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> In 2000 climate change was mainly a theoretical issue, one that seemed mostly cost and little (immediate) upside. I remember viewing this as a problem that would mostly affect our children and grandchildren (a view that looks increasingly stupid in hindsight.)

That is interesting to hear, because this sounds like an accurate classification to me (even if it is a bit mercenary). How did your view on this change, and why?

> The view that climate action isn't possible is a manufactured opinion, one that isn't supported by the 2000 election.

That is NOT my view: my view is that the electorate is mostly still unwilling to make sacrifices in favor of climate action, and all "free" climate change mitigations are slow and inconsequential.

Thought experiment: Biden takes drastic action to bring US Co2 emissions in line with Europe/China within a decade or less-- prices for gas and electricity rise by, say, 80%. Taxes are also additionally increased to subsidise green energy in India/other developing nations.

Do you honestly think he gets re-elected? Note how that is still insufficient, 8tons Co2/person/year are not sustainable globally...

I also think the problems are the exact same in Europe, emissions are just lower there because less fossil fuels availability and wealth (compare select rich countries like Luxembourg which are even significantly worse than the US in Co2/capita).
"going to somewhere they don't need to" - that's a pretty poor threshold for whether a protest is reasonable or not.
This has nothing to do with breaking encryption and of all the sketchy corporate surveillance tooling that's deployed for security purposes (so say nothing of HR purposes) monitoring for shells on the network seems about as benign as it comes.
Can Chrome Sync or Firefox Sync be trusted with sensitive data? (2018)
I wouldn't say that Flatpak is secure against specifically designed malware - applications can still run machine code directly on the CPU and make Linux system calls, and so could exploit any vulnerabilities (like privilege escalation) that they might have. However, I would certainly trust Flatpak to protect me against excessively snooping applications which are otherwise legitimate, which it can do by limiting access to specific filesystems or devices.

For JavaScript, web browsers have good sandboxing, but arguably also have a smaller attack surface than Flatpak because the page cannot run system calls directly. I don't yet know enough about WASM to know if that tangibly changes the situation.
Intuition was italicized for a reason - it was sarcasm.
"impressive if implemented" is a nice nutshell for star citizen, which on the whole isn't terribly impressive.
It writes like English and you don't have to think about memory. Those two things are _huge_.
Or decline in product offering relative to the competition.

In Canada at least Netflix's library seems to have been gutted with a ton of their non-original content moving to Prime, Disney+, etc. And even a bunch of their own formerly-exclusive content is now available for free on services like Tubi.
I don't deny that there is more and more research every day about the negative impacts of microplastics on the human body. From my place of relative ignorance, it still seems that more sweeping claims like "Microplastics are responsible for the Flynn Effect and the male infertility crisis" are awfully bold. You throw obesity in there too, and doesn't it seem like folks are trying to pin all of society's ills on a single issue? It's like when people try to pathologize black people by arguing that all their social ills are actually just due to lead exposure. That has proven to be a very shaky argument, and one that has to plow through a lot of nuance and complex social phenomena to land on a materialist claim so simplistic that it's kind of infantilizing.

Plus, the obsessive focus on IQ reeks of bad social science.
I was ready to come down hard on this -- "just what we need, a hagiography of some Taylorist" -- but then I saw that this is not at all what Deming was about. This quote really resonated with me, particularly the part about intrinsic motivation:

> Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers—a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars—and on up through the university. On the job, people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Management by objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable.

And that first sentence is a hell of a sentence(!) --"has destroyed our people". Fantastic.

When I consider the mess that has been made of the American landscape, of the pollution dumped into waterways by hedge-fund-operated manufacturing plants, I think similarly about "has destroyed our environment".
Imagine if they passed a common sense requirement that is you want any payment it needs to be a single bill, day of service, plain language.

I was thinking we should use the proposition system here in CA to get this through- who wouldn't vote for it.
I suppose people might want that sort of thing as a display of wealth, but it still appears to me that all of those tasks would be performed better by special-purpose robots instead. I can think of a lot of better uses for that $20-$30k, even if that's a tiny fraction of my disposable wealth.

But I don't know. Wealthy people often do things with their money that appear to be crazy to me.
I'm so excited to see more work in the perceptually uniform color-choice space. I first saw this discussed by Stripe in 2019, but the work with "accessible pallets" is a revolution!

https://stripe.com/blog/accessible-color-systems
Meetings are a poor indicator of continuous integration.

