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This "falsehoods programmers believe" is fundamentally different from the more classic ones (e.g. "about names") because its topic is also wholly controlled by programmers. That means in the end it doesn't share much with those documents, but can instead also be characterized as "just" a list of bugs in other programs.

If a program doesn't handle my name, that's a problem with the program. My name is my name; the program doesn't decide that. Depending on the context some government might; the program also generally isn't supposed to decide for the government. Often in practice the program controls both of us; this is the core complaint of "falsehoods" articles, that a program artifact is overstepping its ethical/legal/otherwise extra-computational authority.

But there's no moral demand that e.g. a program exit with 0 status even when it's failed, or that build trees should be cyclic. These are tools by programmers and for programmers concerning programs and when we run into issues it's usually because we chose a poor modeling tool (e.g. a build system should not be ideal to calculate the fixed point of a data processing pipeline, independent of any cycles) or because of a flat-out mistake (there's no reason a compiler can't be given some output directive other than inventor oversight).

Other "falsehoods" are criticism of the software encoding the falsehood, but I read probably 90% of the complaints here as equal or greater failings on the tools invoked. Not only for the sake of my build system do I want DAG pipelines, updated timestamps, or meaningful exit codes - if anything these are the demands I wish to place on other software for the sake of my brain! More like "falsehoods compilers believe about their primacy in program generation."

Or as one of the comments suggests,

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build systems are a symptom of software languages that are not designed to build software systems
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The article states: "“It’s like looking at a black hole,” Mr. Davis said."

Presumably Mr. Davis is a human, and is describing the black hole-ness of these fish as he perceived them. In the sunlight. With his eyes. I would like a picture of that. Because seeing is believing.

"They aren't even black, to us." You make this whole mythology up about how the fish are. I'm not sure why. Yes they are black. Anything with that reflectivity will be black to us. But we don't have to argue about that, we can just look at this picture of a Pacific Blackdragon: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwGT8egWEAAtdMf.jpg
I doubt this comment will go over well, but I'll mention this small but important cultural fact anyway: Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints no longer refer to themselves as Mormons or Latter-Day Saints. Only Saints.

It may seem like minutia, but Saints (of whom I am one of them) worship Christ. Mormon, on the other hand, is one of many mortal prophets from ancient Americas and also the editor/compiler of the Book of Mormon.

If you know just that alone, it'll probably score you points with the Saints that you meet. :)
Sure. It mostly isn't a first class customer, however. We may never have "The Year of The Linux Desktop" because of this, but command line configuration in Linux is the first class use case.
> I don’t know about the Linux VM stuff being part of a browser JS project, maybe I’m misunderstanding that part but it does sound crazy.

A bunch of stuff I see comes with a dockerfile these days.

While I get building in docker for reproducibility, kind of -- shipping with one is a pretty big red flag. It means that it's likely to be very painful to port the code out of docker and integrate it into some other build. Which means that it'll be painful to integrate it with other code. Leave the build environment set up to the users. Embrace build diversity, it makes your code less fragile.
shutdown :)
In the sense being used by the original article, those are not dimensions. That is a very scify type of dimension, which has no known real-world referent. The original list goes wrong at "a solid that might exist in some possible future"; that is not a dimension. That is simply a solid with a time value in the future, which is the same four dimensions as the preceding example.

A dimension is an additional necessary number to characterize a system. Beyond the location inside a point (0 numbers required), a line (1 number required), a plane (2 numbers required), and a full 3D space (3 numbers required), examples of real world entities that require more than three dimensions are:

A RGBA color value, which is four-dimensional.

The location and orientation of a rigid object; 6 dimensional. Three for the location, three additional for the rotation.

The location, velocity, orientation, and spin rate of a rigid object: 12 dimensional. In addition to the previous six, three new ones needed for the translational vector and three new ones needed for each spin axis rate.

Any arbitrary multiple of three: Any RGB image, where each pixel is three dimensions each, one for R, G, and B. Images get to be high-dimensional spaces very quickly.

High numbers of dimensions are hard to visualize, but they are completely bereft of any "woo woo" value or any of the sort of mystery one might be inclined to ponder on illegal substances. Bog-standard examples of such things are encountered on a daily basis; the state of the display you are reading this on is characterized by a several-million-component vector. That's how "boring" and "normal" such things are. If you've got any of the woowoo in your concept of "dimension", you don't understand dimensionality.

The bad news is that this may take away the vague fuzzy fun of pondering the meaningless concept; the good news is that this opens you to much more concrete and real, and still quite mysterious, fun of pondering real high dimensionality spaces, which is a much richer and more interesting space that has enough stuff to explore for the rest of your life, were you so inclined. The "woo woo" scify concept is exhausted in five minutes, or perhaps a drug-fueled trip. It may feel fun for a moment but it doesn't go anywhere.
We need to be really careful about the claims of asymptomatic infection.

