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> Can you build non-determinism out of deterministic pieces?

Yes. Pseudo-random generators are deterministic on lower level, yet they effectively non-deterministic in the sense that you cannot easily predict next value.

Or you can just take a system with large number of interacting particles - even if behavior of each of them is determined, the system as a whole is hard to predict.

Converse is also possible, you can build effectively deterministic system on top of a non-deterministic one. We do that with computers, we have digital computers (deterministic) on top of solid-state physics, which is non-deterministic due to interactions of electrons and the material.

This is not really a paradox, since at the higher level you only consider macrostates, so the fact that the microstates, which you consider at the lower level, are (non-)deterministic doesn't really matter.
Ah, I overestimated humanity. I must say that for Krugman to question anyone’s intellectual honesty when speaking to the public is pretty rich.

Paul Krugman's Hypocrisy: Now The Deficit Matters

https://www.dailywire.com/news/12299/paul-krugman-how-ive-co...

Hypocrite Krugman: ‘Awful’ 2017 McCain Now ‘Genuine Hero’, Again Claims GOP ‘Authoritarian'

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2018/11/13/...
A proper takedown: https://voynichportal.com/2019/05/07/cheshire-recast/
Some of China’s '996' tech tribe quit, seek less stress
Forward slash (/) is punctuation in English. Back slash is not.
While comparing the sizes of "hello world" programs is cute, how do real world small utilities compare?
Yes, there's a world of difference between being able to choose from one option or 2.

As to the choice being an illusion because two parties often rule: tell that to the Whigs (one of the two parties that no longer exists in the UK), or to anyone that's held a balance of power in a coalition government.
Yes, the app described in the article looks much better.
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End to end encryption means nothing if the app uses your text to lookup for ads and other data mining.
Do you see things that no one else does? I'd be fascinated to hear more
I think it's great that this company did this, but this article is a puff piece. There's no real data here. He just states that the `business tripled`. What does that actually mean? Did it triple in revenue? How did increasing the entry-level pay result in that? And how did your non-entry level employees handle the lowest wrung earning far closer to their own pay? How many executives decided that the freeze wasn't in their own best interest and left? You can't just sacrifice and redistribute and expect it to be all roses. The details matter, especially if you're trying to convince resistant minds that it's a good thing.
OK fist I'm not defending c or c++ but trying to fix incorrect information:

> ...rightly points out that statically linked C/C++ executables are going to be large as well.

This is false, and both how a library is structured how linkers work, if you statically link parts of musl expect a somewhat tiny size increase.

> There's a reason that glibc doesn't officially support static linking, and that is NSS, and PAM.

That and the code isn't structured for static linking as there are dependency chains pulling in many symbols.

> ...most C and C++ programmers wouldn't ever perform perhaps outside of the most space constrained embedded projects.

This is because syscalls are os specific and depending on the os unstable. Also Linux has an interesting way of encoding errno into the ret val (maybe others too?) not to mention vdso 'syscalls'.

> ...glibc and its dependency on dlopen() and friends.

If $code doesn't work on musl 99.9% of the time its due to $code, also musl has dlopen and a dyn linker otherwise alpine wouldn't work.
Using C modules from python doesn't involve running any executable other than python. The C modules are dynamic link libraries, not programs themselves. I imagine the case is the same for ruby.
I think the reality on Twitter is that only a very few people are unhappy and outraged and a very many people without the strong emotions empathise and amplify it.

This is actively encouraged and labeled in some groups by "being a good ally" for example.
This page is quite explanatory:

http://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-pattern-language.html
It is if you are standardizing documentation. I don’t expect FAQs in the main website.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.0.0/complement-lang-faq.html
When I was in school the only computers I had access to were in the schools computer halls which were shared with every other class in school. Settings like keyboard changes could not be persisted, and even so I got a different computer every time.

I love Dvorak and using it has been a huge boon for me, but I'm also able to control my environment and always use the same computer.

So I say go with QWERTY.
How does that not hold for a plain .txt document without page-marker-ascii-art?
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I would have loved if they had named the article "Moon shakes, geologists are shaken".
I eat at Hiltl frequently and love it every time! Strongly recommended.

For a friend of mine, Hiltl’s presences in Zürich (and other vegeterian restaurants) was a big factor in moving to Zürich :)

I was on an airplane once where SWISS served Hiltl food. The person next to me was very positively surprised by the quality and asked me about details of the dish.
First AI get elected? Don't think so
Your claims are no more convincing than the article.

