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i wouldn’t call those police. i would call them enemies of the hk people, if your government oppresses you, they are not YOUR government. a true government works with the people, anything outside of that really shouldn’t exist. it’s sad that with all that we know in 2021, we still have barbaric systems that are designed to oppress. all people, rich and poor are made of the same material, anyone who says otherwise or acts otherwise is delusional. sorry, not sorry. i am really just tired of hearing/reading oppression to this degree. to accept this as the way things are is fine until it’s banging on your door at 3am to pull your family members out because they don’t fit an unrealistic/inhumane “standard” that a random other person made without thinking or not caring a about the suffering it will cause. all i keep thinking of when, not if there will be a breaking point. history tends to repeat itself, hopefully some of the good people finally stand up and demand to be treated fairly. but we’ll see, maybe it will just get better, a change of heart or something. who knows
Please sir show me the contract Americans have signed without duress or coercion. Simply put all governments exist via the rule of force and individual sovereignty does not depent on despots in power.
He got got, yo
There is a very big difference between Morals which arise directly from a sense of self-preservation vs. those which are needed to build a stable/cooperative/just society.

Eg: Thou shalt not Kill vs. Thou shalt have only one wife.

They are two very different things. I am talking about the latter which is context-specific and malleable. The former i don't consider as a "Moral" but as a direct corollary of the instinct for self-preservation.
Do you say "sigh" because the functor arrows typically go sideways in a diagram? I'm taking a classroom course in category theory right now, but it's my first exposure to actual formal instruction in this subject so I don't know all the standard terminology just yet.
Elsewhere in this thread you will find multiple references to a 150-year old law in Germany that explicitly protects "people's personal honor."
No, you're not different. There is a type of person who wants to find offense, and they will find offense with a phrase like this. Most people are not that way.
The apps have nothing to do with their views on Taiwan.
> A European Space Agency mission arriving five years later, called Hera, will check to see if the mission worked.

Maybe it's technically infeasible, but it seems to me like the main benefit we would get out of a mission like this is to actually have another craft standing by to record it as the collision happens.
The fly in the ointment of this idea that it’s better to just burn it for energy is that 40% of US electricity is already carbonfree, ie not coal, oil, or gas, plus burning trash tends to be less efficient than high efficiency combined cycle natural gas plants.
I should have been clearer. We essentially abandoned note taking and began storing all of our tasks in linear in a more granular way. We also all began participating in our issue management more, as it became sort of like the core of project management for us.

Looking at linear can give you a very clear picture of where the team is right now, what we’ve been doing, and even what we will be doing. Our issues are a place where we discuss implementation decisions, relate issues together in various ways to provide more clarity, link to external resources relevant to issues, and we organize them into projects and cycles as well.

The goal was to convert a process we already used into a more robust and useful process which might make note taking redundant. It has mostly worked.

Since we work in software and we’re a small team that’s intimately familiar with most of our code (or at least what the code does), tooling and practices like version control, idiomatic naming conventions, and supplemental commenting in code can helpfully serve as sufficient documentation for the team right now.

It’s a much different thing from real-time collaborative documents though and I do worry that as we grow, it won’t benefit less technical roles we’ll need to support the team. That’s where something like Notion becomes very compelling to me.
I am obviously talking in the context of programming, not abstract math ;-)

In this context, it's quite obvious that I am correct. Programmers around the world wouldn't have been perplexed for a decade because of a labyrinthine quote from Mac Lane's Categories for the Working Mathematician.
They should have either fired her if she was completely in the wrong way back when it first started, or acknowledge and own up to her complaints. Instead they resisted her allegations in an indefensible manner and let it become what it is now, firing her when they realized she wouldn't back down.
I'm sort of curious what the "long-lived embeddable CPU" of this era will be.

I can go to Mouser right now and buy a pin-compatible 80186 right now in quantity of 1. You can even order a new 8088 from Renesas, but it says they're back-ordered til next February.

I've seen 386s and 486s manufactured recently enough to have the "newer" Intel logo (the one without the dropped "e") which implies well into the 21st century.

With modern product lines, I'm not so sure. The Atom-class products that seem most appealing for embedded use tend to have a very short shelf life (in those terms). I wonder if they're saddled by a dual market obligation-- I suspect Intel wants to sell to both "quantities of 100" embedded markets, and "quantities of 100,000" $199 laptops/tablets, but they're really only viable use of production capacity as long as the quantities-of-100,000 orders last.

I'm not sure the ARM ecosystem is better, because of the tendency to highly-integrated SoCs. Even if some manufacturer says "here's a vault with 50 years worth of chips", it's unlikely they'll have the one particular part you want in that vault..

