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> Does this model include energy that continuously decays into higher entropy states?

Nope, it doesn't. You're not wrong. You're just being pedantic. For all intents and purposes for the discussion we're having here this continuous decay into higher entropy states is a non-issue. Within the sphere of the humans involved in free exchange, it's not zero sum even if it is zero sum when you take into account the entirety of the physical world.
I think the underestimation was in long covid, not infections
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What if you want a referral into one of those giant companies someday? Can't hurt to know a guy...
>Put simply, TSX is not mainstream, and isn't on track to be mainstream anytime soon.

Being in the vast majority of servers deployed in the last decade (Intel+POWER) is not mainstream?
But the US have started as a strict official theocracy of Massachusetts, and also highly religious other states, like Pennsylvania (even though Quakers were not as oppressively moralizing).

This moralizing aspect runs very deep in the US, and religious, righteous fervor is more widespread than one might think, covering much of non-church-going population. Human imperfection is still seen as a degeneration or a disease; it's just being Catholic, or Black, or gender-queer is not seen as an imperfection any more. But breastfeeding a baby in public still is :(
It's something they still push aggressively - on Android. For iOS, I believe they use iCloud, and only iCloud; this means you can switch between Android handsets, or Apple handsets, but not Android to Apple (or vice-versa).

Note that this is based off what I've seen and heard from others, however - I've never actually owned an iPhone to test this.
Linus really does write beautifully. Love his style, concise, easily readable, frank, honest with nice human touches.
> Maybe we could write that off as an early failure except that nobody has come up with a successor

It’s possible that this is actually because Bitcoin.

The effect it has had of making early owners rich despite not solving other problems, has made this the goal of most new crypto schemes.
It's kind of like we're witnessing the emergence of a new style/honorifics system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_(form_of_address)
OpenBSD/Loongson on the Lemote Fuloong
It comes from picking something up to discuss and setting it down when discussion is over. I don't know how many people visualize anything when they say it.
Thanks for the correction. That said I would say "pareto improvements can be positive sum" since they can be but aren't necessarily so.
Thankfully, SpaceX isn't waiting for anyone. They are in the front with a machete wacking down the limbs leaving a trail for others to follow. Of course SpaceX is standing on the shoulders of those missions that lead the way before, but let's be honest, after Gemini, Mercury, Apollo, Shuttle, everything else has been a bit stagnant. Not taking anything away from all of the probes and rover missions. Those are the only things that make NASA relevant. Finally, we have a space agency actively working on humans in space again.
> It's depressing to me that some people think that we should keep teaching this stuff to kids.

How do you teach a child what's wrong if you can't show them examples and articulate to them why it's wrong?

Do you just not teach them and hope that one of them doesn't grow up to be the next Hitler instead?
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Exactly. It's best just to lie and say I'm 100% recovered. Just did it last weekend at my dad's 60th bday party.

My one year is also coming up soon, and I still get mild symptoms like the "hot skin" and bulging veins but otherwise I'm better than 99% of people on /r/covidlonghaulers.

I'm tired of explaining it. I'm tired of everyone's advice. In the rare event I'm doing something social during this pandemic I just try to forget about it and not think about my relapses. LongCovid f-ing sucks.
> This means Honda is promising your Honda will not silently drive you into a wall as the Tesla autopilot is known to do.

If Tesla only sold 100 vehicles, I assume it could also have avoided them driving into walls...
Rightdao is about 70ms for me, could be they are in bay area and not world-wide. Impressive nevertheless, nothing on the web loads in 70ms for me. That is 10x faster than DuckDuckGo Lite.
The critical race stuff is getting more and more sinister and anti-white.

https://www.unz.com/article/review-of-robin-diangelos-white-...
Yeah, is a listing comparable to a tweet. Is Twitter exercising its right of freedom of association to control the content on its platform comparable to Amazon or eBay choosing what listings are available on theirs?
This requires BLE device to broadcast your public key in special packets.

I don’t think you can upload custom logic on Tile to make it broadcast arbitrary BLE packets.
I'll show you what surprised me tonight. This is what I came up with to see how Common Lisp handles "minus zero":

(setq +zero +0.0d0)
(setq -zero -0.0d0)
(* -zero +zero)

I just set two variables. One for positive zero, and one for negative zero. The decimal business is so that Lisp will use floating point, which lets the negative zero happen. Then I multiply them together.

Expectation: multiplying a positive by a negative should give me a negative number.

On my laptop I have LispWorks (commercial), sbcl (pretty much the most common non-commercial version of Common Lisp in use), and clisp (my favourite old standby that I grew up with, but sometimes like to use because it's fast and pretty forgiving when you're just hashing something out quickly.) Here's what they produce:

-0.0d0 ; sbcl
-0.0D0 ; LispWorks
0.0d0 ; clisp

That makes clisp a bit of an outlier in my (very limited) survey. I'm guessing its a clisp bug that not many people would notice. But I don't have other Lisps to compare. I doubt it would mess up anyone's code. But at the very least, sometimes the - and + signs are good for showing intent.

