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I've had a couple of Fortune 500 companies as clients. Microsoft/Azure is usually brought it as a place that is treated like VMs in the cloud. The setup and management is often handled by Accenture and Infosys. Impossible that that decision was made by Engineering. In fact those Accenture managed setups are almost unusable for engineers. I can't even begin to fathom how much these companies spend on Accenture to setup Azure in a fashion that you can't do anything.

The worst part about Azure for me is always the list of undocumented bugs you run into. On the surface it looks like everything started as an AWS equivalent, but when you have to drill down on something it almost always has some weird issues that you then find as unresolved complaints on some MS managed github issue list.

But hey, maybe I was just luckier with the other cloud providers.
Fifty “What Is” Articles for Numerical Linear Algebra
Wow Canada finally got something right by being a laggard
> No that's not true, for example sci-hub is not available on DNSs compliant with EU's laws.

What? Why not?
> Designing good telemetry is hard, interpreting the data well is harder

The biggest problem facing any use of data is quality of the collected data. For example, if you wanted to train a model but all you had were examples of a particular class... well, you excluded yourself from being able to predict any other class from the git-go. Data collection itself require a deep understanding of statistics and probability. Otherwise you’re just shooting yourself in the foot.

But let’s be honest, machines don’t “learn” things, people do. Machines have no teleology they determine for themselves.

People are both the problem and solution. Anyone who thinks big data and ML will be able to generate the answers are deluded and have already turned off or lost completely their critical thinking skills.

Data collection in the form of telemetry is only a mechanism for finding solutions and an incredibly INVASIVE one at that.
Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation
what's the catch?
> I find Doctorow publishing on Medium almost heart breaking

Medium is a surefire way to get noticed with little effort. Yes, maybe Cory doesn't need 'attention as a default' since he has reach on Twitter and BoingBoing and can advertise himself on those platforms easily, but for regular Joe Blogs, Medium is a way to get your writing noticed without having to write clickbait-ey or sensationalist articles, or coerce 'influencer' type people to spread your link around. Should that mean Cory is not allowed to post on Medium? Hardly.
"Javascript classes are similar to the classes you know and love from other languages. "

Are they?

Last time I used them (some years ago) they did not came close to Class behavior I know from Java etc.

It was still prototype inheritance. Or did I missed something?
zoom:1;float:right;

There it’s fixed
because the program might have been a pci driver which also does executable detection in the past, or ecause it still does some pci driver related stuff, or because on windows there are some people which delete everything where deleting it doesn't seem to directly show some visible functional degradation... ( I'm not kidding, even if it sounds like that).
Okinawa isn't the only US military presence in Japan. It's not even where the US Navy has it's fleet stationed out of.

And not to diminish it, but the rate in your article is quite small considering the populations involved. I wouldn't be surprised if the assault rates by military personnel stationed in the US was much different.
After living with parrots for a couple years I'm less surprised, I strongly suspect that the behavioral traits our respective societies require are very similar.
There Will Be a Shortage of Data Science Jobs in the Next 5 Years?
This allowed aircraft in WWII to take off and land in severe fog by basically setting the runway on fire.
Yes, DOGE can be borrowed and then sold, to be repurchased later (at a possibly lower price); short positions can be opened. Plenty of DOGE is available for shorting. GPUs currently mining Ethereum can be used instead in a 51% attack against DOGE. No such pile of resources exists that can be redirected to attack Ethereum or Bitcoin.
An observation on MetroCards, after a $1 fee (2013)
> Can anyone post a summary? Obnoxious ID/paywall obscures almost the entirety of the article.

First paragraph:

> I’ve been a blogger for a little more than 20 years and in that time I’ve written a little more than 20 books: novels for adults; novels for teens; short story collections; essay collections; graphic novels for adults, highschoolers and middle-schoolers; a picture-book for small children, and book-length nonfiction on various subjects. I’ve written and delivered some hundreds of speeches as well, for several kinds of technical and non-technical audience, as well as for young kids and teens.

https://www.outline.com/764w9T
> I have worked on an IoT device with builtin SIM in the personal alarm space

Are there any resources to that project? Comercial or free?
I think we just witnessed a murder.
Is there any actual correlation between low social skills and introversion or is this just something people like to whack introverted people over the head with?

