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> can't understand where all the praise comes from.

Probably from the other two. I've read them all one after the other, so when I talk about 3BP, I have trouble separating the book from the larger trilogy.

> The videogame works by magic.

What was magical about it? I don't remember anything especially weird here.

> The alien "protons" work by magic.

This was explained in detail (modulo sci-fi magic in the explanation), but I'm not sure if in 3BP or in Dark Forest. Other major tech advantages of the aliens were also explained in the latter books.
Not when using a commercial cloud service, no.
Eastern Europeans are exploited at every turn. They put them into rat infested caravans that they have to pay a few hundred euro per week for.

But that's how Poland will pull itself up by the bootstraps and become rich. It is a stage every successful country went through.
your phone is not a linux server. yes, if you install a virus or an outdated app, someone can daisychain a priv escalation using a kernel bug. no need for that though - my phone is already rooted.

Your car has pieces that run linux too. Guess an attacker can make you crash.

> drivers

since this is about iphone and android comparison, guess what has those same driver blobs form those same exact manufacturers. apple doesn't make their own bluetooth chips. oh, btw, the drivers get updated just fine, since that's part of the kernel and os, which all get updated just fine.

google supports kernel 4.1 till 2024 for android 11. the nexus from 2014 runs 4.9. so probably 2026 kernel and android, fully patched - 12 years.

oh, sorry, did you forget this thread started with a guy claiming ios is great because you can put later versions of the OS on there? where's that iphone from 12 years ago running the latest version of ios, and still performing fast? because that's what this thread is about.
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I wonder what it would take to trigger an official investigation, because if they manage this Google has destroyed a values for many hundred million dollars and also solidified their position as a monopoly.
I've had the HTC G1 (first android), G2, every generation of nexus and every generation of pixel. Never had a problem.
There is solid line of their trucks on our east-west highways. Blocking the right lane at times. Almost as if one country was taking the most attention...
I think instead of "encapsulation", they should use the word "locality". Changes are easy when the consequences of a change are local. Encapsulation may be a way of doing this, but not the only one. Encapsulation also has a lot of baggage from OO.
The GDS have now become what they were setup to avoid. That is, they were supposed to be an agile startup to avoid massive overspend on untenable projects like NHS digital [1].

What I've noticed is that "new style" government projects like the GDS seem to be suffering from using too many "innovation tokens" [2], probably due to the much cited lack of leadership.

It's not nice to be in a situation where you are stuck on a legacy Java 7 platform, and nothing else, but equally, it's not nice to be in a situation where you are trying to support and context-switch between too many stacks. One is too conservative, the other is chaos.

If there's no leadership, there's no-one to make decisions to limit proliferation of new technology. This might be unpopular for some developers looking to improve their CVs, but necessary for the organisation as a whole.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28464002
[2] https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
Interesting. Here it's company to company, you can have benefits part time, but most don't offer it as most part time jobs are low wage. (Less likely to have bennies)
> such as not evaluating either the true or false part of an if-statement

Do you mean `if-else if` or `if-else`? Because the second would work and would always short-circuit to else.
they might store them in a compressed format but send them as wav to make it less easier for the customer to store/process or maybe the compression is proprietary and they dont want to reveal internal details of their models.
finding drivers for the official google phones? with about 12 years of kernel support, officially from google?

https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/kernel/andro...

not a problem at all. now your samsung or some unknown brand, who knows. I'm sure your 12 year old iphone got the latest and current bluetooth driver though.

not everyone around me is stupid. just the guy being purposely dense. you.
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> Python is such a joy to write and such a nightmare to set up, package and distribute.

Python is such a joy to write and such a nightmare to maintain, set up, package and distribute.

Fixed that for you.
It does sound horrible, especially when you (clearly didn't) read that the entire incident was likely avoidable had his line manager taken his visible symptoms seriously and not told him to continue the manual labour until it was too late.

Your desensitised hot take of 'well this stuff just happens' is appalling in a number of ways and is exactly the attitude that trickles down through businesses when it's someone else that's stuck at the thin edge of the wedge.
> I think literally the only stuff on my phone that isn't backed up is local files

And besides downloads, there are many apps that just use local files and that you therefore need to transfert manually. e.g. apps from F-Droid, SMS, Wechat, etc. So even though "many" stuffs are automatically stored in Google servers, you still need a lot of case-by-case manual attention and care when transferring to a new phone.
An excellent example of missing the forest for the trees. The abominable working conditions in Amazon distribution centers is well documented. It is absolutely to be expected that they'll a) not be transparent about the number of such incidents and b) those conditions are (strongly) correlated with an increased rate of such conditions.

