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this does seem like burnout but there is something else at play here.

something which i have felt quite a lot is that in the 90s a lot of programming was creative and fun. it was to challenge authority.

it created things like winamp.. it really whips the llama's ass. when is the last time you heard of a recent startup with a title like that?

nowadays everyone around me is working on startups or talking to investors where they are simply falling in line.

the good old hacker spirit and the sheer disdain for authority and a great sense of wonder has gone. i see young kids, interns studying like crazy to get into faang, which drives me crazy.

in the 90s we didn't have that... there was only cool software like winamp... that too for free.. tell me a software as cool as that since ;)
The iPhone app can't actually scan passports - they should make this clear on the website
May I ask for the reason of taking a NO map instead of, say, a NOx map?
There are locals working on every place that visitors go to.
How old are you?

Why would you be at all surprised that VCs lie?
Thanks for the advice. This all sounds right.

> I found that learning about politics and history-- specifically the history of engineering-- really helped me sort out my feelings.

Is there any specific reading you'd recommend?
"I do a lot of sports now and hang out with my non-techy friends and my wife. I cook a lot."

This implies that you didn't do these things before. Which implies that you were overworked, didn't take care of yourself and naturally you burnt out. I don't think it is an issue with tech, it is an issue with you prioritizing work over everything else.
As long as you do not transmit the data ever, using localStorage isn't a GDPR concern other than that you should mention it (and the in-browser-only use, with data never leaving the users' systems) on your privacy policy page for the sake of transparency and to avoid users asking about it.
I think it’s unsettling that were so used to companies and people with actual power doing fuck all to stand up to government abuses that it’s weird when it actually happens.
Its interesting that they call this a "Contact Tracing app" even after changing the naming to ExposureNotification.framework

I think these restrictions are meant to win confidence with a somewhat skeptical public. This will also confine the apps to be single purpose for contact tracing only.
I have experienced all of the negative emotions the OP experienced, although his seem to be more acute.

Some things which have helped me are to stop thinking about succeeding or advancing in life. Those goals are so high up most people don't even get close. OP got very close by being funded, and it sounds like the whole experience was a let-down over and above the business failure. It sounds like the OP has let go of those dreams, which is necessary especially once you know the dark side of those dreams.

Most people are just trying to survive. They have little control over their lives, and that relieves some of the self-blame when things go badly. It is okay to not be in control, to need help, to lose. That's where most people are. You have friends and allies.

Now that you know how the system works, would you feel better about yourself had you succeeded? Would you feel guilty?

I think OP is being too hard on himself, and he should look back on that experience with pride. "I was good enough that they gave me a shot." You could have been a contender. You actually landed a punch.
I don't understand what you mean... Even in bitcoin you're still trusting some group with a K of N majority agreeing on some software.
> Time to get rid of Intel and it’s over heating 14nm CPU’s

Current rumblings in the rumour mill say the ARM transition starts next year. Which makes sense, the $399 iPhone SE has better single-threaded performance than the fastest MacBook you can buy. An Apple A-series CPU with 4-5x the TDP of what they can put in a fanless phone or tablet is something I would very much like to see.
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Very much this. What most people consider "the press", the main stream media, has converted almost completely to infotainment, opinion, and propaganda for vested interests.

John Gruber (of Daring Fireball, Mardkown fame, etc.) coined the term "claim chowder" and started keeping a list of dubious tech reporting. I've been keeping a mental list myself and its almost painful how often a highly circulated story obviously will have a shelf life of weeks or days before being completely invalidated. As long as it makes it through the spin cycle, though, I suppose it doesn't matter to show runners, editors, and others pushing the narrative.

When news outlets run significantly fabricated stories (sometimes for months or years) and then run a genuine story how can they be believed? When news outlets never issue retractions, corrections, or apologies for misleading the public, how can they be trusted. When they actively attempt to remove or change content from their public archives in order to put themselves on the right side of history or direct the way history is being made, how can they be treated as protectors of freedom against tyranny. When they destroy the lives of who accidentally entered their crosshairs to sell ad space, how can they be considered good.
I'm not an extrovert. I'm definitely an introvert. But it doesn't mean I eschew all social activities.
Not only it does but I even remember a story of a crime that was solved in Germany a few years ago just by requesting from Apple the history of the locations.
And to add insult to injury, your comment is being down-voted. It's a cruel web.
From the link you sent it seems that Luna 9 didn't come back, that's why I wrote going and returning spaceship. From the movie about the Apollo mission it seemed that the humans had to learn a lot of real engineering and physical training as well, and just being able to push a ,,go back'' button wouldn't have been enough for the mission to be successful.

