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Any thoughts on self taught who, i'd think, has a seasoned understanding of time complexity but lacks meaningful mathematical notation background necessary to use Big O fully?

Which is to say i have no confidence issues in my working knowledge of Big O. I lead a team, i've developed obsessively for 10 years now and despite my many short comings i don't think understanding trivial complexity - the why of "Why is HashMap faster than BTreeMap on lookup? When is it slower?" etc - is lacking. But, i couldn't use Big O notation to any meaningful complexity with any real confidence. My math background is nil.

In general i need to up my interview game, which i think also means i need to up my math game to have a firm understanding of Big O notation itself.. but the complexity is not the issue, for me at least.
We used cardboard boxes in a panels formed to a cross and extended. I don't know how we spent days playing it but we did!

We had some people who relied on screen cheating so much they refused to play with it.

It was weird how split the community was on screem cheating or not back then.
How to help someone use a computer (1996)
I think that's often right, in a sense anyway. Let's put it this way: there's a crucial difference between selfishness and actually having a self. (That is, taking responsibility for all that belongs to oneself--much more easily said than accomplished.)
Perhaps they are not mainstream as mainstream does not want to participate in a forum that caters to free speech absolutism.
Well 2 things.

First I stated smallest practical, and with that it would depend on the power we are talking about, so the smallest practical for national defense would be the federal government, the smallest practical for professional licensing may be state level, etc.

Also in that idea of federalism also include natural individual rights that can never be violated at any level of governance, including property rights like when you can open your shop...

And when we talk about American style federalism one must also recognize the checks and balances of power that over the last 100 years or does have been worn down but not eliminated. These checks need to be strengthen so no single arm of the government can end up tyrannical like your fear

I recognize the possibility of local tyranny, I think American federalism has checks in it for that. However even in the worst example of city tyranny that is far and way preferable to the alternative of an all powerful federal government
Yep...

Funny how nobody addresses the main point, only that my 1-sentence executive summary is not accurate :-)

Main point is: if you start doing mindfulness exercises, you will eventually get into insight territory, and without a cushion of compassion this can mess you up.
Employer of Record services have solved this for about $200 - $600/worker/month. Still significantly cheaper than paying a US worker.
My father was diagnosed 15 years ago and started showing signs as early as 2007. My grandfather and two of his brothers had Parkinson’s which nobody in the family talked about. I am hoping to get genetic markers tested for myself and my son — though my understanding is they are not always directly correlated.

The most surprising aspect of the disease to me has been the changes to personality and executive function. My father, a very independent, loving, and physically active individual now is unable to decide what he wants to eat every day or leave the house because of anxiety. It’s hard to watch and I hope for my family and others that soon there is a cure.

If anyone has any suggestions for how to get someone to accept their diagnosis and try various methods of treatment, I would welcome their advice.
Yeah I would be growing this indoors in my home lab, where I can control the environment with a growth chamber.

I just want to study it more as it is a pretty fascinating plant.
Additional to what has already been said, they could choose homomorphic encryption as WhatsApp appears to be now using. No person can read the messages, but the computer can scan and analyze them.
On August 22, 1994, David Donoghue threw an egg out of a helicopter onto a golf course in the UK, from a height of 213 meters (700 feet). He now has the record for the longest egg drop without breaking in the world (all without an outside structure for added protection!). https://www.scienceworld.ca/resource/egg-drop/

Eggs are evolutionarily designed to survive falling out of nests and perches. You assume that the egg is dropping onto a hard surface, but there is no mention of that in the puzzle.

That's even assuming it's a chicken egg, but other eggs may be more resilient. It may not even be a biological egg, but an artifically designed egg, that is resilient to drops onto harder surfaces.
Chart: Lithium prices are through the roof this year
> Just 33G target folder, the compile time is only around 2 hours and 30 minutes on my mac on release mode

Finally, technology has reached the point where I can do 2, 3, even 4 compilation cycles in a single work day!
Probably not good, and just one of the reasons why incarceration should be an absolute last resort.

Welcome out!
Over my career, I've also seen some variations of this theme.

A group of experienced, task-saturated senior auditors were pulled in from the field to attend an anti-stress seminar. During the guided meditation, an intense but non-destructive earthquake hit (in a high-rise building in downtown Los Angeles). It was the auditors who kept their wits and made clear decisions to calmly exit the structure. In marked contrast, the stress-reduction instructors were a wreck.

A friend and I used to go out to eat on a regular basis. He reasonably decided to change his diet to more healthy foods. For all I know, it did improve his health, but I did observe that at a ball game, he opted for a hamburger and then his body rebelled. He had lost the ability to eat commonplace foods.

Among meditators (of which I was one), I observed a heighten sensitivity to being knocked off kilter by anything or anyone that conflicted with the world view of the practitioner.

