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Here's a little thought experiment that I like to conduct about housing. Suppose you had two politicians in a race. Politician A gets up in front of the crowd and says:

> If you elect me I'm going to work for the people of this community, I'm going to make sure that your most valuable asset, your home, keeps its value. In fact not only is it going to stay valuable, if you elect me it's going to get more valuable, under me your house will appreciate 5% every year.

Politician B then gets up and says:

> If you elect me I'm going to make sure that you have to be rich to buy a home in our community. In fact I'm going to raise the bar and make sure that every year you need to be 5% richer to afford a home than you needed to be the year before.

Based just on these two snippets, most people I've asked would vote for Pol A, but what they're saying is essentially the same thing. And that gets at the very difficult issue we're broaching here. Our concept of housing as an investment can't coexist with a concept of housing as a commodity that should be affordable to the majority of the population. We need to let go of one of them to achieve the other.
There is various law to govern that.

I doubt though that will happen.

Plainly, military force is not needed. If HK was ruined, so be it. That's what I read from mainland's sentiment.
"HK only amounts to a small percentage of China's GDP now" Echoing this statement, HK accounted for 18% of China's GDP when it became part of China in 1997. Today its neighboring city Shenzhen alone generates more GDP than HK. Nobody saw this coming twenty years ago.
Ok, I exaggerated a little. But only $31m is earmarked for cash payments so they only get hurt by the first 248,000 people who submit claims.
ah sweet, so the extension is hosted on the Chrome Web Store but you manage payments and licenses with paddle?
If one sets aside the issue of Taiwanese independence and whether China does or does not control the straight of Taiwan (a large thing, sure), nothing about this seems terribly surprising or aggressive on China's part.

The US sent a Navy cruiser through water China claims is theirs. China flew a drone to keep watch. If it had been the other way around, the US would have done the same, no doubt.

It's all games to look and sound very important and powerful.
My guess is because they didn't choose the language. Many businesses prescribe the language(s) they use.
> Im an engineer not an artisan.

That was mostly branding, "I'm not a code monkey banging out the same thing as has been done 500 times before I'm an artisan.

Meanwhile the actual framework breaks backwards compatibility regularly and frequently and only just with 6 picked a damn versioning system.

Imo my opinion if you want to see a good framework that solves it's problems mostly well and is properly decoupled then Symfony kicks the shit out of Laravel on documentation, religious adherence to deprecating and backwards compatibility as well as genuinely useful/genuinely decoupled components.

The author of Laravel knew that as a massive chunk of Laravel depends on Symfony components, in fact the earlier versions where basically Ruby on Rails implemented via Symfony.
Well it's multipurpose. One roll can ship many different things. Otherwise you need an inventory of various sized boxes. I'm guessing it will find an instant niche.
Mostly due to 1 EUR = 1 USD pricing and other problems. Europe is a tier2 market for Apple.
I disagree with this, please let me share my opinion, but I do not have a strong opinion regarding this.

I think fundamentals of CS are crystal clear and are not changing constantly at all. There are ideas, techniques and principles that were set decades ago and are still fundamental. Things like "program is data", certain set of abstract data structures (array, list, map etc), certain algorithms (BFS, DFS, topsort, sort, tree-search etc), certain mathematical methods (proof by induction, least squares, SVD etc), basic software engineering principles (abstraction barrier, abstracting something out, data types, parallelization, runtime polymorphism etc), and system concepts (OS, syscalls, cache, filesystem, database, branch prediction etc) are always there and are very much sufficient for most people to read new ideas on CS. If you have an undergrad degree in CS and studied most of these things and did well, you can pull up any blog post/paper and with sufficient amount of effort, you'll be able to learn new things.

CS suffers from a lot of hype. We have a lot novel ideas and they are actually very useful to solve larger problems. This gives the illusion that CS is constantly moving and changing. Whereas, the battle-tested ideas are there and the newer ones are extension of these ideas. My opinion is once these new ideas can be simply explained using CS-primitives I listed above so that someone with BS in CS can understand, they'll be actually widely useful topics. Until then, they're concepts experts playing around with and seeing if they're effective at solving some problems.
"This might sound reasonable until you realize that a week is an eternity for a continuous development shop. That might as well be a year.

ESPECIALLY if something is broken."

I get what you are saying, but this is more of an artifact of people being used to unregulated platform as a service and the - being blunt here - terrible quality practices that are rampant there. If a week is an "eternity" then try internally iterating a few times and shore up that test coverage if that extremely mild release cadence constraint is more than you can bear. Browser extensions are risk in security, authenticity of content, a new avenue for phishing (look alikes in low volume/poorly curated areas), and browser stability.

