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You may or may not have a point, but your entire "argument" is the "argument from incredulity" fallacy and not any actual reasoning.

For example: arguing about "paper" strength to resist air pressure vs vacuum and throwing around numbers like "40 tons" isn't based on any actual materials science. The burst pressure strength for pretty standard office paper is 250 - 300 kPa. Atmospheric pressure at sea level is 101 kPa. So right off the bat, you've multiplied a bunch of numbers together and come up with the wrong answer: the paper I buy from the stationary store is 2-3 times strong enough to resist atmospheric pressure against a vacuum.

Now of course, at a suitably large dimensionality, we have to worry about fiber strength loading etc. but this has so many solutions it's absurd - i.e. 2 sheets of paper with fibers perpendicular for strength, a plastic backer for air permeability, and then weaving strengthening fibers into a grid - remembering that the burst strength is quite different to the resistance to piercing forces (i.e. kevlar will stop a bullet but not a knife).
Please keep this sort of generic flamewar comment off HN. It will only lead to hell.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity_priority_...

This is just not true. Einstein's earliest GR work is a collaboration with Marcel Grossman. Hilbert's work is so close and overlapping that it takes quite a bit of effort even to verify that Einstein's work was genuinely independent.
Once a day, I scan the article titles for the last 24 hours. If a title looks interesting I will open that article and/or the discussion comments in a browser tab. Then if the body is interesting in the first few paragraphs I will read the whole article.

I have sometimes looked at summaries of 'the most popular articles', but have discarded them. Many of the articles that interest me would not be included in those.
Sorry, no. There are not a lot of Einsteins working at Walmart. If UBI is all you need to produce more Einsteins then communism would have won.
This is not Nature per se but a third tier Nature series journal.
I think it depends on where you hang out. A lot of the DIY mechanical keyboard Discord communities are tremendously helpful and open to newcomers for instance.

On the flipside of that is perhaps the geekhack forums, with a ton of elitists that sometimes have little patience for people that are not up to speed.
If I know your maximum price before the auction, I can do whatever is in my power to be able to exceed that price, if I choose.

Especially in auctions with multiple known bidders, collusion opportunities can arise to allow bidders to control the price, too. Look at GSA natural resource auctions for examples.
Strong disagree with the idea that dynamic inference steps to static declarations, particularly for Ruby and especially if you're using anything that expects you to write code inside of its DSL. The inference tends to fall off and because it isn't expected of you, nobody's doing anything to help there.

Maybe Rails is special-cased enough to get away with it, but I still maintain a project in Grape and none of the autocomplete solutions I have found for Ruby help significantly at all. Meanwhile over in TypeScript, I literally can't remember the last time I used `any` or `unknown` except at a module's edge during validation of untrusted input, and autocomplete is awesome.
Always great to see a company from my city on here. This line on their page always cracks me up “creators of the world’s first sheep facial recognition model”
I'm sorry but this is a load of drivel.

> It’s quite the opposite, because they’ve been trained in a particular way. They’re being trained to memorize this textbook, respond to this exam. They can’t think outside of the box.

Blanket statement citation required? Despite the fact that Korea / Japan with similarly rigid education systems produce innovators?

> Give me 10 innovative, creative, young physics graduates over 50,000 physics graduates who all are able to pass the exam with 100% efficiency any day.

Lets define an arbitrary boundary where the definition can change to support any conclusion and then derive a desired conclusion.
Einstein is definitely genius and I get what Naval is saying here. Still you are right that Einstein got credit for everything yet his wife was excellent mathematician and did math proofs for him, made his imagination possible, he also relied on a work of other people.

I think we would come to same discovery, but it would be significantly different ie. it would might be more complex. His theories are definitely flavored by his thinking.
But.. they are objectively superior. Not everyone needs them. But they are better in many ways.
I am guessing you mean automatic braking in inattentive driver's car, because automatic braking in attentive driver's car works with mostly the same data as the driver themselves (it needs to predict collision, and to predict it, it needs to see the approaching car, estimate the speed, likelihood it will stop...).

Automated system would have advantage there only where it can better "see" things (eg. LIDAR in pitch dark conditions, or maybe positioned at the roof of a vehicle and seeing over other vehicles that a driver can't).

My point was that for attentive drivers, "safety features" are more a nuisance than help in their own car (the worst you can do is have frustrated drivers behind the wheel). If that results in drivers disabling them, we are not better off at all: technology does not get developed and never matures enough not to be a nuisance. I keep them enabled, but I can understand that not everybody wants to go through these rough edges.
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Can you elaborate? I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. What do you mean by "As long as alternatives exist, coal does nothing to the environment."?
Silly. That’s not how facts work.

