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As someone who has used Julia for production use, I basically agree with everything you've said.

IMO:

1) Julia rushed to v1.0, but its understandable - it is sort of a catch-22 issue. More developers won't join unless it is stable (v1.0). But it won't get stable unless a lot of developers use it and feedback is heard.

2) I personally found that Julia community is slightly hostile to feedback and negativity. May be it is just me but it has way too much hype-driven-positivity that leads to delusion.

3) A lot happened between v0.2 to v1.0 which IMO should have been carefully and slowly done.

4) Developer experience should have been one of the major focuses. Stack traces should be beautiful and absolutely transparent. Debuggers are clunky - I used the Atom (Juno) debugger and wanted to toss the laptop off the window - just shows how frustrating it was. Compile times and smoothness of dev experience pays dividends and it was largely ignored.

5) I really like official libraries, not SomeBasicFunctionality.jl dependency. I am spoiled by Python.

6) Marketing around speed is misplaced IMO. It lures people like me into fanboys of Julia. There is so much more to a programming language than speed.

I don't want to be overly negative. The language and the original paper is beautiful - and this is all hard stuff. Kudos for the progress made so far.
Why am I NOT surprised that Bill Gates website hijacks my browser
LOL Evergrande is a ticking time bomb. Assets frozen by a Chinese bank just a week ago, and before that they were peddling CP in the range of 12% annual... It's about to explode.
> resumes must be hand-written

I like this one, a hand-written paper helps in judging someone, which I guess is the ultimate goal of a résumé.
Sometimes, the person who posts the link adds a comment to why he did so.
Germany nuclear shutdown by 2022 may mean blackouts, Merkel warned (2011)
> I don't need certification.

It does not matter what you need. The fact is, 99% of computers (and of course their hardware) receive Windows certification, because it's the monopoly that everyone uses. There is practically no way to change that.

> I can custom build a computer and pretty much not ever be worried about incompatibility with windows.

See above why.

I wish Linux computers were sold in retail shops. I have no idea why they aren't.
So, in case you haven't been paying any attention, the data from the UK and Israel, some of the most heavily vaccinated places on earth, are showing pretty clearly that the vaccines are not long-lasting, and not robust against the delta variant.

Second, you can't prove that "vaccine immunity is superior". That has never once been the case with any vaccine in history, there're no studies that show it, that's just BS parroted by drones.

Third, you don't need to know the motive when the behaviour is suspicious, you just need to know the creepy, suspicious behaviour. If someone is creeping around my house sneakily, repeatedly, I don't need to know exactly what they plan, but I have every right to want them to gtfo my space.

Fourth, another of the super-suspicious things about these vaccines is just how many of the hoi polloi have been programmed to accuse anyone unvaccinated of being wild 5g-magnetic-brain-impant believers. As though there can be no reasonable way to be suspicious of these experimental vaccines that were rushed to market--you have to be an insane person. That drones like you come out and make these stupid accusations every time I mention that the vaccines aren't some obvious lock on canning this virus is really, really suspicious.

Fifth, asymptomatic spread has NEVER been proven. Pre-symptomatic spread has, but not nearly as widely prevalent as we thought. Since I'm in a category of people--not fat, healthy, young, vitamin-d enriched--that basically never gets covid, I can basically never transmit it.
When Millennials were kids, our parents told us not to trust what we read on the Internet. Then they ended up swallowing whole every nutty article passed around by their Facebook friends.
We’ll need to add carbon capture to the mix. Many promising atmospheric carbon capture technologies exist in the $17-70 per ton range.

A gallon of gasoline emits 20 pounds of CO2, which is conveniently 1% of a ton. So, if we added a $1/gallon gas tax, and spent 100% of the proceeds on carbon capture, the vehicle fleet would be strongly carbon negative in 5-10 years (when some
of the carbon capture technologies successfully ramped).

We could add a similar tax to concrete, electricity production, etc. The trick is to make it proportional to actual carbon emissions so that incentives align.

Once gross emissions fall off significantly, the tax would have to be increased, and/or levied against carbon neutral industries, since we’ve already completely screwed over future generations.
Most serious crypto traders purport that the risks of Tether are already “priced in”: https://twitter.com/raoulgmi/status/1408921296281407488?s=21
Here's a non-paywall version: http://archive.today/UbuUS
It's a fundamental problem of having a dynamic, compiled language. It's not possible to actually solve. Think of it similar to how C++ and Rust needs to compile its source code before running it. No-one talks about this as a problem to solve.

The problem with simply compiling dependencies to static binaries is that all Julia code is allowed to redefine other Julia code. So package X can load package Y, then define a method that causes package Y to change behaviour, and thus needs to be recompiled.

