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I'm not sure how the government's messaging during the pandemic affects a private company, with global shareholders, claiming efficacy of a product whose results will be plain to see for all of those shareholders. You cannot lie about your products in an open market and be successful.

Sure, we should be skeptical of the government line on the pandemic, but why should we be skeptical of a product that comes from a company whose product must work for them to make money?

I think instead of letting our previous biases in one arena influence our current decision making in another, we should look at the evidence, make an independent decision, and then loop back on that when the evidence changes. Government bad != private company creates product that doesn't work
> Ever since I’ve paid attention to it and she’s definitely right - days where my anxiety is higher follows drinking 2-3 days before.

Yup I've noticed this as well. At first I thought I was drinking too often, so I didn't drink at all for ~3 months and tried again. Same thing. I'm "hungover" for a day and more anxious than usual for 1-2 days after that.

I've made a point to only drink anything on Friday now to avoid anxiety at work
a) Those are symptoms too

b) It's likely that it is protecting against those. But hard to specifically prove that it's protecting against each and every symptom. I think the hope is that if you don't develop lung issues, you are unlikely to develop long term damage.
It is meaningful in ways that are not measured in development time. There is a genuine effort to be less offensive regardless of how big of an impact it currently makes, or how meaningless individuals may believe it to be.
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> Another way is that they'd be spending even more if there were more healthy competition in the alternative app store market.

This simply isn't true. Android is much more open yet app spend is way lower compared to the smaller marketshare iPhone.

An open app market means a flood of free apps which means less money spent. Good Devs will absolutely lose in this scenario. Outsourced sweatshop devs will do everything cheaper.
I think that, for my use case, it would be a good combo to put both an Nvidia card and an AMD card in the same Linux machine, using the AMD one on Linux and spinning up VM guests using the Nvidia card for Windows gaming or for ML work. This way I can use Wayland (especially the Sway window manager) for my development workflow while being able to use CUDA and stuff.
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You said this was a compelling moral argument. I don't believe the moral content is at all clear and give examples of why not. Would you mind responding to those?

Apple prices have converged quite a lot - but note that the labor content of their products prices changes very little as everything is made in same factories in China.

McDonalds (another multinational with a quite standardized product offering across markets) charges very different prices for the same product depending on local markets.
It’s mixed. Existing Google products have become worse. The other problem I think is they don’t seem to persist with their new consumer products to see them mature, Allo, Inbox, hangouts to mention a few. I do like their cloud offerings, Spanner, Bigtable to mention a few.
Pure algorithms, for one. I don't think that Merge Sort for example has had or will ever have any political / social ramification.

On the contrary, I see that now the SJW trend is to attack IT in general and make a huge deal out of terms that (given the context) are perfectly fine.

I wonder how much it will take before we'll have to assign pronouns to the connetors or to the USB cables
In general I agree with you. As you point out, the company is under no obligation to do what is 'fair' for my work and it is my negotiating skills/power that will dictate how much I get paid. Fine, I accept this. However, on the flip side, a company should not expect my undying loyalty, working for free after hours, or take one for the team to get that release out etc. And no I will not be joining them on those bonding, team-building zoom meetings and/or retreats (will they still be a thing in a post-covid world?). Sorry its just business, maybe if you paid me equally for my work I would be more open to the above.
"Earlier this year, an independent study by the Analysis Group found that Apple’s commission structure is in the mainstream for app distribution and gaming platforms."

"Nice" deflection, Apple. If I had a penny for every time somebody used this reasoning ala "it's fine because others are doing the same thing" I wouldn't have to worry about a thing.
Everything, from cognitive ability, to chronic health problems in vision, hearing, heart, diabetes, etc. And of course, the immense weight on caretakers.
I think it would be hard for non public domain for one single reason - licensing and drm.
Similar to how Netflix/Prime video don’t let us download the movie file without their app.
I’ll give an example of a horrible waste of money on manager training: Plucky

https://www.beplucky.com/

The whole thing has this arrogant faux-subversive “not your grandma’s manager training” attitude that seeps into every aspect, and it makes a lot of pretense about being candid but in reality it has zero useful or new advice to offer, just rehashing well-known management considerations but trying to retrofit some notion of being more candid and edgy onto it. Most of the advice is even harmful because forcing more confrontational notions of candid behavior into management will not work at all in most large corporate cultures.

Plucky is essentially a way to get your company to pay for you to travel to another city, and mingle with other “edgy” tech leaders, which is insufferable and boring.

1000% do not recommend.
Apple takes some yearly fees from developers though, that's nearly a platform tax for Mac os.
> Depends on the law. If I'm female, and you're male, then equal pay laws may force it to be the same for equivalent work.

