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> Even static text can refer to dates. And while ISO 8601 really is the proper unambiguous way to refer to all-numeric dates we still have the British and most of rest of the world preferred way of day-month-year, whereas with American English the preferred way is month-day-year.

It is really only an issue for all numeric dates. If you put the month in words, everyone gets it regardless of the order. Everyone understands that ''4 July'' and ''July 4'' (or ''July 4th'') are the same thing. In fact, in British (and Australian) English, at least, both ways are strictly speaking correct. Month-first is viewed as somewhat old-fashioned but still encountered especially in some very formal contexts. (Actually, a lot of American-British differences are due to American English being more conservative, and failing to adopt changes in the language which later occurred in England, and the differences in date order are an example of that)

> And likewise, if you are writing for an Australian audience then the assumed currency when you say naked “dollars” will be AUD. Whereas text for Canadian audiences will have CAD being the assumed meaning of naked “dollars”.

As an Australian I have no trouble working out what "dollars" means based on context. I will assume it means US dollars unless I am reading an Australian website (or Canadian or New Zealand or so on). Formally tagging the website with a locale is pointless for this. Anyway, one can always be explicit (USD vs AUD or US$ vs AU$), and in my experience a lot of texts are. Explicitness is always the best when dealing with international audiences. And, commonly, Australian news sources will, when reporting international news, give the foreign amount first (USD or EUR or GBP or JPY or whatever) and then an Australian dollar conversion in brackets. (I expect Canadian and New Zealand news sources would do the same thing.)

> And that’s why I mean that there often is a locale tied even to text.

Often, when talking about texts, house style is a more important concept than locale. For example, the United Nations (and its agencies) has its own rules about spelling English words, they mostly follow American conventions (e.g ''World Health Organization'' not ''World Health Organisation'') but sometimes use British spellings instead (e.g ''United Nations Environment Programme'' not ''United Nations Environment Program''). I don't know if you can easily map an organisation's house styles to locales.

The other problem is what is in a locale is often disputed. For example, what is the first day of the week in Australian locale, Sunday or Monday? There is actually no consensus on this question in Australian culture. My wife and I can't agree on it, and even Australian media reflects the lack of consensus [0]. However, interestingly, while the ABC (our national public broadcaster) says the official answer is Monday, Unicode CLDR says Sunday, and most software vendors have followed Unicode. But, Unicode CLDR actually used to say Monday, and someone talked Unicode into changing it. Maybe I should try to talk them into changing it back :)

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-18/which-day-do-you-cons...
Blue Origin Sues NASA over Lunar Lander Contract Given to Rival SpaceX
Due to my BG check issues, I am currently quite poor. I can't really afford housing so I sleep outside on land owned by the Post Office.

Why they don't kick me off is something I haven't been able to figure out, but I'm grateful they let me stay so I clean up their parking lot and common area 3-4 times a week.

Trust me...the poor get the barest of scraps already, so of course they get nothing "when cities grow". What I've seen is that a few people with very large hearts and a ton of compassion make regular stops with a big pot of pasta and ice cream and maybe a pack of socks, under ware, and t-shirts.

To be honest, I've always been very much a loner so I don't really make friends with other poor people as most poor do in order to keep up to date on where the free places to eat are and all that kinda stuff.

I really don't want to be poor like this, but I guess it's no one's fault but mine why I'm in this predicament.

What I want more than anything is a job, but at last look I have 7 felonies (6 possession charges and a 2nd degree "Escape" charge that's always kind of fun to explain), but when you run a BG check on me thru some of the very popular and cheap apps out there, due to bugs in their systems and the way I've moved around a lot, it literally looks like I have about 50 felonies because apparently these sites create duplicates that are missing info and then since they don't "match" to the real charges, the database logic inserts them as different charges.

I tried contacting the companies, but they refuse to even look at the issue and I'm sure think I'm a super junkie who has 50 felonies.

I don't really think it's fair to not give me a chance to work because of stuff that's happened 30 to 8 years ago. Don't you guys feel like a totally different person than you were 8 years ago? Like aren't we supposed to forgive people who have been through a lot of pain and suffering and who have learned new ways?

I mean...these possession charges are a life fucking sentence!