Also sending a human without being able to return at least theoretically wouldn't have been ethical.
Yeah, and bearer bonds no longer exist because of those problems.
Try moving to a new city. I had a similar experience and moved from SF to NYC. NYC is less of a techie bubble than SF. You didn't mention where you live, but I just assumed it's somewhere in the Bay area.
Seems plausible. Wuhan is a very large city by any measure. Every large city of that scale must be exchanging people with all the other large cities, it's simply probability. You also have to figure that there's more virus than we can find, ie each patient found in Wuhan represents a fraction of infection cases. So chances are someone from Wuhan got it and spread it by flying to some other large city.
I'm afraid, depression might be the appropriate reaction to the state of things.

The trouble with modern work is it's so intangible, there is no physical product at the end, no machine restored to working order, no field ploughed, just a pile of bits shifted around.

I keep saying it here, I think for most of us we would be better off dropping the side projects and instead doing something with our hands. It might be baking bread, playing with Lego, woodwork, DIY, anything away from the keyboard.
And Fox News sweeps it again!
Very keen to try this out but that branch won't compile for me. What's the trick?
Even if they did, would you trust it?
I anticipated this was in the vein of, "It's all horrible, fundamentally antiquated shit that barely works and is preserved by inertial debt and captive markets of hegemonic corporations," not about the ennui of alienation in the bowels of Moloch[0]. xD

0: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
No, to verify the ledger you only need to trust the genesis block.
covid19 has become a buzzword factory. Politicians popularize terms like "herd immunity" , "crush the curve", "testing", "ventilators", "PPE" etc to appear to be doing something. "Tracing" is the next in line, but it's a total sham. No country has been able to contain the epidemic with bluetooth. And all the countries that manage the epidemic have first waited until they have very few cases , which can be traced manually, and they did isolation well. As long as there is a high number of active cases, tracing won't work.

So, it's good that apple+google are banning those apps because they would be useless and a damn spying vector.
From the wiki: "Bearer bonds have historically been the financial instrument of choice for money laundering, tax evasion, and concealed business transactions in general"

Ah good! That, but digital. Just what the world needed. I almost feel like you made my case just there.
There are millions of people in high risk groups outside of nursing homes. How do you propose protecting them?

There are also millions of people in low risk groups who care for people in nursing homes and other high risk populations. How do you propose keeping them from infecting those they are caring for?

The thread is also predicated on a very high base reproduction number. A high R0 means a very large percentage of the population needs to be immunity before "herd immunity" is a thing (on the order of 80-90%). Even with a very low IFR, that is hundreds of thousands dead.
I don't think we have any statistical tests that will give us any kind of certainty with a 1/14 result.
At best you could assume it fits the expected value (maximum likelihood) of a binomial distribution[0], which gives us a 35% chance that the next sample of 14 such people would have no cases at all.

0. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=binomial+distribution+...
It's the reasoning they give -- that it might be compromised and used for bad ends. That's already possible, Anyone genuinely thinks that the partitioning of data for different purposes provides any real privacy protections, I've got a LifeLock subscription to sell them.
Apple did this too, until they lost a lawsuit: https://9to5mac.com/2020/02/13/apple-retail-bag-search-rulin.... Just because it's not unique doesn't mean Amazon shouldn't change their behavior.
After the Mac I bought a Dell XPS 15, which ran Linux fine but I had issues with the dual-boot and GRUB setup - I could probably have fixed them, but meh.

I then bought a Purism 13, which has been awesome (apart from a niggling problem with the space bar). Having a laptop designed from the ground up to be open, maintainable, and running Linux is an amazing experience. I had a problem with the screen on this one and tech support said "open up the back of the case and have a look to see if anything looks odd". I had more or less the exact same issue with the MBP and had to do without my laptop for a week while they replaced the screen.
As far as our service is concerned everyone pays the same price for B2 Cloud Storage, $0.005/GB. We're not a network provider and in this case neither is Cloudflare. We are both service providers. The partnership between us simply allows people to move data between us freely, but you still need to pay Backblaze B2 for the storage of the data, and you need to play Cloudflare for the distribution!
They’re a publicly traded company, this is readily available information. Sure the growth is not a hockey stick, but they’re not exactly dying either. The way people talk on here you’d think they’re filing for bankruptcy tomorrow.
Sure, but S3 Fuse is more mature, more stable, more feature complete, has a lot more usage and therefore a lot more visibility for possible bugs, especially corruption bugs.
A little tin-foily, but I went to Vegas with my family in late December. About 2 weeks after we got back, my dad had a severe case of the flu (so far as we know) and so did my cousin's girlfriend. They were both showing symptoms similar to Covid-19, but because testing was not available then, it's hard to say for sure. And it was flu season then.
Having worked at Palantir, I’m curious which outdated misconceptions you’re still harboring?

