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Infrastructure is essentially a rounding error on most developed countries state expenditures. In many cases it's even self-sustaining due to licensing agreements with companies that managed the infrastructure in return for the toll revenue.

The idea that the primary purpose of taxes is to provide infrastructure hasn't been true ever.

The bulk of expenditures are social welfare programs and other similar handout and wealth transfer programs intended to punish the successful and reward the failures for political purposes.

Social security, healthcare, education often comprise over 50% of expenditures in most first world countries. Interest and debt are also another major expenditure.

The "core responsibilities of the state" , that is the military, justice system and internal security, infrastructure usually consume less than 20% of government expenditures.
Hey.com includes a hosted blog as an extension to its core email hosting: https://www.hey.com/world/

E.g., here is DHH's blog: https://world.hey.com/dhh
I loved running Linux in college and tried every new (or old) distribution and compiled oh so much stuff and fiddled with every new (or old) thing I could find to fiddle with and thought it was super cool to write config files by hand and be able to read and modify all the source to everything I was running. As you point out, this was an excellent learning experience for me.

I kept doing that for awhile after I graduated, but eventually I realized it wasn't a good learning experience anymore, it was just a tedious waste of my time. I realized I should have been socializing or recreating outdoors or reading or picking up new hobbies if I wasn't working. Since then I've mostly used Macs or Linux machines maintained by the company I work for, and this is definitely a much better use of my time.

There are only so many fundamentals to learn here before it becomes just so much minutia and non-essential complexity.
I'm really confused where you're getting your numbers from. One month of $140k salary, post tax, gets you less than 4 months of studio rent + food around here (Seattle suburbs). Sure, you're not on rations the moment you're laid off, but it's not necessarily "safe" or a good feeling. And absolutely not a "very very very very long time".

Add a car payment, car insurance, and you're probably looking at 3 months.

Edit: that's also not supposed to imply that folks only have a single month's worth of salary saved. Just trying to highlight that your comment had some wonky numbers.
One weird thing about ChatGPT is that it consistently feels like a B+ student, at everything you ask it. Its never top of the class, but its answers seem skilled enough to get by.

I've seen this asking about my own field (CRDTs), asking it to write comedy sketches, and with some of the academics I know asking it the sort of essay students they'd ask their students.

I wonder if its somehow doing this on purpose - like if its pitching its answers to be the most "middle of the pack" from all of its training data.
> The goal and main purpose of ads is to go beyond the narrow limits of real needs and create new ones that did not exist before.

Citation very much needed. Advertising is everything. If you own a small business, your sign is an ad. If you were a traveling cobbler in colonial America, your wagon was an ad.
What a beautiful experience. Finally realizing what I've missed all these years damn
> would you make the case that they have learned how to paint

Well, you’re assuming that “painting” is the physical act of moving a brush on canvas.

But that’s already not true. Plenty of people graduate art school with degrees, despite doing everything on a computer. Are they “painters”? Well, no, but they are artists.

And if you’re talking about a program for artists, where the work is judged on artistic merit (composition, concept, etc), I don’t think it matters what mediums are used.

But if we’re narrowly focused on something more like sign painting, where what matters is brush technique and conforming to customer expectations, sure, AI will reduce the need for such people and will allow those who exist to “cheat”. But who cares?
Probably most of it. I mean the name itself is already highly misleading.

"Theory of mind" is some ill defined form of social intelligence and not actually a theory of how the mind works.
Alternative powertrains dominate the bus world
>Looking through history art has always been commercial - it's just the audience that changes.

Well, not exactly in the same way. Commercial is not about "catering to an audience", it's about catering to mass audiences, and the compromises that entails.

For example, an "artistic" indie group catering to just a tiny minority is not just "as commercial" as a pop production, unless we stretch the term beyond recognition).

There's a huge difference in attitude and approach. The artistic group would rather lose money than incorporat some elements that aren't in their vision. A pop artist on the other hand would more often than not just do whatever the producer or writing team wants to get on the fads of the day and sell more.

It's not just the audience that changes, but the methodology, the marketing involved, the perception of their work by the artist, and most importantly the lack of the kind of defiance that characterized artists who'd rather lose lots of money and stay poor than compromise on their vision (or who even made a point of not selling out on purpose).
I hope more open source projects support it.

