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I empathize with how bad corporate America is, I struggle with it all the time. I didn't intend my comments to sound like finger wagging. A lot of it is turning to advice that legitimately helped me. When I felt most like "the whole system is rotten" or "I don't feel like I have the status I hoped for" it helped me when people close to me reminded me to think carefully about what I'm actually looking for. The advice might not help you but it comes from a good place and is not intended as finger wagging.
> I don't consider myself a bleeding heart lib but I think that a decade in prison is excessive for most non-violent crimes.

you miss the point. prisons are a massive industry with serious lobbying clout. Putting lots of people in prison for a long time isn't a punishment to the prisoner, it's a gift to the prison system. The "punishment" is just a side effect, and the longer it lasts, the richer the people in power get.

the harm inflicted by a crime has been detached from the relative prison sentence for a long time. Classic example is getting more time in jail (and loosing your house) for having a marajuana joint than if you raped someone. Fortunately this is changing in the case of marajuana but there are many other drugs for which a single personal dose will still get you more time than rape.
I believe Netflix's Iceberg (now also Apache) aims to solve the same problems.
Dmitry Rogozin on SpaceX Crew Dragon Launch
10 years ago, the iPhone had only existed for 3 years... society was much different.
It works for men, too. The less you put yourself out there, the less rejection you'll experience. Consequentially, you'll have a higher self-perception which will translate to a higher external perception. When opportunity comes knocking, be cool, don't trip yourself up. Slowly spiraling towards a relationship delays gratification which can intensify satisfaction, and also provides an opportunity for sober reflection -- you can adequately respond to warning signs and pull away without drama.

Also bears noting that the strategy "may" result in missed opportunities -- and that's the purpose of that word in the title.
For covid19, some countries didn't take it seriously until they saw what happened in Italy.

This could happen for global climate change, if we have dozens of Earths.
"Out of nearly 890,000 monthly searches worldwide, only 30,000 actually become search visits to a website"

Wow, I never thought about it, but I be my searches vs. clicks ratio is about the same for many searches. Google must being doing this on purpose, which must be hurting many sites. I'm sure I've read about this before, but I'm not sure I've seen those numbers before.
I am failing to understand the point you are trying to make.

You just described most parliamentary systems. There is still one PM that concentrates the executive power.

Also, most parliamentary elections (that I know of) have some form of barrier clause. This is explicitly done to avoid pulverization of power. In Germany, your vote needs to be along with a minimum of 5% of the population to actually count. There is no "one vote, one share of power" as well.

So what gives? You asked me if I was "fine with it". I am saying that I am fine with it because I don't know of any alternative that has implemented anything better. If you know of any place with a functional government, as big as the USA and with a "one vote, one share of power", by all means do share.
Like ImprobableTruth said, this isn't really possible without restricting the expressivity of the interop API or the set of supported languages. At least not on the function-call level.

A more flexible – though less efficient – approach would be a service-oriented protocol. You'd send requests in the form of messages (binary or text) over a byte-oriented bidirectional channel and receive the replies on the same channel. Unfortunately this approach would require more code to set up than primitive [1] function calls, and fine-grained interaction with the library would be harder.

[1] "primitive" as in lower-level, not as in dumb.
When considering political systems, fairness doesn't matter if it causes an unstable system.

Think of it kind of like an organism. Only those that can survive can evolve and pass on their genes.

That isn't to say that fairness is a bad goal, because it's a good goal. But the system needs to remain stable.
Schrödinger’s Packet Drops
First confirmation of new theory by metamaterial
Indeed, I'm sure middle class China/India will save us.
> “Playing hard to get makes it seem as if you are more in demand—we call that having higher mate value,” says Harry Reis, a professor of psychology and Dean’s Professor in Arts, Sciences & Engineering at Rochester.

>“People who are too easy to attract may be perceived as more desperate,” says coauthor Gurit Birnbaum, a social psychologist and associate professor of psychology at the IDC Herzliya.

Thank god for theses scientists undertaking this examination of this curious ritual called “human love”
Eh, really well is a matter of opinion. Compared to the earlier transition from 68k to PowerPC, the PowerPC to x86 transition was much more jarring.

The 68k emulation was present up until the death of Mac OS 9, so there is some software that could run on the original Mac all the way to the Classic environment in OS X.

Rosetta was sufficient for most applications during the transition, but there will always be software that doesn't get re-written. Rosetta was introduced in 10.4, and dropped in 10.7. Only 3 versions.
I mean, the analogy holds. Doomsayers were quite sure from 1950 to 1990 that there would inevitably be a civilization-ending war between the US and USSR, but the unavoidable disaster ended up being avoidable after all.
People sticking their used gum in random places, locks etc and breaking stuff with it instead of properly disposing of it.
I learned to value physical activity for diffuse thinking, and related to it when I unconsciously feel the urge get up and walked around the room when thinking about some subjects I've learned.
People perceive that they can get the information for free from Google, so they're a lot less likely to donate to Wikipedia even though that's where Google gets the information from.

