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> It's parallel to what I've heard about the trouble with history bring. You just never know exactly where to start.

Mathematics offers an opportunity here that history doesn't: there is a definite starting point, namely, the axioms. Not every course can or should start at the axioms, but it is there as an option, as it isn't with history.

Even so, this point is a very interesting one. I hated history in grade school, but then stumbled upon Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich while browsing the shelves one day. It hooked me, but made reference to a lot of WWI history that I didn't know, so I started reading about WWI history. But, to understand the antipathies in WWI, you have to go back even further in European history ….

This hunt backwards for first causes has led me to Wilson's Heart of Europe, which traces the history of the Holy Roman Empire. It's a struggle, because it's much more on the scholarly than the popular side of things to which I am accustomed, but I'm engaged in it because it's helping me answer questions that I posed, rather than ones that my history teachers both posed and, all too soon, answered.

I think that the best education, lies or no, is the one that both leaves students asking their own questions, and equips them with the tools to seek out the answers to those questions themselves.
Something else that seems relatively foreign from a lot of 'modern' music today (of most genres) is that the entire unit stayed together for... 90%+ of their career. Beatles/Martin @ Abbey Road comprises most of their output, with some engineer changes here and there, and a bit recorded at other studios.

Compared to today, where everyone switches producers every album (or on the same album), staying mostly in the same place with the same group of support people for... 7 years is relatively remarkable, and, I suspect allowed them all to grow together in various ways.
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Just use common sense. Wet a paper towel with the cleaner and wipe down the electronics with that, rather than dunking your phone into a bucket of the stuff.
The solution isn't to force style on programmers within the language. It's to fix the shitty diff tools that flag whitespace changes as significant.
Everyone wanting to really understand what is going on with the new green economy and these platitudes should watch Michael Moore's nee documentary he just released free on YouTube called Planet of the Humans. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE
I work for Facebook.
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Heptapod has forked Gitlab to use mercurial instead of git https://about.heptapod.host
> When Warren Buffett studies a company, he doesn’t see a checklist of mental models he has to apply

He's probably trying to explain the guidance from Farnam Street. The most popular answer on their internal forum on how to use/apply mental models was to treat mental models as checklist. I was a Farnam Street member until last year.
Direct link: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/363337/how-to-find...
To be honest you can remove in Quarantine from the title.
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The implementation get trickier. Better solutions to existing problems are usually more complicated.
> ... with nothing to show for the money they took in

They made some Incredibles 2 style goggles.
I just went through this pain myself. But don't forget the user. If Markdown was understood by all I could think of 10 ways to easily implement a custom CMS. But my content editors don't. So that's why I need more. Not sure for a market fit here therefore. Hackers don't need, hipsters cant use it.
Here are some employee motivation ideas that I know that work:

Self-determination theory by Deci and Ryan lumps everything into three components:

- The ability to make decisions / agency over what you do (they call this autonomy)

- Feeling connected with other people (relatedness)

- Being able to get better and to start at the right level (they call this competence)

Any idea that you can think of that relates to CAR (Competence, Autonomy, Relatedness) will most likely work.

Here are a few:

- Relatedness: Say you want to learn mathematics. Find a study group for 2 hours per week! Don't like your study group? Find a study group until you like one. Can't find someone, then at least get your social media straight: find mathematicians you like on YouTube, Twitter and the like. Email them, ask them questions, who cares they're busy? Consume their content (isn't 3Blue1Brown motivating? ;-) ) and see if you can engage more with them.

- Competence: You're too long stuck at a problem and you feel demotivated. Well the theory predicts that, so you need to find a way to see your progress. Either do this by getting easier problems to solve or get better feedback mechanisms. One way to do that is to reflect after the fact (when you solved the problem) how it is possible to be stuck for so long. Then the next time you get stuck, you can include this meta-process and reflect on it again, over time you'll see yourself get better with this reflection. So now you get feedback from two things that are relating to each other!

- Autonomy: Do you feel forced to do something? Try to see if you can find a choice within the activity. I did this while studying, I chose to study "how to study as fast as possible", suddenly I found any topic fascinating. This is why managers forcing a certain work style down employees their throats are hurting their intrinsic motivation. Allowing employees to find out about their own ways of working yields higher autonomy.

I'm always noticing that when I'm unmotivated that I'm sorely lacking in one of these three aspects, and in most cases it's relatedness as I have no one to bounce my ideas around with.

So ask yourself when you're really unmotivated, are you low on competence, autonomy or relatedness? I'm curious to hear if you feel high on all three (email is in the profile). I never experienced it.

