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At a government job, new contractors had to watch a video of a serious man telling us the jailtime and monetary penalties for accessing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) inappropriately. I never even tried to get the PROD credentials.

IntelliJ can view bytecode even without the source code

A PL researcher recommended [1] precisely cuz it avoids parsing and focuses on interpretation.

[1] https://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/

"Doctors are told to weigh the benefits vs. costs of every treatment. So what are the benefits and costs of IRBs?

"Whitney can find five people who unexpectedly died from research in the past twenty-five years. ...

"What are the costs? ...the monetary costs are around the order of $1.6 billion.

"What about non-monetary costs? ... Low confidence estimate, but somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 Americans probably die each year from IRB-related research delays.

"So the cost-benefit calculation looks like - save a tiny handful of people per year, while killing 10,000 to 100,000 more, for a price tag of $1.6 billion. If this were a medication, I would not prescribe it."

We need them for "the Transfer of implicit knowledge from a senior teacher to an apprentice"

Figures 1 and 3 in the paper show the connections between brain inputs and brain outputs. The whole thing looks like a flying balloon monster.

https://imgur.com/a/u5P3AQw

My casual reading of the Quran found nothing pro- or contra-LGBT. Perhaps the Hadiths are another matter...

Peter Watts, perhaps? https://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm

We need INFINITY because no matter how much storage we have, we'll always have problems that need even more storage to solve?

Relevant Novella from Cory Doctorow:

The way Salima found out that Boulangism had gone bankrupt: her toaster wouldn’t accept her bread.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...

I like the thousander chant but I only have regular laptop speakers. What do you recommend to really "get" the song? What would I hear beyond those super low basses?

The Vampire Tapestries, about a non-supernatural vampire

The omnicube link is broken FYI

I just spent an entire weekend playing candy box 2 and I had so much fun, I made a donation to the dev. First game I've played to the end in years. There's something about making a number go up (in the game, it is candies) that satisfies my curiosity in a way I didn't think I needed.

I got to use my math skills (estimating when some scheme would make the number reach a certain level. I got to use my research skills (searching the game wiki for schemes to make the number reach a certain level). I got to use my puzzle-solving on some of the minigames. I got to be patient while waiting for schemes to pay off. I got to be persistent when grinding through some minigames to make the number go up. I had something to look forward to whenever I was bored throughout the day.

Thanks to the dev, aniwey, and thanks to the HN poster who started the thread about Universal Paperclips on which I found a reference to Candy Box 2.

Thanks. I'd already started paying for it, and now it looks like I won't have to anymore.

Here's a sci-fi story about tech-assisted cataloging of parent's stuff

"Using this kind of technology on a living human’s home would be a gross invasion of privacy. But if you use it in the home of someone who’s died alone, it just improves a process that was bound to take place in any event. Working with Infinite Space, you can even use the inventory as a checklist, value all assets using current eBay blue-book prices, divide them algorithmically or manually, even turn it into a packing and shipping manifest you can give to movers, telling them what you want sent where. It’s like full-text search for a house."

https://www.iftf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/th/ByHi...

Please spoil it, I've read the book multiple times and I'm looking to learn even more :)

Tractor companies (e.g. John Deere, CASE) provide this information in their cloud offerings

TIL that Atlassian's Confluence (used at big corps for internal documentation) uses Textile, or something similar, for their text editor.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-wiki-markup-...

Join a contracting agency for a couple of years to see how contracting works, then you can decide to contract directly by yourself.

Please suggest some Chinese forums: I’m not sure how to google for them…

Back button worked on desktop but not on mobile

I, too, would like to read an article on how to facilitate pair programming

I have a similar experience with a twist. I rarely even get called for jobs I apply for, but by setting my LinkedIn profile to the equivalent of "Actively hunting," I get lots of calls by recruiters. Again, they call about positions that I'd NOT apply to but hey, they still pay well. And they're remote.

Was there anything surprising to you? Any viewpoints more common than you previously thought?

Direct link to the podcast episode of the Nortel story: https://malicious.life/episode/episode-113/

From the conclusion, "Writing social software is hard. And, as I said, the act of writing social software is more like the work of an economist or a political scientist. And the act of hosting social software... is more like a relationship of landlords to tenants than owners to boxes in a warehouse.

The people using your software, even if you own it and pay for it, have rights and will behave as if they have rights. And if you abrogate those rights, you'll hear about it very quickly."

"It has to be hard to do at least some things on the system for some users, or the core group will not have the tools that they need to defend themselves. Now, this pulls against the cardinal virtue of ease of use. But ease of use is wrong...

The user of social software is the group, not the individual."

OP here, if you've got any pull at Google/Youtube and can help get our nonprofit's channel (with all our original content) back, we'd be most grateful.

(we've learned our lesson and will be backing up all content from now on)

That’s the power of good names. It allows you to take a bunch of complexity [36 lines of code] and pacakge it up into a dense little box [a method name].

I’m the type of person who likes to sit for a few minutes and brainstorm the right name for something... On the other hand, I find that many other people don’t even want to invest a few seconds in this.