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It's said in many contexts. I have no interest in a civilization in which the only skill we select for is ability to eat and deceive your fellow man. And I don't believe nature would have much interest in it either.
> Instead, a vast security apparatus has kicked into gear, starting with regulators in Washington and trickling down to bank security managers and branch staff eyeballing customers.

Despite the article and the comments, this isn't an American thing. There are stories on line that are near identical to these from all over the world.
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See my other comment. At some point, the card readers gained an auto-sort feature!
Physical damage is not the only kind of damage.

I'd be more concerned with psychological damage.

People who drink alcohol typically don't go around telling people they communed with entities from another dimension and they realized that all of existence is one harmonious unity.

Or whatever.
Chingi Naval Base is an American naval base shared with the Singapore Navy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changi_Naval_Base

Here is a map of US military bases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:American_bases_worldwide....

You can see the US has bases in South korea, Japan, Philipines, and Singapore. As well as outer laying bases in Guam and Northern Australia.

China doesn't have any breathing room in the pacific. But when you shit all over your neighbors, that's what happens. They back North Korea. Have centuries long conflict with Japan. And ignore the Philippines South China Sea territory.
Perhaps the master/slave relationship isn't the best metaphor for voluntary employment...
Are you really calling engineers who earn 300k and more at those companies “slaves”?
Japan is improving here thankfully! I’ve heard of workplaces that have drones fly around buzzing at 6pm to try kick people out
> Debian b

Just FYI, although the Ubuntu version naming scheme lends itself to being abbreviated to a single letter, this isn't true for Debian: the last three releases were Bookworm, Bullseye, and Buster.
> subtle flavor profile or minor product features

Don't agree they are subtle or minor (it's of course a scale and coffee is objectively, based on consumer behavior and preferences, way lower on it than smartphones or PCs).

> fact that people swap between Android phones and Apple phones

Some do. Some don't, of course not's not an entirely distinct market, only partially (just like tablets vs smartphones or laptops vs tablets just too a much smaller extent).
It's a problem with cheap tablets. They work with the OS version they are shipped, but after an upgrade they may become too slow to be usable.
Escrow is probably the names and addresses of close family members.
Seems to work pretty fast!
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> But I’ll also take that Plato could have used an existing folk tale describing that very event as the basis for a point he was trying to make.

Seems reasonable as well. What comes to mind for me is a (Western?) tradition of writing fiction as if it were reality that takes place in a foreign land. Isn't that kind of a thing? Maybe my brain is extrapolating an untrue connection, if someone here with more literary experience needs to shoot this down that's ok.
I'm really not certain this is enough to be a copyright problem.

For instance, GNU and POSIX both publish their specs for the coreutils. If a coder were to take a look at the actual GNU code (which BTW is published for everyone to see), copyright law has a well trodden distinction between the idea and the expression -- that is, ideas are not copyrightable. If the "idea" simply amounts to what would be a more a detailed specification, I'm not sure there is a problem, like ... GNU uses this kernel facility for X. The problem would be vast amounts of "expression", especially "creative expression", directly copied and reimplemented in Rust. If the code is meat and potatoes, not 10xer galaxy brain fare ("I wrote a custom allocator which is suspiciously like the custom allocator implemented by GNU"), there shouldn't be an issue.

Think about what copyright to a play, or a novel, or a screenplay is. Now imagine a comment in the text/source: "This is how Toni Morrison did her characterizations in Beloved". This obviously isn't a copyright violation, unless you're copying the actual expression or a translation of the actual expression found in Beloved.
I've never really understood the opposition to this besides non-competes et al. Ultimately I think work should be about delivery of a product or service not time spent, and if an enterprising person can deliver a business a product or service and at the same time deliver something else for another business, why shouldn't they be able to?

I've always noticed this disturbing tendency in some people to assume that since they employed you they own your entire life. I think they need to adjust their attitudes.
I would love an Android app that lets me reliably set the brightness to 1 or 2%. Not 3%, not 0%. The default slider makes this nearly impossible. I've tried a few programs to do this and none worked well.
On a similar note, you can use the shortcuts app on iphone to make a flashlight toggle that can be set much lower than what can be set through control panel.

https://i.imgur.com/kNTTlsu.png
Forgotten? Most people never knew and have no clue as to where their meat comes from, the specializations existing at each stage of life - and the farms dedicated to each stage, and how the meat is slaughtered. Honestly, I think it's for the best they don't know, otherwise they would be appalled.
That might be the sole reason why they're not releasing a 27" iMac. Maybe they just discontinue the line and switch to 32" iMacs.
Particularly annoying while driving in very hilly areas, that's for sure. There are some traits of signal propogation that are very difficult to work around, even with buffering and error correction remedies.
Maybe management knew you were faking and it’s the thought that counts?
It's a headache at a population level. Given a 10,000+ company, they will have plans for X% retiring, Y% leaving, Z% college hires to replace them. Most HR departments I have worked with track "regrettable turnover" - how many high performers are we losing.
Squirrels are large enough to make a meal.

