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I'm somewhat confused.

Here in America when you want to accomplish something like open a new facility you basically force the potential municipalities into competing with each other to win your favor.

A big company will go to all the Chambers of Commerce in a given area and basically say "we're considering opening a 100,000 Sq ft facility and hiring 300 people. What incentives can you offer me if I build it here?"

Then the towns will bend over backwards, gut their taxes, ease their planning zones, and basically contort everything they can to become the most appealing location.

Is it just cheaper to skip this step and bribe the city in other parts of the world? Why doesn't this practice work or take place overseas?
any kind of todo thing it would be good for or temporary labeling things with painter's tape.
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> However, despite the high false positive rate, breast cancer screening is a net beneficial procedure (though not without controversy) in that when applied in a population, long term outcomes like mortality improve.

I've read that's also a statistically tricky statement. IIRC, they measure survival time from when the cancer was detected. So early detection by definition improves the survival stats even when there's no meaningful treatment.

If I've read about this, I'm sure medical practitioners are well aware of it, but even so, I don't think it's easy to correct for it. How do you determine when a late-detected cancer actually started?
What happens to a startup that goes through Arc if Sequoia doesn't give them a term sheet for the next round? That seems like a really bad signally problem. Why would an investor back an Arc company knowing that Sequoia is picking the top companies for themselves?
You need the pipinerol, otherwise the effectiveness is greatly reduced.

Probably why so many "studies" are inconclusive, apart from likely poorly structured.
> there was also some Duck app for macOS?

You are thinking of Adium (https://adium.im). I believe it was a port of pidgin/libpurple to cocoa/aqua (or whatever the macOS gui framework was back then).
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>Free socializing, plus health benefits. :)

Not my experience. At sports activities where I live, people come to do sports, not really to socialize. Once the sport activity is over, most go home to their kids/wives/girlfriends/etc. At least in Germany where the focus is always on the activity at hand, and socializing with strangers is a distraction from the activity you came for.

I practice 3 different sports right now (bouldering, CrossFit and dancing), hoping to maybe make some friends or find a partner out of it in this WFH world and it's all the same, once the activity is over, people want to go home, not stay and have a beer or chat. :(

Maybe I was lucky in the past but the best friends I've ever made and sometimes partners were found on the same workplace or campus, but I sure as hell feel very unlucky and miserable now, however, I really don't wish for people who don't like being in the office to be forced to come to work, that's really stupid, but this hybrid model is the norm where I live and is the worst of both worlds. Some offices are really nightmare material.
viable alternative is to not use intellectual disability as an insult, call someone ignorant if you must
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Why are Germans ok with registering their religion with their government after the government rounded up everyone of a certain religion and killed them?
If we are taking into account more than 1/3 of jobs could be remote, that starts to include many white-collar jobs that are not paid that well. And if we extrapolate this from the USA to other places (like Europe) you can live in a small town and still earn just enough to live in a 2 or 3 dormitories flat, with no dedicated space for WFH for one, let alone for a couple (it's 1/3 of the jobs, so chances that both can do WFH are not that low).
Not at the moment, but we’re definitely interested in expanding to other languages in the future. Japanese publishers usually don’t license out domestic distribution rights within Japan, so it’s a little harder to get permission to distribute the original Japanese versions. But that would be pretty cool!
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> two days in office to relax, three days at home to help wifie with kid.

This is not working from home, or working anywhere

If you think working from home means you have time to "help with the kid", you're wrong.
I looked into this recently. From what I can tell, no study could show a reduction in deaths from doing mammograms. This is because they detect many cancers that would go away on their own thus unnecessarily exposing you to chemotherapy which brings other health risks. A good starting point on this topic is this video: https://youtu.be/_sg14En-Z7A
I was doubtful about the validity of that video at first, but everything he says is backed up by studies.
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You don't, you just measure long term outcomes like mortality in a treatment and control arm. Potentially you have to use a synthetic control.

I am most familiar with NLST which actually was a long term randomized trial.
Let's hope that money will actually get recycled into MDN and not just into the CEO's $3+ million salary.
They also have habit of saying, "If we don't do this, Chinese company will do this and so what we are doing is clearly a benevolent act on humanity. To erase this blemish Microsoft shall donate 5 computer to Nigeria to help those poor kids to draw something in MS Paint"
Yeah they're "BPA free" in roughly the same sense that 1P-LSD is "LSD free"

Those blue receipt papers seem okay though: https://www.koehlerpaper.com/en/products/Thermal-paper/Blue4...
Many years ago, another division of my employer got caught bribing Nigeria. As a result, a bunch of people who were never in a position to do so had to sit through hours of ethics training. Some of it came with oddly specific examples. Halfway through one such lecture, in which we were being admonished to never accept a car from a customer, some engineer in the back did some quick mental arithmetic on his own salary versus costs of cars and asked "Which customers were giving out cars?"

