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I am fascinated to see that 3 hours, 109 upvotes and 107 comments into this story, the word "regulation" occurs only once in the comment thread.

I own, jointly with others, a 3 mile long road.

If there could be only two things that I impressed upon someone, in relation to this road, they would be the following:

1) You have no idea how costly maintaining a road (any road) is. I didn't. I had no idea. Whatever libertarian fantasies you may harbor about private people coming together to create and maintain anything like first world infrastructure, I am sorry to dash them: we have a group of 20 or so rich, well-educated, smart and hard-working people and it's right at the edge of our capabilities to keep this 3 mile long road in semi-acceptable condition.

2) The difference between doing a safe, reasonable, environmentally responsible and long term fix and doing that very same fix but 100% by the book is a cost difference of 3x to 4x. There are minor drainage fixes we've looked into that required, no shit, the army corps of engineers to be consulted along with several other county and state regulatory and environmental agencies. After paying a third party firm to create an environmental impact report. Do you understand that I am talking about fixing a ditch ? The army corps of engineers.

I did not, above, refer to "excessive regulation" because I am not ready nor willing to define that and I don't want to take a political stand on it - I am merely pointing out that the first thought you should be having on this issue is: regulations.
I remember after the first big design overhaul it got significantly slower. I think we all just got used to the slowness since then. And some of us got faster computers and stopped noticing as much.
Code bloat is such a strange phenomenon, the way it almost inevitably grows over time. I’ve recently been noticing this with the Android emulator.

I created two emulator instances, API levels 21 and 28 (Android 5 and 9 respectively), identical emulated hardware. The API 21 VM is much faster than the 28 VM. It’s perfectly usable on my Mac where the newer OS is unbearably sluggish.

Why is that? With every Android release, there’s a song and dance about the work being done to reduce yank (“Project Butter” etc), so why does it keep getting slower?

Google have lots of amazing engineers, the world’s best datacenters and a vast pile of cash, so if they can’t win the fight against bloat, what chance do the rest of us have?
Is saying 'Anonymous account X is operated by non-anonymous account Y' doxxing?
People wanted a Model S for a third of the price
I think I prefer to live in a society in which these sorts of fake calls are intentionally and randomly made - without notice or authorization of any sort - in order to continually test and verify that emergency services are functioning properly (in this case, not killing anyone based on an anonymous tip).

Making a 911 call is an anonymous venture; there's no deposition or oath or penalty of perjury here. A civilized society is one in which calls made to such an endpoint (whether by a human or bot or whomever) are treated accordingly.

Police need to stop killing people. Stop violating people's rights. SWAT teams have not made society better and are easily deprecated. That's the real message here.
Why would I need a Go Interpreter? What advantage does it provide over using a precompiled binary?
I followed these guys pretty closely back then and this is close to my recollection as well.

One addition I had to check on, which confused me at the tilt was how Balaji was so closely involved in 21 yet also a partner at Andreesen Horowitz, which I had read about their daily and weekly routine and was clearly a full time job.

Balaji went from founder to "advisor" of 21 pretty quickly, becoming a partner of a16z in the interim. After things went to shit at 21 he went back as full time CEO. Reasons for how that went down are speculative.
The results are not though. The exit is real but wow is it questionable. Conflicts of interest seemingly all over the place. I don't know who else is on Coinbase's cap table but I'd love to hear their takes on the acquisition.

You can read Balaji's congratulatory take in his own words on what he did here. [0]

I also recall Balaji positioning himself for a position in the Trump administration which saw him scrub his entire twitter history. If anyone recalls more details from that episode feel free to add them.

[0] https://medium.com/@balajis/the-turnaround-2d145589d814
I can answer a little bit of the question. Why do rotten eggs smell like rotten eggs and not roses? The answer is: it's actually arbitrary.

In my 20s I broke my leg fairly badly. It damaged the nerve, but luckily left the sheath of the nerve undamaged. The end result was that half my foot was paralysed. What I never realised is that if the nerve sheath is undamaged, the nerve will regrow! So slowly over time I started to get feeling back in my foot. I don't know exactly what goes on, but I'd get this sharp shooting pain, like a needle in my foot and slowly after each time, I'd regain a little bit of feeling (I don't know... is that just the nerve endings "reattaching"???)

Eventually, I got pretty much all the feeling back... except it wasn't mapped properly. The space between my toes felt like the sole of my foot and various other strangeness. Slowly I got used to it. A few years later, my brain had completely translated everything and the space between my toes felt like the space between my toes. Even though I know it's mapped differently I can't consciously distinguish between the feelings I have now and the feelings before I broke my leg.

