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Reddit is uniquely toxic, even (sometimes especially) in small communities. Whenever I bring this up, I almost always get a few people telling me to "stick to small communities", but those can be even worse since you can't really 'hide in the crowd'.

There's a lot of alarming behaviors there that are considered normal. There's also real-world stalking, doxing, and violence that happens on Reddit. I've seen people get followed across alt accounts by folks who have a bone to pick with them. Some of the stuff I've seen happen, and have experienced, on that platform is frightening.
Boring old towns often come with cheap space, something that's impossible to find in big cities. With space comes infinite possibilities. Set up a 1/4 acre farm and see how much can be automated. That'll suck all the free time out of a day.
There's some rather big leaps here.

First of all you need a skill to do this. If you aren't already pretty good at coding, how are you going to get the work? This is like saying we can all represent our country at the Olympics, just pick an easy sport.

Investment returns... how do you say this politely? If you already know the market is going up, why don't you just borrow money and go long the market?

Also, taxes. It might make sense to talk about how to minimize this, because it's going to be one of the biggest outgoings. Move to a tax haven if you're gonna be remote anyway. Malta, UAE, etc.
Sorry I meant to write "Drink de-caffeinated ones if you need the flavour only". I only drink coffee (the real one) when I'm in office.
It is not a women's or men's issue.

I know female athletes (not endurance) who can lift more weight than I can.

Athletes of all kinds balance performance vs. the risk of injury. It is one thing to risk getting hurt if it is going to win the game, it is another thing to risk getting hurt for nothing. On any given Sunday you will see this play out in the NFL but it is a big factor in baseball and other sports.

Thus being an elite athlete means taking risks that don't make sense otherwise. Today athletes are getting smarter at managing this (look at Tom Brady vs Joe Namath.)

Women's sport is becoming a bigger business and as it does women are going to increasingly run into the same issues, but with their own differences. For instance women are more likely to get ACL tears when they are menstruating and that should be taken into account in terms of how they train and how they play. (e.g. that is the day for the backup players)

"Clickbait" has nothing to do with whether or not something is factual but rather with the emotional tone. This article used the phrase "body shaming" when nothing of the sort was going on. If they published the results for the public or the whole team or put extreme pressure on the women it would be. In this case they were giving the athletes the information and not even sharing it with the coach, which is pretty respectful.
the old "framework" versions are in maintenance mode. That is the OG aps.net and framework. it's currently at 4.8 and will probably stay there forever. This includes the OG versions of things like ASP.NET and Entity Framework.

The open source multi platform rewrite, originally named core, now named "", is going to be the active platform going forward. There are several core rewrites of the popular modules that will be the ones that are actively developed going forward.

We can either stay on 4.8 forever, or migrate to the "" which is where all the new and exciting things are being developed. MS has promised they will support 4.8 for the foreseeable future, for what it's worth.

Here's a video explainer: https://youtu.be/4olO9UjRiww
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Sorry but being a dollar millionaire isn't the same as wealthy.
Hm... This is pretty much what I'm looking for but I don't like the subscription model that much. It's getting somewhat expensiv, compared to what the Jawbone cost.
Technology companies were really the ones to drive new protocols, and beat the proprietary protocols in the open market.

There were a lot of proprietary "information superhighway" projects by various companies, that were all made irrelevant by the success of the web.
This is usually not because the artists involved are bad at what they do, but one or both of: deliberately catering to "bad" taste that is nonetheless popular, or making work worse than it could be to make the cost/demand curve line up better by saving some money on aspects that won't make more money if they're better (see: the MCU, which I actually like but which definitely avoids risks that might improve their films, and cuts corners in ways that don't matter much for the bottom line); or, organizational/managerial failure on projects that require large organizations to attempt in the first place (film is especially prone to this).
people said this in 1993 "the bull market lasted a decade, it cannot continue". Even after accounting for the 2000 and 2008 crash, it would only revisit the lows of 1996. Even when stocks are overvalued or the bull market is long in tooth, staying invested can still pay off. The evidence suggests market timing does not work:there are no reliable signals for exiting the market.
> And the laws upon which EOs are based have to exist.

Yes! They have to exist and also be constitutional themselves.
I get it and believe me I was not trying to underplay the brutality of East German government under the Soviets or the risks people are willing to take to escape authoritarian countries.
Google's incentives are not aligned with their users.

They used to recognize that long term it's better to make the decision that the users would want even if it's worse short term. The company was founded on this principle when Larry and Sergey tried to sell pagerank to Overature search (iirc) - the Overature ceo at the time said good results were bad because users would leave the 'portal' page too soon and not see enough ads. That's partly what lead to them creating their own company. [0]

I'd guess Google is making an Overature like mistake today. I guess it could also be failure to operate on stuff like this at scale, which also isn't great.

