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People at the time disagreed with your assessment.

> September 29, 1961 / 20-Year-Old Singer Is Bright New Face at Gerde’s Club / By ROBERT SHELTON / https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/04/r...

> Resembling a cross between a choir boy and a beatnik, Mr. Dylan has a cherubic look and a mop of tousled hair he partly covers with a Huck Finn black corduroy cap. His clothes may need a bit of tailoring, but when he works his guitar, harmonica or piano and composes new songs faster than he can remember them, there is no doubt that he is bursting at the seams with talent.

To be absolutely clear, more people preferred Dylan's songs as a cover because, from that same 1961 review, "Mr. Dylan’s voice is anything but pretty. He is consciously trying to recapture the rude beauty of a Southern field hand musing in melody on his porch. All the “husk and bark” are left on his notes and a searing intensity pervades his songs." Or from his Wikipedia entry: 'Many early songs reached the public through more palatable versions by other performers, such as Joan Baez'

That you don't recognize it as talent seems therefore more a matter of personal taste. That same review ends with "But if not for every taste, his music-making has the mark of originality and inspiration, all the more noteworthy for his youth."

Your reference is to a 2016 recording of 'All Along the Watchtower'?? Surely you should juxtapose Dylan's performance with that of Hendrix, recorded only 6 months later than Dylan's.

But even then, when I think of "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", I think of Dylan, not The Byrds or another cover.

In any case, the comparison seems rather pointless. I like Disturbed's cover of "The Sound of Silence" better than the original. That doesn't mean Simon and Garfunkel didn't have a shred of musical talent.
A Gemini client might benefit:

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
George Soros is a conspiracy theory? No, he's a real guy who has spent many millions to influence politics. How does somebody put together something so stupid as that chart? It's really impressive.
> I am not opposed to this when possible, but I'm suspicious of the implication that Australia either has (1) convenient, frequent bus service in all suburbs or (2) no suburbs.

From what I observed in Queensland... a mix of both, actually. There are suburbs, but the distance from CBD to bush is much shorter than the corresponding distance in the USA. At the same time, there is an extensive public transit network that competing private carriers participate in. The government sets routes and establishes the payment system, the carriers drive the routes and and keep prices reasonable and the service good. I was quite pleasantly surprised by Queensland's bus network.
Ok, thanks for your feedback
Or that there's no point saying it because addressing it would require unpopular trade-offs. Like extending the welfare state or tightening gun control. Not even worth debating. Nobody likes to be told that they can't both have their cake and eat it too.
In the meantime,

https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3
If wifi networks are not secure enough, why will adding in a new layer of complex radio networking make things better? It's unlikely that your wifi networks weakest link is the encryption algorithm
Interesting. Spanish on the other hand is very flexible with ommiting the subject.

So "I am happy" would become "(Yo) estoy feliz" or (I) am happy.
You seem like an intelligent, experienced person who might be out of step with the culture in many companies as it has changed over the past five, and, especially, the last two years. I would be very careful about bringing this issue to your local HR.
I comment on some blogs where I just need to enter an username, optionally my mail address and no account creation required at all.

I don’t know how those blogs manage spam but there is just none. So it’s totally doable.

An option I see is to just store a random token in a cookie and require pre-publish moderation for the first n posts from this token.

Your regular commenters are probably just using the same 1 or 2 devices to read your blog.
To me it’s about giving advice and sharing experience. A senior engineer or tech lead might have a problem and I give more context, and talk about similar situations I’ve seen in the past or put them in contact with another team, but they make the call since it’s their team and their responsibility. Might be seen as “punting”, or as trust and empowering.
Females prefer FEMALE friends with those traits.
For a bigger code base projects fixed typing contributes to speed of development. Add to it dependency management you will have clear win-win for something like Java over Python.
Thanks so much! I will definitely do that! I have a couple of ideas that would really speed some things up when it comes to case design.
I mean, most MCUs are already 15+ years behind the state of the art process node and are still supply constrained. The issue, I think, is that once these market conditions are resolved, any new fabs will have ~zero value, and there is a non-zero chance that your shiny new-old fab comes online after the shortage is over. Not an easy sell to shareholders I suspect.
I’m a 42 year old male and have found it very hard, my whole life, to establish meaningful friendships with other men.

I have many acquaintances, I’m not shy or socially awkward. E.g. When I was running a business I would often go to business networking events alone, start conversations with people, establish a rapport and spend hours chatting, but all those interactions have essentially left me with one good friend.

I’ve often found it easier to establish friendships with women, but (being straight) they get complicated. Either I develop feelings, or they do, or there’s a suspicion from someone’s parter about the real nature of our relationship. It’s just too problematic.

I think the female “model” of friendships outlined in the abstract just makes more sense to me. “emotional support, intimacy, and useful social information” is what I want from a friendship.

