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>Notice, when the us had deep music-gonna-stop level problems in its economy it prints a shit-ton of dollars. Which other country in the world can do this? Nobody. And it will stay this way until someone has a navy as powerful as the US.

The Eurozone can do so as well. Actually, it must do so to prevent the collapse of the euro. It's the same with the USD, foreign nations keep "stealing" USD and take them out of the US and therefore the US must replace the lost USD just to stay still.

Also, the fact that no money is being printed is one of the biggest problems. Yes, you can increase the money supply without printing. For every USD you create, you also create an obligation to return it which is called debt. When the newly created USD are allocated to otherwise idle resources you may unlock value equivalent or higher than the debt you took on. The excess value you have created in the process is called economic growth. It turns out, fiat creation is highly deflationary and deflationary forces from other sources are extremely high as well. However, debt is inaccessible to the vast majority of the population. I personally still get 4% interest rates on private loans. The borrowed money never ends up in the real economy indicated by low inflation rates.

We are basically experiencing the great depression again but to a milder degree, therefore we should do our best to prevent it from becoming a problem in the first place. The fact that the US hit inflation goals because of a pandemic is pathetic. What if they were not blessed with a natural disaster that spurred politicians to act (it wasn't enough to get trump to act)?

Hitting inflation goals and moderate interest rates quickly is absolutely necessary to keep the economy stable. With every year of low interest and low inflation the imbalance keeps growing but the correction will happen in a flash, therefore we must ensure that any imbalance is as small as possible before we run into the crash.

It's like extinguishing wild fires as soon as they happen while the fire is still under control. At some point you can no longer contain the fire but the consequences have become unbearable.

It's better to crash small today, than crash big tomorrow. Unfortunately, today is many years too late.
I think your problem is that many things don’t have to be a state machine. And you’re right. It’s simply not a good idea to create a confirmation dialog like that.

However, some things just _are_ state machines. You don’t usually see them in the GUI (except for example wizards), but many parsers can trivially be implemented with state machines.
Essentially I watched every video from the YouTube channel HowToADHD

I wish I could give a perfect headline technique as an example but it's more changing how you do things to work with the way your mind works instead of against it

http://youtube.com/HowtoADHD
> So it's one rule for the government and another for the people.

Of course it is, otherwise it wouldn't be a government. People get really silly with this. Governments can define laws, enforce them and so on. They have many rules that apply to them and not to everyone else. That's the whole point.
I think the environment is way more important in terms of problems with BitCoin. Evading Sanctions are way easier than that. Give a couple of stacks to Hunter Biden and you are good to go.
In my experience startups, equity NOT included, pay worse than big tech companies but better than non-tech companies. So if you can get into big tech companies then that's better financially but if you can't then startups beat the alternative.
B/c it actually adding a layer of complexity that's not necessary for the sake of getting a pretty picture. I'll try to illustrate..

The roots of unity are just trivially observed mathematically

Through Euler's identity: e^i2π = cos(2π) + isin(2π) = 1

then obviously (e^i2π/b)^b = 1

So then e^i2π/b is a b'th root of 1. Done!

You don't need a complex plane.. You don't need to explain why you're multiplying 2D points.. and then explain that now you actually have this new operation defined and it's not really a 2D point oh and btw this multiplication is giving you a rotation.. which rotates your point back to 1+i0 (which is maybe the crummiest part b/c 2D rotations are not intuitive and visualizations should leverage our "gut feeling" and intuition). You just skip all of that! The equations are easy. Everyone knows (A^b)^c = A^bc

Then you show that (e^i2π/b)^(b+1) = (e^i2π/b) - so it's "cyclical", the equations starts returning previous values at higher integer inputs.

And then you show orthogonality between basis vector by just taking two basis vectors and doing a dot product. If you write out an example it's really easy to see how the values pair off and cancel out. There is no easy visual equivalent. You can't see how a real/imaginary sinusoid pair is orthogonal to another.. If you try to force a visualization it's only going to be more confusing.

And actually, b/c it's hard to visualize this last step is usually sorta glossed over in intro material. But I'd argue it's the most important step b/c it's the whole reason why are we choosing these extra-challenging e to the i things to build a basis... it's for this orthogonality. If we just wanted sinusoids that are cyclical then we'd be doing everything with real numbers and keeping it simple. You'd cross correlate a sinusoid at different frequencies for instance or something to that effect... but the fourier transform is giving you something much better than that. And as a bonus you see why the chosen frequencies are discrete and not arbitrary.

