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> part of that first step is to deprive them of resources they would use to resist

Right, this is the Chinese "social credit" concept of justice. In the US, this concept finds its most widespread application in civil forfeiture (which I'm guessing you also support), where is is said to justify the theft of peoples money and assets in the absence of any charges or due process.

In this particular case, the Canadian federal govenrment is looking to prohibit companies from providing any financial services-- including bank accounts, tansfers, loans, mortgages, insurance, etc.-- indefinitely, to any designated person, who the regulations define as those who are "directly or indirectly" participating in a "public assembly that may reasonably be expected to lead to a breach of the peace". This explicilty includes "indirect" supporters, so anyone who donated a few bucks is now in the crosshairs of a martial law action which has never been used in Canadian history up to this point. And nothing in the regulations states or implies that these measures are temporary.

Defending this action puts you solidly in the authoritarian camp. Wind back a few decades, and it was people like you who defended the government's relentless extrajudicial pursuit of civil rights movement leaders, who arguably did far more damage to the "commerce" which you hold so dear.
I was just thinking, when was the last time we did something like this in the US? The California rail project has been going on for years, no one dares to even suggest building something like this. All great bridges were built over 50 years ago. If you suggest to do something major in the Bay Area, you would be booo'ed into oblivion for a mere suggestion.
Stabilisation of allotrope could be key to making lithium-sulfur batteries work
If you freelance you are now just going to have to obey the client. If you start a start up, you have to please and obey VCs. I would recommend you finish school while trying to figure out your strong emotions about perfection, feeling special/meaningful, your parents, and authority because you can't escape those through any career decision. You sound like you care a lot and will have a lot to offer the world no matter what you do during working hours as an adult
This was my thought: I can see a witch hunt forming from miles away. This guy is not a "public person" and the doxxing and publicising that is happening with this video is crazy.

Sure, pedophilia is terribly wrong, disgusting and illegal. But it's still not clear, apparently the "13 year old kid" was actually the impersonation by the woman doing the interview. And what kind of vigilante "justice" was being shown there... and why the heck put the video out in the wild?

These guys should have gone to the FBI and provide all that information for a serious investigation. Everything else is just uncalled for drama.
Looks like they’re over digging the trench, then partially backfilling with aggregate. So the sections aren’t sat on sediment, but rather a thick bed of gravel type material that will distribute the load over a larger space.

I would also be interested to know what the tunnels effective weight will be once it’s submersed. Given the sections are hollow, the road and train sections will create a buoyancy effect. Possibly enough to offset the total weight of the concrete, given they need to fill ballast tanks in-order to sink the sections. If that’s the case, they can probably adjust the ballast tanks to keep the sections near to neutrally buoyant, and thus apply little pressure to the sediment below.
> Basic deal was Watson (who ran Northstar) a property developer signed a deal to kick back referral fees to an entity that did literally no work (Villanova Trust) created by a brother of the two amazon employees (Nelson and Kirschner) who were the transaction managers for 9 data center lease deals. The kickback deal was signed after these two Amazon employees met with Watson (the Vendor).

The statement above is but one of many in your post that are very definitive as to what occurred.

No "alleged to" or any other equivocation on the verbs. This is all stated like these are indisputable findings of fact.

There's nothing shameful in pointing this out.

Having a statement buried elsewhere in a largish post doesn't fix the carelessness.
Reflections from Founding a SaaS Startup
>> "But this protest is impacting other people's ability to transact."

It is really astonishing that you try to claim there is equivalence between having one's accounts frozen vs being impacted by the effects of a protest.
Presumably, Russia will try to reach Kyiv from Belarus as fast as possible. There are already at least an estimated 30,000 Russian troops in southern Belarus, and it’s only 160 km (100 miles) from the Belarus border to Kyiv.
As the segments float when they are filled with air (this is how they're floated out for installation), the only reason they won't float back up when installed is that they're covered with a layer of rocks afterwards. Thus I don't think the load on the seabed will be as great as perhaps you fear - it could be very low if that's what they need to make it work.
http://web.archive.org/web/20220211123708/https://dickenscod... is working if you can't access the article.

Also—recent and related:

Cracking Charles Dickens’ code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30265322 - Feb 2022 (2 comments)
> I suspect Mr. Ackley's encounter was with a young or sick leopard, or perhaps the tale is exaggerated. An experienced adult would have dispatched with him in seconds.

It looks that he sort of agrees with you, except it was a injured leopard and he was the one who injured her earlier. From the story:

> As I looked at her later I came to the conclusion that what had saved me was the first shot I had fired when she went into the bush. It had hit her right hind foot. I think it was this broken foot which threw out the aim of her spring and made her get my arm instead of my throat
I feel like the corps are rapidly cutting ties with BLM after the Kentucky event: no business wants to be dragged into the upcoming investigation as a financisl donor to the org.
We move to the left in Uk, Aus and some other formerly British influenced countries.

