skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are salary tiers that are the same across all government employees. A new grad software engineer with a master's degree will earn the same as a new grad biologist, even though the outside government salaries for the two might differ by a factor of 2. There is no practical way of paying somebody more than this narrow wage band even if it's impossible to fill the position with somebody competent. You end up not having good engineers working for the government, unless they are willing to take an extremely steep pay cut.
> Short answer - no.

A tangent: if an article's title is a question, the answer, vast majority of time, is either "no", or not a clear answer at all. I'm sure articles that answer the title with "yes" exist, but I cannot even remember one.

> Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
This isn't C-18, this is way worse.

The context is that there's a Canadian Sikh who has been calling for parts of India to secede from India. In response, India had him assassinated.

India has laws on the books that allow them to remove content globally for things that violate Indian law. They enforce this on social media companies by requiring them to have employees on the country's soil in order to take them hostage.

C-18 just says you can't post links on Facebook without news companies getting a cut of ad revenue. India wants all discussion of their assassination of a Canadian citizen to be censored, and they're currently getting that censorship.
Your ISP will have a running log of every website you visit, and every website will have your personal identity (if they want it). Fake identies aren't especially useful if the other side can see your IP address.

Those are just a couple of examples. The OP is a list of arbitrarily selected and often not particularly valuable advice that leaves many holes. What do people see in it that they voted it to the front page?
Can confirm. 2.4 times worse than lego.
The terrorists that blow themselves up and that blow other people up are usually misguided brainwashed angry young men. It's nothing to do with ideology, everything to do with power. Or did you think blowing up schools full of girls is something people genuinely believe helps their people, to give just one example?

Ordinary people just want to be left alone. Old guys wishing for more power will use anything to get it, including sacrificing the younger generations.
I had someone grab mine from my hand in a coffee shop and sprint out the door last year.

(I got it back via chasing after them and a minor physical altercation. This was definitely an unwise choice on my part, because the thief was then in the news a few days later for murder.)
> I'm going to go out on a limb and say that far far far more people have a phone that needs to be repaired than have a phone that gets stolen.

I'd say the polar opposite, as long as you're excluding screen and battery replacement which aren't what's being talked about here.

I don't know anybody who's ever had a non-screen/battery component replaced. On the other hand, I know tons of times someone's phone has been stolen.
Young women are dating older men. That's why younger men are in fewer relationships. Older women also skew the wrong way for similar reasons.
This is ridiculous. I will not change my domain because of someone’s blocklist.
Were talking enterprise java, it's a behamouth and changing it takes forever.

I think in today's ecosystem of microservices and serverless etc, AOT will be taken pretty seriously.
Fuck it. Do what you can and stop when you can't do any more. I have tons of half finished projects. Some lead into other ideas, some give me a better conceptual understanding, etc. It's not all about the finished product. There is still some joy in doing tech for the sake of tech that hasn't been bastardized by money. Not sure it will help your feeling though as I'm still a loser too.
> In the coming decades, countries will likely start to compete for younger immigrants

that would be the rational thing to do, however so much of our politics surrounding immigration are not rational.
>If this helped protect against theft, then why did they steal the phone anyway?

They are plenty of stories on Reddit and TikTok where the stolen phone ends up in China, and then the owner is phished into disabling iCloud so that the phone could be wiped. If not the sold is phone for parts. To me the very fact that you need an entire phishing ring to make stealing iPhones profitable means that there is some cost that deters thieves from targeting iPhones.

Barring phishing, the next best thing is to scrap it for parts. I can see Apple's reasoning here - if most of your growth is going to come from poorer nations it makes sense you don't your customer base worry about carrying a year's salary in their pocket.

I'm also unconvinced it's a "money grab" on Apple's part. Locking down repairs will not come anywhere close to replacing the lost revenue from the consumer's slowing upgrade cycle.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/10zg2o7/how_a_typica...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/yoataa/ever_since_m...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/rwlznf/warning_stol...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/rwlznf/warning_stol...
The animals we're mostly concerned about at our farm are horses and cats. I don't think there is anything left in North America that can trouble a horse, unless you count mosquito-transmitted infectious diseases. I hear foxes are not dangerous to cats but I believe we've lost some to coyotes.

Mostly we've had people around, either tenants or neighbors, who keep chickens so we don't have to. I'll say the eggs from a small scale chicken operation taste a lot better than commercial eggs.

I definitely thought about trying to draw in the fox but as much as that British lady makes it look easy on Youtube Shorts the legends are that foxes can cause a lot of trouble.
> The Vision Pro is based on their iOS (iPad/iPhone) ecosystem for their 2D apps, so you won't be able to use powerhouse office apps.

