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> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

2007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13852
2007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60767
2007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60767
2007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=66057
2008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=289254
2008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=253657
2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=582513
2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=633099
The thing is that this is a tiny amount in the grand scheme of things. It's been a while since I looked at the financials, but IIRC it was something like $33b per year of revenue, and $26b per year for R&D. Selling off ARM is something like a day's revenue, so it won't have been done just to raise a bit of cash, more just a recognition that it has nothing to do with their core business right now or their future plans.

From those approximate figures above (that I probably misremembered), personally I wouldn't worry too much about Intel short-term. They can get back to positive cash flow quite quickly by reducing the R&D expenditure quickly as long as they get over the PR headache of the current gen chips, and seemingly the new microcode is reducing peak voltage spike on single/two-thread loads. There's a lot of bad press right now, but the majority of business comes from data centres who probably weren't cranking all the overclocking levers and I'd guess any recalls will almost all be from the much smaller ultra-keen gamer segment.

Longer term, there's a risk if they cut the R&D spending too much and then find it hard to re-hire those engineers, but there's a good chance they'll get competitive again when they finally get their new process working, and that might be what they need to finally get their TDP levels back competitive with AMD again. It's worth watching the Asianometry video about backside power delivery - if they get this right, there's a very good chance of future Intel chips being more power efficient than AMD's.
> They've been pursuing lock-in and feigning superiority since at least the late '00s.

Again these could use evidence/examples.

But there also tangential to examples I was giving, personally I don't factor in lock-in or "feigning superiority", I just care if the platform is great for certain tasks like media creation and editing, and then becoming worse at that is a recent thing.
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> Maybe it's time to buy puts on INTC.

Just as likely that it’s way too late for that now…

Also is ARM really a good investment? They are massively overvalued and don’t have a very good business model.

ARM makes peanuts compared to other chip companies and they can’t really raise prices that much.

Most of their value is in IP but nobody will be allowed to buy them anyway.
The main benefit was to do with how I conceived mathematics as a subject:

In the before times, it appeared to be an infinite linear journey with subjects already studied in the set of "understood" things, and everything else in the "hard" set of things. Proceeding on the journey, subjects are expected to become harder and harder until eventually you're defeated and have to stop trying to learn more mathematics.

After that class, my conception of mathematics was of an extensively cross-linked tree of subjects where seemingly unrelated fields connect to each other, and where although the number of fields is large, it is not infinite, and with effort and time everything can be understood if required.

To be fair, that was the stated objective of the guy teaching the class. On day 1, he said "my objective is to teach you enough that you can understand whatever mathematics you need to understand in the future" and darn it he pretty much succeeded.

In summary, more of an attitude than specific knowledge of anything in particular.
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Luckily most of my courses did not require textbooks. Though it was easy enough to get PDFs on libgen.
why are you targeting international student? Do you have any sound data to back this up?
I've done Nand2Tetris, I think you will get far more bang for your buck in a shorter amount of time playing Turing Complete than taking that course.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/
This raises an interesting question: when you piss off the current hegemon (for good or bad reasons, not the point anyways), where can you currently go to get out of its reach ?

Asking, because his "plan" is very likely that. Some folks have been know to travel in boxes inside a container [1]

All of the anglosphere is clearly not a good destination choice as they are basically all vassal states.

Russia does not look to hot right now either, and the PKR is basically not an option for a very long list of reason.

China ?

Any other suggestions ?

Asking for a friend.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ghosn
I don't fully agree. Yes, employ as many testing approaches as possible (e2e tests, property-based testing, golden tests, whatever), but only test for behavior that you expose and want to guarantee will stay as-is. Otherwise you will get into the situation where every refactor will require a test change.

Unit testing is fine, if you do it for your public interface. If you are writing a math library then sure, unit test that `add(1, 2) == 3`. But if you just have an internal helper function for that, then think about if you really want to lock its existence and behavior into place, or if that would just hinder future architectural changes.

You can always test the exposed functionality that uses the helper and achieve full coverage of it that way. If you can't, then you have dead code.

Of course this is all a bit more nuanced. Past a certain size it might make sense to e.g. consider one modules interface to be public for the rest of your application and test it. But you can definitely overdo it and testing every single function you write (as I've seen people unironically suggest) is very likely detrimental.
> Just rent your office out as a co-working space. That way you can even run a profit off it.

