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> Christopher Strachey the designer of CPL deserves a shout out. He also wrote a very early checkers program, invented time sharing

Did he invent time sharing? He presented a very influential paper on the topic at the 1959 UNESCO International Conference on Information Processing in Paris. But, John McCarthy says he was already thinking about the topic in 1955. [0] And John Backus proposed the idea at an MIT conference in 1954. [1]

So, while no doubt he played a big role in popularising the concept, it is questionable whether he actually "invented" it. Maybe, he came up with the idea independently of McCarthy and Backus – but if that is true, it isn't clear that he thought of it first

[0] https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/time...

[1] https://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/whirlwind/summer_session_1954/... see PDF page 78, in particular "John Backus said that by time sharing, a big computer could be used as several small ones; there would need to be a reading station for each user" (my emphasis)
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And the majority of those incarcerated are African Americans. Slavery in America never ended.
Is it really depoliticized? Much of modern art has a leftist bent and art by oppressed groups is particularly celebrated.
This is great. I'm going to share this with people at work. Hope this takes off!
The "kia boys" are out stealing car after car for $100 from interviews online.

Incentives seem lower than we all think?
>You can see one of their most recent contributors is Eelco Dolstra.

That is incorrect. They're merging Dolstra commits from the nix/NixOS projects. Dolstra has not commited directly to Lix.

One of the main Lix developers is delroth, a leftist activist that was banned from the NixOS Discourse for CoC violations.
I actually DO think that remote attestation should be treated as radioactive, at least on consumer devices.
45 minutes outside of Chicago you can get a decent size, newish house for 3-400k. That’s up from pre covid but still very much trade-down-able for someone sitting on a paid off house in the Bay Area or Greater NYC.
> Before Minecraft came out, you'd be complaining about "Procedurally-generated slop", and saying there's no way a game like that would work.

People absolutely were complaining about this, with basically the same argument ("It's too much freedom! Players will get lost! They'll never get to the "goal" the artist sets!" etc)

Of course, that turned out to be silly
Look up “price discrimination”.
Still used, just not recommended in vaccines for children under 6

https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/safety-availabi...
The building wealth part is because you have a non-depreciating asset worth something. For most people their only wealth is a retirement account, a meager savings, and the equity in their home.

And your home/land is an asset that provides utility that isn't spent by you using it.
> BCPL [...] used an area of memory called the global vector [...] to allow separately compiled modules to share variables. The GLOBAL declaration allowed the programmer to name elements of the global vector, and there was a rule that global variables would be initialised to the entry points of functions if their names matched the names of declared global variables. This initialisation took place when modules were loaded. [...] this mechanism is not beautiful and much hated by some

"Not beautiful and much hated by some" is a masterful piece of understatement.

This is what a GLOBAL declaration looks like:

GLOBAL
$(
printf : 89
programmeriq : 90
$)

You're reading that correctly. There is no symbolic linkage in the language. You declare the specific numeric slot in a global array you think your function or global variable should occupy. You hope nobody else uses the same ones. That's how you call functions defined in other compilation units.
It's not the autism that does any sort of disabling. If there are some sort of issues that are disabling someone's way to live normally, deal with them, but don't use autism as a label or call it a disease.

There's no "autism" as a "disease" that causes those symptoms.
I believe that it is an open question. Were I a betting man, I’d bet that P≠NP. I believe it would also be significant to show that P≠NP implies BQP≠NP but that may already be known.
Don’t worry, when they die the taxes owed will evaporate through the pernicious step up basis at death rule.
A simple typo mistake means nothing. Someone whinging about it as if it means more than it does on the Internet however...
Here's a URL for the story that doesn't require you to create an account to read it.

https://www.fidelity.com/insights/retirement/own-home-retire...

That's actually the URL I'd submitted. One of the moderators changed it to the New York Times site (which hides the article unless/until you create an account).
There are specific challenges every person in the World faces. Deal with these specific challenges. But don't group bunch of people as autistic and then go on to call it a disease. Many of the challenges are caused by the environment or flawed social expectations.
That's how it worked from experience and stories from friends. TSA is searching your bag for security things, not trying to find drugs. If they find it, might toss it, might ignore it, but they are not directly a police agency, they dgaf.
I think it’s missing one crucial context here. As more movies and shows are produced, the price of existing content also goes down. It would be madness to expect new shows every month.

Cable is dead for majority of folks because it is full of ads and not because it had legacy content. It didn’t help but it wasn’t the sole reason.

Also, maybe an unpopular opinion, but maybe the film industry shouldn’t go after the same actors and actresses who earn millions of dollars per episode. So many individuals who have great talents being pushed aside due to this mindset.
How much money does Son need to lose before he loses such liquidity?

