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You can be an expert and a techno-libertarian ideologist, though. Particularly in economics, which is a field rife with unverifiable dogma.

Besides, considering that we are living on a finite world, we don’t need to merely decouple economy from materials, because any use at all will at some point exhaust available resources. Sure, we can say “fuck everything, I’m going to keep going on as usual because in 100 years I’ll be dead and they’ll have that one wonderful technological panacea that will change everything (be it Mars colonisation, asteroid mining, or anything else)”. I don’t know how to call that attitude except for “techno-libertarian dogmatism”.
> Selling IIT as a description of consciousness is roughly the same flavor of hubris as defining berries to include oranges and cucumbers and exclude raspberries and raspberries.

Not trying to defend IIT, but the only reason your example works here is because from our human perspective (eating these plants) we find it absurd to include cucumbers and exclude raspberries.

So talking about hubris: Wouldn't plants (if they could) very likely have a totally different perspective? To then it would probably seem totally absurd that we use taste or shape of the fruit as a grouping feature and not something that might be totally more defining that plants can experience.

Of course it is intuitively understandable to look at ourselves and animals we understand when defining consciousness. Even like that it is hard to define. Trying to incorporate things that show conscious-like behaviors, but in totally human-unrelatable ways is not a bad next step, but it is hard to know where to draw the border. A rock could have conscious processes running in it on geological timescales — how would one falsify that?
I agree with this comment! Also, Anger by Thicht Naht Hanh focuses a lot on the concept of compassionate listening.
In our current culture some traits are considered positive while others negative. Compassionate - positive, judgemental - negative. I think this is wrong, they are both neutral. And I think trying to maximize one and minimize the other can have detrimental effects on one's quality of life.

Listen to people. When they tell you they don't want to share in most cases you really don't want to know or have anything to do with what they don't want to share. Especially if you have intentions that basically sum up to a savior complex. They have information that you don't and based on that they decided it will not help your relation to get into that. Why not just accept that?
One can practice NVC while the other starts out wanting to fight.
Absolutely finally. Why should a European take off their pants when traveling to the US, go through rude and racist immigration and Americans can easily enter the EU? Never understood that.

I want at least the same treatment for them, incl. pre checks, Information requests like social media accounts, pre registrations and a fee.
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> rising interest rates making capital much more difficult too secure.

Can someone please explain this to me or point me to some reading material. How does interest rates and investment in tech companies are related? How do we know that interest rates are going to rise soon?
It can not export to css / html / some kind of component - why not?

Just rechecked - I can not find a way to export to something that can be useful in web frontend develoment, besides svg. No CSS, no component for any framework, no html.

I must be blind or I am not getting it - why would anybody publish an UI prototyping tool that can not export to anything useful in UI development?

So this is like a copy of Inkscape with less features that will make your laptop fan move faster? It´s like the most important feature is missing.

Very confusing.

An exporter / compiler from svg -> components / html / css would be great to have instead, so we can just continue to use Inkscape (which leaves my CPU at low temperatures, too).
It's very odd to list all these (pretty theoretical!) things when, in practice, everyone gets owned by much more basic operational security concerns (except for the last "social engineering" one, where moving to a different communication network is a super common way for law enforcement to close the loop on an investigation).

Like "being super careful isn't enough" _might be true_, but if you did everything on this list and get caught anyways, you are in a super minority of people getting caught.

The example in the article (a hotmail-based email address being used). Everyone sees this and immediately goes "OK the feds can get this info". If such a basic opsec failure was happening, how is it that this person was still able to get as far as they did building up their website?

Being worried about the feds finding you from speech analysis of your posts online seems a bit silly when it's always _not_ that and much more just "finding the one simple thing you did wrong".
I dunno man, it was all pretty natural for me. My first wife, not so much. Her only real solution was to stuff a boob in my oldests mouth. My 2nd wife, with my youngest is also a natural, and my youngest was pretty easy. Until he wesponized the high chair to do things like get into the chocolate (was hilarious when he got a block of unsweetened baking chocolate).
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Easy, tiger. From the HN guidelines, which make this one of the most civilized places on the web:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
I have a palm3 from 1998. I recall I loaded a submarine game which was quite addictive. I also recall there was a Palm Treo around 2006? and later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Treo Probably influenced Steve Jobs idea of the 1st iPhone Would be interesting to examine the differences between later palms and 1st iPhone ......
My team can't move off of using GitHub for project management
We tried different PM software but always end up going back to just using Github issues/projects.