Anyways, those are my tips to motivate anyone really.
Sad to say, I'm completely unsurprised that countries with rampant Covid19 spread have a lot of deaths in their retirement homes. It's practically deterministic.

People are contagious in the pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic case. So all that's needed is that one employee of the retirement home gets sick and goes to work before they know, and the game is up. Dead patients everywhere.

I'm sure this is discussed and considered on the highest levels of policy in the jurisdictions that have been the most proactive in getting a handle on the epidemic early, and missed in most others.

I'm sure a strict face mask policy could have helped slow things down, but that's sadly been a hotly contested topic.
What's your opinion about Michael Moore's new documentary about the green economy? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE
You're describing what those AUR builds do not what they are.

Reproducible builds are for artifacts that are... built. Plenty of AUR recipes download blobs and explode them, but the resulting xz package isn't actually hosted in the AUR.

A tool like rebuilderd would only be relevant to the AUR in the case that somebody is publishing generated AUR packages to a repo for others to install without building them directly, and then you'd like to verify those.
If you are good at something and can't articulate why your consistency is going to be pretty poor. Speaking from experience, I took a bowling class in college and got good enough that I could have "good days" but I couldn't tell you what I was doing differently on those days versus my "bad days". The lesson I took from that was that I was still a pretty terrible bowler and needed a coach to explain to me what I was doing wrong.
Nice runway you got there.

Do you know when the economy will be back to normal?
Interesting, so sounds like they already made some progress? Wonder if it's remote team or if they have ownership... I know I wanted to do projects with people remotely but seemed to run into flakey people... Like one project I was going to do the coding, while someone else was going to do the sales. I feel like I did my part but they ended up never even trying with sales it seems.

Then wanted to do something game related in a virtual world, and got someone to agree to create models for an amount while I'd do the scripting part, then they totally just disappeared on me. This happened about 3 years ago, but I guess my problem might have been just being too cheap since we both we both were just starting out - thought we were doing each other a favor in a way.

I guess that's also one of the lessons is don't offer people a precent, seems like a common mistake. I know vesting and getting proper contracts in place with expectations is one of the lessons I've learned a bit just reading comments on HN.

Personally with my current project, trying to do most of it's alone - but it's hard... Hoping to be able to bootstrap something or maybe seek funding from a VC and then just hire a small team of employees to expand it to meet my vision. Then not sure how I feel about trying to do it remotely after being burned multiple times with other projects... I feel like meeting people in person in a big city maybe they'll take things more serious, maybe better communication and getting a feel for someone more. I feel like if you never met someone, probably easier to just blow them off. But I know in the real world that stuff happens too... But I got a feeling some people feel the internet isn't real and stuff, like people call them "online friends".

Maybe I just have bad luck to pick horrible people to want to work with, not too sure... I wonder how common this sort of stuff is anyways, well I'm sure there's been projects with a lot more stakes that went bad... No wonder some startup communities think the team is more important than the idea or product itself... I know I feel kinda alone but for now just focusing on my new project and doing it myself, hopes to take startup school to learn the more business side of things though.

I feel like I have a bit of a trust problem with people, so just want to make sure I do everything right in the future going forward. Plus if got funding that could help, I think being able to just pay someone outright as an emplyoee instead of trying to partner up might work better, if things don't go right just fire them no drama about ownership and stuff. Plus contractors technically also own any IP they create, unless they agree to reassign it but after so any decades they can petition to have it assigned back to them, so if creating long term assets where IP matters, employee makes the IP part more straight forward.
sorry yes... wrote that comment way late at night.
This article is right in my opinion. This 'mental model' thinking and the surrounding ecosystem of 'rationalists' where it's super popular to me seems like Oprah for slightly smarter tech bros.

The problem with it really is as the author suggests the lack of authentic experience on the one hand, but I think more importantly it's that the idea of "mental models" just tries to hand people a bag of disjointed tools.

When you look at what it means to really understand something and you look at say a world class pianist or something, then you'll almost certainly find they have an integrated perspective on what they do. They don't have model A and model B and model C and a bag of fortune cookie wisdoms, they have tacit knowledge and beliefs that are coherent and whole. Really understanding something ironically often leads to the inability to articulate how it is one understands it, because it's just become integrated into how someone operates in general.

Umberto Eco once made the great point that unread books are much more important than read books because known knowledge pales in the face of everything that is unknown, no matter how dedicated one is to reading. And it's the same thing with these mental models. You're not smarter because you know 200 models or 300 models or 400 models, just like reading 50 more books per year isn't going to make anyone any smarter in a sort of simple additive way.
I thought the most interesting part was the commentary on non-Amish care in the past

> I asked my literal grandmother, a 95 year old former nurse, how health care worked in her day. She said it just wasn’t a problem. Hospitals were supported by wealthy philanthropists and religious organizations. Poor people got treated for free. Middle class people paid as much as they could afford, which was often the whole bill, because bills were cheap. Rich people paid extra for fancy hospital suites and helped subsidize everyone else.

