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I think Humphries is using "peer review" as a short-hand for "external peer review".

Compare Humphries' statement: "None of the classic papers on DNA, nor Einstein’s four in his miracle year, were peer reviewed.

with this quote from Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholarly_peer_review (emphasis mine):

> Peer review became a touchstone of the scientific method, but until the end of the 19th century was often performed directly by an editor-in-chief or editorial committee. Editors of scientific journals at that time made publication decisions without seeking outside input, i.e. an external panel of reviewers, giving established authors latitude in their journalistic discretion. For example, Albert Einstein's four revolutionary Annus Mirabilis papers in the 1905 issue of Annalen der Physik were peer-reviewed by the journal's editor-in-chief, Max Planck, and its co-editor, Wilhelm Wien, both future Nobel prize winners and together experts on the topics of these papers.

The latter quote supports your expectation that Einstein's work was indeed scrutinized by his peers.

I'll use that distinction between internal and external peer review to analyze this quote by Humphries: "And the media have dealt with this explosion by consistently pointing out when research has not yet been peer reviewed. Presumably they do this to warn the reader that the research lacks the safeguards that peer review brings."

This means the media is reporting that a given preprint has had neither internal peer review by an editor, nor external peer review.
There's a spiritual truth here, letting go of ego - I think the world would benefit more from it than just about anything else right now.

Not only by reducing pointless religious and political flame wars, but also the vast amount of anxiety and depression based around identity (whether my identity is good enough), social distrust and antagonism from identifying as this group vs that group, etc.

Not an easy path, and these ideas have been around for 3000 years without seemingly making much impact in society at large - but one can hope :)
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does anyone know why VB developers seem to hang on to VB with such tenacity?

Because it is a much easier to use tool, far better suited to the beginner.

It's the same reason I cling to Lazarus/Pascal... you can do far more work in far less time.

Oh, and everything is actually documented with working examples, unlike the modern trend of "docs" that encourage you to figure it out for yourself.
> * American healthcare is too expensive. The problem is long known and nobody wants to solve it. That problem is administrative inefficiency. Solving that problem means terminating the a large segment of a massive industry (destroying a massive number of jobs). Drugs are expensive too, but drug pricing problems impacts specific persons that when averaged across the entirety of the population become only a tiny part of the industry wide problem.

My impression from looking at this for many years now is that the problem is everything. Every single individual and entity involved—and that's a whole bunch—is taking too much money. That's why it's so hard to point at any one problem and dig deeper and fine all the money. Every time, you find some of it, and usually a lot, but not all of it.

Doctors and other people actually providing care? Too few of them, and (or, "therefore") they're making too much money. Hospitals? Consolidation of hospitals and smaller providers into "networks"? Yes and yes, but still, that's not all. Administration costs? Yep, but not all of it. Insurance overhead? Yes, but... well, you get the idea.
So PG has the unique privilege of being able to think for himself?

I'm not sure what you are trying to say really. But definitely victimhood is also a type of identity.
I have a pretty obvious codesmell test that I apply to software codebases,

Can I achieve what I need just by reading the code? If not, it probably means there is a bunch of arbitrary knowledge in configuration, transpiling, generation, linking, novel concepts or language "magic" that you will need to consult the docs for.

If a codebase is idiomatic to the language its written in you really should be able to figure most things out from reading the code. At the very least my IDE should know how to autocomplete functions in the codebase without generating helper files. The helper file is essentially a list of all the missing information in the codebase that someone has had to figure out how to generate and connect.
This specific “practice” was expressed in response to someone (me) who expressed having tried it, and found it unhelpful and hurtful. It’s not like hiding one’s queerness is a new revelation, it’s commonly associated with being closeted (often out of fear and/or self repression) and with abuse (conversion therapy).
yup. toxik's comment disgusts me. So much for being against the government and the bad apples and not against the common citizen. Let's just cut off all the devs doing their jobs every day from accessing github, or let's just cut off everyone who was curious enough to bypass the GFW and look around on the outer internet, or let's just cut off someone simply trying to contact an international friend. The truth is: people like toxik could not care less about any person who happens to live inside the borders of "public enemy no. 1".

Sigh.
The problem for me is that it over-estimates my competence.

We've been told for years that it's demeaning to do the opposite and underestimate or over-explain, so people may have been erring too far in this direction.

We've also seen a lot of "the burden of communication lies on the communicator, not the listener," (quotes indicate paraphrasing) but this may also have led to overcorrection on the part of some listeners.

