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I understand your point, and I agree. But there's nuance here.

Some theories, ranked by the strength of their supporting evidence, e.g. and IMO:

0 Baby-eating lizard aliens run the US government
1 ..
2 String theory
3 ..
4 ..
5 ..
6 ..
7 Asteroid extinction event
8 Relativity
9 Evolution

Scientists and specialists should draw a critical line between theory and fact. But there are always unknowables, and if "fact" requires the elimination of uncertainty ("10" in the above), then it is a useless word.

So we'd need a new word, that means "very well-supported theory, based on all available evidence, with no strong competing explanations". Open to suggestions here!

But for non-specialists, at what score is it reasonable to treat a theory as "fact"? I'll vote for 7.5. :)

Obligatory: Colloquially, "fact" as "true idea" -- not "quantum of isolated information which can be knowable". The latter definition is lovely, but has little application in the world of people.
Now that’s how you write a headline
I found that one as well, I appreciate them hiding it for only the curious to find :)
> That is my preferred outcome

Mine as well, friend. I simply choose to live in a way where I believe this is also the likely outcome. You can pretend that this is an overdose of 'hopium' if you like, but I prefer to simply call this honest optimism.

> In your eyes, am I one of those 'woke' people, who never created any value?

I don't know you, but if you spread climate doom all over the place, you may be cancelling out the value you've created in more material ways. The morale of a nation matters.

Put it this way: I have literally met people who say they do not want to have children because they fear for the climate future. There are even articles in publications like the Guardian, Time, etc. that advocate for people to lower their carbon footprint this way. Meanwhile, in other nations where nobody cares about climate, the birth rate dwarfs our own; what does that mean for the future?

National morale is at an all-time low and this is in no small part due to people being sold a story at every angle that they have no future, no reason to hope, no salvation. Just consume, live in the pod and eat bugs, and hang on to watch the lights go out. Do you think that creates or preserves value?
You earn interest by "lending" your digital asset. People want to speculate against the asset (i.e. bet the price will go down). The only way to do that is borrow someone else's crypto (pay them an interest rate for the trouble), sell it, and eventually buy it back later at a lower price.

The interest rate is determined by the market, and since its pretty early on in defi world, the owners of the crypto demand a higher interest rate to make it worth their while. Also, the more volatile the asset the more valuable it is in terms of derivatives.
Because programmers or project engineers are idiots. That's it.
How would climate change bring about the collapse of human civilization?
CD opening was the gateway drug to everything else. Everyone's mentioning that in the threads here. HA! Love it.
Yea, lots of different kinds of magnesium and brands are very annoying.

Stuff is amazing dramatically reduced headaches and muscle aches. Magnesium citrate.

I generally stick to the most expensive ones.

Other variations have not helped, I felt weird on them.

Problem is the same (though to a much lessor degree) for prescriptions.

Plaqunial name brand is drastically more impactful then it’s genetics. So much so, that I have to cut dosage 1/2 to 1/4.
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I'll definitely give it a shot. Although I didn't reply to this thread expecting "tech-support", it certainly is appreciated when fellow tech folks are willing to share what they've learned. So, thank you.
Funnily enough, this is what our "collective consciousness" is useful for. Humans act a lot like an ant colony, except individuals have much more autonomy.

So, you ask, say, 1000 people what the root cause is. The result will be decided either by majority or the most plausible argumentation. Say 700 people agree the jaywalker was at fault. That will become "reality" for the group, which will then likely spread throughout the hive.

The main lesson will be "don't jaywalk at night", the secondary one likely "don't wear black clothing at night" and probably a third one "beware of drunk drivers".

Sorry if that sounds weird, I'm also trying to wrap my head around what human intelligence is and how it can be applied to AI (Approximate Intelligence :)).
Self driving is not possible without changes to infrastructure. We know this because NHS tried in 1960’s and was able to succeed with this approach. Government will have to solve problem first. How? Installing sensors on our highways that cars can use. Anything this big in scale can’t be solved by the private sector alone, you also need better infrastructure.
Look, I strongly favor fighting climate change. Any reasonable view of future lives having any moral worth makes it an imperative. But predictions like "accept that there's a strong probability that human civilization will collapse in the lifetime of Millennials" are alarmist and not backed by the science.

There will be huge impacts on global productivity by the end of the century, but the very, very large impacts are not going to happen until everyone currently alive is dead and gone.

This is what we need to confront - that the sacrifices that we need for climate change will mostly not benefit us, they will benefit the children of our children, and their children as well.
"To start, I’m looking forward to a refresh period, reconnecting with old friends and family, and discovering new parts of the world."

I suppose that is a nice way of saying wait out my non-compete....
What I read was, Social media bad. A part of the long running crusade of the NYT and other media that is finding itself displaced by Social media, whether existing sites or new upstarts.

