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I didn't downvote your post, however pedantic and silly I found it. You have no idea who downvoted it or for what reason, and neither do I. And simply because I want all speech to be aired without constraints doesn't mean I judge it all to be of the same quality.

As to the substance...

> What does this mean? Do you oppose laws against defamation, child pornography, fraud, violent threats, etc? No developed nation has truly free speech. The debate is where the line is drawn. Pretending it is a binary choice just ends up hiding all the smaller choices that we could make that could actually lead to a better society.

I assumed we all understood what "free speech" meant: the principle that opinions can be aired without restrictions. Obviously I don't think malicious lies, true threats, depictions of abuse and even "fighting words" are somehow pro-social or deserving of protection according to that rule. Malicious lies are the hardest to draw the proverbial line about - if someone has a deranged but good faith belief in some bizarre conspiracy theory that aliens all run the big tech companies or something, is that a "malicious lie?"

Anyway, there are pretty straightforward limiting principles for what constitutes free speech that deserves to be protected by law or in principle.
No because the cohort are children operating under artificial constraints that are no longer present once those children move away from their guardians.
So how do you know everything is legit and not just the adaptors?

You are "trusting" the poster here and assuming there "intentions" are good.
> Lets not pretend short sellers arent willing to exaggerate their case against in order to make a quick buck

Sure. Both management and short sellers are. But structurally, the table is tilted in favor of management.
I'd love to hear some speculation - from the author or otherwise - as to why a fresh OCaml implementation would so dramatically outperform a mature C implementation
What's with the ‘a sentence a paragraph’ style, though? It was a BBC thing before, but I think even they didn't put three words in a separate paragraph.
It’s easiest to understand when you realize that the company is not going remote to pay SF salaries everywhere, they’re going remote to pay rock bottom salaries everywhere. Geographic pay is a temporary patch to give extra to people in SF while they wait for SF engineers to decamp to the boonies or be replaced by people who do.
I agree that the problems you mentioned are truly important. The issue is that most banks, and especially the giants like JPMorgan, are interested in making them worse.

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/155212/worked-capital-one-fi...

[2] https://jpmadoff.com/victims/

[3] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-9-bi...
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It's possible to remove layers of cruft without throwing everything out. QNX and BeOS both implemented mostly POSIX compliance on top of radically different foundations. We've gotten rid of the ISA bus and that old pre-PS/2 mouse port, and mostly gotten rid of PS/2.

In terms of display technologies, we have DisplayPDF from Apple and Wayland on the Linux side.

You take huge risks by just throwing out everything at once. You want a modular system anyway, so run your revolution one module at a time. People don't notice your little revolutions, but that's kind of the point.
Haha, well it's the same spot I was living in when I was making $120k + non-liquid RSUs. And since it was rent controlled, I never bothered to move. I'd be paying $3000 more if were to move into a 1BR, and I would rather spend that on travel, dates, and post-tax investments.

And anyway, an apartment that's fairly spacious can turn into a congested mess when everyone's WFH. Previously, all of us had tech jobs where we had dinner at work, did a post-dinner workout, went to happy hour, and such. On weekends, some of us would be on day trips to Napa, or at a dinner party, or some such thing like that. Now that everyone's more or less inside during business hours, organizing the fridge is like playing Tetris, walking in the house requires a level of spatial awareness driving in Manhattan does, and storing all the household essentials takes up even more space. Kitchen contention issues also come up all the time.

The getting more space vs. staying tradeoff is worth it now: I'd personally value each sq ft I have to myself more, and the rent differential is much lower too (rents in SF are crashing, and I'm not restricted to living in SF anyway). IMO, that wasn't a reasonable tradeoff to make pre-Covid.
It’s not that you end up with good documents, it’s that similar effort results in more useful documents. Pasting a long conversation into a document kind of a pain to work from, but it’s fast and a much better starting point than a vague description without any real context. The next person reading the document might be motivated to clear up any misconception they had, where starting from scratch seems like a huge effort.

PS: The second bit is surprisingly effective. I have created a few bare bones documents that ended up becoming very fleshed out in a year+ when some sends it back to me.
doesn't it mean envious in Spanish or smt like that?
It's the other way around.

Politics is that which fills the space when violence and scarcity do not dominate psychic considerations.

Political discussions can only occur in a context where there are human rights, where human beings in authoritative positions adhere to laws and rules related to their jobs.

Public talk that defends the systemic, ungoverned practice of violence is not political, it's propaganda (and worse).

Human rights comes first. Then politics.

Cheers.
> I think it is possible to build a better system from scratch, and there are likely space aliens that have such better systems.

