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Before I start: My comment is not about the person, I don't know anything about him, only about one specific section in the linked article. Also, I'm making this a question rather than a strong opinionated statement, because I am in no position to provide the latter. That means I'm ready to stand corrected and post my observation for discussion.

I skipped to where I thought I see something about something "sciency", and I found the section when you skip to

> Just to clarify here for our readers, obviously, you’re poking holes in Darwin’s Theory of Evolution but you’re saying it only tells the story up to a certain point...

I don't understand what he is talking about. I mean, where is that "controversy"? I can only see what's in that article, I don't know what else he may have said or written elsewhere. I only took biology classes on edX the last few years (the most important one was [0]), and nothing he says in that section is "controversial". Genetic drift and small populations are part of the teaching, if you go to edX's course "Nature, in Code: Biology in JavaScript" [1] you even get to simulate just that numerically, population bottlenecks, genetic drift, and more. I recognize everything he said from the courses I took, or from lecture videos on Youtube (by biologists and geneticists, specifically, e.g. this one: [2] - very funny guy too).

Going only by what I see in that article, in that section, I can only assume he is making a mistake in declaring some imagined and made-up "controversy" where none exists.

What am I missing?

To me his statements are like somebody trying to defend their "controversial" point of view that the earth is on a course around the sun, making very defensive statements because they think, for whatever reason, they are saying something incredibly controversial.

[0] https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-biology-secret-life-...

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/nature-code-biology-javascript-ep...

[2] https://www.gresham.ac.uk/professors-and-speakers/professor-...
Electronics which have a UL sticker but are nowhere near UL standards of design. It probably won't burn your house down, but it's a lot more likely than with a UL-approvable design.
It points to the state sponsored solution. If a single employer is supposed to carry the burden then they will obviously want to hire young healthy men above anyone else.

Fortunately this is exactly how it's implemented in most European countries: if the employee is not working the employer doesn't pay. The (usually state run) insurer does.

Requiring businesses to pay for someone taking time to care of their children is patently stupid and unjust and there is fully justified pushback against such laws.
There won't be a new generation of workers to pay future obligations. Automation means people on average won't generate marginal value in excess of the cost to support them.
> state that doesn't have at-will employment. After a probationary period, if you fire someone it needs to be for cause.

Am I required to provide notice to quit, or otherwise risk some type of penalty or is this strictly in the employee's favor?
It seems that the "heretical" parts are milder than I was expecting, though still outside the mainstream.

On evolution, he says that Darwin got it right "up to a point", and asserts that selection is only an effective mechanism if you have large populations, but that small populations are often key turning points, and for small populations, "random drift" is more important. It's said to have some explanatory power in addressing why there is a variety of e.g. beetle species inhabiting a given ecological niche, instead of a single super-optimized beetle species. He's got a couple of authors he likes on this point.

On climate change, his position here is that since we don't understand how the ice ages started or stopped, then we don't really understand climate. Further, he says if we planted "all the wasteland over the globe" with trees, it'd be enough of a carbon sink to absorb the increased atmospheric content.

I am not really equipped to defend either the scientific mainstream or Dyson's views, but hopefully this is a useful summary.
The military encourages marriage because it is seen as having a stabilizing influence on young men. The expectation is that, on average, it is correlated with changes in behavior that improve reliability and performance while reducing the prevalence of risky behavior.
And not being able to swarm into another country is equivalent to slavery?
Probably because someone who has fulfilment speed as their bonus metric keeps prevailing over those with return rate as their bonus metric.
2) perhaps someone with some actual experience can shed some more light, but I think it might have to do with potentially losing on base housing accommodations that may not always be provided for married couples?
Knowing that discrimination exists while you get into something doesn't make it less discriminatory. Sure they knew what they were getting into, but I doubt they are complaining that they didn't know it was like this.
Yes, thank you, autocomplete fail.

Basically, Best Buy doesn't just sell anything JoeBlow45 who created their account yesterday decides to dump on their site, they have real suppliers and they know what they are selling.

And the listings don't end up like this: https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Illusions-Hearthstone-Colored-W... it's a listing for wallpaper but the pictures are for a Grateful Dead plush and another picture is a Grateful Dead poster.
The caveat is that your employer keeps you on a very short leash. If you are fired you must have a new job within 30 days, else must leave the country. Not everyone has the stomach for this, especially if you have a family.
“Inciting” is exactly the name given to the crime of inducing someone else to commit a crime.
Wouldn't it be more efficient to directly pay people for good behavior?

Or, if climbing the rank ladder is more important, pay low rank people less instead of incentivizing them to give their money to someone else to create pressure to earn promotion.
There seems to be a bit of lack of knowledge about Freeman Dyson.

