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> It is very interesting to me that in my social/professional circle, and indeed here on HN, remote schooling during covid is practically universally seen as a massive failure resulting in serious consequences, yet remote work is a huge success and it's an outrage and borderline human rights violation whenever it's reduced or taken away.

Because children are not adults. They don't have the attention span and concentration skills to focus on something for 8 hours a day. Evolutionarily so - the job of children is to play, discover and learn. The job of adults is to concentrate and run the show.

Even the existing schooling system that crams kids into classrooms and gets them to look at a board to learn things is contrary to human evolution actually. Its the product of the early education system that developed from late medieval scholastic religious education practices.
That quote shows that "NIMBY" is especially proper and fitting!
They support the idea in theory, but don't want it to be close to them. Like it should be in someone else's backyard.
Like a scam. It sounds like a scam.

The issues with the currency are NOT just "can I actually pay you with it" (and that's STILL a big issue) it's all the surrounding work around conflict resolution.

I paid a contractor with bitcoin, he didn't do the work, he won't refund me. Now fucking what?

Court orders him to to give it back? How? They have no mechanism they can apply on the blockchain to actually enforce that order...

At least they can physically seize cash... they can't even do that here.

We're back to the days of "Buried treasure" like it's fucking pirates gold. I don't actually think the majority of users have any interest in that reality.

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Based on your post history, I bet you think orange fuck boi's 1000 dollar bills are a great idea too. You probably have money in TRUMP coin... You seem like someone convinced they're brilliant but who will leak money like a sieve, and constantly be angry because you don't understand why.
I want to stress that "more" is relatively speaking. I think squaring the circle on "privacy preserving" ads involves sliding definitions of privacy that I'm not super comfortable with. Certainly a move in the right direction, but, unlike with all the other side bets, if someone is pointing to the adtech stuff I feel less comfortable dismissing them as uninformed.
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alcohol doesn't work, but acetone does
Price, drivers and/or recognizability? There's a reason that the usually technically inferior Raspberry PI still probably outsells all the bananas,etc.
A statistic is an aggregate number, not an analysis in its own. There may be some linguistic confusion here.

> Statistical significance is a very useful tool

What for? It answers a question in which nobody is interested. What can it do that Bayesian tools can't?
It has the benefit of making the parsing of numeric comparisons unambiguous and trivial to parse. You'd use a different syntax for array indexing.
I'm less concerned with conspiracy theories and would rather see efforts focused on scientific research papers that are intended to be taken seriously. AI should be able to highlight who is buddy-bro pencil-whipping peer reviews and tie them back to a company or funding source and that data must be fed into a panel of people that review the AI results and have the ability to edit the papers with fake peer reviews, issue recalls, notify government agencies, drug companies and the people that have been prescribed said drugs.
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Well, this was the most terrible, demoralizing, demotivating thing to read on Hacker News in a while.

And it's taught me a lot as to what a CEO of an organization really thinks about their employees, and why the hell I'd never want to work at Canopy or a Canopy-using org.

Signed, The Guy That's All 5 Of These Archetypes

PS - type #5? Imagine having to deal with personal crises, week after week, with family care and eldercare and any other problems. I'm glad my team has my back when I have a 'down' week on performance when I've had to spend a night picking elderly people off the floor at home. They get some rockstar performance just about any other time I can give it back.
I'm not ignoring enumerations. I'm supplementing the existing options with a text field rather than shoehorning everything into an uninformative "other" value.

I acknowledge your point about the user ignoring constraints.
Link to study: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsfoodscitech.4c01030
Difficult according to whom?

Sometimes difficult is just a euphemism for not being a mindless drone that always does what it's told.
No, but Apple always uses older generation parts from their suppliers (modems, displays, glass, NAND, etc), not to sabotage their products, but to cut down on BOM costs and increase margins, as suppliers always ask a premium for their latest and greatest, especially since their customers never cared about the spec sheet so using the most expensive parts would be profits wasted.
>To be young is to be constantly on the precipice of perfection – just a little further and you’ll get there

This is an attitude that needs to be excised. Perfection-seeking is a curse.
As soon as I read this comment I knew the article would be some r/LinkedinLunatics style listicle about employee 'archetypes', and I was not disappointed.

