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I'm very curious about this.

Getting the Rust compiler to handle memory correctly took years one complete refactoring of the type system, and a number of less major changes before Rust reached version 1.0. Even after that, the borrowing system has regularly been refined to become gradually more intuitive and more powerful.

Do you have precise plans for this feature? If they're written somewhere, I'm quite interested :)
This is just anti-asian American bias.

Harvard lawsuit scares the colleges. They will need a new way to discriminate.

I find it funny that historically the standardized tests were primarily used to help get Jewish students into elite universities and once they make up the majority they remove it.
At the point when Google has heard your conversations, knows your demographics, likes and dislikes, and can control your actions and thoughts through search and news feed manipulation you cease to be an autonamous person and become nothing but a neuron for Google.
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I wonder if he can draw some tiny text hidden behind one of the opaque parts that says "This logo was created by...".
This direct critique is actually very appreciated. From this I've learned that the website and HN post need to better back up the claims made and paint some clarity as to what is happening in the system.

The intent is not to sell snake oil. I have a free version available for users to assess the product themselves and make that decision. If you personally got into the system, launched a desktop, and were unsatisfied, please email me at erik@booste.io or call me on my personal cell (331) 262-8169.
>There is simply no easy way in any FP language that I know to capture such a simple mechanism as: "Reuse 90% of this piece of code but alter just this 10%".

Honest question: why does the Common Lisp Object System not do this for you?
LinuxServer.io has a Docker image that I use.
I worked in Chrome for a while, but for past few years I worked in security related areas, both at Google and at Facebook. You could make the case that the mathematics I’ve learned helped me understand how RSA and ECC work, but that has actually been mostly irrelevant in my experience, unlike things like system design, vulnerability detection and management, fuzzing, reverse engineering, which I have mostly learned on the job, not at university.

If people are finding that they aren't using what they learned at university in their career, it's the career that's the problem, not the university education.

This is a bit myopic with respect to how normal people view university education. For a typical person, the point of education is not to learn things, but to obtain a degree. The point of degree is to get a good job. If they manage to get a good job, that’s a success, and nothing more is expected from the university education: people learn how to do the job mostly on the job anyway. In this context, if people don’t use what they learned in the university in the careers, that’s okay, what matters for normal people is the career, not the learning. Of course, it might be different for you (it is different for me, I love learning for learning’s sake), but that’s observably not how most people approach life.
I on the other hand can't find any visible connection between sex and just about anything important, except negatively - in the sense that a significant job of societies, governments and religions is limiting how people can express their sex drive.

It's the first time I've heard of TMT, but it does seem intuitively reasonable to me. Fear of death and its inevitability leads to search for meaning and symbolic immortality, and from that you can derive most of civilization, up to and including everything that happens in geopolitics. So the connection seems much more obvious.
Yeah, that's the thing they don't tell you up front. When you bail someone out, you are legally giving them that money. So if the money is owed to something else (such as fines / court costs, or a legal judgement) those funds are redirected in the end.
It isn’t not proof either. It seems rather strange to posit that dollars spent is the only factor dictating the effectiveness of marketing.
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That would be a freight train consisting of 128 units. Not likely in Europe, where the average freight train has 25 to 30 wagons, and the longest freight train seems to measure 835m, which will put you in the neighbourhood of 40 units. I'm not even sure that one would fit on the Swiss network; it runs or ran between Hamburg and Denmark, a route which features not quite as many elevation differences and tunnels.

Considering this, the chances of even hitting the lower 256 axle mark are probably negligibly remote as well.
The coffee part also resonated stongly with me, for a completely different reason :)

I spent last year thinking on how to implement a text-only simulation that could cope with just about any situation. Most of my models were mentally evaluated on this "simple" task of making coffee. The design I came up with (still to be implemented) is not code driven, but data driven. Instead of executing bunch of nested if-elses, I'd have a big list of tuples that contain <action, preconditions, reaction>. When action is performed upon object, this list is traversed. For each element, it's preconditions are compared to current world state. Based on this criteria the most suitable element is selected, and it's reaction is applied to modify world's state.

Your list could be used as preconditions for action of brewing coffee; each would produce different results ranging from nice coffee to yucky mud or broken machine. I'd like to include a nice built-in editor that could be utilized to quickly modify or add reactions, objects, or world state variables. I have most of it figured out but it's a lot of work to put together all the pieces.
Then they will dumb down the curriculum even more.
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You're describing indirection, not abstraction. Indirection is bug-prone, improves flexibility, and produces smaller functions. Sometimes it can be a means of getting abstraction, but it is not the only way.

