skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my writing gem: when you send an email, you either want them to know something or do something, so say that in the first sentence:

Good: "FYI, our etcd cluster is broken, but we're working to fix it."

Bad: "I came in this morning, and while I was going through my emails when I saw a message about one of the nodes in our cluster. So I checked it out, and sure enough it was down, and I went to the console and saw the kernel had panicked, so I ... [much further down] and that's when I realized our etcd cluster was down."

The later is what I call The Narrative: people have a natural inclination to tell a story, but the irony is that usually what's at the end of the story is the thing that should be first ("the cluster is down!").

Similarly when asking for something:

Good: "Could you please get me a new monitor? I'm getting headaches from the current one's constant flickering"

Bad: "I had a headache yesterday, so I had to leave early—I hope that's okay. Anyway, I'm not sure about the purchase requisition process. I think there's a resonating frequency between the 60Hz electric system and my monitor's refresh rate, but I'm not an electrical engineer. By the way, the new chair is great ..."
The surge pricing model sounds like a great incentive but it's also very easily exploited. Drivers that would otherwise have chosen to work full time might choose to only work during surges, ultimately reducing the total capacity of the system and increasing prices.

There are also reports of groups of drivers working together to manipulate the surge price in order to increase earnings[0].

[0] https://www.distractify.com/p/uber-surge-pricing-hack
Counter-argument is Smash Bros, which is basically only private games and has a competitive scene.
Part of the reason I assume is they have both newer and more expensive editions. A port could be using the latest spec and features but not implanting the full feature set of the more expensive ports.

Products like intel cpus have tiers like i5 and generations. This is kind of like what USB did but so much worse.
ED is an amazing time capsule of the 4chan and SA adjacent cultures that sprouted up in the early 2000s. Sad to see the state it's in now.
Might happen, however my point was about the SaaS that are from the authors themselves.
"wait 5 days for us to actually transfer your domain name"

"oh, and you have 3 remaining logins (not attempts, logins) before we need something extra from you"

I don't remember what that something extra was (probably more personal info), only that I didn't stick around once I transferred away my domain name. Used up all three logins to do it, too.
I can imagine a world where people reimplement game engines as free software, rendering the corporation's proprietary code outdated and irrelevant.

Example:

https://gitlab.com/OpenMW/openmw
> It's a painkiller for a burning problem.

Erm, not really.

1. Deep Work by Cal Newport has made a long-lasting effect in my life. My life is significantly better because I read it.

2. I got to know about The Mind Illuminated by Culadasa through HN. Literally changed my life.

Self-help is too broad. There are master marketers with shallow content like Robin Sharma, blog-post-inflaters like Mark Manson, and genuinely helpful content like Prsgmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt.

Like novels, movies, and anything else, there are many kinds of self-help.
This article will age like milk. The No Free Lunch argument is nonsense. The analogy of designing a super-organism that has higher fitness in every environment is absurd. That is exactly what human beings are. We completely dominate on Earth and there are even a few of us in space. That is chiefly due to intelligence. I'm not sure a counter argument is necessary since the author basically refuted his own point. AGI is no more than 20 years away.
Subvert network effects and encourage adversarial interoperability
A more generalised approach: structure emails in importance order, top down. So, actionable stuff at top, rationales further down, in descending importance etc...

This becomes more critical when talking to execs.
> Allowing marketers to take over everything was such a terrible mistake.

How else it could possibly play out? It's nice to think that NIST or a similar U.S. government agency could standardize everything, but outside of industries that are most government funded (defense, etc.) or deeply connected to government funding (medical research) the forces of marketing are going to take over eventually and at scale. It's not like the government can or will force consumer electronics marketing to be honest, at least in the U.S. and Europe.

