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I would argue that most of the items on this list can be subdivided into two types of hype.

short term hype (real advances that will happen in 1-2 years, but won't matter by 2030, because they are just a generational iteration)

Over-hyped far-future research. (things where the possibilities have yet to be brought down to earth by the practical limits of implementing them broadly / cost effectively) When these things do happen, they tend to be a bit of a let-down, because they don't actually provide the promised revolutionary changes. These things basically have to be over-hyped in order to get the necessary funding to bring them to reality.

Of the examples you have, I am only really excited about CRISPR, and to a lesser extent commercial spaceflight, and new nuclear. These have promise IMO, but I also don't expect them to be decade defining.

Personally I don't think we know what the next breakthrough will be yet. I expect it to take us very much by surprise, and start out as something unthreatening which then grows to a disruptive size / scale.
>Not sure how you get to supply chain issues being imaginary?

Not sure how you concluded that I think every reported instance is imaginary; that's definitely incompatible with my previous comment. The window pits weren't imaginary!

>A supply chain problem doesn't necessarily mean "totally unavailable everywhere".

I agree, but how do you tell the difference between something that happens all the time and nobody noticed a couple years ago outside of maybe a trade magazine about logistics, vs. something that is new and different?
I don't necessarily think Reddit is a good route to financial literacy. Nor do I know of a better route. Despite (or because?) of all that, I still think the question was reasonable. If you don't want to answer the question, that's fine. But you don't have to be so antagonistic about it.
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Yes, that's a great example. I'm not sure if the term emotional cheating is the correct one but that's how I've heard examples like that one described before.
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> [Krugman: ] In principle, voters should judge politicians by their actions; ... To do this, however, voters should have a reasonably good idea of what policy is doing

...then Krugman writes he will not propose a solution in the current occasion. (Good. It is relevant to note that the elision in the above quote is a childish «they should support politicians who pursue policies that help them, oppose politicians whose policies would hurt them»).

That solution is still called "education". (At it is increasingly clear that an extensive and intensive interdisciplinary coverage is required, as opposed to an "agent based system" like model of specialization.)
> * R^2 of play time and well begin is 0.01. Technically significant.

Wow, that's complete garbage!
Can you give a concrete example? I can't think of anything where you wouldn't need a fallback "human takes control".
"The standard you walk past is the standard you accept."
I'll raise you with the 1980s excitement about satanic cults kidnapping children.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/uncover/new-podcast-explores-how-sa...

Otherwise dunk away lol
The QE from multiple times in previous decades should also work to help believe stocks are safe assets. And why wouldn’t it? As long as USA is relatively stable compared to other countries, and USD is desirable relative to other currencies, then I think it is reasonable to consider low cost broad market index funds to be inflation protected savings accounts on a 3+ year investment horizon.
I was in both Napa and Point Reyes a couple weeks back and the AT&T cell reception was pretty hit or miss. Heck, I'm about 45 miles west of Boston and the cell reception at my house is at least variable.
This may be the perspective of a JS veteran (who has the types of common APIs committed to memory), but I keep a respectful distance from JS and only seriously touched TS yesterday and already the benefits seem significant.
HN is not a social media website. Try again.
YT is also not a social media website. In case you meant that.
You know you're getting old when your industry colleagues start dying off in greater and greater numbers each year.
I really wish I could use only e-mail instead of Slack/Teams for anything related to my day-to-day job. Both can stay for calls and ceremonies, but that's it. No messaging, no million other sub-applications in Slack/Teams that connect and integrate to everything. I find the whole thing truly tiresome to use.
You just refuse to participate. If you want an exclusive club, leave the non-exclusive ones. Back to blogging instead of the social media mob. And much more actual face-to-face interaction instead of interacting via an online platform.
I was explaining to one of my coworkers how back in the day with WordPerfect you could click "Show Codes" (or whatever the menu option was called) and view all the embedded formatting tags as text rather than WYSIWYG. This made it incredibly easy to fix formatting issues and see what was wrong with an unintended interaction of styles. As people who had only ever used (read: fought with) Microsoft Word, they were mind-blown that such a thing once existed.

We maintain technical documentation and have to manually track page changes, which ultimately results in physical pages being printed and replaced in physical binders in many facilities. Use of Microsoft Word for this purpose is sketchy as f--- because when Word decides to "go nuts" and slightly reformat the next 100 pages (or worse, even previous pages) because of a minor edit, it turns a single page change into a hundreds-of-pages change apocalypse.

Of course we don't really let that outcome stand; what actually happens is an engineer (with occasional consultation of a documentation specialist) spends half a day tentatively prodding and undoing changes in an increasingly broken document trying to find a way through the maze that doesn't trigger either a formatting booby trap or Word's over-helpful malevolent AI.

