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> Lean does not escape this limitation, as it defines the equality type inductively as in Coq. Rather, in a mastermind PR campaign, they successfully convinced non-experts of type theory that they could give them quotient types without breaking everything around.

This is not the first time that I hear someone from the Coq community talk about Lean and its "mastermind PR campaign". To me it comes across in a denigrating way, and frankly I'm a bit sick of it.

Working mathematicians are usually not experts of type theory. Yes. But they aren't stupid either. Why does the Lean community have such a large number of mathematician users? Why did it successfully formalize the main technical result of Peter Scholze's challenge in less than 6 months?
Is this all because of a "mastermind PR campaign" selling mathematicians snake oil?

There has been some strong disagreements and even mud slinging between the Coq and Lean communities in the past. But I thought that axe was buried. I would like to move on.

I'm fine with people finding the foundations of Lean ugly, distasteful, improper, or whatever. But please stop the insults.
I would suggest that for laws, it should be the other way around.

The longer a law has been in place, more care needs to be taken in changing it. (not that it should not be changed )
It can function as a jobs program, giving living wages to more people, and letting them spend their salary back into the economy.

But it would be nice if jobs programs produced more benefit.
Hard disagree. The Safari change is a godsend for someone with a small laptop display. Every bit of space I can reclaim helps.
Then why not remove ALL the buttons. Stick them in a hamburger menu. And present everyone with a list of keys they must memorize during OS first boot?

This is how far UX discussion has fallen since the early 00s. We went from talking about affordances, discoverability, and "principle of least surprise" to fashion. "I like it to look clean. Less chrome, and let the users eat shortcut keys, hamburger menus, and gestures."
Living in the north, the two nights when I get the worst sleep are: The first night in the spring when we open the windows, and the first night in the fall when we close them. Likewise, my first night on any camping trip, and the first night back at home. It takes at least one night for my brain to settle on a new noise / silence pattern.
I’ve been using a theme in Obsidian that’s _pretty much_ WYSIWYG, but albeit not _quite_ at Typora/Notion levels. If you’re working in that paragraph it’ll show syntax but hide it once that paragraph loses focus.

To me this felt like the best of both worlds since I can actually jump into an existing piece of formatted text and easily modify it or “jump out of” formatted modes like ‘code’ which was a bit of a pain in Notion.
The water used by a chip factory is almost 100% recycled
> People look at this institution which can't balance a budget

The issue with this is that most people, and even economists (well, mostly old economists rotting away from the research and debate the field is having right now) don't understand that you don't make a government budget like you make a home budget. Hell, you don't even make a government budget like you make a multinational company budget. People who don't even try to understand how bank works should not have any say in this.
Was this an optional setting? Was it suddenly turned on with the option to turn it off buried in a settings menu than normal users are scared of?

I actually didn't know iOS had this, I only know about FireFox on Android and it asked me if I wanted to opt in before thrusting it upon me. That's a good way to make major UI changes.
An inflation storm is coming for the U.S. housing market
> "There is nothing like a correct translation."

Perhaps not but, having read a lot of translated material over the years, there are plenty of remarkably awful translations.
By the way, just for the record, I like many aspects of the new Lean 4 design and wish the project luck. They really aim for better maintainability and user experience. It is nice to see them taking best solutions from other programming languages and frameworks.
Yes. The difference is in how it is perceived, but in an economy, perceptions actually matter. If you give a tax credit to the rich, the poor don't perceive it as a tax on them even though the strict monetary effect is the same in both cases i.e. a wealth transfer from the poor to the rich. But because the poor don't perceive rich tax credits as a tax on them they are less likely to object.
But I can’t do it from pip to another poetry package. I have to be using poetry for it.
Licensed professions have such things as "reserved acts". This is the issue at hand. Offering legal engineering advice is apparently protected. It's not only that the the judge should dismiss the opinion if presented, it's that even the act of trying to make one in front of a court is possibly illegal. Disclaimers are irrelevant when one is trying to perform such a reserved act, especially if one knowingly does it while ignoring the law.
That's wrong. According to EU, GDPR applies to EU residents and the companies need to protect EU resident privacy no matter which country they hail from.
After years and years of pushing American manufacturing overseas, suddenly Congress wants to entice them back with a tax credit. Why not just lower the tax rate for corporations altogether, or better, close the loopholes that allow them to offshore their profits. Tax credits seem to be a a short term, ersatz panacea.
I would argue that the changes are 'necessary' as they make the browsing experience much nicer, especially on laptops.
Why the hate on Amazon? I can understand why you may want to discourage shopping from Amazon in general but is there a reason why they are particularly bad for electronics?

