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Was JFK killed by a random crazy sniper ? Did the US finance afghan rebels or south american totalitarian regim ? Did french president françois mitterand work under vichy collaborationist regime ? Did he have a secret child while he was president with a second wife ? Etc etc

I can’t believe someone could still say that it’s fine to discard « obvious propaganda » on the most popular personal video publishing platform. And that it should be a private company to decide who should be banned and who isn’t, without any kind of judgment by a public authority.

If an argument is strong enough for a theory, then deniers will eventually loose its steam ( flat earth is going nowhere).

On the other hand, think about the impact of making it casual for video platform to censor every « non official » theories.
SAE level 5 is unlikely to happen since the autonomous cases will be developed and optimized for the common case of a semi-clear weather mostly urban environment with plenty of signs and full mobile and GNSS coverage. The odd cases will simply not be a priority.

Can one take an "autonomous car" up a barely visible car wide path (not a real road) which squiggles through a forest (up to a cottage)?

Can one make an autonomous car understand a free-form textual sign when there's a roadwork or accident?

Drive in a place without marked roads?

There are plenty of edge cases and difficult situations.

Hitzinger says that level 4 might be achievable. I agree, it is conceivable that some day a lane of a motorway could get reserved for semi-autonomous vehicles; those vehicles can communicate with each other and are allowed to drive much faster (say, 250 km/h) since it's mostly a straight way, computers have faster reaction times especially given early warnings from cars ahead in the chain and so on.
> you just get people who want to go there for the reputation and endowment.

As opposed to people who only want to go there because Dad or Mom went there? Or, how about this -- people who want a world-class education without having to compete against other applicants with an unfair advantage.

I would not have found a well-paying job without my univerity's resources and name recognition, and I would not have been able to pay for tuition (for any college out-of-state) without my university's very generous need-based financial aid. So you can call it reputation and endowment, but I prefer to call it social mobility.

> generate loyal customer base

Given these are non-profit institutions, I certainly hope not.
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Self-driving vehicles should be implemented with the same care Apple has given Touch ID and Face ID in regards to protecting sensitive data.

Having a central database capable of being scraped and process to determine where any person is at any given time is a non-starter. Care needs to be taken to scrub all extraneous data from the fleet's network.
The only implementation that I would consider around of years, were the C++/CX extensions, and even those aren't 100% like ISO C++ ones ended up looking like, although Microsoft was a big contributor to its design.
I didn't say that other languages were reinventing Lisp. I said they were reinventing Common Lisp. Not the same thing.
> https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html

seems more up to date than cppreference
Yukihiro Matsumoto: “Ruby is designed for humans, not machines”
I've found this to strangely work (tangentially) with music and intense exercise too.

When I accidentally listened to an old gym playlist from 2 years ago at my office desk, I felt a rush of the old determination that used to fuel my HIIT workouts. It was jarring and incredible.
Yep and even then Clojure has Erlang and .net runtimes and interop built syntactically into the language, GraalVM has to reimplement those languages in it's tooling so they'll always be playing catch-up with the real implementations (unless they merge)

That said we do like GraalVM it has a cool ability to create native binaries out of Clojure apps, which is currently powering a resurgence in Clojure for scripting the last wave had to use Clojure's JavaScript target (cljs)
> yet instead of fixing anything they just pile up more features in an effort to compete with Rust and Go

I used to be a C++ diehard, but modern C++ is why I started learning Rust. If I'm going to have to learn a whole bunch of new idioms and rules, I might as well do it with a language that has the new features and safety built-in, rather than bolted on.
While the authors promote their own software solution for building your Zettelkasten, I am happy a user of (and not affiliated with) https://bear.app which I use on my iPhone and Mac for organizing my plenty notes for software engineering, meetings, management notes, my Psychology study notes and anything private as well.

In analogy to Zettelkasten I put my notes into different (nestable) boxes what they call hashes. The app eco system is quite hacker friendly as they publicly document the underlying SQLite database. I don't that possibility because their apps help me organizing my notes well enough til this point.
> We will eventually update markings and beacons on the roads to make it easier for the cars, implement networks in which the cars can talk to each other

In fact, the new generations of Volkswagen Golf, Škoda Octavia, Seat Leon, and Audi A3 (released between October 2019 and March 2020) will already be able to communicate with each other[1] and with the traffic authority[2] in real-time to prevent road accidents.

Volkswagen Golf, Škoda Octavia, and Seat Leon are #1 best-selling car models in multiple European markets, and Audi A3 is one of the most popular and affordable premium cars in Europe.

