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>This idea that science and technology is just another random religion is so frustrating, but I encounter it online way more often than I would expect.

Well, "frustrating" is not a scientific argument itself, it's a subjective feeling. More like what a faithful would feel against blasphemy. Isn't it at least a little ironic?

>I don’t need to personally review and understand the details of why electricity and the internet work, because I am literally typing this message on an electronic device and sending it via the internet.

Which is neither here, nor there. You still need to trust tons of abstractions you can't evaluate and don't control, the claims of experts and snake-oil salesmen, the policy of goverments, the products and initiatives of corporations, advertising, statistical data, etc. all of which are telling you they're "based on science" but nonetheless contain loads of p-hacking, cherry-picking, bad methodology, non-reproducable BS, and downright snake-oil selling, to the point of often doing the opposite of what actual concrete science would advise.

The fact that you have some artifacts you can use just tells you that science can produce concrete things. Doesn't tell you evaluate different courses of action, evaluate science results and scientists, understand science-drive policy decisions, and so on.

>I can go build a simple computer and prove it all out myself.

99.999% of the people can't and never will (practically, not merely potentially). So for them it's more like the junkie saying "I can quit heroin anytime I want, I'm not addicted".
Yes, that was my other concern, especially looking at long term storage - would I still find drivers for it (or the SCSI controllers) 10 years down the line. And even Linux has been purging unused/unmaintained drivers lately. As much as I liked the prospect of a little retro-computing side-project I ended up just burning a dozen BD-XL discs instead. Wouldn't really work for large volumes of data but this was just a personal backup.
This is weird mental gymnastics if you ask me. But okay. It's your site, I'm not here to argue.
> I wrote our Windows Taildrop GUI. I reserve the right to make fun of it.

Is the GUI open source somewhere?
It's worth considering the opportunity cost of making them state-owned vs. the net costs of lack of access and excessive charges by corporate exploitation to see which is cheaper and better. Internet access and usage shouldn't be held hostage by a few, greedy rent-seekers.

Regulation as utilities is a minimum need, but corporations will always find ways to conduct regulatory capture and game the rules. This is why I think utilities need to be mostly social venture nonprofits that are highly-regulated.
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For the attacker, this may just be another bullet, another target. Killing or erasing your company's data, for the attacker, may mean absolutely nothing.

How do we go from here? Your job as a negotiator is to get them get them off their "fight mode" through the use of time, dialogue, and empathy.

By saying "I wont negotiate" you're building a gloom vision that there is no future. If the threat is real, you're out of time and out of luck. As Voss says, "She's dead"*

Further readings:

Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator ( by Gary Noesner)

Never Split the Difference (Chris Voss)

Ego, Authority, Failure (Derek Gaunt)

Movie: A Hijacking (IMDB)

* "60 seconds or she dies" challenge on Youtube (Chris Voss).
Recent take on the concept: https://voyagerstation.com/
“99% Invisible” has a recent podcast on the topic of abandoned ships. Believe it or not, it is way more common for sailors to be stranded than you would ever expect…
Not true, only cable TV is regulated. Netflix has free reign atm (e.g., 50 Shades of Grey has yet to leave "top 10 most watched" here).
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Trump’s presidency brought a lot of underground resentment (across the political spectrum) out into the open. It might turn out to be a good thing that people are having these discussions now instead of covering them up. It definitely feels less comfortable, though.
I agree entirely with your second point. I feel like a lot of the creative energy that had gone into the old web now goes into YouTube and TikTok, for better or worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4LbUv5FsGQ covers this topic.
As I say in the video, no point solution (ie. some new API) can solve the problem, when the need to integrate (glue) between so many point solutions, is the problem.
You can. It just doesn’t seem as clever to say “‘noun’ verbs”. It doesn’t have the property where the term is an example of itself.
> But according to who?

Whom.

;-)
I don’t understand, you’re willing to kill tens of thousands of animals to save a single person, but are against meat consumption- an activity that inherently provides nutrients to sustain a human life?
Don't fall for that. Firstly, they've defined free will incorrectly, and secondly, the whole movement to deny agency stems from the complete inability of anyone to address the hard problem of consciousness. "We cannot understand it, therefore it does not exist".
For example, people used to believe the Book of Genesis literally, and now (I believe) most denominations take it allegorically. I wonder how many similar stories like that will we have in the future.

For me, it always felt like the interpretation of the Holy Books are changing through time as we understand science more and more. And it feels ironic to me.
As someone who cannot process video, agreed this is genuinely insulting. To me, the majority of knowledge distillation is quickly becoming like cheap snacking - you get a bit, it leaves you wanting, but is ultimately bad for you.
The problem with that is the government has no only removed prison as a punishment, but also removed all possible punishment as they have refused any accountability at all and disallows the use of force to defend property.

