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Scientific conversation happens between people who are actually practicing in the field. Scientists on social media are just engaged in promotion.

When Neil Degrasse Tyson talks on YT, I consider that a combination of promotion and pedagogy. But that's not science. He's not engaging in scientific conversation with fellow colleagues. This is not an indictment on Dr. Tyson's expertise, but it is a criticism on confusing scientific discourse with mass media promotion.

Another difference I'd draw between any other scientific field is that astrophysics is largely orthogonal to matters of public health or finance. Likewise, a math crank is much less likely to cause damage than a doctor promoting a drug, or a finance expert promoting an investment.

Health and finance are very special fields, and they deserve to be treated so in the arena of mass media promotions.
I think these are very important questions.

The commenter isn't interrogating some indy programmer. This is a product of a subsidiary of Microsoft, who I guarantee has already had a lawyer, or several, consider these questions.
I do a fresh install of HA every so often to see where it's at. It has a steep learning curve and it's a mostly unpleasant experience to setup.

Webthings (formerly Mozilla) is a much more consumer friendly interface and a breeze to setup by comparison, it's a shame it's languishing with little interest in the project.
Then they get a cancer treatment, that was likely partially funded by the government via grant or tax benefit or medicare graft but fully owned by the private company, they are charged tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars even though they have insurance, then mostly die anyways, because although cancer treatments are much better, they are still in the stone age.

And their family than learns who actually funds cancer research: they do.

It's funny because your statement was supposed to support the idea pharma only do good things but instead it exactly shows the failure mode of capitalism in medicine: when you get sick, its very often that you do not have the time or capacity to be a informed consumer and the entire premise of capitalism breaks down.
https://basalt-rebar.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRWdHpopETI

Basalt is a pretty amazing material. This is just one use. Basalt is also used to make insulation, low skid tiles, and corrosion resistant pipe liners.
It's funny but I find when trying to scribble everything said down I'm not actively listening and comprehending anything that's being said just trying to copy words down.

I've found listening and jotting down short concise notes every now and than about something important is the best.
It's not the site it used to be.

Forums are all but dead.

Comments alone have kept me from visiting the site for a while now.

Used to be one of the sites I'd check daily, now I don't even like to click through on articles like these.
Hi there hackers!
I'm Mohammad, the product lead @ Shopgram.
We launched our product a while ago here and you seemed to like it : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26025955
Now we went deeper, other than crawling and indexing all the products, we decided to do a quick analysis on growth, market share and more

To gather this report, the data of 300M products from more than 600K Shops were crawled on Apr 14, 2021, Then a sample of 3.5M products from more than 300K shops was chosen randomly to extract the required statistics.

Some quick things we found out:
- United States has the highest number of stores with more than 60%
- Fashion related items are the most popular product to sell, whether it's clothing, watches or accessories
- The dropshipping platform that has the highest market share among Shopify merchants is Oberlo

The report covers Shopify and dropshipping growth in the last 4 years, competition among the platforms, most popular products, Geo Analysis and more!

And as always, I'd be glad to know about your thoughts and suggestions :slight_smile:
Is it really listening though? Of the three tested, verbatim was the worst in this test: https://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/JEP/article/viewFil...

There are others you can look up. Verbatim note taking means you are hearing the words but spending your time focusing on copying them rather than distilling/understanding them or putting them in context. Letting your brain process the information is more effective than trying to memorize the information.
Apple Reportedly Storing over 8M Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers
With VSCode, Github and a perhaps a little bit of help from OpenAI, Microsoft is poised to dominate the developer productivity tools market in the near future.

I wouldn't be surprised to see really good static analysis and automated code review tools coming out of these teams very soon.
It's not going to take 15 minutes to understand WebPack and Parcel. Let's be a little more realistic. Sometimes you don't have the luxury of time and tools that you already know are going to get used, instead of new tools you don't.
> SOME of the 0.1% who can work 18 hours a day nonstop for a decade with extreme natural ability

I'm sceptical of whether they actually exist as described tbh. There's an obvious incentive for rich business people to emphasize the amount of work they put in, and I've not seen any independent verification of their supposedly high output
Side note: I recently suffered from a tennis elbow due to sub optimal desktop setup when working from home. Copilot has drastically reduced my keystrokes, and therefore the strain on my tenders.

It's good for our health, too!
Yeah, MSIX is a mess and I'm not surprised by the low uptake. It's evolved from the ultra-locked-down AppX days slowly and in a very messy way; documentation is often out of date/incomplete, VS tooling is buggy, and the kicker is that App Installer (required to install an MSIX package with a double-click) doesn't even ship on all versions of Windows.

I have mostly learned to live with it, but I certainly do not like it.
> Don't listen to PG, kids. Live the life you want to have now, not the life you think you'll want to have several decades out.

