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I think it escapes the domain of work. It's widely propagated in a variety of different mediums. I don't operate under the pretense that me and my direct friends and kin are a good representation of the world at large, but to give an example:

You've got to go shopping, and there are occasions where you're confronted with a mass of people. I actually like people, and social interactions generally, as I suspect most do, but there's this weird undercurrent- which to be fair may exist regardless of social/economic organization- I don't want to rethink my path through the store, I don't want to maneuver through the crowd, I don't want to talk with people, I fume at the idea of people chatting in the middle of the aisle. I'm in this considerable, and evidently consequential hurry, to rush through life on autopilot. Rushing to get back to doing literally fucking nothing. But this phenomena seems to be a shared experience among my friends and relatives.

I've read pretty widely, I generally don't traipse into the territory of pseudo-religious woo-woo, but Eckhart Tolle fairly elegantly explains that the world as we know it is largely structured around what he defines as the ego. The ego is exhausting, it's all consuming. But it's continuously demanded as we move evermore towards the speed-of-light society. Decision after decision, projections of the future made from a patchwork-geist stitched out of the past. Closely attending to arbitrarily defined time. Balancing accounts. Superficial chats with disassociated people trying to think their way out of the bag. Meanwhile there's the internet, and its widespread integration into nigh-every facet of life, I don't need to make the list for you, and I'm sure you can point out a litany of negative consequences and their cascading effects on you personally and society at large. I for one am running in an ego-depleted state almost constantly, so yeah, I agree with you.

All this to forward some unknown and undirected agenda, blindly. You specialize in some repetitive task, go in to the same building day after day to do what you did every other day, and with negligible respite. The undirected part, I think is one of the things that really gets people. We're social animals, we want a function in a community, perhaps even need it to be made whole, but that's been extracted by the abstraction of bureaucracy and organization, you toil for some faceless, dispassionate, and disconnected c-suite exec you'll never be in the same room with. You don't do it for your boss, you probably don't do it for yourself. One could aggrandize the economic impact you have on your community servicing your amorally defined debt to a bank that you've never walked into, and purchasing goods from a chain supermarket which contributes pennies to a few dozen workers. Companies that are headquartered in a state a thousand miles away, selling goods from all over the world- countries and their cultures you know next to nothing about, people who you'll never know.

It's not just work though, it's everything, everywhere I think. I could write pages about it, suffice it to say I don't like where we are.
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fraud? how? what guarantees do they make about timeliness of status updates on their services?
Hmm. I'll have to think about it but I don't quite see yet how this ensures that for example all documents containing all four words of a four-word query will be ranked ahead of documents containing three or fewer words of the query. Mere angle between two vectors would for example mean that a "document" consisting of three words of the query could be ranked higher than a document with thousands of words containing all four words of a query, even if the document vectors had tf-idf weighs as components. That clearly is a viable notion of similarity, but that's also clearly not what the type of search alluded to in the article is attempting to do.

Plus, your description definitely isn't something I would have been able to divine from the description from the article. Thanks for rephrasing it in comprehensible English.
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I didn't see it mentioned, so how do you handle generating type-guards/run-time type validation functions?
It's not the one or or the other. I live far more remote than a typical American suburb. Yet my neighbor's sell cheese, milk and other stuff all around in simple fridges with a little qr code for payment. For everything else I can just order online and get it delivered asap.

I don't care that it takes me a hour or so to the nearest city by public transport. What I care is the infrastructure given there where I live.
Naturally I suggested such things.

You can insert a dozen strange answers here.

For example, one answer?

1)

A client of mine has an FTP site, and their customers access it. Those customers have an IT policy which does not allow them to install other software, for security reasons.

Thus, keeping and old version of firefox around is what their customers do.

(Yes, this is insane and bizarre beyond belief. The security policy is working against security, and the fact that the security policy doesn't care about an old browser is insane. Yet there it is.)

2)

I have a client with employees around the world. They are usually very secure. However, these employees seem to be the complete opposite of computer literate. Every step they take, every task assigned, is accompanied with PDF files and wiki walkthroughs of "here is menu item X, click this, then menu item Y", along with screenshots, and enlargements of menu items.

All their training is rote. They don't know how to use software, only how to click this, then that, as per pictures and doc, then entire report in the form that pops up.

