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I don't mean investigations that hit dead ends and never get published. I mean investigative journalism that turns out to be wrong or fraudulent.

Claas Relotious is a particularly notorious recent example, but there is plenty of meta-investigative journalism out there, like Glenn Greenwald's writeups of how the media present things that look like investigations of scandals but which are factually wrong. Here's a recent summary he did of 10 such cases:

https://theintercept.com/2019/01/20/beyond-buzzfeed-the-10-w...

I myself am a subscriber to a daily newspaper, which I read online, to get access to paywalled content. It's essentially opinion and analysis which I find value, and only rarely investigation of scandals. There are lots of newsrooms and only occasionally do they ever get a genuine Watergate or Snowden style scoop which means I can't really subscribe to get them because I don't know where they'll crop up next. And anyway, any paper I do subscribe to will end up paraphrasing and summarising the original paper's investigations anyway, which for me is fine - there's no particular need to learn about these things quickly or even at all, because I can't do anything with the knowledge usually.

In the end I'm skeptical journalism is the right way to keep powerful institutions in check. There are other ways.
This happens in my native language as well. I really think it's time we should drop the use of the word "man" referring to "mankind". I simply say "humans" or "humanity".
I agree it's more about the harmful influence of certain types of media than about censorship. An article posted on HN a while back quotes Bradbury saying this very thing (http://www.openculture.com/2017/08/ray-bradbury-reveals-the-...). Maybe most people focus on the censorship angle since it was played up so much in the Truffaut film adaptation? Pretty sure I saw the film first, then read the book, and it certainly influenced my interpretation.

What exactly do you mean by "decentralized information"? Like too many niches, social fragmentation, etc?
Send him to prison
that only holds true if financiers have no relationships with the companies they fund, but that isn't the case. E.g. people want to get into YC for the network and the relationships.
This isn't a good article to post. It's just one person complaining about a change he didn't know about.

It's really just a syntax change. I probably wouldn't have chosen that particular syntax using colons, or I would have forced another keyword like "set" in front of it, but it is what it is. He created a bug and he likely won't do it again, so problem solved.
I see more and more posts on HN that rely on ArXiv for scientific articles. While many researchers in CS publish their research on preprint servers, these are (a) only one part of the scientific publications out there and (b) articles often not (yet) peer reviewed.

I get that ArXiv is a convenient way to download scientific papers, especially without access to universities or libraries' access, but one should always be careful with non-peer reviewed research.
I believe this has a lot to do with the reduction of the middle class. The amount of people who can afford to go even two months with no form of income in the United States is extremely low
no offense, but it doesn't sound like your opinion is very neutral.

I would agree that the USA has it's faults, but unfortunately so do the other superpowers, and just about every other country out there (except those nordics maybe?)

Not that saying "everyone has problems" is meant to dismiss your arguments, rather you should consider if at least some of your list are actually problems of the USA or symptoms of global inequality, or even perhaps beneficial aspects of the USA.

Specific rebuttals:

#1: yes, but that ended in the 80's. Iraq or after isn't about democracy. The causes of USA's direct military intervention is complicated. Simplifying to "spread of democracy" is just about the definition of biased, though I agree the interventions are mostly not justified.

#2: yes but the USA is the police for it's allies neighborhoods, for various, complicated, reasons. Projection of power isn't cheap, and it's not just to burn money.

#3: USA's culture and economic impact are global, and it's spread is organic. I would personally call this net benefit, so curious why you feel it's nefarious.

#4: Why focus on immigrants/usa? This is story of anybody working for any big company anywhere?

#5: it seems like you have a lot of strong feelings going on here....
I love how he just opens every letter with that table comparing Berkshire to the market since the 1960s.
We've been through with all kinds of machines. Either there were not strong enough or just seemed to die after their usual life time.

After seeing one really old Kitchenaid machine at my SOs parents, I finally decided to buy one. Never regretted it. We make Pizza at least once a month my GF makes cakes once every 2 weekends. It is in use a lot. Especially the dough hook looks massive and I can't imagine a dough that could break it. So what did you do with it? ;)
Also fails on "old western town phoenix" but not "old western town on phoenix" and not on either of the failing searches with double quotes aroubd them as the search term. Also not on "old western town phoenix az" or "old western town phoenix Arizona".

