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Up From Slavery by Booker T Washington

After being prepped for an understanding of the conflict of visions by Thomas Sowell, Booker T Washington's autobiography really brings it all home as to what could have been. The accomplishments, the respect, the fulfillment.

A close second is Shelby Steele's White Guilt, in particular, his description of the difference of his parents' civil rights attitude (change the laws, get along) compared to his own in his youth (burn it down) with his eventual understanding of where that came from and what the consequences were.

I haven't finished it yet, but I am currently working through Thomas Sowell's Ethnic America which has a very satisfying history so far of different ethnic groups in America.

I also have to say that most years, I have barely been able to read even a few books. But this year I got audible and have now listened to 35 books. Of course, I have a growing queue which now stands at 176 books.
There are three reasons I think your post here is naive (maybe too combative here, sorry):

- politically, the smart thing to do is bury SBF. There's no upside to sparing him.

- throwing the book at him sends a message to all other would be scammers, again at no cost

- powerful people can be powerfully vindictive when you expose them to risk and embarrassment

I agree Democrats shouldn't have taken SBF money, or any crypto money. It's always been an obvious scam and it's incredibly bad for the planet. But I admit the facts are esoteric, and we really wanted to beat Trump, because he's also really bad for the planet (remember that one time he spent years weakening NATO and building up Putin, and then Putin invaded Ukraine and set the world economy on its head and threatened to starve/freeze hundreds of millions of people?) No good option here, is what I'm saying.
Increased UI testing surface, tracing responsibility when things go wrong, and inserting a new decision for every single metric any FE developer ever writes.

- The more obscure combinations of viewing options you support, the more likely you'll miss some weird combination in your VRT or manual testing until an actual user in production finds it for you.

- But maybe your manual tester or VRT has excellent coverage. Still, it got more expensive. Supporting just one more text zoom level doubles your VRT expense. Your team has finite QA resources and VRT compute. Scope/quality/cost/time of something, somewhere, had to be dropped. Generally, is it worth it?

- If you are supporting REM and your designers don't distinguish between REM and PX, you have created new states that designers haven't planned for. You introduced a new cross-cutting source of design bugs, but if your designers didn't ask for this feature, they can't stem the flow of bugs!

- If you are supporting REM without coding guidelines to recommend what should be REM vs. what should be PX -- sans a hero dev who sees the impending mess and writes those docs for you -- you will get a chaotic and inconsistent mix of REMs and PX in your code.
How did the community respond? And did the base start cleaning up its operations?
> here’s 10k lines and a stack trace

Ah must be a Spring application ...
As explained by GPT:

> The comment seems to be expressing the idea that developers are similar to horseshoe makers in that their work, like the work of horseshoe makers, is becoming increasingly obsolete or irrelevant.
Paris-Lyon is more like 2h
Don’t feed the trolls
I would guess a fair amount of city dwellers have gone fishing.
It costs me around 60€ to go from France to Switzerland by plane. It costs me way more than 60€ to go from France to Switzerland by train. This why people are taking the plane, because it's less expensive that high speed rail, nothing more. Make high speed rail less expensive and people will take the train.

Government induced free market distortion under pretense of ecology concerns is just what it is, bullshit, and a bad French habit.

edit: I know France Switzerland trips aren't affected by these laws, it's just an example.
I don't think we (assuming you are also US american) have a leg to stand on until we raise our taxes. France iirc has a solidarity tax and from what I hear people don't go bankrupt due to routine medical care.

Back to the topic though, a ban on short flights doesn't sound right to me. I'd feel better if the flights were made more expensive with higher taxes or perhaps even a new tax altogether
It has the key paragraph:

> Veterans Minister Lawrence MacAulay revealed last week in testimony before the same committee that four — perhaps five — cases of Canadian military veterans being given the MAID option by a now-suspended veterans service agent have been referred to the RCMP.

As another HN comment here noted, it does seem like employee misconduct more than standard policy action.
>> Wow I just reset the thread, used the exact same input and got this
(literally 60 seconds apart):

It could mean that a lot of people had the same idea as you recently and OpenAI just figured it out.
Near obsolete.
No experience with the US market, but I thought that thanks to planes like A350 the opposite was happening: new routes between smaller cities thanks to fuel efficiency.

It's possible that in the US you're seeing that as a consequence of few available pilots and their resistance to change (hub and spoke has been around forever in the region)
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No, what happened was that technology obsoleted the laws that said "A taxi is something you hail on the street". Even in NYC, there were car services predating Uber that you call and arrange a ride, and those drivers were not required to have medallions. The medallion was needed to pick up rides on the street.

With the advent of portable phones, cities did not update their regulations (which cities do?) and so Uber exploited this loophole to create a car service that you requested with your phone, but which had a similar (but not identical) user experience to hailing a cab. In fact, the first Ubers were designed as a car service -- it was higher end cars and the cheaper UberX happened only later.