We laughed. Instructor not so much.
Agree with all of that. For me, the issue with working at home is that home is my relaxing and family place office is my work place.
My mind focuses at work much better when i am in my work environment.

Creating real connections with co workers from my experience is not possible via zoom / google meets. There is nothing that can replace real human interaction as far as creating relationships.
The tone and style of your comments reminds me of Ashley Pomeroy's 'Women and Dreams' blog[1]. It's not about anything in particular, but it's witty and entertaining and has some good info hidden away in it.

[1]: http://women-and-dreams.blogspot.com
Good point! Compilers, Databases, Games or 3D design all provide a pretty rich domain to explore for algorithmic problems. I think you are even more spot on, because if you start with a game engine for any of those domains, it supports a really rich top level environment. If you write your database in a game engine, you have a built in visualization system for internal processes and data structures, same for compilers or 3d design.
>As you observed, you can't expect that great results on the internet (or on benchmarks) will automatically translate to great results in your own environment unless you're running the same workload. At the end of the day, I think the only meaningful benchmark is using the machine for your own work (or other use case!)

Regarding the M1 Macbook Air, its claim to fame is long battery life for the weight. Did you find your other laptops do better in terms of battery life?

I completely agree with you, I have no hate against MacOS or anything from Apple.

>Regarding the M1 Macbook Air, its claim to fame is long battery life for the weight. Did you find your other laptops do better in terms of battery life?

iCloud was using a lot of battery life and it really took a hit, because I was working on my Envy using Excel, Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Photoshop.

I think, I was just unfortunate to experience it. I think i'm not willing to buy a Macbook. The keyboard interaction is Out of the box kinda bad. On paper it's still one of the best laptops out there (even if my experiences where kinda... bad)
Beyond age-related things to solve for, his experience as an executive probably has a much more niche range of everyday inconveniences that a lot fewer people out there are building or have tried to build for. Maybe things that CEOs don't necessarily have to do themselves, but that he's noticed his EAs always spent an inordinate amount of time on, and for which a product could make them more effective.
I don't particularly enjoy the forced, stilted chatter but I do get a lot of value from:

a) Being obliged to put on clothes and leave the house.

b) Spending a large part of the day at a change of scenery.

c) Having other people there, around, ambiently.

Spending 23 hours a day alone in your room + 1 hour for outdoor exercise, with occasional weekend visitation, is among the worst punishments the state has at its disposal. It boggles the mind that people do this voluntarily.
What I’m proposing is specifically in cases where sub-dependencies may have a known vulnerability but that isn’t in any of the call paths of your direct dependency. It’s an alternative to the “audit assertions”[1] proposal, which I find problematic for reasons I discussed there before I bowed out. My idea is that you can be confident you’re not affected by a vulnerability in a dependency (at any depth), if that vulnerability is no longer in the code in the first place.

It also reduces the surface area to vet in the first place. It’s highly likely many dependencies will be stripped down considerably, if not outright deduplicated or eliminated. The “npm installs thousands of dependencies” thing is a real problem, but it’s also partly because it’s installing stuff you’ll never actually execute in any way.

You can pare down sub-dependencies with confidence, because you already know what code paths are hit by the parent dependency at packaging time. You can’t do that with direct dependencies until you go to package/deploy, because of course you may expand your usage of their APIs during development.

1: https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/422
In this example? Because we know that one is a true positive. We tested 100 people with a false positive, and 1 with a true positive.

If we test again, and the test is "fair", then of these 101 people, we will retest 99% (or 99) true negative, 1% (or 1) false positive, and 1 true positive. So two positives, one false positive and one true positive. 1 out of 2 is 50%.

(Tho, there is a chance also that the true positive might come back as a false negative, then 1 out of 1 or 100% of positive results would be false positive)
> is just a normal function that

you keep showing isn't a normal function :)

> Like why do you want so bad for hooks to be weird?

