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Again only crazy people give me actual phone calls anymore

I was going to say "Wait!", but then realised all my calls were from recruiters and HR departments.

So I guess you're right.
What the OP is talking about is that we brought up a lot more forest back from below ground than we could possibly plant above. Below ground are many generations of forests, above we can only have one, unless we invent vertical stacking or create hundreds of meters tall trees (now I would be all for it Some real tree-houses like in fantasy movies!).

The best storage is to leave what already is underground right there, until/unless there is plenty of energy to influence the carbon cycle above ground by putting it back deep below with technology without requiring the energy to be supplied by even more below-ground-carbon.
Researchers turn to crowdsourcing for better YouTube recommendations
It is easier to manage, instead of a swarm of remote devs.

There are even companies that hire externals based on ticket budgets, e.g. "we have budget this quarter for 10 tickets, hire externals to handle them".

The world of companies whose main selling product isn't software is quite interesting in this regard. Anything related to computing is a cost center that has to be minimised.
This is nonsensical, I am a pretty big Microsoft advocate, but there is no need in this. Whatever bonehead in Microsoft thought of this should be fired.
11 years, per the article.
Yeah, its so cheap and easy for the government to take care of the homeless. It has been working wonders so far.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/la-spending-837000...
> This is in contrast to say Azure, where plenty of Microsoft employees are using the same resource manager APIs and even using the portal. [...]

And still they don't have this incredible complicated and not understandable IAM. Most user I know just give everyone root because it's not possible to just allow some specific API operations for a specific set of credentials. Or maybe I am to AWS.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was by popular demand. And combination of fear of crime and the fact that nobody really needs to be there at all.

And I'm further speculating that a lot of this sentiment in Seattle, SF and NYC is driven by the influx of affluent office workers who moved in during the lowest ebb of crime in the 2010s and are getting a rude awakening of what city life is like. Anyone who sees this as some sort of end times doesn't remember the 90s.
If he did it himself I think he deserves extra credit, even if he gets a zero on the exam.
> looks like strong evidence that something about the restrictions was really working. ...in stark contrast to the government's prior "follow the science" line.

Restrictions absolutely do reduce the rate of spread. But that's not the debate at hand.

It's accepted by all experts Covid is here to stay, like cold and flu viruses. With or without lock downs. The debate is whether we still need to "flatten the curve" to relieve hospital resources.

Eradication of Covid is not the goal or even realistically possible.
Seems to me he's in the same spot he is now, except materially less employable due to a prison sentence. Do you think your idea here really seems probable to work?
Ok so I've tried doing some version of this that is a bit more advanced [0] but I gave up because I'm not a ML expert. Have you thought about creating/projecting video versions of lightfields? Like Google's Deepview [1]. I'd love for DeepView Video kind of tech to be comoditized.

[0] https://roblesnotes.com/blog/lightfields-deepview/

[1] https://augmentedperception.github.io/deepviewvideo/
Sounds like usual Google 'organizing the world's information' getting it in trouble again. I mean they're just organizing the links that were scattered across sites and services and SERPs to doordash, ubereats, etc. Seems like the restaurant has a problem with those delivery services more.
Microsoft seem desperate to be in the ad business, but don't have any sites that anyone visits or any wortwhile search engine that effectively controls access to the Internet for the majority of the users. The only "Microsoft surface" left where they can stick advertising is the pixels they control via the OS.

I may have a good way of capturing this sentiment:

"We are Putin ads in File Explorer!"
> Result type error handling, which forces the calling code to deal with the error

That only works if you remember to deal with the Result type itself, which is something you're likely to forget to do if you prone to forgetting to handle values when they come to you.
FYI: these are in-ecosystem ads (so they all come from MS). The messaging is quite similar what they already do with notifications elsewhere in the system ("Edge is faster than Chrome").

It's still manipulative bullshit, but it's not the gaping security hole that it sounds like it 'ought to be. Even so... this type of behavior is what made me drop Windows over 5 years ago now.
I'm no GCP user but if you've planned for "schema on read" and throw a bunch of poorly indexed/partitioned/compressed files in there you could probably get to it pretty quick...
If you’re not paying for Windows then you’re not the customer, you’re the product.

I can’t imagine Enterprise versions of Windows will have this enabled.
> "can't be a productive member of society to fund his own living"

But he can fund his ability to physically live...in an apartment? Is there another word for a person that "can't be a productive member of society to fund his own living" other than homeless?

Seems like a weird colloquialism to try to adopt.
The Wire[0] is a very interesting portrait into the challenges involved in managing drug crime in a city. I'm not a cop so I can't say how far the realism extends, but the show seems to try pretty hard to be grounded in reality as opposed to – say – CSI.

