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I am not going to make a further attempt to show you that my position is consistent or rephrase anything.

If you are unable or unwilling to understand that all of my comments in this sub-thread are consistent, that there is no goalpost moving, and that I am demonstrating the flaws with each possible configuration and thereby excluding the whole, this conversion is over.

You falsely claim I said this is about limited space. I didn’t use the word “limited” until now, and wrote of half a dozen orbital components right next to saying why it’s bad to have more, without claiming it was impossible.

You falsely claim I’m moving the goalposts, when I said it was about safety of overlapping beams in first thing you replied to.

In point of fact, the half-dozen number wouldn’t even be geostationary in the scenario I was envisioning, which ought to have been obvious from even a cursory moment’s thought. If you feel like working out what this scenario actually was instead of arguing against things I did not write, feel free, but I won’t bother looking much less replying.

One misunderstanding is on me, but this many isn’t worth the effort.
Agree, mkcert is awesome!
> There is no meaningfull way to understand why people pay many 1000$ for a pair of shoes without first establishing that humans build societies with a culture that is largely decoupled from biological imperatives.

Status seeking would likely be the biological imperative. Of course the specific desire is going to be culturally dependent.

> Do you assume that humans in the past were incapable of creating desires?

I assume that desires are not created but rather channelled or cultivated within their cultural context based on what's available. Sure, someone with a new product is going to use advertising to try and influence consumers to buy their product. But this assumes their product is something consumers would desire, or something that can be associated with something consumers desire, such as status or convenience.
That's what they would say, but they told moderators to suppress posts by "Ugly", "Poor", "Disabled" because it's not glamorous enough to attract new users.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...
This is the proper reason why so many orgs are considering/using something as complex as Kubernetes. It is not such a easy comparison of 10 servers running K8S versus 6 servers running KVM. There is more to it. Once you do config management, safe deployment mechanisms, observability setup, network management, secrets, RBAC, identity mgmt etc the "just a few servers running Linux" setup looks almost as complicated as Kubernetes and you've created a bespoke setup that only you know how to operate. If you go the Kubernetes route, sure there are bells and whistles that are not needed for your use case, but it standardises the operations such that you can hire a new team member and supply K8S documentation to them and expect them to do things in your infra setup.

It is a choice. I have personally moved on from the "Kubernetes is never a good choice over running things yourselves" camp.
They corrupt easily and there's no repair method built into journalctl (or anywhere else, really).
The format also does not have any kind of indexing or cache and this is the reason `systemctl status <service>` can take 15s to show the last 10 log lines if you have a few GBs worth of logs.
"A citizen is not quite the same"

Sorry, I accidentally a word, and this changed the meaning.

"not quite the same" is of course UK English for "it's totally different"
This is a tiny fraction of software engineers. The vast majority in the wider Western world earn less than an average tradesman. The higher end of salaries in the UK is £40-50k, most earning substantially less than that.

The much higher salaries paid by the major US companies are so anomalous that they may as well be discarded in any comparisons.
> IAP Desktop is a Windows application that allows you to manage multiple Remote Desktop and SSH connections to VM instances that run on Google Cloud.

Is there a Linux client too?
I bought newsto.me like a decade ago with a plan to build a collaborative news site complete with gamification to really help the collaborative bit (eg one user writes a bit about a house fire happening, a photog in the area could earn points for snapping a photo and adding it to the story)

Never found sufficient time/motivation to execute on it. Still think it would be kinda cool though.
This doesn't match up with my experience as an interviewer at several FAANGs.

HR typically wants their diversity numbers up badly so if you're gay, a woman, and/or black they are already incredibly inclined to hire you, as long as you pass the interviews.

It's not a walk in the park, but you have this going for you and it's a big advantage imo.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...
Were they 'into' it though, or did the nature of the secretarial work they were doing change? At least as I understand it, that was predominantly (of course there were exceptions, and female scientists, etc.!) the reason for the rise and fall of it.

I'm not arguing for or against '"Women don't really like this stuff"' - I'm just saying an example against it needs to be women liking this stuff, not merely doing this stuff.
You can't discount environment either.

We have fat raccoons, that implies that genetics doesn't matter as much as we think we does.