I don't want them to be weird. They are weird already. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30801466
Clearly, the absence of belief in God is the very same as believing God does not exist. Both phrases, in fact, mean the same thing. And with tomato tomato, we can dismiss a correction to one's adherence to an alternative standard.
Unfortunately we treat lots of false positives, which leads to unnecessary chemotherapy and other treatments. These unnecessary treatments harm ones health so much that no study could show an increase in life expectancy by doing regular mammograms.
> maintaining MDN is costly because of the rate of instability in rapidly changing browser API

MDN is a wiki and maintained by innumerable contributors
Classic outcome bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome_bias
Poverty of many is wanted by essentially all élites to have cheap labor and "expendable people" to use to go to war etc. One of the biggest growth in the west was the colonial period thanks to gazillion of new cheap labor and resources. That's is.

The issue is not only for poor but for anyone (élite included) when poverty became too or too little widespread. With a too spread poverty social unrest are granted and sooner or later a civil war happen. If there are "too few" poor than the economy have issues, even if evolve to be fair because we always have unpleasant works to do, not all can be automated today, and probably for many others years to come.

USA problem to my European eyes is that USA are, like Europe, ruled by a small clepto-corporatocracy that led to an unbalanced quick&dirty evolution of the country, until there are resources such system work. When they became scarce but someone else have them, possibly someone unable to defend them, an external war makes just a new business, when no one else can be stolen than there is an unsolvable issue. People with a certain lifestyle might accept certain changes but not big&quick ones. The classical move in those cases is creating credible emergency to separate people, those who are useful and/or can afford a far more expensive life on one side, poor on the other, physically separate, possibly with a certain geographical distance.

That's what I see happening, well corroborated by having read few bits about ONU New Urban Agenda, WEF Green New Deal & IMF Great Reset scenarios/agendas. Unfortunately, not only for poor, such scenarios normally seems to work on paper for some, but normally do not for almost all.
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are u guys using Flutter for your mobile app?
Amid doctor shortage, NPs and PAs seemed like a fix. Data’s in: Nope
What is a sufficient compromise, in your view, that satisfies the need of some workers to have regular face to face interactions with coworkers and prevents corporations unprepared to manage a remote team from whipping back to full in-office?

I do not want to put words in your mouth, but since you offered so few of them, I am tempted to believe you are one of the few lucky workers who has sufficient leverage to wholesale refuse to work in an office. If that is you, or if you the reader are such a person: consider the path we must take to bring flexible work to more people.

With that goal and those prerequisites in mind, what is a sufficient compromise?
Most goods that can be dynamically priced are dynamically priced. The thing is that most goods are not supply constrained. When there is competition and an unlimited supply people will just pretend they have a lower willingness to pay so dynamic pricing doesn't really work.
> Wrapping up and next steps

The only logical next step here is to get that metal spike thing, so you can stab closed issues on completion.
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Well, the same is true if you try to talk about a strategy and people aren't familiar with its domain. ;)

Where else do you exercise an interest in strategy outside of games, sports, and war? Business, maybe? I'm just not sure if this criticism sits on solid ground. Let me know.
> The current approach is radicalizing people against trans.

I have seen no evidence in support of this. There's plenty of anecdotes of people saying it happened to them, but no evidence of a widespread trend.

I remember when "gay" was the insult du jour in middle school. Now high schools are having walkouts in opposition of homophobic laws [1]. This would never have happened ten years ago. It wasn't even conceivable twenty years ago. Gay rights were further from the mainstream than trans rights are now. These things move fast, and they move together.

> There's many many openly homosexual republicans now.

Did the Republican party start supporting gay marriage while I wasn't looking? Some republicans still feel comfortable questioning interracial marriage.

> Trans people are pawns in the grander scheme. This has little to do with trans people but rather a political issue that is being used to censor political opponents and remove their seat in the debate.

Maybe they aren't. Maybe trans people are the important issue here. Maybe people really do believe the things they say they believe, support the things they say they support. It's a comforting thought to deny it, because if attacks on trans people aren't a proxy for some other issue, then it rules out the easy solutions where you can just convince them to stop.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/07/us/orange-county-florida-high...
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What no ICQ? I got off the train before FB Messenger, personally. I don't think it was 'required' to have an app anymore once texting became free. And now everyone's on iMessage, except for Android users like me.
As well as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21306346
I don't think that many people truly are choosing between an iPhone or Android phone based off the quality of the camera. I also don't think that Android phones are universally worse from an engineering perspective. Remember it wasn't that long ago that Apple designed a phone that lost reception if you held it the way that many people instinctually hold their phones. I think the differences between Apple and its competitors mostly comes down to different priorities and motivations. A product from a company that is committed to vertical integration is going to be vastly different than a product from a company that only exists to get you to use software which only exists to sell you ads.

Also Netflix didn't have a head start because of the quality of their streaming tech. They had a head start because of the business decision to invest in streaming before their competitors did. That early decision led to the quality of their library which is what attracted customers which is what allowed them to reinvest in their tech.

