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To me it's always interesting because I perceive this all as theater. Historically and statistically speaking, the weird behavior would be if these people weren't spying on each other but then when someone gets caught they all have to pretend it's a scandal because otherwise they would be saying the quiet part out loud that nobody has had any privacy for a long time and that the laws simply aren't followed once you reach a certain level of power.

Not saying this justifies any of it, just that it is what I perceive as the status quo.
> More generally, though, I have to ask: do we want an ever-escalating arms race or a negotiated peace?

That's not a choice that's being offered. There is no reason to expect advertising platforms like Google or Facebook to ever be happy with "enough tracking". If they can get more information, they will want more, regardless of any "negotiations". This has been shown pretty clearly with the DoNotTrack header (now itself a tracking element), and the GDPR cookie policies.

So the only solution is war on tracking.
I can only speak for myself but factorio is a little bit easier to zone out and enjoy than a side project. It's not a transferable skill but neither is reading sci fi but I enjoy and spend quite a lot of time doing that.
Great article and fantastic choice!

This is a topic I have been very interested lately. I had been lucky to start using since Slate 0.61.x, but I cannot say anything good about it. It has a major problem with managing large documents [0]. I tried to introduce multiple improvements of performance, but it is very ungrateful project – change in one place affects many things at the same time. I am shocked, how many projects are still using it. For example, open-sourced Notabase [1]. My 4+ weeks with Slate.js completely killed motivation, and I was only thinking to put a whole project to litter.

In the result of being unhappy, I switched to Draft.js. It was 2020, and I was eager to try it out, so I did. Sadly, in 2020 there was also the last release [2]. Initially, I didn't like how it works. I preferred the Slate data model. Also, the draft.js project felt not maintained at that time (by looking at commits activity, issues and pull-requests). It is written in the Flow which I detest. I spent few weeks to try "merge" the draft.js and sentry with doing a "rewrite" to TypeScript. Obviously, quickly I realized myself it is stupid idea.

Then, I took a look at ReMirror. Yet another problem that was struggling with maintenance and active contributors. It is based on ProseMirror, so I thought it is better choice than previous. ReMirror is overly complex for simple things. It was hard to find any help - neither by googling examples nor via ReMirror's Discord (it was dead silence there).

After that, I have found information about the TipTap. Back then, there was only provided support for Vue.js. Fortunately, it was that time, when they have promised the v2 with React support. I skipped it to wait for the new version.

Maybe, a raw ProseMirror with React? Yep, tried it, but I wasn't very happy of the result. I knew the TipTap v2 will be released and there were already existing projects that were using ProseMirror behind the scene, for example: Outline's rich-markdown-editor[3]. It has tons of built-in components that I had with Slate. I was extremely happy about it, because "everything what I needed" was there – typical bold, italic, code, code block, quote, multi-level list and even table editing. Really awesome piece of code! However, authors decided they are opting for TipTap and they have archived repository on GitHub, which means officially the project is dead.

I had no time to test Quill.js. It looked interesting, but it has noticeable poor development pace, and it looks a dead project with many bugs.

Currently, I am using the TipTap v2 and I can't say how happy I am now. I guess I will stick with it for longer. However, I know the journey to find the best Rich Text Editor has not ended :sweat-emoji:. There are more alternatives, for example Stylo [4] that I've found in this week.

[0] Try to copy the contents of https://www.slatejs.org/examples/huge-document and paste it back. In a result, my Firefox on Macbook M1 hangs.

[1]: https://notabase.io/

[2]: https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/releases/tag/v0.11.7

[3]: https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor

[4]: https://stylojs.com/
I read it like: Someone reads (skims?) that book, vaguely grasps the power of the concepts therein and then begins to treat everything like a nail that needs their hammer...failing to realize that many times and at many companies a simpler approach is good enough and the better choice for many definitions of better.

That insistence to see everything as a nail once you learn the hammer is the hubris of the not-actually-senior software engineer. Those who can determine when the complex approaches are warranted versus when they are not is the real senior.
the "Direct X" one looks like an artist picking a "high-tech" name from a software framework.

Slint is the other way around, if anything.
Nothing to add except I'm glad your daughter is doing better!
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30307300.
I didn't know about the spoon theory, my comment was a bit snarky I guess? (My apologies)

I can't work with two screens, there have it.

I didn't touch MacOS for a long time, but I'm able (and I think you can too) to get manual, guide, documentation in seconds and adapt to it. I'm sure you can do the same thing as me.

I must say that I'm all about efficiency and administration outside computers. (Do you have ever thought about gaming? To use the right skill slot, to gain maximum velocity at that given level?) I apply "gaming skills" to my life.

