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>And as long as websites tend to modify, delete, move, or otherwise play games with urls and content <snip> then perhaps it should not be published on the internet at all.

Except an artist can deliberately decide to only make an image publicly available for a limited time, and therefore taken the image down from the website. Just like art moves from museum to museum, an artist can allow an image to be used within a pre-defined window. Just because you have the technical know how to extract an image that is not readibly downloadable via the UI does not mean you should.

Maybe one of the features of JXL would be a timebomb type of setting where after a certain date the data is no longer useable.

I sympathize with both sides of this argument. I get that info wants to be free blah blah, but I also understand that artists are in a difficult situation with the internet. I mean, an artist's work posted on the internet is not the cure for cancer, or basic information on algebra where the info should be evergreen. The group think is more of "I want what I want" vs consideration for what the artist's intentions are. If you enjoy an image so much that you're willing to go to the effort to get the image, why not acquire the image throuh legit method?
My read on the situation is:

1. Google wanted her gone, ranging from good reasons (she was too abrasive) to possibly suspect (in this instance she was being abrasive about a paper with ethical questions on Google's practices being stopped from publication with no explanation given)

2. Her ultimatum email can reasonably be construed as a resignation. It roughly said "Do this or I'm quiting", and Google responded with roughly "We're not doing that, thanks for telling us you quit, we accept".

3. This does not follow the typical resignation process used at Google, but that doesn't mean it isn't a valid resignation. It's unreasonable to assume a lawyer didn't look this over before they went ahead with it. The lack of Timnit suing Google for wrongful termination (from what I've seen) agrees with this.

4. Googlers were angry about this situation, because they disagreed with leadership's actions.

5. The leadership's response is legally bound to stick strictly to saying she resigned. This only inflamed #4 more.

6. They were ethically bound to not disclose all details of a situation involving an employee (where as Timnit could paint whatever story she wanted). Even if Timnit gave a full go-head, there were others involved and doxing is a real threat when names are exposed.

7. They were bound by business interests (at its root legal and ethical obligation to the shareholders) to not expose all of the details of the paper, the objection to the paper, and the processes involved.

So was Google in the right here? The situation obviously wasn't handled well. There were clear problems with Timnit, and she did give an ultimatum. However there are reasonable concerns related to "our ethics person gave an ultimatum and we called them on it" - but without the details it's hard to form a nuanced opinion.

Other takes welcome.
Generally speaking, at least for me, respect is earned, not demanded. If you have to demand it, it's not respect you are asking for, it's... fear(maybe?).
Sounds like what caused the mindshare death of Tumblr.

Pivoting away from the core reason you make money even if it's not the intended use case seems like a great way to cause the death of your company.
> I don’t even know how to pronounce “mercurial”

But you do know how to pronounce "Unnecessarily"?
I think the ETH network and the idea of smart contracts is extremely potent, but its primarily being utilized to furnish scams at the moment. The crypto bull market brings out all sorts of scam artists and actively stifles innovation.

Crypto would be a much healthier space if it wasn't tied so heavily to the Bitcoin halvening cycle. That causes asset prices to inflate every few years, and every big run up attracts awful people. Projects that come up in the bear market are always so much more interesting.
Certifications can act as filter when competing with other candidates. Candidates with certification will have edge during initial or first round. However it is not the deciding factor while making hiring decision.

If you want to learn new stack then please take the certification and get acquainted. Real world experience cannot replace the certification.

AWS has more popularity and acceptability. There are so much of free and paid tutorials online and one pass with relatively minimal effort.

If you are targeting to work in Enterprise sector, I would recommend to take Azure Cloud certification. Azure certs are gaining lot more traction.

Taking a Niche or Specialty certs like (AWS ML, AWS Security) will have lot more weightage during the interview process. The specialty certs are difficult to crack and need some real experience.

Here is my journey of taking AWS Solutions Architect - Associate certificate.

https://www.rasikjain.com/posts/tips-and-resources-passing-c...

Good luck.
How is stopping these days? I seem to remember there were about 79 reasons why Windows might not shutdown.
Nuts' foley artist Almut Schwacke loves the art of manual sound design
> Time and time again "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" can work until one enemy is vanquished.

That is partly true, but in this case the patent troll is not vanquished and so doesn't apply.

Often competition is not that cutthroat. It's not usually a zero sum game. There are definitely outcomes where your competitors even add net value by legitimizing the market, educating potential customers, providing a source of ideas, etc. My general philosophy here is the world is big enough for all of us, I don't treat it as war, and don't seek to crush competitors - I seek to make my users and employees happy. That's it. Being competitor focused is an error, at least in a high margin business.

> In WW2 Stalin initially made a pact with Hitler while all the while knowing Hitler would violate it and invade anyway.

