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> Being born a human being is where those rights [free speech, bear arms] come from.

How does your theory account for the empirical observation that those rights are largely absent in much of the world?
Sure, but you also take notes of the features, constraints, and invariants that were discussed. At the end of the meeting, instead of having a diagram which acts as a rigid spec, you have a set of notes and diagrams which informally describe the problem space, the proposed solutions, the benefits, the drawbacks, and any important details. And that's more useful and more flexible than UML.
Yes, those self-reports are very highly questionable.

First of all, we all rework our childhood memories to better fit our adult personas. Depressed people talk about all of the terrible things that happened to them as kids which make them depressed now. Happy people, all of the happy things that happened that make them happy now. A gay man might talk about wearing dresses and playing with dolls that made him gay.

But attempts to corroborate current stories with past events (the gold standard being longitudinal studies) find that none of that is true. Happy and depressed people have the usual mix of happy and sad childhood events, they just remember them selectively. The gay man's twin brother says maybe he wore a dress once, and has made a mountain out of a molehill. And so on.

Pedophiles are even worse. Pedophiles have the problem that they fall in love with children, and have to gaslight themselves into believing that they do no harm by having sex with the child. Under this pressure, pedophiles make up memories out of whole cloth.

However in general, we have not found any correlation between what actually happened to you before puberty, and who you wind up sexually attracted to after. We can't predict whether you'll be straight. Whether you'll be gay. Or whether you'll be a pedophile. Which means that if you were the unfortunate target of a pedophile, there is no particular reason to believe that have anything other than the 1% risk that every boy does of growing up into one.
I agree with everything you said. WhatsApp is the best right now and that makes me very sad.
That's the only way many fruit trees can grow because most can't grow from seed. It also allows creating fruit-cocktail trees.
Good point, and thanks for the comment! I agree having a married filing jointly mode would be helpful. If time allows, I hope to implement something for that in the near future.
I can assure you all these "assurances" are just based off personal preferences and anecdotal stories.

There are pros and cons with office work and WFH, and some people prefer one over the other. A full remote arrangement isn't for everyone, despite how the overwhelming number of introverts on HackerNews paint it as the objectively the best way going forward for all companies.
It will be interesting to see how much previously considered necessary patterns are restored.

On site employment, car loans and car payments, expensive rent in poorly managed or unsustainable counties—the potential for behavioral change is enormous.
Neuro PhD here. Here's the experiment they actually did: create a transgenic mouse that overexpesses beta-amyloid. They're all messed up, not just their memory, but we think beta-amyloid causes Alzheimer's, so this is our mouse model of Alzheimer's. Then further screw with the mouse by blocking its CSF drainage. Anti-amyloid drugs help the standard transgenic mice, but don't help the blocked ones. Then unblock the blocked mice, and Voila! you've fixed them. A cure for Alzheimer's is right around the corner, right?

Except, this doesn't necessarily have anything to do with Alzheimer's in humans. You're assuming it's caused by beta-amyloid, but there have been a dozen giant Phase 3 trials testing amyloid-removal drugs and they've all failed. Fundamentally, all you've done is mess with mice in two different ways, then when you undo the ways you've screwed with them, they're more or less back to normal.

This all tells you virtually nothing about how Alzheimer's actually happens in humans, much less how to cure it.
Man, they forecasted that a *lot* of us wanted to eat kale.
Game Engine Black Books Update - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19942906 - May 2019 (68 comments)
I believe that the idea that they are something anyone is naturally entitled to by God or nature is a rhetorical trick. Specifically, one employed to discount the value of a strong, functional government. I believe that the state of nature outside of that exposes the shallowness of "inalienability."

I believe they are something you have to continually fight for, and that can only be secured by a functional government (which itself is something that requires constant maintenance), vs something you can truly secure for yourself.

And in the particular case of the second amendment, I believe we are in a situation where a "right" granted by our constitution impairs on a right to live freely, free from interference and harm from others, that I personally consider more basic and more essential. The Constitution doesn't have an amendment discussing a right to not get shot, but I don't think that makes it less important.
Can someone explain from supply chain perspective why Apple's new product rarely sold out (even if people have to wait in line to buy), while PS5 is still so hard to place an order despite they've already sold many million units?
If they paywalled HN, I would finally be free from this place.
I have. It doesn't sync message history. I have the desktop client on one computer, and if I set up the desktop client on my other computer (the one I'm on right now) it won't bring over all the past messages - it'll be like I'm starting fresh.
I’ve had a similar scam explained to me by someone who said they do it for their own tax obligations (on a much smaller scale).