I respectfully disagree. Alien systems can be thwarted by inverting some bits. [0] I would not have believed this had I not seen it for myself. [1] After all, seeing is believing. True, the alien code seems very insecure. Perhaps aliens write their code based on the historical documents. [2]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/2oi7cz/i_am_dean_de...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgqswujkxPE

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLZQz26-kms
Ethiopia does not have amendments to it's constitution. It is a young democracy, the constitution only being signed in 1995. Freedom of speech is enshrined in law, but practically it ranks 101 / 179 in press freedom. Private gun ownership is not protected by law and licensing is required generally for firearms related issues. Guns are not popular in Ethiopia; ownership rates are ~4/1000 people and it ranks as 174 / 178 in gun ownership.

I agree there are parallels to US based issues, but this article is about Ethiopia and the struggles of the people living is a dynamic young system. In fact, the article is a very good look into a country that is estimated to have ~300M people by the end of the century.
The lead author is a Chinese MD/PhD trained in China who worked in a public health lab at Hong Kong University and has verifiable publication history. Based on a cursory reading it seems that all of the claims in the paper are based upon publicly-available research (over 100 citations) so there is no reason these claims cannot be evaluated through peer review.
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> But as software products grow more complex and the actual value more vague

most popular software tend to decrease in quality with time... engineers are just looking for something to do and add stuff that can sometime be of negative value
I'm doubly surprised that such a popular utility uses bison; generated parsers tend to be slower than handwritten parser, and JSON isn't exactly the world's hardest language to parse
I think the problem is that, even if you end up getting a proof of concept that attracts others, and they end up being 100x as productive as people using the Old Way, you will still be outpaced because the Old Way has 100,000x as many people working on it as there are on the New Way.
> So then let those people reapply for college when they "mature".

Why not let all people wait and apply once they mature? Why single out “those” people without an artificial unearned advantage?
Doessn't 404 for me, but here's an archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20200914205425/https://projectso...
> mobile iOS and android codebase

Unfortunately we don't have libraries for iOS and Android yet, however you can vote on them (https://github.com/supabase/supabase/issues/5), or you could use a JS wrapper (Expo/ReactNative/Ionic etc)

> literally <30 min

Hopefully we can make this even faster soon..
I used to enjoy short periods of remote work but I have hated WFH since it started during the Covid period.

- I miss talking with colleagues on things related to tech, but not necessarily related to the current task.

- Video meetings are exhausting to be a part of for resolving simple things. It was way faster to just talk in person.

- Video meetings feel less collaborative in general for open ended discussions, I see far fewer participation from teammates if it is not their own task.

- New employees who onboarded during Covid feel isolated as they didn't get to build personal rapport with others in the same or different teams.

- Interaction with people from different teams has almost disappeared, not everytime you had a new idea, you were actively looking for it.

- As much as I enjoy cooking, I hate that it feels like a chore at this point to do day in, day out.

- I hate that personal time and work time boundaries have merged and it seems like I am working at all hours and relaxing at all hours at the same time.
Do you have any recommendations for how I could work around this?

One thing I could do is to not offer free storage at all, but that would be unfair to the rest.

Another option is to not enable encryption within the free storage tier and to depend on scripts to identify and block accounts uploading illegal content.

But with these approaches I’d be discouraging only those actors who are unwilling to submit their card details.

I took a look at Mega’s terms[1] and their stance is similar to what I earlier proposed. Also, they seem to be thriving by simply being responsive to takedown requests.

Again, I’m curious to know if you think there are more elegant ways to handle this problem.

Thanks!

[1]: https://mega.nz/terms
As long as it's all Node.js, we'll be safe! ;)
You're right, it works now, I must've made a typo.
A case study of a nation-wide butchering of more than 24000 people is not an anecdote. If that's not enough then I'm not sure what sort of evidence it is you're looking for.

And again, the issue is not the state of violence in the world or just Facebook, which is why I used 'social media' more generally at the end of my last post, it's the ways in which those companies uniquely contribute to violence.

You don't need to be responsible for all violence in the world to be held accountable for the violence you cause. The fact that the world is complicated and violent doesn't absolve actors from their responsibility. Social media is quite unique in many ways. From mass bot-networks to influence campaigns that disguise themselves as bottom-up, to speed and virality that no other medium has, to lack of accountability and the ease at which information moves cross borders and enables nefarious states to conduct sabotage.

And China is not a good example either. It's probably the prime example of a country that has used digital technologies, including social media, to build a dystopian surveillance network, including on Uyghurs, that could not otherwise function.
Considering that she reportedly fled Hong Kong in fear for her life, I'm pretty sure she's going to end up on the right side of history here regardless of who helped her blow the whistle.
Isn't source in this case an alleged whistleblower who leaked this note? I'm assuming it wasn't original author who send this to buzzfeed.
After experiencing this, I checked around. Adapters with fake UL marks are everywhere. All over Amazon.com, for example. I honestly hadn't considered it before buying. Had no idea it was a common issue.

