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Anarchy, noun, a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority.

Do not fucking piss in my pocket and tell me it's raining that anarchists want highly organized structures.

You wouldn't mind this you say? Because you imagine you get to do whatever you want. Let's see, in the real world, that applies to everyone. They get to do to you, how they want, without a shred of potential consequence. In a world with various methods of attempting order through consequences enacted by governing bodies, people still do very bad things to other people. No governing body on a wide scale, by your logic, must lead to pure peace and unity. Because it's the fact governments exist that mayhem exists. I already know you have zero time spent in a history book. Any idiot who spends some amount of time reading about any culture, of any time period, notices how it's the implementation of rules and proper consequences is when peace starts to manifest. Along with evenness of implementation. We can obviously argue how severe consequences should be and what rules should exist. That's always a healthy debate to have especially as economies, tech and cultures evolve. For example, certain maritime trading laws need severe, severe, severe updating since the landscape is extremely different these days compared to when they were written literally 150 plus years ago. But to piss and moan that we should just burn it all to the ground because a loser professor tells kids they wont amount to anything because of "the system"... yea, whatever.

That and while I do heavily disagree with lots of libertarians, they're about the most extreme minimal amount of government. They're more in favor of zero economic intervention and policy. Practicing libertarians normally have the go that what I do at home is free reign, but there should be a set of rules when it comes to "public interactions". Again though, they want it super minimal. Not non-existent. Dont mix them in with a bunch of teens with weaponized angst. Anarchy is a collective, "sounds like a whole lot of not my problem".
The 'Wooting two HE' sounds like a great analog RGB keyboard to keep an eye on
this just reads to me as "our tests don't test for the right things, since when we act on those tests (even if they were 100% accurate), it doesn't lead to better patient outcomes".

I feel like a better conclusion is that we need better tests, that detect things that when acted upon improve patient outcome. Of course, we're nowhere near that yet, but do you really think in 1000 years we will still wait for patients to be responsible for correctly noticing symptoms and going to the doctor? Of course not.

It's good that we have studies that show we should move with caution in this territory, but completely ignoring it forever seems absurd.
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This relationship between the government, national security establishment and community, and the tech industry has already existed for decades from the founding of Silicon Valley with Fairchild Semiconductor to many others afterwards ranging from Oracle (a CIA funded project), RSA to Palantir.

There is even a public VC:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

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https://fcw.com/blogs/lectern/2014/09/cia-oracle-government-...

https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2018/09/how-government-h...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/12/nsa_spying_wh...

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Karkar Electronics and NATO telecommunications:

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=edw...
This is not nearly organized enough to match the investments China has made into AI.
Metric brushing, clearly, not the nationalistic panic over 5G and spying concerns.

The maintainer says there has been a torrent of trivial fixes from Huawei, and this is just more of the same. Someone wants to get ahead at work on the back of Linux maintainers, just like in the recent example with the University of Minnesota.
Is China really leading in AI? in what way that other countries is behind China
Qu sounds incredibly awesome.
Fascinating fact. Thank you. I have nothing. But it should be easy enough to replicate.
Maintainers need their own metrics that are effective, and publish them and work to have partners use them.
I think this is similar on Mac. Anecdotally I don't know anyone who uses the Mac App Store to install apps. Everyone I know just downloads the .dmg from whatever website.
> I do not have a problem with making money. Or helping companies do so. I know that this is the center piece of capitalism. Great if you provide added value with your offering but making money is paying our mortgage in the end.

Exactly! Why do we have to pretend we have a goal other than making money without compromising our principles? The best way to make money and keep on doing so is to give people something that is worth spending their money on. A good product at a fair price isn't healing the world, but it's not breaking anyone's leg either.

I wonder if a lot of this goes back to early 20th-century businessmen who tried to apply Transcendentalist thought to business, promoting unity and loyalty by creating a feeling of a noble cause in their employees (Charles Ives, an insurance executive and composer, is the example I'm most familiar with).
This is an excellent video, many thanks!
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> I work with multiple people all in the process of looking for new roles.

I also am noticing this around me.

Years ago I did the startup thing for 5 years, grinding really hard for someone else (mainly investors) to make a ton of money. Burned myself out, quit with no plans, and ended up consulting as a freelance dev from then on. Realized I'm much happier with this arrangement, with the ability to take months off and travel if I want. I could make more money at a large corporation, or if I didn't take so much time off, but honestly I'm much happier.

