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I agree its obtuse for OP to pretend this was purely fictional, where fictional means its detached from any reality or any message whatsoever, given we're _far_ past those claims, as the article explains at length. Simultaneously, its hyperbolic to paint "seems to resonate" "evokes" and "Opinion:" as Major Respected Institutions Promoting A Narrative.

You both seem the be making the same fundamental error, neglecting the thrust of this article, and the original piece: things are ambiguous, and in that ambiguity, we can contemplate, and people find that contemplation fascinating
seltzer and thc for me
Do programmers really need to have the skill of "Holding a Program in One's Head"? http://www.paulgraham.com/head.html
That’s going to be at least some kind of fun when it crosses 2^31.
> Haven’t we observed complex human-like emotions for elephants, dolphins, and various other primates (eg grieving rituals for lost family members)?

I think we observe complex behavior that we associate with our own emotional experiences (which seem appropriate given our genetic / biological / physiological similarities), I just doubt they're necessarily as intense as we experience them given our ability to reflect on them. And if you can't reflect on an emotion, can you even necessarily be conscious of it at all? It seems more likely to me that animals experience no conscious awareness of their own emotions at all, however complex they may be.
A Tour of the Unfolding, Flatpack 400-Square-Foot House Elon Musk Now Lives In
Looks nice! But a custom error page concealing then technical error would be a good idea: https://www.styvio.com/api/spy
The GP commenter may believe so, but their argument was that people may believe journalists deserve retaliation, not that this is correct or just.

And that journalists claiming to be victims of may exaggerate the danger they're in, in the first place. Which describes WP's bullet list.
If they were harmed then they can sue. Have any sued?
Some place on the Ceintuurbaan around Sarphatipark. I often cycled past there on my way to work but never managed to visit.
Or just to watch the world burn...
Not only was it likely recorded accurately, it's extremely unlikely the 134F record was off by 4 degrees or more. It also had 5 days in a row above 129F that year.

If you believe the temperature record, then that should include the note in their log: there was a sandstorm when it was recorded. A sandstorm would blow sand up into the air where it can collide with the thermometer. The surface temperature can reach 200f, so material from the ground would increase what the thermometer would read.

The other temperatures during that week were 128 - 131.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/07/10/death-valley-high-tem...
The luxury of being able to design every system you work on isn't shared by many. Being able to hold the details of a complex process is one of the key traits that will allow you to succeed with legacy codebases or difficult languages.

You can try to refactor everything into a perfect state but business isn't going to wait.
Rebranding a fork is absolutely normal. not "filing the serial number off".
You realize that all git commit history is kept? They are not "scrubbing" Jonathan's work.

Do you even know what NSM is?
Strongly disagree with this sentiment.

If you want to read an abstract, read a scientific paper.

The New Yorker is about writing essays. If you are reading something from the New Yorker and want a shorter piece, you're going to be disappointed.

The entire philosophy of the essay writing style is:

"Some ideas are better communicated in a long-form where you have to read the whole thing for it to make sense. A shortened abstract is not good enough."

There are some thoughts and ideas in life that cannot be treated with brevity.

This long-form essay is valuable because it is not brief, and it deals with a topic that is not suitable to be thought about with brevity.

Understanding the ongoing struggle between ROWE and the status quo in detail is valuable. A short summary is not enough.
Used it in undergraduate to mirror courses. Very good. doesn't work with js links or SPA. But a nice to have tool if you are into self hosting.
The presentation of the story is actually pretty subtle about it's fictional nature. Nowhere in body of the story does it say it's a work of fiction. Readers the miss the small "fiction" label in the header [1] could easily make the mistake of thinking it's a real story. And as per OP many did make this mistake.

1. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person
There's a font called Flea's Knees that's sort-of 3 pixels wide. The pixels are different colors and it relies on LCD subpixel spacing to create the light-and-dark patterns. https://web.archive.org/web/20190705030013/http://www.typoph...
To me, 76.34kwh per kg seems really bad. Tempered by, what do I know actually.

Here is an article describing electrowinning iron at 3.53kw/kg.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6918249/
I wonder if the anti-cheat system could insert ghost enemies for a few frames, or about 20-30ms, fast enough that humans wouldn't really notice. If players are shooting too often at ghosts, that may be a good reason to ban.
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So I'm looking to host a basic CMS, with this CMS I will need to be able to upload files, usually not more than 20 mags or so, as well as allow users to easily edit objects, and fields. I would need to eventually integrate this with a Unity 3D game so anything which provides an existing C# SDK would be great.

