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The problem with these kinds of theories (eternal recurrence, random quantum state fluctuations, simulation):

- There are plenty of things that aren't computable that our universe seems to do just fine (entropy being one)

- The universe seems to be intelligible, especially w.r.t. its causal chain -- if we only happen to be conscious in these very specific instants (where we have intelligibility, causality, etc.), the question is why?

At the end of the day, you end up with some kind of Maxwell's demon type of situation where there's all this trickery that needs to happen to support a theory where we're in a simulation or Boltzmann brains.
> Violence's actual definition: behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.

So do you think that forcibly abducting someone and locking them in jail isn't violent?
Don't think that the democratic process guarantees a good hand off... it's still a crap shoot and a lucky draw. See current President Camacho of the United States.

Unlike a dictator, the aggregate will of the people never serves the self interest of a single individual. The issue with majority rule is that the aggregate intelligence/judgement of the people is likely not matched with what is required to select a good leader.
> "In the last decade, the field of algebraic geometry was set on fire by “perfectoid spaces” rather than “Scholze spaces” because Peter Scholze kept on calling them that in his talks and papers."

Skip to 5:10 to see Peter Scholze apologize for the name:
https://youtu.be/J0QdTYZIfIM
Speaking as a mathematician, I have zero idea what you think this article is "really about." So (a) your statement has at least one counterexample, and (b) would you be so kind as to explain what it's really about?

Edit: you added a link to a pg essay about self-censorship. Pretty droll excuse to not say what you mean.
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Eh, as they said in the article: "Part of the mythos of Lee Kuan Yew is that he succeeded as an authoritarian where so many others have failed." Singapore is the exception; authoritarian governments are almost always bad for the people otherwise.
Careful, Myocarditis isn’t necessarily indicative of long-term heart damage. Mild myocarditis is not uncommon with any viral infection.

Myocarditis should be watched for, but it’s critically important that we discuss severity and relative occurrence rather than reducing the discussion to a binary yes/no.

Sadly, whenever you see a news article that omits specific statistics it’s prudent to check the facts. It’s easy to drive clicks by removing critical details to make side effects sound more permanent or more common than they are.
> besiegers used just such a latrine shaft in 1203-4 CE to gain entry to Chateau Gaillard

Wonder who got picked for that job
What’s even about relieving themselves in the gardens, as compared to inside the palace?

Do I miss some knowledge about French palace customs?
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Append programming language to the query for searching.

Imagine C++ would be named as "Object oriented, generic, general purpose programming language with C compatibility"(of course C won't be named C then).
Yes, both anarchists and socalists share a desire to abolish private property. The major differences are in their strategy and transition states.
There is functools.wraps in standard library for similar "delegation" in decorators
There was article in The Atlantic a few months ago about fluoride in water not probably works, but isn't particularly well-studied, and long-term side effects aren't really understood. At least with fluoride, it's so widespread that you'd expect any serious issues to have surfaced by now.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/04/why-flu...
> So you are saying there is no way to act with foresight?

No, I didn't say any of that. All I said is what is bad for society is also bad for the individual.
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I enjoyed cryptonomicon but get where you're coming from! I think his books would be way better with aggressive editing. Seveneves was great but so many long lame sections should have been removed.
> And yet there are more compsci than ever

this isn't even true.

Number of computer science graduates fell, and has stagnated since the mid aughts. The field is also one of the least diverse, and the reason compensation is up is because there's a shortage of labour, that's how supply and demand works, and it's why so many foreign CS students and tech workers migrate to the US, because the need for tech talent vastly outstrips the number of qualified workers.

None of this is inevitable, decline in technical excellence is a preventable choice, both on a cultural and policy level. This however is only doable if kids, from a young age, have the liberty and power to experiment with the tools they are given, rather than destroying their technical literacy by spoon-feeding them locked down tech and services.
> That group has very little to fear from Covid due to weight, unless they have other serious health conditions. Being 10 or 15 pounds overweight isn't going to be a meaningful problem when dealing with Covid. If you're 80 or 100 pounds overweight - obese - that is going to be a major risk factor.

