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Sorry if you thought I thought you were implying pressure. Not at all.

I thought your comment was helpful and supportive.

I just wanted to clarify, for readers, that expecting anything at any stage from a maintainer can be expecting too much sometimes. It is time and work for them after all, and usually it's in their limited personal time, for free.

Sometimes, they have already exhausted all the time they could put into the project; even a brief "thanks" email is too much when you have too many for whatever available time and energy you have. People don't always realise that, when they say "the maintainer should just [...]". A lot of people wanting [...] adds up.
Hey thank you for your sincere reply. Felt touched. We use DO (not in a big way though). But it always has worked for us.

Just curious, why DO needs an outsider as ceo rather than somebody from founding team?
There are similar thought experiments around complex objects suddenly coming into existence. They're not very controversial. The Boltzmann brain thought experiment is interesting because it raises the possibility that there's some chance that you might be a Boltzmann brain without realizing it. It's very hard to try to figure out what the correct way to reason about this possibility is. Properly reasoning about whether you're a Boltzmann brain, and whether you should care about that, probably involves an interesting argument around decision theory and the anthropic principle.
I don't think there is as much empty space as you think. If you look at https://youtu.be/TsNR2lECd2s?t=121 it has a Macbook air design where its wedge shaped with no vertical space in the front.
It's in general. For reasons ranging from union busting, bullying small suppliers, abusing employees, or being a burden on local governments. No matter your politics, you can find a reason to hate Walmart.

But Walmart was often the only shopping center in a 40 mile radius for much of the US, meaning you had to shop there regardless of how you felt about them.
There is also Scaleway.
Love it! I always wanted to make this, but for public basketball courts.
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You mean stop thousands of other people from buying cheap watchbands from Amazon, unless and until they get better quality control, as determined by some impartial third party, who then signals to thousands of people that it's ok to buy again? Or maybe stop thousands of other people from buying watchbands from Amazon forever? Because if one person stops buying, it's not a solution, and to get many people to stop buying is not simple.
Sure, but you have causal effects in your general vicinity that will persist a little while, not least effects that come back to change the originating brain.

Boltzmann brains have no past and approximately no future at all.
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Most people in California are this way though. All of my family who still lives out there pay a premium to watch the same TV shows I watch and to watch Netflix while sitting on their behinds indoors. Very few people are out hiking every possible minute or going out to the coast even when living nearby.
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Yup. I just moved from CA to WA. It was like an instant ~10% raise of state taxes alone.
I'm on board with your general message, however, the larger actix isn't some independent project. It is clearly endeavored to build and serve a community. And maybe that wasn't the intent of the author/maintainer? I don't know. But I'm going to tell you right now that if you don't want to be part of a community (for better and worse) the best plan is to not join one, especially not one that proselytizes itself in a way similar to many commercial/oss hybrid outfits.

I don't mean to condone people being jerks or the typical reddit brigading that is being talked about. It's just, it doesn't really matter what your license says. If you act like you're going to serve customers, you just might get some customers and if you can't deal with customers then you probably shouldn't act like you want to serve customers.

It's perfectly fine to build a project in the open and license it openly and not accept open participation.
Let me help you:
> You can resign gracefully and let other people take over. If you put up a tantrum, you probably get your reputation burnt faster than a Google project gets when they suddenly pull the plug.

Where did I say I believe there is an obligation to "resign gracefully"? I said, that you will burn your reputation. Not that I think that is how should be. Just like a politician burns their reputation with something you or I might not find offensive. And that is where shitstorms come from. "I'm just minding my little own business down here" doesn't work once there's a spotlight on you. Do I like it? No. Do I get downvoted on HN for describing the world as something people take offence in? Apparently.
I think there are a number of ways the maintainer could have protected themselves without making it actively worse for the community. I would even predict that this decision makes them likely to get even more abuse, though of course I would never condone that.
Sure do. They tend to get beaten up by random things and lose their form, but reforming soon enough helps keeps them around.
According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, Walmart has one of the lowest ratings.

https://www.theacsi.org/?option=com_content&view=article&id=...

https://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar...
How is it a problem that women are looking at the biological realities and choosing motherhood over a 9-5 job? Most people were originally sold on the “problem” being the supposed sexism that prevented women from doing what they really wanted. Now we’re seeing that women don’t really want to work for the man over their children, and suddenly we’re supposed to believe that equal outcomes is the goal in and of itself. Seems like a bait and switch.

