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Yes, I'm aware, was just pointing out the 'in 1989' part has 2 distinct cultural-landmark events for me
IE used ActiveX. Lots of websites back then used ActiveX because IE was "the standard". ActiveX was MS proprietary, so other browsers couldn't use it. This made many websites only usable on Windows.

Do I need to spell this out any more for you?
nice work! I have a similar project https://ligit.dev we took the approach of letting the developer do everything as they usually would except for the license.

How are you guys thinking about Github's new package registry?
>We can only be sure that we are witnessing the best basketball players in the world who are motivated by money, and the fastest runners who are motivated by fame.

I think that's a pretty big stretch.

First of all, not all basketball players/runners are motivated by money/fame. If you are really good at something competitive you want to do it against other people who are also good. So it's highly likely that the best people want to compete against others who are at there level.

Also with all the modern training, dieting and everything modern athletes do, I think it's pretty laughable to think someone can just 'walk up' and be better than them.
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I've run into issues with TypeScript that forced me to cast string literal types to themselves before it would compile. So literally this code:

'x' as 'x'

Nothing else would work, we were simply forced to do that. Avoiding `any` in all cases is simply not possible, as Redux will require you to use it at least once as of the last time I used TypeScript, which wasn't that long ago. Type discoverability for libraries was such a massive hassle that I don't see how other TS devs have gotten around it. Not everyone can use Visual Studio.

I don't find TypeScript's type system to be anywhere close to sound. Instead, it feels like it lies to me a lot. At least it has HKTs now, so that's nice. But I ended up moving to ClojureScript (and a little PureScript) and I've never looked back.
Yes. The older kids help. My wife comes from a family of eight. It's arguable that she's changed more of her siblings diapers than our own two kids (2 and 1.5m). Not only that but house duties are also split among them (dishes, cooking, trash, cleaning, etc.).
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VB6’s IDE doesn’t auto save. Ugh.
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber goes into it tangentially, as part of making a greater point.
>> I still have a habit of pressing CTRL-S intermittently...

I still do it reflexively after every significant change.
I disagree. Most of America is already onboard; it's just being held back from progress by its non democratic systems, a minority that clings to power, and power systems that can spend unbounded amounts of money for short term profits.
Transitioning to barefoot style footwear has changed my life. My feet are stronger. My posture is better. I’ve been slowly retraining my body from a life of sitting and cycling, which has totally thrown my entire body out of whack.

Gotta start with your feet. They need to be able to be feet, not constrained to a tight little shoe.

I can squat heavy weight barefoot now!

Highly recommend the book, it’s a great read. (I don’t enjoy reading, so this is saying a lot)
That's like calling a book a technical limitation compared to a movie.
> I think you're severely underestimating the importance of emotional intelligence.

I don't mean to suggest that social intelligence didn't play an important role in the evolution of real general intelligence as we know it. (I define RGI as a GI that evolved through natural processes and without direct intervention of higher level GI). I wanted to keep an open mind about things though. My goal was to try and reduce factors that relate to intelligence on earth so that I might be able to say something about what factors are in fact a prerequisite to AGI.

Do you like sci-fi? Have you read Pandora's Star? If you like sci-fi, but have not read said book, then I recommend that you consider putting it in your queue. You might find the Primes to be a believable vector to RGI. A vecto that I believe challenges human bias about GI and what it takes to reach past a class I civilization.

Love the discussion, thank you for your thoughts.
I think the big difference is the thought of doing all of that with one single bomber, nearly instantly.
I have two kids, my wife and I never sacrificed our physical health. When our first was born I was an air traffic controller, and when my second was born I transitioned into being a data scientist.

During the first 4 years of fatherhood, I did triatholons and ran ultra-marathons - primairly ultras as the crowd was far more relaxed. After our second was born I decided to take up powerlifting, worked up to a 1405 total.

I've recently decided to go back to endurance events as being 230lbs of raw strength isn't conducive to life, plus our grocery bill is higher due to that. So I'm swimming and dropping weight; running at 230 (now 210) was terrible and humbling all at once.

My wife did half-marathons and now does cross-fit.

During these different 'eras' we exposed our children to our activities and they partook when interested, they are highly interested in riding their bikes and run as they please. Though they prefer volleyball and gymnastics at the moment.

They only negative, is they can't sit for school, as school only offers one recess during the day.
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In the few recent fighting games I can think of, Tekken 7 and Mortal Kombat 11, even with relatively light use of physics based fabrics I still see a lot of wonky movement/fabric clipping and getting stuck inside bodies. I definitely don’t think we’re quite there yet.
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It would be a start if users could select in the browser if they want to receive personalized content/advertising, be tracked or whatever. All those new GDPR induced layers definitely make the web a whole step worse (and I don't blame the GDPR for that).

