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Some episodes are much stronger than others. I think the eye camera episode was good, because it humanizes the dystopia: it moves past abstract moralizing and unrealistic "how things could be" like in e.g. Brave New World and gives you a real human story. It feels more real than reading stories about orgy-porgies, etc. And the technology for it is basically already here.

I think Altered Carbon is a better dystopian tech story though. The actual plot is not even really the point. The setting, backdrop and society that it envisions feels more plausible than any episode of Black Mirror.

The best sci fi dystopian stories imprint our current economic and social structures onto a new future with technology: the world of Altered Carbon asks what if we had our current economic system, which creates a class of impossibly powerful oligarchs who hoard all of the world's wealth and act with impunity while the poor suffer and die, but now these technologies allow their power to extend and expand indefinitely, past death?

The crux of every tech sci fi dystopian story is the question: What if we progress technologically but refuse to progress economically or socially? What if we encourage people to study STEM and sneer at the humanities forever? What if economics is always taught as an exercise in cheerleading for our current system?

Media like this makes us think about the changes that need to be made as technology more and more amplifies the (potentially bad) choices we make about the world we want to live in.

It's easy to get caught in the echo chamber of "technology good, disruption good, gadgets fun" especially living in the tech world so I think it's great stories like these make us take a step back.
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Anyone happen to have a diff of say the top 10k vs the previous release?
To me it sounds like the opposite, a utopia. All throughout history, genes have been passed down through natural selection based on short term traits. If we can select partners based on things like longevity, cancer resistance, disease risks, IQ, we can produce a better world filled with better humans, slowly but surely.
> because the people at the top don't want to share?

When people spend/invest money, they are sharing.
I use it at my work and it works reliably ok on the desktop, but yes I agree the mobile app (at least the iPhone one) is absolutely garbage.

That said from everyday desktop use it’s not bad. It’s nowhere near as unreliable for me as other posters are commenting about.
I had to dig through a few pages that summarized eachother like Russian nesting dolls before finding this: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep39654

This is kinda fascinating.

The original article was published in Nature over a year ago. The summary/futurist speculative news article was published in October, that was included in a '10 daily links' post today and then from there it was summarized on loopinsight.com.
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I find auto-complete/suggestions to be mildly annoying at best, and auto-correct (anything that retroactively changes what I've entered) to be physically unpleasant to use.

That said, gestural input does feel significantly more natural compared to trying to cram a QWERTY layout onto a pocketable screen. For me the ideal midground has proven to be a "dumb" keyboard that has a layout designed for touchscreens from the outset; "MessageEase" (which I plug at every opportunity) uses a combination of single taps and directional swipes with a layout based on letter frequency.

It takes a bit of adjusting to, but it provides a great balance between precision and speed, while also having plenty of room for less common symbols and Ctrl/Alt/modifier keys that are useful for SSH, all without having to tap through extra layers or menus.
"I use GBoard now and it has this horrible "correct the previous word" feature that I can't turn off."

I've been having this exact problem with both swype and SwiftKey. anyone know a gesture keyboard without this crap?
So, where did the $50 million come from?

That is a significant amount of money for what has been a handful of people, not taking venture capital, now operating as a nonprofit to "secure communications."
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There are plenty of other states with more favorable tax laws than Delaware. Delaware is popular because of it's well developed corporate caselaw and unmatched judicial experience, which is particularly attractive to investors (i.e. potential plaintiffs) because it minimizes legal risk.

If you want investment, there are only two states to consider when incorporating: your home state or Delaware. Any other state will give investors and their legal counsel pause.
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I agree. In fact, I pointed out that the data set I referenced was unlikely to include items like "Parental Social Class" and "IQ" specifically for these reason.
Not so long ago on HN: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/instead-of-fillin...
Hi HN,

When designing circuit boards, engineers waste days making digital models (like symbols & footprints) for each component in their circuit board designs.

Some components such as connectors, are particularly challenging to create models for due to their non-standard shapes, pitches, pads and cutouts. Just one of these components could take hours to create, and requires deciphering complex computer-aided design (CAD) drawings, which is a very tedious and error-prone process.

Today we’re excited to announce a new partnership that is making over 25,000 new free models available to electronics designers. By partnering with TE Connectivity, we've been able to bring thousands of elecromechanical models to designers for free, including connectors, switches, relays, and sensors.

Best of all, we've made them available in nearly every PCB design format, including Eagle, KiCad, Altium, Cadence OrCAD & Allegro, Mentor PADS, DXDesigner, PCB123, and more.

