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This article is so foolish.

Steve Jobs was going to sell you hard on why the device he could put in front of you was the very best device you could possibly buy. If the competition had more, they had too much, if they had less, what they were missing was absolutely critical.

You didn't need apps in 2007 because the iPhone didn't have them. Yet. The App Store opened in 2008, which means it was seen as a priority at Apple (including Steve Jobs at the time) and under development in 2007 when the iPhone was released.

I like the overall thesis here: use your phone, don't let it use you.

But this Steve-Jobs-wouldntof-approved angle is just obnoxious.
I think this is all too common. NYTimes has lost its moral compass just like every other news source. Absolutely inexcusable and completely intentional. Publishing headlines is not something you do on a whim, it’s after careful thought and consideration.
> to frame the human condition as the process of generating excess capital is a diminishment of life and experience.

Yes I completely agree. Accumulating wealth should not be the end goal of the human experience. It’s just the means by which we ensure the continued health and prosperity of our families and loved ones.
$32 Trillion is stored in Tax Havens, for tax evasion by the wealthy.

SOURCE:
Routers. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-offshore-wealth/super-ric...

BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-40442595

Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2017/09/15/tax-haven-...
But why bother with alternate tunings for the guitar? Just learn the standard EADGBe tuning and all the scale shapes and chords will make sense eventually. Piano is also a stringed instrument, with one common tuning that most of us westerners play in.
Yeah, and when I am trying to give better alternative I am getting this reasoning: https://www.reddit.com/r/electronjs/comments/n870wt/sciter_o...
The surface is accelerating up at you relative to the gravitational field.
The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals
So he agrees on the macro level but is trying to spin up some controversy about how we actually can’t accurately forecast every small detail of a complex system to sell a book
maybe 1% of articles, especially about politics or current events, are perhaps biased but overall it is better than most sources
> More precisely, Tolkien was a devout Catholic (as was his less-subtle-about-it friend and fellow world-builder CS Lewis),

Lewis was Anglican, not Catholic.
One of the things that traditional encyclopedias (as well as a given book/magazine/etc.) have is a very clear view of the persona that they're writing for. With Wikipedia, this differs considerably from article to article depending upon the topic. With respect to many technical topics, especially in areas like math and physics, Wikipedia articles often dive right into equations and many articles are largely incomprehensible to anyone not already familiar with the subject matter.
Someone prove me wrong, but I think of Wikipedia as one, if not the largest cooperation of human beings on a very specific project. Most of the criticism it recieves is true, but it's a wonder that it could remain, and even grow in the state like it is.

I wish more organisational involvement would happen on the editorial level - companies, governments, or education. I wish academia wouldn't despise it. There is so much untapped potential still.
The act of setting limits is incredibly important to a child's development, even more so than what the limits ultimately are.
That one particular instance was memorable because it was very unlike any other ads on Ads before. I remember there was some official post later about 'new type of ads' but I fail to find it currently.

That particular incident was a result of explicit cooperation and not some random ad placement.
That's interesting. The Wikipedia entry [1] mentions that there's still debate about whether it's parallel evolution [2] or convergent evolution [3].

I'm very curious about why this comment got downvoted.

1.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_eye

2.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_evolution
> Parallel evolution is the similar development of a trait in distinct species that are not closely related, but share a similar original trait in response to similar evolutionary pressure.

3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution
> Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time.
What I meant to say is that, even with these inflated prices, everything is sold out: even if I want to pay $2500 for that 3090 GPU, I cannot get it.
The books state that the monolith had the same proportions in more than three dimensions, making it impossible to understand from our limited perspective. A remaster with current CGI could make the monolith look even more otherworldly.
On the contrary! The manifesto suggests one specific improvement to mathematical notation whilst ignoring all the other issues, for example that Euler's Gamma(n) equals (n-1)! instead of n! or that df/dx is not a fraction.

So in that spirit I think it might be better to only propose fixing the verb 'to be' and to leave the poor children out of this discussion.
Gravity is sort of special compared to the 3 forces in the standard model because of its relation to inertia.

For all 3 SM forces, there is a distinction between the charge of a particle and how easy it is to move that particle.

For gravity no such distinction has ever been measured - the "gravity charge" of an object seems to be the same thing as its tendency to oppose movement (its inertial mass) in any experiment ever conducted, which has led to Einstein's observation that gravity seems to be a dual of acceleration in a curved space time. No similar explanation is required for the other forces, as they are not intimately tied to inertia in the same way.

