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> language is more fuzzy than binary logic systems, John Carmack is an exception rather than a counterexample.

An exception is a counterexample. For example, are all prime numbers odd? No.

Why not? Because 2 is prime and even. This is exceptional because 2 is only 1 out of a (theoretically) infinite number of prime numbers that are even. This doesn't mean I can now say, "All prime numbers are odd".

The OP gave a tautology that basically went, "If you've only had 6 years of experience, then you only worked on 1 or 2 big projects OR you've job hopped and have a low level of understanding". John Carmack is exceptional, but also a counterexample to this statement in both regards. He was also the lead programmer at ID when he made Doom, not a junior.

Besides this point, what does him being over 50 have to do with this? He was 19 when he started working professionally if I remember correctly, which means he was 24 by the time he made several significant industry impacts.

Besides that point, here are some more counterexamples to the original claim. Mark Zuckerberg was 19 when he started Facebook. Alan Turing was 29 when he cracked the enigma. Djikstra invented Djikstra's algorithm when he was 26. Bill Gates founded Microsoft when he was 20 and released Windows when he was 30. I have plenty of personal examples as well, but it wouldn't do any good to mention them since they're not famous programmers.
You can’t scale air travel to serve as many people as HSR. There’s not room and we don’t have enough pilots. Airlines are already barely keeping up. Rail is much less expensive than flying because trains don’t have to overcome gravity. It’s simple physics.

The science is settled, we can’t all drive cars, let alone all fly. We have to stop burning gas to get around. HSR enables that and enables more sustainable urban development.

There’s nothing dramatic about this. These are plain facts. If we don’t act now future generations will suffer.

HSR will make California a more hospitable and sustainable place to live.
An Introduction to SQLite (2006) [video]
" Managers/bureaucrats want to make decisions based on 'metrics', primarily because it gives them cover if it happens to be the wrong decision"

My word, no, they want to make decisions based on 'metrics' because it validates the 'do or not decision'.

We make hardware based products and have a very real need to model component prices, fluctuations, trade/political risks etc..

Most things are not 'art'. If someone wants metrics on something so fuzzy, put the 'wide error' bars on the estimation.

Better yet - don't even talk about measurements, make it a 'risk assessment' exercise and identify the key issues that go into defining the unknown.

Ontario government is spending a huge amount of money doing 'environmental assessment' for high speed rail - it's better to do that than to start building and hope they don't come across some 'magical wetland' etc.

Granted - they are spending too much money on the assessment ...
DALL-E is capable of very high quality photorealistic images with the right prompts.

Here's one I made: https://imgur.com/yAzKkHb

“High detail, macro portrait photo, a handsome Australian man with a strong jaw line, blue eyes and brown hair, smiles at the camera, set in an outdoor pub at golden hour, shot using a ZEISS Supreme Prime lens”
Thats true, its a critical risk to Bitcoin, Ethereum etc. The digital signature scheme protecting Bitcoin accounts use elliptic curves which can also be broken using quantum computers.Transactions can be forged using broken accounts.

It's fairly easy to underestimate the time required to change a non quantum resistant to a quantum resistant one.

To protect Bitcoin from quantum computers, the blockchain has to be forked as early as possible, with all blocks re-signed with quantum resistant digital signature schemes. Devil is in the details though.

The Doge Protocol project will fork Bitcoin and move it to a quantum resistant hybrid scheme.
Anydesk and nomachine work good for me... windows to linux, linux to linux.
This sounds reasonable. When the GoAWK creator tried to add Unicode support through UTF-8 he discovered that this had drastic performance implications (rendering some algorithms to be O(N^2) instead of O(N)), if done naive https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk/issues/35. Therefore the change was reverted till the more efficient implementation can be found.
> Tribal people do not like lying on the ground in the recovery position while wearing no clothes as the penis dangles in the dust and can get bitten by insects. When the legs are in the reverse recovery position (fig (fig2,2, bottom), the penis lies on the lower thigh and is protected.
What Trudeau wants or doesn’t want isn’t relevant. Ontario is acting and that’s premier Ford. Who’s a member of a Conservative party which opposes the provincial Liberals.
I believe that after the block size wars that resulted in Bitcoin cash and bitcoin (the chain that chose the path of no change) the bitcoin community ossified into a community that is actively resistant towards changes, and bitcoin cash is much smaller and suffered from many subsequent forks.

Without significant outside force bitcoin will not change to proof of stake, they are currently framing proof of stake as useless and insecure, IMO because of motivated reasoning from the stance that bitcoin is perfect, therefore any deviation from what bitcoin has is a mistake.
I think it’s cool, but if they’re actually only allowing 6 people a day and charging $150, it’s stupid. let people visit as they wish, if someone’s dedicated enough to get out there, they should be able to see the piece.
Gas fees don't materially change under Proof of Stake. It's a common misconception that The Merge reduces fees (it does not).
> US shows are worse, probably because they showe more adverts?

