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no... there really are people out there that really think they're better than you, on an existential level, and that the only reason you're better at any one thing than them is because they haven't gotten around to doing it better than you yet.

The short test for narcissism is: "Are you a narcissist?" Actual, pathological, narcissists answer 'yes' so often that it's almost useful as a diagnostic tool. Most people have some idea of their shortcomings.
It's not "while multitasking". It's a stable attribute.
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You almost lost me with

> "those same people are also prone to magical thinking about other things: vaccination, fluoride, radio waves, GMOs, etc."

because it is not remotely the the same people who are irrational about each of those things.

Glad I continued reading though, bc I like your "liquid" analogy which is apt. I do let my girls (age 10 and 11) play some games, but it's limited and as much about cultural literacy as their entertainment. They both love to read and spend probably 10h reading (mostly printed books but recently some kindle too) for every hour of tv or video games. Maybe instead of water vs alcohol, it's more a continuum from vegetables to candy. In any case, giving them some agency and trying to instill the foundation for them to make good choices -- ie, parenting -- is an ongoing and worthy challenge.
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With that analogy, I guess web browsers are cheese.

I don't think FOSS is even necessary for what I'm talking about (although it seems to be sufficient). Non-networked binary distribution of yore was also (mostly) aligned with the interests of its users.
The problem is that it's not the "clickfarming" apps that are the real danger for the majority of people, I'd argue it's the endless algorithmically tailored content and social media streams most of us consume. The ones that fill our every - otherwise - idle moment with something to distract us with.
> If you don't want to vote ANO then you vote ODS if you're more on the right (as in free market) and the Pirate party if you're more on the left.

Can you explain more what the platform of the "Pirate" party is? As an American I would have thought the the "Pirate" party would be far right libertarian (free market, downsize government, reduce or eliminate taxes).
It's interesting though that no one pined for Vista or 8.
place the ellipsis immediately after "an". better comedic effect
I could live happily in on a system that looked like Win2k.
Developers think about Android twice as much as they do about iOS
I wouldnt say they are better for anyone - I was saying that regardless of the consent or context - when private conversations of this nature come to light - its never good.

Assume that a couple were consenting in owner/slave BDSM play and their dialogue were recorded and read by those who are not even previously aware that such relationships occur, no matter what these types of conversations will hit ears that were not ready/interested/amenable to hearing them, and judgements will be made.

That was my only point.
No, they obviously didn't do that. The undercurrent of negative opinion about him goes well beyond that, though.

See: Pissbaby richboy who doesn't help the world and is just a jet-setting Tony Stark wannabe.

^ Has nothing to do with Thailand.
> "there's nothing wrong with allowing near-infinite screen time ... it's not the screen that's the problem"

I beg to differ. Humans aren't built to sit and look at screens 1-2 feet from their face all day. There aren't infinite hours to choose from. There are 24 today. Every hour spent on the screen incurs a tremendous opportunity cost: exercise, adventure, socialization, cooking, grooming, sex, sleeping, etc.

Digital and real-world goods are not fungible because humans are embodied.
this is the realest shit ever thank you so much for your perspective on this
Certain forms of video game dynamics: e.g. some loot box mechanics have recently been identified as being covered by gambling regulations in some nations.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-04-25-now-belgium-de...
Yes, let me do that right now actually. I placed my phone charger underneath my desk, so it is out of my view. It will ring when I get a call. Didn't need a visual cue. One less clutter on my desk!
And don't forget the added pressure of someone else's money in the line.
People are being a bit hard on themselves here.

Narcissism is not something you truly understand until you meet someone who really is one at the far end of the spectrum. Until you spend weeks, months or even years trying to work out why they have had their empathy glands removed you just don't fully understand the 'narcissism' concept. We see narcissists like The Donald and think that is it, actually you need to be on the sharp end of it, in a relationship directly or once removed through family or work to fully understand how insidious it is.

Only when you have learned the importance of 'no contact' do you understand narcissism fully.

All of us have a few traits that the narcissist has however, it is the cluster of characteristics that matters. With the HN readership I expect a fair few people here have genuinely found themselves on teambuilding exercises etc. where they really are the 'brightest person in the room' and have had to step up to 'leadership' because otherwise nothing would get done. That could be a tickbox on your internal 'I must be a narcissist' list. It doesn't make you one though. A lot of boxes have to be ticked.

Furthermore, the true narcissist does not have the brain cells to identify what the condition is. They can even hear of the story of Narcissus and think it is an 'incredibly sweet story', one worth sharing with others. How little they know...

