skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because of learning and/or evolution. The paper doesn't offer any reason why they shouldn't adapt, as adaptation goes this one should be pretty easy as it is basically just a mindset, probably perfectly doable within the boundaries of learning. So if they become widespread, they will stop being effective, most likely within a few years. Just like the cartoon scarecrow with a bunch of crows resting on it, it wasn't dangerous, so the crows stopped caring.
MMOs and competitive online shooters aren't time-efficient games. They're live service games that are essentially built to be time-sinks. People who regret playing them do so because the regret is real. There's a lot of advanced psychology that's gone into ensuring that people play them for as long as possible. This leads to people playing the games long after they've stopped having fun, and only quitting when they realise they've not been having fun for months, possibly years.

But this isn't a problem specific to games; this is a problem with predatory marketing. If you'd instead spent that time playing a wide variety of shorter experiences without grindy filler, I wonder if you'd feel the same way. Maybe niche hobbies don't have the attention of same predatory actors because there's not the incentive for them to do so, but that's not an argument for productivity, that's just an argument for obscurity.
I've seen someone close to me having success with losing weight with this diet. But truth be told to me the low carb diet looked like lower calorie diet redefined. Whatever works of course.
I think the parent poster meant "annual chance of dying after 80" as in, for any year 80+, you have a 50% chance of dying that year: it doesn't go up each year, so you don't "age" in that sense.
Sorry, but Rust's error handling is pretty clumsy compared to what you can do in some languages.

Example:
You write a function that calls 2 thirdparty libraries, both of which can fail. The typesystem in Rust is unable to express that the resulting error with be libAError or libBError. It is lacking anonymous union-types. Even if union-types have been added, you'd have to define one first and you'd have to use unsafe (at least from my understanding).

This also impacts user-defined error-types of course, but it makes errorhandling when using other libraries very annoying. You always have to define new types and do wrapping.

Another example:
You have a function that calls 2 thirdparty libraries, both of which can fail. The two libraries have decided to use a customized error-type (and not the built-in one) because they need to carry around some extra context or need some other feature, but they still support everything that Result does but in a slightly. Now you need to manually convert those or learn the interface of this specific error-type, because there is no way to abstract over different "Result"-types. Why? Because Rust has no support for Higher Kinded Types, which would be needed to do so.

There are more examples, but these are two that are immediately relevant to pretty everyone using Rust. And yes, Rust has done a lot of things right and especially better than C or C++. But when looking at it as someone who has used other high-level-languages I can say it definitely did not "absolutely nail" it.
When someone asks about the first digit of numbers in a set, it leads me to think of Benford's law.[0]

If the question is indeed about a monetary value, I wonder if the specific currency used makes a difference (not, I'm guessing).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
We've seen in real time that Modern Monetary Theory does not work. I'm not inclined to spend time listening to Stephanie Kelton, it's most famous advocate.
Like the idea of seizing the servers. Yes, a company like Google must comply with lawful court orders, but surely possessing the hardware would be by far the worst way to get it. They’d never find anything.
WhatsApp is not like the others, since it's end to end encrypted. The protocol even provides deniability (although it may be hard to hold in court).
American heritage dictionary:

factoid

făk′toid

noun

1. A piece of unverified or inaccurate information that is presented in the press as factual, often as part of a publicity effort, and that is then accepted as true because of frequent repetition.

2. A brief, somewhat interesting fact.

3. An inaccurate statement or statistic believed to be true because of broad repetition, especially if cited in the media.

I assume the definition used here is #2. I’m actually surprised by 1 and 3. I have never heard it used in that context and it’s strange that one word would have 2 fairly contradictory interpretations.
Sounds like anyone dealing with any sort of vaguely sensitive information through email, and certainly any corporation, should avoid using Outlook for anything.

The article is about email verification links, which is a pretty clear case where this can be dangerous, but tons of other links can get emailed without being intended for a wider audience.

Besides, the fact that Outlook shares anything related to the content of your email with the outside world is just completely unacceptable.

(Should private links be sent over unencrypted email? Probably not. But lots of stuff gets emailed that's not super secret and yet also not meant to be shared outside the company.)
At the risk of Godwin-ing myself, history is a relevant teacher here. Many companies were more than happy to provide services to Nazi Germany in the lead up to WWII. Most notably, IBM and their punch card machines[1]. Or, more recently, consider how many American companies have conceded to giving Chinese authorities special access to their Chinese users[2].