[0] https://www.hbo.com/the-wire
I just find pfps visually distracting and enjoy HNs stance as one of the few remaining sites keeping an old school look. I feel like it would affect the tone of the site and negatively affect the quality of the conversation.
Because it is far more generic and likely to be actually useful.

Could you imagine someone doing K-means outside of a specific data science application?
> When users click the “Order Online” button, they’re directed to a page that in many cases contains large links to food delivery companies, complete with their logos. The restaurant’s own site gets a link as well, though it’s a small, generic “website” button. In some cases, Google provides an interface for assembling an order, complete with prices and descriptions of the menu items.

> “Google’s ‘Order Online’ button leads to an unauthorized online storefront—one owned and controlled by Google—wherein consumers can place orders for the restaurant’s products, all under the restaurant’s tradename,” the lawsuit says. “Google prominently features the restaurant’s tradename at the top of the page, above the restaurant’s address and menu, to give the user the distinct impression that the storefront and products are authorized and sponsored by the restaurant, when they are not.”

I'm not sure if "business fraud" is a thing, but it seems to me like it should be illegal for any business to offer any services on behalf of another business without permission. It's fine if Google displays what it thinks a restaurant's menu is, so long as they aren't pretending to be the restaurant. But taking orders and payment on behalf of another business without their permission is wrong - and using the other business's branding like that is especially twisted.
> A number of experiments have been performed that show a positive impact of static type systems over dynamic type systems

And here we have it folks, static typing is superior.
Apple margins are pretty consistent.

Assuming the assumption that intergenerational go up is true, in general compute only gets cheaper over time, so escalating prices implies increasing margin.
Iterating twords what?
This might be an indication of the type of ads Microsoft already embeds in Windows 10's start menu: https://i.redd.it/bfc336ql88sz.png
I did a full 6 week course of ketamine therapy. It was really good, and I would recommend it if you're open minded. It's not for everyone, and the lasting (a year+) benefits aren't really measurable (maybe I'm different? maybe I'm not, maybe I've just gotten older). I'd like to go again and see if it can help with my obsessive existential dread.
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Another case where 3rd party tools collided with the proposed standard name: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/smooshgate
100x this. Bioengineering is the epitome of the hacker spirit this site is supposed to represent. Optimism and motivation to solve the problems of the world come from ... solving those problems, not by belittling the efforts of those doing the solving.

We should be using every bit of engineering at our disposal to ensure that Earth remains a hospitable home for humanity and for all life. The failure to do so in prior decades, in the form of irrational aversion to nuclear power, significantly exacerbated our current climate crisis. Let's not make the same mistake again.
They've reverse engineered everything for you already, and provide firmware that accepts adjustment, and something to install that firmware.

You can't do that with a generic OBD-II compliant tool and Ford's OEM firmware.
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It’s helpful for mitigating an NPM arbitrary code execution vulnerability along with ‘ignore-scripts=true’

https://blog.uidrafter.com/getting-rid-of-npm-scripts
> Students getting caught in mass cheating or deploying sly means to not get caught is not uncommon in India where competition is fierce as aspirants outnumber the number of vacancies for a job and seats in colleges for courses.

I'd like to read a long form piece on this subject. What's being done about it? India is a huge country, they need specialists no doubt!
You pay for Windows, the price is already in the hardware, if you purchase a PC with Windows
This is how we ended up with elif.

https://twitter.com/secretGeek/status/7269997868
Exactly ;

A favorite joke:

"One shouldn't do [that medical procedure], as GOD made you perfect and you shouldn't mess with God's! plan!!!"

> Thats an interesting comment, may I ask - was God's plan to manufacture those glasses such that you can see clearly and read such from that book, made by man?
You're going to hate me then: I go a step farther than OP: Do Not Disturb mode 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No notifications, no messages, no phone ring at all. I make sure my voicemail is never full. Leave a message and if it's important I will get back to you.

If I have a sick relative and explicitly expect an urgent call, I can easily and briefly turn off DND mode.

If the concept of a telephone never existed, and "Phone App" was invented today, it would be considered extremely intrusive and likely not (at least on iOS) pass App Store review. Think about it: Here's an app that allows any random person to cause your device to 1. interrupt whatever foreground app you have running with system-level UI (notification or full-screen takeover), and 2. ring and vibrate your device without your consent. If we weren't already familiar with telephones, we would never accept such an obnoxious app!
> To shift it the other way, I grew up pretty privileged and never felt the need to steal things and steal them. However, I can easily determine that if I was homeless and poor I absolutely would have. There's no question.

OK, and I grew up the complete opposite and neither did I.

Do you actually believe that the under”privileged” simply can’t help stealing? That the poor are innately thieves? I find this astounding.

The problem is parenting and lack of family values, plain and simple.
> EU will continue for now, but there's a significant push to move away from Russian gas in many European countries in the next year or two.

the question is if those countries will have strong commitment to invest into significant and non-trivial infrastructure rebuild, or it will be just speeches from politicians.