Interestingly teambuilding exercises can lead to moments of 'imposter syndrome'. For instance you might never do sports yet fluke it with 'beginners luck' to beat everyone else. This happened with my sister who can't drive. When she went go-karting with her petrol-head workmates she somehow won. On that day she felt quite the 'imposter' in collecting the prize, not believing it. She was 'quite full of herself', ego brimming, and with a few 'narcissist checkboxes' ticked that day. So there is a correlation.
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Yes, it's fairly new. The build-out was done in the last ~ 3-5 years, but it was only lit in stages within the past 2 years.
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> Well, according to quantum mechanics there is a physical change when Alice measures her particles because:
> before Alice's measurement => the pair "A/B" is entangled
> after Alice's measurement => the pair "A/B" is not entangled

No. That's the whole point. The presence of absence of entanglement is a function of the perspective you choose to take when modeling the situation, not a function of the actual physical situation.

Thanks for the pointer to the Bub paper, that's a great reference.

Maybe we should move this discussion to email? It's getting pretty deeply nested and I don't think anyone else is paying attention.
You should think deeper to see what drives this desire of yours.

Decades of using it (21 years, by now), plus the total dislike to any kinds of advertising IN A PRODUCT I PAID FOR. Additionally, people had the CHOICE to keep Windows looking, basically, like Win95 - until Windows 8/10 came along. With Win10 that's not possible any more. It treats me like I'm either a child or using a touch device, and hell no. I want a clear optical distinction between a mobile and a desktop/laptop OS, alone because the operating mechanisms (mouse vs touchscreen) are so different.

Who in their right mind thought people would touch on their big-time office PC screens and forced the UI to this absolutely crappy (for desktop!) tile stuff?

Oh and don't get me started on the forced telemetry crap and the forced / silent updates and the reverts that these updates "accidentally" do once you managed to render your PC free of this crap. Microsoft has completely lost my trust by now, I switched happily to an Apple environment. At least it doesn't force Candy Crush upon me or injects ads in the Start Menu and Apple vendors (well, to be fair, there is only Apple itself) don't preload my machine with crap I don't need (a dozen updaters punching security holes in the system, "free" virus scanners, spyware)!
Imagine having Tinder's dataset for your target audience and, for each potential customer, generating advertisement with faces designed in order to attract that particular person. That's a disturbing thought.
Quite easy, actually. Those that started using MongoDB in the last 5 years had little bias or negative experience, and are generally happy users.
In your own words: lack of logical reasoning?
One good way to distinguish the two is whether or not it's pure consumption/entertainment or production/learning? I realize at times it may not be easy to do (e.g. watching cartoons or playing games that teach children something).
We definitely get excited when people we understand are hurt, but easily ignore those we don’t. I don’t know why that is. I find myself doing it sometimes. It is sad.
Lately, I find myself wondering if the Great Filter that resolves the Fermi paradox is the point where a species has enough technology to completely super-stimulate themselves to oblivion.
I have a 3 month old. The way the television across the room melts her mind is something to behold. We try to avoid that from happening as much as we can.

I have no delusions about it being easy, but we're going to try very, very hard to bar interactive screens as long as we can, and keep them to a bare minimum when we can no longer bar them.

As I've mentioned in other threads, watching people watch their phones on public transport, like rats in a dopamine experiment, troubles me, a lot.
It's not just talk. Several projects have already started in Europe. Some of them have former Tesla executives.

Tesla owns the patents and innovates only in the battery packs. The battery cell technology is owned by Panasonic.

South Korean, Japanese and Chinese are leading in battery cell technology and not all of them are teaming with Tesla.
It's an exciting concept within Microsoft and the Windows team and could bring good things. But it's not a unique concept, no.
It isn't that it doesn't help me in particular. And I do understand that it can help at-risk people. I personally think the amazing part of this drug is the decrease in infectious time, and the actual healing being secondary - at least for folks like me.

Nevertheless, it will help those folks with risks more if folks like me actually use this stuff too. If people like me take this within the time frame and stop spreading, it is much better. This is what I think we should fix.

We should encourage folks like me to use things like this. Not because we are helped so much by the medicine itself, but because it cuts down on transmission. To be able to do that, the problems I mentioned in the original post needs to be addressed.
New streets and building are still designed for this purpose. Compare that to large american streets that take forever to cross.
The mere mention of google already turned up into most housing and office space sale adverts. The effect on housing costs is real but the amount debatable. Rents in the neighborhood have gone through the roof the past couple years and protestors are looking for symbolic wins to make the city more urgently address the problem.
Looking like Jessica Alba is not a coincidence. This model was trained on CelebA, a dataset of Hollywood celebrity face photos. Jessica Alba is almost certainly in the training set.
> Personally, I wish the performance story would significantly improve.

Before asking for performance improvements, have you tried:

1. tuning the BEAM? It has a lot of knobs. For example, there's "initial heap size", which can effectively turn any subset of short-lived processes that would otherwise need to do GC into simple "allocate an arena, do work, deallocate the arena" workloads.

