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I think winning here is more money, more interesting projects, bosses treating you better and so on. It is very material.

Satisfaction from good work turns into resentment quickly when you find yourself respected less then peers.
I think the focus on specific technologies and buzzwords is the wrong approach to drive the web forward. Instead, we should focus on specific problems we want to solve for users of the current iteration.

A non-exhaustive list in no specific order:

- Users should be in control of the data they produce and consume. No single centralized entity should have this right over its users, and regulations like the GDPR and cookie consent forms shouldn't exist.

- Advertisements and adtech is hostile to the user experience. The web should have alternative monetization options that are easy to integrate for web developers, and establish a direct market between content consumers and content producers, with no middlemen.

- Web services should be versioned and users should have the choice of which version they want to use. Companies shouldn't be given the freedom to e.g. change feed algorithms on a whim based on some obscure A/B test. Users shouldn't be forced to use the latest version of applications, and it should be easy for web developers to support several active versions in production.

Opera made a step in the right direction by bundling a web server many years ago with Opera Unite, but that went nowhere and was quickly abandoned.

BitTorrent, WebTorrent and WebRTC sort of feel like building blocks towards empowering the user, but despite of the prevalence and stability of the technologies, no big user friendly app is built on top of them.

Brave Inc.'s Basic Attention Token is probably the best effort towards fixing the monetization aspect, but is tied to one specific browser, one specific currency, and built by a company that's done several missteps and has lost the trust of many users along the way.

Then, of course, is the blockchain, the distributed utopia, and hype around "crypto" everyone seems to be discussing. There are good ideas here as well, muddled by many issues specific to these technologies that should be addressed.

IMO, web3 should be some combination of all of these and new technologies that empower the user, and make the web friendlier for the current user base and welcoming to the other 40% of the world which is still not online.

Otherwise corporations will continue to rule the web while people who can improve it are stuck in perpetual analysis paralysis.
I have no issues with XFCE. I personally would never use i, but it also leaves me alone and it's developers don't exhibit this mentality.

I have a problem with Jon McCann's famous quote, who was at the time a lead developed of GTK+, who did not know what XFCE, one of the biggest consumers of the library, even was when he made a change that broke about anything outside of GNOME. — What his language suggested was that he lived in a bubble thinking that only KDE and GNOME existed, and that since KDE wasn't using GTK+ it was fine to do this.
Vaccination cannot solve this. Herd immunity cannot be established with the current crop of COVID-19 vaccines, due to high transmissibity amongst the vaccinated.

The problem is misinformation, but not the kind you refer to. The misinformation is in the impression given that COVID-19 is a much more dangerous virus than it is really is, especially for the non-elderly.

Most of the public over-estimates the risk of COVID, by 10 to 100 times:

https://archive.fo/wciQp
True. I’m hiring lots of data scientists and have become somewhat disappointed with the phd profiles. It happens too often that they lack the broader skills to be successful, vs people who did do “non-core” activities and are now more well rounded.
Right, but my contention here is that not achievable for reasons Siebel describes: a real program ends up having to have a bunch of stuff extraneous to the main idea most of the time.
This was my current idea, I would like to start doing some Rust development. Is there any open source projects that might be worth contributing to?
I just read your comment about red/black, and I must confess, until this point I would have agreed that it was meaningless. However, I just looked over the definition of the data structure, and I think I can propose better names.

Black nodes are 'counted' nodes, whereas red are 'uncounted'. Uncounted nodes may sit sandwiched between counted nodes, but are not allowed to follow each other... Because relaxing that rule could lead to an explosion of uncounted nodes.

Remember that the length of the path, in terms of counted nodes, to every leaf is the same. Because the uncounted nodes may be sandwiched between those counted nodes, this gives us the property we want that the length of the path of actual nodes, counted and uncounted, on the longest path is never more than twice that of the shortest path. The longest path can have every layer be a counted-uncounted sandwich, while the shortest will only have counted nodes.

I felt like changing the name added something.
Copyright / Trademark Your Sperm?
Crisper allows modifications to DNA. It would be possible to include a copyright notice (GPL3 :-)) into a DNA sequence. This would be replicated in all future generations.

Kilroy was here :-)

The number of possible jokes on this theme makes it nearly impossible to type this post while laughing.
Not really true, at least for that amount. Really tired of the bogus conspiracy theories. Hospitals get paid for deaths.

Remdesivir can be coded on death certificate for extra payment. Hospital association has details at https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2020-07-30-cms-releases-ic...

And be careful with that stuff because it is so dangerous that in a study on Ebola patients Remdesivir was killing people faster than the Ebola. They have been trying for years to find some way to sell that drug.