Solving this supposed problem with “convenient” (aka tax-funded) childcare is a huge misapplication of resources from the perspective of the family. It benefits big business by increasing the labor supply and driving down wages. It benefits big government by adding taxpayers and creating a problem to be solved with more bureaucracy. Meanwhile, the family is trading the value of motherhood (an untaxed $160,000 according to the article) for an average 9-5 job in most cases, plus losing out on quality mother-child time. If a family really wants to make that trade then they can pay for it themselves, but it would be unconscionable to push people toward that outcome by subsidizing childcare.
Thats the same thing with California outside of SF and some parts of LA...
At my work we use sparse checkout and lfs on our binary dependencies submodule to pull in only the binaries that we need for the current platform (i.e. linux or windows)

Basically sparse checkout only populates the tree for the dependencies we want, and then git-lfs will only download the binaries that are present in the current worktree.

Works out pretty well.

Keep in mind though that sparse checkout still has the entire repository loaded in the `.git` object store, it just doesn't expose it in the worktree.
>Your decisions only matter in the case that you're an actual human

Why do you say that decisions matter if you're a human? At least, why would decisions matter more as a human than if you're a Boltzmann brain?
I did not. And more importantly, that wasn't the point at all.
(other than that: yes I fully agree!)
> the important thing is that we don't need AGI to do many amazing and valuable things

that's absolutely true but I think a lot of people still consider actual human-like intelligence, common sense and so on to be important features of what we call AI or AGI. I think it's very obvious when we look at the cultural impact of AI in fiction or even in discussion around the dangers of AI that this is what many people in and outside the field are thinking about.

I think it's true that the commercial success of current techniques will endure but then maybe we should start differentiating between a sort of 'automation science' and cognitive/intelligent systems. Because on the latter I really don't think we are seeing much or maybe even any progress.
I was under the impression that that repository was probably going to be deleted at some point.
I know why I might.

Here's an analogy for you. When you pour yourself a glass of pop, and you over-pour - do you then pour the drink back into the bottle?

I know some people that would return that drink to the bottle, and some that would rather pour that little bit into the sink. Those that would "backwash" believe that the bottle will be fine - sure, you've maybe transferred a little bacteria in, but it probably won't cause any problems. Those that throw it away believe that the hygiene of the bottle - even from a clean glass - would otherwise be compromised.

So if you come to my battle-tested codebase, and tell me "Hey, I've made you code better. It now has a theoretical metric of cleanness, instead of your proven metric of cleanness" - you may well have just introduced a bug. I now need to test your code, ensure it meets my real-world standards of cleanness. And maybe it does! Maybe your code has fixed a glacially-slow memory leak, but I won't see that. Maybe your code has introduced a complex interaction that none of my examples exploit, but other people's examples blow up because of it.

Maybe the bottle of pop will be fine. Maybe in a couple of days time, when I have guests over, the unhealthy layer of scum floating in my mother-in-law's glass will make me look bad.

Either way, it's a lot of work, and little certainty, and only theoretical benefit - vs no work, and full certainty in the real-world correctness of my code.

And it's a question of which do I value more - my big bottle of pop, or the dribble you'd rather give me back.
If a periodically reposted idea undergoes slight variations with each repost, does it experience conscious thought?
I employ mindfulness on a daily / hourly basis in my own life and especially when dealing with the large number of requests I deal with every day.

In those times that I have not been able to respond politely or rationally, my lack of mindfulness as well as my own emotional reactiveness to certain stimuli (e.g. triggers) was at the core of it.

that is, if a request is not triggering strong emotion in me, I don't need to employ patience and mindfulness in order to have a reasonable and rational response. If a lot of requests are in fact triggering, this is what I would term "emotionalism", and I have to work much harder to have rational responses. Hence emotionalism is linked to irrationality especially for someone with fewer emotional maintenance skills.

emotion is not a "problem" any more than the urge to go to the bathroom is, however, both require proper training to be dealt with.
And people who think “cloud stuff” is just mirroring networking infrastructure on AWS/Azure is how the world ends up with “consultants” who just passed a certification, and know how to do a lift and shift and end up costing their clients more than just staying at a colo.....
That is how the normal POTS phone works and there is some expectation that physical SIP VoIP phone would work in same manner. For the VoIP phone the usual implementation is that the hardware SIP phones have configurable regular expression that describes all possible complete numbers and configurable dial timeout. Getting this to work reliably is somewhat intractable problem, while with H.323 or Cisco SCCP phones it just works. For SCCP because the phones are more or less dumb terminals and with H.323 because the signaling protocol is designed with this in mind.

