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A lot of my peers are brilliant people and they know more than I do about a wide range of topics. I want to copy their beliefs a lot of the time when I don’t have special evidence to have my own view.

This post’s advice is extremely bad because it forces some level of optimizing for uniqueness (very ironic this is related to Thiel’s question too, since it plays right into Girard-style mimetic fighting to differentiate one’s self from otherwise highly similar peers).

But uniqueness is not valuable in a vacuum. You actually need the unusual views to be correct and valuable in some way. Merely creating some spark of uniqueness is pretty useless and often harmful.

If someone said to me that inside their field of experience (life, or professional or otherwise), they have sufficient reason to have an unusual belief, but for everything else they either copy another expert they trust or else default to conventional wisdom, that would impress me.

If someone goes out of their way to hold unusual beliefs in areas where there is no reason to believe their judgement, that’s a sign of reckless beliefs and immature virtue signaling.
> He addressed the need to tax wealth

Did he? Where? He said he supported an estate tax -- which he obviously wouldn't pay until dying.

Most talk of a wealth tax is about taxing wealth while you're alive.
Is it just me or is this post riddled with grammatical or spelling errors? Or just omission of words or backwards logic:

> One learns quickly in life that it is never fun to be unpopular. Everyone has felt it at some point in their life. Most people never want to feel it again and so they go against the grain.

Why would most people go against the grain if they never wanted to feel unpopular again?
This is 100% an anecdote as worthy of skepticism as every other. But I'd encourage everyone not to let your own "common sense" color your interpretations of the evidence that shows that NPs give >/>= care.
I have done some VR with Godot and I'm very pleased with it. I also did a VR game in Unity for a course at university 2 years ago so I have some experience in both engines for VR.

In terms of performance & lag of the implementation of VR I didn't notice any differences between the two engines.

From my experience with Godot :

1. The dev cycle is I press play and then everything just works instantly. The game automatically connects to the headset and I can see the game both on the screen and in the headset. No build, no exports, nothing. It just works. From what I understood this is mainly thanks to Bastiaan Olij' work, so big thanks to him !

Also VR support in Godot has a "native" feel, you have AR/VR nodes ("ARVRCamera", "ARVRController", etc.) in the engine. I spent less time setting up VR in Godot than in Unity.

2. I never used wireless headset so I can't compare battery usage. For wired headset at least, in terms of performance Godot is far sufficient for making games like any of the popular VR games out there.

As a big rewrite of the rendering engine is going to happen for 4.0, I think we should wait for this before making comparisons of rendering perfs.

3. Godot has support for GDScript , C#, and "others" (via NativeScript). In others we have C++, Rust, Python, JS, etc. I never used any of those other languages with Godot so I can't tell. It seems the setup of NativeScript is quite complicated and much less convenient to use than C# & GDScript, but I'd also like to hear from someone who used that.

However it's a UI problem and I don't see why in the future NativeScript couldn't be just be as convenient (maybe we indicate once the path to GCC and Godot automatically download the NativeScript headers, set up everything and compile automatically on play)

Also for performance intensive tasks there should be compute shaders in 4.0 and it was also mentioned that compiling GDScript AOT (maybe by transpiling it to C or targeting LLVM) should be doable (GDScript' static typing is a first step in that direction).

From my personal experience, Godot is such a breath of fresh air compared to Unity where everything seems messy and overengineered. There is no prefab or other wierd things. Just nodes in trees and scenes. It makes everything so much cleaner and more enjoyable to develop with. Unity seems to pile up the latest shiny features on top of each other but without thinking about overall coherence.

However the popularity and $$$ of Unity gives it many advantages in terms of support , tutorials, asset store, more features, etc.

So I would recommend Godot :

- if you like clean architecture

- if your VR game is not more graphically ambitious than popular VR games or if you're okay to wait for 4.0 (then it should be on par with other engines)

- if you don't need YouTube tutorial for everything and you're okay with reading the doc API.

- if you are used to code your own logic & assets and not to rely heavily on the Unity asset store (you can consider Godot asset store is basically nonexistent in comparison)
> Goodreads reaction to complaints by (verified) authors about this sort of abuse is to deny all responsibility. So there's zero curation going on there.

Goodreads was bought by Amazon in 2013, so the issues you are describing are not surprising considering that Amazon.com reviews have the same issues.
Progressive income tax reduces wealth inequality. People start in a very unfair game and it prevents the rich getting richer, and the poor getting poorer. Wealth inequality tears communities apart.
The hell? What is wrong with those computers? Atom CPUs, mechanical drive and 2GB of ram?
The best chance to strike gold in the long term is entrepreneurship. Given your expertise, try and copycat or resell in your market a few cheap but relevant and successful products from state-of-the-art companies within your niche?
> Is this really a good predictor?

