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This is the opinion of one guy from UBS. Pretty much summarized in two words: irrelevant sensationalism. My bonus isn't going anywhere but up in the next 25 years.

Also this is only talking about trading at bulge bracket banks like UBS but "Wall Street" is much larger and more complex than that.
The other LLN creator here. I am looking for someone to correspond with or hang out with (in Europe), to conduct amateur inquiries into alternative approaches to AI algorithms (and perhaps discussing unusual interests such as lifespan extension and futurism). ognjen.apic@gmail.com
Okay, but these opportunities still are in only a very few places and housing is a necessity. A human right, if you will. So the issue of housing needs to be addressed in all ways possible, including making sure that properties aren't left off the market.
It does seem a bit whiny... if there are truly other options, then yea sure. But it seems the fundamental issue is that where the current theories break down, is exactly where you need high-cost accelerators to probe further. And if that's truly the case, I don't see how any amount of philosophy will solve that problem.
I assume this is being downvoted because of antiquated references to Nazi Germany and the USSR, but I think there's a valid point hiding under it:

China and Russia are authoritarian regimes actively attacking the US, controlling information for 2B+ people, and (in China's case) committing a hidden genocide.

What good is there in allowing those types of regimes to take credit for research that was mostly done in the US?

I'm not sure about Russia, but it's clear that at least some Chinese researchers are not collaborating in good faith. Why wouldn't we at least investigate?

Historically, the US was so strong in academic funding and freedom that we could bring the best researchers here as immigrants. I wish we could return to that status quo.
Tooling.
Data transformation.
Libraries.

Emacs is configured using Lisp. Because of that it is amazingly configurable.
XMonad uses Haskell, which gives types to avoid lots of error cases.

The thing is providing an actually programming language doesn't remove anything specially if the same config can be written as cleanly.

And you would avoid "YAML templates for creating YAML", when you actually need to process some data (even if it's just for pre/suffix creation in names). Secrets retrieval is another thing that you also need to do and template.

Also, YAML is a terrible to parse language, with can give out weird error cases. Other languages compilers/interpreters are more mature.

And ofc, if you provide SDKs for your IaC tool, you should be able to use the language that your developers are more familiar with. Taking advantage of the good practices their are used to. Don't limit with "declarative languages". Use a programing language that make more sense, and leave data languages for data.
I have the opposite problem unfortunately. I already could go however long I wanted (and sometimes longer) but on an SSRI I can't ejaculate at all (sometimes not even by myself) despite having stronger and easier erections. Otherwise the benefit is there so I'm keeping at it. Do you have something for that too?
That article is mixing football revenue and sports overall. Lots to parse there, and it is from 2014. But to OP's point about $2 million salaries, that only occurs in the best Division I teams. And those teams pull in upwards of $214 million a year in revenue: https://247sports.com/ContentGallery/College-sports-top-25-m...
Actually, string theory arose as a way of doing exactly what this person requests. It was noticed that quantum field theory and gravity do not go together, so it was attempted to do something about this. So, it did not really work out? Well, you know the thing with this kind science is that it is unknowable beforehand what you are or are not going to find.
Walking around doesn't scale indefinitely. No form of transportation does, but walking scales significantly less. Plus, designing with public transit in mind makes it more accessible, which becomes a serious concern if you want anyone over sixty to live in your city.
You make it sound like the providers giving you a modem is a bad thing. This is a good thing. You as the consumer just needs to buy a decent router, and it's your ISPs responsibility to maintain the modem. If you have a decent router you have nothing to worry about. You can simply consider an attack on your modem an attack on your ISP.

All ISPs I've ever seen in the US allow you to use your own router.
You can implement LUA in less lines of code than YAML, lua has been around longer, easier syntax, loads of support, proper community around it. Yet people still use YAML on hype alone, it's awful.
For those that may have missed it: a step by step guide on how to remove Bixby and Facebook: https://20-things.com/Thing?thingId=21
I dare say the author is right on many points but statements like:

"But for all I can tell at this moment in history I am the only physicist who has at least come up with an idea for what to do."

make it hard for me to share her point of view, especially as these ideas are not mentioned.
Sorry, that’s a ridiculous comparison. It’s like saying it’s okay for VW to cheat on emissions tests because people want cars with low emissions.