I wonder if, of all things, it would end up being something like the RP2040/RPi Pico. Third party designs are going to leave a lot of inertia to keep it available as-is, and at the same time, there's not really a single market-dominating customer who makes the product uneconomical if he leaves.
It’s a matter of proportionality. This case us getting massive coverage, it’s clearly an extreme outlier. I don’t think it’s reasonable to equate that with many hundreds of thousands of people literally in gaol.

I suppose Stalin was right, to paraphrase. One person is a tragedy, hundreds of thousands is a statistic.
Here is her NLRB complaint [1]. It seems fine to me if she wants to get her story out via her own site or press or whatever. It can be hard to "go viral" and you have to put a lot of effort behind it. That said, making yourself a public figure can be tough too, so I hope she's ready with facts.

This summary from her website doesn't make Apple sound all that terrible in my opinion:

> I raised issues about workplace safety in March, upon which Apple subjected me to a nonconsensual sexism investigation on my behalf. Then I faced retaliation from my managers, ER, & HR. I continued to raise my workplace safety concerns as well as my concerns about the employee relations processes at Apple. This led to a second, much larger investigation that I actually requested this time. However, before we could finish gathering & reviewing the evidence, Apple forced me onto indefinite paid administrative leave.

[1] https://foiaonline.gov/foiaonline/api/request/downloadFile/N... (PDF download)
Wait what? Really? Why?
Linters, Test Coverage, and Code quality reports are amazing and important. But these things don’t affect your customers directly. I think some engineers like spearheading these types of projects because they are safe to implement and easy to understand.
I mean it was a primary....the competitors were all democrats so no real harm done. It's an instant win in NYC for a dem afterwards as long as they don't fuck it up somehow.
I'm usually the most platform-oriented or infrastructure-oriented engineer on my team. I consistently push for refactoring, test coverage, observability, automation, design sessions, and good documentation. This week I've been adding load shedding and backoff to things, rewriting some old tests that were disabled for being flaky, and rewrote a gigantic fanout query to use a task pool.

That you think I sound like a product engineer when I've been wearing the "I wish we had a real SRE" hat all week is illustrative of the original point: they're not categories that engineers conform to.
How dare Apple not work the way I want them to!
I get that, I just prefer to not take too much stock in what a "man on the street" doesn't know about... much of anything really.

I just lament that sad state of public education in America generally, and more pertinently how people just think Lafayette was the guy from Hamilton (in some bastardized form, I presume.)

I never saw the musical, nor will I, but the man who is almost single-handedly responsible for getting the French to save our asses deserves a bit more renown in my opinion.
it's not visceral but it's kind of creepy and I'd probably say something like "that's kind of a weird phrase to use" if someone I work with said it... if they keep doing it despite complaints then it starts to feel petty and disrespectful

that said, it's nothing compared to how often I've heard male colleagues talking about their balls... just please don't ever talk about your balls at work
Some think that if the US extended their protection to Taiwan, Beijing would not attempt to take Taiwan.

Let's just assume for a moment that the US will fight off attacks by China to take Taiwan. And that US successfully ward off an attack. What next? What is there to prevent China from trying again and again and again? Will the US be prepared to ward off attacks after attacks after attacks? This is unlikely to happen.

With this, lets again assume that China eventually successfully takes Taiwan. What next? They would have taken over an island with a large number of people who resents their rule. There will be a persistent resistance group as long as Beijing continues her ways and Beijing is aware of this and is trying to shape the education of the younger generations so that the resentment does not cross generations.

Even if all these were to take place and all hope seems to be lost. There is a glimmer of hope. A totalitarian state has one major fault. There is no effective feedback mechanism and to assume that this one man can make the right call, the right decision all the time is a stretch. At some point, be it internal infighting, or a policy misstep creating intense misery amongst the people, there will be discontent and if the history of China is any indication, the discontent can trigger uprisings and eventually a change of regime.

The only way the regime can be changed is from the inside.
After straddling the line of IC to EM to CTO in orgs from 1 to 25k employees over the past 20 years, I have to say the truth of engineering management failure is so much more nuanced and subtle than what is portrayed here. Yes, there are plenty of power-hungry blow-hards and clueless pointy hairs without a lick of talent, but I honestly believe the majority of managers are trying to do a good job, but ultimately it's a really really hard job and the failure modes are extremely diverse. As an IC you might not have visibility to even properly judge the situation. There are questions of strategy, communication, priorities, performance management, micro-managing, giving someone more than they can handle, technical debt vs velocity, quality balance on critical code vs leaf-node code, individual strengths and weaknesses, bus factors, overall morale, cross-functional differences, strategic priorities, cost centers vs profit centers, business landscape, difficult but talented people, easy-going but over-committing people, capable but unmotivated people, etc.

