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> Can anyone share why they are "inspired" by these events? Honest question.

I love space and spaceships. I wish I could work in that industry and would jump at the chance.

> With all of the real problems occurring on Earth today, I cannot help but feel this is just ego-driven madness.

Yes indeed. But, ego-driven madness generates a lot of useful utility. I'd say the worst part is the pollution of satellites for ground-based space observation. Despite that, I fully think that mankind should expand into space and become a spacefaring race in spite of all of the risks. And I think, for compensation, publicly accessible orbital observatories should become a thing. Unfortunately, at the current price tag of orbit, that might take a while.

> Instead, are we merely spread humanity across the galaxy in centuries to come--if at all? For what purpose?

For whatever purpose we want. The only unfortunate thing is that only the rich can afford to guide us at the moment. I look forward to the day that anyone can own a spaceship as anyone can own a car.

There's a lot of spaceship science fiction movies and TV series to draw inspiration from. I get the impression that you're either too young to have seen a lot of it or, perhaps, it hasn't been a passion of yours. What drives you to to be who you are?

Chances are good that, even if you want to just be a simple farmer, you use and rely on "space age" technology. Who knows what cool and/or useful stuff could be brought by the future of space tech? In-orbit manufacturing of exotic materials for safety, for communication; in-orbit energy collection and generation. I'm excited for the prospect of orbital farming for food -- a completely controlled environment away from pests? Oh man that's going to be game changing!
Yes. Though in theory you could use Haskell with a Lisp-like syntax just fine.

Many of the language extensions are sugar over a simpler (implied) core of the language. Some are purely syntactic, like NumericUnderscores. Some others like GADTs are semantic, but still mostly explained in terms of mapping to this simpler language.
If only. More that new generation of the newspaper people really do believe the radical BS. You can see the newsroom revolts at all major newspapers. Even WSJ had one against their opinion section, they told the snowflakes to stick it, but they were the only ones. This so why I still have WSJ sub and not NYT anymore.
Since bash and the Unix core utils are written in C, I strongly challenge your claim that "most languages" can't do stream processing. You don't have to have a lazy language to implement a lazy data type.
Postel's Law is bad - "be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send". It has a history of destroying technical standards. Remember how so much HTML was broken on conforming browsers ten years ago? That's because Microsoft wrote their browser to accept any broken crap you gave it, so that's just what everybody did.
if you studied computer science before 1960 you did maths and electronic engineering. If you studied computer science after 1970 you probably learned a subset speciality. All fields change and all work looks different 10 years later.

Web apps are sufficiently turing-complete that the arrogance of "thats not tech" is just wrong.

Carmack wouldn't write asm for a device now, in all cases. He might do Verilog for an FPGA but he might be doing something else.
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Why would using older hardware be limiting yourself any more than you just described? It just happens to do it by it's nature of being old instead of you deliberately limiting modern equipment.

As long as it works, why not use the hardware if you have it and it's still operational? Older desktop PC's have a certain power usage issue compared to modern ones, but laptops usually tend to keep power consumption down.
How do you know that? Are you judging based on a representative sample of all uses of cryptocurrency, or the uses you hear about?
the feds provided large quantities of ventilators and are funding multiple vaccine research. What else should they do? Every state has enough power to mandate mask wearing, quarantine, school closings without federal intervention
But we all agree that hate speech should be punished by laws though, and it currently is punishable.

We don't, and it isn't, at least not in the US.
Think of the complex numbers chiefly as all the solutions to polynomials with coefficients that are real. The number "i" is the solution to the polynomial 0 = x^2 + 1. We choose to use a letter instead of a number simply because the numbers are already being used, similar to how hexadecimal uses letters.
Yup, its ctrl-alt-t the moment DE loads.
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Sorry I should have clarified -- according to Wikipedia, they had $1.5 billion in actual net revenue by processing $23 billion in transaction volume (aka GMV).
"By far the most important law"? What are you smoking?
> It’s pretty common to see form in lisp that ends in a dozen close-parentheses as we see chains of forms being passed as arguments to other forms.

That's just a chain of function applications.

Function composition puts the emphasis on the fact that functions are values in their own right and can be manipulated (eg with a composition operator) as objects without regard to any values they might act on.