I suspect there are other men in this position and that the dominant male “model” of friendship that we have (and which is outlined in this article) is more cultural than biological. But I have no proof. What do you think?
Exactly. I'm less charitable because of Foxconn and how that story developed. Big companies promises tons of money and small/mid sized economies will give them huge tax cuts in exchange. In reality they build a much smaller plant and still take the tax cuts.
I wrote a solver a few weeks ago that solves easy mode in 3.45 guesses and hard mode in 3.55 guesses. Rather than using heuristics, it explored a large portion of the game tree (with a little pruning) and I'm hopeful that it's optimal. Interestingly, the EV-optimal hard mode strategy takes 3.52 guesses on average, but requires 7 guesses a tiny fraction of the time, so I instead exposed the best strategy that always requires 6 or fewer guesses.

If you're interested, you can play with it here: http://www.npinsker.me/puzzles/wordle/ and the source (written in neophyte's Rust) is here: https://gist.github.com/npinsker/a495784b9c6eacfe481d8e38963...

(edit: It's posted elsewhere in the thread, but this is actually not optimal and someone else achieved better results! http://sonorouschocolate.com/notes/index.php?title=The_best_...)
It's a big government with lots of people, we can do both at once.
Damn. I am generally not a fan of command line applications, but these libraries look amazing. I'm definitely going to be checking out Bubble Tea.

And the design of everything is really great. It's unique but not outlandish. Just clean, simple, and cute. Really impressive stuff here.
Well if you choose passion over money, it's not really luck anymore when someone has more money than you. An engineering undergrad can probably earn more in a summer internship than your stipend pays in a year.
Academic language for "information leading to access to mates".

Which is what most gossip is at root. It has always been useful in that sense. It lets you know, at root, who to stay away from, and who might be good to take a closer look at.
I agree that they are novel and interesting to learn, but practically speaking, the person's point, is they are over hyped, and honestly since most use cases popping up aren't decentralized or are decentralized, but being regulated by a centralized party, like a government, it seems that they are the most inefficient way to run a distributed system.
less reliable than more modern western designs but faster and easier to repair by far

This sounds similar to the contrast between older and newer cars too; the older ones were designed to last with periodic scheduled maintenance, whereas newer ones are designed to have no maintenance for their "design life", after which it's difficult to repair.
I've been using Charm tools and libraries for a while now, truly some of the coolest stuff I've ever experienced on the command line.
ZZ's whole goal is to transpile to C, which (as their website mentions) has some practical advantages. Consider exotic hardware platforms where there's a vendor-provided proprietary C compiler and no other choice.

Dafny has a slightly different emphasis, as it's about formal verification, so it's more competing with Ada SPARK than with mainstream languages.

I can't comment on the general ergonomics on ZZ and Dafny as I've not tried them out, but presumably they're going to be well behind a language like Java with its huge ecosystem of IDEs etc. Neither seems particularly mature, either, so I wouldn't bet the farm on them.

> Is it better to write ZZ or Dafny code than to write Java, Python, Haskell, Rust, or Swift code?

If you've got the choice and you're just trying to do 'normal day job programming' I imagine that yes you'd be much better off just using Java. If you want a language that's quite like C or C++ but much better regarding safety, there are Rust, Zig, and the too-often-overlooked Ada language.
This is really interesting, well done :)

As it stands, it seems like your algo will always use the same first guess, have you thought about making that configurable and seeing what happens with e.g. the number of words where it gets stuck and runs out of time?
Not at all. Pretending that a new technology is somehow exposed to new problems not present in old technology is disingenuous and frames the overall problem narrowly. Take an example from the author: “anyone can airdrop nfts to someone and it will show up in their wallet for them to see before they know what it is.” And? This is no different from getting emailed a similar picture, it’s not hard to track where it came from if investigators are so inclined, unless privacy measures also available in web2 are used.

The place this ends is not about crypto currency, if you really want to stop all “harm” on the internet you end up in a society where encryption is demonized. I wonder what abuse and harassment will be irrestistable to corporations and governments who completely deny you privacy or digital autonomy. And we are worried about problems that already exist with or without crypto? Give me a break.
Maybe I'm the odd one out, but I'm a male, and my male friendships are closer to the female ones. Me and my best friend are very close.
I lived in a bad area of town growing up. Lots of shootings outside. In fact the very first week we moved into that house there was a MAJOR shoot out. My entire family lying flat on the living room floor - face kissing the ground. Someone asked if they should call the cops or not. "Shhhhh, be quiet don't move" We laid on the floor like that for a long time. Kids all outside later watching the cops pick up bullet casings...

Fast-forward 15 years - bringing my wife over to the same family house. Me, "uh-oh, they're shooting again, get on the floor". My wife looking around, everyone on the floor "Oh, you're not joking?!"

