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I think that where we disagree is in that last bit, where dark matter needs to be fit to each galaxy. That's absolutely true, but that complaint goes for regular matter too! Every time the location of some body was predicted from the motions of what we could already see, the theory of light matter was fit exactly to the data. What makes it stay within the bounds of Occam's Razor is that before ever noticing oddities in the motion of planets, we could say that probably matter would be clumped up, and could affect other matter.

Similarly dark matter has to be fit to each galaxy. However, before doing the fitting, dark matter suggests that galaxies would behave not just heavier than their matter content would suggest, but also that they would be lopsided. That is the first prediction you'd make as soon as you were told to consider invisible matter, even without seeing that the data fits.

More importantly, dark matter also elegantly explains the behavior of other massive objects, like galaxy clusters, which MOND struggles with. The figures that roughly work for galaxies don't predict anything like what is seen in clusters, suggesting that they work by coincidence on the more common types of galaxy. That's not to say we don't have more to learn about gravity; to my admittedly limited understanding weaker flavors of MOND could explain the effects of Dark Energy. Dark Matter is just a more elegant explanation of the extra mass issue.
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> Do go on. Why is dying due to an explicit action any more of a free choice than dying of an explicit inaction?

Because one is coercion and the other is simply an economic system. Which by the way is also used for all the other necessities of life too. How about food?

The whole point of a free market is competition, so if you were at least arguing for emergency situations there's be something to talk about since it's rather hard to shop around. But we'd still need to compare it to how well the government handles economics of emergencies. So far we have the govt driving up the cost of emergency care by requiring the ER to provide primary care for everyone without insurance.
I stand by what I said (even though I am partial to transducers): there is no reason for lazy sequences overhead to be much more than a procedure call, which is exactly what a step in the reduction in the case of transducers is. At least when implemented as in clojure or srfi-171.

I understand that there might be some overhead to creating new sequence objects, but removing intermediate sequence object creation should be simple, at least for built in map-filter-take-et-al.

Edit: I seem to be wrong. People are recommending transducers over clojure's lazy map-filter-take-et-al because of overhead, which to me seems off, but there might be something about clojure's lazy sequences that I haven't grooked.
In my own anecdotal experience, the most dangerous way to cross the road is in a marked crosswalk with a signal...

When I visited London a couple of years ago I was surprised to see that they set the crosswalk significantly back from the intersection. Meaning that a car turning actually can turn, and stop in front of the crosswalk for pedestrians. Which in turn means that the driver can pay attention to cars, decide to turn, and then separately deal with pedestrians rather than have pedestrians be part of a complicated decision.

I know of no research on it, but I have to believe that this design saves lives over the American standard of having the crosswalk right at the intersection.
I'd love that. I don't think there are any players in that market in Brazil.
Yes, I think that use case falls in the 5% gap that had the rug pulled under them. But I really do believe 95% of CentOS users don’t really need that, hosting stuff like HTTP servers or containers. Stuff that really doesn’t need to match RHEL.
It's similarly easy to make your website slower than it would be with AMP. Absent a performance advocate in the development team, the features that reduce performance are much more apparent and valuable to most businesses.
In the security considerations, it appears to recommend using external application security controls for it:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-babel-rfc6126bis-20#s...

To me, that seems like an attractive nuisance, where it's likely something that's really easy to implement and operate, and then build things that rely on it that are more valuable to where the idea it's strung together with something as lightweight as Babel becomes insanely irresponsible. Kind of like its predecessor RIPv1.
The idea of publishing or implementing a new routing protocol that doesn't have cryptographic verification designed into it as a feature seems like sabotage.

My day to day is dealing with the consequences of devops teams launching low-security infrastructure and then clients wanting to migrate their high-sensitivity data to it, and this Babel spec is precisely the kind of thing that causes that conflict.

Sure, build something untrusted that forces people to implement their own security that is at a level sufficient for themselves. I understand that as a reasonable design principle, but perhaps I have been out of the game too long, as seeing how these things play out, it's not clear how a routing protocol without at least signed updates is a good idea.
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Overall I agree with you (I'm the same) but some things are very hard to convey without seeing them in practice. Like I replied in the other comment, for those who don't want to watch the whole video, you'd still get a lot out of watching the demo (starting at 11:56).
Isn't mic support 3rd party only? I don't understand how this would help a "normal person" playing Among Us - care to explain? My kids play but I've never heard them using a mic.
Don't forget..

4. Auto makers conspired to kill or cripple mass transit.

http://www.brooklynrail.net/NationalCityLinesConspiracy.html
Yes, they give AMP content a dedicated area above regular search results on mobile.
It’s easy to say “Ignore Amp” when you’re not a content site that depends on Google Search to stay alive. Sadly, for a large amount of sites on the web, what Google says is what goes. Chasing a #1 keyword ranking puts food on people’s tables. It’s not always as easy as “this thing is bad: stop using it!”

