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> Are professionals expected to mindlessly throw money around at the new shiny without having absolutely no compelling reason to do so?

Once again you're loading an incredibly tawdry straw man argument here with your own inane value judgements. The only difference is that this time you've undermined your argument with a typo: it's otherwise as self-evidently vacuous as your original comment.

Just look at this epistemological nightmare you enumerated with apparent sincerity:

> why on earth would you even waste money on a M3 Macbook Pro if you already have a M2 Macbook Air? If you cannot answer this question, why would it be anything than absolutely foolish to pretend that people should justify not buying a M3?

Putting aside haplography (I guess if your argument is just begging the question a dozen times it gets hard to write coherently), it seems that you're literally incapable of considering that other people have fundamentally different values and priorities to you.

Read this sentence you wrote:

> In fact, all it would take is provide a single compelling reason why it would be a good idea to waste money on a M3 Macbook Pro when you already own a M2/M1 Macbook Pro, or even a late 2010s Macbook Pro

It is axiomatic that there can be no "compelling reason why it would be a good idea [sic]" to "waste" money on an M3 MacBook Pro. It's a waste of money, so there cannot be a good reason. What you presumably intend to write is: "I cannot think of a single compelling reason for a person to upgrade to an M3 MacBook Pro if they already own an M2, M1, or late-2010s MacBook Pro."

And that's it. You can't think of a reason. People in this thread have given you both examples of reasons to upgrade, and clear-eyed explanations of why your inability to suspend your disbelief in this area is not the incisive general argument you think it is.

Much of the work I personally do will be made significantly faster by upgrading from the M1 to the M3 Max, which I will upgrade to. I upgraded to the M1 from an Intel Core i9.

You might think that this is a compelling reason -- wanting one's work to be faster and more efficient. You might not. It doesn't matter. It's a good enough reason for me to upgrade, and that's the rub. Everyone has a reason to upgrade, you just disagree with how compelling those reasons are. And again, the great news for everyone else is that your handwringing serves only to make you seem enormously judgemental and narrow-minded. You remain free to spend your money as you wish.
Independent contractors and small (self-owned) companies should definitely be claiming the home office expense...

There has not been a point in the last 40 years where they shouldn't be

https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/individuals/home-offi...
Maybe because every person worldwide who watched a couple of movies or series knows at least one LA neighborhood by name and zero for Detroit ;)
Rust or Machine Learning: Which New Skill to Prioritize for Job Market Edge
I'm considering learning a new skill to enhance my job market prospects. Should I invest my time in becoming proficient in Rust, known for its system-level programming capabilities, or dive into the world of Machine Learning, with its growing demand across various industries?

I'd also like to know which of these skills should be prioritized for a quicker edge in the job market. Additionally, how long does it typically take to ramp up in either of these fields? Your insights and experiences would be greatly appreciated!
We started homeschooling our kids during the pandemic with a neighborhood group, and it went really well. Everything about them improved, not just their academic performance, but also their mood got way more positive about learning. Now we have them in private school and.. it seems to be going fairly well. They don't have the irritability that they did in public schools, and I think my children are much happier. From my perspective, there's just too much chaos in public education for healthy learning.
'Billor Swift' AI bot helps you pick a Halloween costume
We built a Halloween Outfit Optimizer with Twilio, MindsDB, + GPT. Creepy cool!
And all the 6 people who play fighting games on Xbox.
Are all these issues with Wise business accounts or with personal accounts as well? I have a personal account; should I just close it as I hardly use it?
That new versions with new features come out doesn't mean they're improvements on the previous one. At some point it's just bloat that slows down the core functionality.
Millions have used the 988 mental health crisis line, most say they wont again
I recall a HN post within the past few years of an issue with a particular TLD (I think it may have been .io) that resulted in an outage and the conclusion was exactly this. Use whatever nice-looking domain you want for marketing, but stick with something stable for infrastructure.
Yep! I think, somewhat humorously for how this thread started - which was entirely mea culpa! - our perspectives on this are pretty closely aligned.

One thing I think is that a lot (though not all!) of the requirements imposed in heavily-regulated industries are actively counter-productive, because they more effectively introduce friction on positive changes than risky ones. But it's basically impossible to strike the exact right balance between mitigating tail risks, which is critical, vs. introducing counter-productive friction. So I have sympathy, I just also find it very frustrating to work in such environments.
Are you maybe thinking of tar?
> the school offering Autism testing, because they are so far behind socially.

