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> The group, Natives in Tech, is calling on the Apache Foundation to change its name

Looking at that group's own post - they acknowledge 8 specific Native American tribes bearing the name "Apache", in one form or another.

Natives in Tech demands that The Apache Foundation change its name.

Nowhere do I see any hint of either (1) anyone involved in this story, including the reporters, actually asking any of those 8 Native American tribes how they felt about The Apache Foundation's use of their name, nor (2) any hint that the Natives in Tech group was in any way authorized by any of those 8 Native American tribes, to speak on their behalf.

Oh, by the way. I am a white European, who speaks a smattering of Spanish. On behalf of the people of Spain, I Hereby Demand that the City of New Madrid, Missouri change it's name, because I Am Offended by their appropriation of the name and heritage of the genuine and native peoples of Madrid, and of all of Spain. I Demand that the governments of Missouri and the self-styled "New Madrid" immediately... [blah blah blah]
If your argument is "people should/shouldn't be able to do this thing that's deeply meaningful to them because of/despite the public health risks", yes, you really do need to explain why these cases are different from each other.
I don't think that's true. Expansion is not very weak around matter, it just doesn't exist. It sounds a little counter intuitive to think that expansion "shutdowns" as we get closer to galaxy. But that's because expansion and gravity are a little more complicated that just a force.

We over simplify what expansion really is, which leads to this type of thinking.

Expansion and gravity are results of the same equations.

Einstein equations are difficult to use, so we usually split the results in two models, FLRW (empty space) and Schwarzschild metrics (around matter). Computing the equations leads, respectively, to expansion and gravity. And it's not like there's one and the other, with gravity fighting expansion. It's "one or the other".

Around matter (in Schwarzschild metric), solving Einstein questions, we see zero expansion drifting. If there is matter, there is gravity, and no expansion.

Quoting Wikipedia [1]:

> Once objects are formed and bound by gravity, they "drop out" of the expansion and do not subsequently expand under the influence of the cosmological metric, there being no force compelling them to do so

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe#Effe...
So the ongoing problem with LCDM is that the parameter space for allowable particles keeps getting pushed back. We keep falsifying classes of potential particles that could be WIMPs. MOND+ some standard model-adjacent particle (like say right handed neutrinos), if we can have a phenomenological estimate of how much of them should exist, would at least be credible on account of having a constrainable set of parameters, whereas the density of WIMPs in normal LCDM has no constraint besides the same measure that we have to infer its existence (gravitation)
I don't think the original article was in any way trying to imply that the "concubines" were willing participants, inasmuch as they call out their being "slain," which seems rather involuntary. I'm not sure why you felt it was important to call out that this was not only a ritual sacrifice, but also a rather perverse ritual sacrifice - it doesn't seem relevant to the original article.
My background is similar to GP's. I would say that my first inkling that something was wrong was working alongside someone more egregious than me. I also spent half of my career supporting a product built by someone who sold his company to my employer, started another company writing add-ons for the product he'd just sold and sold that to my employer, then started another project and sold that to Google. Six years of cleaning up his messes was enough.

I really don't know of a way to learn that lesson other than the Hard Way. I definitely remember coworkers pushing back on my ideas and writing them off as boring and unambitious. Fortunately they had seniority over me, so most of my harebrained schemes never saw the light of day.
> everything breaks at scale

This is good advice. You should be aware of who you are building for. Designing your system to run on 100 containers orchestrated by Kubernetes is overkill for your average SaaS MVP, while counting on shell scripts is a recipe for disaster at FAANG scale. Scale matters.
The hardest challenge in modern games may be finding time to finish them
>How are you liking it so far? Perf issues or no?

Perf seems totally within reasonable bounds for a react app, no issues so far.

In terms of resources or guides, it's pretty spotty out there. The project has definitely slowed down in terms of dev and i'm not sure where things like react 18 fit into the picture across platform, but we've setup our own config that works just fine for now.

We may need to reappraise in 2-3 years if react does change architecturally too much.
more powerful compressor, bigger heat exchanger, measures against snow and frost, better defrost implementation to avoid stop heating.
So if this is the case why is raising the debt ceiling newsworthy event? Shouldn’t it be happening regularly by design?
Is there a favorite among several encyclopedia sets, or one to rule them all?
Summing punishment across all of history would probably total an upscale automobile, zero prison.
Sure. I think I'd maybe go one step further than the headline and say that for startups, unless it is what you are explicitly building from scratch and selling, your tech stack should never be the product.

Laying the right technical foundations shouldn't be difficult -- it should be generally be picking the most boring[1], dependable choices that you've been able to rely upon in the past.

[1] https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
I don't think the suggestion is to replace gas generation facilities with wind, but to concentrate new power generation on wind.