And while back and forth testing it now seems to work even with the previously failing terms, but it's really slow for them.
I think there's a relationship but it's tenuously stated. Anti-vax is in part due to an erosion of trust in our experts and institutions. This case is a prime example. You have people that have been poisoned for decades by their government. It's no surprise to me that a person who can't trust the safety of her own drinking water is reluctant to receive government-sponsored injections.
The book to me is more about society dictating your time, how you think, and how you should feel. Books were only one facet of control.

Turn off your phone for a day without telling anyone and see how people react.
Julia has had a kron function in Base since at least 0.5.
The question, then, is why that kind of analysis isn't built into the compiler?
I'm not sure how feasible throwing an error is - Type hints in Python can be arbitrary classes or instances thereof, in order to type hint for stuff like nested data structures (`Dict[str: int]`). You could disallow instances of specific built-in classes, but that seems... clunky, especially as some can be used in valid code (strings are used as forward references).
The Nvidia numbering scheme is still higher is better?
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What you're referencing is more leadership through training and mentorship. What he was doing sounded more like him just doing more of the work solo and hoping/expecting people would respond.

There's a really critical difference between handling something with a junior riding shotgun / doing a write up vs just doing the work yourself. He didn't touch on this, but you don't propagate any knowledge just doing it yourself, and I think that's one of the problems with his version of "leadership by example".
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I actually like 1-based for numerical work. A lot of great languages (Smalltalk, APL, Lua...etc) use it too.

It makes sense with matrices.
agglomeration is not unique to VC and it's not simply a matter of people being lazy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_agglomeration
I wonder why most people defend this feature. The problem is not the annotation, you can do that in ML, too:

Poly/ML 5.6 Release
> 5 : int;
val it = 5: int

But you cannot just use 42 where a type is expected:

> 5 : 42;
poly: : error: <identifier> expected but 42 was found
Static Errors

It's pretty silly that Python did not develop an actual type system if annotations like that are supported.
I never understood why CS people are so afraid of non-CS people touching language development. They hide the keys as much as possible so nobody but the predestinates can touch it. Racket gives that key. Despite that few people will use it (probably only the most prepared) and if these languages hacks are completely non-sense they'll fail. The world will not suffer much with this process.
I've found the FT (i.e., Financial Times) to be useful. The writers like to poke fun at themselves from time to time.
This really isn’t a joke to anyone who has went through an emotionally abusive relationship that resulted in their creativity and will to experiment be destroyed at the hands of someone else. Anyone downvoting this clearly hasn’t had to experience it.
It wont. you can also appeal assesments.
I'm saddened it sounds like you've apparently fallen victim to a doctor who has more "important" things to do than see you. I've been in that position before, and have found that there is nothing more dangerous to society than a physician that simply can't be bothered. It undermines the credibility of every other practitioner out there, and makes the already non-trivial task of maintaining Public Health even more difficult.

However, a couple points.

A) Don't get discouraged. Tricare us one of the most widely accepted insurances, and I can guarantee there are physicians worth their salt out there that can help you. You might have to travel further than you like if you do have legitimate genetic conditions, but I can guarantee the extra travel will be worth it for the expertise. Many doctors entered the field for the paycheck, and will balk at difficult patients. If you are one, it is upon you to become an expert on yourself and find the physician who can work with you. It's tough, believe me, but the right physician is worth the trouble.

B) Anti-Vaxxers: I'm not going to say you're a crank. When you've been burned by someone who purportedly took an oath to do no harm, yet is doing so through inaction and uncaring, you start looking for help anywhere you can get it. That's just human nature. Please understand though that distinguishing the hokey, and the harmful from what might be the truth is extremely difficult. Alternative medical practices will require you to be your own scientist, and I don't recommend approaching anything with blind trust. You have to become your own expert, which means figuring out how to read the few relevant studies the occasional researcher can cobble together the resources to do.

But for the love of all that is good, don't buy into "don't vaccinate". It's one of the biggest public health threats out there. The diseases that are prevented are crippling, if not lethal, and can be easily prevented through vaccination.

Don't let a medical asshat turn you off of medicine. It just means you need to look elsewhere.
Yes. Bradbury himself here in an article from 2007:

https://www.laweekly.com/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-mi...
I would say this has a lot to do with the increase in accessibility and subsequent marketization reducing what used to be a fairly niche service attenuated to like minded scientific or at least exploratorily minded people to a common denominator that maximizes profits
The attention-sucking and vapidity is independent of the media it's derived from. As long as it's 'pushed' information it doesn't matter if the information comes from a train radio or through the internet. I don't see much of a difference between the Denham's Dentriface section and the constant pinging of attention our phones (and others' phones) request from us.

