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> Having Majority DOES NOT EQUAL Being right. Always remember that.

In a democracy, it kind of does. And science is a democratic discourse. If 99.9% of all scientists say global warming is real or evolution "just a theory", and 0.1% says it is not, the likelihood of the 99.9% being right is... well, 99.9%. When people mention how Einstein revolutionized science, you have to remember that he was the absolute, astounding and rare exception. The very vast majority of people who go against the grain of the dominant scientific belief tend to be crackpots. Always remember that.

You even write 'to spread what HE THINKS IS THE RIGHT MESSAGE' > Thats a mega important point. [...] Even though he might be wrong in the long run. And that's different from FAKE NEWS, where an actor spreads midsinformation with a malicious goal. Hence in the FAKE NEWS case, he would KNOW ITS NOT RIGHT but spread it ANYWAY.

I agree with you, "fake news" was a bad choice of words. I think that's the extreme end of a spectrum of "spreading non-true information", and I personally think that's what this doctor did. But my beef isn't even with that. It's perfectly okay (Very, very much encouraged, actually) to voice dissenting opinions in science! That is how science works, after all. And hence it is important to voice dissenting options in a scientific manner. Which brings me to:

> If he is convinced that this is how things are then there must be a (public) place to share those ideas.

There absolutely is: Peer-reviewed scientific literature. That's the place where scientific ideas are evaluated, based on their merit. You don't go call a press conference when you have a plausibly sounding hypothesis that might explain some observations you made. You write a paper about it, make your case, back it up with data and experiments, and evaluate your findings to see if they hold up to statistical scrutiny. And then an informed discourse among peers can start, and the facts & data will decide who is right/wrong. And if you want to prove something that most of the scientific community thinks is wrong, and when potentially many lives are at stake, then the burden of proof rests on you, and that burden is rightfully high. Much higher than "I called some friends and we our subjective impression is that this is overblown". And _THAT_ is why I think this is misinformation, even if I'm sure it was done with the best of intentions.
Duly noted, this was an eye-opener. I suppose I should prioritize this while I still have time.

Time to step away from the keyboard and think about the business side of this project.

Oh, I did add a "BuyMeCoffee" button on the About page, but its more of a donation. - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/imRohan
If I were on the FAANG side and you just told me what happened, I'd value the honest candor and consider the crime irrelevant to your employment.

If I had visibility into your post here however, I'd start having second thoughts.
Finally! Looking forward to this
Do you think colleges wouldn't change if they were going to receive far far fewer applicants at their current sticker prices? I don't mean that to come across as snarky. I'm genuinely curious because your comment seems to be based on an assumption that colleges would not make changes to their operations or tuition if they suddenly had a hard time filling their freshman class.
The polls do seem to show that the lockdowns are popular, but I feel like I have detected a real shifting of sentiment on social media recently. I think that my sample does reflect something about reality since I even have noticed the shift on places that just a few weeks ago were staunchly pro-lockdown.

I do not know how to reconcile my experience with the polls, though.
Yes. I’m debating in my head who is correct here. Maybe Oauth2 is colouring my judgement a bit but I feel the fragment should NOT be sent to the server unless there are extremely good reasons. Let’s try to keep the understanding of what happens to certain things consistent even if we have the power to abuse them.
6 Countries, 6 curves: how nations moved fast against Covid-19 avoided disaster
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That would be corporate taxes, and in fact at least some people are asking if maybe we need to roll back the recent corporate tax cuts.
They basically did this with diapers.com a decade ago.

https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/amazon-book-how-jeff-be...
That's assuming you can time it right. I've been holding puts for ~2 months, and I went from very right to very wrong very quickly. I also fully anticipate to be very right again as soon as the fed stops pumping trillions of dollars into companies that were ill prepared for risk.
All of the information for it is already available. Retention & graduation rates are public knowledge, and you can easily find out if a school has job placement

College worked out well for me, but I definitely didn't know you could evaluate a school this way when I was 17 & filing applications. I just applied to public schools with a strong reputation.

It's easy to take for granted as an adult that all this information exists. But for a teenager, the whole thing is all new.
> Slowly?! Hasn't Win7 been dead for years?

No. Microsoft wants to kill it, but... even just checking Steam's hardware survey (users of which are more likely to upgrade so chances are overall PC usage of Win7 is higher) there is a combined ~7% of users on Win7.

With ~25M concurrent users the last 48 hours, that means there were more than 1.7M users running on Win7 just within the last two days.

FWIW these numbers are a bit lower than 10 times the Linux numbers of all distros combined.
I'll admit I don't think I've really noticed the presence of lisp online other than when people want to talk about lisp. Can someone share some practical examples of where lisp is being used? Maybe a popular open source project I never realised was written in a lisp family language?
Does “man-made” include “man-altered”?

