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I thought a great talk around this area was Engineering You by Martin Thompson [1]. He used the phrase the "era of Software Alchemy."

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S4LzzuMTqjs
> This was a one-time thing that changed the course of evolution, making multi-cellular life possible.

Except that something similar happened at least twice. Plants have another cellular organelle that was created by ingesting bacteria.
Is requiring an NDA for severance even legal? That's seriously sketchy
How about the NY Times? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-...

> Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop.

Either the NY Times is a "right-wing blog spreading Russian propaganda" or the fact that they based this story on the contents of the laptop is a tacit admission that it's authentic.
Actually, this seems correct to me.
> No, thanks.

Not sure from which perspective you're saying "No" from?

If you were a Twitter employee, that means quitting. But apparently from what you just said you don't want to lose your job. (There's no stress if getting fired is something that doesn't bother you)

Or from a management perspective? In which case I think vincnetas did a good job explaining why management might want to do this if they wanted to downsize.

Basically you're saying the concept of laying off people is a ridiculous viewpoint because it makes employees feel stressed. Sure this is just a discussion forum and we're all free to express opinions, but realistically, what makes you think an employee can say "No, thanks" to this?
Elon Musk Ousts Twitter Board, Named Sole Director
I have a hard time believing this will meaningfully help workers. It's a way for large companies to crush smaller competitors who offer anything other than base salary. Small co that offers more flexibility in location / hours? You will get filtered out because adding a salary filter is the easiest thing possible. Getting someone to read the JD that explains why working for you makes sense is hard.
> explanations of the truth

Mass purveyors of disinformation are thieves of the time of the rest of us, and should be treated accordingly.
The idea is metaphysical -- you're literally a fragment of a greater mind. Like, a cell should respect its host organism -- it's basically redefining what or who you are.

I don't know if there is an absolute need for something else, although clearly you do need some ethical framework to make decisions. Assuming you're a self-interested cell can have definitely different implications than assuming you're literally a tiny part of a whole (even if you are in favor of self-interested cooperation: this redefinition has many further implications). You could also assume you're are a cell, but decide to axiomatically value the whole as well. One way you could justify this axiom is through parsimony -- saying it's simpler than only valuing the self. Another justification (without appealing to Spinoza's definition) is that self-interested cells will fail in certain situations, s.t. whole-valuing cells can go much further -- that is, self-interested cells can turn into cancer or just don't survive as well as a multi- or omni- cellular organism. People already value their children and other people, this is a mostly logical conclusion.

This isn't just academic: we're going through crises right now that would be very different if people were less exclusively self-interested, and humanity's survival may depend on it in some way.

I like to put it this way: Love is optimal.

I think ultimately most ethical systems converge (to fundamentally valuing one another), so in a way some differences are aesthetic, how you prefer to think about it, etc. I think it's nice that we have more than one way of seeing those things coexisting peacefully (although like I said, I think it's very important they are consistent with the truth, at least for the most part).
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I feel like you have internalized somehow a confusion between the concept of balance of payments and government spending policy - the two are slightly related, but not like this.

If China sells more stuff to the US than the US buys from China, then China ends up being a net holder of US dollars, which end up in some US denominated investment asset. This is the balance of payments. Since China is a net exporter to the US, it is also therefore a net investor in the US.

The question of what the investment ends up being in is affected to some extent by the availability of US debt, but it could equally well end up being in equity or real-estate or whatever.
If you think geofencing scales to solve the FSD problem. Otherwise no.
I was surprised how calm the remix developers reactions to the next 13 announcement were given how similar some of the new next features are. But now it makes sense! Upcoming acquisition on the horizon.
His Twitter thread with a user called Peter Geist is quite an interesting read: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1587122439561318400

It reveals that there are things that marcan is glossing over and forcefully pushing for his way of doing things. No wonder why the conversation with the maintainer is not going forward.

It's also not pretty how marcan is just making fun of the kernel maintainer in other tweets: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1587023643380682759

He is talking as if these are private conversations and forgetting that this is completely public.

I admire his efforts in bringing up Linux on Apple Silicon platforms but this attitude of making a tantrum on Twitter is just sad and not very professional. And I bet a lot of junior developers use him as a role model, which is even sadder as this kind of attitude and snarkiness just keeps propagating.
Agreed however just because you parked well doesn’t stop a clown from knocking them into the sidewalk later. At one point they were being thrown in the river.
The NYT is pretty unambiguous that the laptop is disinformation:

> Russian intelligence officers were using Mr. Giuliani, who provided the hard drive copy to the tabloid, as a conduit for disinformation aimed at undermining Mr. Biden’s presidential run.
Kinda. It's different for different people. Many trans women take hormones hoping they'll help them look like a typical gender-conforming cisgender woman.

