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> Warehouse work is hard and low paid. Working for Amazon is working for one of the best warehouse jobs but that doesn’t make it easy work. I’ve seen article about long days and injuries and such and they never bring up industry hours or wages or injury rates. So I suspect they are negative PR.

Yep, exactly. There's no basis from which you can judge on Amazon's (or anyone's) warehouse conditions, unless you have that context - what is typical? How is work life in other major warehouse operations?

Maybe Amazon is an outlier... but for all we know, they might be an outlier in a positive way, compared to the competition. You can't know without context.
Google's datacenters are already carbon neutral. This is about going one step further and using locally-generated renewable energy to power the datacenters.
Yes. You have aptly demonstrated two things here:

1) There are social norms

2) They change sometimes

Neither of those is relevant though here.

Are you arguing that no social norms violation should ever result in being fired?

Assuming we agree that advocating for some things may get you fired from your job, it’s then possible to follow up with my observations:

1) Saying it’s cool for adults to fuck minors is definitely on that list

2) I’m ok with that
Do you have an argument for its being moral?

First, a simple moral case: if someone can go to a market to trade for things that allow them to survive, help their families, or just live a better life... under what conditions is it morally acceptable to stop them?

Our answer? Not many!

https://smbc-comics.com/comic/open-borders

Maybe you think that's politics, but acting like the moral argument doesn't exist is pretty dumb.
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>What got me off Facebook (>3y ago, not a passing whim) was the realisation that I found no value in keeping in touch with people I was only 'in touch with' via Facebook.

This. If you're only interested in keeping in touch with people as long as it takes zero effort on your part that means that you don't really want to stay in touch with said person. Once I realized that, being done with social media was easy. I run a nextcloud instance that allows me to share photos and large files with family, and anyone for that matter.
Google has insane optimization for power consumption at data centers, if there is something you can think of, they will have either done it or will be trying it.
Were they paid for this code? I was under the impression they were not (I think other comments here claimed they were not) please correct me.
Not impressive given the fact that you can’t actually buy one.
That it is not abnormal doesn't make it okay. Just because something is normal doesn't mean something should be normal. Further, people don't think it should be this way there and how it is elsewhere has no bearing on that fact. This is whataboutism.
If I go out and break the law I will be arrested and put in jail and separated from my children too. Let us not forget that these are illegal aliens. They know it is illegal and they do it anyway, and bring their children along; do you not harbor any moral outrage against those parents for subjecting their children to this possibility? Also - have you no moral outrage left for the corrupt countries that make their own peoples lives so intolerable that they feel they have to leave and break the law to try and get into the United States?
> If the blog statements were enough to cancel him, why now and not a few weeks ago or a year ago?

Probably because people just noticed them?

Saying “he’s been doing this unacceptable thing forever and appears to be consistent” is not really compelling either.
The biggest problem I have is that we're not going to have a proper dystopian collapse of civilization/raider/zombie/fight-for-resource type of thing. Most likely just a cvasi-police-state-corporate-run boring dystopia (which we already kind of have) managing and partitioning remaining resources/habitable locations.
Beautiful.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WPsVkdt4qDxjV2itBgw_...
I mean, the CD-i is pretty difficult to get for a reasonable price legit, but it's not terribly difficult to emulate, and while watching cutscenes on YouTube is fun, you really need to play the game to get the most cringe-enjoyment.

If you emulate, it's then relatively easy to get any controller you want working.
Those people are also free to self-deport at any time. They're locked in cages insofar as they choose to be there.
Just think of the press that an ad slamming amazon for that stuff would get. Plus you can avoid slander by either doing a real test or just by not naming amazon and implying it’s them.
Tesla is first to market on a lot of fronts and has the huge first-mover advantage, but you're right, when the competition gets real the easy wins will be over.

It has been said -- many times -- that the actual major advantage of Tesla cars is that they get better over time by virtue of their software update process. While many many of the big players (VW, Toyota, Honda, etc.) are going to match specs when it comes to battery range and whatnot, I haven't seen any indications that any of them intend to follow suit with the software.

My 2 year old Toyota already feels like it is locked in the stone age when it comes to the software and features.
You forgot the URL.

Previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21017914

PS: Why does this have 4 upvotes?
I've read similar stuff. It sucks since it seems there's no way out. Introduction to Internal Family Systems was very illuminating regarding this topic:

https://www.amazon.com/Internal-Family-Systems-Therapy-Guilf...

