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People are going to take their pay and do their job because to do otherwise could mean they can't maintain their lifestyle or keep their family provided to the same standard they're currently living at.

Altruism is not a default position, and is unusual in the real world.

I'm not saying that's how it should be, or that people shouldn't work to make it otherwise. But you say why don't all those people walk away from that? How far would you go? What if you had children depending on you? It's very easy to condemn other people as "greedy" but you show a lack of understanding, of empathy, perhaps, for how people in general function in the world if you assume they should just do what you say because "obviously, my moral stance trumps their concerns."

Edit: I upvoted your other comment, by the way, where you lay out the very scenario I speak of. Many people are "screwed" because their lifestyle has expanded to their current circumstance. Few people realize that progress in some dimension rarely rules out regress back along the same path. Liberty requires maintenance, because there will always be societal forces aimed at eroding it.
> You can’t just build an iPhone app and leave it alone to be enjoyed by people. I’ve tried, within a year or two there will be changes that require developer work, if you don’t keep it maintained, it will start to crash and function poorly

My favorite is when a new Apple update breaks your app, so you identify where the issue is and make a small update, but now Apple rejects your update because of some other arbitrary guidelines it's changed, so you then have to start down that rabbit hole.
Simple base hook for CS:GO on Linux
article https://www.moblog.in/2023-06-28-reconstruct-csgo-vtable
Because you sold a defective product
A family friend is a teacher and she talks about how the kids just play with their phones the whole time. They don't pay attention and she's not allowed to do anything about it. I don't understand how we got to the point where teachers have zero authority.

I don't understand why phones can't be put in lockers. If you really need to use the phone for an emergency, you could get a pass. And in the past isn't that what the office was for?
I'm surprised when I see a comment ascribing this to Elon deleting things upvoted higher than the comments that explain this is a normal part of how Community Notes work for so-so notes.
The Expo framework runs entirely on the end user's device. It's client-side software and I don't think MiTM attacks are the main part of the threat model. Like with most open source you may want to vet the supply chain and the code you include in your apps but Expo has been maintained for over seven years now and is generally trusted in this way in my experience.
The vaccine didn't stop transmission though so being vaccinated made no difference as to whether you were "endangering people" (you weren't, mostly) with a "deadly" (not unless morbidly obese or with other serious health issues) "crippling" (still unconfirmed) virus.
They're also old enough to have sex, but they probably aren't supposed to do that at school.
Just some correction here for ppl who skim stuff:

The linked article says this was a trial in 2001. Only 1 school did it and it seemed to go well, but no other schools were willing to try it.
Pretty clearly, the article means standing out through creativity and work product is a good thing. Not by being angry and whiny.
They keep saying you can do it - but I can’t actually see how. I don’t do a whole lot with the new architecture at the moment - it’s still very new and a very bumpy ride if you want to adopt it
My semi uninformed theories:

1. Someone could set up a server that proxies WEI required requests to regular clients. The client initiates the process, the request goes to the middleman, the middleman makes the proper WEI authorized request, gets the response, passes the response back to the client.

2. The private key could leak somehow, and so, software can forge the required signature.

I'm not holding my breath for either one. Some kind of regulation has to step in, otherwise Google puts the internet in a chokehold.
<https://xkcd.com/1235/>
> I'm always surprised at how much push-back this one gets.

Oh, but the explanation is simple. They resent being told to eat their vegetables. They know you're right, but don't want to or can't do it, and attack you for reminding them of that.

> I'm grossly under-estimating the amount of work

Probably a big part of it - if you write a lot, it is very easy to forget how intimidating it can feel to those who don't. And related hang ups can be amplifiers - if you don't write much and have insecurities (sorry, "imposter syndrome"), being told this should be an easy thing can be triggering. And this is employment we're talking about - it is definitionally high-stakes, whatever the stakes are.
Is Agile for Everyone? A Comprehensive Guide to Agile Transformation
It's an argument against school-aged children riding mass transit unsupervised.
> You have two bad choices: join the marines or live in poverty.

That's a loaded conundrum, but isn't this also true about pretty much any other job, especially in the US?
Ignoring the other impracticalities that sibling commenters have pointed out, are you going to be the one to reach inside and put the flaming car in neutral? 'cuz you ain't pushing shit if that thing's still in Park.
Oh jesus, I had expected that to happen after today's fire of a car freighter.

Everyone is hating on BEVs, but the problem runs way deeper:

Most car ferries are old. Like, really goddamn old, many decades are the norm, not a rarity - unlike oil tankers, where the double-hull mandate has forced a lot of old ships into retirement years ago. These things are almost exclusively completely open decks from bow to stern, which means any fire has an easy time to spread through the entire deck and subsequently destabilize the ship. No doors, no intermediate walls, nothing to stand in the way of fire, heat and smoke.

