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Unsurprisingly I learned more about economics from historians, anthropologists (Adam Tooze, David Graeber) than practicing economists.

I’m currently enjoying reading “What’s Wrong with Economics”[1] which expands on some of the points you make. Recommended if you haven’t come across it yet.

[1] https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300249873/whats-wrong-ec...
I actually found that the best way in that (horrible) era was to develop Opera-first. That way the amount of fixes for IE and Mozilla was much less than if choosing any of these two as firstm
No, just the tyrants.
Hmmm, if people are into analysis of Taiwan-China relations, a friend has recently been publishing articles on that topic (among others):

https://thediplomat.com/2020/03/is-taiwan-really-buying-the-...
"USA, Israel and the West"

What is the point of including the USA and Israel if you are going to append the West?

Or was it too hard to list the individual perpetrators and just went for what felt good?

[PS. Not a westerner]
Someone asked a tangential question on another thread and I thought, Oh! There was an Omega Tau episode on that very subject! It's been about five years since the link was posted to HN, so it's about time to revisit it.

Roughly half the episodes are in German and half in English.

Here's an excerpt from their "About" page

> How do scientists uncover phenomena and explain their connections? How do engineers design machines, methods and infrastructure? At omega tau, experts give detailed answers. Over the last ten years, we have produced 300 episodes in which we dug deeper, until we ran out of questions. Join us on our journey through the world of science and engineering: the closer you look and listen, the more interesting things get.
It's true that the new Firefox still only has a handful of addons available. But that's still a handful more than Chrome supports.
Case in point - I was stopped from entering the supermarket here in Singapore because I measured over 37 degrees Celsius....but 5 seconds later I re-measured at 32 degrees, and was waved in.

It is pretty absurd.
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Definition of myriad (Entry 1 of 2)

1 : ten thousand

2 : a great number

The Apple/Google duopoly does not constitute a "myriad of competitors".
When they say:

> No one is saying transition is a "regrettable outcome".

It's safe to assume it's meant in the context of the ongoing thread. Not as in "No on in the world is ever saying that", but "No one here has said such thing". It's better to direct your arguments to an individual in the thread, not an official representative of the collective internet.
if, like me, you've thought "wait, but :GBrowse only opens the file", the trick is to _select_ a line first, i.e.

> :{range}GBrowse [args]
The cause for that accident seems to have been strong wind, which apparently makes these huge ships very hard or even impossible to maneuver when they are going slow.

If true, then the "systemic issue" is only that ships are getting too big.
FWIW Sybase SQL Anywhere has supported it since v10[1] at least. Current version is v17[2].

[1]: http://dcx.sap.com/index.html#1001/en/dbrfen10/rf-select-sta...

[2]: http://dcx.sap.com/index.html#sqla170/en/html/8190aea36ce210...
Do you realize how expensive and hard it is to build a search engine from scratch? It's not a coincidence that only state-size corporations have been able to keep a high quality web index going. Cliqz tried and struggled hard, until they decided to shut down. It's not a "market ripe for disruption". It's maybe the market with the highest barrier of entry in tech.
In the future google will remove every app that is trying to compete with them
Then what are you trying to say? If we agree that universities are unnecessary for literacy or numeracy then university is no more a cornerstone of contemporary societies than supermarkets or libraries.
Some social sciences are not even trying to be scientific anymore. They have denounced even the mere concepts of truth and of the scientific method as a tool to approximate it. These people need to be removed from academic life and from all teaching positions as a matter of self defence.
(Ed. And they and their sympathisers obviously know who they are.)
Good problem also means it fits the reachable skill level of the person doing the work. Do we agree on that stuff like P=NP for example is not a good problem?
To an extent - but random releases of tickets tend to benefit people with desk jobs and soft-touch supervision.

My boss doesn't mind if I'm keeping an eye on a festival website when my code's compiling, and I take 15 minutes to book a ticket when they go on sale. But a call centre worker or a doctor or a teacher or a production line worker isn't in the same position.
Hyper-personalization getting it right
There is simply no way that is going on with Costco.
I think GP means on the desktop. I also use the same function so I can run the web version of Slack instead of the Electron one, on a separate window with the Slack icon. Firefox killed their efforts to support this (single site browser). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25589177
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> A car club member spins his back tires—a practice known as a “burnout”—at a car club meet-up on Sunday, unleashing a cloud of white smoke

Is that really something worth calling a tradition?
If it were to happen where I live, I would definitely call the police.
What a terrible, misleading headline. As expected, the reference to the human brain is there entirely for virality reasons.

