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>A significant proportion of our society has become totally OK with censorship, cancellation

This specific phrasing jumped out to me because being against both censorship and cancellation should be a contradiction. Cancellation is an example of the exercising of free speech.

Should I not have the freedom to organize a protest of my local theater for hosting a controversial figure that I think is worthy of cancellation? Isn't that a very basic and fundamental example of free speech?

Comments like yours seems to reveal a lack of a consistent principle underlying your argument. Instead, you seem to be defining free speech as some narrow window of speech that you agree with and speech outside that isn't worth protecting. Ironically it ends up making your comment a good example of the exact thing you were decrying.
Unfortunately this is hardly anything. Consider that people spent enough time playing Halo 2 online to cross the Milky Way galaxy and come back.
author here, Finding higher abstractions ultimately is about being able to draw parallels amongst a wider variety of concepts. It doesn't change the concrete thing / the lower levels of abstractions in the least, and it often makes sense to stay at that lower level when communicating or getting things done. Plus I personally enjoy it and I feel it gives me a much wider array of things to draw from when designing / thinking. It broadens my toolbox, even if at the end of the day, all I do is hammer nails.
The friction to transaction completion on iOS and Android is much, much lower. You don't need to go to a website and type out your entire information. Instead you just click a button, that's it.

Rationally it shouldn't matter - you either want to get it or not. But in reality it's not like that. Friction determines our actions.

It's like... you may not be hungry, but if I put an extremely tasty dish before you, you'll find your appetite.

And that's Elon's problem... if he enables this button, he'll have a lot more people subscribe in total than through the website. If he doesn't, then SOME of those people who would've clicked, would've gone to the site, but most would give up.

And the percent that would give up is higher than 30%.

He's just pissed off he can't have his eggs whole and omelet fried at the same time. The guy is a billionaire, he's used to getting what he wants. Not this time.
See QBE: https://c9x.me/compile/

> QBE is a compiler backend that aims to provide 70% of the performance of industrial optimizing compilers in 10% of the code. QBE fosters language innovation by offering a compact user-friendly and performant backend. The size limit constrains QBE to focus on the essential and prevents embarking on a never-ending path of diminishing returns.

> The current version of QBE can target amd64 (linux and osx), arm64, and riscv64.

"QBE vs. LLVM": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25273907
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>It's becoming pretty clear that almost nothing of societal value has been created in the 2010-2020 "tech" boom.

Fixed that for you. Some people made obscene amounts of money.
While I'm sure no one will care to enforce it, such an arrangement still puts you in violation of your visa status. If you aren't working full time and don't even have network access, you are out of H-1B eligibility, regardless of whether you are on someone's payroll or not.
That's cherry picked. The S&P Index has lost less value and also pays dividends.
What entities a person born in a nation to is resources more so then someone born outside of that nation? You can’t control where you’re born, why would that be then used to determine… well, anything about you?
You know it’s going to be this good when the headline starts with “Scientists discover secret to”.
Amazing so many people are quick to compare this story to Apple or Google in the US. Huawei is functionally a part of the Chinese government.
The vast majority of debt for people under 125k/yr who qualify for the 10k relief is the interest, not principle. The forgiveness is then effectively for a tax in this case, not the actual loan, when you think of it like this.

The federal government designed the federal loan program to make them money, based on interest. It has panned out as a very stupid fucking idea, in retrospect, and has made millions of people debt slaves for years on end. They set themselves up for this, combined with stagnating wages, making everything a joke. Everybody wants to talk about bailouts and "work ethic" but seemingly forget the monetary policy was set and managed by the federal government over the past several decades. They could have done better policy if they didn't want a bunch of bullshit.

It has nothing to do with work ethic, at the end of the day. It was a policy decision from on high, and the snowball was set in motion probably long before you even went to school.
Google for Huawei Nortel spying
This is a form of whataboutism and distracts from this particular article. The Apple AirDrop change has its own thread with meaningful discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33778302
Japan’s unemployment insurance won’t pay out after the end of a work permit even if there is a remaining entitlement、because your not ‘available to work’, even if you’re on a specific job seeking permit extension.
Go seems really popular now and a lot of jobs that pique my interest seem to involve it. I’m not a huge fan from what I remember (ofc I haven’t really used it before it’s mainstream success) but I’ve considered if it’s worth picking up.
> I feel envious of these folks getting such a nice severance. It would be rather nice for me to be laid off with a great cash flow of money and take a long vacation.

I can tell you've never been laid off before, because even with severance it doesn't feel like a "long vacation".

Layoffs like this are heavily correlated with a collapsing job market. Finding a new job right now is orders of magnitude more difficult than finding a job a year ago. Getting laid off also works against you, as many potential hirers assume that laid off people were among the lowest performers of their company. It's not fair, but it happens.

