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> That is not how most end user installations are configured (aka, not as a virtual machine).

Though not the default, Microsoft is moving more and more towards hypervisor-based security, for both kernel stuff and for browser stuff. Right now you need to enable it, but I wouldn't be surprised if Windows 11 relies on it. The leaked installer already relies on having a TPM, after all.

Out of all virtual machine technologies, Hyper-V is probably the one that will give Microsoft the best chances at being near-metal without passing through hardware. Other hypervisors shouldn't pose a problem, but they're not under Microsoft's control.

If you have the time and hardware, you should feel free to test this on actual hardware instead; I doubt the results will differ much, though.
Almost everybody over (say) 18 is recommended to get one of the COVID vaccines, right? Pregnancy is fine. If you're allergic to the ingredients in one vaccine you can probably get another.

I'm not saying nobody is inelligible, but it has to be extremely rare. Having just had COVID is the only thing I can think of.
It's literally neither of those things.
I mostly care about the corporate goals.

I have far less of a normal life than most people and am far more obsessive about the kinds of things I do spend my time on than most people, so I don't personally bond that easily nor enjoy the casual moments or marshmallow and spaghetti tower building.

I enjoy objectives and racing towards them.
I taught middle and high school math for many years, and I always offered financial-focused projects as an option for students. I also used financial examples on a regular basis, just to keep a healthy, rational conversation about financial literacy going. The two most important topics over the years seemed to be loan analysis and understanding taxes.

To understand loans, I taught students how to determine the monthly payment for a loan using a blank spreadsheet. For students who were intimidated by spreadsheets, we'd start the process on a whiteboard. Just a simple spreadsheet with columns like month, current principal, payment, towards interest, towards principal, new principal. Then guess-and-check to see what the payment needed to be in order to pay off the loan in a specified time period.

That was great, because it let everyone see how loan payments are calculated in the first place. Then it let curious students explore the impact of paying above the minimum, making lump sum payments at various intervals, different interest rates, initial no-payment periods, and other loan "features". We also looked at cumulative interest and other long-term aspects of a loan. Students could do their own projects about car loans, home loans, business loans, and more. Every time I've taken out a loan in my life, I've done this myself, and it's made the experience better every time. Just doing this once lets you talk to a loan officer on a much more eye-to-eye level. This is education as consumer advocacy, fighting back against predatory practices one class at a time.

For taxes, I just had students either bring in their own pay stubs or W2s, or work with a sample set related to a field they were interested in working in. Then I had them fill out a 1040 by hand. They had to start out with the simplest 1040, and they could choose to try a more complex version after that. I had them repeat the process for several income levels; most students had no idea what a "tax bracket" actually is. I'd start with a question like "You're making $__k/yr, and you're offered a $1k raise. The raise will bump you into the next tax bracket. Should you accept the raise?" Many students said no, because they had no concept of incremental tax rates.

You have to present this material carefully. If you tell a whole class of math students, "Okay, everyone's learning to analyze loans this week!" they'll hate it. If you say, "We're learning to analyze numerical patterns, and one of the patterns you can analyze is how banks determine the monthly payment for the car or house loan you might want in a few years", they'll jump on it.
This is a common feature of critiques of Schopenhaur; Philipp Mainländer advanced the position that God created the universe to end its atemporal suffering, exploding and binding itself temporally in order that its suffering should eventually cease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_is_dead#Role_in_the_philos...

It's frustrating that your article brushes off the philosophy as "unimaginably wrong" so easily with some hand wave of techno-utopian "genetic engineering". Benatar's writing takes pains to address why the situation cannot fundamentally be solved, especially via naive scientism.
Has there ever been a company that doesn't say they hire "only the best"?
I wonder if anyone's compared Timnit's firing to Apple's firing of Antonio García Martínez. It sounds like both are politically opposite versions of the same mishire situation.
While the votes were being counted in that building. And as attempt to make sure their candidate won.

It was not merely symbolic building. Which makes it massively different then, say, went your anger at some statue which has truly symbolic meaning.
Careful, that table does not use a unified definition of poverty… so someone making 80USD a day with no health insurance is not considered “poor” in the US

And the French definition of poverty is equally useless, it’s just a percentage of the median income
Back around WWII when most households didn't have warm running water here in Denmark, there were places where you could go and have a shower or a bath for a small fee. Would that be a possibility, or is that as untouchable politically as pay toilets?
Yeah, the Alexievich book really stays with you. The teenage girl going to the front line and packing a suitcase full of chocolate. And the squad in the swamp, with a woman and her baby, and what she had to do when it started crying at a bad moment. Oosh.
I appreciate the points that you're making (sincerely; and I also get that it's an uphill battle to put it mildly) but your comments are unfortunately also crossing into the flamewar style. Can you please not do that, and in particular can you please omit the subtle personal swipes that are creeping into your comments? It makes the threads worse and it makes your arguments less persuasive to the neutral reader.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, there is not a guarantee, but the goal of these consensus mechanisms is to make the cost of attack greater than the reward.

