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>A Science Journal Funded by Peter Thiel Dismisses Climate Change and Evolution

Look out the window, this planet is intelligent design.

So is mars and the rest of the solar system with signs of life, the rest is possibly empty.

Sure the actual article on evolution[1] is just plain wrong, but so are the idiots who worship evolution unquestionably.

Can we instead start talking about why specific alternatives to evolution are wrong, rather than the religious fundamentalism of believing evolution this title implies.

[1] https://inference-review.com/article/evolution-a-theory-in-c...
I applied.

I am looking for people who are interested in transforming education. If me and a group of similar minded individuals are able to make people learn twice as fast, then that would be a huge win for the world.

People say that education (idea generation and implementation) comes easy to me. And I also find it the most fun sector to work in.

If the ed tech startups of the world are reading this: I'm available [1]. If you want to be in education too, then let's meet up (IRL or online)! My email address is in my profile.

[1]: this invitation is also extended to YC.
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So the companies in the poor economies have to pay for it? I understand you're not the previous poster, but these seem to be different motives.
Find a good mentor and listen. Don't have a chip on your shoulder. Don't be afraid to try a different approach. But sometimes a mentor will explicitly warn you, and it's almost funny when the person says "fuck that I'm going the route you warned me about"

I might not know everything by any means and generally provide a couple potential ideas, but 6 months later and they come and say "yeah you were right"

I may be petty but I've said "no fucking shit"
I think that was the point of the original article. That we can use more visual told to augment code, rather than trying to reinvent programming from scratch.

Have you played with Racket at all? There is another concept from the DrRacket tool that I really enjoy. Images have their own print mode, i.e. getting displayed in the REPL just by referencing them. Similarly, Matlab and Octave make printing matrices and graphs just a natural part of the experience.

There are probably a lot of good reasons for storing code as text, not the least of which are diffing as well as transmitting to/from other authors with their own toolsets. Merge visualization is a type of visual task related to programming.

Unix and its shell concept were supposed to, kinda, be this. But I think it got lost in the need to build production server environments. Who is the modern Symbolics with their LISP machines?
I understand that, and if this was a normal application for its standard incubator, I'd understand. I read this as seeking out people doing exceptional work but aren't _already_ being noticed. A lot of this people might not be noticed because they aren't trying to be noticed, but may very well benefit from it, or they don't have the means to / maybe they were never pushed to put themselves out there. Encouraging application is certainly a good way to go.
Lumping climate change skeptics in with creationists is a bit much. I know that the evidence for human-caused climate change is strong enough that the skeptics are very likely wrong, but people who refuse to accept the theory of evolution are on another level of willful ignorance.
Which is not detectable at all...
Democratic crisis is inevitable under capitalism creating such stark wealth inequalities. When one person can have wealth orders of magnitude more than years of the salaries of all the country's elected politicians, it's inevitable corruption will happen.
> When the subject matter involves autocrats and populism godwinson's rule applies a bit less

No, it’s just less surprising of a finding in that case. Remember Godwin's Law is: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1”.
"and can't afford to spend more money"

These things never start from the poorest doing these things though. They start with the middle and upper classes, because the do have the money, and companies chase that money.

Yes if everyone rolled over and did nothing, instcart would win.

What percentage of that richer demographic would have to switch to a competitor for it to start hurting? A demographic that includes journalists and 'influencers', that are willing and able to pay more, and are able to tell the world about it?
im just gonna say this:

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try something that works:
Libre Office.

https://www.libreoffice.org/
Who is suggesting that the solution to this is to restrict speech? I think it's fair enough to accurately label this as a high-end disinformation campaign, and Thiel's thumb on the scale is something that should be disclosed, but I don't think anyone is calling for censorship.
I agree. I think the point of this headline is the headline. They know that most people will see Peter Thiel and something about dismissing evolution, and most people won't read the article. (At least one other commenter has confessed to falling into this pattern.) I don't agree, but if contrarianism is done civilly and in good faith, it should be allowed. What we don't want is a general regime of squashing all discourse.

Here is a link to part 1 of the article. I skimmed it. This guy could be an anti-evolution bigot if you dig deeply enough, but at least he's not pounding on the usual debunked tropes. (Maybe I should thank him for bringing issues to my attention that are new to me.) He also has a good enough grasp of science, I can't dismiss him outright, other than that I'm convinced evolution by natural selection is correct.

https://inference-review.com/article/evolution-a-theory-in-c...
There is a lot of gray area between the extremes here. What has worked, historically, is a system where ultimately all power derives from the people, but the process is designed to be somewhat slow, to moderate strong emotions, and to add subject matter expertise to the process.

