skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is also trivial to keep doing C mistakes with a C++ compiler, hence no matter how many ISO revisions it will still have, lack of safety due to C copy-paste compatibility will never be fixed.
I don't think they are talking about the impact on the environment. I think they are talking about the procedures for operating the equipment.

The way I read it, they mean whoever operates this device does not have to periodically go empty some bin/tank of salt or brine.

An analogy would be to a frost-free refrigerator. When you say the freezer compartment of your fridge is frost-free, you don't mean that it never generates frost. You mean it does generate frost, but it also automatically removes it. It's "free" of frost in the sense that you are free of doing a chore that you have to do with a freezer that lacks this feature.
> To the point where in a not so distant future, settling up funds with friends at a large dinner could in certain cases be considered "structuring"[1].

That's a bonkers thing to fear, bordering on conspiracy theory. The feds aren't chomping at the bit so they can bust you and your friends for everyday behavior.

Now, that's not to say they might exploit it in a three-felonies-a-day sense to get someone they have their eye on for other reasons (a-la Al Capone and tax evasion), but if the law too often leads to unjust results, it will be changed. Especially if the unjust result is experienced by people with power and influence (and not just the poor and marginalized).
Qi is an open interface standard that defines wireless power transfer
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaters_of_the_Dead or the movie adaptation, "The 13th Warrior" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120657/)
So they can serve better targeted and reinforcing ads to them?
This is basically how shift work in hospitality and service jobs works, and it's terrible.

Some people claim it's done intentionally to prevent workers from working other jobs where they might get tired or escape the first job.
Voting democrat is to provide approval of this ideology and to give it a greater platform. Many americans are equally perplexed at this, and a lot of republican voters exist precisely as a reaction to it.
CDC's All-or-Nothing Approach to Teen Covid Vaccination Is All Wrong
The price is the data, nothing is completely free
Throwaway because I do not want to be ostracized.

Thank you for pointing out the Soviet angle in this.

Others criticize this angle, saying either that the Soviet Union doesn't exist or that America has always been this way. The first point is not a good argument, because while the Soviet Union as a political entity does not exist, the ideas it created and the culture it spread still do. The second point is more difficult to refute because we can only rely on historical sources, which may sway one way or the other, depending on what's deemed "right" by the current culture in academia. So my refutation, even though weak, is this: short of the North vs the South, the US has not been divided into two clean camps the way it is now.

> The reason these people believe what they're doing is ok is because someone taught them that the ends justify the means.

This is an important point to keep in mind. Look, we don't even expect the media or politicians to say anything that has any attachment to reality. Because the ends justify the means, it's ok to warp reality just to score points for your team.

For example, check out this piece about the lab leak theory by Yglesias, formerly of Vox: https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-medias-lab-leak-fiasco

It clearly shows that the media was interested in the actual state of reality for maybe a few hours, then the issue got divided into camps, and then everything written about this issue was _complete fiction_ where the only goal was to show either CHINA BAD or RED TRIBE BAD.

For another take on this, I recommend reading Politics is for Power (2020) by Eitan Hersh. He doesn't point out the problem I'm talking about explicitly. Instead, he describes it as 2 groups so focused on gaming the system to get votes that they don't actually do anything else -- it's all canvassing, donating, calling, etc. but no actually talking with voters, making plans, figuring out compromises.
Corporations get cancelable million dollar Covid loans that they used to buy their own stock. A proposal to help people pay off their student loans is treated with shock and awe.

However, it would be more fair to simply give every taxpayer $5000 or whatever is decided (like it ever will be) that can be used to pay off loans or for whatever they please.
It has a credit included to make it not that regressive. Compared to tax rates in states like Texas where the poorest quintile pays way more it’s not so bad.
What's the truth in the title? It says he tested and explored it. Eh.

Maybe it's a problem on 8GB units (and to that Richie video, my assessment about 8 vs 16 is that 8 shouldn't exist. That just isn't enough memory). On my 16GB device I've written 5TB despite installing all the OS betas, and pounding on XCode 13 betas all day. That puts it at 1% wear. I'm not too concerned.
There's a difference between intentionally destroying someone else's property, and simply not being paid enough to care what happens to it.
The point is that people don't need to become corporate martyrs given how brief and highly compensated their stint at big tech companies are

It’s discretionary
I couldn't agree more. I'm in the same bucket. My wife and I worked hard, scrimped and saved, lived way below our means, and paid off our student debt ~15 years early.

But now people want us to have to pay everyone else's debt too, through our taxes?