At the same time, on-board firefighting equipment is designed to handle a burning car just fine... a gasoline car. Smother it in water, and the fire should at least stay contained. A lithium fire however needs the car to be submerged and even that's not a guarantee it will extinguish, but - remember the open decks - any water that gets sprayed onto it just flows away.

Given that BEVs will become the norm in the next decades, shippers absolutely need to buy new ships, designed to be able to withstand the very different load of a battery fire. But they won't do that because, surprise, ships are extremely expensive...
I've been using Source Code Pro for as long as I can remember now, and playing the game with hidden names yielded... Source Code Pro!

I guess familiarity ultimately determines much of our font preference
There's really nothing wrong with new features as long as you understand that there's a certain subset of users who don't want things to change. Maybe it's because people are already trained on the current version, or they don't want to have to upgrade machines just to run the new feature set, or any of a thousand reasons you may not have thought of.

And then there are the "upgrades" that try to force you to pay more.

There was a dev tool that I purchased a couple years ago. Don't remember the name. It was reasonably priced and came with 1 year of support. A bit over a year later I got a notification that they had put out an update, so I downloaded it to take a look, only to find out that it had deleted the version I had bought and my license wouldn't transfer over. If I didn't now buy this new version, not only could I not use it past the trial period, but I'd lost the version I had before.

Yeah, I was pissed. And the company really had trouble understanding why I was so pissed off by this behavior. I did finally find out where I could download the version I had before, but there went my entire workday. And the product that previously I would recommend became something I cautioned people to avoid!
I don't think there's anything wrong with your suggestions; I think they absolutely will be minimal effort for a huge payoff for a job seeker.

Here are the struggles I've had with this over my career:

* Public vs private persona. I'm a pretty open person and happy to share with people I know or where it feels "safe" (eg, Facebook where I more explicitly control the audience) but I'm deeply uncomfortable with publicly announcing things under my name on the internet to go god-knows-where. This is one reason I've been tremendously uncomfortable with Twitter. I absolutely despise the public-broadcast model, and I'm somewhat suspicious of people who want to make such a show of themselves (to build an "audience"). I've toyed with various forms of pseudonymity but that brings its own problems; I think it encourages antisocial behaviors and then at some people you have to 'expose' yourself (eg, when you have to tell your prospective employer, yes, NSAhacker31337 is my github, take a look!)

* Along with the above, blogging/demonstrating things always has a bit of a show-off feel. "Look at this great thing I know how to do, I bet you don't know how to do it!" Or, worse, you're demonstrating something "everybody knows" and you look like a naive fool.

* Consistency. I've made various "I should start a blog" efforts over the years, and inevitably get bored of the tools and want it somewhere else, or I don't like the tone I used to use, or I forget which site I used, or whatever. It's sort of like how "just go to the gym 3 days a week" shouldn't be that hard, but for 99% of people is.

Again, these are just my personal struggles, to maybe help you understand why people don't. It's nothing against your advice, which I think is fantastic.
The 'untold hack' for attracting VCS: building in stealth
I hate to be that person, but do you really want to go to San Francisco? The crime, lawlessness, and exorbitant prices might make you regret it.
By the way, if you're in the Amsterdam area next week, almost the whole TigerBeetle team will be there on Monday/Tuesday.

We'll be hosting a happy hour on Tuesday August 1st at 5pm. If you'd like to join, RSVP below and you're invited! Among others, some friends from the Zig communities will be coming through, and a DuckDB developer or two may be there. :)

https://tigerbeetle.com/amsterdam23/
Overture Maps Alpha.0
https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data
This makes me even less interested in buying a Tesla while he's in charge. Imagine what he can do with your Tesla, with all of its telemetry.
Some podcast I was listening to made an interesting argument along these lines around tea, although more in the context of the industrial revolution. Their point was that tea, a stimulant, was absolutely central in motivating workers to get up at the crack of dawn and work long hours doing precise, grueling work. So much so that it became a strategic necessity for the English economy, leading to much of their colonial policy in China and India. Not sure exactly how "valid" this reading is, but it's definitely interesting to think about coffee and tea as actual stimulant drugs with economic consequences. Certainly today tea has a very benign reputation
verily has nothing to do with life extension, that's Calico.
I’m sure it can somehow be combined with pizza. Who invented pizza anyway?
Are you asking for good faith, or just faith? A million debunkable/explainable-with-something-else cases is equivalent to zero cases. I mostly see people ask for one, single, hard piece of evidence. In all of the millions. Something that can't be explained much more plausibly.
How long are you staying?

I don't know of any co-living spaces / hacker-houses that have short term opportunities, most are commitments on the order of a few months to a year at a time. Personally I would try to find a few roommates (in your network or through some common forums) who are collectively interested in the ML space and go from there.

