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There are some improvements still happening - mobile computing (i.e. phones) are going from strength to strength both in terms of raw power/capabilities, but also ubiquity both in the west and elsewhere.

Programming languages are still exiting - say what you want about slow Electron apps and slow ReactJS websites, but I think that Javascript itself is fucking exciting. It is highly performant, continually getting upgraded, has a low-barrier to entry, and is pretty ubiquitous - where ever someone has a browser (in their phone, desktop, laptop) they've got this super-powered javascript engine that they can just jump in and use for anything they can think of thanks to rich APIs available in all modern browsers (and even non-browser runtimes e.g. node & deno still have a lot of APIs they can call on). I am very excited about the future of javascript.

And of course, the more recent (last 4 or 5 years ago anyway) ML stuff is pretty cool. You can just spin up a ML inference model now with a few lines of code and do what would have been impossible just a few years previously (e.g. the classic xkcd comic about the bird in the photo). The shame with ML is that there seems to be a preference to use Python a lot which is a real shame because its shit.

Likewise cloud computing is now a thing - you can just easily spend a few bucks to "borrow" a server for whatever. No sales calls, no minimum contract periods, no paper work - just put in your payment details and you are away for as long or as short as you want it. Maybe you dont even want a server? perhaps you just need to host a single function? Or just store some files somewhere, perhaps run a DB. All doable now. That is exciting and a great liberator to individuals to try stuff out and do exciting stuff.

Finally, Raspberry Pi has been a smash-hit and has transformed kids access and interest in tech. I am genuinely excited for my kids to get into this - Raspberry Pi foundation has been doing absolutely great work - we do loads of work/volunteering with kids using RPis and scratch etc and they absolutely love it. This is really exciting that a whole new generation of kids are growing up learning to programme from an early age. A certain cohort of kids got a similar experience in the early 80s, but there were a couple of decades in there where youngsters were "locked out" of the basics, so it is great to see this coming back. As a bonus us grown-ups can now get a $15 "disposable" well-supported linux computer for any random thing we can think of (put it in a balloon, put it around a cat's neck as it wanders around, hard-wire it into your car, perhaps make a digital microscope out of it, run a web server off of solar in your back garden - you name it)
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I personally think China has done a great work in Afghanistan than US. They sent humanitarian aid to poor people who were never responsible for terrorism. I acknowledge that China might have their own interest, and might be some Shenanigans. Or, it might just be a marketing tactics to earn good will & gesture?

However, US freezing the whole country account is bad. This doesn't just punish few bad people, but it punishes many good people. Liberation happens through development, not through revenge & suppression.
I got inflation indexed bonds in 2000 around the time they spiked interest rates to kill the bubble.

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tips_glan...

Despite inflation being moderate the whole time these went up in value a lot, more than I expected based on the interest rates.

My broker fired me because I went to a sales presentation and argued with a salesman about I bonds being a good investment relative to the annuities they were pushing.

TIPS might be a good idea now.
Box: Secure Virtual Whiteboarding
Exactly, and believe it or not, this strange little inconsistency is the only thing I still can't get used to after using macOS for ~15 years.
Yup hard to say. Thankfully citizens are seeing the reality of his anti-American policies and will make their displeasure felt at the polls this November.
Punishment goes beyond physical means. You have the choice between poverty, or debt, which is definitely a form of coercion. Coercion is the use of a power differential to make someone act against their interests, physical force is not necessary.
Why young muslims leave Islam
> As described, the individual plant is not the friend, but rather the spirit of its species.

Aye.

> I have no way to properly apprehend any of this.

Sure you do! You're a living being too, eh? :) You've got all the hardware, you just need to learn the protocols. It's not that hard to learn, the hardest part is "letting your hair down" so to speak.

Check out the recent scientific advances from Michael Levin's lab's work, e.g. "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System" - NeurIPS 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18700328
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698

In a nutshell, whatever "thought" is, the biomolecular machinery that supports it is common to all cells (not just neurons.) In other words, all cellular life "thinks".

Combine that insight with the "Law Of Regulatory Models" from Cybernetics, to wit: "every good regulator of a system must be (contain) a model of that system." and it seems to me that we have a solid basis to talk about "nature spirits", eh?
There absolutely is a legal risk to print companies and marketplaces for assisting in intellectual property theft. In practice this means we look out for major trademarks, and ripoffs of small players are impossible to police.

There is no such thing as "validated copyright" - you own a copyright on the content you produce and there's no official registrar. Determining ownership is an adversarial process - everyone says "this is mine, the other guy ripped me off". Small players don't have the legal resources to prosecute.