To paraphrase Tolstoy: all happy teams are alike, but every unhappy team is unhappy in its own way.
You know, If my job tried to actively discourage me from having a two separate phones while retaining the right to search a work phone. I would take that as a warning to absolutely keep two devices and not let them touch my personal device.
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This is absolutely wrong. Starting a business is one of the easiest ways to go bankrupt.
There will be sex in the future, but reproduction will be decoupled from sex, that's all.
This would simply open up a new antitrust lawsuit though, since it's pretty easy to connect the continued ban to 3rd party payments which Apple is now legally required to allow.
A lot of my views trend liberal, but I don't really feel very well represented by the Democratic Party... really I think we would do better to have multiple smaller parties and a better voting system, and to somehow remove the giant monetary influences that seem to corrupt all decision making.

The past five years have really done a number on us all. You're right about the huge divide that's developed, it's scary.
This entire thread is worth it to see “turning” get autocompleted to “Turing”. On HN, naturally.
as they say in eastern europe "Don't spit in the well you drink from"

this reminds of that Google ethics researcher who was fired for sabotage and then built a big following on Twitter as a professional "victim of racism"
I’m sorry but “imagine” is a thought experiment and good for researching how people feel about an idea not for evaluating the actual idea’s impact. This is research into how people relate to time allocation they don’t have and don’t experience. I wish it were framed as such because it’s much more valuable that way.
Wait til they find out that people take these photos with intention to send them to those they are fond of.
Mobile Application Testing – Types, Tools, and Benefits
It is no secret. The Infinite Loop campus and the new campus are both on superfund sites. There are signs posted in the lobby ways exiting to the parking lots outside and to the inner campus. I think people are so numbed by seeing Prop 65 warnings on everything, the signs may not even register. We were told the IL campus was a superfund site during the first day of orientation. I have no idea if this is the case for the new campus.

The whole area has numerous superfund sites, all which have buildings constructed on them.
Agree with this. After my first in person vinyasa class I was sore in surprising places.
> That doesn't always work, especially when all the workers available for those positions are members of a union.

But they're not, because it's unskilled labor. They can just hire anyone off the street.

> And closing a warehouse is a drastic measure that will undoubtedly cause harm to the company's finances.

If you close a warehouse, it's still a warehouse. You sell it to Walmart or Target and pretty much get all of your money back.

That's the problem with the whole thing. A strike is brinkmanship. It hurts the workers and the company both. The idea is that if you're willing to hold out longer than they are, you can get what you want. Which you might be able to do if going on strike shuts down their whole business.

But going on strike only causes the 10112 mile journey the goods take from source to destination to become a 10188 mile journey. They just route it through some other path. From the company's perspective it's a mild inconvenience that they could suffer indefinitely without ever feeling the need to concede anything over it.

Whereas for the warehouse workers, the longer they strike the longer they're not getting paid. So they blink first, and the company knows they will, so the union can't gain anything from striking and is consequently useless.
Recycling was promoted by the plastics lobby to sell more product.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/822597631/plastic-wars-three-...
She's got a huge website[1] organizing every tweet, every hashtag, every document, every bit of media attention adjacent to this story. Regardless of what you think of the topic itself, you have to admire the single-minded focus on media exposure and self-amplification. This is an exceptional, master-level ability to get people talking about yourself. I'm kind of in awe.

1: https://www.ashleygjovik.com/ashleys-apple-story.html
Linus's reasons for causing this issue having merit does not mean he wasn't entirely the cause of the issue: those are unrelated axes.
You're right. Most republicans I've talked with, myself included, want someone like trump but more conservative and more effective. Given that that person has not yet materialized, it's the party of trump until they appear.
nothing silly about it if the purpose is to make a point in a discussion with an economist. some of them just don't get it that energy consumption is correlated with economic growth and you can't just grow yourself out of every problem.
> It wasn't part of China

HK was sold to Britain as part of the corrupted and weak China's humiliation.

What do you want to say?

Are you trying to depict the image that HK has been forcefully claimed by China?

Please stop this type of propaganda behavior. I don't like CCP, but that does not make HK not part of China.

We Chinese eventually will get rid of CCP, but we don't want the great nation get split. Just like any patriot in US would not want this great nation get split.
Don't have single-use anything. Wash cups and plates like they did for eons before disposable crap.
Isn't that international law?
Your "growing program" can (presumably, since we don't have a formal definition) be interpreted by a finite program; i.e. which can treat unlimited memory as instructions to execute. This means, in a very strict and formal sense, that it is not a more powerful model of computing. Therefore it is subject to the halting problem.

