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Shouldn't the content quality be the delineating factor?

No, because that's not what Twitter Blue subscribers want. They want to artificially boost their posts regardless of the quality. If they need to do that it's almost certainly a bad sign. If you want content to be the delineating factor then you need to let the content speak for itself.

I view Twitter Blue in a very similar way to paying for ads in Google. Yeah, they move you to the top of the SERPS page, but I'm not going to rely on that to decide what the best link for me to click on is.
I agree with you and your parent commenter.

> Today? The people are held poor so that they can't afford to strike, much less openly revolt, and nickeled-and-dimed by the credit industry.

I think it's less that they're held so "poor" (i.e. not having access to a lot of cash) as that they are so completely effectively barred from any kind of sustenance outside of the Debt System that striking would mean the total abandonment of any kind of life they're used to. A real revolution would mean complete blockage from almost every public space and service--unlike the past, there's not anywhere for you to go if you're at odds with the banking system. You'll starve, or you'll be tracked and thrown in jail to suffer the wrath of the stupid, uncivilized drug-addicted gangs. There's not even food in the lands surrounding the towns and cities, it's all single-crop cash yields that get exported.

People are also very carefully manipulated (not necessarily deliberately--it's just the net result of all aggregate manipulation) to be extremely suspicious and cautious of anything that would upset the life they're used to. If you talk to anyone above $140k/year household aggregate about the possibility of living 2-3 families in one home or never travelling by air again they look at you like you're speaking a foreign language.
Huh? What's stopping anyone to reach Romania by plane? Or Bulgaria? Or Hungary? Or Slovakia?

Or was it a joke I'm not American enough to understand?
Why would professors at the top of their field they sell their integrity for a few thousand dollars?
Biggest effect is that your standards get higher. As a kid learning a game just meant learning to play it at a kids low skill level. Kids till spend years to get good. But as an adult who has played a lot of games you have gotten pretty good at many of them, then when you play a new game getting to that level again will take a lot of effort and time.

For example, you see the world records in factorio aren't held by kids. Kids has better reflexes which is crucial for some games, but their ability to learn isn't much higher than a young adults.
This is the paper that proposed what we now call the "Turing Test", and it goes into some pretty excellent (and, y'know, currently relevant) detail. It's also got two of my favorite quotes of all time:

On intelligence, and how it can be discussed using a nuclear reaction metaphor:

> There does seem to be one for the human mind. The majority of them seem to be ‘sub-critical’, i.e. to correspond in this analogy to piles of sub-critical size. An idea presented to such a mind will on average give rise to less than one idea in reply. A smallish proportion are super-critical. An idea presented to such a mind may give rise to a whole ‘theory’ consisting of secondary, tertiary and more remote ideas. Animals minds seem to be very definitely sub-critical. Adhering to this analogy we ask, ‘Can a machine be made to be super-critical?’

Counter-arguments to arguments that machines can never think:

> (2) The ‘Heads in the Sand’ Objection

> “The consequences of machines thinking would be too dreadful. Let us hope and believe that they cannot do so.”

> I do not think that this argument is sufficiently substantial to require refutation. Consolation would be more appropriate...
I’ve been subscribed to https://hackernewsletter.com/ for years. I imagine this would be tough to compete with.
There is a client/server divide as you can see in the code examples. But I think the issue you're describing is a permissions problem, not a question of whether the compiler manages the network for you. There are traditional client/server apps with wide open permissions that allow all kinds of queries to pass through to a prod DB. Then again there are others that are heavily permissioned. Those are implementation details. If you _can_ control which code can run then you can write that code to _only_ run with certain constraints.
You're right. We should abolish anti-terrorism laws. Or rules outlawing murder for that matter.
Counterpoint: You can go read the “Noctor” subreddit or ask any practicing physician why it’s bad for patient outcome.

Ultimately we need more doctors and less hospital administrators.
GitHub seems to be doing fine/the same, IMO. What negative consequences have there been for you as a user as a result of MSFT acquiring it?
Note that the term "Medical Assistants" in the US generally refers to the folks who are able to take vitals and minimal-complexity care. They're not given anywhere near the responsibility of an RN let alone an NP.
> If we wanted to be better than putin, there's 1 year (minus 11 days) gone by, with us pointing a finger, while we're doing the same...

> Because we're the same.

I really doubt USA fights at the moment anything close to what's going on in Eastern Ukraine. I think you're biased.
Microsoft has been pumping out proprietary crapware for decades, while those of us who cared about freedom and security have continued to ignore it, despite it even being pop culture at times.

The lack of basic ethics on this topic is a great example of what people mean when they assert that software engineering isn't real engineering. Software should represent the interests of its prospective users, period. Inserting anti-features that directly go against the interest of the user to benefit the author is a violation of trust, and is blatantly unethical.

