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> the US cares about you not endangering other people

Through their rigorous license process to operate road vehicles…yeah right.
Never before has the HN bubble been so clear to me before reading the comments of this post.

He outright says it in the article, about how it wasn't about the money. If it was, there are more effective ways of going about getting that compensation than putting the story into the public domain
What I can 100% relate to: Writing Java for on and off 20 years but if you didn't for a year or two fumbling to start with a blank file and getting the psvm and args right.

But I mean, you should totally get back into at least being able to write something like fizzbuzz in the language you're probably using to write some sample code.

Except trim() vs strip() - that will forever trip me up per language.
Where does the author act like they are totally blameless?
It took me a while of ruminating but I think I like this answer the best. Fundamentally here some people are upset that something they own would betray them.

Which is weird, because it implies anything you used but didn’t buy can and should betray you, and it’s your own fault. You should have been smarter. But it makes a bit of sense, for some odd reason I can’t quite make tangible. When the samsung TV I bought starts showing me ads, when my pricey cable or Hulu package interrupts for commercials, I feel a tinge of this.

So now I think I somewhat get the feeling. Thank you.
This reads like someone who had a friend win the lottery and is now extremely mad that he didn’t ask for and get millions of dollars that one time when he helped him move, but “only” got 20k
In regards to basic plotlines: These might go well if you look at movies in pure commercial terms or a made up metric of "how many people did a single piece of media manage to distract from their lives for a few minutes".

But both as a musician and a film maker I'd be warn about relying overly on such metrics alone. People (can) form connections to the media they interact with that go beyond these metrics and the functions culture itself performs for humanity is more than the money it produces and the minds it keeps busy. It is also about reflection, documentation, memories, meaning, representation and similar hard to define things.

Some of the most important pieces of music I heard or films I experienced have been commerical flops and have small (but passionate) audiences.

Humans are wildely different in their tastes and psychological needs — the media we really love is a reflection of that. Commercially successful media is media that a broad majority of people find good or at least worth consuming and there is nothing bad about that. But it is often more specific productions that really strike a deep chord withing their audience. Maybe it brings up memories from their childhood, maybe it expresses feelings they always had, but never could put their finger on, maybe it is a particularily good expression of a (power) fantasy that individual has and so on. There might be a film with horses in it that saved a teenage horse loving girl from suicide and even if 99% of the world (including me) thinks that movie sucks, it might not have sucked for that girl.

The point here is: Often the stuff that really hits deep for one personally might not woo the broad commercial audiences at all. Because what hits you might not hit all. And what hits most might also hit you, but not as hard or deep.

Obscure media has it's value.
> It didn't for the longest time

mid 2009-end 2011 is not "the longest time", c'mon!
Microbiology is a STEM subject, a 'hard' science, where you have fairly stringent criteria for evaluating the reproducability of truth claims.

Fields that lack reproducability, replace this (i.e. truth) by community consensus which is enforced, in parts, by threats.
Elon Musk accused of turning Twitter offices into bedrooms
I just *memcopied him to be honest
Do you have no flaws?
A lot of features Vivaldi has are definitely "nice-to-have" level, especially stuff they seemingly put in for fun like Philips Hue integration.

But there are some very functional settings I use that I just miss in every other browser. Most notable for me are:

- extremely (at least relative to Chrome or Firefox) configurable keyboard shortcuts

- easily editable search engines (you have to enable this with an about:config parameter that isn't default -- not that it's turned off by default, but that it's a parameter you have to know about beforehand and add yourself to the list)

And it's Chromium, so you get Chromium extensions such as uBlock Origin, which is why I stuck with it over qutebrowser (which also has configurable keyboard shortcuts) even though it's closed source.

I loved Vivaldi. It has the spirit of Opera, where it's all about giving power users options instead of streamlining them away for UX (which is still an option you can have with Vivaldi!). I use Firefox now -- Manifest v3 was the last straw -- but I lament the loss of configurability in some areas.
NearlyFreeSpeech has an incredible FAQ: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq
Apparently I225 went through 2-3 revisions, and the "b3" is supposedly ok. But the newer $200 PCs are now coming with the I226, which it's claimed is much better.
Yes, Gregory Kurtzer personally helped in development (primarily the packaging / tools during 8.3 and then 8.4). I know, I was there lol. For example, see the commit log to the early set of Rocky Linux devtools:

https://github.com/rocky-linux/devtools/commits/main?after=f...

"All he does is talk" is unfairly dismissive. We all have our roles, and Greg's is not release engineering.

The "taking credit" bit is an unfortunate misconception, media likes to attribute the entire project to gmk since he's a notable personality, but he himself does not.
First case you describe is not possible, there’s no downgrading possible on ledger ‘s OS, it’s up only

Second case would be obvious to user, he would see the failing attempts at updating.
Because opt-out implies that my body is not my property nor my heirs but the property of the state upon my death (and possibly before), whereas the opposite is true for opt-in.