It's a good predictor if you wanted to hire people that knew who Peter Thiel was.

It's the sort of question that people answer better if it's not the first time they've heard it.

A really good candidate might be able to push back and ask what population of people the interviewer meant by "few people". There's views that I have around technology that few people in the world (relativity) have, but are orthodox if you narrowed that group to just software developers.
Website is not by me. I fixed the link. Thanks

But webauthn.io and webauthn.guide are both copyright of Duo Labs and so is the library so I guess they can do whatever they want ;) I assume the two websites and the library are by the same author

Also the library lives on the server side ; not client ; and given the license is not AGPL there is no need to state that they're using it either.

(Edit: original comment was accusing me of copyright infringement for some reason)
It's quite rude to say that a real person does not exist, just because you have not bothered to educate yourself about his field.
Mentioning gender isn't inherently exclusive, like using "gentleman" to refer to a specific man.

The term "gentlemen's agreement" is exclusive because it's a relic from a time when men were the only people who would conceivably enter into such an agreement. Even if it's "just an expression", it has a lot of assumptions tied up in it, and there are many, many alternate ways to say the same thing these days without those connotations.

If you take it literally (not "just an expression"), then it's an agreement where only men are allowed to participate, and hopefully it's obvious that that's exclusive. Good terminology should ideally be understandable to someone who hasn't seen the term before, so by that metric, "gentlemen's agreement" is just not a good term and doesn't seem worth keeping in the language.
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I thought the idea behind these were not that the DOM updates are "fine-grained" (they are in all modern frameworks), but that they usually skip the "VDOM with a global state" model and instead try to have smaller chunks of a page control itself.

So they might work very well if you can contain the state to a single component, but if you have deep shared state dependencies or changes in state in one component that changes a lot of other parts of the site it won't work as well.

I'd also question if (with most modern frameworks) the framework is the primary bottleneck. I usually use hyperapp-v1 as my frontend and find that loading less and optimizing my own code usually leads to better gains than tinkering in the framework.

Not saying that one should ignore benchmarks, but they should also not be the "end-all" measure of a framework.
I like how on hacker news every personal problem can be solved by three activities; Therapy, Meditation, and...Salsa!

It's probably good advice. Although, I like to combine all three by doing painting and poetry. These activities might be better suited to some hackers.
BTW, without even discussing a credibility of this page, why it's never a problem when human rights violations happen in a countries that are allies of USA. The country can be a very strict dictatorship (Singapore) or violate human rights even more aggressively than Saddam Hussein ever did (UAE) - but it's never an issue. As long as the country economics decisions are dictated by USA (e.g. investing almost all country income in US treasuries and/or buying US weapons) - they can do whatever they want - up to dismembering people in their embassies - no problem, no shouts about human rights violations and lack of democracy that has to be immediately corrected by dropping bombs on their heads - because it's probably the most effective way to install "democracy".
That's nice Bill, how much of the money you made after moving Microsoft to Washington because they didn't have income tax are you gonna donate to this cause? Becaue I am sure a certain other company who set up in Washington because of their lack of income tax is gonna be spending a lot of money on keeping the status quo.
> But webauthn.io and webauthn.guide are both copyright of Duo Labs and so is the library so I guess they can do whatever they want ;)

Yeah, I didn't realize that. Tried to edit it in, but too late.

> Also the library lives on the server side ; not client ; and given the license is not AGPL there is no need to state that they're using it either.

And I didn't notice that. I thought it was JavaScript, but it was Go all along. Doubly my bad.

> (Edit: original comment was accusing me of copyright infringement for some reason)

I was (wrongly) assuming webauthn.io was in violation of the license of the library because I thought it was a client-side library.
I think while the ratings system is a dumpster fire, it does a huge service for readers still. You can easily track your reading list, books you're read (and sharing it with friends), and their app's scan feature is lovely for me personally when in bookstores to quickly add a book to my list. And they could improve a lot on this areas for sure.

In terms of reading tracking I think it's quite an interesting source and while the outcomes are not surprising, I think with just some better analysis this could be a very interesting piece. Props to the author for the idea alone.
That's really great! I'm surprised it didn't make it onto the front page. Oh well.

I wouldn't have thought so if it had made it, but I think think maybe the name should be changed to something like "Awesome Uncanny Design" or something, and perhaps the logo could be something that evokes the uncanny valley or the twilight zone or something. The current one might make it sound like we want to ban this stuff, which is not the idea. I just want people to be aware of it. It also isn't all crap, so maybe an upside down smiley face would be a more fitting emoji, or a horse, parachute, butterfly, or another example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

Thanks! Not only did you make something I thought should exist, it helped me find the Caddy GitHub issue about cogs which was super interesting.
Tax havens were a thing. But between all the leaked customer data, the subsequent prosecutions, and plenty of bilateral pressure from the US (2008-20016) and other large and wealthy countries, most tax haven jurisdictions have given in/up.

