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> The Poincaré-Perelman theorem seems more accurate now.

Perelman proved a more general result: the geometrization conjecture that was initially stated by William Thurston:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometrization_conjecture
The problem is it won't run. It was written in google docs without IDE. Everyone who programmed in their lives knows this. You cannot write out a whole algorithm like that and not make any even trivial error.

This is like writing code in notepad and creating a PR without building or running it to test once. What is this testing? There is no real world scenario where you are expected to work like this and for a good reason.
The Gandhi dynasty is not descended from the M.K "Mahatma" Gandhi who fought for independence. It is descended from Nehru though, through Indira Gandhi (née Nehru).
I got started with BBS' and later Phrack. I used to check out books at the library a lot, on Unix / programming / anything else technical. I used to think cDc was very cool. One grows up and the groups become lame, and the knowledge turns out to be pretty low-level (you can learn a lot more in engineering school than Phrack).

I phreaked more last year than I ever did as a kid since I got back into telephony, set up phones, and started scanning.
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True, but the other direction is simply the rubber necking as it’s single lane on the approach. Plus in the direction you are stating, there’s a clear backlog from directly next to the henge - 20mph traffic until the instant people are past where it heads straight back to 60mph. A hedge can only but help that situation.
Well stated. Not for nothing, people said the same thing about the Irgun - and they were right. There were some important differences. Point is, terrorism is not a solution. Yet "pacifists" are now willing to back terrorists here. Why don't they back freedom fighters in Kurdistan - no condemnation of the Turkish government for labeling them terrorists?
> I don't think it has that now. I haven't seen anything really interesting from Apple after Steve Jobs passed away

It's not revolutionary but the new M1 laptops from Apple are one of the best hardware-related things I have purchased in the last 10 years or so. Presumably it won't bring Apple tens of billions in profits but they have managed to gain some developers' goodwill for the platform.
> I don't know what David Allen recommends, but if everyone is left with the impression he recommends TODO lists and he doesn't, it might be because the alternative is hazy and vaporous and poorly defined.

Maybe a lot of people just read the short blog posts on the internet for how to setup a tool to implement his system. A lot of the ones I’ve seen (with the notable exception of one I found showing how to implement it in Org-mode) get the methodology completely wrong. So maybe it’s just the bad examples are copied?

People should just buy and read his book. It was updated a few years ago for the modern world (but I guess even that edition is now probably dated). Also there’s even a workbook available too to help drill it in for people that prefer that way of examples.
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Am seeing a lot of pushback against this take. There are two things to keep in mind:
1. On execution: The track record of the Chinese political establish in bringing hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty is arguably the greatest political achievement of the last four decades. Their track record here gives them legitimacy as a national-interest optimizing function (despite admittedly terrible human rights abuses for minorities). The contrast with, for example, the neocon-military-industrial complex that jumps from one failed international adventure to the next is astounding!
2. On planning: They’ve demonstrated a phenomenal understanding of key issues that the nation currently faces and expects to face, and has prioritized them appropriately — often using Western failures and failure modes as data points to inform their strategy. The contrast with the constant bickering in American politics is astounding. How can America succeed if there’s no general agreement even about what the problems are?
Agree - it’d have to be some contribution to a significant project. Those are radar and far in between.

Usually it’s “I wrote some code and put it on GitHub, call it open source”.
After 10 years and trying at least a couple dozen different Todo Apps, these were most effective: 1. Excel, 2. Wunderlist (now Microsoft To Do), and 3. Trello: great for a surprising number of things.

Yet, I’ve since switched to the last Todo app I’ll ever use: 4” x 6” notecards.

Thinking on paper = build your mind.

Thinking in digital = build another’s.

Todos on paper = get work done.

Todos in digital = do more work.

Notes on paper = hard to create, hard to forget.

Notes in digital = easy to create, easy to forget.
I'm a former high jumper and I have mixed feelings about this… I'm happy for them and it was a really great competition. A jump-off is brutal and can be kind of humiliating as you are exhausted physically and mentally and the bar can go down multiple times until someone passes again.

But I have been in a jump-off once, and I don't recall this was an option, I don't know if the rule was changed recently or if we just didn't think of asking it at the time.

I guess my unease is that if this is an option why would anyone ever choose the jump-off instead? In terms of game-theory it would never make sense. And I guess you could make an argument that they both get silver if they refuse to continue.
Without DRM you could stream faster than realtime, but that would be even weirder right? But maybe I'm missing the point of this thread.
>According to a survey from global staffing firm Robert Half, 62% of US professionals say they lose interest in a job if they don’t hear back from the employer within two weeks – or 10 business days – after the initial interview. That number jumps to 77% if there is no status update within three weeks.