Except! for escalators in the London subway. There you stay right. Presumably because of so many tourists from the US and the continent.
Thanks. If nothing else, it has vastly improved my work.
So it's not vocab knowledge on the part of the parents? Because a teacher's job is literally to indoctrinate.
On the theory level the article talks about I don’t really have a problem with IDEs Not always suggesting the sort of optimal solution so long as it reduces my cognitive load and gets the job done.

Regarding copilot, I’d say it guesses the exact code I would write or code that is very similar to it over 50% of the time. My main complaint there is sometimes it oddly miss places a parentheses and sometimes it seems to block the code completion function of VS code. This is with typescript/jsx. Other than that which I assume is going to be fixed eventually copilots been a very pleasant experience for me.
Windows feels similarly, but it's more that the OS contains a malevolent presence that's watching your every move and waiting for you to slip up. All so it can steal a little bit more of your sanity/privacy by exposing yet another bit of data, or restricting yet another option, or resetting yet another default until you're tired of changing it and leave it on factory settings.
I very much appreciate this site, the stuff I've learned and been able to share, and the excellent just-the-right-amount moderation. I just checked, and it looks like I joined on 2007-02-21, cool!
I am not so sanguine about AI.

AI and computers in general don’t create new power structures so much as as amplify existing power structures.

Africa’s biggest problems are the result of colonization by the European powers:

1) Destruction of indigenous power structures and leadership. This left a huge vacuum, so during the Dr-colonization post WWII, power was often seized by strong men who wielded it to their benefit (see Idi Ammon and Robert Mugabe)

2) The drawing of borders based on European convenience without taking into account existing tribal structures and land. This has lead to horrific civil wars.

AI is a tool and mirror. How it end up being used is dependent on who wields it.
Thanks for your feedback and advice, I appreciate that you took the time to write it, svilen_dobrev.

"And do what you would have done/doing if you were already that wanted XYZ". I am asking how long to put a chicken in the oven for it to taste good. To be honest, your reply makes me feel like I am reading: "Just eat it as though it were already done cooking in the oven."

I feel like some more specific guidance about timing could help me finish baking it faster. At the moment I am looking for a job, I will use my earnings to support my family, raise a kid, invest a little cash in my side projects, obviously none of this happens without the job. So, it is why I want to be the best possible candidate and am looking for advice about how to spend my time. My previous positions were on an equity-heavy basis and not give me earnings to enable me to do the above.
> What's the use of just saying it's not a thing? Make a point.

The point is that social skills - properly understood - are learnable and developable skills, and adapt creatively to changes in social norms. It's not for bad reasons that "trying to kiss a girl" has become so cringe. Why are you trying to do something that intimate when you have no clue how the other person will react? It makes no sense. Work around all that crap instead, focus on being attractive on your own terms and on showing off the best side of yourself in ways that are not inherently threatening if the other person doesn't like it. Plenty of creative possibilities there. The rest will follow if you do it right. If it turns out that she expects you to take risks you're not comfortable with (which is the only reason anyone ever could have thought that the cringe thing made any sense at all), that's her loss not yours. Even then you can still be friendly, and maybe she'll change her mind after all.
Please do go ahead and take this up. If you could cap the target at OSX circa 2014, that was one of the best GUIs ever!
I’ve got three. Studies show that the strongest influence on kids are their peers. Problem is that kids are dumb and irrational—again, undeveloped frontal cortex and with teenagers, hormones—especially in groups. As a result, parents need to carefully control both who their kids socialize with, and the nature of those social interactions. Social media compounds those problems.

Permissive parenting that treats kids like little adults and over-emphasizes cultivation of their individual relationships and preferences does them a disservice. It’s like letting a drunk person drive a car.
Right!? This person must have never been on the bottom of the social totem pole in school or I guess thought suffering traumatic abuse made them stronger or something.

The power struggles of kids at that age are honestly more extreme than what adults face because kids are forced to interact, have low agency outside of play, and underdeveloped empathy.
…or, preferably, PaaS (parchment).
You only have to go back 19 years for the Zakim bridge in Boston.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_P._Zakim_Bunker_Hill_M...
> Why change the subject?

Lol actually getting off of vague platitudes is "changing the subject". Right, enjoy your weekend.

> You made a false claim

No I didn't, you either misunderstood what I said or deliberately lied about it to argue a strawman, because that's easier than actually addressing what i'm saying.

> The internet is really much, much less dangerous for your mind than reading ordinary newspapers or watching TV news.