More relevant to the article - I'm highly skeptical that our current architecture - LLMs in particular - will scale to AGI, let alone super intelligence. Humans in particular literally use orders of magnitude less energy and the smartest among us are still more capable. IMHO AGI, let alone superintelligence will require quantum computing getting somewhere, some sort of organic/biological computing or something else not invented yet.

Arm does seem like a natural fit, though. It seems everyone want to make their own chips these days.
this is one of those things that makes me feel like I'm insane.

- if housing is to be an investment

- it must appreciate faster than inflation

- if it appreciates faster than inflation

- it must become unaffordable

there is literally NO WAY around this, regardless of any mechanism by which housing appreciates. If housing is an investment it must become more unaffordable over time.

And yet it seems that literally 95% of people just... never think of this? Instead, the only discussion that ever takes place is centered on the mechanism by which housing appreciates: blackrock, airbnb, foreign investment, lack of rent control, lack of subsidies, monetary policy, immigration, or, the worst one: simply that "people are too greedy to build affordable housing."

every time, every single time I read one of these things I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Customs can certainly approach you any time right up to the gate. In 2010, my wife and I were approached by an agent and asked very directly if we had more than $10,000 in USD cash with us as we waited at the gate to board a nonstop flight from the US to Moscow. We answered truthfully "no" in a brief conversation and he wished us well almost immediately.

I don't think he suspected we were money launderers. My guess is that upon hearing both of us speak, he easily determined that we were not natives of Russia and thus not, for example, carrying but not declaring a substantial amount of cash intended for family back home.
Market hotness is measured in days that a house is on the market, not dollars it sells for.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/tags/series?t=market+hotness#
There are many variables. Visual acuity, how well your eyes can adapt to low light, colour sensitivity, light pollution and cloud cover are just a few. Even standing next to each other two people can have different experiences thanks to those variables.

I am very fortunate to have excellent visual acuity, low light sensitivity and am extremely sensitive to colour/different shades or tones. There are test you can do online for this if you have a well calibrated screen. I also used to be a photographer and worked for years in low light settings documenting events. So I have put that good fortune in the genetic lottery to good use!

So for me, I absolutely saw the full colour display very strongly. I could see variations in colour throughout the height of the column and i could easily make out the striations between the different filaments. I could also easily see the curve of the bands across the northern sky. The colours to me were as obvious as the orange of light pollution you might see from a nearby town. I could see the low level patches of cloud silhouetted against the green and the huge bands of red/pinky red towering up into space.

What I will say though is that even looking at my phone was enough to dull the experience. And minimally strong light in the eye instantly desaturated the colours of the aurora and took a minute or two to recover. So you really do need dark places, dark skies and to really let your eyes full adjust to their maximum possible sensitivity.
How to Turn $10M into $100M
I guess by the commenter's view, that was "early stage capitalism" :-(
That's even worse. If everything was uniformly expensive, it wouldn't encourage people to move away from talent hotspots. But the differential prices means it's a drag on labor and thus productivity.
> The underlying stock, including with companies that restrict transfers, is traded to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

Can you explain this? How are they traded if they are restricted?
Serious question, how much money does SoftBank have to keep sinking into things?

My limited visibility to them usually doesn’t involve a lot of good news.
I am 100% sure that the current Supreme Court will never let https://www.congress.gov/bill/106th-congress/house-bill/3244... (which prohibits involuntary servitude since the year 2000) come in the way of prison slavery.

Moreover, the Civil War looks to have been for nothing, as there always was the exemption to lock up any number of people and enslave them, without restriction. A trial-by-jury wouldn't help in this regard if the law itself is unreasonable.

I argue that the existence of prison slavery also contributes to the suppression of developing AI and robotics technology to do the same work.
Starting another plumbing business is very unlikely to net you a billion dollars. To achieve that you need to bet on riskier businesses, they are more likely to fail. If your parents are well off you can afford to fail a few times by betting big. Most still won't succeed but it doesn't affect them that much because they're insulated from the downside risk due to well-off parents.

My point isn't really that people from well-off families are more likely to start a family, although that probably is true as well.
My point is that people coming from a regular background are more likely to start less riskier businesses, less chance of failure but also less chance of reaching a billion dollars.
One of the millions of ways you grow wiser as you grow older is from collecting more data. You get a first hand view of decades and decades of fear mongering and people saying some catastrophe is right around the corner. You see that over all those years, 999 times out of 1000 nothing ever happened.

Yes, sometimes catastrophe does indeed happen, and yes, you should be responsibly prepared for it when it eventually occurs, and I am. But I wonder how strong of a correlation there is between age and people with severe beliefs along these lines.