On the other hand desktop phones are today mostly used in office environments, where essentially everybody today enters number first and then does some action that signifies that it is the complete address (pickups handset or enables speakerphone)

Edit: motivational example: suppose that random person pick ups random SIP phone and punches in 1-1-2 (or 9-1-1), then reasonable expectation is that the phone somehow divines, that what the user really means is 112@sip.exapmle.com(or 911@...) and immediately sends the INVITE, getting it to work that way for arbitrary numbers is somewhat nontrivial.
So, white flight?
They have seen a "boom" relative to 2009-2012 when literally zero new housing was built, they have not seen a boom relative to 1900 - 2009, especially when accounting for business cycle. I understand that you are seeing what you perceive to be a lot of housing construction, but relative to historical trends and population/household size trends, there is very little housing construction happening in NYC.
How do you know they didn’t get that explanation?
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Grey market is buying a companies items (not counterfeit copies) outside of the official supply chain. For example, many goods are sold cheaper in other markets. So someone could buy the item there and bring them to a market where they are usually sold for more and be able to undercut the the official supplier's prices. This is perfectly legal thanks to the First Sale Doctrine. Companies don't like this though, because they don't make as much, so they brand these goods grey market to make them seem shady to consumers.
There is a sufficient explanation in TFA.
Is it housing cost or housing risk? Is one thing to put a million dollars into a home and sell it for $1.4m five years later. It’s another thing to owe s million on a place that’s now worth $400k.
At Philo, we believe so strongly that people need to take time off to do their best work, that we took it one step further — we pay people $1k / week to take at least 2 weeks off during the year. We also have unlimited PTO, and to my knowledge, have never rejected or discouraged a request for PTO.

It's also worth pointing out that most normal expenses (rent, food, etc.) don't stop when you take time off, so we decided that if we want people to feel like they can actually take a vacation and get away, we should actually be giving them a bonus from their normal salary to enable that.

We try to do a lot of things to respect our team and create a culture of positive work/life balance, and so far, we feel really good about the results of the tradeoffs we've made.
And this sucks for the rest of the country because these people have no sepf awareness and will vote for the same dumb policies that screwed up their original homes.
It's JQuery and its successors that made Javascript more accessible to a broad audience. If people still had to handcode Javascript it wouldn't be nearly as widespread.
That’s because people in many countries don’t have access to clean water. There’s no reason to pressure women in developed countries to breastfeed for 2 years.

Unless you’d like to push them out of the workforce.
The AWS certs have nothing to do with “how to use the UI”. How do you propose that they would even test on using the UI?
I have both. The AirPods have better NC because they have both active and passive NC. I think the active NC is better too.

The QC35s are more comfortable however.
Nobody but nobody is saying that tellers will go away completely. Even buggy drivers still exist. The question is how many there will be.
When women have equal opportunity for education and employment, that mobility is correlated with reduced population growth, reduction in violence, better health outcomes. I don't actually care how likely women are to pursue stem careers, or about mathematical diverseness. I am primarily interested in drinkable water, breathable air, edible food, peace, etc. Evidence suggests that sexist gatekeeping ultimately runs counter to my own interests.
Good point. A bit of nuance:

Young children are information sponges. Think about how easy a 2-3 year old picks up language. It is not that hard to believe that 2-3 year olds also pick up behavioral patterns from their surroundings. For life. Do we want Mothers to shape their young children's behavioral patterns, or low paid child care workers with no skin in the game?

8 year olds? Send them to school with a key around the neck. They'll figure it out.

The math: 2-3 kids, spaced 2 years, up to 3-4 years old = a career break of 5-8 years. That ought become social norm and be encouraged.
> Interesting, so is it immoral to sue someone who is blatantly copying your product and providing a much cheaper knock off with much poorer quality?

That looks like a deliberate deflection. ikeboy specifically said that, while the lawsuit alleges inferior quality, that allegation is bogus. I would say that it is immoral to sue someone alleging inferior quality when the quality is not, in fact, inferior.
People live longer and are expected to work outside of their homes longer. Two generations ago when my grandmother was raising my mom, her mother was not working and could and actually did much of the childcare; but my mom can't watch over my kids much because she's obviously working full time and most likely will do so until my kids are nearly adults.

This might be different for people who have kids much later; however, in modern society there IMHO still is no gap where the grandparents already can look after kids because they've retired and still can look after kids because they're physically and mentally able to do so, because most non-rich people tend to work as long as they can, and when they stop working, they themselvelves need caregivers instead of being able to be caregivers for the extended family.
Weird is certainly the word for it. The SF real estate catastrophe is pushing up prices here, particularly the south end of the county, while (in the small tech scene at least) salaries haven't adjusted. I've lived here since 2011 but I don't think I would start here today. But of course, anyone who bought a house 20 years ago is just fine since their costs are fixed. Renters and recent buyers pick up the tax bill. Thanks a lot, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association!