But sure, keep convincing yourself that if users don't like you violating them a bit, it's just naturally pragmatic to abuse them even worse. Either way whatever you create can't be considered trustworthy.

As for the original topic, the real problem is that it would be a rug pull - classic Google. If this were a new language built with surveillance in the compiler, nobody would use it. But if the maintainers decide to add in hostile features after the language has gained wide adoption, it will take a lot of churn to sort out, fork, sandbox, etc.
The world needs more humanities scholars as well.
It's interesting that this doesn't mention the productivity / wage divergence graph that also splits at 1973 that shows that productivity still really outperforms wages. https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

I tried to Ctrl+F-ing for some themes:

Not one mention of: "wages, income, poverty, inequality, etc." as progress to this group is purely a tech phenomenon, and "never" by policy failures or from any kind of class issue.

Here are some non-technical things that were mentioned though: "civilization, West, Venice, Florence, American, United Kingdom, Pentagon, etc" - telling...
People on reddit were talking about abandoning their home to head out west in order to avoid the "fallout" of the disaster. Uproot your family and say goodbye to home, it's now lost.

The group pushing this is stoking maximum fear and panic, and it's just not warranted. So the heart of my argument is "There is a lot of misinformation being peddled around this disaster, be vigilant." There are real people who will make real decisions based on what they know. It's best they know the truth, rather than be a pawn in some political game.

Also the original reason I replied was to point out that the post was almost certainly removed because it tripped bot alarms.
Hospitals shouldn't be a profitable business. The primary goal of a hospital should be serving patients sickness. (Easier said than done)

My partner is a physician at a hospital in NYC, and something that they are struggling with now is lack of social services for patients to get them out of hospital beds and into homes/rehabs.

As a immigrant in this country, I am constantly flabbergasted by the state of healthcare here and people's willingness to accept hospitals as profit seeking businesses the same as a fortune 500.

Obviously if the law allows these hospitals to seek profits, they will. So the question is, how do we change the law? And why don't people want to change it?
Not all Rand fans live in basements. Larry Ellison is one, and a few other famous names are too. Nothing against your general point about public services though.
Tom Scott: I tried using AI. It scared me. [video]
Other countries even have laws mandating that prices posted in stores include tax. Of course, if you suggest such a mandate in the US, you'll hear a well rehearsed litany of excuses about why it isn't possible.
I’m extremely picky - as long as my livelihood is not threatened and I actually have options. For me, being forced to use Windows, Teams, Skype, Java/Spring, or Jira (among others) would be a dealbreaker (again, unless that job might be among the few available to help me feed my family).

I spent some time learning in the structured environment of a large company, which I recommend everyone do for a first and/or second job.

Now, at this point in my career, I tend to gravitate toward smaller companies; my current company (less than 40 employees) ordered me a high-spec Framework Laptop (I put Fedora on it) and $900 ultra-wide monitor without hesitation. I believe I was the first dev at the company to ask about a Sublime license (in a Slack message), and within minutes I got an email from SublimeHQ with the license key.

Of course, YMMV, but if you want and are ready for flexibility, you might do best by avoiding big companies - and even startups where leadership has intense personalities and overly-strong opinions.
WTF did I just read?

The first remark to start everything was sensational, and I'd love more specific citation to learn more about the claimed allegations.

Then, seemingly out of nowhere, one individual went on a major rant about "intersex" or something like that, and something-something Ada Initiative...

What I want is a technical discussion about "Google's opt-out telemetry proposal on the Go compiler", which raises some alarm... the word "opt-out" seems to suggest Google would require people to unsubscribe from their intelligence gathering? Seems sensational at face value. But is that even true? And what, if anything does gender-identity drama have to do with anything about that?
Wow, that's an astonishing improvement in weight compared to other VR headsets. Here's Meta's line-up for comparison: https://i.imgur.com/JoTt10p.png
Blocking the press coverage is more efficient.
Clojure is not a hobby language.
Yeah I was actually thinking of Physician Assistant
I agree that in some cases there is a grayscale because what is an important behavior for some users may be unnecessary for others. For example, i could accept that incremental search using Google when text is entered to address bar in a browser could be considered both useful feature and privacy violation depends on user expectations.