Services like mine which manage whole libraries can pretty easily weed out the bad players because they tend to be full of TM violations. But the marketplaces have it more difficult.

Nobody has come up with a good solution to this yet.
In recent years Russia has focused their economy on resource extraction while allowing the farming and industrial sectors to become dependent on imports. As long as sanctions remain in place it is unlikely Russia will be able to consistently manufacture any modern industrial products including tanks.
I am afraid of that as well. The acceleration to such a speed would probably take quite some time if you don't want to become a pancake.
Money, capitalism, yes.

I'd add the capture of media, politics and justice. While those essentially boil down to 'money and capitalism', they are their own problems.

Steal a loaf of bread? Prison, high bail. Steal a competitors novel tech idea? Well done, aren't you such a savvy capitalist. Your investors must be so happy.

Media, politics and justice are complicit in all this. And that's why tech sucks now.
Good point. I made a faulty assumption.

A lot of windmill farms are popping up offshore, however.
Ah I was thinking of the subway vents you see along the street and sidewalks in New York. That is indeed a drastically different scale.
One of Shiro Games founder (Nicolas Cannasse) is the creator of the Haxe language and Heaps engine !
I think we're overlooking that the majority of the people in the U.S. dying from Covid today aren't vaccinated and never abided by the mask mandates. They took health risks, risks having a non-zero chance of them getting Covid, and they lost. Even though the number of people dying per day today is as high as when the pandemic first started, the risks are totally different. Today you have a lot of control in managing your risk, you didn't have that control two years ago.
Just leave your SF/VC bubble, move to a medium-sized European city and such jobs will be plentiful. Most likely you'll be maintaining internal business applications on uncool and legacy technology stacks. The value of these applications is mostly for the particular business and your experience wouldn't transfer easily to a new job. The upside is that job security is far greater there. Also, you'll have less opportunities to blog about what you are doing, or to write insightful HN comments because most of what you do is totally uninteresting for the world.
Lol, I'm guessing that was some kind of unchecked overflow error. X-(
Indeed, world class shipping rail system.

Our passenger rail is depressingly subpar.
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/lifestyle/2018/06/19/how-do-...

https://www.memoriesoftheprairie.com/blog/2018/11/30/how-lax...

Funny, I've just played through Oregon trail game on a Nintendo DS, recognized many place names.
There were email punts as well that would crash the app if opened. It was very entertaining as a child to punt someone on your buddy list and hear the door slam as they repeatedly tried to open an email with a too good to be true subject line.
Maybe this is why deja vu happens? You run the "compression" and produce a memory that's very similar to another memory?

The brain is nothing like a computer, so the hash table analogy is almost certainly inaccurate, but it's a funny idea.
This is why I always recommend working with a mortgage broker instead of directly applying with banks - especially if your source of payments is not a 9-to-5 salaried job. Not every bank wants or is set up to handle your business, and the broker’s job is to find the lenders who do.

I’m sure the poster will be able to obtain a mortgage, just perhaps not by direct application to banks.
The compression already begins with the receptors, maybe I should have started there. Each stimuli/pattern gets more simplified with each neuron layer, e.g. if a region of receptors fire a the same time, fire that one neuron, if not at the same time, inhibit that neuron, if nothing happens, do nothing. It's impossible to "capture" stimuli without compression with neurons in the first place. Information is being "reduced" or encoded if you will along the signal path into the brain, and then over time when recalling this information.
> The more moderate side is a different kind of coalition driven by different goals and ideas. Black and Hispanic voters are socially conservative, and don’t care about LGBT issues.

That’s not true. About half of Black people oppose same sex marriage, about the same as republicans. But they go along with white liberals on social issues in exchange for getting their support on civil rights issues. But, for example, they voted in favor of California’s 2008 ban on same sex marriage. (Back then, they overwhelmingly opposed same sex marriage.) There’s a fair argument that what pushed the referendum over the top was very high Black turnout because Obama was on the ballot.

Similarly, Muslims mostly vote Democrat and support same sex marriage… for other people: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/us/lgbt-muslims-pride-progres...

Non-whites vote democrat for different reasons than whites. For them, issues like civil rights, immigration rights, religious freedom for minorities, etc., are often dispositive of other issues. And insofar as many are immigrants, they don't feel ownership over the broader culture. My parents vote Democrat and view these social and cultural issues as being between white Americans. That works both ways--if Democrats supported outlawing abortion they might have some "population control"-type objections, but really wouldn't care because they'd never accept abortion in their own circle anyway.
And that's wrong because the units are outdated?...
It’s the same thing with Big Tobacco, Oil, Pharma, and even cannabis industries.

Only that the OP is attacking democracy.
> The CCP bots are in full force in the comments on this post. Whoa.

