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Maybe just my interpretation, but I find these lessons to apply very closely to technology in popular culture.

The idea that there is no objective way to observe culture, that complexity obscures analysis , and that individuals will analyze based on their personal perspective all apply.

Take Artificial Intelligence for example.

When I talk to a computer scientist, they laugh at the idea of AI taking control of the world in the next decade.

When I talk to a statistician, they scoff at the idea of something that you cannot evaluate individual variability.

When I talk to a less-educated rural dweller, they seriously fear that AI is going to replace them.

And towards the very beginning of the excerpt, the discussion of ideas as panacea certainly applies here as well.

I can’t count how many people I talk to who make broad generalizations like “AI is going to cure all diseases.”

It’s very much a technology that has gained this panacea-like celebrity status, and by the view of this author, it’s destined for a cultural reckoning.

Maybe a decade from now, when self-driving cars still aren’t ubiquitous, or we still haven’t cured cancer, people won’t blindly accept AI as the cure-all. But hey, maybe I’m the one wrong here.
Just charcoal the biowaste, and bury it.

Much less tech needed, and it actually reduces co2 not just circulates it.

Profit is via increased crop yields.
Startups can waste so many cycles optimizing for bullshit that's for sure. Or at least the tiny details that may or may not improve the product experience, or more important the revenue part.

Doing to the right optimizations at the right scale is a difficult balance. A lot of startups are investing thousands (or more important critical hours of runway time) in making super pretty websites and mobile apps when a simple non-JS HTML page where they figure out who their customer is or what product they really should be selling.

But then there are products where the mobile/web app's UX is the product because the industry is old/stagnant and haven't figured out tech. For example there are quite a few startups whose sole purpose is making buying insurance on your phone easy from a UX standpoint. Taxi companies could have made cellphone GPS/app driven services long before Uber but didn't, etc.
A list of books recommended by Adam Robinson
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabbat_elevator
Yep, before making the eruv, one must first obtain permission(permit) from the local government.
Part of that's a translation problem. "Work" doesn't really express the same concept as melakha, which is more specifically human kinds of work than expenditure of brute force.
I just took a look. Nice looking site, by the way :-)

I have the same issue at signup as the GP - I find myself rather unsure what categories make sense for me on your signup page.

Similar to the GP, a mixture of embedded, servers, and webdev, except I wouldn't say I do just industrial. Feel free to look at my LinkedIn profile (the link is in my HN profile) if you think it could give you some ideas for additional categories on your signup page.
> Showing off is fun, but billionaires are canny and strategic people or they don't get to stay as billionaires.

No this is not true. Once you are billionaire you get so much interest its rather difficult to not stay one.

I totally agree that the projection of wealth is not always sign of weakness, but lets not kid ourselves about the economics.
I'm not reasoning by analogy; I'm disputing that it's useful.

If you look at the physical world with objects that have relationships and characteristics, and describe a mental world that also has discrete entities that interact in designated ways, then I think you are reasoning by (unfounded) analogy.
On my market if JavaScript is at all considered, only Ionic comes into play.

Don't project your anecdotes in world wide projections.

Any numbers from Gartner reports or something, to prove how my little bubble is a niche?
That’s the gist but the surprising thing is that the incumbents and the PUC’s have created a sort of toxic scheme with rate base accounting that is now showing itself in the form of aging and poorly maintained infrastructure.
I kinda have to admit that I look for a cleaner gas station, especially on longer trips. For one thing, the gas station stop is also often a bathroom stop. For another, gas stations give me the creeps, and even if a dirty station isn't objectively any more creepy, the creeps are still the creeps.
Entirely sarcastic. You can even see that on my profile description.

It's yet another "past did it better".. I tried to make it poetically naive.
Can we agree to stop using the phrase "gentleman's agreement" while we're at it? It's unnecessarily exclusive and plays up the relatively true stereotypes about the members of HN.
IIRC the book "Anatomy Trains" explores this in some detail.
Thank you.

1. Only kids get type 1 diabetes

2. Wal-mart insulin is just as good as expensive insulin

3. Eating sugar gives you diabetes

4. You can't eat sweet foods if you have diabetes.

5. You can treat type 1 diabetes without insulin.
Some of the books on the list are detailed examinations of the history of particular math advances. I haven't read the Princeton Companion, but if it's less than 10,000 pages, I don't imagine you will get those in detail.

Others, like the Gardiner and Graham-Diaconis books, are applications of math ideas to, typically, odd topics. Like an example, but with more focus.
I agree. Before TLP and powertop the battery life is worse, but with TPL and powertop the battery life easily beats Windows.
I’ve found that every time I start a project with parcel, I eventually want to change something about the Babel config and end up switching to webpack: once I was familiar with it, configuring webpack wasn’t all that bad
There’s technically criteria to a movie/TV show rating. One such being the F-word. One usage is ok in PG-13 rated movie, but any more and it’ll be R.

