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"I also like the strategy of temporarily suspending your disbelief and throwing yourself headlong into something for a while, allowing your emotional state to be as if you were 100% confident"

All work happens because of this essentially. A result of over-zealousness. Irrational thoughts that keep you going that extra mile at 2 am because you really believe in an idea (more than it ought to be believed many times). If people didn't feel irrationally strong about things, then nothing meaningful (sometimes low probability of success, but high expected value as the author mentions) would get done.
Yea, this is a really bizarre article.

>It reinforces the idea that any one person or piece of code can be blamed for a given failure.

That can absolutely be the case. How could it not sometimes be the case?

>Short of malice, this is never the case.

Never? Outside of somebody deliberately harming a system, there has never once been such an instance?

>It gives the impression that, when you wrote the code, you should have written it better. This is a counterfactual that rarely holds up to examination.

Lots of assertions in this piece with no supporting information. There are plenty of reasons substandard code is written by some individuals. Laziness is a big one. Apathy is another.

>It positions shame as the correct emotion to feel about bugs in your code: if you were a better engineer – a better teammate – the bug wouldn’t exist.

Call it whatever you want, but concern is certainly warranted.

>If you’re a more senior engineer on your team, the effects of these anti-patterns are magnified: people see you apologizing for bugs, so they think that they should be striving to write bug-free code. They may feel ashamed if their code has bugs.

People look up to experienced individuals within their profession. In fact, I would argue that it is even more important these senior individuals are able to accept responsibility and act accordingly; that's setting an example, something from which everyone will benefit.
> "a series of interesting decisions" as Will Wright puts it

I think that was Sid Meier.
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I would argue that the strict posix shell (with all its limitations) can be learnt in an afternoon or two and a lot of it will be also useful in general in the OS. like utilities and their inputs and outputs. it's mostly reusing/duct taping existing programs, so it's not a vacuum like a DSL. I hope it has excellent man pages to be usable. the BSDs have...
Yes on occasion, but I got a taste for it when I lived in the US for half a year, so...

You can find it in the "American" part of the international foods section of big grocery stores here, along with pancake mix, root beer and Skittles :P
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Please stop using “everyone I know” as a data point, especially when criticizing someone else’s sampling bias.

I am suffocating under the irony.
Yeah, a lot of the issues with security on the phone (both spoken and text messages) seem to have to do with backwards compatibility. I mean they add layers on top of the old ones (e.g. to allow higher call quality) but somewhere you can still call someone using just dial tones.

I hope they're working on a new standard for telecom that allows unspoofable caller verification. That, and secure / verified e-mails. But that too is a standard challenged by 60 years of legacy (I had to do a quick wikipedia check).
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Wow that's bad. My experience with several UK banks has also been "stuck in the 90s"

I did have a very good experience with American Express when they called me about a fraudulent charge on my card. They solved this identity issue by putting a note in their customer support system and had me call the number on the back of the card. On the callback they did their usual phone identity verification and then transferred me back to the fraud department to solve things. Was very confidence inspiring in their security.
I think the internet has kind of inoculated us to such philosophies. There are so many people online who are depressed and try to channel it into insightful writing. In the end, these insights turn out useless: life just isn't a very deep thing. He should've married Regine and got on with it.
> having flowers in a vase is completely normal

Why?
South Korea apparently has conducted 11500 tests/ 1m population. It's ridiculous to claim that they detected every covid case and to suggest that their cfr is a lower bound for the ifr.
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In that respect I think Stardew Valley has included much more complex and compelling mechanics, as it seems designed foremost to appeal to adults. I thant is where it really shines over Animal Crossing.
> Among all patients who received mechanical ventilation, the mortality rate was 76.4% for adults ages 18 to 65, and nearly all patients over age 65 died (97.2%), reported Karina Davidson, PhD, of Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health in Manhasset, New York, and colleagues, writing in JAMA.

If that is the death rate for people who need ventilators then a lot of the arguments for "flattening the curve" are less compelling.

The whole idea of "flattening the curve" was to preserve hospital capacity in order to save lives. If most of the people who need ventilators are likely to die whether or not hospital capacity is available, then the trade-off between saving lives and saving the economy has not turned out the way we expected.
Meanwhile the pesticide manufacturers are following the cigarette company playbook and busily funding bullshit research and top notch PR to deflect blame. This is what happens. We blanket our fields and their surroundings with chemicals specifically designed to highly efficiently kill insects and are surprised when insects die in droves. But sure, blame people living in cities.
I think argparse covers most of the points mentioned as desirable in this article.