And you can sell squirrel caps to the neighbors' kids.
Even with a CLA in place, you can still fork, improve and sell Synapse / Dendrite (or derivatives of it), as long as you follow the AGPL.
I thinkk I might be unconsciously approaching this from the vantage point of society and allocating resources where they are most needed, not where they singularly gurantee the owner outsized returns that obviously are not available to everyone
So, you want to speak at conferences
Do you have a citation for the claim that humans have gills? The closest I can find is that human embryos develop pharyngeal arches similar to fish, but these grow into the jaw and hyoid bones rather than gill supports:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharyngeal_arch

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7547273/
My worst close-calls were a result of ABS engaging at very low speed. In all cases, I reduced the speed to 2-3 MPH approaching a snowy intersection, but the car refused to let the wheels lock and "sink" in the snow.

Instead, it's all too happy to drift into oncoming traffic at a glacial pace. It could be specific to the various Toyotas I have owned...
I would be so happy if I could find a manufacturer that sells all common USB-C cables (to USB-C, lightning, micro-usb, mini-usb, ...) in good quality, with reliable specs, all common lengths and common color variations. A plus would be to even have the option to get one or both ends 90 degrees angled.

Personally I prefer my charging cables to be red, really helps people not to trip over them. In other places the color preferably matches the environment.
Wasn’t RISC-V developed in the US? And the first company to produce chips with this ISA, SiFive is US based too.

Why would it make sense to ban it in the US? They literally invented it.
Either contribute to the discussion or don’t speak. HN isn’t the place to recite riddles from your high horse.
Evidently the article was written by somebody that had an American viewpoint about moving to Denmark, I deduced this by reading the article where they talked about being American and what the pros and cons were about moving to Denmark.

They then commented on how the food sucks in Denmark.

You didn't agree with that.

I then presented reasons why an American might think the food sucks in Denmark.

But it seems I am wrong too because Americans shouldn't expect the food in Denmark to be the kind of food they like.

I don't know how you intend to square the circle of "Americans can't get the food here they like but they are wrong to think that they can't get the food they like", but I can definitely see you trying your darndest to square it.

In short, for lots of Americans moving to Denmark the food selection and the high cost of dining out will be a drawback.
Pet theory: real wages in tech have dropped since pandemic levels, so for the first time in years staying in your job (provided you got it a few years ago) is better financially than switching. The sector was pretty accustomed to constant churn, so this sticking with it is pretty unusual.
So then why didn't the contractors listen to his suggestion for the Mediator?
Oh that's good to know! I'll switch to using that instead
Excellent to see NASA doing such core earth observation work. Being able to have this data - especially as it changes, over time - will help us understand Spaceship Earth so much better.

That kind of work got struck out of NASA's mission statement by Bush 2. That's been a long term wound I've nursed for a long time. Good to see the good work happening anyways. https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/nasa-earth-removed-mission-...
You realize you're not posting on Twitter, right?
I think that may be right, but if so, that seems pretty unusual to me.

I've gone through a few of these "new kinds of software becoming useful" transition periods - most notably applications moving to the web, and then native smart phone applications - and in none of those transitions was there a dearth of resources on how to spin up on doing useful things due to this "moat" concern.

Nobody was protecting their iphone app dev moat by not publishing books and training courses on Objective-C and XCode...
Alternatively a lid perhaps? Money well spent clearly.
There’s a difference between a missile and a nuclear missile. I would note that advanced nuclear submarines somewhat make the issue moot.

You keep saying a single missile in your comments. I’m not sure if you’re mistaken or being hyperbolic. But the Soviet’s actually deployed 24 R-12 medium range missiles and 16 R-14 intermediate range missiles as well as a large number of long range bombers. At this time the soviets had several hundred nuclear warheads, so deploying 40 to Cuba was something like 10% of their entire nuclear arsenal.

The entire point of such a move at the time was first strike capability, which is entirely offensive in nature. This is not comparable to establishing defensive capability in nations surrounding a geopolitical rival who has been expansionist and nationalistic. The Soviet move established their desire to destroy us without provocation (after all first strike requires surprise), while establishing defensive positions is meant to stabilize a status quo.
Only Montana is not at will, and their population is negligible.

