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My dad brought a Tektronix 4051 home from work when I was a teenager, so that was one of the computers I grew up with back in the 1980s. I didn't realize at the time how expensive those were.
>Computer science is more rigorous than mathematics

Not true. Also computer science is very vague in a way.
It wouldn't necessarily, but in Quebec's history it did create that schedule conflict - before that there was already a mandatory Moving Day here on May 1 (i.e. ending leases then was required by law), first legislated all the way back in New France colonial times so that landlords didn't force people to move during our harsh winters.

The Liberals removed the requirement for specific lease dates in 1974, but they coupled that with a one-time extension to June 30, 1975 of leases that were scheduled to end on April 30 or May 1 of that year, as most were due to the former requirement.

Apparently the reasons for the shift were to let schoolchildren finish their school years first, to avoid a time of year with sometimes rough weather, and to let workers move on what was already a holiday (less major then than now) instead of needing to take a day off from work. And I guess they dropped the mandatory aspect since nobody in living memory would have wanted to create such a mandate.

If you simply mean that their legislation influenced rather than created the local attitude toward Canada Day, I agree there, although federalists like them wouldn't have acted with hostility toward the Canadian Confederation as a motivation. Quebec was already less gung-ho for that than, say, Ontario.

But the disproportionate tendency for Quebec to move on or around July 1 specifically was what the Liberals created with their chosen one-time shift.
I thought the quote about not attacking oneself interesting - now there is a realization that sometimes you do have to attack your own position in order to beat any other potential disruptors to doing so and taking out your whole business/industry in the process.

Obviously that does not hold true for every scenario, but it seems like it was spoken as a truism back then.
Are the cabinets, countertops, sinks, etc very different in German apartments? (Simpler, less customized, more minimal) You're practically describing a full kitchen remodel in the US, which might run $10,000-20,000, or so I hear, with at least a week of labor...
Does the US federal government not have a department that handles land survey?
Agreed. Quora's grandfather.
Then work 3-4 days and dedicate 1-2 to research and you still have weekend.

I did not meant burger flipping. Burger flipping does not pay enough. I meant programming or other well paid job where you have good negotiating position.

By "work religiously" was padt of semtemce that meant to watch time. Don't stay longer "just this one time".
I appreciate that you've mostly stuck to being civil with this account, but please don't cross into flamewar like this.

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Fetlife is also the canonical demonstration that cryptocurrencies don't solve these problems.

They tried accepting BTC. Noone used it, even while they were struggling with Visa. They pulled the support citing lack of use.
Owning a scooter may not be a basic right, but having access to transport is a necessity for most people. Scooters solve that requirement cheaply and efficiently.

Particularly for low income people, hiring a scooter is often a better solution than buying, maintaining and storing a full size vehicle.

Public transport is another option, but it doesn't effectively solve the transport problem for most people. Scooters are significantly more practical.
> Is every article supposed to contain the entire history of a topic?

Every article is supposed to perform however much mental gymnastics are necessary to absolve Marx et al of any fault or flaw.
Counting items by value is a maximum likelihood estimation method too. It's still ML if you do a count, group by, max or threshold - just a less sophisticated way of doing things. The Naive Bayes algorithm is implemented by counting, at its base.
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Please don't get personally nasty.
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I can't comment much about Marx as I don't know the details of his claims or how they relate to implemented politics.

What I enjoyed very much was the claimed position of Raymond Aron's w.r.t. intellectualism:

"Aron’s generosity of spirit was a coefficient of his recognition that reality was complex, knowledge limited, and action essential. The leitmotif of Aron’s career was responsibility. He understood that political wisdom rests in the ability to choose the better course of action even when the best course is unavailable--which is always.

The subject of politics, Aristotle noted, is “the good life for man.” What constitutes the good life? Aron cannily reminds us that the more extravagant answers to this question are often the most malevolent. They promise everything. They tend to deliver misery and impoverishment."

I think this is a great thing to be reminded of, constantly -- in particular for intellectuals and scientists. It is almost too easy to be fooled in thinking the scientific principles or intellectual ideals will apply nicely to humans, the complexities of the real world; that we can be certain about what is truly good or the true nature of reality.

It's not that we shouldn't investigate political systems, moral systems, economic theory, metaphysics, etc; it's that we should be specially skeptic about grandiose claims that go against common sense or personal freedom.

And quoting the recent Aaronson AMA:

"(...) partly it's because I take it as almost an axiom of rationality that, if a metaphysical belief leads you to do "obviously insane" things with your life, then it's probably time to look for a better metaphysical belief. :-) (I wouldn't say the same about scientific or mathematical beliefs.)"
So any reduction is ML?
My guess is that it got downvoted because it started on a snarky footing ("Seriously, who cares"), and then made a nitpicky point that isn't very interesting, and moreover is at odds with how mathematics actually works. (If it were right, we'd name theorems after the first person to correct the last error, but we don't.) So, kind of a shallow dismissal, which is the sort of thing we hope people won't post here. I realize you didn't mean it that way.

