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That's an uncharitable reading of HNs guidelines. I would interpret the following part of it differently:

> Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

My interpretation is more: HN considers polite racists to be a moderation problem, not a hook for angry shouting at each other.
That's the point of the analogy.
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How does a program go from TLA+ spec to code that can be executed, and verify that they both do the same thing?

Is this a manual (and therefore, subject to human error) process, or do tools exist for automating it?
I use Rust for ML nowadays and I love it!
Nymphomaniac was also barely made in a past decade. Lars von Trier is such a troll he could absolutely make it today.
Yeah, I've used Python in university and before, for ML and DL, for scripting, at work... it's very inconsistent and annoying. The package management situation is horrible. Yet it's seen as this magical beginner friendly and clean or even beautiful and elegant language while the reality is quite different.
>"As soon as subscription is the dominant way, consumers will be squeezed hard"

Can't talk about all consumers but in my case I got rid of all TV services some 15 years ago because I felt bein had. Maybe longer, just do not remember exactly. So no they will not be squeezing me hard. I'll just find something else to do with my money.
In the US, rentals are generally for fixed terms (I haven’t seen any other form, but I could be wrong). The apartment I’m currently in was signed for only one year at a specified monthly payment. First months payment and a security deposit (equal to a monthly payment) were required at signing. At the end of the term, we have the option to renew (at a possibly higher price) or leave (and get the deposit back).

Many rental contracts have an early termination clause of some sorts. Generally, they charge you an “early termination fee” that’ll come out of your security deposit.

However, the laws also have “breach of contract” provisions: if your landlord is not keeping up the property (such as ignoring requested work orders), you have the right to leave at any time (before your term ends) and get your security deposit back. You may have to go to court over it, but you are offered that protection. It does go two ways though: if you are trashing the place, they can kick you out right away and keep your deposit.
Everyone knows CPI is not analogous to reality. Why would it be. Just look at house prices
The article says inflation is up 1.5% overall, and 3% on food in the United States. The food inflation is partially due to increased shipping costs for food, due to increased demand on goods overall. This is demand-pull inflation

> In the U.S., prices rose close to 3% in the year ending Jan. 2, according to NielsenIQ, roughly double the overall rate of inflation.

The soaring food inflation refers to developing countries like Indonesia, which are facing a different set of problems.
Great timing, I currently have a homework for my compiler class about doing LL by hand. I'll give this a go later today to help me visualize.
You might like "Less Than Zero: The Case for a Falling Price Level in a Growing Economy". Available for free online at http://www.iea.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/files...

More or less the author argues that stable nominal spending, ie a constant level of nominal GDP, is pretty much ideal. And would lead to falling prices as you suggest.

If you replace constant level with 'target a level of nominal GDP that rises 4% every year' you have pretty mainstream position.

Inflation measures are indeed somewhat subject. Nominal GDP has less suggement calls.

(It's still useful to try and measure inflation. But perhaps it should not be a policy target.)
Lebanon's diversity is the problem. It only takes a veto from ONE faction.
Isn't that a bit of a red herring? Either I have automated tests that will take time to update every once in a while, or I have manual regression tests that I have to run for every code change. The automated test path seems to be the much less time intensive path, depending on how often you make big changes.

On the other hand I really believe 100% unit test coverage is a bit of a waste of time. Unit tests should be reserved for algorithmic\calculative code, more mundane code logging\carting data from a to b type code should be covered by automated black box testing.
> These companies frequently list restaurants with whom they have no relationship, and when a person makes an order on-line, they just send a driver with a credit card to purchase it takeout and pick it up.

This is scummy, but Deliveroo doesn't do that.
Did you consider something like the following to speed up the calculation? This method can go forward _really_ fast. Not sur e if it can also go backward...

https://pzemtsov.github.io/2015/04/24/game-of-life-hash-tabl...
That’s a good point. The CPI has a huge impact on policy and really just about every financial thing in our lives. It’s kind of insane that we don’t have good visibility and oversight into it!
I just published ScrapeHoney API on RapidAPI. Check it out
Disagree that this is alarmism. The question is whether the way inflation is being measured matches the way we use it to make decisions. Graphs like AEI's Chart of the Century [1] have been highlighting for years that inflation numbers are inappropriately averaging decreasing costs for discretionary purchases, while costs for essentials like healthcare and education grow out of control. When food also starts outpacing the average (historically it has paralleled wages in the USA), you really have to ask what inflation is measuring.

Low inflation is essential to justifying the monetary easing policies that have been sustaining the stock market through the pandemic... so it is important for everyone to keep an eye on how dialog changes around these numbers.