Even today, you still can't hail an Uber. That would make it a taxi. Every ride is pre-arranged over the phone.

So it's not true that Uber just ignored the rules for taxis, because Ubers aren't taxis. They are a car service. It's the cities that missed the whole mobile phone phenomena and didn't update their laws.

In other words, Uber was a bit more sophisticated about this than "Let's just ignore the taxi laws" -- and understanding the difference is kinda important. I can join you in criticizing Uber, but they are not cartoonishly bad, and they did actually think these issues through.
So, it's exactly like Google search but more interactive?
eMacs were Apple computers, not an OS.
That's what the default zoom level is for. There are plenty of people who just need slightly larger text so they can read, but don't want to zoom in every element of the page. Why are you making assumptions about what users want instead of just supporting basic web browser defaults? It's really not that difficult to support.
> Apple and many westerners never understand the risk and the ethics implication of doing business in China.

That was a a great apology for colonial industrialism and how US companies exploit workers in other countries and just move on when they also decimate their culture.

They know the risks. They do not care. They are on to the next "risk" where there will make another few billion.
India has tricky labour laws, bureaucracy, land issues and labour unions to deal with when manufacturing at scale. But, it isn't unsolvable problem. Samsung, Xiaomi, Hyundai etc. manufacture millions of phones, tvs, cars etc. in India and are quite successful being #1 or #2. That Wistron issue seems more like coordination issue between different contractors when starting up new plant and there was no repeat of that issue.
You're drastically conflating two very different sides of the house. Hourly workers are generally employed in logistics, FCs, customer service etc. This segment dramatically increased in 2020, to 1.2-1
4M employees IIRC, and for the past year CFO Olsavsky has talked about shedding ~20% of this workforce as demand scales back down. A lot of that is simply accomplished by slowing hiring and letting the high turn over rate happen.

Separately there are teh corporate employees in finance, tech roles, management, etc. These are teh employees in question when CEO Jassy and friends have talked about shrinking some divisions like health care or alexa. This is also where the recent 10-20k numbers are concerned.
Private office with open doors is pretty social.

Meeting rooms are for collab. And for most jobs there’s no need for collab outside of limited time slots.

If you’re not doing focused work, not doing group work and you’re fine to get disrupted… You could head home as well.
>> But fixing bugs? An actual chance to make things better? That is satisfying.

I don't think fixing bugs is the only satisfying thing. Sometimes, the need for new features arises only after users use your product for some time.

For example, PriceTable lets users generate professional-looking estimates quickly. After about a year of using our product, some customers said, "we use it everyday and have sent thousands of estimates to our clients. Is there a way to run reports to gain sales analytics insights?" So we added that feature too. And I found it satisfying. :)
Since wealth is concentrated more and more into a minority, redistributing wealth is surely aligned with increasing the quality of life for a majority of people. Why do you say it would be worse for everyone?
More like ambiguity. Because of the "also", one could easily expect the resulting output for foobar(9) to print:

baloney
yam
Have you actually tried it? It doesn't execute any code anymore for a few hours now
OpenAI has been making the most noise online because of how open they've made their recent chatbot, but Google has been on this for a while. Earlier this year they had a blog post [1] about LaMDA which doesn't seem too far off in capability from OpenAI's projects. They've also made a lot of other strides in their research [2] that kind of goes under the radar because they haven't been synthesized into products yet (at least not in the ways we'd expect them to).

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/01/lamda-towards-safe-grounde...

[2] https://ai.googleblog.com/
What's wrong with supporting the first Gulf War, NAFTA or neoliberalism? These are all popular and reasonable positions.
My desk here is a bit small to actually use it as a monitor, so I've repurposed mine as a TV with a fire stick.
> The argument was that so much energy has been put into solving problems that aren't actually hurting people.

That's not an argument, since the same thing can be said about anything else that does not solve world hunger, for example. Authors put energy into writing entertainment products while people starve.
Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance springs to mind where he postulates that every free society that aims to remain just that: free has to be intolerant to certain opinions that (should they become too widespread) would endanger the freedoms of others as well.

Freedom is a complicated thing, because it has both positive and negative definitions. You can have the freedom to do what you want on the one hand but also have the freedom to be placed into certain situations (e.g. tortured) on the other hand.

Now obviously there is going to be a collision space where somebody wants to excersise the positive freedom to do a certain thing that hurts the negative freedom of another perspn or a group of persons to not be subjected to that very thing.

Freedom in that sense is the attempt to constantly balance those two sides and allow the individual to be as free as possible, while also preventing malicous actors to take away the freedoms of others.

The thing is that freedom in that sense takes constant effort and adjustment to keep alive and up date and this goes beyond just writing new laws and enforcing them.

