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Yes, I didn't like any of the shows the person you are replying to listed. Although Netflix still doesn't have any shows I like, I've only been enjoying Apple+/Hulu, hell even Amazon.
Good point. maybe even Google didn't want to be seen as "hey, here are some suggestions how you can make your speech about murdering Black people more inclusive..."
The squircle is a shape intermediate between a square and a circle
Ok, but it makes no sense in the first place? “Motherboard” has long been a technical computer term, that even somebody with a passive interest in computers would understand. You would have to make an effort to be offended by it in some way.

I fail to understand what’s going on these days. Words change their meaning over decades. A small minority seem hellbent on kicking up a storm to change popular usage, where no offense or other meaning is implied in general modern usage.
London’s economy is doing better than the rest of the UK even with the charge that it’s worth taking the hit rather than paying for all the health and pollution externalities of one additional marginal car, which is more than just the fuel burned.
But it's over Anakin, we have the moral high ground!
> nodes have persistent connections; disconnection is indistinguishable from long latency

> An urbit instance can't boot without an identity

Does this mean that urbit requires an always-on connection at all times?

> this means no urbit app or service needs to deal with logins or passwords or crypto.

This also means that all apps have full access to all your money, private info, bank accounts etc.?
I, and nobody I know, has pirated games or music since Steam blew up about 12-15 years ago and Spotify/RDIO and similar blew up about 10 years ago.

There was about a decade when Netflix went full in on online streaming and was offering a fantastic service for a reasonable price with a far superior experience to piracy. That is no longer the case, and the unbundling to now a dozen+ of subscriptions is driving pretty much all my techie friends back to movie/tv piracy. I personally don't really watch much TV and might watch one or two movies a year, so I'll just not watch anything. I've already cancelled my Netflix subscription about a year ago, and I prefer playing video games and reading books anyway.

Until your industry can offer a product experience that is superior to piracy, people are going to pirate. The games and music industries have largely solved this problem. When will yours?
I'm not sure what you mean about time on site, could you explain? They've been building this section of bridge "on site" by my understanding of the phrase, and have had the road way under the bridge diverted by construction for the past year. It appears to have been permanently redirected now. I assume during some of the work to the existing bridge, they've had traffic slowed, diverted, barreled, etc. Actual moving of old section out and new section into place in three days seems to pretend this was a speedy project with only minor disruption to local traffic, which doesn't seem quite right to me. I guess if the thought is just that that highway connected to the bridge is only (fully) closed for three days, that's certainly worth something over having it closed for the year it took to do the project.
>And who has benefitted

It benefits the people who gain power and status by using virtues as a social weapon.
I imagine the leadership are aware of how toxic and repellent this culture is -- despite, i'd imagine, having no clear strategy to reform it.
Borrowing is not free. Other owners of the company may not have the same cash flow objectives. If you have enough votes on the board to make that the objective, then it is possible, but longer term stakeholders will probably object to being saddled with debt so some can cash out now.
The one that sticks out for me is condition handling, particularly restarts. I'm someone who reads books about programming more than I actually program, so I don't know how actually practical Lisp's ability to do extremely sophisticated responses to error conditions and the like (including choosing where to throw to programmatically at the error site) is. It strikes me that it might be one of those things -- like hot-reloading -- where there are so many factors that it's mostly impossible for humans to get right. But!! I've never seen it in any other language, and I think about it a lot.

@phoe-krk's book on it, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24867548 is very good.
> Engineering is the only male dominated department, we used to have a few women developers but they left for better opportunities and hiring is currently frozen.

Other than C-level, what's the best-paid department/position in a tech company?

Food for thought, if you were take the total of money paid to men vs women in your company, and really think hard about it, how would that balance out? Even if you took C-suite, really think about the answer
It's not "open", but Lutron devices (Caseta for DIY or small installations, RadioRA 3 for whole-home setups) are some of the best you can find at the moment. They're designed around local communication and directly synchronizing switches and remotes with each other, with an optional local hub for automation.
Why not use proprietor?
Entire seasons being released at once was such a massive positive for streaming. The fact that they're moving away from that just to boost numbers is very disappointing.
A few years back I did a presentation on this very topic. Some people have said they appreciated it so I'm sharing a link here in the hope someone find it useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl8jQ2wRh6k
And still not much is being done to help them in practice. There’s a deep culture of classism in American corporations which these initiatives completely ignore, so the people who really need help and more opportunities don’t get much.
I wish I could have seen the performance.

There's a recording of Terry's performance as Juliet, which I heard (a fragment) at the Globe in London. It's wildly different from anything you'd expect to hear today. She was in her mid-30s at the time, far older than Juliet, and making no effort to sound like a teenage girl. We'd call it badly overacted and overwrought.

