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No, your intuition is misleading you: it's not a choice between two doors. If the probabilities don't convince you, you can easily simulate this by using three cards and considering one is the car and the other two goats. Pick one at random, then pick the remaining "goat" as if you were Monty; lastly, switch your initial choice as a player. Repeat the experiment 10 times and count how many times you win; remember you must always switch. You will win more often than lose! I tried this, that's how I know this will convince you.

Monty opening a door with a goat doesn't change the probability of your initial door being right: it's always 1/3. You're not choosing between two doors; you're choosing between "I think I got it right the first time" (1/3) vs "I got it wrong the first time" (2/3) -- the second is more probable.

The game where there are two simultaneous participants, both free to open any door (including both picking the same door) only muddles things and offers no insight. It's effectively two simultaneous but independent games. How they are going to split the price if they both win, anyway? ;)
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In my case, Facebook is for things like checking what my old aunt back in Italy is up to. Granted it’s not what I would describe as “insightful content” but at the same time, I’m never going to be upset for something my old aunt said. Twitter and Reddit on the other hand were having a really negative influence on my well-being. I’m sure you can use them in a “sanitised” way and avoid the trolling and hate, but it’s hard and requires a lot of self discipline. I’m not sure why I don’t get the “bad part” of Facebook, I’m starting to think that it’s cultural - Facebook is the only social network that I use, that still “thinks I’m Italian” and pushes me localised Italian content. On Twitter and Reddit on the other hand I exclusively follow content in English and/or related to Australia, the country where I now live.
I have the same. The interference should mean that there's less acoustic energy, but since the anti-sound wave won't always be a perfect match with the wave being cancelled I suspect the result is that there will be soft beats[0] of very high and/or low frequency that may still stimulate the ear in a way to trigger tinnitus. The first time I put on my noise-cancelling headphones it made me dizzy - that is also likely caused by low-frequency beats.

Anyway, I just lowered the volume, that seemed to help quite a bit. I don't need the higher volume anyway now that the surrounding noises are cancelled.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(acoustics)
Swedish names are under-represented. For example, there are exactly zero hyphenated names starting with "sven".
Don't think this assumption that "the employer will pay according to the cost of living" is true at all. Non-tech worked in Silicon Valley are not getting the same kind of party, for example.
May i suggest you to add a tip button ? It's a very useful project and i will not be against tip you for this.
The way I understand the physics, it doesn't add to the amplitude ("energy level") of the waves, the whole point is to send out sound waves that works against the sound that's there already, making the total amount of kinetic energy that comes into your ear less.

Maybe it's an issue with lack of "natural" sound causing you to turn up the volume more, or something like that?
Would Dan Rather or his source be liable for the faked documents that questioned GWBushes service records, for example? Unfortunately for US GwB emerged unscathed and Dan Rather is ignominious now... though that doesn’t happen to bad reporters any longer.
> To me, I might get drawn into some topic/debate and eventually conclude that it's just boring semantics. At that point, the whole thing annoys me whenever it comes up. This was how I "got sick of philosophy" at Uni.

I would like to take a stab at explaining why an argument being "boring semantics" or "interesting philosophy" is somewhat dependent on perspective.

To be explicit about definitions I take "semantics" to mean "mapping from words/sentences to a concrete meaning" and "arguing semantics" to mean "Arguing what mapping is correct or agreeing on a shared mapping".

To give a concrete example of an argument (from the article):

> Abortion is the canonical example of this type of argument: once you have decided what “life” is, there’s really not much else to discuss. It’s not a political argument, not even in theory. It’s purely a semantic one.

Deciding what "life" is by my definitions a purely semantic argument. As you try to define "life", you will want to keep almost universally agreed upon statements such as "Human life has inherent value" coherent. Some of the simplest definitions will raise issues if you start considering future and past humans. There are some interesting questions that you can try to answer by defining "life" and following the logical consequences. However, if you are only interested in abortion, most of the subtly of a definition of "life" is not relevant.

So if you are interested in only the first question you ask, arguing semantics can be a deep rabbit hole, but if you are willing to entertain new questions as you primary question, it can be interesting as its own study.
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Twitter is a private platform. Free speech laws in America do not apply.

People seriously need to get this pounded into their heads. Read the bill of rights. You do not have a right to free speech on private platforms.

