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I sort of want the opposite. Except for extremely high velocity mutable data, why do we ever drop an old version of any record? I want the whole database to look more like git commits - completely immutable, versionable, every change attributable to a specific commit, connection, client, user.

So much complexity and stress and work at the moment comes from the fear of data loss or corruption. Schema updates, migrations, backups, all the distributed computing stuff where every node has to assume every other node could have mutated the data .... And then there are countless applications full of "history" type tables to reinstate audit trails for the mutable data. It's kind of ridiculous when you think about it.

It all made sense when storage was super expensive but these days all the counter measures we have to implement to deal with mutable state are far more expensive than just using more disk space.
The title seems fair to me. Anything that's actually used has certain commitments it made earlier in its lifecycle from which it now can't deviate, even if later developments made the commitments problematic.
If you are looking for information about current research into consciousness, there is a book, The Hidden Spring by Mark Solms.

He gave a talk organised by The Royal Institution that talked about case studies that explore where consciousness comes from.

I hope this is helpful.

https://youtu.be/CmuYrnOVmfk
Community projects fall behind on PRs all the time. Many of them are permanently behind.

Also, foundation != community.
Notes from Sam Altman Q&A on GPT and AGI
Great list. For #4, you should take a look at Erlang or Elixir - they have "just enough" concurrency with streaming primitives and a functional style that makes it easy to use. They make a lot of "bolt on" stuff you need for a regular startup (Redis, Celery, etc) superfluous.
There is a book that taught me a great deal: Systematic Trading by Rob Carver.

In it, he notes that betting/investing at the Kelly criterion implies you are quite confident in your abilities to forecast.

For a margin of safety, invest less, say, half-Kelly. That way, you allow for unknown-unknowns.
https://old.Reddit.com/r/assholedesign for sure contains some excellent intentionally bad UX examples, dark patterns etc.
Africa in general is faring relatively very well against the SARS2 epidemic, despite having the lowest vaccination rates and being disadvantaged as far as medical spending and medical and sanitary infrastructure.

One possible explanation is the widespread use of Ivermectin in that continent (because of widespread parasites).

There are of course other reasons too. For instance, it helps that they don't have a population that is 42%+ obese. (Though Ghana is on track to soon having a similar percentage of the adult population being overweight "Rates of overweight/obesity increased nearly 139 percent over a 15-year period from 1993–2008" --- https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1864/Gha... ).

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
The government publishes all of the results. You can take a look yourself: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04470427

There are a lot of studies done on small sample sizes. It some sense it’s necessary: if something is unsafe on a small sample, it’s more than likely unsafe on a large sample.
Easiest solution to this is finding a company that can put your skills towards something that advances humanity. If no such company exists in your view, you can make one.

SPAs and code are tools. You can use them for all sorts of endeavours.
I've always wanted to have a black-hole file-shredder on display on my desk. Not a big one, just a tiny speck that would generate crazy space-time distortion effects.

I figured that it would be hard to contain on earth because it would fall to the center of the earth. So the trick is to build it in orbit.

It seem far fetch but once you decide to work in space it opens plenty of engineering shortcuts to scale-up the LHC. Space is very big, and it's already cold and a good enough vacuum, so you just need to maintain in position a few superconducting electromagnets.

You collide a few high energy particle to form one and you nurture it to make it grow.

Initially you move it by shining light or throwing things in it when the black-hole is less than 1kg, thanks to momentum conservation it's as easy as playing marbles.

Once it is in position you feed it anything you want and you build your space station and desk around the black hole. The more you shred things in it, the more mass it gets and the harder it will be to move around, but the greater the space-time distortion.

Funds you ask ? Price per kg in orbit has gone down tremendously. And there are plenty of rich people ready to use cryonics to attain immortality, so it didn't took much to convince one of them to hedge on a safer alternative to gain time. Because you see time pass slower near a black hole, and thanks to Einstein's General Relativity that has been known for more than a century. So instead of dying you get closer to your personal black-hole and you fast forward the future until the tech is ready to save you.

How could have I predicted that another stealth start-up (sponsored by the same guy ! as I later discovered) would have exactly the same idea, and now there are two black-holes orbiting earth and no way to divert them. Once they collide in exactly 1337 days their combined momentum won't allow them to orbit earth anymore...
Props to them for being honest, but it's still not a good look for Hashicorp. Their stewardship of Terraform leaves a lot to be desired. For years now I've watched Terraform PRs just wither on the vine. You get the impression that nobody is working on the AWS provider at all. Every PR to the AWS provider that I've ever cared about has taken years to be reviewed and merged despite lots of thumbs-ups and comments from users begging for it to be merged. This has been ongoing for years. There is clearly a priority problem here.
Return on investment pays a role. The higher the profit margin, the more competitive and "locked down" the field is. But things like national prestige and space race type international politics comes into play. Very rarely is lots of money spent on pure science - there's almost always a catch.
what other status quo do you expect from them?
Having to provide IP logs after a warrant has been issued is the law in switserland (and most if not all of the EU).

