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Hack Reactor still teaches ES 6.

They still do not teach hooks in their React.js sprints.
If you have no interest in arguing a point, what are you doing here presenting arguments?
It was a nasty night, weather wise, if I recall.

Perhaps a freeze thaw cycle that split one to many bolts?
I had always interpreted HALs actions as he had come to a most curious solution: he had to "complete the mission" but he couldn't let those humans awake know of the mission. This can be accomplished by having an "empty set" of human beings.

To arrive at the empty set involves humans dying, which then sets him up for his further actions (in inactions, in not opening the pod bay doors). This is the conflict which causes his breakdown.

So, partially, it was a failure of the people giving the orders that an empty set solution might be the one HAL arrived at: no crew, no crew to keep secrets from.
I'm generally conservative, but I find much of what Yang has written here agreeable.

If we looked even farther and studied how many fatherless boys grow up to have legal problems (i.e. become incarcerated), the scope of the problem becomes even more alarming.

Kudos to the author. I think the area is ripe for bipartisan study and hopefully constructive change.
>what's stopping males being a provider?

Economics. There's not enough jobs for men in society. Women are preferred for most entry level office jobs, industrial jobs were always the go-to for uneducated men, but those have been mostly eliminated. High achievers will always do well, but by definition not everyone can be a high achiever.
> For example, in RocksDB you'd issue a few writes, and then call SyncWAL() to actually perform the IO and durably commit to disk (or issue a final sync=true write).

Ok - that makes sense. I think we are mostly on the same page here. My "SyncWAL" is invoked naturally as my buffer reader hits the barrier each time and dumps the current batch of items to be processed.
Requesting ConEd access! I bet you could partner with solar companies to compare what their own software rates vs. what's actually metered back to the grid. I can see Sunny Portal to monitor my solar panels, and I can log into ConEd to see my grid usage... but I cannot combine the two. This might let me do that.
I’ve covered the space for years and I think two things are simultaneously true. It’s a huge scam full of shysters and liars who basically found a meaty grift to make a lot of money really fast. I met loads of those people.

What keeps me going, though, is the fact that the technology has some utility and I’m not about to throw out the next tcp/ip because someone will use it to scam an old lady. I like the artistry of the circus but I hate the clowns.

If we are doing analogs, this is the 2000 era of the dot con boom when there were loads of companies doing websites and four guys really doing good work - let’s say bezos, page, brin, and gates. Theil and musk got lucky with their 2k era grift as did a precious few holdouts but only a few really won. Did anyone who bought Netscape early on the retail markets win? Nope. Crypto investors are the ones jumping in after the whales had their taste. They get scraps.

Who is the next FAANG? Who knows. But this is the space where they’re going to be born.
There's a point of diminishing returns. Once you're past a certain level of fitness, more doesn't add much.
Those sound like great ideas. I'll definitely check out the local community college. My wife has expressed interest in keeping bees and growing mushrooms, so both of those sound fun as well.

I didn't consider looking for Facebook groups in the area. That's a good idea. I'll do that.

Thanks!
My favourite character naming is in the epilogue of 3001:

So every word is mine: well, almost every word. I must confess that I
found Professor Thirugnanasampanthamoorthy (Chapter 35) in the Colombo
telephone directory; I hope the present owner of that name will not object to
the loan.

I actually think the epilogues are my favourite parts of the series, as Clarke wraps up thoughts and ties in real world developments in the thirty-odd years between the titles.
Here’s a book that might interest you: https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Privacy-What-Takes-Disappear/...

Friendly reminder that your viewing of this product is tracked by Amazon and is ultimately accessible by the government ;)
Is there an argument that women in the workforce suck money out of the economy? I thought the argument was that their participation in the workplace increases the supply of labor, thus reducing the value of any individual's labor.
Like I said, ask your recruiter those questions, not the interviewer. I have interviewed 100s of candidates personally and you can only comment about your own working hours and the flexibility of your team, not the company.

