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I think Jaws holds up very well, too. It is a wonderful transitional film between classic and new Hollywood shot tempo and visual style.
People used to do things a lot more (Not limited to using a hammer). Now, they tend to stay on their phones/computers.
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Everything isn't about whether people die or not.

I have some stoner friends from high school who were really smart and gave up in college and now work mediocre dead end jobs and live in really low cost of living areas. They don't have unforeseen burdens like family to take care of, no mental / health problems, no debts, nothing is holding them back.

They're happy. They're far from dead. But that potential they had is completely gone at this point. Maybe we shouldn't use the law to force people to live up to a materialistic ideal, I get that, but the idea that all that matters when thinking about social standards is whether people die from X or Y is silly and not a holistic way of thinking about anything.
> It's hard to be romantic in corporate environments.

I agree it's hard, but it's not impossible. One thing that heightens the experience for me is to:

Listen to movie scores while you program.

I first started this to help drown out other noises so I could concentrate. But, I soon realized that there's a lot of drama in the sound: there are highs and lows, chaos and order, fumbles and precision, brief pauses, slow times and fast -- the sound is just like programming!

One time, as the score was building my task was nearing completion. Just as I ran the program and saw that everything worked the movie score delivered a massive crescendo. It was so cathartic and I had never felt so much emotion while programming. I actually cried with joy. That's the closest thing I've felt to actual love while programming.

A few of my favorite scores are:

TRON: Legacy - https://open.spotify.com/album/3AMXFnwHWXCvNr5NCCpLZI

Interstellar - https://open.spotify.com/album/3B61kSKTxlY36cYgzvf3cP

Inception - https://open.spotify.com/album/2qvA7HmSg1iM6XMiFF76dp
> Switch jobs regularly and negotiate hard for salary and levels.

I’ve been at my current role for almost 7 years. It doesn’t pay nearly what I could be making elsewhere.
I’ve interviewed and been offered better money, but it means giving up the kind of work I do now for something less interesting.

I’ve turned down those offers and stuck where I am, even though it means less money. As my wife told me when we were talking about this: This is the work that you’re going to be doing every day, and that has to be worth it.

That said, there is a cost to my career sticking here instead of moving around.
Or at least return a "no change" message, and not a failure result in the 400s or 500s.
As somebody who has never liked Siskind's writing, I found this clarifying as to why. Like Sandifer, I think Siskind is absurdly wordy in a way that's murky. And I don't think you can separate the politics from that. What Siskind is up to is thoroughly political and intentionally so. Also intentional is the murk, because it provides him deniability and helps lull an audience into listening to things that plainly stated they would find revolting.
Reuters TV, 30 minutes every day, about 15-20 stories from around the globe but focusing on US. Read by a faceless person in an emotionless voice. That's what I do.
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I disagree. The key difference is here is that language sanskrit is unlike any other languages in the world. Somewhere during 400 BC. a grammarian named Panini formalized Sanskrit grammar as precise, formally defined 4200 rules. This book called `Ashtadhyayi` or 18 chapters was an exhaustive book of Sanskrit grammar and remains so even today. Panini defined a meta language to define Sanskrit grammar.

What this meant was that language stopped evolving since last 2400 years ago. You can create new words but there are precise rules for it. All this means there is no scope for "dialects", words meanings changing with geography etc. Different vedic chants separated by thousands of miles and 1000 years in time are exactly the same and perfectly understandable in any part of the country for anyone who has studied Sanskrit.

This makes Vedic chants unlike anything English, Latin or Arabic has to offer.
> Brizendine chimed in to commiserate with others about the growing criticism they’ve faced over closed schools, suggesting parents really want schools to reopen so they get their babysitters back.

I grew up in a situation where if I didn’t have school, I may not be alive today. I strongly recommend people learn about ACES[1] study and the long term health impact of childhood trauma (of which school away from home is one mitigating remedy).

1 - https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/index.html
So who's responsible for holding them accountable for their actions normally?
No, the more expressive the language, the more directly you can have the code model the intent within the domain. As the reader sees the intent and function of the code clearly, they can understand and reason about it better.

As an example, Either-monadic code automates an error check on every line, immediately returning on the first error. The go equivalent is a ton of mind-numbing "if err != nil" checks between every relevant line of code. The go equivalent is mostly mechanical clutter. But all those LOC still add maintenance. People have to read and check them (no wrong operators, no references to the wrong variables, etc).
fair...then people shouldn't advertise debian as the most "stable" distro fwiw
Is this actually possible? We're already dwarfed by other planets that are fine?
The 777 has been flying for 25 years with almost no fatal accidents. Unless your flight will be flying over Russian anti-aircraft missile batteries or through a wormhole above Malaysia, you should be perfectly safe.
Ok - physical without root definitely makes it worse, but it’s still not open to a remote exploit.

Yes, some people need worry about people entering their office to steal their home directories, but it’s not a simple thing to exploit.

