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Not knowing what to do is a tricky problem, and lots of people seem to be suffering from it at the moment. The negative side of middle age is knowing the bad effects of things like new technologies, so finding it harder to get excited about them.

I think we've destroyed lots of the support structures that at other times would have helped. So yes, first of all - it's not necessarily just you, the environment is involved too.

I think there's a wise route out, and people do get there. I don't know what it is. Some things that might help in case you haven't tried:

1. Psycotherapy. Even if you don't have clinical depression, this can still be valuable. Look for a practice (better than a single person as they're vetted, can find the best person for you, and mentor each other) and words like "integrative therapy" and "transactional analysis". It can be expensive. I've a friend who goes for a few months every two years even if mentally well, as it helps. Like a very emotionally aware life coach.

2. Life changes. Things like meditation are so popular to almost be a cliche, but I think they can help. If you're more philosophical maybe things like https://meaningness.com/ will inspire more than more hippy materials. Getting just a bit healthier, sounder sleep, improved diet but do so in a simple way by following someone non-obsessive, non-fadish - I recommend podcast and books by https://drchatterjee.com/

Good luck! You're not alone.
fol logic is sound and complete (and effective). second order logic is not.
Thanks, that's a great explanation, and a great way (from the customer's point of view) to charge for the service.
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Headline: "The steadily disappearing American car"

Story: "People aren't buying Sedans anymore"

Title seems a bit clickbait to me.
The Police of London actively scan and monitor social networks looking for “hate speech” so they can pursue legal action. What’s the difference between that and what China does?
I’m for enlightened meritocracy, but I highly doubt that a centralized government initiative is going to get the score right on a multi-variate analysis (and will probably miss some important variables). This sounds quite chilling. It’ll only be a matter of time before this extends beyond China’s boarders to citizens in other countries. Will China limit your right to travel or do business by putting pressure on smaller governments?
"The Holocaust" isn't a vulnerable group.
Any word on weather foreigners will be ranked too? What about Chinese living abroad? I have lots of Chinese coworkers who sometimes get stuck in China when their visas get checked. I wonder if this will cause that to happen more often -
I imagine that living abroad isn’t good for your score.
Amazing is a good word to describe this. If this is not an invitation to a challenge, I don't know what is. Some poor pr dude at the t-mobile, and some devs are about to get a big life lesson.
That's because waymo is playing chess while uber plays checkers. For waymo, these corner cases probably matter. Uber is not actually pursuing self driving tech, they are pretending to do so to defraud investors. Their troubles aren't representative therefore.
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That's bad, but you have bad and worse. For example in the US the TSA does things the police (and nobody, really,) should never be able to, and they do it without warrants: but that alone does not mean that the US is an authoritarian police state (even though it is more of one than it could be). Likewise, there's a difference between corporate influence in government and outright, socially accepted direct bribery.

This applies to every country, they could all be better or worse: but some of them are currently worse than others.
cryptokitties are digital assets that can live on any digital platform like a mobile phone app as an AR filter or inside your favorite video game as a character or a pet for your character. cryptokitties are digital assets that people own. if that isn't important to you, you can't see the future.
Note that most common type systems "crash" type-checked programs at runtime: null-pointer check failures, array-bound check failures, and (even, Java) co-variant array write check failures. So the line is fairly fuzzy.
Couldn’t they have tested this indoors anywhere?
>One example, scrolling table with fixed table head. Why is that not something I can specify declaratively?

You can:

tbody {display:block; height:50vh; overflow:scroll;}
China is simply further down the same exact line, for lack of better phrasing.
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Every single person I've ever heard talk about Unity or Unreal in such an aggressive way was completely clueless about software development. They all have high hopes of making the best game/engine the world has ever seen yet are stuck in the planning phase. Either that or they're gullible gamers who watched too many youtubers.

The reality is, every single engineer who built the very optimized engines you my have in mind (that power a few specific games at most) have great respect for Unity and Unreal.

Game development is a small world, people know each other across companies, share tech stuff on Twitter and go to the same conferences.
A unipolar world tends to be more peaceful than a multipolar one simply because there isn't much opportunity for conflict.

