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> "Hey I noticed that in our Zoom meetings you've had your camera off recently - we have a team working agreement that we try to keep cameras on in meetings to make remote work more tolerable. It makes me worried that you're checked out"

I'm having a horrible period in my home life. My wife and I are getting ready for a divorce, my mother is sick, my child can't stand his own father. The house is always a mess and so am I. I can barely look at myself in the mirror without crying so I can't stand the idea of colleagues looking at me in a webcam.

This is hyperbole. But how would you respond in a 'trusting' environment to this?
I don't think of plasma sodium concentration as being a good indicator of hydration because it's aggressively homeostatically controlled. As I mentioned, we usually think of sodium shifts as a pathological state. It would be interesting to me if small variations in fluid consumption could also influence sodium concentration to a lesser degree, because it's not really aligned with what I was taught. But I acknowledge that it could be, I'd just like to see data.

The entire premise of the article's interpretation—that hydration status is reflected in sodium concentration—rests on this being true.

Don't get me wrong, the finding that you pointed out (that there is an association between high plasma sodium and aging) is interesting even if the authors' premise is not true! But if small variations in daily water consumption (for example) don't actually change sodium concentration, then the observation could be 100% true and yet their interpretation and proposed follow-up studies could make no sense.

So when I said they dance around whether it is appropriate to be attributing sodium shifts to hydration, that's what I meant.
This is a case of correlation, plus (again) totally unsubstantiated anecdotal claims. Suggesting people use unproven, non-evidence based approaches, to an illness that leads almost a million people a year to take their own lives, is reckless and potentially harmful. You believe NLP "technology" worked for you -- cool. Some people believe taking LSD worked for them -- cool. Some people say L. Ron Hubbard's "technology" has helped them. I won't take that away from them, but if they start pushing it on other, that's deeply wrong.

There's plenty of evidence-based methodologies that work for statistically significant portions of the population; and those are administered by doctors, and professionals.

But where you cross the line is when you start telling other people to do this too, and that it will work. I won't take the fact that you found something helpful in this. People find all sorts of different things helpful. But I firmly believe that you trying to make this sound like a sure thing is immoral and dangerous.
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A lot of moderation is made to sound more certain than it is.

"We have a suspicion based on this data we don't have that you might not be a real customer so we're blocking your reviews" invites a whole lot more customer support time than "We're not accepting your reviews."

It is simply cheaper to be firm, however unfair it is when they get it wrong.
Did something similar at one point and found that this breaks the ability to install certain windows optional features.
This whole article seems to talk about policy and regulation while ignoring the natural chaos/order to the world. There are too many myths/stories/recent lessons where we have learned that mankind cannot control nature. The more we try, the more devastating it can be. Also another reason why the most noble thing is when one sacrifices their own life for another.

To even consider putting a cost/benefit on life is a fool's errand. There's no satisfactory solution to the trolley problem(Unless self-sacrifice is allowed) nor absolute to the potential of one's life(including your own). The titanic is an overused example, but those who sacrificed their lives can be thought as reaching immortality given their names and story continue to be told and learned from. Many more lives were saved because of their sacrifices beyond those saved at the time.

I can't help but feel these viewpoints are very egotistical/selfish concerned about individual happiness and comfort while ignoring the inevitable of our deaths and the future of our species thriving alongside the ever-changing world without us.
BLOOM is a large LM, and Petals is a tool for running large LMs (not necessarily BLOOM). People using Petals should still follow the model's terms of use regardless of how the tool is licensed.
What's interesting is why was it so widely accepted in the first place. It's not like boilerplate reveals itself at later stages, it's right there from the beginning. I think it tells a lot about the state of the industry.
> Stability AI is happy to follow copyright laws for their music model, because they know that music labels will hold them accountable. So this seems like a good time to point out to larger companies like @WaltDisneyCo that their copyrighted material is being stolen and used too

I mean this is a pretty good point. If they're so sure this is legal, then train on copyrighted audio+video media as they already do with copyrighted visual media.
Yeah, I typed 20 instead of 30 and just checked the replies to my comment now:(
Not necessarily. If the current "default" is imperative, then the burden of proof is on the functional advocates, because they're the ones advocating for change.
Is there some unbiased literature you can share that demonstrates this conclusively?
It's probably easier to just remove everything and then add back what you want.
Rome assimilated tribes and peoples into its own, and the Western world tried
to imitate Rome's imperialism, as Spain did 500 years ago.

The rest of the Europeans living up in the North tried to do worse, not to assimilate the enemy culturally to build a bigger Empire, but to truly genocide it.
Even better with ABS brakes. You should never be that close to the limit, either way. Then you are already driving dangerously.
This is an argument I hear a lot in places like HN by power users but almost never by anyone else anywhere else. Put technical people aside for one moment, how is a novice supposed to “choose the desktop” they use? How are they supposed to “customise the baked-in design”?

