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> Bugzilla’s approach: in your “what error message?” comment, you also set the needsinfo?(reporter@example.com) flag (a single checkbox does it), and it can stay in that state indefinitely.

In my experience, in many projects the issue does stay in that state indefinitely, even after the reporter provides the info. The reporter doesn't have permissions to remove the label; the people who do have the permissions miss the notification and never do the manual triage you mention. They might as well just close anything that doesn't have enough information or (depending on your perspective) that they don't understand/care to understand.

(For example: I filed an issue a couple months ago in which I explained the problem I was having, pointed out it contradicted the documentation, then proposed a solution. Then I opened a PR with the solution and explained it within the documentation and the commit message. Then I got asked a question in a PR comment that was answered in all three of those other places. I replied (explaining it in a fourth place), but the PR still has the "needs-reporter-feedback ?" label and isn't going anywhere.)

Maybe the most useful thing a bot could do is remove this label after the next comment... or maybe it's just hopeless if a project doesn't care enough about their issues.
We can split hairs about what constitutes "long-term" and what doesn't, but if I can't smell anything for a year - not knowing for sure if I ever again will be able to - I'd consider that pretty devastating.

The point is that there are basic steps (vaccination being one, but not the only) that too many people still refuse to follow that can spare many people from having to wonder if they will ever be able to smell again (or worse).
No, I’m not. I mean, it’s just words written on the internet, the whole thing could be made up, right? My opinion is that the police as an institution needs technology to keep up with the world, especially if we want a smaller police force with better training, higher qualifications and accountability. Sensible regulations must be passed and enforced in order to minimize the risk of abuse, which is really where I think the ball is being dropped here. Without governance, corporations bear the burden of figuring out the sensible thing, and people are (rightly) suspicious of their judgement.
I would suggest asset protection. I used to work for a company (Droneshield) that would provide protection from drone-based sabotage/intelligence gathering/smuggling.

It's a big field, but if you could, for instance, set up an alert for when a noise source crosses a property border, or when something that sounds like a human comes within x meters of a particular building, I think that would be valuable. I'm no longer there, but happy to talk if you're interested.
Sooner than later using copilot will be an interview question and it will trigger a big red flag if the company cares about talent.
Don't overlook the estate tax.
Most evidence suggests that wealth taxes levied in the past have indeed reduced inequality and have not led to the type of tax avoidance their detractors would suggest.
It's the fact this could even have a different meaning that makes this a useless metric - defining 'quality' or 'coverage' is subjective. The majority of tests written are meaningless noise, and serve mainly to distract from covering 'critical' failures. Again, a subjective measure, in the sense that was is critical to you and me may not be the same thing.

Which is what makes this whole concept of code coverage so much toxic nonsense...

Not to argue against writing 'quality' tests, but high 'coverage' actually decreases quality, objectively speaking, since erroneous coverage of code serves negative purposes such as obscuring important testing, enshrinig bugs within testing.

I would make my case here CodePilot and all such 'AI' tools should be banned from production, at least until they solve the above problem, since as it stands they will serve to shovel piles of useless or worse, incorrect testing.

It is also important to remember what AI does, i.e. produce networks which create results based upon desired metrics - if the metrics were wrong or incomplete, you produce and propagate bad design.

So yes people use it now as a learning tool (fine) and it will get 'better' (sure), but as a tool, when it gets better, it will constrain more, not less, along whatever lines have been deemed better, and it will become harder, not easier, to adjust.
There is something here that is much more general than this particular issue: dictionary definitions of scientific concepts (and those in many other fields) are merely summaries, and far from being the last word on the matter (you can't learn quantum mechanics from a dictionary.)

It is not uncommon, in forums like HN, for there to be arguments over the 'true' definition of a word, but unless the issue being debated is lexicographical, these arguments are usually missing the point. While it is the case that the teaching of a subject often begins with some definitions, that is only the beginning, and it is usually done to shortcut the difficult process by which those definitions came to be written in the first place. On reflection, it should be clear that the definitions cannot be written (or, at least, finalized) until after we have gained an understanding of that which we are defining.

What we are observing here is the selection part of evolution. We did not observe the origination of the mutation causing the trait being acted on by selection, but it is empirically established that it is not uncommon for such mutations to occur. Nor have we seen it play out fully, where the trait, and the mutation causing it, become ubiquitous, and other alleles disappear (if the selection pressure continues and the species does not become extinct.) Here, we are observing evolution in progress, not its ultimate result.

