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>I think the flaws are so large, and fixing them so impractical (especially anything involving direct human involvement), that the problem is essentially impossible.

Then let's as an industry try to think through ways to fix these impractical problems. My original goal was not for you and me to design the perfect system in a quick HN conversation. I was instead pointing out that the tech community too often treats this issue as a mathematical impossibility and refuses to engage anyone who pushes back on that. Admitting that something is not impossible but rather so impractical as to be essentially impossible is the first step in figuring out a solution. It is unlike the tech community to see an extremely difficult problem and just refuse any attempt to solve it because of the difficulty.

>What on earth makes you think we’ll solve the structural issues with government key escrow for all encryption, when all the evidence suggest that we’re unable to perfectly solve these issues as a species?

I am repeating myself here, but the goal isn't 100% compliance. No law can achieve that and I don't know you you are projecting that expectation on this conversation. The goal is to address most occurrences.

>You wanna see how this story ends? Read up on prohibition America, or just the war on drugs. We’ve been down this road many times, with many different vices, it’s ends the same way every time. Normal people get criminalised, illicit behaviour continues regardless. Organised crime profits from facilitating illicit behaviour. Please explain why you thing crypto is going to be the exception?

People want to engage in vices. I'm not convinced that people have nearly as strong of a desire for complete privacy as evident by all the behavior we have seen over the last few decades in responses to how governments and corporations invade privacy. It is a popular conspiracy theory that Facebook is secretly recording audio on your phone 24/7 and uses conversations it hears to better target ads. I have multiple friends who genuinely believe this. This belief isn't enough to get them to uninstall Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp from their phones. Some people will certainly be willing to go the extra mile for privacy, but most people won't.
I’m not keen on giving a pass that easily. The US education system is decent, and if they can read and write, and have access to internet and a stable home, it’s on them at some point to take it initiative.
> the days of the week associate correctly with the days of the week

Maybe for the second one you meant "names of the planets"?
You don't need ETH or an ENS domain to use Ethereum for single sign on. Just need a wallet. The wallet can be totally empty. The ENS domain is simply for human readable account names.
> However, it's clear to me and the other execs that WFH absolutely does not work for us.

The "for us" part is refreshing humble for HN comments; thank you for the details of your experience.

I spent about 10 years working on the campus of a very large tech company, and then another 10+ years working for different remote development teams. The remote teams that I have managed were in teams that were built from the ground up to be remote, generally in companies built from the ground up to be remote. And when I say "remote" I really mean "distributed." Hiring the people with the best skills and letting them work from wherever they happen to live rather than relocating them.

I assume in your study that you divided TEAMS into WFM or office based, and did not have teams comprised of some people working remotes and some in the office?

I think that some people are wired to work effectively in distributed teams, some are not. Some managers have the "online social intelligence" to lead distributed teams, some do not. Taking a group of people attracted to working in an office or a high tech campus, and having them "work from home" while the rest of the company is still based in the office does not seem likely to work, though I am surprised by the starkness of your findings.
Can someone please explain exactly what regulations are being proposed and what manufactures will be required to do? Are manufacturer going to be, for example, required to manufacture electronic parts for every old model and keep them available for 10 years as was suggested in one comment? I'm sympathetic but there is no way this is going to work. There are literally thousands of different models of phones, for example, made every year. Ask yourself if it is it really practical to require manufacturers to keep generating parts for every old model? And then multiply that problem countlessly for every other electronic product out there.I don't think this is an area for regulation This is a recipe for shutting down the tech hardware industry. This is an area for customer pressure not regulations. This will be a hugely burdensome on manufacturers and will greatly reduce the amount of innovation and new products. And shut many new products out of the marketplace.
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I honestly believe that Guix will eventually pull out ahead of NixOS, simply because its going to be part of Debian 11. NixOS is a bit easier to set up and use for now, especially for provisioning simple linux servers around commonly used packages.
I have all the problem described in this article. And I have definitely rant [1] about OLED for a very long time since the launch of iPhone X. The PWM problem is quite well known on Internet forums but again mainstream media doesn't want it as a story (yet). I also ran away from Malls or shops that use crappy LED that have their flickering level at a low rate. ( Not to mention their utter crap colouring ) I did once try to call for quality standards of LED but obviously no one cares. It was the first time I felt what disability were like when the your surroundings assumes everything is perfect or without disability.

I also think those who are susceptible to PWM are also latency sensitive. Which means ProMotion / 120Hz panel is definitely a thing I can felt. And micro jank are definitely observable. ( I discovered that in the early days of Firefox, that was before Mozilla took jank / micropause in their UI seriously )

> I had had motion issues with an earlier phone at one point, and knew to turn off motion effects to solve that problem.