This is not unintentional, by the way. Having packages able to use each other's code is critical for having the ecosystem be "composable", that is, being able to make two different packages work effectively together. For example, I might take a type from package X and throw it into a function from package Y, and it works.
The hard part is making it produce the correct results even if the user does something like change the definition of +. It's not un-solvable, but it needs a couple hundred hours of work by people who are very busy.
TIL! So many (most?) christian names have hebrew origins so it's just great to see how much hebrew pronounciation has been completely violated to create words that sometimes barely resemble the original.
This is what I do as well; I would add the caveat that foreign news sites written in english are absolutely pushing propaganda on you regardless of whether it's about internal politics or foreign politics. Russia Today is even up front about this; the point is the propaganda itself is useful in order to detect what the actual arguments are. You do not get this by reading only one opinion as the only other viewpoints you will receive will be strawmans.
Wow, that an awful font.
No, I get that. But I'm pretty confident that this is a flag on my account.

I frequently see "you're posting too fast. please slow down. thanks", even when my posts are 100% upvoted.

"Too fast" can be a handful of posts in a single day. I'm probably close to my limit now that I'm responding to you. I'll have to wait another day before I can post again.

I think it also negatively weights my comments, though I don't have evidence yet.

This flag was placed on my account for the reasons I stated above. I'm not going to mention it anymore because I don't want to get in any more trouble with the mods, but I find it unfortunate that pg can have the freedom to speak up against fascism whereas we cannot.

I've had really good essays on biochemistry topics, finance, and machine learning that I've ultimately had to discard because of this.
> It's not because they're frothing at the mouth racists, it's because they're minorly inconsiderate.

There is a very good chance that your correction is coming off as inconsiderate since it is interrupting the flow of conversation and perhaps even the other person's train of thought. That interruption is also going to affect how well they remember the correction. If they were unprepared for an off-topic interjection, it is probable that they didn't hear what was being said or it did not register in their memory.

So yes, getting people's names correct is important. On the other hand, letting people get your name is important (rather than forcing the issue).
The headline is in the comments. Figured I’d mention that for context to others.
>But doesn't the delivery driver use a car?

They use a van and drop off at a hundred other customers homes in your vicinity.
Non-Design Advice for Designers
There are enormous amounts of people who don't add to innovation. Very few people are needed for innovation. Most people even on HN are doing routine things. Not discovery or in support of discovery. Most people's minds are not being taxed -and that's okay. That's to say, having millions of idle minds to produce one very productive mind isn't a requirement. I think this initiative could be part of this solution where we need fewer raw numbers but more productive percentages.
Those still exist and the ATMs still accept them. For savings accounts, you introduce the thing and it prints on all the pages it needs.
For what it’s worth, Defender has been going crazy with false positives since the last Windows update. It’s regularly flagging Android split APKs that I build as trojans, with different signatures each time.
America's Airline Flies Non-Stop to Area 51 (2015)
PostgREST Version 8.0
So its a browser with a daily quota?
It's The Verge.
Idk, maybe it depends on the person. I would take it positively, as its an accomplishment regardless of their age, but even more so given how young the person is.
"Stories online, when altered, are labeled as such with corrections."

I get that. But how do the TV news programs do it? I don't remember them starting with, or including at all, a corrections segment.
I am in my mid 30s now, and even 15 years ago in big US coastal cities I grew up and worked in, smoking was very rare amongst my peers in the white collar office workforce, and absolutely a reason to not date someone.

I can smell cigarette smoke on people’s clothes and the tar lingers and sticks to the walls, so I would not even want them in my house.

Vaping and marijuana do not have the lingering smell problem though, probably because there is no tar or whatever else causes the odors to stick.
It isn't the entire rest of society, it is a very small privileged group pushing this. A majority of men strongly disagrees with these things, but their voices aren't allowed to be heard.
I think you're completely right with this observation. In practice much of Julia is duck typed. It uses types to pass information from the outermost caller to the compiler of the inner functions, not to express invariants.

Human annotations get in the way of that, and thus get in the way of composability.

You want to annotate Interfaces in Julia, not types. But we don't have interfaces.
I have thought tether was a scam for years. I am very deep in the industry. I now think tether is neither a scam nor a Ponzi scheme in the classic sense of the word (they’re not borrowing from Peter to pay Paul).

What tether is doing is reframing what 1:1 collateralization means. Typically when we think of a fully collateralized stablecoin, we think a 1:1 mapping of dollars to synthetics. Tether is backed by ‘dollars or other dollar equivalent assets’.

Whether ‘other dollar equivalent assets’ will actually add up to dollars in the event of a crash is an exercise for the reader.

As for these current charges, they definitely did not have the dollars they said they did once upon a time. They definitely have a ton of money now but whether that’s the right ton of money in the event the market moves a lot is anyone’s guess.

