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On the other hand I have followed this way of work-life balance so earnestly that I don't do (almost) anything work related (or my profession) after work hours at all; except when I am looking for jobs and preparing for interviews (even then it's minimal).

I'd read (fiction), play sports, trek, travel, watch films, just saunter around, listen to music, or just have hours of sleep but I don't work after office hours (or even try to up-skill myself by coding in the field I work on, or some other interesting field). So far I have not really faced any problem because of this, but I am really concerned that it might start to show after I gain more years under my belt; or it might already be showing, it's just that it hasn't hit me yet.
:eagerly awaits all the sexy peacock halloween costumes:
You cannot criticize any currently hyped software here, the salaries of the HN community depend on hype.
What's your favorite analysis illustrating that multiple voting is a real problem?

I also wonder if you think there have been any good comparisons between states with strict id requirements and states without them?

We should change our voter eligibility system though, from one where people have to maintain a registration to one where the government just uses information it already maintains to send everyone a postcard indicating where they can vote.
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Shhhh! You're going to jinx us!

I am very curious where we are in the curve. I've made a lot of money off stocks, but I'm getting anxious that nothing ever goes on forever.
This is how I code, exploratory code as unit tests ....

> Alternatively one can write exploratory code as unit tests and run them inside an IDE. When the exploration is done, three quarters of the tedious cleanup effort is already done. There are already unit tests. There are already APIs exercised by the unit tests. The code is in much better shape.
>"The meeting I attended started with an employee lighting a candle in the center of the circle to dedicate the session to a cause, and then proceeded with a series of free-­association prompts. A moderator asked us to tell a story about our names or a memory related to summer. Outside the round room, morale at Snap has been low recently. Inside it, employees were connecting with each other, at times emotionally, about their childhoods, hopes, and fears."

This could be scene from an episode of HBO's Silicon Valley. This seems more like an exercise in humiliation than morale boosting. What's next Ayahuasca ceremonies, shaman, drum circles, primal scream therapy?

I would quit before I participated in any of this nonsense. This CEO sounds like a real piece of work. This is why you shouldn't buy stock that withholds all voting rights from public shareholders.
You could switch to longline-caught fish, which is a good thing for other reasons too.
We should outlaw single use non recyclable plastic everywhere. If not across the US, at least in California. The idea that we just throw plastic into a landfill is simply stupid. Our descendants will look back on us and think we are on the level of apes to just throw stuff into landfills and believe it solves the problems.
The other side of that coin is that high tax people always want more spending.
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> I wanted to check out Mastodon and looked into setting up a node. It's a nightmare of rube goldberg machine dependency hell. It's not that I can't, but that I don't have time to mess with it.

The sad thing is that we've had a solution to this for decades. Installing Mastodon should be "apt install mastodon" and you're done. Maybe add a PPA first if it's new enough the distributions haven't included it yet.

But people keep using Docker for this. The problem is that most users, even many sysadmins, have never used Docker before. Then they look into what it is and discover that it's a heavy, complicated thing with security issues and the user walks away.

I mostly blame the UX the package managers have for package maintainers for this. It needs to be as easy to create a package for the major distributions as a Docker container. Otherwise people take what looks like the path of least resistance at first and then don't revisit the decision soon enough.
Don't use the word generics with golang exapple fanboys, just open a world of hate, what's wrong with StringSet.go, IntSet.go and so on (k8s), or fulfilling interface {} as a workaround. Cue hate, give me c# 1.1 anyday
Put options on QQQ.
This comment is complete gibberish.
"I think that ants are the elephant in the room that you were looking for, they seem to have exceedingly small brains yet do live in quite large communities all over the world."

I don't think this is a valid point. From the point of view of the genes, is not an ant colony one big organism?
"Jesus said to his disciples: "Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come."
- Luke 17:1
The examples you listed gained many users because they were (and are) sharing content that they do not own. Imagine peer to peer sharing of personal photos and videos by the users that own the copyright.

The difference in outcome may be due to less economic incentive. It's easy to share photos on instagram and it's much more difficult to, say, download 20 academic papers without emptying one's bank account. There is a cost to the user to sharing photos with instagram. The cost hasn't been realized by the average user.

https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork/
Here's a good start: https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/12/2018-guide-building-secur...

