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Star Trek's utopian vision feels cheap and unearned. They paper over the difficulty of justifying their "post-scarcity" philosophy by ignoring basic human nature and having magitech wish-granting black boxes and free energy. There's nothing aspirational about that, by definition we can't get there from here.

It doesn't help that, as the franchise went on, humanity became basically one of the most powerful species in the galaxy. They go from the Borg presenting an existential threat to the entire Federation with a single cube to Janeway one-shotting them. DS9 and the Dominion Arc at least put humanity on its back footing, but for the most part, humans are at the top of the food chain.

I prefer the way B5 portrays similar themes - humanity has a definite presence in galactic affairs, but as a newcomer surrounded by civilizations far older and more powerful, and more adept at the dark arts of war and politics. There are no free lunches, no replicators, no teleporters. Humanity has to struggle, sometimes red in tooth and claw, to climb every rung of the ladder from ape to angel. Optimism and unity win out not because humanity has evolved beyond its base nature, but as a result of the constant struggle against that nature.
Alternative? Not manipulating people and being honest?

Here's an example that includes Climate Change.

On the right they deny its existence (they used to believe in it, then didn't as Obama came in, and are turning around again albeit slowly). News and politicians say the scientists are lying and taking money from "Big Green." They then promote coal, oil, and their interest groups. The right is too easy to pick on here because it is just so blatantly anti-science.

On the left there's definitely a significantly closer resemblance to what the scientists are saying, but they ignore what is convenient. There's only really discussions about what is popular. There's minor talk about carbon taxes. There's little to no talk about carbon capture, and when there is they only talk about reforestation (reforestation is great but suspected to not be enough, specifically fast enough) (scientists actually want us to be carbon negative, not zero carbon). There is little discussion outside of electricity and vehicles (which is only 54% of contributions from America). The idea that the crisis is purely political and can be solved politically is still perpetuated, not recognizing we need major scientific advancements (e.g. better batteries, smarter grids, new zero carbon energy sources, inventions in heating, significant reduction in clean energy production that can be exported to developing countries and be cheaper than coal for them --this one is huge actually--, etc). Politicians here blame Republicans for not being able to pass any bill but still are not united on their own front. They still aren't acting with anywhere near the same concern the scientific community has about the issue.

But the real kicker is: why are we listening to politicians about science anyways? I also don't want Bill Nye talking about climate change on TV I want climate scientists. I don't care if it is boring and an unfamiliar face (Fauci was unfamiliar not long ago).
You can create value by for example connectind lenders and borrowers. The money could be used in real economy, albeit does not happen too much yet today. For example, developing nation export companies can get a dollar loan with better terms they would get from their local corrupted bank.
Certainly, if you want to jump through quite a few hoops, that is.

Every now and then I find a bit of old software that I hope might work on Windows, only to find That it's not permitted to work, or some weird and wonderful library is missing and therefore the program won't work.

I have been known to set up a VM with an earlier version of Windows to run a specific program, temporarily.

I'm not blaming Windows alone here, I'm blaming "old" software and old libraries(DLLs). I've had similar problems with Linux/UNIX.
New ways to protect our community from abuse
> and assuming ~$100/ton for CO2 emitted

Uhhh why?? Costs for true negative offsets are much lower.
Worse, that one fraud wasn't really an imposter in the usual sense of being incompetent. He was actually highly capable at his job. Of course he was confident in his abilities when he was creating so much success.
Just the whole abuse detection and handling part of it is vastly more complex than anything a coding bootcamp could handle.

But as usual the software isn't the biggest challenge. Building a driver and rider network at the same time is.
It's not a joke. He also tells us:

> PPS: I despise libertarianism. Just in case you were wondering ...

So yes, we have an aspiring central planner who wants to take Bad Excuse #1 for intrusive government surveillance, rampant violation of peoples' privacy, and the like — to collect all its abuses, and expand it to a new area. And he ostentatiously despises anyone who tries to build politics around liberty.

These facts are entirely in harmony with each other. I've seen far worse political agendas, but he's an authoritarian thug, and it's as simple as that. Perhaps he should now compare the libertarians to terrorists, so he has access to the abuses collected from Bad Excuse #2, Terrorism.
Should have just imported the fuel…
What an unhappy author, who goes to such trouble to throw whatever cold water he can dream up in order to disparage captialism, without ever making a solid point. It comes off as envy, without any concrete points beyond well, luck was maybe part of their success. Multi-generational business or wealth accumulation is invalidated, because not everybody has that, so therefore it's inherently unfair. Sigh. Yeah, capitalism is bad m'kay.

The LA Times is writing stuff their readers like, so everything is actually going as it should.
This reminded me of the old lisp2cobol[0] joke script.

[0] https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/lisp2cobol/l2...
Echoing this. Please for the love of God get your MBA.

Its really, really easy. If you think weekend courses are going to be too much because you remember Engineering in college, I can tell you from experience that they won't be.
That is very different. Most users like apple's consistent payment flow and protection it provides, especially if you've dealt with other providers online (and all the scam tactics).
Recently set up something similar. DNS entry that resolves to a local ip, swag + letsencrypt reverse proxying to Nextcloud, all setup as containers and accessible anywhere over WireGuard. I'm pretty happy with it.
We can’t create enough material machines for everyone that wants to code to code.

If that’s dystopian, wait until you hear about your impending natural death.

I can sit by a tree and work on my sci-fi space opera for hours.

I feel really sorry for people who are so addicted to technology they think the entire species should surrender its agency to that pipeline.

A hardware machine has known operational limits. No amount of delusion about coding and games means it’s anything more than a dopamine buzz (if it can be described as such scientifically as dopamine floods then it is).

None of us are resolving or answering questions about reality. We’re just masturbating a chemical delusion.

Who knows? Maybe organic machines are even cooler and we can program organic matter via chemical and electrical manipulation.

But let’s have another go around writing x86 code.

Wow. How clever. There’s a new skin to put on a MySpace clone in one of us somewhere!
> It is either a joke, or a troll.

Prove that.
Because the App Store acts as the user's agent. I have no ability to force Facebook not to track me, but Apple can. In the GP's comment, think of the App Stores as a jurisdiction and set of rules that the app maker and user agree on. Maybe Facebook doesn't want to follow Apple's rules, but I don't want to use Facebook on Android's terms.
What would you have the DoD do? They don't set budget priorities, the civilian government does. The military is completely subordinate to congress and the President. They're spending money as they see fit, and those purse strings are controlled by legislators.

The "US government" isn't a monolithic block. If you want change, vote and convince others to do the same. But to complain that the DoD should be spending their money elsewhere is just not how it works.

I feel like someone missed highschool civics class...
> Share credit constantly. Don't ever appear that you need validation. Give good ideas away for team members to catch and grow. You will build a community around you that seek you out for guidance.

This is huge. I am the most senior dev in an organization of about 40 and one of my favorite things to do is to take an idea and hand it over to a junior dev to run with, then completely give them all credit. It is a huge boost to their confidence, they appreciate the gesture and public praise, and your bosses are well aware of what happened even if you never say anything. Amplify your impact by lifting others up.
Why social engineering keeps on working: false trust cues
I love this idea - I paid a grand for this thing, I should be able to run whatever I like on it.

However, this does make it significantly more difficult for Apple to dictate terms to every random app that your network of friends and colleagues makes you download, and makes it more likely that those apps will be a regression in terms of actual consumer experience.

Regulation of access to your camera roll and contact list is a terrible idea, so I don’t see a solution.

Apple is the only thing stopping WhatsApp (let’s face it, an essential app in 2021) from demanding your location at all times. We don’t notice this on the web, because Mozilla and Google (!) enforce terms for us (and most desktops don’t have GPS receivers).

Take out the gatekeeper on mobile and we might find that the benevolent dictatorship wasn’t so bad after all.

Edit: want to add that replacing Apple’s consumer protection gatekeeper role with a government agency is a non starter. Apple (and to give them credit, Google) know that the data available to the gatekeeper role is toxic and dangerous. Government thinks it’s a big bowl of lollies.
I lived in Germany for a while and used a car twice. Both times it was a rental. Was able to take public transportation to almost every place including national parks. The U.S. needs to make investments in public transportation. It would greatly benefit the environment, our health, and our pocketbooks. In 1995 there were 0 miles of high speed rail in China and today there are tens of thousands of miles of high speed rail. We could have made similar investments into our people and the environment but haven’t.

Cars do have a utility and car sharing programs coupled with good public transportation can obviate the need for everyone to own one. Most cars spend most of their time not being used. We collectively are a nation of people who by and large spend our lives driving a car from to go from one building to another. We have people who drive somewhere for the purpose of going on a walk.

We’d be much better off without such a car centric focus.
You must live in a LCOL and/or make an extremely high amount of money and/or like to live an unusually low quality of life for your income.

Saving 70% of your take-home in some place like the SFBA is saying you're an extremely high earner and/or you really like studio apartments.
Well I don't think the personal projects are really a significant factor in terms of where MS's paychecks are coming from - they care more about the commercial subscribers. And, speaking as someone employed at a commercial subscriber, objecting to continuing to use github due to the microsoft acquisition when we use office for pretty much all document production is going to be a pretty hard argument.
Am I supposed to feel bad for Amazon, Microsoft or the America people?
>For all our knowledge, there really is so much about all the other life around us we just don't understand.

Based on us routinely finding new organs within the human body, I would say there is a ton about our own biology that we just don't understand. I would go further and just accept that humans know or understand very few things indeed.
Is an AI that aimbots by predicting player moves with uncanny accuracy really that different from a regular old aimbot?
Thank you for id'ing the module. I can now see how using this would work for Facebook's needs.

I think the XC7A100T is supported by the free (and limited) edition of Vivado [1]. Of course, the confusion about what you can and can't do with the HDL is in itself a barrier to open source and hobby work. This is true even when the work is theoretically possible and everyone has the best of intentions. <sigh>

[1] https://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/vivado/vivado-m...
> if it isn’t

It isn’t.

> should be the top first priority before any social justice campaign individual moves

So you are saying that we have to fix the whole society before anyone can tell anyone’s boss that the person in question was creeping on them in a position of authority. Do we also have to solve poverty before or only the gender related injustices?

> Some people in this forum seems to depict people who just don’t agree in their modus operandi.

Sorry I don’t understand you. Who depicts whom doing what?
because most pc steam competitors are 1 step removed from malware and yet I am virtually required to install them. Or take the moral high ground, but that sucks.
I've seen people on 4chan /g/ include the M, but it being 4chan, they rearrange the acronym into something offensive that I shan't repeat.
I still think that the acronym should be "FN MAGA". Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Amazon are the big-4 companies, with notably larger market caps than Facebook and Netflix, and those 4 are more broad platforms/conglomerates while Facebook and Netflix are closely associated with a single app or small set of apps.
It doesn't sound like the data has been exfiltrated, it just sounds like basic ransomware (encrypted on Gigabyte's computers). In fact, in the message, the hackers are asking the victims to send them any encrypted file, not sure why.

If it has been exfiltrated, I wonder if it contains info about Intel's Management Engine (ME) and AMD's Platform Security Processor (PSP).
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Okay, after reading that reply I will respectfully bow out after this reply, rather than try to force a rational conversation into an emotionally driven one.

For your information I do work very hard and afford a comfortable life, but feel great empathy for the people for whom working hard is not enough to achieve basic comforts. I did not grow up in as challenging an environment so maybe I am overinclined to that empathy, because I feel lucky my own pathway up the ladder was aided by privileges others are not afforded. But that is not relevant to the original point, it is just the reply I feel obliged to make in response to your attack on my character.

I didn't say I want anything for myself in my original reply. Broadly, I want equal opportunity for all. It was harder to get a job to repay loans in 2009 than today, but in the last 12 years college tuitions have continued to balloon while college graduate earning power continues to drop relative to the size of loans.

I do not particularly understand or appreciate your decision to season your explanation with personal attacks but that certainly accomplished nothing as far as educating me (or anyone else) about your perspective. HackerNews can be a great place to learn from a diverse set of opinions. Nobody has the opportunity to see those opinions if they are getting downvoted to grey for bad community conduct. If you are new to this community, you may find you are more successful at communicating your perspectives if you do so respectfully.
That's already changing in Android 12, independent of this legislation:

https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-alternative-app-st...
You can't find VT on the map?
> I've already posted this elsewhere, but I'm seeing some misinformation that our technical decisions are being driven by VC funding. This could not be farther from the truth. We have been working on these changes long before we received any form of outside investments.

That's worse, not better.

At least being forced to by investors makes sense. The current direction of travel being voluntary means you've just got a bad nose for building security.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Google employees who work from home could lose money - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28127240 - Aug 2021 (670 comments)

Google rolls out ‘pay calculator’ explaining work-from-home salary cuts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28137561 - Aug 2021 (100 comments)

Google may cut pay of staff who work from home - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28141464 - Aug 2021 (41 comments)
But it was never about self-hosting: a local vault can be synced between devices on the same network - all you have to do is to open 1PW on both of them. Everyone can manage it.
Four King Maps – Fucking good maps
This has a similar vibe to poker site overlays. I think that industry can serve as a good model for understanding this business
We don't need another reminder that a private company can do what they want. So what. YouTube sucks. Google sucks. Whatever can be done to being them to their knees should happen. Their rights are irrelwvant
I don't know how subscription fixes your problem. Now people will still yell at you, even once you've moved on to other projects, and even more people will do so since they actually pay and assume that it is your obligation. You haven't fixed the "people are assholes" problem.

A better solution honestly is just to accept some percentage of people will be little assholes but hopefully, as you remembered before your friend brought it up, that most people are gracious and kind. Focus on those people.
Troll? No: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross
A parody (of sorts) of What Three Words.
Too little, too late. You've already burnt trust here.
That was a great book, I read it when I was young and it really informed my views on wealth creation and value of free time.
The problem I see with a remote filesystem is that you’ll still need tools for editor integrations - language servers, formatters, linters, etc.

