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The people getting shafted by the EC deal should tell their congressmen and senators to take back some of that legislate authority they've dumped on the executive bureaucracy.

We're holding a knife by the blade and trying to cut with the handle and complaining it hurts. Of course it does. We're not using the tool properly.

We could also massively increase the number of states which would make the two points that all states get just for existing much less relevant (and have other benefits). Even if you just look at the house the number of people represented by any given person is massive compared to what it was 100yr ago let alone when the system was designed.
Blunder implies not seeing. We chose not to see.
I think the point is that F-35 seems to get funded no matter how popularity contest goes. It is not completely beyond imagination that seL4 could be funded similarly, since both do serve military need. In fact, DARPA already funded some seL4 work.
The Palme murder was the largest unsolved crime mystery of my life time and it ends like this? Definitely a very disappointing conclusion to the investigation.

You couldn't even make it into a movie script because it would be so unbelievable.

A 52 year old man that has no history of crime and who most considers somewhat "feminine" sees Palme and decides to shoot him on a whim. With a revolver he carries in his purse this night. Then he flees the scene but returns ten to fifteen minutes later. None of the other dozen witnesses who are still there and are being questioned by the police recognizes him and he blends in as just another witness. Then instead of keeping a low profile he contacts the police the following days and offer to testify. He also does several interviews in the media over the years. Fourteen years later he dies in an apparent suicide never having told anyone about the murder.
If you have a high enough perceived value then it would also work to do nothing...
Haha, that would mess with people something fierce.
Just describing what I am experiencing too.
In the UK, crime against property regularly attracts harsh sentencing; crime against the person not so much. Why? I think it perpetuates our historical values. The Government believes we're expendable, although useful enough to pay tax.
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You're right, mixed you up with another poster in this thread, sorry!
First of all, comparing to many many other prisons if the world, US prison system is like a hotel.

Second of all, when you do a crime you already know what the punishment will be. IF you proceed you consciously agree to that.

Sure he could do a lot of good in 10 years, but he also could do a lot of bad.

Sure there are many things that can be improved, like giving access to learning etc. And this probably will be done. But its hard to prioritize them, considering even people who are not imprisoned have a lot of problems, and they haven't done anything wrong. So logically their problems should be prioritized.
So what library do you use for hierarchical layouts?
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I feel so helpless about this, I try to limit my own impact on the environment (not flying, not owning a car) but I know that it's basically useless to solve this bottom up.

The problem is that the people who are most able to actually tackle this problem earn their money by causing it, and will be the least affected personally. The fact that Bezos would rather spend all his money on rockets instead of mitigating the climate catastrophe is super depressing.
The point the commenter above made was that women are equally capable.
I’d actually start with Tufte: https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi

There are standards like UML, but I’ve never found those to be as useful to start with. It’s best to treat this as a “design problem”: first, answer the question: “what am I communicating”.

Then, maybe look into conventions - but often you’ll find less need for one “master UML diagram” and instead use many, smaller diagrams embedded within reference docs.

I feel like project reactor did a good job here: https://projectreactor.io/docs/core/release/api/reactor/core...

Personally I’d like to see more related to inheritance, but I’ll take what I can get. The tooling can be a pain to embed automatic diagrams in
Another paper on the related topic of metric learning arguing that metric learning hasn't actually made any progress and is piggybacking on progress elsewhere: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.08505
Maybe they don't have Vietnam or North Korea in mind, but that's one possible end.

The comment "...distribute the profits evenly.Not going to happen under capitalism." strongly implies a communist or socialist solution to this very real issue around automation.

It's trendy to bring up socialist solutions and then re-label them or put the ever-cleansing phrase "democratic" in front. But it's important to note when talking about redistribution as a solve, that for every Sweden or Denmark, there's a Cuba or North Korea.
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> One person, one vote" never meant "one vote, one equal share of representation"

That's exactly what “one person, one vote” means, but the only place in the US system that “one person, one vote” is applied is to the states as a consequence of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, on which basis state level structures very similar to the way the two Houses of Congress are set up under the federal Constitution have been struck down as violations of the principle, and, thereby, the Constitution.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/one-person_one-vote_rule

The US federal system of representation is a conscious denial of equal protection.
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Yeah sure, no need for state in a CRUD API. But while it is the most common use case for PHP applications (well actually for application written in scripting languages working with http servers), it's not the only use case.