That’s not necessarily the case - I remember growing up in Canada and having an extra 60-90 seconds cut from some of my favorite US TV shows to make room for even more commercials. I knew this because we’d vacation across the border and I’d get to see the full length original shows.
Something I like about HN is that down-voted posts will often come back from the grave. For some reason voters have a lot of sympathy.

Back on reddit, people use votes as a way to signal to each other what to believe in: instinctively, you upvote popular comments and downvote unpopular comments. It's really the first few voters that decide what people see.
> required to use powerful and energy-hungry GPUs to solve a complex mathematical problem.

No mathematical problem is getting "solved".

It is much more akin to playing the lottery: Entirely random numbers are being tried out, by sending them through an energy-intensive algorithm (being energy-intensive is the algorithm's only purpose in proof-of-work), until what comes out is less than another number. That other number is chosen according to the desired "difficulty", it has no significance beyond that.

The algorithm is literally meant to spend energy, i.e. the outcome of the computation has no meaning by itself. This also means that proof-of-work cryptocurrencies actively counteract any advances to make the computation more efficient: The "difficulty" will just be adjusted up until the efficiency gain is canceled out. Proof-of-work cryptocurrencies are inefficient by design.
I desperately wish there was a country I could move to where civilization actually invested meaningfully in things that actually matter.
“The Interview”, by Pragmatic Dave Thomas
There is a lot of administrative bureaucracy that forces doctors to push pens.

Recently a doctor prescribed me some medicine, and I went to the pharmacy to pick it up. Apparently the insurance balked at paying for it (the pharmacist told me this was common), so the pharmacy sent some additional paperwork to the doctor to fill out.

I know multiple doctors (in the US) that are so fed up with "the system" that they refuse to deal with it, operate their own self-pay practices, and refuse to deal with insurance companies in any capacity.

Even the kindest, most talented, and most dedicated doctors are representatives of a system that seems pretty well rotten to me.
It is actually incredibly capable but if you're looking for photorealistic images of people, it needs very specific directions. I learned a lot from this person creating AI portrait photography: https://old.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/wsi97q/some_of_my_p...
But I thought you can write mutable code also in Haskell, no?
You could just error out if you tried to run something without a main function.
In the early/mid 1990s there were even "fat binaries" that had 68000 (the original Mac platform) and PowerPC binaries back when PowerPC was the new thing.
This definitely isn’t standard prompting — as far as I know, nobody was aware of this technique until I found it this past week. Its precedent is the “format trick” that Boris Power (at OpenAI) showed me, which is essentially my “instruction templates” but where the only template form is an uninformative numbered list. The trick is used purely as a way to consistently format the output to multi-part tasks without providing fully worked examples. As far as I know, it’s never been extended to contextually informative templates, or to achieve code/document synthesis, as I’ve done here.

An example of the “format trick”, roughly as Boris described it to me, though in OpenAI’s examples the answers were simply numbered: https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1556729629263933440?s=21...

If someone at OpenAI corrects me and says they’ve known about my method, I’ll stop claiming to have discovered it.
Assuminge no one buys up any of the other 94.4%
Boxes has a fantastically simple ui but, as was the experience of the author of this article, it is really easy to run into something you can't configure with it so you have to switch to virt-manager.
This is the consultant training course I never received but wish I had. Even now, 8 years into my consulting career (not tech but many of these ideas still apply), I found a lot here that either confirms what I've learned the hard way or spells out something I've encountered but never thought about. This is exactly the kind of stuff I come to HN for, great share.
With loaded issues like racism, more baseless claims just make the problem worse. What we need is evidence, and unfortunately there is almost none in this HN discussion. I've learned nothing about the issue.

More broadly, systems can be discriminatory: Using the maps as an example, imagine if a projection made the US look tiny; I don't imagine it would sell well. But if one makes Africa appear tiny, the map may persist for a long time. That's how systems can be discriminatory and how we can decieve ourselves, without conscious intent. Also, there are plenty of people, especially in the past and also in the last few years, who have openly and aggressively expressed intent to discriminate based on race and similar factors, and we can add to that the more subtle expressions. We have plenty of evidence of widespread motive and we should expect many outcomes to match their stated intent.

Many people in minority groups have told me, for years, that a large number of people in the US will always deny racism, in every instance. They might say something acknowledging racism generally, but in every specific instance they actively reject it has happened and oppose any action. An argument can always be found (for anything, of course). It's politicized - it's not related to the facts or reason, every claim becomes a political battle that must be won. I didn't believe it at first, but it certainly has been born out, from my perspective. It's a situation that obstructs knowledge, bringing people together, and solutions, and not entirely incidentally: Politicizing any issue is an obvious way to make it similarly intractable (e.g., climate change). EDIT: Maybe it's like any innovation, such as in tech - people react with outrage to any change, as we know well on HN.