So let me provide my own:

The Dirty Dancer: Nobody puts this baby in a corner, but they'll sure as hell pigeon hole everybody else! Concerned mainly with surface level attributes, they will do their best to find a box to put you and--most importantly--keep you in.

To this leader you are not a person, but an SCP awaiting containment. Avoid.
I think the fundamental issue could be that these cities require kids to be bussed around, which is an issue I wouldn't know how to solve.

If that could be solved, kids moving from school to their crafting courses isn't much an issue. On the management part, you need a dedicated teachers either way, they can be paid by the school or paid by the town, that doesn't make much difference for them (except perhaps a lower level of certification between a full blown school teacher and someone with a limited teaching license)

On the curriculum, if there is some certification given at the end of the courses I see how being part of a school helps, but if it's targeted at learning and/or enjoying the craft it's less impacting (in particular for things like cooking, gardening. etc)

This is the model most European cities take as far as I know.
Excel is still the best tool for managing projects, despite all the PM software
I'm pretty sure the US had drones before Ukraine occurred. The US does invest in drones. Maybe they will more, but we're probably a little way away from them assuming the role of tanks any time soon.
Hyperbolic_labs agent can now perform fine-tuning tasks! This is a step forward for our self-evolving agent vision.

This is how it works:

1. sync files to remote machine

2. install relevant dependencies

3. run an initial @UnslothAI fine-tune task

4. do an inference call to test
> I'm not sold on some of its design like the distinction between views and components

There is no distinction in Phlex. The distinction is only made in generated code in Phlex-Rails where it felt like a sensible way to fit with the existing mental model. Views are technically just components, but they are expected to be HTML documents composed of components and rendered directly from controller actions. You wouldn’t want to render a view inside another component because you’d get another doctype and `<html>` tag. So they are sort of “entry points”.

> There's a little metaprogramming in SGML::Elements I dislike

Many crimes are committed in the name of performance. For example, we have a different code path for standard elements with attributes and content, standard elements with attributes but no content, standard elements with content but no attributes and standard elements with no attributes or content. Not to mention void elements.

This allows us to reduce the number of string concatenation operations required during rendering and is why it renders ~1.5gbps of HTML per core.

I’ve considered having an API-compatible minimal version of Phlex that would be much easier to take on and maintain yourself if it didn’t make all these performance optimisations.
Apple was able to get 18% power savings on their modem (a quick average).

If Qualcomm cared they could do the same thing. That's gigawatts of energy, over billions of cellphones, being wasted by modems because the vendor doesn't care.

The problem, of course, is the cost of that inefficiency is external to the vendor.

Maybe Qualcomm will improve their power performance in the next-next-generation.
Surely you mean a systemwide switch you can optionally enable to allow programs to send telemetry.

Or just disable it altogether because there is no real user benefit.
Now do managers
The important distinction, and where the comparison might fall short as the job-advertisement purpose of this post, is motivation. Speedrunners enjoy games because games are fun. Speedrunners get to actually use these vulnerabilities in a way that is meaningful in their lives, whereas vulnerability researchers typically don't.

This is an observation about cyber security in general, but in my experience, bug hunting and reverse engineering require a lot of tenacity at a level that writing software and other areas of IT do not. I think tenacity is a difficult thing to summon if your only tangible motivation is a salary, the target software is intrinsically boring, and you know that you'll be rewarded whether or not you find the bugs.
In mechanical design, you typically target an order of magnitude of stress cycling for product design. In a pump, everything stress cycles, so it all needs to be simulated. If this was a pump you were going to make ten million of, then suddenly every fractional 10th of a cent you save becomes the difference between, e.g., having another coworker or not. So to balance that with offering a reasonable warranty such that there's actually demand for this product makes sense.

Before anyone brings it up: sure, a lot of companies just pocket this savings or whatever, but a lot don't; you just don't hear about them because they're typically midsize companies that nobody complains about.
> Humans could have free will in the same sense, that you can't predict what they are doing, without actually simulating them.