The simple point is, NYT and other legacy media companies resent that they don't control the news and how it is portrayed, delivered, and worse for them fact checked. They really loathe being called out repeatedly by "upstarts" who aren't real "journalist".

There have been many editors, writers, and more, taken down in recent years that used to operate with impunity within the legacy media. No one would question them or the paper they wrote for. Now they can get caught when they cross the line or worse outright fabricate stories.

So the legacy media simply writes stories that portray social media as bad and in need of regulation, in other words, silencing.
Can smell the white privelege from here
ICOs are mostly scams. If the company's product isn't the coin, clear scam. If the product is the coin, is the coin unique in some way? If not, scam. Most ICOs fall into one of those categories. I'm sure there are a handful of counterexamples amongst the myriads of scams
Yeah, and lets just ignore the waste and emissions that it generates at all other fronts (building the plant and materials for it, mining and processing of the fuel, processing and storage of spend fuel, disassembly of the plant). "_Clean_" nuclear energy is and will always be a fairy tale!

Edit: Emphasized the word "Clean". I am not per se against Nuclear. Anyway, keep downvoting my opinion.
If you use the hate of crypto on HN as a metric, then yes.
>The technology isn't developing as fast as people had hoped.

I can’t help but think people conflated what the problem statement of self driving really is. We’ve made huge strides in perception in the last two decades but self-driving is a much more complex problem than just accurately perceiving the world sound us.
North & South Korea, Vietnam, and Japan absolutely share common culture with China. Korea used Chinese characters (Hanja) before Hangul. Japanese Kanji consists of adapted Chinese characters. Pre-1900s, Vietnam used Chinese characters.

In the United States, "Asian" really means something more like "Sino". Maybe not the right word, but originally within varying degrees of the Chinese sphere of influence throughout history. In the UK, an Indian or Pakistani person would be considered Asian. This is not true in the United States.
I see that you're a Marine on your bio, so I guess we are just not going to see eye to eye on how important/relevant amphibious landing capabilities are :) I actually remember hearing about that EFV and thinking 'what a waste of money' at the time.

Respect for acknowledging the reliability issues.

I think another elephant in the room is the bifurcated (or trifurcated) nature of things the armed forces are expected to do. Occupying countries with large goat-herding sectors is totally different from sci-fi peer military conflict planning.

Meanwhile, most of the brass just wants to re-enact WWII, which serves neither mission. Everyone loves the idea of carriers or a d-day landing, when "large # of cheap, expendable drones and missiles" completely obliterates both of those strategies.

Did you ever read about Millenium Challenge 2002? Marine general plays red team, sinks entire US fleet with the realization that if you launch a lot of missiles at once at a carrier group, the anti-missile batteries can't stop them all. They decide on a do-over with a new rule that he can't do that anymore, and run the exercise to the predetermined conclusion that validates their doctrine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
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But you should still panic a little bit because this technique can be used for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickjacking
Now this is the only way to get my stubborn libertarian ass on board with a more "green" agenda.

I remain suspicious that it is bullshit, though, since the nuclear industry doesn't employ a lot of voters.
>If they truly thought of it as an emergency, they wouldn't pass highly controversial legislation with all sorts of policies with zero bipartisan support.

In the spirit of "never let a good crisis go to waste," one might argue that emergencies are typically EXACTLY when politicians are most likely to pass highly controversial and unilateral legislation.
You can't control-f video.
I had an amazing search result with ddg: I searched "forced parameterization" and all the images of SQL execution plans were censored :D
Half a million dead Americans. Fair to say what you're doing didn't work.
This combined with the recent announcement of Waymo pivoting to monetize their research in what's basically a garage sale (https://waymo.com/lidar) tells me that Waymo is soon to be interred on killedbygoogle.com.
Does anyone else think that may be full autonomous flying of aircraft will be easier to make practical than driving of automobiles?
For fully autonomous driving need to happen, all cars must exchange data with each other how robots do in a factory floor.
Image and depth perception can solve some problems but a crash or a vehicle can maneuver in any direction. If two self driving cars need to take a decision at a intersection, how are they gonna do it?
2100 is almost 80 years from now. Think back to 1940 and how different our world was then. Cars will certainly be automated to some degree. And that will cause a great reduction in the almost 1.35 million people killed globally by motor vehicle accidents.

A US statistic: In 2010, there were an estimated 5,419,000 crashes, 30,296 deadly, killing 32,999, and injuring 2,239,000. It is hard for me to imagine a scenario where automated driving is as unsafe as that.

We will truly look back and think, "Did we really trust others to operate multi ton metal machinery at exceedingly high speeds at each other day after day?"
I can't remember, did that ever actually ship?
On one hand this kind of makes sense to me - his experience in the actual auto industry must have seemed invaluable when he was hired in 2015 and people thought self driving would be brought to mass market in a couple years.

