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> Having a lot of choice doesn't hurt anything, and benefits everybody in the long run.

But it does hurt in many cases; there is only so much programmer time; if people would invest their time in less projects, they would move on quicker.

I am as guilty of this as probably most people here, having written frameworks, orm’s, parsers, libs, languages, game engines etc instead of helping out on existing projects. I know I did it because I thought I could do better than what was there; usually that was false, however sometimes, at least I thought, it was true. For the bigger ones; frameworks, linux distros, languages, it was always false though so I would say it does hurt; I wasted time and the world did not improve. Only I improved as I liked it and learned, but I would have done as well if I had helped an existing project.

Another point to that is that a lot of people, especially people who solely use computers to make money to survive, really do not like choice in my experience. A lot of my colleagues ask me what to use and hate the fact that when they Google that there is a choice. They do not want choice, they want to use what is the de facto standard for the particular case in every case. With choice and fast change, the de facto standard isn’t there and even more experienced people experience the same angst beginners have when learning frontend web dev. It causes a lot of (probably underestimated) stress in the workplace.
I'm not terrified at all. If you leave the word AI out of the discussion this has already been the case for the last 70 years. The US squarely has us beat in warfare techniques. Europe already has not been a superpower in a long time, and this hasn't been to the detriment of the European people.

This whole debate reminds me also of the Japanese developments in the 80s. Everybody thought we'd be lost as they jump into the next superhuman age, funnily enough also involving grandiose computing projects.

I have the feeling this happens every generation and that the only thing that changes is the location.
Definitely not!
Your comments about Oscar do no make sense. Oscar offers insurance in the individual marketplace. As such they are not selling to companies but to individuals directly who don't have insurance through their employer. This means their members do not partake in these types of wellness plans. Also, as part of that marketplace, Oscar can't legally use the members previous medical history to underwrite/rate their policy. This means Oscar has little to no insight to whom they are offering their products, their goal is to get enough healthy people to offset the costly ones.

Also an insurance company who offers commercial group insurance, i.e. sells insurance to companies, does not have their bottom line really impacted as much as you would think. This is based on the fact that they are currently acting as middleman in the system and any increase in costs is merely passed along, hence continually rising cost of healthcare.
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Nice job!

Please forgive my poor understanding of C, but is it possible to add the missing features as extra options/files/headers so you can pick and choose which features you want to enable and/or include?
Real-world applications rarely require all the assumptions that are necessary for blockchain to be the best solution. For instance, some real-world systems will not be distributed; others will be running under common ownership or under ownership of people who trust each other mutually, etc.

There's this adage[0], that "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations". It's usually meant negatively, but in this case one can draw a positive conclusion - just like organizations don't need the blockchain to efficiently do their businesses, automated systems designed by those organizations may not need the blockchain either.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Good advice! I definitely don't want to make another layer of abstraction as I answered to another question. Maybe I will think about some examples and on-boarding. I will transfer your response to issues tomorrow :)
love the color and layout. really great for readability which you don't find in many online textbooks
Some would consider that a virtue
Lord help us when an Excel workbook becomes self-aware, replicates itself (outside of big4 auditors) and decides to KILL ALL HUMANS.
The trope of "x (thing liberals/leftists/feminists/democrats have done) is the reason for Trump's election" has become a tired cliche at this point, and RemarkEon's comment was just that and a dismissal without any evidence or support for their argument. The parent was partisan, yes, but at least it presented an argument.

Maybe it shouldn't have been flagged, but it deserved to be downvoted.

Whether downvoted comments deserve to be edited out is another matter - I've been complaining about that for years but Hacker News is never going to change that. Unfortunately there's no way to downvote someone here without also censoring them globally, and HN is designed so that only a few downvotes have a massive effect on readability.
> The only grip I have is the 13k lines of C + intrinsics.

How are you supposed to get acceptable performance without intrinsics?
Pollution is pollution space is hostile and toxic to human life the pollution won’t be magical and non-harmful it will also be much more impactful on the existing environment on Mars than it is on earth and that is a good thing.

