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You still have to pass a marijuana drug test to work there, for heaven's sake.

I hate to break it to you, but that's normal in the vast majority of companies. So far, I've only lived in two states where it was legal, and in both the laws specifically allowed employers to test for pot. I'm in healthcare, and the company I work for tests everyone on entry, and people randomly after that.

If it's ever legalized at the federal level, expect employer testing to be specifically allowed. Transportation companies, surgeries, heavy industry, and a lot of other companies will filter for this, either because they or their insurance companies don't want the risk.
Yes. I apologize for messing up the spelling. It just struck me as amazing that they still used the old bank notes, and just cut 6 0’s off for the conversion.
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I think you're too stuck remembering the bad implementations of generality to understand what the original poster is saying. Something like a cache is general and most likely will need to be used in multiple places. If I have a user cache and an application cache, it wouldn't hurt to build both off a general cache. That way I don't have to understand two different cache implementations that are supposed to do the same thing. Now when a new cache implementation is made in a particular domain, there will be no need to review the code that does the caching since developers should already be familiar from working with it in the past. I don't see how it could be "both a source of bugs and an obstacle to reading" unless done improperly.
I started working on a (not-yet-released) scripting language that can target DOS. Not public yet and needs more work to clean it up, but it can successfully build an EXE or COM that lets you easily target DOS to do something.

https://github.com/mmastrac/kalos

I have some other code that I haven't added to this project that allows you to do things like write text to the screen, etc.
At one point in the video someone says something like, "nobody really 100% knows how a carburetor works, right?", which was funny.
Which is why these situations are generally arbitrated in London.
It's not that it's irrational, it's that this is how depressed people think and write.

Of course, I know nothing about OP, have no professional knowledge, and could be way off. I just thought mentioning it might push someone to seek help. I won't mention it again.

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Climate change is a hard problem, but not for the reasons you give. To me, it's mainly a "Collective Action Problem". I, my city, my state, or my country may do our part of what's needed to solve the problem, but it won't be worth anything if the rest of the world doesn't join in.

Worse, our sacrifices makes the problem less urgent for other regions, who can "free ride" on our efforts.

If there was "local global warming", and changing California's emissions would fix California's weather, I think it would long since be handled, despite the long term nature of the benefits.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/collective-action-problem-1...
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well, good luck getting buy-in from the cli tool devs, then? the other option requires absolutely zero buy-in from homebrew, gatsby, dotnet, or any other cli.
He is not imposing any requirements on the reader, just reporting his own experience and indicating how his claims can be double checked, should you so wish.

A claim of "lots of liberal media are lying about an Indian law" cannot be refuted by citing that same media, and making him say it repeatedly doesn't seem likely to yield any further insight.
You mentioned hedonism and an accomplishment... Having 8 kids.

While I love my kids, I don't consider it an achievement.

And hedonism seems great until you climb the hedonic treadmill. Your claim of the "content" life leaves lots to disect.
A human mind not giving due consideration to the effects of granting arbitrarily high intelligence to an agent with simplistic morality counter to human morality.

From there it's a sequence of steps that would show up in a thorough root cause analysis ("humanity, the postmortem") where the agent capitalizes on existing abilities to gain more abilities until murder is available to it. It would likely start small with things like noticing the effects of stress or tiredness or confusion on human opponents and seeking to exploit those advantages by predicting or causing them, requiring more access to the real world not entirely represented by a chess board.
Legislative oversight of the executive branch is a feature, not a bug. Presidents aren't kings, neither are cabinet members princes.

That said, appropriations is no barrier to hiring the necessary talent. There are plenty of well-run private data centers in the federal government, staffed by both federal employees and government contractors.
This is awesome. I really like the idea of rysolv.

How are you handling issues that go unsolved but have funding remaining on them?
Most of the complexity in front end development is self-inflicted, and the result of amateurish pseudo-engineering. It isn’t dismissive; it’s accurate. Sometimes things just aren’t very good or have poor quality. That’s a separate issue from how smart people working on the issue may be.
You likely can't get a safe amount of entropy from the available resolution in time.