Do you have any published evidence for this?
Who gets to decide if it's disrespectful? Making fun of religious practices is a god given right!
You're missing the parent's point. Your setup works for you but what if you and your partner both need to work? Do you both work at your desks in your bedroom? How does that impact your partner's sleep? What if you need to work late but they need to get up early? What happens when they have a meeting when you have a meeting? What if their work involves being on the phone all day?

I think you're looking at this from a solo dev's perspective, where all you do is get up, bang on some keys for 8 hours without anyone else bothering you, and then you're done. Of course that works in a corner of your bedroom where you live alone, but that's not everyone's job and living situation.
WHQL - Gamer Edition! taxing hardware with cost increases passed on to the lucky consumers. Gee thanks Microsoft.
Yea it seems like a pro-company benefit because all these companies can start treating all this as pre-tax benefits like the good old free untaxed lunch days. So it seems like they are trying to target remote work companies because the shift to remote work means companies were effectively paying employees post tax for home work environments.
There is a lot of risk in changing interface standards when dealing with 2+ ton mobile vehicles. Shifting “gears” has been taught to generations of drivers, even just from reverse to park to drive with a shifter.

Jeep tried to switch to a paddle interface, and it was left in neutral rather than park

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/w...

I teach my kids to always engage hand brake/parking brake, which reduces risk but some of those are “smart” too — so you can inadvertently leave your car in neutral (such as when it needs to be towed) while thinking you set park because interface has altered from learned rote method.
Check for homeschooling groups in your area. Meet and talk to parents, you’ll find out all about it including resource centers for when your child needs to learn topics where you are weak.

We’ve been homeschooling for 7 years. Our child’s social experience has increased both quantitatively and qualitatively. From few/constantly bullied physically and sexually, to many/nice thoughtful friends who will jump in and defend her instead of filming her, should things go down. She’s also a leader, does service for her community, and (proud papa moment here) at her 4th debate competition (3 per year in this league) won 9th place speaker and 3rd place team. Her team swept the series of 4 rounds. The only way their team could do that…wait for it…lots of practice aka socialization.

The “socialization” boogeyman is one of the most overplayed red herrings about homeschooling IMO.
I think your stance is way more balanced, I was mostly speaking to what I believe is the message the regulator wants to send, regardless if it's fair in its essence. Thanks for balancing out the thread.
Oh yes https://movie-sounds.org/sci-fi-movie-samples/quotes-with-so...
Warrant Query Language – A query language for permissions
> look at the number: most likely we won't replace. We will just compensate for some of the loss.

If you are referring to the current political situation, in which nuclear is at a huge disadvantage for irrational reasons, then I would agree that we won't start building serious nuclear capacity unless and until that political situation changes. But that will need to happen for any solution to work.

> Did you ever stop to check how many nuclear plants we would need to replace all fossil fuels?

About as many as we currently have of fossil fuel plants, since the replacement, at least for large base load electrical plants, is more or less one to one. There is no technical reason why we can't build that number of plants; your apparent belief to the contrary is simply uninformed. The obstacles are purely political.

> That's just about the narrative.

No, it isn't, it's about basic facts: poverty kills people. "Poverty" for most of the world does not mean "can't afford the Disney channel" or "can't afford wasteful overconsumption". It means "can't get enough to eat", "can't get basic health care", "can't afford basic control over your life". Telling people that they just have to suck it up and accept that because of your "degrowth" narrative is not going to work. Nor is it necessary.

You and I are posting here in a medium that requires an industrial civilization, and doing that does not imply wasteful overconsumption. I have had the computer I'm writing this post on for ten years. I've had my current phone for three (and it would be more except that my last one broke--I had that one for about seven or eight years). I've had my current car for six, and my wife has had her current car for ten. I think there are many more people living in first world countries who are like us, than who are wastefully overconsuming.

We don't need "degrowth". Nor will it be forced on us by running out of fossil fuels. If it is forced on us, it will be by stupid politics that refuses to adopt an obvious alternative that has been staring us in the face for decades.
Then so be it. The money will be spent elsewhere.
"I'd like to emphasize the distinction between defunding (i.e. demilitarizing) and abolishing the police"

I'd like to emphasize the distinction between your definitions of these words and the actual definitions of these words...

abolish - formally put an end to

defund - prevent (a group or organization) from continuing to receive funds

demilitarize - remove all military forces from (an area)
Your heart is in a good place, but... No more tax complexity, PLEASE. Let's stop using the tax system for encouraging/discouraging behaviors.
That’s hilarious and clever.
Thanks for this funny memory! I can instantly imagine it working very well.
You can't tell me with a straight face that public education is a uniform experience in the US.

Just read through the comments other people have posted in subthreads here about their own experiences.