As an example, DGEMM is a very abstract function, applicable to rotation in 3-D space, Markov-chain occupancy computations, finite-state machine simulation, ANNs, and numerous other applications. But it doesn't use indirection. And it's not a particularly short function. (The same is true of most of the rest of LAPACK.)
And I thought it was interesting to provide such a counter example :-)
HN generally appreciates factual knowledge
Yeah, I wonder what the intended audience is. I would guess that if someone is familiar with the notation and concepts introduced, that they would also be quite familiar with linear regression. Nice article nevertheless.
Even without it I’m not sure that a dark pool is even possible on Globex or any of the large exchanges, these are usually reserved for smaller exchanges that are set up as an alternative trading system.

CME is also pretty pedantic in regards to who can trade on its platform.

Overall looking at the historical trade data there doesn’t seem to be any unusual trading patterns in the trades that VF reported as suspicious either in volume or position.

As far as the last minute trade goes this is very common not only on Fridays but at the end of every trading day where traders push a large number of trades just before the bell hits it’s pretty common practice it’s pretty much like taking out the trash.
I love the author's acceptance that unity == a one party system
I had the opposite -- near perfect test scores and shoddy grades. Ended up having to go to community college because no schools would have me. (It ended up working out for the better, I eventually made my way through an associates and saved a TON of money, got my bachelors, and have been quite successful.)
agree but -- previous eras of statistics used important and non-obvious ways to infer from subsets of data.. now, whole sets are used, and the subset part is more like a representation problem. Second, the things that are made to be important in school, are not always important outside of school. You do acknowledge that tacitly there..

The point of view in the post here is from an individual, regarding the work of another (hypothetical) individual, while the paper linked spends quite a lot of effort to characterize in the real world, real activity by large and very large, organizations, mainly business, and mainly the business of money.

You conclude that the field has "little general applicability" and that might be true in some sense.. but large organizations, and particularly large finance organizations, are not general at all, but rather composed of a very large number of specialized and repetitive operations.. exactly what ML and AI perform, no?
The first image it shows is impressive. I immediately knew something was wrong, but "It's CGI!" was completely out of the ballpark of my thoughts.
Whole lot of citations needed there, bub.
It's the same with Android.
It doesn't. DSLs are terrible for expressing music.
All that’s missing is the ability to control these settings through the API - same with Letsencrypt certs / auto ssl.
looks like Iceland didn't meet FATF KPI on the number of suspicious transactions reported. Probably Iceland need to work harder to bring in new clients like Mexican drug cartels and Russian oligarchs:

https://www.fatf-gafi.org/fr/publications/evaluationsmutuell...

"With the exception of the three large commercial banks in Iceland, the financial sector and non-financial businesses and professions have a poor understanding of the money laundering or terrorist financing risks to which they are exposed. These private sector entities have limited awareness of their AML/CFT obligations and report very few suspicious transactions in light of the risks present."
From the title I was hoping for proposed or implemented solutions to audio feedback detection and suppression.
The problem with the concept of free will isn’t in how we define the self, it’s in how we define free will. What do you actually mean by ‘free will’? I would put forward that, if you really start examining things, most people’s idea of free will is equivalent to the popular notion of a soul. That is, it’s something which exists separately from the body, yet which can somehow think and feel and decide. This conception of free will is not really coherent, since free will ceases to function when the body dies or loses functionality when certain parts of the brain are damaged.

You can redefine free will to just be the collection of algorithms and processes that play out as your brain decides how to respond to environmental stimuli, but then I think you have departed far enough from most people’s conception of what free will is to essentially just be redefining terms to suit your argument. FWIW, I think the best explanation of free will is that it doesn’t exist, but instead that it’s an explanatory framework we impose upon each other as a way of regulating people’s behavior.
You don't think about it much. You see death, you hear or read about death, and it doesn't register emotionally. The concept of your own death seems too distant to worry about.

That's what I understood GP to mean, though there's another form of death denial: all the stories people invent about "death giving meaning to life", about "great circle of life", or the various reasons people give to dismiss the idea that we should focus a bit more on working towards extending life.
“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.” -- Confucius
Yes, I've heard them say that indeed. They often gloss over a lot of issues about these.

For example, partial evaluation is limited by the fact that parameters need to be ordered a certain way and you can't realistically cover all combinations.

