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>I mean do you agree that the universe would still exist?

I have no basis for answering this question either way. Maybe the universe requires a conscious observer for wave function collapse. If a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound? Who knows.

>Do you think some other life in the universe might have consciousness, even if it's organized in a way that would be unrecognizable to us?

Maybe. Maybe not. It depends on how rare life is in the universe. So far we have one example.

>How would you go about examining that question?

I wouldn't since earth would be blown up and I wouldn't exist. If you mean when earth is still here then I wouldn't because unless intelligent life is very common space is simply too vast to find it.

Sagan was wrong about a lot of things.

Anyway not to be a downer but if other intelligent life exists in the universe the chances of us meeting it is very low. So low that the human race is more likely to go extinct before meeting creatures from another star system. If a superposition of universes exists in the same region of meta-space-time then maybe it is higher. For example UFOs may be from "here" just another plane that some times leaks into ours. Imagine multiple earths in multiple universes some of whose inhabitants have learned to cross between.
I'll upvote, but I disagree with the connotations that come with using the word "punished".
There are 2 young married couples (mid 20's) in my immediate family who cannot get pregnant naturally, and they really want to and have been trying for multiple years. The issue is bigger than who is doing what job. Something external, likely environmental, is messing with our biology as it's happening all over the world, not just here.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/15/world-population-falling-fer...
> Sprints are nonsense unless they have gaps bewtween them, noone can sprint indefinitely

This is the crux of the nonsense. A high-level engineer can work around this but for the mass of ticket punchers, it just encourages non-thinking, risk aversion, and a lack of trust between themselves do the pressure of velocity charts, which translates into buggy code, mounting legacy blockers.

I know frontend engineers who didn't know what a finite state machine was, nevermind how it was implicit in their business code. For the mass of mediocre engineeers, sprints kill incentive to learn and become a better engineer; no is rewarding you.

Product doesn't care cause they're incentive structure is advesarial to Engineering push-back on tech debt, refactoring, etc. Sprints allow them to make sure their bonus is on time. Then Product people quit when BS mounts, another round of Product management shows up, and rinse, repeat.

I've seen this cycle happen three times in one org in just 5 years, the org where I started as a Junior.

And don't let DevOps also be working against sprints in a mediocre org

Sprints have, for most of the industry, not the Top 10% employers and what not, frankly regressed the industry.

Everyone stops working for the organization and starts trying to figure out how to make the organization work for them, from engineering to product to devops, etc. Good hiring is also a factor in what you'll get out of your employers, but sprints don't get you more at either rate.
I disagree with all of those examples - most managers go into managing late in life. My partner, for example, is current a VP of Operations after diverting twenty years of their life to care for a son with special needs.

A whole lot of actors get into it later in life - but if you're talking about being a hollywood actor than yea - the chances of being a big movie star are vanishingly small no matter what you do.

A lot of really good lawyers go into the field after gaining experience in another specialty and there are some notable lawyers out there that didn't start practicing until well into their forties - it's a very different track than pre-law into a firm but it's quite doable.

On the topic of finance (or "high finance") unless you just generally mean "being rich" then I'd draw your eyes to the fact that the finance industry actually employs a disproportionately large number of women and boosts some of the best work/life balance you can find out there.

The normal formula is normal because it is the easiest to approach, but making shifts to your life later on in age is pretty cheap. You'd be surprised how little it costs you at 30 or 35 to start taking night classes[1] and transition to a new field - it's certainly not as easy as sticking with the same thing but it isn't particularly difficult.

1. If those are even needed, honestly formal education is a bit overvalued and having any formal education is generally transferable to other fields outside of highly specialized scientists - next time you're in the office ask around and see if one of your coworkers has a communications degree - they probably do.
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While that's fundamentally true, it's not like humanity would fare particularly well 50 years in the future if everyone stopped having children for 20 years right now.
>Mandating high speed internet access for everyone sounds great until you look at the costs for running new infrastructure to some of our more remote, rural cities.

Yes but broadband companies have already been given tax breaks and subsides to do that very work. They just haven't because (as an example) AT & T argues DSL still qualifies as sufficient for internet access. The original article was about upping the speed required to meet the definition of broadband from 25 down 3 up to 100 symmetrical. I'm not sure that'll actually make a difference unless broadband providers are required to install that new infrastructure.
I'm glad that works for Rust but I don't see it being compatible with the way Haskell has been developed.

