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Mental health in shambles – should I quit?
New grad here. 4 months ago I began my first full time job at Amazon - was an RO after 2 successful internships.

Lately, I've been battling a huge uptick in anxiety, both in and outside of work. I feel like I can't interact with any of my colleagues without masking an internal panic. I feel like my company sees me not as a human but as a set of metrics to be judged and compared against. I feel my humanity is sucked away under the guise of corporate kool-aid principals such as "Customer Obsession". I feel precarious knowing any health related issues may be used against me. I shutter at the concept of on-call.

It's not so much the mental rumination that puts me over the edge, but the fact that the stress has spilled over into physical pains. I have a history of psychosomatic pain, and I have recently begun to experience this again.

How bad does it look to quit this job after just 4 months? As a new grad, I have no work history outside of this, and I fear it will be a major blow to my job prospects.
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> civil cases for damages would be against the state, not the state representative

Isn’t that the same as QI?
> (3) Presidents cannot be indicted based on conduct for which they are immune from prosecution. On remand, the District Court must carefully analyze the indictment’s remaining allegations to determine whether they too involve conduct for which a President must be immune from prosecution. And the parties and the District Court must ensure that sufficient allegations support the indictment’s charges without such conduct. Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not be admitted as evidence at trial. Pp. 30–32

For example, from my understanding this means that Nixon's tapes could never have been used in any form in a criminal trial regarding Nixon's actions.

In today's political environment I don't see an impeachment ever succeeding unless the opposing party has a super-majority in the US Senate.
I'm imaging an index that measures the semantic similarity between reddit and hn threads on a particular topic. I feel like adding that measure to front page to allow users to sort threads would be beneficial in increasing signal-to-noise and help hn maintain a more distinct brand identity.
> durability is a spectrum

This is the truth. My favourite example of this is MemoryDB's "multi-AZ (multi-datacenter) durability" for Valkey - there's a good write-up here https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/04/25/memorydb.html
Barret mentioned that:
If one bribes the president in appointment of an official - like an embassador - since the appointment of the embassador is an official act, under this ruling, one cannot bring this as evidence to the jury in a criminal trial because it was part of an official act.
If you want to talk about absurd pricing, just a friendly reminder that Apple charges $200 for half the upgrade on the Macbook Air (256gb to 512gb).

It's because of normalizing and rationalizing this "premium" pricing for so long that we continue to get this sort of "innovation" that conveniently isn't compatible with socketed NVME drives. This is ultimately our just-deserts for excusing and defending Apple's nonsense behavior because they're somehow special and unique. We deserve this, for not legislating user-serviceable computer hardware and letting big business rewrite the norms of modern society.
The funny thing is.. we are in a similar spot now too -- what with gerontocracy unwilling to let go of power -- and, it will likely surprise no one, amazingly long lived consequences.
Surely, the UK government predates the US, dating back to at least Cromwell, so 17th century, and tenuously as far as Magna Carta (and even Alfred tbe Great if you like, so deep deep medieval).
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That’s where we get ‘technology’ from iirc
Agreed, this is a key function of interpreting the law.

If the people don't like a landmark case (i.e. the disagree with the interpretation), Congress can pass a new law. If a new law contradicts the court's opinion, the law takes precedence.
Congress, the presidency, and the judiciary can’t pass to each other their powers. It’s indeed unconstitutional.
Does anyone know where I can find a nuanced view on this issue?
It's not the man who's immune, but the office that he holds... if you intend the office to survive.
Folks, the blueprint for prosecuting Trump has been created.

If you read the complete ruling, the justices work to clarify how "official" and "unofficial" acts apply to the case at hand. For example, many of the conversations had with Pence and the AG are considered off limits for prosecution as they are "official." Other charges, however, can stick if the lower court decides:

> Trump can point to no plausible source of authority enabling the President to not only organize alternate slates of electors but also cause those electors—unapproved by any state official—to transmit votes to the President of the Senate for counting at the certification proceeding, thus interfering with the votes of States’ properly appointed electors

The damning part starts on page 27 of the ruling[0].

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You don’t need to anticipate societal shifts, you need to empower the political system to handle them.

As for the longevity of the U.S., there’s a strong argument that it has in fact not lasted 250 or so years, and that the reconstruction era amendments created a qualitatively different, more centralized country. But even if we ignore that, the U.S. has a lot going for it that has nothing to do with politics. Two oceans, peaceful neighbors, and more natural resources than we knew what to do with that we bought for practically nothing.

The US emerged from WW2 as basically the only advanced economy that wasn’t flattened, did essentially zero introspection and assumed our politics were superior. And yet we have open bribery of politicians, and the highest court opened the floodgates for the wealthiest to donate to politicians. The only thing left is to allow politicians to keep donations for personal use.