But i also think there are some clear lines, like if a tool is not expected to use network at all, it should not use it. If a tool is expected to communicate just with explicitly specified hosts, it should not communicate with third-parties, ...
Yeah, I am not great at visualizing 3d space, but I have thought enough about BJJ that I can map it all back out as well now. Plus you learn the heuristics. Usually it is something small. Lost a grip, allowed a grip, let something get loose in your half guard that lead to being cross faced, passed, etc. Often I know right away now when something is bad, though it takes a little work to figure out exactly how it happened (upper belts are sneaky like that) and unforced errors happen as well, at least those are easier to figure out :)
I'm fairly sure Microsoft doesn't even have the ambition to make it profitable. Like Youtube for Google, or costco hotdogs, it's to get a foot in the door (or rather, customers' feet in your doors) to upsell people on all your other products.
Doctors say we need more of them and their high pay?
The sane thing to do here is assume this is an attack, or precursor to an attack. Don’t follow up with force, yet. However there’s no reason the balloons should’ve been here in the first place.

Telling people not to be concerned of Chinese balloons entering another countries airspace, especially the US, makes you look odd to say the least. Are you Chinese?
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How would socialism prevent this accident?

Or, how about, what regulation would prevent it, while still allowing critical goods to flow?

My point is NOT that there's nothing to be done, it's that these sorts of accidents require attention to detail to prevent. There's no blanket easy political fix.
Where i work we use Standuply to run regular surveys and get standups from everyone through their bot.
It's not a 'second if' it's its own 'only if'.
The main priority of "Big tech" is profitability not freedom. They're not "giving in" as much as they're following a business model to maximize revenue. Ultimately internet censorship will benefit the biggest companies who are able to keep up with the regulations. It will effectively grant them unofficial monopolies as smaller companies struggle to keep up.
Interesting. Lightweight, $1000, iPhone only (for face scanning), but tying into the SteamVR/Index ecosystem. No inside-out tracking.

They advertise shareability via magnetically removable foam, but also say they've reduced weight by making 15 different versions for IPDs between 58mm and 72mm, suggesting sharing will only work well among those with similar IPDs.

Not super compelling IMHO unless you own a modern iPhone and you're already heavily invested in a gaming PC and the Steam ecosystem (which, admittedly, many are!)
Hi,

First of all, we launched our open source billing repository months before they did. In fact, they even reached out to us for inspiration. This could be related to the fact that our team has prior experience building billing engines, so we have a better understanding of the space.

From a product perspective, our coverage is more extensive. We provide more advanced coupons, usage-based components and billing use-cases. For example, we offer credit notes and refunds, small examples that are not listed in their API. Our product covers more billing edge-cases and deeper features.

Finally, we have customers in production. Our top user is invoicing 5M customers a month, which might not be the case for them.

To conclude, I would assert that we are more advanced.
It is questionable whether or not HFR is appropriate for film. I do agree that the motion blur you get in 24fps is excellent. I also like it even better when viewing on a 70mm film print.

In my opinion, it would be great to see select scenes in HFR such as the famous docking scene from Interstellar. I don't feel there are any scenes that warranted HFR in Titanic and was curious to see what they would have chosen. Surprisingly very few scenes were added in HFR and the moments that were in HFR were very brief.

The HDR is pretty nice but I think the main appeal of this release is to allow a new generation to see it in theaters and the 25th anniversary is just an excuse to allow this. Keep in mind that it is a limited release that I hear will end in a week or so.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onVhbeY7nLM
easy - you pay for it
The velocity of this post is already high enough that they are aware.
There are many other chemicals at play here due to the controlled burn under an inversion layer.
Last time something genetics based was developed fast, and succesful, quite a few people went on the fences over it: Covid mRNA vaccines.

There are reasons why medical development takes time and money. And why rare diseases are underserved. And no amount of "disruption" is going to change the simple question of cost in that equation. So if VCs want to change that, they can simply use some of their "free" billions to fund proper development and research.
this is what i want to know, the part you touch looks on point, what i want to know about is the software, there is so much secret sauce in a macbooks giant glass touchpad that actually makes it a reasonable replacement for a mouse

didn't feel that about any touchpad before the macbook, and it's why we loved thinkpad's so much because at least they gave you a nub
The Biden admin steps in and cancels pipelines - the safest and most efficient means of transporting product. Next best is ships - but that is out due to Jones Act.

So, safest and least expensive 2 options are out due to government doing the bidding of special interests like unions.
> Telemetry from a private system should always be opt-in.

I have to disagree. I think it should be visibly communicated (not snuck in under the radar) but such cases default on should be acceptable so long as it is clearly communicated. Command line systems ARE inherently more difficult than the installer checkbox I'm used to (but by no means impossible to work with).

> Xcode command line tools require a one-time license agreement
> plenty of Java tools will prompt for JAVA_HOME if they can’t figure out where it is

This is easy enough if done from the start, but it's hard to do without breaking existing users's scripts if you have the requirement that "We don't stop and ask for permission in v2.0 if we didn't in v1.0 given the same arguments and environment, as that will break people's builds". And as a user of a command line tool I have to say that requirement seems much more important... This is why it's a good idea to have a /noninteractive switch for command line tools. You can state from v1.0 that without it, it might block at any point in any later version , so any script that doesn't use it made a mistake.

