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Once AI is invented it will be all of these things and more. The question is how will it be used instrumentally. The answer if we look at current trends is in various ways to harm most humans living on the planet to take away their agency, privacy, freedom, utility to other human beings, etc. Western foreign policy is already totalitarian and fascist, how will it affect pariah states or those who become pariah states? Horribly.
You're basically saying scientists can become good programmers if they become professional programmers. Of course they can be, and I doubt anyone would argue that. Some of the best programmers I know have zero college education at all, so of course it's possible for mathematicians and scientists to do the same.

But that isn't anywhere near the point of the article. It's talking about scientists that did NOT switch to writing software professionally, but continue to write it merely as a tool to accomplish their primary scientific goals.
Not sure what this says, except that this industry remains terrible about learning from the past.
This is fair, I should have thought more about the list.

For Japanese, I don't think the way people talk casually to one another is as amenable to compression as newspaper headlines

But surely for Thai you're in a sub-optimal boat?
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many physics experiments look like this. I've always been bothered by the use of aluminum foil for insulation but it works. a lot of the parts would have been precision cut using CNC, etc.
Static typing does not prevent this; the fact that static typed languages can parse freeform formats like JSON works as a simple example.

If you statically prove that you check that they keys are there before using them, then the type system can be satisfied.
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There are a couple of failures (trashcan mac for example, Macbook Pro butterfly keyboard to a degree) but it is hard to argue that Apple's product designs over the last decade haven't been a massive success in general.

Sure you can point out gripes (the touch bar, lack of ports, no headphone jack etc.) but in almost every product category there are at most a couple other products which can compete in terms of build quality, aesthetics, and functionality. And people have certainly bought a lot of units of most of these products, so it's hard to classify them as "failures" by any objective metric.

If anything I think Apple has such a strong reputation for having categorically the "best designs" that they can't help falling short of expectations, and there's a whole category of journalism dedicated to catastrophizing every perceived flaw.

In other words they're not perfect but they're undeny
Oh goodness, it's wonderful. I have a Quake-style "visor" Terminal available everywhere at a touch, mapped difficult to remember key combinations (ctrl-opt-command-D for responsive design mode? really?), a button to turn toggle javascript in the browser, 1Password everywhere… frankly it's a drag going home to the external keyboard.
Actually living on Mars might be one of the only ways to successfully live without any microbes, because a huge part of the gut microbiota is needed to train your immune responses to other microbes. But if there are no other microbes around you'd be ok for a while, but would probably develop autoimmunity or have other immune problems eventually.

People with SCID have to live in a filtered air bubble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_combined_immunodeficien...) so it's possible, but if I remember correctly there are side effects. Mars is kind of a similar lifeless bubble though.
If you don’t want something public, don’t allow a crawler to find it or access it. The people you want to hide stuff from are just going to use search engines that ignore robots.txt
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I'd love to hear what you have to say in the topic.
I strongly believe that any wildlife hunting/fishing should be prohibited, no matter if it's recreational or for selling.

If it isn't grown specifically for farming/hunting/fishing on a farm/elsewhere, then hard no. Wildlife just doesn't has any chance against modern technology.
The programmer users are arguably "clients" in this context too. Much the same sorts of issues, different labels.

One need only look at the bug tracker on the average "massively used library" to see that you will be communicating with clients a great deal. Your dream of a small group of perfect programmers filing neat and accurate feature requests or bug reports doesn't match any reality I've ever seen. To expect them all to "understand how coding works" is also likely a pipe-dream - users of all ability levels are out there writing code, filing bug reports for things that aren't bugs, asking questions in forums that aren't meant for those questions, mad at you because the direction the project has taken isn't the one they or the company they work for want/need, etc etc...
I think the team needs to be set up quite well for remote work. You need good tools and workflow in place. Otherwise, people will get bored, carried away and won't feel like getting their stuff done. Skilled management is really a must.

My place is trying remote, and sometimes I'm more productive in the office. However, if I get in the zone at home I will accomplish significantly more. I would definitely rather go outside for 10 minutes to take a break instead of chatting in the office. Unfortunately, it seems like there is no attention on how to make people more comfortable and engaged.
Can anyone clarify Jeff Hawkins usage of the word time? I'm wondering why he isn't using rate or frequency instead of time.
Upvote to this.