Sure, the law would (hopefully) be changed, but at the moment, this is the best they can legally do?
A living wage is defined in the dictionary as "a wage that is high enough to maintain a normal standard of living." Now we could argue about what a normal standard of living qualifies as but I think we can agree that it includes at minimum room & board for the individual.

By that meager definition a lot of restaurants don't pay a 'living wage'
Out of interest then how do you proceed? Do you fork the code and run your own patched version?
Interesting idea, but is that not a liability to yourself if nefarious or illegal messages are passing through your device?
Can confirm that they do vehicles infotainment systems. NSW is also not the only state to have them.
With regards to Pulp Fiction, is the Gold Watch another MacGuffin?
NIST or DJB. It's safer to ignore NIST and do what DJB says.
expect you are legally required to actually gather this data if a warrant is issued.
What does Youth for Climate do that required arrest? I’m unfamiliar with them.
It’s not protection FROM your customers. It is protection FOR your customers. Most customers are not technically astute
Fair enough. We routinely had several thousand interactive users at a time on UICVM back in the 80s. We had dedicated machines (effectively their own minicomputers) that managed terminal sessions so we could use commodity ASCII terminals or PCs running Kermit instead of IBM 3270 terminals. It still blows me away how small everything is in the twenty-first century.
Tor is open source. Point to the vulnerability you are claiming, or stop spreading FUD.
> No personal information is required to create your secure email account.

Except your phone number? That's highly personal. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28428092

(I recall encountering this too when creating an account a few months ago.)
I don’t know if that’s true - I’m very skeptical of the idea $300k is anything but the very low end of Dartmouth grads.
It has beautiful UX and the resulting gifs are quite good for the size. Also made my M1 Macbook Pro rev its fans very audibly for almost the first time.
It's very odd they don't do anything to speed up the wheels or apply a coating of water to them on dry days to avoid extreme wear and excess rubber for future planes landing.

Even a passive design with the shape of the tread could help substantially reduce the amount of rubber scraped off the wheel on each landing.
I wonder what BAC would generate the same effect.
Difficult to say, since the computer crash was linked directly to having just touched down. 10-20 seconds before there was no disagreement because neither computer has detected that the wheels were on the ground.
Getting people to submit PRs that stand up to your requirements can be a nontrivial exercise.
But you are ignoring everything that matters here.

The $950 amount defines how the crime is handled. Because less than that is a lesser crime it tends not to even be enforced, but that does not mean that it cannot be enforced or will not be enforced. Much of the problem there has to do with exactly what happens when police but a case before the state.

The fundamental problem that prisons were exploding with a population that simply could not be contained and cared for does not go away because enforcing retail theft is difficult. You seem to be proposing the idea that the way to fix this is to enforce shoplifting crimes aggressively, but how will you pay for and manage the additional prisons that will require?

Instead of pretending the problem is simple we need to continue to find ways to make the justice system actually work. Part of that is to make it clearer what may happen if police arrest someone. Now they tend to be let free which has as much to do with prosecutor options and decisions as the law itself. It is clear we need to do better, but it is also quite clear that simply complaining about dysfunction does not fix anything and can imply bills that are too large to pay.
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> ...more places where you order at a register and bus your own food with minimal overheard and maximum investment in the quality of the food rather than the whole waiter and ambiance schtick.

This is currently a cultural non-starter except for niche markets, but once an economic crisis of sufficiently large and long duration is established, that model might work. Maybe. Look up any number of formerly-wealthy-now-poor nations, and I'm hard-pressed to recall any that adopted this model in the mainstream restaurant industry in that nation. Human culture changes are slow to arrive, and carry immense inertia.

I suspect the hyper-rationalization of markets is leading to continuous spectrum K-selection strategies that ultimately prove adverse to the overall market. All the monetization optimization (aided by the gradual incremental gains our industry delivers, however somnambulantly) is attaching a price to every factor that is priced, but under-pricing all non-priced factors (generally those on a long timeline like sustained incentives for young families to support future demographics, pollution, energy, etc.).

This optimization is blunted by currently-stronger cultural norms, especially those tangential or central to mating. It remains to be seen which force remains stronger over the long run (my personal bet is on the cultural norms).