The key point here is without the ability to "show codes" and edit the real underlying structure of the document not the WYSIWYG view, the entropy just increases over time.

We all agree that Word is not the appropriate software for what we're doing. Unfortunately the people with the power to fix this situation are the furthest removed from understanding our pain, and we have decades' worth of Word docs. And since Microsoft Office is the default, even when Word breaks compatibility we don't take advantage of that opportunity to move to a real document management system, they just keep buying the next version of Office.
> we chose LG signage monitors, which we got on eBay for a heavy discount.

Oh, that’s beautiful. I’m so used to having to spend 2-10x to fulfill formal constraints (proper billing, certification, ...). Feels terrible every time. This is refreshing.

Also, big props on doing something fun. So many companies switch between „we don’t have time for fun/cool stuff“ and „oh no, we’re 20% under-utilized!!!“ instead of doing something like this to boost morale.

About styling: The inside ticker looks great, but oh man, the mocked-up outside one looks out of place. The whole branding does. Maybe you could start with a proper sign on the top of the wall to replace that painted square ...
It's not a coincidence that the left side (more positive to philosophy) and Born (whose quotes are more neutral) are also continental European, while the three critical examples (can add in Krauss, Hawking, and many others) come from Anglo-Americans. There's too often a pettiness in the latter (to an extent, also in your post) in which what look like fairly limited and contemporaneous gripes about academics in another field is given the trappings of some historically unbound and universal insight.

There's no inherent tension between science and philosophy; even Meermin's "shut up and calculate" is a philosophical position (instrumentalism), to say nothing of the philosophical, scientific and mathematical contributions of e.g. Poincaré, Helmholtz, Mach, Duhem, Peirce, Leibniz, Von Neumann, Jaynes etc. Even modern Anglo-American physicists contribute to and draw a lot from philosophy, e.g. Wheeler and Paul Anderson.
> But I'm the loser of the story here, as those guys are now working for even bigger companies with bigger salaries

Another way to look at this is that a lower-paid SWE is paying for their mental health and morale. In my books, that's a winner :)

With the assumption that those engineers whose high/er salary in big/ger companies is not achived through mastery (Netflix is certainly not going to hire the Jon Schlinkerts), they're likely going to work with, say, "moral peers", which is typically undesirable for mentally healthy people.
Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed this summary. Had read Patrick McCormick’s newsletter on ConstitutionDAO and wanted to hear the opposite take. I appreciate the optimism Patrick brings to the web3 space. But, there’s a lack of critical thinking in terms of why the problem needs web3 and the risks associated.
I miss buying office once and not having to tie it to a microsoft account, live in constant fear of it unregistering on an application server, resetting an office 365 user's password because it randomly stopped working. Office 2000 was so good I miss those times. It launched stupid fast, worked well, and I can't think of any bugs I ran into.
> I can't help but wonder if the root cause was HTTP request smuggling, or if changing package.json was enough.

Maybe I'm just incredibly cynical from my experiences with the intersection of the JS ecosystem and security, but...

...I'd bet dimes to dollars it's the latter (just changing the package.json). My guess is they authenticate but don't actually scope the authentication properly, and no one noticed because no one thought to look.

Of course, as we've seen in the past decade, there's so much inertia behind the JavaScript ecosystem that none of this is going to fundamentally change. It'll just take another decade or so for the ecosystem to reinvent all of the wheels and catch up to the rest of the space.

And at that point it will probably be considered stuffy and "enterprise" and the new hotness unburdened from such concerns will repeat the cycle again.
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You are off by 9 orders of magnitude at least. The classical super computer in these comparisons costs 0.3 Billion dollars and this does not count the many Trillions that took to develop the tech.

Even on this measure, the (useless for now) quantum tech wins.
online is important. Today's cities have become more impersonal and less cohesive than in the past. blogging is indeed a good idea
So you’re saying that is a gigantic target for China and Russia to go after lol. It would mean some change for the which might not be bad but that’s kinda like arguing for terrorism, which would be illegal and actually have enforcement behind it.
I think the IAU will only accept names from Mythology.
You might feel confused if you think the alienation is random or a "culture war."

But what is happening is that US Marxists are deliberately attempting to destroy the existing social order to seize power.

Marxists always promise utopia to the masses, but the real goal of the leaders is to seize power (and amass wealth) on their backs.

How many houses does Bernie Sanders own? At least 3.

How many houses do the BLM parent organizers own? One of the leaders just bought 4 houses, worth $5 million to $10 million. (The downstream BLM chapters are ssking where the donation money went, since they're not getting any.)