I would prefer to have a hosted solution, but I've had a very hard time finding this.
Yes, definately aware. Were running into an issue where when running debug=True (even with whitenoise), our static files aren't being loaded correctly and an error 500 comes up on every page. Fixed the link as well accidentally linked you the docs page!
> Because what I've seen happen is a large company uses its size to negotiate really the cheapest prices, and the only way the consulting company can make profit is by hiring the cheapest people, and even with that, the margins are thin at best.

I have trouble feeling sorry for the consulting company in that situation. If the budget your client offers is insufficient for the job, demand more or turn it down. Don't lie that you can do it and then bait-and-switch.
I’m afraid you’ve been watching too many movies. This tech isn’t close to deployment for an infantryman.
Yes absolutely, been scrambling to get that done asap!
Submitted title was "Linux Audio is dead!". That's obviously linkbait, so a mod changed it, in keeping with the site guidelines.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm very much a meat eater and I absolutely think about this. I think cows are a lot more intelligent than chickens but I feel less bad eating beef because I think I'd be fine killing a single cow every few years but I'd probably struggle to kill a chicken every single day
>may be more like 50/50 or even 10/90

Maybe for some languages that are at the point of only having 2 speakers left. But at that point, you likely couldn't revive the language anyways. For this language, they absolutely should be able to record it in its current state in an extremely comprehensive way.

>There’s a difference between evolution into a new language and language death.

But Old Norse did die. It happened to sprout several new languages, most of which are not in danger of dying out like Danish and Swedish. The original Old Norse is gone though.

You seem to only be valuing a language based on if it's a net plus or minus to the "Language Diversity" which as you're using it seems to mean the number of distinct languages that are currently spoken natively by currently alive humans. Old Norse dying was -1 but sprouted many new languages so +n. Where Elfdalian dying would just be -1.

I would think a language would be of value based on the content of the language itself, for linguists to study.

>simply making records of the language is not enough.

I would consider doing linguistic work on the language with native speakers to be part of making records of the language. I don't think we're in disagreement here.

The original idea I was pushing against was trying to artificially keep a language alive by trying to keep large population groups speaking it natively. It goes against how language has always worked.
How did this land on the front page?
Curious what happens as business travel bounces back. Never using ride share at home, i only have Uber for when traveling and don’t foresee downloading any taxi apps or searching one out for each city.
Sadly that would be game breaking, seeing an enemy for a frame can totally break your game-sense.
The point of making native apps is that once one has learned how to use the computer, they’ve simultaneously learned the basics of using every single native app made for it. If a Mac app uses control C to copy instead of command C just to achieve parity with the windows version, that would likely be considered a bug, not a feature.
After giving some more thought on it. I just realized it was python got me into FP. Although the majority my projects are in C#, Linq never had me interested in FP.

You are right, C# and JS use FP sparingly. I think I expect more from Python because I enjoy writing in Python and my functional adventures were rooted in Python.

Personally, lambda expression is painful to look at. Many times I have deliberately avoided it. It's possible to make improvements, but it seems the FP part just stagnated. Looking forward to pattern matching though.
I find this vesting schedule being brought up strange (I see this somewhat frequently). On hiring you get a signing bonus, in my case the value of this bonus made my comp almost flat for those 4 years if the share price remained constant. If anything, this additional cash, which was given each month, was a positive when starting out. Vesting is inherently lumpy, and makes managing cash flow a bit more tricky. I also received base increases despite a very large stock price increase.

On 401k, I'm not in the US so cannot comment.

Your other points around timelines and pages don't match my experience, but I assume that in such a large company they do exist. I have certainly heard of a team where the high sev counts were similar to the numbers you give. Perhaps I am lucky to have missed them, or others are unlucky to have experienced them.
Quantification of consciousness is such a prickly question.

Some ants can lift 10 to 50 times their own weight.

Are they stronger than a human?

The question makes no sense.

Is a human more conscious than an electron?

Perhaps also makes no sense.
Cheat creators already began inserting flaws and mistakes in their cheats since VACnet.
While articles like this are just driven by hype and a lack of understanding, we know that a human can code spectacularly well, so in theory this same ability could be achieved or even surpassed by a true AI. I say "true AI" to distinguish that ideal from today's AIs which are great at some narrow, analytical problems but don't even come close to humans at synthesis. So while we can dismiss 95% of today's AI marketing as bullcrap, we cannot dismiss either the possibility, no matter how distant, that they could really create software.
:( Because the API is super helpful for a lot of people!
Because I use Linux Pro Audio tools in my studio and daily life and am involved with testing builds, helping with ports, generally messing around (, break stuff), and occasionally make a tune or two.

