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I hope they have a quality editor. Would hate to have a situation where they made a mistake on page 5, rendering the subsequent 495 pages worthless gibberish without a correction. (I know there's a bit from a TV show or movie like this, but I can't recall where. Maybe Good Will Hunting?)

On a serious note, I'm wondering how approachable this book is to non-mathematicians. I mean, I've had more formal math education than your average lay person, but I've also hardly used most of it since college. I'm curious if it'd be a worthwhile read or just something that'd end up sitting on my shelf, mostly unread...
Seems a little bit like the author is having something of an existential crisis at the time they wrote it. I do think success can really make you question a lot. Growth and success in a business very often brings with it a gnawing feeling that you are losing touch with what made you good. You can’t know everyone at your company when it gets beyond a certain size and you have to become a leader and its very different than being able to brute force problems at a 20 person company. To me this was a very long winded way for the author to recognize there was a flaw in their leadership and how to fix it. It is painful and can often take a lot of hard searching inside of oneself.

edit: We organically grew our information security consultancy from 3->21 people and recently completed a successful acquisition. It is important to acknowledge that being a good business leader is not the same as being really good at a thing. The business side was always hard and we learned a lot over the 7+ years we grew the business. Staying sharp in your field and learning to scale a business is just not easy. As hackers we severely underrated the amount of business skills we would need. We learned and leveled up, but it was the hard part about the business. Building a culture. Maintaining values. Learning how to operate, contract, recruit, etc. you have to be pretty good at all of it. To me this post is like many of those soul searching meetings we had as we grew. Always asking why hire us? Why are we better? What really matters? How do we always serve our customers best. It gets deep and it is hard snd you are competing in a market where other people are doing the same thing and asking those same questions.
Moral rights, perhaps.

Legal rights? Extremely mutable.
> Leiderman’s hacking clients had a nagging habit of openly admitting to the things they were accused of doing. One spent a decade fleeing authorities in several countries, giving interviews, all the while on the lam.

A great reminder that everyone deserves a good defender, even if they are an idiot (or behave idiotically).
> Does the vaccine prevent you from spreading the disease?

Yes (in the usual health prevention sense of “reduce the risk of”, not in the strict sense of “pose an absolute bar to”).
Interesting. This should indicate to a reasonable person that something far more nefarious is afoot. I wish Australians well and hope they can defeat this tyranny.
Citation needed. Use of police force in the ways you're describing is exceedingly rare in the US. If there is an uptick in the last 4 years, it would seem to me mostly due to the increase in death threats against politicians and their families by an increasingly polarized right wing.
>China is the only country in the world that produces everything it needs for daily operations, without a single exception, in one way or another.

Tell me what I'm missing about their domestic oil industry then, because everything else I'm reading tells me they need to import around 10 million barrels of crude oil a day (primarily to produce gasoline and diesel, so it's very hard to substitute).
There's also interpretation that merely linking with compatible interface would be infringing even without distributing two parts together (curiously, used by Stallman): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26606328
Lol, I have the same though. They'll probably need to make the equipment a little sparser though, because it gets super crowded once everything is installed. Those cut-aways don't show all the detail.
Similar words were said right before the invasion of Afghanistan... Now we see the folly of foreign invasion.
Yeah, there are so many layers to this. I mean, a mandate for employers oversteps what government is allowed to do anyway. But that aside, if it was polio or something and there was one shot that basically ended it, you could see a rational path to a single mandate that got everyone vaccinated (btw I'd be curious to know polio, measles, etc vaccine rates, I think they are very high). But when "vaccinated" is essentially some political flavor of the week, how is it going to get enforced? Will a third shot get rolled in? And if there are more, or if we switch from mrna to another variety, do they get rolled in too? Will you need to have the original 2021 shots, even once they've been subsumed into something else, or can you just get the latest thing.

For all the pretend deference to science, we're in the middle of a rapidly unfolding situation. It seems preposterous, even with clear evidence that the vaccines do work (and ignoring government overreach which is itself absurd and illegal imo) to start mandating something that is not likely to hold 6 months from now, and what, just require that everyone tracks whatever current orthodoxy says? I have my two pfizer shots, and if there is a vaccine later that actually cures covid, maybe I'll go back and get it. But I'm giving up on trying to track the flavor of the week and trying to match whatever the new York times wants me to do, I'll wait until there is actually a reasonable consensus
I thought only central banks could create money.

