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> if I had to kill a hundred thousand students to restore order, I would have done it

Deng was only being blatantly honest.

How many people died due do US involvement to "restore order"? [1]

I know from experience what happened to Greece and Argentina and I wouldn't call it an accomplishment nor something that made the World a better place.

There are no reasons to consider "being liberal" a goal, it's just one of the options, doesn't mean it's the best or the only one.

Of course the US cannot afford to not be hyper-liberal (meaning in reality hyper-capitalistic-run-by-greedy-corporations) because it would kill their economy, even though it could benefit a large squat of the population that, for one reason or another, is being considered a burden for the society by the "liberals" whose only solution is "throw money at the problem and hide it under the carpet".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
I just did it - it works perfectly fine. Debug-run your code, an exception will be thrown at the call site, step up one frame from the exception (ie module level), define the missing function, call again and it succeeds - all without leaving the same repl instance. Don't believe me? Try it.

I'll say it again: you guys are in plain denial not about python or lisp as languages but about how interpreters work. There's just nothing more to be said about this dimension of it.
> more of an extension of yourself, a part of your own brain that you can call on to more easily complete particular tasks.

I like this idea but I gotta say when I think "autopilot" I think "does it for you" and imagine ceding control rather than retaining it. I definitely assumed after reading the name that it was going to be a tool to minimize developer involvement as much as possible, similar to how AutoGPT is supposed to require less supervision.
WTF are you both talking about? and why legality/illegality is even mentionned here?
> because he's some known guy around here

Oh dear. It’s an HN thing. I have had brushes with it only once or twice across various accounts across years but it’s very much an HN thing.

Whenever you see an utterly useless quip (or sometimes even name calling or offensive words) being heavily upvoted you should know that some alpha HNer has arrived on the scene :)

But to be honest I have never seen author Tarsnap engage in such privileged gentlemanly d-baggery. He is quite cool, as they say it.

Anyway I just ignore it and move on. But again OP could have worded the question better. I mean no matter how good or bad you want to feel about it — it’s just a vc run anon forum and just another forum.
Remind me of this http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7899171....
I said "a psychedelics deficiency won't kill you unlike insulin". Deficiency, I said. So why are you talking about overdose.

Obviously an overdose of anything will kill you, including water, so what was your point.
Note that they only measured the mortality among registered voters of age 25 and up. Obviously that group will have a higher average life expectancy than the general population, since everyone who died young will not be taken into account.
We don't need to be the first, we just need to be the first to survive and figure out some practical method of space travel. Space travel may even prove to be impossible for us.
Well, it is the closer many folks will get from what it meant using a Lisp Machine or Smalltalk development experience.
Subtleties in people's positions can be difficult to interpret in text. I misunderstood yours, that's all! We seem to be in complete agreement.
> Why would Google not monetize unattested traffic? I mean that's like Google blocking it's own ads from being shown

Because this is an incredible way of exerting their total control over the web across all browsers. If they don't like a feature, they get to downgrade the user's attestation or fail it. If it costs them some unattested traffic in order to create a permanently unassailable market position, it's worth the money.

It'll block all other search engines by preventing web scraping except those blessed by Google. For this reason alone many websites will adopt it. This will impact competition, research and freedom.

After this, all user choice is gone, and it'll only be governments who can break the racket.

If the CCP don't already do this, I expect they'll quickly implement something similar.
>I'm a physicist. I'm deeply concerned about the reproducibility of my results.

By way of comparison, biology and related 'sciences' ( psychology, medicine, nutrition, microbiology etc.) will appear to be nearly a scam...
How to scale LLMs better with an alternative to transformers
I worked with a guy that had previously worked in the Boeing plant making the ospreys. He called it a job factory, not an airplane factory.
I believe that's called an Xstorm now.
I will preface this with the agreement that I am kind of an asshole on some things. With that out of the way...

I would find quite a bit of value in getting that person locked out of their google accounts and forcing them to deal with the consequences; Especially if the lock-out was just me getting in and changing their password so that their access can still be recovered. A little controlled scare would be far better than getting locked out at some unknown/unprepared-for point in the future.

So perhaps in your case, the wise thing to do would be to ask your gf to try to pretend she was locked out of her google accounts for a week. Force her to see how much she relies on it, and how bad it is when that spf actually fails. You could probably accomplish it by allowing her to change the password to something she doesn't know for a week.
Or better, never buy a chromebook to start with.
How would knowing “some” mandarin be helpful to American kids?
>(SF readers will recall that one such material was a big plot point in Larry Niven’s Ringworld).

