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this chain of events is about to trigger an irreversible slump in Facebook’s advertisement business

Surely the majority of ads Facebook sells are displayed on Facebook's properties (Facebook, apps, IG, etc), where they'll have the logged in user's details already and don't need the user's device mobile advertising ID. That's not to say this won't impact them at all, because it will, but it's not exactly the sky falling.
The Anti-Bigness Ideology
The community is the local government/municipality and is controlled by the politicians elected to it. The state influences this as well. So the schools are "government run".

And yes the local community sets the funding level and where I live, which is quite affluent, the funding is huge and the schools are nice. But in many other places where property values are smaller and people can't afford high property taxes to fund schools, they can't spend the same per student. Yes, some money gets recycled from affluent communities to less so through the state, but the money spent per student is still far less.

I think it's more fair that every kid gets the same amount of money spent on them so kids from poor communities can access quality education that isn't a function of where they grow up. That their parents can send their kids to a school that suits their needs and ambitions. So you have more than representation - you have actual choice and schools will compete for your money that is given to you.

Lastly, not every community votes for their school board. There are some places where they are appointed by the mayor. Teachers unions hate this idea because it cripples them, but actual teachers would thrive and do better in this environment.
The left’s obsession with cancel culture and conducting archeological digs on past comments, tweets, etc is coming back to bite them. I think removing this guy was the right thing to do, BUT I also think a major company like Google needs to set an example: Something someone tweeted more than ten years ago should no longer be relevant and should be ignored. However until that standard is set as example by a major company, we are going to see this dig up and burn for some time.
Indeed, https://www.google.com/chromebook/chrome-os/
> It's really hard to trust google...

I feel the same way; very little chance Google stops this unless it doesn't affect them at all (either by having determined these identifiers aren't particularly effective, or by having cooked up some new scheme.)
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Does anyone have any experience with Horizon EDA? https://github.com/horizon-eda/horizon

Two days ago version 2.0 of Horizon EDA was released. I haven't tried it yet, but I've watched some Youtube/twitch Videos about it and I've to admit I am really impressed. It has some really nice convenience features - and the way it handles libraries is much nicer than the way Kicad does.

The only thing that's holding me back is, that it's basically a one man show. Although the project already exists for several years there's always the fear that the author at some point abandons the project. I really wish there would be some sort of semi automated conversion tool which allows me to convert Kicad projects to Horizon EDA.
Philips Hue gets a sleeker new app rebuilt ‘from the ground up’
It's not so much the issue that it is clear that it was a bad decision. — they admit it, owe up to it, and I do not blame them for making the mistake and admitting it was unfortunate and that they learned their lessons.

What drives me to ire to no end are the many people that defend it on message boards with “Just upgrade; you had ten years.”, clearly not realizing the risks and money involved in such an endeavor.

It's as though the government suddenly start putting something in the water that improves it's health benefits, but will erode contemporary plumping pipes away in ten years and people say. “Just break down your walls and replace your plumbing; you have ten years.”. — it is quite expensive, and risks that my house fall over.
Crowded, rich countries that responsibly burn garbage & waste still have a serious issue with dioxins generated by burning plastics. You can filter some of it, but usually areas around these plants have much higher than normal dioxin levels.

That said, I like the balance in your comment about the known effects of microplastics. At the moment, it is just a hype story. Honestly: No one really knows, but we should continue to seriously monitor and research the issue. I have heard that stretchy clothing (aka "ath-leisure") causes a lot of micro-fibres to be shed during laundry. This is simiar to microplastics, as most ath-leisure is made with synthetic materials that are essentially refined oil (as plastics).
Ah, I see, thanks!

I still think the questions are perfectly reasonable. But maybe it just needs to be phrased as “how do they plan to address these?” rather than “which ones have they solved?”
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That would just make it easier to implement the standard in a way that works most of the time but breaks on valid input. Why would that be desirable?
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HN title should mention that the blog post in question was from 2007.
Can you elaborate on Signal? Isn't it E2E by default?
South Africa's Apartheid was condemned as human injustice, so should Israel's Apartheid, no?
You're forgetting the immense riches that can be made in cybercrime!
What I have learned in recent years is how shockingly accepting of antisemitism people apparently are on both sides of aisle. Growing up in a prominently Jewish neighborhood in Minnesota I never really encountered it until maybe ten years ago.

The fact that he was just shifted rather than fired in this political environment speaks volumes.
This will likely put more pressure on Stack Overflow to monetize their content.
Unless you come from a programming background where floor behavior is expected for integers, it was strange.

