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You can write Go for years without ever touching channels. I agree though, they are extremely easy to make mistakes with.
Or, you know, they happen to have a pretty good search solution and don't want to spend time and risk building something else. Large organizations nearly cannot change course, that's why the blowups are so spectacular and seem so dumb (ex: Kodak).
If you look in the past history of language features that are being added or might be added (e.g. generics) you can find a whole lot of past explanation of why the language doesn't need those features in the name of simplicity and why the reader just doesn't understand the brilliance of Rob Pike.

Reminds me a lot of the Mac forums where every poor feature in an Apple product is explained with a "let me help you understand why you're thinking about it wrong" kind of answer -- up until Apple fixes the bug / implements the feature to the applause of the same people who were talking down why it would ever need to get fixed.

And just the tone of the article here turns me off in the way it begins with a bunch of quotes and philosophy. I actually agree entirely with “Don't communicate by sharing memory. Share memory by communicating" but I figured that out myself in probably 2003 writing crappy perl scripts that utilized parallelism but I wanted to aggressively avoid all the concurrency pitfalls. Actor models and Erlang later made completely intuitive sense to me. The principle is entirely correct, but its fucking weird that a programming language needs to have a list of "proverbs".
What's not to understand? The numbers in Korea are low because everyone is willing to sacrifice their personal freedom and convenience for the common good. They vigilantly wear masks, socially distance, follow guidelines, and abstain from K-Pop dancing at gyms and running fast on the treadmill when their health departments ask that of them. Americans will happily let more people die if it means they get to go to the gym without a mask. It's really that simple.
Call me an optimist, but I don't think it's impossible.

That said, there are going to be a lot of dead small animals due to autonomous vehicles. I'd hope that whoever develops the system has some good training data to stop it from hitting children.

The issue will be that it's going to be real hard to make a system that can tell the difference between a plastic bag and a poodle.
Very cool.

I'm curious, how did the source become public? Did the creators release it, was it found somewhere, ...?
Facing skilled worker shortage, U.S. companies train their own new labor pools
Yeah you're right, but it's still the biggest information resource we have. Some sort of effort towards making Wikipedia more machine readable - maybe through parsing or automated synonyms - would really go a long way there.
then you're hitting the db on every request just to do auth.

if you _had_ to do that, I would put the counter into something like redis instead.
> How did you make it through high school while failing in chemistry and biology?

I didn't fail either. Our school focused on the theoretical and we never had practical applications of the knowledge.

> A chemical is the same whether it is natural or synthetic

For me the difference is naturally occurring and moderated via biological process of organisms vs extracted and manufactured chemicals. For example, you wouldn't find large amounts of Chlorpyrifos (used in herbicides) naturally anywhere in the world. It was mass produced for use in agriculture.

> GMO can be made more nutritious

If you are measuring specifically for say, vitamin A, you can engineer a crop to have higher concentrations of vitamin A than any other crop out there. So yes you are correct.
I don't follow this argument. By your own argument, the government could simply close the gyms - and it even has the power! But because they feared political backlash (this wonderful thing called "democracy"), the government made a stupid compromise and settled with a lesser (and less effective) restriction, and this proves that the government has too much power?
I happen to believe it's only optics, and frankly am disturbed to find myself in a fully postmodern society where only appearances and posturing matter.
I also find Eugene Yan's less technical blog to be similarly fantastic. https://eugeneyan.com/
It's possible to jog at that speed if you try hard - I've been doing some low heart rate training recently and can get down to 11m/km while still jogging, and I'm pretty tall so the biomechanics are weird.

It does look ridiculous, though!
Apple knows how to play the patent game and routinely petitions PTAB review to invalidate patents. I'm willing to wager that there are at least a few dozens of on-going reviews petitioned by Apple (and its proxy) at any given moment. Take for instance Apple's lawsuits with VirnetX which have been dragged out for several years appeal after appeal with multiple patent invalidations -- in one of the lawsuits, Apple ended up losing to the tune of $500+M, finally paid out in 2021. Apple is pro-patent -- and also one of the most egregious abuser -- insofaras it can game the system in their favor. Like many patent trolls, Apple also shops around for favorable legal outcome, aka, forum shopping, -- eg, Lucy Koh in Apple's backyard is one notorious example.

And who can forget Apple's patent troll operation, Rockstar consortium, that crashed and burned as it was taking off.
I do this now. Mainly because Google shopping results ALWAYS have scam sites in them. My workflow was Google search, click shopping, see one store you've never heard of coming in $50 cheaper...Google store to see no real helpful info, or if you're lucky, one or two links to someone asking if it's legit and being told no. I wish they had better vetting.
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Some of these weird closures happened around retail fairness concerns. None of it made much sense. https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-lockdown-france-says-pots-an...
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Suppose there are 20x [1] more Python developers, though that seems really low to me, I would've guessed more like 500x. Suppose skill is distributed exponentially. How much better is the average haskeller than pythonista? 1.1x? 2x? 10x? Given those assumptions, how many developers at each level of quality are there? I got curious so https://i.imgur.com/kEkmAsf.png . I think that means average Haskellers have to be a lot better than average Pythonistas before there start being more 5x-quality developers in Haskell than Python (because there are so many Python developers).

