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>> Conformity is not a virtue,

G-d forbid! Conformity is the worst thing ever. I am probably more in favor of that view that anyone else. My appreciation for weird people is extremely high.

I am approaching this from a different angle - from the individual's point of view. As an individual, you "should" want to be as capable and versatile as possible. The version of you which is capable of enjoying socialization with your coworkers is strictly more flexible that the version of you that fears it. It doesn't take away your option to go home and do introverted activity when you want to.

I have infinite examples of this in my life. Just a quick one - I grew up extremely introverted and shielded from human interaction, spent much of my (especially) highschool and college years behind the computer. This was very helpful to me developing great technical and developer skills.

Fast forward many years, I had the opportunity to go to business school. One of the most painful parts of b-school for me initially was the happy hour. I didn't know how to small talk or just hang out and "be." It was rough and I hated it. But over the course of the years, I got used to it, relaxed about it, and found myself enjoying it. It's one of the things that enabled me over time to move to product management - the realization that I went from someone ill at ease speaking with new people to someone who doesn't think twice about it.

Did I "conform" or lose a part of myself? No, I am currently hiding out on the balcony learning React and playing with Serverless while my wife is hanging out with the baby. I am choosing right now to spend my time not much different than how I spent it in high school, and I am loving that. The point is though if I had a social family or work obligation to go to in the evening, I wouldn't lose my shit about it anymore - I'd get dressed, go, enjoy it, and possibly get the networking/wife brownie points out of the experience. It's a strictly better way to be than dreading/avoiding it.

PS: thank you for your comment, it made me reflect on what I am trying to convey and, hopefully, convey it more clearly in this response.
I don't quite understand why, but much of the tech industry seems to be sleeping on Cloud Spanner. Google quietly completely revolutionized managed+consistent+available+scalable RDBMS and very few people seem to have caught on yet. Maybe it's too much of a threat to job security?
Other than storage, no peripherals care about USB 4. We can't get away from USB-A because all of the devices that MATTER use it and its variations. Even today no one that I've seen makes a USB-C to USB-Micro (or USB-Mini - yes, I still have multiple products that use that) cable. I have no interest in having to chain multiple adaptors off all my computers for everything I do. Keyboards, mice, printers, cameras, microphones, audio adapters, gaming controllers, smartwatches, sensors, Arduino boards -- none of these things need any more speed or any more power. They don't want a new connector and they don't want to pay royalty fees for use of a new connector. The only things that might benefit from USB 4 are monitors (and how often to people replace monitors anyway? I ran my U2410s for a decade and only replaced them because I wanted a higher refresh rate) and storage devices (and to be honest I don't use external storage that often since online storage is so simple these days).
NASA probably could be as nimble as SpaceX if they didn’t have to rely on Congress, whose goal is not to build a successful rocket, but to spread the money funnel across the States. Imagine if SpaceX’s board suddenly said “the company’s goal is now not to get to Mars, but to employ as many people and contractors as possible in all 50 states!” You’d basically get NASA.
The nice thing about my 2015 Macbook Pro is that it's useful without any accessories. I can just throw it in a bag and walk out the door.

It's got enough battery life that I usually don't need to bring a charger. It has all the ports that I ever need. I can hook it up to a projector with the built in HDMI port, I can put in the SD card from my camera, or I can quickly copy files from someones thumb drive. I don't need to think about bringing the right kind of cables for what I'm planning to do.

Sure, the new Macs are a lot faster, but every Mac released after 2015 would be a downgrade for me.
This is such an unlikely event. Anyone with any knowledge of the cloud space would declare this nigh impossible.
> Spending $500 of time to save 10 bucks isn't frugality, it's idiocy.

I could also argue my point about not being frugal doesn't mean "spend irrationally," but I think we're just arguing semantics in no true scotsman fashion.
Except in practice, you get the worst of both worlds: a proprietary charger that looks like a USB-C. And even if it is proprietary, the Magsafe and similar ports are miles ahead of any USB-C charger in preventing tripping and IO port damage from dogs, children, and clumsy adults walking over the charger (granted, USB-C is a huge improvement over traditional round DC ports)
I said “on occasion,” not time after time.

I think purging some of the lower quality services from a catalog of over 175 (AWS) services would be a net positive, because orgs wouldnt come along and build on top of sore ice that may not be as extensible as you need it two quarters from now.
iPad OS is a real OS, not every real OS has to be an UNIX clone with a CLI.
You have to (well, I guess if it isn't your job you don't have to but it's polite) help people set up anything. Doesn't mean it isn't easy. Helped my mum set up Zoom (so she could attend virtual church apparently), is Zoom not easy?

Two (three?) jobs back I had to set a bunch of people up on one time passcodes. Those seem pretty easy right? Still had to go there in person and show them.
Tech workers can't leave SF fast enough – “You start to feel stupid.”
You’re doing it wrong. You don’t need all of those cables. Get one that works with all of them.

