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It's not like the history of working for game companies is unknown, major studios have always done this. Imagining it won't happen to you is wishful thinking. I worked for a small, poor game company once with a FPS MMO and it was probably my funnest job ever, but it paid very little, and I eventually had to leave and make real money again. The best thing was that the player base appreciated every one of us, and constantly thanked us for making things better. You can have that dream job building games, but it's probably not at a big company with big salaries.
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The fact that the company insists the product is now called X, but the domain is still twitter.com (x.com redirects to it, not vice versa) and much of their documentation still says twitter too... means something or other.
> We keep a large percentage of reproductive-age black males locked up where they can't father or raise children.

To tie this into eugenics I think you'd have to make the case that black people who aren't criminals are being unfairly targeted for imprisonment. Otherwise it's just a side effect of criminal behaviour, and criminals end up in prison regardless of ethnicity.

I'm not suggesting it would be difficult to make that case. But some people tend to disregard systemic bias, so it would seem that everything is fine. If you don't want to be imprisoned, all you have to do is stop acting like a criminal.
I'll respond here since your comments are both dead.

1. Your quote from 1989 doesn't mention the Maldives being under water by now. Did you post the wrong quote/link?

2. What makes Campbell Macpherson an expert? He doesn't appear to have scientific credentials. Are these the kinds of experts you've been listening to?

> Campbell Macpherson: international business advisor, change expert, keynote speaker and author of 'The Change Catalyst: secrets to successful and sustainable change' (Wiley 2017) - the 2018 Business Book of the Year.
Unfettered speech can lead to a cult following which, as we here in Europe know very well, can be extremely fucking dangerous. Which is precisely why some speech will land you in prison.
I still remember the big group of climate change deniers on Slashdot in the early 00s. The consensus was that it was not real.
Hot take: I'm not very sympathetic about the game industry implosion we're seeing. AAA games have been rote, formulaic money milking machines for some time. Game devs are lined up out the door and around the corner, yet refuse to take that as a warning sign that this might not be a good industry to work in. Growth stalled and the more money giant publishers poured in, the less sales seemed to budge. Hordes of indie games are doing the same boring genre-mashup slop thing, while the awards-bait critical darlings appeal to virtually nobody and their sales reflect that.

Anyone with any sense would have bailed a few years ago.
Yes.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1...
Yes - I flagged myself as an Optery founder on my first comment, but as you mentioned the comment was subsequently flagged and hidden from view. It is also made clear here: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=beyondd
Get a short domain somewhere and use it as the handle, custom handles are cooler anyway :)
> The major industries don't just pollute for the sake of it, they respond to demand for which we individually share a part of the blame.

It seems to me like one could use the same argument regarding slave labor, but somehow we manage to force companies to comply there.
I wish they had more examples. the image doesn't seem to be that much better than if you generate an image with stable diffusion and then tweak the prompt.
Thanks for the kind words! I'm specifically attached to NetBox Open Source, and will pass along the compliments to the dev team.

And yeah, the pricing for NetBox Cloud isn't a fit for every use case. That product isn't the only thing we've got cooking; stay tuned :)
> > For the more straightforward diseases it's even relatively straightforward to show that a particular virus causes that particular disease, with enough work.

> I'd be really interested what this work would look like.

A stringent example:

1) Replicate the virus in cell culture and ensure you're isolating the virus while doing so.

- A: homogenize and passage a virus containing sample.

- B: passage it through cell culture.

- C: dilute the supernatant from cell culture until the dilution, on average, has less than one virus per aliquot.

- D: Use these aliquots to inoculate further cell culture.

2) Analyze all cultures

- A: As, on average, some of the aliquots contained no virus, there should be a number of cultures which look identical to the uninfected controls.

- B: Any cultures which show morphology or pathology distinct from the uninfected controls should contain specific virus particles and show specific viral RNA/DNA on a PCR test. Likewise, any cultures which look like the uninfected controls should be free of virus based on these tests.

- C: If any cultures show morphology or pathology distinct from the uninfected controls but do not contain virus particles (given sufficient time for the virus to propagate and emerge from the cells), then you've got a thinker on your hands. Triage for contaminants or another disease causing agent.

3) After demonstrating that virus is the causal agent of the infected culture morphology or pathology, use multiple of these infected cultures to infect animals (and have control "infections" from the uninfected cultures). Then repeat this process from the infected animals to demonstrate that it is indeed the identified virus which causes the disease.

If you can't use an animal model for the disease then you're stuck doing this in cell culture and comparing the infected culture cell morphology and pathology to that of cells in biopsies of diseased people.

