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Why are we only talking about relieving them of their wealth? Why is capital punishment off the table?
but does it? are these software engineers actually making loans?
Be good to yourself, this is the true antidepressant.
Aren't senior people just embarrassed to work for google at this point?
I don't care about the judges order

I'm more interested in these types of decisions generally

Whether it is some potential cure for cancer, or a cure for covid, what are the rules for getting an exception?

If people are about to die

And we need data

And they or their families are volunteering to give us the data

Then I say let them give us the gd data

I can imagine being near death at some point in the future

I would prob want the medical folks and my family to make the hail Mary pass

All of that is very different from Rogan and fox telling everyone to inject the horse paste version into their veins

Thats obviously insane and harmful and deadly
Or, as Sowell would describe it, the unconstrained vs. constrained visions: https://www.nku.edu/~gartigw/teaching_files/Weaver%20ch%2012...
Having worked at both I can say this with a high degree of certainty from my experience.

Even if you have a dedicated Sr at a BigTechCo it is just a much bigger boat to move. Also I have seen people promo at FAANG for projects that would be considered trivial/part of the job at a smaller shop. Command line utilities, improved CI pipeline etc.
I love the art style. I think it works especially well for dystopias
Many serious electronic crimes can be described as copying bits.

Like illegally exfiltrating and distributing PII, credit card info, etc.
And they are establishing a pattern with this and previously JEDI. At some point, someone has to call their nonsense and blacklist them from gov't procurement for their bad-faith approach.
There is a criticism about Gibson that generally runs: his prose is nicely developed, but there’s little future in his writing as he spends so much effort mining extant niche products/ideas. He might live on the front edge of now - but it’s still now.
Going to check these out! Thanks!
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The display seems to be fixed as well, with the new OLED XPSes having a wider gamut than the Macs.

For what it's worth, it's the touchpads and displays that keep pushing me away from the 13-inch MBP. I much prefer the feel of most PC precision touchpads to the grainy texture of the MBP touchpad. As for the display, I like to set high-DPI displays to 2x scaling, since it tends to look and work better, but the 13-inch MBP's 2560x1600px only has 1280x800dp of real estate at 2x scaling, which feels very cramped in comparison to the 1920x1080dp of real estate on my XPS 13's 3840x2160px display.
Put "Good Enough" next to your first name and be proud.

If you find yourself perfectionist at work, maybe it is just a matter of caring less about work, just enough [1]. It will probably help you meet the deadlines, push less time pressure on everything and everybody and overall get you better outcomes. If something needs to be improved it will. Or it won't, but maybe it's not your problem anymore then.
Worse is sometimes better.
Sure, keep a high enough standard, but I don't need to tell you that if you are perfectionist, right? Maybe ask people around about that in case of doubt.

In your hobbies, if you find yourself wanting to achieve results you don't reach often enough: first, they are hobbies. You already win if you enjoyed doing something. Then, lower the bar. Take all the time you want on part that interest you. Over-engineer as hell those things if you take pleasure in doing it. But otherwise make it work even if it's worse.

If you program in your hobbies, just write this ugly thing that works. Copy paste that spaghetti code and make it work. It's misaligned but usable? Don't care. Put FIXMEs and move on. You'll have all the time to refine later if it's important to you, when you won't have the burden to make it work anymore and you'll have achieved something, reached a motivating and gratifying step where something works even partly.

Save yourself from cognitive load caused by the need to solve everything at the same time, perfectly and that will stand in your way.

It's less efficient, but it's more efficient.

[1] I wrote about this two days ago in another context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28365945
Along these lines, I find it to be really important to have things that I do not do well, and that I do not optimize.

I tend to research and over-optimize every activity I do. Part of that is the fun I find in a hobby - I like to learn how to do it at the absolute best level (or how the professionals do it). But in doing so, I've found that I need to be OK not being the best, and when I don't hit that mark, improve my appreciation for those who can (and justify paying the professionals to do it).

An example is BBQ. I did tons of research, and there are setups that run $1,000s. One can spend days cooking, and months to procure and dry wood. It can range from fully manual to fully automated. I enjoy making good BBQ, but have accepted the fact that enjoying the research and the process is as important as the end product, and if the end product is great, then it's a bonus. Usually I can be consistently good, if not a little dry.