Ha, that's familiar. I'm not in the US but, during my last job hunt, I'd already accepted a job offer before some of the companies I'd applied to replied to me. Companies that are paying recruiters to bombard my inbox or paying staff bonuses to refer me.

Hiring is a very human, very broken process. There's little incentive for an individual to do it well short term but fatal repercussions if the group do it badly long term.
Circular arguments are so convenient. And apparently "terrorists" and "criminals" (by whose definition?) have no rights whatsoever, so whatever you do to them cannot be wrong.
This seems a bit of a failure of communication. Let's be honest: we all know that "thanks for your suggestion, we take this very seriously!" is business speak for "yeah yeah, go away" more often than not. Even if Cloudflare is better than this (I don't know), it's still the industry average and context in which Cloudflare exists.

So if you want to show you're actually taking something serious a bit more signalling is needed. I don't think anyone really benefited that there's a team actually working on this was only communicated after this article.
I am aware of the origin of the words India and Hindu which I find bemusing.

> So people visiting/invading the eastern parts of the Indu/Sindhu river were considering the people there as one civilisation if not one country.

I conjecture it is natural for foreigners at that time to refer to the land (and hence the people residing there) east of Sindhu river as India/Indians. For them it was just an alien/different region. For example, to refer Asoka as Indian ruler as in "king who belongs to India" and not "Ruler of India".

I'm curious to know if the contemporary people living in different parts of Indian land felt as if they belonged to India as a whole. Though possible, it is highly unlikely IMO. I highly doubt if a farmer in a village in Kerala would consider a village in Punjab as belonging to his nation.

> But there were attempts made before, as far back as Chanakya, to unify the people under one rule.

I've read/seen this in popular stories (Chanakya serial from 1990s is decent) but I don't know how authentic they are. I'd love to read more on this topic, preferably by historians. My naive search was fruitless. One thing to note is that Indian historical records from that period are extremely rare making it all the more difficult. It's a pity that Indians of that didn't write as much as Romans did.
I had an interview with a YC company last year. I went through -- not exaggerating -- 8 interviews, almost all of which aside from the initial phone screen were an hour or more in length. 2 of them were technical interviews. I had finally gotten to the take home project, naturally a project in Ruby on Rails despite the fact that I haven't written a lick of Ruby in my life. Anyway, I was rejected after this step. To be fair, the take home step was paid, which was nice, but not nearly enough for the time it took me to learn enough Rails to be productive, learn best practices / idiomatic Ruby, and solve the problem they gave me.

Incidentally I've noticed that the Ruby community has this weird thing about insisting on either N years of Ruby experience or requiring interviewees use Ruby during technical interviews or take home projects. Ruby shops were the only places where I've ever been required to use a particular language during an interview. I suppose it's because there's so much magic happening in DSLs like Rails that they assume it'll take too long for even experienced engineers to come up to speed?

Obviously there's risk involved in the hiring process. But I think there's a lot more risk involved in procedurally treating people like garbage.

Anyway, after that ordeal I'm going to insist on being allowed to interview in a language I'm familiar with. They'll judge me on my best work or not at all.
Aren't all mail server in "the cloud" anyway?
Developing good software for Apple's platforms without Xcode remains an unsolved problem.
I suspect this is probably true. I've been bitten by this before, when journals claim to support LaTeX submissions but their online system breaks utterly if you use the tickz package inline...
You can do chargebacks on debitcards and you've been able to for at least 20 years.

Some banks might ask you to contact a merchant before trying a chargeback, but if you don't get your money back the bank will either do a chargeback or cover the cost (as they do with fraud).
While we're dreaming, the ultimate solution is an artificially intelligent agent that stands between you and the internet and can be instructed to pick out what you like and show it to you. It would ideally serve a variety of different types of users.

The current system basically amounts to loading code from remote servers and running it on your device in a leaky little sandbox, so it's a natural next layer of protection.
An IDE can check your syntax, sure. It can even catch low-level bad practices ("you're making a database call in a tight loop, this is horribly inefficient"). This is, in my opinion, basic tool usage: warn of LHF early.

Last time I saw one of those test-ish pieces of code, though, an IDE+static analysis would have caught about 1/2 of the problems; the other half required actual thinking (not statistical pattern matching, aka AI): "don't trust user data, that should not go there even though the call signature matches, you're holding it backwards."
I think the biggest give-away from the article and from the comments written here is that companies neglect recruiting as a chance to generate positive brand impressions and in general, use it for marketing. If people walk away from your interviews feeling disappointed or mistreated there's a good chance they won't recommend or advocate for that company in the future.

