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If the implicit goal of life were the enjoyment of it, the world would be a radically different place. A rational hedonic species would have a peaceful society, use some technology but only when it directly improved life, and would regulate things like economy and reproduction to keep them within strict limits and to keep any system from "running away." Preventing the emergence of any "Red Queen's race" would be a high priority.

But that's not the world we live in, and that's not what we are.

The implicit goal of life, as resulting from the nature of its embodiment as a self-replicating catalytic system, is the replication of genes, organisms, ideas, societies, and possibly eventually biospheres. Life makes life to make life.

The runaway industrial/technological system has been driven by the implicit drive of various living systems to replicate. There are more humans today than ever before, and more ideas in human brains than ever before. The fact that this has been achieved at the expense of other living things is an artifact of the limited size of our biosphere, but run this system long enough and it's possible that it will lead to the full-scale replication of entire biospheres:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8JyvzU0CXU

Over a long enough time span, life as a whole may come out ahead.

When life gets to other biospheres what will it do? Replicate, diversify, evolve, and replicate more. Remember "grey goo" from 90s nanotechnology speculation? It already exists. It's you. Life is grey goo, and if nothing stops it it will eventually convert as much matter and energy in the universe into life as physically possible before heat death.

Pleasure is an effect, not a cause. The things that please you do so because they've been wired that way to get you to survive and reproduce. Since humans are complex and social, our pleasures and motives are similarly complex. We experience pleasure from eating protein, fat, and sugar because it nourishes us. Socializing is pleasurable because we are semi-colonial organisms that depend on socializing for survival. Sex feels good because it leads to reproduction and in humans (and many other complex creatures) cements critical social bonds.

Change some neurological wiring and you'd derive immense pleasure from sitting in front of a screen solving problems for 40 hours a week. There are a few non-neurotypical people who do.

I am not necessarily arguing that this is all there is to existence or consciousness. We don't really know what consciousness is, and it may be a broader phenomenon somehow than biological life. But as far as biological embodied life is concerned, this is how it works.

I'm also not arguing that no improvement to our condition is possible. Being intelligent and self-aware we have some ability to drive this thing. Yet nature to be commanded must be obeyed. Anything we do to improve things probably has to work with the overall thermodynamic direction of life, not against it. This is probably why all utopian ideologies that revolve around constraint and reaction eventually fail or are washed away by a tide of less conservative social phenomena.
"These may seem fair to you"

I don't see 'seeming fair' to most people.

This is just yet another example of Google and Apple's monopoly preferences being leveraged by entities that have more leverage than them.

It has to stop.

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A lot of the time in the second half of the game is intentionally wasted by the team with the lead.

A lot of the time throughout the game is wasted intentionally by game procedure, e.g. refs are setting up for the next play.

Of course there are varied reasons individuals have to watch, but the overwhelming majority of it's market success can be ascribed to tribal desire to see your team win.
Should they have put logic into their banner ads and email to exempt any logged-in user who ever made an edit?

If you have a new point to make, it's best to make it as a top level comment rather than trying to prop yourself up as opposing a point someone never made.
Contrarian view here: brew fucking sucks. It’s the worst package manager I’ve used for doing random unwanted updates at odd times. Someone else would have filled the void if homebrew hadn’t shown up, and it would hopefully have been better. I hate that brew is good enough that it’s got some kind of local maximum such that there’s no replacement forthcoming. There, I said it.
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Although I am familiar with JS, React, WebGL and other concepts, combining all those in a single codebase looks very messy and with a big potential performance impact.

Just to name a few dependencies: Chakra-ui, React, Threejs, Three-js-fiber, MDX, all with their own syntax and methodologies, but somehow combined in a single file, all for showing a 3D sphere that would requier fewer lines of code if it was done natively in WebGL.
Dependency management in Homebrew is nothing short of primitive or broken...
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This is also my experience with the police. I've had to call them 5 times in my life, and not once did those calls result in any sort of action being taken. In fact, in the most recent one, the operator forgot to hang up the call and openly mocked me to her coworker while I sat there listening. It's maddening.

Especially in a country where the police kill so many people every year, I can't help but wonder what the purpose of this system even is if they can literally lie to your face saying they'll send someone and just not.
You mean the Combinators and circuit network? Pretty visual already: https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Combinator_tutorial

I mean it basically runs doom already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lVAFcDX4eM
I thought they added a feature to stop this from happening. It doesn't show which way the vote is going for some period of a time or something like that.
> Medicine should be the very last thing tried to help people with mental problems

Really? They should just keep on suffering and do what? Snap out of it by the power of their will?

