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Am I a super genius?

I've heard people say this for years and have never experienced it, and I've done plenty of development while tired.

Certainly the next day, with a clearer head, I can see the mistakes I couldn't before, but I've never been so off-the-rails-wrong that I literally just trashed it all and started over.

I would be interested in a poll to see if this is a common thing for people. Do I have a super power in being able to work reasonably well in less than perfect circumstances?
That's a negotiation tactic that wouldn't work so well if the employees realized that a robust economy provides them opportunity to also treat their employer as replaceable.
I find explosions are the worst specifically the sound of them. Far away exploding things don't make a sound the instant the explosive explodes there's a delay. What funny is the delay makes it dramatic it's intuitive to humans far away means delay.
https://webkit.org/
Better this than quantitative finance or ads.
Well said.

I agree, allowing bad opinions to be countered publicly is really important. Peer pressure is way more effective in changing bad opinions than unilateral pressure from someone preconceived to be a political enemy. The latter usually just cements bad opinions as justified.
Yet another reason to have a quick test suite and build pipeline?

I feel like having to wait for more than a few seconds to get the reward would remove the instant gratification our brains crave.

That's an interesting setup. I could certainly use something like that: I'm writing my PhD manuscript, and depriving myself of rewards (hobbies) until I'm done, but it seems like my brain can't really understand long-term rewards instinctively.
I already have a few hooks that compute the number of lines when I push a commit; I could see myself wiring this up to boil water for a tea, or something similar. Want to take a coffee break? Work a bit first! Avoids procrastinating to some extent, while adding some kind of gamification to the self-discipline (having only myself standing between me and the reward is sometimes not enough).

Well, I guess I'll just pretend I have such an elaborate setup; and only build it once I'm done writing ;)
Well it wasn’t MIT but it wasn’t DeVry either. My guess is his curriculum is pretty representative of the current state of things.
This was an informative comment. Thanks. Sounds like I was over-zealous switching from Chrome because of DoH (seeing as even Firefox does it by default). Am I correct that disabling DoH (in Firefox) with a PiHole is a safe way to browse ad free?
Systems is legitimate academic CS. It is different from modern business or web application development in important ways, but it is at least hands-on-keyboard edit-compile-test cycle work, not math. You should should understand how an operating system, network stack, database, etc. works by having implemented significant parts of them in homework. That is part of the virtue of having a CS education, as opposed to a trade education. A CS education with only math is at best incomplete.

And to bang on my usual academic CS bugbear on HN: algorithms is one class. It might be the most important class, or the only class in the intersection of all CS experiences, but each person's experience includes like 15 other courses. Some, perhaps even most of those should be systems. And systems classes should include substantial C programming.
No, GP is a legit comment. Everything you say about Iran is also true of Saudi Arabia (in the sense of the ruling regime being autocratic and oppressive) but it's expedient for the establishment in the US to condemn one regime and support the other.
I’ve been to germany and belgium recently and frankly wasnt impressed. German roads are constantly under maintenance - cant they just build them right or why are they constantly being fixed? Belgian motorways had potholes in them and were poorly marked.

Also most germans dont own the properties they live in and their savings would last enough for maybe a month.

Anyway the idea is that there are issues everywhere in europe you just need keep your eyes wide open. The solution is policies that benefit everyone.

Also i doubt spanish politicians are that corrupt. Or indeed any within the eu. There is corruption in the eu and even germany but nowhere near that level.
It’s not that simple. Tracking doesn’t universally increase spend to all niche content, it reduces spend to some niche content and increases it to other niche content. So there would be some changes to which niche content is created but it’s not going away.

Just look at how much YouTube content is sponsored via an Ad inside the video. That isn’t tied to your personal history.
It seems overly complicated. Is there any benefit over using Docker?
PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools (2021)
> starting a business around AI is a bad idea

It's not based around AI. It's based around content creation. The AI part is just the means to the end.