Intolerance toward the intolerant is a crucial thought if you want to keep your and everybody elses freedom as it is.
Thanks for the answers I'm going to look into this method.
It fact the reverse is true if you critically examine how power works. At a most fundamental level, the ability to maintain a state is a matter of (1) maintaining a monopoly on violence inside your jurisdiction so you can collect tax revenue in return for orderly administration (2) maintaining sufficient degree of both benefit and deterrence towards outsiders so they don't invade you.

In the modern high technology world, both (1) and (2) require increasingly higher investments to sustain advantage which favours bigger states. Small states have to work very hard on carrots on (2) in particular to avoid being trampled. Tax friendly small jurisdictions largely survive at the whim & fancy of the elites of the bigger countries whose private interests they serve. Tourism focused small countries face the same pressures of serving the elites of bigger countries and in fact were trampled during covid lockdowns. Small countries that can't make (2) work stay poor.

The Ukraine conflict effectively demonstrates the point. Previously, Ukraine failed at (1) in the provinces which had high ethnic Russian populations and (2) by giving up nuclear weapons and giving up Crimea without a war which enabled the invasion.

Even though it turns out Russia seems to have badly miscalculated it's ability to win, the war has dragged so long in spite of causing major global economic disruptions because no one else feels able to intervene due to the high technology Nuclear ICBM threat.
Yes, there something wrong with it, because the distribution of the runtime is done via binaries i.e. browsers. Using Go or Crystal is mimicking that level of ease. Ruby, or JS (which is more of a mess than Ruby even though the runtime is already distributed) are still a pain to share. No credit goes to the JS distribution system(s) nor the form that the code itself is distributed in for the most difficult bit being done by browser vendors bundling the runtime.
The difference is that they profit from the one model, while the other subjugates them as well as the rest of humanity.
I've known practically all my life that I never want to visit NYC. I would like to visit a city like Pittsburgh though, or Charleston, or Milwaukee (and other US cities and towns smaller than these three too).
> One cohesive program designed to all work together sometimes just makes more sense

Yes, your example of find|grep is perfect for this. Sometimes (not often) I have a situation where a simple pipe combination doesn’t work and I have to fall back to awk, which would be the single cohesive (and more complicated ) program.
Apart from the whole I don't think that word means what you think it does thing, the issue with this is that the output seems to be equivalent to what you would expect an American marketer to produce and spam out after scraping linkedin. Presumably this is because there are a lot of examples of that style of email present in the training data. Personally if I received any of these I wouldn't even get past the first line before marking it as spam, which probably wouldn't do the reputation of your mail server much good.

It's an interesting, if slightly evil, idea, but I'd want the style of the output to be different or customizable before actually using something like this. In other words it needs a "tone of voice" setting. Write intro to someone in voice of cynical Brit / enthusiastic Canadian / morose Finn etc.
"under pretense of ecology concerns"

Yes, the evil government is propping up BIG TRAIN because they hate planes!!!
You didn't start with "sudo mode: on" did you? That's what happens when you don't have the right privilege level.
F is just one common action button. I imagine in this context, it's not a reference to "press F to pay respects" from Call of Duty, but a reference to a different meme, usually seen as "press X to doubt" (from the L.A. Noire detective game), and either misremembered or played in a PC version by the GP.
Creator of Julius here.

The save format was reverse engineered. Quite a bit was already known from my previous tool to create a .png image out of a saved game file, and from someone who created a Mac <--> Windows converter for saved games: the Mac version of the game used a different file format. Julius also contains tests to make sure it stays compatible.
Thank you for writing this comment about the inconsistency between the description of the program and the disassembly output. The first byte of the 12-byte program presented at the top is 0xFC which is the opcode of the CLD instruction, so indeed the first instruction clears the direction flag.

It is the disassembly that was inaccurate. It seems I had the disassembly of a slightly different version of the program in this post. I used the 12 bytes at the top of this post to recreate the .COM file just now and I have updated the post with the corresponding disassembly. It should now be accurate. Thank you, once again, for noticing this issue and commenting about it here.
Microprediction
same here in Italy, especially in Sardinia
I think it is simpler than that.

The US gained a lot of highly qualified immigration around WWII, when Europe tore itself into shreds. Poles, Italians, Russians, Germans, you name it.

And it is hard to disrupt the advantage of places like California ever since. Once you have top universities and top corporations somewhere, individuals will flock to them instead of trying to create competing hubs elsewhere. Plus the dominance of the English language all but guarantees that English-speaking countries will be the net benefactors of this global movement.

