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In Kotlin, an infix method can be called without the `.` operator, and without the parens surrounding arguments.

100 money "USD"

is the same as

100.money("USD")

`Number.money(currency: String): Money` is an extension method; Kotlin provides syntactic sugar which allows you to "add" methods to existing classes. The above is basically equivalent to:

fun money(count: Number, currency: String): Money
A language which has that feature tends to get classified as a member of the Lisp family, even if it is horribly "unlispy" under the hood in its semantics.
Maintaining an up to date currency list is, quite frankly, hell. Your code will always, always be more up to date than said list.
> processed foods (like seed oils)

Huh, apparently this originates with Joe Rogan [1].

In any case, I'm happy you found something that works for you. But you can find the quality you're looking for in restaurants in any Tier 1 city and most wealthy suburbs. (We absolutely have an issue with poorer communities having a choice between canned and fast food, in essence.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_oil_misinformation
In 1582, Thursday 4th October was followed immediately by Friday 15th October
Absolutely.

> They simply won’t do things they don’t want to do, and I actually kinda love that. The rising young generations want texts that matter to them, that reflect their lives and experiences.

This, I think, is the core argument of the piece. I find it depressing that a teacher thinks that books should reflect the readers' lived experiences. It's an incredibly narrow-minded view. Fran Lebowitz sums it up quite brilliantly in "Pretend it's a city": a book is not a mirror, it's a door.
MBTs make plenty of sense even if tank on tank fighting is rare. Having a big cannon that can fire high explosive rounds with a laser rangefinder in an armored enclosure is pretty useful even if you're not fighting tanks. Many western tanks have also been retrofit with additional armor against chemical rounds and mines, or have active protection systems.

Being in a T-72 with an armor configuration from the 80s and a carousel auto loader in the middle of the crew compartment in a war where your enemies have top attack atgms with tandem warheads would suck a lot though.
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Tron was a mix of CGI and not-CGI. The not-CGI stuff, w/ all the photographic technique, was pretty wild. The CGI, in contrast, was not as wild.

I believe this was the documentary I watched a couple of years ago re: the making of Tron that went into a lot of detail about the effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbgHMrLPQrE
To all the 'actually it makes people eat less' - it just normalizes eating way too much, then magically solve it in 3-6 months and start again.
Is your 14 yo not allowed to go to friends' houses where they might have much more access to these things?
Very few people are going to have sufficient devices to fake large numbers of accounts. Those that do are going to either (1) have other signals (2) be sophisticated enough to evade more advanced techniques

See the experiential point that it is better to keep the 80/20 rule in mind. Most users are not going to abuse the system, and those that do, do so with dozens or hundreds of accounts, not 2-3
Yes, from my quick understanding of Orleans!

In the web world, this is starting to be known as "local-first"
IIRC there's rather a lot of "cancellation" of authors in the YA fiction market.
> Being unable to read Moby Dick or Les Miserables is an issue.

I think the author is talking about the content of the literature more so than books being "more sophisticated" than others, whatever that means. I'm 40 and remember skimming through most of the books given to me in high school -- Les Miserables and Moby Dick included -- because I just didn't connect with them. But I read a ton on my own and was always in a bookstore or a library. I wouldn't call Les Miserables or some Dickens book any more or less "sophisticated" than what I was reading, and if kids are going to be more excited to read something contemporary, or a translation that updates things like Emily Wilson, I'm all for it.
Wild guess: this is a left-over from the old days of Sun SPARC processors which could only access doubles on 8-byte aligned memory addresses.

For Intel processors you just paid a performance penality for unaligned accesses but SPARC processors would generate a TRAP for unaligned accesses.

I'd really like to see some performance testing of alignment for modern Intel/ARM CPUs. My guess is that tightly packing would be better as more data would fit into caches and you would have less i/o.

Modern CPUs are very different from back in the 90's when PostgreSQL was designed. Posgresql has traditionally been very slow to stop supporting old OSes that are no longer used.
Correct, doctors do triage according to need and available resources. When you imply that there is some category of care that doesn't deserve treatment (or is too "costly" to provide), you are triaging and choosing economic growth over healthcare. I think that it is a rational decision to make, although it is certainly not the one that has the most respect for human life.
Eh. """AI""" is all the rage so I guess even the nobel in physics has to have something to do with this. Not a fan
and the rifled bullets will be more aerodynamic and also have rifling for stability. .50 BMG or an autocannon or something.

