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Haha, funny. But not true. At least in the times before you-know-who, politicians went through the wildest contortions to avoid lying.

Yes, there's Clinton and a few other fun examples. But they are sparse.

What happens is that people use the term "lie" for all sorts of disappointing behaviour that, however, isn't a lie. Example: Obama said he'd close Guantanamo within two years or something like that. Is that a lie? No, probably not: "I will.." always expresses an intention to attempt something. It's perfectly believable that he had both the intention to do it, as well as confidence that it can be done.

We intuitively understand all that in everyday life. When someone shows up 15 minutes late, they didn't "lie" when you agreed on the time.
> n.b. I always find it funny how interested and intrigued yet abhorred so many people are when it comes to spycraft/espionage etc...

I was such a person. When I was in school I read the EU report on Echelon. There was so much basic espionage meta in there that shocked me. For example I had thought of signals intelligence as an aggressive act - an act of war. In the EU report SIGINT and broadly spying was introduced as a ordinary part of a decent intelligence function of a state.
>I wonder if tech is unique in having an implicit mistrust for everything on the resume. I've worked at several large companies where people don't even bother looking at them before interviews.
I blame the FizzBuzz blogpost (https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/) for making everyone deathly afraid of imposters. It's a masterpiece in ego-stroking - of course you can write FizzBuzz, look at all these sorry suckers who can't. Resumes are lies, only a 45 minute brainteaser on CoderPad can reveal the truth (ignore existence of Leetcode).

While I agree with you on the whole, I have had interviewed candidates who couldn't code.

One of them basically said that they would learn (CS degree but 4 years as a PM), which was fine but not what we were looking for.

Another simply refused help and proceeded to bat their head against the brick wall of simply syntax. Didn't show signs of nervousness, panic, etc ... just seemed not to be able to code.

In short, I think they exist (programmers that can't program) but they are the exception not the rule.

>In reality if I'm considering a senior candidate from FAANG (like, actually senior, not 4 years out of school), simply talking about past experience is perfectly fine. The work is the fucking same, everyone is migrating from legacy system X to a distributed system with zookeeper and kafka, they'll fit right in. It would take a truly psychopathic liar to fake their way through all the mundane details you could ask about a project like this. And if one slips through the cracks, they'd probably make a great PM anyway. (As long as they're on your side.)

I agree with you that an interview probing the experience of the candidate by getting them to talk about what they've done seems like a far better proposition. You will get a better idea of what the candidate knows, doesn't know.
Do you agree that "getting the money out of politics" might help your accountability gripe?
If that's all you learnt from the pandemic, the professors and researchers have beaten you by orders of magnitudes, again.
Risk-taking is very cultural dependent, in some contexts people would avoid taking risks as their default option.

That said, I feel that car shops just work because, well, it's the law, especially in some countries.

In the end "needs repair" is the same as saying "mitigating accident risk".
The last one is the hardest to get right in my experience. Sometimes you just won’t know until you start asking people to put their hand in their pocket.
I don't think entrapment is the problem here - it's that the government is distributing child porn. It's still wrong even if the government is doing it. The ends don't justify the means.
I've been reading Krugman regularly for the last decade and can't remember him saying anything like this. Feel free to provide a source.
not a genre per se, or the action games set if you will, but it does apply to RTS too

it's mostly a ratio visual complexity / human effect

you had 2d games with limited colors and resolution, yet people would spend 40h+ totally excited on it

now you have real time raytraced globally lit terapolygon scenes and you don't play with it more

also I feel like advanced kinematics are wasted because games are still about moving in simple dimensions, control a few parameters (aiming guns, staying at distance) .. it's circling around the same interaction patterns.

would more sophisticated rendering improve strategy planning and fun ?
I wouldn’t be surprised if regular doctors are less informed on latest studies than some information-hoarding member of this forum.

Chances are your doctor will only repeat the general advices given by state medical authorities, which are themselves probably heavily influenced by the sanitary policy of the day (which can themselves be heavily polluted by purely political considerations, depending on where you live)
The rabbit hole gets deeper when you look into other 'terror' events in which the spooks are either aware or involved.
I think you're holding Tesla to a perhaps unreachable standard here.

Before I go on, I'd like to digress and come out as a Waymo fanboi. I've been that ever since I read about a demonstration involving the software developers walking in front of the car, blindfolded. I admire that attitude, I really do. They put their feet where it matters.

But back to Tesla. What other than public roads is similar to public roads, in the senses necessary for testing driving capability? I know Waymo tests its software on recordings of public roads, but those recordings were made on public roads too. Maybe Tesla does the same, I don't know one way or the other. It's not an answer, because this approach doesn't avoid public roads, it only extracts more value from each test drive.