So a rose smells like a rose because the receptors that are activated when you smell a rose are different from the receptors that are activated when you smell a rotten egg. It's just like the nerve endings between my toes are different than the nerve endings on the sole of my foot. But it's just input for your brain, nothing more. Of course we have an aversion to the smell of rotten eggs, but that's just hard wired -- more input for the brain. There are lots of people who have aversion to smells that other people like.

In terms of "consciousness", I think it's likely an illusion of sorts. We experience a kind of continuum of consciousness. In reality, though, there is only an instant. Our awareness is an artefact of our memory.

Behaviour couldn't exist without a feedback loop. For those of us who are programmers, this is pretty obvious. In order to have a state machine, the new output needs to not only look at new input, but also its current state. Every instant we exist we are processing new input and also our current state (which seems to prioritise recent inputs). We exist instantaneously, but because we are processing previous data along with new data, it creates an illusion of having existed over a continuum. Additionally, the only reason we have an ego is simply because our data networks are isolated. If I could access the data of another brain in the same way I can access data in my own brain, there would be no way to distinguish between the "two of us". There would be no way to distinguish between "my thoughts" and "somebody else's thoughts". "I" would not exist... or rather "I" would be the "two of us". It's just an artificial distinction based on a lack of ability to access the data.

Or at least that's the way I look at it. There is no way to know for sure. It might just be the FSM manipulating me like a puppet.
How about a phone system that does not allow random people to spoof numbers with little to no effort. That would be a nice start. Would also curb all those friggin spam calls I get from random numbers.
This is correct. You can apply your highly-valued skills to something you don't find as interesting and make a lot of money, or you can apply them to something you're passionate about and make less money.
It's amusing to watch the score on this comment go up and down without any new comments. The similarity between gun control and crypto control is plainly strong. If you like wide availability of strong crypto but not personal ownership of firearms, consider investing some energy into figuring out why (fear of the unfamiliar, fear of others, low testosterone, strong fascist or communist leanings, desire to disenfranchise minorities, etc). I am open for questions or remarks and here to help.
The heart of the problem is that neo-nazi's are secretly compiling lists of opponents they wish to harm.
I believe you were downvoted because your comment was both grammatically incorrect ("I know some people who are a similar list") and didn't provide any source/substance. Additionally, talking about downvoting is a quick way to get downvoted.
Right wing extremists have killed more people in the last ten years than any other political group.
People are working on a solution, but unfortunately it's a tough challenge due to bad choices made decades ago.
So do you assume that any sufficiently complex process is conscious?
The Egg of the Phoenix: a computational time capsule
Except that they can float the actual fee to avoid having to pay more than that because they have additional market flexibility and more information than anyone else, yes.
I'm not an authentication system programmer, so this may be a silly question, but why do clients still send passwords to a server? Doesn't it make more sense to hash the username and password together with some sort of nonce/salt that's sent to the server for validation?
Its under-performance over 2 and 5 years explains why it's been such a great short. Investors like Chanos have a basket of shorts so any one stock ripping up would hurt but wouldn't kill them. And the shorts ultimately let them be even more net-long the market.
I'm sorry, but you're confusing two different concepts. In one instance, Brian Krebs uses public, open sources to discover the true names behind pseudonymous Twitter users; in another, people post home addresses and phone numbers.

I'm not asking why it would violate a norm to post home addresses or phone numbers; it's clear to me why that's problematic.

I'm asking what obligation Krebs has to pretend he doesn't know who a Twitter user is, when that information is available to anyone who knows how to consult public sources to find it. Why is Krebs obligated to help someone remain pseudonymous? It seems clear to me that he is not.
It is ultimately still the cops' judgement to kick down doors and shoot at anything that moves. The swatter just provides low-credibility information that sets them into motion.
These sensationalist “Climate Emergency” articles and protests actually undermine the core arguments for climate change action. It’s obvious no matter how much political will we will be unable to make a 45% cut in 18 months.

In the end these deadlines will come to nothing as technology advances and we develop novel solutions like a space based sun shield (launched by SpaceX starhopper?), seeding oceans to grow carbon absorbing algae, nuclear fusion, and new energy storage solutions. Just like “peak oil” and “global food shortages” predicted decades ago.

Also never mind we have an excellent solution to carbon emissions in nuclear power but the same green left protesters oppose it too.
Sounds like they're running their autopilot software on some (all?) of the cars in the wild, where they can compare what the autopilot would do with the actions taken by the human driving the car, and use this to analyze/refine their model/system.

In casual talks with friends, this is something I've expected would be the competitive edge Tesla has over Waymo and the others; driving millions of "virtual miles" strikes me as far less useful than having a human baseline to compare to along with data capture from a fleet in all manner of real situations/locations.
To play devils advocate a little - If I'm a 911 operator and the person calling says "They have gun next door - there's shouting, I'm really scared WHAT DO I DO?!" What do we do? Turn them down? Ask for proof? From the police perspective - they're entering a potentially dangerous environment, which means gun drawn until the environment is cleared.