You're entirely free to hold your beliefs about this, of course (or are you? perhaps they're predetermined), but don't imagine they're somehow more valid than the alternatives.
I don't see how conflating inscrutible with non-deterministic is useful. But this is the argument the author is making. They seem to argue that it is a useful thing to do scientifically. Perhaps philosophers would do well to focus on whether a different person in the same circumstances would be forced to make the same decision. The answer is clearly no. But not because of a lack of determinism.
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Well... bump the fiduciary duty to shareholders couple of stairs down the priority ladder and they may change.
Yes, free will and determinism are compatible. It's known as Compatibilism, and most philosophers are actually Compatibilists. I often debate free will on reddit [1], so I'll reproduce the relevant argument here:

Firstly, to set the stage, understand that the "free will" debated in philosophy around questions of moral responsibility is not the same "free will" as typically used in science, eg. one such definition is where experimenters are free to set up their measurements independently of the system they're measuring. This is a common confusion.

What matters for the philosophical free will debate is whether there is a coherent definition of free will/choice which can make sense of our language of volition and moral reasoning, and which can serve to justify moral responsibility. Note also that "moral responsibility" does not necessarily entail "punishment" (which is a question of justice). This is another common confusion.

Finally, note that you make choices according to your nature, but to also have a choice in your nature would be logically circular.

So is there at least one definition of free will that can satisfy all of these criteria? Compatibilism is the most widely accepted approach among philosophers, and seems to match most people's intuitive moral reasoning [2]. For a rough example of what this might look like, consider a definition like "the moral responsibility of an agent capable of general learning is proportional to the amount of information it has learned, and a freely willed choice is one made based on internal reasons and not forced by other agents".

Note how this is perfectly compatible with determinism, how it makes sense of why we don't hold babies responsible but we hold adults responsible, it makes sense of how environmental [and] social factors that can impede learning moral lessons can diminish moral responsibility, it strictly defines what "free" means in the context of choice, and "moral responsibility" reduces to "moral feedback", ie. instructing what was done wrong. It's not perfect, but it should suffice as an introduction to Compatibilist-style reasoning.

This does not cover justice, which is what we must do in response to moral culpability, and which bring in further assumptions.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/bojcl0/research_ha...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274892120_Why_Compa...
This is a really great marketing example! The creator has combined a top page HN post with a PH launch at the same time with really polished looking apps & landing pages.

Essentially this will give them a huge traction boost on the app stores and a bunch of new users. Super impressive.
> My HR staff suggested that we re-think our recruiting and training – which made sense – but I thought that we could do more. I thought we needed to reconsider how we supported and paid our team.

Sounds like a situation right out of Yes, Minister. HR staff not being forthcoming with the obvious answer of increasing pay to lower attrition rates from 30-40% due to the attitude of the board/CEO and anticipation of their negative response.
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Dumbest argument ever

Its not hypocrisy to believe that cops should shoot criminals, but ordinary citizens doing.

The CIA protects us, every action they do makes us safer.

The CIA does a lot of things, but the reason is to protect us. We may not understand why they did something but their motives are always true.

China is our enemy, they want to kill us
Are you sure it was the latest version of their product? Asking someone to do a task that you have recently done could be a really good code test.
Not believing in free will does not inevitably lead to a nihilistic funk.

Funks are often caused by an abrupt shift in worldview without a corresponding set of tools for integrating that worldview into the rest of your life.
> could you imagine trying to get everyone to change?

Yes, this is exactly what I do for a living, consolidating policy and legal documents and their related business workflows into modern applications. My requirements for how the text editors work are far more meticulous than your average app exactly for the reasons you stated. Concerns with formatting that most products would blow off as trivial are deal-breakers in this industry.
This is brilliant!

The role of the senior Engineer isn't to tell you how to balance the tree. You, or anyone you instruct to, can simply ask google that or use a library.

Their role is to ask why we need to balance the tree. You very definitely can't ask google that, and that's why you need to hire a senior Engineer.
I'm actually not very familiar with it, other than it's meant for more real-time stuff and it supports a lot of different platforms. I'd love someone comparing that is actually educated on the topic (computer graphics) :P
Or Respro masks. Legitimate use cases for those, London has.
We've joked about giving potential hires a challenge to fix a problem we are currently experiencing, but we wouldn't really do it. That takes some balls to ask interviewees to write or fix production code.
What gold rush we are currently in
See also: http://homebrewcpu.org
An interesting aside is if the NDA is bidirectional? In most interviews, the candidate would discuss their past experiences and past projects, which could contain sensitive information via unintentional leaking. Perhaps even a side project that the candidate is working could be covered with NDA. Thoughts?
What happened? Did you go through the interview?
Where have the biggest reductions in poverty taken place?
I put my vaccination history into a ClarisWorks document. At least, I assume I did from the file name…

Could be worse. My dad used a video tape format even more obscure than Betamax.
HN moderators discourage humour. Contrast with Slashdot that encouraged it via the moderation system. If everyone has to sound serious all the time, you get a lot of angry sounding posts.
The instructions aren't very straightforward, but you can compile Go code (which GopenPGP is) into a C archive https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Build_modes
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I'm interviewing with 6 companies simultaneously and like you they all think they're deserving of free labor.