The other questions I stated give you information about more than just the immediate environment of the interviewer.

If those aren’t questions you care about, that’s fine. Though I find it impossible to believe you don’t care about the way your performance is measured or whether you will be working in a hostile environment. If you care more about the flexibility of your working hours than that, more power to you.
Nothing could panic a social media product manager more, than the notion of inadvertently discarding billions of data points about their prospective eyeballs.
I apologize if my tone was inappropriate. My mileage definitely varied. I also found myself living without a car in the suburb of a new city with an absentee wife that didn't appreciate any of my sacrifices or my hard work (and I also consulted part time). She couldn't be relied upon for anything other than a paycheck. Obviously these things also played a role.
aspect-ratio is actually a great mistake - it breaks CSS box model again (after flexbox).

What should be the dimensions of this

div {
width:100px; height:100px;
aspect-ratio: 3 / 2;
}

?

Instead, there should be "functions" width(N%) and height(N%) and so

div {
width:100px;
height: width(66%);
}

div {
height:100px;
width: height(150%);
}

div {
height:40px;
line-height: height(100%);
}

div {
width:100px;
margin: width(10%);
}

Therefore, instead of one more property that "solves" only one particular problem we will have bunch of solutions by adding just two pseudo-functions. And without breaking box model in very nasty way.

For that matter, Sciter (https://sciter.com) has these width()/height() functions 10 or so years already.
If the US has so many non-English speakers that it materially affects national literacy statistics, one might wonder how we ended up with an immigration policy that produces a permanent underclass of people who are locked out of meaningful jobs and are entirely outside the protection of the law, due to being in the country illegally.
Upgrade is one of the worst parts of Android. I had a Motorola that started with 5 and ended with 6. Custom ROMs got me up to 9 until it was stolen. It was not even a performance thing. If a few devs can hack a kernel, a company can do much more. I bought an iPhone 8 in 2019, and it is still working great today, running the latest OS.
> Smiling has increased with media exposure over time.

That sounds really made up.
Probably this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_J8dHLe1Vc
Unfortunately, I don't have it anymore, but I was shown a souvenir IBM manual once for a machine with six bit bytes. Probably a 704.
Well, sure, but take a few years off of your "job" and you'll find that your prospects for another job are far fewer and for less pay. I think that's generally what people mean by a career even if they aren't particularly chasing advancement.
Listen, you are being overly harsh on yourself.

You say that your intelligence was “given” to you, like a gift. But then you turn around and say the parts of you that made choices that didn’t result in the life you compare yourself to… those parts you say are 100% your fault. You’re saying your positive qualities are from the outside, but your negative qualities are all you. You’re not being fair to yourself.

We make choices, yes. You can choose to take job A instead of job B. But you can’t choose to be the kind of person who chooses job A instead of job B. Or if you can, you can’t choose to be the kind person who chooses to be the kind of person who chooses job A. At some level, there is something that you don’t choose. It just is. It’s not “choices all the way down”.

This powerful feeling inside you right now is a gift, as awful as it feels. You can, if you want, channel it into the energy you’ll need to confront the things that held you back. Change takes incredible amounts of energy and this feeling combusting inside you might be enough to nudge you in a different direction. Or if you want, you can sublimate that energy and apply it to something like helping bright kids growing up in tough circumstances. You may not be the elite 10x graybeard you imagined, but you probably know better than anyone how to help kids who are growing up like you did. Or you may take that energy and channel it into something totally different.

The way you get past the regret is to use this fire for something. But please, please do not take this fire and turn it on yourself like a blowtorch. Don’t use it to beat yourself and make yourself more timid and more afraid and more hobbled by your past.

You’re going to be ok.
The clearest distinction today is the lack of an MMU. That's just a useful metric to go by that neatly divides SoCs into "things intended to run bare metal/RTOS code" and "things intended to run Linux", that are two different product groups with significant differences.