It's also not really a relaxing vacation when you're busy prepping for interviews, dealing with interview calls and/or flights randomly scattered across the week, and other interview-related stresses. The clock is ticking and your full time job is now to interview to get a job. It's also likely (in this market anyway) that any company you interview with would prefer that you start ASAP, so you don't even have a defined end date.

Getting laid off with severance sounds fun until it happens and you're faced with the realities, especially in the middle of a collapsing hiring market that has been flooded with 100,000+ laid off FAANG engineers competing for every great job out there.
How Your Appliance Sends Data Back to China
Don’t feel that way—You made people think about the life cycle of languages and it fostered some interesting discussion. That’s what we’re all about here, so you did good :)
There probably is one already: this method is so old that the documentation of privoxy shows[1] how to defeat it. I can confirm it works: their example[2] website says I've visited 61996 times.

[1]: https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/actions-file.html#OVERWR...

[2]: https://lastmodified.normally.com/
See, you scare me. Should private speech in the home have consequences? Speech that not only did you not mean to make public, but you didn't even realize could possibly become public? That's the road to hell for our society.
They LITERALLY lost a court verdict that said they did it to screw customers.

I don't care what Apple's PR said, the court found that the AG complaint of "Many consumers decided that the only way to get improved performance was to purchase a newer-model iPhone from Apple, ... Apple, of course, fully understood such effects on sales." was correct and that Apple had to pay up.
> if a backhoe decides to dig through the fiber line, congratulations your shop just got shut down until it works agian. … Back in the day if the power went out you could open up a receipt book and a ledger and keep taking payments until it came back on, now you can sit and twiddle your thumbs.

This is nothing a good UPS and a standby 5G modem couldn’t handle. Digital systems can be made reliable and redundant, but most people don’t want to go through the effort (or expense) to make it happen.
The problem is that Cauchy sequences are too powerful. The intuitionist/constructive version of "rationally approximable" requires a procedure to approximate a number to any requested degree of precision, but cannot guarantee that equality is decideable.

My use of discrete was informal and in response to the thread here which equated discarding the notion on the continuum with saying the universe is "discrete". More precise in the topology sense is that the rationals are not compact
EP 129: GOLLUMFUN (PART 2)
Their CEO compensation is mostly equity, which has dropped like a stone in the past year.
I recently learned that truly effective altruism comes with $100 million+ “loans” to exec staff. I had no idea the benefits were so juicy.
What's even more flabbergasting is that this only brings them back to the same headcount they had 12 months ago. This is true of almost all the mass layoffs we've seen (twitter excepted). Companies were on a ridiculous binge over the last year. Every time this comes up people explain it as predictions based on the effects of the pandemic, but I don't buy it. This was like a mass delusion.
Absolutely! And the current investors flee as well. Just less of an overall impact of draining liquidity.
The same way you improve any skill:

Do it. A lot. With feedback; preferably quick feedback from people more skilled but any feedback is better than none.
Along the same lines, I found India's Aadhar system to be pretty extraordinary. If you can put your civil liberties concerns aside (and to be clear, I don't think you should), Aadhar has made govt services in India several orders of magnitude more efficient and fraud resistant. I recently sold a piece of property in India and it took literally 10 minutes to do the transaction at a local district office. You just go to a place and get a scan while signing a document that says you are transferring the property. That handles everything ... changing the owner in the public registry, etc.

Compare that to buying a house in the US where you need to use all kinds of third party title insurers etc., because you can't necessarily be sure the person selling you the land actually has ownership of the land in the registry at the moment you are doing the sale.

Also, payment systems in India charge merchants something like 0.1% or less, while credit card companies charge merchants 3-5% in the US. In India everything is cheap because online transactions are very secure ... your Aadhar identity allows you to generate one time codes that are sent to vendors to authorize payments. Even if the one time code is stolen, it can only be used one time. Contrast that with the USA where if someone just gets your social security number and address, they can often impersonate you and charge thousands of dollars against your identity. That insecurity has spawned billions of dollars of costs in the US economy and enriched Visa and Mastercard. Its dead weight on the economy.
These are great. You could probably get a lot of mileage out of a post that explores how to model a react component functionally in diagrams.
A trend that has lasted decades? Try at least centuries.

Egalitarianism and tolerance is a cornerstone of Enlightenment thinking. Constitutions gave power to the people over kings. Capitalism gave individuals a chance to rival the power of vassals who were determined by a caste system.

I’d argue it’s a trend that’s gone on much longer, but progress was much slower when access to information and ideas was not the same as the last century.

It’s not to say there aren’t setbacks, but those setbacks have always been temporary or localized.