Haskell the language is defined by a specification called the Haskell Report. The last one was Haskell 2010 [0].

The news is that the next version of this report will incorporate advances from several GHC-specific language extensions.

How useful this is in modern Haskell remains to be seen. As far as I can tell the de-facto Haskell compiler is GHC. Hugs is unmaintained and UHC and LHC are mostly experimental or in-development. However without a spec we can't get innovation from alternative implementations of the language.

[0] https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/
I am the opposite. On my Focal Clear there is no advantage for Tidal over Apple Music.

Would be curious to see if you can pass this test:
http://abx.digitalfeed.net

Because what people fail to understand is that from source -> listener there are multiple points at which information is lost. People obsess over the file format but not over which DAC they use or whether Apple, Spotify, Tidal has better encoding capabilities.
Really nice hacking; well done.

I wonder who t0st is. He lives in Moscow according to Twitter. This type of work is usually done to find vulnerability in code e.g. buffer overflows. Injecting a piece of code to program machine code is a technique used in system hacking or software piracy. I can bet t0st is working or has worked for FSB. Anyway, not that is matters... it is still fun to think about it
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> I was surprised that Google's iOS app ignores iOS Photos' albums and favorites.

They recently made it possible to synchronize favorites between Google Photos and Apple Photos. Beware that turning this on resets the favorites you had made in Google Photos, keeping just the ones you have in Apple Photos, but once it has been turned on the synchronization seems to go both ways between the apps.
> Have you noticed that it's leaders focused on their businesses and capitalism that we turn to when we look for definition of value and purpose. Those folks who are looking for our productivity that feeds their wealth.

> Maybe we should look for our value and priorities somewhere other than these folks.

That may be a strange thing to say at the web forum of a company whose whole purpose is to channel young people towards that mentality and the capitalist perspective of value and purpose.

So please, say it louder.
That's too forgiving, considering that Qt Company is screwing people who freely donated work to the product and now won't get it back.
There no question that Bill Gates had a lot of luck. But if you had his luck could you have been as successful? I doubt it. Because here is also a skill, perseverance, and effort component that most people who spend time on HN probably lack, myself included.

I don't think "hero worship" is great, but I have tremendous respect for Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, etc who are better men than me in so many ways. I look up to them and wish to emulate their better features.
You shouldn't refrigerate your food. It's risky and unnatural. For the first 300,000 years of human history, people got along fine without refrigeration - why don't you just hunt and gather like you were intended to?

IVF, egg and embryo freezing, and related technologies are modern miracles that allow people to live better lives by increasing their fertility options.
BTC/USD exchange rates are at best correlated with mining difficulty and 100% not causally related. this is patently false.
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Could you make this work with a tile?
What I internalize from that is that the life optimization function coefficient on "live without a car" is not high enough for that person to outweigh the coefficients and input variables on other quality of life factors.

If "live without a car" was 1.0 and all other factors were 0.0, they'd decide to go live in NYC/Boston/someplace else that optimized that. Since they don't, they have other factors that they are weighing (probably implicitly) to conclude that they shouldn't do that.

No one can have everything they want. Most people can have the one thing they want most in the world, if they're willing to make enough other sacrifices to get it.
Apatheist here. Behavioral rules are fine. I itch when expectations are laid down to sacrifice moral compasses to unseen agenc(ies) and unproven agents.
These seem ... preferable, to me?
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To be fair vanilla jS was a NIGHTMARE a decade ago when it was the wild wild west of standards and every browser for itself.

To do anything required 20 lines of code testing for browser compatibility, and jquery took care of that.
Perhaps this is a marker of the divide in worldviews.

If we can't develop a country and a society people willingly want to have kids in, what is it for?
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There is a single trade framework that contains them all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Single_Market
I am also in the US and my connection is 10x faster than yours and 30% cheaper.

Half of the senators listed in this article represent states with population densities lower than any South African province other than Northern Cape. Colorado's density is 19.9/km2. Maine is 16.9/km2

Many of the servers which you connect to in the US are in the Northeast megalopolis, which is an area with a density of 359.6/km2
I am pretty sure this project is purpose built to keep your data amongst the big tech oligopoly. You exercising your freedom is no good for anyone.
Thank you, but this is not necessary. If you ever asked for feedback (but you haven't) and based your actions on it (which you won't), you would make the release cycle much slower, you would inform the user about the upgrade, you would tell them which options are going to disappear and what will be broken, and you would give them the option to at least delay the upgrade. You also would ask their permission to run the Software Reporter tool, and it wouldn't report its findings to you.
It doesn't account for that. If it did, it would assume improving the efficiency of one thing is equally valuable to improving the efficiency of any other thing, which is absurd.