Most repos I check out still have only docker specific commands…

Even though most things are similar, the differences in e.g networking (for example host.docker.internal vs host.containers.internal) create lots of Issues for me
But until the phone(s) sell, definitely contribute to OSM, like the other commenter said!
Hi Adam, can you update your Discord invite? It's now invalid.
It seems the post is down:

https://stats.uptimerobot.com/RLZ25tGzKx

it also happened the last time I posted something here, here is the backup:

https://vitovan.com/jack.html
I haven’t had issues with rootless networking but I run pretty simple apps. I gave up on podman-compose though and run individual commands to create podman objects. Once rootless containers are in the same pod you can access other containers in the same pod over localhost
Yay, an anarchist calling for more regulation.
Medium is such a poor blogging platform that you need every post rehosted on archive sites so people can actually read them.
Just realized: advertising is over, and has been for a few years.

How many people here see any ads? And if you watch someone without adblock or money to spend on ad-free versions of stuff, they just ignore them entirely because their attention span has already been destroyed.

The big spending ads on social media are "one weird trick" type stuff. Occasionally something breaks though and we're forced to see a subway station takeover or some other embarrassing attempt at relevance.

But overall, ads are a joke now. They're either something to be ignored as part of bottom tier "products" or they are bypassed.

So while I realize the surface of the web has been destroyed by advertising, and it's now just a kind of toxic wasteland, basically everyone has moved underground and is ok. The only thing I worry about is how it all gets paid for once companies collectively realize nobody cares about ads. Are there really enough "podiatrists hate her" gimmicks to keep paying for FAANG et al?
Many enterprise apps do integrate with Active Directory for user and group management, and even in app permissions. This is common with SCIM (http://www.simplecloud.info/) a standard API registered with the IETF.

The document organization part sounds laudable - but the products in this area in the past like Sharepoint have not found many fans.

I’m curious about your strategy to onboard both customers and developers. As a dev working on a SaaS, why would I want to build on top of 1Place versus outsourcing enterprise integration via WorkOS? Something like WorkOS seems much less likely to interpose in the relationship between my SaaS and my customers, and much less likely to “Sherlock” me.

Usage based billing in SaaS has a lot of appeal but is also scary to the seller. You don’t want to lose deals because your price is so high for incidental users, but on the other hand you do really want to get payed for all the value your app brings the customer regardless of how many/few minutes they actually need to use the product.

I wish you the best - I think figuring out that usage based billing part could be a big draw.
I'm so glad to see you say this, because I also do it. I thought I was the only one, but I see it as part of my job responsibilities to be "say my say" in an honest, polite way. Especially towards management, telling people what the consequences of their decision are(good or bad).
Many Hollywood composers outsource orchestration as well, often due to time constraints. John Williams is perfectly capable of orchestrating his work, but often doesn't. I understand he leaves very detailed notes for those who do, however.
docker desktop certainly runs some type of linux in a vm to support the containers you run in it. So it's certainly possible, probably just need to do some research.
I think it is entirely up to the person. I know people who are insanely productive on linux, I am. But I also know people who get so distracted by customization, they never seem to get anything done other than, "check out how I got vim to look today!"

Some people get stuck down the customization/r/unixporn rabbit hole.
The focus on communication over skills, capabilities, and curiosity has opened a door for fraudulent executives, not to mention it’s ableist.

There is an unaddressed problem of jargon spew, florid business speech which has become pervasive at executive levels inherently destructive to goals.

Particularly in startup and scientific organizations where every dollar matters. Persons who appear productive by volunteering for basic tasks which should be done by an administrative assistant. Productivity by empty volume not relevance or need. Passing on or delegating even basic technical tasks, advocating against fundamental safeguards simply because they do not want to deal with them.

I am not against learning as you go and this is not what i am referring to. These executives and managers are not ones who just have gaps, they are ones that don’t know and refuse to learn even basic concepts well known by high school students or college freshmen. Concepts which would take less than a minute to look up and understand.

They micromanage, take credit for work they have not done, and ultimately will cause your best talent to leave.

This article and those like them self-help fluff. We need to get back to our roots, allowing the fluff of executive culture to pervade instead of fostering creative tinkering has set us so far back. When did handicapping ourselves become the norm?
Ya know, if nothing else, the whole Bing AI debacle has generated the phrase “I have been a good Bing.” Probably getting their name in such a meme-able phrase is the most exposure Bing has gotten… ever? What’s a more memorable Bing event?
Intel: Pat Gelsinger’s Struggles
Most math classes are taught without graphing calculators and when they are used it is minimal. This is fundamentally different. This literally is being people trying to substitute actually know or successfully being evaluated to do anything. The advocates of “bringing down higher education with AI” also consider competence to be “ableism”.
A beginner can use anything but if you’re using Clojure professionally, you should aspire to using the good tools.