The big issue with PHP's security is that there are a lottt of old guides and stackoverflow answers out there with terrible, unsafe practices.
No idea personally. :)
It's more accurate to say that bonds are uncorrelated with the stock market. You can verify this yourself by plotting a broad bond ETF like BND against the S&P 500 or DJIA. You won't get a magic bump in bonds when the market goes into a recession, you just won't lose a bunch of money, either.
Scripts to train the model, Jupiter to do your analysis. This is, AFIK, what most ML shops do if they’re using python.
So do the tax cutters as soon as they are in power.
« this » works exactly the same in TypeScript.
> I wanted to check out Mastodon and looked into setting up a node. It's a nightmare of rube goldberg machine dependency hell. It's not that I can't, but that I don't have time to mess with it.

The thing is, a lot of that complication is caused by things like user registration, permissions systems, etc. which (a) aren't particularly relevant when running a node for onesself and (b) are probably the most vulnerable attack surfaces.
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They'll collapse into a 3rd world country unless they modernize and diversify their economy.
You use your mouse to open tabs and not the keyboard? Can't remember the last time I did that... (not to be snarky)
I often use long exposure (with heavy ND filters) during the day for the specific purpose of removing people from the image. Cityscapes in a busy area is nearly impossible to not have people in the image which makes it difficult to sale the image. I'm only taking 20-30 seconds exposures vs the 7 minutes mentioned in the article, but it really makes eliminating the crowds a much more manageable task.
Yes, this is so true. When someone has a true jitter-sensitive task that needs to run on say microsecond or sub-microsecond accuracy, that is not for the realm of a high-performance CPU with caches even if it is on a RTOS. My first question is if that tight of a bound is truly necessary or just an over-specified requirement. If it is necessary, I say do that in hardware or on a simple microcontroller (e.g., Cortex-R) if that is truly your requirement.
I never understood how falsificationism is supposed to workaround the shortcoming of inductivism.

Say I have coin that I predict will always flip heads. The first flip is tails. Hypothesis falsified! But, that still tells me nothing about the future if the coin is fair.

For falsification to work, we have to assume a priori there is not a uniform distribution over events. In which case, we can do something like Solmonoff induction anyways.

So, it looks like falsification is only useful if induction is also useful. In which case, falsification is not a workaround for induction's problems.
so coming back full cycle to realize they should've hired actual programmers that writes C++ so they don't have to invent a new language to babysit them
"Why do primates that eat fruit tend to have bigger brains than those that eat leaves? Leaves grow everywhere and one leaf is generally as good as another. Fruit tends to grow in specific places and ripens at different times. Primates that had to learn when and where ripe fruit would be tended to need bigger brains."

A bigger brain is very energetically demanding and fruits are a lot energetic than leaves. Maybe, only primates that eat fruit can afford big brains?
With a VM, a single byte can encode one of 256 subroutines/jump targets. On the 6502 processor, whether you're using JSR or JMP, your shortest option is a 3-byte instruction. That's a 3x code size reduction. Of course you pay a cost in dispatch overhead. Incidentally, there's also an intermediate option which is called a direct-threaded interpreter in the Forth world, where your VM code stream consists of jump targets rather than opcodes. That requires 2 bytes per operation rather than 3 while eliminating the table lookup to map the 1-byte opcode to the 2-byte jump target.

The 3:1 reduction doesn't necessarily apply to operations that would normally map directly to CPU instructions. But especially for that generation of 8-bit microprocessors like the 6502, as soon as you're working with 16-bit data (which you definitely want for something like Zork) you end up spending a lot of code space for even simple operations. There's a famous example of a VM designed for the 6502 explicitly for reducing the code size (and inconvenience) of working with 16-bit operands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16
Decentralized is good for experimenting, testing all the possibilities in parallel. Once we have a working model - and one with network effects - the play is about squeezing the last bites of efficiency and that is better done centralized.
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Really? "Don't mess with Texas was not a Democratic slogan".
Two things.

firstly this got me thinking of the interplay between MLK and Malcolm X.