If Boeing wanted to be responsive to those customers they could have produced a plane that didn’t need additional training.
Yeah - I am probably misunderstanding the article, but it seems to boil down to 'we haven't absolutely verified things in an experimental fashion, let's do that again instead of building theoretical mathematic constructs'. When 1) (From my perspective as a physics lay-person) that's demonstrably false, and 2.) As I didn't even see a concrete example of the _cause_ of the perceived stagnation, much less a solution.
Indeed, theoretical physics has long ago stopped providing foundational explanations. It became strictly what essentially it had always been - a calculational tool. Whether calculations possess explanatory power is a question of psychology and sociology.
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This sounds a lot like the "We do everything with XML now"-phase that the Java world has gone through.
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Here you go: https://yacy.net
> I hypothesize that jargon is especially susceptible to this kind of misuse because an expert listener might infer a mutual understanding that does not exist. This feeling of verbal common ground can even be gamed. Many of us have done this on exams, hoping for partial credit by stitching together the outline of a proof or using the right words in an essay with the hopes that the professor connects the dots for us.

(Emphasis mine)

You could write an entire book on this.
I knew people like that. First of all, the first few years are a grinding machine and it pays shit (relatively speaking). You spend literally all your waking hours at the bank, w-e included and even when you have some time off, the bank restrict what type of activities you are allowed to do. Every year, the bank unceremoniously fired the bulk of your team. Anything is fair game to get the upper hand. There is no such thing as a friend. Even if you are in a team, there is no such thing as team work or team mate.

If you survive 4 years, then you get into the really well paid positions with 300K bonus a year being common. I have seen 2 scenario unfold: either the 4 previous completely ruin your value system, so you are either a complete asshole or addicted to a life of excess that keeps you in the system. A few will get promoted to hire levels yet and enter a weird world of mostly networking.

In rare circumstances, generally the one lucky to have a good and sane social circle before going into the grinder, you retire at 30 with several millions in your bank account.
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I second the mpv-based solution, as suggested by st1ck. If you prefer vlc, it now (as of the beta 4.0.0)[0] also supports dual/secondary subtitles. Making it work seems a bit fiddly: first you need to turn them on (under Tools > Preferences > Subtitles/OSD > Dual Subtitles (at the very bottom) > Align — change to anything but unset, and possibly also adjust offset). Then, when playing a video, to select them for that video, you need to "Toggle secondary subtitle control" with Ctrl+Shift+V (this means that the normal subtitle control shortcuts like "v", "Alt+v" etc. now apply to the secondary subtitles) and press "v" the right number of times to switch to the subtitles that you want.

(Obviously vlc and mpv will only work for DRM-free videos, e.g. from youtube or a DVD.)

If you were asking specifically about Netflix subtitles, there used to be an open source NflxMultiSubs extension[1] for both Firefox and Chromium, but it was broken by Netflix introducing changes to its video player and discontinued. There is an active, open-source dual-captions[2] extension, but it's for Chrome only. (However, since it's open source adapting it it for Firefox should be straightforward.) Finally, as an alternative approach, you could try a Firefox addon which allows loading arbitrary subtitles in the SRT format to netflix,[3] and which might perhaps allow you to have both netflix's subtitles and your own SRT ones at the same time.

[0] https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/NEWS#L30

[1] https://github.com/dannvix/NflxMultiSubs/

[2] https://github.com/mikesteele/dual-captions

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/netflix-srt-s...
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There is, as they say, an XKCD for every situation: https://xkcd.com/1330/

And showing relative depths -- it always surprises me that modern oil wells aren't actually _all_ that shallower: https://xkcd.com/1040/
Eh, the automation I've done between python, vba, and SharePoint (language/markup) has convinced me anything is possible.
Is anyone living in Masdar City yet? This was supposed to be a planned city in the Abu Dahbi, using all kinds of fancy tech, while also being "green". Haven't seen any updates re that in ages, so I'm assuming it got canned?

Not sure if there are (m)any examples of prototype cities or planned cities that ever amounted to anything?
How would those who haven't read it understand the reference?

If you're one of those people, I believe it's a reference to the "Three-Body Problem" series.
https://github.com/mhagger/git-imerge

> Reduce the pain of resolving merge conflicts to its unavoidable minimum, by finding and presenting the smallest possible conflicts: those between the changes introduced by one commit from each branch.

I'm not sure this would've helped in my scenario. famitracker had no public repo, and the Qt fork and 0cc-famitracker came from different Git repositories and were rooted in different subdirectories. I created a synthetic Git and Pijul history for the purpose of this merge.

But it might be helpful in other situations. I'll look into it.

> Allow a merge to be saved, tested, interrupted, published, and collaborated on while it is in progress.

