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> What has been happening for the past 40 years is not natural, and what banks are doing now is almost entirely driven by central banks and not some natural order resulting from the free market (which throughout history has always selected a decentralised banking system with thousands of small local banks). In my opinion we need to protect what little we have left instead of just yielding to the central planners at the Fed, the ECB etc.

Yes, we've had sustained economic growth and wealth generation to a magnitude never seen before in the history of the world (although not equitable, but that's a different policy problem).

What does it mean that its not "natural"? There is nothing "natural" about the "free market"; its a way we decide to organize resource allocation. There are other ways to do so. Central banks have prevented catastrophic economic failures in the past few decades. I think I like this system better than one which results in "natural" destruction of economy and livelihoods like what happened in the Great Depression.
The existence of biological sex is no constraint on human diversity
Haiku is made by people who love Haiku, for people who love Haiku.

Those who aren't interested in the project need not apply.
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> But with giant machines mining the graphite, logging machines cutting down trees, trucks transporting both, going to a mill and then a factory to combine them,

Okay, so how much time does it take to make a steel sword with modern techniques and machines to do all the work mentioned? If we're going to compare, we have to compare while matching as many variables as possible. At a time when almost all processing was by a person doing it, possibly with the help of a domesticated animal, how much time does it take for people to but down trees, mine graphite (or lead), harvest rubber or process petroleum into synthetic rubber, and transport all those materials to a location so they can make them into pencils.

> the amount of labor per pencil is minuscule because it gets spread out across millions of them.

And the amount of labor per steel sword is also reduced because you're making tens or hundreds of them.

A pencil still isn't ten seconds by this metric, but that doesn't matter, as the point wasn't that a pencil is as hard or harder than a steel sword to make, but that if you want to look at all those inputs going into making a sword and count the time of people cutting down trees as part of it, then it makes sense to look at that part of it for modern processes as well.

The only reason a pencil as we recognize it today (that is, not a twig with graphits, but the six sided with rubber item you imagine as the ideal of a U.S. style pencil) doesn't cost $5 or $10 or even more is because we've found ways to vastly reduce the costs of harvesting and processing those inputs.

The point of my original comment wasn't to say the person I was responding to was wrong (they were entirely correct about the reason for the cost is time and effort), but to expand on their comment and note that the complexity can also be abstracted away the same as it was back then. A sword is cheaper today than it was then for the same reason a pencil is cheaper today than it would have been then, the input components are vastly cheaper because we've found ways to harvest and process them more efficiently.
This is dumb: the author doesn't understand enlightenment at the theoretical. Plus you need to practically understand it anyways. This subject does not become easier to understand from theory.
> High intelligence isn't just a blessing.

Not only that, mental illness correlates strongly with higher IQ:
https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human...

Perhaps that's why I frequently see links about depression, bipolar etc on HN... I read so many comments about "I got burned out coding 15 hour days and then I got diagnosed with major depression and my life's been a wreck since and no one will hire me" sort of themes!
I think if people built software 100 times slower, they'd probably end up with more robust software, TLA+ or no.
Very cool. I haven't seen a very many implementations of the SMT aside from Google's. The SMT was one of my original considerations, but I found my proof-of-concept implementation required far too much hashing for insertions. It really felt like a bottle-neck. After playing around with things, I eventually switched to a base-2 trie and ultimately a base-2 radix tree.
Will the public trust a Covid-19 vaccine?
Nicely formatted math. Gui designers. Diagrams.

And personally I find tabs is the most efficient design for switching between files.
What, Chrome has autoplay on? How can anyone stand that? It reminds me of IE7 with auto-installed toolbars that took 1/3 of the screen.
Could be. But why bother with a team section, a blog, or even a site if that was the case ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Obviously, they want to be taken semi-seriously, or they wouldn’t have gone to all this effort. But they haven’t even bothered to proof read their TOS
I can understand why it's important to restrict nation state evidence but when it's obvious that nation has broken international laws and agreements like the Geneva Convention the onus should be on the judge/court to make consideration for that and be able to move it from 'criminal' to whistleblower. Otherwise we're all pretty much doomed to eventually wake up and find ourselves in a completely authoritarian state.
Mercurial is not pijul/darcs. They’re fundamentally different at the core.
How important is it to discover new bugs? Surely any large production system already has a backlog of tons of known ones. So if I want to fix bugs in my system, I can just go to the issue tracker and pick one.
> master fire

To be fair, I don't think tigers were visited by Prometheus nor did they benefit from his sacrifice to humans!

Sorry, I'll see my way out...
No worries, I appreciate you sharing your experience!

I feel like I'd get the same distractions everywhere in suburbia (and I am in suburban Palo Alto): constant delivery vans rumbling into the yard, lawn care teams with gas-powered leaf blowers at my apartment, adjacent apartment, across the road, people who idle their pickup trucks under my windows day and night, a Roto-Rooter van that shows up to the neighbors over and over, people who shout obscenities out the window while playing COD at night, the neighbor with an outdoor punching bag, and so on.

