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"So why didn't Smalltalk take over the world?

"With 20/20 hindsight, we can see that from the pointy-headed boss perspective, the Smalltalk value proposition was:

"Pay a lot of money to be locked in to slow software that exposes your IP, looks weird on screen and
cannot interact well with anything else; it is much easier to maintain and develop though!

On top of that, a fair amount of bad luck."

That's not the "pointy-headed boss" perspective. That's my* perspective, and I was working in Smalltalk in 1992-4, when "why doesn't Smalltalk take over the world?" was a valid question.

FFIs were a royal pain in the ass, and that was what I was doing. (Somehow, the Digitalk (? Memory is hard.) image we were passing around developed a bug, probably from something in the FFI. It would periodically just crash. No way to fix it---it originally started while our proggy was working but eventually worked its way out until it happened anytime---because something in the image itself was corrupted. We could have filed-out all of our code and started with a clean image....

Source control? Ha! You saved your image to a floppy and passed it around to your co-workers. And you liked it!

Deployment? Yeah, we once had to send our proggy to someone who didn't have licenses for some of the things we used. That was fun. And it still involved shipping the whole language, image and environment.

These aren't just some "nice to have" features; they were significant friction that made doing anything real difficult. (Common LISP had the same issues, although its source control story was much better.)

I haven't looked at Newspeak (or Strongtalk, or Self) (but I will) to find out how it deals with those problems, but as for "Why doesn't Smalltalk take over the world?", that bus has already left the station.

EDIT

https://newspeaklanguage.org/downloads.html

"The current prototype is based on Squeak, and contains code that is subject to the Squeak License, as well as the Newspeak sources, which are mostly under the Apache 2.0 license. More details about the licensing of this software are available on the license page."

This isn't starting well.
> and the proof of the Prime Number Theorem came only in the early 1900's

That's just a little too late. It was proved in 1896 independently by Hadamard and de la Vallée Poussin.

Hadamard, J. "Sur la distribution des zéros de la fonction zeta(s) et ses conséquences arithmétiques (')." Bull. Soc. math. France 24, 199-220, 1896

de la Vallée Poussin, C.-J. "Recherches analytiques la théorie des nombres premiers." Ann. Soc. scient. Bruxelles 20, 183-256, 1896
>Presumably, actively working (like with a job) to generate wealth to invest in other enterprises is 'active participation in the value creation'.

This is my exact point. Working (like with a job) creates value. Investing money in a secondary market for stocks generates no value whatsoever. Perhaps it keeps some stock brokers emplayed
Ask HN: Post Covid-19, will SF still be the best place to start a startup?
I'm not into orbital mechanics at all, just an interested layman, but how does a space tug work in relation to your 'Rule 1 of orbital mechanics'?. What is the point of a space tug then?
It is perfecly fine to be anti-communist, the Churchill quote about communist and conservative is especially apt, but calling out to The Black Book of Communism just dimishes and cheapens your points. Even the co-authors disassociated themselves due to the way the main author framing of the issue - basically turning the book into a simplistic propaganda tool.
well in general my phone will let you click the screen saver button and swipe to get the camera -- when locked.

when unlocked you have to look at the screen and miss the shot.

Maybe a more concrete example would be:

Apple allows apple pay to be a first-class function. You can double-click the home button at any time to access apple pay.

Apple has an "accessibility shortcut" for triple clicking the home button. But it's for magnifier.

Why wouldn't they allow the phone owner to customize the UI for critical functions like camera from the iphone 1 days?
> People will choose convenience over privacy when they can't see the threat.

Agree.

> WhatsApp connection quality is flaky

Disagree. Might be anecdotal, but at least in Europe, most my friends use WhatsApp for personal video calls and not Zoom.

Genrally agree with you that we need E2E as default (as we need SSL as a default).
> rotating the device still doesn't work as it should.

What exactly is the issue?! Been using Android for about a decade now and can rotate the device just fine.
* If someone criticized newspapers for yellow journalism and inciting violence with sensationalism, would it seem so weird to push the newspapers to regulate the content posted on themselves?

* Is the way that people view large public figures on social media all that different than how they did with newspapers?

I'm not sure if these questions imply anything about how social media sites should deal with regular small-audience / low-influence users, but I think any platform sharing influential posts to a large audience has similar responsibilities to a newspaper.
Your comment doesn't even slightly reflect the law. I don't know why people keep spreading this.

Section 230(c):

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

Furthermore section 230 (c)(2) states:

> any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected

So to be clear, it's not that the law is unclear on this, it's very clear on this: The publisher has no responsibilty to consider whether speech is constitutionally protected at all. Not only is there no qualification that these platforms need to meet in terms of moderation, but the law actively states that the platform can moderate speech.