Having said all that, I wouldn't mind at all patronizing a "meal plan" model-based co-op that lets me select 2-4 months in advance how many breakfast/lunch/dinner/brunch I want for a month, in a setting like you describe, a 1-3 minute walk from where I live, with online seating reservations, that operates 24x7x365, serving the locality's "home style" cuisine plus lots of greens. The business only lets in a dynamically-selected number of walk-ins, based upon seating availability and ML-projected food waste at that moment. The value proposition is trade off the customer-skin-in-the-game, fixed commitments for fresh ingredients freshly-prepared at near-home-prepared prices, with aggressively-amortized costs of running the co-op and its costs, thus able to pay fair wages for bare bones staff.

But I would be very surprised if there are enough potential customers like me in sufficient densities in even major metropolitan urban cores to make such a model feasible.
Well, the "mapping" you're referring to is itself fairly special; it's a reflection of intentionality, the fact that thoughts can be "about" something else in our minds. This is one of many key insights about phenomenology - the very 'stuff' that meditators experiment with as part of their practices! Some fascinating insights to be gained by blending all of those traditions.
I don't think the birth rate thing is an actual existential threat

If it goes on long enough there will be opportunities and a baby boom
We've had 3 greyhounds, all died of cancer, two of bone cancer. Seems to be the curse of the greyhounds. It's lovely that you'll be adopting again. Tracks in the US have mostly closed, the waiting list for retired racers are long. UK and Ireland still have many retired racers, but the cost to transport them to the US is quite prohibitive. I quite envy you, and wish you much love with your new darlings.

My most previous greyhound would play bite, which indicates to me he knew what a real bite does. On occasions I have said "ow ow" he would stop immediately and looked at me with surprise. I have also stepped on him or otherwise jostled him by accident, and I immediately and profusely said "sorry, sorry", and he would lick my hand as if he understood it was a mistake. Am I anthropomorphising the behavior? I've never doubted that dogs could differentiate what is intentional and unintentional.
The problem is the facts that everyone agrees on rarely give the best results. Best comment from the ft article:

> A financial literate person probably would not borrow lots of money to buy properties since around 2005 when the market was pretty obviously overvalued. How wrong the person had been.

> A financial literate person probably would not buy the cryptos either, for a long time at least. How wrong the person had been.

> A financial literate probably won't buy the MEME stocks either, for a time at least

> A financial literate person save money in the bank account, only to face real rates of -4%.

> I can't even be sure the money printers that drove asset prices to such valuations are financial literate either
Those are the old levees. They didn't even approve the new levee system for that area until this year.
Are there alternative OSes for this very specific hardware? I mean, Juniper aside, the risk that other network gear is similarly affected as well surely is not zero, so I wonder if there is any FOSS (also as in auditable) alternative firmware for these devices, or any ongoing efforts to create one.
Did you even read the article?

You don’t think a German government agency would do cost-benefit analysis on supporting a project ?!

I think the benefits of FDI are pretty well established.
> 1. Am asked to verify new account by entering a cell phone (bogus)

Interestingly the sentence on their front page, right before the most commonly quoted snippet in this thread, is:

> No personal information is required to create your secure email account.

A phone number is quite a personal, unique identifier.
It's decades of antivirus style mindsets (we'll just clean up after), mixed with formerly being in law "enforcement" (we can't do anything until AFTER the law is broken), mixed with decades of "security by obscurity" and paranoid "hide and seek" culture, mixed with 9/11 vengeance, plus American exceptionalism.

With a smack of ham to it. I call it hot ham water.
It does not work in healthy companies.

Maybe it works if you assume all employees want to do bare minimum and don't get blame for what was not delivered.

What I see most of the time is that people want to deliver, people want to be valued by their work.

Of course I am cynical as the next guy from me in terms of "getting on high horse" but there is a lot of people who want to do their job and want to do it well.

Playing divide and conquer, playing non-existing scare deadlines is going to work once or twice and any smart employee will leave after that kind of crap. Other option is you are going to get smart employees who cannot afford to leave, but because of that crap they will just stop giving any fuck.

I sign up in reality into "self fulfilling prophecy employee", when you treat your employees or other people with expectation that they are thieves - in the end they will steal from you.

If you treat your employees as if they suck - they will suck.

Of course there are bad apples but if one goes the road that everyone want's to rob him, he will get robbed.
Scalability and high availability are not niche.

