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In life's journey, the quality of our decisions often determines our path. After many trips around the sun, the most impactful advice I could give the younger generation is to hone your decision quality. Life presents us with a continuous series of choices, frequently made with limited information and an abundance of unpredictable variables. By optimizing our decision-making process, we increase our chances of staying on a favorable path.

I make so many decisions in personal and professional spheres that I wanted to make it as easy as possible to get straight to the point. My goal was twofold:

1. To minimize bias as much as possible.

2. To alleviate the overwhelming anxiety that often accompanies complex choices with unclear outcomes.

I recognized that many decisions impact not just ourselves but also our friends, family, and other stakeholders. This realization led me to develop a solution that works equally well for individual use and collaborative decision-making.

While I didn't invent pairwise comparative analysis, nor am I the first to build a tool based on this concept, I've created my own implementation. I believe it offers a unique approach to decision-making, and I hope you try it.
In the US? Sure. In more developed parts of the world? Doubtful. European labor laws are already much, much stronger than their US counterparts, and most countries outright ban using cameras to monitor employees.
I've been using m-dashes for 20 years. I think ChatGPT writes like me.
If someone steals from you your money , and that makes your family (including your son or daughter) destitute and unable to afford basic necessities like monthly rent so you can put a roof over your child, do you still agree ?

I think you may have a very different perspective if you and your entire family were forced to bounce around from relatives' couches every few days because you can't afford your own, or if you had to tell your child you can't pay for a bed for him/her because someone took your money.
I'm not convinced. Compare a genuine Musk my heart goes out https://x.com/kingore91/status/1884580205185954045
with the iffy one https://youtu.be/s5hiprV-KXQ?t=7
The whip is for the programmers.

https://sierraclassicgaming.com/game/space-quest-iii/sq3_pro...
Breakthrough study challenges long-held beliefs about the shape of atomic nuclei
There are probably too many AI companies now
This seems unlikely whilst Tesla is basically a memestock for people bullish on Elon Musk.
Refining a Vecs invariants from program flow is interesting. I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not. It hides an interaction between references and dynamic container types, possibly "protecting" the programmer from understanding the semantics of the program.

I also don't see in this particular case why the reference would be taken before the potential resizing push but used after the push. Maybe with a clearer use-case I could see the point?

This would also introduce dynamic checks at compile time, since you need to run the program in order to compile it now, as the overload selection/precondition depends on the runtime state of the Vec. This necessarily requires a less-strict compilation/interpretation mode to be run before the borrow checker/other static analysis is done, since the static analysis can't know which function is being called. I suppose this is similar to compile-time programming.

It strikes me also, that you could do all this at runtime if you wanted, simply by manually incrementing length if length < cap and assigning to the newly created spot.
Our vast population of white collar criminals?
I also have this alias to my config

[alias]
lg = log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit --branches

It shows a coincise colored graph of your commits and branches.
Don't mind what security analysts say about the security of the models the AI is always right. Even if the data is fake.
I'd say adding milk late is the best. You have coffee with volume and heat V and Q, milk v and q. Whatever you do, you'll get volume v+V and heat Q+q. Q can become Q' if you let it cool down first, or (Q+q)' if you add the milk first then let it cool down. But because milk is cold, the Q/V > (Q+q)/(V+v), hence the loss Q -> Q' is bigger than (Q+q) -> (Q+q)'.

The best answer though is to put the coffee on a plate, and forget about the milk.
But then if everyone is out of their job and unemployed ? who will buy the stuff if noone has the money.

I think there is a balance.

Otherwise its going to be 1984 in more than one way (the spying part is already there) (it would also do of that the countries are ready to produce things as much but they won't and limit it to create that constant mood of war to make people not question them / make them weak.)

I think capitalism has fallen. Capitalism is a good system but to its degrees. If you push the accelerator too hard , you get fuedalism.

and we are at feudalism. I am not sure if we can undo this. Let this sink in, the american dream , all our thinkng that capitalism being good and communism being bad fundamentally doesn't matter because we have entered a system where the lines of division are so blurry that they are practically nonexistent.
A harder problem is group activities. I keep bees and ride a bike. The local groups that have support, experience, supplies and all the people are on Facebook (the beekeepers) and WhatsApp (the cyclists).

I miss various announcements with the beekeepers but caved last month on WhatsApp with the cyclists, I joined WhatsApp. Being 50km from home with equipment issues, you need to be able to talk to the others and they are on WhatsApp. Cancelled rides or proposed new ones are all on WhatsApp.
Zuckerberg should stop claiming Meta is open sourcing AI (they are even running TV ads) when they are only releasing the weights, and not the code. Only DeepSeek is real OSS AI.
> If the only way I can interact with a business is through Facebook, that's a business telling me they don't want me as a customer and I'm more than happy to oblige them.

