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Ehh, this has mainly only been true since Catalina dropped 32 bit support. Although I still run a quad core G5 with 16GB RAM and 2x1TB SSDs to run Logic Pro 9 and a legacy version of Pro Tools I have a license to, amongst tons of PPC only VSTs.

However, the dropping of 32-bit support was low, inexcusable, and just an overall dick move to the hardcore audio enthusiasts more than any other single demographic of MacOS users. What a backhanded move to a demographic they diligently worked so hard for years to retain and create a user base for.

I've been using Apple products for about 16 years. More or less, due to sticking with Mojave, other than a few things I prefer on my G5, I can use those same tools today. The disappointing thing is since Catalina, alone; that's no longer the case.

Pre-Catalina, I could state by experience your statement would be unequivocally untrue. Catalina needlessly makes me have to reconsider using the MacOS platform. For shame. Even if you're transitioning to ARM, there is no need to pointlessly deprecate what already works in the meantime. Just drop 32 bit support for ARM. Come on, guys. You're making a dedicated user of 15 years lose her faith, here. :/

You have taken a platform with an already limited amount of software and willingly decreased the amount of available software significantly with what you have called an upgrade. I can't possibly understand.
Still no 16x10 screens. Welcome to the failbin.
“Wrong Way” Corrigan being a notable exception.
Huh! I didn't realise it had changed. We took exams in both years when I took it.
Thanks!

I haven't really experienced the image feature, as I used Scheme. It doesn't sound like it would be consequential to how I program, but that might just be my ignorance of it.

My experience with the macro stuff is that they enable in-house implementation of language features like lazy evaluation (not possible in other languages without a lot of extra code), which we implemented during the course. But implementing features like that is not really something I need to do for my everyday programming.
Oh no, I love the weird extreme hippie aliens. And the strong worker and consumer protections. It's the Hollywood and the Disney and the Dot-com bros I'm avoiding at exactly those other costs.

That plus the completely unsustainable water situation that I refuse to be a part of worsening.
Every Day 10k People Die Due to Air Pollution from Fossil Fuels
You don't.

Flow state is reserved for creation/expression of large pieces of work. Manager work usually consists of smaller pieces and connecting them or making sure they work properly with lots of context switching. Can't flow there.
>Rents are down, so that will eventually attract people back.

Rents themselves don't attract people. Jobs do. Many jobs now don't require people to be physically present in a large city.
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Most multiple choice math problems can be completely circumvented by simply finding the digital root of the expression in the problem. I was surprised to find this to be true, even on college entrance exams.
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It’s certainly a conspiracy theory, and I’d call it unlikely, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it ridiculous. Much worse things have been known to happen in business.
Wow. Very interesting. Hope it can be upgraded to 3
I look forward to the opportunity to live in community with other people who value liberty, in spite of the increased risks.

Others are (and should be!) free to live in fear and isolation.

Let’s see how it works out in a few generations.
I used to! The dry-cleaner shut down as did 8/10 restaurants (This is in Northern Austin). All the chains stayed open, so I guess that is something?
Starting with the 2010 introduction of the A* grade, the proportion of grades awarded has been almost constant (25% A/A*, 25% B, 25% C).
This is in contrast to the consistent 'grade inflation' visible for the previous twenty years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_inflation#UK_A-Level_cla...
Performing arithmetic per se is not impressive. A calculator can do it and the rules of arithmetic are not so complex that they can't be hand-coded, as they are, routinely. The extraordinary claim in the GPT-3 paper is that a language model is capable of performing arithmetic operations, rather than simply memorising their results [1]. Language models compute the probabilities of a token to follow from a sequence of tokens and in particular have no known ability to perform any arithmetic, so if GPT-3, which is a language model, were capable of doing something that it is not designed to do, then that would be very interesting indeed. Unfortunately, such an extraordinary claim is backed up with very poor evidence, and so amounts to nothing more than invoking magick.

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[1] From the paper linked above:

In addition, inspection of incorrect answers reveals that the model often makes mistakes such as not carrying a “1”, suggesting it is actually attempting to perform the relevant computation rather than memorizing a table.