Creators can use the Vision Pro as their Mac's display, and/or run Office directly on Vision Pro.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-vision-pro-can-be-used-...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/5/23749947/apple-vision-pro-...
Airplanes use a variety of modes of autopilot systems and some modes absolutely do not require the pilot to touch the controls. They do require the pilot to set the mode and its parameters in the first place, and it would usually be considered a serious safety violation if both pilots were to get up and leave the cockpit while autopilot was engaged, but the technology is definitely good enough to handle this situation.

This is not true for Tesla's FSD. Not by a longshot.
It's a very interesting question. I'm not sure I think that there is a "creative" / "not creative" binary dichotomy though. Seems more like a continuum to me. In which case, I think I'd say ChatGPT (and its ilk) are creative... to some degree. Quantifying that would be tough though.

This whole thing does though, as we see in other threads here already, lead to some interesting questions around "what even is creativity" and "how creative are we humans", etc. One might also fairly ask to what extent creativity is truly a desirable thing at all! I'm sure we've all sat in meetings where a co-worker presented a truly "creative" approach to a problem, where said solution was as mind-numblingly stupid as it was creative. :-)
People can't do that either. Not accurately (though better than current SOTA LLMs)

Look at this. People wish they were as calibrated as the left lol.

https://imgur.com/a/3gYel9r
"Autopilot" is kind of a funny term because pilots definitely still need to pay attention to other aspects of the plane while flying
> Does Java actually prevent this code from compiling if `x` is shared?

Why would it prevent it from compiling? Whether it's right or wrong depends on what the programmer has in mind. If they rely on a mutual exclusion constraint, they must specify it.

> It's still on the developer to keep track of whether x may change (and therefore whether a mutex is required), with the added disadvantage that there's no `async` keyword to clue you in that there might be a problem.

No, because in Java, the author of this method has to decide what they want. In JS, when the author of foo decides to change it they need to analyse what the authors of the callers had in mind.

The point is that the presence of a scheduling point or not is not just informative but has an impact on the correctness of the code.

> You seem to be describing a style guide rule that Java projects should adopt, not a language feature

No, it's a language feature. In Java the default is "scheduling point allowed." If you want to exclude it, you have to be explicit. This approach makes composing code easier than the opposite default unless your entire language is built around an even stronger constraint (like Haskell).
> In North America. This is a line even the Soviets and Chinese respected

When it comes to assassination, maybe. But China conducts extra-judicial operations in Canada, and even deport citizens (send back to China), with little respect for Canada's sovereignty.

* Search for china+secret+police+canada and make your own mind. Obviously the CCP denies it and the Canadian government is mute. So you only have the mainstream media's word to go on.
>It really depends how you define what a people is.

Not at all, not unless you use some Orwellian tactics to completely redefine what an ethnic group is.

>Geographically, it's obviously not replacement. "People lived here, now people live here" is just continuity.

A geographic area is not a "people" nor an ethnic group. Shoving more people into the landmass we know as Japan may be good for the economy of the landmass, but it won't be good for the ethnic group we call the Japanese.

>Genetically, who cares.

Common ancestry is one of the core attributes of ethnic groups. The Japanese people and ethnologists care

>Culturally, that's up to the people.

"If we replace the Japanese with Appalachian Whites, it's up to the people to decide if they're being replaced or not."

Yes, you made my point for me: if you replace the Japanese with foreigners, they are being replaced.

QED.
I think you are overreacting

> This stance is absurd.

It's not 'absurd', because he did say "arguably", meaning that there's an argument to be made for either side of the issue (and a poster below makes an argument).

Pointing out that ad-blocking is arguably unethical is fine. If he had said "it's unarguably unethical", then sure, that's absurd, but the poster qualified his statement quite nicely.
Fasting is the most easy for me, when I am busy (preferable in nature on a hike). But when I am at home, surrounded by all kinds of food and kind of bored - then yeah, it can be hard.
If 20% of the men are in "relationships" with 80% of the women, this would help to account for some of it.
How does smoking tobacco and cannabis affect depression risk?
Oh you funny man, thinking we have polarized ones!

Brits do I think, but most of the eu has unpolarized ones.

One of the common 2 socket wall sockets for example have just straight bars connecting 2 sockets being 180 degrees rotated, so each socket have line and neutral on different connector.

So if you say put a tester in it, one socket will read "correct" while other will read "L/N reversed"
Do you have any recommendations on learning Gregg?
Just tried it out, it pops up and asks you to approve the connection when you go to Bard.
I don't think those are the bots he cares about, just the read-only unauthenticated users. For the value they extract from scraping, the costs they incur, and the opportunity cost of not advertising to real people who browse anonymously.

