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I'm reading these outrageous beliefs and don't find many of them that far out there. The few that are don't really matter to me, e.g. everything being 100% deterministic won't change how I live my days. I'm trying to think of something outrageous that I believe, maybe that were living in a simulation universe, but I don't 100% believe it, though can immediately accept it, and like the determinism, still doesn't change anything either way.

The one about Capability Based Security, I agree with and think it's more of a not widely known/adopted than it is disputed as being better.

Along those lines, I'll say my belief is that we can and should get our programming languages sorted out and not have so many of the procedural C style ones. Instead of writing what's effectively higher-level machine language, use something that's more declarative like the functional languages and don't deal at the vars and for-loops level. It doesn't have to be a full-blown pure FP, but something that at least uses immutable data-structures and let (rather than mutated) bindings as a matter of course. The closest I know are F#/OCaml (though arrays are super weird) and Clojure or Elixir (though I miss static types). Anyone know of a better candidate?
This reminds me of some experiments that I have been having. I'm (slowly) learning what it means to implement languages through various sources, but one thing I've been testing and thinking about is designing a language from the top down. That is, basically creating a design for the language's syntax, semantics, environment, and libraries without concern how one would eventually implement it.
The entire US physically cannot have one big blackout. There are 3 separate interconnects: East, West, and Texas. There are DC ties which connect them, but even if the tie was left open it's not enough to cascade the blackout.

To your larger point: sure if power was out over large swaths of the US for weeks on end, things would be difficult. But the power outage wouldn't be the problem, the problem would be whoever is causing the power to keep going back out (or the radioactive fallout from a nuclear war in the EMP scenario)
HTML5 Test Browser Options Are Severely Outdated
> Presumably the same might be true of ground source heat pumps and frost, though I know less about that.

I looked into this, since I'm getting an air-to-water heat pump installed next month, and considered a ground heat pump. Ground heat pumps require a large area of pipes, roughly 3x the area of the house. Less than that, and I was told that I'd risk creating permafrost around the pipes, greatly reducing the efficiency of the pump.

Regarding cost, my heat pump will replace a gas heater, and should actually cut my yearly expenses to almost 1/3. If that is actually how things are going to work out (and assuming the electricity price surges in Europe are temporary) then it'll pay itself back in 8-10 years. Granted, I live in Denmark where most of the price of gas and electricity is environment taxes, and those are cut for the electricity that is spent by a heat pump, thus making it more cost effective than if those taxes weren't there.
I used to work in SAR. I've seen crash sites where tree branches punctured through helicopter blades.

It's not so cut and dry as you might think.
That doesn't help you know the transfer is final, it just gives you a timestamp that the transfer occurred at which somebody reputable has attested to. You can't know that the owner didn't sign a transfer to some other buyer with an earlier timestamp.
Which is ironic when you think about it. Those are the aims of Anarchist political philosophy, which is often anti-capitalist. So you could say Web3 is the "Capitalist-Anarchist Internet"
Carriers know who originated the call. There are reciprocal compensation deals between the carriers to terminate call on their networks. They know exactly who originated the call because someone is paying for it. Calls aren’t free. Rural areas are especially pricey to terminate calls too which is how freeconference.com exists.
Maybe the very idea that there’s something out there who Chinese people see as more important than Xi Jinping.
In theory, plugging both of them into the same circuit (such as two plugs in one receptacle) shouldn't damage anything as far as I know. Of course, it won't do anything useful, and if the plug is not polarized then there's a good chance of plugging it in backwards and shorting out the circuit.

And, as you learned then, there is a great danger of accidentally touching the live end. "Proper" use of this, if there is such a thing, would dictate plugging the load in first, then the supply, but in this case there was supply on both ends.
Just finished reading Murder on the Orient Express yesterday and made a (naive) mental note to travel the route sometime. This shattered that dream for sure.

The book was somewhat uplifting, portraying the age where the entire world was accessible and you could go anywhere and folks would bow their heads before you everywhere.
My goal was to try to help you see the harm you're doing, your goal is to.. whatever you're doing.

I failed. That's on me. Don't worry about it.
How do you do for contracts? Is there a prevailing version or both translations are prevailing ?