On earth we don’t need to stop pollution because we’re killing the planet we aren’t we can’t kill the planet regardless of what we do we need to stop because we’re killing ourselves but this notion that somehow human impact on the planet is unnatural is simply silly we are living beings who evolved on this planet anything we do is derived from the same “natural” process which started with the Big Bang.
To play devil's advocate, that's because the cache of a modern processor is highly optimized for TDM, not SDM. Perhaps a redesigned cache hierarchy could resolve this problem (at the expense of awful TDM performance).
I don't think the use of Semantic Web technologies presupposes open data. Linked Data doesn't have to be Linked Open Data. One could create services that adhere to the standards while still monetizing them.
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I disagree. In some cases, such a question is evidence that you have not thought about the problem at all. In this case, the connection is so obvious and so trivial that it's analogous to the observation that, say, there is a connection between multiplication and the areas of rectangles. If you ask me to explain that on HN I think it's not unreasonable for me to tell you to just go think about it some more.
A bit off topic, but Excel has many dangerous features. Is there a spreadsheet that is safe to use ? I just know about gnumeric and LO's calc, but I don't know how goo they are (I rarely use spreadsheets, most of the time to draw simple curves)
If you're taking the business cards and cutting the contact information off them and then handing them out, that's theft.
Wrong tool for duty. Arc might be more suitable.
Protecting ‘platform bias’ is literally why the first amendment exists. The idea that the press is supposed to be neutral or unbiased is a relatively modern invention.
For me it usually is "I would like to use some sensible tools, but corporate policy requires me to not do that (because they are not available) - so I have to (ab)use Excel/Office/VBA to get things done." It's not pretty, stable, efficient or really maintainable, but if you are forced to use a hammer..

ps. Excel does some things OK, like drawing pretty graphs on smallish datasets and visualize quick analysis with pivot tables. It just lacks a sensible scripting language and is generally very brittle once the data is getting nontrivial and more than one person is involved.
Thanks, Beeb, now I'm depressed -- turns out my whole reason for existence is based on a fallacy...
>When the second amendment was written, firearms were quite rudimentary by today's standards.

When the first amendment was written, the press was quite rudimentary by today’s standards. TV, radio, and internet were not envisioned. Maybe the government is allowed to regulate all news that isn’t physical printed. Also, it should be able to ban automatic printing presses. The printing presses of the timer were manual, one press one page. Nowadays the printing presses can spew thousands of pages with a single press of a button.
Three, the posit that there is life elsewhere in the solar system, which if it is the case, would be a good enough reason alone to explore the solar system.

This is the most interesting one because it begs many questions such as:

Assuming we find life, then what? The purpose ostensibly would be to study it to understand our place in the universe better. But what if it doesn't want to be studied, or we don't have the scientific capacity to study it? What is gained?

Why are humans, as opposed to robotic systems, the absolute right path to discovering other life forms?

Is it even possible for humans to get anywhere worth investigating within reasonable distance in a human lifespan?

I think the answer to all of these is, "Human spacetravel is the solution looking for the problem" because biologically, we aren't built or suited to multi-planetary existence in any kind of scenario where we would be effective.

Musk, says it himself: He needs a reason to get up in the morning [1]. That's pretty much the primary answer for everyone I've ever seen make any kind of reasonable argument for manned travel to Mars.

In other words, in the long run our engineered systems (robots etc...) will be more efficient at answering off-world questions than we are. That's not sexy or exciting so people don't argue it.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/16/elon-musk-on-inspiration-and...
> SQL join is the categorical fiber product

You are now beyond the limits of my understanding. I never grokked category theory.

SQL join is a Cartesian product. The Tensor product is analogous to a Cartesian product except that the inputs and outputs are ordered tuples instead of sets. That's all I was getting at.
Are there examples of NASA dashboards?
Oh right, yes that's very possible in many parts of the world.

One of the most frugal people I know lived on slightly less than $10,000 per year [1] while traveling around the world. That sounded extremely low to me, but you have to remember that the worldwide median income is about $10,000 [2].

[1] https://thedeepdish.org/2017-spending/

[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/166211/worldwide-median-househo...
they allowed them to buy companies one by one, they saw trees but not the forest. Maybe they didn't want to see it. Buying a company 10 years ago was no big deal but the competitors also did the same over and over again and now we only have a handful of large companies.

They have the money, or access to it, a startup has no chance to raise $40B to buy SKY or almost $75B to buy Fox...

Short of a court ordered breakup, I see no solution.
This guy is speaking the truth. Margins and overhead in the VOIP space will blow your mind.
The voice assistant needs to know your voice, but it doesn't need to share it with either a corporation or a government.

Likewise, the health assistant needs your health data, but doesn't need to share it.