Obviously this wasn't always the case, e.g. a good 15+ years ago I put ucLinux on an old ISP router I had lying around for fun, and it was an ARM946 without an MMU. But that class of device no longer exists today for all practical purposes, and so it's easy to use the existence of an MMU to decide what to call them.

The 8086 may have been a microprocessor, and so was the 80186, but you know where you find 80186 cores today? Microcontrollers. Specifically, some video processing chip manufacturers (e.g. stuff that goes into monitors and DP-HDMI adapters) seem to like using V186 cores still.
the people that do the systems planning of our economy and social structure

Who are these people and are they in the room with us now?
Forbes has been owned by China since the early 2010s.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/1...
The significant disanalogy is the amount of control parents have over their child's character compared to a programmer. Parents can pretty much do their best to raise a child, but the child may still end up screwed up. I wouldn't really put the blame at their feet. If they deliberately raise their child to be a killer, that's obviously another matter. By contrast, an AGI designer is in an unprecedented situation where they essentially have total control over the character of the being they're bringing into existence. If the AGI does bad things, it's very much on the programmer.
… but it looks like they go for somewhere in the vicinity of AU$650 on eBay. A Mac Mini is cheaper.

I’m happy to spend plenty of money on a computer that I will use extensively, but I’m not enamoured of the idea of spending hundreds of dollars for something I use only very occasionally.
I still stick to the FT, occasional Economist, and then a bunch of specialized academic stuff.

Forbes and Fortune were interesting in the 80s (in many ways they epitomized the 80s) but declined rapidly from there. By the dot com bubble they were a bit of a punchline with no setup.
Surprised no one has said Transport Fever (and it's sequel). Solid game play.
How so? I am genuinely curious.

They might had been holding out samples before publishing. People discover novel viruses all the time and publish papers based on these novel viruses. It's just that these viruses or publications based on them don't make the headlines outside of academia. That's why it's so important that publish their virus database, which they have taken down on Sept. 2019, right around the time of emergence of the pandemic. Unfortunately they will never publish that database.
You have this reversed.

The fact that nobody can attack Apple IS the proof that Apple is a monopoly.

Looking at a similar example, it took a lot for Vanderbilt to build and buy up all the railroads. Once that was done, however, the system was locked in place and nobody could dethrone him.
We don't know (and in a sense can't know, unless we have separate first hand records) what was behind the black spots. Cigarettes? Disfigurement? Nudity? Famous people's faces?
Kind of like how walls were used around city states in Mesopotamia? Or how there was a wall created in China? [1] has some discussion on walls being used for defense in each of those areas.

I'm in no way an expert on history, but it seems that walled city states developed in many areas independently. People seem to generalize or abstract ideas, so if you have a city state, why not think bigger and have a nation state? From what I understand, again no expert, modern nation state borders are something that came from Europe [2], but a Sumerian king was the first to use a wall to mark a "national (rather than private) boundary"[1].

Walling off areas is in no way a uniquely European concept.

[1] https://www.worldhistory.org/wall/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_sovereignty
Ok, I looked. "Tons", but what percentage? Also, how many of those great threads had anything to do with intellectual curiosity?

Here is a prime example:

"“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says"

Another:

"Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever"

They may be tailored for the HN crowd, and not some of the more toxic threads but can you make a case they're about intellectual stimulation?

There's no way to avoid all possible collateral damage. But also, if the guidelines are inoperative, something should be done to align them with reality.
But you don’t write your own framework, you write a program. Not trying to make something too generic can keep things much simpler.
On this specific issue: scrolljacking is always bad because the web simply doesn’t expose the necessary primitives to make it not bad for at least some people. Search my comment history for a little more detail and discussion.
> Isn’t some of the so-called gain of function research (and I do mean in the broadest sense) effectively controlled evolution over many cycles such that it evolves the correct mutations?

