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But the mental health providers voted to change the DSM 5 to not list being gay as a mental health disorder so we can trust them now. And hope they don't change their mind, sorry I mean take a rigorous scientific vote, and change it back in DSM 6. I'm sure gay people take comfort in knowing as of the 2013 DSM 5 there are no longer mental health categories based solely on sexual orientation.
Same. None of our alerts are going off, our EC2 instances seem happy. No user reports of problems which we would likely be getting if there were S3 issues for 40 minutes.
Apologies for not being precise :)
IRV is a Schelling Point, and I think it's important to consider it as such. The biggest critique of alternatives to FPTP is "they are too complicated". When you look at an individual system like IRV it seems hard to sustain that objection, but then a bunch of voting system nerds enter the room, and now we're comparing Condorcet to Borda, and critiquing a bunch of mathematical properties of each system, and drawing graphs of preference-space; at which point the average voter's eyes gloss over and they say "yup, too complicated".

I think this is a perfect case for the maxim "Let not the perfect be the enemy of the good". It seems IRV is sticking, and nobody has made Condorcet or Borda stick; let's go with IRV for now. Once we've abolished FPTP, and everyone is familiar with ranked systems, we can come back and argue for a better option.

As far as I'm concerned, IRV captures 99% of the utility of changing voting systems.

(All that said, I do like the work that https://electionscience.org is doing with Approval Voting, and if we can run experiments in local elections across the country with two new systems, I think that's also positive.)
I prefer wired devices for:

1. Lack of latency

2. Lack of unreliable and dodgy bluetooth

3. No need to charge battery

4. Ubiquity (my 3.5mm audiophile headphones plug into about every device I own except my phone)

5. Wired headphones/earbuds have a better audio quality for the price compared to wireless alternatives, and are cheaper to replace.

6. My car (a Civic from the mid 2000s) only has an AUX output, which I prefer anyway because it's simpler to unplug/plug into my phone or a passengers phone rather than fiddling with Bluetooth settings

I carry around a USB-C dongle with me in my backpack as well as in my car, but I would prefer not to.
It seems that Feynman's notes were quite a bit more elaborate than just appending anything you currently want to write down:

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.5.9099/full...

people are actually sill writing blog, posts, publishing 'study hacks' and even selling books about the 'Feynman method' for notekeeping today:

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.5.9099/full...
https://www.openculture.com/2017/04/richard-feynmans-noteboo...
https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2015/11/25/the-feynman-noteb...
https://www.amazon.com/Rapid-Learn-Technique-Notebook-Unders...
And the only thing keeping these creeps in check is our legal system. Once you remove that, the bottom falls out on quality.
I can relate. My parents weren't that bad but that are some pretty nasty memories hanging around.

And besides them nothing much other.

I just try not to remember.
The Asians present in North America are not a random sample. A large portion of them came here specifically to work in STEM or other fields requiring high levels of intelligence and education. It's very probable that the ones here are, on average, significantly more intelligent than both the average American and the average Asian in Asia.
Original title: 'Stop the Persecution: Iranian Authorities Must Immediately Release Technologists and Digital Rights Defenders' (too long).

> Iranian authorities are escalating their violent crackdown on people across Iran, and are now targeting internet experts and technologists. To date, Iranian authorities have arrested at least six tech engineers who have been vocal on digital rights in Iran
This is what I use too. Amazingly fast and very easy to use.
not sure why this kind of 'sky is falling' post is allowed, particularly when there's no useful information provided

- status boards are rarely up to date, make sure you have your own internal/external monitoring

- a single vm instance does not indicate the health of an entire region. instances can be stopped for a variety of reasons, check the maintenance log and vm console

- when using cloud resources, architecture should not be dependent on a single vm instance

- your cloud architecture and app code should be built to handle transient failures from the start - queueing, retries, backoffs, load-shedding, graceful state failure, etc. use cloud-native services when possible, lift-and-shift of traditional vm architecture to the cloud can be operationally difficult and expensive to run
The CLION terminates in Rostock which is quite hit and near a river, called Warnow.

https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/c-lion1
This is a solid argument. Except in cases where you're upgrading everything in a small to mid sized codebase that needs a major dependency updated that affects everything from syntax to other things, and cannot be done discretely.
Probably had some Vandal heritage in him.
When did GE fuck up so royally? They seemed to be cutting edge in all their sub-parts, and now they are subpar everywhere. Did the MBAs take over?
This. Further, if any other company or person can be compelled to give up their private data against their will, and perform actions and expend resources and rob from their actual jobs they need to be doing, then it for damned sure shouldn't be in service to anyone who they have no relationship with. The court should be the only ones able to do that, and the government should have to pay for it (meaning you and I of course, which means they should only do it if there is some reason that benefits us all) and any private data strictly controlled and only handled managed by the court or some agreed 3rd party.

