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> Pick a language that most programmers consider weird but whose median user is smart

I think this heuristic fails, with my poster-child counter-example being Nock and Hoon, the languages used to implement Urbit. Those languages are unquestionably weird, and I think their median user is pretty smart -- you have to be pretty smart to use those languages because they are intentionally designed to be difficult to use. But I don't see any merit whatsoever in Nock and Hoon, at least not with respect to giving you any leverage in programming. C++ is another example. It's not considered weird, but I think it would be if it were not so widely used. Again, to use C++ you have to be smart because you have to know the locations of a zillion and one hidden land mines. But the appeal of these languages is not the leverage they give you, it's the barrier to entry. Once you invest the time to learn them you become a member of an exclusive club. In the case of C++ at least, being a member of the club gives you leverage and opens up employment opportunities. But that doesn't make C++ a good language.
The word “literacy” also derives from familiarity with letters, but from latin instead of greek.
There were two interesting nuggets in here:

> Waymo has also partnered with organizations—most recently, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

This is odd to me. I don’t see the connection. What am I missing?

> Waymo walked away from the term “self-driving” this January in favor of a more precise, multisyllabic “fully autonomous driving tech.”

I assume this is because Tesla marketing had polluted the term?
Given that emacs just needs a good editor, maybe get them to integrate neovim?

;-)
I think it’s more likely that increased population mixing will make everyone mixed race and we will have to find something else to talk about.
It’s a smart strategy. The best way to win a rationally impossible case is to drag it into an irrational identity politics scandal.
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So all the homeless need is a tropical vacation?

I'm an expat myself and while not a backpacker, I have traveled extensively in SE Asia. I can honestly think of few things worse than taking people who can't support themselves in their home country and shipping them off to SE Asia where they will be thousands of miles away from their family and friends living in a society whose culture they don't understand. If you send them to SE Asian nomad hubs, they will be surrounded in many cases by cheap booze, easy access to drugs, and hordes of prostitutes and shady locals and expats.

> It can be a joint social venture set up by NGOs. We will need really smart founders to structure things in a way that will benefit the local economy there, while giving a decent life to those who were originally living on the street. A life with diginity e.g. where they do volunteer work in rehab, or as a craftman, an English teacher, a botanist, an entheogenesis research assistant, etc.

Have you really spent time in SE Asia? If you have, you'd know that Indonesia and Thailand are very protective of their labor markets and are not going to be interested in sacrificing local jobs for the benefit of homeless Americans. In Thailand for instance, under the Alien Employment Act, foreigners are basically shut out from many of the kind of jobs you are hinting at.

English teachers generally need a Bachelor's degree and clear criminal background check. TEFL certification is also sometimes needed. How many homeless Americans do you think will meet these criteria, and do you really think SE Asians want homeless Americans (some with mental illness and substance abuse issues) teaching their kids?
I think these key bindings go (at least) back to csh.
Throw a bad book in the trash.

Don't read books you hate, just like you shouldn't converse with people that frustrate and anger you.

That being said, a novel is one of the most intimate conversations you can have, so don't give up on them because you have had bad experiences in the past, find a new partner to talk to!
> […] their farmer friends, staunch conservatives who used to believe climate change was a political stance, are suddenly getting more and more worried.

This whole ordeal is a lesson in fucking yourself over… Making up your own "thruth" may work for some things, but does not for most.
Seattle light rail was sold to the voters with one premise being upsizing the surrounding neighborhoods. Once construction began, upsizing became controversial and never happened in some neighborhoods because of gentrification fears.
Just like AOC and 150 of her companions did to Pelosi?
I don't get it: How do credit scoring companies in the EU even get access to browsing data or my search history?

Wasn't the GDPR introduced to prevent data sharing like this in the first place if I don't explicitly opt-in to this particular use case, like, as a separate toggle and not "by using our service you agree to our privacy policy".

I'm confused.
You're missing the point. "Chargeback" happens to be a mechanism that exists to promote trust in the market. Trust is the requirement, not mechanism. Right now no one uses crypto to send folks $20 a month for n00dz. Period. No one does this. Why?

Trust. Crypto providers don't trust they won't be hacked. Crypto consumers don't trust they aren't being scammed. There's no trust.

But their Visa card or OnlyFans account? Those they trust. Credit card billing has been around for decades and we all know it works.

Crypto needs to be like that. Address the Trust Problem. Stop fixating on anonymity.
Banks are also incentivized by costs, both real and perceived. security is a perceived cost, easy to discount until it happens. This is why ATMs run very old operating systems, for example.

Capitalism isn't magic pixie dust that makes everything good.
I see parallels with the evolution of finding things online. Originally Yahoo went with a human curated nested categories approach - essentially an index of web pages. It was supplanted by AltaVista (and later Google) because automated search was just so much more efficient.