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p.s. Could you please not take HN threads into off-topic meta-hell in the future? There's a reason the site guidelines ask people not to do that.
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Only if it fits to an existing statistical model.
How about counting the elements of a linked list.
Mostly it stuck because it was appropriate. Not a keyboard anyone would want to use for actual work.

I had a "computer module" for the Intellivision game console, with a similar keyboard. It was bad for that, and I barely used the thing it was so useless.

IBM really ought to have offered a normal keyboard option, with the chiclet as a deeply-cut-price accessory "for the kids to use for games".
In the Doctrine & Covenants, an LDS religious text primarily authored or "revelated" by LDS leadership, there is a section commonly called the Word of Wisdom. The D&C is a companion book often but not always included in distributions of Books of Mormon.

D&C 89:9

9 And again, hot drinks are not for the body or belly.

https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/89?lang=eng

(I know because I was raised LDS, and although I am atheist now, I consider myself culturally Mormon)
Mormons believe that, in the early days of the church, their church's first president and prophet, Joseph Smith, received a revelation from God called the "Word of Wisdom," which basically outlines the substances they should/should not eat or drink. "Hot drinks" [1] was the original wording in the revelation, which modern-day leaders have clarified means strictly "tea and coffee" [2]. This does not include hot chocolate or caffeinated beverages like soda or even energy drinks.

[1] https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/89.9
[2] https://www.lds.org/topics/word-of-wisdom?lang=eng
This is specifically talking about submodular function maximization problems. A submodular set function is a function f(S) that takes a set S and returns a "score". The objective is to find the set S with the highest score. The "submodular" property means that f(S) has "diminishing returns", meaning roughly that each new element contributes less to the score as the set S gets bigger. It turns out that this is hard to maximize exactly, but the simplest possible greedy algorithm already achieves an impressive approximation ratio of 1 - 1/e. The downside is that even the fully greedy algorithm is still pretty slow if you need to find a large set S, which is what this paper is addressing with a parallelizable randomized algorithm. (It's not the first such algorithm, but it's apparently much faster than the previous state of the art.)

[disclaimer: not an expert in any of this]
"but in practice there was no benefit to that."

Apparently the cartridge ROMs weren't afflicted by the wait states that applied to the first 128k of RAM, so software on the cartridges could actually run faster than software on disk.
Do you mean 1 GW hour?
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Ha - maybe a SQL layer is lurking behind the scenes, crafting the input variables that make your little python script so powerful
This logic is essentially the solution to the XKCD Blue Eyes puzzle.

I quite like the puzzle and this paradox, but something always feels off about it.
The .PDF format is already 25 years old. What do you expect to happen in another 50 to render it obsolete?

Specifically, what will kill off the .PDF format while leaving DjVu untouched?
Please don't break the site guidelines by going on about downvotes. That's a strict reduction in signal/noise ratio, which mars your otherwise fine comment. We're trying for the opposite here.

Downvotes can irritate, but there are at least two balms that don't involve adding noise to the threads. One is to remember that people sometimes simply misclick. The other is that unfairly downvoted comments mostly end up getting corrective upvotes from fair-minded community members (as happened with yours here).

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Highly complicated synonyms help.

e.g: instead of "shit", call it "subprime"
Tell me how I can remove the background of a yellowed old book I have to read or print for my research side-project with a PDF file.

I think you may be confusing tools with file formats. There are any number of ways to do this with .PDFs, none of which I've personally had to explore.

Frankly I don't expect having to read PDF files 50 years from now, but if I were thinking about preservation, the timeproof archiving medium still is acid-free paper –better yet, vellum– and probably India ink. As for the need of any technology, beyond stone tools and fire nobody really needs anything, it's just convenient.

Meanwhile, back on this planet...
But the article never claimed it would go the same direction as the solar wind, and give no mechanic for that to happen (as the generated force is at an angle compared to it). So it may well be true it wouldn't work if you go straight out, but rather have to curve yourself outwards to avoid hitting that 0 speed reference where it doesn't interact with any particles.
Link: https://github.com/Azure/iotedge/tree/master/edgelet
Please don't snark here and please don't post unsubstantive comments.
> standard query language that you can use to discover how attributes and values relate to one another within data.

That doesn't make it not a rule-based system. There is no learning component in SQL.
Why don't you wait until its all been released to watch it, just like you would have to if they released it all at once after producing all of it?
Could you please stop posting uncivil comments?