[1] https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-or-century-3...
Five isn't early though..
If this is your big setback did you try using a sysimage? The VSCode extension even has a build task for it. To make the sysimage just be in the base environment and then Ctrl+shift+B and select the Juild build sysimage task. The terminal will tell you where its saving the sysimage. It reduced my startup time to unnoticeable (at least to a person used to MATLAB/Python). I am not a bash guru so I don't know how you do it on command line but its a parameter to julia interpreter.
Yeah, I think it's very interesting because there's a lot of freedom in measuring the similarity and also other aspects of the process, for example optimizing for a "simple" starting configuration as mentioned in other comments.
Nope. Nothing in my post said that.
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Law enforcement agency may not. Three letter agency would.

Russia uses black hats for many of its cyber attacks. They turn a blind eye to their blackhat activities in return.

Why would a three letter agency want to attack Russian hacker forums? To strike them where it hurts, where they earn their money.
I don't know specifics here, except to say that the important thing is not whether or not he warned of the disaster or withheld his consent, but how _infrequent_ that event was.

Did he sign off on STS-61-C?

My understanding is that there were numerous warnings about the Challenger, but the same warnings had been made constantly for every single launch. Sometimes they resulted in delays, etc., but the engineers and managers in charge of the launches had ample evidence of predictions of failure not being borne out because the system was resilient to them.

Similar to warnings about 9/11, or Fukushima, or the 2008 GFC, there were people who predicted them. But, like the saying goes "they predicted 25 of the last 7 recessions".

I can't say whether McDonald fits this mold, but if he did not -- if he made an unusual prediction -- then that should be front and center here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-61-C
A minor correction: the stadia port of terraria is still alive and kicking.
Don’t forget utilities (also skyrocketing here).
It’s pretty ubiquitous among new developers but for working software engineers I think it’s uses are becoming limited.

If you need a web server there are much better choices. Data analysis and scripting are about the only places I see it used successfully nowadays
In 8th grade, a classmate was absent 100 days. This was in a suburb of Cleveland, solidly middle class, late 1960s. Most kids--as far as I knew--came from households with two parents. The kid was well dressed and well fed, just not in school much. Of course I have no idea what communication the school had with the family.
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https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUSR0000SEHC

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUUR0000SEHA

I believe those are the two housing sub components of the basket, with owners’ equivalent rent weighted more than the rent one. Eyeballing it they both look under 2%.
Have you considered the value that an astronaut represents? AFAIK, they are basically genetic anomalies along with extreme learned discipline and intelligence. They're like an asset. Replacement cost of an engineer in tech is estimated to something like 3x their pay, think about how much money it costs to replace an astronaut.
> I also wonder how effective this would be as a compression algorithm

My guess is it would be the opposite of compression in many cases, due to the number of required cells you need to store. Using weird, creative ways of encoding data tends to be bad for compression, and in the very best case you'd have something that competes with JPEG but is much slower.

It's an enticing idea, just like that concept of encoding arbitrary data by looking for the exact same bit pattern in decimal places of Pi and then storing that position. But reality is often disappointing, and it doesn't really work because more often than not you'll need more space to store the decimal position than the original information.
> Super smart view. What's worse is when google (or other FAANGs) gets into a new product area, it in-effect suppresses development in the marketplace because very few people are brave/stupid enough to challenge a trillion dollar behemoth.

Is that actually true though? Googles forays into many markets were usually so horrible and clumsy that better companies could just use the media attention garnered to push their superior products.

Most Google beta products usually lack fundamental features, are geoblocked and completely ignore user voice. I haven't seen many of them really thrive over their better managed competition.
(and sometimes, you have to fix the injuries preventing them from being able to even hold the fishing pole)
Seriously, this is a firing offense at my company.

It mostly centers around driving company vehicles in writing but the company makes no effort to hide the religious roots right on the public website.
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OMG! You can't just say bad things about diversity. Diversity is axiomatically good because it helps prevents unions and saves big corporations
Why? Food prices are usually few percent (6-18% in the western countries) of total household expenses. If you want to look at something that impacts people way more, look at rent or house prices.
(Googler, opinions are my own)

Note: Terraria for stadia is uncanceled[0]. Sadly, Terraria devs nor Google has said anything about what happened (in any kind of detail), but accounts were unlocked and game is back on.

[0] https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/terraria-state...
About 36% of Cyprus by area has been occupied by Turkey since 1974: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus

The amount that couldn't be collected is less than 1% of the total generation. So my guess is it's due to decades old infrastructure where lines just happen to cross over to where the dividing line ended up. Something similar happened in Berlin, where two West Berlin train lines happened to pass through East Berlin briefly, and were allowed to continue to do so even after the wall went up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_U-Bahn

I can easily see the utility deciding that it's easier and cheaper to just let a small bit of power get stolen than incur the costs of changing that infrastructure, as well as the PR costs of cutting off that power. Overall grid losses are likely to be 5% or so anyway.
Not a single person with McDonald's sense of ethics had the authority to scrub the launch. And multiple ICs, not just McDonald, had serious reservations.