Apple is quite slow to address certain issues, but on the whole end user security is still excellent for most end-users now.
> an elected body

Voters
> Oh yeah, egoism at its best lol. If I die, why shouldn't everyone else?

Why not consider it from an alternative, less demonizing perspective? The author might simply be pointing out the fact that no matter how nice the things that you'd leave behind you would be, you won't be around to experience them. Therefore, it would be in your interest to actually... you know, not die.

> Okay I am out. You really should get help. Definitely.

Perhaps the author doesn't convey his thoughts in the most reasonable manner, but having children is indeed a huge responsibility and one that will take both energy from the parents as well as a lot of resources over many years. Noone should be having children just because they feel like it, especially NOT just because they'd like to leave a legacy of some sort. As the author points out, those children will grow up to be their own people and you'll need to support them to the best of your abilities, regardless of how different their views and values could be from yours.

> Right now our gene pool is actively deteriorating because we managed to eliminate natural selection.

I'm not sure whether natural selection really has been made less significant, however this appears to be at least partially supported by the information that i could find: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr051.pdf

Based on the graphs in page 7, it appears that approx 85% of women reproduce and 76% of men do (at least up to 40 years of age), though there is more detail in the following pages. Would anyone care to comment with other sources that either support or disprove the claim that natural selection isn't a (big) factor nowadays? What about the deterioration of the gene pool?

> Okay :D. Just dig yourself a concrete hole and live in there from bottles of Soylent and see what happens. There are tons of studies who show you how important a connection to nature is for the human body and mind, but well...

I don't believe that the author expressed that this is the optimal way to go about things. Other people who also advocate for longetivity also seem to actually suggest that people should lead more active and healthy lifestyles, have better diets with elements of intermittent fasting/caloric restriction and so on. Even if we as a species cannot have immortality now, it is definitely worth to pursue enjoying our later years and remaining functional for longer, is it not? In that regard, nature is indeed our enemy if we don't look at what can affect us negatively (be it alcohol, smoking, sedentary lifestyle, bad diets, lack of sleep, or anything else)

> But it definitely doesn't follow from the brainfarts that came before.

It seemed to follow the previous statements pretty well - it is pretty important (at least from our subjective point of view) to remain alive and little if anything else can substitute that.

Lastly, i'd like to quote the Hacker News Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Let's remain civil here!
Poisson distribution, higher probability of short periods between failures than long ones.
My feeling is that even inception trained on imagenet with a different random initialization would probably not fail (or at least be much less likely to fail) when exposed to these adversarial examples.

If these are hacking the specific, underspecified, realization of the classifier (I.e. the set of public weights trained from a specific seed and visit order through the data), the adversarial examples are probably just as fragile as the classifier.
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I really appreciate you talking so openly about it. It really can be one hell of a drug. I don't really think the personality traits are quite different to people who go to casinos or lose all their money on the stock markets. It's this idea to get better, better, better at all costs. Just one more thing and I'll stop, however after this thing there's another thing waiting and so on and so on. It never ends (well, except as how you did it :) Hope you leave it all to rest now before the next addon comes. Actually, I think the developers are quite user oriented so if you would ask them to ban you, they probably would.)
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Well, in principle. It wouldn't sink into the sun, unless you use a interstellar lithobraking for all your souvenirs to deliberately do it, but you could perfectly well turn Earth into a black hole that way.

Of course it's not very practical, and also it'd turn into a star much earlier in the process, at which point it arguably isn't a planet anymore anyway.
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You should never respond to these emails. Showing a reaction is exactly what they want.
The only great thing to come from the Broadcasting Board of Governors and Voice of America is VOACAP [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOACAP
just because all the code is in one place doesn't mean its one system.
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I had been letting reading slip this year, and went to see what Bill Gates was doing (his reading list has been reasonable).

So this comes at a perfect time for me. Thank you for sharing. I will certainly be going through your stem list.
Listening to the audio, the pilot first says, "We've experienced an engine failure, need a turn." ATC does not respond, so he calls again and says "Mayday" in order to unequivocally get their attention.

There are actually two different emergency calls. There is "mayday", and there is "pan-pan", which is a less urgent version of "mayday", but that is hardly ever used.
> Collision attacks require the attacker to control both inputs.

Technically, no. It gets a lot easier when you only need to find any pair of inputs which produce a collision, but with computing power increasing a lot and md5 being very broken, it is feasible that a determined attacker with a lot of compute power can create a collision with a fixed hash, or at least will be able to in the somewhat near future.

I'd agree that you're reasonably secure, but when you need security, you shouldn't bother with outdated tech when secure and future-proof alternatives are readily available.
Yeah, sure.

