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> The pattern you talk about is mainly a product of not wanting to squeeze a whole essay into an HN comment.

That may very well apply to the GP's comment—but, my observation of the pattern is derived from a mix of mini-essay comments, and articles people are writing on Medium or their blogs or whatever, where the space constraints aren't so tight.

There are a couple things you'll regularly find: laughably bad straw-men (GP is free of these), overly vague statements that only survive scrutiny because of their vagueness (e.g. when the GP says OOP produces "abstractions that do not easily model computation"), and unjustified claims.

The net effect is something that sounds bad, but if looked at closely carries very little force.

I suspect the reasons for it are:

1) Actually evaluating a language paradigm is more difficult than these folks suspect. Their view matches their experience and they assume their experience is more global than it really is. Additionally, we don't have a mature theoretical framework for making the comparisons.

2) People are arguing for personal reasons. They have committed themselves to some paradigm and they want to feel secure in their justification for doing so.
> Feedback loop

> money influences politics ... converting higher economic inequality into greater political inequality. Political inequality, in its turn, gives rise to more economic inequality ...

The article is well-written and cogent, but at this point it seems like common sense since we've heard and said these things so often, and they have become so blatant.

"Tax reform", deregulation, lack of prosecution of financial crimes, lack of enforcement ...

> And what we can do about it

But both parties seem to be captured by wealthy interests. I don't mean to be both-sides-ist — there are profound differences between the two major parties — but is there any non-destructive way for them to break free of that embrace?

Someone tell me how we can reform our system — realistically — without another Great Depression?
Why would you want to republish on medium & Co. if you have your own website?
https://www.plugincars.com/putting-thought-putting-gas-chevy...

It appears that the Volt will detect the gasoline going bad (or at least, puts it on a timer and then assumes), and forcibly burn it off roughly once a year. Before doing so, it encourages you to use a bit of gas.

To be honest: this is the first link from a search engine. So its not an issue I've looked into very strongly. Nonetheless, it seems like GM has already figured out a procedure for "stale gas" issues.

https://forum.quartertothree.com/t/volt-gas-goes-stale/69063

So it seems to be a timer of some sorts, roughly on the order of ~once a year or so.

EDIT: I found a video on youtube showing the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEe4Rkg4GfA

The author of the video notes that you can drive the Volt just fine. He just had a camera handy and stay'd in his garage in this case however.
> We have a rule in place that nothing we ship can regress performance.

Then how did you guys end up with such a pile of shit?
Pardon my language, but I'm forced to use Jira at work and it makes me feel bad for everybody in the same situation.
They're doing it with performance models. Their hardware is basically identical to non-performance AWD.
My only problem with this website is that when I used it with a class of students, there were pornographic advertisements in between the plane types. That was really upsetting. Please reconsider your ads.
This sucks. I thought "why not install an adblock," but not everyone thinks like that, and that's fair.
What were the types of problems and systems you have worked on? Which languages and programming styles (eg functional) did you end up using to solve them?
I keep seeing people saying "it's too late", but the order page literally says "All customers are eligible for the full $7,500 Federal Tax Credit if they take delivery by the end of the year."
I live on the edge of one and real estate around here has tripled over the last decade already. I have lost a lot of friends and neighbors to endlessly rising rents over the last 5 years. Something tells me the hot money isn't going to fund the construction of homeless shelters or enough housing to seriously push down rents.
Slightly off-topic, but related to a vitamin mentioned in here:

For Vitamin D, I read a post on Reddit a while back on a subreddit that was intended for older people. Someone asked a question along the lines of 'what is something you wish you were told earlier' and at least one person mentioned Vitamin D deficiency.

They said that for most of their life they were deficient and that it had a significant impact on their life-long depression, and their stress and focus if I recall correctly. Once they began taking Vitamin D supplements it drastically changed everything and completely changed their mood: it turned out that they had Vitamin D absorption issues and never picked up on it. They said they take 12,000 IU/day, now, and it has changed their life.

Most Vitamin D supplements seem to come (in Australia at least) at anywhere from 300 IU to 1000 IU. I looked into safe Vitamin D levels and it appears that you can take up to 50,000 IU a day before you start seeing adverse affects, and just being in direct sunlight for an hour or so is about 15,000 IU for my skin type.

