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It sounds like an XY problem. They don't want the price to fall because then farming wouldn't be profitable, but they're paying farmers to not profit off sales anyway. Instead of subsidizing half the farmers to do nothing, they should subsidize all the farmers, half as much, and allow the price to drop by half.
This is a topic about which I have long simmering opinions. I suspect that several things happened.

First, expectations and requirements went up. Laying stuff out with a mouse and snap-to alignment guides is ok for simple UI, but the more complex the design, the more I would end up fighting the vector-art style design interface. I remember staying up late fixing pixel alignment errors in nib files. Often you would need to move objects around to inspect another underneath and then play undo games to get things back exactly where they were.

The interesting parallel here is that the designers were doing all the designs in vector art apps, and were also frequently missing dynamic aspects of the design requirements.

It was one thing to design complex dialog boxes for desktop; think of a photoshop filter control pane. You target a minimum size screen, and then work with a fixed pane and lay things out. When the iPhone came out, IB worked ok for early versions and stock components. Screens were crowded but fixed width.

Once bigger screens came out, more designs started needing variable width layout computation. The APIs for dynamic layout were (as I recall now) more subtle than they sounded in the docs, and I recall joining several teams that misused them. “sizeToFit” and “sizeThatFits” were two culprits. Perhaps it made more sense in the simpler NeXT days, and perhaps the docs degraded. If you didn’t read Apple’s “Programming Guide” docs, it was hard to know how these things were supposed to work together, and those were like mini books. The guides got increasingly ignored as the iPhone’s UIKit took center stage. I was always a fan of NSAutoresizingMaskOptions but rarely saw others use them.

Second, modern version control made the binary nib files unmanageable, and merging the xml xib files was also awful.

Third, and to the parent comment’s point, there were quality problems with Interface Builder. New stuff got heaped on every year. The data model was proprietary but looking at the xml clearly just got more complicated and version-encumbered over time.

In summary, it is tempting to glorify the original NeXT tools, but I never used them. I started toying with IB in 2004. It never felt like a brilliant system because I couldn’t express the underlying logic of designs in the visual box dragging paradigm. Ironically auto layout pushed me further towards UI in code. But to each their own.
Yeah, that’s true too.
No question that it is coming- it is, in effect, already here- the expectation among consumers has been teed up by the media. In a way, this is just sugar for the coming pill. But the inevitable backlash really ought to surprise no vendor who employs it. Where it will be most cruel is at the margins of society. They bear the brunt of all inequalities. Take the troubling precedent of the poor tax: late fees and interest on late or incompleted payments due to lack of funds. Is that any indication of future appetite in the economy to, for instance, penalize a poor person for buying less food than someone else? If we just let the market determine these things, inequity could be more and more severe. Will we just let it?
Environmental factors are certainly a part of those. I heard a story of someone being stranded at a lighthouse alone for many months, and he had a break from reality which affected him the rest of his life. It's always seemed interesting that the brain can be damaged by stress rather than physical injury – or that perhaps stress causes physical injury.
> within a day people were complaining that I should turn of encryption because they had issues (from their own server probably), I never managed to do that

Obviously you weren't able to do that - contrary to what OOP's article wrote, in Matrix it's not possible to deactivate E2EE for a room after it has ever been enabled.

The closest thing to that you could do would probably be creating a new room without encryption and closing (tombstoning) the old room with a link to the new room.
Just some feedback on the landing page: ditch the Stanford/MIT/Carnegie Mellon logos. I’m not hating on elite universities or anything, but it has no relevance here (this is not a research project) and I think it detracts from the brand. I don’t associate academia with pager-carrying operators of critical services.
Absolutely, but tentatively.

From the responses to my comment, it may seem pedantic, but it is the wording that strikes me. "Proof" belongs in a different category than experimental verification [1], as it imply logical consistency, or even an equivalence between the model and the object it attempts to model. So in mathematics, proofs make sense because it is dealing with relationships within a closed axiomatic structure.
We haven't discovered the axioms of Nature, and therefore everything we propose, as a law, of nature rests on the relative foundation of our experiments.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you are a hardcore empiricist (like Bohr, in a sense, were) reasoning beyond the measurable is not physics. That is why the Copenhagen Interpretation doesen't deal with what the probability distribution of a wave-function actually is, simply that it is a useful construct to represent the possible outcomes of a measurement, until an expectation value is calculated. Perhaps that is also why Wheeler's many-world interpretation got off to a bad start, as it didn't provide any new measurable predictions.

