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All the problems you describe are problems of biosphere carrying capacity. If technological advancement continued to the point that humans transcended biology, we would no longer need soil or fish, suffer from PFAS or nitrate pollution, etc. Now, I am not suggesting this is any imminent development myself, I only pointing out that it is very often viewed as part of the "problem to be solved".
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Right, but this piece did not focus on the data and instead of pulled specific examples out. I think it would have been more convincing to at least speak more on the numbers, compare it to the US averages and look at different industries within the US. If I take the BLS average of missed days and other, 2.7 is higher then what I think is the 2.2 average that spacex has across different sites. I am not saying that means SpaceX is a safe place to work but we should dive into those details more to get a better picture.

Worker deaths will always exist, sometimes due to unsafe practices and sometimes the fault of the worker. Every 101minutes a worker dies in the US. This is why OSHA exists.
Ask HN: Do you want to live to 1,000?
Are you also disappointed that our technology has not substantially extended our lifespans yet?
Seems to go hand-in-hand too with his later recounting that he had no further interest to go back to the moon to walk on it; he was there to "beat the Russians" and loved his family too much to risk his life to "go pick up some rocks." From all accounts, he was clearly an extremely brilliant man with a sense of purpose, skill, and courage aplenty to go along with it. Glad the US put his talents to good use!
McDonalds offers the BigMac just the same as in the US, the Royale is a different burger
Install Chrome (.deb), install JetBrains toolbox / IDE’s (.tar.gz). These are not available via the package manager. And there is a ton more stuff like that.
I think it's a surprise that that password is going off device. The default mail app traditionaly and sensibly is a local only client and and "sync" features have not behaved in this fashion in the past.
If you are referring to coal, the answer isn't regulation, it's ending burning it completely.
Collins’ autobiography Carrying the Fire is also an excellent book to get a feel of the 1960ies. Like four (out of twelve?) people dying during training because, well it's a really hard training. In 2023 if so much as one person gets an injury then the project is suspended for years until a committee decides it is safe again.
> I can't imagine what it would be like at 100 if I make it that far.

The few elderly I know of who approached that age and were reflective enough told me they just ended up letting go. And they were actually happier.

Being sufficiently well-off is probably helping ;)
Well likely plateau at population of ~10B.

We have finite livable land on this planet. As we all consume more resources and energy per capita, live longer, there’s only so many humans we can sustain.

The 1900s looked like exponential, but any finite system ends up as an S curve.

We’re at an S curve.

There’ll never be too few humans unless an asteroid hit , nuclear Armageddon or a virus wiping out large parts of humanity.

What’s happening now is most population centers are finding their balance of population they want to sustain.
...And Jim got into the Telecommunications business before all the consolidation stuff and made himself a significant sum of money along with it!
What happens to lonely people under anesthesia?
Static vs dynamic types are whatever.

Weak typing is what causes all sorts of issues.

With dynamic strong types, you can still have a tool like dialyzer figure out potential type issues before shipping, but weak typing means anything goes.
>"He's always gotten what he wants"

[citation needed]
Ever wonder why?
Seems like a reasonable take but I do have one comment:

> Adult content was definitely present, but it was a single-digit percentage of posts at the time of Tumblr's peak historical traffic levels.

Single-digit percentage is a lot for adult content. I have to imagine that's a larger share of percentage than Twitter has ever had for adult content.
Wtf is a xeet...?
Lol, amazing to see history repeat itself over and over again
Why do you expect that here?
The unions aren't striking about labour practices in the US, but in Sweden. That's what this is about. Chinese workers will have to form their own unions, I'm afraid.
> Which wouldn't matter, except a whole bunch of billionaires are in the headlines right now because they pay too much attention to people like me.

While I think Stross is right on the money with this article, I would hope that the 'like' is doing a lot of heavy lifting here; last thing we need is some idiot billionaire summoning demons (as was, indeed, basically the plot of at least one Laundry Files book...)

> And no tour of the idiocracy is complete without mentioning Mark Zuckerberg, billionaire CEO of Facebook, who blew through ten billion dollars trying to create the Metaverse from Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash

IIRC Zuckerberg actually claimed to have been inspired by Rainbow's End. Presumably, in some alternate universe, taking inspiration from Vernor Vinge's other, better books, Facebook instead spent billions trying to make irritating talking spiders.
They don't and they haven't since the 80s. The military needs reliability in harsh conditions above all else and modern processes can't deliver that. The military also doesn't care about the economic benefits of die shrinks so that driver is missing.
As a swede I have commented it in the other thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38190600) but this is basically a legalized mafia from the unions.