It’s a giant federated search engine... that’s about it. They don’t even hold any data themselves, it all stays on site with the customer.
That was reported as full on no shut down. Just crap reporting?

Note that I am still proposing an expensive solution. But asking if the barrier between the populations could be setup stronger. Such that the death and hospitalization load would have been what we have had, minus most of the elder population.

Edit: you edited on me. Yes, I am proposing that offering strict access to this crowd could have been done cheaper and more effective than what we have done.
You can’t put Apple and Google in the same bucket when it comes to privacy.

Sure, neither is probably perfect, but only one of them is an egregious violator whose business model depends on surveillance capitalism
Being the least bad of the bad guys doesn’t make you a good guy.
They clearly were not paying attention to the snaps debacle. But they may turn out to be right, for bad reasons.
The cubes I've assembled use solid core cable whips that are rated for 40 amps (like you'd hook up an hot water heater with) and serve four units. We never had power issues even though we all used pretty beefy hardware (think Xeons and Quadro RTXs) with dual monitors, a UPS, cube lights, etc.
Study leadership. Surprisingly technology lacks good leadership, and thus creates toxicity.
I would argue that making sure a VPN is correctly configured is easier than making sure every single backend service is configured correctly and patched against all known vulnerabilities. Overall I think its best to keep those things on the company intranet and only accessible remotely via VPN, while further limiting the employee to have access only to the services they need on the network

Even better though, why not use both 2fa and locking such improtant services to the intranet or behind a VPN
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Yeah the lying is really gross. It's an odd arrangement in this country where "shareholder value" can literally justify most things in the eyes of those with money. For a more personal anecdote, I have a friend who's been in the VC industry for 5+ years, and we had a very interesting conversation. He was closing a deal with a company and they asked for a higher valuation, and he thought objectively it's merited. But then he thought: "if I give you the higher valuation, then you would have more and I would have less, but I want more". And that's the root of it, human nature. Now assuming these VCs have been in the game for more than 5 years, I would imagine they would lie without a second thought.

Now see it from the VC's perspective, the game attracts all kinds of hustlers who'd lie to investors without a second thought as well. My friend and I were talking about what business culture is like in a certain area of the world, and he said: they oversell everything, so take everything they say and divide it by two, and start from there. So part of it is also a pre-emptive mechanism based on a history of such behaviors from others.

None of this make things "ok", but I'm just sharing an anecdote from the other side.
I believe it comes from here:

https://blog.google/documents/72/Exposure_Notifications_Serv...

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I think 'they' in this statement refers to the members of the FCC that wanted the change.
Sorry, by they, I meant the FCC.
From your first link:

>Based on this analysis, we estimate that 91% of all anti-net-neutrality submissions, and 79% of all pro-net-neutrality submissions, came from bots.

Their survey data is mostly inconsistent with the WSJ data. See https://archive.fo/sp9Q7. WSJ had multiple orders of magnitude higher sample size, so I'd go with their numbers.
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I'll transfer my 250GB of videos and images from S3 to BackBlaze some day.
You’re playing into his game as soon as you start talking about “the media”.

There is no one “the media”. The journalism produced by cable news opinion segments is not the same as that produced by national print outlets, which is also not the same as a local newspaper. Equating them all is something Trump and his friends would very much like you to do.
FWIW, my stance is that there is way too little information to draw any conclusion with sufficient conviction. This is a highly politicised issue so the bar for proving something is, imo, higher.

The post I was replying too had high conviction in the 'lab-grown' theory.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'non-scientific' reasons.
Dr Yves Cohen stated the sample was tested twice to make sure.

Can't find the exact quote I read earlier but this link says basically the same.

https://www.heart.co.uk/news/coronavirus/french-covid-case-d...
> So I got my antibody test last week at my primary care physician. Negative. Was just a bad flu, I guess.

