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I'm not a downvoter, but I'll try to help you understand another perspective on this.

If you think you'll never have to consider doing this type of work, I don't think you should feel bad about using Flex, but I hope you will acknowledge that you are enjoying a level of prosperity that doesn't seem to be available to everyone.

Also, awareness of how business is able to turn things that used to be costs into externalities may be an early step in the process of making them take responsibility for costs that seem (to me) to be rightfully their own responsibility.
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Couldn’t this be used to model qubit states? Ie calculating function values on the resulting pairs.
Why is this on hacker news? It's just full of vague, unactionable statements.

>Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.

Who doesn't want assets that earn while you sleep? No one needs to be told they want that. What they need to be told is how they GET that from an entry level software engineering position in GoogBook.

>If you can't code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts.

This comes across very transparently as someone who CAN code, can't write books, blog or record videos but doesn't respect any of those activities.

Do you want my sage advice? Don't denigrate the things you can't do.
UBI FTW!
I think it's not the TP as much as it is pushing due to a) constipation which is usually due to a lower fiber diet, and b) not squatting.

https://www.nadialabs.com/pages/how-to-use-the-toilet-correc...

It takes me less time to pass a number 2, than to go number 1. It is not loose, but it is soft and just ... blooop, done. When it's like modeling clay - not getting enough fiber! :-D
The hidden reality of ridiculously complicated algorithms
I kind of like this. No overhead from EF and you could still create constants to describe your table and fields.
“Flex is necessary.”

I stopped there.
Isn't the limit for business class checked luggage something like 32kg?
Paradise Lost: How Tourists Are Destroying the Places They Love
Ah, that's exactly the comment I was thinking of. Thanks! Clearly memory is none tol accurate.

Though I guess that post doesn't apply to smaller winners.
I’d like to see fewer plastic items all around. There’s no reason a store must sell me a container in addition to the goods I buy.
Shared browsing search could be a thing maybe as a hobby only though. Probably the only way to make it work is if "you want the privilage to search you must serve too" kind of motto.
True. Especially in later stages, when someone has joined a tribe. I think in earlier stages it really can be a cognitive error, which is the catalyst for later radicalization, spite, retaliation, etc
> will require more 60-70 hour work weeks to pay back.

Except if 60-70 hour workweeks created the debt in the first place, subsequent ones can be expected to create even more, rather than (net) paying any back.

Perhaps a better remedy would be 1.5x-1.75x as many 40 hour workweeks. If so, that could easily be more years than the average engineer's tenure, which can add its own challenge.
It is worth pointing out that the "winning" centralized systems are largely built using decentralized systems.

A lesson to start ups is to be very careful building your product by assembling pieces of commercial centralized systems. Make sure if one part goes up in smoke (Facebook deprecates an API, the App store bans you, Google Cloud API pricing quadruples, etc.) you can easily swap in out for something else.

Another thing to consider is that centralized systems die. When support ends, but users are still there, software systems may decentralize. Take a look at "dead" MMOs that are still live because someone wrote a server emulator. Or, out of date DOS games which can be run in high resolution on a modern GPU because someone bothered to release the source code.
What am I missing? It's a dependency declaration file.
OK that's your opinion but do you have any evidence? Steve McConnell certainly comes down on the side of teams collocated with the customer.

And certainly my experience winter of 94 with another developer using DSDM (Agile) an collocated with the customer in Scotland delivering in a month what another remote team quotes 2 years for makes me agree with his thesis.
Did you read the article? Your response has nothing to do with any of the points raised in the article.

Besides, how presumptuous is it to proclaim "how dare you to think your text is important enough that I study it"?
We don't use money to "regulate and monitor the agency" people have over their own lives. We use money as a medium of exchange enabling people to get other people to do things for them. Money doesn't make you happy. Being able to pay a doctor to take care of you when you're sick, pay a private school teacher to heap attention on your kid, pay a chef to prepare nice meals for you at a restaurant--those things make you happy.

If all people wanted was agency over themselves most people could do it--living off the land in the middle of nowhere is still pretty cheap here in the U.S.
or a mummy
I tried Dvorak for a month a few years ago. For me it was just useless agony, not only with key positions but also with app/OS shortcuts that are very much designed for qwerty layout.

I have since switched to a split ergonomic keyboard (Diverge 3) and adjusted the layout somewhat (kept qwerty, but put all the modifier keys in custom locations). That took me about a month to exceed my previous speed. Typing on standard keyboards when needed is not a problem either.

