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>... I think your point misses half the truth - if solo developers can create what we now consider to be AAA-quality games, the bar will raise.

The historical comparisons you're drawing aren't really comparable to having AI at every stage of the pipeline. When pervasive and done correctly, AI is very much another animal entirely.

For your VST example, a more apt comparison might be AI that composes music to the level of say, Hans Zimmer or John Williams. Without getting into the technical aspects, I believe doing so is merely an evolution of existing tech that we have today. It's hard, but it's achievable—especially when you have have imagery from scored films to train against.

So, the day that technology exists, an artist's involvement there might be as little as changing the AI's RNG seed until the AI cooks up something they like. If the output is as good as Zimmer or Williams, then what will distinguish artists who actually are that talented?

I believe the answer is virtually nothing, at least in a technical sense. However, there's a lot of people today who like their food cooked by a real person instead of made by automation, even if the taste is just as good. The human touch will always remain relevant, but I think that both avenues will eventually hit what you refer to as an upper limit of goodness.
I think we'd all handle difference in capability better if everyone believed that all human beings had something fundamentally in common that made us all equal in terms of human rights.

The subtext of all the resistance against demonstrating difference in capability is that if some individual or group is more capable, then in our Darwinian might makes right mentality that many seem to subconsciously adopt, those of superior capability must rule tyrannically over those of inferior ability.

On the other hand, with a Christian ethic of everyone created in the image of God, and that those with superior ability have the noble duty to serve those of lesser ability, then we would on the contrary seek to discover the full spectrum of human differences and capabilities instead of hiding from it.
because the supervisors are just acting in the short term best interest of property owners. limit supply and prices will go up. they're all on the take.
Jerry Seinfeld did a great comedy routine on this. He said that the stages of purchase are:

1. open box, put it on the table

2. put it in the closet

3. move it to the garage

4. move it to the storage unit

5. take it to the dump

He argued that Amazon should offer a shipping option to shortcut all this - just have it shipped directly to the dump!
> And corporations are formed of people.

So was the Nazi party.

The problem is with the distribution of benefits. Much like the vaulted Lebensraum the question is who gets the land and who gets to be fertilizer for the land.

So far the answer to the first is Bezos, and to the second is everyone who isn't Bezos. A distribution that leaves something to be desired of.
Just because luks isn't bad doesn't mean you can't use cracking tools to recover data when you forgot half the password, only have surveillance footage of the password being typed, have a bad password, etc.

Since the article doesn't document any (new) luks weaknesses, none of the comments will be about luks being insecure.
As you said it's not actually that black and white, but for the sake of argument, I would say one of these sides cannot "win", it can only destroy, and if they do that thoroughly enough, they just fall into the well of their own sickness for good. Sure, they can then define that as healthy, but that doesn't change their condition.

> No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the aim of becoming invulnerable and proving this invulnerability.

-- Arno Gruen

> And so one passes on one's own victimization through the act of punishing the stranger out there, the one identified as being everything one has learned to hate in oneself. The result is what we characterize as normal behavior in our culture: the life-long attempt to gain control over the painful part of our nature - the part of us that we have lost and that keeps on making us feel impotent and helpless - by making victims of others in order to punish them for the pain we are not permitted to feel and for the victim in us that we are not allowed to be.

-- Arno Gruen, "The Need to Punish", http://arnogruen.net/the_need_to_punish_--_article_by_arno_g...
I've seen both, and anecdotally suspect that it correlates with economic status.
I mean that what I had in mind was rather inflammatory and it was my mistake to refer to it even obliquely.
I don't want to get off topic, but the use of averages always concerns me. Averages tend to water down understanding and trigger misleading conclusion.

I'll have go back and revisit this article with more focus. But my initial observation was "on average?"
So does this mean Deep Blue can beat Magnus Carlsen in fantasy football?
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Do they feel like they've put enough taxi companies out of business that they can now raise heir rates?
Depends on what you consider chess-related work. I would put sleep, exercise, diet, meditation and other interests as chess-related work for a full-time chess player.

Even if you didn't, studying chess for more than 8 hours a day has diminishing returns, especially for older players like Carlsen.

One of the reasons older players don't continue to get better and start to get worse as they pass 40 is they find it hard to maintain high levels of concentration over a 4 hour game.
I grew up watching heartwarming TV shows and movies about families sharing wonderful adventures together. If you expect this, you will likely be disappointed. Those moments can be super rare.

Some kids are introverted, or mildly autistic, and are super-reluctant to communicate. You can tell it's painful for them, regardless of how good of parent you try to be, or how many parenting books you read. They may shut you out.

Meanwhile, other parents will brag about how miraculous their amazing children are, implying it's the norm. And to them it is, so what can you say?

