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>Suppose I sent an email yesterday from my Gmail to a friend's Gmail, are you saying the text of this email is stored on an NSA machine?

Maybe not today, but during its heyday must certainly.

>Internal NSA presentation slides included in the various media disclosures show that the NSA could unilaterally access data and perform "extensive, in-depth surveillance on live communications and stored information" with examples including email, video and voice chat, videos, photos, voice-over-IP chats (such as Skype), file transfers, and social networking details.[2] Snowden summarized that "in general, the reality is this: if an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc. analyst has access to query raw SIGINT [signals intelligence] databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want."

>[Glenn Greenwald] added that the NSA databank, with its years of collected communications, allows analysts to search that database and listen "to the calls or read the emails of everything that the NSA has stored, or look at the browsing histories or Google search terms that you've entered, and it also alerts them to any further activity that people connected to that email address or that IP address do in the future."[44] Greenwald was referring in the context of the foregoing quotes to the NSA program X-Keyscore.[45]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#E...

But let's suppose they don't have your emails stored in their datacenters. Instead, it's still stored on google's servers but they can access your emails via automated requests to google, via search terms or by providing your user handle. Is that a meaningful difference, in terms of privacy?
Kickstarters don't seem to attract that engineering crowd.

As an engineer whose project proposal (with proof of feasibility in the form of working and one-at-a-time manufacturable fully functional prototypes) was rejected by Kickstarter back in 2017, maybe their selection criteria are the reason.
Then they already have multiple options for them to chose from...
Can’t wait for some UI/UX people redesigning the UI with a “modern” look....
this is a tech forum, it is common for the tech stack to be mentioned here when showcasing a product, whether it was written in Rust or a lesser language. (last sentence is a joke, stay calm)
The data there is quite different. The dependence is different. It’s one thing to have your ad account compromised, it’s a different thing to have your enterprise information compromised with the data of all your users and customers.
honestly I think that's an artifact of how often he is imitated. having read more than my share of seed fund about pages in the past few months, there is particular flavor you encounter over and over again that can only be described like "ah yes, I see you also have read zero to one." heavy emphasis on the transformative over the incremental, hard tech, disinterest in pedigree and traction given a shamanistic insistance that they are uniquely capable of identifying the visionaries of tomorrow, constant reminders they go against the grain and buck consensus, punchy copy talking about bold iconoclasts making the future of tomorrow yadda yadda

the three big aesthetic/intellectual strains of sv thought as I see them are truetype protagonist gleaming tech optimism a la early pmarca blog, folksy practicality a la pg, and dark horse contrarianism a la thiel. leonardo, donatello, raphael (turtles, not painters). but he did originate the kernel of it and can't really be faulted for the imitators

what actually makes him interesting tho is he's a disciple of rene girard, who argued among other things that the basis of socialization and social conflict is mimesis, which goes a long way to explaining his fixation on avoidance of imitation (and makes the raft of imitators that much funnier imo)
We just bought a mid-century modern house originally built in 1955 and completely redone in 2009. Some of the choices are extremely questionable and some of them are obviously dated, but in general I like living here much more than our 2004-vintage tract house. The light and layout are just so much better.
> In Ireland it has lead to the discovery of a number of positive cases,

How many?
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To add on, these core 3 people really were the folks who did majority of the work.
It's not really the same. True, MIDI won't work for say, iTunes, because it doesn't capture a lot of the information needed to recreate the audio of your average song. But for certain types of video, you can capture everything you need to recreate it faithfully with a vector format, at much higher compression rates. I think a better analogy is SVG -- which is not as popular as raster formats in the web, but it certainly has its place.

(As an aside, MIDI is a useful format in its own right, and is still alive and well in the music-making world, even if from a technical perspective it's sort of outdated in 2020.)
If you agree with the premise that people will spend money for what will make them better off instead of worse (following their own judgements criteria, which can't be dismissed, as flawed as they may be, this is the principle behind democracy), then getting rich by winning at capitalism means this person aggregated the population preferences better than other persons.

This means they became rich as a consequence of everyone being made better off. So I would personally value their insights.

For example, I may not believe that having pizzas or french fries delivered still fresh and hot to my home by having them cooked inside a car means "progress", but if enough people are ready to pay for that, it is progress. We are all better off based on the majority opinion.

Reality is the ultimate judge. What makes people better off will earn money, freely given away by these people ("Shut up and take my money!")
If you would look at what the app actually has to do to „handle the pandemic“ you‘d find most apps would be more complex.

