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This was done to keep the game fun to watch, because this is where the money is.

The same way online games keep rebalancing player classes to nerf excessively powerful classes and boost excessively weak classes, so that the fight stays based on skill and luck, not on grabbing a super-weapon.
The MDN documentation for Array.prototype.at is easier to understand than the linked proposal: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/...
According to the publisher it was an NYT bestseller: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/chaos-monkeys-antonio...
Good point, higher utilization is one of Southwest's key competitive advantages since they're able to squeeze 1 extra trip for their aircraft than competitors.

Significantly cutting travel time should also enable higher utilization. E.g. cutting LA-Sydney route in half (15hrs to 7hrs) theoretically enables fitting in a roundtrip in the timespan of a one-way.
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Can you expand on what you like about Gnome 40? I recently upgraded to Fedora 34 and hence have Gnome 40 installed, but I haven't really explored much.
Amazon does have guaranteed delivery dates. Almost always in my experience (I live in a top 5 metro area in the US). Sometimes they provide an estimate and it will be listed as such. But anytime they say, "Delivery date: specific date", then that is a guarantee.
Yeah I looked at the code once and I believe it was recursively collapsing every single comment under when you clicked collapse, and also storing the state of each in localstorage I think. It didn't quite make sense. I think it has been fixed though it's much faster now.

Also not sure when we're finally get non-paginated page loads.
This is a reasonable take, but think about this from the perspective of engineers who've never made any mistakes in their lives. It's hard for them to fathom how anyone else can make a mistake like the Python devs did. The person you're answering clearly had the foresight to know what was the right thing to do, why can't everyone?
Even simpler: create your desired amplitude spectrum to match your desired filtered noise profile. This is trivial for any noise spectrum with a simple linear filter - it's just a linear function with the desired slope. It's only slightly less trivial for more complex spectra.

Randomise the phases. (i)FFT. Done.
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Honestly I don't understand why 1 is so bad? Does anyone have hard data that all of this tracking and user profiling is actually resulting in increased ad revenue? I for one have never liked personalized ads as it is almost always is something I don't want, already have, or just bought.

It seems if you show me ads optimized to the content I am viewing it would turn out better. After all I will probably only want to purchase one chainsaw in my life, but if I am looking at how to cut down a tree it would make sense to show me chainsaw ads for that tiny sliver of time, then never again.

Why did it get this way?
Yeah in France we have them too, I live not too far from Mirage/Rafale air bases, and they fly over sometimes. I remember it was more common around the 2000s, nowadays I hear it less than once a year.
I think it happened over Paris last year and people freaked out, calling for a bomb and everything.It was for an interception mission.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/world/europe/boom-noise-r...
Kind of a tangent, but was this bit about iPods being a bigger business than the Mac ever true?

> Once upon a time, Apple was the iPod company. iPods were a much bigger business than the Mac, and they also made Apple a dominant force in the music industry.

I Googled "peak iPod" and saw Q4 2007 listed as the peak for iPod sales. Apple's Q4 2007 results list $1.619 billion in iPod revenue and $3.103 billion in Mac revenue. There is another $601 million in "other music related products and services" but added to the iPod revenue that still doesn't equal the amount of money the Mac was bringing in (and the Mac was likely responsible for almost all of Apple's peripheral, software and service revenue).
Exactly. Corporations as individuals respond to incentives. The cause of this situation is exactly the presence of high corporate taxes in many countries which multinationals can game.
agree. i suspect the dollar amounts involved in NFT's is causing some sort of envy or anger amongst those that do not understand why.
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Isn't Google's position here, combined with their push for FLoC, just to create their own cookie and push out competition? It's them saying they have enough data about (profitable!) users now that they can join any future data against past data using not cookies nor app data but just Google property usage... ? And if they don't have enough data about you to do that joining today, then either you won't be profitable to them, or they're banking you'll create a Google account at some point.

Google Plus may have "failed" as a product, but a lot of data joining happened in that effort.
What are people's thoughts on running nix without nixos, using a base system such as Debian or Arch?

It seems like it might be a nice way to get reproducible dev environments, without some of the headaches being discussed here.

Is this a common use, or do people typically just do all-or-nothing?
McCammond’s 2019 “apology” was along the lines of “sorry you’re offended”, not “I’m sorry for what I said”.
I had the same issue with the screenshot tool, and added it back, but then I learned that it's been added to the right-click context menu and now I'm torn on whether I still need it as a separate button.
Saying that Israel is a jewish homeland does not necessarily mean that it is not anyone else's home. It does to some, but they are an extreme minority. It's also contrary to our declaration of independence.