That's all to say, today I have two separate coffee dates with engineers at my client's company, both wanting to ask me about how they can do the same thing as me. One is a senior engineer that leads a department. The other is a very talented engineer. These are not the only people that have approached me wanting to setup time to talk about the same thing. This is at an SF based company that seems to really respect their engineer's time, provides high salaries, interesting work, etc.

I get the sense that at least for this niche of highly skilled, highly paid, in demand roles people are wanting to trade for more free time in their lives. I totally don't blame them, as it's what I found myself moving to 7 or so years ago.
You can look through their wikipedia page and see that a lot of early success for the company was based on stolen information from companies like Cisco.
You might need some time off yourself, seeing how an inoffensive Twitter thread made you so mad.
These are very fair points. I likely should have given some additional context on the later operations.

I will admit I was trying for some shock value since a non-Canadian outsider was asking. It's far too easy to think about the abuse as happening long in the past and therefore more of an abstract conversation. It's really a conversation about the ongoing trauma of survivors, some of whom are not actually that old.
I agree, I've no idea why it would be at the top of HN. Maybe China-hate?
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I'd say burnout happens when you have had too many negative experiences related to work compared to how many positive ones you got and your emotions tells you that it isn't something you should continue doing since it is bad for you.

A negative experience could be that you worked long hours and no longer could do things you love, or people screaming at you causing stress etc, humans are really good at being creative here so most things can fit here.
You reminded me of a saying I've heard a while ago which May be roughly translated to "the mother of suckers is always pregnant"
It will be hilarious when they find out some of those "AI startups" are actually mechanical turk armies operating from an Indian basement.
They had hard coded credentials in a service that lots of people inadvertently exposed to the internet.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/qnap-removes-...
It doesn't really matter if it has already been done. It is actually good because then you can compare and try different things, or add the same features to learn how hard it is.
What about Eve online?
Thanks! I've read before that org-mode is really featureful but what's holding me back is the time required to get proficient and smartphone support..
I feel like I may have misunderstood the point of the article because this seems like an obvious explanation to me. A pair of parentheses in Scheme tells the interpreter that it needs to open a new environment, evaluate the expression inside, and return the value. If there aren't parentheses, the evaluator will look up the value of the symbol in the current environment. These are very different things and, it seems to me, mixing them would make it unnecessarily difficult to pass named functions as arguments.

For example,
(map car '((a b) (c d) (e f)))
evaluates to '(a c e), while
(map (car '((a b) (c d) (e f))))
yields an error.

In this case, I don't want my interpreter to 'helpfully' add the parentheses in around car when it see it's a one-argument function that expects a list and the following expression is a list. And even if the interpreter is able to disambiguate it and thus avoid introducing errors, a huge benefit of the parentheses in Scheme is how easy is (as a human) to see the structure of your code at a glance. In my mind, introducing ambiguity here would only serve to undermine this while bring minimal benefit.
That this test is approved implies that it to some extent at least makes people live longer. There are a number of cancers that are easily treatable in stage one - but they have no symptoms then, and so often kill people because by the time it is discovered it is too late.

False positives are a concern, but one that is manageable. People should get regular checkups, if something comes up we just do more testing as needed.
I think Apple is an outlier in terms of support, which i think is silly, because 5 years of support really should be taken for granted. There are many working phones or computers that are 10 or 15 years old and healthy.
I’m sure you meant your question sincerely. FWIW, I have backed out of many signup forms, and often wondered/worried whether they were doing exactly what the OP talked about. The reason for back-outs is because there is another very common dark pattern this gets combined with: a multi-page signup where email is asked for early, and then something more onerous is requested on a later page, which is where the cancellation is much more likely to occur. The single biggest reason in my experience for late cancellation is when the signup asked for a credit card, even though the signup was advertised as free. It’s a bait and switch, and the deal ends up being a subscription that you can cancel after your first free day/week/month. I’ve had other things besides credit cards, though, like required personal information.
> remote work
If OP's client is in the EU, then what was asked is already illegal.
I do think if they "deliver early and then iterate on." people would lose interest and it would be much more difficult to raise money.

PS: I've introduced Agile in several companies as CTO, no need to convince me ;-)
I like this idea, but the gamification / rules / meta around it sounds like it would be even more work. And like all metrics it would quickly become a target and... Goodhart's law.

This is one of those ideas that I think should totally be a thing, and yet I think wouldn't work and thus shouldn't be a thing.
I’m seeing similar sentiment among my peers.