As a hobbyist (with an EEE background) I seldom have an order that is large enough to make the mouser/digikey shipping costs palatable. If I need something quick (forgot a particular component) then Amazon often works great, although the 'free' shipping means everything is going to be at least $10.
If you area business then Mouser etc are the place to go, but you'll also have a business account with friendlier credit and shipping terms.

For hobbyists it is really difficult to beat Aliexpress. Long shipping times but you can order a whole slew of components and stock up on things you might want to try out in the future. Yes you have to pick through potential counterfeits and you may get the odd broken board/component but I'm not sure that is very different from mouser, digikey, spark fun etc?
Ask HN: Easiest way to make simple web animations?
I want to create very simple interactive animations for some blog posts (hosted statically). What is the easiest way to go about doing this? I have tried using HTML Canvas but my gut tells me there is a better solution that may already exist.

As an example, I would like to create an animation displaying current flow through a transistor. The user can turn the gate on and off to see the electrons stop and start moving.

Thanks in advance!
This is a good point, but it highlights the fact that classroom education is a compromise -- economic and social -- and not a moral standard. Thus I think we should at least be conscious of its limitations, even if we can't immediately do anything about them.
What's the name of this point? It's really hard to find any progress on this topic regarding Mochizuki other than some popular articles without any content.
Well, if you're an HJTA fanboy then you can justify any sickening anti education policy you want by pointing to "let everyone pass"
Becoming too emotionally invested and involved in the welfare of the company where I worked for seven years. This had the opposite affect with my boss and management because I was making delusional organizational and engineering decisions with no authority to do so. Even though I thought my intentions were aligned with the future of the company, nothing could have been further from the truth.

My advice is keep things professional and even ruthless long into your career at a given company. Clock in and clock out and always take challenges impersonally. Be the impeccable toy model your boss wants you to be and nothing more.
Do you just fire them and let them go on unemployment? If everything else is held constant, then there's nothing done and more people without money. It's an even greater drain on society, not to mention these people's lives.
Audi will halt new gas and diesel cars by 2026
SparkFun and Adafruit are great, but they're for casuals. If you're building breadboard prototypes there's nothing better than Digikey and Mouser.
Didn't the UK establish a Supreme Court in 2009 with the power to bind Parliament?
I appreciate the ability to select and move already drawn components, I believe this was missing in the original version which kept me from using it. Thanks team!
Awesome to listen to him - he explains things clearly and does not assume we are all chip architects.
That's clever by google. Because if a german citizen uses european google services, he is GDPR protected no matter where he is.

That switch made im a EU citizens living abroad using non-EU services, so no GDPR protection.

Coincidence?
"But the constant improvements show no sign of stopping soon."

True. A GPT-3 type approach probably has a big enough window and enough data to pick up on idioms.

But we have a long way to go with the Asian languages. All the European languages seem to machine-translate to each other reasonably well at this point. Chinese to English is still not very good.
> Peter Roberts: Very aggressive. Will give advice not really inline with the law.

Wow that seems like an extraordinarily strong and serious professional accusation to make.
Orwell famously had a nostalgic view of his days at Eton. This doesn't much fit with the rest of his character and his great capacity not to be sentimental, but he was complicated.