I have no clue why non-liquid donations are allowed. Stock with a clear market value (publicly traded) seems fine, but everything else should require an arm’s length transaction to liquidate the asset.

(And maybe you would be able to 1) book the donation in the year you initiate the sale to account for assets that take a long time to sell, and 2) still have gains exempt provided all proceeds are going towards a donation.)
> the game earned more than $700 million from iOS customers over the two years before it was pulled by Apple

I'll save you the math, 30% of $700 million is $210 millions.

$210 millions of pure profit (the bandwidth is essentially free).

It's insanity!
Lindbergh died in 1974. The man who first soloed across the Atlantic wrote the forward for the man who first soloed around the moon. Huh.
Cheapest 200A welder costs like $30-$40 dollars in India.

200A service... , can't say how it's now, but even like 20 years ago, 100A was omnipresent in larger cities. Even with just few kilowatts you should still be easily producing above a kilogram per hour.
There's still a lot of ways the ATF can show up and shoot your dog if you pick the wrong components and put them together without paying $200 and waiting half an eternity.
>Google leadership doesn't believe that

What do you mean. Obviously they believe the $1B in cost saving. But what they do also believe is that the value generated by people being in the office will exceed the obvious short term costs.
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Like anything, you balance the the aesthetic with the function.

When function follows form to the point where you ship say a laptop with an unserviceable keyboard that is rendered inoperable by a speck of dust, or make a smartphone surface friction similar to a stick of butter, you got a problem.
Please don't frame the community as being on one side of a divisive issue (invariably, the side the commenter disagrees with). It's a trope of lame discussion. You can make your case for the view you think is correct without that.

The community is divided on divisive issues. It's as simple as that.
It’s not a theory, it’s an axiomatic principle. Oppression does exist, and it’s an affront to that principle.
This is so cool! Great job.

sin(i+t) : https://doersino.github.io/tixyz/?code=sin(i%2Bt)

If you stop that one rotating with the mouse, it's some kind of brain-damaging illusion. Or thousands of illusions, most of which do something weird to your eyes–it looks very different from different angles. Hmm that is such a great way of generating (2D) optical illusions!
> Sure, but it was removed from the main device.

You say that like it’s a bad thing. The iMac gets an Ethernet port, and there’s one fewer cable to run up to the machine. That seems like a win all around.
A bit OT but I don't understand why kernel interfaces are single purpose vs a data-driven api, it seems like such a wasted opportunity to optimize and to have a fluid api
I don't have time to run that experiment, and that wouldn't prove anything any way. Opinion polls don't tell us what the truth is about anything except opinions.

There is no misogynistic narrative between the lines. That misogynists would exploit the facts I am presenting to push their narrative does not make me uttering those facts misogynistic.

We cannot avoid certain ideas and discussions out of fear that bad people will incorporate them into the narrative they use to push their agenda. Their narrative has to be countered by presenting factual arguments, not by avoidance of discussion and suppression of facts.
> responsible for countless deaths and billions in lost productivity, unnecessary medical treatment

Wow. Links to supporting documents?
"Human rights" are a fiction, like money. The libertarian idea is that we collectively pretend human rights are real because doing so leads to empirically better outcomes in terms of human happiness, lack of suffering, etc.

So here's a question: has the absolutist interpretation of free speech and gun rights currently applied in the USA led to better outcomes than a more restricted interpretation? Well, let's see. We can compare the USA to other liberal democracies which do not acknowledge a near-absolute right to free speech, and have very strict gun laws -- like Germany, Canada, and New Zealand just to pick three. And if we do we find the USA is a dumpster fire compared to those countries, a place where white supremacism has run amok and schools must have active-shooter drills because of the ease with which nuts can get their hands on firearms.

So yeah, I'd say the more restrictive interpretation of human rights has, empirically, won out.
I think it can be extended, anyone being paid by your employer is working for your employer and not for you (I guess unless you are the CEO or something). Expecting them to be even neutral is a mistake. They will do what they believe is best for the company.

And to be honest I don't see myself doing anything different than that as well. It's going to be very unlikely I am picking a fight with my employer whatever you are coming to me with.
Sure, but it's not stable or dependable. If one person goes bankrupt or dies or moves away, then everybody would go bankrupt one after the other. Compare to a scenario where everyone actually is at zero.
By that definition, many places don't have internal software teams.
I have worked from home for 15 years. I’m glad to see it is a serious option now.