Isn't there an in-between? My wife and I both delay a little bit of gratification with the expectation that we'll have a better life in our mid-30's or early 40's. In other words, we're choosing not to live the life we want to have right now, because we're trading that off for a potentially better life X years from now (where in our case, X = 5-10 years).

X can be whatever you want, and it's up to individuals (or families) to decide that for themselves. But once you do, delayed gratification is an important social concept; as evidenced by the marshmallow test administered in children. For adults, "rejecting the marshmallow" can mean working a little harder in your '20s, so that you may get 2 marshmallows when you're in your '30s — which for a lot of people is important as that's the age when they have children.
I see a tonne in this flashing thing, and the way I think is like a movie screen. I can't comprehend how thinking without vivid imagery is even possible. I really think there's variety in how brains are wired and very different experiences of thinking out there.
Anaconda Collaborates with Intel to Improve Speed and Scale for ML Workflows
Am I the only one who is having to work hard to understand the article?
Most programmers are pretty careless and just get something to "work."

Maybe the first generation of this sort of completion will be bad, but I have full faith it will be better than the average human at avoiding security issues as early as the next generation.
Before? Gravitational waves travel at the speed of light too...

(Or are you saying that the gamma rays are emitted earlier in the merger process than the gravitational waves?)
Reinforced concrete structures are known to have a relatively short lifespan. Wood easily lasts several times as long with proper care.
The question isn't whether it's secure. Complete security is a work of fiction anyway. The real question is whether it's significantly more secure.

As of today, probably 3/4 or more of the online services I use that have serious security requirements are favouring SMS-based 2FA over just using ID and password as they used to. This can get a bit annoying, but it's obviously more secure than not doing it.
I spent part of last Saturday going through the Svelte tutorial, and I really liked the framework.

I then was looking at recommendations for building fully functional web apps, and the official recommendation was to use "Svelte Kit". I began the tutorial for that, and was surprised at how the philosophy of that framework seemed to completely contradict the core Svelte framework. It was extremely odd and unappealing, and killed my newly gained enthusiasm for Svelte.

Has anyone built full web apps without Svelte Kit (previously Sapper)?
Maybe it cannot act as a direct catalyst for fusion but it could potentially act as a catalyst for another potential catalyst for fusion, such as a pellet of fissionable material.
This, exactly. It takes a lot of hard work to raise children and have a good relationship with your partner. I consider taking vacations to lay on the beach with my partner or children a part of that hard work. The definitions in the essay seem a bit short-sighted to me.
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No, I disagree. Colors can be mixed together, so does that mean that the color blue does not exists? Can you point me where exactly blue starts and ends on a rainbow? Let's go even further, and take two mixed colors - purple (blue+red) and lime (green+yellow) - they're both mixed, so does that mean that there is no difference between those two? This is a fallacy. People might've mixed, but it doesn't make everyone the same. This is blatantly false. In the actual reality you just inherit some traits from one parent and some from the other. I'm not denying cultural differences obviously, but it does not contradict anything, it's just how genetics work. Race is just a superset of ethnicity, and it's more fuzzy around the edges.
Please provide a reference for this explanation.
I have archived the old client binaries and I have the pcaps of the traffic they send to backend servers. It is full clickstream data. I stand by my point that Cliqz collected the clickstream of their browsers users. Sue me if I'm wrong.
When is it copying? What about all those stack overflow snippets I copied?!
There's at least one more: Rachel Bryk, a developer working on the Dolphin GameCube/Wii emulator [1], was driven to suicide back in 2015, likely in part due to transphobia and harassment [2].

[1]: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2015/04/25/commemoration-rachel...
[2]: https://www.nj.com/monmouth/2015/04/post_18.html
> Also their bulk contact upload. Take any data leak of email addresses, bulk upload them as contacts and then correlate email addresses to social profiles.

This is one of those functionality aspects all these social/networking sites fall foul of one way or another, be email or phone number relational suggestions. That and the aspect of this scraping of phone numbers or emails - even with the users permission, kinda moots the owner of those email and phone details. But does seem that once you give anybody your email or phone number, it kinda one way or another falls into the public domain level of privacy. Heck how many contact details via email or phone numbers do these sites hold on people who never even held an account with them.

Be nice if the law and data privacy had some global standards as this region/country by country aspect does nobody any good and in a World in which taxation works with the same model, do we really want to let data protection end up with data havens in much the same way as tax does.
a great combination is a short summary with a QR code for more info if you want it. It doesn't have to be rocket surgery.
slightly related...there was a write up on DARPA on HN couple months ago that I thought was fantastic. essentially a guide on how DARPA works and how one might be able to improve/replicate it on the civilian side. i read somewhere that DARPA provided Moderna with funding to research mRNA in 2005, so pretty impressive.
They aren't lying, your brain just works differently. It even has a name: https://www.webmd.com/brain/what-is-aphantasia

Not sure why they talk about it being "wrong" since obviously you are functioning enough to be commenting on a site on the internet rather coherently....
So why not showcase the data that supports the point rather than pick an outlier and have people question if the recipe really works?