Same for what you call concurrent users. Those users have no identity at all and essentially need to anonymously download a bunch of static files which are the same for everyone from a bucket periodically. Put a CDN in front. Done.
> The 228,000 ocean-dwelling species that we know about represents about ten percent of the estimated total aquatic species.

I don't buy it. The idea that the deep ocean is full of all this life we haven't plundered yet seems like a fantasy.
There was a brief interest in transflective LCD technology in the 2000s and early 2010s but it seems to have died off (at least for consumer products), which means sunlight-readable (or candle-readable, for the evenings) LCD with high refresh rates.

There was even one company (edit: Pixel Qi) putting solar cells in the displays themselves, so the device recharged while being used in sunlight.

YouTube video comparing Pixel Qi in sunlight with normal backlit LCD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1mD6vhp3U8#t=1m45s (around 01:45)
Some otherwise fine anti-competitive behaviors are illegal when committed by monopolies.
I think if you left it up to the market we would have even more misleading food labels than we do now. It’s already hard enough to determine what is and isn’t healthy at the supermarket, regulation ensures that we at least have the most basic calorie, nutrient and ingridient information.

I wouldn’t even disagree that regulation slows down advancement. That is probably the case! But I also know that in the early 1900s you didn’t have the kinds of child labor laws and workplace safety protections in place that we have now. I’d rather a society without child labor even if it runs a little slower and less efficiently.
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Volcker didn't bust the unions. You could argue that Reagan did, but not Volcker.

Second, Reagan didn't start the Iran-Iraq war - Iraq did.

Third, the Iran-Iraq war drove the price of oil up, not down.
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He's right about process vs substance. There are so many people involved in box-checking in this world, it's amazing. People whose job is substantially to ensure some process is followed, rather than think up better processes. Even when we are talking about ostensibly innovating orgs, there are people there to make sure everything follows a plan that cannot possibly contribute to the discovery of knowledge.

I sound bitter about this, but actually a lot of friends of mine are in that type of position. Heck, I myself have to do process-box-ticking type things in my day-to-day as well.

This ends up being a sort of glue that's poured over all of society. Each checklist on its own seems reasonable, but put together we make change quite hard. We also end up creating a class of people who are incentivized to make sure there are rules and procedures to follow. I don't just mean lawyers, there's a whole slew of pseudo-lawyers handling things such as GDPR policies and IT Security policies, compliance officers, and so on.

All these process people depend on our continued desire to seem reasonable ("Make sure schools check for child molesters before hiring anyone"), but also abdicate responsibility for those decisions to the new policy expert class. GDPR has been around for not very long, but already you'd better hire someone who is an expert in it if you're going to do serious business (this in fact happened at my day-to-day, there's no way to do business without).
"Usually, I hear that from people who build an app/product/software without a market validation"

It's an argument against using the quote to suggest that you don't need to validate ideas against real users.
There are issues here beyond immersion. One of them is that so far, nobody can peek inside the GPT-3 NN and find out how the game devs trained it.

If a player got something extremely disagreeable from an NPC, was this a fluke or did a dev intentionally add it in training as to make it more likely? There's no way to prove innocence. Add in trigger-happy social media + governments, the potential cost to devs & publishers could get all the way to bans/boycotts/legal threats. Most companies do not wish to risk this, so mitigations must be in place.
It's an entropic argument. Mainstream views are the result of many loose assumptions and lots of loose reasoning. Differences compound exponentially, so if you agree with mainstream thinking almost everywhere then either your inputs and thinking must extraordinarily well-defined in precise agreement with everyone else or, more likely, you are human and therefore susceptible to the same groupthink mechanisms as the rest of us.

I'm not fond of this argument because it's easy to formulate poorly and difficult to formulate well.

Instead, I favor a simpler appeal to history: from our point of view, any random person picked from history would be likely to have at at least one closely held belief that would be considered highly problematic by modern standards. What reason do we have to believe that we are somehow above this trend?
Faster horses is still a challenge for solutions that aren't always obvious to people. A vision isn't always the one the customer wants. An obvious solution isn't always the best either. One way I found to help overcome this barrier is testing for symptoms based on assumptions about your new feature set and what you aim to solve:

Cars have wheels. Okay,tell me about your problems with horses and the way they move?

Cars don't need rest. Okay, tell me about your problems with stopping to feed your horses?

Cars are faster. Okay, walk me through a time when you were late to something - why so?

