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Many of the scientific treatises of today are formulated in a half-mystical language, as though to impress the reader with the uncomfortable feeling that he is in the permanent presence of a superman.

Cornelius Lanczos
Same - happily married to someone I met on Tinder. We matched on Coffee Meets Bagel just afterward, so even better.
> In the future, they “can” evolve the scope to anything.

So, they can’t now then.
Fox News vs. MSNBC using 52,000 transcripts, 283 million words: study
How can anyone say there's a worker deficit when we're so far below pre-pandemic employment?

Maybe they should fix some of the issues preventing people from returning to work (childcare, pandemic restrictions) before complaining...
I assume the parent comment meant non-Webfont applications, i.e. for static assets (print or raster/vector digital)
> How would you create a mock object for something that modifies the memory layout of the unit test while it is running?

There's two ways I can interpret "the unit test".

1) "How would you create a mock object for modifying the memory layout of the code being tested?" That's just a routine that shuffles around some bytes. Or marks parts of the address space to fault so it can simulate the contents.

2) "How would you create a mock object for modifying the memory layout of the code performing the test?" That wouldn't be a test. The code performing the test isn't inside its own simulation.
You didn’t read my comment either!
Large parts of computer science are about languages.

There is a lot of progress. (Research needs to be novel usually).

Only that that progress arrives at mainstream usually 20+ years later, in very small batches. So it's not very visible when looking only on the practically relevant things.
It doesn’t? I never said that.
The parent post said no E2EE for group chat. Telegram doesn't seem to support that according to the linked page. Telegram group video chat only allows up to 30 people for the time being, which is far too limited. Also, group chat is not the same as "conferencing platform".
It's completely unrelated, but it reminds me of the Metasploit UAC bypass for Windows, called "ask".

Metasploit just pops up a UAC prompt asking for escalation. Yes or no. Over and over and over again.

On any machine logged into by a local administrator user, if they're the standard kind of careless user, they'll just click yes without thinking and they're owned. If they're cautious, and on a box where UAC presents as a modal dialog, as per its default config, this essentially locks the user out of the OS until they click "yes"... and they're owned.

On an assessment we did at a local 200-seat business where they ran with admin rights on their local boxes, we got about a 90% escalation rate. The other 10% of people got up from their desks and went to ask the IT guy, which we considered a "pass" in that scenario.

Interesting stuff.
A CEO's pay is often a function of the organization's budget.

Mozilla has a huge budget, so it's not terribly surprising that some well-paid person is in charge of it.

(Somehow Mozilla's CEO's pay has managed to increase while the organization's budget has been decreasing. This is inexplicable and unjustified.)

Regardless of how well- or over-paid Mozilla's CEO is, though, she is not adding comensurate value to the organization, and I invite her to earn $3MM elsewhere starting tomorrow.

OTOH, if tomorrow she announces The Mozilla Fund, and reveals that they've been accumulating excess budget (tens, hundreds of $MM/yr) into a permanent trust that will support perpetual development of Firefox and related technologies at a secure withdrawal rate -- and that all has been done legally from an accounting and tax perspective, and that we've all just overlooked it in the annual reports ... then I nominate her for Chairperson Emeritus who can keep her stupid salary, and hire a clueful product person as CEO.
> developers tend to get grouchy when APIs change out from under them that frequently

Apple didn't care about developers when they let OpenGL rot there, so I don't think it was ever a consideration for them. Their idea for developers is "we know better than you what's good for you".

> That said there’s no reason they couldn’t support Vulkan alongside Metal

Exactly, and the real reason is - they want their API to work as lock-in rather than allow developers to have options.
I like this, but my enterprise will not be switching away from Jira any time soon, which is my main problem with all these new fancy services. It just shows me what is possible, but I can never have.
1. Change property tax laws that ensure an always increasing property value.
2. Ensure that real estate is zone and rezoned quickly to ensure supply in a market.
3. Create policy that makes it uneconomical to hold unused real estate.
4. Quickly make underused or misused real estate re-enter the market. E.g. speed up clean up and demolition of vacated real estate.
The fact you can only use ‘tank man’ as the example
proves that they can’t search for arbitrary information.

