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My gut feel is the same. Ironically, the fact that this usage sounds wrong might, in fact, be a paradox :)

It’s an apparent contradiction between our understanding of the meaning of the word and the actual usage of the word. The resolution of this paradox could be that there is widespread wrong usage of the word. Alternately it could be that our understanding of the meaning is wrong - which itself could be for multiple reasons. Perhaps our understanding of the definition is incomplete. Or it could be that the definition itself is simply wrong because it doesn’t reflect actual real-world usage.

Upon some reflection I think that a core part of the idea of a paradox is that there are many possible solutions to a problem and that some people, but almost certainly not all, will initially fail to even recognize the existence of solutions other than the one they expect, due to unconscious assumptions.

Naturally in many cases there will also be people who do not make those problematic assumptions to begin with, but that doesn’t on its own invalidate the use of the word “paradox” in that situation. The birthday paradox probably fits this definition just fine - ask anyone not trained in statistics about the subject and you’ll likely find a lot of people have unconscious assumptions that lead them to wrong answers, and in some cases thy will even be exceptionally confident in their wrong answers.

You might object to the “not trained in statistics” part but that objection itself would be circular - modern statistics education was designed with paradoxes like this in mind, specifically to lay down a foundation that doesn’t lead you down the wrong paths in cases like that. The solutions to the basic paradoxes of statistics are built into the way statistics is taught, just like the solutions to Godel’s and Russel’s and many others’ paradoxes are built into the foundations of any modern logical system.
I’m not sure there is a scarcity. In the UK at least the vast majority of newspapers have a conservative view point.
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China did not gain its independence in 1947. China has never been run by a foreign country (though the Japanese came the closest by occupying large parts of it during WW2).
Mandated, automatic updates have their downsides, especially for some of the HN crowd, but for 99% of the population I really appreciate that patching is automatic for the other 95%+ of users. Getting the vast majority of computers in world quickly up to current security patches protects users and creates something akin to "herd immunity" where exploits become fairly useless to bad actors.
I would be too! I think "LPCs are unstable when quantised" is a little overgeneralized — a more precise statement is that linear predictors, being all-pole filters, can be stable or unstable, and that quantization can convert a marginally stable or even absolutely stable filter into an unstable one. But I could easily be misunderstanding something basic! I've never understood the LSP thing. (Yet!)
>growing opium in India, moving that to China

I think, in understating socioeconomic dynamics of this portion of the trade, you overstate the impressiveness of the rest. The British forcefully drugged an entire country and then compelled it in this weakened state towards its model of an economic monoculture. They didn't so much build their own advantage as tear down China's. In that light, one has to wonder the character of the trade in terms of its benefits for the populations involved and civilization as a whole. The imperialist regard for trade and diplomacy alike lead directly to multiple devastating wars, and the distortion of the economic model in vassal states arguable retarded resource cultivation (outside if what was useful for Europe) and encouraged bloody revolutions that further warped society in these regions.

Taking the long view, it's possible that these "marvels" of global trade were actually examples of colossal mismanagement of resources on a grand scale.
Right that's a total conspiracy theory. But people are ready to believe it because they're so disillusioned with the elites, they're ready to believe they're total psychopaths and pedophiles, because they sense there is something wrong with the system.

One of the most amusing conspiracy theorists is David Icke, I don't know if you've ever read any of his books. They're hilarious and crazy, but as always you can find elements of truth in between everything.
This site is a standard reblogger. They just regurgitate stuff that they find on other sites or even reddit and Facebook. They don’t add anything new to the story. If anything they take away some context from when it was originally reported. I some how despise it a lot, the y provide no value but consistently take away advertisement dollars and clicks from the original author.
This image doesn't show any local ports trying to be accessed. I'm guessing this endpoint is what gets called after the scan is completed, but context is missing to be certain.
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Yes, there is some of that. One wonders if they didn’t have price caps if prices would rise to SF-levels really quickly.
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>You have to acknowledge that if everyone did like you, then the whole thing wouldn't be able to sustain itself. It only works because most people take the hit and play by the rules.

Except there's no data proving that people pirating movies/music/... are not also paying the industry.

Anecdotally, the persons I know in the habit of pirating entertainments are also some of the biggest spenders I know on the same things.

So, it's entirely possible that if everyone did like him, the whole thing would sustain itself. And if you have something tending to prove the contrary, I'm quite curious.
“No-code” is great, and I love some products in the category (Airtable). But the idea that it is going to fundamentally transform anything is hyperbole, similar to soylent’s marketing when they were saying that nobody was going to eat food again.
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Sorry, is this in opposition to my comment, in support of it, or just an unrelated tidbit?