If you want to see one Haskell equivalent of loop, https://hackage.haskell.org/package/monad-loops-0.4.3/docs/C... has got you covered.
'Freedom' is not a framework for morality? I will judge you as a bad person for not saving the child in the pond while able to do so.
I have not used shampoo for 12 years and i am frequently complemented on my hair. It's far less greasy than everyone elses i know. Not using shampoo != not showering, i get 2-3 showers a day due to heavy gym use which is why i originally stopped using shampoo (frequent showers with shampoo made my hair very dry). I do use conditioner sporadically (around once per month). I would say others perception of me is quite a well groomed and clean person for what it is worth. I cant speak for everyone but i seriously do not need shampoo and would say people who are interested could experiement with it if they are still taking regular showers for little downside.
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It’s just chapter 11... they are restructuring, not dying (yet).
Cool. Thank you. I ran into Gopher a long time ago and thought maybe it was gone or dormant. I appreciate your clarification on my ask.
Western union was used to pay off parties in the past before Bitcoin.
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It's a great short story but you'd have to be as thick as a brick not to add up the missing parts. I liked it for the lesson-learned quality. Cody is going to be fine. Was medium the right channel? Maybe it was a better fit for a new-writing 'zine?
I've heard from numerous people that FAANGs hire talented engineers and give them busy work or projects that never launch in a way to keep them from working for competitors. Is this actually true?

Has anyone seen this in practice?
A light weight, extremely fast and efficient event emitter class
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It depends on the mindset. From my point of view, it is a huge success, because now when you apply for normal game jobs, you will massively stand out for creating something that people used and supported it over time. Basically you will have job for life. Most developers can only dream of that outcome.

From business side, I don't think it has anything to do with you. Quite often it is down to luck, ability to predict where market is going next and execution.

It is tough for Monogame C# framework to compete with Unity. Your tool is basically build on top of their Monogame funnel, so if their funnel is tiny, then you screwed. But at the time it is hard to see how it was going to go, because Unity has so many problems and closed source didn't really help.

Number of problems increased exponentially on the Unity side, but it became industry standard, so today if you making games and not using Unity/Unreal and not AAA studio, it is super risky to get funded.
I mean, there is a sincere possibility that you only like cats because you're infected by a mind control parasite.

For real! Isn't that terrifying?
Retailed-recording doesn't mean you have to manage the file. That nut's been cracked for at least a decade. Every digital purchase I've made through outlets like Bandcamp or Amazon (and some of Apple, IIRC) is kept track of by the service and has a cloud player I can use. And the artist actually sees revenue from each track that's a fraction of a dollar rather than a fraction of a penny.

But you can actually download/manage the file if you want to. Which is nice, because it's the most practical distinction between owning and a long term lease, given the fact that few things are forever.
> One question you confront if you’re arguing for a single planetary moral philosophy: Which moral philosophy should we use?

The Golden Rule is practically universal. I'm surprised it doesn't get a mention. I'm partial to Hillel's version: "What is hateful to you, do not do to others—this is the whole of Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study."

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

> It’s true that Greene is a utilitarian—believing (to oversimplify a bit) that what’s moral is what maximizes overall human happiness.

I prefer this formulation: what's moral is what minimizes overall human suffering, now and in the foreseeable future.

> The rift was mended by putting the boys in non-zero-sum situations—giving them a common peril, such as a disruption in the water supply, that they could best confront together.

It's tragic that Covid19 hasn't united us. How did we end up fighting over wearing masks? (This question is rhetorical.)

> Self-doubt can be the first step to moral improvement.

I mean yeah, but: “One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.” — Bertrand Russell

This entire essay is premised on people wanting to get better. On having some degree of curiosity and willingness for self-examination. I don't see a lot of that in the world.
Yet German politicians still want US troops to stay in Germany for "Russia Protection" - while never meeting their NATO promised GDP contribution of 2% in the last 5 years.
Math with time (and space/memory)... You just found the difference between computer science and math. And the reason proof-of-work in blockchains is possible.
It's a shame that that blog post's buggy Haskell the breaks the rhetorical argument has been live for 5 years and never corrected or withdrawn.
Yes, however in cases like that an app store that only distributes officially signed packages and does some scanning as well as allows community to report issues should handle issues for packages that aren't open source. Nothing stopping something like that from existing if app creators wanted to start using it.
My opinion on this is a lot of the time it relates to how clean their gym clothes are. In Jiu-jitsu it's immediately obvious who the guys are that use their training gear for more than one session before washing it (and they are the people no one wants to roll with). If people have clean gear and are sweating profusely (it's a very close proximity sport) it's rarely an issue if their gear is clean. Edit: training gear definitely has a lifetime too in this respect, at some point stuff just has a permemenent low level bad smell and at that point it's past the point of needing to be thrown away unless you want people to start thinking of you as the smelly training partner.
I feel this site little bloated with unnecessary animations (i don't like animations much). It's okayish otherwise.