Corporate morality rarely extends beyond its value as PR. Once the financial cost of doing the right thing exceeds the PR value, it's probable that the financial considerations will prevail.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_World_War_II#Critics_o...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...
This is easier said than done. The one thing all online communities suffer from is you cannot truly perma-ban people on the internet, making moderation a bottomless pit. Only chance you have is basically charging people to sign up, but then you will also drive away 99,99% of your target audience.
I’d love to see this style of video (extremely deep technical dive with useful commentary and diagrams) applied to non-game things as well. It would be interesting to watch about Heartbleed or Rowhammer, for example.
I think you should read that post again with more dispassion. It does NOT say that top performer's are not suffering from remote work. It says who the top performers are has not really changed. The top performers could be getting 50% less work done and that person's post still holds for me.
> I don't disagree that it's more difficult for some people than for others, but ultimately it's as simple as calories in < calories out.

It's only simple if you only care about weight. If you care about both reaching a desired target weight and remaining healthy it is no longer simple. The path you take to the target weight matters a lot.

Nova on PBS had a good episode on the science of this in 2020 called "The Truth About Fat". It's currently not free except to people who are members of their local PBS station, but it is worth keeping an eye out for when it becomes free. (Episodes tend to be free for a while after broadcast, then become member-only for a while, and then it varies).
I've used Lenses as a beginner/intermediate haskeller and they're very easy to use. It's easy to get bogged down in the theory and specifics but Lenses are perfectly usable on the practical level without ever diving in too deep. That said, now that RecordDotSyntax is a thing, there's less of a use case for surface level lenses.
> Also, the video has a lot of info about how levels are constructed in Mario in general, which I found very informative.

If you'd like a lot more on this kind of topic, check out the book "I Am Error" by Nathan Altice (published by MIT Press; don't buy from Amazon). It goes into a bunch of detail about how the NES hardware worked and how specific games used it.
Is it though? I tend to let people go pretty quickly if they don’t work out. But I’ve found some real gems because I’ve taken a chance on someone in the past. How do you quantify the cost of missing out on good people that you just assumed didn’t fit the mold? How expensive is that?
GP isn't talking about Pair programming in general. Pair programming is great. But quote-unquote "Pair Programming", where only one person does the work... not really. Been there done that.
Not personal unless you take it that way -- instead take it as a challenge and show him he was wrong about you.

Programming well is difficult and takes time and effort to get good at, but it's worth it.

Being junior and learning while remote is not ideal at all. I work very well remotely but only because everything is second nature to me now after so many years. If that makes me a 'top performer' then it's only because I worked my way up to that.

Do you believe you are at your top performance already? Or can you get better still?
> 2 orders of magnitude in terms of economic value (i.e. profit)

Then you clearly misread my initial point. economic value != overall economy growth
Yes. What I want to hear from any company that stores health data is “Health data, including period tracking, is 100% end to end encrypted. We don’t have the keys to this data and are unable to provide it to any law enforcement.”

Short of that, I don’t trust them.

Having said that, I’m not sure at all how Snapchat, etc enter into this. They are platforms where people post about themselves to the world. If I had a post saying “I am on the way to get an abortion” I am not sure how or why the company would get between me and the law.
Then again they run on magnitudes more computers.
> Over the last decade, I've seen less and less mentoring.

I've seen a lack of willingness be mentored / coached. Not directly of folks I have worked with but as a bystander. There's not one clear reason but there is an overtone of entitlement.
You say that

>I think there's in general a "personality type" that does really well with remote in a certain kind of job and thrives with fairly asynchronous disconnected tasks

and they say that in general those people are already the top performers.

When you think about it, that shouldn't be surprising. People who know how to succeed in one environment also know how to adapt and succeed in another. That's to be expected.
In 2005 there were, for instance, fancy J2EE application servers instead of fancy container roulette tools.
My cynical guess is that if you argue that you did all these tasks, then the spouse will argue that it's part of their lifestyle to not handle that. That they will have to pay someone to do all that for them, and thus the breadwinner who did all that work should give them money to hire someone.
That is not a personal insult. It couldn't even be so by implication, unless the alleged insulter here knows something about you personally that the rest of us don't know. They simply made an assertion. You can disagree with it, but that's their general assertion and that's not the same thing as a personal insult.
Ghana and many many other African countries are 80% carbs or more.
The whole Western carb angle is just a cope for eating too damn much calories.
In the novel, Rico is Filipino.
I made one of these halos 2 years ago, and my anecdotal experience is that the older (fully grown) sparrows can't figure it out, but the smaller, younger ones get through. Then, weeks later, I see fully grown sparrows at the feeder, ignoring the halo. Did the little ones "fit" and then grew too used to it to be spooked? Did the big ones learn from the little ones? I don't know.

Another observation: Because of the number of sparrows, I did pull the whole feeder down and kept it down for months. Then, when winter approached, I put the feeder and the halo back up, and no house sparrows made it through again. Did the adults who were defeating it before forget? Move on? Die? Who knows!
In which country are you? Have you heard that from your teacher?

