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> The problem is that the Florida bill is about elementary education restrictions on sex education, it isn't "against" LGBTQ people

Exactly, this is the issue! Like the indentured workers laws weren't against black people in theory because they weren't referenced implicitly in the bill. Still, 90% of indentured servant were black, and was seen by the ex-slaveowners (or any person with power in the South) as a permission to push black workers into "crimes" (like vagrancy and other dangerous crimes like not having a job or saying a profanity).

RAW doesn't really matter, not in the US at least, especially this kind of law which won't have any impact except maybe on school library (and that's an issue we can discuss this if you want, but if it bans the "guide to sexual zizi", which helped A LOT of shy preteens, including me, it should just die imo, especially when porn today is that much easier to access). The only thing this law does seems to be virtue-signalling "we don't like gays here, like you, people who vote for us".

This is how people outside the US understand this law. I mean, i've talked less than a week ago to an hungarian (i was in portugal, weird settings and all) who told us he wanted his president to pass the same "anti-gay in school law" to prevent children from "turning gay". So its not only opponents of this law that saw it this way, it is how it has been pitched to everyone.

What that law actually say is irrelevent here, don't you agree? It's how the average citizen perceive the law that matter, and if anti-LGBTQ people (mis)understand this law as a pass from the local government to beat up gays, it makes the state more dangerous. So to avoid for conferences.

So we basically agree
My Terra 4k is not receiving a software update for this exact reason. Fantastic RAW image, not losing that.
> SF, NYC, etc. might lack opportunities for your kids, too -- it's not like they can explore nature, or mountain biking, or sailing, or a million other things easily in your average US city

San Francisco has some the best access to nature, sailing and mountain biking anywhere in the country. I can drive for 15 minutes and be on the beach, in the mountain. And it's never too cold or too hot.

> I grew up in a crappy rural area with next to no opportunity, and went to college in a crappy rust belt city with very little opportunity

Don't assume the fact that you made it means that your kid would repeat that feat though.
Interviews suck as SDE and it's projected to get worse. I'm not happy with that. This means we have to leetcode forever until we die. (I know there are jobs that don't leetcode test you but, still, I'm talking about big corps.)
This is an incredible development, but the real test will be what scale they actually manage. On that note:

> Walmart announced an expansion to its DroneUp program, which it claims will provide the potential to reach four million US households ... as well as the ability to deliver more than one million packages by drone per year.

It sounds like each household will only be able to receive one package every 4 years. They won't be putting Santa out of business just yet, then.
Doesn't this have the potential to interact really badly with SNI though?

After all, TLS today is not "just" a security layer anymore. With SNI and ALPN it has also taken on quite a bit of routing functionality.

E.g. suppose example.com has two subdomains, foo.example.com and bar.example.com. To simplify deployment, the site uses a central TLS gateway to terminate all connections to *.example.com and also uses a single wildcard certificate for all subdomains. The gateway then reads the SNI header to figure out which backend server it should proxy the connection to.

This works perfectly fine as long as a browser only uses a connection for the subdomain that it announced in the SNI header. However, if it suddenly starts to make requests for a different subdomain on that connection, because both subdomains share the same IP (of the gateway) and cert (wildcard), requests will be routed to the wrong backend server and things will break.

I'm not sure what the exact conditions for connection coalescing are in Firefox. If it's really as you say and the certificates have to be identical, then it's just a safety issue. However, if it's only required that the certs are signed for the same domain, then it could become a security issue as well: All you needed was to be on the same shared hoster as your victim and obtain a fraudulent cert for their domain and you can hijack some of their connections.

Edit:

Also, if the browser has a connection open to foo.example.com and wants to make a request to bar.example.com, how does it even obtain the cert for bar.example.com to decide if it can reuse foo's connection? It would have to open a new connection with SNI=bar.example.com, grab the cert - and then close the connection again and go back to foo's connection. What would even be gained by that?
I went to Tulum, Mexico, early 2000's still a backpacker paradise.
There were a few cabs in town, but you needed to walk a lot.

