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That's statement is true of any abstract axiomatic system, and mathematics (or, rather, any mathematics) is an abstract axiomatic system, therefore it is true of any mathematics [0]. There are mathematics that are useful in empirically testable contexts, but not mathematics which are objectively true beyond that.

OTOH, other than as deep philosophical background I don't see s lot of value to this in informing K-12 mathematics curriculum, which is firmly in the domain where that statement, while true, has at best very little discernable practical impact, and at worst can contribute to unnecesssry confusion.

[0] It’s also, for the same reason, true of any deontological system of morality, which I suspect is a hidden reason people are opposed to it being recognized in any context.
That's not a problem with a tipless system, that's a management decision to lower wages. If management simply paid employees what they were netting before, or better, there would be no pay cut and no departures.
I'm skeptical of Wilson's reporting. One of his quoted studies looked interesting (slide 20, Fucci 2016, "An External Replication on the Effects of Test-driven Development Using a Multi-site Blind Analysis Approach"), so I looked it up.

Wilson describes that study as involving 39 professionals on real projects.

But when I looked at the actual study [1], it involved 21 graduate students working on two toy problems, the Bowling Game kata and "Mars Rover API." This is a disappointing misrepresentation of the study.

A charitable interpretation is that he was referring to a different study, and accidentally put the wrong reference on that slide. Or maybe the actual talk explains the difference. I'm not sure—I didn't look deeper.

[1] http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~csstmms/FucciEtAl_ESEM2016.pdf
in which country?
I actually think the singularity is an interesting concept deserving of exploration. But "singularians" like Nick Bostrom (author of parent link) have some strange ideas.

A. The idea that intelligence beyond human beings would grant it's possessor power that are in ways absolute in very specific, rigid fashion. Human being can accomplish a lot of things. It's notable those things human beings do better than computers seem very tenuous. Humans seem to drive rather haphazardly yet humans drive much better than computers and driving overall seems a "bucket chemistry" sort of activity. Humans calculate much worse than computers and calculation is an exact, defined activity (arguable, the exact, defined activity). But for the singularians, transhuman devices will do the uncertain, tenuous activities that humans do but with "no mistakes". And for a lot human activities, "no mistakes" actually might not even mean anything. Despite humans driving better than computers, humans probably wouldn't even agree on what absolute good driving even means.

B. Simulation as exact map. Any human created simulation of some system is going to be an approximation of that system for the purpose of extracting particular phenomena. Some things are discarded, other focused on and simplified. A model of the solar has to consider conservation of energy or tiny deviations will produce instability over time since errors overall on unavoidable in current hardware. Even a simulation of a computer chip isn't useful unless one knows the chip's purpose is logical operations. But for Bostrom and partisans of

C. Incoherent ontology. If we could produce an exact model of a thing, which is the real subject and which is simulation? What if we could produce twenty "exact simulations", which is real? In a realm of unlimited hypotheticals and unlimited exact simulations, wouldn't a least a countable infinite simulations of "everything" exist. Which is real is quite a conundrum but this problem itself only exists in a world of multiplied objects which we actually have no reason to suppose exists.
>What about refusing to delete files that some process has open in a dangling descriptor?

This is how it is on Windows. Linux handles open file deletion a lot better.
Why Are Gates and The Pentagon Releasing GMO Mosquitoes in the Florida Keys?
Along similar lines there's been a significant increase in auto fatalities despite the fact that miles driven went significantly down. Most of this can be attributed to people driving more aggressively and recklessly. Then there's the 30% rise in violent crime.

The truth of the matter is that America has become a much angrier society since the pandemic started.
Ahh yeah, that's mostly true, but it's still possible to add a room to a house, or change the yard to suit your needs, so I still think owning a house is less limiting.

Though what you're calling a "limit" is really lack of stability -- you're free to pick up and move at any time when you live in an apartment, but your landlord is also (usually) free to ask you to leave at any time, so you can't count on having a long term stable place to live.

I was forced into leaving my last 2 apartments, one was was the owner wanted to stop renting and move back in to her place. The other was when the owner raised the rent by nearly 50% at the end of the lease term.

Now that I'm a homeowner, it's much less likely that I can be forced out of my home.
Errrrr you do know you don't count people who haven't had the virus in survival rates, right? If they haven't had it, they haven't survived it.
TL; DR;

The article start with a very pertinent question about how to offer some exit mechanism for FOSS project similar to what a for profit startup can count on.

It then try to convince you that blockchain is the way to solve this question.

Therefore it end up being yet another article focused on defining a problem for the blockchain to solve.
> It's just that the actual manufacturing does not exist (or rather is done by compiler)

In good conditions, yes, the drudgery is all done by the compiler. There's still a terrifying number of cases where something hasn't been automated and still qualifies as factory work.
Yes, I agree with all this.