Every time I see a website having 'essential' and 'functional' cookies I start freaking out because, in my opinion, those websites are just lying. In most cases, their 'functional' cookies are either marketing or tracking cookies, but never relevant for the core functionality of their website.

And there are still too many websites out there which either try to make you click the 'Accept all' button or simply don't understand that the law requires an opt-in and not opt-out.

Pushing the UI for the cookie-use-case selection into the browser would at least end this UI layer hell. But I am sure, some browser vendor will mess up the party and go some extra way, similar to what we had with the DNT header... Maybe we just need another law like 'Do Not Track means Do Not Track!'.
I don't particularly like URL-derived package names, esp. with Go where the repo URL is auto-derived from the package name, because that makes it an absolute pita to move the repo to a new canonical location.
I told her within 30 minutes of meeting her that I was leaving in a few days and there was no possibility at all of a long term relationship. She said she hadn't gotten laid in months and stripped off her clothes as soon as we got back to the hotel, so I think she was just kind of desperate to have sex with any acceptably attractive guy.

She was also over 40, if that makes any difference and the gender ratios are even more massively skewed for older women in Eastern Europe. This kind of thing will never happen in the tech heavy areas most HN readers inhabit where there are vastly more men than women.
The only difference between this administration and the prior ones is less phony talk that masked the same agendas that existed for decades.

Not to mention how this is a hyper US centric view of things. EU, Canada, Australia, and various other countries have tried pressuring China and it's a huge global bureaucratic system. The tweets coming out of the executive branch of the US doesn't have much effect on the giant multi national diplomatic machines like the World Bank and UN. People love exaggerating his actual power.

Everyone paying attention has known the west does the human rights and democracy dog and pony show every big political event while the reality of actually changing another countries politics and governance is extremely challenging and almost always comes from within or as a result of their wealth being directly tied to acting morally or in the interest of their western partners.

It rarely happens due to diplomatic pressure or boxing them out of trade deals and giving out loans.

I personally don't see how it helps to say one thing while nothing really changes and looking the other way when cameras are off. Honesty would go farther and these countries aren't dumb, they see through it all too. So what difference does it make?

That said, of course being civil and calculated is more valuable than being brash and blundering through diplomacy, but that doesn't mean they have to all be full of shit just to be "nice". You can still be honest and strong and not come off like an asshole while giving the media a perpetual panic attack, because they take every word literally as if they were all well thought out, completely serious, and have multiple hidden dog whistling layers, when it was just some throw away half joking tweet made at 3am because he likes to pump himself and America up. Most people can tell the difference, plenty pretend not to on purpose, but either way it doesn't help the process and gives fuel to the spin masters.
> What do you get out of it? Life long companionship, for one thing.

Not necessarily. I know many people who have quite strained relationships with their parents/children. I have relatives who had children based on the mindset of "who will take care of me when I'm old?", only for their kids to mistreat and abandon them in their old age.
Right. Turing automated a part of the operation of his own mind, computers have always been AI.

But it seems (to me) that logic doesn't capture all of what we call intelligence, and that the effort to recapitulate the human mind solely on the basis of discrete logic machines is almost certainly going to fail. But I think that failure will be valuable, and that we should not avoid the attempt to make a sculpture of the mind.

Babbage had an automaton, the Silver Lady, that could imitate the dancing of a ballerina. We might be able to make "Silver Minds" that imitate the outward manifestations of the human personality, and so learn more about the nature and essence of thinking, as the Silver Lady must have of dancing. Certainly the craftsman who made her must have known a thing or two about ballet and physiology?
Termination without notice or payment is definitely considered bad form, short of the company closing due to bankruptcy.

I have never worked anywhere that did not provide notice or some severance. Even at a startup that cut 50% prior to going down in flames, they paid those half that were released two weeks pay and two weeks insurance coverage. (even though they were asked to leave immediately)

Large corporations tend to offer minimums plus based on years of service at termination.

Even termination with cause (performance, not legal) will generally be after a half year of 'remediation' training, then plenty of notice to find a new job.
"The news is bad. That’s not negativity or pessimism; that’s a cold, hard reading of the situation, much like an honest cancer diagnosis from a doctor." This is how I feel. Sometimes I am down about and feel like all could be for naught, that existence is pointless if we do not sustain the planet.
Before there were AOL CDs, there were AOL Floppy disks. There were gold to me. I had no money to buy floppies and I had stuff that I wanted to, uh, save. I think I still have an AOL Floppy in the original shrink-wrap somewhere.
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I also get json. Chrome on Android
> Your MP

#NotMyMP. I just happen to live here.
A lot of it is mental. There's been studies that shown that if you simply giving someone under exertion something sweet tasting (but with no calories), it will still boost their performance. That study was done on pro level cyclists.

