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Ask HN: What irrational belief do you hold/inclined to hold?
Besides religious beliefs, do you have any views that would be considered “irrational” in it’s modern form? Being an avid reader of Philosophy it seems that some of the most well know philosophers had world views that might be considered irrational but not directly dismissible, so I’m interested in knowing your arcane beliefs.
> It's not actually Jobs's choice. Apple is a publicly owned company, and both Jobs and Cook are employees, not owners. Jobs could recommend a successor, but the board of directors had the power to reject the recommendation. Never forget that when Jobs demanded that the Apple board of directors choose between him and John Sculley, they chose Sculley.

Upon Jobs' return to Apple, the board was entirely replaced by Jobs' hand-picked people. From that point on, they were simply there to rubber stamp his decisions, and given the company's performance after the iPod launch they would never second guess him. It was 1000% Jobs' choice.
They got caught lying under oath to Congress, about hacking Congressional computers (to delete files to cover up their torture program) and nothing happened. This is a string argument for the US being no more a country with the rule of law than China or Russia.
A lot of processors don't even map usable RAM at address zero is the real problem. For instance a lot of simpler RISC-V chips are copying the basic Cortex-M memory map which places ROM low in memory.

Even on systems with MMUs, it's very common that the kernel won't let you map RAM at address zero for several reasons. And the sizes are being talked about are about the size of a single page.
China acquires 'golden shares' in two Alibaba units
This might be the last straw. I flat out refuse to use their horrible app with its nonsense algorithmic timeline. Give it a few hours to see if it's permanent but if it is, I expect a huge wave of new mastodon users..
Proving a photo is fake is one thing. Proving it isn’t is another
https://archive.ph/Wxsvd
Great point, /SEARCH_TERM and n is extremely useful for finding stuff and understanding. also when you screw up either because muscle memory went haywire or the logic looks bad then just uuuuu until the status bar (plugin) show no change since last save.
What are the odds of this kind of thing being open source so I can use it at home. So far, most of the "good" text-to-speech systems are all commercial services

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/

https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/cognitive-service...

And now one is also a service.

I tried using tortoise-tts on my M1. Generating a 7 minute speech took 3 days and, while better than the 15 yr old text-to-speech built into the OS it wasn't close to the quality of the services above. Maybe I don't know who to use it but of course it's not as simple as text-to-speech. You need the system to ideally understand the text it can act out parts

Of course see my username. I want to generate personal adult content so I'd prefer not to upload it to a service.
Also: boys are more likely to succeed than girls: there are vastly more suicide attempts from girls than boys, but more suicide deaths of boys than girls.
In practice yes. In theory, no way. What is the 4th amendment if not protection against spying without a warrant?

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
You can ask the same about a multi millionaire though, no need to be a billionaire to stop working.

Many people who achieve things don’t want to sit still and have a lot of things they want to still do. From personal observation (reading articles and meeting people), I would say; the richer, the less inclined to stop working. Even smaller scale: where I live, people with 100ks in the bank and a house are more likely to do nothing but play golf, eat and drink and go out far more than people who have a few million. The latter, even when old (up to 80 and over) cannot sit still and usually are on boards, write books, do up and flip houses, etc.
This is a great point that I never thought of. Seems like a general example of the idea that lowering the cost of some action sufficiently low can lead to not just efficiency gains in areas where that action is currently used, but also new and surprising uses of that action.

For example, I once read an economics book that characterized computers as lowering the cost of integer arithmetic by an extreme amount. That led to things like digital music/pictures - no-one would have previously thought of using a ton of numbers to represent a song - not just efficiency gains in accounting.
A tortured analogy for a tortured industry. It's really quite apt.
I think the fear is that employees will think:

> If you don't produce [more than the other guy that is taking less vacation], you're simply going to get fired.

Things are pretty relative in the corpo world. I think a lot of companies try to be fair, but that is very difficult to achieve.
What’s the story behind google3? What happened to google and google2?
Maybe Melon saw how nice Ivory is looking https://tapbots.com/ivory/

Tweetbot for Mastodon.

“You’re either with us or against us”.
Built in admin is the killer feature that keeps me coming back to Django over and over.
Just say you don't want to disclose it
Grammar is here [0].

ps. there is also jq like cli [1].

[0] https://github.com/janestreet/sexplib/blob/master/src/parser...

[1] https://github.com/janestreet/sexp
And for foreseeable future.
You might want to bump this to the top as the site's been hugged and is 503ing.
That example is the government prosecuting the government for harming the governments interests. Thats not accountability, its infighting.