I'm going to make a blog about it.
DCS world is where it's at.
It's a stimulant. It helps me concentrate and seems to help my working memory (which is already poor due to ADHD).
Some people legitimately think the purpose of life is productivity. I see quite a few on twitter and I can't help but stare and study them like some alien lifeform.
That reminds me of when a family friend from church needed help clearing his land and thought the easiest approach would be to teach an overconfident 14 year old (me) to drive his tractor. He told me I would never be worse at operating it than the second time we went out. He was right.
Congrats!! Donating can definitely be positive, but I think in a perfect world everyone has access to their own stem cells. Chances of survival are higher if you use a genetically related donor for a stem cell treatment. Beyond that, I'm a firm believer in the fact that if someone has access to these stem cells, they will use it at some point in life. Even if someone spends their whole life being healthy, they could be used for dementia/whatever old age brings. In the US, this is not quite as popular, but in other countries, people use stem cells in the same way they use botox - for anti-aging purposes. It could potentially be used for that down the line too.

Plus, standards for donations are very high. Some donations are rejected, so if you try to donate and it's rejected, then nobody wins :(

As for the fear mongering-related marketing, we do our very best to stay away from that, but truthfully it's a necessary thought when it comes to positioning a preventative care product.
I expect it's a temporary rut. I vaguely remember a lull around your age. But I just kept living life, and it passed.

I started my third career (as a software developer) at age 38 just before getting married for the first time at 40 and moving half way across the country. I still had two failed startups (and a successful side project) ahead of me.

Almost 20 years later I still frequently go to festivals and local live music shows. I'm taking some time off to partake in SXSW next month. I have a stack of books I can't get to. I'm still improving my guitar and singing skills, a lifelong hobby.

I've made a bunch of new friends lately with a group that shares some interests. We have regular get togethers, like karaoke Fridays, gun range trips (a new hobby for me), and just hanging out. They are all coming to my Super Bowl part this Sunday. Most of the group is 30s-40s. I go to discussion meetups once a month or so.

I'm not saying all this to brag about myself but show you that most of your active years lie ahead.

A few concrete suggestions:

1. If you spend a lot of time playing video games, stop. It's the world's greatest time suck.

2. Curtail porn.

3. Find meetups that interest you.

4. If your BMI is above high twenties, get it down. Keto and daily walks/hiking/swimming does it for me.

5. Consider getting a dog. It's great for fighting loneliness and can help attract dates.

6. Study stoicism. It's the OG self help. (I'm just starting this now. I think it will help a lot as I move into old age.)

7. Keep spending less than you make. You're in a pretty good spot savings wise. Keep it up.
Computer science is a (poorly named) branch of mathematics. Expecting it to primarily teach programming practice per se is like expecting a biology degree to consist primarily of practical medical training. (Of course CS is helpful for programming, just as biology is helpful for medicine.)
Glad to see Tiptap getting more attention. I've used 1.0 and 2.0 and they've both been great to work with. However one GIANT roadblock in the project I was working on was the inability to create custom inline components, like say a link with inline buttons for removing/changing the url. I believe there still isn't support for this type of functionality.
> There's no inherent reason to prefer more "natural" solutions to medical issues

Yes there is:

1) Treatment just treats the issue, unlike a healthy lifestyle which helps people avoid them in the first place.

2) Good health has various benefits beyond just fixing one particular health problem.

But the role of medicine is to treat the diseased and maybe offer some guidance along the way. Being healthy is up to the individual and maybe public health campaigns.
Multiplayer is something I'd probably add post release, I think it would be hard to implement for the strategic world map since the factions are so asymmetrical. If I was going to add it in, it would probably have to be just the tactical battle map.
They are certainly easier, but how useful are they? A base on Mars will bring down the fuel requirements to exploring and exploiting the belt and outer planets tremendously. Missions that are impossible or uneconomical to do from Earth could be made possible and cheap if launched from Mars.
But not providing answers? I hope the tutes were rigorous.
> How much re-analysis of the same [topics] over and over again can one do? Of course people will look for more and more extreme interpretations

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This is whey we need to be talking more about nutritional genomics. Magnesium will help for people who have a need for magnesium based on their genetics.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22051430/

I do not care if a supplement works for "most people", I only care if it works for me.
The highest-tier schools are not a place to learn, but a place to pay to get their fancy name on your resume/transcript. Actually learning anything is your problem, not theirs.
Standards for donations meaning volume, certain history of disease, etc.
Physics and chemistry use math but are not math. You can't point to an area of math and say "this is physics" or "this is chemistry." There is no chemistry without chemicals. There is no physics without physical processes. In contrast, there are areas of what we now call computer science that are math and predate computers.
Is there an English version of the relevant Calcalist article? They're the original source so if that exists it would probably make a better post.
I look at it the other way around: I did things as a kid and teenager that were dangerous, unnecessary, detrimental to my physical or mental health... and those things made me... me.