These methods allow for easy content creation. It's akin to an industrialization of the mind. We're now currently searching for the best human interface to control the outputs so we can attain the results we want immediately and with high fidelity.

Once the images and sounds in your brain can immediately jump to the screen, you'll see what this has all been about.

I don't see how this is at all comparable to object oriented programming. These techniques solve real business and social needs. They automate entire decades of learning, hours of toil, and free up enormous capital.
Your neighbor is planning on investing money saved for retirement in a scheme you know will lose all the money. Do you stand by and do nothing?

I'd say no, of course not. You tell them it's a bad move. You don't give them a lift to the bank so they can withdraw the money.

I wouldn't advocate breaking their arms so they're unable to sign the paper work but there has to be things you can do short of watching them ruin their lives (or actively helping them), right?
Not the OP, but I’m surprised this is not already possible - seems like a basic, consumer-friendly feature, and might also reduce chargebacks.
>There is no way to export a Go struct for consumption via FFI, for instance.

I hope not.

>Using TS, you can import any valid JS module without any special preparation

Why does the DTS ecosystem exist then (https://www.npmjs.com/package/@types/node etc)
On the topic of obtaining a science background, you can try working through/skimming some textbooks regarding the topics that interest you.
Towing with My Ford Lightning EV Pickup Was a Total Disaster
> Now I know what he was afraid of.

Are you implying cops are on heightened alert for bridge detonations in the US? If so, why?
I mean sure, IDE’s are an obvious choice for Java. But the rest of the usages of Java in SunOS I would consider token at best.

One thing I never understood was why I couldn’t just write some Java, compile it [0], and hand the result to someone else on a Solaris system, and have them run it.

Sure, they may know how to run “java -jar myapp.jar”, but why was that necessary? Why couldn’t it be a standalone executable, that didn’t require the end user to know in advance that it was written in Java and to invoke it accordingly?

Every single bit of Java software I ever used on Solaris always had some sort of shell script wrapping it. I never understood why the operating system couldn’t just natively execute Java code… they literally wrote the entire operating system, language, compiler, toolchain, etc, and the end result wasn’t usable without arcane wrapper scripts and JAVA_HOME conventions and so forth. Windows managed to make it work with .NET (they were just .exe’s like everything else), I always thought like Sun could have done so much better with the end-user experience with running Java software.

[0] for any loose, reasonable definition of “compile”. I’m not saying it can’t be byte code, that’s fine… I just don’t want to have to care. I should be able to copy it to /usr/bin and just run it without having to invoke “java -jar”, or use some weird self-extracting shell script trick. And I shouldn’t have to care about whether the person I’m distributing it to has Java installed, because it should have always been the case that a given SunOS machine should have a working Java install… the same company made the OS and the language for chrissakes, every SunOS installation should have had it as a mandatory component.
They’re not supposed to say hey are you trying to kill yourself let me help with that.
I’ve never understood the focus on the grocery bags over the thousands of SKUs in the store that are wrapped in single use plastic.
> The idea that a magical new engine would suddenly appear that made many of the things in the tv series possible.

Assuming you're talking about the Epstein Drive and not the protomolecule... it didn't suddenly appear, it was invented. And, surprisingly enough, it's way closer to realistic than most scifi.

http://toughsf.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-expanses-epstein-dri...

> The idea that there would be a complete backtrack in labor rights and labor safety (the ice asteroid mining scene).

What labor laws cover the asteroid belt today? Or, closer to home, the moon? If an earthly nation claims some territory out there its own and seeks to enforce the law, that's one thing. But what if a private company sends workers out there in unclaimed space? Humanity hasn't had access to such a lawless frontier in centuries, but we've got a lot of ugly history to look back on. Civil rights are not won by optimists, they're won through bloody and protracted fights. Look no further than Apple to see that companies in today's economy are still fully on board with slavery and sweatshops, and Apple is one of the "good guys" known for holding vendors' feet to the fire over human rights abuses.
> There are broadly two different design decisions possible here:

> - Require specifying what operations are possible in the function signature. These can be checked at call-sites of myGenericFunc. There are various approaches to this – Go interfaces, Rust traits, Haskell type classes, C++ concepts and so on.