Unless you have data on this, or an understanding of the mechanism of how weight and covid exactly interacts, this is mere speculation. It wasn’t intuitive to a lot of people that BMI would be a risk factor to begin with when first covid came up. We also don’t know if the interaction is linear or quadratic or a simple cutoff. I am not saying you are necessarily wrong, but I don’t think we have the basis for such confidence on these conclusions yet.
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> We all know what this article is really about

I don’t. What is this article really about?
I completely understand that, but I also hope you understand how it looks from the HN user perspective. There's a sentiment that feels legitimate, but 1) it's not possible for users to prove or disprove because the data is impossible to obtain, 2) the mods tell us it's unfounded because data, but the data can't be shared, and 3) the mods also tell us if we think the concern is legitimate, prove it, except that because of (1) it's not possible to prove without basically doxxing other users.

I think you addressed it well in the link you provided, especially with the SSM argument, but I have two soft suggestions for consideration:

1) I would personally like to see a HN rule implemented that requires you to post a reply to a comment before you can downvote or flag it. It's probably naive of me to think this would help stop brigading, but it seems like a logical extension of the current downvote setup.

2) I'd like to see equal treatment in terms of flagging both pro and anti- country/political platform comments. If politically charged posts are consistently turning into flame wars in the comments, which seems to be the case, the only way to address the issue without pissing off one set of people or another is to pretty much ban such comments in both directions. I know, easier said than done.

In any case, I think you're doing a great job and I appreciate how tough it is to moderate HN with the level of egos and strong opinions (mine included) on here. Thanks for keeping HN civil.
Yes, agreed with the second part.

>"Why do mathematicians continue to proffer and accept this courtesy, when it increases their own mental load and makes their own work more opaque?" (the OP) //

I imagine because it doesn't increase their mental load? It might even reduce it; abstraction is a principle component of the field after all.

Using descriptive names sounds like it requires a half-arsed disabstraction, a series of munged verbose partial truths?

Naming for authors is partially self-documenting too, though practically that's probably not often useful.
Well, if you have an area of high inequality suppressed by an outside force I'm sure some "bad" groups could form because they want to challenge those outside forces.

If you have an example of a mafia formed in a stable area without inequality or hierarchies I'd be pretty interested. People in general like the path of least resistance and only turn "violent" when they feel they have to.

However, if your view is most people are just bad and will do bad things on their own then sure, perhaps you want hierarchies in place but I have no clue why someone would think the bad/selfish people wouldn't just rise to the top and just become worse.
If your amount of work weren't dependent on your coworkers, would your feelings change?
iMessage needs to support older versions of macOS and iOS, so I suspect someone who cracks however identityservicesd works will have the ability to make this work "permanently".
I'd be concerned that memoryless is misleading for markovian. A markov chain can be used to represent a fixed, nonzero memory, since if you have an n-state dfa D you can take the set of pairs of the states of D (or specifically D + null) and reweight them. The markov chain over D^2 has no memory over D^2, but does have memory over D, and this is often a useful property (bigrams).

You repeat this operation to get more and more (but always a fixed constant maximum) history.
But without anyone to engage in fiscal or monetary policy to protect the value of BTC, it'd be vulnerable to huge swings in value.
And bad naming might even make things worse as the reader might get the wrong idea.
> Imagine how much steeper the learning curve would be in medicine or law if they used the same naming conventions, with the same number of layers to peel back:

I she kidding? Off the top of my head: diseases named after people. Parkinson's disease. McArdle's disease. Bell's Palsy, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_anatomical_parts...

In Law, precedents are referred to by plaintiff and defendant names: Smith vs. Klein. There are laws named after people, e.g. in the US. Kirsten's Law; Mann Act; Wetterling Act; Sonny Bono Copyright Extension; ...
I think "failed" is subjective, what we should really be looking at is whether they provide for their citizens the best -- which democracy does.
I don't buy "continually audited and tested". That is a variant of the "many eyes make all bugs shallow" theory or "Linus's Law", but that hasn't proven to be the case. The Linux kernel is full of bugs and many of them hang around for years. Also the kernel testing story is a total joke. Perhaps you meant that people use the kernel and therefore it's "tested"?
Not everything is easy to Google:

C, D, F, R, COM, .NET, node ...
Everyone else having similar structures.

This is starting to sound less like good-faith questions than it did when it started. Are you trying to poke holes, or are you trying to understand how this is something someone could actually believe would work? Are you asking yourself how your questions are resolved in existing power structures?
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> The issue is inferior specs on iPhone X vs the latest Android

Not really? iPhone X still blows flagship Android devices out of the water.
They do if they are poorly run. The critique a socialist would make is that it is mechanically impossible to run a capitalist society in a fashion that reduces desperation to an appreciably low level. There are fewer theoretical reasons a socialist society should have this problem though practically any particular government and situation can get messed up.
It's the same for a lot of things regarding COVID19. People treat all these complications as something really scary, ignoring the plenty of cases where people didn't even know they had any illness at all.

