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> If you've ever read a popular press story in your area of expertise, you immediately see how many things writers oversimplify to the point of absurdity, or just get plain wrong.

I could have sworn there was a named Effect/Rule given to an extension of this but my googling is coming up short. It was about how you'll read a mainstream article about something you know a great deal about and see how much the journalists got wrong but don't keep that in mind when reading about things outside your expertise. I believe I read about it in the comments here on HN. Does anyone know what it was?
I wouldn't go so far as to say that there's no federal agencies in the DC Stingray soup, but how can you say it's more likely to be federal agencies in DC of all places?

If there was a single city in the US that foreign agencies would target, it would undoubtedly be DC. The abundance of embassies in the city make it a very easy target.
Is Coinbase still using MongoDB as their primary database? Article talks about moving deliberately and fixing things but then talks about double transaction problems that weren’t fixed for weeks, something that would be easy to make impossible in an actual mature database solution.
If you have an infinite budget, I could 'target' you by purchasing every ad on the internet with the copy "hi bawana, click this link!"

Nearly every impression would be seen by the wrong person, but a few of the impressions would be seen by you.

The rest of the exercise is figuring out how to segment the audience based on whether it's likely/unlikely that you're in the segment. If I know you're from the US and live in California, I can geo-target to that region.
I didn't read the article because I'm not interested in crypto, but I love "Move deliberately and Fix things."

I love that it implies that you know where you are going and making steady progress towards that. It also subtly acknowledges that you are building on the work of others, and that bugs happen. It's OK, but fix 'em when you find 'em.
It's not ok to attack a fellow user like this on HN, and we ban accounts that do it, so please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules from now on. That means posting civilly and substantively, or not at all.
Speaking for Christianity, God's omnipotence does not mean he can violate his own nature. In fact, he is very limited in the sense that there are an infinite number of things that he cannot do because they are inconsistent with his nature -- his holiness, truth, love, and wisdom.
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None of these are even in the top ten for population. So they're all dwarfed by China.
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-...
I have arrived at this library yesterday while trying to do a cross platform drag and drop app. I decided to go with x/screen package instead.
The documentation and lack of examples threw me off. If I have to read the source in details to understand the app, I am better off writing the code x 3 with native tools. The library is supposed to save time not steal from it.
It is wonderdul idea and I really like the name. I wish the author will make it more dev and contributor friendly so we can take it off the ground.
Change is always frightening.
The day that philosophy makes an experimentally-testable prediction about a property of nature is the day that a lot of physicists will pay attention.
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There are many options. Off the top of my head, here are a few:

Major non-partisan news organizations. Generally, their news is relatively unbiased; editorials are meant to be biased, of course. Search their news archives.

Major non-partisan think tanks can be fantastic sources, but be a bit careful about their funding.

Encyclopedia Britannica is excellent, with articles generally written by domain experts. Coverage isn't nearly as broad as Wikipedia, but otherwise it's a great first stop for most topics. They let you read a few free articles, but don't hesitate to pay for quality information.

Review articles in academic journals: An expert reviews the state of the literature. Search Google Scholar.

University libraries often have fantastic study guides online, written by experts in their fields.

Many academic fields have excellent online resources and aggregations. In philosophy (extending into the philosophical aspects of math, humanities, and more), the Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. For the academic study of the Judeo-Christian Bible, there is Oxford Biblical Studies Online: for Islam, there is Oxford Islamic Studies Online. And professors often put together ad-hoc websites.
Show me your favorite nutritional study and I’ll be happy to explain why it can’t actually tell us anything about the long term effects of diet on health.
9 years after he passed, I still cannot bring myself to delete my dad's name and contact details from my phone.

My wife went one better. Her mum passed within months of my dad (she was ill with cancer), and my wife spontaneously recorded the last few conversation they ever had on Voice Memos on her phone, and I know she still listens to them every now and then. I've backed those up off her phone as well, and kept them safely archived.
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It's just my choice of words, I don't think they are calling it that. I doubt they're gonna focus on monetizing it any more than the library manager they already have (which is to say, not at all). You can probably buy commercial IP cores for the FPGA they are using, but I seriously doubt they will be distributing those through Arduino. I fully expect that it'll be open source modules developed for functionality appealing to makers, the Arduino people have a history of being good citizens (excepting the weird copyright controversy, but that's not the same thing). Stuff like e.g. RGB LED matrix drivers, audio DSP or computer vision that fit hobbyist projects, but which microcontrollers struggle with.
Well, here's my strange case: I go by my middle and last name, not my legal first name and last name. My credit cards have Middle Last. Many of my paychecks have gone to Middle Last. The freakin' IRS knows me by Middle Last. And when I first signed up for Simple, my debit card said Middle Last.

