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>I'm not so worried about the free speech aspects of that...there's always somewhere to spew whatever opinion you have.

You know, this is a really interesting observation. Oftentimes in these debates about moderation, people argue that you can't do it because these platforms are already de-facto public platforms. Meanwhile, in this thread's conversation, the main argument seems to be that pushing people off mainstream platforms won't work because they'll enjoy the exact same opportunities at another platform.

That doesn't imply a contradiction from any particular person, as long as they only embrace one argument or the other. But both have been used in defense of Not Moderating Trolls, and both can't be right.
I've always found this odd though - surely for pitot tubes a sensor could be installed which flags whether the cover is on? Sure, you open yourself up to a sensor failure scrubbing a mission but leaving the covers on is somewhat more disastrous.
So you mean if I work really hard and double my income, I can have the big house in the burbs, cash flow my son’s way through college, and in a few years and just work part of the year as a consultant/contractor?

Oh wait. I’ll already be able to do that as a bog standard enterprise developer/architect in a mid cost of living area as part of a dual income household. So why do I want the headache?
> But sustaining the high temperatures and other unstable conditions necessary is both extremely difficult and prohibitively expensive—the total cost of ITER is estimated at 20 billion euros ($22.5 billion)

Sadly, this maybe 3-5% of the annual US defense budget? Shows where our priorities are that it's considered "prohibitively expensive".
The word "toxic" has no meaning anymore, because it's all relative to the person using it.

For example, in the game Overwatch, "toxic" got mostly used as "this person does not play with the characters currently recognized as the most optimal". Just playing the game differently than the pros/current metagame was literally considered toxic by a non-negligible amount of people.

When someone says "ban this person for being toxic", one has no idea what they actually mean. To some people, even respectful trash talk is "toxic". By catering to people calling things "toxic", one encourages witch hunts by people.

Your own post is an example of toxic <posts,comments,behavior> not having a standard accepted definition: "For me toxic comments are comments that ...".
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Why are your only comments on this site rebutting negative stories about Facebook?

As a follow-up question, what are your thoughts on this longitudinal study from 2017[1], which found that "the use of Facebook was negatively associated with well-being", such that any form of engagement with Facebook was negatively correlated with a wide range of self-reported mental, emotional, and physical health indicators? Does the Facebook PR page you linked contradict that somehow?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28093386
I wonder how Ayn Rand would feel about this article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMNUdDC4tEc
100M C to F => 100M*(9/5)+35 = 180,000,000 + 35 = 180,000,035.

...whoa
> Whenever you see a new play that purports to indict the spiritual emptiness of the bourgeoisie—and most latter-day British and American dramas do just that—you are seeing his influence at work. From Shaw to Arthur Miller to Tony Kushner, he is the great forerunner, the prophet of modern drama. Yet fewer directors and actors are showing any interest in his own plays

This is the peril of artistic innovation. Sonic Youth inspired most nineties bands, but they now sound like generic nineties grunge, only becoming amazing when you realise the track was written ten years beforehand.

Same with JMW Turner. To me personally his landscapes seem incredibly bland, but now I realise he was one of the people who inspired so many others to look at the beauty of nature to the level it became an Ikea cliché.
Doesn't Kotlin already have a JS backend?
Similarly, in the 90s everyone thought Japan was going to eclipse the US economically, and (to my recollection) they weren't seen as geopolitical rivals to the US.

Maybe it has something to do with population size, but IMO it is more to do with their economic structure and system of government. Japan is a democracy, and they believe in markets. Since War 2 they also seem a little less pushy with their neighbours...
Because the countries with more leave have higher fertility rates among their native populations and there's evidence of a dose-response relationship?
i find CC chargebacks (for us, they're via Stripe) more likely to win than PayPal tbh. and often w/ CC chargeback an accountant simply wasn't aware, mistakenly filed. PayPal, otoh, is often used by people with bad intentions on Day 0.
Because the cost to create a unit makes them high end from the start. You have to add fire suppression systems, elevators, seismic reinforced construction and pay for the land. NPR had a segment on it, listing the costs to build a modern day high rise unit and it there is no way to build it for low-income housing and make a profit. Even if given the land, at most it is break-even.

Low income would have to rely on housing that wasn't new. Kinda like cars, it wouldn't make sense to have car manufacturers to try to create a sub $10k car when you require air bags, backup cameras, tire pressure monitors etc.
> ...than to be part of an isolated fringe community that the mainstream is unlikely to ever see...

Like being a computer hacker was (and still to some extent is)? Sorry, no. People like to gather into in-groups and exclusivity makes it more attractive.