It isn't Chrome's fault if someone pushes a bug that destroys data, it's the development teams fault. There responsibility is the the user of Chrome.
To be fair, a lion could probably take down a tiger with a single swipe of a claw to the tiger's throat too.
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What do you suggest, though?

The government can propose bills. So even if they fully withdraw the current bill you can never have certainty that there won't be a similar bill proposed in the future.

Therefore I think that they have achieved all they could about this issue.
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I'm working on a project where I need to communicate ed25519 keys from person-to-person, ideally. I've base64-encoded them, and they're short enough for that to be feasible. Is there any way I could encode this information into something like a made-up word, or some other strategy? I've thought of QR codes, but those don't work as well over long distances. I'm hoping to find something that allows keys to be spoken.

Thank you.
IQ tests scores are on the same as IQ, which puts a hge asterisk on every test score. It's an unfortunate cloudiness of using maps for territories.

This phenomenan is especially notable nowadays where wealthy parents canb buy a diagnosis to givetheir children extra time on IQ tests.

And then of course ADHD drugs and other stimulants raise the question of what it means for a person to "have" an IQ, if that IQ (and/or test score) is influenced by doping. Stimulants and the brain question our notion of what is an "individual", much as the bacteria in our gut do. The idea of an "individual" is a very synthetic Western mathematical concept that does not have a strong basis in the science of the natural world.

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-tree-stump-is-mysteriously...
"Scientists Find Weird, Zombie-Like Tree Being Kept Alive by a Forest 'Superorganism'"
>People spend their time playing videogames, using VR porn and doing copious amounts of chemical drugs.

This is a more likely outcome, since it is already the trend.
The sun looks impressive, it is terrible, it is red, even during a day. Siberian sky has a steel color.

https://biwork.ru/uploads/images_07-2019/images/7jzR0S33.png

https://biwork.ru/news/adernoe-leto-samye-zlovesie-snimki-sm...
According to the graph, the 45-54 age group has the highest suicide rate. I'd have never expected that.
explain the practice method, please.
I believe Firefox Dev edition allows you to disable the signing requirement[0].

I do wish the requirements around signing were less stringent, but I'm fine using Dev Edition as a daily driver for now.

[0]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-on-signing-in-firef...
"New Reddit" is basically a primer on UX dark patterns. Its collapse cannot come soon enough.
Very valuable inputs. I am looking at AWS SES as a secondary MX record and primary service for outbound email.

I'm fine with the hours as I see this as a valuable experiment.

Backups indeed.
> If you wanna be a senior sys admin for bed bath and beyond, you 'll be probably getting one.

Huh. I was a very senior 'sys admin' type for an enormous retailer for over a decade, and polygraphs never came up for me or anyone else there.

Any idea why bed bath and beyond is into such a thing?
I don’t know, you try working with a bunch of J-1s in a Santa Barbara hostel for a summer. It might make you wish unprintable things about the potato famine.
Because this isn't a top-of-the-line phone. It's an experiment by Purism bringing Linux and the smartphone world closer together.
Muscle density I would imagine. Neither lions nor tigers are likely to have a lot of extra fat.
For something a little different, the Clojure codebase – particularly `clojure.core` – is extraordinary in its elegance and simplicity.
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It's definitely an experience design tradeoff. It's nearly impossible to organically find livestream content on YouTube outside of 1) copyrighted TV shows or 2) 24/7 music streams.
Porting Doom to Unity on a platform where a perfectly fine port of SDL already exists can't really make it much easier.
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this seems like one of those articles that’ll give me a small panic attack.

if “everything you experience is just action potentials in the brain” sets one near to existential terror, should one avoid reading this article?
Some questions will cause some people to panic regardless. "Have you ever had sexual thoughts about underage people? Yes or No."
I think the way that a lot of these companies (at least Uber, Doordash, Fiverr, ...) are positioning themselves is that this isn't supposed to be a full time job. It's either a side gig that can give you a bit of extra money to save/spend, or a launchpad to help get you to the next stage of your life. That's why I can't really empathize with everyone asking for better employee benefits and full time employment status because a gig is not supposed to be a job.
In a prior team, we accomplished the goal of "a newcomer should be able to figure out the history of the code they're looking at, and thereby understand why it is this way" in a simpler, lower-tech way:

1. One commit per PR (so the commit history wasn't polluted with rough drafts and debug logs and such)
2. Every PR links to a bug
3. Design discussions happen in bugs

Then when you see some weird code, you can "blame" back to the commit, and from there look at the bug to see why the commit was needed. We also really encouraged people to separate refactoring from new features (refactor first, in a descriptive PR, then add the feature), so that you avoided the problem of seeing a complex refactoring in a PR called "add foo"

I agree with other commenters that encoding the design history of your project in its operation doesn't seem helpful, and in my opinion that's because it's solving the wrong problem. Finding the places in a complicated project that need to change is only hard because knowing, to a fairly complete degree, how the system already works is hard, and knowing how a system already works is mostly the product of understanding the problem that it solves deeply. Experienced engineers on a project usually have no problem figuring out which parts of a system need to be changed, because they already know the system well, and they don't know they system well by virtue of having all the code memorized, which would be impossible, but by having participated in all of the design discussions.