The data should be stored on hardware you control, and not shared with anyone else.
I thought that if I put up a web page with a copyright notice on it, the only way someone can use a portion of that page is if they provide attribution.
"> But suffice it to say not all had CS degrees, nor even a degree of any kind.

You will notice that I very carefully worded that post. The word degree wasn't used."

I sympathize with those shaking their heads at people using regexes to parse XML, for instance. I have fought the battle of trying to get people to do it right. However, in (my version of) the real world, people will give you data that is invalid according to a canonical parser or the language standard, so sometimes you might as well use regexes anyway. A lot of professional programming is more like being an auto mechanic than being an automotive engineer. HN gravitates towards the latter mindset.
That is indeed funny, but I think that the dates are what is meant to give it the "blueberry" flavor.
This book does not talk about static typing, but about dependent types. Dependent types are more powerful and expressive than simple types because they convey more information. For example you could have [Int] to represent a list of numbers, but you could also have [x: Int, x > 20 && x < 50]. Or you could have an ordered array and know this fact by the type associated to the array. Moreover, you need to use a theorem prover to show that applying a function to a particular dependent type will result in the output dependent type. This kind of programming is not well suited to be implemented into typescript.
It's crazy when you consider that the Lean Startup advocates in the past actually advocated to fake things. For outsiders it's virtually impossible to tell if something is real or not.
You don't need to win the IPO lottery to make good money in tech. Facebook's median compensation according to their SEC filings is 240k/year. That's the median over all employees; the median engineer compensation is probably even higher. If half of their 25,000 employees are making 240k+, a decent fraction of them are probably making 400k, 500k+ even. It's hard to consider these people exploited.
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It's also really quite good for automating numerical calculations; a sort of poor-man's-Matlab. Having every intermediate value in a multi-step computation both immediately visualized (and thus easily sanity-checked) and accessible as a variable, without having to keep track of names, is very powerful.
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It is somewhat of a leap. However there are sensible formulations where it is pointed out that entropy is information, and "amount of uncomputability" is information in the sense that to know the output of an arbitrary Turing machine (which outputs either 0 or 1) one needs exactly one bit of information.
I found this very interesting, particular the comparison to x264 (which I had never heard of).

Looking into it I found x264 looked really easy to use with a nice C api but was encode only - does anyone know of a library very similar to x264 which is both encode/decode?
The two party system also results in dramatically greater stability, typically at a cost trade-off of dynamism. It's hard to change a two party system, so hopefully if you've got one of those, you have something worth maintaining underneath. Systems with lots of parties are far less stable over long periods of time by contrast and are prone to rapid change and takeover. Australia for example, with its 13 parties with parliamentary representation, lately can't keep a leader for more than a year or two, with six prime ministers in a decade. In that extreme case it's causing policy stagnation however, as none of them are managing to tackle big, urgent problems before they're tossed out. Europe's typical preference (excluding a few countries like Russia) toward lots of parties has also resulted in neo-Nazi groups acquiring increasing government power and representation, another downside to that approach.
I got hit by this. As soon as I reloaded Mail.app after installing the last update I was presented with two options, "Start trial" or "Buy now", neither of which I want. If they did mention mandatory registration in the release notes then they didn't make it clear enough.

I don't mind buying software that I use, but I completely object to having working software pulled out from under me like this.
Indeed.

As you say, there is merit to the argument. Social censure is often the appropriate response to repugnant ideas. I wouldn't invite an extremist to a party, for instance, but I wouldn't, and shouldn't, seek to ban them from speaking in public.

And again, as you said, these argument are almost always used in bad faith. There is a breed of political extremism, popular in our industry, that is very against free speech and they have turned these bits of tortured logic into memes (in the cultural sense). The problem I personally have with it is the two-faced misrepresentation. Attempting to avoid outright saying they don't believe in free-speech, while at the same time advocating censoring any speech that doesn't conform to their ideas. While there's still an argument to be made against it, I at least respect the logical consistency of those saying "A private platform can censor political speech their leaders disagree with if they want to".
Also see: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/2lN8hckg...
First i thought to "say something about 'energy, maybe osscilating -and as well, there are some 'conditions' of energy', '...a perspective, to see energy as a wave with a known length , which shortend 'by time'" -but now i feel to tell you 'to see science as the mustard to a sausage in terms of change' ^^
Yes you can. How much they can lend is determined by their reserves. How much they will lend is determined by other forces.
There's a glaringly obvious issue with this: assuming there is a government, and a monopoly publisher that only publishes anti-government media, you claim that the government must suppress anti government views on the name of free speech.