Twitter is the equivalent of you arguing with me in my house. I can tell you to be quiet or I’ll kick you out of my house. You have no free speech rights in private spaces. Twitter is a private company. You have no free speech rights on their platform.
Hardly non-technical though :-p
Note that these days, you can’t just sign up for Twitter with a VPN or Tor and use it like anyone else. They will very shortly lock you out of the account until you provide a phone number.

Removing the number gets you locked out again.
> they would prevent posts from spreading to tens of thousands/ millions of people without being vetted.

Mainstream media outlets like the NYTimes or the Washington Post have become too one-sided (I think that if Trump were to say a common-sense thing like "the Earth is round" they'd certainly find something to argue about, like "it's not actually round, round! it's an ellipsoid! Trump is lying!"), at this point applying your (in other contexts) perfectly reasonable suggestion will only alienate half of the electorate.
No doubt that some people consider it interesting. I personally would have appreciated a brief specific list of recommendations of the author of the post on what to improve. Maybe you can give such a list.

But still I ask myself why I see an increasing number of posts (at least a third) where I don't understand why they should be relevant for me as a hacker. There are platforms like reddit where you can debate about any topic out there, but HN should be more focussed.
I second that. So far every talk by Dave Abrahams has been entertaining and insightful to me.
In an ideal world, yes, at least to a certain extent. How many times has the security of entire phones been compromised because of an app?

Obviously software written for use in medical devices and banking systems should be held to a higher standard, but the same can be said for other licensed professions. A plumber installing a fire suppression system in a 50 story high-rise would similarly have their work held to a higher standard than someone setting up a rain barrel for their garden.

Personally I find the quality and vetting process of software designed to be installed on the same device that most people use to manage their online banking and carry on their most intimate conversations (often using said software) to be so low as to be considered criminally negligent by the standards of any other respectably industry.
> Depending on your perspective, every expenditure and experience that money can buy, can be viewed as wasteful and harming the environment. For someone with no access to water, a long shower feels very wasteful.

You seem to be searching for a binary answer to something that most people would agree is a gradient. A long shower is not even in the same ballpark as a private supersonic jet, you clearly know this.

> If we don't actively come out of this dogma and not embark on some ground breaking technology, our lives won't change at all.

It's not an either/or proposition
Yeah, calling it "exhaustive" is plainly ridiculous. (It does have "Black" and "Green", if you want alternative examples, though "White" is also missing...) Seems like just scraping author names from a few bibliographic databases could've filled in some of the more obvious holes.
Yes, I'm a member of Prospect and I'm quite happy. I've never been involved with a dispute, but I know the union and my employer are in regular contact from the very top of the org down to my department's head.
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In my understanding unions that can "forces everyone working in a specific area in that company to join or quit" are exceptions not the rules in 2020 USA (and clearly not what the article was talking about).

Perhaps am I ill informed (never been in USA, and my friend living there are not in unions), could you give us some sources saying that what you say is the main form of union in USA today ?
I appreciate the work on this repo to date, and as many comments below point out, it is not yet true exhaustive. For those of us with additional data sources we can and should submit a pull request.

Thanks for the effort, I intend to use this to enrich my test data generation scripts.
I have to find the source. I’m not sure how good it is. But I’ve heard katanas are junk swords that work just fine because most of the time any cuttystabbything will do just fine.

There’s also that somewhat famous (infamous?) Lindy Beige video on the subject on YouTube. But I get a sense that there’s a lot of opinion and subjectivity when it comes to a historian’s perspective.
1) the link doesn’t say 2:1 compression now, but rather 1.5:1 with more in the future. Where I obviously made an error in judgment was assuming this was from previously compressed textures, where as this seems it’ll be the way to initially compress the textures. Great results, just hadn’t thought about it that way, silly me.

2) it doesn’t matter anyway, the SSDs actual read speed is 5.5GB/sec (aka 44Gbps) raw performance. About the only mass market consumer targeted drive I know of (could be others of course) that’s faster is the one I mentioned in a sibling comment (Sabrent M2 Gen4 tops out at 5GB/sec for example) Further, without having heard officially myself, I believe this confirms its PCIe 4.0 bus internally (which wouldn’t be surprising given other specs I know), as if memory serves PCIe 3.0 can’t get that high.
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Vetted by who? Based on the political opinions of some manager somewhere in California?
A 5 dollar note says this Maxwell Daemon process has to be on par with reverse osmosis in terms of energy consumption, with the added complication of exotic chemicals.