The workers don't want the union, they have better terms right now. They are not on strike. You may then say, well it's because they are afraid but in Sweden most employees are in a union agreed employment contract and it is very illegal to prevent employees from engaging with an union or go on strike like this.

The issue here is that the union wants in because that is how they make money and now they are becoming less relevant because they care more about themselves and their political power which is extensive in Sweden. They don't really care about the workers here in my experience. They exclude members based on political affiliations and make bad deals.

I hope Tesla do not give up this fight and just continues on because this is shit behavior from shit organisations. I like the idea of unions but in Sweden they have completely forgotten what their purpose is.

Everyone who downvotes, please explain who they are fighting for in this case? The Tesla workers are not on strike, they say openly to journalists that they have never had better terms. The people who actually need to be unionized (young people working in service jobs like restaurants) seldom are and is getting exploited on a daily basis in Sweden since there is no minimum wage.

Here is an article if you don't believe me:

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vast/trots-strejken-teslas...
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There's plenty wrong with containers.
What if we replace guns and bullets with bows and arrows? (2022)
To expand on this, Emacs uses a system called "faces" to draw different textual elements, for example font-lock-comment-face to draw comments. Faces can have different attributes, like font family, foreground colour, background colour, having a box around it,...

So if I want to use a variable pitch font (like say... DejaVu Sans) to draw comments, I can set the font-lock-comment-face to use the "DejaVu Sans" family.
"Think of the chil^H^H^H^Hinexperienced engineers! We must save them from PHP and Python!"

Enough pearl clutching. No one's mind was "ruined".
> owing in no small part to significant regulation that keeps it that way

What regulation keeps it that way?
It's probably NOT that uncommon, but modern civilization allows so many creature comforts for the ultra-rich that they feel literally in heaven. They get the best of everything, almost instantly. Luxurious cars, an army of help, private planes, the latest technology, privacy and large mansions, beautiful partners, and the non-stop adulation and drooling over by the public.

It's trivial to develop the god complex with that kind of life and the desire to prolong it as much as possible. They know what they have, and they want to keep it forever. Why hedge on the unproven promise of eternal life if you can live in paradise already?

https://theweek.com/science/the-billionaire-led-quest-for-im...

Not surprisingly, it's the kind of people who, if allowed to eternally accumulate wealth and power, will eventually cause catastrophic damage to humanity if they feel not adored enough. Many don't even need multiple lifetimes do get there.

Wozniak's point of view is very uncommon in the rarefied slice of the population that he inhabits.
No, it's just hackernews
Language barriers are another reason. Most of the time I can communicate in English just fine, but if I am to contact a tech support guy/gal from India I very much prefer text chat :-D
Smithers, we will move the plant to the only place people are more desperate: Springfield!

Mr. Burns to Smithers after Homer accidently brought labor unions to India.
I am aware of the history. It is however a term that does not translate neatly to english, and in the context of the "Scandinavian model" with free, as in no payment, education, healthcare, and social security - it is already a loaded term, that an editor of an English newspaper very well know, that carry a preconceived notion.
Epic has lots of games that aren't published to Steam. They seem to be doing fine.
> Many webmail services offer this, but the difference is that the Windows program is a local program, not a cloud service.

Is it really? The comments on the original Heise article mention that Heise actually misunderstood it and it's basically just a link to the web interface in the task bar so it's not a local app.
The cost of GC is only high as in the cost of living in modern society is. Sure, you can technically live in the forest and build/hunt/harvest everything for yourself, but unless you have very specific reasons for that, having a house and going to the supermarket is the sane default option.
So maybe the problem is actually the measurement, GDP, and market structure, etc.

Actually making things that people need is obviously a large and essential part of 'the economy', and, well, what people actually need, even if it is 'a small percentage of GDP' or other economic/market measurements.
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The tech sector will also start to have unions.

Just look at Klarna.

I'm dev and the company I work for has union contracts.

This has the nice bonus of me getting 5 days extra an year because we work 40h but we should not so we get AFK time.
I love the Marcus Aurelius one!
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> If technological advancement continued to the point that humans transcended biology

That's a few decades in the future at least, but biodiversity and climate change is on a way faster scale.

