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"One idea is truer than another if it allows us to explain and understand more of our experience.

The idea that the sun and stars move around the Earth explained only why they move across the sky, but the idea that the Earth orbits the sun while rotating on its axis is more true, because it explains also why we have seasons. Strictly speaking, however, we will never know whether the Earth really revolves around the sun; another, even truer, theory could conceivably come along.

In support of his view, James pointed out that in practice all scientific theories are approximations. Rarely, if ever, does one theory explain all the facts of experience. Instead, one theory often does well with one set of phenomena while the other theory does well with another set.

A scientific theory that explains more is truer than one that explains less, and the truer theory is preferred. Kuhn might add that even a paradigm that explains no more phenomena than a rival but explains those phenomena better is preferred—as for example Copernicus’ heliocentric model of the solar system was preferred to Ptolemy’s geocentric model, because Copernicus’ model was simpler and more elegant that the cumbersome epicycles of Ptolemy’s model, even though at the time the two models fitted astronomical data about equally well. If scientists prefer theories that explain more phenomena and paradigms that make more sense of our experience more plausibly, then the progress of science no longer seems so unreasonable. It is the result of selection, the exercise of scientists’ preference for theories and paradigms that make better sense of our experience."

Taken from the book "Understanding Behaviorism" by William M. Baum.
It can be a relatively well paid job too.

I can't speak for everyone or everywhere, but we definitely have documentries in the UK where women claim to do sex work because it afford them a specific lifestyle and they'd rather be there than a supermarket.

In fact, I've met such woman and the suger baby approach is fairly popular with students nowadays. They're not doing it for basic food and warth, they're doing it for chanel and gucci.

I'm not sure that moralising their ability to consent away from them is the right thing to do, but it's also probably true that cost of living rises and advertising budgets have contributed to this.
China never obeyed the rules, so the rest of the world has a choice: continue to play by the old rules at a disadvantage to a cheating China, accept the new rules China has been playing by, or isolate China until they start playing by the old rules.
Either C++ or typescript
I believe they are the two most featurefull programming languages to exists
I wonder who did this
I think you have cause and effect mixed up. The U.S. became a postwar economic superpower not because of the Marshall Plan, but because its chief competitors in Europe and the Pacific had utterly ruined one another’s economies after years of total war. Meanwhile, the United States’ manufacturing capacity had continued to expand.

The Marshall Plan certainly exposed Europeans to more American products, especially Hollywood and pop culture. However, the majority of Marshall Plan funds were given as grants, not loans - ultimately, even to Germany. American capital did not come to own and exploit Western Europe. On the contrary, one of the Marshall Plan’s main effects was to reduce intra-Europe trade barriers, setting the stage for the E.E.C. and later, the European Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
Good point, but I would guess sex work is not a menial job by a long shot. Being good at it probably requires more social skills than most jobs. If you meant lacking prestige, then yes, in some peoples eyes.
Well, no. There's definitely some kind of truth behind it. Wanting to spend most of your life in front of a computer , barely talking to anyone was considered something very weird until it became common in all kinds of jobs.

I remember when i started freelancing 10 years ago, people would say things like "oh, you don't look like a developer. i mean, we can talk to you normally". And that was based on their personal experience with their own IT department.

And i know teachers in coding schools that regularly have to make public announcement asking people to take showers every morning. I couldn't believe it when they told me that, but apparently they had to.
That's a strong division, but if you're nitpicking, that's not "the actual axis" between left and right either. There are a lot of pro-life Democrats and pro-choice Republicans (almost 30%) [1], although once again the media makes it look strictly partisan.

Perhaps the problem is that the media presents a distorted view of the world, crafted to serve their agenda and their advertisers.

1: https://news.gallup.com/poll/170249/split-abortion-pro-choic...
> Related to this, Apple just began production of iPhone 6s in India

So Apple is knowingly selling a device with a publicly known hardware vulnerability. Apple is very much aware of the vulnerability because them fixing it is what caused the vulnerability to become exploited.
Making sense of CSS media query units (in the year 2019)
This is exactly why it never will be attractive, though. Because emotional detachment and opacity is how you kill and survive on the battlefield.
True but American don't like being pushed around while the Chinese are used to it. Which means the Bully is usually tolerated for much shorter durations than Chinese Bullies are. Churchill's rise and fall is a good example.
Study finds kittens bond with their human caregivers like babies do
Can Apple be REALLY secure, and/or refuse to hand over information to the Government? Would not the Government go after them?
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I usually do

<script nomodule src="https://polyfill.io/v3/polyfill.js?flags=always&features=default,fetch"></script>

to load polyfills only for browsers that need it
The kernel style guide also says you shouldn't typedef structs.
Author here — very happy to see this resurfacing on HN! So, ask me anything!
Snopes[0] rates this as sort-of, but probably not the main reason

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/railroad-gauge-chariots/
Isn’t bitmain ramping down production already though?
nice presentation!
Is this the fallout of Article 13 we're starting to see?
>Sexual attraction is an innate, unchanging aspect of what it means to be man and woman. It isn't going to be removed from our genes anytime soon.