I was a little disappointed, for example, to learn during the HDMI 2.1a fiasco that HDMI (the organization/legal entity responsible for the standards), VESA, etc. are loosely organized groups from the companies in the industries. So if they want to rename HDMI 2.0 to 2.1a to make their old products look better, nothing's really stopping them.
Not enough, hence why it was acquired and eventually killed, regardless of how Red-Hat might justify their decision.
Can't you just opt to pay in cash (or Credit Card) for every month you want to have a gym subscription?
If you have skin problems, there is a book called Beyond Soap by Sandy Skotnicki that runs down how to determine whether soaps, shampoos, lotions, etc. are causing dermatological problems.

A big takeaway is that virtually anything can cause irritation, including "natural" products that many of us assume are safe because they come from a plant.

She's got a long list of products that she approves of if you're trying to self-diagnose an allergy or reaction.
And the women are friendly.
Yeah, it's a bit like when someone says their relative's doctor said their cancer was cured. This is basically an impossible statement for a doctor to make to medical standards which is why the best you're going to get from a doctor is a statement that someone is in remission or the latest scan did not find cancer cells.

When someone makes a stronger claim you're left wondering if it's the original source or the messenger that's after oversimplifying the situation and it looks bad for one or the other.
> Having done in the same day 6 hours of psycho-technical and psycho-motor tests at Air France to get into their "Pilote Cadet" program I definitely felt my mental speed during high load+stress at 32 was already a lot slower than at 20 in engineering school. I never felt so brain exhausted and I concluded I was not that sharp anymore ...

This is why none of the answers here make any sense.

Many seem to want to blame this on desk jobs and sitting. Others on not learning new things.

Then you have examples of super-high cognitive workload and stress saying this is the problem.

These things don't fit together.

I hold a US CPL and work as a programmer at a desk job. Where exactly does that leave me?
I told my wife 2.0 is where you stick mouse and 3.0 pendrive
There is a misunderstanding here over how server side vs client side movement work. I will illustrate this with an example:

With Client side movement, Player A sends in even intervals their location to the server. Let say they move right for 3 unit of time, the location get updated from 0:0, 0:1, 0:2. The server then relay the information to Player B.

With Server side movement, Player A tells the server they want to move to the right. The server create a path over time, 0:0, 0:1, 0:2, ... and continuously sends this to player B.

Let now add a fake lag with client side movement. In the first case the we see Player A send locations like 0:0, 0:1, -, -, -, 0:5. The server sends this to player B. If Player B fired a gun at 0:2 at the third interval they might miss because player A is not there. The server might extrapolate an virtual path between 0:1 and 0:5, but that depend on game logic.

Lets now add a fake lag with server side movement. Player A tells the server that they want to move right. After 2 units they add a 3 unit lag, and finally sends tells the server a stop command. The server would construct the following path: 0:0 (start moving player A), 0:1, 0:2, 0:3, 0:4, 0:5 (halt moving Player A). If Player B fired a gun at 0:2 at the third interval, the server see that player A is at that location and will mark a hit.

This is why server side movement isn't vulnerable to fake lag. The server has the full game state and thus know at any point where all player are and what they are doing, and if the client lag then it simply mean that their input gets delayed. Server side movement is however vulnerable to real lag, as between any action there might be a delay and thus events might not occur at the server when players want it to occur. Server side movement is also slightly more vulnerable to ddos attacks if players can identify the IP address of other players.
> Well, conflating "security" with "following the law" seems odd. Do anyone realistically expect a legally incorporated company to not follow laws?

I’m talking about privacy, not security. And again, this has nothing to do with their official policies listed on their website, but rather their tendency to market themselves as “a super private e-mail provider built by CERN scientists.”

I think for many use cases (e.g., political activism) most peoples intuitive idea of privacy does not align at all with what ProtonMail actually provides.

> In the end, if you rely on any single company for both your security and privacy, you're playing a loosing game. Not hiding your IP when signing up for something when you're planning to do illegal activities? Maybe time to reconsider your opsec strategy.