My friends who were into body building routinely lifted weights for many hours a week, but when suitcases or scuba tanks need to be carried, there a was strong aversion. I surmised that the unbalanced loads greatly threw-off how they had trained themselves to lift weights with good form.

Among Python programmers who use Black and isort in order to improve the appearance of code, it is common to become intolerant of code that they used to consider perfectly readable. Likewise, it is common to become highly judgmental of people who don't use that tooling (and even more so with type annotations where proponents seem to have an almost religious fervor).

I don't really know what conclusion to draw from these events, but there is something of interest going on.
Yes, something about living in the moment and responding skillfully and helpfully naturally. Doing those things naturally is what takes practice, you just don't get practice exercising those compassion-action responses if you only do mantras in your own home and it remains entirely theoretical.

I suppose it's fair that in some senses "enlightenment" is orthogonal to "being good" if you use some systems of analysis. By that logic monks sequestered in a monastery are doing something important (?) even if there's little measurable impact of their work on the world around them. I have issues with that logic, I think "to whom" is important and if the answer is "to the person doing it" I'm not sure compassion is really the right adjective anymore.

Of course, translation challenges abound in this area of discussion.
like Steam Community Market but with physical products? good luck with that
I know at least where I live almost everyone is against it. The only way to prevent further destabilization of American politics is for us to agree to disagree and live near other like minded people.
The article begins by suggesting that the (“first”) industrial revolution remains much more important and revolutionary than the “later” (2nd, 3rd, 4th) industrial revolutions by appealing to a general sense that the later ones dont feel as impressive, but weirdly he doesn’t seem mention (at least based on my skim) the objective sense in which the original industrial revolution was overwhelmingly more notable: growth rates went from ~0.1%/year to ~4%/year, a speed up of roughly 50 times, which has not happened since. (Growth has now probably slightly slowed.)

Like, you dont have to think that everything about automobiles is great to still need to acknowledge that one super important part of cars being developed is that they were waaaay faster than horses.
At least 3-4 years. That's when I signed up.
(2018)

$ curl -sI https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~tom/talks/edslides.pdf | grep Last-Modified
Last-Modified: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 06:58:15 GMT
Yes: https://plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics

I don't know why you'd pick one over the other, I haven't looked that deeply into either. For all I know Umami is a fork of Plausible. If this is better than the commercial Plausible instances then Plausible can copy those features over with ease and vice versa. That's the power of open source!
I don’t want to do that, but I do want to grow it in a climate controlled growth chamber and study it. It’s a fascinating plant.
I think the authors are overlooking that a Disney movie is 1.5 hrs long and has the opportunity to cater to multiple audiences (eg, insert a joke that parents get but flies over the kids’ head), whereas an ad is viewed for a split second. Also, there is certainly specialization in content (BET vs MTV vs Disney Channel etc). The key to advertising is in going broad with the audiences to reach, but specific in the message for each segment.

(I’ve worked for one of the top TV and cinema content companies in the world, and currently working for one of the top DSPs (advertising)).
The Framework laptop [1] has physical switches for the camera and microphone. With some manufacturers already following on the reapairability (e.g. Dell Luna proof-of-concept [2]), maybe this will become more popular as well.

[1] https://frame.work/

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/14/22832895/dell-luna-susta...
Finance firms do use three of the four side effects on the Excel spreadsheet. It’s not the most accessible feature but it is there and easily added with the Excel API. In fact all four are achievable.
I guess the issue is that you assumed the type of egg and jumped to a conclusion about the egg you assumed was used in the experiment. You also assumed the environment - who is to say that the environment is earth? Etc etc.

The problem isn't with mathematicians.
Yes, and you can also use the native Mail app.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7539956#non-goog_...
Disney targets everyone because they have 1 product they can show to everyone and it isn't technically possible to customize a movie per interest. If personalization didn't work then advertisers wouldn't see ROI on their ad spend on FB/IG/Google. Clearly the fact that these companies make hundreds of billions says otherwise. It doesn't need to be perfect, just good enough.
Russia hammered by pro-Ukrainian hackers following invasion
Nice, I just extended this to kill a session too. This is great.
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Oh I know the arguments, and I'm more than long-familiar with the tactics and their motivations.

I'm arguing for the addition of a new branch to which serious researchers might append their (cited) notes without all the additional labor needed to create a whole 'acceptable' article. (For all I care, they could even load them down with all the usual, tired caveats.)

This stuff can just go somewhere else online that's much harder to find. No skin off my ass if WP has no alternate mechanism to add serious, skilled research. (Compare to any great library....) Any WP user who wants more will, individually, have to put in the same 2 hours I did. Great solution.
I live in Montana where jobs are almost impossible to find. Without phones, my life would be a lot worse. I would have no opportunities but Burger King, or I would have to always stay in front of a computer, because my response time expectations are about 10 minutes at the most, for around 12 hours a day.