Citation: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
Actually, most crops do not like full on sun shine- also this is not a binary thing. With given enough distance, a cloud of sun shield filament could just reduce a certain percentage. And unlike chemical geo engineering, space geo engineering is easily undoable.
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for a narrow definition of “diversity”
Cool. How doable is it in creating a trading bot that trades based on politician’s portfolio and stock trades
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> How has the USSR ended up in horror?

By their own mistakes again and again?

Same way as Maos China until they changed?

> I will give you Vietnam though.

How about this instead, I give you Cuba, that seems like a good example I think, at least I am not aware of any major henocides there and they have been attempted strangled for a number of years so not only their fault.
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A Fitch derivation of the existence of the intersection of all members of a nonempty set is a better place to start because it can be done in less than ten sheets of paper longhand. The ratio of triviality to pages consumed is quite shocking when you finally confront it. It is at that point that you realize intuition has no formal translation but is vital since the level of detail seems to blur and darken intuition when holding a proof to the standard of formal derivation rather than the ordinary informal standard. So far, I’ve seen relatively little interest in mathematical intuition or even honest appraisal of what it is or how mathematicians should develop it. Rather the trend seems to be pretending that mathematical intuition doesn’t exist and treating formalization as a no-op. I think this is due to an anti-intellectual atmosphere that views mathematics as a source of problems for the military as opposed to pastimes for civilians.
How Many Startups Listen to Paul Graham’s Advice?
I don't really understand comments that ask for heightened penalties for [topic-du-jour]. In my mind, the justice system should not strive to be _more punitive_, but rather to be _fair_.

If we follow the logic of making punishments harsher (say, adding years of prison to a violent cop), what then do we as a society expect is supposed to happen when said cop finally attempts to reintegrate into society after doing their prison sentence? We can't keep "wishing away bad guys" as if real life was a movie that conveniently ends at a happy ending.

If anything, a revamp of the current system needs to _do away_ with special protections and other dis-equalizer factors.

For the matter of police violence specifically, I feel that the courts are not even the best medium for change. For example, why is the topic of police training largely absent in these discussions?
In the industry, this paper has long been known as 'the grinder paper'. Matt Perger (one of the authors, and a World Brewers Cup champion) provides a good layman's explanation: https://www.baristahustle.com/blog/the-grinder-paper-explain...
But those are mostly just orbiting the sun.

If you ever wanted to send a probe to Proxima Centauri, and stop when it got there, accelerating the fuel you'd want to have available to decelerate up to solar escape velocity would be a tremendous energy expenditure, even if you can mine it in the asteroid belt.

If, instead, you got lucky and jumped your probe (fuel tanks dry) on an interstellar wanderer that happened to be going approximately in the direction you wanted, you could have hundreds of tons of rocket fuel moving at interstellar velocities.
You and i both know that person is not going to change their views based on new info.
Linux software is usually distributed as source code, so I think the comparison does not suit very well. It's the package maintainers' duty to compatible, tested, secure binaries for you. But I imagine this sword cuts both ways. If you are a commercial app developer who wants to keep its source code to itself, maintaining binary packages for each distro and testing it could cost a significant amount.
> 100-year event that might never come

SARS-1 (2003) and MERS are recent coronaviruses, and Ebola re-occurs every other year.

SARS-1 had a similar effect on Toronto hospitals as the current COVID-19 on NYC, with staff wiped out.
If you could throw in a list of the projects you've looked at that seem representative that would be really cool.
There might be more truth there than you think. One of the largely ignored and unacknowledged realities of the uber-wealthy elite is that they tend to be very interested in eugenics programs (of course under different names). Multiple people have stated that Epstein intended for his ranch in NM to be a place he had multiple women pregnant at a time so he could "seed the human race" with his superior genetics. Witness Maria Farmer says he and Maxwell and many others in the group were very open and serious about considering themselves genetically superior to the masses...
This is awesome, but is this accurate? The largest holding listed is Susan Collins with a $37mm investment in 3M... Everything I can find from a google search suggests she is not really that wealthy.
Remember when Google warned the CDC of widespread flu, or cold, outbreak somewhere years ago? With far more data collection today, I'd be surprised if they couldn't warn people, residents, and potential protestors, about the potential for looting/riots. It would not only help keep people and property relatively safe, but enable the criminals to be brought to justice more easily.
We're not planning on doing anything right now related to that. But long term when we have some more time it'd definitely be more doable using a service like Alpaca
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That's dishonest to link a single tweet and act as though that's all the claims he's ever made about it. Here's a single press conference[1], which isn't nearly the extent of it, and doesn't include his claims he's taking it himself, but does include a "What do you have to lose?" argument.