In reality, many folks are already living with significant nerve damage from HSV-1 and EBV (Epstein-Barr Virus -- common cause of mononucleosis), and that's kind of old news these days.

EBV/mono, for example, would often cause tiredness for months on end, due to the permanent Central Nervous System (CNS) damage. It's very common as well -- much more so than COVID19; the neverending tiredness as a result of mono is very common as well. Yet when was the last time EBV made the news?
OpenOffice to LibreOffice to OnlyOffice...

Does Microsoft still have 95% market share?

Put your wood behind 1 arrow.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/35197/meaning-of...
No, most apps are slow the first time they are run on Mac (not as bad as first run of snap though, usually). After that, pretty fast. AppStore apps seem to always be fast.
I highly doubt this will work out well in the long term. Considering that once something new comes out with a similar name or even the word which was misspelled to form the name of some JS framework it will rise above in the search results.
Guess would need a different term for Markov chains of higher order. And I'm not sure if there's other concepts that could also be labeled "memoryless chains", where a distinct name might help.
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> SMS app I don’t get why it is critical to be modifiable to be perfectly honest

It lets any third party messaging system become a viable SMS replacement (like Hangouts and Signal does on Android), by making it seamless to send all messages from one app.

Like iMessage and only iMessage does seamlessly on iOS, because Apple has given it a monopoly on handling SMSes.

It’s anti-competitive as fuck.
Unpatchable bootroom bugs are not a dime a dozen–it's unlikely we'll see another one anytime soon. So for newer devices, it's going back to the slow drip of regular iOS exploits that get patched constantly.
The paper Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: A systematic review [1]:

> The literature reports that MIS-C typically manifests 3-4 weeks after SARS-CoV-2 infection. This may explain why many children had positive antibodies to SARS- CoV-2, but negative RT-PCR at the time of MIS-C evaluation.

> While children with COVID-19 present with upper respiratory symptoms, MIS-C is distinguishable by fever (100%), vomiting (68.2%), and abdominal pain/diarrhea (73.8%). The abdominal pain in MIS-C can be so severe that in several cases patients were presumed to have appendicitis.

Young children seem to be protected from lower respiratory manifestations of COVID-19. My reading of this meta-analysis is that MIS-C is primarily a gastrointestinal manifestation of COVID-19 that has progressed to vascular and other tissues that express ACE2 receptors.

Perhaps we are placing too much emphasis on nasopharyngeal swab PCR tests and should consider anal swabs for children with gastrointestinal symptoms.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...
I would look at changing the grips first, coupled with gloves that have a seamless palm area, like the Fox Ranger or Dirt Paw gloves. You can get softer grips than this but I personally use SRAM's locking foam grips. The soak up vibration but the uniformity gives them a predictable rigidity when handling the bike.

I have gloves for: Working on cars; Cold hiking, even colder hiking; summer mountain biking, winter mountain biking, armored downhill MTB gloves; summer commute cycling, winter commute cycling; weight lifting, and miscellaneous woolen gloves for when my hands are cold and I'm doing nothing else.
The caveat with a third party oauth solution is that you are now dependent and reliant on the third party to _let_ you use them to log in. Here are some fun experiences I’ve had with Facebook over the last couple of years:

- Our app was _deleted_ without any notice and any means of appealing (didn’t appear in the appeals page, and of course there’s no human support). We even filed a ticket and were told that they couldn’t help us because the app was “gone” in their system. Luckily we require an email address or we would have completely lost the ability to authenticate a subset of our users.
- A different internal app was banned from using “Facebook Login” because we were “providing a broken user experience” — the app was not even exposed for login in our system. We couldn’t appeal because the warning notice didn’t allow responding from our mailing list. Changing the primary contact didn’t work either, and we even disabled the login on the app just in case. Still revoked with no means of getting it back.

