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The cost of making goods is extremely cheap and will only go down as the cost of energy decreases. This is not an ideological statement.

ETA: HN says I am replying too quickly.

here is my reply to the replies: argue against what I wrote. I said the cost of making goods is going down. Not that rare things will no longer exist. And I certainly did not speak to arbitrarily valued things like baseball cards (lol?) and "numbered art".

Who even cares? That's not remotely in the realm of discussion. No one said lowered energy costs will increase the existence of Kanye West signatures.

The point is the price of goods is going down. It means higher per capita production output. That is the only thing I said. That means cheaper houses. It means cheaper consumer goods. Not "nothing rare will ever exist again" or even "nothing will ever be scarce" -- it means the things we need to survive are no longer resource or labor gated, they are closed off as an act of political will.

If you want, make two different currencies. Some basic gov't scrip for necessities - housing, food, shelter, closing, and you can use BTC or whatever for your rich people shit and pay as much as you want for collectible shoes or whatever catches your fancy.

People will largely not care because they won't be literally starving and dying from lack of access to physiological necessities.
No, and the company is trying to kill a third-party vendor of a hardware dongle that tells you what is wrong, without needing expensive on-site human support calls.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28117164
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Also says that developers will not be prevented from converting existing apps to "reader" apps, or submitting brand new "reader" apps.

Further, "reader" app appears to be defined as "an app used solely for the viewing, etc. of digital content users purchase through websites, etc."
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>Leaked online last week via an animal rights activist's blog, the stolen reformatted Guntrader database was explicitly advertised as being importable into Google Earth so randomers could "contact as many [owners] as you can in your area and ask them if they are involved in shooting animals."

Animal rights activists win this round.
I read the first few sections, and I'm not a fan. In the author's defense however, he defines capital to mean only physical capital. It doesn't make sense why he'd pick that definition, but there it is.
If you actually read the link, Strauss is not being "extradited to another country for potential imprisonment" just for criminal copyright infringement.
As long as nobody uses the credit card information to steal money then fine, otherwise you’re obviously doing something illegal (facilitating theft). To be honest though even then I think we should at this point require some sort of 2FA, maybe if doing such things (putting credit card numbers online) wasn’t illegal better protections would have to be implemented…
Agreed: moral acts are received as evil. We are attempting to 'save our democracy' and 'protect everyone' and that always only ends in one place: totalitarianism. The paradox of sustaining safety/risk is where we need to sit. But the coordination (blind and ideological; I don't think any of it is evil) of media wanting clicks, politicians being paid means we all serve The Economy. Thank you for your comments!
Solutions must be created publicly with active participation of experts from different domains.

Regulations and laws must be defined with expertise and care for the future of humanity, with proper protection of privacy and existing legislative frameworks.

There are proven principles that define our world.
The tech overlords are playing gods at the moment, and the minions are following the lead.

Solutions arise when expertise is manifested trough political and public action.
Bed time stories about convenience and trust are for kids. Grown-up humans are using history as a reference to protect the future and work actively towards balanced implementation.

One logical tech solution is everything that is of critical importance to be open-sourced and scrutinized on a regular basis. The other is to regulate big tech and create a line that cannot be crossed.

What is Apple anyway? Entertainment company? Utility company? Automotive company? Digital services company?
Now they are police and government?
Whats going on actually?
The US was always the most advanced police state. All the "freedom" indoctrination just thinly covers up the fact that the rich pull the strings, own the politicians, start the forever wars, and neglect the needs of the common person.
I enjoyed that part, as well as the header background. It’s fun!
Given the byline on the piece, Bartleby, the appropriate response would seem to be "I prefer not to."

From what I have seen, adults need agency, the ability to choose for themselves what is best for themselves. Women don't need to be mansplained at.
Hi superout, that is a loaded question, hard to answer without more context (what are your goals? what is your background, can you program already, what's your learning style, etc). In general, so many options out there... Sorry I can't be more helpful.
I read that as a very polite way of saying that, historically speaking, they were widely regarded as thieves. As in, if you traveled in certain places of the desert without an armed escort, you would be robbed.
_Angle of Attack_ by Mike Gray is a good one about Apollo, specifically about North American Aviation and how they built one of the Apollo stages (and a bunch of other neat flying things!). Lots of information but definitely a fun read.
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>but I do miss the days when you could work up the nerve to start playing with the voltage and frequency settings and get a free performance boost well after your purchase date.