I also appreciate lightweight,page-like nature of original version of HN.
Best and worst thing about programming to me: it can be applied. Pro: I get to make good money with my “art” of choice. Con: I have to create hideous monstrosities.
As a former startup employee I wasn’t told much and that always irked me. When pivot after pivot came I could only to speculate as to why.

So, ideally, I would — and an employee of a startup — want to be told as much as possible. You likely structured my compensation with either equity or options and I’d like to know how the company is doing, and be involved in the direction, so as to put me and management in somewhat of a level playing field instead of merely a cog in the proverbial code wheel stamping out services for the business.

Salaries should be public. Job titles and descriptions and responsibilities as far as possible (lots of people wearing lots of hats in an early startup) should be public. The roadmap should be public. Again, where I say public I mean to the employees.
Python sounds like a large predatory snake.
> It doesn't mean much to call out "special support" for any one bit of style of programming, since the language itself has nearly no concept of performance -- you just write functional code and the compiler will find the fastest runtime computation of the evaluation that it can.

While GHC is glorious, it's still very limited in what it can do, performance wise.

You are right that languages themselves seldom have a direct concept of performance. But language features and restrictions have a big impact on achievable performance. Eg Haskell's purity-by-default means that the compiler has quite a bit of freedom when choosing how to translate something like eg the 'map' or 'filter' functions.

The equivalent in C++ gives the compiler less flexibility, because the helper function handed over at runtime might have side-effects.

Similarly, Haskell functions are still allowed one important side effect: non-determination. In a more restricted language like Agda that's not allowed. Thus giving the compiler more degrees of freedom to work with.

Or in a different direction: the query optimizers for SQL can do very impressive work, because SQL is so limited.
If there are any large scale positive uses of cryptocurrency, I'm sure that we would have heard of them by now; The proponents would have shouted them from the rooftops.

That said, proponents do have a shot at enlightening us (me and other viewers of the thread). What large scale positive application are you aware of?
It’s uninformed because the US has a way higher rate of positive cases per 1000 cases than the rest of the world.
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Clever use of a "HDMI-to-CSI bridge" gizmo. It allows the pi to capture the HDMI signal from the target PC using it's built-in camera interface. Allowing for boot-up / bios viewing which standard VNC doesn't give you.
Few clicks of the pencil tool and yeah, not sure what's unbelievable here
> (-/) :: A -> M c -> B

let's try to assign some meaning to this. From the get go, you know that it's a function that turns an A into a B, and it only has the information that is derivable from `M c`.

So, yes this is gibberish. But if there's a slight modification to this:

(-*/) :: A -> M c -> c

then it makes a lot of sense. Signatures are a much shorter, terser way to communicate than words (and nesting structures that LISP uses) imho.
God, reading these comments generates inspiration in me to create a pristine, beautiful language for you all to lust over. Lolol
We can't actually tell the age of death of human fossils past the time that wisdom teeth grow in. There's no way of telling whether a fossilized skeleton was 30 at death or 50 at death. Even then, we don't necessarily have a representative sample.

The Sami, as I mentioned, have been studied. They are a tribe of reindeer herders in northern Scandinavia. They eat a diet consisting of almost exclusively reindeer meat. They have lower cancer incidence than Finns (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijc.10486).

Hong Kong consumes more red meat per person than the U.S. and they have the highest life expectancy in the world:
https://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-consumption-per-capit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
Japan Acted Like the Virus Had Gone. Now It’s Spread Everywhere
And a fixed floating header. Those need to die in a fire. Does no one even look at their sites in mobile landscape?
3 million more votes to left out of only 138 million votes casted.
I just meant that BS jobs are a symptom of a society that doesn't fund creative work where it matters. If we did fund creative work better (however we did), a lot of creative people would leave their BS jobs.

As David Graeber put it, people need an "out". UBI is a good out, but well-funded meaningful creative work is another potential out for at least some people.
They look good in /g/ and Reddit desktop threads.
This idea that people would just get up and go out because the government says its ok while case numbers continue to rise is daft.

Not many people are going to willingly risk their own life or those of their parents until a vaccine is available. Contrary to popular belief, people aren’t sheep and if hospitals are filling up despite the government saying its “ok” people will just continue to stay home.
You mean the disclosure to third parties section that explicitly says "Apple does not sell personal information"?

I can't see anything in that section that says that they sell information to third parties, personally identifiable or aggregate (I would consider the latter to be "personal" data as well fwiw). Is there a specific sentence you're thinking of?