Sweeping dirt under the rug doesn't destroy the dirt; you just wind up with a bigger and bigger lump of dirt under the rug.
And we have weaves (2 roads merging and then splitting) that are much too short, and on ramps that have stop signs as you enter the highway. Sometimes the right becomes an exit only as well. Our roads are a mess, but I love them. Driving almost anywhere else feels easy.
For some people, because of their jobs or their need for social validation, this is just not an option. You cannot impose this decision on personal willpower or morality because it's more complicated than that.
If your conjectures were true elephants would be dying of cancer all the time. In fact elephants are much more cancer resistant than humans due to differing biology. The whole "more tissue, more disease" part of this is bunkum.
Think of any wireless device that a human directly or indirectly interacts with that is connected to the internet. Almost all of those will be eventually replaced with faster alternatives. Boom, 5G everywhere in 10 years.
you mean 32?
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You have been brainwashed by the HN echo chamber. I feel sorry for everyone hating on Facebook just because that's the opinion in fashion right now.
OK, "pitot tube inlet free of mud daubers" (which incidentally gets looked at when you manually remove the cover).

Part of the walkaround/pre-flight process is me getting my head into the aviation game (and out of the "stressful workday" or "other life BS"). It's a few minutes of partial meditation as I walk around the aircraft, pushing, prodding, and inspecting.

(In my aircraft's case, the empty weight is around 2700 lbs and examples can be purchased for under $100K. There's a substantial premium on weight and [to a lesser extent] space for redundant or automated systems to give me a checklist that says "ensure green 'OK' light is lit".)
> In Russian, the verb that means discover or recognize also contains the verb to know.

The English very nearly does as well. The "gn" in "recognize" has the same etymological root [1] as the "kn" in "know"---and as the "зн" in "сознать" (recognize) and "знать" (know). It's not quite as obvious as in the Russian, but "acknowledge" means nearly the same thing as "recognize" and includes "know" as a substring.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...
There are huge deductions for your primary residence

This tax thing is an issue for people with multiple homes. Considering the set of people that concerns I wouldn’t cry too much over it
If you found that depressing, steer clear of Scott's Who By Very Slow Decay [1].

It's an extraordinarily powerful piece though, and an interesting stylistic counterpoint to Moloch's oneiric ramblings.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay...
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Good catch :-) right, but still merging/compaction work has to be done. Maybe too much, if you just need to fetch a value by its key and thus just an equality scan is needed (no range scans or other comparisons). For the latter case I've implemented an AVL-tree, which is also versioned and stored in our record pages and best read fully in-memory (but doesn't have to). For sure there are plenty of optimizations and for instance also spatio-temporal indexes or full-text indexes possible, but I guess first looking into cost-based rewrite rules for the query compiler and replication/partitioning for horizontal scaling. Too many ideas I guess ;-) but the best would be to have a great open source community :-)
many people just don't want to do anything besides coding. it's the reason there will always be workers and business owners.

I built a business 5 years ago while I was working. The tech for it took me a weekend to complete and I had over a million in annual revenue within 2 years.

Coding became 20% of my job, but I loved the new skills I gained and challenges outside of coding.
Make a lot of money doing boring management work for a large company. Save as much of it as you can and retire early. Then code as much as you want - thats my plan at least :-)
I would leave them alone entirely, as you can see from my comment they are actually sometimes attempts to compromise your browser.
> First most obvious, how come do pilots trust a system that has these layers of manual security checks with their lives. And second, can't it all be automated?

The trust comes from understanding the system and associated risk that contribute to conditions where the system is out of normal operating range. Pilots learn that doing simple checks on parts of the system that are likliest to contribute to abnormal operations is life saving in the long run. E.g. may seem simple that control locks werent taken off but it happens and it's why we check the controls prior to take off. It's why we put the engines to fill throttle to make sure oil pressure is as expected.

Anytime there is an accident many pilots will read the reports and add an additional check or reemphasize a current check that they need to continue to use.

As far as automation. It could fix it. But it increases system complexity so there will be this valley where for a while the automated system isn't much better than normal checks, infact might be worse due to over reliance. Also logic in software or hardware can lie to you in ways that mechanical realities of moving control surfaces, checking oil level, checking tire pressure can't be beat (at least with a cheap solution). This is why the FAA for critical components requires multiple systems doing the same thing and concensus algorithms.