The main reasons are:

1. We always go to Github anyways. Might as well have the tasks written there.

2. Other software are just very complicated. They're all overkill with UI that is too fancy.

Anyone else stuck using Github for their dev team? Are we missing out on a "productivity" boost by not trying harder to use a fancier PM software?
>Also, I have always wondered if there's a way to translate these shapes to strings for quick "mental algorithm" matching. Something like, "5, left turn, 3, right turn..."

I was once measured to have abysmal spatial reasoning (which is probably backed up by poor hand-eye coordination and sense of direction) but I had no problem doing molecular geometry and group theory, I suspect it was because I applied logic rather than visualisation to compensate. (I am terrible at walking into an empty place an imagining how I might want to fill it)
Practices had long varied across the spectrum. You can find plenty of examples of people who used real names, or variants of them, or pseudonyms or handles, going back to the earliest days of the Net.

ESR has long injected his own personal biases as established fact. The consistent fact noted here is that specific error, not the claims made through them.

That said, it was the gradual intrusion of ever-more insistent exhortations to use real names, and the rise of surveillance services which convinced me that the practice of using given names was no longer advisable. I'd date this to well before Facebook and Google+, notably with the rise of information brokers in the early 2000s. By the time Google+ rolled out as an "identity service", I pretty much declared last straw and ceased virtually all my own real-name interactions. Call that circa 2011, or over a decade ago.

I'd already been curtailing any such use for about a decade.
I'm pretty sure this headline is missing "America says.." at the beginning. Oh my mistake, it's FP. A beacon of truth in these troubled times. Definitely no pro war motive there...
That sounds like it's going to be slower than not using an ad blocker at all.
I'll use a shopping list on the rare occasion where I really need to buy something, and very much am in tune with how to use both digital and paper lists / notes, but with the vast majority of the time, I know what I want to buy or what I want to browse, and that most of the time, having a list makes very little difference to my day to day life.

Sometimes I feel that people try to over-optimise grocery shopping. Basically, my process is simple and works: 1. realise I need more food, 2. grab keys, phone (and maybe wallet) and reusable bags, 3. go to the supermarket, 4. browse the usual stuff I'm interested in and look for what's on sale, 5. grab it off the shelf if I want it.

It's really not that complicated, nor at all stressful to shop without a list. Not everything in life needs a list.
Really listen to people. Like really, genuinely, listen.

Try to remove (or reserve) all your instincts to judge or evaluate their actions and just focus on listening to people with the premise that their problems, to them, are just as real and important to them as yours are to you.

Remember that essentially all people have a personal narrative where they are the aggrieved hero of the story trying to do the right thing while challenged by outside forces.

Try to listen and understand how and why they feel that way about themselves. They’ll be able to tell.
The problem is with scale. All the other dictators you mentioned know you personally , and probably care about you or care enough as long as it benefits them. The dictators everyone is talking about don’t know you or your family, friends, school and probably town if you are from a small one. Now, when they make decisions do you think they think about you or ilk? You will be treated as if you don’t exist and your cries are just as heard as much as that crushed ant beneath your feet. Representative government matters because it gives everyone a voice and power to change things if stuff doesn’t work out.
I don’t think the solution here is a technical one. This should just be solved by legislation.

Google Analytics has been recently ruled illegal in multiple European countries. And either this already is illegal under the same laws or it should be made so.
The article itself addresses this in detail at the very beginning. Quoting it a bit:

"This statement makes no sense in Haskell (or lambda calculus) since all functions take one argument, and functions with zero arguments are illegal. Does that mean that the ideal function can not exist in Haskell?

No, this is an unfair judgment. Uncle Bob wrote this book with an OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) perspective with examples in Java. The point is that many arguments can be hard to use, understand, and can be a smell of too many dependencies. "
Is 2002 considered “vintage” now?

Semantics aside, it was a fun read :)
Are you using online version or Amazon downloadable one? I've been using the latter for 20 years and have never felt like it was being deliberately misleading.

I just say no to everything. I don't even e-file. I still print and mail in my tax form. All the data is stored locally on my computer.
> The top 5% of CSGO ranked is Legendary Eagle.

Cool. As a Legendary Eagle Master I didn't even know this. I assume that is like the top 2.5% or something? I would agree with the initial statement of the article, though: Watching "real" competitive players just seems like magic and I feel like average at best, albeit apparently (as I just learned) being in the top 5% or better. Same goes for basically anything else I am "good" at, even with work. There's just always so many people being so much better ...
Not all ads are created equal:

The other day I learned from an ad that my favorite 6 year old Bergans jacket can be repaired at a shop next to where I work for a price that is next to nothing.
If you're against US immigration process, you shouldn't be happy the same is happening to Europe.

We're just becoming one big dystopia.

