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Setting aside for the moment that optics themselves are (edit: in many implementations, at least) just functions, albeit of a somewhat different flavor than `printCatsBelongingToStaff`...

Functional programmers (of the Haskell bent, at least) would prefer that they not have to write printCatsBelongingToStaff, printCatsBelongingToCustomers, printCatsBelongingToChildrenOfStaff, printDogsBelongingToStaff, renameCatsBelongingToStaff, &c. They would instead prefer to write print, rename, staff, customers, cats, dogs (or perhaps just pets, with an ability to discriminate between cats and dogs...), children, and compose. They would also prefer to write these functions in such a way that the computer (rather than the human) can analyze the resulting compositions and guarantee that they operate in the way you would expect (with "expect" being precisely codified between the types of the functions and a succinct set of laws).

The big picture here is that computers are much faster and more consistent in their checking ability than humans, so the more things we can encode in our programs in a computer-checkable way, or in laws that we can prove are preserved under composition, the more reliable our software will be on whole.
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I got out three playing cards and did the experiment myself over and over. That was many years ago and now whenever I see something on the Monty Hall problem it seems so obvious as if I can no longer even see why people think its unintuitive. The reason its unintuitive is that people don't really have experience with anything that works this way. I'm not sure that the linked explanation will be that helpful to people because of that, although it does make it plainly obvious that Monty Hall knows which door has the prize and he's telegraphing to you which door it might be by only opening doors which don't have it in there. I suppose if that's the missing part of the puzzle for you, then that will help.
I've had issues understanding the Monty Hall problem for years until now. What made it click was that, at the end of the article, it's explained that the doors are not opened by Monty at random. My previous reads about the problem did not disclose this, so I had made the assumption that the door opening was random. I've also never seen the show, for what it's worth.
It's not a "scale" prototype since it has a different configuration from the passenger jet: https://aviationvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Boom-Te...

It'd be scale if it was the exact aircraft except every linear dimension was shrunk down. But having a different number of windows, different inlets etc. makes it a smaller concept demonstrator.
This is more likely to be true in the case of options or shares of private companies, but for public companies the value of the equity can at least be determined.
> A weaker claim could be that Google's usage does not conform to the GPL.

At the time at issue, Java wasn't under the GPL. That Google did not have a (public offer or private) license to Java is not in dispute.
I completely agree. They're not as reliable as buttons. A single failure breaks everything. They're not particularly robust to temperature extremes. I can't use them by touch alone. They don't work with gloves.

In fact, the reliance on a touch screen is why I've stricken Tesla off the list while shopping for an EV. I currently drive an old BMW and I love the interface. There are physical buttons for everything and there's no unnecessary fluffy stuff.

The most-modern vehicle I've driven whose interface I've liked was a Skoda Fabia.
The article doesn't actually say that the union is responsible for employees getting severance packages. The closest thing to a direct effect of the union is that some union members were offered a buy-out package to quit.
It is improving performance for EVERYONE. They just published the stats for their own stack so people can compare.
>Tesla is no BMW or Porsche

O, please. I own both BMW and Tesla, and while BMW is more refined car, service and quality miles better with Tesla. BMW gets obscure error codes, and then dealership lazily tries to fix it for weeks (this year BMW spent 7 weeks at the shop, last year 3 weeks). Tesla needs service, technician comes and fixes it on your driveway!
> is your first point "you need mass to have time. Massles particles don't experience time" a fringe concept?

The way it is stated, yes.

A correct statement of an innocuous truth of relativity is that the concept of "elapsed time" doesn't apply to massless particles at all. It only applies to particles that travel on timelike worldlines, and massless particles travel on null worldlines.

However, that correct statement does not imply either that massless particles don't experience time, or that you need mass to have time. Null worldlines in different directions can be used to define time.
Competition saddens me. I've always found it boring. Most often it doesn't lead to growth or betterment. I prefer creation and understanding to it.

There is much to explore, plenty of new things to invent, plenty of stories to share.

Our elites have successfully failed. They cornered themselves into zero-sum games where they pocket all the wins. You don't have a choice anymore but to compete or die.

Every creation gets corrupted to bring the level down to tic-tac-toe. Hopefully creators can still see the stars when they die in the gutter.
If it’s all just plain text, you could just put it on GitHub / gitlab and edit the files from the built in “raw” editors.
> This is pretty much the opposite of their stated strategy, which is to make money off services

I’m sure their internal strategy is to make money on the hardware, software and services. Basically everything. As Apple has shown, it’s not necessarily the worst plan.
The proprietary memory card is going to be necessary for storing/accessing new titles designed to make use of their Velocity Architecture, any old external will do for games Xbox One or back-compatible games.
> OpenJDK, including the java standard library, is GPL. It's open source.

