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> My sentiments entirely. I think he's batshit crazy in a lot of ways... -
horsawlarway

> If you don't want to "have that discussion again"....why did you comment in the first place? -
KennyBlanken

> Because this discussion isn't fucking about those topics. I'm not here to defend him at all on that front. I'm here to say that he has things that are correct to say about other fucking subjects.
Read the fucking room. -horsawlarway

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@horsawlarway...

If you don't want to discuss it, don't fucking make shitty comments about another human being. Then you won't be called out on your shitty statements about another human being.

You don't want to discuss this, because your position is undefendable; you have none.

You shouldn't disparage people. It's not nice asshole.
Because chicken is less nutritious than beef — look it up.
I have an older Brother HL-2035. It can be convinced to keep on printing by covering two holes on the cartridge with some duct tape.
I think this post speaks to the problem of broadly discussing "bullying".

As you point out unprovoked battery and name calling fall under the same terminology, but the appropriate responses are obviously not the same.
Yet another way to say that:

USA is very friendly to immigrants - it is not a homogeneous society, and there is mutual respect of all religions, faiths, and languages. On contrast, I find many populations in EU to be actively hostile towards immigrants (in Germany one will have a difficult time not knowing German, for example).

As a result, it is a demand and supply problem. Compare how many are wanting to immigrate to, say, Germany, Austria or Switzerland, as opposed to US.
Why not just ‘git merge main’ instead of ‘git rebase main’?
Switching to AWS Graviton slashed our infrastructure bill
Doesnt this paragraph indicate that they were making millions of dollars in savings OVER their cost of operating?

"The PPL team in particular was at the point where we were regularly putting models into production that on net reduced costs by millions of dollars a year over the cost of the work"
This is like a big private club that allows anyone to enter and has effectively taken the place of a town square, due to (among other things) lack of such a public project. It ought to be owned by the government, but we've privatized it.
Any recommendations on a good tank printer?
Really fascinating read. Thanks for sharing.
Another option I guess is Bloomberg Businessweek which has at least some of the same news coverage as The Economist. But if you're not liking The Economist for having too much opinion you don't agree with, I'm guessing you won't like Businessweek. (You can usually find a print sub to Businessweek that's a lot less than a regular Bloomberg one).
I see comments like this frequently on hackernews and i'm curious on your motivation. Do you actually use twitter so this comment isn't lining up with your expectations? Do you not use twitter and expect this person to justify their experience by doing further research? What is _actually_ motivating you to comment like this?
I wouldn't call disagreement the same as trying to get someone fired because you disagree with them.

> Freedom of speech is not freedom of consequences.

Again, the definition of freedom of speech is "the right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint". It's not really free speech if you have to worry about being censored or consequences. It may be reprehensible speech that you are against but using freedom of speech as a weapon to punish others does not foster an environment where freedom of speech exists.

I personally think we should be able to have academic discussions with people that we disagree with and not try to further worsen this divisive and polarized world that we are trending towards by attacking them instead of their opinions. Shouting the opposing side down so that they cannot speak does nothing but make the situation worse. You might feel like you win a short term win by deplatforming someone but it causes further radicalization. It doesn't matter what side of the spectrum you are on you will not convince the other side without actually engaging in good faith discussions.
Thank you. A lot of good information.
I looked into two companies from a random web search
that scans books and sends you a finished ebook back.

They did not inspire my confidence.
I dont believe that they would do or could do the
text editing / correction.
(given that its not English or any other language.
Its in Norwegian)

The books are old and somewhat fragile as well.
Sending it travelling around Europe doesn't seem
like a good idea.
That's correct. IP addresses are not personal data in themselves but they may become so if further data are collected or accessible which allow to identify individuals when used together with IP addresses.
Just because you don't know what he's doing doesn't mean he doesn't know what he's doing. That's a common error in logic.

You'll also have to ignore that he's built companies that land rockets back on Earth and produce millions of EVs. He's objectively demonstrated ability.
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ is something of a modern equivalent for crypto.
It would seem to us that nights and weekends are the most convenient time for citizens to access government services such as this. But the things that are down for maintenance are not our publicly-accessible frontends, they're the backend databases that the administration uses internally as well.

So it would seem that all the worker bees in government offices rely on having access to those backend databases during USA office hours, and the only time they can realistically be shut down is while the civil servants are off the clock.
… and Redux was born!
I bet differently. Gov CIOs are being forced to adapt to rapid business solutioning and minimal overhead. It takes years to operationalize a Gitlab instance, and then requires permanent O&M less adaptive to IT cultural shift.

Gov IT leaders will move to Gitlab SaaS overnight, once it's FedRAMP approved and migration is enabled through a click of a button.