I never cared to measure my typing speed though.
Aphoristic tweets are aphoristic. If you don't like this style of writing, don't visit Twitter/tweetstorms.
The point I"m making is more along the lines that a slow consolidation of ultimate power at the Federal level is to be avoided.

The "Collective" Citizen, represented by the Federal Government, MUST be limited in it's ability to intrude in the affairs of the Individual Citizen.

Things like CALEA represent dangerous precedents and potentials for abuse that should require reaffirmation and consistent reevaluation in the light of advancing technology.

We all want a powerful and responsible government, but we have to weigh the dangers and potential for abuse in the long run against the short term gains from granting a new power with little or no constraint.

Perhaps I didn't express it that well.
Regardless of how it is used , the term is exact and describes well what the article talks about. Ironically, bashing people about their use of the term is a form of virtual signaling itself, and is associated with one political identiry
> If you had a complete understanding you would only apply the drug when it would work and have 100% success rate.

There is no way to have 100% understanding of a specific person to have a designer drug for every condition.

Not even Aspirin is 100% effective nor we have a complete understanding of how it works (though there were some discoveries on that regard around 20yrs ago, I think)

It's hard for physics and it's impossible for biology (and other fields) to come up with completely accurate predictions.
Well that wasn't the issue. The issue was unsafe cladding and inadequate fire safety systems.

The fire should have been contained within the flat. Instead, the flammable cladding encasing exterior for "aesthetic reasons" went up like a wick and burnt the whole building into a shell.

Given the same conditions but larger apartments, the cladding could have still ignited and destroyed the whole building.

The insult to the tragedy was that the safer, non-flammable cladding cost more. It was a social (or housing association) building.
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As a rule of thumb, most people who get rich after starting from not being rich do it in real estate. How does this list explain or relate to this empirical fact?
> you know that the only thing you can do is put every hour you have into it to try and make it work

This, of course, illustrates, why it's difficult: when one knows something that happens to be false.

That's why it's important to have these kinds of discussions here, even they appear to surface concepts that may seem obvious to some people. To other people, it's important to read/hear that perspective, lest "tunnel vision" or an "echo chamber" takes hold.
They will embed advertising in movies. It's already happening in the web with native advertising. Or they could propose new payment models, say 50% off of subscription price for more ads in your program.
I chronically skim read articles and emails, because people are generally very bad at writing those things. They will usually contain a lot more information that I don’t care about than information that I do care about.

But I also read about 1 book a week, and I don’t struggle to devote my full attention to them. I don’t think switching between skimming and comprehensive reading is the problem, I think it’s that if you never do comprehensive reading that you’ll struggle to get back into it.
Elm 0.19 Broke Us
Alphabet’s Plans for a China Comeback Go Beyond Google Search
That's not error handling, that's error noticing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph4eYD7Bgek&t=2m35s
A key supplier may have gone cash on delivery (no more net 120 terms) because M3 production this week has been at a stand still - https://twitter.com/skabooshka/status/1032409945407250434

And - https://twitter.com/Paul91701736/status/1033136573615730688

All the first hand Twitter intelligence is gathered by people who are short on TSLA. They see the ground level reality.
Either would do, I think both of them are perfectly capable of delivering your mail to gmail. I generally feel that OpenSMTPD is simpler to configure.
> There are only a very few things that humans can still do with more economic effectiveness than machines: drive vehicles, pick fruit, clean houses, and fold shirts. Really, that's about it. And technology is busily chipping away at the first one. Sooner or later, we are going to have to make a fundamental change in how our society is structured, or things will get very unpleasant for a lot of folks.

Out of curiosity, have you ever read Vonnegut's Player Piano? It touches on many of these topics, but in particular what you describe is also a key theme. There are few remaining jobs that people can do that machines can't (in the book, tend bar and give a haircut). Human labor is in such a high surplus that the state essentially hires all working age (18-45) males who don't demonstrate the potential to become an engineer or a manager (hews closer to understanding policy, statistics, and systems than actual people management). Then they receive a pension (as in the military today) for the rest of their lives. Societal change becomes necessary, but of course it's Vonnegut so even that doesn't go the way the people intend.
Slow Tuesday Night
> You can not have a custom collection class containing objects _only_ of a certain type. For example ConcurrentHashTable<Int, String>.