There are plenty of other examples. Twitter and Reddit come to mind as companies that had seemingly awful technology that would regularly fail. They succeeded through that. Companies like Facebook have certainly produced some good tech, but almost all of that has come after the company became a success. That is similar to Microsoft who got their big start selling someone else's tech.
Something I've tried to look up and never got anywhere with is why IQ is normalised by age?

The article mentioned testing physical strength of 20 and 80 year olds that reminded me of this.

Which age does best on raw test scores? Seems surprisingly hard to Google this info but I assume it's out there?

edit: a renewed effort to google suggests the things IQ tests test peak in late teens.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/095679761456733...
Yeah, the machine came with a few spools of BPA-free paper, but that just means there's a less-tested alternative like some of the responses are saying. I was a cashier for 4 years though, so this is probably a drop in the bucket for what's already in my system.
PPV is absolutely something that's tracked. In fact, if you read the instructions for use (equivalent to "package insert") for lab diagnostics, you'll find the manufacturer's truth tables and can calculate the PPV if it's not in there. FDA keeps them online, so you don't even need to buy the diagnostic. Look the up.
Deepfake in Russia
Does anyone have any insight into the usage of “Deepfake” technology maybe used by Russian state media recently?

And would Putin use the technology to create fake videos of people such as J.K. Rowling for propaganda?
Not Poster, but I agree to a degree. It’s defined as such but in practice it can have the effects of bribery. If so, is it then legal bribery?

Politicians set up foundations and then people or organizations coincidentally benefiting from some legislation donate or underwrite these foundations…
The second population contains 100 people without the disease. Of them we expect one person to have a false positive. In addition the person who actually has the disease will test positive. So on average 2 people will test positive, one of whom has the disease and one of whom doesn't. If you are one of those two people you have a 50% chance of your (positive) diagnosis being false.
"instant photo" printers are another fun tangible thing like that! Polaroid nailed it way back when, everyone loves something instant and tangible like that.

You can get Fuji printers which use Instax film, or Canon makes a similar one they call the Selphy, or there's the Zink printer line as well.
The military industrial complex, and the intelligence communities are above the government. Investigations would never take place, unless they were fake and only to placate the public.

Lots of our dark foreign policy, is orchestrated through NGO's like the National Endowment for Democracy, where they then go on to do all kinds of illegal things in other countries. All is legal in the name of "national security".
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You also have to live in that rural area too. I think there's more to living then having a giant home with nothing to do. Likely won't be able to relate to the people around you at all.
Would probably include ICQ in the list for #2
It’s definitely possible. Even if coding is out of reach for him… I think being tech adjacent is good enough. It would be cool if you hired him as an intern in your business… his business experience alone will be an asset for you. He can handle the human side of things and still be in tech and give him opportunity to explore while also feeling helpful.
QA teams primary benefit shouldn't be running automated tests that the developers could do. It should be to do exploratory testing and trying to break things.

There should be a adversarial, yet respectful, relationship between dev and QA where dev tries to get their software released and QA is finding reasons why it shouldn't be released.

If there's only developers who test their own code then they're not incentivized for finding the ways their code breaks. They'll downplay the faults or even be blind to them because they're too close to the implementation and aren't "thinking like a user".

It seems odd to me when those in charge ignore the problems of disbanding QA. But I assume it's because the management may not be incentivized to promote quality software. Instead the incentives are to crank out features.

That said, maybe the market for the software doesn't punish the software makers for having buggy software. In such a case, ignoring QA work is a rational decision.
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This is really how it ought to go. Once a quarter, we all descend on one city for one week. We make big plans, we revel in each other’s company, and we see a new part of the world or see a familiar part of the world in a new way with colleagues. Then we go back.
First off, has your dad considered hiring himself out as a coach to younger CEO's, CCO's and CFO's? That would be fairly easy money and it is a market where gray hair is an asset, and not a detractor.

That said: being a bit older probably gives him a fairly unique perspective on many of the things younger devs might not even realize can be an issue, and if he were to aim for something that allows his age to work for him by strong association with the demographic that that particular software targets then it could work out well, assuming he has an aptitude for programming.

Excel-fu may well be a stronger card than any of the regular application programming languages if he wants results, it may well be that something like 'R' would be well within his comfort zone.

Best of luck, and props to your dad for even considering this!
Ah, fair enough...I didn't realize that was something that happened, though I suppose I should not be surprised; I'm now reasonably convinced that is the reason that anyone signed off on the use of Sharepoint.
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