Instead, build a steel thread. Make the simplest thing that can go through every team first. Every team working on the project goes to build that initial slice of functionality. When done, you have the infrastructure and tests necessary to make sure each next slice is functioning. It means that you have a low level friction through the project, but it is much smaller than the overall friction at an integration phase.

Then, use meetings to discuss the clarification of the specification and the technical design. Any status meetings can be at the EM/PM/Lead level as necessary but you will have the feedback to know how things are progressing quickly.
There are some poorer countries, which do specialize in excellent health care for economic reasons.
Even beyond employment, healthcare represents a ridiculous 18% of the US GDP these days.
AMDs answer will be “nothing” imho.

They’ve really left this area wide open for over a decade now when it’s been extremely clear this is where the market was going.

Their GPU and GPU compute story is a mess, because rocm has the most confusing compatibility story possible . They’ve been late to compute accelerators as well.

I don’t think there’ll be any abstraction layers either. The community as a whole is more than happy to be single vendor. AMD has shown they can’t build compute stacks, not because of technology reasons but purely long term decisions. The community therefore won’t do it for them.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37301728
Okay, so the scale at which they sale their service is a good argument that this is different from a human learning.

However, on the other hand we also have the scale at which they learn, which kind of makes every individual source line of code they learn from pretty unimportant. Learning at this scale is statistical process, and in most cases individual source snippets diminish in the aggregation of millions of others.

Or to put it the other way round, the actual value lies in the effort of collecting the samples, training the models, creating the software required for the whole process, putting everything into a good product and selling it. Again, in my mind, the importance of every individual source repo is too small at this scale to care about their license.
I always wondered, how do people "finish work" in 2 hours for a day?
Am I the only one swamped in tickets and could generate months worth of work on my own proactively if wanted to?
We drink an unbelievable amount of tea. Firing up the hob each time would be silly, when you can fill a kettle to the minimum and have boiling water in an incredibly short time. Not much more than half a minute with a good modern kettle.
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Tom Scott's video on this is interesting, as a side note.
I've got over 3k hours at this point roughly, so i maybe slightly biased

The game has major ups and downs, but nothing really comes close to the same feeling of being on a capital ship with your friends pulling out from a beautiful space port. I wish there was a better alternative but there isn't, nothihng really comes close.

Performance has vastly improved from 50 players per server to 110 now i beleive? And i think theres talks of increasing it further.
Yes, there is quite a human difference between being a subsistence farmer that "earns" almost nothing, yet has stores of food and a safe home, and someone sleeping on the streets in a big city. But poverty metrics often views them as the same.

Sadly this is likely because these metrics are weaponized to show how superior and civilized the West is, which has largely abandoned subsistence farming. That's also why this article doesn't directly mention China, which is the runaway leader in large-scale poverty alleviation efforts over the last few decades.
We see that. Pets and wild animals that live around humans are also increasingly obese.

From a quick search: https://www.livescience.com/10277-obesity-rise-animals.html
The researcher behind this, Ganesh Bagler, has done a lot of work on data-ifying food, in a field he dubs computational gastronomy. Worth looking up, perhaps collaborating with, if you have questions.
Could you expand on how security is an afterthought in Postgraphile? My experience of using RLS and the graphile pro plugin was nice and secure imo. Curious if I missed something here
Caution isn’t the same as spreading unfounded panic.
The US "healthcare system" is a criminal organization. And the US government is in on that con. The USA is such a farce, it's impossible to grasp the totality of it all.
I'm not sure if anyone should take the guy seriously. For a person who has "I don't want to talk about AI" in his profile, and banning everyone who dares to have a different opinion, he sure talks about AI a lot.
Can’t get on board with a privacy tool if the first thing they ask you to do is to join their Telegram channel
Every US home I've lived in had 240V access in the kitchen for appliances like electric ranges. They absolutely are wired for that. Practically nobody's house only has 120V.
I hear that term a lot, but what does "middle class" mean to you?

When you say you are "middle" what do you mean?
The problem in the US is that each of the parties wants to solve it in a different way, so neither has broad enough political support to easily pass, but both of them have strong opposition from a different constituency.

The Democrats keep proposing some kind of single payer system, but without addressing any of the causes of the existing high prices (because that would gore the ox of all those healthcare providers, who have a lot of political power), so in practice the result would be to move the absurdly high cost fully onto the taxpayer, but they can't get through a tax increase that high. There are also some aspects of the US heathcare system (certainly not the price) that people do like, and their proposals would tend to make those parts worse.