This looks like value creation to me, rather than money creation.
No. Just No.
most yoga does plenty of things not accessed by 99.9% of bodyweight and calisthenics
Jesus Christ..European cultural "superiority" was used to justify colonization of people around the world by literally every European country.
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Ahhhhh, My parser failed on that terse grammar. Doh!
I don't dispute that at all, but I have a feeling if you were to do a "man on the street" type of poll, it would be pretty telling. If you're willing to stipulate that the readers of HN probably have a greater grasp of history than the larger percentage of the population, I'll stipulate that most HN readers probably have an idea of why Lafayette's name is used to name cities/streets/parks.
It's partly due Chinese brainwashing, and partly due to American brainwashing.

Imagine whenever an American expat talks to a foreigner, which happens daily, someone mentions racism in US. Very soon people will get really sick and tired of hearing about it, and will emotionally deny/downplay its existence.
Did you know that many French described the American liberating force as an 'enemy'

> Ils étaient bien décidés à s’installer en France comme en territoire ennemi!

de Gaulle

Many French also snub remembrance ceremonies for the liberating forces.

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/31/archives/de-gaulle-repays...
I recommend starting with the Haitian Revolution https://open.spotify.com/playlist/560AoqxmtPsadedqGKyKEz

Not crazy long, gives you a clear explanation about why it happened, and a solid feeling about what life was like back then. Highly, highly recommend.
The magnets are so large they had to build a factory on-site to put them together. If you can make the magnets small enough to transport from a centralized factory, that's a huge win.
They're rare occurrences in American slavery and they're also rare occurrences in Rome.

As some other people have pointed out, if you look at objective indices of quality of life, the United States generally comes out as possibly the best place in all of history you could have been enslaved.
This maps to my experience (and preferences) well. On my current project, we have a Django backend with a Typescript/Vue.js frontend. I enjoy doing API access and data modelling code in Typescript, but will work to avoid picking up any pure UI tickets for the frontend. If I have to do UI work, it'll mostly be copying and pasting HTML and CSS from other parts of the codebase and writing the Typescript to tie it all together.
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Joining the ranks of all the other well-known and historically important politicians who started a 3rd party in the US.
It's also a good rationale for why filenames should be valid Unicode - because they're data displayed to the end user.
Is calling someone fat when they are indeed fat an insult? It obviously depends on context, intent, and delivery. Any definition is going to be nebulous.
Gosh, I hate to say it but “Liberal” has basically become a meaningless term. It means something different to everyone, regardless of political affiliation.
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The First Book of KIM Wumpus uses the LEDs and it might be a little slow on this. However, a TTY version would probably work perfectly.
Unrelated. But of any federal building, you have the strongest gun laws for the post office. It’s criminal to have a gun in the parking lot.

The post office is a strange beast.
Okay so what stock to buy based on this information? Uranium?
From Wikipedia
> The Atlantic Magazine called Leiderman the "Hacktivist's Advocate" for his work defending hacker-activists accused of computer crimes, or so-called "Hacktivism" especially people associated with Anonymous.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Leiderman
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I'd encourage you to try the 3 week yoga retreat I mentioned on the beachbody app (I'm not affiliated - I run a cybersecurity biz). It isn't a specific flavor of yoga - it's a nice mix of strength, balance - and the meditation you get for free. Yoga was created to get you into a meditative state through a series of movements that incorporate breathing. Do the movements with breath and you're already meditating.
> What does it mean to "create programs that are designed to keep growing"? If they keep going by executing a finite program (if modified by a non-static program, what created that program?) on their code and resuming, that would not be more powerful (Turing machines can do that).

To me, your question is like asking this: Do all the programs that we humans ask computers to compute come from a finite program? Is life itself powered by a finite program?

A program which keeps growing can make use of all the code it has seen before, all the results it has seen from running code previously. Although any of its inputs are finite strings, there are no theoretical limitations regarding the source of the inputs it can receive. They come from outside.

The core idea of the undecidability of the halting problem is that we can construct a machine M that can ask the halting machine for a bit, flip the bit, give it back to the same static halting machine code, thus forcing it to produce the wrong bit.

Any human in that situation would change their understanding of the situation, and we would tend to afford them a chance to change their answer based on their new understanding. Being able to adjust execution strategy after seeing new information is core to human life. Why do we neglect to provide computers opportunities which are available to all humans?

A somewhat trivial reply to Turing's original negator machine M would be to emit a new version of the halting code which checks for the exact code given by M and then returns the opposite of what was returned when M calls out to H. Then, in the argument, we would need to address the possibility that the H machine called out in M to may provide a different answer when we pass it all back through H again. The argument wouldn't work as-is if we afforded H the ability to respond to the situation.

What would the statement be? "It is not possible, given the information the halting code just received, it could change its answer response to the contradiction of its previous answer." A child can figure out this simple trick - we all understand why it's a trick - why do we not let a computer the same opportunity in our theory?

> So long as you have enough memory, ...

True enough. My point was in fact that if the inputs our machine receives are all needed, we would run out of memory eventually.
If this refers to the US: Is this sarcastic?

Does the name Edward Snowden ring a bell, and the total surveillance state programs in the US, against US citizens, he revealed?

-the perpetual drive of FBI etc to have e.g. phones decrypted, or have companies install back doors? (e.g. Bernardino)?

- the last administrations systematic programs against ‘unpleasant’ journalists?

- black sites and places like Guantanamo that you could just disappear to?

- civil forfeiture laws that allow the police, without any process, to take your personal property, without any wrongdoing on your part?

- how many people are killed by police in those other countries (at all), and also, how many times does this lead to a prosecution of the officer in question?

Etc.
It’s unfortunate that by default a lot of systems just gather strings into a pile for translation, as if all strings are created equal. But if you have two uses of the same text with different meanings, you have to be careful (e.g. put them in separate translation tables or something). Even for single words, e.g. somewhere there’s a button named “Open” but elsewhere there is a status text indicating that the current state of something is “Open”; lots of things like that. Just because it’s the same in one language, it may not be in another.

It would also be nice to have more context besides, say, just a comment. For example, things in toolbars ought to be short (ideally one word), things in menu items might be medium (a few words tops), things in notifications might be medium-to-long, and stuff in a window might have no restrictions at all. When you start from just a string, you do not necessarily know how much space you have and even if your UI can auto-resize, that doesn’t mean you’d want it to in every case.
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I'd actually encourage everyone here to avoid classes. There has been quite a bit of controversy around instructors exploiting students for money or otherwise. The culture is a bit zany. And there's pressure to become an instructor which requires spending more money. But primarily, classes are inconvenient. Do it on your own and you can just roll out of bed and straight onto the mat, and 30 mins later you're done and set up for the day.
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If I were her lawyer, I would have advised her to say the same thing to kick up some dust to maybe get a zero/zero walk away from the leaks.
What’s funny is the most racist interactions I have had in professional situations were with Chinese businessmen. China is exceptionally racist. But they do try to cudgel America with it repeatedly.
Indeed.

Look at how much China has evolved since WWII and you can see how many could believe that the ends justify the means.
Freedom to not have any vacations for years, freedom to not get medical aid, freedom to get fired over Twitter on a whim, freedom to get shot by the police, freedom to be subject to government surveillance, freedom to have a flawed democracy, freedom to have your children shot in school by deranged classmates... Freedom doesn't necessarily mean "better".
Conal Elliott wasn't making fun of pure functional programming zealots. Elliott is a pure functional programming zealot, and was making fun of Haskellers who defend the IO type as a purely functional way to express effects. He thinks the IO type sullies Haskell here, and that we should have picked a different representation for effects (historically, that was true FRP, something he conceived with the late Paul Haduk).
What is considered a viral tweet? It seems like the signal to authority/knowledge/value ratio in this case is overblown
For a long time there was this distinction that OCR meant "typefaces as in a scanned document" whereas if you wanted more "free form text recognition" you'd lean yourself towards some machine learning based approach (SVM, convnets, etc).

Now, this is an artificial divide: there's nothing in the defintion of what OCR is that means "oh it only works on scanned documents". It's just what it used to mean back in the day.

Still, if that's your kind of problem, you may look into something more along the lines of a deep convnet to do character detection and then recognize each bounding box into an alphabet.
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That's the difference between process-oriented and result-oriented thinking. I've also heard the two extremes being referred to as "tool-worshipping fools" and "rule-breaking fools".
Yes this is what I've found. In particular, I've found that it strengthens the smaller muscles, tendons and ligaments that often get injured. It has also realigned my body into a more balanced state. I know that last sentence sounds like some kind of zen BS, but what I mean is, my muscles are now developing in a balanced way, my spine is straight and I have symmetric strength.
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Not very much actually. Finite simple groups are kind of like prime numbers: any finite group can be broken down into simple subgroups similar to how any natural number can be broken down into a multiset of prime number factors.