> Most people that get antidepressive medicine isn't heavily depressed

And let it evolve to chronic "mild" depression and possibly more severe mental illness, instead of treating it with an off the shelf anti-depressant today..

Medication helps lots of people and it's very effective, very quickly. If someone is suffering a lot of the time they don't need to be and this narrative of "only meds when it's severe" is why so many people go undiagnosed, untreated and later develop worse conditions in which they may not have a chance of full recovery.

Treat it when it's early, meds in moderation and with supervision.
In the past few years, China seems to have a dispute with many countries - Australia, USA, UK, Japan, various countries in Southeast Asia, and more.

Perhaps this quote is appropriate in this situation: “If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.”
It’s the same in much of the US- the majority of services rendered by fire stations are medical in nature. Most fire stations I’m aware of require all professionals firefighters to be EMTs (emergency medical technicians) and include at least one paramedic per shift/station.

I think this can vary though, as I’ve heard places like New Haven Connecticut rely heavily on private ambulance services.
Congrats on this - I’ve been meaning to try it for a while. Extremely useful piece of software
It’s Weird that Apple doesn’t do this themselves.

If Apple did it, HN would be awash in "Walled garden!" and "Monopoly!" hysteria.
This company is just one big ethical dilemma packaged Silicon Valley style to look hip.
Why would a company go through a SPAC instead of an IPO?

Does the SPAC merger constitute a hedge against uncertainty in an IPO? What I mean is, 23andMe gets cash NOW and the SPAC gets the company at a discount but accepts the risk the IPO might not meet its goals?

Could someone please explain the strategy?
Not available for purchase != not available.

I understand the point you're trying to make: technologists undervalue national sovereignty when it's from a non-Western / less-democratic country.

But try to appreciate parent's point as well: that there are technical qualities about the internet that make it censorship-resistant.
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Yeah, if Apple says "This is our official package manager, and you can use it to install OpenSSL/nginx/whatever", like or not, they are on the hook if it breaks, and they have to fix it. Like, companies are going to be like "we trusted you and now our website is broken, and we're going to sue you".

Homebrew gets away with this a little bit by basically being unofficial, implicitly saying "we're not guaranteeing anything here, this is purely for convenience". It would be much harder to make this argument if you were an official Apple project.
I disagree here. Quite frankly, I don't pay any attention to what my effective tax rate is. It is only brought up when debating politics - it has no bearing on my everyday decisions. Parent poster asked why people talk about 50% tax rate and I responded with the reasoning.

The number that does matter to me is my marginal tax rate. That is the number that I have to use when thinking about how my everyday decisions impact how much money I am bringing home. How do I consider 401k? FSA/HSA? Tax-deferred instruments? Charity donations? Additional income (second jobs,etc)? Time to hold stocks (capital gains vs income)? Tax deductions?

All of those are based on marginal tax rate. I understand your desire to call out conflation, but I specifically differentiated the two in my comment. I am not misleading anyone

Please tell me when you care day-to-day about effective tax rate (other than tax return time and arguing on the internet). Why would you? You can't change it. Marginal tax rate actually impacts your decisions.
The fundamental issue with the argument you're presenting is that Pakistan is not a secular country, unlike England or the USA. An example of a country that bases their government on a particular religion allowing citizens to freely declare whether they're adherents of that religion even if their practice differs significantly compared to established orthodoxy would significantly strengthen this assertion.
Hey,

1. install your favorite implementation (sbcl, ccl, ecl)

2. install quicklisp (see quicklisp.org for instructions)

3. > (ql:quickload 'clim-examples)

4. > (clim-demo:demodemo)

You are all set :-) Soon™ we are going to switch to xrender protocol (you may see wip in backend-manual branch).
I agree they'd do a great city simulator. There are a couple of games that do toy with this already:

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
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How often are you running brew? Not using MacOS anymore, but I mostly did it when configuring the computer the first time, and maybe some more when changing projects. So like two times a year or so.
> always send armed men to any potential encounter

No. Why would you say we should do that? What's wrong with you?
MacPorts meanwhile existed years before Homebrew, and is alive and well.
Chrome's sync does sync more than just bookmarks. You can paste "chrome://sync-internals/" into the url bar to see the list of synced stuff, it's in a table on the far right, or click the "data" tab. The synced autofill, for example, is useful to me.
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How should multinational conglomerates like Apple and Google handle sovereign nation states that violate The Golden Rule?

