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The dog behavior that is most problematic when I go walking in the woods is this.

When dogs want to greet you they want to get their face in your face. This is why dogs jump up on people. It can get pretty obnoxious. There is a lady in my neighborhood who owns a huge white dog that will put its paws on your shoulders and try to push you down even if you are 6 feet 4.

You can short circuit this behavior by crouching lower to the ground so the dog can greet you without climbing up on you.

(My wife works with horses but sometimes shows a lot of ignorance working with dogs. For instance she was taking care of a friend's animals when the friend was on vacation and made a huge racket coming into the house hoping that would get the dog to come out of its crate but that only made the dog cower. I just flopped down on the bed and the dog came out to see me. I wondered: how do I know all this about dogs? I remembered that I'd ran with a pack of dogs when I was a kid.)
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>High profits and high inflation suggests an economy dominated by monopolies

High inflation means values are simply bigger, with no other changes needed, so increased profits are exactly expected in high inflation (along with high revenues, high prices, high costs, high spending, .... that is the definition of inflation).

So your claim that larger numbers "suggests an economy dominated by monopolies" is demonstrably not true. It can merely be inflation with zero other changes.
> Taken together, one can purchase a 30KWh (daily) solar panel and battery storage system for about $4,200

I haven’t researched it but I feel like I’d have pay 20-40K for such a system. What gives?

Is it all just labor and regulations? Why can’t we solve that?
The TTS performance graph is interesting but it would be even better to add another dimension for comparing their resource consumption (code size, RAM, CPU usage/speed). For example, if "Windows Male" is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_text-to-speech_voice... then it's an offline-only synthesiser that is relatively small and fast, while the Google ones are probably massive neural models that are only available as a service. Yet their speech performance seems to be quite similar according to that chart.
I’d you have offers from Google and Amazon then why are you interviewing at a place like Monzo? They can probably tell you’re both wasting your time so rejected you on that.
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The stumble over abandonment of ICE vehicles.

By 2030 (8 years from now) at least six manufacturers will have stopped making ICE vehicles entirely, and India claims it will ban the sale of ICE-only vehicles. By 2040 (18 years from now) over half of all new cars sold will be electric, and the UK and France claim they will ban the sale of ICE-only vehicles.

However, there's still not a plan that makes all that sustainable, as we need 30% more grid capacity, an insanely higher number of chargers (1 out of 4 are duds) / service companies / land, China still controls most of the resources for production (of raw resources, manufacturing, & assembly) and now they want the chips too. And the climate picture isn't great either, with not enough new clean energy capacity going online, and only 8 million barrels of crude will be displaced by the estimated number of new EVs. Even with all of this new work, there will be only a small reduction in carbon emissions.

Basically there are so many things that can go wrong in the next 18 years, and so many things we don't even have a plan for, that all the estimates we've been given will result in dysfunction, increased prices, and soaring secondary markets. A lot of people are going to make money just from preparing for things to go wrong.
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That's actually actionable - don't do this thing.

The key is that you'll see the pros doing it because they can recognize the 80% areas, but if you can't, you shouldn't even try to do it, because you're likely putting yourself at a disadvantage.

Part of the problem is not all games can be broken down into certain definitive chunks you can work on directly (turn-based ones often do have these).
> EDITED TO ADD: One of the four public-key encryption algorithms selected for further research, SIKE, was just broken.

Yikes. I'm sure these first generation algorithms have pushed things forward but we need another round of evaluation soon, I suspect.
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Land is expensive. I am actually surprised why the companies don't lease home solar panel kits, e.g. you sign up and they install at minimal cost, and you pay for the electricity generated by the solar panels, but at a reduced rate compared to the grid. The ownership of the panels stay with the company leases them.
This is true, but still does not counter the "rough prototypes have a bad habit of becoming end-products" curse the OP is effectively talking about.

Not to mention your argument could be trivially used to justify social credit scores etc, which most people would agree is bad.
Animal Crossing helped me explore my gender
Absolutely, and there's a common thread in them: context. When I'm preparing to hand a project over, the README will be updated with design constraints (maybe even the RFC/project launch documents), why certain decisions were made; basically explaining anything which would raise an eyebrow.

