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> we need to deal harshly with such hatred/disinfo campaigns, ruthlessly deplatforming fringe elements

(1) If you believe that hate-based disinformation campaigns routinely unseat good people ... I might suggest that normalising ruthless deplatforming of "fringe elements" is a strategic blunder?

There is a stereotype of ye goode olde Nazi/Communist regimes. It involves tropes of ruthlessness and deplatforming of fringe elements.

(2) I'm not sure dismissing political opponents as "far right" and "fringe" when they are winning elections is rhetorically feasible. It is hard to get away from the fact that winning an election involves convincing swing voters that a plan is acceptable. It is worth asking some what? and why? style questions. Then getting to answers that don't involve the public becoming suddenly and unexpectedly susceptible to hypnosis.
>but in adressing the cause of the fear of the people.

If you address it they won't have a reason to vote for you next time. This problem plagues many US cities.
It depends on the intention.

If you're intentionally rounding a number because it's in some algorithm, or maybe your tax law, or to give discounts to customers, then it's not glue code. Using a cast to round down will obscure the intention, but I'd argue it's not really glue code.

However, if you cast the float because you have two systems and the second one only accepts integers, then you are using glue code to make the two incompatible things work together.

The lines a bit blurry sometimes.

But the distinction is still helpful, because less code can potentially (but not necessarily) mean less bugs, less time needed to understand the system, less cost, more performance, etc. And glue code is code that you can potentially (but not necessarily) remove.
Kclock is a fantastic internal name for that little application.

In the associated articles you can see the user-facing name for kclock is "Clock": https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/06/10/plasma-mobile-updat...
That’s the way the cookie crumbles when you ride Deutsche Bahn.
Sweet! The world needs a Bloomberg alternative so props. We don't have an API atm. We're focused on supporting human analysts. The meat of the product is the red flags which are textual and not quantitative.
>Hopefully nationalism crushes this perverse anti Western virus

Being totally against the EU, i think full on nationalism is wrong too. We life on one big spaceship and with that, we should have one organizing (not governing entity) like the UN was once meant to be.
stalkers are a weird lot.

I got one once by posting a single comment on an internet forum. I like to use aliases (thankfully) so all he could do is burn that one alias. They started following me around on different topics to continue the conversation.

My wife had a guy who would randomly show up at her work, house, friends, stores... He confused that they were in a band together that somehow she would want to hook up with him.

For this case some of these people think they have a relationship with the other end. They get emotionally attached but when they realize it is not going to be what they want they become unglued. It does not take much to set them off.
Interesting.

How do you think about backtesting? There are a few short-only shops that specialize in finding frauds. If you get their historical 13-Fs, how would you score against them in terms of precision/recall?

And I guess more broadly, how does alpha with your system compare to a portfolio that holds all short positions by big long/short funds (ex thematic shorts)? Meaning, those guys have full-time humans that focus on this... can you beat them? Very interesting if so.
They ruled in one case that roundup caused a particular person's cancer. Even though medically 80% of cases of that type of cancer do not have an environmental cause (ie random mutation is responsible for 80% of cases).
Same. I think China's investment in infrastructure is going to give them a large economic advantage over the US in the years to come.
He went up and then down again.
The latest of the rich man roller coasters. Biggest windows in space... Cool. I cannot wait to see the first Champaign cork opened in zero gravity. At least spaceX's efforts have some none-entertainment uses. This rocket is nothing more than a pleasure craft.
No. Swiss trains are, but German trains are famous for being late. A little snow in the winter? Well, guess what: Schienenersatzverkehr! (Rail replacement bus service)
Only death is inevitable and even that is not that certain.

I am saying this as a person, who likes the science fiction level of species level organization ( vs geographical nation-state ), where we pay with universal credits and basically have few of the issues inherited from the olden days of 2021.

But I dream.
I was referring to the one Germany was working on. I know that the 600 kph train presented in this article isn't a Transrapid.
> such a sluggish manner

Can you elaborate? I'm not sure "sluggish" is an adverb I would use to describe space launches.
I’ve read (a few times) just one paper from that list; Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? – John Backus

I was very confident that the list would contain the Logical Clock paper by Lamport, but alas it doesn’t.
The Museum of Pinball is closing its doors for good
You mean like they used 'Blue Origin' in tiny letters next to huge letters spelling out 'First Human Flight'?

Always check the fine print.
For reference, Boeing 747 average speed is 909 km/h (565 mph) with a top speed 986 km/h (613 mph). However maglev train saves time on landing and coordination makes it faster compare to air travel.
It is estimated that millions of animals per year are killed by cars in the United States alone. Seems like it happens enough that people should be driving slower and watching for it.

