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> Most of the advice I've seen pretty much goes by "just try to be least conductive target around"

But also try to be not around a slightly worse conductor, like a tree. A slightly better conductor is also not a good idea (getting 1/2 of the current is still deadly).
Don't tell the aliens about the missing 12 days in 1752: https://www.augustachronicle.com/story/lifestyle/columns/201...
At least we all agree that as one week is 7 days, when we say we'll meet in two weeks, that'll be in 14 days. Right, guys? Oh no...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quinze_jours
Don’t Let Ukraine Drag America into War (2018)
Same in the US, an old teacher of mine said she put herself through college on a job waiting tables in the 70s. There's very small chance of that now
Why We Are Choosing Go?
I understand this is the slippery slope fallacy, but the public schools book ban easily become a public library book ban (didn't that already happened?), and that's a bit worrying, especially when you already have book burning events organized in the US.

This honestly one topic i would really hate saying 'i told you so'.

And for people who don't think it's possible that this will go this far, that's ok but please don't be dismissive and explain to your worried friends why you think it will stop at school libraries.
In NZ, all legal weights and measures are metric, yet for some stubbornly cultural reason we still tend to discuss height in feet and inches (ladies on dating apps who are discriminating on height will specify that you need to be 6 foot, not 183cm) the weight of a newborn baby in pounds (but only for newborn babies!), and order our beer in pints, which generally means "a large glass of beer somewhere between 400 and 600mL". Also for some reason ordering a "12th" means a "half pint", and I'm really not sure why.

But the good craft beer places have a sign saying what their pints are in millilitres to prevent unpleasant surprises when you were expecting 568mL but got 425mL.
Rarely have I had such a negative reaction to a blog post, for 2 main reasons:

1. The author seems to "mysticize" tradition, basically taking the approach "sometimes you just have to take things on faith". Which I think is complete nonsense. If you look at the traditions that "work", like the manioc processing given in the article, this is basically just the scientific method at work, but where we've lost the documentation. That is, people in the past surely did do trial and error to find out what processing works best, e.g. someone likely boiled the tapioca first to see that it lost its bitter taste, and then later others probably determined if they further processed it that it had fewer side effects (e.g. less bloating) that had long term benefits. But the important point is we should be glorifying the scientific method of trial and error here, not the "losing the documentation" part that the author wants us to do. As a close analogy, many many flight rules and regulations are born out of past tragedies, where something went wrong, we analyzed the root cause, and then came up with rules to prevent those causes. If we suddenly lost all the documentation and history as to why we built those rules in the first place, we would call it "tradition", but we would still be worse off compared to when we had a deeper, rational understanding of why we created those rules.

2. As others have pointed out, if "tradition is smarter", we'd also still be foot-binding in China, female circumcision wouldn't be questioned as the mutilation that it is, and slavery would be an acceptable form of division of labor. There are tons of traditions that are total shit, and were just propagated because they served to reinforce the power structures that existed at the time.

Traditions deserved to be questioned. Those that are worth keeping should stand up to rational inquiry.
Edison Motors – A Worthy Electric Semi
By the same token, you should have no privacy, because knowledge and information (about you) wants to be free, and you will lose that fight. I don’t think that’s a sensible argument.
Because of the linkbait "you" (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). The site guidelines ask to remove linkbait: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We like to do minimal edits to titles, so taking a substring is often best. I was feeling proud of myself for figuring out how to do that in this case, until I noticed that the previous submission had figured out the same thing.
I was recently listening to population growth lecture from 90s Yale and among few things that really struck me was a phrase that said something to the effect of 'while the locals may object over their personal interests, we, the elite, may see it through a more wide economic lens'. It was fascinating and it helped me understand the deeply ingrained distrust in US population of the educated 'elite'. I always thought thought it was largely uninformed bias, as I keep listening to old Yale lectures, I learn that US populace is a lot smarter than most give it credit.
Unsurprising because it never got past bro culture in the first place.

All the diversity stuff was always “box ticking”, in David Graeber’s taxonomy of bullshit jobs.

Though I don’t really blame the industry, the bureaucracy of diversity initiatives rarely leave room for actual progress.
This sounds nice but is not true.
The bigger the system is, the more value you get from exceptions.

The cost is that cleanup operations have to be in destructors. Do that, and exceptions demand almost no attention.

Problems show up only when some prima donna declares throwing exceptions from what they call isn't allowed.
Usually these kinds of views come along with ideas about other models that can recompense creators (including software engineers).