Even the one with (as he put it) 'the mistakes in it' !!
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But why does that matter? Maybe they have a reason or maybe not. It's just some list, right? Do people on the list lose rights or something?
I own a few 867-5309 numbers for different areas. I have them do nothing these days but for a while I let them hit a pbx and we’d get up to 2500 calls a day on each line. Lots of drunk dudes trying to call Jenny.
I definitely could have worded it better, but it's a little crazy how different the discourse is seen when the subject of a discussion is something well-liked by HN vs hated.
You forgot to mention the part where/how it would be great for the Japanese population.

As a citizen of a country where a lot of foreigners move in, it's not great. And we have nowhere the level of quality of life of Japan to fall from.
Don't want to speak for Colin, but every time this is brought up, it's explained that Tarsnap uses very little data due to its design. Probably much less than rsyncing your data every hour to a cheaper provider.
IE lived on a very long time after the antitrust thing. Also still in relatively widespread use in parts of Asia.
Probably feels less fair if you’re just in the door.

It’s also going to be another disincentive to migration. A specialist with 20 years in a field isn’t going to move there with their whole family and take a new job for graduate money.
>> And everyone, is invited to build X with us.

> I think I, saw on a TV show once that a hostage was able, to signal to authorities the need for help without alerting, their captors by placing commas randomly in their sentences.
Didnt japan litetally mimic the west and rapidly modernize to move from "samurai age" to modern age?
People might debate how much of the killing was intentional but I wouldn't have thought it controversial to say that American natives, by and large, did not reap the benefits of colonization and actually incurred major losses.
I find depressing that there aren't binaries available, as everyone is required to build their own distribution from scratch.

Why don't they use some hosted workers (GitHub Actions, GitLab Runners) to do the job?
Yes it is. It is hoped that finding commercial applications for space technology will benefit NASA by giving providers more opportunity to amortise development costs and lower prices.

It isn't all billionaires but they are part of the picture as it is probably around $55 million per seat for orbital flights though the exact numbers are not disclosed.

Axiom's last mission had two Saudi astronauts (Saudi airforce captain and a biomedical scientist) funded by their government.

The next Axiom mission will be flying astronauts for the Turkish space agency(air force colonel), Italian defence force (test pilot) and Swedish space agency/ESA (test pilot, esa astronaut) as well as their Axiom commander who is a legendary ex-NASA astronaut.

Even the upcoming Polaris Dawn which is funded by billionaire Isaacman will have two SpaceX lead operations engineers and an ex-USAF fighter pilot onboard and Isaacman is a respectable pilot himself. They are going to be pushing private spaceflight to new limits.
We're slowly going back to cubicles, aren't we?

It was cool for companies to copy young, exciting tech startups that had open offices because they also want to be innovative. This was the trend in the early 2010s and now open spaces are the norm. But the problem is, most companies aren't young and exciting startups. Even startups, at some point, aren't young and exciting anymore.

Cubicles were there for a reason. It gave people just enough privacy where they feel comfortable but still allowed anyone to walk over and talk to them.

I remember my first jobs at tech companies in Silicon Valley were all cubicles. Then I started working for "hip" tech startups that had open space plans. It was certainly a drastic decline in comfort level.

Like what the research shows, people create ways to gain more privacy in an open space. Headphones, moving to some common space such as the kitchen to do work, WFH more, etc. No one likes to be looked at all the time. It's a bit like having a Zoom meeting with the cameras on for 8 hours/day. Clearly, people do not feel comfortable in an open space while in the office.

At a certain size, you've got to get cubicles. Yes, it's probably more collaborative when it was just the founders hacking away in a single room office without any walls. But as you grow, more eyeballs can see you, more noise propagate in the office, and people are hired for more specialized roles that do not need constant collaboration and feedback from everyone around the desk.

Bring back cubicles. Even if it's not perfect, it's still better than open space.

If a young and exciting startup advertises that they use cubicles, then I see them more favorably. Especially if they explain that they follow research showing open floor plans suck. This means the startup is at least listening.
There's an interesting thing I noticed here (in Vietnam). I live in a small alley and the economics of family growth are interesting.

First, real estate is almost always inherited, not purchased over the course of your life (it's far too expensive relative to anything but the top few % of incomes, and mortgages are somewhat hard to get). Also, overall economics are family-level not individual-level. Often only one or two people in the extended family has a job, and the money goes to the entire family.

Second, families growing at more than replacement result in the ancestral land being divided into smaller and smaller lots. The deed ('red book') tends to be inherited by the eldest son (but not as often as you'd think), but the actual space allocated (by a contract separate to the deed) tends to depend on direct-family size.

