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This is unlikely to happen as it would contravene basic doctrine of Marxism-Leninism about the purpose of establishing a party (which is supposed to take over the the state, and then gradually become obsolete). The Maoist development of this is supposed to stop the party from becoming ossified by continually measuring how well it is meeting the needs of the people similar to product development or marketing, except that their service is civil/industrial administration. I don't know enough about later developments in their official ideologies, or enough about China to say to what extent their governance is a reflection of their cultural mores, but it seems to me that communists start with a rationalistic view of economics and production (ie beginning with axioms identified by Marx) and then try to build empirically on top of that by trying out different policies in pursuit of the general goal of maximizing collective utility.

My impression is that one succeeds in Chinese public life by successfully innovating in pursuit of received (and perhaps arbitrary) goals, such that being good at the means eventually allows you to have input on what the appropriate ends may be, and this is why many Chinese VIPs come from an engineering background. But success in civil administration or development of infrastructure is built upon getting results in response to specific conditions rather than the articulation or application of general principles, and is judged by administrative peers rather than the public.

I don't feel one can understand China in terms of just capitalism v communism both because they have a sort of mixed economy that that is hypersocialistic in some respects and hypercapitalistic in others, and because of the different philosophical currents in Chinese culture like the hierarchism of Confucianism, the legalism of Mencius, and the oddness of Taoism, which can seem like pure solipsism or all encompassing systems theory. But it does seem to me that once the emergence of distinct factions would be regarded as an existential problem to be resolved as urgently as possible through some kind of intra-party showdown rather institutionalized duopoly. Harmonious stability has been a strong cultural more there for ~2000 years, so very dynamic internal politics would risk a sort of national introversion that would weaken China with respect to the rest of the world.
I can relate to this. I put my SAT score on my resume until I was 23 or 24. Kind of embarrassing, but I was desperate for a way to show I was smart.
Well for starters, there are lines of cargo ships outside of LA, 20-30 off the coast of LA right now. Typically it would be 1-2. That’s something like 100,000 sitting idle right there. Then many of the storage facilities are also jam packed with containers too.

Apparently we’ve all gone on a spending spree during COVID so more containers are simply out there filled with crap we’ve ordered and waiting for shipment, unloading, and return to the ports.
Bald Eagles don't eat pigeon. Are you thinking of the Peregrine Falcon? Or am I misunderstanding your reference?
Yeah this is the problem with the React ecosystem. I'm intimately familiar with this stack and used to use redux with "duck" modules professionally, complete with sagas and epics, and rxjs and the whole kitten, so it's not that I don't understand all the terms and am just overwhelmed. It's just that once you stop using Redux, it becomes so much easier to build and manage your app, and you don't even realize how much you're complicating everything by using sagas and actions creators and reducers and selectors and.. and.. and.

You don't even realize how bad the boilerplate is until it's all gone. With svelte and some writable and readable stores, I can build apps in a fraction of the time because every time I want to make a change I don't have to start with an action creator, than integrate that into the reducer, then write a selector, then pull it into my component. Oh I guess I need to write an epic with rxjs to fetch the data.

Svelte has 2 primitives that replace all of this: readable and writable. You can create a writable store and you call `.update` or `.set` like react setState. Want to separate your update logic from your component logic like in redux? Easy, just export functions to update the store instead of calling `.update` in your components.

Then, there's readable. Now, readable can be used like a reselect selector, but it's also far more powerful. You can subscribe to changes from a writable, or even other readable stores. You can create a readable that fetches your data. You can create a readable that subscribes to firestore collection or document. You can make a readable that combines data from multiple sources. It's all clear and composable. And I didn't have to write an action creator with an action constant called `LOADING_PRODUCTS`, and one called `LOADED_PRODUCTS`, and then one called `UPDATED_PRODUCTS`, and for good measure we should also create an action "PRODUCTS_REQUEST_FAILED" that we'll emit from the epic.
I was just about to make the exact same comment, but I think you articulated it perfectly. People are fine with literally every other type of neurodiversity but god help you if you so much as mention intelligence.

I mean just look at all the negative sentiment going on in the rest of these comments. Guys, there’s nothing wrong about seeking out people similar to yourself.
Sometimes called moonmoons.

A system the size of our solar system centred on a jupiter-sized object wouldn't be very stable - it'd be quickly disrupted by an encounter with a star.
MBA myself, and I can happily contrast the hate here with how much ridicule of engineers there was from business professors when I was in college. I just knock off a few points of my perception of the speaker's competence either way.
The article covers this concern, and the claim there is that they have verified that regular wear and tear does not tarnish the fingerprint.
I find this really interesting because they seem to be tightly linked in both directions.

