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Classic HN. Layman comments to tell us why a trained professional knows less than them.

There has been tremendous politicization of science in media in recent years. Basically, if it contradicts a narrative the media is trying to push, actual science is shouted down and castigated. Both the left and the right do this. The right does it with climate science. The left does this with psychology and social sciences.

Basically, this article is nicely full of facts. However, it's presenting them in the classic leftist mode of obscurantism, all to push a politically driven agenda:

These contexts include the history and current reality of specific inequalities that stem from economic, racist, and sexist processes in our society.

As humans are social animals, there is some psychological insight to be gained from studying other social animals, just as there's some physiological insight to be gained by studying the biology of rats and monkeys. Right now, any biological and evolutionary components of human behavior contradict the Marxian, postmodern social constructionist, and far left foundational notion of the human being as blank slate. If any such components are acknowledged, many of their simplistic moralistic calls for reform would have to be questioned. The realistic scientific consensus is a moderate and nuanced one: both nature and nurture matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuQHSKLXu2c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKmyO3hbOz8
The App Store is great, but the App Store interface sucks. It was bad enough even when there were only a couple thousand apps in the store, but 10 years and hundreds of thousands of apps later and discoverability is abysmal. Unless you are a big player can advertise your app otherwise, having an app 'hit' is about a scientific a process as making viral videos.
Not caring shows toughness, in their minds.

“Welzer further describes that Nazism even managed to incorporate an individual’s struggle with deeds into their frame of reference. They knew that what they were doing was immoral on some level but it was framed in a way where an individual who struggled with what they had to do and did it anyway was perceived as a “real man” because he would put the good of the people’s community over his own feelings.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8si6x5/monda...
In freshman physics, when you first learn about electrostatics, one of the problems you get to work is the "how much charge would you need to float yourself off the ground." It is enough that you usually violate the dielectric constant of the air and discharge into the air around you but still, its a fun exercise. To see that Spiders use this to fly is pretty amazing to me.
Jenkins is essentially a managed remote code execution engine. It can pretty much do anything you want it to
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Could have been under-clocked by (div 4) just to torture people into writing efficient code.
Ah, and indeed it seems like substantial (>10x) fleet size increases are planned.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/30/16948356/waymo-google-fia...
Good, bad, or ugly, it is a historical document written at a time when it "seemed like a good idea." AI is going to be AI and how you train it is what it does.

There should be nothing surprising about an AI program detecting the ethnically abusive language in the DoI and flagging it.

Did they fix it? Yes. Does this make the whole DoI worthless? No, and we should be fit to learn from mistakes of the past and treasure what is good.

*edit for formatting
On the EU their front-line must be registered, doesn't it?

It's a matter of finding out how; you can probably just ask the right people and you will have your answer.
I'm not sure articles like this one do non-database professionals any favors by associating unrelated concepts that are often found together such as relational databases and ACID compliance. There are both relational databases that are not ACID-compliant such as MySQL with the ISAM storage engine and non-relational databases that are ACID-compliant such as Spanner, FoundationDB, etc. The data model doesn't imply one or the other at all.
The mention of lists is from Voss's blog post, where he says that the rightholders will provide inputs to the filters, and the filters will filter only what the rightsholders told them to filter (which is a problematic statement in itself, but I'll take it at face value because eh if the author of the law doesn't know what he's talking about I don't know where to start)
I find that strange, but I concede you know your use case better.

I work on a very similar type of application that manages async workers who process large distributed NLP tasks. Writing it in Cython was extremely easy, because for the modules that have zero need for static typing, such as the part using async/await in Python 3, or when we supplement with gevent, I can just write those parts in plain Python and it’s quite a bit easier than Nim or Cython or whatever else, while still having great performance from those tools’ low-level implementation.

Then for the parts that do possibly benefit from static typing and compilation (unlike the async layer), I can have precise module-level control over what has a C-level implementation and if or how it interacts with anything in Python.

The inability to separate the two situations in Nim (as with many statically typed languages) just doesn’t work out well enough for my use cases.

