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> Scientists choose to ignore doubts that philosophers entertain, all the time.

Right, I didn't say all scientists do is doubt. Science can always be doubted, and more importantly, if some concept or idea makes itself immune to doubt, it is not science. Example: doubting Newton's laws of gravity may have seemed to be a worthless effort (because you can test it and get the same results), however Einstein has proven otherwise, and there's no reason to think General Relativity is beyond doubt. Anyone can doubt anything in science, but of course you have to back it up with something that is testable and then prove it.

> And it is totally possible to believe in a religion yet still experience periods of doubt about whether its doctrines are true

Yes it's possible to doubt a religion, but to that extent, you are not part of it. Christians cannot be doubting Jesus as the Son of God, unless you're not a Christian. Same goes with Islam and Mohammad. You can create your own branch of a religion, and set your own rules, but the core of each religion is based on faith, which means you can't question it, you have to follow. That's the point of religion, to believe.

I think you're using "doubt" to mean not being sure of the meaning of something, which is different than doubting the validity or the veracity of something. So I can doubt the meaning of a Bible passage, but I cannot doubt the existence of God, unless I'm not part of that religion.

Science must allow doubt in regards to its own validity, because it validates itself through tests which must yield the same result. Religion/faith must NOT allow doubt in its teachings because doing so would mean it is not true (because there is no way to test it).
When a FOSS project updates its own website to clarify that they want nothing to do with you, we don't have wonder what's going on.
Thanks, I did safety critical embedded development for while, in C++. We did turn off a bunch of features of course. We never heap-alloced for example. But destructors were used extensively to make sure that important actions happened during error conditions. We were lucky to be able to use C++ because we had a compiler for our target platform. Not every target has a C++ compiler, so I think adding something as useful as scope-bound cleanup to C makes perfect sense.
Reads like something Put(it)in or Lolkashenka says to justify their actions. "Actions of hostile foreign powers on our soil has forced us to shoot/beat/arrest our citizens."

The only difference is that they didn't wait for 10-20-30 years to admit they were wrong; but even that admitting is half-assed and insincere. Yeah, Leenode, you're effed.
"certain projects were disrupting their users' ability to chat on freenode via mass kicks, force closures, spam" -- that's just a lie, he was shutting down the ones that had libera.chat in the topic.

I flagged this post because it's just nonsense.
i think the issue there is that modern displays decode the signal at different rates, depending on their changing hardware (HDMI/display technologies). with old TVs, the signal was not really decoded, but projected directly onto the "glass".
so i imagine it would still not be in sync unless you have two of the same TV.
Removed code is debugged code, according to the infamous suckless website and the creator of ZeroMQ. (1)

1) http://suckless.org/philosophy/
Same applies to any programing language that gets widespread industry adoption, with several implementation and years of production code, including C.
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> When a FOSS project updates its own website to clarify that they want nothing to do with you, we don't have wonder what's going on.

Yes.

Edit: To be clear, what I'm pointing out is that it's not in fact entire projects that are trying to move, but instead, few people who have infiltrated many projects.
"I know plenty of successful people who do what Musk fails to do. "

Except you don't know any successful people who've remotely done what he's done either.

Talking about 'Dogecoin' is a little unseemly, but it's nowhere in the realm of 'toxic' or 'bad acting'

Without massive public support and sympathy, Telsa wouldn't exist, it's a movement as much as anything, and so you need kind of a showman.

His appearances on SNL etc. are part of that public drama that keeps Tesla stock going with enough support to keep the legitimacy of the dream alive.

I'm seriously doubtful that a quiet, unassuming person would have been able to do most of that.

Expressive, bombastic characters will by virtue of the volume of their actions, sometimes creep up to the line. It's normal. There's nothing wrong with Elon, he's just a little cheezy and spouts too hard with some things.
I'm not convinced that inaction is inherently apolitical, but it would certainly be more defensible.
Aside from the things already mentioned about safety, these things don't take pride into account. Just see how some comments here view homeless and the general attitude towards anyone accepting welfare.

This is also an often missed point of UBI, it will help people that are unwilling to accept help otherwise. Either due pride or safety concerns (see the Dutch tax authorities mess right now that has ruined families that were dependent on child care support)

Whatever you think of specific solutions (please don't start debating UBI... ) it's quite obvious to me that we need to change quality of life safetynets from a pull to a push system.
And if you have been exposed to a very loud noise, to the point where your ears are ringing (probably not from headphones, but like starting a loud bike in a garage or gun fire), go to hospital, as soon as possible. They can give you medicaments and prevent permanent damage (tinnitus).
Unfortunely D is full of warts, as the community is small and they keep changing their mind what D is supposed to be, while C#, C++, Java, Rust, Swift adopt the features that made D special 10 years ago.
Cool but doesn't a large amount get absorbed and end up in ground water pools etc?
I think this is a reasonable point, and of course you could take it further and say that assembly language is better than functional programming when you're doing work that requires you to reason about what the CPU is doing exactly.