This is clearly not true. And leads me to believe that your claim that a monopoly publisher is, by definition, an agent if the government, is wrong.
Getting a job at Facebook is also a lottery win. Not too many will get a job at these highly paying companies.
>In principle, in the sense of being able to give all of your citizens the ability to complete any task which previously only experts could achieve.

I'm not concerned on the consumer side of things. We're all part of a global economy. If you want to buy AI services in Germany you can do that easily, just as I can use Google without a problem despite Germany not exactly being at the forefront of the tech. Having Google or Facebook physically located in your country, from a consumer standpoint, actually doesn't really matter at all.

Honestly this whole arrangement has always puzzled me from an American perspective. Americans sacrifice quite a lot in terms of equality, privacy and so forth to be at the forefront of this stuff, and we can just use it all the same because we're good customers. I'll be sad the day the US decides it doesn't want to be in charge!
Personal attacks will get you banned here. More generally, please don't post uncivil or unsubstantive comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You're being hypocritical.

The parent comment by "olliej" presented absolutely no argument for their statements:

> That said the primary “imbalanced exposure” seems to be due to evicting people who simply spend their time attacking minorities, attack equal rights, and promoting violence towards anyone that they dislike.

> For whatever reason the Republican Party seems to have decided that those people represent “conservative” views that private companies should have to support.

Again, remarkEon was simply pointing out the fact that "olliej" _presented no argument_, and was giving another tired example of grossly misrepresenting conservatives. "olliej"'s comment literally was evidence for remarkEon's comment. A comment on the pathetic hypocritical state of discourse today.
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Damnit or good... someone else remembers this. Oh well.

Maybe they should've tried trading a red paperclip for a house?
He litterally just said it only matters in a B2C setting and not a B2B.

Can you name even one AI product that is sold directly to consumers? Most if not all is B2B and there VAT is not used as it is a tax on consumption levied at the consumer, not other businesses.
My preference is for spaces as well. Sadly, go uses tabs.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18044580 and marked it off-topic.

(Just to be clear, this is about the subthread, not just the root comment.)
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There's a very big list of these, including links to good papers, on StackOverflow[1].

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/111440/examples-of-...
Are you saying that filling shoes with blood sounds gross, or does that metaphor refer to something more specific?
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My problem is the mirroring itself. I don't want, taking your example, /posts/post1 just because post1 is under posts. You can get around this with some SSGs but this doesn't change the fact that they're path oriented. For example, I think it was possible to turn this off in Hugo, but then you had to do some workarounds for specifying templates because normally the templates have to be aligned with the paths. Plus it has a bunch of weird separated page "types" (archetypes, taxonomies, etc)

For comparison I now use my own metalsmith plugin which is the opposite of these types of SSGs. It only relies on the post metadata. I can basically say, pick all posts that match x criteria, use x route (it can dynamically generate them based on metadata variables), use x template for this route, and set basic settings (posts per page, etc). All from one place. Files can be organized however I think makes sense. There aren't different types of pages or anything. The only "special" thing I had to do was for /year/month/date/ archives, but I plan to remove that exception with the SSG I'm writing now.

Regarding the archives, bread crumbs are not what I mean exactly. I want the pages to also be paginated. So /year/ is not just a list of links to all posts or links to all months, it should paginate the posts list for that year as well if they pass the posts per page limit. Seems like this has never been implemented, see this four year old issue I found: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/448

> What kind or degree of manipulation are you looking for.

I often want array manipulations. For example, to create tag clouds. I'm sure it's possible, but I doubt it's pretty. With something like EJS, I can just have the logic in plain javascript, right above the div that iterates through it. I will grant you, I'm not sure this is the best solution. With the SSG I'm writing, I've been playing around with the idea of having a header or footer section in javascript for the templates, where you can run this type of logic and the variables will be available in the template. Kind of how when you use a JS frameworks (e.g. Vue which I love) if you have something complicated to iterate over, you remove the logic from the template. This would make simple templating languages attractive again.

Thanks for the links btw.
> There isn't any real research happening outside of flagship institutions

Does that really imply research only happens at stanford, MIT and Harvard? Or what are "flagship" institutions?

What I wanted to say is that you can skew you distribution of researchers towards the absolute top by giving the few an enviroment the competitors can't match. I would think that this will probably be revealed if you compare for example nobel-prizes to overall citations a country produced. But that's harder to track.
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