The two most obvious features here are elections (not referenda), and the judicial system. The latter adds an element of “village elders”, while the former makes decision-makers confront hard choices and their consequences.

That’s why direct democracy is considered rather harmful: just look at the clusterfuck that is Brexit for an idea of what happens when people are allowed to make fantasy decisions while disregarding their actual implementation.

As an analogy, consider trial-by-jury (managed by a competent judge) with having all of the locals decide all criminal cases once a month based on what they read in the (disappearing) local paper and on nextdoor. Who would you want to decide the punishment when the neighbor boy accuses you of touching him in funny places?
That's literally the fix for almost anything Microsoft. If it goes any further than that it's "Restore from backup".
If I understood correctly the article, the claim is that Google can introduce features more easily into Kubernetes just because they are Google?

And I would answer: Why are you surprised? I worked a bit with Kubernetes and it's mostly dominated by Google or by a top-level set of contributors that are all friends and think alike.
This is also probably the reason why Google released Kubernetes as open-source. It allows them to indirectly control this project.
Unless the mods add the YC tag posthumously to posts that forget it, it is the mistake of the original poster
It is a bit odd Facebook is getting all the negative attention, but it definitely deserves a lot of negative attention. Perhaps other companies in a similar position (MSFT, Google, Apple) are seen as contributing something of value while Facebook solely exists to broker your data to a third party.

I believe it's valuable to society that FB is revealed as the advertising giant they are, but there are other companies with their fingers in the pie that should be treated similarly - maybe our bandwidth just isn't sufficient to sustain negative coverage against multiple targets, that actually wouldn't surprise me.
I've been on both sides of this sort of divide, as both insider and outsider.

It's easy to see it as politics. I do, pretty much all the time, but that's because I have a background in politics. I'm primed to assume the worst.

I think the explanation is simpler. If you are a Googler, you mostly talk to Googlers, you mostly come to quick consensus that way, and it all makes sense to you and the Googlers you had casual whiteboarding sessions with. So you just go ahead with the to-you-obviously-best decision and get surprised when non-Googlers are mad at being presented with a fait accompli.

There is no ill-will and no conspiracy required. Some of the personnel allocations are driven by corporate strategy, but folks engineering on the line are all reasonable human beings. It's just simple personal dynamics. You talk mostly to the people closest to you unless sustained effort is made to keep stuff in the open.
I wonder if we can gamify this. Where your social media profile can display badges if you don't use various services. I imagine that's next to impossible.
Glad I purchased a standalone license (although I do have Office365 through work).
This simply isn't true, and just because someone gets criticised it doesn't mean that criticism is valid.
Doesn't help that I've stopped using Office in favour of Open-/LibreOffice about 7 years ago or such :).
The research here is amazingly flawed.

They ASKED users what they wanted.

If you've every done anything with behavioral analysis online you'll quickly learn that users say they want one thing and then often behave the exact opposite.

First. If you ask users if they would use a site that has ads, the percentage that say they don't want ads (which is probably a majority) are also the same ones that won't pay for the site.

This is a demonstration of consumer irrationality. It's usually either A or B.. not neither A nor B.

There are basically three main revenue models online:

1. ads.
2. paid content.
3. you're the product.

Now #3 might not ALWAYS be bad. Duolingo for example can use the feedback they get from users using the app to improve the service and some users DO pay to remove the ads. When you're using it in a freemium capacity you're actually paying to help train Duolingo.

With Facebook they're mostly #3...

A better way to do this would be behavioral analysis.

The first is to find out if consumers want ads or would they rather pay for a service directly.

The answer is overwhelmingly in favor of them NOT paying directly. They would rather be the product or see ads.

Don't believe me? Do you see any social networks that charge money? There are some somewhat freemium platforms like Wordpress (which still has ads) but for the most part the vast majority of the revenue online does not come directly from consumers.

Now... do users want customized ads?

Again. The data is overwhelming here.

Between two ads, one tailored to the user , and another random ad, the more targeted it is the greater conversion rate.
I said simple and clear.

As you can imagine, I've seen also a lot more or less funny ladder logic.

And yes is true, most plc programmer don't have a "just software" background and yes a lot of plc software is not super pretty but with the old IDEs it was also not so easy.
IDK, perhaps it's my bias against NYT (for too many years of too little too late reporting) but this type of analysis feels...well...um...like too little too late. It's not like anyone on FB is going to read this and suddenly reconsider their relationship with FB and/or their opinion of Mr Z.