I'm not sure what that should be called, but 'car accident' seems like it doesn't describe it very well.

Source: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/08034/...
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In Germany banks have to reimburse some fees after a court decision. But each customer has to write their own letter, the banks offer no forms or real help because it's not in their best interest. Still Deutsche Bank put aside 350 million Euro, only 100 of those is for fees, the rest I assume is the extra administrative hassle.
`ptr = array` vs `ptr = &array` (no [0] needed) is also part of being able to capture array sizes during compile time for macros, and also being able to copy arrays by value in an easy way. I don't think there would have been a way to do it consistently while retaining the pointer decay. In general, all implicit conversion are associated with difficulty when trying to add other features – just to explain why the pointer decay is dropped.

`num_value = enum_value`... that might actually happen. I haven't decided.

"`char str` into cstring str"... no? The whole story with strings haven't been 100% decided yet, but likely this will be: `char str` raw character string `char[]` a string slice, preferred over null terminating char*, and finally `String` which is a userland, dynamic string.

Something you can do with C3 is that you can convert as much or as little you want from C to C3. C3 is ABI compatible with C, so you can just compile using the C3 compiler for some files and then with GCC or Clang the C files. In fact I did this with vkQuake, converting a little bit of code into C3 and removing that from the .c files, then compiling the C3 code with c3c and the C code with Clang, then linking it together and it runs as if all had been written in C.

https://twitter.com/nuoji/status/1417212252843880451

Edit: And regarding `func` it's for easy parsing and greping for IDEs and editors.
But Israel is a democracy and the Palestinians didn't have elections for 15 years already. These are facts, not propaganda.
America’s Great Vaccine Decline
No one is obligated to list every facet to anything just to tickle your "I'm included in what some random person is saying". The commenter is speaking out of their own experience. It's not about you. Actually add something regarding those other practices instead of virtue signaling.
Sure it’s readable for like 3 lines of code - the exact same way as XML is. But YAML’s readability scales the worth out of the 3.
And purely for egotistical reasons...
We don’t use Kubernetes
Gongrats to Blue Origin, this was great but when compared to SpaceX its like seeing a bicycle ride compared to a Model S Plaid track on Nuremberg.
It's great to have more companies operating in space but, as noted by others, it felt fairly routine given what SpaceX have been achieving (BN3 static fire yesterday and proper orbital flight in a few weeks)
I didn't see Bezos sitting inside, except after the landing.
I’m more impressed that Bezos took the ideas that worked from Spacex and successfully copied it.
We barely trust 'our' own representatives and you want us to trust those other guys?

In all seriousness, the issue is trust. And I have no idea how we could possibly get there as a human kind.
Having written this, I think it's worth pointing out the main flaw that I see in nationalism: it's that it uses culture and nations as a proxy for principles, as opposed to digging for the actual principles underneath.

As an example, I stand for freedom of speech, in the form of a diverse, largely independent set of publishers and authors that allows me to make up my own mind by exposing me to different viewpoints. Many Western countries have a better track record at this than authoritarian countries. But this doesn't mean that I'm on Team "The West" - if my country drops this value, I'd rather drop my country than my values.

If my country thinks that skin color or wardrobe of a person is more important than what that person is saying, I'd rather drop my country than team up against that person.

If my country decides that Islamic Law or autocratic dictatorship is a better form of government than democracy, I'd rather drop my country than abandon my principles.

It's great to be in a shared space where you agree with everyone. The question is, when you eventually disagree (because you don't get to choose what your neighbors think, and because nationalism is just a proxy for actual values), then are you going to follow your principles, or do you let your nation and culture dictate what your principles should be?
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Hardly Japan (it being a disconnected island nation)
Seems that between Musk, Bezos and Branson, we have in essence restarted a space race but this time it's billionaires in the private sector versus governments. Some will surely say that they have better things to spend their money on (Bezos for sure) but I gave to say it's still mindblowing. I would imagine if you're one of those guys, you've basically have enough money to solve any problem, so these guys it seems are chasing harder and harder problems, space exploration seems to be top of mind among these problems.
Yes I wanted to comment the same. And Germany is, as far as I know no longer looking into this anymore.