All the dry regions are rather sunny, solar reverse osmosis sounds like a no-brainer.
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Facebook already does something similar to this. Newer accounts have less reach.

That said, thank you for giving an actual constructive, concrete suggestion. Most people persist with vague criticisms like Senator Warren here - https://mobile.twitter.com/ewarren/status/131397864151728947...
> Once say 10 people click that they stop it spreading.

What will actually happen is that 10 people who do not share your political or societal views will flag that news item irrespective of its true or false status, and we're back to step one. That's why FB tried that "internal commissions of truth"-thingie (or whatever it's called), but obviously that cannot scale and, also obviously, they also have their own biases.
Reddit have different moderation policies for the different sub-reddits.

For example r/AskHistorians have amazing quality content due to very strict moderation.
> After just 20K miles, the car honestly felt like a car feels after you put 150K miles on it.

I put over 200k on my 2013 Corolla, and that car still felt new except for a plastic pin that broke the first week on the rear driver quarter panel. I was on a road trip with my wife from Houston to Vegas and heard a flapping while on the highway, I pulled off and saw the panel was loose, I pulled off at the next town, got some super glue from a pharmacy and a stick from the side of the road, and that held solid until I traded it in for $2500 off a Chevy Trax this year (we moved to Upstate NY a few years ago, and we now need the AWD).
Isn't that more of a "solution" than a problem? If you want to write an app that runs across different platforms, you have to put an abstraction layer in somewhere. If it's inside your app, it's a maintenance headache. If it's outside, then that becomes the platform you're targeting.

> adopting the Linux ABI, or even running it virtualized, instead of caring for POSIX compatibility.

So what happens when you want to use a feature that's not in pure POSIX?

I remember that quite a lot of the ugliness and insecurity of the original OpenSSL code was attributed to having #ifdefs all over the place to deal with weird and eventually dead systems.
If there is, it's subtle. I've heard about studies that talk about the negatives of caffeine, as well as some that talk about the benefits. But none of that seemed to be pushing an agenda.

Practically everyone around me thinks they need caffeine to get through the day. I'm one of the only people I know who are caffeine-free.

Long ago, I thought caffeine gave me headaches, and I refused to drink it. Then I started having trouble staying away during the day and nothing the doctors did mattered. So I turned to caffeine reluctantly, and it helped for a while. Eventually I was drinking so much caffeine each day that I was getting sick from it.

So I cut back, and then I was falling asleep during the day again. (Or at least feeling exhausted and that I needed to sleep and kind of took a waking nap.)

So I cut off the caffeine again and, no big surprise, it's the same as when I was drinking caffeine. Except that I don't get any caffeine-withdrawal headaches when I can't get enough or forget to drink enough.

I know from the past that telling people they don't need caffeine doesn't work, though. They just won't listen. They have to figure it out themselves.

So yeah... If there's an anti-caffeine education here, it's very subtle.
> you have the "right to generally say what you wish"

In public. You have that right in public. Twitter is not in public. Twitter is the equivalent to you coming into my house.
I've tried JetBrains for Android dev and it's the best IDE I've used so far but it suffers from the same slowness issues as VSCode and has longer startup times. I should give it a try for Python/web dev, it may be a good replacement for VSCode for long sessions (I'll still be using VSCode for shorter ones because it starts quickly).
I'm bothered that there seems to be a vocal subset on HN who say that freedom of speech doesn't apply to these platforms.
And Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden (but with less seats than Germany)

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Of course not. But democracy is better than no control. A union can fight against things like unpaid oncall or crunch or other abusive practices.
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First, do we have any reason to believe this "plan" is anything else than a noncommittal greenwashing statement? What will prevent the next CEO from silently dropping it to reduce costs?

Second, we don't really know how to make carbon neutral fuel. There are all sorts of ecological issues with existing biofuels. Other methods have very low yields. And in any case, we can't make enough clean fuels, so what we really don't need is yet another very wasteful way of using them.
I think this is the one I can relate to the most. The 'wordless perspective' is a nice substitute for the common expression of 'you can only experience it and cannot express it'.
I mean it is cryptic. But it's not exactly a secret that California suffers from water shortages.
T4 - microsoft's M4 - but worse. But I didn't think of that. Don't want to, but thanks for the reminder! (will probably use python if I have to do similar).
> Any else have this symptom?
Yes. I don't have tinnitus or anything related, but I have been diagnosed with TMJD after months of visiting different doctors and therelike. At the end, my dentist had the right idea. There are a lot of factors that come into play. I also think that our bodies are simply not made for this much "sitting time".