I think you do have to replenish eventually. Around mile 20 for me but I think it depends a lot on your pace, how you've trained, and overall distance.

Gels and chews are very compact so it's easy to carry on long runs.
>Early capitalist servitude did itself evolve directly from feudal servitude, but it got much worse, in economic terms, in the process.

No it didn't. This Roussaunian idealization of rural subsistence living must really die. People aren't idiots, you don't move to urban factory work (as bad as it was compared to modern day) unless rural life was much worse.
I think it's very hard to

"pretty pleasant" - I'm glad that your educational experience was that way, but for a lot of people education is a form of work. In fact, I would bet most students would prefer work to education - and indeed many vote with their feet and drop out of education.

Heck, even on HN there are many of us who hated "education" - it wasn't pleasant at all.

As for retirement, well that's an unfair comparison, life expectancy at middle age was a lot lower in pre-industrial times, mostly as a result of poor public health knowledge and practice. Furthermore, there was de facto retirement as families and communities took care of elders - but who knows how that related to retirement today. The author of this book probably doesn't know and you certainly don't know.

The Cleveland Fed's Economic Commentary is absolutely positively not pertinent. It is comparing the 1950s to the 1980s, not pre-industrial labor to industrial labor. Did you just google "myth of XYZ" and copy and paste the first result without reading it?

And by the way, even on its own merits that Economic Commentary is pretty suspect. It doesn't look like it takes into consideration commute times, time spent shopping, time spent on administrative overheard like paying bills figuring out insurance payments and the whole host of bureaucratic non-sense that a market economy requires customers to engage - all of that is work, it's not leisure and it needs to be accounted for.
I second the recommendation for The Making of the Atomic Bomb. That books more or less defined the category of "narrative history" for me. So much better than any other history I had ever read at the time.
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Can you show evidence that a majority is onboard? People are still using petroleum like it’s going out of style, and no one wants a carbon tax.
Yup, that's the current model! But Scarf can support much more flexibility, so ultimately the developer will have a variety of options. A package could be fully free, and payment through Scarf would be more of a donation. It even could be fully paid, and a user would have to purchase the ability to install or use the package at all. Leveraging metric collection to ask for payments like this seemed like a good thing to start with, so certainly curious for any feedback there.
I’m no artist but making games seems fun so I’ve been dabbling. I make vector art, and write scripts to make raster animations at low resolution. This isn’t terribly different than how some of the more beloved 16 bit styles were made. I just haven’t moved into 3D modeling (and I’m also a bad artist).

Not everything has to be intricately hand drawn to look good, and even elicit nostalgia.
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History is more than a century long, but a modern state by military standards has been a thing since around the time of the civil war when rifles replaced muskets and industrialization became a thing. That's the point where unlike in the Napoleonic era, you can't win decisive victory on the battlefield, things depend on political will, manpower and economic function.

Using your example of the British Empire, India didn't win independence through combat, civil disobedience made it politically untenable for the British to continue. That had far-ranging effects on what was left of the colonies.

One of the arguments core to an advocate of the 2nd amendment with respect to this issue is that a citizen militia, equipped with small arms, would be capable of deterring a government from taking some action. It's an increasingly absurd position.
High output management. Andy grove.
Not a page turner as the mainstream airport management books but useful, unlike those fluffy pastries.
Read the 10th amendment.
So from a developer point of view the more popular your package is financially the less insight into its use you get?

And a user point of view is that my usage data is now a bargaining chip to be used by an intermediary between me and a developer I think made a decent stab at a library I need.

I'm sorry I'm really failing to see any benefit for anyone in the deal apart from the middle man who will invariabley scrape all the usage stats and sell it
...if he were a different person, perhaps.
How do you deal with languages other than English? I guess one might generate a very unlikely url and then take that response as 'not found'. Still wouldnt work sometimes.
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Correct - it was more of the legal issue. The cool thing is that these cameras have FPGA's in them, is that they can support new codecs without and changes to the hardware.
>Primarily, because we have no idea what intelligence is, or how it works, why it exists even, etc etc.

I believe so many of us limit ourselves by even thinking that intelligence happens in the brain. By the title of this article I thought it might go into the vagus nerve, etc. There is so much "intelligence," processing, communication etc that happens away from the brain and independent of the brain in our bodies.

We have to remember many animals (which we evolved from and retain vestiges of) don't have "centralized" intelligence and yet are capable of great things. We also have to remember that the trillions of cells we are made of each have their own nucleus as well.
>That’s either dismissing or handwaving a lot.