To your broader question about keeping costs low, I'd recommend some general strategies that are probably true anywhere:

- Host dinner at your house instead of eating out. Raw ingredients to cook at home in SF are no more expensive than other places in the country but eating out can get really pricy really quickly.

- Get a bike, Clipper card, or sign up for Revel. People love to hate on Muni but if you're willing to wait a bit for the bus they typically get you where you need to go. You also feel more connected to the city versus looking out of an Uber window. Or even cheaper just walk the hills are not that bad.

- If you end up not going the hacker home route, there are a lot of SF Housing facebook groups where people try to find people to fill temporary sublets. They're usually a bit cheaper than rent prices and way cheaper than AirBnBs.

- If you already have an apartment back home I also know companies like Kindred let you swap housing 1:1 so you might have some luck this way.

Welcome to the city! See you around.
As it turns out a minor insult is actually not an argument for why something is unethical
He essentially incurs no penalties for any kind of bad behaviour, so why would he stop?
Damn, if IntelliJ is getting slower than Eclipse that's a big red flag. I don't use IntelliJ nowadays but 10 years ago IntelliJ was a vastly better and faster product. Wth is happening in Jetbrain?
Extraordinarily claims require extraordinary evidence and reasonably demand healthy skepticism, but HackerNews requires engaging and thoughtful discussion. These threads are constantly full of the same flippantly dismissive remarks, as if it's a novel critique to mention that everyone has a good camera in their pocket these days but hasn't recorded a UFO on it.

HackerNews can be skeptical in interesting, informative ways - the discussion from yesterday of how the superconductor video could have been faked or could be representing something other than a superconductor is a great example. The UFO discussions are usually not that.
try a place in oakland. you can take a train into SF cheap.
There are long tails in the distribution of the universe. I'm not sure where UAP fall in, but this thought exercise from Sagan helps to characterize my skepticism: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Dragon_in_My_Garage
In that case we should thank our stars it’s not a public company. Musk taking over twitter has done more to expose corruption and hypocrisy than almost anything else. The Twitter Leaks, balancing the algorithms, and even biasing them against the same people they used to be biased for (all while the same people that defended censorship now whine about it) pulled the masks off many in power.

Sure he might just drive it all into the ground, but the interim piloting has created so much good (whether some acknowledge it or not).
[ES: Rumor]

As far as I know, it's to destigmatize the idea of UFO/UAP sightings, and encourage both civilian and military pilots to report them.

So that they can investigated - to identify aerial surveillance platforms, like the infamous Chinese spy balloon, and experimental aircraft.
I think what you're missing is an explanation on why there should be any correlation between being a good developer/employee with writing a blog. Sure, you can say communication skills, but you want to test for that anyway.

I actually think that we'd have a much better job market without any of this.

I'm also among the people that see too much pointless content being published simply for hidden advertising, including by companies.
And? How do updates help any of this? Firewalls are a thing. Memory-safe languages are a thing. Unit tests are a thing. Fuzzing is a thing. And it is not an OS's job to protect the user from themselves (i.e. social engineering). If you've installed malware, you deserve the consequences and you will be more careful next time. It's okay for powerful technologies to require a minimum level of education.
Lots of old music is not there (I love collecting 30-40s jazz, many records are simply not on any streaming service because they were bootlegs/live recordings and weren't officially released)
side-note: The Economist offers a "listen" button to subscribers for most articles that appear to the weekly digital publication (web and mobile). The articles are narrated by different, high quality narrators with different accents (British English, South Africa English, etc). These are a breeze to listen to when running or commuting. The difference in quality to the text-to-voice counterpart is staggering.
I know. And I think that tight packing is a problem. But it's also a problem with extinguishing "normal" car fires already, as fire can easily spread from one car to another, through heat radiation alone. The underlying problem should be fixed.
"Toxic gases" aside, I think this part is more relevant to their ultimate decision:

> The decision was made after an external risk analysis was made on behalf of the company. What the risk analysis found was that fires in electric cars are considered more difficult to extinguish than fires in cars powered by petrol and diesel.

In other words: the problem is that they can't easily extinguish these fires on their ships. Or, perhaps, doing so isn't worth whatever the corresponding insurance burden is.
Links to Mastodon, ElonJet, the day he banned a dozen of journalists[1], etc.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/technology/twitter-suspen...
Green tortoise has great vibes, used to go there before I moved to the city. Cooking lunch there instead of eating out will save you enough $$ alone haha.
It's like if I took your email account you've used since 2007 because I changed my name to yours because I liked it better.