Now that I re-read this I'm struck by the extent to which the authors are willing to pull their results this way and that to force their preferred interpretation on them. Their model answers two-digit addition problems correctly? It's learned addition! Their model is making mistakes? It's because it's actually trying to compute the answer and failing! The much simpler explanation, that their model has memorised solutions to a few problems but there are many more it hasn't even seen, seems to be assigned a very, very low prior. Who cares about such a boring interpration? Language models are few shot learners! (once trained with a few billion examples that is).
Why does the USPS have a group that thinks about blockchain? If it exists what is this group ?
I meant relatively. We outsource a lot more to India. But my main point was that South American countries aren't making a significant dent in New Yorkers' wages.
In human language I think physical reality is always a few layers out. Language is social, first and foremost, and naming something is not neutral. We can hardly refer to single objects directly, we mostly do it through their class membership, which always, always include a whole range of associations, reductions, metaphor, etc. that are cultural.
These are fine for techies. Non-techies prefer the Facebook “Post” button (or whatever it’s labelled today).
Ask HN: Micropayment platform to support businesses during Covid-19
Hi All,

The economic outlook now and what seems likely in the future, does not look good for small business owners. Already their revenue is down significantly and some landlords are not willing to reduce rents to assist them to survive.

I want people to be able to help local businesses in their area even if I can't visit them due to lockdown, the business must close temporarily due to lockdown or related circumstances, or the consumers' reduction in income prevents them from visiting and spending money in-store.

Is there a currently available micropayment platform that can allow people to nominate a maximum contribution value ($)for a period (week, fortnight, month etc), and have that divided among several nominated businesses in that period? Say someone with reduced income that still wants to support their local businesses can have a fixed spend (certainty), and divide that among many receivers, with minimal friction.

This is in contrast to how a lot of these platforms operate, where the individual must seek and make payment to each individual recipient, usually at pre-defined amounts per receiver, bringing the total spend up and not allowing consumers to support multiple recipients due to the cost.

If there isn't such a platform currently existing, do you guys/gals think this is viable?

Edit: removed duplicate word.
Some economists think negative interest rates can work. I for one look forward to having a mortgage where the bank pays me every month.
If anyone does want to convert Wordpress pages to static pages then WP2Static seems to be the best option https://wp2static.com They even list alternative tools that are better in certain use cases https://wp2static.com/alternatives/

You might not be able to find it as a plugin, the author made a deliberate decision to delist the plugin from wordpress.org https://staticword.press/t/removal-of-wp2static-from-wordpre...
> Or to put it another way, for things like utility grids and high speed rail, a national level system in the US is comparable to a pan-european system that includes everything from Lisbon, to Oslo, to Bucharest and Belgrade and Istambul.

Which is exactly what exists, and what the Baltic states are joining: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continen...

It doesn't go as far north as Oslo, but does include Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
Isn't this quite old?
This first thing I'd expect to see is how it compares to LFE (Lisp flavored Erlang) and Clojerl.
Hopefully one gets picked and then tooling can get worked on -- although I know the language itself is always the fun part.
I strongly agree that the whole point is workflow more than anything else. I use my Octatrack like a DAW so I don't even need a computer. My computer is more like a digital "tape" machine nowadays.

My Machinedrum and Monomachine are to my left and right. :)
I think part of the problem is because you were previously used to GitHub Pages with Jekyll, you were trying to use a new (but old) tool (Wordpress) with GitHub Pages and it's not a great fit for it. I'm sure it's possible somehow, but it wouldn't be straightforward. Just conceptually I'm not sure how it would even work: GH Pages is for hosting static sites (AFAIK) and WordPress uses a DB and dynamically writes posts. So I'm guessing you're trying to do a setup where you locally run WP, write from the WP interface, saves posts in your local Mysql DB, and then generate a static site (html files output) and pushing those files into a GitHub repo?

It's a roundabout way to publish to a web site to say the least. If Jekyll has enough issues where you need to tweak its config in Ruby every time you want to write, you could try a different static site generator (e.g. Hugo for golang, or Miner [1] for Svelte. Disclaimer: I worked on Miner.).

I think the product you're looking for is a static site generator + the use of a client-only WYSIWYG markdown editor that connects to your git repo via OAuth and lets you write on a good UI instead of plain text markdown files. The SSG is one of above; unfortunately I don't have a recommendation or know of a client-only WYSIWYG MD editor with git OAuth integration.

1: https://github.com/bigicoin/miner
while you are right for a tl;dr, from the article, the feeling I'm getting is more that those are known unknowns only now for the author, and they were unknown unknowns at the beginning.

The fact that each moving part wp needds is tricky in its own way doesn't make the experience better if you are encountering them for the first time :)

The author was probably not aware how complicated set of dependencies (moving parts) wordpress needs compared to jekyll. Which is fair if from the outside the two seem to be products in the same category.
Seriously? Can you explain the mechanism? 'cos that sounds like - well, numerology, to be honest.
Yeah I could totally see that. It’s a conversation me and my wife have been having a lot lately. I’m thinking about moving out of SF myself. Probably Oregon or Washington but we haven’t made any decisions yet. We want to see how the world looks after the elections in November.
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Yes.

I linked to it because it touched on BGP optimisation techniques, and illustrates the dangers of automatically passing on each update.

