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I am truly grateful for people like Molly White, David Gerard, and Amy Castor. As the crypto grift circus expanded and expanded, I just got worn out. There was so much to pay attention to as it metastasized. All those writers have been diligently following it for years with a critical eye, and all of them have taken a lot of heat for it. As the wheels come off, it's great to have their detailed insights.
Who generated the heat that you measured in the calorimeter?

Gut biome bacteria consumed an amount of those calories. How many? It varies from person to person.

So calories in = calories out, but we don't know how many were used by the person, how many by the gut flora, and how many were excreted do to inability to metabolize. Ergo, hardly basic physics.

Reductionism is only useful if you know how to apply it.
You're advocating for a cure far worse than the disease and the disease isn't nearly as bad as they make it seem.

You see, what's great about the private sector is that any company that engages in discrimination only harms itself and drives potential talent to their competitors. That's why I love working for private companies, no matter who you are or where you come from if you're making them a lot of money they'll treat you like royalty. I've never seen an environment more egalitarian than a private company.
Maybe Trabucco is a voluntary witness for the prosecution and they don't want to dilute what he's going to say at the trial?
I think we should pursue "human flourishing." What that means for each individual will be very different. It could be enjoying time with family and friends, creating or appreciating art, being involved in sports, gardening, raising animals, discussing philosophy or theology, electronics, cooking, etc, etc. The point is to flourish in this precious life.

On the societal level, I think promoting human flourishing means first making sure everyone's basic needs are met (shelter, food, clothing, healthcare).

The next step for society to promote human flourishing is to give people more time away from work to pursue their own things, and to that end I'm a proponent of the 4 day (32 hour) work week replacing the standard 40 hour work week.

Another important step in promoting human flourishing is for towns to design physical spaces to encourage community and satisfying daily rhythms. There should be more places like libraries, local cafes, community centers, parks, etc where people can meet with other people. And there should be a concerted effort to reduce the need for cars. Places that are designed to encourage walking and biking are generally more pleasant than places that are designed around cars. There's less paved space for highways and parking lots, and more space for interesting places to visit along with more greenery. Not to mention the gentle exercise.

I think there's more our society can do to promote human flourishing, but those are big ones. The biggest point is that capitalist societies, especially the United States (the heart of capitalism), prioritize profit over human flourishing. Sprawling highways, homelessness, financially brutal healthcare, inadequate paternity leave, and bad work/life balances are all things that can be changed if we, as a society, want them to be changed. But to do that, we have to stop doing what capitalists want and instead build what we want.
GDPR compliance is a big problem in this space, there's no GDPR exception which would allow you to legally collect this data in the EU. (Unless you limited your collection to whitelisted A/C)

Right now every single player in this space is operating illegally, but it'll probably take years before data protection authorities will start to crack down.
True, but her "foundation" was taking 'donations' and paying her ~$450,000 a year as ceo...

And then evaporated I believe and dont think she had any impact on the problem.
There's an old cliche that when you go from being an employee to being a contractor you trade the illusion of security for the illusion of freedom.
There is no “round trip” and no network stacked involved in querying a local Postgres instance (web app on same VM as db).

Attention is better spent designing an appropriate schema than worrying about the network being too slow to run a single query (if it is, you’ve already failed).
> I'm just not sure why you mention 'anti-Apple'

Said nothing about "anti-Apple". I'm just agreeing with the poster above saying that people being vehemently anti-Apple actually haven't learned anything from history. At all.

> Apple's leverage is being used in many of the same ways, just much more aggressively than 'best viewed in IE'

Of course this is bullshit. Again. There's probably not a single site out there that is "best viewed in Safari". And there are numerous sites that are "best viewed in Chrome". Including, especially, the ones that Google themselves (#1 search, #1 mail, #1 video hosting, #1 web ad business in the world) creates.

And to quote again:

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Regardless of where you feel the web should be on this spectrum between Google and Apple, there is a fundamental difference between the two.

We have the tools and procedures to manage Safari’s disinterest. They’re essentially the same as the ones we deployed against Microsoft back in the day — though a fundamental difference is that Microsoft was willing to talk while Apple remains its old haughty self, and its “devrels” aren’t actually allowed to do devrelly things such as managing relations with web developers. (Don’t blame them, by the way. If something would ever change they’re going to be our most valuable internal allies — just as the IE team was back in the day.)

On the other hand, we have no process for countering Google’s reverse embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy, since a section of web devs will be enthusiastic about whatever the newest API is. Also, Google devrels talk. And talk. And talk. And provide gigs of data that are hard to make sense of. And refer to their proprietary algorithms that “clearly” show X is in the best interest of the web — and don’t ask questions! And make everything so fucking complicated that we eventually give up and give in.