So there's this weird dynamic right now, where having kids early, and relying on extended family to support them lets you seize more of the family real estate. Inheriting more of that is worth more than any accumulated salary you could earn due to skyrocketing prices. So from what I gather from the rumor mill, there's some scheming to have more kids earlier than your siblings, and pressure older family members to allocate you more property -- instead of working or building a career. So the motivation to have children is very different here than in Japan!

In part because of these things, I think 3 or 4 people on my street have what you would typically call a full-time job. Most live 4 to a small room rent-free, and stay home all day. I estimate within 10 or 15 years many will be priced out of their homes, which will be demolished to make room for large complexes of tiny rental rooms that the infrastructure will really struggle to support. A few big units are already being built in the area ever year.

So if countries like Japan want to attract immigration from here, we've got a generation just being born that would probably be willing to consider long-term opportunities in Japan. It is already quite popular to go to Japan or Korea to work menial jobs under the guise of 'studying' for a couple of years. Some education is often provided, but it's mainly paid job placement at varying levels of shadiness. If that can be cleaned up, then hey, maybe the problems of both of our countries can cancel each other out a little!
The trend comes back around.
Historically, cities usually had R < 1. Cities were unhealthy places, and the urban poor had fewer opportunities to provide for their children than the rural poor. Regardless, people continued to migrate to cities for economic opportunities, and cities were the places where social and cultural developments happened.

Parents passing their values to their children does not seem to be the right model. Children choosing from the available opportunities is a bit better. Groups with high fertility rates tend to export people, because there is not enough room for the excess children in their ancestral culture. The ones who leave tend to be the ones who did not fit into the culture anyway, and they often adopt new values and a new way of life.
> The major change is building the Jupyter Notebook 7 interface with JupyterLab components so that the two applications share a common codebase and extension system.

This is interesting! Looking forward to testing the purple theme I use [1]. I wonder if extension developers will need to maintain three sets of instructions now? JupyterLab, Jupyter Notebook >= 7, and Jupyter Notebook < 7

[1] https://github.com/shahinrostami/theme-purple-please
People in China are also experiencing immense economical growth.

Eventually they will indeed run out of people willing to do lower level jobs in the factories, then economic growth can move somewhere else. Bangladesh, Africa, Philippines perhaps?

Then we observe these countries whose population subset is actually able to move to a different, richer location (such as Maghreb countries) and we see apparent lack of serious economic growth, industry development and general instability.

Makes one question all of your assumptions.
They saw two forms of uses during WW2, both low-tech uses and high-tech uses.

Crystal detectors went out of favor soon after vacuum tubes came to prominence, and eventually many researchers almost forgot them entirely due to their outdateness. Later work in microwave electronics made people rediscover their usefulness. Post-war advance in semiconductors made it possible to manufacture small-signal and microwave diodes consistently, finally making them no longer notoriously inconsistent devices. They remain in use for RF/microwave circuit today.

Of course, there was also the work by the Indian physicist Jagadish Chandra Bose, an outlier who used crystal detectors to reach millimeter-wave frequency around 60 GHz already in the year 1900 before everyone else. But as far as I can see, his work had limited influence since it was far ahead of his time.

In Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age, a definite book on semiconductor history, it described the amazement of this rediscovery:

> In the mid-1930s [George] Southworth was trying to detect ultrashort radio waves around a tenth of meter long—what he then dubbed “hyper-frequencies” and are today called microwaves—using specially designed vacuum tubes. But he was having little success. Inherent time lags in the flow of electrons through them were simply too great for the tubes to cope with these extremely short, rapidly oscillating waves. Copper oxide rectifiers didn’t work any better, either.

> Frustrated, Southworth decided to try one of the old “cat’s whisker” crystal detectors he had used in radio sets during the Great War, when he served in the Army Signal Corps. These quirky devices had fallen gradually out of favor when vacuum tubes became popular during the 1920s. By the mid-1930s it had become almost impossible to buy one in an ordinary radio store.

> So Southworth hopped a train bound for lower Manhattan, where he knew
of a secondhand radio market on Cortlandt Alley, near Canal Street. Rummag ing around on the dusty back shelves of one tiny shop, he soon found a few old cat’s-whisker detectors. After bargaining with the shopkeeper, he carried them back to Holmdel, where he dusted them off and carefully inserted one into his receiving apparatus. He began searching around on its surface for a suitable hot spot. Finally, after hunting almost an hour, he found a good one.

> And it worked! At last, he could detect his ultrashort-wave, hyper-frequency radiation.
I disagree about oil and NG,LNG. We need more of that. Cheap energy is better for the world than anything else. You would decimate the world if we move off carbon fuels. fyi oil is not made from fossils or decaying matter. No evidence of that at all.
I'd classify that under "ease of use" - you can do it with S3 yourself (your post is a pretty good explanation of the how, from a quick skim), or you can just use tarsnap and not worry about it.
Perhaps the etiquette and formulaic interactions are important for the friendliness and perceived orderliness of the country? So I wonder how much of the good stuff that people like about Japan you can have without the (from a western perspective) restrictive society. Not to say that there's not always room for improvement along many dimensions.
> The overpopulation story is old, visceral and hard to refute.