This does seem useful.
"Has a stack" isn't the same as "Has a stack based ISA".
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>Nokia phones come without bloatware

Chinese spyware is not bloatware?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19449824
I've heard that argument before, and my reaction then and now is: use this opportunity to study the impact of the neuston on other marine life, and the impact of the ocean cleanup on the neuston.

Saying "we don't know, so we shouldn't do anything" is not productive. We know that all that plastic in the ocean is harmful for some marine life, so we clean it up.
You can't postpone all action until you know every possible variable, because you never will. Instead, investigate the neuston, investigate the impact of this cleanup, and re-evaluate after we have more data.
Stop working on string theory, multiverse, or some of the other mainstream theories she mentioned. Start fresh about how to approach theoretical physics instead of taking the above mentioned theories almost as a given and trying to do science within that framework.
That’s not a lot money..I’m pretty sure many researchers that qualifies that program could get a 200-400k or much more sign-on package from major tech company. The Chinese program might come with much more benefit and privileges though that couldn’t be measured by money
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Well, I would have to disagree (but agree somewhat, as well :)). These insanity levels you describe, and I agree with you here, are actually pushed through projects by coders for coders.

Here in lie much of the ”devops” problem, imo, as coders seem to want to allow easy configuration management through “simple“ declarations, inventing almost a new language in the process.

Having worked for 20 years with systems/configuration management, mainly as a developer I can tell many coders have not. Not at scale, and not supporting 100s of different services simultaneously. Hence square wheels gets re-invented.

To be rid of all yaml templating and loosely coupled technical integrations you will have to treat config/service delivery/ci/cd/what-have-you as a business domain of it’s own, and develop it the same way.

I guess we agree, completely perhaps?! :)

I’ve been fortunate to have been able to work everything from small upstart to big corporate enterprises and to me this is more true now than ever.

As a developer I build my own version of a CMDB, I do not use crazy templating - I write an API, that leverages the CMDB and produces sane output.
It’s still configuration as code, just something that is easier to scale and adapt.

Guess I’m only disagreeing on whom to blame for this mess.
Arguably dead weight ballast scaled to the same fraction of total weight would be more fair than unburdened runner vs horse+rider, but if you expect the human to carry another human (but not the horse to carry the equivalent of another horse) you might just as well go full symmetry and require the human to carry a horse. In this variation, horse would lose to elephant.
Thank you for correction. Voted your comment up.
I don't really understand how Buy Side can be all that good still. AQR is in trouble, Bridgewater had their first loss in decades, Millennium was good, 2 Sigma is OK if unspectacular, Citadel is good, Point72 is still struggling, Rentec is presumably still great but no one ever knows. The HFT funds like Tower/Virtu are all finding their well dry, over all more hedge funds shut down than started. Which hedge funds are actually doing well in this environment? (OK I listed 3) but I don't see the future as very promising.
I guess we don’t have the same definition of « super illegal ».
Can you provide examples of CEOs of less powerful companies not getting away with this? Your comment seems to necessitate examples of such.
She says:

"And please spare me the complaints that I supposedly do not have anything better to suggest, because that is a false accusation. I have said many times that looking at the history of physics teaches us that resolving inconsistencies has been a reliable path to breakthroughs, so that’s what we should focus on. I may be on the wrong track with this, of course. But for all I can tell at this moment in history I am the only physicist who has at least come up with an idea for what to do."

I'm no physicist, so I can't have a (useful) opinion, but she does offer at least a broad suggestion of what to do.
20k is pretty much a year of minimum wage work. That's a lot of budget for decorating an office.
I'm compelled to invoke the "Ninety-Ninety" rule when I hear about solutions like that, although I'm sure it works sometimes, in my experience it usually turns out more like this.

The first 90% of the work takes 90% of the time, and the remaining 10% of the work takes the other 90% of the time!
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Of course he chose the pigment deliberately. The question is if he chose it because of its visual effect (and price and chemical properties) or because of some symbolic meaning in the history of the pigment.

Choosing a pigment for its color is not the same as choosing it "just for kicks". The entire purpose of a pigment is to create color!
"Financial Engineering" ugh. What an awful term.

Someplace in the Midwest another formerly solvent father of three takes an overdose of Fentanyl just to end it because of "financial engineers."
That is really cool. How did you go about designing the language. Did you go for a full lexer and parser ? or it was more functional. Curious to understand how you built it.
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You seem to be asking something like "if we always hit the algorithm's slow path, isn't the algorithm slow?". The answer is "yes, but we will (hopefully) almost never hit the slow path". On x64-64 you will typically be able to pass 6 integer/pointer values and 8 floating-point values in registers. That should be enough for most function calls in real-world code.
What do you mean Excel? The formulas? VBA is a full blown language.