And the reason can be as simple as “no business need to continue employment”. And you can sue for anyone for anything at anytime, but it does not mean you will get anywhere, except losing money on court fees or lawyers.

The only direct monetary cost to employers is increased unemployment benefit insurance premiums due to having more previous employees collecting unemployment benefits.
I find it so wholly unconvincing that it annoys me whenever it is presented as anything more than quite idle speculation, even if by academics (not here in this particular comment chain, mind you).

It fails to convince me because it rests on two basic claims that I just cannot make myself believe: that humans are incapable of inventing grand, exaggerated stories, and that word of mouth, so inferior to writing for conveying information through the ages, somehow suddenly becomes a gold standard that can hold the kernel of a story true for a multiple of the time span of history.

Occam's Razor just screams that actually, every civilization across the world having their version of flood myths means that humans live in places where floods are important, life-defining catastrophes. this is true of every single habitat I'm aware of, up to and including deserts. It's "7000 (or whatever exactly) years of oral tradition before some Sumerian writes it down that captures anything useful" vs "Listen 'ere, grandchildren, did I tell you tykes the story of when I was your age, and my grandpappy put us all in boat with the sheep because of the flood? I couldn't see no land no more, so much water it was. Sigh, even the floods where better in my time, you don't know how good yer got it (repeat and aggrandize for three more generations)", and knowing humans, only one is instantly believable.

It also solves the annoying conundrum of Native Americans also having flood myths, despite the Black Sea flood happening definitely well after they lost contact with the Old World.
Many isn't a number. There's not much incentive to "fake" being a woman except to bait for payments without ever even meeting, so the pool is smaller than you project. The other incentive is on the part of the app owners who want to create the illusion of high membership, but I've only heard of this for Ashley Madison or the like. THere are plenty of women on Tinder, OKC, etc.

Yes they get more messages, they also filter and ignore many. That doesn't mean you can't land a date. There's a difference between guys who chase after absolutely everyone and guys who show more genuine interest in a person, and that comes through in the communication.

You're also preaching to the choir on college, I think the opportunity should be exploited to meet people in person, that doesn't mean online dating is rendered redundant.
I only apologized because some people love to shout "clickbait" at any headline that has anything sensational about it, regardless of truth or merit.

In this case it is entirely true, but some people would inevitably spend a bunch of time in comments arguing over whether or not the headline was clickbait, so I thought I'd just nip that conversation in the bud.

Apparently it didn't work ;)
I've learned that appearances can be just as important as actually being productive.

ie It's important that the big bosses know who you are and think you are productive, and sometimes that means being less productive in order to show that you are productive.
It's not voluntary unless/until you can find me a place where housing/land is free.

Sure, the slavery is "distributed" across multiple actors such as landlords & profit off the whole concept of property as an asset, but ultimately the net result is the same - you have to work just to be afforded shelter.

The end result is that you work or you die (out of exposure, medical bills, etc). Not much different from the slavery from the old days?
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I guess the thing is that there is much more to it to it than just a brand. If you're heavily invested into Apple's environment (spend a lot of money on apps, maybe media on iTunes etc. and/or you rely on their cloud services etc.) the cost for switching to Android is significant enough that you might be willing to tolerate some abuse from Apple's before you do that.
You can, simply use the topazd.exe binary from the topaz_windows_x86_64.zip from the GH releases page (https://github.com/aserto-dev/topaz/releases). Note this is currently not a Windows Service, so not net start topaz. Let me know if that would be interesting.
I think you shoot down every kid first
A 2-income family with 1-2 experienced devs working at major Bay Area companies could easily make over a million. But that only means they are rich as hell, it doesn't mean they are middle class. Median income in Santa Clara county is $140k so $150k was already a bit high as a starting point for middle class experience.

I won't argue that California isn't squeezing out lower incomes. That much is clear. But you're overestimating what that income is. Lower income families leave California because of housing costs, not because of income taxes. The median California household owes < $1000/yr in state income taxes.
Yes, but the float in those insurance companies is invested by Berkshire Hathaway. So when people report on BH, they often quote the float as a pile of cash that Buffett is sitting on.

I tried to verify this by looking at the financial report that it is based on. Which may be found at https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/qtrly/3rdqtr23.pdf. Unfortunately the $157 billion figure quoted in the title does not appear anywhere in the report. But page 37 quotes the float as being approximately $167 billion at September 30, 2023. So I suspect that they are quoting the float, and have a typo. Though they might be doing a calculation off of some other numbers.

My claim about how they think about it can be verified on page 32.

