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Sexual selection is literally a textbook example of natural selection.

"Change of the organism between generations" is called "genetic drift" if it's undirected and "selection" if it's directed. The concept of "evolution without natural selection" doesn't really exist.

Selection is how you get organisms that appear to be designed for a purpose. Sexual attractiveness is a purpose.
He’s telling a story describing our situation that is hard to directly talk about. David Foster Wallace once said in an interview [1]:

> Let me insert one thing, which I'll bet you've noticed from talking to writers—is that most of the stuff that we think we're writing about in books is very difficult to talk about straight out. You know, question and answer. In some sense, it probably can't be talked about directly, and that's why people make up stories about it.

[1]:https://youtu.be/iGLzWdT7vGc?t=1002
twitter means the president can talk directly to the american people in a very accessible way
Link is in submitter's profile https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dshanahan
I thought the lights were just ridiculous.
nailed it. this is the most backwards thing ever.
I assume by "propaganda" what you mean is "deplatforming".

Much easier to keep people who emit thoughtcrime off of your platform if they have to keep getting new mobile numbers each time they are banned.
That still allows geolocation. But one can lease hosted SIMs. Actual SIMs in server farms. So they're "real" mobile numbers. Just not located where you are.
Dan doesn't say this, and I don't want to put words in his mouth, but the point I take away from this isn't that people are lazy and don't want to dive deep on a new idea, but instead that people are not obligated to discuss and give you exactly the type of feedback you want.

Even if your idea makes it to the top of HN, people are completely free to discuss ancillary topics or give feedback on areas you aren't interested in (like the coding style or design of the blog post).

And Dan proposes a solution. The solution isn't to decry the low quality of online discourse, or call people lazy, or use moderators to force people onto specific topics. The solution is to tell a story that people are interested in.
Here "bonded to other matter" means "electrostatically attracted together".
There are definitely portions that can be delegated. I was doing interviews in the first month of my first job out of college. The trick is to do pairs: one person who's new to it, and one person who's had plenty of practice.
nobody earns a billion dollars ...
People think open offices are some sort of hidden conspiracy that's been set up to make their lives hell. There's no conspiracy; open office floorpans require less floor space per employee and are thus cheaper. Think about all the additional space required to have walls, a hallway connecting offices, etc.

Firms are not stupid. I am not doubting that there is a productivity hit due to distracting noise and motion, but it's probably not outweighed by the reduction in real estate cost.
Outside of bonus periods, Amex doesn't pay more than 1% in the UK as far as I know...
I'm just glad to see someone implements a real time bidding market without dropping the word blockchain. I really like the idea of it.
> Evolution doesn't try to head towards any global optima

If one even exists. I don't think you could actually say a global optima exists in a lot of cases. Since there are a lot of compounding factors and the functions aren't required to be continuous.
Is it? Justwatch doesn't find it. That's odd.
I would add the one thing we are missing is the BBC, iPlayer, etc. Hey BBC I would PAY for access (already do with a proxy).
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This looks promising: https://github.com/hollance/Matrix
d.) something else - I didn't read the article because I've wasted enough time in my life figuring out why I procrastinate and it doesn't bother me any more. But I still read most of the comments because I enjoy learning about the range of human experience around procrastination, because I do acknowledge it's something I cared about in the past.

edit) also lurking in comments is my preferred method of wasting time. Though I'm not wasting time to procrastinate at the moment. I'm just waiting for a scheduled event to start which I prepared for already. I think that's different.
While I am inclined to agree with them and I'm amused that they didn't cite Elon's family's emerald mine[1], I think the article and headline overstate the case - there certainly are examples that are closer to the self-made end of the spectrum, even if they are more rare, such as Sheldon Adelson or (arguably) Steve Jobs.

