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Agreed, and where I think is one of the bigger failings of blockchain. We don't actually want a system where mistakes, fraud, or theft are irreversible.

Some will say that you can still prosecute the crimes even if you can't initially reverse the transaction, but you can see how well that is working with hackers from adversary nations. Basically no prosecution and risk free ability to move on to the next victim.

"Friction is a feature with money transfer"

My experience is that moving money between countries where there is a high likelihood of collaborative justice against scams and thefts, ends up being pretty simple. It gets harder to transfer money to places where it is easier for thefts and scammers to get away with it.

I think we want it this way. How many people get taken in by the romance scams[1] where they wire their money to a country with 0 chance of recovery. The money transfer system has been specifically making it more difficult to send money to countries where this is commonplace as that is the only effective way to stop the crime. There is no viable criminal process only friction to make it less profitable and more difficult for the scammers.

[1] https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-scams-and-crimes...
Just by simple numbers – no, you don't need a sustainable population rate. We were perfectly fine as a species when the population was half or a tenth or hundredth of what it is now, and will still thrive if it gets to that again. The problem is the demographic breakdown. If the rate of growth is decreasing it means that when your current population ages and exits the labor pool there won't be enough young people to replace them. And with better medical care and increased life expectancy these old people will still hang around and need care.

This is a problem that every large, developed country faces today, and they generally solve it through immigration. But what happens when every country is in the same situation?
Really interesting article, I have used Conductor and it's great once you manage to configure it, but that's not something easy to do. The idea of simplify that process for the developers is awesome, can't wait to see it in action.
The Pareto distribution applies to software development.

And aggravated in my experience because:

- Its really hard to work with multiple people on the same project ( and when you do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law )

- People Managers usually think they are buying bus-factor insurance and throughput for each additional developer. Additionally they want more devs to indicate they are an important team.

So this all conspires to you being in the 80% doing the remaining 20% of the work without getting payed less or being called out.
The last two apartments I lived in had Comcast and the IPs were banned from editing. Very weird.
I don't, I just copy and pasted the stars. you see "hunter2" but I see "****"
I mean if hyperloop can exist, I wouldn't rule it out completely.

One path I could imagine: a city like Phoenix parners with autonomous vehicle manufacturers to create a bubble where self driving cars can exist. It goes really well, other people want it, and other cities fall suit.

I'm not saying it's likely, but I would not put it out of the question.
> Entirely relying on unit tests for development

I don't think anybody is ever suggesting this - but I do see people suggest the opposite: that all testing should be end-to-end "black box" testing, and unit tests are a waste of time. If you actually want to ship something that works reliably, you have to do both unit testing and end-to-end (integration) testing. I've never seen anybody sacrifice integration testing. I have seen them sacrifice unit testing.
I have an iPhone 7 since its launch. Works great on latest iOS, although battery degradation is starting to show up.
expressjs is just as simple as flask, what is your point?
That's probably not an ideal solution given the history of that word.
I didn’t think of that but you are totally right! I’d say greed has much more to do with it than IQ
What makes you think that, say, the Edge link issue will be solved in Windows 12? It looks like Microsoft has run out of ideas and does not have enough innovation to genuinely offer anything interesting in an operating system. Besides, an OS has become a commodity, something you expect to just work, not to be excited about like in the old days of Windows 95 when people literally queued to buy their copy.
The flashlight is just on. 1995 computers were trivial to compromise and still are.

If perfection is unattainable does that mean we should snap to the other extreme and set all of our passwords to "password"?
“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."

"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"

"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."

"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."

"I did," said Ford. "It is."

"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"

"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."

"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"

"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."

"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"

"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
Really confusing response. Must be some miscommunication.

> Seriously, what do you think "exclusion" here is.

Exclusion from any of the social institutions of income distribution. Whether private or state. Whether a job, a government pension, an unemployment check, or a dividend from a private fund.

> The only way out is 6 feet under, otherwise you are still a part of the system

The system is a system of exclusions (or a hierarchy of exclusivity) used to enforce rules against or create incentives for the included. Prison is a kind of exclusion, and so is unemployment.
Is this not the same argument with gun control? Remove the guns, solves gun violence?

On a similar note, I don’t think that teaching mental health is the solution. The pressures in India are terrible. MIT in the US has no legacy program, and has the highest suicide rates, and I know a few people that were committed rapidly and diagnosed haphazardly. This prevents suicide by imprisoning them in powerful psychoactive drugs (antipsychotics) and labeling them as schizophrenic, holding them against their free will to lower suicide stats.