The problem with this concept is it becomes impossible to detect false positives. In fact it makes the test the ground truth rather than actual observable clinical sickness. Any bug in the test thus creates a pseudo-epidemic:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00047325.htm

If you look at that paper you can see it admits that other research studies found no asymptomatic infection at all. Others on the other hand said they saw it. So there's no real consensus that this phenomenon actually exists in this case, and the asymptomatic people didn't seem to transmit the virus at all (so why are we all wearing masks now then?).

The numbers involved are tiny. Their conclusions are based on the antibody test returning positive without symptoms for just 6 people. The amount of antibodies found in the asymptomatic cases was significantly lower than for other cases, leading to the question of whether they were picking up noise at the edge of the test's capabilities and whether they truly understand how the test works (given that there weren't many SARS-CoV-1 cases, there'd be limited cases on which to test or calibrate it).
Rapidly Create UIs to Prototype Your ML Model
Could be lots of self made issues.

How do the 4 SEO Tests look like? Outlined here in the "is it me or is it google" section https://medium.com/@franz.enzenhofer/what-to-do-when-a-googl...
I dunno, this sounds like "you don't need vitamin D if you have enough vitamin C".
“Meet me 9:30” doesn’t look okay, still it’s cool that it’s possible to do such thing with emojis.
I think the last 40 years were golden years for doctors in the US. They made great money, but now the jig is up and there are 2 options for the next generation:

1) if US goes with taxpayer funded healthcare, expect pay to go down similar to other developed countries with taxpayer funded healthcare. Because there will be no negotiating power.

2) with the ACA framework, it’s a race for insurers, hospitals, and physicians groups to get as big as they can do they can gain as much negotiating power as they can. I can see it with all the M&A in the hospital and provider space, and the rule of thumb is “the closer you are to the money, the more you make”. In this case, insurers will hold the money, so it will be at their mercy that they approve or deny payments for certain procedures.

The American people themselves don’t have enough money to continue paying for this gravy train, and the government was picking up the slack, but I think that’s going to be over soon.

The CVS/Aetna vertical integration model is interesting too, as they are talking about adding doctors to their stores to make it a one stop shop. Insurance, provider, medicine all in one, similar to Kaiser.

And then there’s doctor groups who are able to pump out more work from one doctor by using physician assistances and nurse practitioners to actually see patients “supervised” by one doctor, but the doctor never actually sees the patient.
‘Superspreading’ events propel coronavirus pandemic
I am going to make two claims:

1) Consciousness is not a computation.

2) Science will never be able to disprove claim (1).

If you doubt claim (2) then explain how you could prove to me that you are a conscious being as opposed to a figment of my imagination invented by my subconscious mind in a similar way to the "beings" one experiences in dreams.

So obviously I don't accept your assumptions and further I think that your confusion follows from those assumptions.

You seem to be imagining an AI as some kind of independent being that can make "free" choices. But an AI, at least to the extent that anyone working in the field is able to conceive of it, is nothing like that whatsoever. An AI is little more than an optimization algorithm that attempts to optimize some utility function provided by its programmer. So the answer to your question is that if it is useful for the purposes of optimizing its utility function for a (sufficiently advanced) AI to process data in temporal order then it will do so, otherwise it will not.
Spot on! Swiss have the unity that I've never seen anywhere else.
Virginia Woolf kept her brother alive in letters
Yea y'all can pry blaze from my cold, dead hands. It may have its own problems, but working on a team that compiles things in like 10-15 different languages (c++, c#, go, java, javascript, typescript, lisp, haskell, blaze itself (whatever they call it now... skylark?), python, swift, kotlin, soon rust, a couple flavors of sql, etc), it saves us a lot of hassle.
We would not have any of the creators we had today. You're gatekeeping not only in the developed world but also in the developing world. A slew of people would be discouraged to even start given that they don't have money for bandwidth, servers, domains. Such a parochial, insulated view.
I love joplin.

I have two portable installs in different folders - one journaling. The other for work notes. The problem is that only one instance of joplin can work at a time. So to use one, I'd have to kill the other. That is the only reason I'm looking for an alternative
The influx of immigrants tends to precipitate disagreements within parties that to date were theoretical up to that point. That's what happened with the Republican Party. The George W. Bush/Romney/Jeb Bush wing courted Hispanic voters, with W. winning 40% in 2004, and Jeb carrying 60% in his Florida gubernatorial election. Then, the more nativist elements upset the applecart in 2016 by nominating Trump, who was opposed by the Republican establishment. Those nativist elements were always there--but the undocumented immigrant population increased 40% during Bush's tenure and changed the internal dynamics significantly.
> there is more of a culture of enjoying some downtime with iced tea in the shade in the South

This might be purely due to humidity differences between the Wasatch Front and the South. ;-)
Interesting this post downplays the Parkinsons theory

