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"On the Intersectionality of Java and Kangaroos"

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The Java language and the kangaroo are both of Australian origin. Java is the most widely used programming language in the world, and the kangaroo is the largest Australian mammal. Both are associated with Australia, but also with the wider Western world. Java has been described as the “quintessential global language”,[1] and the kangaroo is often used in the Western world to symbolise the Western world.[2]

The Java programming language

Java was created in 1994 by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, and was designed to be “simple, object-oriented, network-aware, multithreaded, and interpreted by a virtual machine”.[3] The Java language was created for the purpose of developing software that could run on any computer, and has become the most popular programming language in the world.[4] Java has been described as “the quintessential global language”,[1] and is the language used in the majority of websites around the world.[5]

Java has become so popular that it is often used as a synonym for “computer programming”,[6] and it is often argued that Java is the world’s most popular language.[7] This popularity has been attributed to its “write once, run anywhere” philosophy, which enables software to be easily shared between computers, and to the fact that it is “easy to learn, flexible, and can be used to create a wide range of applications”.[8]

Java is a very important part of the software industry, and has been described as “the most significant programming language in the history of computing”.[9] Java is often considered to be the “lingua franca of the Internet”,[10] and is the most popular programming language used on the Internet.[11]

Well... now we know!
Not really. I'm not sure I want it to behave the way GP suggests, but I definitely want to have staging, and `git commit -a` is basically an equivalent of having no staging.

The reasons for that are:

1. In the vast majority of cases there are multiple files I want to commit together. Usually I change them multiple times during the process.

2. It almost always starts with some debugging in a couple of other files, and I often want to keep that debugging for a couple of next commits, but `git checkout HEAD` these files in the end.

3. For me, the most popular way of using git rebase → edit (which I do reasonably often) is splitting a commit into 2 by separating files. This is easy enough by just changing a status of a file from "staged" to "modified" (I even have `git unstage` alias for that) and commiting.

So I kinda get why GP wants what he wants. This isn't crazy.

Now, that being said, I personally have absolutely no problems with how git does that now: I've figured out a workflow that solves these problems for me, and everything is ok now. This workflow is basically making many dozens of tiny commits to a branch without even bothering to name them properly, and then just doing `git rebase -i` many-many times while working on a single branch. So I just commit the code I don't intend to keep with a label "drop that", and drop these commits when I'm done. And other commits usually are heavily reordered and squashed into 3-5 larger commits that make some sense on a higher level (like 500 LOC of refactoring first, and then 1 LOC of an actual bug-fix, which usually makes much more sense than just 500 LOC of a bugfix, that solve the problem somehow, but it's absolutely not obvious how exactly). I rarely can figure out that separation before I'm done. In fact, I often fix the problem first, then refactor, then roll-back the fix just to add it again in a separate commit in the end (if the refactoring and the fix affect the same file, which also is often the case).
The problem with EA and other utilitarian systems of thought is two-fold. Firstly, you can't predict the future so really you're working off your biases. Secondly, unfettered by principles other than the end justifying the means, you can easily turn those aforementioned biases into justifications for committing horrible acts. Mass murder, or evidently, theft on a massive scale.

For instance:

"The technological revolution was a disaster for the human race... so I'm going to murder a few people to draw attention to my manifesto against technology."

"Social inequality is a disaster for the majority of my countrymen, so I'm going to murder the Bourgeoisie"

"My altruism is more effective than anybody else's, so I'm going to steal everybody else's money so that I can put it to better use."

How do you stop this shit? Deontological ethics. Don't murder, because murder is wrong. Don't steal, because stealing is wrong. Damn the consequences, stick to simple principles such as these.
It's not relevant to the topic at hand, which is whether or not most investors have lost money on Bitcoin for a very specific definition of "lost money". We can't talk about all things at all times. The discussion about Bitcoin's environmental impact can happen elsewhere.
You sound like someone who has witnessed the last 5 years.
I mean, it broke because utility isn't additive, which is the issue with utilitarian ethics generally.
The episode is much more fair to the publishers.

They specifically call out the Libby app as the turning point. Once it became super accessible for people to get ebooks through libraries, it started really putting the squeeze on publishers and authors.

In the episode they talk about how publishers started seeing the curve go parabolic and were basically forced into panic action to stay solvent. The money disappears on that side of the equation and full time authors are downgraded to working authors, and working authors are pushed out entirely.

On the other side though, what they've created is a system of winners and losers. Libraries have limited budgets and have to be choosy about what ebooks they're getting now. So fewer authors get a larger slice of pie. I do think that generally lines up with the demand for books now...but it means that it will be harder for new authors to break through.

It's really fascinating to me that, like they point out in the episode, everyone involved (authors, publishers, librarians) are passionate about books and getting people to read. They just need the economics to all work out, and that's where it gets super contrived.