It's SUCH a shit grind to go thru 3 to 4 long interviews, and to feel like you did well enough to get hired, and then never get called back about what happened. The last 10 jobs I've applied for I've gone through this same exact thing, and even though I hate being poor like I am more than anything, being the victim of a silent discrimination is worse.
I'm very curious how it optimizes that recursive version at the end, because it is not tail recursive.

Does anyone know? Perhaps it becomes tail recursive after one round of inlining?
Raising wages doesn’t create more workers, though. It will just convince them to leave other jobs for the higher paid alternatives. This creates new job openings that still need to be backfilled.

I don’t think it’s obvious that large numbers of people are choosing to stay home and earn $0/hour instead of getting a job working $10/hour because they really wanted $15/hour. The worker shortage is a real phenomenon of more jobs existing than people in the workforce.

On the other hand, raising wages would produce inflationary pressure on everything from housing prices to food prices, which would force more people to get jobs just to survive. Not exactly what you meant, I know.
Calling it an "AI Video Generator" is IMO misleading; it's a video of the intermediate frames during the training process as it improves, the AI itself doesn't generate the video.
I am an automation hobbyist and single guy on tinder, and I think I can crack the code on this one: Activity difference

On top of you doing the math on how active a bot is verse regular humans, some additional probably related factors are:
- Bot accounts use attractive photos
- Bot accounts can claim to be anywhere
- Bot accounts are often new accounts, and new accounts get boosted
- The longer you use the app, you run out of actual people to swipe on, but the new bot accounts continue to pop up at the same rate - making their % of your total swipe pool increase over time.
- Bots might just be masking the reality that there isnt many people in your area using the app lately.

All that said, in my region of NY I would not consider it a problem at all. maybe this is not a problem for me because my area is very populated, so there's a lot of actual people on the app.
> As new variants emerge that spread faster, this will become even more true.

I thought opposite. Contact tracing should work well for strongly spreading (without much contacting) variant because it just trace nearby user rather than "contact".
I don't get the intense focus on grey water in these threads. Grandparent poster mixes up grey water and tertiary recycled water down thread, so maybe confusion over that or selective use of terms so Arizona comes out on top? Who knows?

Sure, Arizona seems to be leading in grey water, but treated effluent are exponentially higher flows and that absolutely is being used and applied in Southern California. GWRS is currently operating at 100 MGD of indirect potable reuse and in the midst of an expansion to 130 MGD and San Diego is currently building their indirect potable system to 83 MGD. All in addition to the 100s of MGD tertiary recycled water distributed via purple pipes and other means throughout the region. This is not to say the current status is sufficient(I'd love to see an exponential expansion on managed aquifer recharge), but seeing a number of recent threads opining as if no "responsible" water management is being done in the region, which is frankly, absurd.
Oh, that is just precious.

Set up four tape drives, so you can run the sort. The Computer Museum has the program.
I think another major factor is that people imagine winning the lottery will solve all their problems because they feel like "money" is their single biggest problem and if that would go away, their life would work.

In reality, they trade poor people problems for rich people problems and don't have rich people coping skills. They run out of money before developing them or they resist developing them because they are hesitant to be that cynical and jaded and they run out of money trying to prove to themselves that life does not boil down to "I've got dozens of friends and the fun never ends, that is as long as I'm buying."
Fine, there is a shortage of cheap/affordable labor. These corps don't want wagyu...they want chicken fingers. They can't afford wagyu. Wagyu wouldn't even fit the occasion! They're not hosting a dinner party man; they're drunk in an Uber on the way home from the club.
Bumble has a website UI
I don't think it's about the profitability, at least for non-amazon stores, none have the volume to make it worth their while. But what they are going for is trying to get somewhere close to the wide selection that amazon has.

If you need something specialized like say, upholstery glue, Walmart may have 5-6 different options, one or two of which might be sold by Walmart themselves, if you are lucky. Which means likely long shipping times for all the others as they won't qualify for Walmart plus or whatever they call it.

If you search that on Amazon, you will find probably 30-40 different brands and types of upholstery glue available in all difference sizes, in a jug, in a spray bottle, bulk sized, etc. Most of which is available for Prime 1-2 day shipping and will show up next day.

Walmart and other retailers need to be working with some warehouse logistics companies that basically do what amazon FBA. Because as it is, most of the 3rd party listings on other retail sites are just drop shippers trying to arbitrage off Amazon or ebay products. If you buy from them, the seller will just purchase it from Amazon or ebay and have it shipped to you.