And then they changed "partner banks," and reissued my debit card with a new number and new bank account number...and changed the name on my card. And when I asked them to change it back, they said no.

And, yeah, I kinda take it personally. Because now, whenever I pay for anything using Simple, I'm called by a name that I don't consider mine. I have to stop and think, "Oh, they just called out an order for 'John,' and that might be me."

I love Simple in theory, but this was an infuriating regression. After a decade, they still can't accept e-bills, either -- that is, American Express can't send a bill to them and have it automatically deducted. I've kept my Bank of America account around in part because for all the crap BoA gets, their online banking system can receive e-bills and pay them from my account at Simple. For a "technology first" bank like Simple, that should really be kind of fucking embarrassing.

Last but not least? Bank of America also calls me by the name I asked for.
And in your mind there is absolutely no possibility that a reasonable explanation would exist why a company would pull out because of it?

How about cost of compliance? For example, just the fact that you need to figure out whether you are compliant or not costs money. If you ask for user consent, then you must be able to later show that you got said consent from the user to work that data. You also have to take into account the risk of fines if something somewhere goes wrong. We, as software developers, should be intimately aware of how things can go wrong despite everyone trying their best.

All of these things cost money. If the cost is greater than what the business from the EU brings in, then it's not worth it. The fact that there are people who immediately and only jump to the thought they don't care about privacy is very worrying.
Why not both? It is like fighting between engineers of digital electronics and analogue electronics. I believe the practical applications should use hybrid approach.
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It could apply to you too for saying what you did just then. That's why hate speech laws are horrible. You can't criticize politicians. You can't even criticize ideas if there are people who insist on tying their identity to those ideas. They stifle public sharing of ideas. Just look at the Nazi pug conviction in the UK - 800 pound fine for training a dog wrong. His neighbor was also charged for calling him a Nazi in retaliation!
> Slack is essentially a fancy IRC

The keyword here is fancy. Hexchat is an IRC client, sure, but it is minimalist. That would be like comparing a text file to a PDF and asking why the PDF needs so much more RAM when they're basically the same.

I feel like you're mutating the argument from "electron uses 10x RAM compared to native apps" into "an IRC client doesn't need to use so much RAM"

The proper comparison would be either a full, feature complete native Slack client with all the same bells and whistles that runs under 100mb, OR an electron port of hexchat with its text only interface that uses 1GB+
“I didn't read the article because I'm not interested in crypto”

An attitude that would never past muster on HN except in regards to this subject
A year-by-year history of economic growth and pollution in the Roman Empire
This makes no sense. How would an alien life form be encoded in a compatible DNA "language"?
The original paper is here. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S007961071...

Not sure I can take this paper seriously, either, but it's clear they're taking themselves seriously (in a good way.)
I read the whole thing too. There's so much reading between the lines to do. The author is obviously unaware of the real issues getting them fired, but I could never quite write them off as a bad employee or unhinged either. I mean, someone who prides themselves on being a porcupine and asks for a raise by passive aggressively complaining about contract terms is bad news, but they're also so passionate.
Here's the Psych 101 background to my view:
people don't just pretend to conform, their perceptions conform https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

By its nature, it's hard to notice this in yourself. I like to think of myself as capable of independent thought. But when I've been solo camping for a few days, some of my perspective evaporates on contact with others, like a dream on waking. It's hard to even notice it leaving. I imagine they leave imperceptibly in daily life.
This literally means that God is not "all powerful". And if there are things he is simply incapable of experiencing, this also means he is not "all knowing".
It can also induce diarrhoea. And taking substances for performance enhancement is essentially doping (as in: not permitted for most sports).
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Note, however, that almost anything that hampers your metabolism (such as fasting or a ketogenic diet) or overburdens your body, will strongly tend to be anti-inflammatory, for the simplest of reasons: your body wants to fight an invader or toxin (that maybe it shouldn't) but you've clamped down on its ability to do as much as it likes; you've put it on a budget. This will also limit your ability to repair DNA and much else.

I'm not saying that's the mechanism here, but it could be, and is for very many anti-inflammatory effects.