I'd wager your company must have the worst devs, those who have little self respect and zero other prospects.

Do you not understand that you're requesting free labor from an applicant? Did you forget the purpose isn't to have the sickest challenge ever but to evaluate someone's code/ingenuity?
You may not be the only one, but there's plenty of reason to believe they did this. For a start the West carefully tracks spacecraft trajectories using radar, the vehicle's transmissions are easily monitored (if not interpreted) using directional antennae and we can still do so for the orbiter, and surely did so for the landed vehicle on the earth facing side.

The vehicle on the far side is harder to verify, but it went into Lunar orbit and disappeared so it definitely went somewhere. Outing this as a fraud would have been trivially easy for many nations, plenty of independent scientists and even some amateur groups that have the gear and motivation to do so.
I'm confused--according to a quick search, "touch typing" is being able to type without looking at the keyboard?

Can you even say you know how to type if you have to look at the keys to do it?
Why can't you put GPL v3 software (or Apache or whatever GPL-compatible license you prefer) into the app store?
Apologies if this is a silly question but how does this differ from other homemade cpus that appear every so often?
It's very easy to have family folklore that a dhaba has been operating at a location for a thousand years. Proving it might be more complex.
> We don't really subsidize fossil fuels.

If we allowed a restaurant to dump its trash for free in a public playground, we would be subsidizing that restaurant with taxpayer dollars.

When we allow fossil fuels to be burned and dump pollution for free into the public atmosphere, we are subsidizing the usage of fossil fuel.

In the trash scenario, we'd make the restaurant pay for cleanup, pay medical costs for the kids who got ill, and pay for its future trash disposal. Burning fossil fuels causes asthma, climate change, flooding, etc, and remediation costs should be borne by those who cause the damage.

If you consider the billions of dollars we all spend dealing with fossil fuel companies' waste, it's quite a subsidy. The least we can do is make them compete on a level playing field.
I don't think there is anything to gain speed wise from using Dvorak, and you'll only more compatibility issues from having to work in a QWERTY focused world.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/17/18223384/dvorak-qwerty-ke...

Above is a good article on the topic.
No, let's be real, the cops show up in cities pretty reliably. The drawback is that sometimes they do good for the situation, while a third of the time they end up shooting someone.

Interesting you mention medivac insurance -- I spent a number of years in a very small town in rural west Texas and I've never heard of that. Numerous times I heard of the race to get someone to one of the towns with a hospital 45 minutes away, though, maybe several times a year.

Maybe it's not at as widespread as you think, or somehow this town of about a thousand people (with one gas station, one restaurant open part time, and no grocery stores) entirely missed out on the existence of something that'd probably have saved lives.
I get used to it pretty fast. My keyboard at work in QWERTZ and my keyboard at home is QWERTY. For me, it's a mind thing.
Similarly, consumers spend 38 percent more time in the grocery store when the background music is slow.

and 90 percent less if it's "80s Sad Hits", like it usually is.
All those same things apply to house flies. Look, you believe what you believe because a priest or a guy wearing khakis and a sports jacket named "Pastor Skip" told you so. Don't pretend that your opinion came from anywhere else, or that all of the tortured logic in your post is anything other than a post facto justifiction of that religious opinion.
At least to my ears, this sounds better than Lyrebird did when it was posted here. Bravo!
They don't, that would be raycis.
There were a bunch of reports last year about a global shortage of vanilla because bad weather in Madagascar wiped out most of the crop. Apparently at some point, it was more expensive than silver. At the same time, a bunch of big ice cream manufacturers switched to using natural vanilla instead of vanillin, which put even more pressure on the supply chain.

https://www.purewow.com/news/vanilla-shortage-prices-increas...
Urgh. I recently had a similar situation. I started interviewing with a company who have a take-home assignment which I could have completed in the required time without taking any care over the quality of code I was submitting, but to do it properly I spent a bit of time thinking about it and building a reasonably extensive test-suite along the way.

I was asked to come in for a face to face interview, for which I made clear I was having to take a day off of work, which was cancelled a few working hours before (so I wasn't able to cancel the holiday) without an apology. I was then interviewed again by phone and told that there was 'a bug' in my code and that I should try to find it and resubmit it without any other details. The spec was a puzzle with lots of weird edge cases and horrible inconsistencies.

I decided at that point that I didn't want to work with them.
It's more accurate to say that Twitter is full of responses to Nazis than Twitter is full of nazis. People on Twitter amplifies responses
If you're willing to put in the effort of teaching them touch typing on a real keyboard (by blanking out the keycaps or whatnot), go ahead and teach them on Colemak or Dvorak or whatnot.