Accountability would be punishment for crimes against the American people and structural changes that prevent it from happening again.
> Everything you do goes through the keyboard

Except web browsing, which is a huge part of software engineering, and which is nearly impossible to do without the mouse because most websites cannot be reasonably navigated with shortcuts alone.

So the whole model falls apart, really.
I have trouble understanding why every Linux-friendly laptop vendor insists on this godawful arrow key layout. It was a bad idea when Apple did it, and it was a bad idea when you copied them. Apple has even backtracked on this terrible design, but the copycats never got the memo.

I'm never, ever buying a laptop with full-height horizontal keys but half-height vertical keys.
Never mind US; Russia has been openly using gas supply as a geopolitical pressure tool - at first, against Ukraine - since 2005. And opposition / anti-war folk in Russia have been talking about the insanity that is the European energy policy and its Russia dependence and its likely long-term consequences since at least 2008, after the war with Georgia (some were at it even longer, since Nord Stream became a thing). There were ample warnings all around for those willing to listen.
You could link to a government site that Clarks it is required. https://www.eeoc.gov/data/eeo-data-collections
But you as an individual are not required to give that information to your employer
Well, they're both shit
Are tests useful? Because this is what TypeScript gives you: it helps you avoid regressions.

If I change a signature, tests fail. If I pass junk data, tests fail. It's like invisible live tests and people forget this.

As in the other recent discussion, yeah, you can live without tests and you can live in JS-land. Whether it's worth it it depends on you. TS and traditional testing lets me ship updates without even opening node or the browser.
Google always had the ability to use Rust in any of its projects. However, I think Mozilla pissed away the biggest opportunity they had in a decade to lead something that will change an industry, and to influence (positively) the community around it. I certainly trust Mozilla over Google, though I'm still mad about that Mr. Robot extension.

Google has all the resources and hundreds of engineers to throw at Rust. They will definitely have undue influence on the language and its community now that it's in Chrome. I just hope it doesn't wind up looking like Kotlin.
I know of a startup that bought another startup using an investment bank. The startup that was the acquiring entity later had the CEO charged with crimes related to a previous company they had founded and were CEO of many years ago. Media scrutiny kicked in on their then current venture the acquiring company and it turned out the company they bought had never conducted any business whatsoever with the clients they had publicly and repeatedly touted.

When the acquiring company CEO took a plea deal and admitted to the crimes of their past they got leniency from the feds for their frauds. They didn’t serve a day in jail. They admitted they stole eight figures from their investors. Not one investor filed a lawsuit against them.

I’ll never understand that.
What do you think of using vim plugins inside an IDE, such as IdeaVIM? How much of the benefits of what you describe do you think would remain?

I've been trying to spend more time in vim since last year because I can imagine a world with the benefits you describe, and I want to put in the long-run investment to get there. But at the same time, Vim naturally lacks the feature set of an IDE, and setting up a bunch of plug-ins so that they all work together is somewhat time consuming and brittle.

I've been wondering if I should stick to Jetbrains/VS Code and use Vim as a text manipulation language, and whether I'd still attain that editing fluency you describe.
Classic whataboutism
> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects ...

Ha! See that? _Papers_. Guess these electronic records are free game!
There's some point where it's more about power. You can have all your desires in the world handled forever with double digit millions of dollars, but beyond that more wealth means more power, and for some people their appetite for power and influence is a bottomless pit.
Git submodules are really a PITA.

The fact that git checkout did not update submodules was a major design flaw in my opinion.
An Update on Android Accessibility: Full Speed Ahead
A blog post on the newest TalkBack update released a few days ago. Of note for developers is the section on Accessibility actions in apps.
There's quite a few people in the Russian security and military forces who think that Putin isn't going far enough, if anything. If Russia actually has a successful coup, I'd say it's a decent change that the new guy will be worse than Putin in all respects. The more extreme forces are more likely to try, and probably more likely to succeed if they do.
I've been claiming "prefer not to say"on those forms for like 40 years.
That's how spammers operate--creating domains on the fly. Many spammers own registries in disguise; that way, everything can be automated.
And first I've heard of Java Grinder, really interesting and cool project, I wonder why I never heard of it before.
Tell HN: Archive.ubuntu.com repositories appear to be down, again
Archive repositories are either slow, or responding with HTTP 503, on both HTTP and HTTPS.

This is the second major archive.ubuntu.com outage in recent memory.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33380584
Well an originalist reading has not concluded that.

Are an originalist? Why purport that they believe something that they do not, when you yourself dont believe in the thing you're purporting either?
While $10M is probably peanuts compared to the shareholder outcome from having a good CEO, I doubt the hiring process is actually able to distinguish between candidates well enough for that to make sense.
It's both what r721 said and what kelnos said. Transient "X is down" stories are a dime a dozen and Twitter drama stories are...cheaper than that.

