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> You'd use a module to hides things. Some OOP languages conflate modules (which do information-hiding) with private fields in classes.

And you can instantiate multiple instances of these "modules"?
Thank you. Yeah my strategy has been:

Build. Post. Repeat.
Stephenson ends a book like a crash ends a car trip. It's not that I wanted the trip to go on forever, it's that I wanted it to end with the car neatly parked in a driveway, rather than unrecognizeable pieces scattered in a ravine.
There's no word in the english language for how tragic this is. As a sister comment mentioned, the cruelty is the point.

It's a long shot, but is there any material way of helping these artists be able to take their art with them again? Making noise at specific people? Organizations that specifically target these broken freedoms?

Artistic freedom in particular is a very near and dear subject to me, and would greatly appreciate pointers here if there's any existing work done here.
Slight caveat to "complete" transparency: https://youtu.be/-5SWvaKGULo?t=249
The economic system as the root doesn’t make sense. Why is the decay so sudden despite capitalism dominating western markets for nearly half a thousand years? Why are there so many capitalist economies like Japan or Norway without these issues (almost at all)?

Those 2 cannot be true if the blame is on capitalism.
> Sometimes it really does seem that "the cruelty is the point".

This extends very far beyond Guantanamo. I really wonder where all these sick fucks come from. I don't remember much of a psycho vibe from classmates or work colleagues. Yet the US makes them in sufficient quantity that they seem to pop up wherever authority is. Prisons, police, military, they all seem to have endless human garbage that enjoys being cruel if they can. How has this country produced these "people" and why do they achieve positions of power instead of failure?
Did you read the article? This is about environmental laws blocking infrastructure projects
Agriculture is required. We gotta eat food. Having big lawns with water guzzling lawns isn't needed.

Of course, we need incentives for efficient use of water by ag too.
In Haskell, you can just declare which way your operators are supposed to associate (if any). That doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice. (Though it helps that Haskell is statically typed, so the compiler can yell at you when you guess the direction of associativity for eg your extend-a-list operator wrong.
I don't think we have a clear picture of the energy sector two years down the road.

But another thought: some good may come of this. There'll be a universal need for energy-conserving technology. This will be the kind of society-wide shock to get people taking things seriously -- home insulation, turning down the thermostat, maximizing the number of solar installations in a neighborhood, letting homeowners sell their power back to the grid... It could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, where people are desperate to consider and adopt new technologies.

For entrepreneurs, its' a chance to feel like you're helping not just some people, but the entire community, society in general -- and to feel like you're doing something especially meaningful. In the U.S. they've been talking up the chance to participate in the newly-established "Clean Energy Corps."

https://www.energy.gov/CleanEnergyCorps

But you can chase the same highs as an entrepreneur.
Common Lisp does this. EQL means reference-equals, and EQUAL means value-equals (recursive). If you need to custom behavior, then EQUALP is a generic function that can be overridden for your data types.

...and then it keeps going. EQ differs from EQL only by having undefined behavior on integers and characters, because that gives implementations the freedom to box those datatypes or not while still guaranteeing that EQ is always a pointer-comparison. And = is numeric equality, which is different than value equality because 0.0 is = to -0.0 but not EQL to it.
I'd look at the Xeon Lenovo machines (I think it was P series I was window shopping), Asus for design/gaming (their dual screen models are so nice in person, I found them to be slimmer than I expected), and Dell for something really solid/mass produced.

Essentially... Xeon Lenovo for "ultra enterprise", Asus for speed/looks/features, Dell for a "good laptop".
You should definitely share information relevant to the employee’s decision to join and continue working at your company. It’s imperative to build trust with employees so that they know they can take your word.

The challenge for many is that it’s easy to be transparent during the good times, but much harder to be honest when things aren’t going well. You need to choose a level of transparency that you can stick with through good times and bad.

I will caution against taking HN advice unilaterally on these topics. HN comments are heavily skewed toward employees rather than founders and the advice you get will not necessarily consider the needs of founders and a company at all. Anecdotally, I have worked at a startup that tried to share everything with employees in a fully transparent manner and it backfired spectacularly. A couple of the employees used their information as leverage to work their way into high ranking roles at a competing company, taking some key customer relation knowledge with them. The roles didn’t actually work out for them at the new company. They were unqualified, the company just used them to extract their knowledge and let them go after a year. However, the damage was done. The information they took wasn’t at all necessary to be open to the employees and didn’t really benefit them behind a sense of full transparency for everyone. Don’t assume that your employees are always going to be in your court, especially as you scale past the intimate team size. It only takes one person acting in a selfish manner to try to leverage your transparency for their personal gain. Be at least somewhat careful about sharing information that doesn’t directly relate to employees making decisions about their own jobs at your company.
You have literally no idea how much impact an individual can have on a project....(We typically call them 'Architects'...)

but your scorn is well met ; It DOES take a team of countless -- and I have also been literally the sole designer of things that relied on thousands to implement.