Unfortunately this is not widely known. I have friends who have very mild symptoms they didn't know it was those motion causing it.

>Am I going to be shut out of future phone upgrades? I don’t see many of the top-of-the-line models coming out with LCD displays.

What the article didn't state, was that OLED has an economy of scale and roadmap that makes LCD pretty much irrelevant from a BOM cost perspective. i.e It isn't even about picking a lower end iPhone SE or iPhone 11 for LCD Screen. Soon OLED will take over that segment as well. And you can bet those OLED screen will have even more PWM than the current best iPhone. And remember, iPhone already have the best OLED screen in terms of PWM levels.

That is why I am praying there will be iPhone SE Plus with a LCD Screen. And iPad Air stays with LCD.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18505704
I just can't imagine being friends with such a person tbh.
But both will issue actual popcount instructions only if they have been assured the program will be run on a machine that implements the instruction, which is not the default on, in particular, amd64/x86_64.
>Anyone who bought FTX swaps in e.g. Coinbase pre-IPO lost money on bad pricing alone.

Not sure what you're talking about here, I bought it & I certainly didn't...
Your comment reads like what he did is in such bad taste that you have to let it be known, on a site that is pretty well established to be anti-MAGA, how you disapprove of this person's choice to also be anti-MAGA, and you're still trying to maintain your elitism and stature by saying "I lost respect" to continue to fit in on the site. You're playing edge lord on easy mode.

Why even bother posting this?
but hasn't the productivity per worker been steadily climbing for decades, you would think there would be a stable point where that balances out
Google sends itself take down requests, you can see them at the bottom of the search results. I was surprised by this
There's always the post-scarcity system where robots make all the stuff and we can all stay home and play video games.
Guix use Scheme/Guile. It's way saner that the Nix custom language. The biggest pro/cons is that they are flexible dynamic languages. So when you define your deployment, you need to code very defensively because no type system will support you and find mistakes.
in the past it was antivirus and window promoting there own. later they have the best antivirus and other ones are ads and targeted as cloned adware. then it was the browser war. obviously firefox is the answer but it is the same as chrome. minus a few algorithms but in the end they are neck and neck with features. They will end up making a superior product. minus the distributors ie slack, discord, and whatever next gen tech companies.... (Ycombinator)......politicians want kickbacks and favors.and the giant 5 will continue to put out superior products that the general masses will end up consuming. or services and data will be stored on their infastructure. this bill does nothing. besides pander to a red base and make polititions some kickback bucks, and free advertisement for the big 5.
While sometimes they add new features can be needed, often it is not needed (e.g. too fancy graphics), or can be done with other stuff you don't need to change this program (e.g. compression in tar; you can already use like "tar | gzip" to make a compressed tape archive file; actually I never use the compression options (or half of the other options that they don't need and are better done with other programs) in tar and instead use it separately like that). Sometimes also some thing can be removed, but sometimes they remove important stuff and include bad stuff instead.

Web browsers are another thing. Maybe the way to write a good one is to fork NetSurf and modify it as appropriate, and occasionally merge changes when they are appropriate to do.
It seems that you are arguing that human life span being finite makes every medical assertion effectively testable, but it does not. You still don't have an infinite population and you still do not have an repeteable way to measure "life span".

And the claim that there is a "natural" and "un natural" order of things is as unscientific as it gets.

I am not going to expect anyone with a half brain to verify the health effects of mixing milk powder with and without a Bible below it, even though a large magnitude of people claim it has an effect. Nor I am going to ask for a full medical study to show that there is no difference.
Nope, 40.4%: https://www.emarketer.com/content/amazon-dominates-us-ecomme...
Used to have this argument regularly with executives of startups I've worked for who had worked in more "traditional" industries. The number of times I've had to interject around "pedigree" being "useful" is.. sad. (Most)Everyone I've hired from Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, etc have been the worst performing, and the most far behind in relevant skills. RIT, Rutgers, etc, waaaay far ahead. It got to the point where I started to move those people to the bottom because the curriculum they studied was so dated most of the skills became irrelevant; I don't need you to set up some complex excel spreadsheet that shows me the KPIs, and only you know how to update it, I need you to know how to set up mixpanel. I don't need you to program Java, I need you to set up k8s, etc. However, more importantly, these grads(recent or not) often come with an attitude of knowing, vs an attitude of learning.

Interestingly, all the "pedigree" obsessed folks who (all) graduated from ivy league schools went on to found one of the most mediocre and poorly focused VC firms I've seen.
Same, but I gut it out, because the dishes are pretty much always worth it.
I went into software dev while my father was a construction worker.

He is really proud of buildings he was working on and that he was able to build things with his own hands.