Now, unfortunately general relativity's curved space time has never been successfully meshed with QM's Uncertainty principle and/or wave function. Most physicists, at least particle physicists, do tend to believe that it is in fact GR that is limited in its description, since QM (in particular QFT) is the most precisely confirmed experimental theory ever devised, while GR is extremely difficult to work with for making precise experimental predictions (Einstein's equations are non-linear, and almost all predictions are actually based on linear approximations of the equations) - so there is much more "room" for GR to be modified at very low scales without contradicting the high scale results than the other way around.
Science is not about consensus. It's about skepticism and review and dialogue. There should be no reason to shun controversial views just because they are controversial. If you think they are wrong, then say why they are wrong.
I teach a programming course and way too often I see students badly in need of more memory. Like, saving a text file taking minutes (I'm not making this up), and the student considering that normal.

To these students, I recommend simple text editors such as notepad++. But nowadays with Zoom and Teams consuming all available resources even on more powerful laptops, I feel all hope is lost.

Although often it helps to use the web versions of, say, Goto Meeting or Outlook, instead of the app version. Tragic as that is.
Is quora so bad? I usually use it for little questions before I ask something on stackexchange and it seems to work fine enough...
but cross chain tx of millions of dollars of btc to xmr is not exacly trivial, unles there is someitng i am missing
The Colossus of Rhodes
> both the research literature and government reports that summarize and assess the state of climate science say clearly that: heatwaves in the US are now no more common than they were in 1900, and that the warmest temperatures in the US have not risen in the past fifty years.” A few paragraphs down you add three more: “Humans have had no detectable impact on hurricanes over the past century; Greenland’s ice sheet isn’t shrinking any more rapidly today than it was eighty years ago, and the net economic impact of human-induced climate change will be minimal through at least the end of this century.

I'm not sure about these claims, especially the Greenland one.

The latter might be true depending on how you define minimal - but the worst effects of climate change will be felt several centuries into the future. It's really not a rapidly impending doom, and more of slow motion train wreck.

Ocean levels won't even peak 1000 years from now. Temperatures won't peak this century.

These also are quite one-sided as you can also cherry-pick problematic examples of climate change. Like arctic ice cover, melting permafrost, melting glaciers, etc.
I owe you an apology, you're correct, I was wrong. I can't pinpoint where my reasoning failed me exactly, but my confidence certainly was misplaced, and that's from someone who did do the simulation originally to understand the outcomes, but not to understand the distinction between the host deliberately or randomly revealing the door. I'm sorry, but thank you for you persistence in correcting me. It was a fruitful learning experience to dig into this problem again.
I wish there was a good place for news about crypto/blockchain stuff that talk about stuff other than price action. Yeah it's cool. That some coin is up x percent, but I am interested in why. There are so many cryptocurrencies that are just cash grabs that the genuine innovation gets lost.

Haskell asked the question of what programming would be like if you were not allowed to have side effects anywhere, and it led to a unique language that doesn't feel like anything that existed prior. With so many new blockchain projects being spun up, where can I find out about the ones that are going to try something crazy just to see what can be learned, even if it means never expanding beyond the niche it carves out?
A somewhat not intuitive fact: Most renters prioritize their car payments over other debts/rent. Without a car they have no income…
The real fun is on the marginal articles: the politicians so obscure that nobody bothers to edit war over them so that most of the article is written either by their party PR team or somebody with an axe to grind against them (or in the case of one obscure British MP, an editor that was apparently their partner!). The academic theories that are so fringe nobody's even really critiqued them as fringe, and yet because they just about pass notability they get the same prominence as entire schools of academic thought on list pages. The pages where someone makes a joke edit and it doesn't get removed ten minutes later.
An app that swiftly sends CPR volunteers to heart attack sufferers in Denmark
The dirt path is obvious to us, but you also described a "well for bike wheels on either side", which neither I nor GP can see any evidence for.
> We are on HN, so I just assumed everyone on here was interested and seeking out way to accumulate more wealth than the average working professional.

You may be surprised to learn that many hackers are passionate about tech, and see the handling of money as a dreadful necessity of life that brings as much joy as wiping one's ass. The fact that tech can be lucrative has attracted a bunch of folks to tech, who are only in it for the money. HN does skew towards the latter, but it certainly isn't everyone here
The TV news version I've heard is that there is a car chip shortage because people in lockdown and working from home buy more computers.

If journalists don't question this bullshit, there is little hope for the general public.
Why is it a bad idea to filter by zeroing out FFT bins? (2020)
> can't they just measure something after the wash?

of course they can! those jeans cost double.

it’s not a matter of incompetence or don’t care. it’s a matter of production efficiency.

as for otherwise identical jeans being different sizes, that’s also a matter of consistency of the raw material. if you want high consistency it costs more. consumers aren’t willing to bear that cost.
You might be right but what I've read of nutrition is that taking supplements is thought to be quite different than eating a whole food. Taking Vitamin C tablets is different than eating an orange because of all the other things that are in an orange. Or what's in spinach or kale or blueberries or sardines. I think that's the point she's making.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...
100% this.