Same with intelligence, how much is it genetics and how much is that the environment doesn't promote desired traits.
I'm still using a 2013 MacBook Pro as my primary dev machine. Works as well as it did when I first got it, even switching to 100% remote work. I'm astonished. I've never said, "Gee I wish this was faster." All I had to do was replace the battery three years ago.

Compare this to the PC craze from 1990 to ~2005 where you literally had to buy a new machine every 1~2 years to keep up. (My company's IT dept updated our PCs every 18 months.)

Those days are long gone. Good riddance.
The average IQ of Haiti is 67
Couple of years ago I had this idea that most REST calls I had in my app could easily fit a single packet if encoded in binary.

I rolled my own framework for fun that did REST-style communication but sans TCP, HTTP and JSON.

This improved latency and efficiency by couple orders of magnitude. I would like something that did this that I could use directly without having to write my own framework.
I’ve been half-thinking of building a metabrowser, which would just run a headless chromium, get the menus/main content and format everything in a uniform, accessible way.

You know, do what the web was supposed to do…
They're using .NET Core, and I think even .NET 5 in the meantime though I couldn't find a clear confirmation for that. But they're still on Windows, looking at Linux and containers for potentially in the future.
OSes do have shared abstractions such as file systems and process input and output. I think the trick is to make the common abstractions richer in a way that enough people agree on and are willing to adopt. Most of the shared OS features are basically grandfathered in. So a big part of this is that this stuff is not really a rational choice usually. It's just the way it's always been.

So upgrading the capabilities and creating new common abstractions in an OS is not that hard. But almost impossible to get the majority to go along with it.

Browsers demonstrate an additive way of getting a lot of that. In that we now have essentially two highly compatible widely deployed VMs -- Firefox and Chrome. Which can be programmed in a number of languages that compile to JavaScript or web assembly and share a rich API.

Web assembly modules seem relevant.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposal-type-imports/blob/ma...
You can be a progressive without believing that we can organize society so that value creation is rewarded with nothing but "respect" and "intrinsic satisfaction". That's Chomsky's argument. It's false.
There is a thin line between disability and just different genetics.

E.g. is it bad for a primate to have bad bite strength? What if that disability enhances their thinking ability (by both allowing their brain to expand more since the muscles holding the jaw are weaker and by forcing them to use something other than their bite strength)?
Deflation doesn't necessary favor the rich, there are a lot of other factors here. Deflation means that the price of goods is falling. That also applies to wages, but since those don't rise with inflation, deflation would be better.
Clone legacy tech, leapfrog at the cutting edge. Masterful strategic execution, hats off to China.

One example. Drones have proven to be a strategic gamechanger in the 2020 Azeri-Armenian war. In the same league with the musket, the machine gun, the tank, the airplane, the carrier. Who is the world leader in commercial drones? DJI, a Chinese company. US market share? 76%. It's not even close.

https://dronelife.com/2021/03/05/has-the-u-s-china-trade-war...
Until the city grows to encapsulate your neighbourhood, and you find yourself a 'boomer' who was so lucky to be able buy a house for 40k, whose children 'never will'?
You forgot to account for much higher resale values. After 2 years, you can resell your phone to someone who can still get 5 years out of it.
Two of the homes on my block here in an inner Seattle suburb are owned by Chinese investors and have never been lived in or rented.

The owner of one property owns 8 other newly built homes within the city. The 2nd property is owned by a person that has 14 other properties listing them as the registered owner.

I miss the people that lived in the homes that were razed to make way for these million dollar blights on the neighborhood.

These vampire homes just accrue damage (whether the glass garage door panes start shattering, or the siding starts going, or the owner decides the landscaping should be ripped out and redone again for god knows what reason?) followed by the sons or cousins of the property owners dealing with it a few weeks later.

No value is gained by these vagrant properties existing. Less people live in my neighborhood due to it, housing is harder to find, the city and county have less reason to invest in making local transit infrastructure better.

We need to tax vagrant properties. USPS has the data on which units are not collecting their mail on a daily basis, SPU/City Light knows who is not putting their trash out or using any power or water, and voter registration records are public. We could easily start assessing a 3 cent per square foot daily vagrancy tax until residency is established at the formerly vagrant address.
Yep, that's why I used 15% because over the past 20 years it never dipped that low.