On the flip side, I'm glad that I can get the full performance of the chip without having to spend hours tinkering with it and/or worrying about silent data corruption.
The Wizard of Oz is very recognizable by the witch, the tornado and the house flying in the tornado.
I wonder is it possible to put a link on both login page and settings/subscription page.
The modern philosophy, as it's taught in universities, is shallow mental gymnastics in most cases. Find and read all Plato's books, and I mean all, not just the short official list approved for students, and see how much universities intentionally omit.
You are right, my friend. A terrifying part of orthodoxy is that so many things in life are a distraction, and only a few things are necessary. Of course, that involves learning different ways to recognize when a question is worth answering (or even asking) and when it isn't.

On the level of thinking and pure logic, nothing in orthodoxy is necessary. Part of the joy is learning to incorporate and trust other sources of information in addition to the empirical and logical. The two main ones being the conscience, and advice from a friend. Once you incorporate these other sources of information, it is terrifying how necessary some answers become.
Up until a few years ago, the first thing I would do when I find good content written by someone younger to me is to see if it was a real person. And then I was really pissed off at myself for some reason.
Happy at least that part changed. All in all, very well articulated, especially for a recent grad. Cambridge does that I guess. Following your blog and musings now on.
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I think devices, OSes, apps and services are all retail products. The extent to which Apple sells a locked down device is the the extent to which it's trying to unfairly control multiple secondary markets.

It's irrelevant how easy or hard developers have it, the consumer can pick if they want to pay once or have a subscription for the feature set they want in apps.
Save up money and work at a risky pre-Series A startup. They'd kill to have an ex-FAANG employee who can design things from the ground up, lease a project to completion, and enjoy the systems they are building.

Recently left a small startup for Google and was recently talking with someone who thought I was going for promotion. I asked if I should, they then looked at my profile and said "You've only been here X long so they won't give it to you even if you deserve it."

Completely different world. Completely different mentality.
> Downsides might include being overall more apathetic and possibly less motivated (but that might also be an illusion

FWIW, Sidartha might say “You’ve given up frivolities and potentially closer to giving up desire. You’re one step closer to enlightenment.”

The symptoms of enlightenment (“a positive”) are the same as apathy and lacking motivation (“a negative”). Everything is a matter of framing :). I’m glad you’ve chosen a mental model that frames your imperfections as learning opportunities rather than justification for self-punishment.
Interestingly I knew about MR but didn't know he had a well-liked podcast
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I am not very familiar with laptop components, so this might be a silly question. Are there plans to offer a dedicated GPU version or is it not possible to do that with Nvidia/AMD ?

I am looking at buying a new laptop and currently the Razer Blade 14 or Alienware R-something are the top candidates. Would have loved to buy a Framework laptop, but it doesn't look like GPU is a consideration in the design.

(I don't want to carry an external GPU around while travelling)
I've had such bad sinusitis that I've lost my sense of smell thus taste for months at a time. It came back slowly but it was awful. The treatment I use now is nasal cortosteroids to prevent an oncoming attack. But I do not dare suggest anything of course, considering.
We have a 2012 Macbook Pro 13" that's been handed down from me, to wife to kids. Incredible to think this machine is near 10 years old, and even with how much abuse it's been through it is still going strong.

Although I don't think Macs between 2014 - 2019 are as well built (have had a string of issues with those), I haven't had any other PC/Macbook last as long as that 2012 MBP. Some of my old Thinkpads still work, but have coil whine, noisy fans etc.
Yes, the previous comment was clearly written and said the same thing. Hence my question.
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Meta study, most selected studies administered a single or few doses, none over 5 days.

The doctors reporting success are using it for longer. Consider most anti virals are taken for 10+ days
I’m skeptical that this will actually be useful to people who already have a day job and read philosophy in their spare time. And the curriculum seems to be mostly be centered on analytic philosophy (which is good if you’re interested in that stuff - but it’s probably not the full picture!)

I’m personally doing something totally differently from this - trying to read recent texts on philosophy (mostly continental) and backtracking my way through the older ones. I don’t know if that’ll work (given the small amount of free time and mental energy left to devoting on it), but it still seems much more engaging than the usual standard philosophy curriculum.
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Look you have a point, of course a bad DIY operation could be dangerous, but that's not what I'm referring to, or Right to repair it's.

Imagine if your house, could only be repaired (electric, plumbing, etc) by one corporation that is friends with the real state agency that sold you the house. Yes, electric DIY it's a bad idea, but you want the option to hire another trained / certified professional to do the job, maybe because price, quality, speed or reliability. Monopolies have the tendency to end bad for the user.

