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> The main contributions in rationalism and empiricism are not French.

Are you certain of this? I can think of many contributions to rationalism and empiricism made by French speakers that I feel are important. The metric system, for instance, was in large part a French project [01].

Here are a few French rationalists and empiricists that came to my mind when I read your comment:

Alain Aspect

Contemporary exerimentalist known for work in quantum optics [02]

Louis de Broglie

Quantum physicist known for pioneering wave-particle duality [03]

Nicolas de Condorcet

Mathematician and leading figure of the enlightenment [04]

Rene Descartes

Philosopher and mathematician known for the Cartesian co-ordinate system [05]

Pierre de Fermat

Mathematician known for his eponymous last theorem [06]

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Mathematician and astronomer known for Lagrangian mechanics and Lagrange points in astronomy [07]

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Polymath known for Laplace's Demon, among much else [08]

Antoine Lavoisier

Experimental chemist who named hydrogen and oxygen [09]

Blaise Pascal

Mathematician and inventor of an early mechanical calculator [10]

Louis Pasteur

Chemist and microbiologist who developed the germ theory of disease and invented Pasteurisation [11]

Henri Poincare

Mathematician, theoretical physicist and engineer [12]

Urbain le Verrier

Astronomer, discoverer of Neptune [13]

Full disclosure: I'm English.

[01] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_metric_system#T...

[02] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Aspect

[03] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Broglie

[04]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_Condorcet

[05] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes

[06] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Fermat

[07] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Louis_Lagrange

[08] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Simon_Laplace

[09] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Lavoisier

[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal

[11]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9

[13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbain_Le_Verrier
190cm (6'3) being a threshold for "manliness", as you say, has no bearing on actual human average sizes and might just be your personal bias showing.

I think there's definitely a threshold around 6' in English cultures, possibly 180 cm in Europe, but in my personal experience it's not seen an important metric as the magic 6' number in Anglo cultures.
> Infinite scroll is not on the list.

I you want a discussion of semantics then...

Wikipedia defines dark patterns as: "A dark pattern is a user interface that has been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things". Infinite scroll in many cases obviously fits this category as it tricks people into spending more time in an app. Fast company actually calls it the most prevalent dark pattern in this article:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90369183/deceptive-design-tricks...

Also, implying that slot machines don't apply dark patterns is incredibly naive. I'm pretty sure they do everything to make it seem like they don't. But even using a plastic card in stead of cash can be considered a dark pattern, because it disconnects you from the intrinsic form and it just because a number on a screen, causing it to lose its value while playing.
It is true; keep in mind that real computers are strictly speaking FSMs, not Turing machines, due to having a finite "tape". It's just vastly more useful to think of them as such when programming.
> We don't know.

Bullshit. People have been wearing protective equipment such as masks for decades, and the negative effects are none.

The anti-maskers' irrational tirade about even low-effort/high-reward protective measures that are demonstrably safe and terribly trivial to pull off is the key factor in this pandemic taking so long to just die off, and you should be ashamed of yourself for contributing to this state of affairs.
In practice, both people and machines can only handle a finite amount of nesting, so you could do it though it would be awkward to express.
See also https://www.boundary2.org/2018/07/mueller/

Stallman (and others e.g. Lessig) had clear visions of where they wanted to be but were thoroughly stuck in an end-of-history mindset - "we'll do the work to get this small part of society from A to B, and then we'll be at B." Well, no, then someone is going to drag parts back to A, and another is going to drag a few over to C, and after a few steps of this your rhetoric around digital freedom is going to be half fueling the propaganda of the largest, most powerful corporations in American history, and half the weak intellectual justification for a right-wing populist riot.
They run in several countries, but fundamentally they are very expensive (far more than $10 an hour)
"News & interests" is another avenue for Microsoft to promote Edge. If you click an article in the "News & interests", it opens in Edge, even if your default browser is set to something else.
Isn't there also a lot of people that self report as having had covid that actually didn't have it? Why do you assume the rate of false positive to be in one direction or the other?
Send that surplus to countries that need it.
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Perhaps their goals aren't aligned with yours, and perhaps yours aren't aligned with the company's needs. If the job gets done well enough without all the documents and pretty diagrams, why drag your coworkers through all the unnecessary ceremony wasting their time?
That’s a great point of view and in retrospect, so do I. It wasn’t a great thing to do and I’d probably had a more humane way of eliminating a friend. I just did what I could at the time.
Sure, my point is that ISPs will start increasing their rates to squeeze more out of remote workers.
I am an object of internet ridicule, ask me anything (2013)
It has the effect of the existential dread of being alone with your thoughts.
Sounds like a business opportunity ...
Rail can transport electricity reasonably efficiently in the form of aluminium.

