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ATTN:

All branch Covidians are to report to the nearest gas chamber effective immediately.

Jen Psaki, Secretary of the Ministry of Truth has determined you to be disinformation.

I repeat, all Branch Covidians, sucketh of the Biden CCP Dick report to the nearest gas chamber immediately.
How us Chimps captured King Kong is beginning to make more sense.
Also if anyone should get the credit for Virgin Galactic it should be Burt Rutan and the folks at Scaled Composites whose blood sweat and tears made this happen.
Telegram Founder, Pavel Durov on the NSO Leak
Oh, like these corrective consequences/accountability?

https://www.peoplesworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/pjim...

"The system is working as it should."
> The increased food competition may also be caused by the more recent phenomenon of climate change

Way to go, jumping right into speculation, as scientists they shouldn't be so trigger happy, specially given that they go on to say

> We are only at the beginning to understand the effects of competition on interactions between the two great ape species
If they did this right it could be more lucrative for lazy revenue seeking cops than hiding behind overpasses waiting for speeders.
If it is possible to have multiple revisions of libraries you will have multiple revisions of libraries. I've seen this play out "at scale" and what happens in practice is software rots until some kind of crisis or feature demands an upgrade. At which point somebody creates another set of branches to solve precisely their problem and nothing else.

Maybe it's just where I've worked, but atomic commit carries with it some strong cultural norms that make it really tractable to have one version of everything. If code compiles and automated tests pass, the change is safe and may be committed unilaterally. Inevitably things go wrong, but the post mortems for incidents don't lead back to the lack of permission from the affected projects.

I wouldn't maintain software that can kill people in this way, but for everything else it strikes a nice balance.
I don't know about splay trees specifically, but the combination of an in memory index structor and append only log persistence has been a common theme in recent database research. Microsoft's bw-tree, a derivative of which powers CosmosDB is one example (though it uses a lock free hash table instead of a splay tree or similar).
That's the opposite of my argument. I'm saying that the predominant style is Rube Goldberg, but Helm charts don't have to be written that way. Instead of writing an unreadable mess that is 90% template, just template the 5% that you need, and the whole thing is very readable.
At the risk of falling down an analogy rabbit hole, I'll be upset if the HVAC guy assumes that air will flow freely throughout the house and has no understanding of walls, or if the drywall guy blindly screws into my air ducts. No abstraction is perfect; some knowledge of the other layers is necessary to do a proper job. Unfortunately, in software, it seems like our abstractions are particularly leaky, and knowledge of other layers is frequently necessary to do a proper job. In house building, issues are usually contained by physical proximity, whereas the same is obviously not true in software, particularly networked software.
Chess is not only racist but also sexist. How come the king is the most important piece on the board but the queen is completely expendable?! And, for goodness sake, the game features actual white knights.
The media is the virus fucking fool.
No. Everything must be examined critically through the lenses of social justice. Chess is a Eurocentric and thus colonial game only valued because of its expression of whiteness. Dominance of an opponent of another color reenforces normative racism and the white pieces going first internalizes white supremacy to Black, brown, and indigenous peoples. I won’t even go into the obvious sexism and misogyny of the emotional labor of the womxn piece moving the longest distances in all directions while being valued less than the male piece.

We should expect and demand equity in all our so called “games” so that everyone wins.
They are not declaring that. The proposed cause is a thesis that will be investigated further and could very well be disproven. I don't see what's wrong with that.
This is so cool! From a level-design perspective, the Final Fantasy X maps are super illuminating.
> the minor (but notable!) exception are priests in Anglican Ordinariate who were validly married before their Catholic ordination.

The major exception is the priesthood of the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches; priestly celibacy is a discipline of the Latin Rite, not a universal discipline or doctrine of the Catholic Church.

> this is a temporary exception, though, and does not signify any change in the Church's discipline of clerical celibacy.

Sure, the most recent change was the reestablishment of the permanent diaconate within the Latin Rite, since before that the diaconate (and, before it was suppressed, also the subdiaconate) were within the scope of clerical celibacy.
> Things that are solving a specific problem for LARGE SCALE ENTERPRISE users.

So, just like mainframes?

/s

Seriously, though, I think that was the point. The future needs to be a much less complicated tool.
> Make opening their products accessible so that people can do it without damaging what they own. PCs are like that. Car parts have no such warranty stickers (that I am aware of).

Soon that will be a bad example! Cars are quickly moving in this terrible direction. You used to be able to wrench them yourself, but every model year there is less and less serviceable by your friendly shade-tree mechanic. If the manufacturers are not stopped, we'll soon need to take our cars to the "Authori$ed Repair" centers or Dealer$hips to perform even basic maintenance.
Three things. First, the distance between a likely launch site in Morocco and a national park in Spain is less than ten miles. Second, the rated top speed of the thing is over a mile a minute. Third, you're talking about the Spanish Air Force, in southern Spain, in peacetime, not the Israeli Air Force or something.