The rest are sellers that already sell on Amazon and ebay and just check the Walmart box in their listing management software to add a few more sales here and there. But without amazon and ebay, they wouldn't be able to maintain their business on Walmart, target, and probably about every other retail platform combined.

And I'm not even sure if ebay amounts to much any more. When I was in the business a few years ago, ebay did still account for maybe 20% of sales. I assume that has gone down, but likely varies depending on category.
Why use the median wage nationally, when almost everyone living in NY benefits from higher wages there? Even the jobs which require no skill and no work experience pay $15/hr
I have no value judgement of them; it's just amusing to see mainstream media vying for credibility in this way.
For anyone still interested in 'Visual Basic' style application development, or for RAD development in general, take a look at Gambas: http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html

Gambas is a mature, current-generation OO BASIC, has a vast array of libraries, a JIT and is completely open source software.
> Do you believe Apple are somehow resource strained in not being able to do that many times over?

Actually, yes.

Let's say Apple has infinite dollars, which is true enough. Therefore they can afford to hire the 100 top graphics API developers in the world and put them to work on Metal.

Now they decide they want to support Vulkan. But they can't go out and buy the 100 top graphics API developers anymore; those people are already working on Metal. They could get the next top 100 developers, but those people, as a rule, won't be quite as good as the people they already have working on Metal.

Now I guess they could mix up the teams so that every other person in the top 100 working on Metal gets folded into the Vulkan team and vice versa and have two teams of roughly equal skill working on each. But then they don't have a super-team of the top 100 devs working on one project anymore.

Now consider that Apple doesn't quite have infinite dollars, and that some top-level developers won't want to move to Cupertino or whatever else Apple may ask of them, and how do you even judge who the top 100 graphics API developers in the world are?

Maybe, even for Apple, the best approach is to get the best developers you can hope to buy and keep all their attention on one project rather than splitting it up.

All that said, yes, the ideal is that there would be some successor to OpenGL which enjoys the cross-platform support that it had. But as stated elsewhere in this thread, Metal was released years before Vulkan, so perhaps the onus for that is on those who have developed and adopted Vulkan instead of reaching out to Apple to expand Metal to other platforms (if that would have been acceptable; who knows, maybe they tried but Apple didn't allow it).
There was also boosted unemployment. In some states people were taking in over $4000 per month in unemployment. That's a lot of money to not work.
Integer Overflow to RCE – ManageEngine Asset Explorer Agent (CVE-2021–20082)
Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?
Hi Hacker News,

I’m Andrea and I have a strange problem with Google that I’m wondering if any of you here can advise about. It’s affecting several people with the same name as me, whose lives are being impacted.

In January 2021, I published a non-fiction book about a difficult, traumatic topic: my victimization and sex crimes that I witnessed toward other women. Because I am a victim, I chose not to put a photo of myself online. In fact, I have never ever taken a selfie nor had a photo of myself online.

Four months after I published my book, Google created a knowledge panel for me and, because I didn’t have a photo online, they just grabbed a photo of another Andrea Vassell who lives in Canada and displayed it alongside my book and claimed this woman was the author. After spending weeks sending feedback and trying to get help from Google support, they finally deleted the woman’s photo, but then promptly replaced it with another Andrea Vassell who is a pastor in New York. She, the pastor in New York, wrote to me that she has been “attacked” because people believe she is me.

I contacted Google again and asked them to please delete the knowledge panel because I did not have a photo on the Internet; therefore, any photo that they displayed alongside my book would be of the wrong person. By this time, some of the characters in my book were also being negatively affected because now it seemed they had harmed a pastor of a church.

I kept contacting Google and finally at the end of May, the knowledge panel was deleted, only to return a week later with a photo of a man who had been fired for his threats toward me. That photo remained until July 2021, and was then replaced with the pastor in New York again, although this time it’s a different photo of her.

I know that I am not a celebrity or an important person, but I spent two years writing a very difficult and personal book and to have a large corporation come along and continuously and consistently misrepresent my work and cause distress to others is becoming exceedingly stressful for everyone involved.