We have access to nearly unlimited information, but even then, I don't think most internet users are using it to exchange great works of thought or even 'surfing' as the internet was intended to be used. Instead we have these massive FAANG silos that don't offer anything less vapid than the media described in the book. Even some of the more "idea-exchange" styled websites (Reddit, Twitter) are cesspools of low-effort thought, injokes, and memes.

We have too much information, and a worrying amount of it is untrue or misleading. But that's addressed by Faber in the novel as well, about the centrifuge throwing off all unnecessary thought. If there's so much media blasting in from all directions it gets hard to distinguish and the frequency of it all takes away the will to sift through fact from fiction. This is what leads to the 'fake news' aspect you mentioned. This is also addressed in the book. It's been a while since I've read it, but at one point Montag's wife stays glued to her televisor walls with Jesus himself on the screen telling her about how only his true followers buy some companie's product. Now, Montag's wife would surely have known that Jesus would not have been alive during the time of CorpCo's Wonderful Bottled Drink (or whatever it was called), but she doesn't think about it, she's too wrapped up in the overwhelming pressure applied by the media environment and believes it. It's the same when you surround yourself with this manufactured outrage stuff, and start buying into more and more outrageous 'fake news' claims because it justifies your anger, plays into your new opinions. It feels good, a positive feedback loop. It's the same.
It's no surprise to me that a person who can't trust the safety of her own drinking water is reluctant to receive government-sponsored injections.

I'm not an antivaxxer. I've had my vaccines, though I no longer get annual flu shots and lots of people are very quick to demonize me as an antivaxxer over that detail.

it's tenuously stated.

I've tried to improve the clarity of that one paragraph in my above remark.
My point was that the ambiguous term "man" was immediately interpreted as a sign of discrimination. If HN can have "Assume good faith" in the guidelines then society should also have it. So hearing such a reaction to a term where the most plausible interpretation is "human" can only be bad faith. Looking for reasons to squabble.

If enough people use such bad faith arguments to make a point how long until it will be easy to overlook a good, valid argument and assume the same kind of bad faith from the start?
By naming it 1660 instead of 2050, there is a lot more distance between the RTX/tensor core enabled products and those that are not.

So a win?
I tried to find the "old trick" but only end up on 404s or forum threads that end with "they must have closed that trick now".

Would you mind sharing a working source?
I haven't dipped into Julia's macro side, but I wonder how much work it would be to just create macros to create syntactic sugar that maps infix Kronecker products to the Kronecker function.

There are so many Julia packages that do similar stuff that I imagine it can't be all that hard for people who have become fluent with the macro system.
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`kron` is in the standard library, at least in the first stable version of the language https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/index....
The worst is when people do use Go to make their own reality. It's not meant for that and it's never pretty.
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The curious thing is, it takes a lot of money to train military personnel. You’d think the military would hesitate to inflict an injury on itself such as this. If a terrorist organization did this then the USA would go to war.
I can't imagine that's good for battery life.
Hi, 70122-_6, this is amusing. This is a question, indeed, I think most people aren't asking.
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I have found that I waste most of my time in the evening, when I need to "unwind" and end up watching something instead of reading or being productive in some manner. After working all day and taking care of the kids all evening, I'm mentally exhausted and prefer to have something else distract me until I'm tired enough to sleep.

To counter this, I decided to wake up earlier and take my time first. I get up at 5 and then exercise, read, etc, so by the time the kids are in bed, I'm pretty much ready for sleep, and sometimes I read fiction for that last 10-30 minutes until I can't focus enough to read another page. This has made it easier for me to fall asleep and ensures I have time when I'm alert for everything I want to get done. The main downside is that my wife likes to stay up late, so I'm tired for our time together, but I find I can usually go to bed a few hours late once or twice a week and be fine, so it works out.

As for things like Hacker News, I try to schedule 5 minute break throughout the day to catch up on that type of stuff. I use the pomodoro technique and catch up on stuff in the 5 and 15 minute breaks while getting a little exercise.
That flash can be removed with custom CSS rules as well. r/Firefox and r/FirefoxCSS have multiple posts about this.
In the void of enforcing a speficic one, you allow people flexibility to do custom things.