shotgun slugs aren't usable in any serious, consistent way outside of maybe 20 meters (~60 ft). nasty stuff if you're in range, through.
An easy way to automate distribution of funds to dependencies is https://thanks.dev. I'd love to see even wider distribution as well in terms of projects like OpenSSH, so being able to say "we use Linux on our servers, here's our Dockerfile, so divy up funds accordingly in addition to dependencies of our main repos" would be nice.
So if someone will invent say a new keyboard layout which will improve median data input rate by 10% and will be used by astrophysicists then it will be worthy of the astrophysics prize? Or better yet - in your example the main driver for the ML is Nvidia, should be award Jensen a prize in astrophysics? Or in any other field where ML is deployed? In my opinion we should separate efforts of people making tools, from the efforts of people doing research using said tools.
I suspect a lot of it is driven by the decline of the financial health of journalism as well. I think this sort of story is often one that fits the prejudices of a lot of readers (certainly the author of this article is arguing their perspective was omitted because it did not fit expectations) and is likely to be popular. That lines up with a lot of research about how peoples like having their existing beliefs confirmed and are resistant to being challenged.

I imagine that, if you are a journalist who won't do this kind of piece on occasion, your numbers suffer and you either need to be very good at your job, or you suffer professionally and are more likely to leave. So a lot of the journalists who stay are ones who often can do good work, but also do some hack work sometimes on some topics.

I think a reason this seemed less common in the past (or maybe just less obvious) was we had a very different media climate with less immediate feedback. Internal opinions on the quality of work probably mattered more - and you had less opportunity to see how many people were clicking on your colleague's story an hour after being published.
> the asterisk that shipping companies and terminals will try to be the ones driving the government agendas on this

Which makes the present, in which the ILU's boss has almost turned being an asshole on the internet into an art form, politically expeditious.
That's just a different way of saying they give up their right to fork (temporarily, for the duration of the contract).
I miss out on a lot of nice MacOS features because I refuse to sign into my personal iCloud account on my work mac, even though we are allowed to do so.

Oh well. Gotta draw the line somewhere I guess.
Not really, and I couldn’t find something like that from a quick googling. Maybe it wouldn’t work as good as I would think. I’m not sure if it’s really a realistic threat anyways, because polluting GEO is basically half way to a nuclear war. Kesslerizing LEO is probably bad but not forever and more easily avoided by picking another orbit. Making GEO impossible would really annoy every country out there.
Are you talking about text messages? If so, I agree. It would get expensive to spin up a bunch of VOIP numbers.

But for the passkey/2FA stuff, it can all be implemented in software, and a script or botnet could easily generate them by the hundreds. They're not tied to a hardware signature (i.e., you don't need multiple devices or even fake virtual devices, they're just algorithms).
The very first part of the post reads

> Without relying on any document issues from government

This does not seem to fit their criteria for a solution
The two other changes they mention have been widely adopted, and are included in at least some of the models they benchmark against. It seems they list them for completeness as changes to the original transformer architecture.
They also have very large software footprints, and enough bugs in their latest/supported versions that it is difficult to justify taking resources from latest to support to older versions with dwindling user base.

I know the software upgrade cycle is frustrating but if you’ve ever tried to both release new features and maintain legacy versions of software you know how complex that quickly becomes.

It is not simply a matter of releasing legacy source code. Modern software is extraordinarily complex and interwoven. Modern software doesn’t just run in one place, it exists across a multitude of systems and services, each with their own contracts and interfaces that evolved over time. There is a reason these companies have tens of thousands of engineers maintaining their code bases. Not to mention there are very real concerns about proprietary information, as many components of legacy systems are present in derived forms in their successors.

I’m all about right repair - especially for hardware - but it’s a bit naive to think that we’ll find nirvana in opening up legacy source code. I know it’s a tinkerer’s dream to dive through old versions of software you used to run and add your own little personal features, but realistically it would do nothing to move the needle much on actual public use of legacy software. Don’t forget the average user often cannot even troubleshoot why their printer is not working, let alone install, run, and troubleshoot a custom android stack on their 2006 Nokia.
My takeaways... Hear your customers and don't let fear get in the way.
Until the AI generated book is published and the AI generated websites all tell you it was published in 2014.
> When you imply that there is some category of care that doesn't deserve treatment (or is too "costly" to provide), you are triaging and choosing economic growth over healthcare

Yes, every medical system does this. (It's almost the defining difference between medicine and healthcare.)

America does it individually (and inefficiently). Europea by restricting access to expensive treatments. If you don't do this at some level, you'll wind up with edge cases constantly running up bills the economy can't pay for and a collapse of the healthcare system's solvency.
Uber/Lift won not by being cheaper, but because their fixed fare prevented the typical taxi scams
And Aurora is a thing.
Well, if you wait long enough, it'll happen by happenstance.
I have to say that I'm delighted to see that so many readers on HN picked up on the dodgy argumentation and non-sequiturs in this blogpiece.