Like most rights and freedoms, opt-in protects me legally better than opt-out but makes life more difficult for the group if people use their freedoms selfishly. I would never opt-in to opt-out because I value freedom and want humans to do the difficult bit of persuasion and education instead of coercion and the nasty ramifications that can come of the state getting even a camel's nose inside the tent of owning my body (and thus the right to do things to that body).

Pick any freedom/right you like and it'll be like this, whether it's speech or guns or right to silence or right to a lawyer, bodily autonomy against vaccine mandates or bodily autonomy in getting abortions… freedom is just so inconvenient for those who want what's best for the collective, but never mind the individuals who get crushed along the way to utopia.

So no thanks (and that includes your generous offer of a time limited opt-out).
It is and it isn't.

My point was that regardless of anything else going on, when you're the CEO, and your business card says "CEO", then it happened on your watch (the first rule of leadership being everything is your fault etc.)
It's been a while since I played with GN, but aren't "drivers" merely python scripts that outputs values that can been used as input fields?
That reminds me of an interview where I was asked about something about "a module", to which I responded that I needed some clarification, and rattling off like 4 different uses of the word, only to be meant by a blank stare because supposedly I was to guess whatever specific technical term in $techstack the person was referring to.
At one time I noticed this being a problem and it didn't want to go away. I was dreading the thought of it becoming worse and worse as I age. Then I somehow realized that I am consuming far too much caffeine and alcohol and once I cut down on both it almost ceased to be an issue. Stress also played a factor and was linked to the caffeine/alcohol consumption.
B6 (don't exceed 100mg/day) and zinc deficiency can also have an impact.

Also, get enough sleep.
I don't see how this is supposed to work on different devices without screenshots
It really got a lot better over the past years indeed. I do miss support for Heic, recently NC just decided to upload Jpeg instead of Heic, and I have mixed feeling about that (Jpeg just works, the new pictures app is great because of it... But I would prefer to have heic and live images everywhere...).
Someone opened an issue on the repo, so I let ChatGPT handle it: https://github.com/lovasoa/Sensitive-Topic-History-Quiz/issu...
Now here's an attempt at explaining science to laypersons gone wrong:

> [...] makes use of a rare element, beryllium-10, or 10Be, that occurs when stars in the Milky Way explode and send high-energy particles, called cosmic rays, rocketing toward Earth. When this galactic shrapnel slams into the Earth’s crust, it splits oxygen in the soil apart, leaving tiny trace amounts of 10Be [...]

I would say 10Be is formed by cosmic rays hitting the crust, then it occurs there. And "rocketing" is far slower than the speed at which these particles travel (almost light speed). Also, comparing subatomic particles to "shrapnel" (a macroscopic object) sounds a bit strange to me, but since these are parts broken off from atoms, similar to the way shrapnel breaks off from a grenade, it might make sense...
I love that game, but the first thing that came to mind was the satellite dish array somewhere in the desert.
Twitter Blue will cost more from iPhones to offset ‘hidden 30 percent tax’
He didn't want to involve his agent, but he didn't want to negotiate the contract himself either. He just wanted the purity of the art. Which I can understand and admire, but it was also contract work. And his unwillingness to see it for what it was, made the whole thing incredibly awkward for everybody.

In the end, his struggles seem to have lead to a lot of personal growth, and that's great, and he does seem to understand that he mostly created this problem himself, and could easily have prevented it by involving his agent. But I'm not so sure that he understands that this was never about friendship; he was hired to write an ending, had a profound artistic connection with the guy who hired him, and somehow he seemed to think that entitled him to a friendship rather than a business relationship. I'm not sure he understands that that was the core misunderstanding here, and that his belief in a friendship that was really a business relationship, made the business relationship really awkward and dysfunctional.
Well, I guess this is what happens when a business operation is placed under the control of marketing.

It's a very old-fashioned attitude; back in the early noughties, many companies thought of the web as essentially an advertising billboard, so the website was placed under the marketing team. That's counterproductive, if the website is actually a core business operation.
What surprises me is that the arguments can be put forward. That someone like that MP doesn't assume he will immediately laughed out of the room.
i would say if aurorastore people made an IOS version that does clean UI/ no ads and filter by "no ads" that would be a killer.

i recently saw iPad that a friend bought and the app store, safari, apps are ad ridden shitfest like in pre-ublock days.

i mean, internet surfing without ublock already feels like having unprotected sex and with everything else you can use adblocker but in apple, you are stuck.... yeah unless you use private DNS from some provider, they might help but not otherwise
assume there's an xkeyscore query logging Tor connections within the US. that's easy for the NSA to implement, and seems like something they'd do, and would capture all users directly connecting.

