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I think our sense of right and wrong actually has a lot to do with evolution. Indeed, it's one of the things that drives our evolution as a species.

Self-preservation is very important, and anything that puts it in question tends to elicit a very negative visceral reaction. However, I do think you mischaracterized what I said. Not putting one's survival first and foremost is not always horrific in the grand scheme of things. We tend to call people who sacrifice their life to save others heroes. In the end, continued survival of the group outweighs the survival of an individual in human societies.

So far we have a working method for maintaining and evolving culture by way of knowledge transfer as well as replacement of the bodies that run this "software". And yes, it is absolutely "co-designed": our neural patterns shape the way we think as much as the collective knowledge does. With immortality the author is proposing to do away with a significant driver of cognitive evolution, and it's unclear to me what the benefit of this is, other than pandering to a selfish desire of self-preservation.

I also agree that if immortality was a thing humanity would still continue to evolve. It would just be a very different path, and it's not clear that it would be better.
I don't dislike Atlas Shrugged because of its politics, although I would say The Road to Serfdom presents a far better case and does it more concisely.

I dislike Atlas Shrugged because it's a terrible novel with paper thin characters and cringeworthy dialogue. I'd argue that A Song of Ice and Fire, with its magic and dragons and undead armies still makes for a more realistic exploration of the human condition than the claptrap of Atlas Shrugged.

Life is too short to read Ayn Rand.
That's not helping. Mailing lists are annoying to use for bug reports. It will discourage useful contributions.
My angle is that you shouldn't throw stones, especially while living in a glass house.

Saying that the OP has, quote, "eviscerated their own credibility as an engineer" without adding anything of value to the discussion (aside, possibly, from eviscerating your own credibility as an engineer; not that it matters) was uncalled for.
PSA: if you look in many shops, you can find a number of cheap usb switches and a number of cheap HDMI switches. Buying those two pieces will save money if compared to an integrated kvm switch.
"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
What do you even mean? A website has no business to have minimum system requirements. It's a hypertext document with some optional macros here and there.
Domestic terrorists in the arab world isn't any of our (U.S.) business. They became our problem when we meddled in their business enough to motivate them to come after us. The US foreign policy created the problem, it could have largely been avoided.
The formal ethics of research on humans requires informed consent of participants.

You can take framework of sales or management where lie is just being smart, but it is not applicable here.
If they tested on a M1 Mac the compilation would of been faster:

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/17/apple-silicon-m1-compil...
I my experience, those who don't care about performance almost always happen to be bad developers. Interviewed with plenty of those.

I've worked with machines so underpowered you can notice execution time difference between minified and non-minified code. And where CSS animations are considerably slower than GIFs. Oh yeah.

Right now I am with people who are pretty good at architecture but kind of suck at the pieces that power their designs. It's an ego problem. Big one at that
>Are we the baddies?

ISIS took civilians as sex slaves, sold them internally and _bragged about it_, so most assuredly no. They threw people suspected of being homosexual of roofs, they killed suspected traitors by drowning them in an iron cage and, lets not forget, they cut the heads of westerners and bragged about it on TV.

Only difference between them and the Nazies was that they were only able to do this on a small scale and that the Nazis tried to cover up what they were doing.

When you go to war, there are likely going to be civilian casualties. We should understand every one of these cases, ensure that mistakes are prevented and if somebody didn't follow orders they are punished.

But if we are not willing to go to war over civilian casualties, those who don't care are going to rule everything.
If I ask you a peculiar question you may wonder what my motivation was for asking it.
And if they want to be able to have social media that isn't subject to the terms of the mainstream ones... they have to build their own.

Which I'm happy about! The more competition, the better!

It baffles me why people act like Twitter is the only place on the web. It's popular, sure, but it's easily cloned and could be extended upon.

The real issue hindering competition is dollars.
For the same reason why you shouldn’t listen to Tony Robbins. Second hand ideas are repackaged to induce emotions for reasons and causes potentially unrelated to the original.
>Damore wasn't burned at the stake or shot in the head; he was fired from one especially cushy software job at a giant, publicly-traded company.

How do you think regimes normally deal with dissent? Extreme violence makes for vivid imagery but it’s not typical. Usually, it’s as simple as threatening to fire you from respectable employment and education. This is how the entire Eastern Bloc kept a lid on things.
This I think is a typical example of having to hold two opposite thoughts at the same time.

Yes, it's a bad thing to do, it's pretty obvious that it'll scare the bejesus out of some people and even worse, have some chilling effect.