Recently I bought a lemon for a motorcycle. The ECU started giving me error codes twenty five minutes into my first ride. Engine started cutting out. I couldn't start it. On the other hand in a Cessna I could lose all electrical power (assuming magnetos are still operating) and still operate the plane just fine, although without radio comms. The Cessna is from 1972, while the motorcycle from 2017. Granted I could've checked wires or inspected more carefully but non the less, the 2017 motorcycle is a more complex system.
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My reasoning is that it's not really different from the past. Heavy corporate control of communications media isn't new, it predates the internet. Yet people still find ways to get their rants seen and heard, then..and now.

I concede that companies can make it harder. Hard to really stamp it out though.
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Yes on the UB, I'm passing a "char" into a "char *", sorry about that. I don't pass lone char data that often.

Well, I chose this example specifically to ask whether the resulting memory structure, completely independent of calling a sizeof(), would still be as if I were to call a sizeof() (which then I believe would be 4 bytes large) if not accessing the total size of the struct or any of the padding members.

It makes a difference in the memory footprint, which can become important, if you're programming a device with just 64-bytes total RAM.
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pedant. because it is a unit.

but one thing I think is interesting is you can further categorize primes.

FTA is unique factorization. but those factors can be re-arranged (most FTA text says ignoring order).

considering order is interesting. then you can class primes by how many ways they can be rearranged.

in that case, including 1 in the factorization once is interesting, since it differentiates between squares

n x n

and cubes

n x n x n

which can not be rearranged anyway unless you include 1 (not as a 'prime' but as the unit in the factorization)

1 x n x n, n x 1 x n, n x n x 1

3 ways.

And cubes, 4 ways.

From that point of view, primes are simply the numbers that can only be rearranged 2 ways.

1 x p, and p x 1

This is a very interesting avenue.
Have they fixed the problem that inkjet printers dry up if you print infrequently yet? Some months I only use my laser once. Can a modern inkjet survive that?
For your target market, it sounds to me like you'd be much happier dealing with more mid-range stuff like Fords and Volvos rather than going to premium grade stuff. Parts are cheaper, usually less going wrong, and the customers are of course a whole lot nicer (disclaimer: I'm a Ford owner).

If you want to get into performance, I'd go gentle: Ford have sports lines of their usual mix (ST/RS in Europe), as do many other makes.

Also a small hatchback with a big engine is a lot more fun per dollar than a Merc...
A friend tried getting off Facebook back in 2011. It was basically impossible, it took a lot of deliberate effort and even then it merely interrupted your account activity.
I have been implementing reactive stores using streams. I followed the Meiosis pattern[1] and have found it to be dead simple. My current project has a React UI and a WebGL canvas that both refer to and modify the store. Flyd is a tiny stream library that Meiosis uses in its examples.

1. http://meiosis.js.org/
Why? I'm extremely happy and full of energy. My life was miserable before Facebook.
> Marginalizing it certainly makes it less appealing because it's clear it's not widely socially acceptable.

So, how did the 18th Amendment in the United States, i.e. Prohibition, work out? Surely, the broad public support and commitment to marginalizing alcohol, enough to get a constitutional amendment passed (no small feat), has been successful in making the US a booze-free country today? No?

Marginalization only works if it's something people aren't deeply committed to and tribalism, the root of many of these toxic behaviors, is far too deeply ingrained in human nature for marginalization to work.
It is odd finding out about tragedy, especially long after.

I was recounting funny stories of high school to friends at work, and jokingly said that the center figure of the story was probably dead by now due to his antics. Did a quick search, and was surprised to find he had indeed died, but it was due to some waisting disease after having started a family.

I've heard of probably a dozen or so folks I grew up and/or went through school with that have died. Waisting disease, brain tumor, a heart condition, cancer, car accidents, suicides, and murder. A few others apparently in prison, one for killing someone after a bar fight. Most of these I heard of just a few years outside of graduation, and some others I've heard through the grapevine these twenty years later.
I'm really tired of seeing this posted whenever someone talks about their success. It breeds a loser mentality where people just assume they won't be successful, so they won't even try.
How can you be proud of where you are from? You had no choice in being born there, and as you said it’s a state without a lot of opportunity, and in any case, you didn’t personally contribute to anything to make the place better. So why be proud of that?

I’m from Florida but it’s not something I’m proud or not proud of. I’m proud of my kids. I’m proud of my work. I’m proud of my multi decade relationship with my wife. Those are things to be proud of.

When a class I belong to does something great, I feel I can only be proud to be a member of that class to the extent that I contributed to the great thing and that we worked together to achieve something greater than ourselves. Even then I’m proud that “we did that thing” not that “I’m a member of that group.”