The incremental cost of keeping a gas generator working is very close to zero compared to all the other expenses involved in building the plant and buying gas to burn in it. We can keep all our gas infrastructure around and simply use it less often if we have more wind.
As a kid growing up in the boonies in the 80s with no internet, no cable, and only 3 networks, I had a lot of time for reading. I was almost one of these people. I don't know that I ever read them from first page to last page of each book, but I would pick a letter, read until I was bored, and do it all over again. Some stuff I totally did not care about nor remember now. Over the course of time, I know I read a lot of the encyclopedia set we had.
Not having spurious race conditions that take days if not weeks to hunt down is quite nice.
What I still want is a neat way to solve data deduplication. Say you've got a whole lot of tuples saying x = y, then it would be nice to be able to reason about all the equivalence classes (returning the minimum id or w/e).

This is kind of the opposite of a join (where the join is the pullback and the operation described above is more like a pushout).

Symmetric + Transitive closure gets you some of the way there, but aggregation is messy and the paths between nodes get complicated if your tuples aren't ordered nicely (say you have x -> y <- z -> w <- q -> r <- etc.)
> the user must be able to clear it when clearing site data and this what makes it currently an unviable solution

What are you suggesting here? That extensions should have some special storage, that can't be (easily) deleted? Noooooooo thank you. Firefox has "forget about this site" and similar tools, which I use near daily. Don't fuck with my ability to do housekeeping.
"In Mice"

really needs to be a Tag or something doesn't it...
At this point in the thread, I'm wondering if we do a disservice to physics students by making it appear we have it all figured out.
Yeah, probably rubbish. What's more likely is that it started as a fairly straightforward port of the code for SGI's RealityEngine 3D accelerators which were focused a bit more on correct offline rendering than real time.
> incredibly surprising that an organization of that complexity could have survived as long as they did without a major incident

I'm not surprised. FAA does not fly each plane. Government organizational complexity helps ensure the government organization survives through next round of Congressional appropriations.

Org complexity + opaque oversight + 'safety' + 'homeland security' + taxpayer funded = playing around and more budget.

The pilot is responsible for safety. Air travel has rules to avoid collisions (eastbound gets altitude levels different than westbound, pilots shall broadcast on known frequencies) and pilots have distributed intelligence to keep their flight safe.

Yes, somehow there needs to be coordination of runway use. Many ways to provide reservations and queuing.
Link to the research?
When the number of stakeholders exceeds some relatively small number N, it becomes very hard to distinguish good, tough, fair questions from FUD and obstructionism. I imagine the Chromium project easily exceeds that N.
It’s a bit of a stretch to think “field work” would be used as a double entendre to evoke the meaning of a slave working in a field.

But it doesn’t matter what I think because I’m not descended from a race of people who were enslaved and worked in the fields.

Those academics who might have a closer relationship with that identity are reasonably allowed to take umbrage. Even if I never meet someone who feels this way it’s fine with me.

The best part of it is the solution is simple and painless.

We had a similar situation when people started phasing out the phrase “master/slave” in computing.

There’s no reason why either one should make someone upset or combative. It’s offensive to someone who deserves to be offended if they wish.

That’s enough.
What you’re describing will prevent requests from roving scans of the internet, but anybody who specifically wants to hit your API will not be stopped. Extracting certs and credentials from an application package is straightforward and something even a novice could do based on googling.

Without accounts, you’re basically stuck. If the devices don’t have any way to prove identity, you can’t identify good requests from bad ones.
I think that's a reasonable take, TBH. But for a moment consider the missed opportunity here. I'm about to be persona non grata, and its my final farewell. Am I going to limit myself to "Thanks"? No. I want to say something wise and profound, something to lift spirits. Because I'm egotistical enough to think I'm worth a damn, my team likes me, and the company really is going to be worse off without me. In my case, a major refactor went wrong, and I believe that failure is largely my responsibility. Perhaps this means they were right to let me go. But they were wrong to shorten the timeline after promising 2 weeks. Despite my failure I did exert myself and attempt to achieve the goal. We did a good post mortem today - until it was cut short by a remote reset of my laptop.

Therefore, I just want two things:

1. Payment through 1/20 as originally promised.
2. Passage of a law prohibiting employers from impersonating employees.

Also, see my "primary response" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34362583
We should pop up a mirror facing away from Earth as a service for anyone who wants to look at their past. Hopefully someone else did that for us, just need to find it.

It's a common courtesy.
The difference between software and most other forms of engineering is that the internals of software are invisible to everyone but the developers. A manager walks in to the warehouse you describe above and goes “what in the literal hell? No one goes home until we clean this $&@$ up!”. A machine that has been poorly designed looks like a piece crap.

