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> This is a defensible opinion, as are the others saying that the most important job of humanity is to fix our current basket.

It's always presented as a false dichotomy, though. We can have both.

People insist we should be spending our money fixing the planet, but we already are, including Musk who just sponsored the largest XPrize in history for a carbon sequestration method.

First we must overcome the political hurdles to get people to even recognize that climate change is a problem. Obviously money is only barely starting to trickle in to carbon sequestration tech.
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There's an interesting discussion in Gun, Germs, and Steel where Jared Diamond claims that wild apples were inedible (IIRC due to cyanide in the seeds) and could only be domesticated after the invention of grafting technology.
If you really have the answer, then you'll know what to do with it. :)
> in addition to being creatures sprung from nature, we are also something else

Super-natural: More than natural. You are literally saying humans are supernatural (using the Latin prefix 'super-' meaning "in addition to" [1]).

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/super#Latin
It seems like a clone of sendpotion (https://www.sendpotion.com). What's novel about Tavus?
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Somewhat unrelated: Can someone explain the rationale for writing comparisons in the ordering they're using (e.g., 2180 < week)?

I've seen similar before and always thought it seemed error-prone to not write them the way they'd be spoken aloud, but happy to entertain other explanations.
Terrible idea - just another entity to be ideologically captured.

Until we figure out how to actually enshrine political diversity, this will end up staffed entirely by people of a certain politics, and will become despised by many on the other side.
Was a time I long to go back to. I would certainly only own a landline if other factors didn't require me maintaining a mobile phone.
I've seen an actual Nobel Prize winner get stuck describing their research.

People's brains just occasionally lock up.
Throughout all of recorded history there has yet to be a superpower or empire that didn't do incredibly stupid things, courtesy of over-estimating its position and power. Modern China will not be an exception. They'll overreach repeatedly just as every other prior great power has.

China considers Australia to be within its primary sphere of influence (a rapidly expanding sphere as far as China is concerned, as they push outward militarily).

Japan was willing to invade Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and Australia during its Empire days. China is a drastically more potent superpower than the Empire of Japan ever was and China's military reach will be far greater.

In an Asia war scenario (which is what we're talking about here), Australia is absolutely on the table to be invaded by China. It's a prime candidate if China's foes attempt an inevitable resource blockade (which would see the BRI targeted early on). Invading Australia also disables a critical, reliable ally for the US side. The US & Co. would need vast regional resource supplies to sustain for long at all in a conflict with China in Asia; China would know that, and would understand that Australia is one of the most important resource suppliers both regionally and globally. At a minimum China would seek to cripple Australia functionally, and an invasion is ideal toward that ultimately (otherwise the Australians would just keep rebuilding and repairing damage).

European empires would never seek to conquer territory in Asia, it's too far away. Britain would never seek to conquer India, it's too far away.

China sends its vast fishing fleets to illegally plunder South American fishing waters. It has blanketed much of Africa for resource extraction purposes. It certainly considers Australia as a resource target within its reach. And it's more than that, China had already fallen into the mindset of considering Australia to be increasingly within its sphere of influence and control, which is why the CCP has gotten so angry at Australia in the recent political-economic conflict between the two. They had plans for Australia and assumed they would be dictating terms going forward.
Aren’t Dollar Tree and Dollar General owned by the same company?
Thanks for the link. A lot of people went out of their way to criticise Vue which makes me wonder how the general opinion of Vue has changed in the last year.
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Can you explain what you meant by that comment then?
You Can’t Understand Isis If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism (2017)
"sinking into the water" means that it enters the water. A splashdown. It doesn't mean that it will sink to the bottom.
Interesting. In my state there are still non exchange plans. Pricing is about the same, maybe a bit higher. But yeah they probably aren't constrained as much in terms of network breadth.
No, but they haven't not, either. NPR is notoriously biased and niche in its politics.

Ask anyone on the half of the country who doesn't vote blue, or necessarily get along with the latest developments in gender identity, of NPR gives their worldview any coverage whatsoever that isn't bashing and negative.
Well, stage one to silicone life could be computer chips.
Then for a transition period, the shell could be metallic followed by integration of the human mind to that almost indestructible body shell.
Something like the bad guy terminator 2.
But step one could be computer chips. Human designed and made rather than by strict definition of natural selection.
Environmental Industrial Complex -

> Methane is 84 times more powerful in trapping heat than carbon dioxide

You should be scared.

Reality, the atmospheric residence time of methane is approximately 9 years

If however a carbon sink might leak in fifty or even one hundred years, it can't work, don't bother trying

You should be scared.

