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That excludes all languages that want to write the compiler in a lower level language than the target language itself. You can easily imagine a high level language with a fast compiler written in C where if you rewrote the compiler to be self hosted the performance would drop 10-100x.

Dog-fooding is important, but it can be done outside of compiler development. If the only code the compiler team writes is the compiler, they end up designing a language that's great for implementing compilers at the expense of other use cases.
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but does this approach gain votes?

People have despaired of making common cause, because bipartisanship IS punished within the republican party, and by FOX.

I can apprecaite my fellow man, but I must also answer the question posed by the success of their tactics. I know that during the Bush era, the republicans would be AGHAST at someone like him. Someone who openly doubted McCain?? Good gravy, that would have been something to see.

But reality has drifted, and political success has dependend more and more on extremism and animosity. They can dispute the existence of evolution, and succeed in making it an issue!

Today, all that seems to matter is poltical efficiency. People have voted for Trump even KNOWING that he is going to be terrible, but because he is better for their goals.

I can feel for everyone, but as the right likes to say - who gives a frig about your feelings?

What matters is winning.

Make emapthy win. Make bipartisanship work again, then you have a chance. But why should the republicans ever do that? Their approach has given them everything they have ever desired.
I don't think it's the point of the comment I replied to, no.
To be fair it is really not great, but it works for the joke and I'm impressed by how good it works for how little time it took.
@Risk is another excel add-in. Found it quite powerful and useful:

https://lumivero.com/products/at-risk/
Tariffs will only increase the cost of living, with loads of unforeseen consequences.
On iOS at least, Apple does not allow custom search engines in Safari and does not list kagi. So the kagi app redirects requests to a different one. Feels gross and dumb.
For what it’s worth education sees alcohol as a much less harmful substance than weed (for example in Germany since you brought it up) - it’s completely acceptable to drink heavily every weekend to the point of almost landing in the hospital, while heavy weed use is seen as very deplorable (lazy etc).

So while weed is not without harm i think alcohol has a magnitudes worse impact on society
It may be unpopular but Volt is increasing its presence on all levels from local councils to European Parliament, so there’s a desire among some voters for more EU federalism. In Germany they may come close to the results of FDP on the upcoming elections.
That not just selfish, that's irresponsible. Why not ensure better transportation links for Dullas instead. Aren't the two airports less than an hour away from each other?
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People in the EU need to pay attention and think hard before voting for similar candidates and parties.

This is a global phenomenon. It’s part grassroots, driven by discontent with sclerotic establishment parties that are not solving problems, but also being driven by propaganda from authoritarian countries like Russia and China. The latter is opportunistic.
What are you talking about? If you lie to get a job, you are committing fraud. The company is not making any law here.
Tangentially related:

Whenever I mention Kagi is actually better, someone will claim the opposite.

So yesterday someone here said something along the lines of: "With apologies to Bill Buxton every user interface is best at something and worst at something else".

So I started looking on Kagi and only found a few results, even if I took parts of it, but I narrowed it down to that the original must have been about "every input".

Guessing that Kagi had excluded a few results so I tried in Google (Googles usual problem is adding things I never asked for and I wondered if Kagi had become overzealous or something).

So here are the results from Google:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Every+input+is+best+at+so...

For me Google says:

> No results found for "Every input is best at something ".
> Results for Every input is best at something (without quotes):

Meanwhile Kagi gives me a few relevant results:

https://kagi.com/search?q=%22Every+input+is+best+at+somethin...

So now, while Kagi has always been a lot better at not including unwanted results, it now seems it also has a larger effective index than Google.
> They looked so normal, having fun, teasing each other, drinking and playing instruments.

the reason for this contradiction is that, in their view, some people are not considered human

that's how nazis see jews, how colonizers see natives, how slaveholders see black slaves, how zionists see palestinians
What happened is exactly what's supposed to happen: You tried the product and didn't like it, so you didn't purchase it.

It's the same with test driving a car: If you don't like it, then don't buy it.
In Europe it's law to make cancellations as easy as signing up. Also using the same methods; so if you can sign up through the web it's not allowed to only offer cancellation by registered mail that must arrive on a full moon only.
Reading vertically is much faster than reading horizontally, so I think 80 is a good soft limit. In some contexts it's hard to not go over it sometimes, e.g. in Java where it's not uncommon with very long type and method names.
Checked exceptions as an idea are great (Nim’s usage of something similar is excellent) but yeah Javas particular implementation was annoying and easy to avoid, so most did.
They were made and promoted by the Mods of that subreddit - who actively over-rode the AutoMod protections that limit Hate Speech and calls for violence.

