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>> PhDs today may signify the level of knowledge, but not necessarily the level of intelligence.

> I think intelligence is hardly the problem. It is something far more intangible that perhaps should be called 'wisdom'.

It can actually be the problem. Intelligence often manifested as an increased ability for self-deception and rationalization.
That, and the card also has white and black.
Some recent programming langue startups that are still around or have come and gone:

- Dark: https://darklang.com (hibernating, laid off everyone to buy time to find product/market fit)

- Eve: http://witheve.com (defunct)

- Luna/Enso: https://enso.org (just rebranded)

- Unison: https://www.unisonweb.org (hanging in there)

- Urbit: https://urbit.org (hanging in there)

That's off the top of my head. I'm surprised an article asking this doesn't mention any of them or analyze how they came to be and where they went.

The main reason from my perspective is there's not funding. It takes years to build a programming language from scratch, so you need a lot of runway. And it takes a specialized group of developers so they cost a lot of money to hire. The combination of the two means you need a lot of money to get a PL off the ground. Millions of dollars.

The most likely way to get that kind of money right now is going through VCs, and they aren't going to give you anything for a safer systems language or a JavaScript transpiler. They want to be pitched a world-changing language that will redefine the computing landscape as we know it, and bring billions of people into the programming world. You might notice that as a common denominator among some of the languages I listed above.

But this is a research problem with an uncertain time horizon and unknown feasibility. It could take a decade more to complete such a task, but it's very unlikely you're going to get a decade worth of funding from VCs. You'll probably get 3-5 years, and at the end of that you'll need to have something tangible that can get you follow-on funding to continue your work. But that means your original pitch of revolutionizing the computing landscape by democratizing programming gets downgraded to making an incremental change that increases some productivity for developers.

Anyway, there are ways to get around this, but it likely means your company won't be a "startup" in the HN VC-funded sense. See Unison which is developed under public benefit corp. Andrew Kelley has managed to bootstrap Zig using user support and now corporate sponsorship. Urbit had an ICO and sells digital real estate.
Fire intensity in California is absolutely related to frequency.

Historically, most California forests had low intensity burns every few years. Now, these same forests haven't had a fire in 100+ years, resulting in extremely intense fires that leave behind ashen moonscapes. This is not the historic normal fire cycle in CA.
Yes people find it hard to stick to new habits let alone tracking them in an app.
Good experience building these things nevertheless.
> tough to argue that HP wasn't mismanaged during this period, and therefore tough to assert that this mismanagement wouldn't have extended to Autonomy

How is this relevant? If you get sold a computer, are delivered a turtle, and then kill it because you forgot to feed it, it can simultaneously be true that you were (a) incompetent and (b) defrauded.
No, like i said, I hadn’t explicitly blocked this one either, it was a part of the adblock list the I’m using. The example i gave also showed that they don’t have a unique subdomain that i can unblock while adcompany.amazonaws.com can be done without blocking all sites
You got your wish, looks like Twitter's on the list now too.
yep.

https://taxfoundation.org/tax-basics/step-up-in-basis/

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/073115/how-cost-bas...
I’m confused. How would using *at() APIs prevent race conditions?
I took a look to see the font, which I agree is beautiful.

But I stayed for the content. Interesting! And what a great presentation! I have so many questions. What happened to this in the intervening decade? Is the idea incorporated into any other plotting packages? Did you purchase this font to use in your talks?

> Oh God, 10 years ago ...

I know that feeling.
This part is easy to overstate.

It's mostly true for the United States, although even back in the day there were strains (Maui was famous for this) which had nice crystals and were grown without males around to spoil the product.

In Europe, hashish was the normal form of cannabis, and it's hard to make hash more potent than it already is. It varies in quality and strength like any natural product, but over a range that is higher than a flower can achieve, pretty much by definition.

Hard-core concentrates and pure THC products are new, sure, but hashish gets you most of the way there.
Elon Musk, famous for Tesla, is willing to take your money and not deliver a product for several years. I am shocked.
Is there any evidence of decline of this forest's productivity?
People don't believe me when I say how much DNS matters. So I wrote a song about it.

https://soundcloud.com/ryan-flowers-916961339/dns-to-the-tun...
My main takeaway from Bloom's book that has served me well, is to clear your mind of groupthink and preconceived notions that he calls "cant" to approach the text with an open mind.

From the blurb on Amazon: "Shedding all polemic, Bloom addresses the solitary reader, who, he urges, should read for the purest of all reasons: to discover and augment the self. His ultimate faith in the restorative power of literature resonates on every page of this infinitely rewarding and important book.
Huh? Obama tried to stay clear of Syria. The damage was done by US in a round about way, the second Iraqi war and it's aftermath which left a huge power vaccum in the region, and killing many US troops and Iraqi and Afghani civilians. Which is exactly why Obama didn't want to get the US stuck in there.