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/06/trump-hydroxychloroquine...
I try it each time a new version of ubuntu comes out and it works for a while but eventually I get freezes or crashes with my ten year old nvidia card. I switch back to X11 and its fine.
Even worse was his defunding of PREDICT (started in 2009 and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, and it worked with teams in 31 countries, including China. It was just one part of an emerging global network for infectious-disease surveillance.)

This cost a trivial $20M per year and funded the woman listed below among others. Of note, in her team's research they have found dozens of bat-borne coronaviruses in the same family as SARS. This did not sneak up on us; we already have MERS, SARS and Ebola. We should have been (and continuing) spending billions as a species on this but everyone has their head in the sand.

1-[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-wo...]
If you had read all the tweet, you will come accross to this
https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1268199863054811136

2) None of the major players offer E2E by default (Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx, BlueJeans). WebEx has an E2E option for enterprise users only, and it requires you to run the PKI and won't work with outsiders.

Any E2E shipping in Zoom will be groundbreaking.
Hmm, is there a messenger that has this feature?

Just show a "talking to user @X"/"talking in channel @Y" status the same way Discord shows everyone the game you're playing.

Butts in Seats 2.0!
This fits. It is called "brain drain", where the smart people leave low-income areas to go somewhere they will be paid more. And why shouldn't they, if a company will pay them so they have more in savings in the rich area than they would have even earned in the poorer area?
>> What do you do with pdfs and reference stuff?

1) Root: everything is stored on a separate drive, that in turn is backed up to a NAS, that is itself backed up to another offsite NAS.

2) Sub: inside of root is several folders representing major concepts like development, images, software, and so on. They can be multi-level deep, like "development/languages/C++).

3) Topic: inside of the sub is everything related to this topic. So, could be a project if it lives under programming, a software product if it lives under "network", and so on.

4) Search the above using a tool like FileSearchEX.
Oh boy! Well I'll just stay in the expensive "Mac-land"...
I really, really, really hope so. (I'm in a very Republican state, so I haven't noticed.) That would be great, and just how that kind of change will have to happen.

But watching the primary process, I still don't see it.
Whenever I visit the states and pop into CVS I am frequently amazed at the sticker prices on some of the dugs there. Things that literally cost pennies per tablet in the UK (generic hayfever tablets, pain killers etc) were absurd prices. 20USD for 7 hayfever tablets? 15 USD for 12 ibuprofen tablets? WTF?! Do not forget to get 12 hayfever tablets for £1.80 (~2USD) from a supermarket before your flight otherwise you'll need to spend 45USD (+tax) at the CVS a block from your hotel.

Do you guys actually pay these prices for this stuff, or is it only forgetful travellers who fall for it and end up paying through the nose because they have no other choice?

Surely you won't be claiming for pain killers for a headache etc on your health insurance? (...although at those prices maybe you should??!)

It feels to me that is pretty criminal to charge those prices at retail - to inflate even more to insurers just seems pretty outrageous.
Why not all? Tax land, capital gains, and wealth. Adjust brackets prudently.
>If the majority of workers prefer workplaces like that then those places will thrive

The majority of workers have probably never even heard of worker coops and those that have probably imagine it to be related to socialism and therefore un-American.

>So fuller democracy equals government limiting choice, as long as it is your desired choice

So more democracy actually == more authoritarian. Astounding logic.
> After an attempt to stop global warming via climate engineering catastrophically backfires, creating a new ice age in 2014, the remnants of humanity have taken to a circumnavigational train, the Snowpiercer, run by recluse transportation magnate Wilford. By 2031, the passengers on the train have become segregated, with the elite in the extravagant front cars and the poor in squalid tail compartments controlled by armed guards. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowpiercer
They've disabled upvoting this story in Hacker News (for me), effectively implementing censorship of content. Most of the stories on Hacker News are manipulated by the mods. Here are screenshots from both Firefox and Chrome:

- https://imgur.com/9LrkzxA

- https://imgur.com/Kkyetr5
Can you watch movies on that screen while driving?
> Not sure how that would effect kernalspace, since the kernal is sort of the thing that decides what time actually is.

Yes, I'm imagining you'd need to be in a virtualized/emulated environment of some sort.
All the info is from the senate's personal finance disclosure documents: https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/home/
It is fully possible to say no to communism without supporting other bad stuff.

I live in a kind of liberal, almost secular democracy. It isn't too bad.
>What's your job?

It is on my HN profile, I write code for living.

>Facts please.

The fact that you called up a bunch of companies, and none of them were producing dedicated barebones MP3 players, kind of speaks for itself. If there was a significant demand, why wouldn't they jump on this easy money-making opportunity, given that they would have pretty much no competitors?

>give me figures, not asking what I expect to get.