It seems to be talking about the necessary sharing of data that happens when Apple contracts with third party services to run their own business. E.g. when they ship you a product they need to provide your address to the courier company. Or when they pay an advertising company to run ads for Apple products targeting certain markets/their own existing customers (not the same thing as selling personal data to an advertiser so that they can run ads for other products using said data - that would be selling personal data)

As far as I can tell you're either using a definition of "sell" that is different to mine, or you're claiming Apple is using weaselly language to make it sound like they don't when they do (which is not unheard of of course). But you haven't provided enough information for me to really know what you're talking about - which is it, and why?

Also no, making the default search engine google is not selling personal data.
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Smartphones were a new market. The web isn't. The web is the current market, just worse in every way. You haven't addressed any of the motivation here. Why would games go to the web?

And AAA smartphone games are also non-existent anyway. AAA games are widely understood to be big budget, fancy graphics blockbusters. Those aren't on mobile today.

> Asset streaming. It's the web.

Hahahahaha this is a bad joke, right? A game's working set for a level is regularly >4GB. With reliable I/O games currently have 30-40 second load times and use asset streaming.

You can't just wave this away or pretend it's an engineering problem. You want AAA games, you pay the AAA disk sizes. And that's just not compatible with the web. Not today, not next year, and network trends here aren't that great, either. Even fiber would struggle, and next gen consoles are about to raise the requirements here well beyond even that.

And if networks are that robust, then why wouldn't we just all jump on game streaming instead and embrace the thin client life? There doesn't seem to be any room here for needing powerful local computing and needing world class internet quality?

> Basically all mass-market consumer applications will end up as web applications. You might not like that (there are certainly down-sides), but you'd need to do a lot of explaining to explain away the very clear trends that we're seeing across the industry.

Current trends are everything is a native mobile app. Apps are bigger than ever. There's no zero-sum game here as you're claiming anyway. Web isn't eating everything up.
Now I want to really learn math. Is the aesthetic experience comparable to programming? Probably greater. I need something where I can invent if I want to get my fix. As a layperson, math never scratched that itch entirely (aside from proofs which as we know are basically programming).
Where did you learn swing trading?
I wear Charles Tyrwhitt shirts.

But I’ve never seen a shirt that was literally non-iron - they still need an iron to press and put the creases back in.
This was spot on. Not sure how Tim Crook can state there is no anti trust behaviour.
I'm really not being an apologist here but how did Europe avoid this? I mean let's say Paris did everything right. Isn't this still where you end up once people venture back out?

Clearly not but I don't understand how.
of course some people will chose to stay at home, but many other will go. At very least it helps.

I want to go but I can't if the restaurant is closed.
I took a very long time to understand this! I want to share my understanding.

Say Alice's sequence converges to some rational X. You enumerated all the rationals, and X has index N. But Bob played X in turn N, because X was a legal move in turn N (in every turn even). And in turn N+1, Bob must play something smaller than X. So Alice's sequence cannot converge to X.
When my main computer was Linux laptop, I used xplanet as my desktop background. World clock, basic weather..

This was in 2003. It would get lots of interest when I was working in public places.

Which is why, somewhere over Greenland, a flight attendant came by and very quietly said to me, “I noticed you work on outer space stuff. We just got word over radio that the Space Shuttle blew up.” :-(

Very strange that the memory of that interaction would come to me about 8 hours after a more robust reentry vehicle splashed down in Florida.

http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/
It was a typo, I was grouping Outkast with the Hot Boys
The technical details do not really matter.

Many people might have my phone number, possibly from a long ago. But the number itself is pretty safe -- there is no way to tell if this phone is in use or not.

Signal breaks that assumption -- it immediately tells every other user that this number is alive, valid, and can be contacted right now.

This is a terrible idea to do by default, especially if one cannot disable it.
Does the average 16yr old hacker have access to currency in unstable countries. The average 16yr old does have access to bitcoin.

From the comment you were replying to

> we're democratizing large scale crime. Previously only large organized crime organizations could perform such an attack. Now, almost anyone can.

That seems true and the main point. That it's gotten significantly easier for anyone to do this.
With server salt version from P -> C -> S a compromised server could just steal C and still salt into S for password verification. Also it's safe on the wire or in any logs, etc.

For the multiple machines comment, that is not true. The server can generate a salt/key (or whatever it should be named in this version) and communicate it over the initial request with the login page which is then sent back along with the altered client password, de-salted/unencrypted/turned into something can be compared to the users password. Basically CSRF. You wouldn't need to store these temp salts either if you embedded a timestamp and sign it.