That’s a great idea, we could create a web portal and basically make a techy office management rental interface. Let’s pitch the idea to YComb together, we can call the venture OurWork.
One of the key outcomes of my master's thesis was the development of an extendable solution for Code Clone Detection (CCD), primarily focused on code and tested with undergraduates at my university [1]. Although I didn't have time to complete the adapter for JPlag, I believe it would be highly beneficial.

Interestingly, whenever I discussed my thesis, the first reaction from others often revolved around moral concerns.

[1] https://github.com/studyfair/studyfair
Ah, yes, an article about deals with the devil should be straight to the point for the effortless efficiency that only the best bureaucracy can provide. As I tell my team, "bottom line up front, folks!". I hope I have understood you here so please understand me - that is meant with irony but not sarcasm. Perhaps there is a reason for the purple prose, if we only could find it.
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Thats what I am thinking too. Integrating code of DS/ML people into backend is painful enonugh. Imagine maintaining frontend code of those who had never done proper forntend development...
There are quite a few situations where running the (previously) open source core was a good fit for business problems which would become unprofitable if the enterprise license was used.
> It wasn't cheap software.

It was cheap enough for me to afford Turbo Pascal and later Delphi when I wasn't a business professional, just a hobbyist programmer.
Tom Leinster was the supervisor for my final year project a few years ago, he is a genius.

He uses emacs!
It’s just a bit over $100mil. An insignificant on the grand scale of things.

Also ARM’s valuation is not exactly rational (their business model is pretty poor) so it seems like a reasonable time to sell
> Is that what the custom language is doing? Why would that be necessary?

Sorry, I guess instead I should ask "How does your engine fire at locations that are evaluated in the past?" One way is to keep a queue.

Honestly this whole business of targeting locations in the past is not a dealbreaker to me. I don't know of games that need it. It's sufficient to implement this sort of delay by spawning some non-damaging thing under the player and having it spawn bullets later, or aiming at some time and then firing later.

> Even if you wanted to write new stuff, why not just use lua?

I listed some reasons here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41257693
>>> many death threats and threats of violence (although I should be clear that while these threats were numerous and graphic, I doubt any of them were “credible” from a law enforcement standpoint

I don’t think that is a believable stance anymore.

Social media does not make people say or do stupid, offensive or unlawful things. People do them and social media makes it easier to find what they say.

I think a major cost to the police in future decades will be finding people who just threatened to kill stranger and caution them. It’s all
Part of “this is the society we want to live in” cost
Maybe it has to do with differences in approach? It's basically a Plane of Theseus now, by the sound of it. I imagine that the Smithsonian would care more about "original" than "looks/works the way it did in its own time."
I really appreciate at the end how you explained some of why 12TET is so popular. There was a time when it was the new kid on the block, and there's a reason it took over. Most articles of this type are so busy taking a dump on it that you can't get a clear answer to that question.

I am a firm believer in the idea that if you want to know how to improve on something, you must clearly understand where you are coming from with current practice... and if your understanding of "current practice" is that it is entirely bad with no redeeming qualities, you don't understand current practice. We see that a lot in the programming space; there's a recurring set of ideas like "everything should be visually programmed everywhere!" that always come from people who spend a lot of time complaining about text without demonstrating any understand that it is there for a reason, indeed, many reasons, and if you casually throw all those good reasons away in your attempt to be new and fresh, you are starting so far to the negative that you stand no hope of producing anything new and useful.

Personally I really appreciate 12TET's ability to wrap the harmonies around as you show, and I've never thought about it that exact way, so I also appreciate the visualization. That doesn't mean it needs to be the only tuning used by anyone, though.

On to the music itself. One thing that I have found when I listen to a lot of "microtonal" music is that for music that is nominally more "consonant", it ends up with things I would not call "dissonant" per se (at least, in the traditional ways that 12TET has dissonant intervals), but a whole bunch of intervals I'd just call sour. Now, I won't deny that despite my general openness to alternate tuning pretty much everything I listen to is 12TET and I'm adjusted to that just like everyone else, but when I listen to Baroque-period music in pre-12TET tunings (as they were likely performed then), I hear the differences versus 12TET, but I don't hear that sourness in those pieces. It seems to me that if the goal is to seek greater consonance in tunings (and I acknowledge those who do not have that goal, this post is specifically about those who are seeking that) I would be hearing music that actually is generally more consonant. I would be more interested in alternate tunings if the resulting music was not so sour.