Their PR of the "one and only" company to do "safe" repairs, and that 3rd party are dangerous it's a lie. Other fast food restaurants are proof of this, they use the same machines, but can hire other companies to repair them, so they have much less downtime.

Edit: Fixed typos
Never in my life have I heard of it deterring people. What deters them is platforms being taken down.
Sure, so measure it in utiles instead.
He stole intellectual property and deserves to be prosecuted. With abundant streaming options these days and threat of being cut off from your ISP, few people pirate films anymore in the US. This is not normal, tolerable practice anymore. People’s livelihoods depend on these industries. A lot of the people here on hacker news make a living from producing intellectual property.
> It's a signal from the market ("employer") that what you currently offer is not what they currently value. If you desire greater rewards/ recognition, you need to discover what they value and decide if you want to offer that.

Is that really what it's signaling? "Need" and "salary" seem only loosely related.
How does this work for cooperative works?
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Because it's the worst alternative except for all the others.
This doesn't work out for the studio. How are they going to maintain a grip on the creators and consumers then?
When you say tiny fraction, do you take into account the total carbon emissions for the life of the car?

Direct emissions are in single digits, but what about decades of maintenance that requires oil changes, parts production, transmission changes, etc?

An EV is much simpler than an ICE vehicle, has lesser metal and requires fewer moving parts.

Metal production is highly carbon intensive. Not to mention recycling and reusing.
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Sorry but this really feels like the Lisp people have something very precious and they want to be very careful and ration what and how much they want to share with common people.

The entire ecosystem at this point screams that people who can't spend significant portion of their lives fanatically dedicated to the Lisp cause are better off not even starting with this.
To supplement the material mentioned here I’d suggest the excellent Philosophy Bites podcast (also available as books). Each episode is an interview with an eminent philosopher on an interesting topic and the level of discussion is very understandable.
It sounds very much like he decided to take a month vacation instead of quitting. He could still quit at the end of the month. Better to get paid to unwind and/or search for another job.
It was a regression to go from a world where we could repair and freely install to one where we could do neither.

It's further mired by the fact that Apple went from less than 10% market share to over 50%.

As consumers, we can't repair our devices or run the software we want to on them.

As small businesses, we can't ship software the way we want to anymore. It has to be in the form of an app to reach the target audience. We're audited, policed, and taxed. This isn't for some niche hobby or market - this is the primary form of computing for most Americans. We have to waste effort to develop applications twice because reasons, and we're treated like dog shit all the while.

Both sides of the coin suck, and the 800 lb gorilla in the room isn't going away. It feels like we woke up in bizarro world, because this shouldn't have ever become the status quo.
>> Too bad there’s not enough of us to fight back.

I don’t think so. You can see glimmers of hope in people who refuse to buy into propaganda every day if you go looking for it. Just today, for example, Project Veritas successfully got a California high school teacher fired for literally trying to convert his students to communists.

There are lots of people doing horrible things with tech, and programmers willing to write the shit code that executes on those desires, but all of that comes from the desire for more money and power. It has always been the case that smart humans with drive chase money and power, but it often only takes a small handful of people to bring change to even the worst tyranny. Don’t lose hope for freedom, friend.
Exactly my thought. I'm getting sick entirely of this proliferation of free services that obviously can't scale without increasingly high funding.

There are free software for each of those services which can be stood up locally, takes more time but offers more guarantees in the long term for privacy and resilience.
Lodge a bug.
What's McDonald's corporate's cut of the call out charge, the alleged motivation here?
Yes. Saving to an image, loading the image, modifying the image while the program is running and seeing the program update without recompilation is part of the magic of programming in a good Lisp IDE.

Smalltalk was influenced by how Lisp used images and went on to build on the concept of images and do all the other things that make Smalltalk Smalltalk.

Various commercial Smalltalks have come and gone over the years. I am assuming you have been looking at either Squeak or Pharo. Both are nice, but the user interface is trapped inside of a windowing system inside of the environment you are executing in. A Pharo program will present a window and inside that window is another desktop environment. This seems unnatural to me, but it is the result of how Smalltalk works; it does everything. If you have the time, you can read about this in the Smalltalk-80 books.

LispWorks allows you to use the native widgets of the platform you are targeting. Your program will use native widgets. Clozure CCL (not Clojure) also has native widget support. Take a look at the OpusModus [1] composition program. It is written in Clozure CCL and is very polished, professional application.

