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> Companies are not liable for the alleged misconduct

It's not alleged, he published a written apology.

> I doubt what Noah does at parties (I have found no references to the problematic behavior happening at specifically work events)

These weren't random private parties, these were work & industry events. Yes companies do not want their employees to be sexually inappropriate with other employees, vendors and community members at their conference's and workshops.
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Bicycles for the minds are only useful for minds that have a good idea of where they're biking to!
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A few things:

- A data source for vector tiles; there's a lot of options: https://stadiamaps.com (my company), https://maptiler.com/ & https://jawg.io (other core contributing companies), among others.

- A style that matches. I'm not aware of an open source style that closely mirrors OSM's style using MapLibre GL Styles (also forked from Mapbox). OSM Bright is pretty close: https://github.com/mapbox/osm-bright / https://github.com/openmaptiles/osm-bright-gl-style.
The true "shortage" is really for developers with 3+ years experience who can "hit the ground running".

Yes. Corporate management wants instant gratification. Not sending people to training classes. World's smallest violin plays.
> Because I am making the point that even mentioning something as extreme as that still gets me lambasted with abuse. So if we can't even discuss that civilly, how on Earth are we meant to discuss more nuanced issues?

I'm not the person who setup a discussion by leading with a tactical argument. If you want an argument on substance, you should lead with a proposition that you have something of substance to give, not that you have tactics to offer because you don't trust real conversation.

There are very few cases of transgender elite sports. Leading with that discussion implies that you have very little to say on actual transgenderism, and it implies your taste in curation or how you choose to lead in a discussion.

> What do you have to say about the primary phenomena of clinical suffering? Its etiologies and its course in medical debate across the west? That is a discussion which hits squarely on "What is trans?"

I asked a question to invite display of expertise on the underlying primary subject -- actual transgenderism. The response is that medical suffering sucks.

So far this debate has never elevated past the Joe Rogan level of discourse. You can look at any other branching thread to see the intellectually inspiring quality of opening discussion with trans elite sports.
Apparently this has only been submitted a couple times in the past. Given the other discussion today on Ada I ended up looking at this document for the first time. It seemed appropriate to share today.
Disney should drop the Jedi line. That hero arc has been told (and then rehashed in the last trilogy).

You have a galaxy with a million planets. There is so much potential in Star Wars. Tell a story about a boy who leads a slave rebellion. Tell a story about an asteroid miner defending his business from organized criminals. Tell a story about an alien who brings peace to a divided planet.

There is so much potential in the universe. The Clone Wars did a decent job of exploring something different (from the Storm Troopers POV). I think Star Wars has a good future.
yea Dark Reader definitely supports per-site overrides, that was a critical feature when I was using it.
Maybe Dark Matter Is All Just a Big Mistake (2017)
Full text: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-255_g3bi.pdf
The thing that comes to mind with the phrase "witch hunt" is the Salem Witch Trials. Which absolutely did involve the courts.
You can get proficient to the level where it's the same additional mental overhead as regular typing, unless there's significant domain-specific jargon. It could be argued that the struggle in recording notes is what makes you learn, and typing them up is a hindrance in that sense.
My experience learning Nim is that it's more fiddly and less elegant than Python. The OOP syntax in particular could be streamlined a lot (the Nim by Example macro code demonstrates this). In addition to learning the basic syntax, there are a fair amount of features implemented as pragmas; there's some important things like {.base.} mixed into this sort of junk drawer of stuff. They often felt sort of like an afterthought to me.
> I'd like it if someone could convince me that these are not legitimate concerns.

Remember that you always have the option to not follow a treatment plan if you don’t feel like it’s the right thing for you. A recommendation from a physician isn’t an order from a judge that you must follow.

If the doctor you visit is good at their job, it should feel like a conversation about solving a problem. They should be able to offer a clear explanation on why they think their recommendation is the way to go and involve you in the decision-making process. Many people are reluctant to be medicated, so you probably won’t be the first patient they’ve seen just that day with that issue, and they’ll have some options for you in that regard too.

I used to have a concern about drug dependency so I feel like I might understand why you feel that way, but consider this: If you take a medication and it doesn’t improve anything, you’re not really dependent on it. If you take a medication and it makes things better, then things are better, which was the whole point of taking it in the first place!

Would it be better for your body to function well by itself? Of course. Would it feel better if we had a clearer understanding of psychiatric disorders and how to solve them precisely? Definitely, but medical science just isn’t there today, and at least there are some options that work for some people, even if we don’t understand why.
Yup. Having an education doesn't do anything (as in diplomas). Being educated does. The quality of the public schools matter a lot.

As for college... It was a differentiator, not an equalizer. When so many people have college degrees, they're just an expectation and all of a sudden you raised the bar, so people who don't have them are even more screwed.