One internet cafe in town with decent connectivity, but great coffee!

Went back in 2015 and it was completely changed - eco-lodges, new age tourism, bix box stores, lots of resorts like Playa Del Carmen.

Looked more like Ibiza.
But surely if we just vote in the same people for another 30 years or so, they'll get around to solving these problems!
Digital camera image sensors only have one image plane. Each pixel is recorded as a grayscale value where the light has passed through a red, green, or blue filter. To get a complete pixel (with values for all 3 colours) requires software to interpolate a pixel with its neighbours.
When I came in as a new teacher, I had the same thoughts regarding school fortification. We have two armed guards at school and metal detectors. One guard at front door, the other roving. Our district actually got low 9 figures in stimulus to pay off decades of loan debt resulting from mismanagement and to make significant infrastructure improvements last year. We get metal doors next year, need the summer to install everything.

This is all to say that my opinion of fortifying schools has drifted closer to our shared opinion of arming teachers; it creates a prison atmosphere (one that I've seen at other schools, I'm lucky to teach in the best one in the city), and that low-trust environment is not conducive to learning.

At my most frustrated I am 100% "take everyone's guns away," then being pragmatic I'd rather the money go to mandatory buybacks and background checks and a registration system like the one we have for vehicles that puts pressure on manufacturers and sellers, as well as buyers to renew and recertify or else be in breach of regulation.
Very bad. Haven't been able to focus on work since late Tuesday. My last meeting I said, "it's been great, I haven't looked at the news in two days." Less than an hour later, I looked... Ugh.

Fortunately, I've been around this block before and have learned not to make it into a downward spiral. For example, my SO and I went blueberry picking today. Haven't looked at the Twitter yet.

The planet is in a bad place right now. I think it's a mistake to ignore that. However, as long as we're breathing, there's still hope. And hopefully, some signal of progress will give people like myself the motivation to continue pursuing what matters to me. But, long-term personal goals seem irrelevant while distrust and discrimination are fracturing our society and leading to violence. In other words, we're regressing in Maslow's hierarchy.

Until then, what matters to me is knowing that at least someone is acknowledging the sad state of the planet and thinking how we might improve it.

Edit: to be clear, that "very bad" is relative to my incredibly privileged existence, as that's how I interpreted the question.
Ok. And how many covid deaths did they report? Was it also low, or did they report lots of covid deaths while their overall death rate magically stayed the same? Only the latter fits your "death with covid" scenario.

In the US, it seems rather unlikely that (a) doctors all over the US report a certain number of deaths that they say were caused by covid, and (b) we have about that many excess deaths, BUT (c) the excess deaths were from other causes and just happened to match the number of reported covid deaths.
Global warming has a lot of mixed bias messaging.

Scientists claim the earth is warming

News organisations gain more traction on fear-based claims regardless of motive

Politicians need to express their utmost urgency on whatever the above mentions

And yet there's no actual consensus on a realistic action plan. Like preventing a homocide before it happens. What point is there in preventing something that might not actually prevent anything but make it worse. To carry on like nothing's happening is the most rational choice. Like the food shortage that didn't happen.

Best to wait and see what crisis is most real and most urgent to prevent
There's probably more money to be made by treating lots of Covid patients in the hospital. Drugs, equipment, exotic treatments, doctor bills. Vaccines are less profitable. Get outta here with your conspiracy theories.
I think the regulatory approach of making these sort of vehicles more expensive is a good one. I'd love to see this approach be adopted at the provincial level where I live.

