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I'm torn about this, I agree that in a world without death we'd view it as meaningless and tragic. I worry about what our path there would look like.

Let's say we find a way to eliminate death or aging. It's expensive at first so only the very wealthy can afford it. Now you have a set of rich people in positions of control that won't age out of them. They'll live forever so they'll continue amassing wealth, if they don't give up control then a new generation with new ways of thinking about the world won't be able to take the helm. I mean, lots of people aren't able to really internalize new ideas in their own current lifetimes, let alone these hypothetically endless ones. The people in control get wealthier, inequality increases, new ideas have a harder time taking hold. Even if this life extension eventually trickles down to the rest of humanity would they ever be able to catch up? Would they want to live an eternal life subjugated by the elite?

Also, assuming this life extension is biological and not digital all of a sudden we have lots of people. Necessity is the mother of invention and all that so hopefully we figure out a way to move excess people to other planets/space colonies, but what if that takes too much time? What if we increase the number of people faster than we can solve the scaling problems? Food, energy, waste, ways of transporting these excess people elsewhere. If we don't solve all of them we're talking about periods of extreme pain and tumult. What happens if we need to put a cap on the number of people while we figure some of them out? Are some people now not allowed to have children? Are some people not allowed to live forever? Who decides the answer to these questions? Hopefully not the ultra rich & powerful class that's formed - that might not be good for the average folks.

Anyways, maybe I'm being pessimistic and on the time scales we're talking about we'd figure out reasonable solutions but it still feels like this whole area feels pretty hand-wavy today when I hear people talk about eliminating death. Death, for better or worse is a sort of equalizer, remove it and a lot of the problems that exist today could get worse.

This is even putting aside questions about what happens to a hypothetical brain that lives forever. Do we run out of space for new memories? Do we start forgetting things after enough time? If so, is the person we are 500 years from now that can no longer remember it's first 100 years the same person as us today?
As someone on the spectrum, I don’t necessarily know if this is something I would want. My ASD is a big part of my personality; if these social “difficulties” (which really just mean I click with a different type of person) were “solved” I don’t know I would be the same person.

Maybe this can offer some hope for others with more profound issues, but if you’ve found a way to function in society I’m not sure this will be very attractive outside a “let me try and see what it feels like” scenario.
The story is mainstream politics, which is off topic. It presents no new or interesting phenomenon of intellectual interest, nor does it bear an even tangential relationship to technology. And, as expected, the threads posted have mostly devolved into partisan shit-flinging or complaints about the mods.

This isn't censorship or improper flagging, it's an attempt to keep Hacker News from descending even further into the cesspool of politics. The bar for these kinds of stories needs to be set much higher than it has been.
That's a stretched supposition. How do you know something is actually useful before you purchase it? You're ignoring the sell-ability factor- At 50 dollars it's something people can give to another that offers interactivity and an experience with less guilt if you don't end up using it than a goldfish that gets flushed down the toilet.
> Responsible Disclosure is caring about the vendor, whereas full disclosure gives other people the chance to take action on their own to remove themselves from harm.

That is true, but you missed the other side of the argument. Coordinated disclosure is preferable also to a part of users/customers. Significant part of them have no understanding or incentive enough to mitigate on their own. So the question the discoverer of a bug then faces is 'how much headstart should I give the vendor and the users that depend on the vendor, before I make this public'? This has no universal answer, it may depend on how long the bug is out there and what kind of users may be harmed. But it is easy to see that a little headstart in terms of weeks is more reasonable than headstart=0, especially for bugs that are out there for years.

> why not argue for Responsible Development? This is where the outcry should be. Flaws in products come about because they are shipped before they are finished.

Flaws are not always due to cutting corners. Some bugs in computers are very unintuitive and it could be years before they manifest. More responsible development seems like a good idea, but again, this ignores the other part of the problem - major group of users do not understand the intricacies of development and are not willing to buy more 'responsible' product, if it is 5years behind the newest trend and costs 5x as much.
Nah, eventually you could just download a Proprietary Recipe [TM], into your Cook-3000 and a steaming hot pizza will come out in under 10 minutes. All ingredients that are not in store, are sourced automatically, through the Internet and delivered by a combination of autonomous truck/drone delivery system, where the drone takes the food cartridges that are in fact, brown paper cartridges filled with cubed veggies/meats/cheese directly to your autonomous pantry/fridge.
>There is no 'proof' in science.

Like many linguistic terms, the word "proof" has a number of different meanings. In science it has a different meaning than in logic or mathematics. As a consequence, scientists talk all the time about something being proved. For instance, a new chemical material is created, and a simple experiment is done to prove (= determine with certainty) how well it conducts electricity at room temperature.