IFF by "getting vaccine quickly" you mean making sure that HE got vaccinated as quickly as possible.
There’s a continuum between something like Arch or Gentoo and CentOS on the other side - the amount of “pain” is roughly similar but when you encounter it changes - it’s usually easy to figure out WHAT broke on Gentoo as it was probably the last thing you installed - whereas a move from CentOS six to seven can be a huge undertaking (even more of you jump straight to 8).

But there definitely is something nice about general stability (until you have to install something on an old OS that requires a new package and you enter a whole new hell).
Have a peek a metastability[1], any time a digital system crosses a clock domain there's basically statistics making sure the whole thing doesn't fall over.

From need a better MTBF? Throw a couple more inline flip-flops.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastability_(electronics)
A look at the film for the 25th anniversary a few years back

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I'm starting to feel bad for Boeing.
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"Usually" and I stand by that.
I find category theory empowers my programming in the design step, much more so than when actually writing code. It enables me to find a more elegant design from the outset and be sure of its utility and elegance even before I program it.
I’m a parent and so angry that these board members made light of my desire for schools to reopen and get my goddamn kids out of my goddamn house.
The failure was blamed on lack of training for inspectors.
>I apologize, given the message of the comment and how personally addressed it was throughout, I had thought you’d meant to have a conversation with someone other than yourself.

No apology is necessary or even slightly warranted. You expressed yourself clearly and, as I mentioned, I appreciate your point of view.

While you may (and I have no issue with that) disagree with my assessment, you appear to have ascribed some sort of broad-based attempt on my part to convince or "win over" some segment of HN readers to my point of view.

That's not the case. My goal was to express my thoughts. I did so. As such, my effort was (as I mentioned) quite effective in achieving my goal.

Whether or not that sparks further discussion isn't incredibly important to me, although I certainly have no problem having a conversation about the subject.

I disagree with your assessment that GP[0] was addressing their belief that "we hate" them to some narrow group in the US. Given the reach of "the media" and "mainstream silicon valley websites", it seems obvious that GP was, in fact, painting a huge swathe of the US population with a broad brush.

Given the DAUs of such "mainstream silicon valley websites" like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc., as well as the broad reach of "the media" (newspapers, TV/radio networks, etc.), I don't see how GP's statement could be interpreted otherwise.

I'd be interested to understand the logic that leads you to a different conclusion. Thanks!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26206567

Edit: Added the "missing link."
``I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.''

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Oldie but goodie! I remember submitting this to very early Reddit, getting seven upvotes, and this keeping it at the #1 spot on the page for multiple days. I'm a credited contributor and sometimes I list this on résumés as a gag.
> Unless you also want to commit an act that I believe is immoral, and prevent others from having children.

I want no such thing, merely offering my differing point of view here. It probably doesn't have relevance or any sort of impact in the lives of most people, but claiming that having children is universally moral could be challenged at the very least.

If nothing else, each child is another mouth to feed and will contribute to the carbon footprint of our species. While the planet could sustain more people on it, in our current climate of consumerism, i personally don't believe that the world needs to strive towards overpopulation and accelerated exhaustion of the resources that we have (amongst other things).
Don't worry, China will spread that for you
Well, they can either resign under public pressure, be voted out in the next election, or (maybe, depends on the jurisdiction in question--don't know if school boards usually fall under this option though) be subject to a recall election.
I’m not sure about others but the game is in quite a playable state and has been playable for many years. Anyone have context on why it’s still labelled Alpha. What’s the key criteria for it to jump to Beta and 1.0?
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"I hear this argument a lot, but it feels like a weird back-justification for the restrictions imposed by the government."

I continue to be amazed at what I consider to be a very unexpected cultural intersection:

Technical, do it yourself, nearly exclusively male, out-hacking one another with radio bits ... but simultaneously vehemently defensive of, and slavishly adherent to, arbitrary government regulations that strictly limit what they can do with their hobby.

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> There is 0 advantage in not having the option to use dynamic linking if you want to.

The advantage is in other people (eg libc maintainers) not having the option to require you to use dynamic linking when you don't want to.
Frankly, that's a pain point even if you're using Windows or Mac.
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> Yes. However, Arch Linux means you need to spend time, probably several times per year, to fix stuff that worked yesterday but doesn't work anymore.

Largely a myth and config-dependent. I used to have this issue 10 years ago but now most of my troubles are self-inflicted. Things are as stable as they come when using software from the official repos.
> Unfortunately I think the outcome is not going to be any meaningful change for school children

Do these comments affect school children in the first place?
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FYI, you have mixed content; the images from Google Books are coming in over HTTP, not HTTPS. I had to allow it before I could see the images.
Ok but there's a global pandemic on. So the upside exists, but how many people's lives are we willing to endanger for it?
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What makes me think is that, in principle, there should be similar adversarial examples for the human optical system.

Practically speaking it wouldn't fool anyone for more than a split second, not least since our input is video instead of snapshots, but it's an interesting thing to wonder about. Maybe we could build an AI which would be in most senses as smart as us, but which would be more vulnerable to such things?