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to be clear, I didn't mean to criticize anyone by comparing things to astrology (... except kinda some forms of literary criticism, but I shouldn't have done that, both because it was rude, and also because it was not a good comparison).

I was just giving cases of where something could make sense to really criticize without understanding it,

trying to get closer to a characterization of the situations in which that would make sense.

I certainly didn't mean to suggest that your current notions are "bonkers". I apologize if it came off that way. And, I mean that sincerely, not just in a "sorry if you were offended" way, but like, in a "if that was the way it came across (and it seems it was), then I am at fault, and I am sorry." way.

Even if you didn't take it that way, the way I wrote my comment was probably a bit harsh, and it shouldn't have been.

Certainly I don't have a good enough understanding of cosmology to defend any models of it on at the object level, and it seems to me that there are some that do, who have reasons they prefer non dark-matter (or, ... sorta-non-dark-matter?) explanations?

And I guess, some people from the people-who-understand-cosmology-well community will give simplified accounts for people without the math background for why they suspect their view (either for dark matter or not) will turn out to be the one that is right, and it makes sense that some people in the audience would be convinced one way or the other by some of these explanations.

So, now I realize something I am confused about:

If two experts (who, say, are both generally respected in a field, and who respect one-another) give for-popular-audience simplifications of their reasons for believing their opposing positions regarding a particular question in the field,

and if one of their positions is the more common, almost "standard", view in the field (but where the question isn't considered really settled, and basically everyone in the field agrees that neither is strictly ruled out)

but one finds the for-outsiders explanation of the less common position to be convincing, and the for-outsiders explanation of the more common position to be unconvincing,

what should one believe?

How should one weigh how convincing one finds the simplified versions of the arguments, against the fact that a substantial majority of the field finds the other view more likely?

I am genuinely unsure!

Maybe it depends on, the reason for the differences in how convincing one finds the simplified arguments?
It’s unreal.

Fortnite seems to have the virtual event model working pretty well. Movies and concerts with friends and random annoying people jumping around.. but it does work,
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Relative to what the government/banks are doing, the cryptosphere is doing so much better.
Ooh, can you tie in the final abandonment of the gold standard, the introduction of the IRA/401(k), and the relationship between insane over-leveraged derivatives markets and American consumer financial health?

Afaik, the successful tying of the consumer investment (and especially retirement) account to the performance of the financial market (rather than to the parts of the market that manifest themselves in more physical ways) has created a situation where any large-scale decision that might improve the material lives of Americans but would harm the 'market' (via lowering the value of the USD or certain fund share prices) has become untenable.

Millions of voters can be controlled by trotting out "never hurt the market because then what will happen to your investments?" whenever something interesting comes along. I'm certain that the enormous subsidization of the housing market and the associated treatment of housing as a primary investment vehicle for those same voters is related.
> looks much more like cruising discussions elbowing in Brexit

Except it was a response to a post that already mentioned Brexit; and "elbowing in brexit" to imply brexit has been elbowed in (i.e. is erroneously mentioned) is a bit different.
Wouldn't one side sag lower than the other?
You can highlight any difference to justify it; but what difference does "home" make except it it precious to you vs the commons which are not?
Congratulations, you've just sent all of your legitimate DNS traffic to a tracker (the thing pi-hole is usually deployed to avoid).

Remember that when a service is free, you are usually paying with your data.
On a related note, Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg (from Stanford persuasive technologies lab) was one of the best books I’ve read on habit formation and have been able to start habits that I now do on auto-pilot during the day.
You probably don't have to (unless you live in the US), as xylometazoline HCl works exceptionality well and is readily available OTC sans script: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylometazoline

P.S.: If you live in the US, then it's readily available from Canada.
Don't forget to put on your Meta Smartwatch with front-facing camera

edit: for reference https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-28/leaked-ph...
If you seriously think the government could have made us all lose weight in the last 18 months... they’ve been running anti obesity campaigns for decades and failing while obesity grows every year.

BTW covid is plenty dangerous to non obese as well.

The vaccine shot actually works well and is incredibly easy to use compared to a grueling year long weight loss and sustaining it for a lifetime, for most people.
I actually laughed out loud at the end of the article.

"This long held theory that is certainly vague and fuzzy but is as concrete as we currently know how to make it could be wrong! What if, instead, bargle fluzzle emergent momble self-organization bazamble magrile?"