So I'm a bit surprised that my answer to your question has to be "It depends."

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> there was no reason to with Ajit Pai running the place

This problem goes back WAY farther than Ajit Pai.
One of the bottle/alternative choices we tried was a slanted open-topped cup[1] designed for early open cup training. He actually drank milk out of it when he wouldn't take a bottle, and now drinks water out of it at meals, but if I don't help hold it he tips it back too far and gets a faceful. The hope is for him to learn right away to use a regular cup, and then only use a sippy cup when we need something he can't spill. Right now I'm just treating it as an early lesson in gravity and fluid dynamics.

[1] https://www.doidycups.com/
Just get rid of these filters. What exactly are you trying to prevent? It can't possibly help in the real world and these silly examples will just recur. If there's billing associated with it, its easy enough to cross reference the billing account with the "entered names" to check for mismatch.

Who exactly is Verizon to determine if the name is valid or not?

Probably happens with Ms Null as well.

How exactly is a computer meant to know that Aabb isn't real? If I have a credit card or other mechanism, eg drivers license, with that as the name, is there any value whatsoever in that system flagging that as a fake name? Its just poor customer service. I'll be offended, they'll need to apologise. For no real gain.

I'd be fascinated to see statistics on the number of times that these filters prevented "wrong doing".
There are fundamental differences between music/books and software.

Music and books aren't maintained and don't require it. An old song or an old book doesn't change. You can create new songs and new books based on old songs and old books, but they're different things. In contrast, software is in a never-ending battle against irrelevancy. You could use an old version of a piece of software, but then you can't open new versions of the file format for the same piece of software. You can always enjoy an old song or book, but old software will become less and less useful over time.

Songs and books typically have a limited and closed number of contributors. If people remix works, they remix an original, or a cover - the authorship chain is much shorter than what we see with software, which can in contrast involve hundreds of authors. If you want a license type involving a commercial license, you're going to have to need some sort of copyright assignment - and at that point, you've just created a corporation that sells commercial licenses for software. If you don't do this, anyone who wants to use it for commercial purposes will then have to track down a couple hundred authors and ask each of them for a commercial license. What if one of the refuses no matter what the price is? And then we end up in the second case, where the software can only ever end up used by amateurs.

Of course you can have a software project run by only a handful of people - but then they either have to refuse any and all outside contributions, or they have to require copyright assignment.

These sorts of problems can exist with the GPL if your business is selling GPL exceptions (e.g. Qt), but you don't have to do that to make money off of GPL software. And whereas a consumer of GPL software has zero reason to care about whether the software is GPL or BSD or MIT or whatever because they're probably not modifying and distributing it (and hence zero reason to ever require an exception), a consumer of software requiring noncommercial use will inevitably have to pay attention to this sort of stuff and require an exception for something as simple as turning a hobby into a side gig.
Klarna is consumer focused.
yeah i'm not going back.
Most of America doesn't have true (mm wave) 5g. About 1/3 of America lacks "5g" entirely. Assuming one does have access it's not financially prudent for most households to buy into 5g when the caps are as low as 100gb/mo.

https://www.androidauthority.com/where-is-5g-available-in-th...
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They don't want to look at tin-tin books then. The old one's will make your eyes bleed.
> Is 100 units really a "production car"? I don't agree.

Considering you couldn't even get into Group B rally homoligation with those numbers (200) in the 80s, or Dakar race spec production (2500) in 90-2000s I don't think it is, either.

> It’s possible they are selling these at a loss to seed or whet the market. If it takes off then maybe it will reappear at a profitable price.

Exactly. It seems more like a mass produced prototype, or a proper limited edition model and if I'm honest this looks exactly like an Accord/Insight with all the JDM goodies we don't get in the West. But this is about marketing.

I wish them well, Honda (auto) has a ton of muck in their face due to their failure to, once again, make any inroads in Formula 1 after their epic success with Mclaren in the 80s--this last time around was so hard to watch, and the mere utterance of 'GP2 engine' will live in infamy forever. Which it's raison d'être to trickle down it's production car, but with V6 turbos and KERS systems pretty much maxed they need something like this to justify their R/D budgets.

I'm not sure how to feel about it, to be honest: had this been on an limited edition EV insight it would definitely be a step in the right direction. Whereas this will fall into obscurity as more manufacturers move to EV.
Well, we’re not allowed to use “hey guys” anymore or anything which refers to the gender of someone in whole or individually. So..to keep my job: “Good Evening, Colleagues!”
I think you’re thinking about this too mechanically. Context and intent matter here. It’s not at all about the literal act.

