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> He is talking about the ought

I think he's wrong, both about the "is" and about the "ought".

The reason I posted originally, way upthread, was to respond to OP's claim of "Smalltalk's rejection of the file-system and command-line". I don't believe it rejected either thing. It has an internal file system, as discussed, but it also had and has perfectly reasonable support for reading and writing external, traditional files. And it has various kinds of command-line, as discussed.

I don't think it was anything about Smalltalk's ability to handle JPEGs or email or NFS or even text files that was the problem. I don't believe that appeasing the Unix world is (or would have been) either necessary or sufficient for Smalltalk success. I think the success of Unix is path-dependent; a historical accident. It had momentum and Smalltalk didn't. It blows my mind that people still think Unixisms are somehow some kind of universal apex of computing [†]! I suppose there are, at some level, reasons for Smalltalk's relative lack of success; and while I don't know what they are, I don't think OP gives a good one.

> [Interacting via networks] turns out to be significantly more difficult than various languages interacting on the same box.

I... don't believe this to be the case. At all. In theory or practice. It has certainly not been my experience.

> Objective-S supports [a bunch of Unix stuff]

Sure, OK. So do a million other languages.

What is, to my mind, special about Smalltalk is exactly that it takes the identity between programming language runtime and operating system seriously, and tries to flip the script: what if, instead of dumbing down our languages to fit our operating systems, we raised our ambitions about what an operating system could be, to fit our languages?

Smalltalk as it stands is a poor operating system, of course. You're right that it doesn't come close to covering "the functions OSes are expected to fulfil these days". It is basically a time capsule of 1978. Semi-cooperative scheduling, Monitors and Semaphores for mutexing, flat file system, insufficient internal isolation/namespacing, poorly integrated networking. If even a small fraction of the energy put into making Unix cover those functions had been put into Smalltalk... well. We'll never know unless someone puts in the time.

--

[†] "... an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think [Unix is] a pretty neat idea"
I thought they started publishing new papers again?
I think by "did this well" the parent comment is saying "mixed episodic and arc content well".
In some countries you have to pay for the road maintenance and development along your plots.

That can lead to other absurdities, that a field owner along an agricultural road has suddenly to pay for make over and street lights that add zero value to their field.

A solution could be a more federal approach. Residents of the neighborhood have to decide how their taxes are used for maintenance. And they would directly feel the lack of taxes for maintenance.
Per Cloudflare themselves c. 2016, Oceania is expensive because of Telstra's monopoly: https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world...
Joe Rogan has steered from doing light-hearted interviews to notable individuals to offering pre-chewed, easy-to-digest, sometimes-factual, no-opposing-view interviews on complex and controversial issues.

Somehow Malone didn't have time to put on a paper the claims that got him banned from Twitter. That should be enough food for thought about such claims.

> they did not cite/refute any specific misinformation.

It's an open letter, not a rebuttal. Google Malone fact check for rebuttals, focus only on those by other experts if you want. I just gave above one piece of misinformation that literally kills children, it's easy to verify.
Houses need roads and plumbing and a fire dept and electrical and all kinds of stuff, dog catchers and such.

These things aren't a buy once product, they require maintenance fees.

Civilization costs money, and its worth it.
I wonder if they’d get better replies if it didn’t seem like an effort to silo feedback into a tool they control so they can ignore it and keep negative feedback that gains traction out of the spotlight.

Based on my experience I call it the “Fuck-Off Hub” because that’s where they send you so you can feel like you’re submitting feedback, but they really just want you to fuck off and stop bugging them. It’s like whispering into the Grand Canyon. No one that matters is ever going to hear your feedback, so why bother?
Living a life where you are always able to work on "the right thing" is a mostly unattainable privilege. Sometimes, stuff just needs to be done.
Time to break out the MTG cards and the linken park on the iPod 1st gen while I'm at it.
Ironically I think you are probably safe with a down vote button! Personally I have only ever down voted thuggish comments. I can't understand why others think it is a productive way to disagree.

Ideally down voting should adversely effect the voter too.
Awesome, thank you for the thorough explanation!
Isn’t it more that low quality comments are downvoted?

If it was used to silence people then sure, but I’m not sure that’s happening. I read many different opinions, and often have seen quite interesting discussions take place. Idk if that could happen if people are silenced for their opinion regularly.

As to the quality of the comment; it is indeed a social credit system, I think the fact that it’s called karma also points toward that. You need some moderation to have good discussions.

