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> I don't want to deal with Xcode to package apps for macOS, sorry.

Then don't.

> I find it somewhat oppressive to force communication upstream to Apple in order to run applications smoothly on their OS.

Yeah, I know, but that's what packaging and releasing is.

On Debian, you need to contact Debian (or a Debian packager) to make your application easy to install and run on Debian because the Debian expectation is that the user runs apt install myprogram to install it, and navigates to the menu and clicks on myprogram to run it.

On Fedora, same same, but with Fedora (and it's rpm/yum/dnf).

On FreeBSD, same same, but with FreeBSD (and it's ports, etc).

And so on.

About the only operating system where the user-expectation was you don't need to talk to anyone is Microsoft, and building the expectation into users that programs can "come from anywhere" is why we had so much malware and junk on Windows. This wasn't a good thing.

I suggest you just get over this. It's better for macOS users, and it doesn't impact power users at all.

> what fears and hysterias are you talking about?

Look around this thread: It's chock full of fudding about how Apple is taking away their freedoms of some kinds, or there's a slippery slope, or that this somehow isn't 100% better for end-users (the people who buy Apple products).

How is having a lot of people afraid about nothing a good thing?

> If someone can explain to me how this process should work for applications that distribute to, let's say, 10 different operating systems I'd be all ears.

I mean, I'm happy to teach you, but I don't work for free. What do I get out of it?
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I'm pretty sure phone companies in the US are required to provide free text<->speech services (dictation) for people who can't speak and/or hear. They've been popular with prank callers. Not being able to speak the local language isn't germane to a discussion about disabilities.
Politics is how our society has wars. It is vastly less destructive than hot wars but exactly the same as far as being based on what you can get away with rather than what is right or rational.
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Thanks for proving my point so succinctly!

For the record I'm not complaining about "genuine" Chinese people expressing their opinions. As you said, it's important they have a voice, and we should listen.

What I'm pointing out is the increasing number of accounts that are very, very obviously paid or otherwise government controlled to influence opinions on HN (and obviously elsewhere on the internet)
I have made similar set of argument, but against a religion. That an archaic religious dogma is winning over 21st century progressive principles. I got shut and banned for displaying something-phobia.
“User-centric system” is when I listen only to a small indie band whole month, they get all of my $9.99. As opposed to the current state where the chart toppers get 9.98 and my indie favourite gets 0.01. But

> Spotify’s former director of economics thinks it neglected to account for higher administrative costs

I don’t get it. How are admin costs higher if you simply change the formula? To a simpler one IMO.
It rusts cars for one. It could make the soil too salty for growing if runoff accumulates in one place, but usually it will be diluted too much to matter. I don't know if chemicals other than salt are used commonly on roads, that could cause other issues.
That's a totally fair point, I think maybe since 1980's might be more accurate?

In my experience, and this is mostly for Chinese who fled to either Hong Kong or the US at some point in their lives, if they are >40 years old they dislike China and view it as an oppressive regime. That makes sense since they ran away.

If they are <40 years old they're pretty blasé about China and don't really care about the regime or view it as particularly oppressive. In university is where most of these people I met came from.

Does that not gel with your experience?
They didn't actually drive any traffic.

I've often wondered about that. Because when I see Taboola/Outbrain at the bottom of the page, I think to myself, "whoops, took the wrong exit and now I'm in the low-rent district."
It's cumbersome, but I think you can use something like Steripen for that (UV).
I think your code and documentation should empower others to become experts in your place - write simple code, be very consistent, use minimal dependencies, test it thoroughly.
Right. Competition for natural resources alone prevents major shifts in global power already. A Superintelligent AI isn't just competing against a human, it's competing against all the nation-states of the world.
Glorified statistics at this point. It's very far away from any superintelligent AI.
> "the only thing I've been saying from the very start is that the majority of these ADA lawsuits are shakedowns"

Can you source this claim? You didn't provide any data point for that. You've claimed a lot of things that you just know and seem to take offense to that being challenged.

In fact, UC Berkeley case is the only data point I've seen from you here; which feels sparse given the blanket statements you've made about the intentions of various groups of people. You won't even say what product you are selling that you know for a fact that blind people are not interested in at all.

Can you also provide a data point on the UC Berkeley lawsuit being frivolous? What are you basing that on?

> "The point is not that there are literally zero blind people buying paintings, the point is that they are very very far from the target audience and hence it's not worth investing a significant effort to cater to those people."

That depends on how much value you place on following the law.

> "People from Africa are not my target market either and I make zero effort to make sure the site is accessible there. Am I now a racist too?"

