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This one sucks (for twitter at least) because I don't give out my number because I'm deaf. Seriously, I won't even give the hospital my number, just my email.

Why? Because every appointment they'd ring me, even though if they pull up my details it said "Do not ring, deaf, please text or email" - eventually I just changed my number. So much "private calls" I was just not going to pick up (even if I can hear, I feel it's better to completely understand what the other person is saying.)

On Twitter tho, when you make different handles for say businesses or what have you, you run into the same issue. Maybe I was doing it wrong, but I thought it seemed pretty weird that _every_ account needed a unique phone number attached. The non-profits I'd help out with on social media don't have a contact phone number...

Seems like a great way of making people just give up rather than bothering to jump through hoops.
Great take on DMT:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/21/universal-love-said-th...

Also worth a read:

https://www.waggish.org/2011/benny-shanon-the-antipodes-of-t...
Some comments from brandur on SKIP LOCKED in https://github.com/brandur/sorg/pull/263. I haven’t looked into it too much since what we have works without any issues; but good to know, thanks!
Not as much energy as you think. The main obstacle to removing dams is getting funding. One dam locally is finally being removed 20 years after literally everyone local agreed it should be removed. 90% silted up as it is. But you have to pay for the unsafe bridge downstream before you cut open the dam. It sure would be nice to have had 20 years more sand on the beach to fight erosion.

Anyway, there are lots of little dams like this everywhere that have negative economic value, but no one wants to pay the cost to remove them.
I’m triple vaxxxed and got omicron. I’m not saying don’t get vaccinated, but this is coming for everyone. NYC is getting completely slammed right now. My honest hope is that this is the last wave that’s truly a showstopper - omicron so far for me has been about a mild sinus infection.
> Kafka is specifically designed for this purpose, it is free, and it is easy to learn and use

I think Kafka is great, but it is absolutely not “easy to learn and use”.
If you can prove that you sincerely believe in the religion you made up 10 minutes ago, then you'd get the same exemption. It's not like they gave a list of religions that qualify for exemptions.
It is not a bug it is a feature. Fact checkers are just propagandists/censors under a different name, contracted out to deny direct responsibility.
If they didn't know about it before, and only found out about it now, than they can simply state that going forward they will stop using these too. Not really hypocritically or a contradiction.
If you are a democracy, then befriending other democracy's makes sense. At the end of the day it's unlikely that the consensus formed from small and large democracies will be grievously disagreeable as long as there are protections for minority participants (small democracies).

There isn't a good frame of reference to understand what a hegemonic China will entail in the long-term for a country like Lithuania. It's certainly unlikely that the US will continue to provide security (NATO). Nor will the EU provide an effective economic and diplomatic force if member states can be played against each other.
Point is clearly made for all to see, but I will give it another attempt to help you understand. Your criticism of UNIX commands is not valid in the same way that it not a valid criticism of garage tools that major vehicle manufacturers do not build cars out of garage tools. My understanding is major applications aren't made using UNIX commands because they are ordinarily developed using programing language. So your observation, while incidentally true, as a criticism it is invalid, wrong-headed, misguided, or barking up the wrong tree, which ever way strikes you with the last amount of grief and personal discomfort. I believe your observation is, in fact, a straw man fallacy in the precise way it is fallacious if I observe as a criticism of UNIX tools that no major coffee manufacturers make their product with UNIX tools. While this is probably true, as an argument or criticism of UNIX tools it is simply not valid and not a cogent criticism.
The awareness is growing now, especially in the internet generation. A lot of people in rural areas are quite out of touch with basic healthcare, let alone mental healthcare. India is too big to generalise: from Instagram influencers to beggars (watching whom will break your heart), there's a whole everything.
These bans are ridiculous, and from multiple angles. First off humor is humor, and offensive humor is ethically and morally acceptable. Secondly, there is a totalizing attitude around the LGBTQ movement where you’re not allowed to disagree with ANY part of it (like puberty blockers for children or biological males in sports), or else you’re a bigot who is to be socially and economically marginalized or worse. Thirdly, censorship and deplatforming are fundamentally opposed to classically liberal values and are unacceptable practices in any free society.

I do hope there is an alternate ecosystem of infrastructure and utility services like search, social media, payments, and so on. However it will be hard due to capital barriers and network effects. Even if it happens, then what - do we just end up with a Balkanized America that breaks apart? Maybe that’s for the best but I am not sure.

