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Hi AnIdiotOnTheNet! I really appreciate your comments against linux. I'm true. Since I don't have much knowledge about NT's strengths, the comments I like the most are the ones where you highlight advantages of the NT kernel over linux.

It's been some time since I last read anything like that from you. Would you mind to comment if ebpf usage and the possible new futex2 syscall helps to close the gap between linux and NT with regards to async primitives?
If you use as much thrust as you can, you can get wherever you are going in less time in the moving frame of reference. So that it to say, the difference between going say, 0.99C and 0.9999C is not that significant from the outside frame of reference, being just 1%, the difference in how much time slows down inside the ship is large.
Cynical title: Change with questionable benefit extends patent life and thus prices of insulin even further.

To be clear: I don't know a lot about insulin. I'm fortunate enough not to be diabetic. So there may have been useful advancements in insulin. The price of insulin in the US does seem to be awfully high however.

It is a common practice for pharmaceutical companies to alter the active molecule in some way, claim the new version has benefits, reset the patent timeline and stop producing the old version.

EDIT: in case it wasn't clear, if this is actually good for diabetics, that's fantastic. Insulin in the US shouldn't be as expensive as it is. I'm just seen too much profiteering (eg Epipen) by that industry.
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In a type-safe environment I think you should just be able to switch your pur sang SQL builder to another dialect. Because of the type-safety you’ll be able to find incompatibilities at compile time which makes the migration easy enough (ignoring data migration). This avoids creating a weird ad hoc SQL dialect trying to fit all the others in a single API.

I work on Mammoth which is a pur sang Postgres query builder, see https://github.com/Ff00ff/mammoth.
What's funny is that the differences in pedagogy is probably a result of that "ideological corruption". Going through the American education system, it's clear to both professors and students alike that the system was designed on the assumption that there should be winners and losers, and that meaningful education is an afterthought. My math professors complained that the way the system worked made it impossible for a student to have continuity in their learning experience, and if you measure the number of A-students in one course who get an A in immedate next course, it's random. They weren't talking about courses that have large conceptual leaps between them. They were talking about first semester calculus vs second semester calculus.
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Key takeaway for me: more people want to become republicans.

It's not just high population to low population, because Florida as an example.
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I wish C++AMP actually got the investment and attention it deserved.

Microsoft was about 5 years too early on that one. No one understood its relevance when it first came out.
I feel what your friend is saying. I'm not sure why, but the K prefix in a name always felt "unprofessional" and/or ugly.

I can't exactly put my finger on why it feels that way
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> When we take a look at conventional rockets that we launch from Earth, it surprises most people to learn that they barely accelerate more rapidly than gravity accelerates us here on Earth.

This is actually pretty obvious when you look at a launch and how slowly it accelerates.
Normally I'd be very wary of this, but I went to the #1 liberal arts college in the U.S. My American-born classmates included people like John Glenn's grandson, the heir to the Mead trapper-keeper company, the son of the guy who founded Kohl's department stores, the nephew of the famous Hollywood madame, etc. With the exception of the Mead guy, most of these people were functionally innumerate and never took a math course in college.

So I might be comparing the best & brightest of Bulgaria, but in theory at least I'm comparing them against the best & brightest of America (though in practice I suspect it's more like the richest).
So happy to see them continue their work of a solid, unified desktop Linux.
Perhaps this year is the year of desktop Linux!
Why? Just like learning Emacs/vim, the time investment is well worth it.

You get much more elaborate the more time you invest in learning, and the skills gained will still be valuable in 25 years - as opposed to whatever subset of SQL the query builder du jour would give you.
It's sad to have seen such flight from Chicago. I'm from there originally and just moved back after a pretty long stint in NYC. Hoping the city can turn it around in the next couple of decades.
I don't think it's total nonsense, that seems a bit hyperbolic.

It makes some good points in that the amount of data it would take to approximate it all seems far too large, and if you look at a human baby, I'm not sure they are fed nearly as much data, yet they can develop language understanding.

I feel we have a missing piece here. Maybe it'll be solved by combining methods based on statically learning from data with others, but exclusively from learning on data might reach a limit which is we might not have enough data or computing power to do so.
Oh for fucks sake.

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell

How long until general computing is given up due to hackers and piracy ala The right to read(https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html)?
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You misunderstand how companies decide salaries. You aren't paid the value you provide your company. You don't get a raise if you save the company money.