Pretty darn good evidence that it is a virus, and a particular virus at that, which causes the disease.

Realistically it's much more convenient just to use 2B as evidence. You get some issues with natural immunity and lysogenic versus lytic viral stages (these have different terms in Eukaryotic viral infection), but it's pretty decent for showing things like HIV being the causative factor of AIDS even prior to showing the effect of HIV presence in immune cells.
For a brief period you'd have lots of interaction from people saying hey what's that thing?
Sorry about this. We've just made some changes to make this less likely of an issue going forward.
Be careful who you tease on the internet or you may become a toad.
Almost seems too-good-to-be-true right? Such a tight margin-of-error...
I have a Framework 13 Chromebook. I find its aesthetic similar to macbooks.
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The same around the world. Happening in Europe from Scotland to Greece.

The media attribute it to global warming which means noting gets done about it.
Meta says users must label AI-generated audio and video or be penalized
Many of the countries we are discussing have much less significant influence of money on media and still - raising prices is very unpopular.

The left needs to come to terms with the fact that sometimes the things they are proposing are unpopular independent of some “dark money influence scheme.”
> why hold these people up on a pedestal at all?

I think the premise is flawed. Everyone doesn't praise great men. In fact, one of the identifying features of a 21st century American is which "great" men they criticise.
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"Small things can't ever hurt anyone" is a... tough theory to support scientifically.
Twitter is a sunk ship - one of the worst business purchases in history.

I googled “twitter active users per year” and similar revenue charts and they don’t support this claim. There is a slight down since 2021, but that was when everyone was locked up and had whole days to speak. Nasdaq has basically the same /\ profile in 2019-2023 range. Taking the whole economy into account, twitter is fine.

Are you sure it’s not just “I left the ship and wish it to sink”? Not a musk fan either, but statements like this feel rather wishful.
People would vote for these price increases once they see that the increases are paltry compared to the opportunity cost, or to the externalities.
… no? It was very usable before, it's much less usable now.
Samsung? Intel?
Given the amount of counter examples in other comments - what makes you think Twitter is doing well?
Does this trope still work?

Exxon report from early 80s for example mentions studies stating that effect of climate change will be noticeable only after 2020
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It's bizarre how easily we got to the Goodhart's Law event horizon in our comparisons of complex fields to AI models

But this is what happens when industries spend a decade brain-draining academia with offers researchers would be insane to refuse
I don't think so. But I guess it depends on what it means to say something "is a Chinese propaganda tool." Is facebook "is a USA propaganda tool"?

I'm not sure what people mean when they say this.
Replying to self (sorry).

"Stellosphere" is wrong, because "stella" is Latin, and "sphere" is from Greek. It should be "asterosphere", but that's a word I've never seen nor heard.
>Every time I read something about climate change and warming it always points to fossil fuels and emissions, usually in a hand-wavy sort of way.

Maybe you should change what you're reading because climate science is quite rigorous. The mechanisms are relatively well understood, there's nothing hand wavy about it.
Just force them code in Rust.
Not really my experience with social media.
facebook, instagram, pintrest, ticktok, Linkedin all require login.

Edit: and HN, but it isn't driven by add revenue.
Im not aware of any besides reddit that do not.
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What happens now when money gets sent to websites that host hate speech?

Twitter/X hosts plenty of hate speech and is the #6 site in the world according to Wikipedia currently.
the reality is that the costs will mostly be borne by future generations.

the cost we need to confront climate change is likely larger than the cost in this generation if we let it rip.
The good news: the renewables explosion is going to make a big difference. Thanks to the plummeting cost (and rapid deployment, particularly in China) of solar and wind, we are almost certainly going to see better emissions pathways than the bad ones we're currently projecting. None of this happened by accident: it was engineered.

The bad news is that we seem to be much closer to some really bad climate outcomes than scientists realized. Sensitivity may be higher, warming seems to be further advanced than we thought, and there are many scary tipping points that we could easily trigger. My guess is that we're going to need some sort of (relatively near-term) geoengineering solution to keep things from spiraling, which means we really have no room left for climate denial. (And to be clear, this isn't going to be an alternative to decarbonizing, it's going to be in addition.)
Hmmmm. I would argue the web would have been significanty different. There was a fairly big gap between Mosaic and Internet Explorer that Netscape filled and it was the period that largely defined the web as it came to be.

Since IE was developed specifically to counter the threat of Netscape - it was also defined by Netscape.

