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The AI that evolves from us within the next hundred(s) years, will likely have a good memory persistence.

Then again, I suppose if it is destroyed by an AI from a neighboring region/galaxy, that too might be lost.

I wonder how many civilizations have been obliterated and forgotten by the AIs they created.
It's worth mentioning that ads can also be delivered without tracking and oodles of Javascript. Sell ad placements that are images, even GIFs.
Computers weren't new. The idea that an ordinary person might have access to one, or even own one, even if that "ordinary person" wasn't you, was new at the time. And there was more than a little excitement about those turnkey machines you could just buy and use, assuming you had the money. There were books and magazines, educational TV shows, etc. I picked up BASIC long before I ever saw a computer that ran BASIC. (I did have the opportunity to try a little bit of FORTRAN using MarkSense cards on a 1401 in the year before the MIPS Altair 8800 was announced as a kit in Popular Electronics. We'd send the card bundles away, and a couple of weeks later we'd get a printout, usually of syntax errors, along with punched versions of the cards we'd sent off. One would quickly learn to pay a little more attention writing and mentally running code.) With BASIC, it's very easy to picture what's going on without knowing much at all about the hardware. With assembly language, not so much.
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Yeah, from reading up on it, this is often classified as "Third Degree" murder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depraved-heart_murder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_(United_States_law)#Deg...
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I think it's rare in a truly organized environment where code reviews are common, but I have seen early in my career crazy stuff where people just either didn't like what they were doing for a career or they were under the gun to make something happen quickly. So dynamically typed languages unfortunately are extremely flexible for both of those cases. If only the language could be smart enough to recognize between the two and prevent the malicious / unhappy people from exploiting the flexibility :)

BTW, just for the record I didn't mention above, but I do love what many languages are doing such as TypeScript where strong typing can be gradually added over time.
Do you see this bit of silly gotcha as adding to the conversation?
I predicted drug smuggling via drones would be a thing when I learned about consumer drones 7 years ago now. Sometimes it sucks to be right.
No mention of the PS/2 and Micro Channel Architecture? MCA was IBM's attempt to put the genie back in the bottle and redefine the PC back to being something they wholly controlled, and it utterly failed. It also didn't help that they were late to the market with 386-based computers (Compaq having beaten them to the punch with the Deskpro 386) which already signaled they were losing their market leadership position that allowed them to define the PC platform. In response to MCA, the PC industry formed an independent consortium to define the EISA bus and later Intel itself eventually took over as the de facto standards originator for PCs by developing PCI, USB, ATX, ACPI, AC'97/HD Audio, (U)EFI, and a large part of the other foundational standards on which modern PCs are built.
Do you have some examples of VTOL rockets from the early days? I can't find much online other than the Lunar module, and that was designed for VTOL on the moon...
Musk's MO in general is to make tech look new when it's not. Most of his ideas (that seemed have petered out, strange) are just worse versions of what we currently have. The Hyperloop in particular was a laughing stock of an idea. Nothing but an amusement park ride. We already have something that works better for transit, and so much better than it's ridiculous: trains.
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Simply asserting that it’s possible to discuss an important issue without cheapening it w hyperbole.
This article really resonated with me. We are starting to run into container orchestration problems but I really don’t like what I read about K8s. Apart from anything else, it seems designed for much bigger problems than mine, and require the kind of huge mental effort to understand which, ironically, will make it harder for my business to grow.

I’m curious if you’ve taken a look at Nomad and the other HashiCorp tools? They appear focussed and compositional, as you say, and this is why we are probably going to adopt them instead of K8s - they seem to be in a strong position to replace the core of K8s with something simpler.
I agree, I think another way to put it is would you rather have your tax dollars spent on advancing rocket technologies (via NASA or equivalent) or would you rather have Bezos spend his after-tax dollars on it. Put like that, it's not a tough decision
SWATting is typically using the resources of the state weaponized against someone else, for private means. The state shouldn’t delegate free resources like this at the whim of citizen. If citizen want to cause duress to each other, they should do it with private means, especially since it’s easier much harder or will get them arrested or will get them more conscious that they will definitely be caught.

But you’re also right concerning the boys. If society took proper care of them, instead of making IRL socialization for boys so miserable that a whole generation finds life through Discord more attractive, we’d have much fewer of those occurrences.
My experience with BBEdit was circa 2008, just as I was first learning to code. It's much older than that, yes.

Idk, maybe TextMate wasn't terribly similar to BBEdit, but at the time the landscape of non-IDE graphical editors was fairly limited. I'm only aware of BBEdit and TextMate on Mac, Notepad++ on Windows, and Gedit and Kate on Linux (there were also the vaguely graphical ports of emacs and vim on all platforms, but I won't count those). So I see TextMate as, at the very least, being part of a genre of text editor defined by BBEdit.
You might like Helliconia by Brian Aldiss.
Addiction is real :)
> with the library vulnerability is probably safer than blindly updating it on code you know nothing about.

This is what tests are for.

> Are you proposing that a single developer/team clones the work of 100s or 1000s of different people, update it into to use the new leftpad, run the tests and push? ... Anyway, burdening all the teams with a required change is the way to go.

No, and speaking from personal experience, it's much more difficult to ask ~500 individuals to understand how and why they need to make a change than to have a few people just make the change and send out CLs. Writing a change, especially one that you have to read a document to understand, has a fixed amount of overhead.

(Also, you don't have to clone all the repositories if you're in a monorepo :) ).
By replacing focus with office politics, politics at the office, and a bunch of projects so stupid and far from their mission/audience that they literally can and did shock a theater full of people into silence.

Blizzard specifically lost people passionate about their work, getting taken over by business types, realizing too late that it wasn't Blizzard the company that made great products, but great people making great products. As a consequence of passionate people leaving, their audience doesn't feel like they are being understood at all, or even listened to. The devs that were regularly talking to the players and spoke spoke their language have departed, some of them now working on their own game (Palia), where they continue to work as they used to.

Mozilla just appears to be spreading itself very thin, straying far from their mission of creating a good browser.
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Thinking of moving to Berlin for access to a market with better opportunities for software developers.

Background is 5+ years experience in enterprise development roles, docker/K8S/cloud experience included. EU citizen so visa not a problem, also speak German.

What are salaries like at the moment and is it still a good option for developers?
I really like the way you've put it "Glue a few X together".

This is what most software development is becoming. We are no longer building software, we are gluing/integrating prebuild software components or using services.

You no longer solve fundamental problems unless you have a very special use case or for fun. You mostly have to figure out how to solve higher level problems using off-the-shelf components. It's both good and bad if you ask me (depends at what part of the glass you're looking at).
I just made an email where I send information, ie links of articles I find interesting.

Later on I will look over the titles and the main takeaways from the article.

Basically I just keep the links and if I ever think about the topic I search for it and then read.
> No one should or is using Kubernetes to run a simple LAMP stack.

Yes they are. Some developer got all excited about the capabilities of k8s, and had an initial larger scope for a project, so they set it up with GKE or EKS, and it managed to provide just enough business value to barrow in like a tick that won't be going away for years.

Developers get all excited for new shiny tools and chuck it into production all the time, particularly at smaller orgs.
these people don't deserve to come to the future with us, and neither does anyone praising them
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Like most wars it makes the powers that be very rich I guess
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> Isn't trying to stop/lessen the damage we're doing to the place we currently live

There are lots of people working on that problem in parallel.

It's worth exploring multiple solutions.

Also, even if we stop damaging the Earth, the sun will damage it in a few hundred million years. We will at some point need a new home.
Almost everyone.

Apart from all the hardline Unionists in Northern Ireland who enthusiastically voted for Brexit and are now crying because they were too dumb to work out that the only place the customs border between the EU and UK could be placed, without breaking the Good Friday agreement, was between the British mainland and Northern Ireland.

More popcorn, please!
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I'd suggest more interesting systems, but probably interesting in inverse proportion to how you could get hold of one :-/. Not wanting to dampen enthusiasm for old systems, but was there anything radically different about things like C64 and Acorn products?

If you don't need hardware, there might be more interest in programming on simulators for various old systems.
It's been around since 1992, even a very casual user could have easily racked up more than a thousand hours.

Me, I only have a few hundred hours, but they were some of the most formative hours of my career.
Absolutely agree with you. I have seen the debate between accidental and necessary complexities very often. It actually depends upon stage of the organisation. In my opinion many devs in startups and smaller orgs try to accomodate the future expectations around product and create accidental complexities Accidental complexity becomes necessary complexity when an organisation scales out.
Rich people hoard bitcoins, now.
I agree that you probably shouldn’t but if you think no one “is”, I’d point to my last job, an enterprise that went to k8s for a single-serving php service that reads PDFs.

I recently asked a friend who still works there if anything else has been pushed to k8s since I left (6 months ago). The answer: no.
I wouldn't try to rearrange the layout if I liked the default one. If you can not change I think it should be improved, it feels a bit crammed with not a lot of spacing and also having the lines connecting cells.

One big UX issue with not being able to rearrange stuff is that I can not order the items in a column by dragging.
> Rube Goldberg machine of Helm charts

I love k8s but I do want to say that I hate the 'standard' way that people write general purpose Helm charts. They all try to be super configurable and template everything, but most make assumptions that undermine that idea, and I end up having to dig through them to make changes anyway.

I have found much more success by writing my own helm charts for everything I deploy, and putting in exactly the amount of templating that makes sense for me. Much more simple that way. Doing things this way has avoided a Rube Goldberg scenario.
> macOS ... contains very serious design mistakes

Would you be willing to elaborate, or link to articles supporting this? I'm sure that they have them, but since I swap between windows and mac daily I might just not be noticing them.
>The choice is choosing between another app entirely, not from within options in Telegram.

Thats exactly what you should do. Telegram is not the tool/service that does what you want. It just as much not what you want like Skype isn't what you want and MS Paint is probably also not what you want. Any and all criticism is pointless there is nothing wrong with these tools they just dont do what you wish them to. Leave them to the people who actually want the features that Telegram/Skype/Paint or any other tool provides.
I should have put it as "Texas is in the middle of the pack in the US". But there are at least a couple ways that could be challenged as well: (a) middle of a list of states is not the same as having equal populations above and below; (b) it raises the question of whether the U.S. murder rate is a reasonable benchmark.

On HN, really anything is subject to some kind of challenge.

I like comparing the two states because they are both big (and therefore not as subject to cherry-picking) and have fairly different governing philosophies.

At the end of the day, you don't choose a state based on minimizing your chances of lightning strikes. You stop climbing trees in the middle of a thunderstorm and you forget about it.

Maybe you'd choose specific cities or areas, but state is kind of ridiculous.
The repo utilizes SIDER which is a drug side effect repo: http://sideeffects.embl.de/

It also utilizes DrugBank: https://DrugBank.com
At scale, capitalist economies with democratic representative governments still seem like the most effective way to organize people working together.
He's a parasite because the company (which hired 100K new workers during COVID) that he started and owns a shit-ton of equity in went up in the past year because of lockdowns?
This is great - thank you so much!
Nice username. My comment triggered you hard enough to make another account? I suppose it's good cover for avoiding responsible posting.

To help you out since you won't help yourself: the end of 1984 shows how psychological torture brings hard, rational people to doublethink. "I will not pay for my tax return. I will pay for my tax return."
you're mixing having an idea of how the OS works (ie: conceptual/high level) to having working knowledge and being able to hack into the OS when needed. I know this may sound like moving the goal posts, but it really does not help me that I know conceptually that there is a file system if I don't work with it directly and/or know how to debug issues that arise from it.
I think it's viewed as wasteful because it doesn't actually get people into orbit, AND it is expensive. Thus, it's only really appealing to rich people with cash to burn. These vehicles aren't even stepping stones to orbital rockets, and orbital launch prices are dropping. It's much more likely that SpaceX will offer tickets to orbit for $25k in the next 5-10 years than it will be for Virgin Galactic to do so. Blue Origin at least has an orbital rocket in development, but who knows if/when it'll even start being fabricated.
> initial larger scope for a project

So they weren't trying to run a simple LAMP stack then.
I have seen smaller RoR, Django or lampstack apps being deployed on kubernetes exactly for reasons you mentioned. It is often pitch as a silver bullet for the future.
One big problem with that is the dichotomy between "cloud" and "open source" - people will pay for SaaS but they absolutely balk at paying for licenses.
If the police can afford to dispatch a team of people with guns, and enough cars to fill up the street (in this case), they can afford to dispatch people to investigate. I do not accept your assertion to the contrary as true. It is the case that investigating instead of immediately reacting might allow crimes to occur that could have been prevented, but it seems to me to be what the constitution demands.