I think it's a good point, but I would argue it's even more direct than that. Humans themselves can't reliably predict what they are going to do before they do it. That's because any knowledge we have is part of our deliberative decision-making process, so whenever we think we will do X, there is always a possibility that we will use that knowledge to change our mind. In general, you can't feed a machine's output into its input except for a very limited class of fixed point functions, which we aren't.

So the bottom line is that seen from the inside, our self-model is a necessarily nondeterministic machine. We are epistemically uncertain about our own actions, for good reason, and yet we know that we cause them. This forms the basis of our intuition of free will, but we can't tell this epistemic uncertainty apart from metaphysical uncertainty, hence all the debate about whether free will is "real" or an "illusion". I'd say it's a bit of both: a real thing that we misinterpret.
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Meh, I just find it to be unnecessarily punishing and bleak. It’s just written to make us sad for no reason.

I think the article is just existing to be negative and inject punishing thoughts about age, to make sure we all have these anxieties even if we don’t have them naturally.

The funny part about the young author example, how older authors are not exciting to discover? Yeah the richest and most successful author of all time was discovered when she was 32. J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit at age 45. Little House on the Prairie? Published when Laura Ingalls Wilder was 65.

I just don’t understand the point of this article other than to transmit bad vibes.
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Look at it the other way. You're old as soon as you see imperfections as permanent and decide to be stuck in your ways. You can always grow if you care to do so.

It's true you can't be a _young_ genius forever but the rest of its not so bleak.
> Archetype #1: The Entitled Veteran

> They've seen initiatives come and go, leaders arrive and depart.

Yup, and they may have seen the exact same initiative you're trying, in the exact same conditions, multiple times. With the same results.

You may want to learn from their experience before becoming failed example +1 for the person replacing your replacement.

> Archetype #2: The Passive Resister

> Document agreements in real-time."I'm noting down what we've agreed to. I'll send a quick email after this meeting so we both have the same reference point."

If you're not doing it routinely for everything it means most of the meetings you have are just social ones. Not work ones.

> Archetype #3: The Brilliant Aggressor

I feel like the author is mainly in this category. Their way or the highway.

> Archetype #4: The Perpetual Victim

> Confirmation bias: They actively collect evidence that supports their narrative of being unfairly treated or blocked by others.

The author may never have had to deal with a reluctant "OPS" team. On some projects I ended-up adding 2 weeks to a month for ETA due to having to wait for things like servers or access to be available. Even when tickets were posted at the start of the project.
Being entirely naive to squid prehistory, the wikipedia page for squid shows two apparent-to-me squid fossils [0]. Is there some nuance here that I'm not aware of?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid#Evolution
I'm starting to understand aging as more a process of becoming who we are meant to be instead of a loss of potentiality. It is a profoundly counter-cultural idea.

I have all-too-brief moments where I experience a visceral sense of literally meeting myself, and the joy therein. I believe that is the work I am to do at the moment, and those small epiphanies are the guideposts.
Need the jail time and a safe harbor if the behavior is fully disclosed in advance with all advertising (a simple phrase will do such as: "Useful life limited to ~10 years, details at xyz")

Some people might be fine with a product with a known lifespan, or want to pay more for the unlimited life version

The penalty should be more like corporate death than individual prison, as that often gets fobbed off on some scapegoat rather than on the actual manager responsible
Both answers here are a good start:

https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/76525/could-a-quantum...

There are specialized algorithms for any part of it, especially search. But demonstrating that quantum computers are good for linear algebra should be enough to show that they are generally useful, I hope.

The encryption I was referring to was quantum link encryption (technically not a quantum computer, but we are splitting hairs here; it uses the same set of underlying mechanisms). Quantum link encryption permits you to have a communications channel that if someone tries to man in the middle, all it does is break the link. Both you and the attacker only see gibberish. It’s like a one time pad that doesn’t require first exchanging pads.
In this thread: all the difficult employees
Seems to me like wishful thinking. This would require an interface to connect to and there we are most probably in the physical realm again (what we can perceive as such).
Yep and losses are only losses when it's realized. A billionaire can just ride out the crash for 5, 10 or 15 years while investing more when the market is near the bottom. What they are investing in is buying the shares that the middle class has to sell off to pay their rent.