Software, if the UI looks nice the massive tangled mess inside is completely invisible to customer and manager alike. Gross inefficiencies, evil hacks, everything entangled with everything? No one can see it. “Why does it take 3 months for a tiny feature?” “Technical debt”, “ok, you can have 5% of your time budget to sort that out”…

If people could really see the software, viscerally, they would approve budgets to fix it.
Electronic Democracy (Wikipedia)
This framing is backwards. Intimate access to the populations's ongoing telemetry, the contents of their digital devices, plus editorial control over what memes they consume? This is patently ripe for abuse, and every surveillance company constitutes its own threat to liberty.

The actual problem is the US establishment giving a pass to all of the US headquartered surveillance companies - presumably because they think of them as representing American "innovation" while being deluded into thinking that fine grained laws can be passed to reign them in later if it's "needed". (Just like what hasn't happened with Equifax, Experian, LexisNexis, etc)

Rather than political whinging about Tiktok, what we need is effective privacy legislation that neuters the power of every would be surveillance company - despite how the digital totalitarianism industry has become a shining star of the US economy.
The pixel (as CSS defines it) does not correspond to an individual pixel on-screen. The is (literally) doubly true for high-DPI screen where a single CSS pixel might contain 4 or even 9 real pixels on the display.

The browser is very good at scaling images up so that they look good but at some point it will have to interpolate from image pixels to screen pixels. This is fine for almost all images but plays havoc with images that have already gone through a dithering process.

For color images it doesn't matter so much but for my project I wanted the really harsh all-black-and-white pixels of old.
Thats all fine and good, but the context needs to be communicated async first.

This allows everyone to investigate, think, prepare questions and organize ideas/approaches.

Without that sync time is wasted explaining the basic premise
Gemini and Genesis Sued by SEC over Crypto ‘Earn’ Program
My understanding is that, at the borders, master is constantly changing between its states. A boiling pot has water molecules turning to steam, as well as vice versa. It just has more of the first probabilistically.

Maybe the same happens with ice and water.
There are parts of mozilla that will need significant rewrites anyways, and writing parts of those in Rust could be a win if they can keep the interfaces clean.
I found the samples incredibly good. But the samples in their other post about conveying emotions[0] are still far from acceptable.

In any case, I'm hoping this can be expanded to other languages as it would be an amazing tool for language learning.

[0] https://blog.elevenlabs.io/the_first_ai_that_can_laugh/
Version two is on the way...
Yeah, it was called that, but the term microcode was a bit of a stretch. It's a relatively straightforward 32bit MIPS with a 8x16bit SIMD vector unit strapped to the side as MIPS coprocessor 2. One cute thing is that since it can only access 4KiB of data, and load/store offsets in MIPS machine code are 12 bits, you can build any pointer in the load/store itself simply offsetting from the zero register. That's in contrast to most MIPS code where you generally need to build the pointer in a register first (or at least burn a register to be the global pointer).
> One thing that is worth keeping in mind is that the end result can end up still being right.

“ On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” - Charles Babbage
Be the change you want to see in the galaxy...
You got me! xD
Which researchers (as opposed to pop-sci pundits) think MOND is a better explanation than Dark matter?

That is a very, very fringe alt-science view that so far exists in various pop-sci blogs and informal youtube discussions, rather than in mainstream conferences, journals, and research centers.

I'm not saying it's bad to speculate or write whimsical blog articles about these topics, there's lots of room for creative speculation, but MOND does not respect Lorentz invariance which is basically a deal breaker for virtually all serious researchers. Fewer things have more robust empirical support than Lorentz invariance, so discarding it forces you to say that your violation is always just over the horizon of what is testable (and this horizon keeps getting pushed back). That's generally a discrediting feature of any theory and a huge red flag. Much better to say "you don't know" than to postulate something which requires such massive fine tuning to always be just beyond the horizon of what is testable, but close enough to that horizon to have explanatory power for observed phenomena.

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-evidence-violation-lorentz-inv...

https://asfriedman.physics.ucsd.edu/Papers/Friedman+2020a.pd...
What should result is a more fortified peer review system.
The overview of the book:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691138732/th...

> Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else pretend to, resulting in bad policies winning again and again by popular demand.

It feels like it's denying the two-way relation between voters and politicians, and in particular the influence of political actors on voter views.

Or from the conclusion

> recommending that democracies do less and let markets take up the slack.

At least we know what we're in for.
> Are you writing a brand-new codebase that only works in the browser? Learn how to use HTML and CSS correctly, avoid as much Javascript and Typescript as possible: Less is more.