As far as your career - salary and promotions and recognition - you can't just sit in a corner and be quiet. People have to recognize that you're good at what you do and it's hard for others to see when you only communicate in code check-ins.

You have to start attending meetings, speaking at meetings, and being useful beyond the code.
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433Mhz, ADS-B, DAB, etc.

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/tag/android/

As with many gadgets it sits in a drawer for some time now.
Mostly humans with radiation repair nanomachines and shielding could do just fine, I think. (Saying more would spoil Saturn's Children.) Humans commanding autonomous drones should figure more into Sci-fi. "Away teams" of drones in real life space fleets should be more prominent. Instead of a transporter shifting bodies, we could have the shifting of points of view through VR teleoperation. (Which is really what a transporter was for in the original Star Trek series: Changing locations with minimal production expense.)
> Is this something that HN audience is interested in?

Are you teasing? Yes, we want to know! Though frankly I'm incredulous.
Thanks, though no such option.
You might almost think it was intended to provoke a reaction.

To my most cynical take, perhaps this is CCP supporters encouraged by Beijing to provoke an "entirely necessary, but regrettable restriction of movement within Hong Kong. We had no choice".
Eric Weinstein one was great.

What I meant is other podcast channels.
Hoogle is pretty nice, and few other languages had an equivalent until quite recently.

I'm hopeful that cool type-powered IDE features will start to arrive once haskell-ide-engine is a bit more stable. It's getting there!

There are some pretty awesome IDE ideas in Haskell-ish languages like Idris [1], too. There is some movement towards dependent types in Haskell, so it might get similar features one day.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOtKD7ml0NU
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2016/cb16-210...

- more people who live in rural areas are homeowners

- fewer live in poverty

So it seems like “city living” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
To my eternal shame I still couldn't figure out how to link directly to comments. So I looked for it and googled a line. To my surprise it was the first hit.

Google's ethics my seem questionable, but you sometimes can't fault the results.
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You should be able to put it in a range otherwise you probably don't know enough to build it. You don't want to spend 100 millions on something that will save 1 million a year.
clicking on those individual icons 'Time Travel' or 'Dynamic Graphs' under Fall 17 returns 404
Also I want to throw in that learning a new paradigm (Elm) is something else entirely than going from one imperative language to another one.
For PR it works sufficiently as is. My criticism of the statement is not in its effectiveness and I don't think any resolution of my criticism would allow them to keep the original goal of the statement.
There is a difference between robots.txt blocking a page and noindexing a page.

Blocking in robots.txt will stop Googlebot downloading that page and looking at the contents, but the page may still make it into the index on the basis of links to that page making it seem relevant (it will appear in the search results without a description snippet and will include a note about why).

To have a page not appear in the index you need to use a 'noindex' directive [1] either in the file itself or in the HTTP headers. However, if the file is blocked in robots.txt then note Google cannot read that noindex directive.

Also, in the StackOverflow response you linked to that the user agent is listed just as 'Google', but it should be 'Googlebot' as per the 'User agent token (product token)' table column listed in [2].

Good luck! :)

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Yes, all true, but we have the Hamiltonian formulation (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.01403 which is a nice book chapter) which “… is also the starting point for the canonical quantization program, which constitutes one main approach to the as yet unsolved problems of Quantum Gravity. In this approach one tries to make essential use of the Hamiltonian structure of the classical theory in formulating the corresponding quantum theory.” From there you could jump to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_quantum_gravity which has references.
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Makes sense because not everyone speaks English as native language. Disalow is pretty close to disallow, phonetically.
My experience with academic code is that it's all ad-hoc software that's written to solve a single problem for a single paper. Once the final draft of the paper is peer-reviewed and published, there is no longer any reason to ever touch that code again.

From a practical standpoint, why invest in future-proofing your code if it's going to be thrown away once the current paper is finished? No need to make the code readable for the next author, no need to document it, no need to make your code non-monolithic because you're never going to build on top of it later.

On top of this, they were never educated and trained as software engineers. If you're lucky, they may have a pure CS background (and some of the worst code I've seen has been written by academic CS people who are explicitly not software engineers), but most likely they come from various academic disciplines that don't teach how to write code.

I used to work at an academia-focused NLP company, and while they did have some well-structured long-lived projects that we used across several projects, there were also large piles of code that you can tell were just intended to be used once and then forgotten about.