That is far far far different than what the OP is talking about
So what if it does? Are you going to put a smart contract in jail? I'm saying there's no human doing money transmission.
Goodbye Freenode
Maybe by using a different animal, such as a human
I recently googled a few phrases about being disenchanted with programming and big companies.

I found some great forum posts from 2003 which really seemed to capture and articulate my views.

Check the posters name and it was.... 2003 me! Exactly the same issues about not getting anything done and architecture astronauts 18 years later!

Big company IT. The more it changes the more it stays the same.
I have a scroll wheel with a fly wheel so I just push it hard and break it once I am there.
Of course some are predestined to be plebs for however fate has it written in stone but the same argument could’ve been made towards the earth being the center of the universe. Gratefully, academics can push society forward by helping the plebs get the resources to learn free will is an illusion and have a healthier life with that knowledge. Although still destined by predeterminism.
If the problem really comes from incorrect code in Firefox then I don't think that backwards compatibility is even possible. Consider the possibility that it was actually a bug in the Rust compiler that let this code pass. What should the compiler developers do if not fix this bug?

If, on the other hand, the code was correct, then backwards compatibility is definitely expected. The same holds for the format of the cargo files, btw. changing something like this during one major (or minor, depending on the release cycle) release is bad form IMO.

The mentioned case of C compilers and their warnings is an interesting grey area. Presumably it would still compile just fine, but as a developer you want -Werror and -Wall. In practice this often makes certain libraries incompatible after a compiler upgrade.
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I’d focus on their past experience. Maybe ask about a challenging project and the decisions they made. (Then follow up and ask a reference about the project. Make sure both descriptions match up. Let the interviewee know you’ll be doing this obviously)

Look at any github code. Or give them a short homework assignment. (Less than one hour) and then talk over their decisions.

Bonus points if you give them problems they’ll actually work on at the job.
I had that weather widget show up a few days ago as well. Beyond being unwanted it is also incompetent at the basics. I have my Windows regional settings correctly configured and yet this weather widget still showed me temperature in Fahrenheit.
Please no leetcode or obscure data structures questions unless you’re interviewing for a computer science research position.
One advantage of Gemini is that it is easier to attract new users to the cause: even if a particular user is being helped by the collective you describe, he or she probably won't realize (because most users are oblivious to many/most of the effects of UI and architectural design decisions). He or she will ascribe the good experience provided by the collective to the web.

The web is like a badly architected government such that most citizens are unaware of the badness. The collective you describe is like a group who use their own awareness of the badness to improve the country, but that does raise awareness of the government's badness whereas starting fresh by founding a new country does.

Actually, the analogy I just gave is a little too harsh on the web. A more charitable description is that a subset of the web's users is poorly served by the architecture of the web, but most of that subset is unaware of that fact (what with not being experts on the effects of subtle technical decisions on something as vast, open and complex as the internet).

I am not defending Gemini in particular; I use it but have yet to form an opinion of it; I am defending the strategy of founding a new internet service to compete (for the time and attention of users) with the web.
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> However, I'm of a mind these days that full-time, salaried jobs are rarely the best option. Freelancing, bootstrapping, or founding are all usually better given today's market.

Interesting, why do you think that? What has changed?

Naively I would tend to think that the quality of freelancing opportunities and that of full-time jobs are correlated, but your comment imply that they're not. What am I missing?
You basically wrote what a person that believes in God argues against atheists and although I’m agnostic I still find such an assertion illogical.
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>If you believe you are not religious, it just means that you don’t have the cognitive tools to recognize the secular ideology that you have adopted.

That is Marxist false consciousness and should not be brought up in a debate.

As for the difference between the two, for me a religious belief is one that is without evidence, a non religious belief is one that has some evidence for it, even if it is still wrong (e.g if you believe in the misama theory and so avoid stinking food you are less likely to catch a food born illness).

I do agree without you that it would be better if we adopted some better understanding of the secular beliefs, but that would also cause a lot of infighting because not everybody who hates the current system wants to replace it with the same and they may hate each other more than they hate the current system.

As an example: Malcom X and MLK. They didn't want to be under the boot of Jim Crow. They disagreed about what they wanted and how to get there.
> He's a public figure, if he wants privacy he shouldn't have run in national elections.

That's rubbish. His public life has nothing to do with his private life. The fact that he is a politician doesn't mean the public has to know about his relationship with his children. His public actions speak loud enough for people to judge his quality (or lack thereof) as an elected official.

