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Why does no one care about GC backlog? Especially all the tech companies
Families are being separated. Kids are aging out and are having to self deport.

I personally aged out, but was lucky enough to be able to stay in the US through H1B. However, this just means that the whole process for getting a GC starts from scratch. I came here at the age of 9 and America is the only place I think of as Home.

Why does no one care that this is happening?

We are held as indentured servants waiting forever to get our GCs and our freedom. My parents are still waiting after 13 years with no end in sight. Since I am restarting the process, my wait time could be upwards of 40 years.

Why do the companies allow it to keep happening? Do they not care about what this does to their employee's mental health?

Immigrants have helped build this country and the companies that make it great. Why does no one speak for us?

More talent coming to the US means more jobs, more innovation, and better quality of live for everyone. It should be in the companies best interest to speak up and work with the government to formulate a plan for immigration instead of just being along for the ride.

Instead, they stay quiet. They let us suffer because they know that if one of us has to go back we will soon be replaced by another immigrant.

Please speak up. Please participate in the legislative process and help pass reforms.

S368 was blocked last year by Senator Dick Durbin. It's not perfect, but it was a step towards equality by removing country based limitations on GC.

Please help us.
ASCII is good when it works. Of course, not everything can be written suitably in ASCII, but if it can be, then it should be. As they said, "[it] can still be read and decoded by everything on the planet. It is as close to universal as anything we have."
Is that then really a definition that carves reality at the joints? What is it that the AI will actually be hindered in doing, that is described by its inability to meet this definition?

If I think about a process using a certain mechanism, and the AI thinks about a process using a similar mechanism, but also I have a consciousness attached on top and the AI does not, then it seems petty to assign these processes different labels based on a component whose mechanical relevance is not shown. I'm not doubting the impact of conscious, reflective reasoning on human capability, mind! But most of the thinking I do is not that.

Also as a general rule, you should be skeptical of considerations of reason that are based largely on introspection; the process is inherently biased towards consciousness as a load-bearing element, since consciousness is so heavily involved in the examination.
> Using fiddler I briefly looked and didn't see tiktok sending my clipboard contents anywhere.

Maybe you just didn't copy anything TikTok was interested in keeping track of. I can think of a lot of really obnoxious things you can do with clipboard data, everything from scanning the contents to collect interests, scanning for URLs, collecting information about what applications are installed. A lot of this could be analyzed on device and it would only update infrequently.
Middle class black people often get harassed by police, and there is a long history of far steeper sentences for convictions for drugs used more by the black population (crack) than that used more by the white population (cocaine).

So unequal treatment based on race has quite literally been a feature of the US justice system, independent of socioeconomic status.
I'm not the original comment author, neither am I fluent in Perl. But I suspect they meant nested hashes and not a hash whose values are arrays of arrays. As you point out, the latter is trivial.

To be clear, even a nested hash is all well as long as the depth and the keys are literals (as in your example). It is when keys are dynamic that things get unruly. And god forbid if the _depth_ of nesting is dynamic. All of these are trivial to implement in Python, Ruby, JS, PHP, ...
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> One day Amazon is going to get smacked with such a lawsuit resulting in billions in punitive damages, then and only then will you see real effort on their part to curb this behavior.

I can’t wait for that day. What they’re doing is criminal in my opinion.

But unwind hold my breath. The story about electric Skateboards burning someone’s house down resulted in amazon being „only a reseller“ with „no responsibility“ wrt the resulting property damage from them selling a battery powered scooter that didn’t meet safety standards.
aka How I become hermit

good luck deleting Whatsapp (and Messenger) in Europe, you essentialy cut yourself from most of the communication

also replacing Whatsapp with E2E Signal encryption by default with unsafe Telegram with no encryption by default and even optional with questionable quality doesn't seem like very clever choice, I would have expected switch to Signal, Riot etc. instead notgoriously unsafe service, which doesn't even provide videocalls
Here: https://sci-hub.st/10.1126/science.aaz7607

And yeah, TFA is a little lame. I laughed at "lithium...floats on water". It's true that it's less dense, but "float" is a huge understatement. That is, it skitters, like water on a hot frying pan. But, I guess because it's less dense, it doesn't detonate as often as sodium or potassium do.
Nespresso vs. espresso which is the best
Why do you make the fonts so big?
It happens whether or not I say that actually. Every time I disagree with Apple I get downvoted to oblivion. There are just too many Apple fanboys here who believe Apple is the be-all end-all of everything privacy.
No, they really don't.

Remember the fun we had making fun of Apple Maps? Why in the world would Apple have dropped Google as the back end for their original Maps program, right? Well, it was because back in 2011 or so, Google refused to give Apple access to true turn-by-turn navigation features unless Apple gave them more access to user data. Rather than do that, Apple decided to go it themselves, even though that made the Maps product worse for years. This is consistent with Apple's behavior in other fields. (Hey, Siri!)