I've made an exception in this case and restored the original submission on this topic to the front page, since people are discussing it anyway.
I use twitter.com in desktop browser, and chronological timeline is still there (accessible via "sparkle icon").
I OpenSourced an AI StoryBook Generator
Hey to all Parents and/or AI fans,

I just released a toy app that generates Storybooks with images using GPT-3 I'm using it to create random books for my 3 yo girl and she is loving the possibility to create her own Stories.

You can use it in your local machine with your own OPEN_AI_TOKEN (see readme)
https://github.com/silva96/ai_stories

Stack: Rails + Hotwire
It's much more like reminding TS developers that Go developers have to use `interface{}` all the time, because some types are actually hard for compilers/typecheckers to deal with.
> most corporate document management systems are really better/easier for written word.

I recently moved to a new team that has been using Notion. I can't find any meaningful difference between it and GitHub (which, just like Notion, also uses Markdown as the way to communicate the written word), aside from GitHub making it easier to include non-written word content alongside the written word.

Maybe git in the raw is a little too raw, but what's the appeal over git + something like GitHub that includes all of the higher level features?
What part of this document contradicts what I’ve said? The only chart that doesn’t start at 75 is cancer deaths, not incidence.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34363743, which was posted first.
This is a timely post as I've been trying to use Vim more since last year, and recently started a new project with the aim of working exclusively in Vim. And I'm torn.

On the one hand I want to significantly increase how fast I can manipulate and edit text without reaching for my mouse, a state which many commentors here seem to have attained.

On the other, I miss the way that a Jetbrains IDE cohesively integrates a lot of features with non-conflicting hotkeys, without requiring me to fiddle around with a vimrc - great code analysis, Git, database schemas, etc.

I'm tempted by the promise of a plugin like IdeaVIM, which seems like it's 90% of the experience - but that'd still sacrifice the easy integration with my terminal setup, fzf, being able to switch between panes with my keyboard, etc. Does getting 90% of the way to being keyboard-free really give you 90% of the benefits?

Any tips appreciated :)
The first sentence is literally not true, and easy to see just from looking at changes in who contributes over time. The number of contributors is not even the same order of magnitude from when it started.

Chrome was released 14 years ago, and they started writing it even earlier than that, so even trivial "passage of time" would tell you it was unlikely to be true - most developers are not working on the same codebase or even at the same company, they did 14 years ago. This was much more common in tech decades ago , but not anymore, and not been true for a long time.

So even if it was "bad old code" (which, i'll explain, is also nonsense), the same people aren't writing it.

As for "bad old code" -
Chrome was faster, safer, less janky, etc, than its contemporaries for many many years since inception.

So when you say "Coding in Google-dialect C++ was a spectacularly bad choice, evident even then", it just makes you look silly - it clearly was not. If it was such a bad choice, evident even then, the former would not have happened.

Overall - to look at clear success and basically say "they totally fucked everything up, and i wouldn't have done it, because i know better", is pretty arrogant. To then think that if there are bad design decisions, the main bad ones from decades ago are the programming language, is honestly the most hilariously arrogant thing i've read on HN in a while.

So congrats?
Im curious, was your carb intake less than 50g per day during those years?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34363743.
If "the vast majority" of fortune 500 CEOs are overpaid, why do boards continue to hire people that get paid so much? Why do shareholders put up with it? Couldn't they just say, "We will pay half what the current CEO makes, who wants the job?" and get an endless line of qualified applicants?

Or is it that when billions of dollars are on the line, quibbling over tens of millions is far too risky?

I don't know about anyone else here, but when I think about being CEO of my company, it does not look like an attractive job nor one I am qualified for. Now to do this for a giant org with tens of thousands of employees. I mean I could take the job to get a golden parachute as a "Fuck you, got mine" maneuver, but I would ruin the company and destroy many lives and careers in the process.

I find CEO pay to be up to the market, and I don't think the market is wrong.
ore deposits that aren't economically exploitable are uneconomic because the price in the market is too low to pay the necessary costs, which are higher when the concentration is lower

all this means is that there is a wide range of concentrations among ore deposits

it doesn't have anything to do with how high those prices are or how rare the minerals are, and as you pointed out upthread in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34357834, the prices are pretty low

you said neodymium was US$400/kg; gold, the standard rare element, is US$60893/kg today
If recall correctly there where some legal proceedings about that, hasn't anything came up from it? I thought there where serious issues in that deal but I might be mistaken.
I use the mobile web. It's better than the app, and switching to chronological is easy.
CO2e Estimates in Firefox Profiler
This is an excellent sci-fi premise. Also an interesting thought experiment to think of what an optimal research approach would be if you knew a priori that you were living in a universe in which the implementation details don’t exist until observed. Come to think of it, quantum physics is actually like this in some respects.
Sounds like what Nikola Motors did
Anyone know of an open source solution that is the same/similar to thing that some vendors build into their product to create “support tunnel”? Usually, it’s a toggle in the settings that establishes a connection that a support person can use to connect back to the appliance or virtual appliance. I imagine it’s a reverse tunnel or similar to one. However, the solution would need to pop up on a dashboard or screen so that support person knows it’s active and how to connect to it.
> How common are the keybindings used in existing editors?