Certainly there have both been cases were US police busted doors in response to swatting, e.g. [1] and killed someone in response to swatting, e.g. [2]. Admittedly I'm not sure if they ever happened simultaneously, nor do I think that's relevant to any of the points I have made. The points I made were

- People have been killed while attempting to comply with police orders, which incidentally [2] is an example of (as well as an example of swatting).

- Busting doors during actual hostage situations would get people killed, not swatting. [3] is a particularly powerful example of that...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVkQ-yheOEE

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wichita-officer-who-kil...

[3] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/video-four-dead-in-p...
You could write a very similar article from the Russian perspective looking at the West.

Just like you can dismiss the Russian ideologies of collectivism as a retroactive justification for authoritarian control, you could argue that the West's ideology of freedom is a retroactive justification for oligarchy of the affluent. Even going back to the colonial days "freedom" meant freedom for white protestant land-owning men so was it ever really about freedom?

I'm not sure either side of that argument is completely right or completely wrong.
I liked the Victor 9000's [1]; much like IBM PC's but better in several ways. never really caught on.

[1] http://www.oldcomputers.net/victor9000.html
I'm totally fine with a third party holding my mail. I allow it all the time with USPS. :)

I'd like to be able to give my mail to people in exchange for free services. What I'd like are more standard data usage agreements that control what kinds of metadata can be sold or given to third parties. If such agreements were common, standard, and enforceable, I'd happily enter into them all the time.
I looked up the cost of Warmates and they are also around $20k. Considering APKWS has existed for much longer and has a higher explosive yield and range and the fact that an Apache can carry a whole rocket killer swarm of 38 APKWS I honestly don't see how "slaughter bots" are supposed to be a threat when drones are that expensive.

The myth that drones are cheap should die. Crappy plastic toys with flight times measured in minutes are cheap. The real deal is just as expensive as everything else.
Aside from already having malware making this irrelevant, if you didn't just physically attach a new keyboard, the message about a new keyboard is also going to seem very suspicious.
They definitely underestimated the market's requirements for DOS compatibility. Microsoft in contrast understood that which is why Windows (though technically inferior to OS/2 in many respects, at least until Windows 95) ultimately won. The Digital Antiquarian blog has an excellent (if long) series of articles covering the history of Windows from its original conception as a product up through Windows 3.1, including looks at OS/2 and other competing products: https://www.filfre.net/2018/06/doing-windows-part-1-ms-dos-a...
That's not what they're saying at all. Imagine if at some point in the history of the human species we just stopped exploring, stopped adapting, and just focused on preserving what we had and nothing more. We wouldn't be who we are today. Not just in the technological sense but in the human sense. The drive to explore the unknown is fundamentally human. The challenge of space and mars is the "final frontier".

The real criticism I have is that it's a false dichotomy. We need BOTH exploration and exploitation. Both greed and fear. Both mutation and rote replication. A species can't survive without a balance of both.
It's hard to say whether this or the more recent Brexit was the more damaging.
This seems like a pretty good place, really. https://twitter.com/Mikel_Jollett/status/1241843944238923777...
Lots of handwavyness, nothing related to the biochemical activity of actual neurons.

"...intricate network and that the consciousness this produces should obey the rules of quantum mechanics..."

This is not a statement of mechanism, for it to be such one would need to make some statement about the behavior of proteins or other molecules and how they interact within the rules of quantum mechanics. There has been a tiny bit of research on biophotons, but nothing in that research necessarily suggests some neuronal mechanism highly dependant on some uniquely quantum feature.
Shouldn't your window manager just handle this for you, by moving the windows to the builtin display when the external monitor is detached, and moving them back again when it's reattached? (Like my Mac has been doing for I don't know how long?)
> I vehemently disagree. Handing out cash to the poor isn’t fixing the problem. It will make matters worse (inflation).

Huh? Bezos giving away money likely isn't going to lead to inflation. The money supply is held constant here.
> Meritocracy is not an objective, defined term

neither is race or gender, yet these initiatives still manage to exist.

> There have been tons of studies showing..

there are tons of studies that are non reproducible too, so which studied are the strongest evidence of this claim?

> Quotas are not harmful unless there are too few qualified people

if you reduce it to a binary definition of "qualified", maybe. But if the best person for a role, their qualification, is a continuum, then you can do harm simply by hiring qualified candidates over better qualified candidates.

> GitLab has hundreds of millions of people to choose from

by what criteria?