After that you can look at phase shifts etc...
What surprises me about bellard, beside the excellency, is the breadth. Who could predict his next topic...

Surely his intellectual life is diverse
Wealth is a stock measure, income is flow.

You accumulate wealth out of what you can set aside out of the flow.

Some of us immigrants do not come to this country with an existing stock of wealth either back home or here. We are also not in the favored group of immigrants. We have human capital which we are trying to convert to financial capital for the next generation.

Then, when we sort of "make it" here, people who have family homes worth close to million and up (you can draw on that home equity, you know), people who know people (either family or others) who can "help" them with down-payments etc label us rich based on the flow we are receiving right now. These people tend to themselves make in the $150K range, in my experience and do not realize that the wealth they have was already accumulated in the less punitive environment of the 80s and the 90s.

I do not begrudge anyone for what they have. But I do find people who got a "hand-me down" apartment in Manhattan after growing up in a nice house in Westchester lecturing me about "the rich" and "the poor".

Except that my ability to make it in today's corporate environment depends on their political sensibilities.
Yes, it’s hard to explain that some people just want to “run fast”, and can’t operate in any other workplace environment.
Dissing the PDP11
For social sciences, I generally disregard those published papers - most are just confirmation biased.

.... but each field is different. For those that are more quantitative, it's harder to deviate you conclusion from the data.

Bias is not binary, so it's a sliding scale between the hard sciences and the squishy ones.
> The conspiracy, of course, is that China, and specifically the Wuhan Institute of Virology, genetically engineered this novel strain of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, to specifically wreak havoc on human populations.

I thought the conspiracy was that the lab is where the virus research was being done and it somehow got out, not that it was specifically created there with human infection in mind.
Did Naval steal this from Frank Underwood?

"Money is the McMansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after ten years. Power (or status) is the old stone building that stands for centuries"

It's the same thing he's saying here, but like the guy Frank Underwood was talking to, Naval doesn't recognize that financial wealth is only more secure and fungible than social status if you can manage to move said financial wealth around before stuff hits the fan. So many examples to cite, ranging from Venezuela, to Zimbawe to Cyprus.

And mind...stuff inevitably always hits the fan, when stuff hits the fan you want to have loyalists who'd defend you against your enemies.

The whole reason why all investigation relating to Trump will end in a nothing burger. He has 75m people who follow him and the political cost of doing anything to him is simply too high.

Also same reason why Musk can't be touched even though he violates the law every day, he has a huge cult following and the political cost of doing anything to him is again simply too high.

Ideally you make money by lying low, then diversify (unless you are a hedge fund manager, in that case you are already diversified), then use money to build a following.

I say ideally because you need smart people around to make money and smart people tend to be repulsed by people who are hyperfocused on building a cult following and a great social status (exhibit A : the turnover rate at Tesla)
Sounds like a nice trip to a water park.
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
Was just discussing this with a friend this morning. It might be better to describe it in terms of trade-offs versus the overuse of the ‘over-abstraction’ allegation.

So, in a lot of cases in the UI, we are turning what is very recognizable and traditionally understood code into a new form to fit the state-machine world view in a more 1:1 way.

Again, it’s a trade off. What did we gain from this transformation? I don’t think we get enough back from this trade to structure our code in this new way.

Or to be clear, why would I trade my ability to read a few simple fetch calls that update a simple DOM element for this version? What is the outsized return here?

Just my 2 crypto.
Depends on the company. We were acquired by a publicly traded company, and there are certain things companies can’t do right before they report earnings. So the public announcement wasn’t that we were being acquired but that the acquiring company had signed a merger deal with the intent to acquire us and that it would close on a specific date, which was roughly 3 weeks in the future.

For us the order of events were:

- One month of technical due diligence, one month of business/legal due diligence. Very few people in the company being acquired were involved.

- A final week of paperwork, legal going back-and-forth on the actual terms of the merger and planning the announcement.

- signed merger agreement

- The very next day held a company all hands to tell everyone the deal had been done. High-level leaders at the acquiring Company were there to answer questions. Lots of very very very happy people, champagne toasts, etc.

- very next day after that, public announcement of merger press releases etc. “close date” was roughly 3 weeks in the future.