To your point though - the fact that the swatting has resulted in innocent deaths is evidence that law enforcement is too aggressive.
Within the structure of that argument, how is consciousness different from a pink elephant? I use a physical mouth to talk about a pink elephant; does the pink elephant therefore have classical physical effects that can be measured?
Food delivery isn't creating a "vast digital underclass."

Companies like GrubHub pay their delivery drivers the way you'd expect them to be paid and local pizza places and chinese restaurants have been profitably doing food delivery for decades.

There are certainly good examples of technology disrupting the current labor market in ways that take advantage of people, but DoorDash being shitty isn't really one of them.
Not by Twitter's definition.
The market's been really good for software engineers in the past 10 years. It's absolutely none of my business, and I don't want to be rude. But I hope you go out and make hay my friend. You could easily be making twice that, even in low CoL states.
Couldn't people still tip if they thought the service was truly exceptional?
We should accept it in cases where the employees are easily able to leave (e.g. software developers). For people who have less mobility (e.g. minimum-wage factory workers), we have more of a responsibility as a society to ensure that they're protected. But if you choose to work in an environment that sucks even though you have the ability to leave, why should anyone worry about you suffering because of your own choice to stay?
Philosophers of mind still insist on metaphysical descriptions of consciousness Eventhough there is so much progress in neuroscience that makes it hard to take it seriously anymore. Afaik, most young neuroscientists abstain from these endlessly-goal-shifting discussions. Its a pity too because with recent progress in deep learning there couldnt be a more exciting time to do mind philosophy

(You should have realized that HN has been infiltrated a long time ago)
What can the average person do to help? The scale of the problem sometimes seems so large that it's impossible to imagine how one person riding a bike or purchasing "green" energy from PG&E can really have an impact.

How can one person have a bigger impact on such a global-scale issue?
In case you want a pointer to thorough, well-written material on real things, you can look for the State of California 2017 Climate Plans.. e.g.

http://resources.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DRAFT-Saf...
Yes, but that doesn't have a sensible fallback for clients that don't support html or markdown. format=flowed does have a sensible fallback.
Exposing the real names of anonymous/pseudoanonymous people, regardless of whether it's hard to find out (given that many people suck at opsec), is probably the most common scenario people refer to when using the word "doxing".

"researching and broadcasting private or identifying information (especially personally identifying information) about an individual or organization"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing
Logs or audit trace is the first thing I thought of as well. Have seen that happen multiple times. And yeah, logs are stored somewhere so the headline still makes sense (logs are "stored" on disk). Not that it makes it a good thing, but it's a bit of a different story than what is implied.
I've also heard that it could be that everything that exists, is "potentially conscious", such that if it is connected in such a way where it can experience and actuate, it can become aware of it's own essence, and that consciousness is just the first person experience of the universe itself. That idea is interesting but it doesn't quite solve anything, since the harder problem is figuring out exactly how the brain awakens it.
Hyperbole like this is not helpful. The planet will be fine in 19 months and everyone will just crank the "boy who cried wolf" factor up a couple of notches. Also, this is a statement by Prince Charles of all people, might as well have Taylor Swift chime in while we're at it.

This who discussion needs to be reframed. "The planet" is not ending. Humanity is not ending. We will survive. The ability to do so will rely on innovation as it always has. The media stoking the fires of fear with pure clickbait isn't helping the situation at all.
China, especially a few decades ago, was so poor that eminent domain was a complete non-issue. Combined with a fairly authoritarian government system, building a train line faced basically no resistance.

In the US, it's almost the opposite. The places where public transit is most needed are the most highly valuable, densely populated areas, where eminent domain is a nightmare. In the US, all of our highly populated areas are already urban. In the past, that was certainly not the case in China, and to an extent, still so today.
Me, my relatives and some people I know were scared during the first weeks of the invasion, as we feared Russia will steamroll through Ukraine and we'll suddenly find ourselves facing tanks on the eastern border. Over time, we realized that the Russians aren't even trying to advance too far past Crimea, so as the whole thing fell off the media cycle, we all slowly forgot about it over the years.
Oh man, while I agree with you, I don't see your arguments landing well with this crowd
I can also attest to LastPass once "losing" a password. My memory of the event is hazy, but it went something like:

1) Logged into website with LastPass
2) Had to enter a second piece of identifying info (like a PIN).
3) Once entered, LastPass thought the PIN was a new password and prompted me, "Would you like to update the login to [url] with the new password?"
4) I clicked "No".
5) Some kind of network hiccup or communication failure happened, the pop-up kinda hung there for a bit.
6) I opened the vault and checked the password for that site. LP had apparently not honored my request and replaced the password and, more disturbingly, the password history was missing.

