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> In 40 years, we are reasonably likely to have: functional immortality (cured natural death)

This is laughable to the point where I suspect trolling/parody. Regardless, there should indeed be scientific advances ahead of us in the next 40 years. With the ongoing collapse in forward-looking fertility rates, there certainly better be.
I'm not sure what you mean by "dynamic scoring" here - maybe you mean a points based immigration system? The article is not about this. It's about how Congress scores legislation based on its economic impact, and is advocating for using a system called "dynamic scoring" for scoring immigration law. It has nothing to do with how workers are treated by companies.
It is not clear in the article who will keep debit cards as accepted forms of payment. At least for mobile providers who will still offer debit for payment in the future, you do not have to provide your bank account number. Though you do lose out on credit card benefits like points/rewards and the ease of disputing charges.

For those whose mobile providers will switch to only using bank account numbers for payments and want the ability to be able to block access to the account if that account number is somehow compromised, I would recommend looking into Qube Money [1]. Among many other awesome functions (like being a great budgeting tool), it allows you to create different “Qubes” (pronounced “cubes”, think digital cash envelope) that you place money in and allocate towards different bills. It’s similar to Privacy and Capital One’s virtual credit cards in that each Qube is assigned a unique debit card number. More importantly, each Qube gets its own bank account number. Closing a Qube and opening a new Qube with a new bank account number is easy. There are more great features, but I figure this was most relevant to the topic.

[1] https://qubemoney.com/
> These types of rules may have unintended consequences, for example requiring that you collect a street address before providing pricing.

They already do this. In fact, they will collect your street address before informing you whether they've run fiber to any part of your ZIP (postal) code.
> I feel like there are two Microsofts

Same with most companies. The business side tends to steer, resist and fight the creative side. The irony is that in the long run, these two are aligned.

Sad that higher management feels the need to use short-term mechanisms for profit at the expense of reputation and what's best for their users in the long run.
RMS also changed GPLv3 to specifically forbid exactly the kind of lawsuit being threatened in the commit message.
Indeed, it is an absolute masterpiece. That whole movie in general is but that scene is without equal.
At the scale of three comparisons, performance is equivalent enough that there's no gain.

At the scale of 5,000 comparisons, the language's structure itself heavily disincentivizes writing it as an OR query, unless you're using a code generator that doesn't care about language structure.

My wild guess is that it's a rare enough corner case that it wasn't worth burning the resources on yet.
This reminds me of the notorious Hanlon's razor, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Similarly, in cases where a company claims complexity, "Never attribute to inability via complexity that which is adequately explained by greed." Call it Corn's Razor, if you will. :)
> Naturally these were team-based metrics, because software development is a team activity.

Applying those same metrics to individuals is too tempting for a subpar manager. The data is right there!
> someone's going to shell cities with mustard gas or deploy a bioweapon or something

Everyone is already plenty capable of doing this. And it isn't treaties that hold them back. It's utility; absent a significant technological change, chemical and biological weapons are less effective than high explosives [1].

> won't be able to produce gas masks in time or treat victims

We certainly have and will for a retaliatory strike force. As well as for key sections of government and industry. Your hypothetical attack is the analogue of America's air strategy for the past fifty years: bombing civilians has never broken a country's fighting resolve alone.

> Geneva Convention is due for disruption

It's always been a loose agreement. And it's constantly being violated. Robotic arms don't significantly change the incentives for certain standards of behavior; if Russia and Ukraine were fighting with robots, instead of flesh-and-blood men, their strategic imperatives wouldn't drastically shift.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...
My trick is to get text messages/app notifications live when a credit card charge goes through (Chase at least supports this).

Then, I either dismiss the message, or deal with it immediately. I find this much easier than going over a statement at the end of the month. Usually the context for the charge is front and center, instead of and puzzling whether "AMZN MKTP US*TO10VLA93" is something I really bought 28 days ago or if someone used my CC.
If by successfully you mean time to market, for sure you are right.

C++ gives more return when you start to save in infra because you have a more efficient language, if coded properly. Same goes for Go vs Python.

The right tool for the right job. I would use (and will, I am on it) Django for a SaaS that I have for the backend. If things start to work relatively well, then, I will keep identifying, if there are, bottlenecks and migrate with a hybrid architecture parts of the workload to C++.

This allows me to save in infrastructure bills.
> A lot of those fees are not taxes or similar, but rather costs of doing business that an ISP has chosen to pass on to customers as separate fees so they can keep the headline price low.

This kind of fee hiding is already conclusively illegal for a variety of reasons and not at all what the FCC is discussing in this article.