Everyone wants this and most production environments need it.
Creating a black hole, with the LHC, that consumes the earth
Part of the issue is that the bar for subversive activities in the eyes of western law enforcement seems to be getting lower and lower. I don't know the specifics of this case, but it seems many authorities are also not shy about using these methods to identify and track peaceful protesters as well.
I'm actually thinking we have these kinds of backdoors in all products that may impact national security. Think it this way: What's the best way for NSA to conveniently access any product without pulling any string because doing so may alert the perpetrator? This is the only way that it can do it quietly. Of course, theoretically they could hire massively numbers of researchers and programmers but I don't really think it's gonna enough.
That's a recurring aspect of every single Gibson novel, arguably; the protagonists are mostly passive observers while other characters do things, usually behind the scenes.

Gibson's plot always follows this template. Some big shot with limitless financial resources hires the protagonist to do/find/learn something. The protagonist mostly just travels and chats with various people. Meanwhile, some kind of intrigue happens on the sidelines, but the main character actually ends up not doing anything that affected the plot. One of the few exceptions is Case who, while being a passive travel companion for most of the book, actually helps execute a hack.

In The Peripheral, this is taken to an extreme. Flynne doesn't do anything. The book starts her witnessing a crime. After that, she simply passively observes everything else. Flynne doesn't even control her own movements; at several points she's transported to a new location for her protection. And most of the action happens behind the scenes, and characters report back with progress on what's happened. It's such a weird novel.

As an aside, I read Agency when it came out, and today I couldn't remember a single thing about it. I can vaguely remember the plots of Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. From there it gets fuzzy. Looking back at his output (which I've read everything of), I find his books simply got increasingly less interesting and less memorable over time. His prose still shines, though.
CDC study finds about 78% of people hospitalized for Covid were overweight or obese

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/08/covid-cdc-study-finds-roughl...
expect you need to have the infrastructure in place to gather data for police investigations in many countries.
If you don't have this infrastructure in place, you are breaking the law as a company which could have enourmous consequences.

This does not mean you need to log everything all the time. (usually that is actually quite illegal too) but you need to have infrastructure in place to allow for police investigations.

I don't get how people don't understand this. companies need to operate according to the law of the land, this being one of them.
It's also good to remember that each $1000 you save in your 40s has a bigger impact than each $100 you save in your 20s. That $1000 may also be easier to afford.

For many (most?) people, early career is the time when the financial pressure is the worst. Income is still low, while expenses are not much lower than later in life. You may have student loans to repay and mortgage down payment to save for, and you can't delay having kids indefinitely. It's one thing to know that each decade should double the real value of your savings, and it's another thing to afford saving any meaningful sum of money.

The real choice comes when your income increases or your mandatory spending decreases. Do you then increase your discretionary spending, or do you save some of the extra money instead?
I mean it's either this or traffic analysis. If you use your clearnet IP address to do illegal things, it's nothing more than reasonable that you can get in trouble for it.

This is also why I don't get protonmail in the first place. Unless you use pgp or equivalent, you'll always be subject to law enforcement. Just that protonmail cares more and caters more to activists and so might not give it out without checking that the asker is really legit and then give the minimal amount possible. But they'll always be able to turn over your emails and log IPs, it's not protonmail's fault the laws were voted into action like this.
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In Nietzsche's words:

> A nihilist is a man who judges of the world as it is that it ought not to be, and of the world as it ought to be that it does not exist. According to this view, our existence (action, suffering, willing, feeling) has no meaning: the pathos of 'in vain' is the nihilists' pathos – at the same time, as pathos, an inconsistency on the part of the nihilists.

Where is Nietzsche's nihilism in what you describe? How is your peer's worldview nihilistic when they place a high value on the effect of your potential actions on the world?

Surely for a nihilist, "to have made an impact" is a non-goal.
I would have liked if you had cut a bit on the diversity/privilege BS. I come from Europe where race doesn't matter and hearing about American woke rhetoric is extremely annoying.
Well now you're using dog whistles like "mysticism" when I'm talking about philosophy. Regardless of the explanatory power of science, there are always questions that go beyond its sphere.

The key question here is "what gives rise to the experience of consciousness?". Everything you described is about the mechanics of cognition, but it does not explain the qualia of consciousness, or why we are not p-zombies. This is a very hard problem to chip away at from a scientific perspective.

Do you believe that if we were capable if making a replica of a brain that performed all the same functions in silicon, and had the same computational capacity that it would be conscious? Why or why not?
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I actually just reverse engineered the Victoria app yesterday. I don't really have any reason to do this, but if anyone does want to submit a whole bunch of check-in requests, it's pretty easy. A single CURL call will do it.
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while i agree this is a problem, this is something that isn't to blame on protonmail (or any other company following the law). This is something that should be changed through politics/lawmaking.
What is modern? If we think how databases run better in the modern hardware, the trend goes toward plenty of RAM and fast disk (SSD/memory-disk) that doesn't have the disk seek problem of the old days. Modern databases being developed today aim for those environment.