The analogy I always like is MMORPG expansions/level cap raise. Every time the level cap raises, new players to the game take that much longer to catch up. The developers then need to add a bunch of "catch up" mechanics to artificially close the gap.
> This made sense in the days of dialup speeds, but not much anymore.[a]

I have Javascript disabled by default, and I notice a lot of websites (especially newspapers) initially have a blurry <img/>, and later replace it with the sharp image using JS. So there is clearly still a need for this feature, even if web developers don't know about it.
I think the no sideloading thing is reasonable, but I have a sincere question -

Are you willing to compromise on anything else in the equation so that the "other side" gets something?

How about significantly lower App Store fees? What do you think about allowing PWA's and alternative browser engines? What about game streaming?

If your "opposition" is willing to admit that your position is understandable, would you be willing to do the same?
This progressive delivery technique was also used here:
https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#2013_mills
But you are talking about legalization, not normalization.

At many companies, it is pretty normal for there to be alcohol, even at work related events. I doubt, even if marijuana were made legal, that you would see marijuana at work related events.

There is a big difference between legalization and normalization.

One way you can think of normalization is with regards to its status in a professional setting. If you mentioned around the water cooler that you went to a nail salon and had a pedicure, no one would care. If you mentioned that you went to legal sex worker, you would have an HR complaint filed against you. One is normalized, the other is not.

I don't think sex in general will ever really be "normalized". It will always involve taboos of some sort.
MapLibre GL Native supports server-side raster rendering via tileserver-gl or a custom server implementation (my company does this).

Desktop support should be possible with some extra work with Native, but I'm not certain, for instance, if the QT bindings are fully working yet.
You’re discounting scale though. Just like Microsoft destroyed competition and innovation with their monopoly (only possible with government backed IP laws), Gates eliminates competition for philanthropy and policy by force of his fortune. Gates is centralizing things, around himself.
Seen at least two companies with > 15 programmers who did CD before comprehensive test suites and CI.

It's... not pretty.
The idea could be related to having a generation of people in the US who are visibly worse off than their parents were at the same age, and are looking at stagnant wages, unaffordable housing/health care/education, and looming environmental threats.
I'd expect none because they require a lot of upkeep and someone has to pay for that. There are, however, a whole bunch of public courses which have cheap green fees without membership for people who just want to rock up and play.
Seems like a reasonable middle ground that doesn't support the author's premise, either.
I wouldn't be so fast to say there is nothing special about what we do. It may seem that way because we are in it day in and day out...but in the same way that I am fascinated by the work that others outside of my industry do(farmers, mechanics, small business operators)...they are fascinated and often dumbfounded by what I do(and I am no rocket scientist).
>Well, the Nintendo Wii has 88MB of memory and a 730MHz single core PowerPC 750CL cpu. And yet games like Super Mario Galaxy or Skyward Sword are quite impressive considering the limited hardware.

Max Payne ran on a PIII @1GHZ with 128 of RAM (not a bg step over 88MB considering W98SE could use about 32MB) and the graphics were on par to Mario Galaxy if not better.

>The Last of Us for the PS3 never fails to leave in awe, Naughty Dog did some serious black magic to get those results out of the hardware they were targeting.

It's really amazing how much can be done when talented developers target specific hardware.

Textures, textures, textures. Max Payne had amazing textures, so did most console games from Konami and such. Yet, a lot of UE1 based games had so blurry-ish and shitty textures they indeed look worse than a Game Cube game.

I am not talking about the texture size, but the quality of the artwork.
First clear view of a boiling cauldron where stars are born
What you could do is to enumerate powers of the federal government, and one of those powers would be to “to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States”, with the understanding among the authors of the document that “regulating commerce” means regulating trade and tariffs, so that nobody then can misinterpret it as giving the federal power to regulate anything they want by arguing it affects interstate commerce.
> chronically underfunding schools

In Washington State, for decades there was a big push to "fully fund" the schools. They finally got their way a couple years back, i.e. just about everything they wanted.

There has been zero improvement in results.

There has been no further mention of "fully funding" the schools in the press since, but the demands for more and more money for the schools have not abated at all.

Edit: the fully funding was in place in 2018

https://www.washingtonea.org/ourvoice/mccleary-school-fundin...
It reminds me of the ancient joke about how in Germany if you tell your neighbour you are an engineer he will introduce you to his daughter, in the UK he will ask you to fix his microwave.

Except these days it seems the whole of Europe undervalues software engineering.
Dissent from Thomas
Justice Clarence Thomas dissented, writing that students like the former cheerleader "who are active in extracurricular programs have a greater potential, by virtue of their participation, to harm those programs."
"For example, a profanity-laced screed delivered on social media or at the mall has a much different effect on a football program when done by a regular student than when done by the captain of the football team. So, too, here," Thomas wrote.
The OSM style is here: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto

There is an issue about converting it to vector: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/3...