The code at issue is pre-OpenJDK, and wasn't open source when used (though much of it may now also be available in OpenJDK, not that Google uses it under the GPL, or claims to, anyhow.)
Transpacific and trans-hemisphere super sonic flights would be an interesting. the demand to fly to Asia from North America is likely higher than currently observed due to lack of interest in 12-24 hour flights.

With careful planning the fastest I can get to Australia/New Zealand is ~18-24 hours flight time - on a 10 day vacation that's ~40% of my vacation time including recovery from an 18 hour flight. I'd be fine flying 6 hours to the west coast then hopping on a supersonic flight for a 2-3x premium ( still expensive, but worthwhile every few years ).
Interesting, my German friends do it to me sometimes and I'm very grateful for it.
I don't know who, and I agree that in theory they could.

In practice though, I fear, they will be overtaken by parasites, will advance bureaucratic BS, political opinions, protections for people who game the system, start mandating nonsense technological choices, hurt the efficiency, and just drive the well-paying industry into a ground, forcing capital to just move software companies into places that are better for business.
I was going to mention that actually! Most of my FG days were with ethernet :)
The PS4 has one of my favorite little touches like this. Accessing the 2.5" bay on the original PS4 is done by sliding off the cover of one of the four quadrants. The HDD caddy is held down by one screw. Not sure about the Slim and Pro, but on the original, it's a Philips head screw, but not just any Philips head - it's wider than necessary so that they could etch their trademark four symbols on it.

This is a custom screw that 99.9% of users will never see (guessing at that number of course) but they put it in anyway. That must have been a lot of work.
It's pretty clear Tesla as a company values growth over delivering the best quality product.

Sure, I thought they had been pretty clear they felt reaching volume was critical to making BEV technology competitive (a larger revenue base over which to amortize development)
Bingo. If price was a good enough indicator for quality there would be no need for OP‘s website.
Enterprises can still have all this stuff that is supposedly so important to them, like network interception and "compliance". But they might have to upgrade their software, insist that their vendors implement standards correctly, or maybe change the way they do some things. As you point out, these companies make more money than anyone else. That means change shouldn't be a problem for them. But of course they would prefer to externalize their costs onto less-resourced companies and individuals. It's everyone else's job to make sure they can't get away with that.
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This tool is going into my workflow right away. I take notes in markdown (with latex) for all my classes but they're disorganized and searching through them for a specific topic is annoying. This solves so many problems haha.

I noticed there's a way to tag bookmarks, is there a similar functionality for tagging notes?
I'm kind of shocked there's nothing on the front page about Penrose winning the Nobel prize for physics. The guy is really a polymath, even accounting for his outlandish and sometimes discredited theories.
Create a music library from an IceCast stream url + demo

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Understanding the probability tree is fairly interesting though.

If he opens a door and tells you he knows it's a goat, you double your likelihood of winning by switching to the remaining door.

If he opens a door randomly, and gets a goat, you don't modify your likelihood at all by switching. Saying 1 door or 2 doors doesn't mean you actually grasp the entirety of the problem.
They don't serve the workers, they serve themselves (like pretty much any organization).

Unions are owned/compromised of workers. Workers vote on issues that affect them.

Tech workers are in so much demand that they don't really suffer such a disparity of negotiating power, like workers in other industries.

Absolutely true, but if demand wasn't so high and supply wasn't so short, what happens to worker leverage and treatment?

Many software companies offer equity, which makes employers the shareholders. What's good for shareholders is also good for a lot of tech employees.

Equity compensation is a result of the pressures of a competitive labour market. If companies could get away with not handing out equity, they would. But since the other guys are paying so well, they are forced to up the ante.

Also, barriers to entry in software are almost 0. If you can't get someone to treat you well, you can have your own software company paying your bills in 6 months, or VCs funding your startup.

An exaggeration. You're not getting hired at the big players without a degree and/or significant experience. Software engineering != entrepreneurship. The majority of software devs would not be able to pay their own bills after 6 months of working on their own projects. Most projects fail.

