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Absolutely, diversity is incredibly important when we're talking about different kinds of "intellectually curious" people.
When diversity means letting in the trolls, the marketers and those less inclined to input constructively, that's when conversations start to degrade and loose value. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to encourage first type of diversity without becoming vulnerable to the second.
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I'm relatively new to HN but a reddit "senior", and one of the things I really appreciate about this place is the relative lack of toxicity. To me, it seems people really come here for civil discussion and default to asking questions instead of flaming. Well, that and more people source their claims.
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I think it can be both unacceptable and not unexpected. No amount of engineering can match a few months of real world testing. So long as there is a good faith effort to fix the issue then it's not necessarily a sign of incompetence on Tesla's side.
They're not that low, I'm working in tech in the Netherlands and earn well above the median, even excluding bonuses and equity and such. I imagine Germany is similar. It's more that the salaries in parts of the US seem unnaturally high.
I grew up middle class, still am (although middle class has almost vanished), and hope to remain middle class. Infact, my moral compass says striving to be rich is bad.

I consider what is now considered innovation and entrepreneurism, overrated juvenile, and mostly hurtful.

The fact that people don't agree with you, doesn't mean they are against you, or try to protect their power by holding you back. They may just think differently than you.
HackerNews has an open API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API). It doesn't say anything specific about the legality and there have been many HackerNews clones in the past. So as far as I know it should not be a problem, but if anyone can correct me I would love to hear so!
Percentage of confirmed cases is the wrong statistic to be looking at here. Because a lot of these cases aren't even being tracked due to not having life threatening symptoms, but never the less seem to result in long-term symtoms that have a significant impact on people's lives.
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> initial population has been crowded out.

This is called Eternal September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
If everyone is allowed to join, and there is little moderation, there is
reversion to the mean aka reversion to mediocrity.

You need really strict moderation to keep the quality up. One of my favourite subreddits is /r/AskHistorians It's generally useless to post anything but question into the comments there because the quality of discussion is so high.
This is the researcher who published the original convolutional neural network papers providing a basis for modern deep neural networks. http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/lecun-99.pdf
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I don't know, rest of the post goes on to describe comments like the one you make here.
I've said this before but, given time, the HN comment sections always sort themselves nicely.

I may encounter a nice article that I want to send to the management of my company for example, I refrian from doing this immediatly. Instead I leave the tab open and after a couple of hours I refresh en the top comment are almost always insightful and either reinforce my choice to send the article or make me decide not to.
Redunancy and efficiency are common tradeoffs we are constantly trying to balance. It's only a question of how important the effects of downsides are.

Sometimes someone dies as an immediate result, and for some it means waiting for another 5 minutes.
Real question here is whether HN a community or a glorified news feed?
I think it's the latter and there's nothing wrong with that, I actually don't want a forum community, just a place where I can read the _news_ and some related comments.
I don't think the design of this website is intended for extensive discussions people try to have here.

My actual problem with HN is clear astroturfing. The forums is clearly being gamed the same way reddit is, if not more and it's awfully offputting and honestly - scary.
Do you honestly believe that every penny a company makes ought to be given to its employees?

I didn't suggest anything of the sort. I said that maybe companies are paying their employees much less than they could, and that maybe employees aren't getting a good deal despite wages being high relative to other industries. I didn't say that all of the value an employee generates should go to that employee - just maybe it could be more than does right now.

If not, then why should employees expect to make more than the market rate for the labor they provide?

"Market rate" is basically the median negotiated salary for similar roles. There's an assumption that a salary is like a price, and supply and demand will drive that price up for in-demand skills. This is the part I'm challenging. I don't know if price theory works for salaries where one side of the market (employers) has far more information and leverage than the other side (developers). If most developers are bad negotiators then getting a "market rate" salary means you, as an individual, are being paid the same as the other bad negotiators, and you actually lost out on getting a higher salary.

It could be that using the market rate to derive the appropriate salary for a job actually keeps developer wages lower than they could otherwise be.

At this point this is all just futile speculation though, and no one is going to change anything so we might as well just accept it.
For the curious, I suggest reading Philp Wadler's "Theorems for free!" which explains how to derive a theorem for a given type. Practically, this helps compilers make certain optimizations based on the theorems it derives from the types.
> We all agree that we don't go around and kill people

Well, except for the police.