But I would argue that the majority of Go programs should not require the programmer to follow the intimate details of a program's execution when trying to understand the business logic. The fact that the language has a garbage collector would suggest that it was designed for programs where some details can be hidden away.

So I agree with your general point, but I am somewhat skeptical about its application to Go.
With the passage of time I increasingly struggle believing that you are a real person or, at least, a person who has a minimal understanding of other people and how they operate. I say that as someone who hasn’t touched IRC in 16 years with, consequently, zero dog in this tussle, since your first inclination will likely be to call me one of “them”.

Exit this drama pit before it consumes you. That goes for all involved: not just you, but foremost you. It’s IRC. You can love it and still have perspective.
If compared to DVB-T with far to low bitrates, or streaming over crappy Internet connections, DVD's are far better in comparison.

Blu-ray is obviously the better option, but they're more expansive and not always available, especially when it comes to stuff that isn't produced in the U.S.
Your reply does not meaningfully address any of the points of the post it is replying to.
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I know it's obvious but this isn't 'capitalism in practice' so much as a reflection of the moral considerations (or maybe lack of them) in the top executives who run a company. Profit-Max is not always and necessarily the trump card.
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Accolades!

Since no one else has done it I will ask for features: sometimes it takes a while for it to determine the route, there is no way to cancel that to go back to trying a new raindrop location

Wish there was a different way to get back to raindrop location instead of closing the existing route. Would prefer some kind of click/tap-state or gesture. More easily noticeable of an inconvenience on an ultrawide screen.
I mean no offense to you. I question the actual "seven generations" value of donating to these charities, if I never see a single tree myself, nor able to partake in its planting directly.
It's the same in Kazakhstan, people only wear masks indoors when there's someone controlling them, otherwise no one cares.
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Better watch the Wear talks, the only thing they are getting from Samsung is the Faces designer and the commitement to drop Tizen for Wear.

Is is still plain old Java/Kotlin/C++ as usual.

Press should be better informed, but that is asking too much in modern times.
Some of the core ideas of SICL have been written up in a digestible form in a 2019 paper, 'Bootstrapping Common Lisp using Common Lisp'

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02417646/document
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Rust and OCaml (the latter if you use the right libraries) can definitely avoid it. Why couldn't Go?
Apple is not alone here, not by a long shot to be fair.

I grew up ignoring the old, "No User Serviceable Parts Inside" stickers and embossing that appeared as the vacuum tubes were displaced by solid state.

My car, computer, appliances, you name it were all reasonably easy to repair, and so I did and continue to do.

This weeks, "Amp Hour" podcast has Dave Jones talking about a device that has a fault, and how the soft power on routs through about 6 boards that cannot be connected on the bench, making it impossible to check voltages and do other basic tasks needed to repair.

I am on the side of repair. People find ways, and they should be doing that so other people have options that make sense instead of high cost, often high risk scenarios to contend with.

What may seem like high use value really isn't when those costs and risks are part of the equation. And many people do not grok this until after things happen.

We can and should do better.
I am really disappointed with how Facebook may have helped the CCP avoid transparency and accountability. An entire year has gone by with posts about various origin hypotheses being censored or limited in some way. I’m not sure what the extent of Facebook’s actions were, but given the recent leaks from Project Veritas (https://www.projectveritas.com/news/breaking-facebook-whistl...), it seems the company regularly practices incredibly broad and purposeful manipulation of public opinion. Let’s call this practice what it is: propaganda.

Imagine what could have happened if people could more freely discuss theories like the lab leak hypothesis. Perhaps international pressure would have mounted and a more meaningful independent investigation could have been held quickly, by mid 2020. Now it is too late for a real investigation since any evidence could’ve been removed or just lost. Millions of people died. Thanks to Facebook and other tech platforms normalizing censorship, we may never get the truth here and all those who were harmed will be denied justice. Shame on Facebook.
Firefox still has 100/100 on both acid2 and acid3.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's already happening and has become the preferred strategy for the last decade at least.
> If you can back up what you’re saying, libel isn’t a concern

How are you going to pay to back this up in court? Evidencing these things is tricky. As you've spotted, it doesn't matter whether what you say is true, only whether you can back it up. Oh, and you may need to lodge a bond with court in case you lose. Best re-mortgage your house.