In fact, I’d even go as far as to advocate that in today’s language landscape, if you want to write a new greenfield project in C or C++ for performance reasons, it’s unequivocally your best option to write the whole thing in Cython, and avoid what you might call “premature static typing optimization” by profiling and leaving the things with no bottleneck in Python.
"With a further small percentage increase in cost we could reach the level of the baby Newton and better. We could then educate it and teach it its own construction and ask it to design a far more economical and larger machine. At this stage there would unquestionably be an explosive development in science, and it would be possible to let the machines tackle all the most difficult problems of science… For what it is worth, my guess of when all this will come to pass is 1978, and the cost of $10(8.7 ± 1.0)."

- Irving Good

"Within a generation, I am convinced, few compartments of intellect will remain outside the machine’s realm - the problem of creating ‘artificial intelligence’ will be substantially solved"

- Marvin Minsky, 1967
I always think that a lot of the young guys who are struggling with C would actually read K&R instead of random blogs they would quickly have a solid understanding.

Most of today's books are really bad in comparison. Too long, no depth.

On the other hand the cool thing about programming is that you can get started and be productive without almost no knowledge of theory. Compare that to physics or math where anything interesting requires years of prior training.

I hope we'll find some balance where we don't lose the ability to get started quickly but still respect and study older achievements.
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I'm loving all these spider articles that have cropped up on hacker news and elsewhere [0]-[4].

I used to be deathly afraid of spiders, but all these articles and videos over the years have eliminated my fear of them. I like having some around.

[0]: The extraordinary life and death of the world's oldest known spider - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16992596

[1]: Spiders eat an astronomical amount of insects - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15887468

[2]: How spiders fly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17398383

[3]: How I ended up with pet jumping spiders - https://medium.com/@melissamcewen/how-i-ended-up-with-pet-ju...

[4]: Lucas the spider - https://www.youtube.com/user/joshuaslice
>500 vs 3000 is kind of irrelevant when you could already kill millions upon millions.

No, it's not. The reason for having thousands of warheads is not to blanket the earth in a nuclear apocalypse. It's to have enough failsafe and fallbacks that you are guaranteed to destroy the opposing force's arsenal before they can hit you. 5 missiles at once can be trivially intercepted. 500 missiles at once is unstoppable. The first exchanges in a nuclear salvo would be aimed directly at each other's silos. The vast majority of research in nuclear weapons today is in penetration capability of hardened targets (which systems like the UK's Trident do not possess) not widespread killing of civilians, and whoever maintains a superior capability in this respect will have the upper hand in any negotiation.
One would have expected, à la Anna Karenina, for every crappy movie to be crappy in its own way? I certainly wouldn't want my enthusiasm for e.g. "Mohawk" to inspire any Sandlerian recommendations...
It's less 'invalid' than a slippery slope (though I appreciate your counterargument that there are many axes to measure on). For example, it was expedient for Jefferson's government to present the original inhabitants as "merciless savages" since demonizing the people you are forcibly displacing and exterminating is easier to explain away. "Merciless savage" is not some sort of objective comparison of social development, it's a simple denial of common humanity, which seems to always lead to terrible things. Ironically of course the early US was "a culture that encourages slavery" (as were many Native American groups, but never on the same scale).
My personal experience with Tumblr was weird. A friend of mine had it and talked about all the cool friends she made on it which sounded super cool, so I joined. From there things got real weird because in my experience the community is very clique based. My friend wouldn't tell me her screen name since she ranted about life in her blog and I was in there, so I just started liking things I thought were cool and reposting. Talking to people on the platform though became clear that the "real" Tumblr users actively despise new users over fears that Tumblr will be come too popular or something along those lines, this was around the time Yahoo was looking into it. Needless to say it was a very hostile community and I ended up leaving after 2 weeks.
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The only reason this should happen is if the Ad-free version was pulled from the App Store.
This is such a patently ridiculous, self-defeating viewpoint. Simple teleology defeats it, in the sense that everyone who holds this view will probably die childless, and will not be very successful at spreading their views generationally.

As for the animals - hey, I said I want them treated decently. I don't extend them the same courtesies as I extend to humans because they're not human, and I don't shed a tear for their deaths because to do so is to anthropomorphize them, a quintessentially childish way of viewing the world.

