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TipVFL I made a mistake yesterday and introduced a bug that showed an error screen by default... That's why you might have seen that message. I also open the site from Android Chrome.

Regarding the beard, I haven't done many tests (a don't have bear on my own) but the service I use behind scenes is Amazon Rekognition (https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/image-features/) so there's not much I can do in order to improve the service
The serif font is a turn-off.
Interesting. I usually try to disable animation entirely, but that sounds plausible. Did you try to disable animations and did it make a difference?
Random thought: the UK has the advantage of speaking English.

First, that makes it easier for them to pull in other Europeans, since english is commonly the second language of most other Europeans. Second they can also pull in American and Canadian expats much easier than anyone else in Europe.

Germany is more interesting to me. German is not exactly the worlds most common first or second language. So this is more evidence of their complete and utter domination within the eu.
from second-source information: in the late 90s, just about every database product in the world, from tiny to massive, was tested as a backend to various web sites. Scaling was still being invented. MySQL was simply the fastest (only by microseconds) to return a set of strings to a php page, and php was a fast development environment. Neither php nor MySQL had the rigor that many in the database world demanded, and that was ok. In fact that helped to make the MySQL/php combination fast.

Once the herds picked MySQL (and php) the economies of scale started, and advantages grew. Meanwhile, the proper and safe competitors were generally disgusted (drama word but not entirely an exaggeration) but who cares about them, maybe even a weird positive to the new breed of web devs who were inventing the future.
Well plus electricity. A DGX-1 takes 4 kilowatts or so that 10 day training run will take just about a megawatt hour or about $100 at retail. So the cross over point is more like 23 runs :)
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Yeah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkE6RBlfbXA This isn't the worst one, there was a time when PKD's daughter interviewed the head and he went off on a rant about how much he disliked his family. That was really rough.
yeah, but does not look like something many hobbyists would try for fun ;-)
How is this defending the church? It was clearly a totalitarian organization where if you pissed off the wrong person they would find an excuse to imprison or torture you.
They only seem to take aerosol into account. And if you're looking at the current data, that's a saturday morning, which most properly means the traffic is pretty low.
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I tried to phrase it as "wandering down the obscurity path" because I agree with what you're saying: they aren't obscure. They're just not the default choice.
The increase occurs because of the different definitions of money. If you define money as the sum of amounts available in demand account at banks (with is roughly what M2 is), then lending from a bank increases this number as the borrowed money ends up in the account of the borrower or in the accounts of the people the borrower spends the money with.

This fact means that retail banks "create money out of nothing" only when money is defined as the sum across all banks of the amounts available to customers on demand. No individual bank "creates money out of nothing", individually they borrow money and lend a fraction of it out; they have balance sheets which balance - i.e. ignoring shareholder equity, for every asset (money owed to them by a borrower), there must be a liability (money they owe to lenders including depositors). The M2 money supply counts the latter but does not deduct the former from the sum; as a result, the M2 money supply has a direct relationship with the total size of retail banking balance sheets.

M2 is an economic statistic and it's behavior tells you nothing about how individual banks operate.
This is likely because the threat model does not include a threat for data which is collected for advertising purposes, but rather prioritizes the threat of random hackers or mid-high-range resourced state level actors.

While Google is certainly a threat for those of us who value privacy, this is a different issue than being persistently targeted by resourced hackers.

Also, Google are one of the more secure email providers, they spend a fairly significant amount of resources towards researching and defending against resource rich state actors. This combined with how seemless they’ve made hardware based 2 factor work with their products makes them one of the better options for anyone who will be persistently targeted like a journalist. And anyone with a threat model similar to a journalist will be using u2f if they have any technical sense whatsoever.
That's right. e.g.,

<script>
document.write("<img src=\"/images/1px.png?" + screen.width + "x" + screen.height + "x" + screen.colorDepth + "\" />");
</script>
Do you have scaled resolution enabled? If so, that sounds like this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042

I think there's been a little bit of progress on that issue, but not much, unfortunately.
Many programming languages seem as though they are designed to force the programmer to be "safe", Rust's borrow checker is an example, but so is basically every GC-language ever. What Jon means by "designed for good programmers" is that the language design doesn't have this mindset that it needs to prevent the programmers from harming themselves, and instead focuses on allowing people who know what they're doing to be more productive doing it.
Utter junk. Does anybody find articles like this convincing? This has about the same intellectual content as YouTube “proofs” that the earth is flat.
It’s no different from ecosystem/library fragmentation within a language. For example, there are at least six approaches to accelerating numerical code in Python (weave, plain C + ctypes, Cython, f2py, numexpr, numba) each with its own cognitive load, interop and debug problems (Julia advocates rejoice, but it’s coming for them too).