Finally, Z has no delusions. He knows exactly what FB is, as well as what (and then some) the masses will be willing to forfeit in order to bolster FB's bottom line.
My company has a subscription and the search functionality mysteriously and randomly doesn't work at times, or is really slow... I have to guess which one it is _this_ time when it starts acting up...
Would take no time at all to set up nginx to allow you to connect from your desktop. Likely much more secure than having an ancient browser on a server.
This is correct, golang doesn't give you thread safety for free. Values passed via channels are safe as they're implicitly locked (i.e. it's a blocking threadsafe queue), and there are happens-before semantics for starting a goroutine, otherwise you're on your own (explicit locks / atomics / lock-wrappers like sync.WaitGroup). E.g. variable assignment isn't even atomic.
Ironically Feynman's biggest contribution -- the path integral formalism -- was mainly regarded as incomprehensible until Dyson explained its relationship to the canonical formalism.
Your website does not contain a single image. Try to use optimized images and use proper markup, use alt tags etc.
Just dropped down to #34, on the second page.
There are no terminals still in widespread use that are not VT100-compatible, by which I mean they use the escape sequence protocol originally used in the DEC terminals, although of course it has been much extended.
It's unreasonable to expect that promoting recycling alone leads to systematic recycling of non-precious materials. Recycling is the law in places where it is considered commonplace.

Swedes don't just love recycling; the government makes it worthwhile by increasing the cost of not-recycling (fines, jail time).
You can get pretty far online only, but the networking opportunities even in a non-top school are worth every penny.

It's interesting finding a new job only to have existing classmates be excited for you to be there. Rumors begin spreading that you get shit done even quicker.
I don't know if any of them are extremely easy to pick up. Any re-use between applications are the domain-specific parts (knowing about color space, UVs, shaders, and cameras) not the UI. Node based interfaces are pretty limiting. A lot of the power of these systems are things like having a Python runtime or text representations of scene files that you can find/replace. The other pro/power features are shortcut keys and templates, just like other apps like Lightroom or Avid.

Node based systems is a great pattern for certain things, but large scenes get unwieldy quick. Even if the project files are text, diffing with version control is useless. Profiling is often difficult--a pet peeve of mine when apps load all the whole scene file and often the geometry when you just want to change a parameter.

You can see node based systems "grow up" by adding variables or attribute references, which means your data isn't just flowing down the graph, but you have to track references in this new dimension. You then often see encapsulation (hda/otl, Gizmos), which can really help with re-use but create more limitations.
Can you find any of these articles published on BuzzFeed? The problem with this criticism is that it claims that all journalists have the same opinion on blue-collar-retraining issue.
> Too bad Duck Duck Go is simply re-branded Bing results

Do you have any source for this claim?
I can still remember watching the NOVA episode of this in the early 90's

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x61qlf6
iPhone Sales Drop 15 Percent: So What Now?
Wait, you mean Elon Musk didn't rescue those kids?
Facebook has been paying people to install a “Research” VPN
Interesting, they've removed the critic and made him an ally. It's smart for them! It sux for everyone else. Even if the critic is tough, they have removed him from constantly stirring controversy. They are probably paying him very well.
This also impacted "US government cloud resources": https://twitter.com/AzureSupport/status/1090379738424569859

Also from ITNews: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/microsoft-hit-by-global-offic...
Show HN: Remote Presence – faking your presence on Slack
If they cannot be addressed within the evolutionary framework this does indeed mean an alternate theory is needed.

All we know is they cannot be addressed yet. Lots of people need to make a good faith effort before an alternate theory is justified. That said, some gaps are always going to remain with any theory. That doesn't necessarily invalidate the entire field.
Incredibly this has taken down typingclub.com
And that's why tipping won't die because the few people who can make bank off of sob stories and bad logic.

Sorry, waiting tables is not a really complicated skill. Tipping is not related to quality of service.

Most people don't think about tipping. They do it because it's expected and maybe the waitress is hot. If pressed, they would likely prefer not to do it.

Servers are also some of the most disingenuous people I've seen when arguing about tipping. Because that top tier knows they can make a lot of money in a low-skill job. They like to complain about how much money they make and how screwed over they are by tips, but when restaurants pay a fair wage and eliminate tips, the staff abandons them for places that do tip. Why? Money.
There are many other companies which collect the same amount or more data than Facebook does and they use it for the same purpose: targeted advertising. Putting the other issues Facebook had with Cambridge analytica or getting 50 million users' info hacked aside, I'm struggling to understand why articles like this from NYTimes are pointed just only to Zuckerberg and Facebook as in they are the only ones who provide targeted advertising platform. As I mentioned that's the whole multi-billion dollar industry that allows companies to do the targeted and programmable advertising and yes, it's pretty much the business model of the internet.

