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And, either way, what are the implications to non-tribe citizens and non-tribe governments?
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I shipped early, I have no customers. How do I know when to give up?
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In my school, the Chinese students grouped together, and the Vietnamese grouped together. They stayed that way nearly exclusively, and picked on each other relentlessly, refusing to speak any language (including English) among each other except for their native language.

So at least with that experience, I'm not sure this is a Western problem. I can't imagine that any white person would try to infiltrate and make friends in either group considering how they were treating each other and being so exclusive to themselves. And the fact that they purposely made sure nobody "outside" the group could understand them.

Not only that, the Asians who didn't hang around in either of these tight-knit groups were labelled something akin to "banana" - white on the inside and yellow on the outside - and taunted for trying hide their Asianness. It all boils down to a solid confirmation that mixing wasn't allowed in any direction.

Friendships are two-way endeavours. I'm not saying everyone self-segregates, and I'm sure that even a lot of people who do actually wish they weren't doing it. But it is so common that I think it is unfair to blame it on Western culture.
>Alexander, whose role has been to help explain Silicon Valley to itself, was taken up as a mascot and a martyr in a struggle against the Times, which, in the tweets of Srinivasan, Graham, and others, was enlisted as a proxy for all of the gatekeepers—the arbiters of what it is and is not O.K. to say, and who is allowed, by virtue of their identity, to say it.

Oh, the irony! The same journalists who report primarily, nowadays, on who next to be canceled due to "problematic" views they may have had years or decades ago now feel that _they_ are having their journalistic freedoms called into question. As though that would not _necessarily_ follow.
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We saw pretty decent performance with AWS Gravitron. The pricing is a bit opaque as AWS might be taking a loss, but M6g.2xlarge steps all over M5.2xlarge on your basic Tomcat/Spring Boot app.

Remember there has been a tremendous amount of effort made to make VM's like the JVM and v8 performant on ARM for mobile. Turns out all those intrinsics scale just fine when presented with your typical "Business Application" workload.

I think Intel is especially in trouble with JVM workloads as it's very rare for libraries to call out to native code (unlike Python).

You really can just drop you jar on an ARM (m6g), AMD (m5a) or Intel (m5, m5n) expect the same results. After a bit of hesitation it will become just a standard part of cloud price optimization.

Cloud operators win - Chip vendors get commoditized.

(Modulo specialized workloads like HPC, ML and such - but to the topic, that's not to Intel's strength)
Everyday there are fewer and fewer pleasures available to people in this troubled world, let them have this.
The fall isn’t over yet. I can see lots of organizations panicking in January 2021 when the flash plugin suddenly stops working. It dosen’t matter how much advance warning is given, there will always be someone caught out.
I did this for Facebook back in the day back when you used to be able to post your own images! Back in the early, early days. I got a few blogs to write it up because it tracked the referring URL so you could send out special links to people and then track how often they viewed your profile.

I miss being young and having a seemingly infinite amount of time on my hands...
Wow, this is pretty juicy. I’m surprised that this hasn’t gotten more traction on HN considering the community, plus with Paul Graham / Sam Altman having already directly spoken out in support.

Does anyone have links to the Twitter threads mentioned in the articles? Twitter’s direct search querying is pretty terrible.
This is adapting the structure of your codebase to the capabilities of unit tests.

It has advantages but it's an expensive waste of resources if you have cheap, effective integrarion tests.
>> Nvidia has stable management

I'd expand this further to say Nvidia has an enthusiastic, highly-charismatic CEO who literally has groupies (e.g., when you see him at conferences.) For a big-time CEO, he is also surprisingly nice and approachable -- I've now interacted with him on three separate occasions. It makes me like him, his company, what he does.

I realize that is touchy-feely but I wonder how common this sentiment is.
Where is this canceling occurring?

I saw quite a few people here, as well as the two SSC subreddits, going out of their way to encourage polite outreach to the editor and to avoid antagonizing the actual author. So far as to discourage the naming of the author.

Not denying it may be happening, it just does not seem to jive with the majority response (in my bubble).
A very drawn out low-spark attempt to whitewash the attempt by a NYT reporter to divulge (de-anonymize in their parlance) the person behind the blog by hiding behind speculation ('would the nyt really do that?') and semantics...

Journalism continues to go downhill and doesn't have a way to stop the trend.
The peaks could also be tuned away acoustically with some foam with highly specific thickness. Would be pretty easy by high-end IEM standards
It's not the same though, because the costs are reduced by two things at places like Pizza joints and Chinese restaurants. First, every trip by a driver would include multiple deliveries, which is very rare with Uber Eats style delivery. Secondly all of the drivers would wait and drive back to a single restaurant, eliminating the time needed for a driver to drive to the restaurant from their spot.