I really appreciate that your "ambient garden" is both different from what I'm used to hearing, but also I find it quite approachable. Sure, a bit of adjustment is necessary, or at least helpful, but it seems like one could actually argue that there is indeed greater consonances, and interesting contrast to conventional intervals, in that music, rather than just... sour intervals everywhere.
I know but this is easier and that's the thing about software UX.
There are key differences between today and the 20th century that you are ignoring. Widely enforced digital ID not only makes it easier for them to identify who to genocide, it forces total compliance with the state, because if you do not fully comply, you risk death, imprisonment, or having your freedom and bank account revoked.
Cool tech but right now making money with AI is 10x harder than raising from investors.

I'd recommend consulting on the side to keep lights on, there is demand for AI consulting, while there is still hype about AI.
> You are not superior, nor do you have access to superior things or ways of working, just because you buy Apple.

They didn't say they were or did. They said that they personally get value out of that product ecosystem.

Me choosing a product because I find value in it doesn't mean that I am calling you inferior for not buying that product. It's not a zero-sum game. You're allowed to be happy with the value you find in the products you choose as well!
I admire the guy's work ethic and pantheon of successful entertainments but I think most intelligent people would take anything a celebrity claims is fact with one or more grains of salt, regardless, especially if they are involved in a cult.
Thats mean you want to embed VB code into Browser
Like in ActiveX days?
> Yes, that's why you go to large megacorps. I wouldn't go to Oracle, IBM, Google, Facebook, MS, etc. etc. if I had a "huge fire or a drive to win". Honestly, I go there because I wanna work 5 hours a day (less if possible) and have a stable career.

I agree that many want the stable and low hours career but how many people at these big companies are getting that? I mostly see it as a FOB farm and trying to overwork the overwhelming majority of workers at these companies. For all the stories of people working five hours a day and making $400k/yr - I hear many more working 60 hour weeks.

> If I want to work 9-12h a day, give me an upside. None of these huge megacorps will reward that.

I don’t really see startups rewarding that much either. Maybe it’s more rewarding if you’re a founder. I’m speaking as someone who has been an early engineer at startups and gone public with them. I still don’t see them as that rewarding unless you’re a founder.

Also, incentives aren’t the same. You might make a great thing but unless you’re near the top - you’re probably not going to get properly rewarded regardless of how good your ideas and whatnot are. People at the top will steal credit because that’s what they do. (“Look at how good I am at hiring/managing/inspiring/etc.”)
I had no idea what FusionAuth is, so I clicked around their site and eventually landed on their pricing page. Woah, messy.

On the hosted section, for $37/mo, you don't even get things like backups.

If you dare venture into their "you host" pricing, it requires trying to figure out the difference between "core features" and "premium features". Figuring that out requires scrolling down the page and opening up a couple accordions that are ordered wrong (premium comes before core) and not even close to each other.

If your pricing is this convoluted, I promise you that you are losing potential users.
> When python became popular popular languages did not have such expressive type systems. Java and perl were popular then.

I really like some of the languages you mention, but most of them were not popular, especially in Python domain at the time (scripts and web servers).

The main contenders against Python then were Perl (timtowtdi vs Python one way) and Java.

Java and C++ were strongly typed, but lacking most of the nice things of Haskell etc (at least Java). C++ is very expressive (prob more because of templates than the type system, but I will happily concede this one).

For scripts and web backends, C++ and Haskel/ml were not popular. This leaves Java, perl, php and similar, and at the time neither had advanced type systems in the ergonomic way that it is now expected.
It's probably because it's providing different amounts of value to different people. For some people, it's not giving any benefits, and in fact making their work harder (me). They are skeptical because people naturally don't believe each other when their personal experience does not match up with another.
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Hilarious how Apple made the store installation process intentionally convoluted and annoying. Very telling.
You’re not, though. Or at least didn’t provide a single argument..
Which "3%" stat are we measuring, though? That's the part I don't understand. Does it mean we would expect 100% of people to miss an average of 3% of the total words, or does it mean we would expect 3% of the people to miss one (or more) words? Those are very different stats, and I'm not sure which is meant here.
My recollection is the Mac market was certainly not home use in the late-80s, 90s. They were relatively pricey and in fact not common in homes, but mostly in offices that did DTP, schools (we had 1 in my primary school office for staff to use, and then a handful in a "visual communications" lab at my high school), and, later, "multimedia" type shops. I worked in a shop that was full of them in 96, used by web developers doing photoshop stuff. There were a few in my university computer lab.

