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> In my younger Slashdot days, I would read these polarized discussions, and it taught me about many perspectives on even the simplest thing.

I know precisely what you mean, but I'd argue that you were in a position to consider multiple perspectives in the first place. A lot of people are not. They have determined their position ahead of time, and regardless of new information, they will not change it.
No plastic material, only basic contact, no advanced connectors...
This is my problem with all these fancy FEA codes, nice in theory, not fit for industrial models.
While I think reducing VAT on basic things is a good idea, sadly this won't have any impact.

Why? It already happened before here. When someone sells something for, say, 1€ and then with the VAT reduction it should sell for 0.95€, they won't change prices which translates to more benefit. Why would they? Also they always can claim they did take in account the reduced VAT but their costs have increased and so their prices.
Something has always fascinated me about New World borders of different kinds being so square.

Iowa is divided so neatly into 99 square counties (apart from the 99th, a rectangle with a funny story), Wyoming itself is literally a four-sided shape the size of Britain.

This kind of thing is so mind-blowing to a European.
I'd be interested in seeing if other wildcard types actually care about this? Beyond living well of course, need cash for that.

My drive is dopamine, not money. As long as I'm fed and not in debt I couldn't give a rat's tail how much I'm earning. I'd take a hefty pay cut to jump on a "hell yes" project.
I think your experience is common (it certainly resonates with me) so I’m certainly not trying to contradict you when I say that I think there exist tools to help with the problem you mention - but JIRA is not one of them.

These days, I work on the basis that managing the backlog is actually the management problem that needs solving. With an appropriate tool (I like ProductBoard), I can group together related issues, put my notes on them, and assign them to another developer. That helps them keep the blue light on too.

Most so-called product management tools seem to think that a bunch of cards on a kanban board is all we need. But if the problem was that easy, nobody would have a problem.
> Strong leaders are able to marshal engineers to build things like the iPhone, electric cars, reusable rockets

talking about tired takes...

The real refreshing take would be acknowledging that these things would exist even without them and that the cult of personalities is such an antiquate way to explain the success (or the demise) of companies (looks like Americans have learned nothing from the fall of Stalin).

Anyway: Steve Jobs did not give us smartphones and for sure Musk did not invent electric cars or reusable rockets.

They are (were?) good at marketing what other people made and other people still built.

In the case of Steve Jobs he died before turning full Elon Musk, whose contribution to the companies he's been part of has been mostly bad PR and egomaniac stunts.

Not that it hasn't worked more than a couple of times, but that doesn't mean it's good.

Psychologically wise, they are both visionary tyrants, emphasis on the second trait, which is the prevalent, the most evident and the one other people had to deal with.

As Psychology Today has put it "Steve Jobs success sends the wrong message to aspiring leaders" because "while Jobs was a successful leader, entrepreneur, and visionary, he fell considerably short of the qualities possessed by the very best leaders"

In tech everything is still muddy and it's hard for people outside of the field to differentiate between the genius and the impostor, so to put it in terms that are easier to understand for the general public, Musk and Jobs are Kanye West, the people who actually designed the things you mentioned and then built them and made them work, are Frank Zappa.

edit: to prove the point.

Who can name, off the top of their head, the strong leader who gave us the Nokia 1100 and the Nokia 1110 that are as of today the two best selling mobile phones ever in human history (250 million units each)?

Or the strong leader responsible for Mario franchising, almost 800 million copies sold, or Pokémon, 450 million copies sold?
But pretending Elon is deserving of this attention is just lazy journalism… like he’s screaming from a megaphone what he’s doing… and journalists aren’t even looking at other billionaires/space companies/car companies that are up to worse activity than anything Elon is responsible for. (I’m not saying it excuses it, but it’s wasted attention)
Coming up with fun names for them doesn't change their classification, and many people did get fooled into believing the space was legitimate due to the mountain of junk whitepapers, "doxxing" and other efforts by scammers.
Yes, all hosts accessing the borg repository need the encryption keys or the passphrase of the repository, since it relies on the homomorphic encryption of the repo.

And yeah, we tend to partition our borg repos along functionality and needs of restore. For example, database backups and file store backups are split into different repos, but several file store hosts in the same cluster all write to the same borg repo. After all, if something allowed to compromise one file store host, it will most likely allow compromise of all identically setup file store hosts in that cluster.

And on the other hand, in this way, we don't have to think about the backups if one of the file store hosts goes offline - the other two will just continue writing backups. This would be something that's really easy to forget and could bite very badly.
If you're not willing to accept risk in a business action, including legal risk, you should not do that action.

Culpability for damaging the environment should rest on the person who caused the damage.

This is basic stuff.
Article talks about "electronic devices", but the study compared paper with reading on smartphone screens.