By accounts I've seen, Stalin was genuinely surprised and caught off guard by the invasion.

Not sure how this thread turned to Hitler so quickly. What's that internet law called?
> I'd expect that if Pinephone reached scale (and they hadn't found an alternative) they would just buy the Qualcomm chipsets directly and not have to "free" themselves from Quectel's "integration" that translates between QMI and AT commands (which are miserable) or whatever else Quectel has exposed an an API.

Not really. The USB modem was chosen as it provides isolation from the closed-source blobs that run on the modem. This way, the modem doesn't have access to the main memory. Pine Store Ltd (the commercial entity) being based in china, they certainly could have sourced a SoC integrating a 4G modem, but there's already a zillion devices like that, the idea was to build something compatible with FLOSS from the ground up.
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That's like saying I can crank out as many of my own alt coins as I want. So what? They're not "genuine" in the same way that my blockchain is not Bitcoin.
I think it’s great, but I’d like to see results from more participants in more places. Most of this research originates in Scandinavia, which doesn’t invalidate it at all in itself, but I do wonder if it’s randomized enough.

The results from this study were incredible though. Kind of makes you want to hop in the sauna!
magit (for emacs) is quite good. But I still only use it for browsing around mostly, or single-file commits. For serious work, I start with git status, and then git diff all the changes, and then group them and then commit then in groups, then pull --rebase then push HEAD:good_branch_name (by the time I've done all the above, I have a better chance at a good name than I do for the first commit). Then over to PR land, where we have "ff if possible and delete source branch."
I tend to default to `git pull --rebase`.
I'm wondering why there aren't more jobs for historians outside academia, I guess.
> it has historically never been prestigious

I would say the M1 is prestigious. It pushed tablets and notebooks forward.

You can also go back to 1977, the design of the Apple ][, and all the prestigious innovations (or bringing innovative ideas to the mass market) since then.
I get that it's a symbol for tech workers, but to me, classifying yourself as a worker is already giving in to a capitalist-centric zero-sum view of the world, and to me, Tech is bigger than that and better than that small pitted battle. Computing is the first gateway to surpassing & exceeding the material condition, the first place where we can create something very small that can set our minds immensely free.

A little optional background story: the moment I saw a Mac performa turn on at a friends house, my first encounter with a GUI, it was an instant Eureka click moment for me: "this screen could show anything". I was a little kid and figuring out ways to buy more Legos drove a decent part of my motivational loop. Computers immediately appealed to me as something I could work on forever, as a kit of infinite legos. The whispers of "this screen could show anything" became "i could make this screen show anything, do anything". Computers represented a post-physical creation, something unlike physical matter: reprogrammable, malleable, flexible, infinitely recombineable.

Tech Work is something I do. It's probably good for tech workers to have some better solidarity, to try to advance their lot. But setting out sights so low feels like a waste. Singing songs of computing to be, of ever better bicycles for the mind, of systems that augment us better, where we co-develop ever richening agency & ever better perches into the information-architectures we travel across... that is more akin to the core spirit of tech to me, that is where I want solidary, and symbols. A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace[1] for all it's vision & grandiosity talks mostly about the freedom-froms, about how this realm is not dogged by conventional powers, is a place that can always be settings itself free, be ever emerging, but it's still in many ways as reactionary & old-reality-focused as this idea of Tech Workers Union.

So, I say, let there also be a Tech Dreamers Union too. Let those who wish to better explore & settle the frontier have their symbols of hope & progress too.

[1] https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
I'm in such a similar position! Contemplating exhausting the existing profits and/or adding some of my own funds to ramp up marketing for growth (also so I can concentrate on the tech side which I'm good at, and where there is still great market opportunity from unsupported platforms)
Wait, you're seriously claiming that a SV corporation (where, as I understand it, most people have 2 weeks of notice) can't fire a person sooner than in a year and a half?

Even to my socialist EU mind this sounds untrue and pretty crazy.
Well, one thing it's definitely very effective at is perpetuating itself to the exclusion of any kind of more thoughtful or complex activism. This is probably a problem.
> Doing it remotely is a bit harder, but it’s possible if you’re especially power hungry.

The entire problem is that the set of people that are good at the online game is not the same as the physical game, thus the people that already got the power by playing the physical one will do anything to stop changing the rules.
Again the same:

The purposes of startups and existing companies who want to find investors are not necessarily the same purposes as of those who just want to put money aside for saving.

They surely may benefit from cheap inflated dollars.

But that does not mean savers benefit.

Like with software, one person's feature is another person's bug. Bitcoin users consider inflation as a bug, so that's why they use it.
> the best laptop ever made

I agree!
> Worse, the production of one animal protein requires 7 to 10 plant proteins. The argument is a strictly accounting one. Even if plant suffering were of the same intensity as animal suffering, omnivores would produce seven to ten times more suffering than plant lovers alone.