In other words... allow rampant inequality in the healthcare system. The rich would pay for their designer surgeries, and let that subsidize the rest.
There is no company in the world that will ignore a market offering $1 million daily revenue, more especially in advertising where cost to platform owners like Google and Fb is marginal.
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Good question, I'd expect it would be possible to add that to the Apple e-mail servers and automatically protect every version of iOS.
There's something fundamentally different and mistaken about C's original implementation of variable integer sizes though.

People often describe C as "portable assembly", but despite this, integer sizes varying on different platforms results in non-portability of anything those programs _produce_. That is, a "file", or bit stream (not byte stream!) produced by one machine may be incompatible with another. The original integer-size independence is decidedly not portable.

That was probably less of a problem when it was rare to send data from one physical machine to another machine, let alone one of another type. But now the world is inter-net-worked and we have all sorts of machines talking to each other all the time.

Making the interfaces explicit reduces errors. These days we now even have virtual machines and programs running at different bit widths on the same machine, and emulated machines on the same machine running different ISAs!

I'm also part of what I'm sure is a small number of users who believe using "usize" should be a lint error manually overridden on Rust and also thinks endianness should also be explicit. Heck, it should be a compiler error to write a struct to a socket if it contains any non-explicit values!
> I don't think the populace would easily give those back up to let tourists come run them out of their town and Jack up prices again.

This assumes people value having greater supply of housing, and low housing costs. If this were true, wouldn't they just support building more housing generally? Yet almost every city tends to oppose building lots of new housing.

It seems like it could easily go in exactly the opposite direction. People seeing how hard the local economy has been hit, and wanting the tourism to pick back up at any cost. Homeowners see their property values have fallen, and want to reduce the housing supply to make them go back up. Of course, many people don't even believe in basic supply and demand at all when it comes to housing, so even this level of analysis may be applying too much logic to how the average person will react.
These uncoordinated set of strategies by different countries seem to me like battles in RPGs; Sweden's probably opting to take less economic damage and instead take a x2 damage on health points.

The Netherlands is switching strategies, thinking that Sweden's strategy is cool, but they're dipping their toes first by sending in teachers and children to see if they take a great amount of damage.
Demand response programs are great because of their scale and ability to provide incentives and command and control without directly interacting with the markets.

The real big thing is aggregating the aggregations. Distributed Energy Management Systems (DERMS) / Virtual Power Plant Management Systems are an active research topic.
Is there some reason to think that Altman has any useful insight here? Really.

And people are calling out Cuban as being a one hit wonder. Altman doesn't even have that, Path was an abject failure. He's just been appointed to his roost by the SV overlords.
VNN indicates that he never had access to the code.

https://twitter.com/ValveNewsNetwor/status/12529744828321382...

He also re-tweeted this account of the events https://twitter.com/JaycieErysdren/status/125300494000139878...
I love IRC logs, I find them extremely helpful for diagnosing and working through technical issues that someone has faced before.

It's like a step-by-step guide to solving your problem.

Unfortunately, all of the IRC logs I used to browse went offline with GDPR. GDPR, California's privacy act, etc. are all well-meaning but IMO poorly implemented.
I'm assuming that whomever leaked the code modified it and added a remote exploit to the codebase and that's what folks online are referring to. Happens a lot with shady non-scene type of warez.
He's definitely trying to explain something, he just isn't sure what it is
Yeah this is a fairly weak article - calling something a _fallacy_ is exceptionally bold, as if it's logically inconsistent in some kind of provable way, and it's only barely backed up by the rest of the content. Sure, I guess taking people's word on a subject that they don't have personal experience themselves isn't the wisest decision. It would be hard to prove that there's _nothing_ to offer from listening to them like the article suggests.
Undoubtedly, yes. I have never been hired by anyone younger than me. Young managers, of which there are a lot now, simply don't feel comfortable hiring someone with more experience than them. I've also felt discrimination from being a lifelong bachelor. A lot of married guys are unhappy with their situation (there is scientific evidence to back that claim, search happiness and children) and they do not want to be around someone who is not in the same situation.
But again, that's the thing. There is only 1/Y work to do in the day; it's batch work. The work in this case is constrained on the input side, not the CPU resources side; building 1 or 2 or 1,000 nodes to do the work won't decrease how expensive it is to do the work (in fact, building more computers than you need will make it cost more!).