First two chapters:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5205b3d1e4b08b89e5d18...
This was mentioned in Matt Levine's latest Money Stuff (https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-20/it-s-h...). He thinks that "If there were a robot trained to spot subtle changes in bond documents then that would be super useful." But his verdict is that this won't happen soon:

The robots can use the documents to analyze the quality of the issuer, but they can’t actually use the documents to analyze the quality of the documents. Reading every word of a boring bond document to figure out if it’s going to hose investors is still, strangely, a job only humans can do.
Seconded. The git blame-someone-else tool is just using git rebase and git commit --amend internally to alter one specified commit.

git filter-branch is perfect for this kind of wholesale revision. filter-branch is essential for tasks like: open-sourcing repos that need some kind of cleanup, massaging repos generated by a VCS migration tool, etc. For example, years ago I participated in the move of a large CVS repo to git; there was significant filter-branch post-processing required to create an acceptable baseline)
Were they tracking smart tv usage or were smart tv manufacturers using google apis to store their tracking data?
Perhaps, but its current popularity hinges around the NBA. I’m pretty sure the NBA has more fans in China than in the USA.
We're running a half-assed trial on the general public right now, only without a defined "normal dose", control group, compensation, or informed consent.
Why does everyone always compare with Tesla when Hyundai, Kia, Renault, and Nissan already have cars that are either cheaper than the VW or very similar in price?

The Zoe is surely an electric car for the masses and is the best selling electric car in Europe measured over the period 2010 to 2017. And you can get one for about EU 25 000, at least in the UK. See https://www.exchangeandmart.co.uk/new-cars/renault/zoe/renau... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_E...
>what's wrong with that? Why am I a bad person for agreeing to it?

It's not about "a little extra" (a fixed amount), it's about the interest (which can get many times the amount).

Historically and globally, from the ancient Greeks to the Arab world, and from Japan to Americas, in all kinds of moral systems, people agreeing to it are not just "bad people", but the scum of the earth.

Historically also, loaning, from ancient Babylon, to 19th century USA, and even today in many places, has been closely associated with slavery. Many ancient slaves were debtors, all the way to debt bondage, indentured servitude, and so on.
> That wouldn't be so bad, except there are consequences to going to therapy. Paperwork and records are generated. There are certain positions where you have to disclose any therapy that you've received (see for example Section 21 on the SF-86: https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf).

My thoughts on this are that first and foremost, my health is more important than my career. And for SW professionals, the reality is very few jobs require disclosure. You can easily go to a mental health professional without adversely impacting your career.

Regarding the national security position disclosure, from what I see:

- You have to disclose a court appointed order to get mental health, or a court finding of mental incompetence.

- You have to disclose a hospitalization for mental health problems.

- You have to disclose any of the following:

"Have you EVER been diagnosed by a physician or other health professional (for example, a psychiatrist, psychologist, licensed clinical social worker, or nurse practitioner) with psychotic disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder, bipolar mood disorder, borderline personality disorder, or antisocial personality disorder?"

I don't know about the last two, but the rest are serious conditions that are often treated with medication and not with therapy. If you have any of them, I think it's a lot better to get help and be excluded from those jobs. Furthermore, they're about issues orthogonal to the article and most of the discussion here.

You have to answer this:

"Do you have a mental health or other health condition that substantially adversely affects your judgment, reliability, or trustworthiness even if you are not experiencing such symptoms today? (Note: If your judgment, reliability, or trustworthiness is not substantially adversely affected by a mental health or other condition, then you should answer "no" even if you have a mental health or other condition requiring treatment. For example, if you are in need of emotional or mental health counseling as a result of service as a first responder, service in a military combat environment, having been sexually assaulted or a victim of domestic violence, or marital issues, but your judgment, reliability or trustworthiness is not substantially adversely affected, then answer "no.")"

This is an easy "No" for almost everyone.

I think for most stress/anxiety related issues that one would seek help from a therapist, you would not have to disclose any of it for this form.
Threat model? I don’t expect that anyone is out to get “me” specifically. As I said, if I apply to a job that requires me to disclose my interactions with mental health professionals, I do see a non zero risk of being denied that position on that basis.

Furthermore, I want to ensure the economic viability of my family. So regarding genetic testing, you have to answer questions asking whether you have pre existing conditions when applying for life or health insurance. If you know that you are x% more likely to contract a certain cancer due to your genes, do you take the chance and lie on the application? Or do you tell the truth and run the risk of being denied wholesale?

There is no clear answer and so to protect the economic future of my kids, I can still choose not to know.

I have not touched on the “leaking” of information which I think is where you were going with your question. While I do not consider myself interesting enough to be a target for “doxing” wouldn’t it just be easier if there was nothing to “dox” in the first place?? Just in case I do end up in a public position or otherwise targeted for harassment?
Your mortgage rate would go up though unless you're an all cash buyer
Thank you so much for this link!

I know it's not the right takeaway from this thread, but seeing the constant cyan Nuclear line in the following link makes me doubly appreciate what a good use nuclear is in the energy mix.

https://electricityproduction.uk/from/all-sources/?t=7d

- ed

Double nuclear capacity in the UK, and it almost looks like you could get rid of all fossil-based electricity generation
> A SUV costs what? Tens of thousands of dollars likely.

