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> For businesses it's more cost effective to hire a low skilled human who can wrangle Codex 3.0 compared to a skilled human at FAANG salaries.

For the businesses for which that is true, they aren't paying FAANG salaries already.

For the businesses paying FAANG salaries, its not true, or they would be paying lower salaries and accepting not getting quite at the top of the human talent pool.

> Given the current pace of progress I'm pretty certain that in 10 years almost all repetitive, non-creative programming tasks will be delegated to AI systems (eg. current "CRUD" patterns).

Sure, but the repetitive, non-creative tasks of programming from the 1950s (or even 1970s) have been delegated to automation already. That's what always happens with programming, increasing the value of each unit of human labor and increasing the scope of tasks to which programming is applicable.

It’s what automation does in other fields to, but it transfers some of the work to automators. But when you are automating programming, that transfer is (on a broad scale) something of a no op.
The law on patents is that you have to make and sell products using those patents, either by "use in commerce", showing that it's currently in-use, or that you have a "bona fide intent to use the mark".

https://tmep.uspto.gov/RDMS/TMEP/current#/current/TMEP-900d1...
Likely because it's easier, since there are extensive libraries and tools already for refactoring. Also a bunch of business code is in Java.
Maybe the EU should declare Qi the standard. Surely Apple can't complain about a standard they already comply with?
Soap is hydrophilic, it sticks to water, that’s what makes it good at washing things away. I never had trouble with soap residue, I figure I would taste it if any was left behind.

Edit: I do buy the colorless and scent free soap cause I don’t see why dyes should be in soap tho
It doesn’t matter that CSAs are working remote. There are monitoring solutions for those too.

Here’s a recent report on one of the companies that counts Apple as its customer monitoring employees by video. [1] Apple in this instance responded that it prohibits such monitoring.

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/09/workers-complain-about-...
They are talking about how there is no confusion about the overreach in scanning on people's devices. You are arguing a straw man.
We talk to them (phone screen). If we bring them in, we just talk to them for a half hour about what's on their resume and stuff.

Then we give them a code sample, a single function that fits on half a sheet of paper. We ask them what it does. We ask about ways it could break, corner cases. We ask them what they would name the function.

Then we give them a small coding problem. They can solve it in any language they want. It's not as trivial as FizzBuzz, but it's not very complex. It's certainly not leetcode. We watch them think through how to write code that would do what we asked. We aren't really watching for syntax errors, but if the code was full of them it would be a concern.

Then we give them a small design problem, one that's not all that clear-cut. We push them on some of the corner cases of the design, and watch them try to adapt the design to cover them.

Total time: Two hours.

This approach has gotten us a pretty solid, competent team.
Well, this is actually more like the second world than the third, by the original meaning; Soviet-block countries were the ones which had rigid population-movement controls, checked their citizens for papers on the street, and arrested anyone who disagreed openly. Third-world countries were poor but didn't have enough government to be so authoritarian.
I have seen my home double in value in a year. Appreciate 15% just last month alone. It is very hard to point to any non-bubble explanation for it. A neighboring home which sold 3 months ago in two days and has seen its backyard and appliances improved will go back on the market in 2 weeks at a 25% increase over the june price. It will also probably sell in a matter of days. I find it difficult to believe this is sustainable.
There is not unfortunately.
This might have been great for transition for backend for my sendsimple.app thanks for sharing
Yes. For one example Finland has a nasal inhalation vaccine and cannot get funding to go ahead with it. (my partner is Finnish).
The Australian federal government didn't order enough vaccines or a wide variety. They were overly dependent on locally manufactured AZ then their health advisory group recommended most of the population not take AZ. And the only other vaccine they had approved was Pfizer and they didn't order enough.

Most of the states have kept covid cases hovering around zero so vaccination availability hasn't been a huge issue. Fortress Australia could hold out for years if needed. Until the NSW state government unilaterally decided not to take an outbreak seriously.
Escape and seclusion is circumstantial, so bound to change into bridge-building on middle ground.
According to https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/202005103 FairPhone does not ship to United States, and according to https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047326452 "When it comes to the United States and Canada, 4G(LTE) will not always work..."

The phone and parts can likely still be obtained over eBay or similar.

Has anybody here tried to use Fairphone in the US, and if so, what was your experience, and with which carrier?
There apparently is no one cable with a majority market share in the EU, so the majority of people will wind up having obsolete cables if one cable becomes standard. Of course Apple’s argument is specious since standards change and people buy different types of phones anyways.
Occam's razor:

1) humans consume ~5000 tonnes of the stuff, which apparently causes multiple kinds of cancers in rodents, and it's also super bad for humans, but despite its ubiquity we haven't seen that signal because...?

