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My own view is they should either be all plural or all singular. Just pick one.
But I do gravitate to singular because all nouns have naturally consistent singular words. The same cannot be said of plural. e.g. Moose, Cactus, and any other word that ends in an 's'.
Eh, I'm not sure. People have been skeptical of video forever, as long as they feel they have a reason to be. Hell, even the Moon landing videos are doubted by a non-insignificant number of people.

I think the "trust in video" is more a reflection of trust in the establishment, since those were the people who could really broadcast it. People who didn't have that trust in the establishment (e.g. anti-capitalists in the West) already doubted videos as well.

For example, where I'm from there's a significant number of people who are skeptical of the recent videos of the chemical attack in Syria.
As I said, for us it's not an edge case, but the norm. May not be 2 loads every day, but if I had to guess I'd say that happens about every other day.
I've got three Go files open and looking at all the processes related to "Visual Studio Code.app", I see a residential memory footprint of 660MB. I'm using the latest version.

That also coincides with:

https://medium.com/@caspervonb/why-i-still-use-vim-67afd76b4...

And

https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/editor-p...
If what you're saying is that TDD can guide you to a good design but it doesn't guarantee it then I think we're in agreement there.

When working on protocol specifications and proving the correctness of a certain invariant or property of the system I find TDD to be lacking and tend to turn to formal methods for results.

However at the module/interface level of an individual software library or component TDD is a very good tool that helps guide me towards a good design. As do other tools like a sound type system. When they work in concert the system almost writes itself -- I just have to come up with the queries, invariants, and assertions.
You're more likely to die via guns if you yourself own a gun. This factoid is suggestive, but there are many complex factors at play (e.g. you're more likely to own a gun if you live in a shitty neighbourhood, suicide, and you're more likely to be involved in a shootout if you try to defend yourself).

However it's flippant to say that there's no need for further math.
There is the Chinese stock market, but it’s lost most of its credibility as being heavily vested in insider trading.
I still remember being scared awake by that audio loop many years ago. Lucid dreaming had caught my attention for a while, and when they released the lucid dreaming feature I thought I'd give it a go. The media volume on my phone being set to maximum definitively did not help when that creepy voice wrought me out of sleep and I haven't tried it since. I wonder if it actually works, but can't really try it out nowadays as I'm not sleeping alone.
You know John Glenn's name precisely because he is exceptional. I would certainly choose the discomfort of a 2-minute roller coaster over the discomfort of a 2-hour commercial flight, but... a man who set milestones in American spaceflight and was trained by NASA for a shuttle mission is hardly the baseline.
Crashed mine on desktop too, on 66.0.3359.117.

Locks up for a few seconds, slowly reaches ~75% loading progress, then "Aw, Snap!"
> Sounds like the best thing that happened in this story was partnering with other wealthy people...

I can see how you made this conclusion, which is semi-correct. You don't have to partner with other wealthy people though, it just makes getting to a point of retirement faster. So if I was to do everything myself, it would probably have taken 12 years to get to where I am vs 6.
Very good observations, however consider that we can't even construct a system of mathematical axioms that is non-trivial, complete and consistent. Expecting something out of a culture/ideology that we know has been proven impossible to deliver in the field of math seems pretty unreasonable.

To play the game further, consider that Chinese people themselves will often look down upon other cultures for their lack of gender equality. This particular example comes to mind:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/10/learning-to-sp...

"He rarely says much about local culture, but once, when I asked casually what he considered to be the biggest problem in Egypt, the forcefulness of his response surprised me.

“Inequality between men and women,” he said immediately. “Here the women just stay home and sleep. If they want to develop, the first thing they need to do is solve this problem. That’s what China did after the revolution. It’s a waste of talent here. Look at my family—you see how my wife works. We couldn’t have the factory without her. And my daughter runs the shop. If they were Egyptian, they wouldn’t be doing that.”
That answer satisfied me initially, but less and less so the more I read. It became very obvious by the end that what is being represented is one "standard", but presented as the only possible correct solution.

It starts off with Yes. Beware of the heathens. Plural in the table names are a sure sign of someone who has not read any of the standard materials and has no knowledge of database theory. I thought the author was being flippant, but it became increasingly obvious that this is a true reflection of their dogmatic view with regard to this topic.

Even if this is the same view I would settle on with all the knowledge, being presented with what is obviously a single perspective with no acknowledgement whatsoever of any positive aspects of alternatives causes me to instinctively distrust quite a bit of the reasoning presented.
Here are a few things that I love:

- The app icon changes based on the theme. I didn't know that was possible!

- Very clean visual design and UI. Really nice!