> - Don’t require specifying the operations needed up-front; instead, at every call-site, instantiate the body of myGenericFunc with the passed type arguments (e.g. T = Int, S = Void), and check if the body type-checks. (Of course, this can be cached in the compiler to avoid duplicate work if one has a guarantee of purity.)

As a C++ programmer by trade, its interesting to see C++ as a language go from the 1st approach (via inheritance) to the 2nd approach (via templates). The 2nd approach feels weirdy dynamic, and it's interesting to see a return to the first approach with C++20's concepts.
Reinventing Game Night
Under which conditions?
Are there any good, free desktop hypervisor apps for ARM macOS at this point? I always used VirtualBox on Intel but they don't support ARM guests on ARM hosts so I've been stuck using qemu, which is not so great performance-wise. I know I can use the APIs linked here but I would rather not build my own hypervisor client if at all possible haha
There have been quite some interesting social science talks at the last iterations of the congress. E.g. regarding the interaction between technology and society, quantitative analysis on bots on social media and such.

So whatever weird prejudice you seem to showcase here, maybe it is worth considering to get over yourself for something that interests... hackers. It is a hacker conference after all, and believe it or not technology also intersects with social sciences in interesting ways.
I am not arguing in favour of the repression of people's rights. You're misreading me entirely.

But I am arguing about the nature of said rights and where they come from.

People like me on the socialist left have never harboured any illusion that pieces of paper like constitutions protect people from oppression by the state.

Rights come from collective, mass power. People in the streets. When the state and its corporate masters is threatened, it will use force to put it down.

It's not a matter of favoured tribe. It's a matter of pointing out the preposterous nature of libertarian ideology. It tries to refocus the frame out of the actual material conditions of what is happening to the world, onto pieces of paper. But remains blind to the actual physical conflicts in the world. And in the end most so-called constitutionalists will turn a blind eye to repression of the left when it becomes a threat to the order that they benefit from.
Going after hate speech also has a better long term outcome, as opposed to growth of radicalisation.
"Terrorism" does have a real meaning, but in practical real-world effect its meaning is potentially or actually lethal acts of violence/destruction by groups we refuse to recognize as legitimate. Yes, that sucks. I wish people would use the word more honestly.
That's why you need to make a real effort to prevent things like this one from happening (identify critical areas, make necessary changes) and when it happens, take an action immediately.
Thanks for a thoughtful response

> Why wait ten years? If you think an infant will burn you out now it won't get easier in ten years.

Will be in my 30, and will have accomplished more and have more resources.

> Why have a child when you plan to have strangers (nanny, schools) do most of the work?

Did you homeschool?

I don't see what makes changing diapers or keeping infants from killing themselves a very enriching way of spending energy.

I'm interested in the dinner conversations, weekend activities and holidays, and in nurturing a child's imagination, creativity and character.

> Regardless of all of your plans and precautions... Children have their own personalities and eventually their own wants and desires and plans. A big part of the fun of raising children comes from watching that new person grow and take shape... Your plan seems to take all the joy and wonder out of having a child and parenting. Some things merit the "very intentional" approach, but relationships and children don't fit that category for me.

I think you're reading into what I've said, quite a bit.

Just because I don't control the growth of a tomato plant, doesn't mean I don't want to design its soil, sun exposure, and hydration conditions to the best of my abilities.

