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Those bins wouldn't change anything, not a single state has more than 50% of their beds occupied by covid patients.

> https://www.benefitspro.com/2021/08/12/10-states-where-covid...
As for interesting public chats: Quite a lot of the free software community is on Matrix these days; check out projects you're interested in and see if they have a Matrix link.

For example, the NixOS community has a curated Matrix Space linked from https://nixos.org/community/index.html with lots of rooms to explore. GNOME, KDE, and Mozilla also have a significant presence on Matrix.
FWIW, while I don't have citations handy, I definitely remember reading several things over the last few years mentioning research showing that teams that are more diverse tend to make better decisions. Now if you're overly cynical, you can think whatever you want about that research or whatever... but it does exist, at least to some extent.
Some Thoughts on the Biden Doctrine
This expectation was indeed common in tech circles in the 00’s “web 2.0” days, and it didn’t seem ludicrous. Removing government and corporate gatekeepers (like newspapers and TV networks) meant that disenfranchised voices could finally be heard —anyone could have a blog or whatever and be heard. It wasn’t crazy to think that if only everyone in the world could finally talk to each other that we could work out differences and make friendships across political and geographical boundaries.

That was the hypothesis. The worldwide experiment that is still running seems to have falsified it.
Needs more parentheses.
Just store your pngs in MongoDB.
Before anyone types out a wall-o-text pearl clutching about how all mechanical systems are unknown black boxes and surely the indy shop couldn't have sufficiently fixed the issue without compromising safety you may want to look at the discussion from last time a similar thing happened. You can likely find something in there to copy+paste and save yourself some time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27814621
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Something I've wondered is why we can't have a language that looks totally procedural but uses monads under the hood to reason about state at any given point in the process. This would mostly be sugar, but I think it could make that stuff much more accessible.

We get small, specialized fragments of this in Rust's borrow-checker and TypeScript's control-flow analysis, but I'm not aware of something that tries to take the whole of IO-monads and reshape them into a familiar format.
> why does Tesla charge so much for these repairs?

Because...they can?

King Gilette immortalized the business model of selling low-margin razors and high margin blades. Tesla is trying the car equivalent?
RA2's was pretty fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKjPls9YGcI
Fair point, maybe some differences due to location as well as it shows in stock for me.

FWIW the mpe-AX3000H is a repackaged ax200 not an 8265 (ac only chip). Doesn't change the price just noting it's a different chip than the 7260/mpe-AH3000H https://www.amazon.com/Compatible-AX200NGW-9260NGW-Upgrade-W...
> It’s the same with Neymar. How many times do you think his profile is reported for any number of violations by people who don’t like him? If an ordinary persons account got 100 reports a minute it would be taken down. Neymar’s won’t be.

More to the point, after a human reviewed Neymar's conduct and it clearly violated Facebook policies about posting revenge porn, his account still wasn't taken down. And that's not a technical issue of the false positive rate -- it is a double standard.

From the article: 'A December memo from another Facebook data scientist was blunter: “Facebook routinely makes exceptions for powerful actors.”'

(Edited: changed verb tense to make it clear that this already happened and wasn't a hypothetical.)
> the only valuable model that is interesting to big VC is exploitation and dark patterns

The growing number of fintech startups accepted into YC this year that service Latin America and other ~~easily exploitable~~ underserved markets would back up your claim.
Tip for men with PC: if you just get surgery and your PSA is high after that surgery, don't put off followup treatment (radiation usually). My brother did that and its now metastatic in his bones. 5 year survival rate for that in US is 30%.
It literally scales better than any other mechanism of schooling! You have the best possible educators create lesson plans, videos, and visual materials and then lesser-skilled facilitators can assist students as they learn. It’s the absolute most scalable mechanism of education thus created.
Because they employ blitzkrieg tactics that nobody should be able to get away with and by the time we notice it's too late to change our consumption habits
I don't have children, but if I did -- I would be less concerned about things like that and simply the amount of violence and abuse children seem to go through in schools.

The causes this are: 1) myriad, 2) the result of more than a few decades-long trends in society, and 3) are of course systemic in nature.

However, sometimes if a system is effectively unfixable and requires everyone changing their behavior at once to fix (generally impossible) you simply need to remove yourself from it.
I'm still waiting on a MUMPS web framework to make old Perl code look legible.
What exactly is this Social Media the author is referring to? Does HN fit the definition? Is he only talking about Facebook and Twitter? Is there even an agreed upon definition of Social Media?
Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent Covid-19
Triple E?
Have you tried not turning it on and see what happens? Most people are conflict avoidant. If anyone calls you out, tell them you're having internet problems.
Have you never had a problem caught by a PR reviewer?
The Discord chat room is very little different from the (RIP) freenode channel. Sure, you need to create an account, but that's where communities are built nowadays - in closed groups that can be controlled, moderated properly, and automated, while still being a fun and friendly environment to chat in. It does that well.