You also only need one high watt brick not lots of different rated ones.
The alleged reason was "using the word Nazi on Slack", in the context of "“stay safe homies, Nazis are about.”" in relation to the events of the 6th and afterwards.
I don't know. I'm not comfortable giving any software access to the fingerprint sensor (I've also taped it off), and definitely not as means of authentication.
"We did something wrong which we don't want to talk about, and as part of an agreement to save ourselves from a lawsuit we are now apologising publicly for that bad thing we did and we promise not to do that bad thing again"
It all depends on what you consider 'science'. I choose to believe that science is anything I want it to be, therefore any publication can be scientific. Playbook and Penthouse are the best scientific publications in the field of human sexuality. Done.
PBR shaders are not trivial. It's incredible to me that they are readily available in all the shader languages, for free. Your common gamer thinks that the game engine is responsible for the quality of graphics in a game. This is hugely untrue. The quality is largely down to how well the art assets have been authored to take advantage of PBR. And that tech is, for all practical purposes, free (in both senses of the word).

My only gripe with modern day graphics documentation is the huge gap in any guidance on building a well-performing rendering pipeline. There are hundreds of tutorial series that get you as far as rendering a single, lit, textured, normal mapped model. But managing multiple models, multiple lights, different types of materials, takes a very different design for resource management and is basically ignored.

The current situation is certainly better than it was 20, even 10, years ago. But that last, missing piece is pretty vital.
TL;DR from the Author Lyn Alden

> TLDR; Ethereum could indeed do very well over the next year in terms of price, but as long as it's transforming its base layer, it remains a speculation in alpha development, rather than a finished/stable product.

https://twitter.com/lynaldencontact/status/13508211296367370...
> gouging workers and consumers

Nice passion piece, looking to stir up some emotions with willful ignorance, and a prominent donation link. How are consumers being gouged? They are arguably benefitting the most. Just because companies benefit from a law, doesn't make it evil.

You can argue that after expenses, most Uber drivers make less than minimum wage (depending on the political slant of the researchers), but then if these exploited workers are not stupid (which I hope the author is not arguing), why don't they get a minimum wage job?

Because A. those jobs don't exist and/or B. they prefer to work ride-share. The true minimum wage is zero. And virtually ever ride-share I've taken from my local airport over the last three years has been in a Prius, invalidating the cited study. The full-time drivers aren't stupid and helpless as the author would have you believe.

There are plenty of ills with our economic system and plenty of ways to address wealth inequality. As most people who understand economics better than the author will tell you, the minimum wage is not one of them. Better alternatives to be talking about: UBI, more graduated tax brackets, getting rid of things like CA Proposition 13 (property tax lock-ins), improving zoning, etc.
I can't believe I'm suggesting this, but maybe trade it through cryptocurrency. Pay a few bucks to create an account. It might get expensive to start a server and have others agree to federate with you though.

Could also just use regular money.
Liked "Simple Groups and painless multimedia was what gave WhatsApp the edge in the early days"

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^ That's and ultra low res photo sharing what you get when you group SMS/MMS with folks in the Apple ecosystem. You don't get it in WhatsApp, etc.
I mean no way of knowing, but I believe so too. Screenshots here: https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1350159432282357760

Other sources: https://gizmodo.com/github-fired-a-jewish-employee-for-warni... https://boingboing.net/2021/01/12/github-fired-a-jewish-empl... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9143169/GitHub-fire...
You miss the point.

They could as easily have been seven geese, seven pebbles, seven lakes, seven boats, seven eyes, seven villages, seven brothers... But they are almost everywhere, instead, seven sisters, across ten thousand miles and fifty millennia.

If the story is not that old, how did they so frequently turn out sisters? Morphic resonance? Without, you are left with nothing but a mystery. Citing a common tradition draws on the least far-fetched explanation, as science demands.

The same applies to stenciled handprints on cave walls from Spain to Sulawesi, and as many millennia.
Actually, asking for the credibility of a journal is the wrong question. The real one is about whether an article is credible. But the answer to that is disappointingly complicated.

Articles are peer-reviewed for their readability (for peers, not laymen), consistency (e.g. if there is a mathematical proof in there, the reviewer might check it if possible. if there is an experimental technique, the reviewer might check if that technique could produce the results claimed) and reproducability (is the experiment described in sufficient detail? does the software provided produce the expected results? do the provided numerical results fit the claims?). All those checks are what the reviewer can do in a few hours, days at most. That is what peer-review means.

