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I was responding to a comment about a story that was specifically about the unjamming by heating/cooling; a phenomenon which everyone above the age of six knows about. My comment was not a genital measuring context, nor did it have anything to do with the innovation and creativity displayed by the deployment of the Voyager space craft.
> Are we going to see more Syria/Yemen/Sudan-type conflicts or will we get back to a conventional war with tank battles and all?

Every major power that can manufacture tanks also can make nukes. Thus there will probably be no pre-apocalyptic war like that.
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>Most of my US expat friends are lucky in that their local banks will let them have a checking account

No, it's not luck. Getting a bank account is not the chore you are making it out to be. A securities broker for trading stocks -- that I have never tried -- but when it comes to opening a regular bank account, there are no major hurdles whatsoever. Your expat friends, assuming they are living legally in another country, got bank accounts because it is easy to do, not because they were lucky.

The one exception to this would be those living in another country without any formal residence permit, then in that case, it would be problematic in any country since you are technically not allowed to actually live there and many countries do not allow that for citizens of other countries (not just the U.S.).

I've lived all over the world and I have never known a single person in the American expat community who was denied opening a regular bank account anywhere -- again, assuming they were legally living in the foreign country.
This is why the church banned the use of crossbows against Christians. It was deemed unfair for a peasant to instantly kill someone who trained all his life.
> Citing Alan Perlis: "Beware of the Turing tar pit, where everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy".

I posited here on HN Postscript / PDF recently is just such a tar pit, but got down voted for it. If you've every tried to copy and paste from a PDF and got rubbish (as opposed to a message saying you aren't allowed to do that), the reason is the Turning complete program painting the page doesn't have to paint things in a particular order and the things it paints may be bit maps. In the worst case you may as well be trying to copy a bunch of PNG images that have been plonked onto the canvas that happen to look like letters to a human.

We would have been far better off with a declarative way of painting a page. It's not that hard - SVG achieves the same end result, and is purely declarative.
Do you have more detail on this? Is there supporting detail from other sources? It's not clear from my brief reading that the association was conclusively for self-defense and held no insurrectionary or political aspect.
have fun when you miss an important call from someone in jail or dying in a hospital and you couldn’t just answer the phone
I'm a fan of this idea. If we have these people employed by the government in a highly disciplined environment, why not give them something constructive to do?
"I'd switch in a heartbeat if vegan food is cheaper, healthier and as tasty or tastier"

duhhh you'd be stupid not to at that point. Until we get there the consumer needs to signal big corporations that demand exists and McDonald's adding plant based options is a huge step. Every burger sold will contribute to encourage more companies to offer vegan options, even cheese
> or will we get back to a conventional war with tank battles and all?

The answer is: no.

There isn't a single country in the entire world that could challenge USA to a 1-1 military battle. There is no more such thing as tank warfare. At this point it's impossible to defeat USA on the high seas, or on land.
Seems like giving lactation hormones is way more ethical than clubbing baby cows
I am no expert but it is not my impression that adopting a group pseudonym eliminated politics or pettiness from the behavior of people inside or outside. But maybe makes the politics a bit less public/transparent?

One criticism I have heard from professional mathematicians is that Bourbaki wasted a whole generation of French talent, pulling the best young mathematicians away from their own useful and interesting research to assign to them a project of marginal benefit if any, because being a member of Bourbaki was in itself prestigious. The work tries to be entirely self-contained instead of part of a conversation, which leads to insularity, arbitrary “not-invented-here” reformulation of established concepts, ignoring outside developments, and lack of historical links and attributions. It is essentially all reworking of previously known mathematics, rather than any new discovery.

I am not a mathematician, and I don’t really have insight into the opportunity cost of research potential for the people involved, but personally I think the Bourbakist style has been very harmful to mathematics: it is entirely dry and formal, eschewing motivation, examples, or pictures. As a reference for professionals it might be okay, but the same style has infected broad swaths of mathematics teaching, and it serves to chase away many newcomers, almost like a kind of hazing ritual.

But Bourbaki is to say the least a controversial group. I don’t think it should uncritically be taken as a model for other researchers.
The original thread was about finding a "single bank" and in that regard, it is not a problem to open a bank nearly anywhere, including in Europe (assuming legal residence there). Brokers, that might be a different matter, if you wish to trade European stocks from a European account. Taxes can be the added hassle of having to file in the U.S. regardless of where you live, but we were originally discussing getting a bank account, which is straightforward.
> the peasants formed an association to defend themselves and fought off the Vikings ... military service was reserved for aristocrats only ... The response of the Frankish leadership was to come in and massacre the peasants

Strange that the peasants could fight back a group of Vikings ("the toughest warriors ever" according to National Geographic[0]) but not a bunch of aristocrats.