The Republicans are mostly content to do nothing, but their main proposal when they have one is to push things like price transparency and regulatory reform. Those proposals have a lot of potential, but they would come entirely out of the margins of the aforementioned healthcare providers, so they can't get any meaningful support from across the aisle or even within their own party. Which is why they're mostly content to do nothing.

It also doesn't help that most of the reform efforts have been attempts to do the first one, which doesn't reduce the cost, but consumes activism resources to promote a proposal that either doesn't work or doesn't pass.
>Can anyone remember the last time a new airport was built

Denver, 1995

Northwest Florida, 2010
Python grew out of a myriad of applications that built on hard to replicate components, while Ruby relied only on web development which is remarkably subject to fashion.

Python is very simple making it easy to learn. Thus, it became more and more popular for fields where programming is not the main task, like science. It is also very easy to extend with C. So, these fields could bolt on time-tested scientific code into their Python scripts.

Ruby seemed to be entirely tied to Rails.

When the 00s and 2010s came with needs for web development and scientific computing for big applications (e.g. ads on social media), there were multiple language options for web development but really only one that made it easy to onboard academics into the task of building software systems.

From there, it was just a feedback loop, and when deep learning became a major field, the ML community was already knees deep in Python, so it was hard to justify making tools elsewhere.

Meanwhile, it seems to me, that Rail's appeal (and with it, Ruby) was taken by Node's promise of using the same language on both server and client, and more generally diluted by the fashion waves of web dev.

If you want to swap Python for another language in scientific computing, you will soon find annoyances that certain packages are missing, or don't talk to each other well, or aren't optimized. If you want to swap Ruby for another language, you just use the other language web dev library and that's it.

As an aside, Julia has been the promised replacement for Python for over a decade. It tries and does replicate the package ecosystem, the ease of use, extendibility, etc. It also goes out of its way to be able to use Python packages out of the box. But it just seems to be very hard to convince practitioners to go to Julia for just some small performance changes.
I've configured our systems to start dropping data at this point and emit an alarm metric that logging/metrics are overloaded
> and the second example is New York state

New York and pretty much all states east of the mississippi suffer from an overabundance of rainwater/water. Water will never be a long term problem here, at least not for a very very very long time.

As for kansas, no offense, but who cares? There have always been supposed water issues in that part. If the fear mongers were right, kansas would have been a barren deserted wasteland decades ago. Of course if the fear mongers were right, civilization would have ended already due to peak oil, global cooling, global warming, 2012, the pandemic, etc.

BTW, more than 70% of americans live east of the mississippi. So america isn't using up its groundwater like there is no tomorrow. Small parts of america might be. But on the whole, the US is rich in water. Water isn't a problem in the US and will never be. But for some reason, the fear mongering never ends. Maybe fear sells. I don't know.

Every fear years, the news runs the same fear mongering story. It's like groundhog's day.

Whatever happened to lake mead? Did the apocalypse already happen and I miss it? I swear a few years ago, california was over due to water. California still around? Mount Rainier was supposed to lose its snow cap by now. Is Mt Rainier bald as a monk now?
They've already exceeded the 100 player limit (previously 50). Theres rumours they're going to increase this to 200+.
Long term depression is also very hard on the people around the depressed individual, which adds to the social isolation and a cycle that maintains (or worsens) the depression state.

States of mental depression almost seem like a possession or a second personality, where the depression state fights to continue itself and subverts other parts of the brain to maintain or deepen the depressive state.

Since it is so hard for normal people to give support over the length of depression (which seems hopeless and it doesn't help that the sufferer projects hopelessness), it simply wears out family and friends.

It may also be an inherent defense mechanism of "normal" people to compartmentalize depression. Certainly there is enough things in the world that would depress anyone. Hey, you're going to die. Nature is brutal. Life is unfair and unforgiving. Everyone is subjected to a tsunami deluge of advertising trying to make you feel empty and fill it with buying things. I think people are deep down afraid of depression being contagious in some way, because who knows what people's breaking point is.
We exports huge amounts of grain. The groundwater we're depleting isn't for our own use, it's to feed other countries.

Which is why it is a federal issue since the federal government controls interstate trade. Thus it’s accurate to say that America is depleting its aquifers. Which is the point of my response to you.

That you think states control their own water suggests you don’t understand the issue. For instance, one state can’t just put a dam on river and declare all of the water theirs and not allow distribution of it to other states.
We simply need a sort of statute of limitations for B2C transactions.

- Your employer can incorrectly pay you for a long time and then demand the money back.

- A hospital bill can come (afaik) anytime in the future

- You can dispute charges, the provider can fail to provide customer service, but your credit score is negatively affected.

