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This misses the point hard. The problem is people who don't realize they're being lied to.
Any idea what the state of the art is for reducing buffer bloat on access points?

And you can mitigate that by not using tons of bandwidth in the background while gaming.
Economic development, education, and freedom (from religious oppression of women).

Since religion is caused by poverty and ignorance, freedom from religion tends to come last.
This is absolutely the right stance to take. Nothing will change if you don't do it, and choosing to ignore politics is not going to lead to better politics. You'd just leave the bad actors all the room to act!
Am I the only one here that thinks they deserve a cut for building such a platform?
I grouped that with the space race
>cheap homes would vastly benefit the younger generation

The USA, Ireland and others have already been through housing busts in the last 10-15 years and it had no effect on home ownership.

>So 1.1m for a house is probably a problem. What is the alternative to fixing that?

Keep in mind we're talking about prices in some of the most attractive places to live in, in North America. Places that are also the target of skilled immigration and migrants with money also.

As you probably know, it might be $1m for a starter condo in NYC, but you can pick up a detached house in a decent area elsewhere for a quarter of that.

The unaffordability of the cities is a function of supply vs demand. If you want to bring down city property prices, simply reduce the need for cities.
There is a way to develop internal motivation - in my opinion it is one part the realisation that you want to be motivated and the other part putting in the hard yards to build habits.
For the first part I always refer to the concept of the elephant driver as a reminder.

"NYU psychologist Jonathan Haidt uses a lovely analogy to explain both: the emotional side is the elephant, the rational side is the rider. The rider of the elephant looks like he or she is in charge, but when there’s a disagreement between the elephant and the rider, the elephant usually wins.

Chip and Dan Heath's superb book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, builds on this analogy and talks about directing the rider (rational brain: responsible for planning and direction, but can get paralyzed overthinking things) and motivating the elephant (emotional brain: prefers quick gratification over long term, but gets things done). Numerous experiments show that the rider can get exhausted trying to motivate the elephant and needs time to recover. This is why, if you’re trying to eat healthily while on the road, you tend to make bad choices at the end of a long day and opt for that extra glass of beer."

For the second part use mobile apps/smart watch to help you build habits. Being an unashamed apple user I rely on streaks to be my habit builder but there are many similar applicatons out there. Gamify your own life. Because at the end of the day life is a game. And if you want to get to the next level you have to play it.
I am mildly skeptical that disabling advertising will have the effect you worry about.

Anecdotally, I am more likely to be charitable and curious about someone else's views if I'm not surrounded by a lot of appeals to emotion or party loyalty. Watching Republican/Democrat ads doesn't make me more sympathetic to either party, often it's the opposite. Get rid of all of the ads comparing Nancy Pelosi to the devil, and I'll be more likely to engage with the actual issues being discussed. Modern political advertising seems specifically designed to push me into more tribal attitudes.

I won't comment on banning things, but blocking political ads on a personal level may be healthy for at least some people. It's not exactly hard to find political arguments if you search for them. And if you do search for them, you're more likely to engage with people who actually know what they're talking about, instead of conspiracy theorists on Facebook.

It's the same attitude of, 'if you want to learn Javascript, there are better ways you can spend your time than reading random rants online about the death of the web.' If you want to learn conservatism/liberalism/socialism, there are better sources than a Facebook ad.
Does Shopify have its own POS hardware? I wonder if they’ll buy one. Lots of companies are hurting and could be gobbled up in the cheap.
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> Democrats will block Republican ads, Republicans will block Democrat ads - will that lead to a better world when Republicans can't reach Democrat voters or vice versa?

The article doesn't say they'll allow partisan choice about what to block. Just that they'll give you a bubble disallowing "political" ads. I think the big quibble is how they define "political", but the scenario you're imagining doesn't exist.

And FWIW: maybe all those ads in the Atlantic video you posted are "crazy". Very few of them (none that I saw) are lies. It's routine for a median Facebook user to be faced with screenfulls of misinformation. Zuckerberg was challenged about this directly, and stated that it wasn't his job to act as a gatekeeper.
As a starting point, try to accept that you find comfort in idleness. Be ok with sitting and doing nothing. It sounds like your anxiety is being driven by your guilt in not achieving enough.
You forgot the most important thing here ortherwise your graph become useless: Timezone.
Bigger concern is the consumer/business lines they draw on IAPs as listed by DaringFireball & DHH over Hey email client.
I have found it always helps to prep. Especially before a big loaded topic like layoffs or finances. Taking the time to put together a presentation can help you frame your thoughts properly and make sure you don't miss any important highlights.
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He doesn't pull in any dependencies except the stdlib, so he does in fact not need it.
But indie publishers can choose not to sell on Steam - there are numerous online stores they can choose as well as selling it on their own site.