It’s a meaningless example in any case given that Chinese authorities have no problem forcing people to install spyware directly on their devices.
Common Lisp programs can mutate variables, function bindings, and slots of various objects such as cons cells, arrays, structures and CLOS objects. Programs can execute sequences of forms as if they were statements, for the sake of their side effects, and can conditionally and repeatedly execute such statements. There is a form called tagbody which can contain labeled statements that can freely branch to each other using go.

Common Lisp doesn't require implementations to provide tail call support, so functional programs that express iteration using recursion may be severely limited in the inputs that they can handle; they would typically be ported to Common Lisp by a rewrite using iteration.
Humans have sex it's as simple as that. It's as natural as breathing and we're always one generation from dying out. The vaccines should be inexpensive and available to all. I love capitalism but not when it gets in the way of healthcare for all.
The problem with adapting this to other forms of atypical speech is that their recommendation system likely relies on a catalog the phonemes L2 speakers have issues with (the example most people know is the Japanese "L" "R" swap) so it's much easier to create courses with specific focuses and solutions.

If Google's Project Euphonia [0] is actually still ongoing and they release their dataset/methodology of training models with that sparse dataset I can see your idea as approachable; even accented speech is a tough problem to work on considering how many variants exist worldwide (but their approach looks good!).

[0] https://sites.research.google/euphonia/about/
Growing up in Mexico and now working in the financial service industry in the US, I’ve seen how many of Mexico’s residents are under banked or unbanked. I think this is an important issue you are trying to solve for! Is there a direct link I can share with family/friends in Mexico to participate in the private beta?
Ask HN: Do you use a Linux-first laptop? (System76, Librem, Dell XPS Dev Ed)
Given that Apple jumped the shark on surveillance, trying to get a sense of how well Linux-first laptop hardware performs. It all sounds good in the advertisements but want to hear from others here. I'll be switching from a Apple MBP 16" so I'm not sure how much of a downgrade to expect.

A. Purism Librem 14": https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/

B. System76 Laptops: https://system76.com/laptops/

C. Dell XPS Developer Edition: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/xps-13-developer-edition/spd/xps-13-9310-laptop/
Now that you said it, a holhraum does bear a resemblance to a Teller-Ulam device.
Replicache is not hosted - it's client-side only. You bring your own backend.
The problem of fission isn't meltdown risk or waste (or fuel availability), the problem of fission is capital cost. The capital cost of a fusion power plant is likely to be much higher than that of a fission power plant of equal capacity.
GameStop may have changed investing for good
I remember those days, playing on SpringLobby, and the previous one (can't remember what it was called)! I didn't mind the plurality then any more than I mind it now, although the games were less different then. I just think it hurts wider popularity.
> Strange beliefs rarely cause violence...

Yeah, it's great to be in the majority. Ask some Asian folks how their 2020 went. Or Middle Eastern or, for that matter, Indians in the US, ca. 2002.

Ask some black defendant how confident they feel to get a fair trial, knowing half their jurors love to watch reruns of COPS.

Ask the (surviving) jews at that Philadelphia synagogue how benign they believe the stories about Soros eating babies are.

And, fundamentally, ask yourself how good a regulatory system, with some element that measures an outcome, and some element that is regulated, can work when the information flowing between them cannot be trusted. Such feedback-dependent regulatory systems may be your AC connected to a thermometer. Or your elections, which are usually supposed to, for example, react to stories of corruption.

There's much love of "free speech" here. If it doesn't matter if the speech is correct or not, that can only mean that speech doesn't make a difference either way. In that case, what's the value of free speech?