When the only place where you can put state is the database then every piece of state is written in the database. Which lead to intelligent individuals (no pun/offense intended) to write clever piece of infra such as Redis. The truth is, for 10 Redis deployment there's 7 (8? 6? Well, a substantial part) where a long living process holding little state would have done the trick. Now you need to deploy, maintain and scale Redis too.
Actually, the best way to get from A to B is always a straight line.
That headline makes me laugh. "may" work? Obviously it works, that's why women have been playing that game since the dawn of civilization.
Do you have any collection of your thinking online? I also noticed that beyond nihilism is where I began to think about these ideas. The problem for me is the thoughts are so hard to condense. One benefit of this stuff you're talking about (determinism right?) Is I have gotten immense peace in my day to day actions by clearly being able to distinguish things which are good and bad for me to do, and accepting that I will be fine or not based on what I am doing. I can also forgive people easier and see that they were "just trying"
> Now, if the author was arguing that it's a mindfuck to be incarcerated for 10 years and it makes him feel out of place, and his mindset is no longer really tuned towards technology, that I could totally believe.

You and I can see that forest. To the author, there are only trees. I think that's pretty understandable given the context.
> You only have to look at a famous photo to see. It's the one of Anderson Cooper standing in a flooded ditch, water up to his chest, while a cameraman stands feet away on flooded level ground-- with water up to his ankles.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anderson-cooper-hurricane/

> Photographs document CNN's Anderson Cooper faking the depths of Hurricane Florence floodwaters.

> Rating: Miscaptioned

> ...However, the various available clips of the program document that the waters in the immediately surrounding area were both fairly deep and quite variable. As Anderson noted during that broadcast, his taking two steps backwards from where he was standing would have caused him to sink in neck-deep water:

> Cooper also noted that the floodwaters had actually receded significantly before he began his report, and that although he could have stood in a higher-level adjacent roadway where he might have remained drier, he would have risked interfering with emergency vehicles and others attempting to traverse flooded roads.

> So while Cooper might have been able to find a somewhat drier spot to report from and instead chose one that provided a visually dramatic appearance, he wasn’t misrepresenting or “lying” about the general state of the flood as seen in the finished program. And his positioning seems “fake” only when contrasted with that of the camera crew’s, who obviously could not operate under the same conditions as Cooper and had to be situated either on higher ground or on platforms that kept them and their equipment above water.
> Netscape documentary "Project Code Rush"

What is immediately striking about this documentary is how unhealthy everyone there is looking. Just a ton of serious obesity, unhealthy skin in relatively young people.
True, but if you can run any command, you can probably run the alias command. It's just more convenient if you can run it from a .bashrc or similar.
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How would I prove ownership of unnamed shares if the bank or broker where I bought them has gone bankrupt/no longer exists? Is there a central registration database?
Not arguing, the US system needs a lot of work. The recent protest have been about what happens on the street but that is only half of the story. Once you are in the system here its very hard to get out. Our recidivism rates are crazy.
> prisoners are a) primarily incarcerated for non-violent crime

You need to be careful about the difference between "of people sentenced to prison, how many were sentenced for a nonviolent crime?" and "of people currently in prison, how many are serving a sentence for a nonviolent crime?".

Only the first question will tell you that prisoners are primarily incarcerated for nonviolent crime. This is a result of sentences for nonviolent crimes being much lighter than sentences for violent crimes.
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I am running a bootstrapped SaaS venture for 3+ years and I am planning to share KPIs with some experienced entrepreneurs. Before I share, I was looking for metrics others share, one of the KPIs I couldn't understand is true north? How to calculate it.
I really wish this article included the argument behind the claim that "+4°C world would support < 1 billion people". I can understand why it'd be a very different world, and why there might be a lot of struggles on the way, but the idea that it'll be literally impossible to grow enough food doesn't make much sense to me. Why couldn't we support the same number as today by planting slightly more heat-tolerant crops?
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It would be interesting compile languages into an intermediate form - like a lisp dialect/form or so - to see if that makes things easier. This could be used to have a common foundation on top of LLVM, for example.
There is an xwayland[0] patch out there to fix this properly. Could it be that you're using something like this[1]?

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sway-hidpi-git/
Not at all what the article says. No mention of anyone at fault even.
And there's nothing to stop someone else letting you write all the code and get paid for the bit you charge for, right.
In fact they could work full time on that while you have to spend time doing software updates/maintenance etc.
10% of billions of dollars is plenty enough to cause the companies to move to some tax heaven. You can fight that with tariffs, but the end game is being outproduced by orders of magnitude and losing any influence over global market.
Capitalism dominates because it can absorb and productize counter culture.
You see this in factories as well.

