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I wonder what percent of this is related to the current media climate and technology enabling a more relentlessly global perspective and world view. There is the unhealthy war between the media and Trump. Trump sloughs it off, the media loves the sensation, but in my anecdotal observation some people internalize this national/international soap opera in really dark and despairing ways. I see a few people I know who have attempted suicide constantly hitting social media with profanities against DJT and retweeting more of the same. Regardless of what is going on, the stuff is not really relevant to their own problems and well being at the moment. I'm guessing the psychology is something like "well, even if I get my shit together it'll still not a Nash equilibrium because the world is irreparably fucked for me".
Yet another symptom of the broken security model that is security through context dependent addressing (rfc1918 addresses or split horizon dns).

We should just give all things globally addressible addresses, and do ACLs explicitly. (Or have a really air gapped network).
But how are we going to farm for karma if we can't nitpick then ? /s
Was this controlled for income and net worth?
40k-50k as a junior developer? Would a junior at your company have the same skillset as a junior at Google/Facebook/Amazon? Are you not expected to work 60h+ a week? Is it pretty lax? I just can't fathom how it could be so low. I'd understand 65-75k for a junior in Michigan.
From the description, I thought they were going with elementary OS [1]. Pantheon as a DE is reasonably lightweight [2] (for me, it uses ~400 MB of ram when idle), is absolutely gorgeous, as well as very user friendly.

[1] https://elementary.io/

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5l39tz/linux_distros...
No, the world; EU and US had no wars on their soil for large periods compared to their histories.
I can’t think of a time when society was this pessimistic, this focused on individual improvement and this divided financially.

Not in recent history. In US history, you have to go back to about 1880 to see such wealth concentration. And that was a time of much greater general economic growth.

What's discouraging today is that a lot of long-term trends that haven't declined in a century are headed down. Even population is dropping in much of the developed world. In the US and UK, the new generation is doing worse than its predecessors. That's very unusual without a war.

We have more productive capacity than we know what to do with, and no clue how to organize a society to use it effectively.
These suicides are evidence of the exhaustion of hope. So how do you provide hope again?
I keep a kit on standby in case things get too bad. I desire to die perpetually and am generally cynical about the human meat sack condition.
Notice the number of games considered the best per year. Late 1990s and early 2000s have a bunch. Are people making lesser games nowadays? Or the stakes have increased?
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Let's cheat. Let's say that there's another Earth out there with human beings on it. Let's say they've been producing electrical noise for 200 years like us. Where would planet Earth #2 have to be in order for us to notice it?
Probably a combination of standardized testing, perceived looming economic/environmental/social upheaval, and feedback loops between blind optimization of social media engagement metrics and unwitting narcissism.

I found that social media let me to regularly compare myself with friends, and feel like I was also being evaluated... after explaining why I shut down my accounts, I learned many of my friends felt similarly.

It doesn't help that everyone's social lives are a clixk-away. When someone's feeling down, they can passively scroll through "evidence" supporting those emotions - compared to talking to people, or even imagining their lives (actively thinking).
> everyone else did a quick open and shut

What do you mean by this? Were they polite about it?

That also sucks that your friends have moved away. The past two cities I've moved to, I've found weekly meetup.com groups for one of my interests and I've made some great friends that way. Many of my friends in my last city also moved away. We've been in California for about 4 years now and nobody has moved away yet, although I'm sure it will happen.
They may be poor but overall, they are almost certainly doing much better than the poor in the past.

I believe what OP is referring to is that people think in relatives such that they compare how their life is to others/the past. With no bad wars in most countries recently to compare against horrific times, everyone is comparing themselves to everyone else's life hence making them unhappy despite the good times we actually are having nowadays.
This also somewhat aligns with the many studies showing some of the downsides of social media.
And be careful that you don't break real code trying to fix something obscure that's never likely to be seen in real code.
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It took single celled organism 1 billion years to happen on Earth, it then took another 2 billion years for the first multi-celled animal. The jumps you're describing aren't easy at all.

And there's no such thing as evolution towards intelligence. Evolution does not favor certain traits and at this point the most successful organisms on Earth are bacteria and the most successful multi-cellular animals are the insects.