I don’t think this is a reasonable position given what OP correctly said: Facebook makes having a web presence easy for 99.9999% of the population. Not everyone is as technologically literate as those on this forum. By having only a FB presence, they are not telling you they don’t want you as a customer - they just don’t know any better.
As with most of the network stack, *BSD implementation is the reference implementation.
Hopefully they will all come out weaker from mutual fight.
> If you want to make sure everyone believes you’re a sociopath, go ahead and have a straight up lemon. If not, don’t.

Decided. I'm going into my next appraisal meeting and staring my manager down while eating a lemon like an apple.
Regarding 1, the key difference in those days was the barrier to entry. Sure, your post on the gardening forum was fair game for any user to respond to, but every user with that ability had to make an active decision to join a gardening forum. HAM radio hobbyists or political campaigners who don't have interest in gardening wouldn't gatecrash the party to respond to conversations out of context. On global, single-feed social media, you have to sign up, but then every bubble and subculture has the possibility of running into each other with an easy interface to join the conversation with no required context.

One change Alec has been in favour of is a setting to only allow followers to respond to a post. Sure, it takes 2 seconds, but it's that extra bit of friction that forces you to confront more context of who you're responding to.
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For anyone interested, I think this is an example of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox
Not saying I don’t condone it, but you’re basically asking how to steal. Might not be well-received here.
This sort of performance management is unfortunately necessary. The problem is that we need tools for it to be built by people who can empathise with those subjected to them, and who want to do the right thing, and not these sorts of folks who are too immature and inexperienced to get it right.

My previous company ran a warehouse and there was a clear bell curve of productivity. Most people were fine, some were excellent, but some were below the level that was realistically achievable. We did careful and considerate analysis and it helped improve productivity.

When done badly however you end up with management using productivity tracking as a lever to increase productivity across the curve. Amazon driver delivery quotas are a great example – people urinating in bottles is clearly a symptom of the quota being too high. Unfortunately software built naively to help bring up the bottom 10% can too easily be used to force up the productivity of the other 90%.
This. I guess I have to stop now, though, to avoid being mistakenly identified with the robots. Time to revive the semicolon, I guess.
> I don't see inherent advantage to a term being narrow, nor to being broad.

A narrow definition will appear less frequently and thus probably have higher informational content. It's why a word "a" has little informational content, but a very specific word like "vestibular" has more informational content.

The more you can apply your word to anything, the less information does it carries.

> There are binary files in machine-readable formats.

Sure, but text format, means a textual format, i.e. uses text (or more precisely, can be rendered as bytes). Or maybe plaintext.
Regulation isn't universal, so it won't fix the issue. A company wanting to work around that can just contract with another running out of a country without such regulations.

Browsers should do their best to make fingerprinting a non-viable approach.
It requires iOS 17 so I can’t download it to my 1st gen SE. Oh well.
Because Brexit solved nothing and made lots of things worse.
People like to be soft on crime, until crime happens to them.

Its the complete inability to empathize for fellow citizens that actually do the right thing, and contribute to society; instead relating with the criminal mind.

Its a very weird stockholm's syndrome offshoot.

There's a world of difference between mercy and recklessness. Justice must work for society to function. No one is getting beheaded here for stealing an apple.
Congress often specifies the criteria by which grants are
made, qualifications and funding priorities. Sometimes these can be very specific, eg "earmarks".
The secondary school the founder went to is a dead giveaway. Ofcourse yc would fund them. Anyone would fund them infact.
Software can not abuse workers. Managers can, with our without software.

We've had automated KPI measuring tools since punch clocks. Nowadays it's OK in some companies to install remote access software to monitor employees' screens. It's nothing new. It's just collecting data. Question is, what will bosses do with this data, will they abuse or develop.

I have no hate towards those guys. No love also. It's just business.
Not yet for many tasks. Humans are more flexible, easier to replace (nothing to install etc) and one fte in this type of work is 10 years of robot. Hope it will change soon, but it's not there yet.
Unknown illness kills over 50 in Congo with hours between symptoms and death
> everything that is happening was predictable and predicted. Voters knew what they were voting for. Those who are surprised really weren't paying any attention.

