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> BTW: I was born in Japan.

Then your nationality is Japan or not? Interesting to hear.

> Nice try to completely avoided the actual facts of the rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March and Unit 731. Regardless of what the U.S. does now ( and I agree some of it is awful), Japan's armies raped, tortured and murdered enormous numbers of POWs and civilians during WWII.

Even if some include propaganda from the Chinese government, I have already said "both Japan and the US did bad things in the past." and not completely avoided the facts. You even did not answer my questions. Please read my comments carefully.

> You can't deny it any more than I can deny that the U.S. currently kills terrorism suspects with drones.

Oh yes, babies are terrorist suspects, doctors and patients in hospitals are also terrorist suspects. Aren't they?

> The dropping of the bombs was clearly humane.

If dropping atomic bombs is clearly humane, why not use them in every war? The US should use them in every war since Hiroshima and Nagasaki but they have not. Atomic bomb is considered one of the Weapons of Mass Destruction, that even the US justifies for starting a war in Iraq for the suspicion of them for just having a WMD. Clearly using atomic bombs is an inhuman action and the US knows it. That is why they have not used it anymore.

> The Emperor and military were going to use millions of civilians as human shields and weapons during the invasion. They refused to surrender unconditionally until the bombs were dropped. They intended to duplicate the results of the "Divine Wind" yielded against the Mongols, only using human lives instead of a hurricane. All so they could retain their "empire" and their ability to subject Chinese, Koreans, and peoples across the NW pacific.

Again I have already said "the Emperor and the Japanese military could have done a better job to surrender earlier". You seem to rush into conclusions without reading my comments carefully and many times having a false conclusion. At the present day, atomic bomb is a WMD and using WMD is clearly considered an inhuman action also by the US government themselves.
Historical records did not begin 100 years ago, that much I don't think anyone can truly believe. We have detailed contemporary histories of the American Revolutionary War, for one, and they seem no more "biased" than histories of WWII.

There is a 500 year difference bt Herodotus and Tacitus. Even so, Herodotus did no more than accurately record what he was told, assiduously pointing out when he saw something first hand. Early ancient historians made up speeches, that much is known. But by Tacitus's day, the act of writing an objective history was not a novelty, and in fact he complains in the beginning of his text that he is undertaking the work because he thinks his peers, also ostensibly engaged in objective history, have not been objective enough out of fear or hatred when covering the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. Once again, with no reason to doubt him, I ask: why not even consider taking one of the greatest historians whose works have been preserved for posterity at face value?

Is there anything in particular Tacitus says in any of his works that you doubt happened?
The static generator is completely hidden to the end user. They log in, click add new post, add some text, style it in Markdown or HTML, upload a few images, add a few tags and click publish. Forestry commits the changes and Netlify runs a build. All the user sees of this is that their new post is now published.

When I first started using static sites I would have agreed with you: there's no way I'd hand a normal user a markdown editor and a git repo and expect them to get on with it. But these new services do, in my opinion, solve the experience problem.

However Wordpress is really good if you want to leverage the module ecosystem and do more complex stuff further down the line.

Having used Wordpress for years I get excited about static sites' speed, simplicity and lack of constant security updates but it's not a one size fits all situation.
Thank you for the detailed reply. It's a very good one, and I think it does boil down into doing the harder thing instead of the lazy one, especially really tempting things like lying to yourself.
So did I, usually in while bored in class, so a window between me and the sun (blocking UV, for what that's worth). I'd stare until the sun developed an outline in my vision, then look elsewhere until the sunspot in my vision wore off, then I'd do it again.

But there are documented cases of eye damage, so the danger is real.
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It looks like a lot of crazy people are going to trust their eyesight to a cheap piece of plastic from some company they've never heard of. Hope for the best.
Transpiler is a recently made up word, and describes something that's just as well described as a compiler. I wouldn't spend too much time hoping for a distinction here.
Exactly. The light doing damage isn't necessarily the visible light that gives you the impulse to avert your eyes, it's the UV. In one study, 50% of the people looking at the eclipse had caused permanent damage to their eyes (sans any precautions or averting their eyes).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/...
> Also, why would you even have a microwave, toaster, and ELECTRIC dryer? Those all use obscene amounts of power.