That's not criticism. It's a completely different expectation. Audiences loved what she delivered -- among other things, vocal control on par with an opera singer's.

Even within my lifetime, expectations of acting have changed, both in Shakespeare and conventionally. Go watch films from the 70s and everything will feel off. Shakespeare on film changed radically in the early 90s, and continue to evolve.

I love getting a glimpse of the roots of it. I know there's no chance of getting to see the Elizabethans, but the oldest recordings are much more than a century past. It's like hearing a foreign language -- even to one intimately familiar with the text.
Have you come across the environmental theory of obesity?

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/11/23/a-chemical-hunger-p...
Ask HN: Should I move from the U.S. to work in the EU?
Currently been struggling with some career/life decisions and would potentially like some input from others who may have been in a similar experience!

Currently in my 20s working as a software engineer for a U.S. based company. I have always wanted to work in France, primarily because I want to experience a new culture & way of life (And become more fluent in french).

The one thing holding me back is the salary differences between French and U.S. companies: I currently make $100k+ a year, but offers from France-based companies have been around €55k.

This salary is enough to live well in France, but I feel like I'd be saving a lot less money if I moved abroad. If I ever wanted to move back to the U.S. and buy a home, I'd be in a much worse position than if I had just stayed in the first place. It almost feels like I'd be committing myself to Europe if I wanted to have a good retirement.

For those who may have made a similar move, is the experience worth the potential negative financial consequences?
> I think this is a two-party problem?

No, it's a problem with the CAN-SPAM act.
What things did Damore do wrong that you would do differently (honest question)
Some folks on certain medications (or just because) can have an increase in red blood cell production, sometimes called "blood thickening," I believe, and they can sometimes just get a prescription from a doctor to go to a donation facility. Or some facilities will still just allow you to do this if you tell them you need to get rid of excess blood for the reasons above, and then they dispose of it. (Not everyone requires a doctor's prescription for it.)

That's just one use case, obviously, so there is a system for some to get rid of excess blood, at least, in a similar manner as you would donate.
That is not a correct way at looking at things. Commute solves a problem: It allows people to work together. You can live separately but work together if all the teammates can meet together at a place.

But with digital communication you don't need to commute. You can collaborate without being together. In last two years we demonstrated that being in office is not needed.

Software solves a different problem. It allows you to process data at a faster pace. You can never do that with paper. There is no other technology that can take software's place.
Are you inferring/suggesting that the "right" avoids eating its own?
But main also might be offensive because it's implying one thing is more important than another and some marginalized people who have not been the main group of people may not feel great about that. Really we should use one and two. But we should also be careful and should convene a working group with broad representation to come up with a more inclusive term for this.

See how this works? It is also definitely not without cost. It is not free to change all of your documentation and you will inevitably have to be exposed to it anyway because not everyone will have changed it, so it's ultimately not doing anything anyway.
Could be birthing person board.
Not to argue either way about piracy, but it sounds like you might want to work on getting a better contract.
Guessing that was due to filing, or a counterfeiter without the proper tools. A good roman Denarius should be thick, heavy and quite round.
Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson is a good source on the history and development of computation in the 1930s through to the 50s. It's very centred on the work that was done at Princeton by Von Neumann et al [1] and lacks coverage of important work that was going on at the same time in Germany, the UK, and other places.

You might want to look into how the idea of computation came out of mathematical work in the early twentieth century. The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold is good if you're up for some maths.

Aerospace and spaceflight were some of the first activities that required large-scale software development. You could check-out Starburst and Luminary by Don Eyles and Digital Apollo by David Mindell.

[1] The author's father was Freman Dyson who was at the Institute for Advanced Study (at Princeton) with Einstein, Gödel and others.
Not really. I am saying there is an artificial corporate element of inserting political narratives into much of the programming. Authentic pieces where writers just create a good story typically reverberate better with audiences .. despite the writers political opinions whether they lean left or right.

The opposite is true. If a writer feels or is outwardly coerced that he/she must include certain characters, topics, behaviors.... this comes off an not genuine, propagandized, or even corporate commercially. My personal opinion is much of the Netflix original content falls into this later category.
I very much relate to that sentiment.

One thing that keeps me in check is that, I assume, the feeling is mutual. I'm guessing that in both camps there are people who have trouble believing that the other side is arguing/acting in good faith, because their position is so obviously ludicrous.
I hadn't actually thought about applying that reasoning to the police and while there is a higher bar to becoming a police officer, I do have to agree with the overall idea.