Totally agree. But again, this is less about getting the average individual to rethink their op sec strategies, and more or less about ProtonMails proclivity to market themselves as an organization that solves these opsec problems for you.

This article is yet another example.
Depends on how it is implemented. If the server-side version is the truth, only the player doing it suffers. For example, player lags for a second. In that second, the server extrapolates their new position based on last velocity, heading, input, etc. Someone kills them at that extrapolated position. When the client resyncs they suddenly die.
The NY Times is notoriously the worst at this. It's almost impossible to cancel without wasting a couple hours of your time. Interesting how I can subscribe with a click but can't cancel with one.
I mean... it is highly likely such events happened at much larger scale than the US public was made aware of in Iraq. How "precise" was shock and awe? I doubt the incentives are aligned for anyone to know.

Even Obama had several instances of drone killings inadvertently killing large groups of civilians -- for example: https://www.hrw.org/report/2014/02/19/wedding-became-funeral...
Fair enough. But that doesn't have to do with the error handling mechanism of Rust, nor would any of these error helper libraries fix that. It's just a criticism of the error type that's actually returned. A Java-style exception can be written that's just as lacking. No language that I'm aware of will automatically include function arguments in its errors/exceptions- it's up to the author of the error/exception type to include that info.
Something like this actually happened when they had to decide between Wirth's and Hoare's practice-oriented proposal and Wijngaarden's rather academic proposal. There was quite a bit of controversy about this, not based on true implementations. Big egos exist everywhere and in all times.
There's also NBB (Node Babashka) also by borkdude, which could also be a good option for serverless.

https://github.com/babashka/nbb
It's not sarcasm, because my comment was not if the persons politically in charge of the major world powers, have those traits in the correct measure.

I was pointing to the fact the paper is not measuring those traits, and they are certainly more important than mental speed. And even that, the paper says until 60 only decreases as older persons take more time to more carefully consider their decisions.

OP seemed to be worried that as they are older, the paper would imply their mental ability was somewhat diminished or less capable, and I pointed to other traits very important, the paper does not analyze.
Do it as hobby in their free time? Maybe work in some other field producing actual physical things during day and then in evenings spend hour or two tinkering with free software? Just like any hobbying artist?
> That’s not how it worked

It's precisely how it worked everywhere I've lived. What you describe sounds like a low density suburb or smaller town. Yeah, social pressure in those situations still works.

The only time I've seen things work as you describe were small/vacation towns when I was visiting for a wedding or whatnot. The type of places where there are a dozen total cabs for the entire county.

Any major (call it NFL tier) city scheduling a pickup was a laughable joke. You quickly learn when you move to such places the first time you schedule a cab how totally unreliable it is.

Even the overly chatty cabbies would be happy to tell you how much of a scam it was, and go on to describe how every driver but them does X, Y, and Z to avoid taking such calls. This is the sole reason Uber got its foothold in my household.
That's not a cryptographic signature.

Use codesign -s - path to binary to recompute the checksum.
I dunno if I agree with this. I feel like I've got a nice combination of the three.

I make median wages for "lead full stack developer" role at a company with no central office (I live in the middle of nowhere.) I also have a fairly good amount of autonomy and authority, and do work that borders on "fun" more often than not.

Maybe you could say that I have no "status" compared to some pedigreed, Fortune 500 C-suite type but that doesn't really interest me so much. I come from a working class Appalachian family so I have a pretty low bar of "status" which really just means "professional respect" to me.
Microsoft Oryx
When America kills women and children, they are not humanized.
Institutional racism goes beyond borders.
Adenovirus 41 linked to mystery hepatitis in children in Alabama
Personally I don't think it's anything to worry about for the vast majority of people, only those rare outliers of both brilliance and industry are going to see significant negative effects in their output due to age-related mental decline.

In terms of individual peak production the greatest pop stars, physicists and poets (say) are done by 25. Your average decent coder can pretty much go on producing for decades.