You are paid the least the company thinks it can pay to get an acceptable applicant to fill your position. The truth is that there are many capable people who would prefer to work remote, and they're willing to take a pay cut to make that happen. Therefore companies don't need to pay remote workers as much.
These are great questions. In the fundraising example, the mentor wouldn't watch the pitch in full, but instead answer specific questions around a pitch, for example what valuation cap to set, KPIs to highlight, when to raise and from whom etc. The typical interaction goes beyond just one question and answer. The duration of each response is capped at 3 minutes but a mentor can respond with multiple recorded messages. The biggest reason we haven't started offering live calls yet is because of scheduling challenges; that said the asynchronous format is just a start and we are thinking about other formats and features for future releases.
A dumb car should at least have Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Backup cameras are mandatory, so you might as well do something useful with the screen.
Why are you being downvoted? You're absolutely right. There's fewer and fewer ways to be self-employed these days. Even traditional avenues of wealth creation (real estate rentals, for example) have been closed to everyone except those with the most capital. Whereas you used to commonly see apartments rented by some older widow who had acquired a few properties or inherited them. Today, more and more seem to be owned by large landlord corporations. Public economic policy (lack of anti-trust enforcement) is not helping.
One finding itself in a particular rush to put out a fix, I suppose. I’d say “you should have back up ways to deploy” but I can certainly see why a lot of workflows get centralized on a provider like GitHub.
It’s insane that this hasn’t been the default all along across all browsers.

Just shows how Google et al, strive to safeguard and profit from the status quo, at the expense of every internet user.
Same. Works perfect for me. It uses way more battery life on my M1 Macbook Air than Safari, which I wish wasn't the case. But I refuse to use Chrome because of Google's awful privacy track record.
> because the highest quit rate is among not engaged and actively disengaged workers.

As opposed to what, exactly? What are you expecting to see? Highly engaged employees mass quitting? The situation described in this piece sounds fairly normal to me. People who aren't that fussed about their jobs, or actually dislike them, are always much more likely to quit.

The real question is whether there has been an increase in the percentage of employees who are not engaged or actively disengaged. The article might answer that question but I'm afraid I'd disengaged before I got to that point.
Bullying is very hammed up in American media, but I think in reality very non obvious to people who weren't the target.

I went to American public schools my whole life and never saw any evidence of bullying.
Wait what!? Can't you just reconfigure your .git configs to temporarily use another repo locally?

Seriously: for example copying then transforming any one of your local .git repo to a "bare" repository takes like two commands. Anyone with a Linux machine can do it. Then all the devs can temporarily use that repo to push/pull/whatever.

I think if you're to the point where you're emailing patches, it's worth it.
They pretty much already offer this with outposts (its technically their hardware but its on your premises).
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Relay looks a lot like what Tanker (https://tanker.io/) does.
Even the method seems quite similar.
Why should I choose Evervault over Tanker ?
Did you know that since GNOME 3.36 extensions are automatically updated, and you can't officially turn off the feature? On top of it, I think updates from GNOME Shell Extensions aren't even signed.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2514
I can think of plenty of companies that do plenty of things wrong, or at least seem to be wrong. I can't think of many things virtually all of them do wrong, especially ones that are so well publicized and are at the organizational level rather than the individual team level.

I can see equity being a reason for Amazon, but it is hardly just equity granting companies that are this way.
Right, the sender isn’t going to use their own email address in an attempt to incriminate you. My point was that receiving material by email from a stranger doesn’t make you liable for its contents (unless there is a record of you requesting the content). It makes the sender liable (if they can be traced).

Apple’s approach does not seem to provide the same safeguard. Your account will be flagged for review if there are n flagged images destined for upload on your device. The description of the process does not mention if or how provenance or intent to receive those images is established.
What would be some examples of actually intuitive?

To me, intuitive ~= familiar, similar to something you already know how to use.
I want to

- specify which websites may store cookies/cache. All websites not specified can not store anything (and thus not track me), and all data for these websites is deleted once i close the tab

- i want to remember all my history

I can do this in Firefox on macOS (with some container extensions, can’t remember the names now)
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I resigned during the pandemic.

The lockdown stripped my job to the essentials: No colleagues, no coffee corner, no nice fancy office, no treats (lunches, dinners, drinks), brainstorms, etc.
I was left with something that was boring me to death. I felt perfectly happy in that job for 5 years before covid.
As a Scots speaker I would object vehemently to my language being classified as a dialect of ‘British’, or any other language for that matter.
Certainly, twitch pranksters and 4chan trolls have shown its practically frictionless to SWAT someone and get the cops to raid their house, much easier than any convoluted hacking exercise engineered by a hollywood script writer.