* validate at start (using the type keyword argument for add_argument)
* access by name as identifier, not string

And what is more is, that default values are stored with the configuration, plus you add a help text for telling everyone what the argument is for.

One downside is that you command line call gets longer.
I'm glad that as far as I know, a lot of the services I make use of - utilities, phone, bank, etc - rarely if ever need any interaction.

I got a letter the other day (yes, snail mail) from my bank (which is one of the more technologically forward ones out there, I've worked for them (as a developer-for-hire) for a couple of years). They said they were rejigging an investment account product I'm using, but all they mentioned is that I should go to the webapp for it and it'll tell me more.

I mean there's nothing on there yet but hey.
How do you handle video card selection?
I haven’t played Harvest Moon, but I agree with what you’re saying about SV and AC. I’ve spent far more hours in SV, but haven’t picked it back up since I started AC. One of the things I’ve found particularly fun is planning out and starting terraforming of my island in AC.
I didn't know this, this is excellent news. Thank you! I was worried that my work policy might block my phone without the latest firmware.
> My personal pet peeve is the lack of powerful device search

I'm legitimately curious. I've used OS X a bit, but am primarily a windows/linux user.

In 20+ years of computer use, I've never wanted this facility. I actually take the option of removing the search indexing system from windows 7 (where you still could), and just used everything's filename search. On W10, I deliberately disable/break cortana/search so it doesn't run all the time.

Out of curiosity, what do you use a file-aware search facility for?
On an unrelated note, I find it amazing that Hong Kong dollar notes have written on them The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. [1]

[1] I am not exactly sure how it works, but this Wikipedia article mentions that there are different issuers, of which HSBC is the largest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_Hong_Kong_dol...
This happens with MS Edge browser too. Just browsing to Arstechnica, for some reason, turns on the discrete GPU and it will stay on until Edge is shutdown or restarted.
Pretty good guidelines. I like the idea of having a configuration close to the class (perhaps module-level depending on the project size) that uses it. With dataclass the class definition is fairly clean. In addition to that, I'd consider using https://docs.python.org/3/library/dataclasses.html#post-init... for business-specific validations.
its shown in the main photo at the top of the article?
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> The ban is meant for 4chan-based messages like "drink bleach/rubbing alcohol/methanol to cure yourself now!", which have killed plenty of people.

How many? Give numbers. I don't think very many people followed that advice and got killed by it, and I cannot find any data that suggests otherwise.
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I work with another Billionaire businessman who is throwing himself head first into philanthropy.

They do it because they're A type personalities who have cut their teeth on gnawing through red tape and shitty market issues.

They dont want to get into politics because they (rightfully) perceive that they have more power and control as private individuals.

I'm no fan of Bill Gates, but I can see what he's doing and why. He's trying to make the world a better place, using power and business acumen. That means he's going to bulldoze people to reach the goal because thats. all. he. knows.
http://longnow.org/ This organization is dedicated to that endeavor.
Is there an english translation of this?
It’s the same with me and my friends. Trading fruit, visiting each others’ islands to see Flick, etc. Then there’s the whole terraforming aspect that just feels nice and methodical.
My point is that tradeoff isn't worth it. It's far easier to tweak security settings and configure a CDN than to completely change the backend with a complex build process requiring more technical knowledge, deploy it to a host which you still need, configure a CDN which you still need, and wire it up to read from a CMS which you still need.
Plenty of companies here that are like subletters for utilities; they claim to be able to offer you a lower energy bill because they buy up electricity in bulk, but when I looked into it it turns out that in practice they're only cheaper the first year. These aren't energy companies, they're marketing / sales companies.

Anyway I went with one of the "source" power suppliers who instead offer a loyalty discount that builds up over time. I'm sure switching suppliers every year will be a bit cheaper in the long run but I choose reliability and convenience in this case. Also because the reseller companies tend to pop up and be bought up / merge constantly. Besides, it gives me some moral peace of mind that I'm paying the company producing electricity directly instead of a marketing middle man.
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Calling Käsespätzle “pretty much the same” as KD borders on heresy.
This lesson, but in a UX context - Apple generally does a good job of making it hard for users to do the wrong thing (for their definition of wrong).
If you stretch it far enough all taxes are a protection racket.
Not everyone who needs medical help for Covid-19 needs a ventilator. Some just need supplemental oxygen.