What other browsers of note were around in that period?
But the UPI requirements of forcing mobile apps makes the monetisation usecase UX pretty terrible (think App Intents to and fro on mobile browsers) and scanning QRs on desktop.

I’d rather like Taler.
how will the bluesky PDS deal with the flood of spammers on malicious PDSs, like, why is the phone number a useful gatekeeping tool if you're just going to fling open the gates at the end of the month?
How much do wars cost and what's their contribution to global warming? That could totally be fixed in a short order had there been a genuine concern of the politicians.
deniers do believe climate acceptance is dogmatic, that our modern epistemology is a deviation and largely a political ideology.
USB cables can supply in excess of 100W of power, and that's just in Apple devices. USB C is not a political issue, much as you may think it is.
I believe the client is the _most_ important thing to focus on, but is often secondary to the needs of the server.

True RESTful (HATEOAS) APIs are really powerful, but they are a major pain for any client to implement. GraphQL APIs are worse than HATEOAS, but the client tooling is amazing. GraphQL won.

I think the same thing will happen here. The distributed nature of the Fediverse is really powerful, but creating clients are a huge pain. The API is so complex.

In contrast to the Federvise API, the BlueSky API is easy to use which will allow more people to "play" with different clients and use cases.
you'd only need to make the case that laws were created to systematically target black people and hence rope them into prison slavery

this is a fairly easy case to make, see, for example the reason for the current distribution of race in us prisons
> There is just no democratic support for fixing global warming since it's too expensive.

There is no democratic support for fixing global warming in a capitalist system geared towards extracting value. If you ask people if they think global warming should be tackled in principle you will find many in support. The problem is that most people know that the way in which a fix for global warming would be implemented today would result in them bearing the costs while some shareholders somewhere get just a little richer.

If we want to stop humanity from extinction we have to step off the gas pedal and disincentivize those who keep wanting to step on it.
Highly *used.
Nah, I keep them in an encrypted environment file that I have to unlock at server startup. I used GPG to encrypt with a key and use a long, complex password for unlock. To make it safer I should probably use a security key instead, or add 2FA before the password prompt to unlock. The guidelines are definitely correct about not using environment variables though, since they can stick around in logs and often stay in memory for the life of the program.
Postgres has a vector search extension!

https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/extensions/pgvecto...
The only people who call it a propaganda tool are the ones who can't utilize it for propaganda.

It's a US-based company with insane oversight. Older people can't grasp that youth have different interests and have different political views so they call it propaganda.
I really love the idea and I hope they succeed in the long run. Having an easily replaceable battery is just about enough for me to want to buy one over any other laptop. It’s always the thing that degrades the fastest for me, even with premium laptops (looking at you, Surface Book 3). I want a laptop that lasts. In the age of everything being glued together, a laptop that can be end-user repaired is refreshing.
> You can if the server is operational.

And if Bluesky's servers stop being operational? Where is your data hosted?
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I don't know overall, but most of the people I know who stopped using Twitter didn't replace it with anything.
Also known as sealioning.
I’m not saying the processes are necessarily bunk (well, except digital SS is definitely hot garbage), but something about popularizing them is rotten. Like we are getting someone’s castoffs.
We had more subtle encoding, but important messages could be sent by collect calls that would definitely be refused.
Wow, all those VC's must have walked away very rich, considering how popular the web turned out to be!!!
they mean absolute numbers
FB is still surprisingly strong in growing markets. But that translating to business means those markets see drastic increases in spending power, which we’ve been awaiting for many years. It’s up, but nowhere near parity with western markets.
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> Many of the countries we are discussing have much less significant influence of money on media

In absolute terms you are correct, but in relative? Is there really a country where the media isn't strongly influenced by the rich and powerful of said country and the world?
We aren't exactly asking people to sacrifice their wellbeing and convenience completely. That's why for example we aren't asking the population to ditch their cars and switch to trains and bikes, but we are offering them electric cars, which are exactly the kind of lower impact solutions you are speaking of.
You cannot poll on things without tradeoffs if you want a real answer.

Most Americans have been polled as unwilling to pay $10/mo more in electrical bills if it meant that climate change were completely averted.

I think comments about 20 years uninhabitibility are unproductive as most people see it for the lie that it is.
Good advice on noticing things in life that are funny or absurd or illogical, and writing them down. Lots of comedians have learned this.

