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This isn’t Segregation. Epic isn’t Rosa Parks. Apple isn’t a legislature. Epic’s actions until now have been for a B2B contract renegotiation, not a human rights movement.

People who did fight for civil rights were also punished with the force of law for their civil disobedience. The laws were unjust, but they still had consequences for those who lived under them, otherwise they wouldn’t have had to fight. Epic is also facing the consequences of their actions, but it’s only really important to them that they win. Everybody else invested in this fight (within the EU) will probably be able to get anything they want but Fortnite from some other app marketplace.
Fable compiles F# to Python, Rust, and Dart now, too, in addition to JS. I haven't tried Dart or Rust, but when I tried compiling its output to Python it was actually quite good!
For the record, this is bang on.
TikTok and the rest of social media really did big media in.

People have their own long tail on social that is more satisfying (?) (addicting?) than the niche stuff big media could come up with.
https://old.reddit.com/r/outoftheloop

https://old.reddit.com/r/redneckengineering

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews

https://old.reddit.com/r/combatfootage (NSFW/NSFL)

https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/top/ (cuts down on signal-to-noise)

https://old.reddit.com/r/localllama

https://old.reddit.com/r/datahoarder

https://old.reddit.com/r/preppersales

https://old.reddit.com/r/generator

https://old.reddit.com/r/electricians

https://old.reddit.com/r/plumbing

https://old.reddit.com/r/woodworking

https://old.reddit.com/r/hvac

https://old.reddit.com/r/construction/

https://old.reddit.com/r/homeimprovement/

https://old.reddit.com/r/AncientCivilizations/

https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/top/ (cuts down on signal-to-noise)

https://old.reddit.com/r/appliancerepair/top/ (cuts down on signal-to-noise)

https://old.reddit.com/r/castles/top/

https://old.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingBros/ (feelgoods)

https://old.reddit.com/r/specialaccess (old life)
I know one man does not make a studio. But Monty Oum (Red vs Blue and creator of RWBY) was peak Rooster Teeth for me.

It was a good run. Being acquired by a major like WB really means this niche internet studio succeeded beyond it's wildest dreams.

It may be getting shut down now, but I certainly remember the earlier niche days.
Many things are sold that are not allowed to be sold, hasn't stopped criminals yet.
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> I don’t see how you can rigorously define the line without A and B

That line segment isn’t defined, it’s postulated (“there somehow is a line segment with endpoints A and B; you needn’t care how it came about”)
This is a good point, and transferring of trust is a very interesting concept. But while I agree that these things shouldn’t necessarily be silently transferable, I also think there should be an easy way to onboard users to the new owner/extension (if they wish to) without having them need to think about it and manually go figure it out. It shouldn’t be silent, but it also shouldn’t be a pain. Acquisitions do often make things much worse eventually for users, but negating this by complicating the process of retaining them (especially if they want to be retained) isn’t great, either.
It is always true that governments don't fully represent their people. Some do more than others, but i am not sure how it matters. The fact is that hamas was in control of gaza and taking military action on its behalf. Whether ordinary Gazans approve is besides the point other than perhaps making it more tragic.

As an example, we don't say ukraine shouldn't defend themselves from russia because russian elections were rigged even though they clearly are.
0 is a valid pointer on some systems. So 0 could be address 0 or whatever NULL was (0xeeeeeee or something equally weird)
Israel estimated 12,000 Hamas at a time when Hamas figures claimed 26,000 dead. That's pretty close to 1:1.

Part of the trouble is Israel can't prove the 12,000, and no one actually believes the Hamas figures are legitimate. But there are not better figures available for either number. So 1:1 for Gaza is the best we can estimate.
I am diabetic type 2 and I've used the Abbot Freestyle Libre 2 for a few years now. You don't need a prescription in Mexico to get it, but it is expensive ($1548 MXN ~= $91 USD). The data you get is pretty interesting but at least on my experience, the difference between readings from the CGM and actual blood test can vary from 10 ~ 40 mg/dL so you have to have that in mind. However it was really helpful to discover that, while I'm pretty active since a few years ago it was troubling for me to wake up on readings over 140 mg/dL which thanks to this turned out to be just that my body does it naturally and my blood sugar spikes while asleep and an hour or so before I wake up, which my endocrinologist just attributes to my body getting ready to work out.

Even as an experiment, I'd say most people should get one just to understand their bodies, and their specific responses to certain foods, once in a while.
Rooster Teeth was one of those early meme groups who took Halo videos and just dubbed over them with silly voice acting.