Yeah, he's the owner of the company, legally he can do it. Doesn't make it any less unethical and poor taste.
LOL.
I know Rust programmers can be passionate. But this juxtaposition of Gun Violence and Programming strikes a funny chord.

Can just imagine a Rust conference, and an argument breaks out over memory management, one guy starts yelling about 'borrowing', starts shooting, someone else yells "you can take my pointers out of my dead cold hands", starts shooting.
Pandemonium.
Ah! Will think over this. I have too many domains and I might need to pick a good one for some of the primary ones that I do not want to lose.

I have heard good things about Cloudflare as a registrar. In-fact, I suggest them to a friend who uses it. However, I user Cloudflare for DNS for most of my domains. SO, I won't move the domains registration to them.
License changed from AGPL to MIT.

But how (and why not) such a fine cratsman should be rewarded? Companies (maybe of all sizes) should allocate some funds to their top dependencies/tools or something and this should be listed on their main websites. More of a cultural norm I guess?
New Forms of Online Communication Spell End of Email Era in Korea (2004)
Finally, an event not just *about* memory safety, but how to institute change
Not a thing. This CPU was from back in the era when this stuff was still fun.
I've been invited out to SF to 'network' by founders and VC's a total of 3 times over the past decade+. 10+ years ago the hostels were $11 a night, and Airbnb room could be $45 - $65. The last time I convinced myself maybe sleeping in Delores Park during the day and wandering around at night could work, but luckily because of tech connections I didn't have to do that. Now days I just stay in Chicago and when VCs and founders tell me to go out to SF I tell them to buy me a ticket and a hotel room, and often I do not receive a response to that.
Isn't this exactly what happened? My understanding of history is that up until like the 16th century North Africa, the Middle East, and India were global leaders in science and industry.
Ticketmaster is the only company selling tickets to several venues, there is no choice of who to buy from available there.

The only choice is to boycott your favorite artist because their record label made a deal with the wrong company. That's too many layers of indirection, for many fans.
The concept of a "community note" never made sense to me.

The "community" itself isn't really one entity with a coherent position on any particular matter. The "community" is just a byproduct of people coming together to engage in discussion.

If somebody wanted to try to refute what somebody else claimed, it should have been done at an individual level, through the existing discussion mechanisms (a reply, or a new tweet, or an off-Twitter article/video, and so on).
Fraud happened on this network. I learned this at the "Musée des Arts et Métiers" in Paris.

From this Wikipedia article [0] :
The network was reserved for government use, but an early case of wire fraud occurred in 1834 when two bankers, François and Joseph Blanc, bribed the operators at a station near Tours on the line between Paris and Bordeaux to pass Paris stock exchange information to an accomplice in Bordeaux.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph
> people seeing orders and buying based on those orders before the original orders go through

This literally cannot happen unless someone is breaking a law. An order is not visible until after it has executed. What can happen is some actor want to get a better price for their order and thus split up the order into multiple orders that it tries to execute simultaneously. Then someone can act on one of those that process quicker before a second of those split up orders end up executed. And that is fine - propagating changes of price quickly between multiple separate market places is a good thing as it lowers the transaction overhead in general.
So what are they? Aliens? Robots? A front for the dolphins? Sentient paperwork?
The trick is being unusual enough to stand out initially but not so much that it's questioned at later steps whether or not you'll be able to fit in, work on the existing team, etc.
> “Make a progressive web app”: yes, that might be the way to go; provided you can get the users to ‘install’ it on their devices.

Assuming you're talking about the not-well-known process of adding PWAs to the Home screen, it's worth noting that you can package web apps for app store distribution as well. https://capacitorjs.com/
A lot of companies used to have in-house historians and they did a surprisingly good job in some cases. However, their efforts are always susceptible to a back room deal followed by some sort of public performance to attempt to make the public record look good.

These days I can only think of a handful of companies that do that, usually the old industrial giants like IBM, GE, etc. And who knows at what level the historians are involved or if they have access to internal communications.
> The corporate apparatus tends to view these things as a challenge to The Way We Do Things Here, so a blog post or side project might even be a red flag.

I know I'm coming at this from the idealistic position of someone who's lucky enough to have a job, but isn't it kind of a good thing if you find out early that you're applying to a company where doing things is a red flag?
The good thing is that there are multiple sources of getting money.
> It’s not practical for everyone to self host

It's not practical given the current state of the software stack.

> Annoying yes, but also not a failure mode to optimize against.

The failure mode in question is being a digital sharecropper and not owning anything, even your persona. And that is a failure mode very much worth optimising against.
Spectre is a bug in the processor, not in the software. I agree that when you're stuck with unfinalized buggy processors, adding mitigations in software is reasonable. But the processor could be finalized too.

When I had a reply I couldn't reply to, I opened the reply separately in a new tab, and there I could reply to it, try this.