Serious question, not trying to start a geopolitical war.

The reason I ask is that it seems somewhat trivial for a well funded organization to runs generations of a germ through multiple hosts. A (bad) analogy would be like Gregor Mendel and cross breeding plants.

Im not a biologist, hence the question. (Although I did cross-breed a hot pepper with a bell pepper when I was a kid, but that was by accident!)
A link for us lazy folks https://www.phacility.com/phabricator/

I've been wanting set this up to play with, but not much free time. We use Kira and Bitbucket cloud at work and they suck.
We go into a bit more depth in our FAQ[0]

[0] https://kmdr.sh/faq/
> Our entire K-12 educational system and our culture is set up to paint a college degree as a ticket to "the good life"

It is still true, based on statistics of college graduate vs non-college graduates, that going to college brings much better odds in your favor to get a "good life". As usual, it's about odds, nothing is guaranteed in life.
Yes that is definitely a feature I can add in. I don't think I gave the instruction anywhere but you can delete an availability by clicking on it also. That should help the clutter
I see, thanks for the reply. I didn't make my own only because I don't usually have time to maintain and monitor for new updates; but if updating it is as simple as `apk update`, then that shouldn't be a problem.
the standardized lens mount will be huge (as in popular and successful)
> it suffers from many of the same problems of C++/CX

The whole point of C++/WinRT is to be 100% standards-compliant C++. The guy who created it didn't even work at Microsoft at the time.
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Does "socialism" ever mean "free-market capitalism"? It often seems that libertarians are on the receiving end of the "Nazi" label because they object to socialism or government intervention in markets.

It was not my intention to begin an argument, but merely suggest that we should all tone down on the "Nazi" slur as it no longer seems to carry any weight.
I shared a free JSON API with parse.com with a bunch of friends to develop a set of FOSS CLI apps we communicated over.

It was all open and fun and funny.

Then parse.com shutdown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parse_(platform) -- What started out as fun project for several developers turned into a dead project for us all, which by then had hundreds of users around the world, who were now getting errors instead of fun.

We all used different programming languages, nobody was able to re-engineer all of our clients into a new endpoint/api. My takeaway -- any one of us could have hosted the JSON api, but we made the mistake in thinking we would use a free 3rd party service. That decision killed the project.
My understanding is that Nvidia can't produce enough GPU to saturate their pro market, the demand is huge as we speak and only increasing for now (looking at you, ML).

So AMD (or rather, their RTG division specifically) would be remiss not to align their price/perf with Nvidia to maximize profit.

A reason why they'll probably stay 'cheaper' to some extent for some time (perhaps long) is that they don't compete against CUDA, Nvidia's silver bullet. And don't just think “muh fancy library”, think hordes of engineers that Nvidia has the financial muscle to deploy in the field, 'lending' them to customers who need ad hoc driver work, custom implementations, general help, and what-have-you.

CUDA is a war machine, because that's how Nvidia operates its strategy.

It's how they owned the video game market back then, and I'm pretty sure they do the same with CUDA / ML / compute (why wouldn't they).

I thought that OpenCL would eventually be to CUDA what Vulkan is becoming to DirectX (btw: thank you, Linux); but it seems to me that OpenCL is going the way of the dodo? (still very little support in all ML/compute software I encounter, anecdotally).

AMD can sell a ton of GPU at good price, and they should, but they're lagging behind because optimized software libraries support (CUDA, the whole commercial hammer it represents) is where it's at.

Fortunately or not for them, Intel's graphics efforts seem to be... hype, more than a truly organized effort (insiders leaks speak of a terrible, terrible political / manegerial / organization situation at Intel's). It's fortunate for AMD's graphics market share, but it's unfortunate in that Intel would be a major support for OpenCL (last I checked, at least) and Intel's rise on that market could have taken AMD's hardware along with it in a tsunami of competition for CUDA.

But that's not happening soon, apparently.
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My joking aside, the tragedy is only the truely expert are willing to make this answer.
Is the projection literally "wrapped raw pointers?" How are the raw pointers wrapped - for example is there interop between COM reference counting and Rust Arc? Or something else?

Here's a classic trap: you get a reference to something interior, and then the parent is deallocated. My event handler gets a ref to this button's label and then replaces the button. Is this possible with Rust/WinRT? (No judgement either way!)
First, you say that figures I gave from the 1950s to the present should be disregarded based on figures from 2008 to the present. Those are not necessarily in contradiction. Particularly not given that the period of fastest rising state funding was the 1950s through the late 1970s.

Second, your argument is absurd on the absolute size of the numbers involved. For example from page 2 of https://www.mhec.org/sites/default/files/resources/mhec_affo... we see that per FTE enrollment from 1992 to 2017 that inflation adjusted state spending went from $8,301 to $7,642 and net tuition per FTE (tuition - financial aid etc) went from $3,361 to $6,572. The in real dollars decrease of $659 per FTE in state spending is only 20% of the real increase for students. Where is the other 80% coming from?

