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The development of quantum mechanics suggests not. When we come up with a new field, even the brightest minds will struggle to ignore anthropocentrism, coming up with wild theories like:

> These equations seem to govern the behaviour of all our toy experiments, with multiple superimposed world states interfering with each other when they happen to transform into the same state as each other… except when a human looks at the result, whereupon all but one of the world states just vanishes!

The first person I know of¹ to propose that the world states don't just vanish – it's just that "brain that sees event X" and "brain that sees event Y" don't converge to the same state, so you don't see quantum interference when people get involved – was Hugh Everett III. This is a simpler explanation, stops quantum mechanics contradicting special relativity, solves the EPR paradox, side-steps Bell's theorem, stops God playing dice with the universe… in short, it solves every problem² except where the Born rule comes from.³

When he proposed it to Niels Bohr, he was laughed out of the room.⁴

In principle, we could probably eliminate anthropocentrism in physics models from popular consciousness entirely… but then we wouldn't be prepared for new fields, where we'd introduce it right back again.

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¹: Okay, technically Erwin Schrödinger mentioned the idea five years earlier, but he didn't do much with it. Apart from, you know, coming up with the equation in the first place…

²: Edit to add: I didn't know about Grete Hermann's flaw in John von Neumann's proof that all non-local hidden variable theories were impossible. Such theories still violate special relativity, but they're not impossible; many-worlds doesn't solve this problem because it isn't actually a problem. (Many-worlds is still the simplest theory I know of, but I'm less certain that it's the simplest possible theory consistent with the evidence… making this comment less relevant than I initially thought it was.)

³: Some people think many-worlds explains the Born rule. I haven't heard all the arguments, but all the ones I've heard have been wrong.

⁴: Artistic license. But Léon Rosenfeld certainly considered him "undescribably stupid" and unable to "understand the simplest things in quantum mechanics".
Genuine question: Is there any attempt at impartiality in the application of these policies on HN, or is it as ostensibly anti-White as most large internet platforms? Is someone with my views - White Nationalism, namely - as welcome here as others, or is HN as anti-White as most other internet platforms in practice?

I'd be very interested in participating in good faith here in these kinds of discussions, yet things get a little disjointed when I need to keep making new accounts. And sometimes that can lead to frustrated comments that test the rules too, I admit.

Do you have any guidance? I've reread my comment and I genuinely can't understand why it would attract a ban, all else being equal.

tldr- Am I allowed to disagree, or should I go elsewhere?
It's analogous to taxation without representation.

Jailed felons are subject to the laws of the land, but have no say in what those laws are. I think that's unjust.

It's especially nefarious when you consider all the people in jail for non-violent offenses.
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Here in JavaScript land, we have Prettier and can configure the line limit to be whatever we want on our local editor and whatever else we want when we save the saved file, making this entire discussion irrelevant.

Its time for more development tools to be built with individual developer in mind, adaptable to their workflow and needs. See for example https://old.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c8drjo/nobody_t...
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As with darn near everything, there’s a balance. I’m invested in companies taking a more VC approach, and another company that is incredibly cautious and skeptical of fundraising, growing slowly and cautiously.

This is an case by case kinda thing. And that’s why blanket advice “don’t raise money” is silly.

Also, it’s a software centric mentality. Good luck getting your hardware startup going without funding!
That's cool. The other one we use a lot in the industry is Zemax
But you get the idea. You could opt out. People did. And it didn't take totally isolating yourself in a clean room.

Unless you mean rape or something. But that's a violent crime, and a tiny, tiny fraction of the public health issue that is an infectious disease.
Totally agree.

But comparing modern Javascript to ancient PHP would be even more unreasonable.
Nothing springs to mind, as of yet.

However, with the very latest release series (3.32.x), one of the pieces ("SQLITE_HAS_CODEC") used by third party encryption libraries (eg SQLCipher, various others) was removed without notice.

https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/a48e4672da

There does seem to be a way forward, via reimplementing the encryption as a SQLite VFS. If that didn't exist though, then some kind of forking would be on the cards.
It's the first non-west-friendly provider of core bits of network infrastructure. It's also cheaper and better, which means it's selling quickly.

Having network infrastructure with your designs installed on every network interconnection worldwide is very useful if you want to, say, have access to tap any conversation anywhere in the world...

The funny thing is the US has missed the boat... Hearts and minds is what matters far more than network infrastructure, and tiktok has won there...
Maybe this is by design. Maybe they are giving more thought to how they want the shell to blow apart rather than making it as strong as possible.