For now, the seemingly unstoppable rampage that is tether continues on…

Edit: just to be clear I don’t hold tether and don’t make use of the currency personally but I understand why others do.
Want to offer a clarification to what you said here.

Government doesn't have to prove that the corporation acted with criminal intent - that's impossible since corporations don't have minds.

To hold a corporation criminally liable, government must prove that an employee/agent of the company violated the law while acting within the scope of the employment.

So, if you can prove that a Tether executive committed bank fraud, it's rather trivial to hold Tether the corporation responsible as well.

The difficulty is proving that the individual acted with criminal intent. This is indeed a laborious, expensive process that involves trawling through millions of documents and IM messages. The targets of the investigation will often be able to afford the best defense lawyers. Which is why government will often settle a case rather than take it to trial.
yeah, I watched a swimming heat where the announcer was speaking as if it were even possible for the US swimmer to win and they got like 5th.
People can buy cryptocurrencies with USDT as well. They can even cash out dollars later. Weird, right? It's almost like there's something backing USDT as well even though it's all nonsense.

Another truth is governments force their citizens to use their own currencies. They require citizens to pay taxes in those currencies. They probably even require stores to accept those currencies.
So this browser renders websites on a server somewhere and streams the visuals to the app, like PS Now on playstation?

Weird. Is this really faster than downloading html/css/js and rendering in browser?
This is an issue with your perception of the reporting, not what actually happened.
Note that stack traces are a bunch better in 1.7 (not yet perfect though).
My guess would be that the super-mobility of people is the difference.

When I was in high school, I had over 30 friends who I was close with- we had classes together during the day, sports practices together in the evening, and spent our weekends together at the same social gathers.

Then we all scattered for college, and social networks broke down as each of us individually were now nodes on separate, non-connected groups. We had our "college friends" and our "high school friends" who mostly didn't know one another or interact.

Then we all scattered again for jobs after college and our friendships became increasingly strained, difficult and disconnected. Our high school best friend was a thousand miles away and living a very different life now. Our college friends only got together as a group at weddings and bachelor parties. Our new 20-something friend groups were constantly in flux as people got into serious relationships, focused on careers or moved around.

If I'd grown up in the 1950s and stayed in my hometown after high school along with all my friends, I'd have a rich, deep history with 30+ friends. Instead, I have 100 people who I was close to for a few years at a time but who I'm only presently close with a few.
> A tactic used in some almost autocratic countries is to pay for lots of ads in the press, ensuring that the press stays friendly to the payer. It's legal, it passes first scrutiny, and it's effective. NYT wouldn't want to lose a big client, so they will be thinking twice before publishing a damaging article.

Have you actually read the NYT's coverage of China? They're probably pissing it off more than almost any other English-language outlet.
Science didn't lose trust. Men who claim to do science lost it. They shouldn't have had it in the first place actually.
I worked in a national Japanese Lab for a year. For me, the illusion of tech advancement was shattered when I was told I needed to fill-out a form by hand to get access to a high-performance computing facility. I got my login and pass info about 5 business days after I mailed my application form by post.
You have not specified where your city is, but if it’s in the US then

> Also bad city planning, wrong population projections and, wrong prioritization of city investments play a big role too.

These are usually the consequence of a car-centric culture when it’s not racism (it’s commonly both, with the car centric culture and the racism making an alliance in the 40s and 50s).

The US destroyed many neighbourhoods and city centers to make room for cars and car infrastructures (e.g. huge through highways).
I got out at the previous peak of 20 k. When banks could short it.

Before the pandemic, it went to 4k. And I forgot to do it again. I would have sold everything by now, i don't think it will hold, just like it didn't hold in the past ( pre-covid).
It's not incredibly hard to imagine that no one would take it seriously if some nebulous phrasing like the "most important conflict space of the 21st century" is the content of our warning. Even less difficult to imagine if this is being espoused by an already untrustworthy three letter agency(ies).

As a partial aside, the tension with the current bureaucratic classification system is that it limits what these organizations can actually tell us. This, in turn, limits how much we can actually
care:

As an (likely fictitious) example:

> "Russia is hacking our critical infrastructure"

doesn't have quite the same ring as

>, "On 12/28/2018 Russia initiated an act of cyber warfare and remotely destroyed electrical switching equipment responsible fo rthe power outage and downtime in Middleton Ohio from 0100 GMT to 2119 GMT on the following day. The residents of this area have been notified via mail and SMS . . . ."
I agree wholeheartedly. So many people tell me the same thing about NYC but if that's the case, how are people able to live there making sub $60k? So my mind just jumps to affluenza stricken people that have FOMO so bad they must spend every single dime on a high quality lifestyle.
Me too. And for a good 10+ years after CSS became popular, it was still simpler to lay things out in tables.
Did everyone get their money back? Either way that is quite embarrasing
Is it? I've personally seen it label keygen type files (with no malware whatsoever) as dangerous more times than I can count. It's false and misleading and I don't see why they couldn't pull the same shit with anything else.
I think most would agree we are in bubble-ish territory, but what do you do?