Even though I have an engineering degree and work in totally different environment I think that something I took from him is that I am really happy with the systems I have built and ability to create things on my own.

I did it with keyboard while he did it with hammer.

So I don't think it is "cartels" it is still a lot of what you experience in your childhood. If your parent is a dentist he will talk about that and you won't have problem to understand things in that area, maybe you will visit his practice and be able to play with the tools even. Well it still is some kind of upper-hand but not every child can have the same exposure to dentistry and I am fine with that.
>But who raises the next generation under that scenario?

Better yet, who takes care of all the old people? Nobody.
There is a dating service called Events and Adventures which operates that way. A friend of mine worked there but I never used it and don't know whether it's effective.
That is not true, and is a trick to try to pollute the discussion about bcash or some other nonsense. There will only ever be 21 million coins in Bitcoin by definition. If there are more — for example fractional reserve “backed” tokens on EVM chains — or even chain fork scamcoins, these are not Bitcoin. Bitcoin is UTXOs on mainnet. And 21 millionth is produced near 2140.
Yep, we did MySQL dual primary-primary circular replication on a cluster with ten read replicas, thousands of qps per box, all the way back in 2005.

We failed over back and forth from one primary to the other on a schedule every few weeks, just to practice and affirm we could.
GitHub Login:

“Personal user data
Full access
This application will be able to read and write all user data. This includes the following:

Private email addresses
Private profile information
Followers”

Seriously? No, thank you.
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For statistical purposes NYC basically isn’t America. It’s basically the only true city in the US, and is not representative of anything. Most other US cities become suburbs rather quickly, whereas NYC has an extensive urban built environment.

Walmart is the top grocer in the US and has a 27% market share. The top five grocery chains are about 45%. Top five ecommerce are about 53%. It’s not massively different.
I can see how Alpine makes some extremely simple things simpler than React, but it also really seems to restrict me in how I can refactor my website or app. With React I can keep things almost as simple as with Alpine, or move to more integrated solutions (e.g. SSR with hydration) without rewriting much of my existing code. Alpine basically has me stuck with only client side rendering without a lot of optimizations.

The only downside I see is that, unlike with Alpine, a build step is mandatory. However, I assume that any real production Alpine app will also want to include a build step, if only to decrease bundle size. It's such a low-hanging fruit and improves the experience for basically any user.

I get why Alpine is interesting from an idealistic view of avoiding complexity, but React+JSX just seems much more pragmatic to me.
You would still need a fair system that distributes a base amount of resources fairly. If we had that system the current form of capitalism could last much longer (another 80 years).
> the science explanations are occasionally wrong

what science isn't :)

I'll take a look at your recommendation, thanks
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“Fiat money is government-issued currency that is not backed by a physical commodity, such as gold or silver, but rather by the government that issued it”. [0] (Commodity-representative/redeemable currencies cam be created at will, but are also not fiat money.) Bitcoin is not fiat money, but not for the reason you present, which tries to use a definition of fiat from outside of the specific context to create a new definition for it in this context, where it has a well-established definition.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiatmoney.asp#:~:text=F....
Random perspective: I think the author is unintentionally speaking of a future not quite here yet & specifically with AI integrated into applications & their infrastructure. Essentially the need for low data gravity with how AI works today in viable business domains.

For large processing of data in general requests (maybe like a traditional SQL query) AI might typically require the retrieval data to map to vector formats. But it's not applicable to add those to RDBs (you're not doing any sql upfront, retrieval will be too slow), nor compute those ad-hoc (business app use cases, not general CV or NLP models, nor analytics).

AI/ML inputs/vectors need to exist somewhere where it is fast access vs abstracted software over that access; so using embedded dbs (leveldb, rocks, badger, lmdb, etc). Anecdotally, I get top performance over 8-24 physical ssd attachments (TBs of data), nvme raid-0 single mount on individual nodes, where we need to gather anywhere from 1 - potentially 10s of thousands of vectors every request. It's never more performant to distribute that and nothing is really gained with persistence. Today's platforms are somewhat geared for fast recovery (though writing TB's of data isnt simple, you can model automation & scale horizontally). Still, app platform infrastructure isn't really geared for AI application architectures like this. E.g., Kubernetes is too abstracted, but I imagine Google/GCP will, intentionally for AI workloads, enable CSI drivers and more robustness around Local SSDs on GKE.
It's a little surprising that there isn't one clear emerging shadow protocol in the GNU community. It would be interesting to see how Jami would approach IRC like channels in it's distributed fashion or which server it would adopt for use with its identity service.
This has already been solved, its called Public-key cryptography. Ethereum gave everyone a key, but usability issues have stifled making that useful offchain. ENS isn't needed.
College admissions' treatment of Asian American applicants is the most explicit form of institutional racism in the US today. It's the kind of racist discrimination that, if applied against any other group, would get the perpetrator sued to oblivion.
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What is the author's thesis? I skimmed and read and re-read, but didn't figure it out.