These jobs are not good for your health.
i reduced buying from amazon drasticly before. after reading this i do not think i can ever buy anything from amazon
It's super easy to resell them, it took me a couple days last year even though they were the QC35 II (which were heavily discounted right and left around Black Friday). It'll be only easier this year with the 700.

Sure, it'd be much easier for everyone to get a $200 discount but that just hasn't happened at all after preorders.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tank+man&atb=v156-1&iax=images&ia=... seems fine to me.

If you are referring to it being blocked in China, well, are we at all surprised that private companies kowtow to autocratic regimes in favor of making more money?
The world used to run on exactly this type of currency: the gold standard. We had the gold standard during both World Wars, during colonialism, during slavery and every other atrocity in human history.

And of course inflation can still happen if the world were to run on bitcoin. If cost or supply of many goods are directly impacted (e.g. because of problems with oil supply, which underlies production costs of much of the goods and even services in the economy), then inflation can occur even with a fixed monetary supply.

Also note, the problem is not that there are more of us than stuff to sustain us. The modern economy produces more than enough to fulfill at least the base needs of each and every person on Earth. The problem is that many people believe that they are owed much more than others, either personally, organizationally, or nationally. Most likely wars over resources wouldn't go away to any significant extent even if the world's poorest 5 billion people were to drop dead tomorrow (well, once new soldiers are manufactured).
> So if only one app runs

You answered yourself.
> but flying them at low altitude over hot lava would be a whole new risk

Also in every demonstration I've seen those things have been LOUD. The dogs are likely to not get on with that, so they will bolt, and there is not nearly enough time to try get them acclimatised to it.
i have a pixel 3 and exact same thing happened to me. a bent staple worked perfectly for me in scraping out the dust. paperclips are way too large.
Your copy of MS Windows is free? And by what logic open source parts of it are exempt from any expectations of support?
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OP: wifi and bluetooth

you: when I hear wifi and bluetooth, I think server

seriously, wtf are you doing on this forum?
> warehouse workers are better protected (only 2 shifts are allowed), whereas in Poland those sweatshops run 24/7

I don't understand how mandating inefficiency is protecting workers?
Would this make sense in domains which are not about computing, but simply routing light (given it is miniaturized)?

E.g. using this instead of mirror arrays in movie projectors?
Not true for plasmonic waveguides which can confine energy well beyond the diffraction limit.
But I agree that for now, photonics is just an academic wet dream.
If being an exporter of terrorism is all it takes to be disqualified to possess nukes, then the USA and Russia should have lost theirs a long long time ago.
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From the article (first line, translated via Google Translate)[1]:

> This man had trouble catching his breath. The leader told him to go a long distance on his own. This is a culpable mistake.

[1]: https://gloswielkopolski-pl.translate.goog/smierc-w-amazonie...
In general I consider HN to be a true cultural treasure and probably the richest forum on the Internet.

But as a person with a fair dose of the autism spectrum in the woodpile, I am nonetheless consistently unsettled by the inevitable nitpick argument that whatever dystopian trans-meta-corporate optimization that happened to wander into the spotlight today is in fact supported by such and such figures, and obviously we’re doing rigorous work here because we have links to web servers that send a little textual prose as an amuse bouche for the megabyte of JavaScript actively trying to defeat the already feeble attempts of our browser to send something less than our genome to some IP address somewhere.

Amazon fulfillment centers are what Dickens was talking about when Scrooge asked if there were any workhouses.

I’m not a financial accountant, but I gather that a balance sheet has a line on it called “goodwill”, that it is important to a company like Amazon, and likely something shareholders care about.

So being in the news for literally working people to death is quite possibly suboptimal for the shareholders.

Kinda sucks for the dead guy’s family too.
Coward here, too.

The perfidious thing is that even emigrating doesn't put you out of Xi Jinping's grasp. It's well documented how pressure is applied to vocal opponents of the new Leaders policies by going after their families in China.
The first principle should be to separate "documents" from "webapps". An article on NYTimes should be classified as a document which comes with a sandbox with minimal data collection. Of course, as things stand, every site wants to become an app because that's how the incentives are set up. "Apps" - which can collect more data - should come with significant user friction: permissions dialog, standardized ToS, disclosures etc. Similarly, sites that offer "documents" (i.e. no tracking), should be incentivized in other ways (share button, micropayments etc).