2) rodents with a lifespan of 1-3 years get cancer super-duper easily

Rodent models are easy. Easy != simple.
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The specific patents the jury decided Apple was infringing:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8019332B2/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/US8385284B2/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/US8411557B2/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9001774B2/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/US8102833B2/en
> Apple has had two versions of its charger (30 pin and Lightning), and USB has had how many? 7 iterations?

Android phones only ever had micro-usb and usb-c, AFAIK. You can rant about variations on usb-c, but you can still charge your phone with any usb-c cable you've got.

You have to go back to pre-iPhone days to find (non-Android) smartphone that had mini-USB.
Assange?
I had a few devices running Windows Mobile 2003 and later before Android came out, and they were pretty stable and easy on the battery. The later though was probably due to the lack of 20+ apps, that would constantly try using GPRS. It was mostly Outlook, Opera Mini, a book reader, and a RSS client.
It's karma for Steve Jobs threatening to put other companies out of business with spurious patent litigation unless they joined Apple and Google in their illegal wage fixing scheme.
I see many complaints about the font rendering and I also agree the fonts don’t look good. This is a general problem with OpenGL. OpenGL draws triangles. There is no support for antialiased text rendering. And if one can figure out how to render live text with OpenGL, it won’t be something a GPU is efficient at rendering. I think the normal approach is to pre-render all needed glyphs and then move them into position. Pathfinder, Slug, and the work from Raph Levien are the only projects I know working on GPU based font rendering.
I agree, but maybe that’s because it gives me a headache.

At least, I think it does. I can never remember which sweeteners do - some do, some don’t. I don’t eat them enough to keep track.
"We feel very positively and strongly about what we're doing and we can see that it's been widely misunderstood."

In other words, they still know better.
Australia has had very, very few deaths from COVID -- or even cases -- compared to most of the "Western" world.

In Sydney, a city of over 5 million, the current lockdown laws were implemented when there were up to ~90 cases per day. The goal, for most Australian states, has been complete elimination of COVID. In Melbourne, we went back into lockdown because of 10 positive test results in a single day. The other states of Australia are largely all "fully open" with no restrictions (including any kind of mask mandate) because there are zero cases in the cities. Australia's method to date has been to lock down hard and re-open after elimination... until COVID sneaks back in on a plane or some such.

The restrictions look something like: A full indoor mask mandate, non-essential retail stores are closed: Grocery, fast food & convenience (to go only), alcohol, & hardware are open, restaurants and bars are closed, visits to homes other than your own are disallowed (with the exception of your "intimate partner", if they live within 5 kilometers), and you may meet with no more than 1 other person outdoors for the purpose of exercise only.

In some LGAs (Local Government Area, kinda like a county?) you must have a permit to leave your LGA for any reason including work.

Vaccination rates are low, not because of an unwilling populace but because the federal government failed to source enough vaccines.

Compliance with lockdown rules has been pretty decent, to date, but it's looking like it's going to continue along like this until probably December, at this stage.
Their new charger with the ring magnet wouldn‘t be possible if they are forced to support a common one. I mean they could add it but almost nobody would use it if something like usb-c or standard qi charging is a european requirement.
I'd side with Apple on this one, their lightning ports seem to be far more durable than USB-C ports.

Which are also a major pain to replace in both phones and laptops due to the pin count and general construction.
Indeed. Yes I would need to abandon my current lightning cable, but then I could reuse my USB-C cable in perpetuity.

Hoisted by your own petard, Apple!
New cable standards tend to be pricier. There fear is a lot of “race to the bottom” manufacturers will resist a new “innovative” standard.
I'm guessing macOS which is a certified Unix is working fine for average users and works even better for developers.

I'm not sure if Unix is the ancient one or that Windows is the ancient one who can't let go of backward compatibilities and is stuck with all the legacy parts all over to drag its innovation for decades.
Australia's vaccination rate is very low and vaccinated folks can still spread Delta.

In this case, where the goal is to end an outbreak, vaccinated have to be treated the same as unvaccinated.
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Yeah, all they need to do is follow suit with what everybody else is doing and scan once images are uploaded onto iCloud.

Scan every single file. I don't care. Because once in iCloud, files are sitting on Apple's server and hard drives. I don't have much expectation that those files are 100% private.

They're completely missing the point.
The amino acid in question is apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartic_acid, a chemical component of aspartame, and the origin of the latter's name, but not at all the same substance.
What speed is a lightning port again? Can you get HDMI uncompressed out of it?
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I am not black but I can see some extremely strong historical reasons why the black community would be very suspicious of any government claims that a medicine or medical treatment is there to help them. The extent to which vaccine and pandemic related messaging has been politicized and just completely botched is a true tragedy.
Scientists think that up to 50% of cancer might come from alcohol consumptions, but it’s apparently quite hard to study.
Each year, Apple gives up customer data on over 150,000 users based on US government data requests, and NSL and FISA requests[1].