The successful people I know mostly got there by luck. Sure hard work and intelligence played a role, but I know people who were smarter and worked harder and didn't get half as far.
note that jquery is already cached in browsers and infinitely more performant than some random low IQ web developers js bundle of the day
you dont need to do much, i would say my time budget on self hosted replicated and backed up MySQL database administration is under 20 hours per year. yes the first couple years took more time (learning, building out a backup strategy) but id have the same amount of learning with a hosted solution so i don't consider that part of time spent.
$7 per CCF is not bad actually.

SFPUC will be $10.71 per CCF (plus base charges).

The trick for free/cheap water comes as follows:

Most western states never recognized riparian rights to water EXCEPT California (and maybe Oklahoma)! Needless to say this is going to be lawsuit land forever given how messy an approach that is. But under CA rules, if you have property touching a river, you can take that rivers water for various uses (not storing though).

One "trick" though - ponds - if you can get some ponds onto the property that can help you use the riparian rights.

https://www.landandfarm.com/property/Triple_Creek_Ranch-1372...

Other approach's - do a well close to a water source - you can pump that water and store it, then use the water from the river itself directly for ongoing uses etc.

The water deals in CA have historically favored the well connected.

"The San Fernando land syndicate were a group of wealthy investors who bought up large tracts of land in the San Fernando Valley with secret inside information from Eaton. The syndicate included friends of Eaton, such as Harrison Gray Otis and Henry E. Huntington."

Anyways, it's a fascinating world - I'd say the best way to get cheap water is to be rich and well connected.

Nestle does 58M gallons of water off these old rights - which it sells for $1+ per gallon! Enforcement of the rules has been years and years of talk.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/27/california-n...

Talk about cheap water :) Again, if they just had a tax of $0.01 per gallon - you'd solve a lot of wastage issues for uses that make absolutely no sense unless water is basically free.
John McAfee – The Prophet of Paranoia
I'm a huge Ted Nelson fan, but what we have is very different from what he's envisioned over the years.

(Even Xanadu is very arguably not a single concept - it's evolved significantly over time, and although Ted doesn't miss much, the power and development pace of personal/portable computers and smartphones seems to have surprised even him - we don't see many roadside Xanadu stands with the big flaming X...)
There have been a lot of character assassination's on prominent white men in the conference space by far left extremists. I wonder how much of his anxiety can be attributed to seeing colleagues go through that?
Please, replace me faster :)
Yes https://www.walmart.com/browse/home/caskets/4044_4431611_105...
I've snipped the specifics you gave because I wanted to assert an even broader statement, including but not limited to what you referred to.

My conclusion was probably not clear. I claim that if F-Droid allowed devs to submit their own APKs, it would open the gates to crapware authors providing a link to an apparently innocent github repo and then submitting APKs full of spyware, ads, crypto miners... I.e. the kind of crap you find in the Play Store.
This tool only replaces a small part of a good programmer and just further highlights the differences between people blindly writing code and people building actual systems.

The challenge in software development is understanding the real world processes and constraints and turning them into a design for a functional & resilient system that doesn't collapse as people add every little idea that pops into their head.

If the hard part was "typing in code" then programmers would have been replaced long ago. But most people can't even verbally explain what they do as a series of steps & decision points such that a coherent and robust process can be documented. Once you have that it's easy to turn into code.
Few days back, Sam Altman tweeted this

"Prediction: AI will cause the price of work that can happen in front of a computer to decrease much faster than the price of work that happens in the physical world. This is the opposite of what most people (including me) expected, and will have strange effects"

And I was like yeah I gotta start preparing for next decade.
Working hard on this. Do let us know if you have feedback or suggestions.
Insulin is primarily used to treat Type 1 diabetes, which is related to diet and lifestyle in a far more opaque and unknown way than Type 2 diabetes.

You cannot improve your lifestyle to prevent Type 1. However, it is epidemic across the entire western/developed world -- incidence doubles every ~6-7 years.
So it's no surprise why devs choose React over anything less plush. They test on desktop, test on their plugged in cellphones, and call it good.
Unexpectedly personal, but I'm happy he's sharing this with us. We're all human, eh?
> Most “wooden” US homes do not have wood siding. Vinyl is extremely common, and most homes that predate vinyl have had vinyl installed because it eliminates the maintenance associated with painted wood. Mine is decorative masonry. (And I wish I had vinyl)

I thought all new homes in the past decade or so came with cement fiber siding like Hardibacker, Durock, or Wonderboard. I have not seen new construction with vinyl siding in a long time (west of Rockies).
Consistency is a key

That's what games taught me, weird.
I, too, only trust people in labcoats.
Most people on HN will probably be fine for a while. This innovation though, once properly developed, could completely screw over anyone wanting to enter programming.