Here in Hong Kong English supercedes if presents and next door in Shenzhen it's the opposite.
Yet, copy-on-write works well in Unix fork/exec() models and helps reduce memory pressure. Presumably, the kernel has a mechanism which presents as logistically simple "copy" but takes care of page/pointer/vm necessity.
While I'm in agreement that usability has taken a hit in the name of mass production and in UI due to the ubiquity of touchscreens, I suspect a detailed analysis will prove your overall premise to be false. I think there is a standard of beauty and usability that is evolving in a healthy substrate of thought and taste. Some good ideas get losts due to time but will be rediscovered before long. Whilst I am often vexxed by both new and old design choices I am often utterly flawed as things align perfectly with my own tastes. The choices lovingly adhering to a given vision or theme. There are products both timeless and new that are a breeze to use, sparing your time and sanity.
Rail is a network. Losing a well-connected node can be fatal to the network.
It provides value to people who want to compute things on a public network that no single party controls. We can argue about whether or not that's a worthwhile thing for people to value until the cows come home, but I think it's beyond the scope of this conversation.

But point taken. I'll avoid using fancy technical lingo like "BFT" or "cryptographic" on hacker news any more.
What is a belief. If there is not enough information to determine whether something is true or false what does it mean to "believe" it?

Also what if there is overwhelming evidence that something is untrue. You trust the evidence but you still "believe" the thing the evidence contradicts?

How do you explain this? I cannot identify with this interpretation of the world. Say I'm looking at a rock and you're looking at a rock. But despite All evidence on the contrary I "believe" the rock doesn't exist. How would I explain my reasoning?
If I recall correctly the reason for that blackout was faulty desing of appliances. In particular, old home appliances like dish washers were spitting out out-of-phase electricity back into the network which if done in sufficient numbers collapses the grid. As a result of that event regulation was introduced to prevent this but I don't remember how
Although HN is awesome generally, it really could use a redesign :-)

The experience on phones with a smaller screen is far from ideal, and there are some weird display issues with the Algolia search. Some essential functionality like optional notification for replies, muting politics/news, account deletion [1], and better text/code formatting is missing. The API has also been on v0 for a while, and could use some improvements.

[1]: I think this might be required under GDPR.
>Instead a person must start with no beliefs and formulate a conclusion from the facts. If you do this, it is undeniable that the bible is real.

What verifiable facts are in the Bible?

Can any of the claimed miracles be replicated today? Say handling snakes or drinking poison, which has resulted in multiple deaths of believers.

Two religious people can't agree which parts of the Bible are literal and which are just a story, so it's funny to see accusations at the other side.
I suppose the thing about faith is there is nothing I can do or say that could convince you from it. Your unwavering belief in the myths told in a collection of old books written by the barely educated in spite of a lack of evidence for the more magical parts (which is a significant chunk of it) is indeed a core moral value in your belief system. The extent to which you believe is somehow a virtue, and not a vice. This is obviously in reverse from my perspective.

You think I’m illogical. I think you’re illogical. In the end we’re just two Spidermans, pointing at each other.
The equivalent of Mr Meeseeks from Rick and Morty: conjured into existence to complete a task, but not designed to exist for a long duration without great suffering being experienced.

https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Meeseeks
But that is what real this real religious belief brings right? I am an atheist but (only early on) raised with: the hard questions you do not ask; it is up to god and not you to know these things. Just follow his teachings in life and do not reason why. I do believe (from the few people I know who really believed, all dead now) that if you deeply believe and follow this, you could be happy in a very easy way as you genuinely will leave these questions behind and believe all people who question you will end up south of heaven. Not your problem if you tried to help them by quoting scripture. Think it leaves your head more clear than having questions and finding ways (logic, physics etc) to answer them; just not have them at all.
I struggle with this as an adult, I can't imagine how hard it is for kids to fight the addiction.
Anything other than a false dichotomy about AI/jobs. We could be well off with either or both.
Google Pixel phones are phones though, and not personal computer devices like M1 Macs are. Phones have traditionally been more locked down. A fairer comparison would be to Chromebooks, which do have a screw to let you flash a different BIOS.
Because if it were an actual emergency, survival is your main priority, "great footage of it" isn't a priority at all.

And:

(1) GoPros are a lot cheaper than $500.

(2) GoPros are a lot cheaper than any flyable airplane.

Of course, I wouldn't fly in a plane with a pilot who had and used a selfie stick in flight, so my judgement clearly isn't up to that of YouTube Famous Stars.
Similar, it has pros and cons. The pros is its easier to use and is focused purely on web (http and https) that's also a con because you wouldn't be able to use it for SSH forwarding for example.
That book is one of the most unpleasant experiences I’ve ever subjected myself to. It has no historical bases or evidence to support its assertions, or really any value of any kind. Woodard isn’t a historian or academic, he’s a writer for a small newspaper in Maine. The book is closer to astrology or those quizzes that tell you what Hogwarts House you belong to than anything that should be taken seriously in any capacity.
Yeah, this "cryptographic" stuff is just way over our heads.
That likely depends heavily on which one they read first.
C++ [1], Java [2], Python [3], and even Rust [4] all have static analyzers. There will always be room for analysis that is beyond the compiler's purview.

