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The composition of the NBA is staggeringly disproportionate relative to the overall population. That's a problem, too, right?
> Caffeine Fiend

Phahaha, that's amazing. I'm stealing that.
MTA said its policies were not violated as it was not political advertisement.
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The accident report confirms that neither the pilots nor controllers followed established procedures. This is not simply my idle speculation. The plane was not on the proper published approach for the airport. The controller attempted to give vectors to the aircraft to give it room to descend. The pilot declined to follow the instructions (possible violation). At this point, in my opinion, the controller should have said, "go around." Instead, the controller said, "cleared to land."

Yes, the pilot is in control of the aircraft, but unless and until an emergency is declared, ATC is in control of the airspace, and the pilots should obey any safe command.

Don't get me wrong, the pilots bear the majority of the responsibility, but ATC did not do their job properly, either.
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We do have "pop scientists". While they're not all necessarily "groundbreaking" or "leading researchers", I wouldn't discount the impact of folks like Neil Degrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku, and Brian Greene.
I find myself reaching for LaTeX for complex documents that I also want to look great. Curious to hear what others use.
This master - slave debate is at least 10 years old. And I have the same questions now:

- ofc master slave relationship between human beings is wrong, but are we not allowed to "abuse" and "subjugate" IT systems? I mean that's kind of their purpose if you ask me. It's wrong to beat somebody but it's not wrong to beat a carpet.

- what is the purpose of removing those words? Is it like pretending these relationships don't exist?

- who benefits from the removal of the terms and in what way exactly? How is the world getting better by doing this?
And I’m not sure why the “import and export” of oil is mentioned here. I guess there are some marginal reductions in emissions if you move it around, but the big supertankers are pretty efficient.

Really it sounds more like some ploy to keep America using less oil, without outright saying that, and, well... the idea must date to before we became one of the top producers in the world. I guess it could work for Europeans if they’re really, really willing to suffer for it (and it does spite Russia, which isn’t nothing in terms of European geopolitics)
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My parsing of the sentence of the "neither wish to have" part is that the thing the other person controls is the object of this wish.

So it still works if we extrapolate that to something like "If I was in control of this software, I would make it so much better." Well, congrats, because you are (in FOSS)! Even if someone else maintains a project, you can always fork it.
Hi there, I see you posted multiple times your Typesense link. Just wanted to point out that your demo website is broken for some days now. I keep getting "ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID".

Good luck!
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I think this specifically relates to a slightly different problem, which is domain experts viewing their domain as being much more important than it actually is. There’s no reason at all to presume that a cartographer would have anything insightful to say about anything aside from cartography. Society has vested interests in many different areas, but cartographers can only be relied upon to have an interest in furthering the goals of cartography.
Depends on what you definition of OSM based map is. Technically Apple Maps is, since its using data from them, as well as others:

If you click the info box in Apple Maps underneath the Tom Tom logo it says © Openstreetmap contributers and other providers

Full list: https://gspe21-ssl.ls.apple.com/html/attribution-156.html
Over my dead body. Seriously, I lived in all kinds of apartments for 15 years and there will always be some kind of horrific nuissance no matter how hard everyone tries to be respectful of each other.

I'm all for increasing density, go ahead and build your buildings higher.

But don't do it at the expense of people who are willing to pay high premiums to have a small piece of land to avoid the noise, smell, polution, and crowding of apartments.
"Nuanced" can refer to understanding or tone.

For example, I can have a nuanced understanding of how fire works, the fire code in my area, and so on. But I'm not going to be very "nuanced" when I'm trapped in a burning building and screaming for help because I'm about to burn to death.

Both meanings are relevant here.

To the parent poster's point...

Certainly, nuanced discussion is in general a good thing. We want that understanding, that openness to new ideas, the understanding of others' perspectives, the acknowledgement of complexity, the reliance upon facts and not rhetoric or emotion.

However, an insistence on nuanced discussion necessarily excludes folks who do not have the luxury of nuance. If I am trapped in a burning building, I would not have the luxury of nuance. Folks being rounded up for transport to concentration camps do not have the luxury of nuance. A person being stalked by a jealous ex-lover with a history of violence does not have the luxury of nuance.

So if we exclude those whose tone lacks nuance, we also tend to exclude those with a truly nuanced understanding of the issue at hand.
Most of the energy released by the thermonuclear devices we know how to make is from fission.
It's a stunningly beautiful work, but it also reminds me about the fragility of works.