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United States Geological Survey (USGS), Department of the Interior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Geological_Surve...
Please don't post ideological rants to Hacker News.

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My favorite course ever had the same structure. It was an elective, with only about 15 3d and 4th year students. Those not up for the reading dropped out. We covered about 20 high quality economic papers in 6 months, quite impressive for a teacher to accomplish that with students. I can pretty much still remember the contents of the course.
At discount grocers like Aldis I think they have a 6 gallon limit so that would pinch an idea like that.
Well, I also tend to enjoy programming ligatures, such as != becoming ≠ or => becoming ⇒. (but in a size proportional to the pair of fixed width characters, see https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode )

But then I don't inflict them on anyone but myself and people who look over my shoulder...
Money is societies way of telling people what they want. A person need not serve society, and society need not always be rational. However just with personal transactions if you want something you have to give something in return.

A person can eschew the pursuit of money but aside from basic support I don't think society needs to reward them for expressly disavowing its desires.
I think independent researchers - at least in the CS context - end up organically collaborating online through the content they share in github, blogposts, etc. Maybe there is some space for a more structured community of independent researchers which help each other and collaborate, but then again, isn't structure that indie researchers are trying to avoid?
Please don't do political flamewars on HN. That's just what we don't want here.

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No political flamewars on HN, please.

Edit: it looks like you've been using HN primarily for political or ideological battle. The site guidelines explicitly ask you not to do that, and point out that we ban accounts that do. We have to, because flamewars consume everything if you let them. Please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site as intended from now on.
Look at IMS or CODASYL from the 70s, or xml/object databases from the 90s. They did what you’re asking for.

Both times, the eventual consensus was that sql was simpler to implement and use, but maybe marginally slower. Then machines got faster, so SQL dominated the market for decades.
Payment for adult content is where Ethereum and similar cryptocurrencies would solve a real problem. Of course tokens (like SpankChain) are not really needed for a solution, one could use ETH directly. The anonymity of transactions could be problematic though...
Reddit is a social networking site... But is populated with good content...
> Does that invalidate the whole theory?

David Graeber is, as far as I can tell, a professor of anthropology. Which means he doesn't have domain expertise in any of the areas he's criticizing. Indeed, I could (flippantly, but honestly) say that I think "professor of anthropology" is a bullshit job, but then again I'm a severely left-brain guy and I'm going to assume there is a social value there that's just going over my head.

To put things another way: my wife once asked me what my interest was programming-wise. I told her it was compilers and programming languages. And she asked: well, don't they have those already? I strongly suspect if people get a 3% exposure to programming (e.g. writing yet another JS framework), like Graeber is doing with the various jobs he talks about, they'd think that programming is also full of "bullshit jobs." But that would be a conclusion arising out of ignorance.
I wonder if it might be unfair to include the byte-compiled results (with .fast and .elc files) of CLISP and Emacs Lisp to the table.
Is it not zero sum? In other words, is there a way that Netflix and Amazon Video can cooperate with the result that each earns more income than would be possible if they were purely competitive?

There are only 8 billion people in the world, and each can spend at most X hours per day watching streaming video. It seems to be clearly in the interest of each provider to try to obtain all X of those hours.
In Ohio I can get a gallon of milk for $1.29 I can't believe how cheap it is. You can get a dozen eggs for 45 cents. How do egg producers make it?
10% of users is unlikely high. Porn has one of the lowest conversion in the online world. It's less than 0,05%. I knew a guy once who ran one of the infamous thumbnails sites and he was struggling keeping afloat although the traffic his site was getting was big.
This comment breaks the site guideline against calling names in arguments. Could you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, regardless of how wrong or annoying another comment might be?
Exactly. I would assume that the higher the population, the more buildings present. Just because you have a lot of land doesn't mean you have a lot of buildings.
>Iot and Rust

Good God, let's make everything as trendy as possible.
Do you have any empirical evidence for any particular QM interpretation? If not, does that make them unscientific?
Please do not use HN for ideological flamewar.

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In what circumstances does it actually matter to be able to get better compression than CCITT Group 4? For example, when is size such a deciding factor that it makes sense to forgo the compatibility of CCITT Group 4 in PDF and to use something else like JBIG2 in PDF or DjVu [assuming the latter actually is smaller; I didn't measure]?
Thankfully, Isaac Arthur makes many videos about the very near future. I recommend the “Upward Bound” series. His work is the inspiration and optimism I need to put my best efforts toward building a better future in my own way.
Thats why Ice Coffee was invented maybe.
Given that Send is autoimplemented for things that should be Send, this is a strong indication towards your code attempting to send actually not-thread-safe things across threads (things containing borrowed references or Rc<T>)

The error message does drill down and tell you the actual type causing the lack of Send impl.

