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Why should ReactJS be held up as the best example of pure garbage?
That’s exactly the spirit of the constitution. Back then few people could afford a printing press, so your ability to reach the masses could easily be frustrated by the refusal of private entities that did.

But the founding fathers never thought it necessary to regulate printing presses to ensure the access of minority opinions. The First Amendment was explicitly written to prevent that kind of social intervention.

I think they’d tell you, set up your own server and your own service, it’s not hard.
I think it depends on whether you have type inference or not. If you have type inference, then it's like unification. If you have explicit type annotations, it's even simpler than that.

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/unification/

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/type-inference/
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Original paper:

* Friedmann, T., & Hagen, C. R. (2015). Quantum mechanical derivation of the Wallis formula for π. Journal of Mathematical Physics

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1063/1.4930800

The result didn't come from experimental works, it's a pure theoretical derivation for the sake of mathematical physics.

> The existence of such a derivation indicates that there are striking connections between well-established physics and pure mathematics that are remarkably beautiful yet still to be discovered.

The paper only has three pages - it set up a particular calculation on the energy levels of hydrogen and obtains a limit, thus recovering the Wallis formula for π. If you know QM (I don't), the paper may be a fun read, it's a short and understandable calculation.
Haha, funny enough, he argued for antinatalism before that term was heavily used. He argued for a proto-form of negative utilitarianism, and in the case of some of his disciples, they argued that people should commit suicide

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Mainl%C3%A4nder (disciple advocating for suicide)

Many took their arguments to be closer to "to live is to suffer and suffering is the ultimate bad thing. You shouldn't inflict that suffering on anyone else (and maybe not even on yourself)

No wonder Nietzsche was so afraid of what schopenhaur was doing to philosophy. His work and his followers advocate for the ultimate form of life denial. Similar to jainists too.

Though, I still find Schopenhaur to be more compelling on this than anyone else...
Think instead of the Feynmann Lectures. Part of his genius was being able to boil advanced stuff down to a freshman level. When he couldn't, he said "That means we don't really understand it."

The humanities should aspire to that, rather than (or at least in addition to) "big words for big ideas".
Yes, umbrella+servicename sometimes causes issues as I had to learn the hard way, too.

As for me, I use PostfixAdmin (https://github.com/postfixadmin/postfixadmin) to add aliases. Certainly not the quickest method but fairly quick I'd say. Clearly, it'd be even nicer if my password manager created an email alias for new accounts automatically.
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I'm not very good at big-O. I meant that in order to build the path I would need to lookup the neighboring nodes to find the closest to the target, then just to that node and continue until the end. So it's linear with the average distance I guess.
My second LSD trip was all about this idea. The entirety of the universe heads in the direction of disorganization and life is the only process that does the opposite. Life is a tool by which the universe organizes itself. There's parallels of this idea everywhere (Father Sky, Mother Earth).

At least that's what I thought until I did a lot more reading over the next couple days after my trip and discarded the idea. Entropy and how life interacts with it turned out to be significantly more complicated than I thought.
Thank you. I was too lazy to look it up.
Some context:

"Revision is the world's biggest pure Demoscene event with visitors from more than 30 countries!

Due to the Covid-19 outbreak Revision will be a livestream-only event this year."

The three last compos are about to start:

- PC 8K Intro (8KB maximum executable size)
- Amiga Demo
- PC Demo

https://2020.revision-party.net/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
I think that's being somewhat generous of an interpretation given the thread of the conversation, which is specifically about drivers. For it to be talking about Open Source developers in general would be a serious pivot.
I'm using "topic-based versioning"[0] and it solves most of the issues presented here. The principles are quite similar to what you would find in a database, with a central data repository and a write-ahead log.

Each "table" is organized in ordered, write-only topics (or folders) containing immutable messages (or files). Each operation is also adding a message into a special topic we use as log. Each participant have to remember the message id ("cursor") at which it was on the last sync and fetch new messages on the log first. Then, it's only a matter of applying the new ops until the desired point-in-time.

- decentralized, private, efficient: you own a complete copy of all versioned datasets, and you can store deltas between versions since all messages are ordered in topics. Each sync is done like a "git pull --rebase".

- reliable: If you follow the principles, conflicts are not possible.

- collaborative: Here's the slightly difficult requirement. You can choose to defer message id ("cursor") allocation to another distributed service (like zookeeper, for example) and accept to be online to register new write operations on a topic ; or force the system to be linearizable.