Not to mention that crazy high costs of developing, running and maintaining slick apps that work for all restaurants, restaurant and customer acquisition, and tech support. Those costs have to be made up somehow.
I think you took the phrase too literally. I'm assuming by won they didn't mean that Ruby and PHP will dominate the web landscape for eternity. I'll just point out that dynamic programming languages have for most of the webs history been the primary tool for developers.
That theory directly contradicts his claim that he was considering continuing his blog under a different name.
I fail to grasp what you are implying. Please explain.
> For one thing, the S.S.C. code prioritizes semantic precision, but Metz—if Alexander’s account is to be taken at its word—had proposed not to “doxx” Alexander but to de-anonymize him.

Oh? From Wikipedia:

> Doxing, or doxxing (from "dox", abbreviation of documents), is the Internet-based practice of researching and publicly broadcasting private or identifying information (especially personally identifying information) about an individual or organization.

Yes, doxxing is normally associated with publishing addresses or phone numbers of people whose real names are already known, but de-anonymizing an anonymous blogger still sounds like a form of it.
Creating a throwaway account to comment as I worked with the Flash team when things came to a close...

Who knows if Flash would still be around today, but there was a great deal of innovation happening on the Flash engine up until the point the Flash Runtime team was effectively dissolved, because of Apple's decision. Up until that point, Adobe worked very close with Apple to recreate the Flash Platform from ground up with an entirely new engine. The new engine was vastly superior, and passed all of Apple's requested criteria for performance and memory usage on iOS. The runtime overhead compared to native was astoundingly very close, and effectively negligible for game development. In fact it was so efficient that most people internally thought that the new Flash engine could outcompete Java for general purpose cross-platform runtime based on several internal benchmarks. Even the language was improved with ActionScript4 (including Generics support) and things like threading/parallelism, simd, etc support was a focus.

However, everything went south when Apple when, despite the new Flash engine exceeding their requested requirements, Apple decided at the last minute that they are pulling out of the agreement. While it was not explicitly said, it was implied that Apple thought Flash support may hinder native game development that then could be sold on the iOS store. Once Apple pulled out, it was the straw that broke the camel's back as the massive investment into the new rewrite of the platform couldn't be justified. It was really sad as we had brilliant engineers and researchers working for years on the rewrite. But, sometimes that's life.

It's not well known, but ActionScript 4 language specs was publicly released:
https://github.com/adobe-research/ActionScript4

More info:
http://www.rivellomultimediaconsulting.com/actionscript-4-re...
Can you really be both a public figure and keep your identity hidden by way of asking?

There’s a playbook for this. Look at Banksy for example. If you don’t want your identity out there it’s your job to protect it. Not the New York Times.
Taylor Lorenz is mentioned once in the article, in the 29th paragraph, as an example of “the heightened sensitivity on both sides”

> At the end of last week, Srinivasan and the Times reporter Taylor Lorenz fell into their own public brawl; though it was not directly related to Alexander, it reflected the heightened sensitivity on both sides. Vice obtained leaked audio, from an invite-only app called Clubhouse, in which Srinivasan, who seems to believe that any critical coverage of a technologist must reflect a mistaken assumption, likened the media to a foreign interest: reliance on mainstream reporting, he said, is “outsourcing your information supply chain to folks who are disaligned with you.”
CheerpX for Flash is not yet available to the public, but it's already being tested internally by our Early Adopters. You can find several videos of our solution in action in the linked posts.
Old medias war against new media more like...
Ask HN: How did you find product market fit?
What's your last name? I think an extremely small fraction of the accounts here would want to tell people their full real life names.
On the other hand, browsers relaxed some security around things like the clipboard, partially because people were using Flash to go around them.
Yeah, this article is assuming a competitive environment when in reality there exists an arsenal of state tools available for corporations to entrench themselves as monopolies: IP protections, subsidies/contracts, regulatory capture, etc etc.
Definitely possible. Could effect repos that are pinned, content of profile blurb on the left, etc. If I had access to where folks were coming from, I could gauge how visible or discoverable my profile was from other sources, my blog, etc.
Could you point me to an era of journalism where it wasn't largely used to condemn certain figures over their words or actions?
Beautifully said, practically impossible unless the language imposes it as programming model and you have 100% control over the complete source code.
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Were webrings implemented using image tags as well? My memory is faint, I remember having to copy/paste quite large a snippet of code, but don’t remember the actual implementation.