In Python 2: 20 / 15 = 1

In Python 3: 20 / 15 = 1.3333333333333333

To get the old behavior a new operator was added "//"
This happened at Stanford Law School... these are highly educated people who can recognize satire. None of them were going to engage in violent insurrection because of this. He was also very obviously not trying to pass it off as truth.
If fear is the poison, then courage is the antidote.

You're right, 100%, but it's easy to lose sight of the fact that bullies, especially in this modern era, are the weak ones, and when you stand up for yourself you'll be surprised at how many of them cower in fear.

You'll also be surprised to see how many more you inspire to stand up next to you. Everybody is waiting for somebody else to stand up. Be that person and you'll soon be addicted to the results. One example, and of course this is controversial these days and itself, is that once we reached the point in the "pandemic" where it was obvious that the virus wasn't the real threat, I decided to go grocery shopping with no mask. I expected to be screamed at, but not one person said anything in a gigantic store filled with dozens of people. Not only that, but by the time I got to the front of the store there were two other people whom I encountered in the isles, who also had no mask on, but who did have a mask on while in the isles. I know this sounds made up. It's the honest to God truth. So I did it again in Home Depot, and it had the exact same affect. For those who disagree with my mindset about masks (which have been clinically proven to be ineffective), this sounds like an asshole move, but regardless of whether or not you agree with the principle behind the move, the methodology was effective. It's the same thing that triggers riots; people see others doing what they want to do and they are inspired to do it themselves. Why not use the same principle to inspire things that are not distractive?
Yes, there is an association and a Head of Diversity should be smart enough to not generalize based on this association; it's failure to satisfy the core requirement of the professional role.
You can do pretty impressive stuff by just tweaking random knobs. I'd recommend playing with the angle and iteration setting. But be patient with the iteration one. The computing complexity rises exponential with increasing iterations which causes the tab to freeze..

EDIT: Fix typo and improve iteration explaination
Is there some documentary or a read that explains the american school system somehow? Reading the constant complaints about it (such as mountains of homework, suffering through classes and all that) is quite alien to me.

Some classes were boring, sure, I slept through them. But for the most that was not the case and the load never seemed to be excessive. (studying in eastern, then western europe)
Confluence. A truly hot mess of an SPA-style website. Literally >10 second page load times with hundreds and hundreds of API calls to populate a page. To show a document. Literally the very thing the web was created for. It's honestly astounding how bad it is.
Sure. I have been working with smart contracts for only around 2 weeks, but when I deployed my first contract, many bots bought it. I mean, they really buy it. Enough to pay the contract deploy and have a profit. Some times more. So I have being deploying 3, 4 contracts every day, with some differences in code to get to know better about tokenomics, solidity and what can and cannot be done. In 2 weeks, I made USD5k from learning.
As I said, Israel conflates being a Jew with the state of Israel. And as such, people associate Israel with Judaism. That’s not offensive if it’s by design. You can’t have your cake and eat it to.

Israel is an apartheid state.
There will always be a market for faster travel.
Note that “diversity head” does not mean “head of the company’s diversity efforts” here - that’s a different person, Melonie Parker. It’s not super clear to me what this guy’s role actually was.
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Probably overrated the engineer aptitude to learn the domain.
>There's no such thing as a government-run school, at least not in the U.S. U.S. public schools are community-run. The local community sets the funding level, the local community provides the facilities, etc.

That's a disingenuous slight of hand when (as you admit) the curriculums are set at the sate level.

Being locally funded or managed means squat when the hours in the school year are limited and you have to teach to someone else's priorities.
Why do the number of flips make you exceed the run out? Do they fly farther? Or are they going faster than they would have opted to on an easier move?
the motivations matter. I think Prof. Hewitt was looking for something that could defeat the church-turing hypothesis. The erlang creators cared about fault-tolerance. So other Actor systems out there have different design lineage which means different low-level design choices, and in many ways, they aren't quite the same in ways that are subtle, hard to see, but still quite important to the ergonomics of the developer or maintainer who is in the weeds.
Given prior behavior around similar issues with other people I’m very surprised this person maintained their job.

I’m pretty sure if he were another person talking the same way about other people he’d have gotten fired unceremoniously.

And I doubt they have recalibrated how they deal with controversial opinions.
I suspect that the "net" qualifier is doing a lot of important work in that statement. Maybe they are planting a gazillion trees, do carbon capture or regrow coral reefs. Could mean anything really. Plant enough trees and you'll theoretically have "net zero emissions" from lighting a lake of crude on fire.
Zoom was taken.
Not possible. How could Some Bank get away with such a Crime with no repercussions?
Wow, a lot to digest here, thanks for the super detailed response! Definitely going to be coming back to this over the next week or two and trying some things out.