Either way, the present reality is that all these megacorps (like Google/YouTube) are too big, protected from competition due to those barriers, and are just utilities masquerading as private innovation. They need to be broken up and regulated as utilities for society go work. But because that hasn’t happened, the government continues to outsource utility services to private companies who can discriminate based on political viewpoint and violate people’s freedom of speech and expression.
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> I'll venture a guess that the majority of discoveries in human history started by throwing out Occam's razor.

What’s an example of this? At first glance it looks very false to me. All the examples I can think of “simpler” theories being replaced by less simple ones occur in the face of new reasons to believe the simpler theory was false. You’re not really throwing out Occam’s razor unless you have two competing theories for the same phenomena and you choose the less simple one, right?
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I mean, the SAT has "aptitude test" in the name; the idea that you can practice it and do better each time is a bug and not a feature.

But I think the bigger danger is that after a while, practicing for standardized tests starts monopolizing the curriculum at secondary schools, and teachers start being evaluated by their students' test scores to the exclusion of all else. Even 20 years ago, I remember getting herded onto a bus to some community college to take an extra "practice state proficiency test" whose score didn't count for anything at all.

Even if universities have lousy motivations, de-emphasizing that kind of thing probably makes high-schoolers' lives a little better.
This is a lie.

None of the covid vaccines contain aborted fetuses. Even when vaccines have used fetal cells lines, the cells were harvested from from 50 years ago.

Pfizer
https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-529913215948

Johnson & Johnson
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-johnson-aborted-id...

Moderna’s RNA did not use this
http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Coronavirus/docs/vacc...

Even the Pope, head of the one of the most staunchest antiabortion religions, has gone on record saying that it is the duty of all Catholics to get vaccinated if possible, as all individuals have a collective duty each other.

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu...

The sad fact is, it has become a political game to refuse a covid vaccine, as opposed to all vaccines. There is no difference between these vaccines and the countless others all of us have received — and were required to receive — in our lives.
I dislike his political view as much as the next person but... is disagreement a reason to simply shut someone up? Do you know something that I dont? Happy to hear what HN has to say
> Stuttering is not a disease and does not need a cure.

I stutter. I honestly don't understand how you can come to that conclusion. I do not understand how something that makes it more difficult for me to talk is not a disease and should not be cured.

I'm also autistic, and while I can see the arguments that autism opens doors as well as closing them in terms of giving me new ways to think that allistic people don't have, all stuttering does is close doors. I know what I want to say, I just can't get it out without exercising more care than other people.
There are 84,000 dams in the United States. More than one a day since we became a country. Most of them don't generate any meaningful electricity, but they do disrupt habitat for many native fish species.

I would like to see them all destroyed. We can find electricity elsewhere.
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>Take a trip to any of the major US cities (especially older US cities) and you'll find them by and large to be much much worse than SF in terms of crime.

Show me video from other major American cities of smash and grab looting flashmobs of ANY frequency comparable to what is routinely happening in the bay area today.

Hell it's gotten so bad the SF mayor was recently ranting, sounding more like a conservative. Of course talk is cheap. Will they fire their useless DAs and actually support the police? I'm not holding my breath.
I've owed Facebook $150 USD from an ad campaign I ran for a non-profit group for years now. Maybe 6? They still haven't banned me. They'll occasionally ask (as a small alert you can cancel out of) for it. I was hoping they'd ban me so I wouldn't have to go through the hoops to delete the account. No such luck, haha.

I rarely visit though, I'll use `messenger.com` for close friends/family, that's about it. I just learned to minimise my usage on `facebook.com` and it's been fine. I do understand others have a lot of difficulty doing this and deleting their account seems to be easiest for them. (but it's never really deleted tho is it?)
Here is Scott Aaronson's paper on it[0].

[0]: https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/pnp.pdf
Thank you to the dev.

I was actually just thinking about this this morning. After finally getting past single and dual floppy systems I used to defrag my 40MB disk every night and felt rightness with the world. I remember wishing I could choose which files go where because of outer parts of the platter being faster than the inner parts. Whether that was true in practice didn’t matter, just that feeling of fully tuning my machine.
Nor am I, though I often email HN with issues (titles is a frequent case).

The guidelines call for original titles unless excessively long or clickbait, and request no editorialisation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The typical options for alternatives are:

- Shorten the original title, especially by elmininating superlatives or counts. "Ten things you should know ..." becomes "Things you should know...", "Incredible new light..." becomes "New light ..."

- Replace vague terms. "This guy who.,." becomes "<Name of guy>...". Note that this often (though not always) shortens the title.