Lol. Truly, you made me laugh out loud. Funny you didn't say "is more accurate" - because that would be an impossible claim. You said "is less dangerous" which is also patently false. This book is the beginning of most study on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/d...

It's unequivocal and damning.
And during that timeline, the not-yet-charged family is flat broke because of a logically tenuous action against their assets. An action they were legally unable to contest in a layman’s definition of a reasonable timeframe (like when their next mortgage payment is due).

It’s not your legally narrow definition of harm, or the court’s definition of an unreasonable timeframe… yet it’s undeniably harmful to an innocent family.

We’re still doing that part - innocent until proven guilty - right?
Try applying this rule to any popup modals, calls-to-action, and other unsolicited software interactions:
Identify the button decorated as "primary" and click the other button instead.
It shouldn't affect compile times though. golang compile times arealready in a similar ballpark to Java (if not slower) for large codebases.
Odd, my impression is that everything moves in the opposite direction. Good synthetic data is expensive. Recording the real world is free.

Just a variational autoencoder with a discrete latent space is good enough to learn a usable phoneme recognition and pronunciation model from raw WAV files with unsupervised learning.

And clip shows is just for far you can get without supervision. So what's the point in paying for artificial data if you can solve the problem without it?
But I think the issue is the reliance on "the system" to correct that for you.

You can't build the best structure if the system doesn't like it

You just wait for hand outs, the system will make it correct for you.

In a non-ironic way, this sort of regulation came from ethic systems like a sense of community it the dreaded religion system (help the poor, tithe 10% gains for God) but are now being trained to be replaced by the mechanics of a political governance system.

I think most conservatives take to the individual responsibility for this reason. One I personally subscribe to.

(Edit: not sure why the downvotes? Sorry if I'm incorrect, just trying to feel out ideas)
You forgot the most important option of all: closing the window.

Unless your occupation precludes constant communication (like emergency services or such), then the expectation should be that you are generally contactable, not constantly interruptible.

And if you can't close Slack without fear of repercussions then the problem lies with your company, not Slack.
I thought the same thing ...

Simulations are daily parts of life, in research and development from real-world simulations in research (e.g., climate) and industry (often in spreadsheets); to the theory of gravity (gravity simulated with mathematics) - and every other theory of science, social science, and humanities; to develping your iPhone app on your laptop or just reading the train schedule or using a mapping program.

So what is the difference? Those simulations were built from reality. The Theory of Gravity was built from and confirmed with empirical observations, not from someone else's simulation of gravity! That essential foundation of science, reality (it's not science otherwise), is what is missing.

Also, we already have the problem of our biases and preconceived notions infecting training data, and AI becoming a simulation of that rather than reality. By then training on 'simulated data' (yikes!), we seem to create more of a loop.
I wouldn't exactly call needing to steel yourself against rampant sexism and aggressive sexual advances a "good story". I guess if they enjoyed themselves and weren't raped and murdered, that is all that matters.
I think "coasting" is a really uncharitable word to use, too. For some people, yea they really are just throwing the gear into neutral and drawing a paycheck while they play Minesweeper. But for a lot of people, they reach the point in their careers where the next step is "up" but there are very few "up" roles available. So they end up in this slugfest, competing with a lot of people for that one rare "Director" slot that opened up. And for every 1 person that rolled snake-eyes and got promoted, there are 10-30 that are thrown back to Thunderdome to compete again the next time an opportunity arises. I don't think it's fair to label these people who keep fighting for those rare promotions "coasters" just because they've been doing the same thing for the last 15 years. I've been in the Thunderdome for even longer, and I'm still "Senior Individual Contributor number 32291." Am I coasting?
autocomplete is a memory multiplier.... it allows developers to be able to use vast/larger array of languages without having to remember every detail of the syntax.

As long as you know the concepts, autocomplete helps fills the details. This is especially useful if you are switching between multiple languages, from Java to Swift to Objective-C in one project. Autocomplete helps you keep productive and makes context switching much easier.
Note well: This is only my opinion.

Will this actually happen? Yes. It will start within a week. Personally, I'm leaning toward Sunday or Monday.

On what scale? Russia has 190,000 troops on the border. That's a huge scale, if they all come. (It could be even more than that, if Belarus joins Russia in this.) The US has said that it is not going to go to war over Ukraine, so it shouldn't turn into World War III. (I say hopefully, but with less certainty than I would like.)

How much of Ukraine will Putin try to take? I suspect, as much as he thinks he can get with the consequences still being acceptable. No, I don't know how much that is. It may depend on how stiff a resistance Ukraine puts up.

What might the impact be? Almost impossible to say. A bunch of people are going to die - thousands, at a minimum.
The a level was just for fun. I did a masters in computer science from a too 3 UK university. Not that anyone has ever asked to see my degree certificate…
Hiring isn't that hard unless you make it hard.