- until the close date we weren’t officially employees of the new company, because the merger hadn’t officially closed. We went about our business

- Close date happened. On that day previous company ceases to exist and we are all new employees of the acquiring company. Wire transfer Happened that day for the equity. Permit for the stock options buyout happened about a week and a half later as part of our pay period.
I'm completely ok with having ADHD! Relieved even if it turns out a bit of medication might bring me closer to actually finishing a project!
What about ownership? In a startup individuals can and often do take charge of a piece of business, be it technical or marketing or others, but in an existing business you won't have much ownership unless you start from the beginning (i.e. as a startup).
For me as a member of the general public it's actually "nothing'. Intelligence agencies are opaque, have no incentive to tell the truth and have a track record of lies.

An international body has at least some checks and balances to keep it close to the truth.
Believe he addresses this criticism thusly...

“ At the same time, deep down many people believe they can’t make it; so they don’t want any wealth creation to happen. They virtue signal by attacking the whole enterprise, saying, “Well, making money is evil. You shouldn’t do it.”

But they’re actually playing the other game, which is the status game. They’re trying to be high status in the eyes of others by saying, “Well, I don’t need money. We don’t want money.””
Following your dreams also has other problems: What you want to do might not be "marketable" (not everyone might be willing to pay you for it).

Whatever you do and you're good at must also match a market requirement, otherwise you will starve.
Suggesting it was a lab leak is not the same as saying it was genetically engineered. I can’t tell anymore if the people conflating the two are either stupid or malicious.
Well, I am not very sure about it. I asked the HR about the agenda of this upcoming interview and she said it would be a very technical interview.
Unrelated: I hate codenames. Really, truly, every codename for anything has sounded so cringy and infantile. It's something that sounds like it was made up at a table of middle school boys. Not to disparage tables of middle school boys, but for products engineered by thousands of talented individuals, after thousands of hours of education, it seems silly to name these chips this way.

I think it started in the car industry.

I know it's not very insightful, don't hate me. Surely you can appreciate "iPhone 12" vs "iPhone DoDecaMax (Sapphire Rapids)+" or something like that. Just call it Intel 10nm 2021. How hard is that? Or Intel 10nm Q2. Just, anything.
Tell HN: In Linux Mint 9, the Teddy-Bear Says
>For there are moments when one can neither think nor feel. And if one can neither think nor feel, she thought, where is one?

> -- Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse"

>[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when referring to powerfail recovery.]
Just don’t circulate a poorly written manifesto and you’ll be fine.
> Did the explanation not make sense?

(Not the GP.) I still don't understand.

Is this like Reddit where everyone can post their work?

Is this like Wikipedia where everyone can modify a shared work?

Is this like a blog where only you can post?

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One important recommendation for post in HN is that it must be at least a working prototype. It's not necessary that it is super polished, or fancy, but it must work minimally.
>> How does this work exactly? Are there anythings that an app needs to do for it to work fully?

> Plotinus brings that power to every application on your system (that is, to those that use the GTK+ 3 toolkit). It automatically extracts all available commands by introspecting a running application, instantly adapting to UI changes and showing only relevant actions. Using Plotinus requires no modifications to the application itself!
I think using a state machine can make the resulting code more elegant in some cases by coupling state changes and effects.
But that’s not why they are useful. In my experience, they have been useful because they help map (even mentally) all individual possible states a piece of code can be in, and how the code should behave in each case. In the process, I usually discover and deal with more edge cases, more combination of states and behavior, and as a consequence the code is bigger/fatter. But also more robust.
{personal Experience}
As a kid in California, we had constant break ins and other such vandalism. I was assaulted several times. 45 minutes for county sheriffs to arrive, as we had no police department. In a major urban center.

Sherif finally told my dad.
“Nothing we can do, buy a gun, just make the body look like it wasn’t running away and police won’t make an issue of it”.

This horrified us on many levels.

We moved to a safe neighborhood. Later on we realized we had a bunch of gun nuts on street.

One of which loved to shoot blanks at trouble makers.

This disturbed me, and left me deeply questioning many things about guns.

As an adult I moved out of state to raise my family near the the pro gun people. Never once had an issue.
Don’t like to touch guns personally. Yet happy to be where criminals fear to tread.
Yeah sounds like OP has a chip on their shoulder and is projecting.

I wouldn’t trade my years at a startup for anything but they can be run by tyrants in a fiefdom just as much as a VP runs an org, sometimes more so as they have no one they report to.
>>> The author likely comes from a structured, religious background

>How on God's green Earth did you jump to that conclusion?

The author wrote: "From the ages of 19-21, I spent my time as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, popularly known as the Mormon church. I worked 12 hours a day for two years straight with only Christmas and Mother’s Day off. [...] For this job, I was paid a total of 0 dollars."