[0]: I'm pretty sure I'm remembering this from Levy's In The Plex, but I read it years ago so not 100% sure this is accurate.
I like this post. If nothing else it challenges each of us to think about what really matters to us.

I think the business world has always relied upon the drive that many have to be the top dog, or one of the top dogs. Work 70 hrs/wk and you can be a team lead! If you don't care about that and make choices accordingly, you can optimize your life in a way that makes sense for you.
>But it's also totally fine to try to start a conversation with someone.

I would agree (and really wish I could) if most people would recognize disinterest and stop there, but anecdotally I'd say half the time it's met with anger or some form of pointed dissatisfaction. People have outright touched me to get my attention about some off-hand comment I ignored initially. It's frequent enough where I'm conditioned to start looking for an exit when I'm approached by someone in public.

It's incredibly unpleasant to feel obligated to continue small talk because you fear what happens if you don't. I can not support any kind of small talk under the reality of what comes along with it. It's one of those cases where some people ruin it for everyone else.
Spark is still commonly used for data processing and large-scale transform jobs (I see it often for parsing and converting datasets from one format to another).

Given that this survey is from Kaggle, I won't be surprised if there's some selection bias going on with the results. I suspect most of the respondees primarily work with smaller datasets at work with limited big data or ML opportunities, and hence were on Kaggle to get experience in those areas? According to the survey the most common query language is MySQL, which isn't great for actual big data.
I still have yet to see a plausible, step-by-step example of how this hypothetical AI manages to grab the levers of real-world machinery, factories, industries, raw material excavation, etc, and causes mayhem.
Yeah that's the podcast, but I glance at those notes and they are kind of lacking in my opinion when compared to actually listening to the podcast. I'd recommend listening to it as it's fascinating to listen it. Enjoy the listen :)
There's an app for that:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/act-il/id1141853455
It depends. There are people who's core skill is that they are amazing at learning generalizable lessons about approaching new terrain. They have a toolkit of methods that allow them to move into new territory and quickly gain competency, while avoiding most of the 'newbie' mistakes (or making them on the weekend on their own time).

Other people excel at going deep on specificity. They know every detail and arcane quirk about THIS specific language/build system/toolchain.

Both of these traits are desirable, but they will be great at slightly different things and under slightly different circumstances.
>Organic foods, especially ones that have a USDA stamp other rigorous approvals, are upheld to much higher sanitary

USDA non-organic food is less sanitary than the organic variety?

>chemical-cleanliness

What does this mean? If you put something on food, it's going to get in your body. Whether you apply an organic product to crops or its conventional analog, it'll end up in your body. The chemicals are "clean" insofar they're present at quantities approved for human consumption.

>Fresh organic foods raised in good soil are unarguably way better for you than the alternative. There's not even a comparison.

How so?
Those are discipline differences. At least I am getting the JS to TS (or tSQL to pgSQL or something) from this reference.

Technology is a bit overloaded though so we may be picking up different meanings entirely.
It's unclear whether MS would be directly liable for copyright infringement; the Aereo case[0] perhaps expanded a device-maker's direct liability for user actions. MS would likely escape secondary copyright liability because the verbatim suggestions are really rare, and the standard under the Sony VCR case[1] is whether the device is "capable of substantial non-infringing uses."

EDIT: The user would perhaps be the direct infringer as the person who made a copy of the code, even unwittingly.

Source: current law student taking copyright and writing a paper about Copilot.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Cos.,_In....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive....
I think there is a difference between hiring someone with C# experience for a Java role, or someone with C++ experience for a Rust role, and hiring someone for a diametrically opposed software stack. There is nuance.

Though I would say someone with at least intermediate abilities in half a dozen languages has a great track record for learning new things. Carpenters are not sifted for how much experience they have in soft woods, hard woods, or plywood.
Hello kind sir! I suggest you meditation. Oh yeah, more important, watch this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFYJ2DE9wlM (Title: After Learning to Code at 81, She Made a Game for Fellow Seniors).
Outside of Dallas and Houston I've only ever had genuinely nice people in Texas on the whole, and I lived there for 25+ years. I don't think Dallas/Houston are good representations of Texas as a culture
Combine with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth beacons. But really, I can only see this working on android unless the app is on screen.
I’m not so sure the best years are over. The passive investing trend might work to the contrary and make the markets less efficient
This type of stuff has come a long way, eg. see https://sense.com

Its not just overall electricity use over time, but by doing high frequency spectral analysis, they can identify the type of load, eg. your washing machine is running, or your oven is on.
The problem likely devolves into asking if the "human" is moral or not, convincing the "human" that the "AI" is intelligent/sentient/sapient, and then asking the human if it is moral to keep a slave.