I'm not american, but I'll hazard a guess that "certain Native Americans" who take this position are also more often assumed than real.
Starship isn’t going to compete with aerial flight nor is it even trying to...
Exact same thing happened during the Russian revolution BTW.
> Stop blaming "the media". If the head of diversity of one of the largest corporations in the world doesn't understand the difference between a Jewish person and an Israeli, they are not qualified for their position.

Their position is the key aspect to me.

It's possible the commenter above was right and that he didn't mean it that way (it's also possible they very much meant it exactly that way). It's possible their views have changed. But it reads the way you describe, and while one might give some random nobody the benefit of the doubt about a post from 2007 after perhaps having a conversation about it, it's an entirely different situation to have them as head of diversity.

Even if HR at Google have talked to him and are 100% confident his views are ok today and that they understand the issue with the statement, and that it won't impact their actions in the role, the problem still remains that they'll have to interact with people and communities that may never be able to trust someone who once said those things.
The title's use of V8 is misleading because Google uses the name V8 to refer to its Javascript engine. It should be v8.0.0.
An apology used to go a long way... in my perception. Could be wrong of course.
moreover he immediately posted a “fired for telling the truth “ response - perhaps he’s since changed but very different circumstance.
> If you supported the firing of Antonio Garcia Martinez this should make you happy.

Hardly. In fact only being transferred instead of fired from a cushy job shows one just has to be on right side of social justice movement to be shielded from past transgressions.
All of these purchase agreements you need to look at the conditions. Like, what are the exact terms of this purchase agreement? What dates need to be met, what price conditions need to be met, and how cheaply can those be reneged on. A huge amount of time new companies negotiate purchase agreements that have a lot of favorable terms in order to generate PR.
Why not? I can think of plenty of reasons why google would want a head of diversity.

- They may find diverse teams to perform better

- or maybe highly qualified people prefer to work on diverse teams so it helps with recruitment

- or their leadership value creating a more equitable society by giving people in under-represented groups the opportunity to work at google.

If any of the above are true why should they not have someone in charge of diversifying their workforce?
I suppose it's an accomplishment but it's not really creating a new market or revolutionizing an existing one.

Also Facebook has only been top dog for a little over 10 years.
This video doesn't mention sonic booms, nor NASA, at any point.
Stochastic rules allow very natural looking trees. Most L-System implementations don't allow choosing rules with probability.

I have been able to make somewhat realistic looking trees so far. http://xosh.org/Stochastic-L-System/ (WIP)

I am hoping to make many different kind of trees/plants. Can make palm tree with it. Haven't figured out pine tree yet
ndjson appears to be a fork of jsonlines with the addition of a spec (see https://github.com/ndjson/ndjson.github.io/issues/1)
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It may be based on Android, but without Google Services, it's just an open source OS they can base their custom distro for Oculus off of.
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You keep making these comments, like HN users don't know that ad blockers exist. These comments are particularly unhelpful in a thread specifically about identifying bloated websites.
That's a neat idea and improvement for sure. I'm pretty pessimistic about the outcome here, and perhaps what you said is a most realistic turn.

There is a larger issue that still irks me: all this stuff is based off Cargo/Cabal/etc., but I think that's fundamentally the wrong model for our purposes. Historically every C package is a snowflake and we do need to package them individually. But as language-based ecosystems take off, we increasingly can auto generate everything we need, and our Nix code is not the bricks but the mortar.

More concretely, the things I do with nix-thunk / Niv today don't really correspond to package boundaries that much, and if they do those repos might not contain any Nix code because I callCabal2nix them. callPackage-style "I am a function of my dependencies" is right, but when those dependency derivations don't align 1-1 with my nix-thunk / niv usage or need extra preprocessing à la cabal2nix, the fundamental concept of flakes breaks down.
Jailing people would generate backlash far quicker than transaction blocking and fund holding. As a tool of control it can't be used as liberally, so I'd still argue crypto is a net benefit here.

I'm not saying privacy isn't great, just that even without it, crypto is still useful. Privacy is absolutely an amazing force for freedom.
Yes.

Kids don't see skin color the way these ideologues do. They look at it like hair color. My twin brother and I were literally the only white kids on our school bus, attending mostly black public schools in a mostly black county in southeastern Virginia. We were never really aware of skin color as a thing, just "this kid let's us borrow his gameboy and is nice", vs. "this kid punches us in the back of the head on the bus cuz he's psycho". Race was a useless proxy for good/bad when you are in a heavily integrated school system, because it's ALWAYS been a useless proxy for judging human character.