[0]: I wrote an article describing this design pattern here : https://medium.com/bcggamma/topic-based-versioning-architect... ! Any feedback welcomed !
People are undertaking sacrifices for the common good. We need to make them whole. To the extent we have the ability to make them whole we should be doing that as a society,” Powell said. “They didn’t cause this. Their business isn’t closed because of anything they did wrong. They didn’t lose their job because of anything they did wrong.”

Why is it important if anyone did anything wrong or not? The world is experiencing a massive calamity and a lot of wealth is being destroyed. It's not obvious that you can make everyone whole without causing unintended consequences.
It's a fine line. There are plenty of stories of games that dumbed down their AI because it started doing inscrutable things when fully unleashed - and simulating full sense perception for something like a soldier in a shooter game is very computationally expensive, so "smart" opponents tend to feel like cheaters since they are thinking in terms of the underlying representations instead of behaving or reacting in a believable way.

A lot of making the experience of a game is in managing perception and belief - in making the player agree that the game is doing "what I expected" - and when a feeling of realism is aimed for, the amount of falsified behavior needed to get that result goes up dramatically. The games where belief is easy to achieve are mostly stuff where the ruleset is abstracted, empirically tested and legible to all - board games, physics games, puzzle games, etc. Things where the decision making itself is the intelligence. In contrast making soldiers that are satisfying opponents requires a blend of assets: carefully managing their positioning, animation states and voice callouts so that their decision making is something that players can identify, respond to and overcome.
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That makes sense. Thanks for sharing!
I don't understand what you're trying to say. You can't easily say that asset prices are "disconnected from their fundamentals" - the price is what people are willing to pay for the future earnings of those companies. People are willing to pay a higher premium for those earnings now than they have in the past. Instead of the comparison to historical highs, try looking at developing countries, with lower P/E's and higher interest rates. Yet investors are still willing to pay a premium for US stocks. If you're going to say that the price is wrong, you need to account for that discrepancy. It seems that the argument you want to make is that people buy overvalued US companies because they think everyone else will continue to buy overvalued US companies?
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I use Google cloud storage, rsync option in it too synchronize my desktop (windows) with GCS every week and doing it for last 1 year. So far no issues.
Actually you’re right, that should work for businesses with shares. If people are willing to invest. But how would this work in a liquidity crunch? That was the situation we were in. Everyone was moving to cash.

What about non-incorporated businesses? That’s the bulk of small business ordered to shut down.
I don't know whether they're also the most risk-seeking investors, but they'd likely be (strongly) affected, yeah.

I don't see an alternative short of massive regulation (that essentially removes them from the stock market completely and move them into a government service; that'll still be done when they've burned down), because I see it more like a slow moving infection that starts in a toe. We've missed the right moment to amputate and only lose that toe, we've missed the moments for all the other toes on that foot as well, and the whole foot is beyond saving now.

It sucks to lose a foot, but waiting and consuming massive amounts of pain killers to be able to hobble along just means that it's going to be the whole leg next year. The best time to interfere was on the first try to socialize the losses. The second best time is now.
Most touchpads have just as good precision - well, unless you count really crappy low end ones of course. Haptic feedback is a nice thing and it's the reason why I own a Magic Trackpad 2 (I have even hacked the kernel driver to get it more quiet than what macOS allows), but that's pretty much its only differentiating factor.
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There is always something to protect – in this case, your browser and your system. How about zero-days in WebAssembly that a man in the middle might exploit?
I’m so conflicted because YouTube is absolutely in the wrong here, but Universal Basic Income is such a silly idea.
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I think this has a lot of potential.

Go to game rooms, and play some game online. Go to a club, and listen to the same Spotify track.
For clarity:

“In economics, moral hazard occurs when an individual has an incentive to increase their exposure to risk because they do not bear the full costs of that risk”

In this case, the risk is the increased cost structure in order to get the benefit of accolades from winning the zero sum rankings game.

If it were their money instead of the universities’ money, they likely wouldn’t have increased the cost structure
16× "normal" is barely more than an order of magnitude. I rather direct my concern at Hanford Site.
Instead of "DJIA isn't a good representation of companies", it'll probably be "the whole stock market isn't a good representation of companies".
The thing is, bottle requirement would make it basically guys only.

It would also be unworkable for dates.
> I know it's not just an academic conference thing

Yes me too.