At this point, I feel like they are just abusing the situation and writing everything like Facebook did yet another more terrible thing.
How do you figure that? He doubled revenue from 2017, or am I missing something?
Kustomize is definitely a huge step forward for configuration management, more info on Kustomize here: www.kustomize.io
The main things you should learn to become decent at CSS are:

- the box model

- how cascading, specificity, and inheritance work

- googling CSS problems with the site:stackoverflow.com filter

Bit tongue-in-cheek with that last one, but the rest will give you a solid understanding of why certain things work the way they do when your code doesn't look the way you expect.

> I can't do anything basic on CSS without turning for help

The thing is, if you are working with a whole website (even simple looking websites can have a lot of HTML and CSS), then there are often no "simple" problems, at least with layout, because every element can and often does affect every other element.

Sometimes you just need a good old analogy or picture to demonstrate some things: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33132586/why-isnt-my-mar... (disclaimer - I wrote that answer). In a lot of ways, your elements and their CSS are like rocks in a river... the water/document flows around them in certain ways, which affects stuff around them or downstream. Removing one or adjusting it can change how the water/document flows, and thus can affect other rocks/elements, etc.
It becomes a bit more reasonable with 2 or more people. But yeah, even then the pricing is insane on these services. From my recent Caviar order (USD):

27.35 - actual face value of food (same as the in-store menu, at least for this restaurant)
2.32 - Tax
1.30 - "Healthy SF fee"
2.00 - Courier Bonus
4.92 - "Service Fee" (huh?)
1.99 - "Delivery Fee"
He’s right.
I always tip in cash, except in the rare cases where I happened to not have cash on me. I am always under the assumption that this kind of thing is the default not the exception; when you add tip to a credit card who knows what happens when the mothership sucks up that cash and filters it through various middlemen before finally (if ever) getting to the person who provided a service to you.
Isn't that Instagram scraper (https://instaloader.github.io/) against their Terms of Use? Insta really locked down their API so I assume they won't look too kindly on this. (although it doesn't require login so they can't really punish accounts)
My $0.02c - I opened your website and didn't immediately understand your product. It wasn't until I read the guts of your HN post that I figured it out.

Maybe invest a couple of days into researching/testing different (above the fold) taglines with random people off the street to see how quickly they guess what your product does?
It's maintaining at least nine fives. Not five nines.
climbers tend to overdevelop back muscles. pecks are largely not involved - it's all flexors not extensors.
Really disgusting behavior, honestly I think the "gig economy" has the right idea of where we are headed, we are moving to a service / high skill (technology) economy. Gig economy tools combine the best of both worlds, but these exploitative labor practices and low hanging industry targets have got to end.
"Propaganda and asymmetric warfare"

Is it possible to have a discussion in public without something being labelled as 'propaganda' because it's not perfectly consistent with the current popular orthodoxy?

Maybe we should just let these guys meander through a few ideas on their little site before getting into Nazis, Communists and World Wars. :)
The WA AG is a bit on the antsy activist side too: this is like a great poster case for the anti-gig-worker advocates.

in any case, this is really awful for the poor drivers. I had no idea.
It should also be noted that the need to tip for the perspective of workers having a decent standard of living varies a ton from place to place. In Seattle the tipped minimum wage is 12 dollars an hour at small employers and doesn't exist at large one's (where the minimum wage for large employers is 16/hr).

Tipping law for the most part isn't changing largely because tipped workers make more money under the status quo. For those familiar with the restaurant industry, tons of folks turn down management roles because they pay less than working the floor.
It's using the old IE window.external
Learn how to make a simple distributed throttling system using Lua and Nginx
One of the reasons for infix notation in math is actually that it provides a 'visual' reminder of useful properties such as associativity, and possibly others e.g. commutativity or distributivity. If all we ever used was a strict LISP-like, function-based notation, such a reminder would be lost and understanding or manipulating non-trivial expressions would be quite a bit harder. The effort in OP is actually a way of generalizing this idea to broader settings, where one is dealing with something more complex than a single domain of number-like values, and a handful of operations on them. This is arguably how one should think of "graphical linear algebra" as well: the 'diagrams' one's dealing with there can be thought of as generalized expressions, so there's nothing overly strange in being able to manipulate those formally according to well-defined rules of some sort.
Does that mean that you don't (ever) have to login to Microsoft / Office365 online services with the desktop software? I have been hearing that people are having issues with desktop apps asking them to log back in to use them - and they can't.
Great explanation, appreciate the effort. Will dig deeper into the provided links.
Western countries have lots of anti-corruption laws, but these laws won't help. Nor creating more laws would help either. What we have is: ethically corrupt but legally clean.