There will need to be a bigger driving force to get amp out of popularity. As long as AMP pages unlock preferential treatment in search results (mobile carousels), sites that want to compete will be forced to use them.
I've lived in the US for more than 10 years. What you're saying there is a mix of half-truths.

One is of course that "I suppose you can call it a kind of honor system," no, you can't, it's enforceable by law and actively collected upon. That's not an honor system.

> And given your examples, you apparently aren't aware that when it comes to emergence care in the US, hospitals which have an emergency department are required by law to provide emergency care as needed to make sure a patient is stable.

Yes, the bare minimum, then ejecting them out the back door as soon as they possibly can. Of course by waiting until they require emergency care you're fleecing everyone. Minor issues that could have been addressed earlier for pennies on the dollar are instead allowed to fester until they become life-threatening, then when the poor can't pay, it's socialized across those who can at the worst possible time for the highest possible price.

Not to mention, this is an argument against the free market approach which would just be to refuse service. This is actually bolstering my case that healthcare is not a free market because of a lack of ability to form a voluntary contract.

> One's ability to pay is not a factor.

Oh come on now. Who doesn't have health insurance? The poor. Who's going to get the bare minimum treatment required be law and getting booted out the back door? The poor. Who's then going to get a bill for it forcing them to declare bankruptcy? The poor.

This is strictly about one's ability to pay.
Re pendulums: Yes, my own personal reading of the past 30 years of increasing partisanship is exactly that: each time it swings a little further. (Absent a short reprieve after 9/11. I thinks it's telling that a few swings of the pendulum more and the current disaster has not brought us together in any sort of way)
Thank you for kind words! I felt very self-conscious about this one because there was no audience and recording at home was a lot harder than I thought. So it's nice to hear that you liked it.
Low-cost kamikaze drones seem like an unexplored but promising option.
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Next¹ offers a more fleshed out framework with far less boilerplate for both client and server code.

Server side, Nest² offers much of the same. Think Angular but for backend dev. Yes, it has some boilerplate to it but for the most part, its CLI eases redundant typing.

[1] https://nextjs.org/
[2] https://nestjs.com/
> that is a breathtaking amount of inflation in just 35 years.

That's under 3% inflation which is a not breathtaking. The Fed targets 2%, which helps avoid deflationary spirals and helps both stability and lowers unemployment, two of their mandates.

>Even if wages kept up with inflation,

Wages have surpassed inflation in just about every income bracket for the past 100 years. And when you factor in total remuneration, returns to workers are even higher. Here's 50+ years of data [1]

>the impact this would have on cash savings is just devastating.

No one in their right mind holds cash savings for 35 years. It's a ludicrously long time to simply hold your savings in a cash pile.

[1] https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44705.pdf
Could you explain more on what this means?
It's pretty tragic that there are so many people like you and me, immigrants who have experienced several different healthcare systems, and we can all testify that the US system sucks on every level compared to other systems.

And yet, there's a huge amount of Americans who have only ever lived in the US, who are certain the US system is the best in the world, and who believe all the scary stories that are designed to make you think so.

You could listen to the people who have actual real-world experience, or you can listen to the lobbyists who are paid to preserve the lucrative US system. How is this even a thing?
Let's imagine that there are two employees who each own half the company, so each has $50 of stock in the $100 company. You wish to raise money.

You can sell 50% of each persons stake, or all of one person's stake, or something else. Without dilution, it would be a founders job to convince the other employees that giving up some of their shares was necessary (assuming the employee equity pool was the only source, but s/employees/other investors for the same result in general), and individual investors or employees could make that choice. Dilution allows certain investors to make that decision on behalf of other investors.

If I wanted to invest in 1% of a company, I want to be in control of that choice, not have someone else modify my investment to be smaller (even if the $-value stays the same, that defeats the point of my investment!)
The funny thing is that I agree with you that there are a lot of bad pop-sci articles that are misleading in the ways you're talking about. This particular article just isn't one of them.

Even though it's light on detail, I'm actually impressed at how measured & factual it is. They even managed to resist a clickbait headline.
> Wouldn't it be a more appropriate comparison to look at someone with an "average" pension

We're discussing salary of software engineers, firstly because this is HN, and secondly because software engineer salaries in the US are an outlier. Also as I mentioned in my original comment, the figures I gave don't include our pensions at all (as an aside, 55 is the earliest you can currently take anything from private penions in the UK), so I think the comparison is valid enough.