Once the thing decides it's going to explode, then the shell just needs an exit plan. The shell isn't going to hold anything together at this point.
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No matter how many years, decades pass, the connections the Internet makes possible never cease to astonish me. Thanks for your work on ES4.
In the short term, maybe. On a longer term, one has to ask why half the homicides? (while one is at it, why so many homicides, period?)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/1968-...
"Ultimately, going to the moon was far easier than solving the nation’s racial issues."
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I think this is a point where Go is very good at and JavaScript sucks pretty hard. Mostly because Go brings many things by default and JavaScript has such a high rate at which new tools become mainstream/obsolete and so many options to choose from and combine with.
Yes, the code

auto [quotient, remainder] = divide(14, 3);

is not an assignment. In an assignment, you should write something like

std::tie(quotient, remainder) = divide(14, 3);

which is a tuple assignment written as a single assignment.

This shows the kind of (imho) "ugly hacks" the C++ committee had to make to cover up the historical mistake with the comma operator.
The press in those clips seem to be pathetically lapping up Speakes' cuntery, though, and somehow manage to come across even worse than him.
Well then it’s a good thing that measures against police brutality will help everyone not just black people then, isn’t it?
> If your average line of code is wider than 80 characters, it's likely you have some other, bigger coding style problems

In math-heavy stuff, lines tend to be longer. You are usually trying to convert one line of math into one line of code. I myself shoot for 160 character columns.

See, e.g. [1].

[1] https://docs.fast.ai/dev/style.html
There's the idea that, felons have opted out of civilized intercourse. You can't do that, then pick and choose which rights you want to keep. After you've deliberately violated rights of others.

In the past, felons were transported. It was cruel and caused unspeakable suffering. Kind of like what the felons did. So a balance of a sort.

I've got the strange feeling that Mars may not be the rich person's paradise folks joke about. It may be a prison colony. The rigors of the trip (permanent physical impairment) may preclude soft rich people from applying for the trip.

Anyway, to return to the topic, if I were officiating a baseball game and somebody came out on the field and broke the bat, pried up the bases and tossed the ball over the fence, I'd evict them from the park. It's only sensible. They can't obey the rules, they're out. Otherwise the game is completely disrupted.
This sounds like a great opportunity for organised crime. I imagine China'd be willing to pay at least as much for smuggled chips as drug consumers in many places pay for smuggled drugs, so it represents a huge opportunity for US-law-nonabiding middlemen.
That's a lot of work, and a beautiful result. I'm just not sure what the purpose is.
Seems like a reasonable rebuttal so me. Care to say something more substantive about how it's based on a misunderstanding?
I always see circle packing using ideal circles(or other shapes) inside another ideal shape. It's my understanding that packing arbitrary shapes inside other shape(even an ideal one) or the reverse, packing ideal shapes inside an arbitrary shape, is NP hard. My limited research and experimentation proves this out but my work has been in the context of getting things done and not research or algorithm design.

Double packing, packing shapes inside shapes inside shapes is O(N^k) as far as I can tell.
Tell that to 'functional programming' people, or the lambda-crazy people who put entire functions in argument lists to the point you can't parse a statement to save your soul. I've had to print and highlight code to figure out where it began and ended.
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SVN is also quite popular, it's okay at dealing with large repos.
Thanks again, there seems to be a lot of then thats what happens :-), hopefully some bright young fellow figures it out one day.
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I prefer reading these on LessWrong, because people often point out when Eliezer's said something unjustified. (Often he provides the justification in the comments, but on a couple of occasions there hasn't been a justification – he's just been flat-out wrong.)

This one's pretty good, though. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8QzZKw9WHRxjR4948/the-futili...
How well does it handle large repos?
It might have looked to you as if he was strangling the man with his knee, but he actually wasn't and the cop probably knew he wasn't. Regardless of how things look, what really matters is how are, what really happened. Just like that video of the maga kid being stared down by the native American with the drum.
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For electricity? Solar panels. Even for someone burning wood in a stove they're still a better and cheaper source.
That’s a failing of the education system, not a victory. Math education is absolutely terrible. There’s no building of foundations and fundamental relationships to provide people with easy learning. It only gets worse further up the chain. It took 3Blue1Brown to make the connection for me between i, the unit circle, and e. They seem fundamentally linked, but no math education ever put them into the same sentence other than to give a few rote examples of famous equations.

Maybe my education was just garbage, but none of the stuff in k-6 was built upon. They threw out my foundation in numbers and handed me a list of valid rules in the form of equations and identities. If you do the quadratic formula, you get the roots. Cos^2 + sin^2 = tan, etc.

I was on the track to math, sure. But that’s because I was good at memorizing useless trivia and utilizing it on tests, not because I was good at math. Same goes for most of my classes. There was one dude that actually got it, but he definitely didn’t get it from our teachers.
I do indie game development, Houdini extremely speeds up game development process by combining python programming, procedural generation, and conventional 3D asset modelling into one single software package.