Only at the extremes is this going to have a massive effect. Most of us don't live there and we maybe over-worry about it.
If your game is based on technology you dont understand you don't really own it until you can recreate that stack... this means litteraly nobody owns anything if applied to the extreme (OS + language) but if you use an engine that is semi closed you don't have control over your future.

For the exploitation part:

$0.30 + 2.9% Itch
10% Epic
15% Apple
30% Android/Steam/Nintendo/Sony
70% Roblox

$1,500/yr Unreal
$1,800/yr Unity

0-25% VAT
~30% Income TAX (Healthcare)
Interview and the first screenshots from Return to Monkey Island
This. Corporate work in particular tends to make people stupid. The 98% who don't climb the ladder end up associating what they are (or used to be) good at with subordination and failure, while the other 2% have optimized themsleves to appeal to stupid people and end up just like the set of people (executive blockheads) they're trying to join.

People who protect their intelligence and creativity, damn the consequences, tend to keep them for a long time. People who buy in to the corporate system turn into morons. The problem is that they don't notice it happening, and that, as one gets older, it gets harder to recover.
Download a steam game and check your speeds...
Dont know what you are talking about.

You get pretty much a FULL game. Through steam you pay a few Euros and have the full content. On the iPad you get the FULL GAME for FREE(!) with some options on to unlock end-game stuff like big powerlines or some government agency/secret research facility. Before you even need those things you have collected those diamonds and you can unlock pretty much everything you want and need. If you really want to have the 100% from the beginning (which you will not need/cannot use anyway) then you just pay your 5-6 Euros and there you go. No microtransaction horror.

I LOVE theotown and I recommend it to everyone who wants:

1) Sim City

2) on an iPad/iPhone/Android device

3) many hours of gameplay and a pretty balanced game + end game content

4) free mods

5) NO ADS

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1084020/TheoTown/
https://hi.theotown.com/

Cytopia looks fine, but Theotown just has TONS of more content and is available on mobile, too.
I spoke to Uber drivers last time I was in Miami and they are being squeezed there: ride fees went up as with pretty much anywhere, but they also lowered their share %. So Uber making more money and everyone else is screwed. I can definitely attest to the ride cost hike: what used to be a $10-15 ride from the Airport to the Beach is now $40.
I’m 37 and I feel the same. Learning a brand new subject is difficult for me, mostly because I just feel too tired to push myself to do it.

On the other hand, my brain feels like it has marinated in 37 years of general experience, such that I can take on projects of significant complexity and not think too hard about it.
>"And sometimes what the customer wanted did not seem right. There were missile strikes so hasty that they hit women and children, attacks built on such flimsy intelligence that they made targets of ordinary villagers, and classified rules of engagement that allowed the customer to knowingly kill up to 20 civilians when taking out an enemy"

All nice and dandy. And the world looks the other way.
I hope USB4 fixes things.
Yeah Circle itself starts to verge into "unikernel" like MirageOS.
Both fast.com and speed.cloudflare.com give better results than speedtest.net, and now I'm concerned my ISP can't even be bothered to game the system.
The inequality issue exists as well with Covid vaccines and with weapons — other applications of technology, so societal problems are not standing alone there. The unequal access to nuclear weapons is... a good thing I guess? What still needs to be explained is why throwing technology at power generation problems, economic problems, healthcare problems, or warfare problems is seemingly ok regardless of inequality, but social problems are a no-go zone.
This could be fixed by "prime time" membership fees, vs off hour fees.

Lots of ways to work it. EG 1/2 price for off hours membership! Act now!
I get my Unreal Tournament and Quake Arena kicks from Xonotic. The online community is small, but every day there's at least one DM server with some extremely good players in it.

Edit: the maps are different, but yesterday I joined a server that had one of the Quake Arena maps on it.
> 2) Utilize some container runtime to provide isolation for legacy applications and stub out features such as filesystem calls so they do not to be aware of its existence.

