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This kind of reply is what makes me want to quit HN forever. There's always somebody out there smarter who knows better. Why bother to try and contribute anything?

Also, the service is amazing, and they won't accept tips. If you leave money on the table, they will chase after you, to give it back.

I visited Japan some years back and loved this aspect of the culture as well. An Australian ski guide (this was a winter visit) explained it like so: "the Japanese attitude is to want to do a good job by default. Tipping implies that a good job is only done because of pay. The Japanese see quality service as intrinsically valuable in itself."

The moon is so interesting, easy to forget how much it affects life on Earth because we see it all the time.

Like others in the thread, I have a telescope and it's a wonderful experience pointing it skyward while it's still light out and the moon is visible. Then I can really see all the craters and "pock marks" on the surface. (My telescope isn't good enough to be able to see anything during a full moon, it all just becomes washed out.)

I'd like a platform that focuses on face-to-face (video) interaction, including (somehow) with strangers.

You could start today by going on Omegle and carving out a niche as someone who wants thoughtful, reasoned, and substantive discussion.

What I don't understand is, what benefit is there for 99% of companies to get in on the ground floor of LLMs?

"Mr. President - we must not allow an LLM gap!"

For a really hard one give it audio of William F Buckley!

In my experience it's a skill that takes time to develop. It's hard at first for sure. There are lots of different models out there that people using for visualizing software and architecture, sometimes they can be helpful.

A piece of guidance that helped me a lot was this: "when looking at boxes and lines, the junior architect looks at the boxes - the experienced architect looks at the lines."

First time I had heard of lottocracy - interesting concept but I don't think I would like to be alive for it.

All I can say is that I am speaking from life experience. It sounds like our experiences have been different.

And regarding scrutiny, morphine is a immensely usefulness tool and it's use surely extremely monitored.

I went to high school in a fairly affluent area and I promise you this is not true. If you have money and know how to talk to your doctor, you can get whatever you want. No questions asked.

You can even get prescription methamphetamine - and Walgreens will stock generic for it!

One of the most glaringly broken things about society is that abuse of power is not punished harshly enough.

Maybe it's just me getting older but it seems like this has always been true across cultures and history. People like to believe that once they get power, they will act differently than the ones who came before. But in the overwhelming majority of cases, they end up being just like the people they replaced, if not worse.

Every once in a while you get an exception but that's why we remember those people - because they were the exception.

That's right. :)

What Google has made money on are the ads that show up next to the search results. That's their way of "charging" for search if you like.

Similarly for iCloud Drive / Dropbox, what they charge you for is storage, not the ability to look things up.

Search is a feature of the index / overall data catalog.

Theological might not have been the best word but there's definitely a lot of spiritual insight offered up in C&H.

IIRC this came up when Apple tried to buy Dropbox - it was a way to accelerate the building of iCloud Drive. The Files app is essentially Apple's version of Dropbox, they make money charging for storage.

From what I recall a MSFT executive made a similar comment to Google that search was not a product (which turned out to be true).

Agree. But they're well in second and third compared to Calvin & Hobbes. :)

I also think Bloom County deserves to be on the list of all-time greats.

I guess we just don't see eye to eye on these things, which is okay. I freely admit that my employer isn't too sharp on its use of technology. But I also won't be convinced that folks like Red Hat and IBM aren't total bloodsuckers. :)

Man was Calvin & Hobbes awesome. IMNSHO every comic strip currently in print still lives in its shadow. C&H had it all - good illustration, good writing, life insight. It was a real life line for weird kids.

You're leaving out bending the customer over the barrel come renewal time once services are migrated and there's lock-in.

And sorry bud, but the whole "operating independently" thing...I don't buy it. I've worked for too many companies that were owned by someone else and purported to operate independently. It's just a flat-out lie.

The plan is to go native with our IaaS since they offer a native solution that is comparable to what we had with OpenShift.

We have always been hybrid cloud and I don't see that that would change in the future. Honestly the future will probably be what was always predicted: have a set of "core origin" servers that are on-prem and then a cloud membrane around that.

On-prem might still mean using a vendor for the actual care and feeding of hardware, there's no money in us running our own datacenters.

Keying off your comment - in the field of neuroscience, is consciousness viewed as a kind of simulation?

(I'm just a programmer so it's fascinating to me to consider how actual brain scientists model consciousness in their work.)

Hmm no. My $dayjob got quoted a nice price only for them to rug pull later. Also it’s not Red Hat anymore, it’s IBM.

That Jeff Skilling was a bad boy!

“Americans surprised when their economic and political system worked exactly in line with historical trends.”

What did we expect? That the year 2000 was magically going to bring about a golden age?

Thanks for sharing, that's a good follow-up. Surya Das is a well-respected teacher so he found a good one to go to retreat with.

The quote from the lama is excellent as well and a very common type of expression that Dzogchen masters make.

Thank you for sharing. I will take a look to educate myself, which is my goal.

Harder than you for sure since I learned nothing from your low-effort and shaming comment.

Thank you for your thoughtful and informative reply. I learned something from reading this and that was my goal.

Oh you mean like Computer Science? :)

Joke aside, Buddhism is a classic "ten year study" similar to certain martial arts or plastic arts. Four years is hardly any time.

Asking sincerely because I'm not well-versed on this topic - do we have actual proof that humans are causing global warming?

My understanding is that the climate will change independently of human activity. For example, we know that there was an Ice Age and it was not ended by human activity but rather natural processes. So the climate has been known to change historically without human involvement.

So here is where I'm looking for clarification: I thought the "controversy" over climate change was the degree to which human activity is accelerating a natural process of warming?

Said differently, the planet is warming by itself, but humans pumping hydrocarbons and other things into the atmosphere is speeding up that process. But the cause is not solely because of human activity.

Thanks in advance for thoughtful responses, I'm really just trying to learn here.