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In science, rarely is the individual scientist neutral. People have built careers and staked reputations on one thing or another being true. This is why you have publication bias, p-hacking, because scientists are ultimately human and they would like to publish something and something that agrees with their position.

This is why we do double-blind studies for those studies were the answer is critical (like does a medicine work), because humans can't be trusted to completely disregard their biases. We also pre-register trials, so we don't only get results that the person is happy publishing.

The wonder and genius of science, is that there is a process that works in spite of human bias.

If instead, we had to depend on the ideal, bias-free scientist, science would become a lot less useful pretty fast.

If you want some evidence that scientists are not just neutral reporters of fact, see the story with Susan Fiske's accusation of "methodological terrorism" against people who pointed out math errors.

https://www.businessinsider.com/susan-fiske-methodological-t...
I live in South Africa, where we have periodic rolling blackouts, so we're highly incentivized to insulate ourselves from that.

I installed 2kW of panels on my roof myself, and inverter, and batteries, for a total of about $2700.

The price of US solar installations seems incredibly high.

Also, with a 2 storey house, it's hard to see the panels even if you try.
I fully agree.

> Do you really think people who can't be bothered to learn and understand Hibernate properly are somehow going to take the time to learn and understand "vanilla SQL"? Why?

Yep, that is exactly what I think. People who know Hibernate know also SQL. People dont bother learn, dont know either. And then there are people who know only SQL, because they worked on projects without Hibernate. They typically learn Hibernate fast.
I just don't get, what is the point of that solar roof at such an insane price ($5-8 per watt, seriously? this is the price from 10+ years ago!). What am i missing?
My favorite piece of life advice: It's never too late unless you're dead. So long as you still breathe, you can still do something and make your mark.

No matter how shitty things get, no matter how low you're brought, you can always choose to fight you way back up, and there are many creative ways to do so. It won't be the same as before, but you'll be stronger and people will respect that strength in you.

You can be down, but never allow yourself to be out.
It does not work as you think. The study of water masses is a branch of oceanography. It just will travel directly to America or will be incorporated in clouds and rain again in the coast, but out of reach and untouchable by any law. Is "hiding the dust under the bed of the asthmatic guy 3.0".

Because the sorcery of making containers is a too complicated technology for modern Japanese, and they are too weak as a country to keep doing the correct thing, it seems.
France declares ‘calamité agricole’ after record cold: What is it?
> people are free not to do business with them

People aren't free not to do business with people they have contracts with. That's one of the major reasons to sign a contract.
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Can you recommend any blogs, newsletters, channels, etc. that publish cutting edge research or updates related to technology? I'm interest across all fields be it consumer, science, business, industry and so on. Thanks
It's a common mistake indeed. People change company, which means their email will change. Or they are affiliated with multiple companies. Or they simply sign up with their personal email. If you have more user objects than people in your system, you are doing something wrong. This kind of digital schizophrenia is unfortunately quite common (looking at you Slack).

Having a notion of multiple verified ways to contact the user is one step up over this. Not lot of websites actually do this. Linkedin is one of them; because they recognized early that they needed to track their users as they changed their professional affiliation.

I tend to use list fields for things like phone numbers and email addresses. This makes it clear that I understand that users might legitimately have several of those and that they change over time. I always liked what Keybase did with encouraging its users to have multiple verified third party identities (the more the better).

Using a social security number is a mistake for a different reason: it's a sensitive bit of information that can be abused if it falls in the wrong hands. You should protect it like you would protect a credit card number and generally not store it unless you absolutely have a valid business reason to. Also, it's country specific which sort of makes it an obstacle if you need to serve an international market (or have the ambition to do so later).
To be fair, the solar roof is beautiful but oh my god is it expensive. I looked into it months ago and couldn’t believe the sticker price and that was before the price hike.
> aka, you want a wealth tax that you yourself are not subject to, in order to pay for services that you yourself _do_ utilize.

Ah, classical ad hominem. And on top of that based on assumptions about an pseudonymous person, which is often a difficult thing on the internet. I do have property in an area, where I am probably considered _relatively_ rich. Not in the range of the example, mind you, but I think the same should, in fact, apply to me.

If people buy property like that, they want (or should want) to buy it _because_ it is where it is. So, they (or should I say, we) do profit from those services even when not there, because they do contribute to the community, where we took a stake in.

What is the point in having an apartment in Paris/NYC/London if all that is left are tourists?

> This is just another way to frame a selfish desire, but making it sound good because it targets somebody rich. A populous opinion imho.

Popular, probably. That would be great in a democracy. "Targeting", "because they are...". Nice way of framing trying to invoke the feeling of persecution and the classical "democracy is wolves and a lamb deciding who to have for lunch".