What if, indeed.
If financial innovation means more nickle and diming people for every single transaction, I want to say NO THANK YOU.
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Which is what Facebook and their products, regardless of name change, are to a lot of people. So it’s very fitting.
The authors of the Rutgers study, Nikorov and Balashov, mention algos thusly in a CNN article from 2019:

'(They) assumed retail investors would be making most of the mistakes. But Nikorov told CNN Business that the rise of algorithmic trading is probably the reason big mutual funds and hedge funds get fooled.

“Computers scan for stocks and look for ones in play. So if there is [an] unexplained move, the algorithms don’t look for a reason. They just jump on the bandwagon,” Nikorov said.'

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/12/investing/ticker-symbol-confu...
Brilliant! That's the mindset the world needs!
I get far-right, anti-vaxxer, conspiracy, misinformation recommendations from Youtube at least a few times a week. And it's been like this for years despite me asking them not to show this type of content again.

Anyone who thinks these issues are somehow unique or exclusive to Facebook is simply being dishonest. They are a byproduct of the anonymous, unfettered free speech we get from the internet not something intrinsic to recommendation algorithms.
Don't forget the massive bureaucracy at traditional banks. I worked at a small company that was building a payments platform for a large US bank. The amount of turf-protecting between the different payment types within the bank was mind-boggling. Everything was highly compartmentalized and it could take weeks to get a config setting changed on a test server. It was an interesting experience for me watching from the outside.
>That doesn't make the system have some mysterious backdoor or do whatever sensational magic someone told you it does.

Can you proof that in the first place?
Just in case anyone misreads my point, I want to emphasize I've worked (and continue to work with) brilliant, great, Indian and Chinese programmers, both immigrants and remote.

It's just that good people aren't cheap, even remote ones. And they're hard to find.
Why is the alternative automatically a triple room with no common area, and not simply a single room with at least a window (plus a common area)?
Free-as-in-speech as well: each publication including SE additions like the blurb is put back into the public domain.
A piece of paper in a safe deposit box is, unfortunately, not risk-free. There have been some incidents where, for example, the owner of box #1343 loses his key and asks the bank to drill the box, so they drill box #1434 and give him the contents (hopefully your paper wallet does not say "MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN UNTRACEABLE EASY-TO-STEAL CRYPTO" at the top!) Also, floods have resulted in box contents being destroyed (a bigger problem in some cities than others.)
And then make fun of people who prefer long form content without distracting crap, login screens and ads in between. Fucking nerds, am i right?
It seems to be more of a stepping stone (as with any other current tech I guess) for what's to come. For now we have to deal with limited responsive/haptic feedback, headset, physical controllers to interface with, etc, but it seems that with time those aspects will blend into something that's more immersive and "invisible", if that makes any sense.

The "Playstation 9" commercial from the late 90s comes to mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPQVsdCuRk
It's in the mission statement at the top of the link:

> and potentially allow male-male couples to have biological children.
I came here to ask the same question. I'd like to ask the researchers if they were able to study that. A quick google search shows not only do wolves cock their heads but other canides like foxes and coyotes do, too.
Google already supports Web Push in Chrome. Mozilla in Firefox as well. Web Push is only blocked in Safari.
I also grew up in a evangelical Christian fundamentalist family (Pentacostal - Church of God with snake handling and speaking in tongues, the whole crazy line of shit), so I feel like I'm pretty aware of that line of hypocrisy. To say that environmental leadership in for-profit companies is ANYTHING like that is lazy cynical bullshit. I can't believe that someone that grew up in that level of shit show could possibly state that, I simply don't understand that AT ALL. Patagonia started and has been a leading member of 1% for the planet, for their website:

donate 1% of annual sales or salary

That's the minimum to be a member. I've done volunteer work with partner orgs and 1% for the planet is a large help for the environment. Tell me again how starting, leading, and donating to that kind of fund is hypocritical? They are committed being as Environmentally sound a company as possible. They make products that are aimed at outdoor and people that care about the environment, their products are huge in hiking, climbing, and fly fishing communities. Sure a large number of people buy their products because of looks or prestige but that has never been their target market. You are talking about a company that actively encourages customers to buy their products used and to reduce/recycle.

To answer your question, which I highly doubt it in good faith, a responsible way to use oil, is to extract it from the environment with the lowest possible risk, placing the planet before profits, and extracting the product in as socially responsible way as possible. Don't drill sensitive areas just because it might be cheaper. Recycle and reuse (Patagonia is one of the best clothing companies actually doing this) as much as possible. Above all else be a responsible steward of the planet and it's environment.

Some reading on Patagonia's Environmental activism:
https://www.onepercentfortheplanet.org/
https://www.patagonia.com/activism/
https://www.patagonia.com/our-footprint/
https://journal.businesstoday.org/bt-online/2018/patagonias-...
Here is a duck duck go search for a ton of more resources:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=patagonia+environmental+activism&i...