OTOH I think a lot of the new Personal Knowledge Management tools could be seen as helping you build your own index of the stuff you want to keep track of.
Well, they keep you on their mailing list and spam you with other offers.
I can't see that happening. Race is a valuable tool in capital's toolbox of divisiveness.
True, the current cruelty of making all living things on earth suffer so that overweight Americans can continue cheaply eating meat 3 times a day is a pretty crushing tyranny.

Or were you going the other way, and absurdly suggesting that not subsidizing the costs of meat would be tyranny?
Authy once deleted local credentials during an app update. I had to restore with my backup keys.. only I lost my backup keys so I had to go the long way to circumvent my 2fa. They didn’t seem very sorry about it either.
And Parler can obviously make their own mobile phones with comparable market access to Apple and Android combined with most apple and Android users more than happy to abandon their investment in their asset on principle.

If you didn't immediately ditch your iphone obviously that means Apple are beyond criticism of any kind because the market.
note unix shells allow you to choose your keybindings! It's just as common for people to use vi keys as emacs
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“We have tried several different ways to create 50-megabyte files for more efficient filing, all without success thus far.”

I would believe they aren't incompetent if I read this 20 years ago
Recruiters I did it too were agency recruiters. Even if they talk, no one is giving up the chance at comission.
It also happens to require significant amounts of discipline to implement :-)
What a strange argument. What I've seen in other fields is that when the people who are clearly smarter than me in those fields (whether by natural ability or by experience and hard work) tend to use different tools than I do it is usually because those tools are better for work in that field. They might also be harder to learn or use, but for those who can learn to use them well they end up being more productive than if they used the tools I am using.

If I see just one smarter than me person using a particular tool for some task that I also do, it might be because they are using it as an intellectual challenge or for variety, but if I see a lot of smarter than me people using it for that task I've almost always found it is worth looking into it seriously to see if I should use it too.
It's a parlor trick, but a cool one is my point.
Good job refuting the central point effectively without resulting in mudslinging, champ!
> your actual cost of living is locked in

your own imputed rent, if you owned your own place is not "locked in".

By living in the property, you are giving up receiving the rent that could've been generated. This means a general rental increase also affects property owners - it's just invisible and often not counted since no money changes hand.
Maybe the following would have been more appropriate?

“Pick a language that most programmers consider weird but whose median user is curious and shows the initiative to explore strange new worlds of how to get things done.”

I consider myself a very capable hack. I am not really very “smart.” But I am motivated to learn more. And to improve the craft of software solutions.
I have yet to see any principles at play in this free market.
"Bikeshedding, also known as Parkinson's law of triviality, describes our tendency to devote a disproportionate amount of our time to menial and trivial matters while leaving important matters unattended."

ie. spending way too much time configuring your working environment vs actually working.
Thank you, that's really interesting. So good design will reduces things like interconnect to improve density.
It's FUD, probably trying to influence policy markers/the unknowledgeable public in to supporting policies that favor large established firms.
Ask HN: Who else sick of “Rich” people teaching moral/life philosophy?
Unless someone made money teaching philosophy about life, I think it is phony for rich people to tell others about "moderation, family, values and what not". I mean they become rich by putting everything on backseat and then when they hit millionaire or billionaire, they start preaching online, writing "lessons learned" and worst make more money by "selling" philosophy. I can't stand this anymore. Any one else feels this way too?
So did Russell Peters (comedian)

"In the future there's gonna be a little brown in everybody"
Interesting because this is the first time I’ve heard this kind of love for XSLT.
So say we all !
Every state believes they are America's dumping ground.

That doesn't change the fact that the overall rate of homelessness pre covid had been declining for years in america yet increasing only on the west coast.

That alone contradicts the premise.
>Because whether or not you exercise does not change your ability to spread COVID. It may improve your chances of survival but it does not change the burden one way or another on how you are affecting society around.

Yes, but under your theory of collectivism, we all have a responsibility to protect these obese individuals via authoritarian measures. Therefore, if they were not obese, we would not be burdened by the collective responsibility they impose upon us.

I'm disappointed that you've brought Trump into the discussion. I'm not a fan of the political classes as a rule, so it pains me to defend him here. He was recently panned for recommending the vaccine to his followers at a rally in Alabama.

As for autocracy, it seems a bit ironic to level this accusation in a discussion defending authoritarian lockdowns and medical interventions.

If you can't see any other problems with the mainstream political landscape outside of your focus on Mr. Trump, then there's really nothing more to say here. I could cite Iraqi WMD, Snowden's revelations, Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, the lab leak controversy or a number of other incidents, but it seems futile at this point.

When you play the Trump card you reveal your hand as a partisan.
For every youtube-dl there are a dozen that just fade away into obscurity.

The creator no longer cares or uses the software themselves. Maybe they hand off the repo to someone else, who in turn gets crushed under the load and disappears.
Agree with most of the things except ad blocker. I don't think browsers should be blocking what people see because the devs don't like them.

Of course, I support adblocker 100% and have been using them. But I don't think it should neccesarily be up to the browsers to include it. If they include it, then what next? They include things that blocks sites they don't lile?
You had me at every until saying garlic is repulsive. Shots fired, I grown garlic but I most often consume it fried in olive oil to pull out compounds into the oils for flavor.

Another way one is fermented with hot peppers to make hot sauce. Just a little bit of garlic goes a long way.

One hint, always remove or discard the green "germ" or kernel of the garlic before using in food prep. The nasty garlic flavor comes from there.

Planting and growing garlic is easy and for northerners we plant in the Autumn. Video related:

https://youtu.be/GUYrN0o-cfk
As Richard Branson said on many occasions: "lists, lists, lists".
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I have a friend who always uses this argument, and I hate it. It‘s like realizing you are not going to be able to break in time, then deciding to step on the accelerator instead, because: "We are going to hit the wall anyway.“… so stupid
Macros let you change the syntax, roughly speaking. With a library, you're still calling the library with standard syntax.

E.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphoric_macro
If they didnt even have the time to read your resume do you think they'd remember your name to pass it on to other recruiters? I mean maybe but still...
But as long as the power isn't out and wifi is working and the freezer is working and the linux stack in the freezer is working and the app stack atop the linux stack in the freezer is working and the app can connect to the server which is working and the company hasn't gone bankrupt and that server still exists and the OP's wife's phone has battery and the OP's wife's phone has connectivity and the client app on the OP's wife's phone can connect to the server and the ongoing cold digital war hasn't caused a nationwide internet outage, I fail to see how the penny and pot is preferable to the convenience of the app.
And yet one half of it lived under a dark tyranny.
Has it? I'm genuinely curious to know. "Widely considered discredited" sounds like it's met the same fate as ether or alchemy.

I commented on SWH a few months ago in HN too when another user, claiming background in linguistics, replied that it factors in your world view but not as huge a factor as other cultural considerations. That sounded reasonable.

So as of the last time I looked up SWH (a few months ago), my knowledge of its consensus is that:

- the weak form ("relativism") is true to a certain extent, and definitely not to the extent Whorf originally proposed.

- the strong form ("determinism") is largely debated and, personally, I think it's indefensible as a thesis.
Only in pure lambda calculus. But that's not because of closures. That's for all variables everywhere; captured, free, whatever. So your original statement — "usually the captured values in a closure can't be mutated" — still has no basis even if you insist "But, pure λ-calculus has no mutations". It's not because of closures that the captured variables became immutable.

When used in any of many lambda calculi that do have mutations, closures support mutation just the same as any variable. Whether a variable is free or captured, that doesn't change if or how it can be mutated.
The 4D space I was thinking of was the CYMK pigment mixes. I’m aware that the perception from a given lighting is in a 3D space of basically rgb.
Alternative solution: have bathrooms available.
In Sweden it is common for companies to check on income and payment records before accepting purchase orders. Income data is provided by the tax authorities while payment records are available through the enforcement agency (state bailiff, "Kronofogden"). If your income is deemed to be too low or you have a derelict payment on record (these records are in place for 3 years after the payment has been completed) you will be denied credit in which case you'll have to pay up-front.
It uses an object detection model (in our example code[1], we used one from Roboflow Universe[2] but you should be able to use any object detection model) to get the bounding boxes and then sends a crop of each detected box to CLIP to get the feature vector that Deep SORT uses to differentiate between and track instances across frames.

This is in comparison to the original Deep SORT[3] which requires you to train a second custom "deep appearance descriptor" model for the tracker to use.

[1] https://github.com/roboflow-ai/zero-shot-object-tracking

[2] https://universe.roboflow.com

[3] https://github.com/nwojke/deep_sort
Cold is still the big killer. 20x that of heat. According to this scientific study. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150520193831.h... "Cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather, according to an international study analyzing over 74 million deaths in 384 locations across 13 countries. The findings, published in The Lancet, also reveal that deaths due to moderately hot or cold weather substantially exceed those resulting from extreme heat waves or cold spells."
just because you cannot think of a use for such a line of credit, doesn't mean that having the option is useless. And even if most people mis-use this line of credit, it is still an option that's not available. Availability of options is in itself valuable.