Little by little it feels as though some sanity is creeping back into the world.
From all the news and such I've seen about this is missing the longer-term impact of the system. Yes, in the near-term it will take up the needed capacity that the Panama canal cannot meet currently due to bottlenecks and price increases, but I believe the longer term is to exploit NAFTA/USMCA by building a manufacturing sector in Oaxaca and Veracruz that uses imported high-technology parts and builds the items there for export to US.

It's already a tried system in Baja California: import the LED/LCD panels from China, assemble in Mex, export to US.

The issue being that Mexico for a country with massive coastlines only has a handful of good deep water ports, especially on the west coast with Lazaro Cardenas, the busiest port in all of Mexico [1], only takes as much tonnage as Port of St. Louis, the 21st US busiest port [2].

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ports_in_the_United_St...
>Well gee, as long as it's not 98% what's the big deal. Frankly, I think everyone should be just fine with any number below about 80% pornographic. Wouldn't want to get carried away.

Are you perhaps misunderstanding what the statistic I quoted means? Because it doesn't mean that every banned book is 22% sexual, which I think is what you read it as?

If I rephrase it as "78% of banned books contain nothing sexual", does that help?

Otherwise I have literally no idea what you are trying to say here.
I don’t disagree that in general, reducing the number of bugs is a good goal, but there’s always a limit to how far you go. It’s not like every line is formally proven, for example. Just because you can use a specific technique doesn’t mean that you must.

But also I don’t work directly in these industries and so maybe my impression of this aspect of their processes is incorrect.
I would say that your suggestion that grown adults should be absolved of responsibility for their own decisions is actually a quintessentially childish idea. The fact that you are so deeply offended by any suggestion otherwise is even more childish.
Try anthologies of short stories, it's what I've been reading since covid times. Easy to pick up, put down, and return weeks later with no worries about forgetting a million plot threads or characters.
>The most important factor tends to be the positive impact on society

Making it even more baffling that this won then
Something for nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
My understanding is that the modern meatpacking industry is very efficient at turning those parts into sausages, highly-processed meat products, pet food, animal feed, and fertilizer.
indeed. somewhere the world's tiniest violin must be playing a very sad song for her

perhaps, and maybe i'm just spitballing here, the author of the article didn't agree with her take on things does she really think that if you are interviewed by a journalist, that they are compelled to agree with you and take your side? and if they don't they "did you dirty"?

ugh. this is the kind of self-important english teacher i'm very happy to despise.

having eagerly digested all those great literary works and wisdom of the ages, and trendy modern ones too, i wonder how long it will be before she discovers the source of her feelings of "demoralization" (and it's not some hack journalist at the atlantic)
If my life was interesting enough to write a book about, it would entail a lot more conflict and suffering than I would actually want in my life. That’s sort of a limiting factor. If someone wrote a book about my life, most of it would be extremely boring and the rest would cover parts of my life that I would rather not spend too much time dwelling on.
Agreed. When I was younger, talking to older (40+ year age gap) people was a bit of a minor shift in vocab or syntax, but I wouldn't call it a "code switch."

If we have hit a point where communicating with people speaking the same language in the same region who are only a generation removed (or 2 at most) requires a "code switch" carrying substantial cognitive overhead... we have a problem.

I'm not claiming that it isn't happening, but it seems like a misstep to just accept it as inevitable. Communication with most of the rest of the same-dialect speaking population of a region should be an innate skill by the time someone is in middle/high school.

(non native speakers or transplants are a whole different ballgame, but I don't think that is what the author is discussing here)
did you expect him to have access too, and release, classified data? What insights do you expect him to have over multi-billion-dollar intelligence and counter-intelligence efforts?

like, nearly all commentators, everywhere, are talking about OSINT releases from RUSI or CNA or whoever. and those are based on scraps from official UKR, NATO, RUS, etc. releases.
“ The evidence that cell phones are hugely detrimental to the development of young people is pretty overwhelming these days”

Then it would be easy to furnish a few links to source this claim
> Atomic bombs are a product of atomic energy

Not really. There's no need to extract Pu-239, and it's quite a step to actually do that and then build a device that can create a large yield.

> Spellcheck

I wrote (several) spell checkers 30 years ago. One of them might still be in use. It's not deep learning.

> We dont tend to think about the successful applications

That doesn't take away the negatives, and certainly doesn't outweigh them at this moment to warrant a Nobel prize. In physics.
Owner/builder here, of a 1939 home. I invested in a home reference library part way through my own improvements; I should have done it before even lifting a screwdriver. Renovations (https://www.bookfinder.com/search_s/?title=Renovation%205th%...), from Taunton Press, is the first source I consult when starting a home improvement project. Chapter 18 is all about painting. Many of the other titles from Taunton are excellent, but Renovations is unmatched in it's coverage.