We're currently hiring senior developers for a variety of roles. We have a steady stream of qualified applicants (and a few that are not so qualified), and the hardest part right now is following-up with everyone. We don't use recruiters, we don't leetcode, we don't do take home tests, interviews are a total of "talk to these four principal engineers and the CEO." Done. We're a start-up, so obviously there is more work to do than there are warm bodies to do it, pay isn't FANG level, but it is very competitive. At Christmas, we shut down on the 10th of December and came back to work on the 3rd of January. Technically the 3rd should have been a holiday in any reasonable company, but we had just got three weeks of paid vacation so nobody was complaining.

Companies need to get out of their own way when it comes to hiring, unfortunately most won't, which is why those that can will reap the benefits. Hiring is only hard when a company won't stop screwing around. I am also not liking the narrative that the popular press is spinning about the current hiring climates. There's definitely an agenda there, I am just not sure what it is right now, other than the usual "screw the workers over, maximize the profits."
I've been in a foster home with a wide age span. Big kids hogging all the good pieces so that little kids don't get any checks out.
The protesters are locking the government and many US and Canadian systems out of the ability to travel between the countries or engage in many types of free commerce. They haven't confiscated the money, they have simply frozen the accounts, effectively saying "block our commerce, we block your access to money to support your actions."

I don't find that to be an unreasonable reaction given the scope of the daily business and economic disruption being caused. If the Canadian government actually confiscated the money or kept the accounts frozen after the situation resolves, that would be government overreach.
Also the reason that a cat rolling on its back is not a signal of submission but rather usually an invitation to play. It’s a defensive position in which it has all of its sharp pointy bits readily usable.
They spent WEEKS doing this! And did you get the part where all of their "sessions" with the kids were being recorded and analyzed? And the things they said were used against them in future lessons?
> Sure, but as the species that claims greater intelligence, surely the onus is on the humans to not put themselves into a situation where they become a meal.

If you look at human history, they have mostly done that by eliminating predatory megafauna. There used to be lions in the Middle East and Europe.
Surely these teachers who reject private ownership share all their wealth and own as little as possible?

Hierarchical authority as part of private ownership is especially hilarious as the teachers make brutal decisions like taking all of Legotown away. Disowning and redistribution requires the hardest and cruelest of authorities.
> There is no way justice would be served by convicting the son of auto theft if the owner of the vehicle

The vehicle was either taken with permission, or without permission.

You don't get to launder responsibility by doing crime using someone else's stuff.

> Fines or jail time for a DUI conviction with no evidence of actual harm resulting from the event is already pushing the boundaries of a rationally justifiable, proportional response.

No, it's not. This isn't the 60s anymore. Every time you drive drunk, you are playing Russian roulette with the lives of everyone around you. It's gross disregard for human life. It's going out onto the street, loading a gun, closing your eyes, spinning in a circle, and pulling the trigger.

If you're an idiot minor whose teenage brain cannot bridge the concepts of cause and effect, as with most crimes, some leniency can be expected, but in the general case, this is an incredibly serious thing.
> Some developers really like to be left alone, and it's terrible for the business

This is a vague generalization, so it's hard to argue against.

The truth is, to accomplish anything difficult, developers need to be left alone to work on it. Ideally for a particularly difficult problem, you put one developer on the project and just wait for results. Of course, businesses don't like that, so you're usually forced to put several developers on the project (which makes it take longer).

As a developer, I think I speak for all of us when I say that we've experienced needing to focus intently on a difficult problem, but management keeps interrupting it by demanding progress reports and giving you the "gift" of more junior developers to "help you out".
> Free, easy to set up, no accounts needed, open source

> An error occurred during a connection to kill-the-newsletter.com.

I guess braving the HN flood takes some nontrivial resources. And there's no such thing as a free lunch.
I ask because I was actually thinking about it.

If there was already a project started I would rather contribute but if not - it seems like a no brainer!
Some easterners would chalk it up to karma, actions that you (your soul) took in past lives.

I argue with my wife about it all the time and I’d say karma is a harmful belief because it supports injustice. In India for instance, people believe that your position in the caste system is a reward or punishment for your past life behavior. To me this sounds suspiciously like ‘For a dahlit, Earth is a hell, and by upholding Hinduism you are responsible for that person’s punishment, that is, a devil.’
PianoVision: An Augmented Reality Piano Learning App for the Quest 2 [video]
I was a reader of Paul Graham's essays and website, which I believe is where I heard about it. Or it might have been reddit (which I'm sure I heard about via PG). I joined Reddit on January 25, 2006 and HN on February 21, 2007.