If my wife also had a job as a salaried software engineer, instead of working on our business, our combined income would likely be around €105k, which is still more than enough to be able to live very well and save a lot of money at the same time, as long as you are financially savvy.
Same here, I use DDG and Firefox. I do open google occasionally when I'm searching for a nearby restaurant. Unfortunately the reason the restaurant comes up in Google is all the invasive stuff they've tracked me with over the last 14 years.
Isn't this at least in part because google was caching the pages & serving them (possibly pre-loading them, I don't know) from their own Google CDN? So comparing the speed of loading a performant page from google's CDN from a SERP click vs. loading the page from the origin is not really a fair comparison. My website would be faster if it were in a warm google CDN cache as well :)

https://developers.google.com/amp/cache
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Ah, yes, that is the blehh approach.
In 2013, 64% of health spending was paid for by the government [0]. The non-profit hospitals share of total hospital capacity has remained relatively stable (about 70%) for decades [0]. The regulation section of Wikipedia is a litany of anti-free-market policies [0].

You can argue that free market principles fail in healthcare, and I will happily disagree and we can all have a cheerful time. But the US hasn't tried a free market approach to healthcare in at least decades. The free marketeers lost the argument; all the dials were set to non-free market and people argued that the quality/access to healthcare would rise to offset the cost of regulation. I'm not totally sure why people keep buying that argument.

In a free market:

1) Employment status would be irrelevant to healthcare.

2) People would be legally allowed to provide healthcare as long as treatment met whatever minimum quality standards the government sets on healthcare.

Saying "it became illegal to open a hospital" is unrelated to high costs is a serious failure of imagination. A ban on allowing people to provide competing services is a serious concern.

Also, people arguing for socialised healthcare aren't arguing to bring down the absurd costs, they are mostly arguing that the absurd costs should be shouldered by the middle & upper classes instead of the people consuming healthcare. It is unfair to first being in policies that inflate the costs, then dump the costs on taxpayers. If the argument is dump the costs on someone else then a decent effort should be made to reduce those costs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_Stat...
Yes, if you want to demonize something you also depend on, it is hard to do so without some rhetorical dodge.

You don't have to fall for it, though.
What about the people who'd just prefer not to waste megabytes of data for loading what could as well be expressed in a few dozen kilobytes of text and some lightweight stylesheets, a la https://thebestmotherfucking.website/

Now, AMP probably isn't the best solution for the problem, as many of the comments and other sources on the Internet do point out, but the website obesity crisis ( https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm ) is probably the actual problem that should be addressed, rather than just attempting to downplay the problem by saying that advances in how fast connections are will make it less annoying.

Of course, the technical advancements are nice, but it still feels like some version of Wirth's law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law ) that's applied to the web, where the pages themselves should just be more lightweight and both drain less battery and consume less power (as well as require less processing power to render, because some of the modern sites are ridiculous in this regard, i can no longer have 50+ tabs open on a device with 4 GB of RAM without using tab suspension plugins).
I seriously don't understand Facebook's PR strategy here.

Anyone informed enough to come across this and read it is probably also informed enough to know its total BS.

I'm completely mystified as to what Facebook is trying to accomplish here. Who is the actual audience?

Facebook hires pretty smart people, so I feel like there's some tactical element I'm missing, like this could be used in a future court case somehow, but I can't think of a single thing, and neither has any analyst whose opinion I've read.

So what is Facebook even thinking?
It kinda is. There have been countless debates about Clojure not being a real Lisp, Scheme not being a real Lisp, Janet not being a real Lisp, Lisp not being a real Lisp, and IMO they've only created circle jerks, tons of "my Lisp has a longer cons cell than yours"-style arguments, and overall made the landscape a worse place.

If you're interested, search for "is an acceptable Lisp" and/or "is not an acceptable Lisp" and read all the articles, their comment sections, and the Hacker News dumpster fires that ensued. Maybe they would be amusing if only they weren't happening in my language community.
I remember story about woman who got hit by speeding car along with her kids who got hurt badly or died. They charged her with endangering kids, but not the driver - crossing was over half mile away.

There was public outrcy about that.
They mention SSG as a goal in the RFC, so they intend to support build time (which would be transpile time if you want to split hairs).
Indeed that is true. I've dealt with the issue myself. Fortunately it worked out in the end, but it was quite a shock when it happened.
They blacklisted our plan for specific visits. That shouldn't be possible.
There is no such thing as a surprise medical bills ban. The only thing that will happen, without a complete overhaul of the way medical services are paid for in the US, is that patients will be given one extra form to sign before being allowed any services by any provider:

Patient waives any and all rights granted by [anti-surprise laws]
and agrees to indemnify Provider for any related costs.