As for theories, well-established ones usually never get disproved, they only are shown to be particular cases of larger ones. That is why physicists still study and make use of newtonian physics.
> It's so much easier to just say "HTTPS everywhere" than to examine the tradeoffs.

This touches on the real point of all this, which doesn't seem to have been contained in any replies to you.

There's no real choice in the matter, https is a requirement if, and that the very big if right there, we truly acknowledge that the network is hostile. With a hostile network the only option is to distrust all non-secure communication.

https isn't about securing the site as you know, it's about securing the transmission of data over the transport layer, and it's needed because the network is hostile.

It doesn't matter one little iota what the data is that's traversing it, as there's no way to determine its importance ahead of time. A resume site might not be of much worth to the creator, but the ecosystem as a whole ends up having to distrust it without a secure transport layer because the hostile network could have altered it.

It doesn't matter the effect of that alteration might be inconsequential, as there's also no way to determine that effect ahead of time. The ecosystems 'defense' is to distrust it entirely.

And that's the situation the browsers/users/all of us are left with. There's is no option but to distrust non-secured communication if the network is hostile.
see, i'm a professional react dev and i didnt even know about the react forum until you just mentioned it. why is there reactiflux AND this thing?? how does that make sense?
As a father of someone who is about on the middle of the spectrum, I kind of agree. I couldn't separate his personality from his ASD - however if something could alleviate things like the stress he gets from sensory overload then that would be great.
Memorize a private key to a Crypto wallet and transfer all of your assets to it in the days leading up to uploading?

And of course let everyone know that's the case beforehand!
> benevolent dictator

First of all, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2010/nov/19/cra...

Second of all, and this is probably something that was brought up in your high school civics class, the advantage of a democracy is that the overall quality of a government will be the average of all of the people in it. Speaking metaphorically, you can roll N dice and average the results together; doing this repeatedly, you'll notice that as N goes up, the resulting averages will follow a normal distribution more and more closely. If you have enough dice, you can assume that you'll hit the middle of the curve most of the time, instead of having to worry that you might roll a 1.
I think they were just making a pun.
That's great to hear! :)
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Whoa.

Though I often question if society should treat social deficits of autism even if such a treatment is effective without side-effects.

Another solution would be for society to be generally more neuro-inclusive. I can't help but wonder if there are synergistic benefits from being able to have different ways of experiencing the world.

(I don't have ASD; my step-daughter is on the spectrum).
It's not "software" in the historic sense, like buying Photoshop or a paying for hosted Slack service. It's literally a command to generate a certificate from their root CA chain.

Yes there's obviously business costs, and they have to employ people to do verification, etc (which they often do a terrible job at), but I think you see what the parent is getting at..
For all the "yeah, but didn't so and so do it already?" responses...why does that make it okay, again?
Anyone have any idea on what percentage of the energy budget is spent on vertical takeoff? Just curious.
Actually dsacco convinced me with his arguments (that those guys are not black hats). Don't assume bad faith in opponents when you are losing the argument ...

On the other hand I agree with responsible disclosure. And I think that should be made mandatory by law.

And finally, I also agree with some fines for companies allowing these holes to exist for so long. Especially those discoverable by 4 (more or less) random guys.

This is not black and white situation, so don't look for easy conclusions.
At least where I am, Little Ceasars doesn't even do delivery, although it seems they have a Doordash partnership of some kind. The focus seems to be on having the lowest price.
Yep, that's great too. There is a challenge there, which is finding that information on personal blogs in the first place. That's been solved with search engines so far. I'm curious if a more distributed, network-oriented approach might work. Basically the Bacon number applied to information.
> but why is this flagged?

It's not on topic for HN. HN users flagged it.

There are countless other places you can discuss this.
Pity that vast incentive didn't seem to work out when they promoted all these chips as having "Firmware Trusted Platform Module", "Secure Encrypted Virtualization", "AMD Secure Processor", and "AMD Secure OS" as features.

AMDs incentive, like any corporation, is to maximise shareholder value. Same as any tiny little security research firm. If a research firm can maximise their profit buy discovering vulnerabilities and shorting stock before disclosing them, is that any ethically worse than a chip company rushing out flawed hardware with big flashy marketing bullet points claiming how secure they are?

(I'm not saying short-selling chip vendor stocks on the back of vulnerabilities is a way I'd choose to make a living, but surveillance capitalism doesn't seem an "ethically better" industry to work in either...)
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I have been MitM'd by my ISP, Comcast, multiple times. Their injection only works on HTTP without TLS.
I notice they automate only the really easy steps. I don't see this saving more than 10 seconds worth of minimum wage human labor while having people handle the dough plus 30 seconds for a human to add toppings etc. That final robot was worse as the convener could just dump the pizza into the oven directly.