Hilarious manufacturer description of it here https://insideangle.3m.com/his/blog-post/cms-announces-new-i...
"Remdesivir is an experimental nucleotide which has shown to have potential activity against COVID-19. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the emergency use of remdesivir to treat hospitalized patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19. Remdesivir is not approved anywhere globally for any use and the safety and efficacy for the treatment of COVID-19 are not proven."
It is interesting to read this after reading about Pluto, the notebook system for Julia.

Pluto is exciting because
- it provides nice text formatting easily via MarkDown and simple production of graphics
- it allows you to build a data flow out of small understandable steps

and, unusually,
- it understands the dependency graph between cells of computation. That means can rearrange them as you see fit but they will still execute in the right order. Moreover, it makes it so everybody sees the results of executing things in the right order. This is worlds different from most notebook systems

- you can embed HTML controls directly in your notebook so that you get reactive computation

This meets many of the goals Kartik was talking about in his blog.
This simply evals the argument.
Not an alternative to jq.

fx “code to eval”
To borrow a phrase, one temperature reading is weather, a million is climate. While it seems difficult to attribute any given extreme or uncharacteristic weather event to climate change, the fact that average temperature is increasing means a larger average kinetic energy in the atmosphere, which in the aggregate should lead to more extremes. Of course there is more to it than that, since the Earth's albedo and atmospheric composition is also changing. Even more worrisome the ph of the ocean is changing, which could have profound consequences for oxygen producing phytoplankton, which again affects all of the above and us.
Not a mathematician but I wonder can these discrete perturbed and repeated simulations approximate some well defined probability measure over the actual system?
Or they can just look on Google Maps? That will contain most features like foot bridges etc.

I think the US would probably be the hardest country in the world to invade due to the amount of arms people have, even if you got past the army somehow you’re still in trouble.

Has any thought been given to arming civilians in Taiwan as a further tactic to prevent invasion?
> wouldn't producer and consumer be clearer?

Absolutely not. It makes no sense. "There was a producer outage." means nothing. Neither does "I'll have to file a bug with the producer dependency."
> Sorry, it absolutely has provenance.

It absolutely doesn't. OpenSea (and others) has hundreds if not hundreds of thousands of stolen art pieces traded daily.

> Go make a counterfeit BAYC. Then try and sell it.

There's literally a fight now between two counterfeit bored apes ripoffs over which one is legit.

There's zero provenance in NFTs. They have zero relevant information on an art piece. Yes, if you are lucky to be somewhat famous you can tell people what is and isn't yours. Otherwise: no. You could yourslef figure out why.

Hints, if you can't:

- NFTs have zero relevant information on an art. They don't even contain the art itself, they point to a URL that hopefully hosts the art itself

- NFTs have zero information on the original owner of the art and whether that person has any rights to own and sell the art
And the top row(s) in Google images are all for-sale product images masquerading as result.
That would of course lead to consumers using your API to generate secret launch codes. Now your defacto spec mandates randomness.
"only one link is actually the weakest"

Which isn't relevant since (obviously) no one was talking about how many links are the weakest link.

"it is at that link where the chain will break"

Wars have been lost by thinking this way. e.g., D-Day was a successful assault on a strong link.
ENS is an example of a project that is extant, working, and has a decent amount of funding (controlled democratically through a delegated token voting system). Here's my ENS record:

https://app.ens.domains/name/suzuha.eth/details

also, my post is on arweave, one of the cryptoeconomic data availability layers mentioned on the post:

https://3m44zon3blpnpjs3neglffbhqaibvuaeofkln2rd645dvky7cblq...
Why Are Freakish Fish Washing Ashore in California?
I’ve seen billboards in Boston. Good for them.
Er blockchains are the largest deployments of non-trivial zero knowledge proofs, which are more advanced cryptography than anything used in traditional WebPKI crypto. This deployment has required tons of novel peer-reviewed (academic and industrial) research as well as massive engineering efforts to bring the tech to production.

The result of these efforts is that ZKPs have gone from a academic curiosity to widely productionized tech. this stuff is beyond the wildest dreams of people like David Chaum.
Not sure about TV shows but for films (especially Netflix originals), that's partly due to the recent trend of films getting shot for TV viewing experience. These films tend to have fewer "wide" shots and more "character" shots compared to the earlier theatre release only films.
i shudder to think of what your sleep habits are like if you guys are doing this.

Sleep its a deliberate action and choice for me. I have a soft set time and hard set time, if I'm still dicking around on my phone or computer after that I need to justify to myself why I'm doing it. The hard set time means I go to bed and I sleep. I put my head down and think of nothing else except sleep.

what you guys are doing sounds like self imposed torture. you push yourself to keep going until you pass out from exhaustion. I doubt its very healthy, and would likely be a serious case of diminishing returns.
Then again:

1. even enabling personal blacklists would be a huge benefit to power users even if they aren't aggregated.