Yeah, this is called passaging but it's very unlikely (nearly impossible) that it was used here -- you'd have to start with a very close predecessor, much closer than Ratg13, and the work in cell cultures usually ends up deleting the FCS since it's not a very stable mutation unless being actively selected for. So to perform the subculturing necessary to gain all of the various mutations that set sars cov2 apart would surely destroy it's ability to infect humans. (https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210208/Furin-cleavage-SA...)

> And though I know the paper was retracted, what about those HIV-1 inserts?

That the paper was retracted should tell you enough, but what was missed at the time is that ratg13, which was unambiguously of natural origin also has the same alleged HIV-1 inserts (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7033698/). So it's pretty clear that the 'HIV-1 inserts' are just a common feature of ratg13-like coronaviruses.

> Either way, empirically we have no conclusive evidence of natural origin (of the stages between the original bat coronavirus and the original Wuhan variant) nor of a lab leak.

Right, but this is actually strongly suggestive of natural origin. We know what lab manipulation looks like and sars cov2 has none of these signs - in this case the absence of evidence actually is instructive.
It's a little like competing over the store check-out aisle shelves. It's unlikely it has what you actually need but there might be sometime shiny or tasty. And if you do want more next time you'll probably go shop around instead.
Kinda makes Google look like a saint.
I have felt the same way. You play the hand you're dealt in life. "Wasted potential" is just regretting your past circumstances and blaming yourself for them. But you are not to blame.
If you want to "not waste" your "potential", start studying something you think is worth studying. You might find you enjoy it, and want to work more on it. You might not.
When I did that. I realized I just wanted to play video games and hang out with my wife. So am I wasting my potential?
Just focus on living a life you're proud of. Who gives a shit if you're mentally capable of doing higher level stuff, you might not be emotionally capable.
Value your mental health over any "accomplishments" in society.
Sure, I didn’t have that in mind but I would say it augments my point rather than refutes it.
Redis is a better default-without-thinking than Postgres IMO. Transactions and referential integrity make some big tradeoffs and it's easy to accidentally rely on them without thinking through the consequences. Global serializability is theoretically even worse, but the direct analogy with application-layer threading makes it easier to understand and avoid the pitfalls.
I get your point, but on the other hand this is money the company chose to spend. This is a cost they factored into their HR budget in an attempt to impress and retain better employees; it is not done because companies are nice. They are also always free to change their circumstances to hire you; it is never "literally impossible" to hire someone...

If I was really interested in the job, and they end up hiring another candidate, I just wasted 4 days flying to New York while they never told me my odds, what they thought of other candidates' resumes before I flew out, or even how many there were. Probably not even give me feedback on their final decision. Is that fair?

Because they chose to spend some money, candidates have to repay them with complete honesty through the process, even when they don't have to do the same? This is not a fair negotiation scheme either. At some point, you have to accept that both sides understand how the system work, and are making deliberate decisions to get the most they can out of it. Don't forget that one side gets to do that professionally full time out of a dedicated budget, and that's not you.
2 times per week. Also need to fly to other offices once a month.
Because around the times of Occupy Wall Street the Left has been hijacked and redirected from addressing economic issues relevant to the majority (property ownership/retirement perspectives, cost of raising children, medical/education costs) to manufacturing intangible problems and directing the society's passion to solving them. So the fact that <1% of the population feels bad when called with wrong pronouns gets massive attention, and the fact that >50% of the population has massive debts and lives paycheck-to-paycheck is considered unworthy of discussion.
North Korea boasts of 'shaking the world' by testing missiles that can strike US
Based on your tastes you might find Takimag and the Unz Review entertaining.
Did you override the hotkey to go to the end of a line for an emoticon? Or are those 3 different examples?
Not even 30 mins ago I set up WireGuard to connect to a PG instance on Fly.