Robyn Hitchcock's view of the school he was sent to (I think Winchester) is stark. He tells a story somewhere of not being allowed to leave the school to go to his grandmother's funeral, who was the one person he had really been close to. So he went to some kind of art happening organized by Brian Eno, of all people, and released a balloon with her name on it instead.
‘Potentially the worst drought in 1,200 years’: scientists on the US heatwave
I don’t particularly agree with GP’s comment, but homework is not the main way everyone learns. Maybe some individuals do learn that way, but others absolutely do not. I personally did not do a single homework assignment other than a senior term paper throughout all of high school and still learned the material presented. I think it’s too broad to just assert that homework == ‘way to learn’.
Wow, perfect timing. I’m migrating away from Algolia (using the firebase extension) to typesense next week. The extension makes this (I think) a 5 min job!

If I want to start using scoped keys will the extension support that or should I just use the tutorial in the docs to hand roll?
From what little I know of Sardinian, I'm guessing su caggiu simply means the cheese?
Because 99.999% of people don't know what that is.
If you wait long enough, it just flies away.
Apparently the traditional law of Iceland required a guy to appear every year and recite the law. Whatever he forgot to include was no longer the law.
Why should these not be licensed?

A dietitian giving bad advice could cause serious harm.

A dyslexia therapist could provide no benefit to the patient.

A cosmetologist could cause someone's hair to fall out.

Like, having something deeper than yelp reviews to help make someone's hair not fall out seems reasonable...
As a kid I was really into QBasic and game maker software (think RM2k and the like). OHRRPGCE was a perfect intersection of these two interests - I remember being super impressed that something so complex could be made in my favorite language. I also have fond memories of James's site and think of the Technomancy page [1] every time something goes wrong with a machine I'm using or a piece of software I'm working on.

I miss the old internet. Thanks to you and James for being a huge part of my childhood!

[1] https://james.hamsterrepublic.com/technomancy/
I don't think theres a school district in the country that will advance a kid with a 50% average to the next grade. Idk if there's some arcane No Child Left Behind provision about kids who have been stuck for 3 years, but in general a 50% is a no go.

And it's not like you can get 50s all year and get a few 80s and average it out. It takes a lot of really sustained effort to come back from that. Most kids won't. But at least it's mathematically possible for more of the year.
Sick burn, but seriously, this first generation is the one to sit out. The current generation of M1 is IO limited. Rosetta is great but has its own limitations. Skipping the first gen buys time for devs to support Apple Silicon natively, and the second gen will solve the IO issues. Unless you want to be part of the transition or really need to replace you Mac, op has the right idea.
Hi Peter, would you say getting funded by HN or another reputable investor is basically a guarantee for a "parole" under the EIPP, or is it too early to tell?

With the paragraph about spouses, do they mean that the spouse would have to show merit as in able to hold a good job in the US, or work for the same business? If the spouse can not demonstrate merit are they just not allowed to work or are they not allowed to stay in the US?
Absorption refrigerator (heat source fridge)
It is relevant because Facebook is leaky by design, and it's misinformation to state that Facebook banned apps that gathered information on usage.

Why should they allow apps permissions to siphon off any info in the first place? Instead they ban them after being caught and plead ignorance.
After China annexes Taiwan, we will be much more reliant on other sources of computer chips. Ideally for national defense concerns, these sources should be domestic.
No one's gaming anything; it's education theater.
I've had bad experiences with counterfeit components on AliExpress. It's rare to get anything real and unused.
You can technically apply for a green card but border guards can and do use it as evidence that you don’t intend to stay “temporarily” and deny your TN as a result.

They can reevaluate your TN status at every crossing, and there are many stories of this happening to people returning from holiday when I was at microsoft. The TN is efficient to get but has its downsides.
> I believe the poor UI situation is holding windows back from gaining market share.