It makes no sense at all that any company can use another to defend itself like that.

As far as I can see Meta should hire researchers to assemble data about the state of the market from public data.

Or even further, really whoever is charging Meta should have to bear that burden of collecting that data to prove it.

If corporations are people then they are innocent until proven guilty. If corporations are not people then GREAT! We have a lot of old cases I would love to see unwound that hinged on that ridiculous idea. But they can't be both at different times, and still claim to have a system that has any integrity and that we should respect.
Kim Kardashian pays $1.26M over crypto 'pump and dump'
Legal theory is a joy I discovered much later in life. The LSAT brain-teaser questions are also pretty fun. I've considered switching careers (now in my 30s), but I expect the realities of the job are much less thought-provoking.
Couldn't SimulaVR request all the same documents from Meta in response? Or is it a one-way process?

I'm sure Meta's legal team would find reasons why they wouldn't have to be responsive or other ways narrow the scope. SimulaVR in turn could use the same arguments against Meta.
why not just respond to their subpoena with one line answers....
Although this is terrible, for those of you who aren't actually going to read the article:

> "The 2 busts have been damaged but not particularly badly. One lost part of a nose and an ear, the head of the other came off the pedestal."

So fortunately the busts were not obliterated into a bunch of pieces like the image I had in my head when I read the word "smashed".
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> We do not know this, actually.

We do. Documents are not declassified by merely "thinking about it" like Trump suggested. There is a process, and declassified documents are still classified until they are marked as such. We've seen the pictures, we know they weren't. So yes, it also matters that they were removed from their folders and mixed up haphazardly with no regard to their security. These are all undeniable facts that Trump's own lawyers have failed to dispute. They won't even say if Trump has returned all the documents as he is required under subpoena, or whether Trump actually declassified them. These are all things he could have done immediately if he was innocent.

> Not even remotely. Hunter's laptop revealed Hunter sold access and influence to the current president, particularly to nations hostile to this country.

Let's use your own attitude against you: where's the official investigation? Do we even know if that's his laptop? Where are the charges? "So far the follow-up investigation has been much more lackluster and much less iron-clad as we were initially led to believe." Namely: nothing.

You are not arguing in good faith. You just want your own narratives to win regardless of merit.
Why would they be paying for it out of pocket?
> If I see a ton of commits like "fixing formatting" or "oops", I want those squashed away into proper commits.

Every team I'm in I strongly advise against such commits honestly. They don't help anyone, I emphasize being able to find things you changed if you need to find them. You can even enforce a format for commits.

Funnily enough, I saw a wave of "fixes bug" "now really fixes bug" that got auto rejected by some commitcop utility at a former job, the guy was freaking out cause it wouldnt take all his changes. I guess they wanted to force him to stop doing such awful commit messages.

Commit messages should be useful and historically descriptive.
Yeah I've not been too bothered about missing dict literals so far: in Python dicts act as quick structs, you throw a few items in and carry your unit around.

In Rust that's not really an option because the types are so much stricter, and the loss of certainty on the other side makes things less convenient. Instead you'd use a tuple or throw a quick struct together (tuple or not). Defining structs is so habitual that it doesn't really feel unnatural or heavyweight.

It's like using dataclasses in Python, except the language also becomes helpful when you do that.
What about San Francisco?
It is a thing to bill US Federal LE for data retrieval related to subpoenas and investigations.

It does seem like if there are collateral subpoenas from FTC action, the feds should foot the bill.
The UK is speedrunning 1970-1990 here (different underlying causes, obviously)
Teacher here. This is absolutely correct. I can't imagine teaching CS, especially at a high school level without Replit.
A single cable means that a user no longer must deal with two extra batteries to keep charged and two bluetooth devices to keep paired.

I have been on calls with people where their audio cuts out midway through due to charge or connection issues. Those issues are impossible and rare, respectively, with a jack based mic/headphone.

I have seen and heard of people dropping one of their buds on the street, in the sink, or into a vat of liquid nitrogen... Not something that happens with a jack.

Don't get me started on the cost. In many cases you pay 5-10 times as much for wireless buds at the same level of audio/call quality.

TL;DR bluetooth is shit, batteries are shit, tiny expensive easy to drop/misplace devices are shit.
In the US there are quite a few landings just outside of NYC and LA. I'd guess London is too far inland, and it's cheaper to run fiber over land.

There is probably also an incentive to keep the cables away from major shipping lanes where they'd disrupt the ability for ships dropping anchor. Notice around Seattle some cables snake up and through the sound, but it's also extremely deep water. That landing is also far north of the city proper, so any ships waiting near port are a ways from the landing site.
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> Crypto is like the invention of ink that cannot be erased.