Being rich (and I fall in more in that category than poor) does not require protection. The ones with more luck on their side can contribute more than those with less. I certainly can. It shouldn't be by charity, but the necessary obligation of doing your part in society.

> Tax should be levied fairly. Wealth tax is not a fair tax.

I wouldn't say it is a wealth tax, it is a luxury tax. And yes, that affects more the wealthy. You can have all your wealth invested in fonds, companies, etc... and it wouldn't affect you.

On a semi-related note: Why is a wealth tax not fair? Is it fairer to tax the way to become rich over being rich? I would argue the other way around.

> The current tax system is pretty progressive, and there just needs to be patches to the loopholes, rather than institute wealth tax, which just causes inconveniences for the wealthy at best, and causes them to move their wealth at worst (leading to worse economic outcomes).

If it is a inconvenience at best, then I fail to see how it is unfair. It would be ideal, if it is just that.
And regarding moving their wealth, that is the beauty of it: You can't move your $10 million apartment in NYC.
Some sense.

Comparing financial markets to physics is pretty much what made it all explode last two times.

It is getting ready to explode again.

The asset market has been sedately rising for a decade. Which makes models like really good.

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This time is different
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No it is not.
I'd love to see how they'll implement nft_weak_ptr and its creation from and conversion to a nft_shared_ptr :).
Right now Tesla roofs are for the wealthy, but I see that changing in a few years.

I need to replace my roof. I'm a contractor so I know how to do it. I'm getting older though, and procrastinating. My fear is the physical work, but that's another story.

I've looked into asphalt, and shingle. I'll most likely go with asphalt shingles because of the cost.

I figure if I procrastonate another few years, I might be able to put solar shingles up?

I'm glad Musk got the solar shingles rolling. I'm suprised other companies haven't ventured into solar shingles. And honestly, the electricty/green aspect is not my concern. I can't really afford to be green, but if I could put up a water tight reasonably priced roof--I'd go with paying a bit more than shingles that produce free electricity. (If anyone at a Musk industries reads this; there are many DIY guys out there. Put up some good installation videos of roofing, and of course, your product. Make them so detailed, the average DIY'er might attempt the job? Take into account many people might used the solar shingles, but not have the battery, and controls. I might put up the shingles, and wait for the battery costs to come down.

At some point, every building will need roof. It's a huge market.
> Instead of using a hosted service like Facebook or Medium, as I strongly believe in a decentralized web

So you put it on Github..
Voice controls via Alexa or any other home assistant actually work pretty well for smart lights. No fumbling with a device, just tell the lamp you want it off. You can also group them together usually to turn off multiple with a single command.
This touched a chord. For me it's a combination of both music and dance.

It's amazing to feel emotions I'd normally not want to express in everyday life and just let them flow out. Rage, jealousy, lust. The music is such a great trigger to tap into these primal feelings, and then expressing them through movement just feels incredible. It feels real and amazingly cathartic, but the transience of the experience leaves no consequences.

I guess that's why there's the saying dance like nobody's watching. Because for many people, that expression of feeling strips us down and leaves our feelings exposed and vulnerable .
There is a place between sprawl and skyscrapers: 4-6 story buildings are considered ideal by city planners (IIRC) because you get pretty good density (i.e. low distance to work/shopping and so on) while still feeling familiar (you know your neighbours, there are public spaces to hang out on or do sports etc.).

Copenhagen ist built almost completey like that and has a population of about 800k. It feels great: Quite urban, with many cafés and small shops, while still feeling friendly and human. Much of Berlin is also like that.
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Has anyone solved the “bodies like to break down intrusive chips” problem with those yet?
Using eBPF and immudb to audit executed commands on a Linux server
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> I expect every single one of my backend engineers (on any tech stack) to understand the fundamentals of SQL INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements.

And everyone knows them. It is just absurd to talk about Hibernate as a way to avoid learning to write insert, update and delete. That is made up issue. That is like claiming that people who dont write getters and setters dislike them because they did not learned how to write them.

I dont know whether this claim is a manipulative attempt to try to insult people who like framework you dont or what. But it is ridiculous.
It's cheaper than replacing your roof (with comparable roofing material) and getting a solar installation. If your roof is still good then you aren't really the target market.
Welcome to inflation
Good answer, a 4th dimension and the shadow projection analogy is brilliantly exemplified by Carl Sagan in this popular video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnURElCzGc0
Why can't you work on posts in another editor and export to your repo (copy-paste or whatever) posts when they are ready for publishing? Why does writing and publishing have to be in the same tool?

You can write in something like Bear, or anything else with iCloud support to have cross-device sync.
Be that as it may, Covid vaccines have a second line of defense by reducing the severity of the illness.

In other words if someone vaccinated gets a cough from Covid, that person has a very good chance to overcome it in a few days. Just isolate and sit it out.