It seems like a community needs huge incentives to avoid churn and fragmentation eg (a) strong backwards compatibility commitments, (b) big backing company to do the endless boring stuff, (c) strong benevolent dictator, ...

The same is true for languages except there’s no outer “scope”, except for platforms like iOS that might dictate toolchains or a company where CTO might make such choices.

But trying to avoid fragmentation among hackers seems like barking up the wrong tree.
Sadly these days we have a lot of alt-right people arguing that this kind of working through the past has made us weak. In terms of WW2 they argue for recognition of all the German civilian dead in WW2.

The irony of trying to push for sympathy for German refugees in the war and at the same time disregarding the humanity of Syrian refugees is lost on them.
"Starting now"? How's about 5 to 10 years ago. This is being released free now, which indicates to me this is now disposable tech and the authors have much, much better in their labs.
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"Companies have no loyalty folks...neither should you."

That's a broad brush to paint with; companies are just a group of people, not some inhuman construct. People make the decisions and just like every other aspect of life, some people care don't put their impact on others first, or can't because of circumstances. Not every company discards employees like garbage, and it's a lousy narrative to propagate.
The article is not clear; I did not look at the raw data, but the expectation of parity between population percent and percent of scientists/engineers is a hypothesis itself. It is well known that Italy produced far fewer people with advanced degree per capita than many other EU countries.
This could be very useful for django/vue stacks, to limit what's needed server side...
Right on, it's fixed now.
Other than a sort of ELF golf why would dropping the C lib be useful?
Have you ever heard that old phrase "you can either make a program so simple it obviously has no bugs, or you can make a program so complex that it has no obvious bugs"?

GNU programs are the latter. That's why they need to go to such lengths to test "cat".
Well InfluxDB actually is a time series database. That's all it does.

The query language is optimised for time based queries. The storage is optimised for time series. It is part of the metrics/monitoring ecosystem so it has integrations with tools like Grafana.

PostgreSQL doesn't have any time series capabilities OOTB. It's just people modelling the concept in a relational fashion. No different to how Excel can be used as a time series database.

And seriously everyone should just get over FoundationDB. There are plenty of people who have invented new databases that got it right e.g. Cassandra, HBase, Redis etc.
When I did my degree in the mid-90s it was already common to do a semester in Germany.

My university had exchange programs with Fraunhofer for those doing graphics research.
Deepmind collaborated with Blizzard to create the SC2 AI API: https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-and-blizzard-open-starcra...
C/C++, Java, Javascript, and Python make up over 50% of language use. Just use those. Massive tooling around all of them.
They will fix it European way.

> Support from the European Union could come handy in helping Italian and Spanish entrepreneurs overcome the gap with more developed parts of Europe, both in terms of funding and networking opportunities. Indeed, as for the former, both nations are among the first beneficiaries, in the last two years, of the funds earmarked by the EU for innovation and technological research in the Horizon 2020 program.

> Such instruments, however, while helpful, are not by any means perfect. “I think there is a lot of European money getting lost in the process between the people who is getting the grants and the entrepreneurs,” the vice president of the Spanish Startups Association, Carmen Bermejo, says. “The ones who know how to apply and get the European grants are sometimes not the same ones that know how to help the startups and deliver value. This is even worse if we speak about the European funds for regional cohesion, that depend a lot on personal contacts and relationships,” she adds.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2016/07/06/how...
I can't say if anyone else is confusing intuitive with standardised.

I can repeat (again) that I think it's great both options are there.

Given pretty much all the other 'standard' postgres commands are \[a-z] and sometimes \[a-z][a-z] it sounds like more a complaint about \q
For better or worse the public square now exists on FB, Youtube, and Twitter. I haven't suggested that the government should come in and force any of those companies to do business with anyone. I'm more closely suggesting that these companies are doing the modern equivalent to book burning and no one seems concerned about that.

This isn't just far right nutjobs. Youtube decided to delete every single pro-Syrian channel recently which happened to coincide with the battle for Idlib. Apparently Youtube decided anyone opposing the war of aggression being conducted by the US is "Alex Jones" territory. Alex Jones just happened to be pretty famous. Lots of smaller people are being deplatformed, it just doesn't make the news.
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Also, ending slavery but then basically having effectively an analogue of apartheid right after does look like a minimal-motivation approach in retrospect.
Its still quite different than classic imperative code

If you're working with a free monad, or if you don't specify IO (just some of the generic IO like typeclasses like say MonadError), you can still choose your own interpreter for the monad and "program" the semicolon. Which means you get back all the benefits of testability etc.