Or is "speech" some magic thing that can never hurt, but still be useful? In that case, we should just get GPT-3 to give us an endless stream of plausible texts, and the magic fill find the gems in it.
FWIW, the oldest accessibility API was Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA), which was added to Windows 95 in a service pack in 1997. Classic MacOS never had an accessibility API; the Outspoken screen reader for that OS had to rely exclusively on ugly hacks (e.g. patching Toolbox functions). OS X introduced accessibility APIs for Carbon and Cocoa in an early version; not sure which one. Unix-based desktop environments got an accessibility API, AT-SPI (thank you Sun), in the early 2000s.
In the utmost respect, you sound like Lazlo from the movie Real Geniuses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoT-h0S1gkE
That last paragraph is hard to argue with:

Maybe this is our version of the "infinite monkeys" thing: given enough software people, enough computers, and enough time, someone at a company will eventually grant universal remote root access to anyone who knows how to read some source code.

At one job, way back in the day, I had a dream that a shared web-hosting installer framework could give you root on whatever server hosted your stuff. Went to work the next day and indeed... it was true and trivially easy to exploit.

Sadly, it was a custom wallpaper upload feature that ended up being the actual source of shenanigans. You get 3 guesses on what happened and probably need just one.
>As an aside, I'm curious if there's still any dating websites worth spending time on (no phone app install required).

For the most part no, but it depends on your age. Older people still use Match and OKCupid a bit. But anyone under 40 is on Hinge or Bumble.
whereby.com works great for me
What about Hungary?
> There are people who actually create the useful items or services, and people who profit off it - and we have all mostly accepted that it's good and proper that these are different people.

No we haven't. People can be sole traders, and that's fine. What you're missing is some things need more capital to pay those people than is guaranteed return on investment, and thus that taking a risk is a valuable thing to do in and of itself.
> Brouwer’s fixed point theorem. The theorem says that for any continuous function, there is guaranteed to be one point that the function leaves unchanged — a fixed point, as it’s known. This is true in daily life. If you stir a glass of water, the theorem guarantees that there absolutely must be one particle of water that will end up in the same place it started from.

This seems counter intuitive. Why would this be true? I would have thought that it’s almost impossible for a particle to end up in the same place as it started.
Can you think of any differences in those two CPUs, other than architecture, that may be responsible for that?

Hint: TSMC's new 5nm process is being used in a laptop CPU by exactly one company at the moment.
It's hard to overstate how disengaged and checked out the data people at big companies can be. The idea that data is valuable enough to merit executive attention is pretty new, and data scientists often find themselves on new teams in old, blue chip companies where data has gotten no respect for many years. And the long-tenured data employees, if there are any, have the attitude you'd expect from this.
Dell Precision m5520 shipped with perfect Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 install, including display profile. Forget about the rest.
I honestly wouldn't use such a tool for anything mid to large size. Git is kind of a nightmare. Now, an SQL database, or a distributed key-value store, I would use as a backend.
My armchair/spectator interest in fusion comes from the idea of significantly increasing the energy available per capita, without increasing carbon footprint. Traditional renewables might meet our current energy needs eventually. Fusion could let everyone on the planet enjoy the same, or even a significantly increased, lifestyle. As the saying used to be long before I was born, "energy too cheap to meter" (though obviously it still would be metered).

With enough surplus energy, you could run entire reactors just for carbon sequestration, or nation-scale desalination, or climate engineering, or what have you.
Someone competent who has actually done something, unlike elected officials. Until there is a party that represents and has engineers and technical people as an every day part of their system, not a unique member among a sea of lawyers, we cannot allow politicians to stifle innovation and humanity’s ability to build for the future.
After having had difficult topics explained remarkably well by a few math teachers, I'm convinced that the "gentle introductions" you're talking about are meant to be confusing. Or perhaps, in some cases, they don't grasp the material as well as they let on.

edit: For anyone who wants examples of good introductions, check out 3Blue1Brown's YouTube channel.
I have always wondered, is heat->steam->turbine->generator efficient? In my mind it just doesn't seem like it would be efficient at all. Surely there must be other ways to convert heat to electricity (Thermoelectric effect?), but why do we still use steam?
Maple tree data structure improves malloc-threads microbenchmark by 13% to 840%
I think it's rare, at least in the US, to find people who are aware of how fucked up capitalism is. Or have ever given any real thought to how ethical it is. But its atrocities are all around us in plain sight, every time someone dies from lack of healthcare, food, or shelter - or crimes and accidents that happen in the course of pursuing these essentials.

