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You would be right, except that the policy change was sudden. We went from hardliner measures like vaccine mandates (EUR 15,000 proposed fines in Austria), lockdowns, layoffs for the unvaccinated, gag orders for medical personnel up to December 2021 to almost complete freedom in March 2022.

You could watch consent manufacturing in real time as former hardliner outlets like the NYT and the Atlantic started to insert timid opinion pieces that questioned school lockdowns and masking of children.

The Ukraine invasion may also have played an additional role in getting Western leaders focus on important things again.
Nanopillars create tiny openings in the nucleus without damaging cells
I think cult is really fitting for a massive group of customers who are locked in by a monopolist. Maybe eve; worse than a cult, because there's just the one,
Why loop when you can https://iterate.common-lisp.dev/ instead? No s-expr-less alien syntax, no need for `do` to switch to back to Lisp syntax, normal `if`/`when` without the ugly `else`/`end` and generally useful features added.
If the individual is employed by a related entity abroad, then large companies would transfer him or her to the U.S. using the blanket L visa, a super fast and easy process. If the individual is not employed by a related entity abroad, then other options must be considered. First, there are easy options if the individual is a citizen of one of five countries with its own visa; these are Australia, Canada, Chile, Mexico, and Singapore. These countries have free trade agreements with the U.S. that give rise to these visas. If the individual is not a citizen of one of these countries but is employed in H-1B status by another company (or previously was employed in H-1B status), then an H-1B change of employer application is usually the best option and an easy one. If the individual is not employed in H-1B status (and never has been), then we look at the O-1. Sometimes the E-1 or E-2 visa is an option but this has very specific and limited requirements regarding the nationality of the company and the individual and regarding the company's trade with U.S. and investment into the U.S. company. It's a great option when it works. The EB1A is a green card path and is a high standard that takes a while.
Apple Silicon is surprisingly a good approach here -

* On CPU: SIMD NEON
* On CPU: custom matrix multiply accelerator, separate from SIMD unit
* On CPU package: NPU
* GPU

Then they go and hide it all in proprietary undocumented features and force you to use their framework to access it :c
Why would you use a hydrogen piston engine as opposed to fuel cells?
Some people _really_ need in person interaction, the problem is their requested accommodation is that the rest of us should have to be in that environment as well. You go into the office then, be there with people who want to be there, don't keep trying to force the rest of us to be in that environment.

What are really actually exhausting are meetings that shouldn't have happened, and people trying to force everybody to be on camera. My solution to unnecessary meetings I'm not willing to complain about is doing the dishes, folding the laundry, or otherwise paying only the required attention while otherwise occupying myself.
Make also supports a ton of other features that a lot of people don't use (or don't directly use) or understand.

It's possible to create makefile targets which say "Don't run this other target on my behalf, but if you're going to run it anyway then run it before me"; for example, don't try to create the build output directory every time you run this target, but if it does need to be created then create it first.

Every time I've tried to look for a clean, effective Makefile replacement there have either been obvious (to me) missing features that make anything but the most basic use cases tricky, or the system is so clearly designed to solve one specific problem (e.g. "compile a bunch of .c files into a binary") and as a result is unsuitable for most use cases that Makefiles would be good for.
Are you suggesting that I am a cancer researcher (I'm quite sure I'm not), or that a cure for cancer hasn't been found because researchers are lazy?
Israel's policies may change (do note that a distinction is being drawn here between Israeli Arabs, who enjoy Israeli citizenship, freedom of movement, voting rights, Knesset membership, etc and Palestinians, who do not). The state of Israel is not going to dissolve, because there are no plausible pressures that can be brought to bear to make that happen.
Why are they considered more morally repugnant than big tech or telcos. All these share data with the government. Palantir just provides the software by the way - based on the palantir installation where I work. They don’t share data. The software is installed on my companies infra - not on palantir.
Sorry, there's a dropped phrase in my title. It should read "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA." Thanks.
Evidence like the 18 different US nuclear power plants at 0 output on this list Right Now. Plenty of them are at 100% and a few are at lower output based on grid demand, but 18 are simply offline due to the unreliable nature of nuclear.

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/... (Not real time but updated daily.)

The wonderful thing about being correct is the evidence is plentiful. I didn’t pick some random day that happens to be bad. It’s the middle of the day so many natural gas peaking power plants are online to meet surging demand, but all this nuclear simply isn’t available. And it’s not available due to the inherent unreliable nature of the technology.

Extremely expensive natural gas being used Today specifically because nuclear energy doesn’t work the way you think it does.