It's not a new problem and it's not a good way to live.
When your kids go to their school, do you expect the teacher and classmates to be there too?

It runs through all aspects of society.
Without weighing in on this particular example, Google does need to figure out how to inject some humane treatment into their cesspit of automated processes and fix their "scale without empathy" business model.
The problem with "phrase-oriented programming" is that it's entirely subjective.

I worked in a large Ruby shop where the devs spent more time worrying about subjective Ruby idioms than whether the software worked or not. Rubyists never took this aspect as seriously as they should have. This doesn't surprise me, because even if we charitably consider the primary goal of "developer happiness" as not narcissistic, the focus of Ruby still is the programmer, not the user or the concrete artifacts of the software. (I might add, this is what you get when you really believe that software is primarily meant to be read by a developer, and only secondly to be run.)

Ruby's core value was it looked pretty when you put it on a slide at a Meetup group. It created a space for a particular type of software developer very concerned with their identity as such. Many of the ancillary problems with the Ruby community—excess drama, lack of respect for backwards compatibility, need for novelty—stem from this identitarian mindset.
>A lot more of the female friends I made earlier in my life remained as friends than male friends I made.

Most of the people I bet I could rely on happen to be women (met in writing/graphic design groups at university), but I wonder if these will last as I get older and people get into relationships.

It's less easy to hang out with a woman one-on-one without it seeming like a date (for a man who is heterosexual). It can also cause jealousy on either side to stay close after pairing up with a romantic partner.

I suppose it depends on how one defines a "friend" based on closeness. It's likely I'll keep in touch and maintain a friendly relationship with these people as we all grow older (as acquaintance-friends), though I doubt I'll ever reach the level of "close friends," for any woman besides a romantic partner.
Actually my experience from 20+ years of software engineering is that 99.99% of it is about correctness and only 0.01% is about performance. I added one order of magnitude to be on the safe side. Any non-toy video encoder takes advantage of hardware specific features so if you can't write it in Python you can't write it in Rust or C either.
I am the demographic in that I love using the command line and want to see it get modernized.

I thought the design was terrible. Noisy and pointless and frankly hard to see what is on offer.

It’s pretty and stylish but absolutely awful if you care about the content, and that makes me worry that the components themselves will be similar.
Having any belief at all, none, one, many, infinite, all falls into the same category. We don't know.

To me it seems like the additional universes in this context serve a purpose similar to (my understanding of) additional dimensions in math/physics. It allows you to navigate around singularities.
Hahaha... Oh boy.
Doesn’t this apply to most startups though? The core technical problems aren’t “hard” it’s that the industry involve can’t adapt due to inertia of entrenched companies.
> You know, your typical “software engineering” work.

“Typical” work, done well and on time with good production reliability, is often hard to get.

Perhaps it’s a sign of your seniority that you think that’s all typical. I’ve seen people release buggy code with no tests, metrics, or monitoring and think they were finished with it. That gets fixed when the more senior engineers step in and demand higher standards.

It’s sad that the baseline for quality in the software industry is so low, but that’s how it is.
While infringing on the other residents’ rights to peacefully enjoying their home. For 10 years.
Cities that would get snow locked often tend to operate a snow plow fleet.
Friends zone otherwise known as "she does not want to date me, but is polite to me, what a bi...
It's pretty straightforward, especially for the first 4 major levels:

- salary bands (+ stock awards & bonus. i.e "TC" bands)

- average seniority

- title change ( I (entry level) -> II -> Senior -> Principal -> ...)

- internal ladder descriptions (someone who worked at at least 2 FAANG companies can trivially figure out what maps to what, the titles & on-paper responsibilities are pretty standardized across most FAANG)
A lot of buses, both school and commercial, come with extra equipment to help people board. If this thing is to be outfitted as a school bus, presumably it would have extra steps or a ramp or something as an add-on.
Can't John Deere just have customers sign away their right to sue or be party to a class action? They could make that a requirement for new customers or customers seeking repairs.
Using essentially this method I get that the best initial guess is RAISE (there are some others that are very close). It seems the author of this post didn’t use the actual word list from the game so got a different word.
> Where do you think this obsession comes from?

I responded to another comment but I feel it would be relevant here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30050462
That's exactly my point. For the average person, it's not a net win to have that gun around. The chance you'll be the victim of a random occupied home invasion is VERY VERY small.
You know that feeling when you see comment threads online and you are just like... _it's not worth it_. I think many of the good/honest/intellectually curious people inside crypto are ghosting through HN these days with that feeling. So it's mostly become void of any interesting discussions on the topic.

