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> Not all Linux package managers are perfect or even that good.

Definitely. And the good ones are sometimes the most frustrating for their remaining imperfections! But when you compare them to package managemwmt efforts outside of Linux and free Unix distros, efforts like Homebrew or pip or NPM, there are typically lessons that Linux distro package managers have learned from each other that the others miss, to their detriment.

> for example pacman will happily break your system if you have any third party packages or don't use it exactly as prescribed.

If you care more about robustness than speed or simplicity, pacman is arguably the worst in its class. On a technical level it's still on a par with Homebrew or better, depending on what we're comparing. But it can be more painful to use in practice because of the actual role that the AUR plays in the Arch ecosystem. Arch devs' denialism about that has led to a permanent state of affairs where everyone uses the AUR and pacman ignores the dependencies of AUR packages every time it runs updates, i.e., perpetual breakage.

I'm not a fan of that design or the Arch 'blame the user for holding it wrong; after all we warned them this required manual attention' attitude. And there are better-engineered package managers available on macOS, too, like Nix and pkgsrc, too.

But the base system is still unpackaged (like in many Unix distros), and the package managers you end up needing for working on the OS are decidedly second class on the system and prone to being broken periodically by Apple. (If you follow along with Homebrew or Nixpkgs on GitHub, you can see the kinds of huge efforts they often have to go through when Apple releases a new macOS beta and it completely breaks things for them.) It's just too different to be summarized as a matter of 'like Linux but with a different GUI'.
> Trust is a feature, not a bug

Why do people always misunderstand "trustless"?

Being ABLE to trust somebody is a good thing. Being REQUIRED to trust somebody is a problem.
> Is that spirit too alive in the new generation of entrepreneurs?

New generation entrepreneurs have been conditioned by the investors to be "predictable" so that the investors have a better handle on the outcome of their gamble. The ones who are predictable gets the cheque.
I was certainly more privileged than most and my parents mostly prioritized foreign travel rather than more "conventional" family vacations. However even in the 60s and 70s, I had very little sense of the world being closed off. In general. Of course, there was the Iron Curtain and other countries like China weren't very accessible to Westerners. But Many places were. And certainly by the 90s, traveling to somewhere like Russia, China, or "adventure travel" generally was very well established.
> You could spend less than 18 x AWS cost

You can, but I'm sure you are making a tradeoff to achieve that, sure that trade off might be worth it for your use case, but I seriously doubt you could get exactly the same thing you get from AWS for substantially less, you need to factor in the reliability and flexibility aspects, if an EC2 instance, fails, I can just get a new one, if your own server fails, hopefully you have another one on hand.

There are other things that make the AWS offering compelling: you get everything in one place and you can expect to find IT people who know how to operate AWS, whereas that is probably not true for smaller competitors who might be cheap but also have less to offer in terms of services and mindshare.

> AWS compute is so expensive

I do auto scaling, which means that if nobody is using the application, I'm paying for a single small instance and then I use ECS tasks for offline computation, which means I end up paying exactly for what I use.

If I were hosting my own on-prem solution, I would still end up building something similar.

> AZ redundancy because it wasn't pushed on you.

If you work for a client that wants AZ redundancy, likely they are a client that is more than happy to pay the premium. For some clients, reliability matters more than infrastructure cost. For those clients infrastructure cost might even look like a rounding error compared to all the other costs.

I generally have no problem implementing a requirement that I don't believe is technically needed, if the business wants it, if they believe 3x the cost is worth it for the additional resiliency.

> you can't afford the monolith + db model and get roped to dynamodb, lambda@edge, API gateway, step functions, etc all requiring IAM roles, security groups, observability tooling, cicd & version control complexity, config services etc etc all the downsides you read about in microservice horror stories.

1 instance(s) x 2.32 USD hourly x 730 hours in a month = 1693.6000 USD (Aurora PostgreSQL Compatible DB)

A single developer will cost you at minimum 10k per month.

From a business perspective, I'm more than happy to pay thousands more for RDS and potentially overpowered EC2 instances than wasting far more expensive developer time on going nuts with serverless. For small things where it makes sense, sure I'm happy to go with serverless and save a few pennies, but not at massive developer time costs.

> And you can't even ssh in and strace or tcpdump the stuff like you could with your own microservices

Then you should just stick to EC2 instances if that's your cup of tea, though the idea of debugging individual instances becomes distant when you start auto scaling or start using containers.
I think the key is the way everything is connected. Should you hit your kids? Probably not, but if you’re the type of person who believes in Corporal punishment you’re probably not the type of person who is self reflective about it.