All my private computers are getting around 10 years by now.

VS, Windows 10, Netbeans, Eclipse all work just fine.

Naturally I am not using Docker to start a Python web server.
WAP and WML predates html rendering browser on phones by a number of years. Not even sure WML supports images
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Markup_Language
We will continue to have these issues as long as companies run risky levels of cash to make investors happy. Lower inventory means more capital for your business to invest elsewhere. But one catastrophe and all that onetime cash infusion is worthless.
You don't have to "take away" the trucks, but just make them more impractical:

- sales tax on cars/trucks is by weight and exponentially increases the heavier the vehicle gets

- increase taxes on gasoline

- require a special license to operate a vehicle over XXXX lbs.

- rewrite laws or encourage DAs to prosecute drivers that injure other people in cars or pedestrians even if it's unintentional

- illegal to have passengers in the truck bed (some states still allow this).

These are just off the top of my head.
ModernStorage – abstraction layer over storage on Android
Two-pizza teams? How big are there pizzas in the US?!?
TIL a good chunk of the C64 was developed on VAX.
Wait, why is banana classified as a tree in this diagram? I'm pretty sure they don't have any wooden core.

I'm definitely no expert, but as kids in the nineties, banana plants were always cited as the example of how large plants are not always trees. Did they get recategorized?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Site-wi...
He doesn't agree on the macro point, as reported by the media and politicians:

> SK: The point is the science, as expressed sometimes obscurely in the consensus reports and in the underlying data and scientific literature. In no way is this a contrarian book in that respect. It is contrarian to the stance that you get from the media and the politicians and business people who have not taken the time to actually look at what’s in the reports. But of course, we will see what the pushback is over the next week as reviews start to come out. I think it’s very hard to contradict what I’ve written.

> we actually can’t accurately forecast every small detail of a complex system to sell a book

He's not talking about "small details." He's talking about large amounts of uncertainty present in the models as to big picture issues such as how much temperature will increase by the end of the century.
Another possibility would be to add some things as game options, e.g. add game option that you can set at the beginning of the game if foods are enabled/disabled, if certain classes of items or other features (e.g. religion) are enabled/disabled, etc.
Depends, I still do pretty much SSR with vanillajs.

I could say to be in the minority, but apparently SPAs kind of rediscovered SSR is a thing.
I wonder if this is what the fed and treasury are really shooting for, trying to push some inflation into worker salaries. If so they may willingly sacrifice some gains in the market.
If it’s for a dead drop it would be more detectable if it were to connect to wifi or provide a WiFi network. Those frames can easily be detected (if that’s your threat model).
Good point. But I feel that a DAW is a bit higher up the professionalization chain for most of the kids out there.

However, for the keyboard, mic, headphone, software, etc you're in the ~$500+ range. But, a Silvertone Stratotone in 1960 was ~$55. That's ~$500 today when adjusting for inflation, so right in the ballpark.
From the claims in the article, it is a garbage book. Here's an early critique from actual climate scientists: https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/wall-street-journal-a...
Which is weird because Indonesia is not known for sex tourism. Westerners do not come to Indonesia for sex as there are other sex tourism friendly countries out there. Middle-easterners might come to Indonesia for sex by exploiting a legal loophole (contract marriages), but it's a very minor operation compared to other more legitimate tourism activities. It is a major source of sex trafficking though.
Myths like Yggdrasil must be based on reality...
I've had my Model X for almost three years now. I find the voice control to be almost completely unusable. Seems to be something about my voice, though I have a fairly typical American accent so I'm not sure what. I demonstrated the issue to a technician when I took it in for unrelated service, thinking it might be a faulty microphone, but it worked fine for him.

Definitely one of the most disappointing features of the car, which I generally love driving.
But a rule about humor would not apply in this case
To be fair, that’s one of the worst tunnels in any city. I’d rather drive into NYC.
He's not the only one. There's been others dialing back the severity. Like Michael Shellenberger and Bjorn Lomborg.

The truth is that it's hard to gauge the severity with any accuracy. It's refreshing to hear scientists with the humility to admit it.
> as a British-English speaker living in the US I have just about grown able to tolerate the American pronunciation of ‘herb’ with a silent H, so it doesn’t jar me too much when I read a text that says “an herb”.

As someone who grew up in the US and has never left the country, "an herb" really bothers me because I've always pronounced the "h".
And you can sleep in a car, if need be.
Acceleration being independent of the mass of the test particle being acted upon only holds true for two types of forces: Inertial forces, and the gravitational force.