Edit: I mean for the usage in Germany. It’s sadly a very political topic because lots of money went into this project.
That’s currently being built!

https://www.texascentral.com/
So you do it anyway! The less sure you are that you can do this, the more important it is to do it now: you are more likely to remember the change that was made (and that person is more like to be around)

30 years ago mainframe companies started realizing that their mainframes couldn't restart anymore - after many years of uptime all the on the fly configuration changes wouldn't be reapplied and so the whole couldn't restart. (all hardware had redundancies and backup power supplies, so any individual component could be replaced and most had been over time) So they started scheduling twice a year restarts to test that the whole could come back up. The mainframe itself is fully able to run for years without the restart, but the configuration wasn't.
Great q. Sino-Forest is an out-of-sample test so our models didn't technically "learn" from it. That said, very valid comment. Historical testing only goes so far. Assessing whether our algorithms work in deployment has been cool. Check out some of our live, in deployment examples here - https://bedrock.substack.com/p/bedrock-ai-vs-activist-shorts
Shameless plug of an algorithmic ideation technique I use to generate lots of random ideas - https://www.fueet.com/ideas-1.html
It is written in the article. A few reasons could be pressure from the publishing magazine, emerging open source implementations of the same idea, and the fact that this is still far from easy to comercialize.
Any investment in US infrastructure is government excess and waste.

Now spending a trillion dollars to invade and try to remake a country in the Middle East... that's not waste. Neither is bailing out financial institutions so they can go back to the casino.

If we don't get our priorities realigned, China will absolutely dominate the 21st century and we have no right to complain. We did this to ourselves.
In that case you're not "learning" though- more like "exploring". No?
> Thee wouldn't be a demise, it would just be a different kind of society.

You mean the kind in which we live right now, and where birth rates are well below replacement values?

> The current society we are in where we expect or desire pair bonding for life with an exclusive mate is rather new and unstable.

This is wrong. Stable pair bonds are a feature of nearly all advanced societies. The reasons are game theoretic.
> It's a damaging profession both to its consumers and to its creators

With age and life experience, I'm actually finding it increadibly difficult to agree with this statement. Sex work might be damaging for many providers, that's for sure (although, as others mentioned, so are other professions deemed essential); but damaging for consumers, I don't know. If it were so bad, it wouldn't be "the oldest profession". (Male) society undoubtedly needs periodic release, and sex work is one of such valves.
Except then you would also have to explain exactly what those billions of minds are running on and have the ability to predict with 100% accuracy their future state at any point - something which is impossible under our current mathematics and physics.

This is why it's pseudoscientific though - you could still argue that it's a hack or whatever since the ultimate universe might have different laws of physics and computation. At that point, what makes this theory particularly more empirically appealing than a supernatural deity though? An unfalsifiable theory is an unfalsifiable theory.
I like working with pen and paper in programming a lot. And I agree that it helps for learning and really understanding.

But at some point, if you want to educate people to build real working products, in the real world - and this is what the vast majority of CS students are going to do - then you have to teach also exactly this. How to build things for real and not just thinking about how to build things.
There are probably 100s of articles that are tangentially related to physics, fluid dynamics, materials science etc...

... but none of them will teach you how to show up to a customer's house on time to install a toilet quickly, efficiently, and accurately, with a smile on your face.
This is an interesting read on that subject: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/12/high-speed-trains-ar... One of the many complexities involved is the fact that high-speed trains on existing lines take up much more track space and push out slower-moving trains which link up the smaller stations. So city-to-city is fine, but towns and below get a reduced service, leading to more car traffic to get to stations (and more pure car journeys).

This makes the point that the more trains are powered by clean electricity though, the better: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2007/04/planes-on-whe-1.html
True, it depends on individual methods for data collection. Still, there should be some evidence for the effectiveness of video surveillance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_London doesn't really reflect a significant influence. It is falling slightly, just analogous to almost any other European city or capital.
I hate to break it to you but Musk is just as unlikeable.

Why does it matter who does it though? It’s a great achievement and could lead to great things. I’d much rather people like Bezos were spending money on this than mansions, supercars, and other crap that doesn’t benefit anyone.
> Yep! So tell me again why I should employ what the previous poster referred to as "hardcore nerds"?

You employ who can get the job done. I don't really care what they are called.

I answered you on the "gatekeeping" part. If there is something I like about this community (IT) is that there is way less gatekeeping than any other profession.
Indeed, I guess I ended up half way between localization and accessability ;) Fixed.
I wonder why this level of scrutiny is not applied to strip clubs and the local Hooters franchise. The same grift and mental issues on Only Fans is present in strip clubs and Hooters too.

Basically there's two sets of victims in these places. First, the girls are only learning one skillset. That is, how to identify marks who have money, and how to get that money in the least amount of time. Once they learn that skillset in their twenties, its very difficult for them to transition to an apprenticeship in any other profession, because the entry level in other jobs will never compare in earning potential to what they make with their sexual grift. Essentially they are mentally damaged forever and its difficult for them to become, for example, a nurse or a developer.