[1]https://www.businessinsider.co.za/how-elon-musks-family-came...
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Why Are Creators Paying for TikTok’s Mistake?
If the soil is rich enough and the growing season is long enough, then possibly, in that space, you could schedule growing enough salad vegetables and various root vegetables that a family would usually eat in a year. This is assuming that a fraction of their total calories would come from this source and most would continue coming from purchased grain products and meats.
Great. But please don't forget to support ways to define where a line of text should never be broken (i.e. nbsp) and where it always should. Many markdown implementations don't support the standard double-space notation so you have to use the html br tag instead.
Most times you are correct. In this scenario, however, it seems like he started as an individual contributor and transitioned to management. When that happens, in my experience, companies want to continue to leverage the system knowledge from the individual in some form of producing technical assets.
this is to jail users not jail suppliers
I'd rather miss out on all of them and have affordable healthcare for all.
Yes, but this comes with a caveat: keep an eye on your credit card spend and make sure that you never consistently spend more than 2/3 of your credit line, otherwise your credit score will be negatively impacted. In the US market they push you to use credit cards as much as possible, so for instance if you have a credit line of 5000$ you would expect to be able to spend up to that amount with no problem (as long as you pay it back) but I then found out about the 2/3 magic spend threshold oO
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Ah, see McKayDavis for the explanation.
Glioblastomas are what the name implies- tumors of glial cells. Neurons aren't involved in proliferation.
So did Newton and Tesla, but the title says incest.
Calvin and Hobbes Is Great Literature
This is physics, so it is best to assume an infinite cupcake.
> Cashback is generally lower here because interchange fees are regulated/capped to 0.3% for personal credit cards and 0.2% for personal debit cards. Offers of 2% cashback simply won't work outside the US so I'll be curious to see how (if?) they try and expand this globally.

This is also the reason that the bigger banks in Australia dragged their feet on ApplePay, there's little to no margin on those fees that Apple taking more made it untenable for them to support it here, until they did.
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Weeeell. Gonzo journalism was introduced by a guy who claims to have taken epinephrine produced by someone's adrenal glands, just to get high. Sitting on a cafe with your laptop and admiring the morning dew is not quite on the same league of having an interesting experience to write about.
The case in point is the sciatic nerve is massive, and prone to constant stresses and strains, yet supposedly never regenerates.

Sciatica doesn't generally show up until people are in their 40s-50s. This is long after childbearing years for most people. At that point your sciatic nerve has done its job and gotten you across the finish line. What happens next is less important.
You are correct that many do not appreciate how good US citizens have it. From an self-interest perspective, all of those things are wonderful, like magical candy, who wouldn't want them.

From a cultural diversity perspective, the spread of american monoculture can become depressing.

From the perspective of trying to reduce climate impact to manageable levels, the amount of services you list which make it extremely easy to forget the majority of externalities in daily decision-making cost can be daunting.

From a political perspective, the success of US narrative-based, media-driven discourse represents a large impediment to actual democracy.

From an economic perspective, it can be depressing to know that these services you list exist in a bubble built on top of terrible social support, an exhausting over-work culture, wealth inequality, disgusting homeless and prison rates, a perpetual war machine, and a debt-based currency.

pizza and beer are way too expensive in Canada though, we agree there.
PayPal charges the same 2.9% + $0.30 as Stripe, and 2.7% flat for swiped in-person transactions. They support more countries than any other online payment service. Why would anyone want PayPal to not exist? As for why nobody "dethrones" PayPal, it's because being licensed and regulated in over 200 separate territories, having to become a chartered and fully regulated -bank- in some of them to process payments, is beyond daunting. It requires big backers, big money, a HUGE regulatory compliance staff, and work and processes that take many years to establish.
I have an XPS13, I've changed a kernel command line parameter to change from a soft sleep to a hard sleep and battery life has greatly improved.
The first comment in this reddit thread helped me out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/8b6eci/xp_13_9370_bat...
I tried to find a hosted sim provider - zero results. Can you provide a link?
I call BS
Good, it's a terrible service so I support any terrible practices they choose to support in speeding towards their demise. It's always been just a platform for the self entitled (verified profiles) to spread their gospel to the masses.
One of the root causes is supply. The book Dreamland is a pretty thorough explainer.
> I paid for it, but still had to jump through hoops to watch it. What I time to be alive.

When I travel in the EU, several sites refuse to show because of GDPR. My favorite paid porn site doesn't even explain anything just goes to an "under maintenance" page. I can't buy a cinema ticket for the time when I'll be home because the purchase page simply doesn't load. All of this goes away by SSH'ing to my home and using the OpenSSH SOCKS proxy. Or by using a VPN.
A little bit of Javascript HTML and CSS , PHP nothing to advanced though
Or, you know… propaganda.
I'm assuming it's to try de-anonymize users and make bots less cost effective.

Nothing propagates faster than hate on Twitter and seeing as it's being actively weaponized to spread propaganda, I'm all for new measures that try slow the spread down - esp. given nothing else has worked thus far.
You'd have to agree that the people affected most by this change will be bot networks (Russian IRA, etc).

I doubt their goal is to keep "right wingers" they ban off there platform.
It's understandable they might require a phone number to keep down spam.

It's less understandable they'd lie to new users on the reasons their account was blocked. We can't expect even the smallest scraps of honesty from corporations anymore.
They're still spending millions lobbying on the wrong side of the argument, so getting greener from a starting point trillions overdrawn. I tend to see any green tinged events as greenwashing.