This is much more akin to how, a grocery store might have to disclose a liquor tax as part of the sales price instead of the sales tax.
Why would insurers provide insurance to the bank, but not you? The issue is the house, not who is paying for the policy.
Good. Let ISPs charge flat fee without all that foolery with "surcharges".
Dude really said the quiet part out loud. Caste discrimination is just another kind of bigotry, like sexism and racism.
I mean sure, but there are certain appliances(like kettles) which really can't get any more efficient, so if you want to boil some water......3kW overall limit for the entire apartment is seriously limiting. Like, if someone is boiling water and another person uses a hair dryer, it will blow fuses?
Use another AI system to strobe a laser at the cameras of all the drones in the area and see if you can overwhelm their optics.
"An 8% Co-op Wellness service charge is added to all orders and is split 40/60 between employees+managers and the cooperative. It is not a tip."

Yeah, this is the kind of bullshit I'm talking about. It's a percent-based surcharge, so why can't they just increase their prices by 8%?

Prices on the menu are meaningless at this point. With sales tax, the "obligatory" tipping and these new bullshit fees you'd be closer to the real price by mentally doubling everything on the menu. How people put up with this shit is beyond me.
DupeGuru: Open-source, cross-platform GUI tool to find duplicate files
If you're trying to hint at some "it happens all the time, it's just hidden from public view", it doesn't.

Non-Indians literally don't care, and very (very) few Indians actually do (at least in Canada).
Barring absurd circumstances, so would the 2nd through the 10th life in the universe think this. After all, for them, there's barely any more existing life than for the 1st.

And, if instead we narrow it such that "the first life would think this for the first 100 years of its awareness that there might be more life out there"...

Then it also becomes true for the 11th through the 100,000th life born, because the first 100 years is also the almost certainly a low level of technology and of just not having spent enough time looking.

Thus, the fact that we say "it looks empty" does not do us any good in determining whether we are #1 or #100,000, or even higher still.

It sucks that we will be extinct soon, and didn't get to figure out which number (roughly) we are.
Today is actually my last day. If any sane companies have openings, please hit me up.
Yes, it isn't the cheapest way to do it, unless you are car camping anyway.

I didn't see where it said he was trespassing.
Every optimizing compiler does this kind of analysis and then some.

It's already completely unpredictable which kind of trivial optimization Postgres fails to apply, it could hardly get any worse.
I was expecting this to be about AI timelines or something. This is not very novel or interesting to me. Besides, it's not as if there's no plausible way to extend lifespans enough that I could live until 2123.
Infinite captcha loop on Firefox. Seems to be detecting Ad Blockers and refusing to serve when active.

Enshittification has apparently ensued.
UK air traffic control outage caused by unusual flight plan data
This reminds me of a recent complaint about some software which didn't work properly with a certain sync service, and the developer response was that the third-party service was buggy so it wasn't their problem.

Ok, but personally quite a lot of my job involves working around the bugs and quirks of old unmaintained Windows OSes. The customer rightly doesn't care, they just want your software to work. It is almost always possible to at least mitigate the problems of whatever buggy garbage hardware/software you have to deal with.
Ask HN: How to calculate SaaS COGS for production environment when DevOps
Hi all,
Curious to know how folks have been accounting for COGS for a SaaS service in an environment where the engineers responsible for maintaining production rarely actually touch production directly.

In the olden days, we would have a few engineers dedicated to managing production systems, and we would just use their time in the calculations. That was fine, because they spent much of their time looking at the bits, sometimes changing systems, and generally just being responsible for prod.

My current system is in the newish model where nobody actually touches production. All changes are software driven, logs are analyzed automatically with monitors, and generally only investigated when issues arise (detected or reported).

Anyone have a rationale for how to allocate the infrastructure teams time to production for this accounting exercise? I'm guestimating 50-50 split, prod verse non prod support (developer support), but I'd love to hear other POVs.
Thx.
Affirmative action does not eliminate discrimination, it enforces discrimination up to an arbitrarily defined standard.

Suppose you're applying to a company that's posted 10 openings and has already filled 7 of them, and that you belong to category A, and there's three more candidates who belong to category B. Suppose further that it can be objectively determined that you're a better fit for any of the openings than any of the other candidates, but the company has already filled its category A quota. You will be rejected because of your category, and the less capable candidates will be accepted also because of their category.

Note that it doesn't matter how the categories are defined in my example. Maybe you belong to a privileged (in the social justice sense) class, but it's equally possible that you belong to a disadvantaged class and the inept candidates belong to a privileged class.
I agree that there isn't much necessarily stopping a person succeeding due to the choice of language (unless it's some esoteric or otherwise unrealistic language).

Yahoo used C++ for instance (it would not be my choice, even though it's weakly statically-typed).

But, yea, like you said--there are tradeoffs.

I think dynamically-typed languages has the allure of letting you build quickly initially, but the downsides of dynamic typing start hitting pretty soon afterwrd.