It’s probably infinitely more simple than I think it was.
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There's no shortage of high quality baked goods available in the States, I assure you! :-) Tate's is a good brand that you can buy in stores w/ no weird ingredients.

The Famous Amos retail stores that used to be here also had that "fresh baked in store" quality, because they were. The company eventually expanded into packaged cookies that were, naturally, made in a factory.
Does this mean I can get rid of moment.js now?
Perhaps a bad analogy given that Volkswagen, BMW, and Daimler-Benz all made use of slave labor provided by the Nazis.
Do you have any evidence that this particular rule actually involves any additional cumbersome paperwork? Is this just a knee-jerk reaction to the word "regulation"? Would it be better if the word "law" was used instead?
Imagine how much more perfect and flavorless tomatoes could be with genetic engineering! Or the opposite - they could be filled with salt and fat, like other highly processed foods, to encourage increased consumption.

If that's what corporations did when they had the ability with processed foods, why do we expect them to act different with GMOs? What they optimize for may not have much to do with consumer or environmental well-being.
A company with as many products as Microsoft can afford to be crap at so many things they do. Even a product they do well today, maybe corporate strategy changes tomorrow and condemns it to permanent neglect. It makes much more sense to use a solution from a company whose future is pinned to that one product.
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Any modification to the car’s surveillance systems means that the company will no longer service your vehicle.

If you prepay for an update, but modify the car to not track you, it is my understanding that, network or no, it will not receive any service (including updates) from Tesla.
So if it's not part of OK, how does that impact OK from a representation in Congress, electoral college, e-Rate/federal funding perspective.
All of those people are no longer part of the state?
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I think the Harper's letter[0] being viciously attacked on the left is what's hilarious. There are no conservatives remaining in the left media, so they have to find new enemies among each other. This is textbook witch hunt / McCarthyism stuff. I just keep eating popcorn and watching it unfold!

[0] https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/
This is effectively M-PESA.

As usual, the incumbents don't care and have ossified structures and a poor understanding of technology. Banks, in particular, care least about the bank accounts - they're almost a loss leader to get people in for the real business, which is loans, especially mortgages.
In my work experience, immigrants were just waiting for a native, any native, to invite them. I've invited Engineer couples over for dinner from time to time, and if they originated in other countries the common thread is, it was the first time ever they'd been invited by an American. Sometimes they'd been in America for years.
I don't really see your distinctions here. Regulations have the force of law, and regulators are law enforcement.

Unless you are referring to some of the anti-trust laws which are actually criminal statutes? In that case I'm on the same page that we should actually start enforcing those.
I actually did this for someone who was basically living on the road for an aerospace company for a number of years. They shifted most bills etc. online and I kept my eye out for anything critical such as drivers license renewals and forwarded that kind of thing to her company's mail forwarding PO Box.
Now that’s a hit piece
Nice bit of detective work.

As for the downvotes, I guess the nail that sticks up gets hammered down?
Banksy is an interesting example because the NYT probably does know who he is. It's not that much of a secret.
Interesting point, as this is actually the topic of some debate.

The position you're referring to is known as the Trendelenburg Position. The benefits were thought to lie not so much with increasing perfusion to the brain, but bringing more blood back to the heart (known as preload), thereby increasing cardiac output and increasing blood flow to vital organs. If you're interested in this, there's some neat physiology called the Frank-Starling law [0].

However, it turns out that in practice, cardiac output doesn't actually improve. In fact, this position also increases the risk of fluid build up in the lungs (pulmonary oedema) and can worsen cerebral perfusion [1]. Therefore, it's falling out of favour in the context of shock. A compromise might be to elevate solely the legs, but its efficacy is also being questioned.

This illustrates a recurring theme in modern medicine; the human body & disease is so complex and poorly modelled, that it's often not possible to translate intuition or first principles of physiology into treatment. Instead, one relies on real world studies like those reviewed in [1] - AKA 'evidence-based medicine'.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%E2%80%93Starling_law

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
This article could've been a lot worse, but it still suffers from the mistake that the press is axiomatically good and anyone voicing upset at it must be evil and/or have something to hide. If you take that as a baseline assumption, instead of an empirical hypothesis that is looking increasingly shaky, then you're going to end up with an article like this one where the tone clearly conveys who you're supposed to sympathize with in a way that is not supported by the facts.
The advantage of Flash was that is was a plugin that ran uniformly across browsers, and integrated directly into whatever hardware it ran on. The trouble with Canvas or even SVG is that you never quite know what you're going to get, and even today, they don't quite have the horsepower of what Flash was able to accomplish with vector graphics 15 years ago.