On the other hand the pendulum on ethical boards has gone waaaay in the other direction to the point where a lot of very useful research doesn't get done. The most vivid example being that we don't have human challenge trials with Covid, even now when it's crystal clear that actual risks to young healthy people are close to zero. Another example: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/29/my-irb-nightmare/

So, what's my opinion? Well, an "opinion" would require me to chose one of those two perfectly valid points of view. But if I had to, I'd say the travesty that is "ethics boards" has become a bureaucracy so rotten it doesn't even perform its original function of stopping vaguely unethical research, and has instead gone completely the way of paper pushing. While, of course, still drawing a salary from making sure tens of thousands of people are dying needlessly.
I see "Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual"
Until very late in the piece if you logged in all-caps it flipped your terminal session over to an all caps login assuming you were on an ASR33 teletype. I think it dropped out after BSD4.3 -I did actually use this state.

Nobody I know in my cohort/age-group thinks capital letters make a different command. Lots of us inherited a memetic state of alias/function to make a single "l" do some variant of the ls command. And "m" for more was not uncommon. "p" to pass to the large for some, never bothered me much to type more letters.

Other than that, the "w" and . Are about it. . As an execution invitation feels less like a command than just syntactic suger.

(As does the cryptic :> to zero instantiate a file)
> a particularly foolish or over-confident defendent might represent themselves, but otherwise, I would not budget less than $2000-3000 to hire a lawyer

Foolish, overconfident, or just "never have had $3000 in one place and time in my entire life."
This is awesome but this is also my worst nightmare. I now have even more links to read and threads to click on… this is like bringing back the whole bag of chips instead of putting a reasonable portion into a bowl

Also the website design is really elegant and well done.
Indeed. Buy a crappy 15 year old LCD TV with HDMI and hook it up. Most of the really cheap Chinese models have terrible gamma that means half the colors look the same.
I use C++ for backend business servers and web services in particular with stellar results performance wise. Modern C++ along with the STL and loads of 3rd party libs makes rapid development of servers piece of cake.
With one arm? I’m not sure, but with two arms certainly most women can do it.

18kg is the average weight of a 5 year old kid [1]. It’s pretty routine for women in childcare roles to pick up kids for various reasons.

1. https://www.disabled-world.com/calculators-charts/height-wei...
You will be shocked to learn that the headline is overblowing what occurred.

My interpretation of the article is that they studied a bunch of neural networks (GPT, etc) and found some of them seemed to behave similarly to real brains.

They didn't create their own NN that developed similar structure, nor was it a matter of new behavior from a NN, just an analysis of pre-existing implementations.
How much N-acetyl cysteine do you take and how often? How long have you used it and have you changed your dose or usage over time?
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Why might that be? Read up about how the West has been destabilising govt there for the best part of a century now, for oil (really accelerated after ww2, and what we did to Iran in the 60s...)
No, not in first contact fish for mistake email.
There are lots of good options for sub-$200 laptops at Wal Mart right now. ChromeBooks or little Windows machines.

Every web dev should use one.

I am fascinated by the low end options, you learn a lot about a system when it's pushed to its limits. Or maybe you learn even more about your pain threshold...

I've heard it said that it's more difficult to make a $10,000 car than it is to make a $1,000,000 car. I don't recall the source, via Horace Dedieu maybe.

My first job out of college was at a spaceship company. One of the most senior engineers told me of the footrest he had designed for early 747 airliners. First Class. He considered it his greatest work.

That foot stool was quite literally more difficult than rocket science.
Internally.

The outer skin of an airship typically is not the lifting-gas containment itself, which is provided by internal gas bags.

Crew, mechanical, passenger, and cargo are stored within the structure, typically on or near the lower keel. See schematics of the earlier Zeppelin airships for a general idea:

https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/interiors/

Note that offloading cargo or passengers must be compensated for by either loading of balast, tie-downs, or by releasing (or repressurising) lifting gas.
You can still make a living as a COBOL programmer even though it has (hopefully!) been a very long time since any new project was started with COBOL. There is enough C++ around that you'll have no trouble finding a job as C++ programmer for next couple of decades at least.
> lol. That’s not how this works.

If I give my bugfix to 402 a version number, it will be 728.

So if that's not what happens, what does?

Do I give it no version number?

Am I not allowed to release a bugfix?

Surely you can see why both of those options cause unnecessary problems.

If you have something else in mind, you need to say it.
Nothing in these two agreements says anything about respecting Ukrainian sovereignty. How is this not appeasement? “You can have Ukraine, Mr. Putin, but no more.”

It didn’t work the last time this was tried in 1939.
Sure, but everyone should be able to have their built process embed that info into build artifacts, whether it's by passing GCC a DEFINE flag that ends up in --version output, passing nasm a data structure embedded at X bytes into the binary, a version.txt in the output zip, an autogenerated comment inlined in each HTML/JS/CSS file, whatever... somehow, you can embed build info.
> I look forward to your reply without undue delay and at most within 45 days of this email, as required by Section 1798.130 of the California Civil Code.