The UK has extremely strong libel law and yet people libel each other all the time, because cases cost in excess of £100,000.

Oh, and declaring private eyewitness testimony to be worthless makes it entirely impossible to criminally prosecute rape and sexual assault.
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What are the odds of being laid off if your boss asks you to write something called a layoff database?
Dalmuiti is a card game where you depend on some luck(the cards you are served) & how you play them. It made me realise how most of what people call success is just the luck of birth. In the game if you were given shitty cards you are still very likely to lose & a lot of that is true about life. There’s a tiny chance that you can win with bad cards but you’ve got very little room for mistakes. This makes me think about the folks in SV who are mostly lucky to be born into great circumstances & much of their success had to do with that than they care to admit
Top executives are not allowed to do moral considerations on issues this big.

If Apple does not want to follow Chinese rules, they have to accept loss of more than 10% of their revenue and most of their future growth.

There is no case where big international company is willing to cut their revenue 10% to do the right thing. They consider moral issues only in response to external pressure or because it costs very little.

Companies are not immoral, they are amoral. Morality of hired executive morality does not matter.
Americans are on the move, but their stuff doesn’t always follow
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I think you should challenge your beliefs on the statement "plants are carbon neutral", because there might only be two scenarios in which you are right that planting something and planting nothing has no difference:

1.) If you plant a commercial forest and then cut it down and burn it entirely.

2.) In the cosmic sense that all atoms will return to dust at some point.

In all other scenarios the statement is not helpful in particular because:

1.) Climate change is happening right now and is an acute global crisis which requires extremely short term measures (on an geological time scales). Growing a forest right now, captures carbon now when we need it most.

2.) If you cut down the trees after some time, you can actually just stack the trunks and they will most likely just be inert for a long time. The number of fungi and beetles that are specialized in dealing with decomposing wood is surprisingly low. In comparison to Carbon Capture technologies, which try to capture carbon from air and then store that somewhere, using trees is extremely easy.
When it works on Windows, please make a new post here at HN, I'll be following. I'm really interested.

Or maybe you could just reply to my comment.
Nobody is saying we should penalize people for making accusations. Being asked to substantiate your claims is not a penalty. It should be understood that people will ask that when you make a public claim, especially if you are asking for something to happen as a result of that claim.

I'm not sure what we gain by encouraging people to make unprovable accusations. From the outside perspective, people will be predisposed to believe one way or another, and in the absence of any evidence they'll just go to their predispositions and a lot of irrelevant argument will take place back and forth with no possible resolution, because there is no real evidence. Why is this helpful or desirable?
It was so much fun! I mostly did more mundane things like my business cards and letterhead. But still... Seeing something go directly from my brain onto paper, with the help of these magical rub-on letters and symbols and a little bamboo burnishing tool? There was nothing else like it.
Well for one in this context you could say that I’m interested in the pizza and how it’s harder to find a good Neapolitan pizza place and all the mom’n’pop pizza places are being strangled to death.

It’s an interesting phenomenon, not necessarily something to be “worried” about.
LT(layer, kc) and MT(mod, kc), called SandS, is the feature what I really want.
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Stop your BS mate.
Which of those projects consider you to have the unilateral authority to decide how they govern themselves?

Which of these communities individually selected you to be their guardian and protector and final say on self-governance?
What’s divisive about it? The whole argument for its plausibility is that everyone has lab leaks all the time, not just the Chinese.
I tried to automate mouse moves, keystrokes and screenshots to take a higher-res picture of an area in Google Earth. Something went wrong and it got out of control. My attempts to stop the script were futile as the automated mouse steered me away from the code window. The spinning, gyrating earth rapidly made me seasick - had to close my eyes and fumble my way to the power off button. Stretching 'hurt' but it was a memorable code fail nonetheless :)
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... buildings don't fall all of sudden...

False.

Large structural failures can be catastrophic and unexpected.

Buildings can and do collapse quite suddenly. The examples here are not necessarily caused by reinforced concrete failures (though several cases make use of reinforced concrete --- generally other failures lead to the collapse). But the final failure of a system under load and near its structural limits can be quite sudden.

Taiwan bridge:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OSCPUGHUyIs https://youtube.com/watch?v=WqHXMswLwPM

Minnesota I35W bridge collapse: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CMdv2wRaqo4

Jerusalem dance floor: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5UOb7RBWlak

Morandi bridge, Italy: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V479srTBlAk

Hard Rock Hotel New Orleans (under construction): https://youtube.com/watch?v=WC8k5unvyfU

Sampoong Department Store, Korea (visualisation): https://youtube.com/watch?v=aQXTSR9koCg

The Kansas City Hyatt Regency skywalk collapse (1981) would be another instance. I don't believe there's video of the failure itself, though Grady from Practical Engineering has a great explainer of what went wrong: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VnvGwFegbC8
Looks perfect. Good job!
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I just found out that USB-powered coffee heaters are a thing.