"Our management views our insurance business as possessing two distinct activities – underwriting and investing. Underwriting decisions are the responsibility of the unit managers, while investing decisions are the responsibility of Berkshire’s Chairman and CEO, Warren E. Buffett, and Berkshire’s corporate investment managers. Accordingly, we evaluate the economic performance of underwriting operations without any allocation of investment income or investment gains and losses. We consider investment income as an integral component of our aggregate insurance operating results. However, we consider investment gains and losses, whether realized or unrealized, as non-operating. We believe that such gains and losses are not meaningful in understanding the quarterly or annual operating results of our insurance businesses."
No, the rough timeline is this:

* 2014: Matrix core team creates Matrix, writes Synapse and other implementations, starts writing the Matrix spec

* 2017: Matrix core team wants to be able to focus on this exclusively as their dayjob; creates New Vector (aka Element) to fund their work.

* 2018: Matrix core team establishes the Foundation as a neutral custodian of the standard on behalf of everyone in the ecosystem. Element transfers all its core Matrix IP to the Foundation, and (uniquely) continues to donate its future contributions to the Foundation, hoping that by letting the whole ecosystem build on top, including proprietary forks, Matrix will spread as far and wide as possible to the benefit of everyone, and Element will make enough $ selling Matrix hosting/distributions to keep hiring the core team to work on Matrix.

* 2022: Matrix has spread far and wide, but turns out that in the commercial space, huge companies who bear no cost for supporting the Matrix ecosystem whatsoever discover they can sell proprietary forks for many $. Meanwhile, Element spends its life funnelling most of its time & energy into doing core Matrix ecosystem work, and it turns out that trying to compete with the big guys while all your energy is going into the commons doesn't work.

* 2023: Element decides it can't afford to contribute as Apache any more, and switches to AGPL + CLA, thus requiring the big guys to either opensource their proprietary forks as AGPL or arrange a paid license from Element. Yes, this means that contributors to Synapse will need to sign a CLA to Element, and it's depressing if this hinders community contributions, but it's the least worst solution we can see.
> It means performance matters and a performant implementation is rewarded with market share.

by this you mean technical group think or monoculture?
> Pay your fucking taxes.

Not just that, but pay a fair amount of taxes!

I'm not saying that apple needs to pay more taxes because they're big, I'd be happy if they paid the same amount (in percent, not total sum) as a small local mom-and-pop companies pay.
I wouldn’t use the word slave, but a lot of these companies have moonlighting agreements and verbiage like “will dedicate your full business attention” to ensure you aren’t building anything that isn’t for them.
What Can Happen When Kids Age Out of Foster Care
Horrible bosses and cut-throat capitalist business practices are totally bipartisan.
oh I'm sure they're the best, they wouldn't have been so successful for as long if they weren't, but it does leave a slight concern (to me) if the absolute best people at running a company think there's no way to generate better returns than bonds at 5% it doesn't paint a great picture for likely growth in the near future...
“People with least agency and information, and greatest risk, to blame for everything, all the time” — every WSJ article
Some time in the early 80's, one of my high school teachers had brought in a Heathkit (I think) microprocessor kit, where one programmed the 8 bit machine with 8 toggle switches, and a commit button. But my dad getting an Apple II+ predated that.
> jobs are more competitive than 5 years ago

Yeah it’s this.

As an assclown that recently quit without something lined up because “don’t worry honey, I’m a rock star” I’m definitely finding it harder to find a position >= last salary, similar roles this time strong. In fact salaries overall seem like of down lately (for like staff/architect/senior roles).
The average car doesn't actually have more grip than the average motorcycle.

More surface contact != More traction.

Grip in a motorcycle is only really limited by gravity. That's still far better than most cars. The average motorcycle (or bicycle, for that matter) will have little problem hitting 35 degrees lean and therefore produce lateral G forces exceeding that of a typical car.

Same is true for deceleration, the average bike is going to be able to slow down as fast or faster than the average car, even if you just let ABS takeover.

Motorcycles don't have any disadvantage in grip unless you're comparing them to the supercars that have significant downforce.

It really does come down to practice. The machine itself is more than capable. Even a cheap entry level motorcycle is eminently more capable in terms of braking and corner than many sports cars. The cool thing about have two tires, is that you don't need a super fancy suspension setup to be able to corner fast, you just need good tires.
What's your problem with the article other than the headline?
No, anything including and after the # is not seen by the server. Here is a screenshot from Fly that shows what it looks like from my end: https://imgur.com/a/41XxtHJ

If someone were to go to just the /sha256/sha256 link without the encryption key bookmark appended to it, they would see: Decryption failed: ChaCha20Poly1305 key must be 32 bytes.

Or with a wrong key they would see: Decryption failed: