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As a company grows, its branding evolves from the founders managing it themselves to eventually being overseen by an excessively large team of marketers. These marketers need something to do. An obvious project from them to undertake is a "rebrand". The marketers' goal is not creativity or innovation, its safety. So they look around and do whatever everyone else is doing, with maybe a few small adjustments. This guarantees they have something to occupy their time for 6-18 months, justifying their role in the company in case someone asks what they've been up to lately.
Many doctors don't bother to test if the infection is bacterial or viral or fungal (outside of covid, flu, rsv, and some others). My wife had an outer ear infection. The doctor confirmed it was an outer ear infection, then prescribed antibiotic drops. They didn't do any test. It could be bacterial or it could be fungal. If fungal, the antibiotics will actually make it worse.

So my wife uses the drops for several days and gets worse. What's the solution? Mix half distilled white vinegar (5% concentration) and half 91% isopropyl alcohol (or 190 proof ethanol). This is a cheap solution which is generally effective for both fungal and bacterial outer ear infections. She was better in less than week.
Even if people read enough of these that Shopify stops seeing new merchant signups…I don’t think Shopify would understand WHY they’re not getting any new customers. They’d probably blame it on SEO or something.
Obvious? I wouldn't have known what the hell that was. Going by the comments, it looks like a lot of other folks weren't sure what it was either.

Don't be so quick to put other people down. It's not good to have that kind of thing in a community.
Blot is a blogging platform with no interface. It turns a folder into a website
As the sometimes recipient of these complaints, it seems that customers go looking for any somewhat high-level person with a published email address.
Northwestel (the telco that provides service to ALL of Northern Canada) had a similar outage in about 2013. It was utterly brutal.

They even stationed Police at street corners in Whitehorse and yellowknife in case anyone needed to ask for an ambulance or 911 assistance.

So it's not at all unprecedented.
Damn, is that legal?
Economics is not more than just the distribution of resources, no. The goal is to have efficient distribution of resources so that people can have the things they need within their means if possible, and to find new ways to process resources to produce things that make peoples lives better.

What works is largely about what you're trying to achieve, which is why when you see people trying to achieve things other than what I said, you wind up with mass famine, forced migration, shortages, and unnecessary expense. You see these things because they're not trying to avoid these things, they have other goals in mind.

There is a political aspect to economics, in that those who want to siphon resources away from efficient distribution and towards their goals will use political machinery to coerce a population. You see this in many instances, ranging from holodomor to artificially inflated drug prices in the US.
Hey I'm on a mac too, but I can't seem to reproduce the bug. Perhaps there is a safari extension, or a native application that is interfering?

Sorry I wasn't much help, please let me know if you've found a solution, I'm curious what caused this.
Ask HN: Help me find this website that I should have bookmarked
Hello HN,

Years ago, I came across a website about JavaScript weirdness.

It was structured as a list of exercices with an example of output and you had to come up with the snippet of code to produce that output.

There was stuff like:

> x === x
false
// solution was x = NaN

Or:

> a == b && b == c && a != c
true

I can't find the website anymore, I'm wondering if someone here remembers it.
Russia has massively more population than Ukraine, and (at least had) an economy also significantly larger.

Russia was originally planning on winning in a week; and if it wasn’t for their massive corruption and general incompetence they would have.
not a car person here: what make it obvious that it's a car alarm?
Unless it’s reading and (in some sense) understand FDA and CDC drug approvals, ct.gov, pubmed, and NCCN and other treatment guidelines, and realizing when drugs are suddenly deprecated as well as suddenly approved, it’s going to commit mal practice. You could do all that, but then you don’t have a language model, you have a domain specific medical AI.
This sounds like FoldIt?
#1 is feasible now for short (<4K chars or so) blocks of code. Just paste the code in an indented block as you would in a comment, then after the block ask in English for a list of suggestions for what the variable could be renamed to.
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I think it hard to justify a definition of God's wealth that isn't everything or nothing.
BTW, its exactly the same in Apple's mail app.
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> Cars built in the last 15 years usually don't need to be warned up:

They don't need to be warmed up for the engine. They still might need to be warmed up for the driver, though.
Guns make it really easy for kids and adults to make split decisions and follow through with it without making a mistake. They make suicide incredibly accessible, where otherwise committing suicide would be much more difficult in terms of skills, effort, planning, etc…

The same people who are against gun control are also against social spending on mental health. So it’s not really a problem they want to focus on, even though it disportionstebly affects them (Wyoming is number 1 or 2 for gun violence, but it is almost all suicide).
100% agree. If you're a settled family with a 2% APR 30yr fixed, don't do anything. I'm more talking about people that are flexible.
The longer you continue with your job hopping the more likely your next job will be short-term.

There are 2 different career paths, both valid, both with their pros and cons.

With short-term positions you will be "hired gun", where they hire you to contribute on a particular project and will likely view you as expendable when budgets are cut or shifted to other priorities. This is not necessarily bad though, if you keep getting good references companies will continue to hire you knowing that you will deliver. Plus getting a raise is way easier when moving from company to company vs getting 1.5% annual raise. Plus prospective employers know that you've been to number of companies and can provide outsider's prospective on a number of subjects.

Whereas when you stay employed at the same company you learn all the nooks and crannies and will likely be either promoted to management position (if you wish to do so so) or get other benefits (longer vacation, higher bonus, more freedom in determining your schedule, projects, who you work with, etc etc). At the same time, if the employer does decide to lay you off, finding another job will be difficult since you don't have much experience in job hunting, and much of your experience is with the same company (not necessarily applicable to other companies).

So at some point in your career you will have to choose a path and stick to it.
The article makes it seem like this is relegated to the past, but changing names to ones that sound less Jewish is still common. Some examples:

Steven Jay Ross (born Steven Jay Rechnitz), CEO of Time-Warner
Sumner Murray Redstone (born Rothstein), media magnate and chairman of CBS and Viacom
Fred W. Friendly (born Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer), president of CBS News
Lorne Michaels (born Lorne David Lipowitz), producer of Saturday Night Live, Late Night, and The Tonight Show
Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz), host of The Daily Show
Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger), host of Larry King Live
Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky), actor
Michael Alan Weiner (stage name Michael Savage), radio host
Bob aka Robert Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman), musician
Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg), director
Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz), singer of Kiss
Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler), actress
Natalie Portman (born Natalie Hershlag), actress
The most perfect example of this was when Marissa Meyer took over as CEO of Yahoo and "rolled up her sleeves" and worked with a few designers over a weekend to create a new Yahoo logo. It turned out the new logo was the old one, without serifs and more rounded and uniform.
What a botched job they did on Yves Saint Laurent logo. Truly amazing.
Not sure why people flagged the guy who said if I smoked a lot of pot it could be causing this. He’s totally right, my doctor did in fact ask me if I smoke a lot of marijuana or anything, as it can cause excessive vomiting. But no, that’s not why in my case at least. If someone could unflag him that’d be cool but I apparently can’t.
All fair points.
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> It's a very, very annoying/distracting cover, not to mention an expensive one.

It is hard to say how expensive it actually is… if he had sold overpriced Tesla stock without cover, could that lose be much more than - one billion termination fee?
Sometimes I write blog posts on Obsidian[0] and publish them into my blog[1].

[0]: https://obsidian.md

[1]: https://tsk.bearblog.dev
First Flight for China’s H-20 Stealth Bomber Could Be Imminent
It's not well-researched; it has a single Wikipedia link, which it doesn't even represent properly (literally the first thing it says is CTR was founded by David Brock). It's also not informative; it presents a slanted, highly selective case against Clinton and Democratic/liberal/progressive politics. It's the Fox News of comments. It's also not on topic; how is CTR relevant to glyphosate?

I do have an opinion: Citizens United should be overturned, or we should have an Amendment clarifying that money isn't speech, so we can get rid of Super PACs. I also think the advertising industry should be regulated such that it's a shadow of what it is today.
Here's how I would describe what is happening (very different from "theme" of this post).

1. Ukraine had an antiquated military at the start of the war - old Soviet technology with old Soviet ammunition.

2. Ukraine has used almost all of its ammunition compatible with these weapons, and lost a huge amount of manpower (30000+) including their best troops, and lost 50%+ of its fielded equipment.

3. Prior to the losses and exhaustion detailed in #2, European and NATO backers collected and distributed ammunition and equipment compatible with Ukraine's existing weapon stock.

4. Since exhausting existing equipment and possible sources of Soviet ammunition, Ukraine's backers have switched to supplying Western made weapons. This isn't because they are "better" but because they can be maintained and ammunition will be available for protracted war this is projected to be.

5. Ukraine right now is in a very challenging situation. It has limited equipment of either kind. Their soldiers do not know how to use and maintain the new equipment and don't have much time (due to manpower shortage) to get trained up on completely new equipment and standards.

6. Either way, switching to new weapons platforms is necessary since Russia isn't about to supply Ukraine with more compatible ammunition.

7. Because of the necessity, Ukraine's leadership is "hyping" Western weapons to its people. It's got to tell a story about how victory is around the corner so that morale isn't lost during this transitional period.

8. Western media is picking up on this "hype".

HIMARS aren't going to win the war. This isn't a war of tech superiority. This is a war of grinding attrition. Russia has Ukraine outmanned and outgunned. Western equipment is the only path forward so that Ukraine's force posture doesn't completely atrophy.

