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A fun anecdote to explain the absurdity that is Auto manufacture.

When Ford made it's own vehicles in Australia, the engines were made in Melbourne, while the body and final assembly of the two was in Geelong. That's an hour away on the busiest freeway in the country

A friend is a process Engineer and did a big investigation into what they could do when the engines were late arriving due to traffic jams. Of course the whole thing was Just In Time because reasons, so they needed the engines to arrive just at the right time.

At the end of a multi-year study it was concluded the most cost-effective thing to do when the engines were not ready to put into cars that were ready for them, was..... let the cars fall off the end of the line, crush them, and eventually crush the engines when they showed up.

Any attempt to re-integrate them, or salvage stuff, or push them back on the start of the line, or anything else you want to think of costs more money than the above solution. They ran the numbers every which way, and as shocked as they were, it's the truth.

It was a rumor for a long time that every single time the production line was stopped, even for five seconds, it cost $1Mil. It was investigated, and found to be higher than that.
> Obviously I can't say anything about my own longevity, but over the past few years my alcohol consumption has decreased to virtually zero and I've never felt better. I was never a big drinker, but I would semi-regularly go out and drink a few pints of beer or have wine with dinner. I never intended to cut down on alcohol, but my lifestyle changed, I stopped going out so much, and the drinking went with it. I would still drink maybe once a month, but I've realised that it makes me feel bad every time, so I now completely abstain.

Same is happening to me.

And the last time I bought alcohol, I bought a pack of 0% alcohol beer by mistake at the supermarket. I would never do that intentionally, as I consider 0% alcohol beer a ridiculous idea and also never tried it. However, I finished the pack, and the first beer was special. It actually tastes like beer, without alcohol, it's mainly sugar with water.

Won't buy another pack ever again, but it was an interesting experience and opened my eyes about the taste of beers
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Actually, more like hardware from 40 years ago. The Z80 processor was released in like the mid 70s.
Not the exact topic, but related - a recent opinion I blogged about, related to recent experiences working news-media -- https://weblog.cenriqueortiz.com/general/2018/08/14/in-media...
http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive...

Yep, that was the one.
A bit off-topic, but have you moved away from Clojure entirely? I guess it sorta makes sense b/c creative coding in Clojure never quite took off (though there are some very nice individual libraries)

I really loved your geom library btw, thank you!
> It isn't good enough to see what's going on when it's actually pitch black, which it is most of the time at night.

You mean in a thunderstorm, maybe? Or a fog bank?

On a clear night, even with no moon, humans can see quite well. Since rod vision is used, it is difficult to do fine work (reading, sewing, soldering, ....), but just walking around outside is no problem.

If you want to see the night for yourself, try spending a few nights camping out somewhere away from artificial lighting. Don’t bring along any of those terrible “white” LED flashlights – they completely clobber night vision. It takes about a half hour for eyes to fully adapt to the dark.
Insisting that the environment matches the tooling seems backwards. The tooling needs to match the needs of the environment.

That GCC may break your program in the future is one of the ways that people get locked into specific versions.
>>I'm never going to become an early riser.

FWIW: I used to feel this way before I entered my 40’s.
Now this makes me wonder what is the singular form of octopedes ... octopes? ;)

(From Latin pes -> pedes)
>But groups like Senior House, which define themselves by being different, also run the risk of becoming highly conformist, Packer says. The punk rock movement is a particularly vivid example of this phenomenon. “They self-describe as being different, but from the outside they all look the same,” he says.

They don't want to look different from each other; they want to look different from people like him. It's really not that complicated. Spinning that into alarmism against the idea countercultures in general like this guy does is just ridiculous, and there's absolutely no way he's doing so in good faith.
Yup I find the odlyzko article much more informative and prescient.

See for example recent article on front page here yesterday(?) about the music industry now making a fraction of its previous money. Or even the old numbers paling in comaprison to Google Facebook Amazon - information, social connection, and buying shit.

The content industry is just not that big, $$-wise, and never has been. Humans are social animals, it wins out.
No, that would have the same problem - being able to send information back in time. We also have no theory of traversable wormholes that doesn't involve imaginary energy, so it's just fantasy.
Only the moderators would know exactly why. Try the last entry on https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html or email hn@ycombinator.com
This is by the same guy who wrote the massive thi-ng/geom library for Clojure, so the influence is implied ;)
I recall doing a benchmark of the Clang compiler that showed that parsing the source files takes much more time than any other stage of compilation.

Decompressing a larger amount of content on the client side, and then parsing it, is going to take more resources. Now, it may be a minuscule amount for one page load, but if you multiply it by hundreds of requests and thousands of users, I can see why smaller file sizes can be still be important.
Just like it's hard to explain how it feels in VR is hard to explain the difference here. I think the big take away is that it lets you simulate tasks physically instead of just watching them being done. Like the difference between watching something being done and doing it. I know with me, physically doing things with my hands cements the material in my brain way more than reading about it.

