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As such, Advanced Beginners can break one of two ways: they can move to Competent and start to grasp the big picture and their place in it, or they can ‘graduate’ to Expert Beginner by assuming that they’ve graduated to Expert.

I think, that viewpoint is a bit narrow. The example, where the author tells the story how he started bowling the wrong way and reached a plateau, where he could not further progress, is a good one. And I'm sure there are numerous examples each one of us can tell of own experiences made when learning new skills.

In my opinion learning new skills fast is a great skill. And nowadays there are many resources available to us make this easy. But you will always reach a plateau, where further progression gets increasingly difficult. It's fascinating how this corresponds to larger patterns like the Gartner Hype Cycle [1].

The question is, what do you do when you reach a plateau? Do you invest more time and money? Maybe the skill level suits you well and you don't feel a need to progress further? Maybe deeper understanding is not necessary to do your job well? Maybe it's better to acquire different skills which you can combine instead of being an expert in one area alone?

I think there are many nuanced answers to that question and simply put blame on the expert beginner is not useful.

[1] https://blogs.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/files/2019/08/C...
Science is inherently normative. It doesn’t exist in a vacuum without norms or values. Science is ultimately in the service of people, if some distribution is harming individuals, it’s bad. That’s the relativistic moral framing of our society.
The Vatican and the Chinese government have had an uneasy relationship for a very long time (dare I say forever) and the Vatican has been working hard to reach an agreement about the appointment of bishops and other aspects in 2018.

Perhaps they just felt that making such public comments would achieve nothing apart from undoing that work.

The Catholic Church has been around for almost 2,000 years. I'm sure they know how to play a long game.
Yes, using atomic bombs was bad. As others say it is debatable if it helped end the (already won?) war. And in any case, _lasting_ _piece_ where? Are middle east and Africa not part of this world?

I find your comment is entirely missing the point and low effort. Asking whether random techniques, inventions, inventors were "bad" or not makes us much sense as asking:

Is the sun bad? Were dinosaurs bad? Are the aliens bad? Is life bad?
That is wrong.

Nearly 100% of people who receive a DMCA notice of alleged infringement (read: 'copyright strike') from YouTube have the option of filing a counter-notification.

In nearly all cases, YouTube responds to valid counter-notifications by informing the party that initiated the takedown. Counter-notification starts the clock on a 10-day window, within which the party alleging infringement must - if they want to keep the video down - sue you in federal court and prove to YouTube that they they have filed suit against you. Otherwise the video goes back up.

That procedure is almost always available. The downside, of course, is that you might get sued for an enormous amount of money that you may be held liable for. Statutory damages are scary. (But thy are a consequence of infringement, not notice-and-takedown.)
What I don't understand from the article is why I should believe the Labor Department over the Bureau of Labor? There is no evidence presented, the author just states there is a difference and then concludes it is the Bureau of Labor who is wrong. Am I missing something?
It makes things that are trivial in other languages like copying and pasting chunks of code around or auto formatting code as you type into a very hard problem just to save some delimiters. It looks nice in code samples but sucks in real production codebases.
I have a gopro clone 'eken H9R' which does exactly this, bought it for €20 euro's from a local sort of craigslist.

If you plug it into your PC without an SD card inserted it will act as a webcam perfectly.
I'd recommend JavaScript unless you want to do something that python is specifically good for like machine learning. JavaScript has its own issues but it's not hard to learn and is used everywhere.
When interviewing new candidates it's interesting to see the difference between beginner/mid and seniors. The beginner/mid group seem to have a lot more confidence in their skills and not be as aware of what they don't know. The seniors seem to be more aware of what they don't know and maybe also a little harder on themselves.
Especially when your dashboards are prepared by the buying agency - always request the raw data behind the scenes. If it takes them a while to find it, there's perhaps a reason...
"TRUSTED BY ENGINEERS AT WORLD CLASS COMPANIES". This is embarrassing. Please stop doing this - just because a friend from a FAANG company installed your app, doesn't mean its trusted by any company, or that anyone would use it on their internal codebase.
> All so that 75 year olds can have an extra month or two of average life expectancy?

Extra years. There's plenty of elderly with additional risk conditions who could manage and live with them for years w/o the extra strain of a poorly understood high-impact novel infectious agent.

