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I feel the quality varies very much, depending on the guest. Erik Weinsteins discussion style is so aggressive that it really requires someone who either has very similar opinions/focus (in order not to get constantly interrupted), or is able to deal with that situation and still make the conversation work.

In many cases, I feel it mostly ends up being Weinstein giving monologues and not caring much for the input of his guest. :D

In some cases though, the combination of an interesting guest and willingness to push the conversation forward beyond the basics really works.
UTF-8 is not arbitrary precision. There is a artificial limit at 2^20. And Unicode does not map theses to characters. Unicode maps these to so called "code points". These "code points" then are mapped to charaters ("glypheme clusters" in unicode speak) in a very complicated way. A sequence of code points can be different kinds of normal forms, for example.
> Are these people drinking it?

Apparently, yes [1]: "The agency is aware of adults and children ingesting hand sanitizer products contaminated with methanol that has led to recent adverse events including blindness, hospitalizations and death."

[1] https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-u...
I agree with your statements. If someone has spent three years studying accounting, I would certainly expect that he or she is able to blog coherently about double entry accounting.
You won't necessarily be able to know if there was a false positive. Google might reject it or, worse, accept the message and not deliver it to you.
"Apple Computer has lost its most eloquent apologist," Richard Dawkins noted in his eulogy.

Beautiful line, only made more apt by who it was that spoke it.
UTF-8 is a "fancy" way of representing 32 bit integers in a self-synchronising byte format.

I can see an extension to 7 bytes (by making the leading byte 11111110 which I think would still be unambiguous) going up to 37 bits, but at 8 bytes you'd start getting collisions in the byte patterns and would lose the self-synchronising properties.
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A good meta study is: Lindahl et al (2017). The varieties of contemplative experience: A mixed-methods study of meditation-related challenges in Western Buddhists. This vice article recaps it: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbaedd/meditation-is-a-po...

I'll list just the titles of select deep dive citations from the first study to give an idea, you can find detailed citations in the paper itself;

- "Meditation-induced psychosis" (several with this title)

- "Mania precipitated by meditation: a case report and literature review."

- "Adverse effects of meditation: a preliminary investigation of long-term meditators."

- "The unveling of traumatic memories and emotions through mindfulness and concentration meditation: clinical implications and three case reports."

- "Meditation in association with psychosis"

- "Precipitation of acute psychotic episodes by intensive meditation in individuals with a history of schizophrenia"

- "Psychiatric complications of meditation practice."

This is a citation tree from just one study on meditation.

To be clear, I know the term meditation is not strictly equivalent to breathing exercises but definitely a good chunk covers & includes them; e.g most frequently practiced meditation style (vipassana), breathing sensation is the most common object of focus.

If you're interested in non-meditation studies, the term "relaxation induced anxiety" will bring a wider selection of papers. If you are interested in studies about psychoactivity of breathing, search for "panic disorder breathing" which has again tons of studies that investigate the link (contents of which doesn't necessarily limit to panic disordered populations).

And to be clear, I am not saying meditation or breathing exercises are bad. But they are potent. They can create altered states. And as such I am against bold claims like "they can do no harm, just do on your own". As studies above demonstrate, even with a proper educational context they can backfire. Especially considering the fact that the population segment that would be most interested in trying these exercises would likely to be the people already suffering from stress, anxiety or mental health problems.
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From the FDA's 2 July press release[1], it sounds like ingestion was the culprit. While it is absorbed through the skin, the rate is low: I found a study[2] that suggests 8 mg/cm^2/h. I'd be more concerned about the vapors.

[1]: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...

[2]: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004200050228
As an Aussie, I'm pretty happy to subsidise any of my fellow citizens getting higher education if they want to, because I believe the pursuit of life goals and in particular life goals in education leads to a societal betterment overall. Written differently, if someone wants to go and study philosophy even if they don't believe they'll ever work in the field, I'm happy that my tax helps to support that because I think that the process of higher education in itself is a valuable learning experience that helps produce better citizens within their communities. Higher education - even without directly leading to a career - can be a very powerful way of lifting people out of generational poverty traps.

You say that no one is stopping someone getting said degree, however often without subsidy/support it can be prohibitively expensive and that stops them. No one person may be stopping them, but systems doing so are no better.

Naturally, that comes with limits, since we are not yet able to function in a fully automated society where scarcity is abolished. Hence why the Aussie system caps the subsidised loans you may receive.

edit to add: I also support reducing the societal pressure that a university degree is the only path to success. I'd like to see much more support and emphasis placed on practical tertiary education, such as trades and the like. I think it's all too often an option that people dismiss because they're sold the lie that university guarantees success.
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> His blog doesn’t have an obviously visible RSS feed, but if you point your reader to it it’ll find it.

The feed is at [1]

[1] https://acoup.blog/feed/
Sure it is, thanks to CVE database entries.