Some studies have shown that extreme emotional stress can trigger the onset / worsening of Parkinsons

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24259593/
I hate to say it because Alta is maybe my favorite place on earth, but I just avoid them now. We moved up to Summit Park area (just over the pass, in Park City school district) and ski Canyons, plus a lot of backcountry in the Wasatch back. The cottonwoods are getting loved to death and I don't see a great solution -- widening the LCC road and adding a dedicated bus lane would work, but it's a narrow canyon and I'm not sure it's even possible.
The misconceptions about a programmer’s life
> Some people will not transmit the virus to anyone, contact tracing has shown, while others appear to spread the virus with great efficiency. Overall, researchers have estimated in recent studies that some 10 to 20 percent of the infected may be responsible for 80 percent of all cases.

> In a detailed analysis of outbreaks in Hong Kong[1], for example, researchers found three distinct groups of incidents. The superspreading individuals, representing 20 percent of the total, were responsible for 80 percent of transmissions. A second group, involving about 10 percent of cases, transmitted the virus to one or two others. The final group, 70 percent, did not infect anyone else at all.

> In Israel, investigators looking at 212 cases[2] concluded that they could be linked back to 1 to 10 percent of people. And in an outbreak in a South Korea office tower[3], investigators found that about 45 percent of 216 workers got the virus from a single person. In the United States, an analysis from five counties in Georgia[4] found that superspreading appeared to be “widespread across space and time,” and that 2 percent of the infected seeded 20 percent of the cases.

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> Most of these events took place in coronavirus hot spots of which most people are now aware: buildings where people live in close quarters, such as nursing homes, prisons, worker dormitories and cruise ships. There have been a fair number of clusters at meat-processing and frozen food factories, as well as at a curling event in Edmonton, Canada, leading some to speculate that temperatures could be a factor.

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> The rest of the known superspreading events were set in a hodgepodge of social venues where people gather in crowds: concerts, sports games, weddings, funerals, churches, political rallies, restaurants, shopping centers. And nearly all took place indoors, or in venues with indoor-outdoor spaces.

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> While it’s often impossible to identify the person who triggered an outbreak, there have been some commonalities among those who have been pinpointed as the likely source in studies. They tend to be young. Asymptomatic. Social. Scientists suspect these “super-emitters” may have much higher levels of the virus in their bodies than others, or may release them by talking, shouting or singing in a different way from most people. Research based on the flu, which involved college students blowing into a tube, showed that a small percentage tended to emit smaller particles known as aerosols more than others. These particles tend to hang or float, and move with the flow of air — and therefore can go much farther and last longer than larger droplets.

1. https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-29548/v1

2. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.21.20104521v...

3. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/8/20-1274_article

4. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.20.20130476v...
because it's not a low salary compared to median? and because you find the work enjoyable and meaningful enough?
> This is about personal liberty.

That is only one aspect or part of the 2nd amendment proponents debate. There were many, many people who literally made the argument that the 2nd amendment exists to keep government in check. This is a very common trope or line of reasoning.

The libertarian crowd emphasized the personal liberty part more but the "government tyranny" argument was a huge part of the debate and discussion. So yeah, I call bullshit on this.
Wouldn't be that still kinda limited to what Microsoft Store provides in terms of software for everyday use? Because from what I remember, that translation feature on Windows which minces x86 to ARM is still away from being finished.

I also wonder - which perhaps might sound bit naiive, if is there a chance that ARM will enter on PCs and we'll see combined architecture motherboards or at least some daughterboards with these processors; kinda similar to accelerator cards from Amigas.
Me, Inwould avoid the whole problem and remove the pocket from the clothing - I have a lycra-like arm and that holds a phone for jogging and it is useful enough that if I could just slap it onto any piece of clothing and it would stay then I have a pocket I can put onto any clothing i want at any location
Importing vs growing it.

The process to get cocaine from coca leaf is the same as to extract any alkaloid from a plant.

The problem is the supply is not controlled in the USA, is dependent on the government of Peru and the drug manufacturing cartels have tons and tons of land in Colombia just for growing cocaine. It grows naturally.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Casale/publication...

Look at this map, see Peru, See Colombia?

That's your competition.
In 2020 we can add additional falsehoods based on my experience in Amazon:

- It's OK to embed/vendor dependencies

- It's OK to hardcode VCS URLs for your dependencies

- you can pull random stuff from the Internet at compile time and large companies will accept it

- It's OK to release libraries without version numbering or using git commitish

- Everybody uses containers

- Nobody cares about reproducible builds

- Nobody cares about security, license compliance and being able to rebuild things reliably

- All FAANGS will use your project even if it cannot packaged into OS packages
Yeah,very illuminating. It's amazing how everyone who caused property damage was a "violent anarchist."
The Untold Story of the Hamster, a.k.a. Mr. Saddlebags (2011)
There is a really good spec by google on how to move sites: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6033049?hl=en Googles best spec in my eyes. 301 (what, how, and what not) change of address request, sitemap.xml,
Generative Pretraining from Pixels [pdf]
How about playlists and history, though? Personally I don't use subscriptions, and have no use for them.