Secondly, overton windows.
For whatever reason, I ended up with a lot of friends who are smart, conscientious people. They’d make great parents. Well above average. Mostly it seems like they’re not having kids because they more focused on other things (career, personal growth and achievement, etc). Having kids seems to have been relegated to an afterthought among the culturally ascendant class. And certainly having lots of kids is looked down on as something only weird religious people do.
honestly "this" is such a stupid construct in javascript, there's way too many obscure and unuseful edge cases to memorize.
Honestly, I just use a file called `play.py`, create a function called `test_it()` or something, and maybe use ipdb if I need to stop somewhere and explore.

Then: `pytest -s play.py`

I just don’t understand what the appeal of Jupyter is, but iPython is great.
Are you referring to:

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/vendor/...

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/plugin/...
This is bad news for anyone who uses Asterisk. Sangoma's software (FreePBX) is utter garbage. Their documentation on their software and hardware is non-existent or intentionally obfuscated to make their "community" edition worthless. Sorry, Asterisk users.
Much like many projects on github have a "deploy to heroku" perhaps Linode or DO could make deploying a Mastodon instance as simple. There would need to be a good admin panel UI, as you said (manage federation links, users, blacklists/whitelists). It could even be free for the 1st month. If there is demand, my guess is these services will emerge.
The focus on straws would seem to reinforce the notion that the plastic we see is the problem, and the plastic we don't see isn't a problem, with the potential negative outcome that people declare mission accomplished after the straws are gone.
Interesting talk you may be interested in:
"Who needs a Real-Time Operating System (Not You!)" (2016)

https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2016/talks/who-needs-a-real-ti...
Never heard of rolling coal? It is exactly that, with the added bonus of horrendous fuel economies and potential fines.

And people still do it.
2.26%? Why not just get an index fund and have reasonable stop losses? 2.26% is essentially putting money under the mattress. Hedge with some muni bonds. On $100k 2.6% is $2,600 per year before tax. Hardly worth it.
Maybe because the Russians didn't know that GCHQ knew that the Russians knew that GCHQ had Colossus!
Do you think we can really avoid making the environment a moral issue? Science has never been enough to pursuade people. That approach is not working. It is political and moral in exactly the same way as other contentious issues and that means that people will argue about it. I want people to virtue signal about the environment. That is better than indifference.
Hopefully this will be the end of my semi-obsessive journey and I won't end up actually having to manufacture physical units. I guess that remains to be seen though. These were made with our own (bad) assembler: https://github.com/trevorjay/marios-binary-factory . Technical overview here: http://montrose.is/sketching/201808260123.html .
Best answer. The best hedge against a crash is to not owe anything and be ready to buy when the crash does come.
But did we need to ban straws to have this conversation? Couldn't the anti straw people have simply told you about the nets in the first place?
Yeah, I'm sure this is fine if you're a full time Node developer. I just pop in; also I use a lot of tools besides grep and ag (for example, vim and VSCode) and having to configure every one of them is tedious. Also, IIRC if you want to make a Docker dev image with your dependencies installed (into which you mount your source code) it gets challenging to interweave your dependencies with your source files (this probably has a nicer solution; I just recall this being a pain point when we set up our Docker infrastructure). Again, I don't want to overstate the problem, I just happen to prefer dependencies out of the source tree.
Plastic straws are a problem indeed. They are hard to sort out, end up in the drains, crumble and contaminates the land everywhere. Can't get rid of them soon enough.
What if the...patent office...said no??? Wouldn't that be easier?
Not knowing this 8 years ago in interviews was the same disqualifying as not knowing nowadays what is the latest Angular version and why is it incompatible with the previous version. The difference is that "this" is still relevant - just hit F12, enter "this", and hit <ENTER>.
>We all have better luxuries now than kings had hundreds of years ago.

If by luxuries we mean trinkets, then yes.

But power is also a luxury, and kings had it.

A nice house is also a luxury, and kings had the best (and actually, several).

Free time is the biggest luxury of all, and kings had it (what with personal cooks, a ton of attending stuff, etc).

The ability to influence your society is a luxury, and kings had it in spades.

A sense of purpose is also a luxury, and kings had it handed to them (e.g. leading their nation, etc).

Luxury is also comparative, and you don't miss what you don't even know (e.g. a 16th century king wouldn't miss not having internet). On that comparative level, to their peers, kings were above everybody else.