But beyond that, phones give me access to things you normally have to be born with, or spend years learning with specialists. I can go for a walk, wander down a side street if there's something I'd like to see, all in full confidence that I won't get seriously lost.

Thanks to phones, I have access to reliable memories without having to carry pen and paper, and either manually back it up or risk losing everything if the paper is gone. I can make plans for a week from now, and access those plans without needing to be at home with a datebook.

I also have Tile tracking on my keys and wallet, which has saved me several times.

Which is why I hate the Kacynzsky types so much, and why I don't want privacy absolutism to take over tech, without being balanced by some effort to make sure we don't have to go back to getting lost without keys, directions, or memories.

They are horrifically addictive, to the point of most of my hobbies having since turned into "Everyone look at a phone clubs", and it being very very hard to read books or focus on anything at all, for pretty much everyone, but it sure seems a lot more fun than being constantly lost and unable to keep up with society, endlessly screamed at for forgetting things.

Something must be done about it, before we have no culture, no friendships, and even pets become disposable Instagram props, but to go back to having no phones at all would really cause trouble for a lot of people, who are currently elevated far beyond their true base level of functionality by this tech.
I'd argue (from memory!) that there are solid edge cases for nesting promises .. probably all scope-related, where multiple async operations are required for a result that would otherwise require scope-leak / pollution.
From what I've gathered, that server is far more expensive than the same offering from competing cloud providers.

Keep in mind that 0.20€/hour corresponds to around 4.8€/day and over 140€/month.

While IONOS offers AMD Ryzen 5 3600 with 32GB RAM for over 140€/month, Hetzner offers the same processor with 64GB of RAM for around 41€/month.

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax

The only caveat is that IONOS offering advertises 24TB of local data storage.
Any good resources to learn more about promises in-depth? Not your usual, cursory overview but in-depth with explanations for complicated usage (like promises returning promises etc.)?
Ask HN: Google Photos Alternatives?
I've been using Google Photos and it's pretty amazing, the search is amazing, auto-sync with families/friends (you add a folder and tell all the pictures from X will be added into this shared library. It's pretty amazing these features.

I'm wondering if there is a competitor for this, or what people is using. I want to de-googlify as much as a I can.
Quite often I find that Man suffers only because a second Man finds joy in the suffering of the first. Detachment will serve you well in alleviating the suffering that would otherwise arise from the uncaring, undirected whims of the universe, but will leave you unprepared at dealing with willful and directed malice.
It wasn't that at all. That's barking up the wrong tree. After all we are talking about the guy who said premature optimization is the root of all evil.
They always eliminate the pairs of products/sums with only one possible pair (think a sum to possible pairs and a product to possible pairs list).

When the person knowing the product says he doesn't know the answer, the sum person now checks the product list for all products with only 1 pair. These pairs can now be removed from the sum and product list. That actually culls the sum list and some entries that previously had 2 or more options now have 1 less. If the entry for the known sum has only 1 pair, he knows the answer. Otherwise he doesn't and now the culling continues with all sums that have only 1 pair. Repeat until you have the solution.

No ordering required. The algorithm can terminate at different rounds depending on the picked number and for some N (like 4) might not have a solution at all! For the given riddle the exact turn the solution was found is given through the conversation.

This is a pretty neat explanation https://alexanderell.is/posts/numbers-game/
Tests like that happen in the UK, but any illegal modifications are removed or disabled before testing.
You pay 35% taxes so that's like 150, then you max out retirement and you're left with like 130. You spend 50-70k and then save 60k a year which is like 1 year of your pre-retirement expenses (not including any children, just like a couple or single person)

So yeah definitely not retiring in 5 years unless you are already 55.

This also means you didn't do anything flashy or crazy with your money or lose it in markets.
No, there is no need for someone to go 80mph in a city and hit and kill someone else. Just as there is no need for 300kW engines and the like. That's not a tradeoff with anything; we can very simply do without.
A more apt point would be that personalization doesn't scale. If you need to target a hyper specific audience, then you by definition, will have scaling problems.

Now if you need to target 100k hyper specific audiences, then it's a different story.
Seems quite easy to calculate? What's your estimated cost of living per year, what's your savings rate re: your salary, what do you need to safely generate that cost of living passively based on investments until your estimated last year of life? Are there any extraordinary costs (health care in the US for example) you'd need to be responsible for after early retirement? With those numbers in hand, for most people, no, you don't retire after working 5 years at 250K per year even in an extreme low cost of savings locale.
I think you just don't know what that term means.
I ran across a stream of a guy playing Euro Truck Simulator and it was hilarious

The host was hilarious and the commenters were all amused by how oddly therapeutic and also anxiety inducing it was
I setup a Twitter account to go with a new Substack I was creating. I’ve posted 1 Tweet and followed 5 people. Account is locked.