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-pr...
Why should USA trade only raw materials, when it does not need any?
And let's face the facts here: people of color are most adversely effected by weed convictions. While I'm not buying that it's all a white supremacist conspiracy, if drug convictions and sentencing were distributed evenly across ethnicities enforcement of these laws would be measurably different.
> Also, construction absolutely needs to evolve convergently with self driving. Cones are... ok, but some of those people leaning on shovels need to update systems with information on what is being worked on and what is cordoned off.

No. If the car cannot handle random obstructions and diversions without external data, it cannot be allowed on the road.

Construction is often enough planned ahead of time, but crashes happen, will continue to happen, and if a SDC can't handle being routed around a crash scene without someone having updated some cloud somewhere, it shouldn't be allowed to drive.

First responders need to deal with the accident, not be focused on uploading details of the routing around the crash before they can trust other cars to not blindly drive into the crash scene because it was stationary and not on a map.

And if you can handle that on-car, which I consider a hard requirement, then why not simply use that logic for all the cases involving detours and lane closures?
Reality is more complicated. Generally in order to trade with Cuba or Iran you do have to use financial instruments to insulate yourself.

Siemens did not sell centrifuges to Iran when it was during the full embargo. It did so earlier. Even then, sales of this equipment to Iran are done with coordination with the EU that does the footwork to insure the companies and avoid sanctions.
The reverse is not true either. Tesla drivers will be fined and/or banned, even if FSD is in charge. When there'll be no driver, then Tesla will be fined or banned. No differences here, since the driver is in charge.
Oh I have interest in this stuff, it's just that it's pretty much useless for an engineering career. Plus, you can't really make any profit because a Chinese inventor will just copy your idea and scale it up and drive you out of whatever market you make.

To be honest I understand more on how these components work than my dad does, he usually just clicks on the first results on Google and glues together Arduino/Hackaday projects. Whenever I talk to him about doing real low level stuff and writing actual drivers, it always goes over his head.
Sounds like an interesting approach. I'm glad there are people working of these issues. When I read this article I was thinking something like this is needed to incentivize the farmers.
This is such a fascinating insight. I didn't know this part of his story.

Turing was a complex character as most brilliant people are.

It saddens me what happened to him, but we must recognise that our children's children will be appalled at things we (collectively) stand by and approve of.
Out of 51.7 million people, SK has had about 2000 covid deaths. How could SK have been anywhere near "total medical system collapse"?!
According to timestamps of comments here I came approx 12 minutes late. RIP Casio
c4s?
There's no scientific conclusion that says cancer cannot be cured through natural means. I'm not against someone trying and I hope he succeeds.
It is cheaper than AWS's Casio as a Service and for small sites you barely notice the difference.
Hi there! I'm the founder of this app.

> After reading it a third time, I realize I guess it's just an open-source version of Mint?

Well, not a great sigh for us, but at least… you guessed right!

> But the author provides zero evidence that Google bans ads for "privacy-first services". It was probably classified as a crypto scam or similar.

I made this conclusion based on the information provided by my friends working in Google and Microsoft. Again, there's no way I can reliably say the _real_ reason because all Google said was "Unacceptable Business Practice" linking to this page. (https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/6020955?hl=en#36...)

That's actually more or less the point of the article: you get banned for life for no apparent reason. Is that how it's supposed to be?

> it looks like a scam

What is it that you don't like about the design? I just tried not to follow the common guidelines for the design and make the design more… developer friendly?
>they didn't want people going to birthday parties.

Did they state this reason? If so that's probably close to madness. But it does seem like a product that is frequently handled and returned to the shelves would be a good vector to suspend...
The problem is deciding whether someone is actually an expect in a subject area where I'm not.

People can say things that are patently absurd about one field while being an expert in another, but I also can't just be completely credulous in treating any assertion about any subject I do not understand as true. I don't really have much else to do but build out from a network of trust rooted in people who seem competent and clear-minded by whatever criteria I can judge.
Fair point. The sub-classification gets into those weeds.

For example:

1.1 being "mass explosion hazard", typically high-explosives.
1.4 being "fire or projection hazard", typically consumer fireworks, small arms ammunition.
1.5 is "may mass explode in fire", things like AN fertilizer (Beirut; West, Texas), many industrial blasting agents.
Webview/Webview_deno at 0.6.0-Pre.0
It's probably not legal to install spyware on computers you do own without consent of the observed.
People at a healthy weight consume less calories. Caloric intake has a perfect correlation with obesity. The psychological element is hugely difficult, but the science of "if you eat more you're going to be heavier" is very firm.