There are a lot of criticisms to be made of Apple, but "they're selling your data by proxy" just doesn't seem to be one of them.
I'm certain Apple knew in advance that a fair number of apps would trip this up and which ones were going to run into issues in advance. It's interesting that they went ahead and turned this on immediately without warning developers it was coming. Perhaps they wanted people to see what they were preventing.
> Regex won't work on its own, you generally need more semantic information

Yeah, I agree. My point was that regex won't work, regardless of if you have backreferences or not. So backreferences won't help.

> But more broadly, any situation where you search from a non-zero index has this problem.

I'm not sure I understand that. A lot of regex libraries let you specify a start index. It won't take into account data from before the start index though (regex doesn't really do that, regardless of backreferences). If your regex library doesn't support passing in a start index, you can just take a substring starting at that index, then search the substring.

I don't think Python is really special. Python's findall() is just a convenience function that does a loop finding a match, then finding another match that starts after the first match, etc. Most languages provide a way to find the end point of the most recent match, and then you can just write the loop yourself to start the next search at that point.
Why should Namecheap give up the name of its customers?
Right, you could of course file bankruptcy if your business becomes unprofitable on account of rentiers not paying their rent...but that's not a solution to the housing problem at all and strongly disincentivizes investment in housing.
feels like languages are converging.
It is not Google vs Apple. No court would take that case. Google hardly has any market share of phones (Pixel) and Apple doesn't sell OSes

Apple and Samsung are in direct competition. Apple has >50% of the smartphone market in the USA. Samsung has less then 25%, every one else has even less. Google has < 1%. That Samsung happens to use Android is irrelevant. FWIW Samsung has its own app store and plenty of distinguishing features from every other phone.

The rest of the world has its own markets. If the UK wants to sue Apple or Google for being a monopoly they only care about the UK market, not how it's selling in Indonesia. In other words it doesn't matter one wit if some company has a large market share in the world, monopolies are only enforced in a specific country for that country's market, not the world market. You quote iOS has only have 20%, but as that is a world wide number it's entirely irrelevant and pointless. If iOS had 100% market share in Singapore but only 5% marketshare in the world it would be Singapore suing because of the Singapore market. There is no one who can sue on behalf of the world.
People spend a month on a ventilator, and they end up brain damaged. It's probably due to the anesthesia needed to restrain a person who has tubes jammed into the lungs.

People went half a century on iron lungs. They were fine. They could talk and eat.

It's clear what the best solution for the patients is. We aren't using it because it is annoying for the hospitals. It is really bulky, it slows down access to the torso, and nobody wants to pay for that.
At most Costco can cancel his membership. In other stores, if they find regular abusers, they can get restraining orders. Fry's electronics used to do that against a few customers.
I got into a dispute with some influential people who owned a condo. Their response was to have their chief of security call 7 people at a company I was affiliated with. He intimidated them for having the condo’s address on the website. He told them I was a drug dealer and that I had threatened someone.

He was a US Attorney and a Homeland Security official so he seemed impressive. A few times he frantically called my best friend and would say ridiculous things. He didn’t realize we were messing with him but it got out of hand.

Soon, another federal prosecutor joined the party, who is a partner in a famous law firm. They sent private investigators who went to every place I was known to go and told people I was wanted.

Their boss is the type of person who spends tens of millions secretly to get Supreme Court Justices confirmed.

Luckily, I was able to record a public conversation that implicated and embarrassed the lawyers involved. But it came at a very high price. I should had avoided the conflict but it was over rich creepy men targeting young girls. The federal prosecutors protected him.
Yes but you could do this on Android since version 1 because it was open source. You could always modify the OS to spit out fake sensor data and appease apps that would otherwise not run if you didn't give them permissions.

My privacy shouldn't depend on Tim Cook's product management timeline.
In any case, how is amazon not responsible for selling a ladder that obviously didn’t meet safety standards??
> ask us

What's the best way to do that these days? IRC was the most active Perl place back in the day and the best place to get help, where's the best place for people to ask for help these days?
“Society should treat all equally well who have deserved equally well of it, that is, who have deserved equally well absolutely. This is the highest abstract standard of social and distributive justice; towards which all institutions, and the efforts of all virtuous citizens should be made in the utmost degree to converge.”
—John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1861

The origination of social justice initiatives.
People have been writing stuff about short-termism being the bane of the economy for a long time; maybe it's worth reconsidering the idea that prices reflect estimated total future profits and not the next quarter? Could short-termism be a myth?
I believe it's not radical at all compared to the Perl 6 idea. It's basically "strict Perl 5" if I'm reading it right.