As I said, I prefer to have my browser at about 50% horizontal width. The only reason I wind up using it in fullscreen is because of the aforementioned issue with tree style tabs taking too much space.
> was written in Common Lisp and automatically translated to C++

That's the reason the .NET GC source code is still in one single massive .cpp file. I mean, look at it [1]. Github even refuses to display it.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/master/src/coreclr/sr...
Controlling managers lose power, that is not needed for the functioning of the business, when you are not in their physical presence. To call it power tripping seems like a logical conclusion.
Also funny that the "Soviet Enemy MiG-28"s from Top Gun were in fact F-5's with red stars painted on them, making that a bit less far-fetched :D I never knew they actually captured one of those.
Something that's come to light for me recently and which I'm trying to understand the reasoning for, is bringing OOP patterns like singletons, dependency injection, visitors, etc. over to a multi-paradigm language like JavaScript. My understanding is that these were all basically clever hacks for working FP and procedural concepts into a strictly OOP language (plain module-level state, closures, and plain functions/pattern-matching, respectively). But you can get the same advantages without jumping through any of those hoops in JS and the like. Are they getting brought over purely as a comfort-blanket to Java/C# devs or is there something I'm missing?
That not true for everyone. I live a 1.6 mile walk/run to work so my commute is 35 min a day and free.
Thought Experiment #1: What would happen if you said some of things at work that Trump has said on Twitter in front of someone in HR. What do you think would happen?

Thought Experiment #2: If you were a manager and your team was as a chaotic, unqualified, and had the turnover that the WH has, what do you think would happen?
This had me wondering about whether it was possible to use pre-calculated line breaks to implement improved text justification in current browsers. I was able to come up with a demo [1][2] that does so, although it falls back to default line breaks in Safari due to lack of support for `text-align-last`.

[1] https://mpetroff.net/files/pre-calculated-line-breaks-demo/
[2] https://mpetroff.net/2020/05/pre-calculated-line-breaks-for-...
I was thinking that too, the initial potential energy should be proportional to h^2/2. However then we still have 2*(h/2)^2/2 = h^2/4.
Couple of random ones of mine:

Walking again a year after a road accident put me in hospital for several months, aged 19.

Buying a house and escaping an abusive home, aged 22.

Recognizing the negative baggage I had from my upbringing, deciding to be better; taking interpersonal skills courses, learning about emotional intelligence, Buddhism, and self reflection/awareness. Aged 23.
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This is no different from saying that economic progress, in general, will eat itself until hardly anyone is employed. Which people worried about, for example, in the early 1900's as farm employment fell dramatically due to efficiency.

Spoiler alert: it didn't happen.

What people always seem to miss is that as things become more commodified and more efficient, we move onto solving harder problems that aren't commodified or efficient.

As programming CRUD applications or managing databases becomes quicker, we start working on better product ideas, cleverer scalable architectures, and whole new product categories.

Innovation never eats itself. This is a myth that people seem to fall for decade after decade. (Unless we somehow reach the "singularity", but that's purely in the realm of science fiction for now, and certainly not worth worrying about until we solve AGI.)
There is an additional video with the robot dressed as Spiderman.

Did you even click the link?
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Either you are throwing beach balls at a barn door and you don't know if the barn is moving towards you a few inches every century. Or you are throwing a medicine ball at a crowd in a roller rink. You know you're pushing the skater who catches the ball backwards but you don't know exactly where the skater starts to be pushed back. That's uncertainty.

Combined with relativity, that time can be a thermal medium of transfer for radiation and existence can be described with just photons and the photoelectric effect, you have quantum theory. Those are the quantum laws of nature which electronics use already. Running a voltage through a material can either open or close an electronic circuit.

Quantum computing is off/on/indeterminate versus the digital off/on. The digital off/on is already a form of off/on/indeterminate. If you are going to connect many off/on/indeterminates together, randomness becomes unavoidable.

I think of taking a sink's faucet, and hooking up the spout to the handle of another faucet. I open one valve, I can open the valves of another and build a big pipe network. The indeterminate part will be switching a valve if a faucet is moving, and then switching again when it stops differently based on the source's position, open or closed.

Instead of building a device, perhaps nature built one for us already. Graphene replaces silicon. Celestial objects turn into telescopes and data networks. Neurological and genetic diseases find treatments. And we are left with explaining why nature did all these things which most certainly happened. Risk are gone because we already did it. Quantum computing provides the best explanation and discovers instead of builds.
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If you're in the United States, Stargate is available free on broadcast in many cities. I run across it frequently when flipping between the various western channels.
Paper: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~gmporter/papers/darkpackets-ancs18.p...
As far as sharing JS library code yes, but the baked in typescript support + nx CLI add a lot in terms of usability.