I write a lot of small scripts in Python. It certainly is easier to throw something quickly together, especially when the data model is amorphous, with dynamic typing. But that doesn't mean I'd use Python for a large project.
It's more like 30-35% but yeah. Don't forget the credit card fee if you're using that, except that one actually makes sense since you can opt out.
This just needs to reframed so that political actors / governments can actually legislate this away.

The reality is that large SUVs do make everyone on the road less safe, and that should be impressed upon people buying these things. Buying an SUV might make you the driver safer, but your kids, neighbours, relatives etc. less safe.

People are more communally conscious than you give them credit…
Economists have been suggesting that the US should move to an H1B auction for decades.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/h1b-visa-lottery-auction-tech-w...

An auction would be good for everyone aside from companies that are abusing the system to get cheap labor that's basically trapped in the US.
Not believing in it does not make it false. We are all made of earth and after death we go back in earth and then born again. So in a sense reincarnation happens but without the memory.
Not providing all data requested would turn a civil matter into a criminal matter. "False statement to a Federal Investigator", etc.
Lawful Interception (LI)
Yep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_transaction
For certain games it's still borked. Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines is among my favorites and it's unplayable.
I've never seen an RV park that would allow you to take a powered spot without paying. Unless it is unstaffed, I don't think you'd get by with it.

Doing so is trespassing and theft. I didn't see where he said that he did that, just that the power wasn't metered.

TBH, even with that, I've seen RV parks that would refuse a paying EV customer for various reasons.
Kind of painting a bad picture on getting lost in the journey of dreams IMO. The relaxing, enjoying small moments is just getting lost in that. It's probably closer to a balance and just living committed to your decisions, no ragrets. If I went fully one way or the other I probably would be wishing I attempted the other a bit more.
They started as evil and dumb, and they've stayed that way. Abolish the CIA.
There is literally no plausible way to extend your lifespan another 100 years.
I'll have to look into it. I switched back and haven't attempted to switch again but it really was so nice.
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Airbnb is a great example of a terrible experience that just keeps getting worse. It makes my M1 Mac, my 32 core workstation and my top of the line android device chug.
My case is more about motivating smart people to come into US. Current system is broken.

Immigration system is byzantine and unpredictable. Person can even get kicked out with very short notice. And frankly salary in US quite often does not even cover expenses (rent, insurances, taxes...).

Semiconductor engineer from Taiwan has options in mainland China, Singapore, UAE... If you count expenses (living, travel and legal), cultural values, taxes... This engineer may actually make more money outside of US!
Pioneertown in CA is about 10 blocks by 5.

But yeah, most are much smaller.
> Are kids just not worth what they used to be?

I think this is a big part of it. As much social pressure as there is to have kids today, it seems reduced from how it was even a single generation ago.

Raising kids is expensive[1], time consuming, and in general a pain-in-the-ass. With reduced social (and even legal) pressure to stay married, and increased expectations of a career for women (without any accompanying reduced expectations for men), it's entirely unsurprising to myself that many opt-out of it.

1: Mandatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/946/
Scrum sucks when people ignore why they are using it and decide to use it just because everyone else is. indifference is usually the root cause of broken scrum. No one speaking up and saying 'lets fix this'. Things piled on for no real reason but not thrown out when they are shown to just be in the way. Throw in a 'bad actor' and yeah it can really suck but then the whole job will anyway no matter what your process. No one really wants to work with a grumpy person. That is not the fault of scrum that is a organization/people problem.
Fujifilm and IBM Develop 50TB Native Tape Storage System
I wish they would stop with the trade protection bullshit, and just allow people to import European cars to the US, and vice versa.
Why would a bill be a problem? Is this not about upfront advertising?
Even in case of multi century poisoning, the affected area is small. The more radioactive the isotope, the faster it decays, so the poisoning isn’t really multi century. Chernobyl, the worst accident to date, is negligible in terms of poisoned area, and environmental impact. Orders of magnitude less than poisoning from fossil fuels.
Your point simply doesn’t stand scientifically. It’s an ideological position, fueled by fear and disinformation. If we had other options, maybe, but we are against the climate change wall, and Germany is the perfect example of what’s wrong with your reasoning. So, tell me, when do you think Germany energy policies are going to shine, with actual CO2 numbers? In 20 years? 50 years? I believe it’s never going to shine, because it doesn’t work if you do the math. Wind turbines and solar energy aren’t going to fulfill all energy needs alone, for many reasons. We’d need orders of magnitude more, not to mention energy storage. Germany has built lots of them, it’s been at least 20 years, and they are still very very far from being clean. As I said they are the worst after Poland. How can you even argue?
Powerful people should not enjoy the same privacy guarantees that regular citizens do. They are there to represent us, and we deserve to know if they are incapable of doing that, whether because of health reasons or because they are in the pocket of lobbyists.