Peaceful, not necessarily fair or free.
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cryptokitties are unique, individually owned assets for digital platforms. how are you going to play with VR/AR without the assets that are needed to make that experience worth it? he just compared the apple tree and the apples.
The private system, even as bad as it is now, has to reasonably correlate with credit risk to some degree, otherwise companies wouldn't use it (or would use the competitor). A single, gov-enforced system has no limits like that. If they want to give you fewer points because you're not aligned enough with the party line, you get fewer points, and you're more marginalised now. There are no big customers to say "don't want to use this, it doesn't provide me any benefits", because those companies want to be able to continue operating. (Before anyone mentions it: Yes, I know that at the moment only well defined and documented cases are counted. It's not like China would change the rules to, for example, lower the score for liking Falun Gong or other ideas, right?...)
So cancer will only kill poor Americans?
You’re putting up a straw man. I could write a dystopian book about any ideology. A good meritocracy would deal with these issues because a dystopian meritocracy would likely hamper innovation and the emergence of new standards and areas of merit.
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Shouldn't hate speech should be punished?
The do now, via full take intelligence efforts. Whatever system they use to analyse and/or filter full take is in effect a ranking system. It is not linear but it is ordered, and sometimes not even individually ordered, and quite often probabilistic and somewhat stochastic, but ordered nonetheless.
That's a really poor metaphor because the fridge is the problem - you don't want people seeing that content because it's inherently "bad". If it's not on Google search, it becomes harder to find... but it's still there, still discoverable, and now you have no awareness or control over the situation.

I guarantee Yandex and Baidu will not respect western delusions of security through obscurity.
Having to be scanned to get on a plane seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to have to do. I fly often and I'm glad the TSA exists and does what it does. I don't feel like my liberty is being taken away in the slightest.
> She rightly recognizes the key role of cell autonomous vs. cell non-autonomous processes in how multicellular organisms work.

This is an odd comment: This realisation is quite literally at the core of cancer research, and every researcher in the field recognises this. Heck, it’s implied if not mentioned outright in the seminal Hallmarks of Cancer paper [1] that every cancer researcher (and probably generally most human biologist) has read.

Don’t get me wrong: it’s a well-written article explaining the biology to a lay audience. But it doesn’t hold any striking new insights. All of this is not merely known but in fact fundamental knowledge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hallmarks_of_Cancer
The problem with that is, who defines what “hate” is?
As an employee happy with his current employer, those who can change will and won't hire consultants in the process.
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You'll pay for it, though. Truly industrial-grade SD cards (i.e. SLC flash, industrial temperature range, specified terabytes written/MTBF) apparently cost over $10/GB unless you're buying in huge quantities. I guess that might be a good motivation to slim down your root filesystem.
Sex traffickers and pimps are for prostitution as gangs and the mafia are for drug sellers. We have legal marijuana without gang shootings, murder and smuggling, so the problem seems to be one about competition and making the legal options more competitive to the consumer compared to the illegal one. Preferable by making a self reinforcing environment where as more money getting put in the legal sector the more incentive the police has to go after the illegal one and the more the costumers want to spend at the legal one.
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>I'm glad the TSA exists and does what it does. I don't feel like my liberty is being taken away in the slightest.

If you truly believe that, would you be opposed to TSA style x-ray machines, genital pat downs, and strip searches any time you were to go to school, work, get on a bus, etc?
It's funny, hate speech laws are unconstitutional and could not be passed in the US but such laws are commonplace in Europe. Yet people like to mock the US for saying it's the land of the free.
Ask HN: Are there any Systems Software research groups/organisations?
Like Bell Labs or Xerox of old. If not, where do advances in the infrastructural level happen?
That assumes one has a right to dictate how someone else will manage their private property.

Ideas like a mandatory "living wage", that while possibly well-intended, amount to coercive impositions that are rationalized by dogmatic self-righteousness, and end up having pretty severe negative unintended consequences.

They're in the same class of laws as those prohibiting prostitution and drug-use.
it's harder and harder to live in china now.
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I got fairly into these years ago at the beginning of my MSc, since a research team at my Uni had cool projects about them. I gradually lost interest but I have been wondering lately if the recent advances in the Machine Learning could be capable of significantly improving the quality of some BHI application: I am happy to get pointers on papers/research labs to check out!
I dunno about that. I've monitored calorie intake while keeping to an under-40g allotment of carbs per day. I was still eating north of 2500 calories a day (which was less, but not that much less, than before--about a 300 calorie deficit per day), working an office job, and exercising less than I should. One day a week was a cheat day, where I not only permitted myself but frankly demanded that I put all sorts of high-calorie horrible things into my face. I'd regularly end up around 4000-5000 calories every Saturday (until I stopped liking those things--also an interesting side effect).

I lost fifty freaking pounds. Off Chipotle salad bowls and shawarma salads (and I was already eating those things, just...now sans rice).