Again I want to be clear, I'm not affiliated with Patagonia in anyway, not an employee nor a customer. What I am is an environmental activist, fly fisher, and outdoor person. To me Patagonia is a model of what an environmentally responsible company should be. I care deeply about climate change and to defeat that we need companies like Patagonia.
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> There is a "sex tourism" problem in several South-East Asian countries that involves children. These pedophiles have historically been rarely if ever prosecuted in those countries for various reasons. The Australian government passed a law saying that if you are an Australian citizen and engage in this sort of activity you can be criminally charged in Australia.

That example is irrelevant to the Assange case, because that is an application of the nationality principle, which is a principle of international law which gives sovereign states criminal jurisdiction over their citizens for acts done anywhere in the world. So legally Australia can pass a law saying "X is a crime when an Australian citizen does it anywhere in the world", which is exactly what Australia has done in the example you cite; and the US has done the exact same thing (PROTECT Act of 2003). But Assange is not a US citizen, so examples of nationality principle jurisdiction are irrelevant to any US prosecution of Assange, they would only be relevant if Australia tried to prosecute him under some law based on the nationality principle.
> I think one of the most bizarre things we accept in life is college kids being forced into doubles and triples.

I went to uni. in the 70s in the UK. I never had to share. A few students at the same uni. did but it was almost always possible to move to a single room later in the year.

Do so many US students really have to share rooms, and if so why?
It's a feeling, a fear to be specific, so stems from a different part of the brain. No, I don't think fears go away completely. One learns to manage them.
Having Ethicists making these decisions is paving another road with good intentions.
The Dutch Bunq bank has described itself as a bunch of nerds with a banking license. Their plans include a large number of accounts, physical cards that can be dynamically coupled to any of them, an API, zapier integration, among many other non-traditional features.
https://www.bunq.com/benefits
To be replaced with Meta account?
Useless analysys since the author says it's not a cryptographic hash but useful as a fast hash for change detection.

"we wanted a fast, non-cryptographic hash for use in change detection and deduplication"

>A great alternative is XXH3

Meow Hash is twice as fast.
You can't install apps through "normal user" means on the Android phones I've had unless you add an account.

De facto, that means you need an account.

Yes, I know you can try to find copies of your banking apps on apkmirror and sideload, but... no. (Also, wouldn't that mean that you have to manually confirm every single app update, so a 10-minute button pushing session every week?)
PHP is still the dominant server language.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/programming_langua...

Probably for similar reasons.
I’d call that technician friendly, certainly not Do it (Yourself).

What happened to outer compartments you could pop open without having to tear apart your $1500 laptop with a pair of tweezers?
We used to call "reactionary" content sensationalism, and that type of content has always been predicated on fallacious arguments, but especially appeals to emotion.

Facebook's algorithms seems very good at dectecting and pushing content that makes users have an emotional response.

They now have developed a feature where is someone or a page posts a comment to a page or group that I am not subscribed to, Facebook will push that content on to my feed.

It is just about the most annoying thing ever. I am profoundly not interested in people who I follow on what they post on Ted Cruz's Facebook page. Why is Facebook pushing Ted Cruz on to my feed if I am not subscribed to him? I want to see my friends posts, but not their responses to Ted.

Facebook sucks ass now, and I am going to convert over to mastidon or something.
Recent and related:

Culinary detectives try to recover the formula for garum - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28998703 - Oct 2021 (16 comments)
I do have SIP disabled for DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and a handful of other things, but macOS still says /usr/bin/command is on a read-only file system.

[edit]

Not hard to remount root as writable

$ sudo mount -uw /
Password:
$ sudo mv /usr/bin/command /usr/bin/command.save
$ tcsh
% command -v command
command: Command not found.
% command -V command
command: Command not found.
%

Now reversing the changes

% exit
exit
$ sudo mv /usr/bin/command.save /usr/bin/command
$ sudo mount -ur /
mount_apfs: volume could not be mounted: Invalid argument
mount: / failed with 66

Looks like I'll have to reboot to get the read-only state back.
>Why do you trust your boot drive?

Because HIDS with my own signed hash database and hids-exec.

But i cannot scan/proof what the UEFI TPM IntelME makes.
I'm definitely outside my wheelhouse here, so maybe help me understand the current fixation on and criticism of JIT. Are you advocating for more buffers in supply chains generally? If the current scenario is one where goods purchases were simply deferred from early in the pandemic to later (with no real increase in total demand for goods) I can see that solving the issue to some extent.