As a general purpose power cord, USB-C is not a good choice.
SWE turned into a non-fiction author here. I published my first book six months ago. [1]

Surprisingly, my biggest obstacle was digital advertising. It is impossible to advertise a print book on Amazon as an independent seller. Facebook banned my ads (guessing it's the cover?) and when I got past it, the ads had pretty good CTRs but very low conversions.

The thing that did work for me was the YouTube videos, interviews and other short pieces I did for publicity, that helped me to sell half of the total print.

Any ideas on how to tackle the advertising?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Panipat-light-rediscovered-pai...
Yes and some evaporates, but I think the tool is mapping the path of water that doesn't leave the water system that way and flows out into a larger body.
I’m saying the low price would make more money for the studios because it being cheap more people would buy 10x or more of the digital item.
> And so to pay for the repairs, the city then builds yet another neighborhood in the same strategy to collect the initial tax revenue. It’s effectively a Ponzi scheme.

> When it crashes, you get Detroit.

> The gist is that many low-density spread-out suburban neighborhood with large, expensive infrastructure are a huge cost center for a city. And since most North American cities build this way, we have a lot of cities that are “functionally bankrupt” or will be soon.

Huh? Wasn't Detroit's problem that it was too dependent a small set of labor-intensive businesses in one industry that have been in a long term secular decline (as foreign competition as increased) while simultaneously becoming more automated?

Also, when city infrastructure needs to be repaired, don't they just assess specials on the affected properties? Metro areas can expand as you describe, but many/most cities can't (because they're boxed in by adjacent cities (i.e. suburbs)). For instance, the only buildable land left in my very suburban city are a couple of defunct golf courses. New construction activity mainly happening two cities away to the south.
I usually pick partially funded projects with active updates and thousands of followers with social media presence, like this reforestation project in Rioterra, Brasil https://tree-nation.com/projects/amazonia-rioterra-brazil/up...

The alternative is to dive into it myself like this startup did: https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/reddit-yis...

I think YC should add sustainability startups/non-profits to their Request for Startups. The combined carbon footprint of YC network is huge.
I'm currently working with a massive spreadsheet used to calculate CNC paths for manufacturing parts built in an online ordering system. It is not an advantage, it's a horrible way to do things. If I were working in code is be done by now, I'd have unit test and processing would be a factor of 1000 faster ( Excel interior is slow).

I see no benefit to a 2d layout except in a few special cases.
Which projects have been infiltrated? Who are these people?
Vaccine status may grant more freedoms to more people, but can only happen with some degree of controlling the masses. You have to at some point, see beyond your nose tip.
Are supposed to, but doing that would require so much more work than is usually being put into it now. Especially in the first rounds, it would be impossible to review all candidates/proposals thoroughly without having staff dedicated to just that. (IMO institutions should have such highly-skilled staff.)

It may be true that the SNR in research output from developing countries is lower, but there is still lots of good science. But essentially no publishers with good reputation. So even with the same SNR, the increased pool of countries producing science would add to the publication pressure.
The solution is obvious, they just need to be constructed of prefabulated amulite.
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Edit SOmeone reported it's not a dedicated openhd room. But anyway, lotsa peoples working on DIY HD FPV system there. Come join the brainstorming and the fun :)
Yeah if you're writing "Compose3" you've already lost. The extra type annotations only make it worse.

x := foo()
y := bar(x)
z := baz(y)

Wow.
I think the accused should have the right to legally challenge a public defamatory statement. In this case... it probably wouldn't be a very strong case, just from a quick google search, my guess is they would struggle with 1 & 4 below. For 1) In civil, this is probably preponderance of evidence (>50% true) vs beyond a reasonable doubt in criminal. For 4) Theoretically this has no impact, you are just screaming into the void and they don't even know about it. But it could cause real damage, this is a highly trafficked site, maybe they loose their job or their spouse sees this and divorces them etc.

"To prove prima facie defamation, a plaintiff must show four things:

1) a false statement purporting to be fact;

2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person;

3) fault amounting to at least negligence;

4) damages, or some harm caused to the person or entity who is the subject of the statement." https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/defamation
As a pkgsrc committer, xbps is nothing like pkgsrc. The underlying stuff is much more similar to something like Arch or Alpine Linux than anything that exists in the BSD world, and it's much less configurable than pkgsrc.