Generally speaking molecular nanotechnology will solve all the "intractable" problems we as a society face today: climate change, poverty, biological death from old age / disease / cancer, and more.

We could also create tools of destruction so vast, it can be hard to contemplate.
The assertion “Is Pure Mathematics” is wrong and misleading …
HN frowns on political commentary so I'll attempt to be brief

The vast majority of the most recent wars have not been UNSC authorized. UN involvement is not necessary for a war to occur nor do they prevent wars or proxy wars between countries on the UNSC. The "modern international system" is an ideal. The US was attacked.

>ancient, rusting artillery shells (from the 1980s)

20-30 years old isnt ancient, they were serviceable, and they had chemical weapons in the quantity for the potential of wmds. That is only what they found, and I imagine there were more not found.

>Nobody would ever have accepted to go to war

There was reasonable evidence they had more that the allied force didn't find. The international community is more to blame for the conditions after involvement than the instigators 10+ years on. A neighbor is beating up another neighbor and both are blaming it on someone else.
You are very lucky that you weren't part of the November 2020 launch day chaos. Lots of software used by the developer ecosystem completely didn't work at all.

Now some of the most of the essentials should work completely out of the box.

But it depends, what sort of work do you wish to use it for? Backend, Frontend, Mobile, Web? It all depends, but more generally at the time of launch last year, you would be very disappointed.
20 minutes a day — unlikely. 2 hours a day for 10 years — you bet.
Pegasus: French President Macron identified as spyware target
So, he’s not just an actor on TV. He’s also a fairly smart guy in real life. And a science fiction author.

I submit that we should generally listen to people who have demonstrated intelligence, wisdom, and creative thought and who have applied those to thinking and communicating about the future of humanity on this planet.

I think William Shatner actually qualifies pretty well on all those criteria.
As they say: pay peanuts, get monkeys.
Until they release some sort of irrefutable proof, why give them the benefit of the doubt? Their track record warrants assuming dishonesty.
Sorry, this is just wrong. Bell‘s inequality and the very related Bell-Kochen-Specker theorem [1] state that local hidden variables (one ball is blue, one is red, but we just don’t know it) are not consistent with QM.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochen–Specker_theorem
> Could one see a table-sized satellite 200 miles away?

We could see many of them with just eyesight when they first went up. Proper instruments are definitely going to pick that up.
First, I think you contradicted yourself. The line you quote says that posthuman civilizations are unlikely to create simulations, but you say this is false because a universe simulation requires more power than available in the universe

No, they are saying the opposite. The argument that simulating the universe requires more atoms than the universe says that a later civilization would not simulate the entire universe. IE, #2 of the refutations really true.
After using it with Datomic Cloud, do you prefer it also for local projects? Is there something that happened with Datomic Cloud configuration that made it “click” for you elsewhere? Did you just have to use it there and that experience informed your preferences?

Data > functions > macros is a core concept of Clojure. Does that come into play here?

These are prompts from a curious outsider’s perspective.
The fact you're tipping 10% for bad service shows the guilt trip is working
My mortgage is $3,000/month. My rent at the place I moved out of would have been $2,500/month.

That's very little difference, ultimately, when it comes to the equity part of the equation.

I've had some upfront costs in the first three months, but none were surprises (appliances, knew that the AC was past its usable life.
There are some who consider any use of electricity for Bitcoin mining to be wasteful. If you extrapolate, the problem is either, 1) They believe that they should be able to decide what electricity can be used for, or at least through the democratic process, or 2) The belief that all electricity usage is ultimately a waste - that humanity is somehow destroying the earth with every electron generated and consumed - and as humanity we must reduce electricity consumption to 0.

On point (1), New York recently tried to ban Bitcoin mining, and it failed with a combination of lobbying by the industry and the electrical unions. Support for it with politicians collapsed. This is literally the democratic process, so if it didn’t go your way, you should support it. If alternatively you want a dictator (yourself or others) to ban it because of your perceived notion of what is a “good” use of electricity, I don’t know what to tell you. Move to China?

On point (2), this is a Malthusian argument. As a society we should be happy when more energy is generated, as that shows development. The total consumption of electricity is a reflection of how developed we are. Environmentalists should promote the generation of cleaner electricity rather than the outright ban of usage.