There's going to be businesses that need this sort of vehicle and particular hobby enthusiasts will be willing to pay much more to have one, but regular people doing typical activities absolutely do not need these and we should dissuade them from buying vehicles that are so much more dangerous and polluting than others.
The answer is yes for now. We can continue to grow. We are in the process of creating a whole new virtual world which will expand the economic possibilities. Even if natural resources become scarce, we have a whole new virtual world explore and develop. The real limit to growth is population. Population growth is coming to halt in the next 50 years and that will dictate our growth capabilities then.
This is not so alien to Europe as you seem to think. Over the past 20 years, more people per capita have died in school shootings in Germany than in the US. A European nation was in a similar situation very recently.

What is maybe unique about the US is that nothing will be done, where as Germany added additional gun control laws, and probably will not ever have as deadly a decade for schools as the 2000s again.

I'm not attacking you, it's just a weird side effect of the US dominating discourse on the internet, but there is a certain habit of European HN posts exaggerating differences, one of favorites being something like: "I can't imagine living in the US, it only costs a few euros for my library card, in the US they charge per book, how dystopian" which is uh, just false, but also, Japan actually has a history of fee based lending libraries, and you would never see a similar comment about Japan, it would be celebrated as twee small business.
Senators Draft Bill to Ban Use of Digital Yuan in US-Based Mobile Apps
Understanding cryptography is good

https://www.amazon.com/dp/3642041000
With any luck they will prevent the people that keep the lights on and the sewage flowing from ever setting foot in their city at all.
I have visited almost every major US cities including a lot of experience living in and near some of the “worst crime” cities. Cities where there really are streets you do not dare go. In San Francisco I never felt unsafe anywhere, even in the “worst” parts of town. That said, the concentration of homeless people when I last visited was unlike anything I had ever seen in a US city.
You are putting way more faith into some "experts" who have a very strong incentive to carry the narrative they are carrying. It isn't really a conspiracy theory when what comes out of their mouth doesn't match the data coming from their own damn public health dashboards. You don't need to be a credentialed "expert" to start asking basic questions about that.
Pay the price, study leetcode, find that stupid subsequence. That's a few weeks of your life, which is an ok price if it results in a better pay package/more stable environment/whatever it is you really want.

Would it be better if interviews didn't suck? Sure. Not going to change any time soon.

(OTOH, if it's just an incremental change, maybe not worth it. Do the math, figure out how highly you value a change, and compare to how highly you value, say, three weeks of vacation)
compare yesterday's you vs today's you.
comparing yourself to others is a losing game, often detrimental.
I'd consider moving away from the current place of living and reorganize your thoughts.
People who own properties in SF are in a v different situation to those who are renting, couch surfing, flying in and out to HQ etc etc.

I love SF too. We moved north over the bridge 8 years ago (working from home) but are in the city all the time. It was spectacularly deteriorating pre pandemic (when we left the Castro area the local library had just employed an armed guard to keep the transients out for example) and is now arguably in crisis due to the collapse of foot traffic retail, rampant crime and due to the city being a welcoming destination for transients who often have serious mental illness (SMI) and substance abuse issues. The city - and California generally - does not have the resources to triage their needs but it does have a huge 'non profit' homeless industry and more worryingly some areas are crowded with cartel drug sellers.

Driving European visitor friends around a few weeks ago was the first time I'd really been to all the neighborhoods in a leisurely way since the pandemic abated. The wealthier areas (Noe Valley etc) are relatively unchanged apart from a lot of empty storefronts, but a lot of the city looks very beaten up despite the gorgeous vistas, light and climate (perfect weather during out tour).

We are at a typical west coast boom/bust cross roads for California cities...
I agree with that. I went to a low-ish tier school (UIC) and was not particularly motivated to do anything. My classmates just wanted to be drunk 24/7, I wanted to go build robots and stuff. It wasn't the experience I was looking for and dropped out. I wish I had at least chosen UIUC. The corn fields aren't that bad, in hindsight.