You are looking at one of the earliest small studios of the internet age in this story. WB lives on, but the (former) small internet group is being shut down.
Or sometimes the regulators make mistakes. Good intentions are no guarantee of good outcomes.
Thank you for sharing this! I was unaware of the origins of the name of the publication Bellingcat.

https://www.bellingcat.com/
In the US, most employers roughly follow the guidelines that the Federal government uses [1]. Which is to say, that employment is "at will", and either the employer or employee can terminate the relationship at any time. The obvious caveat is that someone cannot be fired for a reason that would be illegal (e.g., firing someone because of age, gender, religion, etc.).

In practice, however, most organizations are extremely risk-averse when it comes to wrongful termination lawsuits. And as such, they'll have a lengthy "performance-improvement plan" (PIP) that can last three to six months and is meant to serve as evidence that an employee's poor performance was the reason for dismissal.

There are also, of course, extreme cases where someone can be fired "for cause" when they've committed some kind of egregious violation (e.g., embezzling funds, fraud, corporate espionage).

[1.] https://www.usa.gov/termination-for-employers
everyone with a logical mind would see it. your political opinion should not cloud your judgement… people like you are the reason we have a senile old man leading our world to wars. I cant fathom why americans hate trump so much but are so lenient of biden and democrats that sent us to the worst conflict the world has seen in decades
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Right now they have access to neither. A less-than-complete win is not a Phyrric victory.
> Not wanting to get dinged for $20/mo?

OpenAI (& peer) API pricing is honestly quite cheap - I spend way less than 20$ a month for my needs. On the other hand, ChatGPT offers a different experience, so I pay for that too.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7127956-how-much-does-gp...
Well I think the problem is the question is much harder to answer because it assumes people know why they want to hire someone. Frankly I think it comes down to personality and not flunking the question. Maybe interesting to ask why you wouldn’t hire someone? For me bad attitude, and inability to answer easy questions.
If you're rendering a PNG, you're already doing layout, so you might as well still do it but at least keep the individual glyphs as, well, glyphs (so that they scale to high DPI etc).
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I think it depends on how you define "job hopping". I think that very short tenures (something less than 2 years or so) were rarer then than now, but I don't think that anything over, say, 3 years is what I would even call job hopping.

I think 3 years is plenty of time to hone your skills, grow in an organization, and get exposure to multiple different projects or teams. After that, I don't think anyone would begrudge you for leaving for a better opportunity, now or in the 90s.
You see more bikes in Cambridge MA than you did before a lot of the bike lane work (probably intermixed with some changes in attitudes/preferences). But still a tiny fraction of both pedestrians and cars.
.com boom was full of 3-6 month contract roles, where each new contract was an opportunity to improve cash compensation.

Improving earnings via job-hopping is nothing new, the difference may be in the other reasons people hop.
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The problem with this these days is that, even if you want to do something new, companies will not hire you because you lack work experience of what skills you want to obtain.

I heard that back in the days, if you knew coding you were hired. Today you have to know 10000 things.
1) Small size of theater.

2) Asymmetry between forces.

3) No escape route.
That's on point. I've witnessed a similar transition within a company, and every time they tell you "automate X" and you ask "Define X", you get a wrong answer. Even basic calculations are often done incorrectly or with hidden and inconsistent assumptions. I was always too focused on detail to do what others did in my position: somehow deliver a number they like and stop asking difficult questions.
"Without scaling issues" is a huge benefit in its own right, though. That alone is a good reason to use it.
I see this as an issue of scale. HN loves to think about infinite scales where there are millions of simultaneous users of systems.

This is rarely the case.

Caching in Postgres is for smaller scale applications where the extra complexity of a dedicated memory cache isn’t worth the extra overhead.

But at least you bring up some actual limits that should to be considered.

DB load: part of the load on a DB is the network connection for the query, but a large part is also finding the data. If you have a complex query, storing a de-normalized form in a cache table would be a lighter load. (Provided that you aren’t limited by the network or number of concurrent connections)

I think that whether or not this is a good idea depends highly upon what scale you’re operating at. For high traffic applications, it’s not a good plan, but if you already have a DB setup and you have a lighter load, I could think of worse solutions.
Do you also object to people saying that web browsers "display" a website even though that needs them to be plugged into a monitor?

If you chat to an LLM and you get a picture back, which some support, the image generator and the language model might as well be the same thing to all users, even if there's an important technical difference for developers.

