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> Now I use Pycharm for python and web development for things that can reasonably be called a "project"; the level of language support, introspection, and intelligent code prediction exceeds anything I ever achieved in Emacs.

It can be said for any other text editor. Of course, specialized tools are better most of the time.

The open source community should pool resources to create code inspection, refactoring libraries for all kinds of languages, so all extendable editors can use these libraries to provide these features.

LSP is a first step for this, but there needs to be a deeper language integration to give intelligent tips, refactoring operations, etc. for all popular languages.
One of my favorite hidden (not really hidden, but well, not the most known either) gems in DTLA. A must-visit!
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> Octopuses are famously smart, but their central brain is only a small part of their nervous systems. Two-thirds of the roughly 500 million neurons in an octopus are found in its arms.

OK...

> For the octopus, with thousands of suckers studding symmetric arms, each of which can bend at any point, building a central mental representation of how to move seems like a computational nightmare. But experiments show that the octopus doesn’t do that. “The brain doesn’t have to know how to move this floppy arm,” Cheng said. Rather, the arm knows how to move the arm.

How is this supposed to explain anything? The computational problem is the same whether you solve it with neurons located in the head or neurons located in the arm...?
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While the title of Tim's essay (which is not all matching with the title) is wrong so is your conclusion.

> Silicon Valley will never die.

Silicon valley is already dead in many sense. It has long stopped being the place where bunch of nerds could meet and make interesting stuff purely for the soul in the game. In last 20 years it is replaced by "i want to get rich" crowd who are building crappy products, VCs in suites who just get lucky every now and then, Big Tech which is a bog in itself, greedy and corrupt politicians squeezing people. The joy of building stuff is replaced with pressure of white board coding, and folks are large cos are not really solving interesting problems but haggling over promos and TC on teamblind.com.

SV of today is just another wall street where people spend their 20s and 30s doing back breaking work so they could get out of this place in their 40s. It is a soul less place.

I think SV will die eventually (so will NY, London or any other city) over sufficiently long period.
The article neither tells anyone to leave SV nor is it talking about SV as a geographical area but rather the modern state of the tech industry, if you and so many others like you have actually bothered to read to the end of the very first paragraph.

> Is this the end of Silicon Valley as we know it? Perhaps. But other challenges to Silicon Valley’s preeminence are more fundamental than the tech diaspora.
> or Wall Street is doomed

IDK Wall Street seems pretty irrelevant to me. The only thing that matters these days is the Fed.
Wasn’t Opera, Nokia, and QT all within the same building too in Oslo? Maybe something’s in the water
What about wget ?!
Absolutely. Regardless of one’s sentiment on Apple removing the charger this should be a focus of the discussion.
It's over. It was done by wandering poor people and there's no longer a strong market demand for it.
> some Italian islands are technically part of Africa.

Not aware of this. Maybe you’re thinking of the Pelagie islands, which are very close to North Africa?
Give me $100B worth of M$ options and I'll become benevolent, kind and generous too.
Wow, they really wanted to kill off MIPS, burn their partners, and destroy any remaining credibility, didn't they?

Astonishing.
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I know you’re right in theory but I’m slightly grossed out anyhow
Please let's not go into the Musk Wars. They're all the same and always lame.
How many of those artists are earning a living at it, and are not engaging in that production in their leisure time as relatively wealthy people?

Moreover, if I haven't heard of it, then the signal isn't stronger than the noise. It's not particularly _interesting_.
Emacs is a text UI (though it can show images too) on top of a cross OS programming platform where you can create quick UIs for any kind of task you have (interfacing with APIs, command line programs, editing tasks, etc.).

Once you learn how Emacs works and how it can be programmed, you can create interactive tools extremely quickly to make lots of tasks you encounter day to day easier. I do this all the time.
I've started looking at fines in terms of "if we scaled this to a normal person, what was the fine?"; Apple's revenue in 2020 was $274.5B, so a $2M fine scaled to an income of $65k (approximately the US median) is 47.3 cents.
> I love Emacs, but I think it’s safe to say that it’s a lot harder to use than Visual Studio Code

Emacs discussions on HN are always unsatisfying, because everyone seems to want to compare it with IDEs or other programming editors.

Only a small portion of the article is about SW development.

The fraction of Emacs users who use it primarily for things other than programming is a lot bigger than most HN readers think it is. Comparing it to VSCode is meaningless to them. Kind of like having a discussion about PCs, and having people repeatedly talking about how iPods are better. Yes, lots of people use PCs to listen to music, but the comparison is rather silly.
A few things that you are probably getting wrong about why Flutter uses Dart
I missed this answer the first time around. Thanks so much for the reply. I always get machines with the maximum amount of RAM precisely for this reason.
Who are these multi millionaires? Clearly I know the wrong people in tech in the Bay Area.
The people whose literal jobs it is to provide a service and protect the data, lost it. This seems to have been glossed over in the comments - I guess, none of you want the responsibility of doing your job properly, and don't deserve to keep it.

