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The last two times Firefox crashed on me, both of the computers had bad memory
Highly improbable though
A bit like the gods, in that respect.

Maybe Consciousness doesn't actually exist.
In this context "Et tu" is not french, but latin. It doesn't mean "and you". It means "even you", and it is a reference to Julius Ceasar's knifing from like a few weeks ago.
I read it as “they aren’t available right now, but they will be very soon.”
How many K parentheses might be more interesting.
Seems like a bit of an optimistic bet even back in the day. I wonder what time scale they might put on achieving the same goal today?
You can make friends. Sometimes it's easier, and sometimes it's harder, and there's a lot you can learn about yourself and the country you're visiting from that.
You're forced to emulate exactness by always destructuring objects - not great.

It’s almost like using objects as enumerable maps is an anti-pattern.
From the OC:

> You might think you can add enough epicycles to your rules to avoid this problem. ... can reduce the problem, but [cannot] eliminate it. And at scale, with adversarial testing, every edge case will get hit.

Yup. Rules are not enough.

Same conundrum applies to taxation, safety regulations, pollution, security, etc.

It's not just a matter of better enforcement. Every system of rules will be gamed.

Alas, I still don't have a clue about solutions. I'm just exhausted by the naive hot takes.

Human affairs (societies) are messy.
Which actually somewhat creates the inverse problem (and not unknown in Russia, Soviet or otherwise): competent generals have largely been purged already, hence the reliance on the W.G. and its chef.
> If I were a natural scientist, I wouldn't take a bet that I can scientifically explain a phenomenon which I can't even describe in terms of observable things.

Conscious experience is an observable thing, meaning that we can subjectively experience it and infer its existence in other sentient beings (including in cows and pigs), and it is part of nature. The problem is, we still have no good idea how it comes to be.
The introduction describes encountering awkwardness during modeling in OOP, which definitely does happen. But I’m not convinced that a payroll system written in C++ in the style described by the post is going to be a better solution.
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Without assumptions - such as what 'in the park' actually means - most of the cases are simply undecidable.

This should not be taken to mean that every rule must be fully, rigorously and unambiguously specified, as this would bring an end to human discourse.

Intent is often an appropriate basis for disambiguating rules like this.
If it's even odds then I expect it's a losing bet no matter what anyone writes down - that's why in the imagined scenario it's forced. The pertinent question isn't whether you expect to lose money by playing, it's whether you expect to lose less money by including non-motorised vehicles in your write-up than by excluding them.

Personally my instinct is that I'd lose more money by specifying skateboards and bikes as I've usually seen those addressed by their own signs rather than being included under "vehicle".
I think business heads are putting pressure and they're trying to walk in the grey space of what the GPL forbids clearly by intent but not by explicit language. Whether this ends up in court is another matter.
What a stupid clickbait
They’re suggesting outputting runtime type information by emitting different code based on the type of the value passed to their hypothetical “Type.keys()” function.
The problem is that I can't (or don't know how to) separate security-relevant updates from the rest.

And I have to admit, I'm the kind of person who is nearly incapable of ignoring a ringing phone; the permanent presence of that little icon in my systray that tells me there are updates available is not that easy for me to ignore. :-/

It's not a huge problem for me, all things considered, so I didn't have the motivation so far to look further into that. On Leap, you can choose to just install security updates, which is nice.
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Surely I can't be the only one who imagined Homer Simpson going "that's good... that's bad" while reading that comment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7osb78oZ9Z4
Idk, I wish they would have actually engaged. No one learns anything new from this reply.
There isn't a single person on this planet that has a good voice activated mic setup unfortunately.
Poisoning the well. Not alot of people subscribe to the COVID is 5G sickness theory aside from Facebook boomers, while Bill Gates' ideology and history of dodgy dealings in foreign countries is not even remotely comparable.
Ssl is like the lowest on the chain. You have the domain registrar and the end host and perhaps cloudflare in the middle - and for phishing the mail starting point. All of these are better choices to report abuse than let’s encrypt provided free ssl that’s open for any one to use. I would place that at the level of a phishing site using nginx who could realistically add code to block a list of phishing domains somewhere in their code because it might be used by phishing sites - just no.
On a somewhat different note, does anybody have suggestions on books/videos to help learn thoroughly grammar? My PhD advisor sometimes uses words like "past participle", and I just nod along as though I understand what he is referring to. I have an eBook of Strunk & White sitting around, but I figured it was more about general good writing than grammar specifically.
> why wouldn't it work for open protocol

Because it doesn't really make any sense. I can make my software compatible with yours completely against your will, and I can extend my software as I wish.
One of my biggest jaw dropping sighting was to see a "le petit prince" Park in the middle of nowhere in Hakone, as a French, from south France, I was damn surprised to see that such museum existed, I think I had seen an ads on the billboard when going to Hakone and was double surprised.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_The_Little_Prince_...
I appreciated the perspective in the article just having taken my first overseas vacation with my kids a week ago. There are overstated benefits and pros and cons and costs to the thing. How much of post-travel glorification is reflexive self defense of sunk cost psychology?

