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Thank you for this comment. So true. The colonialists came with their world view, made the Indians feel inferior to subjugate them. Indians in turn have fetishized this colonial view and have self hated on their own culture as a result, to the delight and as intended by colonialists. Part of this self hate is this conflagration of Sanskrit with Hinduism, and while the two were closely related, there is such a rich intellectual culture of Indian thought (Both Sanskrit and non Sanskrit thought) that can be appreciated while still being “modern”, let’s call it. I really wish more Indians would understand this.
She sent the phone in to be fixed. Obviously they fixed the phone?
Eh, I find this tone policing more aversive than the actual comment. As a lighthearted joke it's fine IMO - preferable to reading a whole thread of everyone telling each other off, as though we were on Twitter.
Yeah that article is at least poorly written. I don't think DNA just recombines in the wild like that, we would see examples of this all over the place, and the way animals do it is through sex and reproduction. I'll have to do some searching for specifics.
This is basically the progression in any field or craft. As one becomes more experienced, one basically figures out the optimized stuff needed to successfully solve the problem in hand, successful in the sense that it both meets current requirements and enables future changes or evolution.

I describe this path of discovery as:

beginner: function over form

intermediate: form over function

transcendence: form is function

However, I will disagree that coding is just about ifs and for loops. To me, coding, programming, software development, or whatever you want to call it is about three things: how to use a computer to do something, communication between people (including your future self), and how to think about a domain. “ifs and for loops” does not capture this.
This comment fits in just as well with a phone from the 1870s as a phone from the 2020s. I can just imagine someone saying this about the neighbors' party line.
For what? Burden is on you here, due to your position in the conversation.

What are we looking for? Why does it matter?
This does not jibe with my experiences or anybody I know's experiences, I think it needs more development. I've had friends who used vegetable oils then they dried out or worse turned rancid and gummed stuff up. Especially bad if a tool is left for a while, or in a hot place, though I guess this is not so much a problem in Europe. This doesn't seem like a significant enough problem to justify that anyway, "thousands of gallons" across a continent is not actually that much.
What kind of processing do you mean? Unless you're developing a game or a media player, I can't think of a good example where processing might delay the UI.
No. And it can barely do anything without crashing. I hate mine.
Then there are service contracts to make surr the systems keeps running with little downtime. Which may be impossible to get for 11 year old equipment. Then there are pesky details like needing a disaster recovery site.

Professional hardware is expensive and server h/w is a small part of it.
Using some Mazola on my chainsaw because I can't find or didn't buy proper oils sounds like a typical thing I'd do (that people will shame me for but I don't care)

Admittedly my chainsaw is a small cheap electric one, but still. Unsurprising to me that it turns out it is ok to use what I have on hand.
that sounds right, i block about 99% of notifications on my phone, regardless of wehther they're from webapps or native apps. but the 1% i don't block are incredibly useful and the main reason i have a phone in the first place

i hope nobody is deciding that no apps should ever be allowed to send notifications, just because most notifications get blocked. it's still an incredibly useful feature even if most apps use it poorly.
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Thank you. I totally agree. It's absolutely exhausting to read journalism which is endlessly hammering you with the value judgements you're meant to make. Just give me the facts, and I can do the opinions myself.
> “There are some [silly] features in VLC—some filters that everyone finds weird and asks [us], ‘Why do you have that?’ The answer is someone sent a good patch, so there was no reason to refuse it,” says Kempf.
This is absolutely fascinating. Never thought of using this. These are the kinds of stories I come to HN for.
Why hasn't tel-aviv made a metro yet? It's not the USA, there are many people from europe who have had a good experience with metros in their home countries, it's not poor and it's not Houston sized sprawling either.
I don’t see your point. Using the Internet is a data vaccum, you will probably google it even and watch the lecture on YouTube.

You don’t need to do any of this this listen to the Feynman lectures.
Because the bank wants to sell it to Fannie Mae which has certain document and procedural requirements. Then the risk is off their books.
From yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29434740 - 130 comments
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The hardware improvement has been huge, but on the other hand if you pit Stockfish NNUE against top 1990s software on equal modern hardware, Stockfish would win handily. It's really been both hardware and software improving.
> UB that just says "this is an axiom the compiler makes" is fine.

That's literally what UB is.

If the compiler makes any optimizations based on those axioms, and the axioms are violated, you'll end up with unexpected behaviors ("lighting your program on fire") that are crazy hard to debug. So saying "the compiler can have UB, but it just shouldn't make weird optimizations based on that" is a little hard to justify, or else you get absurd results like what I outlined in the post above. A lot of beginning C programmers do find it strange that they can't index past the end of a variable and expect to always hit the next variable on the stack, for example, but experienced C programmers aren't. Being able to rearrange, reuse, and register allocate variable slots is one of the most fundamental optimizations out there.