So, seven proteins make seven ... sufferings? Proteins are a measure of suffering?
The thing that i don't understand is how can people that live in the USA accumulate so much debt?

As a 24yo European I never had more than 5k € of debt at any point in my life.
Ponzi's themselves are not illegal, but a descriptive term. I think what makes a ponzi scheme illegal is the existence of fraud, or lying about where the returns come from, not necessarily where the returns come from.
Must be exhausting to be that cynical.
Things take as long as they take. Certainly, they will take longer if a “non technical manager” is cracking the whip on the team.

Hire good people, managers included. Keep trust high. Keep motivation high and keep autonomy high and I assure you software will get produced at a high quality.

Software development is a high leverage creative field. You want to maximize for developer flow, creativity and comfort.
It's literally the text from the page you linked

"A mosaic image is formed from a database of source images. More particularly, the source images are analyzed, selected and organized to produce the mosaic image. A target image is divided into tile regions, each of which is compared with individual source image portions to determine the best available matching source image by computing red, green and blue channel root-mean square error. The mosaic image is formed by positioning the respective best-matching source images at the respective tile regions."
Would be interesting how much worse it is if you upgrade in-place. Or is that what this test did?

Overlaying SPECTRE etc. mitigations could also provide some insight.
Yes. The bigger picture is a gradient towards ubiquitous rent-seeking. Imagine all of your essential possessions being leased and unownable. Water, oxygen, food, clothing, transportation, housing, and even organs and implants being leased from monopoly conglomerates who could literally end your life whenever they choose. They already have cameras and microphones installed in millions of homes.

Also, on all of those possessions and services, what happens when the API goes down, they discontinue support, they get hacked, or they decide to remotely brick what you have?
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>the difference between laptop mic or bluetooth mic and a good microphone is enormous

Yes but for most of us for most purposes, you can probably spend $50-$100 and you're pretty much there. Something like that Shure is almost certainly fine. I have a Blue Snowball and a Behringer XM1800S that I use for different purposes. (Not for different sound quality but the Behringer is plugged into a mixer for podcasting.)
It's not uncommon, it's happened to me twice.

Basically an NPE files a lot of lawsuits at once, legal companies are monitoring the lawsuits and will proactively reach out to potential customers.

In my case the firms that reached out were mostly tier one national law firms and they were very familiar with the NPE. And like the OP I was unaware of the lawsuit because they served our corporate agent in Delaware. So it was quite useful.
Sure, if that is the case and you cannot work anywhere else where the ratio is somewhat different then yes, you have an issue. But it feels like, and I see this a lot more on HN than elsewhere, that people want to hold on to the location and lifestyle they dreamt of (for some reason) while they could have a far less stressed out and comfortable life somewhere else. Things in life are not always perfect and if you can make 100k in Irvine or 80k somewhere where this housing problem is not a thing, why not move? Somewhere there is a misplaced entitlement is there not? Why should you be able to live there if the situation at hand tells you you cannot afford it? The housing issue needs to be fixed, but until it is, maybe you cannot live there. That is not the end of the world. And the article (and reality around me) does give me the impression that not only live people in houses they cannot afford but also have a life style to match. We are in sort of a bubble for a long time now already, but what do you reckon happens when the next crisis hits and all these people lose their jobs basically over night?
So is everything, as long as everyone accepts it it's good?
My biggest gripe is trying to redefine/explain a slogan after it goes viral. Far too much political energy was spent explaining why "all lives matter" misses the point, and how "defund the police" actually (to some people) means "reallocate police resources"
At this point the term is thrown around so loosely as to be meaningless
Clearly the answer to this issue in the office is to obfuscate by regularly going to the bathroom for 45 minutes to sit on your phone.
You'll run out of energy to power the laser.

Even if you could somehow recycle energy forever, more and more of your initial energy supply will be locked up in the laser beam. By e=mc², building an always-growing laser beam is equivalent to building an always-growing tape. Even if it's more efficient by a very big constant factor, that's still a constant factor.

You would need a magic box that supplies watts out of nowhere to keep this scheme working. But if you had one of those, it might be easier to just convert some of the output into matter to feed a very slow tape-building machine.
It's a handful of commands, very well documented with tons of SO questions that is one search away if you can figure it out yourself.

It's something I use all day, every day. I'd say it's worthwhile to learn if your daily job involves working under source control
Note that AVIF is not just AV1 video keyframes. The entire compliment of AV1 video coding tools (including inter prediction with motion vectors) are available. This includes spatial and temporal scaling.

Note this means that animated images on the web (like GIF) are significantly smaller with AVIF than JPEG-XL which has no inter prediction.
There is probably a more advanced version of ransomware they can enable. The other big use case envisioned when they were conceived was automated payouts on distributed assassination markets, where several news articles about an assassination could trigger a payout.
> Also the folklore, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".