For example, even assuming nanoseconds, that's only log(10^9) bits of entropy if you can guess what second (not that hard, may even be public). That's nowhere near enough.

I'd also doubt that many ways you try to get a nanosecond resolution time actually have that resolution, there's probably discrete steps of lower resolution.
Oh I thought it was accross the pond. I knew about Oxford etc. but for whatever reason I took it to be in the Colonies.
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> Its interesting to me that the discussion around ransomware attacks on HN is full of victim blaming.

This is HN. It's filled with people whose job is building secure systems, or at the very least are aware of best practices to prevent these attacks. Of course you're going to read that they should have done this or that.

> When stores are forced to close in SF because of rampant theft, nobody suggests that Walgreens or Target should hire armed guards. If a mall were to be bombed, nobody would suggest that malls should just be built to resist bombing attacks.

Have you tried asking that in different places?
They aren't always available because you can't always get what you ask for.
Politician micro-management is a real problem in the US, but keep in mind that these restrictions of the bureaucracy are a more second-order effect. They are less about directly giving the politicians more control than keeping the civil service week to the benefit of the contractors, and that outcome continues whether or not the politicians find it worth their time to meddle with any specific project.

Also, it's my understanding that the micro-management is more a problem on the state and local level, like NY state politicians such as Cuomo forcing the MTA to take on debt for these stupid stations rather than improve service.
I think hardware and licenses are minimal costs in most businesses. Desk space is probably more. But I think even that isn't the real reason businesses like full time. It's probably cultural, not wanting to have to hire loads of people, and the difficulty of splitting some jobs between multiple people.
Would time even make any sense given that we use the very system to measure time.
Hard to believe that the most important effect of humans on plant health wouldn't be invasive species. The article doesn't acknowledge that at all.
It's why we don't see many satirical films in the same vein as Robocop and Starship Troopers anymore. It would be something that the Chinese censors would never allow. Whether it's the over the top violence or the skewering of the state and corporate power structure. Stuff like that annoys the Chinese govt more than most, so Hollywood would just bow out on such a film

It's funny how many strange one off films and games are being made online through crowd funding now (not all are good but a few are decent) due to this global pleaser approach to film making.
> As an aside, George RR Martin 40+ years ago wrote a book called Dying of the Light. I really enjoyed it just for the concept. In this book there are so-called Festival worlds. These are worlds that wander between systems. When they approach stars they get sufficiently warm and thaw out and may have oceans and atmospheres in that time. People would build cities in that time knowing it was all temporary.

Wow so this could be the explanation for erratic seasons of unpredictable duration in ASOIAF?
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Government cares about security from foreign threat actors. The loss of data to esponiage is a critical threat.

Most companies I know treat Security engineers similarly and pay not all that much higher. There is world of enterprise IT outside the silicon valley, the pay is not all the much higher. Despite all the recent threats and ransomware attacks security is not treated as it should be.
Curiously and arguably somewhat hypocritically, this fork is hosted on github, which relies on telemetry and user data.
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This is kind of a political question, and another thread got touchy about politics.

But with Manafort’s pardon, we might not see Deutsch Bank’s full culpability in failing to kyc. So, if Manafort’s pardon was inevitable, then would you consider the big players in laundering to be sufficiently protected by a political movement/coup inside a major party?
> The person who drills 90% of the time and spars 10% will pretty much always beat the reverse person

IMO this is true for beginners, then more and more the other way around.

> Sparring is for practicing skills under real conditions. If you don't have those skills, there's nothing to practice

I agree, and wrote "sparring becomes more and more determinant as technical flaws become more rare".
I’ll take that bet. 10 150k public sector employees vs 10 250k private sector, its going to be a slaughter in terms of productivity in favor of the private sector. In fact I would take 10 private sector engineers at 250k vs your 20 public sector at 150k and would still win.

The reason is not talent, but process. Governments are bureaucratic by nature, companies are meritocratic by nature. Obviously this is a vast simplification and there are exceptions but I wouldn’t bet on your team being one.
Dark Star Orchestra is your current best bet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8_THRZLSi4
Trying to prevent crime in another country is typically not within a government's mandate.