1. nx g @nrwl/workspace:lib data,
2. Modify the typed models/interfaces.
3. Import to backend + front end.
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Yes! Do this and if you're constrained by disk size, get an external NVME ssd enclosure.

They come in USB and Thunderbolt variants. I've only used the USB variant and am seeing Read speeds of 1000mb/s and Writes at 1300mb/s using the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test app. This is using a Samsung 970 1TB drive (~$200) and an Orico enclosure (~$35).

For reference, my onboard SSD soldered to the motherboard of my Mac gives me 1250mb/s Reads and 2400mb/s Writes. I'm guessing the Thunderbolt enclosures go higher but they're wayy more expensive right now over USB.
> If the ... interviewer had not had a backup question, the interview might have gone badly

That seems like a wild assumption to make.

Interviewers will usually tell you straight up to inform them if you already know the question.
You're looking at popcorn time through a US-centric viewpoint.
I feel that every no-code tool that gets sophisticated enough to replace manual human coding work will have a significant learning curve. So much so that we will need trained professionals to operate these sophisticated no-code tools.

Yes, people will be more productive using no-code tools over manual coding/deployment, but we will still need these skilled no-code professionals to use these things and ship faster.
All of that ignores the dynastic decline and corruption at the same time by the Qing. One could argue that the west made China weak, but it was also more likely that the west was taking advantage of a weak China.

Also, the Chinese invented opium and the British didn’t introduce the opium dens, they used that a a a vector to massively increase supply that the Qing restricted before. That doesn’t by any means absolve they west, but it doesn’t absolve the Qing dynasty either, Empress Cixi was quite the villain in China’s decline herself.
Until yesterday, I would've voted Prisma. There was actually a Show HN post recently that debuted Zapatos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23273543. The top comment also mentions mammoth: https://github.com/Ff00ff/mammoth. Probably going to switch over to one of them as they're closer to raw to raw SQl and well typed.
And, if you live in a country that does not tax resident foreigners whose entire income is foreign, you pay no income tax at all. The only countries I know that do this cheaply are Costa Rica and Uruguay (the Bahamas have expensive requirements).

One technique is to not live anywhere more than six months but be a residency in one of those countries.

I haven't done this because I have kids and pets.. but it seems pretty awesome if you make a competitive salary (not Facebook!).
They maintain scrapers/indexers undoubtedly. In the absence of an API, you can scrape the aggregators yourself.
[1] Draw.io is a very good tool to document architecture. Keep it simple.

[2] code2flow is also great to show high level logic.

README's in the repository are great to track changes in architecture with the code.

Easily understood architecture allows for easily understood code, which allows people to help you!

[1] https://draw.io

[2] https://code2flow.com
> Just like when plutonium was first discovered it was used for health

[citation needed] because this doesn't really seem to be the case. Although apparently there were eventually some plutonium based pacemakers in the 70s, plutonium itself was first produced in the 40s but I couldn't really find how it was used for health except for some highly unethical studies done on radiation.
Well, chocolate can be 3D printed. And see The Diamond Age for how we can go from that. ;-)
Never understood this either.

But when I see how TypeScript looks like JS+C# it feels like OOP people just can't help themselves
Well, apologies, i assumed by "Literal" whole OS, i was drawing the distinction between a binary and the raw files.
Ask HN: What are some good platforms to create referral links for your users?
I'm looking to incentivize my existing users to refer their friends and was looking for a turnkey platform that perhaps creates some token I can easily track? Most platforms I see online are large scale and cost ~$50/month. Are there any cheaper alternatives?
Organice[0] is one option. Works well on mobile also.

[0] https://github.com/200ok-ch/organice
I haven’t needed a DVD player in a decade.

Then you have chosen to exclude yourself from watching literally hundreds of thousands of hours of quality entertainment that didn't make it to streaming and never will.
Scary and true IMO. The difference is clear in the head counts & philosophies of newer companies vs. old ones. To do anything in software, you had to be a software-first company. Now that part is easier, we see many more software-enabled companies instead - the business is front and center, only a few programmers needed, and they have a lot of software plumbing kind of work, not much software building.
Not that I think autotools are great, but, to the contrary, feature-detection is exactly what all those macros in configure.ac etc. do, as opposed to cmake which tries to guess a platform and is a monolith with magical behaviour that nobody groks in its entirety. cmake, for one, is actually a case of the cure being worse than the illness. Already autotools treats Makefiles as output (and many macros shit gmake-specific if/else cascades into it) when the solution is simply using Makefiles properly, and assume POSIX headers/defs in this millenium. See git's Makefile, or those on suckless.org, for how to do it properly.
How do you figure that media companies are entitled to wield the power of the state in a way that doesn't create an institution of intellectual property that makes the world better for everyone?
If you're wanting to use FreeBSD for something pihole-like, check out pfsense and pfBlockerNG.
I prefer to think of it as a human chicken coop. There may be some greater signal in the madness but pretty sure it’s 99% just yelling and poop.
Your interviewer: hadn't coded much in the 7 years, googled Java interview questions...
Here's one to spin a story around:

Cyborg PM junks TV flax whiz. QED.
I think that is a bit of an illusion --

Scenario 1: You see something that make a good point. You nod and move on... maybe upvote. But the result is that good points are quiet threads, and don't fill up the site with huge discussion because they simply made a point and left it at that.