The whole point of widget toolkits is that the keybindings for input fields are the same everywhere. I use Linux and almost exclusively run GTK-based apps, and every text input across the whole system behaves the exact same way, with consistent keybindings for navigation, undo/redo, copy+paste etc. This is how good UI should work.

Platform conventions are important, and it's the job of individual programs to adapt to them – not the other way round. Vim fails big time in this regard. Can you make Firefox's form inputs use Vim keybindings? If not, there's your inconsistency already.
I wish Twitterific made a Mastodon client, its great UX compared to the official Twitter app is one of the major reasons I was still using Twitter.

And events like this shows they shouldn't put all their eggs in one basket.
>"Unless we have reached the end point of humankind’s moral development, it is pretty certain that the average educated human of the twenty-third century will look back at the average educated human of the twenty-first century and ask incredulously about a considerable number of our most cherished moral and political axiom"

While I generally sympathize with the article I think there's one issue where the ethics are going to be much more clearer than the economics being discussed. Animal rights. When this kind of thought experiment comes up that is the one thing I'm convinced people in a hundred years will consider us barbarians for, from experiments to factory farming. We hide it from ourselves already. Contentious current issues of inequality may be one thing but what we do to sentient life on the planet is what we're going to be judged for certainly. It's the one thing we never really go back on.
How would DI impact DAU?
> Not updating dependencies is the equivalent of never brushing your teeth

That's a strawman: the choice is not between updating and not updating. The choice is between updating on my terms or not.

I recently updated stripe from 2.x.x to 5.x.x in one of the projects. That's several years without updates. Wouldn't it be fun if somebody was forced to update multiple projects every single time stripe ships a new minor version? And if we were to do the true monorepo, at what pace do you think stripe would be updated, if it was their responsibility to update all dependents?
It's still an awful way to treat a group of employees.

Musk.
> people take the limitations of git and existing OSS tooling as a given and project those failings onto whichever paradigm they are arguing against.

Very much agree. We have the whole "rebase to a single commit for your PR" vs. "keep a history of what actually happened" argument. One side wants to view concise, comprehensible change histories and be able to bisect them to see the origins of bugs etc, the other wants to use an rcs/vcs for one of the primary tasks an rcs/vcs is supposed to undertake - recording and keeping safe a version history of code as it is developed. To each the other side is wrong to even want that.

There have been source control systems in the past that would cater to both quite happily. Nightmarish, terrible, slow, heavyweight source control systems that involved learning an entire configuration language to use effectively, and which I certainly wouldn't recommend using today! (Rational Clearcase, I'm looking at you). They have existed and conceivably could do so again.

But the debate is always in the context of git.
Where I work we just package everything (nugets, python packages, npm) on our Artifactory. Contracts dependencies (DLLs, protobufs) are also distributed as packages. We made it easy to fetch and test the source and allow developers to develop, debug and test those dependencies with their own project if needed.

Every time we try to assemble repositories in macro-repos we always end up regretting it. Multiple dedicated repositories allow autonomy for teams and enforce modularity and coding as a library. Monorepos have a tendency of becoming huge merge trains easily and often derailed and with lots of fear of being blamed on stepping on someone else's toes.

We update often all our projects knowing full well that not doing so is just borrowing development time at high interest rate.

As a side-note when we do have to do an assembly of different code base, we use git-subrepo: https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo which provide the best of both submodules and subtree.
You said it "skyrocketed" since 1970. Unless it skyrocketed from '70 to '74 (which I doubt), the trend is not up, it's up then back down.
Elon said recently there are big changes coming to the timeline so it can be whatever you want
No mention of any other competitors that've been doing this stuff for several years? Uberduck? Fakeyou? Coqui? 15?
Relevancy, mindshare and attracting talent.
It gets far more sordid than that if you're willing to look back to times long enough for classified material to have been declassified. Operation Northwoods [1] is something that somehow was formulated, discussed, and made its way all the way to the top. It was stopped only because one man refused to sign it into action - JFK. Then there was the FBI trying to get MLK to commit suicide [2], and much more.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_lette...