I expected this to be a headache but it took less than 5 mins to download WG, generate the conf with the fly CLI and paste it into WG. Done.
That sounds like the toolbox when your kid is born. You are probably right as it pertains to the US. I’m talking about pre-birth part.
Microprocessors in the traditional sense no longer exist. All modern microprocessors are actually SoCs (yes, even Intel ones at least to a partial extent). And all microcontrollers are SoCs by strict definition, but we don't usually call them that.

So really the more practical terminology difference should be SoC vs. microcontroller.
Summary of the "disturbing content": she has a bog standard prosthetic foot. Sometimes she shows it to the camera and talks about neat prosthetic foot facts like how she needed to eat more food instead of less. That's it. Apparently that's enough to get age restricted, decirculated, and demonetized on youtube.

Frankly I think that youtube's human reviewer (if indeed there really was one and their review process isn't just a lie) should feel ashamed of themself.

Given that disability is a federally protected class, its not clear to me how youtube's action here is legal.
Country people were farmers or farm workers. Farm prosperity varies a lot, but always involved back breaking physical work, the type of work that breaks your body. The poorer the farmer, the harder the work. They also had big families that were hard to feed, and at best had occasional access to a doctor in private practice who had a limited array of tools.

My grandparents families were farmers back in Ireland, born just after the First World War. My maternal grandfather was the 4th oldest son, and my grandmother the 9th child and 3rd daughter. They were fortunate in that their family owned (and still owns) the farm, but unfortunate in that they had no job prospects of any kind at home. Literally.

In spite of relative prosperity, they didn’t have running water and parts of the houses had dirt floors at the time. My grandfather had a great story about seeing an electric light for the first time — in 1925/6 in a pub where a salesman was demonstrating a battery lamp.

These fold were poor, often worked for most daylight hours, wore homespun clothing often, had no electric light, makeup, etc. The men often died young and the women had 2-3 times more children than today. Glamour was not an everyday consideration!
It seems to be a generational thing. Women over 40 are so much easier to date than early thirties and under. I'm 38 and it seems my generation or the ones younger just do it differently. I don't get it. I can't get them to go out in public sooner than 2 months of chatting, but late 30s and early 40s it's usually a few texts and we meet up. It seems the younger generation is more comfortable being virtual. And keeping it that way. Or something. I can't quite put my finger on it but I've stopped even trying to date people in their 30s. 40s+ seems to still live in the physical world.
Just doing dishes and laundry as well as shopping and cooking is 1.5-2 hours a day. 3 if you add cleaning 5-6 if you add child care
Totally. With computer vision especially, you often want to deploy the model on an edge device with limited bandwidth, power, and footprint (think remote camera monitoring, drones, robots, and autonomous vehicles).

Requiring a huge desktop or server-grade graphics card (much less a box full of many of them) to fit the model into memory misses the mark.

We’ve done a lot of work getting models to be performant on the Luxonis OAK (OpenCV AI Kit) and NVIDIA Jetson devices.
Taki Mag is my conservative rag of choice. I enjoy it because it's the most honest reflection of popular right-wing sentiment (it's racist). Has funny writers I can't help but like, like Ann Coulter and Jim Goad.

As far as the left goes, I've really been enjoying Red Sails recently, though it's basically two peoples' blog. Lots of well written pieces from an explicitly Marxist-Leninist perspective, which agree or disagree, is way more interesting than the "AOC/Bernie said X" snoozefests Jacobin churns out these days.
If you’re going to give a code challenge, make it simple, representative of a real-world problem, and allow them to use resources like stack overflow/blogs/manuals/GitHub issues. Code challenges where you implement an algorithm from memory select only one type of candidate: people who study for interviews.
Opposite for me - I have always gotten an offer when given a take home. Every. Single. Time.
"distinction"
It's... really not that bad? Actually, it's pretty fun.

I work from home, wife doesn't, that makes me the defacto stay-at-home dad. It's definitely playing the startup game in "hard mode" but I love not missing a thing.
how about those awesome feature updates from giant tech cos...those weren't helpful?