Here are Google's rationale for enabling it on Android,

> Platform hardening - We’ve expanded use of compiler-based sanitizers in security-critical components, including BoundSan, IntSan, CFI, and Shadow-Call Stack. We’re also enabling heap pointer tagging for apps targeting Android 11 or higher, to help apps catch memory issues in production. These hardening improvements may surface more repeatable/reproducible app crashes in your code, so please test your apps. We've used HWAsan to find and fix many memory errors in the system, and we now offer HWAsan-enabled system images to help you find such issues in your apps.

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> Starting in Android R, for 64-bit processes, all heap allocations have an implementation defined tag set in the top byte of the pointer on devices with kernel support for ARM Top-byte Ignore (TBI). Any application that modifies this tag is terminated when the tag is checked during deallocation. This is necessary for future hardware with ARM Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) support.

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"Adopting the Arm Memory Tagging Extension in Android"

https://security.googleblog.com/2019/08/adopting-arm-memory-...

"Detecting Memory Corruption Bugs With HWASan"

> Native code in memory-unsafe languages like C and C++ is often vulnerable to memory corruption bugs. Our data shows that issues like use-after-free, double-free, and heap buffer overflows generally constitute more than 65% of High & Critical security bugs in Chrome and Android.

> HWASan is based on memory tagging and depends on the Top Byte Ignore feature present in all 64-bit ARM CPUs and the associated kernel support. Every memory allocation is assigned a random 8-bit tag that is stored in the most significant byte (MSB) of the address, but ignored by the CPU. As a result, this tagged pointer can be used in place of a regular pointer without any code changes.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/02/detecting-...

The post is already too long just with Android, otherwise I would provide similar references for iOS, Solaris on SPARC, Azure Sphere / Phonon.
Just my 2 cents, but I would suggest from a programmer's perspective, a method of entry might be in game programing. You can explore a bunch of really interesting mathematical properties of the Universe in isolation and visualize (and even feel) them to some extent.

On my TODO list for example is to take a look at this project that maps a world to non-Euclidean space [1]. Writing these "simulations" and exploiting their nature to make interesting interactions is just unbelievably awesome.

P.S. Another interesting one (by the same person) is "MarbleMarcher" [2].

[1] https://github.com/HackerPoet/NonEuclidean

[2] https://github.com/HackerPoet/MarbleMarcher
In one update Mozilla has more or less destroyed my trust in them. They reset privacy settings and pushed out a major change that leaves virtually no add-ons available with no warning. I don't understand what they were thinking with this.
typical us move, interesting to see what this end up with
Tens of millions of armed citizens is absolutely an effective counter to any threat. Imagine keeping supply lines moving across a country this large if you knew millions of armed people would try to shut you down.
I wonder what the authors thoughts are on the Moscow Metro. Schematic map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Moscow_m...

Seems like a bunch of concentric circles with lines going away from the center.

I have never been to Moscow, but it seems like an interesting success story of planning infrastructure projects properly.
> UTF-8 is not arbitrary precision. There is a artificial limit at 2^20.

Since that limit is artificial it can safely be ignored. UTF-8 was designed as a 32b encoding. I don't think it is arbitrary-precision either though, since it was also designed to be self-synchronising.

> glypheme

Grapheme. A grapheme is more or less a user-perceived character, a "grapheme cluster" is a group (cluster) of codepoints roughly corresponding to a grapheme.

> A sequence of code points can be different kinds of normal forms, for example.

That has limited relevance, since not all clusters exist in precomposed forms they have to be handled regardless of normalisation, there's just some redundancies.
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One is natural the other one is man made (similar to many other languages discriminating between woods and forest)
For what it’s worth, the original link is back up again.
> you'll probably get more mileage out of joining an instance run by someone you know and trust.

What if you don't know or trust anyone that runs a Mastodon instance? And don't have the time/means/expertise/motivation to run one yourself?
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I observe that being able to build great infrastructure is when you have the good fortune of having financial, political, and social forces that incentivize it. That doesn't occur a lot these days. It also takes foresight to build up a reserve of these, because projects are so easily cancelled.

One surprising thing I learned about the Japanese (Tokyo) metro system and its complexity, and yet punctuality and adherence to precise schedules:

The Tokyo metro system didn't get as good as it is because of someone's simple desire to have a really nice metro system, or some theoretical love of schedules.

It became so well-timed and complex because it had to be. Due to the constraints of land and existing infrastructure, there was no other way to serve as many people as demanded train service than to build stacks and stacks of rail networks, and have them operate (and interoperate between lines efficiently) down to the second -- in order to be able to cram that many trains into one space.

Versus in other places, people would say, those requirements are so ridiculous, there's no way a metro system could ever be built to work!

Sometimes, the constraints produce progress. (Of course, this is subsidized up the wazoo in Japan, but not crazily compared to other major metro areas.)
I created a similar task at my company as the parent commenter, building a small frontend to an existing API that can be completed in a couple of hours. There's no time limit for turning it in (we suggest two weeks but don't enforce it) and we specifically tell people that a good, concise solution to the problem at hand is perfectly fine, and even might be better than a sloppier solution that tries to add bells and whistles.