All the things to check beyond those are left as an exercise to other scientists after publication. Reproduction is a big task, usually almost as big as the original paper. Proofs are often extremely hard to check, so a few days by any old reviewer won't cut it. So if you want to know if the results in a paper are true, watch literature for the following years and look at publications citing that paper and (dis-)agreeing with its results. Same for (sometimes) letters to the editor, retractions and "everybody-knows"-rumours.

More reputable journals tend to attract better-quality papers (according to the peer-review criteria outlined above). That tends to correlate with a higher probability of the paper being true. But it is not a very strong correlation, there is utter nonsense, groupthink and polished turds even in very high profile journals.
What would you do if you provide shelter during a downpour to some people? And instead of thanking and trying to integrate (and understand) the way you live in your home, these people start thinking that they own your home and YOU should be the one who should be tolerant of their actions.

You even cook food for them and provide them a safe space. They insist on getting particular cuisines and criticize you for being closed-minded if you don't know how to cook individual dishes. They find books in your home which do not align with their thought bubble, so they start tearing them (or burning them). They find rooms which they find do not follow the "correct" architectural patterns, so they proceed to "renovate" your rooms and windows. They see your taste in art absurd, so they take markers and start scribbling over the paintings on the wall. They start forcing you and your relatives to do a particular set of actions because, according to them, that's the "right" way to live.

What/When will be your tipping point? (if any).

Contrast this to a situation where those people realise the rules of the house, and just change themselves to integrate and live peacefully or realise the failure in doing so and just leave.

Will you think that the rules in living my house are somehow "superior" ? Of course no. These are just some set of rules and ideals which makes the most sense for you. There is no value proposition on the superiority of one rule being better than another. Just whatever works for YOU.
> You're better off learning from textbooks so you get info that has been verified, digested and distilled and represent consensus.

A very large body of consensus ended up in textbooks that had either never been attempted te be reproduced, or was attempted, much later, and couldn't be reproduced, yet continued to remain in textbooks.

The truth of the matter is that most scientific research will never see an attempt at replication, though the replication crisis has no doubt influenced this culture, but before it, as little as 0.16% of peer reviewed results were attempts at replication, and most were unsuccessful. — of course, the successful ones were not as easily published, which is probably why no one attempted it.
Analysing Algorithms: Worst Case Running Time
As a very rough first filter, for papers in the area of natural sciences, check if the paper is indexed in Pubmed (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/). Every legimitate peer-reviewed journal in that area is indexed there, anything that is not indexed is almost certainly a dubious journal. But you can't use this the other way around, Pubmed still contains some journals that publish questionable stuff.

Beyond that you can look a bit at the impact factor of the journal, you can generally find it by just googling for the name of the journal + "impact factor" or on the Wikipedia page of the journal. But it is kinda hard to interpret this on its own, and it does not translate directly into credibility. A high impact factor shows that articles in that journal are cited very often, and you can assume that journals with high impact factors generally have a reasonable peer review system. But that doesn't say much for a single paper, reputable journals can easily fail in individual cases.

The Pubmed check generally filters out most of the journals that would just publish anything without real review, so it's the most useful filter in my opinion. I would not try to gauge more meaning than that from the journal and focus on the individual article.
> I wish all companies would move to something centralized solution where communication is guaranteed to only come from those within the same service. This way Sharon from HR won't open every link, download every crypto/ransomeware.

It's totally possible to set up 'email' for intranet purposes only, using your own DNS setup, standards compliant smtpd and imap daemons over TLS. The persons using it just need to know it can't send or receive emails from outside of the organization.
Fair warning: the article agrees with me because I wrote it. :)
Perhaps you should reread my comments... This is exactly the claim that I'm describing. The claim rests on the premise that these companies are abusing their monopolistic or oligopolistic position over something posited as critical to society. Regulating viewpoint-based discrimination is one proposed remedy (another is removing "monopolies" by eg requiring federation). Nobody in this entire thread is saying that these platforms are legally in the wrong for inconsistently-applied viewpoint-based deplatforming. If they want to ban people for claiming the election was rigged or supporting single-payer healthcare or liking avocados, there's no legal issue at all. The topic under discussion is whether there should be, resting on the premise that these platforms are critical enough to public discourse that something like the utility model is appropriate.

Note that I'm speaking in the voice of those making this claim, not personally espousing the claim. My inclination is away from kneejerk regulation, and I don't think distribution on the Internet fits neatly into the existing categories we use to reason about market power. I'm just shocked at the degree to which so many HNers are gleefully misrepresenting the issue, presumably so they don't have to engage in any critical thinking.
I Hate Stealth Games (2014)
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Parler's CEO was interviewed by Megyn Kelly on her podcast a couple days ago, and if what he said is true, AWS is not being truthful. Of course we don't know who is telling the truth, but Parler is asking to release all the correspondence between the two companies, and AWS will not consent. It could very well just be standard legal best practice (since there is a lawsuit in progress), but it does give Parler some credibility. As soon as there is evidence I will re-evaluate where I can stand (not that it matters of course, but to me personally it does :-)

I don't think this adds to Parler's credibility. I'd say it's consistent with their self-portrayal as the innocent victim of a liberal conspiracy.