And actually intelligence requires big brains, which requires energy and thus fuel, so in constrained environments it can be a trait that's detrimental for survival. Even if multi-cellular life developed on other planets, to go from that to fairly intelligent dinosaurs or mammals is still very unlikely.

Obviously, the problem with extrapolating what happened on Earth is that we've got a sample of 1.
The WSJ has higher journalistic integrity? Seems quite the opposite to me. Rupert Murdock owns it, after all.
Sadly I think your grandfather was largely on to something. My Great Grandfather was a WWI Veteran, and my Grandmother (his daughter) would say similar things when I was a kid, referencing him, while my siblings and I would stay with them for the summer - we’d complain about dumb stuff (it was a small town, we were from the city). War shocks people into reordering what’s important, and that typically involves focusing on your family. While it’s true we live in an era of wealth and comfort never seen in human history, it’s terrifying to me that a war is what it would take to get people to enjoy it and be happy.
>I can’t really think of a time where things were really worse than they are now

How about literally all of history?
Disclaimer: coincidentally, I was 5150'ed today per an email I didn't think through clearly very early in the morning I sent to a family member.

Due to the Werther Effect, does discussing this influence the behavior? Isn't it why all discussions of the topic are banned in certain country's news... not for embarrassment or to hide trauma, but to prevent it from becoming a memetic epidemic?
The question is: What could they possibly be using instead of some sort of electromagnetic signals?

There are only a limited number of fundamental forces in the known universe (unless our current understanding of physics is completely wrong), not all of which lend themselves to being used for long-range communication.

Gravity possibly could be used as a means of communication but I suppose it’d be rather slow and have a low bandwidth.

Some sort of quantum entanglement-based form of communication might be possible though that contradicts our current understanding of how information can be transmitted in the universe.

So, barring some fundamental shortcut such as Star Trek subspace, there aren’t too many options for interstellar communication.
That’s not what the article concludes with. The conclusion is that it’s difficult to time stock trades at the right time, and even indexing the US market is vulnerable to bubbles, so one should diversify by investing in European markets as well.
Chrichton wrote the screenplay.
Indeed, the more I think about our current American political climate, the more I think of the American Gilded Age: huge wealth disparities, ineffective and corrupt politicians, larger-than-life industrial titans, and a largely global society.
I looked at your website. Could you explain more about what you're planning to do?
It is probably harder than ever to NOT question your current path and position in life. Even IF you are satisfied with your position and path, the attention economy constantly works to make you question whether the grass is actually greener on the other side.
It looks like a reference design from Intel that they were giving off for free to volume buyers 2 something years ago. There tons of companies other than Chuwi doing the same design, though Chuwi is on the better side on quality
I suppose a lot of them thought it was a sale, or a scam or something similar. Which is understandable.

But yes, it gets sad. Not wanting to buy the cookies is not an excuse to not saying hi casually.
Clarified in my post. We were told "no thanks", "not interested", etc.

I live in a nice neighborhood (single family homes around here are 7 figures), and I could see people wearing work badges showing that they were at the same company as me! The behavior I saw was just surreal.

Shortly before I moved in, my complex held a potluck. No one came!
I think it depends a ton on how the neighborhood is setup.

In both Portland and San Francisco my wife and I make an effort to regularly invite people over for BBQs, and introduce ourselves to new faces we meet on the street.

Don't get me wrong though we had someone close the blinds on us and not answer the door while handing out cookies when we moved in to SF. But, it was a 1/10 experience. Most folks were warm and welcoming.

Moving around a lot as a kid I I have experienced this lack of neighborliness in one out of the four houses I lived in. It was a large planned cookie-cutter suburb where there were no parks reachable by a >10m walk, and no stores reachable by >15m walk. The outcome was that you loaded into the car in the garage and drove to your destination rarely running into people.
Cleaners really are not that expensive. I live in the UK where the cost of living is really high and can still afford to have a cleaner in for a couple of hours a week. I still do the dishes (well, load / empty the dishwasher), clothes and take out the rubbish but at least I don't need to vacuum / dust the house etc.
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Why? Historical pretension.
> Especially if you’re not in the top 80%.

I think you mean top 20%? Top 80% means you're not in the lowest 20%.
> sadly I think it's going to take some lawyers with billion dollar class-action suits to get all this to slow down

That will come in short order.