Maybe less favorable for AWS and their contracts oriented to long-term gov owned compute.
My observation is that the "double down" part is important. If someone is particularly privileged, getting smacked down for having an easily refutable idea is rare. But The Internet typically doesn't care about privilege, so cruel smackdowns effect sheltered rich kids differently. They double down, falsely believing their money or status will cause opponents to change their minds. Opponents do not change their minds, progress to 4. Conservative.
The story of Enron (and parallels to FTX) [audio]
I mean, people aren't asking for infinite slots for Indians. Hell, they aren't even asking for more slots.

They are asking for one or multiple of :

1. Use of lapsed green cards slots from other categories to be used for pending green cards.

2. Removal/Relaxing of the 7% rule, which uniquely inconveniences Indians. (If the idea is diversity, then in almost every way India is more diverse than arbitrarily formed culturally homogeneous tiny nations around the world.)

3. More humane work permit rules for those who have a PR in the waiting. Eg: relaxing the insane 60 day unemployment rule, reducing need to restamp visa incredibly often, allowing secondary sources of income or starting a startup.

4. More stable processing times and predictions on how long PR waiting time actually are. Current estimates vary from 20-100 years. That is simply unacceptable as a range.
I assume you don't work in the Enterprise IT space, this is absolutely 100% the norm. There is no such thing as up-front pricing, they always want you to talk to a salescritter. In some ways, this is good as the salesperson (usually) has the same level of knowledge of a system architect or engineer, or will bring one in, and you can have an open dialogue about how (or even if) their product can solve your problem. It's bad when you know exactly what you want and the salesperson's job is merely to gauge how much they think you're willing to pay and quote accordingly.

And many companies will not even talk to you except through a reseller.
But they treat pregnant women, and somethings things go wrong. Very wrong.

The procedures to deal with incomplete miscarriages are the same as for abortion. Delaying such procedures can have horrible consequences. Some Catholic hospitals have played this game, delaying and delaying until sepsis or some other condition becomes life threatening. If they wait too long, the pregnant woman may die.
Typescript and rust pretty much covers everything. Also a lot of jobs and I think increasing a lot in rust
It's like how a Turing machine tape can be represented by two natural numbers (or even a single natural number via interleaving).
There are several points. One is to signal to the community that it's not ok to post like this. Most people don't want to get banned and do genuinely want to use the site as intended. Leaving a public trail of moderation comments and actions helps regulate community behavior, even if it doesn't have that effect on you.

Another is that I prefer to (try to) persuade users that it's in their interest not to abuse HN. HN is only interesting because there is a somewhat* higher quality of discussion and content here. When you post aggressively, violate the site guidelines, and so on, you're damaging the ecosystem and contributing to destroying HN as an interesting place. That is not in your interest.

I assume that you wouldn't drop a lit match in a dry forest, or dump engine oil in a mountain lake, or throw trash in a park that you enjoy. Why do the equivalent here?

(* I don't want to overstate that—a lot of posts also suck. But it's all relative, and there aren't many places on the internet to have the sort of discussion that, at its best, goes on here.)
I would not agree with general apathy. I get it more as reality. Strict standards are BS. If you get up sober in the morning and go to work it is like 80% of what is expected from an adult.
Personal transport by drone is an up-and-coming concept.
The same thing happens to me and IMO almost always these are enough:

- HN Search website [0] (with the use of search operators), almost always I remember a keyword from the title and restrict the search between dates (or sort by date if is something recent).

- History Trends Unlimited chrome extension [1], in case I remember the domain.

- A local "personal knowledge base" / "digital garden" / "second brain" [2], in case I want to remember, review, and/or update my notes. "Local" to speed up search (with `ripgrep`[3])

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/history-trends-unl...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_knowledge_base

[3] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
Empty Ink Cartridge has Better Medical Access Than Most Americans
Well to pass a turing test it would have to say "hmm I was in a coma for 18 months and after waking up I ignored all current news and came here to take this test with you."

My real point is that large language models lack certain real world capabilities, like internal motivations and a life that advances every day, and this is one way we can tell them apart from a human if we did a real life turing test. You could ask one facts about its dreams and motivations, and where it hopes to be in 5 years, and it could create a plausible story, but it would all have to be made up, and at some point you could uncover inconsistencies. This is just off the top of my head, but I am sure there are other issues. I don't think any of this will be solved until we have some kind of agent with motivations, which only uses a large language model as part of its cognition. Until then they are just repeating plausible sentences, but they are not grounded in a single motivated agent.
Lastpass Security Incident
Doesn’t matter if they get a better rate than market.

The precise number doesn’t change the stated dynamics or situation at all.