To live in a world perfectly capable (in a purely physical and logistical context) of providing necessities of living for everyone regardless of their output or decisions, but chooses not to, is pretty dystopian to me.
Good. I hope other manufacturers follow suit.

Two reasons why this is good:

1. Since being competitive on cost incentivizes others to do the same, this is a strong push towards standardization of chargers (and with abundance of USB3-PD flavors, we aren't quite there).

2. I have way more chargers than I can make use of. I believe that this is more common than not having a single USB-C charger. The environmental cost of this is a negative externality that I feel this move reduces (even if by a little bit).

If I were to make a decision on this, I would introduce an environmental disposal tax on all devices which would disincentivize freebies like that.
Show HN: Podcast interviewing Cybersecurity Entrepreneurs
Boston Dynamics Teaches Atlas Robot Parkour
20 year developer here who's touched many many different software stacks.

Still to this day, nothing has lived up to the hype that was actually delivered by VB5 and VB6. Insane productivity.
Discussed at the time:

Modern LZ Compression - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19064791 - Feb 2019 (4 comments)
Do you have evidence of old being executed or similar? The posted strace log section is fairly benign and shows no hints of what you insinuate.
They did not reject the app for using an API they have provided.
Because it's a legitimate behaviour. htop needs to do this, it's literally its main feature.

You can use hidepid=2 to prevent users from seeing other user's processes list.[1]

But I don't want my OS to ask me "do you want to allow htop to access the list of your processes" — à la Windows Vista — every time I want to run htop to see my user processes.

The issue here is closed source software with no way to inspect what they do.

If one really want to run closed source programs which were not vetted by their distro's maintainers, they should use firejail.[2]

[1] https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-hide-processes-from-othe...

[2] https://firejail.wordpress.com/
I believe you missed the point, by quite a margin.
Excellent, didn't realize the Dell Precision was another Ubuntu option. Why forget about the rest, what's so good about it?
SSDs

Breakthroughs imply practical considerations, and SSDs were the last major improvement to hardware that also required software changes.
> TBH Australia is VHCOL country and the minimum wage makes it survivable but you will struggle to say buy a median priced property

Yes, property prices are insane in Australia, though it's clear you'll do much better in Australia on Minimum wage than you will in the USA. Working class poor, multiple jobs and all that.

> The free healthcare is partially true as well.

In what way? My family have lived in Oz for generations, everyone gets everything free. My brothers horribly broken leg, Mum's Stage 4 lung cancer, child birth, etc. etc. Never paid a single cent out of pocket, never had a single second stress about money for healthcare. Even when people have been without jobs that doesn't change a thing.

> But worse is if you lose job the unemployment benefit called jobSeeker is very low and poverty level

Of course people without jobs are not living large, but they're living.
It only works for some idealized continous fluid. Not for actual water, which is made up of a large but finite amount of molecules.
Discourage gentrification using taxation.

Discourage owning empty homes with taxation.

Make evictions more difficult, even for squatting.

Require mixed use and prohibit office-only / mall-only areas and McMansions.
Dataflow languages are going back to the late 70ies.

Think Excel. ;-)

But I agree it's an under-explored branch of programming.

Event-"handlers" are by the way dataflow based in QML. Dataflow shines in GUIs.

But not only there:

https://enso.org/
This very much is the case. The ability to flit across broad range areas can be an asset.

Edit: Not sure why I'm being downvoted. This has been my N of 1 experience.
A minor gripe: Children of the night are wolves.. But perhaps it is deliberate, trying to compare tyrants to wolves.

