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Re: jonathanstrange's reply to my reply

Thanks for more comments. You're right you can re-scale things to be (A) 30 minutes VS 10 years (Z) ... at which point, why would anyone prefer A > Z ???

Part of the argument relies on this very vague definition of the eventual state of things. Temkin talks about an experience "just above 'barely worth living'" (Life-Z-1) ... and that is _so_ vague, and it means something _so_ different to different people. Given that people in concentration camps chose to continue living rather than kill themselves right away might make someone think "Life-Z-1" sucks, I would take 10 minutes of pleasure over that torture. Meanwhile I'm thinking what is just above 'barely worth living' (Life-Z-2) is just great -- the kind of basic enjoyment you have day to day without too much humor or excitement.

Philosophy is hard - I don't mean to poo-poo Temkin, I just never could grasp why transitivity was what he was attacking. As he says (something akin to) "there are several balls we're juggling in the air, and we must drop at least one to make it work" and he chooses to drop transitivity. And I don't see why he chose that 'ball'.
https://www.justice.gov/atr/case-document/file/504251/downlo...

Those devious Microsoft PR execs at the Justice Department...
I'm writing a novel with org-mode and it's the most transparent writing tool I've ever used, and so flexible too.
Agreed.

Some problems get better solved as a set of classes, others as functions operating across data alongside pattern matching, and yet others are happy to take lambdas as callbacks.

Many of the anti-OOP crowd doesn't realize how much OOP is already available on Common Lisp, that Smalltalk-80 already allowed for a good LINQ like mix with its blocks and collection methods, or how SML modules can be combined to make what isn't much different from interface based polymorphism.

It is a matter of having a nice toolbox instead of just a hammer. :)
I read it as nurses remotely moving the robot around from outside the room so they didn't risk contact.
"relatively tiny inputs tend to produce outsized sensory effects" - this is what I was getting at with "low effort, high stimulus", and it's def bad.

My point is by dismissing "screen time" wholesale, we create an environment where those types of /quote educational game /unquote are the only option. When people who are serious about education won't take apps/games seriously, they leave a vacuum filled by at best the pure sugar empty calories, and at worst by microtransaction scams. Any app that has a call to action in it gets deleted from the iPad my kids use. It's like saying all movies are trash because the most popular movies are trash.

And this is reflected by the current state of educational games - I know there are good ones because I've seen my kids learn with them, and I believe there could be MORE good ones, but the people who have the empathy and experience to make good ones have already thrown away the proverbial baby with the proverbial bath water
"what are you selling and how is it?"

those very words have scared away so many candidate customers that if I have ever time travelled and come into the possession of a handheld teleport device, I will first test it in pitch meetings, concealing my violation of contemporary physics, by invocation of the identical incantation.

I cannot highly recommend mmend Madison Avenue Manslaughter Michael Farmer. He quit agency life for consulting the year I dived headfirst and submerged my life every day since 1991, as he also. Small difference : Farmer wrote this entire book to relate and lament the insuperable showstopping impasses for which he tells us that the advertising industry has yet to find solutions - the problems my company had to overcome merely to be in business long enough to file accounts to file accounts. Adland that same Adland set upon my world in vexatious and abusive litigation the instant we were in the office front door, has been transformed by this book into the lost brotherhood I crave to bring aids to their needs,' because I now see, between Farmers fantastic faithful rendition of the confusion I left in haste and recall too vividly, become not the call to Arms I had presumed was their only course, instead they atrophied their initiative depleted I have no doubt was the first instinctual reaction, the energetic application required of them lost in inertial encumbrances and the need for a new language to work with the domain problems...

Grab the nearest copy of this book and be ready to undergo on almost every page, a physical jolt to your intellectual mind and counterfactual contemplating corporatice consciousness. you can shower after, bu8uf you buy advertising, you need to be most current with the cases cited and perennial plight impressed painfully perfluous.
The problem lies more on the programmer than the language.
You can do all of this because Git repos are self-contained complete historical records.

You could do this with a traditional VCS as long as you took frequent backups. Git is an improvement in this regard, but not a revolution.