The only way this could possibly be fair is if they offer some kind of credit for loans already paid.
You say that like the IRS has any power at all to simplify the tax code. That's all congress, who are paid by H&R block and rich people in general to keep it complicated.
Indeed. Some citizens in your country having common beliefs or interests as people in another country is their own business. We all have allies and like minded people abroad. Maligning fellow citizens as foreign dupes is a common and despicable tactic. If you find actual evidence of specific crimes, prosecute them, otherwise it's just dirt flinging.
I assume this must have been in discussion in academic circles even before the 1958 date given in the article, John von Neumann wrote this in 1955, and he wasn't even a proper climate scientist.

> "Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by industry's burning of coal and oil - more than half of it during the last generation - may have changed the atmosphere's composition sufficiently to account for a general warming of the world by about one degree Fahrenheit."
(Can We Survive Technology?, Fortune magazine 1955)

I'm surprised this doesn't seem to have been taken particularly seriously back then even by government scientists.
I know plenty of non O & G industry people who would flip their shit if politicians proposed taxing O & G to reduce its use.

Walk around your neighborhood and ask who would vote for the person that takes away their quarter acre lots, detached single family homes, F150s and SUVs, and tropical vacations.

The effects of O & G industry have been widely known for decades, despite any attempt by O & G to obfuscate it or hide it. At this point, it is reasonable to assume the population of the developed world has decided that they might as well enjoy today today, and let tomorrow deal with tomorrow.

It is also a classic prisoner’s dilemma on the global scale, so I expect no change going forward other than miraculous advancements in technology that let us have our cake and eat it too.
BER isn't really an expansion, it is replacing the two other airports in Berlin that were more central and had to close down (because they were old and too central to not be a major noise problem), Tegel (TXL) and Tempelhof (THF) and parts of the old function of Schoenefeld (SXF, formerly a regular airport, now just a government airfield, but right next to/part of BER).
Complementary piece by the NYT from 2018:

> Editor’s Note: This narrative by Nathaniel Rich is a work of history, addressing the 10-year period from 1979 to 1989: the decisive decade when humankind first came to a broad understanding of the causes and dangers of climate change. Complementing the text is a series of aerial photographs and videos, all shot over the past year by George Steinmetz. With support from the Pulitzer Center, this two-part article is based on 18 months of reporting and well over a hundred interviews. It tracks the efforts of a small group of American scientists, activists and politicians to raise the alarm and stave off catastrophe. It will come as a revelation to many readers — an agonizing revelation — to understand how thoroughly they grasped the problem and how close they came to solving it.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/clim...

HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17661450
Didi shares tumble as Chinese regulators launch data investigation
Email migration? I haven’t been following IBM very closely but a quick google search failed me here.
We know:
* FLoC is less useful than third-party cookies for tracking visitors.
* Google won't stop supporting third-party cookies until a replacement (like FloC) is available

Yet, in these threads I see both statements:
* Google is pushing FLoC to help its ad business.
* Google won't kill 3rd-party cookies because it would hurt their ad business.
Agreed. I think the long term strategy is to continue to iterate on iPadOS until it's close to feature parity with macOS and then drop macOS. It may take a decade or longer. Instead of rethinking the desktop UI to fit touch interactions, they're rethinking the touch UI to fit pointer interactions. The last major hurdle to clear is windowing, which you can see small steps towards in iPadOS 15.

I don't think people give enough credit to iPadOS's adaptive pointer. It's a complete rethinking of what a mouse should be in the context of current tech. It's a pointer that can adapt its resolution in different contexts. For UI's that do not need high resolution accuracy, it's much faster to target and click elements.
How did you get that the destruction was intentional?
At least according to their marketing Klarna make their money by charging retailers, so it's probably not viable for this sort of business.
In a surprising turn of events, bureaucrats believe that bolstering their own bureaucracy is the panacea they’ve been looking for!

More seriously, based on the level of digitization that has happened in the financial sector over the last 20 years, I think it would be truly shocking if we didn’t have a tremendous reduction in manpower associated with auditing records.

Firstly, most American file their taxes using software that all but makes it impossible for them to be wrong in any significant way.

Secondly, that is aided by the fact that all major financial institutions pipe their customers data straight into the government and into each other. There is very little space for lying or hiding assets. The whole system is computerized.

And to be frank, I doubt that the pursuit of major tax evaders is really a function of lack of resources. I’d strongly wager that it’s a lack of political will. If the authors are being truthful about the existence of a small number of large, known entities simply not filing returns, then we can assume that somebody in the chain of authority has made the explicit decision to not pursue. Adding more bodies without changing that fundamental decision won’t help.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage/
It's a perfect representation of progressivism. It's a complete fabrication used to forward malicious progressive agendas that received enthusiastic support when first seen and is only now being distanced because it's position is untenable. It's practically cookie cutter.
The CPSU was banned in Russia 29 years ago.
Serology tests are a thing for a lot of vaccines. You can get them from a doctor if you are traveling overseas to see if you need redo a vaccine.