It's often impossible to predict what knowledge level and cultural background one's readers will have, so somehow we have to find a middle ground and ask that everyone mutually assume good faith and put in some effort to understand the other party, both when communicating and when reading.
Thank you. I believe that now the article deserves an update :)
I don't care if you call something simple, but I'd rather have you make it simple for me if you call it simple. Calling something simple can be a statement of fact ("objectively this thing is simpler than other comparable things") or it can be wishful thinking ("man this is really hard, better give them the motivation to wrap their head around it by taking away the edge"). The latter is what people tend to hate. It is "draw a circle, now draw the rest of the owl"-territory.

What I hate about this kind of bad documentation is that juat by spending an hour and writing down a few good examples and explaining them you could save hundreds of collective brain hours and maybe even improve adoption of your library if that is a relevant category for your project.
Is there a legend for that map? I'm not sure if I'm interpreting it correctly or not.. I see the box over Taiwan, but that extends over into the mainland. Do they really scramble jets in cases where Chinese fighters don't even go over the water? Or is that line that goes over the water the start of what they consider to be their airspace?
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That's how intuition works, logic, on the other hand, works about like that, with a few details you are missing.
This doesn't mean the same thing though.

If they are working abroad with the intention of returning, then expatriate is the correct term.
Agreed! I think it's really fascinating and valuable to see the metaphors people have used in the past to describe complicated subjects
It's times like this I wish HN had a downvote button.
Sure, but if a great world war happens and half the world gets destroyed, those sql skills are now useless.
Just the textbook market. What about tuition? And unpaid internships.
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Someone who solves problems by Googling is a good customer.

Someone who needs handholding or is unsophisticated is a bad customer.

For developer tools and such, an educated person’s game, the sophisticated players will have better LTV than the unsophisticated ones.
>No, this is not true. China depends on foreign technology much, much more than anyone depends on TSMC.Just look at the Huawei and ZTE sanctions.

Maybe this is still true for now, but that too is changing. China was already wary of that dependency and put efforts underway to rid itself of this dependency. The Huawei and ZTE sanctions only had the effect of putting these efforts into hyperdrive. [1] gives an overview of historic and current efforts. tl;dr China is not yet close to self-sufficient but they are spending like crazy and making major progress.

Give it another 10, 15 years and the picture might look quite different, if it even takes them that long. And China is playing the long game anyway.

[1] https://semiengineering.com/china-speeds-up-advanced-chip-de...
Is it really a bot? Or a human that went off the rails? Or an intentional provocation--"we can do whatever we want, mock people and even pretend to be an AI, and nobody can do anything about it?"
Wow crazy! It's almost as if almost every adult American uses a car on a daily basis to support themselves, while an absolutely miniscule amount of Americans need to use a gun even once in their lifetimes.
In my mind, "smart" now means something along the lines of "proprietary non-interoperable blackbox surveillance appliance sending your data to arbitrary cloud endpoints for profiling". I am yet to fit a clever backronym for it.
> Can you guarantee the children won't suffer? If not, then again you're unilaterally deciding the risk is justified.

Until we can communicate with the preborn is there anyone better to decide then the parents?

> Really? It's okay to force people into existence because they are free to commit suicide?

I believe people have the right to create life, to choose not create it, and full rights over their own lives. And if no one is ever justified to bring others into being then all life is the product of injustice.

Anyway, my preference is to council people against suicide because it is such a permanent choice, and circumstances are often temporary. But ultimately to continue living is a choice.
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It depends on what you mean by "fruitful discussion". If you are willing to listen to a person expound on their identity, and accept uncritically whatever they say, then most people will happily talk your ear off about it.

If you care to question any aspect of something that comprises part of someone's identity, then it can easily be perceived as a personal attack on that individual, and discussions where one person believes they are being personally insulted by the other are rarely fruitful.
Hey Dave, just to say thanks for what has to be one of the coolest posts ever on fork(). The Ziguana art work was awesome.
> no offense but since when was rights based discourse ever the focus of the left

I am old enough to remember times where at least some individual rights - speech, association, honest elections, equality in the eyes of the law for all people regardless of their identity, due process - were the causes that most of the left would support. There were people on the left that genuinely supported Civil Rights movement because they believed all people should have equal rights. Now equality is offensive for them, and so are due process, free speech and other values their previous generation wrote on their banners.
Not related with the project itself and IANAL, but the anime pictures in readme may have some risk of copyright infringement.
In complex organizational environments managing complex technical landscapes, documentation using phrases that start with "simply..." are an indicator of insufficient technical writing fluency/structure/guidance/expectations.