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Google releases 400 new APIs a year with little to no oversight and with complete disregard of any objections or concerns from the other browser vendors: https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence

The things that you think Safari is lacking in are largely Chrome-only non-standards.
I recently read an interesting book called "Ivan's War" that is an in depth look at WW2 from the Soviet side that extensively draws on 1st hand sources. One of the things I found so interesting was that much of the Soviet framework was built upon ensuring you couldn't trust anyone, putting spies amongst military units to rat on their comrades, splitting apart units that had served together for a while, etc.

The whole point wasn't to control thought, or stamp out disloyalty it was merely to make each person feel like they were alone and isolated.

I have to wonder how much of some of these culture war issues have been brought into corporations in order to prevent the workers from organizing.
There are many "lights off" warehouses and subsets of warehouses. Lots of stuff that ships direct from a manufacturer's warehouse is like this. The orders amazon picks and packages are far too diverse for that to be economical and current levels of technological progress.
Indeed. Its amazing how people can still rationalize the existing situation and help defend corporate sociopathy after all the corporate scandals that were revealed over the last few decades in which the corporations did not stop short of outright murder for profit. Avandia drug scandal comes to mind...
Ahh profite de la vue!
As the article says, they’re looking for reasons to say “yes”, not reasons to say “no”.

If you say you don’t have any open source contributions due to company policy, that’s not a bad thing, it’s a demonstration that you respect the policy.
Diego Garcia is in Indian Ocean, 2200 mi from Malaysia. The radar shows that MH370 went into the Indian Ocean not Pacific. If carrier was in the South China Sea, it would be pretty obvious that it was there and involved.

Carrier group is even less likely to shoot down airliner. In middle of ocean or crowded area like South China Sea, carrier group probably doesn't have its defenses on alert. It has fighters that can intercept and visually identify aircraft. In the middle of ocean, there is plenty of time to react. There isn't the hair trigger in middle of war zone that led to Iran Air Flight 655.
Which countries have you lived in? Fleecing large orgs (corporations, the government etc) is seen as a Robin Hood virtue in many if not most countries in the world.
https://archive.is/HxThe

Baldwin also talked to Stephanopoulos in a now infamous interview where he stated he did not pull the trigger FBI testing shows differently. Poor guy can't keep his mouth shut and all of these interactions will hurt him in the long run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOKpiWrUPUI
Whistleblower: Twitter engineers can still use 'GodMode' to tweet as any account
Ask HN: Is there market need for custom renderers? Or it's oversaturated already
When I think about custom renderers and custom rendering solutions I mostly associate that with late '90s Hollywood where they been writing custom software for rendering graphic for example for The Matrix movies or the Lord of The Rings. But since then most of 3D rendering software grew significantly gaining new functions and rendering methods, otpimizations etc. But I have no idea if that made market for custom solutions shrunk or there is still space to fill or maybe that space is even increasing? I lack any sense of metric to measure or estimate the situation around this topic. Anyone mind to share their insights or opinions?
If every company provided such a guide for what they look for in a resume, job hunting would be a bit less frustrating
> This philosophy of praising exploitation

FWIW the parent you are replying to was clearly jesting with some sarcasm and not actually praising it in the way you seem to think.

EDIT: apparently not, according to the other replies by that parent. But looks like several of us read sarcasm into the comment.
The article says verbatim "Don’t include a link to your GitHub link if it’s empty." yet you're giving 1000x (your words) credence to an empty profile versus someone working privately. Private contributions show up on the graph, you just can't see the content of the commit. So it's not empty and to your point it can be articulated. Sounds like you just want to see some examples of work, just ask for that, but that's not a resume.
I always found the idea of DEI positions underwhelming. It's as if company had a VP of Tech Debt, or a Chief Accessibility Officer. My conclusion would be that code quality and accessibility aren't actually that important to such a company.
So in this situation there was initial questioning on set immediately after it happened and the 911 call was made. But the questioning that really tripped up Alec Baldwin was after the fact the detectives called him in for more information.

In any situation like this where an accident happens and someone is severely injured or dead and the police don't make any immediate arrests because again it's an accident they don't know who's culpable, you should immediately begin to contact lawyers if you don't know of one already.

As you contact lawyers they will take 10-15 minutes to listen to what you describe and decide whether or not they're willing to assist you or they'll give you some immediate general advice. In this case they will probably say something like if the police contact you back call to come in for additional questioning contact me and I will be your attorney and they'll have a fee arrangement and so forth. And this is your contingency plan because the police are going to call a cooperating suspect and ask you to voluntarily come in to answer questions.