This change alone will not create a new species, but if enough changes occur that the descendants could not, in principle, breed successfully with their ancestors, then it has. We can see a precursor to this in the mutation being lethal in males.
Elephants are not really bread in captivity.
For what it's worth, he could have said "Selective breeding IS evolution" and his comment would read the same. The point is that selective breeding is a subset of evolution, so attempting to ask, "Isn't this just selective breeding?" would be answered with a, "No, because selective breeding is a subset of evolution."

"Is this a rectangle or just a square?" "A square IS a rectangle."
> All have a single key decision maker at the top. In democracies they can be kicked out, but they have total control while they're in power

This isn't remotely correct.

a) All democracies I can think of are derived from the Westminister system where there are branches of government e.g. House/Senate who need to agree to get laws passed. Pretty far from total control as Biden is experiencing now.

b) Many democracies e.g. Australia don't have the PM/President be directly elected and instead are appointed by the winning party. Thus their power and control is limited to what is gifted by the party and can be withdrawn at any time at which point a new leader is appointed. Again pretty far from total control.
Also look at the top 50 businesses and how many still have founder control. In none of them does the founder still control 50% of the stock, and only a few of them (at least Facebook and Google) do the founder(s) control over 50% of the voting stock.

For example, Bezos only owns 16% of the voting stock of Amazon, Musk only owns 22% of the voting stock of Tesla yet neither are in any danger.
All of that completely ignores the fact that a court just basically said that a machine cannot invent, which is a small step away from saying a machine cannot copyright, which would mean that Copilot is not transformative.

The copyright case you cited involves humans. We are talking about machines.
Yes, you're reading this wrong. Referring to tax obligations as "Slavery" is disconnected from reality, and pretty insulting to all the Americans for whom real, actual American slavery is still impactful.
Given that the US doesn't have a healthcare system, but a collection of hospitals and clinics and a random smattering of offices instead, I've always wondered how long, if ever, Covid-19 would have taken before being discovered in the US, had there been no outbreaks in China,
nor internal investigation by Chinese doctors. I find stories like these about the competence of CDC, worthy of Doctor House, reassuring.
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They are different tools for different purposes. I find typewriters helpful because they are slow and mistakes are costly. You really have to think about what you're going to say.

I also like having an amazing camera in my pocket that can send images across the planet.

But I use them for different things.
I love that they literally did a teardown of the polishing cloth as well. Which received a 0 out of 10 on the repairability scale.
> Not sure why folks seem to want to exclude humans from nature

Probably because the concept of "nature" no longer serves any purpose if you don't, as it doesn't exclude anything.

It's often a pointless distinction to make (see also: anything that labels itself as "organic"), but it's a convenient shorthand to describe a category of interactions that people often want to talk about.
This might be regional specific but I'm seeing Java roles are mostly dealing with legacy 10-15yr projects, so a lot of maintenance type work, kicking tyres, keeping things running, bolting on new features to codebases no one want's to touch.

Kotlin seems to be popular on the JVM for more greenfield work. However a lot of backend stuff seems to be Typescript/Javascript on NodeJS with Go close behind.

For job purposes I'd learn Typescript followed by Go. I'm not a fan of Typescript for the backend so this is based purely on getting a job.

Rust would be my heart not head language to learn. Realistically it has another 5-10 years to go before it's picked up for mass usage in industry, if it's picked up as Go is. It's a bit harder to learn and that's why Javascript/Python/Go are popular, a lot of people can use them in a few hours without to much learning.
If you have high net worth that means you have control, not that you are necessarily living lavishly. If you want to pay for personal expenses and buy yachts and the usual kinds of things that socialist complain about, you need to take that out in income or through capital gains. Thus, they want to pay for everything by forcing founders to sell control to the country's financial oligarchs like Blackrock and Vanguard who already own large amounts of most public companies.
With widespread surveillance, more petty crime is detected and more petty criminals identified. Repeat offenders tend to be detected enough times to reach the felony threshold and sent to prison.

The argument has been made in The Atlantic that Black people have a right to be more successful at petty crime.[1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/steal...
... Okay, that's fair, but not really my point.
Sarcasm and hyperbole incoming but… Surely there could be no side effects of putting even more people on SSRIs! well how many more people you thinking? Covid-many.
america cannot take on china period. why chineese are hard at work we are mostly debating what pronouns we should be using. that is not a winning strategy:
That may be, but in this case it is a precise technical term, referring to a particular block of Unicode: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Canadian_Aboriginal_...

Maybe the Unicode Consortium should change it, but for now, Canadian Aboriginal is the correct term.
People keep using this example, but it doesn't really make sense. If you take out a loan against the value of your increased shares, then you still have to pay that loan back eventually, and when you do, you have to pay tax on whatever you liquidate to get the funds to pay back the loan (in addition to paying interest on the loans). This is literally how all loans work.