PS: You’re not going to see this kind of nationwide tracking for say coal because the availability so just so much better. Total outages are less frequent and don’t lass nearly as long.
Maybe not. Maybe he went to both, and Trump is the one who made it public.

Trump has both the inclination (need to be in the spotlight) and the reason (looking relevant before the election) to make this public. Biden has neither.
I don’t think those ideas are mutually exclusive. I heavily dislike Adobe and think they’re a rotten company with predatory practices. I also think “AI art” can be harmful to artists and more often than not produces uninteresting flawed garbage at an unacceptable energy cost.

Still, when I first heard of Adobe Firefly, my initial reaction was “smart business move, by exclusively using images they have the rights to”. Now seeing Turntable my reaction is “interesting tool which could be truly useful to many illustrators”.

Adobe can be a bad and opportunistic company in general but still do genuinely interesting things. As much as they deserve the criticism, the way in which they’re using AI does seem to be thought out and meant to address real user needs while minimising harm to artists.¹ I see Apple’s approach with Apple Intelligence a bit in the same vein, starting with the user experience and working backwards to the technology, as it should be.²

Worth noting that I fortunately have distanced myself from Adobe for many years now, so my view may be outdated.

¹ Which I don’t believe for a second is out of the goodness of their hearts, it just makes business sense.

² However, in that case the results seem to be subpar and I don’t think I’d use it even if I could.
> When you're not sure if a fix you're trying will succeed or not, that's not the time to say "It'll be resolved in 15 minutes."

Yes. That's what I said: Provide estimates when you can make them.

> As a general rule I'd say not pretending to have knowledge of the future is humility.

Yep, never suggested otherwise. Which is why I would never have said what you said above.

> Service will be restored to normal at 3:15PM

We expect service to be restored by 3:15PM.

> It'll be resolved in 15 minutes.

We'll have an update in 15 to 20 minutes.

Both of your statements lacked that humility.

> I envy the person who has always understood exactly what course of action they should take -- and exactly how long that fix will take -- before they've had even a few minutes to investigate the problem! What a perfect tech stack and perfect knowledge that person must have. They probably don't have any downtime in the first place though, since they know every bit of their application's state at all times anyway.

Your envy is appreciated. I've never needed the knowledge you think I need to provide estimates on either when I think it will be fixed, or when I'll have an update. That you think that's required is a bit troubling.

But hey, you don't have to provide updates, estimates, and can continue to only provide 100% assurance with second level accuracy all while ignoring customers needs.
Focusing on solving customer problems, not buzz words, typically is the right path.
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I wonder if there's also a "Zoom apathy" that many feel. The idea that it's harder to care about what's going on at work or what your company even does when you primarily interact with it online. Many people may not care about their company to start with, that's fair. But I wonder if there's an unspoken loss of engagement from interacting with something that suddenly feels less real and tangible.
Regardless of the “politicizing” of WFH vs. RTO mandates, I think the internet sphere of people that grew up on being able to communicate and absorb a tremendous amount of information through text mediums like BBS, IRC and the messaging platforms of old have a lot of lessons and wisdom to share here, but it will be a hard uphill climb to sell a proper semiasynchronous text-based communication pattern to people.

I bring this up because it’s the elephant in the room that nearly every open source team out there inherently knows, but that people in general do not want to discuss because it is to the greater population an alien subject matter. My own bias of course is I often do not want to watch videos or listen to podcasts. They are slow, give me a transcript and let me run through it in my own way to process the information in a non-linear/chronological format.

I’ve heard over many years now a kind of defeated attitude about it. Sometimes it’s things like “I can’t read emotions through text” to which I would honestly ask if the person ever read a novel and can say that with a straight face, but some of it is to do with people being comfortable with a particular medium and, maybe, being unwilling to adapt. Regardless, the internet in and of itself has had a tremendous impact which will far outweigh any particular (maybe flimsy) stance on peoples preferences when applied to market conditions/expectations. Companies that adopt the nature, constraints and perks of the internet will inherently do better than those that don’t.
At least there is a logical path in that claim (if we ignore that I didn't specify that there was meat in the sandwich...I do eat a lot of plain tomato sandwiches, but not exclusively, so I do to some degree drive demand for animal slaughter)!

I think it's kind of neat that we got from Palantir to sandwiches... I wonder if Palantir's software supports mapping metaphysical causality like this, because bizarre metaphysical causality is the root cause of war in the first place!
The latter part of what you suggested - the pre-concert talk - is a very common thing to have now, and often it's a 30-minute thing. Program notes are also getting better and better about this. People will also often talk about the context when they give recitals.