I think I was just shipping during some customs frenzy to actually do something about it.
Engaging content spreads even if it isn't boosted. That's what engaging means. Facebook's algorithms might amplify the dynamic, but by how much?
> You can, for example, absolutely measure to the dollar the productivity of a plumber and you can easily compare two different plumbers

I'm curious about this idea.

What if plumber A shows up, quickly fixes something using existing, on-site materials, and ends up charging much less (no parts + 'quick' labor), and then the plumbing breaks again in X months.

What if plumber B shows up, takes more time and replaces a part of the plumbing, and ends up charging more (part(s) + more labor) but then the plumbing lasts for Y months, where Y >> X?

Which plumber is more productive? How does one convert the productivity to dollars?
Thanks for the shout-out! I wanted to post "we do exactly this!" but didn't want to be an advertisement, so I appreciate it :P (co-founder of KubeSail, if anyone has any questions!)
I suppose the author is assuming that the input graph is passed in a way that lets you access the number of vertices in constant time, like with a 2D array.
Orientation of the blades. The NEMA 2-15 for 240v 15a has both blades horizontal instead of vertical like a normal 120v 1-15 plug.
I think it's too pessimistic to say it can't be done in real time on current GPUs. I think it should be possible to do reliable low latency readback with modern explicit graphics APIs. The harder problem is scheduling the audio work at high priority so it always finishes before the deadline, but this too has improved recently because VR compositors also have strict deadlines they must meet.
Aren't the police there for protecting property?

It seems to me that carrying a rifle with the intent to apply medical assistance is a military occupation, not a civilian one.
> So, transformed.

Yes, it is consumed when it is transformed into waste heat or other things that are not of value. It is invested when it is transformed into the means of production.

> A bit like how capital is transformed into capital investments.

if a thing of value is transformed into capital investment, then that is investment and therefore not consumption. If it is not transformed into the means of producing more things of value, then it can be saved (not consumed) or consumed (consumption).
> I often wonder what if we decide to build a completely new, well thought out computing system

Check out Urbit.
Yes. It's made THEM billions of dollars. If you've ever been on the other side of the pipeline, as an advertiser or a web site owner, you know you're treated as a statistic. Businesses suddenly disappear when Google delists them on either end. That's most visible on Youtube, where random Youtubers find themselves demonatized with no apparent rhyme, reason, or appeal, but it happens all over the Googleyweb.

If it's one of a dozen places you advertise, that's fine. If you're trying to run a business where it's a core platform, you quickly run into the limits there.
>I feel like we would have a hindsight to design it better, faster, and cheaper.

Maybe I'm just pessimistic but I suspect the opposite would occur. It would be buggier, slower and more expensive once you started trying to operate at any kind of scale. The reason being that hidden within all the accumulated layers of cruft are a million fixes for specific security, reliability and performance issues discovered through real world usage.
>The technical reason for the seizure was trademark violation.

Do you know what a trademark is? This wasn't a trademark violation, it was a fake certification.

The reason for the seizure is I don't want electronics in my house that could burn it down. UL cetifiies that. That's NOT a trademark. That's a certification.

You really don't seem to understand that you were caught trying to import bogus goods. It's also concerning that you are mixing up terms (trademark vs certification), as it casts doubt on the one side of the story I am hearing from you.

I get that it may not be your fault, but the CBP doesn't know that. They don't have a crystal ball to know that you were innocent of it, nor are they EEs who can figure out that's real and what's not. They also shouldn't be. Use a more trustworthy supplier next time.
The "Rule of Law Foundation", who sponsored this paper, was established by Guo Wengui. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Wengui
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/26/guo-wengui-chinese-bill...
My guess is that this is meant to emphasize how the display module is truly single-purpose for this specific device.

If you want a different display, they'd prefer you to rewrite it from scratch?
Agreed. We're also building a remote-first, remote-only company and after much discussion landed on uniform salaries, regardless of geography in the U.S.
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It's one thing for Apple's product quality (or quality control) to be less now that Steve Jobs is no longer with us. But it's another thing for customer-hostile dark patterns to become Apple's norm. :/ (I was subjected to the worst customer support experience of my life with the #KeyboardGate defect.)

Jobs was one of a kind.
If you were already bought into and budgeting for 4 years of an employee at price X, it seems opportunistic and irrational to then try to cut them to price Y due to an unexpected factor.