When are people going to realise that?
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You might find this to be an interesting watch:

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iJymKowx8cY / "a defense of the imperial measurement system: it's not as bad as people say it is (but it is still pretty bad)"

The primary point of the Imperial "system" is that it's not a single system. The fact that there are 5280 feet in a mile might seem insane, but feet and miles are from different systems, and they are used for entirely different things. For example, when driving in a car, distances are measured in miles, and if you were to direct someone to make a turn, you would say "turn right in 0.25 mile", not "700 feet". It's a compelling argument, and it's largely tempered my opinion of the USA's systems of measurement.
Right after picking up my first glasses, me and my father sat down to have a snack in a café. I wasn't wearing the glasses, because they made the world bob around. Safely at the table, I put them on and looked out the window. That's when I felt, for the first time, that trees have individual leaves even when you're not close by. They even flutter in the wind, even at the top of the tree. I'd never been able to see the top of a tree in detail.

Still remember that weird moment from 30 years ago. Addicted to glasses ever since.
A “Striking” Link Between Vitamin D Levels and Omicron
Also works on individual comic searches: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=xkcd+505&ia=comics
_If_ this app did that kind of thing, I don’t see much of a difference. You can’t expect them to catch it at review. If picking it for being featured happens closely in time to that (likely, IMO) you can’t expect them to catch it at that time, either.

That leaves them being paranoid, and periodically rechecking all featured apps. Even if they do that, there still will be a time window in which the app misbehaves.
How do we measure consciousness?

Without a clear definition and a measurement tool we can debate if WE are conscious at all. Once we agree on a definition we can start measure the consciousness of everything. Grass, phones, people.

It's a minefield though. What if measuring people gives wildly different results for different people or the same person in different parts of the life or the day? Several types of distopia will follow. Beware of the definition and who backs it.
It's definitely a bet... something I realized in the past few years is that expensive Sci-Fi movies (excluding superhero franchises) don't usually make their money back.
I don't get it, what do you even expect them to do? Write it in Java? It's MIT-licensed, you can rewrite it if you wish.
So what if they find that you used a phone?

They still had to somehow link your online identity to your phone. And how would they do that? The phone is simply a computer that you use, through VPNs, to send and reveive mail and post messages to groups etc. They’d have to approach ProtonMail, then your VPNs in order, and then get security footage from the place where you were accessing the VPN at that time. And then cross-reference your gait etc. to a database. Maybe in 10 years they would have such coordination, and we will need better tactics.

What’s far more interesting is what to do if VPNs are banned in a country. You can’t be using one there. You’d have to have set up anonymous hosting and port forward stuff yourself.

Again, it’s possible that all anonymous hosting, VPN etc. is shut down and requires KYC by say 2050. That is why you must bootstrap from what are valid but essentially “compromised* accounts now while you still can, and hope they are grandfathered into the new totalitarian surveillance system. Buying phones on craigslist is one example.

Another example is those eyes Anderton installs in Minority Report, but security in that movie is like a bad joke, IRL he’d be outed instantly by his gait, heart patterns via wifi and so on. In fact they didnt even change the access keys after he ran LMAO
Eminent demise of storage innovation or not
Storage Engines are hard. Not impossible to create but reasonably complex that a high performance engine will require a small team more than an year to build and make production ready. I don't have a small team and I don't have a year. I asked Tommy, what are my options mate? His advice was, not to build storage engine yourself at outset. He proposed three options and I illustrate each with its merits.
Technically not the EU but Protonmail is in Switzerland.
It is a stretch but a viable and reasonable contender. C# spans a wide range ... Which is a weakness but also it's greatest strength.
The Palm V I had was pretty cool back then. I had a little nokia phone with infra red, and I would load up a little news reader app before I got on the bus for a commute. The app was managed by the vendor, so the news was curated.

As the article says, the web browser was limited but it was good enough for an internet search if you wanted to settle an argument in the pub.

It also coincided with me wandering around with bulging pockets: palm V, Nokia, an MP3 player and a wallet.

Got all of it now in an old Samsung Galaxy S8, but the infra red internet setup was pretty eye opening for people who had seen nothing like that before.

You can't have a proper pub argument any more, the mobile internet kinda killed the fun of being knowledgeable without relying on an ever present search engine.
>I am not sure paper usage is down.

It's mixed. Office paper use is down or flat, newsprint is down, packing materials are way up.

Interestingly the paper and pulp industry is a massive consumer of energy and resources. I think I've read that it is 4% of global carbon emissions.
In every competitive game I've ever played (Overwatch, CSGO, LoL, TFT, Rocket League), the top 5% definitely wasn't "that good".