I know from personal experience that one's mental wellbeing affects how well I can absorb information. I think it’s also pretty clear that being better-off financially, as comes with higher levels of education, lowers certain types of stressors in one’s life.
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A score on a test doesn't imply enough for you to actually have things in common. (However, just being in a secret club might motivate you enough to find some things to talk about.)

You can get the Mensa experience without joining by having a Quora account - their AI always picks the oddest topics to send to you. For the longest time it would send me all the "what's it like to have a high IQ?" questions and I noticed 1. it wasn't really like anything, and 2. I didn't want to hang out with the people answering them.

You could also read rationalist-associated blogs, several of which are written by people who if you leave them alone for ten minutes try to reinvent eugenics.

e.g. I was linked this one yesterday: https://fantasticanachronism.com/2021/03/23/two-paths-to-the...
and there is like no self-reflection on the concept that maybe optimizing babies for "IQ" will not get you what you want, and that maybe Singapore is not actually genetically better or worse than other places, and neither was John von Neumann.
If you had said "No one ever decided not to use D because of the GC" or something along those lines sure... I'd agree. But your claim was "No one ever decided to use any language whatsoever because it didn't have a GC." and that's simply untrue. If C++ got a GC I would immediately stop using it and would have never used it to begin with.

All the rest of your points in your follow up post are very specific to D and yes, those other points are all legitimate reasons people don't use D, regardless of its GC. It's simply that your original claim about language preference on the basis of GC was not specific to D and it's certainly false.
Zig on Plan 9 would be a lot of fun.
I blogged about mine a couple months back: https://medium.com/general-thoughts/my-open-source-documenta...
Y-day I deleted my account and re-newed blocking of reddit in my /etc/hosts and I suggests everyone to do the same.
For diversity and inclusion in AI papers, they bring up facts like "All of the top 10 most-cited AI researchers are men" and then posit this as bad, and in support of a 50%-50% gender representation in AI. Like in: The field still has a long way to go. Not: we judged these extremely rare geniuses on their gender, and when you do this, you get bad diversity-and-inclusion optics.

And how to solve that perceived problem? Judge other academics on their gender, place them in a victimized group, and then compose your reference list with that in mind? The top 10 starts doing exactly that, because the guilt they feel is real. So they say nothing when privileged researchers can use the LatinX-in-AI, Women-in-AI, Black-in-AI, Gay-in-AI, Jewish-in-AI backdoors to get in a prestigious AI conference publication.
https://twitter.com/AgenciesLeth/status/1374836312860151808?...

As of 2330 (GMT+2) M/V EVER GIVEN, no. 5 in the 23rd of March NB convoy remains #grounded in the #SuezCanal.

Vessel no. 6, 7 & 8 will be assisted by tugs back to Suez anchorage area, clearing space for M/V EVER GIVEN to be towed out the same way as she entered once re-floated. https://t.co/ltXEyRZtqX

Looks like it's going to take a while...
> We somehow managed to get through the phase where Microsoft Windows was a hard requirement on your computer for compatibility reasons

This almost made me spill my drink ))

Is it so much better in the Netherlands, or do you just not get to interact with government bureaucracy much? Trying to e.g. get a building permit over here without using MS Office and Windows is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy...
> Just like in a fraternity, you get connections.

Gender segregated groups in the year 2021 have just entered chat.

Nepotism has just entered chat.

You have left chat.
> even the difference between passing by reference vs value

You can only pass by value in JS so maybe that's why. It is a bit confusing because of how objects work that it feels like you are passing by reference. You are passing reference as the value.
How is this on the Hacker News front page?

I thought guys here read Yudea Pearl?
There are valid reason to do that. Like a component that takes render function and item that is passed into it that can be anything.
I guess he's not used to political speech, as he has more technical experience. He needs to get used to picking his words more carefully.
I hear you feel disappointed, but it is presumably due to someone having misled you due to their misinterpretation of Larry's design.

Roast (the Repository Of All Specification Tests) has, for over 20 years in design terms, and 15+ years in reality, been Raku's canonical, machine readable specification that is versionable, branchable, forkable, mergeable, and which is backed by a PL design that envisages its versioning, branching, forking, and merging.

So we now have a suite of approaching 200K tests that provide a principled software engineering way to generate a single boolean True|False that a so-called Raku compiler does or does not precisely implement the machine readable specification.

Features cannot be removed or added without not only being specified in language, and if appropriate subjected to formal analysis, but also openly discussed and debated, implemented in a branch, hammered on for however long with beta testers trying it out to see if it's worth removing/adding, and only then arriving in the official master branch of roast.

