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Early days are where you can move the needle the most. It's hard to make an impact on a huge, entrenched business that works pretty well and has millions of stakeholders.

"Looking up the answer in a database" is a pretty reasonable answer from a layperson. The only thing specifically wrong with it is "exact".

> How do we implement the lock boxes? I tell you SHA256(NONCE, VALUE) where the NONCE is chosen by me. Given the hash you cannot compute VALUE. To open the lock box, I tell you NONCE and VALUE, which you believe under the assumption that I cannot find a collision in SHA256.

That's the bit I was missing! The prover pre-registers the scrambled solution, so they can't cheat by making up values that fit the constraints.

I believe the main biological lever is retaining juvenile features as adults, physically as well as mentally (like with dogs). What we see as cute is an honest signal that they are more child-like: less aggressive, more trusting and pro-social.

It's pretty clearly not a native English speaker

I think the look they're going for with the headlights is inexpensive and friendly, not cool or sleek or aesthetic.

Yes, that is why nobody has children, because they might grow up to be murderers

Right, and the US (presumably) has the mass and stability to weather that impact much better than Argentina does.

Why would anyone ever take that bet? It has to be leveraged, which is where the risk comes from.

That's an allegory for life under authoritarian rule, not a literal alien contact plan

I see the time pressure effect on article quality, could have used some editing (muddled message, abrupt ending, could be situating the points better). It feels more like a dense outline than an article.

What it's saying (I think) is that IQ tests measure learnable skills, and population-level changes over time are measuring learned competence and not innate intelligence, proven by statistics.

I think most people would agree that most skills reflect both innate talent and preparation/training. I can get better at running, but could never beat Kipchoge in a marathon, no matter how much I train.

Aren't utilities better equipped to plan, build, and operate sources of electricity?

Don't they already pass the cost of that onto consumers?

I'm no apple enthusiast, but digital knobs solve a real UI problem. They:

- display a value compactly

- show that the value is modifiable by the user

- allow changing the value to use more screen real-estate than the knob itself

An abstract slider that works like a knob is jumping a knights-move away in design space from a traditional control. The user has to understand 2 things about the widget:

1. It's user-modifiable

2. It's manipulated by clicking on the widget, then dragging away

A knob is only 1 step away from a traditional control. You get the "user-modifiable" knowledge for free, because everyone knows what a knob is already.

I can see the stroke width differences that they mention in the article. The lowercase ee in been, the capital S.

Might be placebo, but the text in the article jumped out at me as fresh, clean, and warm. I think they did good work

Is a punched-up version really a misquote? He said basically the same thing, just in a more meandering way.

They negotiate lower royalty rates with music factories churning out content, then tweak their playlists to use more of the cheaper music.

So I guess, at minimum, they could avoid undercutting the artists on their platform

https://archive.ph/dudYu

Thank you

Are multiplication and long division by hand really necessary skills?

I never need to "fall back" to the principles of multiplication. Multiplying by the 1s column, then the 10s, then the 100s feels more like a mental math trick (like the digits of multiples of 9 adding to 9) than a real foundational concept.

If you want to go one step further, how about tracking users' engagement with the randomized posts, and using it to personalize what they see?

Wow, I just invented tiktok and Instagram

If it's identical, you made a clone. If it's evenly slightly different, the design needs to be rethought. In a good game, the mechanics, assets, and game loop harmonize. Change one piece, and the balance shifts.

I think the "true signifier" of consciousness is fractal reactions. Being able to grip onto an input, and have it affect you for a short, or medium, or long time, at a subconscious or overt level.

Basically, if you poke it, does it react in a complex way

I think that's what Douglas Hofstedder was getting at with "Strange Loop"

Because "customer support" is supposed to be, at least on its face, friendly and supportive. It's not good business to actively antagonize or challenge your customers.

Yeah, measuring standard deviation from the average isn't an accurate way of scoring - "too big" pieces are worse than "too small"

Isn't confidence referring to the alternate definition of trust, as in "taking you into his confidence"?

I think what distinguishes fascism from plain authoritarianism is that, with fascism, a segment of the population is enthusiastically participating.

I think he was a little too far up his butt on this one. Laws are created by people and followed (or not) by people. It doesn't matter what the internal logic of the system is, fascism means dismantling it and replacing it with direct power.

Coyotes are adorable!

https://youtu.be/UW5Or7bIVJk

This is exactly it! The triple whammy of the work getting harder, expectations getting higher, and coping with potential failure once you call it "done".

When you have all the money, what do you worry about? Gold is a hedge.

The normal version is anthropomorphizing - projecting humanity onto something (state of mind, emotions, reactions).

The autistic version is interpreting the state of objects emotionally, which is closer to synesthesia.

The normal version is practice for interacting with people, the autistic version is consuming emotional attention that could otherwise be used for people.