Higher order functions don't enable any kind of useful specialization at all. And of course, all modern OOP languages also support higher order functions, so they are the ones giving you more tools.
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If you took falling lessons as a kid, and you knew how to properly respond- following the push to a controlled fall, roll, or other redirection- you'd be fine. Sometimes the overreaction is the problem.
So you agree that college has nothing to do with education or job preparation, but rather some abstract general measure of character.

There are other ways to filter for people with these traits. Being smart in general (or being conscientious enough to study hard for the knowledge-based SATs) highly correlates to low time preference, so it may be redundant to do any other tests. There are other ways to teach a job skill without spending 4 years to do it or making a competition out of getting access to learning. In the last century before the college boom, big employers would expect to have to train new employees.

Forcing young people to incur significant unforgivable debt to the education-industrial complex just to prove they have some brain configuration seems wasteful and cruel.
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We spend so much time in college learning about tree structures that hash tables are almost an exception. Which is weird because I use hash tables every single day.

I also didn’t learn about the Liskov Substitution Principle in college or in my first few years in an OOP. Had to find it on my own and start teaching others. But I was in good company because Josh Bloch also didn’t understand it and a whole generation of devs aped his solutions.

People think of inheritance as additive but if you look at the code they write it’s often subtractive. Mammal is not a contract. Every fork in the tree is carving out more negative space than it adds.

Mammal is really a pretty terrible root. Some mammals are nocturnal. Some fly. One lays eggs. A few have no hair and we think hairy humans are gross. Some can hold their breath for hours and live four hundred years. Others measure life in days.

But not a single one is all of these things. If we talk about what mammals can do we include it all. But you can’t ask these things of most of them. You don’t even organize them by these traits (what’s in the tropical or night exhibit at a large zoo? Why are the seals and penguins together?)
I did actually take the SAT! Granted it was a long time ago, but I thought that it was challenging.

I did very well on it and it helped me move forward in my academic career because I was from a very, very poor family where going to college wasn't in the cards otherwise.
Yeah, a bit of light browsing yields a 25 to 30 unit average for European freight trains¹.

https://www.allianz-pro-schiene.de/themen/aktuell/740-meter-...
> The subconscious dread of death is also a form of the Fear of Missing Out.

That is true. I've been thinking about death more in the recent years, and most recently, the thinking focused on ideas like "if there's no afterlife, I wish there was at least a 'high score' screen, and a way to see how did the rest of humanity fare, how life looks a hundred thousand years from now".
I don't know of any, but you might hope that some devices would change from the "sends detailed info" category to "sends aggregate info" as a result of having to declare which they do.
I suck at coding but I'm way above average. I've seen what people do. So I suck but most developers I've worked with suck a lot worse.
It probably doesn't even really need to be called alpha/beta any more. It's very stable and has comparable or better features than most of the similar sites. There's a lot I still want to add, but there always will be.
The use of sarcasm is basically artistic expression and speakers are often intentionally ambiguous. There are different techniques for being clear versus ambiguous depending on which medium you're using, but this is still largely under the author's control, not inherent in the medium.

I still think of speech as very lossy. In ordinary conversation, you need a lot of back and forth to clarify what you're saying and make sure that the other person heard you. Consider how easily mistakes can be made ordering food over the telephone, which is why it's standard to repeat the order back to you. There are also special alphabets used by pilots and the military to avoid mistakes transmitting information.
You are framing my words as if I'm saying that the impact of Russian advertising was so small as to be immeasurable, when I'm saying the opposite: it's not measurable so we don't know how large it is. And we're just going to skip over the Russian propaganda that wasn't use paid advertising?
It shouldn't be too hard... if you want to try, you can find the source here: https://github.com/xojoc/games2d

Yeah, the 2-direction version is a little different than usual, but I wanted to try something new.
Wow, thanks for sharing Tom! This answer resonates with me too. YC was life changing for me as well because of the values I gained from the experience, and not for the help building some big company (which turns out is just not something I'm built for).

Before YC my business advice came from The Apprentice, and I didn't really know how to create value. But somehow I lucked into YC. I'll never forget being in awe of how hard my cohorts worked (and how exhausted they could be at the end of the day), and how good their skills were. How they could make things that were good, not in just well designed and built, but good for the world. I was way out of my depth, but committed to try and be able to do what they could do. I'm still maybe a B or B+ on my "can build something people want" skillset, but far better than the "D/D-" I was a decade ago.