I believe that the average user at home or at work values consistency, intuitiveness and attractiveness far more than the potential for customisation. They need the user interface to be clear and explicit, they need patterns that are repeatable and easy to remember and they need to not hate looking at it. They need to feel confident enough that they can either guess how it works or to reuse some knowledge they already have learned from elsewhere on the system.

Customisation is so often touted as the be-all-and-end-all solution to outright deficiencies in design — if you don’t like it, just do this and this and this and this — but that totally misses the point because then the underlying problems never get solved. Just look at the significant behavioural differences between apps built in Qt, Gtk, Electron, wxWidgets, …
MLB umpires calling balls/strikes instead of machines. Probably the most absurd situation as viewers at home can see clearly when they are wrong/right immediately.

I'm sure there's lot of other (better) examples where unions are strong and/or experimental technology carries risk and the market is heavily regulated (e.g. healthcare).
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> We grew up in Montreal, and many of our friends worked in AAA studios like Ubisoft, making free-to-play games, building projects that had a lifespan of three years. The projects that we made in the past on the Apple stack, Electron, or on Unity3D, also had a lifespan of three to four years, but games like Super Mario, as well as others produced in that era, are still playable today.

The games that don't work in some way or form 20 years after creation are in minority due to effort of community. I dunno what author is smoking.

> chains of emulators eventually break down

<citation needed>, arguably some emulation experience is better than original

> The download is at 7 gigs with three more hours left to download the update, it won't finish, and we will have spent all that data for nothing.

Resume download existed for better part of internet. Also torrents are great for that use case...

> There was a time when computers were super playful, but now they feel cold, and have been weaponized against people.

They still are, just gonna join the crowd of weird penguin people instead of buying another windows/macbook box, all the power and weird stuff you can do with computers is still there, using current software.

Maybe not in "I built everything from scratch way" but still

> The Commodore 64 emulator was extremely complex, more complex than I could grasp. It was the limit of what I think a single person could understand. It seemed like a simple system, it was just a box, but writing an emulator for it was more than a weekend project. I was looking for something that I could nail in a single weekend.

Huh, I kinda hit the same thing. Started writing Z80 emu (in Go, then Rust for funzies), got a good framework and some way in into implementing instruction set then realised "damn, now getting it cycle accurate and synchronized with peripherals is a lot of work. And peripherals are more work than CPU itself".
> Recoded music ravaged the ranks of movie organists and other accompanists to the point that providing incidental music has not been an occupation in many decades. In more recent decades, being a session musician for regional or mid-tier bands has stopped providing a living, following the huge consolidation in radio and music publishing in the 90s and 00s.

And yet it's never been easier for a musician to share their music on Soundcloud, use Bandcamp for album sales, put their music on Spotify/Beatport/etc and collect streaming royalties, and set up a Patreon to get recurring revenue from fans.

Musicians who refuse to adapt won't succeed, and those who do thrive. Would you feel bad for a software developer who learned Visual FoxPro in the 90s, refused to learn any new tools, then complained that their occupation was no longer relevant?

> There is far less live music today, at least in the US, than there has ever been in my lifetime.

Is there any data to support this? I would be shocked if this were true outside of the COVID years. There's certainly more music readily available to people now than at any point in history.
>Linux is a mishmash of volunteer software

Only if you intentionally ignore all the billions big-tech has poured into Linux over the years.
If it's so wonderful Western nations having fewer kids why are uneducated people from elsewhere being brought in in such numbers?
Who would have thought that musicians would become Luddites one day.
amharic isn't western african.
Are these links accurate? Unfortunately just getting "Sorry, but we can't find that page."
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Imagine in 1900 if people had some technology that would make the earth vanish into nothingness in 2050, after everyone currently alive had died. Would it have been morally neutral for them to deploy that technology, since the only people it would affect are nonexistent hypothetical people?

On your specific points:

> you have to also count and subtract the deaths they will cause

Agreed.

> A few of those children might turn out to be be murderers. Others will cause accidents, maybe big ones. Others still will have consumption habits that snuff out future lives.

That's right: each person that comes into existence has some chance of making the world worse for others, and some chance of making it better. I think that overall new people are a positive contribution, especially if you consider their own enjoyment of life, but if you think it's the other way then it's completely to reasonable count "more people will be born" as a negative feature of a policy.

> Imagine if Adolf Hitler's mother had died in some accident before he had been conceived and born; how would you tally the accident?

When looking at moral questions you're generally concerned with decisions: do I try jump in to help with this accident in front of me? Do I give money to this person that seems to need it more than I do? Do I advocate for this policy? It's not clear to me what sort of moral question your hypothetical corresponds to, since at the time of the accident (or before that if we're considering the value of some sort of policy that might have affected the chance of her dying) no one knows that it's her child in particular that would end up causing such enormous harm.
Yeah, the same nonsense like Vikings landing in North America or people living behind the Arctic circle without modern technology. Completely impossible!
That's crazy cheap. I think oil sands here in canada can have a minimum break even point of up to 80$/barrel, and it still seems to be profitable most of the time. So you are right that there is quite a bit of room for more costly alternatives.
The grid can handle everyone using electric cars. Yes some upgrades are needed, but they are needed anyway. See for example https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-electric-vehi...