My own school had a wide range of "don't bother learning, get pregnant and drop out" to "goes on to elite university" students, and everything in-between.
It seems reasonable to take whatever square footage is your desk/office space out of your rent and bill that to your employer too.
This looks a lot like the thumb ARM thingy?

The real question is why?

nm: https://www.quora.com/Why-was-the-ARM-Thumb-instruction-set-...
Sustaining Free Compute in a Hostile Environment
Do you think the majority of the people who say defund the police believe that?

Just because a minority of people have a terrible opinion doesn't mean the entire movement does.

Also even the author doesn't believe they can actually abolish the police.

> I’ve been advocating the abolition of the police for years. Regardless of your view on police power — whether you want to get rid of the police or simply to make them less violent — here’s an immediate demand we can all make: Cut the number of police in half and cut their budget in half. Fewer police officers equals fewer opportunities for them to brutalize and kill people. The idea is gaining traction in Minneapolis, Dallas, Los Angeles and other cities.
People can certainly be wrong, and following authorities will actually get you the right answer most of the time. Like I've gone somewhat critical of police in a sibling comment (and very critical elsewhere), and yet I still recognize that the large majority of what police do is prudent, proper, and justified. IMO it's important to hold both of these perspectives in one's head.

So your common imagined autistic case doesn't really speak to my general point - cases where authority is actually wrong and yet people line up behind it anyway with all sorts of justifications. These topics tend to get highly politicized as one tribe lines up behind the injustice and the other lines up behind the authority, but surely regardless of your latent tribe you can see that the phenomenon exists.
It is a luxury belief to believe that $100k is a pauper's salary.
Yeah... I kind of dont care? Use my DNA to do whatever good you can with it. I can see how someone could use this maliciously, but there are far simpler ways to mess with someone's life. 23andMe also has an opt out check box, right?
And probably the potential to create viruses that target certain DNA... I would assume multiple governments are doing work on things like this.
> Because they're a real physical object whose colour properties cannot be accurately reproduced in an image using standard RGB colour.

'Real physical objects' don't have 'colour properties', as grouping together certain wavelength ranges of EM radiation and then assigning them a 'colour' label is a human invention.

For example, even if every human disappeared from Earth tomorrow, objects will still emit EM radiation, but won't emit human invented labels.
It is almost exclusively a middle class activity. Also not that expensive if one parent is home. I knew many homeschooled kids who were just given a math textbook and worked through it. You only go to math class in public school for about 182 hours a year, so a diligent kid can do a year of math in a few months no problem.
To clarify that flippant reply: I have four examples of skin in the game, at the end of the article. Putting "losing your comp" in that category is trivializing. Risk is something serious and irreparable.
Mods/admins - why do all union-related stories on HN keep getting buried as soon as they pick up steam?

Could it have something to do with the political convictions of the owners?
I feel like your outlook implies a commitment to an American ideology where the company and capitalist has all the power, and the worker has almost no rights but to conform. People don’t exist in a vacuum, and they’re free to work together to collectively bargain for better terms and conditions. It’s not extortion or hostage taking, and even if it were, the company is also hostage taking by having that worker commit their life to fulfilling their obligation to the company by turning up every day and working for that company’s cause, in return for a small share of the revenue generated. I feel that ultimately your metaphors are being slightly mixed by thinking in terms of hostages and extortion. If you think in terms of communities of people and mutuality then the metaphor doesn’t work as well. If Tesla can’t get people from that locale to want to work for them, then they’re not going to be able to operate there. If they break the strike in the name of profits, workers at the city and the power company will see their friends and families made unemployed, and become reluctant to keep the lights on or the street free of debris. You’re dealing with a country and situation that has strong worker rights, and the reason they’re strong is that they keep solidarity with their values in the face of such profit-driven capitalistic behaviour, and there’s a finite resource of people who can be shipped in by Tesla to break this strike even though right now it’s a small issue. Happy workers don’t want to strike and not get paid, and discontent spreads much more rapidly than quiet contentment.
Microsoft decided to throw disabled people under the bus with the controller ban
Oh, there's definitely poor people doing it as well. Not necessarily as well.
Custom contollers for Xbox? Nah.
You are saying this like it's a fact. It's just your opinion on something.
No but if this hypothetical instruction set doesn't even include shifts, it wouldn't be surprising if it missed other instructions.
Something I've been wondering about lately - maybe you have some insight into how this works?

The .in TLD doesn't allow privacy protection as seen in the list you linked above but whois still shows "Redacted for Privacy Purposes" for everything but the country and state/province of the registrant.
I understand your feeling: I have a vague uneasy feeling when I see DOSbox or other emulations running. It is a great achievement to allow legacy software to remain alive and executable... But still it seems fake. Nothing to do with the real software running on real antique hardware.
I think the name is alluding to ABSCAM?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam
Because i want a job and not an incentive to not hire me because i don't work locally to their office.

