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Is it that hard to type Microsoft instead of the ticker name?
I have two questions here:

- what is the shortest time they keep you before firing you? 1 week? six weeks? 2 months...?

- I suppose that the level of internal documentation must be stellar. Can someone comment on this?
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Nice work. I know there have been a few takes on this kind of tool, but I've always been surprised to not be able to find one this simple and straightforward for such a frequent task.
> Since these solders are the general population, the news is not indicating this is sectarian.

How the military works in Burma.

Soldiers are recruited from poorest, and least educated parts of the country from the young age - prople easiest to brainwash into belief of their entitlements, speciality, and other moral corruption.
What is the difference between this and having cctv in a factory building? Companies impose more work control over more people. If a company makes good use of it then it becomes a regular practice. If not then employees select another employer.

We are lucky that we work in a creative field, most occupancies require just good, repetitive work.

There should be a legal framework to destroy archive recordings, liability for misusing them, because there is a room for real abuse. Not in the work control.
Furthermore, the idea that the federal government can coerce private companies into taking actions which the government is explicitly Constitutionally denied (censorship) is scary in the extreme.

People need to think these things through ahead of them getting too far into Godwin's Law territory.
The title of the article is: France bears ‘overwhelming responsibilities’ over Rwanda genocide.

overwhelming is defined as [1]:

- 2a: to cover over completely : SUBMERGE

- 2b: to overcome by superior force or numbers

- 2c: to overpower in thought or feeling

So to claim that France bears "overwhelming responsibilities" begs the question: overwhelming of what? Overwhelming the responsibilities of the people who actually committed the genocide?! And if not that, then what the heck is the word "overwhelming" doing there?

Suggesting that anyone but the people who committed the atrocities bear "overwhelming responsibility" for them is sick, infantilizing, racist and revisionist.

The people who committed those atrocities were human beings with full agency, not infants, not subhumans, and they alone bear the overwhelming responsibility for their actions.

They don't even have the tired Nazi accomplice excuse that the French ordered them to commit it, because that would be a lie.

The title of the article is bullshit. Maybe it is quoted bullshit, but it is bullshit none the less. Aljazeera's job is not to be a stenographer for liars.

[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overwhelm
In addition Ada allows dynamically-sized arrays to be allocated on the stack and to be returned from a function. Efficient implement of the latter requires rather non-trivial support on the compiler side and C/C++/Rust have nothing like that. Yet in many cases it allows to eliminate new/delete and simplify code.

For example, just consider if C allowed to return a plain C string from a function without any heap allocation. Things like unsafe sprintf/strcopy would never happen then.
Taxis in a lot of places are akin to a union and are slowly dying with semi-legal alternatives like uber
Even the screens in 1984 couldn't be monitored all the time. Somehow reality keeps becoming worse than fiction.
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Thanks for the link. I still have two old hp9000s.
Clipboards in x11 are based on selections. There are two selections of note, the primary selection and clipboard selection. In GUI applications, selecting text copies it to the primary selection, middle clicking pastes the primary selection. Ctrl-C copies to the clipboard selection, Ctrl-V pastes the clipboard selection. The happy path is to stick to those operations only.

For terminals, ctrl-c/Ctrl-v have conflicting interpretations so are usually bound to ctrl-shift-c/ctrl-shift-v. Some (e.g. iterm) try to emulate copy on select on operating systems that don't support it by copying the selection to the single clipboard.

For vim, the selections are bound to buffers. * Is the primary/selection buffer, + is the clipboard. Use "+y/"+p for ctrl-c/ctrl-v equivalents, or "*y/"*p for copy-on-select/middle click equivalents. Note that some distros ship a default "vim-minimal"/"vim-tiny" package built without this support so they can use it as "vi" for POSIX compatibility without pulling in x11 libraries. In that case look for a "vim-x11", "vim-full" or "gvim" package. Or use neovim, I haven't seen packagers slice that up the same way. Depending on your terminal, you may be also able to use the GUI equivalents in insert mode anyway (don't try use your terminal paste in normal mode, it'll paste into the command buffer).

Shift-Insert is unfortunately application dependent. I think it _should_ be equivalent to middle click, but some apps treat it as ctrl-v.