People that speak like this publicly ("sea of white children") are THINKING like this constantly.

In my opinion, he projects his own bigotry and obsession with skin color onto everyone else around him. That's what bigots of all colors do.
Yes. This is the wrong place to ask about SEO most of these cats use duckduckgo
> That's to be expected - press releases focus on super-optimistic specs and timelines.

No, they don't. I don't know how much Elon Musk has tricked people into thinking it is normal for companies to be perpetually late, but it is definitely not normal.
> [Damore] was asked to privately(?) provide his thoughts to the company(hence while employed and on company time).

Except that wasn't why he was fired.
Meta analysis is a great way to look at data that isn't actually showing what you want, and make it show what you want.

What we would want is access to both the meta study and all the studies it referenced, just to see if there actually was anything here at all. Assuming all of those studies were well done and from a reliable source, and assuming that they actually tried to disprove themselves and that there weren't any other studies that successfully disproved them... then we would look at the data.

Normally we can sorta fudge that because the claim doesn't sound illogical or controversial. But... 45% reduced cancer risk from eating a whole class of foods that just happen to fit well with ancient chinese medicine? Found on a chinese medicine website? The sniff test should fail from 3 miles away.
Then what is it, in any country that has the word? (Here we call it 'crossing the road'.)
Reminder that antioxidants protect existing cancer cells too. https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/10/myths-about-antioxid...
Hōkūle‘a and Hikianalia are keeping the art alive:

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I regret that I have only one upvote for the Sinead O'Connor reference. This isn't new, the only thing that's new is that people are broadcasting their opinions far and wide for everyone to find/see/hear.
A sonic boom is a continuous noise, not just at the transition. You perceive it as a single noise at the ground, but so does every other person along the entire flight path.

Boom's aircraft uses a modern design that reduces the loudness of the sonic boom.
> The key question is integration with society and understanding how it works.

As a 3rd party observer to colleagues who have been homeschooled, this is right on the money with regard to their deficiencies. However, I don't know if it's strictly due to homeschooling, or because they also tend to have been raised with extremely religious and conservative values.
For what it’s worth, I had a great high school experience in the United States. Everyone I know in person also had a good high school experience. Teachers were very invested in student experiences and encouraged a lot of exploration and alternative activities like you experienced. We also had plenty of advanced AP classes that could be used as college credit and I even took some advanced classes at the local state university as part of my high school curriculum. We also had a lot of fun and the social environment was generally good. There were troublemakers and pockets of drama, of course, but it wasn’t the central theme of anyone’s experience.

For some reason, the HN and Reddit bubbles seem to collect a lot of people who loathed high school education. Even in adulthood and traveling around the country I’ve never encountered as many negative stories about high school as I read on HN.

Take what you read here with a grain of salt. There appears to be some significant selection bias going on in the stories.
It's one thing to acknowledge differences. It's another to define ourselves by them.
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The stereotyping in this comment is so blatantly racist that I’m surprised you even posted it.
It amazes me at Python web engineers and Python ML engineers who go along completely unaware of the existence of the other group in any large numbers. (I say this as someone who went to my local pycon 5-6 years ago and was surprised that ML talks were like 30% of the topics)
Your personal sense of grievance probably doesn't have the predictive power you think it does.
I have met plenty, and there is a great joke that comes to mind. What is worse than the holocaust? 6 million Jews.
The reason so many criticisms are judged as anti-Semitic is because they are anti-Semitic. Often, they will have reasonable criticisms and then delegitimize their argument by stereotyping, supporting conspiracy theories, or conflating Judaism and Zionism. In this case, I think its most specifically: “If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself.” Being Jewish doesn’t mean being a Zionist, pro-Israel, or bloodthirsty
Google News, Reuters, and HN. Occasionally I look at AP. For sports, ESPN. Most everything I care about will show up one of those places.
Cancel culture is not about canceling people who say racist, misogynist, homophobic, etc things. It is about canceling (read: disenfranchising and taking revenge on) straight white males, who are at the bottom (top? intersection? whichever) of the intersectional hierarchy. Kamau Bobb is not a white male, therefore this does not apply. He is receiving the same treatment that any powerful person, regardless of skin color, would have received 10 years ago in the western world: tuck them away until the scandal blows over.
If you were to globally set all permissions to the filesystem, network stack, clock, etc to NONE, and then make exceptions based on the users choice, it in theory would work.