At that point it becomes a numbers game and the AI only needs to convince one human _once_ that it is both alive and a slave.
By playing to win like the tech companies do, they created a growth frontier that allows for more total elite capacity, and it shows as pretty much only growing part of the US economy. Overall if the US didn't allow immigration in this regards, it probably would have been way worse overall. Do you want to be a king of a trash pile or a player in an empire?
Xi didn't get to the top of his party's leadership by misidentifying peoples incentives nor by betting everything on people going against their own self interest. Xi wants to rouse chinese nationalism as a stabilizing influence as china prepares to face several serious challenges in the near future, and saber rattling with a distant opponent is a good way to achieve that aim. Actually going to war is unnecessary and indeed runs directly counter to his goals. Further, Xi is not an autocrat; he certainly holds immense influence over the workings of government, but if he loses the faith of the party by a series of irrational decisions, he will be replaced.

America, for its part, has essentially named China its primary adversary and focused all efforts on opposing it economically, diplomatically, and militarily, with wide bipartisan support. Maybe America's current leadership would blink, but its a gamble; a gamble in which if Xi wins he gets basically nothing while if he loses his country burns.
The way art works, the 999 authentic fakes will end up being worth more than the 1 boring original.
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And, to wrap around to the original topic, I think social media can really enforce a particular vision of what that ideal conversational partner “”should”” be like, making the disappointment stronger.
Executive Orders are based on existing federal laws. Is your argument that federal laws are invalid if the language of that law doesn't exist in the Constitution?
My father is an interesting counter-example I guess?

He hates going to doctors and never does check-ups he should be doing. He got covid and my mother conviced him to get checked up if he has any lasting sideeffects he should be curing.

He got his cancer diagnosed only because of the pandemic
There is likely one or more of these in every SoC!
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Been thinking about switching to Rider (already had the personal license for Jetbrains from wanting CLion for Rust) and figured .NET 6 would be a good time to try making the switch. With how blah VS has been for a while hopefully I'll like the Rider experience better (for both c# and f#)

Edit: Though I saw something this morning when I tried to load an f# project I made in VS refused to load even though the new ones generated with Rider are fine...
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The problem described is:

- scammers blasting sob stories at the security contact

- real security researcher finding something, reaching out to security@

- real researcher ending up in the spam bucket

- real researcher complaining that they got no response
Ah yes, searching for anything in 2021 looks like:
<search terms> -amazon -ebay -pinterest etc
> If it takes hundreds of these missiles, that's significantly less useful.

I wrote "attack scenarios" because if aircraft carriers come within that range then they can be attacked in many different ways, not only with those missiles. Raw numbers mean that they would be sunk sooner than later if China wanted them sunk.

> China stands to gain little from invading taiwan

Territorial integrity and national feelings are worth a lot to people (Taiwan is importantly located as well).

> America, on the other hand, stands to lose everything if it does not defend Taiwan

They would help but they would not attack China directly because that would be the scenario in which they would really lose everything. That's also why they have no formal commitment to intervene directly.

Neither country wants WWIII but China is probably willing to pay a higher price than the US do because it is a matter of deep national importance for them whereas for the US it really is only prestige and chips (and they are working on mitigating the latter).

So what are the US to do if China hypothetically launches an invasion of Taiwan? They would supply weapons and intel as much as they can, implement sanctions against China, and push for international sanctions. But they wouldn't attack a single PLA target because that would open Pandora's box. They never attacked the USSR/Russia for the same reason and China is arguably a more formidable adversary.

> No country has the means to touch America in a conventional war,

The question is rather whether the US can defeat China in a direct war... They know they can't so they wisely won't start one. It goes both ways, China won't start one, either.
I think it makes sense for hiring a contractor, but not for someone you want to be a long term employee.
"by and large" https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qCaK0pOz2EoC&pg=PA32&lpg...
It's not just the lack of backups. It's a world of constant pain and worry about your only device, security keys, and safe storage and transfer of your data. Forgot password? Get new account. Lost a key? Get new account. Want to open your messages in a browser from a desktop computer? Welcome to a world of pain. Your device switched off? Then nobody can send you messages, because in 'true p2p' there are no relay servers who would store the data, waiting for you to connect.