Uber was lucky that the person they killed was homeless and not a politician's son or daughter.
I’ve never heard this. What is the connection between the Willys Jeep and the Land Cruiser? Superficially they look similar but do they have any actual mechanical or design connections?
Nytimes complains about suicides, but then it also promote policies and politicians that are causing the suicides and destroying our socities.
Some of the policies are: uncontrolled immigration from poor countries bringing crime and causing social distrust. Laws that close the market and give few companies a lot of bargaining power, forcing people to move around like cattle and also making almost impossible to create good economies in towns. Laws that give sociopaths the ability to bring functioning human being in courts for stupid reasons and win, making people not trusting their neighbors. Divorce laws that destroy families. Anti-family propaganda that pushes people to destroy their family at the first difficulties.
These things, and many others, make really difficult to create a well-connected society, and people eventually kill themselves because it's really bad out there where you get a little off the track set by thr State and its puppetters.

So, nytimes should know very well that this is not an existential crisis, it's the result of something they supported for a very long time.
In the US a patent grant confers the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States.

In that way, while there isn't legal approval, there are real world patent rights that create a bar which stops many from interfering with your business processes. In this way, there is a non-offensive and defensive ability to conduct business.

I am the inventor on a number of patents, and this is exactly how patents work out in practice for the specific type of industry and purpose that this thread is about. I am not talking about the law of patents but how patents are used in the actual real world by large companies. That was in reply to what the GP wrote, "It's crazy how the large companies file so many patents for any idea their employees can think of."

In fact, it's not "crazy" that companies do this. What is crazy is the system in which they are forced to do this. Unfortunately lawsuits take a lot of money and time, which I am sure you are familiar with.
This reminded me of an article I read about the "Pythagorean" diet which not only excluded meat but also beans. Can't find the exact citation but summary with https://brooklynbrainery.com/blog/pythagoras-the-superior-ve... content here:
"If the major browser vendors today team up and decide to implement something people find hostile, say strict DRM, there's not much the world can do to stop them. It's just too much code to work through if you make a fork."

It's probably very hard to quantify how lucky we are that Mozilla exists as a non-profit. They aren't perfect, and they don't have the weight to directly oppose Google and Apple even if they had to, but they have a seat at the table, and provide a viable alternative for those that want it.
Now you're just debating additional income. However, say your company lost -$10,000. If you profited $10,000 in stocks -- you technically made $0 in profit, which means you still don't need to pay taxes, even on the profit on stocks.

...and if your business is really killing it, and you're also killing it in the stock market, I am certain you won't have a problem paying a few dollars to the US Gov. It's still better than other investment avenues :-)
Do you think either characterization - eclectic, severe - is actually incorrect?
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This will sound odd but I believe the rise of the independent woman, while a good thing, has some negative unforeseen impacts on society.

I’m so scared to even say that under my normal account because people will take issue with it and try to get me fired from my job.

Some impact is that women are completely able to take care of their self now. They do not need a man and can date who they want or nobody at all (that’s a good thing). This has left women able to pick the top men, studies have shown that they are much more selective than men — and they are in much higher demand than men. This has left a lot of men unable to find love or start a family. Men would get meaning from life having a family, now some men are completely denied the opportunity. Women date up. Men date whatever they can get and women are increasingly more educated and doing better than men. If not for foreign women in the US many many would never have a chance with a woman.

With women entering the workforce, basically doubling it, wages have been impacted, a lot of men struggle (though not us in tech).

This is just something we have to adjust to.
Because parts of the world that share similar cultural heritage and have strong economic ties to each other should under no circumstances be lumped together.
5150 means you're involuntarily committed due to mental illness where I come from--what happened to you today exactly?
Seems we share common visions. We started with this 7 years ago, and built out a whole lot of technology besides this as well. Perhaps we can work together. My contact info is in my profile, reach out if you like...

2017: https://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2017/12/power-to-the-people/

2013: https://qbix.com/blog/2013/04/23/a-new-kind-of-platform/
Bowl plus dog flap would be my approach. But my back garden is safe to leave a dog unattended (high fences and set deep in a quiet residential surrounded by farm land).
Apparently these serious psychologists were busy in 2002 when he was elected president of the APA.
Why not though? Countries that have siestas don't necessarily work shorter hours.
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Start here: https://cabforum.org/baseline-requirements-documents/

Those are the minimum requirements you'll have to meet to get pretty much any browser vendor or OS developer to take you seriously and consider including your cert as trusted by default. Some have further requirements.