The course of the war will be dictated by how either side's logistical, supply, ability to direct and surge force, and the strains on these outlast the other.
Eli Schiff covered this in great detail with a 3 part series, which unfortunately is no longer fully available, but there is an archived version here → https://web.archive.org/web/20170513053653/http://www.elisch...

It’s definitely worth a read if you’re interested in a better overview of this phenomenon.
Unfortunately, people like us who respond to that sort of thing like a normal human (as opposed to a brainwashed corporate drone who lives in terror of the master's displeasure) tend not to do well in the corporate world.

The trick of corporate survival, as observed in those who can actually hack it, is extreme compartmentalization. They become two people: one who watches the abuse from a distance as if it were happening to someone else, and then a normal self that is functional enough to do the grocery shopping without bursting into tears. The problem is that very few people can sustain this compartmentalization (also known as: dissociation) for more than a few years. It tends to play out badly (memory issues, alexithymia, autoimmunity) in the long term.
I listened to many a backward message with my old Tascam.

Before then, I used to turn over a spindle, leaving the "rolled" part of the tape outside of the guides, fast forward through the whole tape, then turn over the remaining spindle and close it back up with the tape behind the guides again. This way you were playing the tape backward, but through the back of the tape, so it was a bit muddy, but worked.

With the 4 track recorder, you just mute tracks 1 and 2, and listen to the opposite side of the tape (the side not facing you) backward.

Yea, I was a weird kid. But my best experiment from this ended up on VSauce, so there is that.
I use backblaze which will backup any modified file and has copies back 30 days, longer if desired. It would be great if there was some way (is there?) To flag if a file was recently encrypted to detect potential ransomware early before backups are corrupted also. Seems like a changed file being backed up could be compared to the previous unencrypted file for this purpose.

Of course this would be more complicated if the files were user-encrypted in the first place, but good tools to detect these things asap would have a good market above & beyond antivirus that is more focused on detection of the virus and not a complete packaged of file recovery as well.
Yeah, people are just imagining the NSA led global surveillance apparatus.
This is like SnappySnippet, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snappysnippet/mdmg...

And it’s open source. This file does all the parsing magic to get clean html.

https://github.com/kdzwinel/SnappySnippet/blob/master/js/too...
You probably have heard it before, you just need to connect it to the physics terminology. The Lorentz force law says that a charged particle moving in a magnetic field experienced a force given by the cross product of the velocity and the magnetic field:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_force
Also in the age of social media, visual identity is less about the wordmark. For most of these companies, their word mark doesn’t even show up on their social media feeds. Most have guidelines that often include a custom typeface, specific types of photography, editorial layouts, illustrations that define the brand.
Did they ship them from NC to a different place? Or is the vendor local to you?

I remember seeing a few of these during the pandemic and the idea of a private separate office is appealing.
Pro-choice people seem to want it both ways when it comes to exceptions for rape. If there is an exception for rape, they say the pro-life law is bad because "see, it's not really about the lives of the children, it's just to control women's sexual choices". And if there's not an exception for rape, they say the pro-life law is bad because "look at all these really young rape victims who will now be forced to bear their rapists' children".
The way I would put it is when you think about a REST API, for example, the tendency is to see the sum of the methods in it as 'what matters'. But shipping is actually the sum of source control, the deployment story, development experience, compliance, quality gates, etc., and finally the methods themselves. What you don't want to do is hyper-focus on the last bit and think you're going to catch up on the rest as an afterthought.
If you spec Lemur Pro like HP Dev One, it's $300 more expensive.
i somewhat wonder if he is taken less seriously because he doesnt have a university affiliation and chooses to present his stuff on podcast/youtube.

for the more educated - how "crackpot" is Weinstein? I have trouble assessing how full of himself he obviously is vs how much of a genius he also is.
What about the guys who thought it was obviously a remote starter?
I wish I knew. They have nothing to gain. Its effectively a DDoS attack.
I’m not entirely convinced that Shopify should be involved in IP enforcement. Amazon, despite all their claims to the contrary, acts as a retailer. When shopping at Amazon, Amazon is helping you find products and even makes it look like Amazon is selling them.

Shopify, in contrast, stays in the background. For the most part, unless I recognize the checkout flow or see the shoppay option, I, as a customer, don’t even know that Shopify is involved in a transaction. I’m not buying, in any material sense, from Shopify.
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do you mind explaining Bell's inequality? i looked up the wikipedia but it is very wordy and has a lot of equations; i need it stripped of Ponderousness as Scott Aaronson did in this piece
He absolutely has the ability. He's demonstrated that publicly, with his verified presentation of having raised the $44 billion a few weeks ago (through a combination of financial instruments).