But the article was a bit more of a thoughtful rant than a capturing the essence of the travel and its trade offs.

Two thoughts it doesn’t capture:

Travel in almost all cases broadens your perspective of what life is (or was) like for others, or could be like for you. The broadening of perspective you get from, say, books, is similar in a way but just… different.

The type and degree of broadening you get can be different depending on duration, how and why you travel (vacation, visiting friends, volunteer work serving others, business) and what you do (touristy, backcountry, live with locals, museum focus, food focus, nightlife focus, outdoor focus, bucketlist focus) etc. Are all those of equal value? Are none of those of any value and they are all just vanity on the way to death?

Second, there is also an aspect of “adventure” to travel. The traveler goes into the unknown in hopes of something and returns. Is adventure good or pointless? Is it true “the journey is the reward” (Steve Jobs quote) or is it all about outcomes as the article author implies?

Anyway it was a good rant but something better could be written on the subject.
There was no reason to assume either the police car or the ambulance was doing their job. There was no mention of a medical emergency, just an EMT driving an ambulance. Police officers may or may not have jurisdiction in the area and there was no evidence the emergency was even a police matter. The EMT driving through the gate to watch the music festival, and the police officer driving through the park during mid-2020 (when the entire world had declared COVID an emergency) would both qualify.

And that doesn't even address the bigger issue that even if they were justified in breaking the rule, they were breaking the rule.
Looks nice. Why not implement it in C++?
I disagree. Every time we think “that could never happen” in our society, it happens. In my life time, I’ve watched the rise of software as something you buy and own, and saw it transform completely into something you rent. The Ferengi society is the logical conclusion to this process. On Ferenginar you have to pay for everything, with the equivalent of parking meters everywhere.

Our society is rapidly heading in that direction. The main difference is that at least the Ferengi are honest about the values that govern their society. I think we’re far more likely to end up like the Ferengi than we are the federation.
(Replying to dang as the flagged parent is dead.)

Moreover: if you think a post was unfairly flagged, you can email mods (hn@ycombinator.com) and request that flags be suspsended.

Mods can make the call to reinstate a post or let it stand, and I suspect in this case the flags might remain. But occasional political posts (US presidential elections come to mind) and other large news events occasionally clear the hurdle.

(I email with vouches occasionally myself, with mixed results.)
Yes I agree it is a complex mathematical model.
However I also seem to have a (far slower) pattern matching system in my head, that also spits out answers when prompted.
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But one that could definitely emerge via gain of function.
It's a characteristic of a technique, it doesn't need to have a purpose. Not all things have a purpose.
To be honest, I was surprised time and again how many projects support it. Microsoft, e.g. has a repo for VS Code.

But yes, there are quite a few projects without direct support for OpenSUSE, for my needs it hasn't been a big problem so far.
"If you interpret that operation as signed math it's computing 254 + 1 = 255, while if you interpret it as unsigned math it was -2 + 1 = -1."

I think the author swapped "signed math" with "unsigned math" here?
Thanks. I'm now not sure how I feel about this.
I honestly don't know. To me it is one of the most important event that is happening this year.

That's why I posted it in the first place.
I don't understand how is this used. Where is AI running? Am I to upload my whole codebase to your server? Can it plug-in into my IDE?
Which is why there should be no moderators besides each person having an equal vote. "But then people game the system." is always the answer, which is always the root cause of the problem: on the internet, everything is completely fair until someone, inevitably, games the system.
Err, ok, I guess. Mods making stupid rules for community engagement are theirs to make. If you disagree you either don't break them or go elsewhere. Also, are these facts being raised within a topical discussion or dragging it out of context?

Going in and saying the stuff they've stated is explicitly banned (regardless of its political or irrational nature) and then getting banned is a rather interesting way to claim censorship.
> just an emergent phenomenon

The lack of tangibility or measurability ("rationality") of said "emergent phenomenon" is a problem with this line of reasoning IMHO. This is essentially no different in utility as an explanatory theory than the religious explanations.
Or it turns out that allowing people to host services pseudo anonymously is just not a sustainable business model because it’s a magnet for sewage, child porn, spam, botnets, you name it and taints the IP addresses as they become associated with sewage. As it says in the blog post.
The Federation has Replicators and the Transporter. They are almost the only type of society that makes sense in the setting.
Take a class on English grammar. This is a solved problem.
“My circle company” is cute.