This reads as a thinly vieled command to respond, not a mere request, citing legal code and (incorrectly) asserting it's applicability as a basis for the authority to give such a command, with the implication being the possibility of legal action if the demanded response is not provided.
Tons. One of the main problems that Uber solved was taxis who would pick you up but then refuse to take you where you wanted to go because it wasn't in a high-volume tourist area.

My friends and I played outside in the front lawn of a house in "Mid-City" district of New Orleans and called taxi cabs all day as an experiment. Every 30 minutes we'd call another taxi to come pick us up. Not one taxi arrived all day. All of them claimed they came, honked in the driveway, but no one came out. Again -- we were outside the whole day, with full view of the street and driveway.

Also, a month earlier, the only taxi driver who once did drop me off there tried to illegally charge double until I called the police, who arrived after he left.

Uber/Lyft we had no trouble with at all!
A web 3.0 website with a 1990’s style
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I actually find Chrome's developer tools quite handy for this: for example, emulating slow Internet connections, checking your Lighthouse score, simulating different geographies, being able to adjust between many responsive device dimensions etc. Super worth it to get familiar with the whole host of tools that come installed with your browser.
yes it is only on any thing using apache JIRA+webserverzzz
so it could really WORK on springboot
> The fact is that this “experiment” did not create any more or additional stress than is created for normal citizens/businesses simply engaging in normal legal activities.

Are you sure about this? Didn't these requests get sent to entities that didn't even fall under the categories in the statutes? Meaning they would in fact not have been normally dealing with these kinds of requests on a regular basis (if at all)?
I have something similar too!

gst='git status'
ga='git add'
gc='git commit -am'
gl='git log --graph --pretty=format:"%h %Cred%s%Creset %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset" --abbrev-commit'
glh='gl | head -n5'
gp='git push'
YouTube already specifically seeks to throttle youtuble-dl to an unusably slow speed, like 70kbps even if you only download one video a day.

What else are you supposed to do?
The reality is that marketing is a fundamental part spreading ideas, which is a fundamental part of democracy (and politics in general).

It doesn't really matter if housing as a human right doesn't fit some narrow implied definitions of 18th-century philosophers or statesmen. We live in a different world now, with technology, possibilities, and circumstances that are wildly different. People can no longer simply homestead out on the open land; everything is already owned by someone else, and the cost to buy/rent it is far outpacing the reach of the average person. The deprivation of physical space is a direct threat to a person's livelihood, and this simply wasn't a problem in the age of the manifest destiny.

A new age comes with new problems which require new solutions, which must be implemented by spreading new ideas. Changes occur when a critical mass of people and politicians believe that change is possible and required. So yes, calling it a "right" is marketing, because in a democracy that is how you get things done.
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This is the one big downside to certificate transparency. Allowing anyone to ascertain private host names is far from ideal. The immediate counter is to, “run your own CA,” but that comes with its own headaches for small use cases.
It's called code escrow and it's a real thing even if it's news to you. Although yes, it's usually an insurance plan you want to never ever need because using it will suck.
$600 would be a prime dev laptop for me. I use the cheapest, non-chromebook, I can find then throw FreeBSD or Linux on it. I prefer desktops and spend much more money when I build one of those.
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Group 3, clearly. With a bit of the "minimal oversight" thing.
>And when those occupied people indeed fight back

That too was my understanding for the longest time. However Jocko Wilink (today a podcaster, then a Seal commander fighting in Ramadi) specifically said that the people wanted them there and most of the people they fought were either teenagers being paid to plant IEDs (basically the same as the drugs gangs in the US who will pay teenagers to be lookouts and mules), former Sadam regime people or foreign fighters.
What is going on with the headlines these days? It is almost as if anything sansationalist can be safely ignored even if it is a decent journal/news paper...
> They say they are a data subject from Nice

Huh? Are we reading the same article? Because what I see is this:

> My name is Maya Mishina, and I am a resident of Novosibirsk, Russia.
> they are lying and misreprenting themselves

The police does that quite often to catch criminals. Sometimes they also target innocent people, is that ethical?

People on HN don't usually lie, I hope, but most "misrepresent" themselves using anonymous accounts, sometimes claiming to be more than they actually are (I know, shocking).

Emails you receive are more likely to be scams than not. If you're like the author and freaks out at legally-sounding emails (or phone calls, discussion forum comments etc) received from random people, you're going to be a really stressed, anxious person your whole life.
I think this view comes from someone answering questions, not from someone asking them.

In that context they can still be useful. Sort of like a canned response you get from first line support.