> there is no additional gain from going though all the hops

The only thing I could see would be getting the victim locked out of their iCloud etc accounts with little/no immediate recourse, as from what I have read the process seems to be to lock their accounts as the CP detection alert is sent to law enforcement.

> Also 0-day non click exploits are not something random scriptkiddies running around with dropping CP on random phones as they are way too valuable.

I agree, 0-days are the far high end and wouldn't be used for things like this especially by trolls, but I have to imagine there are methods in the lower-hanging fruit levels available to malcontents to sneak content like this onto unsuspecting users devices. Like, custom ringtone/emoji apps and download packs, random QR codes that lead to downloading a place's menu but also a suspect image, or other usual suspects.
The first stage of their receive pipeline has access to the plaintext. Ditto the send pipeline.
I wish they would build a desktop version of Firefix Focus (Android). One big big button and everything is throwed away.
I was a bit disappointed to see the differences between "algebra based physics" in high school and "Calc based physics" in college. It wasn't a whole lot more than "now rather than giving you formulas, do an integral to go from acceleration to speed, or speed to position".

It did feel good to see a practical use for the calculus I had learned, much more so than determining how much the surface area changed after adding a layer of paint 0.01" thick to a tank.
Something else to consider is that some early Christians (like the so-called Gnostics) believed that there was an esoteric (or secret) meaning or teaching in Christianity.

The esoteric meanings were often mirror images of the exoteric (or plain/obvious/surface) meanings. So where eating of the Tree of Knowledge might be viewed as "bad" in the exoteric interpretation, in the esoteric interpretation it could be viewed as good.

Similar inversions happen with the snake in the Garden of Eden, who is similarly viewed in a negative light in the exoteric interpretation, but as good in the esoteric interpretation. The same thing happens with Judas, and even the creator God himself.

I'd encourage reading up on the Gnostics for more details on exactly what those views were.
What should the companies then do about their huge campuses with all of the fine amenities? Maybe they could make little work-hotels and employees could stay for retreats and such?
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Not necessarily a bad thing. If your body reacts strongly to a vaccine that is a sign that your immune system has taken notice. As a reductio-ad-absurdum argument: if you were injected with a saline solution you'd have no side effects (assuming a clean needle!) but also no protection at all.
Sure, but isn't a 2D raster image still better than not being able to see it in any form anymore?
Honestly, I think signing the withdrawal agreement with the Taliban pretty much acknowledged them as de facto government of at least some of Afghanistan. The controlled 90% of the country at their pre-2001 peak, though, so they're definitely not more of a state now than then.
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> I don't agree with this characterization - it's too willful. To me, it seems more like a helpless coping mechanism. Since they "overestimate the degree to which their privacy is compromised", they resign themselves to not being able to do anything to protect their own privacy. The phone is listening to them, the satellites are tracking them [0], websites are recording them - basically every electronic device they encounter is not under their control. Their privacy is already gone.

I don't doubt that some contingent of the market feels this way, but I'm positing the existence of a large section of the market that truly doesn't really care that much about privacy. There's a reason that privacy advocates spend so much time arguing against "if you're doing nothing wrong, privacy doesn't matter", and it's because so many see big institutions (tech cos, banks, gov't) as detached institutions that for the most part do the right thing. It's the same reason that most people don't have a coherent sense of government's monopoly on legitimate violence and coercion: instead of grappling with the nuances and trade-offs of this bargain, it's easier to just model them as "the good guys".

Naturally, I'm going off of my perception here, as there aren't well-defined statistics that would give us a more reliable sense of the attitudes towards privacy that affect (or don't affect) people's purchase decisions. But a high enough proportion of my non-tech-employee acquaintances are unbothered by privacy concerns that I have to at least acknowledge that they likely represent a non-trivial segment of the market.

> they're still ultimately powerless to change anything.

This doesn't comport with my experience with these people. One finds niche cases here and there where the trade-off for privacy/autonomy provides a pretty decent ROI. I've occasionally been asked about some of these decisions of mine. In those conversations, the people I'm talking about don't look at these trade-offs and decide that the effort isn't worth the privacy benefit: they hear that the benefit is privacy and immediately go "oh this isn't relevant to me".
Who is the host, uber.space? At first I assumed it was Uber, the rideshare company, which seemed unusual. Now I see it's someone else, but does anyone know about them?
Who is going to hire someone to manage when they've never done it before, though? I certainly have never and would never taken a risk like that, it's hard enough to hire decent managers when you're looking at people who have proven histories, whereas when picking from internal candidates you at least have a sense of personality already and can guess who reports will trust.