Also, emacs isn’t really more complex to use than IntelliJ or Eclipse
The problem with such criminalization is that it disincentivizes getting tested.
Is the implication supposed to be that we should just have stuck with the N word and the F word because whatever we replaced them with would eventually come to be used the same way as the original words?
RISC-V SoC and Snapdragon 8 Gain Mainstream Linux Compatibility
Cows basically don’t exist in the wild, I think. So saying “cows” is fairly understood to mean that.

I’m not sure there’s much confusion if someone were to say that “coal is contributing to climate change.“
Short term, this is a problem.

Long term, the bar will simply be raised. Smart/motivated kids armed with AI will still outperform the ones who don’t study, and will be graded accordingly.

This will only be a problem so long as AI help is considered cheating, and until teachers are able to recalibrate their standards.
What you’re describing sounds a lot like what Rich Hickey described as “hammock driven development”, and I tend to agree/relate. Almost all of my big leaps doing anything happen after I’ve taken a break from the thing I’m focused on, and I often come back with not just a better solution to the task but a good sense of how a bunch of other things are interrelated to either the problem or the solution or both.
> Nobody like taking handouts and they'd much rather take care of their own families instead.

This hypothesis has been demonstrably untrue for a long time now. UN reports from 2019-2022 consistently found Finland and Denmark to be the two happiest countries on Earth [1] and their governments provide some of the strongest welfare programs of any country [2].

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model#Nordic_welfare_...
Debugging is easy when you know you are coding incorrectly.

But why would Polish have a different path separator? That's a filesystem choice not a language choice.
On the other hand, maybe the only population size sufficient to have a high level of concurrence in thought is 1 individual. Maybe there are weird effects going on with individual preferences as population gets small. Consider you and a spouse deciding on dinner, you want pasta they want tacos. Complete disagreement. Imagine you now have a kid, they want tacos too. Maybe given the population size, you soften your convictions on the pasta, and opt for the tacos since the majority is leaning that way. A phenomenon like this, whether it is real or not, would screw up the small pop is more agreeable model, for example.
This all seems very unlikely to me. Better tools have always made humans more useful, just doing different things. I do think it's interesting to consider whether there is some singularity where that trend dramatically reverses (Vonnegut's Player Piano is one of my favorite books...), but I think the better prior is that this is just another step up the abstraction ladder for humanity.
Have you been able to configure it so it doesn't have an enormous Bing search bar in your new tab page? I know you can change search providers, but the new tab page seems to be hardcoded to Bing with no way to change it.

(No, using a plugin/extension to do this doesn't count, IMO.)
Rowling would absolutely be within her rights to make such a change. Whether or not the result is something people would want to read, and whether or not the result offends people, is a different thing.
Oh my goodness, I just looked through your submission history to find your website, clicked through to a random page, and I was blown away by how fast the page loaded. I love it.
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> you can force all libraries to buy the new edition

I'm sorry, what now?

My local library here in Western Australia has a second edition of Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (1860, 3000 copies).

There's been no pressure that I'm aware of to acquire the first, third, fourth, fifth or sixth editions or the numerous translations that I'm aware of - many of these are carried by other libraries.

Who is going around libraries forcing them to get more recent editions?
Gotta start somewhere - would love for anyone to add some more.
there was a magic touchpad driver for windows under bootcamp, worked quite well.
Software development isn't really about just acquiring and memorising knowledge to later spit out. You need reasoning, logic and creativity. That AGI can develop complex new software (not just some code that has been scraped of the internet years ago) in 10 years is something I doubt.
I don’t understand how because a mathematical technique has existed since the 1800s, it makes sense to use it in a physics setting. This does not seem like an argument.

Also, you say that his calling the Karpus and Kroll result a fraud is “libel,” but the paper references “Karplus and Kroll confessed that they had not independently reached the same result; instead, they had reached a consensus result.”

There’s even a Feynman quote saying, “It turns out that near the end of the calculation, the two groups compared notes and ironed out the differences between their calculations, so they were not really independent.”