My feeling is that reading on an e-reader should be quite similar to paper, because of the different kind of screen and different use pattern of the device (your brain is probably half distracted just by knowing that it's using a smartphone...), but that wasn't included.
Probably once the people give up after North Korea steals all their crypto.
Gonna happen in the US too…
I hope it will not sound overly dismissive, because it is not intended as such. Does anyone find socioeconomic status ( SES ) so broad a label that it is almost useless catch all category for whatever data you actually want to capture?

Even the abstract basically makes very generic:

"Much of a child’s environment is captured by socioeconomic status (SES), a summary measure usually comprised of household income, parental education, and neighborhood quality"

Am I completely misunderstanding how it is used?
Is there anything in real life which you divide in two groups you wouldn’t get differences in some metrics on average? I’ve never heard anybody who thought that there was no differences in women and men behaviours on average.
is Tesla stock a meme stock, isn't its hyper valuation one of a meme stock?
Reminds me of one of my backlogged projects: I'd like to have an SRS app that just draws cards at random, with probabilities proportional to how 'urgently' you need to review the cards (using the same logic of exponential growth in review intervals). I just couldn't get myself to stick with Anki so far, because I didn't like the 'X cards to review today' UX of the SM2 algorithm. I also think it's false accuracy trying to predict the exact review time down to the minute, I couldn't find much research supporting that any of the SM family algorithms would be the claimed optimum.

If that already exists, ideally compatible with Anki cards, I'd be happy for recommendations. I have other projects and ideas that I feel would add more to the world than the umpteenth Anki-clone.
> In fact it appears the opposite is true: covid is causing immuno-deficiency. Each infection gets worse than the last.

You just described positive feedback loop. If that would be case, everyone on this planet would be already dead.
Pressures that have always existed for vertical farms have come to a head
Those links you posted are about acute cases, which probably means those patients had other health issues (being overweight, diabetes etc). It's not a convincing argument that there's some kind of vast immune depletion going on in the general populous as a result of covid.
In England we have this weird legal gray area around wild camping.

It’s not strictly speaking legally protected but it’s not illegal either.

Trespass in England is definitely not yet a crime[1].

Apart from a few specific areas like Dartmoor where wild camping is specifically legal it amounts to, you can camp where you like but you can’t damage anything doing so and if you get asked to leave you have to.

If you don’t leave when asked to by the land owner only then it becomes a criminal matter.

The whole process becomes even murkier because it’s often hard to know who actually owns the land. A random member of the public can’t ask you to leave.

It turns out that land owners don’t often want to admit they own the land.

The whole thing is a bloody mess but can be summed up as, it’s easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission so leave no trace.

1. I say not yet because several wealthy Tory party donors have campaigned for years to change the law.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/trespass-and-nuisance-...
I doubt anyone was confused....
Hmm is see it this way. Humans are a network of information sharing that could solve this problems. Computers are the same and should also
Solve hard problems.

And yes, sadly, many humans are just probalility in my eyes.
This has been my frustration in my career. I end up with a “manager” attached to me. To the corporate side, it looks like he’s Batman and I’m Robin. But really only if Batman were having constant stage “asides” where he plugged Robin for strategy, to explain things so he could reshape them, seek direction advice, etc.

At 52, I tire of it. I’ve toyed with feeling out the switch to CTO/management, but I think I’d just suck at it (low self esteem?) and/or go crazy. I like being a “wildcard” because I like getting stuff done. As near as I can tell, management types thrive in a culture akin to front seat passengers that constantly network with each other about what their drivers get done, giving mostly pointless advice/direction, and taking credit for where the cars end up. Unless it doesn’t end well, then it’s the drivers fault. They live in a world where they watch others get stuff done.
Brilliant idea. :)
I disagree, with caveats. There's the idea of a "T-shaped person": A little bit of knowledge in a lot of things, with deep knowledge in one area. This is what organisations tend to hire for.

The wildcard person eventually develops into a shape more akin to the differencing mark seen in heraldry for first-born sons. Much broader and deeper general knowledge, and several areas of very deep knowledge.

As one of these people, I can stand by the fact that, yes, you will be sought out by organisations which are struggling with serious challenges, but that does not mean that they can't pay good money. They can frequently pay very good rates, if you're working as a consultant, because you'll be paid for out of CapEx.
So do we all pick our own billionaires now? Like Musk is the villain of the Left and Gates is the villain of the right?