I know what you mean, but it's not bots. It's not even the real 50 cent party would waste it's time with HN. Whatever activity they have in English-language social networks is probably directed at places where there's more bang for the buck. like Twitter or Reddit.
And the difference between CCP bot and CIA bot can easily be recognized. CCP bots generally don't sway and entice people using words. CIA bots are very good in making specious arguments. They understand how they can imbue people with rage.
It’s primarily about the number of hours. At Pebble, we’d be able to get a pretty good gauge on battery life with about 10-20 devices and about 24 hours worth of data. We recorded the battery’s percentage drop over the course of each hour, averaged all samples together, and then used that to estimate how long the battery charge would last.

This strategy is covered here: https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/device-heartbeat-metrics...

Of course it’s better with thousands of devices, but we were always surprised how accurate it was (as long as we had a few Android users in the office - it reliably got worse battery life due to worse Bluetooth performance)
Maybe they did, but can't speak about?...
For what it's worth, my employer does make a bit of a production about how much they pay for our insurance. They make us all look at a document that gives a figure that includes our salary and benefits, plus a breakdown. I guess the point is to make us more appreciative in the face of rising costs? That said, I don't remember the amounts being clear at the time I chose a plan, though maybe they were.
The thing that confuses me is that China's muslim neighbours(ish) like Saudis, Pakistan or Kazakhstan support China in what they are doing.

There is greater incentive for those 3 countries to care what China is doing to fellow Muslims and they don't oppose it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps
"Man is the measure of all things" - Protagoras
stop time with coldsleep and get there instantaneously?
In the US, we can acknowledge those "inconvenient facts", freely discuss them, educate people about them, push for accountability for those who did them and to change policies so that they do not happen again.
Agreed moderation is essential. It's easy to spot and remove people who don't care about harmony or true discussion, but it often doesn't happen (or moderators are themselves bad actors).
I think you need to read back for the context. You're clearly talking about a separate thing from what was being discussed.

To put it quite plainly, can you point to a time when lands were unenrolled from conservation programs in order to increase food production capacity?
There's also gemini://geminispace.info
They also have free heating
One of my oddest part of my dreams, is that they often tend to be places from my childhood or young adult life and that my brain seems to processing the 3D layout. Like I will walk specifically to school, remembering the route, or through my church and I had re-visited a giant thrift store from many moons ago and my feet just trod the path right where I knew I wanted to go. It's like watching my mind process these locations into mental maps in dreams. Kinda neat
It's deliberate - Gaddis did not like publicity and did not want to be a celebrity. Here is part of his reponse to winning the National Book Award for JR in 1975 [1]:

"... I feel like part of the vanishing breed that thinks a writer should be read and not heard, let alone seen. I think that this is because there seems so often today to be a tendency to put the person in the place of his or her work, to turn the creative artist into a performing one, to find what a writer says about writing somehow more valid, or more real, than the writing itself.

... it seems to me the only way to keep writers writing well, or trying to write well, is to read what we write."

1. in The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings (2002)
In the U.S. there exist Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS). You could buy STIP, the iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF. The UK also has inflation-indexed bonds. Gold is another possible hedge. Maybe oil and gas stocks, since energy prices rise during high inflation.
What is interesting is for me, I kinda take the opposite approach.

Kinda ... A lot of my information has been consolidated to Apple. I am not naive enough to trust them completely. But I feel like I have made a conscious choice of balancing privacy concerns with Apple (and their business practices for the use of that data) and the convenience of features.

But in my opinion one of my biggest issue I have with companies like Facebook and Google is that consolidation. I would rather the companies only know bits (realistically none but considering both companies allow others to consent on my behalf... there isn't much I can do) instead of an entire pictures.

Now I know that many of these companies sell data in the background. But I guess I have some weird level of... comfort knowing that they have to do extra work to piece the data about me together.
Ebon's reasoning at the time was that he wanted a standardized computer you could build a curriculum around, that was cheap enough that schools could issue to kids without fear of them breaking it, and which was small enough the kids could take home with them in their backpack. (This was obviously well before Chromebooks and iPads took over the education market.)
The answer is to talk to recruiters.

The job ads that catch your eye are specifically tailored for those results. They're usually posted from flashy startups who are high on their own supply. I had many an interview with those types of places, and nothing you could say would be good enough for them. That's why those job posting are always open.

What worked for me was happenstance -- I applied to a job that was posted by a recruiter, and once I was in that recruiting company's ecosystem, they started passing opportunities my way. The opportunities were interesting and had "boring" and relatable tech. If I looked up the job ads for those opportunities, the posting itself sucked and lacked the detail I'd expect. I'd have never applied without a recruiter talking to me about it.