I don't care much for the arguments of the ubiquity of Qwerty for multiple reasons:

1. They will be exposed to Qwerty on devices where touch-typing is meaningless, such as smartphones and tablets.

2. They will learn Qwerty eventually anyway, and they'll be proficient in both. Why set them off on the worse of the two options from the start?

3. I'm sure schools and other parts of society are moving away from shared workstations onto personal laptops, where they get to control keyboard settings.

4. If I had to choose between being doomed to RSI or encountering keyboard incompatibilities every now and then, I would not pick RSI lightly.

Learning Colemak was painful for a while, but worth it many, many times over in retrospect.
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> The earth doesn't travel the same course each year. It's chaotic.

I would prefer to call it quasiperiodic.
A Racket language server would be great. I wonder if some DrRacket internals could be spun off.
My brain had just begun sketching this story. Massive larva emerges, turns out earth was just yolk.
A decade ago, my niece went in for pre-K testing, and the teacher showed her a list of animals, asking her to name them. Picture of a dog, spot. Picture of a cat, whiskers. Picture of a rabbit, hoppy, etc. The teacher tells her parents that she failed that section and needs to work on being able to identify animals. They point out to the teacher that she had asked her to name them, not identify them, and that's exactly what she did. Even now, she's a very smart, but very literal thinker, and it's fair to say it has caused her some conflict in school.
Huh, 271K on MacOS using debug (268K using release)..

Edit: 1.34.2
My eyes have been seeing a lot of Windows local file paths lately. Nothing that a couple of days of Linux\FreeBSD cannot cure.
A bluetooth-enabled hearing aid and a remote microphone would work well in this situation but only if there is one speaker to listen to as aids currently can only stream from one remote mic at a time.

And also only if you are happy to hand a clip-on mic for a friend to wear.
Maybe, but from a self serving standpoint acquiring multiple offers drastically helps your negotiating position.
I built this web app that lets you customise background music loops within a set. You can switch different instruments on and off, set volume levels, set the length and download. All the tracks in a set work together but different combinations can change a piece from light and happy to dramatic and angry to wistful and relaxed.

It's primarily for video background music but it also works for games where you need lots of variations of tracks that work together to smoothly change with the game's mood and atmosphere.
You just admitted that there's no evidence they actually sent anything or actually landed or that the rover is operational
I've just clicked on your profile and see you have "ex-con" in your bio, and I wonder if that's where some of this disagreement is coming from. I just thought I'd make clear that am not in favour of generally harsher sentences (in many cases the opposite). I'm very skeptical of marking people for life for past mistakes.

What I am actually talking about a specific subset of criminals, who's motivations are reasonably well understood, and who's crimes are extremely damaging.
A big one is that the page is served by the CPU it describes.
No you are not the only one. There are many people out there that believe the US and the USSR have fabricated their moon landing. And also plenty of groups that claim the earth is flat. You can find them easily with some quick googling.
I also have kids and am interested in the same question, but I would raise it up a level and ask: "Should I teach my kids to type?"

Right now they mostly use voice recognition and seem to be getting along pretty well...
To be honest I’d lump you into the same as the caveat made earlier about people with physical disabilities because even though you’re (presumably) able bodied, at night time your movement is restricted.

I can totally see the benefit for people in
circumstances like your own (and those with greater concerns too). But for the average Joe? That’s another matter. Like any accessibility tool, I agree they are fantastic for those who depend upon it. However I wouldn’t advocate everyone gets a blind dog, hearing aid or wheelchair unless they actually needed it. Similarly would you actually want an Echo device in your bedroom if you didn’t have the accessibility concern that your CPAP machine creates?

Ultimately it’s harder to justify that privacy vs convenience trade off when accessibility isn’t an issue. But I accept that’s a decision which will be as divided as it will be personal. Myself; I have an Echo in the kitchen but I have no interest in allowing them to migrate upstairs.

Also thanks for the response. I do appreciate reading someone else’s perspective:)
The teacher was correct to reject the work. The teacher was horribly wrong to belittle and criticize the work from a position of ignorance.
Proving free will exists is like proving red exists. You can point to the wavelength (or the brain signals) and declare “that is red” (or “that is the brain signature of a person deciding”) but neither of these conveys in any way the actual subjective experience of perceiving red or making decisions. Note that even if you were to, say, take a colorblind person and force them to see red by directly stimulating the relevant portion of their brain, that STILL does not neatly encompass everything there is to know about “seeing red.”

Also, what does a total lack of free will mean for the criminal justice system, which operates on the unspoken assumption that behavior is at least in part willful?
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Why do programmers have a hard time writing coherent complete sentences?