You'd think spending some executive muscle to smoothen out the warts in the process would be beneficial to any company trying to recruit smart people. But I guess having regular engineers or other employees with whatever ineptitudes in empathy or social skills won't be fixed by somebody telling them to "be sensible and nice." If that's how they were treated and think it's ok to treat others the same way, that's how it will be.
“ They might act selflessly or benefit the nation at some particular point in time, but blindly counting on it being consistently so seems foolish.”
I think you’re right. But Chinese politicians are yet strongly motivated by nationalistic impulses, which are long dead in the thuggish political establishment of the West where nationalistic impulses are long dead (the GOP does performative nationalism very well, but they’re always ready to jump into the next war that’ll kill tens of thousands of Americans).
It wastes entrepreneurial energy too, since it doesn't actually provide value to anyone.

Not the way a car, a phone, a hairdresser, a movie or Google maps does. The economy is just what everyone does/make. Think of the opportunity cost of all that human resource being wasted on a pyramid/ponzi scheme, which does not produce any value. It only redistributes it, poorly. Yeah thanks. We really need more gambling infrastructure with even less oversight.

If we would make a list of important things we want to explore further, how would crypto be on it? Why?

It's ok as a storage of wealth, but the amount of investment money and energy wasted on this stuff. And in the end it's going to bankrupt gullible idiots that put their pension in dogecoin. Maybe in the US you just let these morons starve, but in the most of the world, you wouldn't. So it makes sense to protect society against having to bail out suckers from a completely useless and pointless economic exploitation.

So I can imagine banning on on the sheer notion the existence is a net loss for society.
This, so much. Interviews are very stressful for candidates, everyone should remember what it's like sitting on the other side.

I've been doing a bit of technical interviewing and I usually try to help people along so they reach the "end" of the interview, especially if they're not doing too well. So many candidates sound defeated when they're struggling with a task and it's a form of respect for me. They've put themselves out there, after all.

Treating candidates - which you know you are going to reject at some point of the interview - with dignity is the right thing to do and can go a long way when it comes to your company's reputation.
"I'm not from the US though so bankrupting private individuals through court costs is science fiction to me."

It's also science fiction to anyone in the US, where the term "court costs" generally does not mean attorneys fees.
You know, Israel was the first country to require a vaccine passport to go to the gym. However they simply made it so difficult to avoid vaccination that everyone did it. I'm pretty sure the Israeli government is not in the business of sterilizing Jews, so, I would say it's probably safe. Take the vaccine and get the passport and go out. It's a benefit of living in a first world country.
I'm not 100% certain of this, because I don't know what job they ask a question like that for. It isn't a software engineering interview. However, generally:

The rounds don't build on each other. You have X interviews and the interviewers don't talk to each other and are independent events.

They have gone through phases of having an initial phone screen interview which is a hurdle, but the rest are(/were) as laid out above. There may be exceptions for very senior people, but they are sufficiently rare to exclude.

Google has it's problems to be sure - but by and large the individual people there mean well.
> People drag on GTD but David Allen

I’ve not yet found a decent alternative. I think a better book could be written on it though. I think the system could be explained in fewer words making it accessible to more people. David’s book is a good read but you probably have to be very serious about fixing this part of your life to put in the effort required to understand and implement it.
I remember being so ridiculously proud of myself when I realised I could make a cgi script to write each visitors IP to a text file then on each new visit collate that text file to display a counter of “unique visitors”, then display it next to a normal “hit counter”.. I thought I’d invented the idea of tracking unique-vs-visits. Then I got a job as a web dev for a big(ish) local company and realised every major website was already doing this and just not displaying it.
Yes, but then you are talking about the fragility of the global supply chain system and capitalism. I agree, it is fragile, as is apparent with boom-bust cycles and things like covid or one ship getting stuck in a canal causing major disruptions. Not to mention how badly poor countries get shafted in the process. The global capitalist system is fragile, as history and current events show us.

But these problems are way, way larger than one single company. Are we really expecting Apple as a company within the global capitalist system to just isolate itself from the network and do everything themselves without relying on anyone anywhere? At that point no company in the world is antifragile, and never can be if it works within the capitalist system or relies on any sort of co-operation between people.
Delta strain reproduces at ~1,200x faster rate than the already contagious original COVID19 strain. This is an absolutely massive difference and works on quasi-exponential scale! The body cannot detect and react immediately in force to a virii intrusion, hence a vaccinated person can be infectious, but with everything else being equal, he or she will have lower viral load (hence level of infectiousness) and shorter period of infectiousness compared to an unvaccinated person.