That's the problem with the futurist mindset in a large part of tech culture - we need action now.
"I’ve learned that it is so important not to get lost in the weeds of everyday life. If today sucked, oh well. There’s always tomorrow. And at least on our bad days, we still have people around us who love us, help us, and want the best for us. I’ve learned to savor each moment, and I’ve learned to be thankful, because things can very quickly change.

But most importantly, I’ve learned that when I leave this earth for a better home someday, the only thing I’ll take is what I gave away."

It's from a blog but it was touching for me
From what I understand, solidarity like these are illegal in the US under the Taft–Hartley Act of 1947. (Many other countries as well.) So you aren’t going to see such things at home until there are some pretty drastic changes in federal politics.
Some forced labour camps are even worse than that! Nothing to see here, just move on!
I think if this is the biggest problem you have at your job, you are fine.
How do you train someone not to do stupid sh*t like that?

What’s saying that employee didn’t go through H&S training?

I get the legalities, it’s just a fringe case to the extreme, and conflation of that case to imply some wider problem.

Reads like a hit piece.
> This is not very informative at all, (...)

It seems reading comprehension isn't your forte. Here's the very first paragraph of the article you're accusing of not being very informative.

> The main reason for IF Metall to take industrial action at Tesla is to ensure that our members have decent and safe working conditions. Over a long period of time, we have attempted to discuss with Tesla the signing of a collective agreement, yet without success. Now we see no solution other than to take industrial action.

What exactly do you struggle to understand?
Apple Translate does not support swedish.

Apple One in sweden als does not have fitness+ for example.

Don't ask me why...

So I'm using google translate on my iphone...
Also, if a manned mission to mars goes awry with a catastrophic failure due to cutting corners and carelessness Oceangate-style, we will probably see a massive slowdown and cut funding in space exploration in the future due to the bad publicity.
> iOS/Apple translate doesn't support Swedish.

The translators unions probabaly
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Website completely broken without WebGL:
"Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)."

It displayed for a moment but then failed. I guess Progressive Enhancement is no longer cool.
>What made them big in the first place were the iPod/iTunes/iPhone and the ludicrous revenues from the App Store.

The iPod/iPhone yes, but "in the first place" the App Store was insignificant (the remenues at 2010 was < 2 billion dollars worldwide, so Apple's take was less than $600 million).

For comparison the iPod had that profit already in 2004, and around 3 billion in 2010 (when the iPhone had already started replacing it).

So, the App Store was hardly ludicrous revenue for its first 3-4 years, in fact less than 10% of Apple's revenue. The iTunes store even less so.

It's the iPod and then iPhone that made Apple's dominance. The big store profit came later (and the iTunes/Music profit never was that big).
I am a kiwi. We don't use it. I have literally never heard the term in my life.
Last time someone walked on the Moon I could barely walk at all.

I’m going to be pissed if I don’t get to see somebody walk on the Moon again before I die.
Frank Borman, Commander Apollo 8, RIP
Gotta cut down them tall poppies
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I don't see them claiming that there are safety issues in Tesla factories.
Did you mean to write "failed state" there? That's a rather odd remark when you're talking about one of the most developed and well-organised countries in the world. But that standard, there aren't a lot of successful states out there.

Tesla is (or was) huge in Sweden too. I just checked, and EVs are apparently 64% of the market, with the Model Y by far the best-selling model. I guess that's about to change if Elon keeps this up.
Use Thunderbird.
I hope this won't backfire and cause even more industry to leave Europe
I don't know all the specifics of jobs journey but a terminal cancer diagnosis does things to one's mind. My mother took every medical intervention offered her and by the end she was very much wishing she hadn't. Certain techniques the medical field has developed have the effect of really only prolonging the suffering at the very end of life. The whole family including her was begging god to end our suffering, for months.
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Is Outlook even native these days?
There are some good managers out there. The problem is that the system of most large companies isn't designed for entrepreneurial or innovative managers, both the culture and incentive system means those managers are always swimming up stream and risk burnout and even being punished for making waves.
It’s encrypted between the starting point (Microsoft) and your ISP.
Microsoft is the “client” in this case and just like you can read your email in Outlook or Thunderbird, MS can read all of your email that they pull over from you ISP.
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> Im Swedish, and part of a union. However I've never worked for a Unionised company

I'm Finnish and if Swedish system is anything like ours, there is such thing as unionized/nonunionized company in Sweden. There are only companies that sign the sectorally bargained labor agreement and those who don't. Small companies with few workers don't have to sign anything, they just need to adhere to minimums in sectoral agreement to avoid any conflict.