Thanks again
I was thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev#Life_in_reti...
Certainly I wouldn't say that every single niche benefits from targeted advertising without exception. There are exceptions to every rule. But the vast, overwhelming majority of niche content would be worse off without targeted advertising, and this would overall have a strongly negative effect on the diversity of content produced.
Yankee Candle reviews indicate that Covid is about surge again
Curb Your Enthusiasm was filming an episode during a baseball game. A man accused of killing someone walked into frame as part of the crowd and that was proof of his location at the time of the crime.

YouTube video of 60 Minutes Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V5Cj8d43Yw
I think the big question is once broken, and the kids finally start not completely breaking you every week... can you rebuild with the pieces left :)

We'll see! I have 10+ years to go before I'll find out for sure.
And how much training and guiding did that take? It's not like they hit "generate" and the first try made some good music. This definitely took a ton of human guidance and curation.
Really good talk by Bryan Cantrill (co-founder of Oxide Computer COmpany) on the problems with closed source firmware and the need to move away from BIOS and EFI and how they booted their own x86 AMD custom board system all made with open source firmware and without using AMD's firmware.
Constitutional Amendment Proposals with Broad Cross-Ideological Support
The whole thread makes me want to rewatch Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines.
Meta AI Open Sources AITemplate, a Python Framework That Transforms DNN into C++
A strength of a language's features is if the user can extend it with library types. Needing special syntactic and semantic sugar is a sign of expressive weakness.

(Though too much expressability can also lead to problems, like adding nitro injection to your car.)
The closest thing I’ve seen to a comprehensive write-up is this: https://medium.com/@mreichelt/how-to-show-x11-windows-within... (medium, unfortunately)

We’ve been using it experimentally to run an ephemeral instance of Firefox that we can programmatically inject DNS and CA certs into, for localhost HTTPS development. It’s not documented yet, but the config is here: https://github.com/drifting-in-space/plane/pull/201
> I've literally always had need for validations, background jobs, translations, authentication, authorization, migrations, orm/data libraries, CLI commands for maintenance tasks,

Sure, I was simplifying to make a point, of course I use all of those. My main point however was that there are defined, standardized solutions for all of those. It's not like there's that much churn in authentication libraries for example, most people would use Passport or just JWT.

> but that's a lot of work to get it right, documented, secured and battle proven.

It's really not, because again, solutions are pretty standardized.
Pretty sure I downloaded it and it let me set up a machine with or without qemu. Asked if i want virtualization or emulation.
Starbucks belongs to its shareholders, end of story.

If unions hadn't seized political power to grant themselves unjust power these leeches, which is what they undoubtedly are, would be where they deserve, fired.

They are suppliers of labor, and should be treated like any other supplier of any other good or service, rather than being privileged by the force of law.
Charlie Brown would like a word..
Private companies can still pay dividends if they want to!
What scares me about US legal system is; Elected prosectutors are motivated by high conviction rate for obvious reasons (re-election and politics of it all). Add the fact that their line of work requires competitive personalities and you become just but a number, especially if you don't have competent cousel. I'm not saying ALL public defendors are incompetent, but we see to many cases of ineffective representation when the accused cannot afford a high powered attorney.

Yes - you should be scared of ordinary prosectutors in suits doing their "best" job more than a gang member for example! They want are motivated to win at all cost... short of obviously illegal ways.
The first bank to only authorize purchases with 3DSecure lowers the fraud rate a lot, but people with multiple cards will mostly choose to use other cards, because it's less friction.

Anyway, the merchant eats fraud for card not present transactions. So why would the bank choose to reduce its payment volume in order to reduce fraud it doesn't even have to pay for?

If the merchant says 3D Secure only, it reduces fraud, but also reduces payment volume, because most customers will choose to use a merchant with less friction, especially if their issuing bank doesn't do 3D Secure, or it's broken when they go to purchase.

Reducing fraud is good for merchants, but it the drop in sales may not be worth it. There's a lot of other things merchants can do to reduce fraud that aren't likely to cut into sales as much.
It blows my mind we can enslave, murder, ostracize an entire people and culture for hundreds of years and think "alright we're good" will fix it all.