Just a thought. I know many people are proud of where they are from but it’s irrational to me.
they need more immigration
Housing is not affordable in many areas of the United States, after you adjust for local wages.
FWIW, that’s a very politically loaded term. I would recommend avoiding it unless you intend to bait people into an unrelated conversation.

I also think it’s not a very accurate analogy.
How is this related to the article, which talks about first-year students?
They're probably taking the whole fuel lifecycle into account.

https://www.nirs.org/wp-content/uploads/climate/background/s...
So belief in free speech would appear, by that definition, to have been proven wrong.
I find it hard to think task specific neural networks will beat a lot of the current task specific hardware. Unlesqs you broaden the definition to a useless degree.

I say this without diminishing what neural networks can and are doing. And I fully ack that I am not an authority in this. It would just surprise me.
Much easier said than done. For this to happen you’d have to convince multiple companies, hopefully across several industries, to risk opening offices and shops in such towns on nothing but faith that they’ll fill up in a somewhat timely manner, and then you have to convince a bunch of folks to move to these towns. Neither is particularly simple or straightforward.

And of course, there also a large portion of people who have no desire to live in towns or suburbs, and these plans wouldn’t appeal to them at all. I’m personally in this camp — I’ve had enough small town for a lifetime already.
Archaeologists are constantly aware of what they don't know and cannot know, and make these things very clear when they publish. Seems like you are taking pseudoarchaeologists at the word when they make accusations about legitimate archaeologists without any basis for such nasty claims. 'Ritual purposes' is indeed a trope, a trope that was recognized in the 1980s and that is now shied away from because it was applied uncritically. If ritual purposes is cited as an object's raison d'etre, then it is almost always described tentatively as such, like "probably for ritual purposes", or "under the circumstances of our limited data thus far, we describe it as such", because you are correct, there is very little way of knowing what actually happened.

And that's true of all archaeology, really. Archaeologists create the best narratives we can based on the limited evidence we've got. There is no single and knowable truth about the past, only our best attempts at understanding it. Archaeologists have accepted this for decades, you just seem out of the loop.
All positive integers can be written as a product of primes, where a product is a sequence of numbers that are multiplied together. In the case of a composite number like 45, the primes are (3,3,5).

When the sequence has one element, then that element is the product. So, 2 is the product of (2).

When the sequence is empty, the product is 1.
The number 1 is a prank by Loki.
The long, slow death of commercial Unix
It's a good example just a poor rendition of the definition of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic. The proper definition includes "either prime or the product of primes". Many mathematical texts shorten this to "the product of one or more primes" which doesn't make much sense to me but if you take it as acceptable to use "product" with a single number then some shorten it even further to "the product of primes" (primes now representing "prime numbers" not "multiple primes") resulting in what you see in many places/this article.
Surely “product of primes” means “product of one or more primes”.
The study you linked does nothing to imply a causal relationship.

Do you think it’s a good strategy to try to undermine somebody’s position by “just asking questions” about why they hold an unpopular opinion on HN? Why not address their position directly rather than just sic a downvote mob on them?

Disclaimer because you’ll undoubtably go through my comment history: I used to work at Facebook.
Everyone does it is not an argument. China is a failed global citizen polluting, repressing, and stealing it's way to regional and global power. You will not enjoy living under CCP hegemonic power...
It sounds nice until people are forced out of their homes because suddenly the area becomes hip.
Have there been any studies examining the impact on the market of banning career landlords and REITs? What happens if you restrict residential housing to being owned by a single person who cannot own anything else in that area, rather than letting capital have the run of the place and treating homes as an investment plaything?
You say that now but if they had a credible army you'd have the same feeling. Right now Germany is toothless, still in the shadow of US occupation as losers of WW2. They have no independent foreign policy; they're choosing to stay out of it and focus on domestic issues. It is a similar story with Japan. But Japan is actually recently starting to be more active, building their army, with the goal of countering China.
If fusion were figured out, it would put a lot of oil and gas, maybe even renewable energy companies out of business.
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Fair enough, the implication doesn't go both ways. My point was that all things considered "toxic" are just things that are not being agreed with. Of course, things can also not be agreed with without being considered "toxic".
Will you be happy with Darth Vader as your ruler if he'd bring you occasional cake?

I'm not saying that Facebook is Darth Vader. I am saying you're logic is flawed. What you wrote is not a serious discussion.
I am hopeful that Microsoft would not do such a thing. They seem to be doing rather well at the whole "we're not an evil megacorp, trust us please" thing with there recent contributions to open source etc. I hope they wouldn't want to throw that away.