It already is, despite all the press claiming it isn't. In summary the difference in pay is caused by different choices men and women make in how much they value flexibility at work.

See: https://harvardmagazine.com/2016/05/reassessing-the-gender-w...
One quick point: Fellows is first and foremost designed for our students. We started by looking at our Labs program, which was 8 weeks long, and thinking about how we could make it better. Labs is a simulation, and a good one!, but will always be simulated. The incredible value for students of Fellows it that it's a "real world learning experience." We now think the 1-2 punch is Labs + Fellows.

> Have you done any legal vetting or anything along those lines? I like the idea, and I think it's worthwhile, but I'm not interested if it means putting the company at risk.

Yes, absolutely! We've taken the legal side of this very seriously since we realize it has the potential to be interpreted as "free labor."

In general, we do not encourage students to take unpaid internships. And if a student has the opportunity to take a paid position elsewhere, we recommend they do that.

As I mentioned in another response, our North Star for this program is an unparalleled learning experience for Lambda graduates. There are a few steps we've taken to ensure that it is a valuable learning opportunity for students:

1. We heavily qualify the companies we allow to host Lambda Fellows and require that they have a dedicated mentor in place, a meaningful project for the student to work on, a functioning team for the student to be a part of, and hold them accountable to provide and foster a positive learning environment. Companies who fail to meet these expectations, at any point, have had their Fellows removed.

2. As part of the qualification process for companies, we require that they have an open role for a junior developer that would be a qualified placement that the Lambda Fellow can apply for at the end of the Fellowship.

3. We remove the interview process for the students participating as Fellows and deploy them straight to the host company.

You're exactly right: the law basically asks "who is the primary beneficiary of that person's labor?" This was designed from the ground up as part of the educational journey of Lambda, and we've designed Fellows such that the student is the primary beneficiary of each step of that journey.
I believe it's not clear because Apple is set to gain nothing if they would move against "open computing", and only lose. iOS has not been an open computing platform since the start, and Apple appears to have trouble changing their backwards attitude there. There's no attitude to change on the Mac. Everything they've done on Mac nudges to strict defaults, but does not limit anyone (at best it improves security, at worst it annoys, but it does not fundamentally limit anyone). You can fully disable Gatekeeper with one Terminal command if those defaults annoy you.

In my view you can only believe Apple will lock down the Mac if you somehow view them as an irrational ideological opponent, not simply a company that wants to make money by selling computers. Since you say you don't care what Apple themselves say towards this, I can't escape the impression that you might actually already view them in this way. If so, there's not much we can talk about.
I remember in my University years i was astounded to find out that none of the programming languages we were taught could represent the Jurrasic period, or the day the earth was formed, as a date.

I was horrified even more when i learned that future leap seconds are undefined, and we literally can't tell what is the time on the clock lik3w a million seconds from now.
I think of it as FOMO. It's easy to scroll IG and get travel envy. Some people are nomads living in neat places. Some people are jet setters (ie. they escape their normal lives often). It'd be cool to be those people. But most people in the real world take modest and infrequent travel.

Travel in the way that makes you happy, talk about your friends travels, compare notes, get ideas for where to travel, and where you have no interest in traveling. When you meet someone that is well traveled, don't feel inferior. You're on your own journey, it's a path you picked. There's many reasons you chose this path and many ways you could change your path.

In short, don't compare yourself to others. Be confident with what you know and learn what you want with the level of depth that interests you.
Because most people with Down Syndrome are sterile
There are many many examples of choices that it's OK to make unless it's for a bad reason - that's exactly what a protected class is about.
I know a guy that stopped smoking by imagining vomiting in graphic detail every time he had a cigarette. YMMV
I pick up my daughter from school at 2:30. I always ask her what her favorite part of the day was and she says recess.
In Houston you would be bringing the mold inside due to the humidity.
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> It is entirely possible, without any dissonance whatsoever, to respect the autonomy and wonder of human life and the rights of people with disabilities, while also understanding that having children with debilitating permanent disabilities can be a heartbreaking exercise that drains you emotionally, mentally, and physically. Nobody reasonable wishes for their child to suffer from such a disability

I have a daughter with Down's, and I agree with what you've said here. I love my daughter and would lay down my life for her in an instant, but of course that doesn't mean I'd glad she has Down's and all the related health issues that can go with it.

> On the flip side, all of them required life-long assistance and care, never able to function completely independently, and lacking in almost all other meaningful quality of life factors.