[1] or rather lack of falsification, to adhere to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
Not to guess why it was not included, but speaking as someone from the infosec realm, it has a reputation for spam and phishing.
I think people don't know that their entire experience is their brain. Being human you just intrinsically feel that you are this conscious subject who is experiencing/analyzing what this organ called "the brain" presents to you. What's lost is that the conscious subject and the brain are the same thing. The drugs doing funny stuff to the brain is the same as the drug doing funny stuff to the conscious subject.

To put this more succinctly:

If your brain tells you that #2 pencils are sacred universal objects, you will be 100% convinced that it is true. The conscious subject will do an analyses and be as sure as the sky is blue that #2 pencils are sacred.
Maybe it isn't entirely a hardware issue. Maybe it is a software issue.

Where do persons get their software from? The environment. Observing how their parents/family/etc interact.

I think it's fair to say that communication matters and that communication & experiences will have an affect on peoples perceptions.
I opened this on a mobile device, and it only shows the top and bottom topic buttons. I was pretty confused until I tried turning on "desktop site" in Chrome and saw the left/right buttons.
Having only a linear track of topics kind of undermines the overall idea!
> (unlike Signal)

Well Tucker Carlson also said he used Signal and his messages were leaked by the government so yeah...
> but it is still a somewhat interesting proxy as there is a high correlation between intelligence and IQ.

How does one find a definition of intelligence that allows us to correlate it to anything? My understanding is an IQ is defined and intelligence is not.
The point is that one needs specifically deliberate practice to achieve constant improvement. GP is saying that driving demonstrates this by showing that non-deliberate practice ceases to show improvement fairly quickly.
It's simply a claim about heritability of intelligence. In other words, "Intelligence isn't inheritable like height" according to the author. There are certainly plenty of people who claim that genetics explains a large part of intelligence.
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It's really "putting in the time until I vest".
It's expensive, easy to bypass, and has little enforcement teeth.

Expensive because you need to pay an inspector (ideally multiple to avoid corruption) to visit these farms.

Easy to bypass because the kids aren't working the fields all the time and there's plenty of warning an inspector is coming.

And the enforcement mechanism is you don't get the label... But like there's plenty of buyers for slave chocolate so that mostly means a minor hit on income.

NGO inspectors are better than nothing, but we should be clear eyed in how much they can solve. The only way to significantly reduce slave labor is harsh penalties on companies that trade in slave goods. That was pretty much the only thing that collapsed the ivory market.
I think libmagic (the file util) might be a good target for this. I think it had security issues in the past and considering how it contains a gazillion random parser for weird file formats, surely there is a good chance there are some more. But nobody would ever run file on a random file you just downloaded, would you? ;)
It seems that the Clay website (https://www.nicbarker.com/clay) can't be scrolled via keyboard.
> Howell said that same-sex partnerships are thought to be somewhat common among penguins, but what was different with Sphen and Magic was how they shared their duties as parents.

> "They took their individual [turns] on the nest, and they would go out and search for food, and then they’d come back and swap the care of the egg"

So... where did they get the egg?

Also, isn't this what penguins normally do? I thought at least emperor penguins did this regularly. Not sure about Gentoos.

My guess is the quote is about normal penguin behavior and the journalist reported this wrong.
> First Amendment gives companies control of what gets posted to the sites they own

No, it does not. It prohibits the government from abridging the freedom of speech.

The First Amendment is a particular expression of the broader principle of freedom of speech/expression [1]. If you are in my home and you express a view I dislike, it is completely within my legal rights to ask you to stop speaking or else be asked to leave. I could not at the same time, however, say I stand for free speech.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
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One trusts The Lancet I see.

As far as I know, no one in my country (The US) was forced to take a covid vaccine. Some were compelled financially I have no doubt, but they would seem to me like fish that just realized that they were swimming in water after not having even realized it their entire lives. No wonder they were pissed; I can't say I've ever really gotten over it myself.
It’s not just memory safety, it’s also hackability. Idk how I would go about adding a feature to ls (both GNU and BSD). I have a concrete idea of how I would go about adding a feature to the Rust implementation.
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Good catch, thanks. According to the pricing page, Mailchimp starts out around the same as the others, but as soon as you go over 500 contacts, the price jumps from "Standard" $20/month to "Premium" $350/month. I'll add that as a note to the Drawbacks field.
I mean, technically, height is not like height either.