The bottom line is, electricity should be generated and offered to the market. Your subjective opinion of what is a “good” use of electricity is meaningless, as I find video games, jacuzzis, air conditioning, and all manner of other uses of electricity a waste. So you saying Bitcoin mining is a waste is just a simple opinion.
We have to take in consideration that we are weighting space exploration against the comfort of a minority of hobiists. Do you want a thousand people to take pretty pics of the sky, or millions to have rural internet ? I agree we should make sure we don't destroy the night sky view for the naked eyes, but I'm ok with having to see a satellite through my telescope when I look at venus. Not a big deal, and not important to humanity.
FYI, the word you want here is "who".

https://ielts.com.au/articles/grammar-101-who-vs-whom/
I like to recommend the Big Ball Of Mud paper.

By and large most software projects still seem to fall into the pits described in this paper.
Disallowing FTP subresources from HTTPS is totally reasonable.
What kind of JS and HTML templates is the front end? It's not clear from a quick skim of the github mobile website.
If that’s a fundamental axiom of cyber security then it’s obvious that it’s a field of fools. This is a poor, tech-driven understanding of security that will leave massive gaps in its application to technology.
Obesity in the US – dysbiosis from exposure to low-dose antibiotics? (2013)
My cousin got pretty messed up by them and lost a great apprenticeship job. I'm not entirely blaming Joe Rogan, but he definitely did not help.
I live in the Netherlands, which I think is the second worst place on the planet as it comes to light pollution.

I've never seen a truly dark sky full of stars until the age of 35. Not just never seeing one, not even being aware that it exists at all.

The eye-opening experience was in the Serengeti, Tanzania. Cruising the plains in a jeep some hours after sunset, to look for nocturnal animals.

Until the driver made a stop. We were told to get out, as he prepared hot chocolate, it was really freezing. Once we all had our drink, he then proceeded to turn off the engine and the jeep's lights (it had massive search lights)

Our group of 5 just stood there in complete awe, for minutes. A full 360 view with not a single light or object blocking a direct view at the darkest of skies, illuminated by millions and millions of stars. Endless.

Never before in my life have I experienced being part of the universe, I have only known it. Seeing it this directly, uncompromising, unpolluted was an absolute thrill. Further enriched with the howls of hyenas and nightly grunts of distant male lions.

The directness of the experience, feeling so close to it all, makes everything fall into place. How ancient people used it for navigation, or to count time. It is satisfactory at a very primal level.

A few years later in Colombia, we experienced it again. This time it was so clear that we could see the milky way with the naked eye.

Surely lots of people do live in rural areas, and cannot imagine this revelation. But for those living in extreme light pollution, it's like taking off a veil after decades, if ever.

Do I believe light pollution will be reduced so that we all can return to an "original" sky? No, quite the opposite. We'll have even more light pollution.
> getting a telescope the size of the Keck telescopes into space probably won't be feasible for a long time

SpaceX is said to be discussing making a telescope out of a dedicated Starship. To simplify the telescope, and periodically return for maintenance. Like the telescopes of NASA's Scientific Balloon Program.

Except... Starship User Guide gives a payload envelope of 8 m diameter, and "100+" metric tons to LEO. Launch cost is TBD, but $30M would be failure (similar to Falcon 9 internal cost), and $2M is said to be an aspirational goal. Which is what a balloon flight costs, for a day or so, a few tons, and couple of meters of mirror.

So 8 m to Keck's 10 m. Half the area. But with balloon speed-tape (aerospace gaffers tape) pragmatics, not Webb insanity. Although... how about a "simple" pivot-out-to-hex of 20+ m diameter?

Starship changes the constraint envelope by multiple orders of magnitude. And that's starting to be reflected in strawman project sketches. Which seem low visibility for now. But unless something goes seriously wrong, very won't be in not a long time. (Edit: removed a misleading sentence).
So the answer is that NTFS needs a Raid controller with cache RAM? That seems to fix a lot of stuff.
Hmn. Is that at least what we experience if we try it as an experiment (even if the underlying physics is quite different than what it seems)?
Most of the sex workers I've known personally started as strippers and for those who came away from it traumatized, the issues were mostly from either rape or drug addition.

Never being thanked never came up, but I suspect most people dealing with the public could relate to how shitty people can be. I wish we made a bigger deal about the mental health of folks working regular service/hospitality jobs and that companies made a better effort to protect their employees from rude customers and abuse.

Webcam stuff at least seems somewhat ideal in terms of safety and in reducing exposure to drugs. It also gives people the ability to instantly drop anyone making them uncomfortable or being obnoxious. I can't imagine most people going that route will have any lasting harm, especially as we move toward a society that wont judge and condemn men and women who do that kind of work. Right now, there are still risks to people when their employers or others in their lives find out they do sex work, but eventually I'd like to think that'll be a thing of the past.
Upgrade Helm If You Don’t Want to Share Your Username and Password
> in the same way that HTTP is a thing you intentionally use to consumer web pages.

Nope. I just clicky the link.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27899133
On a server I'd usually want it to limp along too... Better fire an alert but keep happy customers than cause a massive outage just because of someone's overly strict checkfail...