I find even an office with an open floorplan far more peaceful and quiet. I'll take the first opportunity I can, responsibly, take to work from an office or coworking space.

By comparison, 2008 was barely a blip on the radar for me. Stressful, but I wasn't crawling up the walls the way I feel I am now.
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I looked at Swift a bit recently, for no reason I can remember, and was quite pleasantly surprised. A decent type system, mostly-sane memory management and error handling, easy ways to call out to C - System will make that even better - seems to do OK on performance and library support. It doesn't seem like any kind of breakthrough, but nothing wrong with having another solid choice on the menu.
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Reminds me a bit of certain lawmakers in the US who keep pushing variants of the same laws over and over again. When all it takes is one crack in the gates, it makes sense to keep prodding.
The payments are already controlled by the central bank. How do you think a bank moves money to another?

If the financial system is a tree, the root node is the central bank, the second level nodes are the private banks and in the next level are the business and households.

By the way, this perspective makes clear that banks are not "only another business" as we hear sometimes.
Yes! : ). I came here to remind everyone about chopping water and carrying wood as well ; ).

I'd add that, imho, the aphorism means, enlightenment isn't an answer to the struggles of your material existence, or even your own unhappiness, from whatever source.

Enlightenment is just enlightenment, it's not a magic happy pill which makes you no longer a flawed human being.
The thing is, Jobs actually replicated everything. It's just that he repackaged it in a way that is more accessible to people, redesigned it to look more fashionable and clean, and closely guarded the ecosystem.

The iPod came after digital Walkmans, the iWatch came after Pebble, the iPhone came after Blackberrys.

Apple's position in the market is a fashion company, much like Rolex or Gucci, and not exactly the first company I would think of in terms of technological innovation.
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This is funny. Need more inside engineering jokes...
It is about the message. My messages are full of typos and grammar errors But I would ask for right things, choose right level of technical jargon and cut through bullshit.

I think a lot of coding is about writing for the computer and your future self/team. You want to favor simple and easy to understand. For non-native speaker is not obvious when to use remove vs delete. For me writing/language skill is a problem.
How do we, users, makers and managers alike, move away from this awful state of affairs? Some random ideas:

- If anyone manages to build some truly fantastic software for massive numbers of end users, maybe those users will start expecting a higher bar for other software. Consider for example search engines pre/post Google. Naive search engines just don't exist anymore, because they were several orders of magnitude less efficient at getting useful responses. So that was a sea change. (Unfortunately monetization, SEO, sabotage and things like ignoring search keywords have resulted in search engines regressing in the last several years.)

- Long term design. Commercial software seems to be redesigned massively every few years, which is terrible UX. On the other hand, the vast majority of F/LOSS is designed once and either never changes again or just gets added to until it drowns in clutter. Even though the latter is caused at least in part by a lower budget, and often ends up being pretty bad UX-wise, I actually prefer it. One good balance is Amazon's web site. From a quick glance it looks like everything is where it was a decade ago, and overall it just looks familiar.

- UI convergence. Web browsers have converged so strongly that being able to do things like navigating and filling in a form in a completely unfamiliar browser is very likely to succeed. And browsers are so enormously popular that they have set expectations for how UIs work in other software.

- Quality assurance in all its myriad forms. A lot of energy is being spent touting the One True Silver Bullet, when in reality every approach has diminishing returns and shortfalls. If you use only manual tests every version is going to have more bugs than the last, because you don't have $MM to spend testing every single detail for every release. If you only use integration tests the suite is eventually going to run for longer than your release cycle and will be skipped and trimmed in ways which mean you'll miss bugs. If you only use unit tests you can only release fizzbuzz-size chunks reliably. And so on. Instead use every technique you know of until you hit similar diminishing returns for each of them.
I would just like to point out that nearly all CLIs are REPLs, since the shell itself is designed to implement this interface.
I’ve had flu about 6 times in my life (I mean real flu, not sniffles/cold) and even when I was younger, a 5-day recovery would have been a miracle. For me it’s 2 weeks to feel normal, at a minimum!
That was touched on in the article:

> Some of the ideas found in these distributions may well merit inclusion in Emacs, but that does not happen. Emacs maintainer Eli Zaretskii complained that the creators of these distributions do not contribute their work back.

If the changes aren't being contributed back, any gain from them is lost for users of the default system. Creating an unnecessary fork within the user base, especially where the changes could be enabled via a configuration change (start with default, but prompt at first run to go to Doom Emacs or Spacemacs).
Compassion is a common characteristic of enlightenment. If you are still marred in duality you think there is a other. In the enlightened state there really is no difference between all forms of existence.
Seconded. It kind of looks like one of those domain parking pages with the random links.