That there are app developers that get preferential treatment just demonstrates the arbitrary power Apple has over choosing winners and losers
Even without my number the retailers know my e-mail or whatever else I used to sign up for their loyality cards or benefits, they already know what I buy. If they know my personal number, then they can't know anything in addition to what they would have without it.

But having strong protection for privacy is a must also.

Every time someone accesses my data in the national registries the access is logged - who did it and when. For example I can see that the city I live in is checking if I still live there, because they offer free public transport to residents. Also I can see that the doctor I visited looked at my data, maybe also the aphotecary where I got my prescribed medicine from, because.. all the prescriptions are also digital documents, very-very rarely something is put on paper (for example, when a vet doctor prescribes some antibiotics and I can get them from the apothecary). Othewise I just give them my id card, they look at the number, type it in, and can see what I have been prescribed.
>Muh bullyocaust

Sweetie, that's a cope. Bullying is a choice. It's this kind of pro-crime, pro-rape thinking that lets all the bad things happen to people. It's always a choice. Plenty of people happen to go through much worse things without hurting other people. Like for example, the victims of the bullies. So it's clear that there's no inherent reason for the bullies to do it, they just want to.
The whole rider is pretty nutty. Even on fairly mundane requirements he manages to sound a bit crazy. "I absolutely refuse to have a break in the middle of my speech. Once I start, I will go straight through." Presumably at some point he said he didn't want to take a break but someone stuck a break in the agenda anyway and he decided to declare his intention to throw a fit if that ever happens again. It reads a little like "100 ways in which RMS cannot handle the unexpected."
> the fact I don't use the sarcasm tag like a dork

Adding insult to insult I see.

edit: please don't feel like you have to escalate your insults towards oxfordmale because I made this comment.
I mean, I don't think this is typical; these companies aren't exactly known for being great places to work. I'm also an early millennial, and know lots of people considerably older than me still happily (or at least no more grumpily than everyone else) working in tech jobs.
You can still have a government FDA agency, but with a voluntary certification program. The problem is everyone prefers authoritarian solutions.
Oh god, I am grown man who did not know the difference between these movies.
Why exactly? You _are_ free from consequences .. from the government. But how would you expect to be free from consequences when you offend millions of people using the Internet? Why should I not be able to ban people from my forum if I and most of my users don't like them and they are dragging down the quality of the forum?

Those are consequences, and I don't see how you can have some utopia where that isn't viable. Then you just live in a world where you are forced to listen to the broadcasted thoughts of idiots.
The goal of Russia's bombardments is to flood Europe with refugees, provoke civil unrests there and then bring to power Russia's puppets like AfD in Germany and the like.

The end goal is to undermine international support for Ukraine.
The flow you have described works (besides the last ‘git rebase master’), though. When ‘git merge master’ is run, the developer either get conflicts (which can be then fixed) or not. After that ‘git push’ and you can open a PR. I certainly don’t see anything wrong with that flow.
Would any of these errors be present if they used GraphQL instead of REST? Obviously the ones with headers can still happen, but it looks like everything else is related to schema enforcement
policy vs Procedure.

you have a procedure for the policy, thus procedures can change but the policy is the same.

policy's are goals, procedures are how those goals are met, and given the wide and subjective nature of all Big Tech policies, changing in procedures are more import and impactful than changes in policy, and the procedures are never open to public review
Outside of maybe the games industry, and small poorly-run startups, this is not typical.
Right after my spouse passed, my neighbors very cleverly asked me if I could make them coffee and bring it over every morning - I had an espresso maker, it was still peak pandemic with limited access to coffee shops, I'd been so isolated and careful as a caretaker that I wasn't a risk, and they were desperate to have lattes.

That got me out of bed every day for months, right when I wanted to the least. I'd eventually have to leave the house to pick up coffee and milk. It meant making someone happy every day, doing something I enjoyed, saying hi and talking to someone face-to-face even if it was brief. That kept me going and held me accountable. Anything you can do like that is going to make things easier.
Nope. That's not what the GP means. I'm not sure how it works currently with PHP, but what was meant was a long-running process that can change its behavior/be updated by evaluating new code without ever being restarted. Think of it like this: you have a page that never stops rendering, ie. you send some HTML but instead of finishing processing, you go into an infinite loop. "Live" system, in that situation, would still be updatable - you could change the body of the loop and make it produce another bit of HTML, without reloading the page.

Again, I'm sure modern PHP was already optimized far from the initial "execute all the code on each request" model, but unless there's a long-running process that can be updated in memory without restart (and I don't mean doing `exec` on itself, that's cheating!) - it's not "live" by this definition.