Same thing with cooking. I am not often restaurant quality with most of my dishes, because restaurants can use ingredients that don't make sense at home. But I try to aim for excellence, and when I miss, I get slightly better, and appreciate when someone serves a truly excellent meal.

Music is another thing. Few people know that John Mayer is playing a $15,000+ guitar [1] through a $7,000 pedal (among others) [2] hooked up to an amplifier that you cannot purchase unless the guy decides to make it for you, at which point it could be $150k or more [3]. Do I need that equipment to play guitar? Absolutely not, but learning about it was interesting and gave me a better appreciation for what I'm seeing on stage (and why spending $100 to see it and hear it in person may be worth it).

I also find starting with the extremes and dialing it back allows me to better decide the potential for a given hobby. If I don't do research, I may be running into pain that I didn't realize was easily fixed (e.g. getting a glove in golf).

That said, being OK with being OK is something I'm working on.

[1] https://reverb.com/item/5564625-prs-john-mayer-super-eagle-i...
[2]https://reverb.com/p/klon-centaur-horsie
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumble_Amplifiers
We can only abolish capital (energy) when we have unlimited energy so we can disregard entropy for a while
(1) and (2) are solved by recorded video lectures. I think I would have learned a lot more in school if they had that back in the day.
In my observation, in international markets the price of a McDonald's soft-cone dessert is 1/6th of their primary burger ! Source (for example): https://menuprice.co/in/mcdonalds-menu . The pricing is simply unsustainable if folks walk in only to purchase the soft-cone. The clever marketing folks understand this underlying 'loss-leader' dynamic. The consumers would not tell you this explicitly - as it would appear to be 'cheap' on their part, but consider it a good-deal whenever the 'McFlurry' machines work. Further it has been shown sugar is pretty addictive.
> It starts with the DOJ. They are afraid of going after big corporations

DoJ can't (except in special circumstances) legally stand in the place of harmed individuals and go after liable actors; because this a bankruptcy case DoJ is involved though, and opposes the settlement, as stated in the article.
You literally said "100%".
Also, Starlink continues to show up as AS36492 (One of Google's AS).
Not to blame either side, but this is one of the reasons Founder Vesting is a thing. There should be a mechanism in place which strips the founder of equity when they quit. A lot of venture firms these days require it. But even if you not plan on rising venture capital, it's a good thing to have in place just in case.

It's a sort of thing you'd set up before starting to work on the company, to know what the ground rules are from the very beginning. Knowing that your stake is not a given is very humbling.

You can always have things like accelerated vesting in the event of a liquidity event, if the company is sold prematurely.
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Correct , but this opens the door to this ruling be expanded to other categories in the future .
I'm for 100% legalization and regulation of all drugs.

But opiates are FAR more addictive.

A big reason we have so many deaths is adulterated drugs where you don't know what opiate is in it or how strong it is. And then you physically can't live without it so you shoot up anyways.

In set controlled doses, with pills, powder, or clean needles it wouldn't be that dangerous. I think alcohol would be more so under those controls. So long as you don't take so much you nod off while driving or something. Just like drinking...

Personally I think heavy stims and opiates would be something you have to show an addiction too in order to get the good stuff from the Gov. Kind of cart and horse, maybe it would destroy the profitability of the drug trade enough we'd have fewer first time users.

I'm 100% for MDMA, coke and similar to be available in small controlled quantities capped to like once a month at a special pharmacy. Can always work around that (eh em cough syrup) but I think way safer and way better externalities with all the death from drug trade.

People will use drugs no matter what. We should see the humanity and reduce harm as much as possible. Not to mention it would likely save a lot of money.
My Father-in-law is a VP at a banking firm, he's just a senior engineer, but he does handle plenty of financials. Makes total sense why he's a VP.
Or you could just ignore it and move on. Life would be so boring if everything was so bland; corporate and HR approved
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I agree that a press release is a one-sided publication, but it has the benefit of wearing its bias on its sleeve. Nobody is going to be misled about whether this is objective reporting.

And it's not like the mainstream press are guaranteed to be accurate or objective. For example they did, in various people's opinion, a rather poor job reporting on similar news out of South Korea yesterday. A much better, more considered take on this was posted by Hoeg Law on their Virtual Legality podcast a few hours ago. Well worth a watch if you're interested in hearing legally informed views which might differ from the Hacker News mainstream community view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fruldokyfYc

Hoeg has been covering the Epic vs Apple trial in excruciating detail and has done an excellent job of communicating it alongside explanations of legal jargon and legal principles.
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Satellites aren't pollution. They have a 10 year service life then fall back down to Earth.