> being born in order to be raised for food in a factory farm is not a benefit to an animal

Said animal wouldn't exist otherwise, and could not benefit from not existing, so the potential for benefit is always higher on the existence side, even if the probability is very low - it's still higher than a guaranteed 0.
This can happen, when non-scrupulous devs 'deprecate' an older version of their app in favor of the 'new' version. e.g., you buy 'CoolApp' and in-app purchase features for it. But oh no, 'CoolApp2' has come out and 'CoolApp' is no longer updated for newer devices, so sorry.

Otherwise, an app, and its in-app purchase set remain available via a user's iTunes account indefinitely as far as I can tell.
Do you have any alternative to files in mind? There are image-based systems like Smalltalk and some members of the Lisp family, but even in those cases, sources usually end up being stored long-term in files, as a matter of convenience.
Any other definition supposes we have the ability to look at ourselves (who we have the most knowledge about) from an external, omniscient perspective.

Otherwise any definition trivially collapses under "Well how do you know that you're acting freely?"

Which makes other definitions functionally useless in terms of communicating an idea.

I'd rather have a meaningless definition that's useful than a philosophically pure one that's useless. But maybe that's why I'm an engineer. ;)
Higher reasoning isn't all that great. E.g., people have constructed consistent systems of reasoning that are entirely misanthropic or, if not actually misanthropic, they conclude that the extinction of the human species is good.

And you're missing the point that the stratification of phenomena into "higher reasoning" <-> "base instinct" is a false hierarchy. Even when you're working within ethics, you eventually have to ground yourself in moral intuitions, which is fundamentally irrational (the underlying mechanism of moral intuition can't be examined through reason).

I think maybe what the author is ultimately saying is that it's not wrong to think about these uniquely human qualities as being just as natural and basic as anything else.
Human drivers also pull over when people who look like the police ask them to.
>I know C++ isn't really dying off, but what is the best platform-agnostic compiled object-orientated language these days?

C++ with Qt.
> UK prison-for-wrongthink

Doesn't happen.
thanks..can you explain a bit more in detail..?
Probably the latter, plenty of (US based) tech companies operating in these countries without a problem.
Sounds like an issue with the app. Usually, apps have a 'redeem' button somewhere, that checks with the App Store to see if you did the purchase before, exactly for this scenario. (e.g. Monument Valley does this, and also some apps on macOS.)

I believe you can link maybe 5 devices to one account?
Is there a unified library of podcasts and ratings on Android? As far as I know there's a number of apps that maintain their own libraries but nothing unified across the whole platform and built into the OS like iTunes.
Maybe having a dedicated slack channel would be interesting. Each new message would be pointing to documentation/PR, pinging teams that might find it useful for later use.

We use a private wiki grouping how to's, scripts, guidelines.
I'm pretty sure TclKits are still being regularly built, I guess you were looking in a wrong place.
I do not believe you are here to speak in good faith.

Most of the media, which is generally slanted left politically, has generally ceased to speak in good faith with regards to actual societal statistics, social science, biology, and psychology. The right tremendously distorts climate science.

There are 1,000 ways I can legitimately criticize Trump without referring to him as a chimp

Portrayal of George W. Bush as a chimp was tremendously popular in the early 2000's.
I do have it the other way, it's just redirecting or providing a link.

I ensure my management team understands and sees how many people I help. If I can spend 5 minutes several times a day - each time showing someone where a script is that saves hours.. well I've just saved the company a lot of money.
Then get a list of the names of the corporations not the people. Maybe that can lead to a boycott, which is fine.

It's kind of scary to start assembling lists of peoples' names that are your opponents.
There are a couple of ways:

1) a git repo in an obvious place

2) a shared drive in $PATH

even better, a share controlled by a git repo.
> My intuition is that suffering dominates our lives

Maybe your life. I feel pretty good. Have you considered doing things to reduce your suffering? There are a lot of great options. Take a few deep breaths and consider whether it's really as bad as all that.

Suffering in the human context is also very relative to tolerance. Experiencing the occasional great suffering (whether physical or emotional) puts your daily aches and pains and disappointments into proper contrast so you can tell that you should learn how to not take them very seriously.
You have three kinds of problems wrappped up
in here and my software-socialist hat tells me it's all the fault of poor management:

1. Good software engineering is about writing tools (scaffolding) around the main project (sistene chapel). If a team is not putting in something like 1/3 to 1/2 its time on tooling it is probably being pushed too hard or seeing too many of the other project warning signs we all
know and love.