I contacted the Federal Trade Commission and they told me to contact the BBB and IC3.gov. I received an automated response from BBB and I don’t understand the reasoning behind contacting IC3.gov. I am currently working on a second book which I assume will be added to this knowledge panel with the photo of the wrong woman.

I would greatly appreciate any input about how to get this corrected so that I and others can move on. I know this is probably just an algorithmic glitch, but it’s affecting not only me but several others, and at this point I have no idea how to get Google to take it seriously.
Gene Kranz book could be up your alley. Not too technical though but I am going through it now and it’s really exciting to go through NASA’s incremental steps to the moon
...but was it cheaper than just finding a suitable free font(s)?

However, if a design team wants to make their own font and has the resources to do so I don't see why not. It's a strong branding move.
An Apple Affray
This study only covered US cities, and the main factor seems to be housing prices. It would be interesting to replicate this in places where cheap housing is more abundant, be it through liberal zoning (Tokyo), subsidized public housing (Singapore) or shantytowns (much of the developing world).
If drastically reducing the incidence of drug/alcohol addiction and sports injuries was as easy as administering 2 shots, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

It is ultimately your choice. Just understand that others making the same choice are currently filling up hospital beds. The numbers don't lie.
Hey you got Tacofino so there’s that.

No but seriously it’s nuts how expensive the island is and I’m from Toronto
your performance is adequate but it's clear now you're just not a good culture fit here
Program Synthesis with Large Language Models
Windows has a function EnumWindows() to do just that.

If you say that there's an similar API on Linux for X11, then that's the same methodology across platforms.
Vulkan is derived from AMD's Mantle API which came out back in 2013.
And only available on Linux right?
I disagree. A lot of the upcoming requirements of transistors just do not need small transistor nodes. For example, for RF applications, power handling needs simply require larger gate lengths. There is no way you can use a 7nm finfet to realize some RF applications.

Innovation in semiconductors takes many forms, not just pushing to lower transistor nodes.
Microsoft provides toolkits to help with this. I have spent easily 100+ hours churning through a catalogue of applications that 'need local admin' and have only found one case where it was true, and it was due to a bug that the latest software version fixed. It is almost always a false truth due to cost I feel. I primarily analyzed applications that were for PLCS and other industrial equipment.

You can find more information about this here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/planning...

I run a VM that stays up to date with the latest Windows version that I install the toolkit on for testing.

(side tangent, the user of this application insisted they had the latest version, and with it being behind some login that required some form related to ITAR or something to register, we just had to trust him until I had him download it 'just in case.')
One or two generations isn't 100 years though.
Since Titan’s surface is mostly water ice you’d think it would be easier to use electrolysis to generate oxygen locally.
> My take on work is that it's getting more exploitive, more administrative, less fun and less satisfying. Between politics and policies and management, work is asking much more, not physically but in terms of behaviors and beliefs. It's a new kind of exploitation we haven't really faced before.

Maybe I’m showing my age, but I have to disagree hard with this idea that working conditions are worse in 2021 than they were in the past.

Modern jobs are quite comfortable and flexible relative to what was expected a few decades ago. Companies today bend over backwards to retain employees. I’m not exactly old, but I’m old enough to have experienced a significant shift toward better treatment of workers.

At the upper end (e.g. us engineers earning above-average wages), the level of employee pampering we get at modern tech companies feels unreal, even outside of the stereotypical FAANG offices. The amount of flexibility, respect, and attention showered on us (meaning tech workers) now is miles ahead of working conditions decades ago.

Just ask anyone who worked through past recessions what it’s like to work in a crowded job market with far more workers than jobs and where everyone is trying to outperform each other to avoid the next round of layoffs. It’s nothing like our job market today where you can walk out of one company and into another in a matter of weeks or days.
I was told bringing a spouse to a work event meant you wouldn't get raises because family people are less willing to work late. So which is it?
The article says no.
I wonder why they don't expose a kernel instead of just the rootfs. It's hard to imagine a great reason. Maybe they harden their guest kernel?
This is the proper Kantian answer. Certain basic human capacities are innate (e.g. perceptual grasp of relative object size), but it is through socialization processes that these capacites are "assembled" into knowledge and meaning.

A Freudian take that applies more to behavior in the workplace is that certain drives are innate to the organism and require discharge lest tension builds up, and it is through learned "algorithms" that we find acceptable ways to relieve these tensions.