If you’re really conciencious chances are you’re probably doing the right things to improve yourself and obsessing about it isn’t going to help. If you’re not conociencious then your not opening yourself to the kind of experiences that are going to make you a better parent so it’s a self fulfilling prophecy.
I’ve been following this story and here is what’s happening to the best of my understanding:

The plaintiff (who got HPV) sued the insured defendant. The case went to arbitration and the defendant lost. The defendant appealed and then his insurance company, Geico, filed a motion to intervene so that they could ask for a declaratory judgement saying they don’t have to cover this. That motion to intervene was denied. Now, Geico is appealing that decision… and ultimately they will likely get their declaratory judgement and not have to pay to cover this illness.
This is an important observation. Your neighbour trusts you because of the relationship you have with them, your membership in the same group (home ownership in a neighborhood), proximity and availability (they know where you live and can contact you easily if they want the weedwhacker back), and you already have collateral in play (ownership of your home and reputation in the community).

The key to building trust online is to recreate some of these aspects. You should have an identity in the community that you belong to and you should own assets under that identity so you can’t easily abandon it and start somewhere else with your ill gotten gains. Communication amongst members of the community should be easy and common. There should even be shared ownership of community assets and the community should provide services to its members.

I imagine this looking something like a discord server combined with some of the hosting features of FB like image sharing, posts, groups, etc. You’d also need a built in token that could be used within the community but also exchanged on a broader network of federated communities.
I read, the Chinese Room idea has too many assumptions to be useful.
Not sure I see your point. "Choosing to spend most of your other conscious hours consuming media" is certainly choosing to waste a significant part of one's lifetime. Doing it all the time is wasting most of it, and likely being broke (with exception of rare edge cases). The question we touched in this particular branch: whether extra work constitutes a better alternative to more gaming/media in the absence of other obligations/fields of activity (such as family)
Those infrastructure improvements sound great, don't get me wrong, but walking in a snowstorm in windy 10-degree-Fahrenheit weather would still be considered unpleasant by a lot people even with good plowing and lighting. (I hike and run all through winter, but some people just want a comfortable place to walk.) Maybe climate catastrophe will "help" "solve" that issue, but in the meantime I think a lot of folks around here will continue to walk in malls and gyms when it's cold out.
I'm not commenting on the claims of the article, just the points in your comment.

I think it's pretty clear that an entire human brain is not required for the operation of consciousness. Certain people have lost massive portions of their brain and still maintained regular consciousness functioning. On top of that, the typical human brain only consumes about 20 watts of power to do its thing. So that's just a safe upper bound for the power required.

Over the last decade we've seen the rise of ML systems that have replicated or surpassed capabilities long thought to be the exclusive domain of the human brain. Think facial recognition, AlphaGo or the very recent DALL-E 2.

This had led me to the personal belief that we (in aggregate) likely already have the computing power to achieve not only artificial consciousness, but also AGI and beyond. We simply haven't figured out the correct model connectivity and parameters.
I was wondering the other day, is there a generic "article-munging" firefox addon? Maybe you'd make rules per site how to make it readable. For example enable reader view automatically on some domains, pass some domains through 12ft.io (paywall remover) automatically and so on :)
How I got into 3D Printing
Agree, are animals not sentient?
Oh yes, I think you made an excellent contribution by pulling up past arguments and trying to continu the conversation. I was just observing it and noting how nice itd be in general if this were automatic
12 years at a billion dollar company. I was indispensable to the business unit, but the unit itself wasn't. Entire lot got made redundant.
That mitigates these risks for people who are able to have an in-depth understanding of Bitcoin, which is in itself extremely complex and requires tons of prior knowledge. Everyone else has to trust someone with their crypto needs and is left to be fleeced with no recourse at all. As of now, that merely replaces the group that profits disproportionately with a crypto bros and the like.
hi pol1-5, I don't understand what made you feel this way. Gratitude practice is universally human, in catholic culture Christ is the human ideal and spiritual teacher (apart from divine). You may disagree with the latter personally or think people who are catholic - like me as well - are not to be taken seriously. Fides et Ratio can go hand in hand (see the encyclical or Contact by Carl Sagan).
Just saw an article about ginger being very helpful with migraines -- perhaps worth checking out?
Hmm, but higher prices for goods whose production or transportation is fuel intensive would allow and encourage us to adjust our habits to avoid or find greener substitutes for those goods. What we're doing by subsidizing fuel is essentially the opposite of a carbon tax, actively worsening greenhouse gas emissions.
Oh man, I'm not sure about that. As a teenager, I went to school with kids who were much richer than me. They got a regular allowance, I didn't. It was so painful because I could never join in anything. I ended up with this huge feeling of powerlessness. I think a bit of cash would have made a big difference to me. Maybe that's a sad reflection of our society, or teenagers in the 80s.
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As an Enterprise Client, I did not even know there was attachments, and i dont know what I would use attachments for...
It's fine. Haven't really noticed.
I believe the ops point was that if a covid test was optional, and you felt sick, you wouldn’t bother to get tested. Travel which mandates testing is a separate matter.