2. Social contact and pride.
If devs have plenty of time to write their tools, then they get proud of them, make the more generic and usable and they start to market it (hey I have a script that does this is marketing as much as OSS )
Brown bag lunchtime sessions seem the perfect way to encourage this - At a Big Bank we had a kind of show and tell for internal scripts for a while.

3. This is what senior devs, tech leads, what have you, should be doing - talking amoungst themselves and emerging the critical missing parts in the company (besides recruiting and code reviews). Again if they are not - it's a sign of too much pressure, too much silo'd working.

In the end I have some code I happily tell people about and encourage them to use - because I have invested the time to make it work well, and if I have not, I don't coz its embarrassing.

Fix the management / time / good engineering problem and you will find the scripts being shared in the canteen.

Of course fixing that is not something you have authority or influence to do. This could be a problem.
I have a lot of the same issues. Bluetooth headset turned up to almost max + foam earplugs works reasonably well, as long as I already have a good idea of where I'm going. Handlebar mounts work fairly well, but putting the phone in the sun in Arizona during the summer often leads to it turning off. There's also quite a few reports of phones either flying off mounts or camera lens/focus dying due to the vibration.

In the end, I normally leave the phone in my pocket, make due with voice alerts, and leave a few minutes early so I can safely miss an exit without panic. The last thing you need on a highway filled with texting drivers (completely legal in AZ) is to be distracted and making multi-lane changes at the last second.
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> Is there any precedent you're basing this opinion on?

There's no clear precedent. Clearly a judge isn't going to let us host a PDF of Harry Potter or whatever. If it ever came down to it I think there would just be a multi-pronged test, along the lines of the current test for fair use and securities law.

In the case of Harry Potter it's an exogenous work that was created and copyrighted outside of an email client, it has significant economic value on its own, and there would be substantial economic harm done from us hosting it. In the case of normal email conversations most of those factors wouldn't apply, especially since in many cases seeing how people interact with one another is more valuable that the content of any individual message.

Regardless, I paid my $6 to the library of congress to become a registered DMCA agent, so the copyright issue really doesn't apply unless we A) start ignoring DMCA takedown requests B) actively induce people to violate copyright.
Why do you need the names of people to boycott? Just get the names of the companies involved.
Adobe tools are really popular for doing these kind of vector animations.
Yeah, IMO ~4-5 seasons or so is usually as long as a show should run (if even that)

I'm currently watching 12 Monkeys on Syfy (currently on it's 4th/last season). IMO this is a great example of a show that goes on just as long as it needed to and nothing more... Solid and tightly plotted all the way through.
Purchases are tied to an Apple ID, so using the same Apple ID on the new device should allow this. I’ve never had problems here even with in app purchases. (There is often an option to “Restore Purchases” for in app specifically to enable a previously purchased item on a new device.)
I have no idea what tools Apple used to create this, but it would fairly easy to recreate it in something like Blender (blender.org).
> This isn't fair, the OP broke down his arguments for why the author was wrong

No they haven't. An argument is a persuasive set of evidence and reasoning presented to make a case for a conclusion -- OP merely made a bunch of handwavey, highly debatable statements as if they were fact
Waymo might also tell a different story: They've realized that a fundamental breakthrough in self-driving cars is unlikely to happen in the next decade and therefore there's no point in waiting any longer to perfect the technology - and instead rely on remote controlling of the cars for difficult situations. They can still gradually improve the self-driving systems but from a business perspective it might make sense to capture as much market share as possible right now.
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Have you recently checked the cost of laying out rail lines in cities?
For powershell I've setup a master profile that manages and loads modules stored on an admin file share. Scripts are then added to individual modules (e.g. ad, exchange, etc...) on the share as needed which will prompt individuals to update their local copy. Version control, script signing, and other features would be nice, but in reality it's only one or two individuals updating the modules so it's more of a way to kiddy-ise scripts for other team members to use.
Is there even a common set of reference tests ?
I would like to know this too. Maybe 3d rendered.