(Flippant comment, but the number of people who think abortion should be illegal under all circumstances but also that the police should never face any consequences for killing someone, no matter how gratuitously, is astonishing)
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Because we don't have the same costs as in the US

Well, if you live in Vancouver you'll pay just as much as SF for housing, maybe half for university and I'll give you healthcare costs are minimal.

But salaries are maybe 60% of SF. So I don't think it's that.
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>> As a species, we're not fully evolved for big crowds

I think we may be starting to overstate the "Dunbar argument." In some sense, including the position in "Sapiens," operating in large groups is the key trait of Homo Sapiens... That which eventually made us unique and allowed us to become what we are. It is in YNH's view what

These aren't really opposing views. Large groups are suboptimal. We obviously struggle with the downsides of large group size and these dynamics are often our bottleneck.

The nuance is: An organism can be highly evolved to tolerate something that is outside its optimal range. A fish might be evolved to tolerate really low oxygen. That lets them live where other fish can't, less competition. But... that same fish's "optimal range" for health or whatnot might be different. Same with temperature, where I think most of the research is.
I'm old enough to remember "manual retweet", and people still do it on Instagram which has no re-share functionality.
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This is pretty damming to anyone who claims "its just the flu":

“More than three times as many deaths were recorded between January and August this year where COVID-19 was the underlying cause compared to influenza and pneumonia."

“The mortality rate for COVID-19 is also significantly higher than influenza and pneumonia rates for both 2020 and the five-year average."

“Since 1959, which is when ONS monthly death records began, the number of deaths due to influenza and pneumonia in the first eight months of every year have been lower than the number of COVID-19 deaths seen, so far, in 2020.”
There might be a different envelope for people with company cars. My dad taught at a university, and drove a Fiesta, then went to work at IBM and had an Audi A4, then retired, and now drives a nondescript Honda with a cracked bumper.
It's easier, cheaper and less energy intensive than producing new glass. Literally billions of tons of glass are recycled each year.
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> The climate has been changing for thousands of years, people used to live on the bottom of the North Sea. You would be able to walk from mainland Europe to the UK.

In the winter, my house was cold. In the summer, it became hot. The next winter, it got cold again. Now my house is on fire. But it's fine, because it's just becoming hot again. The temperature of my house is always changing, you see.

> The best experts basically all rely on subsidies for their livelyhood.

What's a good neutral source you'd recommend, then?

> Furthermore, we can only measure and calculate properly for a couple of decades.

Says who? And measure and calculate what?

> And finally, don't you see the biblical theme of your message?

what
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Wasn’t Mantle AMD-proprietary? So Apple couldn’t use it anyway, since iOS devices don’t use AMD GPUs
I reread the relevant parts of the text again, and I don't find anything that supports that the author meant anything else with "semantics" than I do. Semantics is about "meaning", not only on a superficial level.
This is so cool... thank you very much :) I will use it during my next workshop sessions to help my students in case they run into problems following the instructions of the lab: looks like it is far more natural than the "raise hand" feature. And they just need to group themselves to enjoy the equivalent of a private room for group exercises!
Correct, however it is significantly less plastic that would be used in a plastic bottle, since it doesn't have to hold any pressure by itself. The aluminum is one of the most recyclable materials we have.
Recycling glass takes a bit less energy than producing new glass (and a lot less CO2 is emitted during the process).
There are arguably 3 equally valid reasons

1. You think you can do better

whoever thinks they can do better and has the power to make it happen will.

2. To be able to control your own path

Standards take forever to come to consensus. If you control it you can do whatever you want.

3. To lock developers into an API and therefore make it expensive to port.

I'm sure there is plenty of software that would ship on more platforms if shipping on those other platforms was no work. This reason was brought up with Microsoft introduced DirectX. It's no different for Apple. I'm not saying either Microsoft or Apple are doing it for that reason but it's still a valid reason.
I'm not a statistician or a scientist, but I don't it does any good to lump everything together over the past ~9 months and compare it to Influenza and Pneumonia.

Just think about it.

We barely knew anything about covid or how to treat it at the start of the year. Now, it seems like we have a better understanding and how to potentially treat it.

Compare this to Influenza/Pneumonia, which I'm just guessing we've been studying for much longer and already have treatments for.

You could probably add some sort of moving average 50 days and 200 days to provide a clearer picture of how we are currently doing.
Because about ten seconds later in the same speech he says he unequivocally condemns white supremacists. But the media (and the democrats in their advertising) cuts off that part of the speech, leaving a false impression in people's minds. This alone is evidence that he wasn't calling white supremacists fine people.

