bopbeepboop

Windows 11 made that computer my last MS purchase.

I’m only looking at computers that natively ship Linux from now on — that OS was a disaster, that doesn’t even support basic functionality and was shipped without support docs or training their support staff.

The problem is that “software” is as broad as “aerospace” or “construction”.

Some aerospace things are highly engineered — airplane, rocket ships, etc; some things aren’t — kites, paper airplanes, etc; and some things are in-between, like gliders or hot air balloons.

You get the same in buildings — which range from sheds to houses to skyscrapers.

Also, the end of [0] and your discussion of your usage of routine abstractions to solve problems makes me wonder if you consider your own job to be (b)-type engineering.

In mathematics, it’s a continuum:

Discussion starts in blog posts, on Twitter, in conversations.

Then longer blog posts and code demos.

Then pre-prints and more blog posts about that.

Then finally journal.

You get incredibly less review at the publication stage — and your idea “experts in one’s field” don’t also use the internet is hilariously wrong.

You’re missing two key points:

1. COVID was always going to become endemic to humans.

2. Young people are part of society — and you’re blatantly disregarding harm to them in your appeal to the “health of my society”.

Democrats are using the shameful legacy of slavery to commit further shameful acts - racist takings from people who did nothing wrong, because of the crime of having a particular skin color.

This is no different than 80 years ago how we were told the Japanese were a dire threat — so people could take their farms in California and upwards along the coast.

Nothing good will come of Democrats embracing institutional racism.

A $500 mill will let you mill out one or two sided circuit boards without anything particularly dangerous used.

The future is wild: $500 and some free software let’s you build electronics at home.

Isn’t this why there’s a correlation between Asperger’s and engineers?

The same kind of logical, exacting thinking necessary for mastery of physical systems is in tension with the kinds of thinking used in social games. Some brains are better at one than the other — and we have disorders at both extremes.

I’ve always wondered if autism and dyscalclia are something of “polar opposites”.

I took it to mean that workers did what was asked and no more — so productivity stayed constant.

Which was contrasted with engaged employees, who sharing in more of the profits, have an incentive to increase productivity — eg, by inventing a tooling improvement for the assembly line.

I think the overall point was employers are “penny wise, pound foolish” in that small productivity “gains” caused employees to disengage which is causing long-term slowdowns in improvements — improvements typically driven by employees stepping up and doing more.

It depends on the application, but CLIs can make testing GUIs easier in two ways:

- you can test the rendering layer in isolation by using the GUI to display two pieces of information manipulated by the CLI and comparing the renders, eg blank screen -> add some object.

- you can comparison test the GUI, eg pressing button X produces the same result as CLI option Y.

Properly testing a GUI requires having an internal CLI, in places I’ve worked — eg, app companies.

I’m not sure that time is passed.

I was in college only ten years ago, and my English professor’s key insight to punctuation is that it’s to define framing and tempo for your sentences.

That the sequence you listed is the pause count — similar to different empty spaces in music. Punctuation is just the negative space to frame your thoughts!

And perhaps a bit of tonality.

For people who want to understand more of the math behind things like hypergraphs.

Hypergraphs as math object:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CW_complex

Or with data:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheaf_(mathematics)

And then you find things like hypergraphs in data fusion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1Wu8kTngoE

Or related to logic:

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/cubical+type+theory

Library directors would look like the entry-level workforce 20-30 years ago, right?

One of the major faults in these analyses is to not account for cohorts — and so they discriminate against men in the here and now (fresh hires) to “balance” historic issues that haven’t aged out yet.

That purposeful (and misguided) bigotry is the basis of a lot of modern movements, like “anti-racism”.

> Granberg and his colleagues found that women had higher positive employer response rates than men on average, an effect that was primarily driven by female-dominated occupations. There was no evidence of discrimination against women in male-dominated professions or in mixed-gender professions, but the researchers did find evidence of discrimination against men in female-dominated professions.

Duh?

The only reason that organized misandry isn’t taken seriously is the pervasive misandry in HR, education, and other female dominated fields.

Education has been female dominated for forty years — and becoming less equal. Universities are currently 60% women and 40% men.

Have you heard of a single scholarship to help men reach “equity”? …anyone?

This is wrong.

We know that either:

a) there’s mysterious undetectable particles, or

b) that something beyond the standard model is happening, as in your second and third points.

There’s a failed “prediction” that all fermions have similar mass terms, and that failure suggests either something strange (undetectable particles), something strange (fermions without consistent mass mechanisms) or something strange (novel physics).

I think that qualifies as a mystery.

That according to the FBI, black people commit 5-10x the violent felonies of white people, per capita.

They’re a uniquely violent demographic and it’s unsurprising that their arrest statistics don’t match other demographics.