This can and has meant there can be up to a 3 year period before changes become official, or, conversely, a 24 hour period for a security patch to become official, and the system guarantees that any risk of breakage is controlled by users. This is a revolutionary level of centralized/distributed digital governance.
Very true, while I appreciated React Hooks for making React easier for beginners by avoiding the giant can of worms that is OOP mechanics in JavaScript, they are also very magical and even more framework-specific.

That said, vanilla JS can be hard like this as well, especially as "solved" legacy issues still regularly crop up in tutorials and code-bases. Many times I remember helping newer folks with challenges they found online that seemed to them like they were testing hard computer science problems, but were more just trivia to navigate some bad design decisions of JS (eg gotcha problems on "this" / binding, IFFE, hoisting, async/promises/callbacks, to name a few)
Is there a handshake or signal?

Perhaps people rub their temples or chins contemplatively.
Ugh finance sucks but dude this guy's examples don't check out.

> Our organisation’s accountants, in their infinite wisdom, had hardwired rules about maximum increases in pay for existing employees which blocked this engineer’s manager from being able to give them a raise in line with their market rate

Escalate the pay issue of that soon-to-be college grad up your chain. Why are you making this Finance's call? If there's no escalation path (or sympathietic exec), then it's a management problem, not a finance problem.

> As a fleet of vehicles we used was approaching the end of a lease-hire agreement, we had the option of buying them out for a lump sum worth about 5 month’s worth of lease – let’s say €3k each or, getting a new fleet for another 3-year contract at €600/each per month. ... The accountants, however, were more worried about the abstract and frankly imaginary concept of depreciation that would come from us technically now owning these assets and them losing 10% of their value per year on paper.

Those numbers do not pass the most cursory of accounting logic from a finance perspective. You'd reduce Opex 86% by buying & depreciating over 3 years. If you depreciate on a 10 year schedule you're looking at 95%+ opex reduction. There's legit reasons not to do that (is the company's cash position weird? What are this quarters #s looking like? What else is in capex this year? What costs might you be forgetting?), but this guy seems to wildly misunderstand those reasons.
He didn't get the memo Trump isn't president anymore. The dog whistles are out of style right now.
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Maybe this analogy will help: joining a high-IQ club is not like joining just any athletic club. It's like joining an athletic club that's restricted based on a metric. What if you wanted to join a hiking club in your area but found out the only way to join was to prove you hiked X mountains first? I could see why that would turn some people off. It's not the interests; it's the cutoff.
> And then since they are "easy" to produce they still might take weeks to months to finish because of parts they rely on all being strained as well.

I feel like a container factory would be a sensible thing to be vertically integrated: raw steel (or iron and carbon!) in; containers out; screws and bolts and any other needed stuff getting made during the process out of the same raw inputs. A lot like how IKEA's operation works (i.e. basically a vertically-integrated sawmill), but with metals.

That approach doesn't vertically scale very well, but the techniques from it could be horizontally scaled pretty easily across a number of industries if well-known. This is what I was on about with the hemp sacks: every industry did used to make their own hemp sacks. It was easy, and the techniques and requirements were well-known, so every business that needed sacks just did what was necessary to make them, comparative advantage be damned. (Sort of like how every large factory today has its own machine shop, or how every modern building has its own internal water-treatment+recycling system.)
If that’s true, it means almost nobody pays for any software on Android.

The fact a lot of people download free apps is pretty much meaningless.

You may as well say a lot of people visit websites on Android.
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That seems like quite an assumption, friend.

I think most people in that category love having people to have intellectual conversations with. I've been in a space with people who are naturally incredibly high IQ, and there's a special kind of comraderie that comes from not having to go through the lonely exercise of scaffolding everything that you're deeply passionate about.

It's community. Pride in IQ != The main reason to be centric around an IQ.

I've tested well in that sphere. It's an incomplete measure, but it does measure something, and I like being around/with people at that caliber in the "IQ" arena.

I want to be challenged. I want to have community where my heart is in intellectual things. I don't want someone to just absorb my information-excited rants, I want someone to fight me on them and challenge me to grow.

Most of all, I don't want to feel isolated or lonely in my experiences. We all desire community around what makes us us. It's a fundamentally human thing, I think, and denying it because it's some measure that some people use to prop up their insecurity feels a bit hurtful and/or harmful to people really seeking community there.

Not currently a member of any sigma-type IQ-only organizations. Just my thoughts. I love other kinds of people too. But people who think in that level and way are my safe people, and I can feel seen and heard with them.

Note: there's EQ and a host of other things not mentioned here. I'm just talking about the above specific insight in general. :)
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My goal here is to offer an approachable introduction. Unfortunately, there's a lot to dig through in the official tutorials and docs which can be overwhelming.