2. the user I replied to above suggested running n 1000 vps-es or using a criminal botnet. Both of these are significant hurdles.

Also while running n 1000 vps-es isn't a significant hurdle in todays clouds if it is a one time job, it at least becomes expensive if the blacklists are generated based on active users at random times around the clock forcing would-be abusers to not only fire up their vps-es, running a couple of queries and shut them down but also to keep them running around the clock, or rather in 8 hour shifts to not trigger abuse detection.
> That's the rub. Why would Apple allow text messages to be once again controlled by both telcos and governments, including interception?

SMS text messaging ONLY works over the carrier's cell network, never IP. Its a hold-over from another time. It should've had died when phones became internet connected. But it didn't, and now we've tied MFA to it... so its here to stay.

> I can't find an open standards document anywhere on the Internet for RCS. Can you?

I haven't looked into RCS in a long time. But I do remember it wasn't great. The reason its such a mish-mash of carrier "standards" is because that is exactly what SMS is. When text messaging first came out, you could not message someone on a different carrier. Eventually carriers bridged their messaging networks, but it was always a hot mess (especially when it came to MMS).
Of course they weren't. It takes a while for a PCR test result. When someone comes in with "Respiratory problems" on admittance that's not a surprise that they are not diagnosed with COVID immediately is it?
90% of jobs in the high density business district in the city nearest you.

Unless you count browsing the internet, gossiping about karen in marketting, sitting in meetings that have no relevence to you and checking email as a daily task that requires 6 hours of work; at most there is a half days work done each day.
Great. I even had a copy of Japanese translation of the land of lisp. Quite fun to see lisp in another language.
No need to sell the intel. Keep it in house and make a killing in the commodities futures market.
I was thinking about all of this lately. Knuth's LP is useful when you present an algorithm. That's where the quantity of explanation text is much greater than the code itself. It is also good when you describe an algorithm because it is a dynamic thing : an algorithm has to be "processed" in your mind to be understood and a good explanations might help to describe its behaviour. A notebook is good when you're doing steps to achieve a goal; but it's not good to explain an full programs I think. What would be nice is to have notebooks woven into bigger codebases. Or it would be cool to have links from notebooks directly to code, functions, methods,... for example when you just want to mention you're using a part of your code that doesn't deserve to be explained by a notebook. Also, something that would be nice is to have hierarchical notebooks. On the first level, you have a general explanation of what you do. Then you can go deeper and get more information about details of your code...
I’m excited to launch this product and the company behind it OK, so it's kind of an ad, although no product yet.

He makes an interesting point. If you're going to have home servers so you own your data, they need to be in something you own and control that's always plugged into power. There's the router, but you usually don't own that. It belongs to the telco or the cable company. A "speaker", i.e. Alexa and friends? Amazon controls that. The TV? That's a slave to the TV maker, Google, or the cable company. The doorbell? That's run by Amazon and the cops. The refrigerator?

Apple used to sell a box, their "Time Capsule", which was a home server. But Apple discontinued that. Apple became so cloud-oriented that their thermostat has to contact an external server to get the outside temperature.

Most people now have no home electronics that isn't a slave to someone else. Where do you put a home server?
Yes, but many products that eventually became blockbusters started by focusing on a niche, and for many, that niche was YC or a techie crowd.
That makes sense, the military is more powerful there than the prime minister. Both the prime minister and the president are figureheads
I'm familiar with the type of people you're describing, they are curios and creative and constantly looking for ways to improve things, these people are very rare (particularly in academia?) and really not easy to find.
I don't think these criteria you mentioned will help since most of them are not necessary personal qualities, they are rather a group culture. If there are established good practices in the group (at minimum using version control, doing regular backups) new people will follow. I agree with you about the absurdity of the number of publications factor giving that the asymmetry between the values of publications.
They changed the link. It pointed to a tweet initially.
> It will be near impossible to get tenure if one develops T-shaped qualities.

That's completely true in my experience, and not only because of the "lack of depth". Interdisciplinary work is simply not rewarded, because your papers are only partially recognized in the department you apply to. I worked in a cog.sci/comp.sci mixture with the focus on language (which adds linguistics), but the psychology departments didn't accept CS conference publications. That my principal paper got a pretty decent citation score for that field, and that some of the follow-up papers including experiments didn't do bad either, didn't mean anything to the CS department: they simply don't care about the topic, and nor "Cognition," nor "Cerebral Cortex" featured on their impact lists.