Here's one source that shows 10 years ago it would have been about 18%.

https://www.aps.org/programs/education/statistics/womenmajor...
Oh yeah, mareks disease. Quite deadly, but the vaccine keeps the chickens alive. So, any non-vaccinated chicken is likely dead within days.

Allegedly almost all chickens have it.
A reasonable trade-off would be disabling parsing for people not in your contacts list.
Interestingly, the only other context in which I've come across Prolog is from friends who studied at Cambridge, here in the UK. For some reason, the CS 'tripos' (course) there is really heavily focussed on Prolog, and everyone I know from there ended up a huge fan of the language. I'm not sure why that's the case, though, given that almost all other universities seem to use more common languages (Java, C++, etc).
I read the article and found myself saying "No, no, no!". Then I read your response here and completely agree with it. How does this difference come about? There's no way to prove who is right. Maybe people's experience of different domains is part of the cause. But mainly I believe the difference comes about due to the different way people's brains work. I think the most harmful thing you can do to a team is mix people together who naturally have different approaches. This aspect never seems to be tackled directly by the interview process.
Whatever you mean by this, please don't post unsubstantive comments or flamebait comments to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I figured that this was more of less rational.
In Australia, men have more options for decent traditional jobs without a degree. Construction, Manufacture, Mining, Agriculture, fisheries, warehousing, transport, utilities are all male dominated sectors, mostly not requiring a degree.
Retail, food and accommodation services only just skew female.
The big area where women are employed in much greater numbers than men is nursing/social work and teaching. All of which are increasingly becoming bachelor degrees. Historically these didn't require a bachelor's degree, just one year diploma or a two year or certificate. There is a trend for these work forces to become more qualified, take more responsibility and get paid more.
Industry stats:
https://lmip.gov.au/default.aspx?LMIP/LFR_SAFOUR/LFR_Industr...
Amigas were the go-to machine for electronic arts majors / digital MFAs in the late 1980's. Amiga had some crazy video editing software that blew everything else away. The dedicated hardware and HAM palettes were already 4096 colors @ NTSC and anti aliasing when PCs were still struggling with VGA at 320x200x8.
> A lot of this is driven by narratives…

You give three examples but only tie the last to the admissions issue. Could you expand on the others and how they might be relevant to this issue?
Why is it that you default to the idea that women want to start a family?

It's a big ass cool world we have going on, and starting a family effectively ties you down from being able to explore it.

Good grief.
You don't pay for instruction or certification you pay for signaling. A student from Arizona State can be more competent than one from Harvard. Who do you think is going to have more doors opened for them?
There is a link to some generic viagra salespitch [1] in that first article, I wonder how it got there - a subtle hack or a strange form of advertising?

The control connections between cabin and hull would uncouple automatically on separation and the communication system would be switched from the four-dipole arrays arranged in blisters near the stem of the hull to arrays situated under the floor of the cabin. --->>>This moment can be described as the action of sildenafil.<<<--- Cabin attitude and rate of spin would be controlled by hydrogen peroxide jets.

[1] I assume it to be a salespitch by the URL, not having followed the link I can not be sure
There's more to Chomsky's argument than that, and if you read it closely, he says "redistribution of income would
appear to be an equally obvious strategy", which is much closer to a mainstream progressive position.
I think you missed his point - the world has changed, its more complex, you cant keep applying strategy of 1900's and expect it to work.
I think selective memory might be potentially beneficial to some VCs. You would have missed out on all the opportunities if you "clouded" your vision by failures in previous cycles.
As the tides keep rising it is probably not a flaw to forget previous mishaps.

Perhaps there is a happy balance or medium when the tide is not rising or interest rates go up.
from the article: 'Warning sign (of a critical moment in AGI development) will be, when systems become capable of self-improvement.'

Is the meaning of self improvement here means that the model will actively optimize itself towards improving on its mistakes outside of training? Because under my understanding for this to happen we would need the model to be in a different form than current ML.
Which societies are those? Feudal ones where the nobles are the only ones consuming and everyone else is subsisting? Or the ancient ones like Rome where there is a large amount of slave labor?
Because when your herd of cattle is sick, you need to grab one and have a vet look at it before your whole herd dies from the plague.
> Seriously, who could think that you could build a lineage of "gifted persons" solely by genetically selecting the parents among the population of "gifted persons"?