Using someone’s name instead of their pronouns isn’t offensive and vice versa. The thing that’s invalidating [1] is when someone goes out of their way to not use your preferred name or pronouns when that someone would have called you by your name or used your pronouns if you were cis. That kind of thing is noticed by people who are trans and feels supper shitty.

So yeah anyone who tries to make a rule saying “you must always use pronouns after using their name in a sentence” or something like that is being ridiculous and also missing the point.

[1] I don’t think offended really makes sense in this situation because that’s not really the emotion at play.
Yes, because RSA 2048 is broken, not RSA 4096. Almost everything uses 2k, nobody uses 4k. The cryptosystem infrastructure would be broken. Not talking about the possible backdoors in the ECC NIST curves. Thanksfully we have the djb curves there.
Sometimes you spend all day banging your head against the wall and just forget. The stand up gives you space and a reminder to tell other people you’re stuck.
I read "Class" back in the 80s when it was released, still have my dusty copy of it on the shelf, and this is a great take on it.
Well, if you don't communicate, don't plan or don't do any retrospectives then those omissions will have a high probability to cause problems.

In that sense scrum is like "training wheels for self organizing teams". Once you understand the benefits, a small team should be capable of modifying the system.

If we look at productized processes Kanban is much better at getting the essential framework in place.

Scrum is not the worst process that could be applied to software production for large orgs. Worse examples include for example a no-process, hardware companies shoehorning software development into hardware development framework and so on.

IMO as a junior dev over a decade ago it was nice to have scrum when I started at a company since that framework made it very explicit what the rules of the process were. A no-process would have been much worse and stressful.

But high performing teams tend to realize there is no one shoe fits all solutions to complex processes and then evolve their own system.
This assumes that no one is hand wringing over Ford's marketing. I haven't seen as much of Ford's marketing as I have as Tesla's, so I personally have written as many words about it.

But I have the same concerns about all marketing that positions cars as being capable enough that people don't have to pay attention. Until we hit true Level 4 or Level 5 self driving cards, I'm extremely concerned about the public's perception that they don't have to operate a motor vehicle. *Especially* if the vehicle is capable of enough automated driving that the driver doesn't need to pay attention during most of the operation of the vehicle.

To your specific point though, I think in general the public would view something marketed at "autopilot" as more capable than something marketed as "co-pilot", despite the significant capability advantage that a "co-pilot" actually offers over an "autopilot" inside the cockpit of an airplane.
>>Google’s search results have gotten worse

Click on ads. That's the point, no?
Of course. Or in other words: "I didn't read Pasternak but I condemn him"
It's weird for me to imagine people who would be outraged about a joke that played on, for example, a racial stereotype, using "It was a joke." as a defence.

Perhaps you're not such a person, and are not speaking on behalf of such people, but I think that saying "It was a joke." doesn't really address the issue that some people's offensive speech is being silenced, while others' is being celebrated.
If economies were zero sum, our economy would have at maximum grown linearly with respect to population size from the stone age.
This is a really good way to sum it up. Even Story Points are supposed to be about adding communication to estimation. It is supposed to be collaborative, but people take it wrong and I have seen SCRUM master doing it :D
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I feel baited. But what’s sinister about a book on “White Fragility”?
I hate it.

The place I work at is doing it wrong in my opinion: sprint points are directly mapped to time (instead of complexity), meaning that each day = 2 points per developer. Stand ups are really just status updates to our product manager - developers don't actually chat to each other about issues, we just report to the pm. If the pm is in another meeting, then standup doesn't occur at all.

The worst thing about it: There is no end in sight. There is no natural endpoint. It's just ticket after ticket after ticket, with the almighty burn down chart looking down on us. It just never ends. In a way we are assembly line workers. We cannot take slightly longer than what the ticket says, then you are forced to explain where you are stuck, even if you aren't stuck, so people thumb suck reasons.

(With something like carpentry, you build something, apply finishes, enjoy the product, AND IT IS DONE. With software development + scrum = infinite treadmill. You get deprived of ever getting a sense of accomplishment.)

During sprint planning we also assign the ticket upfront to specific people, so we have hectic issues with knowledge silo's.

On the sprint point side, we basically either have tickets that are 3, 5 or 8 and nobody dare picks another number. Using their system of 2 points = 1 developer day, some tickets should be 20 points, simply because it will take the person at least the whole 2 weeks to do. Some tasks are inherently complex or tedious and will take longer, but at this company we basically have to rush everything. Nobody ever has downtime and time to think.

I'm kind of over the company and over scrum. Looking back after 10 years, the only place where scrum did work for me was at one company (that sadly closed down (infighting between directors)) where we didn't take it serious at all - it was all for fun, no drama/seriousness, no care about mapping points to time, retro's was super funny (and not a moan fest) - basically nobody took it seriously and our productivity was crazy good.