Imagine a future where Wikipedia finally runs out of money after trying bigger and bigger donation banners and has to stop providing the service. As users expect to see the sidebar in Google's search results pages Google would hoover up all the data and bring control of it in-house, and we would only see whichever facts Google chooses for us. I'm not sure that would be a good thing.
> This revisionist stance that there was never anything really wrong with PHP

This strikes me as a strawman. PHP spent years being a generally loathed language for reasons that at this point aren't really worth reiterating.

But, in an analog to Javascript, it has made progress, grown up and become a better language. One of the best? Like Javascript, no. But serviceable at worst.

I stopped earnest work in PHP ~ 5.7. I dabbled with HHVM, but eventually moved most backend/server code to Go and moved on with my life. But PHP 7+ has been a big step up, at least from my current vantage point.
What is bothering me now, is that the coronavirus response provides damning evidence against our ability to act on climate change, but it is also stealing our time to act.
That is, thanks to Matthias. But thanks for the post, jaden
And knows the ins and outs.
+1 to this comment; and raspberries at the boob who flagged it.

The greatest opponents to neoliberalism are generally considered pretty right wing: Orban, Putin, Brexit, religious groups and tendencies, and lately "incels" and nativist "radical right wing" groupings. That's why they're so consistently demonized by all of neoliberalism's propaganda outlets. Soft socialism and cultural leftism, by contrast, is generally supported by neoliberal power centers like large corporations and your HR department.

There are certainly leftists who oppose neoliberalism as well, but the borg cube is better optimized to absorb them. Remember Occupy Wall Street? I miss those guys.
Coronavirus has taught us two clear lessons: nothing will be done until the effects are clearly visible, and the measures will be removed as soon as the effects subside. If civilization was driving a car it wouldn't hit the breaks until it heard its front bumper getting crushed.
Who owns the bones? Human fossils shouldn’t just belong to whoever digs them up
> It really makes me sad that jobs are seen as inherently valuable. The way you phrase it, 'provide jobs', feels like jobs are something needed.

If I had to guess, you have a job, so it's fun for you to sit here and make these comments from your high horse.
I see a chicken egg problem: Why would developers/companies abandon non-QUIC versions of their software if there is a significant chance users can't use it?
(If they even implement it under those conditions at all.)
I reject the hypothesis that the last 20 years are somehow worse than any other two decades in the history of liberal democracies. I accept that there may be unprecidented fears that usher in the expansion of the governments' powers.

"Citizens in the world’s liberal democracies now face an array of new or vastly expanded threats—terrorism, climate change, economic volatility, pandemics, and geopolitical instability. This is not just business as usual, the standard ebb and flow of historical events. It represents a level of citizen insecurity not previously experienced in the modern liberal democracies."

I think the depression and two world wars, the rise of fascism, and so on represent something that can be considered "previously experienced" by liberal democracies. Decades of threat of nuclear war almost certainly felt more like imminent destruction than climate change does today.

And terrorism, for all its terror, does not represent a true threat to any democracy, except insomuch as we give away our democracy --- which is the point that the article was trying to make, perhaps.
That does jive with our sense of justice, yes, but I think the point is what are we achieving. Is it actually disincentivizing the crime? Is it preventing recurrence of the same individual committing future crime? I would argue that US prison statistics point at a massive failure in one, both, or is simply incarcerating people unnecessarily in the first place. This article is touching on the second one specifically.
When a lady cardinal is being wooed by a couple of bright red guy cardinals and she eventually chooses one, we call that nature. When humans do this, we get our feathers ruffled. Strange.
The parent comment claimed that PHP's former sins were being absolved. The quote you are referencing is about the current state of PHP.
You don't need to use an overlay filesystem (didn't know that was even a supported solution), you can move the rootfs to the usb device and point to it. See https://gist.github.com/lucabelluccini/9a11c48dcf1d627bbcbd8...
What's happening now in American politics (and lots of places) must be the trial run for attempting to address this problem.
This is the crux of it. It's not some fundamental human value to want harsh vengeance doled out for crimes. It's peculiar to the US and a few other countries.
>has it really changed that much in 10 years

Yes (although I'd probably put the real dividing line at more like 12 years). Facebook wasn't available outside of certain institutions until 2006, the same year Twitter dates to. The iPhone was first introduced in 2007 and arguably didn't really take off until the 3GS in 2009.