Yes, definitely. Ask anyone who breeds animals for a living. You can select for even more abstract traits like "willingness to train", obedience or fearlessness.
Can Apple not rewrite the parsing components in a memory-safe language?
logind has a replacement: https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd/
Feed filtering is the must have feature for our times. All this subscribing and no built-in fine grain negative control is absurd. Right now the number of sites I block per page on HN hovers around 15% to 30%. The front page is always much lower (3%-8%) which tells me the mods actions align with mine about what shouldn't be on the HN front page.

I'm settled in to ride out the inevitable decline as I've done for all feed based aggregators like twitter, medium, reddit et al. From experience, when it reaches ~50% block worthy I will stop trying to upvote solid posts and prolong the suffering of others.
'Are French and Spanish just dialects of Latin?' Yes :)
> with many recruitment programs blatantly saying they are only for minorities

Really? I understood that it was illegal to discriminate based on gender, race, etc in the US
Well, if you are asking for every log of a given service no matter when was it made, it sure will take time - and I don’t see how indexing or cache would help it (create one specific for each service? That would in practice multiple the size of the logs)

Specify that you only want to last day or so (which is quite likely what you actually want), but I do agree that the default could be something sane like only the last week.
'You almost certainly paid for your own MA with your own taxes'

Thanks cap, there is always this one commenter who thinks we in europe don't understand how taxes work.
Which in turn have massively devalued, given the majority of the job market in most Western countries is only interested in the unicorn willing to eat old bread.
The video is two steps into the spiel. First, these recipients have identified themselves somehow as aspiring writers. Second, they found the mailing so compelling they followed the url.
You bring up a very important point: AirBnB.

I loved AirBnB when I was traveling myself, but it really is snatching apartments away from regular citizens and driving prices up to a crazy level. And that means as a tourist you travel to a fake ghost town, because all the locals have been priced out of their neighborhood.
I am not from a country who has npr, and i know little about its reputation. It looks like an article which could be mistaken as a pr stunt.
Caching is one facet of scaling (albeit a large one). It's not necessarily the job of a CMS to serve cached pages but there's a bunch of other considerations in scaling, particular where database writes are concerned; something that will be relevant in a system where users post content.

Also, see the final paragraph of the comment above for discussion of the extent to which WP "produces cachable html"
Very well articulated. That link you posted is great as well. The issue I've always had with exception systems is the loss of control over the control flow, but the problem with errors is that it's not that clear what situations are errors. Libraries that are designed with exception systems are in the business of second-guessing what's an error for the caller.

For that reason, in practice, exceptions tend to (either not be handled or) be transformed/interpreted at (almost) every place before being forwarded up the call stack. In the end exceptions are only an additional mechanism that the programmer painfully has to deal with. It would have been better to use normal values describing the situation (error or not) without any exception semantics attached.

A perspective on the commonly seen argument that all those "if err != nil" are cumbersome is that you shouldn't have many of those, and most of them should be a "return" and nothing more. Complex error state (or any state for that matter) belongs not on the call stack (nor in return values) but it should be stored in data structures so it can be handled appropriately and at the appropriate time.
Mutation plays an important role in evolution. It can be beneficial, harmful, or neutral, depending on its context or location.

In programming, mutations also exist and as with life the effects can be the same and lead to terrible bugs. Therefore, it is important to test your application to prevent these mutations from causing disaster.

Some metrics exist and allow us to assess the quality of our tests. This is the case with code coverage but reaching 100% of code coverage does not mean that your code is properly tested. It only means that all lines are executed at least once during the tests.
I just published my first article talking about an alternative called Mutation Testing and how I used it in my work to increase the quality of the tests:

https://lnkd.in/ea2QWRyQ

#MutationTesting #SoftwareQualityTesting
Oh no, I prefer BIOS/UEFI firmware to be as lean as possible, like, "boot my OS and get out of the way as quickly as possible" (because all software has bugs, larger software has more bugs, and fixing/updating firmware is a gross PITA, I mean inability to roll back and risk of bricking the hardware e.g. due to power loss). At least in Linux I can apply kernel patches individually, and in Windows I can replace a file here and there, but firmware is a monolith, so it is a "hit or miss" kind of thing. More complexity in firmware rapidly shifts this wholistic thing to "permanent miss" state.
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