But even if it were a more powerful model, it would still be subject to an analogous halting problem. This is well-trodden ground. It is a misunderstanding to believe that the halting problem is fundamentally tied to the exact power or nature of Turing Machines.
I do sure wish it was further along, and agree that it makes more sense to sequester it or convert to syngas for converting it back to useful products with more free energy.

It seems like a lot is simple once most electricity has a low marginal cost (environmentally, of course they'd usually negotiate feed-in tariffs or other guaranteed long term pricing that accounts for the capital costs of construction).
- Facebook: spam filter implemented in an efficient data access language/tool called Haxl: https://engineering.fb.com/2014/06/10/web/open-sourcing-haxl...

- WhatsApp: famous for being written in Erlang, a functional programming language, and processing more messages a day than the entire global SMS network with a team of 50 backend engineers

- Discord: handling extreme amounts of chat/call traffic using Elixir, another functional programming language based on the same tech as Erlang

- Telephones: telephone switches from Ericsson (and in fact, internet switches from Cisco) use Erlang

- Docker: core virtualization component for macOS (hyperkit) written in OCaml

- Amazon EC2: another core virtualization component of all computes, parts of the Xen hypervisor, written in OCaml
Men are fallible, prone to corruption. I'd put that up there with a triangle having three sides. Of course if you believe so strongly to the contrary we can disagree on this point.

As for the rest, if you don't see the historical and current abuse centered around the issuance of debt backed currency, there's really nothing to say here.
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Apple won’t let Epic bring Fortnite back to South Korea’s App Store
I liked yoga with Adrienne. Kind of bubbly but I felt like I learned alot and got decently flexible when I kept with it
There is a neuroscientific basis for that. We have well established research showing how imagining movements activates (almost) the same parts of the brain as making those movements.

This is entirely different from asking people to imagine how they would react to a scenario. There is a pretty wide body of research documenting how poorly we tend to be at estimating such reactions.
Yeah, the problem with laws is they need to be enforced. It is even harder when the enforcers disagree with the laws (local police vs. gun laws, vax laws, noise laws), or if there deliberately are not enough enforcers (FTC, SEC, IRS, etc., underfunding).
Alternatives are worthless because that's how to reach 0% adoption. Plastic packaging for food and single-use plastics should be banned outright. All sold containers should be standardized and reused just like they were decades ago.
"I didn't hear you going up an octave at the end of your statements"

Aussie women are going to have trouble at Apple.
Heck, I am a male, over forty, and there are nudes of me in my phone.
Sad to find out I am not normal!
Any source for that?
Not doubting what you have said, but genuinely curious.
> And yes, too much free time is bad.

Obviously I don't claim to know her individual circumstances but speaking in more general terms, a seeming excess in free time may sometimes prove fruitful. Could be that a person was stuck in a "local maximum" in their former life, and by being pushed off that low hill they will eventually wander upon a much higher mountain of achievement. In other words, with a new self-directed sense of purpose they may find something much more fulfilling than the standard "eking out a paycheck" that most of us accept as the normal state of affairs. And that may take that a long time to accomplish, longer than they would ever been able to make time for in their old life filled with busywork.
it's easier in the sense that a single accident doesn't make the area uninhabitable in the human civilization timescales. fast decay = it'll kill you today in a minute, but will be safe to approach in a week, or 50 years.
Indeed, I discussed this with a couple of people and their reaction was the same.
This is the Apple response to this prior story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28476153
While US dollars do inflate year after year, you can lose your Bitcoin in very common scams. Exchange exit scams, malware, typing the wrong wallet address or amount, pump and dump shitcoins, etc. Or just sleeping through a 25% overnight crash that happens on some days. Or computer hardware failure.
The 'War Nerd' take on this: http://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-glory-to-the-french/
I see the jaffle shop example has made it's way out of DBT ;)
You assume that they care if the public are provoked.
Nope. There other nations targeted too.

And besides that they already know which nation state is behind those microwave attacks. They just choose not to publish it, which is fine. Just don't spread silly allegations.
It's too bad they didn't make it into an EB-52. It must've been escaping Dreamland in MCGA graphics was too difficult.
It was never about safety
The note that Apple has carte blanche access to any of their employee's iCloud/iPhone data is not surprising to me, but should be a wakeup call for anyone working there.

I know a guy who worked on their internal security team (investigating leaks, etc.) and the access they have into employee's digital lives is legitimately terrifying.

We need better protections around "tech worker" user data & its ownership. Apple shouldn't be able to keep your personal iCloud data indefinitely just because you worked for them, but they can, and it's totally legal.
Ukraine adopts draft crypto law even as the IMF sounds alarms