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> Focusing on relationships, not mechanical formulas.

The focus on formula memorization in schools is tragic. Once upon a time, I too have learned everything about imaginary numbers ... everything, other than why the heck they are actually useful. Can do all the calculations, don't know why I am doing them.

Are there other great math textbooks/websites (Calculus level and higher, Stats, Linear Algebra, etc.) that try to do this better? For someone older than school level who wants to learn again.
> But a hopeful road map to humanism’s recovery might include variations on those older themes. First, a return of serious academic interest in the possible (I would say likely) truth of religious claims. Second, a regained sense of history as a repository of wisdom and example rather than just a litany of crimes and wrongthink. Finally, a cultural recoil from the tyranny of the digital and the virtual and the Very Online, today’s version of the technocratic, technological, potentially totalitarian Machine that Jacobs’s Christian humanists opposed.

This is actually pretty insightful for an NYT piece.
Where is this? I like this
Junk food ranges from 100 Calories per dollar to 300 calories per dollar.

There arent junk foods that score above 400 calories per dollar. They dont exist from 5 years of searching(and if they do, let me know, I would like to study it).

Those corner stores will have Apples, Oranges, and Bananas. There is a reason, they are cheap and similar cost to these junk foods.

> small corner market in a poor neighborhood, which is often the only market a poor person has access to, the veggies are far more expensive per calorie than junco food

This seems like an impossibility. Junk food requires a multiple stage manufacturing process, while vegetables only need to be shipped and sometimes refrigerated.

The big thing is to look at the price you pay. Paying 1 dollar for a bag of carrots is cheaper than a 15 dollar tray of mixed veggies.

As previously mentioned, if you have ideas for low cost foods, let me know, we study this for Efficiency Is Everything.
Some (lots of?) of 'humanism' means 'superstition and myth'. I'm glad those things are on the way out.
I would have loved to major in a "humanist" major -- probably history or anthropology. Unfortunately education and living are expensive and life in an ivory tower doesn't pay.
>manage to secure electronic banking

Quite a bold statement. Electronic banking is primarily secured by the means of insurance.
Tip: you can hold down cmd while clicking to interact with windows in the background.
It's likely technically a security under federal law, so exchanging the interest for value opens you up to the same types of issues if you just sold it to a third party. That means a lot of risk disclosure, etc. You'll also have some duties to him on an ongoing basis and you'll need to prevent him from being able to transfer, etc. That can get very tricky in the presence of transfers by law (e.g. pursuant to divorce). A good corp lawyer will have precedent addressing these things, but it will cost you. If you have to go this route make sure you have the ability to boot him at your discretion (rendering it basically worthless) or at a minimum, on "cause" by him. You'll need a confi in there in addition to carving out most of the default LLC rights under the relevantly statute (ideally Delaware). Just give the guy cash.
While I completely understand what the article is saying ... this is nothing short of a complete failure of journalistic integrity. Just like there's a "wall" between the news floor and the advertising department, it should be accepted practice for the author of a piece to have a hand in and approval of titles for their piece.

An editor writing a clickbaity headline is incentivized in the same way as the ad/business department to craft that title in a way to maximize engagement.
While reading, I just kept thinking the old Clinton campaign quote “It’s the economy, stupid!”. In other words, we sold a generation on college being the way to middle class or better jobs, and there aren’t many middle class or better jobs that require humanities degrees. There are no apollonites leading the charge, it’s each person individually looking at what it will take to pay down their debt everyone told them to take on, and realizing poetry and French literature won’t help the majority of the time.

The post briefly adresses this but then goes off on how we need more inquiry into religious truths and less of the “Very Online”. Maybe I am possessed by Apollo and that has left me unable to understand how that would ever work. Any change that doesn’t directly adress the economic incentives will work only on those who have hereditary wealth and don’t need to care about those incentives at 18.
Pure HTML for UI is pretty shit, with Vue/Angular/React it's bearable to develop in (though now huge), but:

Everyone knows how to produce "fuck it, it works" results with it.

Everything (almost) supports it.

It already runs on the web.
Committing 4 years of your life to study various artistic works and social studies is a luxury, and it does have value. Good career prospects are not part of this value proposition.

I wonder how much better-informed current rising freshmen are about career prospects after seeing the fallout of the great recession. I wonder where they get their research for choosing their college majors.
Why would you run the client in a container? I was talking about the server.
Could this run on OpenGL ES? I know of a few projects running chromium on embedded devices... Something like this could be handy!
What I'm getting at is, if not, then wouldn't it become just a thought experiment? Granted one conducted by very intelligent individuals.
We're really all about the direct unix to unix connection.