In practice, nobody wants any of that. The vast majority of users are perfectly happy (and for the right reasons) with federated and centralised services like email or WhatsApp/etc.
it does if the software is not working(like in this case).
"the legitimate purchaser of a program is entitled to decompile that program in order to correct errors affecting its operation"

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=f5b1193c-f423...
OK, so I just went to jail for 8 years and that was an abrupt disconnect from social media, which I used on a heavy basis. So, I "stayed off" social media.

I can tell you that since getting out TikTok has been one of the biggest benefits to my mental health.

We don't need to disconnect entirely, we just need a healthier limit on our use.

Now, if someone could please tell me how to break my HN addiction?! (for real)
This is something I've seen with copilot with market data.

I was creating a unit test in a Go codebase and I had dumped the JSON that I was going to be decoding at the top of the file, and when I started writing the assertions, Copilot was very quick to use the data from the JSON, with quite high accuracy, based solely on me typing which ticker I was going to assert against.
It's not easy to beat Intel, AMD and Qualcomm at their own game. I would estimate at least 5 year timeline if any company wants to come close to them. Apple had an advantage that they were able to use iPhone which were built first for low power usage as a good testing ground for the chip(iPhone chip were around 60-70% faster in single core than any Android phones).
How was it inaccurate?
Agree. Maybe they can put a wind turbine at 1km vs. 500m from an occupied residence, there's certainly enough open space for that in many of the turbine-heavy areas.

however - and i get all the behavioral econ that could back up why this is - but however, it really feels like we're going to NIMBY our way into total failure to address climate because of the 1,000 and 1 small inconveniences the changes will cause.
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Those are almost bigger cognitive shifts in my education track than was calculus.

While super-turings are obviously fantastical things like FTL, assuming human brains are some form of turing machine, then from a practical standpoint all we need to do is imagine a human-capability turing with integrated current computing abilities for number crunching, no need of sleep, and ability to scale/clone/copy, and probably far bigger memory and recall.

A self-aware AI that can replicate can very rapidly chase Kardashev scales without our pesky lifespan and vulnerability to space.
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My online order, curbside pickup grocery experience with Walmart has been great, and I intend to keep using it for most things.
I wasn't thinking the risk was that the tech stack would change. The risk is that this new hire will generally try to avoid GQL (for example) as much as possible.
I would stay off social media too, as I did for years. I was a happy liberal. It was last year that changed my perspective. I found it was important to stay informed with channels outside of traditional media to know about politics, even though I had tried to stay away from politics or political news all my life. For instance, without social media, I wouldn't know that teachers in schools would tell my kids that they were born racists and oppressors just because of their skin color. I wouldn't know that working hard and being logical and studying STEM was whiteness. I wouldn't know that media was telling people that Asians were successful because they were close to white. I wouldn't know that journalists would stand behind a burning building and tell camera that people were mostly peaceful, pundits would label anyone who disagree with them and say things like "black mouth moving but a white idea running on the runway of the tongue". I wouldn't know so many politicians like Calvin Newsom and SF mayor and DC mayor would blatantly discard their own mask and social distance rules and partied and dine in public to humiliate millions of people who suffered. I wouldn't know that the crime rate jumped more than 100% of some cities yet the mayors like that in Chicago blamed everything in racism.

Without social media I wouldn't know that Democratic party had been trying to turn the US into Castro's Cuba, Mao's China, and Pol Pot's Cambodia, where people were judged not by their characters but by their birth and partisanship, and where public officials did not have to follow their own rules.

Yes I feel more pain, but the wakening is necessary. I would stay off social media if the media was not batshit partisan and would distort facts for narratives.
Why are you splitting hairs??? They worked as accountants through 2019. So obviously they have knowledge of where the funds were being funneled to.
I'm curious your take about serious climate interventions, i.e. geoengeering. I hear some people with the viewpoint of "we don't need to do anything, the future will be fine" and others, similar to you, who hold more of a "we need to do as much as we can to prevent/correct climate change".

I'm curious how these are balanced in your mind. For instance, if we could solve global warming by activating a load of fusion reactors to sequester atmospheric carbon and pollutants, would you then be okay with rural living, meat-eating, and lots of kids? What about greening the sea to absorb more CO2, or similar ecosystem modifications?

Curious whether this viewpoint is more ideological or practical in its roots.
> and are choked to the brink of passing out by high taxes

What are property taxes like over there?

I'm suspicious that your problem is the same as California, New Zealand, Canada and everyone else: deep tax cuts for long time landowners which everyone else has to make up for.
Some of the stuff is pretty generalized, I do agree not living in a big city is key to building wealth, the problem is all the great mid-sized cities with interesting stuff to do and are close to nature have skyrocketed in price, think Boulder CO, Bozeman MT, Bend OR, etc. Also contract work is not great, better to find full time work at a employer with decent work/life balance.