Even in the difficult 2008-2017 period, changes in state spending explains less than 50% of the change.

Furthermore the explanation that you are focused on explains changes in public university tuition only. It does not address why private universities have likewise seen skyrocketing tuition. Given that the trends in private and public tuition have been similar, it is more likely that they have a common explanation rather than unrelated ones.

Next, you're dismissing the source that I gave that looked at a variety of possible explanations and tried to quantify the relative impact at each. And yet you've failed to give sources that examine the possibility of any explanation other than your preferred one. (Which still only explains a small fraction of the rise in cost to students.)

And finally it is obvious that a university is more than just teaching staff. But when the fraction of revenues spent on what is supposed to be a core educational mission is so absurdly small, there is a problem. (In the meantime there are more bureaucrats per student, nicer dorms, and much nicer athletic facilities.)
There are about three possible choices

1) he knew he did LISP like languages and wanted to share
2) he didn't know he did LISP like languages and wanted to share
3) he was showing off.
4) the other choices.

I went to 3) based on my 40 years experience in computer science.
Maybe at Harvard, but smaller and less prestigious schools definitely would.
It was complicated, but at one point I was so in love with Arc that I wanted to give it a real shot at taking over the world. It seemed like a necessary change to make, since the moment someone brought up dead links as a slight against arc, I could point to the change and say, "Already fixed!"

(I made a few other improvements, like having accurate line numbers in error messages, and a clojure-style REPL for emacs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v1KpEmuPeM)
Well said. I saved this for future reflection. Thanks!
You might find the FAQ here [1] helpful, but there is also more technical info linked from that page also.

[1] https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing
This is not fair. You edited your comment to include "inventory"
Here are three things you can usefully try. Watch more movies in English with the subtitles off. Do "Picture Description" with an articulate english speaker (you both describe a given picture to each other). If your pronunciation isn't perfect really work on that with a coach.
I work in defense. I've literally watched a team put together a factory line to build fighter jets fuselages. We can build whatever we want, and the numbers reflect this.

We don't build low margin anything because nobody would buy it if it costs more.

Japan is a good example - they setup all their car factories in the US in the South specifically to avoid union labor costs! Many Japanese cars, for our market, are made... Right here! Because the shipping and labor overhead would make them uncompetitive.
I thought it went: DRM, spyware, then co-opted for malware by others.
> In reality, the incentives should already be aligned with student interest: All of the information for it is already available. Retention & graduation rates are public knowledge

But that information is less useful than one might naively assume. What you actually want to know is the school’s contribution, which the raw rates don't tell you. Like good ratings for primary/secondary schools, the raw rates mostly tell you about the qualities of students that end up going there; pulling out the effect, if any, of the school is much harder.
Yes, if you want it to. Looking at my notifications screen in the app, it can notify about "D Window Events", and you can even specify the minimum angle of interest.

It can also notify upon solar noon, sunrise and sunset (not the same as a D window of opportunity), and give a daily supplement reminder. Each of these is individually configurable.
Question for the Urbit devs (when they get done celebrating and come in here to answer the questions, and sigh in dismay at the inevitable Nth round of hn-yarvin's-bashing):

In theory, it should be really easy to write a social media app in Urbit. I mean, that's kind of what it's designed for, right, to make it easy and secure to do the sorts of server-side use cases that we currently off-load to Facebook and Twitter and such?

So, where is it? I don't mean a legit FB/IG/TW/etc challenger, I just mean a toy proof of concept in which I can 'add' an urbit identity, 'share' a piece of text, and they would see it in their feed.

I know the easy answer is, "Why don't you write one?" Well, I'm a mediocre programmer and I already have a side project. This isn't me demanding that open source software be written for me; this is me asking, if the PoC social media site for urbit doesn't exist yet, does that mean that it's harder to make than a superficial understanding of the project would suggest?
You think after writing the article he called his assistant and designed the plan for Crypto Fund II?

These things take time, and this was probably in the works from before.
I can't quite put my finger on the best response to all that, other than to say "get a shovel, there's a lot of bullshit piled up here".

"Real artists", oh, now THERE'S a shining bit of arrogance.

Likewise the notion that the artist is somehow creating a distillation the audience themselves wouldn't be able to otherwise find revelatory and enjoyable from any number of other random AI influences. Because they quite probably would, and this no doubt presents a terrifying possibility to the merchants of your art "culture".

But works of true value maintain currency over time. This, however, doesn't make everything else created in-between worthless. It's just different. AI art is likewise.
A purposefully designed and opinionated DE cannot really exist without a purposefully designed and opinionated GUI framework, which is probably why Gtk is nowadays often called the "Gnome Tool Kit".
Identifying Generational Gaps in Music
Understand the Ray ecosystem and community in under seven minutes
Line-height on Sourcehut itself is reasonable. It's just on the blog that it's off.
>Does "socialism" ever mean "free-market capitalism"?