I do this because I received a project with this note, and it stuck with me as an excellent idea; a letter to future explorers.
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Some/most of those things aren't a reality because they don't make sense economically.
I don't even know what my password is anymore it's just faded into a sequence of movements and clickity clack sounds.
You’re looking at about $2B revenue a year. The absolute maximum that GDPR can fine is 4% global revenue, which would be $80M for Criteo. So this is nearly topping out. Of course, if a company continues to treat GDPR as the cost of doing business there are other, more long-term, options.
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Another one I picked up from a guy on youtube: write the words "do it now" on paper in front of you (not type, not say, write).
I fear this is a definite possibility, and it's terrifying. Because the main thing that Russia has, their only real claim to being a major power, and the only reason why they've been able to get away with their invasion, is their nukes. And if the country really collapses, who knows what will happen to those nukes?

I don't mean to upset anyone, and I think the chance of collapse is small, but it's not zero.
I suspect we use 'porn' as a shorthand for 'hypernormal stimuli' and I suspect we have so much of it because humans have fewer evolved defenses against manipulation by hypernormal stimuli on the internet.
Interest on loaning your current account balance out.
I have been using multi-account containers to separate browser cookie sessions, and have been looking for a way to open collections of links in a single click.

This workflow is particularly useful to me after a fresh start of the browser (beginning of the day, or after a crash) to quickly open the web pages I use for work

My plug-in "DashBox" implements opening sets of links into separate "Multi-Account Containers" to isolate cookie sessions. This leverages the "Multi-Account Containers" Firefox plugin from Mozilla [1]

It is useful for me, and I am sharing it so it may be useful for others

Alternatives may be:

- Chrome browser: separate profiles, use the "Settings -> On Startup -> Open a specific page or set of pages"

- Firefox browser: separate profiles, use the "Settings -> Home -> Homepage and new windows" setting to "Custom URLs" and provide multiple URL's there

[1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
unlikely we'll rebuild locally. We will outsource it to a friendlier country with cheap labor. In 50 yrs the cycle will repeat. (Probably South America.)
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There is no magical ratio. Brooks's law applies, but it's detriment can be acceptable, if it's not impacting customer value.

Don't focus on the input variables (ie we have n engineers). Focus on the output variables. What are the SLA/Os for each service? If they're being met, then it's unlikely anything should change. Missed SLAs should trigger changes (see scaled agile framework).
Right, there are code compliant solutions. I was just musing over an idea of having 240V "everywhere" (including inside the house in every room, having 240V for special needs is, of course, a solved problem).

14-50R is not what I would use in that case, they are bulky, unsightly and don't offer tamper resistance.

6-20R / 6-15R have variants that are tamper resistant, and they look like regular outlets.

"20A should be enough for everything".

We used to have 2.5-3kW kettles before we moved to US, which would require 20-25A (although, I don't think the math is that simple -- circuit breakers don't trip on "exactly 20A").

Also, the issue with 20A receptacles is that, again, I have never seen 20A plugs (NEMA 5-20P) on appliances (it has neutral connector "flat" rather than vertical). Which is understandable, why make them if nobody has 20A receptacles anyway. There is a requirement to have two 20A branches in a kitchen, but commonly they are wired to 15A receptacles.
Another part is nobody wants the real advice, because it's often hard.

See how many diet books are sold, and see how few people actually successfully lose weight, even though the advice boils down to "stop eating so much".
Billy Joel should update "We didn't Start the Fire" with your list.
Until per capita carbon emissions are below zero, falling population is a good thing.
This is exactly what scares me, the company I'm now is not bad on paper, work/life balance is good, various colleagues are friendly, it's not a bad place to work... I believe I can find other companies with the same good key metrics, the problem is that I have no way to know if is a company where I can succeed and move to the position I aim to. In theory the company where I work now had everything to make me believe I could move to Lead, it feels like my unluckiness started when I moved to the project that looked promising, and my main error was not understanding that the rest of the developers don't like change ( I will explain this better, when the team was being created it looked like everyone wanted to join it, a new project, exciting challenges, non-repetitive work. The reality was the opposite, only few people joined just to promptly leave, and I believe it is because developers like to work on repetitive task: create the n-th new page, create new components, refactor something too look more new, etc... they don't really like the uncertainty of having to research every sprint how to complete their tasks )
My home office is the last place you'll find those kitschy "Just Eat" and "Love" signs that are so popular with suburban housewives.
yeah, as far as I'm aware the only reason Monzo exists is because of a falling out between Tom and the Starling CEO

I don't know what really went on, but Starling's side was reported in the UK press: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/starling-bank-boss-anne-b...
I didn't read/listen to Haidt's The Happiness Hypothesis, but from what you described, he sounded spot on.