As someone who really hopes there will be a long-lasting immunity, I really, really hope you had a bad flu.
Why do you like it?
Big props to Tim Bray. I think I speak for everyone when I say I'm not sure I would have been able to make the same step if I were in that position. Really impressed by the fortitude of his psyche and ethical framework. It doesn't sound like this decision was taken lightly.
Of course, me too, that's why I don't see the huge deal of a human being put on the spaceship after the necessary level of safety of the robot has been met. 50 years ago it was a huge deal, now I see it only as great engineering.
I can’t even get a job in software and I live in a car. Fuck you, you fucking snowflake.
Thank you for this anecdote. I made a post awhile ago about how it's almost never small-time authors who get screwed by piracy and was promptly downvoted

Yet again, we find that benefits of exposure > costs of some free-loading
> Get the Air then. More than plenty horsepower for regular office work

The passive CPU cooling on the Air is a deal breaker.
I'm looking for a way to combine the adblocking with a VPN switcher that takes eg NordVPN and routes all my home traffic through a variety of tunnels (they provide a load of openVPN files). Is there a ready-made way to do this? The idea is for anyone in the house to be protected by both the adblock and the VPN.
The one thing I found tricky was getting the systemd config file correct (I'm not a Linux pro). Looks like he's addressed that too, with this README and demo systemd config -- nice! https://github.com/caddyserver/dist/tree/master/init
I'll use an analogy: they might not be the warlords, but they are the weapon traffickers.
Alienation from the product of your labor existed before digitalization as well.
You have a very myopic view of what Amazon is and what roles the majority of its labor force occupy.

The bulk of Amazon's workforce are delivery drivers, warehouse workers, and datacenter rats. They are not paid fairly. It's pretty obvious from the numbers. For more supporting evidence, read TFA.
I suspect a move like that would trigger a cloudpocalpyse that would actually be beneficial in the mid- and long-term.
Yeah actually - if you know anything about how passports work, you can't actually do anything when interacting with the passport besides confirm its validity.
This is right.

The OP said he is "disillusioned with technology" but I didn't see actual technology being described as the problem with any point. So there's a conflation here happening between technology and "tech" companies. And I can only say the phrase "tech" companies while using sarcasm quotes around "tech", because almost nobody at any of these companies develops actual technology. And that's a big part of the problem.
Thanks, based on everyone's comment it seems it is a great decision to migrate to Postgre. Cool!
"I remember a story that is the entire opposite of what you said".
If you have an argument to make based on a specific event, you're going to have to do better and provide some sources. "I remember a story", are we going to throw the full privacy history of Apple away based on your "history" that you remember? Please provide sources or do some research before you comment.
I don't think anyone is claiming that these companies are acting out of the goodness of their hearts. These companies all have missions, though. Companies are made up of people. Some of those people believe in those missions and choose to work for those companies for those reasons. A larger group of people are happy to exchange time for money, provided that their company does not stray too far from its mission.

It's not a black-and-white choice between "goodness of their hearts" or ruthlessly exploitative capitalism. There's a huge gray area in between, and that's where social and legal guardrails (for better or for worse) have to help ensure that companies act in a socially responsible way.

I don't have experience with Facebook specifically, but I have worked with Google's security team. From what I've seen, Google truly cares about securing their users' data in a way that exceeds the standards of other large enterprises that I've worked with. I get a ton of spam emails and phone calls every day, and never once have I suspected that it was because Google or Facebook violated my privacy.

I'd rather focus my ire on companies like Equifax or popular browser plugin acquirers or the debt collection system or even mall sweepstakes. All of these entities egregiously violate privacy by blatantly sharing user information, auctioning it off to the highest bidder, or recklessly failing to secure it.
Is amazon evil because it's big or because they compete with more evil abroad?
It does work, by putting the smartphone on the inner cover of the passport because some have an Aluminium shell in the cover. The chip can be on the first or the last page. Here is a video link: https://youtu.be/NqRPXYNtq7M
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I feel like every engineer, at some point in their life, learns that engineering is a discipline devoted to producing value, typically business value, not one devoted to building cool shit. All else is just dealing with the implications of that.
You're not quite thinking in the right direction. No matter the statistical model a 1/14 result, is absolute evidence against there being no infections at all.

The problem lies with the test itself, which might have an unknown false positive rate. Although in this case we're basically looking at what I understand to be the gold standard in RNA/DNA evidence, combined with matching symptoms.

Also apparently they had 2 separate teams testing the samples using different methodology, so we've got at least a decent amount of confidence that something is going on with that sample, although it doesn't rule out systematic bias.
There are problems with that, too:

- Their “Customize Control Strip” sheet provides an arbitrary subset of volume buttons, which don’t include the ones I want. (Specifically, separate volume buttons and not “button that shows slider first”.)

- Previously I was very accustomed to feeling for the volume buttons, and even using modifier keys for very fine-grained volume changes. With default Touch Bar keys, this is basically impossible. It is sort-of-OK with BetterTouchTool customization but it took me awhile to find a combination that I liked. And, still not as good as the original volume/modifier keys.
They create tools that enable the government to infringe on the privacy rights of their citizens
A more correct way of summarising the link you provided is that some historians contend the 1619 Project is at its core flawed, and it has been criticised by many prominent conservatives.

It’s a subject of much debate both in and out of academic circles.
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