If anything deviates -- tech support.

I honestly don't know how it is possible to find people capable of doing a job with diligence, competence, and intelligence, but require this level of hand holding, yet I see it myself, through this client, constantly.

Like I said ... strange and bizarre.

While I am sure this client will eventually manage to upgrade its staff, they have been researching clients, testing them, re-working all documentation, and even rolling out 'test upgrades' for employees!

And of course this takes time, naturally they are short staffed, and it requires management buy in at every step.

And getting people to modify about:config? That's way, waaay too complex. So they're stuck on an old browser, which they aren't supposed to use for anything but FTP, yet these employees are the sort that call a browser "google", and don't know the difference between firefox and chrome.

So you can be sure they're using an old version.

--

Again, I don't blame Mozilla for this.

This is the sort of stuff which makes me think 'maybe people need a license, like a driver's license, to be on the internet, they're too dangerous otherwise'.

But of course, as I said initially... not easy or realistic to roll out.

Now that I think of it, though, maybe it should be "businesses need a license to be on the internet". The important part here being, if you have constant breeches, and your infra gets used to launch endless attacks, you get fined until you go out of business.
I should note that these are direct quotes from the article. (I didn’t notice at first.)
They can't do any of those things if they have to work two jobs to keep a roof over their head. There is a point where if you're of average intelligence and ability you can't try harder because all of your try is consumed by just getting by.

The US does indeed have tons of opportunity, I'm a high school dropout, who is now an engineer. Thats an American success story. But I'm luckier than most because I got real lucky in the intelligence department. For a long time, I thought I was an average guy, no smarter than anyone else, then I went out and did complex system design, and then had to write the training material and train the users when I was done, and only then I could see something I hadn't before. I'm frankly smarter than half of the population (and so are basically 100% of the people who use hacker news). People like us will find some form of opportunity when there isn't any obviously available.

I'll rebut your answers:

Example 1: to make use of that free MIT education, you must be of above average intelligence, more importantly, you must have time not consumed by meeting your daily essential needs.

Example 2: you must have some product to sell, one that you can make and sell in volume, there are other sites that allow handicrafts, but its hard to make a living off of handicrafts, and its a big leap to go from individual production to serial production in a factory without capital.

Example 3: you must have talent for doing something worth watching, otherwise it doesn't make money.

Example 4: same as example 3, though, perversely, if you're really really bad, you can actually make money, but being that level of awful is a talent unto itself, and most people are not willing to subject themselves to that level of humiliation.

We have massive issues with access to the legal system by the poor, we've extended the cult of personal responsibility to the extent we now just blame the poor for being poor. We also treat debt like a sacred obligation, if your wealthy its easy to discharge debts thru bankruptcy, not so much if you're poor.

I wrote a huge paper about this with a friend of mine last summer. Please take the time to read it, and I think you'll understand more about why I feel so passionately about this.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bfu3pw1pid_2HcDYeAlSyj21...
If you watch something, there is a higher chance that you keep paying.
There's a confusion in the language I'm seeing in the comments, between "understand" as in knowing a language, and "understand" as in possessing a useful mental model of a system.

I don't see why a machine can't be said to "know" a language; after all, it can translate languages. I can translate from French to English (I'm a native English speaker); but there are sentences in English that I can't "understand", either because I don't really know what all the words mean, or because the concept expressed by the sentence is beyond me.
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See answer to the other person in this subthread.
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presumably, views correlate to subscriptions. If view hours drop, it follows that subscriptions (would) drop in the future, if nothing changes.

A big budget film or series eats up capital, so if it is to contribute to the total view-hours count, it must do so at a rate that is better than making several, smaller series at a lower budget.
Not to mention kill files, allowing you to filter out people/topics/threads you don't wish to read.
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Meanwhile, ivmmeta.com will get passed on from person to person that wants to sustain their delusion and the website here will be preaching to the choir.
Taproot makes it possible to have fully off-chain transactions.
You don't think policy makers look at the data? Have you looked at the data?
This was my somewhat dated .plan from "finger don@mimsy.umd.edu" around 1986 or so...

Through the Hacking Glass:

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I mean it depends on what you think rich is. However the reason why rich and popular people often use the train in Switzerland are not only the views and because it is comfortable but also because it is usually by far the fastest way to get around.

