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The Strange Loop 2019 talk linked by the GP is more recent and contains more technical details, but yes the Clojure/north talk is a nice bit of history showing the unveiling :)

My personal favourite is the talk from ClojuTRE by the main architect behind Crux, which looks under the hood a lot more and discusses many of the key design trade-offs during initial implementation: https://youtu.be/YjAVsvYGbuU
What are we discussing? Whether Facebook was justified in firing him? By definition if they didn't fire him for a prohibited reason, it was justified, right? Is your argument that it was "unfair" to fire him for an act of speech?
Not coding - but openai's API in beta has a speech to bash function https://openai.com/blog/openai-api/
It's no cop out - businesses don't hold a monopoly on violence. They can't summarily remove the right of travel and speech (by jailing someone).

A Nazi getting banned from Facebook isnt comparable to a human rights lawyer being stuck under house arrest for years.
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Correct. Countries can impose firewalls. China does. Iran does. The EU can if they want to.

But as a website host, I don't have to do anything.

Alcohol is illegal in Saudi Arabia. A Saudi citizen is free to buy alcohol during their visit to the US. They just can't take it back home of course. But the liquor store they visit in the US doesn't need to change their policies for that one customer, and doesn't even need to know which country their customer is from.
More like a portable CS that can be placed in the documents directory and run from there. I remember my son's cousins installing software while not as admin on my Windows PC by installing in the documents directory. CS, AOL Chat, etc.

A good way to get malware as well. I could never trust those cracked versions. One cracked version made CS 1.6 with Navy Seals looking for bin Laden, which I thought was fun.
That is.... a stretch.
Inside apps? That's not up to them.
I'm saying that we all have responsibility for the software we put out into the world, and we're complicit in how it's used.

It's wrong to offload that ethical responsibility entirely to others.

Things get better because we want them to be better, as people that build these things we have to care.
Google will be able to provide us with a lot more information extracted from our mails. Like it currently does for delivery tracking and reservations.
https://www.oldest.org/sports/marathon-runners/

People had run/are running marathon in 70-90s age group. Hack, the oldest runner was 102 year old.

May be we can do lot better, if we force ourselves to stay active.

Mark Twain said it better - "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.".
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More specifically a core where the heart is being sequenced by Tomasulo's algorithm, and probably a large bypass network linking the functional units together.
I don’t think you can say it’s objectively better. Whether you think they’re better or not depends on your values.
You mean like the US has been doing using their spying capabilities for years? Look up the echolon project or the recent scandal about US spying in Germany, a significant portion has been aimed at industrial espionage.

This is the thing that annoys me, many Americans approve their government doing industrial espionage to other countries, but then are morally outraged when others do it.
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You certainly have the right, all humans do, even PRC citizens. It's the natural right of free speech. That some governments (the PRC, for example) have passed laws abridging that natural right means you'll suffer consequences for exercising that right anywhere CCP cronies can get their hands on you.

I think it's an important distinction. Might doesn't make right.
I agree that this is better to have no arrest for crime thought, no censorship, and no (government covered mass) murder.

It doesn't mean that we are objective on this regard. On the contrary, at least for me, it comes from the subjective feeling that as I dislike the sentiment of being oppressed and I do feel empathy for other people, I wish them not to be oppressed either. This is all subjectivly grounded, and it's fine - to my mind at least.

Let's not pretend that something is objective just because it's deeply rooted into the best part of our hearts.
*english to bash

I haven't seen any demos actually using speech recognition as the input, but I'm excited to try that as soon as I'm off the waitlist. One of the caveats I have in mind is that speech recognition language models are going to be worse than GPT3, so the best option might be getting GPT3 to do the language decoding in-domain _and_ do the task. (The other caveat I have is it seems pretty slow for interactive speech use, but I have some ideas on how the knowledge could be cached in a sense over time.)
I wonder if that has something to do with how many cybersecurity policies are based on these weird edge cases and not on 99.999% of vulnerabilities.
Not GP but my guess is that "document DB" is really a term that can mean all things to all people, and is even used as a trademark (by AWS as name for their Mongo-API-compatible product). As used in this context, "JSON store" would be more appropriate maybe. I know that in academic DB literature, "document DB" refers to any storage that leaves the original serialization intact (if it has a serialized form to begin with). But outside of that context, if people were to google "document database", they probably commonly expect to find a product that can store, retrieve, fulltext-search, version-control, manage the access permissions and transform pipelines of real documents, those being either arbitrary binary document formats, or more specifically markup (XML, SGML, HTML) documents. I'd also suggest vendors come up with more precise nomenclature in their own best interest, because the way it's now is that laypeople will be directed towards the products with the most ad spent rather than what they're looking for in the majority of cases.
It’s still lying.
>> Still, the message seems to be that our chronological age really is just a number. “If people think that because they are getting older they cannot do things, or cut their social ties, or incorporate this negative view which limits their life, that can be really detrimental,” says Terracciano. “Fighting those negative attitudes, challenging yourself, keeping an open mind, being engaged socially, can absolutely have a positive impact.”