No, that was invented in the late 70s, with the Merkle tree.

The whole wildly expensive consensus phase in cryptocurrencies is absolutely not needed for immutable ledgers.

> It's literally perfect for finance

People have been using digital certificates in finance since the 80s. When there is a single source of truth, which is the case for almost all finance except cryptocurrencies, there is no need for the horrific expense of the blockchain.

> Also, I don't know any law that exempts crypto companies from being taken to court.

Who said that? No one. No one at all.
Please....don't. Just don't.

This is some real cyberpunk future crap, imagine stargazing in the future: "There's the big dipper, there's Orion, and there's the Starbucks Mermaid satellite array."

The sky and the stars are a thing of beauty, and shouldn't be polluted like this.
Also, wanted to point out that all the people around me who did great on the SAT used only the prep books - none took one of those dedicated classes. Right or wrong, we all thought tutors and tutoring institutes were for struggling students - because none of the top students utilized them. The notion of a great student becoming even better with the help of a tutor was foreign to us. It was only years later did I learn that tutors for top students existed (basically dedicated 1:1 instruction by a "true master").
To make the pixel watch not look like shit? There is almost nothing the pixel watch is offering that makes it better than their fitbit watches. This is embarrassing for google.
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Is there a version of this that includes the bandwidth provided by each cable? What is the total cable bandwidth between the East Coast North America and Europe?
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Why not just encrypt your hard disk?

Please don't say something like you don't trust encryption. We have known cases where even state actors could not crack encrypted devices. Not to mention the remote communication you have would be easier to monitor and possibly decrypt anyway.

Sure, in theory you would need a kill switch in case some special forces come through your window while you are working on you laptop and force you to remove your hands from it but but I doubt you live such an interesting life for that to be a realistic treat model.
I've been using computers since about 1993 and first installed Linux around 1999 and this is the first time I've ever heard that "blob" in this context is supposed to be any kind of acronym.

It's a dumb one, too. They don't have to be large.
If that's the only point the article was trying to make, then it's about 15 years late.

Computers have been at 3000+ ELO on consumer hardware for a decade.
Regarding 6, plugging an aux cable into a car also doesn't encourage me to leak my contact database and call history from my phone.
After enough rollovers lottery tickets sometimes have a positive expected value. Even so, I'll still only buy one.
When my country started removing asylums, it created at the same times community and youth/family centers where you can get pre-checked with certified nurses and mediators (i used that personally), and hospitals working as asylums for long-term treatments, but not as cut of society as asylums were. We also have psychologists available at 'formation centers' (messed up traduction : basically institutes mandated to find adapted formations to people on benefits (or stuck after their useless math bachelor degree... Hey, that's me again!)

Granted, we probably the worse country in the world for that to happen, because most low-level mental healthcare workers are taught a lot of fraudulent and pseudoscientific theories like Young archetypes and other post-freud shenanigans, but it seems we are somehow better at taking care of our people than the country where most cutting-edge theories and treatments come from.
From what I'm gathering it's on SimulaVR to respond to the subpoena, but there's nothing preventing them from having their solicitor contact Meta's and arrange for payment to cover costs.
Yeah, I'm the same way. I never sit and think a long time - I prefer to think by doing, to externalize my thoughts so I can move it around, change things, see the thinking process in front of me as code and observable bahevior. Then I just keep shaping it until it becomes what I envisioned at the start. But then, where did that "vision" come from? Thinking over a long time, usually days and weeks, sometimes years.
One thing that I think gets lost in political debate around voting is that RCV also changes the behavior/selection of the candidates. Its not just that the candidates are identical and you vote with a different mechanism - but candidates have an incentive to moderate. This may mean the outcome is the same (in terms of which candidate wins) but their positions represent the median voter more.

I would imagine approval voting and other voting systems have this too (I'm not going to pretend to know how this would turn out for all of them) and I think that gets lost a bit when analyzing the systems.
I'm always shocked when I meet someone that doesn't use WeChat

I'm always shocked when I meet someone that doesn't use Signal

I'm always shocked when I meet someone that doesn't use Facebook Messenger

I'm always shocked when I meet someone that doesn't use LINE

I'm always shocked when I meet someone that doesn't use Telegram

I'm always shocked when I meet someone that doesn't use QQ

etc.

It is true that WhatsApp seems to be the largest, but it's still used by fewer than 25% of humans, so you might be shocked often.
Ah but that's an implementation and design choice issue. It's like saying "classes are a bad idea because implementing them in pure C is cumbersome".
> You think it’s a red flag for a business to hire people who can add business value?

Where have you seen that?

> I’m motivated to get up everyday for the same reason most people are - money.