The idea that Apple would fight this is a farce, as they regularly give up customers' data without a fight when the government requests it.

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html
They didn’t deny either.
The key phrase in the question was 'beyond a reasonable doubt'. I'm not versed in atmospheric physics, so of course I can't present an educated counter arguement to the consensus, but it's complexity alone makes me skeptical of any consensus that's reached. It was only so long ago that an ice age was eminent, right?

If you have any quality sources (books, videos, etc) I'd be interested in reading up more, it's an interesting topic that unfortunately developed a polarizing and polemic dialogue.
The federal government sued ibm for monopoly status, ibm outspent them till it didn’t matter.

I’d imagine Apple could play the same game.
That's not totally true. Early, early android phones (HTC magic) had mini. The Nexus One and beyond were micro IIRC. You are 99% on the nose I believe.
Your argument here seems to be that Apple is adopting privacy policies that can be favourably compared to Facebook, and have taken a step closer to how Facebook handles data. I don't disagree at all. That is the problem I see here.

Anyone trusting Facebook with a level of access to their life comparable to a mobile phone is foolish. There is no way I would pay money for Facebook to control my phone.
I respect that, but you can't get rid of it without a complete and utter total shutdown of people coming in. Probably easier for Australia than most.

USA has a lot of really uneducated and/or ignorant people, but even without it, global travel would keep pounding us with it. I imagine Australia would have a similar issue.
I just delete those emails that require a coding challenge.
Cured meats probably have a wider base of consumption and are carcinogenic, but only somewhat recently were categorized as such by the WHO. It certainly wasn't folk knowledge when I was a kid that they would be cancer-causing. Bad for the heart, sure, but nothing to do with cancer. And yet it is now established.

That being said, this is a rodent study. Really not a good input to guide human behavior. And human cohort studies have only found associations with cancer after really long periods, like decades. Might be nothing there.
Sex is important but computers are more.

Rabbits and rats have a lot of sex but they can not do a simple "Hello World" program.

If you can not have sex do sports and play with computers.
The purpose of the monitoring is to prevent data theft, and is specifically for customer service associates. Customer service associates have access to sensitive customer data that even management or IT employees do not have.
Exactly. Anyone worried about aspartame but still consuming fried/grilled/brazed food (basically anything besides blanching) is kinda missing the point.
Friend, I think you missed the David Bowie reference.

The song is Oh, you pretty things.
Alcohol would be the big one.
> The 4A protections don't apply to third parties.

The government can't pay someone to break into your house and steal evidence they want without a warrant. I mean, they can, but the evidence wouldn't be admissible in court.
I wasn't aware this effect had a name but it's what got me jaded on reading the news and how I always explain my feelings about it to people. Thanks for the link.
Maybe they are imported through California? Most canned drinks probably come from Ohio or New Jersey or something.
I would recommend @johnregehr, @shafikyaghmour and @trav_downs if you're new to the area. If you're particularly interested in rust, @myrrlyn, @ManishEarth and @steveklabnik are great follows. @jfbastien is a compiler dad-joker extraordinaire and @jckarter is a master shitposter (with a side of old Macs) if you're in need of compiler-oriented comic relief.

In particular, John tends to get involved in a lot of interesting conversations, so he's great to find more people to follow.
A relief to receive a response like this, thank you for taking the time to write it up! Sometimes I feel like the technology sector moves quickly without taking the time to consider the ethical implications of developing technology, and it seems to me that you have taken that time and have a good ethical basis for your business.

Best of luck!
I used to work on DNA dyes. Typically when you see a 6 carbon ring with a chain of carbons attached, there is high probability of that molecule interfering with DNA replication.

Basically the mechanism works because the hexagon ring slides between the base pairs and this leads to a lowest energy state due to a phenomenon call pi orbital stacking resulting in the molecule getting stuck there. The carbon chain is mostly valuable in the sense that it distances the rest of molecule from interfering with the stacking process.

Take a look at ethidium bromide or pretty much any other intercalating dna stain and you’ll see similar characteristics. It’s also extremely carcinogenic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi-Stacking_(chemistry)

It’s analogous to getting some cloth stuck in your zipper. Sometimes you can zip and unzip easily enough but sometimes it’ll get stuck. My understanding is that really DNA replication issues tend to be the root cause of some, possibly many cancers but really that’s outside my expertise.

So I would say that it is internally consistent with my limited knowledge of biochemistry that aspartame is carcinogenic.

I would strongly caveat this with saying that these structures occur in pretty high frequency across many forms of plant and animal life. Chemists in my lab used to joke about how potatoes contain 17 or so know carcinogenic compounds so why buy organic. My point is, if you go looking for correlations with cancer in many forms of food, you will find them.