now, a foreign VPN isn't going to be connected to the xkeyscore dragnet like Comcast would be. I'm sure the NSA's pwned dozens of VPN providers, but beam-splitting all VPN traffic into a colo'd supercomputer isn't going to be stealthy. the best the NSA could do is watch for outbound connections from the VPN to Tor, then match the connection to your ingress using their access inside the VPN's infra. they can't do that in bulk without the VPN company catching on. that's a capability they'll save for going after individuals. just the fact you connected to Tor isn't suspicious enough to be worth risking burning their backdoor, for them.

the point is that connecting to Tor via a VPN keeps you out of the dragnets. and all the VPN provider learns is that you're using them as a gateway into Tor.
Revolutions are usually led by members of privileged classes, backed by the angry masses.

Nobody here is saying they desire that type of violent unrest, they're saying it's a likely outcome unless we change course, because as bad as it is for tech workers right now it's so much worse for those less privileged.

There's also the realisation that if even the most highly skilled workers in society can be treated so cavalierly and have not have enough certainty of employment and success then the system is broken.
It’s fair to focus on financial when the author spends the entire article mulling over legal action because he feels hard done by, and then ends the article begging for money in the form of donations.
As I understand it, Vivaldi is Chromium, with a custom chrome UI rendered as a React app run similarly to an extension, but more privileged.

The source they publish there are the changes they made to allow the "extension, but more privileged" clause above.

The React app is closed source.
Wow a lot of HN commenters are so cynical of the writer and very quick to discount the value of the End poem.
I'm not sure that there are any ads right now, I guess Apple will plan to expand their business by adding more ads in the near future.
" I don't follow that Biden-Ukraine stuff."

>> Yeah, I'm not surprised, you seem to be fed directly by what Twitter and Youtube are telling you is worth knowing about, so no wonder you have never heard of certain things.

And again, "he's a bot pushing far-right topic" is textbook what any totalitarian regimes say when they justify shutting down the internet, I don't think you realize how much you sound exactly like the Ministry of Information in Iran, in Moscow, or in North Korea.... "oh, but i'm leftist, it's ok when WE do it".
Spot on. I felt like my IQ shot up by a couple of points after reading this book
>already a hundred-million-dollar game, but with no ending

Just gonna say it, the game was better without the rushed ending anyway and the amount it sold before it had one is testament to that.
> No, I don't care to discuss this further.

You never discussed anything to begin with. You had several statements with zero intent to support them. Including this:

--- start quote ---

> There is much more energy spent on protecting peoples organs (the ones they were born with) than on replacing organs.

That's the narrative the world would like to believe for various reasons, but it doesn't fit my firsthand experience at all.

--- end quote ---

The reason the people "piled on" (that is, exactly two people replied) is that this doesn't match other people's firsthand experiences, and doesn't correlate with any available stat and metric.
Not a VPN, TOR just runs as a SOCKS proxy on whatever device you're using[0]. Replacing the actual network stack at OS level was considered but iirc was decided against because it would require admin permissions.

The TOR browser and Brave do the exact same thing, it's just that the TOR browser is configured to not store anything and to make sure it's fingerprint to other sites is as generic as possible (this is also why TOR warns you about changing window size, it un-generalizes that fingerprint). Both ultimately are conveniences because messing with SOCKS proxy settings is rather unfriendly for most users.

If you use a Linux distro, I'd recommend checking out torsocks[1], it's a shared library + a shell script that lets you "onion-ify" any application pretty easily.

[0]: This also means you can connect basically every mainstream browser to TOR if you know the port the SOCKS proxy is running on.

[1]: https://man.archlinux.org/man/torsocks.1.en
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The College Essay Is Dead. Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia
> This undated blog post (published in about May this year) is not the last word on Julia. There have been fixes made to issues brought up.

And yet this is an anticipated reaction:

> Whenever a post critiquing Julia makes the rounds, people from the community are often quick to respond that, while there have historically been some legitimate issues, things have improved substantially and most of the issues are now fixed.

> For example:

> [...]

> These responses often look reasonable in their narrow contexts, but the net effect is that people’s legitimate experiences feel diminished or downplayed, and the deeper issues go unacknowledged and unaddressed.

> My experience with the language and community over the past ten years strongly suggests that, at least in terms of basic correctness, Julia is not currently reliable or on the path to becoming reliable. For the majority of use cases the Julia team wants to service, the risks are simply not worth the rewards.
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It absolutely reads as if his contribution is significant enough that he should be be considered one of the creators.

> giving money to back-office staff who had just arrived in the last year, and had zero creative input into the game [...] I had helped him create the actual game

The way he puts down regular employees, making it sound like his poem is obviously more important than whatever a mere employee does.
https://archive.ph/dr1m4
Egypt has long been a central node in culture creation and diffusion across the "old world". One of the most striking (and not widely known) facets is its dabbling with monotheism [1].