In such a context, it is reasonable to expect documentation to have a lower and upper bound on detail and scope they cover. It is not reasonable to expect all readers to know how to bridge over out of bounds detail and/or scope if they need to for their particular use case.

Examples of operative phrases to use are "for more detail on..." or "for more information on...", the former letting readers know how to obtain prerequisite knowledge, the latter letting readers know how to obtain out of bounds perspectives. Unfortunately, the art of systems-thinking-grade (wonderful link to Russell Ackoff's article on the front page today) technical writing has greatly atrophied in practically all organizations I have consulted for, and deteriorated to tactical-level documentation that reinforces a downward spiral in systems comprehension capabilities across organizations. This stems largely from a global leadership culture that applies the "simply" or "just" mentality to technical writing (which IMHO really should be called "systems writing" when it reaches a certain complexity to point out what we're really trying to accomplish at that arguably different use case, using technical writing as a tiny subset of its value delivery).
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Hume would not have considered the analytical response as adequate indeed neither does Kant. Only a synthetic treatment of the subject of logic and causality itself could resolve the Scottish Skepticism--that's why these books do not have a comparable degree of profundity. It is the synthetic movement from experience to intuition and back to concept which is the great achievement. The analytical treatment provided by Prolegomena does not afford this.

It is not intended as an introduction to Critique of Pure Reason it works from the conclusions of that work and why those conclusions are necessary.

We can remember the title isn't Prolegomena to Critique of Pure Reason but instead Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics.
Open source textbooks are available and usable online for free. Why do you need printed copies?

Frequently, open source textbooks can also be printed on demand for much less than the cost of a new textbook, in any quantity. If you can afford new books, you can certainly afford printed old books.

“Out of print” is largely an outdated term, except for small print run books. If they sold well new, they should be available used, in quantity. Especially if you are only replacing lost or damaged books.

Project Gutenberg has many old books online and you can get them printed.
Investment is naturally incentivized because the only reason capital is created is to lower the cost of production. If you build a factory, or invest in a machine to make things and it costs the same to manufacture those things in the factory or with the machine as it would to manufacture them by hand, why did you even build the factory in the first place? The inputs used to construct the factory would be better used for other things and thus the business loss from building a useless factory or unnecessary piece of equipment is the economically efficient because it is a misuse of labor and material inputs.

We are not talking about deflationary money either. We are talking about stable money supply, which is what Bitcoin is.
I'm exercising my ability to speak freely, and it would be impossible for me to be here, speaking, if I was dead. However, it would be possible for me to live without freedom of speech. To put it bluntly, without life, my freedom of speech is useless. Being alive gives me the ability to exercise my right to live, and my right to speak freely. Its two rights for the price of one! Clearly a better deal!
Ditto "better", "simple", and "[yet] another".
A weird piece that takes many interesting truths about the history timekeeping, and uses them to dishonesty decorate a rote retelling of the standard critical theory narrative that everything is western civilization is a tool of colonialism.

Why would time be any different?
The list is pretty short compared to the audits we do every year or two. I've spent the last few years getting my company up to standard and this is the (simplified version of the) process we undertook.

1. Do an initial internal audit against a (few) known security standard(s) that are relevant to your org (ISO27001, NIST, PCI etc).

2. Create a System Security Plan document that outlines what your intended security posture is for each control in the standard you are following and also recording what your current posture is. Record evidence in this document too (screenshots etc) along with an caveats and mitigations.

3. Once you have the results create a Security Risk Management Plan (SRMP) with a risk register annex for an itemised record of gaps. This document should outline what gaps you have and categorise according to the the risk they represent for your company using the risk matrix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_matrix

4. Once you have the SRMP you can create a roadmap starting with the highest risk items and working down. It might take years for you to get to a good point but at least this process will focus efforts and give you a plan to tackle what seems like an insurmountable volume of work.