It's easy for a customer to answer all three answers separately, but they'll struggle to put them all together and come up with "car". They've never seen it before. However, you can still validate because their problems are very real. When you have your concept, you can show it, and then validate the final solution.
> there is zero difference between what China does and what the FVEYs do, except that our Overlords tell us they are not spying on us, while every peasant in China knows they are being spied on by their govt because the Chinese govt openly admits to it.

We can fight it by electing the correct people.

But more importantly, I won't be spirited away to a black site by speaking ill about the president. Nor can the government decide it doesn't want me as CEO of my company anymore. Or prevent me from funding the opposition party.

There's an enormous difference between the West and totalitarian dystopia China.
> We’re constantly told China is ...

> We’re not constantly told our own governments are ...

When I read these statements, I can't help to substitute these nouns with "a used car salesperson".

Of course a used car salesperson will talk up the cars on their lot and won't go out of their way to point out the defects or bad value. That's exactly why we should look for sources other than the salesperson and their allies. Look for data supplied by neutral third parties who have a slight adversarial stance. Also look for data from strong adversaries and evaluate the likelihood of truth versus pure propaganda.
I don't know about the specific case of the reverse of the XY-problem, but in general I'd say it fits within the law of unintended consequences [1], the cobra effect [2], and as a sort of qualitative (as opposed to quantitative) version of Campbell's law [3]. Very interesting stuff!

[1] https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/540/handouts/french/unin...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law
There was some good discussion about this on another GPT-3 this weekend, but I don't have the link handy.

The author prompted GPT-3 with some questions like, what is 10-1 (9), 100-1 (99), 1000-1 (999), 10000-1 (9099); i.e. after a while, it can't really "recurse" deeply enough to get the right answer anymore. The author also asked it some coding questions; it could answer something like "write a Ruby function to count the number of Xs in a word" but not "reverse the list [foo bar baz]" (not the exact examples, sorry). There again seems to be a point where it gets the idea, but can't compute deeply enough to actually answer this sort of question.

Edit: I found it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23887637
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There are so many points he makes. Which ones do you agree with? I have a hard time understanding your opposition and painting everything he says as some what illogical, unreasonable, impossible or absurd. The examples you've given, I agree with (and even the most far right people would). But the document is massive and I feel like you're painting a broad stroke with a tiny brush. Peter Thiel is a controversial figure, but your comment to me comes across as rather less objective (besides giving strawman examples) and not substantiated enough for the bold claims you lay down.

Happy to listen to you and figure out what points you disagree with, and also understand which ones you agree with.

With respect to the regulations - this is a huge topic. You've picked ones that makes sense. But there are regulations like patent laws, and absurd state laws (can't fill gas in Portland yourself) that need to be abolished. From car dealership lobby to a whole bunch of nasty things in Agriculture, there are protective laws that benefit the small proportionally advantaged people and prevent real innovation. There is a lot of gate-keeping in the regulations lobbied to death by companies with big and deep pockets (Philip Morris for e.g. and even companies like Google who spend millions in lobbying).

This is not fair with all due respect. I am in the same boat as you in some ways, I think Peter Thiel is a weird guy, but there is no denying - he is smart, tactical and he knows how to play the political chess. There are many progressive ideas in there too that align with Bernie sanders (wages section).

Not inclined to you, but I feel like SV folks have tattoed "PROGRESSIVE" in big bold letters and they've stopped thinking for themselves anymore. FYI - I live in SV. Get rid of that label, think from the bottom up - not from left or right.
The travel industry (esp the airlines) are moving to puzzle piece style integrations -- I know that Hilton Uses Sabre for incoming GDS reservations, but, uses salesforce internally for managing a lot of the guest interactions (including bookings and customer support): AA (as mentioned previously in this thread) uses multiple commercial systems, and Marriott uses a mixture of FOSSE, MARSA (there might be an H in there, but, it's been a while since I've been at MI) that talk to their backend microservices for their .com system.

MI picked up a LOT of technical debt and a LOT of security bugs when transitioning SPG programs and properties into MI's portfolio (thankfully, I was off of that project at that point in time).

I don't think this is the case where the FBI or other conglomerates have direct SQL-style access into their systems, but, more-so where FBI has retired or plans internally to pull data from systems when requested: When it's hard as hell for employees with the proper need-to-know for their application to pull up data in a meaningful fashion, you know that it's next to impossible for Law Enforcement to have a nice little dashboard where they can just type "Ian Wilson" and get a list of every place I've ever stayed ever (unless they're working with VISA: that's something that I kinda expect, tho).
In general ~/.config is only for config; data should be in ~/.local/share, but a lot of programs get this wrong and abuse ~/.config using it for everything.