The underlying issue is the pressure to succeed, and they will never remove that in India.
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the majority of wikipedia is still editable without even having an account
I think it's important to consider that an "hour" out of a 40 hour week might be vastly less productive than an "hour" in a 5 or 10 hour week.

Flow state is a thing. You can't fake it.
1k lines per week sounds like quite a lot. I'm a dev whose role is mainly supporting legacy systems and sometimes I write probably ~50 lines in a week and feel incredibly productive due to the issues I've resolved.
Exactly. We have the current example of Senator Wyden who blocked the China Forced Labor bill who received ~$60k in cash from Nike... how is that not quid pro quo?
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Politics aside, Jimmy Carter is a saint, and a heck of a nuclear engineer. Aside from, arguably, Lincoln, Carter is the only US President that could (or should) some day be considered for beatification and canonization. This story reminds me of a brilliant piece of harmless satire. If you are unfamiliar of The Pepsi Syndrome [1], you're in for a treat.

[1] https://m.facebook.com/tapewrecks/videos/the-pepsi-syndrome/...
Interestingly enough there are cultures where the problem was solved using method #1, and they tend to be matriarchal type cultures where women are not monopolized by a single person sexually but are free to do whatever they please. (From what I've read, grain of salt). So on some level the power imbalance itself might be said to come from patriarchy.
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>This pandemic has killed an estimated 10-12 million people, according to the Economist.

Every time I see such claims, I still cringe at the thought of figuring out what it actually means. The details are gory, and can be summarized simplistically by saying "death with COVID ≠ death from COVID". In other words, figuring out true disease toll is a rather ambiguous problem, as stated.

Can someone point me to a reference where this subject is rigorously treated, without skipping over the gore, but is still accessible to a non-expert (say, to someone who has undergrad-level understanding of health stats)? Could be a paper, a meta study, a blog post, whatever.

Like with this estimate, for example, I'd want to know if it's 10-12 million people who died within X days of a positive PCR test for COVID, or something less naive.
I had monthly promotions ( pay) when shit hit the fan at my previous job because the CEO only sold ( a lot ) without planning and without taking normal hours into consideration.

It's a dystopian feeling when you go Friday on 21:00-22:00 ( tired) and say to the boss: "we need to talk on Monday" and just leave the office a couple of times. ( I was also working on the weekends at home, had my laptop when I went swimming Sunday morning and when/if I went out fyi ).

Those promotions were directly valued to the value outputted. And were then transferred to my new job with normal hours.

Conclusion: it's not about the hours. It's at the value you create and that ( eg. For small companies) they can count on you more than someone else. But ofc. There is a limit, which is why i happily left my previous job.

Fyi: To me, It seems so obvious when people are slacking. I get that people have an off day, but spending 8 hours and they don't even know yet which component they need to adjust is a no-brainer about their effort after working in that project for a year. ( When I saw that, we went to the html and there it is: the name of the angular component "<dp-setting-create>" -> 1 minute. Ugh)
/r/place was weeeeeiiird. It figured there'd be some trolls, but not massive troll brigades intent on spreading every form of hate the world has seen from the last century. The number of people that were involved was in the 100,000's battling to control the content.

If I let myself wax poetic, I saw /r/place as a proxy for the coming internet faction wars: WW3 won't be fought by countries, it will be fought by internet factions.
Smart people generally understand hubris a bit better. Are you going exclaim how humble you are next?

Not sure about your intelligence IQ but your emotional IQ is in the gutter.
A free market was probably around 1850 when you could pollute as much as you wanted and send children to work in mines. The word "free market" is basically nonsense. To most people "free market" means "I can do whatever I want but the state protects me from others doing thins I don't like"
Why so much work? Understaffed orgs and exceedingly high expectations of engineers. A lot of management has no social life or life outside of work - so they expect the same of their subordinates.

I’ll move on after a year or two. I just wanted some name brand recognition and to give the company a chance. I was tired of going with unknown places.
I think about this every time i see someone talking about how their particular workflow is great because they have a hotkey that saves them having to lift their pinky to a different key, saving them almost 1 second per day.

There probably are people like that out there but i strongly suspect they're very much the minority.
Totally, but unless that person that writes software communicates their views with humility, then they are indistinguishable from the newbie software author.
This is factually incorrect - it is not stalkerware. The app makes it very clear that it is installed and watching you.
I think gopher would be better, just by how much content is available on it and how stupid simple it is. But either option would be really flipping cool to see!
> I dislike all the magic of rails.