I don't think I know any managers who didn't start doing it at a company they'd already been ICs at.
The economy in Florida (and Texas) is great. Lots of money there right now. I had a friend move from Ohio to Florida, he has 4 times the customers down there and they all spend more.
The canonical examples that would come to mind would be https://prosper.com and https://lendingclub.com (each have sections on their site for institutional investors). I've participated in https://kiva.org as well, but their microlending model leaves a lot to be desired.

By supporting such a model, you could enable more capital to flow to creditworthy borrowers in your market than you'd be able to aggregate as a single org.
If there is actually productivity growth (which I strongly believe there is) - then this can be shared between 4 groups - the workers, the non-workers, the retired, and the capitalists.

I think most workers would like to see 100% of these gains go to workers. I think most shareholders would like to see 100% of the gains go to them. I think it'd be fair to share these evenly - and so higher taxes could make it so that the non-workers and retirees get some of the benefits of productivity increases.
Or whether Danish and Norwegian and Swedish are the same language, but different dialects.

Depending on how you define "dialect" or "language", they may or may not be.

To quote the obligatory quip: "A language is a dialect with an army and navy".
The only problem is that there is often an option to allow cookies to "store site preferences" or something along those lines.

My experience is this also includes your cookie preferences which means if you don't enable that single option, you'll have to go through the steps to disable cookies pretty much every time you visit.
The real scandal is when 'More options' takes 20 seconds to load - clearly deliberate but with just enough plausible deniability.
I also think I should've been paid for how brutal (and sudden) the effects of covid were on me - And that was something I didn't have any choice in the matter in...
This, 100%

uBlock works best in Firefox, and that is enough reason to keep using Firefox.
Nobody asked you to use it. It’s just someone sharing something cool they did. Lighten up a little.
Or at a very minimum, they like the policies red states bring in comparison (low property tax, occasional lack of income tax, lower cost of living).

That is, until those moving in vote those policies out.
This paper is one of my all time favorites.

It shows that extremely deep vanilla CNNs - without the use of batch normalization or residual connections - can be trained simply by using a Delta-Orthogonal weight initialization scheme and appropriate activation function.

The Delta-Orthogonal initialization scheme is derived theoretically by developing a mean field theory for signal propagation which characterizes the conditions for dynamical isometry. Ultra-deep CNNs can train faster and perform better if their input-output Jacobians exhibit dynamical isometry, namely the property that the entire distribution of singular values is close to 1. Put another way, dynamical isometry is a necessary condition for signals to flow both forward and backward through the network without attenuation. A variety of pathologies such as vanishing/exploding gradients make training such deep networks challenging - mean field theory is a powerful tool that offers solutions to these challenges.

The authors demonstrate experimentally that Delta-Orthogonal kernels outperform existing initialization schemes for very deep vanilla convolutional networks. They also find strikingly good agreement between theoretical and experimental results. One of the most astonishing findings IMO is that for networks initialized using this scheme the learning time measured in number of training epochs is independent of depth.

> Our results indicate that we have removed all the major fundamental obstacles to training arbitrarily deep vanilla convolutional networks. In doing so, we have layed the groundwork to begin addressing some outstanding questions in the deep learning community, such as whether depth alone can deliver enhanced generalization performance. Our initial results suggest that past a certain depth, on the order of tens or hundreds of layers, the test performance for vanilla convolutional architecture saturates. These observations suggest that architectural features such as residual connections and batch normalization are likely to play an important role in defining a good model class, rather than simply enabling efficient training.

Here is a link to the ConvolutionDeltaOrthogonal initializer in tensorflow [1].

[1] https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/d287ff3d95c06b...
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Yes, a very reasonable concern, we haven't yet implemented any measures against this. However, deployment is done via Terraform centrally in the CreditHero backend, so we can put measures in place.
But if employees are commodities and companies can get away with thinking that way, that number is either inaccurate or everyone is getting it wrong.
Ironically, the difference is that Apple is doing it at the client layer so that they can't do it at the server layer; the user's iCloud [edit: photos, not all of iCloud] is encrypted at rest against Apple accessing it.

This approach makes mass-sweeping of all server-side stored data harder to accomplish (whereas in, say, Google Photos, Google can break-glass server side to get into someone's private data, so they could hypothetically do a mass-scan if the government demanded it).
Why, what happens to uBlock on chrome?