That said, I think the article's examples (setting up a build system, designing nice mock-ups or logos, creating animations or graphics for presentations) are not T-shaped academic skills, at all. Creating presentations is something everyone has to learn, the rest is offloading support work on PhDs. I've got an idea: perhaps they can do the teaching as well. That's a good T-skill. And do lab support. And get coffee, because you know, so much breadth. No, that's pure exploitation of, exactly as you call it:

> valuable, lowly-paid and highly motivated people that they made a bad career choice by starting a PhD.

PhD programs should only be allowed when there's a guarantee of a worthy curriculum, and sufficient supervision, and support. There'll be less PhDs, but that might even be beneficial.
> they can do a covid test prior to admission to determine if they are positive.

No they don't. Admission is done immediately. No doctor is going to wait for a test result before admitting a patient suffering respiratory problems.
What I like about handshake is that you can own the TLD. I own searchableguy/ top level domain. This is gated by ICANN right now and they charge huge fees for nothing.
In my opinion, these are bad names and we would all have saved a lot of brain power if simple and clearly meaningful names were chosen.

The cultural reference in the names preserves the opinion that the choice of byte order is not worth fighting about. But this is an extra piece of information that's not needed.

Moreover, the choice of the word "end" is unfortunate, since it means both "boundary" (as in the 2 ends of an egg) and "conclusion" (as in the end of a transmission).

To make matters worse, they chose to have "little endian" refer to the case where the big (most significant) byte is at the end of a transmission.

Better names might be something like "smallest-first byte order".

Edit: If you are confused, think of it this way:

Little-endian = little end first

Big-endian = big end first
Hmm, since those land is already own by Chinese, they can easily get detailed data on those. For all farmlands, wouldn't satellite data be good enough? So why would they need it anyway?
The article tries to portray blue vs. green as Apple’s plan to create an in-group vs. out-group dynamic that leaves non-Apple users feeling left out. This narrative feels incomplete for a few reasons.

First, the article itself describes how the original engineers defined different colored bubbles so they themselves could differentiate between iMessage and SMS/MMS during development. This color indication stuck around in production, let customers differentiate just like the engineers did, and eventually grew into an instinctual association between color and messaging protocol. It doesn’t sound like there was intentional UX design to create a positive association with blue bubbles.

Second, I would argue that positive association with blue bubbles arises from positive experience with iMessage features, not from some in-group vs. out-group dynamic. Using iMessage means having delivery confirmations, typing indicators, read receipts (if desired), and encryption. The first — having reliable delivery and knowing it — was a killer feature when iMessage was first released. But all of the original features, along with newer ones like tapbacks, are enhancements and not requirements that leave out non-Apple users. Seeing a friend join iMessage feels about the same as seeing a friend join another messaging service. It’s not so much ”wow I can finally message you and you are so cool now” but more ”wow I could always message you before but we can now use these cool features together”.

Third, based on the internal emails cited by the article, Apple’s decision to keep iMessage for Apple users was an ongoing discussion years after iMessage was released. In particular, two years after release, Eddie Cue was actually arguing for making iMessage available to Android users. From his standpoint, it was an opportunity to make iMessage the “industry standard” which might or might not be monetized in the future but “it doesn’t cost us a lot to run”.

Finally, as mentioned by sibling comments, iMessage is widely used in only a few geographic locales. It’s just one of many Apple apps (Keynote, Numbers, Pages, Notes, Preview, Reminders, Podcasts, Safari) and services (Apple Music, Apple TV, iCloud Drive, iCloud Photos, Private Relay) that can add value for users who buy Apple devices. Some of those apps and services will provide more value than others and iMessage is probably not the top one for most people.

One part of the article that did grab my attention was the graph of iPhone market share among Americans age 18 to 24. The climb from 45% in 2017 to 75% in 2021 is striking and impressive. That’s certainly not attributable to iMessage alone and I would enjoy a deeper dive on all the potential causes.

(Disclaimer: Current iPhone user, former Android and Blackberry user, and potential Librem or PinePhone user in the future. I use iMessage but it wasn’t a factor I considered when switching to iPhone.)
I will consider learning Lisp when it offers a free compiler that builds for Android/iOS. The server space has already a surfeit of languages.
Per capita COVID deaths in the US were similar to those in the EU.

This partisan left-wing reaction to this news, which is implicitly about absolving the massive violation of the entire population's civil and economic liberties of blame for the socioeconomic and non-COVID health deteriorations seen during the COVID era, is the real problem.
There is reindexdb and vacuumdb in bin directory of postgresql instance. They cover 99% of maintenance use-cases when run from cron, mainly those mentioned in comments. For general purpose workload i find default settings reasonable.