I reckon people should focus on fixing a system that allows individuals to amass such power/wealth. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
I'd say it sounds decent but certainly not "super clean".
Downplaying COVID was the only thing Musk was right. See Sweden not following WHO orders had small bump in excessive deaths. Also average age of dying with COVID was 84. There are no factory workers at Tesla that old.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...
The giant unfolding umbrella antenna is not far off from what has been thoroughly commercially publicized for the unclassified commercial first and second gen Thuraya satellites (Boeing 702 bus).
Wifi only iPads and other tablets usually don't have GPS while the cellular versions do.
Does anyone know how this compares to Cilium? https://grafana.com/blog/2022/10/24/grafana-and-cilium-deep-...
> since Google has Go and it can be configured in a way that suits it

So, it's important to remember that Google is a large company. The golang and Android teams are different people, with different goals.
Appears to be https://twitter.com/drawthingsapp
Exactly: if you're talking to people who already understand your value, then you don't have to pitch your value to them. Specialists also benefit from this, with the additional benefit that they can look for employment outside their network.

There are some survivorship biases responding in this thread, but the fact remains that employment opportunities favor specialists over generalists, all other things being equal.
Show HN: ChatGPT Electron Mac App
Ventura was a good program but having to run it under GEM was a drag.
absolutely 100 percent.
> That's inevitable when you've got 100 people applying for 10 positions. The same thing happens in sports, where one thousandth of a second distinguishes the winner from the forgotten loser.

This is not universally true.

Eg the world's richest and second richest (or 10th and 11th richest) persons differ in their wealth (or income etc) by more than a fraction of a penny.

Details depend on the underlying distribution.
There’s some variation between them when it comes to software though - with custom USB drivers only being available for the M1 based iPads that are supported via USBDriverKit

I’ve got an iPad mini and what I really want is a USB oscilloscope that works with it
I don't think VW has benefited any (openly) Nazi people in several decades, so this argument seems just really silly.
I worked through large parts of PQP ([1]) with only the prerequisites that you state, as part of a Uni course taught by Aleks Kissinger.
I got quite comfortable with the formalism and could solve most problems without too much issue, but at the end I still knew nothing at all about quantum physics. YMMV
Your words are stolen. You didn't invent English, its words, its grammar.

AI art is stolen in the same way music resamples are stolen.

It steals like artists learning from other artists. Babies learning from the world around them.
I used borg for years, never had any issue. Even though there were scares of bad versions that could corrupt your archives. Never happened to my personal backups of a few hundred Gs at most.

But I had to switch to restic because the S3 support was too good. Off-site backups in one command, instead of having to maintain my borg repos on NAS and external disks.
No it isn’t. Trespassing in England and Wales is NOT illegal.

If you’re asked to leave you have to but trespass itself is not a crime, it’s purely a civil matter.

See the opening sentence from the CPS website:

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/trespass-and-nuisance-...
How would that work with CarPlay, or how would someone charge on the go?
The claim I find objectionable is that brains do 'hypercomputation', and can not be ran on a Turing machine.
Then it wouldn't be the right frame of mind, contradicting dekhn's axiom that it's the right frame of mind.
Well, but what this article is stating, is that those differences you pointed out being connected to gender, are actually due to the sex of the individual, not due to the gender an individual chooses to identify with.
If this is so obvious, and that mRNA vaccines are better at reducing the spread, what is keeping China from importing foreign vaccines or developing their own mRNA version of Sinovac?
(a) considering maps out, it's obviously not "almost useless" because it generally has high predictive ability for various outcomes.

(b) considering maps in, it's not "catch all" because in the US context, Zip+4 generally suffices to predict household income, parental education, and (obviously) neighbourhood quality.

(I suspect it's spelled SES because the US is unwilling to admit that they are not all middle-class)
One of the interesting comparisons between public land and private in the US I recently encountered was on a forum about long range target shooting.

One person posted a fairly blunt statement that Texas was a modern gun owners paradise.

People concurred from many perspectives (very few limits on what you can own, etc), but also pointed out there is VERY little public land in Texas where you can go shooting independently. Everywhere you can shoot legitimately is an established range on private land, or a range of a private club, or similar. Or you have to know somebody who owns or controls a large chunk of private ranch land and will let you set up targets. Texas is almost entirely made up of private land.

As compared to California, which has famously very restrictive laws, but also has vast areas of public land (both state and federal govt owned) in some very sparsely populated rural areas, where target shooting is officially permitted as long as you meet some basic safety and no-littering standards. In California you can totally drive out into the desert and DIY your own temporary range on what will likely be BLM land.

Not possible at all in Texas. Same with public lands in WA, OR, ID in many counties.
This article is saying that the differences are sexual, not due to gender.
i think it’s that the products are now mature.
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> My guess is they think they can win in the court of public opinion because it's for "people like you" using a phone that you have, rather than something for "other people".

This stuff just really upsets me because, if it happens like that, it just shows the corporate capture of the U.S. and Apple's nearly limitless market power.

> It would be interesting to see how Apple could be forced to implement proper quality assurance and scenario-based negative test validation of their products before they are allowed to do these kinds of things.