And people go to hospital with other conditions. If hospitals are 100% overwhelmed with Covid-19 cases, then they may struggle to treat strokes, heart attacks, car crash victims, cancer patients, etc...

Flattening the curve will save lives.
>Depends on the project, but I'd wager, that software development is a _bit_ more complex than plumbing in many cases.

This is an incredibly ignorant statement. Have you worked in that profession? Any professional engineering roles?

But that all doesn't really matter because the statement becomes meaningless when qualified with "Depends on the project[...]"
I am relying here on Google translate, so I might miss something.
That mortality in the article is about patients being in ICU, but not every patient in intensive care is intubated.
Actually, to my knowledge, doctors are now avoiding intubation as long as possible, which explains the "increased" mortality rate.

You can see it the other way around, of those people, where they didn't see any other possibility, they still manage to save 1 in 10 with intubation.
I outright reject anyone trying to sell me a subscription model at the door - a lot of charities do that, and their sales talk nowadays includes that I can cancel at any time.

But the caveat there is that if I were to do a one-time donation, they would still have my information and the permission to receive mail on file.

Charities are marketing companies; they collect money and advertising permission, and give you direct mailed marketing in return.
It must be performance of your developers being able to develop for one codebase.
There was an early experiment with variolation tried on someone sentenced to death, where he agreed to be variolated, then challenged with smallpox infection. his sentence was commuted after he survived.

the highest-profile prison experiments in the US were Project MKUltra, in which prisoners were injected with high doses of LSD, the Stateville Penitentiary Malaria Study, and some experiments with radioactive isotopes.

offering prisoners their freedom in exchange for participating in dangerous or harmful trials was widely viewed as coercive, and contrary to the Nuremberg code of medical voluntary consent established after the horrors of Nazi experimentation.

why should it be better to use prisoners than young, healthy volunteers? are their lives cheaper and expendible because they committed non-violent offenses? no IRB would sign off on that, and if you're bypassing IRBs anyway just use young people who think they're invincible..
Except that the dollar typically paid an interest rate in the interval while the gold did not: https://www.macrotrends.net/2015/fed-funds-rate-historical-c...
Or, you know, send a letter or e-mail. Not that e-mails are secure per definition, but services like gmail spend a lot of time and effort on detecting and blocking spam and scams.
it's worth looking at python's own configparser[1] before rolling your own.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/configparser.html
I used to think the way you do as recently as just a few years ago. I couldn't imagine not being able to pick up and move to a cafe or co-working space. I was working a lot of hours and working from home when I probably shouldn't have.

What I've found is that since having a desktop and a dedicated desk and office in my house, when I leave the room I don't bring work with me. I also don't have push notifications enabled on my phone, including email. When I go out, I enjoy other things and then when I come back to my desk, I am much more focused and ready to concentrate on work.
> Same thing with ripping up train tracks to sell for scrap metal, which happens in some parts of the world.

This happens at times in the Netherlands too, and I bet many other affluent places, which sort of half invalidates your point. It's just theft. Theft also happens in places where most people aren't poor.

I don't know a single place in the world that managed to distribute sufficiently much wealth sufficiently evenly that crime never pays.
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Obviously heritability figures are time-and-place specific and safe and stable homes (with good nutrition) are vital for success.

But even if the IQ (yes, I can hear the collective groan, but keep reading) difference between a Nigerian and a South Korean is 0% genetic, the within-group differences are still a good 20 points, half of which a genetic engineering program might be able to fix.

We're a long way from being able to do this admittedly, which is why funding and less restrictions would help, but I believe the QALY gains from success would be huge.

Btw: If it does turn out that womb environment is the killer app, the government should try and encourage a massive surrogacy campaign (allowing payment if it doesn't already).
But most importantly - should your config language be turing complete, or not - or do we care or not?
> > you can at least try to account for the ways in which your sample is likely to be different from a truly random sample.
> Right, as all legitimate researchers in this area do.

Yeah, obviously we agree here. So: how do you effectively control for them in this case? That's my point. It's hard, and you haven't offered any mechanism for this particular case, just assurances that people who know what they're doing do in fact know what they're doing.

Are you one of those people? Please fill us in on what they're doing to address sample bias. They "try to control for it" -- how in this case? So far you've offered nothing specific, just that experts control for it, and you're implying that it's illegitimate to question whether there might be a systemic bias because all the cited studies seem to select populations more likely to be infected.