So, yes, the internet was well-established by the 2000s. But today's always connected world of social media and everything else is only about a decade old.

ADDED: Of course, if you turn back the clock about another ten years, for many people it would be the difference between pre-Internet and a mostly broadband-connected very commercialized internet.
Un-lucky for you, I am uniquely qualified to rebuttal this with evidence from my time working at Burger King. Very rarely was the burger cooked to order. Assembled, yes, but the cooking was done in a giant broiler machine with a conveyer belt and the patties were stored in heated containers for up to 2-3 hours until you ordered it.
Every time a doom thread like this comes up, and I read a comment from someone who has taken the initiative to limit their own damage, I think back to Idiocracy and the beginning montage of that film with the educated, professional couple. I can't help but feel sorry for the couple because in the end, they are the ones who tried the hardest to "make things right" and have suffered the most. Now I'm reading this comment and I'm wondering - what is the lesson here, really?
Cultural change happens via replacement, not via updating of beliefs
You could use "determined" instead of "desperate" and then suddenly it sounds like a value proposition again.
Do you have a pointer to scientific analyses where I can read about this? It was my understanding that moderate increases in temperature tend to increase rainfall, and I've certainly never heard anything about clouds being unable to form.
Have you considered going in the other direction and working for a public company? I had similar feelings to components of this, and you might find it interesting / refreshing to see how companies work when leadership is primarily geared around returning for-real, actually-generated cash to investors. If you end up at companies that are in the middle and have been around for a while, the CEO's job is absolutely to get to a liquidity event. And you'd be right to realize that impacts the total environment of what is being built & how it's being built, it's not a con IMO though, it's a bad situation.

Getting a bootstrapped company into something that yields enough cash for a salary isn't something that happens all the time, and it's going to require you to have some significant cash reserves. So if you can't do that right now, think about maybe making changes that build towards that future and focus on that, rather than the vagaries of what executives are doing & why they're doing it ;-).
A good place to start would seem to be creating naive aliases to these functions to at least fix the consistency problem. There's a possibility of breaking some code out there if someone made their own, say, "str_cmp", but we're used to breaking changes between major revs, and these could be fixed with a grep -l | xargs sed.

After that's done, we can talk about deprecation warnings, and then finally outright removal.
To expand on this, the differences come down to taxation. There are taxes in the use called FICA that are half-paid for by the employer for W2 workers and not covered for 1099 employees. Also 1099 workers are able to deduct business-related expenses from their income ta.
You should build your own things, if even on the side. You get:

1. More technical knowledge.

2. Ability to identify sooner which startups will fail, and what the red flags are early on for startups that will die. You might even have a startup die, but that's kind of a right of passage... and you'll learn a lot from it.

3. More future employment leverage that comes with the more technical knowledge/domain expertise(s) you develop

4. Maybe a successful business!
While reading this I kept thinking "Isn't Utah the name of Zooko's FS?" Took me a minute to remember it was Tahoe.
Yes, I just wanted to correct OP statement that "and have more water above you, causing more downward pressure" by pointing that increasing pressure exerts force on bottom side, so in effect it cancels out increasing pressure pushing at top, and so buoyant force is constant. (with added trivia about minuscule changes due to fluid compressibility)
Thanks for the note! I have added this to research section.
I don't believe the definition applies to individuals.
I think it's maybe slowing it down. The more we lockdown, the less emissions we're using. It's kind of a win/win...except for the economic fallout.
Genode.
Clickhouse can bring a performance advantage on the query side, and with a proper cluster config scale for ingest.

CloudFlare has some useful blog posts on their uses of it.
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I wouldn't say Rust is 'struggling'. Compared to other languages, like say D and Nim, it's doing well.

No language could possibly topple its incumbent rivals overnight. To do this, it would have to have great advantages over existing languages, and excellent interoperability, and an approachable learning-curve. That's essentially a contradiction. If your language offers a new and better way to do things, it pretty much must be unfamiliar to those who use older languages. If the concepts involved were similar, you'd be releasing a library, or publishing a compiler optimisation, rather than developing a whole new language.

Perhaps that's a bit of a generalisation though. TypeScript isn't doing anything new, it's just adding an old and familiar feature (static type checking) to an old and familiar language that lacks it. In TypeScript's case, the feature isn't ground-breaking, but it's valuable enough that it may be worth the pain of using a different language.
The truth is I am now actually incompetent to help my Windows-using family and friends. The answer is that I really can't help, no matter how much goodwill applies.

I recently poked at a friend's Windows10 machine that was having networking issues (probably DNS or proxy settings)... couldn't even find the right sort of settings to paly around with. The whole thing is a mystery wrapped in an enigma to me and causes me to break out in a rash when forced to deal with it.