The other situation is when you're not immediately arrested perhaps the police have gathered enough in the initial investigation that the district attorney is going to press charges. Again the response is the same immediately after the fact contact a lawyer explain the situation and get their advice and they can work with the district attorney to see if charges are planned. Then you voluntarily turn yourself in for a rest and processing and you already have your attorney.

Now the situation where you are immediately placed under arrest the advice is always don't talk to the police mention that you're specifically exercising your right to remain silent. If they process you and release you on your own recognizance that's fine get an attorney at that point If they want to hold you tell them you need to contact an attorney and you don't know of one. Because you are legally allowed access to an attorney they must assist you in some minor way allowing you to make phone calls allowing you to look up attorneys to contact and so forth. Call a couple explain the situation that you're under arrest pick one that you like doesn't have to be the one that you stick with. But they'll usually be the one that can get you out so you can then find a better attorney if needed.
Nope, fairly sure it was never mentioned in school. But in any case, that's a while ago now and I don't think I've ever had a need to use Fahrenheit except for reading US articles where they almost invariably also put Celsius.

I know that 100°F is something close to 37°C, and I'll probably not forget 32°F for a while now. But it's fairly useless trivia as far as every day life goes.
As opposed to reeking of being an edgy contrarian?
Great video. It now makes me realize that I need to setup a better sound system for my home movie experience especially with the way monitors and TVs are setup today.

I still rely on a TV from 15 years ago to watch my movies. The speakers are still in the front so the sound isn't bad; however, I'm planning to upgrade soon and definitely not ready for these new televisions.
I'm one of the people who always glances at changelogs when downloading an app for the first time, and I appreciate when developers go beyond 'Bug fixes and minor improvements' to at least list a couple concrete things that were added. I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I like the extra effort.
Not these days. Blackrock et al. hold big enough stakes in the big companies that they'll be listened to if they complain.

Regardless though, why would the government be better at protecting shareholder interests than... the shareholders?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-brain-at-work/2...

> Inclusion programs often trigger an “us versus them” mindset.

> Although diversity and inclusion training is prevalent in corporate America, its impact is inconsistent. According to the evidence, sometimes the programs even have the opposite effect of what they intend.

> One 2016 study of 830 mandatory diversity training programs found that they often triggered a strong backlash against the ideas they promoted. “Trainers tell us that people often respond to compulsory courses with anger and resistance,” wrote sociologists Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev in the Harvard Business Review, “and many participants actually report more animosity toward other groups afterward.”
This guy fails and gets 100+M dollars - never has to work another day in his life, and somehow after all that his break is "much needed"? Really? You need a break from making 1M per year for 3 years with a 100M kicker at the end? You know who needs a break - the 1000 people coinbase fired because Surojit Chatterjee and his C suite cronies wanted to bump their stock price.
Performance Improvements in Azure Cosmos DB Kafka Connector
Candidate-first hiring for software engineers
Nobody would ever double-down on sarcasm.
Nice! Automatisch is dutch (and german) for automatic, what a cool name!
Do you believe those statistics enough to get rid of the laws that prevent discrimination? If the stats are true, then surely companies, who are known to value monetary gains above all else, would take care of the problem of lack of diversity based solely on their market performance.
A friend of mine has introduced his first grader to ChatGPT, Dall-E, etc.

Now one of his favorite games is "AI" and he lights up in wonder typing the kinds of things at a prompt a first grader would.

I don't have kids and wouldn't dare wade into parenting approaches but compared to how most of the kids I've seen interact with technology this (to me) is very promising. Compared to watching endless YouTube videos or even playing Minecraft or whatever it's a lot easier to see how "playing AI" could progress to a genuine interest in technology beyond staring at a tablet.
How to Clean Produce
No, actually it does not depend.

The rocket equation says that the fuel mass of a rocketship is higher than the cargo mass by exp(delta_v/v_exhaust).

When the final velocity is relativistic, delta_v should be replaced with delta_rapidity. In our case this would introduce a factor of 2.65, but the results are so ridiculous that we can ignore that.

So, let's simply say that delta_v is the speed of light, or 300000 km/s.

The exhaust velocity for a nuclear thermal rocket is about 9 km/s.

The ratio between delta_v and the exhaust velocity is about 33000. The exponential of that is roughly speaking 1 followed by 15000 zeros.

There are less than 10^100 atoms in the known universe.

So, even if you want to accelerate just one single atom to 99% of the speed of light, you would need more fuel than the entire universe. Many, many, many times more.
After looking at the landing page I still don't know what is BorderlessVR
> I worry that this is just messaging to build towards 'make DEI jobs immune from layoffs'

A job that's immune to layoffs, sign me up! /s

Seriously however, it seems to me that DEI positions are mainly about virtue signaling. The positions certainly don't have anything to do with a companies core competencies or products (you know, their actual business). So it's pure overhead. Wasn't this stuff traditionally handled by HR? As other's have pointed out, there are already laws on the books that must be followed, and plenty of precedent showing large $$$ payouts when the rules aren't being followed.

