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Hal Abelson on abstraction an design (from SICP videos)
AUDIENCE: What does this decision making through abstraction layers do to the
axiom of do all your design before any of your code?

PROFESSOR: Well, that's someone's axiom, and I bet that's the axiom of
someone who hasn't implemented very large computer systems very much.

I said that computer science is a lot like magic and it's sort of good that
it's like magic. There's a bad part of computer science that's a lot like
religion. And in general, I think people who really believe that you design
everything before you implement it basically are people who haven't designed
very many things.

The real power is that you can pretend that you've made the decision and then
later on figure out which one is right, which decision you ought to have
made. And when you can do that, you have the best of both worlds.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs » Video Lectures » 2B: Compound Data, around minute 00:37
The contents of your Gmail inbox or Facebook DMs are neither.
What I think will happen is that these installations will become common so they are an investment that adds a near equivalent value to the home.

Once that happens, it’s also safe to buy it regardless of whether it takes 15 years or more so I sell the house. The buyer will pay more for my house.

That’s not the case yet. Solar doesn’t add a value equivalent to the investment to the house, so unless I plan on staying until it’s paid off - it’s not worth it. But I think this will change.
Very brave.
Interestingly, if everything shows the same on your sensors, the highest likelihood event is that your sensors are broken. The second highest is that your sensors have low range.

That doesn't mean that the M1 is fast or slow. It only means that your opinion is useless as to determining processor speed. It has no range.
The RustyHermit Unikernel
I did, there's never been really good community driven open source IDE's. For every community driven IDE I can name you an enterprise driven IDE that's popular and arguably better.

Code editors are a product where polish has high value, and users are willing to pay for that polish. I don't particularly care if my editor is open source as long as it's got strong community and great polish.
Thanks, and thanks for the advice.
Yes they delayed it due to the backlash. The plan is to still go ahead with it.
It seems like the only rational reasons to IPO are out of necessity (you need to raise the money, your employees will quit without liquidation, etcetera), or short-term greed. What other reason would you want to be public?
It's not a static site. It has a site-wide search. It lets users post comments on articles. It also has its own store selling books. And it serves ads too.
Because of this:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Am I Part of the Problem?
When I look at projections for Japan what I see is over the next 20 years the percentage of people over 65 goes from 28% to 38%. And then just stays there.

So the end point is 1 out of 2.5 people are retirement age or more likely doing light work. And one out eight are children or teenagers.

If you go back to the high population growth years you can probably swap the percentages of children vs elderly. Leaving you with 50% of the population in the workforce. Society certainly didn't exactly fall apart then.
No. Faster means faster. Fast means fast. These are different words.
Sadly, these sorts of bond-posting antispam systems are rendered mostly illegal due to financial surveillance requirements in the US: you can't really do micropayments like this without going through full KYC/AML on everyone you're receiving from or paying, which is a huge barrier to entry and adoption.

The intense regulatory requirements for total financial surveillance in the USA are holding so many insanely cool apps from being developed now that there's programmable money. Doing anything novel or cool with it is basically illegal.
Many universities actually do, and many more governments too.
Farmers protests[1] in India against the new farm laws[2] in India have seen misinformation of a great scale. The talks are stuck in deadlock and claims of farmers being misguided are made frequently.

One claim that has really caught my eye is that APMCs (the public and MSP is not going anywhere since the law enacts a parallel structure without touching the existing one. However the world runs on economic incentives which will be against APMCs. Farmers understand that but I believe the general public at large has been oblivious to this.

So I created knowyourkisaan.com as a weekend project. It is a simulation of the predatory pricing strategy used by private players with deep pockets can ruin the competition in the agricultural market . The concept is oversimplified for the purpose of this simulation (so that people can get back to important stuff like arguing on twitter ). I’m neither an economist nor a designer so things can be off and I would love to hear feedback.

The source code is open sourced at tarunbatra/know-your-kisaan on GitHub[3] and contributions in the form of issues and PRs are welcome!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Indian_farme...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Indian_agriculture_acts

[3]: https://github.com/tarunbatra/know-your-kisaan
I think a some of that is because of the way nuclear has been deployed. Similar to reason the US Navy has been offered a buy 1 get one half off deal for it's air craft carriers. Using standardized designs and the same labor force to build multiples of the same thing is exponentially cheaper than doing one off designs/contracts.

There is of course a limit to this effect, for nuclear there's site specific engineering/design that has to happen which you don't have for ships.