Whenever charge flows, there will be magnetic fields. It's common for this to occur, because all known life uses ion channels in some way, and multicellular organisms do use electrical potential for internal signaling (such as nervous systems). Thus, the study of magnetic fields can be used to gain information about the state of an organism and scientists are now applying this to plants as well.
One of the best advice that I've read on this very forum is always make sure that you start at $47 if that makes sense for your product.

The logic behind it is that a lot of businesses give employees the power to buy stuff under this $50 limit without having to get it approved from their boss/deptt.
They kind of did - there are resistors on the card's PCB to inform the firmware of how much memory is installed and this operation modified them to match the new amount of memory installed.

But beyond that, what would be the reason of spending effort locking this down even more?
The evaluation of scientists and academic staff needs to be done by independent evaluation panels based on a (subjective) assessment of the scientific merits of their publications. In every reasonable place it's also done that way. In addition to this, funding for time-limited contracts has to be treated similar to investment funding, i.e., evaluate very carefully in the beginning and do an internal evaluation of the performance afterwards (mostly to evaluate the initial evaluation) but avoid continuous evaluation and mostly only advise/help during the contract period.

The worst thing to have is indicator counting of any kind. The system will be swamped with mediocre, sometimes almost fraudulent scientists who game it. (It's just too easy to game the system: Just find a bunch of friends who put their names on your papers, and you do the same with their papers, and you've multiplied your "results".)

H-Index is also flawed. In my area in the humanities papers and books are often quoted everywhere because they are so bad. I know scholars who have made a career by publishing outrageous and needlessly polemic books and articles. Everybody will jump on the low-hanging fruit, rightly criticize this work, the original authors get plenty of opportunities to publish defences, and then they get their tenure. Publishers like Oxford UP know what sells and are actively looking for crap like that.
What other elements do you think could form life?

Or are you speculating there could just be such different physics out there we struggle to image what different worlds could be out there.
Obviously that is what Real Estate agents have lately got people used to. But that is recent.

There is intrinsic value in different words having different meanings. There are reasons why we had two words. Those reasons were inconvenient to RE agents, so they fixed it. Everybody downvoting me has swallowed it whole.
> "Can I see your parts list?"

That one made me laugh, however, I wondered if an AI would consider this question as a bit too personal for a pickup line.
I second that. The whole problem is that Google is supplying a trojan horse that they use to prevent people from developing solutions from protecting their privacy and in fact they use it to gather even more data about people -- something that ensures unfair advantage over competition.
One source i can show is from his blog post https://web.archive.org/web/20210202083240/https://www.ribbo...

> As thoughtless teenagers, we made crude SC/ST jokes. Here’s one: at a urinal in a government recruitment center, there is a line marked on the wall with the note, “if you can pee above this line, you get the job.”

This was unnecessary considering the dalits commiting sucide after joining IIT or other elite colleges due to harrasment from the Brahmins community students. Even if you give the benefit of doubt on this one simply as telling a story, look for the next quote.

> .. but I am enough of a free-speecher to acknowledge that it has a right to

This... This is the mindset of the upper caste Brahmins. They don't want the reservations based on caste but at the same time they don't want it to go away, simply because it provides birth entitlement at the cost of the other castes.

It does not matter he is an atheist. Even the founder of Hindutva philosophy is an atheist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinayak_Damodar_Savarkar whom these modern educated caste supporting intellectuals admire.

That blog post is quite long, If you read the entire post you get the impression that after all caste system is not bad, just the implementation had gone wrong. In fact any one who says caste is not that bad especially in USA, it is very likely they are from upper caste brahmin community.
One battle at a time.
Prevent market segmentation bypass.
I've worked with/for Bitrix24 plenty in the past. The company behind it is 20+ years old. The service itself was launched in 2012. Profitable, self-funded, never needed to raise VC money.
Thanks for the link, will add this to the list.
It took several billion years for the stars to form, blow up, and fuse the elements into heavier and heavier elements that then formed our galactic neighbourhood, our sun and ultimately Earth. Then it took more than 4.5 billion years for Earth to cool, develop life (or get contaminated, if it was panspermia) and evolve that life to a point where it split the atom and built a planetary communications network that allows ordering pizza from any single point on the planet's surface.

I'm certain this process could have been quicker elsewhere, and there's no reason to believe life could not develop under different circumstances, but it's definitely plausible that extra-terrestrial life -- assuming it exists -- is a rare thing and that any alien civilizations may be few and very, very far in-between. On the other hand, the Universe is a rather big place, and even if there's just a single species who reached space in the entire galaxy, that still leaves us with the possibility of life elsewhere.