Ketosis does some weird stuff.
Or just silently fail! Knowing the history of the Collections API and generics in Java, I know WHY this is like this, but Map.get taking an Object has resulted in way more bugs in previous code bases than I'd like to think about. If you have a Map<S, T> Java will silently take an object that has NOTHING to do with S and return null because that key is obviously not in the map. You can of course wrap that call behind functions that DO check the proper input type, but until you've been burnt by it you might not think to do that.
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Part of the goal of this project is to abstract the data of a site's construction further from its presentation. Sites, and parts of sites, are very portable and transparent. You can move a div around a page simply by changing the parent element specified in the 'elementParent' field of the HTML element you're describing. And you can copy divs, pages, even whole sites, more easily than server-hosted HTML sites. Being in a more formal data structure lends sites to more automation, working with data objects alongside string parsing.

The browser engine is meant to be as minimal as possible, and could be easily replaced by a native browser function that ingests JSON to display pages. CSS still works normally, and the engine has a variable system to add flexibility to CSS - you can specify several CSS styles as a variable, then just use the variable in the class field of the HTML element you're describing - the browser engine will replace the variable with the several styles on page build.

These are written in JavaScript because it's the only language that runs in major browsers. Were other languages available in Chrome, Firefox, etc, this might be better in another language.

Websites should be easier to build, faster to load, more robust and stable, while being smaller in memory. But going back to 1997 technology isn't the answer.
...in effect, yes it should because for you to have access to the email address would have required user opt-in. IMO, it'll likely be the end of volume based outbound email strategies in Europe.

I think resultantly the expenditure on inbound (e.g. ads) will increase, which will drive prices up, which will drive infrastructure investment in things like programmatic TV, and generally speaking more inbound channels.

If business was joint at the hip with advertising; it will be moreso after 25/05.
No. Not because of the usual slippery slope reasons, but because denying someone their freedom for mere words is abhorrent.
I know of one company that keeps track of layoffs at a single multinational, and hires all of the engineers who get laid off. Inevitably, the company seeks out the laid-off engineers to hire them back and has to hire them as consultants. This only works off of companies with this style of management.
>A unipolar world tends to be more peaceful than a multipolar one simply because there isn't much opportunity for conflict.

This statement ignores the mass murder it takes to become the number one power
Choice for the programmer, or choice for the implementer? Part of the problem of C is the amount of stuff with was left as a choice for the implementers on a particular platform and therefore could not be safely assumed to be universal. Forcing the programmer to enumerate what they actually want from their "fast machine integers" avoids that.

C offers a fairly small choice of types to the programmer, certainly compared to one of the ML/Haskell style of language. It doesn't even have a proper "string" type!

C doesn't exactly allow mixed-type expressions, it just performs a lot of type coercion and reinterpretation. Which is another one of those things that trades safety for convenience in so many languages.

Type flexibility is responsible for most of the wtf type moments in Javascript: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Sure but do you get it in a can/bottle or make it yourself? The latter done with public tap water would still contain fluoride.
NSA does, no ? They keep your text/voice, just in case, something comes up.
Your point of #3 is probably wrong. It’s harder to get fossils of aquatic creatures so there’s likely a vast number of animals that we will never know about. Saying with certainty that the biggest aquatic reptiles were smaller than whales is a logical fallacy. Only the ones we know about are smaller but we don’t know if there ever were, we might get lucky and find a fossil that is larger.
Know it’s an expression, but not sure how pay grade factors into an argument like this.
TFA says airlines are mostly really good at getting bags to their owner - only .01% of bags become unclaimed.

It's been an embarrassingly long time since my undergraduate statistics class, so the math might not be 100% correct, but I'd like to attempt it anyway, be sure to tell me if I'm wrong:

Worst case, you fly twice a month for 20 years, that's 480 flights. Each flight is a round trip, so baggage is entered into the airlines systems 960 times in 20 years.

If the probability that an airline gets your baggage to you each time is 99.99%

.9999^960 = .9085

1-.9085 = .0915

So, if my calculations are correct, in 20 years time, there's a 9.15% of chance your bags having be lost at least once. Assuming that the odds of an airline losing all bags are the same - and they are obviously not.
I guess people work long hours out of necessity. Where I work, there are people who regularly put in 12 hour days, and even work at the weekend. This puts pressure on other people and makes the overall culture bad.

At least in software dev, we have some choices. There aren't that many choices for people in other professions. It is put up or leave situation, and people end up with long hours.
London deemed hate wpeech punishable, China determines certain speech (that it deems bad for society as well) punishable. No difference except for a difference in perspective.
Nothing with the same scope or scale, but companies and universities (funded by companies and government) publish systems software research.
So what are you saying here?

I mean China has money and bank accounts too. Money's not western or capitalist. It has existed for many thousands of years.

Are you saying that this social credit system is not a notable invention, that it doesn't mean anything? This isn't news.