If you want to sell an iPhone app, you have absolutely no choice but to go through Apple, and that's where the real problem is. --They make it pay-to-play for devs and prevent customers from making their own decisions on what to put on the devices they own.
It's 100% unintentional.

I meant that is the perception, not the reality. I should've worded that better, apparently.

The perception in pop culture is that wealth equates intellectual greatness.
Paying for email service has nothing to do with their store. What sort of in-app purchases would this be, paying to Apple a couple of cents for each email you send and receive, how ridiculous can it be?
How so? I don't see any comparative numbers.
> I don't want to run the risk of having my repos nuked from orbit for any inadvertent profanity

If they did, it doesn't sound like it would affect you if you already keep your repos locally anyway.

Your point is totally valid, but I don't think that means that GitHub is a bad storage medium. It does mean that it's smart to always keep local copies of your code, as is true for anything one might keep in the "cloud".
Nice, I often find myself missing the weird web of my youth. I hope this takes off. I think the ring needs a bit of curation though, of the few sites that are on it now the finalkey one seem to be... not relevant? Or at least unexpected. While cool and all this seems like a plain old sales site exept the thing sold is not made anymore. The site itself also lacks the ring widget.
I don't have much entrepreneurship experience but I'd suggest, find a problem. Narrow it down.
Find the MVP(Minimum Viable Product) and MVA (for Minimum Viable Audience, reminds me of 1000 true fans), and start charging... Iterate and iterate, keep track of what's working and what's not... It's like finding an answer to a equation in MCQ, exam, where the faster way is to just put the values in the equation to get the results instead of solving the equation from scratch.
Make sure you get enough sleep. I don't know of a single bigger correlate to lack of motivation than lack of sleep.

When you do feel motivation and work on something for some time, leave something undone at the end to pick up on. Something small to get the ball rolling.

Look after the big issues in your life. If there's something looming or lurking, you may procrastinate (which might look like enthusiasm for a diversion) but only at a surface level, like your brain is fidgeting trying to keep your mind off the big bad thing(s).

For something like a PhD, I think it's unusual for internal motivation to last. Most people I know who've completed did it to get it done, rather than relying on internal motivation. They were so sick of the material by the end that enthusiasm had worn away, like a mouthful of food chewed for too long.
It's only 15% after year 1. Until then it's 30%. Also, I believe it's 15% after an individual subscription has been ungoing for a year (it doesn't apply to all subscriptions after the app has been out one year).

Finally - does anybody know how users unsubscribing and resubscribing affects this? I do this a lot with services if I'm not using them in a partiular month - when I resub is the counter back at zero and I need 12 consecutive months before the developer drops to 15% comission?
> or that the patient had acquired information about the hospital facilities through normal means and due to illness the memories manifested as hallucinatory voices.

The paper suggests this as one possibility too.

What I take from this is simply that we shouldn't be so dismissive of what "crazy" people are telling us, but should pay attention to it. Regardless of what caused it (assuming the story is true and not simply fabricated), this was a case that paying attention to what the 'crazy' person was saying, instead of just dismissing it as crazy, resulted in a succesful medical outcome.
Read the Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin.

It speaks specifically to this, and basically says if you are motivated by external forces, that's how you're wired and you should capitalize on it... it is a waste of time to try get 'internally' motivated. A lot of people are this way, and there is nothing wrong with it.

I liken it to a car that runs on gas... retrofitting it to run on diesel (or electric) is counter-productive... just tune it up so it efficient at burning gas.
We have mortgages to pay too.

Oh you poor things.
Why do you think this is specifically a 'western society' thing? Browse Japanese sites and online tools and there is just as much gamification and 'thrilling' graphics and animation - if not more. Github looks like a technical white-paper in comparison.
They're a platform, andaren'taspecifically vested law enforcement organization.

Think about it. What you're really asking for there is for these companies to become part of the apparatus, which means by definition they can no longer be seen as private businesses and arguably, become unfit to do anything on.

Imagine a world where law enforcement is given access to an oracle by tech companies capable of spelling out every individual who broke any law in any jurisdiction at anytime, anywhere today, so long as they use the platform.

If you don't already feel uncomfortable, or see why that would impact the desirability/feasibility of the system already, you're probably not trying very hard. You're basically handing law enforcement a tool capable of handing reign of the country over to the auspices of prosecutorial discretion.