There is a reason all the big sports leagues are unionized with player associations (also highly skill specialized, limited labour supply pool). They are able to negotiate for 50% of league revenue and establish protections. There are downsides; the highest earners are giving up their ability to earn true market wage (ex: a salary cap creates a wage maximum on an individual). But in general I've never heard a pro athlete say that the union has not given them measurable benefit and otherwise higher long term gain.
It's true, the MS case was just more violent because they were trying to get into a new market.
Increases performance by 3%, and complicates HTTP by 100%. I'm not sure I would like that. I would understand if it was 2x performance gain or at least 50%, but a mere 3%?
Yeah same and I was not convinced that its worth paying $50k for the model3 I was considering.
There is another reason: People understand you, interrupting with corrections hurts the conversation. I often ask for corrections but nobody ever does it. When I'm unsure how to say something I sometimes ask to get some feedback. Sometimes I only understand 70% of what a person is saying (mostly due to dialects), I rarely need to ask them to repeat it because the brain is capable of piecing it together.

Another problem is that unlearning something you always did wrong is extremely hard. You need to get it right from the beginning.

That's the beauty of language school, they point out your mistakes early and you can learn from the mistakes of other students in your group. If you take the time and take real classes, you'll have that tight feedback loop you need.
One of the realities we face here is that different people have different brains which work differently. Thus different phraseology is going to help. Adding variant phrases such as "He will never show you a car", will probably help for some.
So don't start at the Federal level. Start local. Which is pretty much how the US is intended to work. California made non-competes non-enforceable. No reason your state can't do the same.
We dont need a union, we need a stronger professional organization with appropriate licensing/apprenticeship, akin to other engineers, doctors, accountants, lawyers ect.
Switzerland is an expensive place. PPP adjusted it probably ends up being ~$15/hr, similar to Seattle, etc.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, this seems like the crucial question. Even here in New Zealand we have experienced a huge tourism boom (pre-Covid) over the past 15 years. For most people getting here meant taking one or more really long-haul flights. It didn't seem to put a whole lot of people off: we had 3.7m tourist arrivals in 2017, without supersonic jets. Our population is only 5m.

(On a personal level I hope there isn't a market of even more people who want to come here who'll be enabled by greatly shorter flight times. We had more than enough tourists already, TYVM. But economically, we won't be able to resist because jobs)
A lot of the pro-union push is coming from largely the same set of people that are big activists on social issues/politics, and the union push feels in part like a power grab to gain leverage on those issues. I simply don't agree with the activists on some of the issues they are activists about. On the issues I do agree, I still don't feel that union pressure is the right way to go about it.
> It’s important that Monty looked behind the doors before choosing which to open.

This is often not explicitly stated when the problem is given. It is even not a 100% clear from the statement above. Monty always chooses a door with a goat. So:

1. You choose a door.

2. Prob that there is a car behind it: 1/3

3. Prob that the car is behind the two other doors: 2/3

4. If the car was behind the two other doors (which, remember, has p=2/3), Monty will choose the door without a car for you, and the door with a car will remain closed. In this case you are guaranteed to have the car if you switched.

So with switching, the overall probability is 2/3. Without, its the original 1/3.

If you did not understand that Monty always chooses a goat door, but the person giving you the problem does, or vice versa, then what usually happens is that both of you try to explain why your intuition is correct. Because most people don't talk formal probabilities, your explanations will be so vague that the other person will not realize your different understanding. You will discuss forever, you will both be right, and you will part ways with the strange feeling that maybe the other person was right, when all along you were talking about different problems. This is why this problem is so notorious.
It's rather parochial and essentialist to imagine that American labor unions are inherently anti-immigration. This country was founded by immigrants after all, and certainly more recent immigrants can bring in new innovations that can improve our current flawed institutions. Perhaps the next generation of labor unions can do better. To imagine that there is a "context of America" that is fixed and unchanging is to both deny the many cultural contributions that immigrants have brought to this country, and to deny that this country's context is perpetually changing.
Do we need another 71 year old running for office? I'm not so sure
So now it's just a matter of Oracle buying EDB? Does EDB have a poison pill clause and/or are the contracts of the core team free from non-competes and non-disclosures?
I wonder how difficult it would be to use machine vision to identify and block advertising elements.
>If i am born into a life with zero political agency

Genuinely curious, what would you cite as evidence of "zero political agency"? If it's the de facto sense of it being prohibitively hard for one person/group than another as you allude to in your previous posts, this is a very different thing than zero agency. Again, I think it's dangerous to conflate hard with impossible.

The $400 buffer hurdle is a loaded topic that would be difficult to get into without being drawn into more walls of text, but I think this is often an artifact of poorly aligned priorities and choices. I actually tend think the counter is true; lower economic strata tend to have more free time than higher strata, etc. But I'm afraid this would turn into a long digression to get into.

I can agree that a government deserves it's constituency. However, I think can be true without negating the previous statement about a populace deserving it's government as well. It's hard to be both an advocate for empowerment while also absolving oneself of responsibility.