Luckily I had my phone on me, and evidently it hadn't synced with LP's servers in the last few minutes, so I was able to pull out the old version of the password from the cached version of the fault and manually re-enter it on my computer to get the password fixed.

I've never been able to reproduce the issue after that (although I'm not keen to try). But it did happen.

LP also used to be pretty terrible at automatically saving passwords you entered into a form, even if you explicitly used the random password that LP generated. You really had to copy+paste it into notepad just as a backup until you could successfully confirm that it made it to the vault.
Shipping the kernel headers is complicated, but somehow a whole C compiler is not? Or doesnt BPF compilation need a C compiler?
You can still buy a 10$ sim card and use a burner phone. Potentially a free VOIP app would work too.

It's not super scalable (that's why numbers are spoofed instead) but for a couple calls it'd be no problem.
It's 18 months because of upcoming UN meetings. Which means nothing, so it's making an alarmist headline to tie to a story, which has no bearing on the reality. The UN can't keep humans from slaughtering each other, so what chance at "Saving the planet", for whatever that means?
Apple should really rethink their extension strategy. Other platforms require a click of a button. Safari requires either going through the App Store, or doing Dev Mode shenanigans.
I would assume, perhaps in error, that when such a system is created that it could be fed enough rules about what not to do that such oversights would not happen. The typical error is 'programmer debugging something will serialize a struct to a log file without realizing that there are critical fields in the struct'.
This "humans are the bugs" thing is indicative of the disconnect between reality and the pre-programmed car proponents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20462051
I've responded to their email address about what would come next - in short I think they should publish high level requirements and principles that should be met by each platform. Rather than trying to create everything first party, they should allow a mechanism for taking on board permissively licensed assets (or pull requests to their requirements and principles) as effectively donations.

The NHS has a lot of good will in the UK and they would be an ideal, if not THE ideal, co-ordinators of an open source health programme. Creating a unified look and feel for web services would be a good proof of concept, but I believe this could be extended to other libraries, components or even full systems/solutions in time.
What's the big deal with no response? it just means no or that things fell between the cracks. Companies get hundreds or sometimes thousands of applications, just assume that the default is no unless they contact you with a yes. It is like in dating app, girls are getting much more yeses from men than vice versa, they can't give attention to any guy saying hi, even to refuse politely, so they just ignore it.
I didn't really mean "Russian propaganda machine" as nobody use it as bona fide media. I mean all over the world, in Fox, Guardian, Figaro or NYT, and all non state-owned Russian media, opinion pieces are not worth opening for some time. And it gets worse, since while the quality of reporting is worlds apart, the essence of it is converging. E.g. it's amazing to what extent (imho) all this media are over-reporting Trump, Putin or Brexit anti-heroes. It's hard to imagine, that any real person, with a life and a job, can be so invested in those people.
I used notational velocity for many years. It was great because of its brutal focus on note taking / finding and it was fast indeed. 10/10 this message needs to be spread!
The US has a developing extremist problem, period. Having two sides with radicals willing to continuously ramp up the levels of violence, outrage, and intimidation is a recipe for bad things to happen. Another example, more recent than the period between world wars:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_(Italy)

In The Power of Nightmares, Adam Curtis talks about how opposing sides exploit the mutual vicious cycle of outrage. The common interest between extreme groups who otherwise demonize and hate each other, is that they both benefit from the cycle of outrage and the breakdown of society. Both fringes want to let things break down and roll the dice, for the chance they might come out on top.
Facebook has the same problem the Republican party has. Their users/supporters are all dying and less and less people are signing up. However they are still a force to reckon with and generate a lot of cash.
> people who identified as non-turks were severely penalized in the past,

The word you are looking for is murdered.
Anonymous phone calls have positive uses too, it would be nice to not install more surveillance infrastructure and have less trigger-happy police instead. In other countries cops ring the door and ask if everything is ok after they have received a call.
I may be wrong on this, as I've only worked on one software team, not at Google, but at least on my team I notice the intense pressure to deliver new features, as well as new product managers who are evaluated on their ability to work with developers to ship fast, results in performance becoming a second class citizen without a very senior very technical owner who ruthlessly shuts down features and projects to protect these properties.

In short, I feel it's more an org problem.
The Origin of ‘Hobbit’
This does happen in the US where it's cost effective. The Tappan Zee Bridge was replaced by a new bridge built completely from scratch in parallel, then the old bridge decommissioned.
Drive by, see if there's any other evidence of any of this, leave if there isn't - because an unverified phone call alone really shouldn't count as probable cause?
Foobar2000 is the bee's knees
I didn't see any while reading through the blog post...
Ivy, an APL-like calculator (by Rob Pike)