I'll start by saying - I largely agree with you. Libraries, particularly of data structures, are the biggest weakness of Go as a language.

However, this bit is not really fair:

> When you ask a Java programmer, or C# programmer or Haskell programmer or Swift programmer or... what they would change in the language you do not get the answer: remove generics.

Much like values, language features need to be compared to each other, not evaluated in isolation.

Everyone likes loyalty, but some people value it over honesty and some value the reverse.

Everyone likes generics, but some people value faster compile times, a more simple language implementation and a lower learning curve more. Some people value it less.
Designing reproducible experiments and making accurate predictions are both important, but they are totally different things. Somehow you've combined them into one concept.
Get a neck harness. It's really the only way to fully train the neck.
My team runs the bug bounty program for our company.

What we get is a lot, lot of garbage reports (with public programs) and we spend a lot of time on basic communications with people who barely speak English. At some point we had to mention that we acknowledge the reception of each report and if you do not hear from us then it means that it is not accepted.

And then there are the good reports and, boy, some are really neat. We gladly pay for them and keep having many of the hunters coming back.

Making things clear from the start and keepingvyour word makes a long way. Bug bounties are great when well organized and a hell on earth for the unprepared.
I managed to get my own empire to fit locally on my 5mb (4mb/1mb) amiga 500 back in the day when developing MUDs.

my approach was a little bit different - all strings were shared with reference counts, and were copied on write. it took a while to boot and load the world, but once it was loaded it worked well.

that was still a little bit too big, so paging was introduced, which made it run quite nicely in what little ram I had at the time.
> I'm 31 and my lower back has started hurting and giving me issues, especially while sleeping.

I'd recommend seeing a physical therapist. I had a similar issue, and my PT gave me a set of stretches that clears it right up as long as I do them daily.
This is a great overview. Also checkout CS 468 from Stanford, http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs468-17-spring/ "Machine Learning for 3D Data"

Also, if you want to work on this stuff full time- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17649726
PHP is fine, no software is bug free, especially when it accepts external input. Drupal, WordPress etc are huge so there's definitely a lot of chances for things to sneak in, but PHP itself can't be 100% to blame.
One of my favorite memories is driving far north of Jackson, WY with my partner and her father. We pulled over off the road near a farm and started stargazing when I noticed this colorful ribbon flowing in the sky.
I thought it was the Aurora, but when I googled around I realized it wasn't. I found some talk of Steve and it was exactly what I saw.

It's definitely a weird thing to witness just out of nowhere.
1. I became proficient (fluent) in a new keyboard layout within a few weeks. At that point my typing speed was on par with qwerty (not faster though, I believe). Fully adapting to a new keyboard layout went a bit faster than I had anticipated.

2. Switching back and forth was NOT easy. Whenever I used a new (qwerty) computer I would fumble and it would take minutes before I could type normally at all! Perhaps if one switches between two layouts often it becomes easier.
What vision processing task can most animals do that no computer can?
I sometimes use tissues when I run out of toilet paper. I hope that's not a problem ... (?)
Come Fly With Me did a really fantastic timelapse effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFnhCeNkMO8 where the people in the foreground didn't run at regular speed.
I don't think it's the quality of writing that has degraded, but rather the democratization of writing. Now everyone can write and make their thoughts known and it's not unreasonable to conclude that much of it will be chaff. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, but it does place a heavier burden on the reader to be more critical of the avenues through which they consume information & content. Curation is, I've found, a difficult process.
My own experience was that part of the problem was that there was no intellectual challenge. I actually suspect that if PhD programs were a little more intellectually challenging drop-out rates would go down.
Yes, so it seems like falsificationism just pushes the fundamental problem elsewhere and renames it.

The basic problem of distinguishing between patterns and luck undermines both falsification and induction.