I'm not a doctor, but if you don't have any kind of immune response after 2 doses of pfizer/moderna. I'd strongly suggest that you ask about a serology/antibody test especially if you are older or have health conditions.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/serology-testi...
> On the other hand, Amazon Alexa is 8 years old, so if you have a 6 year old child called Alexa some of the responsibility has to be on the parents..

So, your mother's name was Alexandra, you decide to give that name to your daughter. But, no, because Amazon took ownership of that name.

There are things that people value when naming their children, that includes usually loved ones. Big corporations are not in the list of things to take into account. If it has to be now we are in a dark place.
I like Whitehurst and have had the chance to meet him a few times. If you want to understand his ethos check out "The Open Organization". It details his transition from Delta to Red Hat and the transformation of his leadership style being around a lot of smart engineers and team players ready to constructively challenge each other. Good read for anyone interested in building inclusive company culture in tech.

Honestly, I thought IBM would be feel less rudderless with him at the helm. I wanted IBM to become more 'red' and not RH to become more 'big blue'- but it appears this isn't the case after all... seems like a short tenure.

Anyone know more about the new leadership?
>What did buying Red Hat accomplish? As an outsider, it doesn't seem to have infused any new ideas, and the changes to centos just made people move further away AFAIK.

I am not an IBMer though have worked with many former IBM folks, and work with Red Hat on and off every month or so. From what I've gathered, Red Hat is the new core of IBM. The goal is to grow Red Hat, specifically their OpenShift offering (which is huge in gov't as it allows for hybrid clouds), and make centre the biz around that then the "traditional" IBM consulting style.
>You're right that it removes some (honestly perhaps most) of the craftsmanship that comes with creating art.

Perhaps art, going forward, is simply described as the process, not the result.

I don't doubt that a computer could (or will) produce a perfectly convincing Charlie Parker solo or Richard M. Powers painting. There really was less there than met the eye (or ear) and most of human output consists of cliches in any case.

My take is to become increasingly archaic and self-sufficient in interests. Greek red figure pottery looks like a good place to end up after the walls are filled with amateur art, but a kiln looks pricey.
> programming languages should be an attempt to step up to a higher level of abstraction

Adding abstraction buries complexity. If all you do is keep adding more abstractions, you end up with an overcomplicated, inefficient mess. Which is part of why application sizes are so bloated today. People just keep adding layers, as long as they have room for more of them. Everything gets less efficient and definitely not better.

The right way to design better is to iterate on a core design until it cannot be any simpler. All of the essential complexity of software systems today comes from 40 year old conventions. We need a redesign, not more layers.

One example is version management. Most applications today can implement versioned functions and keep multiple versions in an application, and track dependencies between external applications. Make a simple DAG of the versions and let apps call the versions they were designed against, or express what versions are compatible with what, internally. This would make applications infinitely backwards-compatible.

The functionality exists right now in GNU Libc. You can literally do it today. But rather than do that, we stumble around replacing entire environments of specific versions of applications and dependencies, because we can't seem to move the entire industry forward to new ideas. Redesign is hard, adding layers is easy.
Boeing 737 cargo jet crashes into sea off Honolulu, Hawaii
It's solely U.S. government. Any discussed debt cancellation never included private loans. And if it did, the U.S. government would pay off the holder of the private loan, not just cancel the debt.
Protecting reserved roles with PostgreSQL Hooks
I also typed stuff in from magazines in the 80’s, and my fast but imperfect typing really helped me learn programming: I often had to stop, go back to the first page, and actually read the damned thing in order to make it work.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/30/ibm_email_outage

TLDR: due to a bad email migration, IBM has had massive email issues. Even the representative for the company had to give the statement to the press over the phone.
> Competing for talent and working hard to ensure that underrepresented group members have a fair shot? Should be standard practice and a baseline of ethical corporate and human behavior.

> Competing specifically for underrepresented group members with a metrics-driven goal to boost ratios at one specific company above the relevant benchmark? Not obviously good to me.

How about competing for underrepresented groups, then targeting resources to ensure their success? The industry has created an environment that either is or appears to be hostile to these underrepresented groups. Perhaps they should take responsibility to change that in meaningful ways. Meaningful ways means more than filling quotas.
Imagine the alternate reality, very slightly different from ours, where nuclear reactors spontaneously erupted from the Earth's surface (in the modern anthropic era). Imagine a Pliny trying to make sense of a nuclear Vesuvius.