Some clipboard managers or applications will overwrite the primary contents with the clipboard contents when you perform an explicit copy.
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Yeah, there's been a lot of misleading reporting on this, from much more mainstream publications than Reason - especially back when Trump was in office for obvious reason. The press has a narrative they want to push and they didn't let little details like the fact that the entire reason to sign up for this was because it was a fake school which let people fraudulently apply for educational visas without having to go to classes get in the way of that.
No, I never, ever, consider that I might be wrong about anything. Doesn't happen.
So much this. Its actually amazing how it can be this bad. It also is a good example how you don't have to make a good product to rise to the top.
I've only read Outliers and David and Goliath, but I really enjoyed them and feel that they provided some tangible benefits in how I think about things.

Could you share some of the criticism against him so I could update any incorrect beliefs I may have?
clipboard = regular C-c and C-v stuff

primary = highlight / middle click

vim has its own used by default when you dd, p, etc. You can copy to one of the previous things (assuming your build enabled it) with "+y and "*y key sequences. You can also paste the same way, but I usually just let the term emu handle that with ctrl-shift-v or similar.

shift-insert is kinda weird actually. AFAIK it should paste from selection, but it often surprises me, so I avoid it.

edit: s/selection/primary/
Maybe it's just that I live in Australia, a country that has very strict road safety laws and practices, which are generally supported by the community, given that our road fatality figures are now very low (in 2019 we had just under 1200 road deaths in a nation of 25.3M people - a low rate by world standards, particularly given how much we drive here).

But I just don't see the cause for outrage over this - as long as the system really is focused on the safety of drivers and other road users.

Sure, over-work is an issue for Amazon, but it's an issue for all freight/delivery/transport companies, particularly when the company is engaging private contractors, as they can't control how long a driver works, how fatigued they are, and how much they adhere to other safety practices like seatbelts.

I'm all for criticising Amazon and other companies when they really do go wrong and treat workers poorly, but what is the real evidence that this is such a case? How do we know this is anything other than a bona fide effort to ensure drivers are operating safely for the benefit of themselves and other road users?

The reference to AI in the article makes it sound dystopian, but isn't this potentially better, if it just means that computation is used to detect any issues rather than having humans watching their fellow workers?
“Viri” is not the plural of “virus”. https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-the-plural-of-virus-112199
Wearing a seatbelt was already monitored via vehicle telemetry, so this is patent nonsense.
Agree. But this is a different story...
It's worse than this. A skilled politician will be able to lie about a "fact" and get away with it. He only needs to appeal to people's own twisted views. The media can help build a false narrative. And public media is controlled by the gov't so that too can be biased. Just remember all the talk about the "experts" during the referendum. As if their opinion was automatically invalid because they were "experts". It's quite hopeless..
> "cutting-edge technologies in AI, ML and Edge Computing"

Five bucks says their buzzword-compliant Sauron-o-scope is nothing more than a thin layer over some student's OpenCV project.
> The whole affair seems to be politicized too much to not question the truthfulness of the claims presented as facts.

Do you realise your comment sounds a lot like, 'she only got this far because she's a young black woman'?
> Instead of POSIX, we now just ship a whole OS instead

Well, we have been saying "composition over inheritance" for quite a while... :)

Turns out, an OS that has-a POSIX is often nicer than one that is-a POSIX.
> Extracting ASTs from C (or C++) is difficult in general, due to the preprocessor.

Years back doing code analysis tooling (and struggling with, and being discouraged by, the TFA issue), I downloaded "a lot" (in an old pre-github sense) of code, and IIRC, found preprocessor use was so stereotyped that almost all could be easily parsed and included in the AST. Using a backtracking parser though, rather than the usual "having chosen a cripplingly inexpressive parser tech, difficulties with parsing came as a surprise". ;)

Despite being burned by gcc's "hide the AST" policy, it's not clear to me when/if it became the wrong thing. It's so easy to underappreciate the contingency of history. We're on a timeline where open source, and the internet, more or less succeeded - many perhaps aren't so lucky. On the other hand, emacs, at least with lisp on lisp machine, could be an immensely powerful integrated experience, that perhaps needn't have been quite so stagnant and lost.
Pandemoniums of cockatoos are still rather common in Australia, especially considering the ruckus they bring along, and the occasional damage they cause.
The Fortran I Compiler (2000) [pdf]
> In English why do you need to say “exacerbate” when you can say “make worse”? Or “defenestrate” when you mean “toss out the window”? The usual answer I hear is that it’s because it makes the language more beautiful and precise.

That's... Not how vocabulary develops. English is a rich language in large part due to the conquest by the French - much like Norwegian is a rich language due to conquest by the Danish.

Although "defenestrate" is probably more like "tweet" than "computer" - I believe it was a bit of a "fashion statement" at the time.
Help is a bit of an understatement. It was actual incitement, in planned Göbbels manner. Read about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Ruggiu

Nobody can convince me that Ruggiu was not a secret service agent. Look what happened to him after he was a convicted war criminal. Italy set him free immediately.