That’s been my position for a while. I’m pro-vaccine, and pro-initial lockdown (only), and lived in London during the first years of the pandemic. At some point we just have to get on with our lives, we need to stop living in fear. We need to stop the them vs us divide.
He was put on paid leave for violating confidentiality while trying to invoke outsiders in Lambda's defense.
Show HN: Live plot open connections from your MikroTik device on a 3-d globe
Borrow checker is a good motivator

And rust is hard: https://hirrolot.github.io/posts/rust-is-hard-or-the-misery-...
To be honest, not sure.

I'm currently working at a FAANG as a vendor and I'm about to apply internally. I'm already seeing a decrease in job postings which mean I'll potentially have to compete against more people but I'm lucky to have several referrals lined up which will help. If it doesn't work, I'll apply elsewhere but in any cases I'll have to surf this wave as a new hire somewhere.

On the other end, I'm lucky to live in a country (Canada) where a good unemployment insurance program exist so if it ever has to come to that, not too bad I guess.

At least I won't have any visa issues as I applied for the citizenship. I can't wait!
"socially acceptable standard" <=== the problem?

Was listening recently to a rather successful young media personality (syndicated AM radio show, owns a fairly visible media company, etc.) talking about the material circumstances of his upbringing in the '90s: 2 bedroom middle class house in LA, family of 6: 2 parents, himself and 3 sisters. They somehow made it work.

Not sure about extended family situation, but come to think of it he also mentioned he chose his own house within walking distance of a worship center, per religious prescription.
So, how do you know these things? If they're so subtle and hard to measure, it seems as if questions of causality would be very hard to answer.
Speaking as a partially reformed asshole, I believe we do have some control over this. It may not be possible to just decide to stop being an asshole and flip a switch, but with some self-awareness and consistent effort, it is possible to make progress.
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Trust is an ideal to strive towards but the unfortunate case is that its reliability quickly starts to strain with scale. I'd argue the economy at large is held together not by trust but by reputation, curation, regulation and threat of lawsuits and jail time. With the last concentrating trust in legal institutions, overall reducing trust burden.

In many countries, the richest companies operate unethically, with impunity because the legal system is in the pocket of a corrupt few in power. In such countries trust in institutions is nonexistent. In developed economies, regulatory capture still leads to inequities and gross inefficiencies.

Today on the internet, reviews and product search results can no longer be trusted. For a very long while, buying from a large class of products on Amazon was a gamble. A breakdown in reputation and curation.

Computing environments were originally high trust, a property they could not retain at scale. Encryption, https everywhere, anti-ad tracking, secure VMs, gated app stores, "Don't trust the client" designs, onion routers, anti binary blobs are technologies and principles which reduce the need for trust. Technologies like DRM, copy protection rootkits and Trusted Computing are corporations communicating their lack of trust in humans inhumanly.

There's always some minimal amount of trust necessary. The optimal minimum generally decreases with scale. Hawala might seem an exception but closer inspection shows it depends on shared belief systems, local interactions on reputation networks and honor; memes which reduce trust burden at scale.

I'd also argue bitcoin isn't about trust but about issues which arise with open permissions and no centralized enforcement mechanism. Its throughput issues addressed by "layer 2" solutions, as decentralized credit networks (from a dispute and authority perspective), actually have fair overlap with honor based informal money transfer systems but without the centuries to have ironed out issues.
Building up lasting institutions is only going to happen from the ground up, starting at the local level. I tend to doubt it can successfully be imposed from the top down - especially not by the government.
Clearly, it must be possible to disengage the Tesla "Autopilot" at any time. Because it can fuck up any second.

I was talking about freeing the pilot from maintaining situational awareness. This is not supported for drivers of Tesla vehicles; the term "autopilot" is misleading in that context.
As with most things, it depends on your use case. Except for some very high-volume or ancient features, it has pretty much everything.

However, unlike Postfix, you can actually configure OpenSMTPD yourself without breaking it. Postfix suffers heavily from a Byzantium configuration that everyone is copy-pasting because understanding how to create a configuration from scratch requires man-months of reading their docs.

The biggest downside to OpenSMTPD is the portable version is weakly supported, so it's only useful if you are running it on OpenBSD, which is a shame, really, because it's probably what most people would prefer if they could run it on their preferred OS.
> if you’re the type of person who believes in Corporal punishment you’re probably not the type of person who is self reflective about it.

Where are you getting your data from for all these assumptions you're throwing out?

Like, one could say "If you're the type of person who swears a lot, you're probably not the type of person who is self reflective about it" with the exact same amount of confidence, yet be just as wrong (I myself volunteer to be the example which disproves the rule).