For anyone who missed HN's interesting feature yesterday: in the ancient Roman city of Hierapolis (modern Turkey), there is a lethal geological feature that emits invisible CO2. "But get an answer he did, almost immediately. "We saw dozens of dead creatures around the entrance: mice, sparrows, blackbirds, many beetles, wasps and other insects. So, we knew right away that the stories were true." And the Romans built a temple on top of this mysterious death -- and they called this temple the "Plutonium"!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27672375 "Hierapolis, Turkey's mysterious 'portal to the underworld' (bbc.com)"
I thought Jim was going to be the next CEO.
(Thanks; I was searching under the CEO’s name and not IBM for some dumb reason; I blame lack of coffee.)

Whoa.
They have tons of audio/text content with translations, but it's really hard to find. I think the UI is the worst part of Lingq.
It would have to be in the same range of what is suggested, small patches and opt in.

If snippets are a legal problem, then Copilot is problematic by default, since it suggests code that may or may not be sourced from free software.
I think you are not participating in good faith.

> Saying "We do have plenty of representation of some minorities" is not a refutation of "we have a diversity problem in tech".

Nobody is trying to refute anything. Your knee jerk reaction is to attack anyone who doesn't 100% agree with you. _You_ are turning a nuanced discussion into an argument.

> And if you think you "have to dance around [a] topic to be PC", then chances are, what you're struggling with is either internalized bias (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc)—or the fact that you're just a bigot yourself who's upset that their bigotry is no longer socially acceptable.

Again, there is no reason for you to go full offence here. You are deliberately choosing the least charitable interpretation in order to make me the enemy.

I was referring to OP's own statement:

> This is dangerous territory to comment on perhaps

I was giving a reason why OP's comment was a little generalized.
One look at Blind app and you get to see just how out of touch tech employees are about people that don't look like them

Seems very pervasive to have a heavily distorted view of black people

What I most commonly see, on Blind, is people assuming that black people - mostly US citizens their entire lives - have a completely different culture that has to be tolerated, as opposed to a mostly shared American culture

Its kind of weird
Totally love this! Just tried it and it worked quite well.

Things like this could be a reason why we should write in the functional style: completing a typed hole doesn't need you to reason about other implicit states.
"Diversity" = Identity based approach to society

"Inclusion" = Restricted speech and justification for purges

"Equity" = Equality of outcomes
There is no difference in practice. Government spending is not going to change, but the amount coming in will decrease. That means either increased taxes or increased government debt.
I have direct experience interacting with the Amazon delivery partner fleet operations. I don't disagree, I would like to add a few details to the discussion.

There's one important nuance missing in all this and that is that the Fleet contractors, those who own and operate the ProMaster and MB step-vans, they are "independent operators" who are sole suppliers, totally beholden to Amazon. I suspect it is extremely limited to what extent they can leverage any power against amazon, aside from of course striking the means of production, likely forfeiting their work.

The arrangement makes these events, to my mind, look like a much bigger sacrifice than it would in a normal market. I mean, just like you said, they up and closed shop rather than keep milking this cow! Maybe it's a bit sour.

From what I can gather, the fleets are assigned routes and duties, and are prohibited from using their capital (The blue Amazon fleet vans) for other business prospects, obviously. This makes sense because it says AMAZON on the Van, and the Drivers wear Amazon uniforms. But these are ostensibly independent small businesses.

Amazon, I believe, does front the capital expenditure for the vehicle acquisition, and they also require the maintenance to be accomplished on schedule or they levy a fine. The Operators take all the busines and insurance and training and health risks, and I'll bet there is no stipend for "PTSD from 5 more unreportable near miss accidents today." I worry that there is nobody with this kind of fleet logistics experience overseeing these operations.

When Amazon decides to re-organize routes, the truck operators may find they are operating at a now reduced revenue stream, with no alternative but to acquiesce. Their fixed expenditures don't change too much, and while they still need to maintain the fleet and make choices about that, their payroll, etc with the added uncertainty of whether or not Amazon is gonna throw them a bone, I have witness that they are cutting corners.

They can't liquidate the vehicles, because they are now drastically devalued from normal depreciation, Amazon branded (probably bonded somehow) and these things are pretty banged up. Also, I digress--the ProMasters kind of suck, but they do seem to keep cranking for now.

It may be that perhaps those operators who cannot adjust to the required efficiency in operations should go under, forfeiting their start-up capital, but Amazon deigns the start-up worthy or not, and bequeaths the start up cash to these guys and gals. Amazon can leverage their incredible reputation, stock value, and cold-hard liquid cash to get the best deal on credit in a market where the interest rate is Zero. I don't know what the operators pay--but becha it ain't zero.

I feel uncommonly conflicted about this arrangement.
It is, but honestly I don't think I could comprehend code that was read out to me. It's very much something I do with the visual parts of my brain in terms of following the logic, etc.

I'm not saying that it's impossible, and I don't know what kind of difference something like braille would make. Idk, are there any blind programmers that you know of ? Surely there must be some programmers who have gone blind, I wonder if they just decide to switch careers idk.