The one thing that has kept LE in check has always been the high price tag of due process involved with depriving someone of their rights. This means it is strongly confined to only that potential pool of people that generally meet the criteria for clear and present threats to society (your agreement as to the priorities over time may beg to differ, bit the point is it is fundamentally limited to a very small fraction of the population). With the integration possible through tech, you cannot afford to happily hand over records in digital format. It is simply too bloody dangerous a tool in the wrong hands.

Furthermore, no one wants to accept that sometimes societal goods are bundled with the empowerment of bad use cases since malicious actors are equally buoyed by societal infrastructure. I don't see people clamoring for TV manufacturers to start recording the inside of homes because there may be pedophiles in them. I don't see people swarming in droves to say "eavesdrop and surveil me" once they know that is essentially what goes on in tech. No one wants that. They grudgingly accept it because no one else wants to or can figure out how to implement something without that that also allows the type of information propagation people actually want, which is for people they want to know more about them to have greater access, and the rest to actually require substantial effort to get at that information.
This is what is meant by systemic racism.

> If black people in tech become more common this particular problem will solve itself.

I suspect there will not be more black people in tech, until they are not treated differently based on skin color.
I agree! For sure elitism. Judging by the downvotes, I wasn't clear that I didn't agree with the standpoint.

I think every ecosystem at points go through this "elitism" fad when it reaches a certain threshold of members. Seemingly to keep X being a niche they can identify with, instead of something mainstream some people only do for fun.

Point is, not exclusive to chess, just as gk1 pointed out.
You predicament reminds me of The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin. The tendencies are based around whether you respond or don't respond to expectations, and whether the expectations are internal or external. From how you've described yourself, you sound like the common "obliger" type: responds well to external expectations, not so much to internal expectations. If that sounds like you, try finding ways to introduce external expectations for the things you'd like to do but don't. E.g., if you wanted to start working out, you'd be better off getting a trainer who expects you to show up than just telling yourself that you'll go to the gym.

It's not a scientific framework, but I think it's a helpful mental model all the same.
The claim is not particularly extraordinary. Gravity wave observations are extraordinary. True information from internal mental dialog is quite ordinary. The variety of that dialog is remarkably wide, and not well analyzed for distribution, making every instance effectively unique.
A cut, yes. But a business-threatening third of the pie for essentially zero work on their part is extortionate and chokes the innovation in the whole app ecosystem.

I'm sure that App Store creators can chime in and expand more on that with real numbers on their balance sheet and what they mean in terms of being able to afford rent on a monthly basis.
I believe maybe you could be missing a "traumatic" life experience.

I know a guy who spent 2 years in a call center without finishing high school. Today he works as a full stack developer and even complete uni.

He says when he feels lazy, he remembers his life in the call center and the motivation suddenly appears. I have something similar since I work with my Dad doing deliveries and we had to wake up at 4:30 am.

When you get too comfortable, you don't have the need to do better.

It is no surprise that (most) world-class people came from poor backgrounds and had to fight for everything they have today (not excluding other backgrounds). They now how terrible life can be and are not willing to pay the price of laziness, they know it first hand.

TLDR: You need to have been in a really bad spot in your life, to know the true cost of laziness and not taking opportunities.
Playing chess was only a brief phase for me, I never really got into it, but I love lichess - it's open source, completely free, doesn't run ads, and the UX is amazing, it just works perfectly and there are no unnecessary gimmicks. One of those few exemplary projects to take a big chunk of inspiration from, if you ask me!
I'm a political advertiser as part of my job and one thing most people don't get is that it's not just ELECTORAL ads that Facebook usually is referring to when they're talking about "political" ads. It's, as mentioned in the article, a shorthand for "Ads About Social Issues, Elections or Politics."

So, a few points. First, the obvious, that these things all depend on the extent to which Facebook promotes this "feature." So with that said:

1. I planned a big vote-by-mail (political orgs are concerned about in-person voting bc of COVID) ad campaign to members of my organization. Obviously, it wasn't just Facebook and Instagram, but these will be flagged as politics and less effective than they were previously. Facebook will do its own encouragement to register and to vote, but we know our membership better than Facebook and were crafting campaigns meant to motivate them based on research of what we know works, combined with in-person organizing that's coordinated in a way Facebook would never do. This will also hurt recruitment for members who want to knock on doors.