So why should I, or do I have a right to, keep my kids from doing the same?

We aren't only the product of our positive lessons. A lot of life is learned through burning yourself on the hot stove. And by and large, it usually doesn't kill you.

IMHO, no humans are self-actualized enough to possess omniscience and act ethically. We have too many neuroses.

And, at the more obvious end of the spectrum, all of the suburban crowd complaining about how their children fail to launch, lack initiative in life, and aren't independent.

After their entire childhood was spent being monitored and constantly corrected by the parent.

The mind boggles.
What specific sort of de-escalation would you propose? Should the US offer, let's say, 10% more of Ukraine's territory to Russia if they agree to pull back their invasion force?
My understanding is that stem cells are special because they have the potential to turn into any type of specialized cell the body needs, whereas regular cells have already turned into specialized cell types and there's no un-frying the egg, as it were.

Has there been any research on producing stem cells from specialized cells? Or is there something fundamentally impossible about this, akin to producing the original content given only a hash value?
Are you telling me that this autopilot system cannot see at night - the most dangerous time of day to drive? Was there even driver monitoring systems that track the driver's attention in order to prevent this crash from happening?

It seems that all of the above was missing. Yet another crash from the 'safe' autopilot / FSD contraption. Quite really a crash dummy trials contest on the public roads for Tesla.
He's specifying this as his estimate for forward-looking cases of omicron, not saying 0.2% of all Covid infections ever resulted in Long Covid. It's not looking at current results. Nobody is missing from the workforce because of something that will happen in the future.
> It's wild to think that citizens should be adding those themselves.

Antipathy towards the homeless ends up harming other citizens: "If we add a bench there, the homeless could sit/sleep there, and we'd have to look at them". The result is lack of benches, or ones that are incredibly user-hostile.
> it's that none of the math classes teach you how to think through and write proofs.

Formal logic is usually introduced in calculus and discrete math courses. Arguably though it could stand on its own especially if it was taught using modern computer proof assistants, which make the "structuring" of even fairly complex proofs very clear.
I actually agree with this, if only because of the political connotations the term “privilege” has acquired.

I think a better term would be “advantages”. It adequately describes the meaning that’s being conveyed without carrying the implication that it’s necessarily completely outside of the individual’s control.
> As for the urgency, the last two years has demonstrated the exact opposite to me. Modern civilization is a hop, skip, and a jump away from instability and disaster.

I mean, you would somehow have to make Earth less hospitable than Mars to make the effort worth it.
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Speaking of that... When people talk about limitless cheap energy from fusion reactors in 30-50 years, I wonder about goal warning from water great from all that energy consumed and turned into waste heat radiated into Earth's atmosphere.
But you are MORE expensive than all the examples cited. How is that an advantage?

As to brand, how does that help?

What kind of personalisation do you offer?
"As if to"
Curious why no one challenged them. The market has high locality, so you wouldn't even have to mount a nationwide delivery service.

Pick a second-tier city, sign up a dozen or so of popular restaurants, get a catchy domain like TulsaDelivers.com or SpokaneTakeout.com, and find some local driver partners.

Is the app loyalty that high at consumer level? Or would a localized delivery app still not make the margins to offer better terms to drivers?
Impressive and also scary.

I'm on lercanidipine and ramipril, a month worth of pills cost 2.50 euros for the former and 3.80 euros for the latter.

both are manufactured in Italy.
Steam isn't mobile gaming. You're ten thousand miles outside the scope of the discussion. You might as well say that people pay for bread, if the point is that people do pay for some things.
> I wonder how much it has to do with the aspect of literary critique and interpretation in many Universities becoming more radical.

What basis is there to say they are more radical? People who follow the norms have been complaining about it for forever. The difference, I suspect, is that now reactionary, radical capitalist politics (we really need a word for that part of the spectrum) have become dominant, and they do not value, respect, or believe in the freedom of other perspectives. They think that if they don't like something, it should be suppressed, and they do it.