For example, the Lawyer example is used often - once the lawyer makes the argument, it's in the public domain and can be used by others, but you still pay the lawyer to compose the argument. There are also models where the durable software artifacts are free, but you pay people to support your use of them. Then there are the older models that used to be used a lot in the music and art world. A wealthy benefactor (or in this day and age, crowd) pays for a trusted artist / musican / architect / coder to create something, both for their enjoyment but also for their fame and renown.
I think the point of the article is to look at things from am engineering/scientist perspective where saying such things would get you fired/scrutinized.
For blackouts that last less than a day one or two 10Ah+ power banks with a flashlight built-in should be enough.

Remember to dress well so you won't freeze
I honestly prefer the default version. Less scrolling to do.
Is Amazon unlimited different to Kindle unlimited? Because I did mention that.

In terms of typo's, one of the biggest on RR is Defiance of the Fall which has its fair share.

I should be clear, I frankly don't care about typo's or grammar and have about 15 active follows on RR, but it is a major criticism I've seen from other readers who have a harder time tolerating such things. The thing I do have an issue is that often stories are stretched out with tedious filler content because the web serial model relies on regular updates to work, even if the author is stuck or has nothing meaningful to say in order to move the story on.

That being said, I still expect this model to significantly eat into the traditional fiction publishing model because it just has too many advantages for both the readers and the authors.
I agree, and Chesterton agrees. He's very explicit in saying that if you can accurately identify the reason a fence is there and that reason is no longer applicable or was never a very good one, you are justified in removing it. The point isn't to never tear down a fence, it's to question your impulse to tear down every fence the instant you see one.

It's very much the same idea as "don't start ripping out and refactoring 'legacy' code on your first day on the job." You may actually have inherited a completely garbage code base, but you may also simply not understand the constraints that dictated the architecture you've been given. Once you understand those constraints, refactor away!

With regards to your example: Dietary laws may well be outdated, but modern Jews may also argue that setting themselves apart is still a very worthwhile reason to avoid pork—it's probably part of the reason why they managed to remain a separate culture even without a proper homeland, and remaining a distinct culture is valuable to them.
How exactly will rolling blackouts work when the grid spans many countries? What's to stop Germany saying they will pay more to keep some industry running if Poland turns off electricity to some homes?
I'm a little bit surprised nobody pointed out the obvious.

When we first communicate with aliens about our time system we will start by explaining unix epoch.

Only than will we break out the spaghetti code required to map dates and zones and the uncertainty of some historical jumps.
> performance tends to be a major objective

My comment is about the thinking behind making this decision, C++ or not.
It wasn't "is it speculative that GC will add a cost?" or something like that.

I wonder how much of the thinking that leads one to conclude "I need so much performance here that I can't afford a managed language", for example, is real carefully thought vs. speculative.
There is absolutely nothing "bro" like about neveau rich nerds pretending to be down with the jocks.
>solar is NOT viable in cold-weather climates

I agree with a lot of what you say, but also don't fall into the trap of what you are accusing others of doing.

In places like Germany, Wind and solar actually counter-balance each other very well. [0]

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Seasonal-cycle-of-the-ca...
The idea of Sol as a Syrian god has been challenged recently:

It was long thought that Sol Invictus was a Syrian sun-god, and that Aurelian imported his cult into Rome after he had vanquished Zenobia and captured Palmyra. This sun-god, it was postulated, differed fundamentally from the old Roman sungod Sol Indiges, whose cult had long since disappeared from Rome. Scholars thus tended to postulate a hiatus in the first centuries of imperial rule during which there was little or no cult of the sun in Rome. Recent studies, however, have shown that Aurelian’s Sol Invictus was neither new nor foreign, and that the cult of the sun was maintained in Rome without interruption from the city’s earliest history until the demise of Roman religion(s). This continuity of the Roman cult of Sol sheds a new light on the evidence for priests and temples of Sol in Rome.

http://romanrepublic.org/roma/wp-content/uploads/attachments...
We really need to update the system of years, it gives way too much weight to Christianity and serves as reinforcement to their misguided belief that their religion is somehow preeminent. It also gives the impression to the general public that history "began" at year 0, rather than being clear that recorded human history goes back around 5000 years.

Living in the year 5022 gives a much different perspective of history than starting at some random time in the middle of the Roman Empire. The other option is beginning the calendar at the first transistor or the first nuclear explosion signaling modern times.

The we could fix the months and be done with it.
This happens even in my US city.

When there is a major protest that keeps the Police busy, criminals take the opportunity to loot stores while there is no law enforcement to stop them.
In the long run, nobody has any real privacy.
Sounds like a person who thinks they know better than everyone else, that the tradeoffs accumulated in a system are just arbitrary and worthless. “Tear it all down, I can build something MUCH better!”