To know this is extremely comforting, at least for me.
Why does SSL client report Google’s certificate “self-signed”?
It’s not a status symbol per se, at least not in my opinion because the whole point is it’s invisible. Hard to flex if no one can see it, lol. It’s just a beautiful roof with hidden solar panels. But no, it’s nowhere near economical compared to the alternatives though they’re the only provider I know of doing invisible tiles. The price difference before the recent increase was like 20k for a 2,000 sq ft house vs 35-50k.
Seat belt usage is about the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_use_rates_by_country
The best way to understand coffee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTFsBqhpLes&list=PLxz0FjZMVO...
Old phones seem like a really nice cheap high quality camera shame it doesn't work. Have you tried setting up something like a single board computer + usb cam?
Or:

> nft_ptr has negligible performance overhead compared to std::unique_ptr, as shown by this benchmark on our example program:

Implementation Runtime
std::unique_ptr 0.005 seconds
nft_ptr 3 minutes
Great write up! Reminded me of the "The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company" [0] and the HN discussion [1].
[0] https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behin...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985875
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The way he's using Github is as a basic host, he could move to a different service and the blog would look the same, the URLs still work, and the visitors couldn't tell the difference.

That's day and night compared to publishing on Facebook or Medium.
Brave user here. You can turn all the crypto stuff off and ignore it. If that's the way Brave is funded then I really don't mind them pursing that route. It's better than depending on Google at least.
Indeed. Darth Vader stands for purity, civilization, order. He's a go-getter: he's got a job to do, he does it and doesn't let anything stand in his way. By contrast the rebellion is all about chaos. Indeed, if only the rebels would stop their vain attempt to overthrow the just and good Empire, then all could enjoy peace!
I dig the theme, its clean and old school.

One bit of feedback: you should bump up the overall font size and do a relative max-width, maybe 70%. I bumped up zoom by two to get things readable on my MacBook.

Much of your audience will be on screens that are at least 1200 pixels wide, so forcing folks to ~12pt / 600px ends up w/ things being pretty small and cramped.
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>I'm suprised other companies haven't ventured into solar shingles.

This pretty much. Are other American roofing companies plain fucking stupid? For all the competition spiel in America, there really isn't much to show for it.
Yes, it makes your objects go to sleep.

The use case is "you have a collection of objects that reference each other in memory. You want to say: Bam, put that structure like it is into a database ("put it to sleep"), and retrieve it again for me if I need it ("wake it up after winter is gone")."

For this type of ORM Hibernate works fine. If you want to use a database as a database, it resists at every turn.
> DDT is not that hazardous to mammals.

DDT is likely to be carcinogenic in humans. [0][1] Indirect exposure is unlikely to do much, but it is moderately toxic [2], and can cause complications around fertility [3] in humans.

[0] https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/roc/content/profiles/dichlorod...

[1] https://publications.iarc.fr/71

[2] https://www.who.int/ipcs/publications/pesticides_hazard_rev_...

[3] https://zenodo.org/record/1259797
Yes. The tails.

LTCM went bust because they thought they new better than the market and they were very very greedy. Very.

There is no formula for the market. The EMH in its weak form is correct. Has not been proved, but it is like P!=NP. True.

I am dismayed but unsurprised that financail models get so much support here.

You get money by working. Investments are savings. Just because there is some fool driving a Ferrari does not make that untrue, you cannot see the rest of the finance geeks flipping burgers.

Greed. Hubris. Bankruptcy.
> The Lindy effect applies to "non-perishable" items

It's the 2nd sentence in the article. So not sure using examples of perishables shows it is a terrible heuristic.

It applies to ideas/cultures/technologies.
I beg your pardon? Knowing that Python is slow is a strength of Python? Then, if Python suddenly became fast, it would be a negative?

Did I misunderstand something?

Presumably, all fast languages are at a disadvantage, then.
> the whole point is it’s invisible. Hard to flex if no one can see it

Perfectly fine for flexing over when their wife brings it up every goddamn millisecond.
I'm guessing you only read the issue or title on that link, because the second comment on that issue is from one of the Gradle maintainers suggesting using toolchains (which I linked to), with follow ups from various users advising some success, allowing them to target Java 16 while running Gradle on an earlier, supported version.
Probably not since they replace the tiles. If you have a conventional roof solar panel there's a small gap between the roof and the panels. So effectively your roof is on the shadows of the panel

(Also some of the light that would heat it is turning into electricity, so maybe there is a small temperature difference there)
(author here) Good point, but I still believe it is much better to use your own domain and have control of the whole html. Sadly because of the infrastructure currently available there is a balance between usability and centralization (but I don't think it needs to be this way). In the end, github page is being a commodity service, I could easily replace with any major provider to host the same website and users wouldn't even notice. If I wanted to be extremely radical I could host it on my personal machine on my house, but latency and availability would suffer. If I used a service like CloudFlare to improve it, we are back to centralization. Sadly, there isn't a black and white answer here.
Certainly not. The ocean is a little more complex than a glass of water.