2. They define social issues as "sensitive topics that are heavily debated, may influence the outcome of an election or result in/relate to existing or proposed legislation." That's an "or" joining those, so it's an incredibly broad category. Expect more to be swept up in this than people in this thread are talking about.

3. The category is so broad that it's going to include most union ad activity. Not just organizing new workers, but let's say a union wants to advertise to its membership of nurses about how they can advocate for N95 masks in the workplace with their employer. It's not actually about public policy, yet Facebook generally will reject this type of ad if it's not categorized as "political." Facebook and Google both have anti-union ad practices, but this is unintentionally going to make it worse.

I'm not necessarily against these policies. Something can be bad in some ways and offset by the good. But if Facebook wants to make the argument about giving users the freedom, let me just ask, how informed are users going to be about what they're blocking? Do they know they might be blocking organizations they are dues-paying members of? Are they allowed to make a distinction between electoral ads and ads that are simply about "debated" topics?
>maybe blockchain.

but git is already a blockchain. each commit is a "block", with a reference back to the previous commit.
So, part of those 2 days was spent toying with Roslyn code-generation to try to re-implement C++ templates in C# - but I ran out of time and reverted back to using T4.

The .NET CLI itself places limits on what .NET-based languages can actually do: for example, structural-typing at method boundaries in CIL is only possible by having the compiler generate build-time adapter classes and interfaces - which means that methods accepting structural-types can’t be easily called by non-strucutural-typing-aware languages. The CLI also imposes single-inheritance - so a .NET language cannot implement multiple inheritance at all - and because non-virtual calls cannot be intercepted at all (without hacks like abusing .NET Remoting’s special-cases in the CLR) it’s not possible to have a “every call is virtual” system like Java’s in the CLR (note to self: find out how J# did it). Implementing Go-style composition is hamstrung by the fact we can’t patch the vtable at runtime either (reified vtables would be nice...).

I dare say it - but I think 2020 marks the decline of C# and the CLR because we’re held-back by decisions made over 15 years ago. .NET 5 isn’t showing any sign of significant improvements to the CLR’s type system or fundamental concepts.
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Make an AI that constantly argues with the elderly on Facebook
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> No good programmer needs to make things more complicated on purpose, to earn a living.

Who said anything about "good" programmers?

> The bugfilled world of IT is complicated enough as it is and always was like this.

That doesn't mean we can't make it more complicated.

Look, we got record numbers of people graduating with CS degrees, coming out of bootcamps, or just learning the trade straight off of Youtube.

We have to find extra work for these people, otherwise our salaries are going to tank because of increased competition.
I actually think if there were a limit it should be limited to whatever the average payment processing fee is, so about 0.3%-3% depending on the country. They already charge for ads, and benefit from the size and scale of the platform, so it's not like the thing is free.

However, the bigger move is just letting consumers pay how they like, without apple taking a cut.

Apple has a huge user experience advantage by being baked into the OS and can be a default option. It definitely doesn't help any consumer to prevent users from being able to use their payment method of choice, and preventing the app maker from having transparent payment methods.

I switched to Android years ago because of how irritating it is to have to go around apple to pay for things.
Don't forget to write monoliths, have monorepos, only use PostgreSQL for all database needs, and use Kubernetes even when you don't need it.
It is easy to believe that you understand something while in reality things are more complicated. What is an address? Is it like an integer value? (Is it really? Or can it be converted to one? Even if so, how many bits wide is it?) Or, if not, what is its structure? Back in the day, a question would be is it a 'far' or a 'near' pointer or we are living in a flat address space? Also, how is pointer arithmetic affected by alignment?
They already get paid for building the platform when people buy their devices.
The practice of medicine involves sharing case studies. This is a case study. It's true that medical knowledge is not produced solely through an idealized version of the scientific method.

What would a medical practicioner be expected to take from this case study? I don't think it's that "psychic phenomena are real", really. In addition to just an entertaining story , perhaps "don't be so quick to dismiss what apparently mentally ill people are saying, pay attention to them and respect them as people."
>This is exactly what Cambridge Analytica did

The impact of Cambridge Analytica is so overstated that it crosses into hyperbole. They were a bunch of clowns with minimal impact that got magnified to a status of super-villain because you could use them to club Trump over the head with. And let's not lose sight of the big picture, namely before Trump accidentally won (yes, accidentally and barely), the Trump campaign was seen (correctly) as a total disorganized disaster and one of the biggest clown-shows in modern political campaigns ... and yet they were at the same time these nefarious puppet masters using modern high-tech technology to manipulate voters and ultimately skew the election.