Still, hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised a few times.
This looks awesome, essentially like pandoc for diagrams. Looking forward to checking it out!
This is epic. Great to see that someone who's been such a good support to the gaming community with his excellent learning resources is also being successful in his business.

It's also interesting to see these "private internet" endeavours have popped up to solve centralization issues on the internet. Streaming sites like Youtube and Netflix have solved it in similar way, striking deals with ISPs, as have the big CDN's, simply putting their machines at the ISP's datacenters.

Network.Next is solving this for the gaming domain, but there is a more general preferential routing on the internet problem this idea could be expanded to.
When I worked in banking we would do this with suspect transactions. The feature was called “Strategic Delay”. After awhile, all of our project plans (this was back in the days of Gantt charts) would include two weeks of effort on “Strategic Delay”, even if that feature wasn’t involved.
The article talks about the current private insurance companies moving to a role of supplemental insurance. As an important note on this, that's how it works in both Canada and the UK, but in very different ways:

In Canada, private insurance is not allowed to cover anything that is covered by the public insurance. So, no jumping the queue by paying out of pocket or through private insurance. Hopping over to the USA and paying out of pocket is an option for the well off though.

In the UK, there is no such limit, and there is no cap on doctor earnings from private practice, but there are minimums on how much work must be performed for NHS, the public health system. Again, the well off have a way to jump the queue and receive faster/higher quality care.

How these types of factors would play into a US private insurance and private doctor practice of course is unclear, and would be key sticking points in any Medicare for All plan. One thing for sure is that the insurance companies are unlikely to go willingly. Kicking and screaming is more like it, at least if they aren't just nationalized with massive golden parachutes for all of the top brass.
I wouldn't be surprised if the same happened in other countries. A lot more people use smartphones and tablets than desktop computers these days.
You seem to ignore that this constrains abusers as much as it does legitimate users. Collective punishment in order to mitigate abuse by a few is the wrong way to go.
meditation to slow down turmoil, and be able to reflect on your thoughts

sports to revive mental strength and thoroughness

life rhythm for efficiency

on a higher level: desire to deflect procrastination as a metalevel trick to find pleasure in doing something depth first
> It's more that I want the default behavior to be good enough where accessing the options aren't necessary

Pretty sure that's what the libinput developers want, too.
This is very accurate as of my recent experience on doing a Show HN here[1][2]. I did get very good feedback but many of the comments were just stupid. Still, posting here did help the project as the broader audience doesn't care about a random's HN opinion.

1. https://zeroserver.io/
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19254828
It's not a conspiracy - removing privacy looks nice on the surface, until you realize that every conversation you have at work is now in public corp space. Any jokes you might have told, any friendship type things are now scrutinized at the highest levels by managers who are only "cells" away - in the same big room.

Open offices feel like a real dick move by any company that uses it to corral employees as close together as possible.

Maybe if they have reasonable break rooms it's not so bad, but how many companies give you more than the bare minimum space you need to work?
It says that when the sage points to the moon, the fool looks at the finger. Or, at least, this is how the author feels.
I like it.

I've grown suspicious with many accounts on Twitter. Maybe I can learn to trust more.
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Real physical layers are quite vulnerable to this type of disruption and we actually mitigate this by paying rather high costs at the bit encoding level:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8b/10b_encoding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64b/66b_encoding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambler
Oil companies aren't evil, they just care about nothing but the bottom line. Once that is served by moving to green energy, they'll simply shift over at whatever speed makes the most business sense.

Unless it's a tiny PR stunt, R&D project or mandated by regulation, you should instead take it as a sign that for the first time green energy in a free market is competitive at scale in certain situations, even without accounting for externalities. That's fantastic news.
This reads like a traffic targeting system ala FB's cartographer (c10r) bolted onto an ad exchange (continuous bidding etc.)

Interesting to see if they can keep the 10-second update intervals while scaling to more users.

Curious to see if the market actually wants to pay for marginal improvements in gaming latency. I would have expected something like this targeting VoIP to be more lucrative.
That's not Swift matrices. Swift hasn't defined a language-level numeric matrix type. That's a C library type imported into Swift.

You can alternatively import Python and use NumPy directly, as well as any other C library, or you can define numeric operations in Swift. (On the other hand, if you are using fixed-size 3x3 or 4x4 matrices, the simd_floatNxN types deliver vastly better performance than NumPy can. So it depends on what your goals are.)
I would love for my project to get on the home page and be filled up with irrelevant comments. Normally anything I try to share is completely ignored.
I would assume that Apple Card isn’t coming to Europe because Europe doesn’t permit credit cards to charge merchants the insane fees that fund rewards cards in the US.