Doesn't seem like there's any current vector versions of that style, but you could make one yourself using Maputnik or similar; you'd probably want to start with OpenMapTiles and maybe even one of the pre-existing styles for OMT like OSM bright.
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Not really, no, but an updated Sarbanes-Oxley that requires publicly traded companies to issue reporting at that level of granularity could be an interesting approach to economic reform.
that's your decision to make for yourself, and I respect that. I don't think any of us have any business making decisions about other people's sexual lives.
I'm always amazed by the arrogance of some coders.

Experience and competent does not mean perfect.
This is about prioritising issues. If your boat is sinking you do not discuss what to do about the slow drip at the back, you try to solve the massive hole at the front first.

If air travel only accounts for 2% of emissions then whatever we do will have a very small impact overall. So do we really need to bother at the moment or at all? It's not targeted because it makes a difference but because it's politically easier for a number of reasons. People, especially on HN, should really see through this theatre.

For example in France they tried (very badly) to add further taxes on car fuel and that ended in riots. So now they say that they will ban air travel when a train alternative exists. That will make no difference on anything but they can claim that they are doing something (that seems to target the rich more than the poor, so even better).
Costs. Facebook cannot replace a developer’s desk with auto-development station, but it definitely can do that to a toilet room. The only reason a toilet cleaner has a job is that they are cheap. If it was paid $300k/yr per floor, anyone at FB would automate floor mopping and sanitizer spraying in few weeks, if not rethink a toilet room completely.

(Which isn’t a bad idea given how much of ancient legacy shit we are still dragging in this area.)
> That is such a stupid argument, lottery is one of the worst way to distribute a scarce resource. It is better to split it up and pay everyone dividends rather than give a few the whole thing.

Not every resource is divisible or practically divisible (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_of_Solomon).

You're kind of going all over the place to dispute everyone's points. If Facebook were to pay its toilet cleaners far above the market rate for that job, a fair way to solve the problem of "who gets these jobs" in the face of a glut of qualified applicants is by using a lottery.

You're right there's all kinds of other things that may be better to do, but we were talking about this specific artificial scenario.
First time using a CDN improved our site [1] performance by a huge amount, thanks to BunnyCDN. Really easy to setup, great dashboard. The image optimizer for a flat rate works really really well. Only missing option is to rotate images, which I opened a feature request for with them.

You can see our CDN usage inspecting the URLs to the product images. Size attributes are added to the URL and Bunny automatically resizes and compresses the images on the fly.

[1] https://www.airsoftbazaar.nl
I think there are reams of people living in cities like SF, NYC, and DC that are retired and make do without a car. In fact, I would bet that the elderly live better lives on all metrics when they are able to live carless in a walkable neighborhood.

Cars probably do help them kill their dignity- at the expense of their grandchildren's quality of life.
What about Paraguay? It's been running on 100% renewable electricity since the late 1980s, and it has a larger population.

In fact you could say it is running on 300% renewable electricity, because it has large Hydro electric dam, exports around 70% of what it generates to Brazil and Argentina and only uses 30% itself.
I've struggled to understand the relationship between Mapbox, Mapbox Studio, Mapbox GL, OpenStreetMap, and other libraries like OpenLayers or Leaflet.

Could you please explain (in brief) the mapping "ecosystem" as it were, and where Maplibre fits into the picture?
A better way to ask for a one-time user's location with the Location Button
>Most school funding in the U.S. comes from local property tax. But if a district has a lot of poverty, then revenue from property tax is low

This is a common myth but it's not backed up by the numbers. Poverty is (mostly) concentrated in inner cities and those inner cities typically contain large office builds which pay lots of real estate taxes but send no kids to schools. If you look around different states the highest per pupil spending is by far in the cities. As an example, Atlanta public schools spends $15k per pupil while the surrounding suburban counties are 8-10k per pupil.
> that’s a complete ordering with unforced preferences, not a partial ordering.

Yes, it is weak ordering, not partial ordering.

> Equal preference and absence of preference are different.