Thanks for your disinterest.
SpaceX has proven there have been economical paths to space the entire time for a fraction of 20 billion/year. If anything NASA has been holding back progress into space for the past 50 years by handing out billions to build expendable systems. Economics was never prioritized (briefly with Shuttle, but it was never iterated on over its 20 year life) And even when SpaceX proved reusability was possible, NASA still continues on the SLS death march.
The Opposite of Iterative Delivery – Do You Want to Be Erratic and Overwhelming?
> 'move fast and break things'

Wow, they invented that phrase? I had no idea.
I'm against prisoners in non-wartime being held without allegations or trials... I mean, Khalid was held pre-9/11...

That said, I do not care about the art, or even speech, of prisoners--of which who are properly convicted, beyond speech with their attorneys and allowed contacts (whom must be able to communicate on behalf of them). The bothersome part of this is Guantanamo's non-wartime use in-and-of itself.
In git, each version of the database will be a full copy. The git has to perform diff i.e. scan the database file. Imagine doing commits & creating snapshots very frequently.

Have a look at https://github.com/sudeep9/mojo/blob/main/design.md#index
"I like Odin" - me too, just discovered Odin last week. The syntax is just about as perfect as a procedural language can get.

I don't do C professionally and really only used for standard uni classes for algos, data structures, system programming, OS, etc. But seeing Bill's streams highlighting the clarity of the Pascal pointer syntax has been eye opening. A C spiral seems so utterly unnecessary compared to how simple it is to read Odin left-to-right. It's good to have a physicist take on a programming language. Thanks for the hard work!
SLS already does represent a failure of process and funding. It's blatant corruption that keeps being overlooked by the broader public. Think of all the genuinely useful developments all those people could've been paid to work on instead of this project that does little more than serve as a means for politicians to buy votes. Then consider that they want to keep this waste going for another decade at least.

The mere existence of SLS as a program would have run the US space launch capability into the ground if it weren't for SpaceX serving as the seed for 'New Space' launch companies. Without SLS we could've had refuelable second stages to provide a genuinely sustainable lunar presence (Boeing outright tried to get the guy who proposed such at ULA fired because it would make SLS mostly pointless) without having to rely on sheer luck of having a motivated private party.

So if anything, it's unpatriotic to wish for the success of SLS since it fundamentally represents everything that's wrong with the US and allowing it to continue is the same as allowing politicians to continue screwing over the average person.

That said, while I'm hoping for it to fail, I don't expect an explosion tomorrow to be able to make it fail, if anything it'll just give Congress an excuse to transfer more money to Boeing. I'd rather it fly properly and then be cancelled after a 3rd or 4th flight when it becomes way too clear that SLS is useless (Ideally SpaceX will have done the DearMoon and Polaris Dawn flights by then). SLS will fail but not because it'll fail to fly, but rather because it will fail to be worth flying.

I'd also love for a reckoning where every politician responsible for pushing the program is punished but there's zero chance that'll happen.
Like most people here on HN, I have experienced all 3 major OSes (Win, Mac and various Linux distros/DEs).

One of the points where MacOS struggles when compared to other OSes is, in my opinion, multi monitor support.

I'm not sure why, but it seems to me that Apple decided that multi-monitor was not a very important use case and it got de-prioritised (maybe they wanted to push users towards one single, large monitor?), as a result the multi-monitor experience on Mac is not on par with other desktop environments.

I'm not saying that the bugs in the post could not happen on other desktop environments, or that other desktop environments don't have bugs of their own, but in general it seems to me that on several Linux DEs and on Windows, I can get a smoother multi-monitor experience than on MacOS.
Cruelty is worldwide. See: Rwanda, Yemen, former Yugoslavia, Mexican cartels, ISIS, etc. for a small sample of non-US cruelty in the twenty-first century.
Haskell already has an extension called UndecidableInstances.

Funny enough, even your basic Hindley-Milner style type inference has exponential runtime in the worst case, even if you don't add any bells nor whistles.

In practice, people don't tend to write code that triggers that worst-case.
> Don’t worry about leaks. At this stage, nobody else cares about you.

Actually, it’s better to pick a level of transparency that can be maintained well beyond this stage and stick with it. If a company starts out fully transparent and then walks back the transparency later, employees will become suspicious.

Much better to choose a sustainable level of transparency and demonstrate consistency over the years. Don’t play fast and loose early and then force yourself to overcorrect later.
What I enjoyed about this book is it helped me "get" Platonism. Somehow, Neal Stephenson made Platonism seem cool and interesting.

People focusing on the mathematical monks are missing the point that Arbre is intended to exemplify a more Platonically idealized of our world. Not all in good ways, but also in bad ways.