The voters were kept away from these predictions. They were too spicy for mainstream media, not mainly because the media are in Trump's pocket (except Fox, OANN -- all the explicit propaganda outfits), but because people shoot the messenger when the messenger delivers bad news. They like hear about bad news afflicting other people. If it afflicts them, if it triggers their anxiety, they think, "You've made me feel bad. This is unpleasant. I'm going to go look at pictures of puppies and kittens."
I disagree with your assertion that optics and “virtue signalling” are not based in logic.
To restate something I've said here last month:

I'm fond of saying that anything that doesn't survive the compilation process is not design but code organization. Design would be: which data structures to use (list, map, array etc.), which data to keep in memory, which data to load/save and when, which algorithms to use, how to handle concurrency etc. Keeping the code organized is useful and is a part of basic hygiene, but it's far from the defining characteristic of the craft.
I’m not sure how much this tells me about a model’s coding ability though.

It might correlate to design level thinking but it also might not.
Not really,

With plain Windows, one year you would get an app that's supposed to be installed from bootable floppies, they had been formatted using MSDOS/Windows and everthing went as expected. Same basic workflow as installing Windows from floppies at the time.

Then there was a trend to shipping floppies that had been formatted and/or contained non-MS DOS instead, if a new version came out like that it sometimes failed to boot on far more machines.

SYS the bootable one to MS-DOS and it worked.
I used to run a small factory (two assembly lines 10 people) and something like this would have been useful, not to force people to work harder but to optimise movements and points of friction. I would actively encourage and reward people for making suggestions and we had a process in place to test if changes made things better (and not just faster - we included easier, simpler, more enjoyable etc in the test)

Sadly it’s not about the tool in this case, it’s how it’s being promoted and positioned. The line “know who’s working and who’s not” on their website says it all sadly.
apologists everywhere are all the same
And if shit hits the fan, he will take full responsibility before making the incredibly hard decision of letting you go after thanking you for all your hard work as part of the close-knit corporate family.
Apple exec testifies that he raised concerns over App Store commissions
Thanks for sharing it! But it's currently only available in the US.
You usually re-encrypt your traffic after the GW, either by using an internal PKI and TLS or some kind of encapsulation (IPSEC, etc).

Security and availability requirements might vary, so much to argue about. Usually you have some kind of 3rd party service you want to hide, control CORS, Cache-Control, etc headers uniformly, etc. If you are fine with 5-30 minutes of outage (or until someone notices and manually restores service), then of course you don’t need to load balance. But you can imagine this not being the case at most companies.
Can you show us some statistics to back that up? From the time of brexit until now seems like a good time period.
That’s not how reproductive cycles work.
Musk also denied the use of LLM further down the article and I guess we're still supposed to pretend he's not in charge so it's all quite confusing.

The more interesting bit is Musk railing against other Trump appointees who have told their staff not to respond and being a bit of a dick about it:

> so many failed even that inane test, urged on in some cases by their managers. Have you ever witnessed such INCOMPETENCE and CONTEMPT for how YOUR TAXES are being spent?"
I think ChatGPT was trained on your writing! :)

How do you type em-dash on a keyboard?
> until there is actually a quantum computer that can break it

There isn't one yet (at least that the general public knows about), but that doesn't mean we don't need to do anything about it right now. See this problem, for example, which would potentially affect today's encrypted data if it were harvested and saved to storage for the long term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_now,_decrypt_later
Because this will definitely be used only to innocently tell off people doing 1/10 the work of everyone else, and not micromanage and hound people to increasingly unrealistic standards in already desperate conditions.

Safe to say you aren't in any position where every move you make will be watched by AI and analysed for faults so that your boss can scream at you more efficiently whenever you don't meet standards for their pitiful wages.
There's never been a time where I have not gotten a response from hn@ycombinator.com

It's much more effective than doing what you're doing.
No, but there there is a strangely prominent belief that "starring" a repo is supposed to convey a signal of some sort. I suppose people who didn't experience life without 'social media' lack a mental model to understand other uses.
Fraud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud

US Sentencing Commission >
Fraud: https://www.ussc.gov/topic/fraud

What would deter fraud?

"Here’s a look inside Donald Trump’s $355 million civil fraud verdict" (2024)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-fraud-letitia-james-new-yor...

"Trump hush money verdict: Guilty of all 34 counts" ..
"Guilty: Trump becomes first former US president convicted of felony crimes" (2024)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-deliberations-jury-te...

"Trump mistakes [EJC] for [ex-wife]. #Shorts" https://youtube.com/shorts/0tq3rh6bh_8 .. https://youtu.be/lonTBp9h7Fo?si=77DIJMrpBRgLcsMK
CGP Grey did a video on this topic about 10 years ago. Curious if the video aged well. [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU [video][15 mins][Humans Need Not Apply]
As someone who grew up in a 3rd world country and whose mother owned a clothing factory, this product seems...fine? The response is an indication of how little people know about how their t-shirts and shoes are made.
You Don't Need More Content – You Need Better Attention
https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-equality-minister-pau...