Mitch Hedberg had a bit, I have a notebook where I write jokes. When I'm in my hotel room sometimes I think of something and just write it down in there! And if I don't have a pencil with me, then what I have to do is, convince myself that what I thought of, aint funny.
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King is probably the inspiration for Garth Marenghi.
Did the people there start getting money every month into their bank account (the “dividend” part)? If not, I imagine that that would’ve cleared that misinformation up rather quickly.
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Starting at the bottom with basic facts helps build understanding.
> The CEO and VP Eng were paid out handsomely, of course

It's the prevalence of scenarios like this that makes me hate the MBA caste with a pasison
I'm working on it as we speak! My plan is to listen on multiple ports then attach the "origin" field to each log message with the port number it was produced with. This way you should be able to do:

$ logdy socket 8001,8002,8003

$ node app1.js | nc 8001;

$ node app2.js | nc 8002;

$ node app3.js | nc 8003;

Wdyt?
My understanding (possibly mistaken - I've only been casually watching from the sidelines) is bitcoin (and at least most other blockchain currencies) suffers a similar problem to credit/debit cards, in that there is effort involved in validating/recording the transaction and that work needs to be compensated, and therefore there are transaction fees that are effectively independent of the value transferred, therefore microtransactions are disproportionately penalized by this necessity.

Especially with KYC/AML laws being necessary to run a legitimate financial exchange, there really is no getting around a certain cost-per-transaction and even in a best-case scenario that hits microtransactions "equally" as hard as "macrotransactions" which proportionally penalizes microtransactions.

To minimize the proportion of that going to transaction fees, you're better off making fewer transactions which then manifests as something like a monthly subscription instead of "I'll just transact ten cents to you per action".
> why even put them in jail in the first place?

To keep them separate from the society they're having trouble safely engaging with.

> We're restricting their right to free movement, which is de-facto slavery.

No; imprisonment and slavery are not the same thing. You can't just redefine words to make your strawman argument work.
What does being rich have to do with it?

It's hard for someone outside a company to point to a direct consequence of racism in the company leadership. That doesn't make it not-bad for the leadership to be racist.

Surely you're not saying it's okay to discriminate as CEO if you make enough money.

And if you want a consequence of being thin-skinned, uh, anything to do with twitter? Half his interactions with the SEC?
Yeah, I strongly dislike this blocking culture there, because blocking also affects the other person's experience on the site - they won't be able to follow threads where you're involved. There's no reason to not use muting instead if you just want to get someone out of your view, except if you do it out of spite.
How did you use partitions for scaling? Hash based partitioning on the primary keys of your tables? Or something else?
Beautifully designed website! I still don’t know how it’s supposed to work though, the whitepaper has zero implementation details in it.
There is potential for a extra battery module. It doesn't exist yet, but the connector supports power going from the expansion bay to the laptop[0], so someone could build a battery module or potentially even a hot-swappable adapter to use a removable battery made for a more common laptop.

[0] See pins 41-51,63-64 on https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionBay/tree/main/...
It is understandable if the riches and powerful people are flying around the world in private jets. Maybe they don't generate the most as a whole but a lot as individuals. It is very difficult to convince anyone to lower their standards of life (eating other food / shower less / drive a smaller car) which will make a big impact while the riches just do lip services.

I don't see a future for that. Humans only turn around when they hit a wall multiple times -- we are not the exceptions.
>There is just no democratic support for fixing global warming since it's too expensive.

There's plenty of support, the US has lowered its carbon emissions quite a bit. There's one big problem though: what do we do about China and India? Are you prepared to get drafted and go to war to get China to stop burning coal?
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So, let’s say that the chat will work as well as the real lawyer some day.

If the current pricing would be $500 an hour for a real lawyer, and at some point your costs are just keeping services up and running, how big cut will you take? Because it is enough if you are only a little cheaper than the real lawyer to win customers.

There is an upcoming monopoly problem, if the users get the best information from the service after they submit all their documents. And soon the normal lawyer might be competitive enough. I fear that the future is in the parent commenter’s open platfrom with open models and the businesses should extract money from some other use cases, while for a while, you get money momentarily based on the typical ”I am first, I have the user base” situation. It is interesting to see what will happen to lawyers.
I love NextDNS.

The one (fairly huge) issue that I have is that it cannot handle captive portals when its enabled on my iPhone. So if I'm joining the wifi on a plane, etc, I need to remember to turn it off. This means that I cannot recommend it to my non-technical friends.
I concur, but I think my point still stands: on its own, that's not enough to justify the existence of the whole machine. There are far cheaper ways to mete out punishment.
Mostly the former. with more developed coastline and more people living there, more damage is going to happen. Could storms be altered by human activity? Sure, but it's very difficult to reconcile how much is human action vs a hurricane making landfall in an area that wasn't urban 50 years ago.