Often people are MOST self-reflective about their perceived flaws (before you potentially say that anyone with a flaw won't perceive it as one, I again volunteer to be the counterexample which disproves such a hypothetic rule)
FWIW, the spirit of daemontools lives on in the s6 project.

https://skarnet.org/software/s6/
Mmmm... getting flashbacks working on Java (generics just came out!) BEA WebLogic projects in Eclipse on Windows XP, configuring cruise control for our ant builds on some ancient Dell desktop in a closet.

Honestly, some things have changed, while others have stayed very similar.
No. Tech was not profitable back then. The only companies running at a profit then were the earlier generation of tech - oracle, adobe, Microsoft. Etc.
India isn’t ready for a deadly combination of heat and humidity
Well being able to read any book may alienate that problem. ;)
What is the point in doing anything? Why cook, isn't there already cooks that do that? Why program? Isn't there already programmers who program? Why do woodworking? Walmart sells chairs and other wood products? Why do pottery? I can go to Etsy and buy it? Why own a fish tank? There is an ocean with plenty of fish in it? Why garden? There are huge farms that do that?

What a silly question.
> Why is the techno-libertarian world so overwhelmingly obsessed with extreme individualism?

That's pretty much by definition. So-called "libertarian" and neoliberal posit that individuals are greedy yet emotionless rational actors.

Unsurprisingly, individuals with narcissistic tendencies flock to that.
160k in SV is basically the poverty line. Middle class starts somewhere at 300k.
Article that deform the reality to be more clickbaity.

Yes it is forbidden to eat 'at your desk', for obvious sanitary reasons, but I never seen it enforced.

But it is ok to eat in the workplace. More than that, company are supposed to provide a dedicated 'break' space with tap water access.

The root of the sanitary reason is obvious, you just have to see the regulation about restaurant and food serving places in France, even if a lot of people are sadly not respecting it.
Chrome is not the default browser on Windows yet massively dominates there with around 9x the usage of Firefox (and around maybe 6x the usage of the Windows default browser, Edge).
Enrollment probably lagged recovery a bit. Without studying graphs and so forth, I'd say things were getting back to a fairly even keel by 2004 or so in general.

>learn to code MOOCs

The VC phase of MOOCs and any great hopes for rethinking education access already pretty much flamed out. What's left is an often good and inexpensive educational resource but it's not much of a business anyway for the most part.
I do not see that much of an upward trend, how did you notice it?
Yeah, IMO if you want a rough idea about how much compute the human brain performs, and how efficiently you could do that in silicon, it's interesting to look at area V1 which is one of the lowest level areas involved in vision. This brain area comprises 140 million neurons per hemisphere (so roughly 280 million in total). So that's about 1/300 of the human brain.

The interesting thing here is, what V1 does is it computes directional receptive fields based on raw data from the retinas. We can implement that in a tiny silicon chip, maybe even just a DSP chip, not a full CPU. We know how to implement this kind of computation super efficiently, and without using neural networks.

We don't fully understand what goes on in many areas of the brain, but if we can find efficient ways to implement equivalent computations, we might technically already have sufficient manufacturing technology to implement equivalent functionality in a pretty compact and power-efficient form factor, or we might not be that far from there.

A classic quote from Dijkstra: "The question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim."
“Lemoine may have been predestined to believe in LaMDA. He grew up in a conservative Christian family on a small farm in Louisiana, became ordained as a mystic Christian priest, and served in the Army before studying the occult.”

I stopped reading after this.
> likewise, nice personalities aren't inherited, they're developed after birth

Arguing against my own article here, but what makes you sure? There's no gene for saying thank you, but there are very likely to be genes that affect broader dimensions of personality. In fact, the Big 5 are highly heritable. I'd say "genetics don't matter" is too strong, just lik "parenting doesn't matter".
I graduated ‘07. Computer science was seen as a reasonable, but sub-optimal, career path in terms of money and job opportunities. If you were optimizing for career you did pre-med. The CS classes were small (30 students) and consisted of people who were passionate about the field irrespective of making less money than doctors or other engineers.

Today the same school has huge classes (300 students) and many don’t have much talent or passion for the subject, but have been told that “people who want good jobs do CS.” It’s true new pre-med, in other words.
Would it be possible to mix multiple people/voices in a training set? Or does that confuse the AI? Could be interesting to create a real but kind of not real model. If that makes sense…
This site says 50% but the data is a bit old. I remember seeing other sites in the past year quoting percentages in the 90's.

https://www.integritylending.com/understanding-what-a-federa...
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31699090 18 hours ago
The problem I find with this line of reasoning is at the end of the evaluation I've disconnected from all networks and powered down the devices after uninstalling all of the operating systems.