It's a distinction that does not matter, as the question still has to be answered for the other modality. Do guns kill people, or do bad guys use guns to kill people? Does a fall kill you, or is it the sudden deceleration at the end? Lab leak or wet market? There's a technical difference, some people care, but the actionable is identical and doesn't matter unless it's your job to implement a specific part of the solution.
Here is my modest contribution:

https://fabiensanglard.net/dc/ld.php
I won't believe quantum computers are more than noise simulators until I see quantum computing factor large composite numbers. To me, that's the "flying car" we were promised.
> let people easily test out new configurations quickly by just changing the code

If it's all just code, and we can compute some (multi-)objective function from each simulation run, then we can turn a metaheuristic loose on it ;)
But if the extension ID changes, you'd need to explicitly install the new version. It wouldn't just auto-update.

Then again, you say:

> And since Google doesn't require each upload include the private key, then the new owner could push changes without even needing access to that key.

How is this even possible that Google allows this? Is this really true?

I mean, Google is such a PITA with their Webstore for the smallest possible things, but that is something they don't care about?

I have three extensions which I have only released for testers, where I am the sole tester of the extensions, so that I can easily install them on my different machines without having to rsync/robocopy them and enable developer mode.

This weekend Chrome decided to disable all these extensions on just one machine, because "This extension is not listed in the Chrome Web Store and possibly has been added without your knowledge". I can't override and force-enable it, when I go to the web store it says it's "inactive" and gives me the option to "activate now", but "activate now" only removes the banner and re-shows it after a reload. That Chrome profile is signed in with the whitelisted account.

This happens with just one browser, my main one on my main machine, signed in with the tester account.

The badge on the CWS page claims that the developer (me) has a positive balance without any strikes. I mean, I wouldn't be able to see the page if I weren't logged in with the my whitelisted email.

They "care so much" but then they allow updates without the key?
> How can a regular employee joining a startup know beforehand that there isn't a high chance of their equity (which is probably a significant part of their total comp) being worthless even if a big acquisition is made?

You don't.

I've walked into every startup with big promises of stock compensation highly cynical about seeing any of that equity, ever.

Unless the cash is sitting in your account, it doesn't exist.
I'm not a big fan of async/await in general, I just didn't think this specific complaint was particularly compelling.
I do think driving is less dominant in New York, for example.

Bike lanes in Vancouver and Montreal are pretty heavily utilized. But bikes are quiet and take up so little space compared to cars that it's easy to not notice.
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I fully agree that what they’re doing now is absurd and way too much. But no resistance at all might expose them to shareholder action in the US.

Still, about 10% of the pushback they’ve been showing so far would have probably been plenty.
It's entirely a matter of incentives. Companies are like machines whose sole purpose is to make a profit. Pretty much everything they do apart from that (make products, employ people, pollute, etc) is, strictly speaking, a side effect.

If they could make just as much money (or more) without doing any of those other things, they absolutely would, and any company that wouldn't do the same would eventually be put out of business via competition, barring some kind of external intervention, say from the state.

If you want companies to grow a conscience, you're first going to have to figure out how to change their incentives, which means changing the environment in which they operate.
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Building on BSDs open software was just the same playbook as building on Woz's open hardware before that.

Any flexibility left in the final product is not because of Steve, it's in spite of Steve.

It starts with there is already something good and useful and unencumbered that engineers built for themselves.

It's good and useful, so it's saleable, and it's unencumbered, so it's free to be simply harvested like an apple (haha).

But then he takes that starting point and foundation, and tries to do the saleable part as much as possible and the useful part as little as possible.

He does invest a lot of further work, but most of that work other than the ux is not in service to the user.
Adding such a speed bump where the user must explicitly approve the upgrade because of a change of ownership of the company that provides it, would leak a fair percentage of the users. This would decrease the value of the product/company when sold. User friendly, but creator (who has bills to pay) unfriendly.
Given that a cove is actually a place, it is reasonable to conclude that there is a connection between the use of this suffix as a descriptor for ‘place’ in both language groups.
There may not have been ‘extensive linguistic exchange’ between Northern American and Northern Europeans, but there is evidence that contact had been made, and it’s not outside the realms of possibility that the vik suffix was transferred one way or the other during those encounters.
Essentially that implies Israel will get shot at and not be allowed to shoot back. I suspect most Israelis would find that unreasonable. Israeli civilians don't like being killed anymore than Palestinian civilians do.

The thing that usually prevents war is that both sides lose in the end. If only one side is allowed to shoot, why would the side being allowed to shoot ever stop? They would be getting all the benefits of war with none of the drawbacks.
The use case is you can print out the great images and put them on your wall for decoration.