A beat up one for less than $1000 works just as well as a new one for this purpose.
Can't we have HN forwarding messages that are typed in a text field?
Wouldn't you prefer if both options were available?

I certainly would. I had been using Safari on mac only because it was fine and I had no need to switch to firefox or chrome.

Now I will definitely not be using safari anymore.
Strong plus one. Should be required reading.
I skipped the rest after his trying to equate concluding you're not going to get accepted to a particular conference with 'ego'.

Having self-respect and deciding not to keep uselessly abasing yourself to a clique that's never going to anoint you is perfectly reasonable. As the previous poster said the article author seems over-blessed with ego thinking he knows enough to hand out blanket advice putting the fault on others.
Ducted fans pointed downward are not particularly good for forward flight.
I recommend "Jennifer Government". Still plenty of violence, but all in the name of PR. And a darn good read.
Kids in China are like kids anywhere. The authority is specifically not cool even if it is to be respected and obeyed. It is more effective for the Chinese government to encourage popular actors/singers to be sympathetic and promote government points of views, which is basically what they do.
This is really cool, but I found myself battling with the UI more than actually enjoying the results... There's no way to type in exact HSL values (have to use the sliders), no RGB / HEX colors (except for the one "lock color" option, which only supports HEX but not HSL or RGB...). CMYK is an obvious suggestion following those

Could also probably use additional "locks" for keeping the same starting and ending H/S/L/R/G/B
Definitely agreed. But nobody (including Apple) is going to pull that off for a pretty long while.

In the meantime, it's useful to be able to do things like block all third-party AJAX requests and whitelist them on the fly on a per-site basis, or intercept CDN requests for common libraries and redirect them to locally hosted versions.

Extensions like UBlock Origin may be a band-aide, but sometimes band-aides are useful if you're waiting for an open wound to heal. In the same way, when I give people privacy advice, I'm optimizing for things they can do right now.
No, this is not relevant to the immediate situation for the reason the parent commenter indicated. I'm just pointing out that you absolutely can decide to bail on contracts for moral grounds, you simply have to deal with the consequences of breaking the contract.
In a stable society situation, money tends to go to money and power tends to centralize.

Thus probably the rich enough can protect themselves and their children from climate effects. They can sacrifice the pawns. What's a hundred million refugees if they can prop up their coal investment for another decade.
"Exactly." "Everybody." "Hates." Bonus: "You are an ethic-less hypocrite."

Look no further for why our society is having such trouble coming to any sort of agreement on issues that matter.

I read the GitHub post yesterday, immediately bought 1Blocker, and moved on! (And it's been great!)
> Following this logic, I often thought electric heaters are a waste of energy since they perform no computation.

That's true of resistive heating. Heat pumps are more efficient.
I'm speculating but, it's likely due to board size constraints and pricing.

AM57xx SoC have 2 different DDR3 memory controllers called the EMIFs. Each one has a 32 bit data width and can support up to 2GB of memory attached. A single x16 (16 bit wide data path) DDR3 chip in 512MB (4Gb) size is reasonably cheap to buy today but doubling that size to 1GB (8Gb) makes the price go up like 4x since there's just not much volume in that size sold. In order to fit onto the BeagleBone board size, only 2 DDR3 chips could fit, so only 1 EMIF is used, and to keep costs reasonable they used 512MB (4Gb) sized chips leading to 1GB of total DDR3.

Related, the C66 DSPs and M4 cores inside of AM57xx are only able to access the EMIF interfaces over the L3_MAIN core interconnect within the SoC. L3_MAIN is a 32 bit address bus interconnect, so at most can address only 4GB of memory address space. TI's memory maps for the DSPs and M4 cores both start the EMIF addressing at 0x8000_0000 so at most the DSPs and M4 cores can only access up to 2GB of DDR3. Addresses below 0x8000_0000 are mostly memory mapped peripherals, like the GPIOs and PCIe interfaces and such. The Cortex-A15 cores are able to use an extended addressing mode and can access the EMIFs through a different interface, they don't have to use L3_MAIN (but can, but there's errata), so if you connect more than 2GB of DDR3 to AM57xx then the big Cortex-A15s can access it but no one else can, which makes it less useful/valuable for a lot of designs.

If you want a dev board with more DDR3 and AM57xx, the BeagleBoard-x15 is an option although it appears to be hard to buy just the x15 from most distributors right now as they're out of stock. TI still sells the AM572x dev kit with the LCD screen directly (https://www.ti.com/store/ti/en/p/product/?p=TMDSEVM572X), albeit for a bit more than just the x15 used to cost and quite a lot more than the new AI costs.
If that is what people discuss with their therapist then it sounds like an incredible waste of time.
GP isn't saying GitHub should copy the entire repo, only that there should be some indication that the code you're looking at isn't the repo owner's (despite being committed in their name and on a repo they "control").