Parler's moderators were fine with content like https://i.redd.it/om90nwadqca61.png - it's not surprising that Apple, AWS, and Google found it unacceptable.

Making these emails public (even in a censored form) could expose AWS employees to doxxing, harassment, and worse. An email system administrator, for example, could use the text of an emails to identify which AWS employees corresponded with Parler.
Be that as it may, spinning the story as involving the cops "holding her children at gunpoint" is a wild distortion and indicates the low quality of discussion that this issue has generated.
Why Tailwind Isn't for Me
You keep saying MITM, which is an attack type, as if any kind of traffic inspection is bad. There is no third party in this sort of proxy: the company is communicating with the internet. The fact that a company proxy is inspecting traffic from a company computer does not make the company proxy a third party because both resources belong to the company and should be used for legitimate purposes. Is a reverse proxy doing a MITM attack on a web server if it offloads encryption and authentication for it? No, because both resources are owned by the same party.

TLS inspection and DLP are not euphemisms, they're valid names for a security practice. They're not even the same thing--you couldn't replace both mentions with "MITM" and expect another to know what you're talking about.
I can't see how this is a problem on its own.

If they were eschewing some better option than "don't trust the server", that would be a problem, but is there a better option?
Waterfall got us to the moon. Agile will get us to Mars...
Books that teach you how to discover novel ideas
Basically hybrid will win, as on the Windows side, Microsoft is winning over Android by having laptops with detachable keyboards, turning most non gamer Windows laptops into Surface Pro clones.
No, that would be tweakers, alligators, and hurricanes.
> built-in card reader dies and part of my laptop is dead weight until I send the whole thing in for service.

Is this a frequent occurrence for you? I have a 6 year old MBP and all of the ports still work great. I would naively guess that P(port breaking) << P(dongle breaking).
> I don’t have any values that would affect the cereal I buy.

* Would you buy cereal made by slaves?

* Would you not prefer cereal made by a small cooperative of people you know, over something made by BigCorp inc. ?

etc.
With zero features for a table optimized development framework stack most likely.
Thanks for the link! And yeah agreed.
Many bootstrapped startups go with the cloud provider that gives the them largest startup bonus, which can be up to $100k to use in 12 months (AFAIK).
Show HN: Toy LISP compiler in C# (LINQ) expression tree
I've worked with multiple organizations through their entire SOC2 process and interviewed security teams from a bunch of other SOC2'd companies and the impression I'm left with is that you can get 100% of SOC2 just doing obvious best practices. Part of the reason I wrote this is to encourage engineering teams to push back on SOC2 processes that demand them to do new weird things.

I have kind of a meh opinion about Vanta, for what it's worth.
> When you finally learn to master

s/When/If
Side-Channel Attack on the Google Titan Security Key [pdf]
>I’ve read of other famous people being given plenty of time (in FL)

I wouldn't call it an injustice that she wasn't granted some sort of special treatment that's normally reserved for "famous people".
I have tried it on a RPi3 and it is painfully slow. I would not recommend this to anyone.
In principle, I agree. Of course, I prefer the freer model, where I can install whatever software I want on my computing device.

I grew up with this possibility since I was 14 (first apple, later Linux and Windows). I'm still irritated by app stores today and I personally don't understand the appeal of a "walled garden".

This leads to the following value question, which I will illustrate with an example:
Should a company like Nestle be prevented from contracting with a municipality to pump and sell its spring water? Why would anyone want to regulate this? I am not forced to buy this water and support such business practices. No consumer is forced to do so.
And if the people in such a community have democratically decided that short-term profit is worth more to them than the long-term supply of groundwater, no one should be able to prevent this community from selling their water either.

And that's how I see Apple.Every company has the right to set the rules for their platform that they see fit. And every user has the right to go to the self-imposed prison that protects him from "evil software", pornography, fake news (and what else). Or not to enter this ecosystem.

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> Earlier this week, the company hosted an “empathy circle” to “build understanding with members of the team on things that affect us.” It did not go over well with employees.

Maybe they got fired for this terrible idea
The American context is easier to understand for most people. We're surrounded by American culture on English-speaking websites. The context of <other country> isn't as easy to understand for people that don't know <other country> well.
Photography – what you need to know
VS Code runs on remote hosts through SSH, containers, or WSL: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview

Kinda like a parallel universe swank/slime.
All Muslims are not terrorists

All Trump supporters are Nazis

Congratulations western progressives

Edit: intentionally provocative comment - broader intent is to expose this thinking, which is unfortunately not given serious criticism.