Russia and Iran stepped in to enlarge their hegemony, and they put the Assad regime back in power.

So kindly blame Russia and Iran for this.
To paraphrase a drug development chemist (see https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/09/25/wh...)...

No, it won't. Protein structure determination isn't exactly a rate-limiting step in drug development, especially since the computational chemistry models of binding aren't up to snuff when it comes to being substitutable for time-consuming animal models.

This press release and upselling of the protein structure determination advancements is a lot like the human genome project; while it was incredibly useful in its own right, everyone who predicted that it would unleash improvements in human health has been proved woefully wrong.
BLM protests also had "violence against an authority" (police). Some also chanted calls for violence (IIRC?). Why aren't those called insurrections?
Knowing when to say ‘No’ is an important (and probably underrated) skill.
From my personal observation of loved ones, schizophrenics self-medicate, often with what is available.

I plan to read this article to understand if they are just seeing selection bias.
Wildcard DNS helps me to handle multitenancy easily. What's wrong with it?
That’s fair enough, but I still don’t consider it as problematic as autonomous driving; it’s more the equivalent of a microwave overheating, and it’s fairly easy to build in a fail safe for this. As a matter of fact, as far as I understand, the receivers actually shut down when they overheat.

This problem is not nearly as big as solving autonomous driving, in terms of “how to prevent deaths”.
You app with the chatbot is a bad nightmare. I would never use something like it.

Combine a Tamagotchi with your app, have the user "feed" them with his "habbits". At least you would combine two things.

With the chat bot? Move on.
I would like to have an inmos transputer hypercube with an PC interface card.

I recently bought an SUN E5500 with 8 CPUs for 200E. The big advantage (and disadvantage) of big machines that they tend to be too big to forget somewhere in an attic and sometimes can be had for little money.
This feels like quite a reach.

Understanding that you've received X pesos now and will receive X less in two weeks is a lot simpler than implicitly calculating the NPV/default risk of high-interest loans, both from an intuitive and an explicit budgetary perspective.

Even if we (incorrectly imo) assume this dynamic plays out the way you say it does, it's quite a bold claim to say that this putative psychological effect comes close to outweighing a 3000% (or w/e) reduction in APR.
You have certainly defeated several straw men.
Any developer will say they do this. But very few, if any, can do this perfectly for every line of code that they write. Humans are terrible at doing things all of the time. Expecting developers to remember to do bounds check is setting yourself up for failure.
It appears that your site uses Google Analytics instead of one of the open source analytics platforms you have on your list. Is there a reason for that?
What an elaborate way if saying weed smokers are lazy bums.

Have you considered you attract a certain type? The long time smokers I know live remarkably normal lives. Kids, jobs, etc
At least for this particular flavor of app, building an Android version is an optimization that should be made once the product has been proven successful.

Until that happens, it would be a huge waste of time and money for the developer to build an Android version, since it too would fail as a product, just like the iOS version.

Multiplying 0 by 2 is still 0.

The situation might be different for an app whose success depended on the user's ability to use the app to communicate with all of their friends, some of which had Android phones.
> Why don’t they do everything via press releases and let everyone access equally?

Because that's less transparent. From an idealistic perspective, sure, this is fine. From a practical perspective, it's bonkers.
You can call it whatever you want, but if the description doesn't fit I think it's fair to say it's at best a poor label. And it will always lead to confusion when just trying to communicate something. Why not just call a spade a spade?
Thanks for reading! I'm focusing more on distribution and monetization (or ability to pay) on my next product.
Only speaking for myself here, and not speaking as an artist, but I think a lot of companies foist a lowest-common-denominator incentive structure on everyone and then act surprised when they have difficulty with recruiting/retention. Not everyone wants the same thing out of work.

For example, I have a fundamental disconnect with the idea of corporate ladder climbing, and it makes me feel like a bit of an alien sometimes. It's not interesting to me, though I realize you need a certain amount of status to maintain some notion of autonomy. I'm not even talking about office politics per se; I just think the notion of "work X years and get Y title" feels empty to me. As I mentioned, I'm motivated more by autonomy than external perceptions of status.

I'm happy with work, but I've had to realize and accept this in myself, and learn ways of navigating a world where many concern themselves primarily with their own status.
That depends on how expensive it is to get your code into production, how many other dependencies need to move in lockstep, how much manual regression testing there is, etc.

Fixing a ten-second bug on my PC might easily be 100x cheaper than organising a release.
I second this. I take pictures with my phone to save for further study.

Edit: I use https://www.onlineocr.net/ a lot when I later want the text
Most of these fall under the term "product - market fit". All key points really. Fail at the these and it's an uphill battle to acquire and esp. Retain customers.

