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I've worked quite a bit in crypto but keep it on the low in HN as I end up with very unfavorable responses (the general sentiment can be seen in the comments here). However, I will point out from my experience that this is true and not purely anecdotal.

In particular, my most recent project was geared towards using crypto to finance innovation in particularly hard-to-finance countries (i.e., where interest rates are basically predatory). It's proved a huge success and still continues to this day.
Many "nothing to hide" proponents implicitly assume the only problem involves fact-based investigation by mostly-principled agents of a non-corrupt regime that has the same values people are comfy with today. However that's nowhere near the whole issue.

We should also be scared of cases where some investigator or agency goes: "We need to make an example of somebody and That Dude is close enough."

Or where regime changes and suddenly everything you didn't care about is dangerous and does need to be hidden, like where volunteering in a pro-democracy group or having an abortion retroactively becomes a sentence to the reeducation gulag.

> Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

-- Snuff by Terry Pratchett
Thanks for the reply! If touch handler delays are intentional then it seems like an advantage, not a weakness — who am I to disagree with UX experts employed by some of the top-paying tech companies or Mozilla? This is really a synecdoche of the overall situation, from my perspective: some really good devs want absolute control over every part of the stack, and to feel “close” to bare metal as they code, whereas the dummies like me appreciate that someone did a lot of the hard work for us.

In other words: how would that demo hold up if you asked them to recreate some popular react libraries, such as tables, graphs, and 3D simulations? When dealing with hard tasks (and network latency!) it seems like any platform-level delays would be quickly dwarfed by context-specific delays. And in the latter case, I’d rather have NPM than https://kivy.org/gallery.html !

PS did anyone else know NPM is now owned by Microsoft? We seriously need a revolution, or at the very least a figurative corporate guillotine. They own most of gaming, most of NLP/AI, most of dev tools, most of business/office computing, most of the OS market in general, most of… everything, it seems like. I’m just thrilled in hindsight that the windows phone failed!
Are you sure we are talking about the same book? The subtitle is "How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness"

The people who diagnose, treat and study mental illness are psychiatrists and clinical psychologists. Haidt is neither. Epidemics are studied by epidemiologists.

He's a moral/social psychologist. Sure he can talk about social relations and peer pressure.

Whether or not he promotes peace and well being has no bearing on the scientific merit of his claims.
> So a tool for crime according to those nations but not a criminal use as far as most people would understand the term.

The same tech could be used to evade EU/US financial sanctions (or just as well UN sanctions) at which point the sentiments would probably be flipped.
The other often-overlooked point is that _memorization_ _itself_ is a skill. You get better at remembering stuff as you keep practicing.

And it doesn't necessarily have to be math. You can also train yourself by memorizing poetry, Chinese characters, foreign language words, and so on. And somehow all of these activities are getting sidelined in the modern education. After all, what use is memorization when you can always look up the answer on a phone?
American CEOs do not care about anything but money, they'll hire remote international as soon as the market says it's in their financial interest
Can’t forget that all of our retirement is invested in ensuring this number only goes up, too. Even when it goes against our interests.
I only use those things because of others.
I co-host a podcast called Book Overflow (https://bookoverflow.io) where each week we read and discuss a new software engineering book. We keep the conversations fairly dense. We've even interviewed a few of the authors, like Brian Kernighan!
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>convincing the audience

I used to believe this and found myself frequently arguing for any audience that might happen by versus trying to convince my interlocutor.

But, I have come to believe that, in the "emotional" domains that GP mentions, the dynamic is largely the same for any audience as well.

That is, you're not winning them over either if their beliefs are already set and were also never based on reason in the first place.
Regarding the number of researchers, of all of my friends who got a PhD only a single one did it because he liked research. For most it was a stepping stone for a totally unrelated career in industry and for some just the easiest option due to lack of an alternative.

Given that, is is surprising that progress does not scale proportionally? Maybe, maybe not. For sure my comment is not backed by anything but anecdotes.
This has it all wrong.

Introspective people are abstract, extrospective people are concrete.

Introversion/extroversion has nothing to do with abstraction. In fact, all the best known abstract geniuses throughout history are all introspective introverts. (Yeah, I'll pitch that your extrospective extrovert society would never have crawled out of the bronze age without INTJs!)
Indeed - the sutra is quite explicit: “There is no independent object of mind called bodhisattva.”
Great text. Even if you have nothing to hide, that doesn't mind we can be ok with constant peeking into our privacy.
Yes, you can detect Finglish working its way in. Finnish overloads verbs with multiple semantics more than English does, and it sets off the Faulty English Detector.
>...When people say, “I have nothing to hide.” I remind them that they have a door on their bathroom...

