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still not fired from google. if this post was “if i were black” and anyone not black wrote it they would be fired
my youngest is 2.5, a survivor of bacterial meningitis at birth, the results are tragic. she has soft tone cerebral palsy and cortical visual impairment, imagine being stuck in a kaleidoscope for life.

as part of my journey, trying find answer and heal. i stumbled across the fact that Microsoft's current CEO Satya Nadella son Zain is a legally blind quadriplegic with cerebral palsy. his book refers to the first few years of his sons life as "a dark place". Satya is fairly older than me, I admire him very much.

I have no doubt that it bring great joy and comfort to Satya that he's been able to drive Microsoft to be a leader in accessibility. Most great efforts have great stories. This is one of them.
Ahh the power of unions
> an imaginary argument

The article is written like there are people that want python 4 regardless of what features it has. And I know from experience that there are plenty of people out there that want new shiny versions of software, but when asked what is wrong with the current release, they can't say.
> They certainly mustn't.

Well, they may. (Hard to imagine they will, agreed.)

i.e. if 'must' is the function m(x), then 'must not' is m(¬x); not ¬m(x).

Here it's 'not the case that they must', that is, ¬m(request through Ring app).
In some countries, ultra-pasteurized milk (and alternatives) is absolutely the norm -- packed in tetrapaks. And I agree: it is freaky how long that stuff lasts in your fridge. As long as you close it tight, and return it to the fridge quickly, two weeks is easy.
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Hmm, it might have that function, but if it's effective at that it's only because this is a legitimate engineering and scientific accomplishment, and will provide scientific data and increase our knowledge of planetary science for years if not decades, so characterizing it in that way is cynical, at best.
Even then. It took Boeing, a company with vast amounts of experience developing airplanes, close to ten years to create the 787. And that is a bog standard subsonic airliner design with the most notable feature being the composite construction.

Boom seems like vaporware.
this is neat. thanks.
>> How (is it) not false nor unnatural.

Exactly. There have never been culturaless, parentless people. If there were/are, then that is simply a terrible circumstance and terrible results will probably occur.
In what way? Most people here seem to agree that it is perfectly possible to criticize Israel without being anti-semitic.
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Not sure about other countries but under current US laws it wouldn't be able to fly supersonically over land. Boom has been trying to get the laws to be a limit on noise heard on the ground rather than speed but that's going to take a long time to change if ever.

If the boom plane or similar is a success and airlines started lobbying for change then maybe something could happen.
Which could be said is the direct opposite of smartphones. I'd bet it's worse being an iPhone slave than a Pinephone slave.
fork over more powers to the surveillance state
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Once you have kids you really don't care about all of that.
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You think it was the right thing to do, but they should stop doing it?
I don't see the contradiction. He's arguing that this is the tit, in response to the left's tat (as in tit for tat).

The left either needs to:

1. Play by their own rules (in this case, fire the guy)

2. Stop doing it to their political opponents
You are agreeing to a chain of comments about an article that reaches an exaggerated conclusion based mostly on opinion and not on facts and careful analysis, and your response is to claim that the entire news industry is guilty of it too based on a vague notion that there was a lot of "sources say" reporting that was (made up? inaccurate?) over a specific period.

So, in conclusion, human beings excel at pattern matching, even when the patterns aren't there, and sometimes use their pattern matching ability to validate the point of view which aligns most closely to their identity and psychological needs.
the bigger the dog, the more destruction they can cause per unit of time.
I've done this for a few upstream projects.

If you want have a bug you want attention on in an upstream project, the easiest way to get it is to do a task for them first, and doing python 2 to 3 is a usually a pretty straightforward one.
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Fair enough. Zero trolling: Have you considered just buying a half-pint (~250ml) of milk at the covenience store, instead of (presumably) wasting much more? Just an idea. :)
Would the migration had been easier if you could "compile" Python? As in, interpreted/JITed languages are harder to maintain when apis change because you can't rebuild it and see if it builds or not?

I've never written any serious amount of interpreted/JITed code, unless you count C#, which i wouldn't even though it runs on the .NET CLR
This answer is true, but also a bit depressing. It's like saying "we know this would be the right way, but we prefer the old ways. So we'll just keep shooting ourself in the foot with our C-looking code, with its for loops and its concurrency boilerplate".