Is there a better link to a public postmortem that illustrates these problems in a datacenter context? When we were operating the Facebook Moonshot project we found that even internally in controlled datacenters, at a scale less than Amazon's, there is plenty of diversity
> iOS for example, is technically perfectly capable of supporting this kind of extensibility, but the App Store model limits it to a few narrow and specific use-cases

Injecting third-party code into a third-party app that has to deal with DRM sounds like a recipe for disaster.
I agree with this in general. I'm not sure how it bolsters or refutes what I said.

The premise I was responding to is that noting change in inventory will show much larger swings if there's relatively few units on the market, and that may be a poor indicator of what's going on.

Simplified, it's the difference between a market of 100 units of this 10 are avaiable inventory, and seeing an increase of 3 units (30% raise in available inventory) and a a market of 100 units that has 1 unit available and sees an increase of 2 units (200% increase in available inventory). There was an increase in inventory, and it helps, but probably not as much as 200% would lead one to believe.

The article itself noted the latter was the case in SF as there was "unusually low inventory" compared to other cities beforehand. Of course the difference is going to look outsized, in that case.

> if the prior non-occupancy rate was very low, you'd expect a shock that doubles the rate (say, 5% -> 10%) to lead to perhaps a larger price change than in a less tight market (such as 10% -> 15%)

That depends on so many other factors that I think you can't easily generalize like that for housing. If the inventory is still very low, and now instead of being uber-rich you just need to be very-rich, you're still so constrained in your potential customers that the price range may not change significantly, or if you're still catering to a class of people that do or don't traditionally commute, or if the price is hovering near the break even for a lot of people for commuting vs living local, or whether the work in the area that many of the potential customers does can be done remotely (as these articles are about), etc. Housing is one of the most complicated markets, and there are numerous counterexamples of the exact opposite happening to what you describe
Unless you need a place to live now, especially during WFH craziness related to COVID...

Also, Trump or even his successor might juice the economy quantitative easing, meaning that cash you are saving in the bank becomes worth less anyways. This isn’t an easy decision to make.
I think this is where DAT and siblings come in.

If the network hosted “just your machine”, then your website (or whatever published content you have) would disappear when your machine shut down for the night.
We should not forget the military implication of these aircraft. These were not peaceful soaring propaganda machines. A craft that could fly for days, remain aloft across the vast pacific, would have been seen as an ideal reconnaissance platform for spotting approaching fleets. In the skies of the 1930s pacific theater speed was secondary to range and reliability. If they turned and ran, even the most powerful fighters of the time would have had trouble running them down before running out of fuel themselves.
I personally believe the 1000 is the last MPC built that's worth having. And fortunately it's one of the most affordable.
A healthcare system that doesn't bankrupt hundreds of thousands of people a year would also be a good start.

It turns out to be very hard to handle health risks politically rather than medically. Most early deaths are caused by cancer and heart disease, and both are preventable. Covid is terrible, but in terms of death toll it's not in the same league as the regular killers.

When it comes to avoidable death, this supposedly enlightened and scientifically educated culture actually operates at Victorian levels of public health. Obesity and poor nutrition are at epidemic levels and there's barely any formal cultural awareness of the political and social problems caused by emotional stressors, personality disorders, and other forms of psychological illness promoted by toxic workplace conditions and both social and mainstream media.
yes, but due to docker networking overhead (supposing you are using a volume on the host, as you should).
The problem there is that all Amazon stock is comingled. There isn't a difference between sold by Amazon and third-party FBA. It all gets sorted under the same UPC/SKU.

Amazon is attempting to be a physical CDN, and that's bad news when what you're looking for is a guarantee that some product will be delivered from some specific seller to you after getting comingled.

Normally, that isn't much of an issue when you've got procurement going sanely.

When it is predated by fake/damaged good sellers predominantly though is where you run into problems.
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Good question!

As you say SHRDLU was the best program of that time.

I've read Winnograd's book and looked at the SHRDLU source code (not that I'm much of a lisp hacker but I got some time). It's built-on a parser and planner (logic program, pre-prolog). And it's built the old-fashioned-way, rewriting the source code with the parser rewriting input and then re-rerunning and other harry things. I think this achieves the parsing of idiomatic constructions on a high level. I believe the "raw lisp" of the day was both incredibly powerful since you could do anything and incredibly hard to scale ... you could do anything.