In my mind, the top 20% are people who actually play. If you are stuck anywhere below that, you aren't even trying to improve. If a leaderboard says you haven't even cracked top 50%, then that leaderboard is definitely cutting players that don't play much from the bottom of that list. In most competitive games, the bottom 80% is just casuals who play a few times and stop, or people who only play the game while high.

Then the top 5% is when you start understanding the game at a competitive level. The very start.

Then the top 1% is where you can consider yourself good at the game, but, still, there are a ton of fairly bad players that play enough to get here but don't understand what they're doing. It's a combination of grinders and skilled players.

Then the 0.1% is where you have good players. Not pros, but definitely, unarguably, good.

Then you have pros.
Thanks for all the informational replies.
The whole article is about Credit Suisse's lack of due diligence, and the reason why the whistleblower blew the whistle. I find it impossible to believe that the former wife of an extremely corrupt politician in a kleptocracy just stumbled upon one million CHF in a casino.
Also thought the benefit too small for the drag of another dependency.
GQ seem to have overcome every anti-autoplay setting and add-on that Firefox can throw at it.
What? You need a US visa to visit Iran as a European?
He's basically right. Here's another example, math contests.

When I was in high school I was really into math. I was way ahead of my year group and I figured it was more interesting to do special problems of the "what is the last digit of 2^2022" variety, the kind of thing that didn't turn up on normal homework, but also not terribly complicated, the kind of thing you can figure out with a short burst of concentration.

So I went to math contests around Europe with other schools. The thing was that most kids I met there were totally ordinary at maths. Sure, some were really quite good, but most of the bottom 75% were indistinguishable from your normal kid who doesn't know at 15 what an integral is. The friends on my team weren't even in the top set math class at my little school, but my observation was that most kids from the other schools weren't either. Most were along for the ride, much like myself at school sports events where you also got a trip across Europe for participating.

I did okay at it, and in my final year we had a couple of really good kids on the team and won the contest. I thought that was pretty cool, but I also knew I wasn't close to the pinnacle of math contestery. Fact was I was like that kid who just had some natural ability but I didn't really practice a huge amount and nobody suggested there was a way to get much better. If you added up all the extra practice compared to just sitting in math class, maybe it was a couple of extra lessons a week, with more interesting homework. My math teacher was a great motivator whom I still keep in touch with, but we only had him and his experience.

Fast forward to now and I recently discovered a friend of mine got a top 10 at the IMO. Basically top 10 among all high school kids on the planet. I can ask him the occasional interesting question that I see on FB, and he'll know how to do it. He did proper years of training in math, had a very famous coach among others, and went through the eye of the needle several times. There's a world of difference between that and your casual have-a-go person.
> "I don't know why we're doing this, it's going to cost a lot of money and make things worse."

I'm a step outside the domain so not totally confident in my own cynicism, but I feel like this phrase could be applied to practically every B2B startup I hear about these days. Selling CRM, project management and time tracking tools to (mostly) other VC-funded companies is just a way to skim more cream out of the economy without adding any true value.

I try not to judge individuals for working in these places; working at AWS I'm hardly in a position to throw stones. Increasingly though I am dismayed by the lack of real, society-enhancing jobs available to highly skilled tech workers in the sea of mediocrity and rent-seeking.
Yeah, the whole "this sucks; it should apply to everyone" mindset never made sense to me...
> it has valid academic criticisms

That's probably because the rest of researchers ignore it like the plague. If everybody had to comment on it for some magical reason, it would be probably be burned down to the ground and then some.
Wait, fly.io is a Rails shop?

(At any rate, they employ Chris McCord, the creator of Phoenix, and have spent considerable resources pushing Phoenix. So it's clear that they aren't beholden to any one language or ecosystem.)
OP didn't state they were happy. But reciprocity might be the basis to develop fair relationship. Otherwise how would Americans realize their behavior is problematic?
> I can’t think of a single product that was able to get to any meaningful degree of success running on top of some low code platform.

I don’t know if this is just wildly ignorant or intentionally misleading, but thousands (maybe millions?) of businesses and organizations run low code platforms to develop their internal DBs and inventory and POS systems, among other things. Access and FileMaker are well known examples that lots of small businesses have used over the years. Bigger corps use all kinds of form generators, DB query systems, RAD tools, and low-code environments. These days devs are now using low code game engines to make games that have hit the top-10 lists on your favorite App Store.

Demand for devs is still going up, and low code platforms aren’t going to suddenly change that, but this story point should probably have been left out because low code platforms are hugely successful and are growing, and devs are still in demand despite the success and increasing market for low code platforms. It’d be interesting to explore why, but it’s just wrong to claim low code isn’t successful.