- Substitute an alternative title. The <title> tag might work, if present, otherwise a line picked verbatim from the article if possible. Occasionally gluing two phrases together is justified, as here, where "CCPA Scam" was the obvious substitution for the pronoun "This".

The key here is to find something that clearly expresses the significant content / context of the article, without sensationalisation.

Different types of submissions have their own challenges. Many commercial pieces are clickbaity, vague, listicles, or sensationalised. Microblogs (Mastodon, Twitter) have no title, and the lede line may not be especially descriptive. Blog titles run the gamut from infuriatingly vague to pretentious to long to overly terse. So long as I think I can make a reasonable argument for a substitution and it improves the headline, I'll propose it. If it's my own submission, I'll include a comment describing any changes made. (The start of this thread was to be that comment except that the article was already submitted.)

There's an exception to the clarity rule in practice for major announcements, as in corporate earnings and departures, which are often simply titled "Letter to..." or "<period> Earning statement ...". Rather than highlight the principle point, especially in the first case, HN tends to shy from that, largely to help tamp down hot takes and emotive responses. Which probably does help improve the quality of discourse. (See for example Jeff Bezos's CEO resignation announcement, or Jack Dorsey's.)

My suggestions for alternatives are frequently accepted by HN mods, or they'll come up with something close to it.
W.r.t. rituals, well, yes, they're signs, sensible signs. Human beings communicate through sensible signs. All cultures have ritual. The more important the think communicated, the more we need special and extraordinary words and gestures to match it. The exterior sign signifies an interior meaning or interior act.

I don't understand the categorical revulsion some have to ritual (who themselves participate in rituals, probably without realizing it). You could dislike or detest particular rituals (the odious or absurd kinds most certainly), but not ritual in general.
> A chronologically sorted inbox is the worst possible world for The Facebook.

As an aside, chronological sort key has been available in the previous designs, and the URL still works

www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr

It has its limits of usefulness, though - some group admins moderate new posts in bulk once a day (if that), so depending on the time of visit you might be swamped with dozens of posts from the same group.
Maybe this was asked elsewhere but can anyone comment on what it’s like switching back and forth between keyboard layouts when you don’t have your Kinesis? Eg on phone or using someone else’s computer in a pinch.
Because the server business has lower margins than they’d like? Trying to sell Mac laptops vs Windows laptops is very different than selling ARM servers vs x86 servers (all running Linux). The margins and support costs would be very high for not very many unit sales. And I doubt they would want to sell chips to someone like Supermicro for them to integrate into servers. I can’t imagine Apple trying to sell to OEMs and reducing their own relative fab capacity to sell chips to someone else.

If you want a rack of M1 servers, buy a couple of Mac Minis. But if you want them to also run Linux, that’s going to be a bit more difficult. macOS is compatible enough for many (most? all?) *nix server software, so why would Apple need to have a separate product?
I didn‘t mean to hate on the project… i just feel too old to understand what any of it means.
This is probably the worst example to use.

It is like arguing against capital punishment using Ted Bundy's case as example. Generally that works the other way with most people and that's the kind of person they enthusiastically support the state murdering.

Similarly the reaction of most people to Google removing that video is going to be "good" and you're going to have a very uphill battle convincing them otherwise, and you're probably going to lose.

If you talk about university researchers that study pornography and Google nuking their research or their ability to share their research with other institutions, you'd probably make more headway.

It is only on a site like HN where the most upvoted commment is "OMG they deleted practically the worst video imaginable from a mass shooting incident can you believe those fascists?" and everyone votes it up to the top.

The HN echo chamber bubble is real.
Paradoxically you've hit upon both marks:

Ivy League this year will have material overrepresentation of Latino and Black kids, substantial overrepresentation of Asian and Jewish kids, and up to 10% 'Children of Alumni', another overrepresentation.

Which leaves those not in those groups out in the lurch.
Hmm. Now I'm wondering if it makes semantic sense to nest sarcasm tags. If not, they might self-close, like <p> or <li>.
Protestantism isn't a religion, it's thousands of different ones, one for each church or individual who believes they're getting direct revelation or that they've found a new way to read the Bible by taking out every prime-numbered verse or something.

Government should get out of the business of defining religion, and tax them like everyone else unless they can prove they operate in some sort of secularly charitable way (like everyone else.) And if government gets out of the business of defining religion, it should get out of the business of religious exemptions. Make it required or make it optional for people regardless of belief. It's perverse to make me prove that my belief is purely, religiously irrational in order to get an exemption.