This paragraph did surprise me though. Attitudes towards Down's have changed a lot in the past couple of decades, and at least in most of Europe, it's not uncommon for children with Down's to get a mainstream education and in adulthood for many to live (largely) independently. The level of intellectual impairment and physical and mental illnesses does vary a lot however, and undoubtedly some people will need life-long care regardless of the opportunities available to them.
(1) JPII was one of the great moral thinkers of the 20th century and I highly recommend that you read some of his work. Not only a thinker, he may be the single man most responsible for the fall of the USSR.

(2) The human institution of the Church, especially where wealthy, is highly corrupt and I say that as a devout Catholic who believes Christ established the Catholic Church as His church (tldr the human & divine Church are separate things).

(3) One of the likely reasons that Benedict abdicated was that he did not want to be "taken advantage of" as he saw various Vatican higher-ups do with the aging and frail JPII.

(4) JPII sadly dismissed cases of allegations. One thing to keep in mind though is when he was growing up in Nazi and then Soviet occupied Poland he would see the occupying forces falsely accuse "resistance" figures of abuse in order to hobble their reputation.

(5) While JPII did make mistakes, it is also my belief that many Vatican figures still-living use him as a scapegoat to hide their own errors. They are doing their best to hide any and all investigation and purely say "this is the fault of people who are now dead." They do not want any oversight. For example, why did they choose to finally release the long-awaited report on Cardinal McCarrick, the most prominent US abuser, the week of the presidential election in the US? Aiming to have it buried!
In the Netherlands unpaid internships are fine, as long as the main goal is the learning experience. Why would this be illegal if both parties benefit? Exploitation doesn’t strike me as super likely here, as it’s rather easy to get out and it’s easy to fire abusive employers.
I would much rather eat at s restaurant. The food hasn't gotten cold, and it just feels like a completely different experience
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Yes, I guess. I'm pretty used to ctrl+shift+v-ing to remove any formatting.
I'm now considering removing formatting by default. Know a simple way?
That's precisely contrary to my point. The available evidence is that the 737 Max did not meet the certification requirements for force vs pitch. As such no amount of extra training would have sufficed to make it a certifiable aircraft.

I appreciate that Boeing themselves have made this difficult by their PR line that MCAS makes it fly like other 737s. If you have ever been involved in something like this being managed in the public perception you'll understand this is pretty typical of how technical issues are dumbed down for public consumption. In this case it also happens to be technically correct, in that other 737s have certifiable behaviour in this flight regime, so MCAS makes it fly more like them.
I disagree, not knowing and then terminating because of knowing can save so much suffering for the parent and child.

Just because before there was no way to check/filter, did not guarantee that child would have a chance to reproduce.

The removal or inclusion of genetic defects usually stops if you can't reproduce and ends the family line with that descendent full stop.
Something like this was actually proposed before the bombing of Hiroshima, but not carried out in the end.
Thanks for the ML digging :) .

Agreed, it's worth bringing up again on the mailing list; will do this week and post here a link to my message.
I don't know how you expect these companies to prove their vaccine protects against asymptomatic long-term damage when nobody can prove asymptomatic long-term damage exists in the first place. It's like asking a home security company to prove their system keeps leprechauns out of the house.
I didn't say people should forgive Kavanaugh, I said they wouldn't. Therefore denying it does have a point, directly contradicting the beginning of the article that states that there is no point denying it.
This is some Labour Theory of Value nonsense. Markets do not function in this manner. However, it is a competitive advantage right now to offer equal pay irrespective of location.
For whatever it’s worth it took a month or so for the 5700 XT drivers to be sorted but after that mine has been running with no troubles for over a year with a lot of different gaming and content creation workloads.
If they are using this data to go after prescribers that is probably a good thing. If they are using it to go after users I don't see how that helps the root problem.
I'm pointing out your lack of knowledge on the issue, which is an order of magnitude more of a contribution than you spewing your Dunning-Kruger level take on the history of the conflict in Afghanistan.

You seem to think that a small number of photographs showing young people in popular western attire from a largely rural country's capitol in 1970s implies that the country at large had something approaching a liberal western mindset on culture and religion at the time. You also seem to be incorrectly conflating the Afghan Mujahideen, the Taliban, and the Northern Alliance.

I'm not going to write a dissertation on the topic on HN, but I'll just say that it's very clear that you don't know as much about it as you think you do, and I implore you and anyone reading the thread to go and read on this 40-year conflict in some detail if they want to gain a meaningful understanding of it.
Your cost of living is not the floor -- just ask Uber drivers. An income of less than the cost of living is still better than nothing. The floor is the next best thing you have available, or the minimum wage if applicable.
> Changing a default isn't banning a word.