And this.
It is very hard to objectively judge laws specifically and political systems in general. The only way to do so is to look at their outcome, but with the large amount of variables, and the time it takes to draw conclusions, objective facts about them are hard to make.

The world in general has concluded that planned economies (communism) is strongly inferior to market economies, but during the early days of communism it was not so obvious. Even in modern times there are people that argue communism was implemented prematurely and would be able to thrive during "end-stage capitalism". You also have plenty of people who while disagreeing with a complete communist revolution would still support nationalisation of key companies or even the more radical "workers being in control of the means of production".

Free speech is even less clear. With america winning the cold war there was a recognition of the american way including the strong support of freedom of speech being the superior system. However lately, especially after 2016 the west seems to have lost confidence in the absolute freedom of speech. Challenging the supremacy of the freedom of speech is the idea that citizens are not capable of judging speech on it's own merit and "misinformation" "speech glorifying violence" etc should be banned. It's not really a clear cut issue, you can for example argue that limiting free speech leads to a more harmonious society (the position taken by China, and also lately the reason given by New Zealand for their decision to ban the Christchurch manifesto)
There is an immediate answer: comply with local laws.

If you don’t like them then lobby to change them.
What kind of features are we talking about though? As a user I don’t see what I really miss out on by using Safari. If anything, the lack of user-hostile features such as push notifications is a good thing.
> And which country would that be?

With your apparent standard for freedom of speech, isn't pretty much every country excluded? So now everyone is the same as an authoritarian one-party state that outlaws opposition parties and actively censors all internet websites.
After the latest Jepsen analysis of Mongo I'm surprised anyone would use it for anything that serious.
Though frustrating, the rest of the world has had to deal with the extra-territoriality of US laws for decades now, particularly in finance. I don't think it's good. But at least it is recriprocal.
It's heartbreaking that they're going to self-destruct over _this_. The Internet Archive holds invaluable collections of digital content for which there is no replacement, and they decided to put all of that work in mortal danger just to replicate the services that thousands of libraries already provide? For a few months?

The only guess I can make is that there are people with power at the IA that fail to appreciate the value of the unique services the organization provides, and would rather be running a traditional library instead. Once the dust has settled, I would be interested in reading an account of how this happened.
> Either that or they are not qualified for the job yet (hence they need to learn something new, which can be unpredictable)

IMO this attitude is pretty prevalent, and extremely harmful to software engineers. Software frameworks, methodologies, and techniques change very fast [1], and if you think that someone who needs to learn something is unqualified for the job, you are going to have an inherently adversarial relation with the engineers on your team.

Learning is and should be a normal and expected part of the day-to-day job of a lot of software engineers today. I think this contributes a fair bit to the problem of estimation.

[1] In contrast, I haven't seen a ton of novel developments in project management since the early 200s, we are still beating the drum of "Do Agile Not Waterfall" almost 20 years later
Zoom can either

a) Keep their moral code and be happy in the idea that they will probably be cut off from that market (China)

or

b) Drop their morals, appease to the local laws as unjust as they may be in the hope that their business there continues.

They chose the latter and still want to pretend they are doing both. That's a problem.
Ah I see. Luckily for me, it was good the first time so I can't speak to your question from experience.
Ask HN: To start a freelance market place like upwork
I have an idea of starting a freelancing market place like upwork.com/freelancer.com with a different approach.

I would like to understand the process of mediating the money transfer part between client and freelancer.
Basically,
The market place maintains an bank account which charges to client and transfers to the freelancer?
How should the startup should be registered with the govt agency, as software company or any other entity type?