I don't have numbers, and neither do you. In the absence of actual numbers, anecdotal evidence is the second best thing. Do you have anecdotal evidence of talking to an average person and asking whether they would be willing to pay for a dedicated MP3 player? I do, which is why I asked you to imagine how that scenario would play out in real life.

If your scenario played out the opposite of mine, then we would be at a stall, as anecdotal evidence is nothing against opposing anecdotal evidence, only factual numeric evidence can beat anecdotal evidence. But if it played out the same, I feel like it would only act in support of my hypothesis.

I can also bring out hard factual numbers for the sales numbers of dedicated MP3 players going down as smartphone proliferation increased, if you want, but you probably already know how those numbers look.
Accountability!!

Racism and abuse are cultural and deeply rooted, don't know how you change that without dismantling it. But abuse is learned and cheered upon, then is covered and rarely punished.

You have cases like a cop shooting with a machine-gun an unarmed teen and then not only going unpunished but retiring to cash in a milionary pension because of "PTSD".
It's a clear violation of this line "Apps that encourage or incentivize users into removing or disabling third-party apps or modifying device settings or features unless it is part of a verifiable security service." from https://play.google.com/about/privacy-security-deception/dec...
Getting rich when you have nothing often takes patience and long term planning.

Look around you all the self-made titans have built their wealth over decades. They decided where they could best make an impact and they made a plan and followed through relentlessly. We see the result but we don't see the sleepless days, the never-ending meetings, the ability to stay focused and on and on, not just for days or weeks but for years. Also, you need to lead many people to the same goal. Do you that successfully and you'll be rewarded with lots of money.

Most people burn out early, even if they are motivated, or can't get others to follow.

Smarts is only a small part of the solution.

Example: Let's say you come up with the greatest solution to a problem but if you are the only one that knows it then it has no value to anyone. You have to let people know through the creation of an organization. And you have to convince them that it really is a great solution that they need to use.
Could we maybe choose less ableist insults in the thread on acceptance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperforate_anus

Notably; this kind of pedantry is problematic, nobody thinks of gender when genitalia is used as an insult. Obviously insults are designed to offend; but adding additional meaning and then attacking the faux meaning is not meaningful.

This sort of behaviour fuels anti-liberal rhetoric; as it does nothing to prevent actual sexism it’s just people attacking a straw man at the expense of well meaning people who used some word of the month which has been deemed “troublesome”.

If I had led with “dick” as the insult I’m fairly certain it wouldn’t have been called out in such a way.

False arguments serve only to “beat” other people so you may feel superior for a moment, but they push others to conservatism for being attacked for innocuous commentary.

This is a problem because the conservatives are very effectively using the snobbery of some on the “left” to win people over and putting back liberal causes by decades in some cases. Leading to things like Trump - and the senate being stacked with republicans.

Let’s go after actual issues.
>that are E2E and free, like FaceTime (ok you need an iPhone or Mac), WhatsApp, Signal etc. So people can just use that if they don't want to pay for Zoom (again, I don't think they're making the right decision either).

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1268199863054811136
2) None of the major players offer E2E by default (Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Cisco WebEx, BlueJeans). WebEx has an E2E option for enterprise users only, and it requires you to run the PKI and won't work with outsiders.

Any E2E shipping in Zoom will be groundbreaking.
“Autopilot” here is basically adaptive cruise control + lane assist, which are both technologies available from nearly every manufacturer at this point. I’m not talking about the beta Full Self Driving features.
It's luck and two other things.

> explore different kinds of funding models to see which produce the best returns

1. Having funds (e.g. family wealth) makes it possible to capitalize on any chance opportunities

2. At the extremes, taking risks will play a factor: fortune favours the bold. You may win or lose bigger--you'll less likely land in the middle.
Without getting too far into the Bayesian vs. frequentist debate, I find the whole field of Bayesian nonparametrics to be very mathematically satisfying. Hierarchical models effectively come with a hyperparameter search "built-in".

It's also quite appealing that many of these probabilistic models made by statisticians are "fuzzy" generalizations of ad-hoc algorithms originally developed for practical reasons. In the same way that Gaussian Mixture Models are a "fuzzy" generalization of K-means, Dirichlet Process Mixture Models are a "fuzzy" generalization of the adaptive K-means algorithm, which increments K whenever outliers are detected. This connection is nicely summarized by Kulis & Jordan 2012 [1].

If you're wondering where to get started learning a topic like this, it's good to know about latent variable models and expectation-maximization first. See for example my own notes [2] on the topic. Following that, you can start to understand variational inference, as well as topics relevant to modern deep learning like amortized inference, variational autoencoders, etc..

[1] Kulis & Jordan 2012, "Revisiting K-Means: New Algorithms via Bayesian Nonparametrics" (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/papers/kulis-jordan...)
[2] https://benrbray.com/static/notes/eecs445-f16-em-notes.pdf
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