As some other CEOs have chimed in, I'll say that my relatively small startup (6 people, but growing) just pays people what they're valued at, regardless of location or business expenses. I budgeted for those salaries - if someone moved to a cheaper area I wouldn't cut their salaries because their location hasn't changed anything for me. Everyone makes enough to live in the bay area comfortably, which means they'll be just fine elsewhere.
Assuming the conditions are similar to primitive earth: We could simulate the fastest way to take the life fast forward. (For e.g. putting antibiotics like things, recombination etc.)
Also, these submissions link directly to the paper discussed in this article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24476300
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24476929
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24477162
Your factual understanding is much better than the average HN poster, so I appreciate that.

I only question whether "social media" is some unique bad that has perpetrated this, rather than the traditional media and entertainment establishment or technologies that predated social media. Players have been kneeling at NFL games for years now, every TV news outlet (except for approximately one) has been parroting endless nonsense about various social problems for years (the nonsense has reached a fever pitch these past four years), and our universities have been pushing cultish ideology for a long time as well. (In fact, my personal theory is that a lot of this nonsense is an outgrowth of the Occupy movement in 2012, which seems to have formed long-lasting personal social networks, which social media platforms have made marginally more efficient, but were in no way the only online tool to strengthen bonds.

I'd also add that as horrible as I find Danielson's murder and the treatment of the boy in Kenosha (I try not to even say his name, because the zealots are out in force) by the media and social media, social media was also the tool used to identify Reinoehl as his murderer in less than 24 hours. Social media was also the tool that convinced many of us that the boy in Kenosha was actually innocent and acting in self-defense.

To frame this differently, what social media platforms did Lenin, Mao and Pol Pot use to recruit and radicalize their supporters? How about Osama bin Laden or the Ayatollah?

I know (and I knew when I asked) that there were going to be people truly "radicalized" on social media in a way that is unique, though I did not know any instances of it off the top of my head. Even Twitter, which seems like a completely toxic and horrible place these days, seems almost entirely filled with keyboard warriors who just shitpost. (Insofar as certain groups are using it to coordinate violence and mayhem, someone should put a stop to it.)
FWIW 150k is plenty to live comfortably, without a roommate, in SF. SF is expensive but not that expensive. Even a 4k 1br (rounding way up, especially these days where you can get a 1br for < 3k) would be 48k/year, and assuming half your money goes to taxes, you could swing it while still putting money away.
https://github.com/pdewacht/oberon-risc-emu
I think recommended order has its own place. If I go to a social media platform after a week and my friends have posted about 200 posts since then, will I be interested in every post equally? Isn't it better to give me what I will probably like at the top part of the list.
No, it won't solve the problem.

Microsoft remotely reboots your computer about once a week whether you want that or not. They only care about their updates. Your work has no value.

On the other hand, I have a linux box that's been running for YEARS without a reboot. I work on it every day.

If you value your time, your work, or your money, don't use Microsoft.
VIA isn't privy to the cross-licensing agreement Intel/AMD signed which gives them full access to the other's technology portfolio (since AMD was a second source foundry for Intel, while Cyrix/VIA was not). However, the Court ruled (when they were still Cyrix) that they are allowed to sell any clean-room designed x86 hardware. So while they don't have access to internal architectural documents, they're allowed to reverse-engineer/duplicate x86.

In some ways, it actually frees them up a bit; as they don't have to reciprocate any efforts with Intel. Which they tried to leverage with their Padlock technology. Unfortunately, their marketshare limits any real practical usage of those benefits.
Pretty sure 10,000db is "destroy the observable universe" power levels so.....somehow worse than nukes?

That's a 10^1000 multiplier. It doesn't even matter what unit you use really...
Obvious how?
Good post. I think it is also worth mentioning that the relational model has a few intrinsic performance issues and gotcha's that require some uncomfortable and creative wrangling.

Specifically, safely handling concurrent writes to different rows that are related to each other requires careful consideration, and when you have a join with clauses on both tables it is not possible to have perfect efficiency without multi-table indexes.

I think that these are not intuitive, but solvable. The troubles arise when an application doesn't consider these issues until after it hits scale (which there is sufficient concurrency and enough millions of rows for these problems to rear their heads).
This is one of my all time favorite books. If you work with Postgres, an awesome follow up is this article series (much more advanced) http://www.interdb.jp/pg/
Right, but only for macOS. I imagine most Swift/SwiftUI development targets iOS, where web is really the only other target available.
> Although you make a fair point, there are more important things to be angry about, or alternatively we may have found life on venus so go and be not-angry about that.

Your casual dismissal of an entirely legitimate gripe which I do not share has enraged me quite unreasonably[0]. shakes fist

As for the (currently hypothetical) venusians, the existential proof — should it be forthcoming after (if?) probes are sent — may ultimately have a greater societal impact through expansion of the synbio toolbox rather than the implications for the Drake equation and Fermi paradox.

We definitely seem to be living in interesting times. I wonder... does that make it more likely that we are living in a simulation?

[0] In an entirely abstract sense, that is.