And i really dont think people are dumb and cannot think of productive uses for such a line of credit.
Generally SLC cache has almost no connection to the overall size of the drive. After finishing writing a huge portion of data (for example), the controller will start to move the written data out of the SLC section and turn them into normal TLC mode, releasing the SLC space for next turn of writing. When the drive usage becomes higher, some drive (apparantly Samsung's drive does) have a dynamic SLC capacity policy that will reduce the avaliable SLC space, so the disk can have enough space to store normal TLC data.
I'm curious who is taking the Waymos then.

Senior citizens who aren't comfortable driving anymore? When other family members have taken all the cars but you still need to get somewhere? When your car's being repaired?
this.props.player.decodedFrames is undefined

guess they play/pause functionality does not check if there is something to play/pause.

@steelbrain: should be quite easy to fix.
Lately there's been a lot of talk about what Emacs needs, written mostly by people who don't understand Emacs.

Emacs is more of a journey than an application. It's similar to a blacksmith forging their own tools - Emacs is the metaphorical ingot, waiting to be transformed and molded by the user.

If you're happy with what you're using then you don't need Emacs, and Emacs doesn't need to appeal to that crowd. Emacs isn't a VSCode competitor, it's something entirely different, and it's waiting for those who desire transcendence - shedding the limits imposed by other tools.

You can install and use Emacs as quickly as any other application, but to truly reap its benefit you must go deeper. I don't see the need to cater to people who clearly want something else, those tools already exist, please leave Emacs to those of us who appreciate it for what it is.

I disagree with all the reccomendations made in this article, all these changes are easy to implement, and the user is encouraged to do so - one of the main selling points of Emacs.

That doesn't mean there is not room for improvement, Emacs is still constantly improving. Additionally, I've encountered many instances where a colleague or friend introduces me to some new feature in their preferred application, the majority of the time it's a feature that's been available in Emacs for years if not decades.

I'd prefer we continue to focus on the needs of Emacs users rather than the wants of non-emacs users. Emacs will still be waiting for them when they're ready.
What process are these chips made with?

It says TSMC 7nm - is that DUV or EUVL?
I think you’ve answered your own question. They don’t want drunk nightlife for these early tests. They want as predictable and car centric as possible.
Yeah, sure. So that brings us to the next question: Why would it want to?
Ultimately if robocars work, the little anecdotes you hear about people trusting them after the first ride seems to me to confirm we shouldn't expect human factors to kill them.
I'm still not convinced of this. At least not among people who live in their houses. If you're not planning on moving, an underwater mortgage isn't a "problem" unless you lose your job, or have an other emergency. I don't think these people have a strong political view on housing prices one way or the other. People with INVESTMENT properties though...that's a different story.
> But that doesn't make C++ a good language.

TFA is about weird languages, not good (or bad) languages. It's about aspects of a programming language that are not part of the intersection of "95% of all programming languages".
I was trained to understand that illiteracy in English means someone that cant read or write, but if it was translated as-is, illiteracy means "iletrado" -> someone "without letters" which in my mother language doesn't mean that someone cant read, but a broader category of people who cant read together with people who have very a poor language understanding and communication skills.

Some illiterate 'iletrado'(for us) in some cases can read, but might not understand it very well.

That might explain why the OP used the given word because in some languages its the definition that defines people who cant read.
China plans control of tech algorithms that US can only dream of
There is one more: legal compliance.

While there is no law on the books that says banks can't do business with OnlyFans, there are laws ( BSA comes to mind ) that in effect create incentives for banks to 'derisk' problematic customers. Some get branded high risk based on internal and industry standards.
https://archive.ph/V0Dfn
I see from your last sentence you are ready for the worldwide takeover by the well meaning people. You know your place, you learned your lesson, you will have a job when they come.

That's also good because they won't need to keep a record of this comment in their databases in the Cloud for later use.

/s /c
After 18 years, SCO's IBM litigation may be settled for $14.5M
From the article,

> [Lisp macros] by their nature would be hard to implement properly in a language without turning it into a dialect of Lisp

Other candidates that come to mind (because I recently learned about them) are effect systems, like in Koka.
But I’d argue learning basic Emacs key bindings gives you the benefit of becoming better on any Linux terminal. Going through the tutorial does not take much time.

I think the author is right about the arcane terminology („meta key“, „buffer“, „window“, „frame“ etc) that should be changed and, too, configuring CUA Mode by default to help newbies a bit. I personally prefer using „control c“ and „control v“ for copy and pasting. Mind you if you like to use keyboard macros, you can’t use CUA mode copy/cut/paste bindings in them. That confused me quite a bit as beginner. However, I don’t think I ever got confused by Emacs undo system. It basically does the same thing as in other editors, just the key binding is different.
What a dumb article.