Blaming the victims is not on. Assuming the victims should have done a better job than paid and trained professionals is not on. Assuming the victims are all CS majors is not on.

"Users should know better!" you scream, into a world where currently almost everything stored locally is already safely shuffled to the cloud to be retained even if your desktop dies (Windows 10 OneDrive, and Apple iCloud, and other solutions like Dropbox, Box). Except, obviously, at this university.
I think what you're saying is plausible, but I would expect the different models to diverge at different rates in that case. So, for example, if resnet-real and resnet-ideal stayed within 1% and the other models showed a bigger range, I would be more suspicious that the generative model was simply creating a dataset that was easy for some architectures to learn.

That being said, I think it would have been much better if they compared some non-convolutional architectures just as a sanity check

Edit: after I wrote this, I checked, and ViT-b/4 is actually a transformer architecture, not CNN. So they did this! And it stayed very close to the same error range from ideal as the CNNs. I am much more confident now that what they did is fine
Would it be more accurate to refer to this as the Powertrain, not the power plant?

I expected this article to be about electricity generation
All: please respond to the substance of the article, not the baity title. The latter leads to boring flamewar, while the article (and we all) deserve better.

To help with that, we've changed the title above to the what high school English teachers would call its thesis statement.
Hmm, wasn't # the default erase character for teletype-era Unix? And @ the "kill" character (like modern ^U)? That would have made them a little annoying to type—not annoying enough to keep them from being used for cpp, though, and https://github.com/memnoth/unix-v6/blob/master/sys/dmr/tty.c... suggests that you could type \#. (There was no "lnext" yet; it was just hardcoded to backslash.)

The actual input erase handling is on https://github.com/memnoth/unix-v6/blob/master/sys/dmr/tty.c.... The relevant struct member is declared in https://github.com/memnoth/unix-v6/blob/master/sys/tty.h#L35 and initialized to CERASE in each tty driver, for example, https://github.com/memnoth/unix-v6/blob/master/sys/dmr/kl.c#..., using the macro defined in https://github.com/memnoth/unix-v6/blob/master/sys/tty.h#L48.

So by default # was special, just to the kernel tty driver, not the shell.
Very well, next time I will simply state “the article doesn’t mention any of that, you have clearly not read it, and you are using this comment thread as a personal soapbox to broadcast your own opinions about a subject that is orthogonal to the actual link, sucking up valuable discussion that could be actually relevant and addresses the article at hand.”
> Beijing will acquire that soon enough.

I very much doubt it. Israel and china have something in common like all rising powers do, strong nationalism. Foreigners getting funded before locals is I am sure completely unthinkable.
Here's a simpler javascript/svg version: https://observablehq.com/@ramonaisonline/cistercian-numeral-...
> There's a reason why we have never seen a world leading tech company come out from anywhere except the US.

Spotify, ATI, ARM, BlackBerry?
People who have “peaked” have a lot of offer in terms of mentorship, connections etc.

In fact, a concentration of people who’ve been there done that is probably that hardest thing to find in one place outside the respective central cities.
If you want to get into "rigorous" mathematics, I'd probably go a path similar to the one I'll outline here, but YMMV.

You may want to pick a book on writing proofs to familiarize yourself with the concepts first, such as "How to prove it" (either the one by Velleman or Polya). Another good one for getting to some intuitions might be "How to solve it" by Polya.

Then, you might pick up any elementary book on Real Analysis, Linear Algebra, as well as Graph theory/some Algorithms. Most of these should be self-contained. These 3 areas should lay a very firm mathematical foundation, and other parts of mathematics will become a lot more accessible with them.

Just be mindful that you'll probably need a long time going through these books, and that's normal. If you gloss over things, you'll quickly miss important bits. It's not like other books where you can kinda grok things out of context if you just continue reading, at least for me. I wouldn't do more than max 2h per day, but be consistent if you want to see progress.
Emulators can give you the best at of both worlds.
I think they are kinda saying that the function of the arm is abstracted away from the main brain.

Like the main brain can say “move leg” and doesn’t need to worry about how exactly that leg achieves its goal.
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Because the younger talent they’re trying to attract prefers a lively city to the suburban sprawl with good schools
So the main claim of this paper is: "...good models and training procedures are those that (1) optimize quickly in the ideal world and (2) do not optimize too quickly in the real world."