I've seen our then president getting a sandwich before he jumps back on a public tram.
That's the Open(SUSE) Build System, right? ;)
Yes.

https://i.imgur.com/dJHmPAw.png
Reads like something from the Know Nothing party[1]. Lots of broad characterizations without much support and several internal contradictions, referring to Catholics of different political persuasions..What exactly is the thesis other than a strong anti-Catholicism? . While the article is ostensibly about the CIA, the swipe at the Supreme court at the end gives his biases away.The fact simply is that Catholics of various political persuasions from JFK to John Brennan to Scalia became more prominent in American government as the descendants of poor Irish, Italian, and German Catholics became better educated. Do we really want to descend back to the days when a group of a certain ethnic or religious persuasion can be targeted as a secret cabal of conspirators behind every door?

[1]https://www.britannica.com/topic/Know-Nothing-party
I changed my mind. I was making pro-Ivermectin comments just yesterday.

This is the first serious anti-Ivermectin argument I've seen.
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This. The business lines here in Switzerland even sometimes have a Starbucks on board. And are comfortable and classy as fuck for only like 20 or 30% more cost than the cheap seats. I've had colleagues who would actually write down the travel time as work hours.
SMTP doesn’t really have a universally agreed way of handling authentication, error handling nor even encryption. There are several standards floating about, many of which are little more than pseudo-standards.

> What would you suggest to replace e-mail while retaining its flexibility?

There’s no reason why we cannot redesign the email paradigm around a totally new protocol. The problem isn’t that’s it’s technically difficult, it’s that SMTP is too prevalent now. It would take someone like Google abusing their market share so bring in a successor.

Also any replacement would need to be at a protocol level. A lot of the attempts I’ve seen have also tried to modernise the experience as well (like Google Wave) but the reason email is successful is because it is familiar.
I like to think that the NRO has an AMAZING space telescope with the wrong set of sensors that they can’t use. Whoops.
I expect things to change after the recent series of high profile supply-chain attacks like that of SolarWinds, at-least with sensitive projects.

I wouldn't be surprised if the software development contracts outright blacklist aforementioned programming languages and ecosystems notorious for senseless dependencies in the name of 'Getting things done'.
Modal editing is what made me go back to vim after 2 months of wanting to like emacs. Even with EVIL mode it didn't feel just as smooth.

Are there other ways to get modal editing in emacs?
I think the correct framing is that the NSF itself has become more political (while trying to pretend otherwise). The excerpt you provided is a good example: the focus is on DEI, but they try to look impartial by using less political sounding "broader impact". That kind of language is only used in more recent documents, it is not like NSF had this "mission" since Vannevar Bush. Even the word "STEM" is mostly a political neologism [1] often used by DEI initiatives [2].

Also, it is not just "Equity", but also "Latinx", "Intersectional", and "Underrepresented". These are clearly reminiscent of the parlance of particular political faction.

Some do argue that DEI initiatives are not political, but I think these denials themselves look suspiciously politically motivated.

[1]: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22STEM%22&yea...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology,_engineeri...
The controls give you information about confounders, but it still says nothing about the causal direction.

Typically the easiest way to turn it around is to switch where the authors chose to place the word "risk" and see if the new statement (with some appropriate changes, and adding "predisposition" to account for future events) still makes sense.

E.g. Predisposition to dementia lowers lifetime "risk " of coffee consumption.
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If it's boring CRUD, then I explore new music on Spotify such as chillstep, ambient, house, classical, jazz, among other things. Sometimes I also listen to podcasts or update myself on finacial markets.