Etc.

We need bills that focus on favoring the "little guy" in the fight so that wealth, dominance, and power are mitigated in justice.

EDIT: actually the bit about employer overpay being for "Decades" and demand back was not entirely true, depends on the state, ranges from weeks to 15 years according to my googling.
You should be able to connect to the internet without it being used for surveillance, but in practice you can't, so you shouldn't.
Wow! I thought $600M was an exaggeration, it's not: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals
I feel bad about failing as a programmer and having to settle as a sysadmin
Is it just me? By programming, I mean web development. CSS stuffs, node js stuffs. react js stuffs. full stack web dev or frontend or backend, the logic never went to my head. I can program though(small basic programs).
Google's AI feature in Gmail and productivity apps will cost $30/m per user
You can, it's called an Alford plea. You maintain your innocence but accept the plea deal anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alford_plea
Red is still a particularly hard color to accurately represent, just not as hard as it used to be. The bleeding and chroma crawl that is most visible in NTSC red, has been replaced with at best half chroma resolution, and depending on how the viewer's decoder works, red edges may be especially harsh-looking.

It's definitely better than it used to be, though.
> Do you think they are going to release a new version of the app just for you?

They would probably do this server-side, something like (if the metadata comes from/is related to the user with the phone number $FOO, flush it, don't store it)
Which is why you only test in situations where, if the test is positive, you have better odds if you treat.
@mods, could this get bumped?
Why is this a language superset of python rather than a python library? Genuinely asking and not trying to bash
Got to try the other big offers. Bard is surprisingly getting better. Bing in creative mode is not bad, but the "typing" speed is too slow.
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Population size typically levels off as regions get wealthier - that’s a pretty well documented phenomenon as I understand it.
Many (I would have guessed most) Star Citizen players are long time players of these other games! What SC offers just isn't replicated by anyone yet, but you can be sure that players of this genre keep an eye on the horizon for what other projects might be offering, on a quite regular basis.
Something that needs to be pointed out here is the fact that nearly all of CIG's resources are allocated to finishing their single player game, Squadron 42: Episode 1, and a veritable skeleton crew is working on the Persistent Universe (the MMO). Considering this, and the fact that most of the work done on Squadron should directly translate over to the PU, a lot of the skepticism over how fast development is going is misplaced. At least... I hope so.
What about the employees that have a requirement to work remotely due to a disability?
A couple simple questions can trade your day up
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Google just being a typical panicked corporation here. Nothing to see until they actually make the thing generally available to the public.
Oh I should have also stated that successful remote management is built entirely of trust and humane treatment of the remote workers. The value someone produces may also be pretty intangible (i.e. they make the team work better together). I can see how you could extrapolate those scenarios from my comment, but giving employees affordances to put their life first should be table stakes for all employees, remote or otherwise. No one should be fired or punished for having to deal with personal issues.
> she believes the firm overcharged taxpayers by at least $500 million

> Booz Allen last month admitted no wrongdoing while paying a $377 million settlement

Sounds like a cool way to wash $123M of theft. I wish I could steal stuff, give back 2/3 of that, and walk away Scott free.

Also we're missing half of the story there, because there's no way they sent $Bs worth of invoice with overpriced rates without at least an accountant noticing, and being shutoff by some chain of command.
New models, tooling for Vertex AI generative AI
Yeah, but they are not being stressed enough or considered at a greater level. The same can be said with stuff such as Global Warming for instance, whereas every other company knows that stuff they're doing is terrible, but don't give a shit and we continue to follow as if nothing is going on. AI >right now< is not doing anything specifically dangerous, BUT people adding that "tool to their toolset" is not us, mere mortals but people who intend to use AI in crappier ways. Thinking about those things is not "shitting on anything new" but to think critically about stuff.
An unannounced budget/headcount cut with no change in scope and no budget for overtime (not that I think overtime compensates)?

A mighty recommendation letter, list of contacts at other employers and personal introductions on request.

If the captain decides to sink the ship, I'm having out life vests. I care about my people more than petulant vision.

I would add however that Bezos and Musk aren't that similar. And that your question scenario is completely different from "In X months, you will have layoffs if you stay like you are, what can you do?"
I've tried NMS and Elite, Elite was on the right path but fell off hard.

Starcitizen is for better or worse unlike any other. Until another game comes where me and my friends can hop onto a capital ship and travel to planets etc seemlessly - ill switch. But nothing on the horizon yet.

Also love the ground vehicle gameplay too and its quite underrated.
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