No, that's not what the precautionary principle says. The precautionary principle says that you should not take actions that could have negative consequences, even if you're not sure those negative consequences will happen.

Prevention is an action. If prevention has no possible negative consequences, then the precautionary principle is irrelevant to it. If prevention does have possible negative consequences (and most "prevention" actions do), then the precautionary principle says you should not do it.

In other words, the precautionary principle is not the same as risk-benefit analysis, which weighs the risks and benefits of various possible choices, in order to make the choice that has the best risk-benefit balance all things considered.

The proverb you cite, however, is about risk-benefit analysis: it is basically telling you that, if you do such an analysis, you will find that the risk-benefit tradeoff of prevention (doing something in advance to prevent a bad thing from happening, and paying the costs of prevention up front) is very often much better than the risk-benefit tradeoff of cure (waiting for the bad thing to happen and then paying the costs of fixing it if it does happen).

Btw, this means that the article, to the extent it talks about weighing risks vs. benefits of various choices (which is quite a bit), is not about the precautionary principle, despite its title.
Clubhouse accidentally leaked its own private messaging function
It's also a scheme in which early investors are paid by later investors, not by any form of value creation.

The missing part is just the central administrator.

A actual ponzi scheme could be called "classical ponzi scheme"
Yes, agree. I can list a lot of simple things like that
The creator of doge cashed out of it years ago to buy a Honda Civic. So clearly it is not a Ponzi scheme.

Having long term capital gains is not a Ponzi scheme in itself.

Are there other issues like pump and dumps? there might. But that is different to a Ponzi scheme.

A general piece of advice.... Just ignore everyone trying to get you to "yolo" or "hodl". If you buy or hold and someone else sells, they win at your expense.
No, the option GP is referring to is the option for the company to decide everyone is working at the office, not for it to be optional for the employees.
The article literally starts with a story about how “meme activism” (aka slogans) was effective.
None of that is a consequence of fiat currency; it's mostly a consequence of under-regulated capitalism in an era of labor supply exceeding demand.

England was backing the pound with gold in the era when Charles Dickens wrote of Ebenezer Scrooge underpaying Jacob Marley.
A descriptive term for a type of fraud.
For more about the egregious ways in which the NCAA treats student-athletes, this is a great book:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LFZ8SF8/
> The fact that none of the top 3 cryptocurrencies are inflationary tells you everything you need to know about the motivations of the early adopters.

The fact that they think their crypto is more important than democratic government sovereignty tells you the rest. It's the moral equivalent of "I got mine, screw you".

Why should the crypto whales be in charge? Who elected them? What good do they do for the rest of us?

Crypto doesn't pave the roads, feed the poor, or invest in university science R&D. Instead it wastes energy, causes GPU shortages, peddles away the brains of brilliant engineers on useless tech, and creates incentives for more ransomware.

These folks are hoarding digital Beanie Babies and touting it as the next coming Messiah. What they're really thinking is how rich they'll be if we all fall for the same trap.

Bitcoin sucks.

edit: to respond to a followup comment:

> The fact the parent post has already been modded down is what pisses me off about the crypto currency world

The thing that gets me is that two downvotes tripped HN's anti-flame/anti-spam filter, and now I can't comment anymore. Whatever. I'm not convincing anybody with strong convictions. My arguments are valid (and not unique to me), and I hope they spread to the broader public.
No way on the best name ever for a banker:) during LIBOR fix scandal the emails between banking execs Mr Diamond and Rich Ricci surfaced :)
Just like the Etherum guys reverted a "legal" hack, we should punish people for "legally" dodging taxes.
Has there been any data to show that financial literacy education improves results? My understanding was that starting with capital is much more important to financial success than coursework.
> The nexus of all wellness comes from the earth.

We’re doing similar with our yard, in that we’re working towards a healthier, more robust soil that supports more native flora and fauna. To start with, we mow less so the various flowers can bloom (pulling ox-eye daisies, leaving dandelion and cat’s ear and clover for now), and in some parts we stopped mowing to see what comes up. We’ll do some test-plots with cardboard or burning or weeding by hand, and maybe paint on cut stems of tenacious plants some glyphosate. It’ll be a rest-of-life and maybe generational project.

If an introduced plant is not aggressive (daisies are aggressive, for one) it’s low-priority. Ideally the plants that have been in this region for a long time will take over with just enough help.

The public library has been really helpful with reference material.
A policy wholly informed by boomers‘ stereotypes of younger generations being too stupid or hedonistic to achieve the sort of financial freedoms they got during the post-WW2 boom years.

Also sacrificing the idea of a „liberal“ education that seeks to enlighten and build character on the altar of capitalism and pragmatism.