Google has been less awful to work with, but they make you jump through lots of hoops to get public login permissions. In summary, think very carefully about a third party Oauth solution.
Even if we get cognitive radio and share spectrum there are still fundamental and engineering limits that mean spectrum will remain scarce. You're either sharing one spectrum with the entire world for HF (because of ionosphere bouncing) or everything that is in line of sight for the vast majority of the spectrum. That means a lot of people are using the same 0.1-18 GHz. Once you get above 18 GHz or so then the propagation gets a lot worse, so it's less than even line of sight, but engineering problems with phase error start meaning higher order modulations are much more difficult to achieve.

Spectrum is always going to be scarce. That's why cables and fibers are always going to be important. Each one allows you to use the entire span all to yourself.
It could be called Stroustrupilian ... or "The one with Turing complete templates".
I imagine they work around the direct reference issue by having good search algorithms.
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They're not getting evicted because the money is spent on JEDI. They're getting evicted because the State doesn't allow them to work. Ask your representatives why.
This falls a little flat with me. Let's consider an example from the article- a Kähler manifold. I'm not a geometer, so I looked it up on Wikipedia, and it says that a "Kähler manifold is a manifold with three mutually compatible structures: a complex structure, a Riemannian structure, and a symplectic structure." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4hler_manifold

Two of those things are not named after a person, and none of them are understandable without special training. Naming something after a person doesn't make it any harder to understand unless there are multiple things named after that person and you can't figure out which they mean from the context.

In case you're wondering about those structures, here is what Wikipedia has to say about them:

- A Riemannian manifold "is a real, smooth manifold, M, equipped with a positive-definite inner product g_p on the tangent space T_p M at each point p."

- "A complex manifold is a manifold with an atlas of charts to the open unit disk in C^n, such that the transition maps are holomorphic."

- "A symplectic manifold is a smooth manifold, M, equipped with a closed nondegenerate differential 2-form ω, called the symplectic form."

The only thing in the above descriptions accessible to non-specialists is probably that the Riemannian manifold is probably named after that guy that they heard of in calculus class. Let's not get rid of our ability to honor people in a failed attempt to make the communication more effective. You can call a Riemannian manifold or a Kähler manifold whatever you want, but it's not going to prevent someone from having to spend years before they are able to understand them.
Memoryless isn't even something I came up with, it's practically in the first sentence of everyone's description of the Markov property, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain#Definition

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorylessness ("memorylessness refers to the Markov property")

All I'm doing is suggesting just using the existing description as the name itself.

Even if there were some cases where it wouldn't apply, though, it wouldn't really matter. Fourier domain also applies to things other than time but that doesn't make frequency domain a bad term. It's just a name meant to carry some intuition; that's all. It's not meant to serve as the formal definition.
This is one of those articles that might sound convincing to non-mathematicians (because it is annoying to learn names for difficult concepts, and many people can relate to that experience), but will not sound all that convincing to domain experts.

It'd be hard to deny that descriptive terms are easier to memorize. Sometimes a piece of natural and/or physical intuition allows such terminology to arise.

Scientist and mathematicians do tend to think about terminology quite frequently: communicating with other scientist and mathematicians is a major part of doing science, and "the reviewers couldn't follow your argument" is a valid, and not especially rare reason for rejected articles in mathematics. Given the amount of thought put into it, "intuitive" names do tend to come about when possible (as it happened with what we now call the Ham Sandwich theorem, the concept of Fibration, the Squeeze Lemma, and countless others).

Given that mathematicians do put thought into terminology, there's often a good reason for not having more intuitive names: maybe no good common-sense intuition was available (e.g. Chu constructions are too general for this sort of thing), or the thing comes up only in highly specialized contexts where it's not worth bothering with it (e.g. Girard's paradox), or there are too many different metaphors that one would have to invoke to describe the situation appropriately, so that it's more efficient to derive a completely new term from an associated name (e.g. Abelian became such an adjective, which now has its own associations).

It's telling that the author criticizes terms like "Calabi-Yau manifold", but doesn't suggest any alternative: coming up with an insightful name that communicates the key properties of such an object, and is easier to use and remember than "Calabi-Yau" is, let's just say, very very hard.

The same phenomenon is not limited to mathematics. Would Dijkstra's algorithm, the Haber–Bosch process or the Otto cycle be easier to learn and remember if they had snappy, insightful names? Probably. But the same concerns apply. It's hard to come up with genuinely better, more descriptive names for these processes. And even if we were successful in popularizing newer, better names, we would find that the names were not the real bottlenecks that made computer science, chemistry or mechanical engineering difficult to master.
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