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If you've ever seen a child growing up, you know that they don't just suddenly outsmart you.

It starts with really dumb things, like playing hide and seek while trying to hide behind a postcard, and being really surprised that they were found so quickly!

The AI would both need to get smart, and get smart with nobody seeing those 'dumb things' that children do along the way.
But the best technology doesn’t always win.
It's the MMO version of "I Am Rich". Demonstrate your social position, now with themed factions and skins!
> The problem is when you start classifying voluntary exchange as coercive

Is it really voluntary though? Without money, you'll starve, lose your home, etc. People need to get a job and make money.

Voluntary is when I sit down at my computer to hack on some project for fun. I'd do this all day but unfortunately I have to work.

> Humans are dependent on each other.

> That means we have to do stuff we may not feel like doing, but that others are willing to pay us to do.

If you have to do anything at all, you're being coerced. Being forced to work for someone else is slavery. All that's changed is the means of coercion: it used to be force, now it's debt.

> "slavery" - which is a highly charged term

The fact the term has connotations doesn't matter. The similarities are there, so I will call it what it is.
Still holding the web. Happy to see it is continually evolving.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
This is for people who are so rich that they've lost the ability to handle anything practical on their own.
Where I live (Paris) , people use 'bag on wheels'.
I'm able to do almost all my grocery shopping with it.
You can drive a Better Bikes PEBL in the winter. People do. It is enclosed including an optional floor for driving in winter or rain. It even has reverse. It can take one adult or two young children in the back seat. The trunk can hold groceries.
This is what Emacs does to your brain. Dont know if that's a good or a bad thing, mind you.

My first serious Emacs engagement happened in 1996, with XEmacs. Then it became my editor of choice for basically two decades. I can confidently say that I can open your Emacs setup and manage my way around it (unless you happen to be an evil-mode infidel, that is).
I can't think of a single reason why you'd need to rewrite your POSIX sh or bash scripts to be able to use Fish. The `#!/bin/sh` shebang is there for a reason.
Fibers "allow blocking and non-blocking implementations to share the same API"

That's an interesting contrast to Python where the need to use "value = await fn()" v.s. "value = fn()" depending on whether or not that function is awaitable causes all kinds of API design complexity, all the way up to the existence of tools like https://github.com/python-trio/unasync which can code-generate the non-async version of a library from the async version.
- Patches on patches and old bugs resurfacing with new ones will cause sysadmins to prematurely age and drop out of the profession

- Despite ever-more sophisticated designs and capabilities, machines will struggle to run the latest versions of applications that do the same thing as their predecessors decades ago

- Computing systems will feel more and more like houses of cards held together with string and tape, as "excess value" is aggressively engineered out

Oh wait. I was describing the Anti-Singularity (a pet theory of mine that all technological development inevitably outpaces our ability to maintain it, and that we will end our days desperately trying to get barely-functional systems that we have no hope of re-creating, to do something useful).
SARS-CoV-2 variant prediction and antiviral drug design are enabled by RBD in vitro evolution

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-021-00954-4
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> a symbol

That's literally the whole problem: he sees two symbols.
Agave nectar.
Why don't you just put that mentioning any country in a less than 100% positive way in a comment is against the rules? There's more and better discussion under the "flame war" threads than the entire rest of the comment section.
What bugs me about most sci-fi is that the robots have bad aim. Watching these neural control videos, it becomes pretty clear that the robots will kill the people in a fictional sci-fi setting from miles away before our protagonist even knows they're there.
https://bibdesk.sourceforge.io/ for Macs uses .bib natively
My advisor's advise was basically "find a notation that you yourself like and understand well" and stick consistently to it. He said this in a context of having seen many standard notations before (so he's not saying to re-invent the wheel), but his point was just that notations and ways of thinking are personal. Try to be clear and precise (for yourself and others), but realize that you are crafting something that reflects you and your way of thinking.

It's kind of a cop-out, but to be fair it's basically what I would say for programming as well. Try to simultaneously write code that clear to yourself and clear to others. There's no perfect method. Just constantly self-critique and try to improve.
Hum... Apart from math, music notation maps linearly from the symbols to the instrument positions and time.

It's absolutely not used only because "this is how people have been doing it for a long time". It's a very efficient notation to decode.
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Math papers can be pretty sloppy, and you don't realize this until you start working with formal mathematics—then it's obvious.

Almost all hand "proofs" in math papers have minor bugs, even if they're mostly correct in the big picture sense.

Even math designed to support programming (e.g. in computer graphics) is almost always incomplete/outright wrong in some meaningful way.*

But with a struggle, it's still largely usable/useful.