But can I also say that as long as it works, there's nothing wrong with it?

Some people wind down by jogging, playing video games, watching action movies etc; yours happened to be reading self-help book.

The problem is when one overdoes it, regardless of the activities they've chosen.
It's genuinely useful to know that making $X a year is the same as Y clients paying $(X / Y / 52) a week, if you've never thought about a business in concrete terms before.

Obviously this is old and repetitive if you're a working software engineer who's been reading HN for years and has seen a ton of motivational LinkedIn bullshit, but it's the kind of thing a career councillor might go over to make running a business seem approachable. Equally obviously it would be much better advice if it came with a real-world example of a forecasting spreadsheet and a link to your government's "how to start a business" website. That doesn't make it bad advice.

The example thread from Naval is the same. Second tweet is basically "conspicuous consumption wastes money, buy appreciating assets instead," but couched in pornographic insight. One of the later tweets is "pick business partners...with integrity." They're both good bits of advice. Just because you already know a piece of advice, and just because it's given by a charismatic writer over far too many individual tweets, doesn't make it bad advice.
Ha! I've found that this isn't a game with a mass appeal, but it does appeal _a lot_ to a niche audience.

Have fun with it!
The example you linked to was "men with Klinefelter syndrome, who have two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome".

I wrote "a man with (I presume) XY" because I don't recall if the show I watched also described his chromosomes, but in order to be a reasonable control I don't see why they wouldn't have done so.

(I can not find the video, and it's been too long for me to recall more details than I described.)

Training certainly helps identify nuances in color. Color terms are also culturally dependent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term#Cultural_difference...

That said, there should be no reason to believe training will result in an ability to see like a tetrachromat through intensive training - the cones don't have a differentiating signal to train upon.
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I am not sure why this hit the front page of HN. Blosxom is old and I am pretty sure not "actively" developed any more but I could be wrong.
Perfect, thank you!

I find much more value in numerical expression when it comes to topics about future events than the fuzzy and loaded English terms we tend to use in casual conversation. I had the wrong impression about your previous message based on my own preconceived notions, and numbers reduce all that.
I agree that trust is a major component, especially from above. But it also requires a "team" mindset. The adhoc calls you are talking about are helpful for the team but they are disruptive to the person. This causes this approach to not work for some teams because there are people who just want to sit heads down and crank code. Those are the people that require daily stand ups to make sure they don't go off all willy nilly. These people also tend to get annoyed when someone else needs their subject matter expertise to fix/debug/tweak something as it is "interrupting" them.

When the team evolves to value for team success over individual, then this sort of things is obviously more efficient because everyone is actively engaged in keeping everyone in sync. So I think it is much more about a mature and cohesive team than trust explicitly. However, ime, there are always some who just want to play whac-a-mole and be "done" even when it isn't in the team's best interest.
We saw a post the other day about using DALL-E and GPT-3 in conjunction with one another. I think more of these systems working together is going to revolutionize basically everything, especially when democratized with cheaper consumer hardware.
Rust is already a mainstream language, unless you have a weirdly restrictive definition of mainstream.
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Anyone knows why translations are performed on language pairs? In my humble non linguistic common sense I think translations would be more optimal if word meanings independent of base language were the basis of translations between languages.
It's definitely an underrated response, referring to one of those genius moments that were in abundance on The Simpsons of old.

Capturing irony in all it's glory takes planning.
> Strategically coopting countercultures

Unless you actually think there's literal evil mustache-twirling going on there's a much simpler explanation -- the people who were a part of that counterculture are now the establishment and, like everyone else, romanticize when they were angsty in their teens and twenties. It's why Guns N' Roses is suburban backyard BBQ pasta salad music now. You're right that people will pay money to belong but this isn't a example of it, this is people paying money for nostalgia.

All counterculture has an expiration date since you can't pass it down to your kids. If you could it would defeat the whole point.
Can’t agriculture workers be retrained to work in other fields? The general consensus seems to agree that our climate is a priority. Now if only there was a way to make those plant burgers tasty
The standard argument is: dose opening a CC-BY-SA document in a word processor effect the word processor's license? Even if you distributed the documents as a template inside the word processor's installer I don't think you could claim the word processor was a derivative work. The intent of the SA license is that if you also improve the the template you have to share the improvements.

