njtransit

What is the argument here, exactly?

No, I'm sorry, you are not correct. I am not conflating internal implementation with whether or not it is useful. Rather, I am evaluating the opportunity cost, i.e. comparing this library to the "next best thing."

For this library, the next best thing would be to make two simple API calls instead of one simple API call. As a cost, this is very low. However, the "next best thing" also has a number of desirable properties compared to this library: better support for custom serialization and a lower attack surface for supply-chain attacks. When you look at the costs vs. the benefits of this library, the utility is negative.

Using your example of currency: a paper bill is not just a piece of paper. It's a piece of paper coupled with the vast machinations of a nation state that can enforce its currency via its monopoly on violence. You can't get all the benefits of a $100 bill just by having a green piece of paper.

No, the library would be better if it provided some utility. As it stands, it provides negative utility.

But nothing about the API is specific to pagination. This library essentially is just two other API calls: marshal and seal. It can do this operation on any marshal-able type. By using this library, you lose control over marshaling, which seems like a high cost to pay for this very simple and basic functionality.

This looks like a very simple wrapper around golang.org/x/crypto/nacl/secretbox

What’s the point of this?

The quality floor of all mediums will always be 0.

Additionally, there are lots of examples where cheaper production has produced an inferior product yet the difference in price causes the inferior product to usurp in superior product. Building materials exhibit this effect frequently: plaster vs. drywall, asphalt vs. slate, balloon framing vs structural masonry, etc.

In media, TikTok exemplifies this effect. People watch fewer movies (expensive, high quality) and watch more short-form content (cheap, low quality).

Thanks. That is interesting. Did you use AI for just the front end components, or were you also able to reliably use the output for the ML portions, or were those simply offloaded to other services via API call?

Can you share some examples?

One difference between dark matter and Neptune is that the existence of Neptune is falsifiable. The formulation of dark matter inherently is not. Falsifiable hypotheses is the cornerstone of science.

Because it’s just a provocative fiction in their minds.

Perhaps it’s just me, but I’ve cooked recipes off of 50 year old, grease stained index cards written in barely legible cursive, whose ink has all but rubbed entirely away. And it was fine. Worrying about recipe format is like trying to improve reading as a technology. The state of the art is both really simple and really old. It’s hard to mess up (format-wise, recipe content can definitely suck) and it’s hard to improve.

Much more important to me: is the listed cooking time of onions accurate.

Comparing going down with the ship to dying for a cause seems like a false equivalence. When a ship sinks, the outcome is more or less the same whether people are onboard or not: in either case the ship will sink. The only difference is whether or not the passengers / crew survive.

Fighting for a cause, on the other hand, generally requires that people sacrifice themselves. If no one is willing to die, then the fight is very unlikely to be successful. Being willing to die (and sometimes dying) has the ability meaningful change the outcome.

All of the edge cases were self-inflicted. They could have picked a different UX that would have had a much smaller set of edge cases to care about.

Again, most buildings are low rise, especially old buildings, so of course most soft story buildings are low rise. But both low rise and high rise buildings can be soft story.

The reason buildings don’t collapse under shear (think side to side force like would be applied by strong wind or an earth quake) is in part because the interior walls offer shear strength. If you have too few interior walls, and you haven’t compensated via other mechanisms like stronger sheathing, then you risk catastrophic collapse. This is a risk in old construction where walls may have been removed or in cases where building weren’t constructed to appropriate standards. In Turkey, this was particularly bad because the use of concrete in floors and roofs results in more shear force.

The tl;dr is that this isn’t a low-rise vs. high-rise thing. It’s mostly an old vs. new thing.

Your linked Wikipedia article doesn't say that low-rise buildings are particularly dangerous. A "soft story" building is one that doesn't have good sheer strength due to missing sheer walls inside. It has nothing to do with being a low-rise or apartment building. As mentioned in the Wikipedia article, apartment buildings in Turkey were by far the most dangerous place to be during the 2023 earthquake.

Zillow was trying to buy / sell properties, not rent them.

Why do you think “people’s treatment is not going any better”? As far as I know, cancer outcomes have greatly improved.

That would be the same if comp was paid in cash and then individually invested.

The goal of a salt is to prevent lookup attacks. Since the user id is unique to each user, it prevents the use of pre-computed lookup tables like a salt would.

Stock grants are taxed as wage income.

The issue is that almost all human behavior is correlated and, even if you have an easy-to-see [sic] method of action, e.g. “brain gunk”, that doesn’t automatically negate a nearly-infinite set of other possible causes from correlated behavior. Just a random example: those with high stress probably sleep poorly. You can think of a number of possible explanations that link high stress to shorter lifespans: more likely to commit suicide, more fat retention, less time for healthy activities, etc.

A somewhat sensible take, but the issue isn’t just healthcare. A lot of your life is based off of long-term, fixed cost cash flow. E.g. you can’t pay less on your mortgage just because you got fired. Even with savings, getting laid off is highly disruptive, and, if done as part of a broader downturn in the market, you may never recover the required cash flow to enable your lifestyle.

If interest rates are on their way down, why has the 10Y treasury yield increased 50 points over the last month? https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/US10Y

I’m not so sure. To quote Tolstoy: “All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The same is likely true for products.

I’m pretty sure gladiators were slaves, so pretty much the opposite of willing participants.

I think the main issue, as briefly mentioned in the article, is that the dangers of football weren’t really known. Now, those dangers are known, and people still willingly choose to participate (for huge sums of money at the professional level). What is left to discuss?

You seriously assess "future AI features" when buying a phone? Have you heard the expression "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"? Also, what is the lifetime of a phone? How far in the future are these new features expected?

The attack vectors are either some type of credential or account compromise. Generally, these attacks fall under the cross-site scripting (XSS) umbrella. The browser exposes certain things to the JS context based on the origin. E.g. if you log in to facebook.com, facebook.com might set an authentication cookie that can be accessed in the JS context. Additionally, all outbound requests to facebook.com will include this authentication cookie. So, if you can execute JS in the context of facebook.com, you could steal this cookie or have the browser perform malicious actions that get implicitly authenticated.

God forbid kids use their imagination.