Now, imagine if compilers were never allowed to reorder writes and loads because another thread might potentially update them... pretty crazy, right? Well, a lot of the "benign data races" people yell at compilers for screwing with, are caused by exactly that kind of reasoning, assuming that writes in one thread will always be seen in the same order by other threads without any explicit synchronization or ordering primitives. And that's not even necessarily a "messing with what the hardware does" thing, because there's hardware out there that will reorder ordinary loads and stores for you!
> Do you really feel that the old URIs cannot be kept running? If so, you chose them very badly. Think of your new ones so that you will be able to keep then running after the next redesign.

"Never do anything until you're willing to commit to it forever" is not a philosophy I'm willing to embrace for my own stuff, thanks. Bizarre how blithely people toss this out there. Follow the logic further: don't rent a domain name until you have enough money in a trust to pay for its renewals in perpetuity!

> Think of the URI space as an abstract space, perfectly organized. Then, make a mapping onto whatever reality you actually use to implement it. Then, tell your server. You can even write bits of your server to make it just right.

Oh, well if it's capable of implementing something abstract, I'm sure that means there will never be any problems. (See: the history of taxonomy and library science)
If you read the article it isn't just the thousands of gallons, it is also breathing petroleum aerosols, etc.

These foresters seem to have good experiences with it-

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=90186.0
Its not about the size, its about the signedness being presumably not natural for an index, and the potential for having very inconvenient consequences for performance on modern CPU architectures if you were not able to assume the index never goes negative due to a wrap.

Basically, to get decent perf out of C loops, arithmetic overflow has to be left as UB for int. If the standard index variable type had historically been unsigned and defined to terminate on overflow or something, you could make wrap-on-overflow standard for int without killing the performance of hot inner loops.
It makes intuitive sense. Social cohesion requires trusting democratic institutions but that trust is currently at an all time low thanks in no small part of talking heads on platforms like Twitter and Facebook. With every ideologue pushing their own agenda and doing their best to reduce trust in democratic institutions it's not surprising that most people no longer hold any collectively coherent beliefs.
The context of this thread is fruitful. Someone claimed Israel isn’t a democracy - that “Israel may be considered a democracy, but only for the so-called "chosen people"" (they almost certainly mean for Jews / Jewish people).

They make other spurious claims as well.

I do not believe I am committing the logical fallacy you refer to. I don’t know if that commenter is either.

I am not claiming democracy = good, and I am not claiming not democracy = bad.

I believe talking about non-citizens voting is perfectly useful and fruitful for understanding Israel as a democracy. I do not hear people complain, generally, about other countries not allowing non-citizens to vote in elections. That is the state of affairs for Palestinians that aren’t Israeli citizens. Non-citizens not voting. It may just be a double standard applied to Israel for various reasons. This happens.

As I mentioned previously, full sovereignty does not seem relevant to this point, nor does full control of territory. You keep bringing up Palestinian sovereignty and sovereignty in general, but I have yet to understand why you think it’s relevant to this discussion.

Is Spain not a democracy because of Catalonia? Ireland and the UK because of North Ireland, or Scotland? No, these aren't identical situations, and there are obvious differences - note the similarities instead of the differences.

If it relates to ethnic nationalism and citizenship - is Estonia a democracy? Is Hungary? Lithuania? Others in this list generally considered democracies?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_return
I live in Denver as well.. and it “snowed” one time but was mixed with sleet and not a measurable amount. You may be misremembering, but we’ve had effectively no precipitation in the latter half of the year: http://www.thorntonweather.com/noaa/snow.php

I live on the 9th floor downtown with a clear view facing northeast.

Additionally from the article:

> "Denver has just recorded their second-least snowiest November," with no measurable snow observed -- meaning they had some flurries, but nothing accumulated.”
Some of my scuba diving friends go ice diving in Canadian lakes. They use chainsaws to cut access holes through the ice, and always lubricate those chainsaws with vegetable oil so as not to contaminate the water with petrochemicals.
And ppl nagging you. No clueless ppl nagging you with things like jira and idiots like jeff sutherland.
Those mean nothing without the proteic machinery that translates codons into other proteins though. DNA and RNA without ribosomes is like a language without a compiler.
Have you thought you are laughing at High Functioning Autism and Asperger's at a regional level?

I sometime think it was an HFA who coined the phrase, "if you want the job done properly, do it yourself"! It explains so much.
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One case in which ANN intervention could possibly discard unwanted results.
I wouldn't know. I don't really follow politics, seems like a waste of time.
Nope, but they are off the charts!!