The one loophole here is that if you don't pay your loans back until you die, then your heirs have to pay back the loan. But there is a special "step up in basis" provision where your heirs wouldn't have to pay capital gains tax on the rise in the value of your shares (but you would). Close that loophole and then you'd have a fair system.
You do not always know when you are a potential suspect of a crime, or that you will not be in the future. Nor do the police need to actually suspect you of a crime to harass you. If the police come to you and say "we suspect a crime has occurred in your neighborhood, can we have your video?", you don't know whether you are the suspect in that crime, or if the crime even occurred.

If someone has stolen something off your porch and you have identifying evidence, get the video yourself, and select the portion that identifies the thief. Give them a still photograph of the thief's face and/or their vehicle. Giving them a lengthy video that captures your own activities is "talking to the police" in the bad sense.
Driving is a fine analogy in my opinion. It doesn't have to be 100% exact identical to the other situation to be able to explore the idea and consider different perspectives on the argument.

Not wearing masks or shutting down the economy for the flu and common cold, obesity, driving cars, extreme sports, and more are all great analogies you can use to explore logical consequences of various measures or lack of measures being advocated for dealing with covid.
What is the complex answer then? The parent's question is salient. Using your analogy as well, you could say humans see the world through the visual spectrum and reason about the world through that, although there is certainly much more to be observed beyond that spectrum - yet that is clearly sufficient for some subset of understanding.
That's really inspiring, I'd love to do something similar if/when I'm more financially free. Got any other examples of people doing similar things? We definitely need more people doing this, rather than trying to get to space.
I wrote about the first technical person in a startup and how they can grow here: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2555

Even if you have the title of CTO, you may actually be a founding engineer.

I remember talking to a mentor who was a manager of managers (VPE) at the same time I was the CTO of a small startup and our views and concerns were worlds apart.
The options have been considered and developed for years, decades even. There should be public debate, but these aren't new ideas that some novices are pulling out of a hat.
Ah! In that case yeah, this tech could possibly help. At least, I'd love to give it a shot! (I hope you don't mind an email from me later...)

It's sensitive enough to noise that I can pick up (and locate) the air vents in a room, even when the sound is at the threshold of hearing. Noise (pink and white), and even more so MLS (maximum length sequence) really "jumps out" (it's very obvious), well below my threshold of hearing.

There's so many interesting areas of research I've never had the time/money to fully investigate. I'd love to play with an "active" system, not just "passive", with a goal of experimentally finding modes of resonance of objects in a room.

I bet once can tell the relative contribution to noise of one physical object over another, but I don't know enough about construction to know if one would be able to separate the door frame from the perimeter gasketing. You do need line of sight for it to work. At the least, you'd have a way to quantify the sound leak, with numbers and reproducibility.

FWIW the Noiseless Acoustics camera costs ~$18k(!)
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That's... not the point at all? This post is about a law that (to Sweeney's claim) would force founders to sell their controlling stock. This law wouldn't affect "de facto" control of a company -- it would affect actual stock-driven control of a company. The fact that Jobs did not have stock-driven control of Apple, and yet he was still able to "force his vision upon Apple" as you said, would make him a good example of why this law could be effective, since this law would not have affected Jobs' control of Apple.
Is that "M3" thing new? As in, trying to steal some thunder from Apple with their M1 chips? Or at least muddying the waters a bit?
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> If you aren't, then what you notice is that somehow this death has created a situation where the government never got it's cut of that (B-A) difference, so this is avoiding taxes.

While capital was transferred, value increase was never really monetized. Would it not be fair to say that it will be taxed only once it turns into money, against the B-A gains, and A is taxed according to normal inheritance rates.

Of course, this has a huge practical issue of knowing what A was, which could be a while back.
Yeah really simply, if absent enough taxes, money "pools" to the rich and doesn't keep on circulating, that also means the rich aren't spending it. By definition.

If so....then what's the problem?

One possible answer is "well, the Rich have more risk tolerance, so they can just summon a catastrophe to improve their relative standing in a negative-sum situation with little pain" I think that's a fair argument. Do MMT, and the rich try to sabotage undoing global warming so they can rule the roost in some max max situation sure. But such analysis means we have to broach Solvency vs Liquidity as PP didn't want to. A UBI-empowered workforce can also more and safely easily go after the rich with pitchforks and shear numbers, strike at the plants that arm their body guards, not treat them when they are sick in the hospital.