I don't know what you want to label it as but being able to ride out a crash and having your unrealized losses go back to normal while still having capital to buy a ton when the market was near the bottom of a crash sounds like a lot like transferring wealth to me (from the middle to the top).
Setting up a Docker container with Pi-hole being more difficult than writing a filtering DNS proxy. Interesting.
The xenon poisoning is why they took the control rods all the way out, but the runaway reaction was probably caused by the graphite tips on the ends of the control rods. As the control rods were scrammed these tips passed through areas of high neuton flux and caused a spike in power which probably caused the explosion.

There were a lot more factors at play in the chain, but the burnoff of the xenon wasn't itself the proximal cause of the explosion.
Something that strikes me about the tone of both the article and comments here is how hard on ourselves we can be. The folks here are of a particular variety too -- pulled in by grand stories of "achievement". The imperfection and the manner in which we reckon with it can be incredibly beautiful. Indeed it is probably the only thing we have, and the only thing we can really use to truly connect with others. It's all really beautiful if you let it be. On the other side, it can be torturous if you don't.
Layman's guess: Both were synced to the mains frequency.
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I was going to say I don't understand this mindset, but I guess I do. I can't really agree with it, though. How debilitating it must be to live with this pressure, to achieve something that maybe one in a million achieves, instead of aiming to make every day a happy one.

It doesn't even seem like these people live for others, they live because they imagine how great it would feel to be acknowledged. In chasing that ultimate pleasure, they forget to just make each day good.
I saw someone claiming drones are the biggest military invention since the stirrup!

The US would do well to start catching up on that technology.

BTW, I assume that when/if the Ukraine war ends, the Ukrainian drone industry will be the best in the world.
Yeah if anything in this universe is undecidable, it's gotta be the conscious thought and behavior of a sufficiently complex brain.

Even if a full system analysis reveals patterns that can be used for short-term predictions, you're still only looking at inputs and outputs, and run into the system identification problem. Two brains could produce the same measurable output while still experiencing wildly different internal phenomenon and qualia. For example, how would I know that my blue is your blue, even if we both answer blue and our visual cortex exhibits similar firing patterns?
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Then why do cities keep annexing suburbs? If they are such a resource sink you would think the opposite would be true - cities would shrink their borders.
Debian already doesn't just stick to free software. Let's say I have a program in debain's main repos. Suppose tomorrow I release a new version that uploads all your data (including shitcoin vallets ant passwords) to my server. All fully open source of course. Do you think Debian should include this update? Does rejecting it cause ideological confusion?
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Sorry, not everyone over 45 is painfully self-critical.

Example: the fact that I don’t have the DNA to be an NBA player is not a flaw of character. The fact that I don’t have an eye for painting or the brain for quantum physics isn’t a flaw of character.

This article basically encourages us to punish ourselves for happily existing.
Shit like this is what turns a manager into an annoying, insufferable pointy-haired boss.

It's so easy to just archetype everyone and throw it in a blog post for some of that lucrative "thought leader" (cue mega eye-roll) cred.

Just stop.
You are right about the internal model, but I wouldn't dismiss the view from the outside.

Ie I wouldn't expect humans without free will to be able to predict themselves very well, either. Exactly as you suggest: having a fixed point (or not) doesn't mean you have free will.
On the other hand, the misunderstanding of the question still resulted in a reply that added valuable context to the discussion, so thank you :)
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Didn't realize this was an issue! I must be one of the lucky ones
I can't help but feel that Rails is having a comeback now. Lots of people building really cool projects like this one popping up. The stack is insanely good for doing everything I need to do and the Hotwire Native stuff is starting to get more and more solid every day.
chasing inline cache micro-optimizations with dynamic binary modification is a dead end. modern CPUs are laughing at our outdated compiler tricks. maybe it's time to accept that clever hacks won’t outrun silicon.
Maybe a note keeping app?