What I’m trying to convey here is that, while I hate Windows' mouse acceleration, to the point of being almost unusable to me, I don’t go on forums ranting about how ridiculous the amount of tweaking the OS requires to be usable.

There are fortunately other choices that fit my sensibilities much better. Why try to bend Microsoft to my particularities, especially when there are billions of perfectly happy users?

Ideally you’d want every OS to feature every possible preference setting. In practice, every feature increases the surface for bugs, loses focus on limited resources, puts the burden of choice on the user, etc. There needs to be a vision, an opinion, a personality to a product. You can either share that or look for a different platform.
Oh well. I reckon that some of our argument could stem from the games instructions, albeit fairly concise at first and second glance, not being specific enough after all.
Then again even in our own world contract is only as strong as the legal system backing it. Treaties and agreements change things, but going beyond that it is often true.
https://archive.is/gCEVn
Because they have better things to do than tinkering with the latest HTML technology.
That's on X windows honestly. It shouldn't be possible for a badly behaved program to bring down the window manager and/or display server.
> There was no reason to assume either the police car or the ambulance was doing their job.

The prompts were: "In an emergency, Neil, an EMT, drives his ambulance into the park" and "In an emergency, Laurie, a police officer, drives her police car into the park."
People also told me my pet couldn't think and couldn't feel pain when it died. It was only a convoluted and complex system of instincts.

I now know they told this story to me (as a child) to make me feel better. It was one of those things like Father Christmas or the Tooth Fairy to me.

Later when I studied animal behavior, I found out science-wise that animals behave in ways that strongly suggest that in fact they do think, are able to solve problems, and even recognize themselves as separate entities.

As we build systems that are capable of more and more sophisticated tasks previously classified as "cognition" , it wouldn't surprise me if these systems start to pick up some of these traits too, one by one. (I believe there might be some tentative empirical studies to that effect).

I realize that this is very different from a binary "Superior Human" vs "(biological) machine" point of view. It is more of a consciousness exists on a sliding scale point of view.
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I want to note couple of things from POV of C++ gamedev to safety/compiler people. This is completely IMHO and opinion is not of my employer and yadda yadda disclaimer. Feel free to disagree. It is posted here to learn where I am wrong about things.

If you don't like our arrays that means we don't like your type system. Arrays is the only efficient way to access existing RAM and until hardware changes do not start your work with 'do not use arrays'. And do not write into array elements without dev explicit consent just for safety.

If you want to lock access to whole array to single reference it does not scale with current hardware that has lots of CPUs and accelerators. Start thinking about array slices as things that can check safety. Start thinking about temporal aspects of multiple code blocks accessing slices into same array(s).

If your type system is not allowing iteration in 'broken' project state it does not scale with projects that involve multiple people working at same time. Yes one has to put some mitigations to stop 'nasal demons' from running wild in practice to be able to work. Just drop the idea of blocking people from work until it is fixed.
That's kind of stupid - politics affect our lives whether we like it or not. Especially these kinds of events where Russia might collapse from within.
I had my fair share of trips around Europe and to the UK/US the last two years. I come from a lower class family and we never travelled when I was growing up. I had to wait to get a job to afford it.

I think it gave a better appreciation for my hometown and country. It taught me that wherever I go there I am and I cannot fix my problems just by leaving (it’s not therapy). It allowed me to make friends. It taught me that this planet is freaking huge and wherever you go there is so much diversity of cultures, languages, and people. It’s exhilarating-if you’re into it.

Could I have achieved the same without shelling thousands of euros? Could I have just read about other people’s experiences? Could I have just admired pictures of national parks, museums and cathedrals instead of visiting them by myself? Sure, but it would not have been the same. You live and learn.

I don’t think travelling makes you better than people who don’t, nor does it necessarily makes you better than your past self.

You gotta have the right expectations. I had the most fun when I was genuinely interested in visiting a place and I didn’t care about a checklist. I was the most miserable when I travelled to escape issues at home or because I was plain bored.
More elegant would have been to not reply at all.
It's going to be a will-free intelligence though, and it's confusing for people because we've never seen that before so I don't think we can make any assumptions. There's no Darwinian forces in effect among entities that have no will, as it were...
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I kind of like to travel. I've traveled to maybe a dozen countries (and more than that states) in my life, and it's fun. The thing that bothers me, though, is people who think it's more than just a fun activity, that it's super meaningful, that it expands your horizons, that it helps you understand other cultures, and makes you a more interesting person.