Even worse are the programs which use it to cache runtime data; I should be able to add the entire ~/.config to a dotfiles repo without accidentally including personal data (other than that which might reasonably appear in a config file) or ephemeral data.
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In my experience, requirements are never fully developed until after many iterations have been undertaken.

You can never perfectly plan how an application or any other arbitrary convenience should be in isolation of the user. You can certainly get very close, but there is something about actually using a thing that cannot ever be fully simulated in an authentic way. The way a knob feels to a person is not a thing you can ever truly encapsulate and store in a database field.

Constant feedback and iterating on that feedback is how you arrive at ideal outcomes. The art of developing software or other high-quality user experiences is a very iterative, chicken-egg-style problem. It is a human problem. Being prepared to throw it all away and start over each time you iterate is one of the most powerful things you could ever hope to do. Just keep a copy of what you tried before as a stick to lean on. Each time you iterate, that stick should be getting stronger. Eventually you wind up with a bunch of sticks and you can start to chop them up, reorganize them, and build a proper structure.
Groups search for consensus, individuals search for truth.

It can get tiring to talk to yet another person that will explain to you how the theory of relativity is wrong when there's open house at the physics department, though...
I've heard opinion that those apps are _not insanely successful_ project

Even despite having milions downloaded copies, then it wasn't "broadcasting" a lot of keys

https://ctt.pfstr.de/

Can someone say something about this? how valid this on?
We make antibodies, that's not the analogy I'm using, and I am studied in immunology. Some diseases are so harmful, our body keeps antibodies floating around perpetually in case we encounter it (e.g. smallpox). Coronaviruses are mild enough that we can "remember" it with t-cells and spin up antibodies as needed. Part of what bones do is this antibody production process, and it requires more energy than vital organs.
I don't know why one would want a huge daylight visible console, but it's one of those things where I'm just not creative enough.

Not exactly a command line terminal, but there was an ambient signage project on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22831323

Also https://onezero.medium.com/meet-accent-352cfa95813a
Hopefully this will trigger people to take CFS seriously, resulting from COVID or otherwise.
Any way to get commercial support for ZoL ?
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> Iran-Iraq war drove the price of oil up, not down.

Nope
> Leading Your Team

I am growing more and more allergic to the words "lead" "leader" "leadership"...

In all the high-productivity team I personally experienced, the so-called manager/leader are doing work that support the team. They never lead the team in any concrete fashion, i.e., they often clear barriers for the team to do what they always wanted to do, and most of the activities are often proven to be the correct things later.

I think most of the useful leadership training actually state the same idea.

But I see often times that many such "leaders" are mentally forced into what the name suggests, and trying really hard to "actually lead" the team members. That immediately turned down the collective creativity and gel between the team members.

That, is why I am allergic to these words...
Fair enough, I guess this is actual program data rather than the config, you're right.
I think it's a mistake to assume that technology advancements will come in great leaps and bounds since the day of the wright brothers are over... we've been out of our atmosphere and to the bottom of the sea and made nukes++ and transistors at nm levels. Humanity has been so experienced in the domain of physics for so long that there is no low-hanging fruit left within the periodic table. The physical world has limits that our higher order thinking has identified and relentlessly struggled against. This is done every day by independent humans in labs and dreams around the world and seems by it's distributed nature to be incremental. I think Thiel's being quite foolish for lamenting/admonishing a trend that I believe will only getting stronger as the sophistication of collective human knowledge increases...
I'm a web developer with 5+ years direct professional experience (and probably closer to a decade with freelancing) and my past two roles have been senior level, though the title doesn't mean much other than that I do projects start to finish by myself.

I've been interested in moving into a PM role for the past couple years and it seems like a very difficult transition unless it's done internally at a company big enough to both need the role and for there to be reasonably frequent openings for the role. I've never worked at a company that large before, and I am so so sick of software development that I don't think I can stomach another couple years of it at a new, bigger employer to make that internal transition.

My strategy right now is to find a project management role and then transition from that to product management. But boy this is a difficult job market to find entry level project management roles. I advertise myself as being experienced with project management, which is true - it's been a part of my dev job for years and in freelancing. But after 20+ applications I haven't had a single response. I would have hoped so many years as an engineer would count for more on a resume but I guess not when applying to project or product management roles.

Any advice welcome.