It depends really what your server does, and what the consequences of it doing the wrong thing are.
oops, "International" chess day.
Afaik, Starlink hasn't shown itself to be profitable yet, so there may not be any need
Earthship
If they were the only ones who they were hurting as a result of their stupidity, then I would not be opposed to letting them successfully Darwinize themselves.

But their refusal to get the vaccine increases the places where the virus can replicate and evolve. Which endangers everyone on the planet.

Your right to free speech ends where it impacts my right to not be forced to listen to your drivel. Your right to remain unvaccinated ends where it impacts my right to not be infected by your disease.
One of the major impediments to widespread use of psychedelics is actually difficulty in finding or envisioning profit models. For this reason, I'm not really looking forward to psychedlic startups. In this sense decriminalisation may be a good resting point for this whole debate.
Doesn't blindly ceding to the industry leaders ultimately result in stagnation?

The VG and BO launches were both underwhelming for me - but it's still exciting to see the different engineering approaches, it's like hedging a bet, and I am sure each of them will pay dividends - one way or another.
Oh hey, another BBOM fan :-)
There is a slight distinction here though. I would tend to only describe the situation as a "shortage" if there is insufficient supply to meet demand at the actual price sellers are offering. If restaurants double their prices and thus a lot of people are no longer willing to pay (and are upset), that's not what I would consider a "shortage" (although it might certainly be described as such in headlines or in conversation). In my view that's no more a shortage than the ongoing lack of supply for private jets at the price of $10,000. I'd pay $10,000 for a private jet!

But there can also be a fuzzy area here. There may be situations where most sellers have not raised their prices to respond to decreased supply (for a variety of reasons), and therefore other mechanisms (like who gets in line the earliest) determine who gets to buy. At the same time there may be a small number of sellers who do raise prices (think of the toilet paper hoarders who resell on Craigslist at huge markups). If you consider that higher reseller price to be the "market price" then that wouldn't wouldn't strictly be a shortage, but if you consider the unchanged price to be the market price then that would indeed be a shortage. (In fact, this is why for every natural disaster there are articles with headlines like "Price gouging is actually a good thing; it's the solution to shortages.")
Sad to see it go away, but we all mostly moved away with bookmarks hosted in the web browser and synced across devices. I mostly used it in the iGoogle interface, since that was my landing page.
Hackernoon at least was on medium as a publication for along time... They might decided to transition off when medium dropped the own domain support
> It turned Florida from a useless swamp into Miami.

...I love poking at fun at the state of Florida as much as the next guy, but come on, "a useless swamp"? You really are asking for downvotes with that one lmao

https://forest-monitor.com/en/Everglades-Is-Not-Swamp/
The issue with psychedelic is not (so much) about personal responsibility. It's very much about the wrongful classification of the drugs themselves based on how they tend to alter cognition and behavior.

I don't mean any offense, but by squeezing crack in the same bag as psychedelics, your comment exhibits the exact misunderstanding that led to the latter's prohibition.

Good people on crack are more likely to do bad things over time. Bad people on mushrooms are much less likely to be worse than their usual selves (based on studies).
EU pretexts AML to reduce velocity/price of cryptocurrencies in wake of future euro inflation?
Which is what I don't get, isn't there a profit motive in monopolizing or branding the PTSD/Depression sector of care, or is that high liability?
What has brain performance anything to do with the discussion at hand? Eyesight eyes are further apart than humans anyway.
> > “So, what’s the hardest part about designing a game? It must be coming up with the ideas, right?”

> This feels like a point of view that's so far detached from reality that you almost suspect it was made up, but judging about the amount of people I've met who have "priceless ideas" I guess it's depressingly common.

Sometimes, the idea is the hard part. Sometimes, execution is the hard part. Sometimes money is the hard part. When you are building a product or a business, there are always things that you have to do that you don't know how to do, can't afford to do, or don't have the time to do. Sometimes, there's no one in the world that can. Ultimately, the things that are hard are the things that end up being costly to solve - be it money (hiring someone), marketing (great product if only the whole universe knew), equity (cofounder), runway (I need three years). The answer is different every time, and once in a while, the idea is the hard part... not very often, though.
How about “a logical consequence of the wave nature…”? (Personally, I make no distinction between “logical” and “mathematical.”)
Even if you can learn how to cook, it doesn't mean you enjoy, or want to spend the time doing it.
I don't know where you live but it's been decriminalized in plenty of places in the West, so even if it's not fully legalized the worst you face would be a nominal fine, not getting arrested.
The guy just had a panic attack and didn't know how to deal with it. Getting kinda tired of the sensationalist articles acting like they discovered some unheard of horror that no other person has ever known.