Winnograd wrote it himself but I think that's because he had to write it himself. In a sense, a programmer is always most productive when they are writing something by themselves because they don't have to explain anything they are doing (until the fix-ups and complexity overwhelm them but the base fact remains). And in the case of SHRDLU, Winnograd would have had an especially hard time explaining what he was doing. I mean, there was a theory behind - I've read Winnograd's book. But there was lots and lots of brilliant spaghetti/glue-code to actually make it work, code that jumped module and function boundaries. And the final had a reputation of being very buggy, sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't. And Winnograd was a brilliant programmer and widely read in linguistics and other fields.

The software industry is an industry. No company wants to depend on the brilliance of it's workers. A company needs to produce based on some sort of average and a person working with just average skills isn't going to do SHRDLU.

So, yeah, I think that's why actual commercial programs never reached the level of SHRDLU
I would say those two examples are incomparable to what is available in the Bay Area in terms of outdoor recreation access.
Except that textbook rentals have been a thing since before the internet.
This isn't really true... it only applies to units that were built before a certain year (1979). If you are in any kind of modern unit / luxury unit as noted by GP, then this won't hold.

However, most landlords in non-managed buildings are fairly reasonable about only raising rent 2-5% a year. Your mileage may vary.
That leaves the question of who you are and why your opinion matters then. You could be a rogue GPT-3 experiment for all any of us know.
Here’s one from 2017: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-amt-patch-may-8,3434...

Connected to Ethernet (with Intel hardware), but doesn’t need to be turned on. Must have vPro and AMT enabled.
So far I haven’t seen a usecase that absolutely needs a blockchain either. I mean one that can only be addressed by a blockchain and will fall apart without it. But many people have used it as a general enough hammer to hit every nail they can find with it. As last it as people make money on it, even hypothetical money, it’s going to stay popular.
I meant the question from the parent of my parent comment - they asked how they could access the book if the website ever went down? Seems to imply it’s only available as a webpage while your server is up.

For me, books are really useful as pdfs as I can load them into eink readers. Easier on the eyes.
I’m reminded of communications between Sega of America and Sega of Japan noted in console wars, where SoA would make a suggestion, and SoJ world respond “Ok”. The former understood that to be agreement, the latter was stating it as acknowledgment. Even though they were speaking the same language, their understanding was different and getting in the way.
I have devops engineers who need something to do otherwise they'll quit and move on to other companies that are working with kubernetes.

I think ^^^ the above is the main thing driving adoption. It's a real social engineering problem. Many engineers like to work with the latest and greatest.
Very nice read. I love history and was using the web fairly early, before that Gopher and such.

The mind expanding concept of putting images, in cells of a table to create layout really captured my imagination. I remember sitting with my brother creating 3x3 table, fancy border with content in the middle cell. Heady times.
Yes, I will have to pass the leetcode bar, which has very little to do with my actual value add. I understand that’s how it works, I have friends who hire for some of these companies, but thanks for explaining.

I strongly dislike having that bar, because I think it is irrational to use it as the baseline hoop everyone has to jump through. And honestly because it’s not my strongest suit, I’m sure I’d be less bothered if it was something I’m good at and your average fresh CS grad is not. Which is kinda how we ended up here I think.
In my case, it just seems architected entirely backward, because of an accident of history that was LAMP and the only options at the time for having any kind of software running "on the internet" that could provide an authoring interface. The authoring software and its database and all the security surfaces and performance and cost associated with those should only be incurred when author changes are being made, not 24/7 when people are viewing content that isn't changing. The viewing experience can (and should) closely resemble a CDN of static pre-rendered documents, possibly plus thin edge-worker type logic around interactive features like comments or form submissions.
>I think your response would be unfair.

I don't think so. The author actually gave themselves a weird goal - to use Wordpress as the text editor, and export/copy the static content to github. I'm not sure why they would do that, but OK! In the end, their problem wasn't with the workflow but with setting up local version of Wordpress (why? why not use a hosted version of Wordpress????), PHP, Apache, MySQL and FTP(!!).

WordPress isn't actually that hard to setup. It's a little harder on Windows, because setting up PHP on Windows just isn't as natural as on Linux but XAMPP makes it as easy as possible.

>Should 'blog writing' software really have such a greater barrier of entry?

But it doesn't. You have a plethora of (free) hosted blogging solutions. You could also get private hosting with the LAMP stack already pre-installed and configured.
Nor did I make any claim about our current democracies being democracies (though "no say" is an exaggeration).
Did you pick Dubuque because of the IBM shop there?
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They already have. And at the time it was being developed and gathering momentum, some plausibility as a thin defense of it was helpful. Why go through that process again now when the existing system is already firmly in place?
On reflection Nvidia actually have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to favour their own products in this scenario.
'PEP'?
Some wasm runtimes, eg V8 and Spider monkey, do tiered compilation, where all code is first compiled with a high throughput streaming compiler, and then only the hot paths get recompiled with an optimizing compiler.