All rooms must be banana-free before the minister enters, according to new revelations.
Specialization of AI models is cool. Just like some people might be better planners and some are better at raw coding ability.
She could definitely get on the anti-vax train, given her background
I wouldn't call it snake oil, but right now it appears quantum encryption cracking is only theoretical. I'm not sure how anyone can promise to mitigate attacks that haven't yet arrived.

Global Risk Institute... found that the majority of cryptography experts it surveyed believe quantum computers, more broadly, will be able to break anything encrypted with RSA-2048 within 24 hours within the next 30 years.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/chinese-researchers-reportedly-cr...
True, poor Al Capone!
The right answer is still the right answer even if it would cause inconvenience to "normies".
I don’t know what that’s supposed to mean regarding the topic.
Just learned that 9, 15, 21, ... are primes. Excellent comment ^^.
What she was doing was just as bad if not worse
> Half the workers in the factory are brought in from Taiwan.

Thus depriving Taiwan of its much-needed intellectual and human capital to sustain its Silicon Shield defence strategy.

I frequently browse social media sites that are popular among the Taiwanese, and my impression is that they are generally unhappy about this state of affairs, seeing it as an act of economic coercion from the US.
You know it's a banger proposal when even the Swedish armed forces tells you "Please don't".
I personally haven't had a lot of breakage because my scripts never hardcoded the name of the master branch — it's possible to determine it on the fly or avoid using it. So for me it's simply the wall of useless text that wasn't there before ("using master as the name for the initial branch...") in every CI job and on every fresh system.

It's not really a major issue, but the way this "problem" was created and then forced onto the rest of us by someone with very strong opinions — but zero actual technical accomplishments in git development — is annoying, that's all. And it keeps reminding you of itself — see the first paragraph.
Computer says "probably".
Maybe nothing, I just don't work that way.
> The Armed Forces, on the other hand, are negative and write in a letter to the government that the proposal cannot be realized "without introducing vulnerabilities and backdoors that can be exploited by third parties

First time I am seeing an organization against this. Kudos to them for standing up.
Shouldn't the manager of the 'bunch of workers' notice the guy is underperforming and understand why ? Maybe that manager is the one that shouldn't be doing that job
How much will it cost to repair the damage doge has done, is what I want to know.
Zlib-Rs Is Not Only Safer but Now Outperforming Zlib C Implementations
Mars not having a magnetosphere isn't as short term a need. The atmosphere stripping away is on geologic timescales, not human ones. Even then, we could put a superconducting ring between Sol and Mars and get the same effect as far as solar wind stripping the atmosphere. It would be a big project, but not impossible. It's also a project that won't possibly start until people live there permanently.

Worrying about the atmosphere stripping away is akin to worrying about the smaller of Mars two moons being on a path that will impact in 100,000+ years with the surface of mars.

In many problem domains mars is an easier target for long term habitation than the moon, the biggest challenge is getting there. The retorts from people here about farming miss that we don't need 'soil' to farm, there are techniques that mostly just need water and vitamins that can dissolve into it. At Epcot they have a system to breed fish and use the fish waste for feeding plants to grow. Throw in mycelium for handling human waste and you have an efficient system for augmenting food production.

A serious effort for mars will have as many or more spinoff technologies as Apollo gave us. The computers we are using today are further along in development from the massive influx of effort to make computers that could fit in space capsules. With the acidification we are causing in the ocean, a reliable way of converting C02 to oxygen at scale might be needed here on earth to prevent an oxygen collapse within decades. Climate change is a bitch, and it could give an excuse to start charging people for breathable air here on earth so the cynics may be right about that eventually happening. That possible disaster just isn't on even most climate scientist radars yet.

There will be other spinoff technologies we just don't see yet. The large rocketry needed to get there also opens up resource extraction from near earth objects. There's massive material wealth just barely outside our present grasp. It would be nice for materials like platinum and gold to follow in the footsteps of aluminum in becoming common enough to be usable for trivial items. Aluminum was a precious metal just a few hundred years ago in its refined form. Gold nanoparticles look like a candidate that could make current GLP-1 drugs obsolete, it works in animal studies but not tested in humans yet. Manufacturing in space is also on the verge of practicality. Metal foams, ultra low attenuation glass and optically transparent aerogels can be made in microgravity that are superior to the versions that can be made here on earth. Metal foams would be ideal for making ships, cars and planes that are much lower weight than we can make now without loss of strength, less weight means fewer watts per mile and less material needed.

The people whining about the idea always seem to miss the secondary effects of making the effort and always see to paint the optimistic take as naive, really they are just demonstrating short sighted thinking.