Code completion might be the new "junior dev."
I should have been more specific, I was referring to CM-Lisp as shown in the paper not *Lisp with the !! syntax.
VS Code is finally available in the cloud
Anyone knows what languages are supported besides those mentioned?
Someone needs to write a compelling article on "Why to work hard". Just because you should isn't a good enough.
Great, you got 2 assertions for free, which lowers some friction of writing tests. You should still be thinking and be "the pilot". When you start writing additional test cases, it will help you out with those too
It feels like I'm getting mixed messages about trusting the science. Some science is apparently double-plus-good, and some science is double-plus-ungood. I'm not sure I understand in advance which science is permissible by the Inner Party.

To clarify, it seems like you're arguing a strawman (or strawwomyn) argument with your (IMO very bad) points.

To pick a less contentious example, I think science can clearly recognize that the average man is a little bit taller than the average woman. Would you agree that this is correct? In and of itself, would making this observation be bigoted?

It doesn't seem to me that doing the science and objectively recognizing that this height difference currently exists in nature is bigoted against any group. To me, it would take something akin to a law that treats people with different heights differently in society to turn a scientific observation into some kind of oppression or harm.
Making mistakes is not the problem - everyone makes mistakes. But you need testing to catch your mistakes - this is a process failure.
Your reply is the real cringe here. "I got shit to do" is no excuse to toss aside quality and craftsmanship. And you misread their argument they didn't say write everything from scratch, they said write a simple leaner version, but the argument is most people lack even basic problem solving skills. If you spend all your day glueing things together, you forget how to design and build them yourself. Sure you can stack the blocks in order, and make a really tall tower, but how soon until it falls over, or how will it withstand the first gust of air. That's the larger point. And this isn't "gatekeepy" this is reality. As software continues to eat the world, and most of us are forced increasingly to rely on these shitty apps and interfaces, it could do a little good to the world if Software engineering as a discipline took on a little more professionalism. So less of the "I got shit to do" and "move fast and break things" mentality, and more of the "lets do this right" mentality. Good engineers can write a little utility that solves a problem wonderfully for their context or scope, and still get their shit done and meet their goals.
For me it's an automatic yes as long as the restaurant has wifi that is easy to access. Mostly because I get to avoid germs from all the previous hands who held the menu. Most people's hands are far more germy than a toilet seat if they haven't been recently washed.
> The best asset I have is being able to learn new stuff well quickly. Getting a wife range of experience is extremely useful and allows you to get to the point where you inuit how stuff works easily.

A great deal of pain can occur by standing up a lot of things you've never worked with, very quickly, and then moving on to the next thing. Not knowing the best practices and the pain of time with those tools and services may lead to some major technical debt down the line that future teams have to suffer with.
I have network traffic dumps from the Cliqz browser to their backend servers. They contain the full clickstream.
Thanks for all the thoughtful advice.
The expense is an upfront cost. Using basalt rebar we could be building 100 or 150 year bridges instead of 50 year bridges. We know basalt concrete structures wont fail from the reinforcement rusting away. We just haven't been using basalt rebar long enough to know the long term failure modes.
The Royal Bank of Canada ("RBC") perpetrated a FYP last summer.

Users were suddenly denied access to online banking, unless they agreed to switch all statement reporting from paper to electronic. This was a condition prior to being allowed to continue with the login; the option was given to refuse, but it was made clear that this choice meant losing access to online banking.

But, don't worry, the UI flow assured the user: once you log in you can set your statement reporting preferences.

Of course, it didn't show you what the current preferences are or save them anywhere!

I had just one or two things for which I had been getting paper statements, all else being electronic. I could not remember exactly which and since they didn't remember for me, I did the simplest thing and switched every single item to snail-mail paper statements.

Getting the user to resent you (even more) isn't how you bring about cooperation.
I'm somewhat surprised that React won out versus Angular or something similar. Because React isn't opinionated about the supporting things around it, there seems to be wide variations in a React stack and approach from team to team.

More so than I would typically see in any other ecosystem. But nobody seems to care. Is is that it makes for a sort of meritocracy where people that keep up with the fast changing landscape get the best opportunities? Basically, I can't figure out why JS developers aren't overwhelmed and frustrated with all the choices.
I admire people like that. Maybe one day I can achieve some similar level of zen, I sure hope so.