Apple: https://www.apple.com/certificateauthority/ca_program.html

Google: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/root-ca-poli...

Microsoft: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc751157.aspx

Mozilla: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/secu...

As noted Let's Encrypt is a fairly well documented example of how this plays out in the real world.

I would of course note though that this is one of those questions where if you have to ask you probably can't do it.
I played around a bit with that, i.e. app class-data sharing and AOT compilation. It turns out Java 9 comes with an enormous regression in launch performance, so that even with app CDS enabled it is slower than Java 8 to start.

Java 10 is slightly better but still slower than Java 8 by default. Enabling app CDS gets you back to comparable performance to Java 8. With AOT enabled (in addition to app CDS) it might be faster, but that just crashes on machine (and only works on Linux anyway).

So don't get your hopes up too much.
I'm thinking of moving my startup from the bay area to a place like Champaign, IL.

Low cost of living, a great engineering town, and a small(er) town feel.

I have no sense of neighborhood in the bay area and stories like this make me want to move even more.
i always think of https://thebaffler.com/ancestors/feminism-for-men (written in 1914 in a socialist publication) when reading something like what you wrote there.

I certainly don't get the date up part though. I'm kind of a loser (monetarily speaking) and only average looking, but it hasn't been that hard to get a date.
Suppose getting a good engineer would contribute $2 million / year profit to a company. That company would offer a higher salary than the going market rate, and thus steal engineers from competing employers (in fact, that's exactly what FB, Google, LinkedIn, etc. do: you can ask them to match or beat the other company's offer). Since regardless of how badly engineers negotiate, they would still be attracted by a higher offer. Then other companies would also offer higher salaries, to avoid missing out in hiring. This cycle won't stop until compensation gets to a good fraction of that $2m/year; say, $500-800k/year or so, leaving room for overhead (office rental, benefits, etc.) and profits. The fact that it doesn't happen tells me that me that most engineers probably aren't worth $2m/year to companies.

I do agree with your last point: engineers are often idealists and/or they have very strong preferences about what they want / don't want to work on. So they may often be willing to give up much better comp in order to satisfy such preferences. That's why startups get away with paying maybe half of what large corporations pay. Still that's not nearly enough to explain the gap between engineer and executive compensation.
What's in the kit?
This is unanswerable of course but what can you do?

I wrote a lot more than this. Erased it. Wrote again. Erased.

I don't know if what you're talking about existed other than a short time in the last century. Really just two or three generations had that kind of life. What was life like before that? What can we do to change it? Is changing it for the better?
Wouldn't call the ensembling of xgboost models + catboost "little effort".
One thing that is true however is that xgboost will usually give better performance without tuning, vs DNNs without any tuning / hyperparameter search.
Nope, never heard of it. My software certainly has to click lots of thing! But it also has to do lots of data processing behind the scenes. So the clickety click is only part of the story :-)
I laughed, but my impression is that due to overpopulation it's incredibly cheap to rent a human for such tasks there. It'd probably take years to spend what the machines cost, and they take space (a premium, see: overpopulation) and require maintenance.
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Define crisis first and is it something society even cares about?

I think people are more secluded now, it’s a world where you google on your phone instead of asking a stranger or have a discussion with friends. The younger generation is getting robbed with students loans for degrees most don’t even need and could just do apprenticeship or internship for a year to prove themselves. A lot of social media exists now showing social status with wealth, traveling and stuff that isn’t important but creates envi. The mental health «professionals» are not great and just drug pushers filling a capitalist needed role for pharmaceutical companies. Society is approaching the bottom of the barrel where nobody cares to confront anything face to face.
This looks very interesting! I work at Prisma and am also the author of the GraphQL vs REST article/video that's linked at the end of the article.

At Prisma, we're currently working on an DB connector for Oracle that'll automatically turn your Oracle DB into a GraphQL API. Feel free to check it out and join the discussion on GitHub: https://github.com/prismagraphql/prisma/issues/1644/
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Atheism is mentioned in the article. Facing the naked truth that there is no god can be brutal indeed. It's not surprising that rational people are clinging to their soothing beliefs.