There is a massive demand for developers at small and medium sized businesses. Those businesses have no idea how to effectively market their postings, which is why they use recruiters. The startups that know how to effectively market their postings on WeWorkRemotely and such have the applicant pool to be insanely choosy. If you're having trouble landing something, apply to jobs that are close to what you're looking for, but definitely posted by a recruiter. The recruiters will talk to you, and if they like what they hear, the interviews will pour in.
The more I learn about energy efficient houses, the more I realise it's basically all about moisture management. The more energy efficient a house is, the more you have to worry about moisture. The biggest problems come when people do things that seem sensible - like insulating, or sealing up walls with render - and don't take into account the never ending stream of water vapour coming from within.

Do it wrong and you get black mould and rotten timbers.

It's obviously worth doing right - because we expend such a vast amount of energy on heating homes. But every aspect needs careful consideration.
If it's a swamp there might be gases being released: https://www.sciencealert.com/how-this-small-lake-in-africa-o...

But yeah the swamp might not have anything to do with it and it could also be something in the house, or the drinking water, etc.
I don't think he's saying he wants to go back to getting water from the well, instead he's saying he's got running water and he's trying to join company that won't expect him to terraform mars with the running water technology.
It's not really my observation. Bicyclists have a (sick) joke: "If you want to get away with murder just be sure you're driving a car and your victim is riding a bike." The way I see it, the same blind spot (no pun intended) applies to car-shaped killer robots.

R.I.P. Elaine Herzberg.
Bad faith arguments convert by quantity, not quality. If you overwhelm the good faith information with mountains of bad faith information, you'll convince a lot of people, none of whom will be able to point at one specific thing that convinced them.
Manufacturing hasn't been automated as much as it's been outsourced to cheaper countries with less workers' rights and union membership. Automation has only really hit a select few industries like car manufacturing and warehouse picking, compared to the number of blue collar jobs that have disappeared.
fuck intuit
I think it has become expensive by most measurements. Except, for them at 96, the cost and vehicle buys them independence. The alternative is to move into a senior living situation, which is quite expensive as well. I’m pretty sure they only cover him for liability and he keeps just buying new cars every time. He has some minor wealth and mailbox money type arrangements and at this age he’s in a “can’t take it with me” phase of his financial justifications. So he pays the premiums.

Why they keep insuring him with no sense of the danger he imposes to others is an interesting question and it’s because their financial exposure is all that matters. They are betting that he won’t kill anyone and if he causes some property damage they feel protected from a risk adjusted perspective. But no larger corporate responsibility / citizenship is in place.
Money and power, folks. Money and especially power change everything.

There's always been money in computing, but I'm talking about really huge money and serious political power. I'm talking about nation-state-scale money, elections hinging on social media meme wars, countries creating troll armies as part of new cold wars, etc.

When the stakes go up, the fun goes away. Serious players get involved, not to mention lots of hard-core psychopathic types that are not fun at all to deal with.

There's no better place to see this than the computer underground. Hacker (pop culture sense) culture used to be fun, exploratory, and cool. I was really into it as a teen. Now I wouldn't let my kids near it. It's loaded with serious and dangerous criminals, incredibly toxic ideology, real prison sentences if you get caught, and actual harm as opposed to pranks and exploration. Today's "hacking" (black or grey hat) involves destroying peoples livelihoods with scams and ransomware, attacking democracy and civil society, and even killing people.

Guns, armies, and serious crime have come to what was once a neat little bubble of pure thought and exploration.
Fun facts about me, I'm not Chinese or paid by the Chinese government. I don't want to see my friends or our collective kids go off on a stupid war with China or another war in the middle east. We remember the WMDs lie, we remember decades of wage stagnation, we remember the decades of politicians low-balling us on healthcare reform/student loan forgiveness/nuclear power plants/other green energy. We know how much Iran/Afghanistan cost. We know who, for decades, sent all our jobs to China. It wasn't China. Want us to give half a shit about putting Xi in jail? Put Bush and Cheney (random names from a long list) in jail first. We can't afford any more wars. We're tired of endless do nothing politicians and constantly being gaslit.
If there was a specific freight corridor between Portugal and Vietnam that was enabled by the construction of a cross-border tunnel which cuts through 55km of mountain, then I think we would see a similar fanfare for that. It's a bit harsh to flag me though, I didn't do anything wrong
Whilst I was moving out and inbetween places, my "home office" was close to perched on a coffee table, and even that I'd take over a big open plan office (or possibly even my own private office).
Supply shocks (from covid + ukraine war) are a much bigger reason.