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> And yet, no one disputes that, say, Heraclitus, Hesiod, Plautus, or some of the Ten Thousand’s generals existed

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus#Life:

"The main source for the life of Heraclitus is Diogenes Laërtius, although some have questioned the validity of his account as "a tissue of Hellenistic anecdotes, most of them obviously fabricated on the basis of statements in the preserved fragments"."

Obviously some people do dispute the existence of these figures. If there is no proof that someone existed, it's safe to say their existence should be disputed.
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While a good sentiment and seemingly fair, it isn't reasonable for a company to offer this to early/all employees early on in the company lifecycle. Two key reasons. First, the early employees stock likely hasn't vested enough to make this reasonable. Second, unless the company has already reached the later levels of say Series C/D and are discussing options around IPO or next round to do XYZ, the investors aren't going to entertain this, except for maybe some select early employees.

And founders can't sell their own equity and turn around and pay bonuses to employees out of that, it would involve an accounting nightmare that no investor would like to see on the financials in later rounds. Not to mention that money would be taxed so many times no one but the government would win.
I love how one of the most up voted answers boiled down to "the military"

https://old.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/a8hrk0...

>defense department would be extremely secretive

>And they very much wouldn't care about the environmental impact

>A few hundred tons of glitter is significantly less bad than thousands of tons of agent orange and dioxin.

>And depleted uranium
Meat could get very expensive soon if climate change reduces the amount of easily farmable land, and that might quickly change peoples opinions. Part of the reason I’m eating more vegetarian food is because the quality of meat that I want to be eating is very expensive.
Which arch permits reordering of dependent reads? Might you have any resources you could share? Thanks.
Yes, I stand corrected.

Essentially an optical system will bring Moon's surface closer, but even if it brings the surface within 1 cm from the wood, the defused Sun light scattered from that surface is not enough to ignite the fire.
> But there wasn't anything stopping early browsers from using a different scripting language.

You mean "nothing stopping the other browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, from adopting Netscape's Javascript too".
Im so glad I deleted my account on that site
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It's not so much conventional wisdom as predominant wishful thinking. Everyone hypes up the possibilities for their piece of the grants, investors, and the media attention but every geneticist I've had a private conversation with has been little more than cautiously excited. CRISPR is the genetic equivalent to their first binary editor but the complexities of epigenetics and expression machinery have long been taught (and why everyone is so excited about it), as well as the giant missing pieces in embryology where we don't even have a cursory understanding of how to bootstrap an organism from a genome without artificially inseminating a very closely related species.
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How do you know the YT content creator isn't paid for saying or showing something in the video?
Ideological bias does not negate his standing as a journalist. There is no requirement in journalism to be strictly neutral, to have no opinion, to only report facts dispassionately.

His colleagues are journalists, they consider him a journalist, and he's won awards you'd only get if you're a journalist, and his process of information gathering and writing meets the definition of journalism. His style is highly editorialized, but his stories aren't devoid of facts while containing only opinion, and the facts presented aren't often wrong. You can certainly argue from a contrarian perspective that his editorial conclusions are all wrong, but that still wouldn't make him not a journalist.

If someone's primary goal is entertainment, you can call it newsertainment or perhaps comedy.
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Whoa. I don't think most of the rest is specular reflection, since we never see any specular highlights on the moon, but if it is non-Lambertian, it might be possible to heat it up better than if the moon were actually a black-body or pefect Lambertian scatterer.

Thanks for pointing this out; I seem to have learnt of a new phenomenon I wasn't previously aware of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_surge
> Five weeks of vacation, while not very common, is common enough that it's not really worth writing about otherwise.

Where do you work that you think this is common?

My wife and I are both in reasonably well compensated professional careers, and while we get to take more vacations than most americans, a solid 5 week block is basically impossible. And I don't think that's atypical: the Bureau of Labor Stats certainly doesn't support that idea (https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2018/private-industry-workers-r...)
Someone should definitely disrupt that inefficient proteins assembly line.
$27k for 8000 questions, that's basically admitting they paid for spam. I don't see how this is a good product decision at all and the content quality has declined severely.