[1] https://www.thecollector.com/akhenaten-monotheism/
I think this is the default for services like Intercom and you can't stop it [0]. It's super annoying.

0: https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/5053699-how-do-i-s...
Do SQLite write locks work properly over EFS with many concurrent instances?

https://www.sqlite.org/useovernet.html
...and people wonder why I think contract law is as damn close to a poson pill as you can have in something brazenly referred to as a justice system.
The law has passed - but it also has exemptions for security.... So we can expect a lot of negotiating between the EU & Apple/Google on what they actually have to do.
Checked exceptions are the bane of my existence
Hm. If Gallium3D is in some way higher level than Vulkan, but it also allows higher performance high-level API implementations (as I believe it does), maybe that is because it's internal to Mesa so drivers can punch holes in its abstractions as needed?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259034622...
> Buying a multimillion pound stately country estate for your HQ

Nit: they bought it as an events space. HQ is rented in a normal office building.
There was something similar with the soundtrack of Doom Eternal [1]. They were also about to get paid billions by Microsoft and didn't pay the composer.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33532078
> "do not reply below this line"

If you're going to use email for customer interactions, then respect the conventions of email. I will reply below whatever line I choose. If your software doesn't support that, then answer the phone.
If they were really friends this conversation would have been had candidly in a social setting
Yes, specifically to change focus from academic work to being "full time" on OpenBLAS a bit and clean it up as it started getting a lot more traction. Shortly after completing that he passed on the maintainership of OpenBLAS its growth, but that was how it sat until came along late in 2017 to pick it up from there.

This ends up being why a lot of people in the Julia Lab learned the internals and started creating pure Julia BLAS implementations, which continues to this day with things like LoopVectorization.jl and Octavian.jl (though Chris Elrod was not around during that time, so he comes with his own influences)
There are undersea slugs who store devoured algeas chlorophyl in transparent pockets under the skin.
It's opt-out in Singapore
This is a misunderstanding but it is far from unusual. For one, the JavaScript package ecosystem is incredibly vain and is absolutely obsessed with these sorts of deeply flawed measurements of popularity.
Write simple drum patterns or get randomized songs, then just share the URL
"Please urinate with precision and elegance" is pretty good though, if I ran a bar I'd be tempted to hang that over the urinals. Gets a laugh, and gets the point across.
I think the issue is that the lower classes look at the average tech worker and consider them a part of the problem.

When they start lining people up claiming you’re “middle class” making $400k per year isn’t likely going to work.
Loved my Sea Eagle, but it was hard to carry to alpine lakes. If you like the Sea Eagle, something like an Alpacka Raft might be up your alley.
> Having worked in tech companies similar to Apple for most of my career

Why do you think that gives you any authority in this argument? If anything, it makes you biased.

> slowing the phones down to preserve battery life seems like a more likely explanation than the intentional consumer harm theory.

It's not about intentional consumer harm. Companies are rarely that evil. The most likely explanation is that it was a business decision to boost profits. If Apple truly cared about their users, they could've suggested any of the existing power saving features, or introduced more, like a performance slider, and given users the choice to decide what they value more.

> I can see how a court that doesn't know any better or folks on the internet who get a lot of utility from hating apple would lean the other way though.

"Folks on the internet" are hundreds of thousands of users all around the world. And some of the lawsuits were settled[1].

Why you think your personal opinion matters more than thousands of consumers is beyond me. But I can see why it would happen on this forum.

Oh, and this slowing down issue isn't the only example of planned obsolescence from Apple. There are many cases of dropping support of new OS versions or features for perfectly capable hardware[2].

I'm sure you'll tell me how there were good reasons for all of these, but let's spare ourselves the time, and don't bother.

Apple didn't invent PO, but it has certainly played a role in making it the world's most profitable company. Hence, "perfected it". :)

And now, flying in the face of all this evidence, they have the audacity to claim how consumer and environment friendly their devices are, and to frame this minimal effort to offer user repair options in Europe as another example of their benevolence. It's corporate gaslighting at best.

It's frustrating having to defend this case in a forum surrounded by smart people, but again, unsurprising given many here have FAANG backgrounds.

[1]: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/04/08/apple-to-pay-34m-...

[2]: https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/apples-planned-obso...
1. get a software development job in big tech or finance

2. lose 33lbs/15kg of bodyweight

3. get treatment for ADHD
Alma produces a rather snazzy script to migrate from CentOS which works really well.

I'm told it also works with Rocky, but I haven't tried it.
Trace-Based Testing Matters to SREs
>>> I want Microsoft, or Notch, or Mojang, to just give him a million dollars.

Why just give someone a million for no reason. It ain't beans we are talking about money here.