As to clapping: As late as the late 1800s, it was okay to clap during the loud parts of the song. Baroque music also often has long cadenzas that end in a big trill, which was a signal for the crowd to go wild. I agree about getting less strict about this, and historically things were less strict. At the same time, I recently saw a performance of Tchaikovsky 6 where the audience started clapping between the last two movements (a triumphal march followed by a tragic final movement), and a large part of the energy of the piece was lost from the audience doing this. I think this rule mostly comes from the audience not understanding when not to clap.

Also, lots of classical music is done in environments that aren't concert halls and these are much looser about the etiquette. A concert hall is a nice place to go, and many people go on dates at concert halls, and a lot of the vibe for the audience comes from the fact that people dress up for the occasion.
geometry, as in, what shape is a planck volume? it must pack with no remainder spaces, thus it cant be a sphere, or a tetrahedron.

there is more likely some other disqualifying physical limitation, that makes planck scale considerations akin to sour brain candy; not pleasant, but compelling.
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what package manager is dictated by the C, C++, Common Lisp, Ruby, Prolog, Pascal... any language's standard?

I am struggling to think of a single standardized language whose standard defines the package manager
That is going to be confusing, good luck ;)
From the article:

> It’s very possible Cook has had similar conversations with Kamala Harris, but that hasn’t been reported yet.
Interestingly, a lot of the “pain points” highlighted here between in-person and zoom-based communication align with my experiences as a “neurodivergent” person, some examples:

(1) low audio quality making it difficult to understand the speaker/easily distracted by background noise, (2) lack of access to non-verbal communication channels like body language requiring dedicated brainpower to understand the speaker, (3) dysmorphia brought on by hyper awareness of one’s appearance, (4) lack of adherence to societal norms in conversation

I feel like remote work has leveled the playing field in a way that requires everyone to be explicit in their communication.
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For myself only, there's also an implication that perhaps the authors are a bit more concerned with safety and security in general. (Don't reply with counterexamples. I know them already. I mean that as a trend, not a solid rule.) That is, the sort of person who might pick Rust for its features might correlate with the sort of person who cares more about those properties in the first place. That doesn't mean they're experts who can execute the ideas flawlessly, or that someone slogging in C couldn't carefully built the same project. I do think it means they're more likely to prioritize safety (yes, it's not 100% safe; yes, you can write insecure code in Rust; don't "correct" me) as an inherent design goal than maybe someone cranking it out in assembler.
The rockets are nifty, but it is satellites that make SpaceX valuable
Amazon's latest file format (KFX, I think) hasn't been cracked. You can't reliably strip DRM from new Amazon books. The tools work on some of the books some of the time, but you can't rely on it working.

The workarounds mostly involve getting Amazon to give you the book in an older format, but then you lose the typography improvements that KFX gets you.

Apple's DRM format (Fairplay?) has never been cracked but I believe Adobe's has. Buying from the Google store of Kobo store is probably the best bet.

The book DRM problem requires a legislative solution.
Are we going to have another discussion how according to HN the most important requirement for a programming language documentation site is not met -- it is not mobile first?
If you rmb-click on the video and select "show controls", you will not only be able to seek, but you'll also be able to unmute it.

I don't know why it was embedded with the controls hidden.
This seems relevant: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lastquarte...
Don't get me wrong - every pop artist is an incredibly good musician and most of them are capable of putting on a Cyndi Lauper level of vocal performance. My comment was mostly about how many reps they need to put in before going into the studio to record.
> there are a host of specialized optimization strategies only possible when compilation can happen during runtime

That's a big part of why Jank is interesting to me, because it can properly embrace the idea of runtime JIT using LLVM. The JVM may still have an edge with profile-guided optimization for the foreseeable future, but perhaps Jank can help close that gap and support even more advanced possibilities for data-intensive workloads, e.g. along the lines of https://www.lingo-db.com/
I think the cones must also screw up their aural spatial sensation (changing their perception of sound from fairly omni-directional, to seeming like all the sounds are coming from in front of the cone).
What I’ve learned is this is entirely about how you show up on the call and what the group permission/culture context is.

I’ve done dance parties, group therapy, and family events over Zoom. They were emotional and built relationships.

I don’t think it’s a substitute for in person interactions, but “in digital” interactions can be far more meaningful if we are willing to risk it.
These days, there is sort of an "authentication détente" over telephone calls. Because nobody can trust Caller ID, and we're told never to trust any incoming call, especially an unexpected one.

But when I receive, for example, a followup call from the clinic about lab results: they are cagey, per HIPAA, about divulging any info to anyone who isn't me. So I answer, and the first thing I get is a question like, "what is your name and DOB?" and what do I tell them? "I don't trust you! Go away!"