Even some of the people who thought they wanted remote work are realizing it’s not always as fun as it sounds.

We read a lot of headlines about how the future is remote work and the HN bubble is full of people claiming they’re never going back from remote work, but I’m not seeing a huge shift toward remote work in actual job listings.

I worked remote pre-COVID. It anything, it feels harder to even land interviews for the few remote job opportunities because so many people are competing for a similar small number of remote jobs now.
It's a demo server? Go try Hey.com. Their email approach doesn't work for me, but the native app uses stimulus and it feels (felt? it's been a year) snappy.
Expanding on this post a little bit, because "just go outside" alone isn't particularly helpful...

Find a local park (wooded, not just ball fields). Go for a walk. It doesn't have to long or strenuous - just being outside, in the relative quiet, can be profoundly relaxing.

Maybe you'll find the outdoors isn't your thing, but as far as finding a hobby goes, spending time outdoors in nature is about as low investment as it gets.

Or, if you prefer something a bit more aligned with programming/tech, maybe find a maker club and get into 3d printing, or woodwork, or some similar hobby. These aren't my thing, but I have several programmer friends who love to build stuff - some restore old motorcycles, some do the maker thing, and some ended up with woodshops in the their basements/garages.
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It’s not half and hour a day. More like an hour a week. If you don’t enjoy the process of gardening you shouldn’t do it. Over-engineered robotic solutions for small plots are never going to make much sense.
I found this working for state government. Trying to put my skills to use helping taxpayers get what they deserve in usable government websites. There is a lot of "feel good" there...feels like it did back in 96-97.
You assume that the treatment works and has no side effects, I think that is the main source of misunderstanding.

A great example is prostate cancer. It often gets detected now, people are informed they have cancer, but most often the correct answer is "watchful waiting", i.e. no treatment, probably forever. But people now know they have cancer, and are frightened, because cancer, and thus press for treatment. But this comes with a 10-90%(!) chance of incontinence and 50-90% chance of erectile dysfunction - for a cancer that most probably wouldn't have caused them bigger problems for their whole life.
> surgery is not without risk, and if there are no symptoms there is a fair chance that there never will be symptoms

Another incredibly irrational argument.

If the risk from surgery outweighs the risk from cancer it it should not be performed.
Well I feel that is a really really broad term to just ask for bias without really defining it but a couple off the top of my head are.

1. Someone from Utah is more likely to be a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints than someone from Pennsylvania.

2. Someone from an Arab speaking country is more likely to be Muslim than someone from a non Arab speaking country.

3. Someone who says "eh" at the end of every sentence is more likely to be Canadian.

4. Someone who says y'all is more likely to be from the south.

5. If someone asks me to "Please do the needful" they are likely from India.

I've purposely chosen non extreme examples because there are many basis all over the place. Bais ≠ prejudice.

Ultimately if we artificially restrain AI from being "baised" in any form we are really shooting ourselves and those most disadvantaged in the foot because instead of being able to use AI to discover the basis and then work on fixing it we instead just to pretend it doesn't exist.

Finally a more provocative example. People who get pay day loans are less likely to pay back loans, black people are more likely to use pay day loans, ergo black people are more likely to default on loans. If we try and just force an AI to ignore this then we paper over the problem. If instead we start to examine causality we can start to figure out the root of the issue and how to address.
I think the point of that part was, "Even the dark-pattern-addicted HN crowd recognizes that this is a dark pattern, so why doesn't everyone?"
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In my bubble it seems every other programmer wants to quit to take up wood working or craft brewing. Third by some distance is people growing stuff, especially chili peppers.
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I don't know if it's a positive or a negative, but China has been focused in a very organized way on this subject for quite some time now - in a manner that other nations are just starting to do. China has also been able to, coordinately, use it's massive population as a R&D bed for training and the like.
You're advocating for a policy that may kill or hurt more people than the alternative, and insisting that doing the math is reprehensible.

The enemy is not cancer, the enemy is ill-health and death. You could cure all deaths from cancer by poisoning everyone with cyanide.
So is Go an unstable ecosystem not yet suitable for production use?

(The answer of course, is no, but other languages get skewered for less).
Ive had both. For me, they are very different.

Burnout is not being able to make myself do a job I am completely capable of doing, which I once loved doing, to the point thoughts of self harm start to creep in.

Depression is feeling worthless about everything and anything.