WordPress is great for low code.

I did my html and in an hour had it working with WordPress.
Perhaps take a step back and think about your worth in this life and maybe try to do something more useful than "make money."
Agreed, this is a very strong parallel.
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Cities are some of the biggest capital outlays that humans create, and they generally sprout up naturally in prime locations of some sort.

There are exceptions, like Las Vegas, of course. Or many newer Chinese cities.

To acquire hundreds of acres of prime land suitable for an urban environment is generally something only a government can do. And to additionally provide for the infrastructure and/or buildings would send the cost into the stratosphere.

Masdar has been canned, yes, but they have talked about replacing it with a new city called NEOM. It is projected to cost at least 500 billion dollars, assuming they stay within budget. No private actor has that kind of cash to spend.

Smaller private company towns have been commonplace, though. And many existing towns meet that definition.

Disneyland, Disneyworld, and Celebration, Florida are more obvious examples.

Lesser known examples would include Pullman, Illinois or Columbus, Indiana (no relation to the capital of Ohio)
Is it really that difficult? I’m imagine there are things I am missing, but isn’t it pretty much: build foundation, build floor, build frame, build out roof, build walls, etc.?

As long as I research, do proper leveling, cutting, etc. and follow along with other builds’ process, I am thinking I will be fine. Would be great to hear where I might be wrong though so I don’t sink money into a failed build.
Yes. There are valid reasons for not including a headphone jack whereas there are none for having two incompatible connector types (USB/Lightning) for the same purposes. It would make more sense to encourage manufacturers to make variants of their headphones with a USB plug (AFAIK USB-C supports analog audio).

Mandating that all phones must have a headphone jack would make sense if manufacturers omitted it for anticompetetive or other nefarious reasons, knowingly acting against the interests of their customers. AFAIK there is no evidence for that so why micromanage the engineers in charge?
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>This article is written from the standpoint that something is being lost, IP, to foreign governments.

The target here is China. They alone are responsible for the largest transfer of wealth the world has ever seen (Trillions $$ in IP theft from western tax payers). There is a great book called "Future Wars-Mark Goodman" that details some of this theft of technology that the Chinese Gov and their agents have carried out not just from the US but Europe also.
Look for minor inconsistencies and start from there.
Point was, math is one thing, reality is another.
You misunderstand me.

I don't support forcing strict abstinence on people. For example, the fake marijuana crisis that ravaged Florida and the rest of America years ago wouldn't have occurred had marijuana been legal. Instead every impoverished broken person on probation had a new fix available to them. This time it was dangerous untested drugs made in sketchy Chinese labs.

If someone swears off (x) then that's their decision. If I tell you to never eat meat, drink milk, or travel via any method that consumes fossil fuels you'd rightly think I'm crazy. Just the same, telling addicts to stop drinking or drugging when just about everyone they know does is crazy. Do I need to explain why?

The expectation is not to have addicts rely on their family to keep them from falling off the wagon. Instead, when you accept the fact that strict abstinence is a pipe dream you have to start actually planning how you live around an addict instead of blithely thinking they'll never relapse you can help them get back on their feet. If that's too much to ask of you then you aren't their friend and should warn them that you're not going to help them when they're struggling. Because there's a solid chance that if someone is relapsing a lot of other shit went wrong. And if you're a close friend or family then you carry some responsibility for not helping them.
I have a brother-in-law who had a job like this. He started right out of university and worked his way up to a VP position with his company before retiring last year at 40. He’s married and has four kids, huge house, boat, they go on extravagant vacations, etc.

One of his teen daughters said, when asked how she felt about her dad retiring and being home all the time, that it was ok because he is “nice” now. She went on to explain how her primary memory of him over her youth is that he was always “mad”.
The iPad is already moving to USB-C; it's very likely that Apple was already planning to move to USB-C for iPhone chargers within the next year or so (whether because they foresaw a change like this coming, because they felt it was the right thing to do, or just because they, too, want to reduce the number of different connections they have to deal with on the manufacturing side).

There are problems with USB-C, however—one of those being that some USB-C charger and cable combinations will simply fry your phone due to being wildly out of spec.
Absolutely. Cleanup is not the whole solution, but part of the solution. We still need to cut down on our plastic use.

And by "we" I don't mean just Europe and the US, though we are definitely culprits too, but I recently learned that about a third of the plastic in the Pacific comes from a single river in China. Filtering it there, or making Chinese more aware of the problem of plastic waste, is absolutely vital.

Still, the cleanup is a great idea.