Which brings us back to facts: People can come up with a plausible argument for anything; hard facts are the scythe that cuts away the 99.9% that is nonsense; that's why science and courtrooms rely on them.
I bet this format will be amazing when it's eventually combined with AI driven video synthesis technology.
Wtf... I was just talking about transputers with a coworker yesterday. The ST20 was a popular core in early settop boxes(i.e DirecTV) and was based on a lot of transputer concepts.
"City Journal is a public policy magazine and website, published by the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research."
In your quote encoding refers to assigning numbers (code points in Unicode parlance) to characters (I am simplifying here, I know the definition of character in Unicode is not that easy).

It’s like a catalogue of scripts. We have to extend it when we encounter new scripts that are not catalogued yet (or when we create new emojis)

Converting a byte sequence to a Unicode code point sequence and vice-versa is called transformation format (or more generally an encoding form, but then might not be deterministic) by Unicode (see <https://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#gen2>). Unicode specifies UTF-8, -16 and -32. We do not have to change these formats unless the catalogue hit the limits of 32 bits (not a big problem for UTF-8 but for the other two formats). These formats are already able to encode code points that are not assigned yet.

And the confusion now is that a lot of people call what Unicode calls transformation format (i.e. the byte to code point mapping) encoding as well. The term charset is also used sometimes.

PS:
Note that a goal of Unicode is to be able to accommodate legacy encoding/charsets by having a broad enough catalogue. This is so that these legacy encoding which may come with their own catalogue can be mapped to the Unicode catalogue. So we have control codes (even though not part of any “proper” human script), precomposed letters (there is a code point for à although it could be represented by a + combining `), things like the Greek terminal form of sigma separately encoded, although that could be done in font-rendering (like generally done for Arabic), and a lot more to aid with mapping and roundtrips.
That's the first part of the article. Yes, yes you can as long as the symbols are exported and you do a little magic. So, yes with the standard C toolchain. For other languages/stacks/whatever you're using, it would probably depend on your tooling.
It doesn't matter if they buy it or not. If they're waiting for profitability, they won't turn those machines on. Or do you think people will spend $100 on electricity to mine $10 of BTC just to keep the security of the token high?

A hypothetical 51% attacker isn't doing it for profits, they're doing it for some other reason. Whatever that reason is, the 51% attack gets cheaper-and-cheaper each time these "bust" cycles happen.
And windows file explorer copying was inconsistent and buggy as hell from nearly a decade, but installing teracopy fixed that issue. As long as an OS is plug-in friendly, stock issues that can be easily remedied don't bother me.

If you're using multiple monitors and you're not using the rectangle app... that's kinda on you. I switched to Mac after using windows for decades and in less than a week I solved my windows management issues with this extension.
They have solved "finite ruleset competitive games" space to the point at which humans need not apply. Proficiency in such games used to be a sign of "intelligence": highly gifted kids would be recruited young and intensively train for a decade or more to compete at the highest levels. DeepMind artificial version thereof consistently trounces humans, and can be trained in a few days.

The obvious next horizon is darker, military applications. We probably won't hear much about it until some large state-actor will be strategically dominated in a way that defies conventional wisdom.
excellent! You crashed the server.
One big lesson, is - try a firm bed. Even if it takes some getting used to, the chances are it'll be nice to your bones, 'cause evolution didn't know about soft beds, just hard ish ones. The older I get, the firmer the bed I need seems to get.
I'm sure that various strategies for gaming the system were anticipated and prohibited.
I'm trying to find secure web framework. Is there any?
Which is good right? Cause everyone needs to use the restroom and people are complaining about people urinating/defecating in non restroom areas?

Nobody is not using the restroom by choice.

Places that smell like urine or excrement clearly don’t have enough restrooms and/or don’t get cleaned enough
Yes, though only a tiny percentage of people who use Mercator have ever plotted a course using a protractor.
There is some insight in this, but it's also deeply cynical to the point of being very misleading and maybe a bit wrong.

Teachers and Administrators are equally as committed to 'keeping their jobs'.

It just so happens that 'teaching' is mostly 'teaching' and all you can do is 'teach' and so long as you have kids in front of you 'it's working'.

The scope of their roles doesn't allow for them to go too far away from 'the mission'.

Administrators are not default committed to the 'org' they're just in a position where their decisions and actions may or may not further the mission.

'Very Bad Teaching' is rare and usually self evident. With administration, it's not so clear.

NASA Engineers are not like teachers, in that, the could be wasting a lot of time and energy. Maybe the risk is worth it in some cases (?) in others, maybe not so much.