I'm thankful that many orgs are finally implementing their own secure-messaging features so most of these type phone calls can now be done in a private email style instead.

I've never seen any scammer spoofing Caller ID of someone in my Contacts list, but that seems like a nightmare scenario!
The presence or absence of some subtle new magic wand icon that shows up in the toolbar is neither making nor breaking anyone's business. And even if it comes to be a compelling feature in my competitor's product, I've got plenty of time to update my product with something comparable. At least if I've done a good job building something useful for my customers in the first place.

Generative ML technologies may dramatically change a lot of our products over time, but there's no great hole they're filling and there's basically no moat besides capital requirements that keeps competitors from catching up with each other as features prove themselves out. They just open a few new doors that people will gradually explore.

Anxiously spamming features simply betrays a lack of confidence in one's own product as it stands, directly frustrates professional users, and soaks up tons capital that almost certainly has other places it could be going.
usually the ORM generates the id, so it's None until saved

(at least I'm assuming based on how other ORMs often (not always!) work)
Stop diverting the question, tell me where my assumption is wrong of needing to make 2 API calls to an LLM provider to do this or prove me wrong. If you're going to be firmly on the AI fanboy bandwagon you will need to eventually face difficult questions like this.
It's challenging but not impossible. A key is having less than 50% ownership interest in the company and an employment agreement with the company. It's close to impossible where the ownership is vested and at or above 50%. Again, not impossible but extremely challenging. The other owners also can be foreign nationals; they don't need to be U.S. citizens. So, where there are three foreign national founders, each owning a third, this should be fine.
No, it's a typical tactic of the right to redefine leftist and progressive terms in a bad faith way to poison discourse. They did the same thing with "woke", "anti-racism", "toxic masculinity" and countless other terms.

Feminism doesn't have a specific culture and beliefs. Like any other social and political movement, it has a diverse and often internally divisive set of ideologies sharing common general axioms. Of course, one can still be feminist without being "militant," what ever that actually means.
Apple users have at best 3 months left.
Nice! Would be pretty cool if this supported bhyve on FreeBSD.
If I understand “step up in basis” this is where Jeff Bezos never sells his shares, dies and leaves his shares to his son for example. The (US) tax law then “steps up” the value of shares - so instead of saying the shares were orignally worth 1 cent each and now with 100 dollars each, they are treated as being worth 100 dollars when the son gets them and so he has to pay no capital gains. I think I over simplify.

And you suggest eliminating that is a good idea.

I agree - but suggest we don’t have to wait till Jeff dies - there are other taxable “liquidity events” that are freely entered into and do not rely on third party valuations, and that achieve the goal of (the Modern Monetary Theory goal) of taxing and so eliminating money.

And yes the loan is a liability - but under current tax law (which is some version of buy, borrow, die) the wealth remains untaxed or under-taxed, kind of defeating the point of governments printing the money.

In short we want wealth to circulate not congregate.
My experience is that people adapt differently to different issues, so in a team people can specialize better on the types of bad code they handle best. So the code quality degrades less their productivity while they are working than if each person had to deal with the entire diversity alone.

But that implies on a division of work that is not aligned with any communication-reducing objective.
I think this comment should read "The supervisor's reaction"?
I bet you're talking about his name because you have nothing to contribute to the topic at hand which is solar gravitational lens based telescopes.

Which is understandable as it is a very esoteric topic. But if you don't feel comfortable talking about a subject that doesn't mean that you should change the subject to one that you do feel comfortable with.

People come to Hacker News to see experts talk about these esoteric ideas and you ruin that when you derail the conversation into something relatable out of discomfort.
Oh, that's interesting - sounds like you're implying that the act of making a change in how a database's data is transformed for different parties/outputs, would go through through a review/governance/rollout process, in a similar way (but with even more stakeholders) that a schema migration or code deployment would? And you'd provide GUI and governance controls on top of that? That makes a ton of sense!

And I wonder if it would be worth talking to folks who do SOC 2 auditing; if you could say "we can provide a framework that allows you to continue to be SOC 2 certified while letting your developers access real-world data" that would be tremendously valuable.
Ok, but have they fixed their awful javascript performance?
How are you thinking about the potential effects of a second Trump administration on immigration and how it might affect tech companies?
I had a similar negative reaction to the grandiose title but in this case it was totally deserved and I am pretty blown away.
It does imply there are likely to be different classes of bugs. If the thing compiles at all, someone's done the work to get the types right, and implement all the arms of match expressions, and written at least basic error handling. The errors are more likely to be high-level logic issues that you'd face in any code, not so much trivial implementation mistakes.
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