Now can something completely prevent this progress? Yeah, but it leads to very dystopian futures that everyone should hope to avoid.
Yes it is? I mean, I consider the military part of "the state" and the various branches participate in advertising, marketing, and product placement.

Just look at this: https://www.businessinsider.com/us-army-marketing-esports-co...

"After Congress withheld half of its ad budget due to an audit that revealed millions in spending that didn't deliver results, the Army dissolved its marketing division, relocated to Chicago, and revamped its approaches to data and events. Officials told Business Insider they planned to emphasize conferences like Comic-Con and esports festival Pax, saying gamers and programmers "make good soldiers.""

Whoops, got a little too exposed during the audit time to reset the paper trail.
It's a decade over here, same for most forms of ID; there was a period where it was reduced to 5 years, but that was due to developing digital technologies, that is, chips on board the documents - they foresaw that they might be outdated or insecure in a few years, and they were right.
Just chiming in to say that I went through all of this myself in 2015. It’s a long adjustment and grief is non-linear, but ultimately adjust you will.
In the US, probably a combination of reduced birthrates means there is less density of children, in conjunction with real estate development that requires cars to travel point to point, effectively filtering out situations where children get together without adults.
30% of Eng was cut. Multiple engineers on my team were cut. The QA team was basically wiped out. As far as I can tell, all the lawyers are still here.
There isn’t one of these steps that bullied children are not doing that they could do to resolve their issue. If your point is that their issue could be solved with education; well maybe, maybe they need parenting also…
I'd say QBE probably
> unlocks something that allows me to think in a broader fashion

I believe this is what's at hand here. What is that something? What is that broad fashion? An example would be welcome
The current layoffs are concentrated in the tech sector because that sector experienced huge growth when everybody was stuck at home. With that now over, it’s just a regression to the mean and employment trends are going back to being in line with the rest of the economy.
The last sentence was a bit of dark humour mate, I probably should have put a sarcasm tag on it. Probably should have said 'on the plus side' which is a bit more of a common way to start those kinds of jokes
Please read the rest of my comment. There's no "stricture," but if one engages in an artistic form without even the most basic awareness of its context, then one opens oneself up to a wide variety of criticism.

If anyone is trying to impose strictures, it is the comments above who try to declare criticism off-limits because there was not a "journalist" label or something.

Simply faking an animal portrait is not groundbreaking or "outsider." It's been done, and it's boring.
> For DoorDash and the ride-sharing companies I really wish there were some sort of localized non-profits that provided these services

In Austin, TX there actually was, it was called Ride Austin. In 2016 Austin voters passed a resolution requiring drivers to be fingerprinted, so Uber and Lyft left until the city was overruled by state government about a year later (this happens all the time - Austin passes some liberal ordinance that the conservative state government later rescinds).

In the time that Uber and Lyft were gone, we had lots of services that popped up to try to take their place, and Ride Austin was probably the best known. I liked it - it paid drivers better and there was an option to contribute to local charities. It was a non-profit but I believe it was essentially kicked off by a local tech billionaire (Joe Leimandt, who has been featured on other stories on HN). But that said, the app and service were never as good as Uber/Lyft, and though I tried to support them when Uber/Lyft came back, they weren't really able to compete and eventually closed down.

Thus, as much as I like the idea of a local nonprofit providing this service, I think the Ride Austin example is as good a one as any to show why it's not really feasible.
Stabilization of gamma sulfur at room temperature to use in Li-S batteries
I was referring to OP that you replied to.

You basically stating that SpaceX have to be careful about letting him work after surgery. At the same time they're totally okay overworking engineers all the time which is known to inevitably lead to human errors.

Fact that Musks' rockets work might be very well despite terrible work conditions.
In addition to public computers and physical offices, smartphones are owned by a large portion of homeless people (especially if younger) because they're quite affordable. It looks like a basic Estonian phone plan, plus financing for a budget smartphone, is only 20 EUR/month. Estonia has no free phone plan (like the "obamaphone" program in the US), but low income people can submit 200 EUR of expenses per year for essentials.
I dunno if, “use Apple AirDrop” is a “most basic freedom”.

Is it shitty and contrary to what they claim to support? Yeah. Does it merit this melodramatic response? Probably not.
To me they mean two different things. "Upskill" tells me he wants the people on his team to develop better writing skills. "Improve" means he wants the writing to be better. A concrete example of the difference is that you can hire contractors to edit and publish the team's writing, which wouldn't necessarily make better writers of the members of his team, but it would improve the team's technical writing.
Pfizer’s CEO rapped by regulator for making ‘misleading’ statements
After decades of straight-up abuse by this sector of the industry, including the subversion of countless "privacy respecting" data collection techniques, I think an extraordinary amount of skepticism and suspicion is more than understandable.
This sucks, but as a decision maker who cares about privacy, and who believes your product on the whole improves users’ privacy: would you rather keep a hard line and lose market share, or give in on select things so that you can maintain and grow market share.