We don’t need evidence to prove something isn’t a fact.

It’s only when you claim something is a fact that you need to provide evidence. It’s ok to admit it’s just your perception.
I was talking about the RFC. You can't just shove any random compression into a browser even if it had existed for years, or can you?
Mechanical != loud.
PoS has been coming "real soon now" since at least 2019.
I'll be honest in my area I'm out in a suburban part a Florida about 50 miles outside of Tampa and people who are not from the area who are caught doing drugs and homeless people and all this kind of stuff what happens is the cops they tell them I don't want to see you in this county anymore and then what they do is they bring them to a road called county line road and then they drop them off there and if they come back they get arrested... so you just don't see homeless people and all that kind of stuff out where I live because I'm being serious that's how the cops are out here
I don't think Einstein was underrated. I'm a fanboy who has been reading his biographies since elementary school.

But even so, his prominence as an icon seems to even outweigh his accomplishments. He has become one of the recognizable figures in human civilization, previously attained by only religious figures. His fame is somehow Christ-like. He's the figurehead of the religion (my religion) of science, overshadowing even Darwin, Newton and Aristotle.

I think we can blame this excess on the combination of his unique persona and his accomplishments. He was somehow striking and goofy and warm and wise, personable, a walking breathing scientist meme. If not for that charisma, he'd be just another great among many to the zeitgeist.
The author treats this kind of destructive rotation as a positive, but this is exactly why rotation modifier as part of the object tree is generally a good thing! There's no need to recompute a center because it's the same center, only a rotate operation has been applied on top of the node. Also, that's how rotation works in the web browser, which these design apps are often targeting.
Except we were on the verge of discovering it even then through multiple people. So we can be pretty sure most of it would have come to pass within a generation. Agree he had a unique way of thinking but there is a lot that is over attributed to him and exceptionalism in general. Still a great thinker of his generation, but there were many such individuals.
It was particularly amusing to see the Windows installation identify it as a Cyrix* processor.
okay, how about we put up billboards saying

>When you smash a window to rob a store, be careful not to cut yourself on the glass. Wear thick gloves.

after all, a billboard is not going to stop a burglar, is it? and if we're going to have burglaries, it's better that the burglars don't injure themselves while committing their crimes, because after all it will reduce the burden on hospitals. it will also protect the store owners from liability!

I'm not a nietzchean but I start to sympathize with how zarathustra must have felt when he saw those pathetic last men, bleating about "harm reduction" as they huddled together for warmth.
I've always thought it could be pretty cool to leverage that for transparent filesystem compression.

For context, filesystem compression usually compresses blocks of data individually (for instance, every 64K block of a file will be individually compressed, and when you modify a file in the middle, that block needs to be recompressed entirely). This is usually good enough, and it has some pretty cool properties, like being able to have only compressable parts of a file compressed, or turning on compression on a file and having only new and rewritten blocks get compressed. Because of Zstd's separated dictionary, it seems like it could be feasible to instead store the dictionary in the file's inode and compress the blocks with that dictionary (recomputing the dictionary and recompressing existing blocks when the file allocates 10 4K blocks and then again at 100 blocks, perhaps).

I wonder what different properties such a compression scheme would have. I imagine it would be able to achieve a much smaller size due to not having to store a dictionary with each compressed block. A downside would be that a corrupted or overwritten inode would render the file completely unrecoverable, where current compression schemes allow blocks to be individually decompressed. Another downside is that files can't be partially compressible, only entirely.
Realforce is expensive from the beginning because it designed for professional. Its early consumer model in 2005 costs about 20k JPY and latest model costs from 18k JPY. (Since there's little inflation so it can be compared)
Not who you're replying to (I'm a little higher in the thread) but I will take a stab at it.

The goalposts get moved a lot. Not by anyone in particular. The term "trustless" was not really in use until around the time of the ethereum launch. The goal of bitcoin was always only a digital cash system that has no central record keeper. It is currently a functioning, although inefficient, implementation of that concept.

To a broader point though, I say it often, you don't get to decide how the tools you build get used. Trying to do so is an exercise in frustration. Even if bitcoin were to never be used as intended, for it to be a success, it only needs to be used for something.