That's why the classification of finite simple groups is so important, it's essentially a classification of all finite groups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_series#Uniqueness:...
In my experience, the Chinese results tend to happen when the entire query is in kanji. Queries that have at least some kana generally aren't an issue. If it doesn't make sense to use kana, then I'll sometimes add "site:jp" as a workaround, since most Japanese-language sites do use the .jp TLD.
The movie about the creator of that was pretty disturbing - I read that his former lawyer now owns the brand
Ah yeah, I started writing an example of how making a space can make a difference in meaning with that as a somewhat humorous example, but I couldn't really come up with a good way to explain it in English last night so I removed that part, but seems like I forgot to remove the reference.

meervoudigepersoonlijkheidsstoornisbehandelaaropleiding is a bit of a contrived example, it's just an example of how you can "invent" compound words on the spot and how you can have quite a lot of words in a compound word.

> Also, if you have a reason why you didn't put an "s" between behandelaar and opleiding I'd be interested! It feels to me like there should be one but I don't know the rule.

No reason; there probably should be an "s" (I think?) The previous comment went through quite a few revision before the final version that I posted; I just missed it.
Sorry, can you provide some more context? What did Epic do to/in Korea specifically to make you feel that way?
Indeed, I have no problem filling my free time with stuff. I took a year off not too long ago. Some days I'd watch two or three movies, there were weeks I spent bingeing Netflix, nights spent playing video games late into the morning, nights spent writing software late into the morning, nights spent enjoying fine food and drink, reading books, hiking, seeing friends, learning new things, exploring new places. There's no shortage of stuff to do. Sure, some days are slow, but I'm not complaining. I could do this forever.

Others are not so lucky, they don't know how to spend their time outside of work. I see retired folks frustrated with their lives, lost and directionless. It makes me sad.
The former is largely calisthenics, which entered into yoga asana practice in the 20th century [1]. If you’re looking for something that focuses more on the calisthenics I’d suggest checking out Dylan Werner’s True Strength series [2]. When things locked down in NYC last year and I wanted to switch things up from practicing Ashtanga in my room alone I practiced through a bunch of his stuff and he definitely has a lot to teach. I’d try out true strength evolution as well as his elasticity/plasticity flexibility series.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Body

[2] https://www.alomoves.com/instructors/dylanwerner?instructors...
Unfortunately type 1 is a classic case of cultural appropriation. Yoga is fundamentally a spiritual exercise that aims to strengthen not just the body. Therefore, practices like Surya Namaskara are not just a series of exercises for strength and flexibility but also a must for spiritual improvement.
Indeed. I have an otherwise quite reasonable friend whose stance on Xinjiang province is:

"The camps aren't real, it's just an exaggeration. And if they're real, it's because the Xinjiang people are there voluntarily. And if they're not there voluntarily, it's probably better anyway, since it would be a really bad thing long-term to have a large minority of people that is not culturally united with the rest of China. It's not pretty but it's for the common good."
> This extends to everyone, not just politicians.

Yeah, but insulting your neighbor will not have the police raid your home at six in the morning.

This case is not business as usual, it is a widely disproportional response. Hence the outrage.
If only there were gigawatts of carbon free power being produced at a plant they could relicense.
We won Afghanistan fairly easily (a few months), and held it fairly easily for 19 years. And not to trivialize 4000 dead, but if it had mattered, that would have been a pretty small sacrifice.

Where we failed miserably was at turning the result into a stable country, but Taiwan is already a country.
> US public support for a war over Taiwan is modest: one recent poll found significant majorities of foreign policy elites supporting US intervention, but only about 40 per cent of the American public backing it. (Even that figure likely reflects soft and reflexive backing; the country has not fought a major war against a peer adversary for two generations, and in the event of catastrophic US losses amidst perceptions that the war was unnecessary, public support could collapse very quickly.)[1]

And if the last 10 years of US politics has taught us anything it is how vulnerable the US is to arguments that cause division. China has plenty of money, and plenty of people who will be economically hurt by a war. It's pretty easy to make an argument against defending China.

[1] https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/countering-china-...
America has had its overreaches in recent history - the Florida covid whistle-blower and so forth.

I have to think that officials are hesitant to engage in many of the petty tyranny we see in other western countries, however, at a rate proportional to the degree to which their constituents are armed. If a police raid has a non trivial chance of turning into a shootout, it's a tool frequently withheld, and probably never used over a tweet.

The wrongful death process in civil courts would also destroy the life of any official who provoked a deadly raid over social media.
I think defamation, slander or libel laws are basically non-existent in US.
I assume downvoters figured your point is obvious, but I found your comment valuable and useful.
It wasn't even the house of the Twitter user.
I agree that that makes sense for most types of apps.
Clubhouse isn't one of those cases.

In my country, influencers who had iPhones picked it up, and then promptly dropped it because most of their followers couldn't come to the party.