What I would improve:

- Some of my reminders from the Apple Reminders app have URLs attached to them, but there doesn't seem to be a way to click on them in your app. (I have to go to "View Note" and copy & paste into Safari). This happens for notes that were shared from Safari to the Reminders app.

- That permission screen in the beginning is really weird. I just skipped it. I prefer to grant app permissions when I actually need them, not when I just downloaded the app and launch it for the first time.

- The delete button is not really self-explanatory. I have never seen that specific icon in any iOS app, so I was surprised that it deleted my reminder when I clicked it out of curiosity.
Untrue. It depends on the city, but in Beijing you can buy (given the Chinese definition of buy anyways) a property after being resident for 5 years.
> I remember when I first used Google Search all those years ago my first reaction was "uh, that's a weird name", my 2nd reaction was "damn, that's so much better than the search engines I've used so far".

That's because most "blockchain" apps are no Google. Going with your dotcom analogy, I'm sure most of these are equivalent to pets.com, Yahoo, AOL, etc. which means they will either crash hard or stick around while being marginalized to oblivion by newcomers that have learned from the mistakes and started from scratch (or Bitcoin itself).

And continuing on with Google analogy, this meteoric rise of the hypothetical "Google for blockchain" will happen AFTER the crash of rest of these trash blockchains.
AMD's stock was under $3 when this article was published, in Oct 2014. Today it is over $10.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/overheard-amd-cutting-costs-141...
The rise of women-only coworking spaces
Canary in the Coal Pond
I'm curious how you handle the issue of scope in pynt.

From what I see in the readme, a lot of the features are about extracting code snippets from the source file and sending them to the notebook. But when you're trying to interactively edit a function that's deep in the call stack, there's a question of how to pause execution right as the function is being called and set up the execution scope for the REPL/notebook.

I actually think handling scope is perhaps the key issue for interactive programming. If the global scope is easier to interact with than anything nested, you continue to have a "penalty for abstraction". This is the case even if your language is purely functional/reactive/supports reversible debugging -- in some of his talks about Eve, Chris Granger mentioned how scope proved to be a real challenge even in a functional programming setting (IIRC).

This is one of the reasons I prefer Hydrogen to Jupyter notebooks. In a notebook all cells are toplevel, whereas in hydrogen I can select any chunk of text (or chunk of the AST) and execute it. It's not as good at presenting computational narratives, but much better for interactively changing an existing program to do something new. There's still a lot of issues on the UI front though, so I'm definitely interested in any ideas about that.
I just get irked that people continuously misuse 300% increase, etc.
I don't think your proposed solution will really change anything and would probably backfire if it became reality. Congrats, you now have a public website espousing opinions that would have gotten you banned from the former central platforms. But it doesn't really matter since the practical reach of your message is basically nonexistant. You're blacklisted from all the popular webrings who are empowered to moderate even stronger since they're not platforms for general speech anymore and their users love it because it's not fun to be bullied and harassed.

Everyone gets what they want I guess?
which hides away complicated things like sql behind an more accessible api...
Not trying to go all anti-2a..

Many people have guns. I think the numbers are that there's more guns than there are people in the USA.

However for those numbers of guns, there's nowhere near that amount of training to teach proper firearms handling and usage. The hunters probably have the most experience, outside law enforcement and military.

I personally don't have enough time to dedicate to mastery of firearms. Just going and buying a handgun seems like a splendid way to either injure yourself or have it taken from you and used against you. This decision is personal.

However I'm pretty good at: electronics, design, reverse engineering, software, power, chemistry, and many other areas. I may not be a master at firearms, but I know metalsmithing and chemistry to make the bullets gun owners need.

And frankly, if shit goes haywire, they'll be enough guns to go around. Because I could see another country moving in, and guns being passed around like candy to defend us. And barring that, I'll know enough tech and have enough scrap to be needed.
One thing I've never been able to reconcile is Mike Bayer's article there, set against Yury Selivanov's reported results for `asyncpg`, which at least as they're presented do indicate a significant difference in throughput.

https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg

They're both incredibly experienced developers, and I don't have any good steer on the discrepancy.

Would love to see some independent benchmarking on a typical use case to get a clearer picture on how valuable (or not) asyncio is for high-throughput database operations.
In the picture of the worker ant, it has a facial structure unlike any I’ve seen. What’s the deal with that, if anyone knows? Do we have an entomologist here?
Yes, but if you're not a subsistence hunter, and only planning to become one in unusual circumstances, the AR-15 is so popular that its parts and ammunition are widely available everywhere. In fact, I'd say an entry-level AR-15 at about $400 is a better choice for someone who isn't enthusiastic about guns, and doesn't want to expend too much brainpower maintaining them, as opposed to a $100 Cosmoline-encrusted Mosin or Norinco rifle. Even if it is overkill for hunting.
Anyone interested in Linotype would greatly enjoy Linotype: The Film [0], a full length documentary that interviews several of the people that made this film.