> victim blaming

That's a frame that carries a negative connotation. Why? Shouldn't builders construct houses that are safe enough? Or are you telling me that the government should prosecute the people responsible for the hacked systems?
It seems that they censor submissions from some low-quality sites (I suspect this is part of the reasoning) content from which is likely to lead to flamewar-type discussions. This not subject matter censorship, but it is a good form of censorship that helps keep this site high-quality. These practices are part of the reason discussion on this site is so much better than the norm on the internet, and should be a reason for you to want to stay.
Netflix makes their user interface terrible to search. This is by design: when things get pulled due to licensing or whatever other arrangements are made with studios or their parent companies, users are all none the wiser.

The reason why P2P will reign supreme is because it cuts through the bullshit of backwards business restrictions and empowers people to watch content on whatever device they want, when they want, and how they want. Netflix has, what, 30,000 titles available? Compared to the 400,000 titles at your nearest P2P based source.
This is a good example of an article created from a press release without asking any questions.
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I can't upvote this enough. I have worked IT long enough to see some impressive creativity by users to defeat security policies getting in the way of doing their jobs.

I have argued that the raison d'etre of security policy is to ensure the existence and continuity of an environment in which work can get done. I've been told about the importance of the C.I.A triad and other things as though they were refutations of my point, often in tones of voice implying an attitude that this not-security|compliance-tech-is-incapable-of-knowing-what-he's-talking-about-and-therefore-can-be-ignored. I counter-argue that C.I.A et. al. are not refutations of my thesis, but in fact support it. If you can't ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information or systems for yourself or your customers, you do not, and/or will not, have an environment in which work can get done.

So, for the love of getting shit done, stop masturbating with broad and blind application of checklists, and take the time to sit down, really look at what you're trying to do and why, and develop actually useful risk models. And then develop security policies against those risk models. Yes checklists and various standards are useful tools that can help you cover a lot of common stuff, but are not the whole picture.
I cringe thinking about the dating pool in an isolated community of 600 people. Just one more reason this sort of experiment might accidentally push people to their cars instead of away from them.
That seems like particularly poor quicksand to build a new "do not track" effort upon, yes; adding yet another interpretation worsens things and ties this new effort to a failed effort's legacy.
>I imagine it's pretty similar to how you verify or audit the output of a compiler with a specification.

I must be missing the humor here. You can test against a specification to verify implementation. Testing an implementation against itself is meaningless. I would think that this is obvious. Also I don't typically use the word "empirical" to indicate purely qualitative assessments or intuition. You also provided a dead link.
Guesses:

Some of it's food culture. Giant portions are normal so you don't think twice about piling your plate high. Norms (and, yes, judgement/shaming) about consumption affect patterns of same. Snacking, even heavy snacking, between meals, is common. This may be suppressed elsewhere by stronger "you eat at meal times—if not exclusively, then nearly so" norms, and snack-availability that's about what you'd expect, given those norms.

Some people think our commonly-accessible "good" food (fruits, veggies, not from specialty stores, just the main produce section of normal grocery stores) are a lot worse than what's normal in some other, healthier countries. I don't have enough experience to claim anything definitive on this, but what experience I do have does support it. If "good" food doesn't taste as good as elsewhere, or if getting something as good as others' normal produce requires special shopping and much higher prices, maybe one tends to reach for umami-bomb fat+starch garbage, which is both kinda-addictive and not very filling.

A lot of our standard cooking is tied up heavily with giant portions. We even seem to do this with imported cuisines, for whatever reason. Not-especially-good food in giant portions. Heaping plates of mediocre pasta+sauce as our image of Italian food, Mexican food with bottomless chips & salsa (and huge, cheese-slathered plates for the entrees), that kind of thing. I guess that's more of the food-culture thing.

I doubt any of these are all of the reason, and maybe none of them are correct at all.
"I just can't see how anyone would ever invest again..."

I think you underestimate the (a) greed and (b) capabilities of the people involved.
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Does any software have a warranty period?
Please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how strongly you feel about something. It's tedious and repetitive, and usually turns nasty.