Either way, that you got the magical downvote power suggests you are doing pretty well, congrats on 500!
Its not even about being a European. Its about the notion to become successful and start a company you need to go and raise VC.

Its a story that was sold to the world so that the dealflow is generated. Go change the world they say, go and chase your dreams of a better world... Honestly that got me into severe depression. I am not bitter, just stating the obvious that we have been sold a narrative via hustle porn media and that narrative served well.

Now time for a wake up call, all us 300k wantepreneurs cannot generate unicorns and produce a successful exit. That is just statistically impossible.

https://twitter.com/sokirill/status/1314138323951050753
> My mom didn't open these doors. I did.

I'm pretty sure that your success story will be missing some facts too if you write it. Perhaps just because you don't consider them important.

My one significant career enhancing event happened because I knew the right person. Not a parent, just another programmer friend who brought me into a job, but still.
I love that you synthesized that comment on the fly then actually took the time write and share it.

In the back of my mind I have a maybe-never project brewing that would entail finding Wikipedia pages that only exist in one language. English would of course have many unique pages. I wonder how many non-English page translations would be rejected on notability grounds, just due to sheer cultural differences.
Local development is not the right choice for the cloud-based serverless world
> But things like an EVM can be used as a template to build underlying blockchains to provide a common datastore and execution layer for multiple systems to work together.

Substitute EVM for JVM and you end up with a similar statement that looks just as correct, but it's still not clear what the EVM brings that the JVM doesn't.

> it would be harder in this case for corruption to take place in the PCR testing regime since all transactions are immutable

In your system, the blockchain would replace the database, not everything around it. That's also something I keep seeing in these discussions: blockchain provides some guarantees, so you assume the system you'll build on top of it will inherit from these guarantees, without questioning the composability further. But the interfaces of the blockchain component of these systems you're trying to conceive are precisely where the guarantees break down.

To take your example, you'd basically replace a database (and just a database) with a smart contract, which would ensure immutability and transparency. But:

1. you don't need a blockchain to get these guarantees (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency)[0]

2. using blockchains still imply that you're trusting the people holding the keys and interacting with the smart contract, so you haven't changed your trust model (the interface problem I mentioned above).

> the immutable nature of contracts would allow audited contracts to remain secure

The immutable nature of contracts is also what makes them unfit for evolving systems that have to be regularly updated to address new requirements.

[0]: to be clear, I'm talking about permissionless blockchains such as Ethereum
What a great deep dive into a fascinating subject I have never seen the actual math on.

> This section of road is approximately 584 feet long and is going to cost around $350,000

This is the cornerstone of the article he uses for all other calculations. Is this number reasonable? It seems ridiculously expensive but maybe that is just how things are.
I think Microsoft's preferred window navigation method is the Windows+tab combo, and from there you just click on the app/document you want.

That said, it's had that sort of functionality forever, and I personally still never use it.
The bike analogy breaks down when a random person comes and surreptitiously takes the bike away from you while you and the seller are arguing. The taker makes no claim of ownership, they just take the bike and use it, as it is in a good enough condition for them.

Who then has the motivation to stop the ostensible theft: you or the seller? The seller doesn't care, but you do. Without possession of the bike you cannot hope to return it in exchange for the money.

By contrast, say that a third party somehow manages to make use of Bir Tawil, without having any effect on the surrounding land, without posing as a security threat, and without making any actual claim. Which country is most motivated to intervene in principle: Sudan or Egypt?
You really don't want to over-pressure your lungs with 1 PSI, that's huge for tissue. For a regular party balloon that you blow up the pressure is less than 0.5 psi. But a flow meter in a sports measurement device should be a fraction of that, after all, the back pressure is going to take away effort that should go into providing work.
I was single-digit years old in the 90s and I live in Russia.
No? Again, I'm non-US.
I don't think you can get most people to be literate in programming.

"programming" is to "business logic" like "spelling" is to "writing novels".

You don't get to be a Dostoevsky by being very good at spelling. Being able to tell good stories is much more important than spelling.

You don't get everyone to be a good author by providing them with a tape recorder so they don't have to spell.

Programmers are very good at thinking in logic. Programmming languages are just a detail in this.

Programming is the ability to formulate what the rules should be exactly.

Most (business) people are not able to be that precise no matter the tools you provide them.
This is basically what Strong Towns harps on: the infrastructure for super low density development is extremely costly relative to how much 'stuff' you're building the infrastructure for.