Github is not open. All the things listed there are costly, in one way or another. There's nothing free about anything that makes up open source today. Open source became corporate some time in the late 00s. And while I don't agree with the author (including the fact that he calls the new product Ruby-powered, not Impaired by Ruby), I do agree with that strange assessment that open source communities work that way.
That doesn't sound like a problem. A bit is a whole single object, but is physically implemented by a large complex apparatus.
My understanding is that the level of trust toward the build server can change.

Currently, most things are signed by F-Droid, so distributed building is harder. But later less trusted servers could build the apps and check, leading to a consensus system.
Again, school isn’t just about education. Facilities, transportation, child care, behavioral management, counseling, etc.

No, online “school” doesn’t scale.
The Ariane software failure was slightly different because it only failed in the context of the differences in hardware between Ariane 1 and Ariane 5. It was perfectly valid code provided it was used within the constraints for which it was first designed. The Mariner code was simply wrong, and was destined to fail even under the conditions for which it was intended.

It's a subtle difference, but I think an important one, especially when considering the complexities for program proofs.

I'm sort of (not eagerly) awaiting the day when something written in Rust is implicated in a catastrophic failure. All the platitudes about safety and guarantees will smack hard against a wall like Wile E. Coyote in a Road Runner flick.
> social networks are starting to implement features where they fill your feed with content you never signed up for. They'll call it something like "suggested" posts

Well Twitter has lists which I make full use of. I created a few private lists that I browse at my leisure, with different topics, like 'Tech', 'Design', 'Politics', 'Thought Leaders', 'Memes', 'Current Events' etc
Hospitals in cities like Chicago with large gang populations sometimes have to go on diversion due to being overwhelmed by gunshot wounds.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/04/us/chicago-mount-sinai-hospit...
No. I'd say my camera is off for about 97% of the meetings I'm in. The only time I turn it on is the rare occasion where we have a meeting with a high level exec or something, and word spreads that "so and so REALLY prefers that everybody have their camera on" or something like that.
> [it is] essential to a child's development to be part of a social classroom experience

2nd generation homeschooler here. Of the hundreds of home school families I've known over the last 30-ish years I don't know any that don't have their children take classes together in some form or another.

The question is how much do children need to be in a "social classroom experience."
Quick comment, just want to show some additional support for the shared crate approach that Matrix is pursuing, it should give people a lot more confidence to try alternate clients.

I throw messaging apps in the same category as, for example, web browsers. It's really tough to try an alternate implementation if you're worried that they might have broken a complicated security feature. So having more shared crates mitigates some of that risk.
1. Doordash does not penalize for skipping orders. They give the total payout first to allow people to skip orders in the first place. It’s a feature. 2. Because you see the price before accepting an order, you are effectively negotiating the orders you want to take based on price. You can sit in your car all day declining orders until you see a price you agree with.
> Everything that I can measure objectively, including the act of measuring and the concepts of "measure" and "objectivity" happen within the theater of my consciousness

Correction: they happen in what you believe to be a theatre of consciousness. Belief without evidence is religion.

You can demonstrate that such a theatre might exist by demonstrating some phenomenon which cannot be accounted for via mechanistic processes. All attempts have failed so far, as the intuition pumps are typically fallacious.
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I was never home schooled but I went to private school through 6th grade, and then went to public through high school. When I switched, I took placement tests that put me into the higher level math and english classes for 7th graders. I imagine it would be something like that.
It's not ethical or legal. It's my impression that what large companies do is tie manager pay and promotion to diversity goals, so that the managers are incentivized to ignore resumes from candidates with the wrong demographics. I don't think that is ethical or legal either, but it is unlikely that the current administration will file civil rights suits on behalf of whites or men.
At the end of the program, the primary reason RSA developed nuclear weapons was to force the hand of Western powers into interceding if RSA was losing a conventional war (help us or we'll start nuking cities).

