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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcZUPDMXzJ8 Dumbo's dream is from 1941, so it must have been ahead of its time!

UI design didn't get more consistent since the start of the century, if you ask me. Once upon a time every major platform had its UI guidelines, you knew what to expect and where The 'Settings' dialog was expected to be in a program, and how it would look like (Now 'Settings' it is sometimes called 'Preferences')

Now it's a major endeavor to find 'that setting' and how to interpret the meaning of 'that setting'. i often need to google for it, and then it may turn out that the info found on 'the internet' is already outdated (especially true with this shiny Mac thing)

i suspect that UI design turned to postmodernism, now there is 'no one right way' to do things, in other words: things are messy.

This mess was likely inevitable with the advent of the Web and later the mobile UI. Now you have both these native apps, and the web apps - and you can't have everything subject to the same guidelines. So the answer is: get rid of the guidelines.

Also you got devices with a big screen and devices with a small screen, who wins? Now that's an easy one: the most common denominator. So I guess that user interfaces are being dumbed down due to a combination of both business and technical factors.

Another factor is imitation: nowadays TikTok is king, so everyone is trying to be like them - regardless if a model like this is appropriate or not.

can they hit back with changing the credit score? (that's not just a Chinese concept) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_score

i wonder how they manage to get funding, they are calling for donations, but i am not sure that incoming donations are enough to keep going.

also they got completely outlawed by the Russian regime, so they can't possibly get any advertising from Russian firms.

if you ask ChatGTP for today's weather (or for the state of the stock market), then it will probably turn to a plugin for the answer - still the plugin is answering some defined type of questions. I am not sure if that's a great deal.

it uses PaLM 2 - which is an LLM trained from scratch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PaLM

>The other thing is that C# consistently adds features to itself that are inspired by F#, since F# already implements these features on the CLR, thus showing their viability. So what happens is that C# continually approaches a more bloated language with a subset of it being a poor copy of F#

C# and F# sometimes remind me another pair of languages: Java and Scala.

The Sumerian city-states were past the prehistorical period. History started with the invention of writing, and they did invent record keeping and writing.

Now it always possible to argue against the applicability of any rule, there are exceptions to rules. However here you would also need to give some argument, as to why this kind of reasoning could not be applied to this case.

I could understand a community getting behind the construction of a water pipe, a place of worship (or even an operating system for personal computers). However a city wall is a slightly different kind of entity - this one is defining the boundaries of authority, it's a kind of us versus them entity.

is that because of differences in the training set?

google bard also gave the correct answer, even without adding 'lets think step by step'.

the speaker is a scholar, so he has some authority in the field of anthropology. See his wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Scott

He also wrote a well known book on the subject: 'against the grain', where this argument is put forth. Wikipedia has a summary of the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Grain:_A_Deep_Hist...

also the introductions shortly mentions the "Chinese walled site of Pingliangtai".

So the city wall were also planned and built in a decentralized fashion, all by the community?

James C Scott used to say, that city walls were all designed to keep their own people from running away, sort of like the Berlin Wall, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ukte-je8k

every online platform is going down the drain, including HN. We got a very adversarial and uniform style of discussions, lately.

Commenting here feels like submitting a pull request.

I know, still I an not sure what is better, asking an LLM or googling? (google search has been quietly deteriorating)

Wow, thank you! This made my day: "Consider the possibility that introducing an arbitrarily small tame asteroid could throw a planet out of the solar system. This would be a different kind of instability than those that have been so far considered. It would be of mathematical interest to prove that a system consisting of a sun and three planets could be disrupted by a single arbitrarily small tame asteroid."

> Communists is now the word often used to label Marxists

The leader of POUM was Andreu Nin, he was a communist, as most of the leadership in his party. That makes it a communist party, even if it was not allied with Moscow.

Marxist could mean all sorts of things: the early Marx is very different from the late Marx, so is the social democratic interpretation of Marxism.

i think that the distinction between Pro-Moscow and not Moscow based communist makes more sense, given these different gradations of Marxism.