In order for a successful attack, I believe you'd need to control a very large portion of all available REP. If your attack is successful, the value of your REP would likely go down (as the market is no longer trusted) so there's likely no economic incentive to do such an attack.
People have no choice if all companies are doing same thing.

The minimum wage should be tied to company revenue to reflect the value workers generate. I mean revenue, not profit, because those companies are masters at hiding profits to avoid tax.
You also have to blame companies/hr for being so reactive and possibly our governments for not taking action to insulate society against the impacts of internet mobs on peoples’ pursuit of happiness. The fact that 100 people on Twitter can get somebody fired just by calling them a rapist with absolutely no proof is a social/societal failure. I highly suspect ending this person’s contracts cost the companies more money than the PR/threat of loss of 100 Twitter users business. Is nobody at these companies that participate in canceling people mature enough to let the storm blow over? Which leads to the social element, good legal systems require the accusers to bear the burden of proof. I think it’s possible that there’s a legal framework by which we could consider it unconstitutional fire somebody for somebody else’s character opinion, essentially firing someone without evidence that they create a hostile work environment or are not performing their duties. Look at CA, you cant use somebody’s criminal record against them when making a hiring decision. That law exists for exactly this reason: incarceration evidently weighs an undue burden on the incarcerated as they try to integrate back into society. And thats for people who’ve been convicted. We’re talking about mob driven allegations.
I think sports is a big blind spot for most HN users, so I would like to offer an informal Q&A with me here in this thread. I am a former top-level division 1 football player that got a technical degree and now work in the IT/software space.

I like to do these every once in a while because there is so much incorrect information and bad assumptions about high level college athletes that I feel the need to combat this when the opportunity presents itself. I haven't read the posted SC opinion yet because I'm at work and currently eating a burrito. Don't be afraid to ask probing questions, the worst that will happen is I will choose not to answer.
I’m referring to data on autism rates in China. The WaPo article makes it seem highly likely that kids have developmental issues. The question really is whether autism is measured in China in any reliable way.
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Also, one advantage of `git pull origin master:master` is that you don't have to checkout master first.
Ignoring some recruiter you've never heard of isn't 'ghosting'. 'Ghosting' is when someone you know, and have a reasonable expectation will take your calls, suddenly stops taking them, without explanation.

It's a discourteous and lazy way of dumping a romantic interest.
Well, 'metaverse', here, comes from 1992's Snow Crash and has been in use for nearly 30 years. Not really just the past few months.
If you can get fired because of some messed up policy like this then you don't need to take ownership for being fired anymore. Also, why show initiative if you're going to be fired randomly anyway? Why even work hard at all? Why show loyalty or goodwill? Just show up, do the work, participate in the general workplace nonsense purely for appearances and have your parachute always ready.

Not sure I'd care if fired from amazon - I'd just blame this policy. What a weird situation. Utterly demotivating in some sense if you have high expectations.

On the flip side I guess you could just treat it as a temp job. If you get fired you simply shrug and not own it as any kind of failure on your part. That's kind of liberating in its own way.

I kind of apply this approach in my sideline startup. I just pivot and redirect my effort elsewhere when things don't seem successful. I definitely just shrug them off. Next idea!
> But apologizing doesn’t absolve you of bad behavior. And if someone doesn’t accept your apology (possibly believing it’s insincere) and brings up your “sleezy behavior at some art events many years ago”, calling them out and saying I’m not that guy anymore is not really owning his behavior.

What would absolve him of that behavior? Should we live in a society where every single mistake follows you forever, no matter how much you change and try to make it right with the other party?
I presume that if we had a UBI, then we wouldn't also have social security (or social security would be a smaller layer on top of SS). If that is the case, then my point was that we can ignore the individuals currently receiving SS when accounting for the net additional costs of UBI.
A friend of mine, a non-technical manager at Google, similarly struggled to fire an obvious underperformer for over a year, so I totally believe it.
Whenever I open a fruit (or other seed pod) and find its seeds have already began sprouting inside the fruit, I plant them on my windowsill. It makes me feel like these particular seeds really really wanna grow and I owe them the chance.