If Larry had said from the start "Let's make a new language and call it Raku" we would have had Perl 6 long ago, it would have been called Perl Enterprise Edition in the business world, and you'd never have heard of Python or PHP because everyone would be using Perl. Oh well, better late than never.
why would you need to use their app? there are much superior third party apps like Boost for Reddit or Sync for Reddit
That's one interpretation.

Another would be that there are any number of externalities of speech that affect society directly, such as coercion and fraud.
I used Android phones for several years before switching to an iPhone 8 two years ago. I think the major reason why manufacturers don't care to provide updates is because they don't expect those phones to last more than 2 years. It's not a joke. I've had some mid-range to expensive Android phones (HTC, Samsung, Motorola) and none of them lasted more 2 years. Whereas my wife's 6 year old iPhone 5s is still working! How do you explain that? Every Apple devices I've owned so far has been incredibly reliable and held their value really well. My wife's 6 year old Macbook air with 4 gigs of RAM still works fine and runs the latest Mac OS! I don't think I can get that level of support from any other vendor.
I apologize for not reading the whole article, but after hitting

> Picture the nation as a pirate crew: In recent decades, the owners of the ship have gradually claimed a larger share of booty at the expense of the crew. The annual sum that has shifted from workers to owners now tops $1 trillion.

I couldn't help but feel that if they failed to research their examples that the rest of the article is probably not well researched either.

(You wouldn't want to use pirate ships of yore as an example of poor or inequitable labor conditions, because they were often much better than the alternatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance_in_18th-century_pir... )
Dammit just give me the numbers. This should be an entirely mathematical exercise. I shouldn’t have to scroll through weird Star Wars text and a story about student protesters in 1970 to see what the basis for your number is. What on earth is wrong with journalists?

This is a very complicated subject. Here is an analysis that shows the contrary result: https://www.econlib.org/the-real-wage-myth. One important observation: looking at wages alone, like the article does, excludes the value of benefits such as healthcare:

> BTW, these time series understate the growth in total labor compensation, as the cost of fringe benefits such as health care has risen faster than nominal wage growth. Alternatively, if you believe that health benefits are nearly worthless (my view), then the nominal wage series should be deflated by a price index that excludes health care. That would show even more rapid growth in real wages.

Basically, at the very least you’re not comparing like with like. Either include the value of health benefits in compensation, or exclude the contribution of healthcare in overall economic growth. There are also numerous other mathematical complexities. You need to adjust wages for inflation (using some index) and convert GDP to current dollars (using some index) but generally different indexes are used for the two. You also need to pick a baseline. 1970 is often used, but that was a recessionary period. Counter-intuitively, the ratio of wages to the overall economy is highest during recessions. Also, it’s not just workers and owners in the pirate ship analogy. Landowners also get a cut and their cut is growing. Accounting for both effects, the share of income going to non-housing capital owners is up a bit, but was about the same in 2005 as in 1960: http://voxeu.org/sites/default/files/image/FromMay2014/lacav...

I’m not sure what the right answer is. What I’m sure about is that cobbled together vignettes sprinkled with uncited, unexplained numbers that are more garnish than substance does not help anyone understand the issue at all. It’s empty calories.
So how do you unit / integration test your code in this paradigm?

Or is this just for apps that would otherwise be run from a spreadsheet, and not displacing anything an engineer would build?
I have not heard of Gemini before, but I tried the SSH that was linked above, and read about it. It seems a interesting idea. I don't like insisting on TLS either; I think that perhaps better would be like with HTTP, where the URI scheme is different for TLS or plain, perhaps "pgemini://" for the plain variant (the only difference, other than that there is no TLS, is that the 6x response codes are not supported).
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It seems like that would wind up causing more trouble than it's worth. While you or I may appreciate that, Joe McConsumer is just going to freak out.

In addition, it seems like that could wind up generating ill will towards the foundation ("They're wasting all of our $materials").
Probably the pandemic is meant to stay until he finally finishes the book.
> > ... a function is both its implementation and its "extension" (its effect on all inputs).

> Note that, according to definition of 'function' most common in math, this is false.

The standard definition of function in ZFC is a set of tuples pairing every "input" with an "output", so I think the previous commenter was correct with this reading.

> A function need not even be implementable.