Do you also complain about buildings ruining your french nights? Or billboards? Or traffic noise? Should we ban all automobiles and buildings and outdoor lighting? Should we ban all combustion engines to ensure there's no amount of smog in the air as well?

Satellites are extremely far down on the list of public nuisances and don't serve any threat to our health unlike smog and carbon emissions.
> you’ll be able to compare the friction of multi screen payment versus one-touch TouchID/FaceID .... sometimes those conversion drop-off rates will be greater than the 30% Apple fee

That can be countered by adding the 30% Apple Tax for those who opt to pay using "Apple Pay". If you have to pay "$x + 30%" on Apple Pay vs only "$x" through another payment system, the consumer will obviously think twice.
But I didn't base my argument on Schenck. What I did was to take the metaphor of a dissenting opinion [Note: majority opinion, see comments below, my error] and then invert it (which would make any precedent invalid regardless) for the purpose of posing a question: what can we ask about the nature of harm caused by denying a threat, most especially when there is a self-serving interest in doing so?

Schenck was a bad ruling, it's been overturned, and Holmes's argument appeared in a dissent. [Update: Nope, majority, see reply below.] It's memorable language (which is why it is invoked all the time, usually in a mistaken or misleading way). But it has never been guiding language.

It's still a useful notion: one of considering private right to speech vs. the court's interest in public harm. Holmes's hypothetical was in falsely claiming a threat where none existed. That occurs occasionally, but is actually somewhat less an issue than denying a threat. The second is a behaviour we've seen again and again and again, mostly in a private-enterprise, "free market", private-property (and profit) context, where by downplaying some harm, profits or business can be transacted for a longer time with a larger market (or frauds perpetrated). This is what Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway document repeatedly in Merchants of Doubt.

The benefit in Covid disinformation may be harder to pin down, though there are several pretty plausible cons that might be played, including poltical power, sale of hoax or ineffective cures (as has been suggested regarding Florida's governor and a key political funder), and general huckstering and grift.
That's what they said about RFID until it was broken, and people starting building hardware that could snoop on it from a backpack several meters away.
1898 is pretty early in the technology of photography, maybe I didn't read carefully enough, but I would like to know what was used to take these photographs. They are very interesting and look better than I would expect for 1898!
Macworld considers this change to be a very minor concession to Apple's anti-steering rules:

> It doesn’t sound like the new guidelines will allow the apps to even state that subscriptions or purchases are available on the web. Rather, the apps will be allowed to, “share a single link to their website to help users set up and manage their account,” according to Apple’s release. That account management might include purchasing or renewing subscriptions, but it sounds from Apple’s release as if the single link in the app may not be allowed to say “subscribe for just $9.99 a month” and instead must say something like “Account Management” or “set up your account.”

https://www.macworld.com/article/354963/japan-fair-trade-com...

If this is the case, the change simply does not go far enough. Users should be able to get full information in the app on all of the payment options for a given service, and how the money they pay gets distributed. Any less is anti-competitive.
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Does it? If anything it appears to strengthen and codify the definition of a reader app, previously only defined in Apple's developer agreement.
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I'm getting a "no server is currently available to service your request" error at least from East Asia.

But only when logged in!
Extensions like this make users more fingerprintable so that kind of defeats half the stated purpose of using a commercial VPN. They also weaken the browser's security model, which is part of the reason why Tor users are told to never install addons.
McCarthy Threatens Technology Firms That Comply with Riot Inquiry
My approach to philosophy is to essentially choose a masterpiece and study only that masterpiece in depth, with secondary academic texts. His list takes too long, and my life is too short to read a bunch of fluff.

The books I have studied in depth are:

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche

The Republic by Plato

A Critique of Pure Reason by Kant

The Phenomenology of the Spirit by Hegel

Life is so short, read nothing but the cornerstones (this may not be that) of western thought.

A great author for secondary texts is Stanley Rosen. He presents the material in a way that captures my imagination, and makes the philosophy understandable for a lay man.