[1] https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/list.html
[2] https://spotbugs.github.io/
[3] http://mypy-lang.org/
[4] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy
I thought it is commonly known? Tax authorities don’t care about where your money come from, they only care about the portion they could take
lol here in brazil you can only find these in drug stores, and is arround R$100 (which would be arround 15 euro/17usd).

Keep in mind that R$100 means 10% of monthly minimum wage.......
I can relate to this article...

Perl checks most of these boxes for me.
Perhaps the next Timothy Leary will have an fMRI in the basement and a line of customers running down the street.
I'm really interested in good audio from the radio days.

On Xmas my kids and I attempted to listen to the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and the audio we found was just awful, full of stereotypes, poor characters, ugly language. It was narrated by Vincent Price but despite a decent cast I was saddened to see it didn't stand the test of time.

Are there any good curated audio sources of freely available radio content? As a kid I remember such great stuff of the radio that my kids would surely love, but I'm not finding any of it on the internet of today.
Just look at the Bible Belt, or Afghanistan.
The West is the worst model of society on the planet
You can't just compare graphs like that without factoring in the cloud. PostgreSQL is a first-class, cloud managed, supported database in the top three cloud providers whereas Oracle is not. It's a massive impediment to adoption and is in no way a reflection of the database itself.

Either way nothing to suggest that PostgreSQL is any way dominating.
#107,324 in Nov 2015 (400K earlier),
#7,147 in Jan 12 2016 seems to be the highest it was recorded in the wayback machine, never broke 4 figures after that (Jan 19 is already 40K).
If that doesn't happen, will you drop your belief in such things? Or just change the date?
Which part most impressed you and which part seems like magic? Their devs / contributors are active on here...
I like to think of this site as 'pre news'. Its intended for artfully crafted, Rube Goldberg-esque ideas, that have some merit for a microscopic minority, of a) billionaires and/or b) comedians; c) and/or James Bond villains.

https://www.halfbakery.com
I can understand that trust and reputation has something to do with it but I wonder with digital art it becomes a question of how much do I need to modify my copy of the original to make it a new piece of art.

And if NFT does not give you the copyright I might sell the copyright or license it to 3rd parties who could not care less about you having an NFT somehow "associated" with it.

I guess the key is what does it mean for an NFT to be "associated" with anything.

It's mind-boggling
From Wikipedia...

> The current quizmaster is Dr Pat Cullen, a retired general practitioner, who has been setting the quiz since 1997. He reports that he now checks questions by typing them into Google and changing them if necessary to make sure the answers cannot be found immediately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_William%27s_College
In the 1890s Japan was well into the Meiji era, and was keenly adopting all sorts of Western science, philosophy, and fashion. Russia was also an empire spanning many different cultures. Ditto for France, and the US was well on its way. It's one of the most interesting times in history precisely because so many cultures were mingling in ways they hadn't before.

But I get your point. What we now understand as "globalism" is ideologically and aesthetically revolting. I don't think this ugliness is rooted in diversity, however. On the contrary, it's a product of a monopolistic and imperial form of liberalism. Resisting this drudgery will require more international solidarity against rootless "thought leaders" beholden to no organic culture.
Interestingly, it's still the case in modern communist countries such as Venezuella or Cuba. There's a paralel economy that's almost always underground with a paralel exchange rate using a real currency (the US dollar).

In Cuba, if you aren't good enough to become a taxi driver (and maybe get a tip in US dollars from a foreigner) your next best bet is to clean hotel rooms. Then for those who failed at both, it's to become a doctor. Fascinating societies.
I don't think this is outrageous but it is an original thought. Indeed, only those things that reproduce reproduce, and persist across time.

To what end?
Grief can certainly morph into depression.
> He liked to "fib a lot".

That is beyond charitable. Many would say it's part of his nature.
At one time phones were useful. Robocalls have stolen all our phones from us. I would like my phone back. I would like us all to have our phones back. The penalties actually paid need to increase until we get our phones back from the thieves.
Yeah it was wishful thinking. I hope oculus adds support.
Excited to see Dgraph on the top 10 mentions and climbing above neo4j
Wow I kind of feel like I'm reading about Javascript frameworks. I don't recognize any of the dbs or companies/projects. Didn't realize the db world was so busy
Nobody said python was first. In fact "making the choice" weakly (but not absolutely) implies that someone else did it before
After using Zendesk for 6 years, I am now forced to chew broken glass seasoned with sand and kitty litter that is Salesforce's Support portal. Yeah it is that bad. I so miss Zendesk
C99 added some (mandatory) features that had some issues with implementation, most notably variable-length arrays; C11 made those features optional instead. MSVC is unlikely to ever support VLAs (as noted in the blog post you linked).

