offer speculation, but it could be that the alternative, a complicated API that requires several subsequent calls to use, is seen as more of a risk for bad programming and state mis-tracking. We definitely don't want programs leaving the kernel in a bad state by calling the first half of a sequence of syscalls then later on getting distracted or crashing and never finishing it. A single call gives atomicity guarantees that are otherwise hard to come by in languages without state tracking primitives like futures or borrow checked references.

Another thing to remember is that in C, it's easier to make a call more specific, by hardcoding values than it is to make it more general, by picking between variants in a branch. I can see programmers wishing the API was more dynamic while writing a giant if-else tree to select the appropriate version of the syscall, but the opposite problem, when the same invocation is always needed but the API takes a lot of dynamic options, is not as bad because it is easy to write a bunch of literals in the line that calls the function. (If C had named arguments that approach would be almost flawless.)
Windows has around 500 syscalls, Linux around 300.

Both have several escape-hatches for arbitrary driver-userspace communication, which makes the number of syscalls pretty irrelevant. (E.g. Linux has ioctl, netlink, procfs, sysfs, ...)
I don't know about other countries, but this is one area where the US tax code makes sense. Gifts beyond a certain value ($15,000/recipient-year) are reported. You then have an $11.5M lifetime exception for paying taxes on further gifts (2020 number). When your estate goes to pay the estate tax, it also has the same exemption as the lifetime gift tax, and anything you filed against the lifetime gift tax exception is deducted from what you are allowed to claim against the estate tax exemption.
In other words, the only (federal) tax benefit gift giving can provide is $15,000/recipient annual exemption, which is inherently limited.
I never checked, but it was probably open for one or two weeks. All post here are automatically closed after some time to prevent spam and other problems.
> You still have to take a capital gain on $1 million -> $20 million when selling it, right?

Sure, the idea is that you only realize the gain on one work by the artist, and then can donate multiple. But even at one work “sold” and one donated its a win if you hold the piece for a year and a day before selling, since you (assuming you are at the top marginal rate for income and cap gains for simplicity) pay cap gains on $19 million @ 20% ($3.8 million) and then get a deduction of $20 million against income that would be taxed @ 37% (saving $7.4 million) for a net savings (even after the $2 million cost of purchasing the paintings) of $1.6 million.
I have no problem with this. Why are people so negative in the comments here? What's the alternative? To stop someone from creating their own currency? Why? I don't need a regulation to protect me. Neither does anyone else.
Not only that, it's non-voting stock in a company that has no assets and produces nothing.
Accenture and other big consulting firms have been plaguing Southern Europe for many years. They mostly operate by "earning" as many public contracts as possible and bringing in grossly underpaid and sometimes unqualified professionals (e.g. the first or second job of that uni friend who wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed).

By doing this, consulting firms obtain a lot of liquidity (usually 5-6 figures for a small project and 7+ figures for the bigger ones) after a few months of subpar work.

The socioeconomic consequences of allowing these companies to operate are pretty serious imo. Not only do they dump the salaries of all IT professionals and create a culture of wage theft, but they worsen the quality of every service they are allowed to work on. Their bugs and security holes make it harder to do your taxes, vote, get a doctor's appointment, etc.
To be more clear: Google can ban your Android app for any reason. One of the many reasons for this is if they think you've clicked on your own ads.
If I were really concerned about my users' rights as Moxie and Signal are, I would probably put something into my bylaws that immediately dissolves the company the second we were compelled to act against our convictions. (Sidenote: can you somehow legally destroy non-material property?)

I know they are very much against decentralisation (technially), but in order to keep the service going even in that case it would probably make sense to create dozens or hundreds of legal entities. I know it sounds like a joke, but I know for sure in real estate or meatpacking businesses you have people register companies like "Joes Sausages #1", "Joes Sausages #2", ... "#400" - mainly to get around labor laws but also to make it complicated to determine ownership.

And don't underestimate how utterly dependent our governments are on the online industries - it is todays equivalent of the railroad, and getting control of the railroads was one of the important milestones in the october revolution.

Long story short, I don't think it is quite so one-sided, and I'm going to grab some popcorn...
My understanding of io_uring is that you can already poll the CQ with atomics without any syscall. io_uring_enter() is only needed to inform the kernel that new SQ entries exist and that too can be replaced by polling via IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL in privileged processes.
Assuming you’re asking in good faith - Apple sells the hardware, they don’t make the software of other company’s apps.

They force companies to ship through their store, I think that is okay because it enables them to enforce quality standards for users.