Any site where I can get more details about the process would be appreciated
I was trying to allude to this a bit, but maybe it didn't come across clearly. I was thinking more about how you approach getting help to achieve a goal. And probably a good way forward is a mixture of occasional 1-on-1 sessions with experts in your chosen activity, followed up with more regular sessions with a general trainer who can help you achieve what the expert says you need to improve. For example, specialist advice can range from very specific technique improvements, to more general comments like "technique is good, but you need better core strength" at which point a personal trainer might be a good call.
I don't believe that some thoughts are impossible for users of certain words, but do believe their thoughts are influenced by the words they use and hear used all around them, and some thoughts are less likely in such people.

For instance, in Nazis who truly believed that Jewish people were subhuman, empathetic thoughts towards Jewish people were less likely.

Also, I don't agree that attempts at control have failed. I think they have often succeeded.
I don’t know why you are getting down voted. I think your comments are asking genuine questions
It's not really a "mistake". They were aware they lacked functionality to region block meetings and rather than reply to the Chinese government that such a request will not be possible to comply with for x days until feature is developed, they opted to suppress US users. That sets a bad precedent for future ambiguous issues.
I’ve been spouting the same rhetoric, but it isn’t strictly true.

It shouldn’t be difficult to recall at least a handful of recently examples in the US. Uber and Apple come to mind.
Say a 21 year old Indian goes to London and drinks some whiskey, is it a crime? because, it is a crime in India!
This site is fantastic !

The "compare" part is really great - with a little scatterplot price vs estimated spec level - I've used it massively when choosing my bike.
Why not? After 12 years of marriage I told my wife that and it cleared the air. We both knew it but it remained unsaid for so long and had been having an adverse affect on the relationship.

Yes, it was a tough and emotional week. But things are better out in the open and we have started to rebuild the relationship on love, not lust.

She did ask if I was having affairs. But I honestly said that I'm finished with sex now, I've just no time or interest in playing the chasing games. There are more important things in life.
There's pretty much always something novel or unique in the way things are put together. I recently had a project that was at first glance a pretty trivial "enter data, verify it, package as XML and send to a backend". Until we realized that the combination of privacy requirements and an industry spec would have required us to do schema validation of the XML in the browser. And apparently the only Javascript library which
does that is machine translated from C, not very stable and doesn't support UTF-8.
I wrote that 15 days ago. That is a blink of an eye in our slothlike progress.
It's certainly understandable that it's a concept that writers would gravitate to.
I think your summary is accurate. For reference, I'm willing to cut Wolfram more slack than some people are, I think his quest to discover the ultimate laws of physics from the other end is potentially interesting, but I don't think this particular article really has even any interesting conjectures.
Not only does it not match what they have studied, but what is more likely: that a bio containment facility that is purpose built to seal off pathogens from escaping leaks and that one patient successfully infects many others with a virus that has a good chance of not even infecting them severely. Or, that multiple of the hundreds of thousands of bats that are in the region that have the virus spread it to humans because of their repeated and ongoing interaction. The latter has exponentially more chance of occurring because of the almost infinitely larger resivoir of virus and also has vastly more chance of occurring because of the number of interactions. The former is so unlikely as to be essentially an exercise in magical thinking and the only reason people give it any credence as far as I’m concerned is because it’s easier to blame something simple and politically convenient than a complex system of human behavior.
It seems I'm the only one who found Wodehouse's brand of humor insipid and not in the least bit funny.
Write something about GPT-3
Aw. Please use HN in the intended spirit: curious conversation, not cross examination. We've even made it easy for you—that's directly in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Seriously...you'll feel better, too.
Bear in mind that Zoom is a Chinese company — the founding team is Chinese; the core engineering and ops teams are largely in Suzhou and Hangzhou.

So, while they are incorporated in the US and have significant presence in their HQ, their ties to China are stronger than the more-commonly-discussed outsourced-engineering sort of relationship.
Possible but poor experience for devs and users.

The app will have to contain the full working functionality for every major release, and seamlessly handle upgrading it internally. This is counter to how almost all applications are actually build and released where you only run the artifacts for the current version.
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I don't think the good people have to do nothing, they can work to help users circumvent the firewall via things like tor.

It's really tempting to think that you're the good person helping in a messy situation (especially when it's also the easiest option to choose), but ultimately I think it's just rationalizing bad behavior.

I think most people believe they're 'good', even those doing the censorship in China do it under some belief that they're keeping stability and unity to prevent Trump like stupidity and western influence - or the rise of religious extremism. They're regular people doing regular jobs for something they think is good.