I think the cultural gap between American and European on this point will probably never be bridged.
In an environment where people (mainly the right) are brushing off vaccines and masking, social distancing, and lockdown mandates because of the notion that COVID is an old folks' disease that mainly affects people with marginal health to begin with, the idea that healthy children are being negatively affected for life is a valid counterargument.
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The pandemic and the gvt handouts are the only thing that crushed the yellow vests.

Demographic dividends are a thing. Liberal, socialist democracies use them better other systems.

I think in 20 years, when the demographic transition end in India, the regrets will be high and if there's no support from other economies, the effects will be 100 times worse than ex USSR countries, Portugal, Spain or Greece (European countries that missed on quite a few dividends).
Has anyone tried Gemini?

https://gemini.circumlunar.space

I looked around a few days ago and I find it really neat. Its minimalism makes it unsuitable for all the trash that has ruined the modern web as a simple information store. It uses the principle of least capability to create an environment where mere information takes center stage. Not even supporting images means memes can't even take hold, let alone real-time adtech.

The only flaw is that it's still a client/server protocol, which means closed silos and more passive forms of adtech could still invade.

(The modern web is however an acceptable thin client for single page apps that interact with services. I look at HTML5+CSS+JS as the new VT100, a terminal protocol for talking to remote machines.)

The other part of the modern Internet that reminds me of the old Internet is small independent podcasts. I listen to a number of these, and the high information content and lack of bullshit is reminiscent of the web before Facebook and adtech. There's also an implicit principle of least capability in podcasts. It's possible to insert ads, sure, but it's also possible to skip them and it's hard to make it impossible to do that. The medium is non-interactive and almost non-scriptable. There is an effort right now to walled garden podcasts, and I urge everyone who cares to resist it by using podcast apps and aggregators that are not pushing this.
Back when it was unorganized, everyone on their soapboxes formed a background noise you could easily tune out. Now that it's been organized, it's become a set of echo chambers sorted by topic.
I was looking at LTO8 as a backup solution a single 30TB tape costs like £90 but the drives cost around £3000.
Dude. It’s a failed kitchen sink. We Chat was both my bank and my Amazon. I kept money on it and was the best way to go to the store. Heck—I even used WeChat as my Uber (Didi) because I didn’t have a Chinese card and the in-app WeChat app balance could pay for my ride.
I fondly remember a friend of mine having an external ZIP drive, he carried around with a bag of disks. You could hook it up to any PC.

But, CD burners got cheaper quickly and soon we wouldn't use it anymore.
Ahhh, the illusion of control. The fine line between prudence and paranoia.

Do you also manufacture your own silicon in fear of being owned by your hardware vendors?

Write all your own software?

In fear of being owned by zero days in open source?
M2 has grown at an average of 8.365% over the past 10 years, 7.063% over the past 20, 6.436% over the past 40, and 7.145% over the past 60.

M2 is a much better gauge of inflation than the CPI (unless you're poor).

At 7% inflation, holding USD means your value will decrease by nearly half every 10 years.
Notarizing the app with require you to pay.
I read the last paragraph analytically, as in the Sapir Whorf hypothesis. It can be difficult to identify that one is in a religion if one assumes that it will call itself one. In this case, missing the “cognitive tools” could be a precise way of describing the shortcoming.
It’s like nostalgia for old TV shows. You have found memories but then when you watch them again they were really crap. I also remember images rendering line by line, expensive phone bills, crashy browsers, popup storms, going through 15 pages of altavista results before finding something useful, etc
I just watched Inside [1], where Bo Burnham creates a wonderful, funny, sad and thought-provoking "Special" about our internet culture. Highly recommended.

This is one of my favourite songs now: [2]

It's a bit crazy when I think about how different our generations grow up and it makes me a bit sad that our children will have a completely different understanding of what the internet is. For me it was a place of wonder, freedom and self-expression. It's different today, but even I have problems explaining how it changed. But it definitely lost some if it's playfulness on the way.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14544192/

[2] https://youtu.be/k1BneeJTDcU
This is a great process! Just be sure you’re not missing out on shy folks who take a while to warm up. They might be a great communicator but struggle at the whiteboard in front of strangers.
...you can not program the price of a monetary asset traded in the free market.

Bullshit!

Here is how you do it --- you create "stable coins" out of electrons and "loan" them to friends and cohorts who use these unbacked coins to buy bitcoin --- certainly manipulating (but technically not exactly "programming") the price.

Who is doing this? The people who create and operate the supposedly "free market" --- the exchanges. This is an inherent conflict of interest that would never be tolerated in any "regulated" market. This is built around the fiction that "stable coins" are fully backed by fiat and it is pervasive in the crypto markets.