It is just art. I think AI art shows what obsessed gadget makers for profit we have become culturally. We can't even figure out that the use case for art is hanging on the wall for decoration. For a conversation piece. A few will have their name become known and make it into galleries.

Infinite supply means the value tends towards zero.Good luck monetizing anything with those economic characteristics.
> the last step in rendering vector graphics is to copy the rendered image into the framebuffer, which is the only step in rendering raster graphics

Today it is, but historically that was not the case. Even as late as early 00s, most OSes rendered vector primitives directly into framebuffer, without a compositing stage. That's how e.g. Windows could be so fast on hardware that was slower than today's Raspberry Pi.
And they just let you use the new skills and not assign work based on your existing experience (the "old skills")?
"If there's a bias in the stories that have made HN's front page, that bias is present in the underlying data (I mean this stream of articles) to begin with"

This really cannot be understated. HackerNews draws an educated demographic, which generally tends to be centrist, perhaps leaning a bit to the centre-left. Remember, this is based on demographics. Individual exceptions will occur but do not prove the rule.

The uncomfortable thing about political discussions is that most (not all) of them occur over things for which there isn't a clear-cut scientific consensus. If something is truly clear cut and self evident, then it usually won't turn into a political issue. You can set up an argument that is unassailable from one viewpoint but which crumbles from another. Two people who are reasonable and logical can have stark disagreements over political issues because of how they approach the issue. When people we respect and admire express political views that do not match our own, it can be disquieting.

The most important thing is to maintain respect for each other, even when we disagree. Political discussions on HackerNews usually don't descend into flame-wars, and I appreciate that. Perhaps you've hit on something important by limiting the frequency of such discussions. If they occur infrequently enough that they aren't a constant irritant, perhaps its easier for participants to keep their cool.
True, however the point is you are in control and have a choice of what to watch and what not!
> Hamas is notorious for colocating themselves among civilians.

I despise Hamas, but this claim is disingenuous propaganda (by the leaders who make it, not the parent who repeats it):

First, Hamas is 'notorious' for it because it's endlessly repeated by their enemies. That rhetoric doesn't make anything true. (Haven't we had the Internet long enough that people know it well by now?)

Second, Hamas is an assymetric, irregular force, and assymetric forces cannot operate bases or fight open battles anywhere; they all must blend in with civilians (or hide in wilderness); it's just the nature of being that kind of force:

They have personal weapons, mostly. They cannot bring their rifles and RPGs to fight a fully capable modern state military's tanks and planes on an open battlefield - would you? The modern state military would kill them all immediately; it would be pointless. Might as well surrender.

Therefore the assymetric force cannot hold ground, and therefore cannot build bases separate from civilians: If they had identifiable bases, the state military would erradicate them in minutes.

The laws of war require militaries to distinguish soldiers from civilians, but I wonder if that is written by 'symmetric' forces and to their advantage. For assymetric forces, they might as well have bullseyes on their uniforms.
Who is this class of people and what makes it so clear they exist?
Increasingly in this modern world, no, you are not the owner of the device. You're more like purchasing the right to use it for a time, in the way that the makers want you to use it. This applies across PCs, Macs, and Phones where Microsoft, Apple, and Google all try to up-sell you on their online services and now their "AI tools".
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This _screams_ sidechannel attack.
Apple has consistently made laptops and development environments that creative types enjoy and admire. It’s too mad our economic system is setup to only care about infinite growth and monopolization at Apple’s size. It’s too bad just “being a great maker of great tools for great people” isn’t possible when you’re publicly traded.
> Was it like this in the pre-Linkedin-recruiter-spam and pre-Glassdoor-interview-question days?

I will say this, we had way less information back then. People still job-hopped, but there was no levels.fyi tempting you with grand fortunes. For me at least, it was friends or friends of friends and word of mouth. "Hey, there's this new company VMWare, it's only 20 or so people, but they are doing this cool stuff, you should look into it."

Typically if you were outside of the bay area, job hopping wasn't as frequent because most cities didn't have a LOT of companies to chose from. I was in San Diego at the turn of 2000 and there was military contractors, semiconductors, and telecom. If you made to the top and worked for Qualcomm, you usually stayed there. At the time, in that particular region, no one paid a whole lot more and everyone got their own office at QC. They started stock-splitting every quarter and no one was going anywhere, no matter how much they were over worked.

I would say the temptation for me personally to job hop now is less than before because there is just so much more information about companies, and at the end of the day, most companies who pay well suck pretty bad, and amazing companies don't pay all that well. :)