In my own experience I've witnessed people, in general, who struggle to communicate or communicate effectively. I've also witnessed people who over communicate or dominate communication and are equally destructive. There's also something else I've noticed, which is that leaders are often perceived as effective when they're leading people whom their leadership style is compatible with.
I'm not buying the brain-cooling theory because a couple of yawns won't lead to anywhere near enough evaporative cooling to chill the brain by a few degrees. Also, the brain has a very very good blood flow with the rest of the body, so you really have the cool the whole organism.
Check out these latest photos taken all across various USA cities by NYTimes photographers: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/us/scenes-from-americas-r...

It's quite varied for a homogeneous country.
That's great - lower prices for everyone.
It definitely is but unfortunately the original PR didn't say that it was opt-in, only that it was "optional" which usually means opt-out.

Obviously people on Reddit and HN assumed the worst and by then it was too late to get the truth out.

Bit of a shame; I feel like telemetry probably would have been quite useful to them (e.g. for optimising which things are in the toolbar). Though, on the other hand I think Audacity's usability problems are obvious enough that they easily have a decade of work before they get to the point where they run out of things to improve.
I'm afraid that the question answered by all that "legal review" is "what can we get away with", not "what is legal", and that that was the principle that informed your GDPR not-quite-compliance big initiative.
I am in my third year of Chinese. Ultimately I think it's best to figure out how to say things the Chinese way, and then just say that sentence a thousand times until it starts to feel more natural. If you have to think about it, you're gonna mash it up. That's my experience so far.
The utility vehicles, buses, delivery of goods to stores etc are percentage of overall vehicles on the road and require little infrastructure compared to using cars as main individual mode of transportation.
I am genuinely interested in learning how you think that could possibly be workable. The reason I ask is that I am not particularly knowledgeable about either explosives or the canal but I can instantly envision a number of reasons why such a course of action would be completely unworkable.

I think it's always interesting to get another perspective and I am somewhat disappointed that people have downvoted you without even wanting to hear your reasons. Such conversations are always an opportunity to either learn or to teach for those that are open to it.
Oh I see. You define parsing more in the yacc sense. Carry on. I've been working with char arrays too long.
Sure, but not all representative systems are democracies. A king may represent his subjects (in foreign policy and war, for instance, and even sometimes in rituals) and generally has way more leverage to be effective at however he chooses to govern than a president or prime minister does, but it's not a democracy.

One of the usual goals of a democracy is equal representation ("one person, one vote"). You can transfer your representation to someone else - either directly, in the sense of proxy voting, or indirectly, in the sense of voting for a representative - but you don't give it up permanently. When elections next happen (and if elections don't regularly happen, it's not a democracy), you get your vote back and can freely choose what to do with it, again. If your representative isn't doing what you want, you can choose another one.

That's not true of the system of money. Even if it were theoretically been true at some point, once you transfer money to someone else, the associated power of that money stays with them or whoever they choose to transfer it to. If you bought Windows 95 for $209.95 a quarter century ago, that fraction of your ability to "vote" on how society values things left you a quarter century ago, after spending it exactly once on valuing Windows 95, and it probably never returned to you (unless you became a Microsoft employee or supplier).

So, someone who makes something that is (rightly or wrongly) highly valued thereby accumulates the ability to value things in the future, and have disproportionate influence on what is then going to be highly valued. This process repeats continuously and has repeated for centuries.
Only very small portion of the workforce is tech, a smaller portion is employed by startups/silicon valley companies, a even smaller portion is directly on payroll of these companies, rest of the roles such as content moderators, support staff work for IT consultanting majors.

there will be lasting change to to our lives and lives of people in our oribt. I don't think we appreciate that vast majority of the workforce (in transport, hospitality, retail, manufacturing) is not changing at all.
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is that language either influences or constrains the speaker's world view. I don't see the author claiming this: English speakers are perfectly capable of seeing the difference between light blue and dark blue, we just happen to use the same basic word for both.

The bit about words not mapping 1:1 across languages is something every learner will run into though, and it's perhaps most obvious in loanwords, which tend to bring across only one meaning of many. For example, in Japanese handoru (handle) refers exclusively to a car's steering wheel, kanningu (cunning) is cheating on a test, and a beisu-appu (base up) is a salary increase.
Maybe they are not terrorists themselves, but they do pay bounties to terrorists' families;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyrs_....
please correct me if this is untrue. I think nothing is worse then spreading lies, even inadvertently.
Yep I've been thinking about adding some little babydoll southdown sheep here to my hobby farm -- mostly because they're cute but also so I don't have to mow as much and to help weed the vineyard and make some manure for the garden and to give my border collie something to do -- and what I've noticed is that almost everyone keeping sheep around here is doing it for the same kinds of reasons. They're cute. Keeping sheep gives that pastoral feel. (As my teen daughter would say ... It's cottage-core). It's something their family did. Etc. Almost nobody is doing it because it's profitable.

