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I'm sceptical of his argument that "we've gone from dynamic being trendy back to typed(java), because 'people' had to maintain dynamic codebases".

An equivalent but probably equally not-the-real-explanation argument would be that we've gone from an era of opportunity into an era of oligopoly as the internet titans have emerged and so the "coolest kids" who everyone cargocults have gone from being fast-growing startups to members of the big-5 elite. Kind of the same as his argument just with detail on who his "people" are and why, but it changes the implications.

I think it's more as he touches on that the two are converging. I think eventually some sort of pluggable typing will win (the "proofs" on your system won't be a single compilation pass but maybe different typing for different parts of the system, and specific proofs run between compile and runtime as the two blur), which will look more like gradual typing.
>Purdah bans all political advertising apart from allocated x minute slots

I wish we would adopt this, not that I watch live television anymore though but plenty of people still do.

"Joe Smith once let his dog crap on a lawn, Joe did not pick it up, do you want Joe in office? Paid for by the committee to help the group to help the council to elect Jane Doe"

Next commercial break

"Jane Doe uses 3 cans of hairspray a week yet claims to care about the environment. Jane only cares about her hair. Paid for the by the cabal to support the organization of the committee of electing Joe Smith'.
The US Army has numerous tests and almost none of them relate to IQ. There is the DLAB (Defense Language Aptitude Battery) which measures ability to learn languages, and of course there are the famous (and far more important) physical tests which measure running speed, push-ups and sit-ups.
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It's not even a particularly good thread about control characters :(.
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Boston supposedly has the north/south station rail connector project under way again. It's only been half a century. I'll believe it when I see it. Even then I won't ride on it for a few years in case the ceiling falls down.
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Back then I used to use beanshell for the most changing part of code (prototypes/logic)
Emacs blew my Goddamned mind one day when I was using M-. to examine the Lisp implementations of various Emacs commands. One day I dug a little too far and tried to examine the source to what turned out to be an Emacs primitive -- but that didn't slow down M-., which happily jumped straight into the Emacs C source to show me the implementation of the primitive. (I had compiled this Emacs on my own, and apparently it remembered where it was compiled.)
Very cool and I think the product and landing page are gorgeous!

One bit of feedback on the vid is I think it could be better timed to the music - the text zooms should be on the beat breaks.
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> The fact that they're litigating this leads me to think Stardock's actions are really egregious.

I don't see how they are, though. If those emails in Stardock's description of events are genuine, it seems Brad Wardell went out of his way to accommodate and include Paul and Fred in the project as much as possible. Paul and Fred's announcement seems to have come rather unexpectedly and seems to have been timed to coincide with Stardock's release.

While I'm generally predisposed to like two indie developers trying to claim their rights back, my impression here is really that Brad and Stardock acted in good faith every step of the way, while Paul and Fred sprang some nasty surprises on him.

Though it's entirely possible that Stardock is presenting a skewed version of the history, of course.
This usually just gives a streisand effect

For those who want to see the episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUhbZdvtzcw
Well yeah Netflix does business in Saudi Arabia so they have to follow the local laws. I honestly don't get why this is so shocking?

What is the alternative- the internet is ruled by US laws? No way in hell would I sign up for that.
Yes, NYC is pretty much the only "city" in the US when viewed at global scale, that much is well known. Every other city may as well be podunk.
>> Moreover, when a government overspends, the ill effects of that overspending typically hurt the poorest the hardest.

> This is usually inflicted on them by the lender of last resort, the IMF.

Is what way? I’ve never heard of the IMF demanding this. The method of “austerity” or reducing a deficit could very well include taxes on the rich. It is a local choice to hurt the poor instead (and then blame the IMF).
I completely agree with you about the unproductive nature of this article, and the fact that there are two lines of extremists both pro and anti and it has absolutely become part of the identity politics of the right (and reactionary left).

However, there's some real discussion on the effectiveness of IQ as a measure and its shortcomings. Vox is a great example of this, they published some highly critical articles after Sam Harris had Murray on his podcast. They point to good specific points which are problematic with IQ - particular when IQ is used as an argument for particular policies rather than information. Unfortunately even when there are specific points raised and proper meat to the discussion it still devolves into vitriolic shit flinging. Really the lesson to learn from this is how political tribalism can work to totally destroy the ability of society to have an honest discussion on a topic.
> Stable society requires long-term commitments (debt, investment), but people demand the ability to swing policy back and forth on 4 or 5 year timescales.