I imagine it's always going to be police doing police work that catch these guys, as happened in this case, and not jet fighters.
The Versatile 2, purely for aesthetic reasons.

https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=345
Assisted suicide not being a thing in most places is an absurdity to me.

I can’t see the nobility in not having the option of going out cleanly on your own terms as your body reaches the final stage of terminal decline.

I suppose one could say that in the United States, the 2nd Amendment guarantees your right to an effective form of self-assisted suicide, as long as you use your 5th amendment right to keep quiet on why.
> is not "censorship" or "censoring everything"

Actually, that would in fact be a very straightforward example of censorship. Which isn't to say that it would necessarily be a bad thing - moderation involves limited and targeted censorship.

Let's not go redefining words in order to defend a particular course of action. We should argue the actual merits instead.
There's The Scunthorpe Problem, which seems like a specific instance.
>Full Stack Developer - Skills unique to the job:
React.js, Node.js, JavaScript, AngularJS, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

What did an HR intern write this posting? The back end one is a joke too. Apparently all Microsoft chop shops gotta close down or something. Nobody apparently uses MSSQL or .Net. Ruby? Nah, doesn't exist either. But JavaScript and cascading style sheets!

Also the doc is just going off of percentages, not number of jobs. If there was only 1 joblast year and now there are 1000, that's a 1000% increase. But if there is still only 1000 people doing that job, is that job really in demand? This just seems like tech worker propaganda for more people to get in tech.
I'm not sure why you would conflate a city-wide strike with a general strike. Maybe you could explain that part before I answer.
Hi :) Yeah I think it's an interesting topic, and I'm not saying anyone should necessarily be doing something different. But if it "feels wrong", then that's not too surprising to me :) I'd be interested in hearing about any k8s experiences.
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I'm not sure you really have a grasp of human history if you think money and force are separate things. That's only a very recent idea.

If you look at historical rankings of wealth, by far the richest people were leaders of great empires. They were so wealthy that it's silly to put it in modern terms (1) & (2). Caesar Augustus controlled the entire output of Egypt which was the breadbasket of the Mediterranean world. His person wealth is estimated to be in the $5 to $10 trillion range.

More recently, how rich was Stalin when he could literally do anything with an economy making up 10% of global GDP? It's even unclear how much Putin is worth with credible accusations that he recently built a $1B palace (3) and has a wealth in the $200B range.

It is only our recently invented democratic institutions that enable billionaires who profit from non-violent sources. I sincerely hope you develop a sense of how important these institutions are.

This is my last comment btw, I hope you feel like you've learned something.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_historical_...

(2) https://www.luxuo.com/the-lux-list/super-rich/richest-people...

(3) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56007943
I've yet to see a practical alternative to market based pricing that doesn't require rewiring humans at a massive scale.
I been waiting for other companies to do this for years. Its a much better overall feature than just likes.
The website seems to be related to the FLCCC, which has been advocating for use of Ivermectin and fighting a lot against vaccination. My skepticism doesn't make me confident this website is as neutral as is could.

And yes, there are other studies, but they're not as big and with this large study retracted, it tipped the stats towards being not as effective as it was portrayed.

https://gidmk.medium.com/is-ivermectin-for-covid-19-based-on...

> The problem is, if you look at those large, aggregate models, and remove just this single study, ivermectin loses almost all of its purported benefit. Take the recent meta-analysis by Bryant et al. that has been all over the news — they found a 62% reduction in risk of death for people who were treated with ivermectin compared to controls when combining randomized trials.

> However, if you remove the Elgazzar paper from their model, and rerun it, the benefit goes from 62% to 52%, and largely loses its statistical significance. There’s no benefit seen whatsoever for people who have severe COVID-19, and the confidence intervals for people with mild and moderate disease become extremely wide.
Eat the frog. My problem is the most appetizing frogs are side project/education-related and not, say, fitness-related. It helps me feel like I’ve accomplished something even if my work day is filled with pointless meetings, so it works for me.
Games where you role-play as a feudal lord? You're either making his point for him, or missing it.
For videos scroll to the bottom of this page https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93829-x
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Be wise, randomize!
Because it implies the Mexican race can’t resolve disputes without violence thus normalizing xenophobia.
This would save so much time wasting. When someone says "Can you push that to the master branch" there is nothing that ties that statement to slavery or racism so there is nothing wrong with it.
I think up and down voting are great, however what is dumb is that neither has a cost. If you think of karma as an economy, taking an action should have a cost.

Of course this leads to the question: if voting has a cost, then how do people accumulate irrespective of themselves receiving a vote?

You could give everyone say, a fixed number of karma to begin with that could then be allocated. You can then give people more karma for successfully being a user without being flagged or receiving certain amounts of negative karma for a time period.

It's a shame there's not more experimentation here. This could lead to more interesting sort of dynamics. For example, if the #1 person believes something is being said that is really damaging in some way, they could put at stake the entirety of their karma and downvote it, which would pretty much obliterate the comment. Conversely, if someone is speaking a truth no one else is acknowledging someone with a lot of karma could sacrifice a good chunk to bring it right to the top.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here and treat this like a genuine question. I say this because this argument has become so prominent in recent years as a means of defending the indefensible. It's often referred to as "butwhataboutism".

There are a few variations of this. For example:

- Arguing against legislation because it leaves some problems unsolved. This applies to literally all legislation and an improvement is typically better than nothing. The problem is that those making these arguments typically know this and don't want any change;

- Why prosecute person or company for X when some other person or company does something vaguely similar? Well is there sufficient evidence for the prosecution to proceed? If yes then the "but what about X" argument is simply being used as a means to stop a prosecution where there's a vested interest. Because otherwise it's like saying "because this person over here wasn't charged with murder then we shouldn't charge anyone with murder".

I really hope that people develop the critical skills to see through this for what it is: a means of manipulating people. So the next time someone tries this stop and ask yourself why they're bringing up a new topic rather than addressing the existing one. Who are they trying to manipulate and why?
This is a classic supply and demand problem. EE and FPGA jobs don't pay well. You can see the same thing happen in entry-level ML. Applicants want to design models, not spend their days cleaning data. If you pay well enough you will get good candidates who will be willing to put up with mindnumbing jobs. The Zip CPU author sounds like those software "artisans" who regularly get posted on HN. There is plenty of room for pontificating and navel gazing after you receive a nice FAANG-level pay check.

Maybe he should ask his client how much they are offering first before complaining about the South Asian labour supply. Post the total compensation offered at the start of the blog post. I am sure there are plenty of talent from IIT who will be more than qualified if his client is willing to pay well. Ask his clients to price match the hire's salary with his own Gisselquist Technology per-hour consulting fees.
Ask HN: Legal action against former employer
A former startup employer screwed me big time on my equity portion. Am founding engineer who created their valuable IP and led most important team. Was essentially forced out of the company too with their legal team sending warning letters to a competitor about hiring me.

Has anyone had to litigate against a former employer with an equity dispute, and have a lawyer to recommend? The startup was in California but the buyer in EU. Not sure if need to seek a lawyer in EU.
Was this reply made by an AI? The context of the suggestions seem GPT-3 close...
Well I understand your opinion even if I disagree with parts, except a couple notes.

> I think by definition it was not negligible if it spooked the adtech companies to quit so fast.

I'm pretty sure what spooked them was all the people that were going to be on Edge because it comes with windows, plus the extremely high chance of bigger browsers doing the same thing. Not the people switching to Edge specifically because they wanted DNT.

> The obvious answer is a feature that was actually browser enforceable similar to today's Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection (which is good enough a lot of "publishers" call Firefox itself an "ad blocker" today, despite the fact that it blocks no ads just trackers), on by default and with an "opt out of privacy" model rather than an "opt in to privacy" wish-it-were.

I'm not convinced that a feature like that is anywhere near as effective. I don't think we're going to have a good solution without legally mandating US servers respect something like DNT or GDPR.
Artificial Intelligibility.

We are often reduced to mere conformity to what the artificial intelligence can make sense of.

Captcha: "Are you human?"

Human: <Goes on to do a simple perceptual task even a cat could do if they had fingers>
I know that Bezos can do whatever he wants with this money, but this is bizarre. If I read news like this in Russian media I'd think it's a clever bribe. But I guess in the US it's called a "charitable donation" and everyone just shrugs their shoulders and think it's some kind of new charitable tactic. This is literally how you buy narrative from a giant media network and make it look like you're a cool dude just raining free money on people.
Does it though? How valuable is knowledge of Pascal, perl 5, Flex, or even uncool JS frameworks like Angular 1 these days? You're at the whims of the mob and fashion just as much as somebody building on a proprietary tool is at the whims of its vendor.
Ugh, I'm so screwed up. Your comment would be taken as dead serious in some circles and as parody in others. Based on the HN demographic I'm guessing the latter but I'm not sure.
I was assuming he would turn the countries into fulfillment centers.
This is really cool!

I wonder how the author was able to load everything in a uniform interface and populate the levels with enemies. From my experience, dumped levels from retro video games can be in varying nonstandard formats that are largely incompatible with one another.

These results are beautiful.

edit: The README and repo [1] seem to show that this was a large effort.

[1] https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website
> For one thing, we couldn't make too powerful a PC that might cannibalize the minicomputer sales (AS/400). IBM made much more money on an AS/400 than a PS/2 model 95.