Late in the early-mid 90s this changed a bit as the Mac II series dropped in price a lot and became affordable at home. My mother (a teacher) bought one as her home machine because she got a good educational discount. This was on the tail end of the 68k era and just as the PowerPC transition was starting.

I didn't know anybody else who owned one at home.
Might be because of the high ratio of comments to upvotes.
Should we know what "link in bio" means? How is that a "personal dashboard"?
Local news has all but vanished over the last couple decades, except in large cities.

I guarantee there’s a new wave of local corruption dragging down the economy and slowly getting worse, as local officials feel out just how corrupt they can get in this new environment.
I found the fact that Tom Cruise drove off with the flag at Olympics and the fact that Tom Cruise is a prominent member of Scientology and a fact that Scientology headquarters are in LA and the fact that next Olympic games are going to be LA, kinda interesting
> What should we tax instead?

My proposal (in the GP of the post you responded to) was to tax consumption, i.e., a national sales tax or something like it.

> Capital seems to me a viable choice.

What would count as "capital"?

Whatever the answer is, this would seem to me to have the same issue as income taxes have: you would be taxing production instead of consumption, hence lowering the incentive to produce.
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Do you deny that Ukraine has ethnic Russians in its territory?

This is a lot like asking, in regard to events of August 1939 -- "Do you deny that Poland has ethnic Germans in it territory"?

Of course it did, and in fact (though this is largely forgotten) Poland was abusing its German population somewhat (far more than anything Ukraine has ever done to its Russian-speaking population). But Hitler's claims of the extent of such abuses were wildly exaggerated and overdrawn. Just as the depiction above of Ukraine "crushing those Russians because of their dissent" (without providing specifics) is wildly out of touch with reality.

And his stated rationale of the need to to start a full-scale war in order "protect" this population was a big lie of course, created specifically to appeal to people gullible enough to believe such things. Putin's claims of the need to "protect" the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine are equally baseless, and are designed with a similar intent in mind.

But what I do expect is to engage with their people and their neighbors on these issues in hopes of avoiding war and maintaining territorial integrity.

Ukraine did engage with Russia on the issues -- they just weren't willing to bend over and give Putin everything he wanted. More specifically it definitely sounds like you were expecting the Ukrainians to agree to permanent large-scale territorial concessions. Because since 2014, that's been the bare minimum of Russia's terms for "avoiding war".
My basic problem is that I'm really struggling to hear the difference between many of your samples :-) And I've already got a bit of experience with microtonality (DSP background, playing and have tuned multiple instruments, reasonable pitch perception). One of the big problems for me is that it's not so easy to hear them side-by-side; you have to stop one of them, then start the other (unless you want them both at the same time, which you probably don't), and both the start and stop buttons are pretty laggy. FWIW, most audio comparison tools I've seen (typically centered around compression or restoration) include some way of switching seamlessly between the two, without restarts.
Encrypted vm's? On epyc?

What's the performance penalty for that?
True, I'm no doubt being too cautious - where I work it is mainly used for unit testing and prototyping - as I understand it we are using it with developers, but always with a human review - we never have a product owner making code with a AI tool and deploying to live. Yet.
>There are many jobs that are essential but don't capture a percentage of the value they generate.

Isn't that strange?
It fluctuated. During the first few years of the Mac era they were stupid expensive. In the later Scully & Amelio years they dropped in price a lot as the component prices in the 68k Macs became way cheaper, and they became fairly affordable esp if you could get an education (teacher or student) discount, which they were aggressive about.

Still was not at all a common machine in people's homes.
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Do you mean that Canadians are fiscally / financially more conservative? I would probably agree with that (using risk tolerance as a proxy metric), but I thoroughly disagree if we're talking "conservative" in terms of politics / social beliefs.
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He was sure on target about SSRI's and the serotonin theory of depression not being empirically substantiated...
Maybe here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_Kingdo...

> The 2023 CONTEST report indicated that 75 per cent of the Security Service (MI5)'s caseload was from monitoring Islamist threats.

I don't support the violence and ultra-right (or just right) wings. I think that people have the right to protest.
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I have seen people listing the media they are consuming but I would like to think of it as them posting what is important to them.

While I do have media on my now page, I still do have some sections that are updated manually (mainly the top half of the page). To me travel is more important than media and a lot more of my friends ask me where I've been recently, hence why I put that higher up on the page over the media stuff.

Anyway, might be something for me to think about later on if I decide to switch up the format (which I likely will)