I am very happy with the free and open tools I have at my disposal.
Even with the numerous rough edges, duct-tape and hacks to keep some things together.

This is Hacker News, right?
They could just modify the cheat to filter out enemies that appear for less than two frames .
That's exactly what I meant by my "preview of the future" comment.

Imagine the same scenario, but in a higher-stakes environment than playing a game. Let's imagine there is a "leetcode aug" that lets one instantly pattern-match a problem and pumps a perfect solution into one's brain. That doesn't have to be very sophisticated AI. But once this kind of augmentation is available, the pressure is on for everyone to get it, or for the tech to be banned, or for the evaluation criteria to change.
> It will be as if they didn't exist.

That is not how the world works. The fact that most people is not in the history books does not mean that they were not important.

> History is for the meaningful, not the things that wouldn't even make the minor footnotes.

But, minor footnotes have changed the history of empires. A disease that moves to one person to another, and one traveler, can spread it around changing the live of hundreds, millions a few generations later, all humanity after a few centuries.

That we do not have the capacity to understand the complexity of all human interactions does not mean that it is not important. History is presented as the act of a few chosen individuals because history is told to promote national feelings, and because humans relate easily to histories of families and power.
> But what if every team of 10 people today can be reduced to 3?

We would do 3x the projects we're doing now, and salaries would go up as well as hiring.
How about acting in good faith and genuinely try to make the low performers perform better?

There's always a reason some people don't perform well and its very very rare that the reason for this is something inherent in them.
Why does SPY return an error? Are ETFs not supported?
Then what value are you bring to the table? What will keep a company from replacing you? Companies will spend the money to keep top-tier employees. What’s going to set you apart?

In California, people complain that “immigrants are stealing all the jobs”. If your job can be stolen by an immigrant, you’re not doing a very good job.

If your company can replace you by hiring off-shore, you’re not doing a very good job.

And I say this as someone who once lost their job to an off-shore worker. It was a real wake-up call.
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> I find multi-letter variable names extremely old fasioned

Sometimes I read things here on Hacker News that throw me so hard I leave the site for a month or two. Congratulations, this time it's your fault. Goodbye.
Of course nobody is actually "tricking god", because there is no god to trick: they're only tricking themselves. So of course it looks to them (the actual gullible chumps in this situation) from inside their tiny little closed-form logical trap of their fictional make-believe "massive world unto itself" role-playing MMPORG that they are "logically consistent", and not both worshiping and tricking a make-believe god who is a gullible chump, but that's sure not the way it looks and actually is objectively from outside in the real world.

They also have just as many stubborn closed-form rationalizations for their outrageously neanderthal sexism, too. Just blame it on centuries of tradition and scholarship ultimately based on chump-god's commandments, not the frustrated angry misogynistic old men who originally invented and still perpetuate it.

How about putting all that energy and ingenuity into coming up with clever exceptions and work-arounds to the traditional misogynistic commandments of a sexist god, that allow you to get away with respectfully treating women as clean and equal human beings seven out of seven days of the week, even while they're menstruating, instead of smugly obsessing on inventing intellectually and physically lazy tricks to cleverly ride elevators without pressing buttons one day a week?
Agreed, this article takes a long time to explain the easy part and slides right past the hard part, which is the mess that is the this argument in general.
"log off and engage with efforts to fix the problem at a local level"

I'm no psychologist, but is that really helping or just reaffirming the doomy feeling? Sounds like recommending an alcoholic only drink low-strength beer instead of spirits. I would have thought it would be healthier to work on something orthogonal to it not towards the same goal as the worry.
This sounds like an excellent idea and also a terrible idea.

In the US that would mean allowing the same bureaucratic organization that manages Medicare/Medicaid to manage a transportation app. And then you'd deal with the Intuits of transportation that would legally hobble any meaningful development in favor of their bespoke (and expensive) ride-hailing service...

And so on. Maybe I'm just a cynic about these things.

We could instead regulate a distributed ride-sharing communications system that companies could build apps for and drivers could hook in to. Well regulated industries tend to thrive (look at internet/cellphone providers in Japan).
This is what people often regurgitates when talking about Go but I don't agree with most of it. "simple" is relative. Clojure people love to talk about simplicity too, but for some reason I imagine most of them wouldn't agree with Go programmers on what "simple" is. SML has plenty of "simple" parts too. Sum types checked by the compiler instead of having to think about "if err != nil"? That's what I call a pragmatic choice. Immutability in most cases? Again, a pragmatic choice. Option instead of checking for nil, and having the compiler do your work? Again, a pragmatic choice. If we were talking about Haskell, I would agree, Haskellers get easily excited by academic ideas. But things like algebraic data types, pattern matching and immutability are craftsmen tool. As a proof, you can see most of these ideas in Go, but they're half-formed. Returning a result and an error is a result type, but you have to do everything manually. The "switch on steroids" in Go is a half attempt at doing serious pattern matching, type switches are a proof of that. The name of the variable is here before the name of the type, but the ":" is not here.