To get a similar effect in an imperative language, you would use e.g. coroutines and `yield` every side effect to the execution engine. The engine will take the action "specs" (probably a data structure describing the action to perform, e.g. set some value in memory) and decide what to do with them, and you can swap the real engine with a test/mock engine in your tests.
I don't understand how these graphs show brain drain, there a bunch of other explanations. For example maybe a bigger proportion of Germans get an appropriate university degree than Italians. Or maybe the people getting an engineering degree in Italy can't get a job in that field, and end up working on something else but not emigrating. Or the difference comes from non-EU scientists/engineers preferentially moving to UK or Germany when immigrating to the EU.

To show brain drain you really need to look at the migration flows, not a static snapshot of the current populations.
French salaries for postdocs and engineers in public research are fairly under average. Still we have plenty of Italians in our lab
It would be interesting to see the percentages for scientists and researchers independently.

For France, for instance, researchers' wages are not very high. A lecturer typically starts with about 2115 euros per month before taxes typically for instance. On the contrary, I think that the salary of engineers is competitive with the ones in the UK and Germany.
Usually when you have groups of people trying to maximise their own gains, selfishness and ruthlessness tend to dominate the group.
Thre's also the "faux friend" situation too. The people you work with have to get along with you but they are not your friends. If you're laid off you'll probably never heard from any of them ever again.

And HR isn't your friend either. Many young people misunderstand the role of HR and believe it is a shoulder to cry on. Think of HR as just another company product or tool.
Assuming (wrongly, but that's ok at first approximation) that money spent on academic research is a fraction of GDP, and that there is a positive correlation between money spent on research and jobs in research, UK and Germany should come on top for number of scientists. Plus they have, apart from the French CNRS, the top Institutions for scientific research in Europe.
As far as the pigeon thing goes: pigeons used to be much more popular than they are now ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_keeping ). Remember how Darwin's _Origin of Species_ is half about all the varieties of pigeons that pigeon fanciers had bred? (And one of the people to read a draft advised him to make it even more about pigeons?) Or how pigeon racing used to be a huge sport in cities like NYC/Baltimore/London? They were also raised for their meat & eggs. So people would've been much more familiar with pigeon sizes than they are now.
i must admit that i'm not a big fan of nimble (nim's package manager; for a few reasons) but on the other site you have apt, pacman, yum, whatelsenot, afaik most of them are not even able to install two versions of the same library side by side. The situation is so bad that most applications these days are packed with `flatpack` or something else, because of the so broken linux package management...

In contrast to eg. npm nimble is superfast.
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The accounting view is a useful frame, but money is fungible so there’s a real sense it which that view doesn’t represent what is “really” happening. See, for example, the MMT take on government financial flows.
While for you (and most of us here) that delay was too slow, it also served a purpose -- users who can barely hold the mouse would diagonally go from parent to e.g. 4th child element too slowly and lose the submenu on the way, because it would disappear after the same delay if cursor was not on parent-or-child. Otoh, windows devs could arguably make it independent and the problem could disappear.

In short, with 100ms you have to go ¬-shaped and with 400ms you can go \-shaped.
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> I wish the world would get behind a couple well thought out languages that cover most programming needs (functional, systems/bare metal, scripting) and stick with those.

uh, thats basically been the case since ... 20 years or so? I mean i dislike java and c like the plague, but they're nonetheless the defacto enterprise standards at the moment for performance critical work and ... everything else.

just look at the TIOBE Index [1] for example. Ill admit that this is a pretty skewed statistic, but its nonetheless pretty representative for the basic idea behind it.

There is, of course, lots of services / software in other languages -- and often with very good reasons (take erlang for example for layer < 4 routing), but thats basically because every other language was insufficient for the usecase they had. Or because they wanted to deliver the software today, and not next week (i'm looking at you, php)

as an aside: <5%% is still a staggering amount of code, so please don't feel marginalized everyone ;)

[1] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
As we are starting from redesigning the experience - why at low speeds instead of sounds the cars wouldn't produce smells?
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This are great arguments for why we should all just use Java. Great tooling! Lots of high quality libraries! Nothing to make you get out of bed in the morning!

Why enjoy anything after all?
By using a debit card like this, you give up the benefits (and protections) of a credit card. You can get a credit card that gives 2% back on everything, or more in specific categories. Which way does the math work out better for you?