Scenario 2: "Someone is wrong on the internet!" Downvote! Argue. Get upvotes for proving someone wrong. Busy threads, with higher emotion.

I don't think people come to HN to deliberately argue and criticize. But argumentative threads get more heated, are longer, and take up more of the discussions, and thereby have high visibility.

My personal approach it that I mostly only read the top 1-2 levels of any thread, and try to not go down negative rabbit holes.
I believe you should have mentioned the evolutionary algorithm, so that people know why this is on HN.

BTW, here's my own retro arcade game:
https://fxtentacle.itch.io/space-dance
Now you're essentially paying for a co-working space (whether you use it or not or whether there's always a space available) through some combination of higher unit prices and condo fees.

Wouldn't it make more sense for those who need/want a work area outside their apartment to get a co-working space?
What I find interesting is that I only need priming on one, then I can understand all of them once I realize I'm supposed to be listening for speech that's behind some kind of high-pitched distortion.

It reminds me somewhat of when I'm in a bilingual conversation and somebody unexpectedly switches to the other language for just a quick word or two when you don't expect it. Your brain tries to interpret the sounds in the first language and they're just gibberish, even though you speak the second language. Then if the speaker continues in the second language quickly, you "retroactively" re-interpret what you just heard and understand it.
That also depended on the project. With the right ports forwarded on your home router, servers can pop up and down as required.

Mercurial had a single command for this, "hg serve", that would just pop up a webserver for sharing. It was extremely useful for me during university, and I've often considered it a key failing that git does not provide a similar command out of the box. As a result, the distributed nature of git is hidden from a lot of people.

For the record, the command to make git do what mercurial does with hg serve is "git daemon --reuseaddr --base-path=. --export-all --verbose --enable=receive-pack".

Obviously this is insecure and anyone who can establish a connection can push and pull from your repo, but if you're just jamming with some friends you don't need github.
This comment was a joy to read right after finishing "Out of the Tar Pit" [1]. This bit is one of the critical design principles that article was advocating for:

> You can relatively easily try different search strategies while keeping the model the same.

[1] https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master...
It's also intuitively obvious that energy must disappear, otherwise nothing would happen (the system would already be in its lowest energy state).
The basic truth there is the complete unaccountability of the elites. People chase extreme power for some vice, and sex is one of the oldest. More concretely, Epstein.

Holding an abstract truth in your head is tough when it's pitted against simplistic narratives pumped out by cross-spectrum mass media. Creating and subscribing to an unsubstantiated story with glaringly baseless details is ultimately harmful to understanding (for one, it's a straw man), but appeals to most people's need for straightforward answers. They know they're being had, they know the (competing) mainstream narrative is false, and so they congregate around a popular counter-narrative regardless of its truth.
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Thank you! Glad you like it! It's always encouraging to see comments like these :)
There is a (not so fine) line between looking after yourself and being a greedy jerk.

I find that a little bit of grace goes a long way. Ask for a raise when you deserve it, absolutely. But if you ruthlessly try to extract every last penny from your employer, they will do the same to you.

Have you ever browsed HN at work? Have you ever left just a few minutes before 5?

I don't want my workplace to be a battleground over pennies. Treat your employer with some grace and they will do the same.

Unless, of course, your employer is already a greedy asshole. Then you should change employers.
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If laws are regularly abused for extraneous purposes then we no longer live in a society with rule of law. Armed gangs are replaced by teams of lawyers but the effect is the same.

There may be value in taking down tools used to aid copyright but if that is a desired outcome congress should pass a law permitting it.
Strange how just because it's on Twitter, people treat it as if it has more value than any other online comment thread. No one is going through YouTube or Breitbart comments and pretending they have value beyond anonymous ranting.
If they previously chose those areas for convenient location in regards their work, now they're free to move anywhere they'd like.
I had written about my predictions about technology trends which are going to make a maximum impact in 2021 out of which no-code will have a definite impact

https://jay.kanakiya.in/blog/what-i-am-excited-about-in-2020...
Common self-help guru advice can do more harm than good
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