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That's really well said. I've read this before but the way you've described it makes more sense to me. I can see that a similar problem made lisp difficult to catch on, as each application or company was its own ecosystem creating its own dialect with so many bits and pieces that the core language is such a small part as to not really be considered transferable knowledge between shops.

I thought making it all cloud-based with realtime collaboration would help, but it wouldn't be nearly enough. At scale there needs to be ensurances of stability--something like realtime tests. I have no idea how something like that could be made to work efficiently enough to be effective.
Today I worked with Company B, founded by former workers in Company A who were sick of Company A's dishonest, high-pressure, customer-hostile sales tactics (which I personally experienced).

The guys who left Company A didn't stop Company A from continuing to be the #1 provider of widgets (for now). I'm sure the Company A stock price didn't care.

I'm still very glad I get to work with Company B rather than Company A.

There is still such a thing as honor among men.
There are a ton of these online, its not clear why anyone should use yours.

Here is a free idea, make it about security. The biggest worry I have about these is they will secretly retain a copy of whatever I upload.

Are they doing this? Probably not, but most of these sites are not reassuring.
Individuals matter for the team as well.

Put a person who doesn't get along with people as a team leader and watch what happens.
The main problem is changing recommendations without new information, just a new politically driven "right-think." Also, there were several shifts in course that directly contradicted science but virtue signaled the right message at the time. It's very hard to build trust in the government, and once it's lost even the most reasonable requests will be questioned.

A relevant comment I saved but no longer have the source for:

"Closing borders is racist. Two weeks to flatten the curve. Don’t mask. Mask. Stay Inside. Trump didn’t close the borders fast enough! Double mask. Protest crowds are not superspreaders. Trump Rallies are superspreaders. School is dangerous, distance learning is good. Go outside, inside is bad. Dems - don’t trust Trump Vaccines. Biden/Pelosi - we can’t mandate vaccination. Dems - you must trust our vaccines, they are effective. Biden/Pelosi - we are mandating vaccines. No mask if vaccinated. School is good, kids don’t get it. Still mask if vaccinated. School is bad, kids are getting it. Vaccine boosters because they are not as effective as we thought."
When I see a chatbot on a blog I ignore it. When I see a chatbot on a support site that links me to pages I've already thoroughly searched, I loathe it. When I see a chatbot in a slack channel I use it.

By the way: chatbots will hardly ever replace web forms.
We already are, you have to rebuild Firefox entirely to remove some of the worse contraptions. Degoogling Chrome takes a herculean amount of work.
the phrase comes from the unique German WW2 weapon "Sturmgewehr 44" (literally Assault Rifle 44).

It was the first example of the Assault Rifle weapon type with the defining characteristics being an intermediate cartridge (between pistol round and rifle round) that allows controllable automatic fire at engagement ranges further than submachine guns.

Most AR15s cannot be considered 'Assault Rifles' as although they are chambered in an intermediate cartridge, they are for the most part semi-automatic and not capable of automatic fire.

Note that 'Assault Rifle' does not seem to be a ATF defined term, they always use the term Machine Gun for automatic weapons. The term "Assault Rifle" is more commonly associate d with anti-gun organizations as it has become a emotionally charged word
It's really cool although I must confess I don't see the point in reimplementing the core OS if the goal is "a love letter to '90s user interfaces" - wouldn't have been able to more effectively address its goal as a DE for a more popular OS like Linux? Even if it needed to break X compatibility altogether (and I don't see why it would), it would still be more compatible and easier to deliver.

Of course, if it's just for fun then we shouldn't be asking why!
Are you tapping and swiping down on the unchecked circles on the left? It scrolls the screen down if you swipe on the preview of the emails, but not the circles you see after you tap Edit int he upper right.
It was by far the most productive environment I ever used. I was the architect of the lower levels of cyc (Guha the higher levels) and in a short time I was able to write enormous amounts of code that was used for years. There aren’t really other exploratory development environments like that any more. I actually switched the team from D machines to symbolics machines (I had previously worked on D machines at PARC so it wasn’t a familiarity thing).

As for speed, cost and reliability: I had two such machines (two computer tables in my office), one with a color screen, each with a massive 8 MW of ram (40 MB). And MCC had an on site symbolics tech who was conveniently across the hall from me. Not really a scalable approach, but this relates to Dan Luu’s post that is currently also on the front page). It was absurdly slow by today’s standards, but not by the standards of the era.

Now I do all my development on a MacBook Air. And as with the lispm, I mostly use it in full screen mode.
That's a fortunate scenario! If you have good noise estimates available then you can sidestep the need to infer the noise scale and instead simply proceed with "typical" heteroskedastic inference. When the observation noise variances are known, you only need to modify the typical GP inference equations to replace the σ²I term that appears in the homoskedastic case (where σ² is the constant noise scale) with a diagonal matrix N indicating the noise variances associated with each observation along the diagonal.

(One might imagine a slightly more flexible model including a scaling parameter, replacing N with c²N and inferring c from data.)
It is too bad electric vehicles still require strip mining, the equipment that does that all run on oil, as well as tires actually producing more pollution than what comes out of the pipe. I fear this is the next greenwashed "recycle and it will all be ok bs". And by that I mean most recycled material, excluding paper, only actually gets recycled in the sub 10% success rate.(you can view that on EPA's website) source: https://www.transportdive.com/news/tire-emissions-exhaust-st...
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This was the pattern I read in the title: "[Country] [Government org] Works Manual".

Surely, I thought to myself, the only reason this would have made it to the HN front page is if there were a few guffaws in it related to how asinine a government document could be, but I couldn't find anything in there that indicated the same.
So when it first happened NYT had all the videos listed here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/us/kyle-rittenhouse-kenos...

I tried accessing them now, but paywall hit me hard.
> under five minutes – about the same amount of time it takes to fill up a gas tank

'about' is doing some serious work there. Maybe it's on par with the entire time spent at the gas station, but I'd say "under two minutes" is a better estimate of the actual transfer.
Often an employee won’t find that out until they’re fired for getting pregnant.
In 2021 Fortran differentiates you!
wc $(git ls-files '*.c')

This avoids counting things like generated code that is not checked in (lex.yy.c, y.tab.c or what have you), and any local test code or other junk you have laying around in the tree.
Recovering enemy satellites was one of the design goals imposed on the US Space Shuttle program by the Air Force. The shuttle ended up flying to the Hubble telescope to fix/upgrade it half a dozen times, though obviously they kept it in orbit rather than recovering it.

The DOD probably has a replacement for the shuttle that does the same thing. I seem to remember a DARPA program over a decade ago
Yeah, I agree that the person wasn't armed. Armed typically means weapons made to kill like firearms, I just object to the deadly weapons discussion since that is a much more lax term.
Now I see that getting rid of the DeWitt clause is indeed great. Kudos to both companies.
"Individuals matter" does not mean that teams do not.

The "individuals matter" is contrasted with "individuals do not matter" and not with "teams matter".

If you think about this it is exactly pro-team. It means that the team is built from the people that compose the team and people are sometimes intimately linked together through the circumstances in which the team was built and cannot be easily replaced. The team building is path dependent and that path cannot be easily replicated.

There are even examples of this in the article.
Going a different route contributes to your knowledge of the area. It is clearly not change for the sake of it.

A more appropriate comparison would be something like having the car dashboard layout randomly change when you start the car.
Is this on an M1 Mac? Is the difference in battery usage enough to shift to safari? I quit safari a while back cos it did some very weird things and I've been using Chrome but it is very heavy on memory and battery life.
The MIT CADR software can also run on an FPGA. The main problem with it is that we only have a saved image from a pre-Common Lisp version, there are sources and compiled files for a later version that does implement Common Lisp as well but so far we have not worked out a way to get an updated image.

There is an emulator for the LMI Lambda hardware that can run an improved version of the final LMI software.
The world is ruled by people who need less sleep
The other frustrating assertion is that this is all perpetuated to drive outrage because supposedly outrage gives rise to more ad sales. That might be strictly true, but that's not the point.

The point is to control the dissemination of and characterization of information. Corporate press is already owned and operated by the ultra-wealthy. This is not how they make their money. This is how they mold society to work in the ways they want.
Soon we will need an open source alternative to the open source.
Please don't pile on with further nastiness. It helps nothing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I was involved in World Cup features and it definitely would spike around goals. Maybe 2-3x as I recall but it was always surprising to me how “low” the tweet volume was relative to the read volume.
> mathematically provable binary consensus algorithms known in this universe have n^2 behavior

Is there a convenient way for an uneducated schmuck like me to read up on this? Just a comment without references isn't much to go on.
I found the Bitcoin paper example to be very compelling - really awesome work! You have a great eye for design.

I signed up and liked the familiar Notion-style interface, however I had some difficulty figuring out how to create the same caliber of animations as your examples, and get them to sync up correctly with the text - would be nice to get a bit more help when opening the animation editor for the first time.

Edit: also not able to delete blocks and re-order, and I am still trying to figure out the controls to switch between editing different animation steps.
Fantastic, great to see. I was looking into this problem several years back and recall wanting more semantics than openapi provided to be able to drive fuzzing. Maybe you have a clever solution. Will check out the thesis. Cheers!
That doesn't go against the point of this article, it enhances it. Teams mattering reduces the fungibility of people even further.
? What's special about this version?
How big of an Ice cube? As big as a brick? Yes, can be just as deadly and a coble stone.
> We fix the incentives by making sure that everyone puts money into the pot.

Forcing people to contribute money in taxes is not "fixing incentives". It's just brute force.

The best way to increase people's incentive to help others would be to remove the illusion that they can outsource that task to the government.
It's not off-topic at all. But I can see how it's tedious.
MBAs I think see it as an indicator that they are not using g the resource at capacity.
Scandinavian welfare system is only possible because Scandinavian countries are more or less small and homogeneous. Social stigma is huge part in making sure people do not freeload and do not abuse social safety nets. That social stigma will not work in big, diverse and marred by identity politics countries like the US or even Canada (in my opinion).
If only it were in fact an alternative. If only you could look at a BTC-rich person and conclude from their wallet balance that they've made meaningful contributions to society and are therefore deserving of whatever they're trying to pay you for in BTC. That would be cool.

But that's no more likely to be true than for a USD-rich person. Whatever ill-gotten USD gains have occurred in the past are easily transferrable to BTC, which means that its really just an alternative portal into the same monetary system, or perhaps the next evolution thereof. The only difference is that this time it doesn't have anybody behind the monetary-policy steering wheel.
Congratulations, Mr. Wolfram - you've invented the Universe.
It’s incredibly reductionist to think that productivity is inherent to an individual when the world is never that simple and there are always a lot of factors involved in any outcome. Even the people that you think are “10xers” will stumble under the right circumstances, and the converse is also true about the people you think are incompetent.

It’s not so much that we built a culture that disallows these things to be said—I’m sure you have the freedom to say that to people if you’re prepared for the consequences. It’s just that it’s such a hasty, unnuanced thing to say, and business decisions should not be made on the basis of rash remarks that aren’t very well thought-out.
I would venture that you really can't if you want to be accurate and fair.

You were on the ground, which to me implies that you had a local view of the rate. In your area the observed rate of mishires apparently was around 10-20%. If you were in another team/part of the org you might have thought 50% or 0%.

My guess is that HR does exactly this sort of thing. Someone did a study once and averaged numbers that were obtained 'somehow' and that is then simply applied.

Like stack ranking. Everything is a normal distribution, right?

If you ask me: What large orgs are not good at is doing what actually makes sense. It's too much work and there is so much that could go wrong anyway. The way out are blanket policies implemented by drones, bean counters, the odd psychopath etc.
Scandinavian welfare system is only possible because Scandinavian countries are more or less small and homogeneous. Social stigma is huge part in making sure people do not freeload and do not abuse social safety nets. That social stigma will not work in big, diverse and marred by identity politics countries like the US or even Canada (in my opinion).

Actually, cultural traits penetrate all aspects of their economic system not just welfare system. For example due to social norms business competition between two businesses may not be as adversarial as it is normally seen in the US, unions are not as adversarial in relation to corporations and corporations are not as adversarial toward unions, government bureaucrats are not as adversarial (and boneheaded) toward businesses as in the US and so on.
Yes, that would be really helpful. Personal language (even just 'you', as you correctly point out) combined with pejorative language tends to land as personal attack, even if it wasn't intended. Since intent doesn't communicate itself over the internet, the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). Avoiding personal language, except when you're sure you need it, is one excellent way to do that.

Thanks for replying so nicely - I know it's not pleasant to get a moderation scolding.
I met a PhD who could not write any software. He was like a person off the street with no computer science education at all. A nice person that I liked, but but he really cemented the idea that degrees mean little.

> What should I do?

In your situation I would continue working my current job. Putting work on hold and going back to college is a huge financial blunder to satisfy a problem that only exists in your mind.
Ok, so then the problem statement is how to do dependency injection of lifecycle references into closures. This is specific and asking quite a lot of a single entrypoint function. The closure 'at some point' (either at the end, or coordinated give then get calls) would have to transfer ownership. At this point you'd likely be better off making an interface and not a single entry/exit closure.
Providing value to users.
I just did this grep for single-character function names on the Mako codebase:

grep -r '\<[a-z](' .

And there were no matches. There were some one-character macros but they were macros repeated dozens of times in a localized area.

It seems like what's being proposed is descriptive function names with simple variable names. If the function bodies are short enough (e.g. fit on a single screen) then this seems like a good trade-off to me. IOW, the variable names are symbolic but the function names are descriptive.

The short variable names should be clear enough if you understand the purpose of the function.
If Hacker News is going to be more like Reddit, I wish it's more like this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/savedyouaclick/
I had issues so now I do it in microsoft edge on linux and it's been fine. Yeah, microsoft's browser is on linux, wild times... it's their first browser on *nix since IE 5.0 SP1 in 2001.

I remember having a Sparc Ultra 5 that I used remote X with to run IE5 on my linux system at the time for those sites that absolutely insisted that I used IE and wouldn't work with NN. Fun times ... actually no, that kinda sucked.
Sorry, but I'm not understanding what you're alluding to.
The only hope for opensource only if NVIDIA as a company ceases to exist - go bankrupt, for example. They are inherently hostile to FOSS and will never change (they didn't change in last decades, why they would in the future).
> I think this illustrates the cloud is unacceptable for anything more than storage and retrieval.

You can run in dedicated tenancy where you have the whole machine or a metal configuration where you also have the whole machine.
I don't think so. In Bash you can do this:

bash$ shopt -s globstar

Then you can use double star syntax like this:

bash$ wc **/*.c

The **/ will match any number of directory components, including zero; I think it's like *.c */*.c */*/*.c and so on, like what OP wrote.

Somewhat sadly, the Glibc glob function does not have an equivalent GLOB_ option for this; it's just in Bash.
There wasn't all that much to the Franz Lisp runtime system, I don't think there would have been any way of using the .o files without it though.

I ran it on an AtariST.
My guess is we are talking of different things when envisioning micro abstractions.

I have in mind the projects that went from a handful of data structures and functions to dozens of each. Typically in the vein of abstracting away whatever immediate problem was faced in the code.

Have a workflow? Make a workflow abstraction that can run any work.

Have code that needs to retry? Make a retry facility that can retry for any reason. Than make a grammar to specify what backoff should be used.

While doing those, realize you want a rules engine to determine what work and what backoff to use.

Then, put in a sat solver. To determine if a plan can be done.

...

None of these are really bad things, in and off themselves. Odds are high they would all be poorly done, or themselves a giant undertaking.
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How well does Kafka handle high density data (e.g. A/V and images)? I'm scouting out systems for our computer vision pipeline and Kafka would simplify the aggregation/collimation step for marshalling to GPUs, and it would be simplest if I can just send raw frames vs some alternate transport.
Are you perhaps from Europe where vehicles are smaller? Near me, larger trucks are most common, often with two fuel tanks.
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Ive seen this 'people need to live near work' argument, but I don't know what its based on. If a teacher has to commute an hour, they will commute an hour. If a bartender has to commute, they will commute. Wouldn't it be better to make transportation cheaper and easier to use? That way people could live where they can afford, and still work in another place. I don't understand why people have to subsidize someone living close to their job.
Lets say we have a company that pays politicians to do what they want, this is what you call free speech. This company also has the power to silence peoples voices on the public forum of that day, this is what you call free speech. Do you think this is what the founders intended by "free speech"? I do not, these two together means that the line between government and big corporation gets blurred, and that now effectively the people who decides what gets legislated are also the people who are free to censor people.
In the notifications settings/preferences, on a per-app basis, you can set whether notifications are displayed to allow banners, badges, and sounds. And you can turn on/off whether the notification posts to the lock screen, or stay in the notification center (swipe down on iOS, click the clock in the menu bar on OSX)
We're actually thinking of building something like that and would love to have a chat to learn more about use cases.
They seem to try to tell something to the world, but I don't know how to interpret it.
Owners seem to be reporting this is a non-issue if frequently charging to 80%, but it seems pretty unscientific.
Cool. That only tells you which memory is no longer actively referenced. It does not tell you whether or not you’ve leaked memory due to stale live references.
> is not a serious programming language to do systems programming in, since it has poor control of networking, threads and memory.

Tell that to the Netty folks.
If you filter all available data points to just those located in Ireland, you get 310.

I was speaking specifically of senior engineers at Google, Facebook, and Amazon (which are the only FAANGs to have meaningful presence in Ireland), because that was the context I was replying to.
very cool - any thoughts on going open source ? This would make it an easier comparison in my mind to dbt...
Why do Casper and Purple lose so much money then?
Works fine; I have no issues with old installations that still use it.
The more those without look to media for information and answers, the more they can be manipulated and taken advantage of. It is rare to find fact-based reporters and unfortunately many people are too far gone to appreciate it when they do exist.

Kids are often brainwashed from a very early age and many thoughts and opinions are just what they have grown to believe based on the media they consumed and those around them watched and believe.
I observed the local rate, correct. I didn't really make a claim that a large org would be exactly the same as my local rate, so I agree with you that it could differ. But honestly, I do believe it would be over 0.1 for most orgs, just based on my experience with people in college and other areas of life. Competence at a high level is really rare and most people just are really not good at complicated tasks, even many graduates from top schools.