Like I said, not all destruction is destined to create excess value, but some destruction is, and I am arguing that this is the case here specifically. A counterfactual where this money would've been spent on something even more beneficial doesn't really matter. It wasn't spent that way and it could also have been spent in numerous other ways that are even less beneficial.
> Huh, I'd love to see a poll on how many people are what

> Let's try:

Thoughts as words 58.9%
Thoughts as concepts 14.3%
Both 18.8%
No idea what these mean 8%

20,300 votes

I'm really curious what going on with the 'No idea' group: 'Neither' and/or something else entirely.
Please link to claims of duplicate submissions. This story is not shown before on https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=medium.com/swlh
> violence ( except when required to protect public safety )
> abortion

I mean, if a cop kills someone, isn't an abortion of their children. I'm pretty high right now so I'm not sure.
Some of my personal idols from the past are Coco Chanel, Estée Lauder and Katharine Graham.

That would be women born in the 1880's, 1900's and early 1920's.

While few women had the privilege required to focus on their career, it was still present. At what point should we mark something as "tradition"?

Remember that the Equal Credit Opportunity Act was not a thing until 1974. Until then, banks required single, widowed or divorced women to bring a man along to cosign any credit application, regardless of their income.
But it's totally cool if we develop and sell the same tech to oppressive governments.
its not stealing if people are giving that information out for free or if it's just metadata, nothing immoral there
Ultimately you're arguing for reality to change to fit your utopian whims. I'm saying, for the average couple, we should lean into reality.

Would it be great if we could all have it all? Of course. I'm more concerned with the actual happiness and fulfillment of people who really will regret not having started a family early, and instead wasted their efforts following the neo-liberal careerist path.

Someone's got to have the children and raise them. Someone's got to put in the time at work. Because of the time, effort and physical realities of women bearing children, for most couples the division of labor falls most efficiently on men putting in most of the time rising up the corporate ladder.

People that recognize this happy path and want to go their own way are welcome to it. But we shouldn't lie to people. We should be honest with men and women from a young age what reality is.
From looking at articles that actually give hard numbers, misidentification for minorities is something like 5 to 10 times more common, with a 1 in 1000 error rate for black women for example:

https://www.wired.com/story/best-algorithms-struggle-recogni...

Being able to identify 999 out of 1,000 black women accurately is highly successful. Just because it gets 9,999 out of 10,000 on white women doesn't make 999 out of 1,000 a failure.

Mind you I'm opposed to the tech in general because it will inevitably be used to create dystopian hellholes. But not because I falsely correlate different error margins for different races with "structural racism."
I think the more likely answer is "We've counted every single employee of every single company we have any relationship with despite there being no real prospect of the vast majority of them being impacted by us"
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Please omit personal swipes from your HN comments, no matter how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. Your comment would be just fine without the first paragraph.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For the last one, basically if a process is essentially never implemented in a way that respects the principles it’s designed around something is very wrong.
According to the second article I posted where a medium.com user shared his experience, yes Comcast brought fiber to his premises.
Workaround: install the Google Opinion Rewards app which is even available on iPhone. It will ask you survey questions about places you have recently visited. (Yes, it tracks you). Over the course of a year, you can earn $20 in "virtual" money which can then be used to purchase the 100GB/year plan.
Wow at that popover to prevent reading with an adblocker installed.

You can load the page then go to airplane mode.
You could do reverse transcription and sequencing to confirm the presence of the full length spike protein. That should tell you with pretty high confidence that it’s authentic. But the really interesting “biopunk novel plot” future would be some sophisticated counterfeiter who is actually producing the correct mRNA sequence and packaging it in LNPs. If the counterfeiter was able to charge a thousand dollars per dose, it could be quite profitable even at small scale.
> But because Google is doing it, people are (rightly) wary and (definitely not rightly) calling it evil without doing research.

That's what happens when no one trusts you. It's human nature, and logical arguments aren't going to change that.

If anything, it's a good thing for society if Google burns despite trying to do something genuinely good (not that FLoC is good), because it shows others that there are real consequences to betraying the trust of your customers.