I think the best case scenario is to deescalate the situation while also minimizing the impact of the violation; I don’t have a clue how best to achieve this lofty goal.
Too focused on relative income distribution, not enough on standards of living.

Americans live in bigger houses with fewer people living in them, they own smart phones, cars, huge TVs, appliances, HVAC, video games, plenty of clothes. They get their goods delivered straight to their door, they have their food grown and prepared for them. This is an accurate description of lower class Americans.

While income inequality is real and worsening, I'm still not seeing evidence that this leads to bad outcomes.
Yes, the last major piece AFAIK was WebRender (hardware-accelerated compositing), which has been shipped last autumn.
But they controlled all the phone lines, and hence all the broadband – they'd only be ousted when 3G came along, and even then would they really have?
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The majority of the ports and software I want installed are essentially Unix/Linux/GNU environment tools.

Macports has always seemed to me to be a more "unix-y" way of doing that, and it works politely with Apple's ways on top of the Unix core (eg locking down the system volume).

It also has a very nice "select" and "variants" system that allows you to have multiple versions of a package as well as packages with more or less functionality (eg integrating with the MacOS keychain etc).

When I first got into Macs (only around 5 years ago), I looked at both homebrew and macports and as soon as I saw homebrew blasting stuff into /usr/local while macports neatly put everything in /opt, I was convinced to go with macports. I also had previous experience with the BSD's port systems, which helped push me towards macports.

But I'm open to being convinced about homebrew, although I've never needed something that it had that macports didnt.
Fair, though I would argue that those services are much more closely tied to the core experience of Firefox (and in particular the promise of safer, more private internet access) than something like Sunbird ever was.
Maybe this is a silly question that reflects my lack of understanding of how it works, but: does it support Wayland?
This is what I want to read.

I know WSB banned SPACs. Did you see it on /r/investing?

SeekingAlpha has a lot of writeups on SPACs, but I don't think they're as savvy as Reddit. Totally a mixed bag.
sick of them running the world as they see fit, with no accountability
This is not a very god argument and it that can be used to justify the worst possible actions including genocide.

The 'problem' here - is that outside actors are forced to become 'complicit' with all sorts of laws that are potentially an objectively 'bad'.

By removing app restrictions by Apple and Google - we remove the complicity, making the issue squarely one of Pakistani authoritarianism.

With Google, at least there are ways to install apps without their app store, with Apple, obviously not.
To me the worst Jobs inspired cargo cult effect is that everyone is suddenly obsessed with details and thinks that OCD is cool, "omg I can't stand that kerning, it's half a pixel off, it stresses me out."
Yes, like Wikipedia.
I think that's playing with semantics. Most codebases have old parts, the old part of texlive just has a name. It's still being actively maintained and would be a lot less usable if it wasn't, there's just an imaginary line between the texlive part and the tex part.
We are constantly gaslit by the war media, so there is a difference between perception and reality. It would not be extreme in any real sense to stop fighting all or even some of our stupid murderous wars. It wouldn't be difficult; we could just... stop. Yet every time there is a suggestion to stop antagonizing Russia or China, or stop attempting to depose every Latin American leader who isn't a right-wing hardliner, or relax the economic sanctions imposed on a third of humanity, or just accept that Near Eastern nations are going to build the pipelines they choose to build where they choose to build them, we are subjected to intense campaigns of sky-is-falling fear-the-brown-people bullshit.

It would not be extreme in any real sense to give labor unions more power, or to imprison fewer people, or to end drug prohibition, or to stop brutalizing undocumented immigrants, or to have less racism enforced by our bureaucracies, or to reign in abusive social media firms, or to provide adequate health care to everyone. All of these things have already been done in particular states and municipalities. Large numbers of Americans already support these things. Even so, armies of Chickens Little lie in wait to assail those who reasonably suggest further improvements.