"A long time ago, in a galaxy far away" is quite fitting. Other technological civilizations could have developed, risen and fallen and crumbled into dust while life on Earth was nothing more than a bunch of proteins chilling in a hot spring.
Which OS? And were you already on SSD? Those can both greatly influence the outcome.
This just adds to my impression that Go is a very poorly designed language.

So. The compiler knows that the package is not used. How can you tell the compiler that the package is imported for side-effects?

Oh, you have to explicitly tell it to the compiler by, you know, actually using the import, right. By doing something stupid like

import (
_ "github.com/lib/pq"
_ "image/png"
...
)

Oh. Look. Problem solved. You mark a package as "I imported this specifically for its side effects". So the compiler can go ahead and include it.

Why does it need to include any other unused module?
No, it won't take over Boston dynamics first. It'll take over the entire gig economy first.

The AI doesn't need a body just for the sake of it - it needs reach, ability to manipulate things in physical space. So why constrain yourself to an awkward robot body (or a fleet of them), when it already as access to an API to control humans? That's what the gig economy is - an API to a distributed horde of human workers all around the planet. Need something done in the physical world? Post a bunch of job requests here and there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26565422
Let's not beat around the bush; it'd work on 90% of HN.

(Myself included.)
>and a pleasure craft

I see that labeling too, but the Tahia Misr2 is a tug, sister to the Tahia Misr1.

I'm not sure why it's displaying as a pleasure craft.
Yeah zfs send (and a bunch of other features/architecture choices) have been one of the biggest reasons I'm interested in the zfs ecosystem and kind of keep a lookout for it/finding ways to work it into infrastructure that I build. I know that Hardware RAID is what the big boys use, but assuming the performance hit is OK, the feature set of ZFS with a properly tuned database installation like a match made in heaven, was hoping to have them comment...
I don't understand why Google doesn't hire a third party to do moderation on their platforms.

Google could write and publish the rules, and then get a third party to decide if each app/comment/video meets the rules or not.

There could even be the option to appeal to a real court if you disagree with the third party.

Google still gets effective veto since they could change the rules anytime, but it would still be a big step up over what we currently have.
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At least CCC partially solves this by distributing part of the available spots as voucher codes through the local clubs. You get a new code to pass on after you've redeemed yours so many people get there by knowing someone who knows someone.
Very nice work. About hot-loading: Where do you put the frontier between each modules? How big is each of them? Maybe you could share a typical module list?

Keep the good work!
Why is this subreddit private?
So what is your estimation of simplicity of using video compression there? Is it possible?
Dang, so it's only a matter of time when websites get the upper hand again? This is seriously disappointing to hear, even though I understand Raymond.
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Hi. Skipper here (nothing of the size of the ship in question, obviously:).

Ships of ANY size are hard or impossible to maneuver when they are going slow and have a blackout. The size doesn't matter.

The control surfaces only work when they move with regards to water.

The ship that does not move is uncontrollable with rudder and it needs to use something else to help it maneuver. This something else can be a tugboat that rotates the ship by the force it can generate, or it can be thrusters. Thrusters aren't propulsion method and they are relatively small and can counter only so much wind.
Given how long the US military has been running drone operations world wide it's a near certainty they have war gamed the scenario of the adversary's drones attack at night under a new moon.

If the drones are quad copters then they would need to be released released pretty close to the target (under 10 miles say). If they are winged drones then they are most likely military in origin.

The story of the drones over Colorado seems to have sunk beneath the seas. However there were so many drones and so many sightings who ever was behind that would certainly have anticipated that the drones would be detected by civilians.

The fact that none of these drones have been captured (just shoot at the lights) leads me to belief these are all military in origin war gaming drone warfare 2.0.
I'd only disagree that this is anything new. Yeats clearly recognised this over a century ago.
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> But very often this "appeared outside China" is deflection and falsely invoked. Mind you that Reuters write: "it might have spread beyond China earlier than thought". [...] We already knew that Western expats and their relations in Wuhan got viral pneumonia in November 2019

Let's backtrack a bit.

First patient in France confirmed to be in late December 2019[0].

Retrospective wastewater analysis in Brazil shows the virus was present from November 2019 onwards, 3 months before their first reported case.[1]

Further down the line we have SARS-CoV-2's RdRP specific antibodies found during retrospective testing of samples of 111 (of 959) healthy volunteers of a lung cancer study in Italy[1]; samples taken in October 2019, meaning they got infected at least at some point in September 2019, 4-5 months before the first detected case. These antibodies also target RaTG13's RdRP, given that this protein is identical in both.