So, yeah, they didn't have Advil and iPhones, but their lives could be very much better than someone who had.
>reason decentralization lost

Nothing has lost, the story is still evolving. Most people have only ever been on one social network: FB. People are now getting comfortable with Twitter, and Mastodon (or something like it) will eventually make more sense to the mainstream, non-technical audience.
not sure why they moved account icon from top right corner to extensions bar.. now there's +1 icon in crowded extensions area and gaping hole on top right corner.
And what percentage of the total weight or total volume of garbage collected do straws represent?
What problems remain unresolved when plastic has been buried in a landfill?
Type theory (or more generally, constructive mathematics) has some really nice properties, for instance guaranteeing computability, and allowing the extraction of proofs to programs. A lot of recent developments in the area were in fact driven by the late and great Voevodsky, a Fields medalists who certainly qualifies as a "mathematician". In my experience a lot of mathematicians who care about foundations, such as logicians, also like constructive maths. It's just analysts who don't, because they care about how well their foundations supports doing analysis, not about nice it is in some abstract sense, and constructive analysis is harder (because of the lack of the law of the excluded middle, which makes it harder to make the real numbers "complete", as you can't just pull out an arbitrary number between a and b without some way to construct it).
Ahahahha.

The pro plastic Astro turf begins, study this article for the major markers of FUD.

First, ensure that the data is debatable. Then use it as a stepping stone to shift the focus to something logically more sound, while ignoring one of the core premises of the system.

But wait! this doesn’t really do anything to make plastics more appealing!

Correct, which is why the final step is to push the blame and responsibility to someone else and to other shores.

Keep using these talking points till you have a group of people who think it’s reasonable, and use them as a staging ground for the next level of FUD.

you may think that the article is reasonable - and it is! It just makes minor errors or shifts focus, fairly to other places.

But the fact is that per capita plastic consumption in the West is much higher than developing nations.

China was the one who was taking everyone’s trash in the first place, which is why it got worse.

Not to mention, Third world countries will DEFINITELY do worse on recycling, because of how hard it is to get passably right.

And this does nothing about the current rate of trash dumping, or production! It just pushes the problem out to tomorrow.

I’d give the author the benefit of doubt, but this is a business journal.
I realize, but it's more of a reaction to the inanity of JS, moreover, since I've started using JS, I've never once had any issue with 'this' - the way one constructs code often in TS is simply quite different i.e. it's really not just 'JS with typing' even if you want it to be just that, usually it's not.
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Yep, "the silent majority" that created The Tea Party and lead to Trump in the White House?

I'm reminded of the "save the trees" campaign of my youth that lead to the removal of paper bags from supermarkets (with massive marketing to convince the public plastic was just as good as paper) and 20-some-odd years later created "the plastic bag crisis". Now local supermarkets are making a big thing out of getting rid of plastic in favor of paper or (preferably) reusable bags.
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Twitter is a horrible format for this. I has hoping to find a link to something readable instead it's all epeening over rtos and windows.
I'm just guessing but doesn't astronomy usually have way more data than the scientific field has manpower to process and analyse it?
Why would anyone worry about a singular straw? Isn’t this an issue of the average/group behavior - and outcomes resulting from it?
Short ETFs are for day traders. The prospectus usually states that it's intended that holders close their position at the end of each trading day.
The latter was basically my thing in the neighborhood for a time. Started out with BNC connected coax and then upgraded the kit to TP and hubs/switches. Crazy thing is that i had perhaps the shittiest internet connection around...
I still don't get it; so you invented a language based on idea of not doing the "evil" things C++ or say other languages did and now you have to re-invent all those "evil" things because community wants it?
> Sure, but why would you assume it is?

If somebody puts a bunch of unknown chemicals in water, is it not normal to question the safety of that?
This morning I listened to the Freakonomics podcast from July 18th about “Why we choke”.

About 22 minutes in, a researcher is discussing a study he did where they paid participants a months wage for a single task to see if they would perform better. They didn’t. They actually performed worse! A follow up study at MIT found this to be particularly true for cognitive tasks.

Would this apply to a job over time instead of a single task? Probably not, but I’m also not convinced that salary will increase productivity after some relatively low amount.
Presumably these white collar workers are valuable and employeeing them with confiscated money on a useless task is much worse for the economy than both the counterfactual in which the government does not bid for their labor and the one in which these resources are used to subsidize public goods such as basic science research and merit goods such as public infrastructure.