It would be possible to set up a test area. Maybe rent one of those "towns" the film studios have, and use stunt pedestrians, also from the film studios. I worry that those stunt pedestrians wouldn't be really like pedestrians, though, so this too doesn't replace street tests, with the real variety of real people.

These things can supplant public tests. It would be possible to regulate this and say, "software may be used for tests on public tests only when the same version of the same software has been run on one million km of recorded test drives" or such. But as far as I can see, not replace.
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No but there are always multiple supercharges at each station.

> it'll make sense to just designate the last 10% of battery as "reserve" and not count it in the battery level indicator.

Very questionable? Why would you do that?

We don't do that for gas cars either.
https://blog.google/products/maps/discover-action-around-you...

> As you explore the new map, you’ll notice areas shaded in orange representing “areas of interest”—places where there’s a lot of activities and things to do. To find an “area of interest” just open Google Maps and look around you. When you’ve found an orange-shaded area, zoom in to see more details about each venue and tap one for more info. Whether you’re looking for a hotel in a hot spot or just trying to determine which way to go after exiting the subway in a new place, “areas of interest” will help you find what you’re looking for with just a couple swipes and a zoom.

We determine “areas of interest” with an algorithmic process that allows us to highlight the areas with the highest concentration of restaurants, bars and shops. In high-density areas like NYC, we use a human touch to make sure we’re showing the most active areas.
I think for the economy in general the effect might be small as long as the final consumer spends the money on alternatives. For example I buy a Ford instead of a Chrysler (which is unavailable due to missing chips).
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> In Linux world it's still the case that if you want to write a desktop app you should write it in C/C++. Use any other language and you will struggle against the dependency management and package managers forever.

I do agree in a very general sense, but there are definitely a few good options or there for desktop software.

For example, Lazarus/FreePascal is one of the best solutions for writing GUI apps even nowadays. It's a shame that it's dead as far as market share is concerned, even if it has a community around it, is open source and still receives regular updates with pretty good platform support.

Though i guess you could say the same about any technology stack that produces executables that are for the most part statically linked and don't complicate dependency management.

Of course, Java with Swing also hasn't disappeared anywhere and is still perfectly capable of producing most desktop software as long as there is any sort of a JDK or JRE on the device. There's also JavaFX/OpenJFX which is supposed to be more modern, but I've experienced more issues with it in comparison to Swing.
As someone with two realtors in my family, my understanding is most people are living beyond their means and don’t actually have the money. But the rates are low and loans are being handed out like hot cakes. People are carelessly and knowingly going into negative equity right now and will have a big wake up call once this market stabilizes, they’re going to be stuck for quite some time. Some of these people are even tapping out their 401k in their 40s just go buy right now. I don’t know if it’s FOMO or what but it makes zero sense to me.

There are those who sold at a higher price and got spring-boarded into a higher priced house but these are the exceptions.
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I know people living in London where prices are insane who secure a mortgage without ever intending to pay the full term. They buy a property, live very conservatively in the hope the prices go up and use that extra boost to move out of the city.

If prices on an investment rise more than inflation 90% of the time why wouldn't you buy it?
Why is this being called a ledger? Is it a special kind of list?
What a ridiculous argument. Are you aware that humans grow older every year?
There are several issues with your statement.

> The mail service that handed over data of a customer to a foreign government

First, ProtonMail can only hand over meta-data, because data is encrypted.

Second, "ProtonMail does not give data to foreign governments; that’s illegal under Article 271 of the Swiss Criminal code. We only comply with legally binding orders from Swiss authorities."

> and changed the privacy statement on their site

The privacy policy was not misleading if you read it carefully. It was not "changed" as in removing a lie from the statement. At best, it was clarified to ensure *everyone* would correctly understand it in the future. It is accessible at https://protonmail.com/privacy-policy

What may have been misleading was the marketing message on the homepage. If you pondered each word of the one-sentence marketing message, you could have guessed that the expression "by default" was there for a purpose. Companies do not add useless words for marketing, they do it to avoid false advertisement. However, this is not the same thing as the privacy policy. And ProtonMail stated that they would fix that: "we will be making updates to our website to better clarify ProtonMail’s obligations in cases of criminal prosecution".

Quotes are taken from:
https://protonmail.com/blog/climate-activist-arrest/
Literally nobody is arguing against some companies being allowed to do that.

And Nio does in China.
Check out Andrew Camarata on youtube. My favorite youtube channel.