Big companies just love to jack around with Windows, and do things like prevent users from changing their desktop backgrounds (in the name of "security," of course), and Microsoft has always bent over backwards to give them the ability to do any stupid thing some corporate IT drone can think of, so they continue to be loved my companies around the globe.

There's a _fundamental_ difference in the way that Microsoft and Apple have approached making an operating system. One treats it like a layer of software in an entire stack that someone else owns and controls, and the other makes PERSONAL devices. And it shows.

And, of course, the Microsoft-slobbering trade press can't imagine a scenario where they don't try to prove that YOU should be running Windows because the numbers -- inflated by the Fortune 1000 -- says it's what "everyone" is running. Meanwhile, more than half the people I know now run NOT-Windows for their personal computing.

Let's break out the corporate purchases from sales data, and then let's talk about actual, personal market share, and whether better UI/UX would help Microsoft in a heads-up battle against macOS or ChromeOS.
I only expect Apple to be supporting Intel machines through updates only as now macOS 12 is starting to make some features exclusive to Apple Silicon machines.

Highly unlikely that a new Intel Macbook Pro would be released. Probably the last machine to transition to Apple Silicon would be the Mac Pro.
their use case has not been 'ruined', you can use tab groups
See https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=10560, which links to a technical write-up by Scholze and Stix about what they think is the issue with Mochizuki's proof.
Woit's blogpost also gives a bit more links, including a response by Mochizuki.
Obey Clothing was founded by Shepard Fairey, most notably known for his Obama Hope poster in 2008.

Shepard often cites They Live as inspiration for his art, with his Andre the Giant Has A Posse campaign starting in 1989.

As an aside - one of my favorite works of his is Greetings From Iraq[0], from 2005. It satirizes a classic Yellowstone National Park postcard from the 1930s[1], in a criticism of the Iraq War.

[0]https://www.icaboston.org/sites/default/files/styles/origina...

[1]https://www.discovernw.org/mm5/graphics/00000001/DYNW_PLU106...
Counterfeits, mostly. You will never find a legitimately sourced component on amazon.

Maybe that doesn't matter to some people, but it guarantees GIGO.
Copy and paste works. They did disabled any communication between the client machine and the Citrix VDI except for audio and camera but the feature I'm complaining about is within the Remote Desktop. It works but its random and terrible. Sometimes you try to copy a single word but it copies the entire message along with the metadata containing sender and timestamp.
Show HN: Check which paths changed between commits
Even if it is perfectly safe with no potential for abuse, I deserve to make the decision to opt-in, not have it silently downloaded and installed. If the government thinks I am too stupid to understand how safe it is or that I should just trust them more, that is totally on them. They either need to communicate well or fix the trust issues.
It's pure madness that Play Services comes with this sort of backdoor. This is clearly what I would consider a deliberate RCE vulnerability.
BTW companies like Paypal enforced US boycotts on cuba even if the customer is a EU citizens.

"The ticket retailer Proticket, for example, filed a lawsuit against the blocking of its account after offering tickets for the musical "Soy de Cuba" and the concert of a Cuban artist. Although Proticket won its case at the Dortmund Regional Court in spring 2016, Paypal still did not change its approach."
Again, the GDPR applies to EU residents, not citizens. A German citizen in the US isn't protected by the GDPR.

Technically, it doesn't even apply to citizens, but to countries that the company markets to. The link explains all this.
Why not just do 25% corporate tax, with a reduction of 5% for every 1/4 of your workforce in the US.

The added taxes from people working in the US more than makes up for the loss in corporate tax. Further, we can then export the goods and make a buck on that.

I really don’t get what our gov is doing besides trying to do the worst job possible.
6G and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning [pdf]
Don't options vesting also trigger an income tax event?

I didn't think about the limits of total shareholders. Doesn't that mean if 2000 employees got made at their employer they could deliberately trigger SEC oversight by exercising the options?
I think it’s strange that browsers, routinely displaying responsive design layouts, have never tried this for their own window chrome.

