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Our most important goal in writing software is that it be correct. The software must do what the programmer wants it to do. It must meet the needs of the user.

What the programmer wants the software to do and the needs of the user are not necessarily the same. In fact, depending on the organization, there may be a significant disconnect between the two. Being in a medical industry, I have to constantly deal with the difference between verification and validation. In other words, a piece of software functionality I implemented may do exactly what I want it to. It may fulfill all stated requirements. And yet it may still fail a round of validation because it does not result in a usable product.

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Scoff...As if they didn't have this for 10 years already.
> Intel Architecture - modern Intel and AMD processors

Note that 64-bit 'Intel Architecture' isn't AMD64, it's Itanium.

But these aren't assembly languages anyway - they're instruction set architectures. Assembly languages include AT&T and Intel.
As someone who actually speaks two languages - gave it a voice sample in Polish, then used it to synthesize the voice in English - sounds absolutely nothing like me. Meh.
If this thing ends up soaking up a wave that would have been reflected, and lots of devices start doing this, does that mean the router has to put out more power and the noise floor just keeps going up? I don’t know enough of the radio physics to know.
Adding to what the others have said, the real money in those is merchandising, which is protected more or less perpetually via trademark law. According to the books, Star Wars never made a dime, and those who were intendeding to be paid by film royalties (like the actor who played Darth Vader) never saw a dime.
Elizabeth Holmes Elizabeth Holmes: Guilty on 4 counts, not guilty on 4 counts
She had a great defense team. The fact it took the jury seven days to deliberate speaks to that.
> Laughs in bare metal.

But that's what they said. If you aren't using bare metal, then the only other interface you have directly above that is the kernel.
There will be no Go 2 with breaking changes, it is just a marketing term for go with generics. I'm not fully clued in on the technical challenges with generics, but frankly you don't seem to be either. I know that there has been much ink spilled on the go-nuts mailing list and the issue tracker, as well as 3+ prior attempts at implementing generics, so I don't think it's fair to dismiss the go team's concerns out of hand.

Also, even if you were right and the go team simply said one day "we wont add generics lol" that would still be a very shallow reason to dislike the language. After all, that is only one of many aspects of the language, with a specific set of tradeoffs. The rest of the language can hold great value even if it doesn't look like the Hacker News Approved Language.
Simply put the world is getting flatter - I think what was laid out in The World is Flat [0] 17 years ago by Tom Friedman is finally coming to fruition.

It's good for the world but not necessarily affected US workers. We might see legislation to try to protect the outflow jobs in the name of nationalism / protectionism in various forms but there's no reversing the trend.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Is_Flat
Youtube is uset generated content, can't compete with netflix. I used prime for a while and switched to netflix. I am joyfully overwhelmed by the volume and quality of content on netflix. I don't have to rent or buy anything, it is all just there to watch! If anything I resent Disney for not going all in on netlflix instead of doing Disney+. After a few weeks on prime I ran out of interesting content. With Netflix I am binging multi season shows and I still find new movies and seasons as they get released right after the previous one. And they actually ask for your up/down vote instead of relying in ML like with prime (which is terrible btw)
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> * Amazon is about to enter a decade of unionization all over the world.

World wide is probably too strong a claim, but I think here's something to this. However, I think this would work in Amazon's favor. It would make warehousing quite a bit more expensive and would be a significant barrier to competitors. AWS provides them with deep pockets, and the have a huge advantage in logistics so I think they could eat the cost and keep moving. It would also suck a lot of air out of the anti-amazon movement, such that it is. One day delivery with high labor standards might be the pitch that catapults them to real market dominance.
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I don't like to infer people's motives, but I suspect it is more exactly a self-aggrandizing "look at how smart I am because I am calling bullshit" reflex.

I have been guilty of this in the past, and try very hard not to do it now.
This headline absolutely needs an "in mice" added to it to be accurate.

Also, we don't use mouse models because they're great models. They're just cheap, reproducible, and relatively quick to scale. They seem to be poor models more often than they're not.