If you want to say that my "You don't" is technically false because, if you listen to your conscience, you might get proven right after seven people die and a major investigation happens that remains world news for decades afterwards, and even then you'll get demoted and sidelined until the US Congress intervenes, then ... yes, you can. I will rephrase to "You usually don't." (But even so, that just gets you promoted at Thiokol, and my statement stands for NASA.)

Why didn't anyone scrub Columbia's launch? Why did the investigation board say that NASA had most of the same cultural and leadership flaws that the Rogers Commission had raised concerns about?

The SREs have a saying, "Hope is not a strategy." You can hope that the person you promote will have a sense of ethics, and maybe they will, but that does nothing to ensure that you'll have ethical decision-making.
Notice how that argument starts with the conclusion "In Qubes VMs there is no point in isolating the root account" and proceeds to rationalize it, very poorly, by using some cherry picked examples where that may be true.

OK, an attacker capable to attack the hypervisor when running as root may be often "game over" if it runs as regular user. But that kind of attack is so rare, why is it the base of the argument at all?

Meanwhile your browser/other big SV application/script from Github can become root whenever it wants, or by accident. It can send contents of the whole VM over the Internet to anybody. Or an honest bug in it can destroy your whole VM. This is why the unix privilege separation or even more capable MAC systems exist. Seriously, running untrusted applications with root access is a braindead idea.
Check out the video course from Leslie Lamport (the creator of TLA+) himself:

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/learning.html
Israel commits massive human rights violations and is aggressively and illegally expanding its borders (which were a colonization project from the start). No one should support or work with them and the US should stop funding Israel.
Also proper tools make all the difference. There’s a lot of pro IDE talk in this thread now but text editors exist for a reason
In fact I wanted to point to the following... Googling 'hash' put me to the wrong page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife
If only! Property taxes are close to free of deadweight losses.

(Only the proportion of property taxes that falls on the buildings etc causes deadweight losses. The proportion that falls on the value of the land is free of deadweight losses.

See Land Value Taxes.)
Israel isn't particularly funded by the US. They receive a small amount of money from the US, as do about 100 other nations around the world, including several prominent nations that have historically disliked Israel (see: Egypt, Pakistan).

Israel is now one of the most prosperous nations in world history. Their GDP per capita will soon be among the highest of any nation. They passed Japan, Britain and France recently on that metric; next they'll pass Canada and Germany. They're entirely free-standing economically at this point and do not require US funding (even though the US will obviously continue to have deep economic ties with Israel, including militarily).
To clarify, the low-skill "persuasive bullshit" artists (as categorized in the article in opposition to the evasive type) you mentioned respond well to that sort of thing, and so do the various members of the public that they are able to convince. I happen to share your dislike of that sort of thing... but in works in various contexts. And that dislike we share is not atypical, simply less common.

What I mean is that they are not the only type of bullshitter. It's seductive to think that we can catch all of them like pokemon because we can identify the lowest hanging fruit.

Anecdotally, I have met some people I would describe as true masters of the craft and it's an experience that completely changed the way I see that sort of thing. It ha shaken my confidence in my own observational skills.
So hosted PAM, but I don't see any compliance certifications on your website? How do you have fintech customers today using it (or really, anyone using it)? Why would anyone trust you guys to proxy access to their environments?
Depends.

Allowing users to make reports is NOT the hard part -- I can throw together an HTML form and a DB for reports in about 1 day.

The HARD part is finding a way to make these reports useful and actionable. To make sure that they ADD value to your community-building rather than subtracting it.

The exact solution depends on the community. And it must address issues like spam, false-reports, reporting for disagreement instead of concerns, reports that are ignored, and the fact that users don't actually agree on what standards of content ought to be acceptable.

IF someone had a reporting system that addressed at least some of these issues, then it would be extremely valuable. But the top companies in the world addressing these issues don't seem to have figured out an ideal solution yet; I doubt you have one.
For rich people.
Netflix is doing it! So it must be right for my 1 developer internal app with a dozen users.
> Developed countries can cut themselves off from that labour supply if they like, but I have no idea what the economic incentive (or benefit) of doing so is for either the workers or the citizens.

It would end supply of people who are willing to work for unlivable wages, thus making wages for low-end work to go up. The lowest rungs of society would benefit greatly from it, while everyone pay would pay for it (via increased prices).
small talk is a whole spectrum depending on which society you live in.

what is seen as supportive and caring in one group, may in other societies be read as a pathetic display of insecurity via compulsive constant reassurance that things are still OK.