The original is badly damaged. Thankfully, we have this copy, and now that it's been recorded electronically in theory we will at least have this version forever. But in practice, I fear that a lot of data will disappear. Modern hard drives and ssds have a frighteningly short lifetime. There are some organizations that are trying to record some of this, such as the internet archive, but it is not clear to me that they are going to last in the long term.

I would like to be more confident that much of the works of the present and past (like this) will survive into the future.
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Unfortunately it was lost to leftist fundamentalism back when that started to become a thing. Just look at a discussion of the blog in question: https://www.metafilter.com/145707/Privilege-doesnt-mean-you-...

Sure, there are some insightful comments. But also a lot of sneering, a lot of trash talk, a lot of very bad faith arguments, etc. This was the beginning of the end for my posting on metafilter. It's just too toxic.
That is cool when you put it like that. Uncovering hidden relationships that are useful sounds romantic. Thanks for posting
The funny thing is HotSpots startup time and memory usage are drastically lower on jdk 14 vs 8 [0].

I think the next step for Java will be more people shifting to using ZGC which automatically releases unused heap back to the OS where the current default (G1) doesn't.

[0] https://cl4es.github.io/2019/11/20/OpenJDK-Startup-Update.ht...
Terribly sorry, the title was too long for the text field so I had to edit it down.

The title in full is: "Oxford Expert Claims Their COVID-19 Vaccine Gives Off Long Term Immunity With Antibodies 3X Higher Than Recovered Patients"
Many folks felt the exact same about losing the Wild West to “civilization.”

Doesn’t mean you or they were wrong, but you’re most likely going to be plowed over by the machines of progress.
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Org-mode in Emacs. Because it enables to do literate programming.

In this video [0] by Howard Abrahams you can see how to wave the instructions and the execution of them with Emacs.

Another advantage is that you can mix your diagrams (in plantuml or ASCII art) with your code, in the same org-mode file.

Gitub displays .org files the same way it does Markdown.

[0] https://youtu.be/dljNabciEGg
This feels like a pretty empty symbolic change.
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It's about an attack on prehash described later in the article.
The partition was a hideous mistake but it was decades ago and how long can you blame it for unrelated things anyway?.

By that logic as an Englishman I can blame the French for all our screwups.
It might make the workplace slightly more welcoming (or less unwelcoming) to people who are descendants of slaves.
Names change all the time. Leader / follower and primary / secondary are better for a lot of things, anyway. Even ignoring the social issue, master and slave are not great terms for how they are used. Frankly, I find it disturbing that so many developers are so attached to the master and slave terminology. It’s like the tech industry’s version of the confederate flag.
There is a post on SSC about Isolated Demand for Rigor which, well, I can't link you to because it's down. But I think it is relevant to many points made in this conversation. Is it better to have representation when making policy decisions? Pretty much everybody is saying yes. And somehow, this "yes" gets interpreted as "can't have an opinion on any topic as long as I'm not part of a certain group". That's identity politics taken to the extreme.

I'm going to put common sense on the table and say that yes, I can have opinions on various topics. Including, among many others, disabled people.

Are my opinions equally valid, given that I'm not part of that group? And here we start to see how things get confused - because absolutely nobody deigns to give a definition of "valid". Are my opinions correct? good? useful? - that's damn easy to judge, comparatively. But "valid"? Hell, I could have the best damn idea in the whole wide world, and it still wouldn't make it "valid" - in the climate we're moving towards.

Are opinions of people not of that group, on average, equally good as those in the group? That's a completely different question, and now the isolated demand for rigor becomes clear: we move from a statistical bias to being allowed to do something. Being less likely to be right is not a criteria for being allowed in the public discourse. Nor should it be.
With more efficient engines on smaller planes, we can now fly nonstop transatlantic between city pairs that would never have been available before. Indianapolis to Paris for example. This is a net gain in my opinion over the big hub to hub planes.
Good point. I guess if there must be a cage since the robot will injure any person coming close, including other people working around it, then that could cause some problems.

At some points, large companies were developing robots that could work alongside humans on assembly lines etc since they had sophisticated safety features. I don't know if they ever were commercially successful.
In the US the only real competition is Lyft, who is definitely not treating software as a cost center.
"Tax-deductible donation" is a subset of "donations", at least in the US. I can "donate" (syn: "give") money to anyone. I don't have to do anything special for that, and in theory they should report it on their (personal) taxes as income. If I'm giving it to a registered charity (non-profit), I can deduct it as a donation on my taxes. Maybe that's part of why this piece generated so much discussion: for some, just the word "donation" carries certain connotations that others might not ascribe.
Perhaps, "order" was the wrong word, but ATC absolutely has authority over the airspace unless and until an emergency is declared.
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>they are paid nothing, zero,

Incorrect. Disability, social security, etc are payments. Payments that we all bear when people, rightfully, opt out of this oppressive, toxic, dog eat dog workforce. Or worse, when someone's body is sacrificed for the sake of profits. If you're getting rid of minimum wage you should probably get rid of all social safety nets to deal with perverse incentives.