On top of that you now need complex maintenance and cleaning to keep things working correctly.
The sauce part isn't new https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q0vk_fKDEo

Nor is the oven:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW_Maj0g8cg

Nor are dry ingredient spreaders for anything from cheese to sliced meats regularly used at an industrial scale for frozen pizza and bruschetta already.

The fact that all the components exist but aren't in common use in delivery pizza isn't due to lack of innovation in the area, more likely it's cheaper with better throughput to have the labour of 4 pizza chefs rather than the expertise to keep an assemblage of these machines running in all the local pizza places.

For the industrial and frozen segment they make perfect sense, but on the "hot" pizza side they're probably more useful in collective bargaining than anything else.
Let's see. The first mistake is of course that the object identity operator is called "is", and should have been called something like "is-same-object-as".

Then, a is-same-object-as b, for integers could raise an error, as a and b are not objects.

If that's not desired (for some reason), then a is-same-object-as b could indeed return false in all cases, and that would at least be more consistent than returning true for integers smaller than some number and false otherwise.
Good enough to have available as an option, for people who want to scrimp and save for a bit while they ramp up their careers. Not good enough to push people into one long term.
https://github.com/Neilpang/acme.sh does exactly what you want.
Is there any discussion about this subject that's neither duped nor flagged into oblivion? AMD is investigating and hasn't released anything yet (that I could find).

This article does a nice job in pointing out the fishy nature of the disclosure, BTW.
Looks like it can't be disabled for any of googles own products.
A better alternative to CSS classes is https://www.styled-components.com/

I'm using this in a huge production app (I wish I could tell you what it is, but I don't want to link my work to my HN comments.)
lol, how did the PR submitter expect you to be able to access his slack messages
Would you recommend children on the spectrum to be placed on drug if it would "solve" "difficulties"? I find this to be a complex moral question.
It's worth looking at "for no reason" in greater detail for cars, which is different from those other medical cases in significant ways. We collectively as a society decided that motorization of roads was worth pursuing at the expense of human health and safety, if you look at rhetoric at the time of cars' introduction, in no small part due to input from car manufacturers. This wasn't about driving skills; it was about restructuring all of society to make cars close to the bottom rung, not infrequently at the expense of minority groups. More recently, car-related deaths occur from bad design and usually refusal to fix it until sufficiently many lives have been taken. Any kind of "Vision Zero" which is focused on enforcement rather than infrastructure fixes is bound to fail.

So if "bad things happen to good people for no reason" is unpalatable and it's the narrative for mass transit, and "bad things happen to drivers for reasons in their control" is the easy narrative for cars, I'd say "bad things happen to good people for reasons that are in our control but we still do nothing" is closer to the true narrative for cars, but it is also unpalatable. There is an element of this in many risk-related scenarios, but it is especially clear here.
> Of the examples of "critical thinking education" listed above, do any remotely approach the critical thinking specific education I'm talking about here?

Well no, but my claim wasn't that your suggestion has been tried. It's that other people have been claiming they've been teaching critical thinking for some time, and it's not working.

I agree it's a problem--I just don't think a class in logic will do it. I'm not sure it's teachable at all, and even if it is, I'm not sure those same skills won't be ignored the moment the argument questions one's identity or becomes emotional.

Is it worth trying? It's easy for me to say "sure," but it's not on me to implement, and I'm certainly not sure how to assess whether it'd be successful.
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Almost ... except that the consumer won't own the appliance! It will be shared by users, and the supply chain will be pre-emptively managed by the operating company. We are on track for deployment next year in Shenzhen. Raising 3Q. http://infinite-food.com/
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Preferably microwaveable, and expanding to 10x its' size.
According to the current orderbook on GDAX, you can market sell $50M of BTC, and the price would drop to a little above $7000 (on GDAX). So, no, you wouldn't have trouble getting the buyers since they are right there on the order books, but yes, the price would fall. You'd still get your $50M.
HDAC inhibitors have been discussed before on /r/nootropics and Longecity. I was part of a group buy for Vorinostat, which is a medication with a similar mechanism of action. I only took it once and had a positive experience where I felt very "child-like", in the way that the world seemed vivid and exciting. I haven't taken it since due to concerns about interactions with some of my other medications.

The primary goal of many of the people in the group buy were fear extinction and memory enhancement. I haven't seen much discussion on it since the initial excitement.