I would also argue, that for most serious texts, if you arent reading them with a guide (in my case often multiple), then you are wasting your time.
I would politely say that that just means it is harder to get things done so you accomplish less and by definition “get less things done” at a BigTechCo

Navigating a bureaucracy is a skill. And doing so can help get things done but in and of itself it is not actually getting anything done. Getting things done at a BigTechCo definitely takes more effort.
No laws of physics gives you the right to survival. You will survive if you have the physical ability to do so in a given environment. And you won’t if you don’t. Anything else is self-delusional. You can claim whatever rights you want until somebody sticks a gun in your mouth.
Being able to defend against them doesn't really matter when their end goal is to tie you up in court long enough for them to be able to actually provide a tangible alternative.

Oh, you've got first-mover advantage? How about I force you into court for the next 6 years while I build a competing product?
This worked for medical school also for me. Except we had a note taking service so I didn’t have to take any notes myself. And I don’t like take notes on notes. So I just highlighted 5-10% of the notes that weren’t obvious the first time around in yellow, then about a page or two I didn’t remember from them in red the second time around. but this technique would not work for 95% of the population.
WebRTC's best days are ahead of it still IMO! I think the thing holding it back the most is the perception that it is a browser technology only. I just spent some time talking to a developer that was using it to control robots in a warehouse via DataChannels (ICE is fantastic technology to get around frustrating/complicated networks).

If you aren't familiar with what WebRTC can do check out WebRTC for the Curious[0] I really tried to capture why WebRTC is exciting/what it can do.

After that go build something cool with WebRTC in your favorite language. We have lots of implementations these days :)

[0] https://webrtcforthecurious.com/
That’s why people do things like religion—it gives you a way to establish purpose and meaning that is independent of your economic standing or potential.
The refrigerant was not the only place CFCs and HFCs were used in refrigerators -- they were used as blowing agents in the foam insulation. Today, cyclopentane is used as the blowing agent.
I'm one of those people. I didn't know my mother very well because she abandoned my family when I was 3 years old, but I did eventually start to get to know her again starting in 2012.

She was always struggling with addiction, but never did any form of heroin until she injured herself while walking down a stairwell drunk. She was prescribed OxyContin and quickly became extremely addicted.

My last conversation with her before she died was one where she was desperately begging me to find her any kind of opiate painkiller I could. This was because she had been cut off by her doctor who wouldn't renew her prescription. She ended up procuring some heroin which was apparently laced with fentanyl. She snorted it in her car in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven in Washington DC and overdosed and died in 2015.

I'm not going to pretend like she was living a productive life because she certainly wasn't. I'm also not going to pretend like she wasn't already an addict in other ways. But this product and this evil family who knowingly pushed it into Appalachia and other parts of the US where the residents are ignored by the political parties has caused tremendous damage to many people.

The first time I lost a friend to an overdose on oxycontin was in 2000 when I was a freshman in college. We were in southwestern Virginia, right in the heart of the emerging crisis. He was my co-worker at a Pizza Hut.

Nobody gave a shit about the droves of people dying until it hit New England 15 years later. It was only then that anyone even took notice in the media.

The biggest insult added to this injury for me personally was when I was a contestant in a hackathon for the US health and human services department in 2017. This is the organization that is in charge of the FDA and they had a whole slew of speakers talking about the opioid epidemic. At no point in the entire event did any of these bureaucrats admit any form of culpability and complicity in approving this drug. As far as I know not a single person in the FDA or HHS was ever fired for allowing this horrible product to be pushed like junk food into this country's most forgotten communities.
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> push less time pressure on everything and everybody and overall get you better outcomes. If something needs to be improved it will. Or it won't, but then maybe it's not your problem anymore.

Most of what I do I'm either solely or primarily responsible for, and when something breaks, it comes back to me. I've rarely been in situations where something wasn't my problem. By the time it was a 'problem', if someone was contacting me, it was almost definitionally my problem. Not sure how to square that with the advice above, as tempting as it sounds.
PWM?
Same here, I guess this is only happening in Japan.
I love the formatting, going over how and what to study with little summaries to get you interested. Not too interested in Philosophy, but I love math. I tried to double major in it but couldn't get past Multivariable Calculus without destroying my GPA. Would anyone happen to know if any other articles spoon-feed you a learning path for mathematics like this?