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This is the worst top comment I've seen on hn in a long time. The text isn't about the computational equivalence but about how vastly different aliens and therefore their tech is, and how the effort of translating alien tech into our own would be equivalent to inventing it ourselves. This point of vast differences requires Wolffram's ontology, which I don't philosophically agree with, but it's as good as any current one.

As for the first point, it is actually insane. You don't start being cruel to animals because you are doing ontology.
I went to a "progressive" school where we had one strange class called
"Design For Living". Today we'd probably call it "lifehacking". Among
the fascinating and odd topics was a lesson on managing free time.

The premise was a (socialist?) vision that everything would be done by
robots by 2000, and we would have to find good hobbies and interests,
keep fit and volunteer doing good things for our communities.

I think digital technology did the opposite in many ways. It turned us
into robots.

Another thing I noted while reading the article is it mentions trades
as the best sort of work. If you're a plumber, bricklayer, or
electrician then every job has an end. A wall is finished when you lay
the last brick.

By contrast, digital work is almost never finished. Everything keeps
changing, everything breaks and needs fixing, there's always one more
revision or update... we have truly created a diabolical machine to
enslave ourselves to.

Like that page that said "You have reached the end of the Internet", I
sometimes wonder if Microsoft might one day release "Windows Final
Edition" , the operating system that is finished.

Go home developers. Your work is complete. Well done!
I vouched for this. Please everyone don’t flag comments just because you disagree with them
Lichess.org Breakdown of Costs
Well, in my case I used it to signify same behavior in terms of process/goroutine communication. I think it's "specific enough" to warrant the use of word "isomorphic".
AppGyver has done pretty good job.

It’s React based web app where you can build mobile apps from drag’n’drop UI components, and also define application’s logic in visual way.

The end result is React Native application that can be targeted for Mobile, Tablet and TV.

There are few enterprise apps built with it. Although those are quite simple apps, nevertheless they’re real commercial products.

I see that this “no code” stuff is quite natural progress and will get extended to lot more places. I mean how many standard website today was hand coded? It’s taken for granted now that you can build nice standard websites without knowing any HTML or CSS. Most websites have almost identical structure and functionality anyways so it’s not very hard to create such tools.

And now you can create standard business app without knowing Swift, React Native, Flutter or whatever is out there. It’s only starting now. You could say that AppGyver is at Wordpress 1.0 state.

Also these visual tools can be replaced with other UI systems. Like soon you can talk to computer and describe what kind of app or website you would like to have and watch live preview as it’s coming into existence.
My reading is that performance problems are caused by interactions between reference-counted GObjects and tracing GC, nothing to do with "not having a V8 class implementation".

> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/-/issues/361

Now what can we learn here? Well, the most important lesson is that getting properties from GObjects seems to be very expensive and a major bottleneck [...] Also generally (and as expected), recursive processes like Clutters allocation machinery round tripping between C and JS land are a bad idea and should probably avoid JS land altogether

> https://feaneron.com/2018/04/20/the-infamous-gnome-shell-mem...

This fix is strictly specific to GObjects wrapped by GJS
That's incredibly perceptive of you.

Are there any known dictionaries or mappings from autocorrected text to possibly intended text?
>Privacy is not something that can be controlled at the individual level when you're up against billion dollar budgets.

Use FOSS, now the price of direct compromise rises above $0. Turn on NoScript? Whoops, there goes like 90% of web tracking, goodbye surveillance capitalists. Use Tor or other multihop for casual browsing? Most adversaries will now be incapable of tracing an arbitrary circuit of an arbitrary user. Cost of tracking activity is now way up there.

It's true that against an adversary with enough money to surveil massive swathes of ISPs worldwide, strong anonymity is not viable for casual use- that kind of thing requires networks of fixed-rate dummy traffic tunnels, public/open LAN networks, proper operational security with devices, avoiding as much social interaction as possible, the whole shebang.

Political action is needed, but I fail to see how we can actually get past dark money like super PACs and such.

Failing that, if enough people use their general purpose machines in a subversive manner, they themselves will become more difficult to suppress.
I get the frustration but tbh comparing Go to NodeJS feels just as absurd.

I wish JavaScript had the memory layout guarantees that Go has, that would make it a lot easier to work around memory-based bottlenecks.

And no, the fact that I can use low-levels bindings in NodeJS is not at all similar.
"Just why this has happened is both a mystery and a paradox."