Yes it is, but see my comments above. Thank you for your thoughts.
Do you have any idea how absolutely crazy these numbers sound over here in Europe?
Nothing reinforces the feeling of disenfranchisement than having no direct impact on how the most powerful single government is elected.

The Electoral College is fundamentally undemocratic and the lack of democracy de-legitimizes the office.
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Do you know why work is so much more productive? Because so much is automated away, and relies on machines. Each and every worker works using lots of machines. Of course, the more machines you can make work the more productivity you have.

When a large part of your work can't be delegated to machines, for instance nursing a baby, talking to people face to face, etc (mostly "human relations" things) then your productivity can't augment as much. This is also why "human work" earns less than "things work".

Do you know what machines use to work? Energy. In the end, energy availability is the ultimate constraint. Good old thermodynamics. Why can't anything grow forever (and surely not GDP)? because of available energy, and thermodynamics.
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Especially weightlifting.

It boils down to this, any workout you do, you really have to do it properly. As well as, like you said, in moderation. Any reputable physical trainer or therapist will tell you that recovery days are critical. (And if a physical trainer tells you that you can do all this weightlifting or distance running without recovery days, then that's your clue that they are probably not reputable.)
Sorry, but that's really on the nose racism.

If the developed world (that's us) fixes the way they consume and becomes sustainable, then it doesn't matter how much people consume sustainably because it'll be...you know, sustainable.
Lower extremity alignment and risk of overuse injuries in runners, Wen 1997 found a significantly decreased risk of injury with less mileage on pavement. There's no ability to see the temporal relationship here, though-- people with higher reported injuries reported running more on pavement, but causation could even be in the opposite direction.

Predicting lower-extremity injuries among habitual runners, Macera 1989 found an increased risk of severe injury running on concrete... for female runners only.

There's a few more studies "for" and a few studies "against", so I'd say the evidence is decidedly mixed. But there's at least some cause to believe that hard surfaces could be worse.

As far as minor complaints, though, who knows. I strongly believe that I feel worse after running (with athletic shoes) on concrete than softer surfaces like dirt path, etc.

Another thing which could be related: there's strong evidence that terrain can be too flat/uniform and resultant repetitive stress effects screw people up. A degenerate case of this is treadmill running.
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Art is not functional. All things you listed are things no one is bringing back. If linen became obsolete hundreds of years ago why do people still wear it?
FYI you can use 'x' as const nowadays.
I agree it's "bad", but it's also clearly "retro". It's just not consistent, good retro. But making the decision of going with lo res, pixelated art is probably the right thing if you're not willing to take the risk of spending more on it. The inconsistencies are likely to be less obvious within those constraints than without them.
I do find it rather strange that strongly typed code with no errors, that builds correctly, can fail at runtime due to type errors. My JS oftentimes ends up nicer than my TS because I don't have pages of, basically, type-level administrative work.

I don't have this experience at all in other strongly typed languages, including very strong ones like Haskell/PureScript. The types there just work for me.
The problems were created because incentives aligned for people to make decisions that lead to the problem. The only way to revert it is to change the incentives. And that can't be done by just me or you.
Discussion of pay (and other workplace issues) is a "protected concerted activity" under the National Labor Relations Act, even when it happens outside the context of a union: https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/rights/employee-right...

The NLRB has taken action against companies that have attempted to use such handbook policies against workers: https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/enforcement-activity/... (click the pin on Missouri, it isn't direct-linkable :()
Yes! It was easy to get to 5 minutes because I have 3 kids. Here's my five minute story:

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Once there was a boy.

A very young boy.

He never really had a family.

Or even a hope.

Once he met a rabbit in the woods. But this wasn't just any rabbit. This rabbit had a hope. He had a family. He had the things the boy lacked.

This struck the boy as strange.

Why should this rabbit have the things that he so longed for?

Why should there be boys in the world like himself that lacked family? Lacked hope?

The rabbit found the boy strange as well. He decided, without any particular thought, to bring the boy home to his warren.

The day was cool. It was fall and the leaves had just begun to depart their branches. The boy strolled idly behind the rabbit, not quite wanting to follow, not quite wanting to lose the rabbit in the ins and outs of bush and trunk.

They arrived presently at the base of a very large tree. The boy stopped, several feet shy of the tangle of roots. The rabbit looked up at him and gave him a slight nod, as if sensing the tension in the boy's shoulders, his reticence, his disbelief.

The rabbit gestured to the roots. Through the tangle, the boy detected a slit of light emerging and caught the whiff of something nice. Was that tea?