They had zero interest in detonating a nuclear weapon just to kill black people, especially not on their own territory. RSA intelligence services certainly investigated things like race-specific diseases, but that's not what the nuke program was for.
Feynman certainly cared a great deal about what others thought of him, and he has been known to embellish many stories to appear as the common genius in the situation. In short, he was a genius, but he also wanted it to be known very well by others.
Please don't pretend you're not doing this in bad faith. Trying to make the existing Postgres team look like the bad guys is embarrassing. You're doing this for your own profit, that much is clear.
Wouldn't an implementation of the DOS API basically fit on any modern microcontroller these days?
How the PS5’s Genuinely Clever Adaptive Triggers Work[DUPE]
One example: the Roseville CA school district has high schoolers filling out this form as part of an Ethnic Studies class.

http://k12schoolsdata.s3.amazonaws.com/static/docs/8726040c-...

Anecdotally, we know a family that started homeschooling during 2020 because they overheard public school Zoom meetings during lockdown - teaching the kids strongly left-leaning political beliefs that the parents were shocked to hear (I don't know their political persuasions... just not as left-leaning as the school district, apparently.)
> Because...they can?

Why can Tesla do it, but Ford, Toyota, Honda can't? I'm sure the latter would love to regularly charge twenty grand for a five-grand fix. What's the difference?
Indeed, but I don't think "difficulty to find low-skill workers" necessarily equals actual shortages.

What I'm suggesting is that high unemployment is a sign that there are people available locally. If there are difficulties filling jobs, especially unskilled jobs, this therefore points towards problems within the employment market and benefits (which are indeed well-known for having systemic problems in France for a very long time) not 'shortages' per se. In such situation the claim that immigration is 'needed' to fill these jobs does not hold water.
Some of the weirdness is so completely avoidable that it frustrates me, but languages and libraries dig in on ‘you get used to it.’ I’m talking about the f(g(h(x))) vs x | h | g | f. Right to left chains of functions seem more popular than chains of pipes in FP, but even being someone who has drunk the kool-aid deeply, I always prefer pipes.

‘Take the pan out of the over once it’s been in for 30min, where the pan contains a folded together eggs and previously mixed flour and sugar’ isn’t more FP than ‘Mix the flour with the sugar, then combine with eggs, then fold together, then put it into the oven, then take out after 30min.’ But people new to it so often think it’s an FP thing for no good reason. It’s a new user issue that ought to be totally fixable as a community.

FP has enough great ideas that I’d recommend everyone learn pure functional solutions just to put into their tool belt, but it’s absolutely true that getting up to speed is harder than it needs to be. My hot take: it won’t be really mainstream until someone figures out how to make dependent types really ergonomic, which seems a long way away.
This is why I will probably sell my Tesla when it gets even close to the 50k bumper to bumper warranty. Used car prices for Teslas are awesome, I could sell it to Carvana for more than I paid for it I think right now.

I'm already having a load of trouble this morning getting a flat fixed because it has a slow leak and the tires have the acoustic foam inside them that prevents using green slime. Tesla wants $81 to fix it- if I drive an hour and a half to a service center.

I love the gas savings but I don't want to drive a John Deere that can't be worked on when things go wrong.
I like confluence as a _temporary_ discussion space. Put up some mockups, put up some sequence diagrams, suggest external components and get feedback. It doesn't entirely eliminate design meetings, but it can serve as a overview so people have already thought about the design before a zoom meeting on it. A virtual whiteboard maybe.

The other think I like it for is lists of 'learning' links
Our team has a nice page with suggested books or lectures or tutorials that they think others will find useful.

Everything else is stale within a week or so. If I need to document something it goes into a Readme which can also go stale but is still a bit more in your face.

I've also seen what someone points out below - the engineers who think Confluence documentation counts as task completion.

> "Did you figure out how to do X?"

> "Yes, here is a confluence page."

> "Did you install it? Did you run it? Did you validate the results?"

> "... here is a confluence page"
Organizations that treat tax cattle state property objects like a biohazard are the future, so I'm retired.
The point of trademarks is to be able to clearly say "SomeName is X", or in context, to be able to refer to a specific kit of software, not a fork or the such, not a competing DB, etc, but to know that when I say "PostgreSQL" I'm talking about PostgreSQL

> Fundación PostgreSQL “allows [their trademarks] to be used freely, under all provisions of goods and services covered by the respective Nice classifications, under the registered designations, provided that its use constitutes a fair use aligned with the Goals of the Foundation as specified in its Statutes"

Doesn't seem to give anyone a useful trademark, well except for an anarchist perhaps!
> the next entrepreneurs in the field have to compete with the government.

So your real problem is that the government offers a service? So we should get rid of public fire departments, police, schools, and roads?
I use Jekyll for a static site and I guess I just don't really understand why it needs further development. I haven't upgraded my version of Jekyll since I think 2017 because it does what it says on the tin.