I know it isn’t for everyone though.
I disagree. Also most projects are distributed across multiple sites and orgs. In person meetings were always team based and guess what they still are wfh. You lose serendipity and cross pollination but I don’t think companies actually optimize for that. I mean it’s not an OKR nor performance goal.
Group subscriptions are on a site-wide basis (for now).

E.g. for 1 brand (on Shopify), you subscribe, log in, and share a special link with friends. Friends subscribe using your link and we apply a discount depending on the number of people in the group.

It's referrals 2.0 in many ways.
Hearing him talk as part of this google (doodle?) moon landing 50th anniversary video is a good introduction to his perspective on moon landing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6VpHyKXHBM
> Guns don't stay where they start.

Neither do criminals, drugs or marriages, however I don't propose giving people in the next state over control of those things.
Reposting something I posted a few months ago:

The biggest reason is larger user base. But here are two things I do in WhatsApp that I can't do in Signal:

- Share live location. If I need to meet up with somebody, or let someone know how far away I am and when I'm arriving, I use share live location. "Share for 1 hour." In Signal you can share your location at a moment in time but it doesn't update.

- Broadcast messages ("mass text" basically). In WhatsApp I can send a message to a list of people without the people on the list seeing each other (to them it looks like I messaged them 1:1). In Signal I would have to use a group and all the members would see each other.

And now to add:

- Message history across apps. When I install the signal desktop app, it doesn't pull the message history with it.
Haha you're probably not wrong. Still, it's a tool I felt I needed for my own life planning purposes; and if others happen to enjoy it too, that's a nice bonus.
There is no positive right to be free from harm. Such a right has never existed.
Why did you you use the term 'R-word' for the word 'rape but not 'T-word' for 'torture' or 'M-word' for 'murder'?
Always remember: numbers without context are meaningless. Google had 180bn revenue in 2020.

In normal circumstances , even with much more WFH, they'd still pay for regular company get togethers. They'd pay for more satellite offices. They'd pay for conferences because making cross industry connections and promotion is important.

These savings don't mean much. Even more so if they lead to a potential dip in efficiency (not arguing that's the case, mind you) or reduced employee retention. Less personal engagement leads to less attachment to the company.

The effects of that are barely visible after a year.
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They are still patented I think, but you can buy the trees now. Some of our local orchards have started growing them and I know you can get the trees from nurseries. I don't know if the big box stores have them. You may have to look around.
It's been awhile since I tried Signal. At the time, the UI was sluggish and I don't think it even had a share extension. I'll give it a fresh try.
"Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees working from home AND losing $1.4B because advertising is less due to COVID" - there, I fixed the title for you.

I am pretty sure Google would love to spend 1B to gain back 1.4B, they must be doing something right with those perks.
1) That's not the CDC. Not even a little bit. You linked to an incubator at Harvard which links to a document produced in response to an executive order and whose suggested citation credits the National Academies of Sciences, a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization. The chain went Barack Obama -> CDC -> Institute of Medicine (a subset of the NAS) -> A committee. At no point did the CDC adopt or endorse this report.

2) Following the trail of sources from the link you provide eventually gets you to https://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/3?term=defen#15 which repeatedly states "the exact number remains disputed" and "is a controversy in the field." The document does not endorse ANY particular figure, and provides 108k, 500k, and 3M as estimates produced by surveys. There is no discussion of the validity or reliability of these surveys in this cursory overview; given that the numbers remain controversial and disputed I expect that both these properties are wanting. All the estimates come from academic sources, not governmental entities.
I think the fact that there’s no underlying physical object might be the bigger problem. Mechanical and electrical diagrams seem to scale quite well with complexity. They’ll get cluttered/you might need to break them into pieces, but they’re still intelligible and seem much easier to keep accurate and useful than most software diagrams.
I swear Samsung (Korean) appliances took this to a different extreme with washing machines that proudly sing their end-of-cycle song that cannot be turned off without significant hacking.

I do wish backup beepers would be banned worldwide and replaced with white noise warnings.
I wonder how much we are seeing general problems with adenovirus vector vaccines (e.g. blood clotting and this manufacturing issue) only because we've never rolled a vaccine out to a large population so quickly. Regulatory agencies are likely afraid to approve any at this point, which does not bode well for other vaccines using the same technology.
Or making statements that imply you plan to hold to the moon when you have a sell order set at 1.7x current price.
This might be one of the best villain "ticks" I've ever heard of.
1. That's very interesting. Thanks for enlightening me.

2. I think the case of the background checks is, however, one of the simple cases. It looks like some managers have an irrational belief that they're interviewing people likely to have criminal convictions, but change their minds when background checks come back clean. Hopefully as more and more background checks come back clean, managers adjust their biases.