If/when jobs like this become mandatory, then a new bureaucracy will emerge and spread like a cancer, the overhead hanging like a millstone around a companies ability to stay competitive. You're seeing this happen on universities, where the staff/student ratio continues to grow, raising tuition and reducing the value of the education. I worry about the future competitive value American companies will bring to the global economy.
> Should corporations be accountable to society in some way, or do we trust them to "do the right thing"?

This strawman. you jumping to big conclusion by asking aggressive question.

im minority person. dei things me saw at big tech massive grift. usually run by people without real skill..people who simply there for crusade if they personal social beliefs.

in one org person responsible for daily long email on trans issues. not single trans person on team or on org. so let maybe discuss ukraine..libya..palestine?

at another big tech company..small army of engineers to scan entire company code base and flag word like “whitelist”. Highly paid engineer and managers $300k+ comp to change “whitelist” to “allowlist”

Me minority. none of this nonsense helpful. it actually insult. most stuff corporate entitlement program to create fake job for people without useful skill. pandering to often white people with savior complex who seem to hate other white people.
> Would they get it if the other top engineers and I all downed tools or walked out as a group? No. So why is their exit equivalent to several mansions and mine is around about a year’s worth of salary?

Unionize baby!
Security Maturity: Geriatric Technologies
People in charge of compliance are commonplace when it comes to regulations. It's a huge part of HRs job for example. Some regulations even require a specific compliance officer, such as the GDPR. "There is a law" is a pretty weak argument for why a position shouldn't exist. If anything it's an argument for why one should.
The actual practice of DEI typically is to discriminate based on age/gender/sexual orientation/race/disability/religion/etc.
Heh, indeed. English doesn't really have the /y/ phoneme at all, so a word like "kysely" is pretty tricky to pronounce for a native English speaker.
Oxide and Friends: Predictions 2023
Now let's see Paul Allen's comp package.
Need a list of all private jet tail numbers from DAVOS/WEF and have a tracking system for those... like the Elon tracker
Sleep Smarter, Train Harder
I've sold three startups to Idealab and worked with Bill for almost two decades. He's the real OG of Incubators. Also, here's a nice playlist of his lessons:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeabOFsFccYCkD9ZUsoI0...
My Github has projects I have worked on in the past. Most of them are stable and don't need anything more than a few npm dependency updates a year. Linking to it to see these projects is useful to the kind of company that wants to see some small things I've built. If fake contributions to a private repo will tick a box somewhere, so be it.
YES! I thought, well say "yes" to my list of technologies I'm familiar with. If you want to hear more about how I acquired those skills, you could ask...like with a process of engaging with applicants. Let's call it an interview.
Depending on how it was implemented, that could just increase the attack surface. Assuming it's a cloud service, now we have another company that has all your passwords, that can be breached. A better way would be desktop software that runs on your local machine and logs in to each web site by itself and changes all your passwords, without using any remote compute or storage, outputting a local file with all your new passwords (don't make the same mistake again using a cloud password manager).
Always double down.:)

Also, let’s be honest here. It’s stock valuation. That’s basically good vibes and rich VC money. It’s not like the money came from real people.
Excellent points. And for the person who said they never heard anyone describe God as jealous:

> for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God [Exodus 20:5]

God describes himself as jealous!
Although they probably can't call it Fuchsia, the license is such that anyone can create a fork of Fuchsia.
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a really good political action adventure sci-fi novel with aliens and techno science magicy stuff.
My, perhaps bitter, opinion is that D&I was pushed heavily by tech to get more workers in so that wages could be suppressed.

The layoffs happening across all tech companies (including the ones recording record profits and that have extremely large cash reserves) also strikes me as another way of depressing tech salaries.

Maybe this perspective doesn't hold much weight, because why then get rid of D&I?

Maybe because keeping the lights on is more important, or D&I has already done as much as it could do, if that was the ambition.
Pro-biotics in pill form are dubious at best. Even yogurts available in stores have been pasteurized for longer shelf life (not to speak of the loads of sugar added). Vegetables from the cruciferous family, like cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and home-fermented yogurt will give you the most bang for the buck. Fermented forms of cabbage like sauerkraut and kimchi are supposed to be especially good for your gut bacteria.
Yeah. I didn't know that detailed, but I indeed suspected it. That's why I said "in isolation". These people will be scammers regardless of what they are doing. I was just being a bit pedantic because your wording suggested teen mom's should not run charities for teenage pregnancy related things.