I'm going to assume US government works something like how it does in Australia and make a guess. The vast majority of policy is going to be set with bipartisan support, and nobody talks about it because "yeah, we all agree on good policy" is never going to win votes in an election. Only points of difference matter.

The issues that are hyped up for elections are important, but typically minor variations on a theme from the perspective of a civilisation. The movements looking to seriously challenge the mechanics of our debt and investment systems (I recall a few,from a couple of different quarters after '07 and '08) seem to have failed in having a lasting impact.
Investing in under-construction properties in developing countries which never got completed due to builder fraud and losing a large amount of money :(
Here you have an interactive example showing how LaTTe (the lisp proof assistant written in clojure) can prove (a typed version of) Cantor Theorem on the cardinality of sets.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18802480
I don't think that's true. Ultimately the reason is eating unhealthy food that throws the nature's built-in weight control system off balance and allows the accumulation of fat (which is actually not a problem per se, it's symptom of the underlying cause which is far more troublesome, i.e. metabolic syndrome).

People however like to blame other things and external factors. I'm X because of Y. It's time to take the pity cock out of the mouth and take responsbility for oneself.

That being said it's hard to rely on education for the average non-educated lazy person (i.e. the general masses) but instead we need to regulate the supply, i.e. what is already done with other poisons such as tobacco, drugs, alcohol. Sugar needs to be added to that list.
interesting hypothesis. i have been on keto for quite some time a year ago until i decided that it's not for me as it makes me totally numb and uncreative.
and i have complete aphantasia, i don't see anything in my mind at all. but that has always been the case. maybe there is a correlation between the need for carbs and aphantasia?
soo, that is very anecdotal - does anybody else share this kind of symptoms when on carb restriction?
I'm also a games programmer. I make mental models too, I almost feel like it would be excessively restrictive if they had to have a visual representation. On the other hand, if I had mental visual representations, maybe I wouldn't be surrounded by a million bits of paper with weird things scribbled on them.
>IQ is still the best we have right now...

Is it? Then why don't we use it instead of other tests and metrics? I'm going to echo what other people have said in this thread and say that I've never encountered an IQ test in my academic or professional life among the numerous aptitude measurements.

>In fact, you could use the same argument to argue against any other current scientific knowledge.

The same argument is indeed used against eugenics, human experimentation, and various other sciences which are tangent to ethically challenged practices. For example, gene editing of humans is a scientific practice that could have clear benefit but the potential for misuse (which we've already seen in the recent Chinese gene hacking case) must be considered.
I think there is an objective measure here. Just plot a 30-minute transit radius around the centers of various cities and you'll get a sense of the transit size of the city vs. covered population. Some cities are notoriously "small," like SF, despite it being on some best-to-live-without-car lists. You can't go very far before practically needing a car: so what if you can get there by transit if it takes 1-2 hours and inconsistently? NYC, Boston are "large." Seattle is even worse than SF in this regard.

Transit is all about density. There is no way the west coast can beat the east coast in transit practicality for another 100 years.
After using OpenSCAD for several years, the more you use it the faster you get with it. I can easily whip out quite complex designs in a few hours. Visual CAD tools eventually start to feel very limiting.
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What’s the transfer speed, are there practical file size limits? Do you have to wait for it to loop or can the reader pick up in the middle of the stream?
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I would add solvespace to that list. It's FOSS and in my experience much more stable than FreeCAD.
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Or, more subtly, once you focus on star basketball players, height ceases to be a useful differentiator. Beyond a certain point, increased height will not lead to increased success at basketball.
It's likely linked to the fact that phones mirror selfies because that matches oneself mental image better
When I was a curious ~10 year old, yes, I too did!
Indeed, English can be weird - it can be understood through tough thorough thought though.
I’ve been reading through a lot of your comments and you’ve made me want to review my existing code bases and simplify things! I’ve been that intern who has had a large legacy C/C++ codebase dropped on my lap, and I would have certainly appreciated it had the original developers had your mindset going into their development. It certainly makes sense to me why we, as developers, should be writing both performant but readable-first code that allows those in the future, given an inherent assumption that the project we’re working on will succeed, to be able to easily maintain, debug, and improve the codebase. I think if the language-specific constructs offer a significant advantage that is not achievable in another, more straightforward, language-agnostic manner, then the intention and explanation of its function should be clearly annotated in comments from the original developer (with reasoning, pitfalls to avoid when attempting to debug, refactor, extend, etc).
I think the way to do anything well is to reverse engineer what other people are doing well, find a pattern, break it into small bite size steps and then do it or get help with the step you can't do it on your own.