(Just to be clear: "We" does not refer just to devs/engineers, companies may also be wary of using an alternate technology, even though it could bring benefits down the road)
Currently Python only allows certain thread interleavings, because those are the points where the GIL is released. If you no longer had the GIL, the set of possible thread interleavings would increase. If your application is not safe with a particular interleaving, it can now break. That's a breaking change, so would require Python 4.

It might be possible to retain current interleaving semantics, through research-level techniques such as transactional memory, but these do not seem likely anytime soon despite a lot of work.

It's also unclear how tractable it is to retain current garbage collection semantics without a GIL, so that could have to change as well with similar issues and similar possible solutions which seem unlikely to land anytime soon.
> Finally, when you think about the governing mechanics that would be used to achieve anti-bigness, you see that it inevitably relies upon collective democratic institutions — namely the state — to dig in and basically micromanage the economy in order to make sure everything stays small. The charm of decentralization and rule of none/self-rule is thus an artifice being built on top of an iron-fisted centralized state that must constantly quash things on behalf of the small proprietors. This is not a problem in and of itself, but at the point at which you are relying upon a democratic central state to do things, you are relying upon the very collectivism — namely the support of the electorate — that anti-bigness is supposed to provide refuge from, relative to socialism.

This might sound convincing in the abstract, but if you consider a concrete "anti-bigness" policy, such as fixed book prices[1], which protect small book stores, it falls apart. Is there really no difference between such a policy, and the socialist alternative - bookstores run by the government? After all, in both cases, we are relying on "the very collectivism — namely the support of the electorate — that anti-bigness is supposed to provide refuge from".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_book_price
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>how CPUs fetch and execute instructions, talk to other perhipherials, how does malloc()_or sin() work, what is a page fault, or how to balance a red-black tree

literally every single one of these things is taught in an undergrad class and understanding of which is deemed important by the community - curricula get lots of input from industry partners. so you're not making a great case for why people don't need to know what a sigma algebra is...

>Just use std::map or dict() or something, it just works :)

wouldn't it be swell if this is how we practiced medicine too? patient has early stages of atherosclerosis just do a triple-bypass or something, it just works.
I would wager that advertisement income and quality of journalism go hand in hand?
This isn’t political though, it’s social. Unless political to you means anything related to the way society is structured and people relate to each other.
The author may have a valid point, but expressed it in a condescending manner. If a Jewish diversity officer wrote a blog post saying "If I were black, I would prioritize fixing black-on-black crime" as a criticism of BLM, would you give them the same defense?

That said, it's still a dumb thing to be cancelled over. Everyone has been an asshole to someone else at some point in our lives. Why do people feel the need to socially shame people publicly for an offense over a decade ago?
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I have kids. The reason I bring it up with an “If I were emperor” qualifier, is that for an individual, it doesn’t make sense to keep your child in a failing public school if you can afford to pull them out. It would take a unified effort of banning all private education, for it to actually improve things. I’m aware it’s a pipe dream right now, and as long as private schools exist, it still makes sense for individuals to use them.

It’s similar to the tragedy of the commons… people acting in their own self-interests (better education for my child) create a situation that is worse than if we had a collective strategy (we all get a decent education, and get to share a better, more educated society.)
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Not exactly. The ex-Apple DO was fired because she offered an opinion that was considered heretical, though I think it was an uncontroversial claim.
They're trying to explain away inflation causing high meat and oil price
It's definitely anti-Semitic! He's acting like _all_ Jews are pro-Israel and therefore pro-slaughtering. That kind of stereotyping is bad.
Anecdotally, I learned Japanese.

At a later date, I studied Hungarian in a cram school. Two of us learned Hungarian much faster than our classmates- we both had studied Japanese. Most of the students had also studied other languages. Something about learning languages that were so grammatically different from English seemed to help with building mental models and stop "translating" things back and forth from English- which made the language much easier to pick up.

Developing learning techniques does help in learning other things. Learning boring things however, I think that's always going to be hard for me.
So in 1821 people were dining out all the time? I find that incredible doubtful, at least in the US.
There are no hard rules on structure of other programs in relation to ubi. It would be foolish to remove support for special needs etc. Unemployment benefits, public pensions etc can go away but the rest must be looked at on a case by case basis.
Something they wrote and then hosted without retraction for 14 years.