Other non-parents will say things like, "oh, why don't you make them do ____", as if it's that simple. Turns out kids are their own persons, who rarely happily just do what you ask.
> Women have it so easy

I find that offensive:

a) young or attractive will get attention; a large number of woman do not get attention (perhaps even when seeking it).

b) “easy”? The whole point here is that it isn’t easy at all dealing with bad attention.
I’m reading down this particular thread and it seems to be dismissing the notion that we can have any meaningful psychological concepts at all.

I am worried that even though skepticism is good, skepticism from people outside of a field can lead into a downward spiral of rejecting all conclusions made by serious practitioners of that field.

How many other endeavors would be impossible to undertake if people constantly disregarded the methods and practices of researchers and specialists within these disciplines?

At what point are we merely finding ourselves skeptical of research which contradicts our preconceptions?

How do we know when we are going too far in picking apart methodology that we don’t even understand that well?
There's a difference between using kid-talk as a way to find common ground and bond with other people, and being literally unable to talk about anything but your kids. That latter bit actually does happen with a disturbingly-significant number of my friends who are parents.

The main commonality among parents I know who are afflicted with this problem is that they have no or few relatives living nearby. Those who have relatives (especially their own parents) nearby seem to be more well adjusted. While they still talk about their kids a lot, they can at least speak about other interests and events unrelated to the kids.

One of my friends who also is able to talk about other things is a freelancer and is not a workaholic. I suspect number of hours worked to be correlated here too.
GDPR is just a mess. The bureaucrats who wrote it don't understand it, neither do the enforcers, or the folks under enforcement.

Brussels should just shut itself down.
Nice, but...

Resolution is a bottleneck. Notice only 30-ish lines are visible here during editing. How many do you normally use? And VR videos can mislead, as inside a VR HMD, only the center ~1/3 region is as clear as the video, with pixels blurring together as you glance further away.

With a custom stack and subpixel rendering one can squeeze out almost a hundred lines on some consumer VR HMDs, but it's non-trivial and not a happy thing.

Terminals in spaaaaace... remember skeuomorphic user interface design? Cell phones were new, so to ease on-boarding novice untrained users, things were made to resemble familiar real-world objects. A calendar app might perhaps show lined paper, flipped around a spiral binding, with a textured leather surround. We don't do that now - it would be silly. Because resembling the physical world is so unlikely to align with desired UI and domain affordances and tradeoffs. Windows tumbling in 3-space? For professionals and experienced users in AR/VR, how long before resembling "R"eality is design smell?

So I've used drone googles in preference to VR HMDs, for 1080p of mostly readable pixels. Shallow 3D rather than virtual world, so long hours in fixed-focus HMDs isn't eye pain. Arbitrary non-physical mapping from head and hand tracking to input, because good ergonomics is using a touch pad, not something silly like constantly lifting hand from keyboard to tap a laptop screen. Arbitrary non-physical "space" and "physics", because slavishly emulating the oppressive constraints of the physical world would be... just why? Intensively avoid immersion. And so on. Arguably not vR. But is "R" really the best possible professional use of AR/VR hardware?

Nreal light 1080p AR glasses recently became available for $1.2k dev kit preorder. Which is months late, but recent PR is still quoting $500 "early 2020" consumer availability. We'll see if pixel blur and alignment is good enough to render a small font from corner to corner. If so... I hope to be using my laptop screen rather less soon. But not to see windows floating in spaaaaaace.

EDIT: Oops, I just noticed this was a ShowHN, rather than a generic post. So on a more upbeat note... it's great to see the envelope being pushed, with non-toy real extended demos, inspiring people, and encouraging them to reflect on the very non-trivial changes which are inbound. And PeerTube worked pretty well.
I actually buy a lot of things from the thrift store and the pawn shop. Mostly things like books, dvds, records, file cabinets, tools, tool boxes, TVs, tablets, luggage, cables, and other electronics. For example, just last week I bought a high quality set of jumper cables for $5. A while back I bought a very nice oscilloscope in perfect order for $40.

When I'm done with it it goes back to the thrift store :-)
But "you can get pretty far with training" is exactly what happens with a skill that can be trained?
It's not like speeding tickets are inevitable. I've been driving for over 17 years and I've never been pulled over once (knock on wood). But sure, I don't mind proportional speeding tickets (I never get them), but I think it's a slippery slope of socialism where you start thinking everything should have proportional costs. Why should rich and poor both pay $3 for a gallon milk? Shouldn't the rich pay $30 for a gallon of milk? Heck, they are so out of touch with food costs anyway they probably wouldn't notice.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad_higXixRA
This essay reminds of the book "Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids" (2012) by economist Bryan Caplan, which I suggest to people thinking about how many children to have.
Indeed! I was indeed aware of this specific use of ERANGE (although imo there's almost always a better error code that can be chosen to better communicate what has happened).
> In any modern setup you are better served by Argon2 (or if that's not available at least scrypt).

