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Sorry you got downvoted, you highlight a real and critical discussion and your voice should be heard but I think framing it a little different may actually elicit discussion rather than downvotes. The reality is, there are soft sciences out there that we should really have the debate as to whether or not they truly qualify as a science. That does not mean that they are not worth pursuing and trying to find truth in, alchemy lead to chemistry, astrology led to astronomy. But along the way, we have had a lot of "science" that in their day where believed to be truths based on a less than scientific rigor. Phenology comes to mind as a shining example, and genetics bore out eugenics. There is a critical issue with mascaraing soft sciences, that have thin veils of rigor as scientific fact when the reality is that they are better relegated to philosophy. Many great philosophies have changed society so it's not like they are not valuable, but what is not valuable is mascaraing what amounts to a philosophy as scientific truth, because what happens is those that do not understand science and rigor throw the baby out with the bath water and assume that there are untruths in all sciences by seeing the examples of these soft sciences claim truths.

For note, I am not implying that gender identification is not an important subject to understand in our current society. Rather lets not pretend that it's research has the rigor of physics as it does damage to the hard sciences to do so. I personally am fine if we redefine gender to a contemporary term that was not traditionally used in the past and I am fine with deciding how we deal with it as a society based on it's identifying it more in the lineage of philosophy. My sole issue, is that calling these items science is leading to the effect we are now seeing.
Not permanently though. A new status will emerge from the internet, and that may prove to be more stable than the more centralized one it replaced. Distributed power structures can be less fragile than centralized ones.
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TIL that masscan is actually a legitimate tool! It's one of the first user-agent strings I block on every new nginx installation.
But was it medical science when the CDC advised people, very strongly, to not wear masks or that the virus coming out of Wuhan was of no concern to everyday Americans? How are people supposed to believe in capital 'S' science when our scientific institutions make claims based on their guts instead of just admitting they don't know (which is the only acceptable scientific answer when you can't back up a claim with reproducible experiments).

[EDIT]My point is, is the self-inflicted loss of trustworthiness not well earned by the CDC? When the CDC said repeatedly that masks would only make you catch the virus or that Americans shouldn't prepare or panic about the new virus, when that turned out to be either lies or decisions based on nothing approaching the rigor or science, why should people believe things have changed? How does the layperson understand that now the CDC is basing recommendations on 'S'cience?
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What is the best stack for a medium to high volume ecommerce site?

Our focus is fast and reliable performance, the ability to call our CRMs APIs, no transaction fees on the platform, and have the ability for a user to login to see past orders and other info from our CRM. Our checkout process will need to be web forms that use a particular vendors API. I'm not sure the best cart and storefront functionality. Right now we use a shopify front end and pass products via UTM parameters to the checkout page. We don't use Shopify as the transaction fees are pretty high when you take into account upsells, and the other plugins we'd need to operate. We're thinking about migrating to wordpress and woocommerce, so we can integrate wordpress users to offer our customers the ability to login to the store, see their passed orders, and other information.

Is building this in woocommerce/wordpress viable? Or is creating a type of JAMstack site on the more custom side to go with our custom cart a better long term solution? Seems like headless CMS is all the rage these days.

We have about 10k visitators a day, 500 sales a day, with another 500 interacting with our site as adding to our email list. We expect to hit 20k+ visitors a day fairly quickly (within 6 months).
>the other book from the same author are short surface-level summaries of the field that don't go in depth at all

Isn't this the entire point of the 100 page Machine Learning Book? An introduction for new practitioners?
Especially given that this is not a full rewrite from scratch - it follows more the model that Firefox uses: integrate components written in rust into an existing C code base. Rusts binding friendliness from and towards C will be a major point in such an effort.
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> Could Google have made Android using J2ME?

They could have yes, with Java SE actually

> The SavaJe OS was a monolithic OS-and-Java platform, an implementation of Sun Microsystems' Java Standard Edition, as opposed to the more limited Micro Edition usually offered on mobile phones.

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

Also the Nokia and Sony-Ericson extensions to J2ME were quite good, while keeping compatibility with J2ME related specifications.
I think you're confusing "trust" with "belief". Trust (and reputation) is the foundation of human society and doesn't have to be related to religion. You get on a plane based on trust in the science and engineering that makes them fly, not because you personally verified every single component. Personal verification simply doesn't scale.
I mean more in price to performance. Will +200 dollars be worth the lower base clock and increased core count?
Not if switching costs a dollar :)
In my opinion there is a big difference between being forced by regulation to unionize and to be forced by your own employees to unionize.