Anyhow, I have a "popping" noise when I tilt my head back and forth. I simply learned to live with it. After the last sickness, I also developed a "clogged" feeling in my left ear, with my ear doctor telling me that "everything looks fine."

I also learned to live with this.
Ideally the peaks of the natural sound and the "injected anti-sound" are opposite in their relative pressure to the environment, so that they cancel out.

Maybe some almost inaudible frequency spectra, and in a lesser degree also audible frequencies, sometimes aren't phase-matched by the injected anti-sound, so that their peaks add up, creating an unnatural loud sound, which for some reason isn't perceived as harmful.

These short out-of-sync peaks could be causing the tinnitus?
Karma points are both a blessing and a curse. They are good as a form of gate-keeping but bad because I too have found myself deciding not to post a comment in case it got down-voted to oblivion. In fact I debated whether or not to post this comment for those same reasons.

I try to take down voted comments on the chin (and one of mine at -4 was absolutely warranted) but at other times it can be dis-heartening to see a comment being down-voted for no apparent reason.

I guess the answer is to not be too vain / overlly bothered about my Karma points but just as a highly upvoted comment feed the reward centres so do down votes in a whole different way.

Oh, and responsible and thoughtful use of down-voting rights please.
Sounds about right for me here in Norway. I really need to cut back.
The non-roundness of the Earth is a constant headache to cartographers, but the place which mandates errors is of course China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_dat...

(I believe they mostly end up being horizontal rather than vertical)
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Following that metaphor: the way I see US tech sector is akin to people in their twenties, prioritizing individual experiences and growth and postponing settling with anyone for now.

Plus: who do you unionse with in a couple? If the point is to avoid abuse from the other part?

If I want to have big say in an organization I become a shareholder (ie. Buy the ring) which, for many tech workers that is true (through stock grants/options).
> but you are just generalizing

No he's not. Every unionized workplace I have been in from educational institutions to government departments to defense contractors is like this to a pretty large extent.

>But the German example

Yes, I know that European unions are different and not nearly as asinine as American ones but I have yet to hear anyone say that tech will get European style unions let alone a good argument for why this will happen. The best I've heard so far is we should unionize because Europe's unions don't suck. I've never worked (in tech) in an environment where I feel I am getting screwed hard enough that the unions are the lesser of the evils. I understand game devs may feel differently (and they will likely unionize before the rest of the industry IMO).

Basically American unions suck which is why American workers in well compensated industries don't want them.
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I took them in Norway: Part of my immigration required that I take Norwegian classes. They were free for me, and were the ones offered through the kommune (here in trondheim) though I think they cost around 9000kr per 6 weeks. The class was mostly filled with folks with family immigration and folks fleeing bad situations in other countries (at the time, a lot of folks from Syria and Eritrea).

We used the books "På vei" and "Stein på stein" the first year. The second year I took "helsenorsk" and we used different materials, but for the general learning we mostly used "Norsk gramatikk", which, as you guess, concentrates on about a B1-B2 level of grammar. The first year books come with optional audio, which we used in class, and both have workbooks. I used one other book, but I don't remember the name. If he's determined, he can work through the books but understanding folks is going to be difficult (some dialects are still difficult for me).

NTNU offers a free online beginning course: They also offer classes, but those are filled with current students first.

I'll add that the level of Norwegian he'll need depends on what he'll be doing here: If he happens to be getting married and is from outside the EU/Schengen area, he'll probably have classes. If he goes to university, he'll need Norwegian for a bachelor degree, but a lot of classes above that are in English. Work really depends on the field, but even in fields with lots of English in the professional realm, knowing some norwegian will help lots.
We don't know how to replace fossil fuels. Even if we started building tons of nuclear plants and other sources of clean energy, we'd have to reduce our energy use to efficiently mitigate climate change.

We need to act on both fronts: become more sober AND produce more clean energy.
Well there's about 1.5M Portuguese nationals and/or descendants in France and the French still can't figure out our naming system or account for it in their bureaucracy, so I'm not sure that the anglos stand out in that regard. Only 200 years ago a Pedro became Pierre upon moving to Paris then Piotr after a couple days in Moscow and everybody was fine with that.