According to General Relativity, this is no coincidence: Free-fall spacetime trajectories ('worldlines') get modelled as straight lines ('autoparallels'/'geodesics'), indicating an absence of net forces. Apparent gravitational forces then arise the same way any of the other inertial forces do.

Such an interpretation of gravity is natural insofar that it handily explains the measurements of accelerometers, which only will measure nonzero values if motion deviates from free-fall due to the presence of non-gravitational forces.

But note that as is often the case, it boils down to a semantic argument about the definition of 'force'. The effects of 'fictitious' forces can certainly be as real as the effects of 'real' forces (in case of gravity, eg tidal heating, or the extreme example of spaghettification, ...); personally, I have no issue with calling gravity a force.
> agriculture as it has been practiced is about the dumbest way to grow food

> imagine a park or botanical garden where every species is edible.

Make it happen! If the way we’ve been doing things is dumb then there is a massive market opportunity. Save the world, become the first trillionaire.
There’s an ongoing war in Europe since 2014, between Russia and Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War The fact is well-established, the article has more than 600 sources.

Russian Wikipedia doesn’t have such article. They only have “military conflict in eastern Ukraine” https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83... That article does not list Russia on the right panel under “belligerents” section. Many sections simply tell official Russian version. When it does tell some bits of truth it uses wordings like “allegedly” and “according to Ukrainian side”. The “casualties and losses” section only contains losses on Ukrainian side.
I have never known a man with such big a soap box as cal newport
Not me personally, but I have a couple friends that have started using VyOS and they seem pretty satisfied.

https://vyos.io/
It's very naive to assume it'll only ever be used for benevolent purposes.

The situation the above commenter was bringing up was that in the near future your genetic information has a good chance of being used by insurance companies pre-judge you, your offspring and your relatives to raise or lower healthcare rates based on information found in that data.
It's a quite frustrating phenomenon on HN that when someone speaks from a position of expertise and experience, but it runs counter to the GRAR consensus, legitimate attempts at engagement get downvoted without response.

If you don't think this is the kind of information that "Law Enforcement Sensitive" applies to, you are incorrect. If you do think this information should be released unfettered to the public, you should justify that position.
A Tiny Island Saved an Entire Species from Extinction
There's a lot of dross on there. Every now and then a search will lead me to a useful answer but it was a much more interesting site when it started out. More active interesting people and fewer worthless or scammy questions and answers.
tl;dr NMN = nicotinamide mononucleotide

The author explains a published paper and says though the reported results may be statistically significant, there is not convincing evidence that they are clinically significant. So, more study needed.
First and foremost, are we talking about equality of opportunity, or equality of outcome?

Secondly, addressing inequality of unevenness of the playing field through organizations or corporations is still at least one level removed from actual humans.

Milton Friedman proposed the Negative Income Tax, a gradual inclined ramp out of poverty similar to modern-day calls for UBI. I wrote about a possible variant called GPI (Guaranteed Progressive Income) here: https://satisologie.substack.com/p/guaranteed-progressive-in...

Government mints money, government also collects taxes on minted money. We take this as a necessary truth, but is it not a little redundant? Some people question the effectiveness of taxation. I don't think the alternatives to taxation are explored much if at all. Maybe there are slim pickings as far as promising ideas in that direction go.

So your suggestion, if I understand it, is to tier businesses for tax purposes, similar to the idea of a progressive tax but for business entities? Yeah, we could do that, would that alter outcomes somehow? It seems like education is the main barrier, and the more people are aware of interdependence the more intelligent our buying and funding decisions will be.

I advocate for a documented progeny for where raw materials and produce come from. If one could see a latitude and longitude for where an apple came from before one bought it, or the conditions that led to its being harvested, then one would be able to make more resource-friendly decisions at the point of purchase.

However, I think that we are talking about altering human behavior to make things less toxic and more harmonious on our planet, yet the basic necessities of hunger, thirst, shelter, clothing, and medicine are somewhat immutable in the large-scale, and therefore our focus ought be to address these inflexible (inelastic) demands as a matter of priority, then everything else will fall into place.
This so incredibly wrong and un-informed its mind blowing.

SpaceX has been profitable from pretty early on in its history and were until they need massive cash for the Starlink project.

Tesla is a attempting to get into a very, very capital intensive industry and during the early growth and again in 2017 they had to be less un-profitable. But the companies consistently showed that if it stopped growing it could be profitable.

The idea that it literally all there is to it is insane. Pretty much every startup is willing to make loses for growth, it happens literally all the time.

This is simply empirically wrong.