But the idea that vulnerability is confined to the retired is wrong. Excess death stats are also up in the 45-65 range. And I'm personally acquainted with cases 45 & under people are already looking at severe lasting health effects and have been informed of COVID attributable deaths in that age range a degree or two out from my circle. This is unsurprising at a certain breadth of infection no matter the relative difference in risks for younger demographics. Very small numbers across very large populations = large absolute impacts. Let it burn through the population without suppression measures and it's not going to look prettier.

And that includes the economic effects. They're bad. But the idea that we could have chosen not to have them is false. Once contact takes on additional risks, some large portion of people stay away from contact underlying many economic activities whether there's civil direction or not, because all transactions are still cost/benefit. The only way to stop that would have been to totally suppress knowledge of the pandemic or have crushed the disease itself from the start. Distancing measures and other civil restrictions we're left with are basically a question of how coordinated activity is, not a difference in the order of the impacts. That kind of reduction happens when people are confident they're safe and they don't present a risk to those they care about.

Also, while everyone whose career has crossed the last crash or two knows it sucks, it isn't clear the impacts move beyond economic:

https://www.history.com/news/great-depression-economy-life-e...

And while we're considering quality of life issues -- are we really saying that a year of public education is worth the tradeoff of having a parent or grandparent relationship? I think it's interesting that some of the societies that are doing much better than the West seem to have a culture of respect for the contributions elders make to their families and societies in general. I wonder if there's a connection.

And as for whether people should be moralizing: these are moral issues, which usually makes it a good time to do so. Apparently you agree, given that your own comment does. Which might even be appropriate if your moral case were the stronger one.
- Type safe enumerations

- Generics (lets see if flyweight design actually makes it)

- package names that don't depend on source locations

- binary packages for proper encapsulation and even faster builds

- both points together allow for components eco-system to thrive

- more knobs to turn on when performance matters

- a proper graphical debugging experience
> Ditto for computer programs: they always do exactly what you tell them to do, which is rarely what you really want.

I guess this is a joke since I think you are good at programming, but on a more serious note if anyone actually has this problem they might want to change to a different language.

With a few different languages I actually feel they do what I want 99% of the time or more.

I'll leave out naming any names here as I'm not trying to change anyone who is currently happy where they are.
TV-style YouTube like Guga or Sonny Side have equaled or surpassed classic “real” TV (eg Discovery channel in the 90s) in both production values and content. That’s definitely something that has happened in the last couple of years
See the discussion from 2015:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9714618

Same article but published by Wired.
Deaths from Covid have already passed 100k, way more deaths than any flu season since those infamous pandemics, and that's despite lockdowns. No amount of fiddling with numbers changes that.
Power inequality is rarely solved by “intellectual arguments”. The NSA didn’t have to debate the American public before wiretapping thousands of citizens, the government used its power to hide and subvert, simply became it was the easiest way to collect such data. They didn’t have to ask each and every person if it was okay to use their cell data before doing so, that’s the power dynamic.
A German college truly believes that this virus was created by Adolf Gates to enrich themselves with the pandemic while helping China destroy the German economy.
> Germany and Italy, which are neighbours.

This is new to me :)

Your point stands of course..
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It just doesn't make sense to me otherwise, what am I missing?

99.9% of scientists didn't make a mistake. The remaining 12 might have made honest mistakes. That's the smallest problem we've ever had isn't it? Do 99.9% of people file their taxes perfectly or 99% of government employees get their expenses exactly correct? I doubt it. But somehow the FBI, the Inspector General, the NSF and Nature are all investigating and reporting publically. Why bother?

I'm cynical, maybe that's why the only reason I can think of is that it plays into a "China steals our tech" narrative.

I'd love some comparison figures for the 93% figure. What percentage of NSF grant holders got funding from China? What percentage of international funding for science comes from China (I bet that's a big number)?

What's the actual driver here? I very much doubt its fraud or espionage prevention because there doesn't seem to be any to prevent...
Making cheap computer vision is just as dangerous to the "tyrant" as his supposed victims. You can already make a plausible anti-president suicide drone, A Ticket To Tranai style.
Collectivism/individualism and obedience towards the state/authorities are very different within EU as well.
Good point about greetings. Places where people get all over each others' faces to say hello have had a worse time of it than places where people bow politely from a distance.
Too many people, including physicists, confuse theories with reality. Quantum mechanics is a very powerful theory that correctly predicts a lot of observed phenomena. But while QM talks about a wavefunction, it doesn't mean the wavefunction actually exists. I myself particularly like the Everett interpretation, which some believe implies a multiverse, but I don't think the actual existence of a multiverse is necessary.
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Why is it that these articles never show the $item? Even a reconstruction would be nice.
Typically ethics is devoid of politics. A simple apolitical question: is this research going to harm anyone?