Even further down the line, and widely interpretable, we have the Barcelona case:

> "Coronavirus traces found in March 2019 sewage sample, Spanish study shows. The discovery of virus genome presence so early in Spain, if confirmed, would imply the disease may have appeared much earlier than the scientific community thought." [2]

The paper is here [3]. The fact that IP2/IP4 fragments of the RdRP gene are perfect match means that at least a virus very similar to SARS-CoV-2 (and RaTG13, its closest relative) was present in Spain back in March 2019.

It's not conclusive, as other markers tested negative, but it's also true that these other markers tend to degrade faster (for example, N1 marker wasn't detectable in May 25 2020, despite the pandemic ongoing). But this fact also rules out a case of sample contamination, because then N1 would have been detectable. It's also remarkable that the positive sample is from 2 weeks after the World Mobile Congress, leading to a self-contained outbreak hypothesis.

Now take all that information and combine it with the fact that no trace of SARS-CoV-2 has been found on any sample from Wuhan before December 1st, 2019.

While there's high probability that SARS-CoV-2 appeared within Chinese borders, mainly because the closest viral relatives have been known to live there (or Japan and South East Asia, if you ignore RaTG13), it's still highly speculative.

What is clear is that everything points in the direction of Wuhan, and the Huanan Seafood Market in particular, being just the first detected superspreading event, and the WIV was the reason why it was detected first, rather than the source of the virus itself.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-france...

[1] https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200701/SARS-CoV-2-circul...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-tim...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-...

[4] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20129627v...
Damn near everybody who thought about the way things were going foretold this kind of thing.

First the California (or NYC, or DC, or Boston) money shows up kicking out most of the people who aren't at least a white collar level of moneyed.

Then with nobody to stand in their way they Karens and Kevins (not necessarily from CA, just rich enough to still stick around after the CA money jacks everything up) swing their political weight around doing their best to turn the place into a sterile and conformist hellscape.

We've seen this pattern in cities and suburbs across the county.
According to the article this is simply a weekly Saturday BBQ at a school yard.

It's sort of supposed to happen where residents live. Of course this being USA people go there by car (and when a lot of people who know each other go in a procession, who also happen to love their cars, it can get loud), of course this being the 21. century somehow even just built luxury apartments are not noise-proofed sufficiently.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Weaver/@30.2522831,-97...

This looks like a nice park at the river, which also happens to be the backyard of a middle school.

So it seems The Weaver was built next to a 3+3 + 4 + 4 lane highway/interstate and a school (anyone have any experience with loudness levels at recess?) and now the residents are complaining about the one thing they feel is easiest to change. The BBQ.
And who decides who the tyrants are?
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Note this article appears to be from 2015.
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I don't understand how proven is the right word here.

Only if Leela etc decide with high confidence that that line is the best possible for both players would I start to believe it.
There are lots of other keyboards to choose from. Unless you want Swype like functionality, in which case only the GBoard is anything like acceptable performance.
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Ask HN: Why is there no developer-first iPaaS?
Hey HN,

I’m working for a company that is using Workato (enterprise iPaaS) to connect a lot of systems together, and which many of our core business processes run through.

This tool is sold as ‘no-code’ but we all know what that means... In reality it’s actually used/managed by a developer (soon to be me). It has all the usual issues with these types of tools - it is built on a proprietary visual programming language, has very basic version control, doesn’t let me write tests, and debugging problems is a nightmare.

I took a look at the other products in the space (tray.io, Mulesoft, Jitterbit) and in fact they all seem to be exactly the same. This got me thinking... why is there not an integration tool built specifically for developers? What I want is...

- Workflows written in a real programming language and configured in code.

- A runtime which guarantees workflows are completed or enter a triage-able error state (due to API breakage or unexpected data).

- Version control with git. Updates made via PRs in Github.

- Wrappers over common APIs (Salesforce, Netsuite etc) to create simple-to-read and reason about workflows.

- A VScode extension with prompts/auto-completes for APIs (e.g. shows attributes on custom objects in Salesforce).

- Secrets management.

- Tests run prior to workflow deployment.

Hopefully you get what I’m aiming towards. Does anyone know if a product like this exists? Or agree with me that this product should exists?
>I wonder how the next disruptive innovation is going to look in the search engine market?

I think the search engine market will always be very closely linked to content distribution platforms. If the decentralised web continues to degenerate into an oligopoly of walled gardens then there will be no search engine market in the current sense. We will just use the search function provided by each platform.

I believe the question we have to ask is what the next disruptive content distribution platform is going to look like and whether that disruption can be anything more than yet another oligopolist stealing some share from the encumbents before getting bought by one of them (or not).
Damn, imagine having to go around South America as a detour.