It's infinitely worse now, of course, as with the internet and mass media these ideas are effectively viral memes that can reach and swarm the population quickly and easily.

Even worse, a lot of it is intentional and adversarial - if you wanted to destroy a country's economy, it would be an extremely cost effective strategy to simply flood the country's internet with doomer posts about their economy, about their country, get the citizens fear riddled and have them lose faith in their country. Never have to fire a single bullet.
ARM also recently entered a partnership with Untether to collaborate on low power AI inference for automotive
The key is to use GPT4, not the free version.
The problem is there's no such thing as "Autism". It's a survey and observation of behaviors that "oh you don't quite behave like we see 90%+ of people to behave socially, so you must have a disease. Let's call it autism."

You are talking as if Autism was some sort of virus that you catch and it disables some people a bit, and others a lot.

Some people have hard time, then deal with those people and help them, based on the symptoms, but don't say you have to prevent some made up label to group certain set of behaviors which many are perfectly happy to be with those set of behaviors and perhaps even proud to be thinking differently than most.
It doesn’t cool the market, only allows people who already have made a lot of money at the expense of others, keep their money while others don’t. Do I get a moratorium on my income taxes?
imo his bets were really cool wework is the famous one and idk it would have been cool to see commercial real estate replaced with locally owned spaces with remote work becoming a norm but idk i can see how that might be preference

this is such a dumb question but can arm chips even run AI models? it seems like AI on the edge is still 10-15 years away with everyone trying to build a moat
I'm not trying to convince you that you should get LASIK if you don't want to, that's your prerogative, however:

- Anyone can wear glasses (or even contacts) for fashion, frames are sold without prescriptions. One can have glasses and perfect vision.

- People with 20/20 vision also have the option to wear glasses that make their vision worse for whatever reason, or see things closer to their nose.

The point of this comment wasn't to belittle your own choice to correct your vision or not, but to point out why someone might not understand your aversion to correcting it given those reasons.
Related:

similarly touched on in January by The Verge:

Netflix is turning into cable TV

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39111600
I find it interesting they had an explicit "flat trapezoid" primitive (slide 14). By flat, I mean it only supports trapezoids where the top and bottom edges are flat, aligned with the y grid.

I'm not aware of any GPU that explicitly supported such primitives, but you actually get these flat trapezoid for free with certain designs of a triangle rasteriser. A triangle is rasterised with 3 edge equations, and it's useful to explicitly define a start and finish y position. A flat trapezoid is just two edge equations with the same start and finish y positions (and I assume their line primitive is the same thing, a but with a single edge equation)

While I'm not aware of any GPU with explicit support for these flat trapezoids, the Nintendo 64's RDP takes edge equations directly (usually generated by the RSP microcode), and if you feed it malformed edge equations, it can render certain non-triangle polygons, though most of them aren't useful.

But one of the malformed polygons are the same flat trapezoid primitive. And while playing around and attempting to design a better RSP microcode, I discovered that these flat trapezoids appear to be useful for a fast polygon clipping algorithm. My goal was to replace the N64's slow depth buffering with portal-based clipping on the RSP, but there is no way to check if it's faster without an actual RSP implementation.
Yep. I refuse to touch it. But we need a usable (and more documented) "QubeOS" including curated "app store" and app containment with overlay filesystems to separate data, OS, and application concerns sanely, predictably, and securely. XCP-ng implements O_DIRECT that allows zfs to be used as a backing store.
Because the goal is sustainable subscription revenue. This feature is for subscribers to promote NYT content, typically among people you know and discuss the articles with, which is probably a great channel for them gaining new subscribers.
It used to be that the move from Chicago to about an hour outside Chicago would be “big enough” to make it worthwhile. And being only an hour away is different than across the country.

I’m not sure that’s as much the case anymore.
The more expensive housing becomes the higher the economic stakes become and hence policy enacted to protect homeowners and hence prices going up even more.
Were they less common, or unknown/heavily stigmatized?
The analogies literally don't matter though. If it behaves "matter-like" enough, then it's matter. We generally regard this to mean entities which can have an independent momentum and position.

Hence: dark matter - because the effect we observe seems to behave that way. MOND is distinct because it declares what we're seeing is not a bunch of entities with that character.

It's worth noting we also talk about a lot of things like this even though strictly speaking they're not: i.e. electron-holes in semiconductors can be perfectly well modeled as their own form of matter - they can't just leave the semiconductor environment. But they do have momentum and position.

Dark matter could literally be the same type of effect, but if you're a wrinkle in space-time then it doesn't matter unless that description has some sort of experimental reality, and we currently do not observe it to do so. It is not like physicists would not rush to test any experimental formulation of dark matter as such that was accessible with current or near-future instruments.
FWIW the underlying article[1] is written by Chris Rufo, a prominent right-winger[2]:

[1] https://www.city-journal.org/article/signals-katherine-maher...