It's not that clear-cut a distinction, either. For example Elixir and Phoenix are definitely live, in that there's a process that responds to requests on one hand, and can be updated without restarting it on the other - but page reload is still required in many cases, even if triggered via websocket.

This idea of liveness predates both PHP and the Web by 2 decades at least and comes from Lisp and Smalltalk. It's been incorporated by Erlang and later Elixir, and by Clojure. Other than that, some embedded scripting languages support this kind of development, for example Awesome WM is scripted in Lua, and you can evaluate arbitrary Lua code while it's running. Emacs is another system that is meant to be used this way.

Good to read: https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-build-is-always-bro...
>The belief that they ever believed in global cooling is itself a result of cherrypicking. Most papers predicted warming

Who are "they"? If "most papers" predicted warming then some papers predicted cooling.

Science and truth are independent of majority view. My point is not that one or the other of global warming or cooling is true, but that reaching into the past and surfacing research that points to warming - or cooling for that matter - is cherrypicking, and of limited value.
> topic beaten to death, and it's edgy to say

It's sad that that when a big enough part of a population reaches the obvious conclusion, it is considered edgy because the magnitude of the damage that was caused is so large, and is finally recognized as such.

> suburb/highway model 95% of America is stuck with is the root of all evil

There are very few mono-causal absolutes that I actually agree with and this is one of them.
I know that you're doing it with a good heart, just wanted to point out that are some of us who do like to eat out alone. After my divorce about 10 years ago there were a few years when I went out eating all by myself and I couldn't say that I was sad during those going outs, quite the contrary.

Also, I personally don't like socialising, as in talking, while eating, and I guess I'm not alone in this.
This makes these refill kits sound really dangerous.
Still, that’s not refusing service to a particular customer based on that customer’s speech. I believe that pharmacist would refuse any customer. My question is about a pharmacy which would refuse e.g. Alex Jones because of things he’s said in the past.
Twitter had been posting profits since 2018, with the exception of last quarter (billion dollar lawsuit payout) and Q2 2020 (pandemic start) https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-incom...

Post Musk, Twitter's debt was already going for 70 cents on the dollar, and that's before the news of this week
Most printers now explicitly call out that they come with a "starter toner" - which has many fewer pages than a normal one.
I don't at all. I'm just trying to figure out what people are supposed to be doing. And I was mostly responding to the comment of "obscenely paid PR hacks" in the first place...just unnecessarily cynical.

It was a long letter b/c it provided a lot of information. The information you're asking for was wrapped up in 3 sentences. But I guess that was still too long?

If it's not apologetic, they get reamed for being too cold/unsympethetic.
> Big difference between 'US business' and Wall Street

This depends on how you and I are using the terms. If you realize that I am using those terms somewhat synonymously, then what I said makes sense. You can disagree with the way I am using the words, but you can at least understand why I would make the claims that I did if that's how I am using those words.

I could have said "big business" which is closer to meaning "wall street" but this is semantic shorthand, and some misunderstandings may happen.
What kind of bureaucracy are you facing? The biggest I've noticed is making sure everything is perfect on submittal so you don't get put into the exception handling path of approval. Common mistakes are wrong/missing forms, form entry error, missing/inconsistent supporting documents.
> UK/Nordics/Eastern Europe, unsurprisingly they are countries that have left-wing education systems built for the social justice goals of adults, not learning outcomes of kid

Learning outcome rankings are commonly pretty high for UK and the Nordics -- there's a number of metrics, and some asian countries come out outlier strong depending on the test, but it's pretty common to find Finland, Sweden, and the UK in the top, and Finland in particular seems pretty enviable by a number of standards.

Also, learning outcomes for kids are social justice goals -- people who think of their social values/goals in those terms (vs people who use "social justice" as a drive-by disparaging/othering term to signal their own ideological allegiances) are almost always concerned with broadening positive educational outcomes. Perhaps you don't share those goals, or perhaps you believe that some social movements are promoting policy that isn't well-optimized for those goals, but it's entirely false to state that they're mutually exclusive.

And as they say, "citation needed" for stats about bullying or sexual violence.
At a previous job we tracked unique visitors to prevent ad fraud. You'd find not only individual IPs with thousands of users behind them, but also larger populations of users numbering in the tens of thousands behind a small block of 8-16 IPs.

The craziest was a large multinational corporation that (I guess for security?) changed their egress IP daily. The first three octets remained the same and the fourth was equal to the day of the month UTC. Really screws things up when you use a 14 day rolling window of previous traffic for comparisons.
Based on what reasoning? Data quality with respect to computer systems approaches perfection, it is far more reliable than any data you can hope to approximate in the real world. There is also plenty of "actual science" with terrible data quality, hence the replication crises spanning large sections of the scientific landscape.