And I say this not to be particularly rude, but as someone who literally did exactly this on a website once. The draft landing page had a bunch of multicolored drawers with text in them, and when I was done, I was like, “wait..... dammit.”

Went with a more standard landing page layout for the next draft and felt a lot better.
Not sure. That would be an interesting thing to study. There are definitely civilizations that died or declined because they cut off most of their trees. Indonesia, Athens and even the Dutch are examples of those. But that is mostly attributed to the inability to built ships.
Did you get shocked at all? I'm trying to understand what the return path for the current would be in this situation.
Can you say more about how you use eval() during prototyping?
> emacs use is in 16th place for editor popularity at ~4.5% usage, but has stayed close to that number for years.

It is possible that "Stack Overflow surveys" select for programmers who tend not to use Emacs. For example, I use Emacs regularly and know what Stack Overflow is, but have never taken one of these surveys.

I'm not even sure how they survey developers. Ask on some crufty mailing list and you probably will get a completely different distribution from the one they showed.
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I've used Emacs for 33 of those 40+ years, and I agree with that until the word "without".

You don't mean "modernization". You mean "without it changing". And the answer is yes, it will die out.
>Rust serves a niche market of systems programming that is so security focused that C/C++ just won't do. It's not useful for anything else (at least not anymore than Haskell is useful for anything besides university projects, in the real world at least).

You could call Java is niche for the same reason. Some of us want to write native, low overhead code in a language that has a sane design (only disparaging C++ here). It's about time C++ had more alternatives.
This is a poorly-worded argument, and I’m not surprised they lost. I’m no fan of domain squatters or speculators, but spase.io doesn’t pass the burden of proof here. Is is annoying that someone is sitting on spase.com for many years and refusing to do anything with it except sell it to someone who will pay their premium? Yes. Is that illegal. Ehhhh.
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This reminds me of the sci-fi short story in the book “Exhalation” called: “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate”.
The biggest turn off for pijul right now is I can’t install it. I try cloning the latest source from the Nest, and it crashes partway through. The crashing is probabilistic, but the repo is large enough that it is guaranteed to happen. This problem has existed unfixed for a year and a half.

This does not instill confidence.
But those same owners failed to mention the landfill during the handover
Usage of BIL Gates in gene therapy - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcriptor

The possibilities boggle my mind
> in four years they will have a year’s salary saved up.

That assumes no unexpected expenditure though? Any medical emergency (and even a lot of non-emergencies) in the US (from what I've seen) would blow those savings quickly. Also car problems, child problems, storm damaging the house/apartment, any number of things can swallow those savings quickly and you're back to square one.
Reevaluate that for the US.
No, there are tons of regular office computers and even home computers that run XP. Industrial computers in China would actually be running fairly up to date OS's compared to, say, US.
It's legal where I live; ymmv
Ditto for Python, you can not use the type hints/don't run MyPy.

OTOH, by skipping typing you lose a lot of guardrails and won't discover bugs until runtime.
I've personally known 2 Emacs users in my ~15 years in the industry. I've worked in Europe for various startups and a bunch of corporations. Both of them used it as a sort of hobby/side editor, their main money maker was an IDE (VS, IntelliJ).

I've probably worked with 500 developers, if not more.

My personal impression is that Emacs is like the Yeti of programming editors. Everybody has heard about it, few claim to have seen it and even fewer still can claim to have proof of the sighting :-)
Depends on what "discover" means. In the sense that Hillel is speaking of here, it probably means more like: Discover the bug exists and also discover, to a very high degree of certainty if not absolute certainty, the location of the bug in the code base.

That discovery is actionable, many other bug discoveries are not without further investigation.
If everyone obeys the traffic laws, everyone saves time, every process in the country is more efficient, everyone is wealthier and safer.

There are a ton of second order effects:

+ Considerably fewer accidents, meaning more efficient use of medical staff.
+ Considerably cheaper insurance (all things being equal)

And tons of 3rd order effects:

+ A completely chaotic transportation system means it's probably difficult to transport a lot of things efficiently - and certain industrial systems may not be possible.

+ If people don't generally obey traffic rules, there are probably a ton of situations wherein driving would be literally too dangerous. The example is Germany: where they are very well socialized and follow the rules (even in auto making and quality) they can drive a zillion miles an hour on the highway, still relatively safely. You can't do that unless everyone plays the game.

'Intelligent Social Organization' is literally the foundation of civilization.

It's not 'natural resources' that make us rich, it's our institutions, intergenerational intelligence and 'rules' of various kinds: social, legal, cultural upon which the former two artifacts depend.

The irony of the parable is that the 'traffic cheater' may be doing something he 'needs to do' but it's that very activity which is limiting he and his own community's ability to be successful.
I have been out of the ecosystem for a while, but use Ruby frequently. So the 3x3 is coming along? More up to date places I could see benchmarks or similar?