One's height is not fixed, even in a given day.

But I get his point. Kind of.

Intelligence is more like speed. Speed can be affected by multiple things. Once you run X fast, it doesn't mean you'll always be able to run that fast. One's top speed is more of a range than a fixed point.

And we measure speed all day long.

Intelligence is a thing. People have it to different degrees. People often mistake it for knowledge. And IQ is a way to measure at least a part of it.
Is there a list of food reserves that each country maintains? I feel like that would be an interesting/funny cultural insight. Like the US Cheese Stockpile or the Canada Maple Syrup Reserve.
The thing that all the moralisation around IQ misses, is that IQ is a serious problem in a lot of places around the world, and turning it into a career-ending taboo topic basically ensures that it goes completely unaddressed. I’ve worked with governments and companies in quite a few developing countries around the world where the average IQs are between 1-2 standard deviations below 100, and that problem is right up there with corruption when it comes to what’s holding these countries back. It would be great if solutions to this problem were being studied, but idiots like this author basically guarantee that will never happen.
Rice would split open the hulls of wooden sailing vessels if it got wet.

The problem is, the other option here, the Futures Markets has Goldman-Sachs using their vast cash reserves to buy in when it suits them so as to make money on the people's daily bread.

Like many other things, "It's better to have it and not need it, than need it, and not have it."
I don't even necessarily mind the cost of streaming services. I would happily pay 100 bucks to get it all ad-free.

What I DO mind is how shitty it all is. I don't want to search through 8 apps just to find what I want. I don't want to open something called Super Freebie Movie to watch season one and then go to Amazon Prime Video for season two. I don't want to have some that inexplicably only play at low quality and there's no settings to turn the quality up.

I mean, the apps suck ass. We need a common interface for this, like we had with TV. If we're gonna be breaking up the content into a million different places I should damn well be able to see it all with 1 interface, 1 website, that's fast, reliable, and easy to use.
Very reasonable to be skeptical of these kind of things, but this company seems to be the real deal: https://tonyschocolonely.com/us/en/annual-fair-reports
To a certain floor. Of course a particle which only interacts gravitationally is still possible but that's the cosmologist's nightmare. It'd be basically impossible to prove it's existence and anything could happen (like a small but fast fairly massive ~asteroid mass clump of dark matter explaining poltergeists)
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Wagner died in 1883. How about him?
> I have never seen anyone claim they were the same.

well read some of the other comments coming in here. I dare not upmod this article on a site like Hacker News.
One could be forgiven for thinking that, but about a year later I found articles talking about how they decided to remove cocoa butter from their recipes because it cost too much.

The mac'n'cheese thing was funny too. There were half a dozen reddit threads with people complaining that it started tasting different. Then, completely oblivious, Kraft does a press release a few months later about how they changed the formula and it was so successful no one even noticed. Whatever minuscule amount of cheese they used in the powder cost too much and was replaced with god knows what.

Substitution-flation made everything taste like shit, and no one even said anything.
Given how much money Nvidia is making off of non-graphics related activities I don't know that they really care.
It's to debunk the pseudoscientific nonsense -- rooted in racism and white supremacy -- that IQ is a largely genetically determined trait which is then often used to assert that certain ethnic groups are on average smarter or stupider than other ethnic groups.
I mean if the checks are expensive and it's on hot path, then that's wasteful.It might also require then to use more nesting of IFs which isn't necessarily nicer.
The heritability of IQ, from twin studies and via other traditional methods of measuring heritability, is way higher than the author of that article implies. It's as high as 0.8. (80% of variance down to genetics.) See, e.g.: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23919982/

If you measure heritability only via SNP studies, it looks a lot smaller. This is what's called the "Missing Heritability Problem." See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_heritability_problem

This problem is, as yet, unsolved. There's a lot we don't know about traits that are governed by "many genes of small effect."