The point of rsync.net is that you can log onto any unix system, anywhere, and interact with your cloud storage - with no software installation or configuration necessary.

The Windows Backup Agent works very well and has recently been updated but the documentation you are seeing reflects the fact that it is a secondary function here at rsync.net that is mostly provided for the convenience of customers in mixed environments.

We are not a dropbox alternative.
I believe the modus operandi for most personal cloud storage providers here is to make the entire dataset read- and delete-only until the user gets enough storage space (by upgrading or deleting files) to be able to write/upload again. That, plus some incessant push messages to your client devices about upgrading, which is annoying but expected.
Ah. Looks like this is simply a misunderstanding. Your reply to pjc50 makes it seem as though you are suggesting that the rhetoric purveyed by Alex Jones does not count as "outrage culture" because it is taken seriously by critics and fans. Perhaps you were even misunderstanding his point in your own reply.
Government regulation is fine when it’s purpose is to secure liberty, which is the founding premise of the US government.

I’m far more worried (now) about the censorship of YouTube, etc.
...as long as you're rich.

If you take a typical median-income family, plot out a reasonable household budget and daily schedule, and then try to match it with every place in the US, most of the results will show that the family must own at least one car and spend an hour a day driving it. It's the only way to afford being there at all. The desirable areas are priced out of their reach, because there just aren't enough of them.

I'd love for all my daily transit to be on elevators and electric trains. But I also want my public school district to have enough money to pay its teachers without taxing me, specifically, into oblivion. For reasons I cannot comprehend, my employer wants to locate its workplace in the middle of a bunch of office buildings, where they enjoy lower facilities costs and a lower tax rate, while still benefiting from an educated workforce. So I pretty much have to drive a while between home and work.

If I lived close to work, I couldn't afford the place. If I worked close to home, the jobs nearby wouldn't pay enough to cover housing.
A decline in students majoring in humanist subjects doesn't necessarily correlate with a decline in humanism itself. The real issue is that if you're going to go into crazy debt for an education you better pick something that will get you out of debt. You can still study these things in an unofficial way.
I have it enabled, but this site has more
I'm not making a case for any specific language feature. I like exceptions, result types, and Icon's notion of failure. Just something that's better than what Go has today.
> run the various computers

Are you saying dropbox works without computers O_o?

> provision enough storage to hold everything

It's true that on all your clients put together, you need enough space to have one copy of your data; where for dropbox you can have one single sparse checkout and let their servers hold the full data set. I've never seen that be an issue in practice though - on the contrary, my laptops have enough space to hold all my data, and my dropbox account doesn't, which is why I went to syncthing in the first place.

> secure them

What security do you need to add to syncthing that you don't need for dropbox?

> make sure you have a backup plan

I guess dropbox counts as having offsite backup implicitly; personally I'm using syncthing between a few laptops and desktops in different locations and counting that as the off-site backup plan.
Which detects problems and fixes them. That’s all we really need. A reliable way to detect problems and fix them.
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Why isn’t that acceptable? Those things get detected and fixed and that’s all that really matters in voting.
Ah, I totally misread this line: "Aurora Serverless can scale from a minimum of 2 ACUs to a maximum of 256 ACUs. You can specify the minimum and maximum ACUs your database can consume." I thought it meant you had to always run 2 ACUs.

My bad.
I love Flutter. It's super dumb that they are not pushing hard to every platform (you could render to the web and basically get the desktop for free!). I would love to use it for a desktop app, or maybe on the web.
These things aren't expensive just for fun. They're usually made of very exotic materials or very difficult to manufacture, hence the prices. They'll go down if they become easier to make.
"As an aside, I’m loving the fact that you can figure out the call graph for methods based on the number of underscores prefixed to the name. No underscore, public method. Single underscore, private method used internally. Two underscores, hidden method, used sparingly. At three underscores, I could tell you what it means, but given that this is NSA’s codebase, I’ll have to kill you afterward."
I said find the hate speech. Not does your biased website doesn't approve of them.

JW is one of the only groups out there actually winning lawsuits to disclose information on the 2016 election and FBI mishandling of basically everything.

Sorry, they're real lawyers, in real cases, using actual facts that stand up in a court of law. I can see why your favorite website there doesn't like that.

ALSO... FWIW... My local news paper is EXTREMELY BIASED, and your site lists them as Neutral.
> So it's easy to have multiple stories claiming to be true. And it takes considerable work to decompose them, and determine which best fits the facts.

That's very true. My point is that we need to do that work - and encourage people to do that work, and teach them how to do it - instead of just saying that "lie is a matter of perspective" and giving up.
If it's the business version, you have full access for 30 days, admins have access for 90 days, then it's deprovisioned (source: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-happens-to-my-...)