Unlike other models you might find scattered across the web, or even within your PCB design tool, we do things a bit differently:
1. We show which standards the model was made with (IPC or datasheet recommendations)
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For any hardware designers out there, we’d love to know what you’d like to see next!
Depending on how you feel about such things, a "build a wall" campaign could be pretty ingenious with your product. :)
Parent isn't saying that they had a bad experience, they are saying that purism should switch after their bad experience, which the blog post is about.
> actual wealth creation

Actual wealth creation is creating things that other people want to buy. This applies to games as much as it does to food.
> The horses were labor, and were fired once their labour was automated. Capital doesn't require pay every day - people and horses do.

Horses don't get pay; they get fuel and maintenance, which capital equipment may well need.
So obvious and yet rediscovered so often by way of spectacular failures.
(Mux founder) That's correct. Vimeo and Livestream are customers of Mux's video performance monitoring, the product we built first and what's informing decisions in our video API.
this one's much more comprehensive and contains all the foods: for example cream of tartar for highest potassium. Kale.world limits the food search to less esoteric choices, mostly primary ingredients, rather than including everything under the sun.
On the contrary, well thought of white space guide the eye. It doesn't waste space. It is a part of the design in itself and is usually the hardest component to get right.
Not everywhere. I live a whopping 30 minutes from the city line and no uber, no bus, no train, etc. There is a local who will drive you to the airport, and thats it. You overgeneralizing city centric viewpoint is not applicable to MOST of the world. We still need cars, and gas ones at that. Hell, I am one of the few with ACCESS to "high speed" (1.2mb) internet. I am on a major highway, not some obscure hole either.
Because, from the article, you never know you're shipping a low quality product at the time you ship it.

Failure modes are complicated. It's not as simple as "Ah, this thing will obviously fall apart in a few months."
Thanks. I use multiple ways to change tabs. CMD+<number> (most often used), CMD+OPT+<left|right arrow>, mouse, or trackpad; depends where my hands are at the time.

ctrl+tab actually feels a bit awkward on my MBP and only shows 5 tabs on FF Nightly; seems to be sourced from the most recently used ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The price is 37 USD/mo for the first 6 months and 61 USD after that.
The idea that charities take donations that damage them. They must be a net benefit, as otherwise they are free to turn them down and they would do.

People are using language like ‘damaging’ and ‘no choice’. What they really mean is the donations are useful but they could be more useful if unrestricted.

Well yeah lots of things are more useful when you don’t have any responsibilities along with them.
Yes, and you can get them in tear-out books for a huge markup.[1] That idea is old; it was supposedly created by the marketing director of Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey, mid 20th century.

[1] https://www.moneypads.com/products.html
The article isn't directly explicit, but

> Today, we are launching the Signal Foundation, an emerging 501(c)(3) nonprofit created and made possible by Brian Acton, the co-founder of WhatsApp

Brian Action funded it himself.
> This is a dirty tactic. It is not good faith engagement.

It's not a dirty tactic, it's an analogy meant to snap the reader out of reductive thinking. It's easy to throw out these kind of generalizations when you reduce people to animals, but when you're forced to consider individuals from a human perspective (like in the case of your own mother) suddenly there is a wave of humanizing rationalizations to explain why characterizing marriage as glorified prostitution doesn't really apply in grandma's case.

> most women don't have sex with their husband because they like him

Neither one of us can prove what is in the head of most women when they get into bed with their husbands, but it seems absurd to generally ascribe a financial motivation for married sex-life. Women like sex too, some more than others, it doesn't make a woman a whore if she also enjoys financial support (and you know, all the other qualities that people care about in lasting relationships.

> If you are a well paid man and tired of feeling like women only date you for your money, fostering a world in which women have money of their own on pat with men is the single best antidote to your dating problem

This simply isn't a problem for the vast majority of people. Most eligible bachelors do not make enough money to such an effect where they have to be worried about goldiggers beyond the normal common-sense signs.

> As just one supporting citation, this article talks about the fact that pro athletes frequently marry their high school sweetheart because you can't trust that women who met you after you struck it rich really like you

Individuals with multimillion dollar salaries are clear outliers that have to contend with the impact of their wealth in every personal relationship, trying to generalize that example to the general population doesn't make sense.

> There are also rap song lyrics about how poor men from the hood can't get a date, but once they strike it rich "it's a puss buffet."

Once again, if you become rich and famous you are an outlier that is pointless to apply as a general rule. Also, as someone from the hood, where almost every individual is poor, I promise you that there are LOTS of dates and LOTS of sex, even for broke guys, the most common distinction between guys getting dates and those who are not is confidence, looks, and a sense of humor.