I agree that they're valuable, but there is also extreme over-reporting of results in mice, leading laypeople to make decisions in their lives based on those very early and/or extreme studies.
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If you got it from your doctor it's for humans. If you're eating out of a tube that say it's for horses with a picture of a horse on it then you're eating horse dewormer paste. If you don't want people saying you're eating horse dewormer go to your damn doctor.
>Because they were so much better than the old-fashioned publishers, search engines gobbled up the advertising money

No, what happened is that the publishing industry lost their monopoly. They could no longer extract monopoly rents from advertisers.

One problem with search engines is affiliate marketing. If Google de-indexed the junk affiliate sites, the web would be much less polluted with affiliate spam.
Thanks! For what it's worth, I'd say that full stack work is a specific niche in the field. It's a much different area of concern than the things I work on day to day.
I wonder what the market value would be if Saudi Aramco were public
They're still a lot better than cars. In trucks you usually need to pull the cab for convenience. In cars you often need to drop the engine in order to do the repair at all. Some things (like a rear valve cover on a transverse v6) often don't have clearance to come off.

Realistically it doesn't really matter because it's easier to optimize for not breaking shit or fixing it before is strands you.
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There's no shortage whatsoever of new books, music, etc.
... And a closer look at one of the Go bugs involved[1] also reveals the kernel build system will now also unconditionally disable the offending stack probing flag[2], as it leaked even into the kernel-space configuration where it would do more straightforward damage.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20427#issuecomment-36001...

[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
As I pointed out to paulg yesterday this was exactly the business model / concept that Blekko was created to address. The idea being that one could use "slashtags" to curate web sites that were "good" on a topic (not spammy) and pull results from that rather than the general web. Guess what? It works great! Also, it doesn't make enough money to support the company using advertising.

For a couple of years, Blekko ran a "3 card monte" game where we white listed the results from Google, Bing, and our own index. For every "contested" query, Blekko consistently beat the others by a significant margin. If the query wasn't contested, Bing and Google did about the same, and if the query was obscure, typically Google did better than Bing or Blekko.

What is a "contested" query? That is one where there is a lot of money on the line. My favorite one was "best credit card" (which is search engine shorthand for "What is the best credit card?" because the stop words "What", "is", and "the" are removed).

Why is it contested? Because if you put an advertisement into the results of that query, and the person making it clicked on that link and signed up for a credit card, you could be paid $50 or more. For a single click. Other queries that advertisers would pay well for getting the traffic of the user were, car dealerships, hotel chains, jewelry retailers, and university "referral" services (like the one that was busted for getting people into Ivy League schools by faking academic records).

Extremely few people click on an ad put onto a page of search results for the query "what is shoe rubber made of?"[1]. However it is required to serve queries like that so that people will come back when they are looking to spend money on something.

So using the same exact idea that Paul proposed Blekko built an English language index which allowed you to curate the crap out of your search results and return much better data. The "value" of that was not considered to be high enough to insist on people logging in to use the engine. Knowing an id for the person making the query allowed for user specific blacklists of spammers (so if for example you never wanted to see a Pinterest link in your results you could make that happen).

Without sufficient traffic, using the feedback loop "of these documents, which one was clicked as the 'best' answer?" type algorithms for ranking fail to converge rapidly enough for decent ranking.

Without a credible threat that if your site is not included in the index, your traffic will be greatly reduced, it is difficult to negotiate with web sites to permit crawling, rather than deny your crawls with the robots.txt file.

Blekko's best customers and most ardent fans? Reference Librarians. Yup, people who needed web search to do their jobs, not to find the movie times for the latest feature. Blekko never did try to create a subscription service, but I think such a service that is somewhere between free and the $$$ of LexisNexis has a shot, at least as a lifestyle business. You still need to get rights to the data and that gets harder and harder.