To come back to the GP's original point: Windows assumes a level of control over the hardware (accompanied by a level of ignorance from the user) that I find intolerable. After all, I paid for that hardware; surely I get to control it? ("Not so!" says Windows.)
No way. Even if the Swift language works that way, virtually all Mac software relies on being compiled in some fashion.

The only software platform that might be the case is Android.
What I see is also a deep reflection on how the hacking counterculture became the norm but still it sells itself as minority obscure counterculture just to be more popular. The same happens in other areas like social activism which are now the thought of majority and distilling its original thoughts into a fast-food alike consumerism.
Right. This is not "Google stealing clicks", it's users saving clicks because they were only interested in looking up that kind of basic information. It optimizes time and effort.
Jeff Bezos can’t solve the problem either. He is investing in electric vans, etc for Amazon, though. Kickstarting commercial EV’s is a good start.

“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.”

I’m glad you are self aware about the problem. We’re going spend the next decade discussing climate change on HN, as we did the past decade. A lot more people need to realize that wasting our time shaming people for flying, etc is pointless.

Climate change is a slow train wreck that won’t be avoided. We watched Coronavirus hit us quickly and people still denied it. Miami slowly flooding over decades is inevitable.

Remember to upvote every HN climate change article. A decade from now we can all look back at how little we accomplished.

We’re beginning another lost decade.
> European society is based on capitalism. It is disingenuous to claim it is based on socialism.

It is, but it's also very heavily influenced by socialism. You, and many other people, seem to believe it's and "either or" question when it really isn't and it never has been...

> The person you are replying to was making the obvious point that noone knows a better system than the current one

What does that even mean ? the current "one" ? Since when there is only one ? Just compare the US and French or German systems they're extremely different, especially for the average workers.

> rather than creating a new one

Come on, we're not talking JS frameworks here, what kind of rhetoric is that. Nobody is talking about tearing down the whole thing and starting from scratch.

> Maybe you should try reading some of those hundreds of books, because you clearly haven't if you think "What happened is that the rich got richer and the poor have to work shittier and shittier jobs, work longer, retire later, &c."

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/apr/07/global-ineq...

https://www.schroders.com/en/insights/economics/world-pensio...

Everything I can find talks about rising retirement age, lowering of pensions, and stagnation of purchasing power. If automation really brought what it was supposed to bring we would see much deeper _positive_ changes when comparing 1970s and 2020s. People got kicked out of factories and pushed into the tertiary sector but for all intent and purpose it's the same shitty working conditions, wages and social statuses. The guy who built cars for ford in the 50s is now driving a uber and has to pay his own insurances and pension, talk about the automation revolution ...
There's a debate around UBI that goes beyond bumper-sticker wisdom, and that's what krapp and me were talking about.
> Unearned income is unfulfilling and the people who think they earned it resent it being taken from them

This seems like an easy explanation striped of nuance that really needs some data backing it. How is it different from resentment from people who earned it by working? Why is it unfulfilling - is it only because of comparison to others, or is it common even for UBI? Is it specific to feelings about income, but balanced out by easier life, or is it a significant decrease in satisfaction overall?
Note that this is not the consensus view among climate scientists. The IPCC has never embraced the notion of civilization-ending runaway effects. And even the pessimistic among climate economists (who rely on IPCC projections about the effects of climate change) have predicated impacts somewhere along the lines of 10-15% of global GDP: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-06/are-economists-unders....
which is exactly why it's great! :)
heard the same claim from a senior eng I work with who had lived through cultural change at work

this is reason 1 million that careful hiring super matters

this isn't 'culture fit' as punchline ('will you drink beers with us'), it's 'will you conform to our norms re code quality + testing'
Nobody is forcing you to select from your desperate suitors. Having many suitors means you have options and are free to casually pursue your own interests and the queue of suitors is there to validate your high status in the eyes of the interest you are pursuing.
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"Sweden has admitted their strategy is not working."
No they did not say that. I suggest taking MSM news with a great pinch of salt.
> Bell Labs was highly regulated, a state-owned monopoly.

I basically agree with what you're saying about neoliberalism, but Bell Labs was never a state owned monopoly, nor was it ever run like one.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

Also:

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dostoyevsky-misprisioned...
In my view a good relationship dynamics can be
compared to a sinusoidal function —- the partners are constantly switching positions.
>> The APM limit was averaged over longer periods of time. So AI "saved" the APM during boring parts of the game and then used it up all in a short bursts of over 1000 APM during crucial battles.

To be fair to AlphaStar, figuring out that it's a good idea to do this is not trivial. You could say it learned a kind of exploit (of the artificial restrictions placed on it).