It seems reasonable to assume that non-religious people wouldn't do that for $0 pay.
Yeah but the mission would be that any person who wants to do a sport, is able to do it and doesn't just skip it for monetary reasons...

You still probably won't make 100k/year from it, but no athlete should have to not go to a competition, or not be able to train or afford the equipment, etc...

But yeah, I'm not even an athlete so what would I know, heh
Basically the same way your favorite codec knows how to decompress. It builds the predictor (in this case, a NN) from the known input. The predictor then assigns a symbol (or a series of symbols) to the next few bits - higher probabilities need fewer bits (I haven't checked for this specific technique, but there are techniques that don't even require an integer number of bits, e.g. range encoding).
I think most people claiming a lab leak believe that the virus was ultimately of natural origin, and was 'engineered' only in the sense of being tested in a lab and leaking from said experiments. Some also hold that it could be a recombinant strain produced in the lab, still with ultimately natural origins...
Unlimited Bash/Zsh History
Plus the largest manipulations occur by omitting some of the facts that go against the narrative. At what point does bad faith reporting becomes fake news? How do you deal with headlines that are contradicted in a paragraph deep in the article that no one will read?
The entire point of cryptocurrencies is to evade government.
I try to read comments that speak for a group like the parent has as this, "From my perspective a nonzero number of people on HN think..."

Because in reality, it only takes a few undisputed replys or posts to make someone assume it's a ubiquitous idea.
Even in math it’s possible to have conjectures that are likely true but may never be proved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach%27s_conjecture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...

Even in physics, you have statistical truths like second law of thermodynamics. they allow you to generalize where precise computation is impossible.

So Jung’s insights into personality attitudes, dichotomies of perception and judgment seem like interesting conjectures worth knowing about, possibly difficult to prove.
The Pandemic Speaks
Not in the physical world but maybe in the digital world where material scarcity is a fixable imposition and attention can be artificially constructed.
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Or write a critically acclaimed work of fiction 5 years ago.

Please update your cancel culture example du jour.

Edit: Reference was to Antonio Garcia Martinez.

Edit 2: In case it wasn't clear, the post I'm responding to is referring to James Damore, an autistic man who was manipulated into believing people wanted to have an honest, good faith discussion about the issues of gender and sex and hiring at Google. He got baited by "bring your whole self to work". Don't get baited.
The Tractus had an impact, for sure. But, from my experience, more see his later works, published posthumously as Philosophical Investigations, as far more influential. Wittgenstein is very fascinating because of this incredible turn in his work away from the intensely mathematical idea of philosophy towards one that was far more linguistic and anthropological. In arguments like the Private Language argument, Meaning as Use, Rule-following and forms of life, he advanced a philosophical position that disrupted a philosophical skepticism that formed the bed rock of philosophers like Descartes, and many that follow and that are still enthralled with the Cartesian picture. He advanced that a number of long standing philosophical questions were often non-sense, in the sense that they involved the misuse of language and grammar (in a Wittgenstein-ian sense aka, in the sense that one can explain the use and rules for the use of a word) into trails that cannot but lead to dead-ends. His arguments around pain, vision, and psychology, are also fascinating. Though some say it is a mischaracterization, I often find his writing from this era to be very therapeutic. He has a way of presenting arguments so that you can see through them.
No, you can try to understand, but you have no way of knowing how it really is. As a male, I can try to understand pregnancy. There is no amount of learning that would beat the experience of a mother.
And a poor person in Sudan will say poor person in US will not know what tough is.

The comment I responded to was about a politician complaining about a certain payrate. To which I wanted to show that it is possible to have to have to be stretched thin (mentally), and the politician is not thinking about having to cancel their third overseas vacation. Yes, they’re not on the very last rung of the ladder, but slipping off your rung also causes worry.
> Poor People in general are not lazy

Exactly. I grew up poor and my teen employment was bust-your-ass jobs like factory and restaurant work. I was once on a contract for a large company, and throughout the day I'd watch the office employees enjoy quiet, pleasant days with plenty of chatting with coworkers. The most strenuous thing they'd do was occasionally rush from one meeting to another.

They'd all be gone by 5 and I'd stay working. Then I'd see the cleaning contractors come in and zoom through the office, working hard and never taking breaks. It always made me a little mad that most people there never even saw the hardest workers in the building, let alone appreciated them.
I love me some smelly burka too
It is in place because they fund terrorism.