There are many things that i do not miss about Flash, and i do think it had to go due to becoming a security hole infested bloated mess and running terribly on smartphones; but boy do i miss that development GUI... and i loved Actionscript 2 and even 3, you know, when they worked...
I probably just phrased it wrong, but yes, that's what I meant. The bacterium conduct the quorum sensing when enough of them are in the squids specialized sac.
Writing tests for this feature might be difficult.
Yes, that's how you trigger Siri.
> I believe that the issue was that Android devs copy pasted copyrighted code and putted them in their own reimplementation of the jdk without respecting the original authors.

Your belief is firmly incorrect. The "copied code" claim was for a 9-line rangeCheck function and was otherwise dropped. The main claim is entirely that the java.* API definitions are copyrighted, and therefore Google's clean room re-implementation of the APIs still violates the copyright of the API itself.

Which is a lawsuit that Oracle won, by the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_v._Oracle_America#First...

The open question at this point is whether a clean-room re-implementation of a copyrighted API for the purposes of compatibility is considered fair use or not. Which so far Oracle has been winning. Which means approximately everything is in copyright violation in the tech world. POSIX, for example, took the API from commercial Unix OS's of the time. The current owners of Unix, Micro Focus, could sue approximately everyone if Oracle wins.
I’m genuinely surprised that getting doxxed wasn’t part of his playbook. It’s not like he went to the greatest of lengths to hide his identity, Bay Area psychiatrists named Scott is a pretty small pool of people.

This is pure speculation but my hunch is that the Scott Alexander of a few years ago wouldn’t care about being doxxed. I agree with your take on this. Become a well known writer on the internet and doom yourself to being forced to live by the principles you articulate. It gets claustrophobic and cognitively dissonant after a few years. I think he didn’t want to be married to the content he’d created forever, was looking for an excuse to shut down the blog, and when this NYT thing happened it was a blessing in disguise because it allowed him to shut it down without losing face.

I think Scott Alexander would be very sympathetic to this line of reasoning too.
If we are going to truly treat this 1833 treaty as legally valid, does that mean that one party is entitled to compensation for 187 years of damages? Or is it more likely that we will somehow hand-wave it away and just find a way to retroactively undo the treaty?
It seems the goal lines have been moved to KiwiFarms’ brand of doxxing. As to whose ends that serves, I’ll leave as an exercise to the reader.
That is a great question and partly why there is valuing in having a Web Monetization Provider such as Coil. The job of the provider is to optimize and distribute the spend in a way that gives you the best experience. There is still much to be explored here but the basic premise is that the Provider basically makes micro-decisions for you so you don't have to.
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The list of tor nodes is public, and many sysadmins simply import it without thinking much about it. Even though they should only ban exit nodes.
Notion fits your description I think. Some people also use it as a knowledge base program where they can categorize thoughts and todo lists.

I think you can also generate a static site using Notion.

1: https://www.notion.so/

2: https://aptrinh.js.org/notion-blogging.html

3: http://chorale.app/
> It's misleading to say that the pizza costs $20 when $6 of that is actually a hidden delivery fee.

No it's not. While some delivery sites do list higher prices than in-restaurant (arguably misleading), that's not the norm. And as long as they don't, then if a pizza is $20, then if you're eating in-house $6 of that is going to dining space, tables and chairs, plates and utensils, dishwashing, etc. If it's delivery, the $6 is going to the delivery service, which includes listings, website maintenance, etc. All businesses spread their costs out among customers in different ways. There's nothing misleading about it.

And again, "scummy terms" in no way implies lack of competition. Not sure where you got that idea from? Tons of industries are full of scummy terms while competition is thriving. Scummy terms have nothing to do with lack of competition and everything to do with which marketing funnels and pricing strategies turn out to be most effective. It's mainly about consumer psychology.
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I would add that human beings consider "social fitness" as well, and are cousin species, Chimpanzees and Bonobos (contrary to the idea they've evolved to be peace-loving 'hippies'), also gang up on the weakest members of the band.
States and reservations are orthogonal concepts. This has nothing to do with "taking land away from" a state, it's about which legal authority has jurisdiction within the borders. People on reservations still vote in their relevant state elections.
No income tax? Never mind injuns coming. Where do people sign up to become one?

Huge percentage of population has some Indian blood.

The exact definition can be worth a lot to many people.

Let the drama begin!
I'm not sure how directly the cancelling is affiliated with SSC, but the #ghostnyt hashtag is a pretty good cancellation motion. The only thing that's really reached my bubble has been outrage and cancellation, though.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/ghostnyt