> an excuse for you to leave your normal life behind for a few days to commit to being in the same place as a bunch of other people who do whatever the con’s about

Exactly, I don't want an excuses. I think we should be honest with each other about the value of the hallway track alone and not need an excuse. I think that honesty will lead to better outcomes.
...but that's a completely different argument to make. I was answering the question about what does the hardware do differently, and the correct answer is: nothing (well, aside of haptic feedback to be exact, but unless you care about silent clicks it's just a gimmick).
This resonates with my recent attempts to find meaning and purpose in things I do. As you point out, it's almost the same things I do, but some seemingly small things seem more meaningful...
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This is pretty cool, I’d love to see similar things like this.
Surely this is the fault of the app and not macOS? I have plenty of apps that asked for those permissions once, got it, and never asked again.
I feel like this kind of makes the point though... while all of this tooling does exist for Python, it's very easy to use Python without any of it at all. So it can be relegated to more of an advanced, 'production-ready' topic, e.g. in a software engineering course. Indeed, I've never seen an intro course in either Python or C that touches on any of this tooling, save one professor who distributed a standard makefile for his intro C course - but I'm honestly not sure why. It usually suffices just fine to have the students call gcc themselves, the projects they work on in the first year aren't big enough to make this cumbersome.

While that's partially true of Java, it's less true of Java. More of the tooling around Java is de facto required.
I went through the same question a few months ago. I settled on OCaml.

Pros: it's reasonably straightforward to pick up, and it shines as a functional programming language. There are some good learning resources out there, e.g. Real World OCaml. I like the syntax much more so than, say, Haskell, but YMMV.

Cons: a very small std library, meaning you need to go with one of several 'battery' libraries. Feels less polished than mainstream languages in terms of user-friendliness (to be fair my reference point on both subjects is Python). A whiny post on these shortcomings: https://medium.com/@laurent.leconte/advent-of-code-2019-its-... (hopefully this gets me motivated enough to finish the follow-up post)
I use PowerShell for quite some time (mostly windows/.NET guy here) and it would be great tool except one thing: the amount of not obvious quirks is astounding and not really decreased over the years. Probably because of avoidance of breaking changes, which is understandable where there are tons on powershell scripts out there. But for for someone who uses it mostly as a shell to write one liners or occasionally write a script not longer than 30 lines of code, it's really discouraging when you encounter again some unexpected behavior (even though you thought you learned powershell "good enoguht" couple years ago).
To make this concrete https://andreaspk.github.io/ghc-week.html was an event I was very excited to go to before Covid-19 led to its cancellation, and very much is a hallway track without the rest.
That’s not the issue as 20 year old hardware can run decent AI for modest numbers of enemies. The reality is most players simply want stupid AI and more importantly exploitable AI.
The argument is not that the US savings rate pushes up the value of financial assets in the US, I'm talking about globally (i.e. the global savings glut hypothesis). Countries like China, Saudi Arabia, and Germany have significant capital account surpluses which continue to get invested in assets in the US, particularly the stock market.
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On Windows/MacOS, the communication between the operating system and external devices (drivers) are completely shrouded in mystery. Theoretically the Nvidia graphics driver could be intercepting all your ethernet packets and sending them to the US government. (I have no evidence of such a attack, but it is theoretically possible) Drivers are extremely privileged, and are also a major gateway towards compromising computer systems)
I disagree. What's the alternative?

I prefer having a few wrong concepts in my toolbox than none at all. As the Gates quotes in the article suggests, it's good practice to be vigilant and run a basic reality check before absorbing an idea as part of your worldview, but that you might encounter wrong ideas is not a reason to stop reading accessible science books. I don't need to read papers on economic theory if I can pick up a basic book by a respected author and at least end up with some additional concepts, ideas and a good understanding what at least some experts believe is the truth. That doesn't mean I need to believe everything they say and if it matters you should neither rely on one journal's output nor on one author's book as the ultimate truth.

I can read a book about dieting or psychology or evolutionary theory and I should be aware that I won't end up as an expert, but at least I'll very likely be better informed.

"Why we sleep" has lots of good content, generally coherent information, etc. As the article here shows you shouldn't believe everything at face value but you will learn something. I'd love a reaction by the author to the claims here, but even if he says "I was wrong to do this" it doesn't invalidate his whole book or all his knowledge on the topic. He might have taken it out to avoid confusing laymen that all like to imagine themselves in the "under 5 hours" category. That doesn't make it sound in a scientific way but it does if his main aim is to get a message across that sleep is grossly undervalued.

There's lots of science on the need for sleep and what the article here says that there's no proof that sleep under 5 hours is harmful is simply not true.
This is basically my point. Didn't particularly mean to criticize davidxc, more the tendency for people on HN to assume that because they're good at programming they must also know a lot about economics, the stock market, and etc.
The formula is also buried in a simple circle.
As I've followed OpenAI, the recurring theme is that the subject/company goals opens messy politics and philosophies rather than focusing on the research. In some ways I can appreciate their retraction and controlling visibility so they can focus on the research. However, this only further exposes more politics and philosophical questions. They have to decide what "they want to be when they grow up" and filter out anything else that gets in the way, even the criticism.
Thesis - antithesis - synthesis.