You seem to be trying to discredit this paper. Why is that so? Trying to frame it as “libel”, in particular, is quite ridiculous in this setting and seems to betray some personal wish for the author to be punished for his audacity of criticizing physics research.
Why would you even need jobs in this case? Also why does everyone think we live in some magical fairy in which the majority of people with advanced knowledge of a subject are doing so without higher education. Do these people really think everyone is an autodidact? If that was the case, why would they need to cheat on their courses?
For me 2023 is exactly like 2003 from this point of view: a dynamic DNS account with inadyn/ddclient to refresh it when the IP changes, and it's almost like having a static IP.

Even better if you have e.g. a Linode or any server with a public IP that can run Wireguard or OpenVPN. Then you can run your own VPN server, configure your DNS, and connect to anything from anywhere.

Yggdrasil (https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/) is also another interesting IPv6-based solution - I have played with it a bit, but I still prefer to use my VPN, and do nginx reverse proxy from my Linode to my network over VPN when needed.
> The argument that advertisements provide us with information that we would not have otherwise also appears unsubstantiated. This may have been true before the internet, but we no longer need advertisements to stay informed. A quick and easy internet search can provide us with all the information we might require about a particular product.

Uhh... what? All google search results have always been ads. Even when it's not paid search results, the network effect that causes a page to rank high is the result of marketing.
Advertising only became perfidious and ubiquitous after the Soviet Union and it's glorious jihad against class exploitation ended of course, or so implies the author.
The Lonely Search for Purpose
I find the ratio doesn't change, but the trickiness of the bugs gets more complicated as you solve harder problems and avoid previously unknown problems.
I feel like I could have written that. Did ChatGPT copy old blog posts of mine? ;-)
Newton was right that you could turn lead into gold, but it wasn't his fault that nuclear science needed to advance a few hundred years before someone ran that actual experiment.
> Will this filter cut many of the best engineers?

It won't cut out a single good engineer, let alone the best.

> I'd assert that the engineer who doesn't assume an unspoken implication, but instead qualifies their answer, or tells you when they cannot answer, or asks for clarification... is more likely to be the one who can make a system that works, and tell you when a system will not work.

You grouped the one option that a bad engineer would take, with several that a good engineer would take. "Tells you when they cannot answer" is not what a good engineer does.

They may say "I cannot answer question as-is" as a jump off for clarification.

In fact in my response to your sibling comment I explain that even if there were no interesting bugs you can give an answer that isn't lying, or pulling engineering out of your ass, or dishonest.

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But flat out refusing or immediately jumping to "well but I can't remember everything!!!!" is still you interpreting subtext... except you've now interpreted the most negative possible subtext. You've assumed your interviewer is asking you to recall things you can't recall and that there is no further room for discussion.

A poor engineer is one that shuts completely down at the first hint of a broken invariant, rather than trying to surface that there is an invalid invariant, or learn more about the broken invariant.

That kind of curiosity to go further than shutting down is what the question is meant to tease out, so you're not beating the system by deciding not to engage, instead you're sending the exact signal being looked for as something to avoid bringing into your organization.
> having managers who are collectively answerable to those ten employees through the share ownership structure has been tried

How does that work? As in the employees are owners but the managers aren't?
It doesn't immediately give you attribution, but like any other clue, it could contribute to an evidence base that eventually leads to a suspect. Again, this is basic criminology, and you're a security researcher. Why are you suddenly unable to make these connections?
I strongly recommend The Century of the Self, an incredible documentary about the rise of advertising. It has its flaws, but it gives a really powerful lens for understanding how we got here.

I reviewed it briefly here: https://superbowl.substack.com/p/links-for-september
I think what an LLM is best at is fooling people into thinking it’s intelligent. It is really good at saying things in a natural sounding way, and statistically often getting it right, because certain strings of tokens are encoded. But it’s clear when you start poking that it just as easily tells you that 5/2=3, or that 2+2 != 4. it doesn’t model math or any sort of knowledge at all.
Back in my first job we had a database which worked fine in testing, worked fine on the customer’s server… then started crashing a week later.

Turns out their MS SQL Server install was configured for MM-DD-YYYY output which only crashed when we reached the 13th of the month. Important lessons were learned that day!
> Another major method [of scheduling endless growth] is the artificial creation of previously non-existing needs and desires to extract ever-increasing rents. This is commonly referred to as advertising.

The premise of this is flawed on a few counts, but I'll just point out that what the author is referring to here is marketing, of which advertising is only a part.
How can you possibly say this when google is making billions purely from advertising? One of the biggest companies in the world, whose biggest revenue stream, by an absolutely massive margin, and still growing, is ads.

I think you forget that we live in a bubble here and we do not generalise out to the rest of the population.