If you read this comment and thought "We should do this" I highly recommend to contract in a security consultancy to act as your organisations CISO to help you with this process. They will provide experience, structure and knowledge that is no doubt missing from your org. Rating risks can be non-intuitive for example.
Bootstrap is just CSS, though? You still have to write your HTML (or JSX) by hand

I haven't seen much to back up your view of things
I actually don't think I mind this, when it comes to dating apps. It could help both sides make quick decisions based on something substantive.
I can perceive a death without being told about it.
> If you think about what most computers were like, and what we were doing with them in 1992, WiFi would have made no sense. It would have made less sense when they started work on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYNUcFMCIzw
Besides the "infinite" part, another problem with this is that the NPC's path isn't necessarily created all at once, but updated as the NPC gets closer to its target / obstacles in it path move around / etc, so there isn't anything to actually check for cycles.
I could have sworn it was a similar 1.5TB drive that most infamous. Ah well.
Would that have been equally true in late-1930s Germany (or Russia, for that matter)?
I have to work with both constraints and I find accessibility standards to be easier to align with as they can become part of the SDLC pipeline (like code level testing). Securities' scope is far more all encompassing. The hard part for accessibility generally comes down to ensuring that people don't forget they need to think about it when they are designing features and especially changes.
The problem with many more niche things is that it hasn't gotten to the point where decent answers have accumulated on Google.

I recently had to build a Word Add-In. Not a lot of those built at the moment. So we were dependent on the documentation, which while reasonably comprehensive, had some frustrating gaps in just getting the tutorial code running that took days to resolve.
What circumstances call for nesting form elements,?
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Ha, I edited my comment to say the same thing before I noticed yours. Couldn't agree more.
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The issue is who gets to define 'hate' or any other limited category of speech. You might feel that Canada's limits are benevolent, but the existence of such laws codifies the avenue of their corruption. The risk is that such limits grow more and more restrictive until disagreement is unacceptable.

Personally, I'll continue to defend the US model. Speech should have no legal limits, but that doesn't meant it doesn't have civic consequences. Those who disagree are free to do so publicly, repeatedly and loudly.
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> If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.

I can respect that "all other things being equal" does not hold here. There are always tradeoffs. But there are real benefits to not identifying with things (as the essay discusses).
Possibly similar results if the article just said “Use the Hemingway Editor” [0]

… which I have found useful in my writing. Avoid adverbs. Compromise before you get to “Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick”.

[0] https://hemingwayapp.com/
My solution to that is just an abundance of links.

Here is a tutorial I wrote:

https://dev.to/mattgaiser/how-to-debug-an-office-js-manifest...

I tried to just link to anything that might require more info. If you know how to do it, great, don't click the link. Otherwise, what you need is right there.
That's why I recommend to start with a external consultancy until you are mature to bring it in house.
Game development mostly pays quite poorly in comparison to other software eng, especially when considering the stress level of typical expected unpaid overtime. It’s a buyer’s market: companies have their pick because so many people are passionate about the field.

(You could be a gaming millionaire by e.g. being a very early employee at a studio with a casual mobile gaming hit ten years ago, but those are definitely exceptions.)
But there s also the tendency we all had as juniors to try to push new things we're closer to, rather than try and accept the "old" technology often working just as well while being much simpler.

Not always the case, but when you see people pushing heavy, runtime-script languages full of ambiguity to modernize an old simple compiled code base, it's hard to do the wait and see and show 2 years later to the juniors: "see your lombok spring thing is now absolutely unmaintanable when all it does is 3 multiplications"

It s often a balance since nobody likes change, junior like senior, and often both sides have their crap.
I was talking with people I consider to be very smart and intellectual. We were discussing the California propositions. They did not want to hear the specifics of the propositions. They only wanted to know which organizations were supporting which propositions. This is what political discourse is these days. Figuring out which team you're on based on what political influencers agree with you. Nobody bothers to understand the issues and argue the merits of those issues. It's too easy to make an ideological mistake that way given how arbitrary and complex the rules are these days.
I don’t know. I personally know people who worked at low wage hourly jobs like that who were exploring buying a second home during the pandemic to have as a rental property. Often these people are what some people might call “handy men”.

They are married, so they have multiple incomes, meaning multiple people who were receiving stimulus checks and UI.

It may surprise some of you making $300k/yr and buying $2M houses in San Francisco to learn this, but the people who make your food and deliver your things have lives as wrll. They aren’t just servants.
The catch being that you're submerged, being spun around in the currents and disoriented, and you have a very brief window to claw yourself along the riverbed.

I can't find the source but have seen reports where people have been caught in a weir, drowned, and remained spinning in the currents for a couple of days before they're eventually spat out by chance and the bodies are recovered. They've well earned the name "drowning machines".

I have no intention of going anywhere near one of these dams, if I can help it.
And that probably means you don't rebuild the browser every time an update is available, because you don't want to load down your machine for five hours right now. And, in turn, that means you're vulnerable for significantly longer than you would be with a more centralized build.