We got in this position by gradual "sustainable" steps. Shit runs downhill. If everything continues to change in the way it has changed already, in ten years we'll be even further downhill. The 1960s' civil rights movement wasn't gradual accommodation. Old white people were angered all over the nation. That's why it led to genuine improvements. As Lenin said, one must always try to be as radical as reality itself.
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I don't think FAANGM having control is a technical solution -- it's a political solution too, albeit with a (semi-) public company in the position of power.
Useful tool :)
What a shame. I miss the pommes frites and awesome linux talks. I believe this is all avoidable. I am a callous person. I think that Covid, while bad, is not world ending and should not preclude in-person events like this. Covid-19 appears to kill about 0.3% of those infected. In-person events like FOSDEM invaluable to open source and worth the risk for those w/out underlying health conditions. Judge me. Tell me what a horrible human I am.
Every day for a large portion of the day. I use an org-capture template which lets me capture tasks and I keep all my notes in those tasks including proof-of-concept code, etc. I capture and schedule meetings through the same template which pre-populates things like space for a list of attendees, the agenda, after-meeting notes, and action items which become todos. I even track the amount of time I spend on each so I can fill out my timesheet as I'm in a field where we maintain billable work, etc.

All this to say it's a very flexible system and lends itself well to keeping notes.
> Would it be fair if England declared Catholics "unChristian" and banned their use if the term?

I think it's slightly more nuanced than that. For example, England should be able to declare whether a given group of people are members of the Church of England (organization). Wherever a centralized authority exists, that authority should have the power to declare whether or not someone is a member of the organization. The Catholic church should absolutely be able to declare some rogue sect that claims to be Catholic "unCatholic".

However, you are absolutely right, where no centralized authority exists no one should be able to classify others' high level beliefs. Whether someone is Jewish, Christian, Islam, Atheist, etc. is not up to anyone but the individual adherent. If you believe in Jesus Christ and believe you are following his teachings, you are a Christian and no government or conglomerate of sects should be able to say otherwise. If you believe in Mohammed and the tenets of Islam, no government or conglomerate of sects should be able to say you are not a Muslim.
Ooh I see :)
Thanks for sharing it with me.
If the first thing you do is put SEC investigators out there to see who shitposted, you won't _find_ evidence of naked shorting even if there's naked shorting out there.
> I didn't have "insider information" to make $300k on Gamestop. The evidence was in the open.

It really doesn't work like that. You didn't use public knowledge to make money on Gamestop; you used luck.
Check the SPAC subreddit and look at blogs that actually do analysis on the SPAC teams themselves. The best indicator is usually who runs the SPAC and their connections in SV + focus industry. But ultimately, you can't reliably predict it. You can do what I do and shotgun investment in several promising SPACs and hope that one hits in a reasonable amount of time (I'm 1/4 so far this year).
Macports? They’ve been around even longer than brew. But they were always a bit too Linuxy for most Mac users.
I cannot fathom where python is struggling is with that. Pip and a requirements file that can be pinned with version numbers

It's super easy, barely an inconvenience

Gradle is a hot mess and JavaScript is the just a complete shit show
As I mentioned in another comment, Apple supports them with hardware and technical resources. Seeing what happened with the whole CentOS mess, I am kind of glad that homebrew remains independent and can continue to do so without relying on Apple’s money.
I am suspicious that the repeated comparison to standards for water here aren't really fair. Heavy metals are a natural occurrence in pretty much all foods that we eat, regardless of environmental pollution (though pollution does have a notable impact).

For instance, it's incredibly common for even the highest-quality 'organic' produce to contain levels of heavy metals such as lead in amounts that drastically exceed California's prop 65 standards. Things like avocados and watermelons often have close to 10x more lead than what prop 65 considers acceptable. Spinach, wines, cruciferous vegetables and nuts tend to be even worse. Even when grown in relatively unpolluted soils with 'natural' lead levels (50-400 ppm range), many such produce items STILL drastically exceed prop 65 standards.

That said, I'm not a food safety expert or toxicologist, so I might have an incredibly bad take on this.
So literally you’re saying the architect is the only person who can write good documentation.

Also the architect is the only person who did not write a line of code yet understands the tool better than engineers who work, code and solve problems across the entire stack.

That’s not only arrogant. It’s delusional.
I went looking for the original xiaoxiao stick figure fighting swf to load into the demo and found out that Albino Blacksheep is already using Ruffle in production: https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/fight1
I'm sorry. I looked at this website, and he explicitly blames me and my people for controlling and destroying the country (and the World Trade Center) and wants me destroyed. I can't look away from that. It's sad that that's OK on Y Combinator's Hacker News, but at least I know what I'm dealing with here.
India is restoring 4G internet in Jammu and Kashmir after 18 months
Looking forward to a Calendar that I'd actually like to use :)