I look forward to the day when this person’s wishes to not be shared on HN are granted in full.
There are quite a few different purchasing and lending models libraries use today. Outside of the big 4/5 publishers, many publishers will sell ebooks to libraries using a sim use model (pay 1 subscription fee and checkout as many times as possible over the period), and some will even let the library buy in that model perpetually.
When you remove something from the software you are improving your understanding of it. I don't see how this example adds to your argument.
I see it in a lot of matlab code as well.
If New Year’s Day was still 25th March, that Twitter thread would have complained about the year starting partway through a month.

March 1st would make sense in terms of Sep/Oct/Nov/Dec having the right names for their place in the year.
For anyone interested in heart rate accuracy and sleep tracking accuracy I will recommend to check The Quantified Scientist reviews.

From his latest reviews of the new apple watches, heart rate is pretty much on par with chest strap and sleep tracking is also far better than anything he tested.

Apple Watch : Scientific Sleep Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPqtfC70QTU
In Portuguese, Monday-Friday are numbered (2a-feira - 6a-feira).

I wonder if are there other languages also presenting this feature. I believe there are.
Slide 37: can't even use ++ anymore. Ouch. (at least on volatile, but still)

Best line in the deck:

"Only write complicated code when you truly need performance. Comment if you do...."
There's a lot there.

Let's get the technical part done first.

Historically after you create object files the linker doesn't care what c++ standard the source was. So you could carefully combine different standards. I guess I have to establish I'm talking about the GNU toolchain here and that it's been a few years since I've done this. I'll try it again when I get home, maybe that all blows up now.

Now about the other parts. I totally agree with you. However we're dealing with humans and if they see incrementing numbers then the word "upgrade" and "deprecated" and "unsupported", maybe even "inefficient" gets bandied about just because we're using numbers.

We have to go back to the core lesson of Perl 6, it shouldn't have been called Perl 6 because it suggests a hierarchical comparison and relationship that isn't an accurate depiction of reality.

I wish everyone was sincere and competent but there's a natural tenancy to act based on the context that a structure affords.

Churchill stated it as "we shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us".

So if the standards are better understood as siblings of each other then we need to brand them accordingly and not through a structure that suggests hierarchy, quantity of features, and degrees of relevance.

Thanks for your response. I enjoyed reading it
It's actually the "Tu Quoque" fallacy (or the hypocrisy fallacy).

But it is ironic, at least, that the organization is asking for money ...
The Star Commander
Using this as an example of "tradition being wrong" in the context of the linked article is literally peak autism on top of the fact that our "common sense" understanding of physical processes being wrong (is it even wrong at the level of abstraction we work on?) says nothing about our understanding of social phenomena.
I think:

If a coffee shop opens at 5am, they say that. They never say 29.

If a bar stays open UNTIL 5am, they say 29.
I feel like the poor (probably knuckleless) alien would definitely be sobbing at that :)
> defends it in any way, and shame on a culture that thinks it is okay.

It?
I love when someone pushes a bullshit narrative so hard they shoot themselves in the foot.

To answer your 'question'- because he is actively going against the CIA narrative.

Since you obviously didn't read the article let me enlighten you with a quote from it '"The narrative just was going the wrong way. And no matter what I did or said to people, that just continued," Andrews said. "In fact, to this day, a lot of things that were done seemed not appropriate to my standards."
Some officers who were impacted didn't want to report for fear of damaging their careers, Andrews said.'

This shouldn't need to be said, but let me do so anyways to avoid you muddying the waters further: one doctor from the CIA going counter to his higher-ups' narrative is why I believe 'a CIA doctor'. One doctor blowing a whistle is not the same as the entire CIA.

They sowed this distrust themselves, and your comments are far from helping their current PR push.
...which is triggered by a radio signal.
Yes, and for some theirs is the main one. It's now year 2565 BE in Thailand, you won't really see "2022" that much outside of strictly tourist-oriented references. Use a Thai VPN when googling and that's the date you will see in search result listings.

I believe the next version of ISO 8601 is expected to support different calendar & time systems.
And that explanation falls apart instantly when you consider the fact that the FBI was criticized by a neutral third party for removing some of the wreckage without any documentation.
That would be quite fun to setup - especially all the patches to the leap year setup heh. Could even make bug reports “Christmas is happening in March what is going on”
From Rob Pike - One of the creators of Go. see https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...