With this in mind, I've began taking 7,000 IU a day (I get about an hour of direct sunlight a day at least on most days). I can't say for sure that it has an effect on my mood, but on the days where I feel a bit worse than usual it's usually because I haven't taken my supplement stack for a couple of days (i.e ran out and hadn't yet bought supplies).
> I don't see why I can't install my own solution

You'd kill yourself and become Tesla's PR problem.
I think the two main considerations are the large number of countries that make up NATO allow it to seem very effective on paper, but in reality it'd be very difficult to coordinate the contributions of every country, especially considering the language and cultural barriers among members. It'd probably be incredibly inneffecient to try and lead the NATO members as a unified force. Another consideration is that even though NATO could easily win a war with Russia, member states probably want to present such an overwhelming military force that a war with Russia never breaks out in the first place.
Personally I don't think that is at all surprising. A college education doesn't mean you know what you are doing. The self taught group learned by doing something. My guess is they had a problem to solve and found out to solve it. That's a better education than the towers of Hanoi, some useless sorting algorithm that will never be relevant or the misc crap that is taught in CS.
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I think standardized tests are just not the way to measure reading comprehension, and questions like those in the article you linked are totally detached from reality. I personally managed to get by okay on them, but it seems pretty well understood that true comprehension - at least when it comes to fiction - is best gotten at in a more discussion based setting with more flexible interpretative possibilities.

I actually had a whole other experience being a really slow reader, and got taken out of other subjects to spend more time on it even though I scored "college level" on vocabulary. Always wondered if it's due to some mild dyslexia or something.
Middle class folks who are using the mortgage deduction generally use it exactly as intended. They don't have an army of accountants on retainer to figure out how to game the tax code and accomplish things that weren't really intended.

The example that always sticks in my head- maybe this isn't true, but I've heard there are strategies of buying failing companies for pennies, shuttering them, and then writing off their losses on your own taxes. You incurred no risk, you lost no money, and now you pay no taxes. Whether it's actually intended to happen that way, it doesn't seem right, and ordinary people can't do it.

Anyway, I'm not an accountant, but the upset over the tax exploits of the wealthy revolve around the concern that they are managing to exercise the tax code in a way that was never intended to pay less than they were meant to owe. Middle class folks don't wind up in the crosshairs because they generally file very ordinary returns, following both the letter as well as the spirit.
That's splitting hairs. Regardless of the syntax mechanism used to achieve it, inheritance of interfaces and inheritance of implementation are qualitatively different, in the sense that you can usually tell the difference regardless of language.

Also, C++ has abstract classes with only pure virtual functions, which accomplish the same thing.
In my view, dealing with genuinely random phenomena is rare. More common is that our knowledge is limited.

I have my own "take" on math. Of course we enjoy math as an end unto itself. But when we use it for practical purposes, we choose math tools that we expect to work for the problems that we're trying to solve. In the case of probability and statistics, those tools are useful for situations where we know something about a set, but not everything. There are other situations where we use calculus, algebra, and so forth.

Incomplete knowledge corresponds to a lot of problems and situations in our world, and so prob & stats are useful for modeling those situations. But it doesn't require the world to be fundamentally probabilistic.
at high 'racing' speeds, perhaps you should be aware that it doesn't have the best aerodynamics for road-holding (i.e. negative lift or downforce). also many people have reported some vibration issues that couldn't be resolved; https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/vibration-high-speeds
He had a blocked carotid artery for several years, and I some Heinlein fans blame his crazier stuff on that.

I think his later books are just what happens to many successful creatives. They get so famous that no one else has any editorial control over what they produce, and the quality of their work decreases.
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My main conclusion on the subject is that it really depends on what domain you're coding in.

There are plenty of applications I would never use OOP for. I use Elixir for my backend work. I tend to use OOP for interactive simulation/game sorts of applications.
I always seem to arrive at "start over with an entirely new set of laws."
Thank you for an amazing website, it's so much fun! I really hope it is going to stay up for many years onward.
Ask HN: How do you keep up to date with developments in quantum computing?
It's a topic that I've recently become more interested in and am trying to stay in the loop with recent updates and news in the field. Would love to hear what resources people follow and any advice for someone just starting out in the field.
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That would be incredibly environmentally irresponsible, considering the impact of mining lithium, cobalt, rare earths etc. You'd basically be wasting limited resources, which would run contrary to Tesla's stated mission of creating a more sustainable future.
As long as you take delivery before Jan 1, you will get the $7500 federal tax credit. Tesla said you had to order by Oct 15th to guarantee delivery before then.
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I think you're looking at this totally wrong.

Making things repairable has real costs. They have to be designed in a modular way so they can be taken apart. Given the choice, most people want sleekness and better industrial design over the ability to repair. This is why products like the iPhone, which feature seam-less industrial design and no externally-visible screws, are so popular.