He's a guy who worked for USPS and wanted to build a metal building on an undeveloped lot so he bought a backhoe, then an excavator, then a dumptruck, then a crane, etc. He buys all his equipment used and maintains it all himself. He quit USPS a long time ago and does work for hire with his equipment now that he has it all.
Australia is becoming a nanny state so no big surprise you have to get permission to buy simple skin ointments.
Hey!
NGI is funding Nyxt browser as part of the same sub-grant call.
Check it out, I was quite thrilled!
https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/
From a outside perspective this free market thingy was never more than a movie plot in the US
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If you give a starving person food so that they might live, and then the number of people who depend on free food goes up, did you do a good thing? That's an ethical question with no "right" answer.

I suspect most libertarians and those who lean to the right would say "no, you saved one person but weakened the system as a whole, and thus you have created more hungry people". Whereas socialists and those who lean to the left would say "yes, because saving a human life when you can is always a good thing".

As I see it, the biggest problem in modern society is that we've stopped respecting the right for everybody to have their own view on issues like that, and instead come to believe that "the other" is so wrong that they must be corrected at all costs. I believe the Cato Institute is just as guilty of that as AOC's horde of Twitter followers.
For the record, you could plug a Sega Genesis controller into a Master System and it worked (at least with the games I had) despite having more buttons. The B and C buttons became the main two buttons.
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What about small generator and a canister of gasoline?
Meh. There's nothing wrong with tech hiring.

Ok, sure, there are some companies out there that don't know what they are doing, and the very most prestigious companies have to do some very tedious stuff to deal with the fact that their process gets leaked and people are willing to put a ton of effort into preparation.

But mostly, it's pretty reasonable:

- Little reliance on credentials, because there are many solid candidates that didn't go to top schools or don't have CS degrees or maybe didn't go to post-secondary school at all.

- There's some sort of technical interview that asks the candidate to show they can do the work by doing a small amount of work. They usually let candidates choose the language and tools they'll use for this, offer help if the candidate gets stuck, let them look things up on the web, etc. This can take a few different forms, but it's inevitable given that credentials aren't reliable.

- There's some sort of "behavioural" interview that asks about how a candidate collaborates and communicates with coworkers. Tech companies aren't looking for the anti-social genius anymore; software requires teamwork.

- Recruiters are typically very accommodating of a candidates' circumstances. They'll tailor the pace and scheduling of interviews to the candidates' needs, fly them in from other cities, reserve time in interviews to answer candidate questions, and generally put significant and explicit effort into making the "candidate experience" as positive and low-stress as possible.

- There's a lot effort put into eliminating biases, and interviewers will often do things like not reading a candidate's resume until after the interview, or writing up their report before talking with other interviewers about the candidate. Most tech companies really want to do this right.

I think that what tech companies ask of candidates is quite fair. These are high-paying (sometimes very high-paying), high-prestige, comfortable jobs with lots of perks. The company puts a lot of time and money into training new hires before they're productive, and it'll be even more time before they can tell if the new employee was a good hire or not. In other words, the cost of hiring the wrong person is very high.
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That's not AI/Logic programming though. Ideally I'd write a boolean formula and the system tries to make it true by adjusting the values it can adjust.

Say I want something like the light should be off it is dark and the window is open (bugs), but if the window is closed and it is dark, the light should be on.

dark & window.open -> !light
dark & !window.open -> light

Obviously, it can't close the window. But it can turn the light to make the formulas true.

If this were answer-set-based, the system could find multiple ways to make the formulas true (that's why I say goal-based) and act in a truly intelligent manner.

Edit: if it could close the window, it had a second way to make the formulas true. That would be nice as well, that the window closes when I turn on the light.

Edit 2: note that at daytime the formulas are always true, such that I can adjust the light and window as I like.

Edit 3: We could also rewrite this as

dark -> (window.open != light)

And it is great that we could reason about our rules in that manner.
Political trials are nothing new. See also the Haymarket Affair (1886) or Sacco and Vanzetti (1920-1927) for famous historical examples of "class justice" in the USA ; those made-up trials resulting in 5 and 2 death sentences respectively.

It's pretty much a meme across the whole western culture (books and movies) by now that power corrupts and having privileges for certain classes of people is a recipe for insurmountable injustice.

Also worth noting, when one of those shooters is (even vaguely) connected to islam, the shooting is framed instantly across mainstream media as a "ISIS attack", whereas other shooters are depicted as "loonies" / "troubled men". But they usually have more in common than the media lets us know, especially their views on women and sexuality, and more often than not solid connections to the international neo-nazi/white-supremacist movement. See also Contrapoint's "Incels" video on that topic.
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> I too would like to see more of the internet as public infrastructure, but your second paragraph implies you'd be against regulation?