Good stuff to read "the mom test" and "sell more faster".
For those interested, the ebook version of this book goes on sale for $1.99-$2.99 a couple times a year:

https://www.ereaderiq.com/dp/B009MBTRHA/the-origin-of-consci...

If you don't feel like paying the full price, I suggest setting an alert at the above website for it, and you'll probably be able to catch the next sale.
very interested if you know how to find a good agency for this as well. please DM/message if you can, thanks
Xiaomi overtakes Apple as the world's No. 2 smartphone-maker
I have a lot of things to hide from criminals and little to hide from the police. I fear your metaphor is a fallacy...

If people dont want to be naked in public it s because they expect onlookers to abuse of their image to exploit it, there s an argument to say that the police isn't at risk of doing so.

I'm not saying you re wrong in principle, just that your easy fallacy is just that.
Poster changed the headline from "could" to "will".
EDIT: It's fixed now.
I'm sure some democrats will refuse the vaccine out of spite. I actually know people who don't want to get vaccinated out of spite.

A change in the ad campaign could work, appeal to republican values but without alienating democrats in the process
I read almost exclusively on my ereader, so “two books in different places” does not apply to me. But years ago before the ereader existed I also self-disciplined to one book at a time.

If I don’t, my reading will become like my internet browsing: chasing my interest of the moment, half reading something about it, going on another chase and never properly engaging with one subject.

Of course some people will be better at context switching and the discipline to actually finish the multiple books they’re reading…but not me.
Maybe throwing out nuclear power to burn coal wasn't such a good idea after all? Why can't she recognize that it was a mistake?
It would make for a great dystopian novel where someone gives an AI the goal to "help actual patients live longer" and it does that in typical AI fashion, by putting people in eternal stasis or manually keeping their blood flowing so that they are technically "alive" but living in a nightmare. Metric achieved!

In general I think that AI is a genie that will interpret your wishes in the worst way possible to achieve your goal. If you're specific enough then great. But it's hard to know whether you were or not until the genie is out of the bottle.
Wiper malware targeting Japanese PCs discovered ahead of Tokyo Olympics opening
It makes no sense. It's like arguing against seat belts, just because they are mandatory! I have a family member who is like this: He agrees seat belts are important and save lives but won't wear his out of spite, purely because "I'm not going to let the government tell me what to do!" It is not logical.
People did. I was only talking about the original created by Knuth, the fonts used by default in modern TeX installations are normal Type 1 vector font versions of the font. Most other current variants (like Latin Modern, New Computer Modern, etc. which also include OpenType versions) are derived from these Type 1 fonts.
Same path. It'll be very hard to move away from 1Password. App experience, sync, security features like key in addition to master password, family organizer-based recovery of an account, these are a few things that stand out.
Sort of sounds like me a decade ago.

If you find yourself still doing the same job in a decade, I think you'll know why. Tech jobs are very compatible with weed. The sort of tactical, short term thinking you need to apply current knowledge to problems works well. It's great for crafting clever, short-term solutions and hacking your way through things. If that's all you ever want to be, smoke weed everyday man, why not?

If you want to achieve more, that, for me and the people I've seen, is where the problems start. You might not even recognize that this is where you want to be in life until it's too late because you're so comfortable with your 'smoke weed everyday' job. It really sucks when mid-life comes and you realize your skills won't carry you another 20 years, or that there's a whole generation of kids coming to either push you up the corporate ladder or push you out on the streets.

I was literally high all day for 16 years. Grew it. Made hash. Supplied edibles to dispensaries. I get it. It feels great. Do yourself a favor and stop for 6 months. See how you feel about your life and the overall direction. You might find you don't want to go back. That's assuming you can quit. I tried over and over again and couldn't go more than 3 days without it. Anyway, good luck.
Fantastic! Happy to discuss with you further, feel free to make an account and try the Salesforce integration :)
I have enjoyed smoking Cannabis for decades, but a recent bought of financial difficulty coupled with a desire to get programming last week has shown some teeth on the cute little bubbly image of Cannabis in my mind.

I started smoking more (due to stress) and trying to complete a new project (financial difficulty) and it was just a nightmare.

It's noticeably more difficult to concentrate and retain new information when I am ingesting regularly.

Learning a new programming language, even having just had a few joints the night before, is so much more difficult that it would be without the Cannabis. I honestly felt like I was losing my mind.

I'm not even talking about being high while learning/working... just having the cannabinoids in your system from a few days ago really soaks and coats the mind.

So I've cut it out, for now.
Is there a way to tell your system to fall back to the last known IP address if DNS server isn't reachable?

Basically soft-invalidate your local DNS cache but it back from the cache graveyard if DNS is down.
> I've tried switching to both Emacs and Vim, but no amount of configuration nor third-party plugins could get them to work like this effectively.