But now that everyone assumes we're in for the long haul (Aurora says 2025 for L4 in some cities), it doesn't make sense for him to want to stay.
Perl is great. Also we're hiring several roles

https://www.fastmail.com/about/jobs/
The greenhouse effect is most noticeable in the coldest parts of the greenhouse, like putting a lid on food in the microwave to spread the warming effect. The most impacted places will be furthest from the equator, which is why glacial melt is so prominent already. It's the canary in the coal mine. Once all that ice is lost, the climate patterns we know and can predict may and likely will change and be irriversible. There may be some local good effects, like farming in VA, but extreme heat/cold storms or tropical pestilence may negate any farm yield. Climate science is way more interconnected than we can wrap our heads around. The second third and 100th order derivates are unpredictable.
I began my Russian journey 10 years ago and I feel extremely ashamed about how little I know. I can barely hold a conversation. My ADHD/anxiety makes reading near impossible and it seems the resources for Russian language are generally old-fashioned or inconvenient (eg RU isn't often supported by these new clever/trendy learning tools that pop up).

My goal now is just to get to a Russian speaking country and learn naturally. I have decent pattern recognition so this is the easiest way for me to learn, so it's a pity that there seems to be so few resources that take advantage of this. Chatting with strangers in my target language has been the most beneficial for me so far.
Luckily the school was rather new so all of the PCs across the entire school were identical, whether they were for a teacher's use, the programming class, or the graphic design and yearbook clubs so I was luckily able to avoid any of those shortcomings.

Cant say my school had anything of the sort (they'd prefer to punish and force you back in line with other students) and while I like the idea, I know that in HS it'd feel too akin to snitching on my classmates to participate in that.
> It's reasonable to provide a single implementation of an interface, if the goal is to facilitate dependency injection for that component.

You don't really need dependency injection if there is only single choice of what to inject. You can just refer in code to the only possible component.
Show HN: Box2D fluid simulation in WebGL and WASM
Nvidia leak shows next-gen GPUs could be five times as powerful as RTX 3080
Maybe I'm understanding you wrong, but diabetes is a well-known risk factor for COVID-19.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precaut...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8...
Maybe. But a lot of us are cynical when we hear this kind of language from departing CEOs.
Personally, I don't care about other people's sexual preferences ans I don't see why anyone should.

The one argument you can make against fetishizing a group of people is that it's reducing members of that group to fetish objects.

So if you're an Asian woman trying to date seriously, you'll get a bunch of white men who only care you're Asian and nothing else.

I don't know how much of an issue that is in practice (and I'm sure it's different in diff parts of the world).
Scientist didn't kill it, they just proved that it was never alive. :) Anyway, I expect that the zombie/golem emdrive will be around for a long time.

Similar discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26656206 (519 points, 1 day ago, 297 comments)
> Cars will certainly be automated to some degree. And that will cause a great reduction in the almost 1.35 million people killed globally by motor vehicle accidents.

They already are. I'm talking about full self driving. A car without a steering wheel. Cruise control (arguably the first car automation) has existed since the 1900s. Potentially earlier depending on how you define it.
Nothing saying it can't be in a config file. Really all I care about is opt-in over opt-out.
Java has a massive head start. For its age, Go has caught on quite well.
IMHO, that should be seen as a tangential right to repair.

Either the entity that sold you the software (or their successors) gives you standard access, tools, and specs to effect standard repairs.

Or if that entity cannot fulfill that responsibility (say, because they went bankrupt), their code is open-sourced.

The situation to avoid is "nobody cares about this thing, and nobody is available to service it."
Build toilets into delivery trucks
The effort/motivation ratio makes far more sense for the 1996 prank than for the 2021 one. The 1996 one works out: a group of co-workers, at a company with a divisive reputation but desperately longing for being considered cool, a year after the Windows 95 release campaign made shrink-wrapped cardboard boxes the centerpiece of attention. And 1996: from Microsoft Word Art to pirated copies of Quark Express, losing themselves to print preparation screen time was just something people did, in the 90ies.

The hypothetical 2021 prank? Why Microsoft? Why Java? Why the completely forgotten medium of cardboard boxes?
Written in 1945, literally as a reaction to actual Nazism.

Now used as a cudgel to intimidate and harass everyone who does not follow the party line.

Often the harassers profit financially from their bigotry, which makes them gigantic hypocrites.
We don't have fully automated planes because they're already safe enough and the economics aren't there.

The probability of crashing with a plane is extremely low, even factoring in the higher risk of takeoffs and landings. The entire process is coordinated with Air Traffic Control.