Yes, I believe we lost the public nature of the internet by adopting regulation like the DMCA.

> How would any third-party client win the inevitable arms race this would initiate and what would stop your system from re-centralizing?

Attrition. Facebook would have to realize at some point that they can't stop their client from being reversed and can't prevent clones from popping up. Right now, they can stop that, but they stop it with laws not with technology. Without that protection, Facebook could never keep up with the whole internet collectively reverse engineering their apps out in the open. Also FB engineers would know that being on the DRM team is a waste of time and nobody would want to do the work.

> Also how would any infrastructure become 'public' when it can't marshall the public interest or allocate resources via legislation?

As another commenter pointed out, I shouldn't have used the term "public infrastructure" when referring to the internet, because it's largely privately owned and not regulated as a public utility, which is true.

What I mean is that if you're going to open up a public web server and publish a free app in an app store, I should be able to interact with your servers however that app does it without committing a crime. And I should be able to publish my own app that interacts with your servers too, without your claim to intellectual property standing in the way.

I think this would cause companies like Twitter and Facebook to lose their entire market, but the core of the service would be maintained by the community of people interested in the service.

So for example, if there were 10 Twitter clients allowed to exist and be above-board companies, and they captured 80% of the Twitter client market share, then there could be a serious push to invent or adopt a new protocol to serve their users and de-federate Twitter themselves if they don't want to go along with the protocol.

I think that's a really solvable technical problem and all the privacy activists would have great reason to pick up an editor and join the fight. But as it is now, regulation has made that type of activity illegal, because it would infringe on Twitter's rights.
This is Go's Python 3 moment. This creates a hard fork of the ecosystem, with a before and after, and all existing Go code is now un-idiomatic and will have to be refactored, rewritten, or replaced.
Cought up is relative, they developed their own way of living and sometimes highly surpassed US living standards years ago.
www.spontacts.com seems to have been around a while. I also wanted to develop something similar, for tennis (and badminton + squash)
> but really, who gives a shit?

Who gives a shit about anything? Luxury goods have value from name only? Who cares about baseball cards or stamps? They're so easy to print on a inkjet that anyone can have any card they want?

This is just another example of "not made for you" collectors. Its scarce because the creator said so, and because its auditable without trust.
> "Builders still have to clear their inventories of having purchased higher-priced lumber. It takes a while to clear the system," Lee said. "Yes, lumber prices from the mills came down dramatically over the summer, but that's unfortunately taken a while to reach the rest of the industry and consumers."

> Lee said when it comes to new home construction, pricing is being complicated by ongoing pandemic-related supply chain challenges. While difficulties related to lumber have eased, home builders are still dealing with delivery delays and price inflation on everything from plumbing and electrical products to kitchen cabinetry.

> "It doesn't compare to the three to five times price increases we saw with lumber, but I'd say on average, we're seeing 10 per cent increases on everything, including the kitchen sink," Lee said. "And we are still seeing delays on closings, just because of an inability to get products and materials."

Meanwhile... August 27th, 2021:

> "...households, businesses and market participants also believe that current high inflation readings are likely to prove transitory," Powell said.

https://www.reuters.com/business/why-fed-chair-powell-still-...

Sigh.

Nobody believes that, Jerome. Nobody really believes that.
It's a platform for user-generated content so I'd imagine they would be able to follow their friends and see their pics/videos/reels. That plus kid-approved verified partner content (like @pbskids or @nick).

That plus the idea around tying it to a custodial "parent" account so that a parent can keep tabs on who they are following vastly improves the current situation.
Well, they wouldn't like to have their monopoly on terrorizing the population broken. I mean, in most countries of the world, the police and secret service are the biggest and deadliest terrorist organization there is.
You can build a wooden house in Europe as well, it's just not cheap, e.g. https://scotframe.co.uk/ : not only is the timber more expensive than the US, the main challenge is getting land and planning permission.

I've no idea what permissions you'd need for a container house.
Our brain has always sought for reward and pleasure, is how it works, the difference with some substances is that are chemically addictive but IG can’t be regulate in this way!

Maybe the authorities should place a disclaimer like “can be addictive” the same as gamble or trade online but not considered it’s algorithm as a drug. I think is wrong.
A ledger is a list with values, usually financial.

So, a special kind of list indeed.
I spent time in Oregon and Washington too.