Initially it's not so bad, because it takes decades before you need to do replacement-level repairs/maintenance, but eventually it catches up with you. Some cities escape it (at least for a while) by building even more or by simply having a fantastic economy, but the ones that don't...it's not pretty.
I think it is common (if not a requirement in some jurisdictions) for phones to be able to make emergency calls even if they don't have a SIM card, or don't have credit. In fact, apparently making an emergency call but hanging up before it is connected is a recommended step in some iPhone tech support guides:

https://www.ukeysoft.com/unlock/bypass-iphone-activation-wit...
I think the last interesting game in the genre is Morrowind. It has quite serious faults, mind you, and the AI isn't going to impress very much.

But that's the game for interesting lore and world style. Skyrim is mostly a medieval world all over. Morrowind has places like:

Balmora, which looks more or less normal, but is already definitely something else, what with the giant insects used for transport: https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/es/wiki/Balmora?file=Balmora...

Vivec, made of huge, identical buildings: https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/es/wiki/Vivec_(ciudad)_(Morr...

Sadrith Mora, where wizards grow giant mushrooms to live in: https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/es/wiki/Distrito_Telvanni?fi...

Morrowind is the last game that gives the clear feeling of that it's happening in its own universe with its own weird culture.

And the main plot, which starts quite standard but by the end you're not sure if you're being fooled or not.

It's best played under OpenMW, and maybe a few mods to fix some of the rough edges.
I regularly frequent https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/ (I'm a grease monkey at heart before I switched to SWE), cars coming out without oil, break fluid, breaks or similar are not uncommon. HOWEVER, as others have commented. The one part that concerns is the lack of accountability shown by Tesla here.
Kosovo pulls plug on energy-guzzling Bitcoin miners
They could use the heuristics to build a list of domains to block and then have someone review it. After doing it for a long time, they could build a neural model on top of that, and automate it.

As I have said, the reason they don't do it is not because they don't have the skills and know-how.
My productivity drops drastically if I don't get enough sleep.
There's a tweet thread on someone's journey with this that you might dig. Your comment reminded me of it:

"REALITY DISTORTION FIELDS & the HUMILITY OF ACCEPTING YOU'RE BEING INFLUENCED"
https://twitter.com/CurziRose/status/1477788648812662784
No, there age big exceptions. In Germany there are law firms with hundreds of employees doing nothing else all day.
I read that after the rewatch. It's a half-episode at best that quickly shoehorns a large conclusion onto it. Ever since that cominc, I've been looking for fanfictions instead....
Also I (obviously) typo'd the percentages; should've been 30%, 10%, 1%, 0%.
Ironically, I think following OP's prescription would yield a Smalltalk trying to be a Smalltalk without actually delivering the full experience of what it meant to use one! A kind of pyrrhic victory.
DRM restricts more than copyrights.

In many legal systems you have a definition of fair use that allows you to do more with the content that you purchased than what producers would like.

For example - you are free to share it with family and close friends, play on as many devices and on whatever software you wish, and share wildly short clips. DRM prevents all that.
The city tax isn't the only tax, they also pay county (and other?) taxes raising the total well beyond 0.5%?
Seconded, check for a better cable.
Interesting, our council tax here in Fife in Scotland is about 1% of our house valuation and that includes water supply and waste water.
But why take it out of property tax?
exactly; why not look forwards to new industries in 2100s like that of designer drugs and dance-theatres exploring the discourse of higher dimensional manifolds and the holistic feeling that is existence itself

It is for these that I'm giving up alchol for other things [1]

[1]: https://idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client...
Nix-casync, a more efficient way to store and substitute Nix store paths
I’m sad that a high end pc in 2022 is made from 2018 parts (gpu)
The logical explanation is:

-There are no MS Employees there (but professional Call/Text Centers)

-MS gives a *it about your opinion (as every big IT Company)

-But MS wants you to feel that your part of the family (inclusive developers developers!!)
The only reason people are uncomfortable sharing their salaries is because : A. wages in america are pathetic and their ashamed. B. Because it's been told to them that this is 'proper' and 'ethical', that to 'share' this information is a corporate 'sin' and just really poor manners.

People who work in most professions do as they're told. They've been told to do this since they were in school, which was actually setup the way they are to funnel kids into factory jobs where they will -you guessed it - do as they're told.

Total openness about wages is one big step towards conquering income inequality. You can see it play out in the news lately w/ the strikes, the rise of /r/antiwork, the growth of unions, etc...
That would create a huge explainability problem.
Here's how to fix it in Gnome :)

Settings -> Keyboard -> View and Customize Shortcuts -> Switch windows -> Alt + Tab
Yeah, income tax is the real evil.