But the savings in workforce cost can absolutely be realized in nuclear if a large enough pipeline of projects is developed which it looks like the French power company EDF is doing.
If the healthcare system gets overwhelmed because "life just went on", so be it? My father developed cancer this year and it's been an absolute nightmare to deal with because the oncological nurses have been requisitioned to emergency care or the covid ward. Apparently we can't just 3D print more medical staff, who'd have thought?
What on Earth does that have to do with anything?
Interesting. On a tangent, when I was a teenager I would sometimes fall asleep on the couch with the TV on. Mostly because I don't like falling asleep in the dark, esp. when alone. I would set a timer on the TV so it doesn't run all night but inevitably the TV shutting off would wake me up. More recently I would put on a documentary on YouTube, and I would queue a few different ones so I get into deep sleep before they end, otherwise it would wake me up.
I partly disagree with those who assert Michael Scott does not know how to use chopsticks. Scott does know how to use chopsticks and is so proud of his “skill” he insufferably tutors chopstick maladroits regarding technique.

However, Scott’s technique is both suboptimal and childish, his grasp of the sticks conforming to how children are taught to use chopsticks and offering less precision than techniques which adults use. [0] Furthermore, Scott’s not actually very skilled at using chopsticks. He’s a step above stabbing food with them or using them with one in each hand, but his mastery of the kids’ way of using chopsticks is barely better than rudimentary.

Often while lifting food from his from his plate and into his mouth, Scott will clumsily drop the morsel back onto the plate and chomp at empty air. Watching Michael Scott eat with chopsticks is to be embarrassed for him, while he himself remains oblivious and proud.

Michael Scott will replace his chopsticks with a spoon for the last 25% of his meal.

Lastly, the linked article is a marvelous troll guaranteed to rile even the most self-assured (and they are nothing if not self-assured) member of the Whytian Clueless.

[0] In my corner of South Korean culture, the kids’ way of holding chopsticks involves the thumb, index, middle, and ring fingers. The adult way omits the ring finger.
It's a common form of pseudo-analysis that you'll find in a lot of "high brow" YouTube videos these days with titles like "[Movie/Show Name], a masterclass in [esoteric intellectual-sounding term]". Chock full of non sequiturs and logorrhea, sounding vaguely intelligent but having almost no meaningful content whatsoever.
Why China's economy is less healthy than it looks
Ah, so in general useful for helping customer service. I could see that being helpful for many developer focused services, but definitely for the reddit community I bet it assuaged some concerns.

Thanks!
I remember 3 or 4 projects that were abandoned but Prismo is the one that stands out to me.

https://fediverse.blog/~/Prismo/on-prismo-data-loss
What is the implications of 1/4 female or liberal arts college?
Cities offer you anonymity from other "nobodies".

Rural areas offer anonymity from the state.

Both are declining because the scope of government is getting bigger and their capabilities get better. In practice this means that your upstairs neighbor in a city who just doesn't like your hair (or whatever) can likely find a reason to narc on you and in the country your magic mushroom grow op that nobody local cared about will be harassed by the government who formerly didn't have the means to care about what people in the countryside violating laws without bothering people were up to.
We've been throwing our money at geoengineering our way into this for decades in the form of oil (and other) subsidies.

We could start by eliminating those.
US study points to high rates of lupus in several groups
It's really hard for me to get upset by this. If people want fewer children, great!

Yes, I understand the pyramid problem of caring for people who can no longer care for themselves, but socializing it (i.e. no leaving the burden to fall directly on the adult children, taking them out of the workforce) is ignored or condemned in most OECD countries. And increasing automation and efficiency should free more people do do these caring tasks, and reduce cost of living.
Extreme Ultraviolet Litography
Those chips are also low margin and the shortage is only because of a failure of forecasting. It's like building mask factories, now there is a glut.
A combination of the Fed printing tons of money along with a lot of retail investors with extra cash and time on their hands.
I appreciate the fact that the Security Model may have been 'simple' - and frankly 'simple' is usually better with these things.

However - it doesn't abnegate the fact that no matter how you slice it the 'Security Model' is an important thing unquestionably deserving of some open discussion among participants, because there existential consequences.

Especially with Security - it's not one of those things that's ever obvious. This is why we have bug bounties, certain kinds of open source - it generally benefits from 'a lot of eyes, and pondering'.

It's probably something you might try a few versions of and not even make your mind for a bit.

The evidence that 'it's a big deal' is in your own response: the solution was screwed up, and Java paid a big price.

The fact that anyone 'right or wrong' was trying to put together a solution and just 'check it in' frankly is a little frightful.

Engineers threatening to quit, and decisions made on the basis of that are comical.