I recently wanted to do exactly that in JavaScript. Browser crypto only does PBKDF2... quite disappointing. One still has to use third party libraries for all practical purposes, there might as well not be a crypto API at all except for providing a CSPRNG.
>> I’m reading down this particular thread and it seems to be dismissing the notion that we can have any meaningful psychological concepts at all.

Not at all, at least not on my part. I think psychology is important. I am not convinced by the methodology though.
Not really, that would imply they read the article instead of the title.
I must admit I was surprised, although I shouldn't be. Are we at > 10GB/s memory bandwidth now?

> This approach really starts to suck when you implement macros that are going to perform a lot of one-char inserts quickly. Or when you're editing multi-gigabyte files.

I'm working on an editor that I've optimized for such cases. In a test it made random edits to a 4GB file in < 50 microseconds. But, it cost a load of sweat and blood to get that rope data structure right. And it loads files only at about 100MB/s (should optimize for bulk inserts). https://github.com/jstimpfle/astedit
It typically is not the same service. The enterprise plan typically comes with better or faster customer support, or more resources, or something.it may not always reflect the entire value of the value add. But it is rarely the same service.
No love for Nimbyish supervisors but "startups improving efficiency" isn't a counterweight nor a good example to contrast with.
I thought the Hydrogen thing was a ruse to kill battery electric vehicles, years ago, invented by fossil fuel lobbyists.

It works like this: Hydrogen seems plausibly usable, but nobody is sure. It allows continued use of internal combustion engines so you can carry on as normal for now. Then in 10 years when nobody has figured out how to make Hydrogen work it's too bad we didn't focus on battery electric. And of course you can repeat and rinse because perhaps in another 10 years Hydrogen may be made to work.

We're two cycles in at this point.
Few bucks? You ever taken a Lyft or Uber between boroughs in New York?
That's the point - given relatively low level of effort required to build docs I mentioned, many prefer just to pip install something that creates html pages from docstrings (in Python case) and we get another readthedocs fork, which I repeat are not bad and serves an important purpose of unifying interface to documentation, but there's always room for improvement, right?
One way of thinking about this study is in terms of semantic relations. Ask yourself the following questions, they might help with understanding the value of a study like this:

Will different people answer these personality questions differently?

Do some people have similar personality traits?

Can specific viewpoints be predicted, to some rational degree of error, based on how they answer these questions?

Assuming the people answering do not get any feedback from answering in a specific way (i.e. the questionnaire is a black box), and correlations can be found in the data, and predicted viewpoints can be tested against the answers, then the scientific method here is sound. From an engineering point of view, it makes sense that the results of such a questionnaire can be useful in understanding the way that people think. Of course some people will be fuzzy or erratic and not conform to a regression, but we see that all the time in every practical scientific branch (excluding most maths, in my experience).
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They already charge more than a regular yellow cab in New York. Hopefully this price hike will inspire folks to turn back to the cheaper local option.
Really the problem is San Francisco voters. How many tech people actually vote?
This sort of thing is surprisingly useful.

A couple of weeks ago I was going to Human Resources on the other side of campus and there was a Chinese family wandering around, obviously lost.

The mother showed me her phone with some Chinese-language map app that I'd never seen before. It indicted that there was a shopping mall where we were standing. Obviously, her map app was wrong since the company has been at this location for 30 years.

But I was able to say to my phone, "Hey, Siri. How to you say 'I'm sorry, there is no shopping center here.' In Chinese?" And then I held my phone for her to see while Siri both printed out the translation on the screen and spoke it to her. I said a few other hopefully helpful phrases to her, but she seemed happy with my guidance and did lots of smiling and nodding.

(I assume the article is about the Google version of this. I wasn't able to read the article because Wired popped up so many ads and DIV modals on the screen that there wasn't any actual story text.)
Woman catches cheating boyfriend with synced Fitbit, increased activity at 4am
This is me. Made some money myself, made a lot for bigco's, and constantly feeling that literally anyone else is better at writing software, actual programs than I am.