If you're experienced that's fine, but I try to keep my tutorials accessible to both beginners and advanced devs. The latter being the group that can benefit more from a blessed path as they've had the pre-requisite experience to understand the basic mechanics.

What I've presented here is a working solution that (I hope) is approachable, though may not be the blessed path.
I think this is a good example of how terrible western media is when it comes to reporting about countries commonly seen as "against us".

Take one fact (Jack Ma said a thing), mention something out of the ordinary (him "disappearing"), declare him dead or in prison.

Another example of this wild assumtion is when media reported that North Korea simply dealt with corona by shooting the one infected person.
Of course. Gifted students are sometimes failed by schools. But I think it's safe bet that a random large group of college grads will have a higher average IQ than adults who only finished high school. Don't you?
Mumble uses Opus by default. You can definitely tell the audio sounds much better than competitors although mumble is more fussy about mic and background noise as it does less processing than Skype for example.

Opus was originally intended to be a general purpose codec that maintained fidelity at even low bitrates which makes it suitable for telephony as it's also low latency. On the other hand it also sounds good at higher bit rates and I use it as my codec for my music when I convert them from flac for mobile devices.
Stallman is still, and always will be, Stallman. An independent agent with his own thoughts, opinions, dreams, desires, and life. And ya know what? That's okay. Foundations aren't their Founders and Founders aren't their Foundations. Both should be focused on their missions, but both are a cumulative sum of their parts plus a bit more.

Given a choice of leader, I'll stick with the one eccentric who from the start knew exactly the direction industry and politics would go. I'll take the guy with 40 year success streak of being able to say "Called it!", who refuses to give one inch on the principles behind free software to the point he's inconenienced himself to stay true to them in a world being increasingly eaten by proprietary software, over the wannabe social media influencers who can't even successfully comprehend the content of an email, or understand the difference between caring about concise language and adherence to consistent internal principles and transphobia.

Also, to be quite frank, given the cancel movement's continual habit on getting called out for being fast and loose with facts, I think they need to reconsider their PR strategy. Talk out the side of your mouth is cheap. Lies and misinformation even more so. At least what Stallman says is backed by his actions, and his continued steadfast support of the organization that threw him out unjustly.

I really don't think most people understand just what level of commitment to a cause that takes, and I think if half the people concerned about his "problematic opinions" would focus on issues in that sphere on a platform that isn't the FSF, the world may legitimately become a better place. Instead, you just get this token drama that holds the State of the Art back. I swear, if I ever pull off independent wealth enough to take an extended sabbatical I'll come take someones position to unburden their conscience of working with the likes of Stallman or Linus, or whoever the world is dumping on for carrying the progress of Free Software forward. Never seen a group of people so disenfranchised with literally carrying a legacy to the species on their backs that they have to start eating each other to continue making the experience bearable.

The entire world of proprietary software and all the adherents there of want division. They want chaos that detracts from the quality of Free Software. They want infighting, they want a more manipulable figurehead. They want work they can steal, make their own, then hold society hostage for access to.

The only one with their eye on the ball seems to be the very GNUisance everyone wishes to condemn. That's the world we live in now I guess. Nothing but ultimatums and outrage.
A more powerful car is more likely to spin off the road out of control.

Fast-flowing fluids are more turbulent.
I think introverts do not thrive in the environment you're describing.

Unfortunately introverts are not well represented in management or the types of people who make decisions about seating.

Also unfortunately, many (most?) software developers are introverts.
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The irony is: by your own definition, what makes you like minded is that you are all in MENSA.

Hey, let's start a "people who wear blue shoes" society. We're all like minded, I bet the conversation will be fascinating.

Put another, less sarcastic way: there's no guarantee they will be interesting because there is literally nothing guranteed to be in common except we're smart. But a chess club will be, because everyone talks about chess. This is why I found MENSA dull.

But also, this isn't a subjective analysis: it is a logical deduction. I'm identifying sets and drawing conclusions. You know, rational Ayn Rand stuff.

I'd rather hang out with dumbasses who can woodwork, or dumbasses who can tune car engines, or dumbasses who can cook, or dumbasses who can run marathons, over smart people who have no other connection to me other than we all scored high on an arbitrary test.

But as you said, YMMV.
No idea and not vested.
I don’t see the difference between that and a group of friends, because not all groups of friends exist because of a shared activity, some exist because they like to be around each other
> Working in an open plan space is simply inferior to working remotely

"Simply inferior" is a bit of a bold statement. Lots of people want to go back to their office for various reasons. For me it's wanting to see my co-workers (which are my friends at this point) in person every day. It's certainly not rare.
Adopting a sedentary lifestyle isn't very smart. You'd think a club of high-IQ folk would know better.