> a guy lost his job and his wife quit having sex with him

Yeah... nobody is saying that doesn't happen, but that is obviously not a common occurrence as any married man who has been unemployed can attest to.

> While I was homeless, no one wanted to open doors for me career wise. But lots of men wanted to offer me money or a place to stay if I would sleep with them.

The fact that men have solicited you has means nothing with regard to the nature of sex within marriage.
The game purchases believe it has enough value to be worth exchanging their dollars for it.

Do you also believe the Rolling Stones didn't create any real value?
Exactly! The only exception is if you are building a disruptive idea like Uber or Airbnb that creates a market. It's not something anyone wants per se until they see that it can actually be a part of their lives. For ex, Travis Kalanick doesn't really drive an Uber right? But he created a market where people could actually start being their own taxis.

But for people in the hobby of making small apps and tools (like myself) then making something I want, then selling it for $0.99, then having 1 million people buying it is already a lot of dough. Not to mention 1 million people worldwide is a drop in the bucket.
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Somehow I feel like I'm on a Terraria discussion board right now.....
There are two cases I've seen:

1. Some philosophers have a descriptive ethic (this is what people do) rather than a prescriptive ethic (this is what people should do). This is certainly interesting, but it isn't what most people mean when they talk about ethics--it doesn't give us any guidance on how to behave ethically.

2. Some philosophers try to work backward to a prescriptive ethical principle from a set of ethical prescriptions which are widely accepted but, importantly, unproven. For example one might start from the prescriptions "murder and lying are wrong, giving and learning are right" and attempt to come up with a prescriptive ethic that unites these prescriptions. But "murder and lying are wrong, giving and learning are right" aren't objective facts even though they're widely accepted, so any prescriptive ethic that comes from these prescriptions can't be objective either. It's not coincidence, for example, that in the west, the atheist/moral realist philosophers mysteriously often start from Judeo-Christian prescriptions.
(Mux founder) To be completely honest, I'd be pretty bummed if all we'd built was a CDN (don't mean that as a diss on CDNs, we just think other folks have solved that problem better than us).

Right now, a developer has to know quite a bit about video/delivery to get your own stack up and running. At the highest level, we're a clean API around ingesting and serving videos to your customer. What's actually happening is we use our analytics data to power smarter decision making around what formats and renditions we deliver to your viewers.

We do just-in-time encoding, which means we can quickly change what we deliver to those same viewers as their needs change over time without needing to do massive library re-encodes. On the edge of all of that, we also make real-time, data-driven decisions around which CDNs we use around the world.

But if you don't really care about what's going on under the hood, what you'll get in practice is adaptive bitrate playback within seconds of creating a new asset in our system, and cool features around grabbing thumbnails and stuff.

Hope that helps!
The evidence is in your favor where the CEO compensation just went up, up, up even as they used every justification in the world to pay workers less. The workers whose actions generated the revenues.

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-continues-to-rise/

In most companies I've worked, the CEO's mostly just made simple or random choices based on what data people under them were producing. The companies with established models could mostly run on autopilot. They have at times in between senior management or executives. There's also been little evidence their performance is tied to their pay much outside financial manipulations with many taking golden parachutes on way out of companies doing poorly. Add in the interlocking boards effect on compensation grants, you have every reason to believe the pay gap is an artificial construct by a privileged few to further enrich themselves at the expense of the many. These other explanations are either of little effect or smoke screens to keep people from attacking the root causes of what their doing.

It's not like they hide it when talking among themselves that this is a system designed for the exclusive benefit of the rich as much as they can make it. See the leaked Citigroup memos about the plutonomy and such that they tried to take off the Internet.

https://politicalgates.blogspot.com/2011/12/citigroup-pluton...

Particularly relevant is what's in report No 3 here showing economic inequality wasn't natural but artificial by folks like their clients:

https://rwer.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/the-plutonomy-reports/
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If you have a cavity, try repairing it yourself. (I did as a poor college student) If the cavity is visible and you can work with it, you may want to try and see if your body can do it on it's own.

At the very least, you can have a fun biology experiment.

First, stop eating anything that eats away your tooth. (coke, I am looking at you..., coffee, sugary and acidic stuff, etc...) Clean out the cavity, I used a toothpick and some hydrogen peroxide. Every day clean it out and keep it clean. Swish copious amounts of spit around in your mouth regularly, all day. That's it.

I fixed a large hole in the side of my molar doing this. (dentist didn't believe me years later, but I have a witness, lol)
Great, now my ears hurt.
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”

― George Orwell
I won't argue the second point; you might be right about some of it, and there isn't time space to hash it out.