This is my #2 problem with Ruby, and it's also the reason why a lot of folk love it. I think of macros in the same way I think of RegEx, if you're writing one you better hope it works perfectly because chances are that you'll be the only one to maintain it.

Other Ruby "features" that I dislike:

1. Blocks + Procs + Lambdas are all function-adjacent. Can't we just call them functions?

3. Out of bounds indexes on Arrays/Maps return nil.

4. method_missing() is super cool and super abusive. Again it feels like magic when functions come from nothing.
My point was about "insight -> final paper" size, not whether or not things have a known answer or anything like that.
I'm very much reminded of "Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!" [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0
You're essentially saying "sanitation" equals "filtering". Looking at CWE-707 (https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/707.html) I'd rather say that "sanitation" is what MITRE calls [begin quote]transformation of the input/output to be "safe" using techniques such as filtering, encoding/decoding, escaping/unescaping, quoting/unquoting, or canonicalization[end quote] (well, I'm repeating myself here).

Now a Google search finds instances where sanitization/sanitation also includes techniques beyond filtering: https://www.webopedia.com/definitions/input-sanitization/ https://hack.technoherder.com/input-sanitization/ https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/security/securing-in... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/129677/how-can-i-sanitiz...

But there are also results where it isn't really clear, or where the only sanitation technique considered is filtering. So I'd say "yeah, it's unclear and poorly defined".

Buuuuut: I still like my definition more, as I have a word for "all techniques that aim to make an input safe for processing" (sanitation/sanitization) while I can still refer to "destructive elimination of substrings" as just "filtering", which is a again different from outright "rejection of input" by using an "allow list" or "deny list". :P

I agree that splitting data and code is the way to go, if that's an option. But I didn't talk about that in the post you're answering to, so I'll ignore that ;-)
Wealth inequality is one of the drivers of reducing family size. As well-compensated, high-status professions require either high up-front costs in education and socialization or high risk early investment the rationale shifts from "needing a lot of hands to keep the family firm going" to "needing to dedicate a lot of resources to set the kids up for success."

In other words, the economic incentives today are to "go tall" rather than "go wide" with your kids if family wealth and status is the aim. If inequality is high this becomes more pronounced because the top of the heap will be more desirable and more competitive.

Really I think it'll depend on how good the robots end up being. If they're very good at replacing humans then labor won't be able to bid up its pay rates. If the robots are shitty, though, it might work out okay.
As someone who worked at both Microsoft and Google... you can get await with doing little work at those companies for maybe a year, two years at most, but after that you're gone. The expectation at those places skyrockets after the first year.
"from HELLO WORLD to IPO" as dhh said today https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1471267036793765888?s=20
I think this is a very white, cisgendered view of the problem. If you fit within the mainstream beauty standards, great! You have some power over men and I think that’s awesome. If you don’t, most of the guys interested are fetishizing the things that make you not part of those standards. They’re looking for someone to fulfill a porno fantasy, not a partner.

As a trans woman who passes for cis, I can tell you that lots of men want to sleep with me, but far fewer want to have a real relationship with me after I disclose that I’m trans (and from talking to women of color, this is not unique to trans women). There’s no power there other than transactional. So I’ve had to learn to always be on guard and find ways to filter out the fetishists to meet the men who aren’t ashamed to date me.
This is my first PC build, out of about 15-20 or so in the last 30 years going back to the 386sx16, that does not have an intel processor. I'm very happy with the price/performance of the 5950x.
Software development isn't a matter of sitting down and generating a fixed amount of code per hour. The rate of writing code is hugely variable. It's not unusual for most of my "productive" (as in typing actual code) time to be concentrated in a few particular days in a month. The time not spent typing (or being in meetings, doing admin, etc) isn't actually "unproductive" though. It's mostly spent solving problems, and a lot of that effort happens below the level of consciousness. A lot of it actually happens during sleep. It's effort, though, and it costs. You can't do an infinite amount of it in infinitesimal time.

I suggest 2 tests to see if you're lazy or dumb:

1. Try to be more productive by sheer effort of will. Just say to yourself "this month I will write more code than usual" and set to it with a positive attitude. If you succeed you were being lazy and now you know how to not be lazy. If, as is more likely from what you've said, you fail, then you're not lazy. You're working at your maximum capacity but you have a poor understanding of what constitutes "work" in the job you do.