In order to make something maintainable, the design must be stable, it must be designed to be serviceable, it must be built with serviceable parts, and it must have a long enough lifetime where maintenance is worth it economically, and a buyer who cares. None of these are typically true for huge segments of what consumers buy.
The Volt has something called "maintenance mode", which starts the engine about every 4-6 weeks, and does a process a little more involved every few months or so to burn gas that would go bad.
"Poor people are just as free to avoid taxes on their long-term investments in illiquid capital-intensive projects as millionaires and billionaires" is not a take I expected to see, but thank you HN for proving me wrong.
That is a concern. I am a happy driver of a Chevy Volt, and in daily commuting only ever use battery. The practices I use to preserve gas in the tank for long-term storage are:

* Keep the tank full of gas: air space is prone to condensation

* Avoid ethanol-added gasoline, it's more hypro-philic

* Add a fuel stabilizer (like 1 fl oz per 5 gallon)

* live in California, it's really dry.

These are adapted from techniques for winter storage of cars.
Although conda is also getting slower and slower, and now routinely spends 5-20 minutes on dependency resolution even for trivial environments.
Close - but Bob in your example also has to improve the basis of whatever he buys by 100% within a 30 month period. So that could be a major renovation of the house, building another unit on the property, scraping and rebuilding etc.

Unfortunately it's not as easy as parking money and riding off into the tax free sunset. As I mentioned down thread, we should hopefully have the first set of regs from Treasury even as soon as tomorrow which will clarify a lot of the loose ends as written in the initial legislation.

Some of what we're waiting to see is whether or not that basis improvement includes the land value or if you can split that out. If the home Bob purchases for $300k is on a lot worth $250k, does he have to spend the full $300k to improve it, or just $50k to improve the basis of the structure?

Lots of details to still work out but hopefully we'll know more shortly.
What does the software or company do? For example, do they make software for accountants? Construction?
comma.ai seemed safe, technically is no different in term of softwares used. Tesla auto-pilot did kill more than 10 people now. Why pay for something that might be inferior than the free one?
> I remember the frustration as kid getting a book of designs from the US and having none of them work quite right.

"Not quite right" means even more fun. We used a non-standard paper format, the resulting planes were a little bit different than shown and this made them unique.
Cool idea! I personally find talking on the phone obstrusive at times. What are you guys thoughts about just chatting via a built-in messaging system?

Also as a future goal, it might be possible to leverage large communities on Reddit where a lot of users want to share their knowledge?
For more about this, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_(angle)#Subdivisions
That doesn't work on the Facebook app. And then they block you for reporting too many ads. Facebook ads are late 90s era quality.

Not to mention fradulent.
I personally prefer Elixir but I have to say that the more I use Erlang libraries (like for state machines, trees and graphs) the more I grow fond of it and the more I view both languages as what they really are: a brother and a sister. ^_^
Thank you for taking the time to do this. It's one of my favorite math books, and it's always been hard to read as scanned PDFs.
A direct brain-to-brain interface for collaborative problem solving
Some places were overbuilt, and it would probably be better to tear down the remaining structures, clean it up and designate the block as a park. The wrong approach to development can make things substantially worse for people who live in marginal neighborhoods.
Ask HN: What was the most valuable and/or your favorite course in college?
Preferably aside from stuff that most CS majors would take (saying this selfishly as I'm trying to crowdsource the remainder of my curriculum)
Yes, that seems to be the pattern!

I'd love to see us institutionalize a reasonable level of equality, rather than depend on disasters to provide it.

We certainly have plenty of wealth and productivity for everyone to a have a pretty great life in the US. And we're headed in that direction for more and more of the rest of the world. I spent 5 years in China, and it's happening there too.

We're just stuck with a survivalist attitude of "give me more" — held by people who have absolutely no threat to their survival.

But from our recent behavior — lack of prosecution of financial crimes after 2008, for example — we seem headed for a very severe learning experience.
> Theory 1: Millions of academics across the world are united in a global conspiracy to do bad science

You don't need a conspiracy to do bad science. Just as you don't need a conspiracy to do bad code - and we all on HN know how much of bad code is around. All you need is to write code - with the best of intentions - and to neglect to follow best practices or cut corners from time to time, or just lack experience or foresight to predict potential problems. Sometimes you don't even know it's bad code until you come back to it a couple of years later and stare at it in horror - how could anybody do this?

With code, though, there's an evolutionary pressure acting on it - it is actually meant to be run. If the code does not perform, if it is buggy, if it's insecure or unmaintainable - it creates incentive to be replaced, so some of it dies off and hopefully is replaced with better one (or one bad in different way :). With scientific papers, bad paper can linger around for years until either it obviously contradicts reality in a way making its claims unsustainable, or is refuted by other paper. But for many papers just finding out it is wrong requires doing the same work as the original author did, sometimes more - and the incentives to do that are usually much less prominent.