In my music encyclopedias, pianos and percussion instruments are always different categories, or see e.g. here:
https://www.britannica.com/art/piano
https://www.britannica.com/art/percussion-instrument

But of course it's just language, which is "the source of all misunderstandings", as they say. The physical modeling is a bit more complicated than you envisioned; e.g. https://www.modartt.com, which is a great simulation, even has different physical models for different piano brands, taking into account the specific differences in materials and construction methods.
I like pair programming and think I learned a ton by being the junior “driving” while the senior was “navigating.”

But I’ve also had some nightmare scenarios with people who just massively slack and do nothing. I worked with someone who wanted to “navigate” in 10/10 sessions and never said anything. They just watched me do stuff, didn’t respond to questions, didn’t work on docs, didn’t look stuff up. It was weird.

Mismatches like this made me eventually stop doing it as the team ended up separating out to pairs of superstars and pairs who did nothing. And it demoralized people.
Well, that is a rude thing to say.
It depends how you look at it and this twitter post takes only one perspective.

Mine is different. The security I'm interested in for my use case is that there is one egress point from the operating system as far as a browser goes. That means I don't have apps shipping their own browser engines to circumvent the system block lists and screen time whitelist controls.

Also comparing CVE rates is pointless as that's exploits and vulnerabilities that were identified and patched, not ones that are in active exploit or publicly unknown which is a metric you cannot measure.

And of course if every app ships a browser or you change it, how many CVEs do you have from unpatched browsers shipped in apps?

This twitter post feels like the old political adverts: "vote for us because the other guy is shit" (not because we have a better solution).
The Permian/Triassic mass extinction seems to have been the turning point. The creatures that have not changed much since that earlier time are the creatures that don't age. But when life revived at the end of the Triassic, the world was more competitive, eco-systems were more integrated, and specialization became more common. Aging allows specialization, we can see that most obviously with birds, which need to maintain a specific weight and body mass and ratio of wing span to body mass. A bird that simply grew and grew and grew, like a tortoise, would have a changing ratio of wingspan to body mass and therefore it would soon lose its ability to fly. The creatures that age are those that have a fixed adult body shape. By contrast, the tortoises and reptiles and fish that live forever also seem to grow and grow and grow -- their body mass to external ratio changes over time, therefore they are less specialized.
I struggled remembering to use the various useful features of Git, especially stashes. I use them all the time now, whereas I just simply forgot they existed back when I used the command line.

The UX/UI is also just super intuitive and fast. Rather than tediously typing out a long command (let's be honest, a lot of Git commands can be), it's cut down to a very short string of keys.

Personally, Magit is the best Git UI I've ever used. It can do basically everything the official CLI can, so you're not missing out due to an added abstraction, like most Git UIs suffer from.
Exactly, and that’s the bloodiest war in American history.
In a past post, I mentioned that I thought the city was the appropriate area of division for this country--i.e. city's rights not states' rights.

It may not ever happen, but I think it addresses your first concern since, as you mentioned, the divide is urban vs rural which is a good proxy for city boundaries.

What I don't understand is the economic implication of such a split. Is there a way to keep the economic stability of the country while having more cultural freedom?

I suppose one of the problems with this sort of split is that some cities can leverage agriculture, heavy industry, business activity, or tourism; but some cities probably exists that don't have any means to generating income beyond taxing citizens.
No. My philosophy has always been, if you want to play less of the game, why are you even playing it to begin with? :) So I just don't use them.
They only have to spy on one side to get both parts of the conversation
So you know exactly how the minus world glitch works then? I didn't get that from the comment at all.
Not really, Angular.js is obsolete technology.
Operators/OLM/channels/operand versioning/upgrade testing.

Even typing out the words makes me want to lie down in a dark room.
Love Rocksmith, I own a physical copy! I played a LOT of Guitar Hero as a teenager. Comparing the two: Rocksmith provides compounding returns - my time playing Guitar Hero did not.

I second dota’s take in a sibling comment, it was insightful. Not all games are created equally.
I have absolutely no reason to disbelieve the provenance, I just don't ascribe any value to a thing being old.
I have certainly had a very awkward conversation both before and after using a toilet in a fairly empty pub (I promised on my way in that I would buy something on the way back out ... but realised while in the toilet that I'd left my wallet with my friends / picnic).
I didn't think I'd ever see anyone list the BMV as a good example of anything. I just recently learned that we can now renew our driver's license online though, so maybe it is getting better.
Cosmic Game Changer: Northrop Grumman and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
The public transit makes living at Chicago significantly less car dependent. My only beef is the harsh winters.
If you're using a period tracker, you may want to consider deleting it.
Does this actuarial table support your claim that chance of dying is stable at 50% after 80: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
Would you make this same argument regarding, for example, Tor? Why or why not?