>because well-intentioned but economically clueless people have decided that it’s not morally proper for low-skilled people to make whatever their labor is worth.

eesh. Let's play out what happens when you treat human beings like livestock, from living memory: We get the company town(1). We get China's foxconn suicides(2). We get slave labor camps (active in China and the United states, like today, right now(3,4)). Then, or concurrently we get death camps for the infirm(5); if we can't hope to pay even a subsistence wage for all labor then how can we possibly allow these parasites to live on, homeless and impoverished, with the ills those kind bring to a civilized land.

>No, it puts a floor on who is employable, hurting the least capable people the most.

That's merely a point of debate, not a fact, as you suggest(6). In light of the cited history I've outlined, I would argue that such an argument is debunked and does not merit further discussion without extraordinary evidence.

In regards to your last statement. What you've arguing for has been tried before, and is explained, with citations, for you to read at your leisure, on the Wikipedia page for minimum wage. I beg that you take a cursory examination of the available history and literature. I would rather like to avoid repeating the bloody mistakes of history.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides

3. prisoners, many due to racist laws under the guise of paternalism(see paternalism from (1)).

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

5. https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocid...

6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage
What are the new terms to supersede these antequated undesirables? Brain and Body?
> One peculiarity of human perception is that large objects in motion appear to be moving more slowly than they really are

Rule #1: if you are at a railway crossing and you see a large object in motion coming down the track, then stop and let that large object pass before you try to cross the tracks!
Lately, more often then not, when I do a test of javascript perf v8 is at the bottom of performance compared to Spidermonkey and Nitro (or whatever the name of Safari's engine is). And I'm not talking a few percent. I'm talking 2x to 20x.

Not every test, but enough that at least on micro benchmarks v8 seems to be the at the bottom at the moment which is disappointing.

It's possible on more common use cases they are closer on perf.
I prefer 1000x a complex pricing page than having to talk to a sales rep to get the first sense of pricing.

Each industry has different aspects of how much value they get from a product, the effort to try to encapsulate these aspects into a single pricing functions is much appreciated.

We face the same challenge with Decimals.app - should be adding pricing soon as well
"I'd assume that for banks all code that goes into production gets audited"

The point of tag managers is to let non-developers update production without going through a code deployment so the usual code review and oversight doesn't apply.

Also worth keeping in mind that this is the bank's marketing site. It's almost surely managed by a different team than the actual online banking site and probably has looser restrictions.
Abolishing single family zoning won’t do anything to prevent you from buying a single family house. The vast, vast, majority of houses will still be detached single family.

It’s just allowing the option to build an in-law unit and rent it out, or split the house into a duplex, or build a townhouse (houses with shared walls).
> The only reason

Are you certain _you_ have divined _the_ only reason already?

In your _spare time_.
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So the government should manipulate the housing market to benefit a small class of people who can afford single family homes in a place, even if it is detrimental the to vast majority?

If you want to live in a SFH, perhaps a dense urban core is not ideal for you.
I just commented above, but isn't this actually what's happening? I mean, isn't giving something of value to someone, and expecting nothing in return, the textbook definition of a "gift"? This feels more and more like something is getting lost in translation.
I guess you pay her a US salary or something comparable.
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It's not just a developer thing, it's used in lots of other places, like master/ slave cylinders, etc.
Not looking for a full time job, but attempting to make contacts with european (potential) customers for (possible) contract work.

Location: Remote only, but located in Romania

Remote: Only

Willing to relocate: Not on first date.

Technologies: arm linuxes incl kernel level work, linuxes generally, android, qt, java (of the android flavor only), kotlin, c++, lost count.

Tech lead/co-manager and general use troubleshooter for a small loose team.

Architect. Or at least I turned down a job offer for a position called Architect relatively recently.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nottorp/ (sorry it's linkedin but they're good as a CV hosting site if you disable all the spam and never open the site).

Email: not dot torp at [that free email offered by Google]
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not if some people consider it offensive. that alone is a sufficient reason to support this change, even if you don't think it's necessary.
The article is calling for the abolition of single-family zoning, not the imposition of zoning laws that mandate the construction of multi-family dwellings. Essentially, the author is a property rights proponent - if you own the land you should be able to construct whatever premises pleases you on it.
who benefits from the removal of the terms and in what way exactly?