[0] - https://vimeo.com/15032988
The implicit part of this argument, though, is that blockchains are expensive: in order to have this trustless system you have to have PoW which is inherently computationally (and therefore monetarily) expensive. It's not going to be easier to write either (which is the reason why people aren't using 1991 Visual Basic).

In other words, the argument here is why would you do it this other way that is more complicated and/or expensive when you could do it the default way which is simpler and cheaper.
Your Instagram links aren't working.
Wasn't that more like:

Science gave us CFCs then commerce and industry over-used them irresponsibly, and fought regulation. Science later appropriately berated us for the hole in the ozone layer...
>Raw data is freely available (noaa and others), and some simple scripts can answer questions like "are the claimed warming trends real or artifacts of bias due to adjustments or other factors".

That can only tell you whether the trend is present in the raw data or only occured after some processing of the data.

Don't confuse raw sensor data with reality and adjustments with artifacts.

I can use a tire gauge that reads high, but that doesn't make my flat tire an artifact of data adjustment.
Queue the next crypto fancy: Gibraltarcoin! Decentralized electricity monetization transfer something something profit.
The following analysis grew out of a desire to address Elon Musk's ontological argument and the underlying Singularity hypothesis that is popular among AI researchers, AI engineers and the general public. In this essay I demonstrate that although the Singularity hypothesis has the form of a scientific theory, with its share of graphs(always exponential curves), confabulations(i.e. cherry-picked data), and shoddy analysis; in substance the Singularity is nothing more than a religion. Moreover, it is the first scientific theory which rests upon a single unobserved data point which is both imminent and perpetually beyond the grasp of scientists. In spite of this, the theory has recently gained traction due to the combined influence(and aura of credibility) of Elon Musk, Nick Bostrom, and Stuart Russell who have managed to conflate real AI risks with imaginary ones emanating from the Singularity narrative.
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More speculation here, I don't have any knowledge on the matter, but...

If the flight time drops from 12 hours to 30 minutes, and prices are in the same ballpark of $2,000, then there would be more demand.

The execs could all be in Shanghai for the board meeting and some of them could be back in NYC for dinner.
YES

There are countless debates I've been a part of, on various topics, with parties involved cling to outliers as proof of their position, even in the face of actual statistical data. Words like "average" or "likelihood" don't seem to mean anything to them...only narrow anecdotes that are impossible to argue against without using statistics.

Example: I've debated someone that men are on average taller than women. They refused to accept this because they "know plenty of tall women." And their rejection of statistics and the notion of "on average" can be summed up by: "there is no 'average' person."
What definition of gene are they using is this article?
I don't know, "'Java is call by sharing' would be fine" looks pretty similar to my first comment on this story [1]. I thought we were on the same page.

I suggest you re-read the Hacker News guidelines [2] for what constitutes acceptable discourse on this site. Your first comment to me [3] and your most recent comment demonstrate a lack of civility on your part.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16896221

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16896569
I completely agree.

I have many rifles (and many AR-15s) because I like the things mostly, not because I'm trying to build an arsenal for the apocalypse. If I weren't enamored with them in particular I would have one or two, maybe a few spare parts, and the money I've spent on them would be spent on other things.

There are lots of things I do based on this subconscious analysis. For instance - I have a fire extinguisher in my vehicle. It was ~$100, and is certainly not something that most people have. I bought it and installed it because it seemed like something that would be very bad to not have if I ever needed it. In fact, I'm on my fourth fire extinguisher; the first three were used to put out fires on other people's vehicles that I happened to come across.

The thing that I think a lot of people don't understand about this is that it's primarily about mindset. I want to be responsible for myself and capable of handling any reasonable issues that arise in my life without calling upon others unless necessary. For me, from a practical perspective, firearms represent the ability to secure myself and my family and to keep us safe. From here, gun control is an attempt to remove my ability to do that.
Systems like Shazams are used to keep track of airplay so they are pretty important and there’s also the huge market opportunity for recognizing what people are watching or listening to (even if most people would consider that pretty creepy).

They aren’t the only game in town though.
People have been saying this for at _least_ 30 years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1990/12/31/a...
Cucumber did get one idea right though - enforcing a separation of concerns between a high level non-turing complete specification and turing complete code that executes it.

Gherkin just isn't a great language to demonstrate the benefits of that.
Decentralized Internet on Blockchain
They probably mean something like what I posted here a while ago:

"No thanks, we are too busy":

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2015/07/no-thanks-we-are-too-busy...