For instance linters not understanding type specificatins beyond a certain complexity but still using them in your code and some custom decorator to check them at run/dev time
Unfortunately we have an issue where we don't learn until the effects become unbearable. The sad part is that the effects that we're inducing on the environment are largely undoable. When we finally learn our lesson and decide that money and power shouldn't be able to override not just local health, but global health, it'll be too late and we'll just need to learn to live with the shitty world we've left for ourselves.
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Sorry - I didn't mean to sound so negative! I'm very well aware of all the large Julia use cases and they're often great applications of the language.

I would also argue that the large open source Julia packages are also great examples of Julia "in prod".

Just highlighting what I think is a significant con in a language with many pros!
Why metaprogram? Just define an operator using the built in kron function. Example:

const ⊗ = kron

A = rand(5,5)

B = rand(3,3)

A ⊗ B

Tada! I'm not sure how MATLAB/Octave's kron(A,B) looks more like math than A⊗B, but everyone can have their own opinion.
Perhaps you’ve heard the phrase, “facts don’t care about your feelings.”
Instead of the weirdly alarmist nature of the article, it would be a more fair point to make that colons are now very overloaded in python syntax.
Having to go back 15 years for an example is usually a good predictor of the strength (or better: weakness) of an argument.

The numbering has been very logical for more than a decade: you have a product generation, and increasing numbers mean increased performance.

What is so nonsensical about that?
Certainly it seems like total eradication is the best option. The article just posits that one-off killings have a negative effect.

Knowing that the partial killing of a rat "family" potentially increases the diversity and potency of bacteria seems like very useful information in a world where we can't easily kill all rats.
Surprises me. Julia can usually stay much closer to mathematical notation than, say, Python or C++.

You can even use nice Unicode notation such as A ⊗ B ⊗ C.

So, `kron` is actually provided by the standard library [1], are you saying that this kronecker product didn't do the job?

[1] search in this file: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/stdlib/Linear...
From the very article you linked to:

"Because it doesn’t contain its own minerals, distilled water has a tendency to pull them from whatever it touches to maintain a balance.

So when you drink distilled water, _it may pull small amounts of minerals from your body, including from your teeth._"

How does this contradict lr4444lr's claim "drinking distilled water in significant quantities remove important minerals from your body"?

Are you arguing it is a matter of degree, that while distilled water does remove minerals from your body, the "myth" is that it is significant?

> Food has plenty of minerals etc compared to what you get via tap water.

How many minerals do you receive from food and how do you know this is sufficient?

There is research showing a (weak) correlation between hard water (high in mineral content, as opposed to the low/zero mineral content of distilled water) and cardiovascular health, eczema, and dermatitis:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896978... Studies of water quality and cardiovascular disease in the United Kingdom

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393510... Ecological association of water hardness with prevalence of childhood atopic dermatitis in a Japanese urban area

https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(16)30187-7/ful... Association between domestic water hardness, chlorine, and atopic dermatitis risk in early life: A population-based cross-sectional study
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The problem is that people often create languages that are basically the same as existing languages; no new concepts. New languages are usually a grab-bag of features found in C, Java, Lisp and/or Haskell.
As a sibling to this post said, it reminds me of Advanced Wars (Sturm!), and also a little of Tactics Ogre.

I love the art style quite a lot.
Embracing the anti-vax movement because the standard healthcare system has failed this individual isn't something I considered before, but it makes a lot of sense. Our healthcare system is expensive, difficult to navigate, and the quality of care is wildly inconsistent.

I'm by no means an anti-vaxer, but there have to be millions of Americans that are fed up with the state of healthcare and looking for an alternative.
Yes it's amazing that "Intellectual Ventures" and "Myhrvold" don't appear at all in that speech.
>Is this objectionable enough for you?

No. Most of it is objectionable to me, but none is objectionable enough to ban discussions around it.
Yea it should, but don't think its that big of a deal for a tutorial post like this
I so wish states were massive scale testing device machines/manufacturer.

ps: a lot of systemic issues are due to lack of information and trust. To exemplify, there was a story about people electricity consumption. Those with a counter in the basement used a lot more than those with the counter near the front door.
> the entire world is one dense urban core

Suburbs as a place where you can only survive with a car are mostly an American phenomenon. Most other countries mix low density commercial and residential areas a lot more, making a car-less lifestyle much easier.
The debt doesn't matter.

What matters is being the world's reserve currency. I don't know a metric for that. Loose it and then debt matters a lot.
If anything "CS people" are less afraid than they should be, given the demonstrated popularity of horrible retrograde languages designed by people who didn't know what they were doing.