Imagine a judge saying: "Sorry, that reason you've given for not allowing your child to have a blood transfusion makes a lot of sense, so it's not a religious belief. Therefore I order that the child be given the blood transfusion."
This looks like a duplicate of the existing Munch Python library.
https://github.com/Infinidat/munch
Silly question but how does this compare to SQS? More cost friendly I assume?
> wondering if at this point we need an OS at all

People have written unikernels, but they're not that interesting anymore when you can trivially constrain Linux to a single core, keep the remaining cores for you app (no context switching), and keep all of the Linux-y goodness for admin and debugging (SSH, gdb, etc.). All of the performance, none of the admin and deployment headaches.

Basically, unless you truly can't afford that extra core, unikernels are all downside at this point.
OTOH, You could be wealthy but from Montana. You probably have never witnessed a regatta in your life. You and your wealthy friends will probably be able to answer every question related to a ski holiday however.
You're misreading it, the definition quoted on that page is very broad, specifically a human subject is the following with irrelevant clauses in or's removed and replaced with [or ...]:

> a living individual about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research:

> - Obtains information [or ...] through [... or] interaction with the individual, and uses, studies, or analyzes the information [or ...]; or

> - [...]

The actual legal definition is here [1], and further clarifies that "interaction" is very broad, specifically "Interaction includes communication [or ...] between investigator and subject."

This clearly qualifies OP as a human subject and this as human subjects research.

[1] Search "(e)(1) Human subject": https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/regulations/...
No, K&R is not a relevant read if your goal is to learn to read and write idiomatic C++. And, I don't know what is. Honestly, I'm super happy that through a job change I get to write C again and not C++.

C++ is just so big. C++ has changed so much from 03 through 11, 14, 17, and now/soon 20 and 23. So much can come from external class libraries such as Boost. And the exact features you can use depend on your compiler, its vintage, and any legacy code you've got in your application.

Now, references, cppreference.com is excellent as a website.

I do see that Stroustroup himself has a 2018 book titled "A Tour of C++". I can't vouch for it, but it may be worth checking into.
Briefly what are some mandatory kafka use cases?
I meant in terms of the rotating motion, not wear and tear :)... since the OP was about Nature vs. Propellers.
Second this.
Jenkins is far and away the best generalized tool for running scheduled jobs, including ETL jobs.
There's a lot of value in playing musical chairs. The market is pretty good at allocating human labor. Some companies get left without people in the seats and others, often the more innovative companies end up with more than they had before.

A labor market with high liquidity leaves most people better off.
Boeing runs everything so poorly (and lately literally into the ground) so hearing this it is not surprising.
One critical element in the article that is brushed aside too fast is that the founders did cash out by selling it to Dropbox first. It is easy to say: "build an open source, slow growing business it is way better" when you have a fat bank account...

The reality for most people is that even if you want to build a sustainable business founders also need to pay their bills and the VC route right now fills that need. Is it ideal? No. But until we have another model I won't judge founders for taking VC money.
"Seriously. What, specifically, is so disagreeable to you?"

Because racism? And sexism?

What part of 'We are hiring this race and not that' do you not understand to be at least on some level problematic?

I mean maybe we should do some of that, but it'd be a bit odd not to recognize the 1st order issue with it.
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> Kudos on Redux Toolkit! Anyone who complains about boilerplate with Redux has obviously not tried the Toolkit version.

You still have to understand Redux's weird boiler plate concepts - actions, action creator functions, reducers, thunks, ... - to understand and use Redux toolkit. Redux is broken from the bottom up.
Disclaimer: I was recently hired into AWS.

I’m not seeing the kind of organization that you’re describing. There may be parts of Amazon that work that way, but I don’t see it. Maybe that’s an Amazon versus AWS thing, or maybe not.

I would say that any company with 1.6m employees is going to have radically different policies and procedures in different parts of the company. Maybe you’ve only heard about the bad parts so far. I see this as the same issue as the future being distributed irregularly.

We do have a hiring issue in our team, where we are short by dozens of SDEs that we wanted to have by now. And we are definitely still hiring.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but my incentive comp is not backloaded, and I feel like I’m definitely getting market rate pay.

I don’t consider myself to be desperate. I was already on my way out the door at Whole Foods when I virtually ran into a guy on one of the internal channels, and he thought I’d be a good fit for what they were looking for. I interviewed, and I got the job. But I think I could have gotten a job at a lot of other places, too.

@AtlasBarfed — There is no part of what you’re describing that fits what I’m seeing in our team or what I can see of other teams.

But I can only speak for myself and my own personal experience.