Capital One 360 is competitive with other mentioned banks; currently 1.85% for > $10k.
This question kind of reeks of the non-American who consumes so much American media that they think their place of origin doesn't have the same characteristics like mostly men out and about at 4am operating the third shift or wandering home drunk.

And I'm not too sure men at work, regardless of race, rank very high on the scale of people you're scared to run into in the early morning, even in your place of origin.
> The background of what you learned on is key to whats intuitive or natural.

That's pretty much the summary of my post.

> If you install Postgres via Postgres.app ...

I had to go lookup what postgres.app actually is -- evidently it's an easy way for Mac users to install postgres.

I don't have a Mac -- which is also true for most people -- so I can't speak to the average mac user's experience or expectations.

As I have (had to repeatedly) say a few times now, I think it's great that multiple options to end the program are available.

I'd imagine for Mac users the 'most intuitive' thing would be to find some magic symbol on their keyboard and combine it with the letter Q.
Same here, I miss the days of Microsoft Windows XP PowerToys

Now almost nothing UX-based is configurable
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What you write is true but one can never know for sure if you are in a nice company. Even if you are in a nice company today you don’t it will remain nice. You don’t know what economic factors will occur that may turn the company culture toxic. The company may be bought out tomorrow and new management might suck.

Since you can’t know that these possibilities won’t occur it’s best to keep the mindset that the company is not your friend. They do not have loyalty to you in perpetuity. It’s a business and not a person. It’s run by people but the more people it is being run by the easier it is for them emotionally to treat everything in business terms.

Do not have loyalty to a company. It’s just business and not personal.
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6nexpo/variadic_gener... suggests that we however won't be seeing variadic generics for quite some time, so it still won't be possible to build a library like xtensor supporting tensors of arbitrarily many dimensions.
These sneaky Google amp links are making it everywhere... so annoying.
The Italian postdoc salaries are comparable to the French ones and there are more opportunities in France than in Italy for some Italians, e.g. those that are not in the line of succession to the throne.
When I was doing research in Italy, I never met a French scientist employed in any lab.
The note at the end is somewhat important. If you are deciding where to incorporate your startup and you are not a US citizen, ITAR is a good reason to avoid the USA. YC generally suggests US incorporation but it has real downsides, and exporting of technology is restricted.
Pricing is available here: https://www.citusdata.com/pricing

And the point still stands that this isn't core PostgreSQL. So you can't use managed services like AWS RDS with this. And you're reliant entirely on the vendor for support.

So from the user perspective it is basically a fork.
For reasons that are too complex for an HN comment on too little sleep, too early in the morning, I'm less hung up on some idea of justice in the world than I used to be. But just as a point of enlightened self interest, if you use less exclusionary language, you are likely to have more buy in from a broader audience, thereby making your thing more successful.
regarding photo-realistic games, can anyone comment on how quickly this the model executes?
Was there a huge progress made since news about deepfakes broke early this year?

Around March/April this year, I actually did download the TensorFlow toolkit for face transfer that was used by /r/deepfakes people and tested it out (there were samples of photos of politicians included); the results were, at best, worse that I could do in 2 minutes in Gimp. Maybe they could get better if I had an expensive GPU farm at my disposal, but I'm pretty doubtful - given that the news died down pretty quickly, and no reasonable-quality faked pictures or videos were reported ever since.
A moderate amount of my work involves video training and the component parts to build, so raw video and audio. It's subjective, but there are times that video and audio stutters a bit and it's not down to the available CPU or RAM (plenty of headroom there).
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Of course, I agree.

Every nation decides who has access to it's markets. China has denied access to a set of US companies in certain industries.

It is then only fair that the US match this denial of access, which is what a tariff is.
This feature has me way more excited than I probably should be. Been splitting up relatively simple schema migrations into multiple steps for years now, and definitely welcoming this change.
> When I press page-down I want to scroll a page down immediately

You are among a tiny minority and come off as trying really hard when insisting that animations are useless. Very few people want a 0ms screen flash on page scroll.
The OP suggested that people could work a lot less if our system wasn’t designed for making some people rich. But folks makin $65k still work eight hours a day, often more. People who can make $65k almost invariably choose to increase consumption rather than decrease hours and income. Our economy doesn’t have so much excess in it going to rich people that we could have both the consumption we want and also work a lot less.
Just as a side note: there is already a way to consume vue components in a server agnostic way - build a web component, which vue cli3 supports. I think bowsers compatibly aside, that’s the right approach.
We forgot to add enjoyment to the unit tests and now it would require a refactor, sorry about that.