One thing I can see this being used for is fork lift driver training. You could put the person in the seat of the heavy and expensive equipment without actually risking anything. The user can play around with the controls and make mistakes without the fear of breaking something. That alone would be valuable.
Blade markings on the bones, rib cage I believe. They were also able to say the victim was 17-20 years old
Maybe it happened, but it created another universe and we never noticed.
I code a google apps script to send me a text message every time I receive an email from specific address.
Why would you need FTL? There's a whole system to colonize in our backyard. Teraforming seems daunting, but start one dome at a time and it grows from there.

And the technology is pretty much there, it's just that the will isn't.

Is taking an FTL ship to another galaxy, even with a known habitable planet, that much easier than creating a dome city on Mars? What if they're barely habitable?

Who is going to do that and what for? Same resources, and no one wants to because Earth already has it all (and yes, by the time they're exhausted, it will be too late for anything).

Colonize the solar system, and if FTL is created, great, if not, meh.
Yes, Cavium has been kicking ass. There's also Ampere's new eMAG thing. And HiSilicon server chips exist… somewhere. (https://www.worksonarm.com/cluster/ apparently has some)
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It's possible I over-egged the pudding. It would be more accurate to say that there are significant concerns with the experiment.
The Wipeout packaging and some in-game graphics were made by The Designers Republic, which also designs the EP/LP covers for Autechre (which is featured in the movie Pi).
6:30AM is just some other city's 11:30AM... the difference in between is just light exposure, food consumption, and activity (the three big zeitgebers).

Unless you think you'd never resynchronize after moving across the world, it's pretty obvious that your wake and sleep time would have to be a lot more malleable than you suggest.
This looks like a pretty serious piece of software, very nicely done.

I don't see anything that would pry me away from evil/orgmode/emacs but very compelling if you aren't using that combination yet.
>"If anything, this strikes me as a political gambit that is largely devoid of meaningful thought. Chesky's playing the long game; he knows this isn't ever going to go anywhere, but if Congress ever gets pissed off at his company the way they currently are pissed off at GOOG/FB, he has a card to play."

Yeah this was my first thought as well that is likely about "potential good will." Floating this idea costs nothing, has immediately publicity benefits and they don't have to worry about any of the questions you mentioned.
One problem is that your doctor has no incentive to treat rare diseases. If they can cure 99.9% of people, then they are king. The .1% of people with a rare disease will require extensive testing that costs a lot of time and money, and will only make your doc look bad on various performance evaluation metrics.
"But to be successful online, a magazine can't just take what it has in print and move it to the electronic realm. There isn't enough depth or interactivity in print content to overcome the drawbacks of the online medium.

If people are to be expected to put up with turning on a computer to read a screen, they must be rewarded with deep and extremely up-to-date information that they can explore at will. They need to have audio, and possibly video. They need an opportunity for personal involvement that goes far beyond that offered through the letters-to-the-editor pages of print magazines."

Bill clearly didn't consider that the 'drawbacks of the online medium' would be eliminated by everyone having a computer in their pocket. I pay for online-only subscriptions to The Economist and The New York Times, and these apps are essentially just electronic copies of their paper cousins.

Bill also seems to have missed the possibility of not producing content but instead acting as a platform for others to produce content. The network effects of such platforms have led to wildly profitable enterprises such as YouTube, Facebook and Spotify. Given Microsoft's own network effects, it's strange that Bill didn't consider this angle.
A great explanation. It's a pity that is buried in the thread.
The features of the languages you pick should be orthogonal so they see different ways of thinking: Java, Fortran, Prolog, ASM.

You just don't want them to memorize slightly different variations of Algol syntax.
You can’t ignore it either. The BFS isn’t a useless hunk of metal once it’s in orbit, it’s still very useful.

Consider a past example. The Space Shuttle’s payload to orbit was many times smaller than Saturn V’s. Yet the Shuttle could do missions over two weeks long with seven crew, far more than Apollo could. How is that possible? Because the orbiter didn’t count as part of the “payload”.

BFR is going to send 8 people on a trip around the moon. Saturn V couldn’t do that, even though it could orbit more “payload.”

It all depends on the mission. If you just want to put satellites in orbit, Saturn V is more capable (ignoring costs). If you want to send people somewhere, BFR is way more capable. BFR can put a lot more mass into orbit, it’s just that a lot of that mass is taken up by mandatory stuff. If that stuff is useful for you then it should count. If it’s not then it shouldn’t.