The management can't be blamed for the regulation and the employees clearly didn't decide to unionize because they don't believe in their own chances of finding employment elsewhere.

If the forcing function is external then there's no reason to assume the company's performance will be subpar from a buyer POV
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So by your logic there would always have to be wars for there to be a Peace prize? What about keeping the peace? Preventing a war?
The thing is that many companies are likely open to WFH now and then for appropriate roles and others are open to WFH-mostly. So it may be a difference between WFH one day a week and WFH nine days every fortnight.
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I carefully chose the word "enjoyable". I absolutely see the appeal, and I do want this project to succeed.
I also understand, that it's a work in progress.

However, from my experience, I believe that Linux is simply not enjoyable to use. Other operating systems provide advanced features out of the box, such as clipboard-history, clipboard-sync, PiP, powerful search and more. In Linux, you may need to use the command line to arrange your screens [1].

The Website should have convinced me, that this project is built by a company that cares about usability just as much as they care about privacy and openness. Instead, I get the impression that it's only for the most determined of linux users - you know... the kind that would wan't desktop firefox on their phone even if it's almost unusable.

> There is no need to write new applications, just adapt the existing ones

Yes, in theory this is great. But in practice, on my Surface, it never worked. The Interface was laggy, buttons were hard to hit, the touch keyboard didn't appear when it was supposed to, smooth zooming in Firefox didn't work. The difference to an iPad was like night and day.

[1]: Source: Watching a coworker use Linux for the first time. I don't remember the distro.
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People get very attached to their meanings and very resistant to having redefinitions "imposed" upon them.

Inventing new terms avoids all that baggage.

There is also reason to believe that a replacement term will be less misunderstood if it is more precisely defined than the original.

The words that have the most "drift" are ones with emotional baggage attached. "Socialism" or "Capitalism" has baggage and drift. "Technical debt" does too. "Carbon" and "differential equation" do not. "Coupling" does not.
I'm sitting in a large room filled with bloomberg terminals, each costing 2k a month. MoneyStuff isn't monetized much directly, but plays into the larger business plan.

I too would love that podcast.
Start with Algorithms named after a persiaan scientist called Alkhawarizmi. He did write in arabic though, so similar to einstein writing in english rather than german.
It is, plus now you also get "big data" with unprotected ElasticSearch instances, MySQLs with silly passwords etc.
Since you posted the myth that health insurance is better when you pay more, I highly recommend reading this article explaining why the lowest cost plan is likely the best during the most expensive medical situations https://efficiencyiseverything.com/engineering-conclusions-o...

Don't get me wrong, healthcare is the most corrupt industry in the United States (by lobbying dollars). But I give some blame to my peers for not even attempting to understand how insurance works.
I tried to get started with Julia a couple months ago, downloaded several libraries, and they wouldn't compile due to missing dependencies. Is there a problem with the package manager?
Sure, I was speaking in terms of within the Python ecosystem. I just use C as an example because it's the main alternative for numerical computing in my field.
Yes it disappointing to see so many Americans panicking over the disease when medical science tells us the infection fatality rate is likely under 0.35%.

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-...

Our current pandemic response is mostly a faith-based policy based on irrational fears rather than a science-based policy based on objective reality.
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This is flat out not true, every child that studies science in high school, all the way through to degree level in University personally goes through all the logical chains of thought, experimentation and verification of the ideas and principles they learn. We read how Newton derived the laws of motion and measure the periods of swinging weights hanging on strings, we measure the pressure of a gas as it varies with changing temperature. I have personally measured the speed of light in a lab to within a few percent using a set of lasers and worked through the derivation of the relativistic equations. All of this is in the physics text books for anyone to learn and personally verify.

Science education very much rests on teaching and learning scientific methods and showing students how to prove the things they are learning.
I don't agree with your final conclusion, but I upvoted this regardless, because I think it is an interesting perspective that is worthwhile to philosophize on.

If the Covid-19 situation taught me anything, it would be that it's apparently very, very easy to convince the vast majority of the population they need behave, think and feel in some way, based on 'facts' and figures that are unproven, incomplete, out-of-context, or based on 'science' that is not or only barely amenable to empirical verification. We (the world) are doing so many things at once now to try to handle the pandemic, but my impression of all of it, is that we really have no idea what we are doing, what works and what doesn't, why things seem to be out of control, and (controversially) how bad it actually is in the grand scheme of things.