It’s open ended and simple enough to answer.
Airlines don't follow SOP when they are on the verge of bankruptcy and needs $ any way it can.
BTW: I really dislike calling horizontal 2660px as "2K" resolution. It's even close to 3K than 2K. It should be called as 2.5K.
The comparison is with Africa - these are the oldest bows found in Europe or Asia.
Comments like the one you responded to are what some people do to cope with all this.
The cub in Cub Scouts comes from wolf cubs.
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As pointed out by other commenters, Sage uses Maxima under the hood.

Please describe how you managed to get Sage to use sympy, thanks.
It's like you are ignoring science is theory driven and theories are created by people. It's like that nonsense paper in nature that says data is so plentiful we can give up on theories and just find correlations. Except that data isn't objectively delivered to scientists from the universe. The choice of how you measure a phenomena is as theory laden as the explanation.
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Rambling around Japan can feel a bit like playing an RPG. Some times you really do come across abandoned shrines, home to wild animals, and with caches of pole weapons and money inside.
Depends. If you give someone a furlough handout, they can keep buying food, paying rent, paying for services (keeping other people's jobs viable, basically).

If you let someone go bankrupt, lose their job, house, etc. they are suddenly not contributing to the economy and other people start losing their jobs. And that person then needs welfare payments anyway to avoid starving to death etc.

In the former case the government might borrow to pay for that, but if you borrow money, you have to borrow it off someone. Someone has to buy those bonds; e.g. pension funds.

"The young" will be not will be worse off overall; it has to balance out overall. Some of them will be creditors. The balance won't be evenly distributed, but future governments can decide by how much with tax strategies.

Compare to climate change, a problem we are very definitely kicking down the road to future generations.
There are singificant cultural differences. According to an italian friend of mine many italians disrespected the distancing measures, plus there are differences in how closely people generally interact and their living situations.
Group size was defined by food sources. You can't feed a large group by hunting-gathering - the food will be too far. Groups can convene when there's plenty of food but have to disperse again.
It appears from her twitter account that she has done a few charity fundraiser tiltify streams. Including one yesterday. I don’t know what the right amount is for such a thing but it seems a bit low to me.
Why not just add it to your profile 'about' section?
You have to look at where in the population the deaths occur in combination with policy and cultural behavior.

In Sweden the wast majority occurred in elderly care homes located mostly within strong mass transportation distance. (The image in the article is almost ironically capturing the wrong demographic in the wrong location in the wrong part of Sweden, in a time period after the one for which they base the article, but it is eye catching so for nytimes I guess that is the editorial guidelines that they will use).

Japan with a large portion of the population being elderly, and with a strong mass transportation system, I do wonder why they have so few deaths. Maybe they imposed very strict testing and restriction for all workers getting anywhere near such places? Maybe they use a lot of automation in elderly care resulting in significant less human contact and exposure? Cultural difference?

Finland did one thing that Sweden did not. They closed the capital. No one in, no one out. I am not sure how the elderly care homes outside that zone managed in regard to finding replacement for employees, but it seems to have been an effective measure. They also seem to have implemented rules for zero visitors.
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Everything can be measured. We just don’t have the tech yet.

A better phrasing of the problem is: the world is immensely complicated and our individual and collective intelligences have only just begun to scratch the surface of this complexity.