Others will figure this out. The value is high enough for users to fund it. I would for sure. In fact, funding that via small money from people is likely the best model. AD driven stuff has too many conflicts of interest.
I would imagine that excavation in Tel Aviv would be a huge pain, and previously there were a lot of security concerns with bunching people up in a metro. Perhaps now things have quieted down but the land has gotten very expensive.
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Windows XP is officially unsupported. Support ended in 2009, the only Windows version with mainstream support now is Windows 10, which will expire in about 3 years, and Windows 11.
I'm not disagreeing at all, and I don't know the details in this case, but it's entirely possible to be a billionaire on paper and be _wildly_ incapable of paying salaries to 900 people. 900 x ~150,000 = 135,000,000. If the company was losing 100M a year during the next valuation moment, it's very possible this CEO would no longer be even close to being a billionaire. Cash in hand and valuation are very different things.

Again, not excusing any of this, the video was extremely cringe and I can't believe he went with "for those of you in the US, we'll be doing the legal minimum, for everyone else, sorry!", but as someone who is "worth" almost a million dollars, and who cannot afford to hire even a single person, it's not always so simple.

All that said, 900 * (150000 / 12) == 11250000, so I have a hard time imagining it wouldn't have been worth 1M for a fairly well known tech company with loads of funding to avoid this horrific press and karma.
Are you in power electronics?
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Have any studies been done on breathing vegetable oil aerosols?
Coding is not "ifs and loops, then $foo". That's a false premise. If you want to be fundamentalist about it (which I don't advise), a CPU is just a state machine.

assembly instruction + machine state => new machine state

Our idea of "jumping around code" and "control flow", as in for loops or if statements, are themselves abstractions of control state (an instruction pointer) and data state (perhaps a CPU register).

So coding is really "the execution of a notional interpreter (aka semantics), then $foo." That gets to the absolute bottom of what "code" even is: instructions for an interpreting device (be it physical or mathematical).
Are you suggesting 70Mbps is slow ADSL? There are many places where not even a tenth of that speed is possible.
Oh wow. I wanted to be a bit vague so people had fun catching it. The meta irony didn't remotely occur to me.

That made my morning, thank you!
I think the first question to ask is whether we need a language that does away with array bounds checking.

If, like C, you think you do, you accept (on currently popular CPUs) that code may read from and write to arbitrary memory, and that means you have to define that as “anything can happen”.

If you don’t, I think you can get rid of the most common causes of UB.

So, with modern compiler technology, are languages that check array bounds necessarily slower than those that aren’t? If so, is the difference large enough?
Ah there is a metro plan! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv_Metro
We'll probably get some solid observational data, due to the rise of vaping, but that will take a few years.
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Some people don't have jobs to begin with. I really don't know what you are going on about. Who is supposed to create a job for you, just because you need one?

As for the "Bullshit Jobs" theory, yes a couple of farmers can produce a lot of food. People don't only need food, though.

What are you going on about, you seem to be implying there should be a basic income? Or what is the alternative to working you envision? That has not been proven to be workable yet. And somebody will still have to do the work.
Fair point, I have a pi 4 running pihole and wireguard so starts up and runs everything on power.
Also boot disk is on zfs so scrubs each week incase of microsd corruption.

The Wireguard in Docker automatically generates new client configs from ENVS.
We still don't know how long a person who has recovered from COVID-19 experiences cognitive impairment. If it's never, catching it is not a sacrifice I'd ever want to make. If it's of a reasonable duration after which you return to baseline and it's not lethal, fine.
100%. This reminds me of the Google AI kerfuffle with whatshername. For a certain kind of person, "I just questioned company policy" tends to mean "I was an insufferable sanctimonious raging asshole to everyone involved, because of my unyielding certainty in my own righteousness, and then I was absolutely shocked to my core at my employer firing someone who burned more bridges than Scipio sacking Carthage".
Or does it matter that the petroleum came from the forests, the deserts and some underseas equivalents? Petroleum is a natural thing.

There are no doubt problems with the refined versions of petroleum but natural oils have issues too.

The right solution might still be to ban petroleum oils from this job. But it seems foolish to pretend they are any less natural than vegetable oils.
It’s all just strings. Make the right strings happen in the right place and the computer does things.
By “significant” I take you to mean, “causing enough harm to be noticeable.” I don’t know the answer to that.

Consider that chainsaws are only one of many polluting tools that people use in forests, e.g., snowmobiles, generators, of course cars. There are many non-petroleum pollutants as well, like lead ammunition and trash. I believe it’s a useful practice to reduce harm from each of these as much as possible. That reduction might come from banning them outright to small changes like using vegetable oil as chainsaw lube.

The opposite approach is requiring harm to be demonstrated by each of these small things in order to encourage or require change. This has gotten us roughly to where we are now, with much wilderness in the country despoiled by human practices.