And that brings us back to my original point, way up there, that BFR is major overkill for a satellite launcher, but makes perfect sense for a Mars mission.
Nah, I still do eat rich full-fat, salty, and carb-heavy food. Trust me, it's the alcohol. The day after drinking used be completely wasted for me. Now every day can be very productive.
Unless you were getting wasted it's quite unusual for a few drinks to make you feel bad.

Also, there is more and more a decent selection of <0.5% alcohol beers - I find this the easiest way to not get strange looks when at a drinking occasion.

But then again, maybe the point of drinking together is it provides some kind of bonding effect, being a shared vice. It makes it harder to lie and shows you value others more than your own health (relatively).
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> silvery reflections

holy shit. was it shiny and pulsating? I saw the eye but no pyramid. But I recognize the eye from the dollar bill.

All I remember is looking at the shining, pulsating, eye and thinking, so this is what Truth looks like. No idea what the fuck that meant but I figured it out, and it was like being punched in the face-basically I looked at every aspect of my life, and that's what the "Eye" was implying to "Look", basically examine my life to figure out what needs to be done.

It was not negative at all but more of a WTF I WANT THIS TRIP TO STOP BUT IM ALSO FASCINATED. I use caps to illustrate the full state of panic and calm I was in.

After the trip and I googled 'third eye symbol' and I was shocked to see the similarities to the "Eye" I had witnessed but with a shape that looks like a thunder icon, which curiously enough is very similar to the Sanskrit for third eye....I have never ever seen it before either

Needless to say, my interest in hinduism and chakra exploded. i believe that I truly experienced a third eye opening moment. Like I was on a different plane of existence, where I am part of the whole, and that everything is everything and the most shocking conclusion of all:

There are dimensions beyond our world. In 3rd dimension, things don't make sense but in higher dimensions, the math works out according to Michio Kaku. His book goes into full detail but basically I absolutely believe that we are not seeing the true reality and that we might have been led on this path by very evil and greedy people who abuses the scientific process to invalidate the existence of common spiritual human experiences that arose indepedently by different civilizations but declared "null and void" by a highly materialistic driven empire where it's citizens are so spiritually starved that they will never be happy. No matter how rich and powerful their country becomes.
Gil Strang taught 18.06, the more calculation-focused and elementary version of linear algebra, when I was at MIT. The approach mentioned by the OP was what was taken in the more theoretical version, 18.701. I think that class has notes and lectures on OCW.
So universal basic income?
Maybe in the emergency room, but not for a non-emergency doctor. I'm generally not looking for the person who can diagnose and treat me the fastest, I'm looking for the person who can diagnose and treat me the best. Consequently, in the emergency room I'm looking for a memorizer, but the other 97% of the time I'm looking for a researcher.
Why do you have "actual" in scare quotes when Uber investors have put in something like 20 billion dollars worth of investment and AirBnB have put in about 4.5 billion?

You also mention that hosts & drivers own apartments and cars. This is, of course, true. But those assets are owned by the individuals and not by the company. So I don't see how this sort of personal ownership would be any sort of reasonable claim for ownership of the company.
Well, sure, language is ultimately defined by usage, so if enough of us agree that the word "broccoli" refers to source code being available, then it's legitimate to go around saying "broccoli" means "visible source", etc.

But the important question is, who is using "open source" to mean the definition I gave earlier? The answer is: pretty much everyone. Not just the Open Source Initiative (opensource.org) and the Free Software Foundation, but also: the Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, all government agencies who have formally defined the term (at least as far as I've seen), also every major tech firm as far as I can tell, including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo, Samsung, Huawei, ... this list could go on for a very, very long time :-). Basically, it's everyone.

Notice that that list includes Creative Commons -- that is, the organization that wrote the particular license that Numworks is using agrees that that license is not open source. That's a pretty clear sign, I think :-).

And, of course, Numworks themselves are careful not to call their stuff "open source" anywhere. You can bet that they would use that term if they felt they could. It has great marketing karma; everyone loves to advertise their stuff as "open source". And yet Numworks doesn't -- because they know a lot of hackers would come down on them like a ton of bricks if they tried to make that claim.

To a first approximation, pretty much every organization that produces or procures software use the term "open source" to mean the definition that the Open Source Initiative originally established.

You can claim that "open source" means something else, if you want, in the same way that you can claim that the word "broccoli" or "red" means something different from what most other people mean by those words. For you, your meaning will be correct, in your own private language.

But what I'm saying is, when the phrase "open source" appears in a Hacker News headline, most people will interpret it in the way I described. When the vast majority of people intepreret a word or phrase as having a certain meaning -- and especially when it's a term of art in a profession and all the specialists, lawyers, policy makers, etc in that profession agree on the meaning of the term -- then it's fair to say that that is what the term "means".
Wow - this is an impressive body of work.

Particularly like the Estuary and chart samples.