Of the three appliances above, only the dryer uses a large amount of ENERGY, and energy is what's important for sustainability calculations. I can run my RV's microwave just fine from a 2000-watt inverter and two deep-cycle batteries which are recharged from a 180-watt solar panel, as long as I don't run it very long and I use it during daytime. An electric dryer is a different story because it has to run a long time to be useful. But there's no reason a toaster and microwave can't be part of a modest PV system.
Nope, Antartic ice shelf. Last chunk of Green Mars. The terrestrial panic it caused let the martians have a successful blitzkrieg revolution.
Look to corporations or government, 50,000lb batteries would be repaired mostly because at massive scales it's cheaper. Think of, for example, the Navy stripping & rebuilding entire ships. They could have made a new hull, but a huge crew of workers is cheaper.

The main reason consumer stuff is not repaired, I've decided, is the scale is so small that the savings, too, are so small they vanish.
No. As someone who has watch AI development since the late 70's as both a student, undergraduate and then real world programmer, every hyped-up break-through in AI has led to minor improvements but nothing that takes the programs beyond relative simplicity.

Even the systems that beat grandmasters in there respective games are having to operate at gigahertz speeds, focussed on one simple task to beat the human who has to operate in a highly sensory loaded environment. The human has many things to focus on, is running at relatively low speeds (nerve impulses are glacial slow compared to the impulse sequences in silicon hardware) and is still only just being beaten.

We have little or no real understanding of how the brain works, what sentience, intelligence and consciousness or free will is. Until we have this kind of understanding of ourselves, this concept that certain people are worried about (the singularity) will not happen. None of our computer systems (or all of them combined) are of the complexity of a single human baby brain.

In addition, since I also believe that there is a Creator God who built and designed the universe and that new intelligences are solely in His domain, I have no concern over any such singularity ever being created by man.
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Just knowing which fields are nullable, that's already a surprisingly huge productivity boost.
Also in some cases, you are morally bound to work on the startup when you've recovered and not waste time programming some side project. But too burnt out to code at all.

So, what many do is neither of the above - they read books, play games, have meetings, or some other time filling activity.
> Other portfolio investments of Fred's have followed a similar pattern of having the original CEO pushed out once they get to a certain level of success.

And honestly, they should. Managing a company through 50, 100, 150, 500 and 1,000+ employee milestones requires very different leadership skillsets. There are very few founders who (1) understand this (2) are willing to party ways with their company (3) can navigate through each stage without help and (4) would pull a Zuck and surround themselves with more established/senior people (e.g. Sandberg) as they hit those milestones.

I'm all for young entrepreneurs challenging the status quo by thwarting an old guard of seemingly "old people" (a la Jack Barker), but this is one area that traditionally has a lot of "old people" simply because experience is incredible valuable to scaling companies.

I haven't read "The Hard Thing About Hard Things", but my understanding is that it basically touches upon all of the intricacies of how to navigate business challenges that typically more experienced senior individuals possess.
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> > Apples and oranges. Haskell is defined by a language specification, not an implementation.

Do you have the wrong thread? You're quoting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15005881 , but replying to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15005874 (albeit by the same user).
Of course we won't stop thinking, creating, conversing, and there will always be hobbyist and academic interest in even obsolete skills.

But we have already forgotten how to make, how to farm, etc. I don't think any single person can make even something as simple as a pencil, from scratch, let alone something like a cell-phone, advanced drugs etc. Even bringing together a collection of all the necessary experts, the task would likely be almost impossible without computers, and the rest of modern infrastructure.

If humanity were to be somehow detached from even today's infrastructure, we'd be in trouble.
I worry about "good enough" AI winning in the jobs race against humans mostly. You can see it now, like the other day where some non-extremist content was being purged from YouTube. If a human were doing that job it wouldn't have happened, or at least somebody would be accountable instead of "lol a bug." I can see a future where all kinds of interfaces are aggravating and obtuse, like when you have to speak carefully at a phone prompt for the speech recognizer to understand you.
How can that work? You need a security clearance to read them? What if someone else invents the same thing before the patent expires?
It feels pretty ironic that this article takes a jab at FB with the fake news comment and then NYT, which arguably should be held to a higher bar for pieces like this, gets a pass on fact checking.
There's a short term condition called arc eye (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photokeratitis). Basically a sun burn on your eyes that heals after a day, and supposedly doesn't really have long term damage. I have experienced it several times (both from welding and hiking in the snow), and haven't noticed any major changes in my vision since.
I'm not sure what you mean. They do track everything, otherwise they couldn't match up your payment for the product with the vendor it actually came from in order to pay them.

The question is what else are Amazon willing to do with that information, which turns out to be very little or nothing because as soon as Amazon gets humans involved in the transaction making actual decisions, their costs shoot up.
Why the downvotes? V100 does have a TPU-like unit in it.
On the other hand, it can be hard to take an idea into production without some of the protection granted by a patent. Look at all the people who try to get their inventions manufactured in China, only to be beaten to market by a clone (not that a patent would help there, but ideally it would).