[2] e.g. https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/how-a-conse...
Reminds me of https://danluu.com/p95-skill/
Yes it does.

Let's say you have 100 trips to send money vs 1 trip. If there's a 10% chance to be caught on each trip, then with 100 trips 10 people are caught on average, whereas with 1 trip a tenth of a person is caught on average (more realistically, I'd look at the probably that more than N people are caught using a binomial, but I don't thinks it's important).

Although that said, maybe it's worth it. With a 1% chance to be caught and 100 trips, there's a 63% chance at least one person is caught, and a 26% chance that more than 1 person is caught. With one person, there's a 1% chance they're caught.

The average money caught is the same though (and as you note the variance in money caught is higher, which is undesirable).

But money caught doesn't land you in jail. You could imagine that with multiple people caught it's easier to track back who they met with. With 1 person caught, there's no other cases to cross reference against.

Probably you would want to balance these factors out.
Go on, then, I'll bite - how is it misinformative to state that the scope of all human existence occupies only a vanishingly-small fraction of the physical space, or temporal lifespan, of the universe?

> religion is technically also "obviously" true, though what is "true" is a function of one's frame of reference.

I'm not even gonna touch that one :P
We do need to separate housing-as-investment-vehicle from the experience of the couple in the article. Their retirement plan (own a large house, downsize to a small house) shouldn't depend on their home value appreciating faster than inflation. It should be possible to own a home outright just so you don't have a monthly payment while not banking on your house containing more wealth than you put into it.

Now, in the real world, home prices change and those changes aren't evenly distributed, so what happened to this couple is that they ended up getting priced out of a downsize (at least in the type of home they'd envisioned). But that doesn't mean that they were planning on appreciation, they were just not planning on appreciation leaving them behind.
Same. I keep trying to point out to people that the fact the US has pinned residential real estate as a bedrock growth investment asset necessarily precludes it from being affordable. It can't be both.

The last time US residential real estate had a chance to become affordable, the entire global economy fell apart. So much so, that the government stepped in for _years_ on end to prop up the asset class.
It depends - that may be the takeaway that's meant to be taken away, but it's almost always "look how much we're loved" from my frame of reference.
Ergo Proxy - So your biological terraforming engine has become sentient and decided to circumvent its kill code via flash cloning.
You got kicked by many, many different players over a tight enough timeline and you think it's simply because you were aiming too good?
Of interest:

a book interviewing more of these "people who won't give up":

Floppy Disk Fever, 2022.

https://www.onomatopee.net/product/floppy-disk-fever/
> You don’t even have to go to the extreme end. Ask people with milder presentations, and they’ll be able to tell you about all sorts of confusing interactions and frustrating situations they’ve experienced that wouldn’t have happened if they were neurotypical. Hard to say that doesn’t impact their quality of life.

Sure, I had rough childhood, but looking back, I wouldn't want to be someone else. The way my brain focuses and optimises for certain ideas actually benefits society if the environment is correct.
There's only limited amount of processing power anyone can have. I just have less points for social and more for other areas that others don't have. Yet society expects us to normalize or consider it a disease. I'm now very successful and extremely proud where I have reached in life.

In my childhood I used to question why people didn't like me, if I had myself from now to guide myself, and create an environment for myself, I'm sure I would have had 100% happy childhood. And I know what and how to do if I ever had someone like myself as a kid, and it's not a disease.

The reason my childhood was terrible was EXACTLY because of expectation that everyone should behave like X, and that was just not me. So everyone tells me I have disease that needs to be fixed. It's disgusting.

I didn't finish high school because of all the issues I had, and spent years in depression, but as I happened to finally land in an environment that appreciated my differing thinking I was able to do exactly what my brain is suited for and make 8x+ average income in my area. I had passion as a kid, interest in weird things, but school and the social environment killed every little bit of it.
ARM already have some "AI" IP, the Ethos NPU [1]. I work with a team that recently embraced it, replacing a custom in-house solution. I wonder if ARM will scale that up, or if their new AI division will go for something completely new. I wonder if it would be cheaper just to acquire a company like Tenstorrent instead.

[1] https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip-cpu/ethos/ethos-u85
Bruh, SoftBank was not a democratizing force. It was a Saudi funded effort to take over the commercial real estate industry in the United States.
can CERN create dark matter in particle accelerators? how do people go about reasoning about it if it can't be created on earth
I’m in that Youtube generation, but I’ve always used adblockers. I’m amazed by my peers who willingly sit through youtube ads, utterly horrifying. I don’t bother with streaming services, just five bucks a month for a vpn has everything i want.