Furthermore, you are describing a workflow that is inconsistent from many "industry best practice" recommendations. If GitHub went down, a very large number of Git users would not be able to run tests or deploy their code to production - their CI/CD pipelines don't work without GitHub. Their historical record of issues goes away when GitHub goes down, etc.
Aside from scaling problems, there are comfort/trust issues. I can only imagine doing this with certain people.

Which is really odd, considering I work in an office. Somehow the artificiality, the fact that it isn't a human puttering around near me, but a plane of glass doing magic makes a difference for me. But then I don't litter my home with surveillance speakers, either.
> who actually pays for this level of intensive care

If you have decent insurance, you pay your maximum out of pocket and insurance pays the rest (at negotiated rates).

If you don't have decent insurance, you declare bankruptcy and the hospital ends up paying for all except the few dollars they are able to get out of you. This is pretty much the same situation as when homeless people show up at an ER, which is legally obligated to help them regardless of ability to pay.
Apache Airflow Testing with Pytest
In your first paragraph you say that Brooks was right in his prediction. In your second you say you agree with the author that "open-source libraries and online forums, automated testing, and garbage collection" were the biggest gains. But those first two were the counter-examples to Brooks according to the author.

So where do you actually disagree with the author? You don't think the gains from these were substantial enough?

Also the author makes a clear argument for why functional programming is, from a complexity perspective, something entirely different from mere "linguistic features". And a "silver bullet" according to Brooks is something that might take a decade to show full impact.
> new owners and we pivoted our product to adapt to the market

There you go: A lot of people choose a job because they like the management and product.

That being said: If you like the job, and generally believe in the company, it's worth staying. A good job has its ups and downs.

I once took a job in San Francisco where, in the interview, they told me they were moving in 6 weeks to Menlo Park. Throughout the move, they lost a lot of people who lived in San Francisco and didn't want to commute to Menlo Park.

This job ended up having high turnover for the first few years because we went through a few bad managers. I was able to roll with it because I liked the job; but if I wasn't excited about the product and had better opportunities elsewhere...
> I'm curious what the UK could provide the US that would be much benefit for the US.

Well the US imported $67 billion worth of goods alone from the UK in 2019. One of the six or seven highest figures among US trade partners; slightly higher than France.

US services imports from the UK are typically around $40 to $50 billion.

So, $110 +/- billion in total imports from the UK. A considerable sum (more so for them of course).

The UK is also the largest single foreign investor into the US, representing 15% of all foreign direct investment. As individual countries go, the US is the largest importer of UK goods and services.

They're the fourth largest export market for the US. It's a good economic relationship to maintain, clearly.
What were the most popular papers of 2019?
> Remember the imore folks making thumb-reach illustrations that showed the 3.5" iPhone had the optimal size

IMO they’re still right about that. It makes me very sad that no phone manufacturer takes smaller handsets seriously these days.
I’m going to steal this whenever someone tells me they are a full stack developer from now on. Oh? So do you ship ICBMs?
The myth of the corporation as a creation of the state

International Review of Law and Economics

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/014481...
If it's a serious outbreak I'd imagine the CDC would be footing the bill, considering they want as much information about the disease as possible.
Are you trying to counter the previous post, or support it?
Thanks for clarifying. In addition to your point, it sounds to me that the clarification is already built into the specific wording, since the Bill of Rights doesn't use the word "citizen" as you previously stated.
This is one of the best tldr's I have seen on HN.
If you can't pay, the hospital absorbs the cost to a degree. Hospitals are most likely also part of a larger "reinsurance" type pool to keep expenses manageable.

My mom worked in healthcare billing her whole career. My understanding is that half the reason medical bills are so high for normal people is they need to cover the costs for the people that need and have received care but were unable to pay.

In this particular case, it's a matter of national security, so I'm sure the needed funds would magically appear if needed.
Using "this." for object-scope identifiers and "ClassName." for class-level identifiers.

Greatly improved readability, even though there was a short adjustment.
There is a struggle between "deletionist" and "inclusionist" factions within Wikipedia. One side tends to find fault (many times real faults, mind you) and err on the side of deletion; the other prefers to err on the side of inclusion in Wikipedia.

All agree they want to keep some standard of quality in Wikipedia, they just disagree on the method and threshold for deletion.

