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> Empirical evidence can't decide on moral issues.

It can, depending on whether the moral question is one of fundamental axioms or applications of axioms to objective conditions. That is, if you take as a moral axiom that it is wrong to raise children in ways which cause certain harms, empirically showing day care does not cause those harms would answer whether (under that rule, at least) day care was morally wrong.

OTOH, if you take “day care is morally wrong” as itself axiomatic, it's true that empirical evidence has no role.

> In simple everyday terms I'd say small children need love and attention like a plant needs water. They can't get these reliably at day care.

The first sentence is very loosely true (empirically, even); in the sense in which it is true, however, the second is not in the general sense (that is, it is not true that there is no way care choice for which it is true), though it may be in a naive sense (if one assumes that all parents have I'd a binary choice between day care and Monday care, and then the children are blindly sent to something meeting the definition of “day care” if that option is chosen.)
Not so much at release. Big titles at release will match, more or less, their store counterparts in cost. The discrepency only appears after some time, when Steam pushes for discounts to older titles to maintain sales whereas the store simply just keeps the price at more or less the same level until it's dumped into a bargain bin.

This is part of why the grey market for keys has surged here - when Steam and the stores are both about the same amount for a new release, the only cheaper avenue is to exploit the real vs perceived forex difference, and (moreso) the fact that grey market key stores don't price in our consumer protection laws (and in turn, the buyer doesn't get any of those protections).
It also doesn't help that Windows Defender wants to scan everything in real-time. Disabling it can lead to a nice boost in performance.
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I don’t think that’s gonna be enforceable...there is good reason for having a real name policy
My thought is too much focus on a thing can cause blockages in the deeper processing of that thing.

I'm sure many engineers are familiar with the concept of banging their head against the keyboard all day on what's a seemingly simple issue/bug, only to find the solution miraculously appear hours later in their heads out of thin air - maybe over dinner talking to a friend, maybe awaking in the middle of the night, maybe in the shower the next morning. The point is it all happened a good chunk of time away from the glow of the screen with their debugger at hand. It's a combination of having space to process subconsciously which is often spurred on by a context switch.

I imagine a similar thing happens with learning, perhaps even the act of trying to recall something that happened in the past itself causes a deeper processing/association in your brain. All of a sudden you're not relying so much on rote memory but deeper, somewhat disparate contextual cues to aid in the recall.
Unified namespaces on many-petabyte filesystems are perfectly commonplace

HDFS, QFS,.... even old GFS

You wouldn’t make them Linux/fuse mountpoints though, that’s just an unneeded abstraction. Command line tools don’t work with files that are 100TB each.
The difference is that the industrial revolution created tons of jobs that anyone could do. The AI revolution is going to leave only jobs that experts can do. Most people simple can't become experts.

It's only going to take a few percentage points at the bottom of the income scale to create a crisis. Heck, we're already seeing that in countries like Greece and Spain. It's a cascade effect.

If we don't solve the problems created by structural unemployment then we'll see our society collapse long, long before we see the very last job automated by AI.
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How many junior programmers do you think you've worked with directly? How many have continued on to long careers and if you know more than a couple of them do you have any clue which of them have been active / programming the longest? Thank you for all of your hard work!
Yes, when the mouse stops responding when using a dodgy KVM on a rack of servers.
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> My setup is idiosyncratic

No, it makes sense. You want to play videos in a video player. Until those services let you choose your video player, i will remain sceptic.
Do you remember your first program in '73? What was your first paid work in '81?
Wow. That sounds way too chaotic.
> GITHUB

Off-topic, but I'm genuinely curious why you chose this capitalization?
>puts the perfect in the way of the good

No, that's what I'm arguing against. Parenting manuals are arguing minutiae while children are increasingly being brought up by strangers who don't love them. Of course there are exceptions. So what?

>So this is moving in the right direction.

Aren't you being a bit quick to judge here ;-)
I mean, nothing in the quote suggests that programmers can't submit items to Radar, that they can't lobby for them to be assigned a high priority, etc. Pretty much every software project beyond a certain scale uses an issue tracker of some sort.
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Nit: neoliberalism means different things depending on context, but it really doesn’t mean “new-fangled leftism”.
Yep, even if the process is stochastic, and the result is determined by some mixture of present state and randomness. It's still determined. If we replayed everything with the same random variables, we'd get the same result.