> Unfortunately, in the pre-flakes world, you just have to read the Nix code and figure out how to translate things to get the attributes you want into scope

This has been my approach, I always kind of assumed that there must be a better way but at least I feel a little better knowing that there isn't really. I haven't spent much time with flakes because I mostly only use Nix as a package manager/operating system but this helped me see how even if I'm not personally writing packages that I want to re-use I can still get a lot of value from flakes, so getting that setup is probably my next step!
You are not at all wrong, but unfortunately "you are opening it wrong" did not fly with the client for us in this case.
> I know progress is already being made with TSMC building new fabs in the US.

Worth noting that TSMC started building the 5nm fab this week in Arizona and said last month they would build a 3nm or 2nm fab at the site as well, and were in the research phase for a potential third fab that would focus on older/cheaper nodes.

Intel is also building a fab in Arizona and in March announced a further $20 billion investment in 2 more fabs at its Arizona site.

I'm not sure if they've started building or even committed yet, but it seems likely that Samsung will build a 5nm fab in Texas as well, in addition to its existing fab there.

So there's quite a bit of progress happening on US-based fabs already.
Funny you should mention that the "Interests" thing... I just happened to take a look, earlier today, at what Twitter thinks I'm interested in, and... it's laughable. I mean, seriously deranged. If this is the state of the art in ML/AI/whateveryouwanttocallit then we have nothing to fear but fear itself.

I'd love to know what FB thinks I'm interested in, but I'm nothing more than a shadow to them - no account, never used their apps - so there's no way for me to know. I think this is one of the more horrible, insidious outcomes of their way of working: If you're signed up for their abuse, you can at least find out something about what they know of you. If you've opted out of their surveillance platform, you have no way of finding out. And that's iniquitous.
>Is Google inconsistent, or has their policy on how to deal with these things changed over the past few years?

Simple explanation is Google's Democrat-leaning leadership are more aligned with Bobb than Damore (in the US, the left are generally anti-Israel while the right support it, and the left are pro-affirmative-action while the right oppose it).
Who did he upset for this to blow up _now_, 14 years after the fact and almost 3 years in his role at Google?
The initial flier advertised a fake talk by US politicians on the subject of violent insurrection, so there was no invitation to actual violence. The listed date and time of the fake talk was 19 days prior to the flier's release, so there was no actual invitation to even attend a peaceful event.

Please explain how someone could react violently by not realizing the flier was satire.
> To be a doctor, you need a 4 year college degree, then acceptance into a medical school, then pass the medical school courses and do N years of residency. The average medical school graduate has $200K of debt at that point.

It's not even that simple anymore. There's also the PGY1 year. There aren't nearly enough residencies to satisfy demand anymore. You might have to change specialties a few times before you land a residency. We're at the point where if you didn't go to medical school in the US, you're SOL. Even if you did, it's a struggle -- hope you went to a great medical school.

This at a time when we have higher demand for doctors than ever. Nobody wants to change the residency situation because the economics of it don't work out.
I never heard the term "Republicanism". Are there any (real) countries that practice this? Australia's states have lots of divested powers. How do you feel about that balance?
Fun fact: a few minutes after posting this, I received the following via email from an anonymous protonmail account named "groyptech":

Subject: You're a subhuman, worthless, imbecile maskie

> Wear it forever, you worthless, subhuman animal who doesn't deserve to live.

This culture war is getting out of hand. Imagine sending something like this to a stranger because of their clothing choices.
I would.

As long as he can keep his work and private lives seperate, and doesn't let these opinions infiltrate the work life, all is fine.

Just like kinky sex is fine for someone at home, but a fireable offence if done in the office.

If I saw him write stuff like this in an internal memo, that would be the time to fire him.
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What's even more crazy is that they kind of did have their own OS, albeit one that was really just a launcher on top of Android with some deep integration of Facebook content - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Home
"Boom Supersonic" sounds like a company name I might have invented when I was 12.
I'm glad you found what works for you. I think it's interesting how much preferences can differ from person to person.

For me, working from home for the past 3 years has been completely life altering.

Work is nothing more than a distraction away from what I really want to be doing with my life. Working from home lets me optimize for all the right things like being here with my kids all the time, going to the playground at lunches, making them breakfasts and lunches, and seeing them at 5:01pm. I love that I can take breaks with them rather than talk about nonsense at the water cooler.

I'd much rather not focus on optimizing for work...
Why would this be of any interest to the Hacker News community? Please stop posting local news stories.
Second had car prices have soared and people might not be keep to go back to jammed public transport due to covid.