[0] https://www.vikingmartialarts.com/vikingculture/2018/4/4/vik...
Just to clarify: while there exist an original HN discussion from 2015 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9336392), I was curious to know what people here think about this equity allocation (incentive) approach at the present time, five years later.
China for all of their 5000 years of existence as a civilization, has never invaded a distant country.

I like how you inserted "distant" in there as if it matters.

Even in just recent history, China has:

- Invaded Vietnam, purely for political reasons as they were stymieing China's aspirations in SE Asia, Cambodia in particular

- They provided military support to North Vietnam as a way to increase their sphere of influence and offset the USSR in SE Asia

- They are currently expropriating land and sea for economic purposes that although justified in their own public statements, I'm not sure even they believe
The American government is putting ethnic minorities in camps right now too. And performing forced hysterectomies on them.

Either America is not ashamed of the atrocities it has committed, or it is so dense it cannot understand it is repeating them.
I always wonder what the vegetable vs meat market would look like without subsidies.

Imagine a free market where the veggie burger at McD is $1 and the beef one is $5. How many people would opt for the vegetarian option?

Instead, in the market which we have intervened, it’s the beef that cost $1 and the veggie burger $5.

Obesity is driven in part by lack of affordability of vegetables and in terms of resources and pollution (methane), beef is worse. It seems the incentives cater only to our carnal desire and (mostly corporate) cattle ranchers.

I don’t really care for meat all that much, but alas my taxes still go towards that damn $1 hamburger.
Of course it matters. In a class where cheating is permitted, the students who choose to cheat will perform better than they otherwise would have. That will give them an advantage over the students who choose to not cheat.

I personally experienced this in undergraduate with a professor who chose to ignore obvious cheating and I think it negatively impacted the motivation of students to learn the material.
Panama papers mean nothing to you?
The main problem, of course, is that receiving a credential and receiving an education are very different things that we do at the same time out of tradition and convenience. When testing was easy, it made sense to lump it in with teaching, but now that testing is impossible, I say we ditch it for the time being.
The Pixel 4a 5G came out at the same time as the Pixel 5. They're basically parallel product lines at the moment.
Haha what. So it's okay to have dog fights since the dogs wouldn't be born otherwise? That's such a weird argument
Holy crap dude. It looks like a sea of white faces. (it's partly the glare, but still) Are you facing any challenges in finding more diverse candidates?
You might like Vernor Vinge's work. This is briefly touched on in "Marooned in Realtime", and I suspect a prior novel, "The Peace War" is similarly interesting.
The author of your article:

https://soranews24.com/2016/12/01/w-t-f-japan-top-5-most-ins...

seems to be unaware of the existence of jukujikun:

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

They don't seem to understand how kanji work in general (kanji are symbols, not phonemes; they're more like numerals or emoji than letters). It's as if the article were saying:

"If 1 is pronounced 'one', why is 11 pronounced 'eleven'? My dictionary doesn't list 'ele' OR 'ven' as a valid pronunciation of 1!"

While jukujikun are really common in names (including place names and person names), they're not specific to names. For instance, 啄木鳥 (kera) meaning "woodpecker" is more kanji than syllables, and 今日 (kyou) meaning "today" is also jukujikun.

Jukujikun need to be learned like any other word (you're not going to be able to read it correctly the first time you see it, but that goes for any other kanji reading you've never seen before), but they would not surprise a native Japanese speaker ("today" is not a rare word in Japanese).
In my experience, you definitely want to have both options available. Like you said:

> CSP is hard for many problems where classic shared-memory using locks and atomics are well defined (think of classic concurrency programming textbooks).

This isn't a problem with Go's particular flavor of CSP, this is just a fact--it can be hard to translate simple modules that use locks into modules that use a CSP paradigm.

> Now with Go, you have this extra problem of "should I be using channels or locks?"

I think you're arguing against yourself here... if it's important to answer the question "should I be using channels or locks?" correctly, then wouldn't you be in a bad situation if the language only provided channels or only provided locks?

This is no different from the problem of "should I use recursion or iteration?" or "should I use a tree or a hash table?" Some times, either option is workable, but at other times, one of the options is better than the other. CSP versus locks is the same thing, it's just another decision you have to make when programming.
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This is a bit tangential, but it relates to the post: I'm currently working on a little side-project and I wanted to write (part of) it in Go. As a side-note, the last time I wrote Go was all the way back when I made a few small contributions to the language, circa 2009. As soon as I set up my environment, my gears were already turning (coming from Python, TypeScript, Java, etc.): how should I structure things? Where should this live? What should be calling what, and where should things be passed from and into?