Other than cooperative threading: they are also adding a more versatile switch statement, with some form of pattern matching https://openjdk.org/jeps/441

But it still falls short of deconstruction patterns of Scala, though that is something that they want to do in the future (see 'Future Work' section)

i think that Scala is driving a lot of progress: (for example java adopted streams, probably inspired by Scala)

> The book was published in 1945, perhaps it was to do with the fact that USSR was an ally at the time?

I think it started before the war. Orwell wrote in 1938 that "today it is almost impossible to get anything printed in favour of Anarchism or 'Trotskyism',"

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia

> Eric Blair (George Orwell) was not a supporter of communism

Orwell fought for the POUM militias during the Spanish civil war. The POUM was a communist party opposed to the CPE - Communist Party of Spain (the CPE was part of the Comintern - that's an organization in faraway Moscow)

I think that Orwell identified with the politics of the POUM, from reading 'Homage to Catalonia' (also he could have joined an anarchist militia instead)

Now POUM was actually bigger than the CPE, until it was suppressed by the CPE and the NKVD (Soviet secret police, later renamed into KGB)

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

> How we go from 1&2 to popping the credit bubble ?

People used to think, that a dramatic crash could only occur on condition of an extraordinary event. Think of country X loosing a major war + inability to pay the accrued bills.

Well, then came the subprime mortgage crisis, so now we know that we really don't know. Mr. Spitznagel is either a crackpot (most likely scenario) or he is in the know.

S3 stops being cool when you get the cloud providers bill.

also there is turtle graphics library as part of the python standard library - pyturtle. https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/turtle.html

Al Sweigart wrote a nice tutorial here: https://github.com/asweigart/simple-turtle-tutorial-for-pyth...

Turns out that pyturtle has a nice beginner friendly interface with global functions (I overlooked it at first). The library makes this on the fly with a nice trick: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/f978a79130133de1cf264...

they make a global function for each of methods of the turtle class by means of eval.

thanks!

LK-99 contains polonium? which has a half-life of hundred and something days.

i think it is working with embeddings - meaning that each word (or word stem) is represented by a very long vector of floating point numbers. These vectors are the result of something like word2vec. The input text is transformed into these embedding vectors and lined up in sequence (that's called the context window), then this gargantuan ML model works starts to process this gargantuan input sequence.

Also Newtons method/gradient descent + calculus play a big role in backpropagation/ML (Leibnitz was one of the inventors of calculus).

two of my projects might be of interest:

- https://github.com/MoserMichael/dockerdashphp - admin tool for docker with a browser based UI. This tool runs a local web serer in docker container.

- https://github.com/MoserMichael/s9k - admin tool for kubernetes with a brower based UI. This tool runs a local web server in a docker container.

you need language support for coroutines - what happens when the stack runs out in one of the coroutine? With a library solution you would have to kill the co-routine, or kill the program. If you want the stack to grow transparently, then that can only be done by the generated code, it has to watch stack usage and then grow the stack on demand (i think you have something like that with goroutines)

Well, maybe a library solution could possibly have a guard page at the end of the stack. When that one is reached, then you could try to grow the stack in an error handler. (but that would probably not work, if you have taken a pointer to some stack variable)

There is a similar recent article in German from the "Berliner Zeitung"

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wirtschaft-verantwortung/dei...

The linked article is mentioning additional factors:

  - tax incentives and favorable legislation offered in the US and China.
  - drawn out planning and approval procedures in Germany
  - no more cheap natural gas from Russia (i guess that was a big hit for the chemical industry)
  - cheaper energy (also cheaper green energy) in the US and China.

However just last year Tesla opened a big plant in Brandenburg, near Berlin, go figure... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory_Berlin-Brandenburg

... and Intel is building one big fab in Magdeburg - that one is costing 17 billion euro: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/corporate-responsibi...

So maybe not all of industry is leaving.

Reminds me of a book by Stanislav Lem, 'the Invincible'. The alien in the book was a swarm of very small robot, maybe the people who tell the bees are thinking of them as some collective swarm intelligence, or something like that...