> Russia takes over all of Ukraine

I don't think this was ever goal of Russia. I think they wanted to occupy some southern and eastern regions, force Ukraine to recognize Russian Crimea and set some puppet government in Kyiv.

I believe Ukraine and Russia will reach some agreement soon, Ukraine will likely lose some territory and political independence, and in 3 years Europeans will mostly forget about this stuff, will be destructed by other issues and continue buying Russian oil and gas.
Why not just waterproof it and keep it in your mouth, maybe temporarily affixed to a tooth...
Any thoughts on Code Server? It’s vs code in a browser, I’ve been used it for one year now and it’s great. But maybe it’s outside the scope of the article?
The virus cannot be killed. That's not a realistic outcome.

At some point you just have to get back to living your life, unless you want to become a recluse who's stuck inside for the rest of your existence.
I used to work at Amazon and I know some employees who were relocated to this building. They've always expressed some discomfort having to work from there. This was pre-covid. From what I understand, the situation has worsened. While I agree that Amazon and the city-council are in a bit of a tussle, I feel that this move is justified from an employee safety perspective.
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They way they handled it was exactly the correct one. You allow the test to continue with the minimum of disruptions for everyone. The academic consequences come later, after a university investigation, and they may face criminal charges as well, but the people who didn't cheat deserve to have their test proceed with the minimum possible disruption.
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What are Sum Types, anyway?
Staying on windows 95 for the last two decades is an underrated move, I definitely agree with that.
@perchance ...
@thusly {}
@contrarily {}

:)
From what I know, 60h work weeks are quite common, you only get 10 vacation days on the first set of years then it gets incremental, health insurance is tied to employer, you can be fired at any moment, people usually despise unions, you need to take care of own retirement assuming the pension fund isn't blown away is some stock exchange deal,...
I've not looked at Illumos distros seriously in a long time, but the reason given for rejecting OmniOS seems really strange to me. My general impression was that OmniOS was a tight, server oriented distro that had a sane release schedule and up to date security patches. Who cares if they use the word "enterprise" in their marketing copy?
Continuing the metaphor of the title: Russia is the abusive spouse that can't take no for an answer and is becoming a murderer, perhaps murder-suicide.

Central to Putanism specifically and even Russia now generally, there is a strong belief that Russia beat the Nazis, Russia can beat anyone, and Russia is superior. Limitless expansion of its borders is considered Russia's right, ergo anyone who doesn't want to be Russified is a Nazi, and Ukraine rejecting Russia means they are Nazis.

I think Western media has been too dismissive of the Russian belief Nazis are running rampant, portraying it mainly as divorced from reality. And not making the connection just how totally incompatible this worldview is in the post-WW2 and U.N. charter system to which Russia is a signatory. I seriously think we are witnessing the end of that post-WW2 era, back to "might makes right".
Progress on this front has been going pretty well.

It's still not ready for everyday usage (though the people working on porting it might already be using it), but it's way moving a lot faster than one would guess. I'm considering a Mac Mini build machine sometime during 2022, it might be feasible for that.

See https://asahilinux.org/2021/12/progress-report-oct-nov-2021/ or follow https://twitter.com/marcan42
There’s also a third category of people who have really serious problems, which can’t be fixed by resources, but who aren’t necessarily just “bad guys”. I worked with some long term homeless guys as a volunteer, and many had problems going back to tragic episodes in their childhood, long term addictions, and other stuff that needed more than (a) materially-based “charity” or (b) punitiveness.
> Post-History 21-May-2019, 04-Feb-2022

I would express all of the concerns being expressed here were debated ad nauseam over the three year political process of getting this proposal accepted. If you want to vent your fears and frustrations in a hopefully more productive way, you can get involved in Python's process.

All that is to say, I'm thankful that the Python community gets things done, and people are willing to go through three year processes for changes such as this.
By access I meant civilian access, People doing people things. Commercial entities doing commercial things. Defense? Well, yah. It's complicated for Finland.
>deprecate the legacy telephone system

The legacy telephone system is being deprecated. All three US mobile operators now have VoLTE (ENUM) interconnection with each other. STIR/SHAKEN call verification is happening between the mobile operators and large consumer VoIP operators like Comcast and Charter. VoIP is far cheaper to operate than POTS and most all operators are using it now and shuttering their legacy networks.

The issue has to do with regulations around the phone system. Rural call completion to small operators is a requirement - as it should be - but has loopholes that encourage abuse. This rural call completion regulation also comes with the ability for small operators to charge certain prices for call completion so they can afford to keep their high-cost rural customers serviced. The larger carriers pay these fees to connect their subscribers to those of the rural carrier.