Could you please stop inventing arguments to rebut, because it's not really helpful. We're talking about ADA here, not whatever you're making up here.
Anecdote: My friends at Apple and Tesla are very much still building up factories in China.
It went trending a few times (so it appeared at the top of every users' screen). Going trending is often a death knoll for a subreddit but especially one like this, where the whole premise is a delicately constructed inside joke. Reddit is particularly sensitive to this due to its upvote system.

Back in my chan days we were very sensitive about maintaining the exclusivity of our boards. This is the purpose of rule 1 (do not talk about /b/) and refrains like 'lurk moar'. Posters that did not understand the boardculture were shouted out, and memes and lingo were made deliberately abrasive to deter newbies and tourists. Of course, this only lasted so long.
Reducing product performance for your userbase to send a message seems to be a common trend nowadays.
I'm confused - are you trying to say that the Nazis weren't socialist and so can't be compared to China, or that China isn't socialist and so can't be compared to the Nazis?

Or just that we shouldn't use the word "socialism" in conjunction with either, despite that being the name of one of the groups in question?
No 100%, but close.

1- Shield away from dependencies. Use languages that are robust (no JS, no PHP) and if possible, generate native .exes (Delphi, Rust, Go,...).

Langs with large runtime/deps (Java, .NET, Js) are always trouble in the long run. I re-enter with .NET Core and have regretted heavily it (because maintenance, not performance or dev productivity).

ie: If a lang/tool/ecosystem is for large teams (java, .net, c++), is not for zero maintenance.

How easy is to setup and get running something (without resort to auto-installers or docker images) is a high evidence in how good will be for this metric.

2- If possible (mobile) use iOS. Android is not robust at all for long term prospects

I made a enterprise iOS app that is also nearly worry-free. My only job is to upgrade xcode and recompile from time to time.

I enter android late in the game, dreaming that android become more or less good. Not.

3- Important! If possible, split the programas between what could be "zero maintenance" and high maintenance.

I have made one in Delphi that is running 10 years in some places with zero calls after the first 3 years of tweaking.

Is split in 2 parts: The Delphi side have stay solid, and
the "business" side that requiere more changes are in scripts in python that I integrate with the Delphi side.

Even the python side is now near worry free, but I need to do changes here and there.

4- If need JS, pick VERY carefully how use it. JS is the anti-tesis of zero maintenance. The web is hostile in this area. You could lower damage if VERY carefully know what to use.

5- Stay away of stupid "is for scalability" traps. Micro-services, nosql and similar are the best way to destroy productivity. Modular code yet running in a monolithic (or maybe in a REST api + client) will be more than enough by long margins when coupled with postgresql or sqlite. Again, a solid RDBMS is what most need. "Eventual" consistency is a stupid choice most of time.

P.D: I'm solo developer, and have not time or high pay to cover for bad choices, so i try to perform very well in this metric.
So? If lawbreakers can be identified at scale, should that change the situation at all?

Imagine if this were changed to tax fraud. Now we have computers that can automatically find discrepancies and we can notify violators at scale. The horror!
Block the sites, delete the apps
Sure, but so is Mojave. It'll be some years before Apple stops shipping security updates to older releases. Until then app vendors saying "don't upgrade macOS" is no different to Java developers saying "don't run this on Java 11 because it doesn't work yet" and we've seen plenty of that.

In fact, I'm guessing the pain of losing Java 8 will be too much for many organisations after so many years of stability and 9/10/11 breaking so much (current Gradle doesn't even work on Java 13!). Maintaining 8 will be a good business for a long time.
Mostly related to cutting edge technologies & products.

I am not really passionate about "programming" per say, but I do enjoy coming up with unique & useful problems and designing solutions for them. I am not necessarily interested in the coding part.

I am a full time software engineer, but I would rather not be.

Would me talking about products, random new solutions & random new startup ideas get me anywhere? Without actually doing the coding for them?
I guess who/how defines what “significant value” is. For example: for some having it automatically spun up and maintained is significant to them.
Someone whose paycheck comes from AI-alarmism for the most part at this point. Like the experts in the field claiming strong AI was right around the corner in the 70s and 80s at the peak of the symbolic reasoning hype train we have another batch making similar claims as connectionist hype hits its peak but with the added menace of saying that not only is strong AI coming soon but it will eat your children.

Until Dr. Russell provides a path from here to there that is less than 99% hand-waving and breathless speculation he should be ruthlessly mocked.
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> not sure what's hard to grasp about that.

Your tone is slightly rude considering you're essentially agreeing with me.

You'll need to note the entire thread for the context of my discussion. I was specifically saying a good tech lead and other senior engineers can help engineers get unstuck without actually necessitating a standup.