I'm not saying we should throw everything from Go away and all start programming in SML. I'm saying that people that worked on Go were too dogmatic to include pragmatic features that would have made it a better language. You can see this easily, from Rob Pike claiming that taxonomy is the least interesting kind of science or something like that, and thus a more useful type system is unnecessary. This is dogma.

Go didn't "just happen", Go had the support of Google to write a high quality and extensive standard library, and all the tooling around it. That takes a tremendous amount of time and money. SML or OCaml doesn't have that, so it's harder for them to compete. I assure you that if Go looked like a garbage collected Rust, while still having all the great tooling, the easy concurrency, the standard library and all that good stuff, its success would have been the same if not better.
Could the fear I feel when I see an oncoming bus really be so different than the fear a squirrel feels when I make a sudden move towards it?
I don't know what to think, I loved Cat Person when it came out, it felt like something new and fantastic writing. I didn't realize it went viral but not surprised. This article is also interesting and insightful, I wish the two of them could make something out of the situation that gets past the accusations and apologies.

I don't think anything Roupenian wrote lived up to Cat Person so maybe she just lucked onto someone else's story.
Maybe rasengan can pull some funds out of his ass to host the server.
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>> In an increasingly uncertain world, this protective use of the red cross emblem has become more and more important. In the past ten years, there have been 162 fatalities among Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement personnel including two Canadians.

> I don't understand how these two sentences are related ...

Lots of their people are getting killed; thus the protection provided by the emblem is very important to them.
Yeah no ETF's yet. So sorry :( That is absolutely something we are scrambling to add to the API as soon as possible, as well as options data.
Intel ME is disabled and neutralized on my Librem laptop.
Great for showing off how smart you are, not great for running real high load applications in prod with a team size over 1
"Simultaneously, its hyperbolic to paint "seems to resonate" "evokes" and "Opinion:" as Major Respected Institutions Promoting A Narrative."

This is literally a case study in 'narrative creation'.

That's exactly what that is.

They are even including the same hashtag in their pieces so that you can 'hashtag along' with the narrative!

This is almost every major publication you can think of, latching onto the same 'creative work of fiction' to project a social ideal.

This is how 'movements' move.

It's in a similar vein to how the narrative that 'The 2020 Election Was Stolen' was created - though half truths, misrepresentations, the story about that 'one guy who cheated on his mail in vote' (as though it was evidence of anything) etc..

Stories are used to help demonstrate (i.e. form a visceral connection) the issue that critical masses of people with influence want to project.

Of course they can often serve a good purpose ... just not in this case.
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Privacy issues is not the same as intentional spying.
I'm pretty sure my Pinephone does not spy on me.
There is no info at all about the features, what it is etc unless apparently you sign up. Why even bother, use another service which is open and good like Polygon.io where its easier.

An 'API' targeted at developers full of marketing buzzwords it just seems like the wrong audience - even if its free.
This isn’t special behavior that lru_cache “implements”, it’s intrinsic to how mutable contained objects work.

Imagine you `lru_cache` a zero-argument function that sleeps for a long time, then creates a new temp file with random name and returns a writable handle for it. It should be no surprise that a cached version would have to behave differently: Only one random file would ever be made, and repeated calls to the cached function would return the same handle that was opened originally.

If you didn’t expect this, you might complain that writes and seeks suddenly and mysteriously persist across what should be distinct handles, and maybe this `lru_cache` thing isn’t as harmless as advertised. But it’s not the cache’s fault that you cached an object that can mutate state outside the cache, like on a filesystem.

Logically, the behavior remains the same if instead of actual file handles we simulate files in memory, or if we use a mutable list of strings representing lines of data. Generalizing, you could cache any mutable Python collection and see that in-place changes you make to it, much like data written to a file, will still be there when you read the cache the next time.

The reason you don’t see “frameworks” for this is because tracking references to instantiated Python objects outside of the Python process is pointless — objects are garbage-collected and are not guaranteed to stay at the same memory location from one moment to the next. Further, if the lists themselves are small enough to fit in memory, surely there’s no need for out-of-memory scale to cache simple references to those objects.
Have a look at Librem 5 as an alternative.