I would say no.

>It often seems that libertarians are on the receiving end of the "Nazi" label because they object to socialism or government intervention in markets.

I think this happens mainly for three reasons. 1) Some people support socialism so furiously that they genuinely think pretty much everyone who opposes socialism is part of the same group of "reactionaries", etc. 2) Some people dislike libertarians and try to smear them by calling them Nazis. 3) A certain subset of self-identified libertarians has had, historically, and continues to have now, an involvement with populist conservatism and with right-wing regimes such as Pinochet's. There is also a subset of self-identified libertarians who promote racism, a subset who lean socially conservative, etc.

Some self-proclaimed libertarians oppose socialism so furiously that they view right-wing dictatorship as being a better option. Personally, I'd say that people like that are not libertarians at all, but they continue to self-identify as libertarians nonetheless.
Interesting. There's some history there I didn't know, and I'm glad to be aware of it. Thanks for that!
"Your privacy is very important to us and the CCP, because we profit when we violate it"

Don't buy anything from a company that ultimately answers only to the Party. What else is there to say? Other products may be just as crap, but they'll never be potentially crappier.
For All Mankind is probably my favorite TV show of the last year or two.
Lot of criminals in here. My mom says I'm not allowed to hang out with you guys anymore.
The "experts" get it wrong all the time. They have the same dysfunctions as any other community of people, including orthodoxies, group think, and other defects to their capacity to solve problems.
Are you an ecommerce entrepreneur? Can I Mom Test you?
Hi guys,

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I'd really love 5-10 minutes of your time to ask you a few questions.

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Garbage men in major cities make more than $100,000/year, not including benefits and pension (if they're part of a unionized workforce). Don't be concerned about the garbage man's taxes paying for the stockbroker's education.
Lots of deferred pain for when you productionize.
Anyone have good recommendations on LDPC or Turbo Code theory?
This is totally the hard part to know: how much will Trump prop up the stock market?

I recently heard the expression "the stock market is just a graph of rich people's emotions" and find it to be the most pithy truth of economics that I've encountered. A lot goes go into those emotions that we can not anticipate.
Op is Peter Norvig, someone who any self respecting lisper should have heard of.
The 100k is over 4 years and tends to be mostly from "room and board" costs rather than the actual cost of credits. So the courses might be 10k a year and housing is 15k, for example.
> But you don’t have another product like that, do you? You have this one.

You're describing the sunk cost fallacy, and the beauty of having spent only three weeks on this idea is that I haven't sunk very much cost at all. I could very easily go for the one that makes 2X.

> If you find the 2x alternative, why waste your time with that when you could just find a 4x alternative and build that instead!

It's a sliding scale. The higher the price point, the longer the sales cycle. If you sell a $5 widget on your website, a consumer can buy that without a moment's thought.

Selling a $100k/yr enterprise software subscription can take a year. Or two. And require having been in the industry for three or four or ten, as other folks in this thread have pointed out.

My goal is to find the sweet spot between pricing my product so cheap that I can't consistently acquire enough customers on my self-funding budget and so expensive that the sales cycle is too long.
Am I missing something? I listened to a bunch of them and they all sound terrible.
It has been a long time since I used stock Android, but depending on your phone you don't lose much. The base install doesn't have any google apps, but adding them is simple. The biggest loss is in manufacturer unique apps, which can also be seen as a gain considering how companies like Xiaomi use those apps.

Besides that, there can be some security gain if set up properly, I think some additional configuration tweaks, and LineageOS often a longer support cycle.

It really depends on your phone though, try searching your model +lineageos and you should find out the details.
more people would reject them if there were alternatives, but the only things on the horizon are pinephone and purism (neither which are really shipping/working)
I'd recommend giving Emacs a deep dive. That alone should be impressive enough, but if it doesn't satisfy you I'm not sure there are other projects that would.
How do you prevent someone from spamming you and filling your cache up with abusive documents?
It was mentioned in Matt Levine's columns of the 23rd and 24th. Unfortunately, I assume those are behind Bloomberg's paywall. Here is a quote from L Brands courtesy of Levine:

"Sycamore ignores a fundamental problem with its apparent case of buyer’s remorse: At the time the parties negotiated the Agreement, the world was already well aware of the existence of COVID-19, and the parties agreed that Sycamore would bear the risk of any adverse impacts stemming from such a pandemic. … Sycamore and its representatives may wish that the world did not have to face the pandemic that now confronts us, and may regret that they did not negotiate the allocation of pandemic risk differently in the Transaction Agreement. But having made that commercial choice, Sycamore must now live by it."