But my point is that total demand for goods has actually increased and not by a little, by a lot. Buffers in the supply chain can't help with that, can they? An increase in total throughput is needed to solve that, and that's going to take a while. Is there something I'm missing here?
There's a referenced article in there on the US RIPPLE concept for large, efficient weapons that's well worth tracking down.
> A key difference here is that if you screw up your payment in Thailand, you have legal recourse to reclaim your funds.

The legal systems are pretty important pieces of technology that solve real practical problems.

> If I send money to the wrong Bitcoin address, nobody can help me with that.

Bitcoin is a bit like introducing an electric car without seats, seatbelts, or a windshield. Sure there's some innovative bits there, but the hype forgets it's missing very important features. It's even more astounding that the hype men sometimes try to spin the lack of those features into a selling point.
This praise of financial innovation absent regulation is ridiculous. These are changes on the margins after decades of borderline criminal anti-consumer behavior.

You want innovation? Regulation mandating open APIs among all the banks would be unleash an innovation tsunami. Don't believe the propaganda, regulation is essential for competition and innovation.
The heat shield is such a massive component that it's conceivable that the first design is flawed, and resolving the flaw requires a dry mass increase that cuts into the payload and makes a Mars return unachievable.
You must be really good at only reading content you already agree with.

The moment you watch a few seconds of a polarizing video, out of curiosity, they will start recommending more of the same. This is how people fall into more radicalized bubbles.
The moon doesn't visibly have bulk or mass like a ball, house, or mountain does. And I was referring to earth as the entire world. Edit: But the landscape, fields, meadows, districts, states, countries, and continents are all still flat.

Edit 2: Now that I think about it, I should have used "spherical" to describe that category rather than "round."
There are plenty of Facebook and YouTube guides about taking animal ivermectin as a replacement for human-rated medicine.

That said hopefully here on HN we can agree that is a dumb idea.
How to make technology greener? End planned obsolescence
Is your claim based on the assumption that it has to be within walking distance of campus? It's been awhile since I lived in the area, but I never had issues finding a reasonable student apartment if you were willing to bus/bike/commute in
Gosu's roadmap... copy .NET and Groovy

Kotlin's roadmap... Copy Gosu and Groovy

Java's roadmap... Make Gosu, Groovy and Kotlin redundant by supporting the idioms of Gosu and Kotlin eventually and force those languages to 'nativize' their underlying implementations.

Manifold's roadmap... Ditch Gosu on the JVM and make a java library, copy all the stuff Java doesn't' have a plan for like .Net's (and by extension Gosu's) class extensions and java 8 to 9 workarounds

We could go on and on. Nothing new under the sun. Great minds think alike and at the end of the day the value of delivering a product is what matters in the end.
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It’s not baffling at all to me.

If I built my house 20 years ago, it would be up to date as of 20 years ago. Someone who builds their house today would have a house up to date as of today.

I can update my house to be up to date now but it’s going to cost a lot of money on top of the money I already spent building the thing. I might wait another 5 years first so I have the improvements discovered in the next 5 years.

You can’t be constantly up to date. It’s too expensive. You have to up to date in cycles.
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I have to respectfully disagree that this isn't innovation. I would very strongly argue that innovation is doing something that the established players believe to be impossible.

From the article:
>>The financial industry thought, for many years, that the customers added or retained by these improvements would be disproportionately expensive to service and low-revenue. Cash App has experimentally disproven that.

The fact that there are players in the financial field doing what the incumbents wouldn't and being profitable doing it is a pretty good indicator that innovation is happening in the industry.

>>True innovation would be more control over your money.

I won't argue that a higher bar might be for you to have more control over your money. But the article very much addresses this very thing. The innovation you may be missing, is that there are many unbanked individuals in the US (>5% based on a quick search), and this article claims this demographic is finding it easier to become banked, with less predation. This is probably a much greater increase in their control over their money than the marginal increase programmable money is going to have for your control.
> Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are web apps that use service workers, manifests, and other web-platform features in combination with progressive enhancement to give users an experience on par with native apps.
If a person has bad/no credit, should they be allowed to purchase a vehicle? Or should they be forced to pay usurious rates to purchase that vehicle, even if they have the full purchase amount in cash?
Does DuckDB also use a PAX-like format like Parquet? Without going into code, the best I could find with a little googlefu is the HyPer/Data Blocks paper - is this a relevant read?
Tell HN: Framework should build a VR headset
The framework laptop (https://frame.work/) is awesome

The same concept, when applied to VR headsets, would help to prevent Facebook or other companies from taking a proprietary hold over VR tech
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