It's well known that elite universities are elitist in their admissions and have over-large endowments. And the elite universities have acted on it, and many of their new classes are very different. And it's well known that the rest of the U.S. educational system is underfunded.

> Sen. Tom Cotton, of all political leaders, suggested taxing private colleges with large endowments, and redirecting funds to vocational training.

It's not a surprise. Cotton and his party see Ivy League universities as institutions of the political opposition, whom they attack and want to punish and diminish.
Were harvard required to accept 40% of applicants at some point? (Google fails me)

I was part of an experiment where the physics department at my uni admitted everyone who applied. Even those without the required prerequisites. Most of the "extras" dropped out or transfered or failed etc. But about 20% graduated.

I think in one way this proved the normal application system was mostly effective. But it also gave people chances they never would have had. I was insulted (I'd got my grades!) initially but it taught me something about opportunity. Maybe we'd be better doing this everywhere?
It's not about anyone's stance on "MAGA". It's about about his divisiveness, and comparing roughly 40% of a country to Nazis and the KKK
Historically, only a % of the population ever reproduced. About the same as do today.

The difference is that the couples that do have children, have much fewer children. 2, instead of 4.

We need to look at the costs faced by couples with a lot of children. For example, you can accommodate 2 children in a standard 3 bedroom house, but 4 or 5 children are going to need a much larger and more expensive dwelling. Same thing with cars.

The USA seems to be doing alright with this, where housing is relatively affordable, and child tax credits and the ability to combine you income with your spouse. (The situation is much more dire in Central/Eastern Europe)

One way to improve this is to increase land value taxes, but offer a credit for each child of the owners under 18 living there. This would give families a formal tax advantage against baby boomers and investors.
Yeah I'm trying to figure out where I'm essentially asking the same things of him and putting pressure on him. But I've also been in completely hands off mode for the entire pandemic.
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Practical questions: I’d love to try this out for my personal desktop/laptop, but I’ve been really pampered by the Arch repositories. What is the extent of completeness in supporting practically important daily use software? Are there parallel repositories supporting the non-libre packages that one might occasionally need? Is there an easy way to construct Guix recipes from another Linux system — say Debian, or Fedora or Arch?
Corporate Mirrors of Open Source Projects: Assimilation via FireWalling
Should I be concerned about the independence and future health of open source projects versus the risk of corporate take-over?

Scenario: Today I was updating some open-source application packages (R) and my update procedures failed. I quickly tracked the problem down to some new firewall rules which were blocking all .edu domains and sites using HTTPS certs not signed by "appropriate" authorities. My IT Network team uses firewall appliances which accept "rules from a trusted vendor".

The R project and CRAN package mirrors are hosted on many servers globally: https://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html The mirroring servers are owned by a "diverse" community. And also a "microsoft.com" domain server.

On one hand, I give KUDOS to Mircosoft for supporting the R-project and open source by hosting a mirrorl

On the other hand, Microsoft does like to acquire software projects for the sake of making a profit, and by hosting a mirror site they can monitor the R-community and gain insight into usage patterns. If Microsoft can influence the firewall rules, they can blacklist other mirror sites and drive more traffic to their "trusted" mirror, then use this traffic for surveillance then assimilation.

I don't mean to single out Microsoft here. Any large internet software company could do the same.

There may be a legitimate reason for blocking .edu domains: are they an easier target vector for inserting malicious code into open-source projects?

But, I do see a potential ethical conflict whereby a large company can influence firewall rules to drive open-source project traffic towards themselves for purposes of surveillance and assimilation.

When Microsoft purchased GitHub, I had concerns, but it was done publicly. Tweaks to firewall rules are not public, and concern me more.

Am I overly concerned about this corporate risk of surveillance and assimilation? Is there a FSF or EFF manifesto that already warns of this?
No, the ENS domain is simply an additional layer of rent-seeking. Metamask sign-on is great. ENS is a pointless cash grab.
When you have 4 women who wants to date 1 man then they will feel fierce competition and that everything just gets handed to guys. Similarly the 3 men those women refuse to date will feel that dating is a woman's game.
I think reforms have been push by either big payouts or insurers refusing further coverage.

According to this article, Chicago are taking it seriously:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/police-rethink-policies-as-citi...

And again, what is the alternative? Make it a criminal case instead, send one moron to jail and nothing changes and no one gets compensation?
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