... so why does Google build more computers than they need? Keep in mind that at Google scale, they're always and forever building "As many computers as we can possibly afford to" under the assumption that there will always be work for those machines to do. You and I may need to consider cost of manufacturing; Google doesn't. They always have the "Build datacenter infrastructure" cranked to an 11 (more accurately, they are following an N-year plan of construction that is extremely expensive to modify).

That's the breakdown between Google's way of thinking and the way of thinking that you've presented: Google's cost of manufacture is fixed. Those computers will be built, whether or not they're going to also then run green-streamlined batch jobs. The limiting factor on the batch work is only so much work is generated in a day, and the rate the work is completed is already good enough that completing it in half the time yields no marginal value. So may as well complete it using sun instead of coal.
The requirement is not to be power of two, it is to be multiple of sizeof(char).
This reminded me of neonatal lupus. Lupus is an autoimmune disease where your own antibodies attacks your tissues. In neonatal lupus, the newborn is born with lupus ... because materal autoimmune antibodies are able to cross the placental barrier. So the newborn 'inherits' a lupus condition, which usually self resolves within a month once the maternal antibodies have disappeared.
https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/neonatal-lupus/

This is presumably applicable to other maternal antibodies, which may give immunity against germs the infant has never been exposed to. However, this is a 'temporary' immunity, and distinct from the adaptive immune responses associated with 'immune system memory'.
My understanding was that breast milk (at least in humans) gave the baby antibodies, but not the ability to create those antibodies. So, the effect wouldn't last.
Medicine was also way less tech-heavy, so the costs were objectively less. Invasive surgeries and similarly advanced treatments are incredibly complex high-tech and high-skill undertakings. If you look at the high end of medicine it's like they're routinely pulling off moon shots: carefully excising brain tumors, separating conjoined twins, transplanting living organs, etc.

I am not suggesting this explains all of it. Our health care system is definitely overpriced and overloaded with badly designed bureaucracy, but it definitely explains some of it.
Provide a service, or don't. It's sad that we've been trained to think that screw-ups are normal and OK.
We'll definitely see a surge in applied robotics and automation when it comes to food preparation, distribution and the manufacturing of goods.

It's 2020, people getting sick should not prevent supply chains from operating at peak efficiency, considering how advanced our manufacturing and distribution capabilities can be.

The technology is there, it just hasn't been implemented at scale.
No, it is.
Keep in mind that full time role used to be a hell of a lot of work. Take the project I'm working on right now: https://gist.github.com/ajbdev/11f494906ebb6aa3f6bdf35f2437e...

In ~50 lines of code I can erect a load balanced set of web servers with my app binary preloaded, secured in a private VPN subnet with an auto-scaling policy attached to it.

15 years ago this project would have meant:

- Racking new hardware somewhere on premise

- Configuring several routers and networking equipment

- Tweaking the different software responsible for the different app layers (load balancing, web servers, etc)

- Hoping we forecasted demand correctly and whatever hardware we racked can handle a traffic spike or growth surge

You needed a lot more expertise back then.

And really you can trade all of what I'm doing for a higher level of abstraction that requires even less knowledge of the underlying technology (netlify, heroku, amplify, etc) if you're willing to pay a little more.
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Yes, down-arrow key is disabled. I'd thought it was just me and some badly behaving extension!

Surprised to see that get through QA. (Up arrow works just fine.)
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Octopus energy in the UK with the beta agile tariff is based on 30 minute pricing and prices have been so low at times such as yesterday that the price per unit has been negative, for example on Sunday and Monday I was paid 4.2 pence per unit to take electricity off the network.
There are a few RCE disclosures for Valve games related to this previously

- https://hackerone.com/reports/542180

- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9005

- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7952

- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7951

- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7950

- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7949
Yes. Listen to his last interview on Recode Decode. He openly says he could run.
I think it's fine if you don't re-encode (i.e. need to decode) the audio/video packets in any way. IIRC, you can broadcast RTP stream packets without knowing their contents if you settle on common codecs (e.g. opus and h264). But if you need to embed picture-loss-indicator messages or something, it might not work. I think this is the essence of "SFUs" (selective forwarding units) in WebRTC parlance.
If you turn off mail sync you can no longer read mail right?
What about Overwatch?
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It's also warm and wet in many developing nations. Seen a couple pieces suggesting COVID is relatively heat-phobic.

Would also jive with seasonality of the flu...
The Mail app runs in userspace.
They got to series E funding and raised over a billion dollars. If they were phonies, they were phenomenal ones.