It must’ve increased my productivity at least 5x fold, and it costed around 250 USD, which is really cheap compared to other 3D software packages.

Basically I just use Houdini to do everything from terrain generation, static mesh modelling, rigging/animation to VFX. It doesn’t have good sculpting capabilities, so zbrush is needed for organic character modelling.

Most amazing thing about Houdini is that it let’s you basically code entire asset generation and baking process via python.

I’m 100% sure Houdini will take over entire gaming industry, I doubt conventional modelling software like Maya or 3D Max will be utilised in new game studios, though older ones will still use them due to initial investments they made.
TLDR: The "news" is not the age of the samples, there are older ones, but that the virus genome is still intact and allows for a more accurate estimation of mutation rates and origins of HIV.

"There are older fragments of HIV out there, one from 1959 and one from 1960, also from DRC. But those pieces aren't as complete, and thus can't offer as much information about the virus' mutations. "
It's pointless to try to prove anything to conspiracionists, they'll just tweak their stories and continue as if nothing happened. Anything that goes against their narrative is ignored and quickly forgotten, anything that appears to remotely vaguely confirm their beliefs is amplified and repeated ad nauseam.

Don't waste your time with them. You cannot reason people out of something they were not reasoned into.
Well, Linus has already said he doesn’t care about your (or anybody else’s) accessibility issues.

Is the kernel getting impossible to compile on anything less than a monster $2500 gaming rig? Too bad. Stop being poor or from a poor country.

Does the code require a $1000 monitor to be readable? Same.

Do you need a larger size font because of age? Well pop your Benjamin Button polls coz Linus Torvalds dont care.
I have always been of the opinion that if colleges accept federally backed student loans they should be required to offer course credits at a federally mandated rate. As in, many have no problem the government dictating what hospitals can charge it for services and goods so why cannot the same apply to colleges?

You can guarantee that colleges would fall in line quickly. there would be also attempts to circumvent the charges but those can be dealt with. they could though try to up sell you on amenities you may not otherwise have chosen to pay for but do now through high tuition.

So summary, Federal student loans only apply to programs with set rates per course credit and degrees. fall outside of these degrees; lets be honest there are some degree programs we should never back; and you pay your own way and colleges can charge what they want.
You get a job. I’m not implying you don’t work. I guess we need to compare marginal increase of college vs non-college salaries and career trajectories to be fair.
He should honesty consider using a different operating system one thing.
This is one of the interesting things about Coronaviruses, in general. They don't mutate nearly as much as influenza viruses - but they also don't have to because they can re-infect people anyway (albeit usually to a lesser degree).

The vaccine will be interesting to see. There's a fair chance it will confer some immunity, but that those infected will may get a little sick.
I'm actually building a crypto trading system from scratch (like gekko but more sophisticated). For now not as a SaaS, but even with a simple system, all the transactional problems occur quite fast. This is really interesting !
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New Technique makes Flush Based Attacks on x86 Processors more effective
Yea that's gonna go well
Most likely, yes.

But it might be worthwhile to blind/kill a few creatures to better understand them to be able to protect the rest.
The idea is that you take all the links to the different font types and put them directly in your local CSS. Your browser knows which formats it supports, if you have TTF and WOFF2 fonts linked, Chrome will only download the WOFF2 version. No need to send an extra 3rd party request just to get a piece of CSS that only links a single file type.
Mind that byte code is generally much larger than source code.

(This is also, why scripting languages were prevalent server-side with slow hard disks: loading and compiling a Perl script was faster than loading a massive binary. See also the 2MB Java Hello-World.)
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Code that violates C++ static typing rules can be syntactically valid too, yet noone is proposing it should be only a warning.

(I find this the most weird thing about C/C++ culture: they are so proud it is static typed, yet oblivious to all the other problems and traps/memory unsafety/undefined behavior/etc.)
I don’t smell after showering either with or without soap. This state only lasts a very short while in either case unless I apply deodorant. So soap really does nothing for me smell wise.
Ask HN: Onboarding remotely as an employee during Covid-19
I will be joining a large tech company in a data scientist role next week. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, the entire company is working remotely for the foreseeable future.

Does anyone have any advice or acquired wisdom related to onboarding remotely as an employee? Most HN threads on the topic of remote onboarding approach it from the employer's perspective (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16978946), and so many of the suggestions—such as having good READMEs, etc.—are not really actionable as an individual employee being onboarded.