[1] Okay, bots do, but humans don't
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> Any time I state that cloth masks do not stop the virus from spreading, as in this Denmark study, Florida school comparison, and Vietnamese study, YouTube deletes the video

Worth pointing out that the Vietnamese study indicated that surgical masks were actually quite effective, and that the Denmark study didn't actually focus on cloth masks whatsoever.
A typical Mirai fuel consumption is 0.76kg/100km in similar driving conditions with a Tesla doing 15kWh/100km, so real world fuel density is 20kWh/kg - with a corresponding decrease in COPV density. You would then almost halve that density to take into consideration the whole electricity generating system, cell + cooling + the supercap or NiMH assembly that handle transients and regen braking etc.

So the density advantage of Hydrogen is limited, half to a third the battery mass with comparable volume. Not a game changer in 2010, and certainly not now, when everything else is against it.

The much improved and high performance fuel cells have been just around the corner for two decades. In the meantime, BEV sales have outstripped H2EVs one thousand to one, growing exponentially every year. How could anyone even consider buying a H2EV when the reliability of infrastructure is a joke even in the most mature US market [1]? Considering electric chargers are becoming ubiquitous and anyone can install one in their own home?

I think one needs to smell the roses, it's not a festive occasion for H2EVs.

[1] https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2021-toyota-mirai-long-te...
One system I know of had to have software to reduce torque at the end stops or it could destroy FETs and shut down. If this system needed such protection, we might wonder if its included when taking external torque commands. I would if I wrote the code, but you never know when operating outside their expected use cases.

It's also much more benign to destroy components than to have actual bugs. And he's not changing software at the source level.
So how are they keeping all the scientists involved in such a leak quiet? How many of these scientists are there?
I feel like you're giving the people aggressively generalizing results from studies like these too much of the benefit of the doubt. The mice in this study were fed a diet that was more than 2/3 sucrose, compared to an average of ~20% in human diets. The level of attention given to these studies does far more to lower the level of discourse than the people who point out how exaggerated the model used to reach the study's conclusion is.
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I suspect you have a bit of a straw man in mind. The opposition would likely say something like: "GoF is the best means at our disposal to fight diseases much worse than COVID".
It seems like what makes sense is protection for trademarks/brands/characters should be infinite, because it’s clear that there’s harm in just letting anybody make their own “Nike” shoes or make a really crappy movie starring “Mickey Mouse”.

But, you could still put actual works in the public domain after ~20 years. I think there’s a difference between being able to freely copy and use a video of “Steamboat Willie” and having full use to put Mickey on any shabby product anyone in the world wants to.
Elizabeth Holmes found guilty
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I don't know about that, I pay for mediocre content on Sling for a lot more than NF and NF had been doing a lot of content outside of the US (spain, turkey, korea, etc...) if anything I think a downturn will force people to just netflix+internet.
I agree with you that Go is a boring language. I think in Go's boredom is a path to creating better code than you are pushed towards in other languages, and I enjoy writing Go in my free time because I enjoy learning about API design through interacting with the STL, and because I produce programs in it that I understand much more deeply (and with relative ease) than when I try to use another language. However, Go is not a good language for experimenting with cutting edge language features.
I never said it was good or bad. It's interesting that you would assume that.
> According to the books

Don't assume that Hollywood accounting bears any resemblance to reality.
Not guilty on forging patient trial test results... Only on investor counts.
Teach them binary, Boolean logic, basic logic circuits.
Algorithms.
Batteries, electronics.
Bootstrap Silicon industry from first principals.
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As someone who wasn't totally sure about the lab leak hypothesis before, this is rather convincing. Especially for the path that omicron took.

I'm also surprised gain of function research has not been banned, the risk is far too high
>The mice in this study were fed a diet that was more than 2/3 sucrose, compared to an average of ~20% in human diets.

Honest question: do you know the reason why they do this?

It is not done by accident.
I have a fun one.

In 2015 I was laid off from a startup that unfortunately shut down.

During my search I was intro'ed by their VC to the CTO. The CTO told me they were hiring for my exact, kind of niche role. I was pretty pumped as I hadn't really lost a job before and wanted to get something new quickly.

I met the CTO at a coffee shop, he kept asking me a bunch of questions that were clearly more being asked with the intention of picking my brain about a project versus interview questions. I asked him what was up and he said they hired someone for the role the week before, but that he wanted to pick my brain so he kept our time on calendar.