2. tuning your OS? WhatsApp had to tune their (FreeBSD) kernel quite a lot to get it delivering packets to the Erlang runtime efficiently.

3. disabling tracing support? Part of the reason ERTS focuses on being a bytecode interpreter, rather than an AOT compiler, even in production, is that this allows ops engineers to connect to production nodes and trace/debug/profile code that's not doing what they'd expect, watching what happens as real user data flows through it. Because of this, the interpreter is "instrumented" even when a "production" (embedded, etc.) profile is used to generate a release. If you aren't going to use this tracing support, though, you can tell the runtime to globally disable it—for big wins in interpreter speed. (I separate this from #1, because this is basically the last-resort BEAM knob to turn. You're throwing away a lot of cool stuff by doing this.)

3. using HiPE? Specifically, sticking `@compile {:erl_opts, [native: :o3]}` into a subgraph of your modules (like a parser, a lexer, and the code that calls them both) can yield major improvements.

4. really using HiPE? I.e. recompiling both OTP and Elixir, and your project, using `ERL_COMPILER_OPTIONS="[native,{hipe, [o3]}]"`. This makes some things slower, so it's not the default, but it can beat #3 for modules that make a lot of stdlib calls (e.g. anything that loops using calls to Enum/:lists.)

4. using NIFs? (I don't recommend going this route until you've found that all of the above fail to get you enough performance, because the above all let you continue to just write plain Erlang/Elixir, while this step requires worrying about FFI. But it can be a big win, where and when it makes sense, just like in any other interpreted language.)

If your Erlang code is still slow after all of those, then I'll be surprised and would like to hear your specific story.
So we agree then, they are being cheap and the part about the license is just an excuse?
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So a user selects the write safety level they wish. Ok.
NT had win32 from day one and it predates 95.
Speaking as someone more into Elixir than Erlang, I'm wondering why you want to move to Elixir at all? If you're happier in Erlang, then why not stick with that? For me, the best thing about Elixir is the BEAM, and you've obviously already got that. If you don't want or need metaprogramming, or the various Elixir conveniences feel less than convenient to you, it seems like you may as stick with what you find comfortable.
The strings object doesn't seem to differ based on call site.

> f = l => l
[Function: f]
> f`hi` === f`hi`
true
Darcs is a database for managing patches. Nothing in Git inherently cares about patches. To a first approximation it's a database for managing full snapshots of trees of files.
A file with space in its name? We had an entire article about not to do this here.
On Linux they have had a client "forever". I don't use it frequently, but I have no reason to believe that it work significantly worse than on Windows. (Some usecases were not supported IIRC, something with groupcalls maybe? Screensharing was dropped at some phase, but can be achieved by some v4l2 trickery to have the screen contents appear as a camera. No idea whther it is back, I have little reason to use skype these days.)
I hear you, its like saying alcohol is just a chemical. Which is true of course. But I think it's naive and idealistic. Taken to an extreme, you could say people are just chemicals and electrical impulses, right? But that's crazy.
Thanks everyone for the feedback here.

Staying close to the airport is probably the top priority ;)

Is Prague safe for a quiet+european+foreign+laptop-carrying male? Or should i stick to the tourist areas?
Is on-street parking generally restricted in suburbs in the US or something?

It's confusing me that you refer to 'parking spaces', that's what I mean by restricted parking - generally anywhere outside of public transport range in the UK is free-for-all - you park at the side of the road. There are no 'spaces', aside from the physical restriction of the length of the road.
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Exactly! Thank you
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310037. I liked to the official FAQ, whereas the other thread is a Variety article.
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Darcs, probably? Darcs has one of the easiest UIs in the DVCS game and was always very easy to teach people how to use.

But then of course if you want to learn the details of how darcs works under the hood you wind up in Haskell, and feeling a need to read a lot of academia papers.
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I like to joke that this is the reason why Google does their silly on-the-spot interviews where they expect people to recall algorithms from memory... They know that the machine they've built erases the need to memorize anything, that people are adapting to it and they want to make sure that if the day ever comes when their whole thing comes crashing down, there's a flying chance in hell that they'll have people on staff who can rebuild a search engine, without a working search engine, before society descends into Idiocracy.
dark souls is basic pattern recognition and hand eye coordination at best.
Indeed let's do that. At our weekly meeting yesterday, there were 18 engineers in the room. Every one of them is working hard to make this feature happen. My role at this point is mostly to kibitz, and help with the field testing.
Healthy tissues in older people carry a lot of cancer-promoting mutations
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Toyotas are the lowest maintenance used car you can buy. I've owned many and now only buy Toyota. When I can buy a 9 year old luxury model for less than 10k and drive it for another 200k+ miles putting minimal maintenance into it, that's saving me a ton of money and gives me a comfortable car to drive for my three hours a day commuting.