It's not entirely perfect, of course. But there is plenty of evidence that with people in charge actually caring for the issue it is solvable.
Thats not what sabbath mode does. It allows Jews to open and close the door without turning on a light or a fan. You cant change the temperature or press bake or any buttons on it...it simply doesnt active automated features that typically activate.
Thiel didn't destroy Gawker with a mercenary army. He financed a lawsuit which was found to be meritorious. This is not an "arbitrary" thing at all.

Whatever Thiel's beliefs or motives, Gawker published a private sex tape for no legitimate reason. When a judge ruled they had to take it down, they disobeyed the injunction.

As Thiel points out, one social problem that this exposes is that even a single digit millionaire like Hulk Hogan didn't have access to the legal system. Hogan should have been able to get the result himself, but needed a billionaire to finance him.
He's not saying removing everyone's vote, he's saying removing the vote for half of the adult population on the basis of gender, because he doesn't like how they vote.

That's a libertarian position?
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If Thiel asked me these I'd answer, but some rando recruiter or HR person, I'd just answer how much I admired Nelson Mandela, because that's the answer to every HR question anyway.
Ehhhh the responses given by this question, in my opinion, would be heavily driven by the interviewee answering in a way they think the interviewer wants to hear. Most people are self aware enough that they are not going to be spewing out their _truly_ controversial views on politics/religion/whatever to this person they barely know.
You cannot say that nobody holds controversial views when the views discussed come from job interviews, of all places...
Whether Bill likes it or not, a wealth tax is likely a non-starter anyway. It's amazing that several candidates are running on a wealth tax when it is pretty likely that it would require a constitutional amendment. Courts already found the carriage tax unconstitutional, which is effectively the same thing.
Firefox mobile allows using fingerprint.
It's not a punishment for being productive. I think the argument is that, in some way, government services / infrastructure / foreign relations facilitated your productivity or created an opportunity for you to be productive.
IP is a huge governmental tax on the general public that accrues to a small number of wealthy people. (Any governmentally-enforced monopoly would be the same.) Taxing it would effectively reduce that somewhat, but it's easier to simply reduce IP in the first place. Make copyright 5 years instead of infinite, for example. That has the dual benefit of bringing a lot of content into the public domain and also being similar in effect to a tax on IP. (Think of it, if you like, as a 0% tax on IP for the first five years followed by a 100% tax on IP.)
There are already third party utilities that inject dlls or monitor the mozilla windows to allow features lost when legacy extension support was removed.

I saw on ghacks the other day about ThunderBirdTray which is a 3rd party executable that watches Thunderbird to restore the functionality lost when MinimizeToTray stopped working.

Improved privacy, better download managment(DownloadThemAll what it used to be able to do), OS integration, ect have for the most part been eroded away.

Eventually things seem like they will escalate to the point you'll have to use CheatEngine, a suite of 3rd party programs running in the background, or special compiles of the browser made by 3rd parties like WaterFox or yourself to get chrome or firefox to do anything in addition to loading a webpage, and to stop it from doing a lot of unwanted things.
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I don't think most are saying "no" involvement.
You would be violating Sabbath law if you press any buttons on the oven especially Bake, even with a timer...unless you set the timer before sabbath starts.
Sabbath mode just turns off automated features when you open or close the oven or fridge door.
This is especially true as projects age; i recently ran into yet another bug installing dependencies for a rails app, because of a patch-version change on a small library had a bug that manifested with our otherwise old/legacy stack.

I could see a similar situation for projects stuck on older version of node, lodash or whatever, where some tiny component break everything.

Its always fun when you have a known good build, make a change and trigger an error - only to realize the error is in your build system/dependency graph due to someone else doing testing on a different subset of versions than you need - not due to the change you just did.
The root cause of your emotions are your thoughts.
Perfect use case for Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit.
Regardless of age or career, I think most of us are lifelong students of one kind or another.
Thanks for the info. This is not really 2FA anymore though, is it? Now WebAuthn authentication is happening on the same device as the one I'm using to log into the service. Is there a way to use my phone as a completely separate factor for WebAuthn authentication?
https://panic.com is pretty great and so is the landing page for their upcoming hardware product: https://play.date
Evolution Puzzles?
I think Parcel would be a great option for your use case, shameless plug I have a boilerplate repo you could fork to get started: https://github.com/jdmg94/minimum-parcel-lib
It sure seems like you did not try to sincerely read it. That paragraph has virtually nothing to do with the rest of the post. It just reinforces that you seem to only consider opinions or arguments that start out from a position you already agree with, and are happy to dismiss things without reading them if you don’t.
> Do you have reason to think the authors made stronger claims for causality than can be supported by their evidence?