I think it’s wrong for them to force this distribution model and then take a cut from every software company.

In the Spotify case Apple forces them to pay a tax and then Apple shows up in their own store priced the same where they obviously don’t have to pay a tax to themselves.

Spotify is entitled to an even playing field.
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I think advertising is positive [1] and the role of ads in funding freely-available sites is very important. My current work is primarily on how browsers can allow more private and secure advertising [2][3][4] which I think most people will agree is valuable even if they are less in favor of advertising in general.

At a lower level, I do this job because I'm paid, which allows me to donate. [5] But I wouldn't do this work if I thought it was harmful; there are lots of different kinds of jobs I could take.

[1] https://www.jefftk.com/p/effect-of-advertising

[2] https://github.com/google/fledge-shim

[3] https://github.com/WICG/turtledove/issues/161

[4] https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/issues/624

[5] https://www.jefftk.com/donations
By the way, Google's GCS had it from the beginning.
I just don't find this very compelling. It's fine for me if the "default mode" of use for Apple's products is a filtered, curated experience. If users have to jump through even a few hoops to side-load apps, 99% of casual users will not do it.
>It's not a straw man, because the rule itself isn't germane to the discussion.

It is a straw man because internal company dealings in your example is something that they explicitly allowed to be discussed.

>I just picked one in which it’s clear that the “default” state is unfair.

Yes, and the reason the Bobs have to sit and eat on the floor is because when they used to eat on the table, they'd kill a baby before every table meal. The "default" state is fair.

The fact of the matter is multiple different "default status quos" exists.

>The gag policy in my analogy is not limited to any one side.

Except the straw man because internal company dealings are not gagged.

>According to your reasoning, that de facto makes it neutral.

Yes, external politics not related to work are gagged, which de facto makes it neutral.
It claims 60% faster subsequent builds (63% for Scale), but how much can an ordinary side-project gain? (let's say, 100 component files?)
Because those gas stations still had electricity. Guess how you charge an electric car?
Part of your panic and narcosis was likely due to CO2 accumulation. As you go deeper and the work of breathing increases it becomes harder to clear the CO2. CO2 has a higher narcotic potential than N2.
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Oh no, you're absolutely right. My sleep-deprived brain has confused the names -- thanks for the heads up. I'll edit my post.
So it may not be great, but what’s the alternative? The prosecutor decides independently when to bring charges? Is that better? It just seems to skip a step.
"and we know that it doesn't always work and don't care because despite our ML model being opaque and hard to introspect when we tested it against our database of known bad actors it performed better than both human review and our old heuristic based system."

There is an opposite side to this. If you have a human appeal process your accuracy drops to min(ml_model, humans) and I have bad news about which one of these is smaller.
I would suggest the first step of onboarding should not be the selection of your theme. This is already a long onboarding process and every additional step will lose you users. When you build something you're technically proud of, it makes sense you'd like to show it off, but you have to evaluate its relative importance to your public.
> Given that one small element of interview presentation has been shown to involve irrational bias

No such thing was shown in this study. The study makes no attempt to measure E(skills | social class). For all we know, the hiring managers provided an unbiased (i.e. the opposite of "irrational bias") estimate of the expected skills conditioned on the social class of the applicant, absent any other information.
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As an aside, this shows the value and reason behind double entry bookkeeping. More setup in the beginning, but ultimately much less confusing.
This is like being pedantic about usage of the word "literally"...

Just because this usage of "unable" doesn't match your strict personal definition doesn't mean they are wrong. People generally agree and understand what "unable" means in this context, so you're kinda SOL.
"Accenture is primarily a PowerPoint consulting firm"

No, that would be McKinsey.
Don't know where I got that idea from.
Parallels with Jacob Appelbaum
When I was a teenager this blew our minds and stumped us for days.
I don't see how `an_op_syscall(param)` is ‘more complicated’ or requires more calls or state than `a_syscall(OP_NAME, param)`.
Was there any sort of competitive bidding process? i.e. why did the Fortune 500 company choose your firm over others?
> Nope, HN doesn't show parent comments in threaded discussions and I'm on mobile with noprocrast.

I haven’t used the noprocrast feature. But there is a “parent” link to see further up a thread when checking discussion replies. The description of norpocrast doesn’t seem to describe removing that.

TIL about noprocrast being a thing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
My understanding was that the copyright portion of the suit was over them doing exactly that? Maybe running it in the cloud vs shipping it, but e.g. https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/29/apples-lawsuit-against-cor... mentions iOS IPSW files.