There's a lot that can be done.
I worked with a young urban type for a while, and one morning while walking to the office together I expressed my dismay at the sad state of our office block.

He countered that it was actually an improvement over the otherwise dull corporate architecture. That it was dull I could certainly agree with, but not that scribbling illegible nonsense with spray paint on every surface is an improvement.

So I think there actually are a lot of people with a sincerely held belief that they are actually improving their environment when they do these things.
i did not comment on legality. See my other reply.
I really enjoyed the analysis (as another commenter mentioned).

One quibble: > Proper disposal of a 500-gram glass bottle uses 15 times as much landfill space as a 30-gram plastic bottle (just as it costs 15 times as much to ship)

It only costs 15x as much to ship if weight is the driving factor in shipping. For a lot of surface shipping methods, dimensional measures govern the shipping prices either entirely or substantially. (No one is flying empty bottles as part of their supply chain.) It might be 2x as much, but it’s not going to be 15x if both pallets of bottles take up the same space.
I think fermions vs bosons is irrelevant here - you can't build transistors out of neutrons. Sure, photons at these energies are larger, but still can be used for certain tasks, like quantum computers.
but the issue the article points out that she as an escort has no access to law, should something go wrong.

If an in-house hair dresser was assaulted/robbed/stolen from, they would be able to report it to the police. There would be a strong chance (well as high as any other crime) that it would be punished.

There would also be an opportunity to use/create a verification scheme for clients, but also ask for insurance/tax/qualifications for the hair dresser.

This is what operating in a "decriminalized" world looks like. You don't get harassed by the law, but they wont help you either.

Ideally we would have a world where sex work is legally allowed (so long as its not coerced) and allow those workers to form companies, hire security, use payment systems, have vetting functions. All of the services that would make life much less precarious.

I know that in the people I have encountered in the sex worker world (who are related but not the same as escorts) are very against "legalisation" as they fear it would lead to registers and no chance to limit or control anonymity.

So unless the moral objections are sorted, I don't see any future in these changes.
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>but people die during work, and it doesn't indicate any wrongdoing on any part

What the flying fuck ?

If 6 Amazon employees were dying per year in France, I'm pretty sure they will get a few visit from the work condition inspector.
The change is redundant because there are userspace solutions today, and they will continue to be used for decades.

So what use does this serve? Another fingerprinting vector to narrow down browser versions, or worse -- a security hole.

When the "Web Audio API" was rolled out by the Chrome team not only was it fundamentally flawed, but it also contained memory leak CVEs.

Every time they add more trash to the browser nobody asks for (except their ad clients), they introduce more security problems.

So -- why are they adding more APIs when they could fix the old ones that are utterly broken and abused daily by the ad industry? $$$.
> I don't think anyone is debating that...

If by anyone you mean the author of the essay, I don't actually know what he's arguing. With sincere respect, I don't think you can say you do, either.

You and I have happily decided to, as I see it, have a debate irrespective of the OP, and define terms that we can both agree on.

So, good, you and I agree that there should be aesthetic considerations and constraints of some kind on Federal buildings.

> [1]

Apparently I am live-responding. Your first link appears to be speculation about the as-yet unpublished EO. Since then, the EO has been published, so I'm going to skip that without prejudice, so to speak, and revisit as it becomes necessary.

I'll leave here a link to the EO itself here: https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/ex...

I'll read it next.

> [2]

Overall this sounds really reasonable, to me. I especially like:

The development of an official style must be avoided. Design must flow from the architectural profession to the Government and not vice versa.

I also like the two-pronged consideration when evaluating an architectural proposal:

First, it must provide efficient and economical facilities for the use of Government agencies. Second, it must provide visual testimony to the dignity, enterprise, vigor, and stability of the American Government.

For me now the investigation becomes answering these questions: How has the GSA guidelines worked so far? Are the buildings built under those guidelines generally aesthetically successful? If not, how and why did they fail? Are the aesthetic failures at least interesting? Does the Trump EO address the failures, if any? Would the EO fix these failures or create new ones? Finally, since President Biden has the powers to revert this EO, has he done so? If not, why not?