Yes it is. This change is effectively reflecting a push, by bullies, to ban the word master, to eliminate it from spoken and written language, that's exactly what's happening.
I've worked at a startup and a very large company that grew from a startup. The former could survive, the latter most definitely would not (or at least not in the highly profitable form it existed).
Around April/May, they ran this course for free for 60 days. I progressed to few lessons, but had to stop as I had to focus on some critical stuff at work. I can tell it was good as far I went. I wish I convince my company next year to put us through this course.
This may be controversial, but I don't believe an unborn fetus has any inherent value outside of whatever feelings of hope and excitement it elicits in the parents. If those feelings are instead of dread and anguish, it should be terminated for the benefit of all.

The quote seems to imply there is value in the suffering of a disabled child and its parents - suffering for its own sake - which is absolutely horrific.
Delta have been in talks to take some of the stored, unallocated 737 Max ( 'whitetails' ) to replace their MD-95 / 717 fleet.
> Just because I'm in Atlanta doesn't make me inherently worth less than my peers in SF.

I think the mistake you are making is assuming that your salary represents your worth to the company.
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I've been working on a "fork" for Spanish books under a new imprint that I will launch when I finish my 10th book (I'm about 60% along).

One fact of reality is that Standard Ebooks' tooling is English-based. Everything from the pages/xhtml it generates to its typography tools to its style guide expects English. For example, Spanish uses — and «» instead of English's “” and ‘’ for dialogue so you can imagine how SE's punctuation tooling heuristics are going to differ here.

You'd also have to come up with a new set of standards for another language. What sort of correction is a fair modernization and which would be unfair editorialization? SE itself already makes controversial decisions here for English like "to-day" -> "today".

It would be a large undertaking to parameterize some sort of LANG=EN setting and imo not worth it. I think the only route for that sort of thing to happen is if 2+ "forks" get to Standard Ebooks' quality and then decide to work together years down the road.

Also, legal clarity is sometimes an issue in other countries where an English translation written in the USA of that same work is clearly in the public domain. There are works where the original non-English content, despite being long translated into English, are still owned by the estate, but the English translation is liberated.

Something I realized was just how many books exist only as scans. Transcription isn't very fun, but this makes it rewarding. For example, I have some early Spanish sci-fi books I've transcribed into epubs that you cannot find outside of dirty scans.
Fun read, my wife sometimes accuses me of having shark DNA because I can obsess over having fresh air moving past me at all times. :-) For me though the difference is one of comfort versus a vague tension. Some folks have associated this sort of thing with claustrophobia as well.

That said, we spent a few thousand dollars insulating and sealing our home so that we did not need HVAC assisted climate control. Part of that included finding ways to exchange the house air with outside air so that during the summer months we could pull in cool air at night to lower the house temperature, seal it up when the Sun came up, and then remain cool all day. Similarly with bringing in warmth during the day in winter and minimizing the temperature fall during the evening. This is not particularly great for minimizing COVID in one's home.
If u want to do anything related to more then very basic machine learning then NVIDIA gpu is must have
I think they're still great for the most part. I have a Pixel 4 and my partner has a pixel 4a and we're both super happy with it.

Google Search is just as good if not better than a few years ago, but Gmail is getting a little bloated with almost 800mb of RAM taken up per tab.

I think like with everything, they have phases where things are worse, but then they get better. Just like Microsoft had Vista before Windows 7, ME before XP, etc. Products have phases of exploration on how to be more useful, and then they solidify those useful features and deprecate the ones that aren't great.

If you're looking for contrast, the new Apple OS's are also getting way worse (Catalina, Big Sur), but some of the releases (SL) were great. Hopefully we're on the edge of them getting better again.
They generally do not, either due to defects of germ cell formation or just little sexual activity. "As of 2006, three instances of males with Down syndrome fathering children and 26 cases of females having children have been reported." https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(06)03067-6/full...
Lambda School gets paid nothing by the host company and students, as always, don't pay us until they get a job making over $50,000.
I believe you misread or misunderstood my comment.
> Some people, in fact, manage to get the same pay even when working remote, because they're "highly employable". Others don't.

When I took my remote job 8+ years ago, it was a big pay increase, plus my expenses went way down.
It's their choice, but I still don't like the precedent it sets. I don't really care what they call it, I just don't want this kind of thing to become an expectation, resulting in me either having to do a bunch of renaming work or risk being seen as some kind of ist.
Can they just start investing in software so folks from ml/deep learning field can just get out from nvidia monopoly -.-
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Getting a higher rate directly from the bank does not necessarily mean that the dealer is not making any money on your loan. It is likely that the bank just offers better rates through their dealer partners because: 1. it's less hassle than dealing with retail customers, and 2. the dealer market for loans is more competitive.