Another place I briefly worked used old school Gantt charts which worked surprisingly well even though I didn't like it in the beginning (it was a more waterfall-like approach, loads of planning upfront). We would spend a WEEK planning and then code for like a month and release basically near perfect code to production. It did feel a bit boring in a way because there was very little wiggle room - everyone just followed the plan.
> One side is producing research papers and other sources. You are saying you have a PhD in this area so trust you.

That's not a paper. It's a pre-print. It isn't peer-reviewed. It isn't published. Literally anyone can push a document to a pre-print server.

I'm saying I have a PhD in this exact discipline, and this document isn't proof of what it claims. You certainly don't have to believe me, but saying "this is a paper, and therefore it is likely to be correct" is not a standard of evidence that exists.
I am interested to know if it's possible to correct biases after training without resorting to retraining and training data curation.

As for prompt engineering for gpt, it feels a bit like reading tea leaves. I'm not sure if it is possible to know for certain that a specific prompt will elicit the desire all the time.
>> severe racist overtones

> I haven't seen a good summary of what parts of the withdrawn books were considered inappropriate, but my understanding is that the stronger objection has been to political cartoons that Theodor Seuss Geisel created.

This is the first link I could find, but I've seen the same content elsewhere: https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/books/here-are-the-wr...

Two of the books have traditional racist caricatures of Chinese people, and another one has something that seems like a caricature of an Arabian.

However, the other three are kind of a stretch, IMHO. One has "Eskimo fish" with parka-like manes. Another has a group of people in a boat at the North pole, which are being interpreted as being Inuit, but the text doesn't say so and they just look like people in parkas to me. And the last just has a Japanese person in traditional garb next to the nonsense question "How old do you have to be a Japanese?." I guess the sin is just referencing any non-Western ethnicity in any context, which is kinda nuts.
I would like to see if Dr. Seuss Enterprises did direct Amazon and eBay to perform this action. If so, then it makes sense.
Jumping on to discussion here, I'm an HN user and I know somewhat tech. Maybe not as good as a FAANG engineer here, but still I can call myself above average when it comes to other regular Apple users.

Even I haven't used rsync in my life, and I can guarantee that regular users don't even know what rsync even means.

They only need a place to backup their photos, and a way to easily transfer them between services, which apple provides.
"a person who has experienced mental health issues".

https://www.time-to-change.org.uk/media-centre/responsible-r...

"Neurodiverse" is code du jour for autism, and HR will be contacting you shortly for the offensive ableism of labeling neurodiversity as mental illness, instead of celebrating it.
I think lots of modern cars (especially the high-tech and expensive ones) have in-car Wi-Fi.
The same web devs that put all the tracking scripts into their websites so that more time and data is used for tracking and ads than for content.
And then I got a website where I can't click the link I wanted to click because in that moment the link jumps down to make room for the ad.
I thought it was all about UX not DX.
I gotta ask, do we get the Firemen of Fahrenheit 451 before the end of the year, what are the odds?
How can the definition of a word be racist? Making people slaves based on race was, obviously, horribly racist. But the words "master" and "slave" are not inherently racist.
A part of me gets happy when I see this. If you are going to be insane, at least be consistently insane, and force everyone to reconcile with the insanity.

Lest our children be exposed to the horrors of Dr. Seuss.
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This explains so much. I thought they were distinct operators. I thought quoting meant must match exactly, and the plus meant must be present. So +"baz" meant it must be exactly baz, and it must be present. +baz meant baz, or some variant like bazzes must be present.
The way you talk about this makes it sound like you are in a very bureaucratic world. The original idea of agile/scrum was to cut down this bureaucracy and only keep what is actually useful. But in most practical cases one still needs some degree of structured communication. The degree of structured communication could then perhaps be the famous scrum ceremonies. However, the way you talk about it, it sounds like the scrum ceremonies come in addition to the already existing bureaucracy. To me that sounds like putting the cart in front of the horse. A more agile way of looking at it would be to look to some bureaucratic procedures that seem burdensome and replace them with something lighter. The famous scrum ceremonies could be taken as suggestions if you like.

It also sounds like there is not very much trust between team members. You immediately go to 'signalling progress vs. actually making progress'.... The scrum ceremonies are actually meant to support an environment where developers trust each other and one developer helps another when s/he could use it.
Is that when they stop caring? In my experience discovering your own racist behaviors is when you can actually make a positive difference by changing said behaviors.

Much better than drawing a line between racist and not racist people and assuming you’re on the right side without actually interrogating it.

All of that is a bit of a tangent though because I have no opinion on the Seuss issue specifically. Didn’t seem that offensive to me but I’m not the right person to judge.