And, like a breath of fresh air, I started remembering how Go works: it's a very simple, stupid language -- in the best possible way -- and it just works. You start writing code, and then you write more code. You write a function. And then you write another one. Slowly, your program gets bigger. Sometimes you need to split up functions.

And that's it. No fiddling with project structure, with taxonomies, and with hierarchies. I forgot what it felt like to just sit down and write some code. I've gotten used to battling tooling, fighting with opinionated frameworks, and having a zillion ways of doing something -- stuck in an eternal analysis paralysis.

I missed Go.
>I was in the US Army from 03-07 serving in the Rangers with 4 deployments

Thank you for your service!

> but realistically we're more likely to be fighting a handful of goat herders in Afghanistan with an AK and a bag full of rice before we're taking on an armored division.

Why should we be fighting goat herders in Afghanistan? I can understand the justification for striking back at the structures that committed the 9/11 attacks, but I can't understand the failed nation building and staying there forever and putting our troops in harms way.
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OTOH you can also trap an armored vehicle into a hole or mud pit, and the people inside can't stay in there forever, there is also such a thing as a molotov cocktail.
Most code reviews I've done at work take between 5 minutes to 10 minutes. To assume the worst possible case of 200 students, 20 deliverable per student, and a 10 minutes meeting per MR you'd be at ~28 days (~84 8hr-days). Get 1 TA and you now have 42 days of the semester dedicated to 1:1 time (35%) and the remainder of the semester dedicated to producing learning content. Learning content (lecture videos, etc) can be produced ahead of time and in this case you can replace this with more 1:1 tutoring time effectively allowing you to give each student ~10hr (10 min * 20 sessions * 1/.35) direct 1:1 time over the course.

From the students perspective all they need to do is:

1. Write a "project proposal" where they define a project, define goals, schedule a checkin with you to see if that project is large enough (1/20th the grade of the class)

2. Watch lecture videos and go through exercises on their own time.

3. Write code and bring it in to teacher. (18/20th of their grade)

4. Demo their finished project to professor (1/20th their grade)

This does work for later classes. I never had the ability to test this workflow out for earlier (100-level) classes as all of those classes I TA'd for followed the same model you're talking about.

The 200+ level classes that followed the model I'm talking about had ~10% to 30% pass rate which was in line (~2x) with the pass rate of similarly leveled courses from our college's Math and Physics department which was used as a sanity check.

edit: that's not to say you're incorrect that it would be difficult to do at scale, this is just the way I've seen it done at moderate scale (20 to 40 students).
This could be describing plenty of enterprise software too. Boxticking crapware.
Going without health insurance for someone like MMM is, IMHO, extremely unwise, bordering on lunatic. MMM gets a free pass since he is Canadian and he can always high tail it back in case shit-hits-the-fan. Do not try this at home, folks!

A 40 year acquaintance complaining of body aches for over 2 years and extremely healthy was diagnosed with cancer. He had been to many doctors and took insistence from his wife for them to da scan. He will now consume healthcare in the six figures over the next several years. If he had any assets and was caught without a health plan he would atleast for a year till he could sign up be facing bills in the tens of thousands.

MMM is rolling the dice since he has the Canadian backstop.
That would make sense given that the book I read was from 2012. Thanks for the correction!
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One thing to keep in mind when imagining "Knight vs Peasant" combat is that it's not like they would be fighting in some sort of idealized battle arena. Knights have horses and peasants do not, which means that barring exceptional circumstances, the knight has the initiative to determine when and where combat happens. People without horses have an extremely difficult time fighting people with horses, beyond just the reality of actual combat. If the horsemen want to raid your supply lines or burn down your countryside or disrupt your trade networks, how do you stop them? They can concentrate forces much more quickly than a foot army can form or react. In the 11th century a few hundred Norman knights conquered Sicily and southern Italy. Even through the 1860s a few thousand Comanche controlled a large portion of the American southwest because there was no good way to fight them.
I had the bribe thing happen, over such low level items too!

I also had really blatent knockoffs of $500 headphones. Amazon sweapt that under the rug even though I had tons of proof and info.
You need to think about:

- is it free, subscription or ad supported?

- cost of reporters?

- automated sources of data (e.g. local government data)

- platform development and running costs?

- user content? - cost of moderation
There seems to be a flurry of these articles posted to HN, which are vague, loquacious, superficial, obtuse, poorly punctuated, occasionally excessively poly-syllabic, repetitive, colloquial and plausible, yet ultimately nonsensical.

We need a new adjective for what it is to be like GPT-3 ...

disgenerative?

misformational?

cyberblathering?

babble streaming?

thesaurus gargling?
Can only make 1.5b doses in 2021, and 2 does/individual required, which is 750m individuals out of a world population of 7.8b.