This was my 'go to' question for several years but it wasn't long until I met someone (we're actually now good friends) who gladly leaves the loo door open and do whatever in full view of anyone. From there I ended up with sturdier concepts, some listed below.
I hear what you're saying. That individualism in the west makes us far less likely to engage in activities that are beneficial to all of society at some cost to ourselves.

It can seem like that's true based on the view that those in authority in the United States and elsewhere had correct information, and disseminated it as soon as they could.

However, the authorities in the US and in other countries did NOT properly use their authority, and acted in a manner that betrayed that trust. We in the West are far less trusting of authority, and this was reinforced by their failures during that public health emergency.

Trusting completely in Authority was the main thing we fought against in WWII. "Just following orders" isn't a valid excuse for war crimes.

On the smaller scale, we midwesterners, at least, band together to help each other out during the Winters when things get snowed in, and to recover from other urgent situations, it's deep in our DNA.
I wrote a few things in raku. Pretty nice compared to perl and inline perl5 was a nice way to get a lot of easy functionality
That's a great story of sticking through a really tough situation and figuring out how to make it work. Honestly most of these stories end with "it sucked and then I quit". Which, fair, but not as interesting
Temperature is easy, probably the easiest unit to convert... Everyone would get used to it pretty soon after they started using it regularly. There would be some legacy systems out there which would annoying to convert (which is already the case) but within a generation nobody would bother with Fahrenheit at all.

I think the hardest unit to convert is probably length as there is not only a bunch of legacy systems and equipment out there, but Americans are very accustomed to fractional sub-units as opposed to the decimal cm, mm, etc. I’m not sure e.g. the building industry would ever stop saying e.g. four and five eighths. Personally I hate fractional lengths when using american tools. E.g. I’m used to a 11 mm wrench being smaller than a 13 mm wrench. I need to stop and think before I know which is smaller a five eights or a three quarters.
80% of my engineering department was off shored and the results are exactly what you’d expect.
So this is a little bit more complicated as a tradeoff. The main reason Skia is faster is that it's generating fewer primitives (quadratic Béziers instead of lines or arcs). Depending on the details of the renderer, you may also want to lower to a simpler primitive, and our method does both. If the goal is lines, then the additional cost of applying, say, Wang's method would make them take roughly the same runtime, though our method would produce fewer lines. If the goal is arcs, then I think our method comes out way ahead, as I'm not aware of anything else that generates arcs efficiently.

But it does mean that for outline-to-outline applications running on the CPU, methods like Skia's are likely better (though ours is still faster than the Nehab implementation).

I'm working on a cubic-to-cubic version also, but it's requiring some pretty deep math. See the Zulip thread to follow that work in progress[1].

[1]: https://xi.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/260979-kurbo/topic/C...
Sorry, I included the direct link instead of the text before.

For a bit of context, my name is Alexis, and I'm 19 years old. I want to change the current trend in 'SaaS'.
you self-censor as a result, the rest of us lose your perspective, and the development of further ideas is stifled.

This component of privacy reminds me of “Preference Falsification,” a phenomenon described by Taimur Kuran. Although Kuran’s examples are often of Eastern Europe, this essay puts it in terms of US politics of 50 years ago.

https://www.econlib.org/how-timur-kuran-changed-my-thinking/

Important paper to recommend as always, Soloave’s “ 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy” written after the article but by a thinker who is cited in it.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

And also “Ham Sandwich Nation: Due Process When Everything is a Crime”

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2203713
I've been looking at the Radxa zero3w/zero3e.

Looks like this guy got Chromium to work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAnN1A_sye0
Privacy also allows rich people to hide their wealth and avoid taxes, it allows secret government agencies and other powerful organizations to publish anonymously and influence public life in illegitimate ways, and other bad things. Finally, privacy is inherently anti-"information wants to be free".
> a great solution would allow me to pick row-vs-column storage on a per-table basis ... and do some in-context computations to decide where to walk to next on the graph

You may be interested in Datomic[0] or Datascript[1]

[0]: https://www.datomic.com/benefits.html

[1]: https://github.com/tonsky/datascript
The terrifying SEAL Team 6 scenario lurking in Supreme Court's immunity ruling
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Politics is all about soft skills; being really good at anything hard pretty much makes you unemployable there, because you'll come across as a weird nerd.
Adult skills are products of years of experience. Give yourself time. You developed your communication skills and the habits that reflect it over a lifetime. It took a lifetime for people with communication skills and habits you want to develop, too.