It's hard to walk away from this determinism since we apply it to the rest of the world so often. It seems really suspicious to not also apply it to ourselves.
I’ve noticed that if I don’t bring my phone to the toilet, I return to work with fresh thoughts and ideas, especially—queue this article—if I’ve just been zoning out instead of thinking (to the extent possible, I’m not so good at meditating).
Is taking a 15 minutes break to do nothing the same as meditation though?
It's not quite that simple. So many factors, as well as random chance, affect the quantity of TEA/TEB used that it's virtually impossible to create an accurate prediction. Other comments in this thread mention that they could probably have modeled and tested on the ground until they had a better idea, but that takes a long time and is expensive. Actually launching the thing and learning from that is a much more effective usage of time and money. As someone else ITT quoted George Box "all models are wrong, but some are useful.".
Why? If it is ruled invalid today then it was also invalid the day it was issued. I would imagine any company who paid for a license under threat of suit would now be telling their legal department to file a suit to reclaim the fee paid plus interest plus any provable damages. So we already have a remedy for this situation, no need to complicate the statutes.
A fully decked out Isilon cluster supports 68PB on a single file system.

https://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h10719-...
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Is meditation the same a active rest though?

Guided meditation would certainly seem to be more closer to the group that was asked to think on an event, and that reduced their recall below the "do nothing" group.

A non-guided meditation more focused on letting thoughts pass and quieting your inner dialog might affect memory formation differently.
The truth of it, though, is that many people who are moving away from Facebook aren't moving elsewhere, they're disengaging the social media sphere. Many people are simply not logging in, preferring direct messaging, chat rooms, or in-person interactions. Nowadays, it feels like Facebook fills the "instant messaging" gap for people who never got into it, and, to be completely honest, that's often the group of people I feel the least imperative to connect with. As described in the comments above, I'd rather read a Discord chat with some people I know than see what the group of people I only communicate with via Facebook are saying.
You are aware that "class A" and "audiophile" are not synonymous, yes?

I've got one or two respectable 2-channel audio systems around the house (although I remain solidly in the "cables matter almost not at all + the room matters a lot" camp) and am willing to consider that Apple may have produced a very nice-sounding active speaker for $350 a pop if they decided to. Consider how much more manufacturing scale and tech reach Apple has, compared to, say, Dynaudio or a boutique room correction software shop. Give it a fair shake before remounting the audiophile high horse.
Possibly G Suite (formerly Google Apps for Domains).

https://gsuite.google.com

But it has a very bad smell about it. Rather like a brown shirt.
Europe is too concerned wrestling with large US tech companies to understand that more regulations will only exacerbate the very thing they are trying to get away from.
Google did do this. It took ungodly amounts of computing power and only did slightly better than random search. They didn't even compare to old fashioned hill climbing or Bayesian optimization.
Serious question, what are other best ones?
Command line tools don’t work with files that are 100TB each.

No, but they do work with small files, which presumably most would be if the number of objects visible in the namespace system were pushing 2^64.

100TB files are often databases in their own right, with many internal objects. But because we can't easily create a giant unified namespace that crosses these architectural boundaries, we can't abstract away those architectural boundaries like we should be doing and would be doing if it were easier to do so.
Although I understand why they would have done that for click-bait news outlets, it did really bother me that they were so slow in revealing what happened. What I like about SpaceX is that they're always been very open about their failures, even compiling that great video of their failures. Being able to seeing the full result would have been nice, and I spent a fair bit of time for the following hours refreshing Twitter.
At this point, communicating electronically basically necessitates someone collecting information at this point. I don't care. I just care that the dumb argument I had two years ago is in a chat room with 10 people I know and my employer will never see it.
Paper, scissors, tape, sometimes printed old data, and a pen to fill what’s missing. Labels for what goes to what for certain actions. To reproduce, I can use a copy machine.

I can stay remarkably focused in a creative activity while away from a computer. Programs take more time from me by adding inconsistent friction to what I want to express, and spending time undoing the magic but wrong assumptions that are automatically applied break the flow for me.
The alternative of course is that someone could use the Snow White IP to create new media, in the same way that Sherlock Holmes has generated numerous films. Guy Ritchie's two Holmes movies have netted over $1B USD at the box office. That wouldn't have happened if the Doyle estate still held the copyright.

Not to mention the fact that the Snow White character itself was pulled from the public domain.
Valve have absolutely nailed the consumer-centric business model. Gabe Newell was the first person I heard the concept of "piracy is a service problem" from and they've turned it into their core competency.

However, centralization of the marketplace, even from a publisher standpoint, isn't a Good Thing. Steam's degree of control over the game publishing platform market is pretty pathological from the view of developers.