The second set of victims are the guys who are getting fleeced. Perhaps the word victim here is wrong. Maybe the right word is marks. The guys who participate in these transactions are mentally what one used to call "losers" but again I hate labels. Lets just call it what it is.

These are men, who for various reasons, are not able to attract the kind of female attention they want without entering into a monetary transaction with said females. That's very simple, and should be non-controversial to say. Just like we say, someone who goes to a restaurant enters into a monetary transaction for Chicken Vindaloo, because they aren't capable of getting the Vindaloo they want by using non-monetary means (i.e. cooking).

There's no value judgment, but guys who use strip clubs, Hooters, and Only Fans are basically screwing their brains up permanently. They think the kind of attention they get from pretty girls at these venues, is the kind of attention they "deserve". So their expectations in the real world become badly calibrated. Have you ever seen a fifty year old doofus hitting on 20 year olds in a bar, getting rejected hard, and being surprised? That's a habitual strip club client right there.

The other way their brains get screwed up is that these men hang around so many grifters that they think all women are grifters. I'm not going to get into George Bernard Shaws theory that all marriage is a grift, but I think we can all agree that the level of grift in the average marriage is much different and has a different effect on you then the kind of grift that happens in strip clubs and on Only Fans. Basically if you hang around strippers, you'll start to think every woman has a hand in your pocket.

It's very sad. It's kind of like when a kid is abused they start to mistrust all adults. Same thing. These men can become misogynists because their sample data has become so skewed.

Anyway, I'm' kind of sick of how media treats online grift as somehow creating a set of problems that wasn't already there. Go to any small town with poor economic prospects and there's some number of desperate young women who are training in the grift. And there's also some number of men who are the marks. Moving all of this online just makes it so more highly sought after people in both sides of the market have more opportunities. But the problems are the same no matter where the grift is happening.
> (admittedly, they probably had a lot larger fuel budget than orbital launches)

That booster isn't capable of orbital launches.
It’s easy to specialize to a tiny tiny subset of all the problems XML can solve by.. not solving those at all
Are Amazon employees allowed toilet breaks yet?
Agreed. This really felt like an amusement park ride for rich people. Like a throw towards the edge of orbit.

I'm sure there is some innovation coming out of this, but compared to the insane progress of SpaceX it's super underwhelming.
This is really fun IMO. The article makes a point that the security guards probably know the art pieces better than most people since they are constantly patrolling and looking around. Plus it gives them a chance to have some fun curating the collection.
I wish there were more open access standard organizations.

At least members could force ISO to publish standards once a predefined amount of development costs (let's say 100k per standard is recouped).
Blue Origin is funded by Bezos with much more resources/year than SpaceX, yet has achieved far less over a longer time since founding. "Sluggish" is the adverb I would use to describe its engineering progress.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but being a copy cat does not make you innovative.
> Humans too, you're describing at least one comment in every HN thread about an SEC filing :D

LOL. Yup!
Do they all need to be original artists? Historically art has also given a huge role to reproductions. It was not uncommon to have many copies of a painting be made by different persons (which has made tracking originals a time consuming process). Some painters were even specialized in copying a certain master style and paintings. Every musician does not like composing its own music either.
The timing and motivation of publishing something is a valid line of inquiry and not innuendo. Vaccine hesitancy is a salient topic of the day. A world leader accused a major social network of killing people by distributing misinformation [0]. Why would a publication choose this moment to editorialize about fraud in medical research? This wasn't a long running experiment from which new information was developed. Why publish now?

Maybe it has nothing to do with vaccines but rather maintaining the BMJ brand ahead of some new fraud they know will come to light, or a warning to researchers who might publish elsewhere. Why publish and why publish now?

0. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-biden-facebook-soc...
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Yeah, I'm a big fan of the Outside-In approach (I think it's from Michael Feathers's work).

The idea is that you test something at the very end of whatever you're working on, and ensure that it's identical to the original. You can then make larger changes to actually test the code properly while confirming that the overall system still works.

Super, super useful with ML things where running stuff can take a very looooonnnnnngggg time.
Like how I expect Kontact to be about ontacts and Konsole to offer me an onsole ;)

(Sorry couldn't resist, I know many apps just have a normal name with a K prepended.)
To me the most interesting part of the article is the cometary on where basic research is going to happen in the future. The fear is that if it only happens in large companies, then the unbiased pool of experts society relies on will be smaller and less informed. Along with the issue of nobody being around for the slog of defining a field, setting up databases, competitions and standards. These are what allow well funded corporate labs to apply their skills and compute and blow a problem out of the water. The problem is, would they do the work to define an unknown problem in the first place?
I don't see a race. I see one company that does space travel and two dilettantes, who may or may not one day actually do something useful.