I think the actions matter, when you're doing bad things for some ambiguous influence I'm not sure how good you really are.
Humans are amazing, the whole planet full of life is amazing. And instead of exploring everything the universe has provided for us, for itself, we have created a shitty prison for everyone involved.

I sat on the beach yesterday watching a 4 and half billion year fire that is burning 8 light minutes away, overhearing two ladies in their mid 50s talk about how much money they were making flipping houses and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf4cea5oObY
Most tests I've seen of real-time game asset loading between the various types of SSDs on PC are incredibly inconsistent - for most games it is hardly noticeable. I'd be excited if I was proven wrong but this really feels like the typical console hype ramp up to black friday that South Park portrays so well...
I can't help but detect some cynicism in your response.

Who it was with mattered. Being desired mattered. Buying it would have felt empty for me.

> The worth given by woman when having sex is however only illusion.

This isn't the first time I've encountered this idea. I'm sure everyone is exposed to the idea from a very young age. As a teenager, I would've accepted it rationally but rejected it emotionally. Being told something like that would be as effective as telling a hormonal teenager to stop being so emotional.
This approach exactly does not require defining the unit of work. It seems designed to avoid defining it.
A user configurable parameter for timeout would be a terrible language design mistake.

You would want as much as possible to make the timeout not based on runtime -- but on an abstract model of the computation which doesn't actually depend on any machine particular. "Hey your program didn't compile on my machine -- try a faster cpu" would be a nightmarish interaction.

You want constraints about how long these programs are allowed to execute to be tight enough for developers to learn a sense for what is reasonable to do with these features -- as opposed to waiting for runtime.
Perhaps "anti trust" needs to be revisited as a broader concept. A similar corollary is the "right to repair" which often falls under the same excuse of being able to use a competitor's product but ignores the high price consumers in giving up any control over what they purchased.
Absolutely. On the one hand, having a comparatively large family (3 kids) and raising them well would be one very strong thing one could look at on one's deathbed and be comforted by knowing you did your part to help.

On the other hand, there's something morally uneasy about bringing children into something you know to be broken. As we correctly recognize, children won't fix a damned relationship and bringing them into one can harm them long term. It sort of feels like that but on the macro scale.

All that being said, we are leaning on the side of having a large (as above) family, but it doesn't come with an uneasy feeling.
Are the plethora of cases where cigarettes did not cause cancer compelling proof that they don't?

Perhaps these counterexamples are evidence of additional factors, in cancer or in unrest, but they do not prove that a causal relationship doesn't exist.
It may not be possible to control but it's certainly possible to subconsciously influence, which is as good or better.

Advertisement works, even though it's not thought control.
The time history feature is very smart!
Surely it doesn’t come as a surprise to you that there exist in this world who no only don’t think like you...

There are people in this world who are happy to write cigs than can be weaponised against those they disagree with.

So in that sense, I’d suggest you’re wrong.

Software Developers are not a homogeneous while who do or should think like you.

Whether or not we agree that way of being is reprehensible is a different matter, in which I tend to agree it is.
Relevant:

“Let R be the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. If R is not a member of itself, then its definition dictates that it must contain itself, and if it contains itself, then it contradicts its own definition as the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. This contradiction is Russell's paradox”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox
Extensive earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23504445
Self-reference in logic is named after the ancient symbol Ouroboros, a dragon that continually consumes itself, denotes self-reference [0]. I found out about this when reading about Russell's paradox [1]. The turn of the 19th century was an extraordinary time where logicians, mathematicians and philosophers "discovered" revolutionary ideas that we are still today trying to understand and find proofs [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reference#In_logic,_mathe...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics#19th_ce...
Sure, as I said, model it after the unions, in the US, that work. There are many examples to pick from and many lessons to be learned about what not to do from the others. The US has not and cannot legally mandate a union to be completely useless, at least this side of a dictatorship it can’t.
Equal respect? Social norms are a lot more complicated than that, man. You have to repeat all the right shibboleths, (subtly) honour the ingroup, and show appropriate hatred towards the outgroup.

E.g. if you're among roughly progressive upper-middle white people, your shibboleths are stuff like your comment, your ingroup that you're not allowed to overtly acknowledge exists but that you must still honour is progressive upper-middle class white people, and the outgroup you should show sufficient:
A, hatred towards the rich
B, disdain towards is lower-class white people.

Showing appropriate opprobum vers the outtribe might not be strictly speaking necessary, just highly recommended. Wouldn't want to be mistaken for them.