I don't see what optimization requires that. They already keep track of e.g. me pushing up someone else's commit after a rebase -- it indicates that I pushed but the commit originally came from someone else.
sort of. but at least in capitalism, individuals are free to choose which behaviors deserve dollars. obviously billionaires have outsized influence, but many small voice still matter. in PRC, some govt committee decides which behaviors get credit.
They bought me on "No full install".

I've always been annoyed how Unix systems treat the system as "their property" with the user just being a temporary guest (if not an intruder).
Twitter has been failing at displaying single tweets for the last two weeks or so, is it just me or other people have observed this behaviour too?
> you can recode chef-sugar if you think the way ICE works is fine and we should help them.

No need to re-code, it's open-source. It's already forked and under new control.

Really, Seth was only the "owner" of that code insofar as the mainline development was occurring on a project on his profile. The project now exists under Chef's control on their profile.

This move only generates some minimal pain for anyone using Chef-Sugar, and gains PR for Seth and his views. Presumably the latter was his goal all along.
Wow. That’s not going to cause massive, crippling hyper inflation at all, is it.
Yeah, they would otherwise have to do a bit of work to keep separate maps of the objects in each fork.
For one, this is not as one-sided and simple as "X is a tax burden".

The Congressional Budget Office reported in 2007 that "the tax revenues that unauthorized immigrants generate for state and local governments do not offset the total cost of services provided to them" but "in aggregate and over the long term, tax revenues of all types generated by immigrants—both legal and unauthorized—exceed the cost of the services they use."[1] Unauthorized immigrants create demand for goods and services[10] while an estimated 50 to 75 percent pay taxes.[9] Due to cheaper labor, they contribute to lower prices in the industries where they work, such as agriculture, restaurants, and construction.[2]

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/110th-congress-2007-...

[2] https://www.nap.edu/catalog/23550/the-economic-and-fiscal-co...

Also, legal immigration just doesn't work well as a policy today. There's this perception that there's a line that people should just get in, but actually that process has been jammed up and there's active efforts to sabotage, with rhetorical tricks like claiming family immigration includes more than just immediate family (parents, spouse, children, only, not uncles and nieces etc), and silently walling off by extending processing times to multiple years, to the way quotas work -- same level regardless of size of country.

But more to the point, talk about morality when noticing how some vilify refugees and asylum seekers, and don't learn from history, like with WW2 refusals of refugee jewish people from Europe, which led to the 1951 Refugee Convention.

Want to practically and cheaply address illegal immigration? Maybe consider actually solving systemic issues like issues with legal immigation instead of throwing refugees and children in cages perhaps?

Sorry but where there's asylum seekers caged and cases of sexual abuse and abuse of power and lack of oversight and cases of deaths, and when there's such a clear understanding of the real issues that could be improved that people just conveniently set aside, it's clear what the dictates of morality are in my mind.
> Stop being a drone.

> Set yourself free, and cast off the 24/7 toxic work culture of SV that's keen on producing useless shit for problems no one has.

IDK man, I like being able to eat. But on a more serious note, that's a much bigger political economic issue than it is an individual one. If we want to change it, we have to act corporately.

I also take issue with the idea that meaningful work makes it impossible to burn out for long. I have been completely bulldozed by meaningful work that both killed my love and investment in what I was doing and left me exhausted and barely sustaining. It took ages to recover. If anything, meaningful work is that much more likely to lead to burnout because of your personal investment in it. In my experience, when you care about what you do you tend to give yourself over to it. For example, 24/7 toxic work culture is pretty much the standard in non-profits because you're there for "the mission".
This is not true. A computer heater can only ever be 100% efficient, but most electric heaters are actually heat pumps and can be up to 400% efficient, depending on conditions. Heating your home with bitcoin miners (or any other computing device) is a staggering waste of energy.
Quantitative Easing could not exist without creating money. Its literally the Fed creating money to buy bonds to reduce interest rates.
Of course they are not a bot.

What you are saying is basically like saying: "We've sued the companies for polluting the river, but we have no intention of cleaning the pollutants."
Currently they will be sticking to daylight hours and calm enough weather. Also due to the valley here, they will have to worry about days with low clouds due to temperature inversions.

I see drones as one of the potential solutions to last mile delivery, co-existing with other technologies.
I was under the impression that the many of those immigrating are actually entirely legally going through the refugee/asylum process so the whole claim that they are illegal is moot. They are legal.
And who knows it was probably out of the scope of the presentation and he simply didn't know if they had any plans to publish research or directly open source it.

I doubt Google's being super protective of data center power optimization stuff. Demand optimization sounds like a relatively straightforward software problem for Amazon, Microsoft, etc to solve. Most of the utility would be for the smaller players.
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