A better solution from the content creators' standpoint is a marketplace with competitors. In gaming, this doesn't really exist (maybe GoG/Humble?) but in streaming media delivery, it does (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video).
The title claims this is effortless but at a minimum I have to at least read this article. Misleading title.
> And the problem is the people that are dying of heroin aren't the Silicon Valley tech workers with good jobs and homes that make up the majority of hacker news.

My girlfriend grew up in a "1%" household. She developed substance abuse problems because she was born premature, because she was adopted, because of some "adverse childhood experience", and because her doctors thought she was a candidate for chemical castration with Provera (which makes some women suicidal).

"Stress" is the main factor in addiction. For some people stress is emotional, for others it's economic, and for others it's biological...

> I trust the average person to use heroin as responsibly as they'd use a military helicopter if they could afford one from a day's work--and that's not at all.

Do you trust organized crime to provide heroin to people who are going to use it anyways?
The most obvious is that people are more on phones today than on full-featured computers. You're not going to run p2p uploading on such a device. You're going to be streaming.
> I think helping people who've become addicted is good, but these aren't things that should be legal and accessible for people to start using.

When addictive substances are illegal they're more accessible than when they're managed appropriately.

Johann Hari tells in Chasing the Scream about a city in the UK that used to have a legal heroin program. Addiction rates were a fraction of the rate of a nearby city with similar economic prospects. The difference was that the addicts who lived under prohibition had to advertise to their friends to support their habit.

Patients who could get what they needed from the NHS had no need to promote heroin/cocaine/etc to their friends.
HNs algorithm could be improved if new storied were briefly shown on the front page so a few people could see them and have a chance of voting. Like how new comments start a the top of the thread and fall if they don't get votes.
same, I used to be fairly active on facebook during my highschool and college years, ever since it started filling my feed with politics, ads and junk I've been much less engaged with facebook. I disabled my account for a period of time and now I'm only hanging on to it because
1) it's still the one app that most of the people in my circle have accounts on
2) for organizing events
3) advertisement purpose
I spend in the tens of thousands of dollar range on digital advertising every month. It’s very easy to measure ROI if your goal is to get someone to buy something on your website. If your goal is to promote a brand or get someone to take action in the real world (go to a store to make a purchase, for example), things get a bit more difficult. This has always been the case with all forms of advertising, however, and digital is still far easier to measure than traditional shotgun approaches like TV, radio, print, etc.

If a company is finding digital advertising to be inefficient then they should cut it, but it begs the question - what IS efficient for them? In my experience, the efficiency of digital simply can’t be touched.
I have yet to hear a definition of free will that makes any sense.
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Firing people is hard. It can affect morale and send all kind of messages that the founder may not want to send. I'm guessing this will happen at some point, but as a founder who has been faced with this exact kind of situation, I can tell you that it's awful. People who slack can still be liked.
I don't think it's exactly the same process, but I recall Kumail Nanjiani (Screenwriter and star of The Big Sick) saying for the longest time he couldn't stand the sound of collecting coins in Mario games because it reminded him of the time he'd play Mario in the waiting room of a hospital while his then girlfriend (now wife) was in a coma.
I am currently out in the sticks in the U.S. near a major interstate highway. I have one option for wired internet which is DSL. The max speed is 5Mbps down and 0.5Mbps up. I have a choice between 2 wireless companies that will gladly lock me into a 2 year contract at ~$100 a month with a bandwidth cap of 200-300 GB a month. I have asked around and it has been this way for ~10 years and the local ISP has no intention of an infrastructure upgrade. I check the broadbandnow website every month and there are no new options. This is the free market most of the people living in rural America deal with. I previously lived in a major city and had 100Mbps down and 30Mbps up with no data caps.

Now think about how slow that is. I have to wait for Youtube to buffer up and Netflix/Hulu were so unusable I canceled my service. Watching anything live only works at the lowest possible resolution. VOIP is completely unreliable and gaming is spotty at best. The last time I had internet options this slow was the end of the 90s. Using census data there are 10,000+s of people out here dealing with this garbage level service.

The U.S. government defines broadband as 25Mbps down and 3Mbps upload at a minimum. I currently do not have broadband internet.
Sure, but the other side of the equation is an unknowable number of thousands of lost lives and billions of dollars, because of medical advances that were never made.

There are other important values than privacy in the world!
cmd.exe is more like bash and less like xterm or the like. conhost.exe is likely what you're thinking of. I don't mind the minimalism but there are a few nice adjustments that can be made from the defaults like turning on vt100 support by default (no longer limited to when programs like bash are run).