Eye contact is not an end in itself. If you want an end in itself, be a good hang. Good luck.
freedom is so often the shadow of privacy, thinking of being “secure in your papers against search” in the 1700s makes me imagine the authors didn’t want the government to easily know private things such as my income which back then required a lot more physical access

Oh and on that note the reason for a warrant is to show YOU that the government has invoked the law IN ADVANCE, it’s not for anyone else but YOU, “no-knock warrants” take a very important aspect of why we require a warrant out of the equation, it’s absurd
This is like saying binary numbers are the reason generative AI falls short. Computers work with transistors which are either on or off so what are these people proposing as the next computational paradigm to fix the problems with binary generative AI?
It’s safe to stop reading any article at the point they say something like this:

> Year 4 of a pandemic
How do you define academic? For me it's essentially a synonym of a research scientist at a university. And that definition clearly fits Haidt.

>Jonathan David Haidt is an American social psychologist and author. He is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at the New York University Stern School of Business.

Also, the title makes it obvious that he is no expert on mental illness. He's a business school professor.
I truly did not mean to come off as rude. The 'content of the QR code' would've revealed the actual seed and so would corroborate your assumption if you did, in fact, verify as much. I merey stated a troubleshooting fact. No offense intended.
Everyone is talking about Retrieval Augmented Generation, but most companies don't actually have any internal documentation worth retrieving. Fix. Your. Shit.
> I've thought about switching to Pi4/5 for this. Based on your experience, would you recommend that platform?

Their kernel fork is well maintained and if there is a reproducible problem it usually gets fixed quite quickly. Overall pretty happy. KMS/DRM was a bit wonky as there was a transition phase where they used a hacky mix between KMS and the old proprietary broadcom APIs (FakeKMS). But those days are over and so far KMS/DRM works pretty well for what I'm using it.
But you didn't reference just that one comment.

You specifically took the trouble to make it look like this was something that keeps happening all the time, via the carefully chosen phrasing:

every time someone promotes 'ethical journalism' here,

That's where things started to get weird in this thread.

The democractic russian government ...

Before they got weirder still.
That won't make a difference. These generative AI systems have ingested more math books than any human being alive today and they still can't add numbers.
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>There are few reasons for westerners to rally toward a cause in unison

Disagree. It's just as advantageous for the West to rally together as it is for the East. But, there are those who are purposely dividing us for their own gain.
Humanity could easily afford to provide proper healthcare and schooling for every person on the planet if we didn't spend so much money on our collective militaries too, but "we" don't.

Getting everybody (or even a minority of any sufficient size) to act in service to a single goal has been a problem for humanity ever since we first invented society.
I don't really get people's obsession with security updates for a smartphone. It's not a public webserver, bro. It's a phone. You're the one who decided it was etrash.

Not only is it not reachable by anyone except your mobile provider, but every app is sandboxed anyway. Unless you're downloading random apps every day, why would you care? What do you think is going to happen? Just stick to reputable apps.

You know what I do on my still-supported phone? Set it up, then disable automatic updates, for both Android and the Play store. I update the browser weekly, but that's it. I update the whole manually after a few months or year if I feel I have a good reason to.
I switched to VS Code a couple years ago for C# development as it was a faster editor than Visual Studio at the time. But now it’s all of: slower, less reliable and underpowered compared with more recent VS releases, so I’m back to VS proper and just deal with having to hit ctrl+. twice most times to get suggestions to show properly.
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That's super interesting, hadn't heard about that, thanks.
Yes. I took a year off and traveled the world. I "came back", though things have never been quite the same. I now live and love for other things. Coding is however very lucrative and I'm a damn good problem solver. It would be a shame to neglect one's talents.
NFTs are somehow still going, though as always it's hard to gauge genuine interest when there's so much astroturfing and wash trading going on. Predictably a lot of them are now using AI to mass produce the artwork, NFTs were never genuinely about appreciating the artwork so growing the art in a Petri dish is on-brand I suppose.
I needed this today.
I am a professional technical writer. I find ChatGPT to be a poor writer, and a very poor technical writer. Only minimal reasoning or critical thinking is in evidence, but I find that humans cannot see the missing critical thinking when reading what ChatGPT writes. Claude is a little better, and much better stylistically. I think thinking has already fallen by the wayside in the general population; when there is writing that evidences little thinking, it is not writing that is the issue.
Secrets are real (and hard to keep), but privacy is just the politeness of your neighbours.

We should never confuse the two - people seem to think that a right to privacy means a right to secrecy. It does not and never can. People have behaved badly enough with so called online anonymity.