As far as I know, there is no resolution to the problem. We just irrationally assume there is no problem out of habit, as Hume states in his original work. A leap of faith, if you will.
Easily distracted people may have too much brain (2011)
It was the fact that a letter could never encrypt to itself that was, perhaps, the single biggest fault of the Enigma. In routine messages, the position of expected or candidate plaintext could be inferred from a lack of correlation of any characters, and any candidate plugboard configurations that forced auto-mapping could be immediately discarded. (Rotor choices, particularly the right-hand wheel, could be determined statistically, leaving the ring settings and plugboard configuration as the tedious, time-consuming bit.)
401 (k) history is something I've wondered about. Why is it provided by the employer, as opposed to you choosing your own IRS-approved provider and telling your employer to send a portion of your check there?
There really hasn't been any point to recycling paper, plastic, and glass for quite some time now. Recycling glass hasn't made sense ever since local bottling plants ceased to exist in most cities, removing the system by which they were able to re-use recycled bottles. Recycling paper is obviously no longer a sensible activity given the issues of contamination and lack of economic incentives given just how cheap sustainably harvested wood has become. Plastic, well plastic would make sense if we could ever figure out how to sort all the different types automatically. The re-use of recycled plastic is basically limited to a handful of common product types (plastic bottles that are either HDPE or PET and easily identifiable as such).

That said, one should always make an effort to recycle aluminum properly. There's a reason aluminum is often referred to as "solidified electricity" and it's because it takes enormous amounts of energy to extract aluminum from raw ore. Recycling finished aluminum goods cuts out that entire step of the production chain and has an enormous impact on large-scale energy consumption.
You're not reading Thiel's full argument, it takes a while to appreciate it, you won't get it from a couple of sound bites. I've read a slew of his essays and watched his talks - it takes a while to absorb how different this interpretation of reality is.

I believe Thiel is correct in what he is saying and that is terrifying. It is going to take Westerners a long time to finally wake up and when it finally does it'll be jarring and immensely depressing.
the are gauging the consumer experience

which is of course, a mistake

just like you, I don't know what the criteria for this comparison actually would be
Or, we could have people buy health insurance with their own money, and provide assistance to those who can't afford it. The same thing we do with food, housing, transportation, and basically everything else.
To address your first point -- I am sure it is the case that idiot bubble people on the internet who don't believe in climate change will use phrases like "virtue signalling". What is not supported is the claim that they would otherwise go along with environmental initiatives, if only the right ones were chosen. It may simply be the case that the class of people you are talking about are always going to drag their heels and oppose everything, and they simply choose the manner of how they'll yell about it based on what they're responding to.

Coal rollers aren't people who are responding to "nonsense laws" (in this case, apparently, ten-year regulatory plans to marginally improve emissions standards and fuel efficiency) -- they're just people who have been convinced climate change is a liberal hoax to destroy their way of life, lashing out angrily. They get no benefit other than a performative one by "rolling coal". Burning costly fuel to trigger the libs is the very definition of virtue signalling, except somehow worse because the virtue being signalled is a cruel and evil one.

In general arguments like "virtue signalling" are a process argument. The words say "You can't possibly mean what you're saying", but the intent beneath them are "I don't agree with what you're saying, so you can't possibly mean what you're saying". They're not a reaction to the mode of argument being presented against them, they are the default mode of argument to show contempt.

Ditto for the exact same group of people bemoaning "identity politics" while having twitter bios that read "Conservatarian #TradLife Proud to be who I am #MAGA The only thing right of me is the wall" or whatever.

It may be the case that straw bans are, specifically, as a matter of policy, counterproductive. I don't think all laws which prescribe policy or all messages which lecture are, but it may be the case that straw bans are. I don't have a strong feeling either way. But when it comes to 4chan weirdos whose literal slogan is "Fuck their feelings", no, I'm not going to spend time making sure they don't feel as though I'm belittling them.
Why was the story about Tesla staying public artificially buried? It dropped off the front page like a rock.
Ads on YouTube, sponsored videos, shill review videos, product placement on YouTube and Netflix, ads on billboards, ads on busses, ads on taxis, ads on train station gates and platforms, ads in magazines and newspapers, direct mail, ads on pub coasters, ads on bathroom doors, ads on parking tickets and theatre tickets and event programmes, ads on receipts, ads in your amazon orders...

Anyone who thinks we’re living in an ad-free age hasn’t been to a major city recently :)
The point though is that some people in SV think that a monoculture of liberals were/are behind everything and that is just not true. Technology is a full spectrum ideological bloodsport.
I question the article's use of the word digital which covers both e-ink and LCD devices. The Mangen study it mentions was e-ink vs paper, but it was only 50 people and her own later work appears to call it into question. In the other studies mentioned it's not clear from the article if they were LCD or e-ink, and I suspect they were LCD.

The "technology of recurrence" is interesting. I do use e-ink and I'm considerably less likely to go back a few pages to check something out than if I was reading a paper book.
Hasn't centralized social networking proven to be a complete disaster? The user has become the product.