Well, it may be understood as absence of preference, provided the absence of preference is transitive.
The point is we shouldn't be bolting legacy PC baggage to non PC platforms so Microsoft can effortlessly port Windows while enabling silent installs of malicious software. Instead we should be focusing on minimal, secure solutions such as coreboot or skiboot (https://open-power.github.io/skiboot/doc/index.html)
The first two demo videos are interesting examples of using StyleCLIP's global directions to guide an image toward a "smiling face" as noted in that paper with smooth interpolation: https://github.com/orpatashnik/StyleCLIP

I had ran a few chaotic experiments with StyleCLIP a few months ago which would work very well with smooth interpolation: https://minimaxir.com/2021/04/styleclip/
I tried this on Ubuntu. It hung when scanning /run. After I disabled the filesystem scan, it crashed when I ran it.
Seems out of question because companies are obsessed with minimizing risk. Instead, development crawls at snail pace because it takes way too long to integrate patches and too many developers get distracted with nitpicks. Or they just blindly approve, and PRs are just an extra timesink without any benefits. The developers hand off ownership at git push, everything after is out of control, bureaucracy , or entirely someone else’s job.
It would take someone designing the same style in the vector format. This [0] is the closest I've seen to a vector port of the default OSM style. Demo [1]

[0]: https://github.com/baremaps/openstreetmap-vecto

[1]: https://www.baremaps.com/assets/demo.html
Is it bad to not be seen as a professional and instead as an interchangeable cog? Yes.
Colleges and Universities were never meant to be a Job Training program, I never understood people who think of them that way. Corporations have somehow passed the buck for on the job training to colleges while simultaneously complaining that grads aren't ready for the job. If they want trained employees they should be training them or we need a completely separate system of credentialing "trained" workers, the College and University system was never meant for this.
I'm not sure it is unique. The problem with the PSX is the lack of a z buffer and affine texturing. Those certainly weren't unique limitations in the 90s.
That's fair and I'll look later.
Hubble telescope remains in safe mode as NASA tries to restart crashed computer
My current team has very few code reviews, and recently we discovered we can recover a fair amount of missing learning opportunities with weekly or every-two-weeks having an (optional) 1 hour knowledge sharing session.

It's sort of a cross between a lightning talk, a "greatest hits of last week" session, or a demo.

"Last month I worked on X, and I had to do this hacky workaround. Here's why, here's how, here's the result, here's what you need to know if you need to work in this code soon.

Questions? No? Bob, you're up next with your work on Z..."
56784 (calls) / 40 (days) = ~1422, round down to 1400 for 'easy math'

1400 / 24 (hours per day) = ~58 per hour (round up to 60)

60 / 60 (seconds) = 1 per minute so nope, he was hammering at it 24/7 (unless my maths is totally wrong which is always possible).
Norms changed over the time period in question greatly reducing the need for physical violence or immediate threat thereof to prosecute someone for rape or a rape adjacent crime.

Marital sexual assault was generally prosecuted under domestic violence laws (which themselves became broader and stricter over time) on an as-needed basis but the required fact pattern for prosecution in 1965 or so was a higher bar in general than the standard set by the laws by 1990 or so. Furthermore, plea bargains rose in popularity over the same time period and DV went from a non-issue misdemeanor to a serious problem on your record over the same time period so examining conviction stats for various crimes is difficult.
To supplant your point:

Detroit Public Schools per-pupil funding: $15,891

Average Michigan per-pupil funding: $13,457

https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/underfunded-detr...
Sure, but the parent linked a May 2021 study that shows pretty consistent satisfaction ratings across Android/iPhone.
Yes exactly, nailed it. Fortunately for me I’m not alone and a large number of people feel the same way. Collectively we have enough market power that FaceGoogle can’t ignore us, and have to bite the bullet and be on the App Store. That’s a privileged position for sure, but large swathes of iOS users are not hapless victims of Apple gatekeeping. We’re consciously in league with Apple on this.

Apple saved us not just from crappy phones, they didn’t just invent the modern smartphone and make this whole app industry happen, they also saved us from carriers owning phone platforms. If phones had stayed on their old trajectory, we’d be arguing about whether carriers should still be dictating which apps went on their networks and instead of Apple gate keeping it would be AT&T and such. I will be forever grateful to them for killing that future.

I do accept that this puts Apple in a powerful position that could be abused. In fact I think there is a case that some of their policies are over-reach. This is a legitimate area for scrutiny and maybe even legislation. However I think those areas are relatively marginal and legislation must be done in the interests of users, and the freedom maximalist position does not properly take into account the vital interest of many, quite possibly most users on iOS.
Even if the CEO owns 100% of the corporation, it's still a separate entity. That's one of the benefits of incorporating - when someone sues the corporation, they can go after its assets, but not the CEO's.

But that means the corporation gets treated like a separate person. And just like you can't represent your friend in court (unless you're a lawyer), you also can't represent your corporation.
That’s exactly how the USA was originally designed to work, and how it originally worked up until early-to-mid 20th century. It was only then when a bunch of power grabbing politicians, along with a bunch of complicit elements in the judicial apparatus, have twisted the US into completely different system that we now get to suffer from.
Metal support (coming soon) and MBTiles support (released AFAIK) are two things I know of, but I defer to the Releases page for specifics beyond that: https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-native/releases.