It isn't a simple problem, there is no one simple solution, but saying "never provide any extra help in education nor acknowledge systemic issues in criminal justice and housing" is pretty shallow.

Of course, being an actual social democracy would get us really far, but poor conservative white people can't imagine a better life for themselves and poor black people. Effective government is evil to them.
China lashes out at latest U.S. export controls on chips
Because what they really want is to leech off of their betters sucess.
Thanks for the kind words! Reading 500+ submissions/month was a little too much for a hobby project, but I'm always hopeful that I'll figure out a sustainable way to restart publishing original stories.
Thanks for the link. I never used MacOS back in the day, but it looks beautiful running on the iPad. I used iPads from the first to the 2017 Pro model as my primary computers on the go, but the lack of a terminal and Unix tools (zsh, rsync, openssh) did them in for me. I miss the the Apple Pencil, which I found fantastic for drawing.

Do you have any videos of you drawing on the iPad in artWORKS or UltraPaint? Would love to see it, since I don't have an iPad to try it on.
I am reading prop1A, and it seems to propose that 9.95 billion is enough for a 800-mile railway.

http://vigarchive.sos.ca.gov/2008/general/argu-rebut/argu-re...
Why on earth would Russia blow up one of their own most important sources of both income and leverage over Europe?
Anyone else worried by the title that Bryan is going to setup an autocratic triumvirate?
This is sadly true and I whole-heartedly agree with you...

It's because I didn't find a way to construct only parts of the fractals based on the viewport. Many of the fractals you can see in the garden are generated iteration by iteration and generating the next iteration for only the visible part is not a trivial problem to solve... I struggled thinking about a solution for this, but in the end gave up in favor of having more fractals.

For the Mandelbrot Set the above is not the case, but the zoom there is still very limited due to precision issues in WebGl (a float has only limited bits, even for high precision floats) and things get horribly slow if trying to implement arbitrary precision on the GPU.

There are some ideas around "perturbation theory" that can help to get more zoom on the Mandelbrot Set (still not infinite) but I had a very hard time wrapping my head around how to implement that in a shader.

But please, if you have ideas of how to fix this - the project is open source and it would be 100% awesome if it were possible to nicely zoom in/out of all of them.

I opened an issue on the repo:
https://github.com/trebeljahr/fractal-garden/issues/22
Authoritarian regimes love apologists and quislings.
Ferdium [1] will at least cover Discord/Slack/Mattermost/Teams, if not Signal, iMessage and IRC.

"Ferdi is a hard-fork of Franz, and Ferdium is a hard-fork of Ferdi" [2].

The available services are listed here [3].

[1]: https://ferdium.org/

[2]: https://github.com/ferdium

[3]: https://github.com/ferdium/ferdium-recipes/tree/main/recipes
Instead of there being competing spaced repetition programs and services, I'd much rather companies just go down the route of making well-curated, frequently updating Anki decks and putting them behind a paywall instead.

Refold, a company focused on language learning, does exactly this [0], and having tried their JP1K deck for Japanese for a while, I can say without any hesitation that it was shocking just how high quality everything was.

It had the full works: Japanese audio, kanji, furigana, multiple definitions, a custom background, etc. And I wouldn't be surprised if there were even more changes since the last time I tried it.

I recall there being something similar to this for medical programs, but overall I'd say that this approach sadly isn't something that a lot of people are focusing on.

[0] https://refold.la/decks
It's very nice and I look forward to adding to to it.

I wonder if you(or someone else) knows of a general tool for exploring L-systems? As you comment, 'all L-systems are related', but I've had a hard time navigating the theoretical literature on this. For several years now I've been looking for a way to examine a tree or other network and extrapolate a structural 'recipe' for it. I'll get this Algorithmic Beauty of Plants book but would love to hear of any resources you know for 'reverse engineering' L-systems from existing tree structures.