Will be interesting to replicate those results on different data.
》But as long as more immigrants from other countries come to Silicon Valley because they've heard about how rich people come

Why should I come to SV? Living standard, taxes, workforce cost, housing... I may get $5m funding, but that would only buy an office and couple of employees for a few years. And if I ever make it, VC and California taxes would eat 90% of my profit.

And do not even let me start on family and children cost and friendliness. Buying $3m house, so homeless guy can expose himself in front of my daughter... :(

Raising funds is not that big deal, there is so much free capital now. New trend is residency in tax heaven (UAE, Singapore, Cyprus) and globally distributed team.
Slightly more complicated, but you can also do bare metal programming on a Raspberry Pi, e.g. http://cs107e.github.io
For software it sure is Mecca and nothing else comes close.
Probably most people I work with in their 30s or 40s are multimillionaires.
Maybe you should check what some of their houses are worth lol
In addition to Browservice, WRP is also pretty good for very old browser that can't do anything but to load images. As long as you can load a webpage with image map support, you can browse any modern websites on it (I think Browservice requires some js support on the client browser).

https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
It's a partial solution, sadly... Try youtube vanced or similar front-end changing apps.
You think it should be illegal to raise prices?
If your talented and fail at starting your own company it won’t be very hard to find a job in sv
Got it I’ll check that out
Switched my core network for 10g last summer with no regrets, can imagine life without it now tbh
It's like the pilot is simply sitting atop a huge engine! But I bet most fighter planes at like that.
It's just a great balance of dynamicism and pragmatism.

I can redefine a function without restarting, and then get assembly level profiling of a benchmark faster than a typical C++ program can link.

Most of the features that made lisps unique when I started learning lisp have been adopted by modern languages, but the debug tooling and dynamicism in a compiled language are both rare.
Korean unification seems even more inevitable, and I've been waiting for North Korea to collapse since the 1980s, but here we are close to 80 years since the split and the status quo remains as intractable as ever.
The younger talent they are trying to recruit prefers a lively city with broad culture and opportunities, which exist in many places outside of SV - and in different forms than just the tech mono-culture that SF is today.
Not sure if the analogy I'm about to put forward is oversimplified, but it feels akin to "display Thing on Screen" being instructed to the GPU and the GPU doing all the heavy lifting to calculate what Thing is and ultimately displaying it on Screen.
Having as part of the law won't help.

I work for a website that lists housing rentals.

Lead paint is still a very big deal, with a lot of complexity, and that's been banned nationally since 1978.
That's perfectly correct on a rational level, but I presume you're getting downvotes because the last person who tried to "unify" Austria & Germany was Hitler in 1938.
Yes, geologically they are part of the continent of Africa. I think Pantelleria is also part of Africa, but there's still some debate there as it's existence may predate Europe and Africa's breakup.
Crappy payments isn't a tech problem, it's a market problem. Consumers and merchants can't be bothered to adopt contactless technologies that were introduced half a decade ago.

Companies have tried QR codes and other payment schemes long before that (including the unfortunately named ISIS), but again, no traction.
Mine! The dog was licking where his balls used to be like nothing happened a few moments later. Way before my heart rate came down, he was napping.
You’re DIY-ing covid related information. Twitter has such a large amount of covid info from fake accounts, it could be they are suppressing anything not from official sources.

Frequent use of repetitive or trending hash tags, repetitive content, and high tweet frequency are all other things I believe can also lead to search suppression.
Too bad, I would've converted to AMD if they openly defied crypto pyramid schemes.
This planet makes no sense without humans.
It's beneficial to do it like this for the octopus given the constraints of its environment. Have a close run in with a seal or a shark or some other predator, and lose an arm, and you aren't wasting energy maintaining resources for the missing arm in the central head brain. Two octopus being equal aside from a central brain versus a limb based system, and you chop off an arm, the limb based octopus will survive and eventually out compete the centralized brain octopus due to lower total metabolic costs from their more modular brain system. The central brain octopus needs to eat more food to pay for a brain it isn't using to its fullest extent.
Humans are like the central brain octopus. We have experiences like the phantom limb phenomenon after becoming paraplegic; there is still the signalling network set up for the missing limbs and this is still a metabolic cost to keep up these connections in the brain even with the limb no longer present on the body.
They are moving towards wireless charging which will solve that issue.
Whoa, crossing into personal attack like this will get you banned here. Please don't post in the flamewar style generally.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
>There are atleast a couple of projects like spacemacs and doom-emacs that already do that.

Both of which are not really true to the core Emacs philosophy in several ways though. And thus, they add a whole new layer to have to debug when something breaks.

>So i doubt it's ever going to be better than it already is through collaborative efforts of people with different goals.

But there are plenty of open source projects that succeed at usability despite having different people working on different goals. The question is whether we want Emacs to be the best text editor for everyone, or the best text editor for an elite few.