An inventor can't develop their idea if they can't talk to manufacturers without fear of getting ripped off.
What we do have to worry about is the power of hype and marketing and the stupidity of the management class falling prey to that.

That stupidity and short sightedness may cause more loss of livelihood than the technology itself.
There is a documentary called 'Derek Tastes of Earwax' which is about synesthesia, where the main person in the documentary tastes words. He says during it that he finds it difficult to cook food and listen to people talk, because all the different signals become too much, and he needs to leave the room.
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The title of this post is misleading. It feels as if Hugo is plagued with tons of loads of problems (especially when so many people have upvoted!) where it is just ONE problem. Just ONE which is not even that hard a thing to resolve.

OP please change the title to make sure it matches the actual blog.
> Technically they are all transpilers, but seeing as there is no lower-level for the browser than JS (barring WebASM), one could also argue that they are in fact also compilers.

They're compilers because they translate from one computer language into another. It has nothing to do with how low of a level the browser supports running. They're additionally transpilers (a subset of compilers), because the languages that they translate between are both high-level languages.
A system like the one you mentioned not only encourages surveillance but also paves way for more corruption at the top level (assuming the government goes ahead with rating businesses as well). I sincerely hope this system is abolished before other countries begin implementing it as well.
Amazing this works entirely inside the web browser.
Does this need to be tagged as [2015]? Still, interesting quick read. How did the error pass QA? It would seem like something d be spotted...
"I would lose the verbs. I love the verbs, I really do, and they would be hard to lose, but they are cruft. It's not as scary as it sounds. I haven't fully worked it out (not that I am working it out, but if I was working it out, which I'm not, I wouldn't have it fully worked out). I might change my mind, but probably not. Mmmmm... verbs."

Signature Monkey Island writing style . Ron Gilbert wrote one of the greatest all time scripts - one can read the entire game here: https://www.gamefaqs.com/pc/562681-the-secret-of-monkey-isla...
> Grid-scale battery banks, that's something you would think was perfected back in the fifties or so.

Until very recently (and maybe even now) the electric utilities spent less on R&D than the dog food industry [0]. Because they didn't need to. There was virtually no need for storage before PV became cheap and fossil fuel became expensive and the regulated monopolies had to start thinking about competition from renewables. Although most of them still haven't recognized this.

[0] https://thebreakthrough.org/archive/dog_food_beats_energy
When you choose to eat organic foods it should be because you care about the environment, not because you believe that it will cure ailments. Organic and non-organic are nutritionally equivalent.
So all transpilers are compilers, but not all compilers are transpilers?
Isn't debt harder to raise than equity? My impression is that the risk tolerance for junk bond buyers is somewhere between high grade credit and equity, perhaps closer to equity. Certainly more conservative than growth or venture equity.

I'm the first to admit that I don't follow their specific financials to know how much runway they need to be profitable.
I get the sentiment but the request is awkward. IF OSS developers don't want to code for free then there's an easy, fool-proof solution.

If you're going to try to argue Debian is worth $30 billion then I'll try to argue that it's generated $30 billion in free publicity.
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Yeah. Do over. I was trying to think of an organization that didnt admit to a problem until confronted and obvious.

My bad
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What kind of piece of shit makes these things? It's one thing to make a crappy knockoff phone charger. It may be less efficient and even less safe, but you can probably rationalize it away since they mostly work OK.

But this is a piece of safety equipment with a single function, and people only buy it to use it in one way, which will cause direct and immediate harm if the product fails. How can someone live with themselves after doing this?
Pearl Harbor isn't a traditional "last stand" either. I think he just meant it as an extraordinary military battle that defined an ethos to that nation.

From the wiki

> A common saying was: "You cannot stop an army which has done Stalingrad."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad#Significa...
"We hope to see you again soon."

Fairly poor choice of words..
Top-rated on Amazon, and shipped from China on the same product seems kind of suspect. It's pretty rare for a top-rated item to be fulfilled by a party other than Amazon.

Any chance you can share a link to the item?
^ This, exactly.
They increase cache locality and runtime performance of iteration and equality checking. If that answer isn't sufficient, try watching the ~30min Clojure West video on the github page. The speaker seems to be a bit new to public speaking but his talk on the subject was easy to follow and informative for me.
Sigh, I think I screwed up this by being stupid. I still think that this is in the HN wheelhouse but I didn't help with my comments. My bad.