So far, so good.
That is solely because of network effects. Anyone of them could be the popular one, as could any of the weirder ones like darcs, even it having technical flaws (mostly fixed by now).
> getting good press for DeepMind "solving protein folding" when they did nothing of the sort

Ah, taking a page out of IBM's recent playbook.
> I think this is an incredibly premature statement to make if this is really a form of activism that's only been around for ~5-10 years or so.

But it hasn't - TFA even includes an example from centuries ago.

> Typical HN though, we love to play the role of enlightened politicos looking down at the unstrategic masses.

Typical HN though, we love to assume we're the first people to really understand a topic.
You see it as harm, but there are people who would not mind reducing activist energy to unavoidable minimum. As such, draining people's energy and channeling it through another outlet is a very useful endeavor. Same could be said about sport ( or its close sibling - national level politics in US ).
Testing the 50 Year Old Mercury Arc Rectifier
My own take (not supported by the article) is that there's more room for interpretation what BlackLivesMatter actually means, and the concrete political statements aren't obvious from the meme.

In the case of 5DemandNot1Less it's clear that the meme is a vehicle for some concrete statements.

Of course, both memes can be used thoughtlessly, so maybe that's not a crucial difference.
>If my choices are Amazon, or a bunch of lesser known, less prestigious, or lesser paying companies, I'd take the shot at Amazon and do whatever possible to last at least a year so I could put that Amazon name on my resume for future prospects.

I don't disagree with your assessment, but this illustrates just how broken the software labor market is. If you'd work in a dumpster fire culture as a capable developer just for resume padding to open doors, something is wrong with software labor and hiring (which, there's a lot wrong, this is but one more example of how perverse the market is).

A lesser known, less prestigious, and lower pay position shouldn't effect your future opportunities if the market is really selecting on talent that it claims it is. Now if your lesser known/prestigious location happens to have you doing CRUD work circa 2000, then sure, but that's definitely not the case for a lot of places that simply can't pay the rates Amazon can afford to pay.
>You can assume in the vast majority of cases patent trolls don't have valid patents.

Right, but law actually presumes they are valid. Which is why its tough to go after a troll for asserting a valid patent.
Fair point. I guess it just depends on what groups you are in and the norms that are present in said groups.
Astronomers could reasonably well measure angles between objects in the night sky, and with some basic geometry, you can measure the relative distances between objects reasonably accurately. For instance, if you have a triangle ABC, and you know the angle ABC is 45 degrees, and the angle ACB is also 45 degrees, you know that the distance AB will be sqrt(2)/2 times the distance BC. If you have dozens of other points you want to know about, you can calculate the distances relative to BC as well. But what if you haven't the foggiest idea how many toises long BC is? (this was well before the metric system; toises was the unit of choice for Cassini) You either give units of toises for, for instance, the size of the Mars orbit with error bars of +/- 80%, or you give the size of the Mars orbit in terms of multiples of BC with error bars of +/- 5%.

Measuring the AU is fraught with errors of all sorts. For centuries it mostly consisted of exploiting tiny parallaxes on the Earth's surface between planetary bodies- for instance, Cassini and Richtie measured the parallax of Mars between Paris and French Guiana. But a small error propagates to a much, much larger error in the final result than relative distances between planetary bodies in AU distances. If your measurement of the parallax of Mars is off by one arcminute, your measurement is totally useless, but if your measurement of the angle to Mars is off by one arcminute, your distance to Mars in AUs is off by a few percent.

It wasn't until the 1960s when the JPL measured distances to Venus and Mars using radar that we were confident we had a good grasp on how long an AU was. But by that point, we had already measured the relative distances between the bodies in the solar system using the AU ruler relatively accurately for centuries.
It's literally from Noah Bradley's public apology/announcement; he tried to get in front of the growing rumor network by publicly admitting things.
so old and often posted

Good discussion here 10 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651745
As well as Grossman, can I recommend Adam Tooze. He's a historian who studied economics. He wrote the best account of the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath. He's a gdmn leftie but exceedingly thoughtful and well-informed. Chartbook is worth a subscription.
> It's also a scheme in which early investors are paid by later investors, not by any form of value creation.

This is not correct, since a lot of people hodl. This is 100% buying something that might increase or decrease in value. If it decreases, is it then a "reverse ponzi scheme"?

Actually, we could create a real ponzi cryptocurrency, where older wallets get interest from newer wallets. Or that part of the value regularly gets transferred back to the previous transacted wallet. Now THAT would be a ponzi scheme!
Unless they already made a deal or hope that it drives their competitor out of business while they deal with it on their own.

There's no reason to assume they'll be cooperative.
> It's also a scheme in which early investors are paid by later investors, not by any form of value creation.