>The problem with the point you are making is someone has to do that hard work and also need to market it to the beginners. There isn't any money to make Emacs friendly to beginners. So i doubt it's ever going to be better than it already is through collaborative efforts of people with different goals.

Of course someone has to do this work, but how hard did Microsoft market VSCode? VSCode's rise has been fueled by word of mouth and strong first-party support for popular tooling. "Marketing" in this case is overstated. You need a product good enough to sell first.

I'm not at all denying this would be a lot of work, but I think it's worthwhile. If you think it's a problem that work is not being done in this area then we don't disagree.
i coudln't figure out how to open a web page.
The South Bay is either boring or very expensive. SF still feels very genuine and has a lot more going on compared to Sunnyvale. Not to say there is no reason to live there, but it seems to mostly attract families who like suburban living
Many places have plenty of talent, capital is increasingly global, and greed is a human constant. None of these are meaningfully unique to Silicon Valley these days. What traditionally has been unique is the culture, the importance of which should never be underestimated. Unfortunately for Silicon Valley, that culture now exists in many pockets outside of Silicon Valley, often brought there by former denizens of The Valley. And those people are bring a lot more wealth with them due to making loads of money.

To your point, I do think the amount of money being thrown at employees in Silicon Valley (and Seattle, and...) has been detrimental to the ability to build hardcore technology startups. The cost of building a critical mass of highly qualified employees has made doing so effectively unachievable in many domains that require such employees to have any chance of executing successfully. This has created an arguably pathological selection bias for the kinds of startups that can be funded or the kinds of founders that can plausibly start a given company.

Silicon Valley isn’t dead but as a place to build a tech company it is looking less differentiated with each passing year. Some critical future software deep tech is now developed almost entirely outside of Silicon Valley (cloud, AI, etc) even at companies headquartered in the Valley.
I have undergrad degrees in EE and physics. There is barely any similarities besides a class or two in electrodynamics.

I even went a step further with how involved with physics I was during the EE degree and specialized in RF; hardly any of that was covered in my physics degree.
I don't think a lot of people quite grasp how big of a scam silicon valley is. I've pieced most of the information together from articles that I have seen here.

Do you know who owns the majority of rental properties in silicon valley? East coast and Midwest pension funds or investment firms using their capital. This includes office space and residential areas. Care to take a guess who's capital the majority of VC firms are investing? If you guessed east coast and Midwest pension funds, you're right.

Moving to silicon valley to get a good paying job? Prepare to spend most of it on rent, basically paying a significant portion if not the majority of your salary to the very individuals that own controlling interest in the company paying you. Going to silicon valley to start a company? Prepare to pay a significant portion of that funding you got right back where you got it for office space.

Imagine if you could take a significant share, potentially a controlling interest, in every major tech startup basically for free. You create an engine to suck productivity out of some of the most creative, technically proficient innovators in the US by owning land in northern California and convincing them that they have to go there and rent from you to get your money to make their big ideas happen. Now you get to own some of the most productive people on the planet. That's one hell of a profitable scam. And the funny thing, we all forgot why you had to go there in the first place, that the silicon was made there, and we just take it as gospel that you have to go there to work in tech, even though the silicon is all made in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China now. And let's not even get started on the hypocrisy of pension funds that exist due to union lobbying doing this.

Now, if you're still considering going there, as an added bonus consider that you'll be surrounded by people that step over homeless people on the way to work where they will write social media posts about income inequality.
> It's beneficial to do it like this for the octopus given the constraints of its environment. Have a close run in with a seal or a shark or some other predator, and lose an arm, and you aren't wasting energy maintaining resources for the missing arm in the central head brain.

This is a perfectly reasonable thing to say, but it tends to conflict with the article's own interpretation of what it's saying.

For example, the image captioned "Octopus movements are too complex to be centrally coordinated."

Their point does not appear to be that you can save on energy budget by storing the arm software in the arm, so that it goes away when the arm does. Rather, they seem to be saying that it's possible for the arm software to solve problems that would be too computationally complex to solve, if you were trying to solve them inside the head instead of the arm.
i disagree. One can certainly add one related link to HN and we can discuss about it there. This thread however is to talk about the OP linked article. I'm not in Brazil, but i can imagine that as anywhere in the world, there is no such thing as "The" government, but different agencies, ministries each one with their own duties/responsibilities.
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Between this and "What are you talking about? Can you read?" and other things you posted, you've crossed well into bannable territory. Devolving into flamewar and personal attack is not acceptable on HN. No more of this, please.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Personally I'm glad that companies are starting to not ship new cables with phones and would like to see it extended to other rechargables. I've thrown out so many micro-USB cables over the last few years and I still have them all over the place.