We will have our entire lives stripped bare and laid out on a digital plate - this will enable an incredible outpouring of new lessons, psychological, criminal, mental health and happiness - if we treat it right. If we give individuals control over who can use their information, if we ensure PII is treated like a lawyer treats their clients confessions, that epidemiology can get what advertisers never can, we shall find that it’s not “no-one can ever know” but “health researchers can know, but I would rather my employer does not and I hope my friends understand”

We spend 20 years training children as to what is and is not acceptable in polite society - and it’s going to take a generation to figure this new set of etiquette out - but I am betting the juice is worth the squeeze

Edit: in short, it’s not the data that’s collected, it’s who uses it and how. Focus on that.
I’m reminded of that movie Hackers where the kid has to solve a 3D maze to authenticate with some remote computer lol
I thought it was Adam Conover at first.
I know that I could beg our @dang to act as intermediary and contact the user in question on my behalf, but he's too busy and valuable to turn into a glorified phone operator

He would not do that. If people do not wish to be contacted outside of HN they leave their contact information out of the profile. I personally like that I have the option and to keep conversations here. If something was urgent I can create a throw-away email and temporarily list it in my profile, then remove it.

I would suggest that if people opt to share contact info in their profile, they should use a canary address that can be discarded without causing grief as there are some unhinged lurkers. I see them planning raids on this site from other sites from time to time.
The russkies ARE doing the same. Ftfy.
Sure. But the assertion was that it had no utility whatsoever and that's obviously not the case. Even tulips could be planted, despite them having had a crazy valuation.
Except the West was able to develop a cure (multiple actually) whereas the East struggled. Sure we had some issues roling the vaccines out initially, but we resolved those pretty quickly. Not only that, we resolved supply shortages to the point where we could guarantee that everyone received multiple doses.

In the end, the West had far fewer mortalities compared to the East, so I'll take the West's way of doing things any day of the week.
Two notes, one from a short summary of Carl von Clausewitz monumental war treaty, done for training the Prussian prince, a passage where "even an imbecile who have memorized few fundamental things can act, succeed and being considered a warlord" of course until he or she find someone smart enough to test his/her own substantial incompetence, witch is pretty the same concept of https://fs.blog/experts-vs-imitators/ the other is about programs or https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/i-was-usef...

Actually most people, regardless of their scholar path and social position, are more or less useful idiots, they know enough to float in a spot of the society they was able to find, but nothing more. That's the very same for the generic worker who hit his/her own hands multiple time not understanding why or the formally very skilled engineer who design crappy and expensive disasters, both blaming something else grasshoppers invasions and cosmic rays included. It's not a mere matter of IQ but substantial vs notional knowledge or gnosis vs doxa. Most these days are just trained for doxa, classify knowledge as something impossible, even dangerous, "perhaps for the PhD" (of course who is trained on the doxa-only basis)...

Unfortunately building skills, substantial knowledge is much harder than building muscles, while it's far, far easier to loose them.
This is why we are very careful when we use table salt.
Could you bring any example where non-testable hypothesis have mattered in science, or even have been proposed?

As far as i can tell the p-zombie argument is a variant 2=3 "proofs" with hidden division by 0. People claim as truth a proposition with no consequence,then claim that a proposition they want to prove follows from it. It does not elucidate anything.

The limited variant of the argument which predicts something does help in understanding the limits, but p-zombie supporters do not like that argument because it also shows the boundaries of what brain sciences can't say, and that is not much.
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I recently learned that Ireland isn’t really in Europe according to some Irish people, so I think this is final straw: I’m adding Japan to Europe. We may lack the technology to make it a physical reality (yet!) but their recent history and culture are quite European. I wish they were an option for emigration in a post-P2025 world, but AFAIK they are not at all interested in asylum seekers, American or otherwise ;(
I'd be hesitant to treat them this way. One is a trusted and controlled environment, the other is a pocket storefront run by Google/Apple and their partners.
> Except the West was able to develop a cure (multiple actually) whereas the East struggled.

No, we weren't.

The vaccines aren't cures, they are prophylactics that mitigate the severity of symptoms.

(Also, several were developed in the East.)
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It varies, but it often comes down to deep expertise combined with creativity, years of toil, and standing on the shoulders of giants. Cf. Fermat’s Last Theorem, bounded gaps between primes, the Weil conjectures, the Poincaré conjecture, etc.
No it doesn't imply anything criminal. Many people have things they wish to hide that have nothing to do with being illegal, from reasons for being fired from their last job to the amount of alcohol they're drinking alone at home to nude photos they shared with an ex, to... anything.

There's a huge number of things to be potentially embarrassed about, ranging from things that most other people would say there's no need for embarrassment all the way up to things that could be career- or relationship- ending even though fully legal.
BigSerials come from a relational database world for me.

The use of UUIDs for documents may come from a no-sql background.

I use bigserials for relational data in relational databases, and if there is a unique document value needed, a UUID is good.