Therefore, the problem that needs to be solved is making the learning process as fast and easy as possible—thus the strict process around documenting changes and their motivation. Allowing people to quickly discover the existing code's motivation gives them the information that will actually need be committed to memory.
1) Not necessarily work, but something that drives you. A good hobby can be much more fulfilling than the work for money

2) Helping others is another thing that is incredibly rewarding, mentally at least.
Yes, whats more likely is that one of the countless bean counters at Google saw the long-tail revenue pie chart/breakdown and thought to themselves "Hmm! Would you look at that!" and just decided to not upset the apple cart..
> Try doing a [X] competitively at a high level

That covers maybe 1% of the population. Meanwhile the other 99% of us have environment effects (nutrition, education and training, role models, weather, exposure to niche opportunities and advantages) that are greater sources of variation than genetics.
As someone who backed them in 2017 I'm so happy to finally see the specs. It's amazing to follow their progress, I love what they are doing with Gnome/Phosh, that gives me hope that there will be many native apps for the most important tasks and not just some web-app mess.

For the people complaining about the price/specs ratio: this phone is no standard off-the-shelve system, it had to be designed with user privacy and openness in mind while having a ridiculously small market. I'm amazed they did it so cheaply.

Personally I hope that they will be able to sell enough to continue development. Maybe this will lead to a second generation with multiple models for different market segments. I'd love a librem phone with a good old blackberry keyboard in the <1500$ price range with a little more RAM/CPU power and screws holding the back plate.
Do the seams need to be continuous? Intuitively it feels like the seam being carved out doesn't need to be made from pixels touching each other. What if the best seam has a slope of about 1/3 (i.e 1 vertical pixel for ever 3 horizontal pixels)?
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Wait! I thought Ashkenazis were dumb and Koreans were geniuses.
If you've ever lived next door to someone who's had an high BTU wood burning stove you'll know why they have restrictions, I would never purchase property where a neighbor or someone close to the residence had one. Green energy source or not they're not something you want to live near unless you never open your windows or spend time outside, they stink.
If they can't find a foothold in the payment option, how can they expect people to use it for anything else? I don't think the shotgun approach is right or efficient in this case.
Also https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/us/spellpundit-scripps-sp..., via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20067491
That's right. This gives more flexibility like selling a license that works on Firefox + Chrome, and selling team based licenses.

I wouldn't be surprised if Google killed Chrome store payments in the future as well - I pretty much never hear mentions or updates about it. I wouldn't want to lose all my subscribers if that happened.
Google announces the Pixel 4 will have FaceID, radar-powered gestures
I think that effect only happens today in most places due to the pent up demand and restrictive zoning in place.

E.g.:

In Seattle when they upzone a small area it immediately goes up in value because a builder can put say four houses now and sell more units. There is nowhere else that can be done so that land has a premium on it due to the restrictive zoning in the rest of the city.

Now if the whole city was up zoned at the same time then the zoning would not affect the value of the land, only its amenity and location factors as per usual. In fact in this case land values would likely drop overall because now more units can be built everywhere allowing more people to live in the city in a variety of housing types, we reduced the supply demand gap and that affects the value of land overall.
There's pdf2htmlex, albeit it's an archived project.
Again (this has been stated several times in this thread). Intelligence tests are useful to detect and diagnose mental disabilities. What we (and Taleb) are questioning is the usefulness of above average IQs.

I don’t know why you are all of a sudden talking about social priming (I’ve never seen it pop up before in this thread), especially since priming is a concept from physio-psychology and computation psychology (that has apparently been borrowed by social psychologists) not psychometrics. I’m not even sure what you mean by social priming (I did a quick browse on wikipedia without success) so you have to inform me.

If you are saying that my claim—that psychometrics is a field filled with pseudoscience—is unsubstantiated, you are right. I did (implicitly) claim that, and I didn’t provide any substantial evidence for my claim. I probably should have, but that is out of the scope of this thread, so I’ll just leave it unsubstantiated. Call me lazy, and you would be correct.

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Edit: To clarify. Priming did come up in a grandparent’s comment. Priming (as my layman understanding goes) is believed to be a neurological effect that increases the efficiency of a search response for similar stimuli presented at short intervals. That is finding a particular pattern gets easier with subsequent trials. Priming effects have been demonstrated in numerous studies in the past two decades. However (as is usually the case in many scientific fields) a hype has arisen around the concept and many scientist are claiming that priming can explain several unrelated psychological constructs. Many of these studies have poor methodology and have never been replicated. Perhaps my parent comment was talking about one of these studies when they mentioned “social priming”.
Isn't this standard for all sides all over the world? Test reaction times for possible / perceived / near border excursions.