Meanwhile being a Top Writer has done nothing for me other than getting the opportunity to buy quora branded swag from their store. Saying that this system is imbalanced and unfair seems to be an understatement.
Try out Abstract, State Machines for math stuff. They've already had over a decade of research and field use. They were also rated easy to learn, like TLA+, for programmers vs stuff like Coq or Isabelle. There's also tooling for them like Asmeta. Here's some links:

http://www.di.unipi.it/~boerger/Papers/Methodology/BcsFacs07...

http://asmeta.sourceforge.net/

Also, type abstract state machines into search on https://lobste.rs for quite a few examples I put on there. We have lots of practical, formal, methods submissions plus some folks that do it professionally in there. Just click formalmethods tag.
Considering there's plenty of traditional depictions of Jesus from middle eastern churches that date back to Greco-Roman Palestine, I don't see why we shouldn't assume those are relatively close to what he would have looked like, considering that's the culture and region he came from.

Example:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulc...

Slightly curly hair, dark hair, dark eyes, beard, seems about right for a Jew living in 1st century Greco-Roman Palestine.
What happened to Quora anyway? When it started I recall it being super hot with crazy high quality answers.

Then they started with logins being required and it all seemed to go downhill at an amazing speed.
In my company we are radically transparent regarding stock deals, hires, our financials, order pipeline and so on. So far that seems to work well, time will tell what it does in the longer run. It's an experiment of sorts. We also do not have class 'B' shares and do not have an ESOP but issue stock directly to employees (or sell founder shares). It's a bit of an odd duck as companies go because the ramp-up to the point where others could join was 8 years.
You're not imagining it. China is executing a full-on "covert" culture/soft-power war. From the Confucius Institutes in US universities to propaganda "news" papers in New Zealand. They have teams of people trying to control the narrative on the internet anywhere China is mentioned. Quora is the worst in my personal experience.

A lot of this is widely reported on by credible news sources. Many current and ex intelligence and defense officials have called out China as the biggest threat to the US over the past year. I can't believe our government is shutdown right now over a "wall" separating us from countries who, in comparison, are our BFFs.

I hope you have your tinfoil hat ready:

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/02/627249909/australia-and-new-z...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2018/05/22...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/07/china-plan-for-...
You misunderstand the debate around Heraclitus. Scholars dispute the biography attributed to him. Yet virtually no one disputes that the author of the fragments existed. Heraclitus in this regard is little different from e.g. Jaufre Rudel, to whom is also ascribed a biography that is probably largely fictional in spite of historians’ certainty that the poet himself existed.
Probably an OCR glitch even, as the text has some OCR cliches in it:

> and regard these as black-and-white altematives.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18374359
Slightly off topic but feel this might be a good place to ask... Does a FPGA exist that would allow me to resurrect a 68k Mac SE? I'd love to find something like that.
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Ask HN: Anyone else without Facebook stuck trying to get a Oculus for Christmas?
I wanted to get my spouse an Occulus Go for Christmas. The item was on stock on Dec 19, and 5 days to ship seemed like plenty of time. So I ordered and got the nice message.

But one day later - "Your Oculus order number 61544 placed on December 19 has been canceled

As I contacted support, "Our team is currently reviewing your order. It’s important that you do not create any new orders during this time. Once we have an update we will notify you. Please note that once an order has been canceled, we are unable to reinstate it. (...) Alternatively, you can order through one of our retail partners. Details on this option can be found by clicking here."

So I did try a 'retail partner' with the same result - order cancelled.

Then 2 days later (today) "Thank you for your patience while we reviewed the situation. Our apologies for the delayed response. We have re-reviewed the cancellation and determined it was done by our system unintentionally. We would like to request that you please create a new order and message us back with the order number. Once we have the new order number, we will review it to ensure there aren't any issues."

Needless to say, I will not order from Oculus as it will never arrive on time for Christmas.

The same credit card, phone number and address worked just fine for getting a laptop from Microsoft, but not for getting an Oculus from a Oculus 'partner' that had it in stock.

So I'm really wondering what happened, and if Facebook is using its database to flag orders as the only unusual thing about me is that I do not maintain a Facebook profile.

I really wonder if that's what caused the issue? It is too easy to blame their 'system' without telling why.

So I'm asking here: did anyone else experience similar problems when ordering from Oculus?

They haven't told me why the order was 'unintentionally' cancelled, and I doubt they ever will. I asked more than once.
I've found that I get the most enjoyment and success out of my learning when I am stuck trying to solve some problem where I do not have the required domain knowledge. By taking on a subject with a specific goal in mind, or even a particular question that I want answers to, there is a concrete reason to stick with the learning and dive deep into it. By taking this approach, it turns the learning process into something that isn't a slog. Education becomes a part of the realm of problem-solving that I find both fun and engaging. I've also noticed that this approach generates more interesting questions related to the subject that otherwise would not have a chance of being explored.

