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I just find the entire post reductive and limiting in terms of its view of what software is or should be capable of. It is describing a philosophy applicable for software that has a particular purpose - mostly productivity desktop applications, it seems - which is just a very long way from all software.

"I, as a user, should know what I can do with it and what I can’t do. I always know what’s happening, where I am and what is next. Everything comes easily to me. I don’t get stuck, never feel lost or stressed out."

This is clearly not a reasonable design goal for a puzzle game. It’s not a good goal for a call center queue management system. It’s not even a reasonable design goal for a search engine!

Oh, but you’ll say the author only means within the bounds of the tool’s interface the user should understand what options they have, not be burdened with additional stress of trying to figure out how to interact with it, etc.

Which is just.. yes, obviously, you shouldn’t build software to just screw with people (oh, but… puzzle game?). But overall, taking responsibility for a user’s stress/calm and placing the burden on all software to try to “exude calm” into any situation is… it’s an opinion, but it’s not a particularly interesting one?
For a moment, I thought you meant a BMW i3. Given that OP gave no requirements, figured it was a fair suggestion
at least Lotus was still allowed to run on Windows at the time

Microsoft did not have a way to block Lotus from running on Windows at the time (other than intentionally breaking their system calls, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10432608).
You can buy airless inserts for bikes, as well as airless tires. These are not used in higher performance applications. In performance road, gravel, and mountain bikes you find tubeless tires that use sealant instead of airless inserts.
He's not oversold. His major feat (breaking enigma using a computer)

You’re overselling him right there. That wasn’t his feat, he was just on the team (and after Enigma had been initially broken).
What if I do think that it is up to free society to decide that?
Do you claim that a two month old can unambiguously express being distressed by the sight of a parent wearing a mask? We're talking about a child who is too young to even smile. Their only way of expressing themselves is by crying, and they cry for many, many reasons. Parents are not mind readers.
The EU Commission is desperate to find niches where it becomes an essential dealmaker.

To their dismay, after 50 years of trying hard, they are still an irrelevant institution economically, a net negative for businesses and individuals.

The chip industry will and can sort their issues perfectly on it's own. In fact one of the top chipmakers is already European, and they are doing extremely well, they don't need any political help.
They've done this so many times there is a word for it, it's no secret how they treat their developer community. Yet you still keep building apps on their platform.
I see it another way: It's already got regulations to protect powerful people. Either remove those, or grant protections to everyone else, too.

What those people are really saying is that the regulations that exist are the ones they want, and no more.
I wonder if someone will make a computer game akin to Bridge Designer, but for surviving falls. Levels could have various objects released along with your body, and various targets on the ground to aim for, and you can try to survive.
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Legally I’m not sure the small developer has a chance. Not because the courts are unjust, it’s just hard to say whether Apple broke any laws here. It’s not to say they didn’t, it just doesn’t seem like there’s any slam dunk legal argument about wrongdoing (despite who this might feel morally).
> IPFS [...] relies mostly on centralizing gateways to actually let people access content

No, IPFS does not need gateways: they are conveniences for people that don't have ipfs:// support in their browser or run a local daemon.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipfs-companion/nib...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipfs-companio...

https://brave.com/ipfs-support
>Such tires are of lower quality though.

And you've found the problem. Michilin is trying to compete with Firestone to sell the next set of $1k tires you put on your expensive car. They're (mostly) not competing with Deestone and Linglong to produce the cheapest tire for your beater car. The people buying the former don't buy retreads. But they might if you find a way to re-spin the same fundamental idea as something that isn't low-end. And if you're the first to figure out how to sell that product to those people you can make boatloads of money while everyone else plays catch up.
Would be useful to have a unified API…
In the US, for metros you have NY at 20M, LA at 13M, and Chicago at 9.5M.

But if you go by city - NYC is 8.5M, LA is 4M, Chicago is 2.7M.
Surely most VCs are running their investments through their business which isn't going to be subject to this anyway?
>They're like mobsters who shake you down, rich or poor.

Well, that is how it began. There were mobsters that shake you down. Then people decided that they don't want to be shaken down. They formed a government to fend off mobsters and then it turned out that the ruler is also a mobster so they implemented limited terms and elections to decide on the next mobster knowing that a society will inevitably succumb to external mobsters if it does not manage its own mobsters.

Therefore the moral argument that governments are bad because they are mobsters is extremely weak.
> Second, keeping drive with potentially private data unencrypted is a liability. Especially offsite. Someone will steal it and all your private stuff is out. I am not even considering case when you store crypto on said PC

Otoh, keeping your storage encrypted means losing your keys is losing your data. And your heirs are likely unable to access it.

You have to weigh your threats.
Why do we need idols, though?

If there was no narrative, no idols, no celebrities, would people be less motivated to do science? Why do we need to lie to ourselves so?

> If you're already deeply interested in computer science, of course the detailed narrative recognizing dozens of brilliant early computer scientists is richer. Of course!

Personally I'm mostly uninterested in who did what, but maybe that's just me. It seems obvious to me that nearly every scientific discovery could have been done equally well by millions of people, it's just a matter of who had the resources to be educated, who decided to research the problem, who managed to snipe the answer first, and who had the right connections to get it acknowledged. They're still great achievements, for sure, but they're not the markers of exceptional genius we want to think they are, not for Turing or Einstein, but not for anyone at all, really.
Please relax. You don't have to leave your politics out of it, but you can't just start slinging it around belligerently. Stick to context. Be polite.
They want to be apple so bad, but they also want to be google so bad,
not realizing that the overlapping set is empty.

You cant be user friendly, private first luxury appliance and data-driven add sell-out at the same time.

One dream has to die for the fish to fry.
What if that decision is anti-social or even illegal?
Does software engineering need the same productivity gains as farming?
Hm, a thought - in a world where we are only in immediate contact with less than 200 people, an event happening to someone you know about carries meaningful information about the statistical likelihood of that event. We probably developed some heuristics based on that. Now we have a global telecommunications network which means that any strange event gets broadcast everywhere - this must surely break those heuristics, artificially inflating the perceived probability of rare events. There's also "celebrities", who feel like close acquaintances to millions of people. A single rare event happening to a celebrity gets amplified hugely.
Setting up some trigger to open the page based on your phone's accelerometer would probably work.
Which laptop did you get? I have used an HP elitebook and the touchpad was better than the one in my Macbook pro in some ways.
Developing mobile tools seems like such a hazard with these walled gardens
I don’t see any advice as to that. FTA:

“If thus connected, you have some questions to address. Is your new conveyance air-worthy? […] If you choose to go it alone”

Also, even if it is dropping faster, it may be worth it to stay in your seat if you can use it as a crumple zone
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Yeah greenwashing is a thing and even a lot of stuff that genuinely well-intentioned can have externalities that outweigh the benefit. But at least it looks like they're trying.
You don't believe those sites are making a ton of money on ads? My whole family is anti vaxxers, I've seen the websites and the YouTube channels. All of these places are making tons of money off providing bad takes on statistics.

To be clear, I'm to the point where I think opening everything is okay. The people that wanted to be vaccinated are, and the people that aren't will get sick by their own choice.
Webapps connected to a blockchain, mainly using a browser extension.
I have to say I am impressed by Amazon spokesperson Rachael Lighty that she is able to produce the comment like this:

"We’re committed to giving our employees the resources they need to be successful, creating time for regular breaks and a comfortable pace."

with a straight face, while being presented with the facts that the opposite is true.

"“Three times,” she said she responded, thinking about how it took five minutes to walk each way across the warehouse floor to get to the bathroom."

My guess is that Amazon managers, facing this horrible fact that people have to walk 5 min to the toilet, would introduce some innovative ML-driven solution like "fast portable toilet" (that is a pee bottles that employees will have to carry with them and managers will be cheering up that the solution fully meets all the company diversity and inclusion standards).
I wonder how the road noise is when driving with a set of these.
Nice to acknowledge the work of lesser known lights, but the article kind of reduces to another variation of, "your co-ordinates for belief and identity are arbitrary and unstable, the protagonists of the story you tell yourself are villains, it's probably because you are a shameful example of a person and should expect punishment, but you can redeem yourself by renouncing belief and aligning to the narrative of progress in the present."

It passes the popular bar for new knowledge because it illustrates a conflict and resolves it, but it's in a cognitive style that seems to conflate debasing knowledge with discovering it. It is how people are educated these days, where it is sufficient to destabilize and neutralize target ideas instead of augmenting or improving them, so it's no surprise, but the article seemed like a good example to articulate what is irritating about this trend in educated thinking.
Even more unpopular opinion: getting rid of a 100% tax exemption for people earning over 400k is just how things should be in a functioning society. Maybe with more of these measures, we can stop seeing stories of people working two jobs in the US not being able to make ends meet.

And "Do not control what people should earn or not" is incredibly naive and dangerous, if ever taken seriously.

Written from Portugal, with hope that the balance of power starts to shift away from high income earners, and back to somewhere closer to the median. Because it's kinda ridiculous right now in the US.
I have the new Weather app in iOS 15 which is the replacement for Dark Sky and they made it better. This was surprising to me.

I can't set custom alerts anymore for e.g., umbrella or UV, but the automatic alerts are exactly how I wanted them anyway... and it's nice that the app changes which data is shown based on the current conditions: if it's going to rain, the map shows weather radar instead of temperature
the architecture was mostly created by ARM

What do you think this means?
Truck tires are retreaded all the time.
It’s why you see bits of tread on the highway. They do fall off now and then.

Apparently saves a lot of money.
What made me leave the iPhone ecosystem, many years ago, was when they pulled all the podcatchers off the app store because they were going to be adding podcast support to iTunes soon. Not only that but getting podcasts from iTunes at the time meant plugging your iPhone into your computer running iTunes, much less convenient than having your phone download things over WiFi. Especially since I was using Linux and didn't have a computer that could run iTunes.
>it’s just hard to say whether Apple broke any laws here

Doesn't stealing someone's idea for an app/innovation and respinning it into your own implementation count as IP theft?

IIRC the Winklevoss twins got paid handsomely as a settlement for Zuckerberg stealing their idea for Facebook. Granted, they were very rich and well connected so that helped.
This is a good example of "take my money" features where the value and experience of the feature far outweigh any notions of "open source" or things like that.

There are those that dislike the closed ecosystem of Apple but for me the features and seamless integration of their products far exceeds my desires for that. I would like more easily replaceable parts like batteries and drives but those are once every few years types of things vs. everyday use of a touchpad.
> Basic 1 bedroom apartment rent, at least 45min commute or less to Menlo Park/Palo Alto - $4000/mo

I lived in a "luxury" 2br apartment that was 20m from Palo Alto just a few years ago for $4000. My 1br prior to that was $2250.

> CalTrain/BART/car insurance/bus/Uber - $1000/mo

But you live a shortish commute away. Why do you need CalTrain and Uber? Where is car insurance costing $12,000 a year?

> Utilities and phone bill - $400/mo

Huh? Power, water, trash, cell phone, and internet came to roughly $200/mo for two people when I was in the bay.
Argumentation goes like : But in the end what is real ? You can't be certain about anything so believe in God.
Nice hand waiwing
Yes, largely, the top-left light position is quite outdated, and modern designs are a lot more likely to have the light directly above.

Top-left was used in the past because the only lighting hints was the edge colours, and this looks weird with a light that is directly above, so typically a 45-degree light was assumed.

In modern design, there is very little edge colouring used, and instead the light determines only shadow positioning. And shadows look perfectly fine with a light positioned directly above. This placement feels a bit more natural, as it doesn't introduce an arbitrary sideways bias.
Why the Non-Aggression Principle is useless as a moral guideline http://dbzer0.com/blog/why-the-non-aggression-principle-is-u...
I agree with you on ‽, but differ with you on the "!?" and "?!" -- for me, the first character is the stronger marker of sentiment.
> In fact, just like with the invisible dragon in the garage, when we look at your brain to find you, we see nothing. You are the invisible dragon in the garage of the brain.

Except I can scream really loud, god can't

I effect things, the invisible dragon doesn't effect things, just going "both of these are invisible" misses the point of that, IMO

- - -

But then we can go with "oh but people obviously are affected by god la it changes how they act and how they reason" or "What is effecting things actually, does anyone but you know you exist? is anyone else real?" or other such stuff but, it reaches the unfun point of people searching for dictionaries so they can have the winning definitions of words, as opposed to discussing the core aspects.

Mathematicians don't seek to make their proofs as over the top complicated as possible, bringing in multiple schools of thought, just to say if X is or is not equal to God.

- - -

God is meant to have presence in everyone's life, yet, for my perspective and I imagine for the perspective of others, he doesn't. So either he doesn't, or he is hiding, if he is hiding, he probably has a good reason to, probably doesn't want the worship.
It’s odd that they didn’t include Nim in the benchmarks in their paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3360551
I don't make that mistake. Here are a few different countries i live in demonstrating the same issues:

France: over 20% vat, about 50% on income for median pay.
Uk: 20% vat, over 40% of median pay.
Malaysia: 10% gst
Vietnam : 10% gst, over 33% income

Those aren't the only taxes, just the most obvious ones. Western and Asian countries, from very developed, to somewhat developed, and under developed. Please show me where those taxes have benefited the people.

Any tax critic in here is always downvoted. I only ever saw 2 comments as a response. Why is it most dont see that taxes are just a way to fund barely checked agencies causing either havoc, or failing at their task?
According to this tweet from the author, that isn't the reason Apple gave for removing it: https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1437845736951992321

They simply said keyboards on the watch are not allowed.
Marginal tax != effective tax[0]

Yes they literally did. Your article says exactly what I said:

The 91 percent bracket of 1950 only applied to households with income over $200,000 (or about $2 million in today’s dollars). Only a small number of taxpayers would have had enough income to fall into the top bracket – fewer than 10,000 households, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal. Many households in the top 1 percent in the 1950s probably did not fall into the 91 percent bracket to begin with.

You need to understand the difference between marginal tax and effective tax. What you're referring to is effective tax. The parent very explicitly said marginal tax.

[0] - https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/marginal-and-avera...
So they do this right after winning over Epic in court? Way to drum up support for anti-trust regulation there, Tim.
It wouldn't be too crazy of an engineering trick to make the pores flex in a manner that causes them to crap out anything that's clogging them as the tire goes around.
The EU is not a monolith, there are many groups within it pushing different ideas. Some of them tech-friendly, some of them not. From my layman's perspective though it seems as though national governments who want to implement unpopular tech policy will often try to push it through the EU first because then they can deflect the criticism. Overall though I'd say the EU has been okay at preventing the most extreme anti-tech legislation, although it usually requires public scrutiny/outcry to make them drop it
Small nitpick, if you are* in Germany but have an e.g. Spanish name (e.h. Hector Garcia Gonzalez) then... that's 2 surnames without a dash. I have no idea what happens if you marry or have children, but your example is just the -most basic- version.

*"you are" meaning you'd be a German citizen with a German passport.
Just so we’re clear, this is 1 step to secure SSH, 1 step to avoid installing logrotate, and 1 step to encourage good admin practices.

Changing the port and using a non-root user for SSH don’t appreciably change the strength of the server’s security.
I need to find a reference for this:

Goedel apparently believed that it was impossible to explicitly enumerate all the partial computable functions over the integers, until Turing proved him wrong. He reasoned as follows:

- You can't enumerate the total functions because Cantor's diagonal argument is constructive. Given a claimed enumeration of N^N, you can perform Cantor's diagonal construction to produce a computable element of N^N not in the enumeration. So N^N is computably uncountable.

- Classical set theory says that a superset of an uncountable set is also uncountable.

The problem is that while a superset of an uncountable set is uncountable, a superset of a computably uncountable set may instead be computably countable. The partial functions over the integers show that this is indeed the case.

Cantor's construction is blocked because a partial function can output a degenerate value called non-termination. A computable function must map the non-termination value to itself. Since it isn't mapped to something different, Cantor's construction can't produce something outside an enumeration.
> it's pretty rare for a business to fail in its home market and succeed elsewhere

Rare is correct. It does happen. Packard Bell, for example, an American brand that fell apart in the US was doing significantly well.
Anytime someone has given me a whiteboard and I ask questions, I usually get frustrating answers, like "I guess you could try that" and not actual concrete answers. I live near Waterloo, ON, which has a tech hub and big university that leans towards tech, so maybe it's a univeristy culture thing.

Anyway, that's why my policy is to just say no to whiteboarding during interviews. I'd rather sit at a computer with another human who wants to see me succeed over stand at a whiteboard with people that want to dissect how I think.
AstroPad also had this happen to them:
https://astropad.com/sherlocked-by-apple/
I wish good luck to their kid for their visa applications and forms in general especially if they travel to Europe.
It is a great way to inflate budgets if you want to demonstrate that it is impossible to live in the bay without making seven figures.

We see this pretty consistently in media where crocodile tears are shed over a family making 500k and barely able to keep it together but you look at the budget and they are saving 80k in retirement and spending 20k on travel or whatever.
> Who likely didn’t pay that as they had plenty of tax avoidance strategies, not unlike the ultra-wealthy today.

You have zero evidence for this.
To give the Swedish story. In general all documents, decisions, etc. handled by a public agency are by default public (i.e you can call/email the agency and ask for them).

So when the tax agency makes a decision on your taxes that becomes public, i.e we can see what taxable income you have. One way this is used is by newspapers to look into the income of politicians (and other famous people..).

The right of public information is taken quite seriously by the courts (and should be taken more seriously by agencies that really like to classify the information as secret, which you then have to go to court to challenge). For example an organisation I'm associated with was able to get the cookie data from the Swedish Chief of Police which the courts determined was public information (although they were allowed to mask some information).
I will take another approach: we have become so used to massive innovation year in and year out that when it doesnt happen to the degree we want, we consider the event a bust.
I think if you presented the facts - that even early employees of tech companies, who already earn some of the highest salaries in the world, can make up to $10 million per year tax free - the average voter would say that's criminally unfair.

Sure sure, you can explain that the latest SaaS bullshit is just an absolutely crucial achievement in human history that needs this, but I think it won't be convincing.
We've been over this. Gödel's mu-recursive functions were a poor model of computation because it's completely unclear how to physically implement the arbitrary-function minimization operator. So people didn't see how to build a machine that calculates this way. Similarly, there's no clear way how to mechanize lambda calculus.

Turing Machines, on the other hand, were instantly obviously mechanizable. It was clear that one could build a physical machine to run any Turing program without human input. By proving that they could simulate the other systems, Turing showed that those other systems could be mechanizable as well.

I don't understand why Schmidhuber continues to ignore this crucial point.