Find a place with abundant electricity. Ship aluminium ore there by rail. Smelt the stuff there with the cheap electricity. Ship the resulting aluminium back.

The end result is more energy efficient than using a power line to move the electricity to the aluminium ore.
> Afaik some biologists even think that the evolution of intelligence was rather unlikely and would not necessarily happen again under the same circumstances as on earth.

Hmm. Can you provide a pointer to those biologists?

AFAIK, high intelligence has arisen more than once on Earth (Hominoids, Cetaceans, Octopuses), so I'm somewhat skeptical of that claim, but perhaps they're construing intelligence more narrowly (ie. only Homo Sapiens qualifies).
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I don't think the article is sarcastic given the nature of their app.

Where does one draw the line though? ESG[1] is becoming increasingly important to investors and I already see financial institutions instituting controls in their apps around gambling [2].

When should large companies with sufficient reach implement opportunities to address social harms?

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/environmental-social-an...
[2] https://monzo.com/blog/2018/06/19/gambling-block-self-exclus...
It makes him tell everyone he's happy but that's where it ends. He's got too much pride to tell the truth.

And those aren't quirks; they are big stinking problems. Never write down a problem as something that isn't one. I owned a Merc 190E once that was a bag of problems. My life got better and I got happier the day I acknowledged them and got rid of it.
> In the eyes of most, the next major step from the Macintosh was Microsoft Windows.

No, that would be Atari STs GEM OS, or the Amiga’s AmigaOS. Or the Acorn Electron. Windows was laughing joke amongst non-PC users for the entirety of the 80s and the first half of the 90s. Even Tandy produced a better frontend to DOS than the early versions of Windows.
You have to pay per mile now, so what’s the problem?
why stop there? why wouldn't you make an OS that would turn the phone off if you use it more than 1 minute? Boum, you solved everything.
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QI? Curiously, that’s the name of the TV show where I think I heard the claim. I wonder if it was added and given that form as a direct result of that appearance on that show? (The timing is plausible, but I don’t have a detailed enough memory to find which episode).
Face to face is very overrated.

During 2020 I interviewed people, hired and onboarded a new person, ended up interviewing for another company myself, joined them, have interviewed and hired new people at the new gig. Never met anyone in person. No issues at all.

Been doing similar conditions for much longer than a year though. Over ten years ago I was leading a team of 20+, everyone distributed across the globe, nobody in the same timezone as me.
That's what I meant. Common people and those with cash reserves are creditors who lose their money. Wealthy debtors buy assets with the cheap loan money, and are guaranteed to get richer without risk. Because of this, all valuable assets are moving to few hands.
There is something contradictory and insincere about being so concerned about the eminence of French in multilingual European institutions.
Multilingualism is the reality today in Europe, English being only a neutral enough language of convenience for international communication.
A tiny comparison of French and English orthography seems a bad argument for promoting French in Europe.
I live in Germany. It absolutely translates.

This would get a snicker out of anyone here.
At this point, only the porn subreddits are exempt.
i started programming in 94, i've passed through all the phases. honestly, what i want now is a phone that just works, without needing to hack anything. i presume i'm not representing the miniroty of ios users here. i don't think it's possible to do both of those things (stability vs hacking) in the same time, without a compromise and i voted with my wallet for what apple did.

there are options for everyone, if you want to hack it, good, there's android for that. there are even phones that you can customize. if you want a stable black box, there's ios, this is well known before you buy it. there are options for every one of us...

i think you guys forget that this is an echo chamber and the real users out there are not tech savy. i
What's even worse is when you start to compare your phone with the operating system of your laptop.