On a side note, there is something to be said for giving convicted criminals a second chance. I'm not sure if people with a single criminal conviction are that much more likely than someone with a clean record to commit a crime that harms their employer.
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> “Human rights” are a fiction, like money.

There are countless dictators and tyrants who agree with you on that.
Most employers don't give workers a choice when it comes to open floor plan. And yet everyone sucked it up and did it to pay the bills.

My point is this: If you have to be effective working remotely you will be effective working remotely.
I’m in the UK.

I’m not exactly a globe trotter but I was thinking of various South American countries, Thailand.

I don’t want to put any of those places down. I love visiting almost anywhere. Mexico is amazing too.

Japan just stands out as a bit different. Like they’re on a different trajectory somehow.
The law has a solution for this. Portions of DC can and have been given back to the states. Frankly I think they should give the bulk of the "residential and normal city" areas of DC back to MD.
There are totally plastic designs for small calibers intended to shoot only a few times.

Then there's stuff like the FGC-9, with it's home made ECM barrel. Which was designed primarily for areas like europe where other firearm precursor parts are hard to get a hold of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Z9DpoGW7Y
Well good luck booting that iMac without that whole, you know, power cord thing.

Honestly I think that’s an inspired bit of design. It solves for Apple’s desire to keep clean lines, and, in many offices I’ve been in, the Ethernet is wired in close to the power, so it’s very functional. Win-win.
That is some very, very back of the envelope math that ignores a lot of factors. For example, the idea that Google will indefinitely suspend promotions is preposterous. And the idea that taking exceptional financial numbers from the beginning of the pandemic and multiply by 4 to get a meaningful "annualized" figure only makes sense in a 4th grade math textbook. I hate click bait headlines that use exceptionally exaggerated facts.
> So when the CIA tells me some foreign government is doing something bad, I should believe them?

Honestly, yes.

> Then when the CIA denies they lied about the foreign government was doing something bad

When have they done this? A few times probably, but not really a high percentage.

At any rate, P(CIA telling the truth about a foreign govt|foreign govt is doing something bad) is much higher than P(CIA lying about foreign govt|foreign govt is not doing something bad). The rational thing is to put higher weight on such statements than when the CIA is trying to cover their own ass.
Matrix / Element should have a comparable feature set to signal for almost all use cases and supports traditional username/password.
You are endorsing human rights abuses by oppressive governments like the Khmer Rouge because that government didn't extend the right to freedom from persecution to their subjects. You are suggesting that it was the Cambodian people's fault for not having a better government that granted them more rights.
You would because you're comparing it to a "Hello world" command-line program in another language which also doesn't have CSS, web workers, etc.
How could it not be? It has a name that says what it's doing, while yours is more punctuation than text. To "read" yours I have to just skim over it and mentally assign "according to the variable name, that hodgepodge means 'distance'... I hope".

I have a BS in math, so obviously I'm familiar with the math notation, but I code like an English major.
I really love TypeScript. But I have always considered the end game of TypeScript to be that it’s inference engine (and third party libraries) become so good that you can just can write ECMAScript and get all the benefits of typescript.

I wouldn’t give up all my structural type inference for the 1:1 you’re describing, but it is tempting.
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I think a big question is not how essential it is in a vacuum, but how important sales travel is in a competitive landscape.

ie, sales would work equally well if everyone did it via Zoom calls. But if one competitor is willing to send reps in-house for in-person meetings, and the rest are just scheduling Zooms... I can see the industry quickly collapsing back into constant sales travel, if there's even a small marginal gain from face-to-face meetings

(or dinners, or drinks, or whatever else sales reps do to close a deal)
Maybe for older kids that are involved in extracurricular activities, but for younger kids that won't be the case. With a 4 year old starting pre-k this fall, I'll be lucky to have a distraction free work environment from 9-2 daily.
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At least for the AR-15 platform (the weapons pictured in the article), only the part that bears the serial number is regulated. Everything else can be bought freely and legally. For the AR-15, that part is the lower receiver.
So why not? Why don't I have a right to not be killed by my fellow man? Why is it MORE IMPORTANT that my fellow man have a right to possess and carry weapons that could end my life?

How is the latter "inalienable" and the former is just wishful thinking? The only answer I can find is "because some people in the 18th century wrote one of them down, but not the other."
No I was not. Hope you have a good rest of your day.
Hmm I'll have to think about what can be done to make it more clear to users that things like mortgages are modeled as part of one "financed asset". Maybe some better cues can be added in the onboarding process..