Musk is their least favourite person. To say it was Musk creating his own "false flag" is ludicrous if you've ever spent five minutes on that subreddit.

No fan of musk, but doxxing and death threats against some of America's most talented young engineers is not a good thing, no matter how you spin it.

Example - One of the engineers is well known for working out how to decipher burnt scrolls from Pompeii, winning the Vesuvius prize.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpflT8XuSyg
It's a very slippery path towards per-watch pricing with "rent this episode for just $0.99"... and that will be horrible.
I don't think they are completely irrelevant. I certainly hold in much higher esteem, people who have long lasting marriages, compared to people who keep switching partners.
At the same time, people are complex and nobody is without flaws.
> This is simply a delusion detached from reality. I am a white man in STEM academia. I've never been discriminated against once.

This is demonstrably false. Harvard and many other universities recently lost a Supreme Court case due to persistent racial discrimination over decades (https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/jun/29/us-supreme-court...). Whites and especially Asians were methodically discriminated against on the basis of their race. Just because you don't personally see the racism doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Asking them to is different than a warrant, they are free to refuse without one.
It’ll be circumvented with proxy shipments from other locations, or third party shipping companies. Just like Russian sanctions and anything else people prepanic about or think will have any effect good or bad.

Any raise in cost will disappear and be absorbed as profit in supply chain shrouds of smoke and mirrors, permanently. Unless it legitimately costs slightly more money or causes any inconvenience to companies and we hear about it on the news.
After seeing this, I (or rather, v0) created https://hnhell.com for the joke.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946932
> What do I care about the terms of the interview as long as they hire me?

Because committing fraud to get hired is a pretty shitty way to live your life
It would be much more useful to see metrics that aren't cumulative if we're interested in growth.
Cumulative measurements, by definition, will never decrease, even if Julia were to fall in popularity.
> Good management is invaluable. (I went most of my career before seeing it done well)

I don't think I've ever seen good management. Anyone care to explain what that would look like?
I mean, that makes it no different than most of the agencies they are trying to have oversight of. Those are run by people that are also not elected officials, with no oversight.
Yes, I was using them as examples of popularist nationalism.
I think trying to fit everything into the same lens is usually the real problem. Functional programming is a great methodology for a lot of things, but there are many ways to design things. Chances are really good that something elegantly written in prolog won't be as elegant in scheme or java, and vice versa.
You forgot to reply in that thread with a justification for saying DDG is not, effectively, just Bing. Would you like to share numbers this time, or back down? ;)
Can we call it LarryScript?
But name calling works goddamit! Why shouldnt everyone do that??

Trump is 100% about names, holy shit.

I think the left needs to get better at name calling, and match the winning strategy. Maybe it needs to keep coming up with new funny names.

TO be serious - nthing the left does will likely work, because they have to somehow appeal to everyone. Be polite and strong, firm and flexible, forgiving and retributive.

Basically a unicorn.
We already have many great GC'd functional languages at that performance level.

I first learned about Roc from this talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzfy4EKwG_Y

That's a niche that is not currently filled (well, maybe MLTon) and that has me very excited! I'm sure I'm not alone here.
That doesn’t matter. If the current qualification bar is “must do X” and you fake it, you’re committing fraud.
Propaganda was a problem in this election, and many of the points you make touch on this.

For instance, if you're concerned about the price of eggs, you would not elect a president who campaigned heavily on tariffs and clearing out illegal immigrants, both policies which will tend to make things more expensive. But that was not the propaganda.

If you are concerned about Palestine, you would not elect the president whose inner circle was floating around ethnic cleansing fantasies about Gaza well before Trump made the current remarks yesterday. But that was not the propaganda.

Many issues (like immigration, firearms, and transgender topics) are difficult to talk about these days in America because propaganda (in any direction you choose) has turned them into absolutist binary views. Binary views that happen to be tied to identity. It is difficult to try to reason with identity-tied views.

Social media has only made such worse. Everyone huddles in their silos, cheers when their identity issues go one way, and rages when their identity issues go another. Contrarian viewpoints to the silo get downvoted en masse. It is pretty clear that there are nefarious sorts out there that know this and try to manipulate the crowd. And this isn't even an American only problem these days. America's just one of the places where the democratic backsliding is the most visible, due to our former position.

My main worry in fact goes beyond mere politics, and more to the anti-intellectualism, anti-expertise wave that is also part of the above. How can progress move forward when the propaganda turns vaccines into a boogeyman, when the propaganda politicizes climate change and also ties such to identity, and when (at its worst) the propaganda attacks science itself? To me, such is far stronger concerns to worry about compared to who wins the next American election.
I wonder if magnetic tape will make a comeback, or if this will be a new form of flash drive
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Gun rights would be another example.