You mentioned you still use ClojureScript - but I'm guessing you're not using CLJS for front-end stuff anymore and just stick to your ES6 libs?
I actually did mention Reagent in the readme in this section (below the diagram): https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/tree/master/packages/hdom...

Quote: "The syntax is inspired by Clojure's Hiccup and Reagent projects, which themselves were influenced by prior art by Phil Wadler at Edinburgh University, who pioneered this approach in Lisp back in 1999. hdom offers several additional features to these established approaches."

However, Reagent also still relies on React under the hood whereas hdom is completely standalone. Also, hdom has a lot more features in terms of what kind of values are supported within an hiccup tree and additionally, in this latest version (5.0), hdom already has been extended to support non-DOM targets to update. Currently, the only user of this feature is the hdom-canvas package (https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/blob/master/packages/hdom...), which allows you to define canvas scene graphs in the same way as the rest of the UI, but those virtual shape elements are translated into canvas draw calls. A WebGL version of this is in early progress. In general, by implementing a certain interface you can support any other target context/data structure.

Ps. I've never used Om so didn't list it as an active influence.
I know this sounds weird, but this is like a blast from the past. The offices still look the same, the patent cubes, the standard MSFT office equipment (even that chair is a classic with the pump up thing in the back). The stack of Talking Rain fancy water cans on the desk. The ShipIts. Talking about P0 requirements. HResult. Good times.
French researchers at the big research institutions have a great package. A good wage, benefits you can't begin to fathom (for example 10 weeks of paid holidays is nothing special) and employment is guaranteed for life once permanent.

The only negative is that the package is not really adjusted for location. It's a bit low in Paris compared to working in the industry (assuming you're good enough for that). It's competitive everywhere else.
I'm 46, still not an early riser. I sometimes wake up early, usually due to a bit of stress, but that just messes me up worse since I can't shift my schedule backwards (jetlag going West-to-East is hellish for me). I have become more 'rigid' in my sleep schedule which is better for fitting in with the rest of society than the phase I went through in college when I was on a 26-hour sleep schedule and every 2 weeks I'd rotate my sleep schedule around (generally trying to time the period when I was sleeping right in the daytime for weekends although I'd skip classes on either side). But that rigidity means that its hard to nap (and of course if I nap a bit too long in the day then I wind up staying up until 3am, so usually if I get up too early I wind up having to push through with sleep dep all day and then just hope it doesn't happen the next day -- but the stress itself from not getting enough sleep can cause me to get up early again in a bit of a viscious cycle).
There are tons, but we really need to ask if any of this is a fair topic for Dependent Typing, which has only emerged from pi-calculus musings on paper to compilers that can do more than prove simple structural recursion.

It's like seeing a photo of a baby and asking why there isn't a service to provide police records for babies, because you "just want to be careful, you know?"
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The mind is agile and can reconcile many things—for one, all evidence is falsifiable by a god.

I’m more curious what people psychologically get out of taking the bible literally. It wouldn’t make me happy.
Yes, but then it was vetoed. See my other commment, or follow your link and click on status to see the Governor’s Veto Message.
That seems ridiculous but indeed, we shouldn't make assumptions. We have to measure assumed negative effects, like impaired cognition. Or maybe that's good too.
I fully agree. I worked on systems that are not connected to the Internet for security reasons and receive "offline" security updates using distribution packages.

It's also very common in security-sensitive environments to give blanket approvals to specific distributions and prohibit cowboy deployments.

(I'm not sure why you are replying to my post)
I don't expect a bias-free guarantee especially from a free service. But this is definitely going beyond "bias". There are articles that don't just "lean" off the neutral point, they are propaganda. And especially when they portray current day topics they're just as powerful as the fake news appearing on Facebook or Twitter. The "you'll need to do more research" defense didn't help them either.

I'll give you an example (some names may have been changed and all that...): imagine a businessman being presented in a favorable light even after he's convicted of embezzlement, bribery, the whole 9 yards, basically his whole career turned out to be a sham wrapped in a web of illegality. Any attempts to include this official info in his profile gets promptly shot down. Years later the guy is still squeaky clean and with the "right to be forgotten" he'll eventually stay that way.

It's natural to find mistakes in a highly technical article. It's bias to find situations when the truth will be bent a little to give more importance to one player of a team. When you realize the mistakes you just have correct them. When you refuse to correct them then you crossed into a whole different problem.

Keeping in place mechanisms that impair efforts to correct the errors, or not putting mechanisms in place to mitigate the issues is way beyond bias. It's negligence at best and when money is involved it's likely more than that.
It could be a split system, much like the US Congress is - I do think that the person who works full time on a platform ought to get a bigger voice than the guy who takes rides on weekends, for example.
Correct. It is a competing fraternal organization as are, for example, the Elks or Ancient Order of Hibernians.