My last two bus trips had betwen1 and 5 people blatantly ignoring the mask requirements and this is in on of the UK covid hot spots.
There is no one American system. Experiences can differ wildly by program or state or county.
Until you have some reasonable way to quantify the likelihood that the CEO will see something shiny and insist on changing course, this just doesn't seem like it would be useful in the real world.
Ask HN: What is your favorite subreddit?
I'm a Jew. If he apologized publicly and it was a long time ago, I think it would be ok. We have to be able to give people second chances and the ability to evolve their views. If someone was a neo nazi as a youth and grew out of it and regretted their past then they should be allowed to live a normal life. Preventing this just leads to more radicalization.
Almost certainly. The last 13 years has created a double standard.

White: Guilty until proven innocent, and even then, still guilty.

Person of color: No, that’s wrong, people of color cannot be racist or prejudice, what they said was taken out of content by someone who is racist.

That’s the new paradigm.

Racism, prejudice, and bigotry, of any kind, by anyone, is just wrong.
Entropy Will Fuck You
Yes, but they were not willing to. The environment for risky internet companies at that time was tepid still.

They knew money came from ads and tracking and the web and the other thing did not move the needle.
Welp, you just listed pretty much all of my most-watched creators...
None of that addresses the parent's concerns that idle cash grows in value, effectively benefiting from the economic output of others without even the need for investment.
If you set your royalty to 25%, meaning that a million dollar sale will have to burn off $250k to you, that million dollar sale will NEVER EVER EVER happen.

Think of it like a processing fee making the platform completely unworkable. Nobody will ever deal with that kind of inefficiency unless they are doing something so desperately illegal that they'd willingly pay that much for the money laundering.

And there's bound to be more efficient ways to money launder. Nope. The artist royalty promise is a pure con.
Private flights also go where you need to. Not a big deal if you are headquartered in a hub and have business at a different hub, but as you have business in distance places a private plane ends up a lot faster because you don't have to wait in hub airports. I know my company keeps a flight crew in Frankfort Germany so that the CEO on trips from US to India they can land, refuel and change pilots and be off in 15 minutes. (I'm not clear if the crew lives there, or just flys commercial the day before) Though if supersonic airplanes were affordable I believe the CEO makes the US-Asia trip often enough to buy one.
Thanks. I was just curious about the why. i'm good with working around it.
Tribalism is generally closed, but not automatically antagonistic with other tribes. In contexts where there is no forced competition, tribes rarely fight.

The modern view is that most likely hunter-gatherer societies, which didn't have fixed lands and had no general reason to be territorial, had little warfare. It is only with agricultural societies, where competition for land becomes a factor, that we start finding evidence of warfare, as far as I understand.
Python’s separation between ints and floats is quite weak, so it didn’t make sense for `3 / 2` to give a different result from `3.0 / 2` (1 and 1.5 respectively). Python 3 changed the division operator to return 1.5 in both cases.
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They are entirely consistent. They succumb to pressure from their far left employees, which don’t like insensitivity to the Jews, but abhor any take that conflicts with their “diversity = equal outcomes” nonsense. There is no room for thought even remotely consistent with conservatism, whether or not it’s consistent with scientific consensus.
Noscript is such a PITA though. A phenomenal app, but goes to show it's borderline impossible to stop that abuse as it makes your experience almost entirely unusable.
That's not really an apt comparison.

When iPod came out there were numerous successful portable music players already on the market. The iPod skeptics were not skeptical that there was a market for a portable music player--they were skeptical that the iPod's particular combination of features and limitations would do well.

With supersonic passenger service no one has demonstrated that there is actually a viable market for it. The two prior attempts were both heavily subsidized by government (Russia for the Tu-144, France and the UK for the Concorde).

It is quite different to ask "why do you think this product will do well against a bunch of established, viable competitors?" and to ask "why do you think this product can succeed in a market that everyone who has tried before has failed in?".
The video on the How It Works page (https://quotes.vistimo.com/how-it-works) has footage of every step you'll take to run an estimate.

If you mean you want technical details of the math involved, https://blog.vistimo.com/
If I were a highschool English teacher I would point the kids at more recent British works. I'd point them at Blackadder or Upstart Crow. Understanding that language, getting all the jokes, requires a degree of english comprehension that is probably slightly higher than the average highschool student. If I wanted to improve their spoken word while teaching them science, I'd assign them every single Attenborough or Brian Cox documentary.
Unfortunately you are probably right.
Well, they can't afford to fire another person from an under-represented group, it'll really screw up the percentages :)
> Overhearing hallway conversations (and joining them)

This really happens? I am too shy to join a random conversation in the hallway.