At least around here (southern Ontario) it wouldn't be an environmentally problematic thing, but there are definitely places in the world where the land _and_ economics would be much better off without ruminants and returned to a natural state.
You are still confusing effective leadership with extroversion. One on one relationship building is something that introverts excel at.
You know what’s even better UX? Light switches. The Hue dimmer switches are great.

The most value I get out of them being “smart” is that I can program a double tap of the “off” button to turn off all lights in the house, or multiple taps of the “on” button to cycle between scenes.
> Well, research has shown that grades predict college success and ACT/SAT doesn't really. So I would say that one is strictly better than the other. I'm not saying that standardized testing shouldn't exist. I do think students should be able to take standardized subject specific tests like AP and SAT II and submit those scores with their application. Grades and standardized tests can co-exist. Let's just not waste time and money on a standardized test that doesn't provide a meaningful metric.

I don't really take issue with the rest of what you say, but you simply can't claim that grades are strictly better that SATs. They are _different_ measurements. There are people with bad grades that will do well at SATs. Now if by "strictly better", you mean that grades individually are a better predictor than SATs, then that I could believe (though obviously it's a claim that requires actual study), but that isn't really a good definition of strictly better. It could very well be the case that grades provide 50% of the predictive signal of success while SATs provide 35%, but taken together they provide 60%. In that case, neither is really strictly better than the other. However, both together really are strictly than either separately.

That said, if by "research has shown that grades predict college success and ACT/SAT doesn't really" you mean SATs provide 0 predictive power, then they should of course be removed. I've never heard anyone make that claim, but it could be true I guess. I'd have to defer to your knowledge of such research.

But assuming that SATs aren't providing 0 predictive power, I'm not convinced these tests should be replaced with nothing at all. If they replaced them by required SAT subject tests, then that's one thing, but they aren't doing that. They are simply removing a signal. Before they did have a single test to compare across and now they have none.

Anyway I don't really feel like going back and forth forever with this. My original question in this thread about whether the SATs provide information has been answered well enough. Thanks for the responses.
IIRC that's a Firefox quirk and doesn't work in every browser.
To quote the top comment on the YouTube page: "When the speaker is talking about a slide, show the slide." Amen.
Note how this returns a length, i.e. you can't start the state machine for predecoding the next instruction until you finished decoding the current one. This means longer delays when predecoding more macro ops. I don't know what the gate propagation delays are compared to the length of a clock, but this is a very critical path, so I assume it will hurt.

Then again, both Intel and AMD make it work, so there must be a way, if you're willing to pay the hardware cost. Now I think about it, the same linear to logarithmic trick for adders can be done here: Put a state machine before every possible byte, and throw away any result where the previous predecoder said skip
And that's problematic. I think Taiwan should be given ultimatum - either drop any business with China or they should get sanctions.
> distances were always expressed in terms of travel time

That is also true for large English-speaking portions of the US.
There have been quite a lot of protest bans since the beginning of the pandemic. They essentially broke the Yellow Vests's momentum.

People grumble about it, but there's a general understanding that (A) the government can and does ban protests that it deems dangerous for public order (B) whether a protest is allowed or not has very little impact on how it proceeds.
Thanks for pointing that out. Yes, the issue transcends political leanings.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27160477
For traffic you've got the even more interesting Braess's Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox
Or yawning is just a communication mechanism, formed in a time before using words became commonplace and maintained because it works.

It might also be a type of communication which goes against the typical 'pack' animal communication hierarchy. It might make sense for the pack to sleep when any of the pack is tired, rather than waiting for the alpha-dog to feel tired. 'contagious' yawning allows that.
It would take hundreds of nuclear weapons, given the length of the Suez canal.
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My habit has been to have my usual 09:50 standup and then run errands at 10:01–??. World’s real quiet then, don’t tell nobody!
[translation] Suez Canal will be widened by 40m feet to avoid a repeat of the Ever Given chaos

/s
> Starlink, as it is now, would leave me wholly disconnected for at least half of any hour.