Please go read the book.
I really liked this post. Obviously everyone has different motivations, but at its heart FOSS is an enormous collection of cooperative and/or charitable work, and the industry as a whole should be really, really proud of it.

One other option for giving back - just send an email saying thanks, and that you love the project. I get such an email once or twice each week for my open source project, and it really brightens up my day. I'm lucky enough to not really need any donations, but everybody needs their spirits lifted from time to time.

Knowing that your contribution has made a positive impact on someone else's life is a powerful thing, and from the user's perspective costs very little to do.
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How much were the "financial deals" he struck?
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I've actually wanted to do this for a very long time, and have been keeping an eye out for anybody with access to an RF chamber.

I know that FCC testing requires both measurement and exposure, so there are many facilities that both sense and generate EM/RF fields. These facilities would quite possibly have access to the kind of things made by eg https://www.gauss-instruments.com/en/, and could produce some really interesting results.

The reason why I've wanted to use pro lab equipment to test this is because I'd be able to hold up the results as scientific proof. That would be awesome, both because it would validate the condition (which is recognized in Germany but not the rest of the world), and also because many of the people who have this are pathologically affected, and seem like they're bonkers as a result. Between '08-12 I was ridiculously paranoid, for example I refused to go to the local shopping center just because I could see cell towers nearby. Unfortunately the most vocal sufferers of this issue are going to have that level of paranoia. Now that I can be a bit more reasonable (because I don't feel like I'm dying :P) that makes it a bit more constructive.

And yeah, I am very curious whether it's the electrical or magnetic field that does more damage.
It's funny that your second metric appears to be one that many might disagree with. I think PG once said something along the lines of - if every company accepted into YC is raising we aren't taking enough chances on longshots.

Basically, they want more Airbnb longshots along with what look like safer bets, and often those longshots have a hard time raising cause it seems so far fetched.
The slowdown was one of the coolest parts of the game though.

So much action that the framerate drops and you are still surviving the chaos.

This kind of "glitch" was formative for a lot of slow motion in films.
It's a miniscule bit of humour that consumes 1 of 31 used slots in a 100-slot block, in an area of tech that isn't even remotely drowning in 'fun stuff'. What does it really matter? There are plenty of perfectly serious RFCs that are even less implemented than 418.

It's not like this RFC ratifying a 20-year-old joke that 'made it' is going to generate a cavalcade of lookalikes.
By genocide do you mean mass abortion? Should we ban pro-choice speech?
Except, of course, _Antarctic_ ice sheet just keeps growing.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-o...
The 400-block is 69% free, after 28 years of development. If we're ever in the position where we need to free up just one more code, then we're already consuming beyond our capacity and will need to sort out an alternative anyway.
Do you hire influencers (interesting considering you seem like a dev from your profile)? I think for the layman marketer there isn't really enough information on what the standard performance KPIs should be (even with "traditional media".) It's my view that the majority of companies aren't doing enough to record marketing performance to build their own expectations out of campaigns.
I like to think of it like this: If you over fetch, you throw it away at the server and not after sending it to the client. You can wrap a standard REST API and it'll still be more optimal.

We've been using REST and slowly adding hacks to stop sending so much data. We have 2x API calls that used to be 1mb each and now they're something like 5kb with GQL.
It's nice to dream up a language with the perfect semantics; in reality, all programming languages make compromises because they are limited by current compiler technology. Ruby is on one extreme end of the spectrum, making little compromises on beauty, but we all know how slow it is.

Go is on the other end of the spectrum; they have tuned their syntax to be fast to parse, and have stuck to implementing existing compiler technology. If your semantics are very far removed from how computers work, you need a very advanced compiler like GHC.

It sounds like Perl6 is somewhat centrist in its approach, and has innovated quite a bit; I think it will be possible to almost match Perl5's speed with reasonable effort. The interpreter might do well on small examples, but the VM will dominate in very large ones. Many compilers are tiered in that they use an interpreter for cold code, and spend the effort to generate code and JIT hot code.
In the comments the author says they were offered a total of $130 for the model account and $400 for the photographer account.
Bundled software isn't 'free-as-in-beer'.
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Seems like it shouldn't be too hard to build a service that lets influencer networks screen out fakes. Usually there are clear markers, like a large number of followers having some other random account in common. Unfortunately, from experience I know that:

a) the networks don't care because the risk and reputation cost of selling fake inventory is minimal, and

b) brands don't care because it's considered a cost of doing business.
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