One other really common reason is that they are deeply upset by and experience dysphoria due to the effects of masculine puberty, and use hormones and surgery to match their body to how they feel it should be. It helps them feel comfortable in their own skin.

I saw a comic from a trans woman once who had recently started hormones, who noticed she had a miserable mood for a few days every couple of weeks for no apparent reason. She marked them on her calendar and found that it was always the couple of days before her HRT shots. She switched from shots every 14 days to every 10 days, and that fixed it up. So it seems that for trans people, HRT isn't just cosmetic, but has a direct effect on mental well-being that's independent of any noticed physical changes.
Does salary==total comp for these purposes?

For large enough companies, posting total comp distribution by position would be way more useful.
> intentionally and personally pissing off every person and organization connecting him and the web.

I thought the whole "#dropkiwifarms" thing was more shaped like an organized pressure campaign, rather than every new provider he signs on with organically deciding within days that his interactions with them are deliberately obnoxious.
Do any of these "counter bad information with good information" solutions address people who seek a narrative first and are not moved by more, or more factual, information that offsets their prior belief?

This is what I'm worried about. Shutting down conversation seems like obviously not the right solution, but I'm becoming increasingly skeptical that these ideas can be countered by the truth, as more people tend to highlight what they want as being The Truth, and dissenters as being brainwashed.
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> … doesn't provide any way for a developer to ask a question, and doesn't show how a developer learns to create an extension

Is this because programming that targets poorly documented APIs is taught at select universities, and Apple wishes for these new grads to have an upper hand?
I know we’re averse to unions in this industry, but if there was ever a time and place for a tech engineering union it’s right now at Twitter.
But this is built into the Drake equation to begin with! My other response details out what I was thinking he meant in the first place.

If you want to argue the Drake equation on its own, that is cool, but it wasn't what I thought OP was talking about. My central argument is that if we are first that is pretty unlikely because we have 1000s of intelligent species and for us to be first of many on our own homeworld in addition to being first in the galaxy or beyond is much less likely.

That said, I could see an argument being made for combative intelligences coevolving increased intelligence and this being the counterpoint to my counterpoint. Though I don't buy it.
> pushing their boondoggle public transport streetcar project and didn’t like cheaper and more environmentally friendly options available for the public.

Yeah I wish more people would recognize this. Many "transit activists" are basically just lobbyists for the regional MTA/MTDs and want to minimize competition.
As I understand it, misinformation isn't necessarily unintentional. Disinformation is a type of misinformation.

"Mis" is wrong. "Dis" is intentionally wrong. "Mal" is using real information for bad purpose (to lead you to a wrong conclusion by giving you out of context info, or to injure with information, like with doxxing).
One of the many question marks with your viewpoint is "How much of what is labeled foreign actor disinformation is actually foreign actor disinformation?"

During much of the last few years, heaps of undesirable stories were labeled by the media or big tech as "foreign bot propaganda" with no proof provided, and a large chunk of even the tech-savvy public bought these claims at face value even though there are methods that could be used to largely verify these claims that were never provided.

It would be trivial for an authoritarian government to label any inconvenient story as "boosted by foreign bots" and totally manipulate and control the news while pretending to "fight foreign disinformation".
The Brilliant Architects Behind Tokyo’s Transparent Toilets
Bad take. Modern PHP is great.
Design patterns do a good job of capturing some design decisions you'll need to make in your career. They represent a level of architectural knowledge that is often poorly captured and communicated in our industry (slightly above language features, and below whole frameworks). Many people treated the book (either in good faith over-enthusiasm, or as a bad faith strawman) as a repository of 'good' code to cut and paste. Some of those people would end up working in a functional language and claiming they don't need design patterns because they're the same as having first class functions. This is just mistaking the implementation for the design motivation. And even then, tough luck, however clever your language. Monads? A design pattern.

So, I will stress again: design patterns represent decisions you can make about your code, in a particular context. If you want to be able to supply or accept a different algorithm to make a decision, that's the strategy pattern. Maybe it's an object with an interface, maybe it's a function callback. The important bit is you decided to let users of your API supply their own policy to make a decision (instead of you just asking for a massive dictionary called 'options' or whatever). If you want to ensure that all calls to one subsystem happen to a single instance, that's the singleton pattern. Whether you enforce that with static calls or in your inversion of control container, you're still making the decision to instantiate it once and not have every callee set up its own version taking up its own resources (or maybe you are, it's a decision after all).