Question would be whether you are better off at the end. Did your journey through these concepts help you improve your own understanding and action?
If you haven't seen, I'd highly recommend checking out what we did for IEEE VR:
https://blairmacintyre.me/2020/04/02/completely-online-ieee-...

and in particular some of the notes on poster sessions:
https://blairmacintyre.me/2020/04/10/doing-a-poster-session-...

In practice, people consumed the keynote/talk content in a variety of formats (streamed, recorded, and in-VR) and there was a fantastic networking and meeting-new-people effect in the poster, hallway (post-talk), and demo sessions. There's a bunch of formal research that was done there along with post-conference surveys to track down specific data (e.g., how many new people did you meet?) but it will take some time for those teams to rigorously collect & report.
Not sure how legal this is (the giving insights into your internal processes to a stranger part) but since there are no trade secrets involved I'd imagine it's quite safe.

As I said above, it can be really bittersweet knowing the details but I'd advise you to strive to show maximum sympathy -- including contact them privately and let them know what and why happened.

It's a little comfort for somebody who is about to run out of savings to hear "sorry that our process is so effed up, dude, and best of luck in the future!" but I can assure you that it helps them make peace with that past further down the line.
Well it would be a smaller event, and there are many discussions to be had about exclusivity and what-not. I might add a lottery-random element so it doesn't get to clubby.

But these are exactly the sorts of conversions that many communities should be having anyways.
How do you restore from it if you want to?
I stumbled onto Winston's advice as I was preparing for my Ph.D. defence which took place in early March (right before the COVID-19 shutdowns began). For the public presentation portion--a 45 minute talk aimed at a general audience--I took his suggestion to add a few props and regular 'breaks' from the technical content (as well as turning on all the lights in the lecture hall).

My dissertation dealt with robot navigation so I dug up an aeronautical chart and a 'flight computer' (circular slide rule) to motivate dead reckoning. The breaks were mostly pictures from conferences/trips where I presented my work. Both of these additions seemed to be quite well received based on some (somewhat impartial) feedback :).

One suggestion I'm still not completely sold on is to avoid saying 'thank you' at the very end. Ending on a visual that summarizes the work makes sense, but avoiding thanking the audience so as to not appear too deferential seems to me to be a stretch--isn't this just a simple courtesy? Wilson makes the analogy to political speeches which almost always end in some form of 'God bless America!', but I struggle to see an analogous sign-off that could be used in more academic settings.
That was me: https://meet.primrosevr.com

There have been a lot of changes since I made the first post a week ago. Check out the github, I'm looking for contributors!
Right, and this is kind of the key problem that Zoom is having to solve right now. The only material you (used to) need to know to join a meeting was a 9-ish digit meeting ID, and since that meeting ID entitles you to negotiate keys, it more or less nullifies encryption guarantees (except the post-hoc guarantee of the meeting host being able to see if something was up).

I would point out that this is in no way unique to Zoom, though. In fact, after the changes Zoom made in response to all of these issues, Zoom probably has the highest by-default level of meeting security of just about any product out there.
So does creator of spring who sat on lightbends board for a while
no that's tau
I'm overtly and deliberately negative about DNSSEC and DANE. I think they're bad protocols, and bad for the Internet. It would be impolite for me to pretend otherwise.
It appears he died by COVID-19:

https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/mercer/obituaries/covid-19...

I went through some of his work in detail while in college. While a mathematician, he clearly had the complexity-compression ability of a top-tier theoretical physicist. A great loss indeed.
Your Statement is 100% correct but misses the entire point
Ugh bad times. I had to relay Debian buzz on floppies from a dialup. I sooo got owned when he got that phone bill.
Is anyone else bothered by the use of "deprecating" to mean "removing"? Historically, deprecated features are ones that still exist, but their use is discouraged.
Firefox asked me for permission to use my video camera, so unless that didn't happen for you not sure why you would be surprised that its using your camera feed.
Have there been any attempts to use generative testing (e.g. quickcheck) or dependent types to verify processors? I am not sure how quite how this would be integrated into the synthesis of the processor, but it seems to be in line with the general "declarative" approach to building RTL through VHDL I remember from undergrad.
Tau is just pi * 2
Your parent comment is referring to the Dijkstra Map algorithm described in the top-level comment, not the algorithm discussed in the article.
WorkOS (https://workos.com/) if you need to support single sign-on (SSO) for your app.

SSO is free, and they offer other enterprise-focused features, like directory sync and audit trails.