If you are genuinely interested, let's narrow it down. Which of his claims are the strongest/most distressing to you? Maybe some of those folks will stop ghosting and get into real conversation.
They didn't need an intelligence program. Most people here just say "but what about Chernobyl?"

That's all the fuel they need.
I get what you are saying.... that we can use the law to gain the right to repair.

But step back - how is any of that morally right? Why should people have to fight corporation in court to get a basic right to repair the thing they bought? Its insane!

Surely, if there was any sense to this, the presumption would be in favour of the purchaser by default! Regardless of any service contract or other legal agreement. That it should be for the corporation to argue in court that there are some special circumstances that mean that default ruling does not apply, even though you bought (not rented) their product.

The fact it is this way round tells you all you need to know. At best, the consumer can waste time (10 years?) and money (lots) to hopefully (but perhaps not) prove the obvious case. OTOH, there is no incentive for the corporation not to try the dirtiest most unfriendly tactics they think they can get away with. Esp. if they have a near monopoly in their domain (eg John Deere).

For this reason and others, I see governance and law as captured entities - they are captured by corporations and we the consumers are there to have our wealth extracted from while retaining very few rights. Frankly, it is neo-feudalism. Or fascism (corporate+government together).
If you do this, please mention that using a proper terminal + ssh will work better(This is based on my understanding of technologies used, but I could be wrong), and you may be responsible for a lot of people taking their first steps into knowing computers a lot better!
There's a very large unclaimed bounty for breaking Monero's privacy.

And those two are the tip of the iceberg. Check out Dero for one that's doing smart contracts with homomorphic encryption.

The future of privacy coins, based on these examples, is simply that they work, and will do so as long as the encryption mechanisms do. So we are presented with a question of which applications benefit from public vs private chains.
Ah yes all government policies are inherently doomed to failure and can't have any significant impact. I had forgotten, thank you for reminding me.
> I’m a 42 year old male and have found it very hard, my whole life, to establish meaningful friendships with other men.

Same here. Maybe you, like me, have none of the characteristics the fine article mentions?

> (men) value same-sex friends who are physically formidable, possess high status, possess wealth, and afford access to potential mates.
Just because I'm capable of dialectical thinking doesn't automatically make it a worthwhile endeavor to listen to someone drone on (AGAIN) about the heritablity of IQ (why is this the ONLY example of 'free'thought these 'free' thinkers are ever thinking of?) to his heart's content.
It's awesome! I like most suggestions, it feels a bit like https://wiby.me/surprise but generally less weird.

I've often wanted to have a go at making my own search engine, and I think I would penalize any form of advertising (especially big ad networks, referral links) or tracking (Google Analytics, etc.) as these can create (or reveal) perverse incentives. This would likely get rid of most of the "SEO spam" that we see nowadays. Reading the about page[1], this seems like what you are doing here, but I can't really tell as it's light on details.

Q: would this be able to handle foreign-language sites? I don't yet have a blog/personal website, but if I did, I guess it would be mixed-language. Should I submit some of my friends' blogs, even though they might not be entirely (or at all) written in English?

A relatively new sort of search-engine junk, especially visible in non-English results from big search engines is also auto-generated (or probably machine-translated) websites, full of nonsensical content. They might be translated from genuine sites in other languages, I'm not sure. It would seem hard to fend these off, but luckily, fighting perverse incentives such as advertisement revenue probably gets rid of them too.

I also wondered if this was curated list, and if the list was available somewhere, but it seems it's just a good old spider, and I guess that exposing too much info about the metrics might enable some to game the system? Not that marginalia is big enough to make it an attractive target, of course!

[1]: https://memex.marginalia.nu/projects/edge/about.gmi
Sometimes you do experiments to see if a trope is true or not and it turns out to be true.

With posts like these though, I don’t think we should over analyse the validity of the results. Instead we should ask ourselves if it rings true for each of us personally and then reconsider our friendships. Maybe we need to be better friends to some people.
I flashed on Thermians from Galaxy Quest with their "historical documents."
I don't disagree with you that there is title inflation and a lot of self promotion going on, but we do need a term to describe an eng. who reports directly to the C-suite to do high accountability work with no "above my paygrade" limit (or excuse), and is not part of the main hierarchy in that he has no other eng. to answer to nor had to spend his time managing juniors. We legit need a term for this person, as it's an organizational need.
Shout-out to PiVPN. It doesn't have a web ui but it's incredibly quick to setup and any commands are extremely basic. Took me less than 5m to setup and haven't had to touch it in almost a year.
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I wouldn't rule out a cloud based brake app with some of the idiocy being funded, lately.

Even motorized roller skates and skate boards use wired brakes and throttling, but a tricycle form factor or two person bike might benefit from wireless brakes.
Looks like a Tonka or Hot Wheels toy.
What is the point of posting a link to HN that nobody can read ?