If methane scares you, do something useful and work on lab grown meat, so the rest of us can get our farms back to nature, not have to worry about killing living creatures, get cheap burgers, not have to listen to vegans, increase jungle carbon sinks and you'll get less methane.
The cost can (should) be progressive for repeated offenses, and it can be divided if multiple people make the same (wrong) call. Say you get one "free" report per month, but you don't lose it if either you were correct and/or more than 5 people reported the same person.

The important thing is not about being "perfectly provably fair", it is just to curb abuse (on either side) so that people still can have fun playing without having to accept such invasive software on their machines.
It really makes me wonder why the authorities don’t do proper randomized surveys? It is obvious that the testing numbers will go up and down as the population goes scared and then goes don’t care.
If I was in charge, I'd try to find as many non-spammy and wholesome Content Creators, like Mark Rober or Dustin /w Smarter Every Day, and have them figure out a way to scale a program/syndication that attracts content creators similar to them.

Youtube is great. You can learn anything on Youtube... but Youtube is also filled with absolute trash childrens programming that literally rots my kids' brains as they watch it. Thats not to mention the unfathomable child porn rings that were caught time-stamp commenting unintentionally suggestive poses by underage kids...

We need a curated Youtube for the curious mind that doesn't waste my time with 3 minutes of content stretched to 11 mins to get monetized.
Even more unrelated, but equally pedantic, I've always thought it's weird when people write "null != val" instead of "val != null" for the same reason.

When said out loud, "null is not val" just feels wrong.
Not what you asked for, but a related XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1227/
UK resident here: I don't know of anyone who has gotten covid in many months, and nearly everyone I know is vaxxed.

I believe this Delta collapse. It's exactly what you'd expect given our pace of vaccinations.
Aren't they already trying that with the nebula/curiositystream thing they advertise endlessly?
I'm getting bored of watching rockets land like they do in the movies.

Soooooo. It's probably not vaporware homie.
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There are programmes doing this in the West as well.
Yes if you voted for that government, otherwise no.
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>all the more conspicuous for happening just two days after the country’s pandemic restrictions were [...] lifted

Lateral flow tests just happened to run out on the day restrictions were lifted. [0] And tada numbers plummet right when gov is taking massive heat for dropping restrictions in the middle of a surge.

Yes really - that is how the current UK gov rolls.

The fact that the author is trying to extrapolate other countries future trajectory based on that is rather amusing.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lateral-flow...
I've seen style guides recommend that to avoid typos on == that accidentally result in assignment: write "123 == foo" instead of "foo == 123" so that you can't accidentally write "foo = 123".
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Read this comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28035602

Nordigen does actually reuse, store and sell your financial data in "anonymized" form. That's rather concerning.
Choosing properties for property-based testing
See also "Hippocampal neurons construct a map of an
abstract value space" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.17.423272v1....
To the positive spin for China, they tend to target only their fellow citizens and have some internal coherency and moral. NSO is an Israeli national problem that sells the spying capabilities to the highest bidding crook dictator around the world.
Didnt they find life where no one was expecting it to be? (Dark bottom of the sea, under intense pressure and surviving on vents). Deep sea creatures also look really alien. Might be a clue of the "weirdness" we might find out there
Surely such code would be caught by some other tool, and isn’t worth the mental overhead to translate it back into the more natural form?
Deaths have absolutely plummeted, and correlations have very clearly broken from previous "waves". But in order to extract compliance from the population, there needs to be a call to action, so the goalposts were moved to infections, as opposed to hospitalizations/deaths.
Maybe, but two things:
- I follow both channels pretty closely and I don't know what you are talking about. So it must not be working that well?
- It sounds like they are doing this nebula/curiositystream thing themselves. If someone/the government funded them or just gave them control over a program I bet they would have an even bigger impact.
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I suspect the correlation between shopping at dollar stores and having significant investment fund exposure is a lot lower than you're implying.
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I assume it's a habit formed from guarding against unintentional assignment.

Less so for most comparisons, but for equality, it'll throw an error if you're using the wrong operator instead of having unintended side effects.

week = 2180 will set the week to 2180 in a lot of languages.

2180 = week will always throw an error.

So if I want to compare, it's safer to use the form of 2180 == week because if I forget the second '=', the compiler will tell me before I make bigger problems.
Parent here.

> What was the goal of the question?

This is the introductory question before solving concurrency problems, because it’s much easier to understand what a thread does when you’ve coded the body yourself.

> Why did you want the person to implement a contains method?

The job is CRUD + integrating with Confluence + parsing search queries from the user, so finding “<XML” in a page and answering “Yes! This is totally xml, I’m positive!” is a gross simplification of realistic tasks in the real job (and in fact in most webapps), with characters instead of XML or JSON.