When technology goes bad in Arbre, it goes worse than in our world. When there are divisions in Arbre society, those divisions are sharper than in our world. Mathematics is more powerful, but it is also more separated from Praxis. The maths aren't just monasteries for mathematicians; they instead represent the Platonic form of "The Institution", and as such incorporate elements of monasteries, prisons, universities, asylums, and barracks. Arbre's version of Platonism is itself divided into two camps that in our world are dimly reflected as "religion" and "abstraction"; in Arbre the division between these is larger-than-life. The Monad ever devolving into a Dyad.
The original python version uses pytorch/CUDA and requires nvidia. The Vulkan version doesn't.
Exactly ... agile fails on any project which requires pure research or exploratory hard problems which are above and beyond just grunt work ... Agile shops typically assume the work is predictable and just a function of redoing a known recipe
Yeah, it's even in the OP: "Users saying that it's a good idea / product after a demo doesn't mean that the product has PMF. Users desperately wanting to use the product and pay for it ie., retention / repetitive usage is PMF."

The bigger issue is clearly that the advice boils down to something more like "if you don't have buyers, you won't make sales", which is just common sense and I'm surprised we need to have a whole buzzword about it.
I never understood this obsession with lambda calculus or ycombinator. If most of the computers have an instruction set that is rich and has support for loops and types and other things, what use is it to waste your time to understand this? It’s like reading poetry perhaps? There is no goal but just to come up with puzzles so you can show a cool solution? Why? Why?
Good idea. I will try to add that in the future.
My strategy to fall asleep is basically the same. But rather than rely on audio content, I do the same in my head. For example, I ll try to do a scene by scene replay of the movie Jumanji and at some point I just fall asleep. It's mundane enough that it doesn't kick the brain in high gear.

Not too different to counting sheep, but without the absurdity.
Its not hard to see why. The novelty of being "made in Guantanamo" could turn these into sought-after collector items that wealthy buyers, primarily in the middle east, would easily pay tens or hundreds of thousands for, if that isnt already the case. It doesnt seem fair to the victims of terrorism that the perpetrators/conspirators gets to make hundreds of thousands of $ while in custody and then live a lavish life once released.
I should really get tested for that. I have ADHD and my fingers can do weird crap and I have had 2 suffers and 1 person who has a similar condition tell me I should get checked for it... I just feel weird saying "hey doctor some people told me I might have weird bendy disease, can I have a specialist referral". Without any actual complaints I feel silly
Thanks for the support!!! Really happy to hear that!
Yeah I will improve browser compatibility in the future.
They’ll build a second one regardless of how this one goes, its so entrenched in congress
after trying a few different ways i've settled on chezmoi which they also mention on their utilites page. it supports quite a lot of things that many other solutions miss like templates so that you can use the same repo across different operating systems and being able to run scripts just once, in order and so on.

It's somewhat involved to set up but now across windows/linux/macos my entire setup is literally just a one-liner.
> who are properly convicted

They haven't been. Legally speaking, the remaining detainees at Guantanamo are basically victims of indefinite government kidnapping, as the US government has specifically refused to actually put them on trial because there isn't enough admissible evidence to do so.
It's hardly "research" if it's printed on the information you're given and the pharmacist is legally required to offer to tell you what you should know when you pick up the medicine. In America (or at least in every state I've lived in) you need to explicitly decline counseling by the pharmacist about new medications.
Mammals Won the Dinosaurs' World
I suspect they look for positions of power, sadly.
This was literally the argument for Prop 65 warnings
Yes, manned space flight the way we have been doing it is slow and costly. But is that the cost of manned space flight, or the cost of the way we've been doing it?

Official estimates are that if SLS flies 10x, its cost per flight will be $4.1 billion. These things have a way of ballooning, but let's say that is reasonable.

SpaceX does not say how much Starship is costing them to develop, but external estimates seem to be under $8 billion. So for the cost of 2 SLS flights, SpaceX is developing a rocket with a cost to LEO orbit of under $10 million, and that they are aiming to get down to $2 million. SpaceX is planning to build in quantity, and launch at an insane cadence. Once enough have been launched, they will have ironed out the bugs and have a safety record good enough to take people.

After that, human spaceflight will be cheap.

In fact SLS is entirely unnecessary for going to the Moon. The current plan is for SpaceX to launch Starship, fuel it in orbit from other Starships, send it to the Moon, and then have it be a ferry for astronauts who got to the Moon on Starship. Why not just send people on Starship the whole way?

Yeah, yeah. I know the answer. Politics. SLS is largely funded by porkbarrel politics. Its purpose is to get congresscritters re-elected and only incidentally get to the Moon. But in a sane world, we wouldn't build it.

But we are. We are even laying plans to send humans to Mars on SLS in 20 years or so.