The main thing bitcoin (the network and codebase) did IMO is spur innovation into user generated currencies (and financial assets). Bitcoin itself is not that great, but some specific cryptocurrencies are wonderful. There are some emergent properties of these types of networks (they fork instead of evolve is pertinent to my point) that were not anticipated before they were live, and bitcoin can be viewed as a sort of prototype network that helped show us how to build and manage these things. For that, it is also a success, although I wouldn't dream of using bitcoin specifically to pay my bills, as it exists today. There are plenty of other currencies though that I would use to pay my bills, for various reasons.
Gmail is also one of largest sources of email scams and Google doesn't care one bit.
It’s a very common western insult to say that all Asians are the same. But then they test a supersonic weapon or organize a flotilla in an unexpected way and everybody freaks out.
Help people who are struggling. Find a group of students that need mentoring.
Try to separate this into two separate questions: why do you want the things you want? And: why can’t you realize them?

We tend to implicitly accept the values of others and desire what they desire, even when it conflicts with our unique interests and abilities, which creates a painful inner conflict that is difficult to identify and articulate.

The second question is easier to answer (set good habits, etc.)
Nice, I never even knew that existed with gmail! Probably because I never use gmail's native interface. Won't the messages always show up in gmail's draft folder though? That would eliminate a big part of the surprise ;)

I particularly like that FutureMe is a service solely dedicated to the task of sending an email in 1/3/5 years. I'm guessing infra-costs are pretty low - the site hasn't changed much in 15 years i.e. I would hope they can continue running long into the future, whereas some of these other services are at the whims (gmail excluded) of survival against a multitude of competing services and being able to continue running long into the future. A lot changes in 5 years - it feels like a lot of services from 15 years ago don't even exist anymore. Oh and a nice bonus for some people - you can allow your emails to be shown publicly (and anonymously ;)
I'm pretty sure Majestouch has metal blackplate. Not sure if they changed it with 2. Not that it really matters. It's reasonable still.

Still, I also recommend Filco, not cheapest but it has taken years of my abuse... Including liquid and poor soldering jobs for swapping switches.

Bought Minila Air as well. Which I have been quite happy to use recently. Maybe need to order second MX Brown board as wireless one...
That's less accurate advice than you might think.

There are more volunteer actors than professional. Odds are high that they're actually unpaid.
I think the author is completely unaware of how things work and this piece is basically a rant on cryptos. The long version starting with saying cryptos are a scam. This sets the tone for the rest of the article.

A personal opinion vs something rooted in facts.

NFTs can be created on two primary blockchains. Ethereum and Solana. The author manifests no knowledge of those.

Solana is already proof of Stake.
Ethereum is going to move to proof of Stake with Eth2.

PoS requires so much less computing power (therefore electricity) than Proof of Work. It's in fact relatively environmentally friendly.

NFTs have the potential to be a game changer. The author here sees NFTs as "Art". They're really not. Sure often NFTs are associated with Art but it's really... ownership of those pieces of Art.

But NFTs are really certificate of ownership. With smart contracts.

There is so much that can be done with NFTs. Memberships. Distributed voting. Royalties embedded in contracts so when NFTs are resold the original creator can get remunerated.
I think the efficiency of pure EVs is too good to ignore. I'm not disagreeing that we have to have hydrogen to hit zero emissions, but lots of factors related to personal vehicles where pure EV makes sense. I don't think they will be the only types, possible over time as green hydrogen economics improve we might see more of a mix for sale.

But given how long it will take to build out to 3x renewable generation capacity and then auto makers to change, etc etc I don't think that will be for another 10+ years, but hope I'm wrong.
That would mean that these shapes get a common parent once rotated. And if you change the selection to include some but not all, and maybe some other shapes, and rotate, you'd create a many to many relationship?

Maybe the appropriate choice here is grouping, like we see app use folders for these. That way you get what you're talking about and it's obvious to the user / it's based on their choice.
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Hey guys, I have a degree and pretty strong technical fundamentals and can solve leetcode problems. I don't have much experience with web tech.
I'm just looking for a comprehensive answer to the question in the title.
There is 3D in the graphic chip, but no drivers. There was a short period they even tried competing in consumer gaming market https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6ZUyRWvHb8
This reeks of western propaganda.

China bad, United States good.
Artist mode is reasonable in combination with ditaa which converts ascii art box diagrams into images.
I think an honest evaluation would reveal that the interrupted program and the forgotten ideas stood even chances of being of negative value anyway. Getting the programmer away from the keyboard is an organizational defense mechanism.
The net result is correct but the analysis fails to be pessimistic enough. China vs west argument aside, The median scientist is worth negative, i.e. their idiocy, incompetence, lack of creativity or inability to hold true to the scientific ethic in the face of advancement politics sets the scientific endeavor backwards.