I've used advanced mathematics most of my career to do work (i.e. read a paper, implement it), but the ability to actually use math to do new things in computer science that mattered only to me only happened after I learned TLA+, which took a few weeks of solid study to click. Since then, it's been a pleasure. My specs have never been this good!

Lamport's video course on TLA+ is pretty good, but honestly I've read everything I can find on the topic so it's difficult to know what helped me the most.

*I think this is because, short of doing formal mathematics, there's no way to "test" your math. It's the equivalent of expecting programmers to write correct code the first time with no tests, and without even running the code.
It's actually becoming a problem keeping pace with PHP major updates
I literally trained the correct technique as a child because I was so into computers. I'd argue children today are far less exposed to keyboards than people (well, nerds) my age were.
If you write an autobiography, the character bearing your name in the book isn't you. It's a character in a book, while you are a human being.

You can never shake hands with a fictional character. You can create another fictional character that shakes the hand of the first fictional character, but the you that writes can not shake hands with the character you wrote bearing your name. These are entities from separate ontological categories that can never meet as equals.

The one pushing cannot be the thing getting pushed.
I'm trying to be more general than specific questions at the mid-undergrad level, because looking in from the outside, people seem to thing that if only the notation weren't so mysterious then they could understand everything. But this comment -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29344238 -- gives a flavour, talking about coming across "π" in different contexts and having to give different interpretations.

But I remember sketching an algorithm to someone and just inventing notations on the fly as I did so, knowing that they would simply be ways to remember the underlying ideas.

Even so, at 1st year undergrad the notations used in Mathematical Physics vary from those used in Introductory Graph Theory, and again from Real Analysis. But once the reader knows the underlying semantics, the actual notation is mostly a non-issue (as you know).
I can't help but wonder this myself, although I don't think it is safe/easy to say this with confidence - but if you look at Jane Jacobs, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Rosa Luxemburg, Chelsea Manning and others, I sometimes think about whether being in the historically weaker societal role sharpens your insight and moral cohones. I don't believe there's enough evidence to say it's there, but I would buy a story that went something like the subtle machismo men suck up as they get socialised might hinder us in those regards.

But then I look to certain contemporary female lesbian politicians in my country and I reconsider that...and there have been people like David Graeber, James Scott, Mikhael Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Edward Snowden and many others as well.
Probably FB’s Hack and similar efforts were influences first, since they predate the rise of TS.

On the other hand, though, PHP’s always tended to be a borrowing language that accumulates features from elsewhere, so there probably is some TS influence.
The reason is to preserve compatibility for everyone's configuration that they carefully built up over decades. It's quite hard to change things to enable some new thing without annoying many users. The last time that was tried was in the '90s and there are still zsh developers around who experienced the fallout. I value the fact that my shell doesn't change on me without warning like many GUI desktop environments.

In recent years the existence of frameworks like oh-my-zsh has contributed further to this situation because it has separated the detailed configuration from the base zsh project. It's a pity omz doesn't enable more really. Many things it does are not really useful unless you take the time to actually learn them. A lot of plugins just define aliases but if you don't know what they are, they just sit there unused.
Agree. Updated the title. Maybe dang can do something about my own mess and use your suggested English reference...

Relevant here is that with exclusion of tiny Gibraltar, Portugal is the most vaccinated country in the world. As shown from the other NYT article here in the thread. The government however, is forced to adopt new strong measures, including
testing mandatory for vaccinated persons.
Thankful for marmite :)
It's impossible to resolve this contradiction when an economy exists. The ambition to accumulate wealth and secure independence immediately manifests itself. The solution is to automate everything and free humanity from want permanently. When everything is abundant, there is no need to economize: post scarcity.
I guess they didn’t look hard enough at the other 63%
I just hope that the new balance of power in Germany will energize Europe to take concrete next steps towards an altenative way of organizing digital life.
Correct! Well, at least the hypothetical you provided for the reasons that I provided. Conceptual distance is a good way to put it, though!
Specifically, the HN submitted headline. The article headline is "Long COVID risk no lower with breakthrough infection; COVID-19 survival improves for European cancer patients." I don't believe it was a later change given the submitted url matches.

So this is one is fully on the submitter here. How brazen.
I don't know if this is laziness and ineptitude on the govt's part or not. You see the design team for UK gov websites have been getting a lot of attention and praise for their efforts, the most recent being here just ten days ago on the subject of check boxes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29238968 .