This is obviously false. Just as our preferences for food have changed over time and according to culture (yet we all must eat), attitudes towards what is and isn't considered attractive have also changed. While it may be true for any given individual one cannot change the attractions they feel (or maybe it isn't true, I don't know), you ruined whatever point you were making when you mentioned genes, as if genetics dictate that (1) women (as in, all women, after all, you said it's "unchanging" and "in our genes") prefer men who don't express their emotions (2) the primary consideration for men is looks.
Well it's not "Ethical disclosure" but it's not like how ILS works is a big mystery or that pilots blindingly follow ILS with no other backups or guidance systems.
Man fined $7k for using Russian supercomputer to mine Bitcoin
> After 16 years of obscenely expensive American intervention in Iraq, that country exports more to China than the U.S. and imports more from China and Turkey together than from all other trade partners combined [0]. Likewise, Afghanistan today imports almost nothing from the U.S. but relies heavily on exports from China and Iran

U.S military contractors got handsomely rich off both Afghanistan and Iraq and both nations are almost exclusively importing American military equipment. As for civilian items, the average income of an Afghan/Iraqi civilian is not enough to afford American products, but just because not every U.S economic sector benefited does not mean it wasn't worth it for the likes of Raytheon.

As for Iran being very close to Iraq now, that certainly wasn't the plan, is just that there are other players in the world making moves and reacting to U.S. ones and sometimes they come out on top, particularly if they happen to understand the local political dynamic better, because they're actually from the area.
This is the kind of quality material I expect to find on my dad’s Facebook feed.
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Maybe you would be surprised to learn that previous generations were also quite free with their love. They just expressed it differently and of course, having grown older, now understand that not everyone who says "I love you" is being emotionally transparent. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you were around for any previous generations. Perhaps you will understand when you get older and watch the next generation talk about how everything we (every previous generation) have done and are doing is a broken, shitty mess, and how they have it all figured out. This is how every generation plays out.
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Cute history, though of course Microsoft didn't write Internet Explorer, they bought it. From Spyglass, if I remember correctly?
Interesting, we've built our in-house solution that is also Go based, also writing to a postgres db besides forwarding events, but much simpler, without a UI and comes with backend sdks already.

What I found interesting is that you wrote 3k/events per second on a rather beefy 2xlarge machine. Our version is MUCH less demanding, I wonder if there isn't a lot of performance left on the table here.

I'll keep this in mind once we've grown out of our solution, though.
England actually had at least one more competing gauge: Brunel gauge. Brunel thought it was silly to keep using the same arbitrary gauge and that a broader gauge would be more comfortable. Eventually it was decided to use the Stephenson gauge instead, though, and this became "standard" gauge.

It's an interesting example of a compromise where having just one standard is preferable to trying to find the perfect standard.
Yeah, forgot the /s ;) I’m old enough to remember the 56k dialup negotiation dance (use it as ringtone now.)

I’ve read of paragraph long blogposts with 5MB photos resized down to thumbnails ️
Why do you think it's reasonable?
I frequent Reddit and in r/Tinder, sometimes screenshots are discussed where a prospective date asks for money via Venmo.
This story is literally older than the internet, and widely know to not really be true. I'm sure almost anyone on this website has read of version of this hosted on some basic HTML site at least a decade ago.
It heavily depends on the pesticide and how it's ingested. Some pesticides are fine in the human body and simply aren't metabolized well enough to cause any trouble, though others can be very aggressive on humans over long term exposure.

If you heat the pesticide up or even burn it, the resulting compounds can be unpredictable and range from even more harmless or actually toxic.
Can you please decompress your short comment into a fuller one? I am interested in your thesis, but I still do not understand.
Most deforestation in Europe was pre-industrial. Europe is actually doing a pretty great job of reforestation - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/12/04...
Hate to be that guy but I see it so often on HN that I think it’s worth correcting.

You’re wary of moving to a desert special economic zone if you are unsure or suspicious of it

You’re weary of it if you have moved to many such zones already and you are a bit sick of it
If you mean "due process" in the sense of criminal law - that's certainly not it, for at least two reasons:

1. It puts a very high bar for establishing guilt (at least in principle; in practice it might be a toss-up), commensurate with the punishment being state violence, which is supposed to be a rare and extreme measure not be taken lightly (again, in practice, the US loves to convinct and jail people).