I don’t think there’s an obviously correct choice, but it’s very easy to criticise not taking the hard line. It’s possible that’s the wrong thing for overall privacy.
https://github.com/aws/pg_tle
Are you saying that the blockchain-for-shipping stuff might make the market more efficient with decentralization, but the big companies who have the power to sink or float it don't want this?
> the best way to lose and maintain weight

Why is this "better" than GLP-1 agonists or bariatric surgery or non-surgical procedures? All of these are accepted procedures approved for use by medical board around the world.
Yeah Im unsure what the point is. The motivation for CT in programming seems weak.

Eg Stuff about types and endofunctors feels like trivial examples using the jargon just to use it. OTOH discovering the Top->Grp functor in algebraic topology is kind of unexpected and revealing.
… and I bet they spent it on tiktok and instagram.
> Since the start of this year, macroeconomic and geopolitical factors have weighed on financial markets.

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that they blame geopolitical factors affecting what was shilled as a safe heaven from governments and geopolitical games?
You're reading too much into my comment. I specifically tried to stay neutral because this sort of tactical escalation could come from either side. In no way am I attempting to "define free speech as some narrow window of speech that I agree with". I'm specifically talking about people using seemingly private data to comb over people's private statements, which is a bad thing regardless of the content of those private statements.
You can, and from that point on you have to build and maintain two binaries which only vary by which version of the OS they run on. Instead of just having one file to download, your users need to look at a system info panel to find out which OS they're running, and download the right version, because running the wrong one will print some cryptic error about being unable to resolve a _IOMainPort symbol

By comparison, there is no problem running a binary from Windows 95 on Windows 11, nor is it a problem to run old (static) Linux binaries on modern Linux

What's so awful about this is that Apple is forcing this API breakage for one reason only: to get the word "master" out of the name of one of their low-level API calls. Not a security issue. Not a performance issue. Not a maintenance issue. With this breaking change, Apple virtue-signals about how _little_ it cares about backward compatibility
A public street or a tv interview isn't in privste.
Teachers/admin can't long-term isolate the shitheads unless they go really far—notably, it's very hard to be kicked out for bullying that's short of repeated cases of extreme outright violence. A teacher and even school admin can't "fire" a chronically disruptive and/or bullying student. Other students can't vote with their feet and flee the classes with the worst bullies. They're stuck and no-one has the power to fix the situation.

That's why it's so bad. One employee starts pulling dumb shit and several employees report it to the manager, good chance that employee's not going to be able to keep it up much longer or they'll be gone. Yes, abuse happens at workplaces, but school-type bullying doesn't have the same kind of cover it does in a school. Several students report a bully, that bully will still be there next week. And next quarter. And maybe in their class next year. Still being a bully.

Selection bias during admissions gets talked about a lot when it comes to private schools, but they also have the superpower of being able to tell a kid who won't shape up to GTFO permanently. One family's tuition isn't worth risking several other students leaving. This can and does happen, and it doesn't solve all the problems, but it means the worst of the worst don't stick around like they do at public schools, poisoning the whole school atmosphere.
Unclear what he wants to do. But I have the feeling, based on past experience from last 4 weeks, that it'll be desperate and stupid.
It's pretty convenient if you leave far from restaurants. Last night I ordered and yes it was about 15% more expensive. But I was pretty busy and didn't want to drive and wait in line to get my food.
Eat, Move, Sleep.

There's even a book w this title.
It isn’t so much that the other party is expected not to get it, just that there must be some possibility. It is like a trust fall. You don’t expect to land on your butt, but you have to engage in the possibility.
> I had back surgery, there is no way in hell he only missed a few days of work or was working anywhere close to capacity through this ordeal.

I'm sorry, are you a doctor? A friend of mine just had back surgery a month ago. Something with his spinal fluid. He was fine & pain free after three days. They sent him home from hospital after four at which point he went back to work.

There are so many reasons why someone may have back surgery.
You seem to deduce something from /your/ back surgery. A specific case and a sample size of one ...
Who said "correct or incorrect" besides you? This conversation is about whether a photographer can be criticized for posting faked pictures (they can).
Yeah, unless they're trying to get a specific person out and using it as an excuse, nobody is going to look any further than that end date.
I was responding to the parent comment?

> What worries me is that the US itself will go in the same direction. The surveillance is already there, but it is not acted on for the most part in everyday life. But there may be a clock on how long that will last.