As an example, I've been wanting to learn about orbital mechanics because satellites are pretty neat and I wanted to figure out the cost of positioning them in space. I purchased a few textbooks on the subject but got stuck due to some of my math knowledge not being strong enough. This lack of knowledge led me down a path of learning linear algebra and having a ton of fun with it. It has not been a painful process that many students associate with the subject but instead a fascinating journey on how to think about spacial problems and how to apply them to topics like satellite orbits.

As another example, I recently took a microbiology class as prerequisites for a program I am applying to, and I wasn't looking forward to it as I heard from others that it was a dull and challenging class. In an attempt to make the course more engaging, I decided to go into it with the goal of answering some harder topic. In my case, it was "How can I use the knowledge from this class to produce better bacteria-killing drugs?". Although I didn't have any plans to become a drug developer, this question gave me a frame of reference to the rest of the topics in the class. I could formulate questions that led to a much greater understanding of the subject matter and a better appreciation for the material. It was interesting to talk to my classmates, many of them did not enjoy the subject or felt it wasn't relevant to their future careers. For many of them, it was just a slog and another hurdle to get over rather than an interesting subject with some highly valuable concepts being presented.
> I’m upvoting this in hopes that someone with more knowledge than me can explain why the EMRs are all terrible.

As another poster said: EMRs are billing and compliance tools, paid for by administrators that are intending to buy billing and compliance tools. They support that function very well.

The people using it clinically (a) aren't the ones paying for it, and (b) tend to be inconvenienced by the very same billing and compliance elements that make it worth paying for.

EMRs don't suck for clinicians because it's impossible to have a nice clinical interface. They suck because they're a non-clinical tool being shoe-horned into a clinical setting and forcing clinicians to do the data entry work.
Yes, you are right. I'm also using mypy along with pylint, yapf and isort. Helps keeping my python codes clean
I haven't seen any of Rich's contributions to any major open source Haskell project. I can't really speak to his experiences with Haskell in proprietary code bases. Has he been a prolific Haskell contributor/hacker/user?

From his talk he hasn't convinced me that he understands Haskell's type system. Not only does he misunderstand the contract given by `Maybe a` but he conflates `Either a b` with logical disjunction which is definitely a false pretense. He builds the rest of his specious talk on these ideas and declares, "it [type theory] is wrong!"

He goes on to describe, in a haphazard and ignorant way, half of a type theory. As I understood it these additions to "spec" are basically a row-based polymorphic type system. Why does he refuse to acknowledge or leverage the decades of research on these type systems? Is he a language designer or a hack?

I can't even tell to be honest. He has some good ideas but I think this was one of his worst talks.
Intellectuals rarely raise to power. So, I dunno why I should expect Stalin to be intellectual. It is almost by definition. In order to raise to power you have to seek it or at least to embrace it and bw able to keep it in dirty competition. Intellectuals are concerned with something else.

And no, neither Stalin nor Hitler were merely passive victims of unchangeable history flow. Both made conscious decisions that made them who they were and how much power they gained.
Doesn't it have escape sequences for those because they're used in the language's syntax? Stands to reason, or is this even in string literals?
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Of course not all of these figures have the same amount of historical evidence to back them up. Jesus in particular has literally no evidence for existing other than from people with very vested interests in promoting his existence as the basis for their religion.

If you can point to some evidence that suggests he actually did exist, I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
>What happened to Quora anyway?

It became marketing. Almost every question turns into blatant and unhelpful pitches for the responder's startup.

Same with Medium.

Once the startup bros say a site is good for "native marketing", that's when the begins to die.
It only renders on vsync, so if you screen can only do 60Hz (which I believe is most) it'll never be more than 60Hz.

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>When you are the boss, you are getting bombarded constantly. From above, below, peers, you name it. Your cognitive load goes up so much that you actively avoid bringing even more onto your plate.

Yes, I can see how saying some words of empathy or showing understanding about someone whose DAUGHTER HAD JUST BEEN KINGNAPPED might be too much on one's plate.