Jevons' Paradox I suspect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Except that their only use case is speculation, so once speculators are gone... nothing is left.
That makes sense, thanks. Being on the autism spectrum doesn’t forgive any behavior of course but can explain it. He should get people to explain social issues, and people to filter/write his own output. It would benefit everyone, most of all him.
Yup, it's the one you already watched if you've seen a teardown of a 100ghz scope before.
Economic “rationality” sometimes gets a bad rap, but it’s more defensible than it may appear and provides a well-circumscribed, workable general foundation to expand on. In simple versions: rational preferences (which include indifference) are transitive and complete, and people pursue these goals. That’s all. Symmetric violations wash away in the aggregate, and asymmetric can be included, e.g. as loss aversion. Criticism of “rationality” is often stuck in late 19th to mid 20th century debates that were since generally resolved.
But if they have the disk and modify is, its still them who have the disk. So the "No binding between keys/values" and "No authentication of values" still dont work out, either. And they are able to modify the contents on my disk, they'd be easier off installing a rootkit, pass cant protect against that.
Well yes, because it’s plainly incorrect eve California (which spends the most) ‘only’ spends around 100k per prisoner.
That's the joke. P/E of 15-20 would mean a bitcoin price of zero.
Meh. A lot of people have said that, some before disaster and some before victory. It was already an old saying when Pliny the Elder said it. Wellington made it his motto, and he beat Napoleon.
People do have excess free time. How else can you manage to waste 4+ hours on streaming and social media per day?
> Considering Bitcoin had never fallen lower than a previous cycles ATH (All Time High) until now, who is thinking that this might be a sign of the end of crypto?

This sounds like just another one of those synthetic signposts people create around crypto. It's just a pattern. It has no particular significance; beyond the fact that if enough people believe in it, then it might influence their actions in a way that moves the market.

My favourite was that people were going around saying the cost of mining Bitcoin served as a floor to the market. As though the miners would (somehow) stop the price going down when it became unprofitable for them to mine. More likely, they'd just stop their mining activities and move onto something more lucrative.
I am amazed at the disdain for leisure and "free" time and "slacking" in the comments here.

If a person has enough to survive, why would they toil and labour?
Just do whatever you like!

I suspect a big problem is that many people actually don't know what they like to do. Most people with full-time jobs I know don't have much energy left after their workday, and thus the only "leisure" they are still capable of and thus know is low-effort "comfortable" things like watching TV/YT/netflix. (If you like TV, great for you, but it being the 'default' might be a problem)
There is a bird pack for Beijing.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31558796
I have no horse in this race being outside the states.

Yet from here, BLM seems to clearly be a US election phenomena rather than a general desire to fix things. It basically disappeared after the last election and the election before that.

I'd happily bet on it arising again in 2024.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2015-10-01%202...
I believe that lobste.rs worked in a similar fashion. I know that I was invited by a community member, I don't know if I misbehave if that affects his reputation.

Perhaps a weighted scale would work. Alice could invite Zachary, taking responsibility for, by her choosing, 1 to 100 percent of his behaviour. Bob could invite Zachary too, also taking responsibility for 1 to 100 percent of his behaviour. Zachary could only begin using the service after 100 percent of his behaviour is accounted for. Then, when Zachary is reprimanded, Alice, Bob, and all others take a hit as well, weighted by their responsibility.

I might be willing to take 100% responsibility for my brother, but I would take about 20% responsibility for RMS and perhaps 1% responsibility for some guy I work with.
Just had a look, I'm really intrigued. Definitely going to try this one out!
Many people do that at work, because for most white collar professions it's simply impossible to stay productive the full length of the day one is expected to "work" (traditionally spend at an office).
Thanks for correcting me, but what about selling to "non-western" countries?
Aged like fine wine
Ukraine claims hitting Russian ship with “Harpoon” near Zmeiny island
Using this logic, we can value 1 bitcoin at 7/1700* 442billion /21 million = 87$ (Bitcoin Tps divided by Visa TPS times first visa market cap I found divided by number of Bitcoins ).

Except if course, if you buy a piece of visa, you get a dividend and legal rights, while owning a Bitcoin gets you the privilege of paying miners to extract that value. So really, that 7/1700*442e9 $ is the value of those who own the network (the miners), not the users.
His safety is based on skill rather than technology and documented rules. That can work really well for an individual working with minimal assistance which is exactly how Dibner worked. It just doesn't scale to teams.
You can be very worried about the medium-term dangers of AGI even if you believed (which I don't) that consciousness could never arise in a computer system. I think it can be a useful metaphor to compare AGI to nuclear weapons. Currently we're trying to figure out how to make the nuclear bomb not go off spontaneously, and how to steer the rocket. (One big problem w/ the metaphor is that AGI will be very beneficial once we do figure out how to control it, which is harder to argue with nuclear weapons).