Ultimately though, IIRC, movies are rated by a committee run by the MPAA who watch the movie and rate based on how they feel it should be (while taking the criteria into account).
Doesn’t change the fact they have all the resources to hire all the best talent!

If I were them I’d be making the second season of Firefly and anything else with wide interest like that.
I don’t agree. The programming language needs to have a dynamic and incremental runtime. Genera wasn’t some large static OS; everything was written in Lisp and could be defined, redefined, or augmented at runtime. The design of the OS depends on this.
While all rules in Judaism are debated endlessly and have a multitude of opinions... My understanding is that most stringent Halacha followers would agree one SHOULD not watch a spurs game on Shabbos...and there are clearly several rules around separating the day from others that may even make it a prohibition(not that I havent watched my share of sports games on Shabbos.) I just think its worth pointing out that its rare youll find a rabbi that says you Should watch the game.
Wait till you see the millions of private cars strewn everywhere on public property, almost entirely for free! It utterly dwarfs the eruv.
> scripting languages

That's what they say, but in practice people report that the lack of the more intuitive tooling like REPL in Python is a common reason not to use Go for scripts.

> not really with either C or C++

Well in terms of e.g. concurrency, compiling, syntax... the initial intent by Pike and Thompson was clearly unambiguously to do better than C++, which was the language they used at Google at the time.

They literally dug up SCP (1978) and the Oberon family to design a simpler, more manageable approach (the Go spec really is user-centric from inception). It was also months after the release of the first multicore CPU by Intel (Core2Duo iirc?) which paved the way to parallelism.

Regarding C, I agree in terms of domain / purpose insofar as C goes below (not familiar with it myself but cgo lets you inject C). I suppose I mentioned C because that's the standard performance benchmark that people tend to aim for (including the Go team, often), and Go is often a very valid albeit much simpler direct alternative to writing some package in C.

About Rust, thanks a lot for the precisions. I'm not as familiar with it as Go. I do find that Rust has incredible potential to be a really good high-level language, much more expressive than Go will ever be (by design, different goals).
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> a director watching a cut of a movie, weighs every detail with a focus that is quite unlike the mental state of the public audience. I think that changes the way they watch all films, always dissecting.

Viewers do this as well. Analysis of literature and of television/film overlap to some degree, and both require an active consumer of the material.

I think the question is: Given an equal amount of effort on the part of the consumer, does one medium convey more benefits than the other?
I came here to tell OP to spend the time learning something like Terraform because it is not a trend or a fad, has wide adoption by the enterprise, gets them closer to the metal in understanding how everything works and will almost definitely help them in their career.

I've instead found a flame war with someone presuming a person's age and preceding to talk about how much better they are ... oh HN why does it always come to this.

You were once a person who knew less. Someone probably helped you along the way too. Just be a decent human and give an answer without trying to prove how wonderful you are
that didn’t work so well for netflix.
great and easy alternatives to webpack, I'm surprised its website appears to be mentioned first time at HN.
Yes, always nice to see security consultants run http-only websites.

If they don't show they have the basic know-how on how to set up a ssl cert, I don't want them touching auth.
In my experience, unsupervised learning is more broadly useful (and easier to implement) than supervised learning. Use it for data exploration, data validation, anomaly detection, topic modeling, recommender systems, cluster analysis, etc.

Recommended algorithms:

- UMAP (https://github.com/lmcinnes/umap/blob/master/README.rst)

- HDBSCAN (https://github.com/scikit-learn-contrib/hdbscan/blob/master/...)

- MatrixProfile (https://github.com/target/matrixprofile-ts/blob/master/READM...)

- NMF (https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.de...)
The authors of the study are clearly and explicitly aware of this (and other) confounding issues. Do you have reason to think the authors made stronger claims for causality than can be supported by their evidence?

In these sorts of study, causality is not simple and is rarely established in one go — it is approached incrementally, as one potential factor at a time is investigated.
I feel like that's not a fair comparison. This isn't a religious symbol. It is a tool for the practice of religious doctrine on public land. If I tried to route a filament around all of Manhattan I'm certain nypd and the city would be all up in my face about it.
But that's because of it's usefulness as a chemical precursor (i.e. carbon) rather than because it was worth it to burn for straight heating energy in a power plant.

I am pretty much okay with (or at least resigned to) petrochemicals/coal being used for the next 30 years to produce chemicals and other products. Burning it is a waste of a very useful chemical feedstock.