Not pure 'automation' but rather 1 person overseeing several lightly automated processes.

So while 25 years ago you had 4 Operators doing 4 tasks together, you now have 1 Operator doing the 4 tasks with automated assistance.

Also often this person will make less than his individual 4 predecessors due to 'Tiered' wage systems. While being more physically(previous operators taking turns doing physical tasks, etc) and now mentally exhausted(ensuring process is correct) than them as well.
Going back in history, you wouldn't have one without the other. You can have "one man, one vote" and restrict the vote hypocritically to white landowning guys, but if you want to start weighting the votes of guys who own some of their fellow human beings higher than ordinary people, you need some kind of proxy.
>[...] every time I touch on the topic of tacit knowledge, inevitably someone will pop up on Twitter or Hacker News or Reddit or email and protest that [...]

One of these is not like the others.
Yes, that's covered by the last paragraph of my initial comment - it's generally handled by symlinks already.

jspaetzel seems to think this isn't good enough though, and that the commands should magically just have the non versioned name until multiple versions show up on the same system. I'm curious about how they envision that to work.
They're a device maker then
Fascinating! Any references elaborating on this? (By FSMs, I suppose you mean Finite State Machines?)
Doing nothing is basically playing hard to get since you're ignoring the other party.
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None of what you mention really started with 9/11 or is really significant in a global historical context, and especially if you want to debate when the 20th century ended, which ought to be based on global, key changes.

Edit: Arguing that the 21st century started with 9/11 seems both superficial and American-centric to me, like your reply to this comment below. It misses the big picture, the global context.
You are in Asia right? Let’s see

China - disappeared for comparing xi jing ping the dictator to Winnie the Pooh, or mention Hong Kong or Taiwan in a postiive light on wechat

Singapore - 2 years in jail for selling gum, death penalty for Having
drugs

Vietnam - 34 years for drug trafficking
Movable Type was popular, but a change in its licensing terms led to people leaving it in droves for Wordpress which had a similar interface and approach. Fast forward to 2020, and Wordpress installations reportedly make up the majority of PHP use in the world.
Only problem is, all the other possible suspects are even less likely:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Olof_Palme#Mu...

It's a Sherlock Holmes case: "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
I'm really surprised that PHP hasn't picked up in this area. It's a great tool when you're too big for bash, but not big enough for, well, a "more proper" language...
I'm not sure if this would interest you, but what you're looking for in terms of culture is exactly what we have at the company I work for, Assured Information Security. The company was founded by four engineers who at first were working around a pool table until they got off the ground. That hacker mindset and employee-focused culture is still present today. This story might interest you! https://www.ainfosec.com/about/pirate-flag/. Regardless, I hope you find what you're looking for!
To be fair, I've been working in PHP for nearly 20 years and I've been able to avoid annotations almost entirely, except for that one time I used Doctrine and then threw it in the trash.
There are problably plenty of dictatorships that punish harsher than the US, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find democratic, freedom-loving countries that punish harsher than the US does. Except maybe when it comes to crimes by rich/important people with good connections.
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Each app already had to bundle and update its own dependencies. The WinSxS folder was created solely for programs who tried to install global dependencies -- it serves as a per-program "global" folder so each program can have its own "global" without getting in the way of others.
The problem I have with relating consciousness to free will is that consciousness seems to me to be about experiencing your thoughts, not controlling or exerting them. Sentience has a subjective quality to it, but it’s not clear it has any power. Imagine a machine that could control your neurons and manipulate your thoughts. I imagine you’d still experience those thoughts as a conscious person, and even experience the feeling of ‘having’ those thoughts, even though the thoughts are being selected for you.

My view is that the universe is a big movie. Consciousness is just a lens through which you get to watch the movie. But the movie script is already written, or being generated by mechanisms out of your control. You just get the immersive experience of the “feeling” of being one of the characters, including the feeling of making each decision—which are being/have been made for you.
I think they are talking about the idea that individual recycling, less consumption will somehow fix this problem, as all the big polluting industries would like you to think?

I think the only ways to actually tackle this is to put a price on pollution/unsustainable resource extraction, but that requires an enormous amount of global coordination.
Did you know the recidivism rate in the US is around 43%? Maybe it would be better for us a nation to work on making the justice system more about rehabilitation than punishment.