This also reminds me of the way Japanese console developers, such as Squaresoft, used to treat their source code in the '90s. Once the game shipped, they would just wipe the source code from their hard drives and their backups to save space. Hey, it's a pre-2006 console game, it's never going to get patched after release, and this was long before the nostalgia bug bit and publishers realized there was money in porting old games to new platforms. Hey, if you believe that code is only ever going to be used once, you are going to treat it as throwaway code, and that includes actually throwing it away at the end. As a result, many later ports of '90s console games were remade from scratch, consist of old ROMs running in an emulator (sometimes romhacked if the game had never been translated before, like Trials of Mana), rebuilt from a third-party port of the game, or if they're really lucky rescued from early beta code stored on an old computer they forgot to wipe (this is how the FF7 PC version got made in fact). There was a Twitter thread recently, and it's absolutely fascinating.
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Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again (and the whole first list on the page) are examples of names from The Culture, not actually AI generated. Protip: Don't Ask fits it nicely though!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Cult...

Semi-related fun fact - SpaceX's landing barge names are taken from these: Just Read the Instructions, Of Course I Still Love You, and (under construction) A Shortfall of Gravitas.
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It should also be noted that the majority of the whale meat produced by these countries is sold to Japan.
Agree, the optics aren't good.

Worth considering: breaking into the building is reported to have taken hours, and police was apparently absent while that was going on, with TV cameras rolling. This concept may apply:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_provocateur
I have a TI-89 emulator running in my android and it's pretty awesome. I think there are a few other emulators like N64 and other game consoles.
where there is a will there is a way

the system doesn't have to be perfectly ungameable
It doesn't maintain any state - NixOps uses SQLite database which makes it cumbersome to share with other devs.

Oh, that's really a nice feature! I use NixOps for managing some personal hosts and one work VM, but the local state is annoying.
Testing at Stennis started in the 60's. I know they tested at Hunstville but I thought Huntsville is where they did the Saturn V assembly.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/stennis/pdf/428016main_FS-2010-...
No parametric polymorphism?
on top of that, there is a high quality data cable that comes with your computer
People don't agree on what OOP even is, so I don't think the question can be answered.

For example, Rust itself doesn't know if it is OOP or not: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch17-01-what-is-oo.html

Go similarly doesn't know: https://golang.org/doc/faq#Is_Go_an_object-oriented_language

Nim claims to be a multi-paradigm language with full support for OOP: https://nim-lang.org/docs/tut2.html

Julia doesn't seem to discuss OOP that I could find. But if Common Lisp has long claimed and been described as supporting OOP, and Julia copying its dispatch system from Common Lisp, it similarly is in a weird place of is it OOP or not?

Bottom line... I think a lot of new and popular languages are at least partially OOP. That they are more hybrids of prior languages, that they dropped certain features and added others is normal, since they are trying to be different and distinguish themselves, but they all seem to still have enough of OOP to not be sure if they should claim to be OOP or not.
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Also, that Saturn V in Houston was flight ready. It's not a model, they separated the stages a little bit so you could see inside, but that is as real as it gets. I could have stayed in there all day.
> perhaps women and men just have different temperature preference distributions

I bundled all that under "physiological factors". There are also sociocultural factors at play but that's a minefield of a discussion. It's how gender stereotypes are born and educated into kids from a young age.
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The trouble is CO2 isn't even a pressing problem compared to everything else. There are so man forms of pollution that are killing things right now. There are the great garbage patches in both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. There are the lakes of sludge in factories cities in China. There are the coal fly ash dams at coal plants all around the US (and dams like the one in Kingston Fossil Plant that broke and contaminated the entire watershed between Nashville and Knoxivlle), water supply contamination from fracking, the ongoing ramifications from the BP oil spill in the Gulf that is still not really cleaned up, but everyone has forgotten about.

To solve all these other very current sources of pollution that are killing us right now, we need to consume less. We need more trains, fewer cars, cellphones that are designed to last 8~12 years instead of 2~4, industry that isn't based on infinite growth, more automation, less fear over loss to automation, and just a huge change in the way we think about the world, consumption and the economy.

All of these changes will reduce CO2, but CO2 is just a symptom of a much much larger problem. People will continue to argue about CO2, and it'd a red haring. Humanity needs to focus on the actual Flu and not the runny nose/sniffles.