The difference I think, is that the purity spiral on the left encompasses the entire party. If your perspectives are too moderate you are shunned from the entire hemisphere of politics and often suffer a barage of name calling (e.g. bigot) from your own 'side'.

On the right, this is far less often the case. The right is significantly more tolerant of people who fall outside of purity definitions. For example, the majority of republicans are pro-life, but co-exist with roughly a third of republicans who are pro-choice.

In contrast, most Democrats will not tolerate a pro-life member under any circumstance.
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I was curious about the journey. It's quite a niche market (in my view at least) and harder to monetise than SaaS.
The strategy is:
Shut down everything, and see who complains.

If the complaints seem well reasoned, then you adjust course.

You can certainly argue that it is crude, but it’s simpler than trying to deeply analyze and understand a very complicated system.

Carl Icahn has a story[0] about firing 12 floors of people that seems relevant

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WSatPoD2W-o
> In my european experience, DHL is anything but fast when customs are involved. And I doubt they have the manpower to handle it for the new US rules.

yeah, but like with t-mobile, I think the US branch might be working better than what we are used from them in europe/germany.
If the interview process says, “you must do X without using AI” and you use AI and hide it, you’re committing fraud.
Narrowing, as TypeScript calls it, isn't dependant typing - it's basically just a form of pattern-matching over a sum type.
If you can't prove it, then debate it! Dr. Bostrom's argument is not mere speculation - he's a trained philosopher, with a comprehensive argument and plenty of his own assumptions laid bare. If there is any thought to your logic beyond "It is what it is, what will be well be", surely you can find something concrete in there you can challenge.
It can be explained with simple statistics.

Let's say 50% of men want casual sex, 50% want a stable relationship, regardless of their desirability.

Let's say that the 10% most desirable men get 10 "conclusive" matches a month, the others get 1 per month.

Let's say that for men who are in for casual sex stay on the platform for 1 year, those who are in for a long term relationship stay for as long as they need to.

Let's say that 1 in 10 matches can lead to a long term relationship, if desired.

The result is that on average all men who is in for casual sex will stay for 1 year, attractive men who are in for a long term relationship will be there for 1 month and less attractive men who are in for a long term relationship will be there for 10 months.

So with a 50/50 long-term/casual split, and by taking into account how long they stay you will have:

- 51.2% of less attractive men who want casual sex

- 42.7% of less attractive men who want a long term relationship

- 5.7% of attractive men who want casual sex

- 0.4% of attractive men who want a long term relationship

The result is that if an attractive man is still on the platform, there is 92% chance that he is in for casual sex.

Of course, plenty of assumptions here, but the general idea is that attractive men looking for a long term relationship won't stay long, and those who remain are more likely interested in casual sex, whereas it is more balanced for less attractive men.

Of course, it also works for women.
The only people who died were some of the jan 6 protestors. Check your priors.
It's the combination of a desire for student obedience and the intellectual damaging power of religion. Far too often a young student is told their youthful and essentially unsocialized behavior is sinful, including their own thoughts, and that coupled with an Orwellian level of obedience socialization with religion and you create crippled intellects that are afraid of their own thoughts and are perfectly obedient church members and employees. They are minions in the most literal sense and the United States is filled with them, obedient and terribly dangerous.
I feel using the GDP as a metric to assess how a country is doing, is unreasonable.

If you look at wealth distribution, housing, cost of living, future prospects for young people, actual policies, you get a better picture.

The picture the USA is showing looks like a horror show to me.

Carl Sagan was right and the Right understood him well. Buying up radio stations, media to mold the larger public into a state where you basically have inoculated them against any form of nuance or reason gains you the power to overthrow democracy.
Necessary, but not sufficient. Even the greatest genius can't operate without any raw material in there.
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Superstition doesn't have to be religious; we live in a so-called "post-truth" era where everyone gets to pick and choose their reality of choice. The magical thinking is still alive, we just don't pray to the same churches anymore.
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There's another way to look at this: if you consider the school of thought that says that the code is the design, and compilation is the construction process, then stressing over code style is equivalent to stressing over the formatting and conventions of the blueprint (to use a civil engineering metaphor), instead of stressing over load bearing, material costs and utility of the space.

I'm fond of saying that anything that doesn't survive the compilation process is not design but code organization. Design would be: which data structures to use (list, map, array etc.), which data to keep in memory, which data to load/save and when, which algorithms to use, how to handle concurrency etc. Keeping the code organized is useful and is a part of basic hygiene, but it's far from the defining characteristic of the craft.
Right!!

It goes from "its the lefts fault, and maybe you shouldnt call people Nazi."