On the O365 Personal/Home or direct OneDrive plans, it looks like your data remains available but read-only for 3 months, then your account is "frozen." You can do a one-time 30-day "unfreeze" to get access to download/delete (to get under your quota), then it gets "frozen" again. Eventually it'll be deleted, but I don't see documentation for how long that takes. (source: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/what-does-it-mean-w... linked from https://support.office.com/en-us/article/OneDrive-storage-pl...)
Depends on the language too, I suppose. I'd be more shocked if they said they had never used recursion, but were using haskell at work.
Most people learn to give up on chasing luxuries sooner or later.

The one modern problem is "land". It's not even just that. Land is actually very plentiful, the problem is the small amount of land available in desired places. And it's again not what it looks like, because desirability is not some intrinsic characteristic of the land anymore, instead the land is desirable because for some reason all the employment opportunities are there.

I really don't understand how employment got to be so much geographically restricted. But it is about this that people are fighting at current positional markets.
Same here. And exercise immediately cures it. I wonder why OP is physically exhausted so much
No solace. So it was Bob the editor who wrote the headline and not Steve the author? I guess that matters a lot to Steve, but to me, the reader, this is a meaningless, irrelevant distinction. Steve cares a lot about absolving Steve, I guess, but, like, this couldn't possibly matter any less to literally anybody else.
This is a tragic decision on Dropbox's part. The service's popularity is a product of it being stable and running everywhere. If they start pulling back compatibility, where does it end? Even if this change only impacts a small percentage of users, it threatens everyone that their compatibility may be revoked.

Dropbox is violating their philosophy as a universal solution and squandering their key selling point for some small cost savings. What a horrible decision.
The simple tool is hammering a flat head screw driver into the ignition. Doors are coat hanger or door pulls you can get off amazon/ebay.
This is indeed an incredible inefficiency to say the least. Going vegan is the single biggest way you can have a positive impact on climate change[1]. It's also really simple to do! And you can even get free support and dietary advise over at challenge22.com when you're ready to make the transition. The animals, the planet, and your body will be better off as a result.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...
> the alternate explantation I assumed is that they don't want to continue maintaining a bunch of different filesystems.

But they don't have to maintain a bunch of different filesystems. That's the OS's job. From the application's PoV there shouldn't be any difference between these filesystems, all they need to do is check if the required feature (xattrs) is enabled for a certain FS and that's all.
The next generation pf applications will be made with quantum computer accelerated excel spreadsheets.
Is there any documentation here? How does styling work? Is there DOM manipulation? How is this useful at all?
Checking the return of malloc() for NULL is not currently considered good practice, because (a) on most platforms malloc is guaranteed not to return NULL, even if the system is out of memory, and (b) on the few platforms where malloc can return NULL, handling that case in practice basically never works.
Show HN: PHLO – Visually integrate Voice and SMS into your apps in minutes
> Is it weird the article is full of outright lies, qualified only by the weaseliest of hedges?

Considering the author, not really. Both that and the particular ideological bent seem quite par for the course.

But even with that, this part still made me laugh out loud:

> When even Barack Obama, the poet laureate of identity politics, is moved to issue a message to the faithful, hinting that that they could be tipping their hand on all of this—saying during a speech he delivered in South Africa that a culture is at a dead end when it decides someone has no “standing to speak” if he is a white man

Like, on what planet is this a line anyone can say with a straight face? A big part of Obama's broad appeal—for which he was criticized almost as intensely by identity politics activists as his center-right economics were by economic progressives—was avoiding narrow identity politics. If you had to pick a recent leading figure in the Democratic Party to decribe as the “poet laureate of identity politics” (a term which in any case better applies to one of the thought leaders in that movement than any politician), it would have to be Hillary Clinton. Obama cautioning against going overboard with identity politics is decidedly not some surprising sign that things have recently gone far off the tracks, it's what Obama has always done.

The only basis I can see for this labelling is that it follows along with a lot of the racist lies told about Obama that went into high gear when we was nominated and higher gear when he was elected.
> Safety is helped in London, in the real world, when people don't run red lights.

Maybe. If stricter enforcement of red lights leads to fewer people cycling, it might lead to more deaths overall.

> You seemed to be saying that this wouldn't be the case if there were no cars, which is totally irrelevant.

You asked about who or what was "causing" the issue.

> Try crossing a busy road which doesn't have any lights. I have one of those on my walk back from work, and it's by far the most dangerous crossing.