Agreed that a random pharmacist, with unknown motivations, should be disclosing any of this. The doctor who prescribed the meds should be (a) encouraging the representative to resign; (b) disclosing it to a proper authority; (c) disclosing to the news media if nothing is done.
> It enables the US to weaken other countries by draining away their intellectual capacity

Are you implying that if they don't emigrate they'll be properly utilized in a way that is a threat to the US's current hegemony? If so, why aren't these countries doing that now?
> But other than taking a few photos of holiday mementos and lens-flaring sunsets, what’s the point?

OT, but for me the point is not having my body absolutely panic from experiencing all kinds of rotation and sudden lateral displacement without anything happening visually. Honestly, I have no idea how people fly anywhere else, I wouldn’t be able to. The speeds and forces experienced even on a calm commercial flight are, as far as human evolution goes, total nonsense.
I suppose they mean you won't need a drone pilot, which takes training and takes a soldier off the battlefield in terms of them needing to have on a headset and can't fire a conventional weapon at the same time. I don't think it will come to the war so quickly though, it's the least of the problems at the moment for Ukraine that badly needs long range missiles, mine clearing equipment and F16s.
Apple has been pretty clear that GPT is there so you can get an idea of how well your game would run on macOS, not to actually ship games with it. The license doesn't allow for that.
> I saw simulated incest, bestiality, extreme bondage, sex with unconscious women, gangbangs, sadomasochism, and unthinkable physical violence.

I have been online for quite some time and never seen most of that list.

I think some of those can't even be found on the major sites.
I'm split on this. In the case where they need someone who has specific local knowledge and connections in the foreign locale they're serving, it makes sense. But I fear this would still be used to hire full-stack devs at non-profits for $65,000/year.
Really interesting to see Microsoft doubling down on joining the vendors who push "browser toolbars" for Windows.

While.. ok, this kind of adware is now a little harder to infect with, because it's not

> digitally signed by Microsoft

The interesting thing about adware is that society as a whole behaves absolutely indifferent, as if people see 1984 like the logical continuation of TV ads. And to be honest, that's what it is, right?
>Maybe for you, but the value proposition isn’t there for me. There’s no indication that the world is willing to fix its global problems (climate change, housing problems and etc.), why would I also subscribe my child to this “fun”? It is weird to write that sentence, as I am generally a fairly optimistic person. But “let me sacrifice a ton, for a decent chance of misery of myself and my offspring” doesn’t sound right to me.

Let me offer a different perspective. Whenever I see your sentiment - that you are choosing to not have kids because the world sucks and you don't see us solving anything - my immediate reaction is that you deserve no voice whatsoever in how the rest of us decide to solve those problems. No voting, no representation, nothing. Having kids, in a sense, is a bet that we'll figure things out one way or another. You've made your bet, and are exiting the conversation because you don't have skin in the game (literally).

That might sound harsh, but it's essentially just the inverse of your sentiment justifying not having kids in the first place because of overwhelming pessimism about the future.
Xbox is fun example because they hit some peaks and then actively got worse. The Xbox 360 was somewhat focused on being your living room hub and for many years tried to actually get people to use Windows Media Center, and supported its own and general Media Center remotes. (I used it for streaming some things.) It also had a bunch of support for many TVs that used custom HDMI protocols (pre-HDMI-CEC).

The original Xbox One with bundled Kinect was the peak of their integration attempt before "gamer outrage" crippled and then killed its efforts. It supported HDMI-CEC some but it also truly had "universal remote" capabilities as it could use the Kinect's IR depth sensor as an IR blaster to send commands to almost anything that uses a traditional IR remote. It had a big database of IR commands and also could use the IR depth sensor to watch and try to learn any IR remote you pointed at it. On top of that it also had a port on the back to connect a normal IR blaster if you needed to send signals to hardware that wouldn't catch a blast from the Kinect or just wanted to disconnect the Kinect for a bit but still have TV/sound system/cable box control.

That Xbox One also had an HDMI passthrough and could picture-in-picture with something like a cable box. (It also support picture-in-picture from some apps at the time.)

The original on-device-only voice recognition with the Kinect was great and "Xbox, Volume Up" was something I used all the time on the original Xbox One until Cortana took over the voice recognition and made it far more cumbersome.

The OneGuide was an interesting attempt to show you a mixture of your TV/Cable grids and highlighted content from streaming apps you had installed. It would let you jump to channels on TV or Cable just as easily as launching something like Hulu straight into a show.

Almost all of those features were eventually shutdown or left to slowly break in the drastic post-launch retooling from the "gamer outrage" that the Xbox One was "gamer-focused enough" and their pressure that the Xbox should be "only for games". (The Xbox One and Xbox Series still support rudimentary HDMI-CEC, but in my experience it is hit-and-miss and definitely nowhere near as well supported as the "universal remote" stuff.)
The first colour Playdate game?