Setting the bar at "North Korea" is simply childish and unhelpful.
If you want to hear what everybody knows, ask behavioral psychologist.
> Some people are skittish about the idea of punsihment. But it's abhorrent to our sense of justice that one suffer no consequences after committing a crime.

Consequences could be restoration and responsibility instead of mere punishment.

Still, let's say punishment has a place for some severe crimes where restoration/responsibility isn't possible or for people who will not cooperate.

Imprisonment itself is punitive -- there should be no better time that the entire public should understand fully that the loss of freedom and opportunity and association involved in confinement is no small one, because almost all of us have gotten a small taste of what that's like, and some people have found it difficult even when it's their own homes stocked with their own possessions and comforts.

Can we really justify the degree to which we create further suffering beyond the consequences of imprisonment itself?

And if these consequences aren't actually written into the law -- which specifies imprisonment, but not necessarily isolation, or $.05 per email, or informal violence in prison -- can we really said to be a society based on law or justice?
This is exactly why we need to teach students with free software.
Such a limit would be worth knowing about. But I see no reason to assume that limit exists in the absence of evidence, particularly as our tools and reasoning are improving all the time.
First few weeks were an improvement - no commute, lucky enough to still have a job, no pressure to meet people, plenty of time to chill out, read, exercise etc. Then it starts to wear off - the days get way too repetitive, boredom increases, motivation to do anything at all disappears and you realise that being forced into minor social interactions is pretty good for you.
It's both SecureBoot and UEFI.

He's probably preparing the thumbdrive the old-fashion way, jusr dd'ing the iso into it.
You need a modern prep tool that's UEFI-compatible for it to boot on new hardware.
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It's pretty terrible. ORMs like Doctrine use annotations because their philosophy is that a data mapping class should be a pure class that you decorate with annotations. I personally hate that approach and have had no issues avoiding this path over 20 years of PHP development.
It's literally putting 2 and 2 together. The article is about how to start new companies based off reddit communities, and he's an advisor for an app for finding and investing in new companies. This is nothing more than a marketing piece trying to boost their funnel
> I definitely get where you're coming from. But everyone is different, and thinks differently.

You have talked about preference a lot, and I honestly don't really care what people do or don't prefer, that's totally up to them. I will judge people for it, in the same way I would question someone's judgement if they insisted against all evidence that there was nothing wrong with their shoe-hammer. Personaly I quite liked Objective-C, but a lot of people kinda thougt it was the devil in programming language form.

The problem with PHP is that there's a huge amount you have to know about the corner cases and edge cases that could cause you to write a bug or security flaw into your application. It's like there's an encyclopedia of weird behaviour that you have to remember all of, and it's going to be hard to remember all of the issues in all situations.
> Although everything is destined, that doesn’t negate the majority desire to treat a person who becomes ill and potentially very sick.

So majority desires are all that matters? So you agree with mob rule and think the tyranny of the majority is perfectly ok?

> I used to have a colleague that shared your rhetoric and he very much made a big leap in his assumption that people adopting determinism will all of a sudden become metaphorically motionless by thinking the majority will not try to fix people that become ill.

I have no problem with determinism as I'm a Compatibilist. I think you've made a few assumptions about what I believe that aren't justified, so if you're actually interested in understanding what I'm saying, you can read my elaboration on free will here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23476919
Source (Japanese) https://www.nintendo.co.jp/support/information/2020/0424.htm...
I saw this https://voiceofaction.org/collapse-of-civilisation-is-the-mo... in HN a few days ago but cannot seem to find it anymore; looks dupe and the other link in HN already had a discussion.
I can't wait to see what's next for you!
Keep advocating :)

One thing about Big Blue Button though: a friend teaches in a smallish university and has been trying to find out how to get simple, turnkey hosted installations of it (the IT department is not interested). It seems inordinately difficult to simply create an account with one of the listed hosters on the page and start paying. The big draw of BBB is the whiteboarding feature.

The alternative is Jisti Meet with the "Presenter" mode sharing a LibreOffice window, which actually works pretty well, but would be better if it were possible to toggle on/off the thumbnail of the presenter (it currently occupies about the lower right ninth of the screen).

Jitsi Meet is so far (out of Teams, BlueJeans (no linux desktop client and therefore no whiteboard), BBB) the best.