Europe has surpassed us in life expectancy, and soon China will surpass us in GDP. And no matter how much free speech we have, we can’t have a conversation about it because the media is weaponized to distract us.
The Rs refused to given Garland his day in Congress, and they had the majority. What were the Dems supposed to do exactly?
It's not even clear what "longest running continuous government" means or how it would be defined.
Sure, it is definitely very buggy, but the point is that it still exists and is useful to some extent. I was refuting the claim that there is *no* visual editor, not the claim that the visual editor we do have is maybe deficient and buggy.

Relatedly, I still think it is something of a shame that (Expression) Blend didn't survive to the modern era. A designer-focused XAML design tool that doesn't need a full Visual Studio install (nor the same sort of expensive VS license) and feels more like Firefly or Figma or whatever other designer-focused tool is current en vogue would be really handy in a lot of situations.

I don't think it is the only reason that designers tend to prefer HTML (and thus we use Electron or similar to placate the designers that think that "just copy and paste it from the design tool" works "well") over XAML, but it certainly doesn't help that there isn't a "XAML Figma" and it's a shame on multiple levels that Microsoft recognized that threat early on, built a solution, then got confused why they built it, confusingly merged it into Visual Studio licenses and installs, which lead to its sadly inevitable death just a few years before it would have been very helpful to have to send to some designers and stop getting HTML-only mockups.
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How have presidents not been paralyzed by fear of prosecution until now?

Strange that only now, with a super majority of conservatives and a 'conservative' former president facing insurrection charges, that such a ruling should come down.

And all this after McConnell assured us that impeachment wasn't appropriate for a 'criminal' matter like January 6.
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We have a more well established product called Structural that does de-identification and anonymization from production data, and we have a pretty clean integration between the two products to make creating your fleet of ephemeral testing databases nice and easy.

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That was always true.

EDIT: to clarify: Any president up until now, and from now going forward, has the power to command his generals to murder every senator, justice, and governor. Of course, American soldiers take an oath to the constitution, so hopefully this wouldn't happen, but he could. Moreover, anyone can 'just' murder all living politicians and declare themselves king. This is hardly a theoretical scenario to concern oneself over.
He has already pledged revenge should he win reelection. Political opponents will be jailed and killed for his supporters entertainment.
It’s more subtle than that, imagine being able to edit a high poly count mesh on a low spec machine. So not just final rendering, but really the main application state. This is what something like After Effects could benefit from.

When I tested a full ray-traced FPS demo in the browser and never noticed that the render was done server side, that’s when I believed this is possible.
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Mass market factory produced cigarettes came later in America. They were first mass produced in France around 1845, a guy in Mexico made first rolling machine. Here they were first sold for factory workers to have a quick smoke during breaks. Before that was cigars and more commonly pipes. There may have been hand rolled ones but the explosion of use happened after their manufacture was consolidated and mechanized. Also when they got taxed and had to carry tax markings. Cigars were hand rolled in dirty conditions until in NYC the industry was consolidated in the name of public health (big business grab).

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When were cigarettes first mass-produced?
In 1881, James Bonsack invented a machine that could produce 120,000 cigarettes a day. He joined forces with Washington Duke’s son and in their first year they produced 10 million cigarettes – more than they could sell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette
Anyone can claim anything they want. That's why we have courts.
Well I precisely talked about things I have engaged professionally. Obviously this cannot cover everything one may do, eg I do not build chatbots for customer service or stuff like that, thus I obviously cannot speak for all possible applications of LLMs and how useful they may be. I am pretty sure there will be useful applications in fields I am not and will not be engaged in as nobody engages with everything. However, some other things that I have tried (eg copilots, summarising scientific articles) imo create much more hype than real value. They can be a bit useful if you know what to actually use them for and what their limits are, but nowhere close to the hype they generate, and I just find myself just googling again tbh. They are absolutely horrible especially with more niche subjects and areas. On the other hand, data extraction and structuring has a quite universal application, has already demonstrated usefulness and potential, and seems a quite realistic, down to earth application that I am happy to see other people and startups working on. Not as fancy, and harder to build hype upon, but very useful regardless.
I would also say that it was never even close to reasonable competition to commercial alternatives until it open sourced, and it was a while after that before it started to catch up. I still remember some of the artists at Gearbox laughing when I brought Blender up in the late 2000s when I was a teenager touring the studio.
It's a lot easier to find a new job when you already have a job. If you feel you need to leave, it would probably be best to hold on to the job until you find something new (probably at a smaller company), so you don't need to worry about explaining why you have no history or why you were only there 4 months.
desktop, or offline?
isn't the PWA satisfactory?
Discussion yesterday (such as it was) (14 points, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40839504
No, that's the old way. The new way is for the President to issue an executive order to have their target officially arrested, rendered somewhere overseas, and then follow up with an official order to have them assassinated (just declare them a foreign agent).

Any and all communications outside of the executive order would not be admissible as evidence even if the DOJ did want to prosecute!
"It is my duty to protect American democracy so I killed my un-democratic challenger".

This opens a can of worms - no one can today imagine what that means, with a willy nilly fluffy definition of official act.
Thank you for verbalizing something that was really bothering me here. Sotomayor is playing the victim in a way that is bad for America.
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>Who gets to decide the lawfulness of the order

Congress, through impeachment.
All will cease at some point but we shouldn't wait too long just to be pragmatic judging success.
Help me understand how you read "courts may not inquire into the President’s motives", then. That's a ruling, by the Supreme Court, that they can not do so in this specific case.
Id love the sources on our taxes just going to fill a politicians buddy. Id also love this source showing that corporations and pharmaceutical companies taxes are both excessive and out of control.
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> and the ruling also makes it explicitly clear that ordering the military to do something illegal is also an official act

Can you point to this in the ruling? They made it clear that hypothetical discussions with military personal are not evidence of lack of immunity, but the actual acts performed as president are not automatically granted such immunity.

> So a president determined enough to prevent impeachment could avoid it as long as he or she were able to find a large enough group within the military willing to go along with it.

The problem I have with this logic - if the president can get a large enough group of the military to go along with a Junta takeover, it doesn't really matter at all what the court or prosecutors think anyway.
It is such a shame when a once venerable company is taken over by MBA types who only focus on the next quarter. I have not checked, but I'm guessing they're currently showing massive profits, probably doing stock buybacks, converting as much as they can into subscription services, and cutting R&D jobs as well as domestic manufacturing jobs? It's always the same story. In less than a decade they will be begging the taxpayers for a bailout when it all comes crashing down after the current management pulls the cord on their golden parachutes.

The silver lining is that this opens the door for competitors. Is International Harvester still around?
Those have been charged. He’s in court for a bunch of other stuff, too, some of which was brewing before 2017 but his DOJ ruled they had to pause (including investigations, because you need to e.g. issue subpoenas for those to do their work) until he was out of office, and nobody tried to fight that, so it’s just now finally happening.
Perhaps it is actually myself that's confused. I was not thinking in terms of "destitute in a ditch" money but rather the money that's currently being provided the the vast majority of American seniors. Sounds like you're talking SSI (dissbility) not social security (retirement). My bad.
> That seems fine on its face, but the problem people keep raising is that we live in a world where the President is legally empowered to do things that are seriously problematic. That's a very real concern, and it's been a concern at the very least since Bush and 9/11.

I agree with you - it's not like Bush has been held accountable in any way. Neither has Cheney, and we know Rumsfeld never will. Congress needs to get off its' duff and regulate. That requires people to organize to make them. I'm not seeing it happen.
There are many ways to measure success, perhaps the easiest (though not necessarily the best) is money. Mozilla currently has net assets of >$1billion almost entirely earned off of it's back. It was without a doubt been a wildly successful product for the non-profit and to suggest otherwise is ludicrous. Likewise it continues to earn >$0.5billion/year revenue for that non-profit, to suggest that it doesn't continue to be a wildly successful product is ludicrous.

Could it have done even better for itself? Sure. Being the best possible version of yourself isn't necessary to have been successful though.
Glad that you led with having made SumatraPDF, I love that app and it's a big recommendation for me.
Skill growth while working remotely slows and plateaus. There's plenty of evidence for this at this point, and I attribute most of the catastrophe in junior engineers at the big companies to it.

I'd rather work hybrid, getting working time at home is great, but I'm not foolish enough to cripple myself long-term by insisting on favoring short-term comfort.
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Hopefully everyone is now motivated to clear up legislation regarding what a President may or may not do as part of their official actions
I guess you need some new parties
It is a sad example the one they give, being Irish though makes me think a bit deeper.

Citizens from EU not being the Netherlands or Ireland have to witness how international big corporations pay taxes in countries different to the ones they are doing their business and big local companies moving their headquarters to neighbor countries. Which benefits their citizens.
Really expected result. How would the US not give their presidents immunity. This counts for all of them not only for Trump and in conjunction anything else would simply be impossible.
Morgan Freeman calls out 'unauthorized' use of AI replicating his voice
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After doing a "Hello World" window for every feasible GUI toolkit I'm starting to think I should be looking for reasons I can't just use Godot.
like a sibling comment mentioned, process injections can also happen. but besides that, if your busybox wasn't already on the system then what's the value of bringing it when you suspect a rootkit? userland or not, a memory acquisition for the system for off-box analysis (volatility) would be ideal and most reliable in my opinion.