There probably isn't any job which is an exception to this, politicians are similarly mainly people who want the associated influence and even engineers become engineers so they have control over engineering. It's just that the incentives are more perverse with politicians, police and moderators than with engineers.
Yes, this exactly. If you are doing k8s-based development, where your Lisp code is participating in k8s-hosted service communication, nothing beats the CL development experience, where you just connect Emacs to your image via SLY/SLIME and make live changes in the kerbernetes cluster, but your source files are local.
Okay, for a moment, forget about your position or feelings about the issue. Would you say that these restrictions or changes actually changed anything for better or worse? Is there some kind of evaluation going on to track the results of these policies?
I haven't canceled yet but am considering it. They have a few problems for me -

They don't make it easy to discover content. They still have quite a lot of good original content that isn't promoted and a slew of third party things that aren't promoted or discoverable at all unless they happen to make the trending list

The majority of their original, promoted content is watered down crap designed for mass appeal.

For TV shows, when they do produce something of quality they often dump it if it doesn't find an audience immediately or it doesn't drive "new subscribers". Leaving a bunch of stories half told doesn't give me the confidence that it's worth the investment to start on their new content. This is especially problematic because it is a vicious cycle where since they aggressively cancel stuff that isn't performing, people don't invest their time in new stuff because of the expectation it gets canceled, means more new stuff underperforms, leading to more cancelations, and further eroding the trust of viewers. It's also negatively impacted by poor discoverability.

Their UI is seemingly optimized to shove their latest broad appeal stuff in my face and seems to deliberately make it hard to find anything else.
Virtually every dictionary clarifies that theft requires intent to deprive the original owner from using the stolen item, which is incompatible with the act of making a copy.

As gp said, your points are valid, but you're using a word incorrectly. Just use a different word so as not to have dictionaries disagree with you. Copyright infringement.
So if I make a new, identical copy of a GPL'ed codebase - should I feel free to use it for whatever purpose I want and ignore the GPL?
The mere categorization of entertainment as "wasting their time" is a judgement call in and of itself.
Why they should lose it. Nothing is guaranteed.
I think this is one of those things that is learned through experience (wisdom) and will never be proven with any citations (i.e. peer-reviewed, rigorous collective experience).

Not that I have that wisdom myself. I only think I might arrive at that conclusion eventually.
That would be more like plasma donation, where it is filtered and sent back to you. Blood donation doesn't work like that. No filtration.
How about donating platelets? Due to my blood type, they want my platelets.
Man, memegen was covered by Buzzfeed ten years ago.

It ain't exactly the hottest, edgiest shitposting club out there.
Car ownership itself is an indication of wealth.

Even in the US, where car ownership is practically mandatory and broad taxes or fees on driving are significantly lower, owning a car is associated with higher incomes because the base cost is still several thousand a year in insurance, gas, etc. so if you tax it you are already hitting wealthier people.
You think it's equal? That seems so statistically unlikely I could only describe it as a miracle.
Plex is nice! I run a Server for Family and Friends, it works great, but I’m an IT GUY and it’s a Hobby.

For the most people it’s too much struggle to run this, especially when plex has the default settings of „transcode everything to 2mbit if the server is not at home“.

I have multiple subscriptions, but most players suck (I look at you Amazon Prime). Plex is a way better experience.

Oh I use a Nvidia Shield as Client. It’s awesome!
The easiest way to not be Damore'd is to apologize and repent. Damore doubled down and at that point (because the gap between "manager" and "employee" at Google is so narrow) became a walking Title VII violation. Once his coworkers came out in public saying they wouldn't be able to work with him, Google was backed (legally and PR-wise) completely into a corner.

It turns out American companies are not the Athenian Lyceum, and some topics are not up for debate.
It doesn't hate children. It created content geared towards the most lucrative audience, which skews older, that's all.

Batman in 1989 showed that superhero movies could still be extremely popular & attract an older audience. It also sold so much merchandise-- consumed primarily by younger members of the audience-- that by the time the 4th movie "Batman & Robin" came around merchandise & its design was driving movie creation rather than quality content and the genre went into hiatus for a few years.

When the genre reemerged with the 2002 Spiderman movie and subsequent hits & creation of the MCU, movie makers seemed to realize that they had to appeal to the older audience as well as those on the younger tween+ spectrum, even if it meant giving up ticket sales on for the youngest. And the extreme popularity of the movies made them enough of a cultural phenomenon that they still sell tons of merch to younger kids anyway.
> electronic music gear HN fawns over

As someone who hangs around the scene a bit, HN is in no way special in fawning over Elektron gear, most people I know who professionally make electronic music adores most of the stuff Elektron puts out.

> more capable than a computer and a controller

No one has said this, and that's also not why anyone starts using gear like this. If you're just looking for "what's more capable" then yeah, you end up with a computer. But if you're looking for something where you can jam out songs without pausing or fiddling, then gear like this is optimal.