Keynes and Marx disagreed on many things, but did agree on C-M-C vs M-C-M. In regular-enough times, firms are slaves to nominal values: boost aggregate demand and they will not be able to able to boycott and resist. But also, workers are not slaves to rich people's unspent inert savings if empowered by means external to private emplyment. "Nominal dollar power" works better on the former than the latter.
Very accurate reference frequencies can be obtained by syncing an oscillator to a GPS receiver clock output (0). I'm however all for maintaining traditional shortwave (not just time and frequency) radio stations on, for being much easier to receive and harder to control by governments.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_disciplined_oscillator
> Similarly, stocks (or things like gold) that one owns have some worth, and using it as collateral for taking a loan against it is a completely valid thing to do

It's how the entire banking system works. Taking out loans against collateral deposited in the bank.

People also take out a loan every time they use a credit card. Is that income, too?
Yep. It's why pretty much every force follows the inverse square law, whether it's RF signal strength, sound volume, electromagnetic attraction or gravity.
Do YAML or TOML have executable code?

I think the YAML as code comes from using YAML as a DSL and writing an interpreter.
"When the signal was kind of weak" ... yeah it was something magical. And (almost) always there.

Morever, the known-constant signal is a useful way to check propagation conditions at those different frequencies, and to those different locations.
A key benefit you might not be getting that OpenTelemetry (and Fluentd for logs in the interim) provides is routing. The ability to trial multiple downstream storage solutions is useful!
Justice Against Malicious Algorithms Act

I thought the author was being sarcastic with that. As it turns out? Nope. That's the title of the bill.
It's certainly a good autocomplete but it can't be used for anything more complex because you just can't trust it. Every now and then it produces an entire function filled with complexity and I think "This looks right but I would need to independently verify everything" and at that point it's easier to write from scratch.
Right, that's exactly my point!

It's possible to be CEO, and exert control over a company without literally owning >51% of the voting shares.

A good leader can "control" a company without having legal control over it. That's exactly the point about Steve Jobs.

The assertion is that: It is possible to be a dictatorial executive CEO, without having 51% of the voting rights of the company. This is the corollary of "losing control of the voting rights of the company doesn't automatically imply that the company must be run by committee". Steve Jobs proves both of those assertions to be true.
Active conversation from a few days past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28981861
Just curious, do existing M1's accept input as low as 5 watts, given it comes with a 30W adapter?
>Maybe this is why NLU has split from NLP.

Sorry but can you be a bit more specific here? How exactly has NLU split from NLP?
The break point is somewhere above 100k excess deaths per year if we want to use the “it’s just like a very bad flu” argument, we are way past that.

So many deaths that could easily be avoided, so much economic pain that could easily be avoided too. Just look at the results in PR that has the highest vaccination rates in the nation. Vaccination works, it stops the spread, it’s not propaganda.
If we're optimizing for response rate, how about "shove it up your ass"? That'll get a 100% response rate from your boss.
I'm pretty sure that's the same cloth that came with my XDR

I say it deserves at least a 5 out of 10 since you can wash it in the washing machine on cold and it air dries quickly
I hate to say slippery slope but - its bad, so why not make more bad stuff on top of it. I feel the bad parts of the browser are glossed over in software development decisions, this is a very bad approach for any engineering discipline. The surprising thing is how few software devs know how to do anything non browser, how can proper technology evaluations be performed without this? This is just the latest in a long line of such.
In case anyone wanders into this old thread, guess what I'm doing tonight!

If you guessed "unfucking a SAS license but the renewal utility won't work because it can't get a lock on some file" you win the satisfaction of knowing you were right.
So, I was thinking that the Turing machine itself is a description of the number, because a description of the machine uniquely determines the output. If you require the digits to be spelled out, then yeah, that's impossible.
the problem in my state is the troopers are just as apt to go after any infraction they see.

they may not be able to catch the guy that stole your tools, or fuel, but they will easily turn on you for any low hanging fruit evidence they perceive while in contact with you
They're semantically different characters and Go supports multilingual identifiers, so I would not expect normalization to impact this. At most I would expect normalization to simply deal with ordering combining marks and standardizing on composed or decomposed forms of characters (where applicable.)
That's the kind of thing you see in a comment and then back slowly out of the room, never breaking eye contact with the code until you are far enough away to turn tail and run.

At the very least they could have used the cute Japanese 「quotation marks」 to avoid confusion.
> …My opinion is that the police as an institution needs technology to keep up with the world, especially if we want a smaller police force with better training, higher qualifications and accountability…

Do you think that that’s the goal? I personally view “tech that makes cops’ jobs incredibly easier” as a thing that doesn’t lead to “cops quit in droves to support newfound theoretical efficiency”
Well, it only took 25 years to get some real control over vertical alignment via grid, maybe selects will not be horrible by… 2029? I live in hope.
That was fun, even just to make myself examine my current preference for Fira. I ended up finding overpass which I'm going to try for a while. Also made me appreciate how good Ubuntu Mono and Roboto fonts are.