We lose one untrustworthy company today, and gain many trustworthy companies in the future. That's a net positive for society!
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This is awesome... I was always pushing for non-JS versions of products and was always met with the dumbest reasons... 'the only reason someone wouldn't run JS is if they're hacking'
The unfortunately reality is that most office workers, even tech ones, are so alienated from the results of their labor that it is easy to rationalize their jobs as meaningless.
This submission broke the site guidelines, which ask: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Cherry-picking a detail and making that the title instead is the primary form of editorializing, so please don't do that. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Titles are by far the biggest influence on threads, so this matters a lot. Changing the title this way made a flamewar much more likely.
So only paying customers get further 5.x updates?

That's pretty offensive considering the dumb priorities set for version 6, which lacks numerous essential modules (like serial and Bluetooth, WTF).

Looks like Qt Company deliberately gimped version 6 into uselessness so they could pull this shit.
Although I won't have children myself, I'm very glad that I live in a country (Sweden) where we have 480 days of parental leave (and each parent has an exclusive right to 90 of those days).

Yes, you don't get paid as much during those days (~80%), but it allows parents (not just mothers) to stay home for longer periods of time to raise their children. It can ofc cause some disturbances in your career (especially if you're working at a startup), but it allows for a much better work-life balance than parents can get in the states.
I get downvoted continually because I post edgy things like "eating meat is okay" and "you should consider having a family" etc. I'm used to it, comment karma is largely meaningless, and sometimes the rate limiting helps make sure I have composed my thoughts well before responding.

Very envious of your 4-day week! I do 6-7 days worth of work in 5 days and it's slowly killing me. Still finding time for the kids somehow, but the result is no sleep or recreation time for myself... the switch from office to WFH life has not been a blessing in terms of work/life balance.
Nuclear power must be well regulated, not ditched
Speed is often decoupled from latency - but many home routers don't do QoS correctly and can flood the DOWNSTREAM by flooding the UPSTREAM (ACKs don't get through).
The title is heavily editorialized. I know the submitter is the writer, but it's still completely different.
The end-point of distribution is besides the point. It's not part of the discussion and is not even a problem anywhere really.

The EU is definitely the entity responsible for acquiring the vaccines on behalf of nation states - this is what is failing.

The 'delay' is not due to Denmark inability to field nurses, it's in the EU's ability to secure product - for whatever reason.

And in the end, it won't matter. If the EU ends up 6 months behind other nations 'there will be no excuses'.

I think that they'll probably catch up, but there's a real possibility they don't.
What did you expect them to say? That they are unhappy. I take this kind of investigation with a pinch of salt. It can be a case of the ladies doth protest too much of their happiness. In my personal experience, many complain of loneliness as they grow older.
Nothing's wrong with it. But the fact that this paper looks at a specific different piece of the puzzle doesn't make it bad. You're just asking for an entirely different piece of research, and criticizing this even though it's a step toward being able to make that comparison.
you can find them on the forum, good luck trying to getting up and running

https://community.signalusers.org/c/development/server-devel...
Your forgetting medical virtual visits, which can allow people in rural areas (and people without reliable transportation) the ability to have conversations with their doctors. No more driving to the city, just to go over the lab results for the bloodwork you did 2 days ago.

Not to mention, virtual visits with other groups that help the poor, such as apply for assistance.
Ah yeah, that seems useful, thanks.
Could be mass surveillance, depending on how liberally that's interpreted.
You still have to have a ton of power. You won't generate all that outside of a power grid unless you own your own hydro dams or something.
Speed is confused for latency - many connections aren't well handled and so if you get close to saturating the connection latency goes to hell - because the ACKs can't get through fast enough.
Germany announced today that its ok to use for over 65s as well. So the trend is changing and was definitely not just Macron
The story says that SFTMA closed the access road to Twin Peaks because of the COVID lockdown, and that has triggered an increase in crime, mainly car break ins. What's the connection, why has closing the road increased crime? Are there now more parked cars along the road that are targets?
The "has to do everything to get funded" is definitely not a new problem, it's structural.

"The Best of the Journal of Irreproducible Results" (January 1, 1983) includes an article by William R. (Randy) Simpson about Murphy's Law, where he notes in a haha-only-serious way the many predictable problems that happen because of it. It's not online as far as I can tell, but the book can be purchased: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Journal-Irreproducible-Results/d...
That's basically the goal
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> When I mention it to someone that I want to take time off for a couple years

> actual equality where we acknowledge that women have different needs and desires

I find your view sexist and disturbing. 99% men would love to take couple of years off with kids as well. But face even more obstacles!
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