Very complex issue and highly recommend the Planet Money episode.
Question: Will SBF still be a millionaire many times over after this?
The Submerged Continent of Zealandia
The article focuses a bit too much on the city and not enough on the civilization that it was a part of. I guess the fact that it's in the Lost Civilizations series is an indicator?

Anyway, for those not in the know – the city at Mohenjodaro is part of the rather extensive Indus Valley/Harappan Civilization that was contemporary with the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations (~3000BC onwards). The reasons for its decline aren't particularly well understood.

The script [2] of the IVC is as-yet undeciphered as well.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_script
Interest rates will keep going up till inflation comes back down. The inflation rate seems to be on the way back down. The slowing of demand and the unkinking of the supply chain seem to be having a positive effect.
Apple to Source Chips from Arizona Starting in 2024
I suppose twitter, in comparison with Google, MSFT, AMZN... seems less like a company that sells technology, and more a company that uses technology to sell a social experience.

Whether that alters the definition of tech company is another matter
he is probably talking about free will and at some level , we don't really control our desires. free will in that sense is an illusion at some deeper levels of desires.
My understanding was (and again, I mostly have more confusion than specific answers and was mostly only observing all this as a tiny instance admin listening to other instance admins I trusted):

- counter.social's admin "The Jester" was the "InfoSec expert to the stars" that was behind at least one of the post-GamerGate blocklists for the safety of celebrities that Wil had been recommending to other celebrities and because of that Wil had some sort of (para)social relationship with The Jester, at least on Twitter.

- In 2017 (nearly a full year before the mastodon.cloud incident), The Jester allegedly convinced Wil to join counter.social (or deeply faked an account for him on counter.social). [1]

- That @wilw@counter.social account went viral on Mastodon among instance admins because up until that point counter.social was only a weakly federated instance few were familiar with/"no one had heard of".

- counter.social going viral brought a lot of scrutiny on counter.social. It was quickly found to be full of accounts of transphobes and racists and worse.

- This lead to a public re-examining of The Jester's Twitter blocklists. Those blocklists were found to be themselves biased towards transphobia and subsequently celebrities were asked to disassociate with The Jester and stop using his blocklists.

- Most Mastodon instance admins I trusted blocked/defederated from counter.social in the middle of these events in 2017. (For what it was worth, I made the same decision and also blocked it.)

- I still don't think this association with counter.social was intentional by Wil. This part is mostly my speculation: It sounded like "InfoSec expert to the stars" The Jester had been trying to get any celebrity to take the bait to join Mastodon via his instance and it was a bit of an intentional honey pot trap from someone who had built up a "trustworthy" reputation on Twitter taking advantage of the consequences of GamerGate to build that reputation and only with hindsight seems to have been doing that "for the lols" and was pro-GamerGate while pretending to be anti-. (That era GamerGate of Twitter was a different time and wilder place. Hard to imagine people not having immediate paranoid reactions to someone calling themselves "The Jester" today, but hindsight is 20/20 and easy to armchair quarterback when not in the middle of the stress of it all.)

[1] The best receipt I have found so far is mastodon.social's ancient copy of the account profile and 2017 pinned intro post: https://mastodon.social/@wilw@counter.social (this is also what I saw on my own instance at the time and matches what my instance still shows; I don't trust counter.social enough to see if permalinks track all the way back into that instance's own slimy history.)

(ETA: Also, sadly counter.social has been in the Mastodon news again lately because new people in this massive wave of Twitter users looking for a Twitter alternative have been duped into thinking counter.social is a "safe" alternative to Twitter and not a Gab-like haven for trolls.)
One-line summary is to look at the fourier transforms of the integrand, fhat(x), then the integral is just fhat(0). The pattern is to multiply the integrand by sinc(x/k) for increasing k, and by fourier transform this is krect(komega). Since multiplication in time-domain is convolution in fourier domain, convolving rect with itself keeps eroding the edges of the rect, until eventually the erosion reaches the center and fhat*(0) dips.
He will likely end up in jail. If he's not in jail by the end of this there is just serious corruption.
The current title is inaccurate; it should be "AngelList Talent is now Wellfound". The investing part of AngelList is still AngelList: https://angellist.com
It’s because we threw away Christianity as a moral compass which many interpret similarly and the hole was filled with EA, woke, etc. These people just totally missed the point of why we ditched Christianity/religion in the first place. It wasn’t so we could replace it with a different socio-political hegemony or otherwise moralizing institution.
You don't have to look any further than the content curation for the US vs China.

They feed US users absolute nonsense while restricting that for their own people.