Also see: imposter syndrome :-)
A suppressed report of millions of (mainly non-autistic) victims (2018)
If you read the comments, it’s just one guy giving his opinion on every comment without any supporting evidence.
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It’s a temporary thing. Once they hit five or so they require less direct help.
but the processing is the important part
Defining then relative to the flex direction makes sense, but the choice of which one is with the flow and which is across it is arbitrary, chosen between two words that normally mean with the flow. It'd make more sense if the properties were flex-justify and flex-justify-cross, or flex-align and flex-align-across.
Node Window Manager, a Window Manager for Windows and Mac OS
Sabrent Rocket 4.0 NVMe benchmarked against other SSDs
I enjoyed the talk about scaling Pokemon GO + migrating from DBshards to Aurora PostgreSQL which went into what they tried, what failed and what succeeded rather than just saying "We used X service and it was great"

I couldn't find it in that catalogue but you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eEKuK5eOC4
No rude or discriminate, but I think it would be much better to send these returns to the 3rd party countries like India or China, isn't it a win-win solution?
You're way too early to be thinking about this now. Seriously. Strong leadership doesn't come from setting rules, it comes from being the example so that others willingly follow you.

Just focus on making the best product you can and taking care of your customers, and make sure the others are doing the same. You'll find that people either understand and copy the behavior or they'll start wavering, at which point you can figure out why and if they should stay with the company.
YouTube cracks down on insulting videos
How about our ability to echo-locate, given enough practice? That seems like yet another sense that goes beyond just hearing, and is probably linked to our proprioception skills.
To that end, when we shift the problem from 1 reformed ex-con applying to 1 company to a distribution of reformed and non-reformed ex-cons applying to many companies, and consider in general how inefficient hiring practices tend to be in this field, what are some things that could be done to give these companies confidence that the person they hired won't steal from the company?

Perhaps some kind of standardized post-incarceration psychological/behavioral evaluation and certification system?

edit: someone mentioned this: https://thelastmile.org/
This only works if the Christian god is real, which the majority of the world finds not to be the case.

I think it may be possible to develop practices and communities that provide similar benefits without the supernatural baggage, but it will take some work. I've been looking a bit into spiritual naturalism lately (and related groups), but it seems it is still quite early days for these movements.
One day you might become a granddad. My socks, that I am wearing right now, have embroidered: "I love my grandpa".

You do have to lose yourself a bit for a while especially when the little loves are very young but there are so many repayments in kind if you notice them. Try and describe the first time your child looked into your eyes and you felt loved ... really, really loved and wanted and the best person in the world ever because you are dad and the little darling is ensuring that if mum is not around then you are the absolute dogs nadgers 8)

You are dad. You'll be fine.
The three founders live here, and wanted to build a software company. They worked hard to make something people wanted, and raised money from the three Fs (friends, family, and fools). They applied to YC on a lark, actually got in, moved to Mountain View for 3 months, learned a ton and made good connections.

After gaining traction in the market it was possible to raise from angels and then VCs.

I believe you can build and sell software from anywhere if you have the drive and find a way to solve problems that people are willing to pay money to solve.

Here's an article that talks more about it: https://missoulacurrent.com/business/2018/08/missoula-tech-s...
Not really for users. They care about doing the request and seeing the results on their phones.
>Somehow the link [0] cited in the article makes an indirect similar point, but what's wrong with programs which are not updated?

Bit rot, for one (not keeping up with changing OSes, APIs they talk to, environments, libs they use, security concerns, etc), but also the fact that when they stopped updating they were still incomplete and more often than not half arsed.
Those years are intense. It gets better after age 6 or so. I remember when I moved into this house and the neighbors across the street had one age 8 and triplets age 5. When I saw Rick across the street in his front yard, that man just always looked tired :) Mine was 2.5 at the time.

Anyway, it gets better, and interaction gets more intellectually stimulating. Do your best to enjoy every day as it comes at you, because all too soon you will be parallel parking between orange cones in a big, empty parking lot, and soon after paying tuition bills to the fanciest school they can get into.
> But above all this is the sheer waste of human effort in terms of the production of rotting software in repositories.

Yup, what about the amount of human effort that has been wasted in the course of producing off-the-shelf proprietary software? How much of that proprietary stuff is now entirely useless, for some reason or another? It's just so weird to make an engineering-focused argument for proprietary stuff, when the only case that's even remotely plausible is about production incentives, and everything else hugely favors FLOSS.

As an aside, I'm pretty sure that, in the medium-to-long run, we'll manage to fund FLOSS development to an entirely satisfactory extent via crowdfunding, and that while saving a lot of dough compared to what it would take to fund proprietary development in the same way.

But in fact, even his point about support revenues is misguided. Well-designed and easy-to-use software does not really draw fewer paid-support arrangements than software that's hackish, unintuitive and the like. The nees for paid support is almost entirely an organizational one, so it matters zilch how easy the software is to support in reality; it's far more important that the organization can point to that support contract if any such need should arise.
One argument some people will want to make is:

This possibly speaks more about how our current incarceration methods are failing society, than it does about any particular person who’s been incarcerated.