Why is that not clear to most people opposing vaccination on these grounds, is beyond me.
Nehru did fight for independence though.
I’d argue the other way - open source in 2000s to central libraries were of decent quality. The quantity of code now these days is so much and of questionable quality - everyone and their bootcamp writes code to GitHub and call it open source, just to show they have open source.

Hell, I have public code on GitHub, but I’d never put it on my resume.
>The utility of cryptocurrencies is not decided by governments, or companies, or you. The utility will be decided by reality.

No the utility is determined by you me and everyone else collectively. The problem is financial mechanisms that allow inflating these bubbles are not market driven, central banks are flooding the markets with low interest rates, if they want to direct the markets they need to react to negative distortions they cause.
> Doesn't afterpay act more like a loan?

Yep. Buy-now-pay-later services are just short term loan providers. Part of what they're selling to merchants is the fact they are regulated as lenders. We use Klarna in the UK to offer BNPL for exactly this reason, even though we could likely offer it ourselves.
It was, and it was postponed several times through technological means, at the cost of widespread environmental degradation. The underlying logic of the prediction is still sound.

It's like someone is warning you that, with your current spending patterns, you'll go broke in a year. You come to them five years later, showing off your fancy new car and talking about vacations, defying their "alarmist predictions", conveniently omitting the fact that in those five years, you've maxed out on all your credit cards and every possible loan anyone would give you.

No, the crisis is still ahead, and will hit us that much harder unless we work quickly to make our economy sustainable.
I can think of 8-10 places in walking distance of my house where I can get a new iPhone battery installed. Although it’s more fun to do it yourself!
It is more likely that "the people involved" are working on other things or just don't share your concern. Filing a ticket can be helpful, but a pull request is usually preferred times 10,000. You are right, it is also possible that a change may mot get merged... In which case you've added the feature so the software is more useful to you anyway. Everyone wins.
>Japan, Korea and Taiwan way of dealing with the pandemic.

Which is extremely strict rules, everybody wears masks and socially distances. In Korea you can't even have more than 4 people get together without using the government website.
I just discovered SingleFile, a plugin for Firefox which does an epic job at creating an offline copy of the webpage in a single HTML. I'll sync my repo across all my devices for offline/forever access to them.
What matters is the amount of money in active circulation. If salaries all went up 4x then you’d see significant inflation across the board. The fed provides extra liquidity to banks which trickles down to the financial system, which makes stocks go up, and real estate to some extent, but it doesn’t boost the entire economy. Doing 1tn of QE and borrowing 1tn for shovel ready infrastructure spending are not equivalent.

Inflation always lags behind, though, and it’s pretty likely at this point that rising inflation indicators in the coming quarters force the fed to tighten. Opinions are very much divided on this, where many are convinced the fed needs to take drastic action to keep inflation from getting out of control with another financial crisis as a result. The other mainstream view is that we’re only seeing transitory inflation right now and as long as the real economy is healthy we shouldn’t expect inflation to persist and cause carnage.
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It’s hard to imagine a situation that both removes Taiwan from play and preserves peace in Korea. It’s unfortunate the world’s chip supply is so geopolitically concentrated.
To be fair you can actually get to most part of the south west by train, it's just slow. As someone whose parents live in that part of the world I'd definitely appreciate faster trains though.
Unfortunately the title has been editorialised because my first red flag was 'an alternative to hiring and paying employees'. That language isn't used inside the post.

It's not far off the mark though - the 'model' asks you to contribute work up-front and then sets up a few conditions you have to meet if you expect to see any compensation for the work. One of these conditions is actually launching it into prod and measuring it for a month, after spending a few weeks beta testing it. Any contributor is looking at a multiple-month project where the cost of the project is not contractually set in stone, and where they earn nothing while the business cooks up some metrics to avoid paying out.

And let's be honest, no business using this model is going to pay a contributor $10k a week using this calculation, potentially for 5 years, when a full time hire would cost them less.

The model is a scam. The only thing missing is that it doesn't ask you to rope in other people to help contribute for you, to passively earn up to half-a-million bucks a year.
Also you are paying for that insurance.
People don't really dig into just how expensive creditcards really are because in many countries it's really the only way to pay for things online.

The only time I ever use a CC is when I'm dealing with an American company- because it's either CC or PayPal with them.