Once an individual understands this, they realize that almost everything in life cannot be measured or predicted, and that subjectivity is still very important and a completely valid way to navigate life.
> Endangering the lives of others has never been an inalienable right

That's simply wrong. I am allowed to drive a car, which is inherently dangerous to pedestrians (140,000 accidents per year in the US). I am allowed to have a lot of (or all?) contagious deseases in public, which is dangerous to the elderly and immune-compromised. I am sure there are many more examples. Small dangers are everywhere. I am all for wearing masks but let's not make up stuff.
Chezck out the Frigate project. It uses the Coral tpu accelerator which could be used with the rpi.

https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate
The scene around conspiracy theorists Heiko Schrang and Attila Hildmann sure is fascinating. Wearing masks is the ultimate evil to them, for some reason.
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A microphone is a passive component, it doesn't need power. If you plug it into your headphones jack, it turns into a speaker. The indicator you want would be controlled by firmware or operating system, or by a physical switch, not by a common path to the microphone.
Trump administration banning an app that has allowed for worldwide social mobilization against him? No way.
Oh my god I love this - the only problem is if people stop playing... hope this has a wide user base for a long time! :D
I'm assuming that since axes weren't government inventions that we're allowed to talk about them?
> They don't wear shoes at home and public spaces don't have litters all over.

I might be missing something, but what does this have to do with COVID?
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40 years makes for a long less-than-urban flânerie :)

What are the modern equivalents of the ancient greek philosophers' venues?

The Academy was an olive grove owned by Plato, so it would be an example of an institution whose endowment was identical with its campus (and the modern equivalent would be a school in a penthouse, funded by the rents from apartments below and retail on the ground floor?)

The Lyceum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripatetic_school#Background appears to have been a multi-use public park. Did Aristotle adopt the peripatetic lecture style because he enjoyed it, or did the Lyceum have intermittently patrolling Athenian rent-a-cops who encouraged his auditors to "move along now" every so often?

Stoics met in a stoa, so the modern equivalent might be a "strip mall philosopher."

Diogenes' tub might be a rude structure of cardboard under an overpass, or at best a cast-off camping tent. (as the SDFs in Paris have)
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And they are saying that a good match between excess mortality and reported Covid death is not, in itself, an argument to say that Sweden is doing a good job. It has more excess mortality than its neighbors even if these might be underreporting Covid death so this argument is not exactly relevant.
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it's not AWS-grade, just a budget VPS, but has been just as reliable and performant so far. it's out there should you care to seek. the correct currency of £ will help
Agreed. We had a doctor who refused to believe that my partner’s symptoms were relieved by a specific procedure - because there were no reports of other people’s symptoms being relieved by this procedure. But by this logic, no such report could ever get recorded!

It is critical that subjective, experiential data is cross referenced with objective data in order to control for errors in both. Both kinds of data are fallible for different reasons.

In my opinion, the erosion of subjectivity from science is probably a driver of the loss of objectivity in politics.
OpenRA

https://www.openra.net/ (Free, but a little big buggy)

WarFare Incorporated:

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https://play.warfareincorporated.com/ (Web Only)

Command and Conquered Remastered:

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Oh sorry, thought you wanted RTS instead of RPG. :)
On skill development: I mainly think of it as an exercise in emotional management, just like procrastination, or physical activities, and so forth.

It doesn't seem to ever become easy for me. I am always running into challenges and difficult obstacles once I overcome the procrastination issue. I am bullhorned about it, so I'll eventually get through. That, more than any particular strategy for learning, is the most important in skill acquisition.

Another component of skill acquisition is skill retention. You'll get rusty when you don't practice your skills, and in enough time, you'll lose your progress. This is probably more than anything else, a lifetime commitment so that you don't lose your progress in the knowledge or skills you picked up, so that in the long run you become better and better over time.

Think of it this way: You learned 10,000 useful "stable" facts about the world one year. Next year, you learned another 10K facts. But retention is exponential. Practice it long enough, the facts will last a lifetime.

Suppose a person have no strategy for retention. Let say he learned 10K facts, 75% decays away. Next year, he learned another 10K facts, but another 75% decays away. So he retained only 5,000 facts, but you retained 20,000 facts. Obviously, this is contrived, but it does illustrate why colleges and high schools aren't very effective. It's not that they don't teach, it's that the students forgot what they learned as soon as they finished a course.

I often get interested in a subject matter and then drop it some point. This often result in surface understanding of the subject. Just enough to sound smart. However the knowledge is retained. Should I ever return to a subject, I'll retain the knowledge from scratch, as sometime I do.

Sometime I was able to keep at a subject long enough to acquire some amount of true mastery.
I saw a comment once pointing out that once a country has nuclear weapons, it tends not to be threatened by others. At the level of individual countries, the danger goes down.
The Church knows how to draft behind power. Hong Kong’s is receding, Beijing’s is burgeoning. No doubt onto whose teat the Church will hungrily latch.