FYI - in teaching, the biggest costs are generally the 'teachers'. etc..

Regular Public Schools aren't a good opportunity so much to demonstrate this 'Law'.

A not-quite-independent entity like a Post Office might be. They often fight directly against innovation due to the risk it may create to jobs for rank and file, and don't quite have the same competitive basis as others.
Now? The name of the company is Palantir. That's not an accident. They're telling you exactly what they do, what they always have done, and always will do. If you're comfortable selling surveillance technology to abusive governments, that's up to you. But this isn't some surprise new thing.
UTF-32 is a fixed-length encoding of Unicode[1], so it does simplify things a lot for a regex engine.

[1] At least when talking about code points, which is what matters for regular expressions (unless you want stuff like \X with is not universally supported).
You will be hard pressed to have an interesting discussion about AGI because the way the term is defined makes it uninteresting. It’s like trying to have a discussion about aviation by asking how close we are to fly exactly like birds. It’s not really relevant to our ability to design good planes.

Then any discussions will be highly handicapped by the fact most still view human intelligence as something special. The field is still very much awaiting its urea synthesis moment.
Ask HN: Is this a bug in HN’s search?
See this comment for description of bug and clickable links

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32535644
We wouldn't have to overthrow mid-east dictators every time they threaten to price oil in Euros -- but obviously this wouldn't help much because we'd still need to maintain superpower status or risk losing the world order.
I'm European and really dislike using Windows. I also dislike using Linux and macOS, but macOS is the least bad.
I've thought of going back for an MSc because it sounds kinda fun. Although probably in math rather than CS.

I never thought it would be held against me though. Seems weird.
> Classrooms have globes.

Do they? Not many IME, and not really used.

> a responsible teacher should explain the historical connection between ocean navigation and mapmaking

Says who? Is that in the cirriculum?

> a totally manufactured example of racism.

That it's totally totally manufactured is itself totally manufactured.
There are more opportunities for 'regular folks' to do something on a 'grand scale' than at any time in history, but not everyone can do it.

Paradoxically, starting your own business in the 'old time' way, i.e. plumbing or roofing contractors ... it's like guaranteed work for great income. Plumbers are the new Dentists.

That said, there are areas in which regulatory issues are obviously a problem.

This talk of 'war' is hyperbolic.
Your "observations" are ignorant, condescending bullshit and thus the entire premise of your question is wrong. Go spend a few years working with physicians in an actual healthcare delivery organization and you'll understand how it really works.

AI can be somewhat helpful in medical research and clinical decision support. But compared to simpler deterministic algorithms it is a marginal improvement at best. In particular AI sucks at gathering actionable clinical data from patients.
(Original post description with clickable links.)

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Notice a what appears to be a bug in HN’s search for comments that allows me to see the sum of votes a comment received:

To replicate the bug, click link below:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

...and the first comment should have “1081 points” and be this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6805807

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Bug does not appear to be universal, nor am I able to figure out a pattern of why some of the comments appear to show the comment votes, but if for example you sort comments by date, they don’t appear to show vote points:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

The highest voted most recent comments also don’t appear to show votes via HN’s search; load link below, copy unique string of text, search for in using HN’s comment search:

https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

Example comment for link above displayed using HN’s comment search:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Also checked by entering custom dates in to show comments after the post were locked and that produced no comments with votes showing.

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Tried to few Google’s, but found nothing.

What am I missing?

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Edit-001:
- appears search is broken for the sort by popular, only returning results that are years old, possibly 8+ years old; example, click back to page one of search results looking at the dates:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=99&prefix=true&qu...

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Edit-002:

Appears this is list of active/closed issues with HN’s search; looked for a known related issue, but was unable to find any:

https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/issues

Found it via this Google search:

https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker+news+search+popularit...

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https://archive.ph/ZCx5w
There is a TeX distribution that does what you say, TinyTeX. For some reason it is obscure and only really used by R and R Studio users. That may be because it is used to render R Markdown documents to pdf.
In the short-term, it's likely already priced in: folks have known this is coming for a while, and especially over the past 2-3 months where it became "real" versus "coming soon".

Longer term, there may be uses for GPUs when it comes to zero-knowledge proofs (think: expensive to produce, easy to verify), but we still have a ways to go in that department.
because it's easy to manage packages using brew, Windows has the... winget which is all but abandoned.

For the longest time there was no such thing as WSL so Mac had a serious advantage for us who migrated between Linux and Mac.

And as you've mentioned I've had so many quality control issues with Windows computers including Dell and Asus that eventually I just said fuck it I'd rather spend 3 to 4 grand on a machine that I know will work flawlessly.
In short; if we can't take care of them we ought to be able to at least off them?