It's dangerous if cars are driving fast. Other changes (e.g. narrower streets, speed limits) can make it very safe. Look at the article's example: crossing Exhibition Road, without lights, feels safer than light-based crossings IME.
Know enough to humbly know that I know far from everything or know just enough to be dangerous?
Hi HN,

I am the co-founder of Plivo.

Back in the summer of 2012 while we graduated out of Ycombinator, we released APIs for developers to integrate SMS and Voice in their apps. Over the last 7 years that has helped us grow to 70,000 customers.

The abstraction of complex telecom infra via APIs in 2012 was a game changer in many ways. It gave web and mobile developers the ability to add powerful functionality in a few days.

Today we are really excited to announce the Public Beta of PHLO (Plivo High Level Objects) - A whole new visual way of integrating Voice and SMS in minutes. With PHLO you get:

- Pre-built use case templates with the option to add custom code
- 100% functional parity with Plivo API & XML
- Serverless architecture hosted on Plivo infrastructure
- Offered for free, regardless of scale

Here's a quick concept video we made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZmtRTe_vQo

Would love to get thoughts from the community.
I was lucky enough to go an engineering school that required us to take a lot of humanities. In retrospect, I wish I had taken more than the minimum.

I think schools need to do a better job requiring humanities majors to take STEM classes in the same way I was required to take humanities. I have plenty of friends in humanities who took the bare minimum which was only one class (physics for poets or something similar) and a lab (which could be psych or some other soft science).
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I've been pondering the theory that economic activity is a sort of glue that keeps humans occupied, and that humans being occupied is generally better than humans being unoccupied.

For example, there are theories that posit that economic activity and global trade prevent war due to the dependencies that those processes create - you can't destroy those you are dependent on without destroying yourself. However, it's equally easy to slip into chaos when those processes are manipulated or corrupted - see present day.

Perhaps what we are really seeing here is that the underlying forces that control life have not changed at all. Survival, competition, environmental change, adaptability, intelligence and evolution - if you believe in those concepts - are still the root forces driving everything.

What we have now are many layers of abstractions on top of the underlying forces. Literally in the term API is "interface" implying the abstraction on what could be either a human or machine process. Even machines compete for resources, since they have plenty of requirements to continue functioning - although they have different capabilities that go far beyond human abilities, and other areas where they lack the abilities humans have.

Economic activity is yet another type of abstraction designed to, hopefully, ensure the survival of a majority - although that too is an arguable point I'm sure.

I really enjoyed reading the article - this is mixing social science/humanities with IT/IS - a favorite topic.

I personally believe that man and machine are both of nature (a strong opinion, but quite debatable I'm sure). As such, we should be able to describe our relationship in terms of natural relationships - for example, parasitic, symbiotic, etc. This "above and below" the API and involvement of humans in those activities seems to imply something similar.

Thanks for sharing!
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It's not actually an article at all, but is rather an excerpt from a book, from 1985.
RHEL 8 will ship with Python 3 as the default.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
A couple of days ago, EasyJet cancelled a flight from Spain to France at last minute, told the passengers there would be another flight available... 7 (seven) days later, did not offer or propose to cover the expense of the stay (supposing anyone would even agree to such a proposition) and did not offer or propose to cover the expense of other means of transportation.

(Link in French : https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/occitanie/haute-garo... )
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Well, a lot of people automatically lay down or stay in bed when they already feel depressed or anxious. It's a good position, as "laying down doing nothing" is pretty much as close to minimizing one's own metabolic rate, nervous system usage, etc. as possible.

However I'd say that "laying down because it's all I can do" and "laying down as a conscious way of attending to my personal exhaustion" are two different states of being, with an important difference. The first could easily raise one's anxiety if it seems counter to "what needs to be done" while the second approach is part of a more analytical process (at least in my case) which is hopefully accompanied by fail-overs and follow-ons, like addressing stressors, mentioned above.
Prague, Berlin ? Both are good tech hubs.
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My rephrasing of the insight took about 3x as many words; it's generally a good thing when you can convey the same insight with fewer.

I get what you mean about trite, inflammatory comments, but I don't think the one you're objecting to qualifies. It points out a non-obvious implication of accepting someone's request to die. I see a clear difference between that and something like, "sure, let everyone who feels hopeless die, that sure saves money on people who aren't worth saving!".
>Each of these dimensions was predicted by unique abnormalities of brain networks,” Satterthwaire explained. “However, all dimensions were marked by abnormally high levels of connectivity between the default mode network and fronto-parietal network, two brain regions that usually become increasingly distinct as the brain matures. This loss of normal brain network segregation supports the hypothesis that many psychiatric illnesses may be disorders of brain development.”

I wonder if that points to failures of the synaptic pruning that's supposed to happen in preschool-to-primary-school age kids.
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