It is uncontroversial that by reducing calories in one's diet that it will cause weight loss. The controversy is centered around weight control, whether an individual can keep the weight at a stable level over the long run. In that sense, all diet fails.

I would contend that how many calories a person eat is only a proximal cause of obesity, especially since CICO is actually an incorrect model of how our body work.
macOS takes the same approach with Finder however. Managing files in macOS is a huge pain if you want to keep it in some nicely organized tree. Its optimized for just searching to find what you're looking for. It presents all files in a flat list by default.

Apple's primary business model is not search, so there could be some evidence that more people just prefer search over tags/folders/icons etc.
The problem with torrents is that they are clumsy, particularly for small files like PDFs. EMule had a better overall User Experience with the Kademilla network than Bittorrent. We need a new generation of P2P applications and protocols that a) Are easy to use for the purpose of searching for single files with specific metadata (author name, keywords, text/abstract content,e tc). and b) There is an "incentive" to share content in addition to pure altruism. As with Bittorrent, Kademilla or other P2P we have seen that content availability decays.
What is it that you don't like about the design? I just tried not to follow the common guidelines for the design and make the design more… developer friendly?
Those are U.S. sanctions. They do not apply to the E.U. or Canada.
Flip side - Google Keep.

To search for a note you have to press the search box twice. First time you just get types of things - if you want to search free text you have to press again.

I'd argue that UI encourages using tags over search.

It's honestly my only major annoyance about Google Keep.
If you've ever tried hydroponic, you quickly realize that soil is amazing technology. Indoor ag is yet another utopian fantasy.
It's very possible that there is an external influence that's causing people to feel the need to eat more and gain more weight from what they're eating - this is precisely my point, and the point of the article.

The fact that you can force yourself to eat less than you feel the need to and lose weight in the process does not prove, as you seem to think, that weight gain is simply explained by people being weak willed and eating burgers instead of salad. You still have to ask why this change actually occurred, since it seems that it has occurred in the general US population about 50 years ago and most of the world has been following suit.
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I remember when someone built a 'crypto stock exchange' (for crypto projects, not traditional stocks) in a month or so. They launched it, and was a technically sufficient stock exchange. It eventually fell apart due to too many questionable projects being listed, and perhaps some additional regulatory factors - but it "worked"!

Pretty cool that a 'garage-scale' team can make a functioning technolibertarian market so rapidly. (But also helped me learn to appreciate the utility of regulation :-P) IIRC I think Trendon Shavers/pirateat40's "miner financing" ponzi's implosion was a significant factor in taking it down.

There were lots of cool little projects popping up every month. Gambling sites that allowed wagers to be made directly on the blockchain - most engineering was around proving to gamblers that outcome determination was being done fairly. Accountless websites where you'd log in by sending a small fraction of a bitcoin, and your address was used as your identity. When bitcoin was less than $20, it was exciting and easy to experiment with - who cares if the $5 you sent disappears - but then the price spiked, and so fees increased and all of the 'loose change' people had everywhere was suddenly a significant amount of money - exit scams became frequent and people stopped being willing to store small amounts with others, because that small amount could 20x in 4 years.

Lots of small businesses posting that they'd accept bitcoin for their products. Found a lovely beekeeper's business that made great honey caramels and beeswax chapstick. I paid a teenager to custom make perler bead pixel art of Liu Kang and Raiden from the original Mortal Kombat (I think I may have paid multiple bitcoins for those :-P - hope they hodled!)
> let's say a car tended to crash into children (maybe they are harder to detect with cameras), more often than adults

This is already true today of human drivers because of the tall SUVs that are so popular. Do you think matching biases will be acceptable?
I have a number of nits with this post (e.g. OP is confusing Docs and Drive), but more generally I don't get OP's point.

Drive search, bookmark search, and Web search are totally different features in totally different products. Notably, the first two have no ads, so driving you to search in this case has no clear positive effect for Google.
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this is like firing the death star at a plucky little pod racer
In case of fire, does it matter that they are all in one cabinet together? Should they be stored separately so that a fire that does reach one won't cause a serious acceleration through combinations?
I am very surprised you have not heard this before, especially if you've used a printer in your lifetime. Yes, it's a "meme" (not sure whether to apply that word if it's not a badly drawn or photo-edited image, perhaps recurring theme is a better word?). You're one of today's lucky ten thousand!
Instead of colonizing Mars, we might want to establish a colony and industrial infrastructure on the Moon, using it to mine/manufacture aluminum, glass, steel, oxygen, and water. (For use in space, not Earth, of course.) If we can get the Moon's population up to a half million, with industrial infrastructure to match, the colony might be able to maintain the emergency capability of gathering enough resources from Mars and the asteroids to become materially independent in the event some disaster befall the Earth.