Freeman Dyson is the person responsible for legitimization and adoption of Feynmann diagrams, via proof of equivalence with Schwinger's methods. Feynmann didn't care about why his methods worked, Dyson did. Think a brilliant hacker (Feynmann) who basically points to a working system in a new programming language and says "Look it works. What more do you want? Clearly this is because of my awesome new language." and another engineer (Dyson) trying to get him to document the damn thing, explain how it works in terms of previous programming paradigms, and then discovers failure modes in the process. As usual, the engineer who did the documentation gets a bit of short shrift of the glory.

Now, this of course does not mean that he's right about this issue; but please do do not disregard his honesty or truly tremendous contributions to human knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson
I think it's clear that the immigration system could use reform. It's not at all clear what the reform should be. The quoted 150-year wait doesn't quite exist, but real waits of 10-20 years are common for immigrants with lower priority from countries with large numbers of applicants (which are often simply countries with large numbers of people).

That people still want to come here despite having to put up with that is a testament to how powerful the draw to living here is. I can't blame someone for illegally immigrating when they see that the legal path will take so long, and that they could be building a better life in the meantime, despite the struggles that come from living here without papers.
Same exact experience working in the valley. I also lasted 6 years.
> "We still can’t make perfect digital representations of Apple II floppy disks."

Apparently this is no longer true, thanks to AppleSauce:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17256709
Is this only a problem in American Amazon, or does like UK Amazon also suffer from this?

I ask because I recently started using Amazon since I moved to the UK and it's been fantastic. I haven't ran into any of these problems.
One Language

- No CSS, HTML, macros, build flags, etc. Construct them imperatively in native code.

No Config

- Switches, addresses, hashes, application structure, all must be written in function calls, not keys in a config file.

No Build

- Can be started with its one file

Everything Is Module

- No dependencies implicit in filesystem, environment switches, build descriptors, etc. Modules must be written explicitly in code

Modules Are 150 Lines

- they’ll grow to 600 but they want to be 150

Imperative Is Best

- Pass data to procedures. Don't entire namespaces. Don't pass flags.

- Try not to have keys on object that stick around and affect different pieces of code at different times. As much as possible try to use objects in the same module that created them

ONEMMI-4211
Ironically, despite complaining about the misuse of the word "complicit", you yourself misappropriate the word "theft". When someone watches a movie illegally they found via Google, the copyright owner is not forever prevented from using it or making money from it ever again.
How would a fraudulent proxy marriage be more likely than just making a fraud in-person marriage? Once falsifying paperwork is on the table, the rest is easy.
Plus, you know what you're getting; they're up front about that. When you buy from B&H, you are going to get the thing you paid for. It's up to you to decide how much the warranty is worth.
It encourages folks to build families, which generally leads to folks having kids. Societies need workers, and militaries need future boots on the ground.
While it does include many sizes, I don't think 80-bit is included. The sizes mentioned in IEEE754-2008 are 16, 32, 64 and then multiples of 32 that are greater or equal to 128 (96 is not included).
That's enlightened thinking beyond most governments on the planet. They'll just happily ignore it because it'll probably happen after they can conveniently retire.
You obviously don't know my first wife. ;-)
Which makes every single person with insurance a (diffuse) victim. Let's not pretend that exorbitant pricing doesn't have any relation to the high cost of medical insurance/care, which in turn of course indirectly kills people.
Show HN: DynamicImage – Create different sized images on the fly
> the giver can sue the receiver to recover the ring if the engagement is broken off.

Which contradicts the whole idea of an engagement ring:

> In the United States, until the Great Depression, a man who broke off a marriage engagement could be sued for breach of promise. Monetary damages included actual expenses incurred in preparing for the wedding, plus damages for emotional distress and loss of other marriage prospects. Damages were greatly increased if the woman had engaged in sexual intercourse with her fiancé.[32] Beginning in 1935, these laws were repealed or limited. However, the social and financial cost of a broken engagement was no less: marriage was the only financially sound option for most women, and if she was no longer a virgin, her prospects for a suitable future marriage were greatly decreased. The diamond engagement ring thus became a source of financial security for the woman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engagement_ring#Purchase
> reforming the immigration policy is exactly what progressives are calling for.

It might be what progressives are calling for, but it's not what Democrats are calling for when they are in power. Additionally, I'm not sure how progressive it is to prefer elite immigrants with "advanced degrees" over other immigrants.
Do we really need another...? The answer is yes. We are an open source community, we share code and ideas and we build on those ideas and they lead to implications that weren't thought of before and someone releases a new library or framework that does something that works better for particular use cases and then the whole cycle starts over again.

Some of these experiments will not stand the test of time, they'll be replaced by other things. Create-React-App is a great starter kit for React but you answered your own question: it doesn't cover all use cases.