Most of these AGI doom-scenarios require no self-awareness at all. AGI is just an insanely powerful tool that we currently wouldn't know how to direct, control or stop if we actually had access to it.
The wackiness has a very 90's web feel to it. I could see it fitting into some apps where it's consistent with the overall design language but for a more normal app, I would go with a green check. It could maybe fade in, or "grow" either in line thickness, or from one end to the other. If the checkbox had a label, it could fade out. Over about 100ms. For the sound, the sound of a single knock on wood. Or maybe a bell or a rapid glissando.
As a backend-now-fullstack dev, i can tell you mobile dev is actually harder than backend now.

At its beginning, mobile apps were just a few simple screens mostly querying a server.

It is now closer to the gigantic desktop apps of the 90s (because most have to work offline), except with a much higher quality UX, as well as deep OS interaction (check the list of iOS extensions), AND internet connectivity.

That's why you see things like agent-based concurrency arriving on swift, which is mainly a client-side language.
Nothing. Don't learn anything. You'll waste time learning something you'll probably never use or forget what you learnt if you ever need to use it. You are a software developer; you can learn anything when you need to. Save it for then. For now, enjoy your time.

Since you would probably will not do that, my second best suggestion is to learn a language which can do what python can't or not in a straightforward way... for example:

- be performant or elegant... or

- easy to deploy/distribute... or

- have better out of the box dependency management

- not be complete and utter garbage
>> the world as it is now was not build with “work from home”

That seems like a very conservative outlook. History has taught us that progress is overwhelmingly good for society and the downsides are:

a) small by comparison to the upsides
b) far smaller than the downsides of rejecting progress, failing to adapt and letting entropy take hold
It will never drop to 0, barring no fundamental security flaws are discovered, because there will always be people like me that are never willing to sell and always willing to buy more.

If it hits $1, I will just stock up. Traders getting out is good for me.

I am in Bitcoin, or any really viable replacement that emerges, long term for reasons fickle speculators do not care about. I fundamentally believe a healthy society needs a reasonably private, international, censorship resistant, and open source financial system that works over the internet. I see such a thing as having more -real- value than the US dollar that a small number of people can print more of at any time for political reasons.
> they are halfway to implementing a garbage collector already

This is a common misunderstanding.

The key insight of this work is actually "morphing dangling pointers into memory leaks is WAY EASIER than automatic memory management (a.l.a. GC or refcount)". As long as we still do memory management by hand, we are able to avoid most of the complexity of GC (or defects of RC) and convert one bug class to another without much overhead.

Yes, this work can't eliminate bugs in your code (unlike, say, Rust, or other GC languages). But some bugs matter more than others, and, it works on existing code, it makes significant contribution to security without rewriting the world with Rust or JavaScript.
Those billionaires could be funding research directly if they want. No need to start a newe university. Maybe that's not enough.
Don’t disagree with you on the vital importance of health and safety but that infographic

> It doesn't take much height to do so: https://cdn1.hardhattraining.com/wp-content/uploads/how-high...

does a really poor job of conveying the relative risks - and presumably these incidents are generally occurring when workers are following the rules which isn’t confidence inspiring.
>> Even today, the privilege afforded by a life in technology and among technologists seems to set a person apart from the rest of the world to such an extent that they almost forget it exists.

I agree on your second point, but those in medicine, finance, or law enjoy similar salaries and quality of life to those in tech. Furthermore to really set yourself apart and join the global super rich you can’t really do that by selling your labor no matter your field.
What makes you think the US wouldn’t have nuked half the world by now if they were the only ones that had it?

The main reason why nobody uses nukes or why are there no direct wars between world powers anymore is nuclear proliferation. I might be wrong and we might have had 80 years of relative peace without them but looking at human history up to and including WW2 that does not seem likely..
Did you also balk when the price rose to $100, $1000, $10_000, and were laughed at?

Perhaps you will be laughed at again if the price goes back toward $100_000.

The point is, you can be right some of the time, but it's a purely speculative market, and no-one really knows where it's going. Is bitcoin 'worth' nothing? Yes. Is it worth whatever people are prepared to pay for it, which could be millions? Also Yes.
It probably depends a lot on what you are going to hit as you fall. A drop onto a safety line over an empty void may be safer than a 2m fall onto a piece of equipment.
I have images, audio, and backlinks using UUIDs in my terminal emacs. The image support is the worst, as I have to open the image and then it takes over the screen until I dismiss it, but it’s usable.
You could, that wouldn't make them less uninteresting even if we somehow accept an exceptionally generous interpretation
of irony that includes 'generically yelly tropecomment'.
Deisgn of Euro Banknotes
What you are saying is kind of orthogonal. Nowadays you can and people do indeed sell crypto in person, and using your wallet. But you use a stablecoin because it's much more convenient since its stable. Then with such stablecoin you have purchased, you swap it for your desired altcoin either on a centralized exchange or decentralized exchange.