Sure, but it wouldn't be one-for-one. A lot more people can justify buying a PS/2 than can justify an AS/400. Did you make more on an AS/400 than on 100 PS/2s? 1000?
Yes, but it's also less flexible. Tradeoffs.
What? If I'm looking for a job doing x, I'm not going to accept y, and I'm most certainly not going to be playing some game with the employer where I'm tempted by what I want but never given that.

It's the same with testing: it's in huge need but few want to do it, and similar traps are laid there: "come work for us, you can do what you want, but first let's do not what you want".
> The bitwise tree, a kind of radix tree

I believe "trie tree" is the specific name for these un-compacted ones... So, a "bitwise trie" here.
It's probably suicide. Not hate speech.

And they weren't talking about chess. Skydiving and the abstract of jumping.

But let's love everyone's cliche from 2010, long ago solved if it ever existed AI is racist or too not racist.
> I'd rather see them paying fair wages and taxes.

Unless you're in the "billionaires must not exist" camp, which we could argue about, they'll still be very rich, given the scale and success of their businesses. A net worth of $50 billion vs $150 billion doesn't change all that much, for the U.S. treasury or Bezos.

> It's hugely inappropriate that they make billions while their workers struggle to pay rent.

There are many thousands of Amazon workers making six figure salaries. Thousands that making millions per year. These people are not struggling to pay rent. Amazon has also saved millions of low income people money through their services, not to mention the billions of taxes generated by their businesses. They're not some purely predatory business, like cigarette and alcohol companies. Billions of people benefit from Amazon.com and AWS-powered services every day of their lives.

The fact that low skilled jobs pay crap is in no way unique to Amazon, they just happen to employ more than any other single organization.

I'm fully onboard for a UBI policy in the US and I doubt Bezos or Musk would object for reasons of greed. The caricature of these guys being extremely greedy is fairly ignorant. Greediness is not what made them so rich.

> These rockets seem more like modern day pyramids, only difference is that they will not last 3000 years.

There's some other major differences, like they can actually make humanity space-faring, multi-planetary, provide world-wide high speed internet to poor villages, move toxic industries off-world, etc.

Even the pyramids were not all bad, although the best you can say about them is that they were jobs programs, and a better use of human resources than fighting useless wars.
Don´t worry, genz-ers coders don't know better but their smartphone-first fuzzed ecosystem. They are lost.
Yes, not too dissimilar to Github changing the branch "master". Is there a list of things like this that match this pattern that would be easy for people to go after given a few viral tweets? I feel like if there is such a list, it'd be less shocking when the inevitable happens.
It reminds me of all the synonyms and symbols, homophones and homographs Chinese use when referring to mr Xi on Weibo, etc., including the now censored Winnie the Pooh. To get around the censorship which blocks mentioning of me Xi in unflattering light. It’s ever evolving to keep ahead of the censors.
Have cooler heads prevailed in this regard? “Progressive” Americans degendering Spanish by referring to Latino people as “Latinx” seems to be going as strong as ever, despite the protests of actual native Spanish speakers. In their haste to appear progressive, people who say “Latinx” are ironically engaging in linguistic colonialism, as it were.
And yet when the Atlantic elite talks about "advancing democracy", regime change in Saudi Arabia is never on the menu. Funny that.
You know that many people are advocating for replacing the terms whitelist and blacklist, right?

I don't see how chess is any different.
> Well, at least he himself was just using grindr with consenting adults.

Its worth noting that central to the attack on him was that despite their being no indication of any kind that his use of grindr was anything but with consenting adults, it nevertheless (because apps like Grindr are sometimes uses by predators) raised the issue that he might be soft on predators.
It’s unfortunate that “woke” has become a talking point because it’s a serious and actual problem. It’s eroding our ability to live together and it’s doing so at an alarming pace.

I hate that everything has to be hijacked for politics in the US.
yeah, here comes the anti-BJP brigade
Wow. Transistor sizes measured in um instead of nm. That takes me back...
I'm actually starting to think we only see these stories about absurd censorship to make the more commonplace and pernicious stuff seem legitimate by comparison. "Oh, hahah, our totally legitimate censorship ML that uses language models to isolate people from each other based on predictions of patterns in their thinking made a funny goof! Gee whiz, you got us that time!"

Anyway, Google will be fine. Lots of tech companies have managed to re-brand after getting on board with idealists, just look at Hollerith.
Practically speaking, for the uses they're going to put this drone to, silencing its two-stroke engine is infinitely more important than doing something about its radar signature.
This is not to be dismissed. AWS billing is too opaque[1] and a misconfigured or buggy plugin can very well trigger resources infinitely[2] to a big nasty surprise.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694835

[2] https://wordpress.org/support/topic/amazon-cloudfront-invali...