I used to have one gripe about YC because of the insider/outsider thing—it's great to be on the inside but as a rule I prefer more open things—but then they came out with the most recent iterations of SUS which are open to all and have just been truly remarkable. I think it just goes to show what a special organization this is.
> You don't sound diametrically opposed to ASTs (which are evident in essentially any modern language)

Fwiw, I'm not sure what you mean by AST in the context, but if you're talking about an actual in-memory AST, there's (once again) research in getting rid of it for compilation.
Honest answer: you have a point :-)

Yes, CLOS offers all of that.

I just didn't quite consider it to be in the bucket of FP languages I had in mind (which to me means: statically typed, and some derivative of Haskell or OCaml).
Just by way of example, operation Ajax cost "$100,000 to $20 million." Surely this is not a lot of money compared to what Iran could have spent against it, but it was effective nonetheless. The point being that precision spending is more effective comparatively. You're stuck on the dollar amount while ignoring its precision and network effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9...
I'd love to get other peoples' thoughts on this, but I think we're at a tipping point back to vanilla html/css/js.

There used to be a huge need to jquery, bootstrap, polyfills, and other tricks, but many of those features are now available in the built-in languages. If you ignore IE, then you can make elaborate websites just by writing it by hand, doing some plain css grid, svg, html5, etc. How much time is spent resolving npm dependencies and packaging scripts for simple libraries that used to just be adding a .js file to your repo?

Obviously, web applications (that do more than show some content) will need more infrastructure, but I feel like we can safely stick with mostly vanilla languages for web pages that is content-focused. Let's go back to the days where you could learn a lot from View Source, and version control was dead simple.
Holy shit! Did they really just happen to use an image of a pharmacy that was closed just weeks ago because a woman and her unborn child died after getting a glucose compound that was laced with poison?
An extreme option to consider before the edge gets you:

Move to another country. One that has free healthcare even to foreigners. Yes, they exist. Brazil is one. I'm not sure but I've heard Spain might too.

Granted you wont get the best and most responsive health care in the world but at least you'll get some and for free.

Things are different out there. Worse in some aspects, better in others.

Just something to think about. Stay strong.
> "Computer Science"

While I like to rag on pseudo-diversity as much as the next person, the Computer Science GRE was discontinued in 2013; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_Record_Examinations#G.... Can't require something that no longer exists.
Thanks for the kind support, mkoryak.

Pricing could reasonably drop to $15/monthly for the unlimited plan, once I reach scale. The current system is not at all cost optimized; each user is a significant cost to me. Economies of scale and cloud-side tech has not been built out, because Booste is pre-product-market-fit and simply assessing interest.

The web-based-IDE "Game Changer" is very interesting, and a direction I've considered. Flexible and customizable compute backend. Would be curious to learn which IDE you're using.
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That was exactly the goal, to coerce companies to select the lesser offensive category if their internal needs can be satisfied that way so they will end up moving more product than a party that takes whatever it can get.
I mean offering a worthless* degree to people is also not helping, right?

* I am using worthless here, to denote that someone that does not even have the capacity deal with a single term of high-school level algebra, can otherwise do very well in it.
Thank you! I opened an issue: https://github.com/xojoc/games2d/issues/10

I'll try to find out the problem.
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Super helpful here, thanks for pointing me toward this!
If all you care about is the appearance, you can also (in Illustrator) convert the strokes to outlines and then merge all the shapes, and then you’ll just get a single filled path.
> Judges don’t need a law degree in Kansas, or many other states, to preside over cases like these

You can't make this up!
This article was clear that the judge required defendants to be properly served. I can't speak to everywhere, but I thought that was pretty standard practice.
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Its a bit silly that moving something from one app to another is so complicated.
Yeah but we have those some Asian ‘compact’ cars (we just call them normal cars) in Europe too.
Most of the time a crate engine enters the equation there is some sort of hideously unsafe car waiting for it. Its safe to assume that if you are the kind of person installing a crate engine you have some sort of idea of what you are doing, and are capable of taking informed risks.
As a shareholder, what's the difference between 50 years and forever, anyway? Are you locked into the shares to the point where you're not even allowed to sell them? If not, what's the likelihood anyway that you would have kept them for the full 50 year duration?
I googled the name of the first set of orbits and found this https://arxiv.org/pdf/1303.0181.pdf
The main thing is to know, deeply, that the metrics are not the goal, but are merely signals that tend to correlate with the goal. Having a clear link between values, goals, and metrics can be really helpful for maintaining the alignment, even when situations change.