[1] https://innovationorigins.com/nxp-makes-volkswagen-golf-cars...

[2] https://youtube.com/watch?v=AM_NjfZX-F0
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The police don't prosecute crimes, correct. As long as they're not making arrests it's not even a matter of what the DA or judge does.

And if the DAs are not going to charge these crimes anyways there is no point for the police to catch the criminals.

And there it is. There is absolutely a point in making misdemeanor arrests. Making misdemeanor arrests allows the rest of society to focus on the next step in the process.
When you talk about the future, there's only one thing you can actually do and that's believe (not in the religious sense), because it is uncertain. Especially sensationalist expressions like "self-driving cars will never happen".

Making absolute statements, especially about the future, is not a mark of an intellectual or of intelligence. But everything is relative.
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McCarthy introduced conditional expressions, not conditionals. But what he really invented was functional programming.
Selecting applicants for the highest revenue is literally discriminating against the poor.
It was an industry propaganda from companies who knew containers had something to offer over VMs (performance gains) but span those genuine advantages into claims that containers were a revolution rather than an evolution.

People started doing silly things like run containers on top of their cloud providers VMs (creating a second layer of isolation and massive amounts of engineering burden) and hence Kubernetes became synonymous with wasted engineering effort.
It’s not a problem of respectability. There are simple reproducable experiments to demonstrate earth isn’t flat. Science isn’t relying on suppressing opinions to stand firm. The very definition of science is that it is claims that are falsifiable. The way you defend that the holocaust happened is by showing the evidences, which are numerous, not by casting anathema. You don’t convince people by calling them deniers.
This includes a fresh take on the foundations of the correspondence between cartesian closed categories with simply typed lambda calculus that underlies the beautiful work of Conal Elliott in http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories.
>Isn't it about time we realised that people live somewhere amongst social capital they have built up throughout their lives.

This is situational. There are also people who for whatever reason (usually work for parents) have moved around throughout their early years, thus they have little social capital to fall back on once they reach adulthood. In their case, moving to where the opportunity is makes a lot of sense because that's what they grew up with.

I do agree with you, though, that a lot of jobs are location-bound that needn't necessarily be, although there is a management overhead in incorporating remote workers. I hope as time goes by more managers will learn how to work with remote staff and that opportunity will become more widely available.
OSDev.org is the starting point for this stuff. It also contains links to many resources on https://wiki.osdev.org/Tutorials
If you take the "scientific consensus" at face value, it's more apt to use "vax denialist" or "nicotine is bad for health denialist" as an analogy, instead of "agile denialist".
People move to where the economic activity is. Typically the best and most in demand skills go first because they get payed extra. This re-enforces the importance of these areas. That's how big cities emerged. They are concentrations of people with skills and supporting infrastructure.

Despite the cost of living (which is insane), San Francisco is still attractive to software companies because of the insane numbers of people with software skills in the area.

IMHO there are a few things that are accelerating this: 1) dropping cost of of transport (clean energy, autonomous driving/flying, etc.) this will allow people to move more efficiently and more often and with less guilt about environmental concerns. 2) improving tooling for remote work. 3) co-working spaces and other flexible work infrastructure. 4) the gig economy, work, living, eating, transport, it's basically all people outsourcing things to each other.
What led Google to Java is a good question - I'd guess they wanted to standardize on something likely have longevity, because they knew they couldn't predict the success of good languages, so the same old reason why less all the other corporations usually do it.

Good that JVM eventually started to get nice languages like Clojure, Scala, etc - despite being the platform of choice of corporate Vorlons.
In other news, Iain doesn't have zstd yet :-).
What you are describing is Level 4-geofenced solution. Select roads, where infrastructure in place (be it 100% of aphalt, but that is not the single possible road type out there)
The issue is that you seem to not be able to abstract the fact that you may very well find yourself on the "wrong" side of the debate at one point in time.

When that happens, you desperately need channels to communicate what's true and break through so we get a better world to live in.

And in fact, this has been the case for many rights we today hold as self-evident such as abolishment of slavery and the equality of the sexes.

This is not a debate about science, it's a meta-debate about science and a debate about philosophy and the liberal arts.

Even your example with geocentrism is actually a counter-argument to yourself. At that time, the consensus view was geocentrism and so naturally anything that went against the consensus was dangerous and scorned, resulting in being put in prison and silenced.

That's what you are suggesting we regress to...
> The mere word "denialism" is a scary sign of the times we live in. Is the idea that anything that goes against the current "consensus" be removed? And is this just regarding climate change or does it apply to how we think about physics, statistics or even software engineering?