It absolutely is a weapon that people need to take seriously.
It's worth mentioning that organized EA is much more concerned with animal welfare and animal rights than a lot of the surrounding culture, so many EAs strongly advocate giving to animal-related causes. But they would still be concerned with having as large an impact as possible, so something to help 1,000,000 animals would be favored over something to help four.
Next time you see Musk pedo-projecting he'll be buying another company with Saudi loans.
One example is a technique used by people who are building up their strength to do pull-ups.

Instead of performing a regular pull-up, jump up and hold yourself in the "up" position on the bar. Next, lower yourself very slowly.

It's half a pull-up. Still provides exercise. Doable by people not strong/light enough for a full pull-up.
Wow, thanks for that, that is a fantastic write-up, and a pretty compelling argument (at least to me) that the mystery of MH370 has been mostly "solved" (spoiler alert: all evidence points to a murder-suicide by pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah).
> Why does it have to be like this?

Because motivated, high performing people need to have control over their own destiny. Because cookie-cutter solutions which work for 90% of use cases are often worse than something explicitly tuned for you.

People having specific needs, getting frustrated and then solving their problem is a feature of opensource code. Its not a bug. It is the engine of innovation and improvement. Forking means we can both get what we want, even if our needs are contradictory or we don't want to work together.

This happens with commercial offerings too - but its a mess. You can't just fork the code without paying (or sometimes at all). And every fork is private, so work is duplicated and collective learning doesn't happen. Expensive consulting-ware might be the best case outcome.

The ability of motivated people to fork projects and have their own spin on things is one of the biggest strengths of opensource. May the best forks win.
For what it's worth, you can do similar to "add -p" in VSC by using "Next Change" to scroll through a file in the diff view and adding hunks with individually with "Stage Selected Ranges".

It's a little slower than "add -p" but serviceable. Having editable diff in the diff view is really nice though.
Are we sure the world population is still increasing? I doubt anyone has accurate numbers in China and they some interesting demographic trends.
None of us have the context or facts of the case.

There are a myriad of possibilities:

0. Targeting an innocent person for political reasons

1. Person technically broke laws without intent

2. Person broke laws with intent of personal gain and/or foreign gain

Proving no. 2 is difficult/impossible unless they incriminated themselves somehow.
At this rate he'll have it sort of working in 10 years.
Mostly it's a method of assuaging the guilt and resolving the cognitive dissonance that comes with having left-wing values but also wanting to be very rich.
Would it be possible to use this for creative purposes, like a texture for a comic page?

This seems like it would be really useful for purposes like that, too.
At some nth level, we don't really control our desires or wants. The information that we receive from the enviornment is shaping our uncouncious leves of wants or desires. In that senese, it is very important to control or filter the information we receive from the environment to some achieveble extent.
For tracks that cannot justify the cost of electrification, you will want hydrogen trains. Battery trains make the least sense, since it is easier to electrify those short gaps than to buy an entire new class of locomotives.
Of course not, has any politician ever unless it benefited them? Have you seen trump? He literally made fun of disabled people and he refused to even slightly suggest that was a bit too much. I am not saying biden is better, to the contrary trump succeeded because he was great at the politics game - never show weakness, always look out for yourself and damned be anyone else you harm!
It appears to me that this bot is looking for repositories with course numbers in their names or descriptions and posting this notice.
Elon only trusts Elon. Employees, advertisers keep warning him about the risks
This depends on the state where the rescue happens. In Colorado, rescue is free in ask cases except for isolated cases of extreme negligence.
He's still posting on Twitter as though this is going to blow over. I don't get it. Is there a chance nothing is going to happen? What kind of advice is he getting?

"I’m meeting in-person with regulators and working with the teams to do what we can for customers." https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1592604699693580289

"So what can I try to do? Raise liquidity, make customers whole, and restart." https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1592710177152995328
Then some guys at Bell Labs developed "Unix" and... oh dear.
The founders of the Effective Altruism movement are mostly non-technical people. You can't blame their arrogance and failures on the "techbros".

The people mentioned on the Effective Altruism Wikipedia page:

Peter Singer: Professor of Bioethics (philosopher)

Toby Ord: Philosopher. Philosophy PhD, Computer Science bachelors

Hilary Greaves: Philosopher, and he double-majored in physics in undergrad

William MacAskill: Philosopher/Ethicist. PhD in philosophy.

Eliezer Yudkowsky: self-described autodidact, no formal education or notable work history. Runs a "AI" "Research" center called MIRI.

Holden Karnofsky: Co-Founder of GiveWell, Harvard degree in Social Studies

Yew-Kwang Ng: Welfare Economist, has published biology, mathematics, philosophy, cosmology, psychology, and sociology papers.

Derek Parfit: Philosopher. Has a history degree.

Nick Bostrom: Philosopher. BA in philosophy and math, MA in philosophy and physics.