I do appreciate you taking the time to elaborate, but a common thread seems to be an almost infantilizing of a constituency. While I can empathize with the marginalized, I don't think it does any pragmatic good if it just stops at hand-wringing. If we resign ourselves to a lack of agency, ironically it's a good way to guarantee not to get it. It's a personal viewpoint, but I think those who will take ownership of these problems are in a much better position to affect change than those who constantly say it's out of their control.
Sadly, there's a cadre of devoted Tesla cultists who routinely underplay these build issues and even insinuate that early adopters should endure them for the sake of the brand. I really want a Model Y, but these quality issues are massively concerning.
Automated adhesives are not trivial. But...

>>> check that it's been done

Seems like they cut some corners here.
That was exactly the point I was making.
> Yeah. And the SAG rules aren't unreasonable IMO. But a union is not replacing the existing rules of your workplace, it's a second group of people who can add rules.

Yes and no.

1) Rules aren't interchangeable, undifferentiated things. An employer's rules are meant to mostly benefit the employer. Rules a union adds would be to mostly benefit its members.

2) A union can get employer workplace rules changed in its negotiations, if its members objected to them and they have enough negotiating power.

3) That "second group of people" could possible include you as a union member, and if it doesn't, it's a group you would have far more influence over than company management.
WRT to the US. I'd be curious if anyone has done a route analysis on trans-continental flights to minimize overheard booms. Once you're 200 miles from the coasts there is a lot of open space to fly through.
Asia-North America. Would they do a polar trajectory? Or would they worry too much about the radiation?
I think the confusion comes from the oracle-like knowledge of Monty Hall - he knows what is behind each door and decides which door to open based on that knowledge. If Monty Hall wasn't an oracle, and just opened a random door after the guess, people's intuitions would be correct.
> but for dual intent visas, such as the H1-B, it's not necessary to demonstrate that you don't have immigrant intent.

In practice, no, but that's not what "dual intent" legally means.

> It also seems wrong that applying for a green card could ever not constitute evidence of immigrant intent. Do you have a citation for that?

I did not say anything about "could not ever". I guess you could maybe interpret it this way, but if you actually followed the citation I gave, it would have been clear to you. What I meant was that the section 205b of Immigration Act of 1990, which is the legal basis of "dual intent" policy, explicitly amends section 214b of INA, to remove permanent residency application as acceptable evidence for the purpose of establishing immigration intent in context of section 214b.
IIRC, four months pay and health insurance for those making > $110k and six months for everyone else...or something like that. That does seem pretty generous, especially for a company that small.
Maybe he wants.

Once these practices become sufficiently spread, the majority of developers and content producers will never understand that an alternative is possible.

Or maybe he will need it: those same developers can perfectly be contractors for a government agency whose site the user has to access.

Trends slowly creep everywhere, independently on technical merit.
Stronger representation in a class action lawsuit; negative consequences for corporations in the form of sanctions, walkouts, etc.
> BTW: The numbers involved in each description are also telling. Those used by religions are often small and comfortable for a human mind...

That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies[1]

1. https://biblehub.com/kjv/genesis/22-17.htm
There are both power and energy density increases!
> You cannot patent the completely generic idea of "a tool to lift people in buildings",

You should see some of the software patents that get approved nowadays to see just how often "idea on a computer" gets greenlit.
If you mean the front page of HN, it was yesterday when he was awarded the Prize.
I would stop at "level 3" in this blog post intentionally.

Writing an unrolled dynamic solution as opposed to a simple cache is an extremely error-prone mental gymnastics in my experience. The initialization procedure and indexing are especially susceptible. Moreover, the resulting code is usually barely readable.

I wish people would stop expecting it. In practice, the memoization approach is sufficient in 99% cases, and having a 3% chance to make an error in unroll code that causes user data to be misplaced is a much worse option.
Yes, the US with their famously good worker benefits. Even the lowest paid worker in Sweden get more vacation and parental leave than you can even dream of in the US (No need to reply with your personal exception). That was achieved through the hard work of the labour movement.

How do you explain the following discrepancies if unions are indeed only serving themselves:

* The vast differences in labour benefits between Western Europe and the US.

* The vast resources US corporations spend on spreading anti-union sentiment and direct union busting (I mean, come one, corporate altruism to help the workers avoid union fees or what?).

Unsurprisingly this whole thread is a swamp of comments that passes off unions in truly the worst propaganda caricature there is.
Why would a patient or doctor care about that?
Yes they did, to help digitize Google Books and archives of NYT -- (from wikipedia) "The system helped to digitize the archives of The New York Times, and was subsequently used by Google Books for similar purposes" [0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/science/29recaptcha.html