It seems to me that the bar should be incredibly high, which would mean that it's basically impossible to hook up automated systems to the emergency services line. Because I don't see a way that they could rule out false positives, especially when they're actively pushing their Apple Watch to the active and extreme sports crowds.
> No I trust experts in the field who by and large say CSAM is WAY WAY WAY down on the platform since Elon took over

Which experts and how is this being measured? Because I can't find sources that confirm that claim: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2022/11/18/elon...

Do you have ANY actual numbers to back that up, at all? Let alone numbers measured by independent experts and not just filtered through Twitter PR?

> I care about the amount of content, not the number of moderators.

I don't know how to get across to you that human moderation requires humans.

The act of moderation requires a human being to sit down, look at a piece of content, and decide if it's in violation of a policy. Then that process is repeated over and over again for the duration of the workday. Having bodies in the chairs to look at the content is not optional.

Particularly not where CSAM is concerned, which is an area where moderator turnover is astronomical because moderating CSAM is effectively the equivalent of feeding your brain poison every day until you have a breakdown and have to go to therapy. It is a nasty, horrible job and there really isn't a way around the fact that it requires a lot of moderators working in rotations. There's a limit to how often someone can be shown horrifying images in a workweek before they decide that they would rather be doing anything at all other than continuing to show up at work.

That part of the moderation job isn't glamorous, and it usually happens behind the scenes with contractors. It's an awful part of the tech industry that doesn't get much attention because it's unpleasant to talk about and unpleasant to acknowledge how much we rely on underpaid contractors ruining their own lives to keep our platforms safe. But the gist is that an engineer doing "hardcore programming" is not a substitute for having thousands and thousands of moderators actually reviewing images.

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> Just look at the tweets from Ella Irwin

That Elon's current head of safety is praising him isn't surprising -- one thing we've all learned from the way he's run Twitter is that you don't get to work for Elon at all unless you're pretty proactive about praising him.

But there have been zero independent measurements that confirm these claims, and actual experts in the field (read, not just a current employee and a couple fan/activist accounts) are concerned about the direction the platform is headed and about the lack of investment in moderation teams.

But since those experts are talking to journalists and not just posting to Twitter, maybe it doesn't matter what they think /s.
I am the management
The tragedy of the commons. Truly reprehensible.
Henrik Lindstrand - Leken
One thing slashdot dis, that really should have caught on, was cap voting to quite low thresholds (+5 to -3 I think?).

This seemed to be a real equalizer.
A long time ago, I wrote a fall detector application for Android which could be configured to send a Tweet (Twitter was fresh and new then), send an SMS to a caretaker number, make alerts, etc.

This really is important technology, particularly for the elderly and infirm.

When the app started to get used, it was very popular.

The reason is - we configured it to be used with a caretaker - i.e. another human that would be alerted if there were a fall. This use-case was immediately compatible with existing structures in the fall-detector market; i.e. letting grandma out into the yard for a bit of alone time while I put the kettle on...

I don't know if Apple have a way for the user to inform a caretaker, but if they do I can only assume its a nuisance to set up.
> It's worth noting that almost all of this is still the output of the 9/11, where US and Saudi systems did not communicate and resulted in known terrorists in Saudi Arabia being able to travel at will into the USA.

> I don't like biometrics, but the hyperbole needs to be tuned down a bit here.

The entire official response to 9/11 is the hyperbole, not the criticism of those measures.
I guess the point is about MiTM which you have not really answered, MiTM requires the man in the middle to present a webpage / api to the user over https with a valid certificate so that the browser or the android app would make connections to it. They just don't accept all tls certificates as valid, only the ones signed by CAs trusted by the device. It is the same for android. I guess you are confusing certificate pinning with standard TLS. Certificate pinning is an additional measure and prevents against compromised CAs etc. Standard TLS itself is sufficient to prevent MITM over https.

> MitM on android works very well if you just use an app without a browser view.

Do you have any examples showing this? Popular http clients like okhttp on mobile devices do perform TLS validation based on trusted CAs stored on the device. You would have to go out of your way to make them trust self-signed certificates to perform MITM or compromise a CA to issue you a certificate to allow MITM.
https://archive.vn/HndV7
And this being 700x faster, helps in what way?
shaders are great fun:

https://shaderfrog.com/app/view/6473

but i heavily dislike that they offer not writeback to fbos and pass structure by default.
Lots of things impossible thus. Its freaking swarm of embedded devices, just give me the controls already
or he could be an old Algol programmer, and considers the period to be a statement separator, unnecessary/redundant at the end of paragraphs
They executed shia cleric for being... shia cleric. If it would help them catch them they would put him on such a list to get similar persons deported from host countries.