Then you'll realize how much of our lifes are in the hands of a few designers from Silicon Valley. Sure, you can "disable notifications" for an app: But how about I can just "close" this app like I can on my computer?
> Twitter is re-opening their office but in a crippled state, where the food options are massively downsized

Is this permanent? My employer is reopening, but I'm expecting it'll be awhile before amenities like free meals and snacks get back to normal. There may be more health restrictions initially.
I definitely understand this, but there are limits. A guy I worked with (super nice, hard working and a great engineer) would always slack me with questions that he had previously slacked me. In his defence, these questions were in my wheel house and were tricky things that he only have to do maybe once every couple of months. But when he was slacking me he'd literally say "hey man, I know I keep having to ask this but..." I eventually started responding: "Scroll. The. Fuck. Up.". The answer would typically be a few pages up. I even tried using the slack search for his question, and would find the previous time he asked. And yes, this shit was also documented in the git repo in a README.md that was alongside the code (so there was no "searching for the docs")
That comment says "But that wouldn't contribute with the propaganda of the current mainstream narrative, would it?", where "that" appears to refer to "non-necessity of C19 vaccination for previously infected".

I agree with that comment—that there is a mainstream narrative that says those who've already recovered from COVID still need a vaccine as much as anyone else, and that this narrative is propaganda in terms of its truth value and in terms of how it originated and was spread around—and I also think COVID isn't a hoax and that vaccines are good.

It harms rational discussion and thinking, when you take one claim and attribute additional claims the author didn't make and denigrate the author for the latter. It pushes the discussion towards a "declare allegiance to one side, attack others who appear to be on the other side" fight, and away from exploration of any nuanced position other than the two extremes—when such exploration should be one of the attractions of a site like this.
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[2] https://www.economica.id/2021/05/30/there-is-no-such-thing-a...
I have a friend who's an addict and he's becoming impossible to talk to. Not about drugs, just about anything. He doesn't want any help, and he starts to live in his own reality. When we meet in a group of friends he doesn't listen to anyone. He can talk non-stop for hours until everybody around is tired from his gibberish. But he doesn't listen to anyone in a sense that feels very selfish. For example, when someone is telling an interesting story, he won't listen and he would make dumb offending jokes.

It feels like drugs made him dumb and also he is living in some kind of parallel reality. It's becoming harder and harder to connect.

Also, in his reality it's perfectly ok to consume drugs, he's also constantly offering to share the experience with all people he meets.

It's sad situation and looks desperate because he's aggressively against any help, he consider himself better than others because of the drugs (he is sure they allow him to "see" more than we see), and he doesn't listen to anyone.
Another peak self-absorbed Hacker News comment, in which we learn that curiosity only means tinkering with devices, learning how they work to the bits, plus some random Linux thrown in.
This comment is ignoring that a device that does all that without you having to worry about how it works is a tool way more powerful than one in which you need to at least know how to build everything from scratch with an enormous learning curve.
Curiosity can be about design, the arts, literature, drawing, composing music, making and editing videos. All of which you can do so much better and so much more democratically on these “opinionated” devices.
So please, enough with this narrative, it’s really outdated and based on such a limited world view.
Cars are also tremendously space inefficient. The Tesla Model 3 is nearly as big (93.8 sq ft) as 3 Queen Size beds (33.3 sq ft).

There is the classic set of pictures showing how much space is needed to transport 60 people by bus, by bike, and by car.

https://humantransit.org/2012/09/the-photo-that-explains-alm...

On my (pre-covid) morning commute to the office, most of the cars crawling along the highway had one person in them. The slowness is the result of people trying to merge into the highway, not "bad drivers".

Another way to illustrate how much space cars take up is to look at suburban office parks. There will be a small building (usually 1 or 2 stories) surrounded and dwarfed by a parking lot.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Liberty+Lake,+WA/@47.67315...
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>The primary upside of having a separate ops team was less developer interrupts when things were going well.

And, you know, developers having time to get better at developing instead of spending their time learning all the tooling you need to understand and the experience you need to gain in addition to what you already have to know to be an effective developer. Specialization is not always a bad thing. By having everybody do everything you now just have a bunch of people that do most workflows only a couple of times a year and lack the routine to handle situations where the extra automation you might have built to help them is insufficient. This just adds a lot of stress for your employees. The primary upside is that you save headcount while things are going well.
It is appreciable that he offers a discount for those for whom USD is ridiculously expensive in their own currency or have previously bought his books. Though I wish he would rather send the discount code via email rather than ask for a mobile number, which is rather invasive.
You're not doing it for them. You're doing it for you. Following your own philosophy (whatever it is) takes an unshakable faith that it is the "right thing to do" even when nobody is watching. Like religion or sobriety, it is a daily struggle to follow what you believe. This is what leaders do.
When you say "equity" do you mean you were issued shares?

Technically shares represent ownership of a part (often very small) of the company.
Depending upon the class of shares you might have a certain number of votes in the running of the company.