Now anyone with a rudimentary handle of the English language would probably have noticed the misspelling of carcasses on the blogpost https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2021/11/15/letting-users-tic... and Yorwba highlighted this on 17 November 2021 as seen in the comments. The team duly acknowledge this as seen with the updated image here https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/53/... and the original misspelling can still be seen here https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/53/...

Anyway, it would seem their commenting system will not allow links to be posted to them or they choose to ignore links or didn't understand the comment posted when comments like "https://www.bing.com/search?q=plural+of+carcass" come through to them which is metadata for the type of filtering being employed on their comments section.

I think its worth looking at their design principles which can be seen here https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles "#1 Start with user needs Service design starts with identifying user needs. If you don’t know what the user needs are, you won’t build the right thing. Do research, analyse data, talk to users. Don’t make assumptions. Have empathy for users, and remember that what they ask for isn’t always what they need."

It would seem Grant Shapps Secretary of State for Transport is perhaps actually meeting the public's needs or maybe its what he thinks of the public. Are we solitary handy manipulators of parts of the body?
LG C1 OLED, the new version of the C9 and CX, is significantly brighter apparently.
GloFlo is still doing some pretty cutting edge stuff for specialized processes. There is more to semi-conductors than just the highest density.
The same YouTuber has a video guide on how to update the wiring to make it safe in the way you want. Complete with grounding the body: https://youtu.be/2vcdbtAca0Y
Tailwind doesn’t work natively w Zola, but because Zola is so fantastic it’s super easy to use a makefile or npm build script or something and effectively bolt on the integration quite easily
About 1/3 of them want to pursue careers in Social Media as 'influences' as well.

Gen Z will be 'crypto millionaires' but those millions will be worthless.

I think finally we can say 'The Kids Are Not Alright' without being entirely old cranks, or rather, there is a kind of a problem that didn't exist before now that we are in 'the age of surplus' at least for middle->upper tier kids.

When I hear Crypto talk, all I hear are sad addicted gamblers talking about 'The Slot That's Tilted to Win' which is only marginally better than classical investors just speculating, but at the very least, investing and allocation of capital are materially important things.

The saddest thing of all is that an entire generation thinks that wealth comes out of thin air, and that they somehow deserve to be rich because of some luck entirely disconnected with the collective participation, work and input of a lot of people. 'Inequality' is a problem no doubt, and a lot of the 'rich' didn't do much to earn it either, but that's a separate question.
If you use Cython to compile vanilla Python, it implements GC in the C source without the VM. I don't find that especially noteworthy... though I do wonder about the particulars of their GC implementation (though... ick, GC).
This sort of thing is why it's nice to have authz throughout your environment. A client request that gets incorrectly forwarded to a proxy should be rejected by the downstream service.

The problem is that people keep all of their authn/authz at the boundary and then, once you're past that, it's a free for all.

Every service needs to validate authorization of the request.
Same, and I often wonder if people want to start some kind of scam. I mean the reality is probably that investing in crypto is much riskier, has probably a much lower expected yield than say trading with (covered) derivatives. But I also think it has to do with some kind of FOMO. Everybody knows someone who knows someone that got a ridiculously high return on investment because they bought the stuff 10 years ago. On the other hand it's possible to buy very well-understood derivates today with equal chances on public companies.

> It’s the same people who go spend too much at casinos

YMMV but my experience is actually the opposite. I.e. rather the gambling types actually buy derivates and everybody else considers buying crypto or has already done so.
I might just come forward and recommend NighthawkInLight. He does not upload as frequently as some of the other channels mentioned here but his videos tend to have a much higher production value for some just as interesting topics of science and technology.

https://youtube.com/c/Nighthawkinlight
I wish another org would follow suit ahead of the Winter Olympics. A brilliant move would be if the ice hockey tournament would be moved to Taiwan, much like the world championships were pulled from Belarus recently. Who would lose? Sponsors would be happy, players would be happy.
The author even mentions that in the article when he talks about purchasing used ones as gifts.

(Before giving them, I opened them up and replaced their aging power cords with modern grounded three-prong ones, as many of these predate even polarized plugs and are not remotely safe by modern electrocution prevention standards.)
This is what I like about emacs see a few nifty things, easily add shortcuts and integrate, (selective-mode is useful for an outline of a file).

Power comes from being able to customize - add a easy shortcut to show outline, add another to back to non-outlined. Then use these to jump around code.
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> even public nuisances like vim.

I love vim (err… Neovim), and this was great.
And Aristippus the inventor of capitalism? :D
Or Antisthenes the one I use to see how the mental issues were valued in the past? :D
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The GP post mentioned "with the aid of" computers, not "designed exclusively by" computers. I don't think there is a single current chip design that is not heavily leaning on EDA software make it all work.
What about saying that such conditions exists right now in contemporary world. We have great amount of thinkers and scientists and technologists and populists and cult leaders.