The replies of viral tweets are filled with sanctioned blue check spam now, it's apparently profitable at $8/month.
Are thieves currently forcing people at gunpoint to iCloud-unpair/unlock their devices right now?
I really want to - that and the cartoon version - but I also don’t want to give blizzard any more money
> they would just start selling the damn parts so people could repair their phones.

They do. Have you been living under a rock?

https://www.selfservicerepair.com/en-US/home

And there’s no way for Apples policy to fuel theft when the stolen phone and parts from that phone can’t be used for anything. You might have had a point a few years ago when they neither sold parts nor did the pairing stuff.

I think they’re moving in the right direction. But like many here have pointed out they should allow you to unpair parts in a phone you own.

There are comments here from people who have been robbed at gunpoint and forced to unlock their phone and disconnect it from iCloud. I think Apple could solve it by making it a 24 hour process that can be reversed. But that just illustrates that it’s actually a hard problem to solve properly.

I don’t care at all about 3rd party parts. I’ve been burned too many times. It’s not environmentally friendly if you buy a brand new shitty part that you end up discarding along with the phone a few months later because the part was bad. Just force Apple to sell good quality genuine parts at a low price. The sum of the parts should equal the price of the phone. Yes that will be unprofitable for Apple, but governments can force it through regulation in the name of sustainability

If they stop selling parts then they should be forced to disable parts pairing for that model… then relying on 3rd party market as a fallback is an fallback
Yes. Even taking the last two years into account, China has gone from a gdp/capita of under $1000 to over $12000 in just 20 years. Thats equivalent to jumping from an Ethiopian economy to a Russian one in the span of a generation. China has poured more concrete since 2000 than the rest of the world combined prior to 2000.
Just gets better every year without drama or fanfare. the postgres devs are really unsung heroes in the developer community.
> I can always depend on these kinds of articles for the sin of omission. Unrealistic standards for women ... nevermind the standards women have for men.

Yeah, but a charitable interpretation is that this is the female perspective and anxieties on AI porn/relationships/intimacy.

I'm sure there have been articles that focus on the male exploitation(emotionally, economically, etc.) these services do without mentioning the female body image issues they may exacerbate.
I’m not sure what’s been addressed? All the interventions beside vaccination have been taken apart and we’re on track to kill 200K people this year. I suppose that’s better than the outset, but would’ve been considered catastrophic for any other disease, prior to COVID. If HIV/AIDS was killing this many people in the US in 2023, it would be considered a national disgrace, for example.
I suspect India may want them. (though with the most population in the world they may not). I work with several people from India who moved to the US, and all noticed a major quality of life drop despite much higher income just because in India you can hire servants for $1/day, so anyone with education is used to have servants making meals, cleaning the house, driving them around, and other such tasks. In most places where someone reads this there a minimum wage laws so you couldn't hire servants so cheap. (don't ask me how someone survives on $1/day in India).

The rest of us of course wouldn't know how to handle uneducated migrating masses.
Temporary and permanent immigration to Japan seems to be increasing in the last few years.

On the "influencer" side, you also are seeing more and more people talk about how cheap houses in beautiful parts of Japan are, how easy / difficult it is to buy and live in one of them, etc. Come to think of it, are these covert advertisements by the Japanese government to get more foreign immigration and capital?
I had never known they were planning a technology faction for HOMM4, that's interesting to hear.

Might and Magic is a fun setting because it's secretly SciFi and you would never know it from the Heroes games as far as I've ever seen.

But a bunch of the Might and Magic RPG games start with sword and sorcery and end with laser guns.
If I were going to pay for social media, I would expect to no longer be the 'product.' Would it become ad-free?

I mean, it's a no-go for me regardless, but if you're a Twitter power user and it's both paid and has ads, you should be baulking.
Linux 6.6 Looks to Be Lucrative for AMD Server Performance
Indeed; I'm a rhotic speaker but would even take a non-rhotic phonetic spelling over what we have today (things like cot/cart being spelled the same couldn't be more confusing that the current orthography)
What a ridiculous comment. Are you trying to say all groups are equally dangerous? You know that’s ridiculous right?