I've been thinking about doing this on my laptop at work. With a bit of thought, it shouldn't be too hard to run for example software compilation or in fact most CLI/TUI tools using a minimal disk and network namespace using systemd or a container runtime.

Practically, this would allow me to put e.g. ever beloved NPM into a disk namespace where a ~/.ssh or even the .git of the repo it is in just doesn't exist and a network namespace in which the company VPN doesn't exist (or it just has a route for the NPM repository host). This can also be used to label the process using SELinux or apparmor as a second line of defense against and possibly after an escape of something bad.

However, time hasn't been available for this so far. And no, it wouldn't be end-user-friendly.
> when MBA/MBP are consistently achieving 10-16+ with real-world use.

Really? I have a 2019 MBP and it doesn't last more than 3 hrs on 100% charge. The only usage is for the web development. And this is my third MBP (the old ones are dead because their magic boards became dead after the expiry of 1yr warranty + 2yr AppleCare plan).

The battery drains pretty quickly if I attach it to an external monitor.

Also, the evil `kernel_task` process eats up all CPU cores (for minutes and the machine remains unusable in the meantime) that drains the battery within an hour if I don't keep my table fan pointed at it (probably because Apple doesn't give a sh*t about the products they sell in India and their performance at 30-45 deg celsius temperature which is normal in Indian subcontinents).
Al Jazeera did an investigation into Boeing ages ago (I think pre 2013) that convinced me there were problems.
> It’s a bug to assume a certain implementation has particular properties rather than testing.

Adding further weight to the article, I think this quote from Rich Felker is incredibly language-dependent, and categorically incorrect for languages with undefined behavior, such as C and C++. It's a bug to assume that properties of an implementation can be determined solely through testing.

For example, suppose you want to determine what happens when signed integers overflow. You can write a test program that checks the behavior of signed integer overflow in a variety of cases. That only shows that signed integer overflow has the property you want in the cases you've checked for. Even if you were to somehow check every single result of "a + b" for all 2^128 possible combinations of (a,b), that still would only tell you that it works in that particular program, at that particular execution time. It could be that you just haven't hit the particular set of register usage or of allowed optimizations to run into an edge case.

There is no possible test that can distinguish between an implementation that guarantees to have a particular property, and an implementation whose undefined behavior happens to match the property in the cases that have been tested. The only way to know is to have some additional piece of information, some additional communication channel to establish intent, rather than inferring intent from the observable behavior. In C, this is typically done with a preprocessor macro.
Just as a counterexample, I'd like to mention Python. I think Python is very well known for matching your description:

> Systems that expose what they are & let us monkey around are just better, cooler, have more potential.

But Python really suffers performance-wise because of this. There are a lot of optimisations that could be applied to the interpreter if it weren't for the fact that <edge case> is allowed in Python.
As a non-mathematician, one thing that helped me understand this stuff -- or at least, helped it seem not totally arbitrary which tilings "exist" -- was this table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Regular_hyperbolic_ti...

(You gotta click [show] for some reason)

These are all the possible tilings, organized by the number of sides of each polygon (Y axis) and the number of polygons meeting at each point (X axis).

The table shows that all of the infinitely-many tilings are possible, but most of them (infinitely many) only work on the hyperbolic plane (cells with blue backgrounds).

The cells with red backgrounds are tilings that work on the sphere, like {5, 3} (three pentagons around each point).

And the cells with green backgrounds, the rarest of all, are the tilings that work on that knife-edge between the sphere and the hyperbolic plane: the flat, Euclidean plane.

The green cells are at {6,3} (hexagontal tiling), {4,4} (square tiling) and {3,6} (triangular tiling).

Anyway, just wanted to share this table because it's quite hard to find on Wikipedia and presents the subject in a way that I found enlightening and satisfying.
I guess you’re screwed at that point as now they also think you’re a liar. No way out.