The statistical differences are a result of that underlying difference in rate — rather than anything about the police. No change in police policy except ignoring violent felonies committed by blacks can fix the underlying per capita imbalance.

And no — that’s not a race thing, as shown by recent African migrants and other immigrants. It’s a cyclic poverty and crime thing… but that doesn’t change that there’s a correlation between violent felonies and race.

A correlation that gets carried forward into arrest statistics.

I quit a job because a manager made it insufferable by insisting he be invited to every developer meeting, then interrupting with useless tangents and requests people explain things to him.

> What does that even mean when you are trying to hire 100 people a week, and you just want to hire the 100 best people you can find every week?

That if over 100 Americans apply, “the 100 best people” needs to come from that group — not immigrants on visas which require a lack of American applicants.

> This law fundamentally has an incoherent goal.

I think you don’t like the goal.

Your comment on why you’re not viewing it:

> someone who isn't a bully and a homophobe

Your explanation of your own comment:

> I don't have any opinion about him as a person […] as a source of information he isn't reputable

I think at some level, you recognize that you’re ignoring a source based on your opinion of him as a person, so you feel the need to claim the opposite.

You’d think if your second paragraph were true, you’d have commented on his failures as a source and not him as a person as the basis of your objection in the first paragraph.

For people for whom coding is an iterative, exploratory process, forcing type declarations upfront is not just slower… it’s a no-go.

There’s no way to bootstrap that process for them: you’re asking for the output as an input.

I think TypeScript has one of the best compromises.

Also, I think people are understating how easy dynamic typing makes substitutions — everyone else is writing their class twice (interface + class) just to get the same flexibility.

You’re assuming that because you were unaware of that evidence, that others were as well.

But we’ve known since the COVID outbreak that there was experiments making novel corona viruses infect humanized mice in Wuhan just before two of the WIV researchers got sick and a nearby military event also got sick. We’ve further known that COVID-19 has a DNA structure unlike natural viruses — matching a bat virus except for a single protein that appears to be from a pangolin virus.

It was always clear the preponderance of evidence pointed towards a lab leak — and that claims of a natural virus were special pleading by interested parties or a political stunt by media parties.

You were always irrational and acting based on propaganda to question a lab leak — it was the only reasonable and supported-by-evidence hypothesis the entire time.

The conspiracy theory is that modern “Woke” was a PSYOP to dismantle Occupy Wall St, which it was highly effective at.

Extended lockdowns were always QALY negative for populations under 60. The destruction from this panic will manifest over decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year

On HN, shadowbans are implemented via automatic flagging.

The problem with censoring is the bias you showed in your comment, with who you selected as examples.

Eg, mentioning the Proud Boys, but not Antifa — the violent street gang who committed billions in arson, murdered dozens, and is still pepper-spraying children in Portland parks. You picked the smaller street gang, likely because you’re politically aligned with the larger, more violent one.

I don’t disagree that many groups are “bad” — but that doesn’t mean I believe we can regulate that without the censorship being corrupted into something worse.

It’s absolutely fraud, at scale and across state lines.

They started selling product A, under a particular version number. They then substituted inferior product B as the same version number, deceiving customers who were attempting to buy product A.

They did this with what seems like explicit intent to trick customers attempting to buy product A into accepting the inferior product B.

I think it speaks to the overt criminality of modern businesses that they did this.

I hope we start seeing RICO and organized crime prosecutions against executives for this behavior.

That’s not true — we bought the spy equipment the state uses to oppress citizens with warrantless surveillance.

All of those externalities apply to driving a car.

Are you saying it would be legal to ban cars for those reasons?

You changed function signatures from int->bool to uint->bool, which changes how long the functions are.

That seems unfair when comparing:

Removing negatives from the Go implementation removes 6 out of 16 lines, bring it from 3x Rust to 2x Rust in line length.

I would suggest two avenues:

- making data easily accessible and publishing our own narratives

- building better consensus mechanisms, which can be federated in nature

One of our problems in the US is the media spreading its own misinformation — eg, hyper focusing on a few dozen wrongfully killed black men, while ignoring the thousands dead from depolicing. That kind of misinformation for the sake of narrative has literally killed thousands of Americans.

Contrarily, Russian “misinformation” tends to focus on actual but inconvenient facts — such as US institutions suppressing negative coverage of the Bidens, emphasizing Bidens racist/sexist policies, emphasizing the hypocrisy of the wealthy, etc.

We can’t fight foreign influence operations by way of selective truth telling by bolstering the domestic propaganda — as these programs tend to suggest.

We must innovate better tools for an informed citizenry.

“Plant discovered to be carnivorous”

I don’t understand why not just say it — it sounds pretty exciting to me.