The solution to this problem will came in the hands of science or will not happen. If we dismiss even the most basic science or use that time to make silly jokes instead, we will enjoy a brutal wake up call and return to reality when our flamboyant plans backfire. And they will do.

The entire planet will be very disappointed with Japan if they finally do that. Their public image as a modern country will suffer, for sure.
How do I enter gaza without blessings from Israel?
I ordered panels back in July last year, signed the paper work soon as I could to not be the bottleneck and they didn’t get them installed until November. They didn’t submit the loan paperwork so the loan expired. I’ve still yet get a bill for the system and it’s all powered on.

I’m really confused how anyone at Tesla allows their solar division to run like this. For all the cost cutting Elon likes to push, this seems like a huge area of waste.

I’m just finding it really hard to recommend Tesla solar to anyone. Trying to talk to anyone there is a massive pain point and in my case they clearly don’t want the money. (Just to be clear I’ve reached out a bunch and signed updated paperwork but they’ve still yet to submit).
Do you want me to send you a picture of my passport or what? I see that the JIDF is in full force tonight I can understand you guys downvoting me or any comment controversial critical of your apartheid state but at least you should have the decency of not lying
The financial returns are not normal.

It is not "priced in"

It goes up up up... crash.

Every generation has to learn this. I just hope we put the bankers in jail where they belong next time rather than bail them out.
There are multiple programming languages that can be used, as evidenced by the wide variety of apps listed on https://LINMOBapps.frama.io

Besides Python there’s C, C++, Java, Go, Rust and and ... anything that has toolkit bindings basically. I plan to add the main programming languages per app in a future revision of the list.
I was not arguing that it was or was not part of the OS but just showing that the parsing being deferred to application code has produce two subtly incompatible implementations that differ for no reason other than that they do.
If you like this kind of humor, I'd recommend following Zhouwei Zhang on twitter[1] (not affiliated). His posts, I think, resonates well with HN's audience.

[1]: https://twitter.com/zhuowei
You are flippant.

I am deeply cynical
Wow, given the answers to that thread, it seems that the HN crowd has either no notion of conditional probabilities or that their “future is better” mindset is clouding their rational judgement.

The Lindy effect makes perfect sense has an heuristic to evaluate the remaining lifetime of technologies and species at a given point in time. It’s trivial to prove that it works for anything whose survival curve is convex.

Despite its apparent love for rationality (which I enjoy), it seems like a large part of HN is just as subjective as anyone and unable to accept things that don’t fit their mental model.
Depends on your build I guess. We compile things like TailwindCSS in our build. Not sure if that's supported outside of Actions.
Thank you for your notes (And the email).

Time to dust of my Anki account. And fine tune my current system (It bascially consist of a journal [1] which is missing the cross linking.)

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pajoma.v...
Another in the “this X does not exist” family: Cats
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It took me the description of the mithraeum, well into the article, to remember that I've visited this church, some 25 years ago. It's wild how these teenage memories are coming back :).
Very interesting article otherwise, I've always been fascinated by the entanglement of history we see in these old cities of Europe and Middle East.
The build process is sandboxed. Not the environment you run the application in afterwards.
This is definitely not a criticism of Jewish people or of Hebrews at all this is criticism of the STATE and how it acts and it’s supporters most Jewish people in places like New York or California do not endorse the state of Israel don’t be dishonest I criticize the state not the people for they are many and different and I know there is plenty of good and kind hearted Jewish people sadly they do not seem to have a say in there
Kind of, you can use a development network to which you can get free tokens to pay the gas fees.
Great feedback, I will experiment with your suggestions, thanks!
Sigh

The representation means that 2.9999999999 = 3.00000000

I am not confused. You cannot use equality in floating point. Why is anybody surprised by that? That is my point

(I did say floating point before when I ment real. A bit confused!)
This can't be the future we want.
Day-to-day, how does the system work for you? Aside from installation issues, is Tesla's app/etc. better or worse than the alternatives?
Tinfoil hat here, but is it possible that they don't want to realize the revenue right now? I'm not an accountant but I do know that some businesses use lawful tricks to smooth out their profits. Otherwise what you describe seems like atrociously irresponsible business.
The quote in the article clearly says they can get their deposit back in full, if I understood correctly. Not everything that's wrong is illegal.

> You will receive an email in the next 1-2 days when your new agreement is ready for your review and acceptance before moving forward. If you are no longer interested in moving forward with Solar Roof, you can cancel your order by logging into your Tesla Account and your deposit will automatically be refunded.