All of us are better served by being conservative in this context: by intentionally doing the least harmful things possible, and looking for ways to improve.
I never used it myself, but I was told DEC had transplanted at least part of the clustering tech to Tru64.

Of course, that got cancelled after HP bought Compaq/DEC and did not want to support two Unix systems. IIRC, they promised to port the cluster stuff to HP-UX, but it looks like that never happened.
>You don't know that. Neither do I. That's the point. This was a 3-week long trial.

Yeah we know that. Presumption of innocence, it's called.

>That's the point. This was a 3-week long trial.

No, it wasn't. It was a 0-day-long-trial: "The shoplifting charge was dropped in March 2017 when the store’s asset protection specialist failed to show up to court." (quote).

>I agree this was a civil case, Ms. Nurse is not on trial for criminal activity

You seem to be missing the point that Ms. Nurse is not on trial for anything, and never has been.

In this case, Walmart is on trial for criminal activity.

>But private individuals and companies do not have the right to detain you, the fact that the jury did sided for Wal-Mart on that part of the suit suggests they may have had some cause to do so.

Well that's exactly victim-blaming: lack of a court decision on the side of the victim to insinuate that there was "some" victim's fault in it.

Since Ms. Nurse was the plaintiff, and we have this concept of presumption of innocence, all we know is that her team didn't present a compelling enough case to prove that she was falsely arrested.

Example: if she was "held" in a back room because a store rep told her "you have to stay here until the police arrives", closed the door, but didn't lock it - it's not false arrest, because technically she could have walked out. Proving false arrest is a pretty high bar.

Since Ms. Nurse is the plaintiff, the jury is obligated to side with Walmart by default, unless Ms. Nurse and her teams persuades them to take her side. You seem to be misled by the language of "jury sided with Walmart".

Let me make it better:

> on this charge, the jury didn't find the evidence presented by Ms. Nurse to be compelling enough to conclude that Walmart has committed a criminal act.

Do you have any further questions, or does the above makes things clear?
Yes, this.

Implementing centralized application rules on completely decentralized compute/networking foundations is now a thing.

Let's say you want to build something like Mars Coin. It's gotta work reliably at the scale of billions of nodes, separated by minutes of transit time, at billions of aggregate transactions per second, at a cost below micro-cents per transaction. Without the possibility of being shut down by a government-scale bad actor.

This is now becoming possible: https://perry.kundert.ca/range/finance/mars-coin/
My paper shredder's user manual recommends* periodically shredding a paper with oil drizzled on it for lubrication. It says vegetable oil is fine.

*At least, it did until I shredded it.
To be clear, I'm not accusing the poster of being a liar. But remember that companies are made of people, and it's not fair to accuse them of doing something nefarious, or perhaps even criminal, without at least a modicum of evidence. Social media is a powerful tool for generating both influence and motivation; we are not well-served by stirring up angry mobs over naked accusations, especially over something that might even be a misunderstanding.
>What would be its building blocks? IFPS, Activitypub, XMPP, Matrix? but more importantly what would be the governance and incentives that would prevent it from rapidly degenerating as with all other versions.

Everything you listed is Web3 in my opinion. I don't think the idea is to put everything on Ethereum. It's to provide niche but critical services like DNS, identity/auth, and some connecting governance logic to other federated/distributed systems.
Sebastian Lague has a bunch of videos on youtube about creating games and 3d worlds. I saw him described as the “Bob Ross” of programming and I agree wholeheartedly.

Creating Virtual Planets: https://youtu.be/lctXaT9pxA0

Creating Terrain: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFt_AvWsXl0eBW2EiBtl_sxmD...
Yes, one of my early jobs was writing Z80 code and I have the same sense.
Everyone uses DOIs for research papers, and https://doi.org/<DOI> will take you there. In fact, I think the URI form is now the preferred way of printing DOIs.
What is your definition of abandoned? Though no longer supported, I imagine that MS would still defend the copyright.
have you tried fullscreen mode? At least on vscode-server some shortcuts only work on that mode (probably using the browser Fullscreen API?)
If you look at history you'll find that animal and plant oils were used as lubricants for a long time, but were replaced by petroleum specifically because of those problems you noted.
Love the simplicity , I wonder what Hubris would look like on a multicore cpu
From the home page:

"MPC-HC is not under development since 2017. Please switch to something else."
That's just nonsense. How many people are in that situation? You can borrow money to bridge the three weeks, for example. And what happens to such people if they get fired, which presumably happens all the time?

I think you are talking about imaginary situations that don't actually reflect reality.

If people were able to find better jobs, that is exactly the solution I propose.
> Worker motivation to take advantage of new technology is extremely important

They're motivated by not being able to get a job if they don't know how to do the job. There's an equilibrium state where workers and employers are both investing some amount into training.
Being pedantic, any quantity >= 2000 would be "thousands", so...maybe?