For me, standups are fine if the team actually want to do them and find them useful, but 9 times out of 10 they're enforced by someone non-technical and require the entire team listen to people drone on justifying what they did yesterday.

Personally, I find the assumption that I can't communicate with fellow engineers without such a thing pretty insulting, but do understand that some of us do struggle with this thing, so it's different strokes for different folks.
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Only if powered entirely by non-emitting power sources, which requires you to assume nuclear power creates no pollution. Not much CO2 I'll give you that, but no pollution, not the case.
I think the Russian war on the west is far larger than even this article shows. I think Putin is treating this like a total war and directing massive resources of money and people to destabilize every country around the world he can. Russia had a major hand in supporting dictators in Venezuela and Syria, Putin has murdered indiscriminately around the globe without consequences. He purposely made public examples of some of the people murdered, but I am sure he has the ability to secretly murder people in make it look like heart attacks or something like that. I bet in 50 years we will discover Putin has had thousands of people killed overseas to go with the hundreds of thousands murdered in his own country. I work in PR and every day I see traces of the largest PR campaign I've ever seen. Just look in the comments of any newspaper and you will start to discover this.
Is there much difference between doing that and doing an ultra marathon or whatever?

I suppose the marathon is 'healthier', but it's the same basic drivers, pushed to a somewhat unhealthy degree.
Might just be BSing, but the stock market is technically already a superintelligent agent with the implicit goal of investing funds in profitable ventures. The question is: should we fear the stock market?
While I cant do anything about the money I've already spent,
I've just uninstalled all Blizzard games from my PC.

Blizzard: As a result of this action, you have lost my business. I've been a loyal customer, but this behavior is unacceptable.
The most popular FOSS screen reader by a very, very large margin is NVDA (https://www.nvaccess.org). It is Windows specific, though.
Do you have some examples? It'd be good if we could keep a list and screenshots of this sort of thing, with some research into the usernames.

I hear people on Reddit talk about 'Russian bots' constantly and I've always wanted to see some examples on a site like HN/Reddit.

The above person lists his Github account and AFAIK he's not a paid shill, just a political contrarian or provocateur for political ends. Which IMO is an important difference if we're going to accuse everyone of being bots and "paid shills".

A green name with a single comment being downvoted immediately isn't influencing opinions here, they can't even downvote. But it'd be interesting to measure their frequency as well for a research project.
tl;dr: We applied the principles of root cause analysis to a non-technical process (hiring) and it made things better.

You should still read the article though, it has a lot of eye-opening info about how broken government hiring is.
I for one am a lot more worried about Natural Stupidity than Artificial Stupidity.
Yup. What would Brian Boitano do?
> Not being able to speak the local language isn't germane to a discussion about disabilities.

Why not? A blind tourist in the US shouldn't be able to order some Domino's? What about a blind person who has temporarily lost their voice (e.g. due to laryngitis, or a bad cold)? A sighted person in this situation would not have had a problem, so clearly the "full and equal enjoyment" requirement is not being satisfied here.
Right. We apply some of the best minds and most powerful compute resources in the world to predicting the weather and yet can't get it right within a reasonable degree for much more than a week. For an AI to try predict what humanity will do to stop it will surely look a lot like paranoia.
The real risk is that worrying about fantastical disaster scenarios distracts us from addressing the more immediate problems we already face with AI. Whether it is facial recognition being used by China to aid in ethnic cleansing of a minority group, or Tesla Autopilot regularly killing its passengers.

Even if you don't like my particular examples I can highlight a dozen more problems AI software has created or exacerbated right now. Why all the focus on hypothetical problems?
I don't think the problem is super-intelligent AI that we can't turn off (because they are so intelligent that they block our efforts). There is a more insidious problem that is closer: Merely intelligent AI that we don't want to turn off.

We are becoming more and more reliant on AI in situations that formerly required human judgement. And we like the systems that rely on such AI. We like them so much that these systems become very popular, used by millions and even billions of people. Scalability demands AI solutions. What if we don't like what the AI is doing? Do we turn off that system? Do we disable the AI and rely on human judgement again? (Where would we get all the employees?) Do we tweak the AI? That last option seems like the most palatable one, but each time we tweak the AI, we are subjecting ourselves to new unforeseen consequences. It's like the genie gives us three wishes, we get through them, disappointed each time, and then he gives us more wishes. And all we can do is not repeat our previous mistakes, while we make new ones.

To make this concrete: Imagine Facebook subjected again to Russian influence of US elections. Suppose Facebook actually does get serious about reigning in this influence. They deploy AI to do so. First of all, it's an evolutionary arms race between the AI and the Russian influencers. Second, we really do have to worry about the AI producing bad results.
If it's voluntary, they could voluntarily say nothing instead.
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Any other pros n cons?
> Which, if you take SA's story too seriously, is actually good news: it implies that we've probably already seen just about the worst scissors possible, because society's been trying to produce them all along!