Edit: it seems like they downloaded the file from Apple's site. The order says using the IPSW file was fair use, and that doesn't appear to depend on them downloading it vs shipping it. I don't think that makes a different. The cellebrite usage is also fair use for the same reasons (doesn't compete with Apple, transformative usage, etc)
Yes, I would expect them to have yearly M1, M2, M3, etc consumer-grade SoCs, and then alongside that yearly or maybe less-than yearly X-versions of the current SoC, with features like more RAM, more IO, etc.

So 6 months from now you'll probably have the choice between an M2-based MacBook Air with better single core performance or an M1X-based MacBook Pro with more cores and more max. ram - unless they decide to do the reasonable thing and shift the regular and X versions to the same release cycle.
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This is very clearly targeted at running heavy SPAs, so I don't see this as a step in the direction of taking general computing from our hands, as many in this thread do.

In a way it lets one (more likely a corporation or independent professional) to pay for a stable and secure way to not have a software that they depend on and already have no control over from being suddenly unusable on their machine.
"The bellhop, who is very nice, takes $5 from the register and return $2 to each tourist, paying $1 from his pocket— the guests don’t have to fuss over uneven change that way.

Now, each of the three tourists has spent $8, for a total of $24. The bellhop has spent $1, which brings the total to $25. Where did the other 5 dollars go?"

"The bellhop, who is very much not honest, takes $10 from the register and return only $1 to each tourist, pocketing the remaining $7— the guests don’t have to fuss over uneven change that way.

Now, each of the three tourists has spent $9, for a total of $27. The bellhop has retained $7, which brings the total to $34. Where did those other 4 dollars come from?"
I'm confident that you won't find any evidence to contradict that.

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/How-Amazon-factor-ki...
If I may restate this slightly:

> Subpoenas are the only mechanism by which prosecutors are able to test the waters to confirm/deny whether they can demand production of this data

I think many people fail to appreciate the importance of setting a precedent in the courts. Maybe this is because our legislators have been shirking responsibility for decades and pushing what should be their work off onto the executive and judicial branches, but regardless this is where we are today: If a demand like this is not challenged in court then nobody knows whether it's legal or not. *This is the process by which we learn whether Signal's implementation is allowed in our country.* It may seem clear to you what the right answer should be, but until its tested it's not clear to our government.
Cloudflare, etc. should do what their customers want and not make these type of decisions for them. They are CDNs and not the owners of their customer's websites.
Rewriting the question as if the room was supposed to be free also makes the bad math clear:

> Three tourists stop at a hotel, and the manager tells them that a shared room will cost $30. Finding the price agreeable, they pony up $10 each and retire to the room. Later that afternoon, the manager, who is honest, realizes that the room was meant to be priced at $0. The manager orders the bellhop to return the excess $30 to their guests. The bellhop, who is not honest, takes $30 from the register and return only $1 to each tourist, pocketing the remaining $27.

> Now, each of the three tourists has spent $9, for a total of $27. The bellhop has retained $27, which brings the total to $54. Where did the other dollar go?
They've basically bolted on causal consistency.

It's a great change.
This. Many of the comments are deeply disheartening.
One of the credited artists, Leslie Patricelli, is now a children's book author/illustrator.
For every person that cares about privacy, there are 10,000 that don't. That's why it's so profitable to be an evil data hoarder.
I’m curious whether you’d get the same effect from living/working near a waterfall / other natural source of vaporized water droplets.

Do the hospitality staff at Niagara Falls get sick more often than other people in hospitality?
> It's like you're arguing for blockbuster in a netflix world.

No, it's not like that at all. Nobody is arguing for going back to distributing software in boxes with floppies or CD-ROMs in them.

Reason from first principles, not by analogy. Context and details matter.

Here are some major reasons for the push to cloud. None of these reasons are immutable or universal.

(1) Wimpy mobile devices with constrained power, storage, and bandwidth requirements.

(2) Cloud is the only kind of DRM that works. It's a way to lock things up and make piracy virtually impossible. As a bonus you can still build on "open source" and placate the open source zealots who don't understand the current state of things and are still living in the 90s.

(3) Application delivery and installation/uninstallation are terrible. OSes are broken.

Here are some solutions:

(1) Moore's law, huge improvements in battery capacity, 5G, WiFi 6, etc. are eating away at this problem. This issue will die of natural causes.