Always beats imagination or reinventing the wheel.
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That's a good question! But for something under 100Kb it should be pretty quick. Curious to know how long it takes for a whole MB.

Update: Actually, I was too optimistic : https://divan.github.io/posts/animatedqr/
> I can't see how simple categorisation across 4 axis can be either scientific or unscientific.

If you pick the axis on scientific criteria, then it can be scientific. If you just make them up, then it's not. Myers-Briggs is the latter.
"you’re not recording, I’m not recording"

Funny how it ended up in a transcript
Yes, and almost none of the beliefs on the Left are akin to "everyone is equal in all measurements, therefore IQ is dangerous."

Even Karl Marx acknowledges inherent differences in people when he writes, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
That might explain it. Otherwise, this would be very weird for a "Europhilic" example.
I can't think of any actually useful applications (the one given only makes vague sense if you pretend bluetooth doesn't exists), but it's a cool demo anyway and the linked blog posts are excellent.
I have a rather cheap monitor (as many other people probably have) and I can barely make out the grip of the scrollbars when I don't sit straight in front of the display. What about people with bad eye sight or colour-blindness? I am sure they have even more trouble than I have.

Windows 10 does BTW not allow to change the scrollbar colours even though it was possible in most older Windows versions. They simply don't care about accessability and userability these days.
I keep hearing this. Is there a good writeup available?
"But I'm pretty sure that the questions of e.g. the law exam are about laws"

I don't know about mcat, but no, lsat isn't about that at all. It would be weird testing people for the thing they're trying to be admitted to. If you google 'lsat sample questions', it"s trivial to find what sort of thing is beimg tested for. Which is not 'complete the pattern', but closer to that (I would argue) than to substantive law questions.
Every country has rules about what you can show on television. Some countries are extremely liberal (Denmark, the Netherlands) others less so.
Right, but my point is - once you start needing to add ad-hoc retraining, or regex hacks, it's not clear to me that shaving a point off baseline f1 scores is really all that relevant anymore.
Maybe the high IQ-ers just work harder because there’s higher expectation?
Any pc equivalent? Would be helpful.
I'm thankful for this simply for the confirmation that I have indeed actually experienced pretty much the full story.
Detecting some motion with a sensor and detecting precise motion using radar is very different. It’s a novel use of technology, and I’m for one perfectly happy with this kind of invention being patentable.
I remember a talk (Ted maybe) about this, the theory being no one actually saw in pictures. As a demonstration the audience was asked to 'picture' a pirate with a peg leg; Once the picture was firmly in their mind they were then asked what colour of trousers/shirt the pirate was wearing. IF they were actually picturing the pirate it would be as simple as looking but most people didn't initially know and had to 'paint' in trousers/shirt and colour them before answering. Presumably if their mind actually held a picture they would have noticed the lack of trousers, or the lack of colour.

The talk went further to suggest that we don't actually 'see' with our eyes either, that our eyes and senses sends raw information, more like a description and the concepts are built in our mind, our experience might be like we're looking through our eyes and see a kind of picture of the world; But actually that is an illusion and our visual experience is more conceptually based which is why we are vulnerable to things like focus-blindness and other optical illusions where any kind of camera or picture taking device would not be.
tldr- FCC (and many other federal
agencies?) will perform orderly shutdown on Jan 3 if congress does not do the needful - it seems to be a game of chicken between trump and democrats over funding the "mexican Wall".

It's amazing that this is barely news in the rest of the world - I know the xmas timing makes news coverage / consumption weird but I completely missed how serious this had got.

some background

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_...
Can you expand on this comment a little more? Why does it matter which division of Alphabet corp makes something?
Yes this for me makes complete sense. The UK has made some small steps in the right direction and I hope this continues. Childcare like I said is completely ridiculous and needs to be looked at.
Link to paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788. (It does say 'massive-scale' though)
Setting foot on Hyrule Field in OoT after crawling out of the cave of 90's 2D games was momentous for me as well. "I can just run around wherever?" Yes there was still a fence and you were in a yard still and linearity was still in play but it seemed there was an expansiveness and freedom to it. But if you've played Witcher 3 before OoT then it's going to seem like a prison.
It is said that if people can't understand your product right away, you're doing it wrong. But Slack is very successful and yet people just understand what it is after watching a video of it
If the poor owe debt to the rich, then it’s bad probably because it means a constant transfer of rent from the poor to the rich.