> developers think they have some default right to data on systems they don’t own without explicitly getting permission

What is explicitly asking here? Is the checked state of a checkbox part of whether it's explicit?

> it’s morally bankrupt and erodes the peer relationship that should exist in open source software.

Yes, OSS has their nuances, command line tools have their nuances. Having Google be the company at the receiving and has it's own set of complications. I don't think all the objections apply in all cases.
How do you know this is due to overworked employees?
There are in service commercial planes that need to be routinely rebooted to prevent counters from overflowing, so I really wouldn't be surprised about similar sorts of issues in single use devices.
> The problems she dismisses as pseudo-problems are attempts to explain the values of free parameters

This is begging the question. Of course explaining the values of free parameters is a hopeless endeavor (it's in the name), but we don't actually know which parameters are free. We know which parameters are free in the standard model - but the standard model is just an effective theory. Radical instrumentalists like Hossenfelder might be satisfied with that, but a scientific realist shouldn't be.
> (security can’t really stop them given liability)

what does this mean? Isn't that the whole point of security?
>"Regulatory compliance" isn't a government surcharge

Sure; but the 911 fee is, as is the local utility user fee and the public and educational broadcasting fee; and (to be clear) I am saying that I don't mind them being broken out for billing purposes - the only reason they're not when advertising is because of the race-to-the-bottom on pricing transparency.
I'm intrigued, why do the PMs and such care? (I'm assuming EMs is Engineering Manager?)
Online romance scammers may have a new wingman – artificial intelligence
Rotating tasks is pretty much necessary for me. With executive issues, my focus is highly variable. Sometimes I need to switch to a lower effort (and/or more rewarding) task to recharge.

This affects everyone to some degree or another. It’s just an order of magnitude worse for me.
I had a program which occasionally segfaulted (and even raised a SIGILL once, i forget how). By the time it segfaults, it's too late to get logging out (easily, at least). But i didn't want to write an ever-growing log of everything.

So, i did something a bit like the coroner. When the program started, it created a fresh log file, extended it to a certain size, and memory-mapped it. It then logged into this buffer, with new logging overwriting old (it wasn't actually a circular buffer; the program dropped a big blob of logging into the buffer at the top of its main loop).

While alive, the process never closed or msynced the mapping, and it was fixed size, so the kernel was under no particular pressure to write the contents to disk. But when the process crashed, the kernel would preserve the contents.

I admit i never benchmarked this, so i don't know whether it actually avoided excessive writes. But it seemed like a neat idea in principle!
Companies do want to profit, but a lot of them (eg. Microsoft, Google, Amazon) draw the line somewhere. Many of those companies refuse to do business in China because their demands are too extreme. Other businesses that choose to operate in China are forced to lie to their customers and directly jeopardize their user's data. Look at iOS, which needs constant radical changes to comply with CCP demands. Be it changing the Taiwanese flag, moving domestic iCloud data into mainland China, or stopping protestors from using Aidrop effectively, Apple is is pretty much at their beck and call now.

I think the better model is for companies to stand by their morals (even if they're weak) rather than bending to the unique tyrannical demands of each sovereign nation. Microsoft's choice here is honestly the most admirable to me, even though I despise them as a company.
A Green Bank Telescope Prototype Radar System Can Image the Moon in High-Res
To clarify, the face scanning part can be done with a friend's iPhone and it's a one-time thing.
A more apt analogy would be a sensor which anonymously reports if a pipe starts leaking so the manufacturer has a sense of their failure rate.
Am I the only one who looked at the site & thought "this can't be for real"?
3D Model of New York Available for Free (and Commercial Use)
Digital twin company Geopipe offers a free 3D model of New York City, with its real-life buildings, terrain, and streets. You can download any part of the city in FBX, OBJ, DAE, GLTF/GLB, and OSG formats to use in other software.

To get the customizable and interactive model, you will need to create an account, which gives you free credits every month. Use the currency to download the city or its districts.
> But the bigger issue is that all she's saying is that there is a problem (which everyone in the field knows) but doesn't offer any solution.

The solution is to stop pretending there's a problem to solve when there isn't. That's literally what she's saying.

The obvious corollary is, "work on real problems instead of pseudo problems and stop trying to take funding away from people working on real problems".

It seems perfectly obvious that we've passed the point of diminishing returns and it's time to focus on other things until we have a compelling reason to revisit this.
I strong disagree. From the hospital perspective, NPs and PAs are cannon fodder thrown on the line.

My sister in law is a NP who quit the ER. She worked as an RN in an ER for a decade and knew that she lacked the training and skills to be doing some of the stuff she was forced to do.

Patient lives and her license were at risk every day.