I get frustrated at arguments like this that effectively result in "hey, you need to move to a big city because it's 'better' for you". I don't live in a big city right now, i work remote, and i'm thankful that employers aren't punished and incentivized _not_ to hire me.

I get what you're saying, but we need to look at the ramifications of purity arguments like this. Killing WFH "for my own good" doesn't feel as good as you may think it is.
That app is like a series of contradictions.

At times it seems very averse to tell me about perception on the main screen ... EXCEPT the notifications where it sends me double notifications about rain, snow, whatever all the time, and it's right maybe 15% of the time, maybe.
This is what happens when you have no regulations. This would of never come up if California actually regulated the electric companies and internet providers.
No, you can also argue in good faith with ideas you don't like.

But it doesn't seems to be something you're familiar with given your response…
You really don't know what you're talking about.

First, you've confused registrars and registries - registrars don't operate DNS servers for TLDs; registries do. This isn't a pedantic point; understanding the distinction is absolutely key for understanding how domain registrations work.

Second, registries (for gTLDs) have agreements with ICANN that provide legal protections for domain registrants - including protections against denying renewals or jacking up renewal pricing. You can see the agreements here: https://www.icann.org/en/registry-agreements

This is not the case with ccTLDs; each ccTLD registry can operate as arbitrarily and capriciously as they want, which is why teddyh's advice to avoid foreign ccTLDs is quite sound.
The HN title matches the article headline, but the article headline is horribly inaccurate.

This is not about making ransom payments illegal, as many commenters have assumed. They are setting up an international information-sharing system to help track cryptocurrency wallets that are receiving ransom payments.
> This will be the greatest act of Intellectual Property theft in history.

Good.

Intellectual Property is a mistake. If AI brings about its end, I welcome it.
I suspect that OP thinks, as I did, that you've constructed an inane straw man.
> You seem to have a vested interest ...

And again you're jumping right into name calling.

You have a brand new, unknown account here, and you're asking people to share confidential info with you.

You have no profile info, and instead of providing details about yourself when asked... you start calling people names.

What that looks like is someone immature attempting social engineering.

If you're actually legit though, then please do better.
The "fix" to databases and VMs on btrfs by disabling CoW unfortunately disables nearly all the useful features.
> In what ways has mozilla meaningfully dared to try and expand their revenue streams?

I think that Mozilla VPN is pretty nice. It's based on Mullvad VPN, so they seem to know their audience (given that Mullvad has a pretty okay reputation among many tech savvy or privacy conscious folks, a lot of which probably use something like Firefox as well): https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/vpn/

I guess there's also Firefox Relay, for those who might benefit from something like that: https://relay.firefox.com/

Not many other products to give them money for come to mind, though.
Any long-lived application is like a species, and every release is like a fossil. I see beauty in both the static and the dynamic.
Touch Bar Discontinued on New MacBooks After Seven Years
Having lived on a Caribbean island, I can relate to this visual sensation. Let me only tell you further that when coupled with the auditory expeience of the rhythmic ocean waves washing against the shoreline, it amplifies the entire encounter for me.
Crossposted from https://nitter.net/ESYudkowsky/status/1718654143110512741
This is great. Know of any examples using these rules in practice?
> There are many behaviours which were common throughout human history which would now be fringe movements. Human and/or animal sacrifices, for instance.

I better example might be freedom from surveillance. It's a totally fringe lifestyle to not be tracked everywhere you go, at least in a developed country.

But your rhetoric might be useful for shooting down privacy advocates during the next dust-up. Privacy may have been common in the past but now its fringe, just like animal sacrifice. Key escrow is the future!
“Headquarters” is irrelevant for state employment laws. If an employee is working within the geographic boundaries of state A, then that employee’s employer is an employer in state A and has to follow all the laws of state A. Same for state taxes.
Using vladmandic sd.next with v1-5 works fine* on my RX 580 4GB at around 1s/it on ROCm and 1.5s/it on DirectML.

fine = requires --medvram or --lowvram in order to not run out of memory. The speeds above are with medvram, which is just about on the edge of what's possible. These options compromise speed but are still better than running on the CPU generally.
>>Tobacco use: Insurers can charge tobacco users up to 50% more than those who don’t use tobacco.

Wondering what fraction of smokers know that, and are lying to their doctors about it. Inappropriate testing or treatment being a possible result.
So in the end it’s all part of salary. Not tax-exempting just shows how inept the company’s finance team is more than whether or not they value your time.