Less than 10% can get it I the first year.
I think this is the real point; 90hz is way more important than CPU speed in making it feel like an upgrade.
Yes. The most frustrating topic for me is to bring up is the evidence that dis-agrees with the man-made climate change hypothesis. Source, Weathermans Guide to the Sun by Ben Davidson. But I cant even get my long time friends to explore that evidence, let alone anyone on internet forums.
"I don't care but looking at pictures it doesn't feel right" yeah the classical it's-ok-as-long-as-I-don't-think-about-it attitude
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Perhaps you could go and talk to the newspaper, explain your issue and see if they have a solution (e.g. subscribers can pass on 10 stories a week...)
Its a complex story. What you need during that period, can be extremely different from what mom, dad, grandma or the person who shows up needs.

And not all of us chimps are very good at expressing and/or being fully conscious of our needs(esp during a big shock) so don't judge people for looking like they need one thing but finding comfort in another.

Those needs exist on a very wide spectrum. And a cactus might be totally bewildered by or oblivious to the needs of a redwood tree. So you got to be careful.

The danger is when someone who needs people around is pushed away or left alone.
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I assume you're Billy Tallis on AnandTech, so you set disabled the cache on test?
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This is insanely expensive. 20 usd for 5 submissions?
> Probably had to update 100+ sites with my new email address

This is one of the main reasons I have my own domain. When I migrated to Fastmail, I just had to tell Fastmail that I wanted it to handle mail from the domain, set the MX records at my domain's nameserver to point to Fastmail, add a TXT record there for SPF, and add some CNAME records for DKIM. Fastmail gives instructions for all that here [1].

There was no need to update any sites with my email address because my address did not change. And there will be no need to update any sites if I ever decide to move from Fastmail to some other mail service, or to go back to running my own mail server.

Even simpler, you can use Fastmail as your DNS provider. Then it is just a matter of registering a domain, and telling your registrar that Fastmail is your DNS provider. Fastmail takes care of setting up the mail-related DNS records then. Here are there instructions for this approach [2].

The only serious things I use addresses that aren't @mydomain for are things that I might need to receive email from in order to resolve problems with @mydomain.

I strongly recommend this approach.

[1] https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains-setup-mxonly.h...

[2] https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains-setup-nsmx.htm...
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What kind of cheat does it prevent?

I imagine it wouldn't be terribly hard to run the machines so that only one full-screen window is shown, or a user for whom the internet is disabled. Is that not enough?
When I picked up go back during the original announcement, it was a breath of fresh air coming for c++. The std library was so easy to follow and understand compared to c++. Go's std library will teach how to write go, how to solve problems the go way and it's very approachable.
Not in a game business, but I could tell you - until Rust is supported (down to debugging) in Visual Studio, there would be no C#/Rust apps, and plenty C#/C++ apps.
It's already happening https://www.shield.ai/products/nova-class
literally debunked and cope memes on HN. Can someone please kill this site
Can’t have an article about Nicolas Bourbaki without bringing up the mystery of nickb on Hacker News. Who was he? Paul G? A group of power users?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10535620

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152428
Likely the same reason as always. Mass production. Everything about cow milk is mass produced and hyper competitive. Its a wonder that your milk costs so little and not that the oat milk costs $4.
I've had something closely resembling what OP described happen to me twice. In both cases the relevant chip errata document is behind an NDA, but in one of them my bug was the first one on the list.

That one was a "don't use these particular memory locations, or disable the cache (which makes the chip unusably slow)" kind of bug, and I'm still simultaneously amazed that I managed to figure it out and angry that I had to.
There are 2 flavors of pixel phones the Verizon and Google, both are carrier unlocked but the Verizon has a locked bootloader. There are work arounds for some of the devices but last time I checked none for the pixel 2xl. If your buying a used one for Lineage good idea to check.
True. But for a start don't pay for dog fights and switch to oat milk, gets you 99% there ;)
True for now but the Chinese navy is expanding at a rate not seen since the peak of the Cold War. If they sustain the effort for a couple decades then they'll be in a position to defeat the USA on the high seas.
> I imagine it wouldn't be terribly hard to run the machines so that only one full-screen window is shown, or a user for whom the internet is disabled. Is that not enough?

Many of the anti-cheating software will also run the webcam and yell at you if it thinks you aren't paying attention to only the screen, while recording everything on your screen.

And students are being forced to install this on their home machines.
A modern civilian doesn’t need to penetrate a tank, just get it stuck and light it on fire.
“I tried running your executable with all syscalls blocked and it didn’t work please fix”
And it's a national shame that contributed to the largest mandate in American presidential election history. I think people misunderstand my point. America is far, far from perfect. It's just that other empires have been far worse.
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