(I bet that if regulations changes and merchants started passing on fees in a transparent manner to customers, then rewards cards would go away in the US. How exciting would 2% back be if you also paid an extra 2% directly to each merchant for the privilege of using the cash back card?)
Thanks for the link, it's a nice discovery. fourmilab.ch is a real website for hackers, lots of interesting things. Also, I didn't know its author, John Walker, creator of AutoDesk AutoCAD was living in Switzerland and still so interested in topics such as astronomy, C64, science fiction, Kerbal Space Program and more nerdy things.
Does this company make profit per employee anywhere near FANGs?

What needs most managing is money - not talent.
Weird, I actually thought of your Show HN post while reading this. I think this was because the response on HN seemed very negative, but then I saw the project was trending on Github for days after the HN post.
Some advice about pitching TV scripts and designing Magic: the Gathering cards by Mark Rosewater, who's done both, for a living:

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/r...
The hardware that was built for multiuser operation existed, for sure, but it lost out to up-jumped desktop CPUs that tried to paste it over the top of a single-user core design. But more importantly, the tricks employed to get around the physical limits of straightforward speed scaling worked by going around that pasted-on layer of security.
My take on that issue is it doesn't matter in any regard. It couldn't be any more meaningless.

A scenario: a show HN post gets ~60 upvotes reasonably quickly and gets to the front page. Inside the post you have ten or so comments, three of which are negative or quasi negative (sometimes merely skeptical, sometimes overtly harsh). Two people really liked it and said so, five comments are mostly off topic. The negative comments are at the top in the thread (posted by members with higher default ranking scores); the positive comments are short on content and are near the bottom of the thread (posted by weaker ranking members).

That setup doesn't seem like it would be great. In fact it's spectacular. The post is going to end up with 100+ upvotes over time and it's getting a wave of traffic to it. It's the huge number of readers that never comment, and or never even sign up for an account, that are by far the most valuable part of the equation. The typical negative/cynical/skeptical comments are mostly meaningless - so long as you actually have a good product. I can't emphasize that enough, I need a far stronger word than meaningless here. You have a chance, with that wave of traffic, to convert people that want to believe in what you're doing - that's where all of your focus must be, those are the people you must not fail.

If it worked any other way in actuality, no product launch on HN would ever succeed. They'd all be buried by skepticism. It's the unseen angelic adopters on HN that matter more than anything else. Focus on delighting them and everything else will flow from it.

My advice on negative comments (unless they're definitely well earned, in which case you better act on them): put them in your mouth and eat them. Negative HN comments are like eating plain rice cakes. In the scheme of life, they're about the least concerning - most benign - things you're going to run into in the list of negatives when trying to build something, launch a product, run a business, and so on. Every other real problem with business or a product/project is drastically harder to push down and digest. At a minimum let the negative HN comments be a gentle introduction to how hard doing something successfully actually is (gentle because, again, negative HN comments are the easiest thing to mentally deal with - among negatives - that you will ever run into).
It is understandable why they'd lie. If the error message was something like, "your request was blocked because you've included HTTP headers in the order [x-foo, x-bar], which is the header ordering in 99.9% of spam tweets", they would just change their agent's header order instead of no longer spending spam.

I am not sure people realize what a high percentage of users of "free" services are spam bots of some sort. Sit around in the average Twitch channel and you'll see a flood of spam from similarly-named accounts every so often. They get around the filters because Twitch tells you why you're filtered. "This room is in followers only mode", so they follow the stream they want to spam a few days/weeks in advance. "This word is not allowed by the spam filters", so they change one letter and continue spamming that word. Etc., etc.

It sucks for normal users caught up in spam filters, but it's an enormous problem that there is no easy solution to.
But damn, consider the potential lulz. If someone intentionally contaminated the postal system with fentanyl, an appreciable percentage of all packages might show up positive. I vaguely recall that this accidentally happened during the 2003 ricin attacks. One of the letters got ripped in machinery.
When the NYT is cheer-leading for the next foreign war, will they get kicked off Twitter to? I sincerely doubt it.

America's newspaper of record has a track record of being wrong during the onset of wars, parroting whatever Washington tells them is true, then eating crow much later and apologizing for. The most recent case was the aid truck fire in Venezuela, which it took them weeks to correct. You've also got WMDs in Iraq that never existed, and their parroting of the Nayirah testimony in 1990, only to admit two years later it was fraudulent.