> The scientific process underpins every aspect of our modern era.

True. But the fact that this process allowed us to achieve much does not mean every part of it is perfect - just as the fact that Facebook has billions does not mean every piece of code running Facebook is great. Some of them is surely terrible.
To be fair to the U.S. every powerful country makes a lot of enemies and throughout history there has always been some country that spends a large portion of their money to protect their interests and expand their power base. Egypt, Rome, China, Spain, Britain, France, Germany, The Ottoman Empire, Persia, etc. There's always someone globally at the top who needs to spend a large portion to protect entrenched interests and they inevitably fall because those entrenched interests forget that a country only states at the top if it's willing to make new and more powerful interests.
> Agreed, it's very silly. No one attacks people in the upper middle class for using mortgage deductions, tax advantaged investment vehicles (ie 401Ks), education accounts, tax loss harvesting etc to minimize tax burden; however, whenever a wealthy person tries to minimize their tax burden, they are immediately jumped on. It can't be ok for one group of people to take advantage of tax incentives and not others.

I don't like tax credits and deductions at all. I think all of these things are an additional burden on the lazy and the stupid (like me). Using taxes to encourage the public to do something or not do something doesn't even make sense for the political party that keeps harping about making taxes simpler.

Personally, I think all businesses should pay taxes on total revenue. I don't give two ships if you had a revenue of $2B and expenses of $5B. You owe taxes on that $2B. If your business model is low margin, that's your problem. No credits. No deductions. No deferrals.

The current policy isn't based on fairness or logic. It is simply based on who can get their way and by how much.
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Interestingly you can set up a microcosm of (many of) the Chinese freedoms you describe in the U.S., but not vice versa.

I can buy some unincorporated land, build a street, and let people piss and shit and sell food and knockoff purses.

However I can’t buy land in China and set up an area with a free newspaper.

This is because the U.S. prohibitions you cite are de facto prohibitions while the Chinese ones are actually human rights not granted by the state.

It’s a somewhat academic distinction in terms of our day to day lives, but it’s meaningful when talking about what social movement tactics are available to us.
Best to use Brave as your browser. Or even Opera. Both has built-in ad blocker.
Yeah, this is becoming a real problem. This didn't use to happen, but now conda is slow to the point of being unusable if you need to create environments a lot (like during testing)
The first paragraph reminds me of the great example by which J.L. Austin distinguished precision from exactness: a stick could be exactly, but not precisely, six bananas long.

In the present case we could say that six random bananas could accurately but not precisely represent the length of a stick.
And moral framework. Don't forget the moral framework.

One of my favorites is "Voting is sacred, and it is sacrilegious to try to influence anyone else's vote in any way."
On top of its potential benefits, it's also very inexpensive. One of the least expensive supplements you can take. The 360 count of 5000iu D3 that I take costs $11 (about $0.03 per day).
Have you tried something with typeclasses, ADTs, or some form of interfaces? C really doesn't provide any tools to make abstractions and lacks the basics, like namespaces.

My experience with OOP is that it generally drives people to very large codebases that are hard to reason about at scale. Usually it brings in a framework of some sort to manage the complexity of wiring objects together in a manageable way. For example, Java Spring uses annotations to magically wire objects together.
thank you for putting it all together! this is a gem.
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The text states “Genders reported were "Male", "Female", "Not Sure", and "Transgender Woman“”, while the graph lists Male, Female, Prefer not to answer, and unknown. How do these labels correspond?
Lol goddammit, one day before Wentworth and this happens. America may be having a moment but Australian politics is its own special dumpster fire.
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Actually none of it is a scan (except the diagrams). The title page part just uses a font that looks like that.
The professor who taught me OOP wrote a book which I never read, but I am confident that he focuses on the concepts in the beginning: https://books.google.de/books?id=RAloBgAAQBAJ&printsec=front...

Another good source of ebooks seems to be this page: http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/

There you can find the Blue-Book which looks like a great resource too:

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook....

Some Links seem to be broken nowadays, but some content can be obtained from the archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20130319110836/http://stephane.d...
China buys a lot of of their current military from other countries, however that is changing as they seek to establish themselves. In 10-15 years they will probably be close to parity in technology, however nowhere near close in capability.
Sadly the artist died in 2007.
Reservoir computing
How did I know it was Detroit before I even clicked?

Fact is, both gentrification and decay suck. I like to use the analogy of strip-mining a landscape, desert-ifying it, and then when the rain comes ... instead of a life sustaining event, it's a flood that removes it.
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> A deeply flawed person

So are all of us.