(2) The hopelessly naive idea that "information wants to be free" and everything has to be "free" (as in beer) needs to die, be cut into a thousand pieces, burned, encased in concrete, and sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Nothing is free. Software takes a vast amount of labor to produce, and that must be funded. If it's not funded directly and honestly it will be funded indirectly and dishonestly (surveillance capitalism, cloud lock-in, etc.). "Everything has to be free" and piracy actually help push us toward a surveillance capitalist panopticon future.

(3) This might be the toughest problem. Windows is by far the worst offender here with its nightmarish installation subsystem. Closed app stores are another huge problem but eventually I think anti-trust action is going to chip away at that.

That's not by any means a complete analysis. This is just a comment on a HN thread. It does hit the major points I think.
According to the person I was responding to, that apparently would be an “arcology of dystopian cyberpunk”.

So it’s not cyberpunk when people work for dying big box stores, but it is when OP works in a WeWork located in the same mall?
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Any charitable giving of over a low threshold would be audited for value to prevent this type of grift. You'd likely end up in serious tax trouble.

For example: "Donating non-cash items to a charity will raise an audit flag if the value exceeds the $500 threshold for Form 8283, which the IRS always puts under close scrutiny. If you fail to value the donated item correctly, the IRS may deny your entire deduction, even if you underestimate the value."

https://budgeting.thenest.com/much-should-donate-charity-tax...
For me the value of story points/planning poker is the conversation that it drives. If I say something is a 3 and someone else says a 7, we then discuss why those numbers. It could potentially be that it's a new hire who has never seen that code before, so it has a lot of unknowns. Or, it could be that see the ramifications of presumed straightforward changes that others miss, and leads to a better understanding of the amount of work.
Scuba diving is done at ambient pressure. Lung and heart cavities don't collapse.

(Lungs do compress during breath hold freediving.)
Is your side project worth it?
This is underappreciated. So useful. Just works. Can do almost anything.

I think KDE in general needs better marketing. It is by far the best desktop environment available.
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Not to mention recipes using plants that are either eaten alive or die a slow death on a stove or in an oven.
Oh, then we are agreed!

The article is in fact claiming that a debugger can replace print debugging entirely, that's why I read your comment in this same vein.
A redneck is usually a white, working class person of meager means. This is how I've known the term growing up.

What the commenter I originally replied to was doing was using the term to refer to white people, any white person. When I pointed out that a good portion of the people in the article are from San Diego (I followed a doxxing thread on Reddit during this, nearly all of these people were business owners or people of means), another person tried to reframe the original posters context as "rural conservative". Again, pretty plainly misses the mark, and again, the people in that article are not rural at all. They live in this city, where it costs $600k to get a basic house. One of them owned a coffee shop of all businesses. I don't know about you, but I generally do not see people who call themselves rednecks opening coffee shops in the middle of a major city.

I can't speak to the frequency that this happens. The person I responded to in this thread claimed they'd never seen it, so I linked to an instance of it that I remembered.
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Don't worry. There are more and opportunities. I feel that Rust enables a paradigm shift in application development. When people realise that they dont need cloud infrastructure to do 90% of the stuff they will move to languages like Rust and Go.
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Sorry, the video in the OP seemed to imply the pandemic preparedness was a goal. Liberating ideas would lead to that goal because we would see a rapid iteration on information, an influx of regional publishers, and the people currently choking down bad information would instantly have access to the best information (in fact, iteration would happen so quickly that the information the poor would have in a decade post liberation would be better than info the rich have today).

> "to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty across the globe, and to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology in the U.S."

No single thing could help accomplish those goals better than to eliminate Imaginary Property chains. People's brain thrive with great true information and are crippled when fed junk. The question is what is more important to Gates Foundation: accomplishing their stated goals or their own private self-interested goals?
I wanted to like it but I live in the EU and it's too focused on dollars.
I don't think it's lack of aluminum that is causing the can shortage. it's mostly that bars have been closed through much of the world, and beer distribution (which has increased during covid, along with other alcohol consumption) has needed to increase.

in order for breweries to stay healthy, they've been turning to cans (and mobile canneries) to get their products in front of people and sold. that in turn increases the number of cans purchased by breweries, which is now much higher than the normal number of cans being produced.

while I'm in favor of higher deposits (Oregon has 10 cents), I'm pretty sure it wouldn't change this current calculus.
So basically when people who don't read are forced to read because of lockdowns, they pick books written by people they've heard of? I don't see how that necessarily signals a long term trend- do people really believe that long term reading habits will change because you read a celebrity cookbook during lockdown?