2. A lot of deplorable behavior is legal; and some acceptable or even worthy behavior is illegal.
Maybe for you. Clearly not for foone, and not for me either. It's not that I have a fear of making something imperfect; it's that an unpublished blog post is an invitation to improve "just one more thing" before publishing... forever. Additionally, expectations are different on Twitter.

You can also delete a single tweet that feels like a much easier decision (because smaller impact) than deleting a blogpost.
We use user agent histogram as a security litmus test on our payment sites. If we see a spike of a smaller set of user agents without increased traffic (or a longer ‘tail’), we can almost be certain that something shady is going on. Not super useful as in, we can’t just block every legit looking user agent, but it notifies the analytics team that can then dig deeper.
Yes. This one. https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads...

Even though it's taken from Wikipedia, they could have used a different one or recreated it. I was so confused while trying to decycpher that image.
This is stoicism though. To process things instead of holding them inside, bottling them up, or putting them off such that they salt our enjoyment of life. However there's a social component of this feelings-sharing which is the subtext of the parent comment. Not all issues need to be shared, and in fact it's a kind of emotional vampirism to prioritize sharing emotional context without focusing on the explicit purpose of sharing to process and confront the issue.
The two drawbacks of module/nomodule that I don’t see being discussed often:

- babel compiles async/await down to regenerator when using modules: true (at least for now)
- the definition of “modern” browsers will change eventually and module/nomodule detection will not be relevant

Which is why I’d use ua sniffing: https://github.com/KidkArolis/jetpack/blob/master/docs/07-di...
Alternative hypothesis: Trump is bullying China to make himself appear strong to US voters. He has no objective other than that.
sadly the CCP don't play by any rules
As I understood the article, localization is based on signal strength, so cryptographically protecting the signal content is absolutely useless against an attacker who simply amplifies the signal without modifying it.
I have similar experience. I once worked with a pretty big site which used a load-balancer configured to route all traffic to the server based on average response-time.

The intention was that if a server was returning results "quickly" that meant it was least-loaded, and could handle the newest requests.

What it actually meant though was that the server disk filled up, and it started returning "500, Internal Server Error" errors. Very quickly.

At the point the alarms were raised almost all incoming traffic had been routed to this dead/dying host.
I misworded my comment, I meant that the Marshall Plan was the first obvious act in their own corporate self interest. You can't sell anything to people with no money.

How much do you think the Marshall plan accelerated the repair and growth of Europe?
Is this a condition she's always had, or acquired with time/age?
Maybe they should. Maybe they've got more urgent things to work on, like weaknesses that actually hold them back in life rather than producing fun-but-ultimately-unimportant information in your preferred format.

Maybe they're doing this for fun, and don't want to turn every aspect of their life into a self-improvement slog.
Insurances make money but a lot more money is made from the whole intransparent chaos by many player.
Well, the problem would solve itself. And that's not actually a joke. A book from a very popular author (no name because spoiler) creates a world where this is a reality. The movie changed the ending and thereby the whole book (I'm still pissed), but the book has this, and having a third of the world population be infertile for a generation might help us quite a bit. When the deed is already done by a mad scientist, the leading people in the book are wondering whether they should actually want to revert it. (You probably won't recognize the book until you're near or at the end, so I don't think this should spoil it for anyone.) I'm not sure if in the real world it would work as well as it did in the story, but hypothetically, it's interesting to talk about. Killing people, we won't support. But what about restricting kids? It creates a livable world for the kids that we do bring into the world. We'll still have a huge climate issue, but it'll greatly increase our chances of managing it. (This is one of the reasons I'm not getting kids.)
I've done a bunch of these, even went to a jungle for two weeks. After a deep examination of years of this journey the experiences and getting to know the participants I found this to be very shallow kind of temporary relief, also putting aside the fact that it's quite a shitshow and as a man you'll lose a bit of a self respect.

I often looked around and all I've seen was men who don't need more softness but more discipline. And women past their prime who are still childless but looking to find "a meaning of life" while continuing to delude themselves that the natural purpose of breasts and vagina was sexual pleasure.

On the contrary, I found the greatest relief in training Brazilian jiu-jitsu and joining a muay thai camp for a month.

It wasn't far from a popular hippie site. But I looked around and I saw a big difference. A lot of these people on 'retreats' aren't seeking change, they are seeking a pleasurable and an EASY kind of change.

You have people there that cry a little take some drugs hug each other, some hoping to get laid and basically chill on a "retreat" thinking they're doing 'hard spiritual work.