Check the image (in the post) and the labels below the post.
To be frank, in every case given the original logo is much better, far more memorable, and easier to recognize.
At the price point, I imagine it won't be as competitive as a business class fare, which 99% of people will choose over 30 mins of non-stop barfing. No?
What always amazes me about this video is how on-board the workforce was with the change -- it was an era of stronger unions, which ensured they'd all keep their jobs for life and be trained to use the new tools, so of course they embraced the new way of doing things.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1974/07/29/797...
That’s probably because, despite the title of the article, it’s almost entirely about guns.
I got a whiff of this mindset when I found out about peak oil circa 2005 or so.

There were folks who had transitioned off the grid in a sustainable way. The point of these weapons is to protect their families against roving gangs looking to scavenge resources ala Mad Max. A family of four will not be able to fight off dozens with shotguns, even against a large unarmed group they will be quickly overwhelmed after taking out a few - semi-auto weapons though they have a fighting chance.

This is also the primary reason they tend to move far away from cities - it's not that they don't like people or civilization in general (they may or may not), it's just that it thins out the number of people who could reasonably access their homestead.

I feel the vast majority of folks who have these weapons have them because they're 'cool'. But for the hard-core preppers convinced that the world is going to end they're an essential survival tool in a post-apocalyptic future.
My farmer friends call it a "spoon nap" sit in a chair holding a spoon, as soon as you fall asleep the spoon drops and you can get back to work. Typically taken directly after a big lunch.
Erlang Scheduler Details and Why It Matters (2016)
I don't think either of these analogies is accurate?

It's more like Home Depot slapping a GPS tracker on my person, which I am take with me when I leave the store, isn't it?
I think I misunderstood the parent comment. I can't delete the answer, though :) sorry about that!
Lead isn't quite the danger that people think it is--a lump of solid lead that you hold with your hands isn't going to hurt you. The problem is when you ingest lead flakes or dissolved lead (lead compounds tend to be weakly soluble, but this is pH-dependent--that's what caused problems in Flint).

The real danger in the newsroom is in the hot metal press, because you've got hot metal (likely causing some problematic airborne lead) running around at high speeds. The composing proofs themselves are going to be very minor in comparison to the linotype and printing machines, which are going to be occupational safety hazards for sure.
The Futuro House (of 1968)
If you can bear with modern air travel today, the process, the rush, the waiting, the hassle with luggage, and worst of all being cramped in little seats with hundreds of other people around for really long periods of time, then I think you will probably be able to handle the rocket. The devil is in the details though.

Regardless, not only do I think I would I appreciate the shorter, more violent flight more as I got older, I would also appreciate the roll of the dice that if anything goes wrong we just all die instantly. Not a bad way to go, really.
Literally the entire point of the field of statistics is to augment our highly fallible "common sense" with objective measures of assessment.
Whatever solution you'd propose for ensuring global adoption and interoperability of hypothetical blockchain-based medical records would also work just as well (or better) for any other type digital healthcare records. That's mostly a political problem, and not one where blockchain provides any advantage.
Yes, environmental, not human, concerns are the primary reason for banning lead bullets.
Micsig scope tablets are great too. Similar price and specs but they're also battery powered and portable!
I interviewed 120 independent podcasters.  what I learned
I also like to add an additional challenge -- Can you use Bubble to create a program that generates solutions to the triangular-shaped golf tee game that sits on tables at Cracker Barrel? What about a program that plays chess or go?
I was careful not to claim that he said billions WOULD die - rather "that billions of people MIGHT BE EXPECTED TO DIE." He's the one throwing out the words "billions" and "lethal" here as a scare tactic; I'm not exactly putting any words into his mouth. I even nicely provided a link so you could see exactly what he said for yourself.

And I didn't make a connection between pollution and cold, either; rather I said that their priorities here might need to shift - less concern about pollution, more concern about people staying out of the cold. And "staying out of the cold" implies maybe burning more fossil fuels, which would generate more CO2, which everyone knows isn't itself pollution anyway.

As far as "problem" vs. "solution", my main goal is trying to get people to NOT buy into all of the doomsday environmental scenarios that are constantly being thrown about now. History has shown that such prognostications are almost always nonsense. (Plain old common sense should tell you that, too, but it seems a lot of people lack common sense these days.) I mean, we don't want people going off on a tangent and doing what this guy did (see below)! Amirite?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/04/1...
Earnings call: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR6JCmoEIUw
I like your explanation for changing lines of text, but I don't think brain is actively generating any content. I think brain is just trying its best to apply daytime pattern recognition to un-orchestrated neural activity. The most recently learned patterns are the strongest, which is why often you'll dream stuff that happened that day. If you spend a lot of time performing single activity (like gaming), the dream will be intensive and focused; this is called the Tetris effect.
Agreed, not personally a fan. Maybe I've just been using MVC for too long to appreciate the benefits, though..