The lowest value (and by extension least valuable) thing you can do with a material like coal is burn it. If it's used because of it's properties other than it's fuel content of course it's value is higher and economics will make it more compelling. These are entirely different markets in size and kind.
It’s important to note that (although I only skimmed it and am not a professional chemist) they only talk about hydrocarbons up to 6 carbons long (hexane) where coal/coke from the ground can have much longer hydrocarbons (what paraffin wax is made of.) This is because the hexane comes (probably) from sugar molecules (or monomers in things like cellulose) which are chains or rings of six carbon atoms (with other stuff bonded to them.)

It’s possible to lengthen the hydrocarbon chains but it’s very expensive.

EDIT: yeah after reading more carefully they’re doing what I thought (side note: the dick bar was pretty annoying, at least it goes away when you scroll down but coming back when scroll up and covering the text I was trying to read is just dumb.) They’re drying/dehydrating the biomass by heating it without oxygen and then distilling off the VOCs. Then they take the remaining gunk, crush it up, sift it, and dry it.
For context, I’m 45, but was an “expert beginner” staying at one company for over a decade before I took my career seriously a little over a decade ago. I also don’t live on the west coast where both salaries and the cost of living are both far beyond normal.

My experience from being in the job market frequently, watching trends, talking to people in the industry locally and recruiters, is that it doesn’t take more than about 10 years to reach your salary peak as an individual contributor or even as a hands on team lead/architect no matter what “technology” you learn. Not saying that’s a bad thing. I’ll take more money if it is given to me, but that’s not really what I am optimizing for.

What I am optimizing for is to stay current with the trends and to know enough technology that is on the “Slope of Enlightenment” phase of the Hype Cycle. I’m doing that by making sure that I am both working for companies that are not using outdated or unmarketable tech and doing resume driven development. At 45, I can’t afford to be an out of touch old guy and then start whining about “ageism”. That’s good enough to get the “right now job”. Meaning if I need a job now I can email some recruiters and have another job within less than a month as a bog standard Enterprise CRUD Developer/Architect.

On the other hand, if you just focus on “technology” you’re a commodity. There are thousands of people who know “technology”. You can get a job quickly but it won’t pay that much above median.

Focus on architecture and how to deliver business value. I know plenty of “smart people(tm)” who can’t deliver code that makes money or saves money worth crap. This is the key to negotiating your way out of being another commodity developer.

Although to make a lot of money, knowing technology that is on the “Peak of Inflated Expectation” may help you to overcharge as a high price consultant by going after VC funded companies with no business plan and plenty of access to money. The best way to make money during a gold rush is by selling shovels. Right now, for me, that focus is “cloud consulting” or being a “Digital Transformation Consultant”. When and if that starts trending to the “trough of disillusionment”, I can always fall back to development.
> Writing this way doesn't "streamline" anything.

Exactly. Blameless and non-violent language can streamline communication. It does this by removing any trigger that would make your communication partner feel defensive. Needlessly emotional and charged language is sure to distract from the subject at hand. When you use calm language, there is only one thing to focus on: the content. When you call someone's code garbage, there are now two things that that person could focus on -- the content and the tone.

To me, it is completely reasonable that the original author might have made a mistake like this. After all, when he shared his findings it seemed like he had found something interesting to me! Many people on this very site commented positively on his efforts. There is nothing "garbage" about the code that he wrote, it just doesn't quite do exactly what he thought it did.
> If you’ve been following the steady march of progress from Dell’s Linux-first Project Sputnik team, you’re no doubt aware that the “Developer Edition” variant of the XPS 13 is one of the finest Linux-ready ultrabooks you can buy. Just ahead of CES 2020, Dell is pushing out a few more improvements including a feature that’s been hotly requested: fingerprint-reader support.

So a fingerprint reader. Maybe I’m naive, but is that really that much of a feature?
My understand of Melakha is creative effort not brute force.(i.e. six days G-d created and the seventh he rested (from that creative effort))
> frontend roadmap has been updated

I don’t believe CSS modules belongs in the CSS-in-JS rubric; and you really ought to add Eleventy to the list of static-site generators; it’s on the rise and kicking serious ass (much better for a front-end developer than Jekyll, anyway).
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Do you live in a world where a 16 year old will be shocked by an offscreen child death or an F-bomb? There are other ratings exist, for instance TV-14.

There was no nudity in that show.
This and the eruv all comes across to me as blatant cheating for convenience.

Pressing Bake turns the oven on after a random delay, if you didn't press Bake the oven wouldn't turn on at all. Ergo you turned the oven on, no matter how much you lawyer speak your way around it.

Just reinforces how ludicrous the meaningless rules are, that surround all religions.
So in some superficial judgement, you decided it must be a hit piece without reading it and then confirmation-bias-googled some funding sources to reinforce your view still without reading it, and then use a rhetorical quip to act like this is justified?

It seems like you’re just admitting to what I claimed. You dismiss things based on superficial details but don’t admit they are superficial.