All of the flat white MDF trim you buy is primed and ready for painting, too.
Anything on this guy is a fun read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Marcos
> Just because it doesn't have flowery prose that only an English lit undergrad would weep over doesn't mean it's not 'sophisticated.'

No, but it does mean it's less sophisticated than a work which does have such prose. And I agree with what the GP said: we need to be holding our kids to higher standards and expecting they rise to that level, not going "well that language is too hard for them so let's take it off".
machine learning is math, not physics. physics uses math, not the other way around. ML can be used in any field of science, not vice versa.
The Nobel peace prize was a mistake. Peace is not a science, and you can't objectively measure how much anyone has helped peace, especially not before a few decades has passed.

So I agree that the peace prize committee has made some bad choices, but they do have an impossible job.
Wars are brutal. No doubt about that. Nevertheless the disagreement that you mention ("which people fall into this category and who is to blame") seems to run so deep even here in the West, that I wonder if some of those protests wouldn't end up in an old-fashioned pogrom, if they weren't thoroughly policed from the outside.

Existence of more-or-less successful slave revolts across history doesn't really say much about viability of slavery as an economic institution. I don't think my take is pretty wild. The historic correlation between industrialization and abolition of slavery is rather strong, and while we can argue about whether it was causative, the hypothesis is at least plausible.

"Wild" would be if I attributed abolition of slavery to something that is clearly uncorrelated with it, so, say, the Milankovic cycle.
Why not try to practice tech minimalism? Personally I’ve found great success in even just limiting my smartphone to a feature phone.
The downvotes are very unusual to say the least. All the historical material on the subject unambiguously points to neural networks emerging from work done to formalize actual brain neurons. That formalism turns out not to be a great way to explain biological brains but the abstraction it provided proved highly effective for tasks like pattern recognition, classification, and decision making.

So much about computer science has been inspired from other fields such as biology. Polymorphism and object oriented programming, reification, neural networks and in particular convolutional neural networks, genetic algorithms...

If anything, it teaches the value in learning a topic and then applying it directly within computer science. The strength of computer science lies in its ability to adapt and incorporate ideas from other domains to push the boundaries of technology.
If launched from a nuclear country, the attacked country would have to assume nuclear payload. In the case of another nuclear country, this means nuclear retaliation.
Without making it easy for people to get started, it’s unclear what scale would have been achieved during critical days when things were growing. No one could have predicted back then what the web would become, nor the need for full app development on it (things like flash and Java applets seemed more like the way that would go).

Why would you want to cut off normal people from attempting to communicate to join a community that was linking humanity together for the first time? This strikes me as elitist. Proper programmers with years of experience shouldn’t be the only ones allowed in.

We have “use strict;” for “serious” devs.
My very uncharitable take, but one that I have to entertain as potentially true, is that this is the exact skill some teachers want to deprive their students of.
By "detractors", does he mean "the usual bunch of chumps rushing out hot takes?"

If so, that doesn't seem a fair comparison. He's a supposed intellectual, and highly influential. They are just dipsticks with twitter accounts, about half of whom will have two-digit IQs just by the law of large numbers, possibly with dozens of followers.

If "detractors" are themselves influential public intellectuals, it would be a stronger statement. But it would also require more support than goes into a tweet.
Lets not forget that any "Smart" TV that has voice control can probably record audio in your home at any time.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/02/samsung_telev...

Any "Smart" TV that has a camera to see who is watching (to customize content and ads) does just that...
You cut off that quote too soon:

> Passing references to Moby Dick, Crime and Punishment, and even my unit about The Odyssey, confine literary merit to a very small, very old, very white, and very male box.

Ahh yes, you shouldn't have to read Dostoevsky because he was just an old white guy. FWIW when I was a kid I had to read the Odyssey and books like Beloved and I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings in high school, so I think this article author is being a little selective with her examples.
I'm surprised someone hasn't done it similar to the economics award that came later.
At least Dune has a glossary in the back.
Platform engineering at N26: how we planned and launched it
So are the Sydney Harbour Tunnels
I mentioned it in just in case it makes a difference that someone else handles the verification. Like PCI (for credit card processing), outsourcing it removes a lot of the cost and risk of doing it yourself and processing/storing all that sensitive PII.

At the end of the day, I don't think there's any non-governmental, non-biometric, non-financial way to really cross-check physical and online identities. It's gotta be tied into the real world somehow, and outsourcing it makes a lot more doable...

But yeah, if they don't want the user to have to provide documents at all, I think they're just SOL.
>>If a nation cannot buy uranium (scarce resources, embargo...)

not an issue at all, Canada, Australia, Kazakhstan, bunch of other nations mine and sell uranium. Whenever there are big mountain ranges, there is uranium. and it is cheap as a commodity
This would have been possible within the HotJava paradigm.