I can’t post. I can’t follow anyone. The profile doesn’t show up in search. If you visit it directly you see a warning.

I get a message to try later because they think the account is automated. I try with every browser I know. I install the mobile app and try from there.

Changed my password per their instructions. Nothing.

Verified my phone number. Nothing.

Verified my email. Nothing.

Setup 2FA. Nothing.

I filled out the form that you’re supposed to complete when your account is locked and they say they’ll respond in a few days. A few days later I get a note with some instructions that don’t work, so I reply to the note. An automated message come back that the ticket is closed and to open a new ticket.

As a last resort I paid for Twitter Blue…and I still can’t tweet. On the invoice I got from Twitter it had a support email address that any issues are supposed to go to…so I replied to my invoice (which goes to that address). It comes back with a message that the email address isn’t checked and I should submit a support form.

I have no idea what else there is to do short of setting up a website full of DOGE coin stuff to try to get Elon Musks attention.
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> It's great

...until the server goes down
They don’t have 4 players though lol. True nerd dilemma.
Yea, thank you. I run backend interviews for my company and while i do want someone to understand the basics of complexity, i am far more interested in how they think about, as you put it, orders. I want them to group data in a simple DB call, not call the DB in a loop - avoiding network. I want them to make 2 DB calls if a join explodes the rows and thus a single call ends up much larger than 2 calls. I want them to understand why iterating a large hashmap can be much, much worse than a data structure more suited for sequential access, etc.

Ironically i suck at Big O notation itself. So maybe i under value it.
Small nitpick about your argument: equating stress to physical contact sports isn't a very convincing argument. What would be better is looking at the health of CEOs as compared to other relatively wealthy individuals who work much less and are under less stress.
Referring to ad content as creative has been around since at least the days of Madison avenue ad agencies in the 1950s. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it's usage arose concurrently with advertising.
I'd rather make big tech salaries with big tech health insurance than a UK salary with the NHS.
Oh. It sounded like that’s what you were describing - somebody came to help, and most everyone else ignored it
Moore’s Law Dead by 2022, Expert Says (2013)
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I've yet to be able to reach a human at Amazon about counterfeit items sold on the platform, and my 15+ year old Amazon account was banned from leaving reviews after I left a bad review on an Amazon Basics purchase of a surge protector that didn't do what it was supposed to and fried some of my electronics.
microsoft are so bad at naming things. "hey cortana, open my your phone app"
Where’s the VC money in sw performance?

There should be a BMI index for software.
Do we want people with no address voting? I could think of all kinds of problems if people could just roam around voting in places where they have no skin in the game.
One thing that I really miss on my Windows machine that I took for granted on my MacBook- system-wide dark theme. The Windows 11 dark theme is terrible. 90% of ui windows are still pure white (and blinding late at night). Browsers don’t seem to pick up on it, so websites don’t either.

Is there any reliable way to get a real dark mode on Windows 11?

On my MacBook, one hotkey changes every app, native window, and (modern) website (with system dark theme support) to dark mode. I only wish Darkreader would add a system theme event listener so I wouldn’t have to turn it on manually.
Considering the evil those are used for, I would consider it more dystopian than a government sponsored bank account.
I've seen these. They are family partner / family friendly. They are not too bright (you can turn them down) so they don't annoy everyone. You can set apps (ie, stock) to only show on weekdays (fantastic). Weather is great. When's the next bus is good.
> One mistake, e.g. you step over a function you should have stepped into, and you've got to start over.

Not with rr (rr-project.org). With rr you can step right back where you were. rr also lets you debug after the fact without interrupting your program, and lets you collect a recording on a cluster machine and then debug the recording elsewhere.
> The idea of those who favor "kings and aristocracy" is more that we'll always have people around with more power than others (elites), and that formal transparency about who these people are ultimately improves accountability

But this is of course palpable nonsense. The entire point of kings and aristocracy was to formalise the notion that the de facto elite was in fact a class of people so superior to everyone else as to render the notion that they should be held accountable for their actions by mere commoners as laughable. The difference between a king and a president isn't that the latter's status as an elite is more ambiguous, but that the president has some semblance of accountability to the public whereas with the king, it's a case of the public being accountable to the king.
You're comparing population size and the fact both are "rich", but leave out the fact that New Zealand is an island...

Also not just restaurants and bars, gyms, the border, etc. were all closed.
It's the unlimited traffic..... what other hosts offer unlimited traffic?