For me, one of the main selling points of Elektron gear is that I don't have to use my computer, which I use enough for programming and other "business" things.
I think you could say, "following *this news* and other comments, I feel like my language is going to be constantly policed by my colleagues and this is a level of cognitive and emotional burden I dont want in my workplace".

Though, I agree.. inquisitions and dogma are honeytraps for free-thinkers, by signalling dissent you are exposing that you arent under their ideological control.

Disagreeable sorts should, whereever possible, not raise their hand when asked, "do you have any hetrodox opinions?".
This isn't about x86 architecture but historical design choices that then got frozen into an ABI. When Microsoft implemented SEH on ia32, the current approach of lookup table based exceptions (trading memory for runtime code execution, particularly reducing the latter in a success case) was not yet in vogue. When they ported to other architectures and had a choice to introduce a different ABI, they did.
Time to make those on-site interviews more rigorous. Looks like too many bad coders are leaking through the interview process.
The urbit network is hierachically federated, and hence resistant to censorship.

Why isn't flat federation even more censorship-resistant? I don't understand the benefit of hierarchy.
"Blacklist" and "whitelist" suck anyway because they require the cultural knowledge that "black is bad and white is good" to understand their meaning. "Allowlist" and "denylist" don't require any cultural background to understand - their names are purely descriptive. They are just better terms.
The nuclear-ICBM powers have largely converged on a Nash equilibrium for these questions, they're not new. And they are informed by nuclear weapons in a way the pre-nuclear era could not be. If nuclear weapons existed before 1939, the entire way the conflict with Hitler would have played out would have been different. Arguably, if the pre-requisites to the Ukraine conflict had analogs then, Hitler would have stopped expanding, on his own. Potentially he even could have been ousted internally if he looked like he was willing to plunge the world into a nuclear conflict, just like the odds of Putin being assassinated or coup'ed seem higher during escalation compared to a timeline where he couldn't wield nuclear weapons.

The stasis, at least for now, is one of mutual defense pacts backed up by nuclear weapons leads to very hard boundaries given MAD. Ironically, the pitfall that led to WWI turned out to be a stabilizing force (at least for now) under MAD. Everything outside of those hard deterrence boundaries, if we're being honest, is fair game for proxy wars. Ukraine isn't in the boundaries. People who are arguing that we should start shifting those boundaries (ie, changing the 'rules' by directly engaging despite them being non-NATO) are playing with fire. As soon as the rules are broken, the fundamental premise of deterrence goes out the window, and all bets are off as to where it takes us. This is also why it's incredibly dangerous to admit countries into NATO with disputed, actively fought over territory like Ukraine, since we'd be exposing a new level of risk whereby there's a conflict between conventional rules of escalation running up against nuclear alliance deterrence.
To be fair, if I need to test dns I always nslookup cnn.com … just muscle memory for 35 years …

… and I am in a much more desirable demo …
What and utter waste of time and effort.
The word “mother” is already considered obscene because it is not inclusive of uh “men who give birth”.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-budget-proposa...
DALL·E 2 and The Origin of Vibe Shifts
I think it would be helpful if you name the company. Nothing bad about sharing that info.
This is indeed the root of my problem with the attempt to cast "blacklist" and "whitelist" as problematic. It confuses cause and effect.

If we're going to try to re-engineer spoken English, I'd much rather address the root causes, which were the adoption of such literally black-and-white terms as racial identifiers in the first place. Calling light-skinned European-descended people "white" and dark-skinned members of the African diaspora "black" was always a divisive oversimplification of a nuanced web of ethnic heritages.

This doesn't fit neatly into a woke/anti-woke framework, but I try to avoid using "black" and "white" to describe people whenever I can, preferring something either more descriptive or contextual.
You're misinterpreting the 50-year rule. Any site or collection of artifacts older than 50 years is eligible to be considered for inclusion in the historical site register when documented because it meets one criterion. The other criteria are things like historical/cultural significance. Please free to clean up all the 20th century trash you find. We have lots of it.

Archaeologists don't like documenting pepsi cans either and long-winded arguments on this subject can be found in many journals.
Or you could take small dose aspirin and just bleed internally. Same result, fewer heart attacks.
When discussing discrimination, the concept of intersectionalty discrimination is something I find needs to be addressed more.
For some reason caffeinate doesn't keep my computer awake (newish macbook pro)
There are absolutely great rail links to London. From nearly every direction. Drive your car to one of those places, buy a travelcard and you're all set.
Wait, Environmentalists Are Anti-Technology?
Ah okay, I misunderstood magic-trace to be an alternative to perf.