Emacs can easily do this.
Have them all hot and live rather than any sort of failover system. Keep everything in sync with OctoDNS or similar

https://github.com/octodns/octodns

DNS is fastest first* rather than main/failover. If AWS DNS was down your GCP DNS would have replied (if all is well) sooner than {timeout} so your visitor would still have a response

* Sort of. I think if the client doesn't get a reply from the server it picked randomly in 1s they move on to the next server, repeat until all fail
"Prosecutions seem politically motivated."

Maybe because in the US prosecutors are elected / directly appointed by politicians, whereas in Europe they are in generally part of a self-selecting career bureaucracy.
Which dictator is that?
This seems like a classic case of "build and they won't come". I feel like OP could've validated that the market for a product like this is too competitive quite easily before writing a line of code.
Good spot, thank you!
> It might seem attractive initially, but within a few months the status quo will have reset and those employees who were living paycheck to paycheck will still be living paycheck to paycheck, just now it will be day by day waiting for their accrued amount to increase.

Except now they have money available to them in realtime, continuously according to the work they've put in, without having to wait for discrete points in time where their bank account refills.

> This unexpected expenses thing sounds like poor justification to me.

The fact that people use it shows people want it. The paternalism towards people who don't have enough money is really staggering. This line of argumentation reeks of "Poor people cant manage their finances - they dont know whats good to them"

> And charging the company Vs the employee is no different. If you didn't charge the company they could instead increase the wages of their staff by the equivalent amount. You are just taking money out of the potential pot that goes to the staff. Staff costs is just a single line on our summary p&l which includes salaries and benefits.

Salaries have other pressures maintaining them besides available funds for salary, like minimum wage and market rates. As we have known for years based on the utter failure of "trickle-down economics", salaries paid and available funds often have little to do with one-another.
> If you cannot extend your philosophy to the future of civilization, it is a flawed one.

I see this attitude in tech a lot and I think it is incorrect, and very harmful. Systems have emergent properties that only exist at certain scales. The best principles for an FTL civilization spanning the universe are not the best principles for present day, and an appeal to claims of first principles is blind to this.

The same logic applies to arguments over censorship of large social media companies citing counterpoints involving small, niche internet forms with a few dozen users. Or amazon scale superstores vs. a grocery chain. Or large nations comprising a mix of heterogeneous cultures vs. small, uniform island nations.
I'm in the middle of a migration from Akamai to Cloudfront, time to take a break I guess
I personally would rather that all artists stay far, far away from UI design forever, for the simple reason that they will never allow me to customize anything. It's bad enough we're stuck with the current bespoke "light" and "dark" modes in UIs that were fully customizable in the fucking longlongago of the goddamned 90s. Not to mention their propensity for form over function.

No thanks. Kindly fuck off.
The bugs that have no effect may offset the cost. I'd like to see that study.
Need in the context of the quote was used as opposed to "want". I think the point was to drive home that people are less likely to pay for, and continue using, things that they "want" versus "need".

The problem is, needs (as prerequisite to survival) isn't really what is being described here. "Desire" doesnt quite sounds like the right term either, because it is semantically no different than a want.

Rather than looking at the customer's spectrum of desire, perhaps a better framing is fulfillment- does the app fulfill a gap in a person's abilities, or does it sate an idle fancy?

Facebook and twitter do both, I think, at different levels. Perhaps that is why they are so successful.
Also more transparency and a more limited toxic ingredient list in a typical joint than a cigarette. But yes, smoking weed isn't harmless.
I could certainly be accused of haughtiness when someone made a snide remark about me using marijuana. This is because I got fed up with arrogant people shitting on me when they found out I use it.

In my experience it is those who love to flout their sense of superiority by shitting on users who are arrogant. But shit can flow both ways and when I'd point out that they too use "drugs" they'd get very defensive.

Back in the 80s my cocaine using friends loved shitting on weed users. "It makes you dumb" was one of their favorite cut downs.

My alcohol drinking friends who didn't smoke weed loved to cast the aspersion that weed smokers were "drug users". When I started pointing out that alcohol was a drug too they all very loudly denied it because couldn't stand the idea that they were "drug users" too.

And along with and within those two groups are those who do prescription drugs. It was pretty strange to be accused of being a "drug user" by people taking codeine and Xanax and Quaaludes, ect.

When I pointed out the serious side effects of alcohol, both personal and to our society at large as compared to weed smokers they started shutting up about that when talking to me.

Since Colorado legalized it those kinds of encounters have been far less common, and I've certainly appreciated it. And because of that I'd probably be far less likely to be accused of being arrogant nowadays.
The bugs that have no effect may offset the cost. I'd like to see that study. Hardware is once, software is forever.
> I used to get a lot of dating and foreign-matchmaking ads stemming from the fact I like chess.

How would you know this?