The only time you have to manually impl Send is for custom container types that are built from raw primitives.
I think you’re misunderstanding what it’s like to lean left.

You used the word “exclusively”... “As a left-leaning person, it's much easier to see almost exclusively your own ideas.”

I think you’re making a strange assumption here: some of my conservative ideas are almost universally rejected by the media around me, therefore many liberals must feel all of their ideas are universally accepted by the media.

That’s not true though. For example some liberals feel that capitalism is immoral. That idea is almost universally rejected in the media, and by most Americans.

I think your point—that some ideas which are important to you are being suppressed—is important to raise. I care about those ideas and seek them out. (Although I’m conservative in many ways)

But I think you really weaken your position in the debate by tacking on strong claims about how enfranchised leftists must feel in the media.

The people who feel comfortable with the media are really neither left or right. They are people who feel comfortable with the status quo, who feel most happy when everyone agrees and actively move away from discord. Non-ideologues. These people are neither left nor right.
Why would you need facial tissues from a pharmacy?
My post is all about how the prisoner's reasoning is WRONG. My mistake: I obfuscated it by having the reader take the perspective of the prisoner. I reworded the OP, but I can't edit it anymore. I have a simpler revised version that I'll include below:

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The prisoners reasoning is wrong.

> if he hasn't been hanged by Thursday, there is only one day left - and so it won't be a surprise if he's hanged on Friday. Since the judge's sentence stipulated that the hanging would be a surprise to him, he concludes it cannot occur on Friday.

What the prisoner doesn't realize is that, by noon on Thursday, he would have ALREADY been surprised by the news of his Friday hanging. That moment occurred when he did not hear the knock!

The moment of surprise for a Thursday hanging or Friday hanging happen at the SAME point in the future. In other words, at 11:59am on Thursday he will not know if his hanging takes place on Thursday or Friday. At 12pm he will be surprised to know for certain which one it is: it will be Thursday if he hears a knock and it will be Friday if he does not.

"If he hasn't been hanged by Thursday" (ie. has not heard the knock) IS, ITSELF, the surprise of a Friday hanging. He wrongly assumes that his moment of surprise can ONLY happen following a knock. He doesn't realize that this assumption is true for every scenario EXCEPT a Friday hanging, where his surprise will happen in the ABSENCE of a knock on Thursday.

Because he cannot envision himself being surprised by a Friday knock (correct) and assumes he can ONLY be surprised by a knock (incorrect), he wrongly concludes that a Friday hanging is an impossibility, and subsequently concludes the same for a Thursday hanging, etc.
I havent watched normal television is so long. Cause there is never anything good on anymore. Its either Youtube, Streams or Netflix now from here on in. Even DVDS got phased out.
Is it really i thought it was just transfering to a new domain. When is this going to happen? my account is still active.
It's not a general thing.

My place had a kitchen with fridge when I moved in. A lot of places on the market now have too.
New and renovated places often don't have a kitchen, but there are some that do. When you rent a place that had a former Tennant you often buy the installed kitchen from them.

That's the situation I experienced in Munich since 2009 - may be different in other places and may be changing from how it was before.

There is definitely a growing amount of places coming with a complete set of furniture - but that's just a trick to increase rent. It circumvents a law that regulates how much more expensive you can make a place for a new Tennant. Everybody hates those places.
> Every Ethereum block contains a timestamp which smart contracts can read, so it's trivial to write code that only allows withdrawals in 1 month intervals

Not disagreeing, just wanted to point out that one needs to be careful with timestamps in Ethereum, as the source of truth is miner. Using timestamps could result in security vulnerabilities.
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Crushed by a block. Thats like dum ways to die. Nearly as bad as poking a stick at a Grizzly Bear.
Is a cult of “personal freedom” that creates its own extinction event and alters the climate of its own planet to make it less habitable more or less insane than Marxism?
This is right in line with the Tiny Homes explosion.
> There's a degree of complexity that comes with multi-cloud that's ill-suited for most early stage companies. Especially in the age of "serverless" that has folks thinking they don't need people to worry about infrastructure.

I just heard a dozen founders sit up and think "Market Opportunity" in glowing letters.

CockroachDB has a strong offering.

But multi-cloud need not be complicated in implementation.

A few ansible scripts and some fancy footwork with static filesystem synchronization and you too can be moving services from place to place with a clear chain of data custody.
We Belgians have a "washandje" to wash our face with it.

You can stick your hand in it and use it.

It's not known anywhere else and we actually laugh with it :p
I had a base PCjr with 128K of RAM, one 360K floppy disk drive, and no hard drive. Copying disks took FOREVER. I was so jealous of my friend who had two disk drives on his PC.