Maybe you're saying that criticism is hypocritical, throwing the first stone from a glass house...?

Hypocrisy is almost always easy to claim, because everything is hypocritical in some sense. ISIS? Who doesn't claim god's on their side. Who doesn't kill people in war? Using chemical weapons? Why does it matter how you kill people. Dictator? Europe's not a perfect democracy either, dont'yaknow.

Ie, unless we have a perfect, consistent system, shut up.

China is a part of the world, a big part. Their great firewall has become a normative thing, and it's affecting the world. Now this. It affects us. We have a right to criticize.
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There's an interesting video from Extra Credits about this. It's based on early announcements and repeats some of the popular points, but it addresses the gamification and social pressure side of the issue which I haven't seen discussed that much elsewhere. I recommend watching: https://youtu.be/lHcTKWiZ8sI
> Also, they're a private company

Customarily, companies who have shares in trade on a stock exchange are considered a “public” company. It’s why it’s called “going public”, which Facebook did in 2012.
Have a look at common-crawl. They are well documented.
I would often just walk out of work

In one of my previous jobs, while leaving at 5:30 pm (started at 9 am), the CTO asks "half day today?", only half jokingly :(
I went in expecting an article about how the most enthusiastic and visionary game designers will tend to enthusiastically state their hopes, dreams and visions about the unfinished game they are working on, but will ultimately end up being ridiculed or being called liars when the final game fails to live up to the lofty ideas that they expressed during development. The actual article was interesting too though.
Well that would be an inconvenience because I and many others go to work and ride public transport every day. Which is why we don't see TSA checkpoints everywhere; it would be too inconvenient.

People fly infrequently though, and also have a very strong desire to feel safe when flying, so they are for the most part fine with TSA checkpoints. TSA checkpoints are implemented to make people feel safe.

See, it's a balance.
Both ends of the market have been driven wildly off course. The major publishers have become so risk averse that the only games they greenlight are iterative skinner box perpetual loot box cash grab wastes of talent.

And on the low end you have the Unity asset store run amok.

I'm not sure how you do it, but there is a happy middle of reasonable risk with reasonable competency missing in the market. There are few games made there every year, but they are a paltry few next to the regurgitated annual CoD game or the thousand random shovelwares put on Steam every month.
I don't really have an opinion on the 'right to be forgotten' here, but it surprises me to say the least, how everything is justified by being 'journalistic', as if there's something intrinsically good about that. As if there are ordinary people, who, of course, must behave appropriately, respect privacy and others' feelings — and are actually legally enforced to do so. And then there are 'journalists', who can do whatever they want, harass anybody, and it's all good and well and the 'freedom of speech' — not they only can do so, but it's actually moral. Spy on everyone, spread lies and disinformation, take your photos without your consent, tell everyone your secrets, wash your dirty clothes of 20 years old on public — even if these dirty clothes are not actually your fault and haunt all your life you as it is. Just… come on.
Unsoundness is important because soundness and expressiveness come at a trade-off.

Here's some code which is syntactically legal in both TypeScript and Flow, but the languages disagree on whether a type error is present:

type T = { // Legal decl in Flow, illegal in TS
x: number;
[s: string]: boolean;
};
const m: T = { x: 1, xz: true };
m['xz'.substr(0, 1)] = true;
m.x.toFixed(); // Crashes

TypeScript is actually more sound than Flow in this example because it disallows the declaration of T in the first place. Flow allows this code and it fails due to a type error at runtime.

Yet in JavaScript this is an extremely common pattern - an object bag where some known property keys have a certain type, but "all the others" have a different type. You can't represent this in a bolt-on type system without forcing the developer to jump through enormous hoops proving that any lookup key isn't one of the "known" keys. By enforcing soundness at all costs, you lose the expressiveness needed to ergonomically describe this object.

Since most people don't directly aim guns at their feet, the unsoundness here is unimportant in practice. This is one place where I think Flow made the right trade-off to be unsound for the sake of practical usability for a common pattern.
Exactly 8 characters A-Z not case sensitive and numbers 0-9.

Was verifying a contractor's SSN for my company. This is not remotely good IMO.

Even better doesn't encrypt/hash the personal reset questions answers. What color was your first car? Lmfao.
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China is not a dictatorship. It is a single party representative government system that does not directly elect as many officials as the US does. However even in the US most officials are not directly elected (including the president) and people are still limited to two parties. Consider the last US election, Donald Trump lost the popular direct election, but was still elected by president by the Electoral college (a separate body chosen by the 2 dominant political parties for electing the president).

Guantanamo bay is not run by the Chinese. While they generally do not imprison US citizens, they definitely do not give a shit about human rights for other people.