A lot of command line tooling is being written in Go along with systems software (like basically all of container land). Maybe some of these would have otherwise been written in C or C++. For example, if you use the Azure storage GUI to manage storage the underlying "thing" that copies data from your filesystem to azure storage is written in Go and that's why it works on Windows, Linux, MacOS. C++ is somewhat more portable than C so maybe something like that would have been written in C++? Who knows? But Go is definitely showing up in all sorts of native, command-line stuff. And Rob Pike - one of the people who developed Go - intended it to be a new home for C++ developers as well.
> Books also don't have the secondary income stream of live performance, so they're even more at risk of major loss.

Lecture offers are secondary income streams for nonfiction authors (actually very similar to what live performances are for music).

Also, it would perfectly possible for publishing houses to find secondary income streams if they desired, but it is easier to complain about illegal copies than to find new income sources:

Just to give one possible example that could open new secondary income streams for publishing houses: why don't publishing houses sell rights for remixing or generating derived works of their published works, for example so that fanfiction becomes legal if the fanfiction author paid his fee instead of - as of today - fanfiction being in a legal grayzone?
> How many languages actually take advantage of the fact that they could get more performance out of "small" register sized integers?

Er...all of them? I am not aware of one that uses growable integers as their default integer representation that does not use some form of tagged pointer optimisation.

> Glitchy output isn't good

Hmm...understating the problem here just a tad.

"In 2021, they ranked 12th in the updated Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) list of the most common flaws, bugs, faults, and other errors in either hardware or software. The team behind the list ranked integer overflows just after “Missing Authentication for Critical Function”, due to the severity and prevalence of integer overflows."

https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/intege...

> Some buggy code path is trying to allocate a 10 GB integer can be worse

Hmmm...overstating the problem here just a tad. Not even sure how you'd manage that, given that that would be an integer with 4 billion digits.
Back when I was a night owl, I considered “today” to last until about 5am when you start hearing birds outside. Aligning semantic days with your schedule is incredibly convenient.

Now that I’m a morning person, the same concept of 5am semantic days still works perfectly. The day begins about 20min before my alarm.
Funny. The listed items that are disputed over credit among these academics are actually quite trivial, and probably mentioned by many, for as long as neural networks and AI discussions go.

Also, the rise of people like Yann to fame is largely due to the commercialization of machine learning applications and the explosion of computer science, data and computing. Training CNNs was an important step, but I would say if attention was focused on neural networks, it would have been immediately discovered.
I've done both, both were equally miserable tbh
The SnackWell Effect
Starlink is definitely filling the niche market of providing internet connectivity in rural and sparsely populated areas where firms with traditional business models with fiber-optics based network are not incentivized to provide. The real question is: will Starlink become profitable by in turn finding a big enough market itself to be able to cover the Billions of dollars of cost of manufacturing, launching and maintaining these satellites? Elon Musk seems to be open to separate Starlink business from SpaceX and list it publicly in future (he tweeted something in that regard previously [1]) so it seems like he definitely thinks Starlink can become a profitable business in near future.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/07/spacex-starlink-ipo-elon-mus...
begging the metaphor is one approach when attempting to defend an indefensible position
> From what I hear/read, these days its more or less the same everywhere

Things are absolutely not like this everywhere. I don't know where you got this idea that things can never be better than terrible, but it isn't true.

> My goal of doing bare minimum is to teach them a lesson

I mean, you do you, but to me this vindictive motive reads as super unprofessional and could backfire on your career, even outside of this company. It's one thing if you're trapped at this job because of circumstances outside of your control, but assuming you have the opportunity to look for something else, you owe yourself more than to intentionally stay in a toxic workplace just to get some kind of misguided revenge (?).

Move on. Your career is not a torpedo whose only remaining purpose is to detonate itself at a target that's done you wrong. Leave the toxicity behind and do something you'll feel good about.
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OK if you like 10-15% performance loss off the top.

And incompatibility with the rest of the world.
> Is that hard for you to read? Me too. There's a good reason why. You have to know what map, lambda, and .split() are.

This is pretty weak. Not knowing what a function or language feature does, doesn't make it inherently unreadable.
Clearly written by somebody who has never been utterly surprised by what image come from a prompt input.
I'm sure that one can identify exceptions but I suspect that anyone doing a daily commute at rush hour on public transportation just about anywhere would find plenty to complain about.
I don't want to actually even imagine what sort of hell an proper interstellar empire timekeeping is. Just ignore different planets having different orbital and rotational characteristic.

Just the basic relativistic effects even with some type of instant transfers would make most communication and so on massively painful mess.
Because they enjoy the taste and/or it's something very familiar and comforting to them; it's not at all difficult to understand.

Especially if someone is new to vegetarian food and don't know what those "zillions of awesome vegetarian dishes" even are, let alone how to prepare them.