Tahoes? Yeah. You're going to put a significant amount of maintenance into an over 100k Tahoe. They're nice vehicles but the maintenance costs are more than I want to pay.
I think this can be solved. Seriously, we have nurse practitioners at pharmacies that can test for strep throat and treat that: I see no reason why we can't have something similar for influenza.

Ideally, I think it would work best if we had a care level that was between normal doctor and urgent care that was open 24 hours a day. It'd mostly be to treat things like this. But until then, surely we can simply do tests for everyone.
Isn't it the same thing in nature? That is also a part of the same click/impression economy.
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When an artist paints a portrait on canvas, the people who made the paint, brushes, and canvas aren't credited. While the algorithm and its creator should be mentioned, I don't see them as a contributor to the work. It's just another tool for creating the artwork.
Instead there's the arguably more vile "I was afraid for my job" coupled with people half-way across the world just being a statistic since most engineers/marketing/managers/everyone will likely have never even _met_ the people their product will adversely affect let alone gotten to know them.
There were plenty of reasonably thought-out cases to short Tesla, and there may still be. The company has had numerous recent instances where they've failed to pay vendors and their runway was shortening at a concerning pace. These are legitimate reasons to short a company's stock if you find them persuasive.

I don't disagree that there was some wild speculation, sensationalistic articles, etc., but that doesn't make all short sellers wrong for believing that the price is inflated.

Last, who's to say that the price was incorrectly low? Was it incorrectly high before? Is today's price the right price? I do not believe that there was some conspiracy to artificially depress the price of the stock if that is what you mean.
That's exactly in line with what the researchers state: "It’s too early to definitively determine cause and effect."
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Let's not sugar coat this, the CCP is engaging in systematic ethnic cleansing. They are trying Cultural Revolution style reeducation and surveillance first, but who knows how many will die in the camps.

This level of repression makes Northern Ireland look like a tea party. If it weren't that Xinjiang is so poor I'd think it inevitable that there would be armed resistance -- without a crop like opium the Taliban wouldn't have IEDs or guns.

The CCP is mad to think they can erase Islam by forcing the locals to eat pork and taking away their children.
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Hey,

I made this because I was frustrated with losing control of my phone number. Anyone and everyone could ring my phone once they found out my number and there aren't great controls for preventing it. The options are basically turn off your phone or change your number; turning off is easy but it blocks the people I want to talk to, changing my number is harder, costs $15 and creates a pain of notifying everyone... and having to do it every so often.

PhonePrivacy lets you spin up any number of phone numbers, use it like a real phone number (incoming / outgoing texts and calls) then toss it after you're done. I tried to keep the price reasonable but fair. There is no monthly base subscription, only a monthly charge per phone number and usage.

Additionally, you can whitelist and blacklist numbers, those who are not allowed will be told the number is disconnected, which should extinguish it from telemarketer lists.

I'd love to hear feedback. :)
Here's hoping.
See Tristan Harris, "Time Well Spent", Center for Humane Technogy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Well_Spent
> Of course there are loopholes, but a 53% reduction in vists to piracy sites after about 14 months indicates that the blocking was effective.

How do stats like that even get generated? Don't they assume that one knows literally all piracy going on?

Just because there was a 53% reduction in visits to certain piracy sites, who's gonna say those 53% didn't simply go to other, not tracked/blocked, sites to get what they want?
I have no specific info on this, but I can only imagine a lot of work being done here, none of which will be made public until it is close to release and the marketing benefits of showing it outweigh tipping off their competitors.
>We didn't reach the full potential of neural networks

We didn't reach the full potential of random forests or rule-based systems either. That's the problem with AI "seasons" and hype. Research being driven by things that have little to do with its subject.
> Go to Europe and enjoy your stroll through the public streets of cities that were designed for walking.

Go to Venice and get hopelessly lost. In a hailstorm.

I kid, but, one, that did happen to me, and, two, the Classic European City is pleasant to walk but unpleasant to navigate unless you're head-down over a GPS-enabled phone with turn-by-turn navigation, in contrast to, say, Chicago or Manhattan, where the streets are a grid and you can plot a course almost instantly upon hearing an address.
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This already exists and it's much easier than playing 20Q: just type in the N number :P

https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Inquiry.aspx
People going to casino with a genuine belief that they will win.

Casino — a business specifically mathematically engineered to make sure that nobody wins against a casino, to maximize your losses, and to make money from it. By the very definition, nobody "wins" against it. Yet, some people still come and play.

Same thing with google pocket slot machine — the very reason they link the game to your bank account is to milk money from you, or god forbid, your children.