When I set it up the goal was to avoid a lot of the issues I've personally had or heard about with coding challenges: they take way too long, they're too abstract, or you feel like the company might just be using you to get a couple of days of free work on their actual codebase. For this reason I feel fine about not paying people, as it's just a small part of the application process and not free work for us.

I think it's worked pretty well so far. It happens after the initial phone screen and before the first technical interview. We send people the challenge, they return it whenever they want, and if we like it we set up a technical interview. Since the challenge uses our tech stack and is similar to the work we actually do, a large part of the first technical interview is discussing their solution. Why they chose certain patterns, why they added a certain library, how they'd consider testing it, why a certain function might be slow with 10k entities, and so on.
It's almost as if Congress should change some laws about campaign spending and individuals owning loss making "news" organisations. But they don't...
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I thought about such reminders, but I have a concern that it will be too much notifications. But anyway, it can be optional.
Sanskrit is interesting because all symbols are direct phonetic representations. If you hear a sound, you know how to write it. This is why it was able to be super effective at keeping the texts intact through centuries of passing down texts orally.
1. If people wants Chrome they can install Chrome. I for one like to see the browser landscape diversify. Peeping Tom Chrome is fast and works well for those that care little. Just because a spec takes a bad turn we shouldn’t just end the web, we break the spec instead and maybe even make a new one. XHTML style.

2. That an app that I choose to install has access doesn’t mean I want a web page to access it. I trust my local webpage with their news, not their security prowess. The most important is that Apple always have someone to go after if an app is doing something illegal.

3. The specs are already too big for any other competition in the web engine space and you want to make it bigger?

And let’s face it, those features will take development time from something else that might be more important, like containers.

Yes there will be a lot of angry js devs but who really cares about ‘em? My cpu isn’t a free for all buffè.
Yes, absolutely.

In some cases the distinction's less compelling, say defence, where individually I'm unlikely to notice the budget allocation, let alone how that expenditure is sliced up.
It's still fair to say that it's the collective's money, but government budgeting for it is just not scrutinised in the same way.

Also, with education it's fundamentally different as almost everyone goes through some part of the education sector at some point in their lives.

In Straya we have about 1.5 million people in tertiary (university, colleges, etc) education today. This is a large chunk out of of the 25m population.

Consider also that we have 13.5m tax payers, and about 17m eligible voters (and voting is compulsory here).

I feel that 'the government spends this money' distracts us from the provenance and accountability for these crucial and significant social decisions.
Yeah, teaching phonics works well. Seems a bit odd to claim that there is no way to teach it. Phonetic understanding makes both visual, and auditory memory connections. I have never found anyone who can't learn phonics.
I once applied at a company that started with a programming test before any human communication. I think I did a pretty good job on the test. After that I was rejected when I assume they saw my resume. They gave me $50 store credit on their website (custom sticker printing). I assume it cost them a lot less than $50 but it was still pretty cool.
This author seems to be on a PR circuit. Was on Rogan podcast recently. Heard other health podcasts mention the book and that they’ll have him on soon.

I’m not saying it is wrong. Just to be aware.
In my experience as an engineer in Australia, I did 0 liberal arts rounding. At the time, I didn't see the point. I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it and been quite annoyed by it, especially if it wasn't given through an engineering-specific lens. However, these days I've come to realise the value it can provide.

I did not even have an engineering ethics class.
This is the interesting part to me:

> the increase in student fees exceeds the decrease in government subsidies, meaning universities end up with higher fees overall.

Does this mean Aus .gov not only decides subsidies but prices of degree? On top of that, you have .edus going after foreign student tuition (which is or isn't price controlled?).

It's like they can't decide what to control and what to fix so they fix everything.
Just because it is simple in your experience doesn't mean that is universally true for everyone. Certainly not for anxiety disordered or PTSD suffering people for example.

See my reply to comment below which cites studies when these sort of practices backfire in a non-trivial fashion. Like I said, it is either too trivial as sit, breathe and relax which won't do much good, or it is potent enough to do some good in which case it also has the potential of doing some harm.
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This sushi article is an example of SCMP smearing history.

> By the 12th century, this method of fermenting fish had travelled from the Mekong to China, and then on to Japan, where it was called narezushi.

It's a substantial claim that fermented fish and rice travelled through China to Japan. Food travels very slowly. If it travelled by land, it'll morphed with local ingredients. South China has more rice based dish. North China has less rice and more wheat in their cuisines. If fermented fish and rice travelled that far through land. It'll leave lots of traces in Chinese cuisines.

It's likely that Japanese got fermented fish and rice directly from South East Asia, without going through China. Japan has been trading with SE Asia region for centuries. Hội An is a city port in Vietnam with Japanese remnants.

Fish sauce travelled from Rome to Vietnam, through China.

Sushi travelled from SE Asia to Japan, through China.
Well, Japan actually has potent production assets and exports a lot?