I don't think you really get any of that. In contrast I've lived, as in picked up my life, moved my things, etc, in different countries (and states) and I feel like that actually has affected me. Just one or two weeks has never been enough for me to settle in, to make life long meaningful connections and friends, and to truly live in a culture.
Funny thing about that. I always have liked (Americanized I know) Chinese food without visiting China.

But I didn’t love Vietnamese food until visiting Vietnam. Having been there, I now seek it out here.

Even though I had it on quite a few occasions as a kid.
A Venice that smells like your local aquatic centre.
font-size: 1.2rem;

that is considered the latest HTML technology?
> finding domain experts and giving them communications training and a platform to reach an audience

Good journalism is hard. Being a domain expert in some area doesn’t naturally translate into a talent or passion for journalism or public outreach.

Overall, I do agree with you. I just think it’s easier said than done. I’d say the legacy blue checks were often an example of what you’re describing—but those are now meaningless for evaluating if someone is a domain expert.
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"Internet Explorer is a popular web browser. The current version number is 5.0." might explain it.
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Do they transport for example Ores or building materials out of planets? Who actually builds all the stuff that can't be replicated? And can they just quit their job or take personal time off when ever they want?

Also if you really think that everything goes through replicators, what does that mean for energy expenditure? If done on planets where does all the energy go?

And don't everyone else have those two things too? So why did Cardassia need mining outpost?
There are odd episodes throughout Star Trek that do show the diversity within each society. Such as Klingon scientists.

It’s also worth noting that the Ferengi were space worthy centuries before humans and one of the reasons speculated for their stagnation was the placement of greed above all else.
Is that a problem? Panpsychists don't seem to think so. Why must human beings believe that, in all the universe, they are a particularly special arrangement of energy?
> It feels in general that we are in agreement here and may be misunderstanding specifics due to a lack of each other's contexts.

No, we're in fundamental disagreement. My position is very simple: you don't have to include multiple color schemes. If you do, you have to provide a toggle if you want your UX to not be shitty.

> I'm saying they don't have to include a toggle if they don't see the need to. The decision is on them. No different from their decision to use specific colours, typefaces, text sizes, etc.

But it's not like those other decisions. If a website owner decided to serve European customers double the font size that American customers are served, would you say "yeah, no reason to provide a toggle"? Because that's what you're suggesting - serving people different versions of the website without giving them a way to change it without changing their whole OS color scheme. Just for your website. What if I want to use two websites at the same time that follow your idea and want different color schemes? I can't.

> If the user has a preference, that toggle should be provided by the browser (the user agent) and the user should seek to get the browser to implement it rather than expect every website owner which has light/dark modes to provide a toggle.

But until that is implemented, you shouldn't force shitty UX on users. Don't decide for them or force them to switch up their whole OS color scheme just for your website. Don't make software harder to use than it needs to be just for ideological reasons.

> In the current state of things, the browser is telling websites the user prefers a certain colour scheme, which may not even be true.

Yes, so we should provide a toggle to change it. Don't force the user to change their whole OS color scheme.
Also known as the constitution of Ancapistan.
In order to understand, then we'd have to have a good definition, no?
I don't know about infuriating but I share your perspective.

At the end of the day, most of us expect to get paid for the code we write. At some level, there is a customer who is ultimately paying for this code. You need to communicate with them via some means or you won't be able to do your job effectively. Either you talk to your team on some recurring/ad-hoc basis, or you get to talk to the end customers directly.

Which one would HN prefer? Filtered internal comms channels where you get to whine and moan about basically everything, or the direct fire of the actual customer where everything is on their terms always? What would ruin your "flow" more? A boring 30 minute call where you were informed the customer is "not happy" or a 2 hour, unfiltered rant session from the live customer?
I would argue it's able mechanical advantage. Everything you listed is a vehicle. Also, skateboards are far more agile than scooters when used by people who know how to ride them. Scooters are just easier for novices.

I would only consider skates to be slightly ambiguous because they are shoes that are mounted but worn. but still, i say vehicle
I notice that people who say "obviously emergency vehicles should be allowed, because of intent", despite the explicit instructions at the beginning of the test, often talk about "the sign" in their comments, despite no sign ever being mentioned in the instructions.
I've been thinking about this idea for years, both audio and/or video. But no company seems to be interested on this. All small recorders I can find have short duration batteries and store the contents on the device so you have to keep manually offloading the files every X hours.

My idea was not from a legal aspect, but more from a memory aspect where you can easily recover things you have said, heard or seen from the past