Just to have an idea of what happens, how long it takes etc etc
fMRI still has false positives https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobe...
They are much more majestic than lions. They should (probably) be called the king of the jungle. I remember reading man eaters of kumaon as a child, it was fascinating and scary. Highly recommended. There was one tiger in the book that was responsible for killing 100s of humans (300 or something, can't remember the exact number). Scary stuff.
>But there has also been an increase in human-tiger conflict recently and one reason is that India has too many tigers and too few forests that can sustain them unless more protected reserves are added. //

So they've stopped people killing them, but haven't unfortunately, it seems, been able to address the issue that leads to people killing them.

Presumably at some point the forest area needs to increase, or people will start killing tigers to protect themselves?

I wonder too how much of the increase is improved technique in finding (and recording?)?
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I mean they have been debunked and anyone that Google's it knows it.

Doesn't mean they don't work as an intimidation tactic. Though most of the agencies that use them are probably filtering out a lot of good employees by putting them through a test designed to mess with them. Instead of focusing on whether the person has the skills needed for the job.
Sorry, yes, in Go, they could all be "an interface value that is io.Reader" as well. But that is still a subtly different flavor than what the current []io.Reader means.
I mean, that's like saying "A ring by definition is always associative, so saying 'a ring without associativity' is contradictory". Neither ordinary language nor technical terminology work that way; not every phrase is compositional in such a straightforward way, including in mathematics. I mean, a "fake X" is not an X.

In mathematics the word "weak" plays a similar role; e.g. in differential equations a weak solution need not be a solution; it's easy to find more examples. Similarly when one talks about a "non-Y X" or a "X without Y" where ordinarily Y is part of the definition of X. The result is not an X, but it's still (usually) clear what's meant, and these are still the terms that get used. Anyway, the point is, new terms someone is defining have to be considered on the whole.

An actual incompatibility, like I said, would be giving an existing phrase a new meaning. E.g. if they had referred to total preorders as partial orders, that would be an incompatibility.
> I believe that SF is bad at governing

You're certainly not alone in that belief. SF is probably one of the most poorly governed cities in the world, especially when you consider its budget relative to what it accomplishes.
The pinephone only has a wifi radio and lacks any cell radios, thus it is incapable of connecting to cellular networks. It's basically an 'internet tablet' and not a phone (at least in the 'traditional' sense) like the name suggests.
/* don't even try to load if not enabled */
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I still think comments like these are super redundant and annoying.
I'm guessing you may be unaware of the fact that Hong Kong was re-acquired by China in 1997. It had been allowed freedoms that were nigh-unbelievable in mainland China, which allowed it to surge in growth and expertise at an extremely rapid rate during the 80s and 90s. The transition was a tense one with the world watching to see what would happen. China let the 'startup' city run independently for a while, and now it's finally reigning it in to be more aligned to toe the'corporate line.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hong_Kong#1990s
Perfectly acceptable; my mistake. Thanks!
Perhaps DRM isn't the issue. Perhaps the issue is DRM on a legacy game.
Forgive me for being the party-pooper here.

I might be going off on a tangent, but this govt has a history of cooking up numbers. Be it GDP, be it out-of-deficit spending or be it the output of the informal economy. Something that's coming from PMO, I'd be super skeptical. Pardon me for pointing out their carelessness in handling water crisis and climate change, but sure, they focussed on tiger population growth. Definitely believable.
The Chinese definitely saw it coming. The special economic zones were a specific plan to undercut HKs power and fuel mainland growth, which the CCP directly controlled. The mainland has always distrusted what it deems to be subversive ideas. HK and its ideas towards democracy has always been an existential threat.
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I might suggest adding (a sense of) purpose in there as well. From what I've seen, it becomes hard for senior citizens because they feel like they've lost their usefulness.

Even with the three other things you mentioned, not feeling like a contributor to society must be really hard.
Right. I don't honestly understand any justification for the "defenses" described (at various websites). If the polygraph just doesn't work, why attempt any "countermeasures". The whole thing is kind of funny.

I think you're exactly right. The fact that the "butt pad" is there means that you have to believe that clinching would have any effect one way or the other. So the butt pad is really just part of the overage mirage.
There's a wonderful scene in The Wire where they give a young thug a "polygraph test" by interviewing him in front of a copy machine and hit the copy button when he answers a question so that it spits out the message they preloaded into the machine "false." The thug looks crestfallen and tells them the truth.