More than half of all crypto trades involve stable coins.
Named pipes are also an option, but share some of the pros and cons of stdin/out and files
"Survivorship bias" is number one cliche on HN about anything resembling success
At least once a week, I have an adult discussion based on facts and lived truths with antivaxers, many of whom are registered nurses in the US. Why are they labeled antivaxers by society (that's usually my first question). The response generally comes down to the greater society not understanding the negative health outcomes from the routine vaccinations nursing and other hospital staff have to undergo in the US. I'll tell you what a virologist at the Cleveland Clinic told one of these RNs who cannot get the flu or other vaccines anymore, as they now threaten her life (and that of her family's). "First, you are not crazy. You are exactly the type of patient I see day in and day out: A hospital staff member, being treated by non-virology MDs as a nut case (in many cases being dropped by the doctor's office due to lack of adherence to treatment), because you accused the vaccines you take of causing your arteritis or vasculitis. Well, you're correct. You're potentially genetically predisposed, like a substantial chunk of our population, to severely increased risk of vasculitis and ultimately death by organ failure or aneurysm, by receiving any vaccine on a regular basis. You should not get a vaccine, and nobody in your family should receive regular vaccines. Yes, your completely incurable vasculitis is likely caused by the flu vaccines you've been mandated to receive year in and year out by your employer. No, the flu vaccine is not really effective at all when you look closely at the data, especially in the population it purports to be targeting specifically (the old)."
> try to imagine that we live in a world where no one has ever used animals in research before, and someone proposes it for the very first time

Why do I have to imagine? We live in that world. At some point in our history people decided to use animals in research.

It seems like this is a slight-of-hand - it's asking us to imagine ourselves, now in that environment. But most of us are far removed from hunting, killing animals for food, raiding, etc. and don't live in a time where most kids died before adulthood and where pricking your thumb on a rose could cause an infection leading to death.

In our history, we know that people treated other people pretty poorly, and animals even worse. There was no problem in using animals in research.

> Even if you can find one particular invention – insulin is often brought up

Manned flight and space travel were both preceded by animal experiments.

The first unmanned balloon flight had a sheep, a duck, and a rooster - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ballooning#First_un... : "The sheep was believed to have a reasonable approximation of human physiology."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_space comments "Before humans went into space in the 1960s, several other animals were launched into space, including numerous other primates, so that scientists could investigate the biological effects of spaceflight."

A few examples drawn from medical history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Barnard - "Barnard performed experiments on dogs while investigating intestinal atresia ... Barnard was able to reproduce this condition in a fetus puppy ... Jannie Louw used this innovation in a clinical setting, and Barnard's method saved the lives of ten babies in Cape Town. This technique was also adapted by surgeons in Britain and the US."

Same page - "Gil Campbell who had demonstrated that a dog's lung could be used to oxygenate blood during open-heart surgery. (The year before Barnard arrived, Lillehei and Campbell had used this procedure for twenty minutes during surgery on a 13-year-old boy with ventricular septal defect, and the boy had made a full recovery.)"

I picked Barnard because I know he was one of several doctors who practiced on dogs to get experience on how to do human open heart surgery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Kantrowitz - "Using dogs and other animals as experimental subjects, Kantrowitz developed an artificial left heart, an early version of an oxygen generator for use as a component in a heart-lung machine and a treatment for coronary artery disease"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C - guinea pigs were discovered to be a good laboratory animal model for scurvy and the identification of vitamin C. Note that while Lind did human testing to identify that citrus fruits prevented scurvy, that didn't pinpoint vitamin C.
And then MS invented Typescript and it was all classes onward...

I don't really get it either, and I am saying this as someone who codes in both JS and Java. While thinking in OOP concepts comes naturally for me, I found the prototype/function based approach of JS a breeze of fresh air.

I guess the turning point was when JS migrated to the backend and more complex business logic was written in JS. As long as you are basically rendering view state or filtering data, traditional JS is much easier. But write the business logic of some enterprise app, and you want to use the OOP paradigms.
Thing is commercialization made it easier for people to express themselves and actually start using that resource.

Commercialization made it form "only nerds sit in there" to "everyone is on the internet and it is cool", if there would be no commercialization, internet for masses would still be a silly toy.

Just like going to the Mars - it is just a "hobby" for NASA, most of people on Earth are not giving a damn that they just landed another rover. There is no practical way to make money on space travel currently. Find a way to earn money on sending rockets to Mars or Moon, everyone is going to jump into it.

Companies on its own without hype would not go to the internet or digitalize their processes. There is still loads of companies that are not digital. There are loads of stories of how companies started switching to digital last year because of recent events...