The ultimate irony is that US Marxist leaders love playing Monopoly.
There are plenty of anecdotes of games having real world skill benefits that I think people overlook. One of my favorites is a friend who ended up majoring in business because of the in-game trade economy of Team Fortress 2 of all things, and also ended up marrying a woman he met through the game. TF2 basically shaped his entire adult life, and lately with the pandemic we've been going back to the game together online which has been wonderfully social.

A personal anecdote for me would be Smash Bros Melee which completely reshaped my teenage life by giving me a huge friend group that played the game, taking me out to local tournaments where I met plenty of new people and broke out of my asocial shell, giving me an appreciation for traveling when I went long distance to major tournaments, and helping me understand how rewarding it feels to tangibly improve at a skill that you've been working hard on which has helped me immensely when it came time to learn new skills in college.

Discussions of games being "good" or "bad" miss so many of these. Video games are another facet of life that you can do plenty with. Sure, there are awful, predatory games that exist to suck money and time out of the lonely, but there are games that exist to just have fun, games that teach actual valuable life lessons, and plenty of chances to use games to further your own life. Football is a good comparison because it is similarly meaningless on paper and easy to look down on (and I'll admit I used to do this myself), but it has absolutely changed the lives of uncountable people for the better in all sorts of ways. It really is more about how you use the tools that are given to you than the tools themselves.
Yes, basically the friend had an audience
This was common knowledge among Perl devs. Every place I've worked that used CPAN did this. No one was pulling down random versions of random packages off the interwebs like a lunatic. I was amazed NPM didn't even have checksums a few short years ago. Every security incident or fiasco (remember unpublished packages??) I've simply nodded and said: yup. That was obviously going to happen.
If they truncate on password set but don't truncate on password validation, that's the worst.
By getting off NPM entirely and new projects internally banned from using it from day ome. Luckily all the backend stuff isn't in javascript which is 80% of the battle.
The worst is when some forms set rules but prevent the user from pasting a string into the duplicate field for verification. If this is meant to prevent user error in case of a typo in the first field, then it also thwarts many of us using password managers. Somehow my browser can auto-generate and enter a password, but I can’t. That’s a work-around, but it’s irksome anyway.

On another note, a more constructive metric for password security on a basic website account would be to set a complexity standard that allows multiple ways to get there. A haiku of approximately 60 plain characters, for example, should be as secure as a 30 character alphanumeric string, at least when it comes to brute forcing. It seems to me like plenty of weak passwords could be created to eke out the minimum requirements for a lot of sites, so this standard lends a false sense of security, especially when any password is recycled.
Would it be that difficult?

Leave a small one connected to her computer (I assume she always uses the same one). The web browser prompts "Now touch your security key", and the light is flashing.

It's also a good defence againt phishing, as the key won't authenticate against a phishing site.
> They can also scrutinize whether, by focusing so heavily on the dossier, they helped distract public attention from Mr. Trump’s actual misconduct.

Focusing on the questionable Steele dossier seemed to be a fairly effective anti-Trump strategy in the short run at least, but perhaps in hindsight the media can reflect on whether a focus on actual misconduct might have been a better approach overall.
As someone who has been on both sides of journal peer review, let me assure you that there is no "customer support" framework like what you are describing. The model simply doesn't work that way. The primary editor of the JFP, in particular, plays an active role and individually manages feedback and reviewer corralling. They are not paid for that service. When submitting to the JFP, my feedback was hand-delivered by the editor via email.
The egregious macOS bug will be fixed shortly. AFAIK it's only happening in some of the big upgrades released in the last few months. Shockingly bad for a company with Apple's resources, but how many people are affected and for how long? Just the people who upgraded promptly or bought a new device? It's an indictment of Apple but most people intentionally don't upgrade promptly (because it's a hassle, or they know to wait for the bugs to be ironed out). It's an _extremely_ effective mitigation strategy to just not do big upgrades until they've been out for about 6 months. For the type of OS that macOS is, that's an extremely low cost strategy.

If as a hypothetical we imagine macOS and Linux have the same number of "regular" users who upgrade after a few months, and "lemming" users who upgrade ASAP (directly, or indirectly by buying a new product that only comes with the new version), and we look at the number of people affected by crappiness in each crappy product, it's basically just "lemming" users for macOS, and all users for Linux. There's no strategic fix for Linux.

This has nothing to do with open source vs commercial software. Most software from both camps is just really crappy from an end-user perspective, and culturally, both camps are largely getting worse with time at about the same rate. I disagree that Linux is any kind of oasis in the desert of crappy software. We have to ask the same "why do we put up with this?" questions of Linux as well.
I would gladly decorate my home with one. They're beautiful in their own way.
While one could argue that the abstract you linked is not well written, I do not think it’s obscurantist by any means. It’s a dissertation, so it’s not surprising they are using the jargon of the field and citing important works.