I think for most people, aspartame is not likely to be major risk factor unless you are consuming it in extreme quantities and otherwise live a very healthy life.
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None of the 3nm node process orders will be for its consumer market processors, namely Raptor Lake, which is expected to launch in mid-to-late 2022.
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There are other studies that suggest Ivermectin being effective. For example, this reference [1], lists meta analysis that seems to suggest effectiveness. Given the amount of money that flows into the pharmaceutical companies, I am very cautious in trusting studies that invalidate their inexpensive competitors.

[1] https://ivmmeta.com
I think the first is the 32 bit int version of 127.0.0.1, and 0177 is the octal representation of 127.
How does this attack even work? So some government poisons the database with political dissident memes and suddenly Apple starts getting a bunch of new reports which when reviewed are obviously not CSAM.

If the government can force Apple to also turn over these reports then they could have just made Apple add their political meme database directly and it's already game over.
Minor takeaway, but it's pretty cool that people are casually mentioning Pony Lang as a popular solution
Except when it’s grilled/charred, but then I guess it’s not the meat that’s carcinogenic at that point
It depends on what your intent is; if it's that the technology has been around for a long time, that's not really adding much to the conversation. It would be like saying that battery technology is centuries old, which is technically true, but meaningless in the context of advances being made in li-ion batteries today. If the intent is to say that fuel cell technology is mature and unlikely to significantly advance further -- which is how it's often presented on this topic in particular -- that just isn't true. SOFCs have only recently reached commercialization, and there are still gains to be had in, for example, manufacturing PCFCs, rSOCs, reducing platinum content of low-temperature (PEM) devices, etc. We're starting in the context of scaling up an industry, and all of the gains that brings.
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Even when the company owns the computer and it is on company time?
Moreover, things could become retroactively bad. If tomorrow multiple countries decide to change the minimum age of adult performers from 18 to 19 a bunch of pics legal today could become illegal tomorrow leading to wide dragnets enabling law enforcement to go through everything you have.
Android phones have had Micro, Mini, USB-C, and Micro-USB 3.0 (which is meaningfully different than Micro)
>You shouldn't lose all rights

I'm not a huge fan of this monitoring, but why be so dramatic? You aren't losing any rights here, let alone all rights. You do not have a right to use your employer's computer without your employer's permission.

If you want to do something that isn't monitored, just use your own computer instead of your employer's computer. You should be doing this anyway, keystroke monitoring or not.
I guess gaslighting is what they do now.

> We, who consider ourselves absolutely leading on privacy, see what we are doing here as an advancement of the state of the art in privacy, as enabling a more private world.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/apple-defends-ip...
You can jerk off. It is cheaper and it have less moral issues.
I may steal that...
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Honest question, Whats happening with the owners of those bars and restaurants? are they expected to continue to pay their employees, rents and mortgagees? If so how are they remaining solvent and if not how are their counterparties expected to remain solvent?
The issue for heat deaths like the current situation is not just the average increase, it's the _extreme_ temperatures that are killing and they're increasing much faster than the average and occurring much more often. Take a look at any of the analyses of the last big PNW heat dome versus climate change or just skim through this piece from a subject expert:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/opinion/heat-dome-climate...

"Heat waves now occur three times as often as they did in the 1960s — on average at least six times a year in the United States in the 2010s. Record-breaking hot months are occurring five times more often than would be expected without global warming. And heat waves have become larger, affecting 25 percent more land area in the Northern Hemisphere than they did in 1980; including ocean areas, heat waves grew 50 percent."
New Zealand had a managed isolation quarantine (MIQ) program. From plane landing to hotel is carefully manages, as is time in hotel, with tests throughout the stay looking for Covid. 14 days later, assuming your tests are negative, you're released into a country without Covid.

It is possible to have a flow of people, but it's dependant upon a supply of MIQ facilities and trained staff (NZ Defense Force oversees MIQ here). We'll be trialling some "isolate at home if you're from a country with low Covid" lightweight alternatives in the coming months, but there will still be the retirement to isolate.
Methanol basically comes from fermentation or digestion of pectin, so it’s in pretty much all fruits and fruit byproducts in small quantities. It’s really not a problem in small doses, in fact your breath will have a small but measurable amount of it at pretty much all times. You really have to try to get enough methanol to poison yourself.
What you've said as Australia very true.

Australia doesn't have the same issue as other non-island countries, and in fact has some advantages over other island countries in that its population centres are few and far between -- even with the two largest cities currently in lockdown, every other city of over 500,000 residents is so geographically distant that they are not and have no need to be.

At the current vaccination rate, hovering around maybe ~25% of adults, is lockdown worth it? I would say so, and it appears that so does the majority of the Australian population.