I get somewhat agitated about this stuff, because people are raised to be very skeptical of design patterns. This means they go through their career building up all sorts of design knowledge, but rarely naming and sharing it at a useful level of granularity. That's a huge waste! But the saddest thing about the whole conversation was that the decision _not_ to use a particular design pattern is just as valid as the one to use it, and _even then_ it's still a superior approach because you can be explicit about what you're not doing in your code and why.

Anyway, good luck in your career!
With 2FA it is practically quite difficult to engage in basis day to day banking without a phone in many countries.
Literal wrongthink. What is ideology but looking at the world or a problem through a certain personal experience context.

If this is what flies, CNN are guilty of malinformation daily, through their use of editorialising, never mind more fringe stuff.
I never made the switch from Gnome 2 to 3; I switched to KDE instead. I use a redhat derivative at work, and it's a non-starter for me. RPM + yum is still a hot mess vs. dpkg.

I thought they were recompiling proton for freebsd (it is definitely open source), but I haven't looked carefully.

The "switch user" button is one feature. Whether or not Debian had it in 2002 isn't the point. The point is that what was supported was stable. That hasn't been my experience with it since the pulse audio disaster, and then the init wars.

I should look into switching to pipewire, but the only reason I'm using manjaro is that it mostly works out of the box. I'm not really interesting using a distro that makes me tinker with it to make my sound card (which has perfectly good drivers!) stable.
My hope is that the internal posting requirement will help with this, since internal postings are maybe more likely to be more specific about what level/location the team is looking for.
Agreed. ProtoBufs slows code iteration velocity tremendously. Saving 100 milliseconds on page load while reducing developer efficiency by 30% = a net worse product for end users.
Do we know for a fact that AWS does or doesn't use TCP on their backend? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33402364 leads me to believe Google doesn't.
WRONG. Read the article. It is continuing with monthly meetings.
Please stop spamming.

That message thread is 15 thousand lines long - it is quite disrespectful to demand I read the whole thing without even knowing what I'm looking for. Can you at least point out the relevant parts, or - even better - copy them in a comment for all to see?
The name of the thing is "fp". What new information does that give you? What more information could you possibly jam into the post title?
>- Xenix

Does that include only Xenix proper (last release '89), or later SCO derivatives as well (SCO UNIX/OpenServer)? Asking purely out of curiosity.
Excited to see what Hotz gets into next. An ounce of humility might do him some good, but i'd be hesitant to recommend it to someone like that and ruin his whole edge -- similar to Musk, I think that attitude is huge with regards to their personal effectiveness.

now a short story that your cult comment conjured in my head:

the year is 2122.

the Muskalonian robotic death squad approaches the last cave hold-out of Hotzite believers..

thankfully the killer robots pass by peacefully, blind to the possible engagement because the squad lacks radar and lidar, and the cave is dark.
I've seen it unfolding real-time with the famous Lee Sedol / AlphaGo match. On the day before the first match, people were saying how the match would be a joke, as machines would never understand the deep philosophy of go. A few days later, people were saying that it was a matter of calculating stuff very fast and the match was clearly rigged because Lee only had one brain while AlphaGo had thousands of GPUs. (Yes, someone actually said that. Facepalm.)
No, you have gotten it all backwards. You are only allowed to use the more efficient market rationale when are you defending low wages and higher prices for regular people. Regular people getting higher wages is seen as a disease that must be stopped at all cost. [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-17/powell-tr...
> The real problem is that the Russian army is raping people since eight months ago

Sheeeeshhh. THEY ARENT. The Ukrainian minister who claimed that was fired by her own government and as of this moment she is busy backstabbing her ex-employers by saying that "They made me say it".

I have listed FOUR cases of the SAME rape lie having been used since World War I. WHY would this time be 'different'.

> And my conversation with you ends right there. Anybody claiming this, at this point, is a fool.

Yeah. Anyone says that is a fool. Just like the fools who said that there were no WMDs in Iraq. Definitely they are fools for believing the same freaking lie for the FOURTH time in a row.
Just in case anyone is believing this, take my word for it, don't believe the hype.

DO NOT run a red light in front of a cop in DC. I'm just putting that out there as kindly intended advice. If you go to DC thinking it's free reign, you're likely to be disagreeably surprised. Especially if you're in the parts of the city that I'd imagine most of the people on HN would be likely to be in.

And Heaven help you if, well, other agencies watching DC misinterpret your red light running. You may be in the wrong place at the wrong time and find yourself trying to explain that to people who, as a general rule, don't believe in coincidence.

Yeah. Just don't draw that kind of attention to yourself in DC. That leads nowhere good.
Not providing severance pay at all is perfectly legal.