Just the fact that the Moon is only 3 days away would make achieving the above situation a lot easier than achieving the equivalent on Mars. Whichever Earth power controls the industrial infrastructure on the Moon would also be in a position to militarily dominate Earth-Moon space and the inner solar system and asteroids.
Then again AWS's Casio as a Service is available in a HIPAA compliant form.

Actually, HIPAA auditors would probably love a webserver running on a Casio since the hardware can be closely vetted and won't randomly change.
You don't think it has anything to do with the awful physical and mental health of Americans, as opposed to not following the rules? And mind you, I'm not in American but in another western nation where I've observed with my own eyes that people have followed all the stupid rules, regardless of enthusiasm, but they respected them, and the outcome has been just as disproportionately bad.
Doesn't mention his chance meeting with Lawrence Waterhouse.
I'm not sure what you are saying but I'm going to assume you are saying I see a connection between Siberian indigenous music and the music of Yoko Ono that doesn't exist. If you are correct that we shouldn't make unproven connections, then the music writing business of describing influences and pointing out derivatives is a sham.
Perhaps as a fallback for when somebody forgets to use a token for an input. Thanks!
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It seemed there was a story like this every day back in early 2020. The interesting thing was how much variation there was even among different states in the US on identical issues. For example, West Virginia encouraged people to go fishing by waiving license requirements during the lockdowns [1] while Washington completely banned recreational fishing statewide [2].

[1] http://www.wvdnr.gov/2020News/20news020.shtm

[2] https://wdfw.wa.gov/news/wdfw-closes-recreational-fishing-st...
I am in total agreement. It's quite revolting.
Remember how Steve Jobs suicided on fruitarianism instead of getting his cancer treated when it was found in its early stages? The biggest tech company on the planet was basically led by an anti science lunatic with millions of followers.

We will probably end up almost destroying our selves twice over before we get anywhere near curing every disease. On the plus side wiping out almost all of humanity should also take care of dozens of illnesses.
Yes. To determine this, look at the total infection rate as well.

South Korea is 329.92 per 100,000 people

California is 9,712.28 per 100,000 people

France is 9,002.09 per 100,000 people

England is 8,004.18 per 100,000 people

Finland is 1,772.60 per 100,000 people

Taiwan, which also was hit hard by SARS... 64.13 per 100,000 people.

These people have already been through respiratory epidemics in their lifetime, and they were prepared.
I think you misunderstand the argument. It is that if, hypothetically, FSD really did save human lives on average then it should be accepted as the default mode of driving. It would be a net win in human lives after all. But the "should" can also acknowledge that people irrationally won't accept this net life-saving technology because it will redistribute the deaths in ways which they're not accustomed to. So it's as much a statement about utility as a statement about the need to convince people.

Of course this is all theoretical. If we had solid evidence that it performs better than humans in some scenarios but worse in others then we could save even more lives by only allowing it to run in those cases where it does and only do shadow-mode piloting in the others (or those who opt into lab rat mode). Enabling it by default only makes sense if we do know that it performs better on average and we do not know when it does.
Huh. I really like the B52s. Though I've never been a Yoko Ono fan. Never would have put the influence together. To me Yoko was always a bit out there, even in terms of timing and tone. What I hear in Rock Lobster has way better timing and tuning, more melodic and less jarring than Yoko for me.
Pop culture (wargames, hackers) and popularized accounts of public events (kevin mitnick, worms, viruses, etc.) are all terrible at teaching users about cybersecurity, and in fact give them bad impressions in general. Why do you think users seem to think that security is just a matter of buying an expensive antivirus program? Or why any time their HDMI glitches out they think their PC "is hacked" but they'll gladly click on malicious emails?
Loaded for me just now.
Take a listen to the Pink Floyd album Animals. Extremely scathing. The lyrics are simply brutal. Pink Floyd started work on that in 1976, i.e. 45 years ago. He was scathing then and not much has changed in the intervening time.
Coal-burning in Siberia led to climate change 250M years ago (2020)
This is an arbitrary decision that a proper democratic decision making process would not end up on.
If you could Thanos-snap every drug in the world from aspirin to beer to crack you'd have people huffing or spinning around in their yards until they puked just for the buzz. Proper education on the effects of all drugs will always trump prohibition.

I'll give you this, though: in many conversations weed is being made out to be totally benign. While I think it's more benign than alcohol or many prescription drugs, it still makes people lazy, contributes to poor health, can be carcinogenic if combusted, and can be abused in the sense that a user can rely on it to attain a sense of exhilaration or happiness.