Last time I joined a company, I initially under-invested in building the informal relationships and social ties which prove to be valuable in the long-run. I am particularly interested in strategies to build relationships in a purely remote setting, which poses the additional challenges of awkward Zoom meetings, and lack of opportunities to build rapport in-person or engage in spontaneous interactions (grabbing lunch with someone you meet in the hallway, etc.)
My workaround for this issue is to put Mail app in its own dedicated Space/Desktop. Then it only comes to the front in its own Space, not in the Space I'm normally using.
I am not sure Europe's best interest is to help China replace USA as the world's bully. Compared to future China, even USSR might be remembered with fond memories of that bully who harassed everyone for a time, but is in his hart just a depressed and neglected boy who needed a compassionate touch.
> If you write your own solution to the problem, it will (almost by definition, and assuming you write decent code) be a smaller, tighter, faster and more appropriate solution than the framework solution.

Only if you know what you are doing.

I have read smart people admit that at some point they realized that the compiler had outsmarted their clever inline assembly hacks and I fully expect this to be true in a frameworks vs homebuilt scenario as well.

Also: The number of people who knows my or your brilliant solution will always be dwarfed by the number of people who knows Rails, Django, Laravel or Spring, meaning as soon as you need to hire you are at a significant disadvantage.

(I've seen brilliant people running frameworkless also, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for more ordinary people like me ;-)
They are a quite neat niche for TEGs: you have a ready supply of heat, lower power demands, and the fact that you need to get rid of the heat on the cold side is also what you're trying to achieve with the fan in the first place. I don't think they will generate too much excess power though.
There's nothing too novel about Kubernetes, similar patterns could be seen in Erlang many years ago, though in different abstraction levels.

However, because enterprise ops prior to Kubernetes are both costly and brittle, Kubernetes just works for enterprises.

We had a huge PowerShell codebase and it was a nightmare to maintain. in the meantime, it's no way as robust as Kubernetes.

It's just as simple as that: sure, Kubernetes seems to be complex, but most enterprise stuff are even worse. At the same time, despite they are costly, the quality is usually pretty crappy because those scripts are written under delivery pressure.
In my life as a professional c++ programmer, overloading the comma operator has been much less useful than using goto. The operator itself is fine and using it in its default behaviour can be good, but overloading it is absolutely useless.
Which highlights why bytecode is such a bad idea. It isn't a sort of assembly language, its much dumber, more like a pocket calculator language. It actually loses semantic information. It has to be re-compiled like the source code but with most of the useful source clues lost.

A far, far better choice would have been some orderly structuring of the semantics of parsed and interpreted code. What the compiler has internally after digesting the source, but before generating code. Choose some schema and emit json or something. That would have been a game-changing choice some decades ago. But no we got saddled with byte-code and a billion dollars has been spent mitigating that disaster.
I get something like this with Music.app -- it seems to randomly open. I suspect it's some kind of keystroke (i.e. hitting the play button) but I haven't figured out exactly why it's happening or how to stop it.

I'm pretty sure this didn't used to happen until I upgraded to Catalina.

I really wish I had better luck with Linux...
AFAIK, Yandex Taxi uses "single statically linked, optimized C++ server that can serve".
Muslim minority is treated worse by USA with the treatment of Palestine and its own Muslim population, same goes for India. So it will be better if we want to protect minority apply same standards for everyone.

As I said like China is imperfect in treating its minorities with differing opinions (Tibet, Uighur, Hong Kong and Taiwan), so is many large democracies be it USA or India (where majoritarian politics works the same way as China, trampling on the rights of minorities finding loopholes in systems and bypass all safeguards with majority support). We all have a right to disagree with Chinese system, but don’t have a right to force it on majority of Chinese who believe in their own system.
Not an expert, but from what I read that is exactly why you should not supplement high dosage vitamin D without also supplementing vitamin K2 (mk7 all-trans). Studies that show positive health effects from D3 typically supplement 40ug K2 for every 1000IU D3.
I'm not sure where the report of the following morning is coming from. They were released after about an hour and back on the air. That doesn't excuse anything, as they clearly identified themselves and were live on the air, but this is an exaggeration of what happened.
> Do we blind them?

Yes

But even if we would blind them (either temporarily or permanently), they would remain still mostly functional or fully functional. Still able to feed, move and escape from predators with their other three or four main senses intact. I'm generalizing, of course, each species is different but this means that the animals can always choose to escape from the light, but they aren't choosing it for some reason. Petrified by fear, curious, hungry, or feeling that remaining in the light is safer than running into the obscurity after being exposed... we don't know

On the other hand both, the animals in the light and those who remain in the dark out of the light circle and will not be blinded can have a glimpse of their surroundings in a totally different "light" and access for a brief moment to a totally new understanding of this world.

Would be interesting to know what pass by that cephalopod brain when seeing the real aspect of its companion species for the first time in their life. Will be this information allow them to associate a particular stimulus with the arrival of a particular predator, and be useful in the future? maybe, maybe not.
Please make sure to log this at http://bugreporter.apple.com

Your bug will at least then be triaged and acknowledged.