I don't think we did. SA's machine learning based scissor generator is to what you described what engineered bioweapons are to natural evolution. The latter can produce nasty stuff over time, the former is about taking the latter, refining it, and improving on it much faster.
Calcium chloride is also used -- it is more effective per pound and is thus cheaper to transport, plus it works at lower temperatures. And it rusts cars even more aggressively.
Stanford study finds walking improves creativity (2014)
This will only stop a few American perpetrators.

Putin is running a total war against the west using propaganda as a primary weapon. Tens of thousands of people are putting up false websites and comments. They will not stop because of this law.
Okay that explains it. I thought banning for 12 months was a little harsh for someone making a political statement once, but he knew what he was doing and doubled down on it.
Actual story about this with details here:

https://sf.curbed.com/2019/10/7/20903238/pge-fire-blackout-p...
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Having been in many arguments that seem like that[0], I think the answer is actually quite simple: sometimes it's just hard to communicate with other human beings. Communication can only convey understanding with shared context, and sometimes our contexts line up enough to make it seem like we're conveying understanding but each of us is consistently misunderstanding the other. Between the frustration and our tendency towards viewing attacks against our arguments as attacks against our being, you sometimes wind up with the kind of behavior discussed in this story.

The story itself is effective because it constructs a malevolent purpose to explain everyday phenomena we don't normally think too much about. John Dies at the End used Baader-Meinhof to similar effect.

[0]If I'm honest with myself about it, arguing is one of my favorite pastimes.
The problem there is that you effectively force liquidation in order to pay the taxes, even if you wouldn't have sold the asset. Not such a problem for index funds, but a big deal for small business owners who would have to sell a stake in their business as soon as it starts doing well in order to pay the tax on its higher current market value, which includes the net present value of expected future profits that haven't yet been realized and so can't be used to pay the tax today.

Having the government give people de facto interest free loans of their own money in order to continue to investing it is also optimal anyway, because the government borrows at an interest rate significantly lower than the average market rate of return. They actually come out ahead by lending the money to investors who are then collecting taxable interest on it, because the tax on the interest can be more than the rate the government pays to issue bonds in the meantime, not even counting the overall economic benefit of stimulating investment (i.e. more/better jobs for people who are themselves paying taxes).
Belief in a coming "singularity" is just a secular religion. There's no actual science behind it, only wild extrapolation.
I'm pretty sure that without the US, the 20th century would have seen Europe united under either Nazi Germany or the USSR...
In Venezuela both parts claim to be the democratic elected government.

What if the people actually prefer another form of government like monarchy?
Roseanne Barr. Had her ABC show cancelled over a tweet, yet ABC-owned ESPN hired Keith Olbermann. Multiple examples of someone posting vile stuff on a blog or twitter and being unscathed (Joy Reid is one quick example,) but Roseanne gets canceled because she happens to support Trump.

Another example is Shane Gillis — cancelled because of something he said, not any specific action. Getting cancelled for sexually abusing people is one thing, getting cancelled because of “offensive” speech is the real problem. Roseanne and Gillis and Hart got cancelled for words. CK, Franken, Spacey — they were ousted for actions. That isn’t really part of cancel culture. Driving someone out of business because of vile and criminal actions is much different than firing a comedian because of a joke.

If I were a comedian that make vile jokes about Obama and his daughters, I’d be cancelled. If I made vile jokes about Trump and his kids, I’d get a Netflix special.
Of the your two comments thus far, neither is even remotely what one might call a counter-argument. "Nuh-uh!" does not count. There's still time to edit the comment, care to throw me something more substantial to work with?
>You can't use someone's event as a platform to express your political views when their terms forbid it

Their terms are a generic, vague catch all yo allow them to punish you for saying anything they don't like. There's nothing "explicit" about them.

And who cares really? The issue at hand is whether or not we, many of us Blizzard customers, feel that they have exercised their power in a just and defensible manner. Saying "welp they're a business and it's their platform!" is just a cop out. You're skirting the issue at hand and completely ignoring the ramifications of continual kowtowing to oppressive governments in ways which help them to further oppress.

The question isn't whether or not they _can_, it's whether or not they _should_.
I'm not worried about AI taking over. I'm worried about AI solving all our problems. I have reasonable confidence we can implement safety controls on AI. But if AI works, and solves all our problems, it's going to do it in ways we can't comprehend sometimes. And if we can't comprehend the logic behind a decision, but we know it's right, we may find ourselves delegating our decision making to AI without questioning it. Because it "knows best". At which point we will have become pets.