Granted, fasting is part of our evolutionary history, some of it does seem to be healthy, overall.
you do realize that the president is in charge of enforcing laws?
You will always have the option to transact directly on the blockchain, just like you have the option to send email with hand-crafted SMTP messages. Coinbase offers convenience, take it or leave it.
I don't trust Wikipedia for anything political. I mainly rely on it for purely factual stuff. Basic geographical information, for example. I look at technical stuff, but only as an introduction.
I think if your goal was pro level livestreaming using 5g this would be the phone to use. Maybe a bit early but that's how you grab a market.
The Gell-Mann amnesia effect defines the idea that "I believe everything the media tells me except for anything for which I have direct personal knowledge, which they always get wrong."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
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If you ever did acting before you would understand how difficult it is to get a scene just right and how misguided your statement is.
As someone who is admittedly not an expert in template metaprogramming by any means, thinking of templates as an extension of macros feels like the intuitive and simpler way compared to the more complex two-phase algorithm, so it's no surprise that MSVC did it too... then again, I prefer simpler languages (like C) and see the difficulty of implementing the standard as a sign that its complexity may be too high.
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it's a direct response to facebook's old motto of, "move fast and break things", no?
I would have personally liked to hear your response but I guess it is what it is. Best wishes to you as well!
Nothing’s easy with growth at the rate Coinbase has experienced!
Right, I'm trying to find where the argument is, and what the rationale was for shooting down the proposed alteration to the diagram.
I think the authors are saying that the number of mental models (possible worlds) that language can suggest is unmanageably infinite, unless the listening brain is capable of rapidly eliminating all the infeasible / implausible worlds before forming a viable model of what the speaker is thinking, before formulating a response. To do that, the listener needs to bring to bear a wealth of world knowledge and common sense, all of which is lacking in the current models of AI created by deep learning.

As such, unless AI can somehow build useful models of the world and combine them with basic horse sense, it will always be just a one trick pony.
I'm not the person you're asking this from, but any regulation tends to require extra work to be done. Just the fact that you need to know that you're compliant requires work. Then you have requirements such as being able to prove that users gave you this consent, being able to prove that you did delete all the user data in all the possible places (including back ups, VMs, crash dumps on developer machines etc) when requested etc.

You also have to take into account the risk of the fines. The fines are enormous and there are no guarantees that the regulators will not slap you with the highest fines "to make an example of you" or because you just rubbed them the wrong way. Even if you try your hardest to comply and think you have all the bases covered, it could very well be that you are not compliant because something was overlooked or there's a bug somewhere or something else entirely. You can never be certain about this.

Now you add up all of these costs and compare it to how much the EU market offers you. If the costs to comply exceed the income, and there's no near-future opportunities for large growth, then it would make a lot of sense to just pull out of the market.
> "Give me your car and I'll let you borrow it sometimes."

Maybe this is a little over-simplified? Too many histories need to be dig into before the problem can be explained and understood completely. Let's hope those politicians will figure out how to solve it.
You can certainly overdose on Baking Soda and cause serious harm, so you want to get the dosage right.
I would like to avoid meeting any shoggoths.

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I have seen plenty of people ignore articles on HN and make it to the top. The comments are complaining about how conservatives are censored on HN, never with a sense of irony.
I find this notion to be completely ridiculous. There's some things that are common to all life. The genetic code for instance. There are of course different dialects [1], but they're all fairly similar, and all code for the same set of amino acids. Cephalopods use the same means of storing genetic information, DNA with the bases G, C, A, and T. They have the same machinery to translate the genetic code into proteins, ribosomes. Ribosomal structure is highly conserved among all life. The idea that all of these molecular machinery developed in parallel on a different planet with the exact same genetic code, means of storing genetic information, and means of converting genetic information in protein is beyond absurd.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Utils/wprintgc.cgi
I'm not arguing with the scientific method, or the power of looking for natural explanations through experimentation.

It's just that examining evidence related to past events can only go so far in explaining their cause. If you assume natural causes all the way back, you will inevitably reach the limit of a natural chain of events. If the origin of life isn't a big enough question, perhaps the origin of the big bang is -- how does anyone go there without stepping into the metaphysical?

> How do you figure that? They seem quite different to me, given the properties that are usually ascribed to hypothetical divine beings.

My point is that on the surface, philosophically speaking, there's no difference between the two explanations beyond their starting assumptions.

> zero evidence

Not at all. Everything that exists constitutes evidence for him in one way or another. (It’s late. Can provide more details tomorrow if you’re interested.)
It's not that I find it hard to believe, but just trying to understand.
Would an actor of the state be justified in killing someone who was threatening their lives or the lives of others?
Of course, 1 top 1000 user might be more effective than 2 top 10000 users (with half the edits each).
>I haven't been notified of any changes in premium for our policy related to the new regulations, fwiw.