As long as you are recorded as owning those shares "fully paid up", they cannot be taken away from you. That would be considered to be theft.

It has nothing to do with any contract. Shares are transacted as if they were physical objects or title deeds to property, etc.

If you didn't actually pay for those shares and you have no share certificates, then things can get murky. As a shareholder, you are entitled to access the share register and verify the entries.

The above is based upon my practical experience, but I'm not a lawyer, nor accountant. As others have suggested if there is significant money involved then you need qualified legal representation.
My guess would be that that's a phrase.
In the same way that basically the entire modern global economy is exploiting humans? Well it does, but it also gives something back: living together in a civilization that kinda works (so far). I think for a lot of people doing some mechanical turk style driving could actually be quite a satisfying job, more so than e.g. data entry tasks.
It is not and it is worrying. I think Apple is doing a great job about privacy, but it’s a fine line the one between user advocacy and the ethical state model…
That has nothing to do with addiction.
How many smartphone users want to use interrupts, tinker with firmware settings, hack the port, and so on?

Exactly.
In the context of a discussion about what method of delivering oil is more efficient, wasting resources on employing people for unnecessary tasks does not have enormous benefits. From a society point of view, if the goal is to deliver oil, then it is a societal loss to do it inefficiently just to pay more people.

If the goal is to pay people, then just pay people, no need to do it in a roundabout way of forcing an inefficiency into the system.
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But only until the affected certificates expire.

Which will finished in only 90 days time, which was the driver for the short validity period in the first place.
Intel recommends that users of Intel® VT-d update to the latest version provided by the system manufacturer that addresses these issues.

What exactly do they mean? Upgrade the CPU?

Also, what about VT-d on Xeon CPUs?
Are you sure they fund this particular team?
That's an opinion, not a fact, and one that depends on who you ask and where. If you go to the Flanders region people will certainly tell you they speak Flemish.

Language researchers can argue all they want about how languages should be grouped, but they sound different, they use different words, and people call them different things. It is simply incorrect to state that people in Belgium speak Dutch. Might as well just expand the group to include German and English (etc) and say they speak Germanic.

Fun fact, the Dutch call their language Nederlands and refer to German as Duits ("Dutch").
Saving is healthy for economy. Inflation is slavery. Inflation moves capital from the productive to the unproductive, from the efficient to the inefficient.
I was working for a tier-1 supplier in Detroit when Tesla announced their first car that wasn’t the lotus body, a vp at a supplier laughed and said “they’re about to find out how hard it is to build cars”. This guy knew cars and every time I hear someone with negative feedback on Tesla’s I think about that.

I’ve heard more people describe it as “a computer with wheels” than I can remember.
As a team lead I would not except this kind of toxic gate keeper mentality. A single person with such a bus factor is a huge problem to a teams/projects (or God forbid departments) success. Discuss and frame it in terms of worries for business continuity with your line manager. If that does not click, consider it a red flag.
Terminate, close, or shut down seems more apt than "end".
Yes, just imagine the billions of people eagerly awaiting a blank smartphone that they can tinker the BIOS settings of.
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Ask HN: Tools for Remote Pair Programming?
I do a lot of remote pair programming lately, admittedly mostly in the driver seat. We use MS Teams as that is what the rest of the company uses. I think there is room for improvement, e.g. simultaneous sharing of windows on both sides.

Can you point me to a tool that works well for you?
Edit: sorry just realised you’re making the same point as me more or less. Putting yourself in third person. I’ll let my comment stand anyhow :)

Screwing my face up, looking at this sideways … but it seems as though you’re saying that the Bozos of HN have nothing useful to contribute to this discussion based on … [rereads] … their lack of academic credentials in the area… you could say this about just about any HN post I’m just wondering why this one? Here’s a thing though … if the understanding of a technology is so nuanced … that Bozos can’t “get” it … is it really that mature? We had functioning computers for 50 years but it was only when the Bozos got their hands on it that things took off. Internet for 20. Cell phones for 10. How long are we dabbling with neural networks? 50 years or so? All I see in this most recent explosion in AI is a rapid jump in the availability of cores. Ala Malthus once that newly available “source of nutrition” has been used up we will see a rapid die off once more and it will be another 20 years once the Bozo intellect has caught up before we look at this topic en masse again. Dismiss the Bozos at your peril. You’re dependent on them for innovation and consumption. Your sincerely, a Bozo.