A parallel can be drawn to `export template` in C++98, which is a feature that was only ever implemented by a single compiler (whose engineers, when asked for recommendations to others attempting to implement, offered "don't"). As a result, it was dropped from later versions of the standard, and so almost every compiler doesn't actually support C++98 100%, but no one cares because the things that it doesn't implement doesn't matter. VLAs aren't quite as universally maligned as `export template`, but given that it's dropped to optional in later versions, it's not totally unreasonable to claim implementation of all of C99 that matters while not supporting VLAs.
But those games are running on hardware that you control. You therefore also control what version of the ledger the games can observe, and you can choose to show it an old version or a fork that has been mined with a tiny amount of PoW, so things like activation counters wouldn't actually give you the guarantees you are claiming. Perhaps for online gaming, the peers could require proof of ownership via the central ledger. But I would imagine that everyone would just apply a crack to disable those checks, because spending crypto fees whenever you join a server just to protect the IP rights of a defunct company is such an overkill solution, and frankly I find the use case highly contrived. I don't think it is realistic to assume that gamers will accept that what used to be a simple license check now involves downloading and verifying gigabytes of ledger history.

Just use off-ledger verifiable receipts. If Ubisoft goes under and sells off its IP, then the buyer should be legally obliged to run a similar ownership service with the digital receipt being the proof of ownership OR release the games to public domain without license checks.
There are many problems with this:

First, I would have to violate privacy and post private conversations to the entire group. Nothing sensitive in there at all, but if I am going to push for integrity I can't be the one making such a move.

Second, the admins and moderators have absolute power. They review and moderate everything. Which means that it is very likely that any such comments will not make it through.

Third, my friend or family member is likely to get banned instantly just for trying.

Finally, the power the admins/moderators have means they can refute anything and overpower anything you might say. In other words, they can say "you made that up" and the thousands of people on the group are far more likely to believe them than the person they already labelled as someone who threatened them. I should probably mention both of them are women and I am male. I lose.

As far as I can determine there are only two ways to correct something like this. The first is for Facebook to intercede, evaluate the evidence (all of which is on their servers) and take action. The other is to go the legal route, which means these fools get hit with a libel lawsuit, which is no joke at all. I witnessed this in a business setting many years ago, all I can say is that the result for the person guilty of defamation can be absolutely brutal, both in financial and social terms. I am not the kind of person who would want to do this to someone else, no matter how stupid they have been in this case.

I would love the opportunity to connect with someone in Facebook, have them evaluate the matter and take appropriate action.
I visited the Israel/Lebanon border a few years back and stood at the spot where Israeli guerillas destroyed the British tracks after World War 2. Regardless of whether you champion or despise their politics, it's something that actually happened, and the folks who did it aren't ashamed to post infographics about it on-site.
When you say "sell an artwork" do you mean sell all rights to it or license its copying for personal use etc? Copyright and contract law still applies. But how does it apply to NFTs?
I worked on a product where certain capabilities were implemented as required but there was no requirement to display the information to the customer. We had our own internal displays that we could use to view the information. The customer saw our displays one day and wanted them too. We were not allowed to give it to them.

You guessed it- government contract. Support the warfighter my ass.

All the money in the world but these things still take time. Unnecessarily, but still.
IMO you have some presuppositions about value and importance that are influencing the questions you ask.

For example, I could ask: "How does the Bible help me be a better Python developer?" The most direct answer is, "It doesn't."

Biblical wisdom, in response, might say something like: "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world (e.g. be the best Python developer) and forfeit his soul?" And, if you believe that's a better and more important question, then the Bible starts to have value and insight.

I only have anecdotes regarding miracles. Usually from missionary settings. But, I've also realized that while miracles are frequent in the Bible particularly because they are extraordinary, most of the biblical timeline unfolds without mention of any miracles. I think it's probable miraculous signs are not nor expected to be commonplace.
> You can literally mint infinite NFTs of the same piece of digital art.

That's what I fathomed. What I don't get is why would anybody pay anything for them
To test that hypothesis, we can also try to estimate the size of the vocabulary of the users based on their comments. Vocabulary size is probably roughly correlated with intelligence. It is kinda biased against users who don't live in the Anglosphere though.
Just checked. Also still have all my pictures going back to 2004.

Glad that this was used only for actual abusers. The website does show me a warning now though.
The Wikipedia article you linked does not mention the motivation for the attack, but your comment seems to say that the motivation was to make others aware of this type of vulnerability. If you have any other links which talk about that, please include one of them.