Bring on more starter kits, more libs, more frameworks, more languages, more experimentation and innovation because that's how we discover new paradigms that improve productivity, performance, etc.

Software development is still a super young field and if we think we've already figured out the "best way" to make it, we're kidding ourselves.
Perhaps they would not describe themselves as gay as a primary identity, but rather as a facet of a broader identity. This type of complication is the essence of queerness: people are different even though they share things.

Note, I do agree with you, I am trying to clarify terms only.
Citation very sorely needed. Even if it happens eventually, it’s highly unlikely to happen within the next generation.
Python Inner Functions
I'm pretty sure lower ranked soldiers make less than higher ranked ones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboat_ethics
No, the fact that a system of discrimination is already in place is not proof that the system is not discriminatory. If that were true, US chattel slavery would not have been discriminatory.
What It Would Take to Build a Dyson Sphere
> What additional value does a married service member provide to the taxpayer that is worth an additional $40/day over what an unmarried service member provides?

They have a cheap caregiver ready for when their leg is amputated.
Technically, python is compiled to pyc and not reparsed again and again. What'd more, string operationd are all implemented in c. Unless you use pypy, which is faster.
In my experience companies do not lay off people, it's a huge legal headache, usually people change jobs on their own. I agree about short leash though, it's really bad, although manageable on H1B. The people on L1 are who are trully screwed up.
I didn't say it isn't. I'm just pointing out the fact that it's not an analgous situation between men and women.

This is not even mentioning the fact of the pregnancy itself, which ranges from no biggie, to several months of severely reduced capability. My wife basically couldn't function (as in curled up in bed) for almost two months during her pregnancy.
Because far fewer people would join or remain in the military if marriage weren't allowed.

You honestly would have to have been in the military to really understand it.
"Well actually ..." but still no.

People don't say "meteorological rise" do they? They're not talking about gradual lifting, or about eyes. They're talking about a meteor. That's a real English word for a real physical thing, which by definition is approaching the earth - i.e. falling. Even if there's some etymological relationship to rising, the dominant relationship between the metaphor and the thing to which it refers in practically any listener's mind is all screwed up. Learn a better phrase, or even better make one up, instead of rationalizing one that's broken.
I've always thought of it as "data dump"
If you and I were in a group meeting, you would get an alert stating _you_ would not be able to use the good features on this call because _I_ needed to update my skype client.

Of course, only client available to me is the same exact version they bought years before as they never updated with features just bug fixes.
You would have been used an unwitting tool as you helpfully mansplained how to overcome my version deficiency.
Does a library support the authors/creators, though?

That's probably my biggest philosophical hurdle.
Sounds interesting - any runtimes in particular you could point out? Interested to read more about them.
I feel bad for you man. Why don't you apply for a temporary job at local coffee shop or a grocery store until you get a proper tech job again? ~50 hour per week even at minimum wage in CO ($10.2) should cover your rent, right? You will have Sundays and night time to apply for developer jobs.
Ah, right. I was confused because in the UK (possibly Europe) the retailer is responsible for returns. It doesn't matter where the retailer sourced the product from.
You're forgetting robo-signing foreclosure affidavits in the wake of the financial crisis. That's potentially hundreds of thousands of counts of fraud. The banks were only forced to settle, and were not prosecuted. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_foreclosure...
That's one of many problems. Fake buyers winning auctions with no intention to pay, fake buyers putting high bids seconds before the auction end to reveal everyone's bid limit, then cancelling the bid, then bidding £1 below the highest bid limit to max out bid limits. The UI is a train wreck with not a single page vaguely consistent with the others, not just the format, the content too (messages pending, items sold, etc).
What grocery store let random people stock their shelves?
I think it would be better if noone had that much data. Google may be OK but they can change direction anytime or be compelled to change direction.
If you're referencing the amount of absurdity that can only be conveyed in video games then I agree. Ludonarrative dissonance is the uncanny valley of gameplay plus story telling.
Right, the premise of this is that it's their and not yours. You have to get permission to use your own property how you like. Living in a city means giving up rights to the authoritarians who keep high population density centers from killing each other.

Living in a city is a big trade-off. More jobs, less liberty.
You mean like ISPs? Oh wait, it can't. Please stop throwing this impression of Google's invincibility around. You know there are forces that Google can't even come close to defeating.
60 FPS Retro Gaming on Mobile – Master System Emulator in JavaScript (2013)
The EU calls for the development of fuels from non-biomass non-fossil sources
You also cannot get any ISO standard without paying, including C and C++.