Everyone, because we get to work in places where our colleagues don't have to use words that have extremely negative connotations from their history. In a lot of cases we also get to use words that make more sense - "master" and "slave" is a specific type of relationship that computers don't have with one another. "leader" and "follower" are a better analogy in most cases, especially in the typical case of server replication.
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I do not know a single person paying YouTube $65 a month. I had a friend that was buying YouTube without the ads, but I am not sure if that is the same thing.
Seems like a really interesting project to keep an eye on.
The more I read, the more I think that the US is a nightmare for worker.
For context, war crime includes everything from sinking merchant ships to My Lai, my statement (mostly) leaned toward the former.

Generally, it’s deviation from the agreed upon rules, and you’ll find no shortage of people with boats named Richelieu believing greatness synonymous with the successful pursuit of interest, ideally done intelligently within the rules of course, ideally.
GrapheneOS might be something you like.

https://grapheneos.org
I like the concept. I spent nearly a decade with Visual Basic, and got sick of building GUI's on the screen. It was a lot of repetitive manual labor when I didn't all that much care what my layouts looked like. Most of my programs are for limited use -- glorified scripts. I'd rather just sling a few lines of code and have it generate an ugly but functional layout for me.

One thing to add is a graph.
And another recent study https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-020-05983-z

> hydroxychloroquine use was associated with decreased in-hospital mortality.
> Torturing someone in a simulation is not any different than imagining someone being tortured,

Isn't it? Our imaginations are predictive, not simulative.
"OP" here.. I'm not shooting the quoter, I'm questioning if the original article writers have some sort of sneering attitude when they wrote that...
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Nuance is desirable. Anything complicated worth discussing is going to require a lot of nuanced understanding. It should certainly always be one of our ideals.

The challenge is: nuance is a luxury.

The people actually being affected by a crisis are often precisely those people who don't have the luxury of nuance.

So, while we should always strive for nuance, we also need to balance it with other ideals e.g. empathy.
Personally I interpreted the remark differently. But it also may depend on the field you are in.

First, publish the idea, the rough concept. You can get valueable feedback from this.

Second, publish an implementation of the idea and the evaluation thereof. This is the actual result.

Depending on limitations it can be worthwhile to publish an extended and revised version of the second one. You can go in excruciating detail on this and include unremarkable side results.

Depending on your field you might be limited to 8 pages for your second publication, which is often very limiting, or your third publication might be your thesis linking several results together.

Version control would be nice though. Especially when you notice errors yourself you would like to fix.
It upsets people because of the association with slavery, and it's trivial to use different terminology.
To demonstrate an obvious pattern you need to give a set of important examples. Of course you can find selective misquoting and distortions, but that doesn't establish a pattern, much less a pattern for important cases. (But even if that pattern was established each individual story would be true or false on its own merits).

That said even the example you linked isn't that strong. The omission of the word "these" in "these women" doesn't change the meaning of the paragraph because it's qualified by "they haven't been hacking for 10 years". Obviously the modified paragraph doesn't apply to women who have been hacking for 10 years. The alteration only matters if many women have been hacking for 10 years relative to men. Therefore, the altered paragraph accurately conveys the author's meaning.

The same for the ambiguity as to whether "we" refers to society or YC. Either interpretation has very similar meaning ("Women aren't starting Facebook because they don't have 10 years programming experience and neither YC nor society can undo that without a time machine).

Then the author talks about how they misspoke. You can't blame that on a journalist when they quote you.

Even if you don't agree the excerpts are clearly not obvious examples of journalistic malpractice. And most claims of misquoting and distortion are much weaker than even this, often completely baseless.
I mean, you can "sell" anything. For $15/mo, I will say "thank you, [your name]" out loud to my cat. For $20/mo, I will give a thumbs-up to the tree in my front yard and think about what a great person you are. Is the government really in a position to tell me that those things aren't "worth" what I'm "charging"?
Wow, all it took to solve racism and America's underlying economic issues was a simple change of terms.

If only we knew sooner.
So is the intended outcome a complete ban on the word "master", context be damned? What about master's degrees, skill mastery, masterpiece?

Surely if you see slavery references anywhere you find the word "master" used in any way, that says more about you?
That alone is sufficient reason not to support this change, otherwise we will run out of words pretty soon.
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I'm willing to make the concession that any urban area with > 100,000 should probably not have single family zoning.

Build your McMansion out int the boonies, just don't expect me to subsidize it with my tax dollars
Maybe not all of them.

Criminals are necessary for a healthy functioning society.