Here are the relevant threads:

http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/90632-hdac-inhibition-m...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/596gbi/i_wrote_...
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Y'know, I'm quite comfortable with being told about flaws in my worldview. You just haven't not provided any so far. - But clearly you have something to say about it, I'd like to hear it.

Here's a starter: I don't think taste is subjective and those that do believe it is just haven't developed any (yet). There is no shame in that, the shame should be not wanting to extend yourself.

I'm not saying everybody has to have the same taste, clearly everyone can enjoy different things. But there is a clear difference between having taste (of some sort) and not having any. Ask any designer, visual artist, musician, or apparently, Linus Torvalds.

This is btw not meant to disparage the great-grandfather comment about enjoying music at all, it's started this discussion, but is not related to it.
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I think the experience of being a person goes a lot deeper than having any specific personality, if it didn't we wouldn't be sorting traits into good and bad. If not having learned to read has kept someone away from the influences of literature, we could say that it has impacted their personality, but would that be an excuse to never teach them?

Some behaviors associated with autism are really results of having less social influence acting on one's self (due to both slower learning and isolation). Would we consider them a fundamental part of the person, or just evidence of areas that the person still can grow in?
Haha fair enough.
I didn't think banks could be too big to fail.

Where exactly would handle, say, just the email? American legislatures would pass their first bipartisan business legislation by the day's end.

You can teach all you want to, but the PHB's with the money and power will overrule any moral high ground you're sitting on.
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yes search within-app is not enough. i would like universal search for issues/errors that i encounter with a particular technology. this is one thing stackoverflow definitely got right.

im not concerned with the looks. and this niche argument is pretty weak, every platform incl discord starts somewhere.
Took me at least three loops to even realize what the gifs were illustrating.
... or how expensive the ‘real’ boards are, e.g. $7K for a Xilinx US+.
"$50,000,000 in seed decks per month?" Prove it, said the VC.
If it's a neural network it's AI. The shitty neutral network I made in undergrad may not rise to your standards of "particularly impressive" but what does that have to do with it being AI?
This was my first reaction too. From the perspective of the person who would be taking this treatment, this sounds less like “alleviating symptoms” and more like adding an extra sense or altering their perception.

The Deaf community have been handling a similar issue for a while — see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implant#Criticism_and...
What about the flaws that aren't unintuitive? What about the bog standard integer overflows vendors routinely leave in code because they won't pay what it costs to ensure they don't ship them?
> * Home depot has a real problem (I assume all retail does - my sister works Home Depot returns so I hear stories) with people who go into the store grab something, leave, then come back (perhaps to a different store) and return it "I don't need it". It is often obvious to the clerk this is what just happened, but how do you prove it?*

Isn't that why receipts are printed?
The main cause of the cancellation was political: there were difficulties with the supplier (Siemens) and the price spiralled up to the point where it would never have paid off.

http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/single-view/view/helsinki...

The Helsinki Metro is also a bit unusual in that it uses Russian wide gauge track (for compatability with the rest of the rail system) but Western tech otherwise, meaning basically everything has to be custom made and is priced accordingly.
The customer reviews are across the board overwhelmingly positive. 4.3/5 with over 100,000 reviews of the Echo Dot for example.

Also the facts that they keep bringing out new devices and are hiring extremely heavily would lead you to believe they see a very bright future in the product.
I have only used Spotify. What are some of the features that music lovers would use in Apple Music? What is Beats1?
Does everyone who releases drivers release buggy drivers?
And some people take clients like acme.sh and modify them. I do that myself.

There's enough entrenched inertia to HTTPS without giving people more ammunition regarding the actual amount of work involved. Unless there's a security reason to eliminate the v1 endpoint, please don't.
What’s the background here?
Any links to interesting sources about this?
Amazon is also laying off a lot more developers than Google is.
Then you were wrong, since those attacks against unpatched, unhardened hosts are trivially weaponizable through browser Javascript.
I have ADHD. Drugs like ritalin never "fixed" me. They basically allowed me an exchange: give up the charisma, personality, sociability, and appetite for 8 hours of being able to focus on something. I won't write an essay here but trust me that the two versions of me were day and night and both had significant benefits and challenges. I really struggled growing up.

By the time I got to college I learned to use the drugs as a switch I could flip when I needed the focused version of me.

Not that ADHD and ASD can be compared, but I wonder if maybe ASD treatments could offer that option. Ie. Not to "fix" you but to give you a tool to be wielded under your own control.
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Our personalities can change dramatically as we age and yet we retain our sense of individuality. People struggle to be stonger and if medicine can help then it should. If it's not right for everyone, that's okay.
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