Just be aware Wikipedia is not a single hive-mind :)
All the languages that started as counter revolution to language bloat ended up growing up as they wanted to cater to their user base.
Abandonware? It's still actively supported/updated with each major Laravel release. We use it in our shop for some quick microservices.
> Python programmers say the same about all static type systems.

So what? Even if you think having X is good, that doesn't mean having 100X is necessarily better.

> Dependant types are a simple and unifying way to solve a variety of shortcomings with conventional statically typed systems.

But solving problems with type systems is not a business goal. Increasing correctness is.

> What alternatives do you have in mind?

The same ones that formal methods research focuses on (for deep properties): model checking and concolic testing, which have shown much better scalability than deductive methods. Dependent types are a powerful, general and complex mechanism that only scales well for very simple problems.

> Given the various hugely expensive bugs I have been involved in (e.g. Java toString on a date reading the system locale). I would say yes.

There are easier ways, like Java's permission system, that I mentioned elsewhere.
It would take too much energy to de-orbit quickly, it's probably pretty big and unlikely to be fully destroyed in the atmosphere, and there's not much beyond geo for a shrapnel cloud to run into.
> Instant messaging allows you to set status and busy messages

That requires people to use and respect them. Half the folks on I use the corporate chat with are permanently "away", and "busy" appears to mean "walk over and bug me".
There is no easy way to do this because a lot of proprietary software uses components that are licensed from other companies. So they are not in a position to open-source their entire code base because they don't actually own all of it.
I'm in Brooks' camp. I see mostly essential complexity. There are problems we've been pounding on for a decade that have solutions that are mostly essential complexity. Then people come in and create pointless requirements that turn that fairly simple essential complexity... extremely complex.

I think the modern problem isn't accidental complexity, it's essential complexity that isn't actually necessary for project success.
As someone trying to move away from Google, no thanks.
Hey there ianto! I'd love to work with you on this. Can we chat? george@moonfish.com
What makes it "abandomware"? It has commits as of 19 days ago and a release three months ago. Pretty sure Otwell continues to update and is a stripped down version of a very active framework.
That's the thing. Thorium doesn't sound to me like an incremental change at all. It sounds like a gamechanger. There is no blast radius. At all. Criticality in that sense is not possible. There's improvement along every measurable criteria of operation. Some of those improvements are not small either. This is all contingent on me not being mistaken in my assumptions. I've only ever seen the argument from the advocates.

It sounds a little apocalyptic putting all of ones hopes on a technology that may or may not work at all. We have no guarantee that fusion will provide a return. It's the tech of choice because of wishful thinking. Gen 4 and liquid fuels are proven to work and eliminate a big slew of the disadvantages that made people fearful of NPPs. IMO if a part of the solution to CO2 is DAC then we will need massive energy generation to run the capture plants and we need them soon. No tech can deliver that in the next 10 years safely except Thorium.

There's nothing wrong with old tech in computer science. You can containerize Fortran batch programs with ease. All old things come back once in a while. Functional programming is now the rave and Common LiSP actually sees use.
I don’t think that CNN is a covered entity under HIPAA.
Damn, that's deep. Brilliant.
One of these UV disinfectant robots: http://www.uvd-robots.com/
Vesuvius victims suffered a slower death than believed
KISS + YAGNI + constant refactor. Code is a means to an end and I suck at futurology.
Ask HN: Is startup CEO's job to work “in the shadows” and be mysterious?
I have worked in couple startups (20-50 people), and it always seems like the CEOs are the mysterious figure, and no one really seems to know what they do on daily basis.

The CEO would be out of office for weeks and sometimes pop in randomly and get going again. They would normally give some kind of random speech/update every couple months, but other than that you wouldn't really hear or see them directly.

So is this the norm? What are the CEOs working on?
What Is New in Angular 9?
Does titanium hold up to radioactive molten salt?

There are a bunch of places I've found where the difficulty (and therefore cost) of working with titanium is really holding humanity back. If we could find cheaper techniques for working with titanium it would revolutionize a lot of industries, as it's plentiful, light, strong, non-reactive, and melts at high temperatures. But the same attributes that make it hold up under the stresses of use, make it very hard to shape.
I'm hoping this eventually leads to AWS reducing their Secrets Manager pricing.
Can someone provide the scientific journal/article reference that this report is based on?
Is morality subjective or universal? A psychology study says it’s both
Here's a toy parser generator I wrote that works for context-free languages[0].