Most advice says 2 things.
1. impossible to time the market.
2. time in market beats all things.

So you can't just pull your money out. Even with a 20% correction tomorrow, your still going to be up on the year.

Going to bonds to get 1-2% isn't helping much.

There is nowhere left to put money.

Be nervous a year from now when the bubble talk subsides as the NASDAQ continues to grow :)
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They aren't coordinating. The large-scale structure is an emergent property of their collective behaviour. This phenomenon is most famously illustrated by Conway's Game of Life [1]. Non-local patterns emerge from entirely local rules.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton
I agree with you. Back when I was a little kid learning to code on the internet by myself, tutorials that I could easily understand and quickly use to build things were important. Because without those, I would have probably given up.

Those stupidly bad PHP tutorials that show you how to concatenate a URL parameter to an SQL string were easy to understand, and taught me about everything from writing PHP/SQL, setting up a MySQL server, networking/opening ports, designing database tables, designing an application, and much more. The motivation I got from learning so much in so little time led me to keep learning new things, including learning and understanding why all that code I wrote when I was younger was so bad.

If those shitty tutorials get copy and pasted into production codebases, that's the company's fault for hiring a lazy/bad developer, and for not catching the vulnerability.
I took my own crack at this, because I think your numbers - intended to show the big separation - still make it seem too easy! Lebron is NOT just a 99.99th percentile player!

There's fewer than 500 players in the NBA. There are hundreds of millions of people in the US (being US-centric initially to try to do the YMCA comparison), so probably a few million that play frequently as amateurs? One in a hundred? Let's call it 3 million out of 300,000,000, to work with relatively round numbers.

So being in the best 1 out of 100 - top 99% - is a z score of 2.3. Being in the best 500 is then much smaller even than THAT! 99.983%, z score of 3.481. The single best one? 99.99997%, z score of 4.991.

So if you define closer by z score, they "good amateur" YMCAer is closer to the worst in the NBA than that person is to Lebron, but I think it's more meaningful to define closer by "how many people stand in between you and them" - and the answer is millions for the amateur.

And I think that shows that work alone only gets you so far compared to talent. If you and a million other amateurs all start putting in ten hour days, the vast majority of you aren't getting to the NBA - it's just not big enough.
Seems weird to shame users for liking your service...
Can you not login to the nbc olympics site/app using your fuboTV login and get access to exactly what you're looking for? [0]

They also list youtube TV and Sling TV as login options.

[0] - Literally asking, as I can see they're available as sign-in TV Providers, but can't test it without a sub.
It's not like it's very different in the rest of western Europe, and eastern Europe probably doesn't have the know-how to do it. If you want to be in the EU, Germany is far from the worst place.
> no wind at night

Wind speeds are actually greatest around sunrise and sunset, which corresponds more or less with peak energy demand.
Perhaps English isn’t your first language or some other issue, but as an example on the homepage under services there is “free and paid domains” with a chart that explains the difference between the free and paid feature akin to any other freemium service that provides a chart to compare free vs paid accounts/features. It’s also in the footer, they also have a price chart under services and in the footer, they also show you these options when checking out.

I guess what everyone is arguing here is that they shouldn’t allow any free registration but charge a discounted rate the first year like every other domain registrar.

https://www.freenom.com/en/freeandpaiddomains.html
Haha. Well... good luck with that.
In the case of a single program that's broadcast, they're somewhat comparable since NBC has a monopoly on the Olympics.
C++ and Rust don't need to compile dependencies between program code modifications. Compiling a Rust program is faster, anecdotally, than running an equivalent Julia one. At least for the numerical and plotting uses I've tried.
That’s when people want to see something you’re trying to hide. The downvote effect is when your content is hidden because you want it to be seen. So I might dub it the Anti-Streisand effect.
You can't stamp a tablet with your hanko, and faxing it is difficult as well. A tablet would require changing a lot of established procedures.
Oof, it's one thing to complain about people "abusing" your service by using it excessively and a whole another to use dehumanizing language for these users by calling them "parasites".

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cloudmosa....
I mean, if the options are (a) a grand corrupt conspiracy or (b) Tesla turns out to be bad at doing a thing, I think Occam's razor would suggest (b), especially given that it's _Tesla_. This would not be their first rodeo with screwing things up.