But horses are definitely not labor by economic standards. They have no will or ability to negotiate their work hours. They are owned. They do not require pay. They require maintenance; their feed and care is like oiling a tool or allowing a motor to cool. They are and always were property with a special exemption against cruelty for recognition that they have sentience.
There are some hobbyists using the 28nm Xilinx Zynq, a hardened circa-2009-cell-phone dual-core ARM with on-die FPGA. One popular board is the https://www.crowdsupply.com/krtkl/snickerdoodle
>Even if we could fix the issues with cheap foreign and domestic labor that's not going to stop automation

It'd straightforward enough for the government to keep spending money until everybody is employed. This is how stuff like LAX and the triborough bridge was built in the 30s - the last time there was an unemployment problem allegedly caused by automation.

Judging by the number of potholes out there, it's not robots fixing US infrastructure, it's nobody.
> So the basic question is: why are wages stagnating in the face of increased productivity?

Wages are set by what people are willing to accept when compared with what people are willing to pay to perform a function. Wages really aren't related to productivity, except that increased productivity limits the number of hires.

In the same way that you most likely don't share all your income with others, employers do not share all their income with workers.
Is it really so difficult/risky? If you set all dns records up in advance at the new registrar before transferring and also set the desired nameservers for the domain in advance shouldn’t that work? or am I missing something?

In any case. I was very surprised that they were using such a registrar in the first place..
Oh but we did award that money to American citizens, it's just wasn't as balanced as your numbers.
Right ... but I suspect his local printer was involved in turning them into a tablet of a given size rather than actually printing the bills.
That's a fair point, it's been very effective in "simulated combat", but I guess the military can make that say whatever you want.
Telegram is available on F-Droid. It's similar to Signal with more functionality and greater ease of use - https://f-droid.org/packages/org.telegram.messenger/

You need a phone number that can receive texts for the initial setup, but once you're set up people can add you by @username and never need your number. Stuff like https://www.textnow.com/downloads works just fine for the initial text. Once you have a single device set up, it messages your existing devices rather than sending SMS when you try to connect another device.

One of the main people behind Signal actually tried to spread a bunch of FUD about Telegram years ago, saying the crypto was weak, but it's really not. No working POC code was provided to decrypt anything, just FUD.

Protocol details here: https://core.telegram.org/mtproto They just released MTProto2 in the last year.
What company? Asking for a friend :)
The link didn’t work for me but I can do you one better I have (saved somewhere) a Yahoo groups conversation where David goes on a tirade about exactly this.

Also, David can split hairs all he wants about this (as agilists love to do) but the process theory around this stuff was laid down long before he graduated high school.
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Bit off topic, but I was searching for a better way to manage passwords a few weeks ago (rather than have 1 or 2 master passwords across all websites).

I found KeePass through an old ask HN thread. It's a great little free, open source key/password storage app that works across all my devices (iOS, macOS, windows). https://keepass.info/

I'd be interested to hear any suggestions for similar apps I could recommend to my parents, who expressed concerns about their online passwords. KeePass would be the ideal solution, but I don't think it would hold their hand through download, setup, and password generation enough to be 100% ideal. Any suggestions?
Hopefully this means we'll also get Use of Weapons and The Player of Games? Pretty please?
Isn't keybase a for-profit startup leveraging advances in cryptography to build yet another social network?
Sure. I'd support a ban for adults too!
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That definitely sounds like Tinder to me.
Signal Protocol is one of the best documented cryptographic message protocols on the planet, and is accompanied by multiple GPL'd implementations.

https://signal.org/docs/
Spending is moreso exchanging, and investing is moreso like loaning.

They both have strings attached.
I wasn't drawing a line. You could argue that entertainment keeps people from going crazy and is a net positive to the efficiency of the system. Marvel CGI doesn't apply IMO
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> It's my sewing machines, after all.

It's also your idea, your implementation, your risk. You made the operation more productive, and that is worth money. It's perfectly fair, after all, your partner can also buy a sewing machine and start his own business competing with you. The fact that he does not is indicative that you provided the value, not him.
For your point #1, the reason you have this problem is ultimately supply and demand. There's certain subsets of demographics that are highly uneven due to many factors: 1 of which is that men date younger women, hence women in greater demand than younger men, and older men in greater demand than older women, etc. A dating site won't be able to fix this.
The question is whether that's zero-sum consolidation (as competitors close) or sustainable.
When you say 'run of the mill degree' are you referring to Associates, Bachelor, or higher? Additionally, do you know how the data you shared compares to individuals with technical certificates?