Your library of work is on you. Reviewing it, and adding contemporary commentary where needed is again, up to you. If you don't, people assume you still believe it.

This wasn't some woke slip of syntax, he was very literally holding all Jews accountable for Israel's actions. It's a deeply anti-Semitic set of comments. Even without his position, he should have known better.
Notably, Kamau Bobb removed ALL of his blog posts over from his personal website. It looks like some people on Twitter began looking through all of his blog posts and finding controversial opinions.

In my opinion, the 1619 Project is a racist and decisive project and has no place at Google, and Kamau Bobb was a public supporter of that.

So if Google is going to support "cancel culture", then Kamau Bobb should have no place at Google, or any major tech company, whatsoever.
I got my Ben Eater kit a few weeks ago, and completed the clock with my partner. It's a fun project, sort of like a super jigsaw puzzle.

It is also a nice refresher for my dim memories of digital electronics. I had put together a Minecraft computer back when red stone was added. But that's been quite a while ago now. It's also kinda neat to have a physical artifact.

We'll probably expand the ram and perhaps add a few instructions, but I have the same goal. Tidy wiring, lots of leds, then frame it and hang it on the wall.

There are schematics, and they're pretty robust for the analog components, the digital parts are a bit more sparse, just chip and pin labels. more than enough if you know what you're doing.
The videos are a bit like lecture. My partner gets a little bored, but they're pretty short and plenty of detail for the "lab". Which is kinda the whole point.

If you've been thinking about firing up factorio, consider this. Watch a few of the videos. It's obviously more expensive than a jigsaw puzzle, you could also source the parts yourself if that's part of what you find fun. Jameco shipped my kit in about 4 days. I think it has been worth it.
Seems like you're changing the subject to talk about religion.

Can we assume you cede the point regarding ethnicity?
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it’s really strange…

You don’t think there’s anything about it’s recent creation that makes this a special case?
In what way is there a crisis? The major US carriers keep expanding. keep adding new routes, buying more places, etc. Air travel was at an all time high before the pandemic and is likely to rebound and hit new records in coming years.
In my opinion, data should be mirrored on a torrent in addition to institutional servers (which can also provide checksums). Torrents offload the bandwidth problems from the institute to users and stay up if people use the data.

But that probably won’t happen because torrents are a dirty word due to illegal activity and they also give up control of the data.
Doesn't look deleted to me? http://kamaubobb.blogspot.com/2007/11/if-i-were-jew.html
I suppose you could model those one-off events with their own normal distributions (with 0 variance), rather than modifying the main distribution?

But sure, Monte Carlo is more flexible, and not really harder to implement I suppose, since you're already on a computer!.
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HN has a “no-politics” rule? That’s absolute hilarious. This place is nothing but politics.
I’m interested in a neutral explanation of why this post is widely downvoted.

What is the significant difference between a satirical flyer titled “Black Lives Matter — Mostly Peaceful Arson and Riot” and a satirical flyer titled “The Originalist Case for Inciting Insurrection”? I’ll grant the second is more original, and perhaps wittier in the context of a mostly progressive law school audience. But both of these are intended to mock one side and entertain the other. Both of these are crass, and both implicitly defame.

However only one of these would be met with a school-wide email from the university president apologizing for the offense and reaffirming commitments to support and promote diversity. I think this is what the original poster is asserting.
"Even if they get an excemption, affected people will probably come with pitchforks and torches to the headquarter. These supersonic booms are really loud."

Agreed.

I grew up near[1] the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and I have a very distinct childhood memory of some cadet breaking the sound barrier over our town.

I was (figuratively) knocked out of my bed. It was unbelievably loud. I thought the world was ending.

To be fair, this was probably a very low altitude flight so it was probably much worse than a "normal" sonic boom.

Still...

[1] Canon City, CO
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I am looking at your comment history here and I suspect that the case is more that anything to do with you becomes toxic; I see multiple instances of you insulting people, then insisting that they’re the ones hurling abuse and arguing in bad faith when they protest.
Slack works as website ?
There are plenty of non-zionist people who survived the Holocaust, it is disingenuous to paint caring about Israel as the natural, inevitable reaction to the Holocaust.