With depression, I cannot do anything. With burnout, I can easily keep doing things, I just cant do that one thing.
The centerpiece (or perhaps incentive) of capitalism is the cooperation between people that money facilitates more efficiently. Not to ignore the challenges of liberalized economies or the way this can be twisted...

Not sure about your scenario but writing code does at least sometimes improve the world. I helped create a product that was later used to restore the rule of law in a country trying to recover from genocide. The homicide and assault rates for the entire country dropped by double digits following use. That seemed significant.

While most of my efforts since have had far less dramatic outcomes but the general circumstance is that even mundane things like keeping the lights on are instrumental for peace in our societies. Such things are far from the dark patterns side of the industry but there's something about babies and bathwater. We can contribute to supporting the more constructive and healthy efforts.
Cancer radiologist here!

I don't know about "highly accurate", but certainly pretty fucking good. Because for most of those cancers for most populations, the asymptomatic detection rate is much, much lower. Like close to 0%.

There is no general population screening test for, say, pancreatic cancer or ovarian cancer etc.
If I'm taking the lion share of the risk on shipping a product, I'm also collecting the lions share of rewards or I'm not interested in participating. As new vulnerabilities are found every day, I'd expect those rewards to be ongoing, so they would look more like royalties, I'll need to be paid as long as you are using the software. Further I'll need to be able to invalidate that license when I no longer wish to carry the risk.

I think under those conditions most firms would prefer to own the risk themselves.
> That is classic middleman (unwanted intermediary) behaviour.

Unwanted by whom? The reader? If you don't want google as an intermediary you can just... not use them. If you want to search but not have an intermediary, you can just run your own search engine and index. The publisher? Again, if a publisher doesn't want an search engine to be an intermediary then they can always get their site delisted. Turns out that most sites don't do that, or do and then quickly revert back, so clearly they want Google as an intermediary.
I am happy I changed job from DevOps so I don't have to deal with stuff like this breaking all the time for no good reason at all (on more computers than mine). Backwards compatibility is gold.
I really don't like duckduckgo. Maybe I am in the minority. But the 2nd page from duckduckgo is just really bad. If you just need the first its fine (still google is better imo)
Can somebody in the know elaborate on how far ahead China's lead is in AI?
> The only time I've felt burnout is part of a 50/50 company where the other guy wasn't pulling his weight

I have had that many times and I have been that guy. There is just something that needs to work; if someone is doing something and the other is not, that's another problem. It's probably not even what you think but you need to get out as fast as you can as that will end badly.
> It's toil for the reward—the satisfaction—of having communicated your thought in a way that seems capable of truly touching other people.

The programming community is almost exactly the group of people who believe they can truly touch others by developing practical software. And programmers are usually really bad at truly touching others with artistic games.

Most people are quite bad at expressing themselves, let alone most programmers. I think contributing to open source is probably a greater source of satisfaction for most than programming games. I've had a hopeless stab at both, and making a small meaningful contribution was much more satisfying than expressing myself badly through a game.
>Our best bet for dark patterns to disappear is via legislation

And what would the language you propose look like for this legislation that doesn't have loopholes, caveats, etc for people to get around once the lobbyists are done with it?
https://securityboulevard.com/2020/12/was-this-huaweis-faile...
New Go release have broken a few workflows for me recently. I am spending more time answering 'Go questions' and not Pion questions.

`go get github.com/pion/webrtc` used to pull into $GOPATH/src/github.com/pion/webrtc. That worked really well for new contributors. They get the code with one command and run `go test`.

I wasn't able to just update the docs and recommend `go install` because it doesn't work with old Go versions. Is the expectation to put in the docs a sh snippet that does if/else on the Go version?

I am grateful for modules though. Suprising the amount of people that still aren't using them (or aware at all!)
Never again, will I use work PC containing personal files. When I was fired few years ago, the employer seized the work laptop without giving me a chance to wipe out my personal stuff. It contained my personal notes and sensitive info which I'd not want to share with anyone. Since then, if I need to have my personal notes for my work PC, I always keep it in an encrypted veracrypt drive .

I know it's easier to have 2 laptops (one for work, one for personal stuff), but I can't ignore the convenience factor. For example, I have text notes on tech/programming that I have made since college, and I refer to it often while at work. It's easy to copy/paste in single laptop. Recently, I've been using Synergy so I can run 2 separate PC, so it does help a bit.
To save English speakers a couple of clicks to translate: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http...
> But I hardly ever see people typing in DNS names or using bookmarks these days.

How often do you watch other people browse the web?
Yes, the US medical system is a disaster.