But I would not only blame France alone. Most western states were complicit in these ongoing war crimes. The Kongo world wars included everybody. Ruanda controls the Kongo mines (as well as the Kongo presidency). https://www.quora.com/Are-we-heading-towards-World-War-III/a... (there somebody edited out his name btw)
It's the kind of culture that maximizes efficiency over everything without a human being ever actually examining anything. It's the sort of madness that leads to impossible delivery schedules because someone started running during their route and now the system insists everyone must run even if it means you have to piss in a bottle to make up time somewhere. No human will ever examine anything so nothing will ever get fixed.
The author suggest that star athletes are paid for their exceptional athletic ability.

Star athletes are paid for their ability to fill a stadium and or sell advertising/media rights. Part of their value is their celebrity and name/likeness. They are more equivocal to entertainers in this context. Of course, ability matters, because winning teams are celebrated!

Software developers do not bring this value to their organizations.
OK, I can believe that ICE took care to make sure they had a good legal case - presumably, they're not stupid. It still could be entrapment though. This is a very grey legal area.
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It goes even beyond this and comments like yours are important to stress that there is a lot of nuance. If you count carbon emissions related to building the plant, the enrichment facility, the storage facility, the mining, the lonf-term maintenance, the decomissioning, etc you end with quite a carbon footprint as (so far) that all relies on diesel.
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The problem with frog DNA is the possibility in change of the heterogametic sex making it difficult to control the population. Quoting here research by M. Ogata [1], I am not an expert in the field.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1462578/
Emacs developers viewed it as yanking out of the buffer into the document. Vim viewed it as yanking out of the document into the buffer. It's poor terminology either way, as yanking to me implies moving rather than copying as in both applications
On Wayland there's wl-clipboard (with wl-copy and wl-paste commands) which works basically the same.
This can be solved by having a separate VLAN for services that are exposed to the internet.
I thought GMTA stood for Great Minds Teach Acronyms
They will make sure that it doesn't target top politicians and CEOs... that's how.
I would argue it's not amplifying if everyone else has a megaphone.
Because Amazon + cameras + AI + sensationalism = clicks?

To me, the idea of an algorithm which detects when a driver is at increased risk (e.g. drowsy, or not wearing a seatbelt, or maybe using a phone inappropriately) seems like a fundamentally good move. And makes basic sense in any vehicle still piloted by a human.

The issue is that (of course) people being watched by a camera opens the potential of misuse, and so (as ever) people jump to worse-case scenarios and start using emotionally-loaded words like ‘dystopian’.

Of course, we don’t know for sure if it will be misused, and/or dystopian, until it’s actually implemented and we have observed results... but people do like to get upset and sensationalise just about anything that’s a new idea, these days.
As far as I can tell, the English rule is "sometimes we take the loanword's pluralisation, sometimes we don't, just memorise every single case and don't worry if you get it wrong sometimes"

For example, Samurai and Kimono are both loan words - but we import the pluralisation of Samurai (Seven Samurai) [1] whereas Kimono pluralises with an s on the end (Seven Kimonos) [2].

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/samurai
[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kimono
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I got it working with:

with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;

procedure Main is

type Distance is new Float;
type Area is new Float;

function "*" (Left, Right : Distance) return Area is
temp : Distance;
begin
temp := Left * Right;
return Area (temp);
end "*";

D1 : Distance := 2.0;
D2 : Distance := 3.0;
A : Area;

begin
A := D1 * D2; -- OK
Put_Line(A'Image);
end Main;

Interestingly, it took me several attempts to create this overload, make it a single line return would make it recursive:

function "*" (Left, Right : Distance) return Area is
begin
return Left * Right;
end "*"; -- ^ Does not work
-- raised STORAGE_ERROR : stack overflow or erroneous memory access

Also:

function "*" (Left, Right : Distance) return Area is
begin
return Area (Left * Right);
end "*"; -- ^ Does not work either, compiler gives me "ambiguous operand in conversion"
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It would be entrapment if the accused never had the idea of committing visa fraud, and ICE somehow persuaded them and convinced them of doing it. That wasn't the case.