I don't agree with the other comment that the USDT/Altcoin pair is such a big deal. If USDT became even less desired, other stablecoins pair would appear and surpass USDT pairs in volume.
The feudal lords got refreshed by the regular uprising or invading army.
Are you sure you posted the right link?

This is a version control system.

I mainly was going to comment on how unfortunate the name is, in English this word (minus 1 "s") is a genital disease.
>> excess free time

If you live in a free country, how can you have a concept of excess free time?

Surely the goal for free people is to maximise time free to do as they please? Otherwise they’re by some definition not free.
The miners have no incentive to mine unless there are a large number of people choosing to exchange Bitcoin giving it buying power to offset electricity cost.
> Tesla requires 10x more subsidies per vehicle

Simply not true.

> For all the talk of gigantic governmental pushes, the US still supports Tesla far more than China supports BYD

That is just false. China has throwing gigantic support behind the whole push to EV. Not to mention that BYD profited massively from the protection of the government from IP theft. China literally threw lots of money at the whole supply-chain that BYD is building on.

And China had a large number of inventive programs for EVs as well, but Tesla profited from those 2.

> doesn't own their battery supply chain

BYD makes batteries but they certainty don't own their whole supply-chain. Tesla has started to make batteries and they are going deep into the supply-chain making their own materials and so on.

> made significant amounts of money from reservations they are yet to fulfill

Its not as much as you seem to think and it wouldn't change the overall picture.

> I think, on the global scale, that BYD has done better and is doing better, as far as scale

So how much does BYD sell in Europe and the US, its far less then Telsa does. BYD cars are mostly sold in China. They do sell buses and such outside of China. But in terms of Cars they massively profiting from targeting their local market first.

> such as buses, trucks, industrial equipment, various electronics - markets that Tesla has been unsuccessful in. The fact that they do so on lower revenue is a sign to me that they can simply produce more efficiently, ie, better at scaling.

Tesla makes revenue and more profit ...

The fact remains:

> here have been dozens of new car companies in China operating a far greater scale than Tesla

This is false, and I corrected it.
It’s as trivial as images in markdown, but there are more optional config options and extensions to, e.g., just paste from the clipboard.
Visa is not a medium of exchange. This is a sad take.
Right. I'm a brit - now that should make it clearer - I'm not on that continent. If you were, yes, I can see your point, there should by my argument be more exposure therefore uderstanding.

And there was no education about aztecs, I just read a lot, ditto for the norse and greek gosds. Might have got a tiny bit about the romans but any of their legends were picked up very much outside of school. We weren't educated in any of that, just immersed, shall we say.
I’m pretty sure ~ 1922 was the low point using any reasonable metric. Collapse in agricultural production, widespread famine and the red terror (following years of both white and red terror..) The 1990’s were nothing compared to the Russian Civil war and it’s aftermath.

Using logic like this the collapse of the Tsarist Empire was clearly a much bigger disaster.
You can be unprofitable at -0.5%. It stabilizes; for a runaway inflation you need to have a positive feedback loop. From the author’s write-up (https://benoitessiambre.com/simcb.html):

>The inverse happens with negative interest rates. If the central bank makes a loss on a loan, people are taxed to make the central bank whole in a kind of reverse seigniorage. Now in the real world this doesn’t tend to happen.

>It's difficult to create hyperinflation in SimCB (unless in the aftermath of high unemployment leading to low market inventory), when you lower interest rates, even to negative rates, the central bank takes a loss and you get reverse seigniorage, people's money is automatically taxed away, which offsets the inflationary effects of low interest rates and the system self stabilizes. This is partially due to there not being government debt to help fuel high inflation. I don't know how well this reflects real world economics.

>The other aspect that is missing from SimCB which could cause hyperinflation is the option for people in an economy to switch to another currency.

>(…) Now I could still have allowed central bank losses in SimCB's model. This might have made sense especially given that SimCB doesn't have a government to amplify central bank moves by borrowing. Central banks taking a loss, instead of taxing reverse seigniorage, might have simulated government stimulus, allowing the negative interests to act as little helicopter drops of money. Real world governments often borrow and spend during conditions that warrant very low rates (or under any other conditions really) to help put money into circulation. Something to try in a future version.
> the end of crypto

How do you propose to replace the $100bn online drug market?
Yeah and even after Rust there's still a whole world of even more advanced/difficult techniques like pure functional programming, formal verification, proof assistants... and even totally different paradigms like HDLs.

The idea that once you've done Python you've done them all is hilarious. I don't know how someone could be programming for 25 years and not realise that!