Conhost has a long ways to go but they've made far more progress in the last year and a half than any other point in time I can recall, so I'm optimistic that it will be modernized even more to fit the growing capabilities of WSL.
Elixir is a successful experiment. Crystal could have become a success if they decided to have 100% syntactic equivalence. As it is, it requires rewrites in even trivial console scripts.
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Exactly the low quality crap you would expect from gizmodo. Who would you rather trust? Random VPN app or Facebook? The choice is obvious to me.
> the tyrrany of the rocket equation

It's actually not that bad for suborbital flights. You can overbuild by a lot.
That would make sense if there wasn't obviously disagreement about what counts as people.
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It was a lovely turn of phrase. One of the highlights of my day!
This obviously increases contributions, which is great. Does this now require more time from people with Run Trybot access to manually kick off a CI run? I wondered why Go always used that instead of automatically kicking off CI for each patchset. To save resources perhaps?
I can echo a lot of these points.

Out of curiosity--what have you fallen back to as a PaaS? What do you do now?

Also, do you recall what couldn't be dockerized and had to be ran on bare-metal or VM? Performance-sensitive stuff, Mac OSX?
Proceeds? Going from $120 to $30 is not generally considered a profitable venture.
I just read bout that...what an appalling effort, and they should have known better. They have serious issues of a newly designed pistol cannot match a $150 Makarov in terms of manufacturing quality.
Being creative (debugging loosely falls in that category) and learning has to be different. When creating or inventing you can fall well and truly inside the box, taking a break helps you think outside the box, learning sounds like the more in the box/zone the more you get it.

TLDR; sometimes you want a new perspective, sometime re-energise, taking a break is an easy way to get both. You
> We'll have to wait a while before we know for sure, but one loser might be technology startups, especially European ones.

Or it may be a great opportunity for them to differentiate developing not privacy invading business models protected from being undercut by "free" (because we sell your data) competitors.
hopefully she has a better sense of humor than you do
I had the same reaction to the title, however the article is extremely convincing: in one case an 11-fold increase in recall.

I will use this for the rest of my life. By the way I used the technique after reading the article. Likely this is why I recall the 11-fold figure. I even remember the numbers: 7% recall to 79% recall for the case I just quoted. This is far from normal for me.

This is probably the most important article I read in the past year on HN.
Other tools are developed and maintained to stimulate competition and avoid vendor lock-in. Monocultures are dangerous.

One example of a use-case where GitHub falls short is offline support: you can't take the issue tracker and wiki with you. There are alternative tools such as fossil [0] which have built-in bug tracking and wiki, which is an attractive feature for some people.

[0] https://fossil-scm.org/
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Just to be more specific, imagine inodes were 1024 bits. An inode could become a handle that not only described a unique object, but encode how to reach that object. Which means every read/write operation would contain enough data for forwarding the operation through the stack of layers. Systems like FUSE can't scale well because of how they manage state. One of the obvious ways to fix that is to embed state in the object identifier.

A real world example are pointers on IBM mainframes. They're 128 bits. Not because there's a real 128-bit address space, but because the pointer also encodes information about the object, information used and enforced by both software and hardware to ensure safety and security. Importantly, this is language agnostic. An implementation of C in such an environment is very straight forward; you get object capability built directly into the language without having to even modify the semantics of the language or expose an API.

Language implementations like Swift, LuaJIT, and various JavaScript implementations also make use of unused bits in 64-bit pointers for tagging data. This is either not possible on 32-bit implementations, or in those environments they use 64-bit doubles instead of pointers. In any event, my point is that larger address spaces can actually make it much easier to optimize performance because it's much simpler to encode metadata in a single, structured, shared identifier than to craft a system that relies on a broker to query metadata. Obviously you can't encode all metadata, but it's really nice to be able to encode some of the most important metadata, like type.
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My parents subscribed to this philosophy and by freshman year of university I was 5'10" and 126lbs. Didn't turn it around until I had programming money to pay for the gym and eat whatever I wanted. Still resent them for it.
I agree. It's no brainer that repetition helps retention. If you gave your mind a time to think about what you learned, obviously you would retain it more.
To a degree: if you over-strain to recall, you’ll actually train your brain to struggle with that item. Better to limit the time you spend retrying to recall before giving up and looking up the answer.
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This. A lot of people get so caught up in the benefits of doing nothing they forget it’s dangerous to do too little. One technique that’s worked wonders for me is breaking up doing nothing with 15 minutes of doing something. That way I’m not doing nothing or something all of the time.