The better thing would be if the question didn’t need asking in the first place. If your manual is overwhelming, that’s a problem with the manual.
>> you can never go back
They can, you know give it away :).
Mostly peaceful.
There was one Smalltalk-72 inspired implementation not created by PARC. It was based on their publications before Smalltalk-80 was released. Rosetta Smalltalk
A baseless legal threat is still a legal threat, and that legal threat may well merit the time and energy to hire a lawyer to verify the baselessness of said threat, and to file the motion to dismiss should a lawsuit be filed despite the baseless cause of action, lest one suffer a default judgement on account of a failure to respond.
And if they knew what we were doing to their environment boy would they be pissed!
That’s an FAQ for consumers. It’s not legally binding.

>These FAQs provide general consumer information about the CCPA and how you can exercise your rights under the CCPA. They are not legal advice, regulatory guidance, or an opinion of the Attorney General. We will update this information periodically.

I understand that someone can do cursory research and be overly confident in their understanding of a law that spans 46 pages. I hope you can understand that people can be underconfident in their understanding of a law that spans 46 pages, is bound by the entirety of a state’s statutes and case law, and feel overwhelmed by someone asking for a response on their compliance with said law. Regardless of what their interpretation of the original email should or shouldn’t be.

>It's more like if I tell you I'll sue you for murder, high treason and collusion with the Martian invasion, is it really a legal threat? There's literally no legal way for me to sue anybody like that.

Comparing a reasonable fear that one may not be in compliance with a complex legal system to something absurd does not invalidate that fear.
> I'm surprised about the stray dogs.

It gets worse. A court recently ruled that Resident Welfare Associations are now legally obligated to feed and look after stray dogs in their neighborhoods.
off topic: some of these bike brands I have never heard of but they look impressive. The zerode brand has particularly caught my eye.

Would it be a waste of money to use these strictly on roads?
Humor me: if log4j had 13 (independently developed) competitors, wouldn't the impact of this be much lower, because many consumers would use different libraries? Like genetic diversity as a hedge against disease.
Yes but then you still need a trusted third party for clients to trust it. Now you’re back to proving to that third party that you really do own the domain
Might a serial founder effect during the peopling of Eurasia result in low genetic diversity and the fact that diversity increases the closer you get to Africa? Is there a way to distinguish low diversity due to a serial founder effect and a bottleneck cause by a natural catastrophe?
This is an interesting take. What "very useful research" is being blocked by which IRBs?

FWIW, the author of the essay at the link you provided seems deeply ignorant of why IRBs exist. "Mere resident doctors weren’t allowed to do studies on their own. They would probably screw up and start building concentration camps or something. " really?
Coffee company sends a monthly invoice.
Using something for free and expecting support is hilarious.
>"It's absolutely more productive than C++ when you account for the productivity benefits of "not shooting yourself in the foot" with pesky memory-safety bugs"

When doing generic application level programming: use STL containers, iterators and algorithms properly and you won't have any of those pesky bugs. Does not require much efforts.

If you do want to shoot yourself C++ will of course offer thousands of ways for you to do so. But with modern C++ it has to be your choice. Unless of course you are working on some specialized system type code, libraries like STL and other similar tasks.
I think there’s a lot of opportunity around closed loop control in cooking that isn’t being done right now
Or appearing in every other language discussion to bring up Rust.
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I gotta say, this is the first website I've seen that shows less the larger the browser window is. When I maximize it one line says "code collab" and when the window is smaller it says "code collaborati". I think it wants to say collaboration, but it never actually shows up completely. Then there's "No more wall" and "explore the codela", whatever that's supposed to mean.

Whether this is on purpose or not, please try to decide whether you want to build a program or an art project.
Gives you a pause when you realize smart people probably wouldn't believe an email saying their SSN was arrested and they need to buy $500 in Amazon gift cards and send to this address to avoid being arrested by the FBI - but they totally believed a random person in Novosibirsk has rights to demand their attention and them performing various time-consuming tasks because some California law says so. I can't say such reputation for California laws is totally unearned (look up prop 65 if you want to know more on how insane it is).
It's pretty clear that China is winning the war. American society fabric is disintegrating to ashes while the Chinese are laughing. China's economy is also set to overtake the US this decade. China already has a bigger navy and army.

Only a matter of time before the Chinese invasion comes on the disarmed West coast - Fallout style. Freedom of speech - which is mostly a joke in the US now will then be given its final burial. You will now be thoroughly re-educated and get the Freedom of Glorious Mao. Only the armed gangsters will do some basic resistance before being promptly eliminated.

No nation lasts forever and I guess its USA's time to fade out into the twilight. Time to kneel down to your Chinese overlords soon Americans! All Hail God-Emperor Xi!
If you're into foodstuff-related destruction, the other things to search for are "flour explosion" and "molasses disaster"
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