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Paper about the 66 qubit quantum processor Zuchongzhi.
I see two major dynamics that could drive interstellar colonization:

1) Eccentricity and Boredom: I think that with a solar system population in the trillions, you will inevitably have a sufficient population of eccentrics to eventually launch generational ships. This is especially likely if humanity survivea long enough for the lifetime our own sun to present a realistic limit on the survival of the species.

2) Eccentricity and Freedom: The major advantage of interstellar colonization is distance from dominant power structures in the solar sytem. I find it quite possible that there could be societies that view fleeing the solar system as their only path to survival as a cultural unit.
Yes, it's definitely better, but like all of these zero-energy "alternatives" to air conditioning, it feels like a 20% substitute being sold as an 80% substitute.
You can buy most types of alcohol at grocery stores now. You have always been able to buy wine at some grocery stores like Zehrs or Loblaws, though it was in a separate store-within-a-store. LCBO and The Beer Store no longer have a duopoly on alcohol sales, but I think it was just fine when they did.
Bitcoin is explicitly designed to be worse and worse the more people buy into it. Say what you want about importing apples but they arnt explicitly designed to eat all available power and hardware as a stated goal.
"Dead" is when a submission was killed automatically because e.g. the domain is blacklisted. It is shown as "flagged" when too many users manually flagged it.

Users can still "vouch" for dead submissions to recover them from this fate. This might be unavailable to new users or to people below a karma-threshold.
Yeah, I've got OpenBSD installed on my iMac G4 from ~2002. Runs fine, quite well in fact (and is fully up to date with modern security features)! Now if I were to put an SSD in there, it would be even better! Hmmm... weekend project added to the list... ;)
I think you need to google; "self taught scientists", unfortunately, in my limited perspective, somehow credibility become equalized with degree (e.i. title and money) and not the actual knowledge/skills in many fields, in today's world it is socially unacceptable not to have degree, the value of actual skills/knowledge is not as important as to have PhD title, I really hope it will change in future.
Humans don't put a huge penalty on dying. We discount it and assume/pretend that once we've had a good long life then death is okay and euthanasia is preferable to suffering with no hope of recovery. AI wolves that can live for 20 seconds are unwilling to suffer -1 per second with no hope of sheep.
See the Ben Rich's story about the government man showing up to the crash-speed SR-71 program.

"Mr. Johnson, I don't give a damn whether your plane ever gets built. But my forms will be signed and procedures will be followed."
You mean just like the CEO candidate has to find a freelance to get the tech done if they can't find a technical co-founder. Valid point.
> Do you really see yourself the "acting" leader, answering to phone calls all day like a secretary and asking people about the status of their tickets?

You owe it to yourself to find higher quality "people-person"s to learn from. If that's all they're good for in your world, it's no wonder you have such a low opinion of them.
Agreed, of course with English (which is a learned language for me) it's way easier since I don't need to read the subtitles.

But even with other foreign languages I enjoy watching with subtitles. For starters, you learn what other languages sound like. Plus, let's face it, most dubs are terrible quality. And finally, it's surprising but you start picking up the language! I've never studied Japanese but I started picking up words and inflections just from watching Japanese movies (and the same happens with Korean, Chinese, etc).
The problem is that the existing education+certification process is staggeringly inefficient and wasteful. The other problem is that employers insist on certifications from an educational institution.

The efficient answer is a certification that employers will accept, and various competing educational pathways. And if your educational pathway was reading Byte Magazines that you found in your uncle's attic, and you actually learned enough to pass the certification, well, that's probably not the most efficient educational path, but if it worked for you, congratulations. You're certified.
I don't think there is good and bad censorship. Downplaying visibility for political outrage websites is one thing, banning submissions is completely different beast.
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Technology has progressed quite a bit in 20 years, of course. And, I don't know the answer, but with all of these companies joining in on the space race, did regulations lighten up or was it just the funding cuts to the space program that spurred this?
If you already have a degree but it's not CS (perhaps it's mathematics or electrical engineering), then these courses are perfect. I credit a lot of my programming skills to Stanford's courses even though that is not where my degrees are from.