Having said that at least the Switch version will contain technological measures (from Nintendo) to prevent the sharing and adaption of the games assets. So even if the license is not at all viral it may not grant them permission to include the covered artwork.
Procrastinate until you feel so bad about it that you fall into a depression. The only way to get out of the depression is to get started. It can take up to a few months/years, but it will get you started at some point. Works for me every time.
I often find reading about 1/3 of docs / books is optimal. After that practical experience becomes more beneficial. Then when you encounter problems, search for specific information to resolve the issues most relevant to your goals.
They didn't use nukes during the collapse of Soviet Union.
One problem with daily meetings is that the two of you are making reasonable and yet incompatible arguments here. You can't have a meeting at the same time every day that is both conveniently out of the way for those who want large blocks of time free for real work and conveniently in the middle of likely working times for those who prefer flexibility.

Personally I think the solution to this is obvious and apparently so do many others here. Daily standups within a mostly stable and well-functioning team are almost always redundant at best and actively disruptive at worst. So don't have daily standups. Instead work on a culture where people communicate freely whenever they need to and you bring people together for larger and longer meetings when (and only when) you have a specific reason for that.
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I've followed Tim for a good amount of years and the thing that hit me the most was when he talked about using tools for his socials to make sure he never saw the time line.

It made me think, he is happy to use the tool for his own gain, but opening acknowledges that it's bad for him, of course, most people in his situation would be the same, but it made me think, how all of that is mostly for his gain, not what a lot of the content consumers assume, for there gain. It's really just entertainment disguised as something more, might as well just watch Netflix.

Also it's abundantly clear that a lot of these creators don't listen to other podcasts etc, why is that? Being a creator and having a big following is a decent and fun life, but it's completely separate to being a consumer and all these consumers following this content wanting to learn to be more like the person that is creating the content, when the irony is, the biggest step they could take to doing that, is stop consuming it all.
This is pretty cool, I tried this, takes around 5 secs to generate the audio for a couple of sentences with my old 1080Ti.

I've been using Google TTS for generating audio for my reading list, this would be good time to build a simple api+worker wrapper around this and integrate into my app.
I saw an article recently (here maybe?) that the world could switch to 100% green energy and make the investment back in 6 years. I haven't looked at the math behind it, and actually getting that many solar panels up is going to take some time too, but it really seems to me like this is the main thing we should all be focusing on right now. Because of high fossil energy prices, getting rid of Russian gas, and of course because of climate change. Three very big reasons to go all out on clean energy.
all the rest

You might want to make at least a few exceptions.
Sure, there's a lot of crappy insight out there, and there are also styles of writing designed to take your time. It's like Proust with product placement.

But when you look at psychology as a tool to dissolve artifacts of our internal logic that are causing suffering, using a neutralizing theory that temporarily dissolves meaning, the usefulness of some cliches and deepities becomes more apparent. These aren't positive instructions, they're a way to provoke a mind out of a kind of writers block or negative feedback loop about its idea of self.

An insight that reframes your perception of something can unlock what felt like a double bind or an inescapable situation. "I can't feel some joy because I am a this or that," is an example belief that an insight can unblock by reframing someones perspective to question the premises of that belief. Showing that your negative self beliefs are inconsistent enough for you to question them can be enough to relieve the suffering they cause, just long enough to do something about them. It's a precision tool.

It's relevant to look at the quality of insight and beliefs we're having delivered by some carefully orchestrated psychological techniques, but this one felt bit like witnessing the birth of a new thought terminating cliche.
reminds me of the common advice for people with depression (that often comes from people without depression):

"Well, have you tried not being sad :)?"
This is the same reaction people have when I say I can't see loved ones, in mind. Or an apple. I haven't found anyone with absolute Aphantasia (no images, ever) that can hear things in mind as well. That would include voices or songs.

And yes, echoic recall is the ability to "re-hear" something in mind.

There was a study in the 1800s that first explored this. That 40% of people hear things in mind came from that, as well as subsequent studies recently talking about Aphantasia exploring and measuring the prevalence in the population.
There is nothing superstitious about government, money, organizations, etc. This is a fantasy.

If you really want to exist as a society of strong individuals (assuming that’s not already a contradiction in terms) in the absence of these constructs, you have to accept the very real likelihood that stronger individuals will be trying to rob and murder you. And organizing themselves into groups to do that more successfully
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