IMO science is most definitely not comparable to religion, but I will concede that -for most people- its role in their lives is very similar.
What an elaborate piece of nonsense ! Modern science needs money, human capital and democracy.

Some Arab countries have money but have to use it to buy western consumer goods rather than invest it in knowledge or their own production capacity -- otherwise a coup might happen.

Autocratic Arab rulers are also understandably reluctant to invest in human capital. Knowledge and critical thinking are the basis of any scientific endeavor, but will also undermine their rule.

Finally sustained progress in science needs democracy to ensure technology is used in the interest of the many and not against them by the few.

To get things right, the Arab street needs "only" to get rid of their inept ruling class and cut the influence of their Western overlords. Islam is not the problem and will adapt to the new political rule, much better than Christianity could ever do.
How would you go about using the historical record to determine that conquest leads to a scientifically advanced culture? How would you formulate the thesis?

I want to point out that the concept of falsifiability, largely came around to distinguish between objective & scientific thought and the above.
I set up my standing desk with my monitor (a 33lb 43” monster from LG) on a separate rolling tv stand. My desk is a small hand cranked standing desk from Amazon.

It’s far from perfect but it works for now. My next setup will have motor legs for both desks and built-in storage and attachment points on the desk part.
There are quite a few browser extensions that make this easier. The best is Pentadactyl, a complete UI overhaul for vi bindings everywhere that lets you hit Control + i to open any text field in any (blocking) external editor (gvim -f by default), so you can type out your message and then type ZZ to send all the text to the field at once. However, it’s only for XUL browsers. I think there are also WebExtensions that offer similar external editor support, but when I use browsers limited to them I use wasavi, which pops up a javascript-powered vi clone inside the browser (but still only sends the text down to the area when you save). IIRC SurfingKeys also has a similar thing, with a codemirror-based editor that’s IME more limited than wasavi. Of course none of these work on exceptionally complicated things like Google Docs, but they often work on simpler WYSIWYG rich text areas, and wasavi and maybe SurfingKeys even support converting the HTML within them to Markdown while editing, and back when you save.
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Israel has good universities and has research output comparable to European/NA countries.

The author is also including in Contemporary Islam, SEA countries like Malaysia.

He also discusses Pakistan and ancient Indian civilizations as separate entities, which have geographical overlap, because Pakistan (and Bangladesh) is far behind India in terms of research productivity.
Seems like Jamstack would be your best bet. Have you heard of MACH? https://resources.fabric.inc/glossary/mach Any platform that can support this setup is a good indicator that it's a platform you can grow with and make your own, without having to build everything from scratch.
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Peer pressure. There are more eyes at work. Wannabe slackers see other slackers getting cut and want to avoid that fate by doing the minimum that allows them to avoid that result which is greater than the minimum to avoid that while working from home.
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As I mention in the article. Note that Julia is in a sense lisp-based, and you can easily see the AST of your functions. You can say +(a, b, c) in Julia, for example.
Then ai will choose the more efficient actors as its interface with the real world than their slower two legged counterparts.
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> There's always the risk that the West might internally reject the scientific revolution.

In the US I am pretty sure we are already on the decline.

I think it has to do with, during the industrial revolution and post-war, huge scientific advancements and tech grew the economy, fed capitalism by means of providing new desirable goods to consumers (e.g. dishwashers, nicer cars, etc.)

I wonder if we've reached a "peak" of consumer comfort where advances in science/ tech/ medicine are no longer frequent/ impactful enough to meaningfully satisfy consumers, (why do we care about exploring Mars?) so it's easy for people to reject it and say "we don't need science."
Perhaps one of the biggest risks to science is that it ceases to actually be "science" i.e the scientific method and way of thinking and body knowledge and instead becomes a political tool or excuse for various forms of social control or a dressed up pretense of science a person can get degrees in, possibly even calling itself a science, but isn't actually science at all in the traditional sense of the word.
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>Yet another Lisp feature "taken" by another language

Julia is a Lisp.
> Your just being deliberately obtuse as always

When you’re backed into a corner, you appear to resort to name calling and hostility, as always.

I’m directly addressing your arguments by showing you that reality is a lot more complicated than you seem to think, by the numbers. Your entire world view neatly fits into a packaged ideology that only seems to reconcile with a warped version of how the US actually works (as well as other countries).

> Insurance companies should play no role in healthcare, and they certainly don't where I live.