They keep trying to shoehorn all screen sizes and space savings into one layout, when the web itself does a wiser thing: it adapts and makes better use of space if available.
This is really interesting because it might be the reason I switch to Safari after using Firefox for years. All I really want is proper site isolation after this.
"Hellion" in a fantasy setting has a different connotation than the meaning you refer to. They're represented as hellish fiery creatures in a lot of fantasy games.
If it was so bad that nobody had positive anecdotes it would have to be nightmarish. It's like a car models reliability. A bad model new off the line is still liable to have years of trouble free usage just fewer on average. The difference between reliable and unreliable is the difference between 2 small negative probabilities over many iterations.
> Zizek is a performer.

Most definitely and I think he'd agree.

> There's not a lot of substance in his many (is he at 100 yet?) books.

Which books specifically of his are you speaking about?

> It's ironic that someone who rails against capitalism publishes at such a frenetic rate while covering the same ground.

He himself has said that he makes a good slave, he just needs to know who his master is.
You may have heard of a little thing called C-SPAN...
> Harrison Bergeron

Wow, I had never read that before:

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

This really captures so much of the current thinking around "equity".
So on the one hand, They Live should not be regarded as 'Cliffs Notes explaining the oppressive power structures underpinning the so-called civilized world.' But on the other, The Thing is about 'the ways we are undone by our inability to see and understand other people.' The author seems to want it both ways.
Many cheeses contains fungi like Penicillium [1], think blue cheese etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium
Eliminating the boring apps through Low Code Platforms
> Originally it used to be Alma Ata which then became Almatı.

Depends on what you mean by "originally" ;)

The modern city was founded in 1854 when the Russians established the military fortification of Zailiyskoye (renamed Verny in 1855) on the site of the ancient settlement of Almaty, which had been destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th century.

In Soviet time (1921) the city was indeed renamed to "Alma-Ata", but only in Russian, in Kazakh the name became "Almaty". In 1993, the government renamed the city from the Russian "Alma-Ata" to the Kazakh name "Almaty".

In any case, it is kind of incorrect to translate "Alma-Ata" from Kazakh, because this name was never used in that language.
Author here. You can do with with just git and bash but it’s just awkward enough that I thought a utility would be useful.
Hi Peter! How can one start a business while on H1B and later is there any option to convert to a new visa?
Starting a semiconductor manufacturing company is 1 thing starting 1 that will be competitive will require 100s of billions of dollars.
The UK’s equivalent plan is that every couple of decades it will flip-flop on being a member of the EU.
I doubt that these problems are from a lack of funding.

From a systems point of view though - why would businesses move to SF if it meant bad schools? The answer right now is because the leadership can opt out and go into the private system, but if that wasn't the case, I think there would be a lot of incentive on the city to fix these problems.
Doesn't the law block PayPal from being involved in such a transaction?
How about not taxing offshore profits, and allow them to bring that cash back to the US and lower taxes overall.
So all single-lawyer operations “will make many mistakes”? Seems like a broad accusation
Disney Research Adaptive Convolutions for Structure-Aware Style Transfer [video]
Hi Peter. How can one start a business on H1B? Is there any option to convert to a different visa later?
Thanks for sharing these links! Super interesting. I do have a question though. The ixy benchmarks seem to imply that RC is generally slower then GC (go and C# are much faster then swift and are only outdone by languages with manual memory management).

However in the tweet thread you shared, the poster said

> all that reference counting overhead (already more efficient than garbage collection) gets dropped in half.

Implying that reference counting is actually more efficient. I don't know how to rectify these two observations. Do you have any insights?
Apparently you can put it back in the bottom left corner via an option.
Because when you are paying zero (or close to zero) corporate taxes by offshoring your revenue recognition, a 25% rate is a big increase.