(Seriously, Prop 13 is awful policy.)
(I could not possibly comment, but students of constructive separation might possibly draw conclusions on their own.)
The rate at which we're approaching full self driving capability (especially with trucking where, for many routes, it's almost all freeway driving) is fast enough that it's safe to say those 3.5 million truckers will not be ready for the change. Even if it takes 10 years they won't be ready for it.

And that's just the easiest example. Past revolutions which have decreased the cost to provide basic needs happened considerably slower than the digital revolution is happening.

I don't think it's an imaginary problem at all. Overblown yes, I completely agree... but if that's what it takes to keep the conversation moving, I'm ok with that.

The urgency, I think, is not "all the jobs will go away tomorrow", but that it's a big enough problem that the time to start solving it is now. And unfortunately the world is really loud these days, it takes volume to be heard over the noise.
>We can structure our work so that women are not disadvantaged for having kids

Can we, though? It seems that there is some amount of time that women are unable to work due to the physical rigors of pregnacy, child-birth, and (in many cases) infant care.

Taking time away from work, no matter what the reason, necessarily affects the trajectory of your career. We can try to minimize that in various ways (as the original article discussed) but it seems impossible to reduce it to zero barring sci-fi tech like artificial wombs.

It might be reasonable to say that we can structure out work so that women are disadvantaged _as little as reasonably possible_ for having kids.
The more you read about this stuff, you realize that there's some real ugliness there - now and in the past. Maybe not everyone, but it goes well beyond the original intent of zoning to keep housing away from factories and tanneries and such.

https://www.sightline.org/2018/05/25/a-century-of-exclusion-...

Of course, in places like San Francisco and Portland, people are mostly smart enough to not "say the quiet part out loud", so they come up with other excuses.
it's funny how FirefoxOS still feels modern. Thinking about it, I have a 10 year old browser on my old smartphone, which also feels modern. Not really much has happened since HTML5. We got a datepicker?, wait, that was HTML5, so I guess nothing new has been added. Instead web dev's build their own web components using poor performing web frameworks. Speaking for myself I spent two weeks making a freaking window menu for a web app, yeh, I know window menus are not good UI, but it's what people are used to, and I made it work with keyboard and screen readers.

The browser market is worth around 5 billion, but that is only if you count bribe money from Google. You could double that number from showing ads directly. But you could make two orders of magnitude more if you had an actual business model (that did not resolve around ads, although ads can be used as a complement). Quick hanging fruit: Micro transactions, in (web) app purchases... Instead I have to walk around with a plastic card with numbers on it, the only security is the last 3 numbers, that are also printed on the plastic card. There is no encryption, no digital signing, freaking ston-age! And we pay 2-5% plus a monthly fee to use it, wtf!

The cloud business is a slow growing market, but I expect it to explode in maybe 10 years or so. Other companies, like Microsoft also thinks so, and are investing heavily in the cloud. But what is the main UI to access "the cloud"!? The browser... With "the browser" you become a middleman between the platform players and the content providers.

Normal users don't care what stack they are on, it's just that the native UI elements are better then the browser components. So native apps usually performs better then web apps. And are nicer to use.

Browsers are not just for documents any more. (most corporations still use word documents and pdf, sigh). Ever since browsers got scripting capabilities developers want (including myself) to build apps in the browser. Just look at electron. Developers want to build front-ends using browser technology!
Just like gfx cards give the developer the ability to draw triangles, the browser gives you divs. But a gfx card can paint billions of triangles per second, while the browser can only handle a few hundred DOM elements.

Another low hanging fruit are app to app integrations. On a native platform you can copy content from one app to another app, you can save a file in one app, and open it in another app, but not so much in the browser. Although modern browser can make use of the system clipboard, data is sent from one app -> to the device -> then back to the other app. It should instead go directly from (cloud) server to server.

Sorry for the random ramblings, I'm just a web developer trying to re-invent the wheel.
(I'm also looking for a job where I can play with this crippled browser tech, or a PO role where I can just point in the right direction and smarter people take care of the execution)
That doesn’t answer the 2 year lifespan concern
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self-promotion: i also reviewed this laptop in a YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoIfSnFCs84
How do you validate that some customers will pay for these small SaaS ideas?
I'm not using "matter" in a very deep way here. As a human, your decisions matter to yourself in the sense that you're going to experience the consequences of them. If you choose to eat an inedible object, then you're going to have a bad time. But if a Boltzmann brain chooses to eat an inedible object, it does not matter because the Boltzmann brain can't execute that decision in reality and is going to stop existing in a moment.