Note: I have been using Roda with Ruby 2 and it is pretty fast. Can't wait to see what it would be with 3x3.
They probably just send a newsletter to StackOverflow users :-)
I've been checking out alternative text editors, and was recently impressed with micro[1].

The only issue I have with it is that it doesn't handle text navigation with the Ctrl + arrow key combinations that let you jump to the start and end of words.

There's a small revival of modernized text-based apps now that Go and Rust gained adoption. I've even come across an editor written in Nim, called moe[2].

Are there other editors out there that are worth trying out?

[1] https://github.com/zyedidia/micro

[2] https://github.com/fox0430/moe/
Firefox does... and I can't turn it off. The websites, especially news sites, completely and utterly override the "off" settings for autoplay in firefox. And the dev team keeps changing the way those options are named as well as confusingly having a bunch of similarly named options. I'm confident that they're doing it on purpose because autoplay off hurts ad serving and it also probably pisses off traditional media sites trying to turn our browsers into TV's from the 90's blasting at us.

I misworded my original. I wanted to say, I'm considering moving off Firefox, but not to Chrome.
Enlightenment is an event, not a state. And it can happen multiple times. Whether you view it as samadhi or kensho or satori.
It's a think tank: https://greatdemocracyinitiative.org/about/

Lindsay Owens - ... Senior Economic Policy Advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warren...

Suzanne Kahn, Deputy Director - ... Director of the Great Democracy Initiative ...

Julie Margetta Morgan - ... served as a senior counsel to Senator Elizabeth Warren...

Ganesh Sitaraman - ... professor of law at Vanderbilt University ...

Anna N. Smith - ... supports the Education, Jobs, and Worker Power program for the Roosevelt Institute ...
I also recall 3D touch being almost entirely removed at this point.
A federal agency just got completely pwned for real
Interesting.... 3 doctors I’ve had and some sleep specialists didn’t know or recommend correct dosage
That may be the case. The OP was just struggling to think of anything mainstream in that range of revenue share.
even if 10% went to them.. this is 1998.. it is a lot of money back back then (more than 99% of people will make in their life time) and is a lot of money now.
https://greatdemocracyinitiative.org/about/

>The Great Democracy Initiative is housed at the Roosevelt Institute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Institute
There is not reason why the Federal Reserve can't do the same that the Bank of Japan if they choose so.
> I’m old enough to remember a time when developers couldn’t “escape” Internet Explorer 5. It took years of guerrilla but slowly things changed (yeah yeah, MS dropped the ball, but even after they picked it up FF was doing just fine).

Google also advertised Firefox on their home page.
From a legal standpoint, not exactly. For instance, people in the US are prohibited from buying alcohol until 21yo. Do you consider that restriction also unprecedented and unjustified? :)
For those that may not have noticed, the article provides a link to a good document by Kennth Hodges with a list of prices for medieval items. http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.html

If a fourteenth century charcoal burner was 3 pence a day (3d), then his daily wage could buy:

- 6 chickens

- half a goose

- one shoe (half a pair)

- 2 gallons of medium ale

- about a gallon of very cheap wine

- 1 spade and shovel
I don't really buy the argument I'm afraid.

I've been an Emacs user for over 20 years. I like it, and find it productive. But it's stuck in a rut, in a very similar manner to Perl 5. If that isn't addressed, it will fade into the background. I'd argue that's already happened. None of my coworkers in any of the jobs I've worked in have used it, and that includes academia and various industries. It seems to be restricted to the uber-nerds who find out about it and go through the pain of learning how to drive it effectively. I used to use it for everything, from GNUS to org-mode, but my usage is declining.

The keybindings need to be fixed. CUA has been the norm for what, 35 years at this point. C-y is paste. C-z minimises the window (WTF!) C-_ is undo. It's not just nonstandard and counterintutive, it's unnecessarily nonstandard and counterintuitive. They aren't more efficient, they aren't more effective. It's a barrier to adoption which doesn't need to be there. It has a certain familiarity for us long-time users, but that's about it. Every other application uses something based on CUA, so it's not like we couldn't switch over.

While I certainly wouldn't want a "GNOME 3" type of makeover, where all the actual userbase are cast aside to be replaced by a hypothetical potential userbase which doesn't actually exist, I do think it's well worth a look at present-day alternatives and to make sure it doesn't fall behind. Because I think it actually has fallen behind, and it needs to get its act together to retain its relevance.

Recently I got a personal JetBrains subscription and started using CLion. While I still miss many little small features, there are quite a number of big features which Emacs doesn't attempt to do, and so the small annoyances are worth it for those large benefits. Emacs needs to be able to do better than this to not only keep up, but to do better than its competitors.