I have the feeling that you think this question is entirely abstract, but I both tailored the exercise because he touted being good at improving app performance on his resume (including using JProfiler) and I took care of using a realistic on-the-job example.

> Did you really want to verify they understood String implementation in Java?

Well, what consumer product can you work on if you trip into all UTF-8 traps? Telling customers “Just write English because we can’t be bothered to learn the easy thing in Java that handles UTF-8 properly” is… is acceptable unless he also fails the fuzzbizz test. And once UTF8 is mastered, it’s good for life! I wouldn’t mind teaching him if he didn’t fail the rest, but as a senior you should really know the difference between .getBytes() and .codePointAt(i).

> If the candidate was able to do it in 6 minutes, what would you have thought? “Great, let’s hire”?

The 4 other questions were classic gross concurrency errors, tailored because he touted it in his resume and I wanted him to shine. A senior should be able to guess them blindfolded as soon as I tell them “There are concurrency problems”, without even looking at the code ;) Volatile, atomic, ArrayList non-synchronized, 200 threads for a connection pool of 10, a DB accepting 7 cnx (note the prime numbers make it easy to spot which multiple is causing the issue), and strings of 10MB each with Xmx=100m, if he finds any 3 of the 12 problems, and 2 more with help, I’d hire him. If he ditched the code and postes tasks into an ExecutorService (as they teach in the Java certification level 1), I’d hire immediately.
Truly we need two tiers of API access, one which will only work with bank accounts we link to our API developer profile, which is easier to get access to, and another that is meant to handle third party bank data which requires ministry compliance and may need to wait longer for.
Since the latest AI Spring there has been a societal tendency to look for fields where ML could plausibly be applied productively. And then to make a stronger claim that doing so would in practice deliver those benefits.

Many consultants, researchers are aware of the stretch, but do it anyway because FOMO. They know too that others make sumilar unsupported claims.

On the basis of the evidence presented in this article, I would argue that this tendency is a cultural deviance. And that these banking risk / compliance folks are themselves complicit.

I agree the field of cultural analysis has potential, but it appears these folks lack results to demonstrate it.
I took this to be a reference to the original Silicon Valley semiconductor companies. Fairchild etc.
They had a thing where if you dismissed the top attractive users they would segment you as attractive as well and bump you up to the upper tier.
I haven't seen red delicious on sale in UK supermarkets for ages. I used to back in my childhood, when you had a variety of loose apples on sale. We bought red delicious and golden delicious because they were cheaper, and we got granny smith apples as a treat. I liked red more than golden for reasons I don't remember but I think red had a stronger crunch and a thicker skin.

I really don't like over-sweet fruit and it feels like a lot of fruits have been engineered for extra sweetness. So these days I try and stick to boring/milder stuff like Braeburn or Gala. Even for other fruits, like strawberries, it's hard to find a punnet that isn't the 'supersweet' variety.
vastly overrated compared to focusing on actual tech.
You make really good points.
Life is bizarre and human culture is extremely contradictory and difficult to quantify.

And what's worse our definition of 'fair' maybe advancing just like culture is constantly advancing.

African Americans may have been treated poorly by the algorithm back in the 1700s when they we're considered less than a full person by the legal system for example. And maybe in the future drug offenses may be considered not a big deal.

They call the Constitution a living document.

This algorithm may have to be a living algorithm.

What if it was open source and constantly updated and reviewed to reach consensus?

There would probably also have to be human appeal processes.

I definitely think this is intriguing as a first-level sentencing determination though.
I thought most modern browsers behave as if SameSite=Lax automatically these days. Were OkCupid deliberately setting SameSite=None on their cookies?
> "This sounds like it would break a bunch of email address verification systems, password recovery links and the like."

This is exactly the pain I've experienced with my own site, https://alchemist.camp

I've manually tested it and seen the token consumed when clicking the link via gmail but had no issues when copying the link from the password reset email to a gmail account. A second manual tester confirmed the same, as have multiple support cases.

Password recovery links sporadically fail for gmail users. I had to add extra instructions to copy and paste rather than click through the link and am in the process of moving away from single-use tokens because a lot of people still click before reading those instructions and email me for support.

My increased customer support burden isn't something Gmail PMs worry about, but they may whitelist some larger service's emails.
What's an "open source" asset? You mean "creative commons" licensed?
Possessing the ball in midfield isn't useful if the opposing team is entirely between you and the goal. If, however, you pass through the other team's forwards to your midfield, then it's different; you've taken some of the opposition out of the game for a time.

On the other hand, your midfield will be immediately under pressure and they have to do something with the ball. All too often, you see midfield players simply pass it back to the back four, resulting in a gradual press rather than risking an attack.
Where are you getting 100M confirmed infections?