This isn't a free speech issue, no one is suggesting that this content be removed from the internet.

The issue is that sites like YouTube don't just provide content, they also promote it by showing people recommendations. No one is suggesting that climate change deniers should be prohibited from expressing their views, just that YouTube should not promote it.

Take a more extreme issue: flat-earthers. Someone who believes the earth is flat should definitely be able to say so, but it's not a good idea for YouTube to actively promote that viewpoint. It's also just as bad for YouTube to present the issue purely as flat-earthers versus non-flat-earthers, as it suggests there is some sort of balance between the viewpoints.

To the extent that YouTube is promoting content, they should do within some bounds of reasonable consensus. If they refuse to police their recommendations, they aren't improving free speech, they are just destroying the existing mechanisms of consensus.
I prefer working remote too and always have (and have done so for that past 4-5 years, I'm 28 years old now), but I don't expect the larger employment environment to conform to my wishes… actually I rather prefer the opposite happens because it makes finding interesting remote work opportunities easier (because I think that a lot of places are starting to have "remote work possible" but mainly its just a lot of noise in the signal compared to places where its the norm).
I have another app based on the same tech but that keeps all formatting. It’s called Pdf Reflow on the App Store.
But I gather from the community that a pure HTML converter would be greatly appreciated, even if some characters are lost in translation...
So, in your opinion, the initiative comes from the police and DAs have not changed their charging based on prop 47?

Then, why did the police change their behavior in your opinion?
The deaths of people create more sad, depressing and violent content, which might attract more depressed and violent people. In the end, it all benefits Youtube.
They look like bad 3D renders because there are no walls and no sky in space, so all the light comes directly from the sun and shadows are absolutely black. The image looks different than with the naked eye though, because they filtered certain wavelengths. https://www.nasa.gov/jpl/cassini/pia18274
For YouTube there are three antagonistic forces at work with free speech - there's the freedom users have to publish on the platform without censorship, the freedom users have to see recommended videos that are promoted honestly based on their interests without undue political influence by YouTube or others, and lastly there's the freedom YouTube has to promote things that make them money.

There is no way for all these things to work together. What is positive for one will often be negative for the others.

You can't talk reasonably about freedom and censorship without understanding that freedom means different things to different people in the same group.
Shadows in space are often very high contrast, as there's no ambient light. Simple 3D renderers don't handle ambient light either, as simulating it can be very computationally expensive (instead of e.g. one light source, pretty much everything in the scene acts as a light source with the light it reflects). These images in particular are also in near-infrared, so they may look a little different to colour images of Saturn you've seen.
There's an unpublished version of the story where the kid who notes the emperor is naked gets sent to the guillotine.
I think the "web" here is used to refer to the World Wide Web, which I believe is limited to `text/html` [1] — i.e. excludes IRC, NNTP, etc., which would probably just be classified as "internet communication" (as you mention).

It would probably be better if the service were more explicit about what it scanned — after all, 'the web' means very different things to different people — but I think it's safe to say that "scrapable" html served over http(s) is the indended meaning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
Maybe you can‘t remember those times, but I knew germans who were invading the USSR. I spoke to one who learned russian in the USSR in military prisons in siberia - he having served in the Waffen SS. I grew up in the cold war times. Then we saw the collapse of the USSR and its block. We‘ve made a lot progress since then. There is a russian view to that and we also need to listen to that, too.
If you feel that way, just stay away from "social media" and consume scientific writing instead. If that is too demanding, fallback to read the likes of IPCC or NASA climate reports.

These reports are, in my non-scientific opinion, very conservative and tend to err on the no drama side.
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In an easy pregnancy the woman may work until the end. In Germany for example women are expected to work until 6 weeks before the birth.

Then there's 8 weeks of recuperation after birth, paid by the health insurance which are more or less mandatory and it would be stupid not to take them. Even if the body's not fully recovered at this point, the woman can work.

The question is, why would a mother leave her newborn in order to work, when the outcome will be worse both for the mother (weaker bonding, working through recuperation) and the baby (missing its mother during the day)? That's why it's common here that women either take one or two full years of parental leave or they stay at home N years. This can also be and is mixed with part-time work.

In any case, that would be an easy pregnancy. Childbirth over 30 becomes harder and over 35 it's classified as a high-risk pregnancy.

"After that a man is free to leave work to raise the kids and the woman can go back to work, if they so wish.
So why don't they do it?"