If you want to say Sikhs are at least as dangerous as the average, I’m open to see a statistical argument to support that position. I don’t think it’s true, but I could be convinced.
It's worth way more than $20B USD to have a working quantum computer that nobody knows about. You don't burn a weapon like that by inducing everyone to update immediately.
All a woman has to do to compete with an AI is be fit, good at something, desire motherhood, and leave the house to do anything social at all after working hours. The secret to finding a great man is to learn to appreciate one. I've said before that social media is like a vibrator for narcisistic supply, and seriously, if you use instagram, you are entrained by a deeply insane narrative existence that keeps you suspended in anxiety until your fertility expires. Instagram doesn't improve a womans options on men as there is a quality ceiling of guys who want to be around women dependent on that much attention, let alone have kids with one. In a lot of ways, it is a way for women to sabotage each other. This is an attrition game where the only ones who survive are the ones who take responsibility for themselves. AI isn't the problem. The only algorithms men and women really need to be worried about come from instagram, and probably doordash.
I'm not sure what is his take on iFixit decision, but he does provide some good explanations why some things are the way they are. I don't expect that Apple will officially provide better info, so that is probably the best we have. At least I haven't seen anyone with intimate knowledge of apple hw and sw provide a better or contradicting information.
Aids is definitely the strongest sexually transmitted virus out there. But don't you think that there will always be sexually transmitted diseases associated with promiscuity? Not to say that aids is only transmitted through promiscuity, but superspreading is highly relevant.

It is my understanding that gay people have more sex partners than than straight people, so it's likely that these diseases will disproportionately affect gay men.

I think that limiting amount of partners is a vital part to combating sexually transmitted diseases, and that some people will have sex until they encounter the physical limitation of STDs. Not sure "sex-positive" messaging is quite helpful in this sense.
> This is complete nonsense, if apple cared about phones being stolen for parts, they would just start selling the damn parts so people could repair their phones.

They did that. https://selfservicerepair.com/en-US/home
The man haven't seen good plug in his life
Oh yeah totally runs fine, no issues whatsoever. I imagine blizzard puts some effort into maintaining compatibility.
, in which the author re-invents the Welsh language.
Actually NOT blocking ads is at the very least morally evil and degenerate.

You are a very bad person if you think adverts are morally justifiable in any form.
Home Assistant Green: $99 Home Assistant Gateway with Rockchip RK3566 Processor
I mean the perfect solution (from a theft perspective) would just be only allowing Apple to remove the phone from your iCloud account at a physical location when presented with ID. Annoying for people selling their phone, sure. But that plus the hardware paring would make it functionally worthless to anyone but you.
I agree too. That distinction is clear and useful.

I'm interested in creating a plausible-natural agricultural ecosystem, aka a food forest. Such a system draws more criticism from ecologists, probably because where I live almost all of the desirable species aren't native.

On the one hand, this clearly isn't a normal agricultural system and often looks more like nature, on the other hand 'nature people' often do not really understand its ecological value. So thats where I'm coming from, maybe that clears it up a bit.

There's a weird aside to this story though, because what we (Netherlands) generally consider to be desirable nature is often a landscape created by old agricultural practices.
It's a better solution than always rejecting it, at least
Gives a new meaning to "fork over the cash" :-)
Since this will soon become heated and full of misinformation, here are some details-

1. PM Trudeau called emergency session over "credible" allegations but no actual evidence. The leader of opposition has also called out lack of evidence.

2. Canada expelled a key Indian diplomat but not nothing more - basically diplomatese - https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/18/americas/canada-hardeep-s...

3. India issued statement calling allegations as baseless and irresponsible - https://bit.ly/3EHtuwe

4. India too immediately booted out key Canadian diplomat. Diplomat was so angry he almost slammed car door on a journalist (https://x.com/ANI/status/1703997495318352108?s=20)

5. PM Trudeau seems to realize he has worsened relations with no credible evidence - https://www.reuters.com/world/canada-pm-not-trying-provoke-i...

As for background, India considers two countries as those which harbors terrorists active against India - Pakistan and Canada. Canada has harbored "Khalistani" terrorists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182) for long. Recently these "khalistani" (mind you, not Sikhs) have started threatening Indian diplomats (https://x.com/AdityaRajKaul/status/1676496624519122950?s=20) and attacked Indian properties and temples in Canada/UK. India recently started taking harder stance on push back on both Canada and UK for safety of it's nationals.
If we find a really good candidate for ET life, there are things other than interstellar probes. We'd probably start by building a much larger space telescope designed specifically for spectroscopy. The funding for a mega-scope would be easier to justify if we had a very strong extraterrestrial biosphere candidate.

There are also some literally far-out proposals to place a space telescope way out beyond the orbit of Pluto and use gravitational lensing from the Sun as a giant objective lens. It wouldn't make sense for a general purpose scope but could make sense if the exact orbit and timing were selected to observe a specific object. Difficult but probably not as hard as interstellar flight.
Chime uses AWS to build a serverless stream analytics platform and defeat fraud
Oh absolutely. Happened to a friend of mine, and there's another commenter here who had it happen to them.

Crime is real. Obviously its frequency is going to depend on where you live/travel.