What he doesn't have is the inclination.
Did they (or will they) tell you who the other dealer is? If they won't, then maybe the "other dealer" is a fiction to try to make you stop blaming them.

(I would expect that they would be reluctant to name another dealer that was actually innocent, knowing that it could turn into a libel lawsuit.)
I think you're entirely missing my point. You're going off on a tangent about mortgages, regulations, and titles. That's at a much higher level than what I'm talking about. To use load balancers as an example, you're talking about L7 stuff, I'm talking about L3 stuff.

Let's use your example of mortgages. When you get a mortgage, your lender wires money to the seller. How do they do that? They use Fedwire, which is a system maintained by the Federal Reserve for banking transfers. Such a system can be totally replaced by a blockchain. If you replaced Fedwire with a blockchain, you wouldn't remove the regulatory and legal requirements, you would just replace a legacy technical system with something that is more powerful. A blockchain can do everything Fedwire can do, and a blockchain implements this functionality in a more generic fashion that allows for additional constructs, like smart contracts, to be added.

Following your mortgage a little further: most mortgages are not held by the bank. The was the main issue in the financial crisis in 2008. Banks don't hold mortgages, so they were very loose in who they lent to. Rather than hold on to the mortgages, the bank sends them to a clearing house that packages up the mortgages into a mortgage backed security. All of this infrastructure could be replaced by a smart contract.

A blockchain can be thought of as a generalization of a financial system (system here meaning the technical system, i.e. the nitty gritty details of how and when money is moved). This is a powerful generalization and can implement existing financial systems in a much more efficient manner. As an individual, I could implement a mortgage-backed security system. That type of productivity is not possible in our current financial system.

This does not mean that I'm advocating for some type of anarchistic hellscape where regulations fall by the wayside. You can still have the same set of regulations, but implement the underlying nuts and bolts financial system in a way that's more efficient, standardized, and democratic.
"Sprint" is an agile buzzword, it does not imply speed or urgency.

A "sprint" is a unit of time which defines the frequency of meetings where teams re-evaluate their immediate priorities. Usually somewhere in the fortnite-month range.
well, sure he played fast and loose on the forms but then there would be a lot of "illegal" tax filers and thats not the commonly understood meaning of "illegal".
Do let me know if you succeed
All those fashion brands changed their logos around 2018, with the exception of YSL back in 2012.

In 2012, Hedi Slimane took over the helm of YSL, notorious for the minimalist brand change dropping the Yves from Saint Laurent, but also revitalizing the brand. In 2018, Hedi Slimane became C.D. Of Celine, which has always been touted for minimalism, and made the already minimalist brand even more minimalist by dropping the accented e. There is a mixture of independent fashion brands there, but the majority of the luxury fashion market has been bought up by LVMH and Kering.
Those parent companies create a network and platform where brands cross pollinate, in the same way YC serves as an exchange of ideas between SF style startups. In practice, this means pressuring subsidiaries to follow the model that has worked for other brands, within and outside the family. Checkout dietprada on Instagram where they call out plagiarism commonplace in the fashion industry.

My theory is that brand designers who work in tech are influenced by fashion and general product design, which follows apparel. First, trend-setting luxury brands have expanded ready to wear lines and more generally became more accessible, rather than something reserved for the ultra elite socialites. This means more exposure, familiarity. Second, designers make significantly more money than in decades prior. Following in the footsteps of Google, companies found that better design leads to more money. In prior decades, UI/UX designers didn’t exist. The profession matured relatively fast compared to the head start software engineering had. I remember the HCD ( human centered design ) department used to be really in the weeds about the science of ergonomics, and the role UI/UX barely existed. Then the other class of UI people in the early web were graphic designers. That or engineers with design sensibilities. With higher tech salaries, art and design schools have since pivoted towards these career placements. Meaning, there are now established design departments within tech companies, and these departments are comprised of people whose hobbies revolve around design and fashion. All of this creates a feedback loop where “good design” is based on its similarity to other good design. In the same way engineers didn’t get fired for electing IBM and frontend engineers picking React, designers, at least the ones in a megacorp, designers won’t get fired for electing Sans Serif.

I’d like to blame Hedi Slimane for all of this.
For text-only stuff -- programming and writing -- I find the simple, ancient, RCS program to be sufficient, and pretty doggone easy to learn/use.
I was thinking this was a case of white privilege that we consider the conduct of Musk as “rich people just wanna have fun” and not a criminal conspiracy. But the more I think the more I realize the privilege is not that , the privilege is that a white successful immigrant is loved by so many people in this country , a brown or black successful immigrant is not loved in the same way in this country. And that my friends is indeed a privilege.
I mean, I agree. Given the nature of the protocol, it makes sense that a half-successful response of independent queries would still return a 200 on the network protocol.

That doesn’t mean it’s not bloody annoying.