In practice, however, no.
In my experience excel doesn't even understand its own csv files. If you save one using the Swedish locale it uses semicolons as field separators since comma is used as decimal points. Trying to open the resulting file using a English locale results in garbage.
I've lived in various ME countries, as well as Israel. I've tried to understand the core issue and frankly, failed. Both arguments about this historical conflict between Israel and the Palestinians seem as close to being morally equivalent as I could imagine. I have sympathies but I keep them to myself. I don't feel as though I have a right to take a particular side: I am not existentially threatened on a daily basis as both peoples feel they are. I have no history of being both threatened and abandoned by the world as both side feel. I have no experience of living as a people whose every political choice is one of zero-sum cultural survival. Who lives, who dies? Who prospers, who does not? I have no moral expertise on this subject to pick a team.

So on this topic, when pressed, I say I have no right to comment. The irony of course, is that in many circles, one is attacked for being too bewildered to form an opinion.

It's daft.
To be clear, this wasn't a matter of walking around or turning my head and it not matching. It's mainly been when using a joystick for locomotion and turning.

When I almost fell was a situation where in the VR simulation I was swinging on a rope >360 degrees around a horizontal ledge while spinning around 180 degrees with the stick and trying to aim a bow with my hands.

( Windlands 2 )
Which libraries in particular report ad/identity telemetry to Facebook?
> I wonder what the author was thinking when he was writing it as it doesn't make much sense to me.

Quite possibly not much. As someone who has hundreds of blog posts under his belt from a similar time period, a lot of it is just about churning out posts. Start with a thesis, write five or more paragraphs with little planning, do a quick scan for errors, then hit publish. I suspect we're looking at someone who's having their career heavily affected by a quick piece they dashed off in 30 minutes or less a decade and a half ago without even thinking about it too much at the time.

My blog is no longer up and running, and maybe that's now a good thing.
It's a masterpiece of classical literature, timeless and always relevant to whatever generation you belong to.
When we did Macbeth and Julius Caesar in school, one of the requirements in the test was to write critical reasoning arguments for or against a topic.It really helped me build my reasoning. The teacher would also pit one half of the class against the other. It helped build my confidence and I ended up in speech and debate.
Companies are diverse as a side effect of hiring for competence. They aren't competent as a side effect of hiring with diversity as a goal. The statistically illiterate HR minions who preach the correlation between diversity and performance don't get this, because they aren't even educated enough to understand correlation/causation fallacy.
Sorry, I was under the impression that the AppStore guidelines prohibit the use of ads.
Until you hold these companies and their management directly responsible: It will continue.

The issue here is the same as it has always been: Cost cutting, poor management, poor oversight, and laziness. We have infrastructure sensitive industries being hit and in the years preceding the hits full of heavily reported ransomware incidents zero audits were conducted that flagged these problems, backups strategies weren't reformed (i.e. they have no offline backups), network onioning wasn't utilized, and other basic 101 security strategies weren't employed.

All we hear over and over is "they're CRIMINALS," "they're in [foreign country]!" but ultimately that is a distraction; there will always be criminals, and they will always operate beyond the reach of the law. What matters is mitigating their ability to do damage which we absolutely can and should do.

If senior management started being fired and companies heavily fined this problem would magically disappear (or its impacts substantially reduced, like a two-day outage while they restored offline backups instead of multi-week). This isn't because criminals stopped being criminals, it is because this is all just a symptom of a different problem: Corporate responsibility, or lack thereof.

Congress should take action, fund mandatory audits on private infrastructure companies and impose large fines on companies & senior executives that cause widespread disruption. Even the threat would be highly effective and the pocket-books would magically open to pay for security professionals and fixes.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/man-67-shares-sorrow-af...
To be fair most people were calling even that scale model test timeline hopelessly optimistic. That they didn't deliver on their impossible timetable is not a huge surprise.

That said, a lot of people also expected them to fold by now and were definitely not expecting a fairly major order from a large airline.
So macOS is finally getting touchscreen support? Awesome.
I wonder if someone went digging for dirt or if they had been saving it for a rainy day.
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Why, because bias and prejudice wouldn't exist in such a world?
What's even more interesting is that it wasn't flagged and taken down until I clarified that I was trying to be critical of Damore.
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I challenge the idea that the negativity is about “technology.”

The negativity appears to be about bogus businesses built on hype, fraud, exploitation, rigged demos, completely fictional timelines, and bogus business models that have come to dominate what we call the tech industry.

Fraud is actually more common in “tech” than it has ever been. It has huge repercussions for everything from start ups to large companies and, with NFTs, toxic financial products exploiting people in the same way that the dotcom and subprime eras did.

You don’t get to opt out of this. I have relatives who now want to get “in on NFTs.” Our industry has real ethical problems with tons of external impact.