The whole concept of having a natural "homeland" because of your DNA/ethnicity/race is bullshit, land doesn't care what color your skin is or what religion you practice.
Whether one agrees with their principles or not, that was an absolute power move. If one is on the fence - would you rather associate with organization like this or a side that shuts down any opportunity for a discourse.
If Boom succeeds, we'll get less expensive supersonic travel (that is going to compete against something ballistic like Starship). If Boom fails, someone will buy the tech and still use the jigs, tooling, and IP for something in the aerospace domain (hopefully). Either way, Boom folks get to work on something they enjoy and is meaningful to them (hopefully), and we all get any benefit (hopefully) from their time grinding on aerodynamics, fluid dynamics, and material science problems.
Well when the housing bubble popped people stopped living in homes so I don't know if you're right.
Historically, this doesn't seem to be true.

Villages appear long before defensive fortifications in the record, in many cases. Pure reason is not very good at forming predictive theories about history, as a general rule.

There are many possible reasons for villages, and cultural reasons are a very big determinant of how people live. So are economic reasons. Many of us live in big cities now, and it's generally less safe.
If he had ever changed that view you'd really hope he would have gone back and updated that essay.
Can you quote where exactly they are "conflating the state of Israel and Jewish people and lumping it all together."?

>Plenty of Jewish people that live both inside and outside of Israel are critical of the state.

Is this not exactly what this thought experiment of an article is talking about? Trying to put themselves on the shoes of a Jewish person who is critical of Israels politics
I would assume so as well, but that doesn't mean if we were trying to analyze it this same way, by "building a connectome" of the CPU, the map would also be extremely large, larger than the amount of data necessary to understand/replicate it at least.

My core point is that the size of this dataset is amazing but, possibly, unrelated to how close or how far away from understanding the brain's behavior.
We'll have to agree to disagree as I have yet to see an example of this on HN. In my experience 100% of submissions (and comments) critical of Israel gets spammed by people saying it is antisemitism.
If you review WhatsApp at the Apple App store under Data Private, you can’t help but think that this app is still a crippleware.
How much are you paying for Python again?
The success of Windows to maintain backwards comparability is probably some of the inspiration for the people working on JS. Windows has demonstrated that it's possible to maintain backwards compatibility for decades.

It's not easy, and it certainly leads to annoying platform quirks, but it is possible.
this was never about bean counting. it was about power. if you can put the drones in an open space while you have your own luxurious office that’s power. if you can force the drones back in office so that you can watch them and create synergies that’s power!
That’s a huge straw man.

I am critical of some of Israel’s behavior, but by no means calling for its complete destruction.
Shakespeare is excellent, but it took me years - long past when I graduated from school - to recognize its excellence.

I place the blame here squarely on how it is presented in schools. First, it was dropped in abruptly, after years of focusing heavily on largely apoetic work like Old Yeller and Great Expectations. When poetry was introduced, it was typically dropped as part of some hermetically sealed unit, and all possibility of enjoyment was eradicated by analyzing each poem to death. [1] How are people supposed to learn to enjoy play on words when any hint of actual play has been surgically excised from the experience?

And then, since this is a class, there will be a test, and so you have to format the presentation in a manner that makes it more amenable to testing. This means that, if the play is a comedy, then you'll have to stop every few lines to have the teacher explain, in detail, why what you just read is funny.

Which it may not be, because performance comedy is all about presentation and timing, but we're not watching a performance, we're reading the text. Imagine encountering Spaceballs for the first time in script form, so that you're completely unable to associate any of the lines with the performances of John Candy or Rick Moranis. It won't be nearly as good. And having someone sitting over your shoulder repeatedly interrupting you to say, "Now, in the actual movie, this part is hilarious because..." only makes it less funny.

If the work being studied is a tragedy, well, it's a similar story, only in this case it is kind of funny because the tragedy has gone meta. Not that anyone sitting in the classroom is in a position to realize that. They're too focused on taking notes so they can remember details - especially details about the teacher's interpretation of the story - for the coming test. Because furiously scribbling in notebooks and trying to memorize every detail is an essential part of the way in which members of the groundling audience, literate and illiterate alike, experienced performances in the original Globe Theatre.

Ugh. It makes me irritated all over again just thinking about it. Primary and secondary education classes are seemingly predicated on the notion that the best place to study everyday human experience is in a cadaver lab. Largely only because the courses are being designed by people who sell scalpels and formaldehyde for a living.

[1] Exhibit A: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/01/...