Further, it was a large protest over a statue with thousands of people over a whole day, do you think there isn't one single non white supremact there protesting to keep it up? There's no evidence that Trump was referring to the tiki torch rally when he said fine people. He made the speech after the large protest and the terrorist attack, where by the law of large numbers there is inevitably going to be non-white supremacists attending to show support merely for the statue/history.
When people are looking, the tiny brushes come out. When nobody's looking, it's shovels and excavators. The quicker you dig, the more artifacts you can find, and the more papers you can write and publish, leading to fame and fortune.
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Thanks, this works.
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I'm not sure I'm following you.

My points was that designing the interior of a car like a cockpit becomes kinda pointless when the driver isn't doing much driving.
Cool, my last name is not in this.
I agree, I see it as a useful psychological trick that can be applied sometimes but not always
This chart from Sweden says its not worse than influenza: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ejd0IpdVcAASTqR?format=jpg&name=...

Looking at the source data, the numbers seem roughly right:
https://knoema.de/atlas/Schweden/Sterblichkeitsrate

I don't know what to think anymore.
My mother tongue is Russian. I learned English in school starting at 6. After that I learned German starting at around 22-23. Since 25 or so I am learning French - currently 31. The two difficulties I have is 1. time and 2. immersion. I think its correct that I will never speak like a native speaker but it will be close enough that it will take some minutes for a native speaker to figure out that I'm not a native speaker. Funny enough - I have developed an English accent in Russian because I don't use it so often any more. Actually its hard to say - Russians have trouble identifying where I'm actually from based on the accent.
We all use the same WWW which uses the same markup language and the same programming language with (almost) the same APIs, and huge effort is expended in polyfilling over the differences.

Fragmentation isn't stable; the largest fragment tends to expand to dominate the market.
You need a type system that is expressive enough to allow you to encode logic in the types. Of course, Haskell is not only language with such a type system: PureScript, F#, Rust, OCaml, Scala have similar features, although not all.
Some things to consider from looking at the raw data:

The 5-year average minimum of deaths from "Influenza and pneumonia" is about 50 cases per day. The average for 2020 is about half that. Adding up COVID fatalities and "Influeanza and pneumonia" after July comes to about 50 cases per day. In other words, there is no excess mortality from COVID-19 since July.
That sounds about it. People use SPAs to make webapps that are as complicated as regular desktop or phone apps.
I tried to keep the argument short, so I did simplify a bit, but in practice there are certainly many exceptions which I won't bring up here to not start a completely other discussion.
"Semantic arguments are particularly insidious. Trained logicians should know that semantic meaning is arbitrary (unless the actual argument is about language). The worst thing you can do is to have an argument in which you talk past each other because you each have a different idea about what the words mean."

It doesn't make sense to dismiss an argument as merely semantic if you are talking about something more than just arbitrary definitions. In many cases, pro- and anti-abortion people have a genuine disagreement about the point at which life begins. This isn't merely a disagreement about how to define a particular word. You can, if you want to, characterize it as a dispute about what it 'means' for something to be alive, but that's a much deeper issue than a mere semantic quibble. (The debate can't, for example, be resolved by introducing two new terms alive* and alive†, with both sides of the debate agreeing that a foetus is alive* but not alive†.)
It's exhaustive and yet my first name is not there...
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From a 30 year view of communities, including Fido, Usenet, Reddit and many others, I’d attribute that to @dang’s and @pg’s benevolent dictatorship.

Many communities start out nice and well meaning, but at some point devolve into a Wild West. HN did not, and I think that’s thanks to dang’s moderation (and pg’s at an earlier time)

Also, “small” things like dropping the vote counts, and having canonical rules for titles (which are, as pg noted, a “commons” but treated in other platforms as a land grab) reduces competition and bragging rights. Doesn’t seem like much, but it’s part of what keeps the people looking for conversation here, and those looking mostly for signaling and gratification out.
Well then Tesla's decision to go for not-a-cockpit might be the wrong one.

But obviously Elon is the CEO and you are not, so if you are right then it will be his failure.
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> I went to Viena three years ago. It shocked me how much they smoke everywhere

This is history now. But I agree that it was very bad, it was part of Austria's "coffee house culture" to have the stale smoke odour everywhere (furniture, curtains etc.). It was much worse in the 80's and earlier though.