I had taken BART into the city, pushed back a different interview and taken time out of my day so a CTO with a ton of funding could exploit my labor for zero compensation.

I said something along the lines of, "um, okay I need to focus on my job search, good luck." and got up to leave. He then kind of did this act as if I was being kind of a dick for not helping him.

Luckily a Director of Engineering I'd worked with at a past company was sitting two tables away and I said hi and he said he had overheard what happened and I ended up interviewing at his company.

Still, to this day, seeing all of those "Flexport is hiring!" posts has always made me wonder how much of their interview process is just wasting the time of potential employees. They seem like they have a fairly noble mission, which is why I interviewed in the first place. But man, that whole situation still feels really gross to me.
Sugar. Is. Poison.

The more and more we learn about it, the more and more disturbing it is how aggressively we were in denial during the war on fat.

And we’ve done a complete 180 on health and wellness. Eggs are good now. Eat all you can.

Unfortunately, we didn’t change until we poisoned 75% of the adult population.

Get subsidies out of the food supply. Unless it’s broccoli. Then, that’s probably ok
> E.g. imagine setting up an ISP level enforced latency for social media. Would that work?

It depends on what you mean. Do you mean some sort of mechanism on the ISP's account page that lets you delay certain sites? IMO that sort of functionality would be better self-hosted, though I'm not sure of any open-source projects offering such functionality at this time.

If you are proposing a mechanism where the user does not have control, no it would not. The whole point of net neutrality is to not slow down certain sites. Even though Ajit Paid fucked that up, I imagine people would not be very happy if an ISP slowed down certain popular websites. I imagine said popular websites would be used to speak out against this too, paradoxically.
Companies outside the US which employ US residents are subject to US labor laws (if they never employ any US resident, then of course it is not relevant).

The question you are asking is substantially equivalent to asking why an Estonian company must pay US payroll taxes and how such laws could be enforced.
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The only other submissions I see are links to Twitter. Did I miss it?
Wow, I am saddened that I've only now found this post, I wish I had seen it sooner! This article perfectly describes my motivations for building [1] - exactly what is described here, although as a smaller toy example

[1] https://toldby.ai

I launched this weekend project in August, but it looks like Gwern's post preceded it in June.

There's unfortunately a delicate balance between caching, ranking, and novelty. Caching absolutely helps keeps costs low - no need to regenerate new text for every user. Ranking also helps bring the popular branches to the top. But with naive ranking, the site quickly becomes stale and the same branches always show up. My girlfriend complained that she's bored of the same branches that always appear on the home-page. There needs to be some sort of novelty factor to keep the site fresh. But implementing this would increase costs!

Something like per-user ranking is needed to avoid showing the same branches to the same users over and over, but this is currently beyond my level of time commitment :)
When people start getting 2/3rd of their calories from sucrose..
Because it allows others to build on it without limit.
Very cool project but just a little nitpick; maybe use a picture of a real Coqui frog frog on your site?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coqu%C3%AD
2.3x is a base 2 order of magnitude, so you were technically correct.
The overheating stories always start with "in the desert" because people who live where you run coolant that doesn't freeze don't tend to run cooling systems that leak out something that costs $5-$10/gal.
A cover up isn't very hard to execute if the involved parties all have aligned incentives - in this case, not ruining their careers, possibly destroying their entire professional field, and publicly accepting culpability for millions of deaths and other damages.
It was all on purpose: sugar and corn syrup are cheap.
I don't support extensions to copyright and am open to supporting cutbacks to terms. The problem I have is with the logic that gets tossed around in these threads, like the idea that there's no point to maintaining copyright after the death of an author (as if the author was the one extracting value from the work in the first place, or that extraction had nothing to do with the compensation the author received), or that copyright is only meaningful to a few breakout hits (as if those hits and the hunt for more of them didn't subsidize all the rest of the authors).

There's a real Chesterton's Fence thing happening in these discussions.
Some places will sell you the live cow and then trailer it to the butcher for you, as a way around this.