If this narrative is authentic, then it seems Java Security Model - and probably a bunch of other things were just 'slammed together' by a bunch of smart guys passionately working on it, arguing, playing games' and we're lucky to have what we have today I guess.

Imagine what we would have if there was some intelligent social deliberation there.
> yes, everything was slower back then

Right, and still I was super amazed that I could send a message to someone halfway around the world, and it would arrive there only a couple of days later! Compared to a letter that's really fast!
I had quite a few problems with it but I think they mostly went away when I stopped closing the barrier window. It can't properly handle picking up the running session when you open up a new window so when you close the window the service becomes an orphan. Then it will try to start a new session on top of the other which can result in confusing behaviour.
hey, I have this awkward feeling when my original post got less hype on hackernews than the current one :)
my original post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25820533
Britain is allowing it if the correct one isn't available or known.
The vaccines both target the spike protein and it's probably fine but there is very little data.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/health/coronavirus-vaccin...
Yes, in Settings if you click on the user profile info, you can set the signature text.
Yep IntelliJ is great. I remember back in the days, changing from Microsoft visual studio with resharper to eclipse. Hurrrr what a pain. Then you'd try something else, have to reconfigure everything, never happy.

Then I discovered the makers of resharper made an IDE which supports tons of languages and never looked back.

As long as they don't fuck it up like Adobe fucked photoshop (and every product they own), they'll have my money.
Can you measure the speed of sound using the crowd at a Babymetal concert?
Relative offense here, OP is like the kid cools in school that actually didn't blow up 10 year later and stagnating.
Maybe your (and sibling's) comment along with mine illustrate two sides of the same coin. I think Michael is interested in status mostly as a path to connection. The dreams he talks about, if I remember correctly, center around having a family and a nice life, not prestige or power or winning. That's part of why I think the "Michael Scott" analogy is such an awkward fit for the middle ladder proposed in the article. My recollection of the series is that Michael is actually pretty satisfied with his status in society, but not his status relative to the people around him. If Michael dreams of writing an op-ed in the New York Times, it's because he hopes it will make Oscar like him or something.
Don't let it stress 'ya. Happens all the time here :)
You can leave the mails on the server with POP3, so it should still be movable.
I consider those kinds of bans petty, but hardly a platform issue.

Reddit exposes group affiliation by default through public post histories. One can lurk in any public subreddit without consequence. Even banned, you can still consume public subs, though you can't interact with them.

The simple act of account creation (choosing the wrong node) is enough to exclude you from otherwise public content in the fediverse.

Joining Mastodon is often described as joining 'mastodon the network', when in reality there is no cohesive network (though there may be a canonical network). You're joining your instance + an opaque number of unknown nodes, with much of the content arbitrarily disappeared for any number of historical reasons to-which you may not be privy.
Unfortunately this conversation will go nowhere on Reddit or HN.

No matter what facts you present you will be downvoted, flagged, comments deleted, and the conversation driven into the ground by faceless adversaries.

You will be belittled for wanting human contact.

No matter how bad you feel you will be called selfish.

Told that you're the problem, not the government's restrictions.

State court challenges of government power are smacked down. Governors' who lose their power simply go around the court ruling and have their health department enforce the rules.

There is no end in sight.

Look at my comment history. Look at what happens when you speak out too often https://i.imgur.com/dumPvHa.png

You won't win against a torrent of downvotes and people teling you that you're the selfish one.

Perhaps after two years I'll finally get to see a stranger's smile. But to want that is to be selfish.
My project predates prismo I think, and I'm committed to bring it to fruition. That might not be for a while though as I'm working on a lot of low level stuff that might help other developers with writing activitypub services.
Games to that amount extend intelligence
All parents seek to increase the creativity of their children and develop their intelligence
I used to have a, I believe, three processor Alpha computer when I worked at Microsoft. I had a MIPs, PPC and X86 based computers as well and all were top end and the Alpha always seemed to outpace them all. I was sad when it was discontinued.
Out of all these, processor design (what you say is USA-dominated) seems like the one that involves the smallest amount of capital investment. And is therefore the easiest crown to lose, right?
I can get on board with the idea that to other people and other classes the things you aspire to achieve are silly, and the way you act to get those things is ridiculous.

But the idea that the blue collar workers and elites "get it" while the bourgeoisie are fooling themselves comes across as ... self loathing, perhaps?

You could just as easily make the argument that the aspirations of the blue collar are shallow and meaningless. And or the elites are sociopathic because, hey, we all turn to dust in the end.
> Also do software engineers fall into upper middle class or high skilled labor?

The same ladder that telephone users fall on.
Well, minus what they purified to make weapons.