One reason could be that by the time those months (in reality a year) are over the mother's better at caring for the child than the father.

I've also seen that women tend to like spending time with their babies(!) so they prefer working part-time or staying at home.

Finally, it's often the case that the husband earns more. Women also tend to prefer men which are successful.
In the case where she earns more, it makes economical sense for the husband to work part-time or stay at home. I read an article about such a case a while ago, and being a stay at home dad looked like a sad existence: besides the social disdain and emasculation, that person wasn't even welcome to spend time with other parents (i.e. mothers), because they were looked on with suspicion.
It's not used in business because it's not popular.
One of the two factors that hinder its popularity is the friction needed to set-up a proper development environment and the learning curve that one has to take to master it.

- To code effectively one has to learn how to edit at the sexp level rather than at the word level.

- The only free editors that provide proper debugging and repl support are the ones that offer a plugin for Swank. Amongst these the best two are Emacs and Vi(m) with Emacs that has an advantage in terms of additional support for CL.

- Installing and configuring properly all the above requires some work.

- There have been recently attempts to mitigate this (e.g. Portacle) but in any case one has to learn Emacs (or Vim), Swank commands and a Lisp supporting mode such as lispy,paredit,parinfer, etc.

- Windows is a second rate citizen: there is no free Windows implementation that allows to step native code. Emacs is a second rate citizen on Windows as well. (This is mitigated by the fact that SBCL runs on Windows Subsystem for Linux).

- The commercial implementations are very good but expensive.

Now compare all of this with the typical developer that just downloads Visual Studio code and starts to write Javascript on Linux, Windows or Mac.
All of the points above are of course not insurmountable but require some investment in time. One has to take a couple of weeks to start to become proficient in all above. The typical young developer doesn't have this patience.

This is exactly why CL is more common amongst who uses Emacs already: if you master Emacs the jump to CL is almost consequential.
>A currency without an army is nothing.

The Swiss beg to differ.
There’s a clear distinction between calling for violent actions and discussing a scientific theory : one is condemned by laws, the other should be fine.

Try censoring every ideas that conduct people to commit physical violences and you’ll end up with being allowed to talk about absolutely nothing. religion, politics, science, philosophy, all have implications in our lives, and so some people will always take it personally and act violently.
> As a journalist, I think a lot about what to publish and what not to. Not based on the opinions or world views held, but based on the validity of the arguments. The recommendation algorithms only care about maximizing views.

Maximizing "view count" is a bit simplistic way to think about the internet. Traditional media (e.g., TV, newspapers, magazines) are also incentivized to maximize view count. The difference between traditional media and new social media is that newer media is not held responsible for the content they publish. If a newspaper publishes an obviously false story, they need to retract it otherwise they lose credibility. If Facebook does the same, they blame it on the individual and say they can't be expected to police their networks.

The problem is not about maximizing views, it's about accountability.
Following that throught process everything will look like a propoganda.

I suggest you to read and listen to everything (all propoganda) and make your own choice.

For containers, I don't use containers because everyone thinks its great, but because it makes my own life easier.

Similarly I could say functional programming is a propoganda, but I haven't picked it up yet since I don't see that much of pros.
On the back of 4 elephants, then it's turtles all the way down.
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I absolutely agree. I watched many of his videos as a professional programmer just because it’s fun to watch him build cool visualizations. He’s super charismatic and looks like he’s having genuine fun in figuring things out.
Is it not also advantageous to Western Europe to have Russia dependent on WE’s oil and gas revenue?
What's the Russian view we need to listen to?
Jobs and companies are rather ephemeral, migration is disruptive of community and family, and demands not just housing but also infrastructure (roads, transit, sewers, power, schools, health). We should understand the value of community and family and moderate the need for migration and make careful use of existing infrastructure.

The North of England and cites like Pittsburgh and Detroit are cases in point.
Interesting observation... not sure I get that from the Clojure community or from looking around.

Last year Clojure made it to #1 (2019), improving from #3 (2018) in the SO salary cahrts.

(https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#top-paying-te... vs https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#top-paying-te...)
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I'm pretty sure that's exactly what they did. My understanding is that they based the macOS version on the iOS version. Explains quite a bit.
Docker came with the container metaphor.
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This sounds like a UNIX where you could write snippets in different languages, have enough wrapper to let those snippets eat stdin and write on stdout, and plumb it all with pipes, organized in a shell script. That was the original dream anyway. Too bad the weak performance of "programs as functions" makes it all barely usable unless you programs are long-running