After all that, I'd feel comfortable being able to say whether or not the EO was an attack on Progressivism as we defined it (essentially, lifting it from the Wikipedia essay).

Does all that seem reasonable?
Why then did war happen happily in the millennia in which money supply was almost entirely limited? Governments have the ability to buy currency if they can't/don't want to mint new coin.

For example, states have been issuing various forms of bonds to raise money for war since at least the 1600s.
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for those times when I run that terminal application on my phone. which is already rooted, so it's doesn't need the kernel bug to get root. it can just run.
That's an interesting observation and one I think rings true even though I haven't really actively noticed it.
Stuff like tutorialspoint or w3schools is fine imo since they actually write their own content and add a but of beginner friendly explanation to it, but there's some blatant stack overflow copying that's been popping up.

At least they have the option to report bad search results so they might be able to improve it in the future again.
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>> Unfortunately for us (or at least me, because why did I spend so much time learning this stuff?), many top ML or AI researchers have only a vague understanding of fundamentals, and I vehemently disagree that you need rigorous exposure to mathematics to contribute to ML or AI.

But that depends on what you mean by "contribute". Machine learning research has turned into a circus with clowns and trained donkeys and the majority of the "contributions" suffer heavily from what John McCarthy called the "look ma, no hands disease" of AI:

Much work in AI has the ``look ma, no hands'' disease. Someone programs a computer to do something no computer has done before and writes a paper pointing out that the computer did it. The paper is not directed to the identification and study of intellectual mechanisms and often contains no coherent account of how the program works at all[1].

Yes, anyone can contribute to that kind of thing without any understanding of what they're doing. Which is exactly what's happening. You say that "many top ML or AI researchers have only a vague understanding of fundamentals" matter-of-factly but while it certainly is fact, it's a fact that should ring every single alarm bell.

The progress we saw in deep learning at the start of the decade certainly didn't come from researchers with "only a vague understanding of fundamentals"! People like Hinton, LeCun, Schmidhuber and Bengio have a deep background not only in computer science and AI but in other disciplines also (Hinton was trained in psychology, if memory serves). Why should we expect any progress to come from people with a "vague understanding" of the fundamentals of their very field of knowledge? In what historical circumstance was knowlege enriched by ignorance?

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[1] http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/reviews/lighthill/lighthi...
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> Amazon's PR team got here quick

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
He was experiencing shortness of breath with chest pain and his manager told him he has to walk long distance by himself to get help. Manager didn't have sympathy for him likely due to argument they had the previous day related to overworking – he was asking manager for getting more people to help as he complained it's physically impossible to do this job. His manager refused to help and he wanted to escalate it, he was supposed to talk to his manager's manager but didn't make it.
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love that. yes some are making it out to be something disrespectful somehow. i also would prefer if cemeteries were converted to parks to be green spaces available to all.

spots in cemeteries are also usually only affordable for the propertied class too. for many in the working class they're not viable.

do our cities really need to reserve and block off sizable physical spaces for decades, when we have a housing crisis in most cities around the world? i am all for beautiful ceremonies and the like, but the use of excessive physical space in cities seems outdated.

consider also that we now have photos, video and other digital media to help us remember loved ones and keep them alive in our memory.
It's not, his manager isn't a doctor. I've never asked to take a sick day / leave early for medical reasons, you just take one.
I am in favor of increasing labor's share of income. My point is, in order to increase labour's share of income, the money supply has to be held relatively constant in order to avoid inflation.

In an environment like we have, where capital is basically free, when labor becomes scarce, firms with access to the infinite money supply can just raise wages ad infinitum and this is what creates the problem. The capital supply is not properly controlled by market forces currently. If it were, increasing labor's share of profits would be resolved without inflation.

So my overall point is that we are seeing issues with inflation because of the intersection of Quantitative Easing and real-world scarcity. QE hasn't led to inflation before, because most of the new capital created just ended up in paper assets like securities. So if the fed prints 10 trillion dollars, and most of it just ends up on the balance sheet of some investment banks, it's not going to affect the price of a loaf of bread. But if the money supply is increased indiscriminately and it also gets into the hands of people who are competing for the same used car, this is what causes issues with the value of the currency.
> people die during work, and it doesn't indicate any wrongdoing on any part.

Yes this may be true, but it is not relevant to the article content, where clearly it seems the working environment is at play.

And given the history of Amazon mistreating its workers, it is very hard to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Fair comment, will avoid it in future