They made no claims for causality.
Now, if most people disagree with my view, how likely is it that you will agree?

I think this is the spot where your logic stopped working.

The idea is that you don't care whether they agree. You'll listen to opposing arguments, of course, but the goal isn't to get them to agree. They're asking you because they're interested.

Or at least, that's how it should work. It stops working when it becomes an interview question.

The point is to see whether someone thinks originally. If you have opinions you're reluctant to share among peers without wording it carefully, and you've spent a lot of time thinking very carefully about the topic, then there's a pretty good chance you're an interesting person to know.

EDIT: Another way to phrase it: If you give an answer that you truly believe and that you've thought carefully about for a long time, and they disagree loudly and immediately, then there are two possibilities: Either they have given the topic more thought than you (which is entirely possible), or they are less open-minded than they think they are. Both outcomes give useful information to you.
> The only UX I care about is the application being responsive and doing what it says it's going to do

UX as a field goes well beyond pretty UIs.

UX designer could drive your example because they looked at the users of the product and realized that like you, they care about a very responsive system.

Detecting that someone finds the product too slow could eventually materialize a backlog item to make page load times twice as fast etc.
I support the notion of capping how much you pass on after death. I’m against dynasties.

I don’t support simply giving that money to the government. In the country my husband is from, government has plundered their national resources and directly the treasury chest. In the towns I grew up in, in the Midwest, I saw similar patterns. My high school didn’t teach calculus, but we took loans or raised taxes to fund football stadiums, etc.

Government is not a great allocator. Unless we can create some framework to hold officials accountable, I’m not convinced the billions the Bill Gates of the world leave behind would go to helping student debt (which in my opinion it should) or counter homelessness instead of another 20 year war in the Middle East.

Not trying to turn this political but just trying to convey my view.
Doesn't that just mean how quiqly it can burn down your CI pipeline due to a bug introduced deep in the dependcy graph?
Because size does matter.
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I wonder if many of these "think differently" questions are less about finding a brilliant theorist and more about finding people who can cope with social condemnation that comes with operating the gears of capital and have the capacity to produce rationales that create enough space to operate without being shut down.

After all, few big innovations come from business, most come from research. Thiel is looking for capable managers of capital.

This after all explains Theil's own career of holding opinions that are not brilliant, but are socially destructive while simultaneously making him rich. He think the female vote was a mistake, he founded a deep state company that assists in intelligence gathering for the military-industrial complex and the NSA. He killed a newspaper.... and so on. He has been called a neo-feudalist.
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> "I can think of many answers to this question that could disclose a protected status, political or religious ideology, or some other belief that now you have to consider in the candidate."

Funny you should jump straight to those things. Given how opinionated we all are, I imagine most experienced software professionals would have at least one contrarian opinion about something technological in their profession. I can think of a few without even trying.
More than focusing on any single technology, I am willing to drive my stake to the ground here.

If you have the background, or sufficient interest in security, add two things to the mix: psychology and usability. The UX of security related software/solutions are nothing if not atrocious. Fixing that would be a good start, but I won't hold my breath. It's also going to be increasingly important to understand why people - both individually and in aggregate - do/choose/prefer certain things over others.

This goes way beyond blind A/B testing, btw: you can't just throw random experiments on the wall and see what happens to produce the best incremental ROI. You'll have to actually think about paths, not just the next fork in the road.
I use xz on my A1200 all of the time, and Amiga is the stereotypical system where maximum possible compression matters over everything else. Don't make assumptions about me.
The question is what causes what. We know that TV and cognitive decline in this population are associated.

Does television watching cause cognitive decline?

Does cognitive decline cause television watching?

Does some other factor cause both television watching and cognitive decline?

Knowing some people are inactive and read books doesn't help much in probing this. Because we're not asserting cognitive decline always causes television watching, or whatever.
If you're looking for landing page inspiration, here are two sites that collect examples

https://onepagelove.com/

https://www.pages.xyz/
Not just a great landing page but a great product, which helps.
This post assumes that this question is predictive, which is something I'd much rather see established first...
The term they use to describe this phenomena is "extraocular vision". Defined as the ability to see without eyes.

More info:
https://aspirantworld.in/extraocular-vision/
Data structures and algorithms, because I'm transitioning from data scientist to machine learning engineer. Better pay, more technical and less marketing.