And if a country owes money to its richest inhabitants then it means that effectively, the poor owe the rich.
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I've discovered it as an adult as well and tried most of them at least for a little bit, and the only 'old' title I've enjoyed and finished was Windwaker. Characters and story were very endearing although I didn't like the sailing very much and particulary didn't like the grind at the end.

But Breath of the Wild was just great. The world was so pleasant and I enjoyed being in it regardless of what else I might have been doing. The puzzles and shrines were quite nice as well.
According to the definitions provided, it seems that engineering is the wrong approach for the vast majority of systems (especially popular web-based platforms). We should be leaning more towards wizarding.

Most systems change all the time. So long as a company needs executives to make decisions and steer in different directions depending on the economic conditions, companies also need the flexibility to change their code.

Even the Linux Kernel which is now decades old is still being changed all the time. If you use tools which assume that every line of code you write is not going to change, then unless you're programming an aircraft or a medical hardware device you're probably using the wrong tools.

You should not assume that just because some low level module is deeply nested within the code, that it means that it should not be changed or thrown out.

That's why I prefer dynamically typed languages for web systems; they start with the rigth assumption about the ever-evolving nature of the project.

If JavaScript was designed to be statically typed from the beginning, web browsers would not have attained the usefulness or popularity that they have today.
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> I’ve never heard of the IMF demanding this

Not to be rude, but that can only mean you've not been paying attention.

Stiglitz wrote an entire book on the subject, "Globalization and its discontents": https://www.theguardian.com/business/2002/jul/06/globalisati...

The IMF were notorious for providing the same advice to different countries with only the name changed (and in one anecdote of his, forgetting to do the search and replace).

They are still at it: https://www.taxjustice.net/2018/07/06/the-damage-of-internat...

Currently going on in Jordan: https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2018/6/3/thousands-pr...

> reducing a deficit could very well include taxes on the rich. It is a local choice to hurt the poor instead

No, the IMF demands specific changes as part of the loan conditionality.
It's very rare not to need GCD reduction, though; multiplying values burns through bits extremely fast. Only doing factor-2 reduction isn't infeasible but you'd be further damaging an already iffy type.
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> ROC (Taiwan) is the defacto legitimate government of China. They were defeated in war by communist forces and fled to Taiwan.

They were defeated, and yet still considered the "defacto legitimate government of China"? How does that work? I would think very few people consider the ROC the "legitimate" government of Mainland China.

> America acknowledged ROC as the legitimate government of China

Why is this relevant?
You’re simply wrong. Believing in nurture over nature is a common belief on the left.
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Same here, I was mostly on C64, MSX, Amiga, Atari ST and then PC during my formative years and it seems gaming history is being written by consoles because they were more popular or because gaming got really big during that time.

Checking out Zelda I left unimpressed, while I can imagine the game making an impression if one is younger and one spends a lot of time in it. But it has nothing over similar games on other platforms that were less popular and are now lost in the seas of time.

Actually I felt mostly annoyed trying out some Zelda games because of endless, unskippable, stale dialog.

Elite is one of the games I remember most fondly from my childhood.
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The parent comment isn't very helpful, but from what I understand people dislike JWTs because it makes it hard to invalidate a session without some sort of work-around. For example, you can use 2 tokens, one short lived, and one long lived to get around the invalidation problem, but then you will need to occasionally validate that both tokens are still valid, and that state needs to be stored, and now you're storing some state, which is semi-contradictory to the purpose of a stateless-token. Here's a more detailed write-up from another poster -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12332119
Even so, using the number of words to describe events to estimate the time those events will take to play out, seems like asking for trouble.
This note was quite short, so Bill Gates didn't go into much details.

The details are:

* Bill believes in a new nuclear fission technology that addresses the concern of nuclear waste, traveling wave reactor [1].

* He financed a startup called TerraPower [2] to demonstrate and then to put in use this technology

* Being aware of the strong anti-nuclear sentiment in the US and of the more friendly attitude in China, he signed an agreement with China National Nuclear Corporation to build a 600MW reactor in China

* With the new US administration more hawkish approach towards China, some new restrictions on nuclear deals were announced by the Department of Energy in October [3]

* Gates' TerraPower venture found itself in the crosshairs of these restrictions, so the deal with the CNNC became for all practical purposes void [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower

[3] https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-announces-measures-preve...

[4] https://www.rt.com/business/447910-bill-gates-nuclear-china/