It's really difficult to construct a comprehensive SPA without a nice framework such as Vue or React; and as it relates to your prior paragraph about WASM, I'd love to take this advice, but reactive UI frameworks suitable for browser are young and immature compared to Vue and React (IMO).

I would LOVE to use a different language and compile to WASM, just don't think I can replace my Vue+TS frontends at this time.
It is indeed a great time to be a mouse......
implication being they don't transfer over to humans ?
The EPA was going to ban them, so everyone who still used one got very vocal, along with about a third of the state of Maine.
Same! I’ve written reasonably large programs in both. Go definitely has a lower learning curve and there’s absolutely value in that and it’s faster compile times. In a team with mixed experience and backgrounds making web or network services? Maybe go is the right way to go. Not everyone wants or is willing to climb the rust learning curve.

I do think the quick iteration tapers off though the larger the code base gets due to the points I mentioned.
Carbon tax fixes this.
cmiiw the goal wasn't about replacing Gecko, but to incorporate ideas/components from Servo into Gecko itself
She clearly means from an executive point of view given the context. And having been an executive at two start-ups and one middle-sized company, I agree with her 100%.
These are simple utilities and I know Swing but not JavaFX but I guess I should play around with it
That is what a strict originalist reading of the Constitution would conclude - the same reading that decided the Constitution doesn't support a right to privacy because the word "privacy" doesn't appear anywhere in the document, and that the Second Amendment can only be interpreted under the rules of 18th century English. Either we believe the Constitution is a living document and that the context of modern society matters in its interpretation, or we don't and that only what was comprehensible to the specific minds of the Founding Fathers in their time, place, idiom and cultural context is legitimate. Since we've clearly decided as a society that originalism wins out, we should stop being hypocrites about it and accept the consequences in totality.
The which year is a big question. I found a complete set from the early 1950s at Half Price Books in the books by the yard section. The entry for Christmas in this set calls it a pagan ritual. More recent editions no longer refer to it that way. The editorializing would be an interesting bit of research not only between release years, but between publishers as well. Did one start a trend the others followed? Was it always the same "leader"? I bet there's some library science folks that already know these answers.
Because what we see from that direction are the things that were there in the last 13.7bn years. But the farther we look we see older images. So while we can see image from 10bn years ago of something that's 10bn light years away, when we try to see something 13.7bn light years away we just see microwave soup because that's what was there 13.7bn years ago. And if we try to see something 14bn light years away we see nothing from there because 14bn years ago there was nothing there.
M1 was a game changer.

airpods are more successful than most tech companies alone
> This is depressing, because there is good news out there!

Good news and amazing things like "Grandpa drives stray dog 1250 miles to surprise grandkids" or "World's Fastest Shoes Invented" don't do much to offset the bad news like "All water on Earth now poisoned and toxic" or "1 billion climate refugees to be displaced by 2050".

Maybe shootings were commonplace in the wild west, and politicians were always shitty, but you can't blame people if they don't want to raise children in the wild west, or a crumbling democracy.
Does it have a water cooler attached to it behind the stage?
Yes these aren't privileged experiences I have had them too. It is extremely frightening and is riskier than a lot of other activities. That's not itself evidence of how any particular culture treated people experiencing it or what they thought or expected of the experience.

This particular subject is one that has interested a lot of people, including historians and anthropologists, and there is a lot of history and anthropology on it. I'm neither, but from what I've read people who have professionally studied it mostly refrain from making generalizations of how it has been experienced through time and across cultures.

If you're going to say or imply that surviving these experiences, or being tolerated for experiencing them, was only "a small proportion" then you're making broad assertions. I'm curious what that is based on other than extrapolation from your own frightening experiences.
Why not Bitcoin? You can sell it for cash. Do you not like cash? You can plant trees with cash or lots of other green things.
Shopify's monolith is Rails.

They seem to be more involved with contributing to Ruby than any other company, contributing an incredible amount, including yjit and object shapes and more.
OP and I were referring to HAL's birthdate in the film, 1/12/1992. 31 years ~= 3 decades.
US Government logs more than 500 UFO reports with hundreds unexplained
So the next thing to do is see how long you can keep mice alive then right? If this can reverse aging, can we keep mice alive indefinitely?
> Isn't one always tempted to wait for the following year's?

It's worth noting that articles are already (at least) a year out of date when you buy it, because that elegantly-bound version has gone through a long editorial and production process. A potential solution to that problem is to complement the paper version with World Book Online ($250/year).
They did partner with HP I think.
If it is ever necessary to take over then it is largely pointless. The only value is helping us get to the point where you can chill in the back seat.
How is it a counterpoint? I don't know what technology(ies) Slack uses (except maybe the desktop client, which is obviously Electron) and I don't care.
It’s idealistic but I do like System76’s Linux first approach.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34359964