To me it's the same thing. "Law resistance" is a prerequisite for censorship resistance, because governments are often the ones doing the censoring.
What does "static analysis" mean in this context?

In program analysis it means that you're deducing properties of the program without executing it.
Its worse than this. Companies going fully remote are less likely to even engage with the idea of having juniors because of this gap.
The levels are fun to play :D
It's worth noting out bigger movies often need to target non English speaking audiences.

So any complex dialogue or nuance is off the table.

The average Marvel movie can have it's voice acting replaced by cat noises and you'll still get the gist.

I am very happy to see the cost of filmmaking drop so much though, I will lightly never see a big budget movie in a a cinema again. But there are tons of small movies I love to see.

I'd rather support a movie with a budget of a few million, then support a blockbuster which is censored to fit the political needs of various countries around the world
Yup, it is then still quite high - exactly 50%.
> or, something like Elm's record updating syntax

I'm confused. How is Elm's record updating syntax related to aliasing?

FWIW, Elm also doesn't have a nice way to update nested record fields, and there are lens libraries in Elm to deal with the same problem.
> A pythonic C++ that doesn’t smell bad.

Obligatory...try Rust?

But actually, try python with mypy and mypyc. It's still a little experimental, but if you stick to simple constructs it works well, and you can compile straight python to fast, static libraries, without using goofy cython syntax.
We are in agreement, I too think that "we don't have enough high density accomodations because their prices are too high" is a rather simplistic implication that is very likely false.
The fee could be a dollar a month and still be effective.
> I am pretty introverted + slightly autistic (not self diagnosed). I do a lot of customer facing work too, which I would never endure when not working remotely.

> I think this remote work has equalized the playing field in terms of attractiveness & height aswell, as those qualities are far less visible when interviewing remotely. Wouldn't be surprised if we see the average height of high paid workers decline due to this.

This is a great point and shines a light on all kinds of equitable advantages of remote that are possible in the long term.
> I would bet the CS graduate is having a much easier time self-learning at home than the no-degree person who usually stops peoples work 12-15 times a day to get them to explain concepts or show them around the code, again...

I am a self taught and am pretty good at looking stuff up and figuring it out on my own, especially stuff that isn’t even in a manual. I figured this was pretty common since self taught is sort of forced to develop this skill.
Any information that if taken out of context could cause damage in an unfair but technical legal court case, or the court of public opinion.
I don't know man, I downloaded Cup Head because it looked cute and it has been kicking my ass since like a month. I know it is one of those notoriously hard games but I think the point stands.

I think games have moved away from precision challenges to more abstract ideas. Like Doki Doki Literature Club, I have no f'ing clue whatever that is all about but I am experiencing it. Challenge for me comes from the fact that it relies on peoples knowledge of tropes to enable different story progressions. I don't have that because last game I played was in like 2009.

Another game I am having trouble with is watch dogs 2. I know, AAA game, made for less than pro gamers. But again, they are relying on my knowledge of AAA games for conveyance. I regularly have moments where I am thinking, what do I do? where do I go? Now I have played GTA vice city, so open world is not an alien concept. But the scale of it all, its just magnificently complex.

Edit: I occurs to me all this can just be the fact that I suck at video games. But I used to be good at them, that's the point.

Edit 2: This video explains my feelings better than me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7f3JZJHSw
It's the not-even-beginning of the world. Why work for someone so cheap? Why fight for a monitor, where at a competitor you could fight fort a raise?
It is a claim without proof which discredits people failing in a remote job. Comes pretty close to an insult TBH. Considering that success and failure in remote jobs does depend a lot on the team, the organization, the planning etc.. not only the person itself.

Also e.g. this sentence by GP raised red flags for me:

> Most software engineers produce more effort than they’re worth and skate by with meetings, “pair programming”, etc

Let's leave meetings out because I agree that too many meetings are bad but pair programming can be a useful tool, especially to transfer knowledge. And that MOST SWEs produce more effort than they're worth.. lol.. what a blanket statement.
Where did you find a 30 minute course for doing backend stuff? For a friend.
You should still do it. Those people leaving and going to other companies is good for you individually as it builds your network.
Sounds like the FBI didn't want to find out.
I also bumped on that line as it felt completely unnecessary.
a confirmation code?

Also, mail might not live on the same computer.
Linux commands for advanced hardware and system info
That means I don't have apps shipping their own browser engines to circumvent the system block lists and screen time whitelist controls.

The mechanism for banning third-party browsers is rejection by the App Store reviewer, correct? Supposing Apple allowed third-party browsers but disallowed embedded browsers in non-browser apps, how would this security model change at all?