I did get to take a Unix Security Holes course with DJB. That was the first semester I was there, and that was kind of another mistake. When you're doing 400 level classes your first semester, it sucks when you have to go back to the basic 100 level classes to complete an arbitrary requirement for your degree. (Had to take "Intro to Java" taught by a chemistry professor. He did not know how to program. Huge waste of time and the state's money.) I have avoided a number of security pitfalls in my own work because of what I learned in that class, though, so it was definitely worth taking. Set me up for a career of accurate and bug-free code ;)

(Incidentally, what precipitated me dropping out was the Unix Security Holes course. The homework for the class was to find 10 security flaws in existing software. This was quite the easy task back in 2004. I found a bug in the course registration system. The vendor that made it was infinitely appreciative, patched it instantly, and sent me an iPod as a thank you. The school was very mad at me and tried to have me expelled for violating their computer use policy ("hacking"). It was a client-side XSRF issue though, so technically their computers weren't used, and I obviously investigated the flaw responsibly; the system wasn't destabilized, no production data was changed, etc. DJB fought hard for me and I didn't get expelled. Also got one of the highest grades in that class! The school did silently block me from using computers in computer labs and using the course registration system, though, after DJB's rage had blown over. I didn't have the will to fight it, so I just left.)

TL;DR: go to the best school you can get into and afford. You won't regret it.
> AVX-512 support can be confusing because it’s often referred to as a single instruction set.

This has been broadly overplayed. There are two main families: consumer AVX-512 and server AVX-512. Server gets some additional VNNI instructions and BFLOAT16 support, consumer gets VPOPCNTDQ and IFMA/VBMI. That's basically all you need to know

The chart looks confusing in Wikipedia because it's ordered by date, not by "series" and generation, and some intrepid wikipedia editors have munged up the features even then. This is what the feature set looks like to me:

https://i.imgur.com/idAjB1X.png

Xeon Phi is sorta its own thing for sure, they did a weird 4-wide architecture and it got special 4-wide VNNI instructions to match. And since it's been abandoned it never was updated. But there's zero reason for average consumer/server software to target Xeon Phi anyway these days - it's abandoned and it was almost entirely a supercomputing/HPC product even when it wasn't.

The other instructions are (almost) a straight superset within their series, so you just need to know if you're targeting server or consumer. Laptop gets things a bit earlier because Intel started 10nm first on laptops, and 14nm was stuck with older architectures and then a backported architecture, so it's not quite a strict series in terms of dates, but generation-on-generation they haven't ever regressed a feature within a given "series".

The only exception is Alder Lake doesn't get anything because lol Intel - they disabled AVX-512 entirely, but if you got a model that supports it then it's also a superset of all previous consumer generations.

Again, all you really need to remember is, consumer gets better FMA and server gets VNNI/BFLOAT, that's the major difference. Big deal, who cares.

But "it's just strict supersets of features within server/client" wouldn't get the clicks/exasperated outcry of "gosh isn't this just an intractible mess!". It's not, and they've never regressed a feature within a series.

Also for the record, AVX2/AVX1/SSE/MMX look really shitty if you split them up in this same fashion. There were like 4 different "sets" of SSE4 feature sets alone and some of them were abandoned and never used again, and both AMD and Intel adopted them all at different dates and sometimes dropped them back out, so if you made a "feature set vs architecture" table it would be a giant fucking mess for SSE as well, let alone if you did it by year instead of by architectural series.

Yet I never hear anyone bring up how awful and how confusing AVX and SSE are, just AVX-512. Feature sets are messy!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE4

Eventually, AVX-512 support will converge around the sets of features that are useful, and some of the less-useful features may eventually be deprecated, just like the SSE4a instruction set did. It's gonna be fine.
> which is GNU, which means the lawyers at my company said that I couldn't use it

Then either your company is doing something evil or those lawyers are idiots. Nothing in the GPL treats commercial use any differently than non-commercial use, and you're allowed to distribute GPL'd software as long as you make the GPL'd source available to whoever you make the binaries available to.
Yeah, this is definitely a real problem.