2. If, by the above test, you are not lazy, then look at how well you do relative to your peers. If you're holding your own (as you say you are), you're not dumb either.
Ask HN: What slows you down in your filesystem and apps you use daily?
Have you found any ways around it?
Yup. My backup key (the one that doesn’t travel with me) doesn’t have the touch policy and I use that for any bulk operations.
A lot of people would argue that they're both middle ground parties that pretend to have big differences for the show of it.
There is also defi insurance. And wallets like Argent are working on fraud detection layers within L2 account abstraction (as well as social recovery and ditching seed phrases).

Many people think it will be Fintech in the front, DeFi in the back version of crypto that services mass adoption. The big difference is there is global, permissionless infrastructure for anyone to build tools/apps/services on. No more walled financial system, some kid in India can make a new banking app and it can be as useful as hsbc. They can use the same lending protocols, currency conversion, insurance protocols, and then choose what services they want on top. Maybe someone wants their banking app to be hentai death metal themed and all their moeny to be in picutres of dogs(rather than pictures of the queen or a president). Those who want self ownership and to code their own things, or arent liked by the banks (e.g. sex workers, immigrants, travellers) have just as much access to the system. To me it will be kinda like how lots of people are happy with Windows, but a smaller group like the freedom of Linux.
Why make the propellors go up and down? You could just fix them in the Up position, and make them as big as you can in that position. And they do; we're at that engineering limit.
Very nice. I just can't trust FB with my children's time/attention.
Congrats on the release! As a part-time nit-picker, I found some issues on your landing page:

The "hero image" overlaps the subsequent heading. https://i.imgur.com/PiCekWg.png

Your links (the "Batteries for Mac" heading, "Buy Now" button and "Download" button) do not work in a non-JavaScript-enabled browser.

The foldout FAQs are permanently hidden on a non-JavaScript-enabled browser. Suggestion: Have them visible by default and use JS to hide them.

You have a "they're talking about us" section, but no links. I'll have to take your word for it.

In the FAQ, the screenshots have some intense JPG compression artifacts. Consider reacquiring using a lossless format such as PNG.

In the FAQ, the screenshots are absolutely huge. Consider setting a width/height based on the density-factor of your screen. Web layout pixels are not physical pixels, so if your Mac is 2x density, these screenshots should be set to half their actual size.
That's the moment you fire up Firefox without prefetch nor studies and enjoy the peaceful DNS logs without the constant telemetry calls to LinkedIn and to all interested 3rd parties, five eyes etc
The incentives in France have also been somewhat effective relative to peer countries, however they're still below replacement rate.
I don't know why this is a common viewpoint. A proper Turing test with trained judges and human subjects who are actually trying to convince the judge they are human still seems like the best test of intelligence IMO.
You can even replace most CMOS batteries on a running machine without causing any issues. The power from the system will keep the BIOS set, and it's a 1 minute job for many servers, slide out the rack, pop the top, thin phillips screwdriver to the CMOS battery to pop the old one out, pop the new one in and button her up.

Heck, you can buy 2 CMOS batteries for a buck at the dollar tree. They'll last a year or more with the light usage that would be.
I don't really wish her death but I definitely would like old people like Biden, Pelosi and Clinton go away and not f..k up the country even more. Hopefully they will go away before they die but I am not so sure they have the sense to retire.
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Part of the story of men and women is that a women's sexual value is at a peak very early (let's say 18) but a man's sexual value peaks later (at least 30+).

The sexual invisibility many men feel as teenagers is a trauma that will live with them for the rest of their lives.

Eva Illouz writes about this stuff eloquently

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2012/05/24/book-rev...

and says that 30+ women who are still single want more of everything out of relationships than men will give them, including sex.
If I have a story to complete during a sprint, and I spend an hour looking through the specifications and looking at the existing code and APIs etc., the company would probably be worse off if I immediately began coding a solution. I have two weeks to do the work, so why rush it? The company will be better off if I implement a better solution.

We're not flipping hamburgers or soldering widgets on an assembly line. We're constantly adding to systems that get increasingly complex over time. The UX that the product manager sees is just a small percentage of the work. Haste makes waste, and a stitch in time can save nine.

There are times I have spent a day banging on some problem, and I am up to even 1 AM trying to fix it and I give up and go to sleep, after a few hours of hitting my head against a brick wall. I wake up in the morning relaxed, and am hit with an epiphany, I go to the computer to code it and it works. I don't know if I am dreaming up a solution while I sleep, or a couple of seconds of a clear head beats hours of tiredly banging my head against the wall, but it has happened more than once to me, and I have heard the same from others.