This is equivalent to undercover cops waiting for people to solicit for an illegal product or service. It's an easy, cheap way for people to admit to a crime on tape.
It's funny you speak for the rest of the world when it's quite clear in what they publicly say that they support the US rather than attack it.
"randomised trials" is not the gold standard of scientific evidence it just one method and there are a lots of other methods. It's used in medicine because we have a very weak understanding of what's going on and it's the only method that permit us to progress in this situation : It permit us to get some useful results without having a working model of the situation.
>clinical trial papers

There are multiple occasions in history where a landmark paper was laughed at just to be proven right later. It hardly matter the medium you use to publish.
Having cctv in a factory is one thing, having one camera pointed to the face of each employee with AI to detect what they're doing is something else.
Depends how you define equitable. Equity isn't just the GINI coefficient, it's also about social mobility. France is pretty spectacular in how the GINI coefficient is fairly low, but social mobility is arguably lower than it in more fiscally 'unequal' societies like the USA.
Why does he keep referring to here as "the English isles" it's really annoying. These are the British Isles.
Between this latest tripe and Mentor this is more or less the daily reality for amazon drivers. What's worse is the complete lack of any sort of responsibility on the part of eDriving. Even when you can prove that there is clearly a device compatibility issue that's causing them to erroneously flag your device for 'phone distraction' they refuse to acknowledge any culpability. Clearly it must be user error.

Eventually this is going to start costing them jobs and money... and even then they'll just find a way to shift blame. At this point I don't want to buy anything from them anymore. It's just not worth supporting this kind of institutional myopia.
Your characterisation of my arguments is not fair. I specifically said I appreciated his historical podcast, so I'm certainly not a zealot. And to remove doubt, I'm not an artist critiquing science from a point of ignorance, I have a scientific background too, indluding a masters in neuroscience. Gladwell's mischaracterisations of science are widely distributed, and I think that's why he comes up so often - if he was a relatively unknown blogger nobody would care. It's frustrating to see this kind of scienciness get so much attention when the people who do the science he writes narratives about, and whose work he piggybacks on, are much more circumspect about how widely their work generalises.

Again, I have said there are multiple critiques which go into detail about what is wrong with Gladwell's writing, so if your problem is the "nebulousness" of a comment on Hacker News (which is no place for a detailed critiqe), then I suggest you look for them if you're genuinely interested in why people have a low opinion of his science writing.
I do not currently have a VoIP telephone, but don't think it would be an immediate worry as I have a 500/500 fiber connection.
I wonder if the browser cache of the average 4chan user would be enough for a similar conviction.
Same thing was studied for another Panama Canal.

Also, Russia used nukes for excavating lakes, but the result was far dirtier than expected.

(American farmers widely used dynamite in a line for irrigation ditches because it saved labor, and the falling dirt didn't cause mounds.)
I'd also recommend watching this quite famous talk about the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

Well worth the time.

EDIT: Seems I wasn't the first to make that recommendation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26608636 ;)
This is not entrapment, it is a honeypot.
We had an HP-150 in 1983, it felt like the future. 3.5” floppy, touch screen. Incredible.

Unfortunately it was a loaner from HP and Dad had to give it back eventually.
Without visual confirmation, the driver could either buckle the seatbelt under themselves (buckle over the empty seat and then sit on it) or have a buckle (yes, just a buckle) to trick the sensor into thinking all is well. I’ve seen taxi drivers do this to avoid having to actually buckle up; I guess it’s uncomfortable to them?

I wonder if wearing a shirt with an image of a seatbelt would be enough to trick the camera or AI :)
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EU, Canada, the UK, and Sweden are American colonies are they now? Do you realize how ridiculous you sound?
A number of students did show up to the university to study.

> The government says everyone who paid tuition knew what they were doing, that they were illegally paying to stay, not attend school. People who work in the building where the university was located contradict that.

> Steven Jeffers said some came with backpacks, asking about classes.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/students-detained-after-feds-use-f...
I use it just for the clipboard but I used to run Sublime Text through it years ago (using WSL 1). It was really fast and worked great, at least at 2560x1440.

A video walk through of my current Windows / WSL 2 / etc. dev environment is here: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/a-linux-dev-environment-on-wi...
Because all AI is ML, obviously. All that stuff before massive GPU farms? Not real AI. (I'm not sure why this is a common perception.)
Unions in France also are kinda racist; those shut out of the union system, that is menial workers, don't have a path into the same protections that unionised workers have.
So you're going to be perfectly OK with people monitoring your vehicle 24/7 for how much you actually use the public roads, right? Because that won't be abused either. And that, by the way, is a perennial suggestion that got floated again recently. How about setting aside whether this is useful and consider that maybe it's blatantly anti-labor? They can already monitor who's wearing a seatbelt or not with vehicle telemetry. Adding this on top of their existing monitoring apparatus is sociopathic.