On the contrary, I saw people in the camp that trained for 4-5 hours and woke up early morning, conquered the pain and comfort, got out of the bed and went on to train on their bruised feet. Every day.

And when you're down, your muscles are out of your oxygen and you suffocate wrestling but still have time to go you start to converse with a voice on your head that wants you to give up and you'll question a lot of things and learn a lot about who you really are but you will have to find energy where you think there's none.

This rewires your brain not whining in the woods.

No you don't need drugs and it doesn't take strength to cry in a group where everyone cries.

The reason why all the westernized forms of buddhism and all sorts modified of Eastern practices and drugs like ayahuasca gain popularity is because people look for easy "fast-food" change.

Ironically people despair in comfort but look for comfortable way to get out of it.

Everyone who tried ayahuasca or crying in woods, or some other form of 'retreat' knows the change lasts about a week.

Worse, some people get addicted to seeking this relief and continue falling back to depression actively, just so they can get back and get some hugs. I know it's over-simplified but a lot of them will get addicted to the community and other paying attention to them even though it's artificial they get more of it than in their real lives.

In better case, you'll become a bozo kind of like Jim Carrey and crash parties just to tell everyone how deluded they are and how enlightened you are ... because duh fools, can't you see what I see "we're all one."

Finally, after a decade of searching I found that classical philosophy and in fact christian philosophy, as ridiculed as it is in media and the western society, the true deep philosophy, not the shallow popularized image, it offers all of the hard work and depth none of these 'retreats' will ever provide.
Anode on FP1 (above left eye) and cathode on right shoulder. I also some times play video games using the Darpa accelerated learning montage: anode F10 (left temple) and cathode on right shoulder.

In my experience the Darpa montage isn’t as generalized as people think: it mainly works for tasks that requite quick reaction times and processing of visual information. Basically anything related to video games. The difference between my performance with CSGO and Overwatch with and without tdcs is pretty astonishing. I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next 3-5 years it will become standard training for esports professionals.
The normal defence against replay attacks is to use a framecounter rather than a timestamp.

Either way, there are normal crypto techniques to resolve this issue.
> PHP does not solve any problem JavaScript can't.

PHP matters and if anything it would be good for you to learn both. It will give you a better insight on different ways to build software and use the appropriate solution.

PHP is a mature ecosystem with reliable tools/frameworks. It is relatively easy to learn and you can become productive quickly.

One benefit I find of PHP that is less mentioned:

When your team is short on people (and that happens quite often), you can pretty much throw anyone (provided they are generally competent) at a PHP codebase and they will do well. Wouldn't say the same for a back-end JS project, I've seen what a Java developer can do to a JS codebase.

PHP bites far less often than JS in my opinion.
Yep, you're totally right, not sure how I missed that. The article makes mention of the Fugates and some other folks with the condition.
True, but learning how to write is pretty important in many aspects of life.
Which rules didn't china obey?
So I looked at my clothing, and most of it seems to be 87% merino wool, which is less plastic than I expected, however in my experience that 13% makes a huge difference in terms of durability.
If you think this is bad, then I have bad news about literally the entire field of ML...
Congratulations to the EU commission and the EU parliament on achieving the exact opposite of what they wanted to do despite being told this would happen and despite it actually already happening in Spain and Germany. It's not like this is any kind of surprise, it's the only logical thing that could've happened. I am still extremely bitter about the dirty way this law was passed, the lies, the deliberate lies by the commission, the nasty response EU politicians had at protesters and the absolute contempt they had for young people saying they we're entitled children trained by internet giants to expect free things. I watched the debates in parliament and there were MEPs who actually said that. The horsetrading France and Germany did over Russian gas in order to get a deal on this law. That disgusting blog post the EU commission published calling people who disagreed with them bots and brainwashed and positioning themselves literally as knights out to slay the google dragon. It's all horribly corrupt and cynical. I'm sure many young people got the message that their leaders view them with such absolute contempt and open hatred and I fear the consequences for Europe.
Yes, the latter is the kind of thing, no need for gpg complexity. The original comment talked about an encrypted flash drives, and that's usually done in a fairly accessible way.
This thread is mostly false.

Fact checked by Snopes (read the comment of motdiem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21099365)

The true source is from a humor site: https://aviationhumor.net/the-us-standard-railroad-gauge-is-...
In the finer print it rates it as, “Partly true, but for trivial and unremarkable reasons.”
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In the web domain these are killer apps for me, the kinds of thing you can't find in any? c or ml languages: Datomic cloud, Fulcro, Pathom, Datascript, EQL, hiccup, garden, honeySQL, Spec 2, CodeQ, hyperfiddle

I think it's because Clojure in general focuses on the value of things rather than the identity of things