I suppose and app like this could provide a third party (self host able api) account service - recording history and managing/syncing playlists? Maybe with an option to merge in entries from Google account playlists from time to time?

Playlists are nice not just for playing/listening, but also downloading for offline use/backup/archive.

Ed: i see that it has local history and playlists, with option to export data - but apparently no option to load data (whether from youtube/Google or an earlier export).
> big diversity problem

That's just a codeword for anti-White rethoric. It's like saying "Delhi is too Indian" or "Beijing is too Chinese". Note that the author Adam Bluestein preaches diversity, yet chose to live in 82.7% white Burlington (VT).
That's a stupid argument. Anyone can buy any easily visible publicly recognizable sign.

I fail to see how this badge is insufficient in a potentially aggressive situation.
The primary attribute of American politics that encourages a two party system is what’s known as “first past the post” elections.

America’s two main parties have changed over the years (remember the Whigs?), so the existence of a two-party system cannot be attributed purely to control exerted by the current two parties.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law.
The traffic in the Cottonwoods is not that bad as long as you avoid the weekends particularly powder days and holidays. But if you head up to any of the cottonwood resorts midweek there's not really any traffic. I often ride Park city on busy weekends instead of in the Cottonwoods because Park city is better able to handle the crowds. But if your trying to do a weekend day in the Cottonwoods get up and in the canyon early before the conga line starts.
I tend to use whichever build system is mainstream in the environment I'm in.

However, if I'm dealing with something special, or if the build system is unstable, I always fall back to Make. Such a beautiful tool!

Tup is also worth to mention: http://gittup.org/tup/
Barbara Walters, Martin Luther King & Anne Frank were all born in the same year.

To your point, what we think of as "history" wasn't that long ago.
And then there's `make`. I've seen a philosophically correct Makefile maybe 3 times in my life. Most of the time I see people making every target .PHONY and using patterns to save keystrokes rather than match multiple files.

You'd tend to think people learn over time but no. It's gotten worse. Right when you thought the industry was on the cusp of a build revolution the go community decides to push an old tool that most people can't utilize even 3% of when paired with `go build`. I kinda blame the go ecosystem for pushing Makefile adoption when they already have a caching build tool just so the maintainers didn't have to give the compiler a polished UI. Simplicity at the cost of functionality even if it's simply broken amirite?

Sigh.
If they had used Rust, this whole thing could have been avoided!
Is that how cmake came to exist?
The army was considerably downsized in the last decades, so while this used to be true for men, it isn't anymore. And the number of women is and always was more or less negligible.
Note that this utility is for installing the full desktop Windows on ARM (at best a gray area wrt licensing), not IoT
also didn't downvote, but clearly there are confounding variables (fertility also correlates with poverty, for example)

There is a common argument that X social group has a lot of children, thus they'll become a greater proportion of the population over time (typically applied to developing countries, immigrants etc). These arguments are flawed because humans don't really work this way, and adopt k vs r selection depending on environment.
I think it may be more a reaction to the dismissiveness of the article. It basically writes off any disagreement as people dressing for a "pretend job".
The event that eventually led to Newton writing and publishing the Principia
What stops the parties from forming coalitions?
Tabs having a different meaning than spaces. Literally the only reason I'm not using it.

Yes, I realize GNU Make has a config option to fix this. That doesn't seem to be widely adopted.

On a second thought, the shellisms it borrows are also annoying. POSIX shell syntax needs to die on its own right.
I think it sees your new domain as just a blatant copy of the old one. Quickly set up a server on the old domain and redirect to the new domain, so you tell Google that the new one is the authoritative site.
I’ve never seen this on HN. Not on iOS, neither on macOS/Windows/Linux.

So as you say it seems to be something going on the client end here.
I think it started with developers not wanting to write all of the source and artifact files into the makefile.

Then there were some portability issues that should have been handled by the compiler, but by that time there were already metabuilders, so nobody bothered.
John Gilmore: History of Cygnus's Growth
They may not be able to keep that name very much longer in the current context
My biggest problem with these note-taking apps is that there is no way to have a manual order in the file list.

I could name everything as `001-scene1.md`, `002-scene2.md`. But if I want to change the order, it's an O(n) operation by hand, which is painful.

Another thing is that I really want a good pen support. Many notes I take are not texts.

The reason we have so many "Yet-another-note-taking-app" is probably that everyone has a few personal quirks when taking notes, thus the requirement differs from person to person.
The translation feature that minces x86 to ARM is done. x64 is still in the works.