> OK, so how do you get them in their homes? If you solicit them on the internet, then there's sample bias because you're telling them they'll be tested. If you knocking door-to-door, it's the same thing: you have to tell them what you're going to do, so you're "selecting for people who want to be tested". You can't win.

Am I understanding correctly that you're saying that because you can't get a perfectly random sample you shouldn't try to minimize selection bias? You can't "win", but you can get closer than these studies did. There's a clear difference between a Facebook ad "Stanford seeks people for COVID-19 tests" and "Your number was chosen at random and we'd like to test you for COVID-19 in the interest of science."

One should absolutely try to minimize selection bias, in addition to controlling for its inevitability. In Germany, as you propose, they are selecting people at random from a central database of residents, which is not correlated with whether they have symptoms, feel comfortable shopping in public, etc. That is better than showing up at a grocery store, clearly, right?

As for people who agree to be selected, yes, there's nothing we can do about that in liberal societies. I'd like to know what this rate is. In Germany, I recall that it was low.

> this is all just a highbrow way of rejecting studies for lowbrow reasons

OK, this is the second time you've implied that I'm uninformed, or am acting in bad faith or with bad motives (or whatever "lowbrow reasons" means). None of these are true. I've ignored the personal nature of your vague dismissals up to now in the interest of conversation, but I'm done doing so.
US soldiers knowingly volunteered to test all manner of chemical horrors in the Edgewood Arsenal experiments, from BZ to VX. you're completely right.
Sure, but when you say upper middle class I think - that must be a small portion of the population and thus not likely to be significant to causing a problem of this magnitude.
Yes. So .. we should give up on all informational hygiene standards and just let people tell their followers to inject bleach or whatever?

Two wrongs don't make a right. A wrong information source is not the counter to another wrong information source.
Stardew Valley is basically westernized Story of Seasons (ex Harvest Moon) and both of them are more grindy than AC
> Flattening the curve will save lives.

Yes, but how many lives will it save? The answer is unclear but it seems to be lower than what most people would expect.

The basic assumptions were not well supported when the decisions were made. All the models we had were based on a very, very low level of testing and unreliable information from other countries.
Who has that much spaghetti on hand?

You seen the code I'm working on?
But keep in mind that pesticides (in the correct quantities) are crucial for high yields, whereas I am not sure whether tobacco is crucial for anything.
Similar to Scottish banknotes, however they are issued by a multitude of retail banks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_Scotland
From a previous thread, I estimated that if NY had 20% antibody presence for 15k dead, that implies there will be 60k dead by the end of the process. Roughly one 9/11 every week or so?
I’m glad someone intelligent, competent and with huge resources is working on these issues. I find your ingratitude perplexing.
Bill doesn’t have to spend his time doing this. He could be dedicating his retirement to racing horses, or yachts or something utterly frivolous.
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I do feel, the article and discussion isn't doing Stardew Valley justice. I do think SdV for example portray's an adult world compared to the infantilized creations of Nintendo. Also the complex interlocking systems, for example how big the mine areas are etc, is very deep and satisfying to figure out. Even the people of SdV aren't just plastic figures, they have a semblance to real people, as much as could be achieved in a game.
When you serve hundreds or thousands of teams, as this tool did, one of them is bound to be lazy. Defaults should be safe.
Kenton, have you looked into what Fuchsia is doing with FIDL? https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/ea2fce2874556205204d... (not sure if recent page, but good enough)

Just wondering about your opinion... Thanks!
I'm not any epidemiologist, so if someone knows more please correct me, but I read that viruses with a high mortality rate are much easier to contain. Mainly because the virus more naturally dies out as it kills its hosts. That was one of the reasons that SARS didn't reach pandemic scale with its 10% mortality rate.

I have to wonder if Covid-19 is in the 'sweet spot' of dangerousness, as it has a mortality rate that doesn't hamper its ability to spread but still kills a lot of people.
This is the "poka-yoke" philosophy.
Ask HN: How do services like Zapier, IFTTT test API integrations at scale?
Services like Zapier, IFTTT, etc have to provide integrations with thousands of other services. The common suggestion is to mock the 3rd part APIs for integration tests. But mocks do have their limitations. Like,

- It's possible to add breaking changes on your end but mock responses might still be happy with it, so your tests will pass.

- In large enough numbers of integrations, some 3rd party services will eventually introduce breaking changes without following due/expected procedures.

If you are developing a service that stands in the middle of so many other services as an integration point, how would you make sure things stay in place proactively?
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Headphones are purely electromechanical devices. They don't need software, except for silly contrived reasons.