Electric car batteries are even seen as part of the solution to move to renewables.
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> And I have no say in the matter. Super frustrating

What say should you have in how your neighbor uses their house?

You can live in an HOA with covenants that restrict renting, but that has their own set of problems.
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Hang on. You contradict yourself.

First you say:

> He hasn't used a new version since High Sierra

Then you quote him saying:

> What I’ve seen on other people’s Macs or borrowed Macs has been enough

Which means he has used newer versions, and you cited him saying so.

My own iMac runs 10.14 and what I've seen of each newer version puts me off more and more, so I too have a machine that could run at least macOS 12, but it doesn't. Because I've tried friends' machines, and tried each version in Apple shops and so on, and I don't like what I see.

Is this somehow not enough for you? That we have to install it and personally use it day-to-day in order to qualify our opinion enough?

I mean, I've been using Macs since System 7 came out. I know my way around Macs. That means it doesn't take me long to try one and see if I like it.

In fact, this week, I spent half an hour trying out macOS 13 on some M1 machines in an Apple reseller, and I didn't like it at all. Its menu bar uses a different font, is a different size, Settings has been completely revamped -- and I don't use iPhones for reasons: I've had 3 of them, and I prefer Android -- so the last thing I want is my Mac to be more iOS like.

I found this blog post really resonated with me, but your comment reads to me like you feel we haven't given it a fair enough crack of the whip and our opinions are thus invalid.

Is that wrong?
While that is not a real Tax, this is if you live in one of these states:

"The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Inc. (RGGI, Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation created to support development and implementation of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). RGGI is a cooperative effort among eleven states – Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia – to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."

https://www.rggi.org

"PJM is a regional transmission organization (RTO) that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia."

https://www.pjm.com

Colleagues of mine have had their electric bills increase by $300 due to these fees appearing on them. I've seen the bills. Opting-Out is not an option.

PJM manages the grid in this region. They provide a service.

On the other RGGI never describes how the money they are taking are actually reducing CO2 anyplace on their website, the last I looked. It is all about trading credits.

"GLOBAL TEMPERATURE REPORT
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE"

https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/

Actual data, such as the above, have yet to match the scary warnings coming from the Media. The scary warnings is why RGGI claims to exist.

The Data Is Out There...
Ask HN: Why did back-end development explode in complexity?
Follow up question: is that complexity necessary or artificially inflated?

Note: this is a fun jab back at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34218003

Frontend feels like it gets incredible amounts of uninformed hatred here, and you could copy/paste many of the defensive replies here over there verbatim. My take is backend isn’t too complex, just sometimes over-complicated in specific cases. Just like frontend! I just wish there weren’t so many non-frontend developers in every frontend thread hating on it while obviously not being very experienced with it!

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what a fantastic piece of history! curious why there is no parallel with streaming music. streaming has changed music so much (for the worse in some cases) and yet, everyone seemed to have embraced it.
One man's trash is another man's treasure?

One user's bloat is another user's core feature!
"I only every allocate things on the stack" is not sufficient to have safe lifetime access. I've seen enough cases of some stack-allocated string getting passed as a string_view and then blowing up because somebody stored it.

"I have a complete tree of object ownership with a single allocated root" is also a mess for a different reason - you literally never delete anything. Either you have a very very strange application or you are being massively wasteful with memory pressure.

It would be really dumb to use shared_ptr for every allocation. But it is the only way in C++ to systematically ensure that you never have a uaf (I guess you could also have a custom allocator and a custom pointer type that does a null check on every dereference - but now you are paying a major performance cost for a lock and a branch on every dereference). That's why I mention the benefit of a GC. You can get safe lifetime access without shared_ptr everywhere (or going all the way to where Rust went and demanding very explicit lifetime annotations for the compiler to use).
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Did you see that in the last hour, someone claiming to be the courier responsible for delivering it texted her and delivered the bag?
I have really mixed feeling about these inconsistencies really.

On the one hand, I care deeply about the consistency and love the fresher look of the new Windows 11, a breath of fresh air from the ugly Windows 8–10 style.

On the other hand, I am really afraid if some of the settings / careful curated wizards are gone --

I recently has to reset network settings because I switch to a different router, and I have bridges from Hyper-V, the resetting wizard is buried in a Vista-era guide to diagnose internet. I am sure it will be gone if they refurbish that area of the control panel, the whole "experience" need years to refine which would not be allowed in the speed of corps today.

And there is also the performance issue.

Just look at the fresh macOS System Settings app, what a mess it is.