I don't see how you can legitimately believe that there is not going to be an increase in costs. Either the insurance company was overcharging you before, they're lowering their margins or the price goes up. Anything else would require that the risk would be basically non-existent. The price might not increase right now, but it might increase next year or the year after that or the service might get worse.

>Massive legal fees for what, exactly?

To deal with situations that you didn't expect to happen, but did happen anyway. Even if you try your best, mistakes can happen.
Not necessarily, true. But these aren't bacteria and this is a whole lotta genes - so life here absorbing so much DNA coherently doesn't sound more plausible than eggs hatching to me. (Meteorites are freezing cold if you touch them right after they land, despite ablating most of their mass on the way down. Or rather, iron ones are - carbonaceous, I have no idea.)
I feel like Chris Soghoian (or maybe Ashkan Soltani) also did this in the same timeframe with Google executives when he wanted to lobby them individually about policy issues—but I didn't immediately find a reference to it. (But I think it was the same method, like targeting attorneys at Google who had a certain combination of almae matres.)
Bundler also had some drama early on in its lifecycle as well. At least one Rubygems developer actively disliked it for quite a while. But, after a concerted effort for a couple years, Bundler managed to hammer out the issues and come out with something that could meet a wide range of workflows and really set the standard for what dynamic language package managers should be capable of. I think this is a real testament to Yehuda Katz's strength as an open source community leader.
It does say our genes are very different from theirs. Also maybe the eggs were somehow flexible on that.
Yes it does mean that. However, he is "all powerful" where it matters - to accomplish his own will, which is consistent with his character.
Even after you leaked that info?
>As a comical aftermath to the story, John next told Steve point blank that the iMac mouse “sucked.” Steve sighed and explained that “iMac was for first-time computer buyers and every study showed that if you put more than one button on the mouse, the users ended up staring at the mouse.” John sat expressionless for 2 seconds, then moved on to another topic without comment.

Sounds like John Carmack and Doug Englebart are on the same page:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/douglas-engelbart-...

How Douglas Engelbart Invented the Future.
Two decades before the personal computer, a shy engineer unveiled the tools that would drive the tech revolution. By Valerie Landau, Smithsonian Magazine, January 2018.

>In 1979, Xerox allowed Steve Jobs and other Apple executives to tour its labs twice, in exchange for the right to buy 100,000 shares of Apple stock. Once Jobs began working on these ideas, they became even more streamlined. Engelbart’s mouse had three buttons, which he used in different combinations to perform a range of tasks. After licensing this invention from the Stanford Research Institute, Apple decided it would be simpler to give it just one button. Engelbart lamented that the mouse’s capability had been dumbed down to make it “easy to use.”
>It's all written out for you

>no one actually uses the disrupt point like that.

You're using institutional knowledge here, not something that's obvious straight from the text. This is exactly the point GP is making.
First hand accounts of 20 year old conversations are likely over dramatized, but I find a first hand account to be much more credible than someone reading a first hand account and deciding the first hand account just got it totally wrong.
True. Would you need to pay for a cellular plan, or would it work without?
the 4th amendment? or the 1st?
We humans use genes that were delivered by viruses.
People were using this on race horses in Australia [0]

[0]https://apnews.com/e3e7b09be16249369831641d2eb3f584
Actually you can’t trust this article. It’s an anonymous attack piece by an apparently pro-Russian person or group.
Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
I am quite oposite, I want example code using as much aspects of library as possible - sort of "a picture is worth a thousand words". Documentation is nice to have, but I personally consider a well written code a documentation, and it doesnt get outdated ;)

Have you checked this: https://github.com/andlabs/libui/blob/master/examples/contro... ?
I have family that suffered at the hands of communists. Many were deported and exiled, some were sent to gulags. Some of them made it back, some died there, because the conditions in Siberia were horrible. Do you think it would be reasonable to start fining or jailing people who make jokes about "being sent to the gulag"?

I think you're simply appealing to emotion here to justify an unjust ruling and an unjust law.

I think the person you're replying to has a point in saying that some laws in Europe are pretty ridiculous. However, the difference is that that's a local law in the UK and not one that affects the entirety of Europe. Nor is it a widespread law in other European countries.
The purpose is coming up with models that predict observations. Whether what we observe has anything to do with "reality" or whether we're just brains in vats doesn't make much of a difference.
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> We're way ahead of where things were in the "AI winter", 1985-2005.

That was the second AI winter. The first AI winter was in the early/mid 70s.

It is not inconceivable that a third AI winter will happen eventually.
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