However, if you are alluding to computable functions, then certainly, the story is a lot more interesting!
> don't benefit from automated updates

That varies by the ROM. Many do support automated OTA updates. (https://www.androidexplained.com/lineage-os-ota-update-locat...)
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In this respect, I see your point - a properly designed and secure OS, with a user and installer in "non admin" mode, should be able to do these things without locking the source of an app down to one location.
This is the most ridiculous site in the world. An eviction advocacy group makes a comprehensive site capturing disparate data from all over the country to understand the depths of a problem and the most pressing concern here is tone-policing their copy to ensure some false neutrality toward the "pro-eviction" lobby?
I would also add ChromeOS to this list. It has a decent install base and should be a killer platform for PWAs. Haven't seen anything notable here though either.
Do you think that racial segregation regulations, anti-gay regulations, long-gone anti-Jewish regulations and fresh anti-immigrant regulations were created against the will of the majority? Often the majority directly voted for them, like city-wide sundown laws.

It takes a rather hard conscious effort to remember that other people freedoms need preserving if you value your own, because you are not always guaranteed be on the side of the majority.
Can't recommend this essay highly enough. In particular, it gives a thorough defense of the claim that the importance of protecting freedom of speech ought to guide our personal action and community norms; freedom of speech is not just about restrictions on the government like the first amendment, as so often is unwisely argued.
I agree, but they need that emotional appeal... otherwise the numbers might not be convincing enough?
This is in a beta of iOS14. It's expected to have changes, sometimes breaking changes.

This is the beta process working exactly as it should.
I take it you've never done much shell scripting? This part of perl's baggage comes from its roots as a "better" shell/awk/sed. I don't like it any more than you do, but I must say, I wish people would reserve some of the vitriol they have for perl for the shell. Because I gotta tell you Rabbi, perl is a hell of a lot better than shell scripts. And that's even if you compare perl4 (1991-1994 or so?) to the very latest bash or zsh.

edit:

BTW if $| is really at risk of clashing with a variable you defined... something else is wrong. :)

Compare that with the shell, where names like IFS can do unimaginable things if you don't know about them and set them by mistake. (Or maliciously; it's imported directly from the environment, and stuff like this is why shell scripts can basically never be given untrusted input, whereas perl, with the 'taint' option, can.)

Reflecting on all this it's pretty sad that newbies in 2020 are encouraged to learn bash, and continue creating arcane, unreadable, booby-trap-laden scripts in it, all the while looking down their nose at perl.
I think most text-only user interfaces look good. Ones with graphics and fancy styling varies more widely.
[canarytokens](https://canarytokens.org/generate) are built for this, though I wouldn't use them for anything long-running
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Politicians are deaf to this issue, they can no longer hear that tone.

Business rhetoric promises to do better, but they're incentivized to do otherwise.

I don't see much hope for solutions, politically or economically. Maybe I'm just in a mood but things look grim.
"Yes, but."

2-wide layers can compute any computable function, but they do not scale in any manageable fashion with problem complexity. (Because you have to model problems as increasingly large lookup tables, whose size explodes rapidly.) The big thing about GPT is that so far, improvement in GPT size has corresponded to a .. I think logarithmic?- improvement in both quality of response and complexity of the problem domain that GPT can model. GPT scales, in exactly the way that a 2-layer network doesn't, and we don't yet have a handle on at what size it stops scaling.
This is basically Microsoft Access forms.
Android has far too many apps that refuse to work unless you give certain permissions. One of my banking apps needs the camera permission to work at all. The permission prompt states it's to digitally cash checks, but it asks at startup and if you deny permission the app quits immediately. Most delivery apps won't work without giving GPS permission. The iOS app store does not allow this kinda bs.
Obviously the comment is in reply to having unlimited traffic for a flat fee and not for a price per TB.
It’s also worth noting that cancel culture itself arose because a different “prevailing opinion” was creating different problems. In every case, whichever group ends up in the lead makes things hard for the other groups
> this person’s contribution was not the reason for the naming but the fact that black people were supressed

As opposed to all those other buildings, all of which were uniformly and fairly named after people with unimpeachible accomplishments in a purely meritocratic system, you mean?

I mean, come on. People name junk after stupid things All. The. Time. And no one cares. Seriously, go to your local campus or government center or NASA facility or whatever and look up the names on the buildings and lecture halls and bathroom stalls. Tell me those people "really deserved" that recognition.

Until you name something after a black woman. Then all of a sudden the white men get all meritocratic on your ass.
Sure you can. It's a restricted license with some standard CYA clauses, it doesn't mean that nobody is allowed to use it.
In that case it's not nativity and sounds more like deliberately muddying the water on Google's practices while he knows about the audience features. That's worse in my opinion.
> As long as instagram does not allow reposting, I think it'll maintain a certain degree of quality.

I've never been a big Instagram user, but considering one of my big complaints about FB is the prevalence of regurgitated reposted garbage (memes, crap news, chain letter nonsense), I might have to revisit my IG account and see if I can salvage a bit there.
Why do I need to contribute anything to society? Why does anyone need to contribute to society?