I have lived among both groups and one of the hardest things was/is the transition from one to the other (every couple of years - I move a lot).

For sake of illustration here is how it effects me (slightly exaggerated for purpose of showing the contrast):
When I live among "rude" continental Europeans (or Chinese/Koreans/Singaporeans) I'm outraged at my environment for not constantly being kind to strangers. And when I live in places dominated by "uppety" native-English expats or in English speaking countries the constant fake/inauthentic display of caring for each other makes my skin crawl.

In my case I will always get sick quickly of whatever my current surrounding is and I start missing the other group. I personally think this is a generalization:

> people who display an aversion in line of principle to small talk, have difficulties to communicate with people in general.

Having grown up in a "rude" society I had to work hard to shed this behavior in order to thrive in my new surrounding. When switching back to my origins I end up resenting them for being vile, uncultured or "asocial". It took me a couple of decades and learning not to take either society/customs too personal. But to me it's always more emotional effort to ignore noise than it is to deal with the silence (or lack of manners).
>> Do we have a way of seeing periodic media obsessions?

We have dozens. Countless companies have tools to show you how things are happening on social media, and all the big new outlets mirror their content to social media. At the most simple level, basic word counts can track how issues appear and disappear. When you hear about a 75% drop in coverage of "Biden v. Trump" that is almost certainly taken from the number of times those two names are included in news reports. Counting words or highlighting the use of new words does not require AI.
> We have lots of things to worry about -- inflation isn't one of them.

I really hate this comment. I am worried about not being able to ever being afford a house for my family. Avg income in my neighborhood is ~49k but a 2 bed condo here are selling for 450K and getting outbid by 75k over the asking price. Its insane.

Maybe you already own a house and are happy that prices are up. But its really weird to tell other ppl what they should be worried about.
Money is a measure of importance. Without it you make it VERY hard to determine what to do next, or whether what you did so far is sustainable.

For example, at the end of the current month I "spent" five chicken and twenty bushes of lavender (I live in the countryside :D) and acquired two dogs and fifty kilos of grain. Was that good? Can I keep doing the same thing next month, or should I change my "prices"?

Do not dismiss money lightly, it's far more important than you might think.
Alibaba exists on a closed market, and with all respect (and not just due) to their effort, I do not think it's viable to count their mainland china size - same as I wouldn't count mainland china AWS region etc.
The account issues have apparently been resolved, and Terraria port to Stadia has been uncanceled:

https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/terraria-state...

Disclaimer: I work at Google, but don’t work anywhere near this.
These are excellent! And you also made synthmodes which I use all the time. Thank you!
This is pretty common in games companies that have a cash cow that provides a good income then they struggle to release anything else.
Monogamy should actually decrease sexual scarcity. There are a lot of sexual topologies out there, but let's compare two historically common ones: monogamy and polygamy.

Boys and girls are born in equal proportion, and monogamy pairs them up. If nobody died before old age and everyone were adequately paired up, monogamy would mean that every couple that wants sex could have it, a certain shade of zero scarcity.

Historically, polygamy meant that attractive or powerful men could have multiple wives. So again, given our sexes' equal birth rates and assuming nobody died before old age, a polygamous society must leave some men without a committed partner for sex.
Similar post from mid-2020, using PyTorch instead of JAX, and using a "continuous" (gradient-based) hill-climbing: http://hardmath123.github.io/conways-gradient.html

And the HN discussion from the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23095190
The US gives Israel billions of dollars every year:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–United_States_relatio...
Your name hints that you had that, just as I had. It didn't work out so well anywhere it was tried, but I'm sure the next time will be different. /sarc
Show me evidence of this. Blaming all the anthropologists for being prudes and suppressing the data that everybody wants to hear and that would make them famous is just not even remotely believable.
I have published multiple photonics papers and contributed to many and nobody has ever had the need to provide a citation for maxwell's equations. I would consider it reference padding if you do. Point is people could still have used the term without her publishing it. Also, am I supposed to take her word for it, at least she could have cited somewhere which tried to use it and give her credit. This seems like if anyone uses trapezoidal method she would take credit because nobody had a citation so everyone was just using "Tai's model".
It'd be a sadder world if modern audiences could no longer enjoy Homer, or Shakespeare, or P.G. Wodehouse, or Firefly. It'd be a poorer world if current art could no longer build on or remix older art. Does this really need an argument?

Good art can and often does contain topical references which are mostly ephemeral, but I can't think of anything I've ever seen which was both a) entirely ephemeral and b) worth a damn.