All academic literature is specialist literature. If you aren’t trained in the field you likely won’t understand it. It’s totally reasonable to me that a STEM person would have no idea what this abstract is saying just as a Humanities person probably couldn’t make heads or tails of the abstract of a dissertation on category theory or on a particular branch of computer science.

I find it funny that STEM folks always go after humanities academics for being obtuse when its just a matter of the pot calling the kettle black—dense STEM research and theory uses language that’d be considered equally obtuse to the untrained reader.
Do you mean like via NFC? That would be great, are there viable solutions for windows/etc?
This gets back to whether the road in question is something you should direct the average smartphone user down given that they'll probably blindly follow the instructions. In many cases, the answer is no. If they know (or tink they know what they're doing), they can make their own decisions.

I'd actually much rather a smartphone routing algorithm err on the side of caution in this regard.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29223684
I'm not saying games are necessarily bad, just that this study's conflict of interest makes its conclusions worthless.
It's too bad there is no space for subtitles but this one is critical:

Freedom is not a goal, but a direction

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The way Edward Snowden then weaves Ai Wei-Wei's account of his journey through the Cultural Revolution (1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/246165/1000-years-o...) and his own is great:

From the time I began studying China’s quest to intermediate the information space of its domestic internet, as part of my classified work at the NSA, I’d experience an unpleasant spinal tingle whenever I came across a new report indicating that the United States government, was, piece by piece, building out a similar technological and political infrastructure, using similar the justifications of countering terrorism, misinformation, sedition, and subjective “social harms.” I don’t want to be misunderstood as saying “East” and “West” were, or are, the same; rather, it is my belief that market forces, democratic decline, and a toxic obsession with “national security”—a euphemism for state supremacy—are drawing the US and China to meet in the middle: a common extreme. A consensus-challenging internet is perceived by both governments as a threat to central authority, and the pervasive surveillance and speech restrictions they’ve begun to mutually embrace will produce an authoritarian center of gravity that over time will compress every aspect of individual and national political differences until little distance remains.
Huh. You seem to like pasting the same comment a lot.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> But when all you have is your creativity, you might end up with something much better, something you would never expect.

I love it, I just love it
These are my next to investigate if my current Eero network gets replaced. The ability to put Wireguard on the router and not behind it, is the thing I need.
> The biggest competition for Office 2000 was . . . Office 97.

And this is why Microsoft and Adobe are both pushing their products entirely over to subscriptions which stop working if you stop paying: They really don't do anything from version to version that justifies the cost or effort in upgrading.

Subscription pricing for desktop software is an incredible way to tell your customers you have a lot of employees to feed that don't really do much to deliver new value to the customer.
> Your refusal to acknowledge the difference between prisoners of war

Prisoners of war? They were loot.

We should understand the institution of slavery a little better.

The economy of much of the ancient world was based on slavery. E.g. fighting wars to capture people who could then be used as slaves domestically and sold for trade. The objective of these wars was to capture this human bounty.

Especially in Africa, this was why the wars were fought as slavery was one of the pillars on which the local economies rested, and this is true as far back as we have recorded history -- which is basically the chronicles of Arab slave traders buying slaves from Africa in the 7th Century on.

The richest man in Africa - Mansa Musa - earned his great wealth via slavery, himself owning thousands of personal slaves but capturing many orders of magnitude more and then trading them for gold and other riches during the middle ages. And not only Mali, but all of Africa's great empires were slave societies based on the principles of fighting wars to capture both slaves and territory.

To try to pretend that slavery was a modern invention only practiced in order to sell slaves to Europeans in the 18th Century and later is to ignore the entire (known) economic history of Africa.
No, but it's Donald Trump's fault that the fabrications seemed plausible based on his past behavior.

And to be fair, many of the Steele dossier claims had some corroboration (eg, numerous meetings between the Trump campaign and the Russians).
This is exactly the approach RHEL has taken with version 8. Typing ‘python’ results in ‘command not found’. All the system tools that use python are set to use a custom path dedicated for those tools.
I'm heartened by this ruling, but the fact that a woman sat in jail for five months is disgusting.
I really appreciate how forward your product is with pushing the open source version. After clicking around for a bit in Cloud, it made is so easy to commit to a local install.

Budibase is definitely a product I could see preferring to spend on Enterprise, unless there was a very compelling my team could accomplish "more" with self-hosting. I just ask that if you end up with some sort of per-user/seat fee, that you follow Slack's lead and charge only for activity. This will win my heart over.

Also, custom domain support. Execs love their vanity URLs.
The laptop is practically new. I keep it standing vertically on its side, with the lid closed, plugged into an external monitor. It's still uncomfortably warm to the touch.