Sure, you can install those locally too, but by then you are losing many of the benefits of a cloud environment.
KeepassXC + use your internal browser password manager. Never pay again and comfortable (and secure) on desktop and smartphone.
That kind of figure is isn't just determined by climate science but also by economics. Relatively well-off people in rich countries can hang on for a lot longer in the face of unpleasant climate trends than world's poor can. The better-off can afford air conditioning systems, rooftop solar, etc. First world governments will often pay for sea walls, flood mitigation systems, desalination plants (indeed in many places they already are).
I wonder how long until we run out of types-of-intelligence to automate, and realise that “humans have a unique spark (a soul?) that makes them fundamentally different to machines” was a dream all along...
> It's a hard feeling to get over, but every time I feel it, I think about Brazil. He could confidently state something that's objectively not true and would double down if you questioned him about it. I know because this happened to me. I doubted things I knew to be true because he was that confident and that persuasive. I'll never know what was going on inside his head, but I don't think he spent a moment questioning himself.

That sounds exactly like Steve Jobs.

His RDF was amazing.

I used to say that he could not only convince a cartographer that the world was flat, but sell tickets to them for a boat ride to the edge.
Apple Ships Mysterious macOS 11.5.2 Update
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28095600
The question is: do you need money to live a happy life?

My opinion is that you don’t. But to each their own.

Maybe some people are saving because it makes them happy. In the article Nassim Taleb is quoted saying something about how it’s dumb to accumulate so much wealth but still live in a starter home (not sure if this was directed at Buffet or what). But sometimes people just feel happier having a cushion, or it Buffets case, feel happier having investments pay off.
just how small is that small amount for a group of people in a small room for an hour at a time?
Honest question, imagine if at your company tomorrow they decide to fire one principal engineer. Would you find it fair that the one is you? Would yo find it fair if you were among the 10% they fire? The 20%? The 30%?

I ask you that because it is much simpler to answer to a binary question like, do I have imposter syndrome? Or put in other words, am I modest?

You can make the link with how people see themselves. A lot of very attractive people tell you they are not very beautiful, and spend their time trying to get validation from others. But they internally think they are the top 5%.

My opinion is a lot of those things exists because people are not honest with each other. So you can't really trust what people tell you about you. And you are always wondering how people see you.
I read the paper when it was published, and wasn't great then and it's definitely not great now.
As a League of Legends player, it's very common. Virtually everyone that I know that plays this game has some sort of overlay(LolWiz, Porofessor, Blitz.gg, etc.) that provides unimaginable level of detail about the enemy team and my team before the game even begins. I can find out what the enemy players like to do("invade", or initiate cheese fights early), roam to other lanes in the map, and more. I know what their winrate on their champion is, how many kills on average they get before 10 minutes, whether they don't ward(a crucial component of the game that opens them up to ganks if not done correctly), and who they may be connected to voice call with. If anything, it seems like Senpai.gg's tool isn't doing enough.
> Air conditioning accounts for less than 5% of the average home’s energy use in homes that use it (the US is a good source of data here, with hot summers and 90% of homes having air conditioning)

The number is higher in places like the South. I don't mean to demonize AC; I think AC should be a fundamental part of living in high-humidity climates. I just think we need to do everything we can to make its use more efficient.

> If you want to really save energy, focus on the heating side. It takes far more energy to heat a house in the Midwest from 10F to 70F in the winter than the trivial amount it takes to cool a home from 90F to 70F for a few weeks in the summer.

Definitely! Heat pumps should be mandatory for heating. In many newer building codes they are, but it's too expensive for residents of older buildings to upgrade.
That's not my repo. To be clear. I followed this guys methodology, and can confirm it works. It's his work not my work.
This reads like that notorious HN comment about it being trivially easy to roll your own Dropbox. Our time has value. Good UI has value. How much time is saved by just using a service like 1Password versus the design, setup, maintenance, and ongoing use of a system like you suggest with all those individual pieces?
No, it wouldn’t. Because the homeless crisis is not due to a lack of homes most homeless people have other issues and homelessness is just a symptom.
Interesting that raising $100mm in funding isn't enough to pay a few dedicated macOS developers.
They’ve put a ton of work into making VSCode browser independent because of Codespaces. It now works in Mobile Safari pretty well, as well as Firefox.
Looks good, but since I am more of a devops person, I must ask 2 things:

- What is the scope? E.g. only some predefined programming languages or say, Puppet is also OK?

- Who decides the pricing of a course?
This is my new target platform. I really like how broadly it's spread since my first evaluation a decade ago.
I thought the entire definition of “middle class” was that it’s “average”. 1 in 20 is not average.