To be very clear, I don’t agree with the OP post at all, but it was thoughtfully written and the point about statistical significance being very misleading for inference goals is really valid, especially for climate predictions.

It actually takes some statistical effort to point out why the posts conclusions aren’t valid (eg it’s the trend of temperature increase that affects policy, not the nearness of the observations to the model’s mean prediction).

As someone who works professionally in statistics, I say this post is of higher quality than a large amount of even published research, especially in social science, and seems like fair un-extreme skepticism that deserves to be honestly and sincerely engaged with, and not dismissed out of hand because you spent 5 seconds googling the buzzword name of a funding entity you dislike.
The spam pattern becomes clearer if you look at the posting history for articles from this site: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=learnjapanese.best It's a pretty consistent pattern of once every couple of days.

If you look at the post history for the spammer's main account, they try to disguise their spamming by posting a few miscellaneous Wikipedia articles and the like between posting their site: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sova

You can also see them experimenting with spamming their other sites as well; the poster is always the same individual.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=japanesecomplete.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=learnjapanesebest.wor...
Bio-coal is charcoal, just produced by different means than charring the biomass. Typically, bio-coal production manages to convert more of the carbon into coal, while less of it is burned.
Brittle starfish are second known example of vision in an organism without eyes
Why name the company?
I hate that they begin with "No, you don’t get it from eating too many sweets." Then later they admit that Type 2 diabetes risk is greatly increased by an unhealthy diet.

So you can get diabetes from an unhealthy diet, like a diet with too many sweets.
Letting nurse practitioners be independent increases access to health care
I realize it may have been an offhand answer, but what do you have in mind? Go get a graduate level understanding of biochemistry? Start working with genomic data? Etc.
Manyverse for iOS
It's probably the lawyers that have a say in this.
Its not a religious symbol its a legal boundry that has a religious benefit. Most city eruvs use existing infrastructure like phone wires, walls, fences through backyards even gulleys if they are steep enough.
The fact that this is downvoted and the parent's is not for speaking down on the current admin smells of a bias.

I'll save face by saying I think the administration is adverse to many people's lives
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The new release is available in PortableApps.com Format as well: https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/keepassxc-portable
>Only one species of sea urchin has ‘passed’ the same tests for vision, and it also, independently, changes color in response to light levels. Future work will probe whether this sea urchin, the only other animal in the world known to see without eyes, might be using a similar trick to Ophiocoma.

Source: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-just-showed-that-color-c...
It's important to know of the new tech, but I think diving deep into new tech just because it might seem cool now can be frustrating and inefficient long-term.

There is no “long term” in technology. The best way on average to stay competitive is by keeping up with what the market wants. Sure it’s possible to start a project that is profitable or that you can get someone to acquire but statistically that’s like buying lottery tickets as a retirement plan.
NAFTA Should Have Stopped Illegal Immigration, Right? (2007)
None of those examples are illegal, and the presumption of criminality based on circumstantial evidence, especially in the case of a minority immigrant, looks far worse for you than it does for him.
>If you're in the web sector, definitely give a try to wasm

Is there a reason to try WebAssembly besides curiosity or a need to optimize performance-heavy front-end computations in browser?
False equivalence. Cars are not religious.
I don't know if you're familiar with the expression, but you don't have to be a man to enter a "gentlemen's agreement". You don't even have to be a gentleman for that matter.

Of course, "gentlemen's agreement" is actually what it's called in French as well, and we don't go around thinking it's exclusive to French people because it uses English words (not that we don't do that with other terms…). It's just what it's called, and been called for hundreds of years.

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Edit: OK this is way off-topic but I can't help but snicker a bit when I see these kinds of comments. The idea that we even genderize words is very arbitrary in the first place, and very inconsistent between languages.

French for example has the word "écrivain" (author) which is very masculine-sounding and as such sounds weird when used for women; but the feminine "écrivaine" sounds atrocious to French speakers. Our canadian friends exported the word "auteure" (feminine of auteur; phonetically identical). It's a whole thing. Apparently we used to use "autrice" which actually rings pretty nice (similar to acteur / actrice == actor / actress).

You'd be hard pressed to see the debate in English around Author / Authoress.

These are potentially legitimately exclusionary though, because it's not completely absurd to think that grammatical rules can influence how friendly we perceive a profession to be to that sex; eg. "fireman" vs. "firefighter", or in french "Femme de ménage" [cleaning lady] vs. "aide ménagere" [cleaning helper].

Point is, there's no reason why most of these words can't be made gender-neutral in the first place. English speakers are lucky to have a mostly gender-neutral language at all. Did you know that in french, Banks, postboxes, cars and churches are feminine, whereas computers, telephones, ovens and monasteries are masculine?