Anyone want an even money bet that Elon lands people on Mars before NASA does?
What do you mean? Many lisps have these features, in fact lisps in general are well-regarded for their macro systems. I don't think any programming language can replace all other languages but of all options, I feel lisps which allow you to safely and cleanly extend the language to better reflect the problem domain cast an unusually wide shadow.
If you are using an app on your phone for 2FA, make sure you have its state backed up somewhere else.

It can be very difficult, sometimes impossible, to fix access to an account blocked by lack of access to your 2FA app.
Yeah, you really have to understand the audience.

I'd be very hesitant to share partnerships until they're done. Either because people will inappropriately mention them (a junior salesperson running his mouth on a phone call cost a former employer $5m++. no joke. a partnership deal that wasn't inked got rescinded after he told the wrong company and it got back), or more likely, get misset expectations about deals that can still fall through.

That's different than sharing rev numbers, about which I think founders should be very open. I'd share deals when they're inked, along with a lot of repetition about what can and can't be shared externally.
Whitewashing the Civil War as grandparent post did was in error, but don’t let the evils of slavery blind you to the leadership’s more immediate, stated war goal: to preserve the Union. Freeing slaves was an ancillary matter at best.

If the actual explicit bona fide war goal was freeing the slaves, Reconstruction would have been a lot less oppressive and its Jim Crow regimes would have faced more obstacles.
Stable Diffusion was released for free and open source with a totally unenforceable license (dont do anything illegal or unethical). People right now are likely generating the most heinous of things. Some piece of shit bully is almost certainly as we speak taking pictures of their target and making the worst compromising cruel thing imaginable.

That discussion is over. You shouldn't care about a company trying to filter out bad shit on their own platform.

Pandoras box has already been open.
I really like Cory's books, and have even purchased some of his audiobooks from him, but I find that I do 100% of my audiobook listening through Audible. The convenience and massive library that I've amassed as a result of their credit scheme has fully captured me.

When I had a standalone music player, it was far easier to deal with random MP3 files.
it's part of theoretical computer science. You asking this is the same as someone in the 15th century asking why bother with square root of negative 1, and what it could possibly be used for.

lambda calculus can be considered fundamental to how computations can be represented via simple building blocks - it's in the same category as a turing machine. if a problem could be represented as a lambda calculus expression, you know that it is theoretically solvable - or if you proved that it isn't, then you know the problem is unsolvable (like the halting problem).
Several huge incidents are going to occur regardless of what we do. That is already baked-in to this situation.

That includes fantasies about pretending that we can do nothing. Which we can't.
Well, one answer would be that there’s no need for a “psycho vibe” on the road to heartless acts. It can look a lot more like complacency.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem#Banali...
I listen to 50/60's music from Sirius/XM as they finally included streaming in their regular auto satellite subscription. Previously I listened to various Internet oldies stations but I was always unhappy with the music interruptions for commercial. No commercials with most Sirius/XM channels.

Concentrating on the lyrics when my mind is racing as I try to sleep helps to interrupt the intrusive thoughts.

White noise, nature sounds and people talking are not enough distraction.
Productive is relative. Certainly the most water-needy crops can be grown in countries (or states) with more abundant rainfall than that of California. The water used for those crops grown in California has a better purpose down the line..
It's important to acknowledge that there's a tendency to consider certain sets of people subhuman and deserving of anything bad thing that happens to them. Consider how America treats its poor and its sick.
Reminder that the remaining detainees in Guantánamo have never been convicted of a crime; the government explicitly refuses to put them on trial. This makes them political prisoners at best.
This just isn’t true. Alabama’s budget has a net surplus.

What you’re referring to is that fact that states like California push for major federal projects that are inevitably unaffordable by lower gdp states like Alabama - many of those projects being things Alabama didn’t ask for or want. The result is that CA “subsidizes” Alabama.

So a more accurate statement would be “if it weren’t for California, Alabama would continue to exist just fine, and would live more closely in accordance with its values for smaller federal govt”
I, for one, look forward to GMO grapefruit trees that produce fruit with the warnings already printed on the peel so that the millions of people globally that get their morning grapefruit fresh can know that there are a few dozen medications the fruit might interact with.
Something similar exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island
Yes, definitely.

I have found a podcasts in a field I am mildly interested in -- not enough to be so engaging that it keeps me awake, but not so boring as to let my distracting thoughts overpower it. I put the volume as low as I can, but not so low that I'm focusing hard to listen/follow the conversation.

I don't have any data about how fast I'm falling asleep, but I'd say it's probably 15-30min typical. A single one hour show can last me a few nights with a bit of overlapping playback -- e.g. night 1 start at 0min, night 2 start around 20-25min in, night 3 start about 35-45 min in and sometimes hit the end & have to start the next episode.