---- quote:

There seemed a strange stillness over everything; but as I listened I heard as if from down below in the valley the howling of many wolves. The Count's eyes gleamed, and he said:--

"Listen to them--the children of the night. What music they make!"

(from "Dracula", by Bram Stoker)
Or, the infamous Curse of Knowledge?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
>we are raised from birth confident that we will live long and prosperous lives, that we need not kill nor fear being killed to live in this prosperity

Given the number of countries with mandatory military service, and the looming threat of the draft in countries that don't, this maybe isn't capturing the whole story.
It might be better put as "the Han Chinese think everyone else is a barbarian savage, but also, they prefer to leave their vassal states to run their internal affairs themselves. They don't call them barbarian savages on a daily basis."
This is a fallacy. AlmaLinux is a 501c6 non profit. Not controlled by CloudLinux at all and CloudLinux are diluting whatever stake they have so that the community can have true ownership. AlmaLinux is trying to prevent what happened with CentOS before being taken over.
In the US, I quickly accumulate 3-4 Stanpac glass bottles that are almost entirely identical, except for the indelible sintered labeling, and then I get behind on taking the right one to the right store and throw them out.
I can’t add to your response, so I’ll simply endorse it.
Metal is also a far more usable API than Vulkan. Apple wants people to actually be able to implement things with their APIs.
And by commutative many of the clothes we by at target end up in a landfill
This is one reason I have a lot of faith in humanity. There are many fear mongers publishing all sorts of scary stories about climate change but I am sorry if we can send people to the moon and cure all sorts of diseases, we can sort out the climate problem with technology too.
It can be modeled as fluid flow in a naive case but it diverges

* It is compressible
* It involves intelligent agents

The last part is hard for the 'traffic is water' crowd to understand. Lots of folks will skip a trip or defer to another time. It is the mirror of the 'all roads fill to gridlock' phenomena. You cannot build your way out of bad traffic, you have to design it and it might be less capacity than when you started.

Some components of traffic flow can be modeled as fluid flow, but traffic as a chaotic system cannot be.
unfortunately, the reality is backwards compatibility with everyone who came before you, sets your budgets and expects to review data with minimal upstart.

people like spreadsheets because it provides very immediate feedback
I mean, we have actual maps of where damage was done, you posted one, and it shows no riot damage reported close to the precinct. The closest damage was relatively minor both in type and amount.

So, we actually do know that the 2nd precinct never came anywhere close to falling. The question now is whether they’re lying about destroying evidence maliciously, or lying about having panicked.
Reminds me of the punk song, Jesus Does The Dishes by Wingnut Dishwashers Union.

And so you're asking me, who does the dishes after the revolution?

Well, I do my own dishes now, We'll do our own dishes then

You know it's always the ones who don't who ask that fucking question

https://genius.com/Wingnut-dishwashers-union-jesus-does-the-...
Europeans learned to live with the bubonic plague, which has never been eradicated, and Native Americans, over time, overcame the smallpox that was introduced among them. The people of today can do the same thing with Covid. It is the only way.
we stand on the shoulders of excel users, thats the reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX9aPNF6_h8

This is a great video explaining Brouwer's theorem and its (theoretical) application to stirring a cup of water.
The oldest lie of that sort is Holocaust denial.

Do you really believe it's a lack of arguments, research, testimony, movies, or museums that allow that anti-semitic trope to fester? How much more does it take to convince these people?
"Modern", but uses Huffman coding? No LZ implementation aiming for high compression in the last decade has used Huffman.
That's a conspiracy I can't get behind, considering how desperately we cling on to the one taste of a post-scarcity society, having cheap power (pun intended) from oil.
I'm with this guy. Obviously I'm missing something or not understanding what is being said here, because to my head f(x) = x+1 changes every single point and is continuous.

Or in the glass of water point, what if I pour the water out on the table. It's certainly all been moved, yes?

(To be clear I'm obviously wrong / not understanding the premise, but I would be curious to know what I'm missing)