The sugar addiction is mainly due to the influence of bohemian cuisine and popular sweet snacks like "Manner Schnitten".
Surely it's much more complicated than this? Assuming the COVID-19 assigned deaths are accurately labelled, how many COVID-19 deaths would have been pneumonia/influenza deaths? How many pneumonia/influenza deaths from 2021, 2022, ... have been brought forward to 2020? How much has the lockdown contributed to poor immune systems? Which age groups are affected more, were they already at life expectancy? It's obviously not the flu but it seems clear it will be years before we understand what the impact really is.
Disable javascript, and it stops being a vanity art project, and magically turns into a web article.

Some people should not be allowed near web publishing.
I'm not sure if I have ever encountered such an extreme definition of descriptivism. I am a descriptivist, but I still believe that you can sensibly state that some otherwise intelligent native speakers are "wrong" in their use of the language and certainly not everyone deserves the title of master; it is still sensible to talk about different levels of native language mastery.

Consider that there are certain types of grammatical errors that only native speakers make due to regional idiomatic usage. Those people will agree that their usage is incorrect (they were likely taught so in school) and other native speakers from other regions may struggle to understand them. Are they truly a master of the language, or are they a master of their dialect? Can they switch off their dialect and speak flawlessly without major effort?

Then consider that there are more non-native speakers of the English language on Earth than there are native speakers. Usage of tense, articles, prepositions, and so on is a cultural artifact. A group of non-native speakers can in some case carry on a conversation fluently that a native speaker will struggle to understand because of frequent usage of uncommon grammatical artifacts which they are not comfortable with. Is the struggling native speaker truly a master if they take so long to parse rare correct grammar?
Looks great.
But I wonder why there are platform requirements for what seems to me like pretty basic functions.

In RandomSample.swift:

// For log(_:) and exp(_:)
#if canImport(Glibc)
@_implementationOnly
import Glibc
#elseif canImport(Darwin)
@_implementationOnly
import Darwin
#endif

1. Why aren't those 'basic' functions already implemented in swift, and part of a math package (or in numerics)?

2. Why release a package that does not support windows now that windows is officially supported?
I can shed some light on that. I am a long time linux user and recently brought a gaming laptop which comes pre-installed with Windows 10 Home. I made up my mind to use whatever software came with it rather than installing linux since I don't want to mess up with my system too soon. I gave away all my pro-linux biases and gave Windows a honest try. I didn't last two days with Windows, main reasons:
1) Privacy Nightmare: I was not able to login without first creating and logging in to an outlook account. They're pushing very aggressively than I'm comfortable with. And data stealing booby traps are everywhere. On the activities view, it always shows a "Keep more recent activity" button or something like that, which when clicked will send my browsing history to Microsoft servers to sync.
I didn't find any way to completely uninstall edge. It rings similar to Android, we get extremely less control on our own system.
For system updates, it will by default send update files to other users in the internet(like torrenting).
2)Excess data usage: When I was on linux, the data usage is almost null when idle but windows seems to be always downloading something.
3)Development: WSL2 definitely made Windows a bearable platform for development but I did encounter some problems. Installation was not straight forward, got some errors and fixed it by searching for an hour. There is no intuitive way to open bash in a terminal. Now, I don't know if I didn't search hard enough, but I was unable to setup a Ionic development environment on Windows and failed. That was when I realized windows wasn't really for me and switched to PopOS the second day.
Everything expect the nvidea card worked out of the box, and fixed it after reading a couple of threads on reddit. Battery life reduced by about 1 hour as compared with Windows but I can live with that.
The linux operating system and community is awesome, it is much frictionless to develop in linux than to use WSL2 in windows and you get a elegant operating system respecting our privacy than a bloated OS subsidized by data. And linux is free! I really wish linux will be around on desktops for a very long time and thanks to this recent experience, I will dread the day when Windows becomes the only available choice for personal computers.
I disagree. The only problem is that people insist to use it for desktop apps. Webapps are their own thing. They should stay in the browser instead of leaking and spilling everywhere.
Can you clarify how you are limited? I can block anything I want using uBlock Origin today in Firefox.

Admittedly sites could switch to rendering everything in JavaScript using canvas or WebGL. But so far no one is resorting to this, because you have to effectively reimplement big chunks of the browser. Maybe one day there will be a JS framework that does this, but then it will be easy for adblockers to target that specific framework.