However, some smaller operators have also been using these higher rates as a means of profiteering by allowing massive amounts of spam traffic through their networks towards the larger carriers.
When you write conditionals for events that will never happen in your CSS you are doing it wrong.
SF is not the Valley.

The weather is great, the rents are $$$$$ and everybody works all the time. It can also be smokey.
Yeah, it's one of those annoying ways language doesn't mean what it literally says, so it doesn't make a lot of sense if you don't know the idiomatic usage. Ever hear the phrase "feed the homeless"?

"Homeless" in this context really means something like "doesn't live normally" or "can't support themselves the right way".
I guess they know windows is on-the-way-out if they're trying to eek the last bit of cash from it like this
there is quite a difference between noticing something (and then correctly noting it is international women's day) and making a strange note of it in an article that is entirely about the CPU. It really doesn't have a place there.
Its an open secret that tutors do a significant portion of work for star athletes, to say nothing about punishments being different for international students caught cheating.
Yeah that's there arguing as well. Although local govs for some reason have no problem working with Azure.

EU cloud hosting companies however are not as mature as the big US players so makes it more of a pain.
I live about 1-2 miles from this specific location (this specific office building everyone's talking about), with my wife and kid. The hot spot is, about roughly, 9 blocks. The boundaries are slightly amorphous as seasons change.

It is not the vast majority of Seattle by land area or population. There's a lot elsewhere to do and see in Seattle that doesn't involve this area. Most of the other troubled areas are considerably safer than this specific location. I live in another troubled area. I'm not thrilled about it, but it is an order of magnitude better than 3rd and Pike.

Anyway, I'd suggest not being in fear of taking the family to Seattle.
> The absolutely staggering level of income and wealth inequality we have experienced in the last decade has taken all of those problems and multiplied them tenfold.

This is the key, to me. Amazon moving out because of crime seems like some kind of full-circle irony, when they have contributed so much to that inequality in the first place.

I grew up in Seattle, and live here now. Crime and homelessness has been an issue for a decade or so, and it's become a much bigger issue (more spread out than it was) since COVID. None of that indicates getting "tougher" on crime/homelessness as a solution to our problems. Not to me, anyway.
We could even - shock horror - use a non-English word like `si` or `kama`.
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The problem that isn't solved by housing is 'streetscape attractiveness.'

Whether they like to admit it or not, the thing that is appealing to most people about authoritarianism is the aesthetics (look at the meme of Singapore and gum, something that is reflective of a decades-long policy of corporal punishment for minor antisocial behaviors). Homelessness is related to this, because authoritarian governments are happy spend resources to jail the homeless (or otherwise hide their existence).

Whether or not they realize it, the US used to be a lot more authoritarian about streetscape attractiveness (at least in areas where the wealthy would congregate) - tents would be taken immediately by police, people would sit in jail for camping, etc. Then COVID caused a one-time burst in anti-authoritarian compassion, but now people are grappling with how much of that should become permanent vs. temporary (if you think the WFH debate is hot, ask a local unhoused person about a return to group shelters vs. relaxed camping laws).

The trend you're identifying is that people conflate the broad problem of streetscape attractiveness with one of its causes (also a broad problem). We as a society can solve homelessness, but that does not mean that streetscapes will immediately become attractive.

My bet is that a lot of streetscape attractiveness laws get passed/enforced now that the trauma-induced compassion of the pandemic is fading (because as you so rightfully point out, people like clean safe streets), and my hope is that improved housing policy coincides with that to limit the impact on society's most vulnerable.
Minimum possible disruption is almost certainly taking him out of the room?
I'd find that very annoying, indeed.
That would make upgrading the interpreter version terrifying
It gets him off the street (as well as others like him) and stops the hemorrhaging of businesses from those cities. This is the exact thing that leads to food deserts that will impact poor people actually doing the right thing with their lives and leads them to commit crimes of their own because why should they obey the social contract when guys like this are obviously not and making much more from it?
Pretty cool.

Related: I feel like there was a recent post about Scalar by Microsoft, but can’t find it. It’s an alternative to the technique described in the submission. :)

https://github.com/microsoft/scalar - “A set of tools and extensions for Git to allow very large monorepos to run on Git without a virtualization layer.”

The README has a great summary right at the top. Blog post announcing Scalar: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/introducing-scalar/
Firstly, HTTP Basic auth is not a problem over HTTPS (and it will be HTTPS more often than not, given modern browsers are bound to criminalise HTTP soon). Even then, putting an authenticating reverse proxy in front of such a site is dead-simple, and that can use wherever auth is required.

Secondly, chances are that if you're building a CGI site, you won't be exposing it to the outside world at all because it's internal/personal jank that's built to do a single job, and not to look nice. If it's meant to look nice and and handle the stress of being used by a public userbase, then it won't be CGI in the first place.