If the task gets more complicated, I drop the podcast/financial market thing. If it gets even more complicated, I stop the music.
But the hash still produces sparse outputs, it has some degree of avalanche effect does it not? In which case, wouldn't the hash function produce worse results w.r.t. cache misses?
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Yeah, it's the similar in the company i work for. Except that we have a mixed bag of passwords. There are some old ones that are like "mouse" and then there are others like "Gt4x;JlK". We have that list for "maintenance reasons". Doing things, that could easily be done by some GPOs and other cool tricks.
I'm not sure it's so much about dealing with hard problems 8h a day, I don't think most people do. But like you say, there's no slack left in the workplace, which makes it ever harder to go into "diffuse" mode thinking. Scrum, standups, email, Slack, open office floor plans and other interruptions of all kind prevents the brain from ever relaxing. Unfortunately, besides just being unhealthy it's also quite unproductive because we need to switch between focused and diffuse modes of thinking many times during a day to effectively solve problems and see the bigger picture.
"A lot of what you're seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science, because all of the things that I have spoken about, consistently from the very beginning, have been fundamentally based on science,"

"And that’s the reason why I say people who then criticize me about that are actually criticizing science"

It's a problem with differentiating science from the scientists, and when someone mistakes themselves for an arbiter of truth, they damage public trust in science as a concept. The scientific method, big S Science, is the best tool humans have. People are fallible, flawed, arrogant, tribal idiots, and Science lets us rise above our weakness.

Criticizing Fauci for being a weaselly political hack, repeatedly lying in public "for the greater good", lashing out with the above claims, and other serious ethical defects are fine - he's human. He is also capable and trained in understanding scientific data, and is undeniably an expert.

However, as he has made so abundantly clear, he's lost perspective and recognition of his own flaws and biases, and doubled down on the politicization of science and the pandemic response. We need apolitical dispassionate scientists with the understanding that they as people are separate from their studies and recommendations.

When the scientist starts lying to the public for reasons that amount to "I know better" or "the public is too stupid or incompetent to handle the truth," it undermines Science.

"Believe Science" should be a no-brainer. It shouldn't be a team blue political slogan, or used to defend personal failings - both of which are despicable.
None that I'm aware of, especially for vim-users, I'm also using EVIL mode.
It sounds to me that you are describing the Stoic ideas of acceptance or the Acceptance Theory way of dealing with mental issues. It all works.
There is little evidence of such analysis being suppressed. I think it is just relatively rare, because it is a lot of work and takes particular skill.

Most people who care about this research are indeed crackpots, unfortunately. Those who aren't have mostly moved on from Ivermectin because they have better things to do. Ivermectin is being tested in large RCTs, as it should. If it works, it will be used. If it doesn't, it won't. Until we know, doctors will do what works.
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Since it suits my addiction, I happily ignore probable problems of the study design and approve of it.

Like Agent Dale Cooper[0] would have put it, that's a damn fine study.

[0] https://www.eater.com/2017/5/18/15656720/twin-peaks-dale-coo...
But then your definition of leak is arbitrary, because who's to say that memory won't be re-accessed in the future?

You're right that that problem is equivalent to the halting problem.
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Taproot makes different types of transactions indistinguishable (single signature, multi-sig, more advanced redeem scripts), however the inputs and outputs are still fully visible on-chain.

Lightning Network does make it possible to do an unlimited number of off-chain transactions, after an initial funding transaction to open a channel, and eventually a settlement transaction to close the channel: https://lightning.network/
It's intensely obscurantist. No, it's not rare; some people think that using language that's hard to understand makes you clever. I think true cleverness is explaining concepts that are hard to understand, using language that's easy to understand.
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Distributions like Debian are _highly_ aware of supply chain attacks. That's one of the key reasons for projects like Reproducible Builds [0] and rekor [1] existing.

So yes, distributions are carefully curated, with a large team of experts vetting the system in a huge number of ways, and are always looking to improve upon them. Because attackers are actively attempting to compromise major distributions.

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/859965/
Inches out of plumb are way easier to measure.
This is wonderfully fun stuff to read:

This is from ivmmeta.com, part of a sprawling empire of big professional-looking sites promoting unorthodox coronavirus treatments. I have no idea who runs it - they’ve very reasonably kept their identity secret - but my hat is off to them...Putting aside the question of accuracy and grading only on presentation and scale, this is the most impressive act of science communication I have ever seen.

I asked a few questions previously on HN about Ivermectin and got answers that killed my interest in the topic (because I don't think it is relevant). But this piece is a delight.
caffeine is evil and normalization of its consumption because it's great business is even worse. i have quite after 20 years and it was not easy. i take all studies promoting its benefits as biased, manipulated and bough-out. a substance that constantly keeps you pumping with cortisol and keeps you in fight-or-flight state 24/7 is inherently damaging to your body, no matter what "studies" say.
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