Yes the draft versions are available, but you cannot be 100% sure that the final one isn't changed.
Exactly. If SpaceX started taking deposits for a Mars ride within the next two years there would be a problem.
Mandatory leave for both parents is a terrible idea. There are a lot of people who prefer traditional model where one parent works and the other takes care of children and home. Why would you force those people to loie according to some relatively modern untested family model?
What It Was Like to Write a Full-Blown Flutter App
Absolutely true, bought an item sold and shipped from Amazon and received a broken counterfeit. They only let me return and would not replace with a real one, probably because they have no idea what they are selling anymore due to inventory mixing.
While they're obviously customer-focused in the sense that they sell products people want, they're nowhere near "Earth's most customer-centric company" (their claim) or even universally very customer-centric. Amazon's UX dark patterns to upsell members to Prime are infamous, as are their paid shipping upsell UI.

Those UIs aren't merely neutral between the customer and Amazon, they're deliberately deceptive. Even among very large tech companies, not that many have released UIs as deceptive as some of Amazon's. Try buying a medium-size or larger item without Prime to see some of them.

They are absolutely fantastic at convincing some of the public (and a much smaller percentage of employees…) they're uniquely customer-centric.
No kidding. #2 in class and 1500/1600 puts you in the running for Harvard/Stanford, does it not? At the very least that does not sound like a "very average student".
> This is one of the enormous penalties we as a nation have to pay because neither of our political parties actually wants to solve the illegal immigration issue.

This is a legal immigration issue. There are no illegal immigrants on H1Bs waiting for a green card.

This could definitely be fixed or reformed without touching the illegal immigration issue.
Isn’t that pretty unusual? Plus I’d want to be courted like an investor instead of doing whiteboard interviews.
While working on a programming project for one of my classes I found an unlisted youtube video in a Google search that demonstrated exactly how to complete the project. I highly doubt the kid who uploaded it wanted anyone to see. It consistently showed up in Google searches too and was uploaded the same day. There is something definitely wrong with the way youtube protects its unlisted videos. I really wouldn’t be surprised if the article wasn’t exaggerating at all.
Are you high? Layoffs - and individual firings - happen all the time. The dirty secret of corporate America is that performance reviews (and even supposedly innocent constructs such as JIRA and other project management software) are really a pretext to firing someone. A firing for poor performance isn’t a significant legal risk if the alleged transgressions are documented in detail.
> Meanwhile anyone who espouses common sense ideas such as reforming our immigration policy gets called a racist and ‘anti-immigrant’.

First: total strawman.

Second: not even relevant to the issue at hand. There is, to first approximation, exactly zero undocumented immigration among "Indian immigrants with advanced degrees" so I'm having a very, very hard time imaging how this is an "enormous penalty" we have to pay for failing to solve the "illegal immigration issue".

So... enlighten us. What's your common sense idea that would address the problem here? I'll only call you a racist if it's a racist idea, I promise.
Conservatives (the politicians) pretend to want to deport illegal immigrants to get votes. They don't actually want to do it because a lot of businesses depend on them for cheap labor. You don't even need to deport anyone, just start actually enforcing laws that require employers to check employee eligibility. Fewer jobs for illegal immigrants would mean less incentive for them to come. That nobody has tried this shows IMO that nobody (in power) actually wants it. They just want a few examples to grandstand about for votes.

pay a penalty, and stand in the back of the line for American citizenship while they are provided recognized status so they can live in the country legally in the meanwhile.

This is basically amnesty/open-borders. Not arguing for or against, but it is. There is no "line" for citizenship, after five years of permanent residency anyone qualifies. The "line" is for the permanent residency (green card), and you have to qualify to even get in the line, that's why people come illegally. So what's the new qualification? "already in the country"? Then what about the people here 20 years from now? Is it a rolling admission? If not then you have the same problem as before. If yes, then the policy is 'open borders' possibly with a qualification of "can avoid getting caught for X years".

If you don't find open borders acceptable the only reasonable compromise I can think of is a capped category that anyone can apply for, where the cap is adjusted as needed. Somewhat ike the current Diversity Visa (Green Card lottery) which is capped at around 50K per year, though that cap rarely changes.
> Nowadays, everything is much more affordable

AAA titles are still 50-60€ upon release, so nothing new there... the real difference that has cropped up over the last 3,4 years is that free-to-play crap model. A 0.50€ powerup is cheap, but one a day... 15€ a month. Don't get me started on loot boxes. 5 years ago the only way to get poor due to gaming was gambling, now? Have a little kid and make the mistake of attaching a credit card to the app store account.

It seems affordable but it's a total rip off.
>pay each homeless person that 40k a year

Pay 40k/year to people who, likely, have never been in a situation in which they were taught how to manage money and live according to their means? To people who, likely, grew up with drug addicts for parents, or single mothers/fathers living paycheque-to-paycheque?