Benjamin Todd: Physics/Philosophy double major, worked at Kodak for eight months and at an investment firm for 1.25 years before joining the Centre for Effective Altruism.

The financial backers are more diverse:

Dustin Moskovitz: Co-Founder of Facebook, Co-Founder of Open Philanthropy

Cari Tuna: Dustin's wife, previously worked as a reporter before cofounding Open Philanthropy

Dan Smith: Professional poker player

Liv Boeree: Professional poker player. Physics degree

Sam Bankman-Fried: con-artist, thief, fraudster. Has a physics degree and a minor in math, interned/worked as a trader at Jane Street, and founded Alameda Capital and FTX.
This article is a good succinct summary of events, especially for someone like me who isn't keyed into the "who's who" of the crypto world.
Why do we see replications of religious concepts and actions in all these modern replacement movements? Just call it tithing, for example.

Please stop repackaging the same garbage and calling it new.
As I wind down 16 years of twitter use, this suggests the benefits of newsletters.
It's cheaper to just electrify the gaps. His views are fundamentally nonsensical and shows that he hadn't really thought about the problem. Hydrogen trains are for remote tracks, sometimes thousands of miles of unelectrified rail. If you can't justify ever electrifying those tracks, then hydrogen trains are the obvious answer.
No, there's no world in which he is. Fraud on this level will see massive forfeiture as directed by the SEC and DOJ and then civil suits will clean up anything left afterward he's released from prison.
This right here. It isn't like these people were just shitting on Musk or Twitter randomly. They were literally responding to his very public post shitting on them, and in a constructive way that Musk was too sensitive to handle anyone disputing his version of facts. Just look at his lawsuit filings. He doesn't care if the facts are against him, he wants you to believe in his narcissism.
The article mentions its philosophical underpinnings: utilitarianism. There’s a wealth of philosophical discussion of its own merits and problems. Reading the article but having been unfamiliar with the “effective altruism” term, I immediately recognized utilitarianism in it and the rest was predictable. It seemed a perfectly good idea to me too for some time, and still does with a slew of caveats.

Giving it a simple name is fine, but it has one. Giving it a manipulative name is, well, one of the potential philosophical problems with utilitarianism.
The corporate structure surrounding FTX is so complex, and given that Elizabeth Holmes is still walking free, I would guess it will be a long long time before anyone involved here sees a jail cell.
What is proven harmless that's been covered in this thread?
Thank you for your work! I didn't realize software like this existed, will definitely try it out.
Most people's objections to git ergonomics is not that the commands are slow to type. VS Code exposes the exact same operations on the underlying repository as the CLI, and it's those operations that critics say are hard to understand and cumbersome to use.
First, I would imagine that this is probably the wrong community to ask. We're generally techies, not professional musicians! Your target audience is... not here. I'm sure there are a few pro musicians in the HN audience, but your sample size will be small.

BUT from a pure entrepreneurial and technical standpoint, maybe you're in the right place. Lots of startup folks here!

So with that in mind, here are some thoughts from me (who is definitely not a pro musician):

Here's the first question that popped into my mind: are there other companies that exist in this space? If the answer is no, there's _probably_ a reason for that. (eg, it's not profitable or it's not in demand). That's not to say you shouldn't do it, but maybe it's worth considering whether there's a different angle that gets you in the ballpark and _can_ be profitable or in demand.

If the answer is yes, then someone has validated your idea already. You're golden! Now it's just attracting that audience and taking a slice of that pie. Depending on the size of the pie, you may not even need to compete with anyone!

That said, most musicians don't make much of a living in music. I have several friends that are in bands that tour all the time, and they basically break even on any given night. Do they have money leftover to spend on an FRM system? _Probably_ not. But I could be wrong.

I did take a peek at your site. It looks fantastic and is very polished. Some of the features seem like no-brainers. The top feature (literally the first one) is an Artist Page, which I'm sure is beautiful, but given that most bands probably have a Facebook page or Instagram or Bandcamp, it might have trouble getting traction. I'm wondering if a Linktree-style clone would be a good fit for that feature.

All in all, love the idea. I hope you're successful. My big piece of advice is to be willing to pivot if you can't find traction with this specific idea, and think of different angles that you can attack the same problem space. You're clearly very passionate about this, and that's a huge huge plus from day one.

Good luck!
Fossil is a pretty great alternative to git.

https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Sorry, it is not a "fine" concept.

It is just utilitarianism with modern marketing and pure utilitarianism has problems.

See one example below where utilitarianism's suggestion goes against what almost everyone considers ethical:

You can take 10 healthy organs from one person without any social connections and use the organs to save 10 terminal patients who would otherwise die.

EA effectively sanctions robbing a million people to help a million people + 1