The overpopulation story is a joke, and has been since the many failed predictions of "The Population Bomb" made it anathema in the academic and political worlds.

There's nothing here or in any of the data that suggests anything other than an overshoot of a couple billion people, followed by a gradual decline into a steady state population.

The overall doomerism about "overpopulation" or sudden, drastic shifts in population numbers is just that, doomerism.
> FullForm Plus[a, b]

How can I make this any more clear? You are able, in Mathematica, to write Plus[a, b] with your own fingers on your own keyboard and it will be interpreted as the same thing as a+b

> I'd expect that they can.

Clisp is not the only lisp - I can name 10 others that cannot be compiled.
Yeah and narcissism should also be a protected class I suppose..
> society might deurbanize with people moving to the countryside and have more children again.

That's not what is happening. Ask yourself is it more likely a young girl is going to the city or to the countryside?

Once you run out of fertile females your fertility rate is 0.
Ah, nostalgia.

Someone better make another called Rasengan.
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i’ll chip in for London.

while the thames can be swam upriver of Putney Bridge, there are conditions as the Thames is a busy river. but there are other spots in London where one can do wild swimming.

for example:

london royal docks https://loveopenwater.co.uk/swimming-london-royal-docks/

canary wharf: https://canarywharf.com/whats-on/open-water-swimming/

the famous ponds in hampstead heath: https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/green-spaces/ha...

the famous hyde park lido: https://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/hyde-park/things-to-see-...
This line of thinking is common but highly flawed. If it were true, everyone would be super religious just because their ancestors were.

In reality there are several issues:

- People have minds of their own and can willingly choose to leave a group. You see this all the time with Mormons for example. In order for such a group to eventually dominate, they need to grow even faster to compensate for this natural "leakage".

- "As long as there's enough food and no wars or mass oppression" seems like an extremely optimistic assumption.

- Reproduction rate is not constant. It is quite possible that R will be low for a couple of decades or centuries before rising again (and possibly falling again even later). Trying to predict long term trends by linearly extrapolating the current value of such a highly variable metric is not going to work in any complex system.
I have used president@whitehouse.gov since the late 90s
A <pre> is the correct kind of HTML use for the body of plain text email ? It looks like paragraphs of text to me.

<p> is far more appropriate

That isn’t apple’s problem, nor mine.
Oof. There should definitely be an undo button for that, which displays right afterwards.
This is a mystery to me. When the sums of money that change decisions in Washington show up they tend to be small. Rarely even a million. Why can’t be those sums crowdsourced? I have a couple of guesses. 1. This is so low because there is low competition, the amounts will quickly go into billions if challenged. 2. They actually support those causes and will refuse money that comes from the people, not the corporations. 3. Anyone who would try that will be discredited, sued or even eliminated. Money is just a small part of it.
And I won’t miss them, not sure the point you’re making, i am not able to know if a website has ads before visiting it, can only leave once. It has asked me to
So, like, rat poop?
I just cannot possibly wrap my head around why you'd abbreviate due diligence.

>>But watch what they do when a baby poos in your local aquatic centre. They don’t fuck around. Everyone is out in seconds.

Yeah and then they let the pumps and chlorine do their thing and you can go back to swimming 30 minutes later.
Is president is related here?

>KOSA was introduced in 2022 but failed to gain traction, and today its authors, Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), have reintroduced it with slight modifications.

Or is president somehow related to appointment of senators?
I think it will still be challenging to make the economics work, policies that assumed growth will need to change (such as assumptions around affording welfate programs). Otherwise I agree, there probably should be an equilibrium point to float around that they can aim for.
They should name it Dr House AI so that boomers get it
I ended up browsing someone else's "Cloud NAS" once. I had to resist very hard not adding a watermark to all his photos saying "stop registering with my email!!!".
And all those region that will suffer most from climate change. This will go swimmingly for everyone involved.
While certainly not the intention of media outlets worldwide abetting this PR stunt of a socialist mayor, it does highlight the question of

a) was the Seine (or any urban river) really that much cleaner 100 years ago?

b) since most cities with a polluted river tend to be situated down-stream – what actually did mayor Hidalgo really do in order to demand the praise here? I assume not much other than stop enforcing restrictions?
Sounds like a variant of the "nothing to hide" argument which, IMO, isn't particularly logical.