I don't know what you're talking about here. Starlink doesn't act that way at all. The uptime is very high in many cases. A lot of people have zero downtime on most days.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27158696
Perhaps, but only because the introverts have been beaten over the head repeatedly by the extrovert dominated culture. A socially intelligent introvert looks like a councillor, adept at understanding people in one on one situations, able to bring out the best in people.
It happened to me. 1 hour off. It was related to DST. I missed a meeting because of this. Since then I disable "automatic time from network" on my new phones and have a casio watch. I thought the tower was misconfigured, why do you suppose it's a stingray?
> For a skilled programmer, switching language is not a big deal.

Not exactly.

It is easy in web space, but switching language is a big deal if the previous and next language have huge differences in concepts and on which layer of the stack lives.

For example, switching from language that has a complete runtime and GC to a language that does not, is a bit hard. In JS we have things like Promise.all, and setTimeout, and such to control concurrent async operations. On language like c/c++/rust where you produce abstract machine, you have to choose how to operate and regulate those async operations.
Walter - no one is advocating for a radical 180 degree change of humanity. But even within the United States we have seen radically different approaches to inequity. Today’s economy most closely resembles the Gilded Age when it comes to concentration of wealth. At the turn of the 20th century, there was a strong nationwide response to the problems dramatic inequality caused for society - ending up with trustbusting, labor laws, unions, and higher taxes on the wealthy, culminating in the New Deal and GI bill. Those changes persisted post-WW2 when American equality was at its best and we enjoyed unprecedented growth, and really only were unwound in the Reagan administration and beyond.
Russia invaded Poland in coordination with Germany as part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact at the start of the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...
It also encourages people to live further from where they work which also adds to traffic.
Same is true where I live (just north of Frankfurt Germany). Problem solved by aquiring a Bakfiets (cargo bike). I now cycle my boy to school and back, which is just below 50km/day. Lots of cycle paths here make this easy, although no where near the quality the Netherlands have. The only wait I experience is waiting for the odd S-Bahn at a rail crossing.
Originally, that's what the distinction between the two location permissions on Android was about. ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION was based on cell ids and wifi networks, and ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION used GPS. In modern Android versions I believe this is no longer true as it uses all the sources either way but intentionally degrades accuracy for apps that only have ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION.
Eventually, a long enough ship should be supported by 3 or more waves at the same time, assuming waves have some sort of maximum wavelength. (Disclaimer: no idea what I’m talking about)
> But a web without web fonts would be a far less interesting one

The font of a website does not rate highly on my interest rating.
Your little subdivision that replaced a farm should have a commercial center that you can walk to.
Yeah, it is ecosystem of changes, you need bigger docks , shipyards and canals in conjunction with the technology improvements.

The costs of all of it needs to be economically feasible even if the technology is there, I don't think welding is only reason we have been limited in the size
How would taxing a particular paint effect congestion?
Ah you young ones only supporting IE6. I still have trauma from supporting IE5!
I assume they’ll widen the parts of the canal that are easy (long stretches with either no or minimal reinforcement of the banks) and leave stuff like the locks themselves alone as I doubt their easy to widen at all.
> Grammatical gender, as in a whole lot of European languages

“In german, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has.”

Imagine if Twain knew about some of the several-hundred-gender languages…
You don't fill up computer memory because it's cheap to buy more and catastrophic to run out. Imagine if you were paid to fill computer memory, and the only way to stay in business was to be 99% full. You'd fill your memory then. And that's logistics. That's by ships are so big and full and why planes are over booked and why Suez hasn't been enlarged more.
I assume that both traffic evaporation and induced demand have a knock on effect elsewhere in the economy. When a road is closed fewer people can get from A to B easily, meaning less trade in shops near there, people taking less-optimal nearby jobs because they can't commute to a better job further away, delivery companies using two trucks and drivers instead of one, etc.

Each individual sees a small disadvantage when a bridge is closed, but the overall economic effect might be very substantial, and hard to measure.
Lil Xan's face Tattoo removed using AI/Machine learning
> . Our world is not fair: luck

I would argue luck is the fairest system. Who has the right to complain to a die that their number didn't come up?
>* Topic/subject languages, like Japanese, where previously defined context can radically alter meaning. "Watashi wa hamburger desu" can mean "I'm a hamburger", "I'll have a hamburger", "If you ask me, it's a hamburger", etc.

It also works for "I have" as in "Watashi wa korona da" or "I have Covid 19".
Utility companies can collect truly aggregate statistics over an ensemble of users from realtime measurement of electric loads and water and gas flow through their pipes or over time from each user's meter (provided it actually records only total consumption, not events). Software doesn't have this luxury.
Not previous commenter, but my state only has a periodic check in some of the counties. Much of the state has no recurring check.
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