Universities have always been 'radical'; that's the idea. They are supposed to nurture free, unconstrained thinking. It's not hard to think beyond what is mainstream and normative; if people an universities aren't saying and writing things that most people think goes too far, then they aren't trying. Also, much that was radical then is normal now, and much that is radical now will be normal in the future.
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So, if one is engaged in "real stuff", then one expects comms probably involve many physical couriers and in-person meetings.
It’s really not that difficult to find answers to math questions online. If not the exact same one, a sufficiently similar variant. Sounds like these kids deserve bad grades for lacking enough initiative / lateral thinking to use google.
Yes, they are a problem too.

But, you know they are here.

They can be turned off.

They require an internet connection.

They are not meant for tracking, and intent is important.

They provide other features than tracking.

They are expensive, and battery don't last. People won't use them to track their ex wife for months.

It's like comparing a gun and a knife. Sure, you can kill with a knife, but it's harder, and initially the knife is made for cutting carrots.
Nope. Trial will continue and simultaneously and seperatly they'll be investigating this.
In my case by talking to my teens about choices, consequences, and how to plan for good outcomes. It helped to start having that conversation long before they were teens.

We had an ios family group set up with location sharing enabled, which was great when they were 12 and losing things all the time (using a phone as backpack lojack isn't necessarily cost efficient, but it was a nice accidental outcome). When they got a little older, they figured out how not to share with us. I was peeved, but proud. Privacy respected.
Somewhere I read that an alcoholic was someone who always remembers their last drink whether it was an hour ago or a decade ago.
I want to focus a comment on Mozilla Firefox generally. I see a lot of hate being expressed here but I do get a sense of entitlement from some comments. Firefox is a free-of-cost product and surely we all know by now that if you don't pay for it you're the product, not the customer.

I don't allow tracking or advertising at all, whether from Internet services or local radio and TV (mostly do not use ad-supported stations), never had a Facebook/Twitter/etc., account, not used Google for the last decade, and so on.

However, in exchange for avoiding tracking and adverts, I actively pay for services I appreciate in whatever way they provide for whether through purchase, subscription, or donation.

I really wish Mozilla Corporation would have a DONATE TO FIREFOX option* to directly support development of the browser (and Thunderbird) and a max-privacy version. This would directly quantify real support from those like me that object to tracking and/or invasive adverts - I suspect the amount raised would be minimal, but it'd put the default search engine funding into perspective.

Not a lot of people realise that donating to the Mozilla Foundation does NOT support Firefox development by Mozilla Corporation.

* I was one of those that paid for Netscape Navigator back in the mid 1990s before Microsoft released Internet Explorer as part of the Windows OS and wiped out the paid-for browser market and forced Netscape Navigator to be released free of charge in order to try to compete - which directly led to Mozilla and Firefox.
Yeah, I’d prefer that as well. Thanks for linking directly.
What about Wordle in other languages?
> Everything in a book was put there on purpose.

This is nonsense. Having published two novels, I'll say with confidence that a lot of things makes it into books just because it happened to come to mind while you were writing.

Some authors will pay attention to every phrase or every word. Many do not.

This is true even for famous authors - I vividly remember an interview with one who was painted a dramatic picture of symbolism in one of his novels by an interviewer, and then asked about it, and answered that he wished he'd thought of that - he'd just liked how the sentence sounded.

A whole lot of people's interpretations are fine as people's personal head canon, but all to often people project intentions on an author they never had.
> A computer science degree isn’t a math degree any more than a physics or chemistry degree is a math degree.

1 of these things isn't like the others.

There are places where theoretical physics and applied math are put together, and places where CS is put with math.

Upstream comment mentions Waterloo, where CS is as far as I know still part of the math faculty (e.g. multiple departments), not engineering. In that specific sense, every CS degree they give is a math degree - but other places give B.Math also.

This isn't just pedantry, the reason is that the boundaries are pretty fuzzy, and don't really work with the sort of absolute line you are hoping to apply.
Why won't anyone teach me anything?

Because it is expensive and if you are not putting loads of effort yourself, don't expect someone to do that for you.

I was imagining that I will get a mentor, I am capable, I am smart... but that is not enough and mentoring is really expensive thing.

I know we live in world where everyone feels like special snowflake but you really have to put "loads of effort" to become worthy to study under a master.

Yes I feel like I am special snowflake as well. But I did not get FBI roping down from helicopter to my apartment so I can help them save the world...

If you want to learn complex stuff you are on your own and really on your own until you can prove that you can work out hard stuff on your own and people super smart people will be willing to collaborate with you when you really contribute something...

It is as easy as thinking about torrenting - everyone can be a leech, to provide new stuff you real havee to have stuff....
ChowNow and Toast do that. They sell payments and other back-end systems to the restaurants, so they can commoditize the takeout/delivery experience and give it away for free.
You expect too much from the HN commentariat with regard to this topic.