You are quite mistaken. Once they have enough to exist comfortably, people tend to seek meaning not money. The emergence of OSS ecosystem is the best example -- a lot of it, including the most popular OS in the world, came about as hobby projects people did in their spare time. If you're a software engineer, I bet you use products of their passion a lot in your money-making activities.

> I bet you’re looking for people with “passion” and who are willing to consistently put in more than 40 hours a week aren’t you?

Again, all else equal, if I need to make a decision as to who would be a better, more capable employee in absence of other information, the one who managed to be productive in an obscure language would be higher on my list. Just that. Everything else, making people work overtime, etc., is your addition.
This is a very useful feature the moment you have > 1 development machine. Complex build environments, dependencies, personal preferences all syncing seamlessly between all of them is a godsend.
- Aux cables, such as for my home stereo and some cares.

- My wired mic/earbuds pick up less environmental noise than my "fancy" wireless earbuds
Law is cool because it's like math, but because language is less precise than math, the rules are more malleable, and there is more room for creativity.
That's very much true. I remember very clearly that when I was a new 1st grade student in a poor southeast asian country that the kid that yelled back at my teacher in my 60-person class didn't come back next week, whereas I suspect the same would not fly in US public schools. The things I've read (threatening violence, etc) would've never happened in my home country's schools, and if it did would've led to corporal punishment (caning was regularly practiced) and expulsion, not necessarily in that order, and very quickly at that.

My impression is also that the academic culture is very different - even in my poorly funded primary school full of poor kids, there was a sense of academic accomplishment being of the highest importance -- all the students knew the importance of good grades, and students that disagree were socially shunned. Smart kids were the popular kids, and the people who ranked the top 10% got into a special class and were widely admired.
Wasn't GE long ago taken over by MBA sociopaths that cooked books with financial shenanigans, and deemphasized all the actual productivity and technology?

IIRC then the house of cards collapsed right after Jack Welch and his management cult of personality retired?

Likely this is a "last gasp" financial bloodsuck to sell off what remains of the legitimate parts of the company.
Not at all, I trust statistics a great deal. I don't have statistics on the reliability of the SAT nor how reproducible it is, so I have no way to know based on the numbers presented how noisy the distributions ought to be. You can imagine that some band of test-takers is on the bubble and can fall above or below the "top-tier" line on any given day. You are asserting that this is less than 1% of the population, I'd argue it's likely higher than that. But I don't believe I have the data to present either way.

To address the population; if the "population" you are referring to is only the seniors in Michigan on _that_ day then it's might be pretty accurate. Looks like the population of Michigan is around 10 million (20% of that is under 18), meaning that this would be extrapolated much more to address just the population of Michigan, not to mention what it means if we apply it to the entirety of the united states. Any population that we apply this to that isn't the sample audience at that specific time will incur some error.

At each of these higher levels of population abstractions we have orders of magnitude higher error margins, which would quickly dwarf the ppt difference between males and females in a single test.
"Wisdom of the crowd" used to be one of the big selling points of the internet. Like most early optimism, it collapsed on contact with reality as the internet grew.
I lived in Boise for years and spent time volunteering at the Boise Rescue Mission. You are right, Boise will be happy to have you (it's a very welcoming city). But, there are people in Boise who need help. Go Broncos
That page says that if you have such a site, FB will stop collecting analytics/tracking data from the site. It doesn't say FB will block posts mentioning the site.
This is super common.

It’s very normal to remember the “bad” stuff (and turn them into worse memories than they really were) because of how our brains are wired to try and avoid said “bad stuff.”

All my earliest memories are traumatic in the sense that it was something bad that happened in a very visceral way, e.g., being stung by a bee in my back yard, falling off of a tire swing, the basement door closing behind me and being locked in it for maybe 30 seconds (but my memory is that it was forever).

I had the same feelings as you but then in therapy learned how normal it is and that helped a lot.
There's good reason to watch strong chess computers play each other! They can teach you some interesting techniques at the higher level (or so I've been told, I'm a lowly 1200 :P)
PIP is based on current performance. Not past.
The solution to "Africa has unreliable energy" isn't to waste what little they have, it's to help them invest in more things like solar panels. Bitcoin doesn't help anything but itself.
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would be? yes.

I do think there is a point where the effects of radicalization and indoctrination can be mediated by exposure to facts. I seem to differ from most people in that I don't believe that the effect of "sunlight as a disinfectant" is constant, rather I think it's far more effective early on than after someone has already built a bubble of normalized hyperreality around themselves, and is subject to a law of diminishing returns.

To this end, I think fact-checking and deplatforming can be effective tools against the already unbalanced bias towards disinformation provided by social media platforms. At least more effective than simply letting it spread unchecked and hoping things just sort themselves out.
Fair enough at least the devices get a second life.