If I'm reading this right, then land ownership is a ponzi scheme?
You're totally right...the mob does not accept apologies so there's no point. It's better to double down, and maintain your dignity.
The betting market, or crypto in general? I haven't used the betting market (augur) but certainly plan to. I enjoy PredictIt but the fees are crazy high.
Why do you draw the line there? And that means you're okay with things like torture of animals and bestiality?
This is the feature set needed for Hyperreality.[1] Which is hell with interactive overlays.

AppClips. Drive-by installs. What could possibly go wrong?

[1] https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs
I don't think there are general prescription to overcoming such feelings. We have to deal them in our own unique ways. Having said that, a good place to start may be by accepting and not judging yourself for being a misanthrope.

When I find myself caught deep in the struggle of trying to change my own mind, I sometimes end up feeling totally blocked and frustrated. It may sound absurd and counterintuitive, but I find that backing away from that struggle frees my mind to then naturally start seeing a more wholistic view of things and resolve such feelings.

Go easy on yourself and remember such resolutions can take time.
"Be a super hero online. Do not use your real name. Do not show your face."

-- Dad's Rule #1 of the internet
> modify Firefox so it doesn't eat memory like an addict on a bender

Are these Windows-specific modifications, or tuning Firefox settings that might be beneficial on other platforms? (I'm not saying that I'm looking at the insane UI changes for the upcoming Safari release on the Mac and investigating other options, but I'm not not saying that.)
Seems like there must be so much effort wasted in getting new people spun up on corporate culture, development style, internal tooling, etc... only to have half of them gone in less than a year.

Or were they simply expanding rapidly at that point?
Something that's dawned on me for the last few years is that Microsoft basically settled on the idea that the modern operating system is effectively done, which I suppose is true, but then they stopped creating technologies to build on top of Windows all together.

It was as if they said, OK, here's the supermarket, now vendors, create stuff and we'll stock the shelves.

Except everyone publishing software today that isn't a game developer is targeting the web. Which means the best software you're going to get for Windows that isn't long-lived incumbent software like Creative Cloud is going to be... over Google Chrome (or Microsoft Edge).

OK, but Microsoft is in the best position to create great, integrated, first-class technologies that build on how great Windows is. But they don't. I have mixed feelings about this, because when Apple does it, they basically put people out of business.

But here's the thing, in 10 years time, you're going to have Windows, which is still just, and will continue to be, Windows. And macOS, and iOS, and tvOS, and every other Apple OS, is going to be so much more. And they already are so much more.

For those who haven't experienced it yet, or can't afford Apple products, they're missing something that just hasn't happened in computing in any other period of time I can immediately think of.

Or, idk, I'm blind because I think Apple products are so great. The lattermost is probably more likely.
I feel like I should mention that the GP was asking something of me, and little of what you write here is relevant to my own situation. (Maybe it is relevant to people in other fields.)
Apologies, I thought I did address that. Here's a deep-link to the process of "confirmation," which means a user has viewed an ad: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Security-and-pri....
I've always thought the way our society views gold is idiotic. Not sure how pointing to gold means anything. Our ancestors were silly people.
Maybe just don't be a womanizer idk?

Never been a problem for me.
> But, as with Black Lives Matter, some people use these words to denote radical and far-reaching ideologies.

Convicting Donald Trump and banning him from office is not a radical and far-reaching ideology.

Defunding the police (it's already waaaaay too funded, they don't need literal military gear, which is what they have in the US) is also not a radical and far-reaching ideology.

This article is trying to present itself as being reasonable and moderate when it's just advocating for the fascism that is continuously creeping up on the US. Which is how you have to present yourself, as reasonable and moderate, if you want to convince anyone.
I've always wondered if sublicensing was a way to get around this. Instead of owning the core technology itself, set up an offshore holding company to own the technology rights, then "license" them out. The main company probably can't be sued since they have a legal contract for the tech and if they go after the holding company, fine, the parent company can then "license" tech from another, similar holding company.
When the stock goes from 200 to 3500 in 10 years, and consistently goes up and to the right, you won’t find too many of the workers complaining no matter how bad the job conditions are. I have a friend up in Seattle who is suffering, to the point of being hospitalized for mental health issues, but refuses to leave.

So HR and leadership believe that their system “works” but it’s really that their employees are willing to put up with straight up torture. They are deluded into thinking that their metrics and PIP plan work well because their best employees are staying but it’s really just the stock price.

If the stock price starts to drop for whatever reason. All the best employees will leave in droves. That’s what I saw at Uber post IPO.