In most cases, an employer will want at least something in return for providing severance pay.
All of these ideas/notions/opinions/stories were very widely disseminated on Twitter to an audience of millions (BTW, the legality of Trump's behaviour, including what exactly he urged his followers to do, is under ongoing investigation). The suppression of the Post's story on Hunter Biden might have been an overreaction, that story itself was all over Twitter (that's how I heard about it). It's possible some tweets "calling for mass reeducation of white people or the eradication of whiteness" were not removed, but neither were tweets with vile racism/misogyny/antisemitism that constantly flood the platform.

I assume a claim could be made (although it would be hard to support) that, on average, more conservatives are suspended than progressives for similar behaviour but that still amounts to zero conservative ideas suppressed. On the other hand, there's also a bias in violent acts between conservatives and progressives. If there's any conservative content banned or suppressed, I've yet to see a single example.
Probably not, but going where the market is in terms of business. Majority of their headless support is for react so investing in the stack allows them to expand and dictate that future. (Ancedata: did headless Shopify with ember and was aggravated in how piss poor their js support was in relation to React until their dev team told the data).
I found that talk quite interesting/thought provoking (still thinking about some parts years later), is something wrong with me as well?
Whether or not the game is actually inspired by IKEA (clearly it is) has no legal bearing on the matter. What matters is confusion. The factors include:

"(1) similarity of the marks; (2) strength of plaintiff's mark; (3) sophistication of consumers when making a purchase; (4) intent of defendant in adopting the mark; (5) evidence of actual confusion (or lack thereof); (6) similarity of marketing and advertising channels; (7) extent to which the targets of the parties’ sales efforts are the same; (8) product similarity; identity/function/use; and (9) other factors suggesting that consumers might expect the prior owner to manufacture both products, or expect the prior owner to manufacture a product in defendants market, or expect the prior owner is likely to expand into defendant’s market."

While true that IKEA has a strong brand and the in-game store uses very similar branding, they lose on every other factor. It is very unlikely that anyone will reasonably wonder if the game is an IKEA product, or officially sponsored by IKEA. Unfortunately it sounds like the developer doesn't have the resources to defend it, so they'll likely be bullied into changing it unless they get some pro bono legal counsel.
Of course, you bring this up and people will start talking about all the times they were "buzzed" by someone on a scooter, an event which might have led to some bruises or, at worst, a broken wrist. Never mind being buzzed by a car when on a bicycle - a ubiquitous event which can easily end with you losing your balance, falling under the rear wheels, and getting turned into strawberry jam.
The NSA always seemed like a strange name. Their primary function has always been cryptography and the mathematical research to power it, kind of like the national laboratories are to nuclear physics. Then at some point physical interception of the phone and internet networks got added on to that. But as far as I know, they do not do assassinations, psychological operations, etc. like the KGB or CIA does. It seems like it should have just been called the National Cryptologic Agency or something like that.
so will I finally be able to open a link in one app that opens in another app and not in safari?
We've redacted some names from this subthread since its more lurid allegations appear to be unsubstantiated. HN threads often show up high in search results for people's names, so we try to be reasonably accommodating of such requests.
I don’t think productivity was ever the goal of this software. It was to have a record that is standard, digital, transferable, etc. Doctors fought it as long as they could because they knew what it meant for them.

I remember pretty early demos in early/mid 2000s when I was doing some clinical grunt work in college. I had written some software to make my department’s life easier so I was offered up as the hospital’s liaison for the software evaluation. This is when I formed my “never replace a terminal based app, with a GUI based app and expect productivity gains” theory. Everyone working in the hospital knew the terminal app, they type in some random 3 letter code and a screen would pop up. Then they would memorize how many tabs each field was apart from each other. Without a mouse, people could just hum along imputing data a blazing speed once some muscle memory was in place. Everyone had little cheat sheets printed out for the less frequently used commands/codes. When you replace this with a browser/desktop GUI with selectors and drop downs and reactive components of GUI, it tends to 1) require mouse usage for most people and 2) lose the ability to do this quick data entry I described. The pretty interface becomes a steady stream of speed bumps that reduce productivity. Since then I’ve witnessed it in banking and other industries too.
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One of the problems of old on CodeGolf.SE - Knot or Not - https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/30292/knot-or-n...

I took a crack at it one time (even ordered a back issue of Scientific American - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-of-kno... ) and didn't even get something that had a working internal representation that I could use. It's a hard problem.
>a minor issue considering how small part of the annual revenue they were

It isn’t when their messaging acts like they’re gonna go under without your donation when in reality they have millions to burn on frivolities.

“Non-profit” tale as old as time, impossible to run an honest business when the grift depends on guilt.