For all their advantages, Germany, Japan et al. still struggle with their parochiality when attracting foreign talent, while the US can do this really, really well. Take the entire roster of top IT people in the US and make a checkmark next to every immigrant or a child of immigrants. Similar lists in Munich, Paris, Tokyo etc. would look very different. Most European countries struggle with the fact that recent immigrants tend to be overrepresented in prisons.
Why is train so much more expensive? Surely jets that cost $100s of millions, supported
by massive airports, are more expensive? Seems like the market distortions are subsidies to airlines of some sort.
Could you offer an alternative vision?
Via the loudmouth of the fraudster at the helm
I'm in Japan right now. I've heard this advice almost word for word from other people and the best advice I can give is don't take anyone's advice.

Japanophiles, shockingly, have different interests than a casual tourist which are dramatically different yet again than someone who is, say, a vegan coffee connoisseur or a car fan who probably wants to drive on the roads and not take transit or say a typography nerd who would be attending printing and stationary museums. Want to get sloshed and spend the night with hookers? Lots of that as well. Have fine tea on a windy road overlooking Mt fuji? Fuck it, go ahead.

Here's an example. I went to a sword museum. I overheard someone leaving saying how incredible and wonderful the place was. All I saw were nearly identical looking swords that had won awards. It was dull and repetitive for me, just metal chunks behind glass but that sword dude was doing backflips over it. Whatever. Maybe that was like famous celebrity swords, I've got no idea.

The point is, don't listen to anybody. Theme it though to narrow your scope. Whatever your interest is let it guide you. Maybe you're a fan of shopping mall architecture, there's plenty of that here. Maybe you like say, umbrellas, there's umbrella stores, people making them by hand, umbrella technology displays, it's very Japanese.

You don't need to know Japanese, sure, just like you don't need to know English in the US. But being able to read and talk to people is surprisingly helpful. Important things are English-enough but don't be scared of Japanese, children master it fine, you can do it if you put in the hours. There's plenty of half-assed guides for busy people. Functional Japanese isn't insane. Receipt is reshīto, elevator is erebētā, they know the words toilet, taxi and metro...you'd be surprised how quickly you can get to non-clueless.

If you can set aside at least 2 weeks and you don't mind spending say $300/day or so you'll likely fill that time pretty easily. It's vacation, take it easy. Next time you get laid off, don't rush to the next job. Do stuff like this instead.

Also don't worry, you can always come back later.

Oh wait, one thing. This is the only real advice. There's travel SIMs at convenience stores. You'll probably be throttled at 256K with your foreign carrier, it's painful. The modern web is bulky and unforgiving. But maybe that's fine for you.

You can download Google maps for offline use and take photos of things with Google translate - it's not terrible for descriptive things and menus.

Hotel room sizes are fine. The crazy small ones are super cheap. Pay normal hotel prices and you'll be ok. The toilets are indeed high tech and weird and trash cans and napkins are mysteriously absent most places. Go to Starbucks if you need that, they're identical to the US ones
> I suggest "democratic world".

That's funny. Where is that?

Not the U.S., that is for sure. Look how the government just screwed over the rail workers:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/01/joe-bi...

There is a one world government and it is a oligarchy.
No idea specifically with PFAS, but in general, military installations are used for military training, which has many of the same pollution properties of an actual war. Spent rounds, links, casings for missiles, rockets, tank rounds, exploded C4, spilled fuel and lubricants. A great deal of effort goes into cleaning up after exercises, but you're never going to get it all. This is at least part of the reason training areas tend to be fairly isolated and remote and ideally nowhere near the water source for a human population. But also why the military has a pretty consistent history of settlement awards for raising cancer rates in at least the families of the personnel themselves who have no choice but to live there.
SNCF pays full taxes for the fuel/electricity they use. Airlines do not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerosene_tax

However, as of 2018, commercial kerosene consumption is currently tax exempt under the legislation of all member states of the European Union.
> How do you do that if you're managing a team of 5?

Law of large numbers at higher org levels, not individual teams. No one is hitting a specific 5% or 20% on a single team. Even at a sr manager scope with 25-50 people it's not going to be exact. But at a Director or VP, with 300-3,000, then you can see the performance target values come in to focus. Regardless theyre all targets and exceptions, with lots of explanation, do happen for good and ill.
Isn't that what critics mean when they say that such systems don't have "genuine understanding"? They have no knowledge of their lack of knowledge, and they have no knowledge of the existence of such a thing as knowledge. They are big tables of tokens with probabilities that humans ascribe knowledge or intelligence to, for reasons similar to our ability to see the face of Jesus on a slice of bread etc.
They can output text, but it takes a human to understand it (genuinely or not).
My feeling is that people won't be writing code as it is written now. Those that do will likely be the same as horseshoe makers.
Instead, you will have new tools and be solving different problems. As mechanics now have taken the role of those in charge of maintaining our primary transportation tool.
I don’t see where your data refutes GP’s primary point; your data shows road transport as being much higher share of emissions than aviation.