To "It works for Trump!"

to "trump connects to people. the left doesnt"

Lol. This is like when you are in an abusive relationship, and you are always wrong, and theres no real way to explain why you are always wrong - until you accept that one side is meant to be the loser in an abusive realtion.
> There is no pride in managing or understanding complexity

"is"? I see plenty.
Fortunately in my country of Austria the liberal party (NEOS from the EU Renew Europe faction) already supports a "United States of Europe", but it "only" has around ~10% at the moment (though it is growing).

But the new government of pro-russian neonazis (FPÖ) and conservatives (ÖVP) will probably be very anti-EU.
It's still a reasonable comparison though. The seccomp-bpf is part of nsjail is achieving the same thing, one way to look at it is that Landlock/pledge are just a better implementation for the same approximate feature.
This is hard to read.

I see myself in some of these words. I am by no means complicit in what is currently happening in the US as a US citizen, but I genuinely have no idea how to fight any of it. People want to throw words around like "resist" and "disrupt" and any other revolutionary buzz words, but the fact is I still have to get up every morning, pour my coffee and go do my job because that paycheck is what allows me to do anything else at all, in my life. I don't have the luxury of risking termination because I decided to call in sick to go to a march at my state's capitol.

I voted accordingly, I signed the petitions, I followed the rules and keep a strong moral compass to be a good human to other humans, upholding a "do no harm" policy that I take quite seriously. None of this was supposed to happen, and yet it did.

Reading this excerpt makes me feel like the Germans the book is about, the ones that history can look back on with a heavily judgemental 20/20 vision powered by the historical perspectives that came _after_ these people's lifetimes. I am not capable of being so self-righteous that I can look back on German citizens during the Nazi regime and say "well, they should have known better."

We never really know how we will react to circumstances until we are impacted by them. People go around thinking they won't fall for phishing emails and yet it is one of the most successful methods employed by predatory scammers. We might believe all our decisions are our own, while marketing has mastered the art of subtle manipulation and dark patterns that heavily govern our consumer habits. Our minds imagine arguments or stressful situations where we are able to consider multiple paths, choosing the one where we come out on top, but when we are actually in those moments, we fall back on irrational decision making and emotional reactions.

I think we got to now the same way the Germans did back then, pointed out in the article;

> It was all rigmarole, of course, but it consumed all one's energies, coming on top of the work one really wanted to do. You can see how easy it was, then, not to think about the fundamental things. One had no time.

We are busy, distracted, inundated with things that want to control our attentions and have been for years. We were primed for this exact thing to happen to us, and now we are in it. The story of the frog in boiling water comes to mind.

Thanks for sharing. I, and so many others, have much to think about and reconsider about what we want our lives to mean.
> Isnt America still number 1 in GDP and the only regional hedgemon?

No, GDP has a few ways to measure it, China beats the US on some of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)

I think China is also as much of a *regional* hedgemon as the US.

Might argue the EU as well, the Brussels effect etc., but that's less clear. Even after Brexit, the GDP-PPP is very close to the USA, though it is also definitely behind the USA.
This is a beautiful book.

In particular this excerpt is frustrating though. As said directly in the text, it's hard to see the beginnings. Yes, many things are changing right now, but to be fair, if you went to any random trump supporter and showed them this text they would immediately recognize it and tell you all the things the prior admins have done that matches these "sudden" decisions "made in secret" that nobody should disagree with.

It discusses tactics, which are easy to recognize in expansion of power, but also in illiberal thinking anywhere, but I don't see in this excerpt (or remember in the original book) discussion of root causes. One thing that really stuck with me though was that many of the interviewees were quite happy with what the party had done for the country, on an individual level. This was rebuilding, providing party benefits, etc. And many joined up because they had to to advance socially or in their career. Again, things that become a Rorschach blot even in hindsight because, I guess, they are always using these tactics to push their agenda over ours until it spirals out of control, regardless of who "we" / "they" are.
Sorry. But people in general do not choose to study medicine because they can make a lot of money after the study.

I have had some experience with family, girl friends, friends and med-students. And it was definitely not the primary reason any one of them chose that path.

I don’t think money is a strong enough single motivator for med-school or any other long term hard study/job.
Yes, this is one of the bigger (if not the biggest) problems. I don't think that imperative programming is the only or the best way, either.

The different approaches can and do transform some really ugly things in one paradigm to something really neat and joyful things in another.

But reaching that level of maturity or flexibility is rather hard as far as I can see, and it's honestly sad.
I get 2 results from that Kagi link and they're both what I'd consider to be spam.
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> the school of thought that says that the code is the design

There's such a school?? Seriously??