/s
It is the length that makes it worth mentioning. A month long consecutive vacation in the US is rare. The paid vacation portion is not particularly generous, liberally assume $200 for lodging and $50/person for meals, it's worth somewhere around $12 to $14k including flights on the high end, i.e. $2k to $3k per year bonus.
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Yep I came here for the tldr to see if it is worth reading the rest of the article.
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MUMPS is definitely part of the problem. Easy access to B+ tree globals don't make up for dynamic scoping, loose typing, no namespaces, no 3rd party libraries (and an embarrassingly small standard library,) a terrible console-only debugger, a godawful error handling system, etc.
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> high enough values (to humans),

and we know experimentally that for humans, "high enough values" > 500Hz

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-highest-frame-rate-fps-tha...
> Something like "everybody will get Alzheimers by age 50" where it takes 50 years to even discover it.

Yup, and my then the market is established and the companies creating the market will say it's impossible to know that the side effect was actually caused by altering your DNA, and go on knowingly selling services that are destroying lives all in the name of money
They often are. But it's not something that's fundamentally built into the platform like it is on Facebook. YouTube receives no benefit from it so they certainly don't promote it, and the audience discourages it too because they feel like they're watching dishonest content. So yes, it happens, but it's outside the control of YouTube. Facebook fully embraces it. They've built their entire platform around it.
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Not sure what he looked like, but it doesn't matter to me. I see him as a philosopher before the Gutenberg press that was not associated with the Pharisees (established philosophical order). There have been many Jesus personalities throughout history, every religion has one as a voice to convey useful advice.

He gave such good advice about how to navigate hardships without the pressure of tithing that he has since been revered as supernatural.

--5,000 fed with 5 loaves and 2 fish:

I used to think everyone was fed "magically" with whole portions. Now I realize it was a communal exercise, and the lesson learned was how to share and make sure everyone gets an equal piece (even though everyone just got a small crumb).

--Water to wine

Once again, as a child I thought he violated laws of physics. Alcohol is a depressant and excessive use can hinder productivity of the citizenry. Under the advisement of Jesus, the man without ties to the Church, word spread to replace wine with water. Water to wine; pez to Xanex.

--The poor woman and the blind man

I recall one story where there was a poor woman without food, and Jesus was able to scrounge up enough flour from her own storage containers to produce a meal. Once again, thought it was magic. But he came into her home and helped her assess her resources.

Mud on the blind mans eyes? Impossible to cure blindness like that - but he wasn't literally blind. Unfortunate circumstances likely provoked a depression that pushed him into pretending to be blind and beg - free money. Not the way an able bodied citizen should behave. The revered Jesus came to him and performed a ceremony with the audience consisting of locals that had walked by the blind beggar every day. Now he is "cured" in front of all and he can end the act safely using Jesus' supernatural status as a catalyst. Probably got a job the same day - no more begging. Productivity of the village slightly improved.

Lazarus "raised from dead" is another example of this - a depressed guy shutting out the world could be considered dead. Jesus brings him back to the tribe. Another able-bodied person returning to the economy.

If we assume religion is an early form of software engineering used to instill practical economic ideals and morals into society through simple parables and metaphors: Jesus was the software update everyone was ready for, but had to be killed off because embezzlement-prone-tithing-proceeds were probably being threatened. This kind of sacrifice effectively locked in his doctrines.
What countries are embargoed for chat?

I work in banking, and when we discuss certain kinds of remote access, it's notable that there is no "OFAC" list. There are shit tons of lists for different things. I wonder which list Slack uses.
I thought Hillel Wayne's talk, Everything about distributed systems is terrible, was probably the best talk for the motivation behind why you should be using TLA+ to design systems:

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> - UK refusal to fire on the craft is absurd because rubber bullets, simunitions, and less-than-lethal rounds are more than capable of destabilizing the hull and structure of the craft... while inflicting no damage on distant landed craft or personnel. (I wouldn't expect HN to know this, tbh)

What do you think the effective range of less-than-lethal rounds are? Now, how are you going get that close to the drone? (Without doing something truly insane like firing out of a helicopter that's trying to fly close to a drone of course)

> -Sending piles of off-the-shelf consumer drones up to ram into it would have been sufficient as well.

You're going to have piles of consumer drone pilots on call?
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A c++20 range is just a bounded container. instead of having to write, `(container.begin(), container.end())` for any function that uses iterators to bound itself, you just write `(container)` and it knows its a range.

The range function in python is similar only in name, the c++20 range concept is not a generator.

2. There is a coroutine feature branch, I believe developed by Gor Nishanov, https://github.com/GorNishanov. Also not related to c++20 ranges.

3. Eric Niebler used a single templated function. This is not anywhere close to template metaprogramming hell, and I think you should look into templates as once you learn about them they become way less intimidating. Also has nothing to do with c++20 ranges.
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