It sounds like you already understand the philosophical differences between Lisp and Smalltalk. You can use an object system in Lisp, but it is option. Smalltalk is objects all the way down. Lisp can be molded to operate in variety of idioms, so you can create your own opinionated system, but one is not dictated for you.

[1] https://www.opusmodus.com/
I haven't listened to the whole thing but that part of the talk you linked is really cringey actually. To paraphrase, "don't trust a person to write software if they haven't written a first level interrupt handler".

Utter rubbish. And he goes on to talk about programming for an embedded SoC, etc. Hah. Some of the most utterly wretched code, vhdl, and development practices I've ever had the displeasure of being acquainted with have been in embedded devices, devices, device driers, firmware, etc.

And first level interrupt handlers? He's saying that like it takes some genius to do it, or the process of doing it confers some deep understanding on the writer. It doesn't. It's not particularly complex, outside buggy or stupid architecture but even that's just grinding work.

And the there is some horrific buggy crappy interrupt handler code around and I can say that because I've written some. And it sounds like you may well have too, if your interactions with David Miller relating to the the performance of Sun OS system calls is anything to go by.

Arguably it's more valuable to understand how the C environment (stack, etc) is set up and how to wrangle the toolchain into emiting code at particular locations and such. But you can get all that many other ways. And even then, I don't actually agree that you need to know the minutiae of those details in this day and age which is a great thing. This is not where most of the interesting work is happening, like it or not.

This kind of elitist gatekeeping attitude is just sad. It reeks of the has-been (or maybe never-was) mindset. I would just as well trust code written by someone who deeply understands what they do writing a word processor or video game or distributed database, than someone who has hacked out an interrupt entry vector. And the sad fact is that being an OS developer does not require or confer a deep understanding of how to get the most out of hardware, understanding caches or multiprocessing or branch predictors or performant scalable data structures and synchronization techniques. No more than writing a web server prevents a person from understanding all those things deeply.
They're decent. Windows comes with a few bloatware (like Candy Crush Saga etc), but they can be easily uninstalled.
Unless you're claiming it happens every single game, you're applying the wrong number.

Or are you backing your claim down to "100% of content on TV has some faked element in some episode eventually"? Because that's not a very useful claim.
Never mind my previous comment (parent): I was being stupid.
Article is paywalled.

I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not. I for one like the fact that I can easily manage my subscriptions from inside the settings app. I cancel a subscription, and I'm guaranteed not to get double charged again. It's as easy as pie.

With every Tom Dick and Harry app linking to their own subscription and payment system, this already becomes incredibly more complex for the consumer (in this case, me).

I have already been avoiding using apps that require me to sign up manually (i.e without the "Log in with Apple" option) because it's simply inconvenient and I know one day or another each of these websites will be compromised, my e-mail leaked, as well as other payment processing info.

This just fragments the ecosystem even more and I'm quite happy to avoid such applications and stick to those that use Apple for payment processing and subscription management (if these are only the Apple related apps, e.g music, TV, etc., so be it).
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Because they are making a disingenuous and foolish argument.
What if the machine does say it needs cleaning?
All those problems you listed are "I don't trust the central authority". None of those are problems that cannot be solved by a central authority.

However, all those are specifically only useful for payments/currency. So, if blockchain is only nifty for distributed currency, that's a use case. But hardly lives up to the hype you bring forward. ML can solve problems I face. Blockchain cannot.
You only need a commercial license under certain circumstances, and it only pertains to accessing the default package repository at repo.anaconda.com. You can still use conda-forge etc. Conda itself (the packaging tool) remains open source.

Part of the proceeds from the cost go to fund the Anaconda Dividend Program, which gives money to various open source projects in the pydata/scipy ecosystem.
Thanks for the summary. I think it's a bizarre position to be in yet recall around 2018 there were a numerous people waxing post-scarcity optimism, such as James Burke (of the tv series Connections): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09jvfc4 .
If you take into account the total fuel spent, per item, Amazon delivery would have less.

Fuel spent per item is more or less the same upto the nearest warehouse, whether that is Amazons or walmart.

Fuel spent per item from walmart to home is more because you have one car going to amazon for the item and a bunch of others. However, with Amazon, it is one truck delivering hundreds to a neighbourhood.

Ao, in almost all cases, delivery by Amazon is better for the environment, or at worst, same as that of alternatives.
Eh, people sit in jail for not paying bus fares lol
I was curious if this McCarthy was related to THAT McCarthy, as an interested outsider. Nope.

But I did discover that he holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing. How the fuck is Marketing part of the Science faculty?
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