You have to understand it's not just about the rules, medical insurance companies will do plenty to stay compliant but they'll still screw you. Sometimes they'll send you a bill for something they already said was covered, then suddenly it's on you to fight a several billion dollar company into just doing what they promised.
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If you use multiple exposures for exposure blending you lose sensitivity, and in the case of fast shutter speeds image quality plummets.

Phones are simply not better at taking non-blury pictures in very lowlight. Cameras evolved since the 90s, we have 5 stops of IS, sharp f/1.4 lenses and exposure stacking.

The resolution advantage is not moderate at all. A 12MP phone is around as sharp as a theoretically perfect 8MP sensor with a perfect lens, while current cameras are as sharp as 40+MP perfect sensor with a theoretically perfect lens.

Diffraction absolutely doesn't come out as a wash. What matters is the actual diameter of the aperture, not the ratio. Phones are a tenth of ILCs in this metric, or even less for non-optimal focal lengths.
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A real issue with microservices is that you can no longer use the database system for transactional integrity. Microservices are fine for things you never have to back out. But if something can go wrong that requires a clean cancel of an entire transaction, now you need all the logic for that in the microservice calls. Which is very hard to get right for the cases where either side fails.

(Today's interaction with phone support: Convincing Smart and Final that when their third-party delivery company had their systems go down, they didn't actually deliver the order, even though they generated a receipt for it.)
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I seriously hate this argument.

It completely defeats itself. Boeing will only have an incentive to be ultra-careful if it expects people to boycott its product out of spite after its fuckups are exposed.

If people say "Eh, no use changing my habits, Boeing will probably improve to preserve its reputation", you're giving them the exact opposite of the incentives they should have.

You're also telling other companies that they can screw over consumers at least once and get away with it if they apologize when they're found out.
Explain why? What is it that Common Lisp and Scheme have in common aside from the syntax that Python doesn't?
> self-flagellation specific to our year 2020

Lucky you. You might not even realize.
Nice idea.

I had a bunch of "phantom" avatars for some reason (https://imgur.com/a/ixBGuK8)

Some thoughts:

- the idea someone just mentioned in the "launch party" about having a visualisation of an avatars audio "range" (how far they project sound) would be useful

- a visualisation that someone is speaking could also be useful (little speaker next to their name)

- definitely need some kind of password protection for joining, gate crashing would be pretty easy (unless of course you rate limit attempting to join a space to stop people brute forcing the space ID)

- ability to mute someone would also be useful in a more public setting (and the mutee should probably get a visualisation that an avatar cannot hear them)

- being able to agree with another person to go into a completely new space would also be useful way to take a conversation private
If it's a privately held company, then I think you could reasonably argue that the "pre-money" valuation is illusory. There's no market price, and the company is only worth whatever investors can be convinced to pay for it.

To take your example: my hypothetical 10% isn't worth $2m -- it's worth an unknown amount (one hopes more than the $100k it started at). Only after somebody is willing to pay $5m for 20% of the company can one realistically say what my (now 8.2%) shares are worth.
Besides what others have written.

It is a complete single user graphical workstation OS, written in a GC enabled systems programming language.

Niklaus Wirth got his inspiration out of Mesa/Cedar during his second sabbatical at Xerox PARC (during his first one he ended up creating Modula-2 inspired by Mesa).

You can see what Mesa/Cedar was capable of by checking this videos,

"Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4

The original Oberon system was a simplified version of it in more affordable hardware, then from its roots, a series of other variants were born, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, V4, System 3, Component Pascal, Zonnon, are the most well known. Eventually Niklaus Wirth decided to go back and see how much he could remove from original Oberon and still have it be a systems programming language with GC, thus Oberon-07 was born, with a couple of revisions, the latest one from 2016.

Going back to the original one, this is what you got in the package:

- A full stack single user graphical workstation, in a GC enabled systems programming language

- The only kind of application are modules, loaded dynamically

- Applications are just modules that register themselves into the system to be available on the REPL or in menus when loaded, e.g. Module.Command will load Module and call the procedure named Command, which can then be fed data from the REPL, mouse selection or selected application window

- This brings dynamism similar to Smalltalk and Lisp machines where you get access to whole OS and each application is extensible

At a given point during the 90's the ETHZ IT department had plenty of people using Oberon based workstations.

For a couple of screenshots about Oberon System 3 and Active Oberon, with links about Xerox PARC related stuff have a look at https://www.progtools.org/article.php?name=oberon&section=co...
>There is no collateral for credit card loans either.

Which is why credit card companies don't give you 100K in credit cards, but you can get that in student loans. Heck, they generally won't give you more than a few K in credit cards until you've demonstrated some credit trustworthiness.
Is there a comparison with TFX, KubeFlow pipelines and AirFlow?
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