All of them producing and moving world forward. It is crowded competition, actually.
I'm a touch typist, but emacs chords always bothered me. I feel much more content switching to mouse or track pad for things like switching tabs, picking files from a file tree to copy / paste or duplicate or whatever, etc.

That said, being a programmer and not touch typing definitely sounds odd to me as well
I have worked towards a color palette that would feel fine on the eyes when using retina screens, this color combination made it possible, thanks to the pastel colors used on dark mode instead of "neonish".

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I'm not a big fan of China, but it's probably best if our business leaders didn't mock each other's countries in poor taste.
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The QR verification app doesn't ping back to a server, though. You can literally check. It's open source.
> Any bank would lend them the money to do so on that basis.

There is a good chance Apple lent TSMC the money - although the actual transaction would probably not simply be lend at x%, but be designed to be taxation efficient for both parties which might involve other parties or securities.
Apple is 20% of TSMCs revenue. That’s enough to make such demands. On top of that they’re likely also paying top dollar.
Awesome! I'm a little concerned about the pricing though - while lifetime membership sounds great, I'm afraid this could end up something like a "pyramid scheme" where my membership is reliant on revenue from new users to stay alive. I'd much rather pay $5/month or so for something like this.
"Look," I once said to a manager of mine, "I've been using this programming language longer than you've been alive..."

Card-carrying member here. :-)
No, I mean, well, it's very understandable when you describe it that way. Actually, I think your post here changed my perception of the problem the most out of all discussions I had on the subject. It made me think about people who are behind the papers. I somehow missed it. Thank you.

(And, sorry for being a jerk in this thread. I said too much in a few places, exactly because I didn't think of innocent mathematicians who might read it. I'm still convinced that there is a lot that math can borrow from CS and SE, but I'm definitely going to argue this differently.)
Upvoted, but:

>> You can have a well-regulated market produce even more fabulous outcomes...

Can you cite an example of this?
This is good advice. You will like to get the “oh, I didn’t think you’d be a developer” comment, just from your looks.

Also once you’ve been to the gym for some months the tone will never really go away if you do some physical activity now and then, so it is a really good investment in confidence IMO.
Only half the story. AMD also needed to do that due to antitrust shenanigans that harmed AMD. In my recollection of history, this was litigated in court and (I think?) eventually settled before a verdict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices#Litigat...

"n 2005, following an investigation, the Japan Federal Trade Commission found Intel guilty of a number of violations. On June 27, 2005, AMD won an antitrust suit against Intel in Japan, and on the same day, AMD filed a broad antitrust complaint against Intel in the U.S. Federal District Court in Delaware. The complaint alleges systematic use of secret rebates, special discounts, threats, and other means used by Intel to lock AMD processors out of the global market. Since the start of this action, the court has issued subpoenas to major computer manufacturers including Acer, Dell, Lenovo, HP and Toshiba.

In November 2009, Intel agreed to pay AMD $1.25bn and renew a five-year patent cross-licensing agreement as part of a deal to settle all outstanding legal disputes between them."

Unfortunately by that point the damage had been done. Fabs are an extremely expensive, normally lower margin, business. Risk averse companies probably can't get into that game. Even with Apple they appear to have focused on something of a partnership with TSMC rather than their own fab.
Just a polarized plug would do it. That would make it so the switch is before the elements and not after.
I've not tried for a while but just getting that to even compile was a nightmare. It seemed to be a fork of the Python 2 code base. They've done the right thing by having a POSIX compatible layer but I completely disagree with their idea of what is wrong with the existing Bourne syntax and needs changing. An interactive shell needs to keep special characters to a minimum and stick to commands as the basic unit on which things are built. Zsh is already able to correct many of the worst elements of the Bourne syntax.
Surprisingly?! You just set less need for false positives...
Miss P. was a rare sort of scholar indeed to be found at the 9th grade level.

> ... wrote when it was closer to the present and more fresh in my mind.

The thought came to me -- being now at an age a few years greater than yours -- that my own collection of memories on similar events has been fading, and those from youth of course being irreplaceable.

Solution: Write them down, only those I'd want to savor again in years ahead. In the form of notes, at least. The act of writing slowly -- over the course of nearly a year now -- puts a light on others in the dusty attic.

Next step is to work up the more amusing and less private of them into anecdotes, for sharing with trusted friends.
In my experience it's mostly people outside of Europe who confuse the EU with Europe, whereas Europeans are less likely to make that error.