[0] https://github.com/siraben/meta-yacc
I used to be a member of a car co-op when I lived in Vancouver. 99% of the time I could get anywhere I needed to go on a regular basis using public transit. For the times when I needed a car I could go online and book a vehicle that was close to me and matched what I needed the vehicle for. Being able to rent either by the day or by the hour made this even more convenient.
As a counter-point, I think it is good to also consider that even the wrong people asking the right questions is better than no one asking them. I think discouraging fledgling developers from asking these questions is a short-sighted choice. I believe a better choice is to have an environment where they can be guided to the right answers, even if they are "too big for their britches".
If every broadband connection had its own public IP, that would be trivial to implement in a point to point way using any IP phone software out there (linphone for example) without any need for a central server.
IPv6 once widely implemented might solve the problem, since new fixed IPv4 addresses are unobtanium for non corporate networks; I'm not holding my breath though.
I allow my kids (4 & 5) a fair bit of screen time. They each have a ThinkPad and they love Minecraft. They are learning to read and type to search the inventory, surf Curseforge for mods, and navigate the dialog boxes in MultiMC for installing the add-ons. They can watch YouTube too, which is inevitably Minecraft tutorials, which they immediately want to put into practice.

I'm happy to see this. They have their own projects and they are learning lots of random real-world skills to move those projects forward. They are having "hard fun" in Seymour Papert's terms.

I'm still maintaining their configuration.nix for now though...
I'm not sure what you mean by "implication of [...] identifying the patient". Although I didn't see any personal information in the article, there isn't a law in the US that prevents a news agency like CNN from identifying hospital patients. HIPAA only covers entities like health insurance companies, care providers, and their business associates.
> If it's going to save you your afternoon - just do it.

That's the thing, will it actually be used like that? This feel so casual that it doesn't feel like it has to be used in urgent matter only.

I guess the important thing isn't about the tools but mostly about the training the user got around the tools. It's important to show what each one is used for and in which context. It's so easy to just believe something is more urgent than it is.
Running a business isn't just about building something that's interesting to you.

There's plenty of resources on Hacker News about how to validate your business. Assuming your side project is just software you work on nights and weekends, you'll find that "writing code" is just a fraction of what it takes to start a business.

See if you can find a side project that doesn't need to be a full-time business, and figure out how to focus it to be fun. At some point you'll see an opportunity to turn it into something that pays your bills; but don't rush.
Doesn’t a mess come from mafia controlling dumpster companies or something like that? By the way, I love this place called pizzeria da Michele. Best pizza in the world.
> Long term plans are only inaccurate or wrong if they're over reaching.

True, but for me the real problem is actually identifying that ideal amount of planning for some project.

It's easy in hindsight to say something was over reaching or not enough planning was done, but not always that simple prior to starting a project.

Ideal planning vigor and scope seems super context sensitive to me and even with experience I often feel I get it wrong.
Not so sure I want to try that, which is exactly the most fundamental conundrum I wanted naughtily to downplay here... ehehe...
I have seen a suggestion that UK diplomats in the US should start driving on the left.
Solvers already can only step into smthg like 5 iterations of each loop. See klee or cbmc.
This project is much easier, just a lot of insns.
I'm not going to try to change your mind, but the chromecast audio was a great device that did exactly what it was meant for and nothing more. It didn't try to be a voice assistant, or control your lights, or pump ads in your face. It was also $35, which is pretty easy to throw away if and when it does get kill-switched by Google. When that happens I won't have to scrap my speakers and amp to chase the next streaming fad. If your crystal ball will choose the Sonos product that will still be supported in 10 years, then by all means go for it.
The vector of anglo world isn't too promising right now either.
Sorry, but you are wrong. But that's ok, its a common misconception about constitutional law. The first amendment does carry those restrictions, but it is not the only law affecting those rights. Specifically, the "privileges and immunities" clause from the 14th amendment has extended the 1st amendment to apply to the rights of citizens and has been interpreted as such by the Supreme Court in various cases.

JA is not a US Citizen, and I admit I do not know where that lands him constitutionally speaking.
In my opinion, there are no ugly colors, only ugly combinations of colors.

Dropbox has cornered the market on bad color combos