US has very peculiar system where companies/workplaces must unionize individually to have workers representation. There can be one union per workplace if I understand it correctly.
True, but that's the consequences of their choices years ago. They owners sought constant, quarterly growth in Tumblr to validate their multi-million (or billion) dollar purchase. And rather than building a company that's stable, they were just burning cash and throwing shit at the wall to see what stuck to make that profit trendline go up.

But Tumblr users are very hostile against, really, any changes to how Tumblr operates. It just alienated a lot of us, which isn't going to help them in terms of profit.
Sweden is a failed state, huh? Interesting claim, to say the least... After all, some unicorn start-ups come from there!
Welcome to Sweden :)

Unions are strong here which in general is a good thing!

You can't also fire people just for willing to join or create a union!

This is not the U S of A. Were you can get fired for stuff which you have the right to do.

I hope the unions will win soon!

I my self joined the https://www.sverigesingenjorer.se/in-english/
The problem is, shipping is incredibly price sensitive (as evidenced by the industry's SOP of using cheap flag states, exploiting labor and burning bunker fuel aka refinery residue). As long as said refinery residue is cheap, they'll keep the old guzzlers for as long as they can, and only convert a couple "flagships" to ammonia to appease ESG investors.
I think it truly is harder to manage larger numbers of people - absolutely requires skills that aren't so critical in a small team. There's too much complexity to micromanage so for one thing you need to be good at picking out leaders who can help you keep on top of it all and you need to lead them to solutions without being able to dive into the details like you might have as a developer. I think it's bloody difficult and I'm only one level up now.

That said, I also think some people like to make solutions overly complicated which ends up requiring lots of people. In some companies the simple solution (e.g. django and postgres) isn't seen as "enterprise ready" or whatever. So they end up with lots of people on something that could have been done more simply with 2-3. Then maintaining that takes lots of people and then everyone in the team has an interest in keeping things as complicated as possible - in selling the "we will need it one day" idea.

That also combines with impossible tasks - like "lets rewrite the complicated slow old system while keeping on adding features to it" and so on. Then there are never enough developers to do the impossible task - especially as the rewrite turns out to be complex and have issues too.
Nordic is getting involved in RISC-V
Older societies are less dynamic, more resistant to change, and less creative. Most scientists and inventors achieve their breakthroughs in their twenties and thirties, so fewer young people means fewer good ideas (and more older and infirm people to be supported by those fewer ideas). Until we design AI systems that can completely take over our scientific labours, the only genuine engine of progress on this planet is the kilogram of grey matter inside our skull. And with fewer and fewer fresh brains to produce and exchange ideas, the engine of human progress could soon be grinding to a halt (although the world still has huge reserves of underutilised brainpower in poor countries today)

This was a good read and argument, although next 10-20 years may tell how important grey goo in skull still remains.
Not to mention that Microsoft authenticator seems to be required now.
Yup. Working out helped my back pain and my wrist pain... but gave me tennis elbow. So I stopped working out.

Now I have back pain, wrist pain, and tennis elbow.
Just one or two probably.
One right and one left wing publication.

One side writes a piece, something like:
"How the new Outlook saved my {insert protected class}", another one on the other side something like "New Microsoft Outlook uses your mail credentials to steal your DNA via nanosites because Bill Gates wants access to your children."

And then the rest of the media pick it up from there, spin it in their respective direction, receiving their generous donations from one of the numerous MS foundations that funnel money into these places, based on how damaging their puff pieces were.

Now nobody cares about the problem anymore because they are too busy fighting each other.
Was the entire frontend built during the hackathon? It's incredibly polished! What did you use?
That's interesting to hear that it is so relaxed in Europe. I work in EU at a multinational with offices all around the world, and within Europe, we are not legally allowed to enter the offices in other countries. The reason is simply that if there is a labor/work inspection (sorry, don't know the exact English expression) they can get a fine if I do not have a work order for a project abroad.
What is next, no energy and no water?
That’s true! But isn’t having that sort of access to your non-Microsoft email account a second order effect of the change to a OWA? A lot of users are being shown the “new outlook!” toggle and are trained to just assume updated = safer. They’re not really communicating the effect it has, even if it’s just a change from a desktop app to a bundled web app.
One thing, industry leaving Europe, is wastly overblown and mostly not true. The other thing, strikes, have nothing to do with any of it.
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You have substituted immortality with being able to live as long as you want. Fair enough, but you’re just changing the premise. The word immortality has a specific meaning, even if you don’t like what it is.