The author of the article probably knows better and is being disingenuous, but it's flat-out wrong to say that intelligence is only weakly heritable.
The same people who say this will be crying about a lack of loyalty from workers when we experience the next tech boom.
“Layoffs usually have nothing to do with performance”

This has not at all been my experience. When forced to do layoffs in a large company, executives tend to look at performance reviews.

What are other people’s experience with this?
I couldn't either. Some of the pages eluded to it being more for subscription email and marketing emails but nothing definite.
WinUI 3 aims to be native, but of course Windows is a tapestry of many eras of Microsoft UI styles. If Microsoft doesn't again change their mind on how Windows should look, then WinUI 3 is indeed the look and behaviour that people will be expecting on a Windows machine.
Wow, they're beautiful birds I can't imagine shooting one. But... mmm... ribeye

When I lived in Alberta we used to see huge flocks of them.

I wonder if there's a way they could be domesticated for meat production. Probably not because migratory.
> But just like there are the EM and Higgs fields there could be countless other fields that don't affect our day to day reality in any way, but in that sense they might as well not exist.

Then you also have to accept that you're not talking about objective reality in any way but isolated to human experience and limited by our cognitive and experimental abilities.
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Hardly a discovery given that it's just the exact same thing as always but sure
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OK, here's just such a scenario:

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That's 288 children living materially much more abundant lives. 288 lives that wouldn't have existed. One of them might be a key scientist / entrepreneur that launches us to 1000000 kids and zero dying of anything.
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Fixed, good catch, thanks! I started my research using other people's spreadsheets rather than checking every vendor's pricing. Must have had old data.
This looks great! I’m already running Node as well as python in Jupyter notebooks so to see more languages being added is always great
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One must add that IQ & height distributions ALSO look the same despite the latter and artificial one being a good proxy for intelligence.
Would you be open to working with staff augmentation agencies that provide pre-vetted developers?
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These studies are very flawed for several reasons, the main one being "separation" which is a very loose definition of separation. If identical twins grow up together but some time in childhood one is sent to live with a relative, before a later reunification, this is called "separated". It does little to separate nurture from nature.

Which makes sense - how many identical twins are separated at birth? Even if they were, it is unlikely one would be sent to Cambridge and one to rural Nepal (one of the lowest places for these IQ studies).
Okay, in looking at tear downs I agree. The point about the on die memory controller is still valid. Cheers!
The thing I'm getting out of this Zuckerberg letter is that we've basically learned nothing. It's a nakedly partisan letter designed to signal to Republicans that he's not taking sides. Which I guess is fine, but I'm thinking about Paul Graham's recent tweet about the next round of social networks being designed to be built in to combat trolling, and it makes me think.

This time there was valid concern about issues like the lab leak theory being censored on social media, I predict in the next crisis, social media will be useless adjacent for almost everything.
Of course, IQ only weakly correlates to the intelligence that people actually refer to colloquially. It doesn't test for most behaviors that people do consider intelligent, and it tests a bunch of stuff completely unrelated to intelligence (e.g. cultural trivia).
> but idiots like this author basically guarantee that will never happen.

Could also be intentional
The logo for "child labor was used in the manufacture of this chocolate" looks exactly like the Nestle logo
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Their original slogan was "100 percent slave free" and they changed it to "towards 100 percent slave free" a while back.

Nowadays their slogan is "Crazy about chocolate. Serious about people".

They seem to constantly weaken their slogan.
> Stop Trying to Change the Company or People — Change Yourself and Influence Them

I think this is very practical advice. Such 'leading by example' is oftentimes contagious and can guide people or part of the company to a better direction.

Trying to 'fix' people or processes is much harder. In that case you need to convince or change mindsets by simply telling/writing. People typically don't like to be told what to do if they do not see the benefit.

If you want change... Show, don't tell.
Having the order matter and matching the first `true` branch makes for more readable and less-wordy if statements. Otherwise when you have two conditions which have any overlap, such as A and B, for the A branch you need to add `and not B` and for the B branch you need to add `and not A`. This can create very long expressions. Having them evaluate in order and only match the first true one makes this unnecessary.
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The use of IQ is a problem, or are you taking the metric seriously?
I bet the solution is heavy on "access to clean water, food, security from war and violence, and education", amirite? sure let's fire up the "IQ science" machine to give us reasons to not have to do something so boring as to improve the lives of those living in developing nations.
Only if those wealthy people consider being taxed unfair. They shouldn't.
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