I live in Scandinavia, and the high income tax (and no property or inheritance tax) keeps the class system intact for generations. You can't work your way up when the government is taking almost 60% of your income.

That said, I'd still prioritise abolishing sales tax on groceries and electricity here. Both are incredibly expensive and make life a struggle for a lot of working people.
Eh, that's an extreme position. Mostly we say that property taxes should be around half the land rent value, i.e. around half the value the property generates without taking into account what's built on it.

This has the rather obvious difficulty of having to estimate the yearly value generated by the land itself, which is a topic too large for me (but solvable), while having a large number of advantages. It aligns incentives very very well, and that's hella important. If a municipality develops an area with proper regulation, infrastructure and various services, the land value grows which gives them extra income. It has a much more direct invest->income dynamic.

It also incentivizes owners to be a lot more aligned to the interests of the community around them. You want to have a home with a large yard in the middle of the city, instead of developing it more in line with the location? You can, but you'll pay for it.

It also forces owners to align to the community around them continuously. If currently you own a piece of land which is way underdeveloped, the only moment when anybody even cares about this is when it's being sold. As opposed to having to adjust each year to current land value and land taxes - you're not forced to do something about it, but it's surely on your mind a lot more when you see taxes grow.

Ah, and it fixes NIMBY, and dramatically lowers rent. Apartment buildings are very efficient, so they'll be favored exactly where they make sense - in crowded, high-value land areas.
This article claims costs of $2-3m for a mile of two-lane road in a rural area. 584 feet is a bit over a tenth of a mile, so that cost would make sense for building a new road. Not sure whether the cost to major repairs or replacements would be higher or lower. Also gotta factor in that this article is from 2016 and right now costs for building anything seem substantially up.

https://blog.midwestind.com/cost-of-building-road/
Though that's certainly a possibility, it means a bunch of kids coordinated across the country to fly some drones over nuclear facilities.

Forsmark and Oskarshamn are about 480 kilometres (300 miles) away from each other, both on the east coast. Ringhals is on the west coast, about 340km from Oskarshamn and 620km from Forsmark.
How to make users of your cryptographic library successful
I can't remember the title or the author, but I remember reading a story based on a similar premise years ago - the first interstellar ship goes out from Earth to a nearby star, only to barely escape as it goes nova shortly after they arrive. They first think it's just a coincidence, but later suspect that their ship's drive might have been the cause. On their way back home they make up a desperate plan to drop out of FTL drive way out of the solar system to make sure Earth's sun would be safe. This would stretch their supplies, etc. because the flight will now take years instead of months. While traveling they realize that turning on the drive might have had the same effect as turning it off. They stop at the right distance from Earth to catch the light from the time of their departure and observe as the sun goes nova.
I don’t think it’s just a question of money, as far as Europe goes it’s still also very much a question of the legal and cultural “frameworks” that inhibit SV style ecosystems from forming.

The availability of cash is a factor for sure but it’s not necessary the main cause. And you can see this with some of the less developed European countries where the lack of incumbent large employers, large unions and as well as a weaker social security net do often lead to them being more entrepreneurial than some others.

And it’s also very important to distinguish between “tech” and startups.

Ireland been very successful at attracting large tech companies but it’s startup scene is still pretty poor. Whilst Eastern European and Baltic states are somewhat opposite.

On the other hand you have countries like Israel that managed to attract both whilst being pretty much at risk of war since it’s inception.

It’s also important to note that there are many paths to success, Europe found a path even if it doesn’t include startups at the same level as the US or other countries. And while it’s also clear that in some cases it does hurt them in the long term as evident by the current dominance of US tech giants it doesn’t mean that the only way out of that is to adopt the SV model.
The 'Playground' link in the nav is broken, otherwise neat-o!
I don't see why Salmon is a crazy idea - they should be selling other seafood as well - it seems like a quite normal business.
> I'm a party to several

How did that happen, how did you meet them?
Unless you start hitting on the CPU and their laptop-style turbine gets fairly annoying.
Interesting. Sounds like Gmail’s labels vs everyone else’s folders. I wonder if it is a patent holding things back.
To not participate if you don't like HN.

This is the best self moderated community I know of. You misunderstand that there are many varied opinions with down voting power, not a on reminded conformist group.

Shallow, smug, or other comments which do not add value to the conversation is discouraged. That's for Reddit and Twitter, although I wish that those platforms would improve discourse.

If.you can't find the words, maybe don't use any?