I understand you feel that way. What I’m saying is that my software is used by your government. My job will exist regardless of who is actually paying for healthcare, because I’m not in the business of financing, I’m in the business of claims processing, provider payment, and automated price generation. These are functions that government payers also use to pay physicians and to drive their per capita costs down also. It will always be a part of the value chain.

Also, private insurance companies play a role in healthcare in many prosperous countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand.
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I really don't get this US point of view how unions have anything to do with job performance or ability to find jobs.
If the most you could lose is whatever margin you made, that wouldn't be much of an incentive to not do that in the first place and it would be quite a broken system.
That entirely depends on whether the attractive profit margins are on the hardware itself, or adjacent (complementary) to it, in software or services tied to the hardware through the firmware.
Facebook was also founded half a year after MySpace, and Friendster two months earlier.

By any reasonable measure, that was "at the same time"; it wasn't so much one replacing the other replacing the next as three early competitors fluctuating until one won out.
I wonder how browser based 3D rooms work in real life, so I just created a room and share the link with you.
Enter and say hello, no registration needed.

Disclaimer: Frame VR belongs to virBELA, a company that seems to develop this kind of solutions. Not affiliated with them in any way.
I’m always flabbergasted by the prevalence of the “gaming chair”. For one they are almost without exception breathtakingly ugly. A bucket seat in a sports car is a beautiful thing but without that context and purpose it just turns into this garish ulcer in your living room. That’s without adding the “gaming aesthetic” with neon colors and sharp angles that already plagues the gaming peripheral market. The second and more important thing is they’re not even comfortable. I question whether anyone has sat in these before ordering them because you used to be able to (pre-covid) get a used Herman Miller, an actually elegant looking and functional and comfortable chair, for around the same price. I had a guy drop one off in my driveway in Austin 5 years ago for a couple hundred bucks. That “gaming chair” has lasted me many marathon gaming sessions and I haven’t had any back problems or pain afterwards.

Any chance I get I try to steer friends and acquaintances away from these abominations.
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Yasser Arafat - still the only person to hijack a plane and win the Nobel Peace Prize.
That exclude list is probably a great list for someone seeking weak targets.
I put most blame on the American Medical Association who is a top lobbyist and created the Physician cartel.

300 to 600k per year salaries are not natural, German Physicians don't make that much or go to school for as long yet have similar outcomes.
I wish this had a code example. I couldn't find that in the git repo Readme or this post...
It's not that he hopes, he will do it because he already does that for all remotely conspiracy/nazi stuff.
A less cool sub-story here is the way brilliant animals like dogs are considered disposable on our behalf in the name of violence created by us.

The goggles are designed to let their handlers direct them, safely out of harm's way.
curl can already use quiche[0] for HTTP/3, and that's written in Rust.

[0] https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche
That is how Julia started. In the early days it was a scheme reader macro. You can still run `julia --lisp` to get a scheme prompt since the frontend is still written in it. Obviously lots of improvements have happened since then. Julia itself also feels a lot like a lisp, since Jeff is a huge fan, but of course people get hung up on the syntax.
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I don't understand the hype honestly. Every modern high level language should provide these algorithms.
I tried Swift and it has some nice features, but i in my opinion it's not suited for system programming, because it has some very religious design desicions. For example:

- You can't use a for loop to loop over array elements by reference.

- Just look how to work with pointers in swift. There is nothing more to say about it. https://www.raywenderlich.com/7181017-unsafe-swift-using-poi...

A system programming language is a language in which you can write an memory allocator, or a function like dlopen().
While you can possibly do this in Swift, it would be much easier even in C.

I don't want to say swift is bad. The design desicions are ok for an application programming language.
> where by neo-feudalism I mean I believe the basic deal Putin has with the populace is: what corruption there is will keep its ill-gotten gains at home and not flee to London, followed by governors may fleece their region but if there's a scandal they're out.

Somewhat remotely close to truth. The trick of Putin's ascension to power was him being completely pliant when it comes to crimes of regional elites, mafias, and governors. He did pretty much everything, but saying it out loud that "I will let you steal as much as you want if you just don't touch me"

1. It didn't anywhere, but in Moscow, and their imagination

2. A majority did flee to London, as mafias went out of all bounds killing each other when Putin gave them that carte blanche

3. There were, and are governors who are scandalised more than Jerry Springer
I've been holding my breath ever since I saw https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/issues/2265#issuecomment-6...

Glad to see it seems to be going well!