I live in semi-rural America, and I have literally never in my life even seen a gun fire before. I used to live in DC, for six years, and I was never robbed, accosted, or even made to feel unsafe, and I had on multiple occasions walked miles home from a bar after closing. It was a downright pleasant way to get home if I didn’t need to be up the next morning.

America the country is basically nothing like America shown on TV. It’s just too big and complex to explain in a soundbyte.
Similar idea: https://andrewkelley.me/post/string-matching-comptime-perfec...
We've been veneriforming, all we need to do is learn terraforming.
> The average rent increase in my neighborhood was over 20%.

Is that compared to the pre-pandemic value, or to an artificially low value during a pandemic year?

Also consider inflation: if everything is up 8% in a year, the real increase is only 12% in real terms.
The text right at the top of the page, "Resellers aren’t the problem — their buying bots are", is some of the densest bullshit I have ever read. How can someone be so colossally stupid as to write and publish that line? Acting like the blame is with the people who write the scalping tools but not those who purchase and use them? Are you serious with this crap? Every single person in this chain of value-free market manipulation is culpable.
This doesn't help my intuition at all.
> When population goes up: positive - the area is vibrant economically; negative - rent is spiraling upwards out of control

What's endlessly infuriating is population going up in a city should be an almost unmitigated positive. It's just our unwillingness to allow building new housing turning it into a zero sum game that makes it a mixed bag.
Not true. There's a couple around the corner from me on the UWS, including one that someone wrote a children's book about: https://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Phonebooth-Peter-Ackerman/dp/1...

EDIT: I was curious if they removed it in the last few days so I went out and took a picture: https://imgur.com/a/dQdSEzQ

Has a dial tone and everything. But maybe this is one of the private ones the article mentions?
Given that Congress has been kicking the can down the road since 1971 and the Nixon shock... I'm surprised that the Greater Depression hasn't happened yet.

Working class wages stopped growing at the end of the 1960s in real terms. The income inequality is approaching French Revolution levels. Media of all types is tuned for maximum "engagement" which externalizes it's costs as the destruction of the social fabric.

I'm really worried. I can't change the big picture, all I can do is to try to strengthen the bonds I have with friends and family, cut expenses, and stock up on food and supplies.
> the concept of compressing at least 6:1 compression

The level of bullshit that this industry gets away with is absolutely fascinating. I'm a gamer and I was part of the crowd who were galvanized by TotalBuiscuit, rest his soul. I am not alone, and part of an ever increasing amount of people, that seriously question the anti-consumerism (hence, anti-capitalist, if you're very patriotic) practices employed by the status quo. It's patently obvious to do so in hindsight, but I look at a lot more through that lens nowadays.

Red is that 6-times distilled, 10-times cold filtered, 50 times purified, embodiment of anti-consumer practices and it's maddening.
You have a hell of a typo:

>laltrr the6 infrct

*later they infect
Telcos have been given free resources from the government for decades to maintain rural infrastructure. ROI never entered into in the first place.
Have you tried The Ascent: https://store.steampowered.com/app/979690/The_Ascent/

Doesn't go as far as what you're imagining, but it's a step in the right direction...
Why wouldnt an overseas employee have all the exact same incentives and challenges to maintain their code as a more local remote worker?

I think you are assuming I was implying overseas work to be all short-term contract work but I am not saying anything about the paperwork. The paperwork will write itself such that the relationship between a remote worker and the company is identical whether they are in texas or india. And itll happen that way because of financial incentive to do so

It's already happening. People from NY and CA are moving to Texas and Georgia, and then their salaries are being reduced to adjust for cost of living - but they still make really good money for Texas or Georgia. Maybe those SWE think they are irreplaceable, but what they have effectively demonstrated to the company is that the work itself can be done entirely remote, and so when it comes time to replace them - they will look for a cheap remote worker. Maybe today it is tough to find good replacements in India, Ukraine, etc, but over time (on the order of 1 generation would be my bet) those replacements will be much easier to find over there.