There is a way in which dumping funds into science risks tapping into a super linear negative effect (partially because the aggregate power of idiots in science scales that way and partially because the futility of trying to do good when it doesn't pay off causes good scientists to burn out, flip tables, switch to programming, go into wall street, etc.) that is worth net negative more than "finding geniuses that would have gone undiscovered without the funding", which is what you are hoping for by goosing the science money pool.
Could I get a source if you have one please? I would like to read it. I can also Google if you don’t have a direct source your referring to on hand.
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I cut my programming teeth on HyperCard long ago. I made WildCard over a period of about a month of free time. I'm not asking for any money; I just wanted to remember how much fun HyperCard was. The screens are bigger and better, but the stacks are still the same size!

The project shows off a number of wonderfully intuitive things about HyperCard, from the simple stack-of-cards architecture, to the readable english-ish script visibly defined in BNF.

Now featuring free accounts that let you share your stacks with the public...For example:
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Interesting about the box white. I haven't heard many people praise them. They sound fun but then people move on.

I thought I liked them when I first got them but after two years of daily use, I gotta say they're not for me. I'm clearly slower and making more typos than e.g. with MX browns. Next keyb is probably going to be low profile reds.
your nick hints you fancy waiting. I like that.

But humans are herd animals after all and long to keep in touch with the herd. All the time. Like the borg. Even more so, if addiction is exploitable. You hear me, facebok.

Indeed 1x day may be much healthier, but prbly too adult to catch.
The problem isn't who we praise, it's who we don't praise.

Maybe we live in a different world today but my sense is scientific innovation happens in a very different way from the genius model.

Sometime long ago I came across an article arguing that we've replaced the concept of a saint with a genius, as the worldview shifted from religion to science. It was very compelling.

Increasingly I feel like there's only collective recognition. If you're too far ahead of the curve or behind it's all the same. Being at the curve just means you're recognizing everything at the same time as everyone else.
Be aware that people tend to present the successes and high points in their skills.

Even Feynman (according to Gell-man and others) did this. As an example (iirc) he fluked a combination lock and pretended it was some magic skill.
The first part of the quote reminds me a bit of the ted talk on leadership and starting a movement. More to the point: leaders are over glorified. Follow what you like. That's more important. I hope that the OP can see that. Find something that you like to do and follow it. It could be knitting, could woodworking, could be gardening . . .

It has done its rounds, but still enjoy watching this: https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_moveme...
There are many great researches, but "who discover stuff that otherwise wouldn't have been discovered for generations"... Aristotle (as a long-standing basis for pre-sciences) and a plethora of ancient scientists (Archimedes... Democritus...), Newton (who, of course, stood on the shoulders of Galilei, among others, but still saw far)...

By the way, special relativity could - speculatively - be discovered relatively soon by somebody else, at least such an opinion is rather well known and some support. General relativity was a focus of work of David Hilbert - it maybe less clear, but it could also be discovered within decades. Photoelectric effect and quantum phenomena (ER bridge...) maybe less well known, but at least solutions of GR equations started to appear rather early. So even Einstein maybe not that unique.
Would love to see this work with Unity projects.

Right now git lfs takes up so much space when storing files locally.
Like social security where old investors are paid out from the income of new investors? And your "investments" are just IOUs from the general revenue fund of the same company?
> companies will check sequences submitted to them against databases of 'dangerous' or regulated sequences.

Weird, that's kind of how computer antivirus software works.
In Massachusetts this is also used on humans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Rotenberg_Educational_Ce...
There's a growing popularity (community?) for art NFT's on alternative blockchains like Tezos with Hicetnunc mainly due to Ethereum's barrier of entry and restrictively high gas fees.
> Weinstein is either going senile or running a very advanced grifting operation to increase his clout on social media.

I think he exists in a superposition of both.
I'll break this into two components:

1. Is there a button for the thing I'm trying to do?

2. Does the button in (1) do what I expect it to do?

(2) drives me crazy. And I'm sure it's both a blessing and a curse as cars continue to pack tech under their hoods/into their dashes.

The climate system "Auto" function is my favorite nuisance. It used to be that you had temperate and fan speed and they operated rather intuitively. Now "Auto" does something. I'm not quite sure what. Is it reading my body temperature? Interior temperature? Exterior temperature? How does it determine fan speed? Passengers?

Even in a car with tech, I revert to barbaric adjustments: open windows when it's nice out (NYC metro area), seat heaters when it's cold (Northeast standards), and the Max A/C when the humidity is unbearable.

You know what's awesome? All of those things have, in my cars at least, buttons! I know what they do!

/End Rant
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Can you write code? Can you manage stakeholders? Run complex projects with a moderate level of tech understanding? Can you understand a technical system and write documentation?

(Approximately) Nobody in tech cares about certificates and that goes 5x for non-technology certificates. What are skilled in doing matters way more than what paper with a stamped gold seal has your name on it.