That’s the problem with spent fuel: you either toss it, but it’s still recyclable and burnable again or you recycle it, and you’re inevitably left with some bomb grade material that flies in the face of all international agreements of non-proliferation.

Anyhow, CIGEO build still needs to start and how many years of future capacity does it allow for?

Many reactors were designed to run 40-50 years and they’ve been lengthened to procrastinate costly dismantling and maintain production without new builds (which are, at this point, highly uneconomical)
If the government would need a warrant to collect that data it should be illegal for any company to collect, sell, or in any other way utilize that same data.

That is basic consumer protection common sense; but even without the pandemic and the other four horseman of the apocalypse crisis of democracy facing the US, and most if not all other nations on the planet right now, don't expect any such consumer goods to be on the agenda.
Still have my Apple ][ with manuals, etc. (also in my attic), but I'm not sure what would happen if I powered it up.

Btw, not a typo above. Not ][+, not //, not //e. Apple ][, serial number 79. IIRR, it even has the floating point ROM card in one of the slots. :-)
At some point this stops being the case. Obviously if the family live on passive income and parents don’t need to work then the opportunity cost is less important. If the parents have high incomes then they can, if they are willing, afford to pay for various childcare services. However there is an emotional opportunity cost to this: parents may want to be around and not at work as their children are growing up. Though this matters less once the children are spending much of their time at school.
I also had a 9360 that ran into issues (the motherboard died) but I had bought several years of support and the issue was resolved (they sent someone over to fix it). Perhaps the support is worth buying, and the cost considered should not just be the price of the laptop, but include the cost of support.
I checked your raytracing JS stuff on Github, would you use (.e.g. Rust) Web Assembly for browser raytracing?
Exactly, and open source companies make great money too. ElasticSearch being a prime example, yes AWS eats a large share of their pie, but who cares, the pie is absolutely huge.

Another example is GitHub and Gitlab. Both got big by leveraging the open source community for marketing. Imagine all the resources GitHub spends to enable open source, that's a cost center that will never go away. If they hadn't done it though, they simply would never have become big.

And then Gitlab one ups them, sacrificing an even larger share of the pie, allowing free private repos and free on site deployments. And still they're carving up a big chunk of pie for themselves.

In my opinion it's the only way the future is going to make any sense. It's not a race to the bottom, it's a race to more balance between the rewards of beating the network effect.

If you want to build a new company in a space that another company is already offering significant value, then you are going to have to offer even more value. And if there's no more value go squeeze out of your functionality, and you're already not charging your users, that means you're going to have to give part of your company to the users. It's a mathematical inevitability.
I dont have an answer to your question. The healthcare system has never been designed for even epidemics let alone pandemics.
Nor has it been designed to account for rich countries stealing medical professionals. And yet people have to somehow with these caveats.

I have terrible eczema and I’d love to continue my treatment but this is not essential so I have to wait.

I know just one thing I cant wait any longer for a private corporation to solve this issue and the government is not willing to step up and help.
My sister learned early reading through the Peabody Rebus Reader method. She was given short books with titles like "Red and Blue Are On Me". A small symbol stood for each word in the early chapters, which were slowly replaced with written words until the end of the book (an example of "whole word" reading).

I got strong "Red and Blue Are On Me" vibes from this page.
I think you're hitting on something real here, that translation doesn't "scale up". You can't rely entirely on learning translations to learn a language, and in some ways it can really hold you back if you think of things as having a 1-1 mapping with English. Especially when dealing with languages without a common ancestor with English, like Japanese, where a lot of concepts just don't line up.

For example, in Japanese there's not a direct equivalent to the word "to give". There are different words depending on the relationship between the people, and at a basic level, you always have to "give upwards" or "give downwards", with different words for each.

I could see this kind of method of teaching being really useful for learning those kinds of concepts. I think learning the Japanese words directly, without getting hung up on what their English translations are, could avoid some pitfalls.

I'm less sure about how useful it is for the real basic basics. But it's a cool concept none the less.
I really like NNTP, but spam was becoming a huge problem in the Usenet and its nature makes it harder to assert the identity of a poster.
I think that "boring" is being used here as shorthand for well known and predictable, which are attributes that I would rate highly when developing a platform or trying to work on a novel problem.

I believe a contributor to why choosing boring is hard is that often the problem we encounter in software is not new or unique, but may still the be first time a team/company is attempting it. Therefore, unless you know your company has the patience for unforeseen technical difficulties, and that your team has the skillset to overcome any fundamental challenges posed by the technology chosen, even if the technology is a better fit for a problem, it may not be a good match for the organisation.