Sometimes it's ok for software to be "done".
You'd have to stretch the definition of ads quite a lot for those to fit. At worst, they'd be bloatware (but IIRC they're not even pre-installed apps, just stubs that link to the store that you can simply remove permanently). Still in bad taste and those should not show up especially in Pro SKU.

An ad would be a banner that shows up when you open the Start menu with "meet singles near you" or "try ubereats" or "buy Chevrolet cars" or some other bullshit of that sorts.
Not for mainstream projects - plus those places tend to become political mudwaters, because freedom in tech has become political the past few years.
Btw, naming calling does not help you make your case, whatever that may be. Neither does watching a fictional TV show. I'm really not inclined to continue this if this is the level of discourse.

Can you show me one instance of activist shareholders of a major company ousting a CEO via filling the board with shareholder nominated directors? And no, "imagining" it happening isn't evidence of it happening.
Will need to, or will feel justified in doing so?
> Tesla recently released its Toolbox, a set of diagnostic software that will tell a repair shop or Tesla owner what’s wrong with a car. Anyone can purchase access to the Toolbox but it costs $3,000 a year or $100 for 24 hours. But diagnostics are only half the issue.

> Replacement Tesla parts have to be installed by a certified Tesla dealership. Which begs the question, how did Benoit and his team replace Hoover’s battery? “We have alternate means of getting into things,” he said. “We don’t necessarily need the Toolbox in a lot of cases, but it would make our lives 10 time easier…Tesla is locking down more and more access to cars. There’s a lot of things that you used to be able to do that you no longer can do. They’re definitely tightening restrictions.”

Am I reading this right, that the problem is solved by a $100 charge for a tool that could easily be passed on to the consumer?

They imply the toolbox isn't all that's needed but then say “We don’t necessarily need the Toolbox in a lot of cases, but it would make our lives 10 time easier"

Sounds like they're loosening restrictions, not tightening them?
Never saw that one, RA1 left me disappointed, so i never checked next installments.

Looks better than average installer, but still, but quite as great as in C&C1 )
Frank didn't look like he was at the age where people pass in their sleep.

This reminds me to be thankful for every day I get.
I am somewhat happy to see this. I have been thinking recently about what will happen to all the small mechanic businesses that currently employ so many with the advent of "manufacturer limited" electric vehicles.
Functional programmer here. It's a different way of thinking is all, I don't see it as solving puzzles exactly. It's unfortunate if people see it as being about complexity or being clever. Done well, it should be the opposite. Once you understand the key abstractions, it can make code a lot easier to write and reason about in some cases. That's the joy of it for me. It furthers my day to day software engineering concerns of readability, maintability, testability etc. Nothing more.

It's just another tool though and there are many places where it's not appropriate. It's also a personal taste thing, I get that. It's worth persisting with it on a deeper level though just for the sheer joy of those 'a-ha' moments that come. Even if you don't use it in your day job, just bending your brain with different programming paradigms is well worth it.
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Sure, the morality/wiseness discussion is important. But this is not what most philosophers are about.

For example, the very post we are discussing here talks about physical resonance -- nothing to about morality. A poster two level up claims that understanding consciousness will help with "mind portability" and "full reality simulation" -- nothing about morality either.

In fact, when I think about the question of "how wise is it to create AGI" I immediately think of MIRI institute [0], whose entire goal is to warn humanity about dangers of AI. Interestingly, it is not staffed by philosphers -- it is all computer theorists and scientists.

Similarly, AI Now institute [1] is also mostly science/engineering people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Intelligence_Research_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Now_Institute
There is some truth to what you say, but in reality is not much of a concern.

Kids pick up things at school no matter what. They'll also have more in common with other smart readers, a good thing.

I personally never used the internet until I was in my mid twenties and took to it like a duck to water. Tend to laugh when folks imply you had to use it as a toddler to grasp it. True learning is substantailly different than wasting time with consumer products.

An example. My kid didn't know who the kardashians were until about age ten or so, and really doesn't know much more now. That's a good thing. Garbage culture is not a thing to spend much time on.
I would be interested in a program to breed farm animals to be as stupid as possible. If we could give cows the intelligence level of a chicken, for example, I would feel better about eating them.
I've worked with cows.

They are certainly more intelligent than most pets (dogs/cats). They'll figure things out a lot faster and without specific training. For example, I knew one cow that learned how to open gates and doors with their tongue just by watching us open the doors/gates.

Getting a pet to do those sorts of behaviors usually takes treats and a lot of time.

Honestly, the only thing that surprises me about this is the fact that cows have bladder (and bowel?) control.