Since planes are so safe already and pilots are relatively inexpensive, there's no strong financial incentive to fully automate planes.
I mostly wanted an answer to this question:

>If the system is equal, why is there a wealth gap between black people and white people?

A straightforward answer to that would help me follow your logic. If you can't give me that, I don't think I'll be able to understand where you are coming from.
>Self driving is not possible without changes to infrastructure

Humans seem to be perfectly capable of doing it though.
That is so far outside the realm of normal toaster.

You don't need any permission's because it's possible to build entirely within the sandbox of Pythonista!
From the wiki, the lawsuit happened on the following year. I really doubt MS has gone from not working with Java, to distributing it, to making it non-compliant, to getting sued and losing in about an year.

The author was probably misinformed, and that's a very likely reason for the overreaction of the PR dept.
Really? All the Windows laptops with good quality screens are priced similarly to their base model Mac equivalents. There are certainly no shortage of sub-$500 laptops, but they're priced that way for a reason. Poor battery life, low-resolution screen, HDD instead of SSD, etc.
> Do I need to know Ruby in order to better understand Crystal?

No you don't, it's inspired by Ruby but it's not a carbon copy.

> but the community is quite small and the learning resources, sparse

That's one of the main issues of Crystal, the community is very small and language adoption is still very low.
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Without this requirement, generifying a class would require a “flag day” where all clients and subclasses have to be at least recompiled, if not modified – all at once. For a core class such as ArrayList, this essentially requires all the Java code in the world to be recompiled at once (or be permanently relegated to remain on Java 1.4.) Since such a “flag day” across the entire Java ecosystem was out of the question, we needed a generic type system that allowed core platform classes (as well as popular third-party libraries) to be generified without requiring clients be aware of their generification. (Worse, it wouldn’t have been one flag day, but many, since it is not the case that all the world’s code would have been generified in a single atomic transaction.)

Another way to state this requirement is: it was not considered acceptable to orphan all the code out there that could have been generified, or make developers choose between generics and retaining the investment they’ve already made in existing code. By making generification a compatible operation, the investment in that code could be retained, rather than invalidated.

It's great to see such care for the users, while at the same time improving the platform to make it one of the top performing ones.
> My understanding is that the NFT also contains a hash of the work that it represents, so there really is only one of a given digital work

I've never heard that before. Can someone confirm this is true? Is it solving for a hash of the original digitization of the work or something?
I think there's a crucial issue with sensoring. Companies are tackling the problem mainly using sensors that are contained within the car. Even with LIDAR (and not just cameras) it is very hard to "sense" the full scene[1].

What if our roads were built to communicate with the cars? What if there were only AVs on the street and they communicated with each other? What if every bicycle, school backpack, shopping cart did so too, identifying itself in the process?

I think the problem of self-driving is harder right now in the transitional period in which they have to coexist with human drivers and essentially trying to "emulate" how a human driver gathers information (not really, but you get my meaning)

I'm not sure it won't take decades, but I feel like there will be a magical few-months period in which we go from "can it be done?" to "oh, ok,we got it"

[1] shoot, I lost the reference. But Cruise apparently assumes "use whatever is available until it works, we'll make it cost-effective later"
I bought my first PC in the late 80s. It was an 8086 by Amstrad, with a 4Mhz processor, 512kb of RAM and no HDD.
It was running MS DOS 3.30 Plus and I made my first programs in GW-Basic.
Tax purchases made overseas.

Tariffs are already used a lot.
> Is there an example of anything that's completely automated that's dangerous?

I think this is just the usual goal post moving, if a machine does it then we decide it wasn't really dangerous for a machine to do it.

Garmin Autoland will take a plane which is otherwise working and is in the sky and put it back on the ground because the pilot has a problem (e.g. your plane nut husband finally has another stroke† while taking you and the kids cross country, you've never learned to fly but you just press the button like you were taught and the plane will tell you to remain calm while it figures out where to land and gets itself back down). It isn't cheap (the system needs to control flight surfaces, engines, radios, brakes, more or less everything on a plane) and of course it can't fix a broken plane, but a random non-pilot is going to do a much worse job and "land an aeroplane" seems like it counts as dangerous to me.

> The thing is, if you have "partial" self driving, you might as well just drive yourself IMHO.

If you live in the relatively small service zone for Waymo, you just get in the car and it drives you elsewhere in the zone, like a taxi, except the car is driving. Waymo doesn't want you "partially" driving anything, it doesn't want you near the wheel or pedals, it would prefer if you watch a video or read a book.

† In some countries private pilots have to be fit, but the US has gradually decided that eh, it's your plane, your risk, the main obstacle today for medically unfit private pilots is getting insurance.
I'm pretty sure the person you were responding to was being sarcastic. Then again it's the internet, so who knows?
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Speaking of Michael Levin, I find this lecture of his fascinating:

What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg